UNIZIK Admission Screening Registration 2016/2017 Announced

Nnamdi Azikiwe University has scheduled its 2016/2017 Post UTME Screening Exercise for candidates who chose the University as first choice. 

The candidates are required to apply for the screening exercise. The details are as outlined below:

1. SCREENING EXERCISE DATES 
Applications for screening will start on Wednesday, 14th and end on Friday, 30th September, 2016.

2. ELIGIBILITY
i. Candidates who made Nnamdi Azikiwe University their first choice are eligible to apply.
ii. The general cut-off mark is 180 points scored in the UTME (Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination) of 2016.

3. REGISTRATION PROCEDURE
i. Candidates are to generate RRR (Remita Retrieval Reference) online by visiting 
http://portal.unizik.edu.ng and proceed to any Bank of their choice for payment.
ii. Candidates are to go back to the portal for payment verification.
iii. If payment verification is successful, candidate will move on to FILL THE APPLICATION FORM and follow the stages as provided.

4. SCREENING FEE
The screening fee payable is the sum of N2,500.00 (Two Thousand and Five Hundred Naira) only.

5. CAUTION
i. Candidates must have at least five (5) credits which must include English Language at one or two sittings in the School Certificate (WAEC, GCE, NECO, NABTEB).

ii. Candidates must ensure that they have passed the relevant subjects for the discipline they are applying for.

iii. The University will not be liable for any wrong payment/entry.

iv. The University will also not be liable for any fraudulent payments made anywhere that are not in line with the directives of the University. 

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ASUU Denies Threatening To Embark On Strike

The Chairman, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) University of Abuja’s chapter has denied the earlier publication that ASUU will be going on a warning strike by 2nd of October.

According to him, he did not grant interview to any journalist in that regard.

He tagged the publication "work of mischief makers, targeted at misleading the unsuspecting public."

He therefore urged the public to disregard such publication. 

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Man United become first UK club to earn over half a billion pounds in a year

Manchester United have announced total revenue of £515.3 million ($683.5m) and a record profit of £68m for the year ending June 30, 2016. They are the first English club to breach the £500 million mark. Following the announcement, Executive Vice Chairman Ed Woodward reaffirmed the club's ambitions to return to the pinnacle of the sport. He also highlighted the effect world record signing Paul Pogba has already had, saying that the impact on Facebook was "more than Bale and Neymar combined."

United, who agreed a 10-year £750m ($1.28 billion) contract with Adidas -- the biggest deal in sports-licensing history -- in 2014, have a net debt that is £260.9m, but commercial revenue has soared to £268.3m, which is an increase of 36.3 percent over the prior year.

Woodward had previously been reported as saying: "Our record Fiscal 2016 financial performance reflects the continued underlying strength of the business and the club is on target to achieve record revenues in 2017, even without a contribution from the Champions League."
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UNIBEN Physical Screening Exercise Date 2016/2017 Announced

The face-face segment of Pre-admission screening exercise starts from Wednesday 14th September 2016 for those that have provided their WAEC/NECO/ other relevant result details in the screening application that just ended. 

Candidates are to log in to their application records to get their present status.

Further details will be announced in due course. 

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Eid el-Kabir: APC urges Nigerians to embrace ”Change Begins with Me”

The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Sunday felicitated with Muslim Faithful over the Eid el-Kabir season and urged all Nigerians to embrace the ”Change-Begins-with-Me” campaign. This is contained in a statement signed by the APC National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun in Abuja and made available to newsmen. Odigie-Oyegun urged Muslims and all Nigerians to use the Sallah occasion to show love, promote harmonious and peaceful co-existence with one another, irrespective of ethnic or religious affiliation. He further urged Nigerians to pray for the peace and quick recovery of the nation’s economy. ”Muslim Faithful and indeed all Nigerians are enjoined to use the occasion of Eid el-Kabir to pray for the peace, development and prosperity of the country,” he said. He called on Nigerians to support the administration as it works assiduously to pull the country out of the present hardship and restore the country on the path of growth in all facets. ”Indeed, Nigeria is today passing through challenging times in its socio-economic life. ”Happily, the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC administration is already employing all legitimate and innovative means to restore the country’s battered economy to health in the quickest possible time. ”In a bold move to repair our value system that has been badly eroded over the years, on Sept. 8, President Muhammadu Buhari launched the laudable national re-orientation campaign, “Change Begins with Me’’. ”The party appeals to all Nigerians to be part of this campaign which will institutionalise the best practice and time-honoured values of honesty, hard work, patriotism, abhorrence of corruption, accountability and integrity in our everyday life,” he said.

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UNN Releases Hostel Accommodation Regulations

This is to inform all students of UNN (Prospective and returning) to take note of the following important information with regards to student accommodation for the 2016/17 session:

1. The University has limited spaces for student accommodation.
2. The accommodation is allocated on a first come, first serve basis.
3. First Year and final year students are given high priority during allocation.
4. First years are allocated 40% of the total accommodation, final years 25% while other years are allocated 35%.
5. All Nursing Mothers must apply for accommodation online and must notify the authorities early. You are permitted to stay alone in a room or be two persons in a room.
6. The following are highly prohibited and will attract eviction from the hostel:
• Squatting of any kind.
• Late return to the hostel at night.
• Smoking.
• Drinking of Alcohol.
• Stealing.
• Fighting and quarrelling.
• Use of hotplates, electric boiling ring, refrigerator, gas cooker and so on.
• Use of generator sets.
• Defecating and bathing at undesignated places.
• Pouring of water in undesignated places.
• Defacing of Hostel walls by posting of bills, posters and any document.
7. Only students who have successfully met the following will be qualified for hostel accommodation:
• Paid all school fees till date.
• Registered all courses online till date.
• Possess the University ID card or have been successfully captured.
• Possess and use the University student email address.
8. All hostel accommodation invoices are valid for only three days after generation. Any student who fails to pay within the three day period will be doing so at his/her own risk.
9. All Rev Sisters and intending corps members must follow the authorised process for accommodation henceforth.
10. Physically challenged students must also generate invoice and proceed to make payments promptly.

All students should be informed and prepare themselves adequately for the new session. 

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NYSC Mobilization Time-Table For 2016 Batch B Prospective Corps Members

The management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has released the time-table for the mobilization of the 2016 Batch B prospective Corps Members.

The breakdown of the activities is as indicated below;

1. Display of list of all approved programmes for institutions on NYSC portal for cross checking and feedback: 14th - 21st September 2016

2. Collation of Prospective Corps Members' Data by Corps Producing Institutions CPIs: 12th - 30th September 2016

3. Submission/Uploading of Senate/Academic Board Approved Results for Full/Part-Time Graduates and Revalidation Lists by CPIs: 3rd - 8th October 2016

4. Uploading of Corrected Lists by Corps Producing Institutions: 8th - 14th October 2016 

5. On-line Registration by Foreign and locally Trained Nigerian Graduates: 17th October - 12th November 2016 

6. Entertainment of complaints from Prospective Corps Members by the state Deployment and Relocation officers and NYSC Help Lines/Desks officers: 17th October - 12th November, 2016 

7. Forwarding of Complaints to Mobilisation Dept by State Deployment and Relocation officers: 17th October - 12th November, 2016 

8. Deployment and Printing of Call-up Letters by ICT Department: 14th - 19th November, 2016 

9. Notification/On-line Printing of Call-up Letters/Delivery of Call-up letters to Institutions: 21st - 25th November, 2016 

10. On-line Printing of Deployment Disposition by Corps Producing Institutions CPIs: 21st - 25th November, 2016 

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Neymar to Launch Music Career

FC Barcelona forward Neymar has announced that he will begin his music career by releasing his first song on Facebook. The Brazilian revealed the news on his Twitter handle, saying that Wednesday will be the beginning of 'Neymusico'. "This Wednesday I begin my music career and I’m going to release my first song on Facebook. We will have ‘Neymusico’. Share it," he wrote✍ on Twitter.

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September 11th National Day of Service and Remembrance

The September 11 attacks (also referred to as September 11, September 11th, or 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks consisted of suicide attacks used to target symbolic U.S. landmarks.
Four passenger airliners—which all departed from airports on the U.S. East Coast bound for California—were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists to be flown into buildings. Two of the planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, were crashed into the North and South towers, respectively, of the World Trade Center complex in New York City. Within an hour and 42 minutes, both 110-story towers collapsed, with debris and the resulting fires causing partial or complete collapse of all other buildings in the World Trade Center complex, including the 47-story 7 World Trade Center tower, as well as significant damage to ten other large surrounding structures.

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YABATECH Postpones Biometric Screening Of Candidates For 2016/2017 Admission

The Yaba College of Technology biometric screening for CANDIDATES WHO CHOSE YABATECH AS THEIR MORE PREFERRED DEGREE AWARDING CHOICE FOR BSC (AFFILIATED TO UNN) for the 2016/2017 JAMB ADMISSION that was scheduled for Sept 7-8th, 2016 has been postponed to Sept 15th, 2016.

Details of the credentials to be presented during the screening will be communicated soonest.

Similarly, the Yaba College of Technology biometric screening for CANDIDATES CHOSE YABATECH AS EITHER THEIR PREFERRED DEGREE AWARDING, SECOND, THIRD OR FOURTH CHOICE that was scheduled for Sept 9-16th, 2016 has been postponed to Oct 25-27th, 2016.

Details of the credentials to be presented during the screening will be communicated soonest. 

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ASUU Set To Embark On A Nationwide Warning Strike

Report has it that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), will on October 2nd begin a warning strike to press home their demands.

According to the ASUU Chairman, University of Abuja, Dr. Ben, since the Federal Government has refused to implement the demands of the union, the union has no option but to embark on a warning strike to let the FG know members of the union are not jokers.

He further stated that if at the end of the warning strike the situation remains the same, then union will commence an indefinite strike. 

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