JAMB Fixes Cut-Off Marks For Tertiary Institutions

Candidates seeking admission into tertiary institutions in Nigeria now have cause to smile as the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has fixed the minimum cut-off marks for 2017, despite the ongoing strike by the academic staff union of universities.

At a policy meeting on the 2017/2018 admission exercise in Abuja, the Registrar of JAMB, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, announced 120 as the minimum cut-off marks for admissions into universities in Nigeria. The meeting was attended by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, and heads of tertiary institutions across the country.

The cut-off mark for admission into polytechnics and colleges of education was fixed at 100, while that of innovative enterprising institutes was pegged at 110.

Professor Oloyede, however, said the institutions are at liberty to raise their cut off marks for admission above the minimum benchmark set by the board.

More than 1.7 million candidates applied to study various courses in tertiary institutions across the country in 2017 and with the minimum benchmark fixed by JAMB, admission seekers with requisite qualifications may find it easier to gain admission into institutions of their choice.

YABATECH Departmental Cut-off Marks For 2017/2018

Official YABA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY 2017/18 Department Cut Off Marks;

 

• General Art— 55
•  Industrial Design-Fashion—44
• Printing Technology—46
• Agricultural & Bio-Environmental Engineering—45
• Civil Engineering—58
• Computer Engineering—59
• Electrical Engineering—61
• Industrial Maintenance Engineering—45
• Marine Engineering—55
• Mechanical Engineering—61
• Metallurgical Engineering—45
• Welding & Fabrication Engineering—45
• Architecture—58
• Building Technology—51
• Estate Management & Valuation—54
• Quantity Surveying—48
• Surveying & Geo-informatics—43
• Urban & Regional Planning—49
• Mass Communication—66
• Accountancy—63
• Banking & Finance—56
• Business Administration—60
• Marketing—54
• Office Technology Management—50
• Public Administration—50
• Science Laboratory Technology—64
• Statistics—49
• Agricultural Technology—48
• Computer Science—59
• Food Technology—57
• Hospitality Management—50
• Polymer Technology—47
• Leisure & Tourism—42
• Nutrition & Dietetics—45
• Textile Technology—42

 

3 Signs to Notice you are having HIV

 In order to raise awareness and help you catch the disease early on, here are some symptoms in each stage of the disease to watch for. Stage one The signs of HIV infection may not present themselves for years and possibly decades in some, but most people will experience flu-like symptoms 2-4 weeks after infection.


Headaches, fever, tiredness, swollen lymph nodes, joint pain and a possible rash are all signs of the HIV virus. These are also common symptoms for the normal flu, so if there is any possibility you’ve been infected and these symptoms show up, it’s best to be tested for HIV AIDS and start treatment as soon as possible.

Stage Two

 

After the initial flu-like symptoms, which may last for weeks, the virus enters a latent period where no symptoms are detectable. The latent period may last up to a decade if it’s not treated with ART, but with the help of the Antiretrovirals, the latent period can last for three or more decades.

 

 

Stage three

By stage three the HIV virus has advanced to full blown AIDS, and not much can be done. Once AIDS symptoms settle in, it is usually fatal within 2-3 years. Advanced AIDS is most often identified by extreme and rapid weight loss. AIDS sufferers may also have prolonged diarrhea (lasting more than a couple weeks), pneumonia, extreme fatigue, herpes (mouth and genital sores), a persistent dry cough, severe night sweats, dementia and red, brown, pink or purple blotches on the skin. Not all AIDS patients have every one of these symptoms, but many will.


you can also like our page on facebook

SHOCKING! Another Ritualist Discovered In Ikeja, Lagos State.

c











 According to online reports, another alleged ritualist den has been discovered at Ile Zik bus stop, between Ikeja along and Mangoro bus stop, Lagos.

The suspect has been rescued by security operatives. – coming after another den was discovered days ago in Lagos.

100% BONUS ON NEW CUSTOMER

hurry now; its simple just open on the link below to open a fresh account and stake to win
click here NAIRABET

10 WAYS on How to Plan Your Wedding

1. Set a Budget 

 

 It's important to stick to a budget and to keep your wishes realistic. While this is a very special day your life, it's not an excuse to be wildly extravagant with money you don't have. Remind yourself when you feel like fretting that you still have many wonderful days ahead and you don't want these marred by paying back an unplanned overspend.

• Aim to never exceed the amount specified as the total of your budget. If you overspend on one item, another item has to take a cut to meet the budget. Be prepared to be flexible and to prioritize the big spends that really matter. You can always make do or DIY on the things that are less important or even the frivolous but desired aspects.

• If your parents or future in-laws are partially or wholly funding the wedding, you have an added help. However, remain conscious to not burden them either. Ask them for their budget ceiling and stick to it. 

 

 2. Set the timeline for planning.

 Of all things about your planning, this is the most important aspect. Develop a sensible, reasonable timeline depending on how much time you've given yourselves. Begin with a calendar before you and try following a suggested timeline from a wedding guide. You will find such timelines in wedding guide books, magazines, online and even at the base of this article. In general, you're likely to find that most guides assume you have around 12 months to plan your wedding; if you've less time, simply adjust the timeline accordingly (the last three months matter the most anyway). (Timeline suggestions will be provided throughout this article.)  

• Don't panic if you don't have 12 months. Generally what planning guides suggest happens in the first few months are things that can be done fairly quickly, such as announcing your engagement, sending the announcement to local papers, purchasing planning books and software, planning the budget, selecting the bridal party and settling on a wedding date.

• One of the principal reasons for a long lead-in time is the wedding and reception venues––the most popular ones are often booked out a year or more in advance and many people have taken to planning the wedding around venue availability. If this irks you or you just don't have a year, look around for great alternatives, from public garden spaces, to lesser known churches and mosques or town halls. Avoid the trap of thinking you have to use the venue every other bride is using this year! 

 

 3. Choose a workable method for your record-keeping.

 

 

 

You'll need to keep tabs of everything you've already decided and what's planned ahead. Also, invoices, quotes, receipts, seating plans, photos of desired decorations/clothing, patterns, instructions, etc. will need to be kept in one place, so have at least one large plastic pocket to keep these in one place. If you're more organized, use a few pockets to separate by categories.

• Wedding software or planning apps can work well for digital planning. If you have tech-savvy friends helping plan the wedding, you might even consider making a wedding wiki open only to those of you helping with the planning. This can help enormously with shared planning and strategizing. On the downside, software and wikis need to be maintained through the inputting of information and scanning in documents, while a notebook can be taken anywhere and you can jot down things quickly and you can simply add the growing mound of papers to a binder. For many people, both digital and paper planning tools combined are the best of both worlds.

4. Size of the wedding, venues and setting the date

 

Remember to talk this over with the person you are engaged to. A dream wedding for one may not be right for the other. You'll need to know how many people are going to attend for the purposes of venues, catering and invitations.

• As part of this decision, choose your bridal party. How many bridesmaids and groomsmen do you want? From none to a dozen, the choice depends on what you have always dreamed of and what space you'll have available for everyone to stand in at the ceremony. Remember that your total number of guests includes your bridal party.
• This decision is usually done at around the ten-months-to-go mark

 5.  Choose the venue.

 The sooner this is done, the better, so that you know you have the place you really want. Check out the spaces offered, the catering deals, the marriage fees, the ability to decorate a church or synagogue, wedding space, etc. Find out whether the prices quoted cover everything or whether you'll be expected to pay for extras.

• Be aware that even church and synagogue venues may charge fees.
• Research into venues for the wedding and reception usually starts around the 12 months-to-go mark, with bookings occurring within the month once you've made up your mind.

6. Set the date.

 

 The factors in choosing a date include the availability of your venue, friends and family. Think about who you must have at your wedding, and try to set the date with their availability in mind. Most people will do their best to accommodate a wedding, so unless you know this person has major surgery or a competing wedding in their calendar, you should be fairly right with directing their calendar.

• Send out "save the date" cards to your guests. Once the venue and guest lists are confirmed, let everyone know what's coming up. Send emails if you know people will read them, otherwise, send cards to their postal addresses.
• Setting the date usually occurs at the same time you've confirmed the place of the wedding and the place of the reception. Finalization of the guest list should be done when there are about seven months to go. Do expect some cancellations and possibly some last-minute additions due to illness, pregnancy, overseas travel, etc. It often can't be helped, so go with the flow.

7.  Wedding theme and the invitations

Choose a theme. It doesn't have to be anything really specific, but a successful event tends to have a consistent feeling throughout. Choose a theme that is easy to plan and decorate. Everything should be consistent with the theme.

• You can usually hire someone that will decorate your wedding, but it can be expensive to do so.
• Visit the venue and take pictures of how the area looks. You may want to measure the dimensions of the room or area, to allow you to plan where you want everything go and to know if you have enough space.
• As part of the theme, research the flowers you want at the wedding. Find out if they're available during the time of your wedding or if they're out of season (the costs of flying them in can be very high). Finalize flowers around four months ahead of the wedding date.
• Match decorations to the color theme for best overall appearance.

 8. Send out the wedding invitations

Research into the design of your wedding invitations when you still have around 10 months to go, and work on purchasing or ordering their printing when there are about six months to go. Leave plenty of time if you're making your own and always have lots of spares, as making a mistake now and then in writing or making them is inevitable.

• Be creative; you can make your own and add a personal touch or go to a professional.
• Send out invitations around two months prior to the wedding; this should be sufficient time if you've already sounded out your guests and sent them "save the date" cards. (If Jewish, make sure to get kippots made.)
• Make wedding programs. As with the invitations, you can you have your programs professionally printed or make your own. It’s not recommended that you print your programs much more than a week in advance in case there are any unexpected changes, such as changes in ushers or candle lighters. If possible, have your officiant proofread the ceremony portion of the program.

 

 

 9. Choose your officiant.

 

 

  For a faith-based wedding, you'll be looking for a pastor, priest, minister or rabbi. If they don't charge a fee outright to perform the ceremony, be courteous enough to pay a generous gratuity for their time. For a secular based wedding, choose a wedding officiant, judge or person with authority to marry people who is both available on the date and amenable to any particular special requests you have by way of vows and ceremony.

• Attend premarital counseling. This may take a large time commitment, but it is often worth it in the long-run. Be honest about your desires and expectations for marriage. Both faith-based and secular-based counseling is available.
• If on a 12 month timeline, this is usually begun when there are about eight months to go.

 

10. Research, design and order your wedding dress

 

Around the mark of nine months to go, start researching your wedding dress ideas. Are you having one custom made, altering an heirloom dress or purchasing off-the-rack? Whichever way, you'll possibly need several fittings and adjustments to perfect it. Alternatively, make your own or steer clear of traditional wedding dresses and buy a dress that you simply love and know you can wear again after the wedding. You don't have to stick with tradition or spend a fortune on something you'll never use again.

• Select a wedding veil if you're having one. And don't forget the shoes––from flip flops to diamond encrusted satin slippers, what's your preference and do they need special effort or will you buy them ready-made?
• Decide on bridesmaid's dresses at the same time. Are you paying for them or will they pay? You have less say over their choices if they pay but they're more likely to be happy with choosing their own style within your color choice.
• In some religions, it is traditional that the mother of both the groom, and bride comes to find the dress, as well as the maid of honor. This varies widely depending on where you live and what your faith is.
• Get tuxes and groomsmen clothing sorted and ordered about four months prior to the wedding. Send tux measurement forms to groomsmen a month before fittings.

for more info you can visit wikihow

 

How The Man ‘Pa Adebayo Faleti’ Who Translated Nigeria Anthem To Yoruba Died

The man who translates Nigeria National Anthem from English Language to Yoruba, Pa Adebayo Faleti died after morning prayers, his son has said.

Poet, dramatist, broadcaster Chief Adebayo Faleti is dead. He died at 86 in his Ibadan home in Oyo State on Sunday.

 

 

 

Prominent Nigerians have been trooping to his home to condole the family while many have been describing him as a trailblazer in the field of entertainment and poetry.

Many have quickly forgotten that Pa Faleti translated the Nigeria National Anthem in English to Yoruba, which many adults recited during their primary and secondary school days.
Beside the fact that Faleti participated in some recent outstanding movies, including ‘Saworo Ide and Thunderbolt”, the artiste was a pioneer staff of the first television station in Africa, the Western Nigeria Television established by the then Premier of Western State of Nigeria, Chief Obafemi Awolowo.
Speaking on the death of Faleti, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai described it as loss to Nigeria and Africa as a whole.


Mohammed said that Faleti was a colossus and that the arts industry would forever be indebted to the man who left indelible footprint in the anal of entertainment in Nigeria.
He commiserated with the family and friends of the departed, as well as all practitioners in the sector. The minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed prayed that God will comfort them and grant repose to the soul of the departed.

Fayose’s Love Letter To Osinbajo

In this piece, Nigeria News take a look at the letter from Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose to Acting President Yemi Osinbajo.

One has tagged this letter a love memo, going by the tone of its contents. The Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose is unarguably one of the undiplomatic politicians Nigeria ever produced.

His approach to issues is aggressive. His continuous attack on President Muhammadu Buhari and the present administration of the All Progressives Congress, APC is visible and he never hid his hatred for the ruling party.

He had since paid dearly for it with his bank account once frozen by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. He fought his battle both in the media and in the court and to some extent, Fayose looks like he is winning.
One had expected the Ekiti governor to lash out at the Acting President Osinbajo since President Muhammadu Buhari left Nigeria for London on a medical vacation but rather Fayose had been addressing Osinbajo with decorum.

While he had always refuted various stories on Buhari’s health status, Fayose decided to write a letter to Osinbajo and made a copy of his letter available to the media, asking the acting President to produce the report of the probe on the allegations of corruption against two public officers in the present administration.
Fayose mentioned the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, NIA, Ambassador Ola oke and the sacked Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal.

Lawal was alleged to have diverted about N300 million meant for the welfare of the Internally Displaced Persons, IDP to a company where he is a director. He was alleged to have approved the funds for a grass cutting contract that was never a part of the IDP project.

For Oke, the NIA boss, was found to have involved in stashing about N13 billion in an Ikoyi residence. The EFCC arrested both and their cases were investigated.

President Buhari inaugurated a probe panel with Osinbajo as the chairman to look into the allegation.
After about two weeks, the presidency announced the suspension of the two but never told the public whether they were guilty or not.
Currently, nothing is being said about the culprits while the media have become silent on the whole saga.
Fayose had also become unnecessary silent, having being in forefront of opposition until Monday when he came up with a letter asking Osinbajo to release the probe report.
Fayose urged Osinbajo to act more like a pastor and lawyer by telling members of the public how the probe went instead of sweeping the case under the carpet.
He said that he would not mind taking the Federal Government to court for failing to release the report of the probe panel.
To Fayose, the current administration has abused the fundamental human rights of many Nigerians in the guise of fighting corruption but has failed to make a single arrest of any member of the APC, including those who had been found culpable of corruption.

He recalled how almost all the chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP were arrested, molested and detained by the APC led government even when the court had not proclaimed them guilty of any corrupt practice.
Fayose bemoaned the style at which the Federal Government is using to fight corruption. According to him, the government is only out to persecute those in opposition and this has shown in the slap on the palm’s treatment for Lawal and Oke.
He capped his argument when he referred Osinbajo to the statement made by an APC senator, Shehu Sani, representing Kaduna Central that the current administration only treats its corrupt members with deodorants but others with insecticides.