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FUTO Post-UTME/DE sales of form, cut-off mark, cost, eligibility, screening dates, deadline and registration details for the 2020/2021 Academic Session have been announced. Cut-off mark is 180. Cost is N2000. Registration begins August 4th - September 1st, 2020. See full details below Candidates who chose Federal University of Technology, Owerri as First Choice University in the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE) are hereby invited for Screening Exercise. The following conditions apply:  UTME candidates must have scored a minimum of 180 in their UTME;  Direct Entry candidates must be holders of OND/HND/First Degree and A’Level in relevant disciplines and subjects. Those who did not choose FUTO as first choice University but scored a minimum of 180 can also apply on the condition that they visit the JAMB website for a change of Institution. Application commences on Tuesday, August 04, 2020 and closes on Tuesday, September ...

The Federal Government has said Secondary schools in the country will reopen on August 4, 2020 for pupils in exit classes to sit for their examination. The government said students will have two weeks to prepare for the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination organised by the West Africa Examination Council. WAEC exams, the government said will commence on 17th of August, 2020. The government announced the decision at the end of a virtual consultative meeting between the Federal Ministry of Education, Commissioners of Education of the 36 states, the Nigerian Union of Teachers, (NUT), the proprietors of private schools, and Chief Executives of examination bodies. In a statement by the Director, Press and Public Relations, FMoE, Ben Goong, said “stakeholders at the meeting agreed that the exit classes should resume immediately after the Sallah break, from the 4th of August, 2020 to enable them prepare for the WAEC examinations scheduled to commence from the 17th of Aug...

The rate at which scamming activities trend in the globe recently is alarming and if nothing is done it’ll become a global emergency. Scammers are people that take advantage of the internet to defraud people of their valuables. They achieve this using these strategies. - HACKING: most scammere are intellectual software editors and can understand encryption languages, they are capable of hacking into devices and links with no strong security and modify the settings, by so doing they can highjack things they want including valuables stored in such devices/link. The best and most effective way of disrupting such scamming activities is to have strong system and internet securities in such devices and always have backup settings and strong Firefox. This will go a long way in protecting your device. But security updates should always be made as these hackers will always modify their hacking skills. Another way they perform these hacking activities are to create mobile applications...

The Federal Government has declared final year secondary school students may have to sit for the  General Certificate Examinations (GCE) in November if there is no shift in the timetable of the West African Examination Council (WAEC). The Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, disclosed this during the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 briefing on Thursday in Abuja. He said sitting for the GCE may become the only option for Nigerian students if the country cannot convince WAEC to shift its examinations for any reason at all. The Minister however noted that should Nigeria be able to meet up with the WAEC timetable, there was already a negotiated timeline to move local language subjects such as Ibo, Yoruba and Hausa behind to allow all participating countries the needed time to write the general subjects at the same time. Nwajiuba also said the ministry will be meeting with relevant stakeholders on July 30 to assess preparations towards safe reopening of...

It's been 5 Months since schools were indefinitely shut down as a result of the outbreak of Corona virus pandemic. Students were forced to move back to their homes while many others living off campus might have stayed back No academic activity has been on board all these while though attempts were made to enhance e-learning but all failed as a result of one problem or another such as poor network coverage and inavailability of required devices. Almost everyone thought that the virus spreading would be controlled in no distant time but all were wrong. Little did they know that the virus will migrate from being an epidemic to a pandemic. This frustrated many students since most weren't prepared for such long vacation from school. Properties were left in school including books to be read. Students were left choiceless as many have swept the idea of schooling away from them, while others started a part-time job, others are now into trading and skill acquisition. The idea of s...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has directed all tertiary institutions to begin the conduct of the first and second choice admissions from August 21. The board gave the directive in the 2020 admission guidelines released in Abuja by the board Spokesperson, Dr Benjamin Fabian. Dr Fabian, in the guidelines, warned institutions against duplication of forms, adding that they should desist from selling forms for admissions into some listed programmes. He urged institutions to advise candidates to apply for the programmes through its office, saying that all admission exercise must be conducted on the Central Admission Processing System. All applications for admissions to First Degree, National Diploma, National Innovation Diploma and the Nigeria Certificate in Education into full-time, distance learning, part-time, outreach, sandwich, etc, must be processed only through JAMB. ”Institutions that desire to place advertisement can do so by advising candidates ...

Remembering what it feels like to be a kid comes with joy, childhood life is a replica of mini paradise on earth. Children are one of the less disturbed beings on earth, all they do is sleep, wake up, eat, learn and sometimes perform mild duties. The fright of getting older comes when one sees the responsibilities attached to it and the changes in social interactions, it also comes when one notices the funs and happiness are gradually fading away, now the reality of life is getting dawn before the eyes, life is now seen as a battle, one have to fight for survival or perish. This fright is mostly experienced by teenagers because they're intermediate between childhood and adulthood, they'll have the memories of there childhood being gradually wiped away by the realities of adulthood. They'll always see clear differences between the two, they'll always do comparisons and most often complain about things that favour their childhood but won't favour their adulthood...

Introverts are people that enjoy being left alone, they're good at minding their business, they neither want to intrude into other people's affairs nor have theirs intruded. They only talk with few people, hardly noticed in a public gathering, associate with only few people and hate businesses that requires presentations before large audience. They rarely go outside their homes or seen in public because they enjoy being alone. This condition is phenomenal though, but some people like being introverts because: - They hate disturbance - They hate seeing  their belongings being tampered with by another person - They like doing more of thinking about life, future, science and income - Most are strategies - They consentrate and handle issues more maturely - They easily get heartbroken, so they avoid people to prevent that. Introverts always lack social life because they rarely engage thelmselves social activities and for this reason, they are hardly recognised by the soci...

The House Committee on Basic Education and Services has asked the Federal Government not to cancel the 2020West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination ( WASSCE ) .  The Chairman of the committee, Julius  Ihonvbere  (APC-Edo), made this know in a statement. According to him, the position of the committee is that it should not be  canceled . He said the committee was amazed at the announcement by the Minister of Education,  Adamu   Adamu , where he stated that Nigerian students would not be participating in the 2020  WASSCE . The lawmaker said the minister did not inform the country if the position was in agreement with other West African leaders or in consultation with the examination bodies, the state governments, and other stakeholders in the education sector. He said the sudden decision to cancel WAEC will bring more confusion in the education sector and frustrate students. “Nigeria is not the only country expected to write...

18th birthday in every human life is a very significant birthday and it's worth being celebrated. This is so because it's globally accepted that age 18 is the age for migration to adulthood though still a teenager. Once someone clocks 18, the person gains automatic freedom to so many things without restriction. Such person will become able to make critical life decisions without the consent and permission of anyone. Such person is licensed to do anything constitutionally legal even if it goes against his/her morals without being questioned. Here are some packages that comes with 18th birthday -License to drive. -Live life at ones will. -License to drink alcohol of any form. -Acquision and ownership of wealth. -Legal ownership of bank account(s). -Independence from parenthood. -Can be punished duly for any criminal offence against the law. -License to vote. -Can be imprisoned. Although, most of the aforementioned activities are mostly restricted to developed and d...

These sets of people are one of the most restless beings on earth. They are humans but they choose to exist and live in the form of parasites. They make living from the sweats of others, they are digital robbers. They want to live a stress free life, they want to experience paradise without working for it, for this reason, they have to feed on those that’ve worked for their paradises. They believe they'll achieve it by defrauding people. They defraud people as many as possible, then use the wealth to start up their own lives neglecting the effects of these activities on their victims. Their argony mostly starts when they think everything's settled, when they feel they've had a successful operation and believes it's time to enjoy. They'll set up luxurious houses and buy expensive assessories for better living  At this point, security agencies will come to question them of the source(s) of there wealth. They'll have no answer to these questions because...

Reading has been the challenge of many people across the globe. While others sees it to be stressful, some sees it to be incomprehendible.many people (especially students) wants to form reading culture, but because they don't know how to read and understand, it will seem to be impossible. When you want to read and comprehend, you have to make sure the environmental factors that'll favour your reading are in place, such factors include: -Reading in a noise free area. -Reading in area free from pollution. -Reading in an area with little or no distractions. -Reading in a well ventilated area. When these factors are put in place, then the next is to make sure you read with enthusiasm. Don't force yourself to read, try to adjust your mental being at the moment.if you don't feel like reading, then you have to make yourself feel so in order to read, if not, it’ll be a waste of time. Again is knowing where to start the reading from. A writer, in a interview was asked...

Nigeria is a country with population of approximately 206,000,000 people and 520 indigenous known languages. Due to the introduction of English language as a general language, most indigenous languages are going extinct. English language was chosen to be a general acceptable language in Nigeria due to the language diversity of the country. It was a language spoken by the colonial masters before they gained independence. Making the language a national language at first was a great news because it'll break the country's language barrier. But nowadays, English language is causing more harm than good in the nation. Most people no longer appreciate speaking their language in public even with a fellow clansman, they feel ashamed of their language because they've tagged it local. Such people can neither speak nor write their language. With number of such people daily increasing, most languages have be recorded to have gone extinct while others are endangered. Does it mean...