Benue church victims to be buried April 20

By Agency Reporter

The 22 victims of the collapsed St. Robert's Church in Vandeikya Local Government Area of Benue will be buried on April 20, a statement from the Catholic Diocese of Makurdi has said.
The statement, signed by the Rt. Rev. William Avenya, the Auxiliary Bishop of Catholic Diocese of Makurdi, said the burial would take place at St. Robert's, Adamgbe, near Vandeikya.
It expressed the hope that the families involved would allow the burial take place at the venue.
``We are hoping that the families involved will allow us to bury the 22 corpses in one location and the vestments shall be white," the News Agency of Nigeria quoted the church as saying in the statement.
The statement also said that those who sustained injuries and in different medical centres around the area were responding to treatment.
The 22 persons were killed, while many others injured when a storm pulled down St. Robert’s Church building in Vandeikya, Benue, on Holy Saturday.

Fresh bomb scare in Kaduna

By The Nation: Tony Akowe 

 

 People gather around the site of Sunday's suicide attack in Kaduna, Nigeria, Tuesday. Photo: AP

Few days after Easter Sunday’s bomb explosion within the Kaduna metropolis, the city recorded another bomb scare on Tuesday.
This incident took place few metres from the scene of last Sunday’s blast which killed several people.
Residents and commuters reportedly noticed a bag placed near a pole on the middle of the road, causing panic and confusion as residents thought the bag contained explosives and the police was immediately alerted on the discovery.
Eye witnesses told The Nation that when the police arrived and cordoned off the place, none of them was willing to move near the object until one young man within the neigbourhood came, move towards it and struck the bag with a long stick while the crowd that was already building up cheered him on.
One of the eyewitnesses said, “The boy, named Abdullahi Olya came from Jemaa Road. He used the stick to touch the bag and nothing happened. The people around started hailing him while the police watched.
“Realizing that the bag does not contain any explosive device, the boy went to the place, picked it up, emptied the content and people around started clapping for him. But the police moved in and arrested the boy.”
“The boy’s arrest further created confusion in the area as many of those present rose in his defense. They threatened a showdown with the police, a situation that caused serious traffic hold up in the area as motorists had to turn towards the Nasarawa Road and came into Kaduna town through the Katsina Road roundabout, “the eyewitness added.

2012/2013 POST UME CUT OFF MARK FOR ALL NIGERIAN UNIVERSITY

We have all check our JAMB Scores. What is next, the most important hurdle to climb is Post-Ume. Today, I want to write on the Post Ume Cut off Mark for all the Nigerian Universities.

If your JAMB Score is 200 and above, you can write a post ume for a University. In order for you to know your prefered School Post UME Exam cut off mark, read this

> Federal University of Technology, Minna (FUTMinna) - 190
> Kwara State Polytechnic, - 180
> University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) - 180 or 200 depending on course
> Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) - 180 UTME
> Kaduna State University (KASU) - 180 UTME (first choice only)
> Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH) - 180
> University of Ibadan (UI) - 200 (Only Accept Students who Choose them as First choice only)
> Lagos State University (LASU) - 200
> Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike (MOUAU) - 180
> Imo State University (IMSU), now Called EvanEnwerem University (EEU) - 180
> University of Benin (UNIBEN) - 200
> Anambra State University (ANSU) - No official figure probably 180
> Nnamdi Azikiwe University (NAU/UNIZIK) - 180 first choice only (no official proof yet)
> Enugu State University of Science & Technology - 180
> Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) - 200
> Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) - 200
> Adekunle Ajasin University - 200
> Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED) - 180 (first choice only)
> University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) - 200 (minimum UTME cut-off)
> Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST) - 180 (1st choice only)
> University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (UNAAB) - 180 (minimum UTME cut-off)
> Delta State University, Abraka (DELSU) - 180 (minimum UTME cut- off)
> Abia State University, Uturu (ABSUU) - 180
> University of Ilorin, UNILORIN - 200 (240 for Medicine)
> University of Lagos (UNILAG) - 200
> Federal University of Technology FUT,Minna - 190
> Kwara State Poly -180
> University of Port Harcourt, UNIPORT - 200/180 depending oncourse
> Federal University of Technology Owerri, FUTO - 180 UTME cutoff.
> Kaduna State University, KASU - 180 UTME cutoff (first choice only)
> Lagos State Polytechnic, LASPOTECH - 180
> University of Ibadan, UI - 200 (First choice only)
> Lagos State University, LASU - 200
> Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, MOUAU - 180
> University of Benin, UNIBEN - 200
> Niger Delta University - 180 Cutoff mark will vary depending on your chosen course.
> Osun State University (Uniosun) - 200 (180 for Agriculture, Education and Arts i.e Humanities and Culture Faculty)
> University of Abuja - 180

You can ask any question relating to your school and post ume here. If you need a past questions. use the comment form to ask for it.

CNPP urges EFCC to probe Obasanjo's Third Term failed plot

By The Nation: Gbenga Omokhunu, Abuja 

 

Obasanjo

• 'We want to know how N30 billion was wasted'

The Conference Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) yesterday urged  the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate how over N30 billion was ‘wasted’ on former President Olusegun Obasanjo alleged Third Term bid.
 Obasanjo, in an interview with Channels , said he never "toyed with the idea of a third term" and that it was some members of the National Assembly that initiated the move to amend the constitution with a view to accommodating the plan.           
But CNPP, in a statement by its Publicity Secretary Osita Okechukwu,  said: "We want to know who authorised the opening of the Central Bank of Nigeria 's vault where over N30 billion was withdrawn, the foot soldiers who distributed monies to lobby National Assembly members, Chiefs, Emirs, Obas and sundry characters, and who collected."        
The group added: "Now that Senator Ibrahim Mantu, former Deputy Senate President (DSP) and Chairman Joint Constitutional Review Committee (JCRC) during the Third Term saga, has come out publicly to defend ex-president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo's revision of history and his infamous role in the failed bid that cost the nation over N30 billion; Conference Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) calls on the EFCC to probe the failed exercise. The EFCC is in good stead to carry out this probe because the Chairman of EFCC Ibrahim Lamorde was the Operations man in the Commission during this sordid era.
"We dismiss Senator Mantu's statement in its entirety and are of the candid view that the Third Term is much ado about the depletion of our natural resources, the failure of Obasanjo regime to complete any project, especially of the federal roads he awarded since assumption of office, even Ota-Agege-Abeokuta road and total criminal dislocation of our journey to true democracy.
 "The probe of the Third Term is a matter of utmost national importance, not only to recover our looted funds, a bleeding which took place when the Oil price was hovering at its peak of between $140 to $145 per barrel; but also to locate how Chief Obasanjo's failure to extend his tenure led to his adoption of do-or-die tactics hence the 2007 sham elections and the emergence of the incompetent government in our clime today."