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KSU Cut-Off Marks for2012/2013 Admission List -

Reports reaching the Myschoolcomm Desk
highlights the release of the Kogi State University
KSU Cut-off marks for the 2012/2013 Admission
list of the institution.
According to the reports, KSU has fixed the
following Post-UTME cut off marks for the
various faculties;
1. Agriculture- 45
2. Arts- 45-50
3. Law- 57
4. Management Sciences- 53
5. Natural Sciences- 45-50
6. Social Sciences- 53-55
With this information of the cut-off marks, we
should be expecting the KSU 2012/2013
Admission List to determine the fate of every
post-utme candidate.
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List of Tuition Fees for Major Nigerian Universities

With admission lists being released, and students
getting prepared to resume, we found it
imperative to let you know the amount of
money, you would be coughing out per annum, as
you begin your Journey to Excellence.
Note that these figure here may not be
accurate with all schools. Some schools might
be paying less or slightly more than what is
here. Schoolbooks234 intended to give a rough
estimate based on tuition for first year
students from our researchers.
. You can help make this publication
useful by constructively commenting below
with the right figures from your school if you
are better informed. Thank you
.
Below are the Tuition Fees of Major Nigerian
Universities.
YABATECH=>#35000
OAU=>#37,000
UNIZIK=>#67,000
FUNAAB=>#48,000
AAU=>#80,000
OOU=>#135,000
RSUST=>#40,000
FUTO=>#42,800
DELSU=>#38000
TSUJ=>#32,000
FUOYE=>#75,000
UNIBEN=>#50,000
NASARAWA=>#21,000
UNIPORT=>#36000
ABU=>#41,000
LOKOJA=#38,000
MINNA=>#30,000
LASU=>#190,000 – 250,000
UI =>#29,000
AAUA=>#50,000
UNN=>#39,000
NOUN=#38,000
BUK=>#42,000
UNILAG=>#40,000
ILORIN=>#35,000
UNIOSUN=>#85,000
TASUED=>#60,000
LAUTECH=>#95,000
UNAD=>#105,000
BOWEN=>#550,000
ABUJA=>#40,000
IMSU=> FREE (Indegines) #53,750 (non-
Indegines)
UNIJOS=>39,000
ABU=>#35,000
UNICAL=#40,000
ANSU=>#46,000
KSUSTA=>#35,000
LEAD=>#1.5 million
FUTA=>#47,000
ABSU=>#90,000
YOLA=>#34,000
BAYERO=>31,000
UNICAL=#38,500
AKSU=>#30,000
Osun poly #28000
Ibadan poly # 45000
Fed poly ado #29000
Owo poly #32000
Moshood abiola poly #75000
Laspotech #38000
Federal poly oko #28000
Federal poly ilaro #30000
Federal poly bida #23000 (it varies with
Department)
Auchi polytechnic #27000
Kaduna poly #24000
Abia poly #28000
Enugu poly #26500
Kwara poly #21000
Nekede #32000
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SPDC Joint Venture University Scholarship Application 2012

This year's SPDC Joint Venture University
Scholarship award is sponsored by the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (Operator of the NNPC/SHELL /TEPN/AGIP Joint Venture). The Scholarship Scheme offers first year students in all Nigerian universities the opportunity to study with an annual grant from the SPDC JV for the full duration of their course. The scholarship programme aims to promote academic excellence and improve the skills-base among young Nigerians. Eligibility for application
The Scholarship is in two categories - the
National Merit Award (NM) and the Areas of
Operation Merit Award, East or West (OE or
OW). National Merit Award (NM)
Open to Nigerians who are not indigenes of
SPDC’s operational areas (in Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Imo and Rivers States). Applications must be sent in writing using the format below only and sent in an envelope clearly marked 2011/2012 NM Application. Areas of Operation Merit Award, East (OE) For Nigerians who are indigenes of SPDC’s operational areas in Abia, Akwa Ibom, Imo, Rivers and Bayelsa states (excluding indigenes of Ekeremor and Sagbama local government areas).
Applications must be sent in writing using the format below only and sent in an envelope clearly marked 2011/2012 OE Application. Areas of Operation Merit Award, West (OW) For Nigerians who are indigenes of SPDC’s operational area in Delta and Bayelsa (from Ekeremor and Sagbama Local Government Areas) States. Applications must be sent in writing using the format below only and sent in
an envelope clearly marked 2011/2012 OW
Application.
How to apply for the SPDC Scholarship
1. All applicants should have their personal valid email account (for consistent communication).
2. Candidates who meet the above entry
qualifications should apply by providing the following personal and educational details in a signed resume:-
1) Surname
2) Other Name(s)
3) Title (i.e. Mr, Mrs, or Miss).
4) Award Type applied for
5) Session of Admission
6) Matriculation Number
7) University
8) Course & Duration
9) Mode of Admission (i.e. Remedial,UTME,
Direct Entry)
10) Programme Type (i.e.Full Time,Part Time,
ISLT, CEC)
11) JAMB Registration Number
12) JAMB (UME) Score
13) State of Origin
14) Local Government Area
15) Community (for OE /OW Award Applicants)
16) Home Town
17) Email Address
18) Postal Address: {Do not use post office boxes, as mails will be posted, by courier, except otherwise indicated}
19) Residential Address: {This should reflect the House Number, Street, Town / City, and State} 20) Telephone Number
21) Physical Disability (If any, attach evidence)
22) Signature and Date
The following items should be attached to the resume:-
1. Two recent passport-sized photographs of the applicant (with Name, School & Course written on the back);
2. University or JAMB (UTME or D/E) Admission
Letter;
3. Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations
(UTME) Scores; ie. Original JAMB result slip.
4. ‘O’ Level Result(s); and ‘A’ Level /OND /NCE Result(s) as applicable; and
5. Letter of Identification from State (showing Local Government) of Origin.
6. Letters of Identification duly stamped and
signed by
a) The Paramount Ruler of the Community; and
b) The Chairman of the Community Development
or Executive Council (CDC or CEC), are also
required of applicants for the Operational Area Awards (OE & OW) only.
Applications must be addressed to:
The Head, Tertiary Scholarships, (CXUI/F)
The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited P. O. Box. 230, Warri, Delta State.
Application Submission Deadline is Friday 31 August, 2012.
Notes:-
A. SPDC does not demand payment from
applicants. The application is entirely FREE of charge. SPDC does not assign ‘Representatives’ / Agents’ to assist applicants’ process applications.
B. Only short listed candidates will be contacted,
by e-mail.

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FUTO Pre Degree Examination Commences 13th August 2012

Federal University Of Technology Owerri has released the date for the commencement of the Pre Degree examinations. It is set to run through
from 13th to 17th August 2012. All Candidates are advised to start preparing as this is another chance to secure their admissions into the School
For more update and inquiry contact chuks on 080100003084 .

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Get 1 Year SMS Information & Scholarship Alerts + 2012/2013 Post-UTME Past Questions and Answers for your school

Get 1 Year SMS Information & Scholarship Alerts + 2012/2013 Post-UTME Past Questions and Answers for your school To Purchase your school's copy of this book.
The Post UTME past questions and answers is a book that helps you prepare and have an insight as to what to expect during the post utme examinations in your school of choice. For this year, we will provide you with a combination of current post utme past questions for your school, with our reliable and up-to-date SMS alerts of latest information for your school of choice until Matric Day! Whether it's post-UTME result release, 1st, 2nd 3rd admission list release, resumption and registration, we will keep you informed. YOU WILL BE THE FIRST TO KNOW.
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How to preserve Africa’s languages

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• From left: Mrs Nelly Ibukun-Oyewole, Principal, Federal Government College, Lagos, who represented the Education Minister, Prof Ruqayyat Ahmed Rufa'i; Mr Philip Oduoza, Group Managing Director, UBA Plc; Prof Ngugi and Ms Ijeoma Aso, Managing Direct

The concern over the disappearance of local languages is not new.But, to renowned Kenyan author Prof Ngugi Wa Thiong' O, failure to invest in teaching children indigenous languages will have grave implications. KOFOWOROLA BELO-OSAGIE reports.

As far as nine-year-old Jesse Iriah is concerned, she is not a Nigerian. And she may be right. 
She was born in New York to a Yoruba mother and Edo father.  She speaks only English.  She knows a little Yoruba, though, at least she hears a bit of it when her mother speaks with relatives, but she doesn't understand what Ora, her father's language, is at all. 
"I am American.  I am not a Nigerian," she told this reporter with all sense of seriousness at the prize giving ceremony of the upscale school she attends.  
Asked about how much Yoruba she can speak, she said: "I can speak two proverbs."  One of them is "Ise l'oogun ise", which she learnt at school.
She is among thousands of school-aged children across the country growing up in homes where English is exalted above the mother tongue as the preferred language of communication. 
Her kind are born to a generation of highflying comfortable young professionals, many of whose parents also maintained a similar language regime during their childhood. 
However, renowned Kenyan author Prof Ngugi wa Thiong' O does not think such should be encouraged.  His description of the practice as enslavement took on a whole new meaning for the audience at the Read Africa Launch by UBA Foundation at the UBA Headquarters, Marina, Lagos on Monday last week. 
Urging the foundation to support publishing in local languages, the distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, United States, said: "You don't say there are too many languages in the world. Languages are keys to knowledge.  The more languages you know, the more keys to treasure houses you have.  If you know all the other languages and don't know your language that is called enslavement. If you know your language and add all the other languages, that is called empowerment." 
The impact of his statement on those in attendance was expressed by Mr Kenneth Uzoka, Deputy Managing Director of the bank, who lamented that most parents do not teach their children their languages. 
"Professor has given us a new definition of empowerment.   How many of us can have a conversation with our children in our language? I am not sure we are up to 10 per cent, so that is slavery.  I think we should applaud the professor.  This is a man who has taught in Yale but he converses with his son in their local dialect," he said.
Despite the seeming superiority pupils feel being able to speak English fluently without learning their mother tongue, some of them admitted feeling left out when surrounded by family members speaking their languages.  
Jesse said: "My mummy speaks Yoruba to my aunty, grandmother and uncles.  When we have family gatherings, and everyone is speaking Yoruba, I feel left out."
Another primary school pupil, Gabriel Oliseh, regretted that he could not speak the dialect of the Ukwani people of Delta State.  However, he is making effort to learn Igbo from school and his grandmother.
"I speak some Igbo because I am learning it in school.  Also, my grandmother tries to teach me whenever I go to visit her.  My Daddy speaks his language almost everyday to his friends.  He even speaks Yoruba, Hausa and Tiv.  But he does not speak to us because he knows we cannot understand it," he said.
Mothers are, more often than not, the ones who transfer language skills to their children because they spend more time with them. However, while many underscore the importance of, and make conscious effort to teach, their languages, they do not insist that their children converse with them in those languages.
Mrs Olayinka Bello is proud that her daughter, Opemipo, a Nursery One pupil can speak Yoruba fluently.  However, the little girl will only speak it to the domestic help.
"She speaks Yoruba and understands, although she won't speak to you; she will speak with the house help. It is bullshit not to be able to speak your language to your children.  I had that experience with my elder brother.  They started having children in 1994 and decided not to speak vernacular to them as they called it.  They were surprised that my little girl speaks Yoruba and yet speaks English more fluently than their grown up children," she said.
Another mother, Mrs Ene Ndame, from Otukpo in Benue State, who is married to a Deltan, said her children, Isioma and Ikechukwu, pick a little of the two languages but still converse predominantly in English at home.  For someone who learnt her Idoma mother tongue as a teenager, she said parents who have no languages to transfer to their children are lost.
"You can never be lost with your language.  I have friends my age that do not speak their languages.  I learnt mine in secondary school. So, if I could learn, anybody can.  Those ones who cannot speak their languages have nothing to pass on.  They are already lost. If not English, a child should learn with his local language," she said.
The "If not for English" factor is the reason Mrs Julie Okoronkwo, a teacher, does not encourage her children to speak their mother tongue at home. Actually, my children don't speak but can understand my language.  We don't speak the language to them.  They pick it from our conversation.  The reason we don't speak to them is because we want them to be fluent in English.  When they are fluent in English, they can start speaking my language," she said.
However, language experts agree that young children can pick many languages easily without any confusion as early as age three.  Miss Misan Rewane, an MBA student at Harvard Business School on Seven-Up Plc scholarship, has participated in similar research.
"Under the age of five, children can learn up to seven languages.  I did a research in India relating to it.  If you greet a two-year-old Indian in English, he will reply in English.  If you greet in Hindi, they answer in English," she said.
Prof Ngugi seeks the enthronement of local languages above English, French and Portugese, describing them as the languages of power in Africa.  But, for this to happen, he said government must make the necessary investment.
Despite the National Policy on Education stipulating that children should be taught in their mother tongue or the language of the environment for the first three years of primary education, it is not being practised in most parts of Nigeria.  However, one of the proponents of the use of indigenous dialects as language of instruction, the late Prof Babs Fafunwa, demonstrated the workability with a research he carried out in the 90s. Entitled: “The Ife Primary Education Research Project,” the control group used for the research were taught all subjects in Yoruba Language for six years.  The pupils were found not to be disadvantaged in anyway as a result of learning in Yoruba.
Nowadays, it is not easy to find teachers of local languages as they tend to be less favoured than their counterparts who teach English and other science subjects, a fact which the Executive Secretary of the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE), Prof Muhammad Junaid, admitted in an interview.
He said: "Nigeria's language policy is that teaching must be carried out in the local language or the language of the environment in the first three years of primary school education. For instance, teaching in the Southwest zone must be carried out in Yoruba as the dominant language. But the problem again is where to get adequate teachers to take on the subject at this lower level. So, the policy is there, but implementation and lack of teachers have been the problem. Now, we are trying to encourage more people to study local languages and become teachers, who will be able to deliver the curriculum at that level of education."
However, some organisations are making efforts to help school children and others learn local languages they are unable to pick from home or their environment.  One of them is the National Institute of Cultural Orientation (NICO), which organises indigenous language workshops annually.
Mr Ohi Ojo, head of the Southwest zone of the agency headquartered in Akure, the Ondo State Capital, told The Nation that the one-month language programme helps children, especially those from privileged background, to learn their mother tongue.
"We have many children from private primary schools attending the programme.  A lot of them do not have cultural and language programmes in school.  Many of the children are from the so-called elite schools. Children who are from mixed marriages usually attend.  It is about creating awareness so that when they get to the streets, they can pick up a lot more," he said.

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FUTA Change Of Course Forms Now On Sale for 2012/2013

Applications are invited for admission into some newly approved Departments and change of course into existing Departments where vacancies still exist in the University.

Applicants should be qualified candidates who made FUTA their 1st or/ and 2nd choices(s) during the 2012/2013 UTME. Such candidates must have scored not less than
200 in the UTME and not less than 50% in the P-UTME of the University.

In addition, candidates must have taken the relevant UTME subjects and posses a minimum of five (5) relevant Ordinary Level/SSCE credit passes. The credit passes must have been obtained at not be more than two (2) sittings.

Candidates who have been offered provisional admission need not apply.

PROCEDURE FOR APPLICATION
Interested candidates are requested to:

(1) Pay the sum of Five Thousand Naira (N5, 000.00) only using E-Transact platform in any Branch of WEMA nationwide.
(2) Thereafter, use the UTME Registration Number, Confirmation Code and Receipt Number on the E-Transact receipt obtained from the bank to log on to the FUTA
website and complete the change of course form on-line appropriately.
(3) Each candidate is expected to make three (3) choices: Most Preferred, More Preferred and Preferred. The UTME subjects and SSCE/Ordinary Level results
must be relevant to the three choices.
(4) Submit and print the change of course form on line.
Note: Candidates should fill in their Ordinary Level/SSCE results in the space provided in the
form. They should be careful in the choice of courses by ensuring that the Ordinary Level/SSCE subjects fulfill the minimum requirements for the courses chosen.

THE CLOSING DATE FOR THE PAYMENT, COMPLETION AND
SUBMISSION OF THE CHANGE OF COURSE FORM ON-LINE IS
WEDNESDAY, 15TH AUGUST, 2012.

TO view list of courses/departments involved in this offer, click here to download the full information.

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Uniben 1st Merit Admission List for 2012/2013 is out but...

Though the admission status has been updated, many candidates have reported being given an ART Course even when they applied for Science or Engineering Courses. An example was report of a candidate being given Mass Comm when he applied for Engineering. Another case reports being given Microbiology when they applied for Law.  

Though we think there's a mix-up somewhere, we suspect the portal may be shut down soon for a likely correction.

For now, we can only advise that you check your admission status to see what's waiting for you.

To check your admission status now, go to the portal by visiting; https://uniben-kofa.waeup.org/login.
Enter your username and password and click "Login" to view your admission status.

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