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Sex Education Is Who's Responsibility? Parents Or School?

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<b>Many schools in the country don't really give comprehensive 
sex-education. And, unfortunately, most parents are uncomfortable to 
talk to their kids about sex. Hence, youngsters end up getting partial 
or even incorrect information from the internet.<br />Some also get misleading information from peers and the wrong people.<br /><br /> In my opinion, teenagers MUST receive proper information about safe sex practices before they engage in intimate practices. <br /><br />But, who's responsibility is it to give it to them?</b></h3>
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Sex Education Is Who's Responsibility? Parents Or School?

Many schools in the country don't really give comprehensive sex-education. And, unfortunately, most parents are uncomfortable to ...

ASUU set to suspend strike

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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px;">Academic activities may pick up next week in the nation’s public universities as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) would this weekend hold its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting to take a position on the on-going five- month-old strike.</span><br>

ASUU set to suspend strike

As crucial NEC meeting holds to take decision.. Academic activities may pick up next week in the nation’s public universities as the Aca...

Youth Group Threatens Mass Protest over ASUU Strike

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<b><span lang="EN-GB">The
 Association of Northern Youths for the Advancement of Peace Harmony 
& Development, ANYPAD, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to 
resolve the lingering crisis between Academic Staff Union of 
Universities, ASUU, and the Ministry of Education or face protest by 
youth from the region.</span></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">A
 statement by the association’s national president, Melvin Ejeh, on 
Friday said Nigerian university lecturers deserved better treatment from
 the federal government.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“Our
 lecturers and the entire university community deserve a better 
condition of service if we must grow as a nation. We therefore call on 
President Goodluck Jonathan to sack the two ministers forthwith and 
employ all means within his disposal and resolve this once and for all,”
 the statement said.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The
 statement faulted the Minister of Education on her inability to resolve
 ASUU issues amicably and asked that she resign to make way for a more 
competent person.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“We
 ask the Minister of Education, Rukayat Rufai and Minister of Labour and
 Productivity, Emeka Wogu to resign their appointments forthwith or face
 mass street protest from the youths,” the statement said, adding, “This
 is a complete show of incompetence and lack of respect for the future 
of Nigeria students.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The
 group noted that most of the people creating “artificial problems” in 
the educational sub-sector, in their time, passed through the education 
system with ease.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“We
 are aware that most of these selfish public officers today enjoyed free
 education and even got automatic employments. We wonder why they remain
 adamant to ASUU and students plights since 2009. Our parents are always
 running form pillars to poles to pay schools fees in spite of the 
economic hardship in the country while some persons are sitting in the 
comfort of their office inflicting more pains on parents, guardian and 
students,” they said.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Meanwhile,
 the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has appealed to 
the Federal Government and ASUU to resolve their differences as soon as 
possible to allow the return of academic activities to Nigerian 
Universities.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The
 NANS Vice President, National Affairs, Ahamed Jibril, on Thursday made 
the appeal in a press release to journalists, revealing that the strike 
has crumbled academic activities in the Universities.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“We,
 the leadership of NANS, are calling on the Federal Government 
particularly the Minister of Education, NUC (Nigerian University 
Council), ASUU and all parties involved in the ASUU issues to kindly 
tackle the issues that have warranted the ongoing ASUU strike as we the 
students are at the receiving end,” he said.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">According
 to the student body, continuous strike by lecturers in Nigeria has 
severally disrupted the academic calendar thereby delaying the 
graduation of students from various institutions and preventing the 
Nigerian student from contributing effectively to the economy.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The
 university lecturers commenced an indefinite strike action on Monday 
based on the Federal Government’s failure to implement some of the 
issues contained in a 2009 agreement with the association. The union 
also accused the government of reneging on a Memorandum of</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Understanding [MoU] jointly agreed on in December 2011.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">On
 the constant fracas on campuses that lead to the death of students, 
NANS called on its senators (all SUG presidents) to dialogue and apply 
other peaceful measures to curb the increasing rate of crisis on 
campuses.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“Demonstrations
 are not always the best option of addressing student issues; it is to 
the best of interest of the students to employ peaceful negotiations 
because it’s our campuses and academic works that are always hampered 
each time such incidents occur,” the NANS president said.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The
 student union leader also appealed to the management of Nigerian 
institutions to be more diplomatic in dealing with student issues.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">The
 association also commended the Federal government for the merger of 
EFCC and ICPC, and urged the merging bodies to work effectively to 
reduce corruption in the country, especially within the education 
sector.
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Youth Group Threatens Mass Protest over ASUU Strike

The Association of Northern Youths for the Advancement of Peace Harmony & Development, ANYPAD, has called on President Goodluck J...

UTME: Institutions review admission slots to 704,000

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Tertiary institutions across the country, yesterday, declared that 
they could only admit 704,000 students out of more than 740,000 
candidates who are qualified to be given admission for the 2013/2014 
academic year having scored 200 and above.<br />
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Out of the 1,735,720 candidates that registered for this year’s 
Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, 1,540,179 candidates 
had their results released as 738,375 candidates have already crossed 
the 200 marks bar, even as the results of the 36,000 candidates that 
wrote computer-based tests have not been made public.<br />
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This came as the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, and 
National Universities Commission, NUC, vowed to vet post-matriculation 
admissions.<br />
The institutions also debated the cut-off mark for this year’s 
admission after a rowdy argument at the 4th Combined Policy Committee 
meeting held at NUC headquarters in Abuja.<br />
Cut-off marks reviewed.<br />
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They arrived at 180 for degree-awarding institutions, while the 
cut-off mark for non-degree awarding institutions was pegged at 150 from
 160 to encourage candidates to opt for polytechnics and colleges of 
education.<br />
JAMB Registrar, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, made the disclosures, yesterday,
 at the NUC headquarters, stressing that the admission capacity of 
tertiary institutions in the country had been raised to 704,000, from 
the initial 500,000.<br />
Ojerinde said the board and NUC had to deal with the problem of 
admission of excess students for which the Federal Government was often 
pushed into a tight corner.<br />
Admission deadline<br />
He warned the institutions to stick to the deadline of October 31 for
 admission of students and cautioned that any student admitted outside 
the deadline would not graduate from the institutions.<br />
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He said: “I wish to remind you formally that all admissions will come
 to an end by October 31. All institutions are hereby called upon to 
adhere strictly to this date as late submissions will not be 
entertained.<br />
“We have discovered that some universities and other institutions 
comply with admission deadline, while some others do not comply and up 
till date they are still admitting students.”<br />
He said that the scores of 180 and 160 were adopted last year as 
cut-off point, but was thrown open for institutions to agree on before 
adoption in the 2013/2014 year.<br />
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However, the debate on the cut-off for this year generated heated 
argument, but the institutions unanimously agreed to peg the cut-off 
mark at 180 for universities and 150 for non-degree awarding 
institutions.<br />
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<b>Reasons for marks review
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The institutions based their argument on the graph shown to them by 
JAMB, indicating that candidates preferred universities to polytechnics 
and colleges of education.<br />
They argued that to encourage candidates to seek admissions in 
polytechnics and colleges of education, there was need to bring down the
 cut-off mark to 150 for non-degree awarding institutions.<br />
Ojerinde reminded the institutions of the mandatory guidelines on 
admission, pegging criteria for merit at 45 percent, catchment, 35 and 
educationally less-developed states, ELDS, 20 for Federal 
Government-owned institutions.<br />
For state-owned institutions, merit was put at 40 percent, catchment 40 and ELDS 20.<br />
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UTME: Institutions review admission slots to 704,000

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Nigerian Universities and their Jamb/UTME cut-off marks for 2013/2014 + Some Polytechnic Cut-Off

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Nigerian Universities and their Jamb/UTME cut-off marks for 2013/2014 + Some Polytechnic Cut-Off

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Braking News - JAMB releases 2013 UTME results, withholds 12,110 results

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Braking News - JAMB releases 2013 UTME results, withholds 12,110 results

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the 2013 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results.

Over 1.7m sit for JAMB UTME Saturday

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Over 1.7m sit for JAMB UTME Saturday

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Babcock University releases school fees for next session. Students protest

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Well, they are not protesting in school or complaining to their school 
administration...they are protesting via the media. A few students from 
the school have sent me mails complaining about the exorbitant fees they
 are being made to pay to get an education. <br>

Babcock University releases school fees for next session. Students protest

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Students stab lecturer to death in Kogi State Poly

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<b>Yet to be identified students of Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja, on 
Thursday night, stabbed a senior lecturer of the school, Mr. Anthony 
Abimaje, to death  during a  riot that broke out on  campus.</b><br>

Students stab lecturer to death in Kogi State Poly

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NASU may call off strike on friday

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<span id="news_content">The Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) may call off
 its three-month-old hit on Friday, the union's Deputy National 
President, Mr Tijjani Wakil, has said.<br />
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 Wakil notified the report bureau of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja
 that calling off the strike would be in the aftermath of discussions 
with stakeholders.<br />
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 NAN recognises that the union, which members are employees of research 
institutes' over the country, had vowed not to call off the hit until 
its constituents' demands were fully-contacted.<br />
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 Wakil said the amalgamation contacted with the Minister of Labour and 
Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu, on Tuesday and was satisfied with the 
discussions.<br />
 The minister of Labour and Productivity yesterday  said President Goodluck Jonathan had accepted the memo on all their demands.</span><br />
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