Cowbell Milk supports Olympics with national consumer promo

 

Appoints Chioma Ajunwa-Opara as Promo Ambassador

Cowbell Milk, the flagship brand of Promasidor Nigeria Limited has launched a national consumer promotion targeted at creating fun and excitement around the 2012 Olympic Games. The promo is tagged “Cowbell Olympic Medal Rush.” The promo which was unveiled last Friday in Lagos is expected to run for three months.

Besides the promo, Cowbell Milk is also the Official Milk of the Nigerian contingents to the 2012 Olympics Games in London.

Chief Keith Richards, managing director of the company said the promo is intended to create opportunity for consumers to win cash prizes up to N50, 000, and that, 10 lucky star prize winners will be treated to an all expense paid trip to the London 2012 Olympics.

Consequent upon this, Richards said Chioma Ajunwa Oparah, the 1996 Olympics gold medal winner and the first African to win such a coveted title, has been appointed as the Promotional Ambassador throughout the duration of the promo.

Richards however stressed that the promo has the approvals of relevant authorities such as Consumer Protection Council (CPC).

To participate in the promo, Mr. Olusegun Koleoso, Business Development Manager of the company, said consumers should detach a coupon or sticker in the promotional packs of 400g sachet, 400 gram tins, 500g box and 900g tins and stand a chance of winning gold, silver or bronze, which will be instantly redeemed for cash of N50, 000, N30, 000 and N20, 000 respectively at any branch of Zenith Bank nationwide.

Also, cartons of Cowbell 400g sachets will be given as consolation prizes.

Cowbell Milk Brand Manager, Mr. Abiodun Ajiborode, said the promo intends to reward loyal consumers, adding that, it will also entrench the Cowbell brand in the minds of the consumers while creating fun and excitement around the brand.

Commenting on the bold initiatives the company is taking in various social responsibility programmes as well as promotional efforts, Ajunwa-Oparah said this is the first time a company will come and give Nigerians the opportunity they have been looking for.

“It has been a long time we have been looking for companies to come and embrace sports in Nigeria. And more especially at the big glamour games like the Olympics. We need people to support all our athletes and this is what we have seen today. The company has partnered with the Nigerian Olympic Committee (NOC), and I know that a lot of money would have been committed."

“You can also see what the company is doing in the Cowbell Football Academy, grooming the younger ones, and at the same time, the National Secondary School Mathematics Competition (NASSMAC), which has become something enviable in Nigeria,” Ajunwa-Oparah added.

 

Cowbell Milk has been in the Nigerian market since 1993. It is currently the No.2 milk powder brand in Nigeria with strong commitment to national nourishment and innovative corporate social responsibility such as National Secondary School Mathematics competition, Grass root soccer, Parasoccer and so many others.

Part-time programmes in Nigerian Universities suspended

The National Universities Commission has announced the suspension of all part-time programmes run by universities in Nigeria.
The Executive Secretary of the commission, Prof. Julius Okojie Okojie said the suspension of the part- time programmes was to enable the regulatory body “streamline” them.

He said the work of the universities’ regulatory body was becoming more difficult because of the “products of the system” and urged the institutions to cooperate with the NUC to evolve a more focused and credible system.

“For now all part time programmes have been suspended. We are going to streamline them.

“No university should have more than 20 per cent of their student population on part-time with excess capacity to teach. All part time programmes must be located on campus. We do not want satellite campuses anymore,” he said.

The executive secretary said henceforth universities must score over 70 per cent in all areas of assessment, including the provision of library facilities before it would be accredited.

“But if your library facilities are poor or sub standard, even if you score over 70 per cent, you will not be considered fit enough for accreditation,” he stated.

Okojie said that out of the 31 programmes evaluated for the NOUN, 30 were accredited.

He said that four programmes of the university were granted full accreditation, 26 others accredited on interim basis while one programme was denied accreditation. 

(NAN)

Meeting between DSA/Alumni and Class reps,Faculty presidents & Students Leaders held yesterday, which lead to a whole lot of relief and hope for the betterment of our great institution University of Lagos (UNILAG)

 The outcome of Afebalola's meeting between the principal officers and the student leaders of the school took place today with a whole lot of relief and hope for the betterment of our great institution.The meeting was graced with the presence of the acting V.C.Professor A.A. Bello,President alumni association Professor Laide Abass,Deputy Vice chancellor Professor Jide,Principal officers student affairs, Dr, Mrs Shoremiku,Dr adebayo also present was all the student leaders representing different faculties(faculty presidents),Class reps,members and so on.

The Acting v.c. commiserated on the demise of the late V.C. by honouring him with a minute silence.He also appreciated the role the students played during the burial program.he stated that the name Unilag still remains to exist and will continue to exist.He stated that UNILAG was enacted by the act of parliament and that student should go about their normal academic activities and shun demonstration that the name UNILAG still remains by the grace of GOD.

Scholars on 4.5 upwards should come to [DSA OFFICE] as from 4pm on Monday to Friday to collect their forms for bursary.Professor Laide Abbas[ALUMNUS PRESIDENT] also hinted and presented his argument why the name UNILAG should remain to the presidency and to the floor of house of representatives.

[i] Unilag is branded name that is globally accepted and as a name that is trusted.

[II] Unilag is a living organism that is branded after a federal character that is represented far beyond personal sentiments.
[III] Unilag is professional institution producing men of integrity and honour in different fields of life.

He stated that the whole house of representatives are with us in this struggle.student should take advantage of www.gopetition.com to append their signature and referendum in support of the name UNILAG.students should also write individual letters to Honourable reps in support of this struggle, the can also get details of their constituency representatives from DSA OFFICE.The matter is still in court and about 15 senior advocates of NIGERIA volunteered their interest to help us in this struggle.THIS struggle is not a local struggle it goes beyond the shores of NIGERIA, but also the great AKOKITES in diaspora.LONG LIVE GREAT UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS!LONG LIVE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA!

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UNILAG introduces ‘UNILAG forever’ to discredit renaming of varsity

The University of Lagos has introduced a new badge to discredit the renaming of the institution after the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, the late Chief Moshood Abiola by the Federal Government.

The badge, which carries the inscription, “UNILAG forever,” was distributed to members of staff and students at a news conference by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Monday.

According to the chairman of the University of Lagos branch of the union, Dr Oghenekaro Ogbinaka, who was accompanied by his counterparts from the University of Ibadan and the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Drs Segun Ajiboye and Biodun Badmus and the National Treasurer of ASUU, Dr Demola Aremu, the badge is one of the steps being taken by the union to work against the renaming of institution.

He said, “we have mapped out plans to persistently reject the renaming of the University of Lagos. The renaming of the University of Lagos after 50 years of existence, is one of such actions that have been taken to an absurd level.”

He further said that government’s action would be challenged legally, while describing the pronouncement of President Goodluck Jonathan as a wrong and immoral decision intended to gain cheap popularity.

Following the submission of the amended bill that set up the University of Lagos to the National Assembly by the president recently, the academics vowed to storm the public hearing to thwart the decision of the government.

According to Ogbinaka, the union has gathered the support of eminent lawyers, including Chief Afe Babalola (SAN) and Wole Olanipekun (SAN) to argue its case both at the law court and during the public hearing.

In another development, the Nigerian Association of Law Teachers has condemned the renaming of UNILAG, calling on the government to rescind its decision.

Culled: Nigerian Tribune

Written by Kunle Awosiyan, Lagos

See what a dog did to a little boy...

Mothers please keep animals away from your children. Continue to see what a dog (not the one pictured above) did to a little boy...*viewer discretion advised*

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 Source lindaikejiblog 

Money Laundering: US Freezes Nigerian Embassy's Accounts

Bank of America, M&T Bank and Wells Fargo received directive from the US government to close the accounts of the Nigerian embassy in Washington and its consulate in New York on suspicion of money laundering after traffic on the various accounts raised a red flag. 

$3.6 million dollars was said to have entered and left the accounts in under a month, the latest transaction being the withdrawal of $50,000 in hard cash by a top embassy staff.

The decision to freeze the accounts is sequel to intelligence report generated by a panel comprising representatives of the US Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the Department of Treasury, unknown to Nigerian embassy officials, to monitor wires and traffic in all the accounts operated by the embassy.

 

As part of efforts to resolve the issue, the auditor-general of the federation and a team of auditors left for the US to begin auditing the accounts of the embassy. Efforts by embassy officials to open new bank accounts with other American banks have so far been politely turned down. 

The US have also ignored all requests by the federal government to unfreeze Nigerian embassy’s bank accounts in Washington, DC, and New York. The move, according to sources, is setting the stage for a potential showdown between the two countries with Nigeria also threatening to reciprocate by freezing the US embassy’s accounts in the country. 

Source: Leadership

Nanny watched as 5yr old girl was raped at Bolingo Hotel, mom alleges

The rape of a five-year-old girl is generating the interest of the attorney general of the federation and minister of justice, Muhammed Bello Adoke (SAN), who on Wednesday applied to a Wuse Magistrate Court to take charge of its prosecution from the Police.

The 5 year old girl was allegedly raped at Bolingo Hotel by a certain Godwin Okon, a cleaner in the hotel.

Mr. Ejike Orji, a lawyer from the AGF’s chambers, made an oral application to the court to convey the AGF’s interest in taking over the matter because it involved a foreign citizen.

However, counsel to the accused, Suleiman Usman, opposed the application, arguing that the AGF could not takeover a criminal case without the fiat of an attorney general of the state, taking Abuja to possess the status of a state.

After both sides had been heard, Magistrate Folashade Oyekan fixed Monday 25th June for counsel’s submission of written addresses on the propriety of the AGF’s desire.

Mother of the rape victim, Queen Moses Idris, had reported the matter to the Canadian High Commission in Nigeria, citing weakness of Police prosecution. But she was advised to first exhaust all internal mechanisms before inviting the Commission.

She consequently sought the intervention of the AGF, who instructed a lawyer in his chambers to follow the case up.

 In a letter to the AGF, she accused the Police, particularly the IPO of deliberately frustrating the matter by not turning up in court. The house help, Miss. Bright, who was in custody of the minor at the time of the rape, has since been apprehended by the National Agency for Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and Other Related Matters (NAPTIP).

According to Idris, her daughter is currently receiving treatment at Kings Care Hospital Abuja, after contracting Sexually Transmitted Virus (STV) from 35-year-old Okon. She said her daughter, who was unable to eat, drink or excrete for more than a week, is suffering from “Yielded profubed staph spotter Utlus” and “mellonotigreen mecid discharge” on her vulva.

“We logged into Bolingo Hotel in Abuja on 11th March 2012. Two weeks later, I secured a 28-year-old house help called Bright, through an agency; and on 8th May, my daughter was sexually molested. I will say rape because it has to do with oral sex,” she said.

“The 35-year-old Godwin Okon, who works as a house cleaner in the hotel, connived with my house help and did anal sex with my daughter. This man is a professional because at the end of the day nothing happened at the front (vagina). He penetrated my daughter through the anus and gave her his manhood for sucking. The house help, being an accomplice, told my daughter that ‘If you tell your mum, she will spank you,’ so my daughter became scared and she didn’t tell me about the first incident.”

Continuing, she said. “The same thing repeated itself more severely on Friday, the 11th, at about 8pm, when Okon was not working. As a cleaner, he was done with his job by 3pm. But by 8pm, Eliana said the house help invited Okon again to the room, and the same thing happened.

“This time around, my house help, Bright was sitting in the room, pretending to be watching African Magic while Okon sat, zipped down, brought out his manhood and told my daughter to sit. While my daughter was sitting on his lap, he tried to penetrate with his dick. When she felt the sharp pain at her bombom like she calls it, she jumped out and cried and said ‘Aunty bright, are you not seeing what Mr. Okon is trying to do?’ Bright repeated that ‘if you say anything to your mummy, your mummy will beat you.’

“At that point, Okon said he was going and at that point Aunty Bright said ‘go with Mr. Okon and lock the door.’ When she tried to lock the door, Okon zipped down again, brought his manhood and told my daughter to masturbate it, and told my daughter that it doesn’t hurt, that it is very soft. While he was doing that, he put his manhood in my daughter’s mouth and said ‘suck it like orange’ and she said, ‘while it was in my mouth mummy, I later felt some yacky stuff in my mouth, so at that point, he released.’ My daughter said it is ‘very yacky and she ran away, opened the door and left.”

Meanwhile, THEWILL can report that the management of Bolingo had in the past few weeks spent huge sums to compromise the case at the local police post where it was first reported.  They also moved to lobby local media houses not to report the incident.

Having failed in their effort to get the media out of the story, management has cooked up a denial saying the infant’s mother owes them over a million naira in unpaid bills adding that she came up with the rape story after she was written to pay up.

Source TheWillNigeria

History of plane crashes in Nigeria

The first plane crash in Nigeria occurred on November 20, 1969 when a government-owned DC-10 aircraft on a flight from London crash-landed in Lagos. It killed and all 87 passengers and crew on board.  Since that tragic incident, the country has experienced many more crashes resulting in the loss over a thousand lives.

The other plane crashes includes a Boeing 707 plane that crashed in Kano in 1973. It killed 171 Nigerian Muslims returning from Mecca and 5 crewmen died in crash. In March 1978 a former-28 Nigeria Airways crashed in Kano, 16 people died in the crash.

December 3, 1988, Nigeria Airways Forker-28 crashed in Enugu, killing 103 passengers while in December 1988,a Skypower Brandeironte aircraft overshot Ilorin Airport runway and killed all the passengers on board.

Similarly on February 24, 1991  a British Helicopter crashed in Eket, Akwa Ibom State, killing all nine people on board. While a Cessna Citation 550 of Ashaka Cement, Hombe, crashed on June 26, 1991 killing all on board. An Okada Air Bac-11 also crashed in Sokoto on  May 21, 1991 and died three people.

On September 26, 1992 the country was thrown into mourning  when a NAF C-130 Hercules from Lagos to Kaduna crashed at Ejigbo, Lagos  killing all the 157 military officers. On 17 January 1996  Ibrahim Abacha,  first son of  then Head of State, late General Sani Abacha,  and 13 others was killed in a plane crash .

In September 12, 1997 A NAF Dornier 228-212 in Nguru, Borno State ran into a ditch during the take off, none of the 10 people died. In the same vein,  a Dornier aircraft plunged into a thick bush in the Niger Delta, October 26, 2000. The 6 occupants sustained injuries.  On May 4, 2002, an EAS Airline BAC 1-11 bound for Lagos  from Kano plowed into a poor, densely populated suburb of Kano shortly after takeoff, killing 148. The  dead included all 76 aboard and persons  on the ground.

An ADC Boeing 737 from Calabar Airport skidded off the runway March 20, 2003, 100 people on board escaped. On July 26, 2004, a  Pan African Airlines’ helicopter crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in Escravos, Delta State. It killed 4 people on board .

Similarly, on December 29, 2004: A Boeing 727 of Chanchangi Airlines A Kenya Airlines aircraft crashed- landed at the Muritala Mohammed Airport (MMA) it was attributed to gear fault. On January 28, 2005: A Nigeria Air Force fighter plane crashed into a farmland in Yar Kanya, Kano State. While on February25, 2005, an  ADC’s B73 aircraft had its tyre burnt while landing at Yola airport.

Also, on June 12, 2005: Lagos: a Boeing 727-200 aircraft belonging to the domestic Chachangi Airlines overshot the runway at Muritala Muhammed airport, while yet another overshot the runway at the Jos Airport  the  day before.  Less than  two weeks later, precisely on June 24, 2005, a Russian aircraft belonging to Harka Air crash- landed at the MMA. All the people on board died.

While on July 6, 2005, an Air France A330 plane crashed into a herd of cattle at Port Harcourt airport sustaining serious damage and killing many of the cows. On July 13, 2005, a Ugandan-registered cargo aircraft, belonging to Almiron Aviation, overshot the runway at Murtala Muhammed airport. There were no casualties. On July 23, 2005, a Lufthansa aircraft crash-landed at Lagos airport and was badly damaged, but no life was lost.

On 22 October 2005, Bellview airlines Boeing 737 carrying 117 people on board crashed at Lissa Ogun State  soon after take-off from Lagos. It  killed everyone on board. Less than 8 weeks after, a Sosoliso Airlines DC-9 crashed at the  Port Harcourt, Airport on December 10,  2005. It killed   103 people on board. Among those killed were 62 pupils of the Loyola Jesuit School Abuja , who were returning to Port Harcourt for the Christmas holiday. Lagos based preacher, Pastor Bimbo Odukoya also died in the crash.

On September 17, 2006 an  Air Force Dornier 228-212 aircraft with 18 people on board crashed into the hills of Ushongo village in Benue State, 18 nautical miles from its destination, Obudu in Cross River State. The  18 people on board were 10 army generals and 4 colonels. They all died in the crash

On October 29, 2006, an  ADC Boeing 737  flight from Abuja to Sokoto crashed killing 106 out of 114 on board. Among who died in the crash were the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Mohammed Maccido, his son, Senator Badamasi Maccido, Garba Mohammed, then deputy governor of Sokoto State,  Abdulraham Shehu Shagari  , son of second republic president, Alhaji Shehu Shagari amongst others.

On November 10, 2006, an  OAS Service Helicopter crashed in Warri, Delta state killing 4 on board. In a similar development, on August 2, 2007, a  Bristow-owned helicopter crashed inside ExxonMobil facility in Port Harcout.

While on March 15, 2008, a Beechcraft 1900D plane marked 5N-JAH, belonging to Wing Aviation crashed in the mountainous forest of Busi in Cross River State on its way to Obudu airstrip. The wreckage was not found until 6 months after the disappearance of the aircraft. All 4 man crew on board died.

On April 20, 2010, 97 passengers on board an Abuja bound Dana Air plane lost an engine to bird strike shortly after take off at MMA.  On July 30,  2011, an  helicopter belonging to Ogendengbe Air Service crashed on the Oke-Obanla hill inside the Osun State Government Reserve in Ikonifin, a Pastor with the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Mrs Josephine Kuteyi, and her Personal Assistant, Mrs Oyebola Okubanjo died in the crash.

On March 14 year, a Nigerian Police aircraft crashed in Jos, Plateau State. The Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) in charge of Operations, Mr John Haruna, his orderly and the pilot died in the crash.  June 3, 2012: A Dana Air flight from Abuja to Lagos crashed into residential buildings  in Iju, near Lagos  killing scores of people.

June 3, 2012  a plane belonging to Dana Air crashed in Iju , Lagos State. The plane coming from Abuja to Lagos with 152 persons  on board crashed into residential buildings and burst into flames. Like in previous major plane crashes several lives were lost in the crash. Among those confirmed in the ill fated Dana Air flight was Mr Levi Ajeonuma of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC)

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NDUBUISI ORJI
Culled From The Sun

REGISTRATION FOR SCREENING OF JOINT ADMISSIONS MATRICULATION BOARD(JAMB)/UNIFIED TERTIARY MATRICULATION EXAMINATIONS(UTME)CANDIDATES- UNILAG

REGISTRATION FOR SCREENING OF JOINT ADMISSIONS MATRICULATION BOARD(JAMB)/UNIFIED TERTIARY MATRICULATION EXAMINATIONS(UTME)CANDIDATES

FOR ADMISSION IN THE 2012/2013 ACADEMIC SESSION
 COMMENCES JUNE 13TH , 2012

The University of Lagos Post-UTME registration for the Screening Exercise for Admission into ALL COURSES/PROGRAMMES for the 2012/2013 Academic Year will commence on Wed June 13 and end on Thursday July 5, 2012.

The Screening Exercise is Computer-Based Test (CBT) in the Use of English, Mathematics and General Paper.

REGISTRATION:

The registration for the Post-UTME Screening will start on Wed,13th June, 2012. Candidates are to buy scratch cards at the following banks: ECOBANK, FIRST BANK, UNION BANK, ZENITH BANK, ACCESS BANK, UBA AND WEMA BANK.

Post-UTME Registration - N1,000.00

Post-UTME E-Registration Slip:

Candidates are to follow instructions on the registration scratch card to print their e-registration slip for the screening exercise.

DATE OF POST-UTME SCREENING EXERCISE

The Post UTME screening exercise will take place between Monday 9th July and Wednesday 18th July, 2012.

OTHER SERVICES

To assist candidates prepare adequately for the Screening exercise, scratch cards are also available for the following:

Revision Questions - N1,000.00(Optional)

On-Line Practice Test - N 500.00(Optional)

Checking of Result - N 500.00(Optional)

ELIGIBLE CANDIDATES:

All candidates who scored 200 and above and have made UNILAG their FIRST CHOICE Institution, in the
United Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) are eligible for the screening. In addition, the candidates must possess five(5) credit passes in relevant O’level subjects including Mathematics and English Language at ONE sitting. Candidates awaiting results are also eligible. Candidates, who will not be sixteen(16) years of age by 31st October, 2012 are not eligible.

Detailed information will be released on the University website www.unilag.edu.ng.

Further clarifications is available on Email: admissions@unilag.edu.ng and the following phone numbers:

07043278266,08137391404,07043278267,08191192929,07045515017,07043278269,07029218988,

07043359831 and 01-7347215.

Candidates are advised to adhere strictly to the guidelines and make necessary clarifications as deemed fit.

SUG executive shot dead by cultists in CRUTECH, Calabar

There was pandemonium at the Cross River University of Technology Calabar (CRUTECH) yesterday after a guy was shot in the head at point blank range in a restaurant inside the school premises by suspected cultists. The dead young man was later identified as Albert Shot, the Director of Socials in the school.

Don't have much details at this time, but expecting eye witnesses and students of the school to tell us more about what happened yesterday. Continue to see the Student Union Government Executive that was shot dead yesterday. *viewer discretion advised*

So sad! May his soul rest in peace...amen
culled from Linda Ikeji Blog

OSUN STATE UNIVERSITY 2012/2013 ADMISSION EXERCISE NOTICE OF POST-UTME SCREENING

Notice is hereby given that the 2012 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) screening exercise will hold on Saturday 16th June, 2012 at 10.00 am for candidates who chose Osun State University as their 1st and/or 2nd choice, with a minimum score of 200 and above.

However, candidates who met the national minimum cut-off of 180 may be considered for admission into programmes in Agriculture, Education and Arts (Humanities and Culture) only.

SPECIAL NOTICE:
1. The University is not admitting candidates for MBBS (Medicine) programme for the 2012/2013 academic session. Candidates for the MBBS programme may wish to change to any of the programmes in the University for which they are qualified or apply for a change of institution to other Universities.
2. The National Universities Commission (NUC) recently approved the under-listed programmes and candidates who wish to change to any of the programmes in this screening exercise may do so.

A. College of Management and Social Sciences
B.Sc Sociology
B.Sc. Entrepreneurship
B. College of Science, Engineering and Technology
B.Sc. Zoology
B.Sc. Plant Biology
B.Sc. Chemistry

COMPLETION OF APPLICATION FORMS
Candidates are to register on-line by accessing the University website: http://www.uniosun.edu.ng or http://postutme.uniosun.edu.ng to complete and submit an application. They are expected to print two (2) copies of the application form after submission. One of these two copies should be brought along together with a copy of the candidate’s UTME score print-out on the day of the screening exercise. The second copy is to be submitted upon admission to the University.

DIRECT ENTRY CANDIDATES
Direct Entry candidates should complete the form on-line following the same process as above and report on the screening day.

SCREENING CENTRES
All candidates (UTME and Direct Entry) are to report for screening at the date and centres indicated on their online registration printout. Candidates must report at least one hour before the commencement of the exercise.

ACCESS TO THE REGISTRATION PORTAL
Access to the portal is through the use of scratch cards with PIN. Candidates require two scratch cards (one each for registration and result/placement checking), which are obtainable directly from any of the following specific branches listed below, upon payment of five thousand Naira into the account:

TOWN	ACCOUNT NAME	BANK ADDRESS	ACCOUNT NUMBER
OSOGBO	OSUN STATE UNIVERSITY	FIRST BANK, GBONGAN ROAD, OSOGBO	2013269429
OSOGBO	OSUN STATE UNIVERSITY	MAINSTREET BANK, (OLD AFRIBANK) OSOGBO	6000008755
OSOGBO	OSUN STATE UNIVERSITY	WEMA BANK, STATION ROAD OSOGBO	0121795997
OSOGBO	OSUN STATE UNIVERSITY	ECOBANK, GBONGAN ROAD, OSOGBO	0016612517
OSOGBO	OSUN STATE UNIVERSITY	SKYE BANK ALEKUWODO, OSOGBO	1771012730
OSOGBO	OSUN STATE UNIVERSITY	FIDELITY BANK, GBONGAN ROAD OSOGBO	5030018426
OKUKU	OSUN STATE UNIVERSITY	WEMA BANK, OKUKU	0122026678
IFETEDO	OSUN STATE UNIVERSITY	WEMA BANK, IFETEDO	0120204012
IKIRE	OSUN STATE UNIVERSITY	FIRST BANK, IKIRE	2016532481
IBADAN	OSUN STATE UNIVERSITY	MAINSTREET BANK (UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN)	6000008755
LAGOS	OSUN STATE UNIVERSITY	ECOBANK, UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS BRANCH, AKOKA	1963003333

NOTE: On-line registration facilities are available at the Computer Laboratories in all the campuses for a token fee for candidates that had purchased their scratch cards from any of the above listed banks

CLOSING DATE: Submission of forms closes at 12.00 noon on Friday 15th June, 2012

For further information, please contact the Admissions Office, Osun State University, Osogbo on Tel: 081-32690509, 070-65372579, 035-206440

J. O. Faniran, Phd
Registrar

Click here to go to the POST UTME Portal

New Dell Laptop Offers 32.7 Hours Battery Life

Dell has announced Latitude business laptops with Intel’s latest core processors that can provide around 33 hours of battery life, but only when combined with attached battery packs.

The new Latitude E-series laptops will come with screens ranging in size from 12.5 to 15.6 inches. The company achieved 32.7 hours of battery life on a Latitude E6430, which is a business laptop with a 14-inch screen and Intel’s latest Core processor, code-named Ivy Bridge.

“The long battery life was reached with a nine-cell battery, and batteries that plug into the bay and under the laptop. The battery life was measured based on average usage of the laptop,” company officials said during an interview.

“Dell is trying to load up as much battery as it can on laptops,” officials said.

For example, users can remove an optical drive from a bay and replace it with a battery.

Some of the power-saving benefits also may have come from using solid-state drives, which are considered more power-efficient than hard drives that spin. Intel’s Ivy Bridge processors also are more power-efficient and help save power through features like the ability to shut down idle cores.

Intel provided more details on the Ivy Bridge processors on Thursday, saying the chips are more power-efficient and faster on applications and graphics than predecessors. The chips will be officially unveiled next week at the Computex trade show in Taipei.

“Dell is getting consistent, if not slightly higher, results on battery life as tests continue on other Latitude E-series laptops,”said a Dell spokeswoman.

Beyond the E6430, the company announced E6230 (12.5-inch screen), E6330 (13.3-inch), and E6530 (15.6-inch) laptops. Pricing on the laptops were not immediately available.

The new laptops also include the thin-and-light E6430S, which is a 14-inch laptop built into a frame typically used for laptops with 13.3-inch screens. The E6430S provides a glimpse of the company’s future thin-and-light laptops, which will be highly portable but also have strong security and remote management features.

Dell is also tuning its business laptops for enterprises by adding virtualisation and device management capabilities, said David Lord, Director of Product Planning and Marketing. The key is to be able to provide the mobile tools capable for a worker to access data at any time, while reducing the cost of servicing the laptop.

Some of the new laptops come with Intel’s VPro feature, which allows system administrators to remotely manage the laptop.

Press Release From Office Of The First Lady: Politicizing The Dana Crash

Most of you probably heard the rumours yesterday that the Dana plane that crashed was distressed for a while but could not make an emergency landing because the airspace was closed for 2 hours for the Presidential Jet carrying Dame Patience Jonathan. Absolutely not true. A rejoinder from the office of first Lady of Nigeria .......

Our attention has been drawn to the orchestrated plan to politicize the Sunday Dana Air crash in Lagos in which many people lost their lives, through rumours about the possible cause of the accident citing VIP movement involving the wife of the President.

We consider it callous, inhuman and devilish for anyone to have thought of wrapping such national calamity in political garb by insinuating that the plane crashed because the airspace was closed for the First Lady's movement in Lagos.

For the avoidance of doubt, the First Lady arrived Lagos at about 2pm on Saturday, 2nd June, 2012 for a private engagement and was billed to leave for Abuja on Monday, 4th June, 2012.

In compliance with her itinerary, the First Lady arrived Lagos on Saturday. She was at a public event on Sunday when the accident occurred and promptly abandoned the ceremony as a mark of respect for the victims and retired to the State House, Marina. She left Lagos at exactly 13.15hrs on Monday, 4th June, 2012, according to schedule.

It is therefore surprising that some mischievous persons will see this moment of National mourning as an opportunity to blackmail and impugn the First Lady's integrity.

This is the time for all Nigerians to be sober and pray for the repose of the souls of the victims and not a time to subordinate the interests of our nation to narrow self-serving interests.

Let us all put the interest of the Nation first in whatever we do.

Mrs. Jonathan had no intention to travel on Sunday and never did. Like all Nigerians, she has been mourning the dead.


Signed
Ayo Osinlu
Special Assistant to the President

UNILAG StakeHolders, Student, Management Vs Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

Lesgoo!!!: National Assembly has Denounced the renaming of UNILAG as announced by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. As such could only be done by the House of Assembly who constituted the institution as stated in UNILAG ACT 1962.

Also Babalola, who was Abiola’s lawyer, added that President Jonathan’s powers as visitor to the university did not include changing its name without recourse to the National Assembly.

In a statement, the senior advocate said many notable Nigerians who championed the call for the immortalisation of Abiola’s contribution to the current democratic dispensation were appalled at the manner with which the government about its decision.

“It is my view that things could have been better handled,” he said.

To him, while it is proper to give honour where it is due, such must be done in accordance with the law.

“Afterall respect for the law is an integral part of democracy itself,” Babalola said, and called for a review of the decision.

“It is my hope that the authorities concerned will review their position and take appropriate step to do things in a lawful manner.

“That to my mind would be the greatest honour to the late Bashorun MKO Abiola.”

Describing the renaming process as faulty, Babalola said: “It is pertinent to state that I do not entirely agree with the manner in which the government has gone about its decision.

“To my mind, a decision to honour the sacrifice of a man such as the Late Bashorun MKO Abiola required much more thoughtfulness and thoroughness than that which the current decision seems to display.

“I take this view in the light of the obvious illegality and unconstitutionality of the decision to change the name of the University of Lagos to Moshood Abiola University, Lagos.

“The University is a creation of statute.

“Everything relating to the University including its name, administration and control is provided and regulated by statute therefore necessitating that any action taken in respect of the University must comply with the provisions of the Law.

“Therefore, the most important yardstick against which the decision must be measured is the provisions of the University of Lagos Act, Cap U9, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004.

“The Act provides for the establishment, incorporation and administration of the University among others.

“Section 1 provides as follows: •’Incorporation and objectives of the University:

• There is hereby established a University to be known as the University of Lagos (in this Act referred to as “the University”) to provide courses of instruction and learning in the faculties of arts, law, medicine, science, education, commerce and business administration, engineering, and any other faculties which may, from time to time, be approved under this Act.

“•The University shall be a body corporate and shall have perpetual succession and a common seal.’

“The above reproduced section of the Law without equivocation states that the name of the University is ‘University of Lagos’.

“This amply demonstrates that the name ‘University of Lagos’ is derived from an Act of the National Assembly.

“Any other name other than ‘University of Lagos’ would run contrary to the provisions of the Act.

“With the above in mind, it is not difficult to see that the name announced by President Jonathan is unknown to the University of Lagos Act.

“This is so for the following reasons: Being an Act of the National Assembly, the provisions of the University of Lagos Act can only be amended by another Act of the National Assembly.

“Prior to the decision of the Federal Government to change the name of the University, no amendment was made to the provisions of the University of Lagos Act.

“The decision of Mr. President ostensibly acting in concert with the Federal Executive Council, amounts to an usurpation of the powers of the National Assembly.

“Section 4 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 as amended confers Legislative Powers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the National Assembly which consists of the Senate and the House of Representatives.”

Besides, Babalola said the powers vested in the President as visitor had their limits.

“They do not empower him to unilaterally direct or effect a change in the name of the University.

“I state this for the following reasons: The powers of the visitor are as expressly contained in the University of Lagos Act.

“It is settled that where power is vested in any individual or body, such body or individual cannot exceed the powers which had been so vested. To do so would be to act ultra vires.

“A careful perusal of the provisions of Section 16 of the Act will reveal that the exercise of the powers vested in the visitor of the University must be consistent with the provisions of the Act.

“This is the direct purport of Section 16(3)(b) which requires bodies and persons comprised in the university to give effect to the instructions of the visitor which are consistent with the provisions of the Act.

“Clearly, a unilateral change in the name of the university from that stated in Section 1 of the Act cannot under any guise, be regarded as consistent with the provisions of the Act...

“The powers vested in President Jonathan under Section 16 of the University of Lagos Act are not wide enough to support the decision of the Federal Government to change the name of the University of Lagos to Moshood Abiola University, Lagos.”

UNILAG ALUMNI ASSOCIATION COMMUNIQUE OF EXTRA-ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING by Olalemi Adeyemi for Press Club UNILAG

This was presented by Adeyemi Adefulu MFR, Ex-SUG President and adopted by the house

The University of Lagos Alumni Association at its Extra-Ordinary General Meeting held at the University of Lagos today 3rd January, 2012, met to consider the issue of the purported change of name of the University of Lagos to M.K.O. Abiola University, by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan on the occasion of the Democracy Day to celebrate the 13th anniversary of uninterrupted democratic dispensation in Nigeria on Tuesday 29th May, 2012.

The meeting resolved as follows:

1. That it fully associates with the need to give a befitting national honour for the martyr of Nigerian democracy, the late Chief M.K.O. Abiola,whose historic role and supreme sacrifice played a major role in the restoration of democratic order in Nigeria .

2. That by the surreptitious and arbitrary method the Federal Government adopted, the purported re-naming of the University of Lagos was a dishonour to the memory of a man who died in pursuit of democracy.

3. That by its refusal to consult widely the Government,unfortunately, lost the opportunity of knowing which would have been the best method of honouring the late Chief M.K.O. Abiola and unwittingly turned a popular wish into an unfortunatem controversy.

4.The unilateral change of the name of the University of Lagos to MKO Abiola University is unacceptable to our Association for several reasons, inter alia,

a) The announcement is illegal because it is against the letter and spirit of the University of Lagos Act which specifically provides that the name of the university shall be University of Lagos. The Unilag Alumni Association therefore submits that it is only by a proper amendment of the University of Lagos Act that an act of the National Assembly can be amended and not by an arbitrary Presidential act or pronouncement;
b) The announcement was made without consultation with the stakeholders of the University- the Senate, Council, Alumni or the National Assembly etc and was effected arbitrarily and in utter disregard of processes and procedures which are most essential for validation and decision making in a democracy. We submit that secrecy and surprise are the usual tools of military dictatorship and not in a democracy;
c)The hurried, announcement was made in utter disregard of the fact that the university was in deep mourning and in the middle of the funeral rites of its valued Vice Chancellor, the late Professor Adetokunbo Sofoluwe, and was utterly insensitive and showed that the government was totally out of tune with reality;
d) the ill-advised and opportunistic announcement of the scrapping of a popular internationally recognized 50 year old brand was made in utter
disregard of the views and feelings of stake-holders strewn all over the world.

5. The Alumni Association notes with concern the defiant reaction of the Federal Government to the spontaneous objection of students, alumni and the general public when it stated that there was no going back on a patently illegal and insensitive action and notes further that this was most unfortunate and amounts to persisting in error which is totally unacceptable in a democratic dispensation and from a government founded on laws.

6.The Alumni Association challenges Mr. President to exercise an act of statesmanship by reversing this illegal and unpopular decision and to enter into a dialogue with the National Assembly and other stakeholders with a view to finding a more befitting way of honouring the late Chief M. K. O. Abiola.

7.Without prejudice to the desire of the Alumni Association to encourage a peaceful settlement of this matter in the interest of the nation,the Extra- Ordinary General Meeting of the Association hereby mandates the National Executive to seek redress in the court of law and take all legal measures to resist this illegality and ensure that the name of our university remains the University of Lagos.

8.The Alumni Association regrets the fact that the action of the Federal Govt. has unwittingly re-awakened the boycott of classes which it has not experienced for many years. The Association appeals to the University authorities to re-open the institution and we also appeal to the students of University of Lagos to go about their normal duties and to trust that the Alumni Association will consistently pursue this action to its logical conclusion until justice is done.

Other resolutions includes;

9. An appeal to school authority to open the school for academics

10. That students should not go out to protest anymore but should trust the alumni body to the name of the institution.

11. The management should not change any letter head or sign board.

DATED AT LAGOS THE ….3rd…DAY OF …June…2012

We don’t want bribe we want UNILAG(DLI Vice President Insist)

Police men stormed University of Lagos gate today and began throwing tear gas around. They locked the institution's two main gates causing serious traffic around the area. Students were supposed to continue their protest today after suspending it yesterday out of respect for their VC who was buried yesterday. 

Nsikak David Tom Udo(Vice President DLI UNILAG) Insist!!!......We want University of Lagos.We will resist any move by the FG to unjustly and illegally change the name of our dear University of Lagos(the nations pride...).Unilag students will resist the use of UNILAG to score cheap political point.If the president want to immortalise MKO Abiola,he should change the name of one of the newly created Universities,or better still name the national stadium in ABUJA after him.Nigerian police have again shown their level of unproffessionalism.They have shown them self to the whole world to be unproffessional when they fired a teargas at the students protesting peacefully which resulted to the collapse and subsequent hospitalisation of a female student but now discharged,is this democracy at all. University of Lagos students are known to be law abiding with high integrity and we showed this by resisting the bribe offered to us by the commissioner of police.University of Lagos students will never accept bribe to sell its pride so the commissioner of police should return the money to where ever he collected it from.We don’t want bribe we want UNILAG.Case in the court of law now!