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t’s another beautiful Friday which means another exciting edition of your favourite magazine YOUTHVILLE. This week’s edition is wellwritten and has great stories for you.

The people of Yimitu would not forget Juliet Chinemerem Ugwu in a hurry. Why? Because she sunk something deep in the heart of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the area. Get the details in our REFLECTIONS page.

Have you heard the newest slang ‘Shape up or ship out’? Do you know what it means and who created it? And for ladies who want to remain trendy, our FASHION segment has an interesting article. Read the complete details of these stories in our SHOWTIME page.

Get entertained with the music video review of Asa’s 2014 hit single ‘Eyo’ and know what makes it different from other local music videos you have watched.

Amina Yasmeen Usman made the cut as our BIZWIZ star of the week.

She has some useful tips for those who might want to go into the baking business.

Telecoms giant Etisalat made Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic in Zaria its port of call recently when its Cliqfest programme launched some students to greatness. You can read this and more on our BACKPACK page. Don’t miss it.

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Ogbunike Cave, Anambra Located in Ogbunike, Oyi Local Government of Anambra State, this wonder of creation is a delight to tourists. The entrance to the five tunnels of the cave is a wide and tapering hemispherical vault of rock.

Spring cool water drips from the corners and the top, the inside of the vault is serene and feels like a wonderland.

Swiss International Hotel, Portharcourt Located about 40 minutes from the Port Harcourt International Airport, Swiss International hotel provides business and leisure travellers a luxurious urban retreat in the heart of Port Harcourt.

Idanre Hills, Akure Situated in Idanre/Ifedore local government area in Ondo state, these hills are one of the amazing natural wonders in Nigeria. One of the hills has 600 steps, which has to be climbed before you can get to its peak.

TOP COMMENTS Facebook >>> RE: How English graduate turns barber in Abuja Abdulwaliyu Iya: I know him very well, we are from the same village. He was a brother to me when we schooled together at UNIMAID. I think my brother has chosen to be a job provider rather than job seeker; I wish him the best.

Onyebuchi Opara: God will place you in a better place soon.

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Fatima Ahmad Li stone: well-done Jibril Ali Wada: Hareera, really I like some lady like you. You deserved to be a good wife to a good man.

Abubakar Iya: That is wonderful I am proud of you.

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resident Muhammadu Buhari finally sent the first set of list of his ministerial nominees to the Senate for confirmation late Wednesday. During his Independence Anniversary address, he explained that subsequent lists would be forwarded to the Senate in due course.

The Senate President Bukola Saraki confirmed receiving the list and that sent anxiously waiting netizens on frenzy as #TheList which was already in use gained momentum, battered with tweets, comments, status and posts.

Bukola Saraki@bukolasaraki’s initial tweet read: “I can now confirm that I just received #Thelist of Ministerial nominees” On the submission time of the list which from the photo op showed 4:59pm SK - Sola Kuti@SKSolaKuti wrote “Mediocrity is celebrating the submission of a ministerial list. Celebrating its submission after closing hours is mega mediocrity.”

Some netizens posed a hacking challenge. A daring Umeh Oma@UmehOMA tweeted: “All of you that are claiming to be hackers or those that leak exam questions, oya come and leak #TheList.”

Some had praises for the President men. “The fact that the presidency can keep secret #TheList of 36

nominees this well, signifies PMB has got some very loyal staff/advisors,” Mustapha@mustafaramalan tweeted.

Critics were out in full force as Chairman@Fonskyy tweeted: “Secondly, there’s no excuse for not having a proper cabinet by now. Cabinet, not #TheList is what we expected in September.”

Battycash@Batarhe - “I’ll have my team/cabinet they said. 120 days later all we have is #TheList. God punish devil.”

Adelaja Adeoye@AdelajaAdeoye - “Buhari promised to form cabinet on or before September ending.”

Ohimai Godwin Amaize @MrFixNigeria was out to set the record straight. “For the records, we don’t have a cabinet yet. NOMINEES will still undergo Senate screening before we have a cabinet, sometime in October.”

Meanwhile Saraki told anxious netizens who were demanding for the content to wait till Tuesday “Following tradition of @NGRSenate, envelope containing #Thelist of Ministerial nominees will remain sealed till plenary on Tuesday,” @bukolasaraki tweeted.

Coincidentally #Thelist was also trending in America but for reasons related to fashion and paparazzi.

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Make an impact wherever you find yourself – Corps member, Juliet PHOTOS: Onyekachukwu Obi

Juliet Chinemerem Ugwu a corps member currently serves in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The Enugu State University of Technology (ESUT) Geology & Mining graduate spoke with YOUTHVILLE on her passion and her project for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) at Yimitu community in the Federal Capital Territory.

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hat propelled your desire to doing a project for IDPs? I am someone that has a passion for helping the less-privileged and people that can’t afford some things. So when I started serving in Abuja, I told myself I was going to touch lives during my one year youth service. I did my best by identifying a place that has certain needs.

After moving around, I discovered that their major need is water. A 25 litre jerry can is sold for N30.00 which is quite expensive for them. How many litres do you expect a nursing mother to buy? So because of that, I had to make the effort to provide water for

them.

Did you get cooperation from the community head and other stakeholders?

Yes, I did. The villagers are very accommodating. They gave the IDPs where to stay and even allowed them to farm. I went straight to the chief, visited the IDP chairman and went round the camp with him and I also got in touch with the women leader. They all gave me their support.

How did you get sponsors for this project?

I wrote proposals to different organizations, philanthropists, and corporate organizations to solicit for support.

Juliet’s project being commissioned by an NYSC official and a representative of the National Emergency Managment Agency (NEMA)

Corps member Juliet Ugwu testing her borehole project shortly before it was commissioned at Yimitu community in FCT recently The Society for Family Health (SFH), Centre instance during my secondary school days, for Right to Health (CRH), and CHI Nigeria I took care of the blind. I would have loved (a community health initiative) partnered to replicate this project in other IDPs places with me to achieve my goal. with more support; I may start in other What were the challenges you had places and then go back to school and get during the project duration? a job.

I faced a lot of challenges. Sometimes I Would you wish other youth and corps had to trek, other times I had to beg and even members emulate you? cry when I thought of their plight. At times, Yes I do. So I’m advising them that I would even tell God that I was tired but whenever you find yourself in any place, He would always give me the reassurance to don’t be scared. Ensure you have the time to move on. Then my mentors too encouraged think about other people near you and how me, they may not be the ones to give me you can help them. My advice is that try to money but they always told me to continue make an impact wherever you find yourself. that I would make it.

Do something for the people, don’t just What are your plans after your service come and leave. I also encourage my fellow year? corps members to reach out to community My first plan is to go back to school for my members where they serve. In some of those masters’ programme. While I work, I would places, they do not have water, light or health say this project is a start because I have the centres, corps members should come out passion to support the less-privileged. For and help.

Help the needy now with a click – app inventor, Sodangi Text by Fatima Joji

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he evolving world of apps creation is fast placing some geniuses in the millionaire or even billionaire clique. Apps (software applications) are what drive smartphones as a February 2015 survey released by The Economist, shows that half of the adult population owns a smartphone, and by 2020, that will skyrocket to 80percent.

With the several apps being created, a 21-year-old Nigerian inventor, did a smart thing by creating a smartphone charity app. Abduljaleel Sodangi, an architecture student at Istanbul’s Bahçeşehir University, invented an app that makes giving to those in need a lot easier.

His talent and efforts were recognized earlier this month at a prestigious event held in Abuja by the Nigerian Next Generation Summit, a non-

profit organisation for youth empowerment and humanitarian aid, which recognizes the talent of young inventors.

Through his App, ‘Givee’, individuals can send essential day-to-day items to those in need. He said, “We wanted to keep it simple, so we narrowed it down to basic food, education (stationery) and clothing.

“You sign up easily with your mail and choose a meal package for example. You then select how many packages you wish to buy and scan your credit card to pay. As soon as it’s delivered, a photo is taken and sent back to the donor,” Sodangi explained.

The app, which will be free, is now in its final stages of about 95percent completion, and may hit the public sphere by year end.

The young inventor said he hit a few bumps on the track to creating the app. It was new territory for a non engineer, so he believed that “apps of such magnitude would take a lot of time to learn and implement.”

Sodangi said after a couple of developer failed his team, “We got another developer, but to trust him, we gave him another test app to design. That app,

Even if you are little, you can do a lot. –Matilda

‘AutoDuel’ is already on the AppStore and recently on the Google Play store. It’s for comparing car performance and ratings, and even listening to the engine sounds.

“Later, we felt we could trust the developer and we gave him the Givee job. One of my uncles Sadiq, gave a contribution to payment,” he mentioned.

He maintains that the implementation part is probably the hardest but he is confident that “together, with Next Generation Nigeria, we shall settle that.”

Sodangi said he was from a family that does a lot of charity and together with his friend Ozan in Istanbul, the idea came to fruition.

At his leisure, Sodangi loves inspirational books but hardly reads novels for he is busy either ‘learning new software’ or watching inspiring movies.

His only regret would be not following his dream at an earlier stage of his life. So his advice to young ones would be to follow their passion. “Your brain is limitless, all you need to do is fill it with your passion’ and ‘once you have a passion to learn something, your brain would enjoy it continuously,’ he said.

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FASHIONNEWS >> Stay trendy in wrap dresses

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Cucumber: The world’s healthiest food Text from Sikirat Shehu, Ilorin

he wrap dress is one fashion item that has come to stay. It is beautiful, simple and trendy. A wrap dress is a beautiful gown with a front closure formed by wrapping one side across the other, and knotting the attached ties that wrap around the back at the waist or fastening buttons.

This forms a V-shaped neckline and hugs a woman’s curves.

However, there is a faux wrap dress which resembles this design; except that it is already fastened together with no opening in front, but instead

is slipped on over the head.

The wrap dress can be worn to occasions such as weddings, luncheons, annual general meetings and even to your place of work but you have to be very observant to know the type of clothes that are worn in different work environments so that you won’t make a fashion mistake. For instance, the type of clothes worn in a media house (print or broadcast) is different from what is worn in banks, hotels or agencies.

Meanwhile ladies try to keep with up the fashion trends by having two or more wrap dresses in your wardrobe.

lower your risk of breast, uterine, ovarian, and prostate cancers.

3. Fight Inflammation: Cucumber may help to “cool” the inflammatory response in your body, and animal studies suggest that cucumber extract helps reduce unwanted inflammation, in part by inhibiting the activity of pro-inflammatory enzymes.

4. It freshens your breath: Placing a cucumber slice on the roof of your mouth may help to rid your mouth of odor-causing bacteria.

Cucumber makes a great base for vegetable juice. There are many ways to enjoy cucumbers, such as fermented or raw in vinegar-based salads. A simple juice of cucumber and celery is ideal for those new to juicing.

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ucumber is a widely cultivated plant in gourd family. Experts say it belong to the same plant family as squash, pumpkin, and watermelon (the Cucurbitaceae family). Like watermelon, cucumbers are made up of 95 percent water, which means eating them on a hot day can help you stay hydrated.

There are nine reasons why you should eat cucumber.

1. Healthy brain: Cucumber contains an anti-inflammatory flavonol called fisetin that appears to play an important role in brain health. It improves your memory and protect your nerve cells from age-related decline.

2. Reduces risk of cancer: It contains polyphenols called lignans, which may help to

Physique: Shape up or ship out Text by Bamas Victoria @sinach360

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Shape up or ship out’! If someone says this to you, it means it’s time to make a change. Your behavior or performance is not living up to expectations.

A similar remark was directed to the Nigerian army when the Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Tukar Buratai issued a deadline of December 15 to all overweight soldiers to get into shape.

He directed the Department of Army

Physical Training to work out guidelines on improving the physical fitness of personnel, explaining that many officers and soldiers have not paid the needed attention to their physical fitness, which has led to many of them being overweight with tendency for obesity and its attendant health risks.

Nigeria Army are not the ones who have ever been tasked to make corrections to their appearance as Sam Jones for the Guardian (UK) in his story “ US army told to shape up - by duelling with pugil sticks”.

To correct that the US military top brass

switched the fitness focus from five-mile runs and bayonet drills to zigzag sprints and agility exercises.

“Most of these soldiers have never been in a fistfight or any kind of a physical confrontation,” said trainer Captain Scott Sewell at the army’s fitness school in Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Hence, Sewell and his colleagues spend hours urging trainees to duel with pugil sticks until one is knocked over.

Newsbeat social TV reported that the president of Bolivia Evo Morales has

suggested that overweight and unfit soldiers will not be promoted. Morales reportedly told soldiers to improve their fitness or else they will not be promoted adding that military officials will record the weight of each soldiers and this information will be taken into account for future promotions.

In The Tuscaloosa News of March 29, 1979 in an article titled ‘female soldiers told to shape up” reported that the Belgian army says some of it female soldiers are being negligent in their appearance officers have been told to correct the problem.

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sa, the dread wearing international soul singer released a video in 2015 to her 2014 hit single ‘Eyo’.

Unlike most Nigerian videos that focus on the glamourous and sometimes fictional lifestyle that is not really practicable, Eyo’s video celebrates the life of the average Nigeria from the perception of a Nigerian who is coming back home after a long time as captured by the lyrics “Five years of aging I’m not afraid...Going home, going home” The video paints a happy picture of a

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Nigerian neighborhood with a casual ‘street feel’ of children running around, hawkers hawking, youth playing board games, people arguing, customers haggling with sellers, the normal everyday scene you will see in your neighborhood.

Directed by filmmaker and photographer Meji Alabi, Eyo evokes nostalgia and has a melancholic feel about it as a person who grew up in Nigeria can relates to several of the scenes.

“I moved to the UK when I was 9... I haven’t

been back to Nigeria since ce and you have no idea how happy this video o makes me feel” F Ogunrombi wrote after watching Eyo. An emphasis was made de on Asa’s feminine side contrary to o previous focus on her intellectual capability.

On the whole Eyo’s lyrics ics worked with the video in na way that will make you long for home but Asa could have done better with the first dress she

Music can change the world because it can change people. – Bono

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Cake making demands passion, patience to thrive – Young Yasmeen Text by Latifat Opoola @ LatifatOpoola

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f you are thinking about entering the food service industry as a baker, this is a good article for you to read and learn from, as this week, our BIZWIZ shall put us through the necessary to become a professional baker.

Amina Yasmeen Usman who has been baking professionally for about a year now, after series of trainings and classes from several catering schools she enrolled in during her year in NYSC said a good baker usually possesses certain personal characteristics including being organized, being detail oriented, have specific knowledge as well as specialized skills.

The Economics graduate of Al-hikmah University illorin who owns Y_Maxx cakes said she couldn’t remember the specific amount she started her business with as she started off by buying one equipment at a time from her NYSC savings.

“I started November 2014, after my NYSC I started thinking what next?

With this unavailability of jobs in the country, I was like why don’t I turn my hobby into a job and that was how it all started, with series of mistakes and trials we kept getting better.

“Cake making isn’t something you get into for the money, or else u will get disappointed. It is about passion and patience, later on you will yield the

‘How I designed radio programme for farmers’ Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu, in 2013 started the Smallholders Foundation to improve smallholders farming activities, and that earned him the Rolex Award for Enterprise in 2010. He speaks on how it all started: Text by Nathaniel Bivan ou clinched the Rolex Awards for Enterprise in 2010. What were you doing before then?

I was running The Smallholders Foundation. I have been doing so since 2003. I set up the Smallholders farmers’ rural radio network in 2007 with initial support from UNESCO. We have three other programme components: One of them is the Smallholders micro credit, where we distribute N20,000 to N50,000 to them. They use the loans to rent land and pay for labour, buy seeds and fertilizers. We also have a smallholder seed programme where we have given over 7,000 hybrid planting seeds to farmers. We started in Imo State, but have branched out and now operate in Abia, parts of the north-east, southwest of Nigeria.

What challenges have you encountered so far?

One of them is the lack of understanding of what social entrepreneurship is all about in Nigeria. I am a social entrepreneur and we need money to sustain growth. Smallholder’s foundation is a company limited by guarantee. There is also the challenge of funding - Nigeria is not very good at attracting international donors.

In the loans, how do are they able to pay you back?

There are so many good farmer cooperatives all around Nigeria. Some of them are organised, but not registered as cooperatives, so we register them as a farmers’ association.

For instance, members could nominate ten farmers for the loan while the other ten that did not get it act as guarantors and security.

Since you got the Rolex Award, how has it impacted on what you do?

Apart from some funding, it brought incredible international publicity. Rolex is a very good company. It talks about your work in international media. After the award I received great global media exposure. Some visited the Foundation and our farmer groups and did interviews.

We used all these to attract international funding.

What inspired you to start the foundation?

At a point during my National Youth Service, my boss encouraged me to do something related to agriculture even though I never studied it in the university. So in 2003, after my service year, I created the Foundation, to design and deliver radio educational programmes and improve the livelihood of smallholder farmers in Nigeria.

To what extent has that been achieved?

More than 250, 000 farmers have signed up to our radio programmes. We deliver radio programmes using our rural radio and release them on FRCN, we also design radio programs specifically for international NGOs. We have done more than 2000 radio programmes over the past twelve years, from tomato cultivation, applying fertilizer to rain water harvesting and identifying live stock diseases.

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She added that social media has helped her in creatingg lots of awareness in her business, including cluding her family and friends who also get people to trust her products ts even when she wasn’t sure of myself. elf.

Yasmeen said she doesn’t’t have specific target customers because ecause she makes a wide range of cakes, from sugar free, gluten free, eggless l cakes, no butter cakes for those interested.

She advised youths to never let anyone or anything discourage them

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young English teenager, George Mann has set up a non-profit charity organisation tagged boot4frica in a Ugandan community to help boost the sporting event among the locals of the area.

The 16 year old who hails from a small English town said he discovered the passion of the locals for sports, despite their poverty-stricken situation.

“My mum signed me up to go and help build a church in a small community in Uganda. I must admit I was quite sceptical at first. There was always quite a crowd watching us [build the church], and we arranged to play a game of football at the local school,” he narrated to the Cheap FIFA 16 Coins project.

He said since his father used to coach a football team, he went to the community with some sports kits for the event.

He bemoaned the situation where trivial thing would become an issue, when some people “have absolutely nothing yet they are always smiling and have such values. I realised at that point that I had to do something.”

Yasmeen from attaining their peak stating that with resilience, steadfast prayer and holding onto God, they can be whoever they want to be.

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hirty-two selected international postgraduate students for the 2015-16 class of the FIFA Masters course are set to commence their sport management degree course in three leading sport institutions in England, Switzerland and Italy.

The master course, which for the past fifteen years has been a training ground for future managers in international sport business, become one of the leading sports management degree courses in the world, said FIFA in its website.

“The new 2015-16 class will be based in England at De Montfort University’s renowned International Centre for Sports History and Culture as they complete the Humanities of Sport module. In the New Year the class will then move to Italy to begin their studies in Sports Management at the SDA Bocconi School of Management in Milan before moving to Switzerland for the final Sports Law module at the University of Neuchâtel Law Faculty.”

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Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. – Steve Jobs

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Nuhu Bamali: Rector excited, as Etisalat’s Cliqfest hits campus Text by Simon E. Sunday @SimonEchewofun

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he Rector of Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic, Zaria, Prof.

Dalhatu Balarabe Yahaya has expressed his excitement as telecoms firm, Etisalat takes its Cliqfest to the campus recently.

Prof. Yahaya commended Etisalat for its commitment to the development of Nigerian youths through its bespoke youth-centric program tagged Etisalat Cliqfest.

During the campus tour, he said, “I am happy that while the students are being entertained, they are also being empowered with entrepreneurial skills to enable them develop their potentials and do something useful with their lives after graduation.”

Prof. Yahaya said he was particularly happy the polytechnic has joined the growing list of tertiary institutions to have hosted the Etisalat CliqFest campus tour.

The campus tour is a nationwide multi-campus youth-centric

education and entertainment initiative sponsored by Etisalat Nigeria. It offers a bouquet of networking opportunities, career education, sports and entertainment.

Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic hosted the Zaria leg of the tour after a similar one was held previously at the Usmanu DanFodio University, Sokoto.

Meanwhile a National Diploma student of Civil Engineering, Desmond Yusuf, emerged the winner of the Etisalat CliqFest star prize, a new Hyundai i10 car in a raffle draw.

The duo of Aliyu Abdullahi and Dina Tanko won a laptop each while several others including the trio of Charity John, Emmanuel Joel and Doris Eze won mobile phones, pen drives and Etisalat branded souvenirs, a statement from Etisalat’s spokesman, Benedict Uwalaka said.

From left, Omolade Olajide , North Territory Manager, Etisalat Nigeria, Alhaji Mustapha Halidu, Dean Students Affairs, Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic, Desmond Ola Yusuf, winner of the Etisalat CliqFest Hyundai i10 car, Chief Paul Abiyong, Deputy Rector, Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic, Zaria and Michael Nwoseh, Specialist, Youth Segment, Etisalat Nigeria at the car presentation ceremony during the Etisalat Cliqfest campus tour in the school recently.

Unemployment: MTN, First Bank want Nigeria needs more technical education prioritised universities – BUK VC Text by Simon E. Sunday @SimonEchewofun

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elecom giant, MTN Nigeria and First Bank Plc have called on government to refocus on technical education as an urgent way of arresting youth unemployment The Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) both organizations, Mr Michael Ikpoki and Mr Stephen Onasanya expressed this positions when they addressed the CEO round table on sustainability with the theme: ‘Leading by empowering youth, skills training and unemployment in changing economy’ early this week.

Onasanya said: “We need to look at building entrepreneurial skills and attitude in our people. We all end up been brain washed to think that the way to success is to go go to school acquire a degree and get a good job.

“We recruit 650 fresh graduate every

year as part of our sustainability program but I bleed when I see the quality of the people we churn out.”

He noted that the dwindling GDP means that per capital income is decreasing while the population is exploding. “It means we will have a serious social challenge if we do not do something about our condition,” he added.

On his part, MTN Nigeria CEO, Mr Ikpoki said: “We need to get the technical and vocational collages working again, what our current graduate offer is mediocrity and the ripple effect is more mediocrity.

“Research has suggested that by 2050, half of Africa’s population will be youth and half of that number will be unemployed,” he added.

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he Vice Chancellor of Bayero University, Kano Professor Muhammad Yahuza Bello has called for the establishment of more Universities in Nigeria particularly in the northern part of the country.

Professor Yahuza Bello, who stated this recently when he received members of the Governing Council of the North West University, Kano who paid him a courtesy visit in his office.

He said considering the number of applicants into various universities and the admission carrying capacity of the existing Universities, there is need for federal and the state governments to establish more universities in the country.

The Vice Chancellor who cited an example of 2015/2016 admission exercise in Bayero University, saying over 20,000 students applied for undergraduate courses but only six thousand five hundred would be admitted.

The don in the university’s recent weekly bulletin corrected the wrong impression that creation of new University would bring rivalry and animosity between the old and new ones instead, he explained they would be complementing each other.

CAMPUSGIST >> PLATEAU POLY

2015/2016 Admissions ongoing The Plateau State Polytechnic (PLAPOLY), Barkin Ladi has said it has commence intake through its online sale of Admission forms for the 2015/2016 academic session.

All online activities on purchase, completion and submission of the completed forms must be concluded on or before Friday 16th October, 2015, the school authority said.

Get further details by visiting www.plapoly. edu.ng.

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ISPON tells 300 young software developers to shun piracy Text from Sunday Michael Ogwu, Lagos he president of the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON) Mr Pius Okigbo has warned young software developers stop using other people code without credit or permission The ISPON president gave the warning at a hangout gathering of over 300 young software designers with The Nigerian Interbank Settlement System (NIBSS) which sensitized them on opportunities within the Nigeria market for local content developers.

The event tagged ‘the new wave’ was held over the weekend in Lagos as part of NIBSS Corporate Social Responsibility to deepen the evolution of e-commerce in the country Mr Pius Okigbo, caution that pirating other people’s ‘code’ could cut short their carrier with incessant

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litigation and a possible jail term He urged developers to be thorough and dedicated and look at areas where they can develop home grown solution that can also be exported.

The Managing Director of NIBSS, Mr Ade Shonubi said the gathering was motivated by the belief Nigeria is at a very interesting level, where we can use payment platform to grow the economy.”

He said there is a big opportunity for local developers to have applications for the market and the event is to tell them what is possible and how to take advantage of NIBSS where they want to be paid for their effort.

The event also provided the local developers with online access to develop and test what they have developed.

The capacity to learn is a gift, the ability to learn is a skill. The willingness to learn is a choice. – Brian Herbert