Retreat: Sule Lamido locks out commissioners, others for lateness
Vol. 8 No. 5
Thursday, March 29, 2012
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14 perish in auto crash on KadunaAbuja highway >>PAGE 2
Water scarcity Ilorin varsity lecturer’s husband hits Jos, environs commits suicide >>PAGE 4
Truck kills varsity student, police shoot another
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N10bn sports devt fund stucked in lottery
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Again, NECO records mass failure in SSCE From Iliya Garba, Minna
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or the second time running under a year, candidates who sat for the Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) conducted by the National
Examinations Council (NECO) have recorded mass failure. In September last year, NECO announced that less than 25% of the 1,160,561 candidates that sat for the June/July SSCE passed at credit level.
Releasing the results of the SSCE conducted by NECO in November/December 2011 yesterday in Minna, Niger state, Registrar/Chief Executive of the Council, Professor Promise Okpala said a breakdown of the result
showed that 110,724 candidates registered for English Language while 104,187 eventually sat for it. Out of the number, he said 15,669 or 14.15 per cent recorded pass while 75,355 or 68.06 per cent failed.
According to Professor Okpala, in Mathematics, of the 110,590 that registered, 101,792 sat for the paper with 45,547 or 41.19 per cent having credit and above while 10,328 or 9.34 per cent Contd on Page 2
Jonathan illegally spent N114bnin eight months, say Reps By Lawrence Olaoye
P L-R: Wife of Nelson Mandela and founder of New Faces New Voices Foundation, Dr. Graca Machel, World Bank Director in Nigeria, Marie Francoise Marie Nelly, and Country Representative of United Nations Women, Dr. Grace Ongile, during the meeting on partnership between New Faces New Voices and the United Nations Women, yesterday in Abuja. Photo: Mahmud Isa
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resident Goodluck Jonathan was yesterday accused of illegally spending N114 billion from the federation’s stabilization fund. This allegation made at the House of Representatives came barely 24 hours after the House threatened to act against the President’s penchant for obtaining foreign loans which has lately hiked the nation’s debt profile. Presenting a motion on the floor of the green chamber Contd on Page 2