I am taking a case study of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto (UDUS) and one of my main focus is the feasibility of getting an admission into the University!

From the question papers I examined, the exam was pretty up to standard for my recognition, that’s a plus. I study Physics in the same university and I will really say the Physics part of the post-ume science is really A-Level, no doubts!

Every candidate was expected to answer four (4) subjects just like they did with JAMB. But here, each subject had 4 questions, which obviously means 5marks for each question. Notably, according to their pledge, each student is expected to have an aggregate score of 40marks to qualify for an admission.

So I’d finally say that for those who wrote the exam… If you answered  minimum of 2 questions correctly for each subject, you’re on a high chance of admission for the 2010/11 session! Anything bellow this, means you’re doomed!

It appears the university is taking a 40% pass as the admission cutoff point which alright, but what if more students than they expected crossed the 40% silver-line? That means, your JAMB Score will come to play! So, if you passed post-ume, you are also required to have passed above average the JAMB Examination.

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Water & Soil Solution, a Non-Governmental Organization aimed at providing good drinkable bore hole water in Nigeria now goes into education aid. Yes, you heard it right, education!

According their website information, Water and Soil Solution operates mostly in the Northern part of Nigeria (Sokoto and Nasarawa State to be precise) over time they have build a total of 250 boreholes in the rural areas at no cost.

Surprisingly for me, they are now into providing scholarship to students in Polytechnics and Universities in collaboration with their parent company in Switzerland. (I am not so sure who the parent company is, they did not provide such information. I wonder why, it matters alot!)

Excerpt from their site says the Scholarship Program is their own way of supporting the humanity by supporting students in high institutions.

Water and Soil, registered with Corporate Affairs Commission of Nigeria declared that they will pay roughly 50,000 Naira to applicants upon screening exercise and verification of student result which they require a minimum of 2 Grade A passes and 4 Credits from either WAEC or NECO examination and 3.0 CGPA for University students.

However, their web site and application page are both not convincing for me! Though this could issues related to their webmaster, I suppose they were very negligent or in experienced enough to know that the site is poor. Sadly, I even submitted an empty application form and I received the response

Your application has been submitted. We will get back to you in due time

But this enough might not be a reason for me to judge the offer.

Thank God, I am a technical person, so I was able to tell that the form might be processing well but only the web master failed to do pre-checking to submitted data. In layman words, probably the application form works well and will submit your data for processing!

If you are interested in the scholarship offer, you may contact them via the following information according to their web site.

Sokoto Address:
17B Ahmadu Bello Way,
Sokoto. Tel: 08131038282,

Nasarawa Address:
165, Shenadam Road, Lafia.
Tel: 08137292718

You may also email them via info@waterandsoilsolution.com or scholarship@waterandsoilsolution.com

The   increase in  examination  malpractices  has  become a source of concern for  the National Business  and  Technical  Examinations  Board (NABTEB), Registrar  of  NABTEB  Professor David  Awanbor  has said.Addressing newsmen yesterday in  Benin, Edo State, Prof. Awanbor lamented that  examination  malpractices  had  continued  despite  all  the  laws  and  decrees  enacted  to  curb it.
He  said  he  was  however  delighted that NABTEB  had  not  only  broken  the  jinx  of  unresolved  examination  malpractice  cases in courts,  but  had  also  set  the  pace  in  the  quest  for  diligent  prosecution  of  offenders.
“Permit  me  to  say  with  all  sense  of  humility  that  NABTEB  is  the  first  examination  body  to  diligently  pursue  the  case  of  examination  cheats  from  the  points  of  arrest  to  prison  sentence”, he said.
He cited  the  recent  judgment  delivered  by  Justice  I.N Buba  of  the  Federal  High  Court,  Lafia  in  Nassarawa  State,  where  one  Patrick Ogyoko, 68,  a  secondary  school  teacher  appointed  by  NABTEB  as  supervisor  and  James  S.  Abiola  also  a  teacher  appointed  as  invigilator  were  found  guilty  and  sentenced  to  three  years  imprisonment  on  each  of  the  three  count  charge.
Awanbor  assured  that  in  line  with  the  new  education  roadmap, the  examination  body  would  continue  to  sustain  its  zero  tolerance  for  examination  malpractice.