Friday, June 27, 2014

JAMB 2014/2015 Cut-off Mark For UNIVERSITY And POLYTECHNIC

Abia state university- 180
Adamawa state university- 180
Adekunle ajasin university - 180 ( 200 for competitive courses )
Ahmadu bello university - 180 ( 200 for competitive courses )
AKwa ibom state university- 180
Ambros alli university - 180
Anambra state university - 180
Bauchi state university - 180
Bayero university - 180
Benue state university - 180
Cross River university of technology - 180
Delta state university - 180
Ebonyi state university - 180
Ekiti state university - 180
Enugu state university of science and Technology - 180
Federal university of technology owerri - 180
Federal university of technology akure - 200
FUNAAB - 180

Saturday, June 21, 2014

Pictures Of The Missing Chibok Girls

The haunting faces of Nigerian schoolgirl hostages the world has forgotten(Pics)
By GORDON BROWN UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL ENVOY FOR GLOBAL EDUCATION

These are the names and faces of some of the more than 200 Nigerian girls who were abducted from their school dormitories eight weeks ago.
Each girl has a story, a future they had planned, a family anxiously waiting for them at home.

I was shown these pictures after visiting Nigeria this week. I met the leader of the community council in Chibok, the town from which the girls were abducted.

Slowly and with tears in his eyes, he flicked through a file in which he had recorded the names and photographs of the girls
                          



Friday, June 20, 2014

66 Facts You May Not Have Known About The English Language

The English language is, quite literally, the greatest language in the world. Great in terms of size - the current edition of the Oxford English Dictionary contains 615,000 entries. Great in terms of scope -- it's an official language in seventy-nine countries and territories. And great in terms of, well, greatness -- it's just one fantastic mishmash of borrowings, inventions, corruptions, misinterpretations, misspellings, alterations, words you'll never need, and words you never even knew you'll never need.
Since December 2013, @HaggardHawks has been trying to prove precisely this by tweeting odd words, word origins and language facts everyday. 1,300
tweets later, it turns six months old this week and so to celebrate, here are 66 random facts from our first semester that hopefully go some way towards showing how great -- and how downright bizarre -- the English language can be.

1. In the 17th century, magpies were nicknamed pie-maggots.
2. The part of a wall between two windows is called the interfenestration.

A Lioness' Maternal Instinct In Pictures

After falling from a steep vertical cliff, a lion cub is crying out for help.

Fortunately, his mother hears him and comes to his rescue with the help for three other lionesses and a lion.

The mom puts her life on the line to rescue her son before he falls down to a certain death. Maternal instinct is a real thing even for the most dangerous animals. Motherly  love