2012 WAEC RESULT RELEASED | 80% FAILED MATHS AND ENGLISH

The Zonal Co-ordinator, Mr Alozie N.U decided to share and reveal the full statictics of the 2012/2013 WAEC examination.
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A total of 324,998 candidates registered for the examination.
Now, out of these 310. 077 candidates, here are their gender statictics:
168,835 are Males: while 141,242 are Females: candidates who registered for the waec examination.

WITHHELD RESULTS:
The results of 51,876 candidates, representing 16. 73% of candidates are being withheld by the WAEC Board, based on various reports, mostly for these candidates alleged involvement in examination malpractice.
While another Statistics shows that a Whooping Number of 250,487 candidates representing 80. 78% have 2 credits and above.
While 217,161candidates, representing 70. 03 of the total 2012 WAEC candidates, have three credits and above.
Yet, another statictics shows that 180,480 candidates, which represented 58. 20% of this year’s candidates, have four credits and above in their results.
Further Stats shows that 141,167 candidates representing 45. 52% of candidates who registered for this year’s examination, obtained the following:
five (5) credits and above.
While 99,750 candidates representing 32. 16%, did obtained six credits and above.
While on the basis of University admission qualifications, The Zonal Co-ordinator, Mr Alozie shed more light on this:
A total of 133,507 candidates representing 43. 06% obtained credit and above in English Language.
While a total of 151,569 candidates representing 48. 88% of candidates, has obtained credit and above in Mathematics.
While 62,295 candidates, representing 20. 04%, obtained credits in the following subjects:
English language,
Mathematics and at least three other Subjects.
A whooping sum total of 33 blind candidates sat for this year’s examination, and from this figure, 4 candidates, representing (12. 12%), obtained credits in five subjects.
Which include the following:
English Language.
Important Notice:
Blind candidates are exempted from taking mathematics and science practicals in WASSCE diets.
That is the total stats of candidates performance in the 2012/2013 Waec Examination.
Candidates who sat for the 2012/2013 waec examination can now check their results at the waec official website.
 Source: OnlineNigeria

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MONEY SHOWBIZ BY A BAUCHI STATE POLITICIAN'S SON

A prominent Bauchi state Politician's son showing off his father's wealth.

These monies must have drawn from public funds.

These monies are proceeds from their Educational Sector and Agricultural plantation....

Yet pupils in some part of Bauchi state are still studying under the tree.

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Suspect rapes 94-year-old woman

Johannesburg – A man who benefited from President Jacob Zuma’s special remissions programme appeared in court on Thursday for allegedly raping a 94-year-old grandmother.
Spokesman of South African Police Service (SAPS), Col. Vincent Mdunge, told newsmen in Johannesburg that the suspect is “a habitual criminal’’.
He said that the suspect appeared at the New Hanover Magistrate Court on Thursday.
“The woman was raped in her KwaSwayimane home in Emabheleni Ward, at 1.00 a.m. on Saturday.
“Police have been looking for him for another case,” Mdunge said.
Mdunge confirmed that the suspect had been one of the 3,150 granted presidential parole, and that police had been searching for him for his part in an armed robbery case before the rape.
KwaZulu-Natal Correctional Services Commissioner, Mnikelwa Nxele, confirmed that the suspect had been released at the start of the presidential remission in June.
Nxele said that the alleged rape was regrettable and sad.
Via Vanguard

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Man arrested for alleging disappearance of his sex organ

Abuja – The police on Wednesday arraigned Haruna Isah of Area 1, Section 1, Garki, Abuja, before an Upper Area Court in Karu, for alleged false information on disappearance his sex organ.
Isah is standing trial on a three-count charge of giving false information, defamation and criminal assault of one Abubakar Lamidi of Area 1, Section 1, Garki, Abuja.
Prosecutor Mohammed Garba told the court that Lamidi reported on July 24 that Isah accused him of stealing his sex organ.
He said the accused made the allegation when the complainant was waiting for his friend at Area 1 and added that Isa called his friends and they beat up Lamidi and his friend.
“The complainant’s cell phone, valued at N120, 000 and a cash of N18, 500 were allegedly removed from his pocket.
The accused pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.
The presiding judge, Umar Kalgo, granted bail to the accused in the sum of N50,000 with one surety, who must reside within the jurisdiction of the court.
Kalgo adjourned the case to Oct. 10 for continuation.
via Vanguard

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Gunmen Kill 3 in Borno

Maiduguri -  The police on Thursday confirmed the killing of three persons by unknown gunmen, who attacked Gubio, headquarters of Gubio Local Government Area of Borno.
Alhaji Bala Hassan, the state Commissioner of Police, told newsmen in Maiduguri that the attack took place on Wednesday.
Hassan explained that the victims included two policemen and a civilian, adding that the police had launched a manhunt for the attackers.
“We have not made any arrest yet but we have spread our dragnet for them. We are combing the entire area in search of them. We will get them sooner or later,’’ he said.
However, residents had earlier told newsmen that a group of about 10 gunmen had invaded the town located about 85 kilometres from Maiduguri in the evening.
“Some gunmen invaded the town in the evening shortly after Muslims had broken their fast for the day.
“They went straight to the Gubio Police Station where they attacked the officers on duty before heading for the Local Government secretariat,’’ Mr Modu Ibrahim, a resident, said.
Ibrahim added that the attackers also burnt down part of the secretariat before fleeing to an unknown destination.
It will be recalled that two Indians were killed on Wednesday in Maiduguri by unknown gunmen, who attacked the Gum Arabic factory.
via Vanguard

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Two men in court for stabbing another over girlfriend

Lagos – The police in Lagos on Thursday arraigned two businessmen who allegedly stabbed a man all over his body because of a girlfriend.
Chukwuebuka Ejiofor (28) and Ekene Kanu (30) appeared before a Surulere Magistrates’ Court on a two-count charge of conspiracy and assault.
Ejiofor and Kanu, who reside at 8, Amusa St., Bale, Orile-Iganmu, and 6, Agbonyin Ave., Surulere, respectively, pleaded not guilty.
The prosecutor, Gabriel Ekundayo, said that the duo conspired and stabbed one John Paul on July 22 at a hotel at  Coker, Orile-Iganmu, in a dispute over Paul’s girlfriend.
Ekundayo said that trouble began when Paul saw the girlfriend, Miss Oluchi Nwachukwu, (18), in the company of the accused where they were drinking beer in the hotel premises.
The prosecutor said that Paul demanded that the girlfriend should follow him.
“He accosted her to ask of her mission in the hotel but the men said that the lady belonged to them, and that he cannot take her away.
“Before Paul could say another word, they broke bottles and stabbed him severally all over his body,’’ the prosecutor said.
He said that Paul was still receiving treatment in a hospital.
The prosecutor said that the offences contravened sections 407 and 171 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Lagos State, 2011.
Magistrate M.A. Ladipo granted the accused bail in the sum of N200,000 each with two sureties in like sum.
Via Vanguard

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Terrorists kill 2 Indian nationals, injure 3 in Borno

MAIDUGURI -A  gang of gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect, Wednesday  killed two Indian nationals and injured three others at their Gum Arabic factory at about 1pm Wednesday  at the Zajeri Industrial area of Maiduguri in Borno state.
The gunmen, according to an eyewitness demanded for unspecified sum of money from the Indian traders, before they fired several gun shots into the factory and fled in an unmarked vehicle chanting Allahu Akbar, ( God is great!)
The eyewitness  said: “We had to run for our  lives, as the gunmen continued to fire sporadically to scare us from the scene,” adding that it took the Joint Task Force (JTF) half an hour before the soldiers arrived at the Zajeri Industrial Area prevent further attacks and killings.
He said none of the local residents were killed or injured, except for the five Indian nationals that were killed and wounded in the attacks.
Hospital sources at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) told our Correspondent in a telephone conversation Wednesday that two bodies of the dead Indians and the  injured were brought into the hospital’s Accident & Emergency Unit (AEU) by men of JTF in their patrol van at about 1.30pm.
The attendant said that the three injured Indian nationals have already been put under intensive unit while the  bodies of the dead had been deposited at hospital morgue for autopsy and identifications by relations.
Confirming the incident, the spokesman of JTF, Lt. Col Sagir Musa in a signed press statement said that two Indians were killed and another injured at the Gum Arabic Factory.
The statement  in part: “information available to the JTF indicated that suspected Boko Haram terrorists attacked a Gum Arabic Factory operated by Indians located at Bayern Quarters, Maiduguri metropolis at 1pm today during the heavy down pour of rain. The incident led to the death of two Indians and one wounded and is receiving treatment at UMTH.”
He said the suspects made away with thousands of naira from the factory, adding that the area has been condoned; and search was in progress with a view of apprehending the culprits.
via Vanguard

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Woman Prays for a Miracle after giving Birth to a baby whose Brain is outside the Skull

 

A South African baby boy, born on July 4, is not expected to survive. His anomaly? He was born with his brain exposed outside his head.

Mantwa Mokoena is praying for a miracle. Every day she is at her son’s hospital crib at the neo-natal unit of Kroonstad’s Boitumelo hospital in the Free State.
Every three hours for the past three weeks, she expresses milk into a cup to be fed to baby Sibusiso via a tube, even though every minute might be his last. Doctors say there is nothing they can do for him. His condition is officially “incompatible with life”.
Sibusiso was born on July 4 with anencephaly, a birth defect that results in a brain growing outside a head. According to his paediatrician, Dr Lizzy Tabane, the condition occurs early in the pregnancy at about four weeks after fertilisation, when the brain is still being formed. As the baby develops, the skull does not close properly and leaves a hole at the back of the child’s head.
Most of the brain grows outside the head and is covered by a very thin membrane. Infants with anencephaly usually have a brain stem, which controls reflexes like breathing, but they do not have a forebrain or cerebrum that controls thinking.
“The brain that was formed is abnormal. The brain consists of the cerebral hemispheres on the sides, the cerebellum at the back as well as the brain stem. He has no cerebrum or cerebral hemisphere, just brain tissue and a brain stem which is connected to the spinal cord and helps him to breathe. But unfortunately he won’t last long and there is nothing we can do about it. There is no quality of life without a brain. All that we can do is offer him palliative care as there is nothing curative about his case,” Tabane said.
 But despite being told that her first child might die at any time, Mokoena was praying for a miracle. While she understands the seriousness of her baby’s condition, she says she is “waiting for him to get better. I have hope that he will be fine.
“I am so scared of lifting him up in case I hurt him. That part at the back containing his brain is very soft, it’s like touching a plastic with water. So I’m scared I will tear it.”
Mokoena’s partner, Sandile Sithole, has refused to accept that there was nothing that could be done for his baby boy and was searching for assistance.
Mokoena said: “He is hurting. This is his first child and it is difficult for him to accept what happened.” Tabane said they had already counselled the couple and told them that they must “let nature take its course”.
In the meantime, she said, all they were doing was keeping the baby comfortable. In her 17 years of being a doctor, Tabane said, Sibusiso was the third case of anencephaly she had seen. The first child, she said, had died after a week and the second one after four weeks.According to the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, the prognosis for patients is death.
Source: MercyJohnson.com

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Husband and Wife Arrested for Kidnapping

  

 

MercyJohnson - A couple suspected to be serial kidnappers of international dimension has been nabbed by the men of Lagos State Police command. Mr. Nwangwu Emmanuel and his wife Beatricial Nwangwu were arrested recently by the operatives of the State Anti-Robbery Squad(SARS) after a long search.
The suspected evil couple according to police source, were arrested in Abuja where the husband was working as a driver to a retired military officer. Before their arrest, the couple had thrown several families into trauma, pains and tears by kidnapping their children and carried them across the border to Ghana where they demanded and received ransoms in millions of naira.
Before the police made what was been described as a major breakthrough in the quest to unravel the mystery behind several incidents of unreported cases of kidnapping in the state, the couple had earlier been declared wanted by the Interpol, Force CID, Abuja, Lagos State command, SARS, Zone 2 and Lagos.
Speaking on the arrest, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko who described the couple as notorious noted that most of their victims were children of the families where the wife had served as housemaid.
He explained that after kidnapping the children they would run to Ghana and start demanding for ransom running into several millions from their victims. “ They would tell the victims to pay ransom to a bank account in Ghana and they would later instruct them to collect their children at a particular hotel in Ghana.”
CP Manko said some policemen in Ghana were dismissed from their job because they collected some illegal money from the couple. The police in Ghana later declared the couple wanted for using their country as a country of collecting ransom from victims of the kidnappers. The police in Ghana was also said to have frozen the account of the suspects Manko added that it was a female DPO who got the number of the suspects and that it was after that, that he tasked the SARS to go to Abuja and arrest the suspects .
The husband told his story to Crimewatch “I am from Enugu State and I grew up in Ghana where I stayed for ten years. In 2008, I was employed by Mrs Folake Coker in Ikoyi Lagos and I was being paid the monthly salary of N25,000. One day I deceived one of the house maids to buy something for me pretending to be sick. Then I used the opportunity to kidnap the 2years old daughter of my boss. quickly took a cab to Mile 2 before taking a drop to Ghana.
“ I later called my boss and she recognized my voice. I demanded a ransom of N22million. The money was paid to my bank account in Ghana. I dropped the daughter in one hotel in Ghana and told them to pick her up there. I used the money to buy cars which I was selling in Ghana. Nwangwu explained that in 2009 his wife was employed as housemaid to Mr Alfred Edozie and that after just one month, the wife kidnapped one of her boss’s daughter. “My wife just called me one day that I should bring a taxi to the estate that she has kidnapped one of the daughters of her boss. Immediately we took the daughter and passed through Mile 2 and took a drop to Ghana. We called the family of the girls and we made a demand of N15million as ransom, but they paid N12M to my wife’s bank account in Ghana.
We didn’t know that the Interpol were already monitoring us. “When we went to withdraw the money the bank manager first paid her N6m and told her to come back the following day for the remaining ones. The Interpol officials from Ghana cornered my wife and told her that the Nigerian police would soon arrest her. My wife gave the police officer N6m and he took my wife to an hotel in Ghana and later told us to escape. The bank in Ghana closed our account ., That was how we lost the N12m in Ghana,” he said.
Nwangwu said when they moved back to Nigeria his wife delivered and he began to search for a job. “Later I got a job in Abuja as a driver to a retired military officer in 2012. After I and my wife moved to Abuja. One day I just saw policemen who came and arrested me in the presence of my boss.”
Also speaking, the second suspect, his wife said it was easy for her to kidnap because she pretended to be a housemaid and when she is employed after some days or weeks she will kidnap the kids of her employer.
CP Manko said the investigation is still ongoing in the matter and that when it is concluded they will be taken to court.

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NEMA confirms 4 dead in Abuloma Jetty explosion

Vanguard -
Port Harcourt – The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has confirmed the death of four persons in the vessel explosion at Abuloma Jetty in Port Harcourt, Rivers on July 20.
Mr Umesi Emenike, NEMA’s Coordinator, South-South Zone, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Port Harcourt on Saturday, that two persons were also injured as a result of the explosion.
Emenike stated that a fishing boat, one Tug boat and two barges were damaged by the explosion.
He said that the vessel was still burning as at the time of filing this report, adding that efforts were on to put off the fire.
The coordinator suggested that the burning vessel should be removed from the waterways to avoid further accidents

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Obama ‘shocked, saddened’ over mass shooting

Vanguard - US President Barack Obama was “shocked and unhappy” as he said by the mass shooting at Denver-area cinema early Friday where at least 14 people were killed and 50 wounded.

“Michelle and I are shocked and saddened by the horrific and tragic shooting in Colorado,” he said in a statement, "federal and local law enforcement were still responding to the incident." he added.

“My administration will do everything that we can to support the people of Aurora in this extraordinarily difficult time,” he said, referring to the city adjacent to Denver where the shooting took place.

“We are committed to bringing whoever was responsible to justice, ensuring the safety of our people, and caring for those who have been wounded.”

“As we do when confronted by moments of darkness and challenge, we must now come together as one American family.”

Obama was notified of the mass shooting at 5:26 am (0926 GMT) by his homeland security advisor John Brennan, according to White House spokesman Jay Carney. The president is currently in Palm Beach, Florida.
Witnesses had described a scene of chaos as the gunman burst into a packed showing of “The Dark Knight Rises,” the latest Batman film, setting off a smoke device of some kind and spraying the theater with bullets.
Police have detained the alleged gunman but have released few details about his identity or motives.

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Woman arraigned Over Scam In Delta

Charity Komuo and her company, Charity Luba Consultancy before Delta state High Court has arraigned been by The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,  EFCC sitting in Asaba for obtaining money by false pretence contrary to section 1 (3) and 8 (a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offence Act.
She pleaded not guilty to the eight count charge when stated to her.
Then Counsel of Prosecution, Kayode Oni asked the court to fix a date for trial.
But counsel to the accused told the court that he has filed an application for bail and that he had served the prosecuting counsel.
However, Oni said he was served that morning in court and so he needed time to reply. Justice C O Ogisi ordered the accused person to be remanded in prison custody while adjourning to July 26, 2012 for hearing of the bail application.
Komuo’s arrest followed a petition from one Anthony Afisi that she defrauded them of $6,900 in pretence that she was going to help one Ufuoma Afisi secure admission into a University in the Ukraine , which she never done.

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