Merry Christmas and Happy new year in Advance From CEO Araa Group

Am Adefowoju Ayodele CEO of Araa Group which involve Araa Edu Consult, Araa Foundation and Araa Academy.

I want to use this great opportunity to appreciate all our clients, fans and followers for standing by us and being part of our achievement during this year 2016 as only you remain the sound and the platform that gives us the greatest opportunity to deliver an undiluted, quality and best service in the cycle of education and general news around the world. As the organization close for her operation for this year i pray we all enjoy the rest of the year in blessing and joy but remember celebrating goodness deals with love and you can only celebrate when your still alive so i will advice we celebrate with care and act save. we love you and will still want to do business with you come the new year of fulfillment 2017......once again from Me and the enterer crew of Araa we wish you merry xams and happy new year in advance..

GOD BLESS YOU
Adefowoju Ayodele
CEO Araa Group


 

JAMB 2017 REGISTRATION SPECIAL INFORMATION

All prospective UTME candidates are advised to carefully read the instructions below. This will help you avoid some common mistakes candidates often make and safe you from falling victim to fraudsters.

For the sake of clarity and comprehension, each important aspect of the registration process and relevant information is presented as a sub-heading.

STOPPAGE OF SCRATCH CARDS
The use of Scratch Cards has been discontinued for the following reasons:
 Prone to fraudulent practices,
 Archaic,
 accountability (zero).

PAYMENT OPTIONS
The following channels will be made available:
i. Web Payment: ATM issued cards (Visa, Verve and Master card)
i. Online Quick Teller
ii. ATM Payment
iii. Quick Teller Mobile Application
iv. Bank Branch (CASH / CARD)

OPTIONS PROVIDED FOR REGISTRATION
Four (4) options are available to a candidate who wishes to register:
i. A mobile app will be created for a candidate to download for his/her registration and payment after which he/she goes to the Registration Centre for biometrics capturing only.

ii. All systems at the Registration centre will be enabled for candidates who wish to go to the centre to register by themselves using the Registration Centre Systems, pay with card and then go for biometric capturing.
iii. An operator at the Registration Centre assists the candidate with entering his/her data for registration, then goes to the bank to pay and capturing of his/her biometrics.

iv. A bank official from a bank selected by the Registration Centre will be available to accept payment from candidates with cash. He does the registration, receive the cash and the candidate goes for capturing of biometric.

ITEMS NEEDED BY CANDIDATES FOR REGISTRATION
i. Details of O’ Level result where it is available or O’ Level subjects expected in the case of those awaiting results.
ii. Personal details of the candidate.
iii. Choice of Institutions, Courses and town of examination the candidate has opted for.

CORRECTION OF DATA BY CANDIDATES
 Candidates will be emphatically informed to guard their registration numbers jealously as registration numbers are personal and security items to candidates.
 Any candidate who compromises his registration number, does so at his/her own risk.
 Any candidate who wishes to correct his/her data (e.g. age, date of birth, state of origin, s*x, name etc.) after completing his registration and submitting will have to go through the following process:
i. Payment of administration fee
ii. Give reason for the correction online and NOT coming to the Board’s Headquarters
iii. Wait for clearance to be given before the correction can be made by the candidate online.

REGISTRATION AT THE COMPUTER BASED TEST CENTRES
 All candidates who wish to do their registration at a registration centre should be assisted as follows:
i. The centre should provide systems for candidates who wish to do their registration by themselves
ii. The Computer Based Test Centre should have technical staff who will assist candidates who need help.

iii. Assist candidates who wish to complete payments with their cards.
iv. Collect not more than Seven Hundred Naira (N700) from both Candidates who do only biometric capture and those who do full registration at the Registration Centres.
v. Each Centre to choose its banker from the approved banks.

PAYMENT TO COMPUTER BASED TEST CENTRES OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
 Computer Based Test Centre in public institutions should be urged to register as ventures.
 This will enable them to receive payment and easily access funds to pay their workers without necessarily going through bureaucratic processes.
 While the NET profit can be transferred to Treasury Single Account (TSA) where applicable.

PROVISION OF BROCHURE TO CANDIDATES
 In order to minimize errors during registration by candidates and also to ensure that candidates have ready access to the brochure needed for registration, the brochure will be provided in three (3) modes which are:

i. The brochure will be on the JAMB portal. As soon as a candidate creates his/her profile on the JAMB portal, there will be a link that will take him/her straight to the brochure. He/she is to confirm reading the brochure for continuation of registration
ii. As soon as the candidate creates his profile, an
electronic copy of the brochure will be automatically sent to his/her e-mail which he/she has provided.

iii. A CD of the brochure and Syllabus will be given to him/her at the biometric capturing site.
iv. Candidates can also access the JAMB Brochure online
 At the point of capturing the biometrics, there must be an evidence that the candidate collected the brochure CD and recommended book.

ACTIVITIES OF BANKS AT THE REGISTRATION CENTRE
 All Registration Centres will be given a list of accredited banks.
 Each Registration Centre will be allowed to choose the bank it would like to work with.
 After choosing the bank, an officer from the bank will be stationed at the centre to do the following:
 Assist candidates to create their profile and pay through any of the payment options they wish to use.
 Collect Seven Hundred Naira (N700) per candidate for either registration and/or biometric capture directly into the account of the centre.
 The banks will be expected to open avenues of payment:
 Payment of Application Fees
 Payment of Seven Hundred Naira (N700) to the designated account of the Registration Centre.
 At the end, give a receipt to each candidate for the Seven Hundred Naira (N700) payment for registration or biometric capturing at the centre.

ABUSE BY APPROVED CBT CENTRES AND CYBER CAFÉ OPERATORS
 It has been observed by the Board, that in the past, there were lots of irregularities during registration of candidates. Some of which are as follows:

1. IRREGULARITIES OBSERVED

 Off-line registration means that candidates are given template form to fill and enter their details and the Registration centres would later enter their data for them on-line at a later time when the candidates were not present.
 Registration Centres did off-line registration for candidates and in the process of completing them on-line, mismatched their images and made mistakes in the candidates’ data.
 Registration Centres deliberately went to the hinterland to register candidates off-line in order to create Special Centres where they could further perpetrate Irregularities during examinations.
 Punish uncompromising candidates by changing their centres and/or institutions without their knowledge/consent.
 Swapped and replaced particulars of uncompromising candidates with others and used money paid for other candidates.

MEASURES TAKEN BY THE BOARD
 Payment for access code by Registration Centres has been cancelled. All systems in the Registration Centre will be enabled for the registration.
 None of these systems therefore can be used for registration outside the Registration Centre.
 Candidates will now have access to all the systems at the Computer Based Test (CBT) Centre for the registration exercise.

 This is unlike before where only one system was used by the Computer Based Test (CBT) Centre for registration.
 Candidates will be properly educated to understand that their registration numbers are private and security numbers which they must not divulge.
 Any candidate who discloses his/her registration number, does so at his/her own risk.
 An alert system has been created for notifications on changes in the candidates details at each stage of the registration process.

ACCOUNTABILITY IN REGISTRATION CENTRES
 Registration Centres are hereby urged to appoint credible staff to man their Centre to ensure credibility and accountability.
 It has also been observed that some Public Registration Centres refused registration because of “low return”.
 These returns are not low as claimed but officers in charge do not remit appropriately.

How Ibori secured freedom – Aide

As illustrated on thenationonlineng.com, That Despite the completion of his jail term, ex-Governor of Delta State, James Ibori, on Wednesday fought till the last minute to regain freedom.

The British Home Office was said to have opposed Ibori’s release because confiscation hearing had not been concluded.

But the Crown Prosecution lawyer, Sian Davies, did not object to Ibori’s release and return to Nigeria.

The drama which beclouded Ibori’s release was contained in a statement issued by his Media Assistant, Mr. Tony Eluemunor.

The statement said: “At 12: 20 p.m. Wednesday 21 December 2016, Her Honour, Mrs. Justice Juliet May, Queen’s Counsel, dropped her verdict; she ordered the immediate release of Chief James Onanefe Ibori.

“With that Ibori’s lawyers won a major victory against the British Home Office, at the Royal Court of Justice, Queens Court 1, London, by successfully challenging the decision not to release Ibori who was due for freedom on Tuesday, December 20, after serving his sentence.

“In a curious move, the British Home Office, instead of releasing Ibori on December 20, informed him that he would be detained.

“So, in court, Ibori’s lawyers exposed the injustice in the indefinite detention the Home Office had planned for Ibori.  They told the judge that there were no grounds in law under which Ibori could be detained and that his detention for one day by the Home office was unlawful.

“Therefore, there was high drama in the British High Court as senior lawyers for the UK’s Home Office failed in their last minute bid to prevent Ibori’s release.

“The apparent decision to block Ibori’s release and detain him appeared to have come from the highest echelons of the UK Government – the Home Secretary who was accused in today’s hearing of acting unlawfully and misusing her powers.

“The Crown Prosecution lawyer, Sian Davies, did not object to Ibori’s release and return to Nigeria, yet at the last minute the Home Office stepped in. There is clear discord between the two arms of the British Government.

“Ibori’s team was led by Ian McDonald QC, the leading QC on immigration.

“The visibly irritated judge could not understand the Home Secretary’s position and at times was critical of the move to detain Ibori any further.  Mrs. Justice May rejected the Home Secretary’s requests for conditions to be imposed and ordered Ibori’s immediate release.

“Ivan Krolic, who also attended, explained that Ibori’s confiscation proceedings collapsed in 2013, after the prosecution was unable to establish any theft from Delta State and any benefit for Ibori, from anywhere. A three-week hearing which heard live evidence was abandoned by the prosecutors – Wass QC and Shutzer-Weissman. Both prosecutors have since been dismissed from the case for gross misconduct.

“Krollic further explained that British police officers in the case led by DC McDonald have again been referred to the Independent Public Complaints Commission and now face a thorough investigation into their corrupt activities in this case. The CPS has confirmed officers in the case were corrupt. It has since disclosed substantial material evidencing the graft.

“Ibori and others have long maintained that this prosecution was politically motivated. It was funded by the UK’s Department for International Development, DFID, whose senior employee was also the jury foreperson in one of the earlier trials.

“The Ibori case has been plagued with British police corruption, exceptional prosecutorial misconduct and fundamental non-disclosure.  A multitude of appeals have now been launched or are in the process of being launched.”

LASU student bags Don Etiebet’s 2016 award

Dosumu Ololade, a final year student of the Lagos State University (LASU), has emerged the winner of the 2016 Best Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) in Computer Science projects conducted for students from the institutions.‎

This is contained in the university’s official bulletin obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos.

It stated that  Ololad‎e is of the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, LASU.

The bulletin added that the student emerged the overall winner in the competition ‎organised by the Nigerian Computer Society (NCS),‎ Lagos State Chapter and sponsored by Chief Don Etiebet.

NAN also reports that the 2015 edition of the competition was won by Olusola Olabanjo, a first class student of LASU.

Olabanjo and Ololade are from the same Department that had recorded student-winners of the award for two consecutive years; coming from the same institution. ‎
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‎The bulletin said the title of Ololade’s  project that earned him a winner of the competition was: ‘Subjective Web Based Examination’ supervised by Dr Toyin Enikuomehin.
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It stated that Ololade was presented his prize at the annual conference the NCS held at the Lagos State Digital Village, Ikeja, in November.
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The bulletin added that the Head, Computer Science Department, LASU, Prof. Benjamin Aribisala, formally communicated this feat to  LASU’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. ’Lanre Fagbohun.

Aribisala in the letter to the V-C had stated that the software developed by the students could help users conduct subjective examination online, it said.
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Aribisala said it would also help in the usual objective web-based examination, with a pioneering feature of using web-based thesaurus API for semantic matching.
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The bulletin stated that the V-C  had also congratulated: the winner, the Computer Science Department, its Head, Prof Aribisala and  Dr Toyin Enikuomehin that supervised the project for the academic success.

Ibori released from UK prison –

According to punchng.com, the former governor of Delta State, Mr. James Ibori, has reportedly been released from the UK prison where he has spent four years and eight months.

Ibori, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, was accused in February 2012 of stealing $250m from the Delta State public purse.

Ibori, who was governor of of the state between 1999 and 2007, admitted to fraud totalling nearly £50m.

He was jailed on Tuesday, April 17, 2012, for 13 years by the Southwark Crown Court after pleading guilty to ten counts of money laundering and conspiracy to defraud.

Now will ibori still face EFCC after serving 3 years in UK prison?

WAEC Has Released The 2016 Nov/Dec Result

The West African Examination Council, WAEC has released the 2016 Nov/Dec West African Senior School Certificate Examination Results. Announcing the result yesterday in Lagos, the head of national office, Nigeria, Mr Olu Adenipekun said that 38.50 per cent had credit pass in Mathematics and English language.

Just as he also disclosed that  the results of 13,488 (thirteen thousand four hundred and eighty eight) candidates, representing 7.81% are being withheld in connection with various cases of examination malpractice.

He said that candidates results of this year have  remarkable improvement to that of 2015 and 2014. 

According to him, the percentage of candidates that obtained five credits and above including English Language and Mathematics in the WASSCE for Private Candidates in 2014 and 2015 was 29.37 percent and 20.59 percent respectively. 

In the breakdown of the results, he said: “A total of 66,497 (Sixty Six Thousand Four Hundred and Ninety Seven) candidates, representing 38.50%, obtained credits in five (5) subjects and above, including English Language and Mathematics.

 “The percentage of candidates that obtained five (5) credits and above including English Language and Mathematics in the WASSCE for Private Candidates in 2014 and 2015 was 29.37% and 20.59% respectively. 

“19 (Nineteen) visually challenged candidates registered for and sat the examination in Nigeria. From this figure, 4 (Four) candidates, representing 21.05% obtained credit in five (5) subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.

 “Of the total number of 172,699 (One Hundred and Seventy Two Thousand Six Hundred and Ninety Nine) candidates that sat the examination, 149,651 (One Hundred and Forty Nine Thousand Six Hundred and Fifty One) candidates, representing 86.65% obtained credits and above in two (2) subjects; 134,152 (One Hundred and Thirty Four Thousand One Hundred and Fifty Two) candidates, representing 77.67% obtained credits and above in three (3) subjects, while 116,133 (One Hundred and Sixteen Thousand One Hundred and Thirty Three) candidates, representing 67.25% obtained credits and above in four (4) subjects. 95,294 (Ninety Five Thousand Two Hundred and Ninety Four) candidates, representing 55.18% obtained credits and above in five (5) subjects, while 72,229 (Seventy Two Thousand Two Hundred and Twenty Nine) candidates, representing 41.82% obtained credits and above in six (6) subjects.

” He, however said that candidates who sat the examination will be able to check the details of their performance on the Council’s  website: www.waecdirect.org within the next twenty-four hours.

Anthony Musa Ties The Knot With His Super Model Girlfriend

On December 17, Anthony Musa tied the knot with Fumilayo his 8 years long girlfriend in Ile-Ife, Osu State Nigeria.

The event took place in the Awoversity cooperative hall inside Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Placed the environment to a stand still as different dignitaries were trouping into the venue, people of high reputation such as Prince Aromolaran, Prince Adefowoju Ayodele from the Giesi ruling house( Deboye Compound Ile-Ife), the founder and CEO of Araa Edu Consult and also present was MC GMONEY a renounced comedian and vibrant MC in the world of entertainment and many more high personnels.

Series of music was played as the live bound anchored by a popular musician Mr Babs drops the beet and use the mic as both parents of the groom and bride step on the dance floor in rejoicing with their children so also the dance was spread to friends and well wishers present in the occasion. Later toward the end of the event, the dance floor was free to all OSUITES who showed up in mass to celebrate with the new couple as both the bride and the groom graduated from Olabisi Onabanjo University (OSU).

At around 6pm in the evening the event that hosted over 200 guest came to an end  as everybody wishes the new couple a happy married life...

Read and be the judge: MAD, LAZY or WISE?

*Pls tell me after reading this story if this woman is truly a mad woman, a lazy woman or wise woman*

My car broke down in a street at Ile-Ife, where I was standing watching the mechanic guy that was trying to fix the car, a slim woman was walking down across the road dressed in a dirty blue top and black short with a white cap popularly cele cap.

This woman walked facing my direction and I thought she's a mad woman judging her with her appearance so I moved some steps away from where I was standing to avoid her.

To my surprise, she walked straight to a golden chance lotto shop asked for a pen and book, this amazed me as I was watching from distance to see what she's up to. She pen down some numbers and I notice the owner of the shop was happy so this woman immediately put her hand forward and the shop owner gave her #200.

Remember in a lotto shop you pay money to play and you can only collect money when you win. I was very sure you can't play a game and win #200 so I walked to the shop and asked why was she been paid, this is the response I get..........

Bros the woman is not normal and mad people do give correct lucky numbers for lotto once in awhile. So at this point I discover she was paid for giving numbers.

Now I asked myself if this woman should walked into 5 shops within 30 minutes and get #200 at each point then she will be making #1000 if she should do this for 5 hours in a day she will be getting #5000 per day and for a week #25000 while a month #60,000. Look at that she's making money where others are waisting money.

Now is she mad, lazy or wise woman?