5 Courses The Youths Of Nowadays Run Away From

There have been series of arguments about the superiority of some courses in Nigerian Tertiary institutions: some students feel their course of study is more important and special than others. Don’t worry, I’m not here to bore you with my opinion about that-maybe I will put that forward another day.
Some courses, students or departments in our schools have been facing this inferiority tag. Because of this, some lose interest in their course or ashamed but we still have the proud ones who don’t care. I still don’t know what people see wrong with these courses that they tend to underrate but here is the list:
The 5 Most Underrated Courses in Nigerian Tertiary Institutions are
1. History
People don’t just see reasons why someone will go and spend four years or more to study past events. History students are always tagged archaic; their discussions and studies are always based on passed dates and events. You might be tempted to feel superior to someone who all what he has to offer is events that happened even before Christ (BC) in this 21st century.
2. Agriculture
Agriculture students are popularly called “farmers”. I don’t know why people look down on this course? Maybe because you always see them in campus with farming tools and in their farm. I am sure others undermine them because they are naive about the fortune they can make with the knowledge of the course. People are going back to Agriculture and embracing it daily, so I believe this should be out of this list soon.
3. Nigerian Languages
“Hey babe! What Course are you studying in school?” and her reply was “Yoruba Language”. My friend bursted into laughter telling me why didn’t she just go to a typical village and mingle with the villagers to learn their language, instead of coming to school. Students studying Nigerian Languages faces this downgrade almost every day in school.
4. Education Courses
Because of the poor treatments being accoladed to teachers in Nigeria, students studying any education course are degraded-students see them as another “suffer head” teacher to be. They have forgotten that without teachers, they won’t be where they are presently and we now have successful teachers making it big.
5. Zoology/Botany
Zoology and Botany are different branches of Biology and what they do is to study plants and animals. Because zoology is related with “Zoo”, other students assumes all the students studying it will end up in the Zoo.
Do you agree with this List? – Drop your Comments.
Written by:- Shogat Copied from Naijaloaded
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Merit cut-off of 2016/2017 Admission Process For University of Ibadan

2016/17 UI ADMISSION CUT-OFF MARKS

FACULTY / PROGRAMME	MERIT	ELDS
ARTS
Anthropology	50.00	NIL
Arabic Language and Literature	50.00	NIL
Archeaology	50.00	NIL
Classics	50.00	NIL
Communication and Language Arts	62.91	57.16
E. Studies- French	50.00	NIL
E. Studies- German	50.00	NIL
E. Studies- Russian	50.00	NIL
English Language and Literature	57.10	51.25
History	50.00	NIL
Islamic Studies	50.00	NIL
Linguistics	57.08	56.54
Linguistics- Igbo	NIL	NIL
Linguistics- Yoruba	50.00	NIL
Music	50.00	NIL
Philosophy	50.00	NIL
Religious Studies	50.00	NIL
Theatre Arts	51.91	NIL
AGRIC. & FORESTRY
Agricultural Economics	51.00	NIL
Agricultural Extension and Rural Development	50.00	NIL
Agronomy	50.70	NIL
Animal Science	50.25	NIL
Aquaculture and Fisheries Management	52.70	NIL
Crop Protection and Environmental Biology	50.00	NIL
Forest Resource Management	53.50	NIL
Wildlife and Ecotourism Management	50.00	NIL
COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
Biochemistry	58.66	56.00
Dentistry	64.29	59.00
Human Nutrition	57.16	54.37
Medicine and Surgery	76.75	71.33
Medical Laboratory Science	65.20	59.83
Nursing	67.00	62.83
Physiology	57.79	55.25
Physiotherapy	66.95	64.04
EDUCATION
Adult Education	50.00	NIL
Educational Management	53.50	53.29
Guidance and Counselling	50.00	NIL
Health Education	50.00	NIL
Human Kinetics	50.00	NIL
LARIS	52.20	NIL
English Education	62.12	51.20
Yoruba Education	53.00	NIL
Arabic Studies Education	50.00	NIL
Islamic Studies Education	52.00	NIL
French Education	50.00	NIL
Christian Religious Studies Education	53.50	NIL
Communication and Language Arts Education	52.00	NIL
History Education	52.62	NIL
Early Childhood Education	50.00	NIL
Biology Education	50.00	NIL
Chemistry Education	53.00	NIL
Physics Education	50.00	NIL
Mathematics Education	53.20	NIL
Economics Education	65.00	58.54
Geography Education	54.79	NIL
Political Science Education	60.58	51.87
Special Education	50.00	NIL
THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
Economics	62.58	60.47
Geography	50.00	NIL
Political Science	61.95	55.29
Psychology	50.00	NIL
Sociology	56.37	50.00
SCIENCE
Anthropology	50.00	NIL
Archaelogy	50.00	NIL
Botany	50.00	NIL
Chemistry	50.00	NIL
Computer Science	63.50	57.79
Geography	50.00	NIL
Geology	52.50	50.00
Industrial Chemistry	53.95	NIL
Mathematics	50.00	NIL
Microbiology	62.14	57.33
Physics	50.00	NIL
Statistics	50.00	NIL
Zoology	50.00	NIL
LAW
Law	64.95	60.00
PHARMACY
Pharmacy	70.87	64.81
VETERINARY MEDICINE
Veterinary Medicine	50.00	NIL
TECHNOLOGY
Agricultural & Environmental Engineering	50.50	NIL
Civil Engineering	69.125	60.45
Electrical and Electronics Engineering	71.62	66.62
Food Technology	56.00	NIL
Industrial and Production Engineering	58.33	52.83
Mechanical Engineering	72.91	65.75
Petroleum Engineering	70.62	64.16
Wood Products Engineering	50.00	NIL

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FUTO Screening Result Is Out - www.portal.futo.edu

This is to inform all those who participated in the admission screening exercise of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) that the result of the screening has been announced.

To check your score, visit portal.futo.edu.ng/Modules/Applications/PUTME/ScreeningForm.aspx

-Enter your JAMB Registration Number in the space provided.

-Click on "Submit" and proceed to view your score.

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Students in US surprise Nigerian classmate by sponsoring his mom’s trip to his graduation

Mike Tertsea wanted to study and play basketball in America. And he found the John Carroll School in Bel Air, so he left his mom and family in Nigeria to study abroad.
This week is Mike’s graduation from John Carroll.
And guess who came to see him?  His mom

Mike’s senior class raised money for her plane ticket and visa so that she could see her son walk across the stage with a high school degree.
She is so thankful and says her son, which she hasn’t seen in four years, “is big, bigger, too big…I didn’t recognize him he was so big and he put on weight”.

But when the senior class came up a few hundred dollars short, Mike’s teachers and coaches raised the money within an hour.
Mom didn’t think she’d see this day.  Mike never thought he’d look out and see mom in the audience. But John Carroll takes care of their own

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Not Again!!! New Edo Election Date Clashes With WAEC Exams

Fresh crisis appears to have erupted as the rescheduled Edo State governorship election, is still clashing with the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE).

The new date is said to be clashing with Physics practical, Food and Nutrition (1 and 2) and two other papers.
The September 10 date earlier fixed for the conduct of the election had clashed with Mathematics papers in the examinations before the election was postponed for security reasons.
Some of the aggrieved candidates had earlier protested due to the clash between the election and their mathematics examination.
The students, according to a popular daily, expressed discomfort with the new clash between their Physics practical examination and the September 28 date fixed for the election.
Also, GCE candidates writing their papers in Edo State have expressed delight that they were not made to travel outside the state to write their papers.

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Teachers In Rivers Threaten To Shut Down Schools Over Unpaid Salaries

Teachers in Rivers State have threatened to shut down schools over their unpaid seven months salaries.
The Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT, Rivers State Wing, disclosed this in a communiqué after its State Executive Council meeting, weekend.
In a statement, the state Chairman of NUT, Mr. Nkpogone Dumnataah and the Secretary, Dr. Okechukwu Nwachukwu, said the union resolved that it would call out its members from the classrooms if they were not paid 24 days after resumption.
The body urged its members to resume academic activities as the session begins on Wednesday, but vowed to lay down tools if the government fails to meet their demand for the payment of their salary arrears.
The statement said: “After due consideration, the trust the union has in the government of Rivers State and in the interest of our younger generations, the union, hereby, urges all teachers to resume school by September 14, 2016.
“The state government should, as much as possible, clear the backlog of salaries from February to August owed teachers of Rivers State. If the backlogs of salaries owed are not cleared between now and October 8, 2016, the union will have no option than to call out teachers from the classrooms to avoid imminent danger of a teacher slumping in the presence of his or her students or pupils.”
The teachers’ union also called on the state government to revisit the promotion of teachers in the state which, according to it, has been long overdue.
Vanguard ng

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