SUMMARY OF NIGERIAN 2011PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULT

PARTY            VOTES                PERCENTAGE   
ACN                2,079,151            5.41%    
ADC               51,682                  0.14%    
ANPP             917,012                2.40%    
APS                23,740                 0.06%    
ARP              12,264                  0.03%    
BNPP           47,272                  0.12%    
CPC            12,214,853            31.98%    
FRESH        34,331                   0.09%    
HDP           12,023                    0.03%    
LDPN         8,472                     0.02%    
MPPP        16,492                    0.04%    
NCP          26,376                    0.07%    
NMDP       25,938                   0.07%    
NTP          19,744                    0.05%    
PDC          82,243                    0.21%    
PDP          22,495,187            58.89%    
PMP         56,248                   0.15%    
PPP          54,203                   0.14%    
SDMP      11,544                   0.03%    
UNPD      21,203                  0.06%
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NOV/DEC WASSCE GCE RESULT IS OUT

The Head of National Office (HNO) of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Mr Iyi Uwadiae, said at a news conference on Thursday in Lagos that 62,295 (20.04 per cent) of the candidates passed with English language and Mathematics.

According to him, a total of 324,998 candidates registered for the examination out of which 310,077 comprising 168, 835 males and 141,242 females sat for it.

Statistics showed that 250,487 candidates representing 80.78 per cent had two credits and above; 217,161 candidates (70.03 per cent) had three credits and above while 180, 480 (58.20 per cent) had four credits and above.

The results also revealed that 141,167 candidates (45.52 per cent) obtained five credits and above while 99, 750 candidates obtained six credits and above.

According to the HNO, a total of 133,507 candidates obtained credit and above in English language while 151, 569 candidates (48.88 per cent) obtained credit and above in Mathematics.

However, the results of 51,876 candidates, representing 16.73 per cent were being withheld based on various reports of their involvement in examination malpractice.

Commenting on the poor results, which had gone progressively worse in the last three years, Uwadiae attributed it to lack of quality teachers and infrastructure in various schools.

He stated that the results had fluctuated from 23 per cent pass in 2008; 21 per cent in 2009 and 20 per cent in 2010. He called on teachers and students to pay more attention to the use of WAEC syllabus, saying it could go a long way towards improving subsequent results.

Uwadiae said that unless the students, parents and teachers changed from their habit of cheating during examination, more candidates would continue to fail.

He said that 15,567 candidates still had their results being processed because of various anomalies, adding that  errors were committed during the registration and actual conduct of the examination.

History of Nigerian politice and political parties

    Precisely 90years ago in 1920 the first nationalist movement in Africa The national congress of British west African colonies was formed in Accra Ghana with delegates from four British west African colonies Gambia gold coast now Ghana Nigeria and sierral loean lead by Caesly Hayford  were unanimously asking for reforms which will enable them participate in they administration of their countries.

    After three years in 1923 the Clifford constitution set set up a new legislative council which will allow Nigerian indigene to be elected instead of being nominated as it was previously done this lead to the formation of the first political party in Nigeria THE NIGERIAN NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY (NNNDP) by Herbert Macaulay in 1922.

    After the elections in 1923, 1929 and 1933 a new political party was formed in 1934 THE NIGERIAN YOUTH MOVEMENT (NYM) by leaders like Earnest Okoli, Samuel Akinsanya, H.O Davis, Dr JC Vaughan and the late great zik of Africa Dr Nnamdi Azikwe.as a result of crisis in the NNDP  in 1the 1938 elections NYM defeated NNDP.

    Two years later internal crisis caused the party (NYM) to break up in 1941 thus leading to the formation of another political party called NATIONAL COUNCIL OF NIGERIANS AND CAMEROUNS (NCNC) in 1944 with Herbert Macaulay of the (NNDP) as the president and Dr nnamdi azikwe of the defunt (NYM) as the general secretary ,After the death of Herbert Macaulay Dr Nnamdi Azikwe assumed the leadership of the party .

    That same year Sir Arther Richards became the governor of Nigeria he  introduced a new constitution which divided Nigeria int three regions namely Northern region, Western region and Easter region leading to the formation of two cultural groups which later metamorphosed into political parties they are THE EDGE OMO ODUDUWA founded by chief Awolowo in 1945 which later became ACTION GROUP in 1951 and JAM'IYYAR MUTANE AREWA which later became NORTHERN PEOPLES CONGRESS in 1949 with Dr Dikko as president and Mallam Rafi as vice.

    Years later a ban was placed on polities in Nigeria and in 1978 the ban was lifted and new political parties were formed ther are UNITY PARTY OF NIGERIA (UPN) elected president chief Obafemi Awolowo, NIGERIAN PEOPLES PARTY (NPP) elected president Dr Nnamdi Azikwe, GREAT NIGERIAN PEOPLES PARTY (GNRP) elected president Alhaji Waziri Ibrahim and, PEOPLES REDEMPTION PARTY( PRP). Years after years these parties gradually defunct on the the death of their leader and or due to internal crisis between, 1998 til date the number of political parties in Nigeria are vastly increasing with about 57 political parties currently in Nigeria one could not help asking these questions ; what are the criteria used to approve a political party?, where do they get funds? is it through individual donations or government revenue

Airtel to create 30,000 new jobs in Nigeria

     Airtel to create over 30,000 new jobs in Nigeria after taking over the ownership of zain Africa and looks to increase it's consuner base from 40million subscribers to 100million subscribers.

     Zain Nigeria finally and formally changed its brand identity to Airtel. This was after concluding a $10.7 billion transaction in June this year, which gave Indian Bharti Airtel the Zain Group’s Celtel Africa Unit.

     The name change, which happened on Friday across the country, changes the African footprints of Zain to now  AirTel . The name change brings to sixth the number of times the company would have to change identity since 2001 it started operations in Nigeria.

     As part of the celebration of unveiling the new brand, Airtel also announced the launch of a new ultra low cost handset package which effectively provides a mobile phone free of charge to all new subscribers.  The package, launched in conjunction with Nokia, will be priced at approx NGN 3,500 (USD $23) and includes a brand new Nokia 1280 mobile phone, a free SIM card and the equivalent value in free Airtel talk time and SMS text messages.
     For the sixth time zain Nigeria has got a new name. The mobile phone company that started trading as Econet in 2001 and the first to be licensed by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) became Bharti Airtel Nigeria on Tuesday, following the sale of Zain Africa to Bharti Airtel India.