85% of Jobseekers Cannot Write CV

According to a leading job-search engine, Jobberman, the reason jobseekers don't get jobs has been attributed to applicants’ CVs being the major setback for getting jobs.

The research was carried out based on the observation that only a handful of job-seekers get interview calls for every  application made while the larger percentage make several applications yearly and are still without jobs.

Arguably; the economic shift, rise in demand for technologically inclined professionals, proliferation of online startups and surge in employment  mismatch leave many job seekers stuck in the job market because they lack the requisite skill set to adequately provide value to employers. Regardless, job-seekers overlook the importance of a resume being a candidate’s first pitch to recruiters.

Bill Gates Retakes World Richest Title From Slim Helu

Bill Gates is once again the world's richest person. The 57-year-old co-founder of Microsoft recaptured the title from Mexican investor Carlos Slim on Thursday, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, as the software maker hit a five-year high. It is the first time Gates has held the mantle since 2007. His fortune is valued at $72.7 billion, up 16% year-to-date.

Slim's America Movil, the largest mobile-phone operator in the Americas, has dropped 14% this year after Mexico's Congress passed a bill that could quash the billionaire's market dominance. That's helped erase more than $3 billion from the 73-year-old tycoon's net worth.
 

This is the first time since 2007 that Mr Gates has been declared the richest with his expanded personal fortune, dislodging Mexican mobile phone magnate Carlos Slim

Deputy Speaker Quizzed Over Gay Rape

Held: The Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons, Tory MP Nigel Evans, has been arrested over allegations of rape and sexual assault relating to two men

Mr Evans, right, is pictured with pop group the Cheeky Girls at a Parliamentary Palace of Varieties show for charity. He is joined by Lembit Opik MP, left, and Stephen Pound MP, centre,

Meet The World's Tallest Man

Sultan Kösen, born 10 December 1982 in Mardin, Turkey) holds the Guinness World Record for tallest living male at 2.51 m (8 ft 3 in).

CURFEW IN TARABA AFTER RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE THAT HAS KILLED OVER 20

At least 20 people were killed in violent clashes between Christian and Muslim mobs in central Nigeria’s Taraba state on Friday, prompting a round-the-clock curfew, an aid worker said.

Globacom boss Mike Adenuga walks out on staff at 60th birthday bash

The incidence happened last night Friday May 3rd at Mike Adenuga Tower on Adeola Odeku street in Victoria Island.

ONLY 10 OUT OF 1.6MILLION STUDENT SCORED ABOVE 300 IN THIS YEAR'S JAMB

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has withheld the results of 80,419 candidates among those that sat for the last Saturday’s 2013 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.

Of this figure, 12,110 candidates’ results “are withheld for a possible disciplinary action” while 68,309 results “from various centres are still undergoing further screening,” JAMB Registrar/Chief Executive, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, said on Friday during the official release of the results.

“About 40,692 results were invalid due to multiple shading or no shading at all,” he stated.

Prof. Ojerinde display Magic slippers which desperate students use to perpetrate malpractices.

Ojerinde, who addressed journalists at the examination body’s National Headquarters, Bwari, Abuja, said the irregularities were discovered after processing the answer scripts. 

He lamented that candidates had changed their style of perpetrating examination malpractices from wearing ‘magic slippers,’ to wearing “long sleeve shirts that bore imprint of prepared answers.”

 

Candidates writing the UTME at the University of Abuja, Saturday.

He exhibited three shirts seized from candidates as evidence.

Reading a text message received from an unnamed parent, Ojerinde warned the public against patronising Internet fraudsters, who “are already telling candidates that their results could be upgraded.”

“They do not have access to our data,” he stressed.

The JAMB boss said, “40 examination centres were found wanting and their results are under screening. We have ample evidence against them.”

On one Isaac Okeke arrested in Abuja for alleged impersonation, Ojerinde said, “It is true that he was duly registered for the examination but the cyber cafe man gave him a fake e-slip. We thank God the production of fake e-registration slips has reduced.”

Responding to a question, Ojerinde said the board had no record of conviction secured for examination malpractices as “it is a case between the state and those caught. We can only serve as witnesses.”

To buttress the desperation of candidates at the centres, he stated that a Catholic School was involved in examination malpractice without the knowledge of the Reverend Father.

Giving an assurance that a computer based test will still hold on June 1 as scheduled, Ojerinde appealed to candidates to print fresh e-registration slips to further ascertain their centres.

Analysing the results, he said 10 candidates scored 300 and above, 628 scored between 270 and 299, 33,115 scored between 250 and 269, while 704,622 scored between 200 and 249.

About 571,298 scored between 170 and 199; 103,489 scored between 160 and169 while 127,017 scored less than 159.