Jamb Central Admission Processing System (CAPS): How it Works and Benefits

The newly introduced Central Admission Processing System, CAPS came to replace the manual process of admitting student and human errors associated with it. This post clearly explains in simple terms how this system works and the major benefits to candidates and other stake holders.

How the Central Admission Processing System (CAPS) Works

Each school will have its own dashboard on the Central Admission Processing System. This dashboard will be managed by the admission officers of the different schools. The school's admission officer will have to set the admission criteria of their schools and the admission quote of the school on the dash board.

The Admission Officers will set the General UTME cut-off marks, the UTME Cut-off mark for each course or programme, Post-UTME screening cut-off marks, O’level grading as well as other admission criteria the school wants to use in selecting. Please note that the admission criteria differ from school to school. Some school may use all the admission criteria mentioned above while some schools will not.

The Admission officers will equally determine the percentage weight for each of the different admission criteria set on the system. e.g UTME Score =50%, Post-UTME Score = 30% etc (note that the total percentage is 100).

North Korea could test hydrogen bomb over Pacific Ocean in response to Trump’s threats

Kim Jong Un

North Korea could test a powerful nuclear weapon over the Pacific Ocean in response to US President Donald Trump's threats of military action, the country's foreign minister has warned.

Ri Yong Ho spoke to reporters in New York shortly after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made an unprecedented televised statement, accusing Trump of being "mentally deranged."

The forceful rhetoric from Pyongyang came after Trump threatened to "totally destroy" North Korea in a speech to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. Trump tweeted Friday that Kim was "obviously a madman" who would be "tested like never before."

In a rare direct statement delivered straight to camera, Kim said that Trump would "pay dearly" for the threats, and that North Korea "will consider with seriousness exercising of a corresponding, highest level of hard-line countermeasure in history."

"I am now thinking hard about what response he could have expected when he allowed such eccentric words to trip off his tongue," Kim said. "I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged US dotard with fire."

Hours later, Kim's foreign minister told reporters in New York that Pyongyang could launch a nuclear missile test in response. "This could probably mean the strongest hydrogen bomb test over the Pacific Ocean. Regarding which measures to take, I don't really know since it is what Kim Jong Un does," said Ri.

The phrase "highest level of hard-line countermeasure in history" could be considered an escalation in the choice of language used, said Vipin Narang, a professor of political science at MIT and expert on deterrence and nuclear policy.

"This is clearly trying to coerce the US into playing ball," Narang told CNN.

ASUU Calls off Strike

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, last night announced a conditional suspension of the strike it embarked upon five weeks ago.

But the union said that the suspension has time line for the Federal Government to implement what was contained in the memorandum of action the two parties entered into.

Briefing journalists after a meeting with the Federal Government Negotiation Team, the National President of ASUU, Prof. Abiodun Ogunyemi said in event the government in her characteristic nature fails to implement the aggreement, the union will not hesitate to take appropriate action, adding that all the items on the list have a time line.

ASUU and the Federal Government team led by the Minister of Labour and Employment Senator Chris Ngige had lurked in a meeting that started about 4.30pm.

Another 1000 Rifles Container Intercepted At Lagos’ Port.

The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted a container loaded with 1,100 riffles at Tin Can port, Apapa, Lagos state, marking the third seizure within eight months.

It would be recalled that the Tin Can command had previously intercepted no fewer than 1,101 pump action riffles in two different operations at the port.

The Controller-General, NCS, Col. Hameed Ali (retd), disclosed the interception during his visit to the port on Monday where he inspected the seized container which contained the discovered rifles.

Ali narrated that the riffles were discovered in a 20-feet container with number GESU2555208, which previously was not listed for the day examination before been intercepted by NCS intelligence unit.

He said: “The intelligence unit also observed that the seal of this unlisted container, which was conveyed by Vessel MV Bella shuttle, had already been cut and padlocked. this further made the container become suspect and they had to immediately transfer it to enforcement unit.