Bobby Leach, the first man to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel, later died by slipping on an orange peel.

ABU 2014/2015 Post-UTME Cut-off mark, Screening and Registration Details are out
Ahmadu Bello University has commenced registration for the 2014/2015 post-UTME screening exercise for candidates that sat for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for admission into undergraduate programmes of the University. Please take time to read the following guidelines before you register for the screening.
Qualification for Screening:
Candidates who scored 180 and above in UTME for all Courses.
And must have chosen Ahmadu Bello University as their first choice.
Procedure for Online Registration for UTME Screening
Registration for the screening exercise will commence from Tuesday 9th July, 2014 and close on Thursday 7th August, 2014. Applicants are required to pay a sum of N2, 200.00 for the screening exercise. This is exclusive of bank administrative charges of N200.00.
To make the payment, candidates are advised to visit the University PUTME registration portal (putme.abu.edu.ng) and Generate a Transaction Payment Slip, print the slip and proceed to any of the designated banks below for payment.
Candidate are to use their Jamb registration number as their username and their respective state of origin as password for login in.
After making payment in any of the prescribed Banks, candidates are to go back to the PUTME portal (putme.abu.edu.ng) to finish up their registration and schedule for the Screening Test.

Participating Banks
First Bank of Nigeria Plc
Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc
Diamond Bank Plc
Guarantee Trust Bank Plc
Main Street Bank Plc
Key Stone Bank Plc
United Bank for Africa UBA Plc
Fidelity Bank Plc
Zenit Bank Plc

It’s another admission year and over a million Jambites who registered for the 2014 JAMB UTME will be competing for the few available space in our Nigerian universities.

Here at UNN INFO, we focus on candidates who chose the University of Nigeria, Nsukka as their first or second choice institution while applying for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination organized by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board(JAMB). We provide them with as much information as we have towards actualizing their dream of joining the league of Lions and Lionesses (proud students of the one and only Nigerian University). The information we give is a product of our years of experience as former jambites and present students of the University of Nigeria Nsukka(UNN).

With the 2014 JAMB result already out, UNN Jambites on our facebook page have started asking questions about the UNN Post Utme 2014. We have seen questions like “Is UNN Post Ume form out?, When is 2014 Unn Post Ume date? What is Unn Cut off mark? Where can I get Unn Post Ume past questions?”. The good news is; We are here to answer your questions…

At the time of this publication, UNN post Utme form is not yet on sale
Unn screening exam usually holds around June/July yearly. However, the date for this year’s Unn post utme screening has not been fixed. Whenever it is announced, you will be the first to know about it here.
The unn cut off mark in question is the minimum JAMB score one is expected to have before he/she can come for UNN Post UTME. The Jamb cut off mark for unn Post ume screening last year was 180. But this year’s cut-off mark has not been fixed.
For the Unn Post Utme past questions, we have a comprehensively compiled past questions with detailed step by step solution titled the “Total Victory Solution Set“. Click on the link below for details of the book and how to get it.

For possible updates feel free to get it via www.facebook.com/conceptresearchcenter

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This post will not be complete without outlining the general important information every UNN aspirant should have before the screening Exam. For that purpose, we already have an interesting article published a while ago with the title “TEN (10) THINGS YOU MUST DO AND KNOW BEFORE COMING TO NSUKKA FOR UNN POST UTME“. Read the article via the link below, you will be grateful you did!
http://unn-edu.info/10-things-you-must-do-know-before-coming-to-nsukka-for-unn-post-utme

Drop your comments using the comment box at the end of this post. Be sure to browse around

D'oh!is a real word in theOxford English Dictionary.in The Simpsons scripts, it

just says "annoyed grunt".

You can't block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook.

http://goo.gl/wUIUcG

Smartphone users check Facebook 14 times a day.

True or False

-Listening to music while working out measurably improves physical performance.

-You don't like the original version of a song because it's better. You like it because it's the one you heard first.
True or false???

-Warner Music collected over US$2 million in royalties in 2008 for public usage of the "Happy Birthday" song.

-Your favorite song is probably your favorite because you associate it with an emotional event in your life.

-Your heartbeat changes and mimics the music you listen to.

-Flowers can grow faster by listening to music.

-Elvis Presley didn't write any of his songs.

-The type of music you listen to affects the way you perceive the world.

Timed perfectly as she is about to fall into the pool
#was really timed :)

The Ayapaneco language was at risk of dying out because its last two speakers wouldn't speak to each other.

Check it out here::: http://goo.gl/lIoKCP

According to a news report, a certain private school in
Washington recently was faced with a unique problem.
A number of 12-year-old girls were beginning to use lipstick
and would put it on in the bathroom.
That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick they would
press their lips to t

The island state already has a widespread network of free Wi-Fi access points available to its citizens.

Now it has opened up the service to visitors from overseas, the travel news website Skift reports.

The government-backed iTaiwan scheme launched two years ago, and now has more than 4,000 hotspots dotted around the island, including the main tourist attractions, transport hubs and government buildings.

Locals can register for the service by giving their phone number. Now, overseas visitors can do the same by showing their passports to staff at tourist offices in airports, train stations or Metro stations. They will then be given an account number, allowing them to access the free basic WiFi, which has a speed of around 1Mbps bandwidth per second.

Self Driving Cars Without Steering Wheels Planned By Google

Cars can now drive themselves if Google’s project in building their self driving car is a huge success.

The company is planning to build about 100 of these two seat autonomous cars, that operate without a driver at the wheel.

Self Driving Cars Without Steering Wheels Planned By Google

There would be no gas and brake pedals but these cars can only make use of sensors and computing power, with no for a human aid.

In 2015, Google hopes that 100 of these two-seaters will be on the roads for extensive testing.

However, these cars are not going to be for sale and would be provided to select operators for further tweaking and have limitations such as a 40-kilometre-per-hour top speed.

RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning of 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK to New York City, US. The sinking of Titanic caused the deaths of more than 1,500 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. The RMSTitanic, the largest ship afloat at the time it entered service, was the second of three Olympic class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line, and was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast with Thomas Andrews as her naval architect. Andrews was among those lost in the sinking. On her maiden voyage, she carried 2,224 passengers and crew.

Under the command of Edward Smith, the ship's passengers included some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds of emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland, Scandinavia and elsewhere throughout Europe seeking a new life in North America. The first class accommodation was designed to be the pinnacle of comfort and luxury, with an on-board gymnasium, swimming pool, libraries, high-class restaurants and opulent cabins. A wireless telegraph was provided for the convenience of passengers as well as for operational use. Though Titanic had advanced safety features such as watertight compartments and remotely activated watertight doors, there were not enough lifeboats to accommodate all of those aboard due to outdated maritime safety regulations. Titanic only carried enough lifeboats for 1,178 people—slightly more than half of the number on board, and one-third her total capacity.

After leaving Southampton on 10 April 1912, Titanic called at Cherbourg in France and Queenstown (now Cobh) in Ireland before heading westwards towards New York.^[2] On 14 April 1912, four days into the crossing and about 375 miles (600 km) so

Rejection can feel devastating, but you shouldn't let it crush you. Some of the world's most successful people have failed — sometimes more than once.

Get inspired from this

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We've put together a list of highly successful people, from movie stars to scientists, who experienced massive failure before they found fame and fortune.Weaker people might have given up. Instead, these folks remained focused on their goals. Scroll down to see the underdogs who went on to change the world.

Winston Churchill was estranged from his political party over ideological disagreements during the "wilderness years" of 1929 to 1939.

Winston Churchill was estranged from his political party over ideological disagreements during the "wilderness years" of 1929 to 1939.

At the outbreak of World War II on Sep. 3, 1939, Churchill was appointed to the B ritish Admiralty, thus ending his "exile." The next year, he was elected prime minister at the age of 62

Thomas Edison's teachers told him he was "too stupid to learn anything."

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Thomas Edison's teachers told him he was "too stupid to learn anything."
Edison went on to hold more than 1,000 patents and invented some world-changing devices, like the phonograph, practical electrical lamp, and a movie camera.

Oprah Winfrey was fire......

Question: Have you ever seen a black Nazi ... wearing a sweater vest? Well you have now. The little boy in the center of the picture above is Hans Massaquoi, one of the few biracial Germans who were born and raised under the Nazi regime. So if you ever feel like you were born in the wrong time and place in history, shut up, because unless you're a black child goose-stepping around with a swastika sewn to your sweater, you have no idea what it means to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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Hans was born in Hamburg in 1926, the son of a German nurse and a Liberian law student whose dad happened to be the Liberian consul for Germany. Not long after his birth, Hans' father and grandfather both moved back to Africa, leaving the little boy and his mom to navigate through the ins and outs of living under an Aryan regime on their own. Both the title and the picture above are a little misleading, though, because Hans never actually made it into the Nazi Party, although he tried. In third grade, Hans was so eager to prove that he was a good German that he persuaded his babysitter to sew a swastika onto his sweater. His ...

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is considered one of the Nigeria’s most prominent young authors, and now commands an international audience. Most recently, she made headlines upon the release of the film adaptation of her novel, “Half of a Yellow Sun,” as well as for the recent publication of her third novel, “Americanah.” As Adichie’s body of work grows, take a peek at her life: 10 things you didn’t know about author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

She comes from a long line of strong women

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Adichie’s mother was the University of Nigeria’s first female registrar, serving as the head of the administrative section of the university. Her sister operates a medical practice in Coventry, Connecticut.

Adichie was known to butt heads with her teachers growing up

Adichie’s strong personality would occasionally put her in conflict with teachers while she was growing up in Nsukka, Nigeria, near the University of Nigeria. Despite this, she remained an A student and received numerous academic awards

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She has become known as a fashion icon

Adichie’s mother was always very concerned about her daughter’s appearance, and instilled the same value in her children. When Adichie first burst onto the writing scene in the U.S., she tried to dress more subdued in an attempt to be taken seriously, but soon realized that her personal style had the right to shine through

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She dropped out of medical school to pursue writing

Following her father’s wishes, Adichie enrolled in medical school in Nigeria, but dropped out at age 19 to attend Drexel University in Philadelphia on a scholarship. She ended up graduating from Eastern Connecticut State University with a degree in communication and political science

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She was inspired by Chinua Achebe

After reading Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart,” Adichie was inspired by seeing her own life represented in the pages. She once said, “I realized that people who looked like me could live in books.” Using that inspiration, Adichie has been writing about the Nigerian experience throughout her career.

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She grew up in a house once owned by Achebe

Adichie and her family lived in a home in Nsukka that was once owned by Chinua Achebe, further strengthening the connection between the two Igbo literary legends. A Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic, Achebe was best known for his first novel and magnum opus, “Things Fall Apart,” — the most widely read book in modern African literature. He died in 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts

Her novel, “Half of a Yellow Sun,” derives its name from the Biafra flag

The novel, “Half of a Yellow Sun,” is set before and during the Biafran and its title reflects the flag of the short-lived independent nation. The film adaptation, directed by Biyi Bandele, stars Chiwetel Ejiofor (“12 Years a Slave”) and Thandie

There once was a man was hit on the head by a falling baby… twice!

According to Time Magazine (Miscellany, Oct. 17, 1938), the year of the first event was 1937. Joseph Figlock, a local street sweeper in Detroit, Michigan, was walking down the road when a baby fell from a 4^th story window. The baby struck him on the head and shoulders. The tackling toddler was thankfully not killed. However, he and Mr. Figlock were both injured.

The following year, another mother of the year candidate, allowed her 2 year old son David Thomas, to fall from a window. Joseph, doing his job sweeping out an alley, was again struck by the tumbling tyke. Remarkably, once again neither the ankle-bitter nor the newborn nabber were killed.

Joseph must be some catch, both figuratively and literally. Not only can he ensnare small children like a German Shepard at a Frisbee throwing competition, but women seem to toss their offspring at him like rice at a wedding! One thing is for sure, if you lived in Detroit in the 1930s and you threw your baby out with the bathwater, Mr. Joseph Figlock was going to be there to save the day!

+kofacts raph Thanks for reading!

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910

The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team to introduce emblems on their helmets.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

Chop-suey does not come from China. It was created by Chinese immigrants in California

Chocolate is the number one food stuff flavor in the world, beating vanilla and banana by 3-to-1.

Valentine's Day originates from the ancient Roman

Earthquakes, also called temblors, can be so tremendously destructive, it’s hard to imagine they occur by the thousands every day around the world, usually in the form of small tremors.

Some 80 percent of all the planet's earthquakes occur along the rim of the Pacific Ocean, called the "Ring of Fire" because of the preponderance of volcanic activity there as well. Most earthquakes occur at fault zones, where tectonic plates—giant rock slabs that make up the Earth's upper layer—collide or slide against each other. These impacts are usually gradual and unnoticeable on the surface; however, immense stress can build up between plates. When this stress is released quickly, it sends massive vibrations, called seismic waves, often hundreds of miles through the rock and up to the surface. Other quakes can occur far from faults zones when plates are stretched or squeezed.

Scientists assign a magnitude rating to earthquakes based on the strength and duration of their seismic waves. A quake measuring 3 to 5 is considered minor or light; 5 to 7 is moderate to strong; 7 to 8 is major; and 8 or more is great.

On average, a magnitude 8 quake strikes somewhere every year and some 10,000 people die in earthquakes annually. Collapsing buildings claim by far the majority of lives, but the destruction is often compounded by mud slides, fires, floods, or tsunamis. Smaller temblors that usually occur in the days following a large earthquake can complicate rescue efforts and cause further death and destruction.

Loss of life can be avoided through emergency planning, education, and the construction of buildings that sway rather than break under the stress of an earthquake.

African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth. They are slightly larger than their Asian cousins and can be identified by their larger ears that look somewhat like the continent of Africa. (Asian elephants have smaller, rounded ears.)

Elephant ears radiate heat to help keep these large animals cool, but sometimes the African heat is too much. Elephants are fond of water and enjoy showering by sucking water into their trunks and spraying it all over themselves. Afterwards, they often spray their skin with a protective coating of dust.

An elephant's trunk is actually a long nose used for smelling, breathing, trumpeting, drinking, and also for grabbing things—especially a potential meal. The trunk alone contains about 100,000 different muscles. African elephants have two fingerlike features on the end of their trunk that they can use to grab small items. (Asian elephants have one.)

Both male and female African elephants have tusks they use to dig for food and water and strip bark from tre

es. Males use the tusks to battle one another, but the ivory has also attracted violence of a far more dangerous sort.

Because ivory is so valuable to some humans, many elephants have been killed for their tusks. This trade is illegal today, but it has not been completely eliminated, and some African elephant populations remain endangered.

Elephants eat roots, grasses, fruit, and bark, and they eat a lot of these things. An adult elephant can consume up to 300 pounds (136 kilograms) of food in a single day.

These hungry animals do not sleep much, and they roam over great distances while foraging for the large quantities of food that they require to sustain their massive bodies.

Female elephants (cows) live in family herds with their young, but adult males (bulls) tend to roam on their own.

Having a baby elephant is a serious commitment. Elephants have a longer pregnancy than any other mammal—almost 22 months. Cows usually give birth to one calf every two to four years. At birth, elephants already weigh some 200 pounds (91 kilograms) and stand about 3 feet (1 meter) tall.

African elephants, unlike their Asian relatives, are not easily domesticated. They range throughout sub-Saharan Africa and the rain forests of central and West Africa. The continent’s northernmost elephants are found in Mali’s Sahel desert. The small, nomadic herd of Mali elephants migrates in a circular route through the desert in search of water

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