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The Post-UTME Screening Exercise for 2014/2015 admission into various degree programmes in the College of Agricultural Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Humanities, Natural Sciences and Social and Management Sciences  takes place on  Wednesday, 30th ,  Thursday, 31st  July and Friday, 1st August,  2014 at the following Centres by 9.00 am each day. 1    Joseph Ayo Babalola University Campus, Ikeji Arakeji 2    Lagos Office, No.50, Ikorodu Road, Fadeyi. 3   Abuja Office, Christ Apostolic Church, FCC, DCC Headquarters, Stadium/Games Village, Roundabout before VIO Office, Area 1, Abuja. The following categories of candidates are expected to attend: 1    Candidates who made Joseph Ayo Babalola University their first or second choice University. 2    Candidates who intend to change their first or second choice University to Joseph Ayo Babalola University. 3    All potential c...

ABUJA— The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, is working with the National Salaries and Wages Commission, NSWC, to place corps members on a public service salary scale. The Director-General of NYSC, Brig. Gen. Johnson Olawumi, who disclosed this in Abuja, noted that the move would stop frequent agitation for a review of corps members’ allowances. Olawumi said the series of attempts made by the scheme to secure adjustment in the allowances of corps members at the National Assembly did not yield the desired result. He maintained that the current N19,800 monthly allowances for corps members was inadequate in view of current economic realities in the country, noting that they were working closely with the wages commission to concretise the proposal. On the forthcoming governorhip election in Osun State, Olawumi assured that the scheme would not compromise as alleged by some politicians. He said allegations by politicians that the scheme had compromised its partnership with the electora...

VISUAL BASIC 2010 EXPRESS & SQL SERVER 2008 EXPRESS Two great tools that go great together   VB.Net and SQL Server are powerful, industry-standard development tools from Microsoft.   It’s sometimes surprising to realize that anyone can download and use these programs for free. Getting them installed and working together took longer than I expected.   Google searches showed that many people were even questioning whether a VB Express program could could access a SQL Server Express database.   It can, but there’s a trick to it. So if you’re trying to get started with your first VB+SQL program, here’s a small app to start you off.   I hope it saves you a couple hours! ______________________________________________ First, download and install Visual Basic 2010 Express and Sql Server 2008 Express from www.microsoft.com/express .   SQL Server Next, start Sql Server Management Studio, and log in.   (Start à All Pr...

Before we delve into the data-driven world of ADO.NET, let's first take a look at some tools available in the Visual Studio products. The following example shows you one way of connecting to a database without writing any code. Creating a Connection to a Database Open Visual C# Express and create a new Windows Forms Application. Name the project as DatabaseConnection . In Visual Studio, the Database Explorer is called Server Explorer. It is opened by default in Visual C# Express located in the left as a tab. If you can't find the Database Explorer, go to View > Other Windows > Database Explorer to open it up. Click the Connect to Database icon in the Database/Server Explorer. Clicking it shows up the Add Connection Window. Be sure that the Data source uses Microsoft SQL Server Database File. If not, you can click the Change button and choose the appropriate data source. We also need to provide the file name of the database file that was ...

The minority leader of House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, of the opposition party, has advised the Federal Government to explore ‘Trade by Barter option’ in its effort to step up military hardware and train military personnel instead of piling up debts. Mr Gbajabiamila, who frowned at   what   he tagged ‘President Jonathan’s penchant for loans’ when the country had Sovereign Wealth Fund, reserve and excess oil revenue, said the one billion dollars loan which the President was requesting for was one loan too many for Nigeria’s future generation to pay-off and would not be granted. In a statement issued by his media aide, Olanrewaju Smart, the lawmaker said that the President had earlier collected a loan of three trillion Naira allocated to defence in three years with nothing to show for it and advised the National Assembly not to grant the request while urging the Federal Government to try “exchanging oil for military hardware”...