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Youths attack Emir, Chief Judge at el-Rufai’s inauguration

he inauguration of Governor Nasir El-Rufa’i of Kaduna State ended abruptly on Friday after angry youth pelted some prominent indigenes of the state, including the revered Emir of Zaria, Shehu Idris, and the state chief judge, Taminu Zailani, at the venue of the inauguration. The rampaging youth accused them of colluding with the previous administration of Governor Ramalan Yero to plunder the resources of the state. They specifically demanded the dethronement of the Emir who in the ensuing pandemonium that enveloped the venue of the inauguration was rescued and smuggled out of the venue by his palace guards. A senator-elect, Shehu Sani, used his car to smuggle the chief judge out of the venue. He then drove him to his home in the Riga Chikun area of Kaduna. Mr. El-Rufai could not review the parade mounted by the police as some youth pelted dignitaries with water in sachets, stones and other objects in the pavilion. This prompted security agents to fire tear gas into the crowd at the Murtala Square, Kaduna. Some dignitaries in the pavilion includ-

• President Muhammadu Buhari with chieftains of All Progressives Congress at inauguration

ed the Emir of Zazzau, Shehu Idris, and other traditional rulers in the State. The incident occurred when the new governor had concluded his address and

was about to mount an open van to review the parade mounted by the police. While the crowds were dispersed by the police, dignitaries remained seated, but the

occasion ended abruptly without the governor reviewing the parade. The Murtala Square was filled to capacity. (NAN)

side his Deputy, Ahmed Ibeto mounted the podium to take a guard salute and greeted the mammoth crowd was however greeted with shout of ‘Barawo’, thief, ‘ole’, ‘Change Ya zo’ (Change has come) from the hostile crowd the people who were apparently angry with the alleged debt profile of the state and the governor’s non performance kept shouting Changi Ya zo’, ‘your time is over, go’, EFCC is waiting for you’ etc while

praising the new Governor saying ‘Sai Lolo’. Security agents made several attempts to calm the restive youths, while the former governor walked to the podium and exchange pleasantries with dignitaries, including the state Deputy Governor, Ibeto. The State Chief Judge, Justice Fati Lami Abubakar later administered the oath of office on the new Deputy Gover-

nor, Alhaji Mohammed Ketso and State Governor, Abubakar Bello amidst jubilation from the crowd. However, matter came to a head after the new governor gave his speech, the youths charged at the former governor and pelted him with sachets of water, packs of takeaway food, shoes, among others and called him names. When the situation became very tense and clear that there may be further attacks on the embattled former governor, two trucks of soldiers from the 31 Military Arterllary were quickly dispatched into the stadium arena to avert further attacks. At the end of the short ceremony, the soldiers started shooting sporadically into the air which led to many scampering for safety in various directions even as former the former governor was whisked out of the venue through another outlet by the state commissioner of Police, Mr. Olusola Amore into a waiting car. Due to the ugly development, the item on the programme where the former governor, was supposed to give his address was deliberately skipped. A top government source told our reporter that a preliminary security report had earlier advised the out-gone governor not attend the ceremony, the advised was reportedly rebuffed by the former governor.

... as angry youths boo former governor Aliyu

Priscilla Dennis

he immediate past Governor of Niger State, Dr. Babangida Aliyu was yesterday booed and pelted by restive youths at the handing over ceremony to newly elected Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Bello at Bako Kontagora Stadium, Minna the state capital. Aliyu, who arrived the stadium along-

Gunmen over-run Plateau village on inauguration eve …burn 250 houses

unmen estimated to be over 500 in number overran Shonong village of Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau state and burnt down the entire community. It was gathered that the attack, which took place around 9pm on Thursday, took residents by surprise as they were preparing to go to bed when the gunmen struck. Isaac Kahwun, a resident of the community who escaped death, says, “The gunmen came as usual and started shooting sporadically to announce their pres-

ence. This made residents to run out of their houses and find ways of escape. “We sent a distress call to the special task force in charge of the village, but they only succeeded in driving the gunmen away. They then advised the villagers to quit their houses and run to safer ground because they (task force) said they did not have the fire power to confront the gunmen if they come back at night. “Given this scenario, all the villagers left their houses and took refuge in neighboring villages. The gunmen returned later in the night and set all the residential houses ablaze, including two churches. “Some houses where relief materials

were kept to be distributed to victims of earlier attacks were also looted by the attackers. Whatever they couldn’t take, they set ablaze with the houses. “Now more than 1000 residents who fled their homes are sleeping in primary schools in neighboring villages.” The village of Shonong was attacked early last year, during which 36 residents, who were mostly women and children were killed by the unknown gunmen. The local government has made efforts to help the victims rebuild their burnt homes and resettle. But all the rebuilt houses and those that were spared in the last attack were all razed by the gunmen.

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What should Nigerians expect from Buhari? T Yesterday, the country witnessed an unprecedented political event when former President Goodluck Jonathan handed over power to President Muhammadu Buhari in a historic ceremony. But much more important than the stately ‘handing over of power’ event is how Buhari will meet the huge expectations of Nigerians whose hopes and dreams seem to have been dashed by the man handing over to him, writes NICK UWERU

he last one week leading to May 29, yesterday, Democracy Day, was at best hellish for Talabi Animashaun, a civil servant. Even though he looked forward to yesterday when Mohammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, took over power from Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, in a historical transition CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

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‘Buhari must end subsidy regime’

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 that sees a ruling party handing over to the opposition, Animashaun was mindful of the events leading to the handover and why the new administration would need to tackle the myriads of challenges that confront the average Nigerian on the street with utmost urgency. From Monday till Wednesday, Animashaun spent close to N10, 000 on transport to work. With fuel scarcity biting hard across the country after oil marketer and tanker drivers went on strike, transport business almost grinding to a halt. Few people who had to move from one destination to the other, like Animashaun, had to pay exorbitant fees. Though normalcy began to return on Wednesday after the Senate managed to broker peace between the oil marketers and federal government with whom the marketers say they have unresolved issues on oil subsidy payment, there are no clear cut reasons why Nigerians had to go through the hardship of the last one week. “While the nightmare lasted, it was like there was no government at all. It was scary because we couldn’t explain why there was this much of suffering,” Animashaun said. Apart from transport, banking, telecoms and many other aspects of the economy was nearly grounded. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, immediate past minister of Finance and coordinator of the economy, was as confused as Animashaun, though she parries the blame elsewhere. “I really want to sympathise with suffering Nigerians who are going through untold hardship because of the situation. President Goodluck Jonathan’s government has done quite a lot. It has done enough to cushion the ordeals of Nigerians regarding fuel crisis in this country.

‘Nigerians should expect nothing from Buhari’

Balarabe Musa, former Governor, Kaduna State, a social crusader, urged Nigerians not to expect any magic from Buhari

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y expectations from Buhari are not very much because the change they promised was cosmetic. It is not qualitative. It is just a mere change from PDP one to PDP two. “There is no qualitative change at all. The vision remains the same; there is no even change in the style. “However, the fact that the election took place is a good thing. Also, the acceptance of defeat by the president means Nigerians can shame those imperialists who were forecasting on the end of Nigeria after the 2015 election,”

“Diesel has been deregulated and has not been subsidised, even during the administration of President (Olusegun) Obasanjo. So, the major oil marketers should, at least, tell us why there is no diesel at the filling stations. “Nigerians must know that we have paid, and we have even paid upfront. Our last payment was N154 billion. N233 billion was fraudulent from the N1 trillion

that is being investigated. “The country is being shut down for N200 billion, even when diesel is not subsidised,” she explained, hinting at a sinister motive in the marketers actions. More than any other events perhaps, the ugly hardship that many Nigerians underwent in the last one weeks underscores a major challenge that Buhari must undertake as soon as possible.

Recently, Tony Blair, former UK prime minister advised the new president to be decisive about the fuel subsidy matter that has for long hobbled economic development in the country. Federal government and some free market proponents believe that the way to go is to deregulate CONTINUED ON PAGE 5

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fuel supply in the country. The argument supporting the notion is not without merit. The subsidy regime, alleges government, has created avenues for graft. Like Iweala pointed out, over N1 trillion subsidy money paid to fuel marketers is yet to be accounted for. Even so, if the market were to be deregulated and marketers allowed to bring in products and sell at without price regulation, the forces of demand and supply will not stabilize fuel supple but also allow government to save up money to be put in other sectors of the economy. Underscoring the people expectation on the need to deal with the fuel matter, Ayuba Wabba, National Labour Congress, NLC, president says that the pains associated with fuel crisis is avoidable. “The painful, injurious and avoidable fuel scarcity is artificial with a sinister motive. “We lend our support to legislation, policy and strategy that restore immediate regular supply as well as guarantee long term sustainable availability through enhanced local refining capacity,” the NLC president said. But welfarists have continuously kicked against the idea of yanking off the subsidy. They insist that the initial pains that would come with removal of the subsidy might overwhelm the masses. In the midst of this ding dong, analyst believe that Buhari must find a middle ground to deal with the fuel scarcity/subsidy regime. But Nigerians’ suffering has not been limited to just fuel shortage. The last one week has underscored the

acute pains Nigerian suffers in the absence steady, available and affordable power supply. During the week leading to May 29, power generation in the country fell to an unprecedented low at 767, down from almost 5, 000 megawatts of installed capacity. Across the country, too, state government workers have not been paid salaries. In Osun, workers have decided to sit at home after Rauf Aregbesola, state governor, has owed them six months of salaries. Ondo, Rivers, Benue and close to 21 other states according NLC currently owe workers. No doubt, Buhari has a daunting to-do list after promising wholesale change during elections two months ago. For most observers, there four key areas that will determine the success of his The first is corruption. Buhari, 72, has said the corrupt and corruption will have no place in his administration, sparking fears of a wide-ranging crackdown similar to his previous time as military ruler in the 1980s. But he has pledged to the out gone President Goodluck Jonathan that he has “nothing to fear” and there will be no witch-hunt against the former administration. But here, some areas are likely to be too big to ignore, however, such as the running of the opaque, state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, which is seen as riddled with corruption. Analysts predict that Buhari will beef up existing anti-corruption agencies, while he has personally promised to declare his assets and liabilities for greater transparency and accountability

Any end to road side fuel hawkers?

Buhari’s party, APC, estimates it could save three trillion naira ($15 billion, 13 billion euros) by streamlining government and plugging “leakages” in the system Buhari’s party, APC, estimates it could save three trillion naira ($15 billion, 13 billion euros) by streamlining government and plugging “leakages” in the system. As the hand over and inauguration cer-

‘Nigeria must be restructured’

Aare Afe Babalola, prominent legal luminary and educationist, believes that there is need to restructure the country

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uhari should pay attention to issue of security. The social contract which we all have demanded is that there should be security of property and of lives”. “I sincerely believe there is a need for urgent fundamental restructuring of the Nigeria constitution. My own belief has always been that Nigeria would become a nation rather than a country of nations. “ And that the voting pattern would be such that we say you vote for the Nigerian nation where I for example, a Yoruba, can work in Borno and stand for an election as President of this country or a northerner staying in Akwa Ibom and stand for election there. “But now, our voting pattern shows that there is so much voting along tribal or religious lines and I don’t think that is good

for this country. After about 50 years of Nigerian independence, we still have not evolved a Nigerian nation.

Therefore, we have to restructure the country and whoever is the president or governor must help us to evolve a Nigerian nation. You do not think that because you are first of all a Yoruba before you are a Nigerian, because you are an Igbo before you are a Nigerian, a Hausa before you are a Nigeria, but to be a Nigerian first. Buhari must fulfil his promise to wipe out corruption. In this instance, everyone must help the government to wipe it out. “If you don’t give, of course, the other per son won’t accept. Corruption takes two people, you give, the other person takes. So, I appreciate the fact that General Buhari said that he was going to wipe it out, but it is not enough to talk about wiping it out, it is a matter of we, and of the individual.”

emonies were going on yesterday, North East of the country is still very much unsettled. Jonathan’s administration will be remembered for the rise of Boko Haram Islamists, who left at least 15,000 people dead and more than 1.5 million homeless in a six-year campaign of violence. Boko Haram is currently seen as on the run but security experts say the war is far from over, with sporadic attacks continuing and the likelihood the rebels could regroup in border regions. Former army general Buhari has recognised the need for top-down reform to boost poor morale and end graft that hit military procurement, leaving troops illequipped to fight. But restructuring also needs to go hand-in-hand with social and economic programmes to tackle the root causes of the insurgency, namely lack of development and unemployment in the Muslim north. Buhari has indicated he will maintain regional cooperation with Chad, Niger and Cameroon but he faces potential trouble on another front from former militants in the oil-producing southern Delta. Rebels wanting a fairer share of oil wealth have threatened to resume their activities against energy facilities in the region if a government amnesty programme is not extended beyond this year. But perhaps more challenging is the CONTINUED ON PAGE 6

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‘Insecurity is a big challenge’

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 unemployment. Nearly two-thirds of Nigeria’s population of more than 170 million is under 30. But unemployment is currently nudging 30 percent, despite strong overall rates of economic growth in recent years. Outgoing Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in 2013 recognised the benefits of growth needed to be shared more equitably. The APC says some 110 million people still live in poverty. Buhari’s administration has pledged to embark on a massive programme of industrialisation, including building railways, improving roads and ports, and improving crumbling infrastructure. But those programmes could be hamstrung immediately by lack of funds, with Nigeria hit hard by the slump in the global price of oil, on which it depends for 90 percent of foreign income. Observers say diversifying the economy is a must, as is educational reform to improve skills. Some 10.5 million Nigerian children are currently out of school — the most in the world. Barely two weeks ago, federal government said Nigeria was producing just 1,327 megawatts of electricity — an all-time low and down even on Buhari’s last time in power in 1983-85. But this week, the figure went further down. Reversing the country’s crippling power deficit is seen as key to driving economic growth but has evaded successive governments because of mismanagement, incompetence and vested interests. Buhari is expected to decentralise, de-

regulate and privatise the transmission sector, opening it up to competition. The APC has reportedly promised to triple generation to 12,000 MW by 2019. He will also have to address the oil and gas sector and controversial subsidies paid to fuel importers who bring in petroleum products because of a lack of functioning refiner-

ies. The government’s alleged non-payment of arrears saw fuel supply lines shut

down in recent weeks, causing a crippling shortage that brought Nigeria to a near standstill.

‘We need more jobs’ Comrade Ayuba Wabba, MNI, President, NLC, says that the President Muhammadu Buhari must give meaningful jobs to Nigerians

‘Nigerians must start to see results in the short term’ “T Renown constitutional lawyer, Professor Itse Sagay, SAN, believes that the new president must deliver in the short term

“B

uhari should focus on security, the economy and the fight against corruption. They should also focus on middle-term things like infrastructure, building new refineries so that we don’t have to import petroleum products in a country that produces petroleum; taking care of our roads, electricity and other infrastructure, and also education and health. “In the long term, he should have a development plan, a programme which could be a five-year term or ten-year development plan which we have to follow and at the end of it, we can just go on until we achieve an acceptable level of development.”

he painful, injurious and avoidable fuel scarcity is artificial with a sinister motive. We lend our support to legislation, policy and strategy that restore immediate regular supply as well as guarantee long term sustainable availability through enhanced local refining capacity “The diversification of the economy from oil is long overdue and is made urgent by recent developments in the crude oil production and market scenes, especially the shale oil and new findings across the world. “The enunciation of an agricultural legislation, policy and strategy that create synergy between industrial agriculture and small-holder farmers with a focus on internal food security and food export is a necessity. “The privatisation of the energy sector in the short term has achieved the exact opposite of what it set out to do. Accordingly,

we canvass for a full audit of the privatisation process of the sector including tackling head-long, the challenges responsible for the unending darkness. “The economy continues to grow without jobs bringing benefits to only a few. We demand an economy that provides jobs and other benefits. Similarly, we demand a halt to the de-industrialization process and the free fall of the Naira. We believe the restoration of the textile industry will be a good starting point.

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I belong to everybody, I belong to nobody –Buhari

•Says ‘I have no old scores to settle’ •Promises to relocate military command to Maiduguri over B’Haram •Urges media to be patriotic, responsible Rotimi Fadeyi ABUJA

resident Muhammadu Buhari yesterday took over the reign of power of the Federal Republic of Nigeria with an assurance that he would stick to his oath of office to serve the Nigerian people irrespective of their ethnic groups, religions, socio-economic and political sentiments. Buhari was sworn in by Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Mahmud Mohammed, at the inauguration held at Eagle Square in Abuja. Speaking at the occasion which was witnessed by presidents and Heads of State of some countries of the world and prominent individuals from within and outside Nigeria, the president said he belonged to all the people of the nation. His words: “Having just a few minutes ago sworn on the Holy Book, I intend to keep my oath and serve as President to all Nigerians. “I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody.” In the same breath, he allayed the fear in some quarters that he might be coming back to power to settle old scores. According to him, such a fear had no basis. “A few people have privately voiced fears that on coming back to office I shall go after them. These fears are groundless. There will be no paying off old scores. The past is prologue,” Buhari stated. Explaining that the most immediate focus of his government was to tackle the Boko Haram insurgency, he said the Command and Control Centre of the military would be relocated to Maiduguri until Boko Haram is completely subdued. He gave the assurance that the abducted Chibok girl would be rescued alive. “My appeal for unity is predicated on the seriousness of the legacy we are

getting into. With depleted foreign reserves, falling oil prices, leakages and debts the Nigerian economy is in deep trouble and will require careful management to bring it round and to tackle the immediate challenges confronting us, namely; Boko Haram, the Niger Delta situation, the power shortages and unemployment especially among young people. “For the longer term we have to improve the standards of our education. We have to look at the whole field of medicare. We have to upgrade our dilapidated physical infrastructure. “The most immediate is Boko Haram’s insurgency. Progress has been made in recent weeks by our security forces but victory cannot be achieved by basing the Command and Control Centre in Abuja. The command centre will be relocated to Maiduguri and remain until Boko Haram is completely subdued. But we cannot claim to have defeated Boko Haram without rescuing the Chibok girls and all other innocent persons held hostage by insurgents. “This government will do all it can to rescue them alive. Boko Haram is a typical example of small fires causing large fires. An eccentric and unorthodox preacher with a tiny following was given posthumous fame and following by his extra judicial murder at the hands of the police. “Since then through official bungling, negligence, complacency or collusion Boko Haram became a terrifying force taking tens of thousands of lives and capturing several towns and villages covering swathes of Nigerian sovereign territory.” Buhari described Boko Haram as a mindless, godless group which are far away from Islam as one can think of saying that at the end of the hostilities CONTINUED ON PAGE 8

when the group is subdued, the government intends to commission a sociological study. According to him, the study is necessary to determine its origins, remote and immediate causes of the movement, its sponsors, the international connection to ensure that measures are taken to prevent a reoccurrence of this evil. He, however, explained that for the time being, the Armed Forces would be fully charged with prosecuting the fight against Boko Haram, adding that his government shall overhaul the rules of engagement to avoid human rights violations in operation. Buhari said his govern-

ment shall improve operational and legal mechanisms so that disciplinary steps are taken against proven human right violations by the Armed Forces. He noted that Boko Haram was not only the security issue bedeviling Nigeria, but added that the spate of kidnappings, armed robberies, herdsmen/farmers clashes, cattle rustlings all added to the general air of insecurity. “We are going to erect and maintain an efficient, disciplined people – friendly and well – compensated security forces within an overall security architecture”, the president said. He noted that though the challenges are enormous,

they are not insurmountable. “Daunting as the task may be it is by no means insurmountable. There is now a national consensus that our chosen route to national development is democracy. To achieve our objectives we must consciously work the democratic system. “The Federal Executive under my watch will not seek to encroach on the duties and functions of the Legislative and Judicial arms of government. The law enforcing authorities will be charged to operate within the Constitution. We shall rebuild and reform the public service to become more effective

and more serviceable. We shall charge them to apply themselves with integrity to stabilise the system,” the president said. He, however, noted that no matter how well organised the governments of the federation are they cannot succeed without the support, understanding and cooperation of labour unions, organised private sector, the press and civil society organisations. “I appeal to employers and workers alike to unite in raising productivity so that everybody will have the opportunity to share in increased prosperity. The Nigerian press is the most vibrant in Africa. My appeal to the media today -

President Muhammadu Buhari and his wife Aisha, during the oath taking ceremony, yesterday in Abuja. PHOTO: ROTIMI OSASONA

Buhari hosts world leaders to presidential luncheon Rotimi Fadeyi ABUJA

resident Muhammadu Buhari yesterday hosted world leaders to a presidential luncheon at the Banquet

Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Buhari, who was represented by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, expressed gratitude to the world leaders for attending his inauguration as President.

He noted that the inauguration was the manifestation of the of the yearnings of the people for change. Osinbajo also thanked them for their goodwill and support since the an-

nouncement of the results of the March 28 presidential elections. He gave the assurance that Nigeria would continue to maintain strong bilateral relations with other countries.

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till smarting from its string of electoral losses and the continued wrangling within its fold, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has come under fresh threat over an alleged breach of contract. The party has been accused of breaching a N360 million contract which it signed with an indigenous company, Twinkle World, for the beautification of all its presidential campaign venues across the federation. Without any financial mobilisation from the

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PDP gets 7-day ultimatum to pay N360m campaign debt

PDP, the company said it swung into action and delivered on the terms of the contract. However, five months after, the Project Coordinator, Awonaiya Olayemi, said they had explored all avenues to get their money to no avail. According to him, apart from rendering other complementary services to the party,

the group also provided awareness and publicity venue support services throughout the PDP nationwide presidential campaign from 8th January to 6th February 2015. He said aside losing a staff of the company in the process of carrying out the assignment, his team was subjected to various threats and malicious attack from political thugs as they trav-

elled around the country doing their legitimate assignment. Having written to the hierarchy of the party and its Presidential Campaign Organization on several occasions, Olayemi said the then national chairman of the party, Alhaji Adamu Muazu, had agreed to pay and consequently directed Prof. Jerry Gana to facilitate the pay-

ment. “Unfortunately, we are still where we started,” he lamented. In the meanwhile, Olayemi said his organisation, their family members and other dependants have continued to be subjected to serious inhuman and life-threatening conditions. “There was also another desperate situa-

tion of meeting the serious health challenges of one of our staff ’s mother which had not been encouraged because of the refusal to release the money owed us by the appropriate organ of the party and she died in the process. These pathetic cases were aside from the inability to meet our responsibilities to our families and other dependants”, he added.

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and this includes the social media – is to exercise its considerable powers with responsibility and patriotism,” Buhari said. On the amnesty programme, Buhari said, “amnesty programme in the Niger Delta is due to end in December, but the Government intends to invest heavily in the projects, and programmes currently in place. I call on the leadership and people in these areas to cooperate with the state and federal governments in the rehabilitation programmes which will be streamlined and made more effective. “As ever, I am ready to listen to grievances of my fellow Nigerians. I extend my hand of fellowship to them so that we can bring peace and build prosperity for our people”, he added. On power, Buhari said, “no single cause can be identified to explain Nigerian’s poor economic performance over the years than the power situation. It is a national shame that an economy of 180 million generates only 4,000MW, and distributes even less. “Continuous tinkering with the structures of power supply and distribution and close on $20billion expanded since 1999 have only brought darkness, frustration, misery, and resignation among Nigerians. We will not allow this to go on. Careful studies are under way during this transition to identify the quickest, safest and most cost-effective way to bring light and relief to Nigerians.” On unemployment, Buhari said “notably youth

unemployment features strongly in our Party’s Manifesto. We intend to attack the problem frontally through revival of agriculture, solid minerals mining as well as credits to small and medium size businesses to kick – start these enterprises.” “We shall quickly examine the best way to revive major industries and accelerate the revival and development of our railways, roads and general infrastructure,” he said. Earlier, former President Goodluck Jonathan had handed over the instrument of office as well as the national and armed forces flags to Buhari. Buhari later inspected the parade of guard by the armed forces in a motorcade after which there was a 21- gun salute. He later released balloons and white pigeons signifying peace. At the event, United States President, Barack Obama, was represented by a powerful delegation led by Secretary of State, John Kerry. Presidents and Heads of State who also witnessed the event are those from Zimbabawe, Namibia, Ghana, Congo Libreville, Mozambique, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Mali, South Africa, Rwanda and Benin. Also at the event were vice presidents from Angola, Kenya and South Sudan as well as Prime Minister of Ethiopia.

Vice president Yemi Osinbajo and wife during the oath taking ceremony, yesterday in Abuja.

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CBN posts N35.4bn net income in 2014 …adopts IFRS accounting framework Tola Akinmutimi

he Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has released its audited financial statements for 2013 and 2014 operating years which reflected a net income of N209.6 billion in 2013 compared with N35.4 billion in 2014. This is just as the apex banking sector regulatory institution disclosed that it had fully adopted the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for the financial statements which had been approved by its Board.

Analysts have attributed the drop in the bank’s net income to possibly the costs of transiting from the National Accounts standards to the IFRS, the nation’s oil market-triggered fiscal challenges in the second half of last year as well as the lingering financial headwinds globally and their rippling implications for national financial systems. The IFRS, one of the frameworks internationally recognised and accepted, mandates adopters of the framework to prepare consolidated financial statements. A statement by the

bank yesterday on the financial statements indicated that the bank’s net income for 2013 amounted to N209.6 billion while that of 2014 was N35.4 billion. It reported further that out of the 2014 net earnings, 80 per cent of it had since been remitted to the Federal Government of Nigeria in accordance with the Fiscal Responsibility Act while the balance of 20 per cent was also transferred to the Reserves within the Bank. The IFRS requirement implies that the financial statement of the CBN be consolidated with those of investee entities, namely

Nigeria Export-Import Bank, Abuja Securities and Commodities Exchange, Bank of Industry, Bank of Agriculture, Nigeria Interbank Settlement System, National Economic Reconstruction Fund, Financial Markets Dealers Quotation, African Finance Corporation and Agricultural Credit Guarantee Fund. Thus, the bank now has full IFRS-compliant financial statements for the years ended 31st December 2013 and 31stDecember 2014, respectively. Hitherto, the bank’s financial statements had been prepared under the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) framework.

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ormer president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday arrived Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State, to a heroic welcome as he was received by a jubilant crowd of supporters from across the Ijaw nation and Niger Delta. Jonathan who was overwhelmed with emotions at the reception accorded him told the capacity filled hall of the Gabriel Okara Cultural center, Yenagoa, how a former governor of the state, Diepreye Alamieseigha and Chief Bozimo persuaded him to run with as the deputy governor of the state in 1999. He said that he, indeed, never wanted to join politic or dream

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Jonathan gets heroic welcome in Bayelsa

*Says I never wanted to join politics of contesting for an elective position until his encounter with Alamieseigha. He said, “When he started his campaign, I joined not because I was interested in elective office, but what drove me to joining him was that those of us from very small communities always have problems and something had to go to be done. I said that probably if I worked with him and he won the election I would

know some of the people in government so that when my community had problem I would know somebody to talk to. That was my primary thinking. “One evening, Alamieseigha and Chief Bozimo came to my house; I was leaving in Tarama, then in Port Harcourt. I think it was at about after 10 O’clock, because it was getting late then. My wife called me and told me that Bozimo

and somebody wanted to see me; they came and I saw Alamieseigha again and they raised the issue that they wanted me to run with Alamieseigha as deputy, and I told them I would think about it. “The following day I went and told Chief Bozimo that I didn’t think I could run. That’s a long story, the details will come later. That was how, from obscurity, Chief Bozimo and Alamieseigha

with others brought me to politic and by the grace of God we contested and won election. That was the beginning of my journey.” Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, who announced that he was short of words to express his feeling at the large crowd present at the reception organised in his honour by the state government, said he had thought he would be booed and cursed by the people for some decisions made and development not attracted to the state. Jonathan, who was accompanied to the venue by his wife, Dame Patience Jonathan, the Ondo State Governor, Olusegun Mimiko, among other dignitaries, said when

he was about leaving Abuja for Bayelsa State, he had thought that because of some wrong decisions and perceived thinking by the people that they were not satisfied, he might be booed and cursed by the people in the state. “Me and my wife appreciate all what you have done for us; your support, your love, your show of concern, your worries, we appreciate. We cannot pay back, it is not possible. To think about paying back is to think that you can return your mother breast milk, it is impossible. We will continue to work together for development of our state and the nation in general,” an elated Jonathan told the people.

Inauguration: FRSC warns against traffic rules violation Chidi Ugwu ABUJA

T Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Chief Ernest Shonekan and General Abdulsalam Abubakar during the inauguration

Suicide bomber kills 6 in Borno village Inusa Ndahi MAIDUGURI

o fewer than six persons were killed on Friday when a suicide bomber attacked a venue of wedding in Tashan Alade in Hawul Local Government Area (LGA) of Borno. This was confirmed

by the Borno State Police Commissioner, Mr. Aderemi Opadokun, in an interview with journalists in Maiduguri on Friday. Hawul is south and about 215 kilometres drive from Maiduguri which has suffered series of killings and bombings by insurgents in recent

past. Opadokun said 30 people were also injured during the attack. ``I confirm the report on an alleged suicide bombing in Tashan Alade in Hawul LGA. The incident was reported to be at a wedding . ``Presently, six persons

all males whose identities are unknown are confirmed dead, while 30 others were injured,’’ he said. Opadokun said that the police had commenced investigations on the issue. ``Investigation is in progress on the issue,’’ he said.

he Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Boboye Oyeyemi, has admonished all Nigerians to obey the traffic rules and regulations while celebrating the newly inaugurated government to ensure crash and obstruction-free events. Oyeyemi gave the admonition in his ‘’2015 Democracy Day’’ message to the nation, pointing out that the event which is marked on 29th May of every year as public holiday in Nigeria, is characterised by increased vehicular movement across the nation’s highways, wide jubilation, traffic gridlocks, deaths and injuries which occasion violation of traffic

rules and regulations. He reiterated that traffic management during the period had been challenging in the past, but expected to be more this year, due to the inauguration of the new president and governors in some states. ‘’We have made adequate arrangements to effectively manage the expected rise in vehicular movement across the states of the federation, including the FCT. However, our major concern is the attitude of some motorists who may latch on the occasion to engage in reckless driving, overloading and speed violation with negative repercussions, not only to themselves but other road users,’’ he stated.

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Dignitaries at BuhariÂ&#x2019;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inauguration

President Mohammadu Buhari and wife.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo with wife.

R-L: President Buhari in handshake with John Kerry, US Secretary of State.

President Buhari (R) and former President Goodluck Jonathan.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo taking oath of office.

President Buhari in a signing ceremony.

President Buhari in motorcade.

R-L: President Buhari and wife; Vice President Osinbajo and wife.

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‘Nigerians will not regret entrusting national responsibility to us’ Being a text of the inaugural speech by His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari, following his swearing-in as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on 29th May, 2015

am immensely grateful to God Who Has preserved us to witness this day and this occasion. Today marks a triumph for Nigeria and an occasion to celebrate her freedom and cherish her democracy. Nigerians have shown their commitment to democracy and are determined to entrench its culture. Our journey has not been easy but thanks to the determination of our people and strong support from friends abroad we have today a truly democratically elected government in place. I would like to thank President Goodluck Jonathan for his display of statesmanship in setting a precedent for us that has now made our people proud to be Nigerians wherever they are. With the support and cooperation he has given to the transition process, he has made it possible for us to show the world that despite the perceived tension in the land we can be a united people capable of doing what is right for our nation. Together we co-operated to surprise the world that had come to expect only the worst from Nigeria. I hope this act of graciously accepting defeat by the outgoing President will become the standard of political conduct in the country. I would like to thank the millions of our supporters who believed in us even when the cause seemed hopeless. I salute their resolve in waiting long hours in rain and hot sunshine to register and cast their votes and stay all night if necessary to protect and ensure their votes count and were counted. I thank those who tirelessly carried the campaign on the social media. At the same time, I thank our other countrymen and women who did not vote for us but contributed to make our democratic culture truly competitive, strong and definitive. I thank all of you.

President Buhari taking the oath of office, yesterday

Having just a few minutes ago sworn on the Holy Book, I intend to keep my oath and serve as President to all Nigerians. I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody. A few people have privately voiced fears that on coming back to office I shall go after them. These fears are groundless. There will be no paying off old scores. The past is prologue. Our neighbours in the Sub-region and our African brethren should rest assured that Nigeria under our administration will be ready to play any leadership role that Africa expects of it. Here I would

like to thank the governments and people of Cameroon, Chad and Niger for committing their armed forces to fight Boko Haram in Nigeria. I also wish to assure the wider international community of our readiness to cooperate and help to combat threats of cross-border terrorism, sea piracy, refugees and boat people, financial crime, cyber crime, climate change, the spread of communicable diseases and other challenges of the 21st century. At home we face enormous challenges. Insecurity, pervasive corruption, the hitherto unending and seemingly impossible fuel

and power shortages are the immediate concerns. We are going to tackle them head on. Nigerians will not regret that they have entrusted national responsibility to us. We must not succumb to hopelessness and defeatism. We can fix our problems. In recent times Nigerian leaders appear to have misread our mission. Our founding fathers, Mr Herbert Macauley, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Alhaji Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto, Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Malam Aminu Kano, Chief J.S. Tarka, Mr Eyo Ita, Chief Denis Osadeby, Chief

A few people have privately voiced fears that on coming back to office

shall go after them. groundless.

These fears are

There will be no paying off old scores. The past is prologue

Ladoke Akintola and their democracy. To achieve our colleagues worked to estab- objectives we must conlish certain standards of sciously work the demogovernance. They might cratic system. The Federal have differed in their meth- Executive under my watch ods or tactics or details, but will not seek to encroach they were united in estab- on the duties and functions lishing a viable and pro- of the Legislative and Judigressive country. Some of cial arms of government. their successors behaved The law enforcing authorilike spoilt children break- ties will be charged to oping everything and bring- erate within the Constituing disorder to the house. tion. We shall rebuild and Furthermore, we as Ni- reform the public service gerians must remind our- to become more effective selves that we are heirs to and more serviceable. We great civilizations: Shehu shall charge them to apply Othman Dan fodio’s caliph- themselves with integrity ate, the Kanem Borno Em- to stabilize the system. pire, the Oyo Empire, the For their part the legBenin Empire and King islative arm must keep to Jaja’s formidable domain. their brief of making laws, The blood of those great carrying out over-sight ancestors flow in our veins. functions and doing so exWhat is now required is to peditiously. The judicial build on these legacies, to system needs reform to modernize and uplift Nige- cleanse itself from its imria. mediate past. The country Daunting as the task now expects the judiciary may be it is by no means to act with dispatch on all insurmountable. There is cases especially on cornow a national consensus ruption, serious financial that our chosen route to crimes or abuse of office. national development is CONTINUED ON PAGE 12

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It is only when the three arms act constitutionally that government will be enabled to serve the country optimally and avoid the confusion all too often bedeviling governance today. Elsewhere, relations between Abuja and the States have to be clarified if we are to serve the country better. Constitutionally there are limits to powers of each of the three tiers of government but that should not mean the Federal Government should fold its arms and close its eyes to what is going on in the states and local governments. Not least the operations of the Local Government Joint Account. While the Federal Government can not interfere in the details of its operations it will ensure that the gross corruption at the local level is checked. As far as the constitution allows me I will try to ensure that there is responsible and accountable governance at all levels of government in the country. For I will not have kept my own trust with the Nigerian people if I allow others abuse theirs under my watch. However, no matter how well organized the governments of the federation are they can not succeed without the support, understanding and cooperation of labour unions, organized private sector, the press and civil society organizations. I appeal to employers and workers alike to unite in raising productivity so that everybody will have the opportunity to share in increased prosperity. The Nigerian press is the most vibrant in Africa. My appeal to the media today – and this includes the social media – is to exercise its considerable powers with responsibility and patriotism. My appeal for unity is predicated on the seriousness of the legacy we are getting into. With depleted foreign reserves, falling oil prices, leakages and debts the Nigerian economy is in deep trouble and will require careful management to bring it round and to tackle the immediate challenges confronting us, namely; Boko Haram, the Niger Delta situation, the power shortages and unemployment especially among young people. For the longer term we have to improve the standards of our education.

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‘I’ll keep my oath, serve’

President Buhari and former President Jonathan share a moment during the inauguration

We have to look at the whole field of medicare. We have to upgrade our dilapidated physical infrastructure. The most immediate is Boko Haram’s insurgency. Progress has been made in recent weeks by our security forces but victory can not be achieved by basing the Command and Control Centre in Abuja. The command centre will be relocated to Maiduguri and remain until Boko Haram is completely subdued. But we can not claim to have defeated Boko Haram without rescuing the Chibok girls and all other innocent persons held hostage by insurgents. This government will do all it can to rescue them alive. Boko Haram is a typical example of small fires causing large fires. An eccentric and unorthodox preacher with a tiny following was given posthumous fame and following by his extra judicial murder at the hands of the police.

Since then through official bungling, negligence, complacency or collusion Boko Haram became a terrifying force taking tens of thousands of lives and capturing several towns and villages covering swathes of Nigerian sovereign territory. Boko Haram is a mindless, godless group who are as far away from Islam as one can think of. At the end of the hostilities when the group is subdued the Government intends to commission a sociological study to determine its origins, remote and immediate causes of the movement, its sponsors, the international connexions to ensure that measures are taken to prevent a reccurrence of this evil. For now the Armed Forces will be fully charged with prosecuting the fight against Boko haram. We shall overhaul the rules of engagement to avoid human rights violations in operations. We shall improve operational

and legal mechanisms so that disciplinary steps are taken against proven human right violations by the Armed Forces. Boko Haram is not only the security issue bedeviling our country. The spate of kidnappings, armed robberies, herdsmen/farmers clashes, cattle rustlings all help to add to the general air of insecurity in our land. We are going to erect and maintain an efficient, disciplined people – friendly and well – compensated security forces within an over – all security architecture. The amnesty programme in the Niger Delta is due to end in December, but the Government intends to invest heavily in the projects, and programmes currently in place. I call on the leadership and people in these areas to cooperate with the State and Federal Government in the rehabilitation

My appeal for unity is predicated on the seriousness of the legacy we are getting into.

With depleted foreign reserves, falling oil prices, leakages and debts the Nigerian economy is in deep trouble and will require careful management to bring it round

programmes which will be streamlined and made more effective. As ever, I am ready to listen to grievances of my fellow Nigerians. I extend my hand of fellowship to them so that we can bring peace and build prosperity for our people. No single cause can be identified to explain Nigerian’s poor economic performance over the years than the power situation. It is a national shame that an economy of 180 million generates only 4,000MW, and distributes even less. Continuous tinkering with the structures of power supply and distribution and close on $20b expanded since 1999 have only brought darkness, frustration, misery, and resignation among Nigerians. We will not allow this to go on. Careful studies are under way during this transition to identify the quickest, safest and most cost-effective way to bring light and relief to Nigerians. Unemployment, notably youth un-employment features strongly in our Party’s Manifesto. We intend to attack the problem frontally through revival of agriculture, solid minerals mining as well as credits to small and medium size businesses to kick – start these enterprises. We shall quickly examine the best way to revive major in-

dustries and accelerate the revival and development of our railways, roads and general infrastructure. Your Excellencies, My fellow Nigerians I can not recall when Nigeria enjoyed so much goodwill abroad as now. The messages I received from East and West, from powerful and small countries are indicative of international expectations on us. At home the newly elected government is basking in a reservoir of goodwill and high expectations. Nigeria therefore has a window of opportunity to fulfill our long – standing potential of pulling ourselves together and realizing our mission as a great nation. Our situation somehow reminds one of a passage in Shakespeare’s Julius Ceasar There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life, Is bound in shallows and miseries. We have an opportunity. Let us take it. Thank you. Muhammadu Buhari, President, Federal Republic of NIGERIA, and Commander-in-chief of the Armed forces May 29, 2015.

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R-L: Man of the momment, President Mohammadu Buhari; wife, his Deputy Yemi Osinbajo, wife with Senate President, David Mark and (Second row) for heads of State

(R-L) Former President Goodluck Jonathan, President Muhammadu Buhari, and First Lady in a banter at the Innauguration.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo taking Oath of Office

(L-R) Sambo, Speaker, Emeka Ihedioha and CJN Mahmud Mohammed

Former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in a handshake with President Muhammadu Buhari

(R-L) Former Vice President Namadi Sambo, Jonathan, President Buhari and wife

Vice President Osinbajo after taking Oath of Office

Sambo, Ihedioha and Mohammed during the singing of the National Anthem

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President Mohammadu Buhari in handshake with serice chiefs

The nigerian Army in a match parade

The Nigerian Navy in a match parade

President Mohammadu Buhari being ushered in to the Eagle Square, Abuja

President Buhari (m) with wife (l) and Speaker Emeka Ihedioha Cross Section of visitors at the Buhariâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Innauguration

The Nigerian police in march parade

Former heads of state, Shehu Shagari, Ibrahim Babangida, Abdulsalam Abubakar, Ernest Shonekan and chief Olusegun obasanjo aty the venue of the innauguration.

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Jonathan’s unsavoury parting gift Lekan Adejuwon

vents of the past few weeks appear to have put Nigeria on the global scene for the wrong reason again as millions of Nigerian citizens encountered perhaps, the worst energy crisis in the history of Africa’s most populous country. This is coming at a time when the terminal date of the tenure of the now former president, Goodluck Jonathan, was about to end. Many hapless but concerned stakeholders watch with disbelief, the gradual process where, virtually all indices of human existence were practically knocked down irredeemably while a government in power preferred to look the other way. For a country transiting from one regime to the other in a civilian democracy, it becomes somewhat an irony that the sitting government has taken a flight from the seat of power, leaving majority of the hapless citizens to wallow in what Thomas Hobbes once described as the “state of nature where life was brutish, nasty and poor.” The question on the lips of many critical minds is: How does one explain the rationale behind a leading oil producing nation becoming a major importer of the same product? This began with a strike embarked upon by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, arms of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, and National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, which shut down fuel supplies leading to the current nationwide scarcity of petroleum product even as over 75 per cent of retail outlets have no products to dispense and a litre of petrol sold for between N200 and N600 naira! In addition, household kerosene and liquefied natural gas have also become elusive and to worsen the nation’s woes, power generation dropped at all-time low of 1,200 megawatts from a 4, 517mega watts peak two years ago. This means that the plants could not generate power due to lack of gas as so many Nigerians spent the last two weekends without public power supply in addition to being unable to power their generators. The situation in Lagos was more worrisome considering its population and relevance as the nation’s commercial and industrial hub. Already, mobile phone operators like MTN and Airtel with millions of active Nigerian subscribers, have warned that their network faces shut down due to the acute fuel shortage. MTN particularly stated in its Twitter account that it needed a significant quantity of diesel in the very near future to prevent a shutdown of services across Nigeria. Even, religious places of worship are not left behind as the churches witnessed the worst low turn-out of devotees in recent times, especially, last Sunday. Apart from innocent Nigerians whose means of livelihood had been jeopardised as a result of the worsening energy crisis, other key businesses affected include: airlines, media, bakeries, hotels and scores of small businesses in Lagos which had been forced to close shop. Also, some radio stations based in Lagos, last Sunday, announced they would be going off air to ration fuel that powers their generators. Many observers said the situation could threaten the nation’s economy which depends largely on importation of petrol and diesel to function on a daily basis. Of course, many believe that it does not require the service of a soothsayer to conclude that Nigeria was on

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a lock down. It would be recalled that oil marketers, under the aegis of Major Oil Marketers of Nigeria, MOMAN, have continued to stick to their guns by refusing to bring in any fresh consignment of petroleum against the alleged N200bn the federal government owe them as fuel subsidy from previous imports. A denial by the country’s Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala did not help the matter as both have been trading figures that seem to confirm the fears of those who had earlier suggested massive fraud in the purported subsidy regime. However, one of the biggest players in the oil industry in Nigeria and chairman of Capital Oil and Gas Limited, Ifeanyi Uba, on Monday, in a dramatic move, defied the oil marketers strike by opening its depot and commenced the distribution of petrol to various parts of the country to end the current scarcity which had grounded economic activities in the country Speaking to journalists during the week, Uba said his company would not be part of the sabotage against Nigeria saying the suspension of loading by marketers had resulted in immense hardship for Nigerians. In a statement, Uba said: “Capital Oil has watched with so much pain, the suffering and hardship our citizens have been subjected to as a result of scarcity of petrol, diesel, aviation fuel and household kerosene. “We are deeply pained to hear that hospitals cannot perform surgeries, laboratories are unable to carry out much needed tests especially on emergency patients, leaving such patients at risk of dying even as key facilities nationwide are experiencing blackouts”. He said that in a few days, a new government headed by Muhammadu Buhari would be inaugurated adding that apart from Nigerians being unable to watch the handover ceremony on television, many would-be attendees may not be able to make the trip to the historic occasion as a result of the current fuel scarcity. “We are constrained at this point and have decided that two wrongs cannot make a right. “We will not be part of this sabotage against our fa-

therland; therefore from this minute, we shall take the risk of opening our facilities and commence loading and distribution of products nationwide.” The Capital Oil boss then assured that his company would distribute 13 million litres of about 400 tankers from last Monday. Meanwhile it took the intervention of the Nigerian Senate and stakeholders in the petroleum industry to change the tide. At the public hearing held at the National Assembly last Monday, it was resolved that members should commence immediate distribution of fuel across the country. But this is not after what many have described as “incalculable damage” had been done to the nation’s economy and the psyche of her citizens in the past two weeks. With such frustration setting in, it has become increasingly difficult to absolve the out gone PDP-led federal government for allowing the lingering energy crisis to degenerate to the level of national embarrassment eleventh hour to its exit. Concerns have been raised on the propriety of leaving a country in chaos to a new government at a time when the resilience of Nigerian people appeared to have reached an intolerable limit as a result of 16 years subsidy regime which had largely succeeded in enriching a few individuals to the detriment of the greater population. Explaining the danger of handing over power to Buhari in the current state, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, the acclaimed Africa’s richest man, who was said to have lost billions of Naira daily while the crises lasted, reportedly told President Jonathan at a meeting with him last weekend that the president should not leave a country in crisis to his successor. The business mogul said, “I reminded him that he had won praise at home and abroad for putting the country first by conceding defeat after the elections but could squander all the goodwill if he failed to do anything to reverse this unprecedented energy crisis. “Even a good CEO strives to hand over the company in a better shape and not a worse shape to his successor.”

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‘Don’t single me out for probe’

—President Goodluck Jonathan at the valedictory session

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ome people are even calling for the probe of this government. I agree that in Nigeria, there are a number of things that we will probe; very many things.

“Even debts owed by states and this nation from 1960 up to this time. They are saying it is Jonathan’s administration that is owing all the debts. “I believe that anybody calling for probe must ensure that these probes are extended beyond the Jonathan administration, otherwise to me, it will be a witch-hunt. If you are very sincere, then it is not just Jonathan’s administration that should be probed. “A number of things have gone wrong and we have done our best to fix them. The Attorney General is aware of the massive judgement debts, if we aggregate all of them, it is about $1bn. How did we come to this kind of huge judgement debts? These issues should be probed. “How do you allocate our oil wells, oil fields, marginal wells and others? Do we follow our laws? All these should be probed. I believe all these and many more areas should be looked at.”

‘Frosty relationship between executive and legislature, unnecessary distraction’

—Aminu Tambuwal, Speaker, House of Representatives of 7th Assembly

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must say that the frosty relationship between the executive and the seventh House was an unnecessary distraction and a source of embarrassment to the nation. “It was unwarranted that a ruling party with clear majority boxed itself into that situation. “If the executive fails to recognise the independence of the legislature and expects that it is its rubber stamp, then a frosty relationship is bound to follow. “I would strongly urge the incoming executive arm and indeed the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to avert this unwholesome situation.” “A legislature truly playing its checks and balances role would normally experience friction with the other arms of government and other interest groups who have broken the

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‘PDP cabal held Jonathan hostage for six years’

—Sam Ogbemudia former governor of old Bendel State

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DP is made up of responsible people in the country, but these responsible people are people who do not welcome any type of challenge, argument or interference. So, once they took their decision, they didn’t want anyone else to know what led to that decision and nobody should challenge them. Because of that they held the president hostage all these years. “Some of his advisers, before they met with Jonathan for certain issues, first met to decide what they were going to tell him, who would speak, who would oppose, while the rest would support it and majority would carry the vote. They would plan it that way before meeting the President. So, Jonathan would have no option than to go ahead and they succeeded in a number of cases and that led to what we have today. “When the PDP won the first election,

it was overwhelming. As a result, they mismanaged their victory and having mismanaged the victory the outcome is defeat. So if they want to win elections in future against a determined party like the APC, they must work twice as hard like they have done in the past. PDP did not put its home in order. Most APC members today were formerly in PDP.”

‘My government ‘ll not repeat mistakes of past leaders’

“I

am prepared to work with any leaders that the House or Senate selects. “It doesn’t matter who the person is or where he or she is from.” “There is due process for the selection of leaders of the National Assembly… and I will not interfere in that process.” “The media and the public should begin to get used to no more ‘business as usual.’ “Nigeria has indeed entered a new dispensation. My administration does not intend to repeat the same mistakes made by previous governments,”

law or desire to break the law in the course of time.”

—President Goodluck Jonathan declares at grand reception held for him on Thursday

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Talking

—President Muhammadu Buhari

‘I’ve no regret losing to Buhari’ or me, whatever happened in the election, I have accepted in good faith. Even though, some have argued that those I entrusted with my campaign disappointed me, I have no regrets for losing because, in any political processes, there are all kinds of stories and conspiracies. “We are a very religious society; whether Christians or Muslims or some other religions, I believe it is the will of God that

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the election went the way it did. I have always maintained that for the ordinary Nigerian, what is important is the style of governance, not who is even the president. “Anybody can be the President any day. If the country is peaceful and economic activities are going on smoothly; our children are going to school, hospitals are okay and they can eat what they want to eat, then, of course people will be happy.”

‘I received contract from Federal Government, not Jonathan’

— Dr Frederick Fasheun, founder of Oodua Peoples’ Congress, OPC

“I

did not receive any contract from Jonathan; I received the contract from the Federal Government of Nigeria, and we are Nigerians, “We are qualified to enjoy contract from our government, and when you remember that those who are on the line now, working for the Federal Government system, are Nigerians – thousands of them who have their families, fathers, mothers, uncles, children, wives — you will see that those four thousand on the line are not the only ones enjoying all the ripple effects of the contract. “So, anybody that is complaining against that contract is doing Nigerians a disservice. He is denying some Nigerian

people their human rights; he is virtually disenfranchising Nigerians. So, we are qualified, we have no apologies to make”.

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Indiscipline: Virus checkmating our nation’s growth

Despite an array of ingenious programmes initiated by successive governments to curb the tendency of Nigerians to ‘misbehave,’ many of our compatriots continue to see indiscipline in its various forms as appropriate or as evidence of ‘smartness,’ JULIET UMEH writes.

t was a rancorous argument, which soon snowballed into name-calling and near fisticuffs, between Joy Williams and other passengers in the bus she boarded that fateful Friday evening. The hateful words hurled at Williams by her co-passengers was to express their displeasure towards her for taking exemption to the driver of the bus they were riding using a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) lane, which is exclusively earmarked for mass transit buses. All passengers on board saw nothing wrong in the driver cruising on the syndicated lane. After all, there was a terrible traffic jam on the expressway. According to Williams, some of the copassenger accused her of behaving like a saint, while others wondered if she wasn’t

a ‘Nigerian,’ practically insinuating that disregard for laws was natural for Nigerians. Says Williams, “I was a lonely voice simply because I reminded the driver he was wrong to use the lane meant for BRT buses. As far as the other passengers were concerned, I was a queer person and mustn’t be listened to. To them, after a hard day’s work, what matters most was getting back home to cool off. And if the laws made to achieve orderliness are disregarded to achieve this, it didn’t really matter.” “Taking the BRT lane only means the bus would get to its final destination faster. Of course, the faces of the passengers were beaming with joy and smiles. There was no stress of having to stay too long in CONTINUED ON PAGE 18

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the traffic. When we eventually got to our destination, one of the passengers said to me, “Madam, are you not happy that we got here fast?” I told her, “Of course, I’m happy, but that still doesn’t justify the driver’s act of indiscipline.” She looked at me as if I was from another planet. The whole drama practically underscores why indiscipline is growing wild and its opposite, discipline, is gradually losing its meaning in Nigeria. Our compatriots revel in various forms of social misdeeds and freely adopt wrong cultures and norms that would make a typical sociologist to propound grandiose theories to explain why “the socialisation process of Nigerians is warped.” Many Nigerians however pay heavily for their undisciplined one way or the other. Only last week, a crowd of sympathizers gathered at the popular Ikeja Bus Stop in Lagos, sorrowfully watching the corpse of a young girl of around the age of 25 years lying in the pool of her blood after she was hit by a speeding vehicle while attempting to cross the expressway. Most of the sympathisers were of the opinion that hers was an avoidable death if she had used the pedestrian bridge provided by the government. Unfortunately, she did not; hence she paid with her life for her lawlessness Nigerians continue to manifest these inelegant traits even in foreign lands. Just next door in Ghana, an absurd drama played out in a taxi. According to Emeka Uzoh who witnessed the drama, “The taxi driver screeched to a halt when he noticed that a banana peel was dropped on the road through the window of his cab. He mumbled some few words, went down and picked the banana peel and started off his car. We asked him what the problem was. His response was, “I don’t know why anybody would throw banana peel out of the window. I’m sure you guys are Nigerians.” My friend, who incidentally was the culprit, was left red-faced as he apologised profusely.” For some people, indiscipline is a show of smartness or a display of ‘macho.’ So pervasive are wrongful acts in contemporary Nigeria that one may be justified in describing it as the virus checkmating the nation’s moves on the ladder of progress or the evil stunting its growth. Its ignoble presence is felt in homes, schools, in public service, in the private sector, in government and, on our road, in the air and even in sacred places churches and mosques. A civil servant, Adebayo Akin, admitted indiscipline has become a norm in Nigeria. “We have a culture of indiscipline in our private and public lives. Indiscipline means unwillingness to obey rules or lack of discipline. In specific terms, the culture of indiscipline is seen in various forms and it includes: disobeying rules and procedures: We are known as a people who regularly disobey rules because indiscipline does not allow us appreciate and respect the

Personnel of law enforcement agencies and members of the armed forces are certainly not above the law. All the people you see driving recklessly and against traffic just because they are in uniforms are liable if the matter is prosecuted importance of a rule or instruction. “We seem to want to be forced before we accept the need to initiate and maintain a queue. Our cultural instinct is to ignore the people in front of us and go curry or induce their favour to get what we want at the quickest possible time, or even bully our way to the front,” he noted. It has been discovered that Nigerians have a strong penchant for breaking the law or achieving their aim through morally reprehensible methods: Mr. Chuka Mbanefo, an environmentalist expatiated on this: “We regularly break our traffic laws – run the red traffic lights, ignore one way traffic rule, park at no parking zones, exceed speeding limit, drive cars without seat belts on (and when we use seat belts, it is because of the fear of getting caught and paying a fine), drive under the influence of drinks and/or drugs. “We regularly break our environment laws – urinate (and even excrete) anywhere we feel like and sometimes in

places with a sign that clearly advices against this act. We dispose our refuse in drains or anywhere that is convenient for us without thinking whether it is right. We litter the streets and refuse the discipline of holding our litter till we find a bin. Since the advent of sachet or bottled water, it is now common to see Nigerian dispose the sachet or bottle in the streets, drains and even those driving would throw it out on the highways. This is fast becoming an environmental disaster and most of these sachets take a few years to degrade. When most Nigerians obey the law, it is because of the fear of getting caught or a law enforcement officer is around. We don’t have a culture of obedience to laws because it is the right thing to do,” he lamented. Nigeria, according to lawyers and judicial officers, has good laws that are capable of producing a sane society, but implementation of these laws seems to be the problem. Basil Ude Ikpenwa, a

Government has a huge role to play. Much of the money that is spent lavishly should be redirected to the economy to set up

viable industries and provide more jobs. We have not seen anything yet. If nothing is

done in this direction in the next few years, indiscipline will aggravate

Lagos based legal practitioner, said the implementation of laws legitimately passed by the parliament is the responsibility of the executive arm of government. “In Nigeria, all the laws against over-speeding, beating traffic lights, driving against traffic (traffic offences), dropping refuse through the window of a moving vehicle (environmental offence), using BRT lanes, avoiding pedestrian bridges, cheating in examinations and many more abound in our statute books. But these laws are not well executed despite the fact that the courts are ready and prepared to try offenders? You may lay this blame on the threshold of the inefficiency of the police and other law enforcement agencies or lack of political will of government. When a government is corrupt from the top, in a culture of impunity and ‘might is right,’ the will to enforce laws will definitely be lacking. “In some instances, law enforcement agencies are also seen breaking the laws, are they above the law. Personnel of law enforcement agencies and members of the armed forces are certainly not above the law. All the people you see driving recklessly, and against the traffic, because they are in uniforms, are both criminally and civilly liable if the matter is prosecuted. I believe there should be a conscious effort by the government to assert that not even the law enforcement officers should break the law and the political will should be there to enforce the laws,” Ikpenwa declared. According to David Manya Dogo, director, Orientation and Peace Education of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), however, government is doing a lot to encourage discipline in Nigeria because the overall goal for setting up the National Orientation Agency is to address the issue of indiscipline in Nigeria. He says, “The agency has come up with different CONTINUED ON PAGE 19

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 18 programmes to inculcate the culture of discipline in Nigerians, such as ‘Do the Right Thing, Transform Nigeria.’ What we are simply saying in that campaign is that if you and I simply do the right thing, this country is going to make progress. It’s like the WAI, which was set up in the days of the military. What the agency did was to rechristen the programme. Instead of War Against Indiscipline (WAI), we call it Community Support Brigade and the idea there is that we are trying to change the operational strategies of WAI. During the military, the approach was a bit coercive, but now we adopted the persuasive approach and so we changed the name from WAI to Community Support Bridgade. We also have another programme which we call ‘Patriotism and Ethics First.’ The programme is to inculcate the universal principles and we have been doing this programme for different segments of Nigerian society like the military, paramilitary, media, health workers and others. “In a nutshell, we are trying to change the orientation of the people. But in addition to that, you know the agency does not have the power to enforce. So we are talking to all the agencies of enforcement to ensure that whether you are big or small, if you commit an offence they should punish you according to the law so that it will serve as a deterrent to other people. But beyond that also, we try to encourage people who do things that are good. For example, some two years ago, a taxi driver who brought back millions of Naira left by a passenger in his car, was invited and given an award. Once such things happen and you let us know, we normally invite these people and we give them awards which we call ‘Citizen’s Responsibility Award.’ This is what is called reward system. If somebody does wrong, you punish him according to the law and if he does right, you encourage him by recognising the good that he has done to society,” he submitted. However, social critiques have said that governments are not doing enough to sensitise people unlike what was achieved during the military era. Dr Abubakar Kareem, sociology and political science lecturer at the University of Abuja, believes whatever government is doing has little or no impact on Nigerians. “Most of the things that government does are rhetoric. They don’t take the message to the people. They have not been able to mobilise different segments of Nigerian society, the different occupational groups. We have not seen them doing advocacy, carrying the campaigns to market places, to churches and mosques, village squares and so on and so forth.” Speaking in the same vein, Dr Ajala Alimi, social and rehabilitation psychologist, who is also a lecturer at the Lagos State University, believes that the NOA needs to spread their tentacles to the rural areas to develop these mass enlightenment programmes in native dialects that will be able to get across to Nigerians across all languages and cultures. “With that, we will be making impact, not just sitting down in Abuja, writing in jingles and the like in European languages. Most of the target audience resides in rural areas and that’s where we can begin to make a change,” he said. Alimi attributed the trend of

‘Our orientation needs to change’

When a government is corrupt from the top, in a culture of impunity and ‘might is right,’ the will to enforce laws will definitely be lacking indiscipline as witnessed today in our society to the value system which he said has gradually been eroded. “When you look at the traditional way of life, what we were taught in our various cultures is where discipline starts from. It is expected of parents to dish out instructions on the normal way to the children of the family. “Nowadays, people want to get to the top at whatever level whether by crocked means or whatever it takes. The get-rich quick syndrome is now in our blood and it has made everything so bad to the extent that right from the top, we see indiscipline in the lives of our leaders. What do we say of our politicians?” But Bola Odunaike, another sociologist

and lecturer in the Faculty of Social Science at the Lagos State University (LASU), insists that the society is not aware of any programme put in place by NOA. “The citizens of Nigeria are not even aware that some programmes have been put in place by NOA. Then, when we had WAI, it was total war, unlike Kick Against Indiscipline (KAI). KAI is like an advice. During WAI era, nobody would tell you that this is a pedestrian bridge because if you didn’t use it, there was instant punishment. Soldiers were also around to enforce discipline if you failed to queue up. So, it is different from a situation when you have a programme and people are not even aware of it.”

We need to start from family units, schools and Community Development Areas (CDAs). NOA must get to the grassroots, train some people who will now go to train others in schools and CDAs. The training can be for six months or one year and it could be made part of the curriculum in our schools

As a way out, Odunaike said government has a lot of work to do. “If they are ready to stand on their feet, they can minimise indiscipline. As a sociologist, we start from family units, schools and Community Development Areas (CDAs). NOA must get to the grassroots, train some people who will now go to train others in schools and CDAs. The training can be for six months or one year and it could be made a curriculum in our schools.” In the same vein, Dr Alimi said the corrective measures have to start from the family. “Let the family teach their wards the way of life that will improve the lot of man. By the time parents teach their children the right thing, they will grow up as normal adults. The government also has a responsibility. “Much of the money that is spent lavishly should be redirected to the economy to set up viable industries and provide more jobs. We have not seen anything yet, if nothing is done in the next few years, indiscipline will aggravate,” he said. Discipline involves self-abnegation, the denial of own interest in favour of the interest of others; self-esteem, respect for a favourable opinion of oneself; selfcontrol and self-discipline, ability to exercise restraint or control one’s feelings, emotions, reactions etc. These breed orderliness, improved behaviour, foster goodness of life and team spirit, instill respect for rights of others and recognition of the need for rules and regulation to ensure smooth and efficient running of the society. “Even though we live in an unbalanced world system, we can live balanced lives through self-discipline,” Cyril Amamize, a sociologist opined.

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Roads are actually melting in India’s heat wave!

• India’s killer heat wave is now so hot it causes the roads to MELT. Death toll soars above 1,100 and people are told to stay indoors as crisis continues

he death toll from India’s killer heat wave has topped 1,100 as people battle to contend with conditions so hot that roads are beginning to melt. Road surfaces in New Delhi have started melting as temperatures hit a blistering 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit) - and forecasters have warned it will get even hotter. Southern India has been hit hardest by the sweltering weather and many of the victims are construction workers, elderly or homeless people unable to heed official advice to stay indoors. In the worst-hit state of Andhra Pradesh, nearly 900 people have died since May 18 - double the total number of heat-related deaths last summer, authorities have said. In neighbouring Telangana, where temperatures have hit 48 degrees Celsius (118 degrees Fahrenheit), more than 200 people have died in the last week compared to 31 in the whole of last year. In New Delhi, forecasters said they expected the high temperatures to continue - adding to the misery of the thousands of poor living on the capital’s streets with little shelter from the hot sun. Residents of Gurgaon - a high-rise satellite city that is home to many of the capital’s workers - suffered power cuts of up to 10 hours a day as the electricity grid struggled to cope with the demand from millions of air conditioners. “Nothing is working - even after taking half a dozen baths a day, you can’t beat the heat,” 34-year-old shop owner, Manish Singh, said. “We try to spend more time indoors to avoid heatstroke. It’s worse than previous years -- we hardly get any electricity and the air conditioners become useless.” Weather officials said northwesterly dry and hot winds from the desert state of Rajasthan were responsible for the killer heat wave. India’s power industry has long struggled to meet rapidly rising demand in Asia’s third-largest economy, which is plagued by poorly maintained transmission lines and overloaded grids. The streets of Gurgaon were largely deserted on Wednesday, while the few people brave enough to venture outdoors covered their heads to protect them from the strong sun. Sugarcane juice stalls were doing a brisk trade as construction workers and rickshaw pullers desperately tried to quench their thirst. Elsewhere, volunteers were giving out cold drinks to motorists stuck in traffic. Brahma Prakash Yadav, director of the Indian Meteorological Department, said top temperatures in the capital would remain around 45 degrees Celsius - the national benchmark for a heat wave. “Maximum temperatures won’t fall substantially. However, major relief can be expected from June 2 as there are indications of good showers,” he said.

Searing temperatures of up to 45 degrees Celcius have seen road surfaces start to melt in New Delhi, distorting the road markings

Hospitals in the worst-affected states were on alert to treat victims of heatstroke and authorities advised people to stay indoors and drink plenty of water. Hundreds of people - mainly from the poorest sections of society - die at the height of summer every year across India, while tens of thousands suffer power cuts from an overburdened electricity grid. Eleven people were confirmed to have died in the eastern state of Orissa and another 13 succumbed to the heat in neighbouring West Bengal, where unions urged drivers to stay off the roads during the day. One person was killed in the western state of Maharashtra, where authorities said they did not expect conditions to improve until the arrival of monsoon rains in June. The Hindustan Times warned that some of the hot, dry conditions could plunge the worst-affected states into

drought before monsoon rains arrive. The monsoon is forecast to hit the southern state of Kerala towards the end of this month before sweeping across the country, but it will be weeks before the rains reach the arid northern plains. Holiday leave has been cancelled for all doctors as deaths from heatstroke have soared, and there has also been a spike diarrhea cases due to people swimming in dirty water to cool off. At a temple in Jaipur, macaque monkeys have been pictured swimming in a sacred pool to cool down - and have even been accepting water from tourists. Hyderabad street vendor, P. Gangamma, said the heat was making her head pound, but she had no choice but to stay outside. “For the past three days, hot wind has been coming in,” said the 65-year-old, who sells cigarettes on a busy intersection. I am

Road surfaces in New Delhi have started melting as temperatures hit a blistering 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit) - and forecasters have warned it will get even hotter

a diabetes patient, but I have no husband and no sons, so I have to stay here and keep shop.” Delhi street food vendor, Hari Om, said business was slow, with few people venturing out in the furnace-like conditions. “All the food is getting spoilt even though I prepared it fresh in the morning. It’s bad business, but what to do? People are not coming out and they don’t feel like eating. All they want is to sip cold water all day.” Meanwhile in Kolkata, in the country’s east, taxi drivers refused to drive between 10am and 4pm after two of their colleagues died of suspected heat stroke. The streets of Hyderabad, where temperatures have approached 50C, have been all but abandoned after local government put out TV adverts advising people against venturing out. “The state government has taken up education programmes through television and other media to tell people not to venture into the outside without a cap, to drink water and other measures,” said P. Tulsi Rani, special commissioner for disaster management in the state. “We have also requested NGOs and government organisations to open up drinking water camps so that water will be readily available for all the people in the towns.”

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I don’t like to brag about my achievements —Muyiwa Majekodunmi

in Joel and it’s also repeated in the Acts of Apostles that ‘In the last days, I’ll pour My spirit on all flesh.’ And the purpose of God pouring His spirit unto all flesh is so that they could minister unto one another. And at Praiseville, there’s no difference between the pulpit and the pew. The pulpit is the pew and vice versa.

Muyiwa Majekodunmi became a celebrity by virtue of being the proprietor of Jazzville, a club where every notable Nigerian musician, including the legendary Fela AnikulapoKuti, had to perform. Popularly known as Majek, he made more news when he closed down Jazzville. He further made news with Jazzville’s conversion to Praiseville. OSEYIZA OOGBODO met him and he explained why. Jazzville was a very popular joint. Do you regret closing it? No. Never. Absolutely not. In fact, I wish I had done it earlier. Actually, it closed when it should, that’s all. In the aftermath, the wilderness period, you’ll grumble, that is natural, and ask, ‘Did You ask me to close down Jazzville?’ And the reply was ‘Yeah.’ I have no regrets. You’re saying God told you to close it? Yes. I don’t think all that was really me per se. I just think that at some point in time, you’ll ask yourself where are you coming from, where are you now and where do you want to go? Is this what you want to do for the rest of your life? It came with dissatisfaction about the late nights and that it was all vanity. I lost interest in the late nights, the booze, the boobs. I just grew older and became more spiritually aware. And even in all that chronic madness and negative lifestyle, God was calling me. There was a call upon my life to get out of the mess. How did you get the call? It was delivered to me by God. How? There are some things you cannot explain. There’s no way you can explain spiritual matters carnally. It’s like there’s something telling you that if you’re going down this road, it’s a one-way road to perdition and destruction, come back. I heard a voice telling me it was time to give it up and I did. What impact did Jazzville have on your life? I believe you should ask what impact it made on people’s lives. For a lot of people, it was the place to be themselves. For many, it was the place to hang out and meet guys of like creative minds. It was a place that was totally unpretentious. It was me, it was my alter ego. I hated unnecessary formalities. You know Nigeria is a place that if something is easy, they make it hard. If it’s hard, make it harder. If it’s harder, make it difficult. If it’s difficult, make it impossible.

That’s Nigeria for you. And my own way is if something is hard, make it easy. Life is already hard enough, why contribute to it? If you can make a difference in somebody’s life, make somebody happy, why not do it? The Bible says, ‘Do not withhold doing good from anybody.’ If you can do your good today, do it, don’t tell the person come back tomorrow. At times, Nigerians are so hypocritical and I just hated the whole setup and for me, it was … look, at Jazzville, I was clearing tables, serving drinks, emptying ashtrays. It wasn’t about me but making people happy. How did people take the closure? Most of them were not happy. They couldn’t believe it. How did your wife take it? She was happy, very happy. Did you use to smoke and womanise when you were operating Jazzville? Let me say this very carefully. There is an unholy trinity in this business called entertainment. It’s booze, boobs and blues. Or wine, women and weed. It comes with the territory. You can’t avoid it. If you’re in the music business, you’ll fornicate, you’ll smokate and you’ll drinkate. I don’t know why. But it’s just that way. So you partook of those things too? Whether I like it or not, I did. It was good while it lasted, you know, but there comes a

point in your life when you just say what’s all these, what are you getting from all these, nothing, and you give it all up. Some people say you are an SS by genotype, yet you were partying hard? No. I’m not SS. I’m AS. I’m AS. If I were SS and I was smoking and drinking, that would mean I actually wanted to commit suicide. After Jazzville, it took you some time to start Praiseville. Why? Were you thinking of what to do? Was I thinking? I was in a wilderness, I’m still in it, I’m not completely out of it. The most important thing is to obey that voice first. I obeyed that voice and went into a period of depression and withdrawal. I withdrew from everybody and everything. For years, I wasn’t involved in music, parties, events and didn’t want to do anything with music. Then Praiseville started by divine order in July 2005. It started not because I desired it. It was just divine order. And just like Jazzville, it’s the same ambience, same atmosphere, same informality, but this time, it’s dedicated to a higher purpose. And we encourage it to be a platform for creative expression in terms of what God has put inside one, in spirit and in truth. And like Jazzville, it’s unplanned, unprogrammed, unstructured, very informal and anybody who’s anybody that comes in can sing and lead in praise and worship and share a word. The Bible says

Do you feel that both Jazzville and Praiseville have contributed to the music industry’s growth? You should answer that question, not me, I don’t know. I don’t like to brag, but virtually everybody and anybody who is anybody in the music industry today, the old brigade started off … not just music, but in terms of comedians and MCs, they had their baptism of fire here. Jazzville gave them an opportunity to hone in their talent, develop their repertoire, fan base and clientele. I believe we contributed a lot, although most people will not admit it, because once they go, they never come back. I’ve never gotten a thank you from anybody and I don’t mind. Maybe they believe we haven’t contributed to their lives, but I leave it to God, I leave it to posterity to determine what impact Jazzville has made on people’s lives. It’s left to them, not me. I’m just doing what God has asked me to do. God has given me a particular challenge, a particular anointing. I don’t have anointing to sing or to play music instruments but the anointing I have is to bring a crop of people together and anoint them and make a team out of them. So what have Praiseville and Jazzville actually done for you, considering that they have contributed greatly to the careers of many musicians and other entertainers? Well, I’ve gotten a sense of fulfillment. Fulfillment not in terms of finance, believe me. Money? No. The fulfillment comes from the satisfaction of people being here, seeing the joy in their faces, seeing them express what God has put inside them. Can you imagine having so much and having nowhere to express it? God has given you a talent to sing or share the Word and you cannot do it in church because it’s a one-man thing we have there, I’m the founder, I’m the head. No, it’s not about you. What is fellowship? Fellowship is when we all come together and we can help each other edify ourselves. So many people on the pulpit should be in the pews and those in the pews should be in the pulpit. And here at Praiseville, we make the pulpit and pew one. Yeah, I say it and I act it. Believe you me, sometimes it gets so whoa! If you’re a typical church person, you’ll hate Praiseville, I’m telling you.

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Project Fame winner, Geoffrey, drops Bursting My Brain video

he 960 Music Group, the music agency brand partner to Project Fame West Africa, has presented the music video for Project Fame Season 7 winner, Geoffrey Oji’s debut single, Bursting My Brain. In the captivating video directed by Mr. Miagy, Geoffrey is infatuated with his best friend, but she’s oblivious to his advances, and instead friend-zones him and asks him to help pick an outfit for her date with another man. After a disastrous date, she realizes Geoffrey is the best man for her. The video features celebrity dancer, Ezinne of the CEO Dancers, along with Precious, Creamy and Ada. Bursting My Brain is the first single off the Best of MTN Project Fame Season 7 CD compilation, and Geoffrey’s soon to be released 6-song EP which has production credits from Password (winner of MTN SongStar competition), Masterkraft, Rundatraxx, Wilson Joel and a feature from Project Fame Season 3 winner, Chidinma Ekile.

Mark Redguard, CEO, 960 Music Group stated that since Geoffrey’s Project Fame win, they’ve been filming a mobile reality series on the journey and making of the Geoffrey music brand in studio creative recording sessions, street and club promotions, behind the scenes pre-production and filming of his music videos, and Geoffrey’s stage performances. In the past few months, thousands of music lovers have come to respect and love Geoffrey’s singing talent, signified when he performed at the Lagos Jazz Festival, Star Trek, Beat FM and Rainbow FM NYSC concerts; as well as through glowing interviews in both Tush and MyStreetz magazines. Look out for Geoffrey as well as a lead in the Accelerate TV show, Indigo, in which an advertising executive, Myra Goodman, decides to put a boy band together (Indigo), and draws the ire of her vindictive music executive ex-boyfriend, Desmond Okoye, who will stop at nothing to hijack the project.

JJC, Big Brovas star at Afrobeats Live tomorrow T aking place tomorrow at The Jazz Cafe in London, Afrobeats Live will play host not only to ten of the UK’s finest emerging artists, but will also bring to the stage one of the biggest pioneers of the afrobeats movement in the UK, JJC Skillz, who has announced that one of his special guests joining him on stage at the Jazz Cafe will be R&B pop group, Big Brovas. Afrobeats Live is a quarterly live music event, the most notable and first UK platform that shines the spotlight on the growing indigenous afrobeats musicians. Hosted by popular Capital Xtra radio presenter Abrantee, he will be introducing some of the UK’s rising stars to the stage including Tyroon Da Prince, SK, Temple, Debrah Rose, Matto, Double Bangs, Mikes Comedy, Selec-

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eptune Entertainment and Twenty20 Media present Let’s Party Naija Mix Volume 12 hosted by the international celebrity disc jockey, DJ Neptune. The Let’s Party Naija mixtape is a combination of the hottest tracks out at the moment, perfectly selected and mixed by the ever blazing DJ Neptune for your listening pleasure. Aside the release of the new mixtape, Neptune has started the first leg of his DJ Neptune Live In Your City Tour in the United States of America. He performed live in California on May 22nd and Washington DC on May 24th. Chicago is next on June 6th, Houston on June 12th and 13th, New Jersey on June 20th and Dallas on June 27th with more cities to be announced.

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EFA too writes letter to Buhari

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ust like movie producer, on-air personality and columnist, Chris Ihidero, did recently, music artist, EFA, too has written a letter to Nigeria’s latest President, General Muhammadu Buhari. Following his memorable performance at last week’s Industry Nite, Now Muzik rapper EFA launched his website during the week with a visual, Letter To The President. The clip is part of a new series by the rapper tagged ‘60 Seconds’ in which he tackles a variety of issues with clever and hard hitting rhymes in each episode. The first of the series is Letter To The President in which he poses tough questions, that are on the minds of many Nigerians, to Buhari. The video was shot on location in Lagos by Director Frames, a Lagos-based director.

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ne music artist that has been trending a fair lot recently for both right and wrong reasons is Dr SID. Be it for the birth of his first child, mass criticism of his latest single, Chop Ogbono Remix, or others, he has been trending, and he’s trending again negatively. According to a report making the rounds about him gradually, he has been blacklisted by one of the nation’s top entertainment promoters, Nigerian Breweries, which organizes a lot of shows that give musicians the opportunity to showcase themselves and also pays them well for it. Right now, one of NB’s annual shows, Star Trek, is going on, and the report has it that SID in not on it because he did not keep to some contractual agreements while on the Trek last year so NB has decided to ban him from all its events. Artists on this year’s Trek are 2face Idibia, Davido, Wizkid, MI, Seyi Shay, Timaya, Wande Coal, Burna Boy, Naeto C, Mr. Raw, Yemi Alade, Oritsefemi, Faze, Runtown, Cynthia Morgan, Banky W, Sean Tizzle, Pasuma, Sound Sultan and Black Magic.

Samsong, Emmy Grace to headline ABUAD concert today

ospel musicians Samsong and Emmy Grace are set to headline the 2015 edition of the ABUAD Chapel Choir event tagged ‘When The Praise Go Up’ today at the prestigious Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD). Samsong, who can be said to have a sort of low profile nowadays, seems o spring out from nowhere to be an headliner at this concert which will definitely liven up ABUAD. Also, multi-talented Emmy Grace, from Port Harcourt, who recently released a new single, God Is Able, said he will give more than his best at the concert in order to win more souls for God. He also disclosed that he will soon release another new song, Tamuno Boma, a Niger Delta praise tune that will keep listeners and worshipers on their feet with praise to God, and that it will also be off his upcoming album, Highly Favoured.

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Artist: Davido Intro Mr Cheeto on the beat eh Davido Chorus (4x) Ekuro la labaku ewa Bo’jo n ro B’orun ran Verse 1 When I look into your eyes You’re a blessing in disguise Eh, you make me wanna do the ring-around the roses And I love the way you smile While I give it to you nice I hold your hands And everybody wants to hold you When I am with you You give me these sorts of feeling in my heart When I see you You give me these thoughts of tingle in my heart When I am with you You give me these sorts of single in my heart When I see you You give me these thoughts of tingle in my soul Chorus (2x) Ekuro la labaku ewa Bo’jo n ro B’orun ran Bridge (4x) Iwo sa ni te mi oh Esu oni le ya wa Iwo sa ni te mi oh

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hen you least expect, Dencia, who is well known as a cosmetics entrepreneur, comes up with a music effort that gets talked about because her personality is one that just can’t be ignored. And so, her latest music video, African Energy, is getting talked about and has music lovers divided in their opinion of it. While song commented that she doesn’t have the voice to sing and that she’s trying to copy the superstar, Rihanna, others praised her effort, saying it was nice and a good try.

Verse 2 (2x) When I need to love It’s you that I am loving When I need a hug It’s you that I am hugging When I need a kiss It’s your lips that I am kissing When I need to breathe It’s your air that I am breathing Chorus (2x) Ekuro la labaku ewa Bo’jo n ro B’orun ran Bridge (4x) Iwo sa ni te mi oh Esu oni le ya wa Iwo sa ni te mi oh

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Ebenezer Obey gives back to his roots May 30, 2015

n case you didn’t know this, the coming of Evangelist Obey Fabiyi into this world wasn’t an easy one. In fact, it’s the classical case of any child coming to the world to excel will have a very hard time getting into the world. His mother, Abigail Oyindamola Fabiyi, went through tough and rough times. She was barren for about two decades as a married woman. She went everywhere and did everything in search of children but she was unlucky. Eventually, she was evicted from her matrimonial home by the counsel of members of her former husband’s family. This devastated for a long time until she was advised to go to Idogo village away from the face of agony and despair. Incidentally, it was around the time Nathaniel Olasewo Fabiyi moved from Abeokuta to Idogo in order to practice his carpentry alongside with cocoa farming. On the ticket of fate, she met Nathaniel and got married to him. Not too long after, she got pregnant for the first time in over two decades as a wife. However, the bundle of joy lived only three months and ushered in another season of sorrow. She did not lose hope. She took in again and had a baby girl who survived. She was named Grace Olasunbo Amoke (Keyede). Again, God turned her sorrow to joy and her mourning into dancing. She had a boy that was named Ebenezer Olasupo Remilekun Aremu Fabiyi. The name Ebenezer was taken from 1st Samuel 7 verse 12 in the Bible, and it literarily means ‘Rock of help’ and contextually means ‘This marks the place where God helped us.’ The name Remilekun given means ‘The Lord has put end to my cry’ or simply ‘The Lord has comforted me’ while Olasupo means ‘Affluence has clustered up for me’ or ‘Bundle of affluence’ and Aremu is a traditional panegyric name. Ebenezer began to exhibit his singing talent right from the moment he could truly express himself as a little lad in Idogo. He would sing in-between errands to cover the distance. He took fun in singing about his little observation on people, places, event and things. He would turn virtually everything into song, even his feelings. Really, the musical gift in Ebenezer got much expansion in the Church, thanks to his mum who enrolled him in the church choir. As a member of the choir, he had the opportunity to learn the practical ideals of music and singing. The practical and public singing all started in a small Methodist Church at Idogo. Today, the church of over hundred years where Ebenezer started his music career has been redesigned and reconstructed by him and dedicated by the Archbishop of Methodist Church, Most Reverend Luke Odubanjo. Hear him: “What we are witnessing today started sometimes in the year 2009 as we were preparing for the Idogo and Oja Odan crusades. I remember that my brother, Elder Olufemi Toriola, called me on phone that he will like to see me on a matter of urgent importance. We agreed on phone and he came to meet me in Abeokuta where he told me about the collapse of the roofing of the church. “I was deeply touched by the sad news and I asked myself how could we be holding crusades when our family church where we all grew up was in bad shape? I then told my brother that in a few days time, I would be at Idogo for the crusade and when I came, we all visited the church to evaluate the extent of the damage. It was after this visit that God started the work on the reconstruction of the old church structure to its present magnificent outlook. “But while this was going on, a wild storm happened here in Idogo which destroyed a lot of properties and the

Obey Methodist Primary School, my alma mater was also badly affected and ever since, the school children had to be moved out to the town hall as the classrooms and the school building were no longer habitable and conducive for learning, hence the reconstruction of the primary school.” Speaking further, he said, “I started my elementary school here in the Methodist School which was then a mission school owned by the Church. Everything about Ebenezer Obey started in this school and in the Methodist Church. The gift of music and drumming all began here at Idogo. The name Obey which has now become part of my surname was given to me in this school. I also remem-

ber that standards one and two classes were moved right into the church when I was in standard two. It was in this church and school that God prepared me for what I am today.” No doubt, his mother’s wish, which is on record that one of her foremost requests to Ebenezer Obey is that he should never abandon Idogo is gradually being fulfilled, as this is not the first project by him to be commissioned for the town. It would be recalled that the town hall of the community which was abandoned for over thirty-one years was also reconstructed and dedicated by the juju maestro.

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ighly rated movie awards, Nollywood and African Film Critics Awards (NAFCA), has listed Dr Isatou Njie-Saidy, Vice-President of Gambia, and Floyd Maywaether Snr, father of flamboyant boxer, Floyd Mayweather Jnr, among those who will receive its prestigious NAFCA honorary awards when NAFCA holds in September in America. According to NAFCA organizers, Njie-Saidy is being recognized for inspiring women in Africa through her numerous achievements. Citing Njie-Saidy, the organizers said, “As well as being Vice-President, Gambia, she’s also Secretary of State for Women’s Affairs. From September 1983 to December 1989, she was Deputy Executive Secretary of the Women’s Bureau, the executive decision-making body of the National Women’s Council. Later, under President Yahya Jammeh, she became Minister of Health, Social Welfare and Women’s Affairs in July 1996, and then Vice President and Secretary of State for Health, Social Welfare and Women’s Affairs on 20 March 1997. “She has spoken and written extensively about women’s issues in the Gambia. She obtained an MSc in Economics (Social and Economic Development) at the University of Swansea. She is the

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Cossy Orjiakor displays new talent A

ctress-singer-entrepreneur Cossy Orjiakor is known for her enormous bosom and her brazen showoff of it. Because it’s her major selliang point, and not many women can compete with her in that department, she flaunts it because she’s got it in excess, and the strategy is working for her. Her exhibition of it gets men’s hearts pounding, blood flowing and lusting for her. Many people feel that she uses it to attract the opposite sex and that’s her basic use for it. But as Cossy proved last weekend at the birthday party of one of her colleagues, Uche Ogbodo, her boobs also serve a glass holder for her. While at the party, she placed her wine glass in-between her boobs and it fitted there snugly, freeing her hands for other things. So now you know something else Cossy uses her boobs for.

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for his defensive ability and overall knowledge of boxing strategy. He is the father and trainer of five-division boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jnr. He is also credited for teaching his son the defensive skills that made him a champion. “He’s also known for his outspokenness. He frequently recites poetry about his opponent and still does today for his fighter’s opponent. Some refer to him as the ‘Poet Laureate of Boxing.’ “ In his acceptance letter the legendary boxer and boxing trainer wrote: “Your letter informing me that I will receive the prestigious Special NAFCA Lifetime Achievement Award in Entertainment has simply overwhelmed me. It is with deep gratitude that I accept the honour. I will be present at the award with some family members. I am very grateful for the honour and it is encouraging. I am also very appreciative of those who recommended me for this prestigious award, and for the time and effort you have put into this yearly event process. I will of course continue to do my very best and would also be willing to encourage others to get involved and help this award grow. Again, I am sincerely honored by this recognition and look forward to September.”

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s a civil engineer, what business do you have with faces and make-ups? I am a civil engineer and very proud to be one indeed. But you see, beauty and looking good is a business of every woman. No one cares about your field when you are first sighted. What attracts a man when he sees you first is your outward look, your appearance and general comportment, the way you carry yourself, the way you make your face up, dress and all. In fact, the face of a woman is the first point of call to a man and anyone who sees you at first. That is why women need to be extra careful the way they present their faces to people. This is why I am concerned about women’s faces. Your course or whatever you are passing through in life is no excuse for you to look ugly. Even if one studied Agricultural science, that shouldn’t be an excuse for you to appear shabby or undesirable to people around you. And if it appears you are the most burdened woman in the entire world, your looking terrible won’t be a solution. It can only worsen it. As for why I am into this business, I will say it has always been my delight to look good and make people look desirable.

Just where is the place of a woman’s brain where beauty is concerned? I love this question very well. Honestly, the smartness and sharpness of a woman’s brain has a lot to do with her good and desirable look. If one’s brain is dull and very bad, she will dress and make her face up terribly and she would not know. Even when she is being corrected, she feels bad. A brilliant lady is she who is smart and considerate when dressing herself up. She takes cognisance of her details which is her figure, facial make and all. She doesn’t just follow current fashion dogmatically. She is careful about what she wears, how she talks in public, she arranges her appearance carefully to get a good impression.

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What do you know about vitamins?

nce upon a time, the only source of vitamins was food. Now shelves are filled with all kinds of vitamin supplements, with choices ranging from pills and chewables, to gums and liquids. While the goal of taking vitamin supplements is to promote health, what you don’t know can have the opposite effect. You can take too much While most people know about requirement levels, below which you are at risk of being deficient, there is also an upper tolerable limit to consider. These recommendations are based on scientific studies, to show a range of safety and efficacy for individual vitamins. Taking high doses of individual vitamins changes how the body uses it, and can promote negative side effects impacting multiple body organs, as well as interfere with the absorption of other nutrients. Bottom Line: Stick with 100% of the RDI (recommended daily intake) for vitamins, unless you have a special medical need and have talked with your doctor. Is it OK to take vitamin supplements every day? Water soluble and fat soluble vitamins act differently in the body All vitamins are not the same. They have different chemical compositions that impact how the body digests and stores them. Water-soluble vitamins (B-vitamins, vitamin C) are not retained by the body over the long term. Any excess consumed in foods or supplements is eliminated in urine. While it’s never a good idea to take high doses of any vitamins, water soluble vitamins are less risky because they do not accumulate in the body. You’ll probably have only vitamin-rich urine to contend with. Fat-soluble vitamins, on the other hand, are retained by the body and stored in the liver. Over time, the amounts can accumulate, sometimes resulting in health damaging effects. Bottom Line: Be mindful of water and fat soluble vitamins and the doses you take. The best bet is a daily multi-vitamin. Talk to your doctor for dosing of additional fat soluble vitamins like Vitamins D and E. Everyone doesn’t need a daily multivitamin Recent studies do not support the use of a daily multivitamin supplement to ensure good health. But population data described in the studies do not always apply to an in-

dividual. Think of a daily multi-vitamin as “insurance” to meet dietary requirements if your daily eating does not include at least 5 servings of colorful fruits and vegetables along with several servings of whole grains. The healthiest eaters are likely meeting daily requirements and don’t need a supplement. If you’re somewhere in between (like most people), you might consider a multivitamin several times a week, rather than daily. And if you take certain medications or have food restrictions for any reason, talk to your doctor about the best plan for you. Bottom line: Vitamin requirements can change with age and dietary status, so be mindful of your overall health status when thinking about adding a multivitamin. Ask your doctor for advice, especially if you take prescription medications. Vitamin supplements don’t replace food Food is always the number one place to get your vitamins. And a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains covers the whole spectrum of vitamins. A healthy diet provides your nutritional needs, without adding a supplement. But nutritional support from a multivitamin can help round out nutritional requirements because of “real-life” eating issues such as dieting, meal skipping, eating processed foods, all of which can compromise your vitamin intake. If you’re not a healthy eater, and take a multivitamin daily, you also need to boost your intake of fruits and vegetables. Remember that an orange has much more real goodies than your Vitamin C supplement! Bottom line: Vitamins are called “supplements” because they support - but do not replace - real foods. Medications can change your vitamin requirements Vitamin needs are based on age, gender, and other factors. Medications can impact certain vitamin needs over time. Whether additional supplements are needed (or need to be limited) vary with medication class. Talk to your doctor for any adjustment in your diet and multivitamin intake. This is one instance where an individual vitamin supplement can be an important addition. Bottom line: Review your medications with your doctor to determine if you need more or less of any particular vitamin.

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he difference between appearing socially awkward or sharp and confident is often reduced to the fit of your clothing. Some of this is identifying the right tailor, but a lot of it comes down to you and the fitting room mirror. Picking the right fit is not some innate, instinctual ability, but is learned from paying attention to detail. This doesn’t really need saying, but clothes best flatter a body that is already in shape. If you want to look good, style will only take you so far. Eat and drink well. Exercise every once in a while. You don’t need a six-pack to look good, but if you’re in decent shape, wearing clothes become much easier. This works both ways - if you’re lanky and stick-like, start working out. It will help you fill out your clothes. Have someone take all of your measurements multiple times for accuracy. These are very useful numbers when shopping for clothing in-store, and are absolutely crucial when shopping online. This guide is a general guide for the novice. If you’re some style guru, you can look great in some crazy fits. If that’s the case, this guide is not for you. Dress shirts The collar should just graze your neck without constricting it. If turning your head causes the collar to turn with it, the collar is too tight. You should be able to comfortably fit only two fingers inside of your buttoned collar without it tightening against your skin. Your cuffs should meet the point where your palm begins (about 2cm up from your wrist bone). It should be tight enough that your thumb notch at your wrist will stop the cuff from moving up your hand. It should be a bit looser than a properly fitting watch, and not go farther up your wrist than that watch. The shoulder seam should be at your shoulder bone. This is the point on your shoulder that is the greatest distance away from your sternum. Sleeves should not be so tight that you can see the details of your arm, but it should also not be so loose as to billow. When you bend your arm, your cuff should not move more than an inch up your wrist. When you fold your hands behind your head, the shirt should not come out of the pants. If it does, the armholes may not be high enough. Alternatively, armholes should not be tight around your shoulder or cutting into your armpit. Shirt length should be such that you can bend and make natural movements without it coming out of your pants. Blazers and Suit Jackets

Concerning length: a suit jacket is like a good lawyer; it should cover your ass. Some say that it should reach your knuckles, but this assumes the length of your arms

is normal. The second button from the bottom should be just above your belly-button (never below). With your arms at your sides, the sleeves should cover the wrist bone, and no more. (Note that your dress shirt will have 1-2cm longer sleeves, which allows you to “show some cuff”). While buttoned, the jacket should not pull across the chest (signified by the fabric making an “X” shape at your sternum). Similarly, it should not pull across the shoulders when arms are folded. The shoulder seam should lie on the edge of your shoulder. Avoid any bends, or divots between the shoulder and the sleeve. This is signified by an indentation seen just below the shoulder seam or shoulder pad. There should be minimal buckling, the sleeve should be smooth at the shoulder. You can see what I’m referring to pictured here. If you look at the fellow in the center, his left shoulder is smooth, while his right shoulder is buckling. Now natural movement (lifting your arms) will certainly cause the shoulders to buckle, but this is normal. You simply want to reduce the amount of buckling, and you want to make sure there are absolutely no

shoulders (given what you’re wearing underneath). Sleeve should go about an inch up your hand from your wrist (an inch longer than a dress shirt sleeve), to ensure that you’re not showing any sleeve form something you’re wearing underneath. The coat should not be roomy, but should lie close to your body and accentuate your shape. It should be in n o way

wrinkles or divots while your arms are down at your sides. About 2cm of shirt collar should be revealed by the jacket collar. Holding your hand flat, you should easily be able to fit it inside the jacket under the lapels. However it should be slim to the chest - there shouldn’t be an air pocket there. Similarly to shirts, armholes must be sufficiently high. The arms should move somewhat independently of the jacket during normal motions. If holding your arms out at 45 degrees causes the bottom of your suit to rise significantly, your armholes are likely too low. The sleeves should not significantly restrain your movement. Note, however, that you’re not doing acrobatics in a suit jacket. Alternatively, the armholes should not be cutting into your armpit. If a jacket doesn’t fit your shape properly, sometimes the bottoms will flare out, a product of the jacket being too slim in the waist, so your hips push the fabric out a bit. Coats Keep in mind what you will be wearing under your coat, as the size will need to adjust accordingly. Most rules are the same as suit jackets, in that shoulder seams should lie at your

taut, and should allow freedom of movement. Like a jacket, if a coat doesn’t fit right sometimes, the bottoms will flare out like a bell. Beware of this. It makes the coat look skirt-like. Trousers Trousers shouldn’t need a belt to stay on your hips. The chino should not be tight to the leg, but also should not billow. It should be comfortably close to the leg without causing resistance. You generally want one break in the leg (a break is a crease at the base of the pant leg created when the pant collapses onto the shoe). If you’re going sockless with slim chinos, then you probably want no breaks. You want to aim for a smaller break, but you still want a break. Some people opt for a cuff that weighs down the pants and has no break. Depending on the style of the jean and rigidity of the denim, you can get away with bunching farther up the leg. Since jeans are very versatile and can be fit with numerous styles, this varies quite a bit. Length can vary if you plan to cuff the jean. Jean cuff can vary from 3-12cm depending on your style.

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hould you believe in love hook, line and sinker? I’ll say it depends on a lot of variables. Most of us spiritually oriented people would say that we should. In fact, I often ask people what they consider to be the most important thing in the world to them and the answer I receive most often is to be LOVED. Some people who are religious will tell you if you ask them that they may have at some point in their lives had an experience of a kind of divine love, a spiritual love that was not merely a sentimental love for another person or an animal, but a recognition that love is woven into the very fabric of reality. A sense that God is love and in fact, that our own true nature is love. That who we most deeply are is love. And in that realization, we may have recognized that this love is actually a scarce commodity in this world where money and sex are worshipped and are synonymous with love and loving. It’s not always freely given. The universe, though held up by a source of infinite unconditional love that’s always present in every moment, is most times a source of that same ambiguity of the belief in universal love. The expectation of belief in love says there should never be a moment or a place where love does not fully penetrate and permeate. Yet we see people who profess love for each other jilting, divorcing, cheating and being cheated or even killed or killing people they profess to love. It is becoming common these days to say that the idea of love is the stuff of fiction that had been made up by philosophers, poets and writers of yore to explain the madness of sexual desires and fine-tuned in a way that made it socially and religiously acceptable to the people without basically hurting anyone’s sensitivities. Tales of Cupid and his arrows or Romeo smitten after just one glance at Juliet and other stuffs of political and religious legends are tales romantized to make the idea of love become devoid

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of sexuality and sex in itself. Also, you occasionally hear stories about glimpsing someone across a crowded room, feeling a surge of joy and then finding out that the person is your soul mate. To all these stories lies something sublime which is that, love is an artificial conception made up by people to hide what they truly feel about someone else in terms of sexual attraction. I don’t remember much of my first conversation with my first love or what she was wearing. But I do remember the look in her eyes and her smile and the way she used to listen to what I said. I can also manage to remember someone’s arm coiled around my middle and with her head on my shoulder walking down the streets of the university on a dark moonlit night while whispering sweet sensual soft words filled with nothing in particular into each other’s ears and making wordless promises of a tomorrow shrouded in the bliss of eternity, while also inviting each other along on a weekend upstate to see sights of nature and being generally creating that ambience of a Hollywood idea of what romance is all about. I can also remember white thighs clothed in soft smooth satiny or silk materials clamped together in the throes of passion while murmury moans of passion escaped from her lips in total abandon while saying my name with wonderment at the deepness of the passions I could evoke from the innermost recesses of her being. I vaguely remember the university amphi-theater and some of the various films of romance which we pretended to be watching while doing various forms of things better left unsaid in the dark. But in all these things, love was almost the last thing on my mind. The average male at that time and even now mostly will be thinking with his libido at stake and not his heart as expectations of a quick sexual fix is all we want. Therefore should we believe in love hook, line and sinker? My answer is a “NO”.

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70. Some men who practice a specialized form of rapid breathing and Tantric meditation (“fire breath”) reportedly have experienced orgasm without physical genital stimulation. 71. Ancient Egyptians believed that the god Atum created the world through masturbating and that the Tigris River was formed by the semen of a god. 72. Due to surgery, psychosexual/psychological trauma, certain medications, or neurological damage, some men can experience orgasm with no ejaculatory fluid expelled, and others can ejaculate without feeling an orgasm. And yet other men can voluntarily separate their orgasm from ejaculation. 73. A recent study shows that the ability to climax may be linked to genetics. 74. The clear fluid that comes out of the penis before ejaculation is called pre-ejaculate. It can be so abundant as to fill 1/5 of a teaspoon. Medieval writers called it “the distillate of love.” 75. A typical orgasm produces about 5 ml, or 1 teaspoonful of semen. 76. Different types of illegal and legal drugs affect orgasms in both positive and nega-

tive ways. Steroids have positive or stimulating effects on orgasms. On the other hand, antidepressant drugs have a negative effect. 77. Men and women with spinal cord injuries, with no nerve connections between their external genitals and their brain, have experienced orgasms while asleep. 78. While orgasms are felt in the brain, the orgasmic process involves virtually every body system. Researchers note that the brain is the “conductor of the orgasmic orchestra.” 79. The book The Fundamentals of Sex claims that it is possible for some women to experience orgasms up to 100 times in an hour. 80. The Prague Sex Machines Museum has over 200 objects and machines, including some from hundreds of years ago, that have helped people achieve orgasms and sexual satisfaction. 81. At least eight species of female primates show signs that they experience orgasms. 82. Why do some men become so sleepy after an orgasm? Researchers speculate the brain releases chemicals, such as prolactin, which causes sleepiness. On the other hand, women report feeling less tired than men after an orgasm. 83. A 175-pound man participating in vigorous sex for 30 minutes expends a mere 63 calo-

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ries. If he had spent the same time jogging, he would have used 288 calories. 84. An orgasm burns just 2–3 calories, though a person can burn around 50 calories in the activity leading up to the orgasm. 85. For men, having an orgasm two or more times a week is a sign that he is more likely to live longer. 86. When former vice president of the U.S., Nelson A Rockefeller died of a heart attack during sex with a much younger woman in a hotel room, people began to wonder if orgasms caused heart attacks or “death in the saddle.” 87. A hysterectomy may affect a woman’s ability to have an orgasm. While the nerves that convey sensation from the clitoris are likely to remain undamaged, the nerves that convey sensation from the vagina are more likely to be damaged. 88. Circumcision doesn’t seem to affect a man’s ability to have an orgasm. However, a woman whose partner has a foreskin may experience increased duration and comfort, which increases the likelihood of experiencing single and multiple orgasms. 89. According to one study, clitoral piercing, or piercing of the clitoral sheath (hood or prepuce) does not negatively affect orgasm. 90. Using the term “achieve” to describe an orgasm may put pressure on sexual partners to always achieve an orgasm—so, sexual health experts use the word “experience” instead.

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This column is x-rated 91. The record for the most female orgasms in a single masturbation session was reportedly 49 from a woman in London in 2006. 92. At the moment of orgasm, certain areas of the brain shut down, including the area that process fear and “vigilance for danger.” Levels of self-control and moral reasoning also decrease. 93. When a woman orgasms, her body produces four times the normal amount of oxytocin, the chemical that stimulates bonding. 94. Scientists can infer a woman’s history of vaginal orgasm by the way she walks. 95. Research indicates that 67% of women fake orgasm. 96. According to a University of Kansas survey in 2009, about 25% of men reported faking an orgasm. 97. Around 75% of women need clitoral stimulation and are unable to orgasm through intercourse alone. 98. Approximately 15%–20% of women have never had an orgasm. 99. Some scientists believe that not every woman has a G-spot. The G-spot is typically believed to be located 1–2 inches up on the inside wall of the vagina. It is usually pea-sized but can grow to be the size of a walnut. 100. Almost all women who could reach orgasm before cancer treatment can do so after treatment.

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his question decades back could be a positive response but in our own generation, i would not urge anyone to do so unless if you do not care if your heart is trampled upon . It is good to be in love and also believe in love but for one to lay back and feel it is all good and dandy when dealing with love issues, is absurd. These days, it is even difficult to see people who love with genuine heart and honesty so allowing yourself to believe that your own love affair will sail without casualities is one being very naive and careless. Those who have the courage to love blindly understand what they are doing and are ready to face the ugliness of not being prudent in love affairs. Love issues always have to do with individual prefrences , ideologies and understanding so if one decides to open his/her heart widely and alllow love issues to penetrate without being cautious of what he/she is doing, then the person will have to bear the consequences. Now how could someone in this generation just leaves his or her heart gate open for others to toy with. Oh yea, that is how i see it... people just toy with each others heart in the name of love so it is like the battle of the titans...the winner takes it all game. Why teenagers are warned not to get into love affairs at such early stage is because they are fragile to deal with the games being played in the course of love activities. Their mind is not fully developed to carry or bear all the rubbish that occur during a relationship and their entire life could be ruined just because of one man/woman. For adults, most understand what it means to be in love so if one decides to have a love relationship, one should also be ready to endure all that comes with it—good /bad. Most adults on their own part also understand that it is not all rosy to be in love so they prepare their minds and body very well. This group of people are also sen-

sible enough not to believe in love hook-line-sinker becasue they understand the game. So do i now mean that those who believe in lovehook-lin-sinker are those who do not understand the games of love? Absolutely! If you take everything you are being told about in a love relationship and not guard your self, it means you are still a baby in the game of love. Why i am refering love activities as a game? You are wondering why? Ofcourse it is a game... how else do you describe what people who calim to be in love do these days? What do you call people just playing around and doing anything they feel like with their partners? No one cares how you feel this time around ..if the love pitch is not rosy for you, look somewhere else. This explains why you see people indulging in more than one partner because, they are restless about what they want and expect from each other. Everyone is looking for self gratification...it is all about you and you...others can take the high road if they do not understand your feelings. During my youth service years back, i went to visit a family friend whom my dad sent me to. His pal and schoolmate who owns a big oil firm and suddenly one of his girlfriends came and he was informed by the receptionist. I watched and listend to the man shout at her to ask the lady to leave..after all he did not invite her to come today. He did it with so much anger and disdain that i wondered seretly how this man could be my Dad’s schoolmate. I felt bad for that lady that came to see him. I understand how vital it is for people to inform others before visiting but on the contrary, you can still be nice and polite turning people down in such situations. This goes a long way to show how people treat others in relationships. Some people just do not give a hoot if you are hurt by their words and actions. Its all about taking what you see and get or get the hell out of my life. So if you are naive to believe in love totally without resoning and sieving , you are jinxed!!

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Woman

‘Men would have been lonely without women’ If you are one of those who rate women as less important, you need to read this from pretty artiste Opeyemi Adegbulu. “Without a woman, the world is not complete, which is why God created Eve after He created Adam. Men would have been lonely without women; I mean, it would be a lonely world without women,” she tells YEMISI ADENIRAN in this interview.

How will you describe womanhood? It is a ministry. Every woman has an assignment to fulfil to her world. Without a woman, the world is not complete which is why God created Eve after He created Adam. Men would have been lonely without women; I mean, it would

be a lonely world without women. We are created to be a compliment, to fill a gap and that is why we are helpmates to our husbands. There is a particular role we are to play and this is not limited to our immediate homes alone but it starts from the home. Women should know

and see this as their charge. If you kill a man you may have killed just one person but if you kill a woman, know that you have not only kill one person, you have just eradicated a generation. That is how important a woman is. How will you rate Nigerian women in

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particular? African women and Nigerian women in particular, should be celebrated time after time. They are stronger even than their male counterparts. They are the ones that will go through pregnancies, and several of it in some cases, they will nurture these children and still go out to work to make ends meet in situations where their men’s efforts are not sufficient. And they are keeping up with all the demands very well like that is basically what they are called to do. The men should recognise this and shower them with love and respect more than they do before. Nigerian women are strong and very pushfull in all spheres of life. They are daily making their marks and should be given kudos for that. Today’s women have gradually become men in nature. They do all manner of work and responsibilities that men do. They get home as late if not later than their men and hardly see to the affairs of the home. Most women don’t get to see their children till the following day when the latter are preparing for school which to me is extremely odd. This is what is affecting the children and even the men. There should be more attention given to the home. A mother should be available at home for the welfare of the children and the family as a whole. It is when she is at home that she knows and determines the movement of her children, the friends they keep, what they do, how they do it and how best they should do it. We are not saying they shouldn’t work, they should. African women are never lazy, they have always been up and doing and keeping the heads of their husbands straight by giving their support, emotionally and financially. What we are saying is that more attention should be dedicated to because whether we like it or not that is our first ministry and we must handle it with all seriousness. If good home training, self discipline and life tutoring is given a child from the scratch, he or she will not depart from it and if these children meet in the society to rub minds, they will definitely be a positive influence on their immediate environment and the society as a whole. One thing you can never take away from the African woman is her strength and will power to make success of her endeavours. Women are strong and rugged in whichever life endeavour they are found, that is why I am always proud of them. You rate women so high in your perception. Is it because you belong to that gender? Not just that but because I have kept watch on women development over the years and I have noted the tremendous impacts they have made. Nigeria should be proud of her women folks. Nigeria has the highest number of professional women who have demonstrated by their achievements that indeed brains have no gender. The tradition of our women to hold their own in a male-dominated world in spite of many handicaps is a long standing one.

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Nigerian women are so well known all over the world that they cannot afford to hide their talents and therefore must be given a place of honour in the society Whether they are working in the fields or eking out, a bare existence in slums and ghettoes, or are at the board rooms or in the medical and legal fields or in the institutions of learning, Nigerian women are so well known all over the world that they cannot afford to hide their talents and therefore must be given a place of honour in the society. You are relevant in the music industry despite the numerous artistes that are there today. What’s the magic? There is no magic than God Almighty who has continually helped me. There are lots of musicians today truly but you see when you are favoured by God, you cannot but make impacts on the people. So, largely, it has been God all through. I also want to appreciate my husband who has been there to give me all the support I need. Without him pulling me up, encouraging and dotting the ‘i’ and crossing the‘t’ for me where necessary, I might have abandoned this dream. When I was having it tough to have a band of my own at the initial stage, he was the one that helped me solve it. He has been in the industry before, so that made it easier for him and myself. I thank God for him. To add to these points is the passion I have for music. If not for the real passion I have for music, I would have given it up. This is because starting off something like this is not easy. There have been many people on ground and you are really not doing something extraordinary. Even if you think you are have something special to offer, no one is really patient to allow you. But once one is passionate about it, you will not be tired of putting in more and more effort even when you are really gaining nothing much from it. Are you saying those who have dropped off along the line lack passion for the job? Largely, I will say yes. Having passion for a job that one does goes a very long way. If you are passionate about a hobby or career, you will not easily give up on it. You will be ready to ensure the challenges as they come. You will be more pushful and will b able to wait for the reward whenever it comes. Returns don’t come immediately one venture into a dream whatever it is, it takes some time and this is relative because for some, you get the returns almost immediately, for others, it takes longer than expected. For music, there are shows you go to and you hardly make N5,000. If one is not very passionate about it, one will easily abandon the dream and look elsewhere. That’s why you see many add up one or two other ventures to it to make ends meet. How relevance is this ideology to marriage and broken homes today? Honestly, there is a great relevance between the two. Anyone going into marriage must indeed be passionate about his or her partner. You must really be ready for marriage before going into it. If this is not so, there will definitely be a problem. Most people today go into marriage for some irrelevant reason. Many get married because

they believe it is a rite that needs to be fulfilled within a particular age bracket in life. Others just do it for the fun of it, to make an impression on their world while many just want to be married for procreation reason. The main reason for getting married should be to spend the rest of your life with a person you love and believe you are compatible with, your friend, someone who shares the same ideas, beliefs and others with you. And then, the marriage must be very important to you. If it is, you won’t joke or toy with anything that will break the marriage. If you are passionate about your spouse, you will avoid anything that will hurt him or her. You will always want to be with him, please him and make him happy in all ways. You will think more of things that will make him happy and not just what you want. When those things you want are not there, you will still be there for him. So, passion is very important to marriage. Passion it is that can make one endure and overlook one’s partners fault. It is the same that will make you forgive him or her no matter what and long to be with him or her. If you are passionate about your spouse, you can never think of leaving him or her as t is rampant today. Passion helps spouses to endure each other. Show me a man that is passionate about his wife and I will show you a marriage that will stand a test of time. How do you combine your career with your home? Opeyemi is a wife and a mother5 while Oprah is an artiste. They are far from being the same and there is a time for each. Once I am home, I assume the role of a wife and a mother and carry out all the responsibilities of a wife and mother and once I am on the stage, I took up the spirit of an artiste and do my best. I thank God for His help and my husband support in juggling the two. What advice do you have for your fellow artistes and women generally? My message is that we should make sure that we are passionate about our jobs as artistes. It will help us greatly as I have mentioned earlier. Those coming up should be sure they have the passion for it and not for any other reason. If they do, they will be able to give it all it takes to excel. For women generally, we must be passionate about our marriages. If we do, we will also be able to give all that it takes to make it survive. Our men should also be passionate about us in order to have us protected. What advice do you have for today’s youths? They should be God fearing and hard working. They should rely on God and what they can do to help themselves and their generation. They are the strength of the nation and must strive not to be a disappointment. Just like women, they should know that they are loaded with several talents and ideas. All they need to do is to look very deep inwardly and discover their hidden but special gift to make their worlds an outstanding one.

Keeping ABREAST

The perils of high heels •Premature osteoarthritis and the like

igh heels have been known to cause aches and pains, including lower back problems and muscle spasms. Extended wear of high heels leads to the continual bending of the toes into an unnatural position that can cause complications, from ingrown toenails to irreversible damage to leg tendons. This is particularly frightening news for the one in 10 women who wear high heels at least three days a week, according to the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), with a third of these women falling while wearing them. A team of researchers from Stanford University Medical Center sought to examine the effects of high heel wear and increased weight on the knee during walking with 14 healthy female volunteers. To compare gait parameters between the shoes, added weight, and walking style of speed, the women wore different pairs of shoes: flats, 1.5-inch heels, and 3.5-inch heels. Heavy vests that increased their body weight by 20 per cent were also tested on the women while they wore the assigned shoes. The findings revealed there were some significant walking patterns associated with the two heels heights tested and the 20 per cent extra weight. Women tended to bend their knees more during specific phases of their walk. They walked slower in heels, but the extra weight did not affect walking speed. In other words, the higher the heel, the

more likely the knee would bend when the foot hit the ground. This puts a lot of strain on the knee joint, especially for women who are overweight. “Many of the changes observed with increasing heel height and weight were similar to those seen with ageing and OA [osteoarthritis] progression,” the researchers said, adding that, “this suggests that high heel use, especially in combination with additional weight, may contribute to increased OA risk in women.” There are other factors that could influence the association between footwear and joint problems that the study did not observe. For example, frequency of high heel wear, what height, at what age they start and stop wearing them could be crucial to establishing a link between the two. However, the small study does give more insight on the gait changes that occur when a woman wears heels, or when she carries added weight. This finding is extremely crucial, since it takes, on average, just over an hour for a woman’s feet to hurt when she slips on a pair of heels, according to a survey for The College of Podiatry. Women were also found to be three times as likely as men to cram their feet into uncomfortable shoes, which has led nine out of 10 to suffer problems like bunions, corns, sprains, and strains. The lack of public awareness of common foot complaints has contributed to the rise in these incidences. Culled fromwww, WebMD.com

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Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression

Guidelines for first-time mothers (2)

CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK Swaddling your baby: •Spread out the receiving blanket, with one corner folded over slightly. •Lay the baby face-up on the blanket with his or her head above the folded corner. •Wrap the left corner over the body and tuck it beneath the back of the baby, going under the right arm. •Bring the bottom corner up over the baby’s feet and pull it toward the head, folding the fabric down if it gets close to the face. Be sure not to wrap too tightly around the hips. Hips and knees should be slightly bent and turned out. Wrapping your baby too tightly may increase the chance of hip dysplasia. •Wrap the right corner around the baby, and tuck it under the baby’s back on the left side, leaving only the neck and head exposed. To make sure your baby is not wrapped too tight, make sure you can slip a hand between the blanket and your baby’s chest, which will allow comfortable breathing. Make sure, however, that the blanket is not so loose that it could become undone. •Babies should not be swaddled

after they’re 2 months old. At this age, some babies can roll over while swaddled, which increases their risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SID Diapering dos and don’ts You’ll probably decide before you bring your baby home whether you’ll use cloth or disposable diapers. Whichever you use, your little one will dirty diapers about 10 times a day, or about 70 times a week. Before diapering your baby, make sure you have all supplies within reach so you won’t have to leave your infant unattended on the changing table. You’ll need: •a clean diaper •fasteners (if cloth prefold diapers are used) •diaper ointment if the baby has a rash •a container of warm water •clean washcloth, diaper wipes, or cotton balls After each bowel movement or if the diaper is wet, lay your baby on his or her back and remove the dirty diaper. Use the water, cotton balls, and washcloth or the wipes to gently wipe your baby’s genital area clean. When remov-

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little boy born with 12 fingers and 12 toes has left doctors baffled. Before his birth seven months ago, Jacob Duffy’s parents had been led to believe their son was perfectly healthy. But upon his arrival, Rachael Hendry and John Duffy were shocked to discover their child had an extra digit on each of his limbs. As well as his extra fingers, Jacob’s thumbs are triphalangeal, which means they have an extra joint. Some of the extra digits are loose-hanging and are stopping Jacob from walking, but doctors say they will not remove them until he is 12 months old, as they do not want to put him under anaesthetic His mother, a 24-yearold bank assistant, said

ing a boy’s diaper, do so carefully because exposure to the air may make him urinate. When wiping a girl, wipe her bottom from front to back to avoid a urinary tract infection. To prevent or heal a rash, apply ointment. Always remember to wash your hands thoroughly after changing a diaper. Diaper rash is a common concern. Typically the rash is red and bumpy and will go away in a few days with warm baths, some diaper cream, and a little time out of the diaper. Most rashes occur because the baby’s skin is sensitive and becomes irritated by the wet or poopy diaper.

skin a chance to air out. If the diaper rash continues for more than 3 days or seems to be

getting worse, call your doctor — it may be caused by a fungal infection that requires a prescription.

Tiny Feet

To prevent or heal diaper rash, try these tips: •Change your baby’s diaper frequently, and as soon as possible after bowel movements. •After cleaning the area with mild soap and water or a wipe, apply a diaper rash or “barrier” cream. Creams with zinc oxide are preferred because they form a barrier against moisture. •If you use cloth diapers, wash them in dye- and fragrance-free detergents. •Let the baby go undiapered for part of the day. This gives the

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Baby boy born with 12 fingers Update and 12 toes …and doctors have no idea why

when Jacob was born, they believed he had broken his finger. She said: “We were shocked when he was born and saw his little finger - at first we just thought that he had broken it. My pregnancy was completely normal. But then we counted the digits and that was the first time we noticed something was wrong. ‘We joked around a bit at first and said that at least he will be good on the piano - but obviously we quickly realised that things were a bit more serious.’ His extra toe could affect Jacob as he learns to walk, she added. - even though one toe is really loose and could affect his walking. ‘I quite like the extra fingers and I don’t really want the surgeons to chop

Why are some babies born with extra digits?

•Having an extra finger or toe is called polydactyly. •The extradigit may range from a small, raised bump to

them off but kids are quite cruel and I could

hardly send him to school with them.’

a complete, working finger or toe. Most of the time, it’s smaller than the other digits and not well formed. •Sometimes the extra digit is only skin (a nubbin), and it connects to the hand or foot with only a narrow stalk of tissue. •If the digit is better formed, it may have all the normal tissues - such as bone, muscles, blood vessels and nerves. In this case, it connects to the hand or foot deep inside. •There are THREE types of polydactyly based on where the digit is: ?The extra digit is outside the thumb or big toe (pre-axial polydactyly). When the digit is outside the thumb, it’s also called radial polydactyly. When it’s outside the big toe, it’s also called tibial polydactyly. ?The extra digit is outside the little finger or little toe (post-axial polydactyly). When the digit is outside the little finger, it’s also called ulnar polydactyly. When it’s outside the little toe, it’s also called fibular polydactyly. ?The extra digit is between other fingers or toes (central polydactyly). ?Polydactyly in children is fairly common. It happens in about 1 in 1,000 babies.

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INTERNATIONAL LIVING

U.S. court grants ‘human rights’ to chimpanzees!

ow would you feel about marrying a chimpanzee? Horror, disgust, revulsion: I mean, they are not human, are they? And how would you feel about being served dinner with chimpanzee meat? Would it look or feel like cannibalism? If you are confused, it’s not your fault! The confusion is an unavoidable aspect of the relationship between humans and chimp. They’re different from us, all right — we know that in our guts. But they’re also the same. They are closer to us than any other non-human life-form on the planet. Last week, a revolutionary decision was made in a U.S. court: chimpanzees were acknowledged to have rights of their own. It is the first time legal rights of any kind have ever been accorded to anything other than a human. The story started in 2013, when an organisation called the Nonhuman Rights Project filed a lawsuit in the New York Supreme Court on behalf of four chimps kept for research by Stony Brook University. The eventual conclusion of Justice Barbara Jaffe was that they were not to be treated as property, but as legal persons. Not as persons with full human rights, but as persons with a right not to be held in captivity and a right not to be owned. The fact is that chimpanzees really are almost human. It’s a truth that humankind has tried to ignore ever since Charles Darwin declared in 1871 that humans were related to the apes of Africa. Modern genetic studies have shown that this relationship is much closer than people thought. We have nearly 99 per cent of our genetic material in common. And if that one-and-a-bit per cent is unquestionably significant, the rest of it takes a fair amount of thinking about. Chimpanzees are more closely related to us than to their — or should it be our — fellow apes, the gorillas and orangutans. It has been suggested that humans and chimpanzees belong not just in the same family, but in the same genus: in other words, the only correct way to understand the human connection to other species is to accept that humans are a species of chimpanzee . . . or chimpanzees are a species of human. The great primatologist, Frans de Waal, said of us humans: “We are apes in every way, from our long arms and tail-less bodies to our habits and temperament.” A study published in the journal ‘BMC Evolutionary Biology’ said that the many humans who suffer from lower back pain do so because their spines are more like those of chimpanzees than the spines of those people who don’t suffer from back pain. In other words, some humans are less well adapted to walking upright than others because their spines are ‘statistically indistinguishable’ from those of chimps. And we find many traits in chimps that are equally uncomfortable. Take language for example. Washoe was a chimpanzee born in West Africa in 1965 and captured

Nim Chimpsky

Kenuzy, a chimpanzee from Los Angeles, laughing

for use in the American space programme. She was brought up in an American family and taught sign language. Washoe acquired a vocabulary of 350 signs, and taught some of them to her adopted chimpanzee son, Louis. On seeing a swan, she signed ‘water’ and then ‘bird.’ Washoe put together a near sentence when a doll was put in her drinking mug: “Baby in my cup.” Another time, she signed to her teacher: “You me out go.” She received the answer: “OK, but put clothes on.” Washoe immediately put on her jacket. And, touchingly, one of her regular teachers suffered a miscarriage and was absent for some time. On her return, she signed to Washoe: “My baby died.” Washoe signed back: “Cry.” She then traced the track of a tear on her face. This is an astonishing bit of empathy: chimpanzees don’t weep. A similar project involving a chimpanzee called Nim Chimpsky failed to get the same results. It was conducted with clinical rigour, without messy stuff like affection and with many changes of assistants. A human child needs love to learn, as every parent knows. This failed experiment seems to prove that chimpanzees

are no different. They outperform humans in some computer games, in which snap decision making is required. In problem-solving tests, chimpanzees have invented all kinds of complex ways to find and reach hidden fruit, building towers and creating tools to stretch beyond a barrier. Chimpanzees experience insight: they know what it is to have a ‘eureka moment’. Desmond Morris, author of the bestselling ‘The Naked Ape,’ taught a chimp named Congo, to paint. Congo never tried representational art; his style was described as abstract impressionism. But he would carefully balance his paintings, putting, for example, blue on both sides. He would throw an artistic tantrum if he was told to stop painting before he considered the work finished, and he would refuse to add to a painting he saw as complete. Picasso owned a Congo. Observations of chimpanzees in the wild, most of them inaugurated by the great anthropologist, Jane Goodall, show all kinds of things that humans and chimpanzees have in common. Chimpanzees make and use tools, they co-operate. They communicate with kisses, embraces, tickling, swaggering and threatening.

This judgment is a small but meaningful strike against speciesism. Perhaps in time, it will acquire the significance of the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833 or the Equal Pay Act of 1970

She also discovered the most significant thing we have in common: childhood. Chimps and humans spend a long time before taking on the responsibilities (such as breeding) of adult life. A chimpanzee will spend five years with its mother, suckling and sharing a leafy bed. Orphaned chimps show evidence of clinical depression, and will sometimes be adopted by an older sibling. Play is essential to humans and chimpanzees: it’s the way we learn skills and behaviour that we in turn pass on. In other words, this is culture. Humans and chimpanzees don’t just pass on things through our genes: we also pass things on by showing and learning and showing again in our turn. Chimpanzees have emotions and express them. They have a sense of self: unlike your dog, they recognise their reflection in a mirror. It’s clear chimpanzees know mental as well as physical pain. On what grounds, then, would you deny them the right not to be enslaved or imprisoned? The moral philosopher, Peter Singer, suggested human history shows an everexpanding circle of moral concern. At one stage, people from another tribe were outside that circle. In recent times, women, as well as people of other races and religions, were excluded from the circle, but now they are all accepted inside most societies in the developed world. The next stage is the beginnings of acceptance of non-human animals into the circle. Singer uses the term ‘speciesism.’ It is the same idea as racism and sexism: the denial of rights and moral concern to a group for no reason beyond the personal convenience of others. This judgment in New York is a small but meaningful strike against speciesism. Perhaps in time, it will acquire the significance of the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833 or the Equal Pay Act of 1970. No one will expect change to come with any itching hurry, but it seems that the beginning of change is out there blowing in the wind.

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My wife is wayward

• I got to know from her text messages that she was having an extra-marital affair with someone and it was through that message that I got to know that her mum was aware of the illicit relationship—Husband • My husband has not been fair to me. He met me a virgin and no man has ever slept with me except him —Wife

‘My wife became promiscous after 32 years of marriage’ •In 2004, my wife started running after men and sleeping about. I am a Chief and according to our culture, she has committed a taboo. I complained to fellow Chiefs in my community and they advised me to send her away —Husband • We have settled it in the village after sacrificing a goat as required by our tradition. It is the other woman he brought into the house that is controlling him. However, my children have asked me not to pack out of my matrimonial home, so I will not pack out —Wife

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72 year-old man, Mr. Peter Ogba has pleaded with the Ojo Customary Court in Lagos to dissolve his 44 year marriage with his wife, Mrs. Felicia Ogba over alleged infidelity. Ogba, an architect told the court his wife turned promiscuous and unruly 32 years after their marriage which was contracted in 1971 and had produced eight children “In 2004, my wife started running after men and sleeping about. I am a Chief and according to our culture, she has committed a taboo”, he said He told the court that he had stopped eating at home because of his wife’s current behavior adding that he had lost the love

he used to have for her. “I complained to fellow Chiefs in my community and have advised me to send her away. I bought a car for my wife in the 1970s when she was very young. I did all I could for her but she prefers to be promiscuous and I cannot take it anymore”, he said The petitioner added: “Though my children are against me because she has poisoned their minds against me, I prefer to die than co-exist with a woman that indulges in fetish act”, he said Ogba said he had to get another wife to take care of him two years after his wife packed out of their matrimonial home. “I appeal to this court to dissolve this marriage and eject Felicia from my house because we can no longer co-exist”, he said

However in her testimony in court, the respondent, Felicia said their family had settled the case back in the village which had dragged for 10 years before then. She said this made her to return to her matrimonial home. “I don’t know my husband brought this case to court because we have settled it in the village after sacrificing a goat as required by our tradition. It is the other woman he brought into the house that is controlling him. However my children have asked me not to pack out of my matrimonial home, so I will not pack out”, she said One of the daughters of the respondent, Isioma Akolape said she and her siblings had been pleading with her parents to settle their differences “I was pregnant when my dad drove our mum way from the

house with a cutlass, we even performed traditional rites with N90, 000 to settle the matter”, she said Akolape added: “My mother married my dad at the age of 16 years when she was very young had no experience and they had been living together since then. We have appealed to our father to forgive her, but my dad refused to accept our pleas because he has brought in a new lady. I am again pleading with our dad on behalf of the eight children as my brother is out of the country to forgive our mum and restore the relationship” In his remarks, the Court President, Mr. Hakeem Oyekan said though there was disagreement in the relationship, dissolving the union would be a bad precedence which would not be pleasant in the future.

37 year old businessman has dragged his wife before a Grade ‘A’ Customary Court, Agege, Lagos, seeking the dissolution of their five year marriage over infidelity. The petitioner, Tope Fasanmi, who gave evidence before Agege customary court accused his wife, Zainab, 32, of assault, brutality of house-maids, lack of respect and threat to life. He told the court that their relationship, which was blessed with one child, aged five, became sour in 2007 when his wife failed to show up at their marriage registry. “My wife is wayward, she doesn’t respect me or my family and she had threatened to kill me with a knife during one of our usual quarrels. “The first two years of our marriage, I was the one cooking in the house; she doesn’t cook, neither does she know how to take care of the house. “Also, any time we are fighting, which is normally caused by her, she always tells me that I am not the one she should have married but her banker friend,” he said. Fasanmi, who lives at 8, Metal Box Road, Ogba, also told the court that his parents-in-law were the ones misleading his wife. “Anytime I plan with my wife, I always receive phone calls from her dad on what my wife and I discussed and at times, my father-in-law always stopped my plans, which I didn’t like. “All my wife’s friends are divorcees, and all my efforts to stop her from keeping them have proved abortive as I could not control her. “My wife was too harsh to all the house-maids we have had; she used to beat them any how and I hate maltreating people, especially the less privileged.”

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‘My husband is a womaniser’

housewife, Tayo Afolabi, has, urged an Ado-Ekiti Customary Court to dissolve her sixyear marriage to Folorunso, for alleged battery. Tayo, 28, told the court that Afolabi was no longer providing for her and their five-year-old baby. She also said that her husband was a womaniser, who when challenge on the issue, often resorted to violence, adding Afolabi was not a trustworthy man. The mother of one said her husband was married to another woman, noting that “I did not know until the day

of our marriage, when the woman showed up”. She said that the issue had led to many violent fights in their home, adding that her mother-in-law’s intervention on the matter was abortive because the son stuck to his ways. Tayo, therefore, urged the court to dissolve the marriage and compel her husband to take the responsibility for the child’s upkeep, including his school fees. Her husband, Afolabi was not in court. The Judge, Mrs Akomolede Olayinka, adjourned the case for judgment.(NAN)

‘My wife beats me mercilessly’

• I am tired of this marriage due to frequent beating by my wife as well as her nagging nature. She beats me mercilessly. Based on these facts, I want the court to dissolve this union —Husband • I always beat him. I don’t know what usually comes over me whenever I do that. I don’t want to leave him and I promise that I will never beat him again —Wife

n Osogbo Grade III Customary Court has dissolved a 17-year-old marriage of one Asimiyu Oladosu over frequent beating by the wife. Oladosu told the court that his wife, Kehinde, was fond of beating him whenever he returns from church or outings. He said the marriage was blessed with three children but he could no longer bear his wife’s attitude. “I am tired of this marriage due to frequent beating by my wife as well as her nagging nature. She does not go to church and whenever I go to church or vigil, she will not allow me into the house and if she does, she beats me mercilessly. Based on these facts, I want the court to dissolve this union,” he said. The wife, admitted that she usually beat her husband, adding that she did that under the influence of what she called an “unknown spirit.” Kehinde, who cried profusely, prayed the court to

settle the matter amicably, adding that she still loves her husband. “What my husband said was true. I always beat him but I do not know what usually comes over me whenever I do that. I still love my husband and I want the matter to be settled amicably. I don’t want to leave him and I promise that I will never beat him again,” the wife said. The President of the court, Mrs Temilade Agboola, pleaded on behalf of the woman and asked the man to forgive her. But Oladosu refused and maintained that he preferred divorce. Agboola said that since the husband wanted a divorce, there was nothing the court could do but to grant the request. She dissolved the marriage and ordered that the wife should take custody of the three children. Agboola also ordered Oladosu to give a monthly up-keep of N9, 000 for the children. (NAN)

‘She has turned my mother into a punching bag’ • My wife always goes to my mother’s house to beat her and often leaves her with injuries —Husband

40 year-old driver, Mr. Kayode Adeoti has told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos that his wife of seven years, Lolade Adeoti was in the habit of beating his mother. “My wife always goes to my mother’s house to beat her and often leaves her with injuries”, the petitioner said He described his wife as a bad tempered woman who does not like seeing any member of his family. “She fights them whenever they come visiting us. Lolade fights with my siblings and also with our neighbours and whenever I try to stop her, she would transfer her aggression to me”, Kayode said The petitioner also accused his wife of lack of care, stress-

ing that Lolade does not cook and always buying cooked food from restaurants for the family to eat. “My wife hates to cook and anytime I insist that she must cook, she usually reply that “I am not hungry and if I am hungry, I will quickly eat the food she bought” He said that Lolade also refused to wash his clothes saying that she was not a slave and that he should get a laundry man In her testimony, Lolade, 35, a fashion designer denied all the allegations leveled against her by the petitioner She told the court that at no time did she assault her mother-in-law but rather that it was her husband’s siblings

that always beat her Lolade said she normally fights her husband because he was not responsible “When my husband was not working, I always give him money as well as take care of the children’s school fees and feeding but when he started working, he still refused to take care of his responsibility”, she added The respondent claimed that she used to cook and wash her husband’s clothes and urged the court not to dissolve the union. Lolade, a mother of two told the court that she was still in love with her husband. The Court President, Mr Rasak Adeyeri has adjourned the case for judgement.

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Stars at the Star Trek sign-on Many stars were present at the recent sign-on of artists who will perform at this year’s edition of the popular Star Trek. Black Magic, Seyi Shay, Sound Sultan and Cynthia Morgan wee some of those stars who are now performing at the Trek.

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Have you checked your health lately? Doctor Talabi has answers to your health questions

Write him today at prettyprevent@gmail.com or text 09099346165 (sms only pls)

ery recently, a young man in his twenties was rushed into the clinic, with complaints of chest pain, chest heaviness, weakness, breathlessness and restlessness. At the time of presentation, he was barely conscious, with a very weak pulse, and rock bottom Blood Pressure. Earlier in the day, he was said to have engaged in some sporting activities from where he suddenly developed profound weakness, upon which he left the sporting arena for his house. It was from the house he was rushed into the hospital some few minutes later. Prior to that day, from all accounts, he was hale and hearty. On presentation, measures were instituted to resuscitate him and bring him out of the shock state he presented in. Fluids were commenced, necessary medications given and administration of oxygen started. But he never came out of it! He didn’t respond to any of the maneuvers, and within minutes, he breathed his last. Soooo sad! The questions that arose were: How could an apparently healthy young man suddenly succumb to pathology within a space of just an hour? What could be the cause? Could it have been prevented? In reality, cause of death in individuals cannot be exactly ascertained without carrying out an autopsy. However, sudden death syndrome is a recognised phenomenon in medical practice. Definition: Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS) is said to occur when an apparently normal adolescent or young adult dies suddenly and unexpectedly in a nontraumatic, nonviolent situation lasting just a few minutes to a few hours. It may occur during sleep, while awake or while exercising. Causes: The causes of SADS are largely nonspecific, and pinning deaths to any of them is in most instances theoretical. Of the lot, however, unknown or undiagnosed inherited heart conditions take the lead. The common scenario is that of a young man or woman, whose heart functions suboptimally, due to structural or functional defects present from birth. Because they give no symptoms and are compatible with life, these heart conditions usually go undetected until they worsen naturally or when the heart is stressed in some activities such as high velocity sports. It is at such times that the bubble usually bursts. A mention of two likely causes of SADS may suffice here. Cardiac arrest: Abnormal change in heart rhythm, known as Arrhythmia, is the most important cause of sudden adult death. It is so important that Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS) is sometimes referred to as Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome (SADS). In Arrhythmia, the heart

ing to life threatening situations, which if not well handled invariably leads to death. The symptoms of pulmonary embolism include Shortness of breath, sudden chest pain, Rapid heart rate, Sweating and anxiety, coughing up blood and Signs beats at such a high speed that it becomes of shock. ineffective in pumping blood. It more or Treatment: less just vibrates irregularly rather than Sadly there is no treatment for death contract. As a result, blood and oxygen are not adequately supplied to essential in the clinic. After death, the next line tissues such as the brain, the heart itself of treatment takes place in the mortuand other parts of the body. This abnor- ary. However, when patients are taken to mal rhythm sometimes may self-reverse. the hospital early, hope is not totally lost. If it doesn’t, however, the body systems Though in sudden adult death, the best deteriorate quickly, leading to a total col- line of treatment is prevention. lapse and then death. Arrhythmia may be asymptomatic. When it has symptoms, the symptoms include Racing heartbeat (tachycardia), Chest pain, Shortness of breath, Lightheadedness, Fainting (syncope) or near fainting. Any of these symptoms should prompt an immediate visit to your physician. Pulmonary embolism: In pulmonary embolism, a type of thromboembolism, congealed or clotted blood elsewhere in the body, especially from the leg veins, escapes and travels to the lungs where it blocks blood supply to the lungs, thereby depriving the lungs and consequently the whole body of oxygen supply. Clots usually form when there is situation of immobility .For example in someone who is bedridden and in persons who just went through surgery and did not get up quickly enough. Cancers are also known to predispose one to clot formation. Blood that congeals in these circumstances, if big enough, can travel through the veins to block major vessels, lead-

Prevention: Sometime ago, a mother reported that her son fainted while brushing his teeth in the morning. Extensive history was taken. After all said and done, he was asked to undergo some laboratory investigations including ECG. Now, the mother had issues with ECG. According to her, why would a 14-year-old boy require an Electro Cardio Gram? Does he have hypertension? She concluded that the doctors didn’t know what they were doing and said as much. ECG is the main screening test to detect those who were born with a cardiac defect that may pose a danger to them in the future. In SADS,

the role of ECG cannot be overemphasised. It is part of the regular screening tests every individual should undergo annually or at least every two years. Though the recommended age to commence ECG as a screening test is above 40yrs, it is recommended that if there have been any young sudden deaths in the family, or if a young person is suffering from symptoms suggestive of cardiac conditions, such as chest pain, palpitations, fainting etc., ECG should be done immediately. In cases where sudden infant death has occurred in the family, it is advisable also for family members to have an ECG done. This is because a relationship has been established between Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS). Conclusion: The lesson here is to make health checks a habit. Most diseases, when detected on time, are amenable to preventive measures. Knowing the status of your heart and state of health generally also helps in making a decision to modify your lifestyle such that you don’t put yourself at risk of sudden health deterioration. Have you checked your state of health lately?

LIFESAVERS: u Check your health regularly u Screen yourself for heart disease if there is a history of sudden death in your family u Screen yourself for heart condition if you have had history of fainting u Screen yourself for heart conditions if sudden infant death has occurred in your family u Report any unusual episode of chest pain to your physician immediately

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Awesome waterfalls of Olumirin

Known for its famous seven waterfalls, the Olumirin Waterfalls located in Erin Ijesa, is an experience not to be missed.

he awe-inspiring falls, also known as Erin-Ijesha Waterfalls is an assemblage of seven distinct cascades located on the south western slopes of the lush Effon Ridge, in Erin-Ijesha town, Osun state. The walls of the massive rock cleft through which the water flows is rugged in verdant colours, and although in the daytime the cleft is as dark as the night, the gracious vegetal canopies jutting out above allows some sunrays to penetrate, casting a subtle but gracious blue-green tone upon the vestal showers of Olumirin Waterfalls. The gigantic Ridge constitutes a conspicuous eye-catcher for every traveler along the Ilesa-Akure expressway, as it towers into the distant skyline, forming a spectacular backrest for the sleepy towns of Erin-Oke, Erin-Ijesha and Erinmo. The people of Erin-Ijesa believe that the waterfalls exude from a big pot located at the top of the ridge. Often times, first time tourist at the waterfalls unconsciously starts to number the waterfalls from the last drop (the base of the ridge) as it is the first of all the falls to be encountered when visiting; whereas the numbering is supposed to be from the top. Nevertheless, going by layman’s standard, the seventh drop of the waterfalls is the first waterfall. The first cascade plummets through a narrow opening in a cluster of luxuriant tree trunks

blanketed in dark green leafage, down a steeply folded rock face of about ten meters in height. Like a rain of a million limpid pins, the showers descend and inundate s huge boulder reposed at its plunge pool below. Fallen logs of wood laid dank in the pool and out-flowing stream channel. The air hung muggy with a heavy smoke of splashed water droplets. The sight sparks the first fire of excitement that pervade the veins of any visitor at the falls. The refreshing ambience is further thickened when one ascends the steep rocks to explore the other stages of the waterfalls. The second cascade is the most gigantic of all, with the waters diving down a 40m-high cliff. The copious plunge is most spectacular in the rainy season when the stream channel is at its flooding levels. Its plunge pool forms a shallow swimming pool for visitors at the site who are lucky and brave enough to get to the second fall. The climb up the waterfalls is quite intimidating and arduous, as there are no steps constructed or clear paths made up the ridge slopes, except depressions and projections on the surface, as well as roots and branches of huge trees, forest climbers and shrubs along the paths, which serves as hand and foot holds for the adventurous tourist. Nevertheless, the ascent of the enormous ridge is most rewarding, as one is treated to dazzling

The gigantic Ridge constitutes a conspicuous eye-catcher for every traveler along the Ilesa-Akure expressway, as it towers into the distant skyline, forming a spectacular backrest for the sleepy towns of Erin-Oke, ErinIjesha and Erinmo

Olumirin Waterfalls

and panoramic vistas of the surrounding landscape, depicting the true natural beauty of the Nigerian landmass. Another great attraction at the waterfalls is the Abake village, a rustic enclave located at

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the top of the colossal ridge. The name “Abake”, is a Yoruba word which is a combination of two other Yoruba words: “Aba” “Oke”, meaning “the village on the top”, suggesting the location, of the small village.

Exciting activities at Erin-Ijesha waterfalls tourist resort includes: Swimming, base jumping (new potentials), rock climbing; bird and game watching and so on.

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From the Civil Service Prisons official rallies support for inmates’ education

he Ikoyi Prisons Service on Wednesday said that the performance of the 28 inmates in the 2015 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), had encouraged other inmates to enrol in its school’s programme. The Deputy Controller, incharge of Ikoyi Prisons, Mr Emmanuel Bamidele, said in Lagos that all the inmates performed above expectations. It was reported that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) organised the all Computer Based Test (CBT) mode of examination. He said that six of the 28 inmates, who wrote the examination, had already furthered their education by enrolling for the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) programmes within the prisons facility. ``I can tell you that with this development, many

more inmates are showing the zeal to further their education in the facility. ``Apart from the six inmates who enrolled for the NOUN programme, others, on the awaiting trial list or those who have been discharged, have gone to seek admissions into universities around the country. ``Because of this, we have already enrolled 65 other inmates who want to participate in the forthcoming November/December West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) . ``The inmates have been participating fully in the coaching lessons in the prisons school, and they are very enthusiastic about it. ``Apparently, they have discovered that it is achievable and not a fluke, having seen what others have just done,” he said. Bamidele, however, pleaded with the private and

corporate bodies to assist the prisons school and inmates, by providing books, computer accessories and other teaching and learning materials, to enable them to

prepare well. He said that government had done well in doing the much it had done over the years, in line with its transformation agenda, especially

in the area of campaign against illiteracy. The prisons official said that the government’s support had further boosted the morale of the inmates to further their education, irrespective of the challenges. ``Now that we have more inmates showing the zeal to further their education in

the facility, I want to plead with members of the public to support them through donations. ``We shall be happy to receive as many volunteer teachers in core subjects as possible, to get these inmates well prepared,’’ Bamidele said. (NAN)

L-R: Executive Director, UNFPA, Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin; Assistant Editor-in-Chief/UNFPA Focal News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Officer, Muhammad Tola; UNFPA Country Representative in Nigeria, Mrs. Ratidzai Ndlovu and Editor-in-Chief, NAN, Malam Lawal Ado, during Osotimehin’s visit to NAN in Abuja, on Thursday.

Jonathan inaugurates PTDF office, urges decent work environment

resident Goodluck Jonathan said on Thursday that the Federal Government would continue to provide a condusive environment for workers to enable them perform optimally. He gave the assurance when he inaugurated the new office complex of the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) in Abuja. Jonathan urged the organisation to intervene in various training programmes and encourage Nigerian youths to be well trained to enable them key into the oil industry. ``Wherever you are working, the environment should be good, it encourages productivity. ``I am pleased that today, government has been able

to provide a decent working environment for our PTDF staff. `Ànd I believe that they are all happy people to be linked up with this project, and it is stated that to whom more is given, more is expected. Ìf government provides this for you, expect that you will provide this quality of training for our people. `Ìf you are living in the best building, then you should provide the best services and your job is mainly to intervene in our various training programmes and encourage the Nigerian youth to be well trained so they can key into the oil industry. ``You have been doing very well and we wish you more success too.’’ Jonathan said the build-

ing was one of the best in Abuja, and commended the designers and the organisation for the edifice. Earlier, the Executive Secretary of PTDF, Chief Femi Ajayi, thanked Jonathan for approving funds for the construction of the office complex. Ajayi also commended Jonathan for the innovations in the PTDF, such as the Presidential Special Scholarship Scheme for innovation and development, the Welder Training and Certification Programme and the Helicopter Pilot’s Training Scheme. He said that through the president’s motivation and push for efficiency, the Fund had achieved proper direction, which had produced more results with scarce resources.

The executive secretary expressed optimism that the incoming administration of Muhammadu Buhari would leverage on the progress so far made to advance the Fund. ``As the PTDF takes steps to diversify its train-

ing partners in order to get more value for money invested and achieve greater coverage with less resources, we are hoping that the incoming President, retired Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari would bring his messianic drive and flavour

to bear on ongoing reforms for greater effectiveness and improved service delivery. ``We are indeed expectant that the incoming administration will build on the successes of PTDF and take it to higher heights.’’

Salary Arrears: Workers declare indefinite strike in Cross River

he Joint Action Committee (JAC) of Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress in Cross River has declared an indefinite strike by civil servants in the state over unpaid salaries. In a release by the Chairman of JAC, Mr Ndoma Akpet, labour said the strike, which commenced on Tuesday, became inevitable following the inability of the outgoing administration to honour

its earlier promise to pay the arrears. ``In spite of assurances by the government during the May Day celebration that arrears of salaries will be paid before expiration of the present administration, the government has failed (to fulfil) the promise. ``We, workers, under the employ of the Cross River Government can no longer watch as our lives and destinies are being toyed with and

destroyed by an insensitive administration. ``Right now our children are out of school due to inability to pay school fees. ``Also a good number of us are dying because of inability to settle medical bills while starvation is everywhere. ``We are, therefore, calling on all workers under the employ of the state government to stay at home as from Tuesday May 26, 2015 until you hear from us,’’ it said.

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•Flying Eagles’ players training ahead of the FIFA U-20 World Cup

FIFA U-20 World Cup

Youths open hostilities in New Zealand Ifeanyi Eduzor

ouths from various continents of the world will today begin hostilities in New Zealand as the 20th edition of the FIFA U-20 World Cup kicks-off in Auckland. The competition which has since inception become an avenue for players to graduate to their national teams is taking place for the first time in New Zealand and the third time in Oceania after Australia staged the 1981 and 1993 editions, will attract 24 national teams countries who will play 52 matches in seven host cities, namely; Auckland, Wellington, Hamilton, Dunedin, New Plymouth, Christchurch and Whangarei. In the past 19 tournaments held, only nine nations have won the title. Argentina is the most successful team with six titles, followed by Brazil with five titles. Portugal won two, while Ghana, Germany, Spain, France and former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia have won the title once each. France, the current champions, will not be able to defend their title as they failed to reach the final round of the UEFA qualifying tournament. In doing so, the French became the fourth consecutive incumbent title holder to fail to qualify for the subsequent tournament. Although the current champions will be conspicuously absent in New Zealand, but that will not remove the shine off the competition as six-time champions, Argentina,

five-time winners, Brazil , two-time champions, Portugal, 2009 winners, Ghana and Nigeria which was runners- up in 1989 and 2005 respectively, are there to make the competition not only attractive but competitive All continents except Oceania have made an appearance in the final match of the tournament. To date, South America leads with eleven titles, followed by Europe with seven titles and Africa with one title. Teams from Asia and North America have entered the final match three times, but were denied the title by either one of the two traditional football power continents. Fourth place remains as the best result ever for Oceania, which was achieved in 1993 by Australia. Africa’s representatives in this year’s tournament will be an all West African affair as Nigeria, Ghana, Mali and Senegal are flying the flag of the continent at the tournament with the aim of winning a second title after the Ghana Satellites defeated

Brazil 4-3 in Egypt in 1999 to win the title for the first time for Africa. Today’s kick-off will be between host New Zealand and Ukraine at the 25,000 capacity North Harbour Stadium, with one of Africa’s representatives, Ghana taking on Australia later in the day at the Wellington Regional Stadium. Nigeria’s Flying Eagles who are the reigning African champions will take to the field next Monday, June 1, when they confront football power house, Brazil, at the 30,000 capacity Stadium, Taranaki, New Plymouth in one of the Group E matches. The Nigeria/ Brazil game is expected to be keenly contested considering the pedigree of the two national teams in world football, but with the inclusion of Skipper, Musa Muhammed, who led the U-17 squad that won for Nigeria a record fourth FIFA U-17 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates in 2013, FIFA U-17 World Cup Most Valuable player, Kelechi Ihenacho, Taiwo

Awoniyi and Spain based, Isaac Success, Chidiebere Nwakali and Kingsley Isokari, it is expected that the Flying Eagles will put up a good performance in the tournament. Although Nigeria Coach, Manu Garba, has declared that Brazil will not be a threat to his players when they meet on Monday, but the team is expected to be at their best to be able to get a good result against the South Americans to enable them not be under unnecessary pressure when they meet Hungary and Democratic Republic of Korea in the other Group stage matches. As the championship kicks-off today, it is expected that the 504 players who will be taking part in the competition, will follow in the footsteps of Diego Maradona, Lionel Messi, Christiano Ronaldo and countless other global stars who have showcased their potential at this tournament and went ahead to become a force to be reckoned with in global football.

Group A New Zealand Ukraine USA Myanmar (Burma)

Group C Portugal Qatar Colombia Senegal

Group E Brazil Nigeria Hungary Korea DPR

Group B Argentina Panama Austria Ghana

Group D Mexico Mali Uruguay Serbia

Group F Germany Fiji Honduras Uzbekistan

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unday Olapade, last weekend justified his ranking as the third best player in Nigeria with a win of the 17th CMCL Open at the Smokin Hill Golf Resort in Ilara Imokin, Ondo State. His last day 67, five under par also eclipsed, Markus Elija’s first day course record of 68. His new record score was all he needed to overrun Elisha in the CMCL Open championship race over the weekend. “I had to be positive all-week. It was tough and being penalized four shots on the second-day of the event for some mistakes. I played my last two rounds fighting back and I am glad I am able to recover from the setback” he said. He shot 75, 74, 68, 67 to total 284, four under par for the event beating Elisha by one stroke after 72 holes. Dominic Andrew, Operation Director of the PGA of Nigeria said of the performance, “Whoever had won is a big gain to the PGA; both Olapade and Elisha are new kids that I believe are redefining the Tour in Nigeria. I also think when the top regular players show up, there may not be much different because of the confidence they are building” Andrew says that the Tour is

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producing more champions now and that is what it was set-up to do. In the joint third place is former Winner of the CMCL Title, Lateef Lasisi of Abeokuta Golf Club and

Christopher Francis from Minna Cantonment Golf Club, Minna. They both shot 297, nine over par at the event. The total purse for the event was N5million naira.

Clarke retains Ryder Cup qualifying system

aptain Darren Clarke has decided not to change Europe’s qualifying system for next year’s Ryder Cup at Hazeltine. That means the Northern Irishman, 46, will have three wildcard picks to join the nine men who qualify automatically. The top four players in the European points list will qualify for next September’s competi-

tion, along with the top five in the world points list. “It would have been foolish to make any changes,” said Clarke, speaking in the build-up to this week’s Irish Open. There had been suggestions Clarke was considering reducing the number of wildcards to two, but he has decided not to deviate from the system used by fellow Irishman Paul McGin-

ley, whose side beat the United States 16½-11½ at Gleneagles last year. The European points list is calculated from performances on the European Tour, with Clarke’s other five automatic selections based on world ranking points accrued during the qualification period, which will start at the Russian Open in early September.

Aitchison, Taylor, others for US Women Open

ngland’s Holly Aitchison and Lauren Taylor and the Scottish duo of Heather MacRae and Kylie Walker have qualified for the US Women’s Open. Aitchsion and MacRae carded four-under totals of 140 at Buckinghamshire Golf Club to book their places at the Lancaster Country Club in July.

Walker and Taylor then won through a five-woman play-off with England’s Georgia Hall among those missing out. The US Women’s Open takes place from 9-12 July in Pennsylvania. Taylor, 20, from Rugby, was the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year in 2011 after winning the Ladies British Open Amateur

Championship at the age of 16. She said: “It couldn’t have gone better. I finished birdie-birdie and then to go into a play-off and birdie the hole was really fun.” Glasgow’s Walker, 28, who won twice on the European Tour last year, sealed her place at the third extra hole. She said: “I’m really delighted to get through and excited about heading to America.”

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lenty of Europe’s top footballers are already on the beach having finished their seasons but Barcelona star Lionel Messi has treated himself to some time off even with two cup finals to come in the next nine days. The Argentina forward - who has an incredible 56 goals for his club so far this season - headed for the sandy shores of Barcelona with his girlfriend Antonella Roccuzzo and son, Thiago on a day

off from the preparations. Messi and his Barca teammates face Athletic Bilbao in the Copa del Rey final at the Nou Camp on today before taking on Juventus in the Champions League final in Berlin a week later. If they can wrap up both of those titles to add to their La Liga triumph the Spanish champions can claim a brilliant treble. It is an achievement that is likely to require some real mental effort so; Messi spent some time on the beach on a low-key day out with his pregnant partner and their two-year-old son. Barca team-mate Javier Mascherano confessed this week that he would not swap places with Messi due to the expectation that constantly hangs over his head. The four-time Ballon d’Or winner will be expected to take the initiative for Barcelona again in the two finals before leading his country at the Copa America this summer. I wouldn’t trade places with him,’ Mascherano told Marca. ‘It’s very difficult to cope with the responsibility of showing you’re the best in the world every three days. ‘When the ball gets to Leo, our moves flow and our play becomes more attractive.’ According to Argentine newspaper Clarin, Messi and Antonella already know they are due to have a baby boy and have a name for him. The couples are reported to have settled on the name Benjamin – the same name his good friend and Manchester City star Sergio Aguero picked for his son. Thiago was born in November 2012 and the Barcelona superstar has his handprints tattooed on his calf.

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Heartland forced to stop training

I D’tigress in action

D’Tigress assures on AAG/afrobasket tickets Joel Ajayi Abuja

igeria’s senior women’s Basketball team, D’Tigress has assured that it will qualify for the 2015 All Africa Games and Afrobasket events. The team which has been in camp for the past 22 days for the All African Games and Afrobasket qualifier, billed to take place in Cote d’Ivoire between the 28th of this month and 6th of June will jet out of the country on

Monday to Abidjan for the qualifier. Head Coach of the team, Adewumi Aderemi, told Saturday Mirror that with the caliber of players in camp, the country will earn the double ticket. He added: “Everything needed to make sure we prepare well and qualify have been provided. “This is the first time in the history of female basketball in the country that the national team will be in camp for 22 days, so we had enough time to prepare.

“We have played Cote d’Ivoire a number of times and there has never been a time they beat us at the national level. “The team is ready for the qualifiers and I am quite confidence we will qualify for both events considering our level of preparation. Team captain, Helen Ogunjimi who last played for Bandar Abbas in Iran and Ndidi Madu who plays for Cadi La Seu of Spain all expressed confidence that the team will not disappoint when they get to Abidjan.

n order to adequately observe the Presidential and Governorship inaugurations, the management of Heartland FC has ordered its players to observe a-four-day holiday and resume trainings for the 2014/2015 season on Monday. The League Management Company (LMC) had after match day 10 ties announced a threeweek break for the ongoing season to allow clubs familiarise with their respective incoming state governors. Head coach of the Owerribased outfit, Erasmus Onuh, who revealed this to newsmen, said Heartland break was necessitated because the team’s stadium and training pitch, Dan Anyiam Stadium, Owerri will be the centre of activities for the weekend state governorship and other elected members inaugura-

tion ceremony. “We cannot use the pitch for training in the next two, three days due to the governorship inauguration ceremony at the stadium. “We discovered, too that there is no alternate good training pitch within the city so it makes a lot of sense to give the players few days holiday to resume on Monday, June 1. “We could’ve looked outside for a pitch but the effort was hampered by the fuel scarcity. “However, I impressed it upon the players that they must keep fit within the off period for the task ahead, “Onuh stated. The Naze Millionaires are eight on the league table with 15 points after 10-week of football hostilities. They will host Bayelsa United in match day 11 in Owerri on June 14.

Udoh out of hospital

Cricket: Ibeju dominates, lands Super Four Afolabi Gambari

beju Lekki Cricket Club has completed a hat-trick of victories over defending champion Foundation Cricket Club to win the 2014/2015 Super Four Finals by 81 runs. Captain Kunle Adegbola’s decision to field first after winning the toss proved to be a wrong decision when ILCC posted 192 runs for loss of 9 wickets in 50 overs with Opener Friday Udoh, top scoring with 35 runs off 49 balls, James Chukwu added 29 runs, Endurance Ofem (16), Seye Olympio (16), Ademola Onikoyi (13) while Bejide Jide & Saheed Akolade contributed 11 runs respectively. Second innings proved a surmountable hurdle for FCC1with four runs per over needed to surpass the 192 runs recorded in the 1st innings but the return of Saheed Akolade from Australia for Ibeju Lekki paid dividend as he ripped through the batsmen of their opponents claiming 3 wickets, 16 runs, 2 maiden in 6 overs with Seye Olympio adding 2 wickets, 25 runs, 1 maiden in 7 overs. Despite losing early wickets

of Sukanmi Odedele, Yusuf Gashon, Peter Ananya, Tope Olayinka improved Left-Hand batsman Dimeji Oladunjoye,

tried to salvage scored 23 runs, Kunle Adegbola (22), Koffi Bogadilla (15) and Godffrey Bakiweyem (12).

Mfom-Udoh

..as cricketers set to honour Ozako

Howard upset at 3SC sack

Sunshine Stars scoop LBA Q1 award

he annual memorial cricket match in honour of the former Legal Adviser of Club Cricket Committee League and one of the founding members of Federal Government College Warri Old Boys Students Association, Efere Ozako, will hold today at the Tafawa Balewa Cricket Oval. Ozako passed away in 2012. “The past three years have not been easy without our late friend but we can remember him with

SC head coach, Franklin Howard said he is depressed following reported sack from his duty post at the Oluyole Warriors. Reports went wide on Thursday that the amiable former First Bank coach has been relieved of his job due to string of poor results in the 10-week old Nigerian top flight. Howard said he has not been issued with any sack letter but

this occasion,” Event Coordinator, Mr. Andrew Aroy Ororho, said. “We want to make the 2015 memorial memorable not only for participating cricketers, but also the family left behind by Efere,” he added. Ororho, who is also Chairman of Delta State Cricket Association, said Ozako could be described as a colleague, team member and good friend.

insisted that it would be killing if the reported sack turned out to be true. “I’ve been down and shaken to the marrow since the news filtered in on Thursday. I just heard my sack at 3SC over the news and social media same as any other person. “I’ve no letter to that effect as we speak as we’re still observing a break to reconvene on Monday,” he told Supersports.com.

tar striker, Mfom Udoh, has recovered from injury and will be available for their next Glo Premier League game against Wikki Tourists in Bauchi on June 14. The League record top scorer was released from the Super Eagles camp last week due to illness, prompting speculations that he could be unavailable for the People’s Elephant when the league resumes from the threeweek break. But Media Officer of the club,

able toppers, Sunshine Stars, have clinched the League Bloggers’ Awards Q1 after an impressive start to the 2015 Nigeria Premier League season. With 20 points after 10 rounds of fixtures, Stars outpaced chasers Kano Pillars and Enyimba by two points. The Akure-based outfit has a league-best record of six wins, two draws and two losses, scor-

Farriel Allaputa, disclosed that the forward is out of hospital and will link up with his colleagues in training in the coming days. “Udoh’s condition has improved but he still needs time to recover fully,” Allaputa said. ‘’He should be back in training in a couple of days ahead of our preparations for the Wikki Tourists game. ‘’It’s unfortunate that he had to leave the Super Eagles camp but we hope he gets invited in the future.”

ing 14 goals in the process and conceding seven, with marksman Tunde Adenji contributing five strikes to help with their current run of five successive wins. “Sunshine Stars have been playing great football since the second half of the first quarter and it’s no surprise that they have emerged winner of Quarter One,” LBA Chief Executive, Ojeikere Aikhoje, said.

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AC Milan hold talks with Ancelotti

Arsenal, Aston Villa set for epic FA cup final

•Wenger (L) and Sherwood (R) looking ahead to today’s FA cup Finals

rsenal will be aiming to become the most successful team in the history of the FA Cup when they face Aston Villa at Wembley today in the finals of this year’s competition. The Gunners came from two goals down to beat Hull in extra-time last year and win their first silverware in almost a decade. If they triumph again today, they will be only the eighth side to retain the FA Cup and will become the first team to lift it 12 times. However, Tim Sherwood’s team has already beaten three Premier League sides in the competition this year, including Liverpool in the semi-finals. They also have the added incen-

tive that they will qualify for the Europa League if they manage to overcome the odds and lift the trophy. Sherwood is not worried that Arsenal won both league games against Aston Villa this season, saying the FA Cup final is a one-off match Aston Villa has played in the FA Cup final 10 times, winning seven. They last won the FA Cup in 1957, beating West Bromwich Albion in the semi-final. This will be Arsenal’s 19th FA Cup final, a record for any team, and have won a joint-high 11 FA Cup finals. Only George Ramsay (six with Aston Villa) has won the FA Cup as a manager more times than Arsene Wenger (five).

Stoke City offloads Palacois

ilson Palacios has become one of three firstteam players to be released by Stoke City, the club has announced. The former Tottenham midfielder failed to make an appearance for the Potters during the 2014-15 campaign and has not been offered a new deal. He joins Andy Wilkinson and Thomas Sorensen in leaving the Britannia Stadium at the end of their current contracts as the Potters look to improve on a ninth-place finish in the Premier League. Manager Mark Hughes has already moved to improve his squad with the permanent signing of Philipp Wollscheid and addition of goalkeeper Jakob Haugaard.

Liverpool £10m Clyne bid rejected

Palacois

One each of the last three times Arsenal have faced second tier opposition in the semi-final, they have gone on to win the trophy (1998, 2003 and 2014). The last FA Cup meeting between these two sides came in 2012, when Villa led 2-0 at half-time only to see the Gunners overturn the deficit in a seven-minute period in the second half to record a 3-2 win. Arsenal have won 22 and lost just three of the last 34 matches in all competitions against Aston Villa which has won 22 games, drew 9 and lost 3. All three of those defeats came at the Emirates. All eight FA Cup finals at the new Wembley have been won by a onegoal margin.

iverpool has had a £10m bid for England right-back Nathaniel Clyne rejected by Southampton. Clyne, 24, has become a target for the Reds with full-back Glen Johnson, 30, at the end of his Anfield contract. They are expected to return with an improved offer for the former Crystal Palace player, who has one year left on his contract at St Mary’s. Liverpool are also pursuing Burnley striker Danny Ings and Manchester City midfielder James Milner. The Anfield club is attempting to rebuild following a disappointing season under manager Brendan Rodgers, in which they finished sixth in the Premier league - two points above Southampton in seventh place - and failed to win a trophy. Clyne

C Milan has held creates a tingle in my talks with Carlo hands,” he was quoted as Ancelotti in a bid telling Il Giornale. “I don’t know how long to bring the former manager back to the Serie A the period of recovery will be,” he added. “I can assure giants. Ancelotti sacked by Real you that I’ve had plenty of Madrid this week, met Mi- offers from Italy, England lan chief executive Adriano and Germany. I’m sure Galliani and will decide on they will not be lacking Wednesday whether to re- from here until next year.” The 55-year-old coached turn to a club he helped win two Champions Leagues AC Milan from 2001 to 2009, winning the Italian league and Serie A. Current manager Filippo title in 2004 and two ChamInzaghi, who took over last pions League titles in 2003 summer, has been told he and 2007. He also twice won will not continue in his role. the old European Cup as a Ancelotti, who won the player with the club in 1989 and 1990. Champions League with Real Madrid last season but has not won a trophy this term, said he was considering taking a year’s sabbatical and having surgery on a back problem following his dismissal. “I must have an operation because of spinal stenosis that for some time •Ancelotti

There’s nothing in Barcelona rumours, says Ramsey

aron Ramsey insists that he pays little attenleague action him with a 70 miltion Premier to rumours linking lion move to Barcelona as another FA Cup final with Arsenal looms. The Catalan giants reportedly sent scouts to watch Ramsey numerous times during the season, while Wales manager Chris Coleman believes the 24-year-old has the required quality to be a success at Camp Nou. Ramsey, though, has brushed off such speculation and says that he is solely focused on beating Aston Villa today at Wembley as Arsenal look to retain the trophy won 12 months ago. “That’s just something that’s been written in the papers. I’m focused on Arsenal and on winning the FA Cup. That sort of news doesn’t affect me or enter my mind,” he said at Arsenal’s training headquarters. When asked if the move appealed to him, he added: “Not at this time. I’m focusing on the FA Cup, that’s what appeals to me at this time.” Ramsey believes last year’s triumph at Wembley over Hull City has signaled a change in attitude at Arsenal, with the Gunners brushing off their previous naivety to gain a winning mentality. “I think in the past we’ve been a bit too naïve, maybe tried to play the way we like to play a bit too much, and we leave ourselves a bit too open in the game,” he said.

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Toxic products seized in Lagos confectionary

•Billionaire Lebanese owner at large • NAFDAC vows prosecution

or Amin Mousili, a Lebanese business man, his daughter, Tatiana Moussali Nouri, and officers of his Chocolat Royal confectionary, this may well be the beginning of the end. Currently at large after men of the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC, on Tuesday, sealed off his outlet over charges of using expired products as food items for the public, indications are rife that the Lebanese may be subject of intense investigations in the days ahead. Apart from allegation of importing, storing and use of fake, unregistered and expired/unwholesome food products to produce consumables for customers, NAFDAC says that it sealed six illegal 40ft cold rooms fully stocked with contaminated food products built on top of sewages (soak away pits) and in front of toilets. This facilities were adjuncts to Chokolat Royale operations in the country. It was learnt that majority of these food products discovered have expired since 2004, which is 11 years ago, with the most recent expiring in 2013. NAFDAC discovered to its chagrin that the management of Chocolat Royal had revalidated the expiry dates of almost all the food products, with 90 per cent of them not even written in English language and therefore not registered. While two of the illegal cold rooms built in front of toilets were discovered at the Chocolat Royal headquarters at 267A, Etim Iyang Crescent, another two were discovered and also sealed at 1, Karimu Kotun Street, the residence of the company’s Chairman, Amin Moussalli, both located in Victoria Island, Lagos. Moussalli, Chairman, AIM Consultants and with chains of media houses including Cool FM, Nigeria Info, Wazobia FM stations,as well as WEE television stations, is believed to be at large. But in a press statement denying the incident, the management of Chocolat Royal on Wednesday said that the invasion of its premises by NAFDAC was a normal routine check. Not only did they deny ever using the expired products discovered to prepare consumables for their customers, but also stated that the expired food products were discovered in their “cupboard”. The statement also said the expired products found in Moussalli’s house were discovered in the house of one of the directors of the company.

Orhii inspecting some of the expired foods

“The items found were never used in preparing food or confectionaries. As corporate citizens, we will work with NAFDAC to ensure that these issues are promptly resolved and any breaches if any are remedied,” the statement read in part. NAFDAC officials said the Lebanese business mogul receives these products mostly for free or at a reduced price and also gets paid by the companies to evacuate the products, which ordinarily would have cost them colossal amount of money to dispose. Mousili then ships them in large quantities to Nigeria. These products are then cleared at the wharf and offloaded inside the two cold rooms at his Karimu Kotun residence, Victoria Island, from where they are then transferred to Chocolat Royal headquarters and then used to prepare ice creams, chocolates, beverages and pastries for members of the public. At the end of the double operations,

which lasted for nine hours, imported fake, unregistered and expired food products worth over N1 billion stocked in these illegal cold rooms were evacuated in six Hilux vans and buses, which NAFDAC stormed the place with. NAFDAC says it has in its custody six persons in connection with the incident, adding that they were arrested for intentionally obstructing NAFDAC officials while on official duty. “The suspects will be interrogated, while the food products will be sampled and taken to the laboratory for analysis, where the labels and contents will be properly analysed and at the end of the day when the reports are out, that will determine the next line of action,” an officer of teh agency said. Director General of NAFDAC, Paul Orhii, says that the matter will be thoroughly investigated and the people involved prosecuted if found culpable.

Orhii said: “As you can see, these products are not even registered. Not only are they not registered, they have expired, some in 2004 and they are not even written in English language, so they could not have been registered. “Not only that, you also noticed that the case is not only that the products have expired, some about 11 years ago, but they attempted to revalidate them, which is also a serious offence. “They were caught in the process of using these expired products. So after investigation we will begin the prosecution. Anybody can build a cold room anywhere provided the place is not prohibited, but in this case, I understand that there was a cold room on top of sewage; soak away pit. Of course you cannot use that kind of cold room to store stocks that you are going to use for the production of food for the members of the public, so that is an offence,” Orhii said.

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‘How torture by SARS operatives made me lose my pregnancy’ Patience Ogbo

housewife, Onyinyechi Anamelechi, has called on the new Inspector General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, to investigate Special Anti-Robbery Squad Officers attached to the Lagos State Police Command for alleged illegal detention and torture of her family following allegation of armed robbery levelled against her husband, Victor Anamelechi. Mrs. Anamelechi stated that trouble started for her and her family on December 15th 2014 when SARS officers from the Lagos State police command stormed her, home and whisked her ,her husband and her three children away. She stated further that she was kept in SARS Cell with her children for weeks where she was allegedly tortured and her children made to go through dehumanising treatment despite the fact that they are minors. Narrating her ordeal, she said. “I was at home with my children and some relations at-Bashorun Ogundairo Estate, Waterside, off Ago Road, Amuwo, Lagos n Monday, 15th December 2014 when three armed policemen in mufti stormed our house with my husband Victor, whom they had arrested on his way out and handcuffed. “I asked who they were and they told me that they were policemen from SARS Ikeja. They were led by one Sergeant Abduraman. They started asking ‘where is the money, where is the money!’ I was terrified and could not answer them. “One of the policemen hit me so hard on the face and I fell down. They started searching the entire house inside-out, taking with them every kobo they found in the house, including jewelries, documents, credentials, motor particulars, land documents and other valuables. “When they were done, they dragged me, my husband and our two little children, one aged 5 and the other just above 1 year into their vehicle. They also arrested my brother and my course mate, who visited us. “The SARS men forcefully took my husband’s little dog and his two cars, Acura MDX and Toyota Corrola Verso; as soon as we got to SARS, we were taken to the torture chamber where the policemen ac-

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cused my husband Victor of armed robbery and subjected to a long and gruelling torture in my presence. “My children were also made to watch as the SARS men beat their father. They kept demanding to know where he had money. At a point, Sergeant Abdulraman pointed a gun on my 5-year-old son, Daniel and threatened to shoot him if my husband refused to tell them where he kept money. “He was forced to tell them that he had money in GTB, Amuwo -Odofin branch but they continued to torture him until he fainted. I was weeping and begging them to stop. Then one of the policemen turned to me and kicked me from all sides, demanding to know my husband’s other bank accounts. I said I did not know and begged them to leave me alone because I was pregnant. The policemen did not listen to my pleas as they stripped me naked in the presence of everyone there and continued to ask for bank accounts”.

Superintendent of Police, Abba Kyar.

The mother of two in her narration, further stated that the SARS officers continued their torture the next day even as she informed them that she was unaware of her husband’s business transactions and she eventually had a miscarraige. “On the second night of the detention, I had a miscarriage in the cell and the whole place was filled with blood. I was left in that condition and for three days I and the children did not taste any food but the SARS officers on three different occasions led by Sergeant Abdulraman took my husband Victor to his bank branch at GTB, and forced him to withdraw a total of N7.7Million and handed over to them. “On the night of 29th December,my children’s crying attracted the attention of a senior police officer at SARS who came to the cell and ordered that I and the children should be released immediately. We were released on 30th December 2014, after two weeks and two days in SARS detention” Mrs. Anamelechi further revealed that

Lagos businessman arraigned for N2.7m fraud

businessman, David Badmus, on Wednesday appeared before an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly obtaining N2.7million under false pretences. The accused, 56, is facing a three-count charge bordering on fraud and obtaining money under false pretences. According to the prosecutor, Insp. Richard Odigie, the accused committed the offences on June 16 at No. 14, Nosa Close, off Sand- Fill, Ajangbadi, a Lagos suburb.

Odigie said the accused collected N2.7million worth of iron rods from the complainant, Mr Anthony Udochukwu, on the pretext that he needed them for a project at Ojo Local Government Council. ``Badmus approached Udochukwu that he needed N2.7million worth of iron rods to execute a project and issued a cheque for the amount. ``When the cheque was presented at the bank, it was, however, dishonoured,’’ he told the court.

``Badmus gave Udechukwu two Sterling Bank cheques with nos. 06664125 and 06664126 which were dishonoured on presentation.” The offences, he noted, contravened Sections 284 and 312 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011. Badmus, however, pleaded not guilty. Chief Magistrate O.I. Adelaja granted the accused bail in the sum of N300,000 with two sureties in like sum. The case has been adjourned till July 1 for mention. (NAN)

prior to her release the SARS officers stormed her house and further ransacked everywhere. She said “ I had taken permission from one of the SARS team members called Hassan to go home and collect some clothes for my children to use in the cell. I was accompanied by my brother-in-law, Mike, and while at home, a squad of 8 heavily armed policemen, led by the same Sergeant Abdulraman again stormed the house with three vehicles, and descended heavily on me and Mike. “Sergeant Abudulraman and his men removed all the furniture, fittings and household items from the house and carted them away in their vehicles. They destroyed other house fittings which they could not remove. They also confiscated my ATM card and forced me to disclose the pin number to them. “They arrested Mike and I and on the way to SARS, Sergeant Abdulraman directed that the things taken from my house be taken to ‘the workshop’. Onyinye and Mike were eventually detained till the following evening.When I went to her bank the following day I discovered that my account had been emptied. “On Monday, 23rd February 2015, Victor’s younger brother, Azunna, got a call from SARS Ikeja to bring along the keys to his shop at Ojo-Alaba market where he sells generators. The following day he complied, only to be arrested and brought in handcuffs to the shop in Ojo-Alaba.The police team carried all the goods (generators) in the shop and then detained Azunna for four days. Up till date, Victor CONTINUED ON PAGE 51

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Bankers steal N6m from customer’s account for money ritual

etectives attached to the Lagos State Police Command have arrested two workers of a new generation bank who withdrew money from customer’s account for money ritual. The bankers’ shady transactions were exposed after they were defrauded by a muslin cleric, Mubarak Ismaila Abdulahi, 47, and a prophetess, Bola Ojo. Abdulahi said he is a genuine Islamic cleric and also a native doctor. While the female banker who was duped insisted that she was set up and duped, Abdulahi said it was the lady who came to him for money ritual. “She said she was tired of banking work and wanted to get pregnant and rich. I asked her to pay N5.8 million. I told her that we would need to buy camels and also use somebody with hunch back for the materials,” said Abdulahi. According to a police source, one of the bank’s staff, who is a marketer with the bank, met one Ajibola in the bank and the said Ajibola introduced himself to her as the aide of a renowned politician. Ajibola further told the banker, a female, to assist him with the exchange of $30,000, equivalent of N6 million. Ajibola asked her to bring the money to another bank to collect the naira equivalent. The banker agreed after much persuasion and the promise that she would get something. The banker didn’t know she was dealing with fraudsters. She told a male colleague about the deal since she didn’t have that kind of money. The police said without the knowledge of the account owner, the colleague she confided in withdrew the said amount from a client’s account. They both went with her to the Bureau

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de change and changed it to $30,000. They now proceeded to the designated bank to give Ajibola the money and to collect her own. When she got to the bank, she called Ajibola that she was at the bank with the said amount. However, trouble started when he sent her the office address and asked her to bring the money to his office, stressing

that as politicians, it wasn’t safe for them to move around with large sums of money. Without thinking twice, she went straight to Ajibola’s office at 28, Samson Street, Oke-Odo. When she got there, she didn’t meet Ajibola, but met Abdulahi who allegedly hypnotised her. He gave her soap and prayed for her. He also collected the money from her.

Abdulahi told her to use the soap and sponge to bath while Bola Ojo spoke from the background as the voice of the Holy Ghost. Immediately they collected the money, they disappeared. After two hours, she ran to her colleague to lament that she had been duped. The owner of the account had however been debited N6,036,000. The account owner called her account officer to know why the said amount was debited from her account. He assured her that all was well, that he would pay back the money in the next two to three hours. After waiting weeks, the male banker confessed to the account owner. The angry lady immediately petitioned the Commissioner of Police, Kayode Aderanti, who then referred the case to special Anti-Robbery Squad. The female banker revealed how she met Adebisi Ajibola who is currently at large. Abdulahi, who had shut down his office and relocated to Ilogbo, Ogun State, was arrested. Abdullah’s arrest, led to the arrest of Bola Ojo, the fake prophetess. Abdulahi said: “It was my brother Ajibola who introduced me to the banker. She called me that she wanted to do money ritual. She came to my house in Egbeda for prayers, saying that she needed to get pregnant and also needed money to start her own business.” Abdulahi, a father of four, said the lady fell hook, line and sinker for the ruse. The prophetess, Bola Ojo, a member of Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Boluwatife Parish, located at Iyana-Ipaja in Lagos State, said she was paid N200,000 by Abdulahi for her role

Housekeeper, 28, faces N15m jewellery theft charge A 28-year-old housekeeper, Hope Hazhi, was on Wednesday brought before a Tinubu Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly stealing her employer’s jewellery worth N15 million. Hazhi, who gave her residential address as Akpako House, Ipare area of Lekki, Lagos, is facing a two-count charge of conspiracy and stealing. She, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges. But the prosecutor, ASP Chidi Okoye told the court that Hazhi committed the offences with others still at large on April 30 at No. 10, Susan Oji St., Ikota Royal Estate, Ajah, on Lekki-Epe Expressway. According to Okoye, the housekeeper stole an Audmairs Piguet rose gold wristwatch, diamond earrings, and a gold necklace, all valued at N15million, property of her employer, Mrs Tamaratari Owffefere. `When the complainant noticed that her jewellery were missing, she con-

fronted the accused who confessed to the theft of the items. “Hazhi admitted to her employer that after stealing the jewellery, she handed over the stolen items to one Uche, her lover and his friend, one Paul who are

currently at large,” Okoye said. According to the prosecutor, the offences contravene Sections 285(7) and 409 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011. Section 285(7) recommends seven years imprisonment for stealing from

one’s employer. The Chief Magistrate, Miss Abimbola Awogboro, granted the housekeeper bail in the sum of N500, 000 with two sureties in like sum and adjourned the case to June 29 for mention. (NAN)

‘How torture by SARS operatives made me lose my pregnancy’ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 50 has not been charged to court and is still in the custody of SARS Ikeja where he is being subjected to cruel torture. I am therefore appealing to the IGP to investigate this case as the rampaging SARS operatives have made the life of my entire family very traumatic, and have subjected us to palpable fear, distress and apprehension. My husband’s life is in grave danger and he may die in SARS cell”. “I am appealing to the IGP to order a

prompt, impartial and exhaustive investigation into the activities of these overzealous and SARS men who have gone beyond their call of duty and are still poised to trampling on the basic fundamental rights of their family members”. Reacting to the alleged torture and illegal detention, a nongovernmental organisation, Network For Police Reform (NOPRIN ) is calling to the police authority to prevail on SARS officers to be professional in the conduct of their duty. Okechukwu Nwaguma the National Cordinator of NOPRIN said, “The Nigeria

Police authorities under the leadership of the current IGP, Solomon Arase, is called upon to put an end to arbitrary arrest and indefinite detention without charge. “Every arrested person has the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty according to the law in a public trial at which he/she has had all the guarantees necessary for his or her defence. It is for the court to decide if a suspect is guilty. This can only be done after all the evidence has been heard and the person has been proven to be guilty beyond reasonable doubt,” he said.

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My administration will be guided by APC manifesto —Ajimobi Kemi Olaitan

overnor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State, yesterday, said his next four years in the saddle as the number one citizen of the state will be guided by the manifesto of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). He made the disclosure in Ibadan, the state capital, shortly after he took the oath of office for another four years at the Obafemi Awolowo Stadium (formerly Liberty Stadium).

Ajimobi who alongside his deputy, Otunba Moses Alake Adeyemo, took the oath of office administered by the state Chief Judge, Justice Munta Abimbola, said the next four years will also be guided by his own six cardinal-point programme in taking the state where it is supposed to be, stating that the people have used their votes to break the jinx of second term in the state. He commended past political leaders who have held sway in the state among whom is late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, whom he said laid

the foundation of where the state is today, noting that the state still enjoys mostly his legacies in terms of infrastructural development. Ajimobi while enumerating his achievements in the last four years, said he took the state from a state of massive public disturbance to a state that is envy

among its peers in terms of suitable environment, education, health and infstrastructural development. He added though there are still some challenges facing the state, he will do all that is desirable to take the state where it is supposed to be by setting the desire pace in all areas of

human endeavours. According to him, his administration has dualized all the major entry points of major cities in the state which has received massive accolade from all and sundry.. The governor while specifically speaking on areas where he would work on,

said his administration will work more on sustaining the peace and stability in the state. He said, “We shall consolidate on peace and security of the state. We shall consolidate on the infstrastructural development We shall develop our human capital and health.”

Ambode creates new ministry, agencies Francis Suberu

he Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has created a new ministry to properly position his government for the challenges ahead and serve the state better. The announcement of the creation of the ministry, Ministry of Wealth Creation and Employment and the agencies came at the swearing-in ceremony of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode at Tafawa Balewa Square, Obalande Lagos. The agencies as mentioned by Ambode are Office of the Overseas Affairs and Investment (Lagos Global) and Offices of Civic Engagement. The two offices according to him will be under the Deputy Governor’s Office. He said: “As part of our reforms, a new Ministry of Wealth Creation and Employment shall be established. This would specifically address the promise I made during the campaign on employment trust fund, labour exchange and entrepreneurship. This goal, we shall pursue vigorously. “Also, the Office of Civic Engagement shall be created under the Deputy Governor’s Office to strengthen and enhance our promise on government of inclusion. Everyone must have a voice in my administra-

tion.” He said the offices were to strengthen and enhance their promise on government of inclusion and promote international investment in the state. The governor who said his government would key into the Development Plan 2012 -2025 of Lagos State noted that the state’s civil service would be reformed to further demonstrate that government belongs to the people. He said the lesson from the last election was for no politician to henceforth take the people for granted any more, saying the best practices of yesterday might not be good enough for the products of today. According to him, “I am determined to demonstrate that the government belongs to the citizens. You have put us here as servants to serve you and not you serving us. Today we are committed to that creed.

L-R: Alhaji Saheed Adebule; Lagos Deputy Governor, Dr Oluranti Adebule; mother of new Lagos governor, Mrs. Victoria Ambode; wife of the governor, Bolanle; Governor Akinwumi Ambode and his predecessor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola and his wife, Abimbola, at Ambode’s inauguration in Lagos, yesterday. PHOTO: SAMUEL ADETIMEHIN

Amosun, deputy take oath of office Femi Oyeweso Abeokuta

gun state governor, Ibikunle Amosun, as well as his deputy, Yetunde Onanuga, yesterday took Oath of Office for another term of office with a promise that his administration would leave the state radically and demonstrably better and more prosperous than he met it when he assumed office in year 2011. Amosun, who emphasised that the renewal of

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his mandate to administer the affairs of Ogun state for another term of four years is a reflection of the confi-

...appoints SSG, Chief of Staff, CPS

Tosin Francis Suberu

ew hours into his administration; the newly sworn in Governor of Lagos State; Akinwunmi Ambode has announced the appointment of key officials of his government. Ambode in a statement signed by him appointed Mr. Tunji Bello as the Secretary

to the State Government (SSG) and Mr. Samuel Olukunle Ojo as the Chief of Staff. The statement stated further that Mr. Abiodun Bamgboye has been appointed Principal Private Secretary, while Mr. Habib Adamson Aruna was appointed the Chief Press Secretary (CPS). The appointments take immediate

effect. Bello, a journalist and lawyer was the former Commissioner for Environment in the out gone administration of Babatunde Raji Fashola. He studied Political Science at the University of Ibadan and later went to the University of Lagos where he bagged a Masters in International Law and Diplo-

dence which the people of the state have in him, also vowed to continue to justify the confidence which the people of the state have in his team of rebuilders in the state. The governor poke before thousands of the people of the state which included the Akarigbo of Remoland, Oba Adeniyi Sonariwo, the Olu of Ilaro and paramount ruler of Yewaland, Oba Kehinde Olugbenle, Senators elect on the ticket of the All Progressives Congress

macy. He later read law in the same University. His bustling journalism career started with the now defunct Concord Press Nigeria, where he rose from being a feature writer to become the Editor of National Concord. He was appointed Commissioner for Environment in July 2011 by the former Governor, Babatunde Fashola.

(APC) who thronged the M.K.O. Abiola International Stadium, Abeokuta to witness the swearing-in ceremony. Speaking further in his inauguration speech at the event, Amosun emphasised that his swearing-in ceremony performed by the state Chief Judge, Olatokunbo Olopade was an occasion to celebrate unity, freedom, progress as well as development which the state has witnessed within the past four years and not just to celebrate the electoral victory of his political party, the All Progressives Party (APC) in the state. Adorned in a native attire along with his wife, Olufunsho Amosun and his children, Amosun walked the red carpet to the podium at the Main bowl of MKO stadium for the swearing in ceremony, acknowledging cheers from friends, party members and associates.

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Yobe Chief Judge swears in Gaidam Inusa Ndahi DAMATURU

overnor Ibrahim Gaidam and his Deputy, Engineer Abubakar Aliyu of the All Progressive Congress (APC) were yesterday, sworn in by the Yobe State Chief Judge, Justice Garba Nabaruma. The swearingin ceremony which also climaxed with the celebration of Democracy Day, took place at the August 27 Stadium, Damaturu amidst tight security, but with thousands of APC supporters, political heavy weights and other dignitaries in attendance. Gaidam, who was reelected during the April 11 governorship election took the oath of office and allegiance administered

by the Chief Judge at exactly 11:08am while his Deputy, Engineer Aliyu took his own at about 11:02am respectively. In his inaugural address, Governor Gaidam thanked the people of the state for giving their massive votes for the APC and described the occasion as “a new mandate for change and sustainable development” and solicited prayers and support from all and sundry for God to restore peace and grant him wisdom and knowledge to continue to move the state forward. He said his administration will deploy necessary resources at its disposal to end activities of insurgency, rebuild all the destroyed communities so that the Internally Displaced

...Masari too James Danjuma KATSINA

ormer Speaker, House of Representatives, Aminu Bello Masari was yesterday, sworn in as the fourth democratically elected governor of Katsina state. Masari, who was elected on platform of the All Progressive Congress, APC, took over from Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s Ibrahim Shema. The first democratically elected governor had been Saidu Barda (19921993), followed by the late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua (1999-2007). Shema succeeded Yar’Adua, had governed for two terms of eight years, from 2007 till yesterday. The Chief Judge of the state, Justice Abdullahi Yusuf, administered the Oath of Office and Oath of Allegiance on the new governor. He was also sworn in along his deputy, Mannir Yakubu. Shema, who was supposed to do the formal handing over, was reported to have left the country on Monday for the United Kingdom. But the Secretary to the State Government, Muntari Katsina presided over a brief handing over

at the Government House before the inauguration proper at the 35,000 capacity Karkanda Stadium in the state capital. Speaking during the occasion, Masari said education would be given priority by his administration as the sector had become a shadow of itself. He said priority would also be given to the economic development of the state, with call on the people to give their support for quality execution of policies and programmes. The new governor assured that APC and by extension his government, would carry everyone along irrespective of party differences. Born May 29, 1950, Masari was House of Representatives member from 1999 to 2003; he was reelected to serve from 2003 to 2007, and was made Speaker at the time. He was among lawmakers that opposed third term agenda of President Olusegun Obasanjo, and had called for late Yar’Adua’s replacement when the latter was faced with health problem as nation’s President. He is the first from the southern part of the state to govern Katsina, and is first since 1999 to occupy the position outside of the PDP.

Persons (IDPs) go back to their homes and continue their normal lives. The governor also promised that his administration would in the new dispensation focus on the construction

of new airport, roads and drainage networks across the 17 council areas as well as provision of potable drinking water, agricultural transformation, poverty alleviation, improved

quality of education and job creation. He further spoken of his resolve to create an open door policy for generation of ideas from concerned citizens, traditional institutions

and religious leaders in order to move the state forward, noting that, the salaries of traditional rulers who are custodian of culture will be reviewed to enable them carter for their immediate needs.

L-R: Deputy Governor-elect, Barnabas Bantex; Chairman of the occasion, Gen. Martin Luther Agwai (rtd) and Governor-elect, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, during the 2015 inaugural lecture of the Governor-elect in Kaduna, on Thursday. PHOTO: NAN

Ahmed vows to ‘decouple’ Kwara from federal allocations Wole Adedeji ILORIN

he Kwara State Government may in the next four years, introduce tax regime that would enable it render meaningful services to the people in view of an “unstable global oil market and the associated fluctuations in federal allocations”. The governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed dropped the hint yesterday at his inaugural speech after he was sworn in for his second term tenure. He told the audience at the inauguration ceremony which witnessed a low turn-

out of Kwarans. His words; “My administration’s priority remains the people’s welfare. “ We will build more schools, roads, hospitals, power projects and structures needed to get more of our youths working and strive to put more food on the tables of our people and enhance greater prosperity for everyone who calls Kwara State home. “This administration will upscale development and boost entrepreneurship to get a greater number of our youths working. Starting from today, we will begin the work of transforming our state to the North Central’s

economic hub. We will create a new frontier of prosperity where everyone has the opportunity to better their lives subject only to their willingness to apply themselves”. The governor further promised to enhance functional education and expand access to functional education saying. “We will overhaul an initial 120 secondary schools across the state by building 1,274 new classrooms and rehabilitating 2,000 existing classrooms’ while he promising that new campuses for the State University, KWASU would be opened in IleshaBaruba with the establishment of a College of Agricul-

tural Science and another one in Osi where the new College of Architectural and Environmental Studies would be established. After reeling out a list of other goodies that he intended to provide in the next four years, the governor explained that to assuage the fear of the people on how the state would survive even with paucity of fund Ahmed said; “The answer is simple. In the coming months, we will begin the process of decoupling our economy from a reliance on the unstable global oil market and the associated fluctuations in federal allocation”.

Ganduje promises continuity Abdulgafar Oladimeji KANO

ano State newly sworn-in governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has declared that his government would sustain the legacies of former governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso. Ganduje said the landmark achievements of former governor Kwankwaso would play a pivotal role in catapulting the state to a mega-city, not-

ing that, his administration would review the Kano master-plan, Ganduje said, hinterland development would also benefit from the developments that would be initiated on the aftermath of a total revision of the state master plan. Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje yesterday at the Sani Abacha Stadium was Office alongside his Deputy, Prof. Hafiz Abubakar, took the Oath of Office administered

on them by Kano state acting Chief Judge, Mrs. Patricia Mahmud at about 10:05am. He said his administration would not tolerate corrupt practices, cabinet member or public office holder caught involved in any form of corrupt act would be severely dealt with, Ganduje said. In his words “I am determined to run an open government. We will listen to the people and al-

ways do what is right for the interest of our people and the development of the state.” Eulogizing Kwankwaso the new governor of the state said “what you did we shall emulate them. All the major projects you started and are not yet completed, we will complete them the way you perceived them. W shall consolidate on all achievement, stand and ensure the total development of Kano state.”

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•Reinstates sacked Rivers varsity lecturers Dennis Naku

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ewly sworn-in Governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike, yesterday appointed the most senior Judge in the state High Court, Justice Daisy Okocha, as the acting Chief Judge of the State. He also announced the appointment of Justice Christy Gabriel Nwankwo, as the acting President of the Customary Court of Appeal. Although Justice Daisy Okocha was recommended by Section 270 (1) of the 1999 Nigerian constitution (as amended) Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi,

refused to swear her in to office. The former governor however, chose to appoint the then President of the Customary Court of Appeal, Justice Peter Agumagu, as Chief Judge, a development which sparked off crisis in the state. The National Judicial Council, NJC, consequently suspended Justice Agumagu for accepting to be appointed as chief judge without its recommendation, as stipulated by the constitution. The development resulted in the closure of courts in Rivers State since July last year. Governor Wike in a

related development, recalled lecturers of the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, RSUST, who were sacked by the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Barimene Fakae, for insisting that his appointment did not follow due process. Fakae, who was the then Rector of the River State Polytechnic Bori, Khana Local Government Area was appointed Vice Chancellor of RSUST by Amaechi in 2011. Aside reinstating the sacked lecturers, Wike also instructed that the sacked lecturers’ outstanding salaries and benefits which

they have been denied for upward of four years should be paid to them. Wike assured the people of Rivers State that his triumph at the polls was a victory for the people, saying, “We are all winners”. Continuing, the former Minister of State for Education said; “This is the time to rescue and reclaim Rivers State. We are inheriting a Rivers State that is bedevilled by pervasive insecurity; decadent public administration; poor public education and a crippled economy. “Our administration will ensure that the

independence of the legislature and the judiciary is restored. We will ensure that lawmakers in Rivers State will no longer allow the members of the state legislators to sit outside its officially designated office complex. “Today is historic, we have resolved that our judiciary will no longer be trampled upon by the executive. We will run a government that will respect the separation of powers. We will run a government that will reflect a government for the people by the people for the people,” he said.

He assured that the era of multiple taxation in the state was over, saying, “We appreciate the fear of our people against the scourge of multiple taxation, I pledge that our administration will ensure that no resident in Rivers State will be subjected to multiple taxation”. Wike reiterated that he will work harmoniously with President Muhammadu Buhari to move Rivers State forward in the greatest interest of the people, adding that, “we will conduct a forensic audit of the monies expended by Rivers State in funding internal power generation to ascertain how it was spent.”

Okowa takes over in Delta, promises to restructure DESOPADEC Amour Udemude ASABA

r. Ifeanyi Okowa has been sworn in as the governor of Delta state with a promise to restructure the board and management of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) for effective performance. Okowa, who was swornin yesterday at the cenotaph, Asaba by the newly sworn in Chief Judge of the State, Justice Marshal Umukoro, assured Deltans of more robust governance with his five point agenda tagged “SMART” According to the newly sworn-in Governor, to kick start his administration for rapid development, he shall in the next one week, forward to the state house of Assembly, what he called ‘Delta State Contributory Health Commission Bill 2015’, Technical and Vocational Education Board Bill 2015 and Asaba Capital Development Agency Bill, 2015. “As a government, we have a clear vision of what we plan to do in the next four years. It is to enthrone a legacy of wealth and prosperity for all our peo-

ple and communities. “We are committed to the building and consolidation of a state in which there shall be more employment opportunities, a flourishing agriculture and agribusiness sector, effective health and educational system, renewed urban infrastructure and enhanced security and peace to bolster economic growth and development. “Our promise of prosperity for all Deltans is not a catch phrase or campaign rhetoric. It is predicated on the fundamental premises that we will succeed as a government when our people succeed.” Okowa stated. The newly sworn-in governor disclosed that his government will touch every sector of the economic from Agriculture, health, education, security, peace, employment among others. “We will be workers friendly as an administration but we must be ready also to accommodate the large army of unemployed youths, our rural dwellers and urban poor who need a lot of help and economic support. “Our vision is to drive an inclusive economic growth policy that works for all.” the governor stated.

L-R: Wife of the former deputy governor of Rivers, Mrs Mina Ikuru; former deputy governor of rivers, Mr. Tele Ikuru; Rivers New Governor, Mr. Nyesom Wike and his wife, Justice Eberechi Wike, during wike’s swearing-in as the new governor of the in Port Harcourt, yesterday. PHOTO: NAN

Ayade to establish new seaport in Cross River

Richard Ndoma CALABAR

he newly sworn-in Governor of Cross River State Prof. Benedict Ayade, on Friday at the inauguration ceremony, said that one of his administration policy trust Is to build a new state seaport for the movement of goods and services to and fro the state. Ayade disclosed this in his inaugural speech which he read out to Cross Riverians at the Calabar International Convention Centre (CICC) in the state capital. The University teacher-

turned politician stated that experts are currently working on the design of the project which had arrived the state, said that when the project is completed, it would help to turn around the fortunes of the state. The Cross River new governor maintained that his administration would also embark on the construction of a dual carriage super highway from Calabar through Ikom and Ogoja to the Ranch Resort in Obudu Local Government Area of the state. “Let me use this opportunity, to announce our signature projects, we shall

undertake the construction of a dual carriage super highway from Calabar through Ikom and Ogoja to the Ranch Resort in Obudu”Ayade added. “We shall serve the public interest with courage, to speak for greater justice and compassion, to call for responsibility and try to live it as well. “In all these ways, I will match the values of our past to the promise of tomorrow”. He said. Prof. Ayade promised to create job opportunities for teaming army of unemployed youths in

the state. “ There will be jobs for the youths and prosperity for the working class. The resurgent middle class shall find anchor for their roots and everyone shall find independence and pride in their work” The governor said. In addition, the new governor promised to assist youths to liberate themselves from the jaws of hardship, adding that no child shall go to bed with empty stomach neither shall any mother be depressed by lack of access to medicare for her children and loved ones.

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Okorocha embarks on policy revolution South eaST

Chris Njoku Owerri

mo State Governor Rochas Okorocha yesterday declared that his administration in this

second term will carry out comprehensive review of its policies to enable it serve people of the state well. Addressing journalists before his inauguration

S’ East governors urged to be transparent on budget, policy Chris Njoku Owerri

ewly inaugurated governors in the South East states have been urged to focus more on open budgetary policy so as to end corruption that has hobbled development in the zone. The Executive Director, Citizens Centre for Integrated Development and Social Rights, CCIDSOR, Emeka Ononamadu made this submission during the second summit on budget and open public resource management programme held in Owerri, the capital of Imo State. According to him “it is globally acknowledge that openness benefits not only citizens but also government as this will prompt better record management, making of decisions and services more effective.” This, he said, would also serve as a safeguard against misgovernment and corruption. “Fiscal transparency is important for two reasons. First it protects people’s right to know what their governments do with public resources, it has a transformative potential in reshaping the type of relationship that exists between governments and their citizens,” he stated. The executive director stated that when governments make more infor-

mation on their fiscal operations available, citizens could be in a better frame to monitor government actions and hold them accountable for how they raise and spend public resources. He however regretted that previous administrations had not followed this open budgetary process in the South East, adding that budget information was rarely available to citizens “even where such information were available the timing and form had always been inadequate for citizens to hold government accountable. He wondered why previous governments across the South East zone found it difficult to let their citizens know how much their over publicized budget cost, adding that the various governments see it an indirect affront when a citizen demands a copy of the government’s annual budget.

on May 29, 2015, Governor Okorocha who was swornin at Dan Anyiam Stadium, Owerri, said that the review may not go down well with the people. According to him “I may have to carry out certain decisions that the people may not like but I have to do it because of passion for good service to the people.” He continued that it was not in the best interest of the people that major roads and streets in the state are covered by offending refuse dumps, illegal motor parks, and street traders, saying that his administration would inevitably step on some toes in order to restore the state to her

premier position as the cleanest state in the federation through the relocating of road side mechanics, street traders and car dealers to conducive places of operation. The governor pointed out that even though he had won the affection of the people, he would not mind adopting any policy that would be tailored towards uplifting the wellbeing of the people. He however said that in this second term his administration would emphasize more on building of industries and creation of job opportunities for the teeming unemployed youths.

The governor dismissed speculation in some quarters that he would soon abolish his “Free Education Programmme” stressing that the gesture is sacrosanct and not negotiable in order not to stultify and rubbish all that he had labored to achieve for indigent families over the years. He noted that the introduction of the Free Education Programme had tremendously assisted to reduce insecurity in the state saying “Free Education will continue and I will embark on policy education and also ensure that state’s parastatals are either effective and perform

optimally or do not exist”. Okorocha amidst pomp and pageantry by faithful of the All Progressives Congress (APC) celebrating his re-election said that he had strengthened his local and international connections to attract more foreign inventors to the state, adding that over 50 Turkish investors would soon arrive the state to establish factories and agricultural institutions. The governor said that the state government on its part would create an enabling environment for investors to come into the state believing that “you must have to daggle a carrot for investors to come.”

L-R: New Enugu State Governor, Mr. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi; his wife, Monica, and Chief Judge of Enugu State, Justice Innocent Umezuruike, during the swearing-in of the governor in Enugu, yesterday.

Ugwuanyi to spread development in Enugu Dennis Agbo Enugu

ew Governor of Enugu state, Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has made known his intention to spread development in the three senatorial zones of the state. He said that two new mega cities will henceforth emerge in the state,

unlike the concentration of development in the state capital by past administrations. He disclosed the two new cities to include the 9th mile Nsude township that was designated as free trade zone by the past Goodluck Jonathan administration and Nsukka town. Ugwuanyi lamented that the university town

of Nsukka was long neglected, and expressed readiness to lift the status of the academic town to a modern city that will compete with Enugu metropolis. He pledged to create fair environment for all residence of the state in all sectors of the economy, adding that rural development will be treated as a priority in his ad-

ministration. The new government said that the state capital will henceforth, Enugu metropolis will be decentralized and to promote investment in the state to shore up revenue. Acknowledging that there is economic dwindle in the country, he noted that “a period like this is the best time to lead a state. We will turn the

economic challenges into huge blessing because we will look for other sources of fund.” Ugwuanyi asked the citizens to tighten their belt starting from government officials while every tax is expected to be made by both individuals and organizations, “but every kobo you pay must be utilized transparently,” he pledged.

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I would like to thank President Goodluck Jonathan for his display of statesmanship in setting a precedent for us that has now made our people proud to be Nigerians wherever they are. — President, Muhammadu Buhari during his inaugural ceremony as President and Commanderin-Chief of the Armed Forces, Rederal Republic of Nigeria.

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Geroski on New Markets (VIII)

eroski is emphatic that the market we eventually know arises from the behaviour pattern of the branch off of new technology in the trajectory platform. Specifically on Page 187, he concluded market growth as follows: “At this point, we have come to the life of market that we are familiar with, that we have seen in all of the established markets that surround us. There is, of course, a rich market ahead of those markets, where the established history of markets begins. We have followed the development of a new technology, traced it’s embodiment into a new product, watched consumers flood into the market and noted the establishment of major players on the supply side. What happens next is typically less radical, and being more incremental, the history involved seems to flow more continually.” It is logically sound to conclude that the whole history of the movement after evolution on the trajectory platform comes to play in the end. What is dominant in the market as a design is the choice of the clustering products decided by the consumer and not by supply. It is clear that supply and activities involvement have taken place and little is left for the demand, as the supply push is where the activities lie. Geroski concluded with what may be described as the most interesting challenges to modern economics. In Chapter Six, he looks into the future. One point the author has made is in the fact that new technology creates dominant designs, as new technology tends to provide better platforms for consumers to make a better choice of products. And once the choice is made among varieties of products, the dominant design product provides market identity and leadership, for it is expected that the dominant design product would have taken over from the previous products clustering and it either the producer of variant goods join the new technology to produce dominant design products or get prepare to leave the market. It is those leaders whose choice of activities dominates the market that often have, rightly or wrongly, the ‘first mover advantage. “Rather than seeing them as ‘active participant s’ in the market, it is technology that gives identity to the market, not the ‘first mover.’ The emergence of dominant design product marks a significant turning point in the evolution of the market.

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Book Title: The Evolution of New Markets Author: Paul Geroski Publisher: University of Oxford Press Reviewer: Jimoh Ibrahim. CFR. Post graduate student of Strategy and Innovation, Said Business School, University of Oxford. Specifically, the author describes the events thus: “It also signals the beginning of the established market as we will come to know it, for a dominant design is a consensus good whose adoption brings benefits to would-be consumers in the form of lower prices, easier access to complementary goods and network effect.” Until the arrival of dominant design, in the opinion of the author, the structure of the new market is very fluid, and there is no meaningful distinction to be made between entrants and the incumbents. The author identified three basic considerations as useful hints to those who want to move fast for dominant design products as follows: the emerging consensus among buyers, a slowdown in the development of new technology and the provision of complimentary goods. His conclusion of the evolution of the new market is not beyond the study of the end side of new trajectory, to keep an eye on the new evolution. He noted that new technology that creates the new dominant design will certainly destroy the old technology and that such new technology playing such role will surely develop outside the market. All that we need do is to return to the technology trajectory to see the evo-

lution, so as to know where the new technology is likely to come from. We can see who will bring them to the market by tracing the information highways as provided on the platform. “The champion of the old design will be amongst those who are least willing to see change occur, and least willing to participate in the change processes.” The entire argument of the evolution of the new market as posited by Paul Geroski is legendary and will remain so for a long time in academics. The thoughts are new and the discovery is priceless. It’s a new dimension to events that have been concluded thousands of years ago! For no one will ever think that traditional economics can be so dissuaded by such a profound and learned argument. Some scholars have described Geroski’s argument as ‘innovation economics.’ For me, I am almost practically convinced that a further expansion on the job of the evolution of new markets by the author may render the entire modern economic theory worthless. I simply see Geroski’s argument and by extension himself an alternative economics and economist. The publication of the book is very timely and beyond commendation for the author. The University of Oxford press has

also made, as usual, another evolution in the study of modern markets. There are certainly many issues that the author may need to address as the global debate on his book continues. And some of these issues, in my opinion, are things that may need responses when the author prepares the next edition. 1) The neglect of the role of nature and its pattern. The author appears to have neglected the issue of nature and its impact on technology. It will not be out of place to say that nature evolved before technology and that technology takes after the pattern of nature. Or is technology an isolated event? Market structures are also patterned on some natural arrangement, which the pattern of demand and supply naturally settles. It appears to us that science and technology have to study the pattern of nature for any progress to be made in the evolution of new markets. So also beyond the study of the old and new technology, it does appear the future is settled by the nature of what the new markets will be. It is those market leaders that can study nature that will create dominant designs which will redirect the market. A good example of this is the future of the oil market. There is no doubt that technology will have a role to play, but not without nature! To some of us, the trajectory platform is a platform of nature to which technology is integrated! That explains why there is slow place at the early stage of trajectory movement. Nature has a way of slowing down things, giving science sufficient time to respond and make investigations. And that is why new products don’t succeed one off ! The argument of the inchoate and choate demand appears much undisputed. But it is important to submit that if indeed both science and technology are profound, as put forward by the author in the trajectory platform, there was the need for the earlier or main trajectory to predict the emergence of the new movement. To be ignorant of the new movement on the trajectory platform is unacceptable. So, importantly, as the author puts it, “The champion of old design will be amongst those who are least willing to see change and least willing to participate in the change process.” This does not put the author, with due respect, in clear and sound mind as to the future evolution of the next markets. If the author knows the evolution and the movement on the trajectory platform, he must at least give a clear understanding of the future.

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