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Firearms possession: Former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki {retd} enters Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday. (Photo: PR Nigeria)

How FCTA, AGIS fraudulently re-allocated documented lands to influential Nigerians

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Lawyer sues Buhari over exclusion of South East in appointments

By Danielle Ogbeche

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or allegedly breaching the principle of federal character enshrined in the nation’s Constitution, the Federal High Court in Abuja has been asked by a lawyer, Marcel DimUdebuani to nullify all the 25 major appointments so far made

by President Muhammadu Buhari.

The plaintiff filed his suit marked, FHC/ABJ/CS/732/2015, in which he joined the Chairman, Federal Character Commission as the second defendant, on Tuesday.

He contended that the 25 appointments made so far by the President were in breach of the spirit of federal character enshrined in section 14 (3) of 1999 Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Buhari’s last set of appointments announced last week has drawn strong criticism from many Nigerians who accused the President of making lopsided appointments, skewed in favour of people from the Northern part of the country like himself.

He had on August 27 approved the appointment of Babachir David Lawal from Adamawa State as the Secretary to the Government of the Federation. He also named Mr. Abba Kyari from Borno state as his Chief of Staff.

Other appointments approved by the President, according to the statement, are those of Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (retd.) as the new Comptroller-General, Nigerian

Buhari Customs Service; Mr. Kure Martin Abeshi, Comptroller-General, Nigerian Immigration Service; Senator Ita Enang, Senior Special Assistant on National Assembly Matters (Senate); and Suleiman Kawu as SSA on National Assembly Matters (House of Representatives).

Both Ali and Kawu are from Kano State and Abeshi is from Nasarawa.

Enang from Akwa Ibom State is the only one from the South-South geo-political zone.

So far, no person from the SouthEast zone has been appointed into any position by the Buhari administration.

The plaintiff in the fresh suit prayed the court to reverse all the appointments the President had

Ogbonnaya Onu breaks silence on SGF snub

By Sylvester Ugwuanyi

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ormer governor of Abia State and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu has warned some persons against using his name to score cheap political points.

He strongly cautioned them to desist from doing so, saying Nigerians must continue to stand firm, resolute and work together in the overall interest of the country.

The APC stalwart was recently quoted on the social media as saying that Buhari had informed him of his intended actions and why he will not be chosen as the SGF. He was also quoted as saying that his house became a Mecca as people seeking favours besieged his house in anticipation of being appointed as the SGF, with the

same people deserting his house when he was not given the appointment.

A statement signed by his former Chief of Staff, Sunny Onyeukwu Tuesday says he neither operates any social media account nor making such comment.

According to the statement, “The attention of His Excellency, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, has been drawn to a seeming orchestrated campaign apparently originating from the social media to smear his hard earned reputation.

“On Saturday, August 28, this year, a Facebook broadcast titled “SGF; OGBONNAYA ONU AND VAINGLORIOUS NIGERIANS” allegedly at the instance of one Ajayi Temitope was circulated in the social media without his knowledge and consent.

“In it, Dr. Onu was falsely and

made so far.

Part of his questions submitted to the court for determination reads, “Whether the total of the twenty-five (25) appointments made so far by the 1st defendant (Buhari) is not against the spirit of Section 14 (3) of 1999 Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“Whether the exclusion of SouthEast geo-political zone in the twenty-five appointments made so far by the 1st defendant is unconstitutional and divisive among others.”

Dim-Udebuani, in his reliefs, prayed the court for “an order compelling the 1st defendant (President Buhari) to reverse the appointments so far made to observe and comply with the principle of Federal Charperhaps maliciously credited as having told an unnamed friend of Mr. Ajayi Temitope in a 35minute telephone conversation that prior to the announcement of appointments into the offices of Chief of Staff to the President, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, among other positions, he (Dr.) Onu was informed by Mr. President of his intended action and why he would not be chosen for appointment as SGF. “The Facebook broadcast further falsely credited Dr. Onu with expressing regrets about how his Abuja residence had become “a mecca of sorts” for those seeking patronage from him in anticipation of his appointment as SGF and lamented that soon after the announcement was made without his being appointed to serve in the exalted capacity, his residence became deserted.

“For the avoidance of doubt, it has become important to state in strong terms that Dr. Onu never expressed the views credited to him in the Facebook broadcast as no such conversation ever took place between him and our respected Mr. President.

acter as enshrined in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended).”

His other prayers also read in part, “An order of this court compelling the 2nd defendant (FCC) to invoke paragraph 8 (1) (C) of the Third Schedule to the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended).

“An order of court declaring all the appointments so far made null and void for violation of the principle of Federal Character enshrined in our constitution aforesaid.”

Dim-Udebuani, anchored his prayers on the grounds “that the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a country for all the citizens, SouthEast inclusive.”

He contended that the NorthEast, North-West, North-Central, South-West and South-South had representations in the appointments made so far.

In affidavit in support of the originating summons, the plaintiff said the President swore to defend and protect the nation’s constitution and that the Constitution ought to be obeyed by all appointments which he said were lopsided in the recent appointments that were made.

He argued that it would be, “in the best interest of justice and promotion of rule of law that the lopsided appointments should be discouraged by granting all the prayers before the court.”

Meanwhile, no date has been fixed for the hearing.

“He could not have, therefore, communicated a non-existent conversation to another person, more so an unnamed individual on telephone. Accordingly, it is false, cheap and utterly in bad faith.

Already, Dr. Onu has personally issued a rebuttal on the matter which has been circulated in the social media in a Press Statement dated August 30, 2015.

“However, it has become necessary to issue the foregoing clarification in view of ongoing efforts in some sections of the print and electronic media to further allude to the same phony Facebook broadcast without verifying the proof of its authenticity.

“Needless to say that such is capable of misleading the general public and by implication, injure the well-known integrity and honour which Dr. Onu holds sacred and guards jealously. At this juncture, it is important to recall that soon after the inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari on May 29, 2015; the social media was awash with the purported “news” of his “appointment” as Secretary to the Government of the Federation.

Senate hails withdrawal of suit by Unity Forum

By Samson Atekojo Usman

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he Senate has applauded ‘The Unity Forum’, led by Senator Barnabas Gemade, following the withdrawal of suit instituted for removal of Senate President, Bukola Saraki and his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu.

The suit, which bothers on alleged forgery of Senate Standing Orders 2015 used for inauguration of 8th Senate on 9th June, 2015 has been generating controversy among the camps of Dino Melaye and that of Gemade.

Justice Ademola Adeniyi, of the Federal High Court, Abuja had on Monday struck out the case and terminated further hearing on the

matter after the plaintiffs, who are members of the Senate Unity Forum withdrew their suit.

The five members of the Unity Forum who instituted the suit are Senators Abu Ibrahim, Kabiru Marafa, Ajayi Borofice, Olugbenga Ashafa and Suleiman Hunkuyi.

Chairman, Senate Adhoc Committee on Media and Publicity, Senator Dino Melaye, in a statement in Abuja, commended members of both the Unity Forum loyal to Senator Ahmad Lawan and the Like Minds Senators loyal to Saraki for their maturity and sagacity.

Melaye said that with the discontinuation of the suit, the

plaintiffs and their supporters had demonstrated that national interest was superior to individual and group interest.

He added that the development had put to shame divisive elements who wanted to ridicule the 8th Senate.

Melaye said: “On behalf of the Senate, we want to commend the maturity of the Unity Group and Like Minds Group. We appreciate that by withdrawing the suit, national interest has overcome individual and group interest.

“I salute the sagacity of the Unity Forum for withdrawing the matter from the court. This is as a result of series of underground

reconciliatory moves. I salute the sense of purpose of both groups.

By this very positive development, the divisive elements who wanted to bring the 8th Senate to ridicule have been completely shamed.”

He stated that the 8th Senate will henceforth remain focused on issues that borders only on the security and welfare of the people.

“Our primary objectives shall continue to remain about the people, the people and the people. The Senate President has promised to carry all parties along and he shall at all times place national interest above primordial sentiments”, Melaye said.

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Army Chief to generate modern strategies for troops fighting insurgents

By Seun Opejobi he Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Maj-Gen. Tukur Buratai, Tuesday promised to continue generating modern strategies that will provide support for Nigerian troops battling insurgents in the North-East, adding that such tactics will cover equipment and technical manpower.

Buratai made this known through Maj. Gen. S. Muazu during the opening ceremony of the 17th Combat Service Support Training Week held at Nigerian Army School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering in Auchi, Edo State.

Noting that the army is currently faced with the dearth of spare parts technicians for its newly acquired equipment which were procured through “haphazard means,” he revealed that efforts were ongoing to address the issue, in line with the Public Procurement Act. The COAS added that, “I have already set up the Nigerian Army Procurement Committee and the Directorate of Army Procurement in the Army Headquartres.

“Let me assure you that efforts are on to get the requisite spare parts for the newly acquired equipment and also train our personnel on effective equipment maintenance up to Fourth Line Level of repairs,” he said.

He further noted that the theme of the workshop was timely in making one of its major operations, Op LAFIYA DOLE, highly mobile, “while taking the fight to the terrorists in their hideouts.”

Also speaking at the event, the Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, who described as worrisome the “unconventional tactics” of Boko Haram insurgents, tasked the army to sustain the provision of essential materials and health services to the troops in the various flash points, through the service support corps.

The Governor, who was represented by his deputy, Dr. Pius Odubu, however, appreciated the military for its current success in major parts of the North-East as well as its role in checking various forms of crime in the state.

His words, “Right now, the Boko Haram sect has taken to unconventional tactics, through the use of suicide bombing to inflict harm, kill innocent and defenceless citizens and instill fear.

“In order to defeat them, it is imperative that new tactics and strategies must be evolved by the army and other sister security agencies.”

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NNPC boss gives eight months deadline for eradication of oil theft

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he Group Managing Director, GMD, of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu has revealed moves by the corporation to deploy drones across the nation’s territorial waters as a way of monitoring the inwards and outwards movement of oil bearing vessels.

Disclosing this on Tuesday while making a presentation at a Special Conference on Security in the Gulf of Guinea organized by the Gusau Institute, Dr. Kachikwu noted that the corporation was working on a range of far reaching options designed to end the ugly episodes of crude and petroleum products theft within the next eight months.

“We are launching an armada of approaches which will include incorporation of drones to check movements of vessels within our territorial waters; We are looking at the current logistical nightmares of changing staffing at the loading bay of crude oil export terminals virtually every 90 days, We are trying to equip the navy sufficiently though they are very well equipped in terms of skill set but not in terms of arsenal for patrols within the maritime area,” he stated.

As regards the protection of pipeline, the NNPC boss

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explained that though the corporation was working assiduously with the law enforcement agencies to increase the presence of military personnel in the area, the ultimate security for the critical oil and gas assets lies squarely with the host communities.

“The best security for these pipelines lies with the communities. We are trying to create enough incentives for them to see these pipelines as their own,” he said.

While lamenting the impact of oil theft on the smooth operations of the nation’s refin-

eries, he warned that if left unchecked, the menace could invariably make it impossible for the NNPC to operate the refineries.

“Most of our product pipelines are ruptured and attacked frequently. For instance between June 2014 and June 2015, we recorded about 3, 500 to 4,000 attempts at the various products pipelines across the country. In addition to that, the pipelines that are supposed to convey crude to the refineries are perpetually hacked,” he stated.

While lamenting over the use

of marine vessels to convey crude to the refineries Kachikwu said: “What this means is that no matter what we do with the refineries today, unless that is solved, we really are going nowhere, we cannot operate the refineries.”

The NNPC GMD, who noted that instances of oil theft have claimed a huge number of human lives beyond the loss of crude and products, revealed that in the last three years, a total of 350 persons including NNPC staff, Police officers, Community members have been killed as a result of activities of oil thieves.

“Today, I ask all of you to join us in this campaign, it is not just a campaign for NNPC but it is a campaign for every Nigerian…. So it is war time, it is business time, it is focus time and there is a lot to do.

Everybody is being called to the table and everybody is being called on the state of alert but in eight months we must be able to deliver an environment that is free from the vices of oil theft,” he stated.

Kachikwu went on to inform that in executing the campaign, adequate support will be sought from the International community, especially from countries that have become host nations to the stolen cargoes.

Nigerian Army recaptures Gamboru from Boko Haram

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he Nigerian Army has recaptured the Strategic town of Gamboru Ngala in Borno State, from Boko Haram insurgents.

Acting Director Army Public Relations, Col. Sanni Usman in a chat with DAILY POST said the Army are clearing up the area, an effort meant to rid anything left behind by the insurgents.

Usman, while speaking on the war on insurgency and the positive results attained so far, said, “ The Nigerian Army is doing all it can to end terrorism in the country. We are quite aware that we have a deadline of three months and we are working towards achieving that.”

He further stated that, “ Our troops have done us proud by recapturing Gamboru Ngala and as you may want to know, Gamboru Ngala is very important and strategic to the terrorist and the economy of Nigeria as well as some of the countries in the Lake Chad region.”

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INVESTIGATION: How FCTA, AGIS fraudulently reallocated documented lands to influential Nigerians

By Sylvester Ugwuanyi

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nvestigations have shown how the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, under the leadership of the immediate past Minister of the FCT, Senator Bala Mohammed, reallocated landed properties duly paid for and issued to some Nigerians to influential personalities in the society who paid less than 10 per cent of the actual cost which the Administration charged the rightful owners for them to secure the documentation of such lands.

A case in point is the plight of Zahna Commercial Enterprises which by virtue of the Right of Occupancy signed by the then FCT Minister and dated October 27, 201o was issued Certificate of Occupancy for Plot N0. 21 Industrial Area 1 and Ext (c16) Old Cadastral Zone in Asokoro, Abuja issued to it on January 2, 2014. It however turned out that the FCTA through one of its agencies – the Abuja Geographical Information System, AGIS, reissued the same property to Bulkon Nigeria Limited, a company found to belong to a former Minister of the FCT, Mamman Kotangora.

Checks by DAILY POST reveal that while Zahna Commercial Enterprises parted with the sum of N12,205,894.08 as total payment for the documentation of the land to AGIS, what was charged Bulkon Nigeria Limited for the same documentation of the 1.9 hectares land was N2million. Beyond this, it was found that the latter’s payment was made about three months after the C-of-O duly signed by Bala Mohammed was issued to Bulkon Nigeria Limited in contravention of the convention of payments being made before the certificate of occupancy can be issued.

To be specific, the receipt of Bulkon’s payment (attached) obtained by DAILY POST showed that the company paid the paltry N2million on the 26th of May 2015 whereas it got issued a C of O earlier in February 24, 2015. Meanwhile, Zahna Commercial Enterprises had at November 23, 2011 paid N9,873,750.00 (Receipt NO: 000125149) to AGIS for R-of-O of the said land and parted with another N1,749,108.60 (Receipt NO: 00016789) on December 9,

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2013 as Ground Rent. The total amount was brought to N12,205,894.08 following Zahna’s payment (Receipt NO: 0002136) of N102,000.00 still to AGIS on November 14, 2014 for Power of Attorney.

All these payments resulted in Zahna Commercial Enterprises being issued a Certificate of Occupancy (with File NO: MISC 107636) also signed by Bala Mohammed on January 2, 2014 as against that of Bulkon Nigeria Limited (with File NO: MISC 77661) that was dated February 24, 2015. This was done without any revocation of the right earlier granted to Zahna just as the

organization was not served any notice to the effect.

Speaking with DAILY POST, Counsel to Zahna Commercial Enterprises, Bola Aidi Esq revealed that his chambers had written on behalf of its clients to the Permanent Secretary about the issue and had on the 31st of August written to President Muhammadu Buhari where it alleged that the C-of-O purportedly issued by the former Minister of FCT who left office on May 29 2015 was fraudulently “backdated to read February 24, 2015”.

The Chambers raised five points in its petition to the President, and exclusively

“There was a litigation and the judgment was delivered by an Abuja High Court in March 8 2001 and Bulkon was declared the bonafide owner. A memo was raised to the honorable minister to restore the land to Bulkon”

obtained by DAILY POST which reads in part: That we are constrained to conclude that the said certificate issued to Bulkon is a product of fraud; (same not having been issued by Senator Bala Mohammed or having been issued by him after he left office in May, 2009) for the following reasons: a) That as the time the Certificate was allegedly signed on 24th February, 2015, no single payment was made to the government in respect of the issuance of the Certificate and no single ground rent was paid on same contrary to the norm in AGIS and in contrast to the over twelve million (N12,000,000) Naira paid by our client in 2012 and 2013 before the signing of the C. of. O belong (sic) to our client (copies attached). We are therefore convinced that Senator Bala Mohammed would not have signed a C. of. O without the payment of the requisite fees. If there was no fraud or corruption. b) That it was only on May 26th, 2015 that Bulkon Nigeria Ltd (for whom the Minister allegedly signed a C. of. O on 24thFebruary, 2015) hurriedly made a payment of the sum of two million (N2,ooo,000) Naira in respect of the C. of. O allegedly issued since 24th February, 2015 over three clear months after purported issuance of the C. of. O (copy attached). c) That the identification number of the C. of. O allegedly issued to Bulkon is not in conformity with the land specification and therefore a forgery as the time digit miscellaneous number of the C. of. O is not for commercial purpose but private. All commercial land digits carry six numbers.

Furthermore, we wish to bring to your attention that some unscrupulous elements within AGIS in other to create the semblance of a valid revocation of our client’s title have gone ahead to forge various internal memos creating the impression that there was double allocation and that our client’s title was vividly revoked even when (a) the copy of the file report showed there was no problem with the allocation. (b) no revocation letter was served on us. (c) the same AGIS duly served our client with demand for ground rent payment on 13th November, 2014 in the sum of

N583,036.20k which sum our client duly paid on 17th November, 2014. (copies attached). d) Our client’s power of Attorney (allegedly attached) was registered by the same deed registry on 28th October, 2014 without any issue of double allocation. (e) A copy of the search report conducted again by our client on 14th November, 2014 and which was dispatched to us on 19th November, 2014 equally showed there was no encumbrance whatsoever.

DAILY POST sought to get the reactions of the Head of information and Customer Service in AGIS, Cosmos Uzodinma, who revealed that he would have loved to have our correspondent speak with the Director of Lands in the department (who was not on seat).

While confirming the authenticity of the documents which DAILY POST is in possession of, he explained that there was a double allocation of the contentious property which necessitated it being restored to Bulkon after a court judgment from an Abuja High Court. What Mr. Uzodinma said in the conversation contradicted greatly with documents available to this newspaper.

According to him, “The original allocation was made in May 1953 to one Sule Mohammed; The C of O was also given in December 1984. The ownership was transferred to Bulkon by the administrators of Sule Mohammed in 2003 as a donation while Power of Attorney was got in April 2003.

“There was a litigation and the judgment was delivered by an Abuja High Court in March 8 2001 and Bulkon was declared the bonafide owner. A memo was raised to the honorable minister to restore the land to Bulkon.

But I can notice a double allocation to Zahna but that double allocation was like stepped down and restored to Zahna according to the first come first served rule.

There was really double allocation to Zahna and that was why the land has to be restored back to Bulkon,” he stated.

Further questions on why the dates quoted by Mr. Uzodinma do not tally with the dates of the two C of O issued by AGIS could not be answered accurately.

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We have had enough marginalization

– Enugu community cries out emmanuel uzodinma

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he people of Igboano, in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State have petitioned Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of the State, calling on him to address age-long marginalization in the area.

According to the four communities that make up Igboano, they had been continuously sidelined in the area of political appointments and elective positions.

A pressure group, under the auspices of Equity and Fairness Forum, while speaking on behalf of the communities, urged Governor Ugwuanyi to correct the political imbalance to ensure justice, equity and fairness among the four zones that make up the local government.

The forum in a statement signed by Francis I. Uzoabalum (Mbanano zone, C. I. Ogbonna (Igboano zone), H. N. Emeka (Ogboli zone) and Jideofo Ikeowa (Adada zone) advocated that the next Uzo-uwani council chairman should be zoned to the area.

The statement reads: “UzoUwani LGA is subdivided into four zones; Adada, Ogboli, Mbanano and Igboano. Adada with population of 22,756 has enjoyed the lion share of positions from 2003 till date.

They have produced two House of assembly members, one House of Representatives, one senator, three commissioners and five senior special assistants.

“Ogboli with population of 48,329 has also benefitted from the stream of who gets what since 2003 as they have amply been represented in various capacities ranging from chairmanship 20072011, house of assembly 2011-2015 and 2015-date, commissioner 2007-2011 and SPA 2011-2015.

“Mbanano with population of 29,988 has produced two LGA chairmen 2003-2005 and 2011-2015, one SPA 20072011 and one commissioner2003-2007.”

The forum, while lamenting that Igboano, in the last 12 years, had received no tangible political appointment, queried: “will it be fair and just, before God and Man, for either Adada producing the current senator in 20152023 and having produced two commissioners, or Ogboli producing the current house of assembly member in 20112019 or Mbanano, which has just completed full two-term tenures of chairmanship from 2011-2015, to produce the next LGA chairman? Should what is good for the goose not be good for the gander?”

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Kogi APC Primary: I would

have saved the situation – Senator Ohiare denies he sold out

By Samson Atekejo Usman and Timothy Enietan-Matthews

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s diverse interests in Kogi State continues to trade blames over the fallout of the APC gubernatorial primary election, which was won by Prince Abubakar Audu, Senator Mohammed Ohiare representing Kogi Central has revealed that he would have saved the situation if the aspirants from Kogi Central had listened to him.

Speaking with DAILY POST in Abuja, Ohiare noted that those blackmailing him that he surreptitiously worked for Prince Abubakar Audu were not in the know of what happened.

He wondered how some politicians would go the whole hog to concoct lies in order to destroy ones political career that was laboriously acquired over the years.

“It is quite unfortunate that in politics, the greatest weapon to use against your opponent is blackmail; I occupy the highest political office in the Central zone, which of course, I will forever be grateful to my people, hence, I could not have done that,” he maintained.

Ohiare opined that he would have contested for governorship as part of the Ebira agenda, but that “having considered climate of things”, he retreated to enable him midwife the agenda to a conclusion.

He noted that they were able to convince the aspirants from the Western Senatorial to step down, while his kinsmen refused all entreaties.

“On this very gubernatorial bid, I had intention to contest, but after considering the climate of things, I withdrew to midwife the agenda of Ebira man becoming the candidate or at most, an Okun person, and God knows that was exactly what I worked for,” he stated.

He added that he had to close ties with Senator Ohize, whom he had been at loggerheads with for quite some time, for political reasons, stressing that they analysed all the contestants, in conjunction with other stakeholders, to arrive at picking Alhaji Abubakar Sanusi as the preferred person to fly the flag.

“Back home, I have decided to bury the hatchet with Senator Ohize whom I have been at

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loggerheads with; I invited him into the project to jointly choose a common candidate and of course when we analysed characters, we centred our interest on Sanusi”, he disclosed.

He further stated that Sanusi’s candidature was already accepted by delegates from Western zone, much of where victory would have come.

He described him as a notable philanthropist, whose pedigree transcended others in terms of commitment to the cause of Ebira land.

Meanwhile, the highly political Ebira people, in reaction to the loss trooped in a long convoy of cars and motorcycles from the Lokoja New Stadium to the centre of the town, chanting solidarity songs and raining curses and insults on the duo of Ohiare and Alhaji Abubakar Sanusi Gamji, who they said were used by former Governor, Abubakar Audu, the winner of the primaries, to break the block votes that should have accrued to their brightest chance of producing the governor of the state, Alhaji Yahaya Bello.

Before the primaries, there were speculations that Gamji was brought in by Ohiare, with the tacit encouragement from Audu, who felt threatened by the growing profile of Bello as an aspirant.

A chieftain of the party, who spoke to DAILY POST in confidence, said Gamji joined the race just two weeks to the primaries, not to win but to destabilise the central zone and provide an easy ride for Audu.

Rivers Police arrest 214 robbery suspects, 107 suspected cultists

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he Rivers State Police Command, Monday, arrested 214 armed robbery suspects and suspected cultists, recovering arms and ammunitions in the process.

DAILY POST recalls that there had been a two-month state of emergency declared by the Rivers State Police Command against violent crimes.

The outgoing Commissioner of Police, Mr. Chris Ezike, in his statement at the

headquarters of the Police command in Port Harcourt on Monday, said: “The emergency against violent crimes is a huge success. It has brought crimes such as kidnapping and cultism to a minimum level.

“638 ammunition and 312 cartridges were among items recovered from suspects.”

He also added that 41 different brands of vehicles and cash were recovered from the suspects.

“Most of them,” Ezike con-

He also alleged that Gamji remains a stalwart of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as he has not officially decamped from the party.

“Ohiare and Gamji successfully played the Audu game. Ohiare, in connivance with Audu, brought in Gamji, a PDP member to cause confusion in the central zone and deny the zone the APC ticket.

“Everybody knew that Yahaya Bello was the only threat Audu had and they needed to break his growing influence and make things easy for the former governor”, the chieftain said.

Another source told DAILY POST that Ohiare had always been an Audu person and was actually working for him.

“Senator Ohiare worked for Audu and was only pretending to be backing Abubakar Sanusi Gamji. It was pure politics of deceit he played there. I only pity Gamji because he was like a pawn in a game of chess. The intention of the Ohiare group was never about him but Audu”.

The source also added that aside playing the Audu conspiracy, Ohiare was actually on a revenge mission, haven been enlisted by the late father of Gamji, Alhaji Abu Inihaya, in 2007, into the governorship race against former Governor Ibrahim Idris on the platform of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN. According to the source, Ohiare, who is was also a sitting Senator at that time, sold most of his landed properties to prosecute the election which he lost to Idris, adding that the Senator only paid back Gamji for what he termed sins of his father and at the same time, stopping Yahaya Bello, he and his camp considered too audacious.

Continuing, the source opined that the Ohiare camp and by extension, Senator Ohize, are afraid to allow the younger generation of leaders to take over, especially those they considered too independent, because that may signal their retirement from politics.

DAILY POST reports that Ebiras, in their thousands, marched on foot behind the convoy of the 40 year old business man, Yahaya Bello, from the stadium to his residence beside the Government House, Lokoja, on Sunday morning after the announcement of results, a distance of about six kilometres.

tinued, “are already facing prosecution in court.

He further stated that his command also arrested 107 suspected cultists, noting that some confessed to being members of dreaded cult groups to include Iceland, Vikings and two others Dey Gbam, Dey Well, as they are usually referred to.

During the encounter with robbers within the period, Ezike said his command lost two Police officers while three suffered gunshot injuries.

Meanwhile, Mr. Chris Ezike, the outgoing Commissioner of Police in Rivers State, is set to resume in Edo State as the new head of the state command.

Amaechi’s appointment: All efforts to rubbish and diminish him will be futile - Rivers APC

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he Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has alleged a gang-up against former Governor, Chibuike Amaechi, by some alleged powerful forces in the State who are desperate to ensure he does not get appointed into the cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari.

In a statement issued on Tuesday in Port Harcourt and signed by its Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, the State APC chapter urged Amaechi to be steadfast in his support for the administration of President Buhari which he put his life at risk to make possible, while urging the party’s supporters and admirers of Amaechi to exercise patience and allow President Buhari to conclude his appointments before any valid judgment can be passed.

The statement reads, “These retrogressive forces led by the State Caretaker Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, are so afraid of the shadow of Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi; they are willing to go to any length to ensure that he is not appointed in President Buhari’s cabinet.

“For a couple of months, the so-called forces have mounted a relentless campaign of deformation against the person of Amaechi, thus biting the finger that once fed them. This is not only shameful but also a clear sabotaging of the greater interests of Rivers State.

“We wish to advice Wike, who is well known for his corruptible tendencies, to desist and stop trying to play God. “We are confident that Wike can never constitute a stumbling block to Amaechi if President Buhari wishes to nominate him to render service to his fatherland in any capacity.

“Those who have been sponsoring stories claiming that Amaechi was so shocked by his non-appointment as Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), that he took off for London to get himself together, it will shock you to know that on the contrary, Amaechi was in Port Harcourt to witness the formal commissioning ceremony of a church.”

Change of name OBIORA ADAEZE THERESA I, formerly known as Nwobu Adaeze Theresa, wish to be known and addressed as Obiora Adaeze Theresa. All former documents remain valid and the general public is to please take note.

OBIORA UGOCHUKWU PATRICK I, formerly known as Nwobu Obiora Patrick, wish to be known and addressed as Obiora Ugochukwu Patrick. All former documents remain valid and the general public should please take note.

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former Minister of State for Finance, Mr. Remi Babalola who chaired the Federation Account Allocation Committee, FAAC, between 2007 and 2010 yesterday revealed that he left the cabinet of former President, Goodluck Jonathan owing to the mismanagement of the nation’s resources.

While speaking at the 45th Annual Accountants Conference and 50th Anniversary celebration of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, ICAN, Babalola alleged that the level of lack of transparency in the oil sector under Jonathan was alarming.

The former Minister, in his paper titled “Achieving the Nigeria of Our Dream: The Responsibility of Professional Accountants,” called on the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to confront the endemic corruption whole-heartedly in order to resolve the country’s mal-functionality.

According to him, “Our culture of impunity is the bane of the entrenched corruption in our society.

The value destruction and corruption undermine any economic development or social change we may aspire for our nation.

“Mismanagement and misallocation of resources, coupled with an unprecedented level of corruption have been at their highest in the history of our nation in the last six years.

“Performance or success in public space was measured by the conversion rate of public funds

Babalola into private accounts. It looks as if democracy has been substituted with kleptocracy”.

While drawing the attention of the nation to the parlous state of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC accounts five years ago, Babalola asserted that many sympathisers feared for his life as what he did amounted to what he described as “stepping on a snake”.

“I was unperturbed and unruffled but ready and willing to take a walk as a statement of intent that if they wanted to continue in that decadence of resource mismanagement, I was not going to be a part of it,” he stated.

The former FAAC Chairman decried the absence of transparency in the oil sector and the NNPC, regretting that the corporation’s

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he naira depreciated by N5 to N220 per dollar yesterday in the parallel market as dollar demand to fund hajj pilgrimage and payment of school fees increased demand for the

United States currency.

From an average of N215 per dollar at the close of business on Friday, the parallel market exchange rate rose sharply to N220 per dollar yesterday, in Lagos and

core competence had been reduced to importing refined products and paying subsidies to bogus companies.

While wondering why it was difficult for the NNPC to compete with the likes of PETROBRAS of Brazil and PETRONAS of Malaysia, he noted that,“It is counter intuitive that we deliberately ensure that receipts and proceeds into the nation’s treasury are not accounted for.

“Such has been our contempt for process transparency that an incumbent governor of an operationally and legally independent central bank, who publicly alerted the nation, was forced out of a fixed tenure.

“Of course given its systemic importance to the economy, there is no justification for the state-owned oil sector monopoly (the NNPC) not to publicly publish its audited accounts and even quarterly accounts like all listed companies on the stock exchange,” he stated.

Babalola, who is a Fellow of ICAN, recommended that public declaration of assets should be made mandatory for every principal officer in the executive arm of government from the president to the ministers, permanent secretaries, director-generals, and heads of parastatals and agencies.

This, according to him had become necessary to curb the alarming rate of corruption in the country.

The ex-Minister also urged the Federal Government to ensure that the NNPC published its audited

Abuja.

Managing Director/Chief Executive, H.J Trust BDC, Mr. Harrison Owoh, said there is huge demand from those going for the Hajj pilgrimage. He noted that 66,000 people were approved for the Hajj while the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) approved maximum sale of $1000 to each pilgrim at N160 per dollar. But each of them needs about $6000 for the pilgrimage hence they are in the market to

accounts quarterly like all listed companies on the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

As regards the Federal Government’s bailout programmes for the states, he suggested that it should be done in line with Section 41 of the Fiscal Responsibility Act. “As good a gesture as the bailout is, it may lead to moral hazard as the states continue with financial recklessness leading to financial insolvency. Why are we borrowing to pay salaries in stark violation of Section 41 of the Fiscal Responsibility Act?” he queried.

He added, “Rescuing the states is a necessary gesture but how and on what terms? Each state should have been treated as an entity with peculiar conditionalities.

“A body like ICAN and other professional bodies should have been brought in as independent platform to assess and recommend terms and conditions for each state just like the situation in Greece.”

Babalola, who called for a higher level of advocacy in financial prudence and disclosure by professional accountants, charged professional accountants to display discipline, knowledge, ethics and integrity at all times.

His words, “As professionals, we should be able to establish causal relationships in observed phenomena.

“The highlighted causes of the financial crisis and corporate governance scandals cannot but be traced directly or indirectly to professional accountants and financial reporting.”

source for the balance.

It would be recalled that on August 5th, the CBN banned cash deposit of foreign currency into domiciliary accounts. In a circular signed by Mr. Olalekan Gbadamosi, Director, Trade and Exchange Department, CBN, the apex bank said that payment into and withdrawal from domiciliary accounts would be limited to transfers.

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private jet belonging to the Akwa Ibom State Government on Tuesday flew the Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio in company of a cardiologist and a general doctor to London from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.

DAILY POST recalls that Akpabio who was involved in an auto crash on Monday was briefly admitted at the trauma centre of the National Hospital in Abuja.

Akpabio was said to have been traumatised and in shock after the crash which involved two SUVs. The former Governor of Akwa Ibom State was however given a clean bill of health by the doctors at the centre on Monday evening; however Akpabio is going to a London hospital to seek further evaluation and treatment.

Reacting to the crash, the United States Embassy in Abuja Monday stated that the former governor’s armoured Mercedes Benz G63 AMG ran into an armoured Suburban SUV in a US diplomatic convoy at the Bollingo Hotel junction in the capital city.

The crash which occurred at about 7.30am however claimed no life.

Fayose’s punishment of workers, is torture, intimidation – Lawyer

A Youths ask Dickson not to India Police arrest three Nigerians, six accomplices for contest if he is scared duping Indian businessmen A T s the December date draws closer for the Bayelsa State governorship election, youths under the umbrella of Youth Forum for Progressive Change have urged the State Governor, Seriake Dickson not to contest the election if he is scared of been defeated.

The YFPC, loyal to the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Tiwei Orunimighe, gave the advice through a communique signed by its National Coordinator, Aye Itare; Secretary, Mr. Jonathan Okwu and Public Relations Officer, Mr. Amamboha John, after its meeting in Yenagoa on Tuesday.

The YFPC said, “We as civilized Bayelsa youths, hereby, admonish Governor Seriake Dickson that governing the people is not a do-or-die affair.

“So, if he is not sure of his fate in the forth coming governorship election slated for De-

cember 5 or if he is too scared of the calibre of personalities coming to the poll against him, he should do the needful – leave office honourably by withdrawing from the race.

“We as youths will gladly forgive him of some of the things he could not get right as a governor.

“Our admonition to Dickson is hinged on the fact that no amount of insults, willful misrepresentation of facts, innuendos nor plain attacks or derogatory remarks by him or his supporters on the persons of APC leaders in the state such as Tiwei Orunimighe, former Governor Timipre Sylva, Chief Ndutimi Alaibe, Chief Diekivie Ikiogha, or any other governorship aspirants can make him return in 2016.”

The group further asked Dickson to honourably pull out of the governorship race instead of of listening to his aides as his days in the Government House are numbered.

hree Nigerians, Onuoha Nnanna Francis, 34, Valentine O. Anumaka, 28, and Eze Victor, 35, alongside 6 of their accomplices, have been arrested by India’s Central Crime Station (CCS), for duping two Indian businessmen to the tune of Rs3.6 lakh by luring them with an offer to invest $ 1 lakh in hotel business.

India Times reports that the arrest was made after one of the businessmen; C. Sadashiva, lodged a complaint at a police station stating that he and his friend, Raju Jembiya, were duped by one Terry Joseph from Nigeria to the tune of Rs 3.6 lakh.

Sadashiva alleged he agreed to join Terry’s business venture.

Terry, who posed as a restaurant owner in Nigeria, reportedly became friends with Sadashiva six months

ago on Facebook and then expressed his willingness to invest Rs 1 lakh US dollars in restaurant business in India.

According to police statement, when Sadashiva agreed to join Terry’s business venture, Terry, the initiator of the scam deal, asked him to meet another Nigerian man whom he, Terry, gave his own share of the money, which he wanted to invest in the hotel.

Sadashiva met with the second unidentified Nigerian who asked him to first release his own share of the investment before his partner, Terry will release his.

Sadashiva did and after releasing the money, the phones of the Nigerian men were switched off.

Suspecting he’d been duped, Sadashiva reported the case to the police, who after investigations, arrested the fraudsters and their accomplices.

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former Chairman of the Human Rights Committee, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Port Harcourt branch, Mr. Augustine Ojekudo yesterday decried Ekiti Governor, Ayo Fayose’s punishment to workers that reported late to work.

Ojekudo stated in Port Harcourt that the corporal punishment the governor meted out to the state civil servants, especially directing them to kneel down was not necessary.

Fayose was reported to have ordered the workers to kneel down for reporting late to work in Ado Ekiti.

Ojekudo noted that the governor’s action was not only crude but condemnable and said such humiliation should not be taken kindly.

“For a governor elected by the people to punish workers, is the height of torture, torment and intimidation.

“The matter should not be left just like that; he was elected for the good of the people only to humiliate them.’’

According to Ojekudo, the children of affected workers will feel bad seeing their parents and guardians on television kneeling down.

He, however, said the workers in the first place, should not have obeyed the governor’s ‘’crude’’ order.

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coalition of NGOs and other stakeholders on Tuesday identified sexual harassment, intimidation and lack of support as some causes for the declining rate of women’s participation in elections.

This was observed at the launch of the “Stop-Violence against Women in Election” (Stop-VAWIE) campaign project and unveiling of Mrs Stephanie Linus as the project ambassador in Abuja.

The project was launched by the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in collaboration with the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA), USAID and other partners.

The coalition of NGOs and stakeholders observed that cultural norms, male dominance, high illiteracy level among women also caused the participation and interest in politics to dwindle.

They noted that it was time to take proactive measures in order to end the trend.

Mrs Amina Zakari, the Acting Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), said that women were often used during elections as source of entertainment or in assisting others carry out party campaign.

Zakari, who was represented

by Mrs Toyin Babalola, a staff of the commission, said such role diminished the importance of women, adding that they should reject it as they were capable of holding political offices if they so desired.

She observed that the society was “male dominated” hence women were always sidelined, controlled, harassed and physically abused by men before, during and after elections both in the home and political arena. ``Most of the time we women are the ones who cheat ourselves. We have observed that during campaigns and elections it is even the women

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who refuse to vote for other women. ``Government needs to strengthen the women through education and economic empowerment because women have all it takes to lead, govern or participate in politics,” Zakari said.

Mrs Ebere Ifendu, President, Women in Politics Forum (WIPF), lamented the inability of most women to participate in politics due to poor economic conditions. ``In Nigeria today, political parties do not get any financial support from government or INEC. The only way they get finances is by sale of party tickets or forms and there are many women who cannot afford these tickets. ``After the elections we observed that the number of women in parliament had dropped; men do not support the women during elections and that is political violence,” she said.

Ifendu called for legislation that will protect, guide and ensure women’s involvement in political processes and during

elections.

Blair King, the Team Leader of Democracy and Governance USAID, observed that security of women during elections in the country had become a great concern to the international community.

King said that many women preferred staying in their homes during election due to fear of becoming victims of various forms of violence which could be physical, emotional or psychological.

Dame Pauline Tallen, a former deputy governor of Plateau state, called on women who were victims of violence in election to speak out about their abuse and not keep silent so that others may not fall victim. ``I have been a victim of violence against women in election. Even though I clearly won the election, the result was overturned and I was booted out; this is part of what women suffer,’’ she said.

Tallen, who was also a 2015 governorship candidate of the state under the APC, said

speaking out the ordeal would encourage other women.

Earlier, Mr Jasper Veen, the NDI Country Director, said the project was launched to create public awareness on various forms of violence against women before, during and after elections in Nigeria.

Veen said violence against women in elections included threats, hate speech, assault and blackmail, among others, adding that it often militated their active participation in the electoral process. ``This project will address the link between violence and the low level of women participation in electoral processes. ``It will address acts of election violence such as threats, hate speech, assault and blackmail, etc, directed at someone because of their gender to undermine, delay and influence the electoral process,” he said.

Mrs Hauwa Shekarau, the FIDA President, said the organisation would be in charge of forming group discussions and collating data on violence against women sent by the public through a hotline.

Shekarau said that project would help mitigate violence against women in elections, create advocacy and awareness and also develop mitigations strategies. ``The hotline we will use is 0800 2000 200. All the information gathered before, during and after the elections will be put together and made available to the public,” she said.

The National Human Rights Commission, Nigeria Stability and Reconciliation Programme (NSRP), the Nigeria Police Force and various civil society organisations pledged their support to the success of the project.

The project was launched as part of campaign efforts and to create awareness ahead of the Kogi and Bayelsa elections holding at the end of the year.

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he Afenifere Renewal Group, ARG, has upbraided President Muhammadu Buhari for failing to make a strong ‘first impression’ with the foregoing appointments he had made, which it regretted has created many confusing interpretations.

The pan-Yoruba socio-political group, in a statement issued yesterday by its Publicity Secretary, Kunle Famoriyo, claimed that Buhari’s steps have failed to galvanize the country towards an expected course to rebuild Nigeria as charted in APC’s manifestoes.

The statement reads in part, “Our people have hope that the new administration would engender a genuine rapprochement between nationalities in Nigeria; but there are now growing perception, at least in the southern parts of the country, that the President might

be slipping into the stereotypical Northern hegemonist he was labelled as during the campaigns.

“ARG concluded that Nigeria was in deep crisis prior to the last election and that a new government was acutely required.

“Therefore this administration must stop what appears to be the frittering away of the goodwill invested in this administration and not treat our people with disdain; as they have not forgotten that exactly this kind of insensitivity marked the point of derail for the last administration.”

“ARG notes also with concern and embarrassment that Yoruba political leaders and actors appear to be playing gods. The political stage seems to now be filled with actors that are appropriating victories of the last elections to their own prowess and therefore claiming positions as if

sharing spoils of war. These acts are self-destructive, insensitive and must stop.

“The unheard but agitated voice on the street is that there is urgent need for unity amongst all Yoruba political leaders, which they henceforth must consciously work to sustain. It is therefore crucial for them to close ranks and work together if they must continue to earn their current recognition as leaders,” it said.

The ARG further charged Buhari and APC leaders to remember that the party is not just a political platform but a product of an ideological belief that aims at stabilizing the country and bringing it to its full potential by nurturing the kind of union that produced the party.

It stressed that the APC has a responsibility to all Nigerians,

as custodian of that ideology, by ensuring that policies and decisions of the federal government, including appointments to public offices – are done to promote development across all spectrum.

“While we call for the continued support of our people for Buhari’s administration, we also want to remind Mr. President that Yoruba people have never been a cannon fodder and will resist any such treatment.”

“ARG demands therefore a reassuring response from the presidency, especially in subsequent presidential appointments and decisions, because if this scenario continues to play out, it will be difficult to retain the trust and expectation that drove what eventually brought to reality the current coalesced federal government,” the statement concluded.

Group wants ex-pension boss, Maina reinstated

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he Africa Youth Patriotic and Development Mission (AYPDM) on Tuesday called for the reinstatement of the sacked former Chairman of the Presidential Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Mr Abdulrasheed Maina.

Mr Akoshile Muktar, the Executive Secretary of AYPDM, a Civil Society Organisation, made the call in a statement and made available to newsmen in Abuja.

Muktar said that the allegations of pension theft levied against Maina were ill directed, adding that ``the ex-pension boss was the one who exposed the pension thieves.’’

He said that an independent investigation conducted by the group showed that the allegations against Maina were the handiwork of those involved in the looting of the pension funds.

“Maina and his team were able to discover that over N4.25 billion was being stolen on a monthly basis from the office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation.

“In fact, this N4.25 billion went to individual pockets.

He also stopped the stealing of another N300 million daily from the Police Pension Office.

“The PRTT under Maina also saved over N24 billion hitherto intended for payment of fake pensioners,’’ Muktar stated.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Maina has been at the centre of corruption allegation with the senate fir misappropriating the pension funds.

Maina was dismissed by the Head of Service of the Federation for allegedly absconding from duty and attempting to evade justice.

“Certain individuals and Government officials whose involvement in pension scam are bent on discrediting the effort of the ex-pension boss.

“They set out and used so many resources in the 7th Senate and the media to discredit him and his team which led to the premature stoppage of the team’s work.

“We hereby call on the presidency to immediately get him back to office so that he can assist this government in fighting this cabal,’’ the statement said.

The statement further said: “this clarion call is based on an independent investigation of the facts as well as reports we received from pensioners and other stakeholders.’’ (NAN)

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Corrupt people to be punished – Buhari

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resident Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday warned that anybody found guilty of corrupt practices in the country would not be spared.

Buhari, in his effort to fight corruption, vowed to reinvigorate all anti-corruption agencies in the country such as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offenses Commission.

He disclosed this while speaking at the opening session of the 45th Annual Accountants Conference and 50th Anniversary celebration of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria themed “ICAN: Building on a legacy of service.”

Buhari, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Finance,

Air Force announces appointments, postings

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Mrs Anastasia Nwaobia, in his address, noted that the lack of prudence, transparency and honesty in the management of public resources has thrown the country into a state of suf-

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he Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has released the posting and appointments of some senior officers.

Among the new appointments are four Branch Chiefs, three Air Officers Commanding (AOCs) and two Commandants.

The four Branch Chiefs at the Headquarters NAF are Air Vice Marshal (AVM) AA Iya formerly the Chairman Air Exposition and International Liaison Secretariat (AILS) now appointed as Chief of Training and Operations (CTOP) while AVM AM Mamu the former AOC, Training Command Kaduna takes charge as the Chief of Administration (COA). AVM IJ Yahaya moves from his former position as the Director of Works to become the Chief of Logistics and Com-

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he Kaduna State Commissioner for Education, Dr Adamu Danfulani, said on Tuesday that the state government would distribute customised tablets to its Senior Secondary School students to facilitate e-learning.

Danfulani stated this at a public lecture organised by the Faculty of Education, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the lecture had as its theme as: “Development of Capacity to Demand and Supply Evidence for Education Policy and Practice in Nigeria”.

The commissioner, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Alhaji Shehu Rabilu-Ibrahim, said the tablets would be modified to contain senior secondary school textbooks.

“All senior secondary school textbooks will be in the tablets to ease learning process, but parents should not panic. ``The tablets have no social media and it had already been customised.

“The state government will also supply all the necessary textbooks to other categories of

students apart from rehabilitation of schools and supply of furniture to schools,” he said.

Danfulani described Ministry of Education and Faculty of Education in universities as two parts of a body belonging to one person.

He said that if a finger was affected the entire body becomes affected.

In his speech, the Vice-Chancellor, ABU, Prof. Ibrahim Garba, described education as the foundation of moral regeneration, revival of people and development of any society.

“Education is the force and bulwark of any nation’s defense and no nation rises above the level of its education,” he said.

Garba said there was need for proper funding of education from federal, state and local governments to make the sector produce the desired results.

In his welcome address, the Dean, Faculty of Education, Prof. Tijjani Abubakar, said the lecture was organised to acquaint participants with the necessary information about educational policy formulation, among other things. (NAN)

fering and deprivation.

He urged ICAN to aide his government in ensuring that the resources of government are duly accounted for with all sense of transparency. munications (CLOG & Comms).

Air Commodore CU Usoh, the former Director of Air Engineering is now the Chief of Aircraft Engineering (CAcE).

Air Commodore Dele Alonge, Director of Public Relations & Information, Nigerian Airforce, said the three AOCs are AVM RA Ojuawo the former Director of Operations HQ NAF now appointed the Air Officer Commanding (AOC) Tactical Air Command Makurdi, while AVM WA Ahmed is now the new Air Officer Commanding Training Command Kaduna.

In the same vein, AVM MA Muhammed moves from his former position as the Managing Director, NAF Investment Limited to his present appointment

“We are at the threshold of history where we must collectively take the destiny of the nation in our hands.

“As Nigerians, no one can love Nigeria like you and me.

On our part, we will continue to lead by example, making efforts to live above board.

“As we strive to walk our talk, we will carry our initiative to overhaul the bureaucracy in the public sector to logical conclusions in an effort to engender transparency and improve productivity in public governance.

“In addition, we will reinvigorate the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offenses Commission, such that the processes of accountability in public governance are reinforced.

“I assure you that persons found wanting will not be spared,” Buhari noted.

The President stressed that with the huge amount of as the Air Officer Commanding Logistics Command, Lagos.

The two new Commandants are AVM MC Iloenyosi who moves from his former position as the Chief of Training and Operations HQ NAF to his present appointment as the Commandant Armed Forces Resettlement Centre Oshodi, and AVM SA Dambo the former Senior Air Staff Officer Training Command takes charge as the Commandant Armed Forces Command and Staff College Jaji.

The statement said the posting and appointments released are in line with the Chief of Air Staff efforts at transforming the Nigerian Air Force for greater operational efficiency.

resources at the country’s disposal, the nation has no reason to be in a state of poverty.

He noted that his administration have commenced a rebuilding process that would turn around the country for good as honest people are been enthroned in the management of public resources.

“As blessed as we are as a nation, Nigerians have no business being classified as poor.

“Yet, through the greed of some unpatriotic few, our commonwealth has been badly pillaged in the name of public service.

“Our ability as a nation to create wealth has increasingly been hampered by lack of prudence, transparency and honesty in the management of public resources by some of those entrusted with the duty of governance at all levels in the past, so much so that, in the midst of plenty, Nigerians are now suffering great deprivation,” Buhari said.

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r Chika Onuegbu, Chairman, Trade Union Congress (TUC), Rivers chapter, has criticised the attitude of staff of University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH) that caused the death of a student.

Onuegbu expressed the feeling of the congress in a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Tuesday.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that students of the University of Port Harcourt on Aug. 31, protested the death of Miss Kelechi Ndulagwa, a 200 level Theatre Arts student.

The students alleged that negligence of staff of the hospital caused the death of the student.

The statement quoted Onuegbu as saying that Ndulagwa died due to negligence of UPTH staff.

``We condemn in the strongest terms possible, the callous and irresponsible attitude of UPTH members of staff, which led to the untimely death of the UNIPORT student. ``We call on the management of UPTH and the Federal Government to carryout thorough investigation of the incident and ensure that the callous act does not recur,” he said.

According to the statement, those who are found culpable should be punished to serve as a deterrent.

NAN recalls that the deceased was rushed to the hospital after slumping in her hostel bathroom, but was not admitted because there was no bed space at the emergency unit.

Meanwhile, the authority of UPTH has said that they would issue a statement on the incident later. (NAN)

he Police Service Commission (PSC) has warned Nigerians interested in joining the Nigeria Police Force to beware of activities of fraudsters.

This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Ikechukwu Ani, the Head, Press and Public Relations of the commission, in Abuja on Tuesday.

It would be recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari recently approved the recruitment of 10,000 policemen.

The statement said that the Chairman of the commission, Mr Mike Okiro, confirmed that the commission had not started the recruitment.

It said that no application form for recruitment has been released.

The statement said the commission and the Nigeria Police Force are currently working out the details.

It stressed that when completed, the commission would publicise the commencement of the recruitment in line with the requirements of the law.

It further warned that the Police would not hesitate to arrest and prosecute anybody caught selling recruitment forms or collecting money from intending applicants.

The statement said that the commission would not charge fees for forms when the exercise begins.

It advised prospective applicants to exercise patience and wait for the formal commencement of the exercise. (NAN)

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he organised private sector in Abia State, has decried the continued depreciation of the nation’s currency.

It has therefore urged the Federal Government to invest in infrastructure to support manufacturing and get the country out of its economic doldrums.

Anthony Enukeme, immediate past president, Aba Chamber of Commerce Industry, Mines and Agriculture (ACCIMA), in his speech at the 15th annual general meeting/election of the city chamber’s exco members, held in Aba, said the Aba business community was eager for rapid transformation of Nigeria’s economic policies and proper implementation of same for the overall benefit of all Nigerians.

He said: “Government should provide good business environment that would lead to provision of constant electricity supply, good road network, and development of industrial parks in every state, reduce to a single digit commercial banks interest rate on loans for industrial development, as well as allow MSMEs enjoy unhindered access to finances.

“The National Assembly should ensure that they make good laws and legislations that would encourage investment and be able to attract local and foreign investments into the country.”

Enukeme implored the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to focus more on developmental and monetary policies that would make the Bank of Industry (BoI) and its allies function effectively.

He urged the apex bank to reinstate the BoI South-East zonal office to Aba, which was relocated to Asaba, Delta State in 2010, due to insecurity.

“I also wish to hereby, make a clarion call on behalf of the Aba business community to the Federal Government to revisit the issue leading to the relocation of the BoI zonal office from Aba to Asaba and return it back to Aba, which is the hub of commercial activities in the South-East region of Nigeria.

“BoI has enough work to do in Aba and its environs, in the overall interest of the nation’s economic development. The Aba business community is involved in fabrication, manufacturing of soap and detergents, pharmaceuticals, shoes and other leather products, garments.

“These potentials need encouragement from the Federal Government through its agencies. Like the CBN, Nigerian Export, Import Bank (NEXIM), BoI, in the economic development corridor,“ he said.

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r. Jonathan Tobin, the Assistant Director, Development Fund Department, Central Bank of Nigeria, said N9.6 trillion was needed to adequately fund Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in the country.

Tobin said this on Tuesday in Abuja at a workshop on Micro, Small, Medium Enterprise Development Fund, organised by the Banker’s Committee of the CBN. He said the financing gap was caused by banks and other lending institution’s aversion to lending to small businesses in the informal sector.

“Nigeria banks are averse to taking risk. They like to play safe. The economy is virtually collapsing yet banks keep declaring huge profits.

“There are currently 17.3m MSMEs in Nigeria that employ about 33 million people. Yet only 4.2 million of these have access to finance.

“From 2002 till date, lending by Money Deposit Banks to the sector has reduced significantly. Now N9.6tr is needed to bridge the financing gap in the sector,” he said.

Tobin said lack of entrepreneurial skills by MSME operators, adoption of “one size fits all products” strategies for loans by banks and poor governance structure

President Muhammadu Buhari receives Executive Committee of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, (Ican) at the State House, yesterday.

were some of the challenges faced by sector.

He said, “Banks and other lending institutions should offer tailor made solutions to lending for MSMEs instead of the current one size fit all approach.

“Customised risk management lending method in place of collateral driven lending currently employed by banks should be developed.

“We strongly recommend that banks start lending from their balance sheet.

“There is need for collaboration between CBN and other government agencies on the implementation of various initiatives geared towards de-risking the

sector and making finance available to MSMEs.” Tobin listed policies introduced by CBN to boost MSME to include Agriculture Credit Support Scheme, N200bn Commercial Agricultural Credit Scheme and the Nigeria Incentive Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending, Others include the N220bn MSME Development Fund, SME Credit Guarantee Scheme and the National Secured Transaction Collateral Registry.

He urged the banks not only to patronise the CBN schemes but also invest their monies in MSME. NAN

Africa’s richest man Dangote plans Zimbabwe investments

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frican billionaire, Aliko Dangote, on Monday said he planned mining and power generation projects in investment-starved Zimbabwe as well as to set up a large cement factory.

He made the statement after meeting President Robert Mugabe in Harare.

“We had a very, very good meeting with the president and I told him that we have

already decided to invest in three areas, one is power, second one is cement and third one is coal,” Dangote told journalists.

“We have already made up our minds to invest and so we are here and we will invest.”

Dangote said he would spend close to $400 million on the cement plant, which will produce a million and half tonnes of cement a

year, making it the biggest in country.

He said the investment package would create jobs and “to help Zimbabwe to develop their own economy.”

Dangote Group has interests in cement production, oil, gas, food and real estate investments across the continent.

New African Development Bank boss, Adesina, to focus on powering Africa

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he African Development Bank (AfDB) will focus in coming years on tackling Africa’s chronic power shortages to try to unlock its economic potential and end its vulnerability to fluctuations in commodity prices.

This was made known by Akinwumi Adesina, former Nigerian agriculture minister, who was sworn in as the AfDB’s eighth president on Tuesday.

“Africa could easily be growing at double-digit GDP rates if we solve this problem of energy,” he said .

“Energy poverty on the continent has to be solved as a matter of urgency, as a matter of scale. This is going to be my most important priority,” he told Reuters in an interview last week.

A development economist with a doctorate from Purdue University in the United States, the 55-year-old was elected in May to head the Ivory Coastbased institution for a five-year term.

“Africa has to industrialise,” he said. “We have to add value so that (Africa) does not expose itself to the continued volatility of global prices for commodities.”

“Africa needs to mimic China and other Asian countries’ use of an abundant supply of cheap labour to take advantage of globalisation and attract investment,” Adesina said.

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Maitama

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Shopping mall

$35m

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Gwarinpa

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Mass housing

N2 Billion

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Kyami

10 hectares (offer)

Mass housing

N400m

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2,780 sqm (C of O)

Multifunction

N250 m

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1,500sqm (C of O)

Commercial

N300m

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2,476sqm (C of O)

Commercial

N150m

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Maitama Aliero

3,467sqm (offer)

Residential

N250m

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Katampe

2,900sqm (C of O)

Residential

N100m

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Maitama Aliero

7,700sqm (offer)

Commercial

N350m

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7,755sqm (offer)

Commercial

N250m

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2,600sqm (C of O)

Residential

N80m

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Guzape

1,500sqm (C of O)

Residential

N60m

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Guzape

1,700sqm (C of O)

Residential

N65m

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Dakibiyu

3,940sqm (offer)

N30m

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Dutse (Apo)

2,283sqm (offer)

N25m

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Dape

3,320sqm (offer)

N20m

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Karmo

1,126sqm (offer)

N15m

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Kukwaba

1.18 hectare (offer )

N250m

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Jabi

1,350sqm (C of O)

N150m

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Kurudu (directly at the Express

800sqm

N2m

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Guzape

2,800sqm (offer)

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Kuje

1 hectare

Residential

N200m N50m

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Location: Hatlab Place Wuse Zone 5 Description: Office space to let Price: N35, 000 Per Sqm Location: Ultra Modern Market (Garki & Mabushi) Description: Shops /Office Space to let Price: 10Sqm -4.5 Million (Mabushi) 6Million (Garki).

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IKOYI/BANANA ISLAND 10,600m2 fenced/corner piece-lands with building approval for 4 blocks of 120 Luxury 3-brm flats at Bourdilon Rd, Ikoyi, (C of O) – Call 5,600m2 land, off Kingsway Road, Ikoyi (c of o) – Call LEKKI - EPE EXPRESS WAY, CHEVRON, IKATE, VGC AXIS Vacant 4 storey events place with capacity for 1,500 seats per floor, on 6,070 m2-land along Lekki Epe Express, near Chevron (C of O) - N1.2BN 3,070 m2-land along Lekki Epe Express, near Chevron (C of O) – N400m 5 brm dtchd hse with servants’ qtrs on 1150m2 land @ Rd 64, VGC - N95m 8,000m2-dry and fully fenced land in a well tarred and decent neigbourhood at Ikota, near VGC (Governor’s Consent) – N480m 3,000m2 land @ Alma Beach behind Meadow Hall, by Richmond Estate off Lekki Epe Exp. Way (RC) N210m 1,300m2 land @ Alma Beach behind Meadow Hall, by Richmond Estate off Lekki Epe Exp. Way (RC) N85m 15 Hectares of sand filled & concrete-fenced beach/coastal front land with well laid out roads and drainage on a well tarred road, @ Ilasan off Lekki Exp. Way (RC) – Call 4 Hectares of sand filled & fenced Beach/coastal front land by Silver Bird (RC) -Call 5,000m2, 3,000m2 & 2,000m2 - land along Lekki Epe Exp. Way b4 Chevron R/abt (RC) – Call 1000m2-land @ Sea Gate Estate near SPA, Ikate Elegunshi – N55m 2 acres of land behind Victory Park Estate, Osapa London (RC) – N35m per plot 908m2-land @ Lafiaji, down Orchid Hotel Rd off Lekki Express Way -N22m 5 plots @ Lafiaji, down Orchid Hotel Rd Lekki Exp.Way –N18m Per plot Vacant improved 2-brm bunganlow @ Abraham Adesanya Estate – Call LEKKI PHASE 1 6,000m2 dry land off 3rd R/abt Lekki Phase I (Right side) – (C of O) N630m New/vacant 5-brm. dtched hse + pent house suite & 1 rm bq (all en-suite) off Rd 38, Lekki Phase 1 (C of O) – 165M 2-no-5-brm semi-dtchd hse + 1 rm bq each @ Lekki Phase 1 (C of O) – 100m each Blk of 4-No-3-Brm Flat + 4-Rm b/q on 900m2 -land@Lekki Phase 1(c of o) -N200m Vacant 4-brm Town Hse + 1 –Rm BQ @ Lekki Phase 1 (RC) – N70m VICTORIA ISLAND/ONIRU 2-no vacant re-developable houses + B/Q on 2,500m2 land along Akin Adesola, street, V.I. (Land Cert. ) N900m Vacant 5 – brm Duplex + 3 – Rm bq @ Palace Rd, Oniru (c of o) N140m New/Vacant 5 brm Dup + 2rm B/q on 3 floors off Palace rd, Oniru (C of O) – N150m LEKKI FREE TRADE ZONE 23 acres of land, on the major rd @ Lekki Free Trade Zone (RC) – Call 10 acres of excised and ‘gazetted’ land, directly fronting the road @ Lekki Free Trade Zone – N210m.

LONG/DEVELOPMENT LEASE/JOINT VENTURE: 2,600 m2-land @Ligali Ayorinde Str V/I (20 yrs minimum for long lease) LEASE / LETTING: (i) 3-Rm large office suite (all en-suite) on the 1st floor + 1-rm b/q @ Idejo Street, Victoria Island - N3.8m P.A (ii) 230m2 grd floor open plan office space @ Onikoyi Rd, Banana Island – N40m per square metre.

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Suit 4, first floor, Standard Plaza, Plot 1248, Kutsi close, off Aminu Kano Crescent, Wuse 2, Abuja.

07032259691, 08075752220, 08095886632, 08095886468 E-Mail: elijahogunsanya@yahoo.com Website: www.elijahogunsanya.com

HEAD OFFICE: Suit 4, Plot 1248, Standard Plaza, No. 2, Kutsi Close, Off Aminu Kano Crescent, Wuse II, Abuja.

ASOKORO OFFICE: Ground Floor, J-Plus Plaza, Jimmy Carter Street, Asokoro Abuja KUBWA OFFICE: Shop 8 Sultan Dasunki Road, Federal Housing Authority (FHA) Kubwa Abuja.

KEFFI OFFICE: Shop C307, AGY Plaza, Opposite Keffi Motor Park, Abubakar Burga Road, Keffi, Nasarawa State.

PROPERTIES FOR SALE GADUWA Description: Three (3) units of 3 bedroom terraced duplex Location: Adamawa court, Gaduwa Estate Price: N33m each LUGBE Description: Two (2) units of 3 bedroom flat Location: Philkruz Estate Price: N15m each ASOKORO Description: Twin Six (6) bedroom duplex Location: Asokoro Price: N700 million UTAKO Description: 131 Rooms functional Hotel apartment sitting on a plot of about 6000sqm Title: C of O Location: Utako Price: N5 Billion Asking GUZAPE BY ASOKORO EXTENSION ABUJA Description: 5 units of 5 bedroom terraces all room-ensuit, granite finished, secured & serene environment.

Location: Guzape by Asokoro Extension Abuja Price: N1.8 Billion.

Land seize: N4000sqm (C of O) FEAUTURES: • Swimming pool of 12 by 18sqm • Ample parking space for minimum of 50 cars • Fitted Kitchens • Serene Green Garden Areas • Fitted Air conditioners in all areas • Standby 150k VA Generator and water treatment plant

GUZAPE BY ASOKORO EXTENSION ABUJA Description: 3 units of 5 bedrooms terraces all rooms ensuite, marble finished secured & serene environment

Description: Three (3) units of five (5) bedroom terraced service duplex with Two (2) flat quest chalet and a room BQ each Location: Jabi Price: 650million

Location: Guzape by Asokoro Extension Abuja Price: N900 Million Land Seize: 1,450sqm (C of O) FEAUTURES: • Swimming pool • Ample parking space • Secure & Serene • Fitted Kitchens • Standby Generator • Fitted Air conditioners in all areas • water treatment plant WUSE ZONE l Description: 4 bedroom bungalow Location: Wuse zone I Price: N75 Million Land seize: 700sqm

• Fitted Kitchens • Fitted Air conditioners in all areas • Standby Generator • Water treatment plant

WUSE ZONE 7 Description: 3 bedroom flat, high rising building, first floor Location: Wuse zone 7 Price: N30 Million UTAKO DISTRICT ABUJA Description: 5 units of 5 bedroom terraces all rooms ensuite Location: Utako District Abuja Price: N750 Million Land seize: 1,350sqm (C of O) FEAUTURES: • Granite finished • Secure & Serene environment • Ample parking space • Fitted Kitchens • Standby Generator • Fitted Air conditioners in all areas • Water treatment plant

KADO Description: An uncompleted (4) four Bedroom Fully Detached Duplex with swimming pool.

Location: Kado Price: N180 million asking

ASOKORO Description: Eight (8) units of three (3) bedroom flat + BQ each Location: Asokoro Price: N600 million FEAUTURES: • Swimming pool • Ample parking space • Secure & Serene • Fitted Kitchens • Standby Generator • Fitted Air conditioners in all areas • water treatment plant

APO Description: Eight (8) units of Six (6) bedroom detached duplex with BQ Location: Behind legislative quarter zone D Apo Price: N180 million/unit

GUZAPE BY ASOKORO EXTENSION ABUJA Description: 6 units of 4 bedroom terraces all rooms ensuite Location: Guzape by Asokoro Extension Abuja Price: N1.2 Billion Land seize: 1,500sqm (C of O) FEAUTURES: • Granite finished • Secure & Serene environment • Ample parking space

Description: 3 units of 5 bedrooms terraces all rooms ensuite, marble finished secured & serene environment Location: Guzape by Asokoro Extension Abuja Price: N900 Million Land Seize: 1,450sqm (C of O)

JABI Description: Three (3) unit of 5 bedroom terraced service duplex with Two (2) bedroom flat guest chalet and a room B/Q each Location: Jabi Price: N650 million APO Description: Four (4) units of four (4) bedroom terrace duplex Location: Behind Apo Legislative Quarters Price: N350 million

MARARABA Description: A functional shopping complex comprising 30 units of shops Location: Adjacent Ecobank, Mararaba,

Description: 5 units of 5 bedroom terraces all room-ensuit, granite finished, secured & serene environment.

Location: Guzape by Asokoro Extension Abuja Price: N1.8 Billion.

Land seize: N4000sqm (C of O)

along Keffi-Abuja express road.

Price: N150 million

GOLDIE SPRING ESTATE LOKOGOMA Description: Four (4) bedroom detached duplex + Two (2) rooms BQ Location: Goldie Spring Estate Lokogoma Price: N100 million Net

SHELTER VIEW ESTATE LOKOGOMA Description: Four (4) bedroom detached duplex + 2 rooms BQ Location: Shelter view Estate Lokogoma Price: N100 million Net ARMY SCHEME KUBWA Description: Four (4) bedroom bungalow with 1 bedroom flat guest chalet and 1 bedroom flat BQ with large compound and security post Location: Post Army Scheme, Kubwa Price: N50 million Net KARSANA Description: Three (3) bedroom Terraced duplex Location: Karsana Price: N25 million AREA 11 Description: Two (2) bedroom flat Location: Area 11 (Government House) Price: N25 million asking DAKIBIYU Description: Three (3) bedroom flat + A room BQ Location: Dakibiyu Price: N22 million LOKOJA- KABBA JUNCTION EXPRESS WAY Description: Three (3) Bedroom Bungalow with 4-number shops Location: Lokoja- Kabba Junction Express Way, just before the entrance to Lokoja Price: N15 Million

Description: 5 units of 5 bedroom terraces all rooms ensuite Location: Utako District Abuja Price: N750 Million Land seize: 1,350sqm (C of O)

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Appointments: Buhari’s ‘I belong to everybody’ under intense trial

By Sylvester Ugwuanyi

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ne convenient, yet challenging strategy employed by traducers of Muhammadu Buhari in de-marketing him all the while he sought to be president of the country in 2007, 2011 and 2015 was to clothe him with the ethnic and religious garb. They capitalized on this toga to make Nigerians believe that the ‘People’s General’ was clannish and an incurable northern jingoist.

Pundits believe that it was in a bid to avoid playing into the hands of his political detractors that Buhari, before emerging President chose to be called General Muhammadu Buhari rather than the Mallam or Alhaji Muhammadu Buhari which he could have opted to be addressed as. This was in defiance of the damage which his adoption of the ‘General’ appellation can do by allegedly evoking memories of how autocratic and maximum he was as Head of State.

Experts stretch this theory further by positing that it was in a bid to escape the wrong impression people were led to have of him that informed the President’s decision to be simply addressed as President Muhammadu Buhari instead of having his name mentioned in the media as: the President of Nigeria, Alhaji/Mallam/ General Muhammadu Buhari.

To cap it all, the President in his inaugural address shortly after being sworn into office on May 29, 2015 dealt a fatal blow to the negative perception around him when he declared that: “I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody.” That single line in his speech so resonated with most Nigerians, particularly those already afraid that he was coming to ‘northernize/islamize’ the country, hence some immediately converted to ‘Buharists.’

However, recent appointments which have been made by the President since assuming office have led many Nigerians to put his “heartwarming” declaration some three months ago to serious trial. The appointments have given one of the staunchest spoilers of the Buhari candidature ahead of the 2015 presidential election, Femi Fani Kayode, an opportunity to mock Nigerians by ‘welcoming them to change’.

Sectional appointments in a federal government Since assuming office, all appointments believed to have been made by President Muhammadu Buhari aggregates to thirty (30). Although, the earlier ones have already started generating cries of “unfairness, maginalization and Northern agenda” in the polity, last Thursday’s appointment of Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief of Staff and four others were what caused the heavens to break loose, resulting in loud cries of insensitivity and injustice from all corners. Many had expected that Buhari would pick his SGF from the Southeast, but he sidestepped the zone and gave the position to Northeast’s Babachir David Lawal. Overall, the Southeast still got nothing from

Buhari

the last six appointments.

Consequently, when spread across the six geopolitical

Zone North West (Buhari’s homestead) North East North Central South South South West South East

ing out of the Southeast zone in President Buhari’s wave of appointments. A prominent member of the group, Professor A.B.C Nwosu who is a former Minister of Health stated categorically on Monday that, “many Ndigbo expected this to be so even during the campaigns and that was why they voted the way they did.”

He went further to state that: “Ndigbo should continue to be strong and committed to nation building and await the envisaged remedial action as stated by the presidency even though, personally, I do not see any position that will equal the position of the Secretary to Government of the Federation and its centrality in the exercise of federal power in Nigeria.”

Nwosu’s assertion came as the Secretary General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Joe Nwaorgu urged his kinsmen to remain calm despite their snub by the current administration. Addressing newsmen in Enugu on Monday, he said: “Ohanaeze Ndigbo urges Ndigbo to continue to be nation builders anywhere they are and not to be downcast by what has happened.

“Ohanaeze strongly believes that a President of Nigeria is the

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zones, below is the pattern of the President’s appointments: Beyond the fact that the Southeast got no representation in Buhari’s appointments so far, taking into consideration the basic categorization of the country into North and South sees the North getting 75 per cent of the percentage spread of appointments over the 25 per cent which the South got.

The alleged offensive and unjust pattern of the appointments have left many political observers wondering whether the President has not already started living out what he said on July 22 while interacting with journalists in the United States, US. He was quoted to have said: “(Going by the election results), constituencies that gave me 95 per cent cannot in all honesty be treated, on some issues, with constituencies that gave me five per cent. I think these are political realities. While, certainly, there will be justice for everybody but the people who voted, and made their votes count, they must feel the government has appreciated the effort they put in putting the government in place.”

We knew this would be the case, that was why we voted the way we did - Ohanaeze This summarizes the way in which the apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, reacted to the apparent schem-

20 10 17 10 0 president for all Nigerians and that equity and fair-play for all Nigerians will be respected.”

On his part, the Imo state governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha who is presumably the leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the Southeast, said: “what I can only do is to continue to appeal to the president to consider the Southeast in his appointments. And as far as I am concerned, the president had executed what the office empowers him to do, and it is believed that he did that in the best interest of the nation.

“Again, most of the appointments the president has so far made are like his personal staff.

I don’t think South-East will ever be forgotten in this administration, we will get our due. In fact, if you ask me, I would say we should be more interested in the projects coming down to the South-East, and as much as we can get. The projects will bring about development of the Southeast,” he said last weekend while interacting with select political stakeholders in his state.

‘Buhari, a President of Northern Nigeria’ The actions of the President since he assumed office led the Governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose to take a swipe at Buhari whom he called President of Northern Nigeria, arguing that it was wrong for him to have made

31 major appointments; having only seven come from the South while 24 were from the North.

The Governor, who lamented what he called President Buhari’s “Northernisation of Nigeria,” asserted in a statement issued on Monday by his spokesman that the appointments so far made by the President runs fowl of the principle of federal character and took for granted the unity in diversity of the country.

According to him, “They said the President made the appointments on merit and I wish to ask whether there are no competent people in the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Southern part of Nigeria, especially SouthEast where no one has been appointed.

“Are they saying Igbo leader like Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, who graduated with a first class honours degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Lagos, is not competent to be appointed as Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF)?

“To my mind, these lopsided appointments skewed in favour of the North is a reminder of President Buhari’s tenure as Military Head of State and I hope the President is not seeing Nigeria of today as that of 1984 because doing so will mean that he has turned himself to a northern president, thereby justifying his notion that those who gave him 97 percent votes must get more benefits than those who gave him five percent votes,” he stated.

Our appointments not based on ethnic consideration – New SGF Aside the defences put up last week by the two presidential spokesmen – Femi Adesina and Garba Shehu – that the appointments of President Buhari were not skewed in favour of the North but were basically about merit, the newly sworn-in Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir David Lawal, re-echoed same position.

Speaking on behalf of his

“Again, most of the appointments the president has so far made are like his personal staff. I don’t think SouthEast will ever be forgotten in this administration, we will get our due”

colleagues after being sworn in by the President at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa on Monday, Mr. Lawal explained that they were not appointed on the basis of their places of origin. While stating that “We did not have to pass examination to get appointed into these positions,” he pointed out that “not because of our tribes, or our faiths, or our political groups that we were considered worthy for these positions.”

While the Presidency had given strong assurances that the appointments would eventually “balance out” as there are many more to come, critics have knocked the President for failing to utilize the opportunity provided by the swearing-in ceremony to personally assure Nigerians that he meant no harm by the appointments he had so far made. The President made no remarks after Monday’s swearing in.

However, the Governor of Edo state, Adams Oshiomhole has defended President Muhammadu Buhari by commending him on the appointments of the Chief of Staff, Secretary to the Government of the Federation and others whose appointments he stressed were based on merit and not ethnicity.

According to Oshiomhole who reacted on Monday, “The Nigerian nation has come to a point where we have to use the best hands to confront the peculiarity of our problems. It is not all the time we descend to the level of geopolitical balancing; we need to employ unusual methods to solve an unusual problem. The level of decay in the country at present requires very seasoned hands and incorruptible Nigerians that will help translate the APC agenda of change for the benefit of all Nigerians.

“We must not reduce governance to political patronage of bread and butter. The governor congratulates the Chief of Staff, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and the Comptroller General of Customs, all of who he had very close relationship with and whose credentials stand tall among their compeers.

He wishes them well in their new jobs of helping to sanitize a system that has become so rotten and corrupt as a result of manifest incompetence and mismanagement”.

The summary, however, is that three schools of thoughts have now emerged with regard to the recent appointments.

While some thinkers believe that Buhari’s appointments abuse federal character and promote ethnic agenda, others are of the view that the President has just started his appointment with only key officials which are his prerogative and that he will balance same in short while.

Some have equally argued that the game of nationhood must not be built on ethnic sentiment, but must be built on trusted and reliable hands with less emphasis on ethnic, religion or regional consideration. In that sense, they are of the view that the change agenda of the APC can only be achieved if the right people decide the affairs of the country instead of position sharing that will have little or no positive effect on Nigerians.

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We are focusing on healthcare, education in Yobe - Bego Alhaji Abdullahi Bego is the Adviser on Media and Communications to Governor Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe state, the second most affected state by the Boko Haram insurgency. In this interview with DAILY POST, Bego gave a general remark on where the government has gotten to so far, and what has been expended in the execution of the war on terrorism.

Our Correspondent, Maina Maina sent excerpts:

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ir, this government under Alhaji Ibrahim Gaidam is stepping into its second term. How has it been so far?

Why the reduction in the number of ministries in this second term?

Well, as many of you have reported, HE Governor Ibrahim Gaidam has restructured government ministries here in Yobe State, cutting down their number from 22 to 15.

He did so because he believes that at this time of real economic challenges, and under the prevailing climate of governance reform all across the country, keeping our government lean, cutting down on overheads and recurrent expenditure and freeing up more resources to help improve on our people’s socio-economic conditions are the best possible options for us to be effective and to make very real impact in the lives of ordinary people here in the State.

As a result of this initiative, a committee set up by the governor to fuse and redeploy directors and other senior personnel into the newly restructured 15 ministries is almost completing its assignment.

Going forward, we expect this measure to reduce overall cost of governance in the State and ensure that public sector service delivery is more synchronized and effective.

And this measure will also build on the steps that the Yobe State Government took last year to improve on governance reform by aligning budget preparation in line with International Public Sector Accounting Standard (IPSAS) and the publication of audited accounts – measures that have excited our development partners such as the UK Department for International Development (DFID).

Back then in May 2015 when HE Governor Gaidam was swornin for his second term in office, our State, like many others across the country, was in dire economic straits as a result of a significant fall in the revenues that were accruing to it from the Federation Account.

Things were so difficult that many States were unable to meet the basic obligation of paying their workers’ salaries.

Here in Yobe State, thanks to His Excellency, Governor Gaidam’s style of fiscal management, we were able to keep afloat, not for once defaulted on salary payments. We didn’t have bank loans to repay – His Excellency does not believe in unnecessary borrowing – so we were able to use the little we were getting to meet our basic obligations.

Talking about the problem of insecurity in the northeast and Yobe in particular. What has the government achieved during this period and what do we have now to say; Uhuru?

Sadly, this is something that many people do not seem to appreciate. At a time that we were going through the worst security crisis of our lifetime, a crisis that continues to exert a heavy toll

on our finances, the Yobe State Government under His Excellency, Alhaji Ibrahim Gaidam has continued to keep faith with all its major responsibilities - paying workers their salaries regularly at the end of each month, helping to provide support to the security forces who are working to bring the prevailing Boko Haram insurgency to an end and pushing on with the delivery of basic services. To date, the Yobe State Government has spent over N12 billion in security-related spending.

And I want to go into some details about the delivery of social services. There are some people – a few people who apparently opposed to the governor politically – who tend to spread the lie that nothing is happening in Yobe State; that the Yobe State Government is absolutely doing nothing in terms of public service delivery.

Such a view holds no grounds, of course.

Under His Excellency, Governor Ibrahim Gaidam, the Yobe State Government has used and continues to use available and limited resources to impact the lives of the people in significant ways.

In education, for instance, the YBSG has rebuilt over 300 school classrooms damaged or destroyed by mindless Boko Haram insurgents at the height of their senseless insurgency campaign.

Many of those schools have also been provided with new furniture and books.

Over 3000 teachers, many of them NCE holders, were recruited and deployed to our schools.

Our government-owned tertiary institutions also continue to receive support to help them produce graduates worthy of the name. College of Education Gashu’a, for example, now produces over 1300 NCE graduates and 100 degree holders respectively every year. Our State University, right here in Damaturu, is rated as the fastest growing University in the North. Thanks to the unprecedented support that the governor continues to give the University, over 98 percent of its academic offerings have now been fully accredited by the NUC. The YBSG has also recruited over 15, 000 youth under its youth empowerment programmes. Of this number, over 6, 572 were diploma holders who were placed on a N15, 000 monthly allowances until they could get a permanent job or gain additional training.

There were many NCE, HND and degree certificate holders who were recruited on a permanent basis and posted to schools and government agencies. There were yet others who were trained on skills acquisition and supported to start their own businesses.

The YBSG under Governor Ibrahim Gaidam has built more roads than the total number of roads built since the State was created back in 1999. Potikum-Garin Alkali; Kaliyari-Bayamari-Gaidam; Bayamari-Yunusari; Gaidam-Bukarti; Maiduwa-Gadaka; Potiskum-Danchuwa; Jajimaji-Karasuwa. All these are roads built by

Bego HE, Governor Ibrahim Gaidam.

We also have many road projects that are currently ongoing, despite the prevailing economic challenges. Damaturu-Buni-Yadi Madgza road which is 70 kilometres long; Gadaka-Siminti-Godowoli; and the the famous 300-KM long Trans-Saharan road project which extends from Kanamma in Yunusari LG to Machina Town in the northernmost part of the State.

There was also a slew of roads and drainage built by Governor Gaidam in Damaturu, Potiskum, Gashu’a, Nguru and Gaidam – our major towns and, as the Governor has promised, more towns, such as Dapchi HQ of Bursari LG, will come on stream going forward.

All these were done by HE Governor Gaidam in his first term in office. All these projects are verifiable as they are on ground.

Can you tell us what the government is doing regarding healthcare in the state more especially now that some of the structures are taking longer time to come alive?

The newly built 200-bed hospital here in Damaturu is now being installed with State-of-the-art equipment. I know some people talk about the slow nature of the hospital project; that it has taken long, etc.

Yes, the project has taken long.

But the expansion of the project, construction of new staff housing, etc. which were not in the original first phase of the project meant that the delay is worth the while.

Anyone of you here could go take a look at what is happening in the hospital right now. Yobe will be better for the investments there.

The Sani Abacha Specialist Hospital, also here in the State capital, has been revived. About 13 new medical wards and department buildings as well as 24 blocks of staff housing were built by Governor Gaidam.

Over the last two years, when HE Governor Gaidam declared an emergency in the health sector, around 300 nursing personnel were recruited and deployed to work in our hospitals and health centres. There were new doctors on board too. And, to date, Yobe under Governor Gaidam remains one of the foremost states to implement the new CONMESS and CONHESS salary scales for doctors and nurses. That’s a feat!

And as a result of the govern-

“Yes, the

project has taken long. But the expansion of the project, construction of new staff housing, etc. which were not in the original first phase of the project meant that the delay is worth the while. Anyone of you here could go take a look at what is happening in the hospital right now.

Yobe will be better for the investments there” ment’s free-drug programme for pregnant women and children between the ages of 0 and 5, maternal and child mortality rate is steadily coming down in the State. Sometime ago, Yobe was one of two or three states with a few remaining cases of polio.

That’s now history as a result of the efforts being made at all levels of healthcare. It’s now a full oneyear without a single polio case across the entire country.

Let’s also look at the housing sector. How would you rate the governor in this area given the distraction by constant attacks in the past?

By all available data, Yobe under Governor Gaidam, is the only State to date having a policy

where houses built by the government are allocated to workers at 65 percent discount. 65 percent yanked off the cost of a two-bedroom or three-bedroom house is significant. There are workers who swear that without the measure, they would possibly not be able to own houses of their own for life.

And that’s not all. The governor has directed – and this is already being implemented – that if a worker passes on while still paying, his family will not have to complete payment and the house will remain part of the deceased’s estate. These are real things happening right here in our State, under HE the governor. These are facts on the ground. They are no smoke and mirrors.

Speaking on the matters of the Internally Displaced people. What support either directly or indirectly has the government given?

The Yobe State Government has done a lot to support people directly affected by Boko Haram attacks. According to records from the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), we have a total of 135, 511 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) scattered in 13 local government areas living in host communities. The State Government has an established IDPs camp with 3, 011 persons. Of this number, 482 are men, 670 women and we have 1, 859 children.

According to SEMA, there are two other camps set up by the IDPs themselves in Kasaisa and Kukareta with a population of over 2, 750 IDPs. Over the past two years, SEMA’s been supporting these IDPs, also with additional support from NEMA and other development partners. The most recent support provided people affected by Boko Haram insurgency was the sum of N61.8 million given by the State Government to some traders whose businesses were destroyed by the insurgents. Many of you here have done some reporting on that.

SEMA has also provided emergency support to victims of flooding in Ngelzarma, Shanga and Jajere and the agency’s now collecting and compiling a comprehensive report on the extent of damage for possible government assistance to victims.

Over the weekend, we also have report of flooding in some communities in Fika local government area. The local government council is trying to assist as of yesterday but SEMA will also move in with emergency assistance.

In summary, what do we hope to see in the next four years happening to the people of Yobe state under the leadership of Governor Ibrahim Gaidam?

You can expect the Gaidam administration to continue on this track – to deploy all available resources to improve on the living conditions of the people of the State.

Governor Gaidam has said, the focus of the administration in the second term will be on healthcare and education. We have built so many kilometres of roads. We have made progress in the area of water supply with the support of our development partners such as the African Development Bank and the Japanese Government.

So, while we do not hands off road construction or the drilling of more boreholes, for instance, the focus will be more on education and healthcare. General hospitals across the State will come on stream for major rehabilitation works, beginning with the General Hospital in Potiskum and it will be extended to the hospitals in Gashu’a, Nguru and Gaidam.

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Buhari’s Politics of Exclusion

by Ikechukwu Amaechi

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et me make a confession from the outset. I have always been a fan of President Muhammadu Buhari and I didn’t hide my admiration for him.

On the four occasions he contested for the Presidency, I voted for him except in 2007.

And that was because I left the country late 2006 for my Chevening Scholarship programme at Cardiff University, United Kingdom and returned after the 2007 polls. Had I been around, I would have voted for him.

Not only did I vote for him, I wrote articles extolling what I thought were his unassailable qualities.

Yes, no man is a saint and I never deluded myself that Buhari was one. In any case, angels and saints don’t populate this space with us. They populate the outer space called heaven where, we are told, they are in perpetual camaraderie with God. But if there was any former Nigerian leader I thought was inherently a good man, it was Buhari. I saw him as a man of integrity, incorruptible – and a man who believes in Nigeria and the greatness it can aspire to and, in fact, achieve if all its potentials are harnessed and aggregated.

I believed Buhari when he said he was a changed man, a democracy converts who has no place in his heart for vendetta. I looked forward to a man who would be president of all Nigerians and not president of only those areas where he got his fabled 95 per cent of the votes by hook or crook.

I looked forward to a man who would transcend the limitations of partisan politics, who would stop being the presidential candidate of a political party with all the shenanigans, to being a statesman, president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and father of all.

His age, 72, qualifies him to be exactly that – father of the nation.

I expected so much from Buhari, not the least a man who would govern Nigeria and deal with fellow citizens on the basis of equity, justice and fair play. But I must confess again that Buhari has greatly disap-

pointed me.

Today, I am convinced that the man does not have the capacity to be broad minded. He has absolutely no capacity to see Nigeria beyond his Northern enclave.

He is too provincial, cliquish, narrow and insular in his worldview. That is a very dangerous prescription for a country in dire need of statesmen.

In this column on August 9, I admonished Buhari to see the entire country as his constituency and not perceive himself as the president of only the “constituencies that gave him 97 per cent” vote.

I advised him that feeling obligated to make only those who voted for him feel the government will be a betrayal of the Pan-Nigerian mandate that brought him to power.

I concluded in that article, titled, “Buhari, Nigeria is your constituency,” by saying that “it will be too sad if Buhari, by his actions and inactions, proves right those who believe that a chameleon can never change its spots.”

Did I really expect Buhari to hearken to my advice? Not really! To so believe will be presumptuous, to say the least.

But nothing prepared me for the shock I felt over the brazenness and absolute lack of tact and sensitivity that characterised the appointment of members of his “kitchen cabinet” on Thursday, August 27.

Buhari approved the appointments of Babachir Lawal as Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Abba Kyari (Chief of Staff), Hameed Ibrahim Ali (Comptroller-General, Nigerian Customs Service), and Kure Martin Abeshi (Comptroller-General, Nigerian Immigration Service).

All these four vital appointments were made from the North. Lawal is from Adamawa, Kyari (Borno), Ali (Kaduna) and Abeshi (Nasarawa).

Senator Ita Enang (Akwa Ibom) was also appointed Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on National Assembly Matters (Senate) with Suleiman Kawu (Kano) completing the pack as SSA on National Assembly Matters (House of Representatives).

There was an instant uproar in the country. Even those who

had given Buhari the benefit of the doubt before now became convinced that he does not give a damn about public opinion (apologies to former President Goodluck Jonathan).

He is self-conceited and thinks he knows it all. I am convinced that Buhari is impervious to advice.

Ironically, these appointments were made the same day (August 27) 30 years ago when General Ibrahim Babangida and his co-travellers overthrew the military junta led by Buhari. Even more significant is the reason given by Babangida for overthrowing Buhari.

“Regrettably, it turned out that Major-General Muhammadu Buhari was too rigid and uncompromising in his attitudes to issues of national significance.

“Efforts to make him understand that a diverse polity like Nigeria required recognition and appreciation of differences in both cultural and individual perceptions only served

I believed Buhari when he said he was a changed man, a democracy converts who has no place in his heart for vendetta. I looked forward to a man who would be president of all Nigerians and not president of only those areas where he got his fabled 95 per cent of the votes by hook or crook

Buhari

to aggravate these attitudes (emphasis mine),” noted the coup plotters.

The way Buhari is carrying on in governing the country is very scary. Foisting an agenda of exclusion on the polity is a disaster waiting to happen.

You don’t need to be clairvoyant to know that the road he is treading leads to nowhere.

Even societies that are culturally, religiously and linguistically homogenous consciously run inclusive governments; not to talk of Nigeria.

It will be the tragedy of our time if at his age and experience in public service, and if despite all Nigeria has done for him, Buhari still perceives the intricate art of governance and the inevitable battle for the soul of the nation from the prism of ‘we and them’.

Some people had argued that it is too early in the day to worry over Buhari’s style.

Some others have also said he should be allowed to choose men of integrity who will help him deliver on his electoral promise even if they all come from his neck of the wood.

My answer is no. It is not too early.

The president needs to be called to order before we have a full-blown dictatorship on our hands in the name of democracy. Some of the appointments he has made so far and the processes adopted in making them violate the spirit and letter of the laws of the land.

He cannot surround himself with only men and women from his ethnic stock to run the government with resources from areas he despises and holds in contempt.

Again, even if Buhari is looking for men of integrity, character and competence who will help him deliver good

governance, my question is, when did Northerners become exemplars in good governance?

By insisting that he is taking his time in making these appointments in order to ensure that only men without blemish come on board, and by appointing mostly Northerners and nobody from the South East, the president is wittingly or unwittingly profiling the rest of the country as peopled who are dubious, incompetent and inept men and women.

Can this be true?

Some Buhari apologists have also argued that he can only rule with those he knows.

Really?

A man who only knows people from his own part of the country and has not been able to build bridges of friendship across the nooks and crannies of the country at the age of 72, and despite being a military officer and former head of state, has no business being the president.

Some urge Buhari to continue treading this boulevard of insensitivity by reminding him of how popular he is in the North and how he can govern Nigeria with the exclusion of the South East and South South.

But my response is, what stopped him from being president in his first three attempts when he swept the polls in the North and failed in equal measure in the South?

My advice to him is simple.

I don’t know what informs his actions but politics of exclusion is a recipe for national disaster and it is not too late for him to retrace his steps. *Amaechi former Editor of Daily Independent, is the Editor-in-Chief/Managing Director of the TheNiche; ikechukwuamaechi@yahoo.com

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Seven policemen in detention over alleged killing of female politician in Ondo

By Abiodun Badejo

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he outgoing Commissioner of Police in Ondo State, Mr. Isaac Eke has said the command has begun full investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of a female politician, Mrs Ronke Adeluga who was allegedly beaten to death by police officers in Akure.

The Commissioner of Police disclosed this to reporters, while receiving the Assistant Inspector General (AIG) of Police, in charge of zone 11, Oshogo, Mrs. Kalafite Adeyemi, who was on a familiarization tour to the state.

Besides, Eke confirmed that the command has arrested seven police officers allegedly involved in the death of Mrs. Adelugba, assuring that the police will soon unravel the cause of her death.

The deceased, Mrs Adelugba who was a chieftain of the Accord Party (AP) in the state, was allegedly beaten to death by some police officers who invaded her house in search of some suspects.

Eyewitnesses told reporters that she was allegedly hit with gun butt and beaten by two of the seven policemen who came to the house after an argument with her.

The Police boss said, “What happened was that the policemen who went for that unfortunate incident, stormed a hideout where criminals go to do certain activities, like smoking of india hemp, but unfortunately on arrival, from alleged information, some of those criminals fled the scene and they went after them.”

“Two of the criminals traversed into a premises, a woman’s house, and in the process, two of them were arrested, thereafter, the next thing that we heard, was that the woman had died. So, the circumstance of her death is being investigated.”

“The suspects arrested will be able to tell us what actually happened, and at least, there are people who were present in that premises who were with the woman, that is what we are begining to unravel, the circumstances that led to her death.”

The AIG, Mrs. Adeyemi called on the people of the South West to be conscious of their environment and observe activities in their neigbourhood.

She said to combat crime in the society, the people must identify their neigbours and be able to report any strange movement to the police.

The AIG warned the people not to engage strangers in any domestic employment, saying kidnapping and other criminal cases have shown that insiders were always used for most criminal jobs.

Adeyemi said members of the communities must be involved in combating crimes.

She said the police was going into the grassroots to sensitize them in order to partner with them to bring an end to crime in Nigeria.

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Man defrauds policemen with fake Commissioner of Police Facebook account O ne Agubosin Ifeanyi Friday, who allegedly impersonated the former Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Kayode Aderanti, has been apprehended by operatives of the State Police Command.

Friday was alleged to have set up a false Facebook account in Aderanti’s name, which he used in defrauding unsuspecting police officers and members of the public.

The suspect was said to have posted a bank account on the fake Facebook account, asking police officers who wanted to get juicy posting to pay N30, 000 and N50, 000, while those seeking promotion were to pay much higher fees based on negotiation.

The Facebook page also demanded that members of the public who wanted their petition signed must part with some amount of money.

Some Police officers were said to have paid the agreed money.

Luck however ran out on Friday as his fraudulent act was

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exposed by a policeman who claimed to have paid N30, 000 and went to report to the for-

mer police boss that he was yet to be posted.

Following the discovery, an

Lawyer accused of sexually assaulting nine-year-old-girl re-arraigned

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40-year-old lawyer, Chika Uzoamaka, who allegedly fingered a nine-year-old girl in her private part, was on Monday re-arraigned before a Tinubu Magistrate’s Court.

Uzoamaka was arraigned on a four-count charge bordering on sexual assault and an indecent act.

While testifying in court, the prosecutor, Sergeant Aondohemba Koti, said the defendant committed the alleged offence on August 12, at about 12:45 pm at the magistrate’s courtroom 4, Tinubu, on Lagos Island.

Koti told the court that the 40-year-old lawyer inserted his finger into the girls anus and virginal without her

consent, noting that he willfully and without an excuse, committed an indecent act in a public place.

The accused however pleaded not guilty when the charges were read.

The prosecutor observed that the offences are punishable under Sections 259, 261, 263 (1) and 134 (1) of the criminal law of Lagos State 2011.

Magistrate L. A. Owolabi granted Uzoamaka bail in the sum of N400,000, with two responsible sureties who must be 40 years old.

Owolabi, ordered that one of the sureties must be a lawyer with 10 years’ experience and a verifiable address, adding that the sum of N100,000 should be deposited in the

court’s registrar’s account.

Owolabi adjourned the case till September 14 for mention and ordered that the amended charge be taken to the Director of Public Prosecution, DPP, for advice.

DAILY POST recalls that Uzoamaka on August 12 was arrested at the court premises for allegedly assaulting and fondling the breast of the victim.

The suspect was first arraigned on August 13, at the court chambers on a threecount charge bordering on indecent assault by touching the little girl’s genitals and fondling her breasts without her consent.

Woman burns niece with hot iron for having sex with landlady’s son in Lagos

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16-year-old girl identified as Bimpe Badmus is currently in pain from the injuries she sustained following an attack by her aunt. Bimpe’s aunt burnt her with a hot pressing iron, for allegedly having sexual affair with their landlady’s son.

The incident occurred on Ogunjirin Street, Ketu area of Lagos.

It was learnt that Bimpe’s aunt asked her friends, Khadijah and Iya Daniel to help hold her hands and legs before burning her with the hot iron on several parts of her body.

A neighbour while reacting to the incident disclosed that the victim was severely beaten and chased out of the house.

The eyewitness said, “They all live in the same compound. It was Khadijah that told Bimpe’s aunt that she was sleeping with the landlady’s son. Khadijah brought the hot iron from her room and gave it to Miss Badmus’ aunt while she and Iya Daniel held her neck. It was when they chased her out that the neighbours rescued her.

“The annoying thing is that it is not as if these married women are clean. I don’t know why they did that to her. It was when residents couldn’t stand the horrible situation that they took them to Ketu police.”

Also reacting to the incident, one Fatai, who claimed to be the girl’s brother affirmed, “When I got to the police station to see

Bimpe, I was sad because the sight was horrible. My sister was writhing in pain and when I asked the Divisional Police Officer to release her for treatment, he refused. I asked the aunt if she was under a spell to have gone this far because it won’t stop her from having an affair. This is cruel.”

The landlady’s son’s elder sister, Tope Abimbola, said: “Even before they were taken to the police station, she was in pain.

I thought she was going to die. I quickly went to a nearby pharmacy to get an ointment to relief her of the pain. It is really painful. She has been admitted at the General Hospital, Ikeja and she is responding to treatment.”

investigation by the police led to Friday’s arrest through his bank details.

Reacting to the scam, one of the victims said: “I thought it was an authentic Facebook page when I saw the CP Aderanti’s pictures on it. I did not know it was a scam.”

Friday, a secondary school leaver however denied knowledge of the crime, saying, “I am a secondary school leaver. I wrote the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, examination and I have written post-UME to gain admission into the university.

“I do not know anything about the Facebook account. It was my brother, a university undergraduate that implicated me because the account he used is mine.

“It was after I was arrested that I got to know the crime he committed. He has been on the run since my arrest.”

The case has since been transferred to Force Headquarters, Abuja, for further investigation.

Man poisons, buries 11-yearold daughter of Imam in Bauchi

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30-year-old resident of Railway Road in the Bauchi has allegedly poisoned and killed Hajara Ahmed, an 11-year-old daughter of the Chief Imam of Bauchi Central Mosque, Bala Inna.

The suspect, whose identity was given as Jarelu Ahmed, and was arrested on Monday

by Police detectives, was said to have buried the deceased in his room after killing her.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Bauchi State Command, Haruna Mohammed, in a statement issued on Monday said forensic experts visited the scene of the crime, exhumed the body and had taken the corpse to the hospital for postmortem.

He said, “On Monday, August 31 at about 18 hours (6pm), Police detectives, attached to Township Division, arrested one Jarelu Ahmed, Male, (30) of Railway Road, Bauchi.

“The suspect allegedly poisoned one Hajara Ahmed, an 11-year-old daughter of one Bala Ahmed Baban Inna (Chief Imam of Bauchi Central Mosque), killed and buried her in his room in order to conceal his atrocity.

“The scene of crime was visited by forensic experts, attached to State Criminal Investigation Department and the victim’s body was exhumed, photographed and taken to ATBU Teaching Hospital for postmortem examination.”

He added that investigation into the matter was still on.

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pretended to be another victim stopped by and joined in the interaction.

Kolawole was said to have ordered Adeleke and Kolawole to bring sand from a nearby place, claiming that they stood on a holy ground which Sulaimon obliged leaving his phone and money in Kolawole’s custody.

Upon Sulaimon’s return both Kolawole and Adeleke were nowhere to be found.

Sulaimon, who identified the suspects while they were attempting to defraud another victim, raised alarm leading to their arrest and subsequent arraignment in court by the police.

Both suspects were arraigned on five counts bordering on conspiracy, imperson-

ation and fraud.

The charges read in part: “That you, Joshua Kolawole and Ademola Adeleke, on August 6, 2015, in Sabo, Yaba, Lagos, did conspire to commit felony to wit: falsely representing yourselves as pastors from the Christ Apostolic Church, Sabo, Yaba, Lagos.”

According to the police, the offences committed were punishable under Section 378 (1) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.”

When the charges were read, the suspects pleaded not guilty.

The magistrate, Mrs. O. A. Erinle, granted the pair bail in the sum of N80,000 each, with two sureties in like sum.

Erinle subsequently adjourned the case till September 14.

ne Joshua Kolawole and Ademola Adeleke, who allegedly impersonated a Christ Apostolic Church pastor and defrauded a restaurant manager, identified as Kehinde Sulaimon, in Yaba area of Lagos State have been arrested and arraigned before a Chief

Magistrate Court in the state.

The pair were said to have committed the act on August 6.

On the fateful day, Kolawole was alleged to have pretended to be a pastor, stopped the victim by the roadside claiming he saw a revelation about him.

Meanwhile, Adeleke, who

Court dissolves 22-year-old marriage over long separation

Man arrested for murder, snatching lawyer’s car in Delta

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Lagos Customary Court in Agege has dissolved an 18-year-old marriage between Mr. and Mrs. Nurudeen Lawal.

Delivering the verdict, the Court’s President, Pa Adekunle Williams, said the couples were free to go their separate ways as they ceased to be husband and wife.

The complainant, Mrs. Mariam Lawal, had filed for a divorce in court over the long separation between her and her husband.

She said: “We have been separated for seven years but whenever he sees me in public, he embarrasses me in the presence of my friends, especially the opposite sex. Despite the fact that he had married another woman, he doesn’t want to see me with another man. There was a time he assaulted a male friend and tore his clothes. He is very troublesome and I need freedom.”

The petitioner, who is a mother of two, told the court that since their separation, she has been paying the schools fees of her daughter who lives with her while the boy resides with his father.

While reacting to his wife’s allegation, 48-year-old Lawal said they were separated for five years and not seven years, adding that his daughter, who resides with his wife, was not going to school.

To proof her case, the petitioner presented to the court her daughter’s school receipts and reports cards.

The Court President further ruled that the children’s education and medical expenses be overseen by both parties.

Ogbomosho road mishap leaves seven persons dead

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peratives of the Delta State Police Command have apprehended a 33-year-old Festus Okenedu over the murder of one Barrister Emmanuel Egwatu,36, who was killed by unknown persons along Eziokpor road Obiaruku while waiting for a mechanic.

The 33-year-old was nabbed following a distress call to the police detective by an auto mobile electrician in Obiaruku who informed them that two young men had called him to fix a faulty army green colour Toyota Camry car at a lonely spot along Obiaruku/Utagba-Uno road, close to Ebedei village.

According to the detectives, the mechanic said that the two men who could not immediately pay for his services gave him a mobile phone to hold as a guarantee, promising to pay up later and collect their phone back.

Following the tipoff, the detectives went to the area and Okenedu was arrested when he came back to collect the handset from the electrician. His accomplice however escaped.

The arrest was confirmed by the State Police Public Relation Officer, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Celestina Kalu.

Kalu disclosed that the police recovered one black bag containing one laptop, some documents, bible and Christian tracts from the suspect.

The PPRO further stated

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n auto crash along Ibadan Ogbomosho road in Oyo State on Sunday has left about seven persons dead, while several others sustained various degrees of injuries.

An eyewitness while commenting on the tragedy said the casualty rate is high, adding that when he got to the scene of the accident after it had occurred, people were seen assisting the victims.

The crash was said to have occurred when an Ilorin-bound commercial bus overtook a

that information obtained from the laptop revealed that the recovered laptop belonged to Egwatu who was killed the previous night by unknown persons.

Kalu averred that Okenedu is currently assisting the police with its investigation while effort is ongoing to track down the fleeing suspect.

Bar where teenage girls dance naked uncovered in Asaba A bar where teenage girls dance naked has been uncovered by a vigilante group with the operator arrested in Asaba.

The bar which is situated in Asaba hosts bizarre activities, like pornographic shows, especially during the weekends.

Head of the vigilante group, Chukudi Nnamdi while confirming the arrest said the

suspect has been handed over to the police.

It was learnt that the bar is usually filled to capacity during the weekend with teenage girls at night who offer sex for money, adding that the girls were said to have come from neighbouring states.

Sport Utility Vehicle, and failed to manoeuvre its way back into its lane.

It was learnt that the driver of the SUV refused to make room for the commercial bus driver to join the lane as he increased his speed.

The eyewitness affirmed, “When the driver of the SUV increased speed, there was an articulated truck coming from Ilorin. The driver of the truck saw the commercial bus and applied brake.

“The impact of the brake was

so much that the truck kept moving and the commercial bus driver could not control the bus, which was coming from Lagos at top speed. It collided with the truck.

“Six persons died on the spot, while another victim died on the way to the hospital. Only the driver of the bus survived the accident.”

The incident was said to have caused a major gridlock which lasted for over 30 minutes.

One of the girls identified as Ogechi said, “We make money every night we go there and men who visit the joint prefer sucking and caressing and at times we come home with N20,000 to N25,000 especially on short times in the chalet, we have never had police disturbances”.

A Police source from the ‘A’ Division, Asaba disclosed that the bar operator has been arrested and is currently been detained.

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Man bags five years jail term for setting pregnant lover ablaze

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37-year-old lucky Esonahae was on Monday sentenced by an Egor Magistrate Court in Benin, Edo State to five years imprisonment for setting his pregnant lover ablaze.

Esonahae, a bar operator, was arraigned on a one-count charge of causing bodily harm.

The charge read, “That you, Lucky Esonahae, on July 6, 2015, at Uwelu Quartres, Benin, in Egor Magisterial District, did unlawfully cause grievous harm to one Stella Isaac, by setting her on fire with kerosene, which cause her bodily harm and, thereby, committed an offence punishable under Section 355(B) of the Criminal Code Cap 48, Vol. II, Laws of the defunct Bendel State of Nigeria, 1976, as applicable to Edo State.”

While testifying in court, the prosecuting officer, Sergeant Ganiyu Yahya said the incident occurred at Uwelu Quartres in Benin on July 6, adding that the victim identified as Stella Isaac reported the matter to the police the same day.

The prosecutor said the convict poured kerosene on the head of the victim, who was said to be seven months pregnant before setting her on fire.

Yahaya told the court that the woman was rescued by one of her sons and a neighbour who forced their way into the room as she had been locked in.

He disclosed that the woman was later rushed to the Central Hospital where she was treated for the burns she sustained on her hands and forehead.

According to Yahaya, the convict had earlier accused the victim of infidelity after she allegedly returned home from her antenatal at about 6pm, adding that he threatened to kill her before she ran to her sister’s house.

The convict pleaded guilty to the offence and asked the court for leniency.

However, the presiding magistrate, Igho Braimoh while delivering the verdict said the court would not be lenient, stressing that “for a 37-year-old man to set a lover on fire, leaves much to be desired.”

Braimoh consequently sentenced the convict to five years imprisonment with hard labour.

Medical doctor arrested for carrying out abortion in Edo Men of the Edo State Police Command have arrested the Managing Director of the Ofure Royal Medical Centre located at Upper Uwa Street, Benin City, Dr. Omokhomion Kingsley, for allegedly conducting abortion at his clinic.

Dr. Omokhomion was apprehended by police officers from the Zonal Criminal Investigation Bureau, Zone 5’ police headquarters, Benin City, following complaint that a woman’s pregnancy was terminated.

It was learnt that police operatives brought a patient disguised as a pregnant woman demanding to abort her pregnancy.

The doctor alongside four nurses was arrested while attempting to terminate the pregnancy.

A Police source told the Nation that its operatives recovered a lifeless foetus and hospital equipment suspected to be abortion apparatus.

The hospital was raided following a complaints sent to the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of the zone, Mr. Musa Daura who stated that the woman whose pregnancy was aborted happens to be on a danger list at another hospital.

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I need Atiku Abubakar’s phone number; I want to date him – Maheeda

In her world, nudity is neither a crime nor sin. Nude star, Caroline Samuel, famously known as Maheeda believes that Nigeria will only get better once prostitution is legalized.

She recently triggered what could be termed as the biggest storm of controversy that rocked the Nigerian showbiz world with her nude pictures and videos, which exposed her hidden treasures.

For those who are not familiar with her, the question frequently asked, is: what the hell is the problem with this girl.

For this nude star, there’s nothing wrong; she enjoys her way of life and that settles it all.

Born Caroline Samuel, she does not give a dam over what anyone thinks about her.

In a recent interview with Ameh Comrade Godwin, Maheeda opens up on her alleged romance with former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar.

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ome persons are yet to understand Maheeda, who are you?

You can never completely understand God’s creation.

But I am a full-package!!

You’ve not been active online like you used to, except postings on Instagram. What happened?

I’m as active as I can be for now... Busy with priorities such as education and family..

What are you up to lately?

I have been busy with self-development.

To many, you are a sex symbol. Why is it so?

Ask them, it is not my thinking, it is theirs. But I believe in sex education and freedom though. It’s needed in Africa.

What really made you start putting those seductive videos online?

To get your attention and to show off my sexuality What message are you trying to convey with your nude pictures and videos?

I am not a messenger. I am a human being. Just being human by living my life!!!

Do you make money from your videos?

Yes I do. Their use to be some kind of bet on my behalf. That’s how far I can tell you!!!

Some people have already condemned you to hell, because they see you as a prostitute, how would you react to this?

There is no hell!! Hell is in their mind... As for calling me names, I am not the first; someone might have called their mum or sisters that too at some stage, so not a big deal to me..

Have you ever been approached by persons willing to pay to have sex with you?

Yes. It is normal for some people desiring to have sex with me, I tease them a lot... But they

can’t!

Some persons want prostitution legalized, what’s your take?

Legalizing prostitution is being done by some very developed countries. Are they stupid? Nah I don’t think so.. Is our country better than theirs? Well you answer that, if you ask me, legalizing it will make a great deference.

You once said you have sex every day, do you still do?

Yes! You started out as a gospel singer, why did you dump that genre?

I didn’t start as a gospel singer..

Do your research well!!

How do your children, parents react when they see those video?

My people are fine with my choice of life, I am an adult...

Have you ever been sexually harassed by any man?

Harassment is normal in Nigeria, or from Africans, most of them are not being taught to respect women... Their parents give them reasons to misbehave. They say because a lady is naked, it is allowed to rape her or harass her.

Bad teachings.

It is like saying because a new car is parked outside with the keys, you can steal it, it is the owners fault ..

We once heard you were dating Atiku Abubakar, what actually happened between the both of you?

Dating who? (laughter) Please give him my number ohh let’s start the dating.

Do you go to church?

No, I don’t go to church but I listen to preaching at home and I pray every day.

Do you think Nigeria should legalise gay marriage?

I don’t think for Nigeria. Nigeria think for herself Would you support any of your children to take after you?

Will support my kids when they are 18 years of age in whatever they choose to do or be that will not hurt or kill somebody ... I will not allow them to steal, as for my footstep, it is their choice ... I am doing great by the way!!!

How do you overcome sexual urge whenever your husband is not around?

I masturbate We heard of a crack in your marriage recently, how true is it?

God forbid! My marriage is growing stronger by the day! Love is growing stronger by the day. We are happy; very happy! Thanks to God!!

How do you relax?

I do some yoga and masturbate or ask some help from my man for a great love-making.

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inging duo, Paul and Peter Okoye of P-Square fame, are back to their feet after escaping death by whiskers in an auto mishap along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway during the weekend.

The songsters suffered a crash with their ox-blood coloured Range Rover Sport SUV on their way back from a concert staged in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

A thankful Peter had earlier taken to his Instagram page to narrate that an oncoming lorry bashed their car as they were returning from a show alongside their assistant manager and lead drummer, Papi J Ameh.

Peter said: “Fans please help us thank God. I, @rudeboypsquare @papiijameh and our assistant manager @wandoskie, had an accident in the early hours of today on our way back from a show in Ibadan along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. A lorry hit and dragged us for over 12 seconds. But our Lord and our God is always faithful and quick to show mercy. Thank God we survived.”

However, latest report from Squareville has it that the brothers are in good condition at the moment.

I am happy marriage has settled me – Tonto Dikeh

Nigeria made a mistake by banning marijuana – Seun Kuti

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on of late Afro legend, Seun Kuti, has said that the Nigerian government was ill advised to put an embargo on the use of marijuana.

According to him, “There are doctors and scientists who believe that marijuana should be legalized. There are also lawyers, judges, and politicians who believe that the war on drugs is a false war.

That is actually a war on the poor people all over the world, because bothv poor people and rich people use drugs to be sane. But you will find that here, people are in jail more for drug use.”

“I believe that the decision is a carryover of colonial law,” Seun noted.

He further pointed out that, “We as Africans had no reason to ban marijuana. It was done out of the United State lobby, forcing our governments to ban the drug. One of the biggest markets in the world for marijuana in the world is Israel (which is a more religious country than Nigeria),” he quipped.

“But they understand the benefits,” he continued, “especially the economic benefits. So much wealth can be generated from it, but that is another issue entirely.

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ontroversial Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh has hinted that her marriage to Mr. Churchill Olubunmi has changed everything about her.

The Rivers State-born actress says since saying I do to her husband, she’s now happier than before.

The actress took to her Instagram page to keep her fans and followers abreast of what has been happening and what next.

She wrote thus: “God has been faithful, Court wedding- Done; Introduction – Done; Bride price payment and reception (BP CEREMONY) – Done;

NCC arrest 26 pirates, confiscate 7,000 unclassified films

By Danielle Ogbeche o fewer than 26 suspected pirates have been apprehended in Lagos by the Nigeria Copyright Commission and Lagos State Film and Video Censors Board (LSFVCB), during a threeday raid.

Following the three-day anti-piracy raid across the state, which was carried out in collaboration with the Yoruba Movie Producers and Marketers Association of Nigeria, covered Iyana-Ipaja, Agege, Oshodi, Ijora, Orile Iganmu and Obalende, leading to the arrest of 26 pirates and seizure of 7,000 copies of pirated films, especially pornographic films.

DAILY POST gathered that the General Secretary of Yoruba Movie Producers and Marketers Association of Nigeria, Mr. Adetunji Ojetola, who led

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his team for the raid, confessed that the Association had made spirited effort in the past to curb piracy.

Mr. Bamidele Balogun, Executive Secretary of LSFVCB, said: “The raid was part of the continuous effort to liberate the state of the sale of pirated and unclassified movies.”

Bamidele said the state government was concerned that Nigerian artistes were not getting maximum benefits from their works and this posed serious challenges, emphasizing that those arrested during the raids will be tried and brought to justice.

He added that piracy is the greatest enemy of the creative industry which must be defeated for the film industry as well as legitimate practitioners to grow.

Charlyboy takes Ethopian woman as second wife

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harles Oputa, popularly known as Charlyboy, has taken Ms Ify Koko, a Nigerian-Ethiopian, as wife.

The entertainment maverick told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Abuja on Friday that “I met her in another radio show. She was one of the callers and that was how it all started.

“I have known her for over a year now until we decided to make it a permanent thing few months ago.

“Somebody of my status needs more than one wife; I need many wives, many children and plenty of love that will do it for me.

“Koko is the 18th woman in my life right now and she is the latest. As you can see, I am looking younger because I am very happy with my new bride, who is very beautiful and supportive.

“I have also decided to go on air with her because she has something to bring to the table; she is an advertiser and human resource manager.’’

Charlyboy, who introduced the new bride as Ify Koko, said, “I am now married to Ify Koko, a Nigerian-Ethiopian.

“We have agreed to come together to co-host my radio program: “Talk Junction” on FRCN network every Saturday by 10.30am.”

The Area Fada, as he is popularly called by fans, however, stressed that he was not divorced from Diane, his wife of over three decades.

Traditional and white wedding - on the way.

“We plan on celebrating every event all the way because this is a wonderful Gift God has bestowed upon us.

“I am a happy Woman, I am a settled Woman.

“I can’t express my heart, it’s been all tears and thanks to my Potter (God) who never stopped looking out for me even when men thought they could rewrite my story.

“Thanks to my Husband and Sultan for a beautiful ceremony and all the love he showers on me”, she wrote.

With over 100 hits, I don’t smoke – Don Jazzy

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ce music producer and CEO of Mavin Records, Michael Collins Ajereh, famously known as Don Jazzy, has advised rising musicians never to let pride overtake their career.

The music star, while hammering on the need to be prudent in spending, advised that as a star, flying first class and private jet should not become the order of the day, because an artist ought to save for the ‘’rainy days’’.

He further emphasized on the need to show respect to those in the business before the emerging act, making special reference to 2face Idibia whom he termed a legend.

He condemned the craze for drug abuse among artistes, urging them to desist from smoking marijuana, just in the name of trying to have a hit.

“It just doesn’t work like that. No one has ever made it by abusing drugs.

“I have over 100 hits and I don’t smoke it,” he cautioned.

The Mavin boss shared these useful tips via his Instagram handle. He tagged it ‘’When You Finally Blow – To upcoming Nigerian music artistes.’’

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De Gea’s move officially off, Madrid blame United for collapse

Yaya Toure, Ayew, Mahrez nominated for top EPL award

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avid de Gea will not be moving to Real Madrid this summer, after the deal collapsed over the late submission of relevant paperwork.

The Spanish governing body headquarters, confirmed that they got the documents well after midnight, when the transfer window closed in Spain.

Madrid had agreed a deal worth £29million for Dea Gea, with Keylor Navas set to head to Old Trafford in part exchange, but the agreements will not be rubberstamped.

This means De Gea will stay at Old Trafford this season.

The La Liga side have now released a numbered statement, blaming United for stalling the transfer.

It reads: 1) Manchester United didn’t open any path of negotiation for the registration rights to David De Gea until yesterday morning.

2) Real Madrid, despite the difficulties associated with completing a deal of this type on the final day of registration, accepted the initiating of these conversations.

3) When Manchester United entered into these negotiations yesterday morning they did so subject to being able to reach an agreement with Real Madrid player Keylor Navas, in order that he would join the British club from this season, and informed that they were in contact with the representatives of said player.

4) Real Madrid and Manchester United arrived quickly at an agreement for the transfers of both players. After the editing of the relevant contractual documents and with the intention of proceeding with enough time to get everything sent to the Transfer Matching System of FIFA (TMS) as well as his registration with the Spanish Football League (LFP), Real Madrid resent the contracts to Manchester United at 13:39 Spanish time.

5) Manchester United sent back their comments on said contracts eight hours later, at 21:43 Spanish time, including small modifications. Due to not being relevant, all of the modifications were accepted immediately by Real Madrid with the intention of being able to register the player on time in the TMS and with the LFP.

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he trio of Yaya Toure, Andre Ayew and Riyad Mahrez, have been nominated for the New African Soccer Best African Player in the Premier League award for August.

Toure has been crucial to Manchester City’s commanding start to the season, scoring twice and providing four assists, as they sit on top of the league with 12 maximum points.

Ayew, who only moved to England this summer on a free transfer from Marseille, has settled in well, scoring three times in four games including against top sides, Chelsea and Manchester United.

Leicester City’s Mahrez is joint top scorer with four goals from four games.

“Reigning African Player of the Year Yaya Toure of Manchester City leads the way, with a commanding performance in all four games he has featured in. Scoring two and providing four assists is no mean feat for a team that really set its stall out very early in its desire to reclaim the Premier League crown surrendered to Chelsea. He has been magnificent,” award director, Tunde Adelakun said.

“Algeria’s Leicester City forward Riyad Mahrez was also on the shortlist, and it is no surprise. Mahrez is joint top scorer with four goals from four games, in an unbeaten four-game spell for the team that battled to survive relegation last season.

“Mahrez has really come into his own this season and it is a thrill to see him doing what he is doing.

“Ayew has scored three goals in four games, and put in a man of the match performance for Swansea against two of the top teams in England - Chelsea and Manchester United.”

US Open: Serena, Nadal stroll through

Victor Moses joins West Ham on loan

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efending champion Serena Williams, is through to the second round of the US Open, after Vitalia Diatchenko withdrew from their first-round match.

The world No 1 was leading 6-0 2-0, when the Russian decided to pull out due to an ankle injury in New York.

Williams will face Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands next, as she tries to become the first player to win all four Grand Slam tournaments in a season since Steffi Graf in 1988.

Rafael Nadal also showed signs of returning to his best, as he sealed a 6-3 6-2 4-6 6-4 win over Borna Coric in a first-round game.

The Spaniard is having a difficult time in his career, but began his quest to win the final Grand Slam title of the year in fine style.

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uper Eagles winger, Victor Moses, has left Chelsea to join West Ham on a season-long loan, after signing a new fouryear contract with the Blues.

The Nigerian has spent the last two seasons on loan at

Liverpool and inho had hinted that the Stoke City. Jose Mour part of his plans this 24-year-old would be ve changed his mind term, but appears to ha dro Rodriguez. after the arrival of Pe from Wigan Athletic Moses joined Chelsea 44 appearances for the in 2012 and has made t, scoring 10 goals.

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Joel Obi pulls out of Eagles squad for Tanzania

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orino midfielder, Joel Obi, has withdrawn from this weekend’s AFCON 2015 qualifier against Tanzania, as he is yet to recover from a muscle injury.

The 24-year-old is one of the 18 foreign professionals, that was invited for the clash by new coach, Sunday Oliseh.

Obi was missing from Sunday’s Serie A match against Fiorentina, as he only resumed training on Fridat and has not regained match fitness.

“It’s not yet official, but it looks like he’s not coming due to his injury,” a top team official told AfricanFootball.com

Manchester United announce Martial transfer

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anchester United have confirmed the arrival of Anthony Martial from Monaco.

The 19-year-old striker will cost the Old Trafford club £36million - making him the most expensive teenager in football.

Martial insists he is not bothered by his huge price tag and vows he will deliver in the Premier League.

“I don’t feel the pressure. I know there is pressure but I’m ready for it,” he said.

“I’m very hapy because it’s a big club in England. I’m very proud. I m very happy because I worked hard for this and my family is very happy about it.

“It’s not easy to speak about myself but I am a very fast player.

“I spoke with the coach and I know that I need to work very hard. I hope that everything will go well for me at this club.

“I’m very happy because the supporters are great here. I will be ready when the time comes [to make his debut].”

“To be honest, [on Sunday] on the plane, Wayne Rooney came to speak to me and asked me who Martial was, because the English press had started to speak.”

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Well, not yet. But at this rate, with the suspicion that Jose Mourinho’s third-season syndrome is kicking in, disaster is not far away.

This is not the start that Mourinho and Chelsea hoped for, less than three months after they were crowned Premier League champions, eight points clear of the nearest challenger.

It started on a bad note from the first game. For the first time in 14 games, Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger managed a win over Mourinho, as the Gunners beat their London rivals 1-0 to lift the Community Shield.

If that defeat was meant to provide a, erm, reality Cech, it obviously did not.

Swansea visited Stamford Bridge for the first league game and would have run out winners, if they were braver and less naive.

It ended 2-2. In that game, Jefferson Montero introduced us to the fading force that is Branislav Ivanovic. The Ecudaorian winger tormented, teased and tricked

Chelsea’s right-back all game long.

It gave encouragement to right wingers. Raheem Sterling, Callum Mcmanaman and Yannick Bolaise have taken their turns to shred the 31-year-old defender.

Alan Pardew, who masterminded a 2-1 win over the Blues on Saturday, admitted that it was a tactic to target Ivanovic.

“We doubled up on him a little in the first half, with Sako and Wilf (Zaha),” Pardew said.

Roberto Martinez might want to take some notes, ahead of Chelsea’s visit on September 12.

In the days of yore, Ivanovic was a formidable presence in the Blues’ defence, whether stationed in the middle or out on the right.

These days, he appears to be the weak link of an out-of-sort Chelsea side. John Terry is another.

He had to endure the indignity of half-time substitution in the 3-0 humiliation at Manchester City and a 52nd minute red card one week later at West Brom. Mourinho had duly noted his lack of pace at the Etihad and the sight of the former England captain chasing Salomon Rondon helplessly at the Hawthorns, was public confirmation.

Just in front of the defence, it was Nemanja Matic’s turn to be hauled off last weekend against Palace. The powerful Serbian anchorman looked painfully rusty and inadequate as Jason Puncheon terrorized him and the ineffective Cesc Fabregas.

Eden Hazard is not the effervescent force, that caused chaos in many defences last term. Willian is still Willian and Diego Costa is determined to grumpier this season. When the Spain international is ticked off, everything seems to fall apart for Chelsea upfront. The only spark appears to be Pedro, whose debut against West Brom was a lesson in catalytic brilliance.

The international break has probably come at the right time for Mourinho. The Portuguese schemer is one of the best in the business, but he needs to prove once more that he is a supreme tactician.

For a start, he might consider bringing in new boy Baba Rahman, to sort out that right-back spot.

Warrington desperate to beat Bunker

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osh Warrington has admitted that he has to beat Joel Bunker on Saturday, if he must earn a world title shot at Lee Selby.

There are speculations, that Selby will put his IBF featherweight belt on the line at Elland Road next year, but Warrington knows he must take it one step at a time.

Selby defeated Brunker (28-1-KO16) in October via a ninth-round stoppage. Warrington, who is currently unbeaten (21-0-KO4) knows he is expected to deliver this weekend.

“Just turning up today and seeing how many people have turned up for a public workout gives me a little taste of what it’s going to be like on Saturday,| Warrington told Sky Sports News HQ, at a public workout in Leeds.

We’ll take every fight as it comes but hopefully

down the line, that’s what we’re aiming for. Every fight at this level is a big fight.

“I’m dead excited and it’s going to be a busy crowd. It’ll be a good fight as well. I’m expecting a tough fight. Joel’s a good kid and you don’t get a record like his without being a decent prospect.

“I’ve trained hard for it and I’m ready for whatever he brings.”

On the possibility of facing Selby, the 24-year-old added: “It’s what keeps getting mentioned and I’m not going to turn around and say I’m not interested in the fight. It definitely whets the appetite but I’ve got to get through this one on Saturday.

“We’ll take every fight as it comes but hopefully down the line, that’s what we’re aiming for. Every fight at this level is a big fight. There are no easy fights so I’ve got to be at my beston Saturday.

“Camp has gone well. Joel is not an easy opponent so I’ve got that fear factor back in training. It’s made me train harder. If I want to progress to world titles, then I’ve got to win on Saturday.”

Rooney asked me who Martial is – Schneiderlin

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anchester United midfielder, Morgan Schneiderlin, has revealed that captain Wayne Rooney, asked him who Anthony Martial is.

Rooney spoke to his teammate, when rumours emerged linking the Monaco forward with a move to Old Trafford.

“To be honest, [on Sunday] on the plane, Wayne Rooney came to speak to me and asked me who Martial was, because the English press had started to speak,” Schneiderlin told reporters in France.

“I told him he’s a great player with great potential, who has played some good matches with Monaco last season and the beginning of this.

“I told him he is technical and powerful. A little like Thierry Henry, even if it’s the press who are making that comparison.”

According to L’Equipe, the deal could eventually be worth €80million, a price which a lot feel is too high for a 19-year-old. Schneiderlin says Martial should not think about his price tag.

“If he wants my advice, it is to ignore it,” he said.

“The media will talk a lot and will expect him to score many goals, but he must remember his qualities and play like he knows how. He can’t be paralysed by it. I think everything will go well.”

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