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Labour suspends nationwide strike Meets FG over minimum wage Oct 4

JUSUN directs members to resume work Idu Jude and Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja The Organised Labour comprising Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and affiliate unions have suspended

the nationwide warning strike with effect from September 30, 2018.

This was announced on Sunday by the NLC President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, during a press conference in Abuja.

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L-R: Executive Producer, The Next Titan Show, Kunle Mide-Akinlaja; Group Head, Energy, Heritage Bank Plc, Afolashade Alonge; Managing Director/CEO, Heritage Bank, Ifie Sekibo and Founder/President of Guardian of The Nation International (GOTNI), Linus Okorie, at the Heritage Bank The Next Titans selection at Oriental Hotel, Lekki, Lagos... at the weekend

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days ago, organised labour embarked on a warning strike from Thursday September 26, 2018, after a 14-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to reconvene the meeting and conclude the work of the Tripartite National Minimum Wage Committee.

Wabba noted that the suspension was necessitated by a firm and formal invitation to a reconvened meeting of the tripartite committee by the government scheduled for 4th and 5th of October, 2018.

“We demand that this shall be the final sessions of the committee and that a final report will be submitted to Mr. President immediately.

“In order to avail the committee the necessary conducive environment to hold this crucial meeting and conclude its work, organised labour has, after obtaining the mandate of their necessary organs, decided to suspend the strike action with effect from today, Sunday September 30, 2018”, Wabba said.

He, however, commended the workers and unions for their commitment and determination during the

striking period, and urged all the unions and state councils to maintain a high level of mobilisation and readiness until the struggle for a reasonable minimum wage is achieved.

Meanwhile, the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) has directed all its members across Nigeria to resume work on Tuesday, October 2, following the suspension of strike organised by the Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC).

President of JUSUN, Comrade Marwan Mustapha Adamu, gave the directive in Abuja shortly after the NLC announced on Sunday that it has suspended the ongoing strike with immediate effect.

Comrade Marwan thanked JUSUN members for complying with the directive during the industrial action to persuade the Federal Government to reconvene the tripartite committee for the review of the national minimum wage to conclude their assignment.

The Daily Times recalls that the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen and President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, were on Thursday, locked out

of their offices by officials of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN), in compliance with the indefinite strike that was declared by the NLC. Also locked out on Thursday by JUSUN officials were Chief Judges of both the Federal High Court and the FCT High Court as well as the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN. Justices of the Supreme Court, Judges, lawyers and litigants were equally denied entry into any court within the FCT. Aside the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal, other places locked down by the protesting workers were the Federal Ministry of Justice, the National Industrial Court, the Code of Conduct Bureau & Tribunal, the Legal Aid Council of Nigeria and the National Human Rights Commission.

Meanwhile, the NLC President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, on Sunday, said that the organised labour has gotten firm commitment from the Federal Government that the Tripartite Committee of the Minimum Wage Committee will reconvene on October 4.

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President Muhammadu Buhari (sitting in the middle); government officials and some Nigerians living in the United States during an interactive session with the President in New York

Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode during a World Press Conference in Lagos...on Sunday.

Global Gas seeks FG intervention over prolonged dispute with SPDC

Says dispute sending wrong signal to foreign, local investors

Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja Global Gas Refining Limited (Global) has called on the Federal Government to encourage amicable settlement of the dispute between Global Gas and Shell Petroleum Development Company Limited (SPDC).

Global Gas, in a court document exclusively obtained by The Daily Times accused SPDC of deliberately refusing to supply the required “Rich Gas” thereby frustrating its efforts to maximise the gas potentials of the region in line with the Federal Government policy on gas development.

The company, however, lamented that the prolonged dispute if not immediately looked into will send a wrong signal not only to foreign and local investors but would also affect the nation’s economy.

Global Gas said, “The much needed Foreign Direct Investment and local investment in the gas

sector could be achieved if the Federal Government encourages the amicable settlement of the dispute between Global Gas and Shell Petroleum Development Company Limited (SPDC) and compensate the firm for its wasted expenditure and huge investment.

“We are of the strong conviction that the continuance of such a dispute as in the instant case portends significant consequences and may militate against the commendable efforts by the Federal Government to attract and encourage the much needed Foreign Direct Investment as well as the promotion of local content development in a key sector of the economy such as Gas Production and Processing.

The negative multiplier effect of such an avoidable situation need not be over emphasised”.

Global Gas had on March 20, 1998 by virtue of a Gas Sale and Purchase Agreement (GSPA) entered into an agreement for the sale/purchase and

processing of Natural Gas (Rich Gas) with the SPDC. By the GSPA, SPDC agreed with Global to supply the natural gas available from the Cawthorne Channel Region to Global for processing.

In the GSPA, SPDC represented to the Global that the gas studies (as per the reserve certificate) available for the Cawthorne Channel Gas Gathering Plant (CCGGF) confirm that SPDC has the reserve capacity to supply up to 160mmscf/d of rich gas to Global for processing.

Under the GSPA, Global Gas was required to establish a gas processing plant whilst SPDC was obligated to establish its own gas gathering facility.

But the SPDC purportedly conceived that Global was in default of the agreed time to complete the construction of the Global facilities, and sought to terminate the GSPA. Global Gas however countered SPDC’s position by commencing an arbitration.

L-R: Governorship aspirants of the Oyo State All Progressives Congress (APC): Chief Adebayo Adelabu; Dr. Olusola Ayandele; Chief Niyi Akintola (SAN); Mr. Joseph Tegbe, and Dr. Owolabi Babalola, during the party’s governorship primary at the Lekan Salami Stadium, Adamasingba, Ibadan... on Sunday.

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L-R: CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, Dr Seth Berkley and UBA Group CEO and Chairman of the UBA Foundation, Mr. Kennedy Uzoka, during the announcement of partnership agreement between the two institutions towards strengthening health systems and raise awareness of immunisation across Africa.

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Cracks in APC as Ambode insists on second term Patrick Okohue, Lagos, Amaka Agbu and Memoye Oghu, Port Harcourt

Determined to breast all odds and confront the powers that be in the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, on Sunday, insisted that he will go ahead and run in the governorship primaries scheduled to hold today in the state, urging the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party to ensure level playing ground for the aspirants and also ensure that the exercise is credible.

Governor Ambode stated this while addressing a world press conference at the Lagos House in Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos.

He added that since the party had agreed to adopt direct primaries for the governorship candidate to emerge, it behoves on the party to follow due process to ensure that every aspirant

gets a fair chance to contest for the ticket in a credible democratic process.

The governor spoke against the overwhelming gang up by frontline leaders of the party against him including some political office holders in favour of his opponent, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who only on Saturday was endorsed by 36 of the 40-member strong state House of Assembly.

Ambode has however expressed concern that with less than 24 hours to the primaries, membership cards were yet to be distributed, while even as an aspirant, he was yet to be given guidelines for the election, adding that it would be injustice to deny newly registered members of the party the opportunity to exercise their franchise.

He said: “The party constitution allows us to do direct and indirect primaries. The Lagos State APC has agreed to go with direct primaries and in that wise it is open to all contestants and so it is very clear that during direct primaries, I am also eligible to

participate in the primaries. What we want is a very clean board to allow everybody to partake in it.

“We believe that it is in the greater interest of the party to allow reason to prevail and allow every contestant to come out and show their strength. I believe strongly that it is in the interest of the country that our party should activate as much as possible all the democratic values that our party has always been known for and that is what I stand for.

“I believe strongly also that the preparations are still ongoing, but there are some few things that we still need to iron out and I believe strongly that the chairman of our great party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole will be able to correct some of these things that we have noticed.

“We are committed progressives; we are committed to the outcome of the primaries; we are committed to the tenets and principles of our great party, but what we would not want

Sekibo urges entrepreneurs to collaborate with banks’ SMEs desks for growth

Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Heritage Bank Plc, Ifie Sekibo, has encouraged the budding African entrepreneurs of the Next Titan Housemates to talk to small and medium enterprise (SME) desks of banks because the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has a policy for disbursing money to banks for SMEs sector.

Sekibo stated this while delivering a keynote address titled: Why African needs new breed of entrepreneurs and why is Heritage Bank championing it, at the premiere of the 5th edition of the Next Titan TV reality show in Lagos over the weekend.

The Next Titan is Nigeria’s entrepreneurial reality TV show where thousands of ambitious young entrepreneurs across the country compete with one another for a grand prize of N5 million and a brand new car to start his or her dream business.

He, however, challenged the budding entrepreneurs to stir up their entrepreneurship DNAs in a bid to allow innate ideas to flow and blossom.

According to Sekibo, the entrepreneur is not the risk taker but the person who relentlessly pursue opportunities without recklessness, without regard to not having money, house or car or any strong financial support from family members, remarking that in most cases, he is the one that drops out at of school.

He said during the precolonial era in Africa, Africans, (our fore fathers) who were the entrepreneurs of those days in places like Lagos Island and Badagry were engaged in fishing and farming as well as trade across the west coast

among themselves under an organised system.

The bank’s boss said during the colonial period, (our fathers) were affected by the culture and traditions of the colonialists a development which affected their psyche, thereby making what is foreign to be more important than what is local.

Sekibo said western tradition became the order of the day as Africans moved away from entrepreneurship to white collar jobs to earn monthly income and the word job came into play, adding that work was no longer defined as the work of a tough man or woman on the farmland but depended on how much of the colonial language one understand.

In order to reverse the trend, Sekibo contended that budding African entrepreneurs should relive the DNAs that their forefathers left for them by uncapping them so that their innate ideas could flow and blossom.

He said Africans burn with ideas but they needed to mine them so that they could blossom, remarking that they need to have mentors that will enable them to achieve their goals.

The Chief Executive also said money is very critical to entrepreneurship and they had to be bold and courageous to get it, adding that there is a spirit behind getting money which is largely influenced by character and integrity. He enjoined them to collaborate to bring down the cost of money.

Sekibo enjoined them to be bold and should not be afraid to fail because failing is not a failure and should not give up because they had failed.

Also speaking, Mr. Folusho Philips, Managing Director of Philips Consulting, also listed some factors for successful entrepreneurship.

They are competence, character and behaviour, study and steadiness as well as compliant and chemistry of the prospective entrepreneur.

Mrs. Yetunde Odejayi, Permanent Secretary to the office of the Deputy Governor of Lagos State, noted that entrepreneurship was part of key programmes of the current administration. She encouraged them to be bold and resilient and be prepared to face challenges and also informed them about state’s Ministry of Wealth Creation and the Lagos State Trust Fund (LSSTF).

Mr. Babarinde Abiona, General Manager (Marketing) with Coscharis Motors, tasked them to believe in themselves and be focused, adding that Coscharis, a major dealer of Ford Motors in the country will give a brand new Ford Focus to the winner.

One of the boardroom judges, Chris Parkes, commended Heritage Bank for investing in the project and noted that judges would be very critical of their ideas because they want ideas that could add value to the country’s economy.

About 60 finalists were unveiled at the premiere out of more than 2,000 contestants that were screened at various auditions in Port Harcourt, Enugu, Abuja and Lagos.

However, only 16 made it to the house while Heritage Bank used a wild card to add two more contestants: Kalu Sylvester and Ugochi Ogadi to bring the number to 18

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Sanwo-Olu

to accept is to disenfranchise all the millions of people that we have been able to bring into the APC fold just by our performance and so what we heard is that there is a register that is being brought into the state which only includes those who have registered since 2014. What about all the millions of members of APC that we have gotten in from 2015 till date?

“I carry my own membership slip anywhere I go and now they say this is the membership slip that I have, I don’t have a membership card and so the question is: are they saying me as a Governor, I would not be entitled to vote tomorrow (today)? So, the national headquarters and the electoral committee need to make immediate adjustment to this.

“All the people that have registered as members of APC should be entitled to vote in the direct primaries; that is how we entrench the democratic values that we are all preaching. So, if someone like me can be disenfranchised because I don’t have a card, what happens to ordinary members of APC? We believe strongly that this can be corrected and will allow everybody to come out and exercise their civic duty and civic right to choose who will represent them as the gubernatorial candidate for the APC”.

Taking a swipe at his closest challenger, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Ambode, who spoke without mentioning his name, stated emphatically that he remains the best man for the job, noting that SanwoOlu does not possess the requisite experience and psychological know how to govern the state.

He said, “Now the truth is this, in the last two of three weeks, they have been putting a lot of campaign of calumny in the social media and also disparaging our personalities and character, but we have been extremely humble; we have never responded; we have never abused anybody, because we believe that there is always a reason for us to come together as a family.

“We are one family in APC, but now the truth is this, the aspirant they are putting up to compete against us is not a fit and proper person to take this position and they know the fact; this is the truth!

“Party leaders and even party members have been misled to understand that this is a better candidate than myself. I have done everything in the last three and half years to serve the people selflessly and to serve the poor and that is why you see that most of the projects you have seen is to alleviate the sufferings of the poor and the only way out for us is to continue to do that in the next four years.

“This particular aspirant as we all know, you can go and check it, the records are there. This is somebody

that has been arrested for spending fake American dollars in a night club and he has been detained for months.

He is also known that he does not have the competence to do what he is being propelled to do, the records are there in Gbagada General Hospital, the records are there; this is somebody that has gone for rehabilitation before.

“We don’t want to go too far; we don’t want to talk about all the things that we know, but what we want is for our leadership to have a rethink because the truth is this, I will not stand here on the mandate of Lagosians and then allow our great party APC to fretter away that opportunity to put in somebody that the opposition will easily take out because of lack of credibility.

“We plead with all our leaders. They should have a rethink; this is not about me but about the greater opportunities that APC stands to better the progress of Lagos and Nigeria.”

Reaffirming that he was a bonafide member of the APC who believes in the tenets and democratic values of the party, the governor said his administration’s strides in the last three and half years has won more members into the fold.

While welcoming the challenge from other aspirants, Governor Ambode said he was confident that his administration has set a pace since inception and any course to alter the process could have dire consequences on the party’s chances in the 2019 general election.

“As to the other aspirant, of course, we welcome competition and yes it is an open space, but we will not take something that is of good assurance to allow us to fretter away the opportunity that our party has to win the 2019 governorship.

“Beyond this, we would be jeopardising the Buhari/Osinbajo ticket of which I am hundred per cent standing for by promoting another aspirant who would not be able to sell the Buhari/ Osinbajo ticket,” he said.

Governor Ambode also seized the occasion to express concern on the heated political situation in the state, saying that the government would not fold its arms and watch political thugs disrupt the peace the state has enjoyed in the last three and half years.

He disclosed that security reports available to the State Government indicate that there was an ongoing recruitment and arming of political thugs to disrupt the tranquil atmosphere of Lagos State, in the guise of holding Primary Elections.

“It has become imperative to put every stakeholder on notice, especially the Federal Government and Security Agencies, to take more than a passing interest in the development in this state

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that has hitherto been adjudged as the safest city in Africa.

“Consequently, the state government will do all within its powers in collaboration with relevant security agencies to protect our citizens and insulate them from any condition that may breed insecurity or the breakdown of law and order in the state throughout the Primaries campaign and election periods,” Governor Ambode added.

But the National Leader of the APC and former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has called on members of the party to vote for a governorship candidate that will keep Lagos State on the path of development different from those who will deviate from the Lagos Master plan as witnessed in the recent past.

Tinubu said as governor of Lagos State, he along with some prominent members of the state and members of that government drew up a master plan for economic development that would improve the daily lives of people which he faithfully implemented, noting that the government that came after and led by Babatunde Fashola also followed in his footstep by faithfully following in the same line of action, but that such has not been the case in the recent past and the present government seem to have replace it with inferior model.

The former governor in a statement he personally signed, therefore urged party members in the state to vote in the primary conscious of returning the state to a better path.

He said, “We must vote in a manner that returns Lagos to its better path, the one that promises a just chance for all to enjoy the fruits of our prosperity.

We must always pursue our goal of a Lagos energised by creative dynamism, tolerance of others,

and guided by a leadership capable of extending a collegial hand to all stakeholders, far and wide.

Tinubu noted that when the leadership of the party decided on direct primary, it was aimed at putting the people’s destiny in their own hands and give them the chance to decide their own future.

He said, “By resort to direct primaries, the party places the people’s future soundly in their hands. As democracy would have it, you shall be the authors of the party’s nomination and hopefully our next state government.

“I trust in the wisdom of the people and will abide it.

However, as a leader of the party and as a former governor of our beloved and excellent Lagos, I would be remiss if I did not make a few observations regarding the primary.

“My goal is and shall always be a better Lagos. To this objective, I have dedicated the greater part of my public life. Roughly 20 years ago, a corps of dedicated and patriotic Lagosians, put aside personal interests and rivalries, to put their minds and best ideas together for the good of the state. Out of this collaborative effort, was born a master plan for economic development that would improve the daily lives of our people.

“Bestowed on me was the honour of a lifetime when I was elected to be your governor in 1999. My administration faithfully implemented that plan. The government of my immediate successor, Tunde Fashola, also honoured this enlightened plan.

“Where state government remained true to that blueprint, positive things happened.

During my tenure and Governor Fashola’s, Lagos State recorded improvements in all aspects of our collective existence, from public health to public sanitation, from education to social services,

from the administration of justice to the cleaning of storm and sewage drains. Businesses, large and small, invested, hired millions of workers and thrived.

“All Lagosians were to fully participate and justly benefit from the social dividends and improvements wrought by this plan. From the common labourer, to business leaders, to professionals and our industrious civil service, we all were to be partners in a monumental but joint enterprise. None was to be alienated. None was to be left out. And none were to be pushed aside. This is especially true for those who contributed so much to our development, whether as a business leader who has invested heavily in Lagos, the homeowner who struggles to pay his fair share of taxes or as someone employed in the hard work of keeping our streets and byways clean so that others may go about their daily tasks unimpeded.

“I make no pretence that the master plan is perfect. It can always be fine-tuned. However, whenever a government departed from this plan without compelling reason, the state and its people have borne the painful consequence of the improper departure.

Apparently attacking Ambode, Tinubu said, “To ignore this blueprint for progress in order to replace it with ad-hoc schemes of a materially inferior quality contravenes the spirit of progressive governance and of our party. Such narrowness of perspective does not bring us closer to our appointed destination; it takes us farther from that destiny.

“For reasons unknown to me and most Lagosians, we have experienced such deviations from enlightened governance recently.

“This trend is that which most concerns me as the primary nears. We must arrest this trend before irreparable harm is

UBA Foundation, Gavi launch new partnership for Africa

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the UBA Foundation, the Corporate Social Responsibility arm of the United Bank for Africa Group, have joined together to strengthen health systems and raise awareness of immunisation across Africa, starting in 2018 with Nigeria.

“We are delighted to work with the UBA Foundation to help protect children across Nigeria against some of the world’s deadliest diseases,” said Dr Seth Berkley, CEO of Gavi the Vaccine Alliance. “Strong, sustainable health systems are key to ensuring no child misses out on lifesaving vaccines which is why this partnership will make a real difference, reducing child mortality and helping to meet the Sustainable Development Goals in 2030.”

The partnership with the UBA Foundation aims to raise US$ 1.5 million over the next two years by leveraging UBA’s network of partners to support Gavi’s immunisation programmes in Nigeria. The UBA Foundation will also advocate for immunisation in Nigeria, which has one of the lowest vaccine coverage rates in the world.

“The United Bank for Africa and the UBA Foundation have been impacting lives positively in Nigeria and across the African continent for several decades, and this is another opportunity to make a difference in the lives of millions of Africans,” said Kennedy Uzoka, UBA Group CEO and Chairman of the UBA Foundation. “We are proud of the partnership with Gavi which will run until the end

of 2020, with both institutions focused on the overall aim to provide innovative solutions that can increase the capacity of healthcare systems in Nigeria and across Africa.”

In the last five years over 14 million children in Nigeria have been vaccinated against some of the world’s deadliest diseases with support from Gavi. If Nigeria meets its targets for vaccine coverage, it will be able to prevent at least one million deaths by 2028.

“However, Nigeria needs to invest more domestic resources in health and immunisation,” said Dr Berkley. ”The private sector can be a crucial partner to help leverage expertise and provide new solutions to ensure children across Nigeria have the opportunity to lead long, healthy lives.”

committed against the people and their future. For the record, let it be known that I shall vote in this primary because I see it as one of extreme import to our state and our party. Just as I shall vote, I equally urge all party members to do so.”

He added: “I am encouraged by the emergence of a candidate in this primary who has served the state in senior positions in my administration, the Fashola administration and even in the current one. While possessing a wealth of experience and exposure, he is a young man endowed with superlative vision and commitment.

Referring to the emergence of Sanwo-Olu, Tinubu said, “Most importantly, he understands the importance of the blueprint for development. He esteems it as a reliable and wellconceived vehicle for the future development of the state. He also knows the value of reaching out and working with others in order to maximise development and provide people the best leadership possible.

“With people like him at the helm, the state will write the proper history for itself.

“When the final word is given, let it be said that we want all Lagosians to look to the future with the hope and optimism that our best days remain before us and not behind us.

“We walk into this primary strong and confidently believing in the right course we are to take. We shall emerge from this primary even stronger and more confident that we have taken that course by returning Lagos and

our party to their finest path.”

Meanwhile, two factions of the APC in Rivers State loyal to the Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi and Senator Magnus Abe, respectively, held parallel primaries to elect the party’s flag bearer in the 2019 governorship election.

At the primaries of the faction loyal to Amaechi, business mogul and oil industry magnate, Architect Tonye Dele Cole, clinched the governorship flag of the party.

Although, counting of votes at the governorship primaries election which took place at the Igbokwu play field in D/line in Port Harcourt, the state capital, on Sunday, was ongoing as at the time of filing this report, he is expected to win the primaries election with a wide margin.

Four aspirants contested for the party ticket to slug it out with the incumbent Governor Nyesom Wike of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but the results of the other three aspirants in the election were already known.

The Amaechi factional governorship primaries was conducted by the APC Rivers governorship primaries election committee headed by Col. Jaffar Lawal Isa (rtd), a former military administrator and his six members.

The election was also observed

by INEC officials who refused to disclose their names, although they expressed satisfaction at the conduct of the primaries.

The primaries of the faction of the APC loyal to Senator Abe, produced him as the flag

bearer of the party for the 2019 governorship race in Rivers State.

In the parallel primaries to Amaechi’s faction of the party on Sunday, Abe scored 144, 929 votes to beat Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs polling 3,444, Hon. Adawari Pepple with 1, 606, and Arch.

Tonye Dele Cole who polled 882.

This was announced by the Chief returning officer of the party, Dr. Chigbo Sam Eligwe, at the APC factional party secretariat, Aba Road, Port Harcourt, on Sunday night.

The primaries were were peaceful in the wards in the local government areas visited by The Daily Times Correspondent.

In Ward 3 Rumuakunde in Emohua Local Government Area, Ted Oteh, the leader of the Abe faction of the APC in the area, said that the election was peaceful, credible, free, fair, and transparent.

Oteh said that the APC faction loyal to Senator Abe had carried out direct primaries as recommended by the National Executive Council, NEC, which he claimed was superior to the National Working Committee (NWC) that insisted on indirect primaries.

He revealed that out of the 290 persons that voted in the process, Senator Abe polled 265 to beat Lulu-Briggs, Tonye Dele Cole, and Dawari Pepple who altogether gathered 25 votes.

According to him, the entire Emohua Local Government Area had faith in Senator Abe and expressed confidence that the Senator would become the next governor of Rivers State in 2019.

Ribadu pulls out of Adamawa governorship race Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja

A former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Nuhu Ribadu, has withdrawn from the race to emerge as the governorship candidate of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa State.

The development was contained in a statement signed on Sunday by the Director General of his campaign office Salihu Bawuro in Yola on Sunday.

He cited the choice of indirect mode of election instead of the direct mode agreed by many party leaders in the state as his reason for withdrawing.

He said, “While we and greater majority of APC family in Adamawa state supported giving power to the people through direct primaries, the party decided to adopt indirect primaries at the last minute.

“We were opposed to indirect primaries ab initio because we believe the process that brought those expected to participate in the process was fundamentally flawed.

“When the party congresses were held in May, we cried that no elections were held in Adamawa and the officials were only handpicked by those who hijacked the process.

“This was not addressed. We are therefore under no illusion of

a fair contest in the hands of those so-called party officials.”

The campaign organisation said Ribadu will continue to support President Muhammadu Buhari and will not leave the party.

“We are also sure that Mallam Nuhu Ribadu will continue to remain in APC, and continue to support the good works of President Muhammadu Buhari, and his candidature as product of direct primaries” Ribadu stated.

The statement read in part: “While we and greater majority of APC family in Adamawa State supported giving power to the people through direct primaries, the party decided to adopt indirect primaries at the last minute. We have all along expected that this wish of the majority of ordinary members would be respected, and therefore banked on it. But the decision to do otherwise has taken us, and our supporters, aback.

“We were opposed to indirect primaries ab initio because we believe the process that brought those expected to participate in the process was fundamentally flawed. When the party congresses were held in May, we cried that no elections were held in Adamawa and the officials were only handpicked by those who hijacked the process. This was not addressed. We are therefore under no illusion of a fair contest in the hands of those so-called party officials.

“It is for these reasons that

Ribadu we collectively took the painful decision to prevail on Mallam Nuhu Ribadu to step down from this race immediately.

“The decision to withdraw from this race was taken after due consultation at the level of the campaign directorate and other well wishers of Mallam Nuhu Ribadu. We are aware that our teeming supporters have invested hugely in this process and we share in their grief which would come with this announcement. We assure you that Mallam Nuhu Ribadu has never taken your support and sacrifices for granted.

“We are also sure that Mallam Nuhu Ribadu will continue to remain in APC, and continue to support the good works of President Muhammadu Buhari, and his candidature as product of direct primaries” he stared.

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Plateau under attack, 3 UNIJOS students feared dead Kingsley Chukwuka, Jos

Palpable tension enveloped some part of Jos North Local Government as armed assailants laid seize to University of Jos student community in the Plateau State capital.

In a renewed violence on Sunday afternoon after the killing of over 20 people in Rukuba road, Jos, the armed men allegedly blocked major roads around Unijos hostels in Jos North, shooting and killing residents and commuters.

Investigation by our correspondent revealed that so far, three students have been allegedly shot in Rusau village near University of Jos while a 200 level Pharmacy student of

the university has been declared missing.

It would be recalled that the university student body had earlier issued a statement calling students to remain indoors while the situation was being controlled.

However, more distress calls have continued to pour in from the affected areas as at the time of filling this report.

It was gathered that the inability of the securities to timely calm the situation is believed to be caused by the deployment of large troops to guard politicians at ongoing Primary elections of the PDP and APC. The state government has not commented on the situation but Governor Simon Lalong at the APC primaries holding at Crest Hotel, Jos assured delegates that they

would be attached with securities to their various destinations after the exercise.

Meanwhile the Special Task Force Commander (STF), Major General Augustine Chris Agundu, has ordered residents in Dutse Ukwu, Tina Junction, Rikkos, Angwan Rukuba, Farin Gada , Univeristy of Jos student hostel to stay indoors.

The STF boss in a live radio interview monitored by our correspondent in Jos Sunday evening said a joint operation of the police and army is underway to quell the unrest in those part of the city stressing that anybody found outside in those areas will be arrested and prosecuted.

He warned members of the public to take note of the affected areas.

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Short News Nigeria, Belarus ties on education commendable - Buhari Mathew Dadiya, Abuja Education is the veritable doorway through which the boundless potentials of youths can be positively harnessed for the benefit of society, and the country at large, said President Muhammadu Buhari.

The President made the declaration Thursday at State House, Abuja, while receiving the outgoing Ambassador of Belarus, His Excellency Vyacheslav Beskosty, who has spent over six years in Nigeria as the pioneer Ambassador of his country.

“I am impressed by your successful tour of duty, particularly in the area of educational ties between our countries. Over 600 young Nigerians are in your country, trying to guarantee a better future for themselves through education,” President Buhari said.

He added that the relationship between Nigeria and Belarus was sure to grow stronger in the years ahead.

Ambassador Beskosty said Nigeria had “big potential for economic cooperation” with his country, adding that military and technical ties were equally proceeding satisfactorily.

Noting that agricultural development was on the priority list of the Buhari administration, he added that Belarus, as the world’s biggest producer of fertilizers, and a giant in production of tractors “has a great role to play in the bid to achieve food self-sufficiency” in Nigeria.

The outgoing Ambassador commended the Buhari administration for its service to the nation, noting that people were already seeing significant changes in the country.

Group decries alleged killing of housewife by herdsmen A recent murder of a housewife in Igbogbo area of Ikorodu in Lagos reportedly by some Fulani herdsmen on reprisal from Ibadan, Oyo State, has come under the knocks of a human rights group, ‘Your Rights Association’ (YRA).

According to the coordinator of the group, Comrade Tochukwu Okonkwo, a housewife in Igbogbo, Mrs. Felicia Onileola, was trailed to Lagos by the herdsmen because she denied their cows water in the Moniya area of Ibadan where the herd was grazing.

“From our findings, the herdsmen overheard through a member of the family that she would be returning to her husband’s house in Lagos the following day.

“Unknown to her, one of the herdsmen started trailing her, and decided to board the same Lagos-bound vehicle with her.

“We gathered from the deceased’s younger brother, Matthew, who accompanied her back to Lagos that three days after the trip, four gunmen invaded their home at night and he recognised the Fulani herdsman who boarded the same vehicle with them to Lagos, in the attack team.

“Matthew told us that the attackers asked everyone to be calm as it was only her elder sister, Felicia that hurt their feelings.”

“He wept as he told us how they shot Felicia dead at close range and disappeared into the dark night,” Okonkwo recalled.

Anambra police decry increase in accident rate Nkiru Nwagbo, Awka

L-R: Secretary of the Conference Methodist Church Nigeria, The Rt Revd. Dr. Michael O. Akinwale; Prelate, Methodist Church Nigeria, His Eminence Dr. Samuel Emeka Kanu Uche; Bishop of Diocese of Lagos Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion, Bishop Humphrey Bamisebi Olumakaiyiye and his Wife, Prof. Motunrayo Olumakayiye, during the familiarisation Visit of Bishop of Anglican Communion Lagos Diocese to the Head of Methodist Church Nigeria in Lagos.

Aisha Abubakar takes over Women Affairs ministry as Buhari accepts Alhassan’s resignation Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has accepted the resignation of Senator Aisha Jummai Alhassan as the Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development.

Alhassan tendered her resignation on Saturday following her disqualification from the governorship race of Taraba state by the national working committee (NWC) of the All Progressives

Congress (APC).

In a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, President Buhari was quoted as saying that he accepted the resignation of the former minister and thanked her for her services to the country.

“I accept your resignation with immediate effect.

“On behalf of the government and people of Nigeria, I thank you for your past services to the

nation,” the president said.

The statement added that the President directed the Minister of State, Industry, Trade and Investment, Hajiya Aisha Abubakar, to immediately take charge of the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development.

The President returned to Nigeria Sunday after spending about a week in the United States where he participated in the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

The Anambra police command have decried the increasing rate of road accidents in the state.

According to a release signed by the state Public Relations Officer SP Haruna Mohammed, most of the fatal road accidents are caused by reckless driving noting that the conduct of the drivers is unbecoming and a threat to the lives of other road users.

The statement recalled that the Command has recorded three major ghastly accident cases last week which according to it many lives were lost many left inquired.

The accident occurred in different locations in the state to include Enugu/ Onitsha expressway by Tarzan Junction , Ogidi in Idemili North LGA of Anambra State on 27th, “The accident occurred when a Mark Truck with registration No Anambra AGU 465 YV loaded with scraps and driven by One Odinaka Sunday Igwe had a break failure while descending Afor Nkpor slope and rammed into Six vehicles .As a result of the accident, Eight persons sustained various degrees while three victims were certified dead by the medical doctor and the Truck driver was arrested and detained”.

APC primaries: Gov Sani-Bello reaffirms President Buhari as flagbearer Saka Bolaji, Minna Governor Abubakar Sani-Bello of Niger state last Friday led members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state to cast their vote and affirm President Muhammadu Buhari as the party’s standard bearer at the 2019 presidential election.

The Governor and other 214 members of the party at Kontagora Central Ward, Kontagora Local Government area of the state unanimously affirmed their endorsement of the President as the candidate of the party.

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APC endorses Gov Sani Bello Short News APC to amend constitution as Niger State flag bearer Saka Bolaji, Minna It was an overwhelming endorsement for Niger State governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello as members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the State on Sunday trooped out to affirm him as the party’s standard bearer for 2019 gubernatorial elections in the state.

Party members from the 274 wards of the state trooped out in large numbers as early as 8am in their wards’ designated centres to participate in the direct primary option adopted by the state for the emergence of party’s candidates for all elective offices in the state.

The governor scaled the screening exercise and was cleared by the national secretariat of the party. He is the party’s sole candidate for office of the

governor.

The governor who was at Mustapha Comprehensive School, the centre for Kontagora Central Ward, Kontagora Local Government area of the state for the governorship primary expressed appreciation to party members for reposing confidence in him by returning him unopposed.

According to the governor, “It is very comforting when your people have confidence in you, when they support you, when they overwhelming endorse you. In politics this is what you need and I really appreciate they gesture.

“Their action has further humbled me and I am propelled to do more in the years to come.

By 2019 our administration will continue the good works we started”.

The elated governor then assured party faithful and people of the state of his resolve to be more

committed to the actualization of the restoration agenda of his administration, which he said has been on course adding that a second term ticket would enable him to consolidate and take the state to greater heights “It has been tough in the years past but there are still lots of work to be done. We may have not been able you cover all sectors, this time we are determined to cover more grounds and ensure full actualisation of our set goals come 2019,” the governor assured the people of the state.

Meanwhile the returning officer for Kontagora Central Ward, Alhaji Lawal Abdullahi Madsngen after the exercise disclosed that out of the 1,354 accredited members, 1198 that turned up for voting unanimously affirmed the governorship candidacy of Gov. Sani Bello for 2019 gubernatorial election.

at National Convention Tom Okpe, Abuja

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced that it will amend some sections of its constitution during the October 6th National Convention of the party holding in Abuja in November.

Adams Oshiomhole, National Chairman of the party announced this Saturday while inaugurating the National Convention Committee at the party’s National Secretariat, Abuja.

He maintained that unlike before where conventions are mainly for the purpose of election, the forthcoming convention would discuss governance and policy issues as obtainable in advanced democracies.

He said: “We want to organize a convention that will be different from the past. We want to organize a convention that will go beyond the purpose of electioneering. We will try to do what is done elsewhere by governing parties and even opposition parties to discuss the Nigeria agenda; issues of governance, development, economic and social choices.

“Let us disagree and agree within that convention and of course do other routine matters like confirming the nomination of the Presidential candidate and may be amending any section of the constitution that we wish to”.

The convention committee is headed by Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo state as the Chairman, with Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno state as Vice Chairman and Hadiza Usman as Secretary.

The Committee has Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Power, Works and Housing; Audu Ogbeh, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Governors Nasiru El-Rufai of Kaduna state and Rochas Okorocha of Imo state as members.

Other members are Godswill Akpabio, Kayode Fayemi, Governors Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi state, Badaru Abubakar of Jigawa state, Godwin Obaseki of Edo state, Simon Lalong of Plateau state; Senator Emma Anosike, Hauwa Sule, Timipre Sylva, Sharon Ikeazor, Ramatu Tijani, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Stella Okotete and Paulen Tallen.

Ugwuanyi emerges PDP governorship candidate in Enugu Moses Oyediran, Enugu

Wife of Ondo State Governor, Mrs. Betty Akeredolu (right); Mary Okosun (third right) of Breast Cancer Combat (BCC) and other members of the winning teams, Bossom Heart and BCC, trained at the Edo Innovation Hub, during the award ceremony of the Breast Cancer Hackathon organised by the Breast Cancer Association of Nigeria (BRECAN), Emerging Communities Africa (ECA) and Access Bank, in Akure, Ondo State.

Lulu-Briggs demands postponement of Rivers APC guber primaries Amaka Agbu, Port Harcourt One of the keen aspirants to the Rivers State governorship seat in Rivers State under the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs, the faction loyal to the Transport Minister, has called on the National Working Committee of the party to postpone the Rivers State governorship primaries.

The aspirant said a postponement of the primaries became necessary in order to correct the alleged gross anomalies which he claimed had marred the process.

He alleged that the current process had been skewed in favour of Arch.

Tonye Cole, the preferred aspirant of the leader of the party in Rivers State, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi.

It would be recalled that Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs had expressed his support

for direct primaries but decided to go along with the decision of the National Working Committee of the APC which approved indirect primaries for Rivers State.

According to the aspirant, events leading to governorship primaries in Rivers State had witnessed some anomalies that had “robbed it of the minimum acceptable standard that can guarantee its credibility.

He enumerated some of the anomalies to include: “That the Rivers State Executive Committee has openly supported and canvassed support for Arch. Tonye Cole, the preferred aspirant of Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi.

“That State Delegates to the primary were not elected by party members in proper ward congresses but merely handpicked by the Rivers State Executive Committee.

“That in spite of the flawed process in which the so-called State Delegates

were selected, the list of delegates and the guideline for the primary have not been made public. Our request to the State Executive Committee yesterday, Saturday, 29th of September, 2018, less than twenty four hours to the primary date for the list of delegates and guidelines yielded no fruit rather we were referred to the National Executive Committee of our great party.

“That we have intercepted text messages sent by officials of the State Exco to these handpicked delegates to assemble at secret locations for accreditation and transportation to an undisclosed venue for the primary.”

He then concluded that it was clear from all indications that the minimum standards to guarantee a free and fair governorship primaries were nonexistent and that he had decided not to give credence to “this obvious charade and hereby call for its postponement.”

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has been overwhelmingly elected as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the February 2019 governorship election in the state.

Governor Ugwuanyi, who was the sole aspirant in the colourful and hitch-free governorship primary election held at the popular Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu, emerged the party’s candidate after polling 2,782 valid votes out of total votes cast of 2,859, by the delegates.

This is the first time in the history of the state an aspirant to the office of the Governor is contesting in the party primaries unopposed or as a sole aspirant.

The exercise, which started with accreditation of delegates at the Michael Okpara Square, Enugu, commenced at about 3pm, after 2, 864 accredited delegates were conveyed to the venue of the primary election in luxury buses.

Declaring the primary election, which was monitored by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) open, the Chairman of the 5-man State Electoral Committee from National Secretariat of the Party, Senator Ambuno Zik, stated that the exercise will be conducted in accordance with the electoral act and party’s guidelines and constitution.

Senator Zik, who noted that Gov. Ugwuanyi was the sole aspirant for the governorship primary election, added that delegates will have to vote accordingly, stressing: “Due process must be followed”.

He commended Gov. Ugwuanyi for entrenching peace and good governance in Enugu State, and also appreciated the state leadership of the the party, INEC, security agencies and party’s stakeholders for their contributions to the success of the exercise.

Introducing the sole governorship aspirant of the party to the delegates, the Deputy President of the Senate, Prof. Ike Ekweremadu, applauded Gov. Ugwuanyi for holding the forte for the party and state, disclosing that this was the first time in the past 21 years of his active participation in politics, that the PDP would be having a sole aspirant as well as a non-contentious governorship primary election.

According to him, “today we have not only a Governor who has performed very well, he has also entrenched peace in Enugu State”.

Kwara PDP primaries cancelled as delegates exchange blows The governorship Primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been cancelled following a confrontation between supporters of the two leading aspirants.

According to reports, the exercise was going on smoothly at Banquet Hall, opposite Government House, Ilorin, until some loyalists of Bolaji Abdullahi and Razak Atunwa, two top aspirants, clashed over alleged attempt to manipulate the primary.

Ballot boxes were reportedly smashed and the materials used for the election destroyed in the confusion that followed.

Security operatives tried to calm the aggrieved protesters but did not succeed in doing so.

A party official said the delay in sharing food to the delegates led to the commotion.

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DSS arraigns man who climbed 50 metres mast in protest Andrew Orolua, Abuja The 26-year-old undergraduate, Nurudeen Iliyasu who in protest climbed a 50-metre mast in Abuja has been arraigned before a Chief Magistrate Court in Abuja by the Department of State Security Services (DSS).

He was arraigned alongside his brother, Lawal, who was the first to be apprehended by the Secret service, on charges of inciting public disturbance, treasonable action, tresspass and action to commit murder.

Although the two brothers had since been granted bail by the court, they are yet to be released from detention as they are yet to perfect their bail conditions.

Nurudeen told Journalists that by the time they had perfected their bail conditions, the Chief Magistrate had closed for the day.

“We were about to be freed, everything was over the very day we went to court. The bail conditions were strict and before we could perfect it it was late already and the judge left without signing the production warrant and now the strike has started. It’s very unfortunately. Pray for us please. It’s almost over. We are now at ‘Anty Vise’ cell Wuse zone 2,” he said.

The court admitted them to bail in the sum

of N250, 000 each and a surety who must be a resident of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.

Besides, the Chief Magistrate sitting in Zone 2, Abuja said the surety must be a Federal Civil servant not below the rank of grade 7, who must forward his employment and last promotion letters.

The two brothers operating under the name “two4Nija” said they had “held several meetings on security with the immediate past President, Goodluck Jonathan one-onone while he was in power; because he had listening ears and true patriotism and humility despite our younger age. But this government is too resistant to constructive criticism.” ”Our struggle for better Nija is now ‘Two4nija’ Lawal & Nura Iliyasu. We are of the same mother and father. We are two in our struggle for ever. We work together in every struggle. We have been together in detention.

He was the one apprehended before me. This is just the beginning until Buhari’s mediocrity is defeated.”

Nuradeen had on September 12, 2018, mounted a 50-metre mast overlooking the Presidential Vila, Abuja, on a seven-day hunger-protest against what he called bad leadership by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.

While calling on the opposition political

parties to unite and produce a formidable candidate that will take over the leadership of the country and salvage the her, Iliyasu said his one-man protest was against “national indirection, pervasive hunger and starvation, un-godly generic poverty, youth redundancy and In addition, he is protesting against what he termed “schizophrenic governance, souring foreign-exchange, high commodity prices; dysfunctional refineries and textile industries, elites medical tourism abroad; continued kidnappings and other negativities too numerous to mention.”

He was however forced to come down from the mast the second day.

He told journalists at the scene in impeccable English that he was ready to end his life.

“What we are going through in this country is not from God. Some microscopic individuals hijacked all that God endowed Nigeria with, for a decent life. We can’t continue like this.

“I climbed the mast for a seven-day hunger strike, to protest incompetence and cluelessness, to protest impunity and the general docility by the masses.

“Nobody sponsored me to do what I did.

I am in a very stable condition and I decided to do what I did. I am full of life and I am mentally stable,” he said.

L-R: British Deputy High Commissioner, Laure Beaufils; Acting Director General, Securities Exchange Commission, (SEC) Mary Uduk; Director, Capital Markets Development FSD Africa, Evans Osano and Senior Private Sector Adviser, UK Department for International Development (DFID) Mr Richard Sandall, during the signing of an agreement between SEC Nigeria and FSD in Lagos.

Gov Ikpeazu returns as Abia PDP guber candidate Sunday Nwakanma, Umuahia The Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, Sunday polled 1991 votes out of a total 2207 accredited votes to win the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), governorship primaries.

Announcing the result, late that evening, the Chairman Governorship Election Committee for Abia, Chief Raymond Dokpesi announced that this represents over 90 percent of

total votes cast during the primaries.

Dokpesi who was the Chief Returning officer of the primaries, announced: “This represents 90 percent of valid votes cast for ‘yes votes’ for Ikpeazu to continue as governor in the next election in Abia State. Ikpeazu won overwhelmingly”.

Responding, Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu thanked the party faithful, stating that three years down the years, the party has come back to what it did in 2013, while highlighting his achievements since in office.

He expressed his confidence that

the days ahead will be better, stating that in the next three years, his administration will create over 60, 000 jobs in the next five years in the state.

According to him, he will use his pillars of development to do more in the state, assuring peace and unity for the party in the state.

He advised the faithful to work hard and be vigilant, stating “nobody can take away my mandate”, which he said is divine.

Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu was the sole candidate during the primaries.

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Short News Police deny pulling down Sanwo-Olu campaign poster in Lagos Joy Anyim, Lagos The Lagos State Police Command has denied an alleged report of its men pulling down campaign posters of an All Progressive Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Lagos, Jide Sanwo-olu in the Ikorodu area.

It was also gathered that the area had experienced heavy gun shots over the weekend following fracas between supporters from Sanwu - Olu camp and those from Governor Akinwumi Ambode.

Denying the alleged report, the Commissioner of Police, CP Imohimi Edgal said there was no truth in the allegation against the police.

In his explanation, Edgal said, “On September 27, 2018, at about 4:30 pm at the Civil Service Model College, Ikorodu, one Oregbesan Yekini Owolabi, a staff of the aforementioned school, while acting on the instruction of the College Principal, one Reverend Ajose, to paste a “POST NO BILL” warnings on the school fence to prevent the defacing of the wall by advertisers, was accosted by unknown persons who accused him of removing posters of politicians which he vehemently denied.

Northern Christian elders bemoan late CAN Sec Gen, Musa Asake Mathew Dadiya, Abuja The Northern Christian Elders Forum (NOCEF) has said it was still in shock over the death of one of its strong pillars and General Secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Rev. Musa Asake, saying “it is very difficult to use one word or expression to describe Asake.”

The forum described the late Asake as an epitome of humility, unassuming and selfless man who is not greedy.

Public Relations Officer, Northern Christian Elders Forum (NOCEF) Sunday Oibe, stated on Sunday that “Asake is an epitome of humility, his death has created a very big vacuum in the body of Christ in Nigeria, the North, NOCEF and TEKAN/ ECWA. Asake is many things to different people. But to us, he’s a hero that deserves celebration.

In my interaction with him since I met him, Asake keeps telling me that he was born in poverty, enjoys growing in poverty and doesn’t look for money. But he held on to his fate very strongly and his passion for the church in Nigeria, particularly in the North is very wonderful.

“You can see the humility of Jesus Christ in him. Anytime we talk, Philippians Chapter 2 guides him. It said, ‘let this man be in you which was also in Christ Jesus. He is guided by the spirit of humility, as exemplified by the Lord, Jesus Christ. People who are Junior to Asake will abuse him. And Asake will take it humbly.

He doesn’t fight in defence of himself, he fights in defence of his faith and fights for the less-privileged people; even when people insult and fight him, Asake will say, ‘Jesus is enough to defend me.’ Those of us in NOCEF, we are in pains. We have lost one great man among us, we in the TEKAN/ECWA family have lost a great leader.”

PSC to organise peace meeting in Nasarawa Augustine Kuza, Lafia Owing to the high level of insecurity in the country, a nongovernmental organization, Peace and Security Network,( PSC),formerly the Peace and Security Working Group, has plans to organise a one-day working meeting on conflict prevention in Nasarawa state.

State coordinator of the NGO, Hajia Zainab Ahmed, said the meeting would afford the PSN, the opportunity to engaged with the critical stakeholders, to developing a collective roadmap to peace in the state.

Her words, “considering the current security challenges currently facing our dear country at this time, PSN hopes that the meeting will afford us the unique opportunity to discuss and proffer solutions to these problems.” she explained.

Mrs Ahmed, furthered informed that, the program would also developed and sustained mutual collaboration with the state which would also translates to positive peace to the people of the state.

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2019: APC conducts governorship Short News FG will win war against corruption - Buhari primaries in 27 states Tom Okpe, Abuja The All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday conducted state wide primaries to choose its governorship candidates in 27 states.

This will bring a verdict for hundreds of political giants who have been lobbying to get the party’s priced ticket to be candidates in the 2019 governorship election, which is part of the general election scheduled for February.

The widespread division among aspirants in several states over issues ranging from zoning to potential imposition of candidates by some so-called godfathers, the party at the national level decided to adopt a flexible mode in conducting its primaries this year.

The national chairman of the APC speaking recently on the adoption of the ‘direct and indirect’ primary election mode said: “The adoption of direct and indirect primaries was the immediate solution the party could come up with, although the party acknowledged that its approach may not be perfect, the two

options would go a long way in mitigating post-primaries crises that often characterize Nigerian elections.

“The APC looked into existing disagreements at each of the 37 state chapters including the FCT and recommended either direct or indirect method, depending on which has a better likelihood of keeping members united after primaries”.

The direct mode means individuals who have APC membership card would go to the primaries ground and elect who they want to be the party’s candidate. This exercise is seen as more transparent and inclusive because it gives members a say on who should be their party’s choice; while the indirect exercise, some individuals who have attained the position of delegates in party structure would choose the candidate.

This method has been widely criticized for being too monetized over the years. Delegates are known to collect huge amount of cash from aspirants, sometimes at convention grounds, to elect a candidate, with the highest bidder emerging victorious.

While direct primaries could be considered

cumbersome and time-consuming, the method is less prone to manipulation than indirect primaries, with all members sharing responsibility in the quality of leadership of whoever gets the party’s ticket.

As 27 states are holding its governorship primaries, the remaining nine states including Bayelsa, Edo, Kogi, Osun, Anambra, Ekiti and Ondo, whose governorship seats are not up for contest in the upcoming general elections, with Lagos and Imo, whose primaries were postponed on Saturday as announced by the party National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole on reason of ‘Logistics’.

Recall that there has been an alleged discrepancy between the party leaders, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu with the Lagos State serving Governor, Ambode while in Imo State, there is another disagreement between the Serving Governor, Rochas Okorocha who wanted his son in-law, Uche Nwosu to succeed him against the wish of the generality of the state leaders.

Eighteen states are conducting indirect primaries, while the remaining nine are conducting direct primary mode.

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the Federal Government is committed to winning the war against corruption in Nigeria.

Buhari said this in New York at the African Union High-Level Dialogue with the theme: “Winning the Fight against Corruption: A Sustainable Path to Africa’s Transformation.’’

The president was unanimously endorsed by AU leaders in January to champion the commission’s theme for 2018.

Buhari commended African leaders for the honour bestowed on him to champion the course of fighting corruption in Africa in 2018 and beyond.

The president, however, urged African leaders to also remain committed to the fight against corruption to ensure rapid development of the continent.

According to Buhari, Africa loses about 50 billion dollars to illicit financial flow annually.

“Illicit financial flow out of the continent has become a major concern because of the scale of its negative effects on economic development and governance agenda.

“Some of the effects of corruption include draining of foreign exchange reserves, reduction of tax revenue collection, poor investment inflow and escalation of poverty,” he said.

ECOWAS 50m Women Speak kicks off in Nigeria Tom Okpe, Abuja

L-R National Vice President, Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN), Comrade. Hassan Ahmed; Secretary General, Medical and Health Workers Union, Silas Adamu; National Chairman, Medical and Health Workers Union, Joy Biobelemoye and Deputy Secretary General Medical and Health Workers Union, Mr. Tony Oghanghou during a press conference in Abuja.

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Cleric urges Christians to propagate the gospel with their talents Kehinde Akinpelu, Ilorin Christians have again been charged to make use of their talents for the propagation of the gospel.

A Cleric, Pastor Ola-Olu Adeyemo gave the charge yesterday in his sermon delivered at the 36th enrolment and rededication service of Boys Brigade of Cherubim and Seraphim Movement Church Ilorin District Headquarters.

Speaking on the theme “appointed time”, Pastor Adeyemo called on them to make proper use of their time and worship God wholeheartedly.

The Cleric implored those in position of power to govern with the fear of God. Speaking on the theme: “Nigeria of our Dream”, Reverend Joseph Agboluaje of

Second ECWA, Shao, regretted that at 58 as a sovereign nation, the country still lacks social amenities and physical infrastructure.

Reverend Agboluaje who suggested some of the ways out implored Nigerians to have the fear of God, shun greedy and love of money which is the root cause of evil, elect visionary, determined and goal getters leaders.

Prophet Peter Oladipo of the C & S Movement Church, lpetu-lgbomina called on Christians to move closer to their creator and repent from sin as the second coming of Jesus Christ is at hand.

Also at the Men anniversary of the New Life Holy Trinity Chapel, Gaa-Kanbi, Ilorin, Pastor ldowu Constain implored fathers to be a role model to their family to sustain an egalitarian society.

In his message at the on-going

supernatural week of the Ministry, Pastor Aremu Abioye of the Ark of God Covenant Faith Bible Ministry, Amayo spoke extensively on the need for Christians to look unto God to make their impossibility possible.

Reverend James Adedoyin of ECWA Ita-Elepa, Ilorin who spoke on the topic: “God is looking for someone like David in this country”, called on Nigerians to love their Country and shun selfish interest and ambition”.

Reverend Adedoyin charged those in position of authority to make the welfare of the people top priority.

Pastor Peter Kolawole Williams of the C A C Faith Chapel along Asa-dam road Ilorin cautioned youths against vices and urged them to imbibe good habit as future leader of their community.

The Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) Project, 50 million Women Speak aimed at women empowerment has kicked off in Nigeria.

The Project is part of the framework of Article 15 of Chapter 5 of the Additional Act on Equal Rights for Women and Men for Sustainable Development in the ECOWAS Area, which called on Member States to adopt all legislative and regulatory measures to ensure women’s equal access to all economic and gainful opportunities.

Speaking at the opening ceremony and country team official installation workshop in Abuja, ECOWAS Commissioner of Social Affairs and Gender, Siga Jagne, said the project is in the areas of trade and entrepreneurship.

Jagne said the project will specifically include women access to public procurement and taking into account their contribution in the formal and informal sectors.

She explained that the initiative is to bring together all efforts of ECOWAS for the empowerment of women in West Africa and Nigeria.

Army inflicts heavy blow on Boko Haram The Nigerian Army has inflicted heavy casualties on Boko Haram when they attacked Garshigar community of Mobar Local Government Area in Borno on Wednesday.

Army Director of Public Relations, Texas Chukwu, disclosed this in a statement released on Thursday in Maiduguri.

Chukwu stated that the insurgents, who were in nine gun trucks, were repelled by troops of 145 Battalion deployed for Operation Lafiya Dole following superior power of the vigilant troops.

He added that “preliminary battle damage assessment reveals that the overwhelming superior power of the troops devastated the insurgents, inflicting human and equipment casualty on the insurgents which forced them to withdraw in disarray.”

The director said that the gallant troops regrouped after the fierce encounter and dominated the general area of Garshigar and its environs with fighting patrols.

“The good people of Mobar Local Government are urged to remain calm and be assured of troops’ commitment to provide adequate security in the general area,” he added.

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Rivers communities get clean water Short News after 100yrs of dependence on well APC holds primaries in * Beneficiaries commend EU, UNICEF WASH project

Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja

After depending on well water for over 100 years, relief has come the way of some communities in Rivers through the provision of boreholes by the European Union, (EU), and the United Nations Children Fund, (UNICEF), to ease their water problems.

Narrating their experiences to the Daily Times during a visit to some of the communities, the residents expressed joy that the bore holes provided to the communities have changed their lives for good.

The communities are: Okpobo, AyaAma, Ottonlama, Okorotu and Nkoro Local Government Area of Rivers State.

Florence Kingsley, 38, of Okpobo community said they had in the past suffered a lot from sicknesses because of the well water they drink but ever since UNICEF came to their rescue, their lives have changed for good.

She said, “We were used to well water. We never had this kind of water before”.

Also, Ezekiel Wari Jaja, WASH community coordinator said that the provision of the boreholes to Aya-Ama community came as a big relief for a community that lived without safe water for over 100 years.

“The rate at which our children were falling ill before the implementation of this water project has reduced drastically,” he added.

For her part, Tabitha John of Ottonlama community said that she had before now used to walk a very long distance to get water but the situation has changed ever since the boreholes were constructed.

“I am very happy and relieved because the water is very close to me now.

“At a point, my husband became suspicious of the hours we were spending at the borehole.

Several times, I was beaten because he thought I was having extramarital affairs,” she said.

Mr. Macdonald Charles also said, “We have been drinking water from the well for over 100 years these communities have been in existence. The taste of the water alone can kill you. We are happy with the newly commissioned borehole.”

UNICEF in partnership with the UK’s

Department for International Development (DFID) has been providing clean water to rural communities in Rivers State.

The project was implemented by UNICEF under its Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) project. Most of the benefitting communities were provided with boreholes to ease their water problems.

UNICEF, Chief Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, WASH, Zaid Jurji, said one million Nigerians under 5 years die annually as a result of no proper sanitation; 20.4 percent of the population have access to basic water and sanitation services.

Jurji who spoke at the media dialogue on WASH in River state, organized by Federal Ministry of Information, in collaboration with European Union, EU, and UNICEF lamented that sanitation sector in Nigeria is severely under resourced, with only 19 percent of WASH budget annually.

He further explained that 122,000 Nigerians, including 87,000 children under 5 die each year from diarrhoea while nearly 90 per cent is directly attributed to lack of WASH.

Lagos, Imo states today Tom Okpe, Abuja The All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced the postponement of its governorship primary election which was earlier scheduled to hold on Sunday to Monday (today) over ‘logistic’ constraints in both Lagos and Imo States.

The National Chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole disclosed this in Abuja on Saturday while inaugurating 21-member National Convention Committee headed by the Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi.

Oshiomhole also revealed that one hundred and seventy-seven aspirants are currently jostling to win and fly the party’s Governorship flag in the 2019 general election to govern their respective States.

He said: “We have only 29 vacancies for governors and to fill these vacancies, we have distinguished Nigerians, men and women, about 177 that applied.

“This does not suggest any unusual level of political or executive unemployment. It just points to the level of interest, commitment, passion and above all the confidence that people have in the APC”.

APC presidential primary: Buhari wins big in Bayelsa Mathew Dadiya, Abuja Members of the Bayelsa State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Friday voted massively with over 200,000 votes for President Muhammadu Buhari as the candidate of the party in 2019 Presidential elections.

According to Doifie Buokoribo, the Special Adviser to former governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, the exercise took place in the 105 wards of the state.

It was based on the famous Option A4 model adopted in the June 12, 1993 Presidential Election - a method whereby eligible voters cue behind the contestant of their choice.

Addressing members of the party shortly before proceeding for the exercise, Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, who served as Bayelsa State Returning Officer for the presidential primary called for peace while expressing the party’s readiness to take over the mantle of leadership in the state.

Kwara Speaker steps aside for other contestants in Kwara PDP Kehinde Akinpelu, Ilorin

L-R: Wife of Lagos State Governor, Mrs. Bolanle Ambode; Permanent Secretary, Deputy Governors Office, Mrs. Yetunde Odejayi; Commissioner for Commerce, Industry and Cooperative, Mrs. Olayinka Oladunjoye; former Managing Director, Lagos State Parks and Gardens, Mrs Titi Anibaba; Special Adviser to the Governor on Arts & Culture, Mrs. Aramide Giwanson and Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Kehinde Bamigbetan, during the “Hymnal Hour” at the Banquet Hall, Lagos House, Alausa, Ikeja... on Sunday.

Igbos celebrate new yam festival in Kano, call for peace Yakubu Salisu, Kano

The Igbo Community under his Royal Highness, Eze Ikechukwu Oliver Akpudo, yesterday in Kano, marked the new yam festival, the first of its kind in the state.

The festival, which was celebrated in a colourful style at the Igwe’s Palace, New Road, had in attendance, prominent and notable personalities from across the state.

Speaking at the occasion, Eze Akpudo said that, after consultations with his cabinet and other stakeholders, a decision was reached to introduce the new yam festival in the state as it is in the Igbo culture.

“We are gathered here today to celebrate the new yam festival in Kano as it is in our culture.

Since the introduction of the Eze Ndigbo in the state, nothing of this nature has ever been celebrated.

I decided to introduce this festival in Kano to revive our culture and remind our people that they are at home no matter where they find themselves” Speaking to news men, Oliver called for unity among the various ethnic groups in the country and one strong Nigeria, as the only way the country can forge ahead despite secession calls by some persons in the country.

According to him, Nigerians must learn to love and live in peace with one another irrespective of ethnicity, religious background as well as political affiliations, and not to allow the suffering of the nation’s forefathers to be in vain.

He called on Igbos in the East calling for boycott in the forthcoming 2019 general elections to reconsider their stance stressing that, such calls will do no one any good, but rather, plunge the nation into further crisis, that democratic means of tabling grievances should be adopted by those who bear any form of grudges.

“I am calling on our brothers in the East, to

Learn to use democratic means of addressing grievances rather than being confrontational and calling for boycott in the forthcoming elections.

“Nigeria is our fatherland, and we must do everything possible to save it from activities of some persons who want to separate us for their own selfish gains” He called on the Igbos in Kano to remain law abiding while going about their legitimate businesses and respect the laws, tradition and customs of their host community, calling on all eligible voters in the Igbo Community to participate fully in the forthcoming general elections by voting credible persons who would bring about the desired changes Nigerians yearn for.

Furthermore, the Eze, called on Nigerians to use the October 1st period to pray for the progress of the nation and for those in authority to meet up to their responsibilities adding that, for the leaders to succeed, prayers and support must be offered by all for the good of the country.

The Speaker of Kwara State House of Assembly and governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Ali Ahmad, Sunday stepped down from contesting the party’s gubernatorial primary.

Ten aspirants including the former Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi; former Minister of National Planning, Prof. Suleiman Abubakar; former Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Hon. Abdulrasaq Atunwa; and the member representing Moro/Edu/Patigi federal constituency, Hon. Aliyu Bagho Patigi; and his counterpart representing Kaima/Baruten federal constituency, Hon. Zakari Muhamamed, are contesting for the governorship seat.

Others are Alhaji Ladi Hassan, Alhaji Ibrahim Ajia and Alhaji Saka Issau.

However, speaking at the Banquet Hall, Government House, venue of the primary election, the Speaker, Dr. Ahmad, announced his stepping down so as to allow other aspirants to continue with the election.

Ex Mimiko’s aide aid praises Ondo Gov’s wife over BRECAN stride Breast Cancer Association of Nigeria (BRECAN), the initiative of the wife of Ondo state Governor, Mrs. Betty Anyanwu Akeredolu, has attracted the applause of the ex Chief Protocol officer to the immediate past Governor of Ondo state, and former Commissioner for Youth and sports Development , Hon Dayo Awude.

Hon Awude expressed his admiration for Mrs. Anyanwu Akeredolu’s Breast cancer awareness programme on his face book page after he attended a programme on social media Day held at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA, where the Ondo first Lady gave a keynote address on Breast Cancer Awareness campaign.

Awude noted that he was impressed with the graphic way Madam First Lady was going about the “cancer is real campaign”, stressing that while cancer is real, the solution is equally real. He maintained that our women, based on Mrs Akeredolu’s awareness on cancer solutions will no longer need to suffer needless pain and death through the disease.

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HSBC Report and Nigerian economy

Adeyemi Dipeolu

The first thing that strikes one after reading the report is that the writer downplays positive developments in the Nigerian economy. Every time that the data points to improvements in the Nigerian economy, the writer then immediately makes a negative assessment.

I have hesitated to weigh in the media frenzy about the HSBC report entitled ‘Nigeria: Papering over the cracks’, which was issued in July 2018. My hesitation had to do with the fact that I had not read the full report in its original form and could not therefore make any meaningful comments on its contents.

I have since read the report and since there is still quite a bit of interest and chatter about its contents, I feel that it is appropriate to respond to these, as well as to its handling by the Nigerian media.

The first thing that strikes one after reading the report is that the writer downplays positive developments in the Nigerian economy. Every time that the data points to improvements in the Nigerian economy, the writer then immediately makes a negative assessment. For instance, he acknowledges a current account surplus, exchange rate stability, declining inflation, improved capital flows, amongst other things, and then concludes that because of structural shortcomings, the long-term prospects for the economy are poor.

When the HSBC report notes that the structural constraints of the Nigerian economy are long-standing, one would have expected the analysis to include the on-going

efforts to tackle such constraints. Identifying ‘inadequate infrastructure, corruption, an inefficient government bureaucracy and policy instability…’ as evidence of structural shortcomings is not new.

If the non-oil sector accounts for 90 per cent of the economy, how can one legitimately speak about a lack of diversification? Analysis of this nature needs to be more nuanced. The point really is that diversification is needed more in terms of the sources of government revenue and foreign exchange, a problem that the ERGP seeks to tackle.

However, balanced analysis would then seek to establish if such problems were being tackled as priorities and reflected in the actions of the Buhari Administration. The Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) is readily available and there is no shortage of evidence about the on-going extensive investments in power, road and rail infrastructure, the active anti-corruption actions of government and ongoing re-positioning of the public service.

Similarly, the writer acknowledges that the World Bank ranked Nigeria as among the 10 countries implementing the most regulatory reforms to make it easier to do business, but he would rather place emphasis on the current low ranking of being 145 out of 190 countries, than on the fact that this reflected a movement of 24 places in one year! This inexplicable desire to overlook the positives in favour of negative analysis is worsened by the tendency of the writer to contradict himself or deploy inaccuracies in favour of his conclusions.

Let us look, for instance, at the discussion about the contribution of the non-oil sector. If the non-oil sector accounts for 90 per cent of the economy, how can one legitimately speak about a lack of diversification? Analysis of this nature needs to be more nuanced. The point really is that diversification is needed more in terms of the sources of government revenue and foreign exchange, a problem that the ERGP seeks to tackle.

It is this lack of context that leads the writer into logical inconsistencies. Otherwise, how can the report acknowledge that higher oil prices should provide some support for government revenues and then go on to say that “debt is low. But revenues are lower still.” In addition to potentially increased oil revenues, it would have been important to take account of the efforts to boost non-oil revenues through on-going increased collections by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), which are in the public space. …while the economy has not yet reached desired growth levels, there are positive developments in macroeconomic conditions, the real sector, the business environment, social investments and infrastructure that will underpin and give further impetus to achieving the primary goal of the ERGP which is sustained inclusive growth.

The analytical weaknesses of the paper are further exposed in several other instances.

For example, if the PMI, a forward looking indicator, has been improving and is not

matched commensurately by GDP growth figures, then a reflective analyst should be intrigued about the seeming misalignment in these two sets of figures, rather than immediately jump to negative conclusions.

Also, how does one acknowledge the ‘benefits of higher oil prices and production’ and then go on in the same report to say that ‘militant activity has disrupted oil production in the Niger Delta’? Everyone knows that the active engagement of the federal government, especially the role played by the vice president has substantially calmed things down in the Niger Delta. Perhaps the writer of the HSBC report forgot to update this information when ‘cutting and pasting’ from a previous report?

In terms of economic analysis, I must say that it is difficult to understand what the HSBC report has in mind when it states that Nigeria’s macroeconomic “gains merely mask the economy’s unresolved structural shortcomings”. Surely, the entire purpose of macroeconomic gains in an economy such as Nigeria’s is to provide an enabling environment and lay a foundation for structural change, which is exactly what the ERGP sets out to do.

To conclude, while the economy has not yet reached desired growth levels, there are positive developments in macroeconomic conditions, the real sector, the business environment, social investments and infrastructure that will underpin and give further impetus to achieving the primary goal of the ERGP which is sustained inclusive growth.

Foreign loans and way forward

Tope Fasua

I used to keep the list of ‘spurious’ loans that were written off for Nigeria in 2006.

Our leaders in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s had collected all sorts to build different monstrosities of their bizarre fancies. In those days, even local government chairmen collected foreign loans. Just before those loans were written off by the Paris Club, The PUNCH and Tribune, among other newspapers, published in detail the items that Nigeria had spent them on. Many were programmes which never took off at all, but were fully drawn down – ghost projects was a fitting moniker. In the 1980s especially, governors, local government chairmen and, of course, the federal government went on a mad borrowing binge. They had swallowed hook, line and sinker, the liberal KoolAid of economics which encouraged leveraging to the hilt, and preached that borrowing was the fastest way out of underdevelopment. It never worked, but that “zombie economics” idea is very much alive in Nigeria today.

The debate about our new Chinese loans raged a couple of weeks back. Nigerians found it curious that their leaders were borrowing almost the exact amount from China, as we were spending on freebies (“dash”) from the recovered Abacha loot. I have my own thinking about Chinese loans which I will share in a jiffy, but in the first instance there is a need to challenge this idea that has recently become mainstreamed – that borrowing is a first choice for financing projects. Some ‘enlightened’ Nigerians compare our borrowing culture with what happens in the U.S.A and elsewhere.

They ignore the trajectory and history of these two different economies and the role these play in finance. Does U.S.A borrow to provide basic amenities for its people? Very doubtful. U.S. borrowings are mostly into its financial sector, which probably feeds its conglomerates. The U.S. government raises money today in bonds and treasury bills, which countries like China and Japan invest in. The country sometimes encourages consumption because it knows that there are U.S. companies that must continually be fueled by internal consumption. Some of the loans procured by the U.S.A also powers its aggressive export sector, wherein very complex goods are pushed all over the world. The U.S.A is the most diversified economy in the world, meaning that all aspects/sectors of its economy interact vigorously with each other. Here we produce nothing and import everything. I am not really sure that we can borrow to fund both consumption and export potentials. Something is broken in this economy. Permanently so. It must be noted that in the toddler stage of the U.S. economy, a lot of domestic borrowing was done for sundry purposes – including to finance wars. This strategy engenders ownership and patriotism among the people. The focus was therefore not merely on finance.

My advice is that countries like Nigeria should borrow only for projects that are self-funding,

with cash flows that partly liquidate such loans.

All loans for social or basic amenities should be funded from internally generated revenue as well. We have nothing to show for our being an independent country since 1960. It is a crying shame that we cut such a pathetic picture of a beggar nation, hopping from Asia to Europe to America, signing the future of our own children away for a mess of pottage. We cut a ridiculous picture with those we collect these loans from.

They know we are irresponsible. They see the luxuries our leaders enjoy. It’s an open world more than ever. Their children see how ridiculous we are. They know we don’t want to know anything about financial responsibility, fiscal independence and accountability. Their children will take it out on our children. The other day we saw U.S. congressmen who were so broke they slept in their offices in Washington DC, while our own lawmakers probably own multiple properties in the same cities. Yet the same Nigeria goes a-borrowing from the U.S. government and its many institutions! We even beg them for grants and aids. How do these add up?

JThe truth is that we have a terrible record of loan repayment. With such embedded cultural profligacy, there is no way we will pay back our loans. If we incurred loans all through the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s and only managed to crawl out on hands and knees in 2006, there is no way we would have suddenly developed financial discipline in 2018 when we have only become worse – with more disunity, indecent exposure to luxuries, and greed. Our governments are crazier today than they were in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s, when we ended up using 70 per cent of our national revenue on debt servicing. I recall that Obasanjo had to embarrass the creditors then that Nigeria borrowed only $12 billion, repaid $38 billion in cash terms and was still owing $35 billion before we were availed the opportunity to pay cash of another $12 billion to the Paris Club in exchange of a write off $18 billion. We were then left with a total foreign debt of about $5 billion and our local debt stock was manageable. If we had so much trouble managing $35 billion, how can we manage and ever repay $73 billion today in total loan stock?

This brings up the statement by Amina Muhammed, Nigeria’s export to the United Nations. She stated during a recent interview with Christine Lagarde that her friend, Dr. Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala took Nigeria out of debt but that we were now back in debt and the level of debt was going to be tough to manage. That was Amina passing a vote of no confidence on the government she just stopped serving months ago. But to make matters worse, she was dead wrong. Okonjo promptly returned Nigeria into the debt trap from whence we had emerged under her previous guidance. In fact deeper. The focus was not to take Nigeria out of debt per se, but to obtain that cash flow for the Paris Club.

Nigeria was the ONLY country which had to repay anything in all of sub-saharan Africa. We

were considered rich, not deprived. By the time she departed for her ‘global assignments’ the second time, Nigeria was owing a total debt of $60 billion. However most of that was local and attracting very high interest rates. I recall that this debt issue was one of the Achilles’ heels of the Jonathan government and the reason Buhari got massive votes. Only that Buhari government has now further worsened the situation.

Under the now-departed Kemi Adeosun, the first thing they did was to devalue the naira.

In this way, a large proportion of the domestic debt simply lost value. At least $50 billion in naira terms was in domestic debt when the Buhari government came on board. With naira officially crashing from N177 to N305, that meant that such loans became an equivalent of $30 billion if Nigeria had to pay back at that point.

This would have technically brought our loan portfolio down to about $40 billion (if we add the foreign component of about $10 billion). What this means is that Kemi Adeosun, who switched aggressively to foreign loans, contracted a fresh sum of about $33 billion for us in her roughly three-year sojourn – most of that in foreign loans.

I recall that I begged her through my articles that she should please not contract any jumbo loan of $30 billion on behalf of our children. This must have slowed her down a bit as she pointedly accused me one day during a Channels interview with Kadaria Ahmed. If that proposed jumbo loan was collected, we will be over $100 billion in loans by now.

To emphasise this perennial brainlessness of successive governments, I ran into a World Bank document online the other day. It was a term paper for the borrowing of $13.5million from the World Bank in 1962 for the construction of Apapa Road. The pretext is that we needed to clear goods faster from the wharf. One Nigerian pound then was worth $2.80; almost $3.00! Today we are on the verge of taking (or have taken) another $50 million from the same World Bank for the reconstruction of the same Apapa-Wharf Road, for the same reason – to ease clearance of goods from Apapa Wharf. Of course we know there is now a total gridlock there due to our utter planlessness. What we also need to amplify is that the Nigerian currency has lost value since 1962 by a factor of at least 915 (3 by 305)! What did we do with all the revenue generated from the people/businesses that used the ports since 1962? Oh I forgot. We used it liberally to do ‘bigmanism’. We simply squandered everything and more. Stupidity they say, has no cure. Now I open newspapers and see how Nigeria wants to borrow $125 million for policy-making, for improving statistical information or something of the sort. We are taking an additional $400 million to ‘promote innovative approaches based on international best practices and community participation to tackle land degradation and gully erosion’. Another $350 million goes to the Nigerian Electrification Project, while $225

million will be for nutrition of pregnant women and children. Another $150 million is for polio eradication, while $100 million will be for training women in skills. And so on. Why do we need all these loans that we cannot repay? Why is Buhari borrowing from everywhere just so his government can look like it’s making progress?

Why are we borrowing massively when our people loot this republic and fritter the funds abroad? Why have some of our best people become corporate ‘agberos’ for foreign capital/ foreign investors looking for money laundering/ legitimacy, socio-political leverage and huge returns at the same time, without a tinge of remorse on any side?

Just so I am very clear, these projects we borrow for, are such that commonsense will fix for us if we had any. These are projects that our universities and polytechnics should fix for us if we had any that was worth its name. These are projects that sane governments should sort out with internal revenue. Let all pseudo economists know that INFRASTRUCTURE is not enough excuse for mindless borrowing.

What Nigeria should do now is THINK, and stop this criminal mortgaging of this country.

God cannot forgive us for what we are doing to ourselves as a people.

To conclude, let’s go back to the China dilemma. Should we borrow $326 million from China when we are also spending $320 million recovered from Abacha by sharing to faceless poor Nigerians just to feed and with no work done in return? I confess I prefer the Chinese interactions to the major trauma we have suffered under the Westerners. In 2009, I was in ThisDay Dome, Abuja, when Tony Blair in an unguarded moment, admitted upon being asked about the growing Chinese influence in Africa, that he knows that ‘each time an African country ask China to build a road, the next day, the Chinese show up with a digger but if they come to the West, they are given a huge sheaf of papers and conditionalities to sign’. George W. Bush, who was also there snatched the mic and went on a long tirade about China despoiling Africa’s environment. So we know who is what, and Nigeria stands a far greater chance of real progress with Xi Jinping and his people. But Nigeria must not rest on its oars.

Old man Mahatir Mohamad said recently: “China comes with a lot of money and says you can borrow this money. But you must think, ‘How do I repay?’ Some countries see only the project and not the payment part of it. That’s how they lose chunks of their country. We don’t want that.” That is it. As things stand, Nigeria is as good as fully sold. Nobody thought of payback day for these loans. I don’t know what will happen on that day. Perhaps we would have become slaves in our own country. We have definitely not proven that we know what to do with this space called Nigeria. But we know the addresses of these people who sold us down the river.

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Editorial Commentary Osinbajo, the right kind of change for 2019

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Emmanuel Nwachukwu

Watching the ongoing machinations in the Nigerian polity, one cannot help but wonder at the tragedy this nation has become. Whilst our leaders are busy squabbling over personal interests and ambitions, the average Nigerian is facing unprecedented challenges on every front.

Killer herdsmen have virtually laid siege to farming communities and are seemingly at liberty to kill and pillage. More people are believed to have been killed in Nigeria this year from the attacks of herdsmen than in war-torn Syria and Afghanistan combined. The story is no different on the economic front.

We now have the unenviable position of being the poverty capital of the world; a damning indictment of the collective leadership of the country, both past and present. In the latest World Health Organisation (WHO) ranking of world healthcare systems, Nigeria is fourth from the bottom, above the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic and Myanmar.

It is no wonder that at a time when average life expectancy is rising across the world, Nigeria is one of only six countries with an average life expectancy of less than 55 years. Meanwhile, our president and the entire political leadership are quick to fly to the United Kingdom unashamedly, at great cost to the country, to avail themselves of the health services their peers abroad have built for their people; the same health services they have collectively denied the masses of Nigerians.

Regrettably, Nigerians cannot claim to be innocent bystanders in the tragedy we now live as a people. We have a knack for electing our second – rather than first – eleven into office and then expect a different outcome! Worse still, we refuse to hold them accountable, and even make excuses for their incompetence.

One hears unfortunate statements like: The president cannot be everywhere at the same time; he is an old man; he is trying his best; and on and on, the excuses go. On the recent floods, one hears the same oppressed masses repeating the same shameless government narrative – that it is the people’s fault for putting rubbish in gutters and blocking drains.

Perhaps if the government built gutters and drainages with covers, like they do in other countries, the issue of people putting rubbish in open gutters would not arise. Perhaps if state governments and local councils provided households with refuse bins and ensured that these bins were collected on a regular basis, people would not have any excuse to pile refuse in street corners.

Perhaps if government enforced their own planning laws, no one would erect structures on flood plains. We are where we are for no other reason than corruption and the gross incompetence of Nigeria’s collective leadership over the decades.

Many have argued that by our docility we have created a political class that has become accustomed to treating the electorate with contempt. Where else in the world would government workers and pensioners be owed, in some cases, over a year’s wages without any outpouring of rage in the streets. We have a president, in a democracy, that rarely does live press conferences, except perhaps when he is cornered abroad and is compelled by protocol to take questions from the media.

Obviously, the president’s advisors do not to see the importance of him submitting himself regularly, as a matter of course, to the media’s questions on issues of concern to citizens. Sadly, in Nigeria we seem to elect monarchs into office, who relate to the people, not as fellow citizens,

but as subjects.

As we approach 2019, it is critical we look outside the present crop of failed politicians who are once again parading themselves as candidates for the presidency. We need a new style of leadership and governance that is responsive, intelligent and draws from a new sets of values.

The challenges we face as a country are complex and require a much younger person with energy and a sharp mind. I hold no brief for the vice president nor claim to know him but every time you hear him speak or address an audience at home or abroad, you cannot help but wonder what the country would look like if we had more of his ilk at the helm of affairs.

Professor Osinbajo epitomises the change Nigeria needs at this juncture of our history – the change he is unable to deliver by virtue of his current position. Watching the vice president in a canoe reaching out to people ravaged by recent floods was a classic example in ‘servant leadership’. Every time he has had the opportunity to step into his master’s shoes, he has done the same – endearing himself to the people; dialoguing and empathising with them; as well as holding public officials to account.

There are several examples of the latter, the most recent being the summary dismissal of the former head of the Department of State Services. By this singular ‘brave’ act, he called impunity to order. This is the kind of leadership Nigerians have been craving for – one that will curb impunity and hold abusers of power to account. I dare say that being presented with the same set of circumstances, his boss would have procrastinated and dithered and dithered and dithered, empowering impunity by his silence.

Many argue that the best times of this presidency have been the short periods when the vice president have been in charge. The relative peace we have in the Delta region today, with oil production levels above two million barrels a day, from a low of 1.4 million, is largely down to Osinbajo’s leadership style and instrumentality, especially in the 59 days he first acted as president in 2016. He has those vital leadership qualities that have been lacking in a succession of Nigerian leaders.

Like some of us who asked people to give Buhari a chance in 2014, the journey for Nigerians these three-and-a-half years has been painful.

Whilst there have been limited successes in some areas, overall the experiment has been a disaster in leadership. As a nation we have never been this divided along regional, ethnic and religious lines.

Where once we had cracks, we now have chasms and the buck must stop with the president.

President Buhari will do the country a great service if he were to step aside and allow Professor Osinbajo to run in his stead in 2019.

Professor Osinbajo may be Nigeria’s de facto ‘prime minister’ with his varied roles but power resides with another.

We cannot expect a different outcome with the same crop of politicians once again parading the rostrum. George Orwell, the author of the best seller Animal Farm once remarked that, “people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims but accomplices.”

How desperately we need real change in Nigeria; how desperately we need a leader with vision and the will and intellect to actualise this vision. The tragedy for Nigeria as 2019 looms is that there is no John Magufuli (Tanzanian president) or Nana Akufo-Addo (Ghanaian president) or Paul Kagame (Rwandan president) waiting in the wind, nor Professor Yemi Osinbajo.

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Vote buying and matters arising

S

ince 1999 when the current Nigerian political dispensation came into being, the system has gone through many processes.

At the beginning, just as it has always been experienced in the nation’s political past, elections were more or less war situation in the country, when tension in the land rise to high heavens because of the uncertainty and possibilities at elections.

It was a time when ballot boxes were snatched at gun point from polling stations, stuffed with ballot papers and returned to the voting centres in commando style and the electoral officers seemed helpless and at the end of the day it is those with more thugs or with better shooting prowess that emerged winners at election.

Because of the situation, many electorate were not eager to vote, because as far as they were concerned, their votes will never count and indeed it never counted.

But things took a drastic turn when in the last administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan, the leadership of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) headed

by Prof. Atttahiru Jega introduced the Permanent Voters Card (PVC).

With the PVC came the electronic voters register and electronic accreditation of voters at elections.

This process meant that it became more difficult to snatch ballot boxes and the votes from that polling unit will still be counted, as it was most likely going to be at variance with the number of accredited voters.

The introduction of PVC and other systems that came with it gradually made it more difficult to rig elections and manipulate the electoral process while election was gradually becoming more credible and Nigerians from all walks of life then began to agitate that the process should be taken a step further by introducing electronic voting.

Though the INEC has not acceded to the agitation for electronic voting, perhaps because of the legislative challenges it is already having with the efforts it is making in sanitising the system, it however also introduced electronic transmission of results, which also means that it will become more difficult to tamper with the election results along the line of transmitting results from the polling booths to the collation centres.

But undeterred by the efforts of the electoral umpire to sanitise the system, politicians also daily devise new ways to circumvent the system and one of the ways it found out was vote buying.

Though vote buying has always been part of Nigeria’s electoral system, it however was done discreetly, as politicians send gifts of different shades and types to electorate, including money, foodstuffs and other such items, but that practice went out of hand during the Edo, Anambra, Kogi and Ekiti states governorship elections and also at the just concluded Osun State election.

The process of vote buying in the country which first was seen as stomach infrastructure in some quarters has now gone from being discreet to open business as many uninformed voters, either educated or not, who are always in the majority, see their voter’s cards as a means to an end.

Because of the poverty in the land which is mostly a result of bad governance, it is now being exploited by politicians who are always on standby, to cash in on the vulnerable poverty – stricken voters, who like sex hawkers, do not understand the risks associated with the act.

Vote buying does not only happen in the wee hours of the Election Day, it starts from the party’s primaries. At the ward level, the amount may be

minimal. But as the party primary moves towards election of local government party executive, local government chairmanship aspirants and on to state executive; and then National Assembly as well as national executive positions, the stake goes higher.

The danger posed by this practice is not only to our electoral process, but also to democracy as a whole.

It will simply mean that the choice of leadership will no longer be on the basis of programmes or party manifestos but rather, the highest bidder on election days, no matter how incompetent.

It also means that whoever wins an election through this process does not really have a pact with the people, as it was his money, rather than the legitimate votes of the people that puts him in office.

We submit that as we approach 2019 polls, Nigerians must understand that the moment they sell their votes for any amount, they have lost the right to complain about lack of good governance, lack of portable water, quality health care, and general good condition of living for the next four years.

This is so because it will be immoral of anyone to expect to see development from anyone who invested his hard earned money to purchase votes that puts him in office, because once he buys the votes that put him in office, it has simply become a business transaction from which the investor expects to make profit.

We are of the opinion that Nigerians must know that the cure for bad governance, the cure to poor electric power supply and lack of basic social amenities in the country starts with credible electoral process, where those who aspire to political offices are elected based on their programmes and vision for the people rather how much money they have to offer.

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CODER, 7 other CSOs endorse Osun guber poll, commend INEC Stories by Patrick Okohue Six civil society organisations have given the recently concluded Osun State governorship election their seal of approval and praised the umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) “for exhibiting professionalism and neutrality despite threats, intimidation and blackmail before and during the election.”

The groups in a statement signed by their representatives, including Dr. (Mrs.) Olufunke Adesina of the Centre for Women Agenda (CWA); Comrade Adedapo Ajisegiri of the Campaign Against Social Injustice (CASI); Comrade Onotosho Hakeem of the Centre for Sustainable Dialogue (CSD); Dr. Oyedokun Alli of the Development Advocacy Group (DAG); Comrade Jerry Nwachukwu of the Rights Monitor Agenda (RMA); Comrade Wale Adeoye of the Coalition of Democrats for Electoral Reforms (CODER); Samuel Bakare, Nigerian Human Rights Community (NHRC) and Comrade Ajayi Popoola of the Coalition for Peaceful Election (COPE), said the election was largely peaceful.

They also congratulated the people of Osun State for “their civil, peaceful and orderly conduct in jealously guarding their mandate and proving that the will of the people is supreme in a democracy.”

The rerun of the Osun State

governorship election was held in seven polling units across four council areas on Thursday, 27th September with the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gboyega Oyetola, beating the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), candidate, Ademola Adeleke.

The returning officer, Prof.

Joseph Fuwape, declared that the APC candidate, Oyetola, won the governorship election by scoring a total number of 255,505 votes while Adeleke of the PDP polled 255,023 votes.

The statement reads in part, “We, the undersigned civil society organisations as election observer groups, heartily congratulate the good people of Osun State for trooping out to the polls both on the 22nd of September and on the 27th September, 2018 rerun election, to elect the state’s helmsman whose outcome is a reflection of the will of the people as expressed at the polls.

“We also congratulate the people of Osun State for their civil, peaceful and orderly conduct in jealously guarding their mandate and proving that the will of the people is supreme in a democracy.

“We as well congratulate the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for exhibiting professionalism and neutrality despite threats, intimidation and blackmail before and during the election. We note with gladness that INEC deployment of its personnel and materials on election day was timely, efficient and has received accolades from all relevant

Ikale Liberation Movement demands, equity ahead 2019 elections in Ondo Ahead of the 2019 general elections, a group, Ikale Liberation Movement (ILM), has warned the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) that the party stand the risk of losing next year’s general election in Okitipupa Local Government Area to its main opposition, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), if there is no equity, justice and fair play in apportioning elective positions to the various communities in the area.

The group, comprising youths in the council area maintained that in the interest of peace, community development, equity and justice, the APC leadership must ensure that every community in the area is taken care of in the power sharing formula to avoid a situation that may not augur well for the party.

This much was made known to our correspondent at Okitipupa, the council headquarters by the representative of the group.

According to the Publicity Secretary, Michael Kingsley, “It will not do the APC any good if a community like Ilutitun is allowed to produce the House of Representatives candidate for the coming election since the community has been given the nod to

produce the Council Chairman during the forthcoming local government election in the state. So Ilutitun aspirant must give way to the only aspirant from Ode Aye that has shown interest,” he declared.

According to him, other communities like Ode-Aye, Okitipupa, Igbotako, Ayeka Igbodogo, Ode Erinje among others should be allowed to produce House of Representatives candidate while Igbotako should be allowed to produce the House of Assembly for the purpose of equity, justice and fair play that will ensure victory for the party next year.

The group argued that the ward comprising Iju-Odo, Iju - Oke and Erekiti - Luwoye have had varieties of appointments in the administration of ‘Arakunrin’ Olurotimi Akeredolu, with the former Chief of Staff to the late Agagu, Hon. Femi Agagu now Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Funke Agagu and Sunday Oyepintemi as main beneficiaries, leaving other communities with nothing. They further argued that if the party leadership fails to remedy the situation before the party primaries, it will lead to mass exodus of party members to the PDP, they warned.

stakeholders for a superlative performance.

“We equally commend the international and local observers for their high sense of responsibility in observing the process according to global best practices.

“We commend the media for its professional and unbiased coverage which is critical to deepening democracy and ensuring societal stability.”

The statement further says that while there were incidents of violence on the day of the rerun election, there

was no doubt that the most popular candidate won the race, saying, “We must commend the security agencies for their professional deployment and exhibiting diligence, patriotism and high sense of responsibility in their conduct during both rounds of elections which contributed in no small measure to the success of the election.

“However, we observe that unlike in the first round of election on the 22nd of September, 2018 which was largely peaceful and orderly, there were reports of pocket of violence

in some areas far away from the locations of polling stations where the rerun elections took place on Thursday, 27th September, 2018.

“In as much as we recognise that no election anywhere in the world can be perfect, we call on the security agencies to investigate these allegations and do the needful.

However, we make bold to state with all emphasis, that these allegations does not in any way distract from the fact that, the will of the people as expressed at the poll, has triumphed.”

Group alleges plot to scuttle APC Primary in Taraba The Taraba Progressive Movement a group within the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Taraba State has called on the national leadership of the party to caution a governorship aspirant, who is a former Senator, against using money to influence the primary election in the state.

Warning that it has uncovered plots to scuttle the process using violence and intimidation, the group in a statement signed by its Coordinator, Muhammad Umar alleged that exsenator, who was removed from office is reaching out to members of the Taraba State Governorship Primary Committee seeking for undue favour and enticing them with millions of naira.

Umar while welcoming the committee to Jalingo, urged them to be wary of desperate money bags who might approach them to manipulate the process in their

favour.

“We welcome the committee to Taraba State and urge them to conduct a credible and transparent process because the future of APC in Taraba State lies in their hand.”

The group warns that any attempt to circumvent the will of APC members in electing a generally acceptable candidate will spell doom for the party at the general election. ”We believe as honorable men with integrity, members of the committee won’t be allowed to be used by an aspirant who has since been boasting of ‘buying you over’ and will emerge the party’s candidate even if members does not vote for him.

“Taraba APC governorship ticket is not for sale, neither is it for some desperate power hungry millionaires, the party must field a generally accepted credible candidate that can withstand integrity test of the people during

general election,” Umar said.

The group said aspirants’ other plans include hijacking of electoral materials and officials of the party sent to conduct the primary election at the ward level.“We are also aware of how he has been buying up 2014 APC membership cards for N10,000 in many local governments, also he plans to give each ward returning officers N250,000 before the election and a balance of N250,000 if they manipulates results for him. Any attempt to write imaginary figures for any aspirant will be resisted; the will and choice of party loyalist must prevail. ”We all know the acceptability of each aspirants in the race, we enjoin all of them to play by the rules with fear of God.” The group called for a free, fair and transparent process where a generally accepted and credible candidate will emerge.

TAM endorses Sanwo-Olu, says he is best man for the job Benjamin Omoike The general body of tThe Achievers Movement (TAM) has endorsed the governorship ambition of Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu as the best aspirant among the three contenders for the All Progressives Congress (APC), in the Lagos State governorship race ahead of the party primary election In statements issues by the president of the movement, Anthony Chidi Eze, TAM will mobilises and support Sanwo-Olu for continuity of the development

laid by progressive predecessors in Lagos State.

The Tam leaders added that the youths will give adequate corporation to him by ensuring continuity in all local governments in the state where major developmental projects were abandoned in the state.

“We also believe that the issue of Land Use Charge and welfare of common citizens will be well handled under the administration of Sanwo-Olu if he wins.

“It was very disappointing to find out that the rail system that was started by his predecessor sometime in 2010 was abandoned.”

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ANSG benefits from $1.2bn World Bank commitment in S’East, S’South Stories by John Ndu, Awka Anambra State government has been mapped out among the states in South East and South South geopolitical zones in the country to benefit from the $1.2 billion projects financing from World Bank.

The World Bank Country Director in Nigeria, Mr. Rachid Benmessoud, made the announcement during its Country Performance Portfolio Review Meeting for the South East and South South geopolitical zones

held in Awka.

“The Country Performance Portfolio Review Meeting is organised annually by the World Bank in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Finance to assess the success of its activities across the nation.

“The review was specifically designed to analyse its intervention programmes and draw plans to promote efficient implementation.

“The priority of the interventions was to reduce poverty and improve the living conditions of the citizens.” Benmessoud stated.

Mr. Benmessoud however said that poor coordination and the inability of some state

governments to make their counterpart contributions were affecting its programmes in the country.

The World Bank Country Director commended the states for the progress made in the last eighteen months, stressing that the performance of Anambra State was the best.

In a remark, Governor Willie Obiano noted that the interventions by the World Bank and development partners were critical to the socio-economic transformation of the area.

Governor Obiano affirmed that the support of the bank to a large extent helped in tackling the

menace of erosion in parts of the state.

The Minister of Finance, Hajia Zainab Ahmed, represented by Mrs. Uzo Okoye, urged the project coordinators of the World Bank programmes to adapt measures that would ensure the realisation of their objectives.

Presenting the review, a Senior Operations Officer in the World Bank, Mrs. Ngozi Udolisa, said poor performing states would be motivated to accelerate their performance and improve results.

The event was attended by Commissioners of Finance and other participants from the eleven states in the two zones.

Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, presenting a cheque for N211million to the Catholic Church in the state for maintenance of mission primary and secondary schools.

Residents trapped as floodwaters submerge communities Residents of Olumbanasa Communities in Anambra West Local Government Area have been displaced as their communities have been completely submerged in raging floodwaters.

The floodwaters, mainly from the River Niger, had continued to flow ceaselessly into communities, displacing people from their original places of abode.

The communities are Odumegwu, Odeh, Igbokenyi, Igbador, Odekpe, Allah and Onogwa, which share boundary with Kogi State.

The indigenes, mainly fishermen and farmers, were apprehensive that current flooding situation could be worse than what they experienced during 2012, when they faced devastating consequences.

Traditional Ruler of Olumbanasa, Igwe Pius Ojouile Omachonu, appealed to Government at all levels to come to their rescue.

Igwe Omachonu expressed displeasure at vehement reluctance by

some displaced persons from moving to designated Holding Centres. ``People have emotional attachment to their original places of abode and fear the unknown, following trauma they faced during similar flooding in 2012. ``We don’t have arrangements except

the town hall built through communal effort; that is where people moved in while some moved to their relations’ or neighbours,” the monarch said.

Igwe Omachonu said it was regrettable that Olumbanasa had been totally submerged and cut off by flooding.

He commended Governor Willie Obiano for his effort at ensuring that his people were safe and secure.

Igwe Omachonu called on leaders of riverine communities to educate their people on importance of saving lives first.

Obiano vows to promote reading culture Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano, has restated his commitment to promote reading culture and creative behaviour amongs students in the state.

Governor Obiano stated this during the second 2018 Anambra Literacy Festival at Emmaus House, Awka.

The programme with the theme “Effective and Efficient literacy across the school Curriculum: LEAP Learning Centred Model to the Rescue”, attracted teachers and pupils across the state.

It was organised by the Literacy Enhancement and Achievement Project (LEAP) of Anambra State Ministry of Basic

Education, in collaboration with the Reading Association of Nigeria.

The programme was an opportunity to review and explore the contents of the book, “Willie Obiano: An intimate Biography”, written by the wife of the Governor, Mrs. Ebelechukwu Obiano.

Governor Obiano noted that the state government was creating measures to revive reading culture and further promote excellent academic performance amongst students.

He commended the state Ministry of Education for permeating the state values and morals amongst students.

The wife of the Governor, Mrs.

Ebelechukwu Obiano, regretted that the emergence of social media had affected reading culture.

The Commissioner for Basic Education, Prof. Kate Omenugha, observed that Governor Obiano had improved the academic system of the state through his hug investment in education.

Presenting her address, the President, Reading Association of Nigeria (RAN), Mrs. Irene Mbanefo, said the essence was to highlight what LEAP did in phase two, in order to promote the vision of empowering both teachers and pupils to be effective and efficient readers and writers.

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Obiano, Achebe lead public presentation of Anambra Compendium today The Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano, and Obi of Onitsha, His Royal Majesty, Igwe Alfred Nnaemeka Achebe (Agbogidi), will lead other prominent personalities to the public presentation of the Anambra Compendium today, October 1, 2018.

The much anticipated public presentation of the landmark documentation will take place at Oma Event Centre, opposite Alex Ekwueme Square, Awka.

The 800-page Anambra Compendium is a historical compilation in glossy images of the life, culture and achievements of the government and people of Anambra State since the creation of the state on May 27, 1991.

Speaking in Awka on the upcoming high profile event, the Editor-in-Chief of Anambra Compendium, High Chief Emeka Okonkwo, said that the unveiling of the compendium will attract crème de la crème of Anambra State and admirers from across the country that played prominent roles in the life of the state.

Okonkwo revealed that Governor Obiano is the Chief Host while the Chairman of the programme is the Obi of Onitsha.

The Managing Director of Fidelity Bank, Mr. Nnamdi Okonkwo, will unveil the Compendium, while former Vice Chancellor, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Prof Peter Ejiofor is the book reviewer.

According to Okonkwo, “the presentation of Anambra Compendium on October 1, 2018 is strictly by invitation event. Prominent sons and daughters of Anambra will make their voices heard in appreciation of the role of the founding fathers, and everything that defines us as a people and as the Light of the Nation. A lot of work has gone into the production of this first of its kind compendium and I have no doubt that every onye Anambra will be proud to own a copy.”

Okonkwo, who is the Chief Executive of Great Source Investment Limited, publishers of the Compendium, further explained that the compendium consists mainly of properly captioned photographs and illustrations and easy to read explanatory notes. The book opens with the history of ndi Anambra, the political and communities’ governance structure represented by the traditional institutions.

Snippets of the compendium include chapters highlighting achievements of Anambra people in the spheres of religion, education and medicine.

The compendium also recorded the breathtaking, rich tourism potentials of the State. Three other chapters profiled the ‘icons and beacons’ of Ndi Anambra who are role models, who have distinguished themselves in the areas of education, entertainment, commerce, enterprise, sports, literature, among others.

The Anambra Compendium 19912016 is published by Great Source Investment Limited in conjunction with Anambra State Government as part of the keepsakes that celebrate the new Anambra after twenty-five years.

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ANSG consolidates partnership with World Bank Stories by John Ndu, Awka The Anambra State Government has continued to strengthen its partnership with the World Bank to further finance development projects in the area.

Governor Willie Obiano stated this at Governor’s Lodge, Amawbia, when he received a team of World Bank officials led by its Country Director, Mr. Rachid Benmessoud.

The World Bank team is in the state for its Country Programme Portfolio Review in the South East and South South geopolitical zones.

Some of the programmes which the fund was utilised include NEWMAP, ANSLOGOR, SEPIP, Saving one million lives, Rural Electrification, Rural Access and Agricultural Marketing Projects, among others.

It was observed that the institution had in the past provided grants to the state government to the tune of over $140 (One hundred and forty dollars).

Receiving the team, Governor Obiano said the bank had intervened in funding projects in the education, agriculture and other critical sectors of the state’s economy.

He particularly expressed happiness over the banks assistance in tackling some of the 975 (nine hundred and

seventy six) erosion sites in the state.

Governor Obiano also noted that farmers in the state were now engaged in all year agricultural production due to the support received from the bank in irrigation projects.

He stressed that his administration would ensure the realization of the noble objectives of the bank through judicious use of funds and project implementation.

In his response, the World Bank Country Director in Nigeria, Mr. Rachid Benmessoud, announced that Anambra State emerged the best in the execution of development projects in the South East and South South zones.

Mr. Benmessoud explained that

programme review was done annually in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Finance to appraise the success of its interventions in the country.

He noted that the bank had deployed about ten billion dollars in development projects financing in the country.

Mr. Benmessoud said the review was primarily to ensure that the projects being funded were delivered to impact well on the lives of citizens.

In a remark, the state Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Mr. Mark Okoye, stated that the World Bank was funding about twelve projects in the state annually.

Mrs. Obiano visits IDP Camps, makes case for pregnant women, children

Anambra State Deputy Governor, Dr. Nkem Okeke (third right); Anambra State Chief Fire Officer, Mr. Martin Agbili (second right) with other members, during a visit to the Government House, Awka.

Scholarship: Aniunoh presents N12m cheque to 150 students The premises of Urban Girls’ Secondary School, Fegge, Onitsha, was a beehive of activities recently as the member representing Onitsha South I State Constituency in the Anambra State House of Aseembly, Honourable Sir Patrick Paddy Aniunoh, presented a cheque of twelve million naira to one hundred and fifty successful students who participated in the just concluded Holiday Lesson examination organised by Honourable Patrick Aniunoh’s Scholarship Foundation.

There was a free tutorial for secondary school students which was organised and funded by Hon Patrick Aniunoh who saw to the payment of teachers who handled the students and other logistics in the one month lesson programme.

At the end of the lesson programme, examination was conducted and graded accordingly.

The beneficiaries gathered at the Urban Girls’ Secondary School, Fegge, Onitsha, with their parents and guardians where they received the award certificate from the lawmaker.

Presenting the scholarship certificates to the beneficiaries, Hon.Aniunoh revealed that the project gulped over twelve million naira, noting that hundred and fifty junior and senior secondary students in Onitsha South I State constituency would attend school for the next academic year on scholarship.

According to the Umuoji-born legislator, the long vacation lessons and scholarship scheme started three years ago, noting that the beneficiaries would receive an average of N40, 000 each per term for 2018/2019 session, which amount to N12 million Naira over three terms.

He said the gesture was to assist parents reduce the burden of funding their children’s education and to support education development of youths in his constituency.

Hon. Aniunoh expressed satisfaction that the scholarship scheme which, he said, had lasted for three years, had enhanced academic pursuit of students in his constituency.

“My aim in Education includes granting of scholarship to qualified students, promoting quality and gender sensitive education in my constituency, assisting students to continue their studies by providing grants and educational materials for better success and building youths’ and women’s intellectual capacity for a better Onitsha South I,’ he said.

The Education-Loving Legislator thanked the students who painstakingly attended all the lessons and encouraged those who were not listed among the 150 scholarship beneficiaries to study hard in next holiday’s lessons and ensure that they did well in the lessons in order to qualify them to benefit from the scholarship scheme.

For his part, chairman of the occasion and Chairman, Anambra State Universal Basic Education Board (ASUBEB), Chief Nzemeka Olisah, who was represented by member One ASUBEB, Dr. Chinelo Okechukwu, stated that the Board would continue to key into good programmes of Honourable Aniunoh, which, he said, had direct bearing on the people of Onitsha South I State Constituency.

He noted with delight that gone were the days when bright students from poor backgrounds could not go to school due to lack of funds as lovers of education like Honourable Aniunoh now funded such.

The ASUBEB boss went further to encouraged the students, even as he asked them to take their studies seriously. He lauded the philanthropic gesture of Aniunoh towards promoting Education, urging him not to relent in his selfless deeds, adding that only God would reward his philanthropy.

Wife of the Governor and founder of NGO, Caring Family Enhancement Initiative, Chief Mrs. Ebelechukwu Obiano, has called for adequate medical and food supports to pregnant women, nursing mothers and children at the various holding centers for Internally Displaced Person(IDPs) affected by the recent flood disaster in Anambra State.

She made the call last Wednesday while on support visit to the Ogbaru Local Government Area Headquarters and St. Joseph Memorial Secondary School, Aguleri, Anambra East Local Government Area holding centres, where the affected persons are currently taking shelter.

Mrs. Obiano on arrival was led round facilities at the centres by the Transition Chairmen of the respective Local Government Areas and officials of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) to ascertain the general living condition of the people. She thereafter implored the managers of the centres to give special attention to the food and medical needs of the affected persons.

Said she: “I thank you all for your efforts to safe-guard these brothers and sisters but I am making a case for pregnant women, breast feeding mothers and children. We must make sure that they are fed as at the right time until the water recedes and they are able to go back home.”

The founder of CAFÉ later presented relief materials for the IDPs to the officials with advice that it is morally obligatory to lend a hand of solidarity to people hit by the inadvertent tragedies of nature, and urged

the affected persons to find fortitude in the temporariness of the siege. She also, urged caretakers of the centres to ensure that the relief materials are evenly and judiciously distributed to only the people that need them.

The governor’s wife had earlier at the Ogbaru holding centre called for a minute of silence for the repose of the soul of Master Benedict Uzoh, a nine-year-old boy who got drowned in the flood while fetching water.

Speaking on the health condition of the IDP entres, Commissioner for Health, Dr. Joe Akabuike, said that the Ministry of Health is supplementing efforts of other agencies by ensuring adequate health provisions in the holding centres, hence there is no major health setback.

Also in the Governor’s wife’s entourage were the Speaker of State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Rita Maduagwu, member Representing Orumba South at the State House of Assembly, Princess Nikky Ugochukwu, Commissioners for Basic Education, Prof.

Kate Omenugha and that of Agriculture, Mechanization, Processing and Export, Mr. Afam Mbanefo, amongst others.

Among the relief materials presented by Mrs. Obiano to the affected persons in holding centres were mattresses, mosquito nets, packs of toilet tissues and baby diapers, cartons of tin tomatoes, detergents, soaps and beverages.

Others items include bags of rice, bags of beans, bags of garri and bags of cooking salt, gallons of red and groundnut oil, towels, fruits, and snacks among others.

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LADOL, SHI faceoff threatens January 2019 production from FPSO Motolani Oseni

L-R: Patron, XWT Aircrew Association, Dr Olu Owolabi and Mrs Wola Adegbonmire during the presentation of the association’s 10th year anniversary award to Owolabi in New York over the weekend

How equities market investors lost N1.66trn in 9 months Motolani Oseni Despite an early impressive price appreciation in leading blue chips companies listed on the Nigeria Stock Exchange (NSE), investors’ in the equities market have recorded total drop of N1.66 trillion on their investment in last nine months of 2018.

The Daily Times checks showed that the equities market capitalisation, a parameter used in measuring the value of all companies traded depreciated by 12.2 per cent or N1.66 trillion to N 11.96 trillion as at September 28, 2018 from N13.62 trillion it opened for trading this year.

The market capitalisation resumed a booming trend this year, peaking at N15.89 trillion in January 2018.

The equities market slump has been consistent since tail end of January as political turbulence in the country heightens.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) stability in the foreign exchange market coupled with introduction of Investors & Exporters Foreign Exchange (I & E) FX window played critical role in the equities market.

Since the third quarter of this year, the wealth effect from the equities market has been eroded,

underscored by investors, most especially foreign investors cautiously trading in blue chips companies.

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) All-Share Index has depreciated by 14.3per cent in nine months to 32,766.37 basis points from 38,243.19 basis points, translating into investors losing 14.3 per cent of their investment in nine months.

Consequently, the NSE-Main Board Index dropped by 14.69 per cent to 1,461.93 basis points from 1,713.69 basis points the market opened this year.

Share prices of companies in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), industrial that has Dangote Cement, Insurance and banking sectors have depreciated.

Specifically, the NSE Consumer Goods Index has dropped by 22.3 per cent to 758.36 basis points from 976.10 basis points while the NSE Industrial Goods Index dropped to 1,528.69 basis points from 1,975.59 basis points, translating into 22.62 per cent decline in banking shares listed on NSE. The NSE Banking Index dipped by 13.5 per cent to 411.25 basis points from

475.44 basis points the equities market opened for trading this year.

In addition, the NSE Insurance Index declined by 10.11 per cent to 125.27 basis points from 139.37 basis points the equities market closed 2017.

Amid the equities market decline, the nation’s economy has continued also on weaker parameters, according to National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

Commenting on this development, a stockbroker and Managing Directors, Highcap Securities, Mr. David Adnori, explained that it was actually not profittaking that led to N1.66 trillion drop in the equities market.

“It is withdrawal from equities market by investors as a result of dwindling investor’s confidence which can be linked to the increasing country risk caused by political uncertainty as we drive towards the general election”, he said.

He noted that macroeconomic indicators especially the comment by the MPC that the economy can slide into recession if certain things are not put in place in the nation’s economy.

“For instance, they said the headline

inflation has started to increase and the rate of decline of inflation rate has also diminished and the growth rate of the economy is no longer increasing compared to the previous quarter.

“Those are some of the factors that adversely affected investor’s confidence in the economy. Otherwise, there are other positives that ought to give confidence in the economy like the foreign exchange rate and monetary policy rate has been stable”, he added.

Speaking on the equities market expectation in the last quarter of 2018, he said, “We might just see a market that is stable or suffers a little decline because the political risk is increasing by the day as regard towards the general election due to the fact that a lot of participants in the electoral process and observers have fingered short-comings.

“So, confidence in the electoral process is low. The current labour strike also a part and we are entering into the season where the market closed down naturally. Those factors would actually tell whether it will be stable or decline but the advantages there is that it still a buyers’ market.”

Manufacturing sector faced with daunting challenges despite Nigeria’s industrialisation Joy Obakeye Manufacturers in the country have painted a gloomy picture of the industrialisation drive in Nigeria, if the Federal Government fails to act swiftly to tackle the challenges.

The immediate past president of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, Dr Frank Udemba Jacobs, highlighted the challenges during the 46th Annual General Meeting of the association in Lagos, with the theme; “Mainstreaming Industrial Policies to Catalyze Industrial Renaissance”. While also lamenting, the rising inventory of unsold finished products manufacturers

have recorded in the last one year.

Jacobs, whose 4-year tenure elapsed, handed over affairs to the new President of the Association, Engineer Mansur Ahmed.

“It is no longer news that manufacturers are still faced with numerous challenges that are largely responsible for the not too impressive performance of the manufacturing sector and the uncompetitiveness of Nigerian manufactured products”.

“These challenges are still manifesting in the form of high inventory of unsold finished products, inadequate electricity supply, frequent increases in electricity tariff in the face of poor services from distribution companies and abnormally

high interest rates. Others are: high excise duties on some products, inadequate trade facilitation infrastructure, expensive price of natural gas, unfriendly port environment, multiplicity of taxes/levies/ fees, exorbitant cost of haulage, congestion at the Lagos seaports arising from the non-functionality of other seaports in the country, high incidence of smuggling and counterfeiting of locally manufactured products, to mention but a few”.

Jacobs highlighted the crucial role the sector has to play in the Nigerian economy, if only the government can speed up process that would lead to a quick repositioning.

“The manufacturing sector has proven to be the heart of industrialization and

driver of sustainable and inclusive economic growth in developed and developing economies. In fact, no economy will experience sustained growth without a vibrant manufacturing sector. Therefore, Government needs to speed up actions that would lead to the quick resolution of these constraints in order to reposition and further improve the performance of the manufacturing sector”.

President of Ghana, Nana AkufoAddo who was the Guest speaker, also highlighted the role Nigeria has to play in ensuring that the economy of Nigeria and that of Africa becomes self-sustaining through adequate policy formulation and implementation.

There are fresh indications that the first pump of crude oil from the Egina Floating Production Storage Offloading (FPSO) may be delayed due to the faceoff between Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics (LADOL) base and the Samsung Heavy Industry (SHI).

This is because Samsung has complained about inability to access its yard to move material offshore for Egina’s hook-up.

Egina is the biggest project currently ongoing in the nation’s oil and gas industry and it was gathered that the production from the FPSO was expected to begin in January 2019 may no longer be visible.

Also, plans to export one million barrels of the first oil from the FPSO in January, 2019 and to enhance the revenue profile of Nigeria and other stakeholders will be affected.

Speaking on Thursday, the Chief Operating Officer of SHI-MCI, Frank Ejisu said the delay in accessing the Samsung fabrication yard could affect the first production date.

He said, “The delay itself did not enable us move some material offshore because it has an impact. We have schedule on hookup but because we did it ahead of time by six days we gain a little time but this effect of locking our yards impacted on moving our materials out of the yard earlier than we should so definitely it will have an impact on the job that’s the truth. Basically, it will have an impact on first oil production,” he said yesterday.

The Samsung COO who alleged that LADOL has been a law upon himself said the company has refused to abide by the directive of Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) to allow Samsung into their yards.

He stated that LADOL however failed to renew its operating licence because it was adamant against paying An illegal Free On board charges.

His words: “SHI-MCI Operating licence was effective from 30 July 2017.

We approached GRMFZC to renew our licence but it insisted that except we pay the FOB Charge, it will not renew our licence. Even though the FOB Charge was acknowledged not to be SHl-MCl’s obligation at Stakeholders meeting of 16 July 2018, GRMFZC still refused to renew SHlMCl’s licence.

“On 24 July 2018, prior to expiration of the licence, we filed a case before the Federal High Court to determine whether SHl-MCl is obligated to pay the F0B Charge and whether it is legal for GRMFZC to refuse to renew the operating licence because SHlMCl refuses to pay the illegal charge.

“Since we commenced the proceedings, GRMFZC has changed its positions several times. After we commenced the case, they came up with different position alleging several regulatory infractions which we had replied.”

“Recently, they also alleged that they did not renew the licence because of their shareholding in SHl-MCl. As stated above, the only reason, GRMFZC has refused to renew the licence is the FOB Charge.

Any other reason, is an after-thought and a bad faith effort to discredit SHl-MCl to withdraw its case in court. NEPZA has instructed GlRMFZC to renew the licence but GRMFZC has refused.

“GRMFZC, and the Ladol Group as a whole, is the party that ‘has’ placed itself above Nigerian Iaw and free zone regulations ... was law unto itself, acted with impunity and had been in persistent and deliberate violation of extant laws and regulations. Moreover, it had been defiant and unruly.”

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Nigerian airports record 3.65m air passengers in Q2 Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says 3.65million air passengers traveled through Nigerian airports in the second quarter of 2018 as against 3.84 million recorded in the first quarter.

The NBS disclosed this in its “Air Transport Data” (Q1 and Q2 2018) report posted in its website.

The bureau said the figure declined by 33.51 per cent year-on-year and increased by 15.24 per cent quarter-on-

quarter.

The report said there was a consequent 4.9 per cent decline in passengers for the second quarter when compared to the preceding quarter.

The report said the total aircraft traffic declined year-on-year for both the first quarter (1.48per cent) and second quarter (10.17per cent) when compared to the corresponding quarter in 2017.

“In the first half of 2018, aircraft traffic totaled 96,659, a 5.9 per cent

decline from total aircraft recorded in the same period last year,’’ it stated.

The bureau said there was a significant year-on-year decline in air cargo traffic via Lagos for both the first quarter (49.8 per cent) and second quarter (65.4 per cent).

This, the NBS said led to an overall year-on-year decline of 37.8 per cent for the first half of the year.

It said that a growth of 25.6 per cent was, however, recorded between the second quarter and the preceding quarter.

According to the bureau, a 34.2 per cent increase in total mail traffic was recorded in the first half of the year when compared to the same period in 2017.

“Total mail traffic for the first half of 2018 increased from 14,779,558 KG in half year 2017, to 19,831,650 KG in half year 2018, a 34.2per cent growth between the stated periods. “ Total mail for first quarter was recorded at 8,313,112 KG and grew by 38.56 per cent to 11,518,538 KG in the second quarter.’’

New NUATE President vows to fight against workers victimisation Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo The newly elected president of the National Association of Air Transport Employees NUATE Comrade Ben Nnabue, has vowed to stop any form of victimisation of aviation workers in the country.

Speaking in an interview with aviation journalists after his election in Asaba Delta state , Comrade Nnabue said NUATE under him, will resist concession, casaulisation and job loss in the aviation sector.

According to the new NUATE boss, welfare of workers will continue to remain paramount saying that the union has declared emergency in condition of service in the next one month in the aviation parastatals.

Nnabue explained that a four point programme of leadership, security, welfare of members and financial autonomy has been mapped out for the union.

He explained that estate valuers will be engaged to develop the NUATE

property at Beesan in Lagos national secretariat in order to construct a 45 room hotel.

According to the NUATE President, this will enable the union not to rely on check off dues but to depend on internally generated revenue for self sustenance.

He said a new means of communication among NUATE members across the country will be introduce in order to keep members posted with activities of the union.

While assuring members of carefully executing campaign promises, appealed to all NUATE members to work together with the new team in order to realise their aims and objectives.

Ben Nnabue over the weekend defeated four other contestants to become the new president of NUATE for the next four years.

He thanked the immediate past president of NUATE, Comrade Mohammed Safiyanu for his support.

Meanwhile, the immediate past president of the union Comrade Mohammed Safiyanu has urged the new executive to remain focus especially

Nigeria at 58: StarTimes calls for unity, tolerance Ladesope Ladelokun As Nigeria marks her 58th Independence today, the management of pay TV provider – StarTimes, has called for continued unity and love among citizens, as it congratulate Nigerians on coming thus far since after independence in 1960.

The company through its Chief Operating Officer, Tunde Aina said in a goodwill message that Nigeria is “destined for greatness and is blessed with hardworking people who by all good means defy all odds to attain greatness in their chosen endeavours.”

He noted that the company will always align with the vision of the founding fathers, past heroes, statesmen and leaders at all levels towards ensuring that every Nigerian enjoys the benefit of democracy, which according to him, includes affordable entertainment, a value

StarTimes stands for.

He said “At 58, we are set for a takeoff as a nation and the years ahead can only get better. StarTimes is poised at making life easier for every Nigerian and we continue to support the Nigerian government in ways within our powers to ensure that Nigerians reap the benefits of democracy, and this include affordable entertainment, a service we keenly offer.”

He assured that StarTimes would further deepen its engagement with Nigerians, especially in rural communities as demonstrated by its flagship corporate social responsibility initiative dubbed “Digital Village Project” which aims to provide digital satellite entertainment for 1,000 villages and thus creatively over 2,000 jobs in the process.

He further called on every Nigerian to embrace and imbibe the culture of togetherness, love and harmony wherever they live.

as the issue of Airport concession was at the front burner.

Safiyanu said it will enable them to approach the issue with all seriousness saying that it will be a great challenge if not well tackled which may lead to problems.

The Comrade said the immediate past executives tried their best to solve

the problem they met on ground adding that it never a hundred percent performance.

Safiyanu said during his tenure that the interest of workers was protected as there was no retrenchment of workers during his tenure but except some cases of redundancy of workers which was amicably ironed out.

Nigerian oil unions aim to resolve dispute with Chevron in 2 weeks - union official Nigerian oil unions will try to resolve a labour dispute with the U.S. firm Chevron within two weeks, a union official said on Friday, after the unions threatened last week to go on strike nationwide.

Nigeria, an OPEC member, is Africa’s largest oil producer and West Africa’s largest economy.

Crude sales make up around twothirds of government revenues, but the dilapidated state of refineries means the country has to import most of its refined fuel.

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers

(NUPENG) have accused Chevron of attempting to sack thousands of workers in violation of their contracts.

The unions, Chevron and the government held talks on Thursday to try to resolve the dispute.

“At the end of the talks, it was resolved that the unions and Chevron should go back and resolve all outstanding issues within two weeks and come back to the Ministry of Labour for, hopefully, the last meeting, where the resolutions would be ratified,” said PENGASSAN General Secretary Lumumba Okugbawa.

Chevron did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Aiteo founder, clicks Forbes Oil & Gas Leader of the Year Award Motolani oseni Nigerian oil mogul and founder of Aiteo Group, Benedict Peters was awarded Africa’s Oil and Gas Leader of the Year at the Forbes Best of Africa Gala which held at Forbes Headquarters, New York City on September 27, 2018.

According to the Editor, Emerging Markets for Forbes, Paul H. Trustfull, “Peters’ ascendancy in Africa’s Oil and Gas sector has been exemplary as well as revolutionary. His company, Aiteo, has thrived for about two decades – going from a downstream start-up to becoming a leading integrated energy conglomerate with strategic investments in hydrocarbon (or commodities) exploration and production.”

“Peters reinvented himself in times of great personal challenge. He resurrected his identity and reputation while battling injustice. He proves that inspirational leadership in a difficult industry is possible”, Trustful added.

Aiteo is currently the highest producing indigenous oil Exploration and Production company in Nigeria. Beyond oil, the Aiteo Group has investments in mining, agriculture, infrastructure development, electricity generation and distribution, with a fast-growing retail distribution network.

The group has been expanding rapidly, extending its operations to different countries across Africa and beyond with emerging international presence in the DRC, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Zambia, Zimbabwe as well as offices in Geneva and Paris.

Recognising Excellence: Mike Perlis, CEO and Vice-Chairman of Forbes Media (R), congratulating Francis Peters, Deputy Group Managing Director, Aiteo Group, shortly after Benedict Peters, Executive Vice Chairman, Aiteo Group won the Africa’s Oil and Gas Leader of the Year Award at the “Best of Africa” event by Forbes International at Forbes Headquarters in New York recently.

Dedicating the coveted award to all Aiteo employees worldwide, Benedict Peters said, “The acknowledgement by Forbes as Oil and Gas Leader of 2018 is inspiring. It means a lot to me and the entire Aiteo Group. I am delighted that the International community recognises our contribution towards Africa’s self-sufficiency in energy and our aspiration to become a reference point for indigenous capacity in oil and gas.

“We believe that Africa has what it takes to lead the world and we will continue to push the frontiers of development through our investments in people and technology. The success of our Oil and Gas Upstream subsidiary proves that the future we envision in Africa rests to a large extent in the hands of Africans.”

L-R: Chief Executive Ogilvy Africa, Mathieu Plassard; Chief Executive, Ogilvy Nigeria, Seni Adetu; Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Fidelity Bank Plc, Mr Nnamdi Okonkwo and Chief Executive, Ogilvy Emea, Paul Donnell, during the official launching of Ogilvy Nigeria in Lagos... at the weekend. Photo: Olawale Rotimi

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BORDER COMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (BCDA) PLOT 2449 LIMPOPO STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA

INVITATION FOR PREQUALIFICATION/ INVITATION TO TENDER/EXPRESSION OF INTEREST 1. PREAMBLE The Border Communities Development Agency (BCDA) is a Federal Government interventionist Agency established by an Act of Parliament 2003 to develop all Border Communities’ amenities through the implementation of planned and sustainable projects.

Therefore, In compliance with the requirements of the Public Procurement Act 2007 and Extant Regulations of Federal Government on procurement of goods, works and services, BCDA wishes to invite experienced and competent Contractors/Suppliers to submit bids for the under listed 2018 Capital Projects.

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A236, A237, A238, A239, A240, A241, A242, A243, A318, A319, A320, A321, A322, A323, A324, A325, A326, A327, A328, A329 and A330 not expected to pay for tender document except when prequalified.

3. ELEGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS: a. Evidence of Certificate of Incorporation with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) including Form CAC2 and CAC7; b. Evidence of Company Incomes Tax Clearance Certificate for the last three (3) years 9(2015, 2016 & 2017) valid till 31st December, 2018 with a minimum average turnover of N20,000,000.00 c. Evidence of current Pension Compliance Certificate valid till 31st December, 2018; d. Evidence of current Industrial Training Fund (ITF) Compliance Certificate valid till 31st December, 2018; e. Evidence of Current Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) Compliance Certificate valid till 31st December, 2018; f. Evidence of registration on the National Database of Federal Contractors, Consultants and Service providers by submission of Interim Registration Report (IRR) expiring on 1/1/2019 or valid Certificate issued by BPP; g. Sworn Affidavit disclosing whether or not any officer of the relevant committees of the Border Communities Development Agency or the Bureau of Public Procurement is a former or present Director, shareholder or has any pecuniary interest in the bidder, that the company is not bankrupt, in receivership or under liquidation or involved in any litigation which can potentially affect the company’s ability to effectively discharge their responsibility if engaged and to confirm that all information presented in its bid are true and correct in all particulars; h. Company’s Audited Accounts for the last three (3) years (2015,2016,2017); i. Evidence of financial capability to execute the project including Reference Letter from a reputable commercial bank indicating willingness to provide facilities for the execution of the project when needed; j. Company profile with the Curriculum Vitae of key staff to be deployed for the project, including copies of their Academic/Professional qualifications (in case of construction: COREN, QSRBN, ARCON, CORBON, MNSE etc.); k. Verifiable documentary evidence of at least three (3) similar jobs executed in the last five (5) years including Letters of Awards, Valuation Certificates, Job Completion Certificates and Photographs of the projects; l. For Motor Vehicle’s procurement, “only companies included in the National Automotive Design and Development Council’s approved list of local manufacturers of vehicles or their authorised representatives should bid for the procurement”; m. For Training/Empowerment programmes: Evidence of Registration with Centre for Management Development; n. List of Plants/Equipment with proof of ownership/lease (where applicable); o. For Joint Ventures/Partnership, Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) should be provided. (All the eligibility requirements are compulsory for each JV partner); p. All documents for submission must be transmitted with a Covering/ forwarding letter under the Company’s/Firm’s Letter Head paper bearing amongst others, the Registration Number (RC) as issued by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), Contact Address, Telephone Number (preferably GSM No) and e-mail address. The letterhead paper must bear the names and Nationalities of the Directors of the Company at the bottom of the page, duly signed by the authorised officer of the firm.

4. COLLECTION OF TENDER DOCUMENTS Interested companies (for Goods & Works) are to collect the Standard Bidding Document (SBD) from the office of the Head of Procurement, Room 3, Second Floor, Border Communities Development Agency, Plot 2449 Limpopo Street, Maitama, Abuja on evidence of Payment of a non-refundable fee of N10,000.00 per Lot (Ten Thousand Naira Only), paid into the Border Communities Development Agency’s GIFMIS CODE as stated below.

PAYMENT CODE FOR THE TENDER FEES All contractors are advised to proceed to the bank for payment of the tender fees through the GIFMIS Code. Please find below the details: GIFMIS CODE. 1000095904 NAME: Tender Fees ORGANIZATION: Boarders Communities Development Agency ACCOUNT: Tender Fee FUND: Retained Internally Generated Revenue REGION: Abuja Note that: i. Interested bidders for Consultancy Services are not expected to pay at this stage until after short-listing. ii. Interested bidders for Lots A118, A119, A231, A232, A233, A234, A235,

5. SUBMISSION OF EOI Interested firms are to submit two (2) bound of Expression of Interest (EOI) documents separated by dividers and arranged as indicated above. The documents should be submitted in a sealed envelope and addressed as indicated in Paragraph 5 above; and clearly marked with (the name of the project, category and the Lot number). Furthermore, the reverse of each sealed envelope should have the name and address of the bidder and drop in the designated Tender Box at the Reception of the Agency’s Headquarters not later than 12:00 noon on Tuesday, 16th October, 2018.

6. SUBMISSION OF PREQUALIFICATION DOCUMENTS Prospective bidders for Lots A118, A119, A231, A232, A233, A234, A235, A236, A237, A238, A239, A240, A241, A242, A243, A318, A319, A320, A321, A322, A323, A324, A325, A326, A327, A328, A329 and A330 are to submit pre-qualification documents for each of the Lot desired; two (2) hard copies each of the technical bids packaged in sealed envelopes and clearly marked as “Technical Bid”; and addressed to THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, BORDER COMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT AGENCY, PLOT 2449, LIMPOPO STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA and clearly marked with (the name of the project, category and the Lot number). Furthermore, the reverse of each sealed envelope should have the name and address of the bidder and drop in the designated Tender Box at the Reception of the Agency’s Headquarters not later than 12:00 noon Monday 22nd October, 2018.

7. SUBMISSION OF TENDER DOCUMENTS (GOODS & WORKS) Prospective bidders are to submit bid for each of the Lot desired, two (2) hard copies each of the Technical and Financial bids with softcopy of financial bids only in MS Excel format, packaged separately in sealed envelopes and clearly marked as “Technical Bid” or “Financial bid”. Thereafter, put the two sealed envelopes together in a bigger sealed envelope addressed to: THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, BORDER COMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT AGENCY, PLOT 2449, LIMPOPO STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA and clearly marked with the name of the project and the Lot number. Furthermore, the reverse of each sealed envelope should have the name and address of the bidder and drop in the designated Tender Box at the Reception of the Agency’s Headquarters not later than 12:00 noon on Tuesday, 13th November, 2018.

Every bidder should ensure a tender submission form receipt is issued accordingly.

8. BID OPENING EOI The EOI will be opened immediately after the deadline for submission at 12:00 noon on Tuesday, 16th October, 2018 in the Conference Room of the Agency in the presence of bidders or their representatives.

PREQUALIFICATION DOCUMENTS Prequalification documents i.e. Lots A118, A119, A231, A232, A233, A234, A235, A236, A237, A238, A239, A240, A241, A242, A243, A318, A319, A320, A321, A322, A323, A324, A325, A326, A327, A328, A329 and A330 will be opened immediately after the deadline for submission at 12:00 noon Monday 22nd October, 2018 in the Conference Room of the Agency in the presence of bidders or their representatives.

INVITATION TO TENDER Technical bids will be opened immediately after the deadline for submission at 12:00 noon on 13th November, 2018 in the Conference Room of the Agency in the presence of bidders or their representatives.

Bidders should please ensure that you sign the Bid Submission Register in the Office of the Head Procurement, Room 3, second floor, Border Communities Development Agency, Plot 2449 Limpopo Street, Maitama, Abuja as the Agency will not be held liable for misplace or wrongly submitted bids.

For further enquiries, please contact the Head of Procurement on emmanuel. lebish@bcda.gov.ng 9. GENERAL INFORMATION a. Bids must be in English Language and signed by an official authorized by the bidder b. Bids submitted after the deadline for submission would be returned unopened c. Bidders should not bid for more than two (2) Lots d. All costs will be borne by the bidders. e. All pre-qualified bidders will be contacted at a later date for financial bid opening, while bids of un-successful bidders will be returned un-opened f. The Procurement Unit is not bound to pre-qualify any bidder and reserves the right to annul the Procurement process at any time without incurring any liabilities in accordance with Section 28 of the Public Procurement Act 2007. g. Failure to comply with any of the above requirements will form the basis for the disqualification of the bidders.

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UN report confronts nations with tough choices on climate

The world’s nations will gather at a UN conference in South Korea on Monday to review and approve a 20page bombshell — distilled from more than 6,000 scientific studies — laying out narrowing options for staving off climate catastrophe.

When the 195 countries who signed off on the Paris Agreement in 2015 requested a report from UNled scientists on the feasibility of capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius, the gesture seemed to many unnecessary.

The treaty, after all, enjoined the world to block the rise in Earth’s surface temperature at “well below” 2C (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) compared to pre-industrial levels, adding a safety buffer to the two-degree threshold long seen as the guardrail for a climate-safe world.

Since then, however, a crescendo of deadly heat waves, floods, wildfires and superstorms engorged by rising seas — with less than 1C warming so far — has convinced scientists that the danger cursor needed to be reset.

“There is increasing and very robust evidence of truly severe and catastrophic risks even at the lower bounds of these temperature targets,” said Peter Frumhoff, director of science and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, a Washingtonbased research and advocacy group.

The promise of “pursuing efforts” to limit warming to 1.5C — added to the Paris treaty at the last minute, in part to assuage poor nations who felt short-changed on other fronts — caught scientists off-guard.

“There wasn’t very much literature on 1.5C warming three years ago,” said Jim Skea, a professor of at Imperial College London’s Center for Environmental Policy, and a cochair of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), the UN science body charged with writing the “Special Report” on 1.5C. Of hundreds of climate models in 2015 projecting a low-carbon future, only two or three aimed for a 1.5C global warming cap.

The 20-page Summary Policy Makers — which will be collectively

scrutinized, line-by-line, by hundreds of diplomats through Friday — contains several benchmark findings, according to a draft obtained by AFP. At current levels of greenhouse gas emissions, for example, the Earth’s surface will heat up beyond the 1.5C threshold by 2040, the report concludes with “high confidence.”

To have a fighting chance of staying under the 1.5C cap, the global economy must, by 2050, become “carbon neutral,” meaning no additional CO2 can be allowed to leach into the atmosphere.

In addition, the report suggests that carbon dioxide emissions from human activity will need to peak in 2020 and curve sharply downward from there.

So far, we are still moving in the wrong direction: after remaining stable for three years — raising hopes the peak had come — emissions rose in 2017 to historic levels.

For many scientists, these targets are technically feasible but politically or socially unrealistic, along with the broader 1.5C goal.

“The feasibility is probably going to remain an open question, even after the report comes out,” said Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University.

A main focus of the underlying, 400-page report — written by a team of 86 authors, supported by another 150 scientists — is the difference a halfdegree Celsius can make in terms of impacts.

“When we’re talking about 1.5C it’s not just to protect a few dozen small island nations,” said Henri Waisman, a senior researcher at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations, and a coordinating author of the report.

“It’s to avoid dramatic impacts that become exponentially more dramatic when we go from 1.5C to 2C.” What used to be once-a-century heatwaves in southern and central Europe, for example, are projected to occur four out of 10 summers in a 1.5C world, and six out of ten in a 2C world.

Many tropical fisheries are likely to collapse somewhere between the 1.5C

and 2C benchmark, as fish seek cooler waters; staple food crops will decline in yield and nutrition an extra 10 to 15 percent; coral reefs that may have a chance of surviving if air temperatures remain below 1.5C will very likely perish with an additional half-degree of warming.

Most worrying of all, perhaps, are temperature “tipping points” that could push methane-laden permafrost and the ice sheets of Greenland and West Antarctica — which hold enough frozen water to lift global oceans by

Saudi Arabia and South Africa will hold a ministerial meeting in Riyadh on Monday to broaden the format of their bilateral cooperation and to identify joint projects within the framework of the joint economic commission.

This meeting is preceded by an announcement by a Saudi company to set up a mega solar power project in South Africa.

This was disclosed by Dr. Rob Davies, South African minister of trade and industry, in an exclusive interview with Arab News on Sunday.

Davies arrived in Riyadh Saturday night to co-chair the meeting of the Saudi Arabia-South Africa Joint Economic Commission, and to discuss how the commercial relations between the two countries will shape up in the future in different sectors.

Davies also addressed a business forum hosted by the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce on Sunday.

The minister, who is accompanied by a delegation of high-ranking officials from the South African government, state-owned entities, and top-notch businessmen, said: “I will hold talks with senior Saudi officials to examine prospects of

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above that,” he told AFP. Even taking into account voluntary national pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions, submitted in an annex to the Paris treaty, the Earth is on track to heat up by an unliveable 3.5C or more by century’s end.

“If we want to save ourselves from the disasters that are looming, we only have unrealistic options left,” said Kaisa Kosonen, Greenpeace IPPC campaign lead.

“We have to try to make the impossible possible.”

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a dozen meters (nearly 40 feet) — beyond the point of no return.

Some experts, however, worry that focusing on the contrast between a 1.5C and 2C world obscures the fact we are currently on a trajectory that will crash through both these thresholds.

“I don’t think 2C is safe, and I would never want to argue it,” said Frumhoff.

“By many measures, 1.5C is not enough.”

“But while we might call 2C an upper bound, let’s not pretend that we’re on a 2C path — we are way

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cooperation in different sectors including energy, agro-processing, mining and pharmaceutical sectors.

“My visit is also a follow-up on my President Cyril Ramaphosa’s state visit to Saudi Arabia in July this year, when the Kingdom pledged to invest $10 billion in South Africa’s energy, defense and agricultural sectors.”

He pointed out that “Ramaphosa has set a target to attract $100 billion in investments into the country within the next five years.”

Asked about the trade and investment relations between the two countries, the South African minister said: “The Kingdom’s renewable energy developer ACWA Power has announced plans to construct a mega solar energy plant in South Africa.

The 100MW Redstone concentrated solar thermal power (CSP) plant will be capable of supplying power to 210,000 homes once operational.”

The Central Energy Fund of South Africa and ACWA Power will cooperate on the project under the terms of the agreement. Davies said: “South Africa and Saudi Arabia maintain good political and economic relations and cooperate in a number of fields. Saudi Arabia continues to be South Africa’s strategic partner in

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The minister added that Riyadh is among South Africa’s top five import partners, largely due to the amount of oil Pretoria imports from the Kingdom.

Davies pointed out that South African exports are led by mineral products, automotive, base metals, machinery and mechanical appliances. “The two countries have a strong partnership in defense sector as well as in defense manufacturing,” he said, adding that the Saudi Arabian Military Industries Co. participated in the Africa Aerospace and Defense 2018 exhibition in South Africa this month.

Predicting progressively growing relations between Riyadh and Pretoria, he said: “We look forward to new trade and investment opportunities, and to building joint ventures with Saudi companies.”

He also spoke about the potential to promote trade and investment among African countries, saying that the planned “African Continental Free Trade Area” is the result of an agreement among all members of the African Union. “If ratified and finally set up, this trade zone will represent a market of 1.2 billion people,” he noted.

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The National Lottery Trust Fund National (NLTF) has distributed sports equipment public primary schools in the FCT Lottery Trust toand2,017 the country’s 36 states, Bello Maigari, the Fund’s Acting Executive Secretary, says.

Fund has Maigari told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja that the distributed distribution aimed at helping to develop sports from the grassroots was handled sports between 2016 and 2017.

He said the intervention was in nine equipment to sports, namely football, taekwondo, basketball, table tennis, volleyball, judo, 2,017 public badminton, handball and athletics.

Maigari said that the equipment were schools, official given out to no less than 40 schools in each state, with the exception of the FCT says which had only 22 schools receiving the

equipment.

“We visited all the 36 states of the federation and the FCT in 2016 and 2017 to hand over world-class sports equipment to over 2,000 public primary schools and 13 premier universities across the country.

“This is unprecedented in the history of NLTF and indeed in the history of sports.

There has never been a major intervention to grassroots sports in the history of sports in Nigeria.

“We are the first to articulate that vision and we actualised it. We are pleased to tell Nigerians that the funds were applied judiciously and this is serving the purposes for which the trust fund was set up.’’

The NLTF Acting Executive Secretary explained that the equipment donated had

propelled pupils to develop interest and participate in sports.

He said the intervention had helped the country to discover Rosemary Chukwuma, whom he described as a talented athlete who won a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games.

NAN reports that the Games was held at Gold Coast in Australia in April.

Maigari added that many of the schools have the facilities to utilise the equipment, stating that the distribution was based on the report of the needs assessment of the selected schools.

On how the Fund had been tracking the progress of their projects, he said NLTF developed a World Bank standard of a monitoring and evaluation framework.

“We adopted the World Bank standard

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of monitoring intervention programmes.

“Tracking the utilisation of this equipment is on periodic basis. The framework envisages that we monitor on monthly, quarterly and biannual basis of course.

“And we also use the expertise of consultants to carry out post-impact assessment of these interventions at the end of the year.

“If the outcome is positive then we replicate it in the near future, and so far the reports are positive.’’

Maigari however disclosed that the Trust Fund was currently focusing on intervening in the health care of rural communities, stating that it had already issued medical equipment to seven states.

(NAN)

FIBA WWC: D’Tigress loses narrowly to Canada The Nigeria national women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, have finished in the eighth position at the 2018 FIBA Women’s World Cup. Despite being ranked 34th before the World Cup in Spain, the Nigerian Ladies did the country and indeed the continent proud to finish in the eighth position.

In their final classification match on Sunday against Canada,

D’Tigress lost 73-72 in a keenly contested game.

While it was the Canadians that won the first quarter of Sunday’s classification game 21-17, D’Tigress overpowered their opponent, 18-9 to lead by Half Time 35-30.

The third quarter was even at 1919 but D’Tigress stuttered in the decisive final quarter as Canada got the upper hand; winning it 24-18

and 73-72 overall.

In this historic World Cup appearance, D’Tigress defeated Turkey (7th), Argentina (15th) and Greece (20th) before setting up a quarter-final clash with defending champions and world number 1, United States of America.

The Nigerian ladies will now shift focus to successfully defending their AfroBasket title in 2019.

Wada clears Kenya of institutional doping Cameroon’s Vincent Aboubakar undergoes surgery on a knee injury Porto’s Cameroon striker Vincent Aboubakar faces a long spell on the sidelines after undergoing surgery on a knee injury.

The 26-year-old ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during the Portuguese champions’ 1-0 win over Tondela on Friday.

Porto confirmed the surgery, which he had on Saturday, had gone successfully.

He will now miss his country’s 2019 Nations Cup qualifying group fixtures in October and November.

Aboubakar also faces a race against time to be fit for next year’s Africa Cup of Nations to be staged on home soil next

year.

“Vincent Aboubakar was operated on by Professor José Carlos Noronha’s team, following a complete rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament and internal lateral ligament of the left knee,” Porto said on their website.

“The surgery was successful and the forward will be discharged in the coming days to start his rehabilitation process,” the statement added.

Aboubakar was the hero as Cameroon came from behind to beat Egypt 2-1 and seal a fifth Africa Cup of Nations title in February 2017.

The absence of Aboubakar, a key figure in Porto’s first league

title triumph in five years last season with 15 goals, is a major blow for the Portuguese side who face Turkish club Galatasaray in the Champions League on Wednesday.

Abdullahi Biffo targets Aiteo Cup glory with Katsina United A proud coach Abdullahi Biffo has said that the target now is for Katsina United to win this year’s Aiteo Cup after they advanced to the quarterfinal of the cup competition.

Today Katsina United upstaged Plateau United 1-0 in a final Group A match to go through to the knockout stage of the competition.

“Our target is to win the Aiteo Cup because we wish to

play on the continent next year,” coach Biffo said.

“We do not fear any team and we are ready for the challenge ahead.”

Biffo has said his team went for broke against Plateau United in the second half because they needed a win to stay alive in the cup competition.

“Nobody gave us a chance, we were the underdogs against the NPFL champions Plateau United,” he said.

“Plateau United just needed a draw and they tried to frustrate us, they were very comfortable when the scores were 0-0.

“We mounted a lot of pressure in the second half and it eventually paid off.

“We got the goal at the right time, just seven minutes to the end of the match.

“I am proud of the entire team who fought back from the loss to Enyimba to go past the group stage.”

Kenya shows no signs of operating an “institutionalised” doping system, says a World AntiDoping Agency report after a twoyear study.

Wada launched an investigation into widespread doping in Kenya in December 2016, focused on distance running.

It found that 138 Kenyan athletes had tested positive for banned substances, 113 of them in competition, between 2004 and 1 August this year.

But Wada said there is “no evidence of an institutionalised system”.

In a report released on Thursday, it said: “The doping practices of Kenyan athletes are unsophisticated, opportunistic, and uncoordinated.

“Doping in Kenya is drastically different from other doping structures discovered elsewhere in the world.”

Wada reinstated Russia’s antidoping agency on 21 September, ending a three-year suspension that followed a major scandal over alleged state-sponsored doping.

A Wada-approved anti-doping laboratory was established in the Kenyan capital Nairobi in August.

Several recent high-profile doping cases have involved Kenyan athletes.

Former Olympic 1500m champion Asbel Kiprop tested positive for banned blood-boosting agent EPO in an out-of-competition test in November 2017.

The 29-year-old denies wrongdoing but said in June he had given up

trying to prove his innocence.

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said last month that Kipyegon Bett, who won 800m bronze at the 2017 World Championships in London, had tested positive for EPO, having previously been provisionally suspended from competition for “refusing or failing to submit” to a drugs test.

Kenyan-born Bahrain runner Ruth Jebet, the current steeplechase Olympic champion and world record holder, is also facing disciplinary action for alleged doping offences.

Wada’s report found the most abused substances were the steroid nandrolone and EPO, and that medical personnel were sometimes involved in helping athletes dope.

“Some local medical practitioners and quasi-medical personnel are unaware and/or wilfully blind to their role in facilitating the access of athletes

and their entourage to prohibited substances,” the report said.

Kenya, a major force in middle and long-distance running, missed two deadlines in 2016 to prove to Wada that it was tackling cheating in athletics, following a series of positive drug tests and allegations of corruption.

The country was declared in breach of global anti-doping rules by Wada in May 2016 and threatened with sanctions, leaving Kenyan athletes at risk of missing the Rio Olympics.

However, Kenya’s antidoping agency was removed from the “non-compliant” list shortly before the Games, after Wada said anti-doping legislation introduced by Kenya’s parliament had brought the country in line with the 2015 World Anti-Doping code.

Kenyan athletes won 13 medals in Rio – six gold, six silver and one bronze.

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