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Fraudulent businessman meets his waterloo in Borno Jailed 1 year for tricking his victim

Andrew Orolua, Abuja A fraudulent businessman, one Abdulateef Audu, who believed he could take advantage of the prevailing economic situation to cheat others has met his waterloo as Borno State High Court in

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Maiduguri sentenced him to one year imprison. Audu, sometime in May 2018 deceived his victim, Awana Rijiya, into parting with the sum of N13, 000.000 in the guise that he had foodstuffs to sell, but surprisingly on Continued on page 5

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Says ex-VP not qualified to have stood for Feb 23 poll Urges tribunal to void 11.1m votes recorded in favour of Atiku, PDP

Andrew Orolua, Abuja The ruling party All Progressives Congress (APC) and winner of the February 23, 2019 Presidential Election, has told the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja that the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in that poll, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, is not a Nigerian and therefore not qualified to have stood for the election. The party claimed that the former Vice President is a Cameroonian and not a Nigerian citizen and his petition against President Muhammadu Buhari, its own candidate, should be dismissed for lacking in merit. In a reply to the petition filed by Atiku and the PDP in which the petitioners are seeking for declaration as the lawful winner of the presidential poll, the APC said that the 11.1 million votes recorded in favour of the two petitioners should be voided

as wasted vote by the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal. The APCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reply to the petition, filed by its lead counsel, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), faulted the candidacy of Atiku in the election, insisting that as a Cameroonian, he ought not to have taken part in the presidential poll of Nigeria in the first instance. The party averred that Atiku was born on November 25, 1946 in Jada, Adamawa, in Northern Cameroon and is therefore a citizen of Cameroon and not a Nigerian by birth. Going down memory lane, APC claimed that prior to 1919, Cameroon was being administered by Germany and that following the defeat of Germany in World War 1, which end in 1918, Cameroon became part of a League of Nations mandate territory which consisted of French Cameroon and British Cameroon in 1919. CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

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Buhari departs Abuja for security Short News N’East APC spokespersons endorse meeting in Chad Mathew Dadiya, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja this Saturday for N’Djamena, capital of Chad Republic to participate in the extraordinary session of the Conference of Heads of State and Government of the Community of Sahel-Saharan States, CEN-SAD. Created by the treaty of Tripoli on February 4, 1998 with six founding members, Nigeria joined the current 29-member regional economic community in 2001. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, on Friday, stated that President Buhari and other regional leaders will join their host and current Chairperson of CEN-SAD conference, President Idriss Deby to deliberate among others on political

and security issues, state of peace and ways to address multifaceted threats in CEN-SAD area, especially Boko Haram and refugees and make a declaration on the entry into force of CEN-SAD revised treaty intended to fast track the realization of the objectives of the body. CEN-SAD seeks mainly to create a free trade area in Africa, strengthen peace, security and stability, and achieve global economic and social development of its members. Delegations from 22 membernations are expected at the extraordinary meeting of CEN-SAD holding on Saturday at the Radisson Blu Hotel, N’Djamena. During the opening session of the conference, special awards will be given to heads of state and military contingents in Mali, Sudan, Somalia, Central African Republic and in the Lake Chad Basin. President Buhari will be

accompanied to the meeting by Governors Kashim Shettima, Akinwunmi Ambode and Adegboyega Oyetola of Borno, Lagos and Osun states respectively. Others include, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama; Minister of Interior, Lt-Gen Adulrahman Danbazau (rtd); Minister of Defence, BrigGen Mansur Dan Ali (rtd); National Security Adviser, MajGen. Mohammed Monguno (rtd); Director-General, National Intelligence Agency, Ambassador Ahmed Rufai Abubakar; Comptroller-General of Immigration, Mohammed Babandede and the Federal Commissioner for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, Sadiya Umar Farouq. The President will return to the country at the end of the conference today.

Rep. Onyejeocha as speaker

The forum of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Public Relations Officers in the North-East, says it supports the South-East’s quest to shift the leadership of the House of Representatives to the zone. Coordinator of the forum, Mr. Aaron Artimas, disclosed this at a news conference on Friday in Abuja. Artimas said the forum was therefore, supporting the endorsement of Rep. Nkeiruka Onyejeocha as speaker of the 9th House of Representatives by the South-East APC public relations officers. He said that Rep. Onyejeocha, a four-time member of the House of Representatives, represents many shades of national opinion, especially gender issues, insisting that with her rich political background and an effective legislator, she was eminently qualified to represent the South-East and to serve the country. However, Artimas said that while the policy remains a political decision, the forum believes that the ultimate decision to this effect remains a function of members of the National Assembly. “As party officials, we are not opposed to the presumptive position taken by the national leadership of our party, but we strongly believe that no decision is exhaustive or final, “he said.

HIV/AIDS: FG to remove impediments on access to treatment Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja In its bid to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS in the country, the federal government on Friday reaffirmed its commitment to remove all impediments to access to HIV and AIDS interventions aimed at halting the spread of infection in Nigeria. Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, who made this known in Abuja during the dissemination meeting of Alere HIV Combo Rapid Test Kit 2018 Evaluation Report and inauguration of operational guidelines for HIV self-testing in Nigeria, said that it has become necessary for the government to establish the link between testing and treatment. According to Adewole, the goal could be achieved only when all the barriers and charges relating to the condition is successfully removed. “All those charges must disappear. Whatever names we call it, we need to remove them; if we do not remove them when people tested positive they may find it difficult to move forward toward treatment. “There is going to be a meeting today to look at how to re-strategize it and go beyond the rhetoric of banning service charges. We are working on modalities to empower civil society organizations and people living with HIV and AIDS to act as monitors so that where these service charges were being collected they (People Living with HIV and AIDS) will act as feedback mechanism.

NDE gives empowerment materials to 500 unemployed persons Joseph Inokotong, Abuja

L-R: Group Human Resources Director, Chanrai Summit Group, Mr. Victor Adebayo; Lagos State Governor-elect, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Founder/Convener, 2019 HREA summit, Mrs. Erefa Coker, during the 2019 summit on HR Expo Art of Employees Engagement, in Lagos..

FRSC is entitled to bear arms, declares SGF Joseph Inokotong, Abuja

Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr. Boss Mustapha, has said that the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) personnel are entitled to carry arms and ammunition in performance of their duties. The SGF said this at the inauguration of 74 newly acquired FRSC operational vehicles and three ambulances in Abuja on Friday. Mustapha said that “Section 19 of the FRSC (Establishment) Act, 2007, stipulates that personnel of the commission, who are exposed to high risk in the enforcement of the provisions of this Act shall have same powers, authorities and privileges, including power to bear arms.” He pointed out that the law was very clear about the amendment Act of the FRSC allowing the corps to be in possession of arms, maintaining that “by the time it is assented to by the President, it will allow officers and men of the corps to not only protect themselves, but to also protect the citizens who ply the roads every day. “With the kidnappings on the roads, we actually need more people on the roads

who can assist the citizens protect lives and property.” He said that the federal executive council had approved the procurement of critical operational equipment to further empower the FRSC in its functions of safe-guarding lives. Mustapha said that “we are once again reminded of the commitment of the federal government to ensure the safety and security of all Nigerians. “It is also on record that the policy thrust of this administration toward ensuring security, accelerated economic growth and the plugging of conduits for economic leakages is targeted at building an inclusive social system.” He said that government was investing in all areas designed to promote effective and efficient transportation system and as such embarked on massive road construction and rehabilitation projects nationwide. He noted that with the establishment of FRSC in 1988, Nigeria’s profile in road safety administration and traffic management had continued to record enviable improvements. Mustapha observed that that the procurement processes for the acquisition of the vehicles complied strictly with provisions of the Public Procurement Act.

He said “the choice of Innoson IVM brand of vehicles is equally commendable as it conforms to the ideals and dictates of Presidential Executive Order 3 on support for local content in public procurement. The FRSC Corps Marshal, Mr. Boboye Oyeyemi, in his speech at the event, said that no nation can achieve full benefits of road travels without the roads being safe for use. “Each time the FRSC injects more vehicles into its fleet, its operational prowess is enhanced. It is no gainsaying then that the corps’ area of coverage will be boosted further with these new vehicles and with its multiplier advantage,” he added. The corps marshal said that with improved visibility, enlightenment and other outreaches, the FRSC and the public were continually coming together to prevent road traffic infractions. He said that with the inauguration of the vehicles, the full compliments and benefits of road transport was gradually being realized in the country, disclosing that already, management has approved the establishment of 12 unit commands and 10 out-posts across the six geo-political zones where some of the vehicles are likely to be deployed.

The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) said it distributed empowerment materials to 500 of the 1, 400 unemployed persons in Taraba state trained in cosmetology in 2018. Director General of NDE, Dr. Nasir’s Argungu, who gave out the materials to beneficiaries in Jalingo on Friday, noted that the NDE was poised to create employment opportunities for teeming unemployed persons for a better society. Dr. Argungu, who was represented by the Taraba Coordinator of NDE, Alh. Aderemi Adebisi said “the aim of our intervention is to assist graduates of various schemes to establish their own businesses and workshops. “NDE has for over three decades undertaken a wide variety of employment promotion and poverty reduction activities and has positioned itself to play a dominant role in the federal government’s efforts at redressing unemployment. “The directorate has adopted pragmatic employment promotion programmes which are anchored on training people for skills acquisition and promotion of public work programmes using labour intensive techniques”. He urged the beneficiaries to make maximum use of the materials given to them to change their lives for the better.

Court strikes out Shittu’s NYSC certificate suit

Justice P.I. Ajoku of a Federal High Court in Ibadan, on Friday, struck out a suit filed the Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, against the All Progressives Congress (APC) for excluding his name from the list of gubernatorial aspirants in the March 9 General Election over his inability to present his NYSC certificate. Shittu, who was screened out of the APC governorship primaries in Oyo State for not having the mandatory NYSC certificate, filed the suit marked FHC/IB/CS/111/2018. In her ruling, Ajoku said that the case was struck out the due to the fact that Shittu did not file the case within the time stipulated by law, declaring that “I must first consider the provision of Section 285 of the constitution that makes it mandatory for all pre-election matters to be filed within 14 days of occurrence. “This particular case was not filed within 14 days, but outside the date. Therefore, I will not bother going into the merit of the case. Haven’t failed to satisfy the dictates of the constitution, the matter is hereby, struck out,” the judge ruled. Reacting to the ruling, the defence counsel, Mr. Adebayo Ojo, who was the former Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Oyo State said that the law has taken it due course. “The judge acted by the 1999 constitution and it is a victory for democracy,” Ojo said. The plaintiff’s counsel, Mr. Abdulhakeem Mustafa, (SAN) had tendered a 38paragraph affidavit and 13 exhibits to support his claims.

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BBOG demands missing persons’ data Short News remands “Okada rider’ for allegedly base at Chibok girls’ 5th anniversary Court killing passenger

The #BringBackOurGirls (BBOG) movement on Friday in Lagos renewed its call for the federal government to launch a national missing persons’ data base. It made this demand at the commencement of a three-day global event to mark the 5th anniversary of the Chibok school girls’ abduction by the dreaded terrorist group, Boko Haram. The advocacy group is marking the anniversary simultaneously in Lagos and Abuja in Nigeria, London in the United Kingdom as well as New York and Washington DC in America. The girls, 276 of them were kidnapped from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok in Borno state, on the night of April 14, 2014, making this Sunday, the fifth anniversary of their abduction. 112 of the girls are yet to be captured while others, including Leah Sharibu from Dapchi in Yobe state are also being held captive. Tens of BBOG members kicked off the anniversary programme with an advocacy march

from the Falomo Roundabout in Ikoyi through Osborne Road to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) office and back. The team, including a former President of the Civil Liberties Organization (CLO), Ayo Obe and executive director for Enough is Enough Nigeria (EiE), Yemi Adamolekun, among others, presented their demands to UNICEF through a letter. According to the body, it would not relent in its advocacy and strident demands for the rescue of the school children and other unfortunate Nigerians from captivity. “We also demand justice for the slain, resettlement and rehabilitation for people displaced by the violence, safe schools and the launch of the national missing persons’ register,” the group demanded. #BBOG reminded the UNICEF of its focus on promoting the rights of children in Nigeria and asked the international organization to “join us in the call on national, regional and global influencers and authorities to support and pressure the

Nigerian government to bring the nightmare of school abductions, violent extremism and insecurity to an end. “Beyond your work as an organization, you have also been a victim as your employee has been in captivity for over 14 months.” The anniversary programme continues today with BBOG sit outs at Falomo Roundabout and at 64, Adewale Adenuga Street, Orilowo Bus Stop via Binta International School, Ejigbo, Lagos. The activities will come to a climax tomorrow with an interfaith vigil at Falomo Roundabout, Ikoyi between 5pm and 7pm. Also, tomorrow in London, a panel of discussants will consider the topic: “#BlackLivesMatter and the #BringBackOurGirls movement: Online struggle for offline justice.” The event will hold between 4pm and 7pm at The Africa Centre, 66 Great Suffolk Street, London SE1 while in New York, the event will be marked with an overnight vigil at the Nigerian Embassy from 10pm tomorrow and 10am on Monday.

An Ilorin Magistrate Court on Friday remanded a commercial motorcyclist, Umar Kareya, in prison for allegedly killing a passenger over a disputed N200 transport fare. The Magistrate, Mrs. Jumoke Bello, who did not take the plea of the defendant due to lack of jurisdiction, ordered that he be remanded in Oke-Kura Prison, Ilorin and adjourned the case until April 17 for further mention. Earlier, the prosecution counsel, Sgt. Roda Kayode, informed the court that the accused picked up his victim, a yet-to-be-identified man, on March 23 from Labe-Labe to Fumuni Market via Bani in Baruteen Local Government Area of Kwara state. Kayode said that on the way, a fight broke out over the correct transport fare. In the process, she said, the defendant attacked the passenger with a cutlass, causing him serious injuries which ultimately led to his untimely death. The defendant she added, was apprehended at the scene of the crime following a tip off. She prayed the court to remand the defendant in prison, pending the completion of police investigation.

Boy, 14, drowns in stagnant pool in Kano

A 14- year-old boy, Huzaifa Abdulrashid, has drowned while bathing in a stagnant pool called at Gwarzo Road in Gwale Local Government Area of Kano state. Spokesman of the Kano state Fire Service, Mr. Saidu Mohammed, who confirmed the death, said the incident happened on Friday morning when the deceased went to take his bath. “We received a distress call today from one Malam Habibu Ibrahim at about 07:35 a.m. that Abdulrashid’s body was found floating in the water. On receiving the information, we quickly sent our rescue team to the scene at about 07:43a.m. “Abdulrashid was found dead and his corpse was handed over to the Ward Head of Dandago, Alhaji Abubakar Sani,’’ he said. Mohammed advised the general public to be more careful when bathing in open water, revealing that there have been frequent deaths through drowning since the commencement of the heat season in Kano over a month ago.

9th NASS will rise above political, religious, ethnic divides – Ekweremadu

The representative of the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, the Director Human Resources Management, Ajibola Ibrahim, delivering a keynote address during a-2 day Zonal Sensitization Workshop on Resolving Trade Disputes and Seeking Redress for Labour Injustice in Nigeria at Maraba, Nasarawa State.

Umahi suspends auditor-general, others over communal crisis

Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi state on Friday suspended the state AuditorGeneral, Mr. Innocent Nwida from office over the latest communal crisis rocking the state. The governor also suspended other elected and appointed office holders from Igbeagu Community in the Izzi Local Government Area of the state because of the crisis. It would be recalled that on April 9, Umahi had suspended the chairmen of Ikwo and Abakaliki Local Government Councils and all elected and appointed office holders from Enyibichiri in Ikwo and Enyigba in Abakaliki over a communal clash. Commissioner for Border, Peace and Internal Security, Dr. Kenneth Ugbala, announced the suspension of the officials while addressing newsmen after the governor’s meeting with people from Igbeagu community involved in a boundary dispute with Ukele community in Cross River state. Ugbala noted that the suspension which took immediate effect would elapse when

peace returned to the communities. “The affected persons, include the Auditor-General of the state, Innocent Nwida; Project Coordinator of the FADAMA 3 programme, Mr. Cletus Nwakpu and a traditional ruler, Ogbonnaya Ukwa, among other political office holders. “The issue of whether the governor has the constitutional right to suspend the elected officers does not arise because they are constitutionally mandated to protect the lives and property of their people. “However, when an elected officer fails to perform this function, he has violated the constitution and should either resign, be suspended or charged to court. The courts would interpret such issues further and we are expecting such situations with this decision taken,” Ugbala said. The commissioner berated the National Boundary Commission (NBC) for its inability to permanently resolve boundary disputes in the state, including others in several parts of the state.

“We sometimes doubt the sincerity of the federal government in settling such crisis and view the NBC as a toothless bulldog. It has made several visits to the disputed areas even before the inception of the present administration but no decision has been made. “It is not our duty to demarcate the boundaries and the state government has attended all meetings convened by the NBC, being always disposed to peace. We urge the commission to live up to its responsibilities because no land is worth the lives of the citizens. “The commission only makes ‘urban carol’ visits to the areas whenever there are clashes and we urge the media to mandate it to perform its duties,” he stated, adding that the governor would visit the affected areas today to assess the extent of damage and find a permanent solution to the crisis. “Stakeholders from the areas are enjoined to enlighten their people on ways of ensuring peace as the government will also look into issues concerning internally displaced persons,” he said.

Deputy Senate President, Sen. Ike Ekweremadu, has assured that the 9th National Assembly will rise above political, religious, and ethnic divides to address the myriads of challenges facing the people. Ekweremadu made this known in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Mr. Uche Anichukwu on Friday. According to the statement, the deputy Senate President spoke during the dinner to mark the end of the orientation programme organized for 9th National Assembly members-elect, describing the National Assembly as a microcosm of Nigeria. He stressed that bringing together the members-elect from across the country had not only helped them to garner basic legislative knowledge, but familiarize with one another and better appreciate the peculiar challenges faced by various parts of the country. “After elections comes the onerous business of governance and I am greatly encouraged by the enthusiasm and determination of distinguished senators and honourable members-elect to rise above narrow politics. “It gladdens the heart that members-elect are aware that once swornin as senators and honourable members, we are bound by our oath of office and rules, to always act in the overall interest of the sovereignty, integrity, solidarity, well-being and prosperity of Nigeria.

How Omatsuli, co-defendant moved over N1bn NDDC funds to private accounts - Witness Andrew Orolua, Abuja A prosecution witness, Soridei Akene, in the ongoing trial of Tuoyo Omatsuli, a former Executive Director on Projects, Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, and Francis Momoh, on Friday, narrated to Justice Saliu Seidu of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos how over N1 billion was moved from the Commission to some private companies belonging to the defendants and other individuals. The defendants, who were charged alongside their companies, Don Parker Properties Limited and Building Associates Limited respectively, were arraigned on November 10, 2018 on a 45-count charge bordering on conspiracy and money laundering to the tune of N3,645,000,000. The defendants pleaded “not guilty” to the charges preferred against them and were subsequently granted bail on November 16, 2018 in the sum of N100 million each with two sureties in like sum. At Friday’s proceedings, Akene, a Compliance Officer with Heritage Bank Plc, told the court that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, sometime in January, 2015, requested him to furnish it with the account opening documents and statements of accounts of four companies - College Pro Technology, Asiladrine Global Consultancy, Human Oil and Gas Limited and Starline Consultancy Services Limited, which he did.

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N450m alleged fraud: i’m innocent Short News Group condemns unabated killings Belgore says in northern states Peter Fowoyo, Lagos

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr. Dele Belgore, on Friday told a Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos that he was innocent of the N450 million fraud charge brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Belgore and a former Minister of Planning, Professor Abubakar Sulaiman are currently standing trial before the court on a 9-count charge over alleged N450 million fraud. He said the anti graft agency knew those who committed the offence pressed against him, but freed them, and filed charge against him who did not benefit from the N450 million largesse. At yesterday’s proceedings, Belgore who was the campaign coordinator of the reelection bid of former President Goodluck Jonathan in Kwara State concluded his testimony in defence of the allegation. Led in evidence by his lawyer, Ebun

Shofunde (SAN), the defendant denied all the 9 -count charge bordering on the alleged offence pressed against him by the commission. Belgore told the court that in his statement he made at EFCC, he gave detailed information to the commission about who took possession, disbursed and used the N450 million which was the subject of the charge against him but the commission failed to pursue the culprits. According to him, while he was being investigated by the EFCC on the alleged offence, he gave account of the role he played and neither did he admitted orally to have committed the offence nor did he made any statement to admit that he was guilty of the offence. “I denied all the 9 court charge against me, I have never made any payment to all the names mentioned in the charge, in order to assist the investigators, I gave them detail information on who took possession of the fund how it was disbursed and used, I didn’t

benefits from the funds”, he told the court. Belgore had earlier told the court that the N450 million which was set aside as campaign fund for the re-election of former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 was from series of fund raising activities done by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He also denied claims that the money was from a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke. Belgore said throughout his tenure as the campaign coordinator of the reelection bid of former President Goodluck Jonathan in Kwara state, he had no dealings with Mrs. Diezani and that he was not aware that the N450 million he signed for in 2015 came from her. He added that claims by two EFCC investigators that the money was part of the N23 billion allegedly collected by Mrs. Diezani from three oil marketers; Northern Belt Ltd, Actus Integrated Ltd, Midwestern Company and one, Mr. Leno Laitan, ahead of the 2015 general elections, were untrue.

Mathew Dadiya, Abuja Berom Youth Moulders-association (BYM), a sociocultural group and umbrella body of the Berom Youths has condemned the continuous killings in zamfara State and other parts of Nigeria. Rwas Pam Dung Gyang, National Publicity Secretary, on Friday said that the entire Berom youths are saddened and upset with the spate of unwanted and indiscriminate killings of innocent lives and the destruction of property, especially the bloodbath in Zamfara, Kaduna,Benue and Katsina States. According to the group, these killings are not just inhuman but very unfortunate, at a time when most developing countries like Rwanda that had similar experiences in the past are constantly in touch with the reality and is poised to sustain the peace in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide. The group therefore, called on the Federal Government to rise up to its constitutional responsibility of defending the lives and properties of citizens. This, the Berom Youth notes, can only be possible “if the fight against criminality is objective’’. “The Government should exert the political will needed to apprehend and prosecute criminal elements whose activities have made peace elusive.

Gov Abubakar, APC file petition against Governor - elect, Bala Mohammed Samuel Luka, Bauchi

L-R: Lagos State Deputy Governor-elect, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat; National Leader, All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Governorelect, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, after the collection of Certificate of return to the Lagos State governor-elect and his deputy, in Lagos.

Court grants Ex- SMEDAN DG N30m bail Andrew Orolua, Abuja The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday admitted to bail former Director General of Small and Medium Enterprise and Development Agency (SMEDAN), Bature Umar Masari in the sum of N30 million and one surety in like sum. The surety must however be an owner of landed property in Federal Capital Territory (FCT), and he must be a residence of the territory while the said property would be verified as condition for perfecting the bail. The ex-SMEDAN boss was on Wednesday this week, arraigned by the EFCC on a 17count charge of alleged money laundering. This followed Masari alleged involvement in N107.7million money laundering scam which the anti graft agency said he illegally earned from proceeds of gratification. When the charge was read to Masari, he pleaded not guilty while his lawyer, Mahmud. Magaji (SAN), urged the court to admit his client to bail.

Justice Okon Abang in his ruling on the oral bail application moved by Magaji (SAN), held that the offences upon which the defendant was charged before the court are bailable offences., Justice Abang noted that the granting of bail to a defendant is at the discretion of court, therefore he relied on the provisions of sections 35 and 36 of the 1999 constitution and sections 162 and 163 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015 in admitting the defendant to bail. The judge who upheld the argument of the defence counsel also noted that the paramount thing to consider in granting bail is to ensure that the defendant will continue to attend court to stand his trial. “It is in the light of these that I am inclined to grant the application for bail. The defendant is hereby admitted to bail in the sum of N30 million with one surety in the like sum.” Justice Abang however ruled that the defendant must provide a surety. “The surety must be a residence in Abuja and owner of a landed property within the FCT with a Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) which must

be verified by the relevant agencies. “The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in company of a police officer should confirm the residence of the surety.” The court further ordered that the surety must deposed to an affidavit of means and undertake to forfeit the bail bond. On the part of the defendant, Justice Abang ordered that he must deposit his International passport with the registrar of the court or a letter from the Nigerian Immigration Service, if he does not have an International passport. On Wednesday when the arraignment took place, counsel to the defenfant, Magaji, by way of oral application, argued that his client is entitled to bail and urged the court to grant him temporary freedom. However, the prosecution counsel, Ekele Ihenacho, opposed the oral application by the senior advocate. According to the prosecution counsel, there is the need for the senior advocate to place material facts on behalf of his client before the court, saying that the development will enable the judge to have an informed opinion on the matter.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) and its guber candidate, Governor Mohammed Abubakar have filed a suit at the Election Petition Tribunal challenging the election of the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Bala Mohammed Abdulkadir as the Governor of Bauchi State. The suit was filed by the Bauchi State Chapter of the APC at the Tribunal on Friday according to the Bauchi State APC Chairman, Uba Ahmed Nana, is seeking justice from the tribunal. “We are here to to file a suit on behalf of the APC challenging the results of the Governorship election in Bauchi State held some weeks ago. What we want is Justice, as always, from the Court because we know that the Court will do just that,” Nana said. It was widely reported that Governor Abubakar, following the declaration of Bala Mohammed as the Governor-elect, conceded defeat and congratulated him. But after spending over one week in Abuja lobbying and making consultations in the Presidency and the national leadership of the APC, Governor Abubakar made a U-turn and said that his party has agreed to go to court to reclaim his mandate from the PDP.

NNPC urges Nigerians to disregard rumours of an impending scarcity The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has urged Nigerians to disregard rumours of an impending scarcity of petrol in the country. In a statement issued by the NNPC spokesman, Ndu Ughamadu, the corporation said that such rumours were “tales fabricated by mischief makers with intent to create undue panic in the prevailing sanity in the fuel supply and distribution matrix across the country”. “The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has once again appealed to Nigerians to disregard trending social media report of an impending fuel scarcity due to purported refusal by some oil marketers to lift products from depots,” the statement read. The state oil firm reassured Nigerians that it already has an ample stock of over one billion litres of petrol, with over two billion litres secured for April through imports of 48 vessels with each having a capacity of 50 million litres of petrol. It said there was “no need for panic buying or hoarding of petroleum products in anticipation of a phantom scarcity.”

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Increase sensitisation on NECO registration, FG tasks stakeholders Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja The Federal Ministry of Education has called on states, local governments and religious organizations to embark on intensive sensitization in order to bring more pupils on board in its NECO examination. Speaking during the 12th Edition of the Ministerial Press Briefing on the OSC Phenomenon in Abuja on Friday, the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu also revealed that the number of Out-of-School (OSC) children in the country has reduced from 13.2 million to 10.2million, following various interventions of the government and development partners. Represented by the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Mr Sonny Echono, Adamu reaffirmed identified financial incapacitation, violent conflicts and ignorance on the part

of parents/guardians as factors responsible for the growing rate of out of school children in the country. Adamu lamented that some states had as low as 200 applicants for the 2019 examinations. He added that so far, 69,568 candidates had registered for the 2019 NECO examinations into unity schools while insisting that the ministry hope to meet the target of 80,000 applicants. The National Examination Council (NECO) is responsible for the conduct of the National Common Entrance Examination into unity schools across the country; candidates that registered in the 2018 exercise stood at 71,294 as against 80,421 in 2017. “National Common Entrance Examination (NCEE) originally billed to hold tomorrow Saturday, 13th April, 2019 has been postponed by two weeks, the new date for the examination is now Saturday, 27th April, 2019.

“Regrettable as it were, the postponement has become necessary due to request from over seven states of the Federation who have asked for an extension of time to enable them to enrol more candidates. “Some of the states have less than 200 applicants enrolled for the examination and as such may not be able to fill their quota if not given the opportunity to enrol more candidates. “Records available to me from NECO indicate that only 69,568 candidates had registered to sit for the examination, hence, the need for an extension of time for more registration,’’ he said. Adamu said that the website for the registration would be closed on April 25. He added that this would enable candidates register on the day of the examination, provided they have made payment and obtained their PIN on or before closing date.

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Short News UTME: Professor’ arrested in Abuja for aiding daughter to cheat during examination Operatives of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have arrested a Self-acclaimed professor simply identified as Jide after he was caught assisting his daughter during the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination in the Jabi area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Jide was alleged to have sneaked into a Computer-Based Test centre in Jabi to help his daughter but he was later arrested by operatives and was now in custody. Confirming the development, JAMB Head of Information and Public Affairs, Dr Fabian Benjamin said that the NSCDC would go on with Jide’s prosecution at the end of its investigations. He said, “In Brix Academy in Jabi, a man penetrated the system, broke all security barriers, went into the examination hall and assisted his daughter. When arrested, he claimed to be a professor and also the owner of a non-governmental organisation. He has been picked up and he is with the security operatives. We believe that in no distant time, he will be prosecuted.

UTME: JAMB assures candidates resolving all challenges Mr Sola Kuye, Coordinator of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Ibadan Zonal Office has assured that all registered candidates would write the 2019 University Tertiary Matriculation Examination in spite of some challenges currently being experienced. Speaking while assessing the conduct of the examination in Oyo State on Friday, Kuye said that JAMB is working tirelessly to resolve the challenges arising from the conduct of the examination in some centres. “It’s been so far so good. We thank God that with little issues here and there; we are on top of the game as we are resolving the issues. It is going fine today, being the second day of the examination.”Generally, we have been having the challenges of power; generators having issues in at least two centres now. “However, they have been trying to overcome it using alternative or backup power. “Where we couldn’t, the candidates were moved to a spare centre, which is a standby centre to write their exam,” Kuye said. He added that there was no issue with the internet, but only an intermittent system breakdown.

Daura LG disburses N1.045m as medical, educational support

Cross section of the experts and other participants during the 12th Steering Committee & Experts Meeting for Abidjan - Lagos Corridor Highway Development Programme chaired by the Hon. Minister of Power,Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, SAN at the Hotel Sancta Maria, Lome, Togo.

Gov Bugudu recruits 2000 teachers in Kebbi Applauds UNICEF cash transfer program in the State

Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja In his bid to meet up with the increase rate of children enrolment in school, Kebbi State Governor, Abubakar Bagudu has approved the recruitment of two thousand qualified secondary school teachers across the state. The governor also applauded the United Nation’s Children Fund (UNICEF) for introducing the Cash Transfer Programme (CTP) in the state saying, it has gingered the attendance and retention of children in school. Speaking during an interaction with journalists in Birnin-kebbi, the commissioner of basic and secondary schools education, Alhaji Muhammad Magawata Aliero who is also the chairman recruitment committee said,

the governor gave the approval to recruits one thousand BSC graduate, seven hundred NCE holders and three hundred supporting staff bringing the total of two thousand personnel’s across the twenty LGAs in the state. ‘’I went to all the headquarters and we have finished the recruitment of 2000. We will start giving the offer by tomorrow Insha Allah. We designed a very nice format, where we will give automatic offer to anyone who made ‘A’’. While reiterating his commitment to ensure that the volume of out of school children in the state is low and depleted by the year 2020, the governor revealed that he has identified about 504 almajiri Islamic schools which according to him would be renovated to meet up the

modern standard. ‘’Our hands are on deck to make sure that we sustain the CTP and the feeding programme. I think I told you that Kebbi state spends N280 million on feeding. We have built 40 nomadic schools. ‘’We have identified 504 almajiri Islamic schools. We will make necessary renovation for them and we’ll make sure that we send mathematics and English teachers to them. When we do that, by 2020, our volume of OSC will be very low and depleted. We will be the least in the north. On the control of the border to prevent the influx of hawkers, he said, ‘’we are all the same family and we’ll see what we can do by making arrangements with traditional rulers’’.

Alhaji Abubakar Mashi, Director, Education and Social Services has revealed that Daura Local Government in Katsina State has disbursed the sum of N1.045million as educational and medical assistance to indigent students and sick people requiring medical attention. Addressing a news conference in Daura on Friday, Mashi said that the gesture was to provide succour to the beneficiaries as well as enable them realize their potential in life. According to him, 41 students received cash assistance ranging from N10, 000 to N30, 000, to either pay fees or fund academic research projects. “The council also donated N65, 000 to three Students Union Governments, out of which the Daura Emirate Students Association (DESA), got N20, 000. “The SUG in FCE Bichi, received N25, 000, while that of the School of Health Technology, Daura received N20, 000. Mashi assured Daura residents that the gesture would continue as the scope would soon be expanded to accommodate additional beneficiaries.

Gombe Govt releases N50m nutrition counterpart funding to UNICEF

Gombe State Government has released the sum of N50million to the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) as counterpart funding for the nutrition programme in the state. Mr Ayuba Stephen, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Economic Planning, in Gombe said on Friday that the money was paid to UNICEF account on Wednesday adding that the money was the state government contribution to UNICEF for Ready to Use Therapeutic Food (RTF) for the malnourished children. According to him, release of the fund was part of government commitment even within the limited resources to meet the basic needs of citizens. The fund he added will also go a long way in reducing the rate of malnourished children in the state which he described as alarming.

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Farmers, herders task FG on security in Jos Kingsley Chukwuka, Jos Farmers and herders in Riyom and Barkin Ladi Local Government Areas of Plateau State on Friday tasked the federal government to step up security in their communities even as the raining season sets in. Speaking at the end of a threeday workshop organised by a NonGovernmental Organisation Search for Common Ground (SFCG), participants at the training said to effect a speedy response to crisis situation, security operatives must be ready to react to early warning signs. With the theme “Conflict Transformation, Human Rights

and Dialogue Training” the Project Officer, SFCG, Isiyaku Shuaibu, said the focus of the training is aimed at building the capacity of farmers and herders to respond to key conflict issues, thereby averting conflict threats in communities. Shuiabu said, “As the raining season is approaching, there will be potential conflict between farmers and herders as farmers will be going back to their farms while herders will be seeking for greener pastures to feed their animals. “For this reason we decided to hold this training to bring key stakeholders together to build their capacity in other to respond to any key conflict. “We know that conflict is within us and it is inevitable as we are

constantly living with it but our response to conflict will determine it’s out come”, Shuiabu said. On his part, a Human Right Principal Research Officer, Human Rights Commission Plateau State, Mr. Alumbo Innocent, said farmers and herders should stop taking laws into their hands but must learn to respect the fundamental right to life. Alumbo who is also a facilitator at the workshop, said if people know their rights and respects each other’s right, the society will be better for it. He advised that rather than disrespecting each other’s right to life, people should report conflicts situations to relevant security agencies.

Short News Court remands motorcyclist to prison for killing passenger over N200 fare

A chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ilorin has ordered the remand of Umar Kareya, a commercial motorcyclist, to prison for allegedly killing passenger over N200 transport fare. The court presided over by Magistrate Jumoke Bello, who declined to take the plea of the defendant for lack of jurisdiction, ordered that he be remanded in Oke-kura Prison yard, Ilorin. She adjourned the case until April 17, for further mention. Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Sgt. Roda Kayode, informed the court that the accused picked up his victim, a yet-to-be-identified man, on March 23, from Labe-Labe to Fumuni market via Bani in Baruteen Local Government Area of Kwara. Kayode said that on the way, a fight broke out over transport fare. In the process, she said, the defendant attacked the man with a cutlass, causing him serious injuries, which led to his untimely death.

Bandits kills 24-year-old student in Adamawa

A 24-year-old student have been reportedly killed while an octogenarian and several other people were left injured in an attack carried out by a notorious gang of youths known as Shilla Boys in Adamawa State. Confirming the development on Friday, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Othman Abubakar said that 16 people had so far been arrested. He added that the police would as usual treat the suspects in accordance to the dictates of the law. The Shilla Boys had in Hospital Road area, rounded up on a Computer Science student of the Adamawa State Polytechnic, Emmanuel Hassan, and beat him to death. Emmanuel Hassan, who was described as an easy going, hardworking young man who combined studies with work, is a source of grief to his aged father and other relatives now in mourning at their Post Office area residence in Jimeta.

Police arrest 33 Nigerians in Kenya

L-R: Olu of Ijoko Lemode, HRH. Oba Solomon Sokunbi; Agbedeyi of Orile Agege, HRH. Oba Akeem Ambali; Baale of Mulero Land, High Chief Olaitan Opeifa and the Jagunmolu of Mulero, High Chief Samuel Fakeye during the installation of the High Chief’s in Mulero Land in Lagos.

Police arraigns Taxi driver for striping female passenger naked Doosuur Iwambge, Abuja Mr. Chinedu Ukabu, a commercial taxi driver in the Federal Capital Territory was on Friday arraigned before the Grade 1 Area Court sitting in Karmo for allegedly stripping and assaulting a female passenger in public. Ukaba who was arraigned by the police on a three count charge bordering on criminal force, assault and mischief however pleaded not guilty to all the three counts. During the day’s proceedings, the prosecution, Mrs. Ijeoma Ukagha, told the court that the matter was reported on April 10 at the Utako Police Station

Abuja, by the complainant, Chukwu Chinaza of 294, Owners Occupier Kubwa Abuja. She told the court that on the same date at about 3. 30 p.m. the complainant boarded the defendant’s taxi from Wuse Zone 3 to Berger roundabout but along the way, the driver had a little argument with the defendant. According to Ukagha, on getting to Berger bus stop, Ukabu, with criminal intention, forced the complainant out of the said car and in the process of pushing her from the car, the accused criminally and violently tore the complainant’s cloth valued at N25,000 and stripped her naked in the public. The offence she said contravened

the provisions of Sections 327 and 265 of the Penal Code and further prayed the court to grant her date to open her case against the defendant. The judge, Inuwa Maiwada after listening to the submissions granted the defendant bail in the sum of N25, 000 and one surety in like sum. The Judge also ordered that the surety must be a Grade Level 8 officer in the civil service and must present letter of appointment and current utility bill in his name to the court registrar. Maiwada, who said that the surety must present any valid means of identification as part of the bail condition, adjourned the case till May 15 for hearing.

The police in Kenya have arrested 33 Nigerian for allegedly staying in the country illegally. The men were arrested at Kasarani, a residential area in Nairobi, capital of Kenya, where they had been reportedly staying after arriving on different dates. Speaking to journalists, Peter Kimani, officer commanding police division in charge of sub-counties in Kasanrani, said the suspects were arrested by antinarcotics detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) who were pursuing leads on an incident in which drugs are being sent from Nairobi to others parts of the world. He said another suspect from Eritrea was also arrested in the operation. Kimani said the suspects had been posing illegally as students of International University-Africa (USIU) and Kenyatta University (KU) and operating businesses “with the intention of selling drugs”. The suspects have been taken to Kiambu law courts, near Kiambu police station, as officials process their deportation papers.

Tiwa Savage, Omosexy, Femi Kuti, others to speak at 2019 Cannes Lion Nine Nigerian creative legends including screen diva, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, Afrobeat legend, Femi Kuti and Afropop star, Tiwa Savage are billed to speak at the 2019 Cannes Lion Festival. The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity (formerly the International Advertising Festival) is a global event for those working in creative communications, advertising, and related fields. The five-day festival, incorporating the awarding of the Lions awards, which is considered the largest gathering of the advertising and creative communications industry will hold from June 17 to June 21 Other Nigerian speakers include Steve Babaeko of X2M media, Copywriter, Oje Ojeaga, media personality, Fade Ogunro, marketing expert, Idiaremo Atimomo amongst others.

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Marriage breakups happen in all field not just in Nollywood - Uche Ogbodo Light skinned actress, Uche Ogbodo is no new name in the movie industry as she has carved a niche already for herself in the creative industry via her distinctive role interpretation, and carriage amongst others. In this chat with MUTIAT ALLI, Uche spoke about life as a single mother, and touching story of her past amongst others. Enjoy…

What have been the challenges of been single mother? It has been tough. I never believe I would be a single mother in my life, but I’m a Catholic girl. We preach against abortion and all. Then, when you have a covenant with God that you are going to be a mother and a good wife, that I don’t ever want to break up with my husband when I get married, but things changed. I thought about marrying the father of my child, but the relationship didn’t work. It is unfortunate. This child came as a blessing; maybe God wants me to have this child to teach me a lesson. My parents told me that I am not married and that I should move on with my life, but I was like I think there’s a reason for this child growing in me. I didn’t get pregnant while in other relationships, so why this one? Why now? There’s a reason for this child and I’m keeping her. That’s why I kept her. It hasn’t been easy. What’s next for you, any plans for marriage? I am still positive. I still want to get married. I’m a Catholic girl. I want to be in a relationship where I would be happy, where I would be allowed to live the way I want to. I want to be happy. So, if you want to make me happy, then come on. So there’s no one in your life at the moment? There is actually. But just relationship. We haven’t defined it yet. What led to your decision to work on your body size, criticism?

No, not really. I don’t care about body shammers actually. It’s one of the things that happened in my life year’s back that made take on this step to make myself a better and happier person. I recently had a baby; my baby is 4 years old. Before the baby, I had issues with my Ex. These are life changing events, happening at same time. So, I told myself, that if i want to do what I want to do, I have to lose some weight. Baby weight and all. I had to reorient myself. Bottom line, I am happy. Did you at any point give up? No, I never. The minute I went to the gym, I knew the result I was looking out for. I didn’t think back. Each time I look in the mirror, I see a more beautiful version of myself. I’m happy, I never gave up. I started a movement Body Positive with Uche Ogbodo which is to inspire women to work on themselves. I notice that some women go through a lot and seeing the changes in their bodies, sometimes get them depressed that even contemplate suicide. So, I know they need a push to look better and become happier; I became that push for women. Nobody gave me that push before I hit the gym, but I want to inspire other women to find themselves, that’s how I want to give back to the society. I want to help women see how beautiful they are. Nobody is ugly. About your ex what actually happened? There are parts of life I don’t want go back to because whatever happened in my other life happened for the best. God has a reason for it to happen. I’m happy, that’s all that matters.

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So you don’t think you made a mistake? I am happy, it didn’t work. I’m not an advocate for people staying in a relationship that you not happy in. If you are not happy go away. It is not a do or die affair. You don’t have to die in marriage. If it is no longer convenient for you, walk away. Don’t care what people are going to say, just move on. It’s your life. There are other means of happiness lined up somewhere. So, common move it girl! But you believed in him before you married him? No. I didn’t marry him. I have never been married but the media took me as a married woman. I was never married. I was in a relationship with someone and it lasted about a year and we broke up. We were

engaged to be married. But the minute we said that, everything just dissolved. So, when he left the picture, about a month after, I found out that I was pregnant. I didn’t want to tell anybody about it, I just wanted to think about my life. Should I go back to him because of this pregnancy? Or should I just move on? It me took about 9 months to realise that I don’t want that kind of man in my life. He would drag me back. How involved is he with his daughter now? Well, he hasn’t been involved because initial he said ‘this girl is not pregnant, she wants to get me’. Until, I went to America to have my baby. He wasn’t interested. I wasn’t interested on saying anything to him. Over the years, I’ve been able to take

care of my child alone. I don’t mind. It’s been great. What would you say is the major reason Nollywood actresses barely last long in marriages and even relationships? I don’t think relationship is hard for any Nollywood person to take. I want to believe that we are blessed people. Nollywood exposes you to better opportunity and takes you to greater heights. It gives you exposure that being a businessman or banker won’t give you, so whatever you do, all eyes are on you. And sometimes you are entangled with people that understand you or your job; they expect you to be a super woman. You meet people who don’t compliment you. It happens everywhere though, not just the Entertainers.

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Queen Moremi the Musical takes centre stage in Lagos

Runnjozzy & Laycon flanked by CEO Mr. Jackson Fierce and other label officials during the signing)

Fierce Nation signs two new artistes, ‘Runnjozzy and Laycon’ In a bid to further project the prospect of indigenous Nigerian music; fast rising record label, Fierce Nation has signed their first two acts, Runnjozzy and Laycon. Runnjozzy (real name Joshua Dasabah Peremobowei) is 19year old Afro Pop singer and song writers who hail from Bayelsa state but born and bred in Lagos, Nigeria. After releasing “Sara” in 2018, he got signed to his current label (Fierce Nation) after catching the eye and ears of the boss with his unique sound and amazing talent, getting a bumper deal in January 2019 to be one of Nigeria’s next level music stars. With his recent single ‘Folashade’, Runnjozzy is musically influenced by Davido and hopes that one day, he would get to work with him,

having already performed impressively to a multitude of crowd at the sold-out DMW Industry Nite and couple of music festivals in Nigeria. While Laycon (Agbeleshebioba Massoud Al Khalifah) on the other hand is a Lagos born and bred Hip-hop/Rap artiste who has graced the stage of several events with his strong, energetic performances. One of the ten artists chosen to perform for Unilag at the 2014 Coke Studio Unilag event and a top ten finalists of the 2017 MTV Base LSB challenge amongst others. Currently gearing up to release his first official single with Fierce label titled ‘Any given Monday’ which featured Chinko Ekun & Reminisce; Laycon has a very varied and distinct taste in music that translate to his art. His musical influences include

artistes like Nina Simone, Jay z, James Brown, Andre 3000, Micheal Jackson, King Sunny Ade, Ebenezer Obey, Yussuf Olatunji, Nneka, Gino and IK Dairo. Founded by Jackson Fierce, the new label focuses on investing in indigenous Nigerian music and the arts and the talented individuals that create it. Also believing in creating a collaborative and innovative environment where artistes can thrive and reach their maximum potential. Speaking on the label, Jackson Fierce disclosed that the platform is dedicated to creating world-class content and giving creative minds the platform to thrive as the label equally have strong interests in brand merchandising, events and visual media.

Some awe-inspiring musical performances, laced with thoughtprovoking storytelling, awaits Nigerians this season as this Easter’s edition of Queen Moremi The Musical stage play makes a comeback in Lagos. Slated for the Terra Kulture Arena, Victoria Island, Lagos, prominent personalities in society, royalty, business, politics, theatre and drama have been confirmed to participate in the event, which runs from April 18 to May 5, 2019. His Imperial Majesty, the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, will headline a distinguished audience of traditional and community leaders to the event on April 22, in affirmation of his passion to support women in leadership, as symbolized by the exploits of Queen Moremi over 1,700 years ago. Executive Producers of the event the House of Oduduwa Foundation, Rejevenee and Bolanle AustenPeters Productions - in a statement, said arrangements have been finalized to ensure a breathtaking event. Besides reinforcing the fact that performance is central to human experience, underlining the event is the reenactment of the life and times of Queen Moremi which illustrates the pivotal role of women in societal development and to enable the younger generation, especially women, to recognize and aspire for leadership roles in society, which stood out the Queen in the history and liberation of Ile Ife town. Queen Moremi Ajasoro, it will be recalled, was a courageous, selfless beautiful woman from Ile-Ife. Following incessant raids by a neighboring tribe and with Ife under siege, she took the heroic step of offering herself to be captured by the raiders. The goal was to be taken prisoner and be taken to the land of the marauders for intelligence gathering. The attempt worked as her beauty and intellect enchanted the King of the Ugbo tribe who married her and she became Queen.

Rapper Sasha P floats Music Academy Stories Mutiat Alli Veteran Nigerian hip-hop music star and rapper, Anthonia Alabi, a.k.a Sasha, has just launched a new music academy

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to assist aspiring musicians develop their skills. The 35-year-old rapper, who disclosed this on her instagram handle, sashapofficial said the music academy; tagged “The Hard Knock Series” consists of curate courses and workshops focuses on equipping artistes for the music business. “It is finally here!! I am super excited to announce that the first installment of my new passion project the HardKnockSeries is now LIVE. “The HardKnockSeries” is a music academy with a variety of courses and resources to enable musicians and entertainment enthusiasts acquire the knowledge required to reach their full potential.’’

Artist development is one of the many services offered by Sasha to both Record labels and independent artists. Formerly offered on a retainer ship basis only, The HardKnock Music Academy is an avenue to provide affordable workshops and resources for the up-coming, active artistes or talent that need professional guidance. The hiphop star also offered 10 per cent off for those, who registered before April 10th, while the academy would commence on 27th. The rapper is a lawyer, who began her musical career as a child in Ibadan, before she began musical collaborations and was signed on to eLDee’s Trybe records.

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She learned the secrets of the raiders which the Ife subsequently exploited to achieve victory. Moremi the Musical is a story of love, faith, honour and the ultimate sacrifice. Screen stars are set to take over the stage with their electrifying performance which is known to have fully enthralled the whole of Nigeria the previous season. The Moremi of Yoruba Land, Chief Mrs. Olufunso Amosun says “I know fully well that I am not worthy to hold a candle to the magnanimity of the Queen Moremi heroine being celebrated. I therefore take solace in the belief that promoting the legacies of Queen Moremi provides to the unanimously acknowledge and celebrate all women that believe in and represent core values of womanhood, women that exemplify and promote integrity, dignity, courage, hard work, sacrifice, contentment, justice, humanity and love.” She added, “The purpose and aim of this project is to celebrate women and to proudly showcase our history and project our vibrant rich culture to the entire world; to keep our identity, values and traditions alive especially amongst the youth, our upcoming next generation.” Global Ambassador of Queen Moremi Ajasoro Brand, Princess Aderonke Ademiluyi, said the Moremi concept is a franchise of the House of Oduduwa Foundation and a number of projects were initiated by the Foundation in order to immortalize the legend. “We are dedicated to telling our story and the story of Queen Moremi is about ultimate girl power, a woman who dedicated her life to ensure that her home town of Ile Ife was safe from invaders. She was an epitome of great female leadership as great leaders would always put the love of their people before themselves” says Ademiluyi, adding “that’s why we have requested the phenomenal Bolanle Austen-Peters to give us an outstanding show this Easter.”

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Fuji Music icon, K1 gives back Isaac Oguntoye In what looks like a divine arrangement, Fuji music legend, King Wasiu Ayinde Mashal, popularly known as K1 De Ultimate, has thrown his weight behind Oluwatobi Ilelolawa, the 12-year-old Primary Six pupil, who sketched President Muhammadu Buhari’s image with pen without alteration few days ago. Soon after a national daily published the story of the boy, K1, through his publicist, Kunle Rasheed, reached out to the writer. K1 said he was touched by the story of the boy and offered to sponsor his postprimary education to the university level. The music legend described the boy as a raw talent that must be guided, supported and not allowed to waste. “I was touched when the story was brought to my notice and I see it as one of those things one can do to impact the society. Education is key to success and who knows the boy we are talking about may be a governor or President in the making. He may become another Ben Enwonwu, Bruce Onobrakepya, Wole Soyinka or an international Artist of repute in the future. If the society fails to give him the needed support now, posterity will not forgive us. This is the time to lift a hand and groom a talent for posterity.” Meanwhile, arrangements are being made to introduce the promising artist to his new benefactor and perfect ways through which his mentorship and sponsorship would be handled.

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Gastab Oil boss, Omogbolahan Adigun, hails Comrade Olawale’s appointment as Lagos PTD scribe

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Kemi Nelson resurfaces For sometimes now little or nothing has been heard about the society cum APC woman leader, Chief (Mrs.) Kemi Nelson until recently when she was rumoured to have been lobbying for position after the general election. Meanwhile, contrary to a news report trending on the social media, the South West Zonal Women Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief (Mrs.) Kemi Nelson has denied lobbying for a position in the government of the incoming Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwoolu. The report is entitled; “2019: SanwoOlu in Trouble As Ex-Tinubu, Fashola’s Aides Lobby For Appointments.” It was alleged in the report that, Kemi Nelson, a former Commissioner for Establishment, Training and Job Creation and later for Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation during the administration of former Governor Bola Tinubu, was spotted at Sanwo-Olu’s Ikoyi office, and that the visit “might not be unconnected with a position in the incoming administration.” However, a source close to Mrs. Kemi Nelson revealed that there was no iota of truth in the report and urged members of the public to disregard the allegation. The source stated that Kemi Nelson is currently an Executive Director of a federal parastatal, a ranking member of the APC, a NEC member of the party, and a member of the Governors’ Advisory council in Lagos State, which is the highest decision making body in the government of the state. According to the source, the report, especially where the name of Kemi Nelson was mentioned, was a figment

of the imagination of the writer. “it is common these days for people to write reports and imagine that certain things must have happened and feed members of the public with half truth and even blatant lies. “It is surprising that people could insinuate that someone of the caliber of Kemi Nelson would lobby the incoming government for appointment,” said the source, adding that the report is very laughable. The source stressed that Kemi Nelson is an accomplished politician,

who has continued to soar higher in her duty of serving her state and fatherland to the best of her ability. On why Kemi Nelson’s name was included in such a report, the source said that it was the handiwork of some “mischief makers, who are envious of the humble and enviable achievements of Mrs. Kemi Nelson over the years,” adding that the report would not deter the “revered politician” from contributing her quota to the development of Lagos State and Nigeria as a whole.

The Deputy Chairman 1, of Lagos Zone of Petroleum Tanker Drivers Branch of Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) chieftain, Comrade (Alhaji) Omogbolahan Adigun, has commended the leadership of the Union for appointing Comrade Olawale Afolabi as General Secretary. In a statement signed by the chairman of Gastab Oil & Gas, Alhaji Omogbolahan Adigun, hailed NUPENG for appointing Comrade Olawale Afolabi. He said NUPENG being a purposedriven Union has dispassionately put into cognizance some salient virtues like hardwork, loyalty, competence, and dedication in its mode of appointing people into sensitive offices. “With utmost respect, I found it appropriate to extend my heartfelt congratulations to Comrade Olawale Afolabi on his deserving appointment as the General Secretary of Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) by the National Administrative Council of our great Union. Comrade Afolabi is widely known as a resilient and quintessential unionist, who has been on the labour movement turf for over 20 years.Truly, with his versatility of experience and leadership excellence in NUPENG, particularly in the diligent handling of Education and Training of the rank and file of the Union will make him

provide unique exemplary leadership to trade unionism in general, and also in improving on the achievements of his predecessors, while also engendering the goals and policy thrust of the Union. I am convinced that his vision of making NUPENG the centre of distinction in the world would be achieved.” Comrade Omogbolahan stated further, “Correspondingly, the appointment of Deputy General Secretaries in charge of Administration, Operations and Finance/Account, Comrades Christopher Akpede, Otite Onohwohwo and Anthony Chukwu is also applaudable. This dispassionate intervention will clearly serves as an inspiration to others, having seen people who are offering their best not only being recognized but rewarded for their dedication and productivity.” He said. “While I commend NUPENG for these remarkable steps, it is my desire to as well salute the leadership of Petroleum Tanker Drivers branch of NUPENG (PTD) especially our National Chairman, Comrade (Otunba) Salimon Akanni Oladiti, the Chairman Lagos Zone of PTD, Comrade Olabisi Akinlolu and all our esteemed leaders who are all living witnesses to the numerous transformation that our purpose-driven Union is currently experiencing in its mode of operation and administration,” the statement concluded.

Aliko Dangote’s conviction

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Aliko Dangote does not need introduction especially in the business terrain. But what many people don’t know about the business tycoon is that the African richest man is only rich on paper. Most times according to the prime mover of Dangote Group, he had to convince himself that he was indeed rich. Recently, the Africa’s richest man, said he withdrew $10 million just to look at it and convince himself that he is rich. Speaking at the Mo Ibrahim governance weekend ongoing in Abidjan, Dangote said he knew he was rich on paper but had to convince himself that he was rich. To do this, the multi-billionaire said he drove to a bank, withdrew $10 million, took it home, put it on his bed, looked at it, and returned it back to the bank the following day. “The way it is that when you first start business, your target is to make your first

million. Fine, I did that,” Dangote told Mo Ibrahim. “After a year or so, I realised that I had much more, and I said OK, fine, all these numbers are just written numbers. “One day I went to a bank, and at that time, there were no restrictions, and I wrote a cheque and cashed $10m from the bank and put it in the boot of my vehicle, and I went home and I opened it and I looked at $10m and I said ‘now I believe I have money’.” Dangote added that he took it back to the bank the next day — after his mission was concluded. The Nigerian businessman has been the richest man in Africa for nearly a decade, following the expansion of his cement business, and the change of model to focus on local manufacturing. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Dangote is the 74th richest man in the world as of April 6, and he is valued at $16.4billion.

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Mixed Grill The third edition of ‘Handle It Africa’ set to hold in May Stories by Mutiat Alli Following the success of previous editions, the third edition of ‘Handle It Africa’, Nigeria’s most engaging social media conference, is set to hold in May. In the past two years, Handle It Africa has witnessed a massive turn out of enthusiastic young Nigerians seeking knowledge about social media and how it can be utilized to grow their businesses and build strong personal brands. With over 3,000 participants, the conference holds a track record of meeting expectations of all stakeholders through its panel selection, topical discussions on the use of social media, and exchange of ideas with industry stakeholders. Speakers and panelists from

previous editions include Adebola Williams, Japheth Omojuwa, Daddy Freeze, Bolanle Olukanni, Osagie Alonge, Aliyu Giwa, Otto Orondaam, Toyin Abraham, Kenny Blaq, Lasisi Elenu, Woli Arole, amongst others. The third edition of the conference themed, ‘Social Media: Extending the Frontiers’, will build on and expand the standard that has been set through the years. Leveraging on its previous success, this year’s conference promises to achieve a wider coverage and reach. “Today’s advancement in technology have had a commensurate effect on social media. Trends are leaping in bounds and only those of us who keep up can maximize the benefits of this growth,” said Olufemi Oguntamu, Convener of Handle It Africa and Lead Consultant Penzaarville. “This year, Handle It Africa will

focus on new perspectives to social media. Our endeavour to harness the benefits of social media needs a strategic approach and this edition tackles all the best ways to not only maximize the benefits but also solve attendant problems. We can not afford to miss the chance to change the social media landscape.” Aside from the opportunities to gain fresh knowledge and practical tips on the use of social media for business and personal growth, participants will also have the chance to engage and network with like-minded professionals within the industry in order to create a platform for future collaborations and partnerships. Handle It Africa 3 will take place at 9am on Friday, May 17th, 2019 at the Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos.

Olufemi Oguntamu, Convener of Handle It Africa and Lead Consultant Penzaarville

Enhance cultural crafts and skills with Fourth and Final edition of Bovi ‘Man on Western Education - Nike Okundaye Fire’ holds April 28 In March 2013, ace comic Bovi debuted his one-man standup comedy special, Man on Fire, produced by Flytime Promotions. The show was a colossal success, promoting a second edition which was held in October of 2014, and a third in May of 2017. The comedy special showcased Bovi’s unique style of observational comedy, weaving relatable stories and current affairs into satire. Beyond Nigeria, the comedian took the spirit of good cheer to other cities like Toronto, London, and

New York, where his jokes were met with the same level of delight and enthusiasm. After 6 years, Bovi is ready to put on the biggest edition of the Man on Fire special, for what we anticipate will be the biggest greatest finale of the decade. He is pulling out all the stops and promises this finale will be a show like none before. The fourth and final edition of the Man on Fire franchise will take place on the 28th of April, 2019, at Eko Hotels and Suites.

The award-winning cultural curator, Chief (Mrs.) Nike Okundaye, has encouraged Nigerian youths to enhance their cultural crafts and skills with their various level of education. This statement was made at the Women’s Day edition of Yoruba Lakotun, the cultural renaissance show, which took place at Freedom Park in Lagos recently. According to the renowned artist, “there are a lot of opportunities for people who have an in-depth understanding of the cultural crafts and skills across the globe because the world is currently researching deeply into Africa. We need to start excavating our relegated art works which are currently in high demand in other continents” “In the last 50 years that I have been practicing various creative skills such as painting, making of adire fabrics, stringing of beads and gele tying. These are the skills that I have been teaching people across the globe. At the moment, younger and educated people who have a firm grasp of these skills are now making electronic designs which are very profitable,” she added. As noted by the cultural aficionado and host of the show, Olutayo Irantiola, the event was in celebration of the bravery of African women who have distinguished themselves over the ages through their

L-R: Ade Bakare, Founder, Ade Bakare Couture, UK; Chief Mrs Nike Okundaye, Founder, Nike Art Foundation and Curator General, Nike Art Gallery; Olutayo Irantiola, Atokun, Yoruba Lakotun and Ms Iyabode Aboaba, Chief Operations Officer (COO), Freedom Park during Yoruba Lakotun in commemoration of the International Women’s Day held at Freedom Park recently) professions and they have gained global prominence in their respective fields. In his words, “Chief Mrs. Nike Okundaye has taken her work across the globe, she has earned global recognition within various arts sphere and she has relentless given back to the society by training hundreds of thousands of people who are also contributing meaningful to the world today. She is an epitome of womanism and having made success of it in the last five decades calls for celebration.” Other educating and entertaining highlights of this edition, dedicated to Mr. Babajide Sanwoolu, the Governor-Elect of Lagos State and other elected officers across the nation, include the Bata Drum

Ensemble made up of Muyiwa Adefila; Oloyede Odofin and Olalere Ayantayo. Others activities include Damilola Adebonojo popularly called Iya Yoruba led us on a quiz on tonal marks and Moromoke Lawal popularly called Moromoke Adunbarin spoke on women who have thrived in Pre-Colonial Nigeria like Madam Efunroye Tinubu, Madam Efunsetan Aniwura. Chief Gbemisoye Ayano taught the guests on descriptive symbols. Yoruba Lakotun is a quarterly cultural renaissance show, which began in 2015, has been at the vanguard of leading topical discussions amongst Yoruba literary and cultural enthusiasts drawn from the corporate and social Nigeria.

Kids Funderland set to host thousands of kids with eye on trip to Disneyland

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Leading event company, Bavent Street Live, has announced Kids Funderland, a three-day festival of fun for kids of all ages scheduled to take place at Lekki Special Events Centre, Admiralty way, Lekki Phase 1, this Easter Season from April 19th to April 21st 2019. The event, which is designed to bring all kids together to have fun and also learn, has been packed with a lot of exciting activities that will ensure kids find a convenient spot to relax and enjoy maximum fun during

this festive season. Kids Funderland will focus on themed activities like Easter egg hunts, electric dance floor, art and crafts, cartoon characters and a special performance by Dream Catchers Dance Academy. These activities are planned not just to keep the kids entertained but also expose them to educational activities created to ignite interests in a wide range of topics such as coding, graphic design, robotics and web design.

While speaking about the event, Founder, Bavent Street Live, Hakeem Condotti said: “Kids Funderland is an event you do not want to miss out on. Aside from the amazing activities, other highlights at the event are the giveaways. Families stand a chance to win special prizes; such as shopping vouchers, a weekend stay in a luxurious hotel in Victoria Island, Lagos and an all-expense paid trip to Disneyland in Paris for a family of four. I bet you do not want to be anywhere else”.

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Afreximbank begins 2019 COFIT programme, trains11 cohort Mathew Dadiya, Abuja Africa Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has commenced the 2019 version of the Certificate of Finance in International Trade (COFIT) as it trains 11 African trade finance practitioners. The programme is run by Afreximbank in collaboration with the FCI+IFG Union and the University of Malta. Obi Emekekwue, Director of Global Communications and Branding at the Afreximbank, on Friday, stated that the 2019 COFIT cohort will be the fourth for the programme which was launched in 2016 with nine students. COFIT was developed to meet the demands of the commercial world and to offer a platform from which participants can increase their understanding of all aspects of international trade, importexport business, finance of international trade, supply chain finance and commercial finance (factoring, invoice discounting and asset-based lending), among other areas. COFIT 2019 is being delivered in English in four full-time modules of one week each, with two weeks in Malta and two weeks in Cairo. The first week to be delivered in Cairo began on Monday, 8 April 2018. Afreximbank offered partial scholarships of 50 per cent to five students from African partner organizations to attend the programme to enable them to gain essential insight, awareness and understanding of international trade, both for career development and for enhanced skills development. Participating in the 2019 cohort from Afreximbank are Anthony Edordu of the Legal Department; Leila Sebunya of the Credit Assessment Department; Mohammed Salihu of the Client Relations Department; Benoit Messi of the Trade Finance Department; Pamela Mensah of the Banking Operations Department; and Ernest Ahiagbe, also of the Banking Operations Department. They are joined by Nneka Elizabeth Oshobi of Heritage Bank Plc, Nigeria; Ambrose Binafiai, also of Heritage Bank Plc, Nigeria; Fatima Tahwa of Paper Place Ltd., Zimbabwe; Rebecca Folake Bank-Ola of Adeleke University, Ede, Nigeria; and Farai Mutamangira of Mutamangira & Associates Clairwood Chamber, Zimbabwe.

L-R: Group Head, Non-Interest Banking Sales, Mr. Garba Mohammed; Group Head, Non Interest Banking Investments & Products, Sterling Bank Pl, Dr. Basheer Oshodi; Vice President, Islamic Development Bank (IDB), Dr Mandir Mutter; Minister for Finance, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Ms. Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed; MD/CEO, Jaiz Bank, Mr. Hassan Usman at the ISDB Group 44th Annual Meeting in Marrakech, Morocco at the weekend.

World Bank to invest $15b in African human capital projects Motolani Oseni The World Bank has said it will invest $15 billion into human capital projects in Africa by the year 2023. World Bank Vice President for Africa, Hafez Ghanem, disclosed this in a statement issued on Friday, stating that the projects are part of World

Bank’s new plan to help promote skills development for African youth and enhance their competitiveness in a digitalising global economy. According to the World Bank’s Africa Human Capital Plan, the programme aims at a reduction in child mortality to save 4 million lives and averting stunting among 11 million children. Others are increasing learning

outcomes for girls and boys in school by 20 per cent by 2023. By doing so, it will increase African workers’ productivity by 13 per cent. “Preventing a child from fulfilling his or her potential is not only fundamentally unjust, but it also limits the growth of economies whose future workers are held back,” Ghanem said. “GDP per worker in Sub-Saharan

Africa could be 2.5 times higher if everyone were healthy and enjoyed a good education from pre-school to secondary school,” he added. According to the World Bank, SubSaharan African region scores the lowest on the World Bank’s Human Capital Index which gauges whether countries have adequately invested in the next generation of workers.

NECA wants CBN, NIPOST to halt stamp duties charge Temitope Adebayo Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA) has called on the federal government to impress on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST), to respect the valid judgment of the court and stop the deduction of stamp duties charge from the accounts of Nigerians who are bank customers. Director-general of NECA, Mr Timothy Olawale, stated that the “issue of imposing N50 stamp duty commenced when the CBN directed that banks must deduct N50 stamp duty on

all transactions made, with a value of N1,000 and above. “There is the need to respect the valid judgment of the court and stop the systematic deduction from millions of Nigerians who are bank customers in the name of deduction of stamp duties charges,” he said. Olawale said the issue of stamp duty was tested in courts and a ruling obtained in an appeal against the lower court’s judgment in the case of Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria Ltd vs Kasmal International Services Ltd & 22 Ors in CA/L/437A/2014. He said, Justice Ibrahim Saulawa and four other Justices of the Court of Appeal

held that the Stamp Duties Act did not impose a duty on all money deposits in banks. He said according to the Appeal Court, “electronic transactions” were not covered by the Stamp Duties Act, and to the best of his knowledge, there was no challenge of the ruling by any party at the Supreme Court.” Olawale said the refusal of the CBN and NIPOST to obey the valid judgment of a competent court is worrisome and amount to contempt of court and a sustained daylight robbery of millions of bank customers. “It is a mark of disrespect to the Constitution of Nigeria, disrespect to the

court, and disrespect to due process. “NECA had written letters in 2015 and 2017 to the CBN governor, calling his attention to the anomaly and judgment of the court, which he neither responded to nor did the needful by halting the fraud and rip off”, he said. Olawale advised that NIPOST should stick to its roles and responsibilities of producing and selling postage stamps. He called on the CBN to respect the law and judgment of the Court of Appeal and instruct commercial banks, through a circular, to stop the deduction of N50 stamp duty on customers’ accounts and return several billions of naira illegally deducted from them to date.

Mouka clicks double recognition from London Stock Exchange Group Godwin Anyebe Mouka Limited, Nigeria indigenous mattress and foam products manufacturer, has become one among a few African companies to be recognised twice by the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), in the group’s Companies to inspire Africa report. Mouka was listed in the - LSEG’s companies to Inspire Africa 2019 report

after it made the 2017 inaugural edition. To be included in the list, companies need to be privately held and show an excellent rate of growth and potential to power African development. Mouka was recognised alongside 360 companies from 32 countries across the continent represented in this year’s report, boasting an incredibly impressive average compound annual growth rate of 46 per cent, up from 16 per cent in 2017. Mouka’s listing in the Group’s 2019

Companies to Inspire Africa report is the second consecutive appearance of the bedding materials manufacturer in the prestigious report since its 2017 inaugural edition. The development sets the bedding industry giant apart from not just its competitors within its Nigerian operation base, but among other companies on the continent that have only made one appearance in the Companies to Inspire Africa report since its inaugural edition.

Companies to Inspire Africa is a pioneering report, compiled by the LSEG, identifying the continent’s most inspirational and dynamic private high growth companies to a global market. After Mouka’s mention in the inaugural edition of the report, the company made remarkable progress by consolidating its previous achievement, by earning the enviable recognition for a second time in 2019, by the world’s leading financial centre’s stock exchange group.

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Finally, NCC grants additional broadband spectrum to MTN Ladesope Ladelokun Following a lengthy regulatory battle between MTN Nigeria and the federal government of Nigeria, the telco has now been awarded additional broadband spectrum related to its 2015 acquisition of Visafone Communications. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) approved the transfer of 800-megahertz spectrum

following a public inquiry. The transfer of 800-megahertz spectrum is expected to boost MTN’s market-leading position in the country. MTN bought Visafone from Jim Ovia, the former CEO of Zenith Bank, four years ago. The decision will enable MTN to extend its network reach in Africa’s most populous country, potentially to rural and unconnected areas, according to Olusola Teniola, president of the Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON).

The carrier — Africa’s biggest by sales — has 67-million active customers in the country, more than half of whom use data services. “MTN is a dominant player in the voice segment and obviously they would like to ensure that they hold a leadership position in the data space,” Teniola told Bloomberg by phone. “Any operator that has the kind of spectrum that MTN holds is in a good position to lead the market.” Getting the better of an NCC

ruling will come as a welcome boost to MTN, which has long been the subject of regulator and government censure in Nigeria. In 2015, the NCC fined the carrier more than $5bn for missing a deadline to disconnect subscribers without proper registrations, a crisis from which the share price has never recovered. The penalty was eventually settled for about $1bn plus a pledge to sell shares on the local stock market, which is slated for later in 2019.

Street Project Foundation partners AAAN-Women-in-Advertising on Digital Amazons Godwin Anyebe Street Project Foundation, an organization committed to youth employment and cross-cultural dialogue through creative arts has announced a partnership with the Association of Advertising Agencies of Nigeria’s (AAAN) Women-inAdvertising (WIA) on the launch of its new initiative, “Digital Amazons”. Digital Amazons is a three-week capacity building programme for 18-25-year-old females, who exceptionally gifted in different areas of the Creative Arts.

The goal is to expose participants to the latest digital skills that will prepare them for work in Advertising and the creative industry at large. Call for applications kicked off on 1 April, with the deadline for applications for the first cohort fixed for 28 April. The the first cohort is expected to run from scheduled to run from 13 -31 May at NG_HUB from Facebook, Yaba, Lagos. Speaking on the initiative, WIA Chairperson, Mrs Tope Jemerigbe said: “We embraced this an initiative by Street Project Foundation because it aligns with our objective to bring

more women into our profession and improve their skill-sets.” She added that WIA will provide resource persons, who are veterans in The advertising industry, to facilitate sessions during the three-week training programme. Internship placements will also be offered to expose young women to the world of work in Advertising. In addition, WIA will hold seminar and mentorship sessions with young women already involved in Advertising and Communication practice for every cohort of the Digital Amazons programme. The Founder and Lead Visionary of Street Project Foundation, Mrs Rita

Ezenwa-Okoro explained that Digital Amazons was created in alignment with the foundation’s mission to facilitate opportunities for youth employment and enterprise development, using creative arts as a tool. “Our partnership with AAANWomen-in-Advertising is very strategic and timely. If we must raise a critical mass of female Creative Directors and Chief Creative Officers in the industry, intentional steps must be taken and Digital Amazons presents us with that opportunity to build the capacity of female creatives, through training and mentoring”, she said.

AFDB clarifies role in financing, support of Africa aviation industry Chukwuemeka Iwelunmo The African development Bank (AFDB) has clarified its role in the financing and support of Africa aviation industry. The African lender is engaged in several projects on the continent of which tourism and aviation is widely featured in its budgets and spending.

Speaking on the session “Funding and Financing for Development: pragmatic measures to build a transparent, stable and predictable investment climate”, as a panel member on the experts’ discussion at the recently held first ministerial conference on Air Transport and Tourism in Africa in Santa Maria, Cabo Verde, the Chief Aviation officer of the bank, Romain Ekot, said the Bank do not fund the purchase of long haul aircraft

by airlines but may finance the acquisition of single-aisle aircraft, technical assistance and also support airlines to leverage private sector financing using diverse instruments. He added that, the Bank’s framework would not allow the utilization of its public window funds to finance aircraft acquisition. He said the bank has been instrumental in the finance and development of Africa’s aviation sector through infrastructure

development, aircraft acquisition and institutional support projects and will continue to support sustainable growth. On his observation of the conference Romain said he was impressed to see Aviation and Tourism sectors joining their forces and hoped the deliberations and declaration will be followed to the latter and ensure the continent is not deprived of its development.

L-R: Business Manager, Landover Aviation Business School (LABS), Mr. Mobolaji Durojaiye, Executive Director, Landover Company Limited, Mrs. Aduke Atiba; 2018 IATA Best Performer in Nigeria and graduate of LABS, Ms. Adeola Alade, Manager, Corporate Services, Landover Company Limited, Mrs. Aderonke Emmanuel-James and Business Manager, Operations, Landover Company Limited, Mr. Tunde Adeniyi at the presentation of the 2018 IATA Best Performer Award in Nigeria, at the School in Lagos

Why machine learning is critical for development of accountants -ACCA report Motolani Oseni The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) has said that machine learning is becoming more relevant for many organisations as the hype increasingly becomes reality The global chartered accountants association revealed this in the new research, where it stated that there are huge opportunities for better business intelligence and across a range of activities carried out by accountants. The ACCA stated that adoption of machine learning needs to be based on legitimate business need rather than just wanting to be seen as using AI, adding that ethical challenges lie ahead - accountants need to align professional competence and due care with AI and machine learning. According to the report, a third of accountants currently see AI as all or mostly hype, while nearly 60 per cent say that in three years’ time it will become a reality, according to global research amongst nearly 2,000 ACCA members in 111countries. The report’s author and head of business insights at ACCA, Narayanan Vaidyanathan, said: “Machine learning is a critical area of development for accountants. Looking ahead it will be crucial to understanding its value and benefits, as well as the ethical challenges it presents. In all this, the starting point has to be a legitimate business need with a clear understanding of what it can bring to the organisation.” He stated that AI and machine learning can add value to the work accountants do – from generating valuable insights for business decision-making, to fraud detection, risk assessment, understanding complexities in taxation and also with more effective non-financial reporting. So the accountancy profession needs to understand how AI and machine learning work, especially given its role in influencing the trust we have in the decisions of these systems. “As with any technology, with power, comes responsibility. In the case of machine learning, ethical considerations are never far away. Accountants need to consider and manage potential ethical compromise from decision-making by algorithm, such as the risk of bias in the data set that feeds them and the issue of accountability for decisions made.” The report emphasizes that at a minimum all finance professionals should know how AI is evolving and be alert to how the developing capabilities could overlap with their impact on their roles. To prepare for the digital future, ACCA already examines a range of digital topics within its Masters level ACCA Qualification. It has also enhanced the digital content across many of the exams for students, while also ensuring digital is weaved into members’ continuous professional development. Narayanan Vaidyanathan concludes: ‘Machine learning’s entrance into the accountancy mainstream is a huge opportunity, where professional accountants have the chance to develop a core understanding of emerging technologies, while continually building them interpretive, contextual and relationship-led skills. They can then truly benefit from the ability of technologies like machine learning to support them with intelligent analysis of vast amounts of data.’ ACCA is the global body for professional accountants, offering business-relevant and first-choice qualifications to people of application, ability and ambition around the world who seek a rewarding career in accountancy, finance and management.

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Nigerians have seen beyond APC and their deceit and have spoken against it - Olafeso Dr Eddy Olafeso is the National Vice Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) South West. He is happy with the inroads the PDP made into the South West in the recently concluded general election, and in this interview with PATRICK OKOHUE he spoke about the performance of his party at the elections and efforts made by him and others to make the party more attractive in the South West, just as he castigated the All Progressives Congress (APC) for meddling in the election of principal officers of the National Assembly among other issues. Justice Walter Onnoghen recently tendered his resignation letter as Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), after he was suspended by the President, following his investigation by the Code of Conduct Bureau and commencement of trial by the Code of Conduct Tribunal, after being accused of not declaring his asset, which many see as a frame up, to deal with him, because they did not want him as CJN in the first place, what is your view of this? My view corroborates with yours, it is tragic that we no longer have a sane nation, we have a nation divided against itself, from the beginning of his appointment as Chief Justice, you could recollect, it was during the period the Vice President was acting that Justice Onnogen was eventually confirmed. It is like every appointment from President Buhari has to be from the North, otherwise it cannot stand nor work. It is a sad scenario, very unfortunate; it is all about the destruction and the plundering of the institutions that can actually make Nigeria a great nation. It is a continuation of our downward fall with the habit of chaos and senselessness, Onnoghen is just part of the very complicated situation Nigerians have been dealing with under this government, it is rather unfortunate that this kind of thing happened. What impression do you have about the general election that just held, viz a viz your party’s performance? We thank the Nigerian people and the voters for their commitment in ensuring that the PDP is not dead despite the prediction of Adams Oshiomhole and his party the APC, we rose to the challenge of defending our position with the electorate. We did everything to convince them that we are far better than the APC government. If you look at the destruction from 2015 and now, in 2015 we had less than 1.5 million people as internally displaced, now we have over five million people in IDP camp. We have over 20 million people displaced in North East, now the insurgency have moved from North East to four other zones of the country. The economy has actually been plundered, there is no hope for the common Nigerian, everything is upside down, that is exactly what the Nigerian people voted against. You can see that the number of states controlled by the PDP has increased, as at today it is16 states and we still hope to get more states. People

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are voting the PDP to run away from the draconian administration of the APC, and the hopelessness in the environment in the last four years. It is not a surprise to me that we did very well, because it is obvious that the nation can no longer take another four years of the APC, the election was rigged, and we are at the tribunal over the presidential election, and we are very hopeful we will secure victory.

If you look at the election now, the reality of pattern of voting is coming out, you can see we have more states now, now democracy is really entrenching itself. The next step as I hope is the INEC. INEC did not prepare adequately for the completion of the complex assignment they had at hand. We should not blame INEC all

You can see that the number of states controlled by the PDP has increased, as at today it is16 states and we still hope to get more states. People are voting the PDP to run away from the draconian administration of the APC, and the hopelessness in the environment in the last four years. It is not a surprise to me that we did very well, because it is obvious that the nation can no longer take another four years of the APC

alone, the political class should share out of the scenario which INEC found itself, and that exactly is what we must watch out for in the next election. The desperation, the attitude of even APC government against INEC, that they wanted to command INEC like part of their department in the APC, the party is part of the reason we have this unfortunate scenario of some election not being concluded a month after the election, the governorship election took place on the 9th of March and election of Rivers State just completed some days ago, a month after. How do you justify that under a democracy? How come election period is now like a war, that people have to die, it is rather unfortunate we lost so many lives, in the process of electing people who want to rule over the people, they go through pain and mystery and poverty in the last three and a half years, now the position of the leaders have to be filled just to go through votes, it is really, really unfortunate. I think by the time we will be writing the story of 2019, we have so many things to write concerning the feeling of that moment, and we all have a blame to share, not only INEC, political class, political parties, even Nigerians, those that did not actually raise alarm, when they see things going wrong, or those that kept silent in the face of tyranny. We all have ourselves to blame. It is unfortunate that Nigeria is not going the way it should be going, we are not where we are supposed to be, we are not actually creating a foundation for a new beginning for our nation. Well, the way things are at the moment, nobody knows what will happen in the future. The insecurity is rising, no job, the economy is going down, down, we are rated as one of the poorest nations of the world and we have been tagged as poverty capital of the world, that shouldn’t be our portion, by virtue of the gift of God under and above the soil of this great nation called Nigeria, those are the questions we must begin to ask ourselves, where are we going from here? That is one of the reasons we insisted on restructuring Nigeria, maybe we can bring back the energy of the 60’s to bear upon our productive energy and lead Nigeria to the destiny of our growth. Despite the shenanigans your party still made an inroad into the South West, how do you feel about the development? I am excited; I am the National Vice Chairman of the party in the South West. I thank God, it is a reflection of the energy and hard

work we put on our job. We said it to all of you at the beginning that we are ready to work, and we are ready to take the pain that is associated with working hard, to convince the people that the government in power is bad for them, and the Tinubu dynasty has been punctured, it is ineffective and it is associated with corruption, and on the eve of the presidential election, the man drove two bullion vans into his premises in Bourdilion and nobody raised an eyebrow, DSS, EFCC all went to sleep, the police, the army, all the security operatives just turned a blind eye to it. We know that, their rule over the South West is over, because we will stop at nothing to ensure we route them out of here, the most sophisticated zone in terms of education advancement, and the economic nerve of the nation, and unless we take South West away from these people, there can’t be any meaningful development, we have done well. We have to thank the people of the geo political zone, they have done well, we need to thank the people of the geo political region, Oyo, Ogun, Osun, Ondo all those that committed themselves to the struggle, unfortunately in some of our states, we still need to work on some of our leaders to do better, to be united, so that in the nearest future we will be able to take the largest percent in the South West, hope is rising in the South West and the PDP is doing very, very well out here, and we need to put enough energy into ensuring we convince our people and give them the better hope for tomorrow. Initially, the national chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole said the party did not need the support of PDP senators to elect the principal officers at the National Assembly, but report has it now that the party, APC has started soliciting the support of PDP Senators, and encouraging them to support Ahmed Lawan as the Senate President, what have you got to say about this? Adams Oshiomhole by virtue of his background, by virtue of his level of education is more a cancer to APC than somebody who will look for solution, he is very undemocratic, it is so unfortunate, if you see the irony of the life he had lived, as a former union leader, the man has no clue whatsoever about democratic process, he opens his mouth wide, and vituperated many times he wanted to, and he latter begins to regret all the utterances that he has made, I have never taken him serious,

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Nigerians have seen beyond APC and their deceit ... was no support from government, my parents could not afford the kind of education I have today, so Adewale and co must be serious, this party will not tolerate that. Anyway, the police is already investigating him over creating chaos in our party, he is not a member of the PDP, nobody had any agreement with him whatsoever.

Continued from page 17 even the eight years he spent in Edo State, as the governor of the state was a complete disaster for his people, but because he is in the ruling party, they are still covering him up for all the corruption charges against him, he is a tragic personae in this country as far as democratic development is concerned. He is one of the worst mistakes ever made by APC. Even the APC, is that a political party, if APC were really a political party, how can Adams Oshiomhole be their national chairman, but their times are numbered, alongside with Adams Oshiomhole and his cronies. What business does the executive and the party leaders got to do with the National Assembly, the legislature is another arm of government, it is another arm of government that the executive have nothing to do with, and I want to seize this opportunity to appeal to all the National Assembly members to make sure that, they do the needful by selecting leaders that can actually serve the nation at this particular point in time. One thing I can assure you is that, Lawan or whatever his name is, is not a considered material for such a lofty position of the president of the Senate, if of all the agenda Lawan has is how to extend the tenure of the president, to elongate the tenure of the president. Of all the problems in the country, insecurity, the pain, Lawan’s consideration is how to extend Muhammadu Buhari’s lack luster almost four years of ruling, and I know he is going to be defeated at the tribunal, I have no business whatsoever because their time is numbered, Oshiomhole, Lawan, Buhari cannot hold the nation to ransom, we will free ourselves, this is a land of freedom and of great men that has fought to keep this nation together, and neither are we going to allow their labour to be in vein, by allowing this reckless characters to continue to dominate our public life. As the national vice chairman of the PDP South West, what are you doing about the crisis rocking the Lagos State chapter of the party, I mean the faceoff between your governorship candidate Jimi Agbaje and the party leaders, also the fight over who controls the state executive between Segun Adewale and Adegbola Dominic? Segun Adewale is not a member of our party, about the blame game between Agbaje and leaders of the party that is always a true tale of defeat, we are stepping into it, and we will make sure that everybody comes together, the party is bigger and more authoritative than any individual, we have called and caution everybody, I know for sure at long last we will sit at the table and resolve our differences. On Adewale issue, how can an individual, even if he is a raving mad man and in a democratic process where things are structured, just wake up one morning and say he is the state chairman of the party. He said he had agreement with leaders of the party. With who? He said with Adegoke Salvador and others. Where is Salvador now, there

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was a congress that produced Salvador, when he left, the National Working Committee ( NWC) of the party, looked into the situation , and Dominic is currently the state chairman of the party, who did Adewale had agreement with, he is sick, and the person is equally sick, they are oblivious of what it takes to become the party chairman, and the party constitution is very clear, he is not a member of our party, as far as I am concerned he does not exist. Who does he relate with, if they zone the whole thing and the national working committee is not working with him? He should go and find something tangible to do with his life. What are you doing about the crisis raging in the party? There is no crisis, I spoke with the DPO, Ikeja he has been routed out of the office, Dominic is completely in charge, you cannot brew crisis where there is none, I am building this party, we have had enough, I am not building any crisis, that was why we

quickly ostracised him, if you read my press release, I made it abundantly clear that, this is not the era of Ali Modu Sheriff and co, where people just wake up early in the morning and make some pronouncements. Adewale is not a member of our party, how can you run in July 2018 as the governorship candidate of ADP in Ekiti State, and suddenly now say he has agreement with the party, with who? He must be insane and trying to wake up from his insanity. Nobody will tolerate such characters any more in our party, this not the era of thuggerry, it is the era of reasoning, we must be compassionate to understand that, the people behind it all they are suffering, there is so much pain and poverty in this land. I am worried because this is not how we grew up. People grew from poor background to the level we attained, because there was provision for education, provision for health, people fed well in school during Obafemi Awolowo era. How could I have a PhD if there

You see, when you are stealing the people’s mandate to just want to remain in power and you are not doing anything with the power, it is unreasonable , it is inhuman, God will punish them, God will punish all of them in APC punishing Nigerians, no light, no water , no housing, some people sleep on the road, we live in Lagos. Is this the way life should be lived, noooo.

The election tribunal that sat in Abuja recently declared Senator Ademola Adeleke as the winner of the Osun governorship poll held last year, just some days after that pronouncement by the tribunal a high court said he was not qualified to contest the governorship poll, are you surprised about the closeness of the rulings? That is the usual shenanigan of the APC and their desperation to hold on to power in Osun State and their failing to actually attain that, I am not surprised, a law court has already passed judgment on that, that he is entitled to contest. The constitution of our party says the man is competent to run, and he is a serving senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. All their appeals are just to muddle up things for the appeal, just to find a way to shield and steal what do not belong to them. Look at what happened at the presidential election, they stole the presidential election, so they want to steal and remain in government. You see, when you are stealing the people’s mandate to just want to remain in power and you are not doing anything with the power, it is unreasonable , it is inhuman, God will punish them, God will punish all of them in APC punishing Nigerians, no light, no water , no housing, some people sleep on the road, we live in Lagos. Is this the way life should be lived, noooo. So, they are just trying to steal power, to remain in power and abuse proceedings and misrule cannot work, to be fair with you, it will not work. Your party has won the governorship election in Oyo State, what efforts are on ground to win more elections in the geo political zone? I congratulate the people of Oyo State for standing their ground against oppression and inversion, and eventually when the election held, you can see they (APC members) are not popular in Oyo State , I congratulate the elected governor of Oyo State for his outstanding brilliance and leadership in that election for bringing everybody together. Oyo will be a launch pad for our return to South West, we have returned in Ondo State, we won two senatorial seats, we won the presidential election massively, even when they did everything to cut down our lead. We are coming, we are telling the rest of the world that Ondo State is coming back into the PDP fold, alongside with Osun State, since Oyo and Ondo States are in the basket, it is just a matter of time to return to the South West, to re - enact the lost glory of the Awolowo era and time, believe me, it is doable, it is just reducing all the humongous stealing under APC. They claim that the PDP is corrupt, believe you me what the APC is doing right now is digital stealing, they have done nothing in the last three and the half years, and they are trying to explore their way through

another four years, that is what they are doing, they spent four years blaming the PDP, well the remaining four years, I don’t know who they will continue to blame, I don’t know may be they will continue blaming APC (themselves) for the first four years, they are irrational, they are insane, that is why I don’t listen to them in the social media and the news, I wonder why Nigerians still listen to that kind of insane utterances from people who don’t know exactly what they are trying to do. They have no principle or any ideological position that they are hinging governance in Nigeria on and that is the truth. I am passionate about what I am saying because, I know we can do better than what we are trying to do. PDP did better despite the fact that we were disconnected from the people. The reasons advanced why the PDP lost election in 2015 were given as arrogance on the part of PDP members, disconnection from the people and indiscipline on the part of party members, will you say your party has addressed these lapses? All what you said about us are correct, and we have addressed them, if we did not address them, we couldn’t have done better in the last general elections, we have eliminated this idea of victors sharing all the positions, and public office being for the highest bidder internal democracy have improved, things are done right in the open, we criticise ourselves, we have apologised to the Nigeria nation, we have called to order some of our leaders and some of them are even retired. Before God and man we made it abundantly clear to anybody who want to run that the wish of the people must prevail, that was the decision of NWC which I am a member, that is what we are doing exactly differently from the APC, you could see that all our primary processes were different from their own, they just sit in the office and write results , they just write names and submit and say those are their candidates, that was why many factions of APC submitted candidates’ names, and in the end none was accepted by INEC. I am not saying we don’t have our own problems, we had problems in Ogun and Lagos states, but I am sincere enough, and honest to know that those are problems and I have to resolve them, I have to bring everybody to the table to resolve them. Like I have been tough on Adewale of Lagos State, who decided to open his mouth wide and vomit insanity, that is what the party has to do, discipline, internal democracy, good leadership, commitment to goal and ensuring that when you go wrong you have to apologise. How many times have you seen APC apologising to Nigerians for insecurity, for lack of infrastructural development, for not ruling well, except abusing everybody and blaming everything on the PDP. For us, the future is very, very bright and we will get back our stolen presidential election, mark my words, by the time the presidential election litigation is declared in favour of Abubakar Atiku at the tribunal, court of Appeal and Supreme Court, you will come back and interview me. You will see that these people just sold dummy to the Nigerian people and finally the dummy will kill them.

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SpaceX launches first commercial mission of Falcon Heavy A rocket, created by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company, has made a giant leap. On its first commercial mission, the Falcon Heavy is taking cargo into orbit. More than 23 storeys in height, the Space X Falcon Heavy packs

twice as much power as any other rocket on the Earth. Its future missions will push military satellites into orbit and ferry passengers into space for a price cheaper than ever before roughly $90m a launch.

Ukraine presidential rivals court Macron, Merkel before runoff

Sudan’s General Awad Ibn Auf said he was stepping down for the “benefit of our nation”

Sudan’s Ibn Auf steps down as head of military council The head of Sudan’s ruling military council has announced his resignation in a speech broadcast on state television. General Awad Ibn Auf’s announcement came late on Friday as tens of thousands rallied in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, demanding a civilian-led transition after the military overthrow of the country’s longtime ruler, Omar al-Bashir. “I, the head of the military council, announce I am giving up the post,” Ibn Auf said, adding he took the decision to preserve unity of the armed forces. “This is for the benefit of our nation, without having to look at special interests, big or small that may impede its progress ... I would like to recommend that you work together and reach a solution very speedily,” he added. Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Adelrahman Burhan will now head the transitional council. Al Jazeera’s Hiba Morgan, reporting from Khartoum, said protesters in Khartoum greeted Ibn

Auf’s announcement with “ululating and cheering”. “People are celebrating on the streets; they are saying that they managed to topple President Omar al-Bashir after four months of protests and less than 48 hours after the military council took over, they managed to bring down Ibn Auf, too,” she said. “He [Burhan] does not have the same tainted record ... that most of the [al-Bashir] regime officials had,” Morgan added, citing Ibn Auf and Bashir’s alleged responsibility for war crimes in Sudan’s western region of Darfur between 2003-2008. Burhan is expected to address the Sudanese public on Saturday, Morgan said, adding that the armed forces will be keen to gauge the response from pro-democracy protesters to Ibn Auf’s resignation. “The protesters are waiting to see what kind of vision and plan Burhan has, and to see if he is going to be the person they would want to represent them during the transition period, or whether they should continue with

their sit-in,” she said. The Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA), which spearheaded the months-long protests that triggered al-Bashir’s overthrow, praised Ibn Auf’s departure as a “triumph of the will of the masses”. Protesters in Khartoum, meanwhile, told Al Jazeera the toppling of al-Bashir and resignation of Ibn Auf within 36 hours was the result of “patience, sacrifices and struggle for four months”. “We now want to witness the power being handed over to the civilians, this is the ... democracy and freedom we aimed to achieve,” Abdul Jabar Ibrahim, 60, said. The SPA called on protesters in the capital to continue a six-day-long sit-in outside the army headquarters in and take to the streets outside the military’s “various garrisons” elsewhere throughout the country. Earlier on Friday the group pledged to “resist the emergency, curfew and all the actions announced by the coupists”.

Suspected al-Shabab fighters kidnap two Cuban doctors in Kenya

Suspected al-Shabab fighters have kidnapped two Cuban doctors and killed their police bodyguard in northern Kenya near the border with Somalia, which is where the armed group is based, according to officials. The doctors were ambushed as they headed to work on Friday, said David Ohito, communications director for the Mandera county government. Ali Roba, the governor of Mandera, said in a statement that the gunmen’s vehicle blocked the doctors’ vehicle “and opened fire at their bodyguards, killing one instantly”. The abductors might have taken the doctors to Somalia, police spokesman Charles Owino said. He said the doctors’ driver had been detained to help with investigations. A police official identified the doctors as Dr Assel Herera Correa,

a general physician, and Dr Landy Rodriguez, a surgeon. They were stationed at the Mandera County Referral Hospital as part of a group of about 100 Cubans who came to Kenya last year to help boost health services. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the press. “Our security agencies are working with Somalia Government Security agencies to pursue the abductors into Somalia with the objective of rescuing the victims,” Kenyan police chief Hillary Mutyambai said in a statement. It was the second abduction of a foreigner in five months, likely carried out by the Somali-based al-Shabab. In November, an Italian volunteer, Silvia Romano, was kidnapped in southern Kenya’s coastal region by gunmen linked to al-Shabab. She has

not been found yet. The al-Qaeda affiliate has been fighting since 2007 to topple Somalia’s central government, which is backed by a 20,000-strong African Union force, known as AMISOM, and establish its own rule based on strict interpretation of Islamic law. The group also conducts frequent assaults in Kenya, mostly in the region bordering Somalia, to put pressure on the Kenyan government to withdraw its troops from Somalia. On Tuesday, the US embassy had upgraded its travel warning for Kenya, listing “do not travel” for Mandera county. “Exercise increased caution in Kenya due to crime, terrorism and kidnapping,” the warning read. Kidnappings in Kenya are relatively rare but can have a devastating effect on tourism, a major income-earner.

Ukraine’s presidential candidates have travelled to Paris and Berlin to seek international backing nine days before the April 21 runoff vote. French President Emmanuel Macron first hosted comic Volodymyr Zelensky, a political novice who is tipped to become Ukraine’s sixth president, for talks in Paris before a planned meeting with the incumbent, President Petro Poroshenko. Poroshenko, who is anxious to make up ground lost to Zelensky by showing off his experience, travelled earlier in the day to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin. Both men were expected to discuss Ukraine’s five-year war with Russianbacked rebels in the country’s east, a conflict in which France and Germany have attempted to broker peace. Polls show 41-year-old Zelensky, whose only political experience involves playing the president on TV, easily defeating Poroshenko for the leadership of a country jaded by the conflict with Russia. “Very cool,” Zelensky said of his meeting with Macron. “We spoke about life, we spoke about the main things,” he told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. “We spoke about stopping the war in Donbass,” he said, referring to the conflict in eastern Ukraine. In the first round of the presidential vote held on March 31, Poroshenko

received fewer than 16 percent of the votes whereas Zelensky secured more than 30 percent. Merkel told a news conference with Poroshenko that she had invited him to Berlin to continue their “constant exchange” on security. “I think it’s important that we continue to discuss, even at a time when the elections are under way,” she said. France and Germany are part of the so-called Normandy Quartet with Ukraine and Russia set up to try end the conflict between Kiev and Moscowbacked separatists. The war has killed 13,000 people since 2014. Poroshenko, a 53-year-old chocolate mogul, has positioned himself as the only candidate able to stand up to the Kremlin. On Friday, he downplayed the significance of Zelensky’s rise from comedian, telling reporters in Berlin: “We have politicians who are not part of the political system, but that also exists in other parts of Europe. Ukraine is not an exception.” On Thursday, he had described the Paris and Berlin visits as “especially important” in the face of what he called Western “attempts” to lift sanctions against Russia, imposed after its 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula. Kiev and its Western allies accuse Russia of supporting the rebels militarily. Moscow denies that.

Pakistanis form human image of Christchurch mosque

Thousands of Pakistanis clad in white have gathered in the central city of Jhang to make a human image of New Zealand’s Al Noor mosque in Christchurch city, where 50 people were killed by a white supremacist four weeks ago. Drone images showed worshippers standing in formation on Friday, their snow-white traditional shalwar kameez and prayer caps in stark contrast to the emerald green of a public field, as a second group formed the words “Islam is peace” nearby. Huge New Zealand and Pakistani flags were also displayed along with a giant banner which read: “Solidarity with the martyrs of Christchurch from Pakistan”. The tribute was organised by the Muslim Institute, a non-government organisation aimed at promoting peace and stability in the Muslim world, which also released the drone footage. Brenton Tarrant, a 28-year-old Australian and self-avowed white

supremacist, has been charged with 50 counts of murder and 39 of attempted murder after opening fire at the Linwood and Al Noor mosques on March 15. Nine of the victims were of Pakistani origin. One, Naeem Rashid, was posthumously given an award for bravery by Pakistan after he apparently tried to tackle the gunman before being shot. Tribute organisers praised the New Zealand government after what had been a “very tough time” for Muslims in the country - especially Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Her response “not only soothed the wounds of Muslims but also assured them that Muslims in their country are safe”, said Sahibzada Sultan Ahmad Ali, a religious scholar and one of the organisers. “We worked really hard to make this model,” one participant, Noor Hassan, said of the tribute. “It was so pleasant that we were ready to stand like this for the whole day.”

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The battle for supremacy ITTF Africa in the singles between Nigeria and Egypt continues at the ITTF African and Cadet Championships tourney: Junior on Friday April 12 in Accra, Ghana. With the conclusion of the team Nigeria events, the individual events – singles and doubles take centre battles stage at the ongoing ITTF African and Cadet Championships Egypt for Junior holding in Accra, Ghana. Nigeria and Egypt are the supremacy cynosure of all eyes again in singles and doubles as the race for champions in the event reach in singles new crucial stage on Friday April 12. In the boys’ junior and U-21, event