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Presidential poll: Tribunal reserves ruling on Atiku, PDP motion to inspect INEC server We don’t have server, INEC replies

Andrew Orolua, Abuja The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, reserved ruling on the application filed

by Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for inspection of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) server and data.

The two petitioners have specifically, filed the motion for an order of tribunal granting access to inspect the server and data of smart card reader used by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the conduct of the February 23 presidential election.

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Garba, reserved date for ruling in the application after lawyers in the matter adopted and argued their brief of arguments filed in respect of the motion.

Garba said the panel would communicate the date of the ruling to parties’ lead counsels once they are ready.

Moving the motion for inspection of INEC server and other electoral materials, one of the lead counsels to Atiku and the PDP, Chief Chris Uche (SAN), said the request is essential to their petition challenging the return of President Muhammadu Buhari at the election.

Recall that the petitioners had in their petition stated that by figures obtained from INEC’s server, they and not Buhari and the third respondent, All Progressives Congress (APC) won the presidential election held on February 23 this year.

According to the figures allegedly obtained from the server, Atiku said he scored 18, 356,732 votes as against that of Buhari, whom he said scored 16, 741,430.

“The servers from which the said figures were derived belong to the first respondent (INEC). The figures and votes were transmitted to the first respondent’s presidential result’s server 1 and thereafter, aggregated in INEC_ P R E S _ R S LT _ S RV 2 0 1 9 , whose physical address or unique Mac address is 94-57-A5-DC-64-B9 with Microsoft Product ID 00252-7000000000-AA535.

The above descriptions are unique to the first respondent’s server.

“There is no conjecture in the votes and scores in the table pleaded by the petitioners. The figures are factual. The spokesperson for the second respondent’s campaign organisation openly admitted that the data in question was in the first respondent’s server when he wrote and submitted a petition to the inspector general of police and the director general of the Department of State Services (DSS) asking the security agencies to investigate the second petitioner herein for allegedly hacking into the server of the first respondent and obtaining the data in question.

“Specifically, Festus Keyamo (SAN), the spokesperson of the second respondent, claimed in the said petition that it was the first petitioner who smuggled the data into the server,” Atiku and his party said.

Uche (SAN) on Thursday told the tribunal that the inspection of the server and data is necessary in the interest of justice, transparency and neutrality on the part of the first respondents, INEC. But, INEC through its counsel, Yunus Usman (SAN), vehemently opposed the application for inspection. He said that the application should be dismissed because, “We do not have server”.

Usman also said that the Court of Appeal enrolled order of March 6, 2019 refused all the prayers in the said application. He

maintained that the court having refused the prayers lacked jurisdiction to revisit it.

Lead counsel to Buhari, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN) and that of the APC, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), also made similar argument in opposing the application for inspection.

Olanipekun told the tribunal that it lacks jurisdiction to overrule itself on the issue while Fagbemi urged the tribunal to be wary of making an order which it is not capable of enforcing, because INEC has said it has no server.

Justice Garba, consequently announced that ruling in the application is reserved to a date to be communicated to parties and adjourned continuation of the prehearing of Atiku and PDP’s petition till June 24.

Earlier, the tribunal heard the motions filed by INEC, President Buhari and APC urging it to dismiss the petition of the Hope Democratic Party (HDP) and its presidential candidate, Chief Ambrose Oworu, for being incompetent and abuse of court processes.

Olanipekun in his argument said that there was no petition filed by the party before the tribunal because what was served on the respondents is a petition against referendum which the court lacked jurisdiction to entertain.

The tribunal however reserved ruling to a date to be communicated to parties in the suit and adjourned the pre-hearing of the HDP’s petition till June 20.

EFCC to clampdown on illegal use of POS machines Holds campaign against Yahoo-Yahoo Andrew Orolua, Abuja

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it is set to start a clampdown on the fraudulent use of Point of Sale (POS) machines in the country.

This was disclosed by the Makurdi Zonal Head of the commission, Johnson Babalola, in an interactive session with Regional Bank Managers at the EFCC Zonal office in Makurdi, Benue State on Thursday.

Speaking on behalf of the acting EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, he charged banks to ensure proper monitoring and strict compliance by those to whom they issue POS machines.

“We are having serious challenges with the banks giving POS machines to individuals with questionable

characters and without proper documentation,” he said.

He pointed out that there was a need for some of the POS machines to be withdrawn from such individuals.

He also warned banks to adhere strictly to the PostNo-Debit (temporary freezing of account) order placed on banks found to be involved in suspicious transactions, adding, “Default will not be tolerated”.

He noted that it was unfortunate that some staff of banks were in the habit of giving prior notice to customers whose accounts were being placed on PostNo-Debit, thus “aiding and abetting crime and obstruction of justice, instead of assisting the Commission as stipulated by law”.

He further urged the banks to “respond on time to the letters of investigations sent

to them by the Commission”, stressing that prompt response will help in speedy dispensation of cases.

“You need to always report any suspicious transactions as required by law,” he added.

In another development, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has organised a musical concert in the nation’s capital, to drum support of Abuja residents in their fight against internet fraud popularly known locally as, “YahooYahoo”.

The concert which brought together Abuja based music and comedy acts, literally lit up the city’s Unity Fountain Maitama, Abuja.

Many fun seekers, who defied the heavy downpour that day, taking advantage of the public holiday to

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President Buhari (middle) flanked by the President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic H.E Brahimi Ghazli;Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Alhaji Mustapha and others during a visit to Aso Rock, Abuja... on Thursday.

L-R: Director, NASCON Allied Industries Plc, Halima Aliko Dangote; Executive Director, Commercial, NASCON Allied Industries Plc, Fatima Aliko Dangote; Managing Director, NASCON Allied Industries Plc, Paul Farrer; and Chairperson, NASCON Allied Industries Plc. ‘Yemisi Ayeni, at the 2018 Annual General Meeting of NASCON Allied Industries Plc, in Lagos ...on Thursday

L-R: Director, Policy and Strategy, Nigerian Export Promotion Council, NEPC, Mr. Sidi Aliyu; Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer, NEPC, Mr. Segun Awolowo; National Coordinator/Chief Executive Officer, Servicom, Mrs. Nnenna Akajemili; and Director, Federal Ministry of Industry,Trade and Investment, Mrs. Afiong Umoh, during the Official Launch/Public Presentation of the NEPC Service Charter in Abuja...on Thursday.

L-R: Deputy Managing Director, Fidelity Bank Plc, Mohammed Balarabe and Postmaster General/CEO, NIPOST , Mr. Bisi Adegbuyi, during the launch of bank@post; a TSA/Agent Banking initiative between NIPOST and Fidelity Bank in Abuja ...on Thursday

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Bandits on rampage in Niger Saka Bolaji, Minna

The death toll in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State has risen to 70 as armed bandits continued unabated ravage, sacking eight more villages and displacing over 1, 000 people.

Sources from the villages disclosed to our correspondent that the figure has swelled from 12 dead when the attack was first reported on Sunday, June 9, 2019 because the bandits have spread to more villages.

It was learnt that several injured people were rushed to various hospitals in Kuta, Erena and Zumba while the displaced villagers are seeking refuge in seven IDP camps.

According a report obtained from Senator David Umaru in whose constituency of Niger East the massacre occurred, indicated that within the last

six days, 19 people have died in Kwaki village, 14 in Barden Dawaki village while eight died in Ajatawyi village.

Other casualties include seven dead in Gwassa, five in Ajayin Bataro, four others in Bwailo, three in Baton village and two reported dead in Giji village.

It was also learnt that over 800 heads of cattle were rustled during the period.

However, when contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer of the state Police command, DSP Mohammed Abubakar, said that the police could only confirm 12 dead people so far.

He explained that more security personnel have been drafted to the troubled area.

Speaking with newsmen in Minna, Senator David Umaru appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to come to the rescue of Niger East constituents from the ravaging

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bandits.

He pleaded for the President to order the relocation of security

chiefs to the area to immediately curtail the carnage.

He said: “I am in pains and

Lawyer sues FG over N100bn promised Myetti Allah Andrew Orolua, Abuja

A legal practitioner, Malcom Omirhobo, on Thursday, approached a Federal High Court, Abuja, to stop the Federal Government from disbursing the N100 billion as allegedly promised Myetti Allah (herdsman) by the immediate past Interior Minister, General Abdulrahman Danbazau (rtd).

Omirhobo, who sued in the name of the board of incorporated trustees of Malcom Omirhobo foundation, in an ex-parte application, urged the court to hold that the Federal Government or the Ministry of Interior, has no constitutional right to dole out money without recourse to budgetary allocation.

In the suit marked FHC / CS/506/2019 seeking to stop the disbursement of 100bn to Herdsmen, filed at the Federal High Court which is assigned to Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, the plaintiff said that kind of money could go a long way in building schools, roads or even assist indigent Nigerians to start up small businesses.

The suit which came in form of originating summons has the Federal Government of Nigeria, the Attorney General of Nigeria, the Minister of Interior, the National Assembly, the Inspector General of Police and Accountant General of Nigeria as the 1st to 7th respondents.

It was brought in pursuant to Order 3 rules 6, 7, and 9 of the High Court (Civil Procedure, Rules 2009.

The plaintiff wants the court to determine the following questions: “Whether by the interpretation and/ or construction of Section 1 (1) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended ), the Nigerian Constitution is the ground norm of Nigeria and its provisions have binding force on all authorities and persons throughout Nigeria including the Defendants?

“Whether by the interpretation and/ or construction of Section 80(1) (2 ) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (As Amended ), all revenues or money raised or received by the Federation shall be paid into the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation.

“Whether by the interpretation

and/ or construction of Section 80 (2), (3) and (4) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (As Amended), monies could be withdrawn from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation where such is not authorized by an Appropriation Act or Supplementary Act by the 5th Defendant and without compliance with the provisions of Nigeria Constitution?

After determining the above questions, Omirhobo wants the court declaration “that by the interpretation and/ or construction of Section 80(1) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended), all revenues or money raised or received by the Federation (not being revenues or other monies payable under the Constitution or any Act of the 5th Defendant, into any other Public Fund of the Federation established for a specific purpose) shall be paid into the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation.

Meanwhile, Justice Ojukwu has ordered the plaintiff to put the respondents on notice as she declined to grant an ex-parte order.

She said Nigeria’s resources cannot

be allotted unnecessarily; hence there was need for the Federal Government to come to court and explain why the plaintiff’s application should not be granted.

In another suit, Omirhobo has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to compel President Buhari to revert his earlier revocation of shot Gun licence.

In an originating summons marked FHC/CS/ 564/2019, the plaintiff prayed the court to halt to the revocation of gun Iicence by President Buhari, stating that the President has no such power under the Constitution.

After listening to the lawyer’s argument on the ex-parte applications, Justice Ojukwu ruled that due to the weighty nature of the averments, the respondent (the Federal Government) should be put on notice to come to court to show cause why the reliefs sought should not be granted.

Ojukwu noted that the exhibits contained in the averments in both suits are weighty, hence the need to hear from the respondents.

Consequently, she adjourned the two suits to September 30, 2019 for hearing of the motion on notice and originating summons.

INEC records over 1,689 litigations from 2019 polls

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it recorded over 1,689 court cases arising from the 2019 general elections.

Mallam Mohammed Haruna, INEC National Electoral Commissioner in-charge of Niger, Kogi and Nasarawa states disclosed this on Thursday in Lafia during the state level post election review retreat.

Haruna explained that more than 890 of the cases were preelection matters arising from conduct of political party primary elections, while 799 were election petitions at the various tribunals across the country.

According to him, the pre

election cases indicated that political parties needed to put their acts together in order to deepen the nation’s democratic process.

He also said that the cases before the election petitions tribunals showed that much still needed to be done to improve on the electoral process.

“We are here to review what we did for this year’s general election with a view to improving on our subsequent outing.

“You will agree with me that any document is work in progress, you can never get it perfectly,” Haruna.

He expressed optimism that from the review of the 2019 general election with inputs from the

various stakeholders, subsequent elections would be better than the previous as noticeable pitfalls would be addressed.

Haruna cited the unprecedented number of political parties that participated in the 2019 general election as one of the challenges that the commission faced during the conduct of the polls.

In his remarks, Dr Uthman Ajidagba, Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state said that 26 cases were recorded in the state from the 2019 general election.

Ajidagba said two were preelection litigations while 24 cases were at the election petitions tribunals.

He said that there were no much complain from the elections in the state given the minimal numbers of cases.

“That we have this small number means that there was a level of satisfaction but some people just want to prove points by going to the tribunal,” he said.

He maintained that the post election review retreat was very crucial to enable the commission correct identified lapses and consolidate on the successes recorded.

The post election review retreat had in attendance, Electoral officers from the 13 local government areas of the state, returning officers as well as collation officers.

sorrow over the killing of my people by armed bandits who have occupied most of our communities in the past few days. It is horrible that over 69 people have been killed and 1000 displaced and yet there is no respite for the good people of my constituency”.

He said that it has become apparent that the situation is beyond the capacity of police, adding, “I therefore appeal to President Buhari to order the military into the area to stop the bandits”.

He added: “I am also calling on the General Officer Commanding (GOC) of 1 Div Nigeria Army Kaduna to deploy more personnel to save the villagers from the onslaught of the bandits”.

Umaru stressed the need for the state government to give priority to the provision of adequate to logistics in assisting security agencies in the area.

...clampdown on illegal use of POS machines Continued from page 3 commemorate the Democracy Day Celebration, stormed the event in large numbers and were thrilled by the young stars, most of whom weaved their songs and comedy around the call to shun “Yahoo-Yahoo” and other forms of cyber crimes.

Some EFCC officials present at the concert spoke about the need for Nigerians to join hands with the antigraft agency to bring an end to cyber crimes. According to them, Nigerians are highly resourceful and intelligent but their endowments should be put to noble use.

Special Adviser on Media to the EFCC Chairman, Mr. Tony Amokeodo, in his remarks, said that the agency put the concert together to drum support for the campaign against Yahoo-Yahoo.

According to him, so many young people are caught in the web of the cyber-crime and thereby falling into the dragnet of the EFCC. “The EFCC chairman, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, saw the need to use the concert to draw young people’s attention to the dangers of engaging in YahooYahoo. Cyber-crime is bad and dangerous. It is tarnishing the image of the country and so many people are ending up in jail because of it.

“We appreciate the impact of music and comedy on young people and felt that a concert such as this will bring young people together and afford them the opportunity to listen to messages against Yahoo-Yahoo.

The musicians and comedians all did justice to the theme and we believe that young people will shun cybercrimes,” he said.

Some of the artistes who thrilled include Music Prokassy, Victor Velmo, Mic Steve, Young Fresh, Ambassador Wahala, Chuck D General, Nick B, Ghana Must Go and Koboko Master.

Some participants won prizes for displaying their music talents.

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Navy destroys 2,829 unserviceable firearms surrendered by militants

The Nigerian Navy Ordinance Depot (NOD) in Lagos on Thursday commenced the destruction of 2,829 firearms recovered from Ondo State Amnesty Programme and unserviceable weapons belonging to the service.

The Admiral Superintendent NOD, Rear Adm. Abdul Adamu, officially commenced the destruction at the NOD in Navy Town, Ojo. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 475 of the firearms were service rifles of the navy, which were no longer useable, while 2,281 were recovered from repentant militants in Ondo State in 2018.

The exercise, which was organised following an approval by the Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS) Vice Adm. Ibok-Ete Ibas, was the first since the depot’s establishment in 1966.

According to Adamu, the weapons comprised 2,108 single barrel rifles, 57 units of double barrel rifles, 189 short guns, 187 FN (Fabrique Nationale) rifles, 215 SIG (Schweitzerische Industrie-Gasellschaft) rifles and 73SMGs (Sub Machine Guns).

“The depot was established in 1966 as a strategic naval establishment primarily responsible for the storage and issuance of arms and ammunition to navy fleet and establishments.

“Its overtime roles expanded to include: installation, servicing and on demand, maintenance of arms onboard NN ships. The depot also caters for sister services in storing their ordinances from time to time.

“The naval headquarters recently authorised the depot to destroy the unserviceable weapons which comprised weapons seized from repentant militants by the Ondo State Amnesty Programme and unserviceable NN weapons.

“These consist of 2,108 single barrel rifles, 57 units of double barrel rifles, 189 short guns, 187 FN rifles, 215 SIG rifles and 73 SMGs which are earmarked for destruction during this exercise,” he said.

Adamu said the exercise would be conducted for two days to ensure that the weapons were rendered unusable.

“This will involve cutting of the barrels into tiny unusable pieces and finally burying the destroyed weapons in a dug hole at the depot.

“It is believed that this approach will permanently deny criminals and miscreants access to the seized weapons which could pose security threats to the society.

“Solving the problem of firearms proliferation is not for security agencies

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alone; these criminals are subset of the society.

“The police are doing well on arresting and parading the local manufacturers as we usually see through the media,” he said.

Adamu said what the navy had done with the exercise was another great step to stop the weapons from finding their ways back into the society.

“In the custody of the navy today, this is all we have to destroy. As you know, security is dynamic and these criminals keep evolving.

“We are not sleeping also. Definitely, as we arrest them in future, I am sure the navy will also approve their destruction,” he said.

The CNS, represented by the Director of Arms, Naval Headquarters, Rear Adm. Danjuma Dongoyaro, decried the proliferation of firearms, saying that the destruction

was part of the measures to curb it.

Acknowledging that there was other use the metals could be put to, he said, the navy do not want to take chances that could make the weapons land in the hands of criminals again.

“We do not want a situation whereby they will get into wrong hands and are fabricated again.

“Moreover, in the process of disarmament, after you have seized the weapons, you must destroy them, even if they are brand new.

“Destroying these weapons is a means to curb firearms proliferation.

“Allowing them to find their ways back into the society will amount to fetching water with a basket.

“What we expect is for other security services with such arms in their custody to also destroy them,” he said.

ECOWAS to have own currency by 2020, says Niger The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is in the “fast lane’’ of integration and plans to have its own currency in 2020, a member state has disclosed.

Aichatou Kane, a representative from Niger Republic disclosed this at the ongoing 54th Annual Meeting of the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that ECOWAS institutions have been more involved in the region’s single currency creation programme and harmonisation of its monetary policy framework to encourage regional integration and eliminate diverse tariff barriers NAN also reports that AfDB and its partners have inaugurated the Africa Digital Financial Inclusion (ADFI) Facility, designed to aid safety and expansion of digital financial transactions in Africa.

The Fund is being supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Agence Francaise (AFD) and the Government of Luxembourg as initial contributors.

The goal is to ensure that at least 320 million more Africans, of which nearly 60 per cent are women have access to digital financial services.

The Fund will deploy 100 million dollars in grants and 300 million dollars in the form of debt from the Bank’s ordinary capital resources by 2030 to scale up electronic financial services for low-income communities. ”We believe that with the right investments in innovation and smart digital growth, the obstacles to achieving financial inclusion and greater economic opportunity for all will be overcome,’’ Akinwumi Adesina, president of AfDB said.

According to Adesina, the intervention will be aligned to four pillars; infrastructure, including digital interoperable payment systems, digital products and

innovation, policy and regulatory reform and harmonisation, and capacity building.

Mr Michael Wiegand, Director Financial Services for the Poor Programme, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation represented his organisation.

He said “financial inclusion achieved through digital financial service models was a powerful anti-poverty strategy and catalyst of sustainable Economic development for national and regional economies.’’

In his remarks, Mr Sebastien Minot, AFD’s Deputy Head for Africa said “with ADFI, we are convinced that our joint efforts can contribute efficiently to bring down the barriers that still undermine the full potential of digital finance in Africa. ”It will enhance the delivery of quality and responsible digital financial services to the underserved, a cornerstone to inclusive and sustainable financial systems.’’

Georges Heine, Alternate Governor for AfDB from Luxembourg Ministry of Finance said poverty reduction and social cohesion go hand-in-hand with economic empowerment and financial inclusion.

According to him, ADFI will provide an excellent platform for Luxembourg to combine its focus on economic inclusion with its Fintech orientation for the benefit of Africa’s poor.

A three-member panel including AfDB’’s Vice President Pierre Guislain, Private Sector, Infrastructure and Industrialisation discussed modalities, expected challenges and policy requirements that must be in place to enable the Fund achieve its goals.

Meanwhile, Dr Hanan Morsy, AfDB’s Director of Research has said that the Central Africa stood to benefit the most from the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).

She said that Central Africa’s real income could increase by seven per cent in the 2019 African Economic Outlook.

Declare state of emergency to rescue Almajiris, Group urges FG

Resource Centre for Human Rights and Civic Education (CHRICED) has appealed to Federal Government to declare a state of emergency in states and local governments to rescue street and out of school children.

Mr. Ibrahim Zikirullahi, the Executive Director of the group, made the appeal on Thursday in Abuja at a news conference on its ongoing initiative for Combating Forced Child Begging in Northern Nigeria.

He said that there was need to rescue out of school children across the country from their current state of misery and unending abuses.

“Beyond the speeches and the ceremony, the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari must connect the ideals of June 12 to the plight of marginalised and vulnerable Nigerians, whose lives have not been positively impacted by two decades of the democratic process.

“In other words, the

new Democracy Day is worth celebrating, but its commemoration should not just be about the political elites making speeches.

“There should be urgent Action Plans on the part of the Nigerian state to address the plight of ordinary citizens like the millions of children on the streets of our country, the unemployed, and women, who groan daily as a result of the absence of quality governance,” he said.

Zikirullahi however called on the wife of the President, Hajiya Aisha Buhari, who had become a vocal advocate of the poor and vulnerable to consider taking up the issue as part of her long list of advocacies for the marginalised people of this country.

He said that evidence abound about how the rights of children were flagrantly trampled upon, adding that situations such as mothers using their new born babies to elicit pity from passersby and thereafter beg for alms.

He said that children who were supposed to be in the care of their parents or in schools were forced into the streets to beg, and were even given targets, if not met, could result in further abuses.

“There can be no mincing words about the fact that the reality of almajiri children in Northern Nigeria represents the worst and most cruel violation of the rights of children, which calls to question the humanity of the perpetrators of these abuses.

“For those of us who have seen on display this painful plight of these innocent children in the cities and towns across the North, we cannot have sound sleep until concerted efforts to end these cruelties perpetrated against innocent children taken.

“Every day, we see hordes of hungry, unsheltered and barely clad children approaching us to beg for the next meal or for money,” he said.

Zikirullahi said that hundreds of children were

on the street exposed to the elements with no access to education, food, clothing and parental love.

He said that the children and citizens should be guaranteed their fundamental human rights supposedly to protect, recognise and guaranteed by the constitution of the country.

“The prevalence of the social problem of street children will be gleaned from the latest data from the United Nations Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) which puts the number of out of school children in Nigeria at 13.2million.

“Of course, there exist no reliable national figures relating to the number of Almajiri street children in Nigeria. There is little doubt, however, that they are very numerous and are daily increasing in population,’’ he said.

Zikirullahi said the conditions of existence and general attitude of neglect toward the ‘Almajiris’ by the public and government

represent a serious problem of human rights, human development, and social security.

He said that group had gone a step further to strategically engage with the goal of finding and implementing sustainable solutions capable of addressing the problems.

Zikirullahi said that it was against the background that CHRICED and Anti-Slavery International UK, with the support from the Bureau of Human Rights and Labour (DRL) of the U. S. Department of State, decided to design and implement an innovative research-based knowledge on the nature of past and ongoing State and non-State interventions on the Almajiri issue.

Zikirullahi said that the research component of the project would help to generate data such that advocacy on the issue would be based on evidence and not on mere sentiments.

“Nonetheless, one major

talking point in the course of this project will focus on how best to reform the Almajiri system, such that it is no longer an alibi for some of the cruelties against children, which we see in the North on a daily basis.

“For avoidance of doubt, the Almajiri which is currently the subject of abuse and misuse, used to be a functional one in the pre-colonial times, which provided the platform for young people to acquire knowledge of Islam.

“It was a system, which at that time helped to ensure the spread and diffusion of Islamic knowledge as students traveled some distance away from the comfort of their homes to learn at the feet of great Islamic scholars,” he said.

Zikirullahi however called stakeholders to network and share ideas on how best to push for the reforms with the goal of eradicating the drivers of forced child begging to find sustainable and lasting solutions to human right and human security challenge.

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Nigeria will do more to stabilise Short News Court fixes Sept 23 for ruling in West Africa, says Buhari Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed Nigeria’s commitment to stabilising the West-African sub-region within available resources.

The President gave this assurance on Thursday during an audience with Mohammad Ibn Chambas, the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel on Thursday at the State House, Abuja.

Buhari said that he was pleased that the United Nations appreciates his administration’s focus in fighting corruption, poverty and ensuring regional stability.

He also restated his belief that peaceful relations with Nigeria’s neighbours remain imperative in confronting terrorism and insurgency.

Chambas, who represented the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres at the Democracy Day celebration, said the UN boss extended his personal admiration for President Buhari’s “integrity and quality as a statesman especially, in fighting corruption and driving public accountability.”

He said the UN appreciates the Buhari’s commitment to tackling poverty, terrorism, insurgency and recharging the Lake Chad.

While pledging the UN continued technical support to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)

towards the next general elections, Chambas also expressed the UN’s delight that Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Prof.

Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, was elected the President of the 74th UN General Assembly.

He described Prof.

Muhammad-Bande as “highly regarded by his peers in New York,” adding that “we will ensure his tenure is a success.

We have no doubt that he will be a pride to Nigeria and Africa.”

In a related development, President Buhari Thursday received in audience the first Vice-President of the Republic of South Sudan, Taban Deng Gai, who came to seek Nigeria’s continued support towards lasting peace in his country.

application to join Emefiele

An FCT High Court in Kubwa has fixed September 23 to rule on a motion seeking Unity Bank to join the Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele in contempt proceedings against him by a businessman, Godwin Emmanuel.

Justice Bello Kawu fixed the date after Unity Bank’s counsel, Emmanuel Udegbunam moved a motion seeking to join Emefiele in the contempt proceedings.

Udegbunam had told the court that the applicant’s counsel, Maxwell Okpara had reacted to the said application and served him with reactions on June 11 and asked for an adjournment to reply.

Okpara however, withdrew his reaction and applied for the case to go on in order not to waste the time of the court.

Udegbunam moved his motion dated April 16 and filed on the April 17 pursuant to Order 49 and 13, Rule 1 and 18 (1) and (3) of the Rules of the Court. He prayed for an order to join Unity Bank in the suit supporting it with a seven -paragraph affidavit with 17 exhibits, written addresses and relied on its contents.

He urged the court to grant his application in the interest of justice, saying the essence is there are facts to be brought before the court on the matter.

Okpara however, sought leave of court to make a reply on point of law, saying a contemnor is one who has committed contempt of court and refused to comply with court order.

ASUP tasks Buhari to sign Polytechnic amendment Bill

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the Polytechnic Act (Amendment) Bill to address many challenges confronting the sector.

Its National President, Usman Dutse, who made the plea in Lagos, said that the union was waiting for the President’s assent to the bill. Dutse said all observations cited by the President in the 8th National Assembly have been rectified, corrected and transmitted to him for assent.

According to him, the bill has passed through all legislative processes and all observations made by the President initially have been addressed, adding that “we are looking forward to his assent on the bill to improve the polytechnic sector in the country as he assumes office for the second term.

“We are waiting and we are appealing that Mr. President should sign the bill into law because it will help in moving the sector forward. The bill when signed into law will address all the bureaucracies in the sector, minimise internal rumblings and problems as well as industrial harmony in the sector.”

The ASUP president recalled that similar attempts were made in the past on the bill, but the President withheld his assent.

Imo elects Colins as speaker, as predecessor decamps to PDP Val Okara, Owerri

L-R: Ambassador of Japan to Nigeria, Mr. Yutaka Kikuta; Former Minister of Science and Technology, Chief Ogbonaya Onu; and Prime Minister of Japan, Mr. Shunsuke Takei, during the Japan prime minister visit to Onu in Abuja... on Thursday.

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The member representing Isiala Mbano state Constituency in the Imo state House of Assembly, Chidi Colins yesterday emerged as the speaker of the House.

Collins, who was elected under the platform of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) recently dumped the party and defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) before clinching the post of speaker.

The motion to elect the new speaker of the House was moved by Lawman Duruji representing Ehime Mbano state Constituency and seconded by Kennedy Ibe of Obowo state Constituency.

Onyekanma Okechukwu of Mbaitoli state Constituency emerged as the deputy speaker under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The election of Onyekanma to the post of deputy speaker was unopposed and he was nominated by Anyadike Nwosu) and supported by Uju Onwudike.

Daily Times reports that two state lawmakers elected under the aegis of the Action Alliance (AA), Lawman Duruji and Kennedy Ibe dumped their party and joined PDP on the floor of the House after inauguration.

In another development, the immediate past Speaker of the House and deputy governorship candidate of the Action Alliance, Chief Acho Ihim has dumped his party and defected to the PDP.

Court grants AIT/Raypower, NBC leave to settle out of court Health ministry takes sensitisation Justice Inyang Ekwo the out of court settlement after June 6, the NBC suspended

of the Federal High Court Abuja on Thursday granted DAAR Communications and the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC) leave to settle their dispute out of court.

DAAR Communications had prayed the court to restrain the NBC from interfering in its operations, pending the determination of the motion on interlocutory injunctions filed in court.

Founder of DAAR Communications, Raynond Dokpesi, filed the motion after the NBC suspended the operating licences of its Africa Independent Television (AIT) and Raypower FM. The judge granted the leave for

Maliki Sylvanus, holding the brief of Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), counsel to Dokpesi made an oral application.

The matter was slated for hearing before Sylvanus informed the court that parties in the proceedings were engaged in talks with the aim of amicably settling the matter out of court.

He said in view of this, he is calling on the court to avail them with a date for parties to report settlement to the court.

Defence counsels in the matter did not raise any abjection to the application for settlement.

Justice Ekwo subsequently, adjourned the matter until June 26 for report on settlement.

It would be recalled that on

the licence of DAAR Communications Plc, owners of African Independent Television (AIT) and Raypower until further notice.

Director-General of the NBC, Modibbo Kawu, announced the shut down while addressing newsmen in Abuja. He said the action was taken for failure of the stations to abide by the broadcasting code.

Following mediations by media stakeholders, a truce was reached by the two parties to settle the matter amicably in the national interest and one of the conditions agreed upon was the withdrawal of all pending cases in court filed by the broadcast media outfit.

campaign to abattoir Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja

In its bid to ensure the supply of healthy meat and other livestock products for public consumption in Nigeria, the Federal Ministry of Health in collaboration with the National Food Safety Management Committee on Thursday took its sensitization of food handlers to Karu Abattoir, a satellite town in the FCT. Addressing journalists after inspecting the facilities, the NFSMC Consultant, John Tehinse appealed to the management of abattoirs in Nigeria to desist from using tyres and other form of rubbers to burn the cow skin popularly referred to as ‘pomu’, saying it causes cancer.

Tehinse, who expressed regrets that abattoirs in the country do not meet the minimum operating standards to guarantee food safety, said the abattoir is a key sector since the journey of the meat people eat begins from there.

“We have come to a particular sector that is key in the area of food safety, which is meat. Every one of us eats meat and the journey of the meat we eat starts from here. If the meat is unsafe there is nothing the housewife can do to it, there is nothing anybody can do to it. This is the most primary place where we can begin to build safety into our meat.

“Recently, somebody was giving a lecture on tuberculosis in meat where he said it was becoming very rampart. Another major food safety is the slaughter of sick animals for sale and people buying unknowingly for consumption. Another food safety is the way the meat is usually transported to the market with all manner of gross contamination.

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Democracy, the people and the nation

Atiku Abubakar

Democracy as a form of government has not only become fashionable but a popular means of governance amongst all lovers of freedom it confers. Celebrating M.K.O Abiola and others, who sacrificed to usher in the Fourth Republic, won’t be complete without exemplifying the ideals and philosophy of which they championed, sacrificed and died for. The adherence to the principles and ideology of a true democracy anchored on rule of law, should be the firepower behind the celebration, because democracy without the freedom of choice, right of free speech and fundamental individual rights, is a caged democracy.

As we sojourn in the voyage of democracy, we should bear in mind that the most precious gain of democracy any democratically elected government can bequeath its citizens, is not basic amenity of life but the unbridled power to choose their leaders. The right of choice as expressed via sanctity of ballot papers, is the greatest and formidable right of citizens – after right to life.

When this pertinent right is muffled, democracy loses its taste,

and citizens of the state have reduced to mere subjects whose opinions are inconsequential; incapable of influencing the direction of the boat they are being peddled in.

This perfidy will only give birth to an oxymoronic system; democracy without democrats. Certainly this is not the dystopia of democracy our founding fathers visualized.

In the foregoing context, it is worthy to emphasize again that rule of law is the foundation of constitutional democracy. Rule of law is what stabilizes a nation. A government that disdains orders emanating from courts created by the same constitution that brought it to power, is de-legitimizing itself and authority it dispenses.

Government should not cherrypick on which court order to obey or not. We should have grown past this nascent stage when laws of the land are subjected to the whims of individuals that wield political power.

One of the cardinal responsibilities of government is to safeguard lives and properties. Responsive and emphatic leadership does not fiddle while the nation nosedives to the nadir of insecurity. Our nation

loses its place in humanity when lives are being lost unconscionably without commensurate efforts from government to nip this protracted security crisis in the bud. General Muhammadu Buhari should live up to his constitutionally guaranteed role of chief security officer of the country. No excuse should be enough for the indiscriminate loss of lives and properties across the nation. Nigerian life matter.

The persistent security challenges in the nation has brought to fore the need to rejig the structure of the federation. State police is increasingly becoming the only way to go resolving security challenges. It is obvious that one federal police system has become ineffective enough to protect the citizens. Restructuring of Nigerian state is no longer a want but need – an idea whose time has come. It is more than a campaign tool to win votes. We should not be proud celebrating twenty consecutive years of democracy when Nigeria is featured in most of the negative developmental indices cum indexes of the world renowned institutions.

The defective structure of the nation cannot be disconnected from

the growing poverty, misery and frustration in the land. There is no better time to overhaul the structure of the nation than now. It is not about my ambition or generation but future unborn Nigerians. It will be a great disservice to our founding fathers who handed a promising nation to us, that we will be leaving behind a country divided along ethno-religious fault lines; a nation where insufferable despondency pervades the entire country; a nation some citizens still nurses the fear of tribal cum religious domination; world poverty capital, etc.

Marking two decades of uninterrupted democracy has provided us another golden opportunity to introspect on our checkered history of nationhood and interrogate our policies. It is time to harness the potentials our diversity gifts us. We are one people created by God Almighty, we should not view differences in tribe and religion as impediments, rather as opportunity to explore our uniqueness. Citizens should not be hated for exercising their democratic rights of political choices. It is time to heal the land; time to put Nigeria first.

Bridges over phantom lakes

Aniebo Nwamu

Once again, unscrupulous politicians are beating the drums of secession. It’s not new. Whenever the political atmosphere seems charged, one potent way of extracting concessions from the other side is to play the ethnic or religious card. Reputable academics, professionals and politicians have been implicated in this crime of creating phantom lakes and rivers.

While it may be true that the nation is divided, it’s also true that this division exists only in the minds and thinking of the political elite. Ordinary Nigerians – the silent majority – are not worried about the stereotyped classifications of people of other tribes and religions as good or bad. I have listened to conversations in which people of the south-east praised the humility and kindness of their brothers in the north. Several villages in the north are populated by Igbo people who speak and dress like their hosts. And Segun Nweze born and bred in Ibadan does not really understand the gospel of separation he occasionally hears on the radio or reads on social media. So do Abdullahi Momoh, James Abubakar and Chuwang Agbese. By now, the number of Nigerians bearing cross-cultural names must have risen to millions.

By their votes on June 12, 1993, Nigerians proved that tribe and religion were the least of their considerations.

Chief Moshood Abiola won the presidential election across the country on a Muslim-Muslim ticket. He defeated his opponent, Alhaji Bashir Tofa, even in the latter’s own ward. It’s unfortunate that the cabal of that era truncated what would have been Nigeria’s golden age.

Since then, the country has not been the same and may never be the same again.

The real threat to the nation’s existence (not the nation’s unity), however, has been poverty. It is the mass poverty and ignorance in the country today that have enabled these disgruntled politicians to ply their trade openly. That’s why the UN report that Nigeria has 13.5 million street kids or the World Poverty Clock which says it has 92 million poor people should

worry all patriots. And the trend of schools yearly churning out more than a million young people who have no hope of finding jobs or even being employable should cause all right-thinking leaders sleepless nights. Wrong education and its collapse partly inspired Boko Haram – Western education is forbidden. The “bandits” and cattle herders from Niger, Mali, Libya and other countries are those fleeing climate change.

As I said, the occasional threats of secession have been creations of the political class. The ordinary people recruited to fight and die in the civil war of the late 1960s, for instance, did not even understand why they had to fight and kill their brothers. Most were brainwashed to fight the enemy they did not know.

Politicians also threatened secession during the June 12 struggle. Those who predicted that Nigeria would not survive the annulment of the presidential election of 1993 are still in politics. Some of those prophets of doom are today envisaging “disintegration”, unless they received political appointments. It’s all politics!

Nigeria’s greatness lies in its unity in diversity. Regardless of the messages of hate we read daily, ordinary Nigerians love one another. The two major religions, both of which took roots from the Middle East, canvass love and peace.

So, anybody using religion as an excuse to hate other people must be dishonest.

Often, those who discriminate against adherents of other religions are poor, ignorant or malicious politicians. I’m sure that, if jobs had been available for many and the nation’s economy prospering, only a few Nigerians would have been interested in knowing what goes on in Aso Rock or the state government houses.

Just as in the United States: Americans have a greater interest in the weather than in what Trump and Congress are doing.

When people are busy, when they can feed themselves and their families, they care little about what political parties and politicians are doing or saying.

Several times in this space, I have recounted the dreams of Nigeria’s

founding fathers, and the frustrations of those of them that lived up to the 1990s.

All that the present politicians are doing is climb to fame and riches using the names of these founding fathers. On campaign grounds, they keep mentioning Azikiwe, Sardauna Bello, Awolowo, Tarka, Aminu Kano and others. You see these sages’ photos even on campaign posters in 2019.

But one thing today’s politicians cannot do is live by the examples of our heroes past.

To win independence for Nigeria, Zik (who spoke Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo fluently) knew he could not fight alone. Until he died in 1996, he never stopped giving the credit for Nigeria’s independence to all his teammates.

He often decried the lack of unity and the quest for material things among the leaders that succeeded them. I wonder what Zik’s generation would be discussing on the other side, seeing what we‘ve got today.

Our real heroes are these leaders of the First Republic and earlier. It was in their era that tribes were respectable; it’s not like today that almost everyone speaks dogo turenchi – in fact, languages like Igbo are vanishing because “enlightened” parents do not speak the “ancient” language to their children. Yet, our founding fathers got along very well with one another. The famous exchange between Zik and Bello – “Let’s forget/ understand our differences” – was a mirror of true nationalism at its best.

Apart from speaking the three languages, Zik also gave his children Yoruba and Hausa names. He was not alone: We know the famous mathematician that gave birth to a former MD of AMCON, Mustafa Chike-Obi. I have read and heard how Sardauna travelled to Ilorin in 1962 to congratulate the present emeritus Catholic archbishop of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, when he excelled in the WASC exams of that year.

The inter-ethnic marriages of three and four generations ago – like between the parents of (retired general and later

senator) Ike Omar Sanda Nwachukwu, between Yoruba and Tiv, between Angas and Fulani – show that ethnicity was never an issue. More than a century ago, Fulani nomads settled in Ibagwa in present-day Enugu State. Their progeny today speak not just Igbo but the Ibagwa dialect; you cannot distinguish the Fulani from the Igbo of Ibagwa except that the former worship mainly in mosques. It’s the same story in parts of Kwara State where you find Fulani that cannot speak Hausa or Fulani anymore but speak Yoruba fluently. I have no better way of describing these full-blooded Nigerians than “bridge builders of modern Nigeria”.

It is hoped that attachment to tribe or religion will disappear from this blessed land in the nearest future. They can only make us miserable. There is more than enough for everybody to enjoy in Nigeria – a nation blessed with human and mineral resources. Only greed and selfishness have not allowed us to enjoy these bounties.

Until we enthrone good conduct like selflessness and honesty, we would keep lamenting the state of the nation.

It’s not enough to agitate for “resource control”, “power shift” or “our turn to rule”. Even if all the oil in the Niger Delta were left for Niger Deltans alone, poverty and squalor would persist in the area. Cows, rams and goats reared in the north-west, and the yams, onions, ginger and groundnuts cultivated in the northcentral and north-east contribute more to the nation’s GDP than oil. Similarly, if presidents of northern extraction remained in power for 100 more years, the poverty and hopelessness in the area won’t disappear.

Only when people of conscience begin to use the human and material resources we have for the benefit of all would Nigeria witness peace and prosperity. Nobody is suffering today because of the sins of people from another tribe. Let those with wisdom understand the game of the selfish elite.

We need each other.

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Editorial Commentary NLC restates support for Venezuela, Sahrawi Republic Ukpono Ukpong, Abuja Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has reiterated its support for the Arab Democratic Republic, SADR (Western Sahara) in its quest for self-determination even as it frowned at the foreign aggression led by the United State government on Venezuela.

The Acting President of NLC, Alhaji Najeem Yasin, in his separate speech delivered during a visit to the Congress headquarters in Abuja by delegations led by the President of SADR, Brahim Ghali and Vice President of Venezuela, Aristóbulo Istúriz.

Yasin wonders why European Union (EU) which is loud in shouting about human rights, liberty, freedom and equality, is in league with Morocco stealing the natural resources of Western Sahara.

He pledged the Congress commitment to the liberation of Western Sahara thus, announcing its resolve to challenge Morocco everywhere it seeks to perpetuate its ‘evil deeds’.

“Your Excellency, with millions of friends in Nigeria who solidarize with the Sharawi people “Today, all Africa is free except Western Sahara where rather than decolonize, the Spanish state which colonized Western Sahara in 1884, decided to invite another African country, Morocco to perpetuate the colonization. This is in order to continue the 135 years of the theft of Western Sahara natural resources and the exploitation of its people.

“Is it not surprising that the European Union (EU) which is loud in shouting about human rights, liberty, freedom and equality, is in league with Morocco stealing the natural resources of Western Sahara?

“This movement, as your able ambassador in Nigeria, Ambassador Malainine Sadik-

Bashir must have been reporting to you, is fully committed to the liberation of Western Sahara, and everywhere Morocco seeks to perpetuate its evil deeds, we are there to challenge it.

“We felt that the Ebola-like contagious foreign policy of Morocco must not be allowed to spread to the West African Region. Currently, apart from combating Morocco’s corruptiondriven attempt to suck in some Nigerian officials to support its colonization of Western Sahara, we are also engaging the Nigerian Government to stop the Fertilizer Producers and Suppliers of Nigeria (FEPSON) from its indecent liaison with Morocco to sell in Nigeria, Western Sahara phosphate and natural resources plundered by Morocco.”

Similarly, the Acting NLC President reassured the Vice President of Venezuela, Aristóbulo Istúriz, of the Congress support for the struggle of the Venezuelan people against external aggression and interference.

“Congress is fully aware of the struggles of the people of Venezuela, especially against foreign aggression led by the United State and its attempt to impose anti-people leadership on the country.

“We support you in this struggle. The Nigerian labour movement align itself with other labour movements and allies across the world to support you and the Venezuelan people in your struggles against external aggression and interference.

“It is historical that we support the working people and leadership of Venezuela because your political system is people oriented and supports the desires and aspirations of workers all over the world.”

He therefore called on workers across the globe to offer support to Venezuelans, even if its limited to moral and political support as a token of global solidarity.

LETTERS EDITOR

TO THE

MKO ABIOLA: THE GREATEST NIGERIAN TO DATE? In every sense of being a Nigerian: detribalised, ‘dereligionised’, generous across every facet of Nigeria’s endeavours and to all Nigerians in their tribal, religious and cultural enclaves, Chief MKO Abiola had the highest number of chieftaincies from almost all ethnic groups in Nigeria!

A latter day ‘political titan’ and ‘progressive’ that even the Military feared and the Western World trembled for (because of his stubborn campaign for Reparation for Africa for the twin injustices of slavery and colonialism - a strong supporter of all blacks in the Diaspora.

Abiola was a highly successful business mogul, pillar of sports in Africa. And was not ‘a money-miss-road illiterate, but a First Class Graduate of Accounts from the University of Glasgow!

A ‘stammerer-orator’, and ‘stammerer-musician’(!)

MKO was a person whom the taciturn and highly principled Dr. Tai Solarin described as ‘an unknown genius’ because he witnessed MKO dictate a 33-page lecture paper inside the Aero plane for an international conference they both attended, and which same paper took him (Tai Solarin) one month to prepare (!).

Very humble man to the old and young, men and women, rich and poor, royalty and pauper, who sought and got the votes of majority of Nigerians freely without monetisation or vote buying. He was never the richest, but was the most generous Nigerian philanthropist to date! Let’s have the name of any other person in Nigerian history who equalled all the above (and much more) than M.K.O. Abiola! May your soul continue to rest in Paradise with Allah. Amen.

Mr. Adeyemi is a Lagos-based journalist and proprietor of Sublime Model Schools.

OUR POSITION Tackling the menace of drug abuse in Nigeria

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he devastating consequences of drug use know no geographic, economic, social, or ethnic boundaries. Each year hundreds of thousands of people around the globe – rich, poor, educated, illiterate, male, female, and even young children die from drug abuse, and millions more are victims of addiction and drug-fueled violence.

Beyond the toll drugs take on health and welfare, substance use disorders undermine economic development, diminishes social and political stability, and reduces security in countries and regions around the world.

It is no longer news that 70% of youth in Nigeria today get themselves involved in one form of drug abuse or the other.

Amidst the widespread commendations over the ban of codeine by the Federal Government, a new large-scale nationwide survey has revealed that drug use by people within the ages of 15 and 64 years in Nigeria is on the rise.

A survey on drug use in Nigeria last year had revealed that the nation is breeding a wild generation of drug addicts. This gory state of affairs of substance abuse calls for the declaration of a state of emergency, considering the fact that the youth population is the fulcrum of national development.

The nationwide survey by the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) funded by European Union (EU) in partnership with the Federal Government said 10.6 million Nigerians abused cannabis in 2018, while 4.6 million abused opiods.

The report said that 2.4 million youths and adults also abused cough syrups with 92,000 more using cocaine. Other drugs commonly abused during the period are tranquilizers and sedatives, solvent, inhalers, amphetamines and prescription stimulants.

This survey also reports that one of four drug users in Nigeria is a woman. Adding that the extent of drug use in Nigeria is comparatively high compared to previous global annual prevalence of any drug abuse use.

Basically, youths in the country inhale, inject and consume psychotic and narcotic substances and drugs at will, easily evading the scrutiny of a society distracted by economic malaise at the expense of their future wellbeing.

Truth be told, the impact of drug abuse is lethal.

Many families are contending with drug addicts; some of them have quit schooling and work; others are on the verge of lunacy or battling with acute

diseases.

The number of drug users in Nigeria is estimated at 14.4 per cent or 14.3 million people aged between 15 and 64 years according to the results of the National Drug Use Survey. The data suggests that the prevalence of past year drug use in Nigeria is more than twice the global average of 5.6 per cent.

The extent of drug use in Nigeria is comparatively high when compared with the 2016 global annual prevalence of any drug use of 5.6 per cent among the adult population.

There is a gap in meeting the needs for treatment and care for people with drug use disorders. With close to three million Nigerians living with some level of drug dependence, the extremely limited availability of drug counselling and treatment services exacerbates this health crisis.

This is indeed striking and alarming and calls for concerted efforts to mitigate the negative consequences of this rising menace on the health, socio-economic and security of our nation.

Even though the Federal Government has over the years responded boldly to this global challenge with innovative, standard-setting drug demand reduction programs, we are of the opinion that there is need to solve the problem.

Awareness programmes need to be developed to address the perception of stigma among the youth and their families over substance use and to remove barriers towards seeking care for these problems.

These programmes should also address the inability of the youth to perceive addictive behaviours as a health risk.

Parents and support persons’ involvement and engagement in youth programmes should be strengthened further as it improves communication and better decision-making for youth health issues.

Family-based prevention programmes emphasising parenting skills, training or improving family functioning, communication and family rules regarding substance abuse needs to be introduced.

Also, teachers are a major source of information to young people. Hence, strengthening the role and performance of educational institutions, ensuring availability of counselling services, gender sensitivity issues, making life skills courses a part of curriculum are required for health and welfare of young people.

Most importantly, in all youth related programmes, young people should be involved and engaged to empower them to take informed decisions.

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South East must align with other zones Short News reiterates support for independence of to actualise Igbo Presidency - Okorocha Nigeria Sahrawi Republic Says no basis for INEC’s appeal

Tunde Opalana, Abuja Former Governor of Imo state, Senator Rochas Okorocha has cautioned his Igbo compatriots to accept the fact that the clamour for an Igbo Presidency should be well structured in alliance with other geopolitical zones of the country.

Okorocha warned that the South East should not expect political power on a platter of gold, but to lobby other regions of the country towards attaining power.

Addressing the media shortly after his inauguration as senator representing Imo West Senatorial District, Sen. Okorocha said the Igbos should work towards taken power at the centre, adding that “power is not given, power is taken.

“The South East cannot just fold their arms and expect power to be given to them just because you want power. Power does not go with sentiment some of the times; it’s on issues on ground. Democracy is about the people and South East alone cannot make themselves president.

“So you cannot be talking about Igbo presidency, it doesn’t exist. We may be talking about Nigeria’s president of Igbo extraction, but that depends on what other

geo-political zones think about the issue.

“There is need for the Igbos to mend fences. We are neither here or there now politically. We are not in the ruling party, neither are we making impact in the opposition. So, there is need for us to get married to the rest of the nation politically “For me, what is important is let power be given to somebody who has something upstairs who can put food on the table of the common man, irrespective of religion or where you come from.”

Okorocha denied forcing an official of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) undress duress to alter the Imo West senatorial result in his favour.

“Duress means using mild or excessive force to compel someone to do something he or she does not want to do. How would you have done that in a returning hall where you have the police, DSS and party agents?

“And then, me walking with a gun or machete asking them to write result on my behalf. That didn’t happen. I think there is more to duress than duress itself.”

He however, frowned at INEC decision to challenge the ruling of the Federal High Court, Abuja that ordered the release of

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his withheld certificate of return.

He said “it will be very surprising to see that INEC will appeal this matter because there is no basis for it.”

On the late issuance of certificate of return to him, he challenged those behind his travails, if any, to be bold enough to own up, saying that “they assume what someone told them after five days”.

Okorocha gave gratitude to God for the privilege to be sworn in as a senator despite the troubles he went through Appreciating the judiciary for retrieving his mandate, the former governor said “I want to thank the judiciary. Without them I won’t be here. I commend INEC for releasing my certificate. It’s a learning process.”

Speaking on his mission at the Senate, Okorocha said “one of it is that the bridge connecting the South East and the North.

I will build the bridge. Free education is what I want to achieve. I am concerned about the killings in the North West, especially Zamfara and Kaduna states.

Whatever we can do to curb it, I will work with my colleagues to achieve that.”

The former governor was earlier formally inaugurated as member of the 9th Senate at plenary on Thursday.

President Muhammadu Buhari has restated the nation’s support for the people of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) and their quest for self-determination and independence.

The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic is a partially recognized state that claims the non-self-governing territory of Western Sahara, but controls only the easternmost one-fifth of that territory.

President Buhari stated this on Thursday at an audience granted the President of SADR, Brahim Ghali at the State House, Abuja.

He stressed that the country’s position is in line with several resolutions of the African Union and the United Nations on the matter, assuring that “Nigeria remains committed to supporting the efforts of the AU and the UN towards finding a lasting solution to the Sahrawi problem.”

Earlier, President Ghali had congratulated President Buhari on his reelection and the successful celebration of Democracy Day. He commended Nigeria’s past support for SADR during President Buhari’s tenure as military head of state and the country’s support for liberation movements on the African continent.

Garba emerges Jigawa assembly speaker for third time

Alhaji Idris Garba (APC/Gumel) has been re-elected for the third time as speaker, Jigawa House of Assembly within four years.

Garba, who was elected speaker of the House in 2015 was however, impeached in January 2017. The legislators had impeached Garba due to alleged high handedness and abuse of power and replaced him with Alhaji Isa Idris (APC/Gwaram).

Idris was also impeached on May 9 and replaced with Garba.

Garba was elected unopposed after he was nominated by Alhaji Usman Isa (APC/Kanya) and seconded by Abubakar Muhammad (APC/Hadejia) Subsequently, the acting Clerk of the House, Alhaji Ya’u Adamu, who called for nominations for the post, later declared Garba the elected speaker of the house since there was no opposition.

“In the absence of further nominations, I hereby declare him (Garba) as the speaker of the House from today, June 13, 2019,” the clerk said.

The lawmakers also unanimously elected Alhaji Sulaiman Musa (APC/Guri) as deputy speaker, after he was nominated by Alhaji Suraj Muhammad (APC/Birninkudu).

Ihedioha congratulates Lawan, Gbajabiamila, deputies

Cross section of the newly inaugurated Ad-hoc Committee on Media and Welfare at the National Assembly in Abuja... on Thursday.

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CAN charges Buhari to give priority to security The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Kaduna state chapter on Thursday appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to give priority attention to the security of lives and property of the people in his second term.

Chairman of the association, Rev. John Hayab, who made the call in an interview in Kaduna, said that CAN’s expectations were “that he should take drastic actions to address security challenges in our country.”

According to him, security is not just in the hands of those officially being paid to do the work as the real security is everyone’s business.

He stated that “our leaders must give us the confidence to believe them and partner with them to clear our communities of the activities of criminals and evil men.

Nigerians should have confidence in those

protecting them so that they will give them honest support.”

He advised the President to appoint competent people into his cabinet, especially those that would run the security agencies.

The CAN chairman who said the poverty level in the country is increasing, urged the President to come up with economic programmes that would empower the less privilege people to reduce the gap between the rich and the poor.

According to him, when a society has only a few privileged persons controlling everything, the tendency is that those who are hungry can get angry.

Hayab said that in his fight against corruption, the President should be seen to be sincerely doing it, adding that the President should in his quest to take

the country to the next level work with Nigerians from across regional, religious, party and ethnic divide.

He said that in doing so, the President would be promoting unity and building trust among Nigerians.

Hayab said that operating in an atmosphere of trust and unity would make Nigerians live in peace and harmony and in an atmosphere devoid of fear and suspicion.

“Enemies of our country are exploiting our fear and suspicion to further create wider rift between us,” he stated and urged Nigerian leaders to conduct themselves in such a manner that would prove to the citizens that their “desire and appeal for unity is from the heart.

“Citizens will become more patriotic when they are sure that their peace, security and welfare are not politicised.”

Governor Emeka Ihedioha of Imo state has congratulated the leadership of the 9th National Assembly on the emergence of Senator Ahmed Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila as President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives respectively.

He also congratulated their deputies, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege and Idris Wase respectively.

The governor while tasking the new leadership to endeavour to strengthen democracy in the country, also expressed worry at the situation of the six top political offices not having a representative from the South East geo-political zone.

“I congratulate the President of Senate, Sen. Ahmed Lawan, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and their deputies on their emergence. I urge them to ensure the strengthening of democracy in our country,” Gov. Ihedioha stated.

While commending their transparent emergence, he said that “obviously, people voted their minds and they got overwhelming majority of votes.

We expect them to work in consonance with the mandates they have been given.

“We expect them to ensure that the six geo-political zones in this country are given their rights of place and to run one House devoid of partisanship and division, and then strengthen the unity of our nation which today requires all of us to put hands on deck.

“So, we support and encourage the leadership of the National Assembly to succeed. And interestingly I am a product of that Assembly and of a due process like this. So, I will give my loyalty and support to the leadership of the National Assembly,” he added.

Kwara assures business community of enabling environment Kehinde Akinpelu, Ilorin

Kwara state Governor Abdulraman Abdulrazaq has reiterated the assurance of his administration to create an enabling environment for businesses to thrive in the state.

The governor stated this on Thursday when he paid an unscheduled visit to Olam Grains and Cashew Processing Factory at Ogbondoroko in Asa Local Government Area of the state.

AbdulRazaq, who lauded the economic impact the factory, offers the people of Kwara state and Nigeria at large, especially in the areas of job opportunities to a minimum of 1,500 people, further assured that government will encourage the expansion of businesses across the state.

While reacting to the complaints of the association of cashew farmers and dealers, he promised to invite them for an interface at an appropriate time towards addressing their problems.

Earlier, the Plant Manager, Olam Cashew Processing factory, Sajjad Hussein, stated that there are five stages involved in cashew processing and that it takes up to eight days before the end product is realised.

The governor used the occasion to commission the water project provided by the company for Ogbondoroko community, as part of its corporate social responsibility programme.

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Ihedioha advocates enthronement Short News Lagos to partner FG, judiciary to of strong legal framework decongest prisons - Sanwo-Olu

Swears-in AG, Special Advisers

Val Okara, Owerri Governor Emeka Ihedioha of Imo State has restated the need for the enthronement of sustainable strong legal framework for the achievement of enduring strength and stability of the state and the nation.

Ihedioha made the clarification after the swearing-in the Attorney-General and Commissioner of Justice of the state, Ndukwe Nnawuchi (SAN) and Special Advisers at the Government House, Owerri, on Thursday.

Describing Nnawuchi as “a reputable gentleman and an astute personality who has eminently distinguished himself in the practice of the law, in the church and in the larger society”, Gov. Ihedioha charged him to use the opportunity of his appointment to demonstrate his unshakable commitment to the rule of law and promotion of good governance which constitutes the main policy thrust of his administration.

He reminded that his agenda to rebuild the state is anchored principally on several action plans, including introducing due process, openness, transparency and accountability in the conduct of government business; pursuit of reforms of administration of justice system for quicker dispensation of justice; introduction of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)

processes via the multi-door court system as well as guaranteeing the security of lives and properties of citizens.

“Without the requisite legal personnel, the above listed admirable objectives of my administration for the Justice sector will become a mirage. I am confident that your appointment will herald a new dawn as you will work assiduously to put in place innovative, effective, workable reforms and strategies to deliver justice to Imo citizens within reasonable time. Therefore, you should ensure that the Law Officers apply the weapon of diligent prosecution as an effective tool of law enforcement.

“We will expect and demand accountability and due diligence from the appointees. The weight of expectation is enormous. Imo people, the South East and Nigerians expect so much from us.

And while we understand these concerns, we however implore all and sundry to be patient, exhibit good citizenship and continue to support the government as we are committed to all we have set out to achieve.

“In choosing these resources, we were careful and deliberate as we considered it pertinent and imperative to bring onboard men and women of proven capacity, competence, capability, commitment and courage. We were also mindful of the fact that Imo is not just a state but also a pan Igbo – sub nation, whose actions and

inactions are in the eyes and lips of many”.

He further implored them to strive to justify the confidence reposed in them to ensure that the desired rebuilding and transformation in all the sectors of the state will be achieved.

The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice thanked the Governor for appointing him, a member of the Inner Bar, for the first time since the creation of the state, 43 years ago.

“The expectation is undoubtedly very high and perhaps underscores the excitement of many who have inundated my telephone with calls and text messages, expressing gratitude to God and to Your Excellency for this appointment”.

He lamented the sorry state of the state and assured of his commitment towards actualising the vision of the state government.

“Imo State is completely battered and in ruins. And as a result, I am apprehensive and conscious of the fact that this invitation to serve is coming at a time in the history of our state for an expectant people in their most challenging times since the most courageous genocide inflicted on them by the out gone administration. I am however trusting God that given the enabling environment, I shall commit myself tirelessly and assiduously to assisting Your Excellency and the government in the task of rebuilding our state.”

Benjamin Omoike, Lagos

Lagos state Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said that the executive will work with the state’s judiciary and the federal government to find a lasting solution to prison congestion, saying that the issue has become a major challenge to the state’s justice system.

Gov. Sanwo-Olu stated this on Thursday after swearing in the new acting Chief Judge of Lagos state, Justice Kazeem Alogba.

The governor said that “the current situation where over 70 per cent of inmates in our prisons constitute awaiting trials is not acceptable as it is not a reflection of an efficient justice delivery system.

“We will also not hesitate to do whatever is required to sustain the ongoing reform in the judicial sector so the desired result of ensuring that the wheel of justice rolls as fast as it could, will be achieved.”

The governor further stated that his administration will embark on the review of the state’s judiciary, noting that the three arms of government must form a synergy for the development of the state and also promised to continue with judicial reforms in the state.

Tribunal adjourns PDP’s case over WAEC subpoena Kehinde Akinpelu, Ilorin

The Kwara state Governorship Election Petition Tribunal on Thursday adjourned to Friday to enable a representative of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to present his subpoena.

The tribunal had adjourned to Thursday for full hearing to begin in the petition of the PDP challenging the declaration of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on the allegation that the governor had presented a forged certificate.

But, Waheed Bamidele Amode, the WAEC branch controller for Kwara state, who appeared on subpoena by the PDP, told the tribunal that he was yet to receive copies of the subpoena from the Lagos headquarters of the examination body.

Amode’s statement led to the PDP counsel, Paul Erokoro (SAN) requesting the tribunal to stand down the case for Amode to present evidence of the subpoena and that he had been asked to represent the examination body.

Counsel to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Rowland Otaru objected to the application, insisting that it amounted to needless waste of time by the petitioners.

Otaru said the petitioners had nearly three weeks since the tribunal adjourned to get the WAEC representative to appear before the tribunal to prove its case, but waited till June 9 to serve the subpoena.

Arewa youths task Lawan, Gbajabiamila on security, economic growth

The Joint Consultative Forum of Northern Youth Groups has charged the new leadership of the 9th National Assembly to focus more on matters of serious national concerns, including security and economic growth.

This is contained in a statement issued by the Chairman of the forum, Murtala Abubakar in Kaduna.

The forum declared its support for the leadership of the legislature, assuring that it would work with the leaders in the task of pushing the country to greater heights.

The Arewa youth also congratulated Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege and Ahmed Wase for their elections as deputy Senate President and deputy speaker of the House of Representatives respectively.

“Now that elections are over and principal officers of the National Assembly elected, Nigerians, particularly the youth, would like to see the implementation of blueprints that would translate to an improved economy and accelerated growth in the country,” the forum said.

The forum described the emergence of the new National Assembly leaders as a reflection of the wishes of the majority of the legislators and urged the winners and losers to work in harmony for the good of the nation.

Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila (middle) and Deputy Speaker, Ahmed Idris proceeding to the Chamber for the first plenary session of the 9th Assembly in Abuja... on Thursday.

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Lawan inaugurates committee on seats, office allocation Tunde Opalana, Abuja Senate President, Ahmad Lawan on Thursday inaugurated a 12- man ad hoc committee to work with the management of the National Assembly on issues bordering on house- keeping.

The decision to constitute the committee was taken at a 70- minute closed session of the Senate.

Lawan said the committee members will work with the Clerk of the Senate, Nelson Ayewoh and other management staff of the National Assembly to fine tune the allocation

of seats in the chamber and offices to senators.

Headed by Senator Abubakar Kyari (APC/Borno North), the committee has two weeks to submit its report.

Other members of the Committee are Aisha Modibo (Adamawa Central), Gabriel Suswam ( Benue North East), Sabi Abdullahi (Niger North), Betty Appiafi (Rivers West), Nicholas Tofowomo (Ondo South), Bassey Albert (Cross River South), Stella Oduah (Anambra North), Ibrahim Gobir (Sokoto East), Solomon Olamilekan (Lagos West), Chukwuka Utazi (Enugu North) and Jibril Barau

(Kano North).

Meanwhile, the Senate plenary was adjourned to July 2.

Before adjourning, the Senate agreed to send messages to a number of persons informing them “that a quorum of the Senate has assembled and that the presiding officers of the 9thAssembly of the Senate have been elected.”

This message is to be sent to the President, the speaker and deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, office of the secretary to the government of the federation and international parliamentary bodies.

Lagos businesswoman murdered Chioma Joseph, Lagos

The police in Lagos have launched an investigation into the murder of a businesswoman in the state, Abimbola Ayanwale.

Ayanwale was reportedly murdered by yet-to-be identified persons on June 10 at Maryland area of Lagos.

It was gathered that Ayanwale had returned home from her shop on Monday evening, shortly after which she received a call from an unknown person at 8pm.

She left her house in Ikeja, only for her dead body to be found in Maryland at about 10:30pm the same day.

CCTV footage obtained from a shop close to Maryland Mall, showed how Ayanwale’s body was thrown out of a yellow-coloured commercial bus.

Speaking on the incident, her close friend, who chose to remain anonymous, insisted it is a clear case of murder, carried out be someone who knew her.

She said none of Ayanwale’s valuables was touched, neither was any body part found missing.

The source revealed that her hands and legs were tied and that she was shot before been thrown out of the vehicle.

Contacted to confirm if any arrest had been made, the Lagos state Police Public Relations Officer, Elkana Bala said “we have launched an in-depth investigation into the case and we cannot give details at this stage please.”

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3-day-old baby stolen from Plateau hospital Kingsley Chukwuka, Jos A three-day -old baby girl has been allegedly stolen from the Plateau Specialist Hospital in Jos, Plateau state.

Narrating this to journalists in Jos, the mother of the missing child, Mary Chukwuebuka, said that she was delivered of her missing child on May 28, but after delivery she was scheduled to receive blood transfusion due to the induced delivery.

“I was to be given blood transfusion and my husband was not around, but we got a donor, who donated blood for me, but it didn’t work and the nurse agreed to get blood for me and the transfusion was subsequently, done for three days.

“In the evening of the third day, the doctor came and I was expecting him to discharge me, but he said that they were going to run another test and asked if I was given any form and I said no. He said that they will bring the form in the morning to run the test.

“However, another lady came around 6pm, when she came she moved straight to me on the bed and asked where the baby is? The lady said that they are supposed to get the blood from the baby and demanded to carry the baby to go and collect the blood and I gave her the baby on trust that

she was a doctor.

“I wanted to undress the baby, but she told me to stop, that she will take her to the children’s ward to take the blood. She asked me to tell my mother to follow her to collect the baby, but on the way she sent my mother back on the excuse that when they finish, she will send for her to come and collect the baby and my mother came back,” she stated.

Mrs. Chukwuebuka added that after some time without her baby being returned to her, she asked a fellow patient who was just coming from the children’s ward where the baby was supposedly taken, only for the patient to answer in the negative.

“I immediately stood up and went there, but there was no child and the lady was not there. I came back and reported immediately to the nurses and they started searching. The nurses searched and didn’t see the baby and the woman.

“The hospital authority called the police and reported the matter and I called my husband to come so that we can all go to the station to give statement. The hospital’s management and the police went to the station and we waited for them in the hospital and the police came in later and took my statement.

“Since then, they have stopped treating me and I have being in the hospital doing nothing and no treatment; nobody is

attending to me,” the weeping mother lamented.

Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Dr. Philemon Golwa, confirmed the incident, saying it could be linked to a woman who visited the hospital prior to the disappearance of the baby under the pretext that she was pregnant.

Upon examination, Dr. Golwa said the hospital authorities discovered that she wasn’t pregnant, but that the woman and a man claiming to be her husband caused a scene before leaving the hospital.

“The nurses then advised all the patients to be careful with their babies after that incident only for us to hear that a woman dressed as a hospital staff had abducted a baby and the mother did not notify the hospital until about an hour later,” he said.

He disclosed that the hospital was checking from its records to get information about the woman who pretended to be pregnant while the police had been involved and were investigating the matter.

When contacted about the incident, the spokesman of the state police command, Mathias Terna, said the Command is aware of the incident and that investigation is ongoing.

Terna said that “We will issue a statement concerning the incident tomorrow because we don’t want to talk, so that we don’t jeopardize the ongoing investigation.”

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Short News NSCDC deploys personnel to volatile areas in Katsina Ukpono Ukpong, Abuja Following the disturbing trend of armed banditry and cattle rustling in Katsina state, the Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Abdullahi Mahamadu has directed the commandant of the corps in Katsina state to liaise with other security agencies in deploying additional personnel to the affected areas.

This order, according to a statement signed by the Corps Public Relations Officer, Emmanuel Okeh, is in addition to the already deployed personnel for this purpose as well as those already deployed for operation ‘Sharan Daji’ in the state.

The statement further noted that the commandant general gave the directive after summoning the Katsina state commandant to brief the management on the security situation in the state.

While reiterating the core mandate of the corps’ to include, but not limited to the protection of critical national assets and infrastructure, registration, licensing, monitoring and supervision of private guard companies and disaster management, the commandant general stressed the need to synergize with other security agencies to enthrone peace in the country.

Herdsman beheads girlfriend in Ekiti Gbenga Sodeinde, Ado Ekiti It was indeed a gory sight to behold in Ilasa Ekiti, Ekiti East Local government as a young herdsman name withheld was alleged to have beheaded a young lady.

The incident which occurred on Tuesday has thrown the whole community into confusion.

The victim who is also of the same tribe with the suspected assailant was attacked beside a stream where she had gone to fetch water with her younger sister.

The assailant was said to have ambushed the lady and attacked her with a machete while she was collecting some water from the stream and took to his heels, but was later arrested through the information provided by the younger sister of the deceased.

Reports by notable personalities in the community, including the traditional ruler of the community, the Alasa of Ilasa, Oba Ajayi Omolagba revealed that the young lady had allegedly been handed over to the suspected assailant as a future wife while she was still a teenager in line with their custom and tradition.

Sani-Bello appoints SSG, 2 other appointees Saka Bolaji, Minna Governor Abubakar Sani- Bello of Niger state has made his first appointments since his inauguration on May 29 with the approved of the appointment of Alhaji Ahmed Matane as the new Secretary to the State Government (SSG).

According to a statement issued by the Permanent Secretary, Special Duties, Musa Ibrahim, in the same vein the governor approved the appointments of Alhaji Ibrahim Balarabe as the new chief of staff to the governor and Hajiya Salamatu Abubakar as the new head of service of Niger state.

She becomes the first female to occupy the position since the creation of the state in 1976.

The statement further stated that the appointments were based on merit, proven integrity and outstanding record of performance in their previous assignments.

The permanent secretary stressed that the appointees are expected to bring their knowledge, administrative skills and wealth of experience to bear in the performance of their new assignments by working assiduously to justify the confidence reposed in them.

Zamfara APC leader pledges to support Gov Matawalle L-R: Immediate past Chief Judge of Lagos State, Hon. Justice Opeyemi Oke; Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu; newly sworn-in Acting Chief Judge of the State, Hon. Justice Kazeem Alogba and Deputy Governor, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, during the swearing-in of Justice Alogba at the Lagos House, Alausa, Ikeja...on Thursday.

Police nab Methodist priest for faking own kidnap Gbenga Sodeinde, Ado Ekiti The Ekiti state Police Command has arrested a priest of the Methodist Church, Rev. Peter Adegoke Adewuyi for allegedly faking his own kidnap to collect ransom from church members and other individuals.

Also arrested by the police is one Sunday Oluwadare Adewole, who was helping the priest make calls to unsuspecting members of the public to demand ransom over the phantom kidnap.

A source at the command told our correspondent that the two suspects will

be charged to court as soon as the police conclude their investigations.

The 31-year-old priest was said to have lodged in a hotel in Ado-Ekiti and hid himself from public view from where he and his accomplice made calls to unsuspecting church members to pay the ransom for his release, claiming that his captors demanded for N3 million before he regains his freedom.

The development reportedly threw his church into confusion with members raising cash to pay the ransom for what turned out to be fake kidnap saga.

The phoney kidnap stunt was busted by the police who intercepted and arrested the holder of the mobile phone used in

making the N3 million ransom demand from family and church members.

Unknown to the priest, he was tracked to a location near First Bank in Okeyinmi area of Ado Ekiti where he had gone to pick up the supposed ransom.

While being interrogated by the police, Adewuyi confessed to have masterminded his own kidnap and demanding for the N3 million ransom.

The priest also confessed that he lodged at a hotel during the period of his self -enforced disappearance from the public.

The two suspects are presently being detained at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID).

Former governor and All Progressives Party (APC) leader in Zamfara state, Sen. Ahmed Sani has promised to support the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led administration in the state.

Sen. Ahmed Sani, who is the immediate past senator representing Zamfara West, gave the assurance when he paid a courtesy call on the state Governor, Bello Matawalle at the Government House, Gusau.

He said: “No doubt, your emergence as the fifth governor of Zamfara state is the will of Allah and anyone who tries to challenge this position has no faith in the will of Allah who gives or takes power at His choice.

“I am here today to congratulate and wish you luck in the new administration of the state and to assure of my support for your success. “l want to assure you that all my supporters will support you and l will continue to draw the attention of the people of the state to give their maximum support to you and the administration especially with genuine advice that will promote the development of the state,” the senator assured.

Sani, who is the first civilian governor in the state, also pledged to assist the PDP-led government of the state in the fight against crime as well as improvement in the healthcare delivery system and education.

In his response, Matawalle thanked the senator for his support and pledged that his administration would continue to carry all wellmeaning citizens along in the efforts to develop the state. “l will strongly rely on elders like you in order to assemble leaders of thought from the state every month with whom we can jointly set good directions to the state,” the governor noted.

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Nigeria Customs increases revenue to N5.5bn daily, says NCS boss Temitope Adebayo The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has increased its revenue generation to the region of N5.5 billion daily, the ComptrollerGeneral (CGC), Hameed Ali revealed.

The Customs boss disclosed this during a working visit to the headquarters of the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) in Lagos.

The CGC, who was represented at the event by the Assistant Comptroller General (ACG) and Customs Coordinator in-charge of Zone A, Kaycee Ekekezie, said the feat was made possible as a result of the automation of customs operations at the ports.

According to the customs boss, the increase in revenue generation has helped in the prompt payment of salaries of workers of the NCS and made the organisation a critical contributor to the nation’s treasury in terms of revenue generation.

“The automation of the customs system at ports and borders has made it easy for the service to block revenue leakages and meet targets.

“The system has made transaction in ports user-friendly while eliminating human contact and its attendant frictions in the cargo transaction business,’’ Ali said.

The customs helmsman, who charged the freight forwarders on trade compliance, said sincerely declaration and truthful documentation would aid both the customs and the forwarders to achieve a common goal of trade facilitation devoid of cargo delays.

The NAGAFF Founder, Boniface Aniebona, who hosted the occasion in his remarks at the event, asked port users to help the NCS by adhering to trade compliance.

He said such drive would foster a good relationship with the customs personnel.

Mr Aniebona said as an association they would begin the sanitation from within by exposing and sanctioning erring members in order to maintain a good relationship with the customs.

L-R: The Amayanabo of Twon-Brass, King Alfred Diete-Spiff, the NDDC Acting Managing Director, Prof Nelson Brambaifa, and the Acting Executive Director, Finance and Administration, Dr Chris Amadi, at a special Niger Delta stakeholders’ interactive dinner held recently at the Hotel Presidential, Port Harcourt.

Nigeria’s revenue target for budget declines by 28.2% in April Motolani Oseni The Federal Government of Nigeria’s revenue target to finance budget fell by 28.2 per cent or N795.31 billion in April 2019, an amount below the provisional monthly budget estimated at N1, 107.12 billion, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) economic report for April has shown.

The CBN’s latest report, however, stated that the N795.31 billion revenue raked in April exceeded the receipt of N767.90 billion in the preceding month by 3.6 per cent.

According to the report, the decrease, relative to the provisional monthly budget estimate was attributed to a shortfall in both oil and non-oil revenue.

“Oil receipts, at N472.38 billion or 59.4 per cent of total revenue was below both the provisional monthly budget estimate and the preceding month’s receipt of N516.88 by 26.2 per cent and 8.6 per cent, respectively.

“The fall in oil revenue relative to the monthly provisional budget estimate was attributed to the shut-ins and short-downs at some NNPC terminals due to technical issues, leakages and maintenance”, the report stated.

The report read in parts: “At N322.93 billion

or 40.6 per cent of total revenue, non-oil revenue was below the provisional monthly budget an estimate of N466.91 billion by 30.8 per cent but exceeded the preceding month’s receipt of N251.01 billion by 28.7 per cent.

“The lower collection relative to the provisional monthly the budget estimate was due to the shortfalls in Corporate Tax, VAT, FGN Independent Revenue and Education Tax “Of the total N616.21 billion retained revenue in the Federation Account, the sums of N88.49 billion, N67.82 billion and N24.72 billion were transferred to the VAT Pool Account, the Federal Government Independent revenue and “Others”, respectively, leaving a balance of N435.18 billion for distribution to the three tiers of government.

“Of this amount, the Federal Government received N208.39 billion, while the state and local governments got N105.70 billion and N81.49 billion, respectively. The balance of N39.59billion was shared among the oil-producing states as 13 per cent Derivation Fund.

“Similarly, from the N88.49 billion transferred to the VAT Pool Account, the Federal Government received N13.27 billion, while the state and local governments received N44.25 billion and N30.97 billion, respectively.

“Also, the sum of N78.09 billion was shared

as Excess oil revenue. The Federal, State and local governments received N35.79 billion, N18.15 billion and N13.99 billion, respectively, while the 13per cent Derivation Fund received N10.15 billion.

“The overall total allocation to the three tiers of government in April 2019 amounted to N602.41 billion. This was below the provisional monthly budget estimate of N923.39 billion by 34.8 per cent.

However, it rose above the preceding month’s allocation of N562.10 billion, by 7.2 per cent.

On fiscal Operations of the Three Tiers of government, the CBN report disclosed that “At N325.58 billion, the estimated federal government retained revenue for the month of April 2019 was below the estimated monthly budget of N629.44 billion by 48.3 per cent.

“A breakdown showed that Federation Account was 64.0 per cent of the total retained revenue, while FGN Independent Revenue, VAT, Non-Oil Excess and Exchange Gain amounted to 20.8, 4.1, 11.0 and 0.1 Per cent, respectively.”

The report stated that at N636.78 billion, the estimated the total expenditure of the Federal Government was below the monthly budget an estimate of N792.31 billion by 19.6 per cent but was above the N487.26 billion recorded in the preceding month by 30.7 per cent.

“A breakdown showed that recurrent expenditure, and capital expenditure constituted 70.8 and 25.6 per cent of the total expenditure, respectively, while transfers constituted 3.6 per cent. Of the recurrent expenditure, a nondebt obligation was 57.3 per cent, while debt service payments accounted for 42.7 per cent of the total The report further noted that, the fiscal operations of the Federal Government resulted in an estimated deficit of N311.20 billion, compared with the provisional monthly budget deficit of N162.87 billion.

CBN in its report explained that the total estimated statutory allocations to the State Governments amounted to N218.08 billion.

“This was lower than the provisional budget estimate of N331.71 by 34.3 per cent, but was higher than the preceding month’s receipt of N204.86 billion by 6.5 per cent.

“The Federation Account allocation, at N173.83 billion or 79.7 per cent of the total statutory allocation, was below the provisional monthly budget estimate of N269.95 billion by 35.6 per cent. Similarly, the allocation from the VAT Pool Account, at N44.25 billion or 20.3 per cent of the total fell below the provisional monthly budget estimate of N61.76 billion by 28.4 per cent.

AfCFTA to constitute largest free trade area with GDP worth $3.4trn-AfDB Joy Obakeye The African Development Bank (AfDB) has said that the African Continental Free Trade Area (AFCFTA) is expected to constitute the world’s largest free trade area, with an integrated market of 1.3 billion consumers and a combined Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of about $3.4 trillion.

According to its President, Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, who spoke at the ongoing 54th Annual Meetings of the bank in Malabo, said it is estimated that Africa’s GDP growth would reach about six per cent a year in a continent without borders.

“With the agreement on AfCFTA in March 2018, which is now at the threshold of its inauguration in July, regional integration has gained momentum. If we get our integration

right, Africa will be more competitive will be able to create a massive amount of jobs and more importantly, Africa can develop in dignity and confidence,’’ Adesina explained that the bank had also invested about $1billion through various initiatives, including cross border infrastructure to move trade across African borders.

He added that most of the funds had gone to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) which

are the engine of economic growth.

He said Equatorial Guinea was selected to host the bank’s Annual Meetings because of its economic potential and because Africa could benefit a great deal from regional integration.

“We believe that the potential is immense, but the level of integration is not enough. Regional integration is one of the bank’s High 5s and is seen as pivotal to boosting Africa’s economic development.”

Registered workers on pension scheme hit 8.5m in Q1 2019 - NBS Mathew Abuja The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has disclosed that the number of registered workers under the pension scheme in the first quarter of 2019 has increased to 8, 569, 037 compared to 8,

410,184 registered workers in the fourth quarter, 2018.

NBS in its Pension Asset and RSA Membership Data report for the first quarter, 2019 posted on its website, showed that the figure represents a 158,851 increase compared to the previous quarters.

The bureau reported that the Pension Fund Asset,

under management as at the period under stood at N9.03 trillion as against N8.63 trillion in the first quarter, 2018.

According to the Bureau, Federal Government Bonds have the highest weight percentage of 49.37 per cent of the total pension fund assets.

Treasury bills followed closely with 21.44 per cent

weight and local money market securities with 9.68 per cent weight.

The bureau said foreign money market securities had the least with 0.25 per cent weight in the period under review.

It said, participants within the age distribution 30 -39 years had the highest percentage composition

with 35.77 per cent, closely followed by participants within the age bracket of 40-49 years with 28.12 per cent.

According to NBS, participants between 50 and 59 years are 18.02 per cent, while participants above 65 years have the least percentage composition with 2.78 per cent.

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L-R: Executive Director (ED) , Maritime Labour & Cabotage Services, Nigerian Maritime Administration & Safety Agency (NIMASA) Ahmed Gambo, Director General (DG), Dr Dakuku Peterside and ED, Administration & Finance, Dr Bashir Jamoh, during a meeting by the NIMASA DG with media executives, in Lagos...on Thursday.

NASCON shareholders laud management for impressive outing in 2018 As NASCON targets increased market share via product innovation Motolani Oseni Shareholders of NASCON Allied Industries Plc on Thursday commended the board and management for a good outing in 2018, even as the company targets more market share in the food sector through increased product range and innovation.

The Shareholders, who were at the NASCON Annual General Meeting (AGM) held in Lagos yesterday, were optimistic of a better and an improved financial year by the end of 2019.

Speaking at the AGM of the Dangote Industries Limited subsidiary, Executive Director, Commercial of NASCON, Fatima Aliko-Dangote, explained that the company, which added three new products in 2018, would be introducing more products this year as part of strategies to meet the needs of its varied customer base, adding that firm products are widely

accepted in the market.

Also, Managing Director, NASCON, Paul Farrer, said the company, having demonstrated its resilience in the challenging environment of 2018, is strongly focused on capacity growth and increased market penetration.

He disclosed that the company would be leveraging on a number of synergies including improved output in terms of quality, quantity and business efficiency to deliver value for all stakeholders.

On the new products introduced in 2018, he said: “We launched the Dangote Stew Mix, Dangote Curry and Dangote Classic Seasoning. These three products are part of a wider product enrichment plan to diversify our product portfolio. The products were specifically developed to meet and surpass the needs of our consumers across the country. Each of these products has been tailored to suit the local taste and cooking habits of the different regions in

Nigeria. We would continue to differentiate ourselves in our product category by consistently delivering high quality, nutritious products.”

Commending the board and management of NASCON for a good outing in 2018, a shareholder, Olagoke Olusegun pointed out that the firm board of directors consists of vibrant and experienced members who oversee and influence the activities of the management team.

According to him, the good synergy between the board and management is seen in the performance of the company despite the harsh operating environment manufacturing companies faced in the year 2018.

He also tasked the management to pay more attention to the welfare of staff who are key to the performance of the company, adding that management should adhere to the best operating guidelines in order not to run afoul of regulatory agencies’ requirements.

A leading shareholders’ rights’ activist, Sunny

Nwosu, in his remarks, lauded the board and management of NASCON for their ability to declare and pay dividends despite the harsh operating environment which resulted from the Apapa Wharf gridlock and the downturn in the national economy. He said while other companies are lamenting and cutting down on production, the company is paying the dividend which is commendable.

Another shareholder, Mrs Funke Godswill, also commended the performance of the company but lamented the impact of Apapa Wharf traffic which she said hinders optimal performance of companies within the axis.

Sunday Apu, a concerned shareholder, bemoaned the issue of smuggling of salt products through the borders which erode the market share of NASCON. He called on the management to collaborate with the Nigeria Customs Service in order to curb the spate of smuggling which stifles domestic production.

Ford recalls 1.4m cars over steering wheel defect Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo Auto giant, Ford has announced that the company is recalling 1.4 million vehicles because of the steering wheels can become loose and even come off while driving.

The automaker says it is aware of two

accidents and one injury that may have been caused by the problem.

The affected models are the Ford Fusion and the Lincoln MKZ, both from model years 2014-2018.

Ford said the problem is that a steering wheel bolt could come loose, which could cause the steering wheel to potentially detach.

The recall applies to every version of

the Fusion, including Fusion S, Fusion SE, Hybrid S, Hybrid SE, Hybrid Titanium, Energi SE, Energi Titanium, Fusion Sport, Fusion Platinum, Fusion Hybrid Platinum and Fusion Energi Platinum The recall also applies to every version of the Lincoln MKZ, including Lincoln MKZ Premier, Lincoln MKZ Hybrid Premier and Lincoln MKZ Black

Label The company recalled another 6,000 Fusion and Focus models due to a risk of fire from a fracture in the clutch pressure plate: Ford Focus model years 2013-16 with the Fox GTDI engine and B6 manual transmissions and Ford Fusion model years 2013-15, with the Sigma GTDI engines and B6 manual transmissions.

WorldRemit excites SMEs with new product for business payments Ukpono Ukpong, Abuja WorldRemit has launched ‘WorldRemit for Business’, a new service that enables small and medium-sized business owners to quickly pay employees and contractors in 140 countries worldwide, including fast-growing markets such as Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa.

The Founder and Executive Chairman at WorldRemit, Ismail Ahmed, has said that by extending its money transfer service to SMEs, and as well save businesses time and money when they make international payments.

In a statement signed by Corporate Communications Manager, Akinyi Ochieng,

he noted that the platform will first be available to U.K.-registered businesses.

While noting that the company’s low fees and exchange rates are shown up-front and customers can send money easily via the company’s website and app, the leading digital money transfer service which makes sending money as easy as sending an instant message also said that its intervention has led to a shift to online and mobile money transfers due to its improved speed and convenience for users.

Ahmed said that while some banks can take up to a week to process payments, WorldRemit transfers to Nigeria is processed instantly.

“Each year, the UK imports $2 billion in goods and services from Nigeria, where SMEs for 96 per cent of businesses and 84 per cent

of employment. WorldRemit for Business will make it easier for individuals to receive payment by UK-based partners via bank transfer to GT Bank accounts.

“Customers sending funds abroad can easily track their transfers in real-time on the WorldRemit app and opt-in to receive daily exchange notifications to send money abroad at the optimal time.

“When I first started WorldRemit, I was frustrated with the high charges and long delays in sending money abroad both as a business owner and consumer. Over the past 9 years, we’ve made it easier for 4 million people around the globe to send and receive money.

“Today, we’re pleased to extend that service offering to businesses, and put an end to the

steep fees that many businesses have to pay, especially when sending to Nigeria. We’re committed to making it quick, safe and easy for you to pay individuals across borders, leaving you to focus on growing your own business.”

WorldRemit customers complete over 1.4 million transfers every month from over 50 countries to over 140 destinations using its app or website and remains committed to providing innovative solutions to meet money transfer needs across the world. In addition to partnering with Nigerian Banks including First Bank of Nigeria Plc, Access Bank Plc, Fidelity Bank Plc for instant digital money transfers. In April 2019 the company launched international transfers to Paga mobile money accounts.

Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is concluding arrangements to commission and deliver the N24 billion Ogbia-Nembe Road carved out of deep mangrove forest and builtin partnership with Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC. Acting Managing Director NDDC, Prof Nelson Brambaifa, disclosed this at a special Niger Delta stakeholders’ interactive dinner in Port Harcourt.

The event was attended by prominent traditional rulers and stakeholders in the region, as well as the Acting Executive Director of Finance and Administration, Dr Chris Amadi, and other NDDC directors.

Professor Brambaifa said that the project, covering about 29 kilometres and with spurs to 14 other communities, “will open up the whole area for renewed economic and agricultural growth.”

He said that the Commission continues to lay the foundation for building a stronger partnership among stakeholders, to facilitate sustainable regional development that will impact positively on the lives of the people of the Niger Delta region.

The NDDC boss said that the Commission was committed to developing the region, “built on the foundation of due process, job creation, skill acquisition and social welfare, empowerment of the people and equitable distribution of projects and programmes.”

He added: “We are also working on immediately, completing the Polaku Bridge, on East-West-Opokuma – Sabagriea Road, linking Yenegoa to Kaiama in Bayelsa State. Let me also mention the Abbi-Emu-Unor Road and Ibusa internal roads, all in Delta State.”

Professor Brambaifa said that the Commission was committed to completing projects across all the states of the region, and delivering them to the people, stating that over 5,000 projects have so far been completed.

The NDDC Chief Executive said that the adoption of June 12 as democracy day was significant for the people of the Niger Delta region, as it showed that President Muhammadu Buhari recognized their long-running struggle for emancipation.

He added: “We must hope that all the years, in which the Niger Delta region has been victimized and neglected, are being recognized and reversed. It means that slowly, but surely, the poverty, underdevelopment, inequity and regional disregard that held sway will give way to development, prosperity, stability and peace.”

The NDDC boss assured that the Commission would continue to work with and depend on the advice of critical stakeholders in driving development in the region. According to him, the Commission belonged to all the stakeholders.

The Chairman of the Traditional Rulers of Oil Mineral Producing Communities of Nigeria, TROMPCON, Obong Dr Effiong Achianga, assured the NDDC of the support of the royal fathers, noting that the Commission needed counselling from its founding fathers.

He underlined the role played by the traditional rulers in the birth of the Partnership for Sustainable Development (PSD) Forum, which he observed had encouraged stakeholders’ participation in developing the Niger Delta.

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FSDH Merchant Bank urges FG to end petrol subsidy Stories by Mathew Dadiya The FSDH Merchant Bank has called on the Federal Government to see the need to put an end to the petroleum subsidy regime that gulps the country trillion of Naira annually thereby making infrastructure funding difficult.

The bank gave the advise in its monthly economic and financial markets outlook titled, ‘Economy in need of boosters: Priorities for a second term.’

According to the report, “There are more compelling reasons now than before for the Federal Government to remove the petroleum subsidy, and channel the money into some other social intervention programmes of the government that had direct impacts on the poor in view of the low government revenue.

It stated that it was cogent for the Federal Government to appoint members of the cabinet with their respective portfolios in the month of June.

This would enable it to start the implementation of the next level growth, and development agenda of the Federal

Government of Nigeria, it added.

It stated, “We also recommend an adjustment to the electricity tariff in order to drive investments into this critical sector of the economy.

This will also accelerate the growth of small and medium scale businesses in the country that are handicapped because of epileptic power supply and the high cost of running on a generator and other more expensive sources of power.”

The FSDH said there must be deliberate efforts and strategies to improve the quality of education and health care delivery in Nigeria.

We target 13.8m household to embrace cooking gas in 5 years - Osinbajo The Federal Government has said that it has put measures in place to ensure an estimated 13.8 million households in Nigeria embraced usage of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) for their cooking within the next five years.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo disclosed this at the weekend while inaugurating a landmark LPG cylinder manufacturing plant, built at Ajah, near Lagos by Techno Oil Limited.

The plant which commenced in 2015, is the largest of its type in West Africa.

Osinbajo said, “We are targeting a 40 per cent adoption rate or 13.8 million households in five years and 73 per cent adoption in 10 years or about 33.3 million households,’’ Osinbajo stated.

He said that government was also envisaging to generate up to two million jobs from the LPG sector during the tenure of this administration.

According to him, government has also set a goal to achieve five million metric tonnes of domestic, commercial and industrial LPG utilisation within the next 10 years.

The Vice President said that government was doing its utmost to harness the abundant resources in the gas sector, disclosing that the National LPG Expansion Programme had been established to achieve the goals by government in the new gas policy.

“We identified that it is necessary to emphasise coordination and collaboration in promoting LPG adoption as previous attempts in achieving the goal has failed because of fragmented approach within the government.’’

Osinbajo said that progress had been made in LPG adoption with the removal of five per cent VAT from the domestic pricing of the commodity to discourage

importation.

“Techno Oil’s investment auspiciously converges with our administration’s efforts to speedily diversify our economy, through domestic and indigenous solutions.

“When we came into office in 2015, one of the issues we identified was the abysmally low domestic utilisation of LPG in Nigeria.

The vice-president said that it was wrong for Nigeria to continue to rely on biomass fuels such as firewood and traditional fuels such as petrol and diesel for their domestic energy needs.

He said that biomass and other fuels were prone to giving health, environmental, economic and social challenges, ranging from carbon emissions, deforestation and high number of deaths resulting from air pollution.

We’re serious on adding nuclear to Nigeria’s energy mix - Shornikov

ROSATOM’s Central and Southern Africa Chief Executive Officer, Dmitry Shornikov has said that Nigeria has made positive moves and on course to utilize nuclear energy as part of its energy mix in the near future.

This, he said when done, would address the country’s power challenge.

The Federal Government is partnering ROSATOM, the Russian governmentowned nuclear agency.

When asked about the level of seriousness Nigeria attached to the issue of producing nuclear energy, he said; “The government is making steady progress on the issue. This is evident by the aggrement which the country signed two years ago in relation to this issue.

We believe that the Federal Government’s

gesture would culminate in signing more agreements in the immediate future; that is, the agreements would lead to siting of nuclear energy plants and production of electricity in Nigeria, reputed to be biggest economy in Africa.”

He however, noted that a whole lot of things must be on ground before any country can actualise or practicalise the use of nuclear energy.

“First, is a well articulated policy, which spells out the reasons behind the issue of generating nuclear power, the megawatts, which the country intends to generate, the distribution and transmission capacity and others as contained in infrastructural provisions of that country in particular.

“A well-structured infrastructural

guideline, are required to ascertain the level of seriousness, which either a public or private entity is having in the course of producing nuclear energy for growth,” he said.

He further explained that the nation or government, which intends to provide nuclear electricity for its people must have taken a position on the issue, showing a reasonable level of involvement of its key stakeholders in the project; prepare its legislative and regulatory; ditto providing a strong human resources and safety programmes.

Others aspects include provision of a bigger funding and financing structures, sites for the construction of nuclear plants, among other things.

Local renewable-energy grids can provide electric power to hundreds of millions of people in developing nations, especially in Africa, but will not attract enough financial backing unless they are subsidised, a group of investors said on Monday.

Twelve energy and impact investors - with more than $2 billion under management and about 100 mini-grids built or in development - urged donors to reduce financial risks for them.

“The capital is there and waiting to invest, but there is a missing piece,” said Nico Tyabji, director of strategic partnerships with SunFunder, which provides debt financing for solar enterprises.

That is using public money to pay minigrid developers and operators according to the number of connections they make.

Taxpayer funding has long backed expansion of national power grid national systems around the world - and the new subsidies would be in line with that, Tyabji told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

In a position paper, released to coincide with the Africa Energy Forum in Lisbon, the investors said mini-grids - which are self-sufficient grids serving households and businesses - had “immense potential” to accelerate electrification in Africa.

Around the world, the number of people without access to electricity dropped to about

840 million in 2017 from 1.2 billion in 2010, said a global tracking report last month.

But sub-Saharan Africa lags behind, with 573 million people - more than one in two - still living without electric power, in part because of the cost of extending national grids in remote or rural areas.

Analysis from international energy agency the showed that to achieve universal electrification - a global goal by 2030 - minigrids would the cheapest technology to connect 290 million people, according to the investors’ paper.

“However, mini-grids have not yet attracted the private investment required to achieve this outcome,” it said.

Investors say rural solar mini-grid can power million homes in Africa

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OPEC+ to take joint decision on output cut Countries that signed up to a global pact on oil production cuts will reach a consolidated decision on what will happen when the existing pact expires at the end of June, 2019.

Russian Deputy Energy Minister Pavel Sorokin said this on Monday in an interview with Reuters.

Sorokin said that in any event, cooperation will continue between members of the existing pact which includes OPEC and some major non-OPEC producers, led by Russia.

He said a decision on the future of the deal would be made based on whether the global oil market is balanced. He said the situation on the market should be clearer by the time of a G20 meeting scheduled to take place in Osaka in at the end of June.

Speaking on the sidelines of last week’s St Petersburg International Economic Forum, Sorokin said one of the market factors to be taken into account will be the state of trade relations between China and the United States.

“We will take a decision based on what the market needs,” he said, in comments that were cleared for release on Monday. “We will take a consolidated decision; in any case cooperation will continue.”

Oil price could drop to $30 if global deal not extended

Novak said there were big risks of oversupply on the market and that Moscow needed to monitor the oil market more in order to be able to take a balanced decision in July Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Monday he could not rule out a scenario in which oil prices could fall to $30 per barrel if the global oil deal was not extended.

Novak said there were big risks of oversupply on the market and that Moscow needed to monitor the oil market more in order to be able to take a balanced decision in July.

Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih, who was in Moscow for talks with his Russian counterpart, said steps were being taken to prevent a sharp fall in oil prices.

We’ve boosted our domestic gas distribution across Nigeria - Shell MD

Shell Nigeria Gas (SNG) said it has increased its gas distribution capacity by over 150 per cent due to the safe completion of its second gas train, the Agbara-Ota Capacity Increase Project, which enables the company and its partners to achieve regular gas supply to subscribed industries in Ogun state while efforts are ongoing to reach more states.

The Managing Director, SNG, Ed Ubong, said: “Apart from increasing the distribution capacity in existing states where it operates, SNG is maturing opportunities to expand its gas distribution network to new states. On completion of its expansion projects, over 1,000 megawatts equivalent of energy will be directly supplied to various industrial parks and manufacturing companies in Nigeria.”

Ubong spoke at the recent media launch of the 2019 edition of the Shell in Nigeria Briefing Notes, an annual publication detailing the activities of the business interests of the global energy giant in Nigeria.

The completed the first phase of its pipeline expansion in Abia State, connecting manufacturing industries in the Osisioma area directly to pipeline gas.

It will also deliver pipeline gas to the IPP consortium that provides electricity to the popular Ariaria market in Abia State – one of the largest open stall markets in West Africa, with over 37,000 shops.

The 1st Phase of the Ariaria IPP project commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 currently provides electricity to over 4,000 shops.

Ubong said: “Shell as a leading energy company is committed to supporting the Federal government’s aspiration to grow the domestic gas market, making domestic infrastructure investments under the right commercial conditions and continuing to birth domestic gas projects that will be major game-changers in Nigeria’s quest for cleaner energy sufficiency, industrialisation and economic growth.

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Osinkolu to Lawan: APC, Nigerians expect much from you, don’t betray us Dr. Olusegun Osinkolu, a Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was the Director General, Buhari/Osinbajo Campaign Council in Ekiti State in the 2019 elections. In this interview with our correspondent, GBENGA SODEINDE, he advised President Buhari to appoint the best hands as Ministers in his second term while also setting agenda for the Senator Ahmed Lawan-led Senate.

A new House of Assembly has just been constituted in Ekiti State. What do you expect from them?

The expectations are very high from the people. Firstly, there must be a clear departure from the immediate past assembly, because it was principally populated by those who had little knowledge of legislation. But this time, we are having tested hands and those who are highly educated and exposed and Ekiti people expect a paradigm shift in terms of constructive engagements with the executive arm. They must strive hard to balance the equation between representing the people well and also not rocking the boat by with the executive arm. We saw what happened in the fifth assembly where the House practically became an appendage of the governor’s office, so there must be some level of independence, though this should not be misinterpreted to mean that the lawmakers should see the executive as enemy. They must work in harmony and mutual respect.

The lawmakers should work hard on their oversight functions on the executive arm and the local governments, by serving as checks and balances and also ensuring strict compliance to financial regulations. However, the jobs will be easy for them, because our governor and leader, Dr. Kayode Fayemi made it clear that he was not interested in rubber stamp assembly and that was why the APC carefully selected the candidates that stood for elections and won across the 26 constituencies, so that Ekiti populace can enjoy robust and effective legislation unlike the immediate past that was more of a lame duck assembly.

Don’t you think that the fact that all the 26 lawmakers are members of APC could make them compromise?

I disagree with you, APC is a party of the masses. The masses are first on our agenda. That was why the APC dominated 8th National Assembly could disagree with President Muhammadu Buhari. On many occasions, both chambers of the National

Assembly had cause to disagree with the President and that is the beauty of democracy.

No democracy can grow when the legislative arm is not active, so we look forward to having a robust, active and coherent assembly in Ekiti. The new Speaker, Hon Funminiyi Afuye is a tested hand. He had been Leader of APC during the 13-13 equal strength between the PDP and the then Action Congress of Nigeria between 2007 and 2011. So, he understands the rudiments of legislation and he knew that having a firm assembly is more dignifying, but just like I said the other time, this should not be taken too far, I mean , they should not be confrontational or taking up the executive or draging it into any crisis in an attempt to assert themselves, it has to be by mutual understanding and respect.

President Muhammadu Buhari has been sworn in for a second term. What do you think can be done to consolidate democracy dividends to the people?

You could attest to the fact that President Buhari did well in three areas he promised to work to ensure sanity, that is fighting corruption, diversifying the economy and fighting insecurity. Before he came on board, insecurity had taken over virtually all the sections of the country, especially the North East and even parts of the North Central.

Today, Boko Haram had been technically defeated. The activities of the terror group had been restricted to Sambisa forest and we now have occasional bombing or killing unlike under President Goodluck Jonathan when bombings were like everyday occurrences.

Even the emerging banditry in Zamfara, Katsina and other states in the North West is being addressed. Before the advent of Buhari’s government, Nigeria depended solely on oil.

Over 90 percent of the revenues were coming from the oil, but with diversification agenda in the solid mineral sector and agriculture, Nigeria is gradually becoming self sustaining.

Most of the rice being consumed in the country is grown locally. Also in the anti graft war, Buhari’s government has done

Now that the choice of the party has emerged, we expect that the two arms will focus on those things that will promote unity and how best to work together to develop the nation through infrastructure, poverty eradication and generation of revenues for the nation. In achieving this, Senator Lawàn must carry everybody along. He should avoid segregation based on politics, ethnicity and religion. He should carry all the senators along and this is the only way the smooth relationship with the executive can be achieved and sustained.

Osinkolu creditably well. Political office holders, even governors are now careful with expenditure.

No more reckless spending like in the past.

So, he must consolidate on these gains by making sure that he appoints the ministers as soon as possible. In the first term, it took the President almost six months to constitute his cabinet and this in a way constituted serious impediment and slowed down governance.

So we expect him to constitute his cabinet within one or one and half months and then hit the ground running.

He should also appoints the right people, I mean, putting square pegs in square holes.

The President is also expected to bring in technocrats to help politicians in strategic positions to achieve the agenda of government and take the country to the next level.

Governor Kayode Fayemi is now the chairman of the Nigeria’s Governors’ Forum. What innovations do you expect him to bring on board?

It was a well deserved victory. My charge to Dr Kayode Fayemi is to deploy his energy as the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum to advance the development of the nation. I advise that Fayemi should use the highly influential status to fight on the side of Nigerians, by ensuring that there is equity and justice in the distribution of the country’s wealth. I want to congratulate the good people of Ekiti State and the South West, because the feat was a record broking event that will reshape the politics of the country.

I urge Fayemi to bring his administrative ingenuity as well as shrewd and political wizardry to bear in ensuring that Nigerians

feel the positive impact of the new position.

I want to congratulate Dr. Fayemi for reshaping the politics of our dear state with this new position. The image of Ekiti State had again been launched to higher pedestal with this new status, being the first time a governor from our state and region will occupy this position. We appeal to him to lead a cohesive forum and work hard to ward off enemies from returning the forum to old days when it was divided along party and personal interest lines occasioned by high wired political pursuits. I am confident that Governor Fayemi will surpass his predecessor, Alhaji Yari, who deployed the position to negotiate for the disbursement of Paris club refunds and other intervention funds to states while in crises over the payment of salaries.

Posterity will continue to remember Zamfara governor in this regard. Bearing this in mind, Governor Fayemi must be a vociferous voice against injustice in the land.

He must place high premium on the benefit accruing to Nigerians rather than personal political pursuit for history to be fair to him.

He should also be circumspect of the fact that those profiting from the deeply entrenched lopsidedness in our nation always loved to weaken the forum and throws it into crisis.

Our dear governor must be conscious of this and prepare hard to ensure a more cohesive body that can deliver democracy dividends to the Nigerian citizens.

What is your advice to the Senator Ahmed Lawan-led Senate?

His emergence was a big boost to APC, because we didn’t get it right in 2015, when Senator Bukola Saraki won through the support of some PDP lawmakers. But with Senator Lawan as Senate President, there would be more cordial relationship between the executive and the legislature and this should be the disposition of the current Senate. We could all bear witness to the fact that the last Senate was a little bit rancorous , owing to highly entrenched distrust and it affected governance because many times, the two arms disagreed on the passage of the budget over alleged padding of the budget.

Now that the choice of the party has emerged, we expect that the two arms will focus on those things that will promote unity and how best to work together to develop the nation through infrastructure, poverty eradication and generation of revenues for the nation. In achieving this, Senator Lawàn must carry everybody along. He should avoid segregation based on politics, ethnicity and religion. He should carry all the senators along and this is the only way the smooth relationship with the executive can be achieved and sustained.

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THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MAKINDE ARAOYE 2. BUKOLA OGUNSOLA. THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. POVERTY ALLEVIATION THROUGH VARIOUS INITIATIVES AND EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS. 2 . TO ALLIVIATE POVERTY IN EKITI STATE THROUGH VARIIOUS INITIATIVES AND EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS. 3. TO IMPROVE THE WELL- BEING OF UNDERPRIVILEGED SENIOR CITIZEN OF THE STATE. 4. TO PROVIDE RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES NEEDED FOR UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN TO ACCESS EDUCATION. 5 .TO PROVIDE A STRUCTURED PLATFORM TO HARNESS A NETWORK OF INDIVIDUALS AND RESOURCES AND TO ALSO ENSURE THE LESS PRIVILEGED BENEFIT FROM SUCH INITIATIVE. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR_ GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT , OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET , MAITAMA , ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY.

IGNITEUP GLOBAL INITIATIVE THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

TRUSTEES ARE 1. PAUL CONFIDENCE ITORO 2. OKON PROMISE EXCEL AIMS AND OBJECTIVE 1. TO HELP THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY. ANY OBJECTION TO THE PUBLICATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: (1).TO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT AND SPREAD OF OFFSIGHT RACE IN NIGERIA AND ALL OVER THE WORLD. (2). TO PROMOTE OFFSIGHT RACE AND SPORTS IN GENERAL AMONG ABLE BODIED AND PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED PERSONS. (3). TO DISCOVER, TRAIN AND DEVELOP ATHLETES IN OFFSIGHT RACE AND OTHER SPORTS EVENTS FOR PROMOTION OF SPORTS ACTIVITIES IN NIGERIA. (4) TO SERVE AS ADVISORY BODY TO THE FOUNDER OF OFFSIGHT RACE. 5. TO ESTABLISH OFFSIGHT RACE TEAM FOR THE PURPOSE OF TRAINING AND COMPETING FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF OFFSIGHT RACE SPORTS AMONG THE ABLE BODIED AND PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED PERSONS 6. TO DO ALL THAT ARE NECESSARY FOR DEVELOPMENT AND RECOGNITION OF OFFSIGHT RACE AS A SPORTS IN NIGERIA AND THE WHOLE WORLD. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SINGED: IKEDIMMA CHIGOZIE VALENTINE, ESQ. SOLICITOR.

GOD’S SUFFICIENT GRACE MISSION INTERNATIONAL THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED INTERNATIONAL HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. EMAIKU PAUL OJOCHONA 2. AUGUSTINE ANDREW ACHILE 3. EMAIKU SAMUEL IKO-OJO

ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

SIGNED: SECRETARY

UNIFE AGRIC CLASS OF 87

TRUSTEES 1. BEWAJI FRANCIS AKINLABI 2.ODUSANWO MOSES ADEGOKE 3 OKUBENA-DIPEOLU ESTHER ADEYINKA

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC), ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART ‘C’ OF COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MR.IKEDIMMA CHUKWUDI MAGNUS 2.HRH MAXIMUS IKECHUKWU OLIOBI 3.MR. JOHNNY CHINAGOLUM IGBOKA 4.MR. IKEDIMMA CHIGOZIE VALENTINE,ESQ. 5. ENGR. OBI DAMIAN OKWUDILI 6. MR. MICHAEL MACHIE EBUENYI 7. MR. BENEDIT EFEVWIE 8.HON. CELESTINE OKAFOR 9. MR. CHARLES ONYIUKE 10.CHIEF PATRICK ESTATE ONYEDUM

ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. REV. DR. EMMANUEL ULEBOR 2. REV. MRS. HANNAH ULEBOR

SIGNED: SECRETARY

OFFSIGHT RACE FOUNDATION

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC), ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1990.

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO SERVE THIS CHURCH BODY OF JESUS CHRIST THROUGH THE MINISTRY OF GOD’S WORD, IN ENCOURAGING AND MATURING OF THE CONGREGATION, DEVELOPING PERSONAL MINISTRY WITHIN THE CONGREGATION, AND ASSISTING EACH TO FIND AND FUNCTION IN THEIR MINISTRY IN THE CONGREGATION. 2. SUPPORT AND ASSIST MISSIONARIES AND OTHER MINISTRIES WITH MATERIAL AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT AND/OR ASSISTANCE

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED INT’L HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

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AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO ASSIST YOUNG INDIGENT CHILDREN IN GETTING SOUND EDUCATION

BY PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS FOR THEM; 2. TO HELP AMELIORATE LIVING CONDITIONS OF THE POOR PUBLIC; 3. TO HELP IMPROVE THE ECONOMY BY ENHANCING SKILL ACQUISITION; 4. PROVISION OF SCHOLARSHIPS FOR INDIGENT CHILDREN IN THE SOCIETY.

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO CONDUCT THE DAILY BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL AFFAIRS NORMALLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE GOVERNING OF A CHURCH AND ITS DIVERSE MINISTRIES. 2. TO PROVIDE A PLACE WHERE ITS MEMBERS MAY RECEIVE TEACHING FROM THE WORD OF GOD AND ITS MINISTER WHO MAY, IN TURN, FOSTER SPIRITUAL MATURITY (EPH. 4:11,12), BUILD FELLOWSHIP AND LOVE (HEB. 10:24), AND MINISTER TO THE VARIOUS NEEDS OF THE BODY; IN ORDER TO BRING PRAISE AND GLORY TO HIS NAME. (EPHESIANS 1:1-6)

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AIMS AND OBJECTIVES TO INITIATE AND EXECUTE PROGRAMMES, CAPACITY BUILDING, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE DEPARTMENT 2. TO STRENGTHEN THE BOND OF UNITY AND GENUINE FRIENDSHIP AMONG THE MEMBERS ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

WORD OF HOPE APOSTOLIC MISSION THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF 1990.

TRUSTEES ARE 1. IGBINOGHENE EGHOSA KINS W. - CHAIRMAN 2. IGBINOGHENE IYOBOSA GLADNESS - SECRETARY AIMS AND OBJECTIVE 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. ANY OBJECTION TO THE PUBLICATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

ICREATE SKILLS FOUNDATION

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT THE ABOVED NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. JAJA BRIGHT - CHAIRMAN. 2. JAJA ABRAHAM DAVID - SECT. AIMS/OBJECTIVES: 1. TO ENHANCE, EMPOWER AND EQUIP YOUTHS WITH THE NECESSARY SKILL SET TO MANAGE AND EMANCIPATED THE CONTINENT. 2. TO ENCOURAGE YOUNG PEOPLE TO SEEK FOR UNDERSTANDING OF THEIR CORE STRENGTHS, EMBRACE THEIR TALENTS, UPSKILL AND TURN THEIR PASSION INTO A PROFESSION.

HIS HEAVENLY LIGHT MINISTRY

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC), ABUJA FOR ADDITIONAL AND REMOVAL OF TRUSTEES UNDER PART “C” OF COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: OUTGOING TRUSTEES ARE 1. PROF. AKINTUNDE COLE ONITIRI AND 2.PASTOR THEOPHILUS AHONKHAI. OLD TRUSTEES 1. REV SAMSON AJEJUMOBI 2. MRS CECILIA ONITIRI 3. BISHOP ABRAHAM OLALEYE 4. MRS ANTHONIA A. ADEYEMI 5. AKINTUNDE COLE ONITIRI INCOMING TRUSTEES IS 1. MRS FUNKE OLUFON AIM AND OBJECTIVES REMAIN THE SAME ANY OBJECTION TO THE CHANGE SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

ISIBHENELO YOUTH EMPOWERMENT ASSOCIATION THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990 TRUSTEES ARE 1,ROBERT ITUA-CHAIRMAN 2,OMOTEKHELE STEPHEN 3,INEGBEDION JEROME 4,ABHULIMEN GODAY IYERE 5,AGBONFO THOMAS 6,ODEMIJE ANTHONY 7,EKENOMOIFU KENNEDY 8,AIGBEDION EHIMEEM GODSTIME 9,AMIOLEMEN NELSON 10,OGIANGBE MIKE AIMS AND OBJECTIVE 1, TO HELP IN DEVELOPING THE YOUTHS AND THE ENVIRONMENT AT LARGE. ANY OBJECTION TO THE PUBLICATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

NEW LIFEGATE SANCTUM MINISTRY THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT THE ABOVED NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. PASTOR AGUNBIADE BABATUNDE ADETUNJI - GENERAL OVERSEER. 2. MRS AGUNBIADE OLUWASEYI ALABA 3. MRS GBOYEGA-BABAOYE TITILAYOMI ADEDAYO - SECRETARY 4. PASTOR AJOWELE JAMES OYEDELE 5. MR OYEGBULE FELIX AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO REACH THE UNCHURCH, UNSAVED AND UNLOVED IMMORTAL LOST SOULS IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. 2. TO REACH THE BODY OF CHRIST IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD 3. TO RAISE A SPIRIT-FILLED AND WORD-BASED PEOPLE THAT WILL OFFER A TRUE QUALITY WORSHIP UNTO GOD IN CELEBRATION OF THEIR REDEMPTION

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED BY SECRETARY.

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

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THE CHURCH OF DISCIPLES LIGHT OF CHRIST

THIRSTYWELL FOUNDATION FOR WIDOWS

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT THE ABOVED NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT THE ABOVED NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OYEYINKA DAVID ADEBIMPE 2. OYEYINKA SUNDAY OLUWASEYI 3. ONI TAYO ABEL 4. MAKINDE ISAAC AKINDAYO

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MRS. CHARITY UGWU 2. MR. MICHAEL UGWU 3. MR. IGWEBUIKE MICHAEL IKECHUKWU 4. MRS. NKIRU AKACHUKWU 5. EBEDE UCHECHUKWU CHETA 6. EKWUTOSI NNE ROBINSON

AIMS & OBJECTIVES: 1. TO TEACH AND PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST TO THE WORLD 2. TO CARRY ON THE WORK OF CHRISTIAN EVANGELISM FOR THE WINNING OF SOULS FOR JESUS CHRIST. 3. TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TEACHINGS OF THE BIBLE THROUGH PROPHESY, HEALING AND DELIVERANCE 4. TO ENGAGE IN CHARITY WORK AND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. IT IS AIMED AT OFFERING HELP TO WIDOWS WHO HAVE SUFFERED SINCE THE INCEPTION OF THEIR WIDOWHOOD.

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

BELOVED OF GOD SANCTUARY AND MINISTRY

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC) FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES & ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. DR. BABATUNJI OLUWASEYI ADEOGUN, 2 MRS. ADEOLA OLUWATOSIN TOLUSE 3 MRS OLUWASEUN FOLASADE OLURIN AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

CONFLUENCE COMMITTED WOMEN ASSOCIATION WORLD WIDE

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC) FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES & ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

THE TRUSTEES NAMES ARE AS FOLLOWS: 1. MUHAMMED RABI LADIDI (PRESIDENT) 2. ABOGUN ADEKUNLE SEGUN 3. MUSA ALIYU JUBRIL (FINANCIAL SECRETARY) 4. FATIMA MUHAMMED (TREASURER) 5. ZUBAIRU MUSA ZUBAIRU 6. AJUMA SUZZY OKOLA THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE 1. EMPOWERING MEMBERS THROUGH SKILL ACQUISITION. 2. TO DEVELOP MEMBERS ON ENTERPRENEURSHIP SKILL

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: SECRETARY

DIVINE CITY OF GRACE ASSEMBLY INT’L THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC) FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES & ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

JODAAVE EMPOWERMENT FOUNDATION

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC) FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES & ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

TRUSTEES 1 JOY IREKPITAN VERACRUZ - CHAIMAN 2 BABAJIDE MOSES-EKUNDAYO VERACRUZ-SECRETARY 3 HRM OBA (PROFESSOR) ADEKUNLE OLUSOLA OKUNOYE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES TO ORGANIZE ENLIGHTENMENT CAMPAIGNS AGAINST CHILD ABUSE , DOMISTIC VIOLENCE ,FEMALE GENITAL ,MUTILATION GENDER INEQUALITY DRUG ABUSE , HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND ANY FORMS OF SOCIETAL THREAT PRACTICES 2 TO PROVIDE MEDICAL AND EDUCATIPNAL SUPPORT FOR THE INDIGENT IN THE SOCIETY. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

THE LAURA EMMANUEL FOUNDATION THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC) FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES & ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

TRUSTEES: 1) OBIOMA LAURA NNAKWE 2) PRINCE EMMANUEL NNAKWE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1) TO DEVELOP A TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING CAPACITY AND USE THIS TO ASSIST THE UNDER PRIVILEGED IN THE SOCIETY. 2) TO BECOME SPOKESPERSONS OR OMBUDSMEN FOR THE POOR AND ATTEMPT TO INFLUENCE GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND PROGRAMMES ON THEIR BEHALF. 3) TO CARRY OUT PILOT PROJECTS AND PARTICIPATION IN PUBLIC FORUMS AND THE FORMULATION OF GOVERNMENT POLICY AND PLANS TO AID THE LESS PRIVILEGED IN OUR SOCIETY. 4) TO CARRY OUT AND PUBLICIZE RESEARCH RESULTS AND CASE STUDIES OF THE POOR. 5) TO LEND A HAND TO THE NEEDY AND THE LESS PRIVILEGED. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

SIGNED: SECRETARY

DOXA ELEGANT COMMITTEE OF FRIENDS ASSOCIATION PORT HARCOURT

TENDERHEARTED WORLD OUTREACH

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC) FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES & ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

TRUSTEES: 1. EZEKIEL CLINTON CHINEDU 2. OPARA PRINCE 3. NGOZI CHINEDU EZEKIEL

TRUSTEES: 1. GIGI SIYEOFORI RUTH 2. DAGOGO JUMBO ARTHUR

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. IGINUA VICTOR ........................... PRESIDENT 2. BELLO MARY OSAKIODUWA ........ SECRETARY 3. NDIONYENMA EMEKA DESTINY PASTOR .... TREASURER

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST TO THE WORLD.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF MEMBERS. 2. TO PROTECT THE INTEREST OF MEMBERS.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

SIGNED: TRUSTEES.

SIGNED: SECRETARY.

LIVING WORD & GOD HANDS MIRACLE MINISTRY

GLEAN TRUST FOUNDATION

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

TRUSTEES: 1. REV NKECHI OKWOR 2. OKWOR EMERITUS - CHAIRMAN 3. OZOUDE CHIDIMMA - SECRETARY. 4. ONYEAGHANA DIVINE - TREASURER. 5. EMELDA NGWU- MEMBER. 6. OZONNADI NNENNA - MEMBER. 7. NNEKA OKWOR - MEMBER.

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

TRUSTEES ARE 1) BOMOYO ARUABAI DOUGLAS 2) NANNIES SILAS

HEALTHCARE PLUS FOUNDATION NIGERIA

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OKOLI EMMANUEL CHINEDU 2. UFOT ISAIAH JIMMY 3. GBADAMOSI OLUYINKA

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES TO HELP THE ELDERLY

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. PERPETUATING WHOLESOME HEALTH THROUGH AWARENESS ON PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT OF CHRONIC DISEASES. 2. PROMOTING THE CULTURE OF HEALTHY LIVING.

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

PRESTIGIOUS LADIES CLUB

LOSS OF DOCUMENTS

PLANTAIN FARMERS AND PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. FRANCIOSA, ESTHER NNEKA ( CHAIRMAN ) 2. AGOROM, EKI ( SECRETARY ) 3. OGUNGBADEJO, AMINA SANDRA 4. ENAGBARE, JUDITH ONYEKA 5. JAJA, MAUDLYN DANDISON 6. ABU-AMALI, DOOFAN 7. KILGORE, QUEEN- ZION TORKWASE 8. ABAH, BARBARA THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO EMPOWER AND CREATE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN 2. TO FOSTER SELF DEVELOPMENT AMONG WOMEN AND CHILDREN. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

THIS IS TO NOTIFY THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF THE LOSS OF ORIGINAL RIGHT OF OCCUPANCY (R OF O) FOR PLOT 264 CADASTRAL ZONE B06, MABUSHI DISTRICT WITH FILE NUMBER : KG 10281 BELONGING TO AHMED ALI OF KOGI LGEA OFFICE, KOTON- KARFE, KOGI. ALL EFFORTS MADE TO TRACE THE DOCUMENTS PROVED ABORTIVE. IF FOUND RETURN TO THE NEAREST POLICE STATION OR CALL 08164433836 ABUJA GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM (AGIS) AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ATSEPOYI-AKPIEYI OMERESAN ANTHONIA 2. CHUKWURAH ANTHONY AIM AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE INTEREST OF PLAINTAIN CHIPS PRODUCERS 2. TO PROMOTE THE STANDARDISATION IN THE QUALITY AND PRODUCTION OF PLANTAIN CHIPS. 3. TO PROMOTE KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION ON PLAINTAIN CHIPS PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION. 4. TO PROMOTE QUALITY SOURCE OF RAW MATERIALS FOR MEMBERS 5. TO PROMOTE THE UNIFICATION OF PRICES ACROSS MEMBERS ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

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ASSOCIATION FOR THE LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES IN NIGERIA THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

TRUSTEES: I. CHIEF ANTHONY TOSAN PREST ,TRUSTEE/CHAIRMAN 2. MR DEJI SHIEDUN-APEJI - TRUSTEE 3. MISS JOSEPHINE ABURIME - TRUSTEE AIMS AND OBJECTIVE: I. TO PROMOTE THE LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES IN NIGERIA. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

BISHOP AJOSE MINISTRY THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED MINISTRY HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT,1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. BISHOP DR. THEOPHILUS TAIWO AJOSE 2.DR. MATTHIAS KEHINDE AJOSE 3.MRS.NKECHI AJOSE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. PRAYER AND GOSPEL SPREAD AND OUTREACH,TRAINING,PREACHING,AP OSTOLIC INTERCESSION TO NATIONS AND CHURCHES. 2.

PROVIDING LIVING MATERIALS AND SHELTERS FOR ORPHANS,ORPHANAGES AND HOMELESS .

ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL,CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION,PLOT 420,TIGRIS CRESCENT,OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA,P.M.B 198, GARKI, ABUJA,WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: MRS BETTY EITING (SECRETARY) IJAGBA / IMORU COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOL OLD STUDENT ASSOCIATION - 78 OSE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, ONDO STATE THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART “ C “ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990 TRUSTEES ARE: 1. PRINCE BEN - TOLA ADESUNLOYE - NATIONAL PRESIDENT 2. GABRIEL EBAGUN 3. MATT OJO AISIDA- NATIONAL SECRETARY GENERAL 4. MR. OLAYATO ARIBO 5. ENGR BANKOLE OLOWOJOBA 6. MR BANKONLE JATTO 7. MR GABRIEL OLORUNSUYI AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE 1. TO PROMOTE UNITY AMONGST THE OLD STUDENT. THE STUDENTS AND THE COMMUNITIES 2. TO MAINTAIN AND ACTIVELY PROMOTE THE ROLE AND PRESTIGE OF THE SCHOOL AS NIGERIA’S FOREMOST EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION 3. TO PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELL - BEING, INTERPERSONAL/ PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP AND WELFARE OF MEMBERS. 4. TO ACT AS THE OFFICIAL LINK BETWEEN THE IJAGBA/ IMORU COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOL IJAGBA / IMORU AND ITS OLD STUDENT AND TO PROMOTE THE DISSEMINATION OF VITAL INFORMATION OF MUTUAL INTEREST AND BENEFITS TO BOTH PARTIES. 5 TO ENCOURAGE ALL OLD AND PRESENT STUDENTS TO PARTICIPATE, PROMOTE AND SUSTAIN THEIR INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE INTERESTS IN THE ACTIVITIES OF THE SCHOOL. 6. TO ENCOURAGE ALL OLD AND PRESENT STUDENTS TO PROJECT THE GOOD IMAGE OF THE SCHOOL AS WELL AS THAT OF THE ASSOCIATION AND TO TAKE APPROPRIATE MEASURE(S) THAT MAY BE DEEMED NECESSARY IN ACHIEVING THIS AIM. 7. TO PROVIDE NECESSARY ENCOURAGEMENT FOR EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP IN THE SCHOOL

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Classified SAPPHIRE CANCER FOUNDATION

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1, OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. DR ORUAMABO BOMA CHINEDU - CHAIRMAN. 2. DR OKONGWU CHINEDU AZUBUIKE. 3. DR FIEBAI PREYE OWEN. 4. IREN NKEMAMAKA CHRISTABELLE. 5. OJO ADEDAYO ADEKUNBI. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR CANCER PATIENTS THROUGH PARTNER SUPPORT GROUPS. 2. PATIENT NAVIGATION. 3. PROMOTING PROMPT AND APPROPRIATE TREATMENT THROUGH A NETWORK OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS. 4. FUNDING AND SUBSIDIZING PATIENT TREATMENT. 5. PROMOTING CANCER PREVENTION THROUGH AWARENESS AND ADVOCACY ACTIVITIES, EVENTS AND PROGRAMS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: CHAIRMAN

SIGNED: DEBORAH FREDRICK EMAWODIA ESQ.

INITIATIVE AGAINST YOUTH RESTIVENESS

DREC CARE FOUNDATION

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1, OF 1990.

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1, OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. AMADI AUSTIN. 2, OWUKIO OBAKAM JENEWARI. 3. ONYEKWERE .B . ENYINDAH. 4. ONYEIKE CHUKWUEMEKA STANLEY. 5. NWENENDA SUNNY CHIZENUM.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1.ROSEMARY ONYEJIAKA 2.CHUKWUDUBEM ONYEJIAKA

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO ENLIGHTEN YOUTHS AGAINST RESTIVENESS. 2, TO EDUCATE YOUTHS AGAINST COMMUNAL CRISIS AND VICES FOR YOUTH EMPOWERMENT.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROMOTE THE CARE,WELL-BEING AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN, WIDOWS AND PERSONS IN NEED, ESPECIALLY THE DESTITUTE, THE ABUSED, THE HOMELESS AND THE DEPRIVED. 2.TO WORK WITH OTHER CONCERNED CITIZENS AND ORGANIZATIONS TO PROTECT CHILDREN, WIDOWS AND PERSONS IN NEED FROM ABUSE AND OPPRESSION AND TO ENSURE THE ENFORCEMENT OF THEIR LEGAL RIGHTS.

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: TRUSTEE

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

ABAJI-TORU DUGOUT BOAT OWNERS ASSOCIATION, FINIMA

SCIENCE ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1, OF 1990.

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED ASSOCIATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION.FOR CHANGE OF IT’S TRUSTEES UNDER PART “ C “ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990

KADARA YORUBA HERITAGE FOUNDATION

ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: KUNLE . A. AWOMA ESQ.LL.M & ACIARBN. (NATIONAL LEGAL ADVISER) TEL: 08033248032. EMAIL: AWOMAK947@GMAIL.COM

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. HAMILTON VICTOR. CHAIRMAN. 2. TOBI ALA. 3. TOBIN FELICIA .C 4. WISDOM BROWN NIMI OYIYA. 5. AZUBUIKE BLESSING.

OUT- GOING TRUSTEES: 1. ENI NJOKU 2. CALEB ISAAC OLUWOLE OLANIYAN. 3. ABRAHAM JOSE - WILLIAMS

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 2004.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OLUFEMI ABIODUN AKINSANYA 2. OLUMIDE ADEDAYO ADEOSUN 3. ADUNOLA ADERONKE OKUPE 4. ADEGOKE THOMAS ODUKOYA

NEWLY ELECTED TRUSTEES: 1. PROFESSOR IYIOLA FAWOLE 2. DR. OLALEKAN AKANMU OLUNLOYO 3. PROFESSOR ABDULLAHI ABUDU ZURU 4. PROFESSOR SUNDAY OLUKAYODE AJAYI AIMS AND OBJECTIVES REMAIN THE SAME

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1 TO ASSIST THE LESS PRIVILEGED. 2 TO PROMOTE HEALTH, EDUCATIONAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIOCULTURAL DEVELOPMENT. 3 TO RELATE WITH STATE, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES ON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.

ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC), PMB 198, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: CHAIRMAN

SIGNED: PROFESSOR AMOO - PRESIDENT

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: FOR MUTUAL CO-EXISTENCE AND WELFARE AMONG MEMBERS OF BOAT OWNERS IN FINIMA.

EMINENCE LIBERTY MISSION

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED MISSION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART ‘C’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: (1) OGOCHUKWU, AJABOR KINGSLEY - PRESIDENT (2) JACOB, OSUO-ODUENI NEHEMI - VICE PRESIDENT (3) OBILOR, CHINWENDU - SECRETARY AIMS & OBJECTIVES: (1) TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST TO THE WHOLE NATIONS (2) TO REDEEM LOST SOULS BACK TO GOD. (3) TO HELP THE LESS PRIVILEGED IN THE SOCIETY. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: OGOCHUKWU, AJABOR KINGSLEY - PRESIDENT

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS UGO ONYEJIECHI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS ONYEJIECHI JUDE UGOCHUKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAINS VALID AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ONYEJIECHI

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS OLUWABUNMI OMONIWA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS OLUWABUNMI OMONIWA-AKINBODEWA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OLUWABUNMI

I FORMERLY K N O W N AS MADUKA JOSEPHINE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS OPARA AMAKA VERA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAINS VALID AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OPARA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS ADEIJI EBUNOLUWA OYINADE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS BABALOLA EBUNOLUWA OYINADE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

BABALOLA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS JOSEPH ANTHONY KWAME, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS JOSEPH ANTHONY KWAME ASHIABI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

IN SOME OF MY DOCUMENT MY NAME WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AS EMMANUEL ALEXANDER INSTEAD OF ALEXANDER EMMANUEL OGHENEKEWE. MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 24/03/1996 NOT 14/03/1996. ALL DOCUMENTS/CREDENTIALS BEARING THE NAMES ARE VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

AROGUNDADE

I FORMERLY K N OW N AS RASHEED SHAKIRAT TEMITAYO NOW WISH TO BE AS AROGUNDADE SHAKIRAT TEMITAYO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. ALL CONCERNED AUTHORITIES AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE. I FORMERLY KNOWN AS EZE PATIENCE CHINENYE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS EZEH PATIENCE CHINENYE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAINS VALID AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

JOSEPH

EZEH

MRS. NKWOCHA

I

FORMERLY KNOWN AS UGOCHUKWU CHINELO UJU NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS MRS. NKWOCHA U. V. CHINELO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE. I FORMERLY AHAMEFULA K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS VICTORIA MENDIE JOHNSON NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS VICTORIA OGBONNA AHAMEFULA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CORRECTION OF NAME

MRS OLASUNKANMI

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS OLUWO ABIMBOLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS OLUWO BIMBO KADIJAT. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAINS VALID AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ADEDOYIN

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS OYELEKE BOLATITO JOY NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEDOYIN BOLATITO JOY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. ALL CONCERNED AUTHORITIES AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

MRS HELEN DAVID

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS SEFIYANU ABDULMAJID UBANGARI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS SAMBO ABDULMAJID UBANGARI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE NOTE .

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS OLOLADE AYISAT AWOFALA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS MRS OLOLADE AYISAT ODUSORO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS EZEDIGWE CHUKWUEMEKA WISH TO BE KNOWN AS MBAH I. CHUKWUEMEKA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS CAROLINE NKEIRUKA UZOECHINA MEGAFU NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CAROL NKEIRUKA OBIESIE MEGAFU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, FIRST BANK, UAC, NBL, GUINESS AND GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS OKOYOMON I FORMERLY K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ILUOBE OYEBAGBONTA QUEEN. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OKOYOMON OIYEBAGBONTA .

ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

MBAH

CORRECTION OF NAME

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT MY NAME MBA SHEDCHI, WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN DURING MY BVN REGISTRATION, BUT NOW WISH TO BE CORRECTED AND ADDRESSED AS CHIMDINDU SHADRACH CHIKADIBIA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS YAO MOSES GAKPO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JOHN AZEEZ. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE. AZEEZ

I, FORMELY KNOWN AS MISS OLASUNKANMI ABOSEDE SHOYINKA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS MRS OLASUNKANMI ABOSEDE OGUNBERU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID.GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

CAROL

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

THIS IS TO CERTIFY AND CONFIRM THAT, PASCAL TAGBO ACHIEKWELU, PASCHAL TABUGBO ACHIEKWELU AND PASCHAL TABUGBO ACHIEKWELU REFERS TO ONE AND THE SAME PERSON BUT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS PASCHAL TABUGBO ACHIEKWELU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EGBO STEPHEN CHUKWUEBUKA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS STEPHEN METHODIST IHECHUKWUZITERE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

STEPHEN

OLUWO

MRS OLOLADE

LOSS OF DOCUMENT

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF LOSS OF ORIGINAL LAND DOCUMENTS BELONGING TO UMEH KINGSLEY CHUKWUNONSO. THE LAND SITUATE AT AKPUOGA NIKE, ENUGU. REG. AS NO 11/11/570, 27/27/951 AND 24/24/1527 AT ENUGU LAND REGISTRY. ALL EFFORT TO TRACE THOSE DOCUMENTS PROVED ABORTIVE. IF FOUND, PLEASE, CONTACT THE MINISTRY OF LANDS AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, ENUGU.

I , COMFORT FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NGENE CHINWEOKWU COMFORT, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NGENE COMFORT. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

Classified 20 SLATES & CRAYONS EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVE

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 2004 TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MOH, FELICIA ALU>CHAIRMAN. 2. AGUNU, JANE NNEKA>SECRETARY. 3. REV. MOH, EMMANUEL NNAMDI>MEMBER 4. MOH, PRINCEWILL NNAMDI>MEMBER 5. MOH, GOTTFRIED EBUKA>MEMBER. AIMS & OBJECTIVES : 1.TO INCREASE LITERACY RATES WORLDWIDE AND FOSTER A READING CULTURE. 2.TO ENSURE ACADEMIC SUCCESS AND BEYOND THROUGH PROGRAMMES THAT SUPPORT LEARNERS MORALLY. 3.TO PROVIDE FREE TRAINING TO TEACHERS & SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS TO LEARNERS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC), PMB 198, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: SECRETARY

STRONG TOWER ACHIEVERS INITIATIVE

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 2004.

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ADUNNI FOUNDATION THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 2004 THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ADEGBITE, ADEKALE ABAYOMI -(CHAIRMAN 2. ADEGBITE, ADERONKE FLORENCE - SECRETARY 3. ADEGBITE, OLUWATOBI ABIDEMI - MEMBER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO REDUCE POVERTY THROUGH SOCIAL INVESTMENT PROGRAMS 2. TO CONTRIBUTE TO ENHANCEMENT OF HUMAN HAPPINESS THROUGH EDUCATION AND SOCIAL -ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC), PMB 198, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: SECRETARY

DIPLOMACY SOCIAL CLUB OF IBADAN

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. FABUNMI OLUBUNMI - CHAIRMAN 2. OLAGUNJU EDIJANA FAITH - SECRETARY 3. AJAYI ELIZABETH OLUWAYEMI 4. ILEGBUSI OLAYEMI CATHERINE

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 2004 THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1) ALIU MUILI BIODUN. - CHAIRMAN 2) OSENI SAKA OLAWALE 3) OGUNSANYA AHMED AKINWUNMI. - SECRETARY 4) TAJUDEEN IDRIS OLALEKAN

AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO PROMOTE THE INTEREST OF MEMBERS AND DEVELOPMENT.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1) TO PROMOTE PEACE, UNITY AND LOVE AMONG MEMBERS.

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC), PMB 198, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: SECRETARY

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC), PMB 198, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: SECRETARY

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE. THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART’ C’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF 1990 .

THE TRUSTEES ARE; 1. IGBINIGUN NEWTON - PRESIDENT 2. EREBOR SKILL .

3. EDOBOR MOSES OSAHENOMA - SECRETARY 4. PURE ORUE .

5. GARUBA SMART OMORODION .

6. OMORUYI MERCY. 7.EREBOR IKPONMWENHI. (8). BUCKER ISIBOR ANTHONIA. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES; 1.TO ENSURE SOCIAL EDUCATIONAL AND ECONOMY’S EQUALITY OF ALL CITIZEN. 2. TO ADDRESS THE MAJOR AREAS OF INEQUALITY RACING NIGERIA’S AND AFRICAN IN DIASPORA. 3. CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES, PROVIDING MEDICAL HEALTH CARE ASSISTANCE TO THE NEEDY. ANY OBJECTIONS TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED; PRESIDENT.

ANAMBRA PEOPLE’S ASSOCIATION THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED ASSOCIATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1) (HON) BARR RAYMOND CHUKWUKA ONYEGU PRESIDENT 2) (HON) DR. MICHEAL NNAMDI NWADIOGBU VICE PRESIDENT 3) HON. GEORGE EDOZIE OZOH SECRETARY AIMS & OBJECTIVES 1) TO PROMOTE THE POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL INTERESTS AND VALUES OF THE PEOPLE OF ANAMBRA STATE. 2) TO ACHIEVE A SOCIETY THAT APPRECIATES THE NEED FOR A PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE. 3) TO PROMOTE A SOCIETY THAT PRACTICES CULTURES AND TRADITIONS THAT CONFORM WITH NATURAL JUSTICE, EQUITY AND GOOD CONSCIENCE, AND WHICH DO NOT CONFLICT WITH THE EXTANT LAW. 4) TO PROMOTE A SOCIETY THAT RESPECTS AND GUARANTEES THE STRATEGIC AND SPECIAL NEEDS TO WOMEN, CHILDREN, PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED PERSONS AND OTHER VULNERABLE GROUPS. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: (HON) BARR RAYMOND CHUKWUKA ONYEGU PRESIDENT

OLADEPO TIMILEHIN FOUNDATION THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART OF ‘C’OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OLADEPO OLUSOJI FREDERICK 2. FOLAMI ADEDAYO OLUWASEYI’ 3. OLADEPO PRECIOUS TIMILEHIN (CHAIRMAN) 4. OLADELE ADELANKE OLABISI 5. OYATOGUN NATHANIEL OLADAYO 6. AFOLAYAN OMOLARA 7. HARGLEY STEVE ONYEMECHI AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. GIVING THE LESS PRIVILEGED A NEW LEASE OF LIFE. 2. EMPOWERING AND MEETING THE BASIC NEEDS OF THE DEPRIVED IN OUR SOCIETY. ANY OBJECTIONS TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: CHAIRMAN

JOAN THEODORA HOMES FOR THE ELDERLY AND NEEDY THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED, THAT THE ABOVE NAME JOAN THEODORA HOME FOR ELDERLY AND NEEDY HAVE APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION WITH THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION(CAC) FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANY AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF 1990.THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN APPOINTED AS TRUSTEES OF THE ORGANIZATION AFTER A GENERAL MEETING ON THE 24TH OF MARCH 2017.

(1)ENGR.LADY ADEDOYIN ISUAN (PRESIDENT) (2)ENGR.SIR.ADEDOYIN TOSIN(SECRETARY) (3)PA.MOYEGUN MOSES(MEMBER) (4)MRAIGBEVBOLE MATTHEW(MEMBER) AIMS & OBJECTIVES -CARE FOR THE LESS PRIVILEGED IN THE SOCIETY. -CARE FOR THE WEAK IN THE SOCIETY THROUGH CHARITY -RELIEF FOR THE NEEDY SUCH AS ABANDONED, ORPHANED CHILDREN, WIDOWS, ELDERLY AND AGED. -PARTNERING WITH VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATION AND INSTITUTIONS WORKING TO ADVANCE CHARITABLE ACTS. ANY CBJECTION TO THIS SHOULD BE FORWARD TO THE REGISTER GENERAL; CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET,MAITAMA,ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED: ENGINEER A. ADEDOYIN

NSUKKA UNITED TRADERS CLUB OF MALAYSIA THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED CLUB HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1) NGWU OKECHUKWU 2) NWEZEA OGBONNA 3) IHUAGU EJIOFOR

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CHAIRMAN SECRETARY MEMBER

AIMS & OBJECTIVES 1) TO FOSTER, LOVE, PEACE AND UNITY AMONG MEMBERS. 2) THE CLUB SHALL ACT AS FORUM FOR BRINGING TOGETHER UNDER ONE UMBRELLA ALL MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION WHO TRAVEL TO MALAYSIA FOR BUSINESS TRIP. 3) TO LIAISE WITH OTHER SIMILAR ORGANIZATIONS IN DEVELOPMENT OF OUR CLUB. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: NWEZEA OGBONNA SECRETARY

TRIUNE FOUNDATION

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED FOUNDATION HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE:1. MR. JEREMIAH AKINSELE 2. PROFESSOR SOLA FAJANA 3. DR. ADEBOWALE AYOBADE 4. MR. KAYODE OWODIYE 5. MR. SUMIT JAIN 6. MRS. PERPETUAL AKINSELE THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE:1. TO ENGAGE/SUPPORT EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND ADVANCEMENT THROUGH THE DISTRIBUTION OF SCHOOL MATERIALS. RENOVATION OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION, ESTABLISHING EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND BURSARY TO DESERVING CANDIDATES IN PRIMARY/SECONDARY SCHOOLS AND HIGHER INSTITUTIONS HAVING AN ANNUAL VALUE AS MAY BE SET AND APPROVED BY THE TRUSTEES ANNUALLY. 2. TO ENGAGE IN FREE HEALTH IMPROVEMENT INITIATIVE, PRIMARY HEALTH, CLINIC, ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, DISTRIBUTION OF DRUGS, MOBILE CLINIC AND RESCUE AMBULANCE PROVISION. THE AWARENESS SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT LIMITED TO HIV/AIDS AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH PLAN. 3. TO PROVIDE FREE SOCIAL AMENITIES IN RURAL AREAS SUCH AS WELLS, BOREHOLE, ELECTRICITY, MARKET AND CIVIC CENTRE, SUPPORT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT. 4. TO SUPPORT AGED PEOPLE, CHILDREN/YOUTH BEYOND PARENTAL CONTROL, BUILD AND FINANCE THE RUNNING OF OLD PEOPLES HOME, SUPPORT MOTHERLESS AND ORPHANAGE HOMES AS WELL AS DEVELOPMENT OF ELDERS AND THE AGED, SUPPORT PROPAGATION OF MORAL TEACHINGS, RELIGION PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS. 5. TO ENGAGE IN FREE TRAINING AND CAPACITY BUILDING. 6. TO ENGAGE IN YOUTH AND WOMEN EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS, VOCATIONAL TRAINING, SKILL ACQUISITION AND CAREER TALK. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED BY : SECRETARY

SANCTUARY PENTECOSTAL POWER DELIVERANCE CHURCH INTERNATIONAL

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 2004 TRUSTEES ARE: 1. IDAH JOB AGIDA -GENERAL OVERSEER 2. PASTOR AJAYI ABIODUN ONOBU - SECRETARY 3. IDAH, ANGELA INORI AIMS AND OBJECTIVES : 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST TO THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD 2.TO PREACH AND BRING DELIVERANCE TO THOSE WHO’S JOY HAS BEEN TAKEN AWAY BY THE ENEMIES AND RESTORE HOPE TO THE HOPELESS .

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC), PMB 198, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY.

ASSOCIATION OF OGUN INDIGENES QUARRY OPERATORS THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 2004 THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. JIMOH, SULAIMAN ADEWALE (CHAIRMAN) 2. KELANI, WAHEED NIJAYE (SECRETARY) 3. KAROUNWI, AHMED OLUWASEGUN 4. OLUWOLE, OLALEKAN ABIODUN 5. AJANI, ISRAEL OWOEYE 6. OLUWOLE, ADEWALE 7. ABATAN, AFEEZ OLALEKAN 8. SOBIYE, ADEDAPO RAPHAEL 9. IRELABI, SURAJU ALANI 10. BABATUNDE, SAMUEL OLANREWAJU AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROMOTE UNITY AND LOVE AMONG MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION. 2. TO SERVE AS AN AVENUE OF ORIENTATION TO MEMBERS IN THE QUARRYING BUSINESS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC), PMB 198, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION ANNOUNCER: SECRETARY OF THE TRUSTEES

MAJ GEN S A AWOSANYA ISLAMIC FOUNDATION THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAME “ FOUNDATION “ HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 2004.

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ARE: 1) AWOSANYA SANSADEEN ADEBANJO. 2) AWOSANYA ABDULRAHMAN ABIODUN. 3) PROF. BALOGUN KAMALDEEN ABDULAZEEZ. 4) BELLO MISBAU ADENIYI. 5) ABDUL-MAJEED IMURAN ELEHA. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE (A) TO ENSURE THAT THE TENENTS AND VALUES OF THE ISLAMIC RELIGION ARE STRONGLY PURSUED THROUGH THE CHARITABLE WORKS OF THE FOUNDATION. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET, PMB 198, MAITAMA, TO ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DAY OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED BY: SECRETARY.

GOD’S SABBATH MISSION INC NO.1977

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED MISSION HAS APPLIED FOR CHANGE OF TRUSTEES AND AMENDMENT OF THEIR CONSTITUTION. THE NAMES OF THE NEW TRUSTEES ARE AS FOLLOWS:1.

REVEREND EMMANUEL EMEKA NWACHUKWU 2.

ELDER OKWUDIRI OKORIE 3.

ELDER FRANK EJIKE 4.

AMMISHADDAI ONUAGULUCHI 5.

ELDER WILLIE OBIKPO 6.

ELDER BERNARD EWUTE 7.

MRS ANGELA IKEZUAGU THE REMOVED TRUSTEES ARE:1. CHRISTOPHER CHUKWU 2. RAPHAEL ONUAGULUCHI 3. REVEREND OLIVER IZUOGU THE TRUSTEE RETAINED IS 1. REV. HYDE ONUAGULUCHI ANY OBJECTION TO THIS CHANGE OF TRUSTEES AND AMENDMENT OF CONSTITUTION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

EZILLO UNITED ASSOCIATION

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED ASSOCIATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1) ABA EMMANUEL 2) ANYIM IKECHUKWU JOSEPH 3) OKEH JOHN OBINNA 4) NWERI PETER CHUKWUMA 5) ADAGBA OGECHI 6) IGWE PASCAL 7) OGBONNA ANUKA AIMS & OBJECTIVES 1) TO SERVE AS A FORUM FOR BRINGING TOGETHER ALL EZILLO PEOPLE RESIDING HERE IN ABAKALIKI AND ITS ENVIRONS. 2) TO FOSTER UNITY, PEACE, LOVE UNDERSTANDING, JUSTICE AND PROGRESS AMONG THE MEMBERS IN PARTICULAR AND EZILLO COMMUNITY IN GENERAL. 3) TO ENSURE JUSTICES AND FAIRNESS AMONG MEMBERS OF THE BROTHERHOOD 4) TO CORPORATE WITH OTHER BRANCHES OF EZILLO UNITED ASSOCIATION WHERE OBJECTIVE AND ACTIVITIES ARE COMPLEMENTARY. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

Classified 21 I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AYORINDE SIJUOLA OLATINPO. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS AYORINDE SIJUOLA OMOWUNMI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

FUNKE

I FORMERLY K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS MISS FUNKE AKINBODE. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. FUNKE AKINBODE-NOFIU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY ITUNU KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLANREWAJU ADENIKE ITUNU. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGUNBIYI ADENIKE ITUNU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY BOLANLE K N O W N CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS BASIRAT OWOLABI BOLANLE. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS OLAMILEKAN BASIRAT BOLANLE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY ONYENAKAZI KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ONYENAKAZI MARYJANE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ONYENAKAZI JOY NNENA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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EHIABHI I FORMERLY KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS EHIS PRECIOUS. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS EHIABHI PRECIOUS EHIS. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

FORMALLY K N O W N AS DARAMOLA MODUPE ADESOLA NOW WANT TO BE CALLED OYEGBAMI MODUPE ADESOLA NIGERIA CUSTOMS SERVICE AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS OKONKWO LORITHA CHINAZOR. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS JOSHUA LORITHA CHINAZOR. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE NOTE.

I FORMERLY ABIODUN KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKUSANYA RILIWAT BIODUN. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS MURAINA RILWAT ABIODUN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OPEYEMI

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS LAWAL AZEEZAT OPEYEMI. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. OGUNDARE AZEEZAT OPEYEMI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY RUKAYAT KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS AZEEZ OLAITAN RUKAYAT. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ADEYINA OLAITAN RUKAYAT. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

THAT MY NAME WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AS OPATEYE OLAMIDE ADURAGBEMI INSTEAD OPATEYE GRACE ADURAGBEMI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE.

OGOLO

I FORMERLY K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS OGOLO TAMUNOPRIYE JENNIFER. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGOLO OBASI TAMUNOPRIYE, DUE TO MARRIAGE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SOWEMIMO-COKER OLUBUKOLA MARIAN, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ILESEMI-WILLIAMS OLUBUKOLA MARIAN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS YETUNDE ELIZABETH BOYD. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS YETUNDE ELIZABETH ABIMBOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY SHINA KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS LAMIDI SIKIRU SHINA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SUNKANMI SIKIRU SHINA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

JAYEOLA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OSSAI SCOTT ALEXANDER NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ONOJA CHINEDU JAYEOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MR ADEJUMO JACOBS FADARE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MR ADEJUMO JACOBS. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

THAT DURING MY BVN WITH FCMB BANK PLC, MY NAME WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AS KAFAYAT ADETOUN INSTEAD OF ADEFALA KAFAYAT ADETOUN. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEFALA KAFAYAT ADETOUN. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

THAT I WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OBASEIME MONDAY, THAT “OISAGBAI” WAS OMITTED IN SOME OF MY DOCUMENTS. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OBASEIME OISAGBAI MONDAY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS GARABA S LAWAL YUSUF. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS LAWAL YUSUF BOLAJI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JOAN UGO OKWARA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JOAN UGO MBAGWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

IN SOME OF MY DOCUMENTS MY NAME WAS WRITTEN AS UZOMAH UCHECHI ROSEMARY WHILE IN SOME OTHER DOCUMENTS IT WAS WRITTEN AS UZOMAH UCHECHI GABRIELLA. I AM THE ONE BEARING ALL THE NAMES. NOW I WISH TO BE KNOWN AS UZOMAH UCHECHI ROSEMARY. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING THE NAMES ARE VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

CORRECTION OF NAME IN SOME OF MY DOCUMENTS MY NAME WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AS KASHIMAWO YEKINI FATAI INSTEAD OF YEKINI FATAI KASHIMAWO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

AKHERE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OSAGIE MAGDALENE AKHERE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEWUSI-OSAGIE MAGDALENE AKHERE. I WAS BORN ON 28/06/1987 NOT 28/12/1985. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ODEYEMI

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FLORENCE AINA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS FLORENCE ODEYEMI. I WAS BORN ON 15/04/1945 NOT 06/10/1949.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ONIMIM

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS GABRIEL-WHYTE VICTORIA ONIMIM NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AGBONTA VICTORIA ONIMIM. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SOHE BUKOLA TOYIN NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEWUNMI BUKOLA OWOLABI. I WAS BORN ON 01/08/1981 NOT 01/08/1980.

ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ADDITION OF NAME

BERNARD ERE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ATA FRANCIS ERE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ATA BERNARD ERE. I WAS BORN ON 10/07/1996/ ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY IDOWU K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS JOSHUA REMILEKUN HANNAH NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGUNGBE REMILEKUN HANNAH IDOWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY ADEBAYO K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS IBRAHIM MICHAEL AYOMIDE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SOKOTI MICHAEL ADEBAYO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY FAJEMINSI K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS LOVETH ADA FAJEMISIN NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS LOVETH ADA FAJEMINSI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY LAWAL K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS FATIMO OGILI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FATIMO LAWAL. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY AKINTAJU K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS OWOLABI OLUWABUKOLA OLUWAFUNSHO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AKINTAJU OLUWABUKOLA OLUWAFUNSHO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

THAT MY NAME WAS WRONGLY ARRANGED AND WRONGLY WRITTEN ON MY BVN AS DIMEJESI (FIRST NAME) IFENYICHUKWU (MIDDLE NAME) BENNETH (SURNAME) INSTEAD OF DIMEJESI (SURNAME) IFEANYICHUKWU (FIRST NAME) BENNETH (MIDDLE NAME) AS APPEARS ON MY ACCOUNT AND ID CARD. THAT MY CORRECT NAME AND CORRECT ARRANGEMENT IS DIMEJESI (SURNAME) IFEANYICHUKWU (FIRST NAME) BENNETH (MIDDLE NAME). THAT I WAS BORN ON 20/04/1944. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MICHEAL

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEYILU TOPE ADEWALE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEWALE JACOB MICHEAL. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ABIODUN

I FORMERLY K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS ORISARAYI RASHIDAT ABIODUN NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OJOBARO RASHIDAT ABIODUN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

KAFAYAT

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AFUWAPE OLABISI KAFAYAT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OYEWUNMI OLABISI KAFAYAT. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGUNLANA SAFIAT OLASIMBO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OMIDIJI SAFIAT OLASIMBO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

GBENGA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGUNKUNLE GBENGA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLAKUNLE TIMOTHY GBENGA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWANKWO CHUKWUNONSO OGA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGAH CHUKWUNONSO OWEN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY CHARLES KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ONWUZURUIKE ALILIONU EMMANUEL, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MICHAEL CHIMA CHARLES. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY MORRIS KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ALILIONU MORRIS, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWACHUKWU MORRIS. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AGARA OLUWABUNMI ADENIKE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEITAN OLUWABUNMI ADENIKE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. EVERY MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC AND THE NIGERIA POLICE SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BABATUNDE ADESANYA MUTIAT ERINOLA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS LAWAL MUTIAT AJOKE. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SABBATH HARRSON, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SABBATH HARRISON STANLEY. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS. ADEEGBE HANNAH ADEBIMPE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. AFE ADEBIMPE HANNAH. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED TAKE NOTE.

HANNAH

I, FORMERLY EZERI KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SUNDAY EZERI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BORNIN SUNDAY EZERI. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY EJIMO K N O W N , CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS AKINYEMI MARY EJIMO, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS OYETOLA MARY EJIMO. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAMES REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

TEMITAYO

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Daily Times Nigeria Friday, June 14, 2019

UN warns against ‘Gulf confrontation’ after tankers damaged The United Nations has warned the world cannot afford “a major confrontation in the Gulf” as international concern grew over suspected attackson commercial ships near the Strait of Hormuz.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres denounced Thursday’s incidents at a Security Council meeting, saying: “I strongly condemn any attack against civilian incidents. Facts must be established and responsibilities clarified.”

The reported attacks in the Gulf of Oman off the coast of Iran left one ship ablaze and both adrift, forcing scores of crew to abandon the ships. They were the second in a month near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, a major waterway for world oil supplies.

And though details of what happened were still scarce, the incidents came amid

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heightened frictions between the United States and Iran.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Iran of being behind the reported attacks, hours after Tehran called the incidents suspicious.

Speaking at a press briefing in Washington, DC, Pompeo said the US held Iran “responsible”.

“This assessment is based on intelligence, the weapons used, the level of expertise needed to execute the operation, recent similar Iranian attacks on shipping, and the fact that no proxy group operating in the area has the resources and proficiency to act with such a high degree of sophistication,” Pompeo said.

He did not provide hard evidence to back up the US stance.

Earlier in the day, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the

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timing of the incidents was “suspicious” since they coincided with a meeting between the country’s supreme leader and Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was in Tehran on an unprecedented visit to defuse the US-Iran tensions.

“Suspicious doesn’t begin to describe what likely transpired this morning,” said Zarif, without elaborating further.

The US has blamed Iran for earlier attacks on oil tankers, saying Iranianmade limpet mines were used to attack four oil tankers on May 12 off the Emirati port of Fujairah. Tehran dismissed the allegation as “ridiculous” and called for dialogue between countries in the Gulf to ease what it called an “alarming security situation” in the region.

Earlier in May, Washington had sent troops and warships to the region to counter unspecified threats from Iran. The deployment came a year after

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Washington exited a multinational accord that lifted sanctions on Iran in exchange for curbs on its nuclear programme.

It also reimposed and tightened sanctions on Tehran.

Zarif said the incidents on Thursday show Iran’s proposed regional forum was “imperative”.

Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Saudi Arabia-led coalition fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen called the suspected attacks a “major escalation” and linked them to attacks in July 2018 on two Saudi oil tankers the Red Sea. “From my perspective ... we can connect it to the Houthi attacks at Bab al-Mandeb,” Colonel Turki al-Maliki told reporters in Riyadh. The Saudiled coalition accuses Iran of arming the Houthis, but Tehran denies the allegation.

In recent weeks, the Houthis have responded to Saudi-coalition’s intensified raids on its positions by stepped up attacks inside Saudi Arabia, including on its oil infrastructure.

Ahmed Aboul Gheit, secretarygeneral of the Arab League, on Thursday, called on the UN securitygeneral to maintain security in the Gulf.

“Some parties in the region are trying to instigate fires in the region and we must be aware of that,” he told the 15-member council, without naming anyone.

Speaking at the same meeting, Kuwait’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled al-Sabah described the tanker incidents as “the most recent event in a series of acts of sabotage that are threatening the security of maritime corridors as well as threatening energy security of the world”.

Qatar also weighed in, calling for an international investigation and a deescalation of tensions. In a statement, the Qatari foreign ministry condemned what it called acts of destruction “regardless of who is behind them”.

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, who was in Tehran last week, also urged de-escalation from all sides in the Gulf, saying that even though the facts are still unclear, the incident is “extremely disturbing”.

Thursday’s events have also prompted

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concern from maritime agencies.

“The shipping industry views this as an escalation of the situation and we are just about as close to a conflict without there being an actual armed conflict, so the tensions are very high,” said Jakob P Larsen, the head of maritime security for the shipping association BIMCO, which represents some 60 percent of the world’s merchant fleet, including owners of the two damaged tankers.

Norway’s foreign ministry said it “is concerned about the situation in Oman Bay” and that “this type of incident further increases tension in the region”.

The Norwegian Maritime Authority meanwhile advised ships “to keep a good distance to Iranian waters” in light of Thursday’s events.

The UK’s Maritime Trade Operations, which is run by the British navy, also put out an alert early on Thursday urging “extreme caution”.

Following the suspected attacks, the benchmark Brent crude spiked at one point by as much four percent to over $62 a barrel.

A third of all oil traded by sea, which amounts to 20 percent of oil traded worldwide, passes through the Strait of Hormuz making it one of the world’s most important sea lanes.

Paolo d’Amico, chairman of the International Association of Independent Tanker Owners, said he was concerned about further disruption in the area, warning the “supply to the entire Western world could be at risk.”

“I am extremely worried about the safety of our crews going through the Strait of Hormuz,” d’Amico said in a statement.

Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry, president of the World Maritime University, added that any major disruption of shipping in the Gulf would “have significant consequences on shipping markets because it affects oil tanker capacity as well as the cost of operation”.

“It also has implications for insurance, the crew and additional protective measures needed to keep ships moving,” she told Al Jazeera from Malmo in Sweden.

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Daily Times Nigeria Friday, June 14, 2019

Divine Oduduru named CoMen’s Track Athlete of the Year

The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association has named rave-making Nigerian sprinter Divine Oduduru the CoMen’s Track Athlete of the Year.

At the NCAA Division 1 Championships concluded last weekend in Austin, Texas, Oduduru successfully completed a sprint double, winning the 100m and 200m titles in scintillating fashion.

Oduduru scorched out of the block in explosive fashion in the

100m, going 9.86 for his third sub10 race of the season. Barely an hour later, the 22 year old delivered another sub-20 in the 200m.

In the history of track and field, such has been done 12 times, and Oduduru owns three of them.

The 9.86 seconds in the 100m tied him for the world lead and the 19.73 seconds in the 200m surpassed the 19.76 seconds he ran in April – the then second-fastest time ever run by a collegiate – to make it so he now owns both the second- and third-

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fastest time in collegiate history.

This was done after helping the 4×100 relay team to a Texas Tech University record for the fourth consecutive time racing it this year.

Oduduru also became the second Nigerian to complete a sprint double at the Championship behind Olapade Adeniken who made history at the University of Texas’ Mike Myers Stadium some 27 years ago (1992). Interestingly, Oduduru also achieved his sprint double at the same track.

Didier Drogba: Frank Lampard ready for Chelsea manager job Didier Drogba has given his endorsement to Frank Lampard as he says his former team-mate is ready to manage Chelsea despite only one year of experience with Derby County.

The legendary striker lined up alongside Lampard to great success at Stamford Bridge, earning a host of honours from the Champions League to the Premier League in the most glorious era in the club’s history.

Lampard’s 211 goals mark him out as the all-time top-scorer for the club and he is tipped as the leading candidate to replace Maurizio Sarri, who is set to leave the club for Juventus in his native Italy in the near future.

Drogba knows Lampard as well as anyone and he believes his success at Derby shows he is ready to manage the club where they both made their names.

“I think it is a very good option for the club,” Drogba said at Stamford Bridge.

“He has done well with Derby, you know, taking the team to the play-off final and I think it is a very good option for the club.”

There has been discussion whether Lampard, after just one season in charge of a club, is ready for the pressure of the Chelsea job. But Drobga dismissed those concerns,

believing if the former midfielder believes himself prepared, that is what matters.

“So he is never going to be ready, then?

Does he have to wait until he is 40 or 50 to be ready? I think it depends on your experience and depends on your desire to succeed and do it. If he feels ready I don’t think it is too early.”

Drogba’s return to Stamford Bridge comes as he prepares to play in the highprofile Soccer Aid charity match for Unicef.

His Rest of the World XI will face an English team, pitting the likes of Drogba and Essien against John Terry and Joe Cole.

Ex-Liverpool and Tottenham star Jamie Redknapp is playing in the match and is the cousin of Lampard. He thinks it would be a great decision in the circumstances of having a transfer ban to appoint the legendary midfielder, as long as they are willing to give him the time to build a team.

“If Sarri goes, which it looks like, and they were to go for Frank then it would be a great decision,” Redknapp said. “He is a hero, a God here, but whoever comes into this job next if he (Sarri) was to go then they have to be given time.

“You have lost your best player, a transfer embargo and I think the club need to state that, whatever happens, if we don’t do well,

because that could theoretically happen this year if you lose your best players and you can’t buy any, then you have to be given time to build a team.

“I think with the squad they have, they could theoretically get top four, but with losing their best player, by a long way, not just a good player but the best player in probably the Premier League has left the club.

“They finished third and won the Europa League, it ended up being a really good season, but there were times when they really struggled this year, so they have to be patient. Frank is a bright guy and would be completely realistic in the situation.

“People say, is it the right time? When is the right time? This is his club, this is where he is loved, the fans idolise him and he is so bright that he will figure it out. He could be the first English manager to have been ever chosen (under Roman Abramovich).

“If they were to go with one then, and Jody Morris (his assistant at Derby) would come with him, then I think it would be a really good team. But they have got to be given time. There is no magic wand. It is not because Frank lacks experience, it will mainly be because they have lost their best players.”

Asisat Oshoala hope Falcons get points against France Super Falcons striker Asisat Oshoala Wednesday admitted that she and other teammates were scared of losing their second game at the FIFA Women’s World Cup in France.

After suffering a 3-0 loss to Norway in their opening game and in dire need of a win against a Korean side who also went down 4-0 to France, Oshoala turned in a player of the match performance to earn the Super Falcons their first win in the tournament.

Super Falcons won the match 2-0.

“At first, I think we were a little bit scared of losing and going out,” Oshoala told FIFA.com.

“But after a while, we just decided to go for it. I always say that I’m never under pressure- I just go on the pitch and do my job.”

The Super Falcons started on the back foot as Korea piled pressure on the defence that sat back. The defence was resolute in denying the opponent a break at goal despite missing the injured Faith Michael who was replaced by Chidinma Okeke.

Nigeria went ahead in the 29th minute when Do-Yeon’s turned in a through pass for Desire Oparanozie past the onrushing goalkeeper Kim

Minjung.

Oshoala scored the second goal in the 75th minute with a perfect display of pace, strength and a great finish.

The Barcelona forward raced onto a pass in behind, showed good upper body strength to shrug off the defender and rounded the goalkeeper to hit the back of the net.

“It’s an 11-player game and I just look to enjoy the game, have fun and do the right thing for my team,”

Oshoala said.

With the win, Nigeria is only ahead of Korea in group A and sits third behind host nation – France and Norway.

“The group is wide open now,” Oshoala said.

“We just have to concentrate now on making sure we get the points we need against France.”

Nigeria’s next game will be on June 17 against France at Roazhon Park in Rennes.

WWC: Australia complete epic comeback against Brazil Australia have rallied from two goals down to seal a stunning 3-2 win over Brazil in their second group match at the Women’s World Cup. After a bright start from the Matildas, VAR was required to rule on a possible penalty for the green and gold in the 20th minute only for a handball earlier in the play to deny Australia a spotkick.

Brazil would then go up the other end and win a penalty of their own with VAR ruling Elise Kellond-Knight was guilty of shirt pulling inside the box.

Veteran Brazilian striker Marta made no mistake from the spot to score in a fifth World Cup and hand her side the lead in the 27th minute.

Just over 10 minutes later, Cristiane would double Brazil’s lead with a thumping header following a slick team move.

Staring down the barrel of costly consecutive World Cup defeats, Australia pulled a goal back in first-half injury-time as Caitlin Foord converted from close range after a cross was kept alive by Chloe Logarzo.

With the momentum in the second 45 minutes, the Matildas would draw level in the 58th minute with Logarzo’s long-range effort somehow bouncing between Brazil’s defenders and keeper and into the back of the net.

Australia’s incredible turnaround would then be completed in the 67th minute via an own goal as Brazilian defender Monica headed the ball into her own net.

Though the goal was initially ruled out for an offside call on Sam Kerr, the Matildas captain was deemed to have not interfered with play on VAR review as the green and gold took the lead for the first time.

Australia would not surrender it in the final minutes either as they claimed a vital 3-2 win over Brazil – the Matildas fifth straight win against the South Americans and Brazil’s first group stage loss at a World Cup since 1995.

The green and gold will now round out the group stage against Jamaica with progress to the Round of 16 now firmly in their own hands.

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VOL. 3

Amaechi’s train ride for $2b silence

NO. 967

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Times Guest Columnist

By Azu Ishiekwene

If it had been news about the former sports minister who had defiantly sat on $150,000 mistakenly paid into the ministry’s account by the IAAF, I might have found it easier to believe.

Never mind Solomon Dalung’s beret and fatigue, his recalcitrance over the miscued money is at odds with his socialist pretensions. The IAAF saga suggests that he likes money and covets it even more when it does not belong to him. Why seize $150,000 in spite of passionate pleas by IAAF for two years that only $20,000 was actually meant to have been transferred?

But Dalung is Dalung, one of President Muhammadu Buhari’s many pre-historic discoveries in a cabinet of strange bedfellows. As Dalung stood over the sports ministry’s treasury shortly before departing on May 29, brooding with green eyes while the ministry reluctantly refunded IAAF’s overpayment of $130,000 – one certified dollar at a time – a story was brewing of another minister who, unlike Dalung, swore publicly that he does not like money.

Former Transport Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, not only disavowed bribes, he said that he would not even be tempted, much less yield, because he does not like money.

From the news last week, temptation may be at the minister’s door in form of the Lagos-Ibadan railway construction, which reports suggested may have been significantly inflated. Multiple news reports said while the 156-km Lagos-Ibadan railway line is estimated to cost $2b, mostly sourced from loans borrowed from the Chinese, the same Chinese could finance the rehabilitation and construction of Ghana’s 414-km railway line for $2b.

Different sources estimate that the cost of constructing the Lagos-Ibadan railway should not be the same as the cost to build the one in Ghana – and in fact should be significantly lower – since Nigeria’s is roughly one-third shorter, without any significant differences in gauge-type, power source or terrain.

To be fair, Amaechi’s tenure had expired when the news broke, but his exit cannot justify the silence by him or by the ministry. The remotest suggestion that public funds may have been misspent or that the country may have been cheated by partners who appear determined to drown us in loans, must grieve a minister who does not like money. Neither his nor public fund is good to waste.

Keep in mind that at some stage in this business – long before Ghana thought of revamping its own railway line – Amaechi had invited the Ghanaian Minister for Railway Development, Joe Ghartey, to see what the Chinese were doing with the Lagos-Ibadan railway line, among others.

It was after the visit that Ghana locked down its own 414-km standard gauge deal with the Chinese, which would also include the building of two terminals in addition to plans to establish local hubs to build locomotive coaches.

How did Ghana get a better deal when Nigeria still does not know how much it has so far borrowed from the Chinese in what now appears to be a rogue’s inventory of loan grab for everything from power to airport renovation and railway construction?

Don’t get me wrong. I’m familiar with the mantra about non-consumption borrowing; about relatively safe debtGDP ratio; and about how borrowing is good as long as it can be paid back.

Clearly, the zeal with which former President Goodluck Jonathan pursued reviving the railways, followed by Buhari, is commendable. And if they had pledged a pound each of 200m Nigerian flesh to borrow to build our railways, we would have gladly obliged them.

But we will not be taken for an expensive 156-km ride and not ask questions when Ghanaians would be paying far less for double the distance. It won’t happen.

After years of broken promises and scandalously missed deadlines, Amaechi had promised the country that the Lagos-Ibadan railway line would be open in May 2019. But just as he was saying that earlier in the year, the Chinese contractors, unknown to him by his own confession, were on board a flight to Beijing and would not return until after the general elections were over.

Not only is the project now past its May delivery date (civil works on the Ibadan-Abeokuta section and also the Lagos-Iju axis have been disrupted by the rains), the project cost has also increased by a sum which Amaechi publicly and defiantly refused to disclose. That is unacceptable. The public has a right to know.

No journalist I know has taken as much interest and pain in highlighting the malicious confusion around this railway line project like the syndicated columnist, SonalaOlumhense. Time and again, he has called out Buhari’s government, and Amaechi in particular, over the handling of the project.

In an article on October 8, 2017, entitled, “Nigeria’s railway merry-goround,�, Olumhense narrated how Amaechi told a business forum in Abuja on January 23, 2017 that the government had paid its full counterpart funding of N72billion for the construction of the Lagos-Ibadan rail line.

According to the article, Amaechi added that the payment was required to access a $30billion Chinese government loan, already approved by Beijing and only waiting approval by the National Assembly.

In March of the same year, Amaechi said again that the Chinese ExportImport Bank (EXIM), was prepared to lend Nigeria $6.1billion to complete all current rail projects in Nigeria – and all, here, meant, Lagos-Ibadan; LagosCalabar; Lagos-Kano; Abuja-Kaduna; and the Abuja light rail.

And then one day seven months later, Amaechi said the country may not develop the rail networks, after all, because, “there is no money.�

In Nigeria, the journey from too

much money to money missing, and finally, no more money takes only a press statement, which once reported vanishes into a blackhole. Whatever the Ghanaian minister saw during his visit that recommended the Chinese model to him might just have been the idea in principle and a sense of what can be done in his own country.

If Ghartey ever saw the first page of the contract papers – the billions of dollars sunk in loan by the Chinese and the missed deadlines – he might have thought we were building a snail rail. To quote Olumhense, Nigeria has spent “about $75billion, but nobody is making clear where the investment has gone or is going.�

But as surely as the Chinese know the cost of every stone on the Great China Wall, they’re keeping record of the loans and would call in every yuan someday. We can enjoy our debtor’s paradise for now, but a country like China that executes its public officers for corruption knows where to draw the line.

The culture is different here. The Chinese know it, have mastered it, and are quite happy to abet corruption. Our public officers conduct themselves as if they owe us nothing and we must either endure their arrogance or get lost. That might have been acceptable 21 years ago under military rule, but we’re well past that stage. And citizens must demand account.

Amaechi may no longer be in office – or he may be waiting to return – but he owes the public an explanation about why we may be paying significantly higher for a railway line that is comparatively shorter than what Ghana is getting.

When the Kenyan government was accused of spending $3.6billion to build the 250km Mombasa-Nairobi railway line, which cost significantly higher per kilometre of track than the Addis Ababa-Djibouti rail line ($3.4billion for 756km), the Kenyan government explained that the Mombasa-Nairobi line would carry more cargo and be powered by diesel. There was, at least, an official account.

It took only five years (2011 – 2016) to complete the Addis-Djibouti line (powered by electricity, which significantly increased the cost); and six to complete the Mombasa-Nairobi line. Both services have opened up vast business opportunities along the routes, connected more towns, multiplied trade and economic activities, and drastically cut commute time and needless loss of lives on bad roads.

We know that Amaechi does not like money. But millions of Nigerians who have to make honest money and love doing so need to know why Ghana appears to be getting a better deal than Nigeria in a rail project over which we have suffered much already.

Silence would be a $2b insult, unbecoming of a man who might have been happy to serve Nigeria free-ofcharge as minister, if only we asked him. And so, now we ask him nicely: Amaechi, what happened?

Chiamaka Nnadozie thrilled to make Falcons winning debut against Korea Super Falcons’ young goalkeeper Chiamaka Nnadozie is extremely proud to keep a clean sheet in her debut appearance for the side against Korea Republic at the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup and insists she will cherish the moment for the rest of her career.

Nnadozie, 18, was picked ahead of the more experienced Tochukwu Oluehi by head coach Thomas Dennerby and she rewarded the Swede’s faith with a superb performance as the African champions recorded a 2-0 win against the Asians.

The Rivers Angels goalkeeper also made history as the youngest goalkeeper to keep a clean sheet in the history of the FIFA

Women’s World Cup. An elated Nnadozie took to the social media to express her happiness on the the win against the Koreans. “All Glory to God. I’m very delighted to make a winning debut with Nigeria against South Korea at the 2019 Women’s World Cup. It’s a great moment in my career and I will cherish it forever,� Nnadozie tweeted.

France top Group A with six points from two games – three ahead of second-placed Norway and third-placed Nigeria.

The Super Falcons will take on hosts France in their last group game next week Monday at the Roazhon Park, Rennes.

Kick-off is 8pm Nigerian time.

Brazilian police file defamation complaint against Neymar’s rape accuser Brazilian police said on Thursday they had filed a defamation suit against the woman who has accused football star Neymar of rape after she insinuated the force was corrupt.

During an interview with television channel SBT, Najila Trindade said: “The police are bought, aren’t they? Or am I crazy?�

The police filed a complaint, issuing a statement on Thursday defending its “absolute transparency, neutrality and impartiality�.

On Tuesday, Trindade

had seen a third lawyer drop her case as Danilo Garcia de Andrade said he was no longer representing her.

The lawyer wanted to see the content of a seven-minute video filmed during the model’s second meeting with the Paris Saint-Germain star.

Trindade maintains the recording — a few seconds of which have been leaked on social media — includes conclusive evidence that she was assaulted.

The accusation against Paris Saint-Germain forward Neymar has grabbed headlines

in Brazil, which is currently hosting the Copa America, a tournament the 26-year-old is missing due to an ankle injury.

Trindade filed the complaint against Neymar on May 31, saying he assaulted her after inviting her to visit him in Paris.

Onome Ebi reveals secret behind Super Falcons victory over Korea Super Falcons defender Onome Ebi says team work was behind the team’s victory over Korea Republic at the ongoing FIFA Women’s World Cup. The African Champions recorded their first victory in the FIFA Women’s World Cup for the first time since

2011 with a 2-0 win over the Asains at Grenoble on Wednesday.

After helping the team to keep a clean sheet in the encounter, Ebi who’s making her record fifth FIFA Women’s World Cup appearance lauded the team for their commitment and added that

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they will fight to move to the next round. “Great team work today, we keep working hard till the end âš˝đ&#x;’Şđ&#x;‡łđ&#x;‡Ź.Good job team,â€? she said via her Twitter account.

The Super Falcons are third in Group A and will take on France in the make or mar encounter next.

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