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Times Multimedia partners CNN to debut Folio.ng Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

The management of Times Multimedia, a media, digital publishing and technology company in partnership with CNN, the world’s news leader, is set to debut a premium news and entertainment platform entitled: “Folio.ng.”

A statement made available on Wednesday and signed by the Managing Director, Times Multimedia, Zubby Emodi, said the exclusive affiliation will bring global

expertise in content creation and digital publishing to Nigeria with localised context, working with an experienced on-ground team and a network of the country’s top business and creative talents.

Emodi said the partnership with CNN, established by CNN International Commercial (CNNIC), would enable Folio to access and use CNN reporting and journalism from across the world.

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training and expertise services in areas from content production and distribution to journalistic standards and practices as Folio prepares to launch. ‘’By launching this CNN affiliated digital publishing platform in Nigeria, we plan to raise the bar for premium news production, quality editorial, immersive video content-thus helping change the narrative of Nigeria in the global context and offer engaging, credible, and in-depth news and

entertainment, current affairs, education, and other Africafocused content verticals. ‘’In developing this exciting new venture, we are partnering with content creations, technology companies, creative professionals and media experts with great experience and backgrounds leading both local and global companies. Suffice to say, we believe this movement will inspire a new generation of editors, content creators and brands to leverage our current cultural equity on the world stage,’’ said Emodi.

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The proprietress and owner of Broadoaks British School (BBS) and Teenee Toods Day Nursery School (TTDN), Mrs Eni Ogon, has debunked claims by 50-yearold American Educational Consultant, Dr. Jennifer Smith, that the school is owing her with the sum of N3, 939,203.

Responding to Tuesday publication of The Daily Times where Dr. Smith alleged that the school was owing her, Mrs. Ogon described the allegations levelled against the school by Dr. Smith as deliberate falsehood, misrepresentation and distortion of facts.

Speaking through her lawyer, Barrister Akenuwa Wilfred, Mrs. Ogon called on members of the public to disregard the claims, adding that the claim was a deliberate attempt to drag the good name the school has built over the years to the mud.

She said Dr. Smith, who voluntarily withdrew her services from the contract following her unsatisfactory performance of the portion she was paid to deliver in line with the contract, deliberately refused to properly

handover her former office to the school management in line with the approved standard.

“It will be recalled that Dr. Smith voluntarily withdrew from the contract without satisfactory performance of the portion she has been paid to deliver contrary to the contract. The terms of the agreement on termination of the contract now applies.

“This from all intent and purposes, all monies collected by Dr. Smith for job not done must be refunded. Dr. Smith’s total medical expenses (receipted) and other approved expenses including accommodation submitted to our clients have been fully paid.

“Dr. Smith failure to attend the exit meeting to properly render accounts of her stewardship and handover her former office to the school management in line with with the approved standard practise of office administration is the cause of this contention.

“We urged her to surrender the school data base of parents and staff along with other intellectual properties and documents in her possession. They are purely confidential materials and properties of the school which cannot be removed without due

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Sales and Partnerships, EMEA, CNNIC, Roland Nikolaou, said the important part of CNN’s mission and strategy is to empower innovative news organisations around the world with the tools and capabilities to launch exciting new services.

“Folio epitomises the spirit and ambition that we look for, and we are excited to exclusively partner with Times Multimedia in its plans to bring a fresh source of news to Nigeria, its diaspora and the wider continent,” he added.

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authorisation as per the contract.

“We therefore state categorically that the school management is not owing on the contract and has fully satisfied her obligation to Dr. Smith, but as we write, she has refused, neglected and failed to properly provide report of deliverables on the contract of the portion she has been paid to deliver. It is purely her duty to do so”, she added.

The school management further demanded for refund of N17 million paid on the contract for which they alleged unsatisfactory performance.

The Daily Times recalls that Dr. Smith had called on the owner of BBSS TTDN International School to pay her due entitlements in the sum of N3, 939,203 to enable her travel back to her country.

She said that she was engaged by the School Proprietress, Mrs. Ogon to head her two schools in Abuja while she was still working as a Superintendent in China, a school of about 3,000 students.

According to her, Mrs. Ogon in an effort to recruit her, promised to match the same contract, salary and benefits that she was making in China but later defaulted on the contract terms.

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Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki (right) exchanging pleasantries with imams, Alfas and guests during the 6th year remembrance prayers for his late father, Dr. Abubakar Olusola Saraki (Oloye), in Ilorin...on Wednesday.

L-R: Managing Director Danvic Petroleum & President Oil and Gas Trainers Association of Nigeria, (OGTAN), Dr. Mayowa Afe; former President Olusegun Obasanjo; Administrative Manager, OGTAN, Mrs. Omotola Kolawole; Vice President Africa - ION, Folarin Lajumoke; and Chairman University Liaison, OGTAN, Austin Ogu, at the African Oil Week Conference, Cape Town, South Africa... on Wednesday.

Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode (right), with the National President, Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International-Nigeria (FGBMFI), Arc. Ifeanyi Odedo, during a courtesy visit by FGBMFI-Nigeria at the Lagos House, Alausa, Ikeja...on Wednesday

Calls for early diagnosis and treatment

Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja As Nigeria join the rest of the world to observe World Diabetes Day, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed that half of the people living with diabetes type 2 in Africa are unaware of the disease and are not receiving treatment.

While calling for early diagnosis and treatment, the WHO Regional Director for

Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, said about 90% of diabetes is type 2 which according to him if not properly managed may cause blindness, kidney failure, lower limb amputations and other complications.

Speaking while addressing journalists in commemoration with World Diabetes Day 2018 in Abuja on Tuesday, Dr. Moeti lamented that the occurrence of type 2 diabetes has risen dramatically in all countries of all income levels since 1980, He disclosed that the African

Region has experienced a sixfold increase, from 4 million in 1980 to 25 million in 2014.

This, according to him, was due to aging populations and lifestyle changes, including unhealthy diets and a lack of physical activity.

“Overweight and obesity are the strongest risk factors for type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and other noncommunicable diseases.

“Early diagnosis and treatment are important for

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President, Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), Babatunde Ruwase (fifth left); Executive Director, Shared Services and Products, Fidelity Bank Plc, Chijioke Ugochukwu (5th right) flanked by beneficiaries of Fidelity Savings Loyalty Scheme (FSLS), during the cheque presentation to beneficiaries of Fidelity Savings Loyalty Scheme at the Lagos International Trade Fair in Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos.

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At last, FG raises N64.8bn for Ogoni Clean-up Mathew Dadiya, Abuja The Federal Government has said there is no going back on the Ogoni Clean-up, disclosing that it has realised a whopping sum of N64.8 billion ($180 billion) for the commencement of the project in two weeks’ time.

The Minister of State, Environment, Mr. Ibrahim Jibrin, said this on Wednesday while briefing State House Correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.

Jibrin said that the procurement processes have reached the final advance stage, adding that, “Yesterday (Tuesday), the Ministerial Tender Board sat to consider the submission of the procurement department of Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) and 15 lots were up for grabs”.

He said: “On Friday, the governing council of the Ogoni Trust Fund will meet to ratify this and we hope by the next week, this letters will be out and the contractors will be mobilised to site.

“There are some other five lots.

Because we are 21 in this first segment that are beyond the reach of the Ministerial Tender Board and the Governing Council. So, that one will go to the Federal Executive Council.

We have already written to BPP for no objection and we hope to get the no objection hopefully by next week. So, the next two weeks, those five lots will be presented to the Federal Executive Council for approval.

“I can assure you that we are on course and there is no going back on the Ogoni clean up. This is the first time that the Federal Government has put a machinery in place. No government in the last 30, 40 years of oil pollution has done what this government is doing now.

“The President made a promise in 2015. He charged us to actualise that promise, we took up the gauntlet, we put all the governance structures in place, we did the governing council, we did the Board of Trustees, we did the project coordination office and got a project coordinator to put in place.

“We have advertised in the most transparent way right from the month of March both national and international.

Some of them - the Economist of London and we have gotten more than 400 companies who expressed interest.

“We shortlisted after the technical evaluation and got 183 and these the companies that were qualified to bid and pick the financials attached therein and they did that, it has been ongoing for couple of weeks now and it has been concluded and therefore I can confidently tell you that before the end of this month, in the next week’s, there will

Buhari be 21 companies that will be mobilised to site to start the work.

“You must ask whether there is funding? Yes, of course there is funding. Again, this is the first time the government has done something.

Because of the confidence that the oil companies have in the government, because of the governance structures that are put in place, the opening of the Ogoni Trust Fund was able to mobilise a $180 million from the oil companies.

“Right from the NNPC, SPDC and the ventures. They have mobilised $180 million. It is in the escrow account with the Standard Chartered Bank of London and the Board of Trustee is managing that. “ The minister said that the Federal Government is concerned, saying that, “we can beat our chest and say that the Buhari administration has shown the way forward on this clean up exercise and we hope and pray that the people whom we are working for will have cause to laugh and smile very soon.”

In a similar development, the minister said that the Federal Executive Council has approved a memo for the ratification of the Doha Amendment of the Kyoto Protocol. This protocol, according to him, concerns the United Nations framework conventions on climate change which is a major global issue across the world now.

The Kyoto Protocol was crafted in 2004 and Nigeria is a party to that. The initial period of commitment of the protocol was from 2008-2012.

The new segment now is from 20132020. The essence of this protocol is to commit advanced countries or developed countries that are mostly industrialised and are at the forefront of the production of gaseous emission which is harmful to the environment, which is leading to climate change and therefore causing global problem environmentally.

“While they emit more than we the developing nations, that was why the world came together to look at this issues and the developed nations are compelled to take responsibility for their action.

“The Doha Amendment of the Kyoto Protocol is essentially to get developed nations who are industrialised, who are leading production of gaseous materials into the atmosphere to take responsibility and to assist countries like Nigeria who are developing and who are not producing any significant emission but are suffering the consequences. We are all aware of flooding that we experienced this year and this has been going since 2012”.

Jibril noted that benefits Nigeria stands to gain from the Doha Amendment of the Kyoto Protocol is that, “once the amendment is ratified as we want it to be, there will be access to financial assistance which will help in motivating and adapting to impact of climate change.”

He added that the second benefit will be access to technology and capacity building and there will also be networking with other nations and organisations who are more advanced and can be of help to us as a country and lastly, continuation of flexible mechanisms and contribution to global efforts as no one country has the solution for this problem alone.

He said that the idea is to team up and then get the developing countries to be assisted effectively.

According to the Environment minister, “it is in our own interest to get this agreement ratified which we have done today and the next stage will be for the Attorney General of the Federation to provide the instrument of ratification which will be signed later by Mr. President and be deposited at the United Nations in New York”.

Meanwhile, the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has stated that it welcomes the commencement of the much trumpeted clean up of Ogoni land by the Federal Government.

In a telephone interview with one of our correspondents in Fort-Harcourt, MOSOP President, Mr. Psaro Pyagbara, said the plans by the Federal Government to commence the United Nations (UN) recommended clean up in two weeks’ time was a welcome development because MOSOP had earlier given the Federal Government a deadline to do or face the people’s wrath.

He said: “if the Federal Government say that in the next two weeks they’re going to commence the clean-up, I think that will be welcomed. We said on November 10, 2018 that if nothing happens by the end of November, then our communities will no longer accept any excuse any more. So, if they say the next two weeks that would be the end of the month.”

He however expressed doubts over

Minimum Wage: We can’t pay N30,000, governors insist Mathew Dadiya, Abuja The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) has said that most of the states in the country cannot afford to pay the N30,000 National Minimum Wage proposed by the tripartite committee.

Chairman of the forum and

Zamfara State Governor Abdulaziz Yari said this on Wednesday after an emergency meeting at its Secretariat in Abuja.

Some of those at the meeting which commenced at about 8pm were governors of Lagos, Akwa Ibom, and Zamfara states.

The governors, who met behind

closed doors, insisted that only Lagos State has the capacity to pay because of its Internally Generated Revenue (IGR).

Yari also said that the forum resolved to put together another committee that will meet with President Muhammadu Buhari on the matter.

the funds said to have been earmarked for the commencement exercise. “I don’t know whether that figure is correct because what UNEP recommended for the first five years was $1billion and $1billionat the current exchange rate in Nigeria is more than N600billion,” he said.

Pyagbara, who is also on the board of HYPREP, the Federal Government clean-up agency and the Ogoni Clean Up Trust Fund, further explained that based on negotiations between the Federal Government, Shell and Ogoni communities, the oil industry,

including NNPC agreed to do a $200 million Dollars on annual basis as their contribution and that so far they have paid a total of $117 million dollars into the Ogoni Trust Fund.

But to Mr. Nsuke Fegalo, MOSOP Publicity Secretary, the clean-up exercise is a fluke and that if it commences, it will commence on a very faulty foundation.

“I think it is just for them to award contracts to themselves because how can you commence the clean up when the soil testing facility is not yet in place?” he asked.

APC Primaries’ crises: Oshiomhole has no moral ground to remain in politics - Saraki Kehinde Akinpelu, Ilorin Following allegations of receiving kickbacks in dollars levelled against the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, by his party’s aspirants and some state Governors, the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has declared that the embattled chairman has no moral ground to continue to remain in politics.

This is even as Saraki described a statement credited to Oshiomhole, asking him to resign his position as the Senate President on moral ground as a joke.

Speaking with journalists in Ilorin on Wednesday, at the sixth remembrance prayer for his late father, Dr. Olusola Saraki, the Senate President said that Oshiomhole has no locus standi to talk about morality in today’s Nigeria politics.

“That must be a joke coming from Oshiomhole talking about moral ground.

I think Oshiomhole has no locus standi to talk about morality today. Oshiomhole is somebody who is said to have been collecting not even naira but dollars from candidates and he is being accused by his party’s aspirants and Governors. I don’t think he has any moral ground, even to continue to be in politics not to talk about being Chairman of a political party.

“I remember in those days even Oyegun, they never accused him of something like this. I have left that party.

I’m sure the President, based on integrity, knows the right thing to do. So, on moral ground, he cannot speak on moral ground.

Also speaking on Saturday by-election in Irepodun /Ekiti /Oke Ero /Isin federal constituency, Saraki decried huge deployment of policemen and sudden

change of divisional heads of police in four local government areas for the byelection.

“You see, the mistake we sometimes make, we forget that Nigeria is a big nation in this global world, not only in the context of Africa. We provide leadership.

An action that we take that tries to suggest that we are not civilised with rule of law and processes, doesn’t augur well with the image. Today, the President is the President of ECOWAS likewise the Chairman of INEC as chairman of electoral bodies in ECOWAS, even show that we are a responsible country.

“So, when the Inspector General of Police begins to do things like this without following due process, it is not good for our country. And that is what we always stand for. And all those who supposed to caution him should ensure that due process is followed in things like this.

“We have been doing bye- election here. I have never seen where the Divisional Police Officers (DPOs) are being transferred. We have been doing bye-elections here, I have never seen where 200 or 300 security personnel are being deployed. It is not about Kwara, it is about the country. It is about how the world sees us. It is about how we provide leadership in the continent. And we keep on saying that people like these are not doing the President any good. The people at the end of the day will speak, and they should allow people to exercise their rights, vote in peace and vote their wishes and should not do anything that create fear or break law and order.

“In spite of all these, I see PDP winning the election because we are on ground.

There is no doubt about it. If you go round, you will know who is on ground.

And you will see that in the results. They should allow people to exercise their rights”, he said.

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preventing complications of diabetes.

Since diabetes can potentially strike any family, awareness of the signs, symptoms and risk factors is important to help detect it early.

“Having diabetes can also drain family finances when people with diabetes have to pay out of their own pockets for treatment. Disability or premature death due to diabetes can push families into poverty. Diabetes is also a huge burden on the health care system and the national economy”, Dr. Moeti said.

He added that world leaders in a bid to curb the menace to a barest minimum have agreed to take responsibility for their countries to help prevent and treat noncommunicable diseases, including diabetes.

He said that the world leaders

reiterated their committed to implement public education and awareness campaigns to empower individuals and families with information and education to prevent diseases like type 2 diabetes, and ensure that people have access to early detection, diagnosis and treatment.

“Governments should accelerate access to such services for everyone, through people-centred primary health care and universal health coverage”.

He further reaffirmed WHO continued support to governments to improve the prevention and control of diabetes and other noncommunicable diseases.

“I urge everyone to eat healthily, be physically active and avoid excessive weight gain. Families can help to drive down diabetes through promoting healthy lifestyles and supporting family members with diabetes. We all have a role to play,” Dr. Moeti said.

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Again, Senate uncovers fresh $1.151.6bn illegal withdrawals from NLNG dividends Tunde Opalana, Abuja Further probe into the $3.5 billion financial impropriety by the Nigeria National Petroluem Corporation (NNPC), the Senate on Wednesday further uncovered fresh multiple illegal withdrawals from the dividends accounts of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas ( NLNG) totalling $1.151.609 billion

by Corporation.

The Group Managing Director of NNPC, Dr Mikanti Baru, had earlier in the previous interrogation admitted to the withdrawal of $1.05 billion from the LNG account to pay subsidy on petrol.

The new sleaze was uncovered on Wednesday by the Senate Committee on Gas, headed by Senator Bassey Albert Akpan (PDP, Akwa Ibom North), which is probing the $1.05bn NNPC withdrawn from the account in April this year without authorisation by relevant authorities.

The committee had ordered NNPC and CBN to submit documents on withdrawals made from the NLNG dividends account within the last two years.

Upon scrutinising the NLNG account documents presented to it on Wednesday particularly by the Chief Operating Officer (COO), Finance of the CBN, Babatunde Adeniran, the committee observed series of cash debiting from the account from November 2016 to June this year totalling $2.201bn.

The breakdown of the withdrawals not supported by required approving documents as observed by the committee are $86.546,526 million withdrawn from the account on the 22nd of November 2016 allegedly being payment on Paris Club loans for the state governors, $1.05bn withdrawn on the 17th of April 2018 as National Fuel Support Fund.

Others are $650 million withdrawn from the account on the 7th of June this year for offsetting of Joint Venture Cash Call by NNPC which ordinarily supposed to be budget item payment and $415, 063m withdrawn from the account also in June without clear explanation on purpose for which it was meant for.

Angered by the illegal withdrawals, the committee

chairman and members ordered officials of CBN and NNPC who represented their bosses to forward to them latest by Tuesday next week, supporting cum approving documents for the withdrawals.

Specifically, the committee chairman, Bassey Akpan said: “From the available documents before us, aside the $1.05 bn we are mandated by the Senate to investigate, several withdrawals have also been made from the NLNG dividends account without required supporting documents to back them.

“This is unacceptable to us, the very reason along with the fact that the GMD of NNPC and CBN Governor are not here in persons, we are not going to continue with the session today (yesterday).

“Therefore on a very serious note, both the NNPC and CBN must furnish this committee with other relevant documents on the withdrawals latest

by Tuesday next week and the NNPC GMD, the Corporation, Group Executive Director (Finance), Isiaka Abdulrasak and the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, must appear

before us on Thursday next week”.

The committee chairman disclosed further in his office that even the approving memo tendered by NNPC for the withdrawal of the $1.05bn being investigated has no clear cut authorisation from required authorities.

According to him, the memo NNPC GMD 49 signed by Mikanti Baru sent through the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, has no clear cut language of request for approval for withdrawal of the $1.05bn but just notification.

“Even if it has, approval for withdrawal from such fund supposed to be given by the National Economic Council (NEC) being an account or dividends owned by the three tiers of government.

“We are surely going to carry out thorough investigation on the illegal withdrawals to put an end to the cycle because a whopping sum of $5 billion was withdrawn from the same account in 2015 under this same government without any convincing explanations made so far on what the money was used for”, he added.

Afreximbank boosts African businesses with $15m project facility Mathew Dadiya, Abuja The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has launched a $15 million project preparation facility aimed at increasing the availability of viable wellprepared projects in Africa and at making such projects bankable and attractive to investors.

The Afreximbank Project Preparation Facility (APPF), launched in Johannesburg, South Africa on the sidelines of the Africa Investment Forum, would provide technical and financial support to early stage companies in the preparation and development of projects from conceptual stage to bankability stage and the point at which such projects can attract interest from equity investors and debt financiers.

Afreximbank had set up the APPF with an initial seed capital investment of up to $15 million.

The Director of Communications and Marketing, Mr. Obi Emekekwue, stated on Wednesday that the Afreximbank President,

Prof. Benedict Oramah, said that the facility would support transactions that sought to implement logistical platforms that supported export growth and diversification, or facilitated the assimilation of African commodities into global value chains.

This, Prof. Oramah said, will increase the volume and flow of tradeable goods and services along Africa’s trade corridors.

According to Oramah, the facility supports the Afreximbank’s mandate and strategy which seeks to promote intra-African trade, and industrialisation and export development activities in the continent.

Also speaking, Tshepo Mahloele, Chief Executive Officer of Harith General Partners, a leading panAfrican infrastructure developer, lauded the APPF as “a bold step in the right direction to assist Africa to unleash its full potential through de-risking of investments early on in the project preparation cycle”.

Mr. Mahloele, who noted that the project preparation step was often overlooked in the pursuit of quick returns, said that Harith had ensured

efficient and professional preparation of infrastructure projects.

According to him, Africa has long been at the mercy of poor planning, leading to infrastructure project backlogs that has limited GDP growth by at least 2 per cent per annum.

“A f r e x i m b a n k ’ s intervention will complement ongoing project preparation initiatives and culminate in shortening the project preparation cycle, thereby fast-tracking Africa economic development”, he said.

Zitto Alfayo, Manager, Project Finance, said that the APPF would be operated on full cost recovery basis and would be primarily open to African governments, publicprivate partnerships and private corporates.

The specific sectors of intervention were activities related to development of logistical platforms, such as industrial parks, value added projects supporting manufacturing and services exports, tradeable services, ICT and trade enabling infrastructure encompassing energy, transport and logistics sectors.

Also participating in the

launch ceremony from Afreximbank were Kofi Adomakoh, Director, Project Finance; Vitalis Ekene, Special Assistant to the President on Banking and Special Initiatives; and Ayo Mubarak of the Project Finance and Export Development Department.

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) is the foremost pan-African multilateral financial institution devoted to financing and promoting intra- and extra-African trade.

The Bank was established in October 1993 by African governments, African private and institutional investors, and non-African investors.

Its two basic constitutive documents are the Establishment Agreement, which gives it the status of an international organisation, and the Charter, which governs its corporate structure and operations.

Since 1994, it has approved about $60 billion in credit facilities for African businesses, including about $8.5 billion in 2017.

Afreximbank had total assets of $11.9 billion as at 31 December 2017 and is rated BBB+ (GCR), Baa1 (Moody’s), and BBB- (Fitch).

FG’s $2.86bn Eurobonds over-subscribed by $9.5bn ...Proceeds to fund fiscal deficit, other financing needs

Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

The Federal Government on Wednesday announced that it has priced its offering of US$2.86 billion aggregate principal amount of triple series notes (the “Notes”) under its Global Medium Term Note Programme.

The offering has attracted significant interest from leading global institutional investors with a peak combined order book of over US$9.5 billion, which reflects an oversubscription of more than 3 times and demonstrates the on-going confidence of international capital market investors in Nigeria’s investment story.

A statement by the Special Adviser to the Minister of Finance, (Media & Communications), Paul Ella Abechi, said despite significant oil and wider macro market volatility, Nigeria has successfully raised its external debt requirements for the 2018 budget at a cost considerably lower than many of its peers across Sub-Sahara Africa.

The successful transaction follows closely behind Nigeria’s successful engagement with the Fitch rating agency, and their subsequent decision to change the outlook on Nigeria’s sovereign rating from B+ (negative) to B+ (stable), based on improving macroeconomic fundamentals.

The Notes comprise a US$1.18 billion 7-year series, US$1.00 billion 12-year series and a US$750 million 30-year series. The 7-year series will bear interest at a rate of 7.625%, while the 12-year series will bear interest at a rate of 8.75%, and the 30-year series will bear interest at a rate of 9.25%. In each case, they will be repayable with a bullet repayment of the principal on maturity. The offering is expected to close on or about 21 November 2018, subject to the satisfaction of various customary closing conditions. The Republic intends to use the proceeds of the Notes towards funding of the fiscal deficit and other financing needs.

The Notes represent the Republic’s sixth Eurobond issuance, following issuances in 2011, 2013, two in 2017 and one in early 2018 and its first tripletranche offering.

When issued, the Notes will be admitted to the official list of the UK Listing Authority and available to trade on the London Stock Exchange’s regulated market. The Republic may apply for the Notes to be eligible for trading and listed on the Nigerian FMDQ OTC Securities Exchange and the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

The pricing was determined following a series of meetings with investors in London and conference calls with investors globally attended by the Nigerian delegation, which comprised the Minister of Finance, Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed, Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele, Director General of the Debt Management Office (DMO), Patience Oniha, and Director General of the Budget Office of the Federation, Ben Akabueze. The Joint Lead Managers for the issuance were Citibank Global Markets Limited and Standard Chartered Bank and the financial advisors were FSDH Merchant Bank Limited.

Commenting following the successful pricing, Minister of Finance, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, said: “Nigeria is investing strategically in critical capital projects to bridge our infrastructure deficit, provide a better operating environment for the private sector, and improve the standard of living of our citizens. The proceeds of this issuance will provide critical financing for projects in transportation, power, agriculture, housing, healthcare and

education as well as the capital elements of our social investment programmes.

Nigeria’s Economic Recovery and Growth plan is delivering results.”

Commenting on the Notes’ pricing, the DMO Director General, Patience Oniha said: “Nigeria’s continued ability to access the international markets to raise capital is a testament to investor’s confidence which has been supported by continuous engagement with them on various reform initiatives and outcomes. The issuance of the Eurobonds, which received the prior approval of the Executive and Legislative arms of government, will not only provide capital to finance various projects, but also contribute towards the achievement of the Debt Management Strategy. The ability to raise US$2.86 billion, which is the exact amount government needed in volatile and challenging market conditions has been described as a stellar outcome”.

The information contained in this communication shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of the securities referred to herein in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration, exemption from registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.

The Republic has not registered, and does not intend to register, any portion of the securities in any of these jurisdictions.

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Igbo leaders endorse Atiku/ Obi for 2019 presidency Moses Oyediran, Enugu Igbo leaders, on Wednesday endorsed the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

The decision was taken in Enugu by Southeast elders, comprising political, traditional and religious leaders as well as women groups.

They okayed the joint presidential ticket of Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi. In a five-point communiqué issued at the end of the summit with the theme “Ndigbo 2019 and Beyond” held in Enugu, the leaders said that the position was based on the restructuring agenda put on the table by Atiku/Obi, which four zones of the country

had agreed on.

The communiqué read by a legal luminary, Olisa Agbakoba, SAN said: “The Igbo people of Nigeria held a 1 day non-partisan and inclusive Summit convened

by Elders, Traditional and Religious leaders on Wednesday 14thNovember 2018 to consider Ndigbo’s place in the polity especially in light of the forthcoming 2019 elections.

“The summit deliberated on the State of Ndigbo in Nigeria today especially after years of exclusion from the centre. This country has never been so divided as it is today. We Igbos have always yearned for a level playing field with justice, equity and fairness.

“The Summit recognized the nomination of His Excellency Mr. Peter Obi Former Governor of Anambra State as the Vice Presidential Candidate of the PDP and fully endorses this nomination. It was acknowledged that this

nomination puts Ndigbo back in the center of governance. It is therefore important that Ndigbo should rally behind the Atiku/Obi ticket.

“We identify with the Atiku/ Peter Obi ticket on the restructuring agenda as has been reiterated by 4 zones of the country namely: South South, South West, North Central and South East. We believe that as long as the federating units remain weak the centre will continue to be weak. We equally move to appreciate the position of the Atiku/Obi ticket in promoting national unity.

“In conclusion, the Summit reiterated that the time is now for Ndigbo to mobilize and organize effectively to realize the Atiku/ Obi ticket. We are not campaigning against anybody, we are simply campaigning for our very survival. Igbo votes must count wherever Ndigbo live in Nigeria”.

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Short News Rivers to role out 50 years development blueprint Amaka Agbu, Port Harcourt The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has declared that the State Government would set out the development blueprint for the rapid growth of the state in the next 50 years.

Receiving the final report of the Rivers State Golden Jubilee Committee at the Government House Port Harcourt on Wednesday, Governor Wike accepted the recommendation of the committee to establish a technical group to develop a working document to enhance the growth of the state.

He said: “We will set up a committee for the production of a document to enhance the development of Rivers State in the next fifty years.”

He expressed happiness with the Rivers Golden Jubilee Committee, noting that they executed their mandate creditably and projected Rivers State positively during the celebrations in 2017.

“Everybody is happy with the quality of documentation by the committee.

The Rivers at 50 books is a comprehensive document that chronicles the entire celebration.

“My colleagues are very impressed with the Rivers at 50 books. It touches all sectors of our development. No aspect was left out,” Governor Wike said.

Lame, Jibrin unskilled politicians - Labaran Samuel Luka, Bauchi The Bauchi state government has described Alhaji Ibrahim Yakubu Lame and Alhaji Bala Jibrin as ‘unskilled politicians’, following their recent comments over the APC governorship primaries that were held in the state recently.

A political adviser to Governor Mohammed Abubakar, Kawu Labaran who also described Alhaji Lame and Captain Bala Jibrin as wounded Lions said they cannot speak for the APC in the state.

Labaran said in a press release in Bauchi on Wednesday that, “the Bauchi State Government is compelled to react to the text of a press conference jointly addressed on Wednesday, 7th of November 2018 by two unskilled politicians, Alhaji Ibrahim Yakubu Lame and Alhaji Bala Jibrin, both yet to come to reality with the fact that power, any power, comes from God”.

“Since the APC primaries to select candidates that will fly the party’s flag in the 2019 general elections in which Alhaji Ibrahim Yakubu Lame and Alhaji Bala Jibrin lost their bid to take the gubernatorial ticket, these two have ran from pillar to post to upturn the popular will of the party faithfuls. They even went to the Aso Rock villa where Mr. President pointedly told them to channel their gubernatorial grievances to the appropriate party leadership”, the political adviser added.

Bye- election: Ahmed asks constituents to vote en masse for PDP Kehinde Akinpelu, Ilorin Front row; L-R: Chairman, Bayelsa Restoration Caucus, Chief TKO Okorotie, Director-General, Bayelsa State Investment Agency, Ms Patience Ranami Abah, Chief of Staff, Government House, Yenagoa, Rt. Hon. Talford Ongolo, Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, Rear Admiral Gboribiogha John Jonah Retd, Keynote Speaker, Gen. Ishola Williams Retd, Commissioner of Trade & Investment,Bayelsa State, Mrs Funkazi KoroyeCrooks, and other dignitaries, at the opening ceremony of the Bayelsa Business Linkages Forum, at the Creek Haven Resort Conference Centre, Onopa, Yenagoa.

Secondus to ECOWAS: INEC designing special card reader, result sheets for APC *Alleges APC plans to disrupt 9 states for isolation

Tunde Opalana, Abuja The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus has warned the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu that history will be unkind to him if he fails to conduct free and fair election in 2019.

Prince Secondus said that manipulation of election in 2019 would be a recipe for crisis in the country and the INEC Chairman will be held accountable.

The National Chairman who spoke while hosting Election team of the Economic Community of West Africa states ECOWAS led by Mohammad Conteh at the party’s National Campaign headquarters in Maitama, Abuja, said that the electoral commission is working in conjunction with the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to rig the election in 2019.

According to a statement from his media aide, Ike Abonyi, the National Chairman alleged that the Commission used the governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun states as rehearsal to practice their rigging strategy for 2019.

“They have finished their rigging arrangements with preloaded cards and special election result sheets all doctored to Favour the ruling APC. “The INEC Chairman has no strong will to follow our electoral laws and constitution as well as the laid down international standards in his processes towards 2019 and we want to let the World know this before it happens.

“They have finished plots to isolate states of Kano, Benue, Rivers, Buachi, Akwa Ibom, Delta, Imo and Kwara and Lagos for disruption during the general election so they can plan well to mobilize the rigging”, said Secondus .

He alleged that the commission’s rigging agenda is being propelled by the security agencies especially with the current

Inspector General of Police who has proved to be the most violent bias Police boss in the country.

The National Chairman said that his party is using the INEC template they saw in Ektiti and Osun states to reiterate their lack of confidence in the commission as nothing has happened to show that there is going to do anything different from what they did in those two states.

Prince Secondus advised INEC to disregard the size of Nigeria and go to Ghana and pick some lessons on how to conduct free and fair election.

The National Chairman commended the Judiciary for standing up for democracy pointing out that without that arm of the government, the country would have been a banana republic.

Prince Secondus fielded questions from the five man team of the sub region body who through their leader expressed the need to have credible election in Nigeria as it would go a long way to deep en democracy in the region.

The Kwara state governor, Alh Abdulfatah Ahmed yesterday called on the people of Irepodun, Oke- Ero, Ekiti and Isin local government areas of Kwara state to troop out end masse on Saturday to vote for the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alh Saheed Alatise in the bye- election for the House of Representatives seat of the constituency.

Ahmed asked his people to reciprocate the kind gesture of Saraki political dynasty which helped one of their sons to power as Kwara state governor since 2011.

He also asked them to use the opportunity of the election to show their love for the former House of Representatives members from the constituency, the late Princess Olufunke Adedoyin whom they all agreed performed excellently well as their representative during her life time.

Ahmed who made the call while flagging off the PDP’s campaign for the bye- election in Omu- Aran, the headquarters of Irepodun local government area, reminded the people of the monumental developmental projects that his administration had carried out in Kwara south in the past seven and a half years.

Obaseki links achievements in judiciary to partnership, reform, others The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said that his administration is resolute about upholding the rights of citizens through reforms in the judiciary, which he noted, have enjoyed the support of local and international partners.

According to Obaseki, the multi-door court house, family court, ongoing construction of new court houses and reforms to ensure the speedy dispensation of justice, were embarked upon by his administration in recognition of the need to uphold people’s rights.

The governor who said this while declaring open the Network of Justice Reform Team (JRTs) Conference in Benin City, the Edo State capital, on Tuesday, linked improved justice reforms in the state to the robust partnership with the local and international partners, including the British Council’s Rule of Law on Anti-corruption Programme (RoLAC).

Obaseki, who was represented by the Commissioner for Wealth Creation, Employment and Cooperatives, Emmanuel Usoh, said the objective of the Godwin Obaseki-led administration is to drive reforms to uphold the rights of citizens and improve the course of justice delivery in the state.

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African women and matters arising

Bunmi Fatoye-Matory

The African Woman trope here is well known. Until recently when African female writers, international bureaucrats, and highly-accomplished female immigrants started becoming visible on news outlets and social media, academia and the media clung to a character called the “African woman”, who is usually dispossessed, malnourished, and impoverished. This character is the same, regardless of what part of Africa she lives in, or what century she comes from. You would not recognise your businesswoman mother, or your weaver grandmother, or school mistress aunt in this character constructed to represent half of the people who live on the continent of Africa.

She’s never been to school and does not seem to influence her environment or take advantage of the opportunities her society offers her.

Thankfully, things are changing for the better.

This is not to overlook or minimise cultural practices that are inimical to African women’s growth and contributions, but narrating the lives of African women as a perpetual disaster, either out of willful ignorance or racism, just to strengthen the argument for Africa’s underdevelopment is dishonest and nefarious.

Scholars and writers who engage in these fantasies follow the Western model of writing about Africa for the last five hundred years. I go to a beautiful small library in Durham, tucked away in a sleepy suburban housing division. It hosts a tiny collection of books on Africa which have titles like “Prisoner in the Garden,” “First Jihad,” “Scramble for Africa,” “White Man’s Conquest,” “Shackled Continent,” “Troubled Heart of Africa,” “Somebody’s Heart Is Burning,” “Country of my Skull”; jarring words that paint Africa negatively as a place of danger and distress. Any of my fellow Durhamites who knows nothing about Africa and wants to learn about the continent will be introduced to it by this sort of books. No other continent is this maligned.

Currently, Africa is experiencing a pink wave of women’s leadership that needs to be celebrated and emulated. Specifically, Ethiopia and Rwanda are positioned to lead the rest of the continent out of the present male-dominated dead-end governance we’ve been saddled with since independence. Half of the Ethiopian cabinet is now female. Meaza Ashenafi, a lawyer and women’s rights advocate has just been appointed the president of Ethiopian Federal Supreme Court, the highest court of the land. She was the founder of Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association and the first Women’s

Bank, which makes loans to support women’s entrepreneurship. Also, Ethiopian lawmakers unanimously voted for the first woman, SahleWork Zewde, to be the president of Ethiopia.

Ethiopian Airlines, probably the best in Africa, regularly has an all-women crew.

A few years ago, this crew flew the Addis Abba-Lagos route, and since then have flown international long hauls to Brazil, Thailand and Argentina, piloting the Boeing 787 Dreamliner capable of accommodating three hundred and thirty passengers. The CEO of Ethiopian Airlines, Tewolde Gebremariam, in remarks, said women are the most important untapped resource on our continent, a perspective full of wisdom that needs to be imbibed by male leaders in Africa. Zimbabwe and South Africa are also countries with all-female flight crews.

Captains Chipo Matimba and Elizabeth Simbi Petros, proud daughters of Zimbabwe, were pilots of an Air Zim 737 flight from Harare to Victoria Falls.

In Rwanda, women make up more than half of the parliamentarians, a feat unknown anywhere in the so-called developed world. One of the theories about Africa’s underdevelopment is that historically we had no highly developed civilisation within the continent to influence its rest, that we all slept with our heads in the same direction, that we had no princely neighbours in shining armour to show us examples of good governance and technology and influence our thinking, like the Greeks or Romans did for Western Civilisation or China in Asia. We are in the 21st Century, and two African countries have made the commitment to elevate women into high office, a decision that would determine and change the direction and priorities of those countries.

The rest of us cannot pretend not to notice. It has implications for every single country on the continent, especially for Nigeria, which has the highest population of black people in the world, and calls itself the “Giant of Africa,” a title reeking of buffoonery because the only thing that seems to be giant in Nigeria is stupendous corruption, incompetence, and a lack of vision.

We cannot be a true “Giant” unless we have a developed country with women participating at all levels of government. As it is now, male leadership has failed the country.

Chairman Mao Zedong said women hold up half of the sky, a proverb that affirms the critical importance of women in development.

In the Yoruba mythological story of creation, the goddess Osun was the only female Orisa

among the original seventeen sent to earth to kick-start life on the planet. All the male orisa ignored her as they embarked on their testosterone-driven work to create life on earth.

Well, things were not going well. Nothing was right, no matter how hard they tried, so they went back to Olodumare, the high God who sent them on this errand. They told Olodumare of their unsuccessful efforts and he asked them just one question, “Did you include Osun?” and they all said No. He asked them to go back and include their female peer and thereafter they met with great success. It is an allegory for female inclusion.

In the United States this week, over one hundred women were elected into the House of Representatives in a historic election which helped the Democratic Party become the majority party in Congress and rescue America from the dangers of one-party rule.

Among the women elected are a SomalianAmerican Muslim, Native Americans, AfricanAmericans, and lesbians, all from minority groups that are usually excluded from high office. All the nineteen African-American women who contested for the position of Judge in Harris County in the state of Texas won election, an unprecedented success that would make the judiciary diverse and fairer to everybody, especially minorities who have historically experienced injustice in American courts because of racism.

We need to harness the power of women on our continent. The changes in Rwanda and Ethiopia should be the light leading us out of the reign of sit-tight, anti-democratic men who care nothing for their people while they and their cronies gorge on the national patrimony.

Cameroonian president, Paul Biya is 85 years old and has just won a seventh term to the presidency. He spends practically all his time in Geneva and other locales in Europe, while his country faces an increasingly violent separatist agitation. What does an 85-year-old man who has been in power for 36 years have to offer his nation? Leaders like him bleed the country of all vitality and turn the dreams and aspirations of the youth to ashes.

Some may argue that Ethiopia and Rwanda are only two countries and therefore do not represent the whole continent. I beg to differ.

If major media establishments here could place on their front page a cultural practice in a tiny village in the small country of Botswana as an “African” story, representing the extremely diverse billion people in Africa, certainly

Rwanda and Ethiopia have more than earned that honour with these important policy changes in gender and power. Some scholars and researchers here who study Africa default into narrating it as the exotic other in their books and conferences. Custom and practices in tiny African villages studied by them are trumpeted and codified as the real Africa, the more outlandish and unrecognisable within the realm of collective human experience, the better. I’ve even heard scholars here who refer to our cities as not the “real Africa.” The real Africa for us are women leading in the courts, in medicine, and in the cockpits, working with their male counterparts to develop this our continent filled with abundance.

Education is crucial to the endeavour of female inclusion. A woman, or a man for that matter, cannot be an effective participant In modern society without proper education.

Several of the women elected here this week are scientists, teachers, lawyers, and medical providers. Some parts of Nigeria still engage in child marriages. It is one of the most destructive and harmful practices in any society. A girl deprived of education and coerced into marriage and child-bearing is not prepared in any way to take on these burdens or contribute to her society. Her rights as a human being to develop her talents and skills have been forever truncated. She exists only at the pleasure of the husband who uses as a sexual object and servant. A child bride is condemned into a life of poverty, misery, and powerlessness, raising children who could not benefit from the advantages of education because she herself never enjoyed them. Women are the custodians and transmitters of culture. What culture could a child bride give her children but that of ignorance, illiteracy, and poverty?

Evidently, for women to be a part of governance and leadership at the highest levels, they need the support of enlightened men, fathers who need to educate and encourage them, classmates, colleagues, husbands and policy makers, who are there to support their leadership. “Owo kan o gberu dori” is a Yoruba proverb which translates roughly to one cannot use one hand to lift a heavy load to the head.

It’s a call for cooperation. Women also need to support each other by putting aside petty jealousy and insecurities which make some of them undermine their fellow women.

Ethiopian and Rwandese men have brought enlightenment to our continent. Nigerian men should follow suit.

Social intervention and salient issues

Kanmi Ademiluyi

A well coordinated anti-poverty strategy has for long been absent in Nigeria.

This was accentuated with the advent of the structural adjustment programme in 1985 when the now discarded “Washington Consensus” virtually saw concerted state interventions outside of a skewed definition of a “market based framework” as an anachronism. Mercifully, this perspective has now been jettisoned. The exemplary success of the social intervention programmes of the government of Ignacio Lula da Silva provided ample evidence that anti-poverty programmes could be conducted without dislocating the (prudential) fiscal balance. Instructively “lula’s” programmes in Brazil successfully raised forty (40) million people out of poverty in eight years. It was an astonishing piece of social engineering.

In spite of continuing economic uncertainties, the present federal government has to be commended for placing an antipoverty thrust at the heart of its social and economic policies. The two are clearly interwoven. With alarming poverty figures and so many children stubbornly still out of school, it is the sensible course to take. Sadly, as with everything else in a dysfunctional democracy, the absence of a national democratic agreement on these programmes will inevitably drag them into the cesspool of contrived partisan bickering. Providing a position for fine-tuning is very much in order; however, a clarion call for disbanding the programmes wholesale is unacceptable. Much more so, since not even the perfunctory outline of an alternative is on offer.

The attack on the vice president in the

National Assembly last week should not be just discarded as pre-election jitters. It portrays a dysfunctional interpretation of the duties of a government in a democracy. It also goes into the heart of the duties and responsibilities of the state, as well as the workings of the social contract, which ought to be the grundnorm for the operations of a functioning democracy.

Without a clear alternative, there is every reason to question the motivation of the transducers of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. The programmes being implemented are in the manifesto with which the vice president’s party contested and won the election. It will be a swindlle to jettison the programme once ensconced in office, and fundamentally the programmes are actually needed. In the absence of even a perfunctory alternative, it is clear that there is a fear which dares not speak its real name. Obviously, in the absence of a national democratic agreement on anything, there is a fear that the incumbent has stumbled on an election deciding battering ram. The absurdity here is that a political party cannot anywhere be expected to discard a programme because it will confer an electoral advantage. This sort of self-immolation has no precedence in political history, which is hardly surprising.

In addition, there is something profoundly disturbing entailed. There is a revelation here of the interpretation of both political economy and the social contract on the part of both the parliamentarians, as well as the merchandisers of ethnic interests, who have not surprisingly jumped into the fray in an election season.

The interpretation of the motive is important.

It will appear that government policy should

not be in the interest of the overwhelming majority, as opposed to the long established benefits of a select few. It is not uncharitable to bring up inconvenient propositions. For example, we are not aware of opposition from the same sources to what is in effect subsidies to the well connected through the now ubiquitous Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON). Through these pervasive bailouts, sums roughly worth an entire federal government budget have been used to ameliorate what ought to be moral hazards, which ought to have been borne by the defaulting fat cats. The list goes on. Nary a word of dissent has come from these quarters about sweetheart privatisation deals, import duty waivers which, during a better forgotten interregnum, used to be dished out like confetti at a raucous wedding. This attitude reveals alot about an utmost contempt for the rights of the majority.

The opportunity costs of bailouts for a pampered elite is huge. It translates into a crumbling, dilapidated social infrastructure. It clearly affects the security framework through the inducement into existence of a “dangerous class “, a social strata lacking the means, as well as the skills necessary to compete, let alone survive in today’s conditions. It is worth noting that the State of Osun, where many of today’s social intervention programmes had been initially pioneered, also has one of the lowest poverty rates in the country.

The economic benefits, in terms of fighting poverty and transiting people out of poverty, is unambiguous. Nigeria has always had a problem with the financial inclusiveness

necessary to empower the underbanked. This is a way of tackling it. The regional governments in the 1950s and the early ’60s attempted to tackle the lack of access to capital with the establishment of the cooperative banks in the regions. Hitherto, we have always had a problem with the structure of the Anglo-Saxon banking system bequethed by the colonial incursion, with its debilitating emphasis on a short term framework. It was not just a “third world” problem. In the United Kingdom itself, it has been a problem affecting the country’s competitiveness. The effect of the establishment of the cooperative banking model was demonstrably beneficial. It allowed access to capital through cooperatives to small holder farmers and helped those in the burgeoning urban distributive trade. Sadly the unintended consequences of the Soludo reforms and the emergence of the “mega banks” has disrupted this model. What we are seeing through “Tradermoney” and other initiatives, is the beginning of a fight back; it should be supported.

It is clear that two roads face us in this country. Either to stick with a political economy based on croynism, which the incomparable Fela Kuti described as “paddy, paddy” government or pursue policies which will be of benefit to the overwhelming majority and their families.

The vice president will be derelict in his duties to allow himself to be bullied out of supporting the largest social intervention programme since independence. Imperfect as they are, they must be fine-tuned, deepened and defended.

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Editorial Commentary Matters miscellaneous (III)

Times Guest Columnist Mohammed Adamu

How could we have gotten anything from a PDP-managed economy run on the warped logic that the grossest mis-management of it would necessarily translate into prosperity for all? Or one run on the perverse belief that there is a nexus between massive looting of the coffers of state and ‘growth’ and ‘development’? But this is exactly what especially the PDP rank-and-file naively, foolishly or maybe even crookedly still believes –that the economy can be like that resilient carpet grass, the chamomile, which the more it is trodden upon, the faster it will grow. But every economy does have the quality of ‘youth’, -the more it is wasted, the faster definitely it will wear’!

It appears only members and sympathizers of the PDP live by this lazy, weak-willed, freeloading belief that the ‘benevolent’ mouth fall from the wolfish, avaricious feeding habit of our thieving politicians will necessarily ‘trickledown’ like manna from heaven to lift the poor from their abject poverty.

But this is the most ludicrous interpretation of ‘trickledown economics –to hope to ‘honestly’ make a living from those who dishonestly make a living from the fats of the land. This can only define an insidious, no less culpable, shade of corruption. The Canadianborn U.S. economist J.K. Galbraith, explained ‘trickledown theory’ as “the less than elegant metaphor that if one feeds the horse oats, some (of it) will pass through to the road for the sparrows”. Only sympathizers of the PDP believe that ‘trickle-down economics’ can also gush even from the gory gaping wounds that grand corruption makes on the coffers of state. They believe that a laissez faire management of the economy is the best way to spread the dividend of democracy for the reason only that a freewheeling economy lets thieving eagles perch and it lets thieving kites perch too.

England’s thieving medieval hero, Robin Hood, robbed the rich to give to the poor. He was adulated by the poor and despised by the nobles. But Nigeria’s Robin Hoods –or should we say ‘hooded robbers’?take from the poor to grow the superfluous estates of the rich. It has always been the inordinately rich taking from the abjectly poor. But the irony of it is that the loudmouth poor, corrupted by decadent politics, are still fanatically more in love with their exploiters than even Robin Hood was by England’s poor for whom he robbed. This largely PDP members and sympathizers believe that ‘looters’ are truly our own modern day Robin Hoods, and that although they may not have the charitable motive of the medieval English thief, yet the crumbs from their heists often fortuitously cater to the fawning of these political hangers-on. Their greed is assuaged only by the ‘less than elegant’ hope that whenever corrupt politicians haul their usually over brimming Ghana-Must-Go, the groveling poor in their path, may make what pickings they can.

And it is in the undignifying hope of preserving such personal privileges that this usually loudmouth minority is shamelessly insisting we give them back their corruption! And this has always been the nature especially of our unprincipled political journeymen.

Whereas the majority of our everyday folks have been and are always ready to sacrifice in the journey to the Promised Land, these shameless ones are always stiffnecked and rebellious; they have their own condition for the journey to the Promised Land: it has to be either a stress-free, manna-filled journey to that Eldorado or a return to Pharaoh’s Egypt. They know the gravity of the situation that Nigeria is in. And they know no less what is at stake -given the gravity of the situation.

But rather than support critical measures –no matter how temporarily painful- they prefer to aid those they know to exacerbate the situation. As long as their little personal nests are feathered.

And now –just like it had to take a Jonathan to teach us the difference between ‘stealing’ and ‘corruption’, it is now having to take an Obasanjo to tell us the difference between ‘reinforcing failure’ and ‘rationalizing corruption’. The same Obasanjo who has ruled the most of the sixteen adjudged wasted years

of the PDP, is now the one telling us that supporting a man who fights corruption ‘fist, fang and fury’, is ‘reinforcing failure’, but that supporting a presidential candidate that even he has written an autobiography to brand a ‘thief’, is ‘reinforcing development’. Isn’t that wonderful?

And so not only did we not get anything from PDP’s sixteen wasted years, we in fact have lost virtually ‘everything’. We have lost to the politics of ethnicity and religion our precious minds, because we are now at the apogee of our self-debasement: we have become bigoted, hypocritical and jingoistic; we have become inveterately hateful of each other, warmongering and terribly subversive. We want solutions our own narrow, selfish ways or the entire house must be brought down! We have lost the capacity –or is it the willingness- to tell right from wrong, truth from falsehood or good from bad. We are avidly selfish, eminently corruptible and lazy! Everyone wants to take without giving. Everyone wants to earn without eking. Nor are our ‘corporate beggars’ any more honorable than even our scavenging ‘almajiris’.

Because whereas the latter are courageous wolves confronting socio-economic odds not of their own making, ‘corporate beggars’ that we have all turned to are cowardly dogs groveling at the feet of those who have appropriated the common patrimony.

POSTSCRIPT (is an excerpt from a previous piece, in deference to the request of a faithful reader) The knowledge of economics alone does not bring about growth and development. Sincere exertion in the opposite direction of decay achieves faster than an army of insincere economists does. Said the American author, Robert Solomon “Economics without ethics is a discipline without substance”. And as the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw would say “If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion”. It takes sincere politicians to take economic decisions I narrated when I wrote the title ‘Still on the Sick Economy’, the story of the American Economist, Arthur Burns, who, once on a visit to Israel in the 70s said he asked that country’s first Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion how Israel was able to ‘grow’ and ‘develop’ her economy in the absence of basic natural resources and on the bare backs of a barren desert. And Arthur Burns said that Ben Gurion said: “We did it first by dreaming, then by doing what the economists said was impossible” –which is a euphemism for saying ‘we jettisoned established theories of macro and micro economics and we tried previously untried ideas’. It is like saying we rebelled against the grain of economic norms and we created for ourselves new norms. And Singapore’s late President, Lee Kuan Yew, when he was asked about the economic and technological ‘miracle’ that he brought about in his country, denied that there was actually any miracle. Simply he said: “We did a few things right and we kept doing them right” –which is also another way of saying simply ‘we gambled, but we were sincere enough in our ‘gamble’ to jettison what was wrong and to hold on to that which was right.

It took sincere ‘trial and error’ not the ‘expert calculations’ of sophistic, hair splitting, doctrinaire economists for Israel and Singapore to get it right.

The Israelis have proved Arthur Burns right, that “the human element” is a basic ingredient in the creation of virile, vibrant and stable economies. And the ‘human element’ which he said consists mostly of the dreams, fears, and hopes of a people, is often capable of upsetting even “the most expert calculations”.

If we choose to celebrate a ‘human element’ which, rather than fear and fight corruption, openly glorifies and hopes to grow and develop by it, then we will definitely not make it.

CONCLUDED

OUR POSITION Decreasing number of female lawmakers and politics

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he Nigerian political space since 1999 has experienced a tremendous improvement especially with the level of interest it has generated, that is if the number of persons jostling for the various political offices is anything to go by.

As at the last count, the number of political parties in the country has risen to over 90 from the three that heralded the nation into the present democratic space in 1999.

But one worrisome trend about it is the declining rate of women participation in the political life of the country, as the womenfolk seems to be facing serious challenge in their ability to break into political limelight.

This is even more evident from the recent primaries of the various political parties in the country where the number of women elected to contest for the various offices was very negligible.

For example, since 1999 and in fact in the history of Nigeria’s political life, there has not been any elected woman governor, the closest that a woman came to being governor, was when then governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, was impeached by the state Assembly and his deputy, Dame Virgy Etiaba, was sworn-in as governor and she held that position for a few months until Obi got the court to reverse the impeachment.

Though the activism in women was further awakened in the country since after the Beijing conference and declaration in 1991, which gave birth to the much talked about affirmative action that prompted the United Nations (UN) to subsequently concede 35 percent of all positions to women, nothing much has been done in the country to meet that target of women participation in politics.

In the early days of this dispensation, it must be said that President Olusegun Obasanjo made significant progress towards fulfilling that quota, while the administration of Goodluck Jonathan, also appointed more women into key positions, while there were equally a significant number in elective positions.

But that progress made in recent years seem to have been short-lived, perhaps due to the ever increasing complexities in the political system and high monetisation of the politics which has become a major challenge militating against women participation.

Presently, out of 109 senators, we have seven women senators and out of 360 members of the House of Representatives, we have about 17 women; we had far more women from 1999-2015; there were also lots of woman in parastatals and ministries in the country.

Also, an attempt recently to get a bill on affirmative action, sponsored by Senator Oluremi Tinubu through the National Assembly failed because it could not get enough support on the floor of the Senate.

At an ECOWAS Female Parliamentarians Association (ECOFEPA) meeting earlier in the year, the President, and Nigerian Senator Stella Oduah said that Nigeria has

the lowest female representation in elective positions in West Africa.

Senator Oduah called attention at the 15-member states of the sub-region to the dwindling number of women’s participation in politics in Nigeria to 7 per cent since the 2015 election.

She said women have only 6.1 per cent representation in State Houses of Assembly, 3.9 per cent in the House of Representatives, 7.34 per cent in the Senate and almost zero per cent in the executive arm of government.

In West Africa, Nigeria ranks even lower than Ghana which has as at 2016 about 10.7 per cent female representation in the parliament and 27 per cent female as cabinet ministers.

Togo comes up second with about 17.60 per cent women representation in its national parliament as at 2017, and 18.4 per cent in ministerial positions.

Senegal has the highest representation of women in elective positions, ranking 12th in the globe for the number of women in elective position - that is 3 per cent down from its initial ranking.

Considering the role of women in nation building across the world and the increasing relevance of women even in the African continent, with the recent election of a woman as the new President of Ethiopia after the end of a Woman president’s tenure in Liberia, it is our considered opinion that it is high time Nigeria gave women more opportunity to express themselves in the political space.

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2019 Elections: APC supports global efforts to check fake news Tom Okpe, Abuja Towards the 2019 general elections in the country, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has thrown its support on the ongoing global media attention and efforts to check the proliferation of fake news particularly as the country gears up for the campaigns.

The party says the consequences of fake news are often dire as it inflames perceived divisions in our communities, fuels hate speech which leads to violence and distorts democratic processes, among others.

The party speaking to journalists at the party national secretariat Abuja on Wednesday through its National Publicity Secretary, Lanre Issah Onilu said: “Disturbingly, the country’s main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its discredited agents, have continued to deploy the loathsome strategy of fake news, misinformation and distortion of facts as focal campaign strategies for the 2019 elections.

“While the APC is not surprised at the PDP’s typical theatrics in an attempt to evade scrutiny for its 16 years of misgovernance, it is instructive to the electorate that no lessons have been learnt by the prodigal party. It is indeed clear to the electorate that the PDP is not a party to either be trusted or taken seriously as it has missed out on the opportunity to apologise and show remorse for the cruelty it wrought on our country while in power.

“What we witness instead is its weekly disgraceful and embarrassing shadow chasing through fake news and spurious allegations.

PDP cannot pull the wool over the eyes of the good people of this country. It can cry wolf for all it cares, Nigerians won’t be deceived.

PDP remains a damaged product showing no regret for its retrogressive old practices which brought the country to its knees in terms of our infrastructure, economy, security, values and standing among nations of the world”.

According to Onilu, “Instead of engaging the electorate on serious issues of development such as health, education, economy, foreign

policy, security, corruption, pension, job creation, infrastructure development among others, the PDP and its agents have chosen to populate the mainstream and social media space with ludicrous fake news and infantile conspiracy theories, moving from one absurdity to another”.

The Party spokesman pointed that while the PDP ups its game as a cry baby, the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC administration is busy building a new Nigeria for our collective progress, peace, unity and prosperity.

“We are restoring our country to its deserved standing among the comity of progressive nations; fighting corruption and repairing our value system, diversifying our economic revenue base, creating jobs and economic opportunities for Nigerians, particularly the poor; bringing succour to the insurgencyravaged North-East; reforming the oil industry, power, defence, pensions, and other critical sectors; creating a world-class transportation system, amongst others”, he stated.

Short News Rotary International donates wheelchairs to physically challenged in Enugu Moses Oyediran, Enugu No fewer than 50 wheelchairs have been donated to physically challenged persons by the Rotary International District 9142.

Making the donation on Wednesday in Enugu, the Rotary International President, Dr Barry Rassin, said that the wheelchairs would go a long to alleviate the sufferings of the physically challenged.

Rassin noted that it would also improve their economic drive to fend for themselves and their families.

“Rotary as a lead humanitarian organization pride itself in the services we render to humanity worldwide.

“We are doing a lot of humanitarian work, which cut-across various strata of the society i.e. education, health, empowerment, training etc, in order to make the world a better place for all to live.

“These wheelchairs are just one aspect of our service meant to promote the welfare and good of humanity especially our disabled brothers and sisters in this side of the world,’’ he said.

Rassin, however, commanded Rotary International District 9142 (in South-East/South-South, Nigeria) for donating $2,000 dollars for education worldwide.

Gov Okowa swears-in new commissioner, special advisers Nosa Akenzua, Asaba Delta State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa has charged all political appointees to key into the developmental framework of his administration.

According to the governor, “the thrusts of our policies and programmes are clear and focused; that is, empowerment, job and wealth creation; we are committed to building infrastructure that can support economic growth and an economically integrated State.”

Governor Okowa gave the charge on Wednesday during the swearing-in of Chief Joseph Utomi as Commissioner, Chief {Mrs.} Mercy Almona-Isei and Chief Emuobo Kenneth Gbagi, as Special Advisers in Asaba.

While noting that his administration was committed to transparency and accountability, Governor Okowa emphasized, “Delta State is blessed with many brilliant people out of whom you have been selected.”

He congratulated the appointees and used the occasion to call on Deltans to avoid falsehood, sensationalism but, “concentrate on values that will usher in positive development for our common good.”

Court remands trader in prison over sale of Emzolyn with Codein

L-R: Oloritun of Afuye, Epe, Chief Rafiu Atangiri; Oloritun of Ebode, Epe, Chief Tosin Payinegba; Executive Secretary, Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF), Akin Oyebode; Oloritun of Iberikodo, Epe Chief Amusa Okanlawon and Secretary to Olu of Epe , Alhaji Ottun Ishola during the LSETF’s stakeholders community engagement in Epe, Lagos state... on Wednesday.

Antibiotic resistance reality, threat to health - WHO Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja

Resistance to antibiotics is one of the greatest threats to modern health, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.

Speaking during an address to mark the World Antibiotic awareness week on Wednesday in Abuja, WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti said that many antibiotics were being used unnecessarily for mild infections, helping to create resistance.

He outline reasons for rising antibiotic resistance to include over prescription, misuse by patients who don’t follow advice of healthcare professionals and poor infection

control.

While urging patients and prescribers to think about the drugs they request for and dispense, the WHO Regional Director for Africa advised medical practitioners to prescribe and dispense antibiotics only and when they are truly needed.

“Infections spread when sanitation, hygiene and infection control measures are not followed. Health care practitioners should always practice good infection prevention and control.

“In addition, they should only prescribe and dispense antibiotics when they are truly needed, inform patients on how to use them appropriately, and educate patients on how to avoid common infections.

“All hospitals and community

health centres should strive to control the spread of infections by making use of the best possible hygiene and sanitations measures available.

“Patients should never demand nor share antibiotics, and only use them when prescribed by a certified health care professional. Farmers and food producers can only help by giving antibiotics to animals only to control or treat infectious diseases, and phase out the routine use of antibiotics to promote growth”, Moeti added.

He added that the WHO in the African region has made the fight against antibiotics resistance its top priority and is working with countries to develop and implement action plans to combat antibiotic resistance as well as generate reliable data for action.

A Federal High Court Lagos on Wednesday ordered the remand of a businessman in prison over sale of Emzolyn with Codein cough syrup.

The accused, Chukwunonye Madubuike, who resides in Isolo area of Lagos, is facing a one-count charge of selling controlled drug by the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC).

He pleaded not guilty to the charge.

The court ordered that the accused be remanded in custody pending bail and adjourned the case until Nov. 27 for hearing The accused was alleged to had on April 24 sold Emzolyn with Codein Cough Syrup, a controlled drug, at Sharon Hotel located in Akiti Avenue in Lagos, a place not duly licenced or registered by the appropriate Authority He said that the accused had been on the run after video clips of his alleged offence was aired.

According to the prosecutor, he was subsequently arrested by the police at the Idiroko border while he was trying to flee the country to Benin Republic.

NERC grants UNIBEN 15 megawatts licence ...As 134 Graduands Bag 1st Class Honours Titus Akhigbe, Benin-City The National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has granted the University of Benin (Uniben) a licence for 15 mega watt photo voltaic solar power projects.

The institution’s Vice Chancellor, Prof. Faraday Orumwense who disclosed during its pre- convocation press briefing said the operational licence was secured under a Public Private Partnership arrangement.

Orumwense explained that “the power project is being driven by the United Kingdom branch of the University Alumni body.”

The VC also stated that the University is currently negotiating with local and international organizations for hostel development and staff housing projects for improved security.

Orumwense further disclosed that a total of 11, 832 graduands would be awarded diplomas and degrees of the University during its 44th Convocation/48th Founder’s Day ceremony billed for next week.

According to him, a total of 134 graduands will also be awarded first class honours degree.

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Ondo govt partners investors on Ilaje Free Trade Zone *To develop inland waterway

Adewale Momoh, Akure In a bid to further develop the coastal region of the state, the Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has stated that his administration is ready to partner investors to develop the state’s inland waterway.

Akeredolu disclosed that the state government has discussed with the National Inland Waterways Authority on its intention to have an inland port in Alape, Ilaje local government area of the state.

The governor, stated this at the signing of Memorandum of Understanding between the state government and ZGM investment group of companies Ltd and China - Africa Investment company Ltd for development, management and operation of free trade zone in Ilaje local government area of the state.

He said the inland port badge would accommodate a minimum of twenty 40ft containers at once.

The governor said the idea is to decongest Lagos State and open up the coastal region in Ondo State for better economic activities.

Akeredolu who noted that the state has a natural draft and the deepest shore, reiterated the

commitment of his administration to establishing the Ondo port.

He said it’s a project that is very crucial to his administration, stressing that it’s a way of building the state for future generation.

Akeredolu called on investors to come and develop the port and run it. He noted that the state government would only get percent from the investment.

“Many people have shown interest, but we are particular about those people who are serious.

The Ondo port with greater opportunity will be a big advantage to the free trade zone”.

Meanwhile, the governor assured the free trade zone investors of his government necessary support, security and enabling environment for them to thrive well.

Stressing the need for the project to fly, he said:”We want to plant a tree under which shade generations to come can rest. We are trying to build a state that will cater for future generations”, Akeredolu said.

The Chairman of the investment companies, Mr. Abbey Onas commended the governor for his foresight and love for his people and for the assurance of his support towards ensuring the project comes to fruition.

“I want to appreciate the governor foresight and the love he has for his people. The governor

has given us assurance of his support and I want to ensure too that I will not betray the trust repose in me” Enumerating the benefits the project would offer, the ZGM chairman said the project will create lots of jobs which consequently will serve as a measure to control crime as everyone will get busy with one engagement or the other.

“Job creation that will have social impact and reduce crime, attraction of new capital investment sourcing for raw materials from local economy, rapid community development, growth and empowerment of local businesses, development of high productive and competitive industrial processes among other benefits will be accrued to the state”, he stated.

He stressed the commitment of his team to ensure that the project commences and is completed within a short time “We hope to put in place all the necessary infrastructure in the first quarter of next year and begin operations in the second quarter. Very soon, we will come to do the flag off of the industrial park free trade zone’.

Signing the MoU, the Secretary to the State Government, Hon. Ifedayo Abegunde noted that the Akeredolu led administration obliged them the opportunity to partner with the state to industrialise the riverrine area of the state.

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Short News Housewives protest alleged continuous rape by suspected herdsmen in Delta Nosa Akenzua, Asaba Hundreds of House wives including unmarried ones in Ewu Urhobo Community, Ughelli South local government area of Delta State on Wednesday protested alleged continuous raping by suspected Fulani herdsmen who had been on rampage in the last few months in the community.

The protesters barricaded the major roads within the Community and Chanted war songs including the display of placards with the inscriptions “we no agree, Fulani herdsmen must go, we are tied of Fulani herdsmen raping us in our farm lands. They have taken over our farm lands. They have also allegedly raped over 15 house wives and three to death”.

The leader of the protesting house wives, Mrs Queen Dieseruwe who spoke to journalists in the community said “we are protesting against the Fulani Herdsmen who are raping our women in their own farm lands, they block roads to waylay women going to markets and those either going or coming from Farm, they sleep with them at gun point and any of their victims who tried to resist them, these wicked Fulani Herdsmen will cut off their necks with machetes; they will go to our farms and uproot our Cassava and destroy them, Until they leave our lands, no peace for us”.

‘Universities should not graduate students in courses not accredited by NUC’ Joy Anyim, Lagos The Vice-Chancellor of McPherson University, Prof. Adeniyi Agunbiade has said it is wrong and unacceptable for any university worthy of its mandate to admit or graduate students in courses that have not been accredited by the National Universities Commission (NUC).

Agunbiade who was speaking during a press conference to inaugurate programmes of activities for the third Convocation Ceremony of the University at the Campus in Seriki Sotayo said running a programme without NUC accreditation is a taboo.

He said McPherson University as a faith-based institution has it as a policy not to admit or even graduate students in courses that have not been accredited.

Speaking, the Vice-Chancellor said, “We have not graduated any student on any programme that has not been accredited. So it is wrong to run a programme when it is not accredited.

“Although some universities do that, but we as a faith-based institution cannot do such. All our 15 different programmes are accredited and verified by NUC and most recent is B.Sc. Mass Communication.”

Alleged N110m fraud: Court remands 2 business men in Kuje prison

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike (right) receiving the final report of the Rivers State Golden Jubilee Committee, from the Chairman of the Committee, Chief Ferdinand Alabraba at the Government House Port Harcourt... on Wednesday.

FCT Building collapse: Panel recommends sack of unqualified staff

*Arrest, prosecution of contractor

Idu Jude, Abuja In an effort to end the unprofessional conduct of civil engineers at various Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Civil Engineering department, a panel of enquiry set up to unravel the cause of last August Jabi building collapse, has recommended mass sack of quark workers particularly in the Development Control.

The Professor Danladi S. Matawal headed 13 men panel of inquiry, on presentation of its committee report Wednesday to the FCT Minister, Mallam Mohammed Bello, recommended that many heads may roll as discovered that lack of professional and managerial approach led to the collapse of the building and loss of lives.

According to the Chairman, the panel, uncovered that the Development Control, a unit of Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC), is currently populated with unqualified engineers and needed to be overhauled for efficiency.

“We witnessed a situation where buildings

are approached without the engineers visiting the site to ascertain the kind of building and assign necessary structures. We also had problems of certificate and incompetency among staff in Development Control. These are the kind of things that we can’t see in either the legal profession, or in the medical profession, but here even a site labourer becomes building engineer”.

The panel further recommended that the Development Control lacks qualified staff and needs to be staffed for efficient performance.

It said that the building which has the design of 2005 building validation failed to obtain reviewed validation before further construction.

“It is pertinent to note that many builders add another floor in uncompleted building years after stoppage. We recommend that such is quite unprofessional since building design revalidation is a regular exercise”.

Meanwhile, the Minister of FCT, Mallam Mohammed Bello, has said that his administration had expected a thorough investigation of the cause of the incident and also proffered solution on how to end such reoccurrence.

The Minister, who was represented in

the occasion by the Permanent Secretary, Sir Chinyaka Ohaa, said the administration, has set machinery in motion to overhaul the development control.

This he noted is with a view to strengthening its institutional framework to enable it come with the ever increasing growth in building activities in the FCT. He further said that the administration is at the verge of breathing a new life into the department so that it can function more efficiently and give developers value for their money.

He stressed that the administration hopes that decentralizing the activities of the department would place it in a vantage position to keep pace with the challenging profile of the FCT and improve service delivery.

He said “given the pedigree of this panel, I have no doubt that the panel has done justice to its terms of reference. I therefore wish to assure them that the recommendations contained in the report will be implemented in order to address the lingering issues of building collapse in the FCT in particular and Nigeria in general”.

An FCT High Court in Apo on Wednesday ordered two business men, Moses Esuga, and Nasir Mohammed, to be remanded in Kuje prison over their alleged roles in a N110 million fraud.

The EFCC charged Esuga, former Managing Director of Wise Health Service Ltd and Mohammed former Managing Director of Garana Travels and Tours Limited with nine counts bordering on fraud, criminal breach of trust and forgery.

Justice Valentine Ashi, who gave the order, adjourned the case to Thursday for hearing of their bail application.

Earlier, the Prosecutor, Mr Aliyu Bokani, told the court that the defendants committed the alleged offences between July 2013 and 2014.

Bokani also alleged that Esuga took the N10 million domiciled in operational account of Wise Health Service Ltd and converted it his personal use.

The prosecutor alleged that the defendants conspired and forged a board resolution title of the sum of N50 million fix deposits from Wise Health Service Ltd.

Poverty not an excuse for human trafficking — Cardinal Onaiyekan His Eminence, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, the Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, says that neither poverty nor any form of hardship is an acceptable excuse for Nigerians to engage in human trafficking.

Onaiyekan made the assertion on Wednesday in Abuja during the First Africa Regional Conference of the Santa Marta Group in Collaboration with the Catholic Caritas Foundation of Nigeria (CCFN).

The two-day conference has the theme: “Church and State Working Together to Restore Dignity to Trafficked Persons”.

According to Onaiyekan, all hands must be on deck to combat the worrisome degree of trafficking, especially in humans, as it has to do with the dignity of a person.

He said the first problem in human trafficking was not poverty, because if it was poverty then, “how come all the victims that ended up being trafficked paid to be trafficked?”

According to him, these victims either pay from their own savings or their families put this money together with the expectation that when this particular son/daughter gets to Europe, he/she will pull them out of poverty.

“This kind of thing happens in Nigeria and maybe, if one or two cases have succeeded, others emulate the same process.

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FG okays N57.56bn for roads Short News construction in C/River, Kogi, Ilorin Nnamdi Kalu’s bail: Sen Abaribe, 2 other sureties .....Approves N3.1bn for ISL procurement for 5 airports Mathew Dadiya, Abuja The Federal Government has approved a total of N57.56 billion for the completion of roads construction projects linking many towns across three states in the country.

The approval was given on Wednesday by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.

Speaking after the meeting, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola said that he presented two memoranda, for a cost revision of the IlorinOmuaran-Kabba road - linking Kwara and Kogi State.

Fashola said that the project was previously awarded at N13.541 billion in 2013 and then we awarded Egbe-Kabba in 2017 to complete the link from imprint to Kabba.

“So we now have cost revision from previous award in 2013 because of exchange rate, price fluctuations. It has gone from N29.951 billion to N43.492 billion, so it’s a variation of N13.541 billion.

“Second contract approved was for the

Odukpani junction to Apet Central in Cross River State. That is 73 kilometers at the cost of N14.014 billion This section completes the link from Calabar-Itu all the way to OgojaGakem.

“If you have followed the development, we have Julius Berger on the Calabar-Itu section and Sematec on the Ugep-Alese section and PW on the Ikom-Mbok section and Wellstone on the Ogoja-Gakem section.

So it was Odukpani to Apet that had no contract. That is where you would have reported in the past that some patrol tanker trucks and stuff have been stuck.

“So that contract has been awarded and hopefully as we head into dry season, reconstruction work will start there and continue along the entire leg.

“We have gone round during the rainy season and identify roads that have been damaged as a result of the rains. So subject to funding now, we have a plan to repairs, rehabilitate, reconstruct over the next seven months to May next year when there is dry weather. So you should see us across the various places where flood has done some damage trying to repair,” the minister explains.

Meanwhile, the Minister of State, Aviation,

Mr. Hadi Sirika also said that the Council approved the procurement and installation and commissioning of Instrument of Landing System (ILS) DME, - an instrument landing system that guides pilots and planes to the central line of the runway and to the threshold.

Sirika said that the systems will be installed in Abuja, Kaduna, Benin, Ibadan and Enugu airports.

According to the Aviation minister, the contract was awarded a long time ago but due to exchange rate, we had to bring it back to council, it suffered lack of budgetary allocations. So we came back to council to have it redominated.

He said that the contract was awarded in December 2011 but nothing happened because there was no budgetary allocation, “therefore it suffered these fluctuations of forex change.”

The initial cost was N1,590,361,027.20 billion but it has been re-dominated N3,149,740,995.42 billion.

“It was awarded at a time the Naira was N154 to a dollar but now is N305. So council has approved and the user department is Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA).

ordered to deposit N100m cash with court Andrew Orolua, Abuja

The continued absence of the Leader of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kalu in Court took another twist on Wednesday as the trial judge, Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court Abuja ordered three of his sureties to deposit N100m bond in cash with the court within two months.

Justice Nyako said that the interim order, which was interpreted to mean the first step toward the forfeiture of the bail bond is likely to be reviewed on the next adjourned date March 28, 2019 when the applications filed by the sureties would be heard.

While, one of the sureties; Tochukwu Uchendu was in Court yesterday, two others; Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe and Emmanuel Shallom Ben were conspicuously absent.

Justice Nyako said that the sureties have taken the order which requires them to show cause why their N100m bonds should not be forfeited to the government, “for granted. The sureties have taken this court for a ride,” she added.

She recalled that the sureties had on April 25, 2017 when Kalu was released to Abaribe, Uchendu and Shallom - Ben on bail promised to produce him in court any day the court want him.

Reps to probe friction between Idris, PSC over promotions Henry Omunu, Abuja The House of Representatives on Wednesday resolved to probe the friction between the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris and the Police Service Commission (PSC) over the alleged illegal promotion of police officers by the Inspector General.

This resolution followed the adoption of the motion sponsored Rep. Frederick Agbedi (PDP/Bayelsa) at plenary.

Moving the motion, Rep. Agbedi revealed that the police inspector general had appointed and posted state commissioners of police and promoted some officers without recourse to the general promotion guidelines or the Police Service Commission, a development the commission has frowned at and has threatened to review those appointments and demote such officers.

The lawmaker said that “some of the benefiting officers who felt aggrieved by the decision of the commission have threatened litigation if the said decision to demote them is carried out while those due, but denied promotion are also spoiling for action”.

According to Agbedi, by virtue of Section 153 (1) and paragraphs 30(a) and (b) of the Third Schedule to the 1999 Constitution, the power to appoint, promote, dismiss and discipline officers of the Nigeria Police Force (other than the inspector general of police) falls within the exclusive purview of the Police Service Commission.

Gov Fayemi demands refund of N21bn spent on federal roads Gbenga Sodeinde, Ado Ekiti

Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs and Coordinator, Presidential Amnesty programme, Prof Charles Quaker Dokubo (middle), in a group photograph with first phase leaders of ex-agitators after a meeting in Abuja.

S’Court to hear Ogun PDP dispute Dec 5 Andrew Orolua, Abuja The Supreme Court has fixed December 5th, to hear the appeal on the lingering legal tussle over the leadership of the Ogun State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

All expectations that the matter which pinched Adebayo Dayo -led Ogun State Executive Committee of the PDP and the National leadership of the Party would be resolved on Wednesday suffered a setback, as it was discovered that one of respondents was not serve.

National Chairman of PDP Chief Uche Secondus had filed the appeal against the decision of Justice Ibrahim Buba, which endorsed former National Chairman Ali Modu Sheriff sponsored Adebayo Dayo -led Executive Committee as the authentic leadership of the party in Ogun State.

In a bid to get the decision of Justice Buba reversed, the PDP had filed an appeal at the apex court praying for an order to restore the dismissed appeal and to grant a stay of execution of the judgment which formed the basis of the recognition

being accorded the Dayo-led exco by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as it relates to the 2019 general election.

The grouse of the party was that since the leadership of the Ali Modu Sheriff as National Chairman of PDP had been nullified by the apex court, the Ogun State exco of the party ought to have gone down with that of Sheriff.

However, the Dayo-led Ogun State PDP Exco is of the view that neither the issue of its Exco nor the judgment affirming it was before the Supreme Court.

The Secondus group is also praying the Supreme Court to bar INEC from according recognition to the Dayo-led executive on the grounds that it had been legally dissolved by the then Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led National Working Committee.

But, the Dayo-led Exco is contending that it cannot be dissolved by the national leadership of the party without setting aside the judgment in its favour.

However, when the matter came up yesterday, Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour refused to hear the PDP appeal on the grounds that Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, who was one of the respondents in the

matter, was not served with the hearing notice.

In the bid to save the situation, counsel to the Secondus group, Chief Emeka Etiaba SAN, withdrew the name of Ali Modu Sheriff in the matter but that did not stop the Supreme Court from adjourning the matter.

Although Justice Rhodes-Vivour struck out Sheriff’s name as a respondent in the suit, he nonetheless adjourned hearing in the appeal till December 5.

Legal luminary, Dr Alex Izinyon SAN, stood for Adebayo Dayo-led Ogun PDP Exco in the matter at yesterday’s proceedings.

The Dayo-led Exco that is currently recognized by INEC for participation in the 2019 general election had claimed that the Ogun State Chapter of the PDP was intact because the purported dissolution of the chapter was done in violation of a subsisting judgment of Justice Buba.

The group maintained that the dissolution was unlawful, illegal and contempt of a lawful order and as such cannot stand in the eyes of the law.

Justice Buba gave a final judgment in Suit No. FHC/L/CS/636/2016 on the 24th of June, 2016.

Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has sought the intervention of the Senate for the refund of N21 billion spent on construction and rehabilitation of federal roads in the state.

Fayemi made the appeal while receiving in audience members of the Senate Committee on Works who were on an inspection visit to federal roads and other projects in the state as part of their oversight functions.

The Senate Committee led by the Chairman, Senator Kabiru Gaya, was received on behalf of the governor by his deputy, Otunba Bisi Egbeyemi.

According to a statement on Wednesday by the Special Assistant on media to the Deputy Governor, other members of the Committee on the visit include Senator Biodun Olujimi, Senator Clifford Odia and Senator Mustapha Sani.

The senators were joined by staff members of the National Assembly and officials of Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA).

Fayemi added that he was not yet satisfied with the number of federal projects in the state noting that he would not relent until projects like railways and airport become reality in the state.

Gov Emmanuel budgets N670.72bn for 2019 fiscal year Isaac Job, Uyo The Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel has presented budget estimate of N670.72 billion to the House of Assembly for consideration.

The budget was increased by N24.07 billion from N646.65 billion estimated last year.

Christened budget of industrialisation for poverty alleviation, “the appropriation bill captures N97.09 billion for recurrent expenditure while N445.94 billion was projected for capital expenditure and N127.69 billion for consolidated revenues.

Emmanuel said that the total projected recurrent revenue for the year was N374.24 billion as against N289 billion estimated in 2018.

He said that the Budget christened “Budget of Industrialisation for Poverty Alleviation” it is intended to build more industries and attract more direct foreign investment.

The governor said that the preparation of the budget was guided by the International Public Sector Accounting Standard (IPSAS).

According to him, the 2019 budget is also predicated on oil benchmark of $60 per barrel at a production rate of N2.3 million barrels per day, with estimated exchange rate of N305/US$.

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Paga partners Orange Mall to boost mobile money services in Nigeria, others

L-R: Chief Operating Officer, Upstream, Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Engr. Rabiu Bello; Minister for State, Petroleum Resources, Mr. Ibe Kachikwu; Managing Director Danvic Petroleum & President Oil and Gas Trainers Association of Nigeria (OGTAN), Dr. Mayowa Afe, at the African Oil Week Conference, Cape Town, South Africa... on Wednesday.

SAHCO grows profit by 100% in 9 years Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo

Skyway Aviation Handling Company Plc (SAHCO) has recorded revenue growth of over 100 per cent post-privatization, and equally grown its market share from 21 per cent in 2009 to over 40 per cent till date.

The Managing Director of SAHCO, Mr. Basil Agboarumi gave the hint in Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, shortly after a facility media tour of the company.

According to Agboarumi, by the end of December 2017,SAHCO has maintained a stable operating performance with a compounded annual revenue growth rate of 4.4

per cent.

The company, he said also recorded improved profitability with a five year average operating and profit margin of 12.1 per cent and 11.6 per cent respectively by the end of December 2017.

“This growth has not gone unnoticed in the aviation industry, and thus SAHCO has received multiple awards for its work and contribution to the aviation development in Nigeria, the most recent being the 2017 GNPN Award for “Best Aviation Handling Company of the Year”, Agboarumi said.

Taking the media round SAHCO facility, Head Cargo services, Mr. Olajide Kafidipe noted that the warehouse has been operational

since June 2016 and that, the company has invested heavily on security, maintenance, training, and other areas, to ensure that their services are efficient at all times.

With the capacity to handle 40 to 50 cargo aircraft at a go, Kafidipe assured that SAHCO has all the modern equipment to handle all categories of goods ranging from pharmaceutical, agricultural, wildlife, automobile, edible and others.

Also speaking during the tour, Director of Sales and Marketing of SAHCO, Mr. Adigun Olaniyi said SAHCO still leads regarding cargo business in the country with over 40 per cent market share.

Adigun however, lamented that the federal government is

not recognising the usefulness of ground handling companies, adding that when the government incentives to airlines, cargo handlers were not considered.

“You see this business is capital intensive and don’t forget that the airlines cannot function without the ground handlers. We want the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) to regulate the market. The handling rate is not encouraging.

The government should not allow things that could create capital flight in the system”, Adigun said.

The facility tour which involved journalists from different media houses witnessed a visit to the SAHCO warehouse at the import section, export, and the maintenance and engineering department.

How TraderMoni loans will boost our business - Lagos traders Motolani Oseni Some Lagos traders, who were beneficiaries of the Federal Government’s TraderMoni loans, have revealed how the N10, 000 interest-free loans will be invested to boost their small-scale businesses.

Petty traders who spoke with The Daily Times at Obalende, Makoko (Asejire) and Oyingbo markets in Lagos, when the TraderMoni team led by the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo visited to launch the

scheme.

Mrs. Mercy Emmanuel, a fruit seller in Obalende said it has always being her desires for many years to add groundnut to the list of her businesses but has been hampered by the paucity of funds. She, however, said with the TraderMoni loans, her desire has become realistic.

“As you know, selling of fruits is seasonal which is unlike groundnuts which sell at every season. There are months I needed to stay at home doing nothing because there

were no fruits to sell, but now as I am collecting the loan, I will be investing it in groundnuts business.

I am happy with the TraderMoni,” Mrs. Emmanuel said.

Similarly, Mrs. Ayo Adegoke who sells peppers and tomatoes at Asejire market said aside taking a part of the loans re-stock with more peppers and tomatoes, she is will also be adding onions and coconuts as new area trades. She said she is desirous of making more profits and she is ready to benefit from more loans.

At Oyingbo, Bisola Ayobami, a plantain chip seller in Oyingbo market said in the next few days, she would be adding the sale of soft drinks to her petty trade. She said the N10,000 is coming at the right time for her and she is going to make judicious use of it.

The Executive Director of Bank of Industry, Mrs. Toyin Adeniji said under the TraderMoni scheme, beneficiaries can get access to a higher facility ranging from N15, 000 to N100,000 when they repay N10,000 within the stipulated time.

Paga, a leading mobile money company in Nigeria has announced that it has signed on as the exclusive payment partner to Orange Mall, an e-commerce solution making global shopping from over 250 international retailers’ available for easy purchase and shipment to Nigeria.

General Manager, Online & Mobile at Paga, Folakemi Falodun, explained that the partnership with Mall for Africa, to provide our payment services on Orange Mall, underscores our overarching commitment to making life possible for Nigerians.

“With Orange Mall, we are making it possible for our customers to shop globally and pay locally, increasing the utility of their Paga Wallets. One of the most important parts of this is that through this partnership, we can guarantee better pricing and painless payments for all Orange Mall customers.”

The announcement comes on the heels of the company announcing that they had hit 10 million unique users, raised another $10 million in a series B2 funding round, and had clear intentions to expand their business portfolio by partnering with relevant institutions to create financial ease for the local and global markets.

The launch of their P2P money transfer app introduced the easiest way to send and receive money in Nigeria, and this partnership further solidifies Paga’s stance to provide their customers with easy access and use of their money.

Orange Mall will be supported by Mall for Africa to handle operations, customer care, and logistics, while Paga will process all payments made through its secure wallet which customers can link to their linked bank cards and accounts, or fund their wallets directly with cash. About PagaPaga is a mobile payment company that was founded in 2009 by Tayo Oviosu.

It has gone on to become the largest and most successful mobile money company in Nigeria, by buildingan ecosystem to enable people to digitally send and receive money and creating simple financial access for everyone.

The company is at the forefront of financial inclusion in Nigeria as it has processed over 62 million transactions worth approximately over $4 billion and is profitable; growing at 110 per cent compounded annual growth rate (2016-2018).

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NECA slams NLRC for violating rule of law Motolani Oseni The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA) has expressed its shock and utter dismay at the gruff actions and jungle behaviour of Mr. Lanre Gbajabiamila, new D.G. of the National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC) in shutting down the offices and business premises of Nigeria Brewery Plc across the nation.

Organised Businesses under the auspices of NECA had approached the Courts in the case CA/A/207/2016, NECA & 1 or vs. AG Federation & 3 Ors. The case is currently at the Federal Court of Appeal and parties in the case had maintained status quo ante since 2016.

This was in obedience to the Court order which had restrained the National Lottery Commission and /or its Agents from imposing/further imposing its own interpretation of “promos” on NECA’s members and/or from further harassing, intimidating and/or sealing-up the offices of NECA’s members.

Speaking in Lagos, the Director-General, Mr Olusegun Oshinowo, expressed shock that the new helmsman at the NLRC, Mr. Lanre Gbajabiamila, will go all out to act in breach of the rule of law and utter contempt of court by shutting down the offices and business premises of Nigeria Brewery Plc in a case that is still before the Court of Appeal.

Oshinowo noted that “since 2016 when the case was filed in court, the past leadership of the Commission had exercised restraint and due respect for the law of the land”. He decried the resort to jungle behaviour by the power drunk “public servant” in a civilized society where all hands are on deck to boost the ailing economy of the nation. According to him, “It is unthinkable that a Public Servant will rashly shut down business premises of a multi-billion dollar investment without considering the dire implications on the economy” The Director-General, NECA called on the Presidency and the Honourable Minister of Industry, Trade, and Investment to call Gbajabiamila to order as his actions are not only illegal, unlawful and ultra vires the powers conferred on him, but he is working at cross purpose against the laudable efforts of the Federal Government in improving the Ease of Doing Business (EODB) in Nigeria. “He should be called to order to avoid further damage to business and the fragile economy at large” NECA’s call on the Presidency and the Honourable Minister is informed by government’s belief in fairness and justice, and its several unequivocally affirmation of its belief in enterprise rights and those of ordinary Nigerians. These are hallmarks of good governance which will shore up investors’ confidence in the economy.”

FAMSAGA repositioning health care in Africa Mutiat Alli The Federation of African Medical Students’ Associations General Assembly (FAMSA GA) will be celebrating its 50th anniversary in grand style by hosting the first ever health conference of its kind at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

The General Assembly serves as the annual meeting of African Medical students under the umbrella of the Federation of African Medical Students’ Associations, an association with the vision of improving the health of the African people.

In line with their vision, the week-long conference is themed: ‘Repositioning Healthcare in Africa For Sustainable Development’, Healthcare is central to the overall development of a region, hence the need for the aforementioned.

Of the 17 interwoven global Sustainable Development Goals, SDG 3 is specific to health. The FAMSA General Assembly is a proposed solution that will bring together young vibrant minds as well as professionals and relevant stakeholders in both the public and private sectors from across Africa and beyond to discuss ideas and initiate steps towards the goal.

This strategic event will involve key stakeholders in the healthcare industry in Africa and the world, to interact with healthcare students and youths to reflect, debate, discuss and proffer novel recommendations towards a healthier future. The conference will feature keynote addresses, plenary sessions, workshops, trainings, hackathon sessions, and scientific presentations on carefully selected subthemes all related and contributory to the goal.

In tackling the overall theme, some of the sub-themes to be discussed are Mental illness; Breaking the silence, Infectious diseases in Africa; Are we really winning, Maternal and child health in Africa; The wages of disconnect, Medical education in Africa; Curriculum, research inclusion and mentorship, Health policy and financing; Saving the future of Africa, The African Medical Student and the SDGs: Where do we come in?

Some of the seasoned speakers confirmed include Dr. Moeti (WHO Regional Director), Dr. Tedros (WHO Director-General), Dr. Paulin Basinga (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Country Director), Dr. Mohammed Ali Pate (Former Nigeria Minister of State for Health & CEO, Big Win Philanthropy), Dr. Adanna Chukwuma (Health Economist, World Bank), Dr. Orekunrin OLA (Founder, The Flying Doctors Nigeria).

L-R: Director, Airworthiness Standard, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, Engineer Ita Awak; Director -General, NCAA, Captain Muhtar Usman and Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure, Prof. Muhammed Haruna, during a courtesy visit to the DG, NCAA at Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja, Lagos... on Wednesday

NIPOST: BPE restates commitment to principle of integrity, accountability in privatisation process Mathew Dadiya, Abuja Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Mr. Alex Okoh has reiterated the commitment of the Bureau to ensuring that the principle of integrity, professionalism, and accountability which played out through the selection process of the Transaction Adviser is maintained towards transforming NIPOST “as one of the best integrated postal service providers in the world.”

Okoh stated this on Wednesday at the signing of the contract agreement between the BPE and KPMG-the Transaction Adviser for the postal sector reforms and the restructuring/modernization of the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) in Abuja.

Okoh said that the event marked a significant milestone towards the

implementation of the postal sector reform in Nigeria.

He said that as the agency charged with the mandate of reforming the nation’s postal sector, the Bureau would see to the ultimate modernisation and restructuring of NIPOST. The BPE boss recalled that the project commenced with the setting up and inauguration of a Steering Committee and Project Delivery Team (PDT) as approved by the National Council on Privatisation (NCP).

He noted that the success of the Postal Sector reform hinges on the dexterity and commitment of the Transaction Adviser and appealed to all those involved in the project to deploy creative thinking, unflinching commitment, and zeal in the prompt delivery of the assignment.

Okoh commended the Communication Minister, Barrister Adebayo Shittu who

is also the Chairman of the Steering Committee for his unwavering support and commitment to the project.

In his remarks, the Minister of Communication, Barrister Adebayo Shittu implored the Transaction Adviser to demonstrate competence, commitment, and efficiency in the execution of the project.

He said President Mohammadu Buhari’s administration was determined to transform the country’s postal sector into one of the most efficient and viable sectors of the Nigerian economy and; the best in the world.

The Minister stated that the timeline for the execution of the project is six months and that the “Steering Committee and all other stakeholders involved in the exercise are committed to working with you to ensure that the project is delivered as scheduled.”

NNPC lauds Saudi Arabia $1bn crude oil cut Idu Jude, Abuja The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Group Managing Director, Dr. Maikanti Baru, has commended Saudi Arabia recent decision to cut its daily crude oil production by one million barrels per day from December this year.

The Group Managing Director (GMD), NNPC, made this disclosure in a statement signed by the Group General Manager Public Affairs, Mr. Ndu Uguamadu, Wednesday.

Speaking at a Global Business Leaders Panel Session on the sidelines of the 21st Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC), held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Baru stated that given Nigeria’s production constraints, it is essential that oil price does not fall below $70.

He said: “We need price stability and we want to acknowledge the good gesture by Saudi Arabia.”

Dr. Baru also disclosed at the panel discussion that NNPC would deploy cutting-edge technology to enhance its operations and maximize value across its businesses value-chain.

The GMD, who joined other global CEOs on the panel to discuss: “Creating forward-thinking strategies, supporting upstream operations and market diversification,” shared NNPC’s drive to use technology to deliver Nigeria’s future energy needs in line with anticipated global demand and population growth.

According to him, the corporation was working towards utilizing technology for early detection of pipeline vandalized spots and quick response systems which would significantly save cost, reduce potential fatalities and safeguard the environment.

“Regarding refining, digital technology will help us get more out of our crude which will mean getting the highest yield from our plants. We also need to utilize digital technology from the contracting end which will lead to improved designs in constructions thereby reducing cost and time”, the GMD noted.

Dr. Baru said in its efforts to survive in the long run, NNPC would require substantial investment and commitment to technological research and development even as he noted that corporation would continue to leverage on intelligent use of a big database to expand its businesses.

He said as the industry grows, International Oil Companies (IOCs) and National Oil Companies (NOCs) must be ready to embrace new technological initiatives as a means of offsetting expense escalation and furthering the cost and efficiency improvements they have already achieved.

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2019: Why we adopt ‘No buying, selling of votes, no rigging and no violence’ campaign - Edosomwan The Presidential Candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress Party (NDCP), Dr. Johnson A Edosomwan last week in Abuja spoke with some journalists about his ambition and how he intends to govern the country when voted into power in the 2019 general election. Dr. Edosomwan whose slogan is ‘no buying and selling of votes, no rigging and violence’ said the election must be free and fair, urging other contestants to tow this part of election righteousness’ and fairness. TOM OKPE was there for The Daily Times.

Judging from your perspective, what are your views about the 2019 general election and the agitation for minimum wage for workers?

First of all, I want to set the stage clear as one of the candidates as well as NDCP, we want to make this clear to the Nigerian people and this is the pledge. The pledge is no buying and selling of votes and there should be no rigging and violence.

I have signed this pledge and I want you members of the press to take this to all of the Presidential candidates for them to sign. We need a free and democratic system, one that is led by the people, for the progress of the people and designed by the people, this pledge is very important with the experience we’ve seen in Ekiti, Osun and around the country.

This needs to guide all the Presidential campaigns and it is time to show that we in NDCP are serious about no buying and selling of votes, no rigging and no violence.

You can do anything that you will do but do it with peace and love.

The performance of the current government is left to the Nigerian people, but let me tell you the issue of minimum wage. I have adequately read that the minimum wage needed to be extended to N300,000 per year index for inflation.

Which means it can be more than $300,000 dollars per year based on the rate of inflation today. When you are able to set that minimum wage based on that minimum amount, an index for inflation, at least human beings would have a decent salary to live on. Whatever the current government is doing, you need to go and ask questions; can our senators or our governors, legislators and all those people in power afford to live on the minimum wage we are advocating, that is the issue here.

So, this should not even be an issue to be discussed at all. The people deserve this minimum wage, it needs to be granted right now, and then it needs to be approved right now, so that they can begin to get funds to be able to support their families, get transportation. We don’t even have good transportation system, I met a lady at the bus-stop, she didn’t know who I was, I asked her, ‘where do you work’ and she said, I work in the Senate as a secretary, she was waiting for about two and half hours to get a bus to take her to a place which was like about 20 miles away. So, that is the situation people are living with today and its reality, we need to deal with it.

I repeat, people deserve the minimum wage, and it needs to be index for inflation, there should be no politics about it at all.

When we turn the economy around, that minimum wage will be increased.

When the economy starts producing, people will have livable wage. That is also the reason why we have a lot of production. But when people don’t have decent salaries, they don’t have the zeal to do the job, they are not trained, the institution of government is not secured, then people will be very corrupt.

against the law, all of our leaders whether in the Senate or other legislative chamber, no matter whatever level they are, they need to be protected. Secondly, those people trying to create difficulties for our Senators or other persons in power are also barbaric and needs to be put to the test. But there is an issue that needs to be addressed.

It is the issue of national security which needs to be checked at all levels.

We have been doing this over the years; we keep saying the same thing. Recently, we had problems in Kaduna where there was a curfew and innocent people killed, these are national security issues and at the communal level, people are not in control where area boys, area women, area police and area people are now running the government.

We have to take issue of national security as our number one priority. Our administration with the help of Nigerian people, and the help of the media, we should be able to do these at all levels, partner with all of our people all over the world to be able to create national security.

There is world class, whereby people have to do the job, we are able to remove the threat, and then Nigerians are no longer taken as slaves. We have heard about this in Libya, and that is disenabling for Nigerians to be taken as slaves in the 21st century. Those are the things, these are national security issues.

Another national security issues are the debt. People don’t even realize that debt is a serious national security issue. I saw a publication in Vanguard, where the debt in Nigeria has almost grown up to the roof and those are the National security issues we also need to address, including the physical security and that of manpower. I really sympathise with the people that were going or went through the assassination attempt ordeal and we also recommend that security services and all the people involved, if found, be put to the test of the law and order, prosecute them up to the full extent of the law. There is no room for those assassination attempts, we can discipline, and still be friends, we can have a dialogue and disagree with our senators, you can disagree with your governor but we need to have a fully peaceful democratic process.

What’s your take on the assassination attempt claimed by the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekwermadu?

Well, any assassination attempt is

There was recently a confrontation between security agencies and Shiites Muslim Sect, in which some people were reportedly killed, should you emerge

How about the ongoing voters’ registration compilation by INEC? People should peacefully march to INEC offices, and demand justice and get their voters’ registration intact. That is what needs to be done and you have to do that peacefully, no riot, not through violence, go there and demand that your PVC be given to you. It is an entitlement to all Nigerians and we need to make sure that people have the right to vote. That is why I said this pledge is very important and this pledge is going to define what 2019 Presidential campaign is all about, that is why I am sounding no voting by buying or selling of votes, no rigging, or violence. This is very important to us.

but one thing I can tell you here is that, NDCP will work with all political parties across board. We will be looking for the best candidates to save Nigeria, we are going to be patriotic, there is not going to be tribalism, there is not going to be a test of religion.

Whoever emerges the best candidate that we will use in every position, that is what we will be looking for. Our party structures gives us the way forward to win but when you govern, you have to govern to be able to serve in the interest of the entire people and that is what we intend to do. So, whoever you are talking about, let them bring him on, we will contest and

by God’s grace and by the help of Nigerian people, we will win.

Dr. Johnson Edosomwan

as the President, how do you intend to strike a balance between religion and governance?

Well, the campaign is tenured by the divided religion, tribalism, nepotism and all those like issues, Christians and Muslims, Hindus and Pagans all need to live in peace, period! We are going to be looking for the most capable Nigerians that will be able to help us to a new Nigeria, to transform us from point A to point Z. This is why religion or tribalism needs to disappear.

Now, in terms of National Security, that will be investigated. The particular thing I want to say about national security, it should be addressing a domestic violence issues by focusing on needs, with every constraint, not just shooting at every plain blank without talking to the people.

Of course, we have citizens sometimes that engage in some things based on the situation. So, you cannot, as police officers or national security officers begin to shoot people around without facts. Citizens also need to understand that there is respect for the rule of law, you have to respect our police, you have to respect our officers and then make sure that when they say, “do this”, you follow the law. So, it is a twoway script. You cannot be pointing fingers at the National security people or pointing the fingers at the citizens. You need to make sure that there is a balance between the behavior of the individuals and the National security officer.

Borrowing for infrastructures, will your government do same, or generate fund locally for infrastructural development?

No, first of all, debt doesn’t make any sense to me at all. Part of the things we will do when we come in with the help of God, Nigerian people and with your help, is to find out all of the sources of our debts. And who is it that we owe? And we need to go immediately under negotiation of those

debts.

Secondly, we need to start producing things again, so, that in the end, we will reduce our debt. When you don’t make anything, you don’t sell anything and there is no access to National market, you don’t have anything to be able to do it. Right now, we are relying solely on oil and gas and that is not a good thing for the Nigerian economy. I have said in previous conference that the economy needs to be mortal at their nationals where oil and gas become number ten and we’re manufacturing services, healthcare. All of these various areas become the things that bring our economy and also bring justice to the people.

Now, whoever we owe, we must negotiate with them. Also, we have to open up a new market access to all of the industries within Nigeria. Other means in Nigeria will be that agricultural products will be winding up somewhere in the US, Rwanda, somewhere in UK, in India in China, whatever that is, we need to open wider market access to people. We have to meet the farmers in the Middle-belt so that they can ship their products from point A to point B. Poor infrastructures; no good roads, no speed rail, no airport. We cannot just be taking money from the people without any compromise. They will be giving us the kind of market access and we are going to negotiate with them. I don’t care who he is, whether it is China, United States or UK, we need to take everybody head-on and negotiate those debts down and then pay them what we owe them, but they have to give us also concessions for the debts that were not negotiated properly. That is what we need to do.

As a Presidential candidate, are you worried with the development in the ruling party and the bigger opposition party, the PDP? I am not test-running a political party nor concerned about this government,

The previous and present government promised Nigerians good roads, infrastructures and other facilities; what specifically are you bringing to help Nigerians out of distress?

First of all, there is need to have an emergency response agency with mandate of responding to our national crisis, whether the flood rain and all of those.

Nigeria has been blessed that we don’t have major disasters like earthquakes as you may see around the world. But when you have that kind of agency, it needs to be funded and it needs to be managed appropriately with technology.

What we will do is to institute that agency across the states and across every local community so that, the response agency will be able to address national disaster.

In terms of infrastructure, I have been in the North, South and West, to every location. You cannot drive your car and intend to have good tyres after 30 days. Of course, the roads are so bad that the place that should take you five minutes, will take you hours.

From Bayelsa, to Sokoto, and from Enugu to Ondo, we will develop ten-lane roads and eight-lane roads and then high speed rail to move our goods and services across Nigeria. This is our promise to the Nigerian people. It will be done quickly.

This issue is not that Nigeria doesn’t have money to do this; we have been allocating money for these, months after months and years after years. Are you better off today than you were sixteen years ago? The answer is No! Therefore, that is why you need to vote for NDCP and vote for Johnson Edosomwan to come and change all of these issues that we have because we have been voting money, the money has been winding up in the pockets of the people and those monies don’t get used for infrastructures, it wasn’t used for trains, it wasn’t used for electricity, our productivity is 15%, it is laughable, we are driving away investors, there is no one left, they have gone to other African nations, they have taken their money to invest in other African nations and we are standing still on the hole-back after so many years.

We need to make a decision on what this election is all about. It is about caring for the poor, the middle-class and encouraging people to invest on our infrastructures and on our economy.

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THE TRUSTEES ARE:1.PASTOR DR. GREGORY AZUBUIKE EMORDI - PRESIDENT 2. PASTOR MRS. OLUTOPE VICTORIA EMORDI -SECRETARY 3. MEGBEHINGBE OLUWAROTI FESTUS 4. ADEWARA TOMILAYO EMMANUEL THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE:1. TO PREACH THE GOOD NEWS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST AND BRING SALVATION TO SINNERS. 2. TO ESTABLISH CHURCHES AND MINISTRIES 3. TO HELP THE NEEDY, HEAL THE SICK, COMFORT THE AFFLICTED AND COUNSEL THE WEARY. 4 TO ESTABLISH MEDIA PLATFORMS FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF THE GOSPEL. 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.

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR CHANGE IN TRUSTEES UNDER THE PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACTS NO. 1 OF 1990

BOARD OF TRUSTEES ARE:1. HRM, DR OLUSANYA ADEGBOYEGA DOSUNMU - RETAINED 2. OLORI, OLATUNBOSUN ABIODUN DOSUNMU - RETAINED 3. PRINCESS ADEKEMI OLUBUKOLA AMOYE - RETAINED 4. MRS ELIZABETH ABENI SUNNI -RETAINED 5. MR BABATUNDE AKINBOWALE BROWN -REMOVED 6. MR EGBEYEMI MORUFF AJANI – NEWLY APPOINTED THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES REMAIN THE SAME ANY OBJECTIONS TO THE CHANGE IN TRUSTEES 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 BY: M. A. D ADEBAYO

UDOGADI COMMITTEE OF FRIENDS CLUB. 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. AHAMEFULE OBILOR CHRISTOPHER. 2. UKWUOMA CALLISTUS .

3. ONYEDIKACHI EPHRAIM .

4. FELIX UCHENNA OKAFOR. 5. NDUNAKA AUGUSTINE .

6. NWAJAMES GOLDEN OBI. AIMS/OBJECTIVES; 1. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND PHILANTHROPIC HELP TO THE POOR AND THE LESS PRIVILEGE .

2. TO PROMOTE UNITY AND PROGRESS AMONG MEMBERS

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MUSTAPHA OLADIPUPO SHAFFI 2. ISLAMIYYAH OLAIDE MUSTAPHA-SHAFFI THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE IS: TO CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE PEOPLE WILL EXCHANGE IDEAS FOR SELF IMPROVEMENT AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT. 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: CHAIRMAN

DANIEL AMINU FOUNDATION

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE:1. AMINU DANIEL 2. AMINU NGUAVESE 3. AMOKAHA UMBUR 4. AMINU BENITA JEMILA THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE:1. SEEK TO IMPROVE CONDITIONS FOR THE DOWNTRODDEN. 2. TO WORK WITH THE NECESSARY STAKEHOLDERS TO ACHIEVE OUR AIM. 3. TO SUPPORT THE LESS PRIVILEGED ACADEMICALLY, SOCIALLY, EMOTIONALLY AND PHYSICALLY. 4. TO BRING SUCCOUR WHERE WE CAN TO THE DISPLACED OR DISTRESSED COMMUNITIES. 5. TO REPRESENT THE INTEREST OF THE COMMON EVERYDAY PEOPLE ON OUR STREETS. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL, 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

DIVINEEZIOYIASSOCIATION,PORTHARCOURT. 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. MR. ONOJA CHARLES OGBONNA. 2. MR. ONELE FRIDAY TIMOTHY .

AIMS/OBJECTIVES; 1. TO PROMOTE TRUST, UNDERSTANDING, UNITY AND PEACE AMONG MEMBERS. 2. TO ASSIST IN THE WELFARE OF MEMBERS

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO CREATE AWARENESS ABOUT THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND REVEAL THE PATHWAY TO HIS KINGDOM TO THE WHOLE WORLD 2. TO BRIDGE THE GAPS AND DIFFERENCES THAT EXISTS IN THE BODY OF CHRIST AND FOSTER UNITY WITHIN THE BODY OF CHRIST. 3. TO ENCOURAGE THE EXCHANGE OF SPIRITUAL GIFTS AMONG MEMBERS OF THE BODY OF CHRIST 4. TO PROPAGATE THE TEACHING AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE TRUE WORD OF GOD 5. TO ANCHOR THE FINAL MOVE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND PREPARE THE CHURCH FOR ‘ THE RAPTURE. 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: SECRETARY.

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE:(1) TO FOSTER UNITY AMONG DOG OWNERS AND BREEDERS (2) TO EDUCATE AND ENLIGHTEN MEMBERS ON CANINE AND DOG BREEDING 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.

SETEE GOLD AND SILVER MARKETERS ASSOCIATION

SIGNED : TRUSTEES.

THE TRUSTEES: 1. ADEGBORO ADURAGBEMI OJO 2. YEROKUN OPEYEMI OLUWASHINA 3. OGUNJIMI OPEOLUWA

THE TRUSTEES ARE:1. SOWUNMI OLAKUNLE TOLULOPE ( PRESIDENT) 2. AJAYI BABAJIDE OLUSEGUN (SECRETARY) 3. UMOH NKEREUWEN INYANG 4. OKORIE CHUKWUEMEKA AGWU

MINDVALLEY HUB INITIATIVE

ADDRESS:34 COLLEGE ROAD, OFF YAYA ABATAN ROAD, OGBA, IKEJA THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACTS, DECREE NO. 1 OF 1990.

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.

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED CHURCH HAS APPLIED TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, NO. 1 OF 1990.

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

SIGNED: SECRETARY

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.

LIVINGWITNESSOUTREACHSOLDIERSOFCHANGEINTERNATIONAL

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SIGNED: SECRETARY

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EVEREST OF FIRE REVIVAL MINISTRY

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, NO. 1 OF 1990.

FRIENDS FITNESS CLUB OF NIGERIA NATIONAL STADIUM SURULERE, LAGOS THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER THE PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACTS NO. 1OF 1990 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ARE:1. MR. ANUMAKA TOBBY ISIDORE CHIBUIKE - PRESIDENT 2. MR. OGUADINMA EZENWA CHRISTIAN - SECRETARY 3. MR. NNAMDI KENNEDY AKAOLISA 4. MR. DIM HENRY CAIUS 5. CHIEF SAMUEL OKEKE 6. MR. UCHE LOUIS NNAMDI 7. MR. OKPALA NATHAN IFEMEZIE 8. MR. EZIKE EMMANUEL ELOCHUKWU THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE IS:TO CATER FOR THE WELFARE MEMBERS. 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: TRUSTESS

HOMETOWN DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE

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 COMPANY AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF 1990 .

THE TRUSTEES ARE : 1) TONY GODDAY OSSAI 2) PAULINA MENEGBO 3) OBEHI RUTH IGBAFE 4) EUGENE BARIDI MEABE 5) FUNMI BARIVULE GBARABA AIMS AND OBJECTIVES; 1) TO ENLIGHTEN AND EMPOWER RURAL COMMUNITIES THROUGH THEIR WOMEN, YOUTH AND GIRL CHILD. 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: BASSEY AKPAN.

LOSS OF DOCUMENT

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF THE LOSS OF CERTIFICATE AND OTHER DOCUMENTS OF REGISTRATION BELONGING TO YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LAGOS AMONG OTHER DOCUMENTS. ALL EFFORTS MADE TO TRACE THE MISSING DOCUMENTS PROVED ABORTIVE. IF FOUND, KINDLY RETURN TO THE NEAREST POLICE STATION. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE. SIGNED: DR. KEHINDE ABIOLA GENERAL SECRETARY

MEGASTAR SOCIAL CLUB OF NIGERIA

HEADQUARTERS IS NO. 11 SANGANA STREET, MILE 1, DIOBU, PORT HARCOURT. THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, NO. 1 OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OSHO ADENEKAN. 2. OSHO RUTH. 3. OKUNBOR OHUMUMWEN SAMSON. 4. OLOKUNTOYE EUNICE IYORE.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: (1) ONUKWUBE JOSEPH EZE (CHAIRMAN) (2) CHUKWUEBUKA JOHNSON UBAH (SECRETARY) (3) ONYEKACHI PRINCE EZE, (4)CHINEDU SAMUEL UBAH, (5) CHIMAOBI KINGSLEY UBA, (6) EBERE STANLEY ORANEME, (7) CHUKWUEMEKA NWACHUKWU CHRISTIAN.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL OF OUR JESUS. 2. PREPARING BELIEVERS IN CHRIST FOR ETERNITY. 3. REVIVING CHRISTIAN AS THE LIGHT OF WORLD.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. FOR THE PROMOTION OF PEACE,CO OPERATION, SOLIDARITY AND FRIENDSHIP AMONGST MEMBERS. 2. TO PROMOTE PEACE, PROGRESS AND UNITY IN NIGERIA 3. TO ASSIST THE DESTITUTE AND 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, 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

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PRINCIPLES OF LIFE INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVE (POLII) 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. PRINCESS BEAUTY BARILE WITE 2. MARK NGOZI NOELLE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1) BRANDING LIVES, RESTRUCTURING INSTITUTIONS AND NATIONS THROUGH SYSTEMATIC TRAININGS, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOP. 2) TO BUILD A PEACEFUL SOCIETY AND SAFE ENVIRONMENT THROUGH CAMPAIGNS, MENTORSHIP, AND TRAINING. 3) EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN, HEALTH CAMPAIGN AND HUMANITARIAN WORK. 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: PRINCESS BEAUTY BARILE WITE

AFRICAN CHURCH GRAMMAR SCHOOL ABEOKUTA OLD STUDENTS ASSOCIATION*

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF 1990 *TRUSTEES:* 1). ADEYINKA OLAYINKA (CHAIRMAN) 2). OKE CLEMENT OLUBODUN (SECRETARY) 3). ADEBOWALE MUTIU OWOLABI

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LOSS OF DOCUMENT

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF LOSS OF ORIGINAL ALLOCATION PAPER FROM FEDERAL MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND ENVIRONMENT ANAMBRA, NOW ENUGU STATE, LOSS OF ORIGINAL CLEARANCE PAPER OF PAYMENT FROM FEDERAL MORTGAGE BANK AND LOSS OF CORRESPONDENT LETTERS. BELONGING TO MR. E.I. AKACHUKWU RESIDING AT BLOCK A23, FEDERAL HOUSING ESTATE, TRANS-EKULU, ENUGU. ALL EFFORT TO TRACE THE SAID DOCUMENT HAS PROVED ABORTIVE. IF FOUND PLEASE CONTACT THE MINISTRY OF LANDS AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT.

ODOGBOLU ROYAL CLUB

MIRIAM STEPHEN AMOBI STROKE FOUNDATION.

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

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ODUMOSU O. JOEL - CHAIRMAN 2. OLUBAJO SOLOMON AKEEM - SECRETARY 3. ADEBANJO ALHAJI MOHAMMED MINIRU 4. ABUDU ADEKUNLE MOIBI

TRUSTEE ARE 1.DR.OBIAKOR ERIC CHUKWUDOZIE. 2. MISS AMOBI CHINELO ONYINYE 3.MR AMOBI CHIBUZO NNAEMEKA 4.DR. NWAFOR IFEOMA CHINYELU.

*AIMS:* TO CARRY OUT SUCH ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS WHICH SHALL CONTRIBUTE TO THE EDUCATIONAL, SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTAL, STRUCTURAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF OUR ALMA MATER AND OUR MEMBERS.

AIM & OBJECTIVE: TO PROMOTE THE UPLIFTMENT OF ODOGBOLU TOWN AND AIM AT LIFTING THE CLUB TO GREATER HEIGHTS SOCIALLY, ECONOMICALLY AND MORALLY BOTH WITHIN AND OUTSIDE ODOGBOLU TOWN WITHOUT PROFIT MOTIVES.

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYIIRONSI STREET, MAITAMA ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. *SIGNED BY SECRETARY OF TRUSTEES*

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

SURULERE BAPTIST CHURCH LOSS OF CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION OF THE ABOVE NAMED CHURCH GOT LOST IN TRANSIT BETWEEN ABUJA AND LAGOS AND ALL REASONABLE EFFORTS TO FIND IT HAVE PROVED ABORTIVE. WHOEVER FINDS THE SAID CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION SHOULD CONTACT THE REGISTRAR GENERAL OF THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYỈ LRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA OR THE CHURCH SECRETARY, SURULERE BAPTIST CHURCH AT 52/54 OJUELEGBA ROAD, SURULERE, LAGOS OR THE NEAREST POLICE STATION. GENERAL SECRETARY

GREAT RAIN WORD REVIVAL MINISTRY. 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 ACTS 1990.

TRUSTEES ARE : 1. AFOLABI TUNMISE HEZEKIAH 2. AFOLABI FLORENCE OLUWAKEMI 3. GOOD VICTORIA 4. OJO ABIODUN IDOWU 5. POPOOLA DORCAS DAMILOLA AIMS: TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAIMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

GLOBAL ART FOUNDATION

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 COMPANY AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF 1990

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THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF LOSS OF ORIGINAL LAND DOCUMENT. THAT MY LATE FATHER LATE MR. EMMANUEL OGWALE IS THE BONAFIDE OWNER OF THE PLOT OF LAND SITUATED AT PLOT 5. FEDERAL HOUSING, TRANS-EKULU, ENUGU STATE. THAT THE DOCUMENTS OF THE SAID PLOT OF LAND WERE WRITTEN IN MY LATE FATHER’S NAME WHO DIED ON THE 17TH DAY OF JUNE, 2014. ALL EFFORT TO TRACE THE SAID DOCUMENT HAS PROVED ABORTIVE. IF FOUND PLEASE CONTACT THE MINISTRY OF LANDS AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT.

AIMSTO PROMOTE AWARENESS OF STROKE AND AIDING IT’S PREVENTION THROUGH ADVOCACY PROGRAMS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYIIRONSI STREET, MAITAMA ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED SECRETARY

SIGNED SECRETARY

THE ROCK OF SALVATION MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL ORI OKE IDANDE

THY WILL BE DONE BIBLE BASED CHURCH

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED ORGANIZATION HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF 1990 THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. PASTOR SALAMI KAYODE JOHN - PRESIDENT 2.MR. ODEJOBI OLUWADAMILARE DANIEL - SECRETARY 3. MR. OLAOGUN KOLAWOLE STEVEN - TREASURER 4. MRS. SALAMI TITILAYO DEBORAH - MEMBER 5. MR. MAKANJUOLA BABATUNDE JAMIU - MEMBER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1.TO PREACH AND ADVANCE THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST 2. TO EMBARK ON GOSPEL OUTREACHES ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYIIRONSI STREET, MAITAMA ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

INITIATIVE FOR BETTER LIFE AND GOOD LEADERSHIP THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ARE: 1. AKPARAWA ENE USANGA – CHAIRMAN 2. PIUS OJIEFOH – VICE CHAIRMAN 3. JOSEPH CHIGOR – FINANCIAL SECRETARY 4. OROK INNOCENT – SECRETARY 5. SIMON NEGBEJIE – TREASURER 6. PETER OKOCHA 7. ROWLAND OKPARA 8. CHRIS OBICHE 9. GEORGE EKANEM 10. CESTAIN ERONMONSELE THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. TO CREATE ENABLING ENVIRONMENT FOR UPCOMING NIGERIA’S AND WORLD AT LARGE. 2. TO INITIATE SKILLFUL IDEAS THAT WILL DEVELOP THE LIFE OF THE LESS PRIVILEGE IN OUR SOCIETY.

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED ORGANIZATION HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF 1990 THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. PASTOR OLUPITAN ELIJAH - PRESIDENT 2. LADY EVANG. AYOADE ADEOLA ESTHER - SECRETARY 3. PASTOR OLATILEWA JAMIU ALAO - TREASURER 4. LADY EVANG. OLUPITAN OLUWAKEMI MORENIKEJI - MEMBER 5. MR OGUNDEJI EMMANUEL OLUWASEYI - MEMBER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH AND ADVANCE THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST 2. TO EMBARK ON GOSPEL OUTREACHES ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYIIRONSI STREET, MAITAMA ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

ROUSTABOUTS AND MUDMEN ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA

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

TRUSTEES ARE 1. DAFFE IBIFUBARA PRESIDENT 2.AMACHREE ASITOA MACLEAN VICE PRESIDENT 3.AJAGHIDI COLLINS DENI TREASURER 4.GOODGEORGE DESTINY TONOPIRIMA SECRETARY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO REDUCE THE ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION CAUSES BY THE POLLUTION PETROLEUM. 2. TO CARRY OUT THEIR PROFESSIONAL ROLES. 3. TO FOSTER UNITY, LOVE AMONG MEMBER. 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 BY SECRETARY

REVIVAL OF HIS GLORY ASSEMBLY

SIGNED: PRESIDENT

BONNY KINGDOM FITTERS ASSOCIATION

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 COMPANY AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF 1990

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 COMPANY AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF 1990

TRUSTEES ARE 1.NNAKA DORIS OGOCHUKWU 2.MEJURU EZENWA SAMUEL 3.KING PRINCE UCHEN 4.AIGBEDION UHUNOMA FRANK

TRUSTEES ARE 1.NKEMAKOLAM PHILIP UDOKA 2.CHUKWU JOY CHIMUANYA 3.OKORONKWO EMMANUEL CHIDI 4.CHKWU EKE FRED 5.OKRO ROSELINE NNE

TRUSTEES ARE 1.ANIDIMA RICHARD 2.HART IGNATIUS.E 3.HALLIDAY COUSIN 4.HART UPUADA

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO ASSIST THE LESS PRIVILEGED IN THE SOCIETY. 2.TO FOSTER PEACE AND UNITY IN OUR COUNTRY. 3.EMPOWERMENT, LEADERSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT TRAINING FOR OUR YOUTH.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.TO PREACH AND TEACH ALL NATIONS THE WAY TO MAKE HEAVEN. 2.TO WIN AS MANY SOULS AS POSSIBLE TO OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. 3.TO REACH OUT ALL THE FAMILIES AND NATIONS OF THE WORLD WITH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.TO ENSURE AND PROJECT BONNY KINGDOM PROFESSIONALLY FITTERS LOCALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY. 2.TO FOSTER PEACE UNITY AND PROGRESS AMONG MEMBERS.

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

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

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: TRUSTEES.

SIGNED: TRUSTEES.

CHAIRMAN

SIGNED: CHAIRMAN.

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ONIFADE OLUWADAMILOLA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADESEGUN OLUWADAMILOLA ONIFADE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ONIFADE OLUWADAMILOLA OLUWASEYI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC/AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

OBIEKWE CHIMUANYA

MOSES CHIBUEZE

KAYODE OMOTOLA I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JOSEPH OMOTOLA AJOKE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS KAYODE OMOTOLA AJOKE ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

OLAYEMI CECILIA I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGUNDELE ODUNOLA ALICE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLAYEMI CECILIA ODUNAYO ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

AJAELU COLLINS

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MOSES PETER, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MOSES CHIBUEZE PETER. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC/ AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ONUOHA GLORIA ONYEMAECHI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS AJAYI GLORIA ONYEMAECHI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS AJAYI GLORIA

EZEORAH MARTINA I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS DUEBA CECILIA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EZEORAH MARTINA CHIDIMMA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OKONKWO MARIAN NNEBECHI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS NNAMANI MARIAN NNEBECHI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS ONYEMELUKWE UCHECHUKWU I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OBI UCHECHUKWU FRANCES, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ONYEMELUKWE UCHECHUKWU FRANCES. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MIRACLE EJIKE I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MIRACLE EJIKE EZECHIMA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MIRACLE EJIKE EZE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

DIRIBE CHIAZOKAM

EWOH GRACE I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EWOH GRACE ANIUDE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EWOH GRACE AMAECHI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS JIDEOFOR PHILOMENA IFEYINWA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS AGU PHILOMENA IFEYINWA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWAFOR INNOCENT AND NWAFOR INNOCENT .T., NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWAFOR INNOCENT TOCHUKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CLARKSON IKECHUKWU

ONAH PETER I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ALIH KENNETH CHUKWUJAMA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ONAH PETER NWACHUKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OVUDU SUNDAY I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OVUDU FRIDAY, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OVUDU SUNDAY .O..ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ELIJAH NWACHUKWU I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ELIJAH OKOH, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ELIJAH NWACHUKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ASOGWA CHIMUANYA CHRISTABEL, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OBIEKWE CHIMUANYA CHRISTABEL. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AJAELU COLLINS CHUKWUBUIKE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AJAELU COLLINS CHUBUIKE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ABIA CHIMEZIE I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ABIA CHIMEZIE PHILIP, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ABIA CHIMEZIE JONATHAN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS NNAJI ADAOBI I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS EZEONU ADAOBI JOY, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS NNAJI ADAOBI JOY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

IGWEZE PAULINE I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS PAULINE ONYEMA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IGWEZE PAULINE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS DIRIBE PAUL GOODLUCK, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS DIRIBE CHIAZOKAM GOODLUCK. MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 11/10/1996. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OBUROTA SUNDAY CHUKWUMA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS WILKINSON CHUKWUMA SUNDAY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

WILKINSON CHUKWUMA

WILKINSON JANE I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MADUABUCHI JANE CHIMAOBI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS WILKINSON JANE CHIMAOBI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IKECHUKWU GOD’STIME CLARKSON, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CLARKSON IKECHUKWU SUCCESS. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS ENI CHINYERE I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS NWAZUHU CHINYERE JOY, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ENI CHINYERE JOY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

EBUBECHUKWU FRIDAY I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FRIDAY EYEH, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EBUBECHUKWU FRIDAY EYEH. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ANI EBERECHUKWU SCHOLASTICA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS TERRY-TIM ANI EBERECHUKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS ROSEMARY CHINENYE

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CORRECTION OF NAME

TERRY-TIM ANI

ADDITION OF NAME

MRS NNAMANI MARIAN

MRS EZE PATIENCE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OKWOR PATIENCE TOCHUKWU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS EZE PATIENCE TOCHUKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ADDITION OF NAME

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ROSEMARY CHINENYE NWORIE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ROSEMARY CHINENYE OKWONG. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT MY NAME CHINZE EGODI VIRGINIA WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN BUT NOW WISH TO BE CORRECTED AND ADDRESSED AS CHINZE UDUEGO VIRGINIA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

THAT I WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWIGWE CHINONSO, THAT I NOW WISH TO ADD PEACE TO MY FORMER NAME THAT I NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWIGWE CHINONSO PEACE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTES.

THAT I WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGUANYA CHIDERA, THAT I NOW WISH TO ADD GILBERT TO MY FORMER NAME THAT I NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGUANYA CHIDERA GILBERT. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTES.

ELEGBEDE HALIAT FORMERLY YUFUS ALIAT BOLANLE NOW TO BE ADDRESSED AS ELEGBEDE HALIAT BOLANLE. DUE TO MARRIAGE. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OLIUDEEN ABDULJELIL FORMERLY. SOLIUDEEN OPAMUSA BAMIKOLE NOW TO BE ADDRESSED AS SOLIUDEEN ABDULJELIL. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

ADEGBOYEGA ADESINA I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEGBOYEGA ADESINA LAWAL NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEGBOYEGA ADESINA OWONIFARI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS VICTORIA UDEMEZUE. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EMMANUEL VICTORIA ADEOLA OLUBUKUNOLA. ALL FORMAL DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

MRS EBERE OBIANUJU

MRS EBERE OBIANUJU

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AGUNENYE OBIANUJU JOSEPHINE TO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS EBERE OBIANUJU JOSEPHINE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AGUNENYE OBIANUJU JOSEPHINE. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS EBERE OBIANUJU JOSEPHINE. ALL FORMAL DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

AJETUNMOBI ELIZABETH FORMERLY OGUNOSHO ELIZABETH IBILOLA NOW TO BE ADDRESSED AJETUNMOBI ELIZABETH IBILOLA. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

GEORGE ABIOLA I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEPOJU ABIOLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS GEORGE ABIOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OSIFO SAMSON FOUNDATION

WING OF PRAISE SOUL WINNING CHURCH IBADAN

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 ACTS 1990.

CORRECTION OF NAME

INCORRECT NAME IS USMAN AMIDU NOW CORRECT AND TO BE ADDRESSED AS UTHMAN HAMED ALABI .

GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

FREE SPACE

FREE SPACE

PERFECT GRACE DOMINION CHURCH OF GOD 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 ACTS 1990.

TRUSTEES 1. OKUNOLA JOSHUA 2. OKUNOLA IDOWU 3. OKUNOLA SANMI 4. OKUNOLA OLUWABUKUNMI. AIM AND OBJECTIVES TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST

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

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

SIGN SECRETARY

SIGN SECRETARY

ENUGU INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S FORUM

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OSIFO SAMSON IGBINOBA (CHAIRMAN) 2. OSIFO OLANIKE REKIA 3. OSIFO ADEFOLAKE REBECCA (SECRETARY) 4. OSAKWE MIKE

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MADUEGBUNAM CHUKWUMA KINGSLEY 2. ALI BENEDICT IKECHUKWU 3. NNAMANI SHERIFF CHUKWU 4. OZONWEKE CHRISTOPHER OKWUDILI 5. UDEH BENSON.

SIGNED: SECRETARY

OMOLEYE ESTHER

FORMALLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AJIBOLA MODUPE OLUBUNMI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OMOLEYE ESTHER MODUPE. ALL FORMER DOCUNENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

NYA CHIMDIUKWU

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ELIJAH CHIMDIUKWU CHRISTIAN, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS INYA CHIMDIUKWU CHRISTIAN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

TRUSTEES. 1 PASTOR ISAAC ABAYOMI GBADEBO,-CHAIRMAN. 2 PASTOR(MRS) MARY OMOLADUN GBADEBO-VICE CHAIRMAN 3OLUYEMI GBADEBO-SECRATARY. 4 ADEDOLAPO AKINSANPE OLARINDE. 5 ABU JOSEPH IBILEYE. AIM AND OBJECTIVES TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST

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

ANY OBJECTION TO THE SAID REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR - GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

IMOHIOSEN PRAISE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKOZIDE JANET IMHANBEMEN, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IMOHIOSEN PRAISE JANET. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

NWAFOR INNOCENT

EMMANUEL VICTORIA

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

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE ORGANIZATION ARE AS FOLLOWS: 1. TO ENHANCE AND SUPPORT WIDOWS 2. YOUTH EMPOWERMENT AND SCHOLARSHIP TO STUDENTS 3. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

MRS AGU PHILOMENA

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE WELFARE AND PROGRESS OF MEMBERS AND TO FOSTER GOOD CITIZENSHIP. 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

JOSEPH ADEKANLE ONI FOUNDATION CHANGE OF TRUSTEES AND AMENDMEND OF CONSTITUTION TRUSTEES. 1 JOSEPH ADELANKE ONI - REAPPOINTED. 2 BUKOLA OMOLOLA ADEMOYE-REAPPOINTED 3 ADEJOBI ADEDOLAPO -REAPPOINTED 4 ADE ONI ADEMUYIWA-REAPPOINTED. 5 TOLULOPE ADESOLA ONWUBUARIRIREAPPOINTED 6 ONI ADEKUNLE ALADESANMI-REAPPOINTED 7 JULIUS ADEKUNLE FALUSI-REAPPOINTED. 8 ENGNR ADETOGO ADEFEMI-NEWLY APPOINTED 9 GEN(RTD) OMOSEEBI JOSHUA --NEWLY APPOINTED 10 JOHN ADEBOLA ONI -RESIGNED 11BARR ADEDEFE ONI-RESIGNED 12 MRS FOLA ALABI-RESIGNED AMENDED AREA IN CONSTITUTION ARTICLE 8(2)OF THE CONSTITUTION SHALL NOW READ THUS “ SUCH TRUSTEES SHALL NOT BE LESS THAN SEVEN AND NOT MORE THAN TEN IN NUMBER”.

SIGNED SECRETARY

Classified 20 TIJANI MORIAMO

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS TIJANI MORIA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS TIJANI MORIAMO ABAKE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS AHARANWA FAVOUR

ADDITION OF NAME

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADENIJI MARIAM NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADENIJI MARIAM ADUNOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

UBA VIVIAN

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MRS ADEOTAN ISLAMIAT

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS AJIBOLA ISLAMIAT FUNMILAYO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ADEOTAN ISLAMIAT FUNMILAYO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS VITUS-DIKE CYNTHIA

AKINSANYA OYINLOLA

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AWODELE OYINLOLA TEMILADE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AKINSANYA OYINLOLA TEMILADE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS PRECIOUS NNEOMA

EZEWOGHOR NGOZI

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHUKWUNEKE NGOZI ELIZABETH NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EZEWOGHOR NGOZI ELIZABETH. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

KABIRU FATIMA

ABDUL RACHAEL

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AROWOLOBUSOYE RACHEL NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ABDUL RACHAEL OLUWATAYO. MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 9TH MARCH,1972.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE

UBEJIGI MULIKAT

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS EMETO LINDA NKEIRUKA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS AHARANWA FAVOUR NKEIRUKA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IKEOKWU VIVAN KOSISOCHI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UBA VIVIAN KOSISOCHI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. NYSC AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OFFOR CYNTHIA OLUCHI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS VITUS-DIKE CYNTHIA OLUCHI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS PRECIOUS NNEOMA IWEGBU NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS PRECIOUS NNEOMA OKOROAFOR. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UMAR GAMBO FATIMA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS KABIRU FATIMA UMAR. ALL DOCUMENTS AND CERTIFICATES BEARING MY FORMER NAMES REMAIN VALID. NIGERIA IMMIGRATION SERVICE, RELEVANT AUTHORITIES AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BLESSING ONOZASI UBEJIGI WRITTEN ON MY BVN, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UBEJIGI MULIKAT ONOZASI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

CORRECTION OF NAME MY NAME WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AS SOMMIDAH SAMUEL ON MY BANK DETAILS INSTEAD OF MATO SOMMIDAH. MY CORRECT NAME IS MATO SOMMIDAH. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

SALAU BILIKIS FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MURITALA BILIKIS ADENIKE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SALAU BILIKIS ADENIKE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

ECHE NGBEDE FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ALEX ECHE ON MY BVN, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ECHE NGBEDE ALEX ON MY ID CARD. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

SALAU BILIKIS FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MURITALA BILIKIS ADENIKE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SALAU BILIKIS ADENIKE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

GRACE OLOHIJE FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS GRACE OLOHIJE IZEBERE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS GRACE OLOHIJE OVIOSUN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

CHARLES MADUABUCHI FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHARLES OHAKA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHARLES MADUABUCHI OGBUJI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

MRS ANIMASHAUN SIMISOLA FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS MARTINS SIMISOLA HANNAH, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ANIMASHAUN SIMISOLA HANNAH. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

OYEBOWALE OLAYINKA FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS LAWAL OLAYINKA RAFIAT, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OYEBOWALE OLAYINKA FAVOUR. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

ADEOGUN AMINAT FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AKANBI AMINAT ABIODUN, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEOGUN AMINAT ABIODUN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

ADETOLA TAIWO FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEDOTUN TAIWO SHERIFAT, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADETOLA TAIWO SHERIFAT. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

MRS MORAYOOLA JOY FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS MORAYOOLA JOY OLUSESI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS MORAYOOLA JOY ALAO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

OBAHOR OGHENERUKEVWE FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OBAHOR DANIELLA ELOHOR, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OBAHOR OGHENERUKEVWE DANIELLA ELOHOR. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

OJO MARY FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGBEIDE IFEOMA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OJO MARY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

MRS JIMOH LATEEFAT FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS JIMOH LATEEFAT TITILAYO, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS JIMOH LATEEFAT TITILAYO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

MMADU CHIBUZOR FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS COSMOS PROMISE CHIBUZOR, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MMADU CHIBUZOR PROMISE. THAT MY DATE OF BIRTH IS 21/09/1991.

ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

SUNDAY DORCAS FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS DORCAS NNANA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SUNDAY DORCAS NNANA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

UDEZE UCHECHUKWU I FORMERLY KNOWN AS UDEZE THELMA UCHE PEACE. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS UDEZE UCHECHUKWU PEACE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THAT I WAS BORN ON 12/04/1995.

GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

OMERE FAITH I FORMERLY KNOWN AS ENUNEKU FAITH OBI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS OMERE FAITH OBI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

ELUDINI BOLA I FORMERLY KNOWN AS LAMIDI AINA BOLAJI AND LARMED AINA ABOLAJI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS ELUDINI BOLA OMOWUNMI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

OJORA ABDULRAZAQ I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OJORA RODIAT OMOBOLANLE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OJORA ABDULRAZAQ RODIAT. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS. OZIOMA CHIZITEREM I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS. EZEM OZIOMA CHIOMA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. OZIOMA CHIZITEREM AGUIYI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ROBERT FAVOUR I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ROBERT LAZARUS EKPENI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ROBERT FAVOUR EKPENI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

AKEEM AKANMU I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS RASAKI HELEEM FOLARIN, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AKEEM AKANMU HELEEM FOLARIN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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UN lifts sanctions on Eritrea after nine years The United Nations has lifted its sanctions on Eritrea, nine years after they were imposed by the international organisation.

Wednesday’s decision, made during a meeting of the UN Security Council, follows a rapprochement between Eritrea and neighbouring Ethiopia in recent months.

The Security Council welcomed the improved relationship between the two countries but added that Eritrea needs to strive for closer ties with its other neighbour, Djibouti.

Eritrea and Djibouti have been at odds over a border dispute since June 2008 that led to military clashes which killed a dozen Djiboutian troops.

Repeated violence over the disputed territory raised fears the conflict could engulf the entire Horn of Africa region.

In 2009, the UN imposed a nationwide arms embargo, travel ban and asset freeze on certain people and entities after accusing Eritrea of supporting armed groups in Somalia.

Eritrea has denied those allegations.

Earlier this year, Eritrea and Ethiopia signed a peace deal after a decades-long dispute.

Following that peace agreement, Eritrea asked the UN to lifts its sanctions, pointing to the region’s diplomatic shifts.

The dispute started in the early 1990s, when Eritrea gained its independence from Ethiopia, after which a war broke out later that decade over border disputes.

A 2002 UN-backed boundary demarcation was meant to settle the dispute for good, but Ethiopia refused to abide by it.

A turnaround began in June

this year when Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced that Ethiopia would hand back to Eritrea the disputed areas, including the flashpoint town of Badme, where the first shots of the border war were fired.

In September, two border crossings were reopened just days before the countries signed a peace deal in Saudi Arabia, officially ending hostilities.

After the signing of that deal in Saudi Arabia, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told journalists “a wind of hope” was blowing in the Horn of Africa.

“It is not only the peace between Ethiopia and Eritrea - it is the fact that tomorrow and the day after tomorrow we will have, here in Saudi Arabia, the president of Djibouti and the president of Eritrea - two countries that have also been at odds with each other,” the UN chief said.

UN ‘alarmed’ by fighting in DR Congo ahead of December elections The United Nations has raised the alarm over fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), warning that violence, which is unfolding alongside an Ebola outbreak, could hamper next month’s elections.

Leila Zerrougui, head of the UN stabilisation mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo, MONUSCO, said that the provinces of Tanganyika and South Kivu and parts of North Kivu province were most at risk.

“I have grown increasingly alarmed over the situation in Beni in recent months, where we continue to face major challenges in implementing our mandate,” she said.

“There is a potential for armed group interference in elections in

specific areas throughout eastern DRC.” Her remarks were made on Tuesday at the UN Security Council’s monthly meeting on the DRC. Eastern DRC has been troubled for decades by inter-ethnic bloodshed and militia violence, a crisis that has escalated this year.

The city of Beni, home to up to 300,000 people, is under threat from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an armed group rooted in Uganda that has killed hundreds of people since 2014.

DRC is also battling the worst Ebola outbreak in the country’s history.

The unrest is running in parallel with a conflict in the central region of Kasai, casting a shadow over the country’s ability

to stage elections on December 23 to choose a successor to President Joseph Kabila.

Zerrougui said many hurdles had to be overcome for the elections to proceed smoothly and be credible. The official start of campaigning is on November 22.

“It will be especially important for the government to take steps in the coming weeks to secure polls, particularly to ensure the participation of women, who make up 50 percent of registered voters,” she said.

Zerrougui is also the UN secretary-general’s special representative in the DRC. MONUSCO, whose mission is now 17,000 strong and among the UN’s largest, has been in the DRC since 1999. It has an annual budget of $1.153bn.

British Prime Minister Theresa May has said the draft deal the United Kingdom has struck with the European Union with regards to Brexit will adhere to what people voted for during the 2016 Brexit referendum.

“What we have been negotiating is a deal that does deliver on the vote of the British people,” May told MPs on Wednesday after the UK and EU finalised the details of their plan on Tuesday.

May defended the agreement to a group of MPs from her own Conservative party ahead of a meeting with her cabinet, during which she is seeking her ministers’ backing for the deal.

Despite an earlier statement, Downing Street said May would not make an official statement on if the cabinet had agreed on the deal on Wednesday night.

Hardline Brexit supporters said the deal included unacceptable compromises.

May said the agreement would guarantee an end to unlimited immigration from the EU and would allow Britain to set its own trade policy, two of the main issues raised during the Brexit campaign.

She added the agreement included a backstop to avoid a hard border in Ireland but said this would be a temporary “insurance policy” if no future relationship is agreed.

“We want to bring the future relationship into place at the end of December 2020,” she said.

Accoriding to Al Jazeera correspondent Paul Brennan, the next 24 hours will be crucial for both Brexit and the Theresa May government as a whole.

“We are wondering now if the Brexit piece falling into place or the British government falleng into pieces,” Brennan said from London.

“The reaction has been almost universally opposed to the deal, both the Brexiteers and those who want to stay in the EU are extremely unhappy,” he said.

“Parliament seems to be at an impasse.”

The Irish border has been a key issue during negotiations between London and Brussels.

Both have vowed to prevent the reemergence of a hard border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, which will leave the EU with Britain, amid fears the issue could reignite decades-old tensions.

But the two sides disagreed for a long time on how to resolve the issue.

Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the main opposition Labour Party, said the agreement “breaches the prime minister’s own red lines”, adding that negotiations with Brussels had been “shambolic”.

“This government spent two years negotiating a bad deal that will leave the country in an indefinite half-way house,” Corbyn said.

Conservative Peter Bone, a leading pro-Brexit MP, also criticised May. “You are not delivering the Brexit people voted for and today you will lose the support of many Conservative MPs and millions of voters,” Bone said.

Following the UK’s announcement an agreement was signed, Ireland’s Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said on Wednesday that an emergency EU summit could be held on November 25 to vote on the deal.

UK parliament would then vote on the Brexit accord.

If successful, the whole Brexit process should be concluded on March 29, 2019, almost three years after the referendum was held.

However, Brennan said that a failure for the cabinet to approve the deal could lead to real issues for May and her government.

“The timetable from now is that the cabinet has to approve, and if they don’t approve she will have to review her position as cabinet leader,” Brennan said.

“The real problems will arise in parliament, because there is no majority and if they don’t approve that’s when we’re really in uncharted territory because we might be looking at general elections,” he added.

The agreement comes after months of intense negotiations between UK and EU leaders and mounting pressure on May. Last month, May said she was “ready to consider” extending a transition phase after the UK leaves, according to officials.

Such an extension, keeping Britain under EU governance with no say in it, would be highly unpopular with hardline supporters of Brexit.

The idea of a one-year extension to the transition period had been proposed

by EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier.

This would buy more time to negotiate the future relationship between Britain and the EU, which could potentially help to make progress on the Irish border issue.

May defended the agreement to a group of MPs from her own Conservative party ahead of a meeting with her cabinet

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Diego Maradona: Jose Mourinho better than Pep Guardiola

Diego Maradona believes Jose Mourinho is a better coach than Pep Guardiola, saying the Manchester City boss can “choose any player he wants”.

Mourinho and Guardiola have each won 20 major titles during their managerial careers, but the Spaniard has been more successful in recent history, leading City to a record-breaking Premier League title last season.

City have continued their

dominance this season with Sunday’s 3-1 derby win putting Guardiola’s league leaders 12 points ahead of Mourinho’s eighth-placed United after 12 games.

However, Maradona insists Mourinho is “the best without doubt”, suggesting Guardiola is only out-performing his counterpart due to the financial backing he receives from City’s Abu-Dhabi owners.

In an interview with Spanish

publication Marca, Maradona said: “For me yes, Mou is the best. I would give Pep the merit of taking advantage of the launch that Johan Cruyff gave him.

“I have said on more than one occasion that tiki-taka was not invented by Guardiola.

It was ‘flaco’ Cruyff. At the moment Pep is able to choose any player in the world that he wants. That way tiki-taka is easier.”

Super Eagles: Ifeanyi Okowa’s incentive will bring down Bafana Bafana Players of Super Eagles have praised Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta for his incentive of $25,000 for every goal in Saturday’s 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against South Africa.

They, however, in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja admited the incentive would motivate the senior national male football team to fire from every cylinder.

While visiting the team at its evening training session on Tuesday, alongside the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) President, Amaju Pinnick, Okowa pledged the sum of $25,000 for every goal scored by Nigeria in the crucial tie.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Eagles lost their first-ever competitive match against the Bafana Bafana on Match Day 1 of the series in Uyo 17 months ago.

With the added pull of qualifying for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations with a match

to spare, Okowa’s cash pledge has come in ample time.

“I am pleased to have the Super Eagles here in Asaba. We hope you will make Asaba your home, and as a people we will begin to follow your progress even more closely.

“We appreciate the giant strides Nigerian football is making and commend the leadership of the NFF for making Delta part of its success story.

“For every goal scored by the Super Eagles in Johannesburg on Saturday, we pledge a reward of $25,000.

“Please don’t put a limit to the number of goals you score on Saturday. Try and score as many as possible.”

Stand-in team captain Ahmed Musa responded on behalf of his teammates, saying “we thank Gov. Okowa, so much for the motivation to us to do well in Johannesburg on Saturday.

“We promise that we will return here on Sunday with victory. We will also do all we can to give the people of Asaba and the generality of Delta and Nigerians a very good game against Uganda next Tuesday.”

Pinnick, while responding, said: “We appreciate Okowa for the tremendous support given to the Super Eagles and by extension, the NFF. “The bill for next Tuesday’s international friendly against Uganda has been underwritten completely by the Delta Government.

“As Okowa said, this state will begin to play a more prominent role in the programmes of the NFF and the Super Eagles.

“I want to commend the Super Eagles Technical Adviser, Gernot Rohr, for assembling a young, professional and very efficient team for now and the future.

“We will continue to do all we can to

make sure they do Nigeria proud,’’ he said.

“I thank the Delta Government for their hospitality and for making us feel so comfortable. I am so happy because the pitch is in a much better state than

the last time I was here.

“The Super Eagles will continue to work hard to make all those who have played one role or the other in its progress happy that their investment in the team is not a waste.”

AFCON: Samuel Kalu arrives at Super Edo govt announces bid for 2020 National Sports Festival Eagles camp for South Africa game Bordeaux of France forward Samuel Kalu has arrived the camp of the Super Eagles of Nigeria in readiness for Saturday AFCON 2019 qualifiers game against South Africa.

Kalu’s arrival means he coach now has the full compliment of all invited players for the games against South Africa and Uganda in the month of November precisely 17th and 20th respectively.

Visa hitch delayed the arrival of the wing forward who has three caps for Nigeria and made his debut in the Super Eagles 2-0 AFCON 2019

Qualifiers victory over Seychelles.

A wing forward in the mould of former Super Eagles fans favourite Victor Moses, his arrival has further increased competition for spots on the flanks of the team with Henry Onyekuru, Moses Simon, Ahmed Musa and newly invited Samuel Chukwueze also in the mix.

The team will are presently having their final training session in Nigeria before departing for South Africa tomorrow for the game on Saturday, where a win will seal qualification for Nigeria to next year Africa Cup of Nations.

Edo State Government on Wednesday announced its interest to bid for the 2020 National Sports Festival.

The Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, who made the announcement at a press conference in Edo Government House, Benin, said the state was poised to re-enact its prominence in sports.

Shaibu said: “We are determined as a government to return the state to its lost glory where it was known worldwide in sporting activities.

“Governor Godwin Obaseki is a private sector driven governor. He knows that hosting the 2020 National Sports Festival will drive the economy of the state to a greater level.”

He said that Obaseki administration would build 20 mini stadiums across

the state as part of efforts to boost the state’s economy through sports.

Shaibu also said that Edo Government was also reconstructing the Dr. Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium to meet international standards.

According to him, the state is

strategically positioned and among the safest state in Nigeria.

The deputy governor also appealed to other states to support Edo vision of hosting the 2020 National sports festival as they would not regret giving their support to the state.

AFCON: I’m ready to wreck Super Eagles again – South Africa’s Percy Tau Percy Tau scored the second goal for South Africa in their 2-0 routing of Nigeria’s Super Eagles last year and the Saint-Gilloise (Belgium) sharpshooter believes he can repeat same feat when Bafana Bafana host Nigeria in the 2019 AFCON Qualifiers in Johannesburg this weekend.

With the Coach Stuart Baxter-led South African side aiming for a win against the Coach Genor Rohr side, Tau is optimistic that with collective effort from the team they can do the double against the Super Eagles at the FNB Stadium on Saturday November 17.

“Everyone in the team has a huge responsibly to the national team and to the coach. I personally try to do my best to win all games,” Tau told

Sowetanlive.

“Yes, we don’t have some players but the players that are here share a common responsibility, which is to win against Nigeria. I am focused on doing everything we need to do and to get better.”

The missing players Tau is referring to are the injured Dean Furman (shoulder), Bongani Zungu (knee), Sibusiso Vilakazi (ruptured achilles) and Keagan Dolly (calf bone). All four players were in the starting XI and played key roles in the win over Nigeria at Akwa Ibom Stadium.

Baxter will need new heroes as Bafana seek a victory that would send them to the continental finals in Cameroon in June. Bafana are second

in the group behind Nigeria, and a slip up could open the door for third-placed Libya, who play already-eliminated Seychelles.

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Kenya file late appeal over AWCON exclusion

Kenya’s Football Federation (FKF) says it has filed an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Wednesday, in a late bid to reverse their exclusion from the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, which starts on Saturday.

On 18 October, Equatorial Guinea were banned for using an ineligible player in qualifying, with Kenya replacing them at Ghana 2018.

But a Confederation of African Football (Caf) tribunal overturned that punishment on 7 November, reinstating Equatorial Guinea.

“They included us in the draw and in the fixtures, so we prepared our team,” FKF president Nick Mwendwa told BBC Sport.

“For them to make a decision nine or 10 days to the event, is why we are in the problem we are in.

“If they came back to us one month ago, then we would have had enough time – but they did

not,” said Mwendwa.

Kenya had announced an appeal last Thursday but, on Tuesday this week, CAS confirmed to the BBC that they had not received it.

With just three days to go before the tournament kicks off in Ghana, Mwendwa is hoping that any appeals decisions are made swiftly – even if they are in Kenya’s favour.

“We can get to Ghana on Saturday. But we expect that if CAS would make such a decision, then we would go back to Caf and say this is what it is and we need about two days to get there. They will have to rework something.”

If the appeals go against Kenya, Mwendwa has confirmed they will seek a financial settlement.

“If the court says we’re out – then we have no recourse – but I can tell you we will pursue compensation if that happens.

“If the court says we have a case, and they want to remove

Equatorial Guinea or even include us as the ninth team, which we have said is a possible scenario, then we are ready to go to Caf and say ‘here’s a decision, how do we proceed?’

“It’s not just about money, there is a lot at stake. I need our argument understood. We are saying that in terms of procedure, Caf did not inform us when an appeal was filed

by Equatorial Guinea, and therefore we did not defend ourselves at the appeals committee.

“They went ahead and gave us fixtures which caused the whole country to prepare – not just the team but the whole country. So we’re saying it’s unfair for them to remove us at this stage.”

Mwendwa confirmed to the BBC that the FKF had informed Caf of their decision to go to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, but had not yet heard back from African football’s ruling body.

Official: 19th NSF will be biggest-ever sports event in Nigeria Managing Director of National Sports Festival Marketing and Management Company Limited, Ugo Umeseaka, on Wednesday said intense preparations were on to have the best ever National Sports Festival in December.

Umeseaka told newsmen in Abuja that the 2018 NSF, which is the 19th edition, would also be the biggest ever in terms of the preparations and participation.

He said: “Preparations are in top gear to have the best NSF so far in the history of the festival. This is in view of the fact that this edition will have the highest number of events for athletes to compete in.

“Also, a total number of 3,164 medals will be won, with more than 12,000 athletes participating in 37 sports events.

“Out of these number, gold and silver medals will be 987 each, while bronze medals will be 1,190.’’

The official said athletics would be the biggest sport at the festival with 45 events and the largest

number of medals — 195.

Umeseaka said: “There will be 65 medals each in the three categories of gold, silver and bronze.

“The swimming sport will also have 38 events, with 150 medals available, while 60 medals will be awarded in gymnastics which has 38 events.

“The lowest number of medals in a sport will be awarded in deaf sports table tennis with only six medals.’’

Umeseaka said notable Nigerians in both the public and private sectors have been contacted for the award of medals to the winning athletes as well as the teams.

He said: “What we are trying to do is to bring many Nigerians out to the venues of events, especially those personalities that we feel will be of help to the growth of sports development in Nigeria.

“We have also contacted the media managers, because their contributions to the development of sports in the country cannot be

over-emphasised.

“We want to use this opportunity to attract everyone to the field of sports and l am sure they will all enjoy every moment of their stay outside their offices.’’

On why 37 sports events would feature in the 2018 festival, the Managing Director said the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development, through the NSF Main Organising Committee was being proactive.

He said: “The Ministry does not want to deny any youth the opportunity to showcase whatever talents they have.

“In the last edition in Lagos, only 25 events featured. But, this time around, some events are featuring for the first time.

“And what this means is that with the number of events increased, so also is the number of athletes, officials and medals.’’

Meanwhile, the theme song competition for the 2018 NSF will start on Thursday, with the eventual winner goes home with N1 million

Smooth Roger Federer puts troubled start behind him

Six-time champion, Roger Federer, put a troubled start to his 16th ATP Finals behind him, as he outclassed Dominic Thiem 6-2 6-3 on Tuesday to stay on course for the knockout stage.

The 37-year-old Swiss played poorly in defeat against Kei Nishikori on Sunday and then skipped practice on Monday.

Comments made by French player, Julien Benneteau to a radio station suggesting Federer is given preferential treatment by tournament organisers, particular in Grand Slams, also threatened to disturb his week at the O2 Arena.

He responded with a smooth demolition of Austrian Thiem and then avoided being drawn into a row over Benneteau’s reported comments, saying they had been taken out of context.

“I don’t feel like I need to comment on this. I’d rather put it to rest rather than adding to it so you guys got something to write about,” he told a news conference.

He was then asked whether his agent Tony Godsick had ever demanded that Federer only be scheduled on Arthur Ashe court at the US Open — a claim reportedly made by Benneteau in an interview with RMC radio.

Federer said: “I get asked, would you like to play Monday or Tuesday sometimes. Sometimes I get asked, ‘do you want to play day or night?

“Sometimes they go ask the agent.

Sometimes they ask me, you know, ‘Asia wants you to play at night’.

“Yes, sometimes we have our say. But I asked to play Monday at the US. Open.

I played Tuesday night. It’s all good.

Sometimes I get help, sometimes I don’t.

“But a lot of the facts are not right, just

to be clear there, from what I heard.”

Federer was more concerned with the way he rediscovered his form to convincingly beat Thiem, admitting his head had not been right in a straight sets defeat by Nishikori.

“I’ll do the same tomorrow because it worked,” Federer said of deciding not to practice on Monday.

He added: “(The Nishikori defeat) was not about my forehand or my backhand or my serve or anything. I guess it was my head. For that sometimes you need a break.

“We came to the conclusions, or the coaches thought, ‘take it easy, enjoy the day with your family, and come out happy.

“The shots are there. I felt that way today. So I’m very happy that that was the right decision and I was able to show a reaction from my first-round match.”

Federer, who has only failed to reach the semi-finals in the event once in 15 appearances, will still need to beat group leader Kevin Anderson in straight sets on Thursday to be absolutely sure of making it to the weekend.

The mathematics of the round-robin format, however, means he could lose and still progress depending on what happens in the match between Thiem and Nishikori.

“I could win and still not make it, so from that standpoint it’s not in my power,” Federer said of his clash with Anderson who he lost to in an epic Wimbledon quarter-final this year.

He added: “Important for me is to play a good last match here in the roundrobin, try to beat Kevin. He has been playing great. He has had a wonderful season.

Nigeria sweeps titles at ITF Wheelchair Tennis Futures Alex Adewale and Kafayat Omisore emerged champions of the men’s and women’s singles of the Puma ITF Wheelchair Tennis Futures in Abuja over the weekend.

The winning outing marked a glorious return of Nigeria to the international stage after a few years of absence due to financial challenges.

Adewale, a London 2012 Paralympian defeated Kenyan top seed, Peter Naveh 6-1, 6-0 while Omisore also got the better of Jane Ndenga of Kenya 6-3, 7-6 (3).

Prior to the final on Saturday at the National Tennis Centre, Package B, National Stadium, Abuja, Adewale had paired two-time Paralympian Wasiu Yusuf to claim the doubles title at the expense of Kenyan duo of Peter Naveh and Collins Omonde while Omisore also teamed up with Kemi Oluwasegun

to beat Ndenga, who paired Nigerian Foluke Shodehinde, to clinch the women’s doubles crown of the $3, 000 prize-money event.

Former NTF president, Engr.

Sani Ndanusa, who facilitated the tournament and also footed the bills of the players, pledged to ensure that Nigeria consolidates on the success recorded in the tournament stressing that the resounding success ensured Nigeria reclaimed its status as a leading force in the sport in Africa.

He hinted that the players would be motivated to ensure they put up a similar display at the African Championship billed for Accra Ghana in February 2019.

The Nigerian team was represented by 10 male and 5 female players with all but Adewale and Yusuf making their debut in international tournament.

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