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Despite awareness, 37m bank customers yet to register for BVN – NIBSS As enrollment hits 35.1m

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October 7, 2018, the latest update on BVN by the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System Plc, (NIBSS) has shown.

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Director General of National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Dame Julie Okah -Donli (middle), during the sensitisation of traders on the dangers of human trafficking and irregular migration at the Warri Main Market, Warri, Delta State...on Monday.

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‘Despite awareness, 37m bank customers yet to register for BVN’ Continued from page 1 to 35,056,816 as at October 7, 2018, out of about 72,696,254 total active bank accounts as at June 2018.

Although, the figure of issued BVN is expected to increase significantly due to the recent directive by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), mandating Other Financial Institutions (OFIs) to also commence BVN registration exercise for their customers.

The extension of BVN exercise to the customers of OFIs was contained in a CBN circular dated April 21 with reference number OFI/ DIR/CIR/GEN/17/139 and signed by the CBN Director in charge of Other Financial Institutions Supervision Department, Mrs. Tokunbo Martins.

The bank has also moved on to set July 31, 2017, as the deadline for this exercise,

warning that any OFI account not linked with the BVN “shall not be allowed to make withdrawals.”

The CBN in collaboration with the bankers committee has explained that BVN registration for customers of OFI is expected to, among other things, support the achievement of zero default credit target set for Participating Financial Institutions (PFIs) in the Micro Small and Medium Enterprise Development Fund (MSMEDF) and also open credit opportunities for millions of people without a standard means of identification.

To address this challenge and complement, the existing means of identification of customers, which include the Driver’s License; the International Passport; the National Identity Card; and the Permanent Voter’s Card; the CBN, in collaboration

with the Bankers’ Committee, launched the Bank Verification Number (BVN) Project in February 2014.

The BVN is expected to also minimise the incidence of fraud and money laundering in the financial system, as well as enhance financial inclusion.

The implementation of the BVN initiative, which started with the customers of Deposit Money Banks (DMBs), has been very successful.

“However, to avoid a broken identification link in the financial system, it has become necessary to extend the BVN enrolment to the customers of Other Financial Institutions (OFIs) especially as some OFIs are located in the rural areas of the country, and have customers that may not have enrolled with the DMBs”, the CBN explained.

I’m not a coward, I’ll be at EFCC today, Fayose insists

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Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode (right), with Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Opeyemi Oke (left) and Bishop of Lagos Diocese, Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Rt. Rev. Humphrey Olumakaiye (middle) during a Special Service for the Opening of 2018/2019 Legal Year at the Cathedral Church of Christ, Marina, Lagos...on Monday.

Adesola Adeduntan, MD/CEO, First Bank of Nigeria Limited & Subsidiaries (second left) flanked by FirstBank’s Bashirat Odunewu, Group Executive, International Banking Group, (left); Ini Ebong, Group Executive, Treasury & Financial Institutions (second right) and Timi George, Group Head, Financial Institutions & Multilaterals (right), during the presentation of Best Bank in Nigeria 2018 award to FirstBank in the Global Finance World Best Bank Awards 2018, held on the sidelines of the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings in Bali, Indonesia.

As PDP alleges Presidency’s order to detain him indefinitely

Ekiti debt profile hits N120bn as Fayose bows out Gbenga Sodeinde, Ado Ekiti Former Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose, on Monday, reiterated his pledge to submit himself at the office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) by 1pm today, saying he is not a coward.

Fayose, who declared that he has no apologies to anybody for his actions while in government, also said President Muhammadu Buhari is not a match to the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, in 2019 presidential election.

This comes as PDP on Monday alleged that the Presidency has directed the EFCC to indefinitely incarcerate Fayose.

Fayose, whose tenure as governor expires today after his two-tenure in office, had repeatedly boasted that he would report to the antigraft agency immediately his tenure expires today.

But speaking at a sendoff banquet organised in his honour by the PDP governors on Sunday in Abuja, Fayose said: “Tell them at the Villa, my name is Ayodele Fayose, Peter the Rock. By the grace of God, I will be at the EFCC tomorrow (Tuesday) by 1pm.

I am not a coward.

“I will not run away, they will rather run away. They took me to court 13 years ago, I won after 8 years. They

harassed my family and I got judgment three times against them.

“This time will not be an exception. Those who wait for me will wait in vain. EFCC is no court. This country belong to all of us.”

He promised to talk more than he has been talking as soon as he is through with his EFCC case.

While dismissing any fears of repercussions over his actions in office, he said: “I have no apology to any authority for any of my actions in government. You can never trace me to APC. The option is not a dying party like APC. “If you trace their ways, you can never trace me to APC. Recently I was not happy with certain things (in PDP). I cannot deceive you.

“We will stay and fight this battle. Despite the fact that we do not have the VP slot.

We will win the South West.

We will not throw the baby away with the bath water,” he promised.

Fayose was confident that Atiku and Peter Obi would win the 2019 presidential election, noting that Buhari is not match to Atiku.

“Put two of them side by side, comment by comment, clarity to clarity, Nigerians will not vote for APC. “Atiku will be president of this country, Obi will be vice president of this country. I want to tell you that it is very easy to inherit your father,

but what you do with that inheritance is what matters.

They got power by deceit but they gave no solution,” he added.

On his part, the PDP National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, advised the EFCC to follow the rule of law and the constitution in trying Fayose after he leaves office, and warned against tampering with Fayose’s human rights.

“Let me say here that there are threats of intimidation and frameup waiting for our brother who has performed very well in Ekiti State.

“The world is watching, international communities are also watching what will happen to this gentleman that has performed well in Ekiti,” Secondus said.

He described Governor Fayose as “senior advocate of the common people of Nigeria” who has been advocating for peace and security of the country.

The PDP National Chairman also expressed confidence that the party would win the 2019 presidential election.

“I believe that the PDP has come to a stage that the entire country is waiting very anxious to vote in our president in waiting. We ask those in authority now to know that one day you will leave your office and you will be held accountable.

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Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt Gen Tukur Buratai (middle) and others during the commissioning of Nigerian Army Cyber Warfare Command at Army Headquarters in Abuja... on Monday

L-R: Executive Vice President, Concept Engineering Company, Atlanta Georgia, Dr. Kudo Eresia-Eke; Chairman, Board of Directors of First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Mrs. Ibukun Awosika; MD/CEO, Lifefount Hospital and Foundation, Dr. Yemisi Adeyeye, during the FirstBank Entrepreneur Mindset session, in Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State.

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Nigeria Airways: FG set to prosecute indicted officials, firms Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo

As the Federal Ministry of Finance begins the payment of severance benefits to former workers of Nigeria Airways Limited this week, the Federal Government is set to initiate the prosecution of persons indicted in the Justice Obiora Nwazota Judicial Commission of Inquiry White Paper.

Government, it was learnt, is looking into how to recover huge sums of money from individuals, organisations and agencies that mismanaged the airline.

The Justice Obiora Nwazota, who served as chairman of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry, submitted its white paper to government in 2002.

A source said government is constituting a team to initiate a probe into how the fortunes of the rested airline dwindled before it closed shop.

In particular, President Muhammadu Buhari, it was learnt, intends to look at the white paper on the Report of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry for the investigation of the management of Nigeria Airways Limited between 1983 - 1999.

The white paper indicted some high profile Individuals and organisations/ agencies from whom various sums running into billions of naira is to be recovered.

The panel was mandated to look into the financial position and financial management of Airways and to examine all books of account and

records to ascertain their compliance with appropriate regulations.

The panel was to investigate the application of funds, including budgetary allocations, special grants, loans for specific projects and proceeds from the sale of its product and services as well as verify, evaluate, ascertain the authentic level of indebtedness between 1983 and 1999.

Confirming the development, Chairman of Aviation Union Grand Alliance (AUGA) and Chairman of Ex - Airways Workers, Comrade Lookman Animashaun, said though the workers and pensioners are excited over the approval for payment of their severance benefits, they want Buhari to ask questions on how the airline was ruined.

He said the President should go beyond asking questions but insist on the implementation of the recommendations in the White Paper released by the Justice Obiora Nwazota Judicial Commission of Inquiry.

Animashaun said looking into the recommendations of the White Paper could not be more apt than now, when the Justice Nwazota is still alive to give credence to the contents of the document.

He said ex-Airways workers would want Buhari to push for the prosecution of politically exposed persons who were indicted in the White Paper, but straddle across the political landscape untouched.

Animashaun said :”Though we thank President Muhammadu Buhari for

approving the release of our severance benefits, we learnt the president has started asking questions on what led to the collapse of the the former national carrier .

“Beyond asking questions, Buhari must ensure government goes back to the white paper and institute a commission of inquiry, more so that Justice Obiora Nwazota is still alive.

“Every recommendation in the white paper should be implemented to the letter and the names of persons inducted in the report should be prosecuted. It is only when government does this that the wounds inflicted on the psyche of former workers of the rested national carrier would heal”.

Meanwhile, thousands of ex-workers of the liquidated Nigeria Airways on Monday commenced their verification exercise in preparation for the payment of their severance benefits.

Many of the ex-workers abroad flew into the country to complete the exercise with thousands of others turning up for the exercise from different parts of the country.

The Skypower Catering office venue of the verification exercise was filled as they moved from one table to another registering their names before biometric capture by officials of the Ministry of Finance in the Presidential Initiative on Continuous Audit, PICA. The ex-staff, who expressed happiness to President Muhammadu Buhari, said their payment was coming after 15 years.

Lawyers head for Appeal Court over Executive Order 6 judgment Andrew Orolua, Abuja Two Abuja-based legal practitioners on Monday filed a notice of appeal challenging the judgment of the Federal High Court in Abuja which held on October 11 that the President’s Executive Order No 6 did not violate the right of citizens to own property.

The appellants, Barristers Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere and Kenneth Udeze, said in the notice that Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu erred in law when she affirmed the legality of the order.

Justice Ojukwu had in her landmark judgement on the suit marked FCH/ABJ/CS/470/2018, held that the Executive Order 6 enacted by President Muhammadu Buhari was in line with the 1999 Constitution (as amended).

The court further held that it was within the constitutional powers of the President, as granted by the Constitution, to issue Executive Orders for the execution of policies by the executive arm of government, provided such orders respect the principles of separation of powers.

Dissatisfied by the verdict of Justice Ojukwu on the matter, the two lawyers through their lawyer- Obed Agu, are seeking an order of the appellate court setting aside the judgment of the lower court and in its stead allowing the reliefs sought by the appellants vide the originating summons filed on 13th July, 2018.

The lawyers also filed a motion on notice for an order directing and imposing injunction pending appeal restraining the respondents and their agents from enforcing, executing or

any other manner whatsoever giving effect to the Presidential Executive Order No. 6 of 2018 pending the determination of the appeal.

In the notice of appeal, the applicants said the trial judge erred in law and thereby occasioned miscarriage of justice to the appellants when he found that the Executive Order No. 6 of 2018 did not violate rights of citizens to own property.

The appellants also argued that the learned trial judge erred in law and occasioned a miscarriage of justice to the appellants when he unilaterally varied and/or modified the express terms of the Executive Order 6 and the constitutional provisions by issuing judicial caution that the powers of the 2nd respondent (Attomey-General of the Federation) under the Executive Order 6 must be exercised in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which opinion did not arise from the express provision of the Executive Order 6 nor raised before it by any of the parties thereto.

More so, the applicants want the Court of Appeal to hold that Justice Ojukwu erred in law and thereby occasioned miscarriage of justice to the appellants when she shut her eyes against the materials placed before her and deliberately failed and/or refused to make specific findings of fact on the issue submitted it by the appellants.

In addition, the applicants submitted that the judgement delivered by Justice Ojukwu was against the weight of evidence.

The lawyers said, “Let all Nigerians know that the judgment of Justice

Ijeoma Ojukwu that we instituted against President Muhammadu Buharri, never gave the president the power to arbitrarily ban citizens from traveling.”

According to Ugochinyere, “The banning of citizens from traveling abroad and the attempt to give effect to Executive Order No. 6 without first seeking the order of the court is a misinterpretation of the judgment of the Federal High Court on executive order 6.

“His actions usurps the functions of the court and the legislative powers of the National Assembly that has already promulgated the EFCC, ICPC and Money Laundering Act, all of which allow for interim forfeiture and attachment for citizen’s money and property but with an order of a court of law.

“The Judge at the Federal High Court said that although Executive Order No. 6 was not itself wrong, but the Attorney General must obtain an order of the Court and that the enforcement of the order must never infringe on the rule of law or derogate the doctrine of separation of powers or the fundamental rights of Nigerians”.

“Let it be know that we the plaintiff in the suit challenging the legality of Executive Order No. 6 is not challenging the powers of the President to make Executive Orders, this the Constitution has empowered him to.

“But such orders must conform with laid down procedures, due process, respect for citizens rights and rule of law and must not violate any provisions of the Constitution,” he added.

Buhari “We are delighted that after 15 years, we will be paid for our sweat, we are rejoicing and we thank God for this day that he has used President Buhari and the Minister of Finance to help, to pay us,” he said.

Some deceased family members whose father or mother died recently

did not find it easy completing their verification because they did not have a letter of administration from the High court, and they were advised to get the letter before the exercise ends so that the names of their dead ones could be included on the list for payment.

Head of the Ministry of Finance, PICA office, Mr. John Ytono, said they were facing challenges of managing the crowd and ensuring that the system for the biometric capture was linked to the two centres being used in other parts of the country.

“This is just the first day, we expect this to be like this, we are trying to expand to accommodate our officers so we can attend to more people at a time so we can meet our target of 1,000 in a day.”

Chairman, Elders Forum, Airways Workers, Engineer Godwin Jibodu, said the exercise was significant because many of their members who were sick and in the hospitals that did not have money to cater for their health can now do so after being paid.

“Over 800 of our members have died, many are in the hospital bedridden, they do not have money to buy drugs but with this money, they can treat themselves.”

Human trafficking: NAPTIP DG relocates to rural areas

Storms market, villages, remote communities to create awareness

Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja As part of the effective counter trafficking strategy as well as minimise incidence of human trafficking and irregular migration in Nigeria, the Director General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Dame Julie Okah Donli, has temporarily relocated to Edo and Delta states to intensify awareness creation and sensitisation on the dangers of human trafficking and irregular migration.

The DG in the exercise seen as the firstborn its kind personally led officers of the Agency to a sensitisation programme at the crowded Warri main market, moving from one store to the other talking to market women and other traders on the need to protect their children and wards to avoid being trafficked for sexual or labour exploitation.

Sections visited by the NAPTIP enlightenment team included the perishable line, textile line, meat section, fresh fish section and the provision section.

Speaking with newsmen, one of the Warri market women, Mrs. Onome Omoghene, commended the NAPTIP team for coming to the market, saying that it was the first of such visit.

“When someone came to call me that one woman entered the market to talk to traders, I just thought it was one of those politicians seeking for votes, but as I moved closer to her, I quickly recognised her as NAPTIP oga. I shouted for joy because I did not expect to see a government office holder like her in this place. She did not even mind the dirtiness of the market or the smelling rubbish around the market.

“We are all happy to see her, this woman is very unique and she is doing what government appointed her to do.

We commend her and her officers. I think other people in high position should emulate her,” the visibly elated market woman said.

Other rural communities visited during

sensitisation are Mosogar, Ajagbodudu, Koko, Oghara and other villages in Delta State.

Speaking at the end of the exercise, NAPTIP DG said that the exercise was strategically planned to address issues of human trafficking from the rural perspective.

She said: “We are determined to change the narrative about human trafficking by going to the endemic areas and talking to the vulnerable people on the need to protect themselves, their children and their wards.

“It is painful to note that these heartless traffickers feed on the vulnerability and ignorance of the people especially those in the far flung rural communities, and harvest their children for exploitation.

This is why we have decided to bring our sensitization train to these rural areas.

I am personally leading the campaign because the life of every Nigeria children is so precious to me and the present administration. This is going to be a sustained exercise and we shall continue to monitor happenings within these rural communities.

“This is just the beginning of our newly launched grassroots counter trafficking sensitisation programme aimed at bringing awareness to the door post of all Nigerians”, she added.

The NAPTIP boss also visited the Chief Judge of the Edo State, Honourable Justice Esohe Ikpomwosa and the Olu of Warri, His Royal Majesty, Ogiame Ikenwoli.

Highpoint of the exercise was the distribution of large quantity of information leaflets and other materials round the target areas.

The Daily Times recalls that during the recently held 6th Interpol Global Conference on Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling which took place in Abuja, the NAPTIP boss had disclosed that the Agency had perfected plans to launch sustained aggressive sensitization programme in all rural communities within the endemic states and regions of the country.

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2019: PDP reconciliation C’mtte meets ex-presidential aspirants

As Dickson, Okowa visits Tambuwal, Makarfi

Tunde Opalana, Abuja Determined to go into the 2019 election indivisible, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has commenced intensified consultations with its presidential aspirants who lost out in the party’s national convention in Port Harcourt on October 7, 2018.

The Reconciliation Committee led by Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson and his counterparts from Delta and Taraba states, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa and Governor Dairus Ishaku, respectively on Monday held consultative meetings with Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal and a former caretaker Committee Chairman of the party, Dr. Ahmed Makarfi, in Abuja.

Both politicians were frontline presidential aspirants of the PDP. Governor Dickson, who spoke with journalists after the two close door meetings with the two former aspirants, commended them for displaying maturity and a spirit of sportsmanship after the Port Harcourt Convention which was won by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.

Governor Dickson said that the visit was part of the decision of the PDP to visit and interact with all presidential aspirants of the party in the last primary election with a view to encouraging them as leaders of the party in their own rights.

Dickson, who is the Chairman of the Committee, said that the

party had commenced series of consultative talks with aspirants and leaders of the party in the bid to recapture political power from the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) in 2019.

He commended Tambuwal for the encouraging remarks he made after the emergence of the party’s candidate in the convention in which he was a leading candidate.

He stressed that the meeting with Tambuwal focussed on the need to strengthen the PDP, to provide the requisite support for the candidate of the PDP for electoral victory.

He said: “I am leading a team of the committee of governors to interact and compare notes with our brother, His Excellency, Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State. As you all know, he ran a great race and we are all proud of what he did and what he continues to do. We appreciate his statesmanship, we appreciate the way and manner he has been of help to the party consolidating the gains the party is making.

“This afternoon, as part of our decision to go round, visit, encourage and interact with all our party leaders especially all those who indicated interest in the last presidential election, we have held a fruitful meeting.

“This is just the beginning of several interactions formally and informally that we are going to have with him and with several other leaders of our party. As you all know, he is a very key player in the unfolding political scenario and we are all committed to

reclaiming our country and building a new Nigeria.”

He said that all leaders of the PDP had a responsibility to close ranks, to hold regular talks as opposition politicians to reposition the PDP for electoral victory.

Dickson said that as the nation moved towards the next election, the Indepedent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the security agencies had a responsibility to ensure the conduct of free, fair and credible elections in the country.

He urged INEC and the security agencies to be fair, adhere strictly to the rule of law, and recognise the rights of individuals in the next elections.

Speaking also, Tambuwal said that the PDP must remain a strong united party, stressing that the emphasis should be on the country and not personal ambition.

Tambuwal, who condemned the way the country was being run as a proxy, said that Nigeria needed a president who would deliver effective governance.

He said that he was resolute in his decision to give total support to Atiku in pursuit of victory for the PDP in the next elections.

In his remarks, Makarfi said that while the aspirants went into the election as aspirants, they emerged collectively as a party.

According to him, he had long years of national and political relationship with the party’s candidate, Atiku Abubakar, which had not changed.

He said that the PDP would be victorious in the 2019 election.

Brain drain: 5,405 Nigerian-trained doctors, nurses working in UK hospitals Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja Stakeholders in the health sector have lamented that no fewer than 5,405 Nigerian-trained doctors and nurses are currently working with the British National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom (U.K.) Speaking during a news conference with a theme titled: “The Diaspora as Nigeria’s Brain Gain,” one of the stakeholders, Dr. Ifeanyi Nsofor, Director, Policy and Advocacy, Nigeria Health Watch, said that the development makes Nigeria the highest in the Sub-Saharan region in terms of diaspora remittances and fifth in the world, thus echoing the positive contribution of Nigerians in the diaspora to the Nigerian economy.

He said: “Figures released February 2018 by the British government indicate that no fewer than 5,405 Nigerian-trained doctors and nurses are currently working with the British National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom UK. “This means that Nigerian medics constitute 3.9 per cent of the 137,000 foreign staff of 202 nationalities working alongside British doctors and nurses.

“Nigerians in the diaspora sent home $22 billion in 2017, a 6.4% increase from the amount

“We are also proud of one of our leaders that has been chosen as our presidential candidate running mate, every other thing will be discussed.”

Vice Presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi and Speaker of the House of Represenatatives, Yakubu Dogora, praised Fayose’s courage and doggedness, and urged him not to relent.

Apart from Obi and Dogara, other PDP leaders who graced the occasion were Senator Walid alid Jibrin, Governors Emmanuel Udom, David Umahi, Nyesom Wike, Ifeanyi Okowa, Seriake Dickson, Darius Ishiaku and Aminu Tambuwal.

Meanwhile, the PDP in a statement issued on Monday in Abuja, by its national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said information at the party’s disposal and all over the social media indicate that the Presidency has put the EFCC on alert to arrest the governor at midnight on Monday and detain him indefinitely.

“The alleged directive by the Presidency is not unconnected with the plot to use the EFCC and other security agencies to incarcerate the governor owing to his persistent criticism of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC government.

“This uncompromising

stands of the outgoing governor against the present administration was the reason Ekiti State was invaded and taken by force during the last governorship election.

“By 12 midnight, the governor’s residence is expected to be surrounded by armed men of the EFCC under the pretense that they had information of his plot to escape. This is to achieve their plan to humiliate the governor and portray him in bad light to the public by dramatising his arrest.

“Nigerians can recall that it was the governor who offered to submit himself to the EFCC despite the commission’s clear display of bias and partisanship as demonstrated in its various actions, especially its tweets and putting the governor on security watch-list.

“The EFCC even unprofessionally showed its bias in deriding the governor, making light of a very serious matter by mocking him and asking him to come before his tenure elapsed, which the governor declined in line with the constitutional immunity.

“It is now beyond dispute that Governor Fayose is not a scoundrel running away from justice. Whatever the EFCC, APC, and the Presidency’s spin-doctors may say, it is also clear to everyone that Fayose

is not a coward; neither is he afraid of the EFCC. “Fayose is prepared and ready to defend himself in the court of law. Neither the Presidency nor EFCC is a court of law. Since the EFCC said it had dusted up Fayose’s files, it should be ready to take him to court once he presents him at the agency’s office on Tuesday.

“Governor Fayose has offered to walk to the EFCC office by himself and nothing must happen to him tonight.

The PDP condemns this resort to fascism by the APC government, saying the whole world should be at alert to see another demonstration of crude disrespect for the rule of law and rights of Nigerians,” the party said.

Meanwhile, The debt profile of Ekiti State which was N117 billion at the beginning of the year has risen to N120 billion.

According to a document forwarded to the Debt Management Office by the outgoing state government, the state incurred additional debt of N3 billion between March and June this year.

In September, Kayode Fayemi, governor-elect of Ekiti State, had raised an alarm over N99 billion debt incurred by the administration of Ayo Fayose.

The DMO had said the debt profile of the state, going by

She also said that its conference coming up on Thursday, October 18, 2018 with the theme: Future of Health Conference is “The Diaspora as Nigeria’s Brain Gain” is designed with the aim to addressed some of the issues.

“The Future of Health Conference continues to be the leading platform for Nigeria’s health sector, setting an actionable road-map to move the sector forward. It achieves this by converging participants: health advocates, policy makers and development partners in the health ecosystem to discuss topical issues facing the future of the sector.

“Tangible outcomes can be traced back to the three previous conferences. The momentum set by the first conference in 2015 put Universal Health Coverage front and centre of the conversation around affordable healthcare. In 2016, the Health Meets Tech Conference focused on the interconnections between technology and healthcare, which led to the debut of the first ever ‘Health and Technology’ Hackathon which took place in Lagos in July 2017.

“The conference will further establish an enabling atmosphere for returnee health professionals to share experiences, opportunities and challenges of returning to Nigeria,” she stated.

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repatriated in 2016. This makes Nigeria the highest in the SubSaharan region in terms of diaspora remittances and fifth in the world, thus echoing the positive contribution of Nigerians in the diaspora to the Nigerian economy”.

He advised the Federal Government to take healthcare seriously and make it a major priority in view of its critical importance to our lives.

Also speaking at the media conference, Adaobi Ezeokoli, who attributed the development to the nation’s poor health care facilities and remunerations, added that many doctors are breadwinners in their families but are unable to deliver family expectations hence the reason to their exodus.

She said that while most of them are willing to come back home, it won’t be easy for them to come back when the facilities are not in order.

She called on the leadership of the country to instill confidence and show willingness to improve healthcare services by signing necessary health acts and bills, increasing funding for the sector and ensuring that funds are properly managed.

“We need to improve the work environment in terms of financing. We need to be more drastic; re-organising the way we fund health service,” she added.

available records then, had increased from N18 billion during Fayemi’s era to N117 billion, under Fayose’s watch.

But Fayose had denied the claim, saying the debt of Ekiti is pegged at N59.5 billion and that it was incurred by Fayemi’s government.

However, in the document forwarded to the DMO Office, the state’s debt profile rose from N117 billion to N120 billion within three months.

The components of the debt, according to the document, shows commercial bank loans pegged at N2 billion, Federal Government and state bond of N18.2 billion and N3.5 billion respectively as well as budget support facility of N16.9 billion.

There are also a salary bailout of N9 billion, excess crude account of N9.5 billion, commercial agriculture loan of N163.4 million, contractors’ arrears of N2 billion pension and gratuity arrears of N22.2 billion.

Others are salary arrears of N8.3 billion and judgement debt of N95 million.

Fayose secured the approval of N10 billion supplementary budget from the state House of Assembly, a month to his handover billed on October 16.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has invited him to its head office in Abuja.

residents are eligible to vote in the 2019 General Election in the state.

Mr. Sam Olumekun, the Resident Electoral Commissioner, disclosed this at a workshop on Lagos State Election Security Strategic Plan for 2019 Elections.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the workshop was organised by Nigeria Policing Programme (NPP) in collaboration with INEC in Lagos State.

Prince Adelani Asade, the Administrative Secretary of the commission, delivered Olumekun’s speech at the workshop.

Lagos State has 245 Registration Areas (Wards), 8,462 polling units, and 3669 voting points across the 20 Local Governments of the state and Olumekun agreed that security is key to holding a successful election.

“6, 609, 115 eligible Nigerians registered to vote during the 2019 general election in the state. ”I am profoundly grateful to NPP for organising this very important and timely workshop on elections security considering the role of good security structure in the conducting a peaceful and successful general elections in 2019. ”It is crucial to say that with 91 political parties and about 74 million voters geared to take informed decision and action at the general elections in 2019, the security of election officials, materials, and the electorate is of utmost importance to the commission.

“Indeed, security is key to the conduct of credible elections.

INEC in Lagos is truly proud of partnering with NPP at this most auspicious time in the

electoral cycle, ” Olumekun said.

The INEC commissioner commended the NPP and hoped that the workshop would give the commission the opportunity to review, reflect, brainstorm, and re-engineer its security structure and strategy.

He added that the commission’s proactiveness on security, had informed regular meeting of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election security where matters concerning security before, during and after elections were discussed.

Olumekun said INEC would improve on the conduct of elections in 2019.

In his goodwill message, the representative of NPP, Mr. Emeka Ukaotu, said that INEC would need to develop its election security management plan.

According to him, some factors needed to be considered

by INEC in developing the plan. These include relevant intelligence and information about locations and assessment of vulnerability.

He urged INEC to also consider previous history of electoral offences or allegations associated with the geographical area.

Ukaotu said the commission should also consider the potential for offences to be committed as a result of lack of policing, ill-prepared local authority, complacency and political culture.

Some of the topics at the three-day workshop includes “Importance of Security Threat Analysis in Strategic Planning” and “Identification and Mapping of Peculiar Election Security Threats Across Lagos”.

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, October 16, 2018

EO6: PDP wants CJN to protect judiciary from fascism Tunde Opalana, Abuja The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, to immediately protect the institution of the judiciary from the unconstitutional and repressive fascist policies being foisted on the system by the President Muhammadu Buhari Presidency.

The party said the admission by the Buhari Presidency, on Sunday, that its obnoxious Executive Order 6, as well as the travel ban and trailing of citizens, are devised to directly interfere in judicial processes and stifle accused persons of resources, under the guise of speedy trial, has left no one in doubt that the nation is fast sliding into fascism.

PDP in a statement by Kola Olognondiyan noted that the Buhari Presidency has commenced an attack on the independence of the judiciary, using the instrument of blackmail and aspersion on its integrity and capacity to effectively and timorously dispense justice.

“In trying to use his Executive Order 6 to determine the process, procedures and progression of cases

in court, the Buhari Presidency directly seeks to usurp, commandeer and appropriate the constitutional powers of the judiciary and then arm-twist the courts and use them as “slaughterhouses” for opposition members and perceived political opponents.

“We invite Nigerians to further note that the action of the Buhari Presidency is a direct attempt to suspend sections 6 (6)(b), 36 (5), (6) (d) and 37 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).

“While section 6 (6)(b) provides that judicial powers of the court shall ‘extend to all matters between persons, or between government or authority and to any person in Nigeria, and to all actions and proceedings relating thereto, for the determination of any question as to the civil rights and obligations of that person”. Section 36 (6) (d) provides that, “every person who is charged with a criminal offence shall be entitled to be given adequate time and facilities for the preparation of his defence”.

“Moreover, Section 36 (5) provides that, “every person who is charged with a criminal offence shall be presumed to be innocent until he is proven guilty”.

“Furthermore, Section 37 stipulates that ‘the privacy of citizens, their homes, correspondence, telephone conversation and telegraphic communications is hereby guaranteed and protected”, explained the PDP. The party said the travel ban, trailing of citizens and attempt to regulate the processes of the court is therefore an attempt to short-circuit the constitutional powers of the judiciary and foist a fascist regime where the Presidency becomes the investigator, prosecutor and the judge in determination of trumpedup charges against innocent Nigerians.

The PDP rejected attempt by the Buhari administration to return the country to pre-1984 military dictatorship where siege mentality and suppression of rights of citizens was the rule rather than the exception.

It urged the Judiciary as the last hope of the common man, to immediately insulate itself “from the evil machination of the All Progressives Congress (APC), which is now trying to turn the judiciary into an instrument of oppression against Nigerians”.

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Short News NDDC boss charges Niger Delta youths to sustain existing peace Amaka Agbu, Port Harcourt Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr. Nsima Ekere, has charged youth leaders and exagitators to continue to sustain the existing peace and security in the Niger Delta region.

The NDDC boss gave the advice during a meeting with exagitators under the auspices of the Environmental Rights Advocates for Niger Delta.

He urged them to support the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari by ensuring a peaceful environment for development.

Mr. Ekere thanked the ex-agitators for the way they were managing the youths which made it possible for peace to reign in the region.

He said: “Today, the youths of the region are more tolerant and are willing to be engaged in discussions rather than resort to violent agitations. They are also consulting more with the leadership of the country and agencies of development. They are no longer taking the laws into their hands.”

He noted that the peaceful atmosphere had made it possible for a reduction in the level of violence, leading to a remarkable rise in oil-production figures, adding that pipeline vandalism had reduced and generally there was peace all over the region.

The Managing Director appealed to the youth leaders to continue to promote peace, especially at this critical stage in the life of the nation.

Ekere said: “We are at the verge of electioneering campaigns for the 2019 general elections. I want to appeal that the youths will continue to uphold peace. Don’t allow yourselves to be used for electoral violence because if they use you today, tomorrow they will forget you.”

According to the NDDC boss, the country needed a peaceful environment to continue to progress, noting that politics and elections come and go but people still needed to live their lives, thanking the youth leaders for supporting the Federal Government by promoting peace.

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Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Party primaries and matters arising

Owei Lakemfa

The knives are out in the political arena and they are being used quite liberally in the name of internal party democracy and primaries. They are all sorts; table and bread knives, blades, and quite often, concealed daggers. The preferred knife of the more sophisticated party leaders, is the stiletto, made quite famous by the Italian and American Mafia. Some of the party bigwigs, to explain their blood stained hands simply use the scalpel claiming to be carrying out surgical procedures.

The wounds are so deep that some may never heal. In some instances, political ambitions, friendship and internal democracy, are simply killed. There are of course, a lot of flies in the arena hopping about as ‘candidates’ Understandably, most of these internal fights are in the two dominant political parties; the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and its predecessor, and aspiring successor to the throne of Pontius Pilate, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) However, most of the fights and political murders are in the ruling party which in our politics of ‘ winner-takes-all’ has the custody of our coveted national cake. So the APC attracts the most fights, casualties and flies.

The PDP Presidential Primaries had too many heavy weights. Surprisingly, it recorded very few casualties and the losers even congratulated the winner, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku.

However, this was on the surface; there are some who reject the outcome. The PDP generalissimo in Ekiti State, His Excellency Peter Ayodele Fayose threatened to quit the party because his group lost. He cried: “We have no regret aligning with Governor Wike to support Governor Tambuwal for the Presidential ticket and no apologies either.” It is likely that Governor

Tambuwal’s loss at the primaries is just an excuse for Fayose to once again, change parties. With his likely rejection by the APC, I don’t think he should go to the Labour Party where he once stomped.

He should aim higher, perhaps go to the zenith; the Zenith Labour Party where former Governor Olusegun Mimiko holds court as Presidential candidate.

Actor, Kenneth Okonkwo was ready for a street brawl with whoever was not in support of President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC. He praised them to high heavens and described some who disagreed with him as: “ignorant and satanically motivated persons(an)army of ignorant and wicked men”. He insulted the Senate President, Representatives Speaker, governors and other politicians who decamped, claiming: “They left APC for PDP because they wanted to grab power.” Then, when he decided to contest the APC gubernatorial primaries in Enugu State, he was not even allowed to buy the N22.5 million expression of interest form. With that, he changed his tune: “ I regret joining the APC, a supposed political party, turned a cult group; a party of rogues” Okonkwo was luckier than my friend, the respected Professor Pat Okedinachi Utomi, a whiz kid who left high school at 15 and was in 1983, at 27, Special Assistant to then President Shehu Shagari. Given his long involvement in politics, governance, academics and business including part owning a bank, he seemed a very good choice when he aspired to be President. But he shelved that and decided to step down to run for governor of Delta State which he said needs urgent rescue from the poverty-inducing PDP government.

Utomi, a well- connected national and international figure is also known to be a close

friend of power in the country as well as an ally of national leaders of the APC. So he paid the N22.5 million to buy expression of interest form and looked forward to healthy primaries on his way to clinching the party’s gubernatorial ticket. But the real politicians in the party taught him ‘Politics 101’ the basic course in politics. He narrated his experience: “ While I was still looking for the venue of the APC gubernatorial primaries, a friend called to tell me that the election had been concluded and a winner has emerged. APC is fraudulent and occultic” Perhaps it is in defence of casualties like Professor Utomi, that the Wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha Buhari twitted: “It is disheartening to note that some aspirants used their hard earned money to purchase nomination forms, got screened, cleared and campaigned vigorously yet found their names omitted on Election Day, these forms were bought at exorbitant prices.”

In Ogun Sate, there were serious battles over the imposition of preferred candidates and those who were not favoured.. As we know, in Rivers State, the APC gubernatorial elections went beyond knife fights; guns were used long before and during the primaries. The party in the state is split and matters are in court. Imo State is more intriguing. Governor Rochas Okorocha’s troops lost the APC Ward and State elections, but they were annulled. Their opponents claimed they won the subsequent gubernatorial primaries.

Okorocha’s troops claimed no primaries were held but went on to announce they had won the same primaries. In new primaries, the Okorochas claimed victory while their opponents used the courts to annul the results Politics in Kaduna State deserve a University

Chair. Governor Nasir el-Rufai had in May, declared the three Senators from the state as useless, and told the populace: “ if they (the Senators)come to Kaduna, shave their heads and beard. They have shown that they are bastards, they have no origin, therefore, it is important to tell them that they did not originate from this state.” Five politicians including incumbent Senator Shehu Sani were listed as APC aspirants for the Kaduna Central Senatorial primaries.

They quibbled over whether the primaries should be direct or indirect. Then, it was announced that Shehu Sani had been returned unopposed or had been handed an automatic ticket. His rivals held their primaries and declared Uba Sani, a Special Adviser to Governor el-Rufai as the party’s candidate. Shehu Sani and Uba Sani are two of the most vibrant and resourceful political activists from the state. Having fought with them in the trenches against bloody military misrule, I feel a sense of personal sadness.

Perhaps a set of primaries the APC collectively will regret is that in Zamfara State. The national APC had sacked the party executives at all levels and announced new primaries for governorship and legislative primaries. But Governor Abdul’aziz Abubakar Yari threatened his national leaders: “ There is going to be bloodshed tomorrow if the election is held in that way and I’m the one to provide security for the peaceful conduct of the exercise.” As a result of the intrigues, the party may have no candidates in the general elections.

All these are just intra-party battles; the 2019 inter-party elections promise to be far tougher.

Ultimately, the real casualties are we Nigerians whose resources are the cause of the bloody electoral wars.

Nigeria’s oil and gas industry and economy

Tope Fasua

The ways of the sector are nonsensical simply because they make no sense. Nigeria’s oil and gas industry is her mainstay. So the government says. I hear that most people gunning for the position of president in Nigeria are doing so just to lay their hands on that industry. It’s no wonder the current president is also the petroleum minister. His being minister has however not improved that sector much.

Indeed all is going on there as usual, save for one hopeful lucky break in the gas sub-sector.

For one, Nigeria’s petroleum industry is NOT as profitable as we make it to sound, for several reasons. It is certainly nowhere as profitable as to be able to afford the tastes we have now developed and the way those who run the industry award themselves crazy salaries and allowances, foreign trips, five star medicals and everything in between. Nigeria has therefore been building castles in the air thinking it has a profitable and robust industry upon which we could build magnificent castles and establish greatness. But if we were wise, we will scale down our spending and expectations immediately.

Why do I say these?

First, let’s hear the industry’s junior minister, Ibe Kachikwu in a news report published on August 7, 2017: “When people say we have a bit of time to change, we really do not have any time. At best, we probably have not more than five years to make very dramatic decisions in this country in this field… The issue is the fact that we must deal with the inefficiencies within our system, whether it is embedded within our national oil company and parastatals or the ministries, or embedded in the private oil companies. The reality, whether we accept it or not, is that every side has benefitted from this lack of efficiencies.

A country where after the prices of crude oil moved past $20 – we couldn’t even enforce the PSC requirement terms that could enable us to negotiate with the multinationals to plough back what has been calculated as close to $60 billion of monies paid to the oil companies that didn’t get into Nigeria because people didn’t do their work.

That is the level of inefficiency that we had…. For countries that have not saved and we (Nigeria) haven’t saved – we haven’t saved sufficiently. I was meeting with my colleagues from the UAE and Saudi Arabia and sometimes, I am ashamed to say what I have in my reserves because when

I am celebrating $30 billion, they are celebrating reserves in excess of a trillion dollars in some countries. So, I wonder what happened because we earned fairly close to what most of these countries earned… but we did one thing: We sucked out a lot of our money; a lot of fraud; a lot of diversions; a lot of our money is sitting in countries where we can’t even find them and even when we find them, they give us conditions under which they are going to return this money.

We went through processes recently with a country that wants to return our money giving us terms where the money will be invested. This was our money, by the way, but you know, we so belittle ourselves with what we have done with oil proceeds that nobody in the world can give us respect.”

But we must quickly caution ourselves. Our flamboyant tastes are ahead of us in that sector.

The illusion that we are rich just because we have crude oil has created fundamental, long term problems for us. Not only do we get very little from our crude oil – as the IOCs who own the technology get the lion share – we are also stuck with a scenario where crude oil hurts our economy whether prices go up, or stay down.

When prices are down, our governments say they have no money to run the economy. We slip into a quick and deep recession. We produce millions more of ‘food poor’ people. When the price of crude climbs, since we get only 35 per cent of the proceeds, we also suffer as the price of importing refined petrol and diesel rises. The current administration jerked up the price of fuel from N97 to N145 and damned all consequences.

We thought the agony and rigmaroles were over.

Now we hear that the landing cost of petrol is N205 and that we are underpaying. The fuel subsidies, now rechristened ‘under-recovery’ has hit the trillions again. There may be another price hike. The deregulation of the industry has failed once more, not because deregulation is not the right way to go, but because the benefit of the resource has been eaten up by mindless mismanagement, thievery and recklessness. The private-sector Alecs are out on the kill again, milking Nigerians dead. My research shows that in 2017, Nigeria spent $6 billion importing fuel for 9 months. That was $9 billion for one year.

If we average that out for three years, that is $27 billion. Yet, we earned $38 billion in three years.

If we back out the cost of running the Nigerian

National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and its other subsidiaries, Nigeria probably gets less than $5 billion from this famous crude oil on a yearly basis, yet we spend like drunken sailors and successive governments have kept NNPC as a slush fund! They stretch their hands and take money from there like some emergency bank!

Again what is the essence of Buhari being the minister there? What are we doing differently?

I did an analysis I had longed to do. It is titled “How Many Barrels Does it Take?” I tried to cost everything we buy in terms of crude oil. I quickly realised that crude oil is not too expensive. Although that resource traded at $3.00 for more than 100 years before the unprecedented spike to $12.00 in the wake of the Yom Kippur War of 1973 – and the formation of the Organisation for Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), I wouldn’t say it is such a goldmine even today. If a barrel of crude oil sold for say $80, that is N24,400 in today’s money if converted at the official N305. This is gross value, without taking cost of production into consideration. A simple phone, worth N200,000 in the hands of some lucky girl on our campuses, is worth eight barrels of crude oil. An official Toyota Prado bought for some ministry director at N60,000,000 is 2,500 barrels of crude oil. The new Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Headquarters – which the chairman built for a bargain price of only N24 billion – cost a tidy 1,000,000 barrels of crude oil in today’s prices, even though they built it when the prices were much lower. The budget for maintaining Aso Villa this year 2018, at N4.8 billion, is a tidy 200,000 barrels of crude. Ditto, in 2017, Nigeria budgeted N1.9 billion for clearing sewage and fumigating Aso Villa. This is 80,000 barrels of crude oil. We can do the remaining maths ourselves. The fact is that there are 190,000,000 Nigerians to be fed, clothed, housed, transported and secured with this crude oil. The truth is also that out of every 1,000,000 barrels drilled, only 350,000 belongs to Nigeria. So at an average of 2,000,000 barrels daily, ours is around 700,000. It is from this we must back out the cost of running our oil and gas parastatals, and also the fact that we import refined oil worth at least 70 per cent of the value we get from exporting.

We must be insane to spend the way we do.

Enough already. Let me quote a bit from Jeffrey Sach’s classic article “Pass the book; hold

the oil”, which is trending again; an admonition to countries like Nigeria in particular, to remind us that he who owns the technology owns the resource, and he who is knowledgable can create any resource by using his brains. Enough of the nonsense about ‘awa oyel”. There is no ‘awa oyel’ without the Oyibo man’s technology, and as at now, the Oyibo man is doing us the required abracadabra in that sector, in addition to our self-inflictions. Until we talk to ourselves and gradually – yes gradually – build our own capacity, there is no hope. We haven’t however shown that presence of mind, or capacity for contrition, for foresight. No, not we. We spend it all once it passes through us.

Hear Sachs: quoting Schleicher, “knowledge and skills have become the global currency of 21st-century economies, but there is no central bank that prints this currency. Everyone has to decide on their own how much they will print.”

Sure, it’s great to have oil, gas and diamonds; they can buy jobs. But they’ll weaken your society in the long run unless they’re used to build schools and a culture of lifelong learning.

“The thing that will keep you moving forward,” says Schleicher, is always “what you bring to the table yourself.”

It’s not all gloom though, in that sector.

Currently PSCs account for 44.81 per cent of our production, Joint Ventures 31.35 per cent and Local (NPDC and alternative financing) accounts for the remaining 24 per cent. As at 1998 – JVs did 97 per cent and PSCs, 0.5 per cent. Nigeria has made some progress with local content actually. This must be counted as a gain.

The other great thing going on in that sector is the drive to end gas flaring by Year 2020. I hope the minister and NNPC will steadfastly follow through. They intend to tie new contracts for drilling to plans for utilisation of gas, while also jerking up the penalties for flaring. That is commendable. Let us add that as a feather to Buhari’s cap; fair is fair.

Still, we are living on borrowed time as a nation. We are surviving on loans. We have been patching this economy along for so long. This crude oil economy is totally broken. No wonder Adeosun borrowed $33 billion in her three years as finance minister. But how, and why, does an oil-drunk serial-borrower country get a few of her people to live like oil-sheikhs everyday, while majority remain in the Stone Age?

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Editorial Commentary GSM and good neighbourliness Times Guest Columnist Dr. Jumai Ahmadu

Since the introduction of Global System Mobile (GSM) in the country I have followed its effect on some of our cultures that I cannot help but share how it is becoming over bearing on our relationship with family, friends and associates.

When growing up I remember how relations of ours and that of our neighbours come from far and near to visit just to know how we are faring, but they are very rare cases of those who visit due to one problem or the other not necessarily financial.

In those days when your immediate neighbour did not see you for a day he/ she will be worried to death as to what has happened to you and commence frantic effort to know if all is well not by calling but physical visit to your house, the same goes to colleagues at work place and even when you did not see your school mate you try and go to the student’s house after school to know if your friend is fine.

Back then neighbours used to have communal eating habit, whereby food are prepared and brought to a particular family house mostly supper and after the meals some folktales are told to the children by their parent. You may call it bed time stories as this usually sends some of the children to sleep.

As a Youth Corps member in 1997/1998 I remember how often my friends and I use to exchange visit to know how each is doing, in as much as I know that back then there were no serious issues i.e. family and work taking most of our time, one thing I know is that we usually find time to physically check on each other because we did not have the luxury of GSM. In the year 2002, We all welcomed as part of dividend of Democracy the introduction of the Global System Mobile (GSM) in Nigeria. It started as a class thing which is the characteristics of our beloved country as the rich were separated from the poor in anything that is new, this was evident in the high cost of acquiring a line from the operators back then. It therefore became a thing of the past when more operators were licensed to commence operation.

However with the availability of this services to 85% of Nigerians, the common thing you hear now is ‘hey long time no see’ from family and friends meaning I haven’t seen you in a while no thanks to GSM which is gradually taking over our visiting culture.

The prevailing economic situation which has made virtually all adults busy, by trying to make ends meet notwithstanding, we should retrace our steps to the past and make efforts to create time to visit one another. Am not saying that we should

maintain the same frequency as it used to be but other family and friend visits will do us a lot more good.

We are all guilty of this ‘all man to himself,’ attitude that we now see it as a way of life. Am not an exception as I have lost some precious friends due to my inability to return visits I always assume that once I pick up my phone and call to find out how they are doing things are cool, not knowing that physical visit means so much to them.

I over head a lady bitterly complaining the other day that she has been in the same town with her brother but they have not seen themselves for over four months no thanks to GSM, the most annoying thing she narrated to her friend was that each time she made attempt to visit the brother who lives in kubwa he will tell her not to bother as he is fine as she can see from their phone conversation. According to her if not that she is ok financially, she would have probably be thinking that he is avoiding her because she is a burthen on him, she now went on to tell her friend that before GSM apart from the privileged few that have Nitel land line in their homes you do not need to call a relative, all you do is enter vehicle and pay a visit at your own risk because you may not find the person at home , but at least you will have the satisfaction that you went to a relative house.

The situation is so bad now that even sympathy visit is gradually fading out, this could be attributed to economic reasons because in the past when you pay a sympathy visit it is expected that you carry along some form of gift items meant to support the person you are visiting particularly those on sick bed and the bereaved. But for some people it is cheaper for them to either buy N100 recharge card to call and find out how the person is doing or go to a public pay phone and use between N20 to N40 and make a call, thereby saving the cost of buying gift for the person for other pressing needs.

I am not in any way faulting the introduction of GSM as a matter of fact.

Apart from the high tariff, it is one of the best democratic dividends that we have continued to enjoy as it has saved so many lives particularly when there is a treat to lives in form of robbery, fire or road traffic accident. GSM helps for quick contact of family, friends and authorities.

In conclusion, there is a need for each and every one of us to try as much as possible to make friendly visits to those severing our presence as your smile and laughter on the other side of the phone may not completely for your presence in all circumstances.

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2019 polls and danger of vote buying

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

S I G N AT U R E Publisher

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Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Suspension of North East National V/Chairman, nullity – APC Tom Okpe, Abuja The All Progressives Congress (APC) has noted that the purported suspension of the party’s North East National vice chairman is a nullity.

Recall that the National vice chairman North East, Comrade Mustapha Salihu was reported to have been suspended by the state chapter of the party, a fortnight ago.

The party in a statement on Monday through its substantial National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu who resumed at the party secretariat same day said: “Our attention has been drawn to the purported suspension of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Vice Chairman North East, Comrade Mustapha Salihu by the North East Zonal Office.

“We state categorically that the purported suspension is a nullity as the North East

Zonal Office does not have such powers to suspend a National Officer, according to the Party’s constitution, such powers reside with the National Executive Committee (NEC)”.

The party also indicated that whatever issues there might be, the party structure and constitution provides ample avenues for redress and dispute resolution adding, “If the North East Zonal Office is unable to achieve a resolution, the National Working Committee (NWC) can and will wade in the matter to achieve amicable settlement”.

Short News Police kill woman, claim mistaken identity in FCT …IGP orders detention, probe of suspect

Idu Jude, Abuja Anita Akapson, was on Saturday night shot dead by a policeman in Katampe Extension, Abuja.

According to a police report, she had an encounter with policemen that night. The encounter resulted in her being shot dead.

According to Chris Haze who was one of the first to notify the public via Twitter about the incident said the police had “squabble” with the late Akapson in front of her house before she was shot.

According to punch online, Another Ms Carl Agnes who claimed to be friend of the deceased shared another narrative, saying she was killed at a road checkpoint in Maitama, after she had an argument with policemen. She said, “The police shot her at a check Point in Maitama last night, her sister said they were dragging with her and she was trying to run when they shot at her and killed her”

Togolese arrested for sexually abusing minors in Lagos Joy Anyim, Lagos

L-R: General Manager, Ikoyi Club 1938, Mr. Babatunde Orungbeja; Badminton Chairman & Winner of the Badminton Tournament 2018 (Group B Doubles), Mr. Sunday Wusu and the Chief Operation Coordinator, Simba Group, Mr. Rajneesh Gupta, at the Prize/Certificate presentation during the Ikoyi Club 1938 80th Anniversary Gala Night in Lagos.

Christian groups hail Gov Emmanuel on amnesty to A’Ibom militants Isaac Job, Uyo Christian groups, Ukanafun Christian Elders Forum (UCEF) and Akwa Ibom Christian Assembly (Ukanafun Chapter) have hailed Governor Udom Emmanuel for granting amnesty to repentant militants from Ukanafun and Etim Ekpo council areas.

According to the Christian leaders, Governor Emmanuel’s gestures have brought lasting peace to the war-torn areas as well as re-integrate former militants back into the society.

Reverend Friday Umoren, the vice president and prelate of Rapture Trust Ministry International, Maranatha Square, Ikot Akpa Nkuk, Ukanafun, Bishop Moswill Umoh said his people were so excited to see that peace has returned to the land.

Umoh, the immediate past chairman of the Ukanafun Chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, (CAN), and a onetime chapter chairman of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria at a special thanksgiving service arranged by the Elders Forum and ACA, described Governor Emmanuel as God-send, a man of vision, intellect and wisdom.

The chapter chairman of ACA said, at a point, they were in a state of despair and despondency, wondering what they had done or where they had disobeyed God to

warrant such visitation of calamity.

“Innocent people were killed in droves; businesses became comatose; schools were shut; responsible householders abandoned their homes for strange lands and in fact, there was a general atmosphere of insecurity for the past two years. Alas! When all hopes failed, our God used his servant, Governor Emmanuel, a deacon of the Church to redeem the land,” Umoh stated.

The renowned cleric said, with the first stage effectively executed, there was need for the repentant militants to be fully rehabilitated, trained, empowered and redirected in the Christian way, stressing their readiness to partner the government in this direction.

He appealed to all the indigenes who fled their homes to return by faith to the land and “help build a new Ukanafun of our dream.”

The cleric informed of his members support for Governor Emmanuel’s second term bid, saying it satisfied tradition, Christianity, justice, fairness and law of precedence.

He maintained that for the fact that Obong Victor Attah from Ibibio ruled for eight years, Senator Godswill Akpabio also ruled for eight years, it was natural and lawful that Governor Udom Emmanuel should as a matter of right, be allowed to ruled for eight years.

Umoh noted that the people of Ikot Ekpene senatorial district and Ukanafun specifically,

should not “chop God” in their decision on who becomes the governor of Akwa Ibom in 2019, premising that by customs, tradition and culture of Annang Land, “it will be suicidal, if we betray Governor Emmanuel.”

“Governor Udom Emmanuel is our in-law; the wife, Martha, our sister; his children, our grand-children; his late father-in-law, Chief Sampson Udo Idiong, was one of the 10 paramount rulers who fought for the creation of Akwa Ibom State.

Besides, during this first term, Governor Emmanuel has performed creditably well.

So, he deserves a second term from us,” he stressed.

Others who spoke at the session, including a patron of the Christian Elders, Elder Marak Ibekwe, the village head of Ikot Etim, Chief Fabian Udo Okure, Reverend Brown Brown, Reverend Mfon Abara, Pastor Aniefiok Abraham, Elder Sampson Udoudo, Elder Elijah Akpan and Deaconess Anwanaobong Udoudo commended Governor Emmanuel for coming to their rescue and pledged to mobilise others to return him to the Hilltop Mansion for a second term.

Highlight of the session, which was also attended by other Church leaders in the area and students of Rapture Trust International School, was prayers for Ukanafun and Etim Local Government Areas, Akwa Ibom and Nigeria, Governor Udom Emmanuel and family, INEC and for peace to reign in the country during the 2019 general elections.

A 31-year-old Togolese, Dominic Samson, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly defiling teenagers between ages 13 and 15 in the Ejigbo area of the state.

The suspect who lives at No. 28 Olusesan street, Ejigbo met his waterloo after he had defiled a 15-year-old neighbour’s daughter girl.

The survivor had told her father of the act and the father had on October 8th, 2018 reported a case of defilement to the Ejigbo Police Division.

The Divisional Police Officer in charge of the Division launched an investigation into the allegation and found the suspect culpable.

The Lagos Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Chike Oti who confirmed the arrest of the suspect said, “Based on the complaint, the DPO, a female officer, with extensive training in children and women rights, interrogated the victim and she confirmed the report.

Igbo group laud Atiku’s choice of VP, vow to deliver votes Kingsley Chukwuka, Jos Igbo Cultural Association of Nigeria otherwise known as Izu Umunna, on Monday lauded the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential flag bearer, Atiku Abubakar, for his choice of picking the former Anambara State governor, Peter Obi as his running mate in the 2019 general election.

In a statement signed by the president of Izu Umunna, Dr. Patrick Ihekuna he said “we congratulate His Excellency for making epoch choice in selecting His Excellency Mr. Peter Gregory Obi (CON) (Okwute) as his running mate.

“We celebrate a great team of the President and the Vice President come 29th May, 2019. Waziri, we say thank you for fulfilling the aspirations of Ndigbo with your astute choice of Peter Obi”.

‘Zamfara AD takes advantage of APC crisis’ Umar Faruk, Gusau The Zamfara state Chairman of Alliance for Democracy (AD) Alhaji Musa Maimai has said his party would take advantage of the APC crisis to take over government house in the 2019 general election.

Speaking to newsmen in Gusau, Zamfara State capital, AD chairman disclosed that, the party has fully prepared for election.

According to him, AD had sponsored candidates for the Governorship, national and state assemblies “We want discard the rumours making rounds of an arrangement to liaise with ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) towards 2019 general elections has now put to rest, said “all elective positions from governorship to state assembly candidates were fielded by our party (AD) in Zamfara, speculation is now over”, he stressed.

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Abia pipeline explosion: Angry youths protest with corpse of burnt colleague * Death toll now 115

Sunday Nwakanma, Umuahia Youths of Umuaduru and Umuimo communities in Osisioma Local Government Area of Abia State Monday, held a peaceful protest by barricading the main entrance of the Osisioma Depot of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in protest over multiple death and loss of property in the communities as a result of Friday Petroleum Motor Spirit (PMS) product pipeline explosion in the respective communities.

The youths in their numbers, came with the body of one of the deceased member of the community whose burial was to have held that Monday to the NNPC depot where they held a five minutes silence for their dead members at the entrance of the facility and later moved to the ever busy Enugu-Aba-Port Harcourt Expressway to showcase their anger.

The protest, they said was to draw the attention of the management of the NNPC, the federal government and the general public to the multiple deaths recorded in their community over what they described as the negligence of the NNPC. The youths carrying placards with various inscriptions such as “NNPC must tell us what

happened to our people, NNPC has committed genocide in Osisioma Ngwa, The explosion was not as a result, We are calling on the international community to come to our rescue, Enough of these deaths caused by the carelessness from NNPC, Our source of blessing should not be a curse,” etc dropped the body of the deceased on the highway and which caused heavy traffic jam on the expressway, causing commuters who could not endure the gridlock to trek to their respective destinations.

The protest lasted for over five hours,,,,, and they handed the Depot Manager, Mr. Joseph Dumaka 24 hours to retract a statement attributed to him where he alleged that the reason for the Friday explosion was an act of vandals from the communities.

Should Mr. Dumaka fails to retract his comments and come open to tell the world what led to the leakage and why they should pump petroleum in a line that hasn’t been in use for eight years, they said they were going to open a can of worms which the depot manager would not deny having knowledge of.

Contrary to the figure released by NNPC, Police and officials of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence (NSCDC), the death toll, according to the protesters at the time of the protest was over one hundred and fifteen, while further ten persons died Monday morning.

The two communities and others whose loved ones were affected in the inferno have since Friday the incident happened been burying their dead ones, they said.

This is even as they stated that more people are in danger list due to the degree of burn that they sustained, even though they were receiving treatment at various hospitals and traditional homes.

The inability of the depot manager or any official of the Aba NNPC depot to come and address the youths got the youths infuriated that if not the timely efforts of the Osisioma Ngwa Youth Congress President, Mr. Emma Nduagu to calm the nerves of the youths who had threatened to break into the facility to fish out the depot manager wherever he is.

Addressing the youths, chairman of Osisioma LGA, Benjamin Mgbeahuru represented by his Chief of Staff, Nwagbara Chimdirim Godpower said, “Our people have died in a very disastrous way. We must not take laws into our hands no matter what, but I must state it clearly that we are very angry to hear how the depot management lied that the cause of the explosion is as a result of vandal activities.

“We want to say it that it is an act of carelessness on the part of Pipelines and Product Marketing Company limited, (PPMC).

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Short News 2019: NEFAD endorses Atiku, Umahi Charles Onyekwere, Abakaliki A socio political group, Network for Advancement of Democracy (NEFAD) has endorsed the candidatures of former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as the next President and Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi state for the 2019 general elections respectively.

Briefing newsmen in Abakaliki, National coordinator of NEFAD, Dr. Chike Onwe said the group is made up of public- spirited individuals and professionals who are well-versed in the tenets of governance in the country.

According to him, the group has resolved to contribute to the advancement of democracy values by generating support for the continuity of good governance and sustenance of the socio-economic and political development of the society.

Continuing, the group commended the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the great outing in the just concluded National convention in Port Harcourt which produced Atiku Abubakar as its presidential flag bearer.

How my mandate was stolen - Salisu Garba Koko Haruna Aliyu Usman, Kebbi A serving federal law maker representing Koko/Besse, Maiyama Federal Constituency, Salish Garba has described the just concluded primaries as a rape on democracy and use of force to get him out of the way.

He accused Kebbi government and the ruling party of changing delegates on Election Day, despite his complaint to the national representative Professor Osungbo, one Ibrahim defied order from Osungbo to produce the original copy. Ibrahim said he was not working for national therefore refused to give the list as requested.

The election went ahead with fake delegates produced by the government and the party.

Garba lamented that people with the zeal to serve their constituents were forced out for selfish reasons to please some political bigwigs in the state.

“I have positively impacted my people through several programmes. In view of the above, I am calling on Kebbi government and the party to return my mandate through credible primaries,” he said.

Travel ban: Group faults FG, mobilises 10m votes for Atiku Samuel Luka, Bauchi

L-R: President of Environmental Rights Advocates for Niger Delta, Pastor Reuben Wilson; NDDC Executive Director Finance and Administration, Mr. Mene Derek; Managing Director of NDDC, Mr. Nsima Ekere and the Executive Director Projects, Dr. Samuel Adiogbe, during a meeting with ex-agitators under the auspices of the Environmental Rights Advocates for Niger Delta at the headquarters of the Commission in Port Harcourt.

Court dismisses ex-DSS spokesperson, Ogar suit, affirms compulsory retirement Andrew Orolua, Abuja A former Spokesperson of Department of State Service (DSS) Marilyn Ogar on Monday failed in her bid to return to office, as the National Industrial Court, Abuja dismissed her suit challenging her compulsory retirement from the service in 2015.

Ogar, had dragged the Department of State Service and the Federal Government before the National Industrial Court, NIC, Abuja, over the manner her appointment was terminated under the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.

Defendants in the suit were; the Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar

Malami, SAN, the DSS, as well as the then DG, Mamman Daura.

Delivering judgment in the suit yesterday, Justice Olufunke Anuwe held that the originating summons filed by Marilyn Ogar was invalid and dead as it was filed two years and seven months after President Muhammadu Buhari approved her compulsory retirement from office.

The judge further held that the suit failed to disclose any reasonable cause of action, adding that the complainant also failed to serve court processes on the defendants in the case.

Justice Anuwe consequently dismissed the suit for lacking in merit.

Ogar who was an Assistant Director, Public Relations at the DSS during the tenure of former President Goodluck Jonathan, was on September 3, 2015, demoted and compulsorily

retired by the Federal Government.

She was sacked alongside 44 other top directors of the DSS, who benefited from a promotion exercise done by Jonathan’s administration.

In the suit challenging her compulsory retirement, Ogar, who insisted that she was illegally removed from office, prayed the court to set aside her purported demotion from Assistant Director to Chief Security Intelligence Officer.

Besides, she had wanted the court to declare that her employment with the DSS, “has statutory flavour and same may only be lawfully determined strictly in accordance with the relevant provisions of the public service Rules”.

She therefore asked the court to nullify her sack and also reinstate her with all her ranks, salaries and benefits.

A group known as Grassroots Network 4 Atiku (GNA) 2019 has faulted the travel ban imposed on 50 Nigerians by the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration in line with Executive Order 6 (EO6).

The National Coordinator of the Group, Barrister Isa Mohammed described the travel restrictions by President Muhammadu Buhari as fascism, illegal, lack of respect to the rule of law and violations of the affected persons’ fundamental human right as enshrined in the 1999 constitution.

Barrister Isa noted that the group is already mobilizing 10 million votes for Atiku ahead of 2019 general elections.

The Coordinator of the group while giving the explanations in Bauchi as he addressed a Press Conference on Monday said the statement issued by the Presidency on the full implementation of “obnoxious Executive Order 6”, which included names of death people in the list immediately after the state high court judgement clearly shows that the president and his government lack respect for the rule of law.

PDP using moles to destabilise our party in Enugu, APC alleges Moses Oyediran, Enugu Ahead of the 2019 general elections, the All Progressives Congress (APC), Enugu state chapter, has accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), of engaging in failed desperate attempts to destabilize the party.

Reacting to claim by Deacon Okey Ogbodo, who is leading a group loyal to the Minister of foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffery Onyeama that Senator Ayogu Eze is not the party’s guber candidate for the 2019 general elections, the party dismissed the statement which it described as ridiculous.

Ogbodo had said that “for the avoidance of doubts, the APC flag bearer in Enugu State is Barrister George Tagbo Ogara.”

But in a swift reaction, Monday, chairman of the APC in the State, Barr.

Ben Nwoye, in a statement, said the PDP, which was afraid of failure, had resorted to a last minute attempt to confuse the electorates in the State.

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Your return ticket is for more service, not meal ticket, Obasa tells Assembly flag bearer Alade Tasma The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa has urged his colleagues in the state Assembly who

won tickets at the party primaries for the 2019 general election to see their nominations to return to the House as a call for more service and not meal tickets.

Obasa stated this at plenary on Monday while contributing to the

Executive Order 6: CACOL backs Buhari, urges those aggrieved to seek redress in court Patrick Okohue The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL), has thrown its weight behind the President Muhammadu Buhari’s government action placing about 50 politicallyexposed persons on travelling freeze and their accounts on moratorium and security watch, pending the full determination of their corruption cases, ongoing or under investigation.

In a press release issued by CACOL’s Coordinator, Media and Publications, Adegboyega Otunuga, on behalf of the organisation’s Executive Chairman, Mr. Debo Adeniran, he said, “We would recollect that one thing almost every informed Nigerian was very concerned about in the fight against corruption in this country.

“It was clearly absence of adequate and comprehensive laws to handle the menace in such a way that suspected culprits and enablers of this social menace would no longer have a field day with the pilfering of our commonwealth and use the weakness of the subsisting anti-corruption laws to abscond from the country where they could easily treat themselves to the same loot they acquired by denying other Nigerians the benefits of a good life.

“The truth is that, it is easier to get whosoever has purloined the nation’s wealth to be made to account for it and prevent him or her from manipulating the state of such looted funds while domiciled here. The reason is because, governments have had to enter into bilateral arrangements with countries of destination where these loots are kept and even made away with certain percentage before such amounts or individuals could be repatriated.

“When we view the precarious situation corruption has thrown this nation and its people, we would better appreciate why ‘drastic and precarious situation calls for a measure of drastic steps and actions.

“For those who insist that such actions of the Muhammadu Buhari’s government are illegal, unacceptable and that it could be a prelude to dictatorship, we hasten to state that most democratic countries of the world have such provisions in their statute books, i.e. USA, Malaysia, etc., and this is why the Buhari’s government

approached the Nigerian judiciary at the conception of this Executive Order 6 to secure the required legal muscle for it.

“We cannot be seen to be saying capital NO to Corruption on one hand and in another breath be seen to be opposed to necessary measures that could rid our nation or at least, minimise the effects of same ghost haunting us down in another breath.

“It is in this light that we at CACOL quite agree that for those who are shouting or implying that such anticorruption instruments could be used to witchhunt or hound the opposition into inaction, etc., we believe that such could be challenged in courts of competent jurisdiction whenever they do occur.

“This is because, the nation could no longer afford such an hypothetical situation when corruption is already driving the nation to the precipice while many Nigerians can no longer afford three square meals a day, majority of our youths remain unemployed or under-employed, and the nation’s hospitals have virtually turned worse than ‘mere consulting clinics’ while the perpetrators of our misery continue to delay justice by seeking for adjournment upon adjournment on flimsy excuses of health concerns to run abroad where they have access to best luxuries while their victims wallow in abject poverty at home, etc.

The CACOL boss adds, “Though we quite agree that, to have a more institutionalised and comprehensive allowance for fighting this ubiquitous ghost of corruption, a resort to sweeping legislative amendments was required, but since this could not be immediately achieved and the existing arrangements and the constitution allow the President of the Federal Republic such emergency enablement like the Executive Orders with judicial approval.

“We commend the leadership of Muhammadu Buhari for taking advantage of such provisions and enjoin him to judiciously and expeditiously utilize same in a manner that is completely devoid of witch-hunting or any form of undue flagellations, while, constantly, holding our public office holders to account, irrespective of whose ox is gored.”

review of the just concluded All Progressive Congress (APC) primaries in Lagos State on the floor of the House.

The Speaker commended the party and its national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. He however, implored the flag bearers not to engage in any jubilation now because it is not yet Uhuru since they are still going to face the hurdle of the general election.

“This is not time to celebrate, but rather you should go back and engage your constituents. Your return tickets are not for meal but call for service,” the Speaker stated.

The lawmakers also unanimously agreed and called for review of past stakeholders meeting reports held simultaneously in all the 40 constituencies and submitted to the executive. The report of the last

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stakeholders meeting according to the lawmakers should be sent to Governor Akinwunmi Ambode for its inclusion in the 2019 budget.

Some of the lawmakers who

contributed to the review of the APC primaries hailed Asiwaju Tinubu for adopting direct primary and the Speaker for the success of the primaries.

Hon. Bisi Yusuf, Desmond Elliot, House Majority Leader, Sanai Agunbiade among others appreciated the Speaker, while they called on the executive to complete all the ongoing road projects in their constituencies.

The lawmaker representing Ifako-Ijaye constituency 02, Hon. Rasheed Makinde appealed to the executive to complete all the abandoned projects in his local government.

The House in another development at the plenary passed a bill for a law to amend the Lagos State Health Scheme law 2018 and for connected purposes into law and sent to the Governor for his assent.

Group faults NASS over proposed funds from Social Investment Programme for INEC 2019 budget Patrick Okohue The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has described the virement of funds from the Social Investment Programmes (SIP) budget by the National Assembly to fund the INEC 2019 Elections Budget as antimasses and a vengeful move by the Bukola Saraki-led Senate.

The group in a statement signed by its Chairman, Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary, Cassidy Madueke stated that National Assembly’s virement of funds from the Social Investment Budget reflected an anti-people posturing which is ironical with the role they are supposed to play as representatives of the people.

“The Social Investment funds are meant for improving the wellbeing, welfare and living standards of the poorest Nigerians; any Nigerian, especially one who is in position of leadership, that does not see the importance of these programmes and the need for adequate funding of them, should not be leading in the first place.

“The very existence of those in government is to see to the betterment of the lives of the everyday Nigerian people, especially the poorest in the society.

The virement of funds from the Social Investment budget is a move against Nigeria’s poor population and shows how far some members of the National Assembly are from the people they are supposed to represent.”

The group noted that the Social Investment Programmes introduced by the Buhari administration is the most

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ambitious, yet the most successful social investment scheme Nigeria has ever seen. It went further to state that over 9 million children in public primary schools are being fed, with over 500,000 previously unemployed graduates now engaged on the N-Power scheme and almost a million traders having accessed collateral and interest free loans.

“Over 290,000 of the poorest households in Nigeria are receiving a social welfare package of 5,000 Naira monthly, which has improved their living standards and reflected in significant improvement in the well-being of the beneficiaries.”

The group noted that any

individual or arm of government that attempts to trivialise the impact of the programmes is doing so selfishly and without comprehension of its importance.

“We are aware of reports that PDP’s Presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar has been heard to say that he would phase out the Social Investment Programmes. We are not surprised that a notorious rentseeker elitist who has no regard for the poor is thinking this way.

“The old order where Nigeria worked for only a few elites who pocketed all our commonwealth is over, We are confident that the ordinary Nigerian would disgrace all who seek to jeopardise the interest of the masses at the polls.”

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You can’t fight arrested judges battle without their consent – Court The Applicant , a legal practitioner instituted the instant suit against the Respondents by way of an “ Originating Motion” brought under Sections 33,34,35,41 and 46 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (CFRN), 1999 as Amended, and pursuant to Order 11 Rules 1 of the Fundamental Rights (Enforcement Procedure), 2009. From the reliefs sought , the Applicant , intended as it were to enforce the rights of the five judges and justices which the 2nd and 3rd Respondents allegedly violated by the unprecedented incident of 8/10/16 when in the middle of the night, the houses of the said five judicial officers were raided, and were eventually arrested and detained by the 2nd and 3rd Respondent.

The 2nd and 3rd Respondents also filed preliminary objection , specifically, “that the applicant in this matter has no locus standi to institute this suit” . Secondly, “that the Court lack jurisdiction to determine this matter as the applicant in this suit lacks the legal capacity to institute the matter.”

The counsel for 2nd and 3rd respondents referred to the provision of Order 1 Rule 2 (Interpretation Section) of the Fundamental Rights ( Enforcement Procedure) Rules, 2009, and argued that going by this provision “ that the present suit did not qualify to be public interest litigation.” because the said provision defines it to mean : “ Public interest includes the interest of Nigeria Society or any segment of it in promoting human rights and advancing human rights law.”

RELIEFS A declaration that the arrest, harassment, humiliation, and detention of five judges, namely : Hon. Justice Sylvester Ngwuta, Hon Justice John Okoro, Hon. Justice Adeniyi Ademola, Hon. Justice Nnamdi Dimgba and other Hon. Judicial Officers of superior Courts in Nigeria by the agents of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd,4th and 5th respondents at about 1.30am on the 8th of October 2016 without due process of law or lawful excuse is unlawful, illegal,unlawful, unconstitutional, null and void as its violates the judges fundamental rights as enshrined under Sections 33, 34, 36, and 41 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria “A declaration that the forceful invasion and sieging of the residential houses of the five judges by the agents of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd,4th, and 5th respondents at about 1.30 am on the 8th of October 2016 without cause or any lawful excuse is wrongful, illegal, wicked, unlawful, oppressive, unconstitutional, null and void as it violates the affected judges fundamental rights as enshrined under Sections 33, 34, 36, and 41 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria” 3. A declaration that the arrest, humiliation, harassment and detention of the five judges by the agents of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd,4th, and 5th respondents on the 8th of October 2016 without recourse to the 6th respondent (National Judicial Council) and without any lawful excuse is wrongful, illegal, oppressive dictatorial, unconstitutional, null and void as it violates the honourable Judges fundamental rights as enshrined under Sections 36 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

4. A declaration that the forceful seizure and confiscation of the sum of N93, 558, 000.00 and £25,970 pounds,£5,680 Euro by the agents of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th respondents on the 8th of October 2016 and the arrests of the judges without any court order or due process of law is wrongful, illegal, unlawful, oppressive ,unconstitutional, null and void as it violates the Hon. Judge fundamental rights as enshrined under Sections 36 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The Applicant also asked for two other declarations and five orders from the court, among which an order compelling the respondents jointly and severally to pay the sum of N50,000,000,000.00 billion to the arrested judges being general and exemplary damages for unlawful and wrongful arrest,detention, forceful invasion, sieging and forceful seizure of their monies and properties without any order of the Court.

The 1st and 4th respondents filed Notice of Preliminary Objection predicated on three grounds that : (a)”The Applicant did not disclosed his locus standi to initiate and maintain the suit.” (b) There is no lis between the Applicant’s and the Respondents in this suit.” (c) “ The Applicant’s suit as constituted and conceived is a mere academic exercise and raises hypothetical issues.”

DECISION In the light of the fact, that it’s a threshold issue which needs to be resolved first, both 1st, 4th and 5th respondents as well as the 2nd and 3rd respondents have made it an issue of preliminary objection which the Court needs to resolve first.

I had review the submission which both parties through their Counsel have canvassed for and against the Applicant’s locus standi or lacks of it. I raised certain questions which border on the efficacy of the provisions of the Fundamental Rights (Enforcement Procedure) Rules, 2009, which the Applicant relied heavily on in order to press the point ,that the concept of locus standi has been abolished, and according to his

ARGUMENT: Relying on Section 6(6)(b) of the CFRN, 1999 (as amended) Counsel submitted that the Applicant “ must clearly show that his civil rights and obligations are affected or would be affected by the act complained of”. The 1st and 4th Respondents cited Adesanya v. The President (1981) All NLR pg . 1 at p.8.

They submitted that none of the facts in the Applicant depositions contained in his affidavit in support of the Originating Motion disclosed “any personal injury,” which the applicant suffered by the act complaint of.”

Justice Gabriel Kolawole

THE FEDERAL HIGH COURT OF NIGERIA IN THE ABUJA JUDICIAL DIVISION HOLDEN AT ABUJA ON MONDAY, THE 25th DAY OF JUNE, 2018 BEFORE HIS LORDSHIP HON. JUSTICE GABRIEL O. KOLAWOLE Suit No. FHC/ABJ/ CS/809/2016 BETWEEN MR. OLUKOYA OGUNGBEJE... Applicant AND 1. THE PRESIDENT, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA. 2.DIRECTOR GENERAL OF STATE SECURITY SERVICE 3. DEPARTMENT OF STATE SECURITY SERVICE 4.ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION 5. INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE 6. NATIONAL JUDICIAL COUNCIL

Respondents

JUDGEMENT

Until the Supreme Court decision in Fawehinmi v.

The President is reviewed,the principle of locus standi will remain as it was ably discussed by the apex court in the context of Section 6 (6) (b) of the Constitution”

submission, “ consigned to the dustbin of history.”

He cited and relied on a number of appellate Courts’ decisions one of which was a recent Court of Appeal’s decision in Mrs. Ganiat Amope Dilly V. IGP & ORS (2016), as well as another Court of Appeal’s decision in Fawehinmi V. The President (2008) 23 WRN 65.Both decisions are Court of Appeal’s decision.

Whilst the first case was decided in 2016 after the coming into force of the new Fundamental Rights (Enforcement Procedure) Rules, 2009, the latter case was decided before the Chief Justice made the new Rules. Two fundamental issues which the Applicant submission have not addressed or overcome in order for me to accept his proposition, are, firstly, in relation to the hierarchy of our law as was decided by the Supreme Court in its seminal decision in Labiyi V. Anretiola supra ,is whether the Fundamental Rights (Enforcement Procedure) Rules, 2009 a subsidiary legislation that can be placed on the same pedestal as the provisions of the Constitution merely on account of the provision of Section 46(3) of the Constitution?

Secondly, has the Supreme Court’s decision Adesanya V. The President (1981) and in Thomas V. Olufosoye, supra by which the provision of Section 6(6)(b) of the Constitution was considered at great length been set aside? Thirdly, can any of the Court of Appeal’s

decisions which the Applicant relied on by their ratio,withstand the Supreme Court decisions or be read as consistent with its decision on the said provision and of issues of locus standi?

I took time to read the Court of Appeal decision in Dilly v. IGP & it’s Supra which the Applicant handled as a “Counsel”, and I ask myself, whether the peculiar facts of that cases are such as can be “ pulled” by its hairs to match the facts of his case? This because ,the Applicant in that case, sued the Respondents for the mysterious death of his son whilst in the custody of the 1st -4th respondents as a detainee........can the same be said of the Applicant in this case in “relation to any of the affected Judges” who merely belong to the legal profession with the Applicant as with other thousands of lawyers in Nigeria........

The Applicant has not produced any Supreme Court decisions which approved the Court of Appeal’s decision in Fawehinmi V. The President. Until the Supreme Court decision in Fawehinmi V. The President is reviewed ,the principle of Locus standi will remain as it was ably discussed by the apex Court in the context of Section 6(6)(b) of the Constitution which requires an Applicant to demonstrate his “civil right” or “obligation” in “relation to him,” which act complained of his infringement.

Whilst I appreciate the applicant efforts in seeking to protect the judiciary from needless onslaught and attacks by the Executive Arm of Government and its agents under a democratic despotism such as we have, it is my view that the Court of Appeal decision in The Hon. Justice H.A. Nganjiwa v FRN delivered on 11/12/17 has eloquently and decisively dealt with the issue raised by the Applicant and has restated the pre -eminent Constitutional status and role of the 6th respondent as the only recognised organ of the State that can initiate proceeding that may eventually lead to criminal indictment of serving judicial officer of the superior Court of record. ........The incident of 8/10/16 was indeed, a dark spot on the history of the Nigerian judiciary pre and lost independence era, and not a few of the judges, serving and retired felt utterly demoralized. Its’ not on account of condoning corruption on the bench, but the way the so called “string operation” was carried out, was intended not only to instill fear and timidity in the judiciary as an “Arm of Government “ but it was and indeed, virtually destroyed the institution and gravely undermines its avowed independence........

With this final thoughts, I really do not see any need to go into the merit of the Applicant’s suit as he has not been able to persuade me ,that he has the Locus Standi to fight the battle of the affected Judges who are still alive and have no disability to approach the Court to enforce their rights which the conduct of the 2nd and 3rd Respondents had breached by the events of 8/10/16.

The Applicant’s suit is for these reasons struck out .The Applicant is not a busy body ,but a legal practitioner who is generally concerned as the entire body of lawyers under the aegis of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) had expressed its disapproval to the gestapo style and barbaric tactics deployed by the 2nd and 3rd Respondents without any recourse to the 6th Respondent to assault the base of the independence of the Judiciary as the “ 3rd Arm of Government “ by the events of 8/10/16 .

This case is hereby struck out .There shall be no order as to costs.

HON. JUSTICE G.O. KOLAWOLE, JUDGE 25/6/2018

Counsel’s Representation: 1. OLUKOYA OGBUNGBEJE, ESQ. appears in person as APPLICANT with D.O ADEMOLA ESQ 2. C.I. OKPOKO, ESQ for the 1st, 4th and 5th Respondents / APPLICANTS 3. J. HAMISU, ESQ for the 2nd and 3rd RESPONDENTS 4. 6th RESPONDENT is not represented by Counsel.

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Sen Adeleke, 4 others charged with exam malpractices Andrew Orolua, Abuja The Federal Government has charged Senator Ademola Adeleke (PDP, Osun West) and four others before the Federal High Court, Abuja, for allegedly engaging in examination malpractices.

Senator Adeleke is the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Osun State during the recent election in the state where he lost to Gboyega Oyetola, the candidate of the

ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Adeleke is presently challenging the outcome of the governorship poll before the Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Osogbo.

But Senator Adeleke and others were accused in a four-count charge filed in the name of the Inspector General of Police (IGP) of alleged involvement in fraudulent act through impersonation, registering as students of Ojo-Aro Community Grammar School, Ojo-Aro, Osun State that enabled them sit for the

National Examination Council (NECO) examination of June/ July 2017.

Other charged with Adeleke, in the charge marked: FHC/ABJ/ CR/156/2018, are Sikiru Adeleke, Alhaji Aregbesola Mufutau (Principal of the school), Gbadamosi Thomas Ojo (school Registrar) and Dare Samuel Olutope (teacher).

The matter has been assigned to Justice I. E. Ekpo while Senator Adeleke and other accused persons will be arraigned before the judge on October 31, 2018.

Half of world’s population lives under poverty with $5 per day- World Bank Mathew Dadiya, Abuja The World Bank has said that economic advances around the world mean that while fewer people live in extreme poverty, almost half the world’s population - 3.4 billion people still struggles to meet basic needs.

The World Bank disclosed this on Monday in its biennial Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report, “Piecing Together the Poverty Puzzle.”

According to the Bank, living on less than $3.20 per day reflects poverty lines in lower-middleincome countries, while $5.50 a day reflects standards in uppermiddle-income countries, The World Bank reiterated its commitment to achieving the goal of ending extreme poverty, defined as living on less than $1.90 a day, by 2030.

The share of the world’s population living in extreme poverty fell to 10 percent in 2015, but the pace of extreme poverty reduction has slowed, the World Bank warned.

However, given that economic growth means that a much greater proportion of the world’s poor now live in wealthier countries, additional poverty lines and a broader understanding of poverty are crucial to fully fighting it, the report says.

“Ending extreme poverty by 2030 and boosting shared prosperity are our goals, and we remain committed to them,” said World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, adding that, “At the same time, we can take a broader view of poverty at different levels and dimensions around the world.

This view reveals that poverty is more widespread and entrenched, underlining the importance of investing in people.”

While rates of extreme poverty have declined substantially, falling from 36 percent in 1990, the report’s expanded examination of the nature of poverty demonstrates the magnitude of the challenge in eradicating it.

Over 1.9 billion people, or 26.2 percent of the world’s population, were living on less than $3.20 per day in 2015. Close to 46 percent of

the world’s population was living on less than $5.50 a day.

The report also goes beyond monetary measures of poverty to understand how access to adequate water and sanitation, education, or electricity affect a family’s well-being. And since the burdens of poverty often fall most heavily on women and children, the report analyzes how poverty can vary within a household.

The report finds that the incomes of the poorest 40 percent grew in 70 of the 91 economies monitored. In more than half of the economies, their incomes grew faster than the average, meaning they were getting a bigger share of the economic pie. However, progress in sharing prosperity lagged in some regions of the world. The report also warns that data needed to assess shared prosperity is weakest in the very countries that most need it to improve. Only one in four lowincome countries and four of the 35 recognized fragile and conflictaffected states have data on shared prosperity data over time.

The new measures allow the World Bank to better monitor poverty in all countries, in multiple aspects of life, and for all individuals in every household.

Regional snapshots East Asia and Pacific: The region was one of the best performers in shared prosperity: The incomes of the poorest 40 percent of the population grew on average 4.7 percent between 2010 and 2015.

East Asia not only had the largest reductions in extreme poverty, but also in the proportion of people living on less than $3.20 and $5.50 per day. While extreme poverty is very low, the region saw a higher percentage of people lacking access to sanitation.

Europe and Central Asia: Many countries in the region suffered setbacks in the growth of incomes of its bottom 40. On the other hand, several economies whose bottom 40 suffered large declines because of the financial and the debt crises were recovering.

Among developing regions, Europe and Central Asia had the lowest percentage of people living under the $3.20 and $5.50 poverty lines. However, in the share of people lacking schooling

enrollment, it performs less well than either East Asia and Pacific or Latin America and the Caribbean.

Latin America and the Caribbean: The region saw less shared prosperity from 2010 to 2015 than in previous years as its economies were impacted by a slowdown in global commodity prices. The region had almost 11 percent living on less than $3.20 a day and over 26 percent on less than $5.50 a day in 2015. Poverty in non-monetary dimensions such as lack of access to drinking water, adequate sanitation or electricity was much less associated with monetary aspects.

Middle East and North Africa: Even though the region saw an increase in the number of people living on less than $1.90 a day, levels of extreme poverty remained low. However, the region had more people living on less than $5.50 per day in 2015 than in 1990. Additionally, almost one in seven people lacks adequate sanitation.

South Asia: the region saw impressive growth of the incomes of its bottom 40 between 2010 and 2015. Despite a 35-percentage point decline in extreme poverty between 1990 and 2015, the region registered only an 8 percent decrease in people living on less than $3.20 a day, and over 80 percent of the region still lived below $5.50 per day in 2015. Also, the number of people in the region living in households without access to electricity or adequate sanitation was far greater than those living in monetary poverty.

Sub-Saharan Africa: A third of the countries in this region where Nigeria falls in experienced negative income growth for the bottom 40 percent of their populations.

The region with the largest number of extreme poor, Africa saw its population nearly double between 1990 and 2015, with one of the largest increases in population being for those living on less than $3.20 and more than $1.90.

The poor suffered from multiple deprivations such as low consumption levels and lack of access to education and basic infrastructure services.

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Business value chains: Technology, innovative finance to bridge infrastructure gap – AfDB Motolani Oseni

Globacom’s representatives at the International Day of the Girl Child, Mrs. Justina Abdulateef (3rd left), and Mrs. Temitope Oke, (3rd right) with some of the secondary school students who participated at an event sponsored by the company to mark the Day at Landmark Event Centre, Victoria Island... Lagos.

Heritage Bank, NIMASA partner on global maritime safety standards Mathew Dadiya, Abuja Heritage Bank Plc, Nigeria’s most innovative banking service provider, and Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) have joined forces to educate stakeholders about the maritime enforcement global benchmarks.

The training session, which had as its theme: Maritime Enforcement Safety: Current Global Benchmarks, had representatives of these organisations present: Nigerian Navy, Nigerian Ports Authority, Lagos State Safety Council, Shippers Council, Marine Insurers, Maritime & Dockworkers Safety Inspector and Marine Police.

Addressing participants at the workshop held at the premises of NIMASA in Apapa, Victor Amakwe,

Group Head, Private Banking, Private Wealth Management, Heritage Bank, said “at Heritage Bank, we understand the importance of health safety, which implies that every working environment or workplace is kept in an organized, uncluttered, and hazard-free condition”.

According to him, the benefits of doing this are far-reaching, and affect not only workers’ safety but also their health and productivity.

“Improvements in worker health and productivity, in turn, lead to lower operating costs thereby providing benefits to both the workers and the employer”, he stated.

Amakwe commended the NIMASA for its commitment to the enthronement of global best practices in the provision of maritime services in Nigeria, whilst ensuring effective maritime safety administration using modern tools that

guarantee efficiency and effectiveness, towards developing indigenous capacity and tackling hindrances on our waterways.

He therefore assured the audience at the occasion that as a generational bank with excellent service culture hinged on working with each customer to create a name and heritage for today and future generations, Heritage Bank will continue to support and partner NIMASA on its drive for maritime safety and enforcement.

In his speech, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, Director-General/Chief Executive Officer, NIMASA, acknowledged that the mandate of his organisation is to ensure that any vessel using Nigeria’s waterways, both onshore and offshore, are safety conscious.

According to him, as a safety administrator, NIMASA cannot be

enforcing safety when it is not operating in a safety environment. He emphasized that the safety standards are globally set and managed for the benefit of all nations.

Peterside though noted that unlike before, there has been tremendous improvement in the way NIMASA staff and other stakeholders in the maritime sector adopt the global safety standards, there is room for improvement.

“We are itching closer to it every day’, he stated.

The NIMASA boss explained that the workshop was organised to promote a culture of safety in operations of all stakeholders; for self-examination of each operation environment; and to evaluate the global best practices.

“In NIMASA, we are determined to give you every support you require to ensure a new culture is put in place in our workplaces”, he concluded.

Why Nigeria’s GDP growth may slow to 1.9% in 2018 Motolani Oseni Due to the slower-than-previously expected oil sector growth, the floodinduced cutback in Agriculture output, and the absence of structural reforms to propel sturdy manufacturing sector growth, a group of analysts at Cordros capital has projected reduction in Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth to 1.9 per cent in 2018.

Although, the analysts at Cordros Capital acknowledged the fact that the Africa largest economy’s foreign exchange market remains stable.

“In our second half year of 2018 outlook report, we had projected 2017 GDP growth at 2.63 per cent year-on-year (y/y), anchored on the fact that businesses will remain uncompetitive due to the absence of meaningful reforms and lack of decisive policy implementation to drive sturdy non-oil GDP growth.

“In this report, we cut our growth estimate for 2018 to 1.9 per cent y/y, driven by slowerthan-previously expected oil sector growth, the flood-induced cutback in Agriculture output, and the absence of structural reforms to propel sturdy manufacturing sector growth even as the foreign exchange market remains stable”, the analysts stated.

They noted that the inflation rate might slow down to 12.71 per cent in December as National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) is expected to release September inflation rate on Tuesday, October 16, 2018.

According to them, “inflation resumed uptick in August (+nine basis points to 11.23 per cent y/y), as the impact of base effect induced gains waned.

“Notably, amidst sustained foreign exchange stability, the renewed pressure stemmed from food inflation which jumped 31basis points to 13.16 per cent y/y, while core inflation (-17basis points to 10.02per cent y/y) sustained its deceleration, driven by stable

energy and electricity prices.

“With the gains from base effect already dissipated, together with our expected higher m/m inflation over Q4-18 compared to 2017, we expect the year-on-year headline Consumer Price Index (CPI) to sustain upward trajectory through the rest of the year.

“We now look for headline CPI of 11.54 per cent y/y in September and 12.71per cent in December (FY-2018 average: 12.37per cent y/y).”

The report by analysts at Cordros capital added: “On currency, as foreign sell-off of naira assets continues into the third quarter of 2018, with consequent increased demand for foreign exchange at the Investors &Exporters window, the CBN stepped up its intervention across its different foreign exchange windows.

“Against that backdrop, foreign exchange reserve depleted by $3.48 billion over third quarter (Q2-2018: $1.5 billion increase), leaving the naira within our projected band

of N353-N365/Dollar and N363-N368/Dollar at the Investors &Exporters and parallel markets.

“Going forward, we expect the elevated dollar sale by CBN to persist on the back of sustained pent-up foreign exchange demand occasioned by continued offshore sell-offs.

In any case, with our views of sturdy CBN inflow (driven by higher crude oil price and prospects of $2.8 billion Eurobond), combined with strong foreign exchange reserves ($43.9 billion), we believe the CBN has more than enough legroom to keep the naira at current level through the rest of the year.”

It would be recalled that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently cut down its 2018 economic growth projection for Nigeria to 1.9 per cent, from the 2.1per cent it earlier forecast for the country in 2018.

Consequently, the World Bank also cut down its 2018 economic growth forecast for Nigeria to 2.7 per cent from the 3.1 per cent it earlier projected for the economy last April.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has said that new technology and blended finance will help to bridge the “last mile” of the infrastructure gap by getting goods and services to end users, and connecting underserved populations to business value chains.

This year’s forum themed “Unlocking Inclusive, Resilient, and Sustainable Technology-driven Infrastructure,” took place on October 13, 2018, on the sidelines of the World Bank/International Monetary Fund annual meetings.

The “last mile” was a crucial topic of discussion during the main panel session of the global Infrastructure Forum 2018, entitled “Achieving the last mile through technology.”

Wale Shonibare, African Development Bank’s Director for Energy Financial Solutions, Policy and Regulation, said this on Sunday during a session at the Global Infrastructure Forum 2018.

Shonibare said that the Bank’s commitment to connect millions of households under its New Deal On Energy For Africa- a core component of its Light Up Africa High 5 development priorities - required flexibility and innovation from both a technology and financial perspective.

“We are looking to connect 200 million households to electricity – 75 million of those will be off-grid.

“Conventional grids cost, on average, US$2,500 per connection in rural communities, whereas mini grids cost between US$500-1,00 per connection.

In Cote d’Ivoire the Bank’s approval of a credit guarantee covering part of a guaranteed loan facility to Zola EDF Côte d’Ivoire (ZECI), a 50/50 joint venture between Off-Grid Electric (OGE) and EDF, paved the way for them to provide access to approximately 100,000 rural households with pay-as-you-go solar home systems by 2020”, Shonibare said.

This operation is the first large-scale local currency financing structure using the securitization technique for the offgrid renewable energy sector in Africa. he, however, added that energy projects in Rwanda and Nigeria which had obtained Bank approval, were additional examples of the Bank partnering with the private sector to bring service to end users in innovative ways, Other panelists in the session weighing in from backgrounds in law, the private sector, and development finance, discussed new and green technology, the digital economy, social media and innovation.

Sarquis Jose Buainain Srqis, Vice President for Economic Research, Risk and Strategy and Partnerships NDB, warned that the contribution of MDB’s would still depend on conventional infrastructure -roads, healthcare access, which is why innovation was particularly essential.

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L-R: Members of PMB 2019 Support Group, Lagos State Chapter, Prince Rabiu Ishola Oluwa; Alhaji Olayiwola Niniola; Alhaji Oyinlomo Danmole; Mr. Olajide Adams and Hon. Lanre Babalola, at the Inauguration of PMB 2019 Local Government Action Committee in Lagos… on Monday

FG to provide indemnity for re-concessioning of Lagos Trade Fair Complex Mathew Dadiya The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Okechukwu Enyinna Enelamah, has said the Federal Government is ready to provide indemnity to ensure that the re-concessioning of the Lagos International Trade Fair Complex (LITFC) is successful.

Speaking at the kick-off meeting for advisory services for the concession of the LITFC in his office in Abuja , the minister said that this time around the concession must be done right as “the Federal Government is prepared to provide indemnity to cover all the legal issues and other encumbrances on the LITFC”.

He commended the leadership direction of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) led by Mr. Alex A. Okoh on the LITFC re-concessioning, adding that “on behalf of the Federal Government and this ministry, I wish to note that it is important to always do the right thing, as it is being done now on the Lagos International Trade Fair Complex by the professionals at BPE”.

He said: “for the love of country and professionalism, we support this development.”

Earlier, Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Mr. Alex A. Okoh had said the Federal Government was eager to promote private sector participation in the operation, management, and maintenance of the Trade Fair Complex.

He added that the government was also keen on ensuring that the complex is managed on a commercial basis and fulfills the underlying objectives of hosting annual international trade fairs, expos, and exhibitions.

“This facility is a prime trade fair and convention complex with the potential to be one of the very best in Africa. It is located along Lagos-Badagry Expressway, a major gateway into Nigeria from the West African coast and has abundant land for further development”, he said.

Okoh said the objective of the advisory consultancy is to advise and assist the Bureau (as representatives of the Federal Government) in identifying and engaging a credible private sector concessionaire for Lagos International Trade Fair Complex, adding that the prospective concessionaires must be experienced local or international operators with the technical and financial capacity to: manage and operate the complex for a minimum of 30 years; and invest in the rehabilitation of existing facilities and further development of the complex.

How petrol price hike by 1.9% year-in-year – NBS Motolani Oseni The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said the average price paid by consumers for premium motor spirit also known as petrol increased by 1.9 per cent year-on-year.

The bureau in its latest petrol price watch report that was released on Monday disclosed further that average price paid by consumers for petrol increased by 0.3 per cent month-on-month to N147.30 in September 2018 from N146.90 in August 2018.

According to the Bureau report, states with the highest average price of premium motor spirit (petrol) were Enugu (N153.88), Taraba (N152.86) & Delta (N150.92).

“States with the lowest average price of premium motor spirit (petrol) were Kano (N144.87), KatsinaN143.63) & Bauchi (N144.00),” the report added.

The bureau also stated that average price paid by consumers for automotive gas oil (diesel) increased by 1.76 per cent month-on-month and 14.52per cent year-on-year to N211.64 in September 2018 from to N207.98 in August 2018.

The report by NBS stated that states with the highest average price of diesel were Borno, N245.83;

Taraba, N235.00 and Sokoto, N228.33.

“States with the lowest average price of diesel were Edo, N197.28; Katsina, N195.63 and Rivers, N190,” the report explained on average price paid by consumers for diesel.

Consequently, the report by NBS said, the average price per litre paid by consumers for Kerosene increased by 2.95 per cent month-onmonth and 12.40 per cent year-on-year to N297.28 in September 2018 from N288.75 in August 2018.

The report on kerosene price disclosed that States with the highest average price per litre of kerosene were Abuja (N350.00), Niger (N337.88), and Enugu (N344.67). States with the lowest average price per litre of kerosene were Borno (N250.00), Abia & Kogi (N241.67) and Kwara (N235.28).

Similarly, average price per gallon paid by consumers for National Household Kerosene increased by 3.95per cent month-on-month and by 15.75per cent year-on-year to N1127.05 in September 2018 from N1084.24 in August 2018.

“States with the highest average price per gallon of kerosene were Ebonyi (N1260.00), Jigawa (N1258.33) & Ekiti (N1253.33). States with the lowest average price per gallon of kerosene were Benue (N1016.64), Bayelsa (N994.90) and Akwa Ibom (N956.01).”

The report on Cooking Gas added that average

price for the refilling of a 5kg cylinder for increased by 2.60per cent month-on-month and 10.26per cent year-on-year to N2,107.48 in September 2018 from N2,054.14 in August 2018.

“States with the highest average price for the refilling of a 5kg cylinder for Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Cooking Gas) were Bauchi (N2,400.00), Borno (N2,440.00) and Gombe (N2,487.50).

“States with the lowest average price for the refilling of a 5kg cylinder for Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Cooking Gas) were Abuja & Ebonyi (N1,900.00), Enugu (N1,865.45) and Kaduna (N1 “Similarly, average price for the refilling of a 12.5kg cylinder for Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Cooking Gas) increased by 2.88 per cent month-on-month and eight per cent year-on-year to N4,376.19 in September 2018 from N4,366.48 in August 2018.

“States with the highest average price for the refilling of a 12.5kg cylinder for Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Cooking Gas) were Akwa Ibom (N5,000.00), Benue (N4,881.25) and Borno (N4,666.67).

“States with the lowest average price for the refilling of a 12.5kg cylinder for Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Cooking Gas) were Kano & Kebbi (N4,033.33), Yobe (N4,015.81) and Lagos (N4,000.00),” the report explained on average price consumer spent on cooking gas.,800.00).

NSE indices dip by 0.13%, as ASI loses 43.50 points Mathew Dadiya, Abuja Trading activities on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) resumed on a negative note on Monday as the market indices dipped by 0.13 per cent, as well as that the volume of shares traded declined by 43.72 per cent.

Specifically, the All-Share Index lost 43.50 points or 0.13 per cent to close at 32,413.48 against the 32,456.98 achieved on Friday.

Specifically, the All-Share Index lost 43.50 points or 0.13 per cent to close at 32,413.48 against the 32,456.98 achieved on Friday.

The market capitalisation, which opened at N11.849 trillion, shed N162bn billion to

close at N11.833 trillion.

Unilever recorded the highest price loss of N2.30 to close at N41.20 per share.

Nigeria Breweries trailed with a loss of N2 to close at N86, while Lafarge Africa dipped

by N1.50 to close at N21.50 per share.

Fidson Healthcare was down by 60k to close at N5.40, while Guinness dropped by 50k to close at N78.50 per share.

Forte Oil led the price gainers’ table with a gain of N2 to close at N22.25 per share.

NASCON followed with a gain of N1.40 to close at N19.90, while Guaranty Trust Bank gained 40k to close at N36.90 per share.

Flour Mills also appreciated by 40k to close at N21.21, while Dangote Sugar

Refinery added 30k to close at N15 per share.

UBA was the most active stock, exchanging 14.61 million shares worth N118.38 million.

FCMB Group followed with 11.87 million shares valued at N19.39 million, while Fidelity Bank traded 6.91 million shares worth N13.11 million.

GTB sold 5.92 million shares worth N216.93 million, while Honey Well Flour Mills sold 4.37 million shares valued at N5.58 million.

In all, a total of 91.41 million shares worth N980. 91 million were exchanged by investors in 2,529 deals, lower than the 162.41 million shares valued at N2.24 billion traded in 2,922 deals on Friday.

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

TRUSTEES ARE. 1)OLOFINTILA FEMISAYO BUSAYO 2)ADENIYI YEWANDE FOLUKE 3)NKEONYE ADEDOYIN AYOKUNMI (SECRETARY.

THE TRUSTEES ARE : 1. OLUGBENRO OLUBUNMI SELERE 2. OLUWATOYIN OPEOLUWA SELERE, 3. VIRTUOUS OLUWATIMILEHIN SELERE 4. JEDIDIAH OMOTEBI SELERE.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1)POVERTY ALLEVIATION 2)YOUTH EMPOWERMENT 3)HELPING THE INDIGENT IN THE SOCIETY ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR_GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED. SECRETARY.

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE : 1.TO PROVIDE CHARITABLE SERVICES TO LESS PRIVILEDGE CHILDREN. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR_GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

OSELE HELEN YETUNDE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS PITAN HELEN YETUNDE ELIZABETH NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OSELE HELEN YETUNDE ELIZABETH ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

OMOGBAI OKPEKU QUEENSLY FORMERLY OKPEKU QUEENSLY FUNMILAYO NOW TO BE ADDRESSED AS OMOGBAI OKPEKU QUEENSLY FUNMILAYO. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS KUTI ABOSEDE FORMERLY MISS AKINLEYE ABOSEDE THERESA NOW MRS KUTI ABOSEDE THERESA. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OLUJOBI OLUBANKE

MRS ABIOYE STELLA

MOSADOLUWA KHADIJAH FORMERLY KNOWN AS LAWAL KHADIJAH ADENIKE NOW KNOWN AS MOSADOLUWA KHADIJAH ADENIKE. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

FORMERLY KNOWN AS ALIMI OLUBANKE OLUFOLAKE NOW KNOWN AS OLUJOBI OLUBANKE OLUFOLAKE. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE ODUMOSU OLABIMPE

FORMER KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWADIANI STELLA CHUKWUYEM NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ABIOYE STELLA CHUKWUYEM ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

BABATUNDE JUBRIL

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADENOLA OLABIMPE ESTHER NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ODUMOSU OLABIMPE ESTHER (MRS). THIS IS DUE TO CHANGE IN MARITAL STATUS. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BABATUNDE AJANI FASASI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BABATUNDE JUBRIL FASASI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

PUBLIC NOTICE THIS IS THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT LATE MR FELIX EZE NATIVE OF UMUAGU UDI L.G.A DIED ON 28TH APRIL 2013, AT ESUT TEACHING HOSPITAL PARKLANE. AND ALSO HE WAS BURIED ON MAY 2013 AT HIS HOME TOWN. MRS LAWAL ADEFUNKE

THIS IS TO CERTIFY AND CONFIRM THAT AKADORONYE CHIZZY, AKADORONYE CHINYERE AND CHINYERE PETERS REFERS AS ONE AND THE SAME PERSON NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AKADORONYE CHINYERE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CHANGE OF NAME/DATE OF BIRTH I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AJAYI OLAREWAJU BUSAYO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JOSEPH OLANREWAJU BUSAYO,THAT MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 01/09/1976 AND NOT 26/05/1975 ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OLAKUNRIN ADEFUNKE OLABIMPE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS LAWAL ADEFUNKE OLABIMPE AISHA ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

ADDITION OF NAME:

IN SOME OF MY DOCUMENTS MY NAME APPEARS AS IGE BABAMUYIWA AND OTHERS AS IGE BELO NOW WISH TO ADD BELO TO MY NAMES. HENCEFORTH I WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IGE BABAMUYIWA BELO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

FLORENCE NYEKPUNWO

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FLORENCE NYEKPUNWO ALEX-JUMBO, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FLORENCE NYEKPUNWO BROWN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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TRUSTEES 1. HAYENICHUKWU OKOH 2. OMOLEWA YETUNDE AHMED 3. ADEWUNMI EMORUWA 4. AISHA AUGIE-KUTA 5. CHINWE OGBUJAH 6. ONOWE AJULO 7. HADIZA IBRAHIM BASSI AIMS 1. TO CREATE A MENTORSHIP PLATFORM FOR CHILDREN & INSPIRE THEM TO BE FUTURE RESPONSIBLE LEADERS 2. TO MENTOR, EQUIP AND EMPOWER YOUNG WOMEN TO CONFRONT THE SILENCE OF VICTIMISATION THROUGH CREATIVE EXPRESSION AND ENTERPRISE, AND PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR_ GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET , MAITAMA , ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

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 NO. 1 OF 1990.

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. TO HELP THE ORPHANS AND THE NEEDY. 2. TO HELP THE LESS PRIVILEGED IN THE SOCIETY.

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

EREZITOME OZIE

FORMERLY EREZITOME OZIE IDUDU NOW EREZITOME OZIE GINAMRE. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE. MRS. ABDULLAHI ZAINAB

FORMERLY MISS. OLANIYI OLAIDE ZAINAB NOW MRS. ABDULLAHI ZAINAB OLAIDE. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE. OTI CALLISTA I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS DURUIGBO CALLISTA NKEIRUKA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OTI CALLISTA NKEIRUKA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE. OYEBOLA AKEEM

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OYEBOLA SEUN MICHAEL NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OYEBOLA AKEEM SEUN ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

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

TRUSTEES 1. HAYENICHUKWU OKOH 2. OMOLEWA YETUNDE AHMED 3. ADEWUNMI EMORUWA 4. AISHA AUGIE-KUTA 5. CHINWE OGBUJAH 6. ONOWE AJULO 7. HADIZA IBRAHIM BASSI AIMS 1. TO CREATE A MENTORSHIP PLATFORM FOR CHILDREN & INSPIRE THEM TO BE RESPONSIBLE FUTURE LEADERS 2. TO MENTOR, EQUIP AND EMPOWER YOUNG WOMEN TO CONFRONT THE SILENCE OF VICTIMISATION THROUGH CREATIVE EXPRESSION AND ENTERPRISE, AND TO PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR_ GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET , MAITAMA , ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

BELLO ABIMBOLA

OYEWOLE OMOLARA

FORMALLY GEORGE ABIMBOLA MARY NOW BELLO ABIMBOLA MARY. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE.

FORMERLY VENUS DANIEL OMOLARA NOW OYEWOLE OMOLARA ZAINAB. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

GODWIN CHUKWUMA FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS GODWIN ONURA CHIANUGO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDERSSED AS GODWIN CHUKWUMA CHIANUGO ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

ABDULAZEEZ AISHA FORMERLY ADEDAMOLA ADEFUNMILOLA TENIOLA NOW TO BE ADDRESSED AS ABDULAZEEZ AISHA OMOLALA. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS UDOKANNE JULIANA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS AGBAI JULIANA NGOZI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS UDOKANNE JULIANA NGOZI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS IGWE ANULIKA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS NWANKWO ANULIKA JECINTA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS IGWE ANULIKA JECINTA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. EBONYI STATE UNIVERSITY, NYSC AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS ESTHER CHIKODI

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ENE ESTHER CHIKODI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ESTHER CHIKODI ANEKE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OYALADE MUTIU ABAYOMI

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLOYINDE MUTIU ABAYOMI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OYALADE MUTIU ABAYOMI ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

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OKPALAOGU BLESSING

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKPALAOGU BLESSING NWAKAEGO, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKPALAOGU BLESSING NGOZI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ALO SUNDAY

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

ADDITION OF NAME THAT I WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ANI EDENGWU, THAT I NOW WISH TO ADD STEPHEN TO MY FORMER NAME THAT I NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ANI EDENGWU STEPHEN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTES.

WUSHISHI RASHEEDAT

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AJIBOYE RASHEEDAT BANKE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS WUSHISHI RASHEEDAT BANKE ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

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

TRUSTEES (A) ADAMA TIMOTHY O.T -CHAIRMAN (B) YUNUSA BRIDGET ELE- SECRETARY AIM TO PROMOTE IGALA LANGUAGE AND CULTURE THROUGH MEDIA ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR_GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET , MAITAMA , ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: BARR EKWUNIFE BLESSING

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

TRUSTEES. 1. HELEN SEYI GARBSON: SECRETARY 2. HELLEN EZIOKWU: CHAIRMAN AIMS TO HELP CHILDREN BETWEEN THE AGES 0-5 AND PREGNANT WOMEN IN THE RURAL AREA TO HAVE EASY ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE. 2.TO ASSIST THE PREGNANT WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN THE RURAL AREAS WHO CAN’T HAVE ACCESS TO QUALITY HEALTH CARE BY PROVIDING NECESSARY ASSISTANCE TO REDUCE INFANT DEATH AND MORTALITY..

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR_GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET , MAITAMA , ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: JACOBS U BLESSING ESQ 08184740407.

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

TRUSTEES ARE (1)DOC AS FISAYO OLUBA (CHAIRPERSON) (2) SOLOMON KAYODE OLUBA (SECRETARY. ) (3)ALO OLUWALEKE JONATHAN ( MEMBER) (4)TOYIN OLUWA OSHODE (MEMBER) AIMS AND OBJECTIVES. YOUTH EMPOWERMENT

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

TRUSTEES 1. ISIORO JULIANA ADESUWA. - CHAIRMAN 2. ISIORO EMAMEZI MURPHY. - SECRETARY AIM TO ACHIEVE AMONG THE YOUNGER GENERATION OF NIGERIANS, A NATIONAL DISCUSSION THAT ADDRESSES THE PROBLEM OF DISUNITY ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR_GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET , MAITAMA , ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: BARR. EKWUNIFE BLESSING

AMICI CLUB INTERNATIONAL

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

RELIABLE BROTHERS CLUB

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. NWACHUKWU JOSEPH NNAEMEKA.- CHAIRMAN 2. ANOLUE ABUCHI 3. NWAFOR SUNDAY NNOCHIN

AIMS TO SUPPORT MASS AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR_ GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET , MAITAMA , ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: JACOBS U BLESSING ESQ 08184740407

SADAQATUN JARIYAH FOUNDATION TRUSTEES 1. MUSA ABDULHAMEED ATANDA 2. .ABDULWAHAB MUSTAPHA KAYODE 3. SALAMI MAARUF AWEDA

AIMS: 1. TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF MEMBERS

AIM 1. FEED THE POOR 2. PAY HOSPITAL BILL OF LESS PRIVILEGE 3. PAY FOR A PRISONER WHO COULD NOT AFFORD TO PAY FINE TO BE FREED 4. HELP D BOTH OPPRESSORS ND OPPRESSED 5. ORGANIZE DAWAH PROGRAMME 6. ASSIST D NEW MUSLIM BRETHREN I.E NEW CONVERTS

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

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

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: IMRAN ABDULGANEEY ESQ. 08034575080.

CHILVARY COVENANT CHRISTIAN CALVARY CHURCH

GLOBAL INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATION

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

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

TRUSTEES ARE: (1) STEVE DAVID OGBEBO CHAIRMAN (2) EUNICE DAVID OGBEBO SECRETARY (3) ELIZABETH AGBASI OBINWANNE MEMBER

TRUSTEES: 1. ILEFA ISHORO BARRY 2. OLADUNJOYE OLAWALE .O. 3. TAKIM MICHAEL ETA- AYIBA 4. OVILI NDUKA CLEMENT 5. ADAMU AISHA- NSE 6. AJAYI OLUWANIYI .M.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES. TO PREACH THE WORDS OF GOD.

SIGNED SECRETARY

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES. L. TO EMPOWER THE LESS PRIVILEGED, 2. TO RENDER MEDICAL ASSISTANCE TO LESS PRIVILEGED MOTHERS.

TRUSTEES 1.DEACONESS RACHAEL ADEYINKA ADEBAYO 2.GRACE ADERONKE BAMIDELE 3. MICHAEL ADEKUNLE ADEBAYO 4. JULIUS OLUWAGBENGA ADEBAYO 5. DORCAS ABIMBOLA BOLARINWA 6.EMMANUEL ABIODUN ADEBAYO 7. EUNICE YINKA ODEDELE 8. AYODEJI MAYOWA OGUNSINA 9. EUNICE MAYOWA OLATUNJI 10. ELIZABETH TANIMOLA

TRUSTEES: 1. EUGENE NGOESINA EMEMBO - CHAIRMAN 2. NWIYI ARINZE P. 3. CHIBUZOR FLORINTUS OKOYE 4. MORRISON EBUKE OGWU 5. AKOSA PATRICK EGBUNIKE 6. FRANCIS OKEY IGWEMMA 7. CHINEDU CHARLES OKAGBUE 8. IFEANYI VALENTINE OBUNADIKE 9. ONYEKA EMMANUEL ABADOM 10. CHRISTOPHER OKWUDILI OBANYE - SECRETARY 11. NONSO ANTHONY OGBOGU

SIGNED SECRETARY

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. AGADA EJIOFOR, 2, DUKOR HELEN EBIMOERE 3, AGADA CYNTHIA

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

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

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

SUPERMUMS FOUNDATION

YINKADE AGRO ALLIED PROCESSING ORGANIZATIONS

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

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

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

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COMPUTER VALUE FOUNDATION

THE ABOVE NAMED FOUNDATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO1 OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEE: 1. EREBI DESMOND GODSPOWER 2. KOFI JEREMIAH EMAVWOHWE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROMOTE COMPUTER LITERACY, BASIC EDUCATION AND PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT THROUGH DIGITAL SOLUTIONS FOR SOCIAL ADVANCEMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, P.M.B. 198. GARKI, ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY.

MR & MISS CULTURAL HERITAGE BEAUTY PAGEANT FOUNDATION 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. IFECHUKWU EMMANUEL IKECHUKWU - CHAIRMAN 2. AMADI HENRY UCHENNA - SECRETARY 3. MGBONYE TONY AZUKA - TREASURER.

OBJECTIVES ARE: PROMOTING THE USE OF INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY TO DRIVE ECONOMY,POLITIC,EDUCATION AND GENERAL WELL BEING OF PEOPLE GLOBALLY ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR_GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET , MAITAMA , ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

ALHAYAT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

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. USMAN MUHAMMED BASHEER 2. MUHAMMED LAWAL IBROHEEM ORIYOMI 3. WAHAB SAKHIRULLAHI ABIODUN AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROVIDE POVERTY ALLEVIATION SCHEME TO ASSIST AND EMPOWER THE NEEDY AND LESS PRIVILEGE. 2. TO PROMOTE PEACE UNITY AND LOVE AMONG MEMBERS. 3. TO ASSIST IN CONSTRUCTION OF MOSQUE, BOREHOLE AND WATER FOR THE NEEDY. 4. RESPONDING IN TIME OF EMERGENCY TO VICTIMS OF NATURAL OR MAN-MADE DISASTER IN AFRICA WITH RELIEF MATERIALS, SHELTER AND HEALTH CARE SERVICES IN COLLABORATION WITH OTHER INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AROUND THE WORLD. 5. TO ORGANIZE SEMINARS SYMPOSIUM, LECTURES, PROGRAMS GREASED TOWARDS MEMBERS DEVELOPMENT. 6. TO PROMOTE INFRASTRUCTURAL AND SOCIO -CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMMUNITY. 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

TEMPLE OF REDEMPTION OF THE PERFECT LORD CHERUBIM & SERAPHIM CHURCH

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. ADEYEMI AYINDE FOLORUNSHO - PRESIDENT 2. MRS. AJAYI ADEDOTUN VICTORIA - VICE PRESIDENT 3. MISS ADEYEMI ADEWUNMI OLUWATOBI - SECRETARY 4. ADEYEMI OMOLADE DORIS - FINANCIAL SECRETARY

AIMS/ OBJECTIVES: 1. TO HELP PROMOTE UNITY, PEACE AND WELFARE OF MEMBERS AND THAT OF THE SOCIETY IN GENERAL. 2. TO ENGAGE IN CHARITY ACTIVITIES

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. TO REDEFINE NIGERIANS CULTURAL HERITAGE. 2. TO PROMOTE THE INNER BEAUTY AND POTENTIALS OF THE NIGERIA YOUTHS. 3. TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NIGERIA TOURISM ACTIVITIES.

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.

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

SIGNED BY BARR IYIEGBU MATTHEW C.

SIGNED: EMMANUEL IKECKUKWU.

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. PREACHING GOD’S WORD, DEMONSTRATING GOD’S POWER AND EMPOWERING GOD’S PEOPLE

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FOUNDATION OF ELITE YOUTHS OF AWORI INDIGENES OF LAGOS THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MARTERS ACT 1990.

THE TRUSTIES ARE: 1. ERINLE ADEOLA ADELEYE 2.AYANWALE QUADIR BABATUNDE 3.ABRAHAM OLAOLUWA MICHEAL 4.OSOJA MUHAMMED SALIU AIMS AND OBJECTIVES  TO CHATTER FOR THE WELFARE OF AWORI INDIGENES HOME AND ABROAD TO FOSTER THE INTEREST OF AWORI INDIGENES IN ALL FACET OF LIFE  TO ORGANIZE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS FOR AWORI INDIGENES  TO UNITE ALL AWORI INDIGENES THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE FEDERATION ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION. PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUNYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA PMB 198 GARKI ABUJA WITHIN TWENTY EIGHT (28) DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION.

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DAILY BENEFITS & SEED HOPE FOUNDATION

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED 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. EROJIE, ISIOMA FLORENCE 2. EROJIE, BENEDICT AGOCHICHE 3. AKAGWU, BAMIYO 4. AKAGWU, GABRIEL ONALO 5. NWULI, NDIDI ESTHER 6. AMUNIKORO, ISMAIL OLALEKAN 7. EROJIE, ODILILE AGOCHICHE

CHOP LIFE CLUB

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE:1. EKUBO- OKWARAEKE IKENNA ALEX 2. OGBONNA IKECHUKWU MITCHEL 3. MAKUN OMONIYI OLORUNYOMI

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE:1. TO EMPOWER YOUTHS IN THE SKILL OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT. 2. TO COUNSEL AND TEACH THE YOUTH ON THE ART OF SAVINGS AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT 3.TO EMPOWER THE UNSCHOOLED THE ART OF ACQUIRING SKILLS TO ELIMINATE POVERTY ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA DISTRICT, P.M.B. 198 GARKI, FCT, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION.

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE IS: TO FOSTER LOVE AND UNITY AMONG MEMBERS ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA DISTRICT, P.M.B. 198 GARKI, FCT, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

SIGNED BY: SECRETARY

SIGNED BY: BARRISTER OKECHUKWU AHUMARAEZE

NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME OF COMPANY

THE TRANSFORMED LIFE BELIEVERS FELLOWSHIP.

THE MIGHTY WORD REVIVAL TRUMPET MISSION.

THIS IS TO NOTIFY THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT TERRACO TRADING COMPANY LIMITED OF 148 TRANS AMADI INDUSTRIAL LAYOUT, RIVERS STATE WITH RC NUMBER (RC 1249097) IS NOW OPERATING AS POPSTAR SNACK FOOD COMPANY LTD. OF 148 TRANS AMADI INDUSTRIAL LAYOUT, PORT HARCOURT, RIVERS STATE WITH RC NUMBER (RC 1455407). THERE HAS BEEN NO CHANGE IN MANAGEMENT AND WE WILL BE PROVIDING THE VERY SAME PRODUCT AND THE SERVICE ON WHICH WE HAVE BUILT OUR REPUTATION IN THE INDUSTRY. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE HEREBY INFORMED THAT ALL BUSINESSES AS IT REGARDS THE OBJECTS CLAUSE IN THE MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION OF TERRACO TRADING COMPANY LIMITED ARE NOW PERFORMED BY POPSTAR SNACK FOOD COMPANY LIMITED. SIGNED FOR MANAGEMENT OZIEGBE EHIMUAN ................................................ DIRECTOR

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

JESUS CHRIST GREAT HEAVENLY MISSION ASSEMBLY. 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. ALUZU ELIZABETH BRALATEF - PRESIDENT. 2. ORIANZI INAEBIDOU DOROTHY - SECRETARY. 3. OCHI JULIET - TREASURER. AIMS/OBJECTIVES; 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST IN EVERY NATION. 2. TO RAISE MEN AND WOMEN OF PRAYER THROUGH THE WORD OF FAITH. ANY OBJECTIONS TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED; PRESIDENT.

PRAISE, WORSHIP & PRAYER MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED MINISTRY IS APPLYING TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE 1. MRS. AJIBIKE OLUSOLA IFIDON 2. MRS. OLUFUNMILAYO OLUFUNKE BROWN 3. DR. MRS. OLUFUNMILAYO GLORIA ARE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: TO EQUIP THE BODY OF CHRIST - THE CHURCH WITH THE TRUE WORD FOR MAXIMUM IMPACT AND SUCCESS FOR LIFE THAT NOW IS AND THAT WHICH IS TO COME ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO: THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: - BAR. OKEWOYE OPEYEMI

MRS AGU IFEOMA

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

OKORO CHIBUIKE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED OKORO CHIBEKE EMEKA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKORO CHIBUIKE VINCENT. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

NDUKWE EXCEL IZUNWA I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NDUKWE ALOYSIUS IZUNWA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NDUKWE EXCEL IZUNWA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. ALPHA SEC. SCHOOL, NIGERIA LEGION, UNITED NIG. CHAPLAINCY AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS DURU EZINNE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS DURU EZINNE STELLAMARIS OJIUGO, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS DURU EZINNE STELLAMARIS OJIUGO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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 TRUSTEE ARE: 1. ADAKPO AUGUSTINE OWOKA. 2. ADAKPO JUDITH EMURERHI.

THE TRUSTEES ARE; 1.PETER CHOICE BARIAGARA. 2. AGHEDO PETER JOHN. 3. JUMBO DUM PROMISE.

AIM AND OBJECTIVE : TO PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.

AIMS/OBJECTIVES; 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. 2. TO WIN SOULS FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD.

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 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.

RUGGED STEPS FOUNDATION FOR AFRICAN YOUTHS DEVELOPMENT

DESTINY REDEMPTION EVANGELICAL 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 ACT OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE; 1. DR E. D. OKO-JAJA, - CHAIRMAN BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2. PRINCE (AMB) KALADA OKO-JAJA, - EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. 3. ADM JOE THOMAS (ESQ), - BOARD SECRETARY. 4. STEVE GEORGE OKOLO, - BOARD TREASURER. 5. EMMANUEL JAJA, - BOARD MEMBER. AIMS/OBJECTIVES; 1. TO INCREASE INCLUSIVE EDUCATION PROGRAMS, ELECTORAL PARTICIPATION, CAPACITY BUILDING, COUNSELING, AND MENTORSHIP GEARED TOWARDS DEVELOPING A POOL OF VIBRANT, INDEPENDENT AND RESOURCEFUL WOMEN, YOUTHS AND PEOPLE LIVING WITH DISABILITIES THEREBY SHOWCASING SEVERAL UNIQUE ABILITIES. 2. PROMOTING THE DIGNITY, PROTECTING THE RIGHTS, ENSURING SMOOTH INTEGRATION, AND NON DISCRIMINATORY ADVOCACY ACTION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, WOMEN AND YOUTHS ACROSS BOARD. 3. TO PARTNER WITH RELEVANT STAKEHOLDERS TOWARDS BUILDING AN ALL INCLUSIVE SOCIETY WITH STRONG FOCUS ON SUSTAINABLE ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT. 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; DR E. D. OKO-JAJA, (CHAIRMAN BOARD OF TRUSTEES)

CORRECTION OF NAME AND DATE OF BIRTH.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS LAWAL IBRAHIM BOLADE, ON MY BVN, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS LAWAL IBRAHIM BOLAJI. DATE OF BIRTH 15 FEBRUARY, 1978. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS NWALI JULIET

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS IJEZIE JULIET NNENNA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS NWALI JULIET NNENNA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS UMEH JUSTINA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ENEBE JUSTINA ONYINYE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS UMEH JUSTINA ONYINYE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. NYSC AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CHUKWU CHINENYE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHUKWU CHINENYE HELEN , NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHUKWU CHINENYE BONIFACE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

SIGNED; PETER CHOICE BARIAGARA

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED MINISTRY IS APPLYING TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE 1 DOLADOSU PIUS 2 OLADOSU FOLAKEMI BETTY 3 OYENIYI FUNMILAYO RAACHEAL AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO: THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

CORRECTION OF NAME

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UCHE PATIENCE ANYADIOHA ,NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UCHE PATIENCE NNAETO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT MY NAMES WERE WRONGLY SPELT ON MY BVN AS AKIODE MUNIRAT EKIATA INSTEAD OF MUNIRAT SWEBATU OGIENAGBON. CORRECTING SPELLING OF MY NAMES ARE MUNIRAT SWEBATU OGIENAGBON. MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 21ST OF JANUARY,1984.ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CHRISTIANA ADAGI I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, MARTHA KAABEE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, CHRISTIANA ADAGI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

ENEOGBUAGU KENECHUKWU

OGADA JUSTINA NKECHI I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGADA JUSTINA .A. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGADA JUSTINA NKECHI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ISAAC GODWIN I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EZE PRECIOUS UAWUNWANNE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ISAAC GODWIN CHINECHEREM. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

UCHE PATIENCE NNAETO

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ENEOGBUAGU KENECHUKWU CHIDINMA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ENEOGBUAGU KENECHUKWU NANCY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OBIEKWE ROSEMARY

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

NJOKUEZE LIVINUS

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NJOKU LIVINUS IFECHUKWU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NJOKUEZE LIVINUS IFECHUKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ODOH CHIMEZIE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ODOH CHIMEZIE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS DAVID CHIMEZIE TIMOTHY. MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 17TH APRIL 1991.

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

NWEBONYI ELIZABETH

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWANKWEGU ELIZABETH IGBOKE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWEBONYI ELIZABETH IJEOMA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS OKEKE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ONYIA LORRITA UJU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OKEKE LORRITA UJU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

AGBAGA UKAMAKA I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NNAMCHI UKAMAKA MARY, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AGBAGA UKAMAKA MARY. MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 25TH MAY 1986. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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ADEMOLA OLUWAKEMI

ODETERUN TEMITOPE

OLUWABIYI BENJAMIN

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEYEMO TEMITOPE ADEJOKE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ODETERUN TEMITOPE ADEJOKE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FAGORALA OLUWAKEMI OLUWAFUNKE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEMOLA OLUWAKEMI OLUWAFUNKE.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLUWABIYI BENJAMIN NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLUWABIYI BENJAMIN ADEBOYE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OTUEKONG DANIEL

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OTU, OTU DANIEL NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OTUEKONG DANIEL UMANA.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

YASHARAHLA YAHAWAH.

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS RUFAIDA OJUOLAPE FOLUSEKE ABIOLA.NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS YASHARAHLA YAHAWAH.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

KADIRI USMAN I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS USUMAN KADIR YUSUF, NOW WISHES TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS KADIRI USMAN OLAITAN. THE GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

BENADICT AKUKA

MRS NWAIGWE NNENNA

OGBONNA FRANCISCA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ASOANYA MARAMEBE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BENADICT AKUKA OKEZUO ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS NWACHUKWU NNENNA CYNTHIA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS NWAIGWE NNENNA CYNTHIA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. IMO STATE POLYTECHNIC, UMUAGWO, NYSC AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OSUJI FRANCISCA OLUCHI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGBONNA FRANCISCA OLUCHI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. IMO STATE POLYTECHNIC, UMUAGWO AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

BABATUNDE IGE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BABATUNDE IGE JOHN , NOW TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BABATUNDE IGE JUWON. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARINGS MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITIES CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

OLADEINDE NOFISATU

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NOFISAT OLADENDE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLADEINDE NOFISATU TEMILOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC/ AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OGWUELEKA CELESTINA I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWABUEZE CELESTINA CHIBUONU NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGWUELEKA CELESTINA CHIBUONU ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ALIYU DANSABE

MRS MGBAKO ESTHER

EMENIKE CHINEDU

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ALIYU DANJUMA IDRISU NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ALIYU DANSABE IDRIS ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS UMEH ESTHER EBERE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN MRS MGBAKO ESTHER CHIDIEBERE AND ADDRESSED AS ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

FAMUYIWA OLUWATOYIN

OSEMENE ADA LOVETH I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OZORJI ADA LOVETH NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS OSEMENE ADA LOVETH. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS LAWANSON OLUWATOYIN OLUWAKEMISOLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FAMUYIWA OLUWATOYIN OLUWAKEMISOLA JUMOKE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

IKECHUKWU

JANE IKOKWU

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EMENIKE CHINEDU OBIORA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EMENIKE CHINEDU MICHEAL ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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MRS ODUGBESAN ANUOLUWAPO FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS EBENEZER ANUOLUWAPO LOIS NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ODUGBESAN ANUOLUWAPO LOIS.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID,GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE ACHO-LIGHT STELLA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IHEANACHO STELLA CHINAENYENWA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ACHOLIGHT STELLA CHINAENYENWA ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME THIS IS TO CONFIRM THAT EMMANUEL MAPTIS AND ODO EMMANUEL CHIDIEBERE REFER TO ONE AND THE SAME PERSON, BUT HENCEFORTH WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS HYACINTH EMMANUEL CHIDIEBERE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

IDOWU ESTHER I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IDOWU ESTHER OLUWABAMIRO NOW WISHES TO BE ADDRESSED AS IDOWU ESTHER TIAMIYU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

MRS. OMOYEMWEN BARBARA I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OMOYEMWEN BARBARA ASUEN NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. OMOYEMWEN BARBARA AJAO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

CHUKWU ANTHONY

ODERINDE OLUWAKEMI I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ODUFUWA OLUWAKEMI BUKUNOLA NOW WISHES TO BE ADDRESSED AS ODERINDE OLUWAKEMI BUKUNOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

MISS UKONU APPOLONIA

ADDITION OF NAME/ CORRECTION OF BIRTH DATE

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHUKWU ONYEA BUT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHUKWU ANTHONY AND THAT MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 04/03/1960 AND NOT 03/03/1960.

THAT ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS UKONU APPOLONIA.G.ONYEKACHI AND UKONU ONYEKACHI GLORIA NOW WISHES TO BE ADDRESSED AS MRS UZOZIE ONYEKACHI GLORIA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ODEH AMARA GRACE NOW WISH TO ADD MIRABEL TO MY NAME. HENCEFORTH, I WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ODEH AMARA GRACE MIRABEL. THAT MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 09/10/1992 AND NOT 09/10/1988. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

EBILE EVELYN I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS YENASINE EVELYN OBOGWU NOW WISHES TO BE ADDRESSED AS EBILE EVELYN OBOGWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

FAPOHUNDA-ADEGBOLA I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FAPOHUNDA FOLUKE FAITH NOW WISHES TO BE ADDRESSED AS FAPOHUNDA-ADEGBOLA FOLUKE FAITH. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

HOROYE OLUWAKEMI

EVEREST KINGSLEY I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NJOKU KINGSLEY NOW WISHES TO BE ADDRESSED AS EVEREST KINGSLEY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

SHAHEEN IMAD I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ABDUL JABBAR SHAHEEN IMAD HASSAN NOW WISHES TO BE ADDRESSED AS SHAHEEN IMAD. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

AJIBADE TAIWO THAT I WAS FORMERLY KNOWN,ADDRESSED & CALLED AS AJIBADE TAIWO TOYIN NOW WISH BE KNOWN, ADDRESSED & CALLED AS TIJANI TAIWO TOYIN GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADELEYE MODUPE COMFORT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEWOLE MODUPE COMFORT. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

AND

NOW WISHES TO BE ADDRESSED AS OJOBARO- IBRAHIM MARIAM. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

ADEGBITE OLUWATOYIN

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CONFIRMATION OF NAME:

ADEDOYIN ADENIKE

I, CHRISTOPHER NATHAN CYRIL, THAT I AM THE SAME PERSON BEARING CHRISTOPHER ALEX CYRIL. THAT I NOW WISH TO MAINTAIN CHRISTOPHER NATHAN CYRIL. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OSHATUYI ADENIKE ZUZAN NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEDOYIN ADENIKE SUZAN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CHANGE OF NAME/DECLARATION OF AGE.

THAT I WAS FORMERLY KNOWN, ADDRESSED AND CALLED AS SHOROYE OLUWAKEMI TEMITAYO NOW WISH BE KNOWN, ADDRESSED & CALLED AS SHOROYE OLUWAKEMI JULIANA. . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

ESSIEN EKAETE I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADIA ESSIEN EZEKIEL EKAETE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS ESSIEN EKAETE COMFORT. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

OJOBARO- IBRAHIM KNOWN

MRS FARIDA ABUBAKAR

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MAKANJUOLA OLUWASEUN MICHAEL BUT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AYIDEJI MICHAEL AND THAT MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 27/8/1992. THAT ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VAILD AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

AKINSOGBA OLUBUKOLA I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AFERE OLUBUKOLA OLUBUNMI NOW WISHES TO BE ADDRESSED AS AKINSOGBA OLUBUKOLA OLUBUNMI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

FORMERLY

I, MRS. ABAYOMI SIKIRAT SOLA, HEREBY AFFIRM THAT THIS IS MY NAME. THAT I WAS BORN ON 225-1979. THAT I HAIL FROM KOGI STATE. THAT I HAVE NO VOTER’S CARD, NATIONAL ID CARD NOR INT’L PASSPORT. ALL DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

MODUPEOLA ADETOUN FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MODUPEOLA ADETOUN POTOKR, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MODUPEOLA ADETOUN KOMOLAFE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

ABDULMALIK YETUNDE I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEJUMO ABIOLA FOLASHADE NOW WISHES TO BE ADDRESSED AS ABDULMALIK YETUNDE TITILAYO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

ADDRESSED AS OJOBARO MARIAM

SELF IDENTIFICATION

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKPALAOKA ONYINYE CHINWENDU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ANAEMENE ONYINYE CHINWENDU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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

GIWA THOMAS

I

ANAEMENE ONYINYE

IBEH BLOSSOM

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IBEH BLOSSOM NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IBEH BLOSSOM ELOZONA ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CHANGE OF NAME AND DATE BIRTH I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FRIDAY ESSIEN ROBERT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FRIDAY ROBERT AKPAN, DATE OF BIRTH, 29/8/1982 ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ABDULMALIK YETUNDE

IYAMU EVELYN BANKU I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ODU EVELYN BANKU NOW WISHES TO BE ADDRESSED AS IYAMU EVELYN BANKU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

MRS KEKE CHIDINMA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS UBA CHIDINMA AUGUSTINA .M. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS KEKE CHIDINMA AUGUSTINA .M. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS OLAWALE OLUWATOYOSI

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OWOADE OLUWATOYOSI FUNKE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OLAWALE OLUWATOYOSI FUNKE ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

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EMUCHAY FAITH

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JANE CHIDIEBERE IKOKWU BUT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JANE IKOKWU AND THAT MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 21/07/1971.

THAT ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS GIWA AKEEM ABIODU NOW WISHES TO BE ADDRESSED AS GIWA THOMAS AKINTUNDE. THAT MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 20/06/1990 AND NOT 12/06/1990. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

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I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NDOMANYA CHUKWUEMEKA CELESTINE COLLINS NOW WISH TO CHANGE MY SURNAME TO IKECHUKWU. HENCEFORTH, I AND MY FAMILY WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS :- 1. IKECHUKWU CHUKWUEMEKA CELESTINE –HUSBAND 2.

IKECHUKWU OGECHUKWU ANTHONIA PATRICIA –WIFE 3.

IKECHUKWU TOBECHUKWU COLLINS –SON 4. IKECHUKWU MMESOMACHUKWU ANITA DANIELLA – DAUGHTER 5. IKECHUKWU SOMTOCHUKWU BLOSSOM VANESSA –DAUGHTER 6. IKECHUKWU CHUKWUEMEKA FRANKLIN -SON ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

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Classified

MRS. HELLEN NWALENJO

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ADEWOLE MODUPE

OLADUNNI BASIRAT I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLADUNNI BASIRAT HUDSON NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLADUNNI BASIRAT OLANIKE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

BAKARE OLUWABUNMI

OJEZUABI STEPHEN

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEDOKUN OLUWABUNMI RACHEAL NOW WISHES TO BE ADDRESSED AS BAKARE OLUWABUNMI RACHEAL. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FRIDAY SAMUEL STEPHEN OJEZUABI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OJEZUABI STEPHEN FRIDAY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

JOY OGUCHE I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JOY RAPHAEL NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JOY OGUCHE AYODELE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BASIRIYU ENIOLA SAKIRU NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BASIRIYU ENIOLA OLUWAKEMI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME:

IN SOME OF MY DOCUMENT MY NAME WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AS(BVN) LAYE PERETEI ISEOLUWA INSTEAD OF OLANEGAN OLUWAFEMI ISEOLUWA NOW WISH TO BE KNOW AND ADDRESSED AS OLANEGAN OLUWAFEMI ISEOLUWA. ALL DOCUMENT / CREDENTIAL BEARING FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE

BASIRIYU ENIOLA

MRS HASSAN MONSURAT

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS SAKARIYAH MONSURAT ABIMBOLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS HASSAN MONSURAT ABIMBOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

Classified 22 SPRINGSWATER SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC), ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART ‘C’ OF COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1990.

TRUSTEES: 1. OWOLABI JOSEPH OLAJIDE 2. OWOLABI ESTHER TITILAYO 3. YEANAY JOSEPH NNONLOR 4. ESEYIN TEMIDAYO JOSHUA 5. OWOLABI MARVELLOUS TEMILOLUWA 6. OWOLABI OLUWATOBI OLAJIDE 7. OLORUNFEMI OPEYEMI OLUTOLA

Daily Times Nigeria Monday, October 16, 2018

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

TRUSTEES 1. BARR. DAUDA SANI - CHAIRMAN 2. BARR. BASHEER UMAR ABUBAKAR - SECRETARY 3. BARR. ABUBUKAR DANLADI 4. BARR. USMAN SALIHU

OBJECT: TO GENERATE, DEVELOP AND ADAPT AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGIES THAT FOCUS ON THE NEEDS OF THE OVERALL DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE IN RURAL NIGERIA AND AFRICA. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR_ GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET , MAITAMA , ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROMOTE GOOD GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY AND ENLIGHTENMENT. 2. TO CREATE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC AWARENESS AMONG MEMBERS AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR_GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET , MAITAMA , ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED:- SECRETARY

SIGNED:- SECRETARY

NWADINMA MOTHERLESS BABY’S AND DESTUDE HOME

IMPACT INVESTORS FOUNDATION

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OGBONNA NWADINMA FLORENCE 2. OGBONNA PRECIOUS EKPEREDIKE

TRUSTEES ARE: I. INNOCENT CHUKWUMA 2. FRANK AIGBOGUN 3. ULOMA IKE 4. ENGR AFOLABI OLADELE

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

BEIGE EMPOWERMENT FOUNDATION

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: I. TO PROMOTE AND ENHANCE THE WELFARE OF HER MEMBERS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR_GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGEND: ANAYO IKEAH & CO ABUJA

INSPIRE LITTLE MINDS FOUNDATION

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

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

TRUSTEES ARE. 1)OLOFINTILA FEMISAYO BUSAYO 2)ADENIYI YEWANDE FOLUKE 3)NKEONYE ADEDOYIN AYOKUNMI (SECRETARY.

THE TRUSTEES ARE : 1. OLUGBENRO OLUBUNMI SELERE 2. OLUWATOYIN OPEOLUWA SELERE, 3. VIRTUOUS OLUWATIMILEHIN SELERE 4. JEDIDIAH OMOTEBI SELERE.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1)POVERTY ALLEVIATION 2)YOUTH EMPOWERMENT 3)HELPING THE INDIGENT IN THE SOCIETY ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR_GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED. SECRETARY.

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE : 1.TO PROVIDE CHARITABLE SERVICES TO LESS PRIVILEDGE CHILDREN. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR_GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

OSELE HELEN YETUNDE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS PITAN HELEN YETUNDE ELIZABETH NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OSELE HELEN YETUNDE ELIZABETH ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

OMOGBAI OKPEKU QUEENSLY FORMERLY OKPEKU QUEENSLY FUNMILAYO NOW TO BE ADDRESSED AS OMOGBAI OKPEKU QUEENSLY FUNMILAYO. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS KUTI ABOSEDE FORMERLY MISS AKINLEYE ABOSEDE THERESA NOW MRS KUTI ABOSEDE THERESA. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OLUJOBI OLUBANKE

MRS ABIOYE STELLA

MOSADOLUWA KHADIJAH FORMERLY KNOWN AS LAWAL KHADIJAH ADENIKE NOW KNOWN AS MOSADOLUWA KHADIJAH ADENIKE. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

FORMERLY KNOWN AS ALIMI OLUBANKE OLUFOLAKE NOW KNOWN AS OLUJOBI OLUBANKE OLUFOLAKE. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE ODUMOSU OLABIMPE

FORMER KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWADIANI STELLA CHUKWUYEM NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ABIOYE STELLA CHUKWUYEM ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

BABATUNDE JUBRIL

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADENOLA OLABIMPE ESTHER NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ODUMOSU OLABIMPE ESTHER (MRS). THIS IS DUE TO CHANGE IN MARITAL STATUS. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BABATUNDE AJANI FASASI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BABATUNDE JUBRIL FASASI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

PUBLIC NOTICE THIS IS THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT LATE MR FELIX EZE NATIVE OF UMUAGU UDI L.G.A DIED ON 28TH APRIL 2013, AT ESUT TEACHING HOSPITAL PARKLANE. AND ALSO HE WAS BURIED ON MAY 2013 AT HIS HOME TOWN. MRS LAWAL ADEFUNKE

THIS IS TO CERTIFY AND CONFIRM THAT AKADORONYE CHIZZY, AKADORONYE CHINYERE AND CHINYERE PETERS REFERS AS ONE AND THE SAME PERSON NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AKADORONYE CHINYERE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CHANGE OF NAME/DATE OF BIRTH I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AJAYI OLAREWAJU BUSAYO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JOSEPH OLANREWAJU BUSAYO,THAT MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 01/09/1976 AND NOT 26/05/1975 ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OLAKUNRIN ADEFUNKE OLABIMPE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS LAWAL ADEFUNKE OLABIMPE AISHA ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

ADDITION OF NAME:

IN SOME OF MY DOCUMENTS MY NAME APPEARS AS IGE BABAMUYIWA AND OTHERS AS IGE BELO NOW WISH TO ADD BELO TO MY NAMES. HENCEFORTH I WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IGE BABAMUYIWA BELO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

FLORENCE NYEKPUNWO

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FLORENCE NYEKPUNWO ALEX-JUMBO, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FLORENCE NYEKPUNWO BROWN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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TRUSTEES 1. HAYENICHUKWU OKOH 2. OMOLEWA YETUNDE AHMED 3. ADEWUNMI EMORUWA 4. AISHA AUGIE-KUTA 5. CHINWE OGBUJAH 6. ONOWE AJULO 7. HADIZA IBRAHIM BASSI AIMS 1. TO CREATE A MENTORSHIP PLATFORM FOR CHILDREN & INSPIRE THEM TO BE FUTURE RESPONSIBLE LEADERS 2. TO MENTOR, EQUIP AND EMPOWER YOUNG WOMEN TO CONFRONT THE SILENCE OF VICTIMISATION THROUGH CREATIVE EXPRESSION AND ENTERPRISE, AND PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR_ GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET , MAITAMA , ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

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 NO. 1 OF 1990.

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. TO HELP THE ORPHANS AND THE NEEDY. 2. TO HELP THE LESS PRIVILEGED IN THE SOCIETY.

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

EREZITOME OZIE

FORMERLY EREZITOME OZIE IDUDU NOW EREZITOME OZIE GINAMRE. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE. MRS. ABDULLAHI ZAINAB

FORMERLY MISS. OLANIYI OLAIDE ZAINAB NOW MRS. ABDULLAHI ZAINAB OLAIDE. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE. OTI CALLISTA I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS DURUIGBO CALLISTA NKEIRUKA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OTI CALLISTA NKEIRUKA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE. OYEBOLA AKEEM

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OYEBOLA SEUN MICHAEL NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OYEBOLA AKEEM SEUN ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

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

TRUSTEES 1. HAYENICHUKWU OKOH 2. OMOLEWA YETUNDE AHMED 3. ADEWUNMI EMORUWA 4. AISHA AUGIE-KUTA 5. CHINWE OGBUJAH 6. ONOWE AJULO 7. HADIZA IBRAHIM BASSI AIMS 1. TO CREATE A MENTORSHIP PLATFORM FOR CHILDREN & INSPIRE THEM TO BE RESPONSIBLE FUTURE LEADERS 2. TO MENTOR, EQUIP AND EMPOWER YOUNG WOMEN TO CONFRONT THE SILENCE OF VICTIMISATION THROUGH CREATIVE EXPRESSION AND ENTERPRISE, AND TO PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR_ GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET , MAITAMA , ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

BELLO ABIMBOLA

OYEWOLE OMOLARA

FORMALLY GEORGE ABIMBOLA MARY NOW BELLO ABIMBOLA MARY. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE.

FORMERLY VENUS DANIEL OMOLARA NOW OYEWOLE OMOLARA ZAINAB. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

GODWIN CHUKWUMA FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS GODWIN ONURA CHIANUGO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDERSSED AS GODWIN CHUKWUMA CHIANUGO ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

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MRS UDOKANNE JULIANA

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MRS ESTHER CHIKODI

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OYALADE MUTIU ABAYOMI

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OKPALAOGU BLESSING

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ALO SUNDAY

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ADDITION OF NAME THAT I WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ANI EDENGWU, THAT I NOW WISH TO ADD STEPHEN TO MY FORMER NAME THAT I NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ANI EDENGWU STEPHEN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTES.

WUSHISHI RASHEEDAT

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SPORTS TIMES Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Usain Bolt baffled by drug test request

Usain Bolt was left stunned after being handed a drug testing notice despite retiring from athletics and having no professional contract as he bids to launch a football career in Australia.

The 100m world record-holder quit athletics last year and is yet to be offered a deal by Australia’s Central Coast Mariners, where he is currently on trial.

“So guys I’ve retired from track and field looking to become a footballer but look at this,” Bolt said Monday, via an Instagram video as he zoomed in on the notice.

The demand for the out of

competition test – to collect urine and blood – appears to have been issued by Football Federation Australia.

“How am I going to get a drug test today? I’m not even a professional footballer yet.

Seriously,” said Bolt.

“So I asked the lady, ‘Why am I getting drug tested when I haven’t signed for a club yet?’ and she said they told her I’m an elite athlete so I have to get tested.

Okay then.”

Despite his displeasure, it appears the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority guidelines mean he is eligible to be tested.

Their legislation defines an

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athlete as a “person who competes in sport” if “the sport has an antidoping policy”.

The eight-time Olympic champion, who dominated sprinting after taking double individual gold at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, is now bidding to become a professional footballer.

He made his case on Friday by scoring two goals for the Mariners in a pre-season friendly.

The superstar, a massive Manchester United fan, has been handed a chance to train with the A-League side for an indefinite period in order to pursue his dream.

Gernot Rohr: Super Eagles need ‘big fighting spirit’ to beat Libya in Sfax Nigeria coach Gernot Rohr says he expects a challenging Africa Cup of Nations qualifier rematch against Libya on Tuesday despite trouncing the north Africans at the weekend.

Odion Ighalo, the former Watford striker now at Chinese club Changchun Yatai, bagged a hattrick as Nigeria thrashed Libya 4-0 in the southern town of Uyo on Saturday.

They will square up again in Sfax in Tunisia, the adopted home of war-ravaged Libya.

Rohr said he expected the Libyans to provide a stiffer challenge as they seek to avenge the heavy loss.

“We need a big fighting spirit to beat Libya again,” he insisted.

“It will be a difficult game because after losing 4-0 in Uyo they will be aggressive, they want revenge.”

Rohr added: “We have to be stronger to win again. It’s not finished yet.

“Libya was not defensive (in Uyo) and they could also have scored. They played well, they were fighting.”

The Franco-German coach said the Super Eagles won because their strikers outran Libya’s flat-footed defense.

“Our quick strikers tried to be efficient against the slow defenders of Libya,” Rohr explained.

“We scored an early goal from good pressing and in the second half, they left space in their defense

because they tried to score also and we had more opportunities to score.”

Turkey-based Ogenyi Onazi and Shehu Abdullahi have been ruled out of Tuesday’s match after picking up injuries.

Onazi has an inflamed Achilles, while Abdullahi did not complete Saturday’s game due to a leg muscle injury.

Nigeria is now second in Group E with six points from three matches, a point behind leaders South Africa.

Libya is third with four points, while Seychelles have yet to record any points.

The top two teams in the group will advance to the finals in June 2019.

Christian Chukwu: It’s important for Super Eagles: We‘ll beat Libya again Super Eagles to beat Libya in Tunisia Former Super Eagles’ chief coach Christian Chukwu on Monday said it was important for the senior national men’s football team to beat their Libyan counterparts at Sfax in Tunisia on Tuesday.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Nigeria face Libya in a Group E Match Day 4 fixture in the 2019 AFCON Qualifying Competition.

On Saturday, both sides had met in Uyo in a Match Day 3 fixture, with hosts Nigeria winning 4-0 to move into second place in the group with six points.

Christian Chukwu told NAN on Monday that another victory

over Libya would go a long way in seeing the Super Eagles through to the Nations Cup scheduled for June in Cameroon.

“They need to go on to beat the Libyans. There should be no questions about that, because a win on Tuesday will take care of so many things and pave the way for them to head to Cameroon,’’ he said.

The former captain of the defunct Green Eagles, where he was a force in the team’s central defence, however commended the Super Eagles players for their outstanding performance against Libya.

“I am interested in results, as I will rather love to play badly and win than to play well and lose.

“The Eagles made us proud on Saturday, as most of us did not see the 4-0 result coming. Instead, we were expecting a 1-0 result,” Chukwu said.

NAN reports that Nigeria beat visiting Libya 4-0 in the qualifier at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, with Odion Ighalo scoring a hat-trick for the Super Eagles in the match.

Samuel Kalu scored the fourth goal of the match, for Nigeria to stay just below group leaders South Africa who stay top of the group after a 6-0 win over Seychelles.

Super Eagles stars have boasted ahead tomorrow return leg clash against the Mediterranean Knights of Libya in Sfax.

The victory which revived Super Eagles 2019 African Cup of Nations qualification hope, has seen players like Ola Aina, Alex Iwobi, William Troost-Ekong and Kenneth Omeruo talking tough ahead the must win tie.

“Mood after today victory…

what a win.. great fight from the boys.. we go again Tuesday..,” Omeruo revealed via an Instagram post.

In a similar vein, light skin defender, William Troost-Ekong also expressed his intention ahead of the duel.

“3 points. Clean sheet. Great work from the boys today.

Always enjoy playing on my home soil in Uyo. Special mention of @ighalojude congrats on your

hat-trick bro. On to Tuesday now to finish the job! #SuperEagles #Afcon #GloryToGod.” Ola Aina and Alex Iwobi also expressed their feelings in similar vein.

With the 4-0 victory, Eagles with 6 point are now 2nd on the AFCON qualifier group E log table, while South Africa maintain the top position with seven point.

Libya and Seychelles are now in 3rd and 4th position respectively.

FIBA chief Patrick Baumann dies of heart attack in Buenos Aires Patrick Baumann, the 51-year-old Secretary General of basketball’s world governing body, has died of heart attack at the Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) said on Monday.

FIBA said in a statement that “basketball has lost a leader, an advocate and a friend and our thoughts are with Patrick’s wife and two children at this tragic time.”

Baumann was a former player, coach and referee who first joined FIBA as a lawyer in

1994 and was appointed FIBA Secretary General in 2002, after previously serving as deputy.

The Swiss national was influential in Olympic circles and an International Olympic Committee member since 2007.

He led an IOC panel overseeing the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

“This is a great shock which has hit us all very hard.

“We can hardly believe this terrible news. Particularly since, even today, we have seen him working hard, as we always knew him, for the sport he loved,” Thomas Bach, IOC President, said.

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