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ÏÏÏ Acting President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) has given reasons for the Federal Government’s ongoing reforms in the economy, saying that the reforms are geared

at enhancing financial prudence, integrity and transparency.

Osinbajo, who stated this at the swearing-in ceremony of newly appointed permanent secretaries, and assigning portfolios to newly appointed ministers, on Wednesday in Abuja, added that Continued on page 6

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Attack on Abuja office: It’s now fire for fire against corrupt elite -EFCC Continued from page 1 armed gunmen on its Abuja office will not deter it from its task of fighting corruption to a logical conclusion in the country.

Rather, the anti-graft agency says it will now be “fire for fire” between it and the corrupt elite in the society.

A top official of the EFCC, who spoke to the Daily Times in Abuja on the condition of anonymity, declared that the attack will further strengthen its resolve to do what is right.

The top official of the EFCC, who spoke exclusively to our correspondent in Abuja on the issue, also said: “The attack on our Abuja office is a mere distraction. It will not deter or scare us. Instead, it will motivate EFCC to fight corruption with vigour.

“The death threat to one of our investigators is a normal thing in the commission. The acting chairman of the Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, always gets death threat every other day.

“We have received a lot of death threats in the course of doing our jobs because we are always stepping on the toes of powerful and corrupt elite who are not happy with our job of fighting corruption.

“But we are not daunted

because we have a job to do and we will do our job conscientiously without minding whose ax is gored.

“These people are desperate to scuttle the war against corruption. But we will not allow them to ruin the future of this country.

The money they have stolen is our commonwealth and we have the mandate to stop them and recover their loots for the development of the country.

“I can assure you that the fight against graft is on course and we taking the crusade against corruption to another level in due course.

“The attack by these gunmen is of no consequence to the EFCC. With this attack, we will now further arm our operatives in order to protect them”.

A group of heavily armed gunmen, in the early hours on Wednesday, attacked the Abuja office of the EFCC, shooting sporadically into the office, thereby damaging several vehicles parked there.

The gunmen, who stormed the EFCC’s office located in Wuse Zone 7, Abuja at about 5am, left a death threat message addressed to Ishaku Sharu, a senior investigator with the Commission.

Ishaku, who heads the Foreign Exchange Malpractices Fraud Section, is in-

charge of corruption investigation involving several politically exposed persons and retired military brass.

This development was confirmed in a statement issued and signed by the Commission’s head of Media and Publicity, Mr. Wilson Uwujiaren, in Abuja on Wednesday.

The attack, according to the anti-graft agency, has already been reported to the police for necessary action.

The hoodlums, according to the statement, later escaped in a getaway vehicle

after leaving their message of death for the EFCC operator.

The statement by Uwujaren reads: “A major security breach was recorded at the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in the early hours of Wednesday, August 16, 2017 as unknown gunmen attacked the office located at Wuse Zone 7, Abuja.

“The group of heavily armed bandits invaded the office at about 05.00 hours and began shooting into the

premises, damaging vehicles parked in the premises in the process.

“However, the attack was repelled by guards on duty.

“The hoodlums escaped in a getaway vehicle but not without leaving a message; a white envelope dropped by the fleeing attackers was found to contain a death threat addressed to Ishaku Sharu, a senior investigator with the Commission.

“Ishaku who heads the Foreign Exchange Malpractices Fraud Section is in-charge of corruption investigation

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ASUU Strike: FG to resume dialogue with lecturers today

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The negotiation between the federal government and Academic Staff of the Union of Universities (ASUU) has been scheduled to continue today as both parties seek a common ground to ameliorate the situation that precipitated the strike embarked upon by the university lecturers.

However, the federal government has embarked on the process of renegotiating agreements it reached with the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), and the College of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU), by inaugurating two teams to interface with them.

Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, who inaugurated the teams in Abuja yesterday said the agreements were due for renegotiation since 2013 but the exercise did not take place because of some unforeseen circumstances; adding that barely

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two years into the life of the present administration, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the reconstitution of the government teams and the commencement of renegotiation with the unions.

Adamu further charged the members to study the agreements entered into with all the unions in the Colleges of Education and Polytechnics and engage them with a view to reaching a workable and sustainable agreement.

He said: “As members of the government teams, you are expected to play your role with skill and efficiency to come up with agreements that will help in stimulating rapid growth of the colleges of education and the polytechnics and make them more competitive and attractive,” .

Chairman of Governing Council, Federal Polytechnic, Damaturu Mohammed Ababakar, chairs the team to renegotiate with polytechnic unions, while the Chairman of Governing

involving several politically exposed persons and retired military brass hats.

“The attack on the Zone 7 office which houses the Commission’s AMCON Desk, Procurement Fraud and Foreign Exchange Malpractices Sections, is coming few weeks after another investigator, Austin Okwor was shot and wounded by unknown assailants in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

“The latest incident has already been reported to the police for investigation”, the statement added.

Council, Federal College of Education, Obudu, Dr. Obi Anthony, leads the team to renegotiate with unions in Colleges of Education.

Each team comprises of 14 members made up of relevant stakeholders, including representative of the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, representative of Federal Ministry of Labor & Employment, representative of Ministry of Finance.

Meanwhile, the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) and the Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, (CACOL) has called on the federal government to wade into the strike embarked upon by varsity lecturers and immediately dialogue with them to resolve issues raised.

In a statement signed by the TUC President and secretary, Comrade Bobboi Kaigama and Musa Lawal M. Ozigi, the congress said it is worried that an agreement that was entered into in 2009 is still foot-dragging eight years after, adding

that the union was even magnanimous enough to even sign another Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in 2013 wherein the issues at stake were duly interrogated.

“On our part, we have examined the issues raised by the lecturers and did not find them wanting in anyway: they have asked for revitalization of public universities; the registration of the Nigerian Universities Pension Management Company and pension matters, among others. The reason we are where we are today as a nation is because the UNESCO benchmark of 26% for education has never been met, not even half of it by successive governments.

“They were fed from public treasury. Some schooled abroad on scholarship.

They have made nonsense of our education system because their children school abroad, and of course they go for graduation ceremony.

“The implication of this strike is that more youths may go into crime. The dic-

tum: “an idle mind is the devil’s workshop” may play out here again. As at today there is no part of the country that is crime free. Only a week ago, worshippers were killed in a church; insecurity in the north has not abated. In the west, it has been a harvest of kidnappings and ritual killings. The news is all over on the social media about Nigerian migrants dying on the high seas almost on daily basis. And now ASUU strike again?”, the union queried.

Mr. Debo Adeniran, Executive Chairman of CACOL said in response to the strike declared by ASUU as at enters its third day, “We are of the view that the present scenario could have been avoided if government (past and present) had been responsible enough to abide with the agreement it had with ASUU since 2009.

If this had been done this precarious situation which has the cancerous tendency of ruining education not just at the tertiary level but the education sector

generally would have been avoided through dialogue, sincere and genuine negotiations. And this would have added up to the continuous improvement in the education system basically.”

“It is time for government to abandon the same rhetoric of the old which downplays the prominence need to ensure that incessant strikes are abated in the education sector. The usual reactionary response from government has already begun with the appeal to ASUU to consider students who are currently writing degree and promotion examination to call off the strike.”

“Yet government has in face of obvious and imperative necessity adamantly failed to reduce their stupendous and undeserved remunerations, allowances, estacodes, salaries etc while it finds ‘difficult’ to fund education, the backbone of societal advancement. Apparently, the interest of the students they want to use as excuse for their determined position to destroy the education sector is not tenable any longer.”

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Why we are implementing major economic reforms –Osinbajo Continued from page 1 the Federal Government has enunciated Executive Orders with a view to driving the reform in order to ensure its successful implementation.

He said: “We are also implementing a major reform of our public finance system, emphasising integrity and fiscal prudence. These reforms are being effected in the context of our determined anti-corruption programme; and these efforts cannot succeed without a competent and committed

civil service corps led by your good selves.”

According to a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, Mr. Laolu Akande and made available to The Daily Times, Osinbajo said: “As part of that reform effort, four executive orders have been signed into law.

“Executive Order 00 is on the promotion of transparency and efficiency in the Business Environment - to ensure that public servants offer prompt service in a

predictable and transparent manner, and sanction undue delays.

“Executive Order 002 is on prompt submission of annual budgetary estimates by all statutory and non-statutory agencies of the Federal Government including incorporated companies wholly owned by Federal Government. The deadline for this is on or before end of July.

“Executive Order 003 is on support for local content in public procurement by Ministries, Departments & Agencies of the Federal

Government to promote patronage for Made-in-Nigeria goods and services.

“Executive Order 004 is on the Voluntary Assets & Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDS) to provide an opportunity for taxpayers who are in default under all relevant statutes to voluntarily declare their assets and income; and pay taxes on them, while avoiding payments of interests and penalties.”

Osinbajo urged the Permanent Secretaries to demonstrate high level commitment to the government’s

policy drive, saying, a training programme has been undertaken in order to do so, and it is a continuous programme.

He said: “It is also important to emphasise that this government is committed to an anti-corruption programme.

Meanwhile, the Acting President has also assigned portfolios to two ministers. They are Prof. Steven Ocheni, who was assigned the portfolio of Minister of State in the Ministry of Labour and Employment; and Mr. Suleiman Hassan, who will function as the Minister of State for Power, Works and Housing.

Also, Osinbajo announced the posting of 15 Permanent Secretaries as follows: Mrs. Anagbogu Ifeoma Nkiruka, Women Affairs; Mrs. Walson-Jack Didi Esther, Service Welfare Office in the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation; Gekpe Grace Isu, Information and Culture; Aliboh Leon Lawrence, Budget and

National Planning; Uwaifo Osarenoma Clement, Ministry of Health; Afolayan Ayodele Olaniyi, Common Services, Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation; Abdullahi Abdulazeez Mashi, Ministry of Communications; Adebiyi Bolaji Adekunle, Labour and Employment.

Others are Ibrahim Musa Wen, Water Resources; Odewale Samson Olajide, Special Duties, Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation; Adesola Olusade, Youth and Sports Development; Umar Mohammed Bello, Special Services Office, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation; Aduda Gabriel Tanimu, Politcal Affairs Office, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation; and Akpan Edet Sunday is to resume duty in the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment on October 1. Ehuria Georgina Ekeoma, Cabinet Affairs Office, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.

Appeal Court removes Agbaso as APGA chairman, reinstates Oye Ibe Uwaleke, Lagos and Moses Oyediran, Enugu

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APC Govs shun NWC monthly meeting Tom Okpe, Abuja

ÏÏÏ The monthly consultative meeting of the National Working Committee (NWC) of All Progressives Congress (APC) and its governors on the platform of Progressives Governors Forum (PGF) scheduled to hold on Wednesday was suspended as the governors failed to turn up.

According to a source at the party headquarters, the non attendance of the governors at the meeting was attributed to in-house crisis rocking the party at all levels.

The meeting which was scheduled for 2pm could not hold as only two governors out of the 24 state governors of the APC arrived the party secretariat in Abuja.

Even the two governors that showed up came several hours behind schedule as the party leadership were kept waiting.

After several hours of waiting, it dawned on the party a leader that the governors were not coming hence the meeting was called off.

The Daily Times gathered that the recent ward congresses held in Kano and Kogi which ended in controversy were said to have annoyed the governors against the positions taken by the Chief John Oyegun led NWC. A source at the party secretariat told our reporter that; “This suspension is an indication of in-house crisis rocking the party both at Federal, States and the Local levels as all seems not well with the party

especially since the court judgment in favor of the Makarfi led faction of the people’s Democratic party (PDP)”.

For Wednesday meeting, two governors; including Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Mohammed Badaru Abubakar and Deputy Governor of Edo State Hon. Philip Shuaibu, had arrived for the meeting before the meeting was announced to have been cancelled.

The yesterday meeting was supposed to be the fifth in the series of the monthly meeting of the APC National Working Committee and the governors since inception in April, 2017.

At the beginning of the meeting, the party had stated that it was in preparation for 2019 general elections also using the meeting

to address issues bothering on financing of the party and its non elective National Convention.

Briefing journalists after the last month meeting, the APC National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi said; “the party had expanded the meeting to include APC principal officers at the National Assembly.”

The suspended meeting would have been the first to be attended by the APC principal officers of the National Assembly.

Giving reasons for the cancellation, the party’s National Publicity Secretary Malam Bolaji Abdullahi, said the meeting could not hold because of another meeting scheduled between the governors and the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo.

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Appeal, sitting at Enugu division on Wednesday sacked the incumbent national chairman of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Martin Agbaso. In his place the appellate court reinstated his predecessor, Dr. Victor Ikechukwu Oye. This decision was unanimous by the three-man panel of the higher court.

It even went further to dismiss all the applications brought by Agbaso before the court to retain his office. The judgment also directed Agbaso to vacate the office immediately.

It could be recalled that an Enugu High Court presided over by Justice A.R Ozoemena had ordered the removal of the national chairman of APGA), Victor Oye and replaced him with Chief Martin Agbaso.

The judge ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to stop further dealings with Oye. The action of the lower court followed a suit by the Secretary of the party in Enugu State, Comrade Mike Alioke, who challenged the continued stay of Oye in office after the

National Working Committee (NWC) of the party affirmed his suspension on October 5, last year.

But, delivering judgement on an appeal brought against the judgment of the lover court to the appeal court by Oye, the court presided over by Abdul Aboki affirmed him as the National chairman of APGA. while setting aside the judgment of the lower court.

Aboki, who read the lead judgment said that Oye was not given fair hearing, adding that Oye’s fundamental right was breached.

On the submission that the appeal court lacked the jurisdiction to entertain the appeal, he dismissed the submission, stating that the Appeal court has the jurisdiction.

Reacting to the judgement, counsel to Chief Victor Oye, Emeka Etiaba SAN said the implication of the verdict was that it is only Oye’s-led executive of APGA that has the right to present the governorship candidate of the party in the November 18 Anambra State election.

Perhaps, it was a result of this appellate court’s judgment that enabled the Anambra governor, Willie Obiano to clinch the governorship ticket of APGA for a second term.

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Charley Boy group suspends protest as Niger Delta youths march to Villa Myke Uzendu, Abuja

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ing from Pro-Buhari group in Wuse market Abuja, the Charley Boy - led “Return or Resign” group on Wednesday suspended its 10 days Anti-Buhari protest even as Niger Delta youths paid a visit to the Presidential Villa and drummed support for President Muhammadu Buhari.

Gathering at the Unity fountain around 10am to mark the 100days of Buhari’s absence from Nigeria on medical vacation, the leaders of “OurMumuDonDo” and their counterpart “Return of Resign” groups called off the protest, saying that they are calling off the protest to prevent more casualties just as they appealed to the international community and human rights groups to condemn the actions of government.

This comes 24 hours after

group were brutalized at the Wuse market with several persons including the DPO attached to Wuse Market police post sustaining various degrees of injuries.

Announcing the suspension, Charley Boy said that members of the group had received death threats while many have been brutalized.

He said, “We are not deterred by the intimidation and harassment by the sponsored thugs and we cannot be cowed by a few group of people.

“What government want to do is to ensure that we have a clash with the hired crowd and we will not allow that to happen” he said.

Charley Boy equally threatened to drag President Muhammadu Buhari and the federal government to court if he fails to resume or resign as Nigeria’s president within 21 days from August 16, 2017.

The group also disclosed

their plans to moved the protests to lagos and also continue in London even as they called off the Abuja strike.

Deji Adeyanju who is also a co-convener, said that the break was to help the coalition restrategise on ways it would adopt to continue the protests without putting their members in danger.

He said, “Following the spate of violent attacks by officers of the Nigerian Police Force and then by paid hoodlums on our #ResumeOrResign daily sitouts and peaceful processions in various parts of Abuja, it has become necessary to announce a suspension of our daily activities in the city.

“This temporary suspension is to enable us restrategise on ways to make our processions less open to such violent attacks and to better ensure the safety of all our members and other participants at our sit-outs

and peaceful processions in future.

“This is also to make known our good intention and unreserved commitment to promote peace and unity in our beloved country. We believe this decision will help in dousing the unnecessary ethnic tension being stoked by the cabal holding Nigeria to a ransom.

“Whereas our daily sitout will be suspended temporarily in Abuja, Sit-Out will continue to hold at the Gani Fawehinmi Park, Ojota, Lagos, between 0900hrs – 1000hrs daily; New York (Front of the Nigerian consulate, 828 Second Avenue); and vigil will also be held in front of the Abuja House in London on Friday August 18th, 2017 by 1700hrs.

“Members of the general public and members of the media are also invited to any of these events to provide support in whatever

Alleged missing N11 trillion electricity fund: SERAP asks ICC to investigate Peter Fowoyo

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A nongovernmental organization, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has approached the International Criminal Court (ICC) asking it to investigate whether the allegations of widespread, systematic and large-scale corruption in the electricity sector since the return of democracy in Nigeria from 1999 to 2015 amount to crimes against humanity within the jurisdiction of the Court.

Specifically, SERAP asked Mrs. Fatou Bensouda, a Prosecutor at the ICC to use her “good offices and leadership position to investigate the governments of former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and

Goodluck Jonathan and to prevail on the Nigerian government to surrender all suspected perpetrators for trial by the ICC. According to the petition dated August 16, 2017 and signed by SERAP deputy director Timothy Adewale the organization said that, “allegations of corruption in the electricity sector in Nigeria have had catastrophic effects on the lives of millions of Nigerians, akin to crimes against humanity as contemplated under the Rome Statue and within the jurisdiction of the Court.”

Nigeria is a state party to the Rome Statute and deposited its instrument of ratification on 27 September 2001.

“The Rome Statute in article 7 defines ‘crime against humanity’ to include ‘inhu-

mane acts causing great suffering or injury,’ committed in a widespread or systematic manner against a civilian population. The common denominator of crimes against humanity is that they are grave affronts to human security and dignity. Therefore, the staggering amounts of public funds alleged to have been stolen over the years in the electricity sector create just these consequences.

Crimes against humanity are not only physical violence; allegations of corruption in the electricity sector hold a comparable gravity, which the Prosecutor should examine and thoroughly investigate.”

The petition reads in part: “The elements that need to be established to prove a “crime against hu-

manity “under article 7(1) (k) of the Rome Statute are that, the perpetrator inflicted great suffering or serious injury by means of an inhumane act; that the perpetrator was aware of the circumstances, and that the act was committed within a widespread or systematic attack on a civilian population; and that the perpetrator knew of that link.

“The consequences of allegations of corruption in the electricity sector are similar to those of the offences in article 7(1). Corrupt officials and corrupt contractors in the electricity sector know well that their conduct is criminal and injurious, and the denial of human dignity coupled with a radical breach of solemn trust, aggravate their alleged crime.

capacity they may deem fit.

“Finally, we hereby demand that President Buhari returns to the country and resume duty as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria within 21 days from today, or that he resigns completely from office to enable him return to Daura to take care of his ill health.

“Should the president be unable to comply with any of the aforementioned demands within 21 days, we will approach a court seeking an order of mandamus to compel the Federal Executive Council to set up a committee in line with section 144 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended), to appraise the health of President Buhari and subsequently determine whether or not he can continue to discharge his presidential functions as enshrined in the constitution” Adeyanju threat-

ened.

Meanwhile the Presidency has reacted to the protests that rocked Wuse market in Abuja describing it as ‘ethnicised’ and selfish just as it criticised the #ResumeOrResign group led by Charly Boy, for taking the protests to a sensitive spot like the Wuse market.

This was disclosed by the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity Femi Adeshina when he received the Niger Delta youths that stormed the Presidential Villa, Abuja Wednesday, drumming support for the ailing President.

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Four year old slaughtered by suspected ritualists in Lagos

Gani Adams to FG: Enough of politicking, fix Lagos-Ibadan Expressway now

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four year old girl identified as Farida Suliaman was on Tuesday slaughtered by suspected ritualists in a shrine at No. 28 Ogbe Close in the Iwaya area of Yaba.

Our correspondent gathered that the mother of the toddler, Mrs. Suliaman, had left Farida with her other siblings at home to quickly buy some household items from the market at about 9 am on the sad day.

However, when she returned from the market, she couldn’t find Farida.

When she asked her other siblings who are both eleven and nine year old respectively, they said they hadn’t seen her for some hours.

Mrs. Suliamon stated that late Farida was not found until about 8pm when her lifeless body was found behind their apartment close to an Ogun shrine.

The Lagos state Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, who confirmed

the murder of the toddler said 10 persons, including the parents of the child, have been arrested and are been questioned by the police.

He said, “Early this morning at about midnight today, the divisional police officer in Sabo had alerted me that one Mr. Taiwo Suliaman and his wife came to the police station with the dead body of the four year old child and upon been questioned, Mr. and Mrs. Suliaman had asserted that the four year old child had left with two of her other siblings to a mosque to pray at about 1pm on Tuesday and from that 1pm up till around 9 pm, they didn’t see the four year old child.

“It was however in the cause of the search that they saw the child just behind the window by a shrine where they worship Ogun and her throat had been slashed. We have recovered the corpse and we have seen the murder knife, the tool with which that child was killed. At the

moment, ten persons have been taken into custody for interrogation, we are not saying categorically that they killed the child, but those ten persons, including the parent of the child are been questioned at the moment.

“With the initial interrogation that was carried out, there is an element of conspiracy in the matter. We will continue to update you with regards to the investigation, we have also deployed security personnel into that area, it’s a densely populated area which is more like a slum just by the UNILAG back gate.”

He further revealed that the trend is one that getting anew in the state. He therefore called on all Lagosian to be security conscious and that when they see unusual things; they should alert the police or any other security agency.

In a related development, the Police in Katsina have apprehended a herbalist, Sule Abubakar for strangulating and throwing in the latrine a new born child.

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nator of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), Otunba Gani Adams, has urged the Federal Government to work with the National Assembly “and ensure the completion of the LagosIbadan Expressway immediately.”

Adams, who lamented the lackadaisical attitude of some members of the Executive and the Legislature “to the urgency that should be attached to fixing this important road”, declared that “the lack of seriousness is a reflection of why things are not working in Nigeria.”

This is even as the Ondo state governor, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu on Wednesday claimed that the state has spent no less than N10 billion in rehabilitating federal roads in the state.

Adams, who just returned from Sweden where he presided over the third Summit of Oodua Progres-

sives Union (OPU), said it was unfortunate that while leaders in other countries see infrastructure as an avenue of alleviating the suffering of the masses, “leaders in Nigeria play politics with everything. In fact, the only thing they don’t play politics with is the air we breathe and that is because it is beyond their power.”

Describing the expressway as “the major artery that carries the lifeblood of Nigeria’s economy,” Adams said “the fact that many administrations have not been able to fix this road is an embarrassment.”

“This is a road that leads Lagos to the West, East and North. Completed in 1978 as a four-lane highway, it is the busiest highway in West Africa and one of the busiest in Africa. About 300,000 vehicles ply this road every day and it is a shame that successive administrations did not show sign of seriousness about fixing the road.

“In Sweden and other western countries, you cannot differentiate Day

from Night because of the smoothness of their roads and effective lighting, but the reverse is the case in Nigeria.

“Recently, Power, Works and Housing Minister, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, raised the alarm on how budget for this expressway was cut and lawmakers, instead of addressing the problem, started playing politics with it. Hundreds of thousands of Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba and other ethnic nationalities ply this road every day. So, the road is not for Yoruba but for Nigerians.

“Any serious government would have fixed the road a long time ago. This is 2017 and we are still playing politics with this reconstruction. Now, the two contractors, Julius Berger and Reynolds Construction Company (RCC), have threatened to abandon the road due to delay in the payment of agreed contract fees on work already done. How did we get to this level of apathy in matters bordering on development?

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Politics Patrick Okohue Chief Ebere Ubani is the President-General of Igbospeaking community in Lagos State. To him, restructuring the country to true federalism remains the only way forward that will ensure economic recovery and development. In this exclusive interview, Chief Ubani said he believes in restructuring, fiscal federalism and devolution of power as the only way forward for the country to attain greater height.

According to Ubani, restructuring the country is the way to go if the country must move forward, “definitely, I’m for restructuring and that is the way out. If you ask me my understanding of restructuring it is simple; a true federalism, because a lot of people are mixing things up. And what is federalism? It is weaker centre and stronger federating states in a short form, removing a lot of things from the exclusive list.

“For instance, you have mineral deposits in your state, you are not allowed to mine it except the Federal Government, it is wrong.

Each and every state in this country has one form of mineral deposit or the other, but the current structure does not allow them to mine it.

“Everybody is hoping on oil, they should ask themselves, the three years the Nigerian-Biafran war lasted, was it the oil that sustained Biafra, the answer is no.

Necessity is the mother of invention. Every month, states rush to Abuja for subvention and before they come back, they would have planned how to share half of the money.

“People are clamouring for state police, if a state is viable to fund its police, good luck to them.

But for me as a person, I see that as a no go area for now. Ok, look at what is happening in Kogi State now where the governor has proscribed ASUU in his state because they are asking for their right.

See what is happening at their House of Assembly and all hands are pointing at the governor.

“Now, if you give that man state police without the federal police, he will kill all his opponents. Another example is what states are doing with their state electoral commissions. Let me give you a typical example with Abia State.

“In the last general election, APGA and the PDP were very close even at some time; APGA was ahead of the PDP but in the just concluded council election over night the PDP won every-

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True federalism, only way forward for Nigeria -Ubani I’m for restructuring and that is the way out. If you ask me my understanding of restructuring it is simple; a true federalism, because a lot of people are mixing things up. And what is federalism? It is weaker centre and stronger federating states in a short form, removing a lot of things from the exclusive list. For instance, you have mineral deposits in your state, you are not allowed to mine it except the Federal Government, it is wrong.

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thing. What does that tell you?

Those are the reasons people are now asking the INEC to start conducting council elections too.

These are some of the reasons why we are clamouring for restructuring. And the corruption we are talking about has its base with the Federal Government because there is so much money to steal there.”

He called on the National Assembly to initiate the process that would address the issues of imbalance, inequity and injustice in the system.

His words, “It is still the same problem. At the National Assembly, the North has the majority and things are decided by voting.

So whichever way they want it to go, that is where it will go. They are holding us to ransom.

“Look at our education; they have their own quota and their own cutoff mark different from our own in the South here. Look at the South East, we have five states and the North-West has seven states. This means that North-West alone has six National Assembly members more than the South-East. So, if they have to decide any issue by voting as

it is often done, you already know where it is going. So, how can we come out of this kind of situation?

“We must continue to talk to them to make them see reasons to balance this lopsidedness. There is no peace, there is no justice and there is no equity.”

Reacting to the quit notice handed down to the Igbo in the North by the Arewa Youth Congress, Ubani expressed dismay at the failure of security agencies to arrest those behind the development even as he acknowledged that Nnamdi Kanu’s approach towards his belief does not represent the position of the majority of the Igbo.

He noted that Igbo are stakeholders in the project called Nigeria, but believes in the principle of peace, unity, fairness and justice for all.

His words, “I had expected the Police, the DSS or the SSS to have arrested those boys by now. In law, you don’t take laws into your hands. You don’t have to punish one person because another person committed an offence. Agreed, Nnamdi Kanu has done wrong in the way he is go-

ing about what he believes in, two wrongs don’t make a right.

“But it does not warrant one group to issue a quit notice to innocent people who do not even understand what Kanu is doing.

As far as I’m concerned, Kanu is on his own and does not speak the minds of the majority of the Igbo on this issue, because Igbo are stakeholders in the project called Nigeria.

“Tell me a single state where you don’t have Igbo there and if you check what they have, they make up to 30-40 per cent of meaningful developments in those states. And can you invest and destroy your investment, the answer is no. Kanu has no investment anywhere in this country. Assuming he has investment here in Lagos or anywhere in the North, he cannot be talking the way he is talking.

“The Northern elite know this and they allowed their youths to say this. Be that as it may, the quit notice by the Northern youths is unacceptable by us. As far as I’m concerned they have no reason to issue a quit notice to any group.

Offence is not transferable. You cannot transfer another person’s offence to me.

“For instance, I know an Igbo man from Anambra State who owns one of the biggest plastic factories in the North. His factory is worth over N20 million. It’s not like he cannot cite the factory in the East, but he has lived all his life in the North and then you want him to close the factory in the name of quit notice. Ok, can anybody tell Dangote to leave his investments in the South-West here because somebody does not believe in one Nigeria?”

He argued that the development was against the principles of peace, unity and national development. “Things are not done

like that. Ok, can you ask the foreign investors here to leave because somebody offended you in their respective countries, it is not possible. Things are not done that way. The inability of security agencies to arrest those boys and bring them to book has explained the whole thing that what some people are crying for is real,” he said.

The President-General wondered why there should be double standard in the practice of the laws of the land.

“We practice two laws here, one for those who believe they own this country and the other for the rest of us. If that comment was made by any other people, they would have picked them up that very day. Despite all the speeches made by the governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai and his Borno State counterpart, all that was a deceit by my own understanding. They are deceiving us.

“Those boys should have been arrested and tried. Kanu is undergoing trial for his alleged offence.

Nobody has the right to give any Nigerian a quit notice. Those in the North they are asking to leave now, were they meeting with Nnamdi Kanu? Do you even know whether they believe in the project called Biafra or not?

“If you ask me, the ardent supporters of this project do not have a meaningful thing they are doing, that’s the truth. Check all those who have invested their money outside the Igbo land; they cannot support what they are doing.”

On the ongoing efforts by the military to curtail the heinous activities of the Boko Haram, he charged politicians to stop playing politics with the situation in the North-East, adding that the enormous resources deployed in prosecuting the war could have

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APC still cleaning PDP’s mess, 2 years after, says Oshun Patrick Okohue A member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Moshood Oshun, has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) is still cleaning the mess created by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) two years after the party took over power.

According to Oshun, in 16 years, the PDP missed the chance to make Nigeria great. The situation got worse during the last five years of the PDP. Oshun said this in reaction to a comment by former President Goodluck Jonathan that his government contained inflation.

Oshun recalled that prior to the emergence of the APC in 2015; various investigations had shown that the government was broke and that the public purse was empty.

According to Oshun, who chairs the Public Accounts Committee, State in the Assembly, it was public knowledge that the Federal Government was borrowing to pay salaries under Jonathan even when oil sold for over $140 per barrel.

He also recalled how top officials of the Jonathan government “swindled the country while many wallowed in poverty.

“I insist that if Jonathan had returned as President, Nigeria would have been in hell. Whether we like it or not, the first thing that would have happened is the retrenchment of workers at the federal level.

“The government would have claimed the country was broke and pegged its argument on the current international price for oil.

“I am happy he was humble enough to say his government did not plug all the holes against corruption. Why was that so?

“Let’s even look at it this way; we can effectively say that what his minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, took out of the till is enough to ground the economy of a country.

“The PDP and Jonathan were only fortunate that Nigerians are very resilient people. We had a president that never knew what was going on under him,” Oshun said.

The lawmaker added that under Jonathan, funds that were meant to fight insurgency were either stolen or mismanaged by former service chiefs.

“We are all in this country and we know how some service chiefs who served under Jonathan returned money to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

“We know how he defended Mrs Alison-Madueke’s use of private jets for official assignments and how much were released to some media houses in the name of campaigns.

“Remember it was not only the opposition that was speaking out at that period. At a time, then Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State had to raise an alarm over unremitted funds from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation at that period.

“The man talks about economic team; what did the team achieve at a time oil price sold for over $140 per barrel? Even then, the country lived aborrowing.

“Sincerely, I am not saying Jonathan is corrupt, he may not be but he should just do well to stop defending himself because as the president under who these atrocities were committed, the best he could do is apologise to the country,” Oshun argued.

Oshun further argued that the impunity that reigned during the era of Jonathan cannot be quantified. For example, the lawmaker noted that several times, the duo of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Alison-Madueke shunned summons by the National Assembly.

“Even Jonathan defended the ministers against the National Assembly thus abusing the principle of oversight as one of the roles of the legislature,” Oshun said.

Jonathan spoke at the Eagle Square during the national convention of the PDP at the weekend, saying it was wrong to have the impression that the economy would have been in a worse shape if he was reelected.

“Though we didn’t completely plug the loopholes in the fight against corruption, but we did well.

“I learnt that some people said that if the PDP had remained in power beyond 2015, the economy would have been worse. This couldn’t have been the case, because we had a sound economic team in place,” the former President had said.

Restructuring: Lawmaker, others counsel LASU students on roles Esther Taiwo Chairman Lagos State House Committee on Health and the member representing Epe Constituent II in the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon Segun Olulade has urged governments at all levels to involve youths in policy formulation, saying youths are the greatest asset any country can have.

He said this at the Lagos State University Students’ Union National Parliamentary Summit with the theme: ‘Restructuring Nigeria: The Role of Youths in National Rebirth’ where he was a guest speaker.

According to him, youths serve as a good measure of how a nation can reproduce and sustain itself, adding that there is the need for human capital development for the country to wriggle out of the present economic challenges.

“There is need for all to be totally educated, placing value on education and skill acquisition is a way of resolving the economic doldrums that we have as a nation,” he said.

He however warned that there can be no national rebirth without the youths having a reorientation and change of attitude towards government enterprise.

Dean Students Affairs of the University, Dr Femi Obayori said the theme of the Parliamentary Summit is very apt especially at the time debate is ongoing

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on the ‘Not Too Young to Run’ Bill at the National Assembly as well as the issue of restructuring.

He said one of the most dangerous issues in the nation today is that of genocide which is being championed by the youths, saying for instance the call by Igbo group for Biafra secession is being led by a youth, Nnamdi Kanu as well as the quit notice of Igbos from the North by the Arewa Youths.

“Young people have energy, but how are they going to channel it towards the national rebirth. The challenge before us today is to clinically examine ourselves as

youths and bring out our problems and proffer solutions to them,” he said.

Some of the students who spoke at the summit, including a member of the LASUSU Parliament, Oluwaseyo Hassan, 300 level department of Public Administration student said the major problem Nigerian youths are having is that they don’t develop themselves personally, adding that personal development goes a long way in becoming a leader in the country.

Another 300 level Political Science student, Aladeotan David said the role of youths in society development is sacrosanct and germane, saying it is high time youths of the nation discovered their importance in shaping the society.

In his view, Yusuff Nurudeen another student said restructuring is not a new phenomenon in the Nigerian concept saying the country had undergone regional system of government, creation of states and now federalism.

He said all the calls by Biafra and Arewa Youths are based on economic hardship currently facing the country, saying all past leaders talking about restructuring are products of imperialism, thus they are not in the best position to end the current economic crisis.

He said Nigeria needs the type of restructuring that can address the present economic problems saying the present ruling elites are not capable of finding solution to Nigeria’s problems.

INEC tasks political parties on challenges hindering their capacities

PROF. YAKUBU

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has called on national officers of political parties to address challenges hindering capacity and efficiency of the parties in the country.

Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, made the call at the opening of a two-day capacity workshop for Legal Advisers, Organising Secretaries and Treasurers of political parties on Tuesday in Abuja.

Yakubu, represented by Prof. Antonia Simbine, INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman Elections and Party Monitoring Committee, said that there were key areas that needed to be given special attention in addressing the gaps.

These gaps, according to him, are lack of or limited internal democracy in terms of electing parties’ executives, selecting candidates for office and formulating policies and making decision.

“Part of it is insufficient inclusivity in terms of absence of deliberate policies to promote participation of key social groups, including women, youths and people living with disabilities.

“Lack of transparency in the funding and expenditures of political parties and campaign expenses, absence of formal internal mechanisms for mediation and dispute resolution are also involved.

“It includes limited and deliberate compliance with relevant provision of party constitutions, the Electoral Act and other regulations guiding political party activities,’’ he said.

Yakubu said that the workshop, which he said was the second phase, was organised to address challenges in the management of political parties’ capacity for compliance with relevant laws and regulation guiding their operations.

He said that it was also to promote understanding and compliance of parties with campaign finance rules and regulation as well as the necessary skills for effective management of party’s activities.

He urged the national officers of political parties to be committed at implementing the lessons of the workshop in running the affairs of their parties in order to strengthen the country’s democracy.

Dr Samuel Bwalya, the Country Director, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Nigeria, reassured of UNDP‘s continued support to lNEC and the Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC) in further enriching the capacities of political parties.

Bwalya, represented by Dr Kehinde Bolaji, Team Leader, Governance and Peacebuilding, described political parties as keystone of democratic governance.

He expressed optimism that UNDP support to IPAC and political parties with real links to the grassroots would contribute to promoting a culture of openness.

Bwalya said that this would also enrich the quality of policies and programmes capable of promoting quality service delivery to the people.

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Wake up call to tanker, truck owners

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ecent warning by the Federal Roads Safety Corps (FRSC) that tanker and truck owners would now be prosecuted alongside their drivers involved in accidents, as a result of reckless driving is very timely.

The number of lives wasted on daily basis by the recklessness of tanker and truck drivers is very alarming. There is no day that passes without records of a truck or tanker crushing a pedestrian, a commercial motorcyclist rider with his passenger or badging on cars killing all the occupants.

Most worrisome is the speed that these tankers and trailers apply even when they are carrying petrol or unlatched containers. These trucks adopt these speed even within the city where they are supposed to maintain some decency.

On the other hand, what happens on the express road defy the calculations of highway safety regulators. These days, motorists are now afraid to use the Lagos Ibadan expressway because of the recklessness of tanker and truck drivers. No day passes without tens of people being burnt on that road. On a particular day in May about 26 people got burnt in a single collision on that road due to vehicular accident.

Recently thousands of worshippers returning from Holy Ghost Service of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) miraculously escaped being burnt to death along the expressway following a major auto crash barely 48 hours after 10 trucks exploded on the same road.

The accident involved 15 articulated vehicles, a luxury bus, five mini buses and two pick up vans, which were burnt to ashes, while trucks loaded with frozen fish, poultry feed, bags of rice, exotic drinks and other valuables worth millions of naira were destroyed by the billowing fire which broke out after the accident.

FRSC Zonal Commander for Lagos and Ogun states, Ademola Lawal, said a

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tractor travelling from Lagos to Ibadan punctured a tanker carrying petroleum product while trying to overtake it at about 2.18 a.m.

Lawal said that petrol gushed out of the 33,000 litres tanker and spread all over the highway, resulting in an explosion. After hearing the explosion, some motorists quickly abandoned their vehicles and ran for their dear lives.

For the umpteenth time, the recurring carnages on our road caused by the vicious activities of reckless truck and trailer drivers and the seeming helpless posturing adopted by concerned authorities has reached an alarming level. More than ever, we are witnessing an upsurge in the collateral damages caused by these merchants of deaths on our roads who have apparently become more powerful than the State.

The disgraceful activities of this group are commonplace across the country but Lagos appears to be worst hit. The whole scenario calls to mind the Thomas Hobbes State of Nature where life is nasty, brutish and short.

Back home, undertaking, a trip to Apapa in Lagos through the OshodiApapa expressway is a nightmarish experience that no time-conscious person would want to dare. Petroleum tankers and haulage trailers are the Lords of the Manor in this part of Lagos. Two lanes of this road are permanently occupied by stationary trucks waiting to load petroleum products from the tank farms or returning freight containers to the wharf. This indiscriminate parking has caused unquantifiable loss of man hours to the economy and needless bloodletting.

While tankers and truck drivers remain errant, arresting and jailing them with their owners will help keep everybody in check. It should however not stop there. Concerted action is required by governments at all levels to checkmate the excesses of recalcitrant drivers while safety regulations should be strictly enforced to guarantee the safety of all road users.

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STATEMENTS BY THOSE WHO MATTER

Nelson Mandela

Obafemi Awolowo

Nnamdi Azikiwe

“The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

“Behind the ugly terrible mask of misfortune lies the beautiful soothing countenance of prosperity. So, tear the mask!

“There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route”.

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Restructuring slogan, leadership and asking hard questions

M Olusegun Tinubu

any Nigerians have been talking about restructuring Nigeria as a whole. Many talk about the devolution of powers, a change in the sharing formula, marginalisation, state policing and fiscal federalism. These are just a fraction of so many different definitions of what the term means to so many different people.

I believe that these definitions are all interrelated, and as the debate continues, we will at some point come to have a clear definition of what restructuring means with respect to Nigeria.

We must be careful however tigers are, as always, waiting to pounce. They will hijack the debate, morph it into an empty slogan like the 2015 “Change” slogan, and then go ahead to sing the song to Nigerians until it brings the votes they need. We all know what will happen after that; our leaders are shameless. 2019 is close, and it is our duty to make sure this does not happen—or at least try to.

Already, Atiku Abubakar, a former vice president, is talking about restructuring Nigeria.

What the word means to him, we do not really know. Even Ibra-

him Babangida, a man, who, in 1985 seized all the power available in the country for himself is talking about restructuring. Is it that time has convinced Babangida and Atiku that the country needs to be restructured, or are they playing to the gallery for the sake of 2019? Time will tell.

No one person can unilaterally and single-handedly restructure Nigeria. As far as I know, a sizeable number of people from all the geopolitical zones must agree to it, at least in the background of things.

It is not too early to start asking the hard questions, so here are the questions I have for all the presidential aspirants that are going to promise to restructure Nigeria in 2019.

First, you must tell us what restructuring means to you. A plan must be properly articulated for us to see. Tell us about the plan.

Authoritarianism has never helped us. The amalgamation and Who did Ironsi’s Supreme Military Council ask? Who did they talk to?

Did the Nigerian people agree to it?

Those two decisions played a huge role in why things are the way they are in Nigeria today. The British did not care if we wanted the amalgamation, they did it for their own selfish reasons. Ironsi and his crew whatever reasons that seemed okay

to them. As an aspirant preaching restructuring, who have you been talking to? Do you have the majority’s backing from your party?

How do you intend to deal with those who would attempt to block the process? How do you intend to break through forces of resistance?

There are people who benefit from the status quo and would do everything possible to make sure the current structure remains. What is your plan for them?

What are the short-term goals that can be used to encourage the sceptics and the cynics along the way?

It is important you surround yourself—mostly—with people who share your visions. You cannot promise a weaker centre and surround yourself with statists or power drunk ex coup-plotters. Their values must be similar to yours.

What kind of people do you plan to surround yourself with? Who are they?

The aforementioned are the questions I have for now, feel free to add yours. It is not too early to ask these questions.

The trouble with Nigeria The late Chinua Achebe said, and I agree with him, “The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.”

Simple!

Nigeria has never had a real lead-

er, and it is crying out for one now.

All we have managed to have—at best—are managers who were good enough to maintain the existing structure. If we want transformation, we need leaders more than managers.

P.S: A manager is often the one who is able to maintain an existing structure or status quo; to keep things in place and run things smoothly. A leader, however, is a dreamer, a creator of organisations; the one who comes up with the ideas and a very good plan of executing it.

A good leader listens; he knows that he must carry everyone along and take their input very seriously even if he doesn’t like them. He knows that his dreams and ideas must be sold to a reasonable number of people in every department of the organisation.

Who will bell the Cat? Restructuring is only a precursor to the much needed transformation Nigeria needs and I hope we get it right in 2019. 2019 must be a battle between ideas and values; and not tribalism and religion. This must begin at the primary level. Our political leaders must get their heads out of the cooking pot and present ‘leaders’ as aspirants, that is if they have any intentions of getting things right. We need leaders in 2019. Who will bell the cat?

On Earth Overshoot Day: An ecological budget 42 percent overdrawn

A Edward Nnachi

ugust 2, 2017 was Earth Overshoot Day, the date when humanity’s annual demand on nature exceeds what Earth can regenerate over the entire year, according to Global Footprint Network, the research institute specialised in natural resource accounting that has developed the Ecological Footprint metric.

Human activity currently consumes 1.71 times more renewable natural resources and ecological services than Earth can renew, depleting our natural capital, stated the organization (to which I provide communications and outreach support).

Consuming natural resources 71 percent faster than what Earth can regenerate means that only 58 percent of our spending is from the ecological income from the percent in the red. Deforestation, drought, fresh-water scarcity, soil erosion, biodiversity loss and the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere all can be identified as costs of that global ecological overspending.

Humanity’s resource security is at stake. Businesses stand on the front line of this challenge of the century, not only because of their dependence on ecological resources but also because they have a major role to play in creat-

ing an economy that can operate within the ecological budget of our planet.

Pushing the date of Earth Overyear would bring humanity back within the resource budget of this one Earth by 2050.

According to Mathis Wackernagel, founder and CEO of Global Footprint Network, “If indeed we depend on the material world, and if indeed we are depleting our natural capital while the social, human and built-infrastructure capital are increasing — all of which depend on natural capital to operate — the ultimate outcome sadly becomes all too clear”.

“Hence, the successful enterprises of the future will be those whose business model is aligned with moving humanity out of our ecological deficit.” And the Network had said pushing the date of Earth Overshoot Day back by manity back within the resource budget of this one Earth by 2050.

It’s important for to understand what Ecological or Carbon Footprint means to better appreciate its importance on the management of our environment. The Ecological Footprint measures the productive areas that a given population demands from nature to satisfy its consumption, including plant-based food and fiber products, livestock and fish products,

timber and other forest products, land for urban infrastructure and space to absorb its waste, especially carbon emissions from fossil fuels. It tracks the demand on five categories of productive surface areas: cropland; grazing land; fishing grounds; built-up land; and forest area.

Throughout the years, the date of Earth Overshoot Day tracks that of the Ecological Footprint.

The recent slowdown, can be attributed to several factors, including the slowdown in carbon emissions due to increasing renewable energy and the emerging decoupling trend (where GDP growth is inverse to Ecological Footprint impact) observed in countries such as Australia, the U.S. and Uruguay.Currently, the need for carbon sequestration to avoid buildup in the atmosphere is humanity’s largest demand on our planet. The carbon footprint makes up 60 percent of humanity’s Ecological Footprint.

On the supply side, Global Footprint Network tracks resource capacity (including cropland, grazing land, forest land, fishing grounds and built-up land) of more than 200 countries and regions from 1961 to the present.

These resource accounts draw primarily on United Nations data sets. The Ecological Footprint also can be scaled for cities and even individuals with an online

calculator.

Urban design, energy, food and demographic trends are the four key factors driving a country’s use of ecological resources. As such, they provide high-leverage opportunities to end overshoot. In this context, companies focused on increasing renewable energy, deploying smart-grid capacity, improving energy-efficiency or enabling zero-carbon housing (including climate neutral cement production and insulation, etc.) are best positioned for success in the long haul. It’s not just about how much companies use, but about whether their products and services are contributing to humanity getting closer to prosperity within the ecological means of one planet.

Through the Paris Climate Accord, governments of the world have agreed to a goal that requires decreasing carbon emissions to zero before 2050. This reduction needs to be achieved without increasing the burden on the other components of the Ecological Footprint: cropland; grazing land; fishing grounds; forests; and builtup land. Global Footprint Network calculated that reducing the carbon component of humanity’s Ecological Footprint by 50 percent would move Earth Overshoot Day back by 89 days, or about three months.

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Buhari’s reunion with his media team

Times Columnist REUBEN ABATI

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In the kind of system that we run, there cannot be two Presidents at a time. When you have a living and breathing President, be he in Iceland or Antarctica, for whatever reason, he remains the President. This, thus, creates a special problem for Acting President Yemi Osinbajo

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was really excited on Saturday when I received news of the eventual visit of President Muhammadu Buhari’s media team to him in London. I had always felt that the exclusion of the media team from the London medical vacation and the various visits practically undermined the Presidential media office, and created the space for the mismanagement of the communication process around and about the President’s illness.

I could never have imagined my own boss in our time, travelling without me or shutting me out of any important event. He took my team everywhere. Every President has what is called a Main Body. This comprises his first line of assistants, namely his Chief Security Officer, Aide-de-Camp, Chief Detail, Chief Physician, State Chief of Protocol, Personal Assistant (Luggage), Personal Assistant (Private matters), and of course, the Special Adviser (Media and Publicity)/Official Spokesperson.

Whereas other parts of this body face their own challenges, the major problem that the President’s media team often faces is that everyone in the Presidency, and even persons from outside, particularly the na-my-brotherdey-there crowd tend to assume that they know a lot about the media. They probably have an uncle who once worked as a journalist or newspaper vendor, or they happen to know one or two editors or correspondents, who are perpetually telling them how the media team is not doing what it is supposed to do.

While other parts of the President’s Main Body are usually civil servants, the Chief Physician and the Special Adviser (Media) are traditionally political appointees, and they are easily the targets of so many people who want their positions. My then colleague, the Chief Physician used to complain bitterly about how on many occasions he had to warn self-appointed physicians who used to recommend vitamins and other drugs for the President behind his back.

In the corridors of power, the jostling for power, territory, and space could be psychologically crippling and emotionally corrosive.

I recall in particular, how in those days, (indeed, yesterday is beginning to sound like those days!), some persons used to draw attention to how the media is managed in the US White House.

After a while, I started asking them: “have you ever worked in this White House, that you talk so eloquently about?” Now, we have seen a different White House under President Donald Trump, and hence, when I call up “the White House experts”, their only response these days is that “it is not easy.” Of course, no part of Presi-

Buhari dential work is easy.

There is also no standard formula for serving a President. No two presidencies are alike in any way. The nature and character of an executive Presidency is determined by the style/temperament/competence/ choices of the individual President and the circumstances of his tenure, and it is these same factors that account for the differences between great, mediocre and bad Presidents.

To each category, history is the eventual judge.

Nonetheless, I thought it was wrong to have kept President Buhari’s team out of the London trips.

The core team should have been there all the time to take photographs, issue statements, if needed, organize video recordings, liaise with local journalists, and manage “inconvenient” journalism and public perception. But what did we have? The various pictures taken of the President until the visit by his media team, looked like photos taken by quacks. The President was presented as if he was a statue, or at best, as a sick man propped up for photographic effect. Nobody even paid attention to his wardrobe.

I imagined that some characters would have filled the gap left by the absence of the media team, and would have been busy taking pictures with a miserable gadget, not knowing that photos are meant to tell stories and that they are taken with the brain. Whoever was behind that newspaper vendor style of journalism did the President a disservice and was responsible for most of the damage that was done. The real damage was that Nigerians did not believe the official narrative, they concluded that the pictures were photo-shopped or that they were old pictures and that there was an attempt to hoodwink the public. It didn’t help that whoever took those early pictures focused on the President’s weak points: his fingers and arms in a poor pose, for example.

But the game changed the day Bayo Omoboriowo accompanied seven governors to London to see the President. With five pictures, the President’s official photographer showed him in better light. The photographs presented him as a living being. Every Presidential assistant is as important as the amount of access and empowerment that he/she enjoys. Many Presidents undermine their media team, as US President Trump has done. I consider the visit to London by President Buhari’s media team, a form of rehabilitation, for the team and for the office. The

meaning of that visit was not lost on the team either.

Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on his arrival at the Abuja House, looked like he had been grinning about 100 metres away before he met the President. When the President extended his hands for a handshake, Alhaji Lai Mohammed did a Nigerian version of the Cameroonian Bidoung challenge. He bowed close to 90 degrees. Even when the President took another person’s hand, Lai Mohammed was still busy bowing.

When the President praised him, he grinned so much, I thought he was going to prostrate! My brothers, Femi Adesina and Garba Shehu didn’t bow, they stayed professional, but I have never seen both former Presidents of the Nigerian Guild of Editors grin so enthusiastically!

Lauretta Onochie was probably the biggest beneficiary of the visit.

Considered by opposition activists a footnote in the Presidency pretending to be a valuable attack dog, her inclusion in that trip has elevated her relevance. She still has a lot to learn on the job though, especially from the masters of the attack dog game in Nigerian politics: the inimitable and talented Femi Fani-Kayode, the grandmaster of this chivalric Order, Doyin Okupe, the senior warden of rebuttals, Lai Mohammed, Ayodele Fayose, Reno Omokri, Lere Olayinka, Deji Adeyanju, and Jude Ndukwe. Given the nature of Nigerian politics, future Nigerian presidents will certainly need the services of these dogged political fighters to complement the officialdom of Presidential spokesmanship.

Lauretta Onochie has a lot to learn from them, albeit she is doing much better than the pathetic play-safe crowd in the Buhari team but the London recognition should further empower her. Abike Dabiri-Erewa was also in London, curtseying with both legs and hands; she was described in the reports as Senior Special Assistant on Diaspora Matters, but I guess she was included in the team in her professional right as a seasoned broadcast journalist.

Bayo Omoboriowo, the official photographer, was also in attendance and when it was his turn to have a Presidential handshake, he grinned and shook so much he almost staged an Olamide-inspired Wo-challenge. I hope he remembered to inform the President that his wife had just been delivered of twins and that being a father of twins has serious implications in Yorubaland!

Together, the team delivered a professional reportage. Brilliant. Differ-

ent. Good moment for the Presidency’s Media Department. Whereas previous coverage before the Governors’ visit showed the President in an unconvincing manner, his media team has managed to show him in a three-dimensional frame.

We saw him sitting, standing, and walking. He shook hands. He talked.

His wardrobe was different. He appeared animated and alive. With that visit, many doubts have been laid to rest through the power of media.

We now know that Buhari can talk.

Dirty-minded persons may even stretch the matter and imagine that our President has been engaging in “the other room” skelewu in London. The media team has also managed to establish that medication or not, Buhari remains in charge. He is still President and he is not incapacitated.

In the kind of system that we run, there cannot be two Presidents at a time. When you have a living and breathing President, be he in Iceland or Antarctica, for whatever reason, he remains the President. This, thus, creates a special problem for Acting President Yemi Osinbajo. The combined interpretation of the to-ing and froing to London to visit President Buhari is the impression that whereas Acting President Osinbajo has an office, transmitted to him constitutionally in the light of Section 145 of the 1999 Constitution, he has neither the power nor the authority of that office, or he is not being allowed to enjoy the full benefits of his legal status. This puts Nigeria in a lurch, technically and pragmatically and let no one make any bones about that.

What is worse is the declaration by the media team that the President’s return now lies in the hands of his doctors and he is resolved to obey their orders. It is tragic that Nigeria’s sovereignty, which resides in part in the office of the President, has been ceded to UK doctors. They alone can determine when Nigeria can have its President back in the homeland. Saddening as that situation is, not even the Queen of England or the British Prime Minister has deemed it necessary to visit President Buhari or seek audience with him.

This egregious insult is well-deserved by Nigeria and other African countries whose leaders embark on medical tourism to Europe, Asia and North America. The intelligence agencies in these countries have all the strategic information on our leaders and country, but we are happy to play third fiddle in global politics. In 2050, Nigeria’s population is likely to be over 300 million, with some of the youngest people in the world being Nigerians. If by 2050, we do not have enough good hospitals and medical facilities to take care of our people, we would be a doomed nation.

This is not a task for Buhari’s media team. But just as they tried to put out a fire in London, another had already started at home. By the way, a Presidential media department is a Fire Service office and an ambulance operation. There is always another fire next time and victims in need of desperate rescue. In the present instance, a group called “Our-mumu-don-do” group, led by Charly Boy, the self-acclaimed Area Fada of Frustrated Nigerians had begun a protest in Abuja asking President Buhari to resume office or resign.

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18 News Itsekiri group alleges plot to divert N2.1bn devt fund

Nosa Akenzua, Asaba

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Don’t thank me for what rightly belongs to you, Bindow tells NUT Tom Garba, Yola

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ation of Itsekiri Graduates (NAIG) has alleged ploy by some cabals within the association to divert a total sum of N2.1bn development committee fund. The association, in a release issued on Wednesday, and signed by its President, Mr. Collins Oritsetimeyin Edema stated that the intervention of the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris made through the instrumentality of the court stopped the alleged looting ploy.

According to the statement, the amount which is the coffers of Itsekiri Regional Development Committee was alleged to have been targeted by some cabals within the Association who vowed to ensure the Association does not move forward.

Part of the statement reads “but for the intervention of the Inspector General of Police at checkmating the continuous financial hemorrhaging of the entire Itsekiri nation by a self centered force, we would have lost a whooping sum of N2.1bn lodged in seven different accounts with Keystone Bank Ltd.” The statement further disclosed that the Itsekiri Graduates’ body whereas others are deploying their funds in massive infrastructural and human capital development, those on whom we conferred the assignment have cornered our collective wealth with reckless abandon, and gone on a voyage of discovery.

The group noted that it has conclude plans to stage an Itsekiri economic summit in collaboration with notable Itsekiri professionals, foreign development partners and other key stakeholders with a view to exploring ways on how the IRDCN N2.1bn which has been frozen following the IGP’s intervention can be used to develop 23 Itsekiri Oil and Gas Producing Communities.

The statement disclosed that the IGP’s intervention was sequel to a petition by some concerned Itsekiri persons as the problem

that has bedeviled the group seems not to end.

Meanwhile, the state traffic management authority (DESTMA) may soon commence the impounding of vehicles without Plate Numbers plying various streets and highways in the State.

amawa state, Senator Muhammadu Umaru Jibrilla Bindow, told the national leadership of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) that they cannot thank him for settling their salaries arrears which is their rightful entitlements. ‘’I find it inauspicious for teachers to say ‘thank you’ for what rightfully belongs to them. It is your money and we as government must find ways of giving them their rights,” Bindow said He said this when a delegation of the NUT led by its national president,

Comrade Micheal Alogba, came calling at Government House Yola to specially thank him for paying three months salaries and still perform well in terms of infrastructural development in the state.

The Adamawa state chairman of the union, Mr. Rodney Nathan, earlier said that the visit was to thank Governor Bindow for settling three months salary to the state’s teachers as he had promised.

In his own response the, Secretary to the State Government, Dr. Umar Bindir, revealed that the Bindow led administration inherited a spectre of decayed infrastructure, indolent populace, collapsed public utilities, a divided citizen-

ry, socially traumatized people and a state that lacked everything a citizen can be proud of.

He was emphatic that any state that cannot meet up with payment of salaries for months, diverts public funds, fails to provide basic expectations of good governance qualifies to be tagged a failed state.

He stated that, being a teacher himself, and together with the Governor whose name Bindow, If translated means “teacher”, the state will not toy with teachers welfare which is akin to toying with the future.

He however reiterated governments commitment to settle all outstanding debts, noting

that without teachers “ we will all not be here discussing.”

Meanwhile, Governor Bindow made an unscheduled visit to project sites in Numan and Ngurore local government areas where he inspected the ongoing work at the Numan general hospital, Villanova Secondary School, GSS Demsa and a road project at Ngurare.

He expressed satisfaction with the quality and speed of work, emphasising to journalists that funds have been set aside for payment upon attainment of certain level of work as contained in the contract Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).

L-R: Nursing mother, Mrs. AdenekanTaibat; Marketing Director, RB, West Africa, Aliza Leferink; Chief of Party, Stop Diarrhoea Initiative, Save the Children International (SCI), Mr. David Atamewalen; Community leader, SCI, Mrs.BunmiFarayola, at an event to mark the Breastfeeding Week organised

by RB Dettol and SCI in Lagos… recently.

Hajj: Pilgrimage to Mecca not excursion, operator tells pilgrims Intending pilgrims to Saudi Arabia for Hajj have been advised not to see the journey as merely excursion, but as a mission to worship Allah and fulfill the fifth pillar of Islam.

Chairman of Al-Gafar Travel and Tours, Alhaji Gafar Lookman Adele, offered the advice during a seminar organised for intending Pilgrims that traveling with the company in Ikotun area of Lagos State.

Adele also said that Hajj was a serious exercise

that required total commitment of the pilgrims while in Saudi Arabia so that Allah could accept it as worship from them.

Alhaji Adele enjoined pilgrims to perform the exercise the way it was done by prophet Mohammed during his lifetime.

The pilgrimage operator also warned the pilgrims from violating Saudi Arabia laws or go beyond what they go for in the holy land.

In his remarks, General Manager of Al-Gafar travel and Tours, Alhaji Sulaimon Issa, advised the

pilgrims against excess shopping and unnecessary luggage, saying they could be made to pay extra amount for them.

Issa called the pilgrims to use the opportunity to pray for themselves, their family, country and President Muhammed Buhari while in Saudi Arabia.

He maintained that Saudi Arabia was an holy Land that Allah easily accept prayers from anybody that called on him, so they should use the opportunity to pray for resolution to some of this heart desires.

He assured them of best treatment by the company in Saudi Arabia with best hotel that will not be too far from Holy mosque of Kabbah.

Earlier, the chief missioner of Al-Faizuna Islamic foundation, Sheikh Mumnideen Abdulazeez, gave the intending pilgrims the breakdown of what they will do during the Hajj exercise and told them to carry out all the exercise with fear of

Allah so that the pilgrimage would be accepted from them.

Condition of service: Union issues 7- day ultimatum to SAHCOL

Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo The National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) on Wednesday issued a seven-day ultimatum to the management of the Skyway Aviation Handling Company Limited (SAHCOL) over the alleged refusal of the latter to discuss the review of conditions of service of its members working in the organisation.

The union alleged that the ground handling company had refused to review upward condition of service of members in the past three years despite its efforts to discuss the matter with the management.

The union warned that if the management refused to discuss with it within the stipulated days, it would not hesitate to ground activities at the ground handling company nationwide.

A letter addressed to the Managing Director of the ground handling company with the reference number NUATE.GS/ MD.SAHCOL/ENP/00417, dated August 15, 2017, and signed by its General Secretary, Comrade Olayinka Abioye accused the management of avoiding the “critical” issue.

The union threatened that unless the management implement the new conditions of service to the workers within the stipulated time, it would not hesitate to direct its members working with the ground handling company to withdraw their services.

The letter said in part: “Having waited patiently and painfully for the review of the company’s expired and out-dated conditions of service, and bearing in mind that the persistent delay of management is in bad faith, notice is hereby given that the reviewed conditions of service must be ratified for implementation within seven day.

“If within the stipulated period, the issue was not resolved, we may not be able to stop our members from exercising their rights to withdrawing their services, at the expiration of this seven.

Those who have ears, let them hear, but it would be said that as a responsive and responsible union, we have tried to engage your management, but rebuffed tactically.”

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Ozubulu Killing: NGO condemns action, calls it gruesome murder Tom Okpe, Abuja

Some intending 2017 Hajj pilgrims with AL- Gafar after attending a seminar in Ikotun, Lagos State… recently.

Tension as Police teargas IPOB in Anambra Alphonsus Nweze, Awka

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Tension mounted in Ekwulobia, Aguata local government area of Anambra state on Wednesday when members of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) were tear gassed by security operatives in the area.

Sources said the incident was sequel to an earlier scheduled visit by the leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, to hold a rally at Ekwulobia as part of his campaign to stop the state gubernatorial election fixed for November 18, 2017.

Kanu was said to have held such rally in Onitsha the economic nerve centre of the state and Abakaliki in Ebonyi state even against the opposition from the police.

It was gathered that police in the area had objected to the IPOB rally and had therefore refused to grant

any official permit for it or to provide security at the venue.

But as early as 8am yesterday, some members of IPOB and admirers of Nnamdi Kanu from within and outside Ekwulobia had gathered at a Central School, Ekwulobia waiting for the arrival of Kanu before the Police team stormed there.

An attempt to disperse the crowd was said to have been rebuffed, forcing the police to tear-gas the IPOB members.

There were however, conflicting reports of resultant effect of the tear-gas.

A source said that one person died in the stampede that ensued while the other said that no death was recorded.

Contacted on the incident the Police Public Relation Officer for Anambra state Nkiru Nwode said that there was no death at Ekwulobia.

She said “there was no serious incident at Ekwulobia. What happened was that some people gathered for reasons best known for them and the police and other security agents dispersed them.

“People are just telling stories. Nobody died”.

Meanwhile, Nnamdi Kanu was said to have postponed his visit to Ekwulobia until Sunday this week.

Meanwhile, an Igbo grassroots socio cultural organization, Imeobi Igbo Forum, has vowed that no amount of threat from POB would stop the conduct of November 18, 2017 governorship election in the state.

Speaking through its national chairman, Dr. Mike Ikegulu-Onugh, afer its meeting, the group said that the problem in Igbo land has nothing to do with conduct of election but marginalization in a country that Igbo were part

builders.

He urged Nnamdi Kanu, to soft-pedal in his boycott campaign and listen to the voice of reason, adding that such threat would worsen Igbo problem instead of curtailing it.

“We respect Kanu’s enthusiasm and agitation but I don’t know what he has in mind for saying that there will be no election in Anambra state. He should softpedal.The referendum he is talking about will come one day and it is not by boycott of election that we will achieve a Biafra republic rather it will worsen our problem,” he said.

Continuing Onugha said “We will constitute a reconciliatory body to help move Igbo nation forward and for those who believe.

This organization has its tentacles in Igbo land and we will screen all the candidates in this election when the time comes to know their antecedents.”

Alleged kidnap: Evans knows fate August 29 Peter Fowoyo

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Judgment in a N300 million fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by the suspected billionaire kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike a.k.a. Evans, against the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, has been fixed by a Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos.

Justice Abdul-Azeez Anka on Wednesday fixed August 29 after entertaining arguments from parties in the matter on Wednesday.

At yesterday’s proceedings, the lawyer representing both the IGP and the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Henry Obiazi, noted that the

case has to do with murder, armed robbery and kidnapping, which are all capital offences.

While citing Section 35 (7) of Constitution argued that the fundamental rights of the applicant is not absolute.

He added that the applicant will soon be arraigned in court by the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP).

His words: “Though the Constitution guarantees the fundamental rights of every Nigerian citizens, these rights are not absolute, particularly, when it has to do with capital offence. I urged the court to hold that the application is unmeritorious and dismiss it.”

In his own submissions, lawyer representing the La-

gos State Commissioner of Police and the Special AntiRobbery Squad (SARS), Emmanuel Eze, argued that the applicant has not shown any cause of action against his clients.

He claimed that Evans was arrested by the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) set up by the IGP and not by any of his clients.

He also faulted claims that the applicant was subjected to media trial saying no material fact has been placed before the court in that regard.

According to him, the nature of the offences allegedly committed by the application is conspiracy, armed robbery, kidnapping and murder.

He alleged that prior to his arrest; the applicant has been involved in so many robbery operations, part of which included series of attacks on bullion vans where so many policemen lost their lives.

“My lord, it is not up to 90 days that the applicant was arrested. Besides, there is an order of the court for his remand. The applicant is an international kidnapper terrorizing states across the country. I urged the court to dismiss this application with punitive costs so as to serve as a deterrent to others who may want to file such frivolous application in the future”, the lawyer

said.

An International group (NGO), International Peace Commission (IPC), with affiliation to the United Nations has condemned the killing at Ozubulu, St. Philips Catholic Church in Ekwusigo Local government area of Anambra state describing it a gruesome murder of innocent Nigerians.

The Church was attacked by some unknown gunmen at the early morning Sunday mass a fortnight ago, when worshipers were at the end of the mass, killing certain number of people and lot went away with serious gunshot injury.

The national president and head of mission in Nigeria, Ambassador Obiora Anthony Oduma, speaking to Daily Times correspondent in Abuja said; “the IPC Nigeria received with great shock and uttermost dismay, the news of the gruesome murder of innocent Nigerian Wor-

shippers at St, Phillips Catholic Church, Ozubulu, Anambra State on Sunday 6th August, 2006”.

Obiora said IPC Nigeria is committed to the wellbeing and Peaceful co-existence of all Nigerians, condemns in the strongest terms, the terrible incident saying, “It is against the ideals of the Commission”.

“We wish to extend our heartfelt and deepest condolences to the victims, their families, the Nigerian Catholic Church, and the good people and Government of Anambra State.

“United by our unwavering commitment and shared aspiration of the peaceful coexistence of all peoples, the IPC in these trying times, stands with the People of Anambra State in our shared quest to restore peace to the State, especially in the face of the coming gubernatorial elections, for which many pundits are already predicting doom”, Obiora said.

Int’l Youth Day: Ambode’s wife empowers youths with entrepreneurial skills Benjamin Omoike

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As part of its activities to mark the 2017 International Youth Day, Hope for Women in Nigeria Initiative (HOFOWEM), a pet project of wife of the Lagos state governor, Mrs. Bolanle Ambode, on Wednesday commenced a two-day entrepreneurial training programme, at its Oregun office for youths in Lagos State, aged from 15 to 34 years.

The programme, which thoroughly examined entrepreneurship education, trained more than 80 youths in skills such as baking technology, piggery; fish grasscutter, mushroom, poultry, snail and vegetable farming, so as to channel the focus of the youths to skill acquisition for sustainable self-employment.

Speaking on this year’s International Youth Day, Founder of HOFOWEM, Mrs. Ambode, observed that concerted effort was needed to empower the teeming youths with relevant skills and put them in a position to generate steady income for themselves.

She said it had become necessary to explore viable ways of generating viable employment for the vibrant and jobhungry youths, aside strict office jobs.

“When you have a skill, it helps you to employ yourself and when you employ yourself, you enjoy the freedom and peace of mind to drive

your own business. And if you are committed and hardworking enough, you will grow your business to such levels that you make more money than you can ever earn as salary from any employer. This is why we are laying this platform for our youths in Lagos State,” Mrs. Ambode said.

She urged the youths to put to good use all they had learnt and be prepared for a better tomorrow, saying it was achievable and doable.

According to her, “I am very passionate and optimistic about a better tomorrow.

It is achievable. It is doable. I urge you to put to good use all you have learnt. Congratulations and see you at the top.”

Mrs. Ambode, who described the programme as a pilot one for the youths, promised that many such skill acquisition training would be organized in future for their benefit.

Addressing guests and beneficiaries at the programme, Chief Executive Officer of the Foundation, Ms. Oyefunke Adeleke, noted that since inception, HOFOWEM had undertaken many peoplefriendly programmes including widows’ empowerment, support for expectant mothers, kits for pupils in public primary schools, sponsored surgical procedures, support for sick youths and aged women, scholarship for brilliant but indigent students in public tertiary institutions, among others.

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I, formerly known as MISS NNAMANI MARTINA UZOAMAKA, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. CHIGBO MARTINA UZOAMAKA. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.

MRS EZE CHIKAODILI CHRISTIANA

I formerly known as MISS CHIKAODILI CHRISTIANA MUONEME, now wish tobe known and addressed as MRS EZE CHIKAODILI CHRISTIANA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

ATOLAGBE-OLAOYE RUKAYAT OLOLADE I, formerly known and addressed asOKOYA OLOLADE RUKAYAT, now wish to be known and addressed as ATOLAGBE-OLAOYE RUKAYAT OLOLADE. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

MRS. ABISOLA MOMODU

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS ABISOLA RAPHAEL, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. ABISOLA MOMODU. All former documents remain valid.

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SAMSON UGWUOKE I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SAMSON UGWUOKE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EMEKA SAMSON UGWUOKE, ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

PRECIOUS CHIZOROM

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ORANA PRECIOUS CHIZOROM NOW I WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NTUKOKWU PRECIOUS CHIZOROM. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

NJOKU CHIJIOKE JUSTIN I, formerly known as OSUJI CHIJIOKE JUSTIN, now wish to be known and addressed as NJOKU CHIJIOKE JUSTIN. All former documents remain valid. General public take note. xMRS OLERU EBERE JESSICA

I, formerly known and addressed as, MR. FRIDAY OBO, now wish to be known and addressed as, MR. NWAOMOKU EMMANUEL MONDAY. My correct date of birth is, 12th July, 1981. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

OLANREWAJU ABIODUN OJUOLAPE LANRE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESS AS JACOBS ABIODUN OJUOLAPE LANRE , NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESS AS OLANREWAJU ABIODUN OJUOLAPE LANRE , ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID ,AUTHORITY CONCERN AND GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE .

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x HELEN WILLIAMS UFOT I, formerly known and addressed as, HELEN MBA UDO, now wish to be known and addressed as, HELEN WILLIAMS UFOT. All former documents remain valid.

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MRS. JULIE WISDOM ONWUEGBU I, formerly known and addressed as, MISS. JULIE AKUE BLUE-JACK, now wish to be known and addressed as, MRS. JULIE WISDOM ONWUEGBU. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

x CORRECTION OF NAME I, formerly known and addressed as, ETTE GODSTIME SAMUEL, now wish to be known and addressed as, INIOBONG SAMUEL ETTE. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

BENSON OFOMA EKESIOBI

EMMANUEL SOPURUCHUKWU NWAFOR

CORRECTION OF NAME I, AYUBA LOVINNA MANWOR, wish to correct my name which was wrongly written as, AYUBA LOVINA MANWOR, instead of, AYUBA LOVINNA MANWOR. I now wish to be known and addressed as, AYUBA LOVINNA MANWOR. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as, BENSON OFOMA NWOKEDI, now wish to be known and addressed as, BENSON OFOMA EKESIOBI. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note. a AMONI CHARITY MICHAEL NNOCHIRI I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESS AS AMONI CHARITY OCHUNGE , NOW WISH TO BE CALLED AND ADDRESS AS AMONI CHARITY MICHAEL NNOCHIRI, ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, AUTHORITY CONCERN AND GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE .

CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS AYOOLA OLUWADAMILOLA GEORGE-KAREEM

I, formerly known and addressed as AYOOLA OLUWADAMILOLA KAREEM, now wish to be known, called and addressed as AYOOLA OLUWADAMILOLA GEORGEKAREEM. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

JENNIFER WILLIAM GARBA RICHARD

I formerly known as MISS EDUOK EBERE JESSICA, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS OLERU EBERE JESSICA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS ONWUMERE BLESSING ONYINYECHI, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. EZEAKACHA BLESSING ONYINYECHI due to change in marital status. That EZEAKACHA was wrongly written as EZEKACHA on my National Identity Card Slip. All former documents remain valid.

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I, formerly known and addressed as JENNIFER WILLIAM GARBA, now wish to be known, called and addressed as JENNIFER WILLIAM GARBA RICHARD. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

CORRECTION OF DATE OF BIRTH/NAME That my name and date of birth was wrongly registered as OCHE ONYILOYI JOSEPH born on 26th day of December, 1974 on my BVN instead of OCHE ADEKABA JOSEPH born on the 23rd day of March, 1982 on my accounts. That my correct date of birth is 23rd day of March, 1982 with correct name as OCHE ADEKABA JOSEPH. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

ONYEKWERE HILLARY NNAMDI

MRS. YETUNDE IBRAHIM TIJANI

I, formerly known and addressed as ONYEKWERE H. NELLY, now wish to be known, called and addressed as ONYEKWERE HILLARY NNAMDI. All former documents remain valid.

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I, formerly known and addressed as MISS YETUNDE JOSEPH, now wish to be known, called and addressed as MRS. YETUNDE IBRAHIM TIJANI. All former documents remain valid.

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I, formerly known and addressed as EZEH THEODORE OKECHUKWU, now wish to be known and addressed as EZEH OKECHUKWU TIMOTHY. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

IMHADE BIELONWU I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS MERCY IMHADE OKOJIE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS MERCY IMHADE BIELONWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

KEHINDE JANET

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED OROLE KEHINDE JANET NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OROLE MURITALA KEHINDE JANET. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE. EGBULA JOY CHIAMAKA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS DENNIS JOY NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EGBULA JOY CHIAMAKA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

CHANGE OF NAME/DATE OF BIRTH I, formerly known and addressed as OLAYIWOLA OLUSOLA SERIFAT, now wish to be known and addressed as OLAYIWOLA OLUSOLA. That my date of birth is 9th day of September, 1989. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

GLORIA LEMMY COOL

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ENEJOH GLORIA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ENEOJOH GLORIA LEMMY COOL. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

AMINAT NAOMI I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OLANREWAJU AMINAT BOLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS IFEKWE AMINAT NAOMI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

AMINAT TOPE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AKODU AMINAT TEMITOPE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BAKARE AMINAT TOPE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ABDULLAHI ADAMU This is to inform the general public that my name was wrongly written as ADAMU MUKO. instead of ABDULLAH ADAMU I,Henceforth , i wish to be called and addressed as ABDULLAHI ADAMU . all former document remain valid general public take note

ELUYEMI ROSELINE IBITOMI I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESS AS AWASUNO ROSELINE IBITOMI , NOW WISH TO BE CALLED AND ADDRESS AS ELUYEMI ROSELINE IBITOMI, ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID ,GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERN PLEASE TAKE NOTE

aOLADEJO FATIMAT MOROMOKE I formerly known and address as OLADEJO FATIMA ROMOKE now wish to be known and address as OLADEJO FATIMAT MOROMOKE AGE: 22/02/1972. 45 YEARS. All former document remain valid.

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AMONI CHARITY MICHAEL NNOCHIRI

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESS AS AMONI CHARITY OCHUNGE , NOW WISH TO BE CALLED AND ADDRESS AS AMONI CHARITY MICHAEL NNOCHIRI, ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, AUTHORITY CONCERN AND GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE .

OJAJA EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVE

MRS. EZEAKACHA BLESSING ONYINYECHI

EZEH OKECHUKWU TIMOTHY

I, EMMANUEL SOPURUCHUKWU NWAFOR, wish to correct my name which was wrongly written as, EMMANUEL SOPURUCHI NWAFOR, instead of, EMMANUEL SOPURUCHUKWU NWAFOR, in my BVN details. I now wish to be known and addressed as, EMMANUEL SOPURUCHUKWU NWAFOR. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

aMRS. OLABISI BUKOLA DOLAPO I, formerly known and addressed as MISS AYINDE BUKOLA DOLAPO, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. OLABISI BUKOLA DOLAPO. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

BIMBOLA BALKEES

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AJIFOLAWE BIMBOLA TOSIN NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS DANJUMA BIMBOLA BALKEES. ADDRESS 22, PHILIP MAJEKODUNMI STREET OFF POPOSOLA NEW OKO_OBA AGEGE LAGOS. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

a EGUAOBA BRIDGET EBISEME I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OSEI BRIDGET EBISEME . E . NOW I WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EGUAOBA BRIDGET EBISEME. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE TAJUDEEN ADEDAYO

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ABDULRAFIU TAJUDEEN ADEDAYO, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS KEHINDE TAJUDEEN ADEDAYO . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

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

TRUSTEES 1. OONI ADEYEYE ENITAN OGUNWUSI- CHAIRMAN 2. OLUWAROTIMI OSOBEMEKUN 3. HON . FOLAJIMI JUBRIL MOHAMMED 4. ODUNIYI ADEYINKA 5. AYOBAMI OLOJEDE 6. CHARLES MBADUGHA 7. JOSHUA ADEGOKE .

AIM AND OBJECTIVE 1. TO HELP IN THE ENHANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATIONAL VALUES AND WELFARE OF THE SCHOOL. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS SHOULD BE FORWARD 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

HALLOWED FAITH 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 1999 THE TRUSTEES ARE:1. MR IDEHEN SAMUEL 2. MR OMOKARO VINCENT 3. MR ONAGHINOR NAPOLEON 4. MR ONAGHINOR DOUGLAS AIMS 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED:- SECRETARY

AL- BUSHRAH FOUNDATION

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

TRUSTEES 1. DR RABIU ADENEYE KUSIMO - PRESIDENT 2. HON . JUSTICE NASIR AGBELU- MEMBER 3. HON . JUSTICE TAJUDEEN OKUNSOKAN - MEMBER 4. ALHAJA KUDIRAT OLASUMBO KUSIMO - MEMBER. 5. BARR. HABEEB IBIDAPO WHYTE- SECRETARY. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PROMOTE ISLAMIC MISSION , THE WELFARE OF THE AGED ,WIDOW ,ORPHAN , INDIGENT AND LESS PRIVILEGED PERSON IRRESPECTIVE OF RACE ,COLOUR , CREED OR RELIGION AND TO ORGANIZE EXHIBITION TALK - SHOW , YOUTH OUTREACH, MUSIC CONCEPTS , SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS AND CAMP MEETING PROGRAMMES FOR THEM TO BE SELF DEPENDED .

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS SHOULD BE FORWARD 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

Public Notice 22 CAVEAT EMPTOR

This is to inform the general public that the title documents of the property known as and situate at no 6 Nwajiaku street, off cemetary road,

by Aguata street, Over- Rail Aba , Abia State, in the name of Mr Felix Akamelu Nzelu is missing and all efforts to locate same have proved abortive. The public is hereby put on notice that anybody who deals with anyone in possesion of the said documents is doing so at his own risk. For further enquires please contact the Solicitor to the family.

Signed Onyenweuzo Joseph Esq. 8 Ribadu Street, off Awolowo Road, Ikoyi Lagos. 07031037737.

THE POTTER’S CHILDREN GLOBAL FOUNDATION

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

TRUSTEES 1. OLAYERI ABIOLA SAMUEL - CHAIRMAN 2. AYUA ELIZABETH NGINAN - SECRETARY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PROVIDE BASIC HEALTH CARE NEEDS , CLOTHING , FOOD , EDUCATION FOR UNDERPRIVILEGED NIGERIA CHILDREN. 2. TO ALLEVIATE THE CONDITION OF THE LIVES OF UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN IN NIGERIA. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR_GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIR COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT , OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET , MAITAMA , ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

AFRO-ASIAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE DEVELOPMENT

Daily Times Nigeria Thursday, August 17, 2017

THE KING’S STEPS COMFORTLIFE CHAPEL

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

TRUSTEES 1. CHIBUOGWU MAGNATE STANLE 2. JOY CHIBUOGWU 3. ABEL ISIBOR CHIBUOGWU AIM AND OBJECTIVE 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST .

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE:1. PASTOR KELLY OMODIA 2. SISTER CHINWENDU OMODIA 3. PASTOR JOHN INNEH 4. PASTOR KINGRICHARD JOE 5. PASTOR TUNDE OLAJUWON 6. BROTHER DENNIS AGBONZE 7. SISTER FLORA AKPOBASAH 8. PASTOR ONYEDIKA CHUKS NWANI 9. BROTHER SAMUEL ALIAGU

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

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

SINCERE HEART FOUNDATION

GOSPEL WITHOUT BORDERS INTERNATIONAL

This is to notify members of the public that the above named association has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission to be registered under Part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

This is to notify 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 1990.

TRUSTEES: 1. Mr Ogunsola Isqeel Adesegun - Chairman.

2. Mr Ibijola Kayode Olayode - Vice Chairman 3. Miss Adenuga Hameedah Oluwaranti -Gen sec 4. Prof Sanni Lateef Oladimeji - Member 5. Dr Ishaq Adebayo Yusuff

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OGBEBOR OSAWARU JOSEPH. (Chairman) 2. EVBUOMWAN EDUGIE EMMANUEL (Secretary) 3. CHUKWUEMEKA NAZARITE NNAMDI.

- Member

OBJECTIVES: 1. To offer grants and support to sponsor the education of orphans and less privileged children.

2. To provide educational materials and other needs for the children 3. To give the students counseling and guide on career choices.

4. To organize capacity building programs for secondary school leavers and undergraduates in order to be independent of white collar jobs.

Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days of this publication SIGNED: A.O Yekini Esq TRIOJURIS LP +2348028898491, yekinilaw1@yahoo.com

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVES: 1. To preach and teach the gospel of Jesus Christ.

2. To promote the spiritual and social welfare of members in line with Christian ethics.

3. To establish a centre for Christian Worship and activities.

Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General of Corporate Affairs Commission Maitama Abuja within 28 days of this publication SIGNED: Signed: Okungbowa O. Golden. 08038490387.

GERTRUDE INITIATIVE

MISS TEEN GIRL-CHILD AND WOMEN EMPOWERMENT INITIATIVE 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.

TRUSTEES 1. PROF ETANNIBIBI ALEMIKA - CHAIRMAN 2. PROF PARMOD KUMAR 3. DR RAINUKA DAGAR 4 DR BENSON OLUGBUO - SECRETARY

TRUSTEES: 1. EMOH ADOGA ESQ, 2. JOSHUA IBITIMI OGUNU 3. PRISCILLA ETACHUM OCHINYABO

AIM AND OBJECTIVE 1. TO ADVANCE JUSTICE IN PUBLIC SAFETY , GENDER RIGHTS , ELECTION SYSTEMS AND GOVERNANCE FROM A MULTICULTURAL PERSPECTIVE AND A SOUTH-SOUTH APPROACH.

AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO DEVELOP AND EMPOWER THE GIRL-CHILD AND WOMEN IN GENERAL BY RAISING FUNDS FOR EDUCATIONAL

ACTIVE DAUGHTERS OF GLORY INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP

ZIONHILL CHAPEL

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 1999

AIMS 1. To preach the gospel of Jesus Christ

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED FOUNDATION 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 AFFAIR COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT , OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET , MAITAMA , ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: ANAYO IKEAH

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

GREAT YORUBA MARITIME INITIATIVE

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. OJO TITILOPE OMOLAYO - CHAIRMAN 2. OLOWO OLUWABUSOLA OLAYEMI - SECRETARY 3. ADEYEMO ADEYINKA RASAQ 4. ALAFIA ADEWALE MOSHOOD AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROVIDE SOCIAL, EDUCATIONAL EMPOWERMENT TO WOMEN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND CHILDREN. 2. TO SAFEGUARD THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD AND PROVIDE FOR THE WELL BEING OF CHILDREN IN NEED. 3. TO MENTOR AND PROVIDE GUIDANCE TO THE YOUTH. 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

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

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. ADEOLA ABIBAT ADEWUMI 2. MOBOLAJI ADEBUSOLA ADEOLA 3. AFOLABI SAMIAT ADEBUKOLA 4. AKINWOLE FUNMILAYO ABISOLA

THE TRUSTEES ARE: (1), OWOEYE JOHN KEHINDE===== CHAIRMAN (2), OLUMIDE OYAGBOHUN ADEYINKA==== VICE CHAIRMAN. (3), FADUGBA OYEKUNLE MICHAEL===== SECRETARY (4), BANKOLE OKANLAWON ADISA======= FINANCIAL SECRETARY. (5), ALHAJI KAZEEM ADENIYI SANUSI====== WELFARE OFFICER.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. FABIYI EBENEZER OLU OBEY 2. S.ADEJIMI ADESANYA 3. OLORUNSOGO IFEOLUWA ADELEKE OLUWAFEMI 4. OYESOLA OLUJARE OYELEYE 5. FABIYI EMMANUEL OLUSHINA 6. FABIYI BUKKY MARY 7. APONMADE AKEEM OLANIYI - SECRETARY.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO PROMOTE PEACE AND UNITY AMONGST MEMBERS. ANY OBJECTIONS 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 FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION.

AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST THROUGH MUSIC MINISTRATIONS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO BRING MATURED YOUTHS, MARRIED WOMEN, SINGLE MOTHERS AND WIDOWS WORLDWIDE TOGETHER TO BECOME GLORIOUS MOTHERS THROUGH PRAYERS AND GODLY TEACHINGS AS WELL AS PROVIDING SUPPORT TO THE LESS PRIVILEGED AND THE COMMUNITIES 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

GLORY AND PRAISE EDUCATION 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.

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. AMBASSADOR DR. MICHAEL OLADEJI -- CHAIRMAN 2. MRS FUNKE TEMILOLA OLADEJI 3. MR. SAMUEL ADENIJI 4. MRS MARY ADEYEMO 5. MRS ELIZABETH ADEDINI 6. MR OLUWAKUNMI OLADEJI -- SECRETARY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. STRENGTHEN, EXPAND AND IMPROVE EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES IN THE COUNTRY 2. ORIENTATE, EDUCATE, TRAIN AND EMPOWER THE YOUTH FOR A BETTER, FULFILLED MORAL LIFE. 3. TO PROMOTE THE SEARCH FOR KNOWLEDGE THROUGH ACTIVE ENCOURAGEMENT FOR RESEARCH. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

MILLY HACT 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.

(1)TRUSTEES: 1. UGWU CHINAGOLU MILLICENT 2. NNAEMEKA EZEANI. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. HELPING THE POOR AND THE LESS PRIVILEGED. 2. PROVIDING FOOD, CLOTHING AND SHELTER FOR THE NEEDY. 3. BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN THE RICH AND THE POOR IN THE SOCIETY. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

READ TO STOP CANCER INITIATIVE 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.

NAMES OF THE TRUSTEES 1. MISS SHAIBU YETUNDE OLUBUNMI - CHAIRMAN 2. MR. ONOJA JAMES OKPANACHI - SECRETARY 3. DR. JIMOH KASUMU SHAIBU - MEMBER 4. PHARM. ANDIE OYANA - MEMBER 5. MR. ABUBAKAR ABDULLAHI - MEMBER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO CREATE AWARENESS ABOUT CANCER THROUGH LITERATURES, FILMS, DRAMA, MEDIA AND ALL FORMS OF ARTS. 2. TO HELP RAISE FUNDS AND SUPPORTS FOR CANCER PATIENTS, CANCER RELATED RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF MEDICAL SOLUTIONS. 3. TO DISCOURAGE STIGMATIZATION SO TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TURN UP FOR TESTS/CHECKUPS IN ORDER TO CURB THE DISEASE AT EARLY STAGES THEREBY AVOIDING DEATHS OR NEGATIVE IMPACTS. 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: BARR. EKELE ATADOGA

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PROPHETIC HOUSE OF MERCY PRAYER MINISTRY

23 Public Notice

GENESIS THE FEAR OF GOD CHURCH

A WORLD HUMANITARIAN AND CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

This is to inform the general public that the above named ministry has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under part ‘C’ of the Companies and Allied matters Act 1990.

This is to inform the General Public that the above named ORGANISATION has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission Abuja for registration under part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2004.

The General public is hereby notified that the above named FOUNDATION has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under part “C” of the companies and allied matters act 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. DAMIETE KORUBO (President) 2. BRIGHT IFEANYI ELEWO (Secretary) 3. PETER AKOLOKU (Treasurer) 4. BOMA KORUBO 5. IVAN IWARI IYOYO

TRUSTEES ÷ 1. EVANGELIST CAROLINE TELMA NWOGU - PRESIDENT 2. PASTOR ISRAEL CHIJIOKE ACHERU - SECRETARY 3. ELDER JOSEPH IGAH - MEMBER 4. BRO. LASTING NWOGU - MEMBER

THE TRUSTEES ARE:1. AWODEJI AMOS OYEWALE 2. GBADEBO ABDULFATAI 3. AREMU AZEEZ 4. ADEJUMOBI ISIWAT JANET 5. OLUWOLE OGUNDIMU

AIMS & OBJECTIVES: 1. To preach the gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

Signed: PRESIDENT ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTENANCE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION This is to inform the general public that the above named Foundation has Applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission Abuja for registration Under part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act of 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. CHINEDU MAXWELL NWAFOR 2. LAKIN RONALD JAMES 3. NWAFOR UCHECHUKWU JANE 4. JOY MAREE LAKIN 5. LEVER MEGAN LOUISE AIMS & OBJECTIVE 1. To help mitigate climate change in Nigeria 2. To help Boost Agricultural development in Nigeria 3. To help meet the need of the downtrodden people in rural areas who are deprived of life such as cloths and food 4. To help give education and skill development to less privilege 5. To help give health assistance to the poor and less privilege 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 OPALEYE OLUWASEUN OLAMIDE

CONFIRMATION OF NAMES

I, formerly known and addressed as OPALEYE AYODEJI OLUWASEUN, now wish to be known and addressed as OPALEYE OLUWASEUN OLAMIDE. All former documents remain valid.

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This is to confirm that I, PAUL NDAM GOTETE is the same person answering PAUL GOTETE, now wish to be known and addressed as PAUL NDAM GOTETE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

OSARIEMWIAN OBI EMEKA

IWUOHA SYVLIA NKECHI

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ENIOLA DOLAPO AKINOLA

EJEME ENE BLESSING

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS Eniola Dolapo William Akinola NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS Eniola Dolapo Akinola. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE. ADE-JOHN DEBORAH OLUWAKEMI

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JUDE CELEBRITY CHIAGOZIEM

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DIKE OKWUAKA CHUKWUDI

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FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IIODO ENE BLESSING NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EJEME ENE BLESSING. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE. SAKA BOLAJI ADISA

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MRS AMADI GRATEFUL ADAEZE

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MRS CHIBUNNAM PATIENCE OGECHI

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THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. To preach the word of God to all nations.

2. To win souls for Christ through evangelism.

Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to RegistrarGeneral, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 565, Ndola Square, Wuse, Zone 5, Abuja.

SIGNED: EVANGELIST CAROLINE TELMA NWOGU - PRESIDENT

NWACHUKWU IKECHI I, formerly known and addressed as NWACHUKWU IKECHI UDOKA, now wish to be known, called and addressed as NWACHUKWU IKECHI. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

AMUSA FATIMO

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CORRECTION OF NAME My name was mistakenly written as OLUWATOSIN OLUWASEUN OYEBAMIJI instead of AYOOLA SAMUEL OYEBAMIJI, now my correct name is AYOOLA SAMUEL OYEBAMIJI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

OGUNDELE GANIYAT ARIYIKE

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CORRECTION OF NAME That my name was wrongly written on my documents as OGUNSEYE SAKIRU IDOWU instead of IMOSEYE SAKIRU IDOWU. That my correct name is IMOSEYE SAKIRU IDOWU. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

TIJANI SEKINAT ADUKE

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AJIBOLA ADETOLA OLAOMOYEMI

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AFUYE DAMILOLA VICTORIA

I was formerly known addressed and called as Adeleke Damilola Omolade now wish to be known addressed and called as Afuye Damilola Victoria and my date of birth was wrongly written as 0305-1995 insted of 03-05-1996.

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DAVIS SAMUEL EZIHE

- CHAIRMAN - SECRETARY

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE IS:TO HELP THE NEEDY BOTH ORPHAN AND DISABLE PEOPLE Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the RegistrarGeneral Corporate Affairs Commission, plot 420, Tigris Crescent, off Aguiyi ironsi street, Maitama Abuja within 28 days of the publication.

SIGNED BY: SECRETARY

BABALOLA ADEYINKA AYODEJI I, formerly known and addressed as ODUPE SHAMSILDEEN, now wish to be known and addressed as BABALOLA ADEYINKA AYODEJI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as FALOLA ABIODUN, now wish to be known and addressed as OLAOLUWA SAMUEL ABIODUN. All former documents remain valid.

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NWAROGWA FORTUNE I formerly known and addressed as NWAROGWA EHIEDUE FORTUNE now wish to be known and addressed as NWAROGWA FORTUNE. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

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ALI MODU I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ALHAJI ALI and ALHAJI MODU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ALI MODU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ADESINA ADENIYI FEMI I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADESINA ADENIYI EZEKIEL NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADESINA ADENIYI FEMI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS. OPARA SLYVALINE IJEOMA

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ANI IKECHUKWU CALLISTUS I, formerly known and addressed asMADUKANI IKECHUKWU CALLISTUS and ANI IKECHUKWU CALISTUS now wish to be known and addressed as ANI IKECHUKWU CALLISTUS and my correct date of birth is 11th June, 1956. All former documents remain valid. Banks and General public please take note.

EZEAKOR NNAEMEKA STEPHEN

MRS EMODI AMAKA ANASTESIA

MRS OHAMS CHISOM FAVOUR

MRS ANIEHE ROSEMARY ADAORA

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OKAGWU KENNETH CHUKS

NWABE SUNDAYCHIBUEZE

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OLAOLUWA SAMUEL ABIODUN

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FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADESHINA YETUNDE OLUWAKEMI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADESHINA YETUNDE OMOYENI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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MRS OLUE OLUCHI SELECTINA

CHINYERE OKEREKE OGBONNE

ADDITIONAL NAME I was formerly known and addressed as OKEME JOSEPH, now adding ‘ALIH’ to become and addressed as OKEME JOSEPH ALIH. All former documents remain valid.

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AMMANUEL EZEMONYE UDEBUALA

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IKPEZIE GOODNESS CHISOM

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MRS EZE AMUCHE CHIKODI

Public Notice 24 ADDITION OF NAME That I was formerly known and addressed as AFONNE NKECHI NIKKY that I now wish to add CHINWEOKWU to my former name that I now wish to be known and addressed as AFONNE NKECHI NIKKY CHINWEOKWU. All former documents remain valid.

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CONFIRMATION OF NAME That I ADETORO ADEYINKA MOTURAYO OLAWUNMI is the same person bearing ADETORO ADEYINKA OLAWUNMI wish to maintain ADETORO ADEYINKA MOTURAYO OLAWUNMI. All Documents /Credentials bearing these names remain valid, general public please take note.

CORRECTION OF NAME This is to inform the general public that my name MICHAEL MMADUKA NZE was wrongly written during my BVN registration but now wish to be corrected and addressed as EZEANYIM MICHAEL CHUKWUMA. All former documents remain valid.

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MRS. GRACE ADAEZE NWACHUKU

AUDU SUNDAY AGADA Formerly known and addressed as ABAH SUNDAYPETER, now wish to be known and addressed as AUDU SUNDAY AGADA. All former documents remain valid.

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MRS. BIENUE JESSICA NKECHI

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ADIH EMILI UFEDOR

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RAJI SAHEED ADEYINKA Formerly known and addressed as RAJI SAHEED MUSLIU, now wish to be known and addressed as RAJI SAHEED ADEYINKA. All former documents remain valid.

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HENNUHO JAMES THOTUN Formerly known and addressed as JAMES MEHOME HENNUHO, now wish to be known and addressed as HENNUHO JAMES THOTUN. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

INTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH AND ANIMAL PROTECTION ORGANIZATION REG. NUMBER - CAC/IT/NO. 94816 THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR CHANGE OF NAME AND CHANGE OF TRUSTEES UNDER PART ‘’C’’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1999 THE NEW NAME IS:ANIMAL HEALTH AND RESEARCH ORGANIZATION THE OLD TRUSTEES ARE:(1) DR OLUTOYE ADEGBOYE - RETAINED (2) DR FLORIAN REICHERT - REMOVED (3) ADEGBOYE OLUSEGUN - RETAINED THE NEW TRUSTEE IS:( 1) DR OLUSEGUN ADEGBOYE - APPOINTED AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:AIMS AND OBJECTIVES REMAINS THE SAME ANY OBJECTION TO THIS CHANGES 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

HELPMATE EMPOWERMENT INITIATIVE This is to Inform the General Public that the Above Named Initiative has Applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration Under part “ C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

Trustees 1. Soyinka Tunji Olusegun 2. Atobatele Moyosore Titilayo 3.Atobatele Kikelomo Olawunmi 4. Adedeji Zacch Adelabu 5. Lawal Olanrewaju Mutiu AIMS: 1. TO EMPOWER THE LESS PRIVILEGED 2. FOR DEVELOPMENT AND EMPOWERMENT OF GRASSROOT AND RURAL AREA 3. FOR EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT OF LESS PRIVILEGED ANY OBJECTION TO THIS SHOULD BE FORWARD TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA ,ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

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MRS ADEYEMI OLUSOLA OLABISI I Formerly known and addressed as MISS ODUKOYA OLUSOLA OLABISI now wish to be known, called and addressed as MRS ADEYEMI OLUSOLA OLABISI. All documents and certificates bearing my former names remain valid. Banks, Immigrations, Relevant Authorities and the General public Please take note.

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MRS. TAIBAT TEMITOPE OWODUNNI I Formerly known and addressed as Taibat Temitope Quadri now wish to be known, called and addressed as Mrs. Taibat Temitope Owodunni All documents and certificates bearing my former names remain valid. Banks, Immigrations, Relevant Authorities and the General public Please take note.

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MRS. BISOLA BUKOLA ADENAIKE

CHUKWUEMEKA BISHOP NWABUNZE

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JOHN TIMOTHY OKORIA

AKADIRI SAHEED ADIJAT

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Formerly known and addressed as SAHEED ADIJAT OLUSOLA, now wish to be known and addressed as AKADIRI SAHEED ADIJAT. All former documents remain valid. Education District iv and general public take note.

ONOBUN EMMANUEL MORENIKEJI

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CHANGE OF NAME/ CORRECTION OF DATE OF BIRTH Formerly known and addressed as OVIE BARNE, now wish to be known and addressed as BARNE SOLOMON. My date of birth was wrongly written as 20-11-1991, instead of 20-11-1992. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

MRS EVANGELINE OGOCHUKWU IFEANYICHUKWU FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS EVANGELINE OGOCHUKWU IGWE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS EVANGELINE OGOCHUKWU IFEANYICHUKWU, ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

ALIASAU AJEWOLE BAKARE Formerly known and addressed as ABRAHAM OMOTAYO OLOGBON, now wish to be known and addressed as ALIASAU AJEWOLE BAKARE. All former documents remain valid.

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EMINENT COMMITTEE OF NOBLE FRIENDS CLUB THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED CLUB 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.NWOSO SOMADINA BARTHOLOMEW - CHAIRMAN 2.MADU INNOCENT UCHECHUKWU - SECRETARY 3.ONYEWUIBE IKECHUKWU COLLINS 4.OKAFOR IFEANYI JOHN PAUL 5.MUOTOH PETER CHINEYE 6.CHUKWU EMEKA 7.MUOKA JUDE CHIZOBA THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE : 1.TO PROMOTE THE INTEREST AND WELFARE OF MEMBERS OF THE CLUB. 2.TO HELP THE POOR AND WIDOWS IN THE SOCIETY. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR_GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIR COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT , OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET , MAITAMA , ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED : SECRETARY

OKPALA DESCENDANT UNION AMICHI

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. H.R.M. OFOBUIKE A. EZEOKE 2. CHIEF GEOFFREY CHUKWUJEKWU 3. EBERE UMEOJIAKU (SIR) 4. DONATUS CHINEDU NZEKWE (CHIEF ) 5. EDWARD ABATTAM (SIR ) 6 ABASILI SUNDAY (SIR) 7. ANSALEM AFORKA (CHIEF) 8. IKECHUKWU EGWUONWU ( CHIEF) 9. BENARD AFORKA ( SIR) 10. BARRISTER B.S NNAKAENYI AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO OBSERVE AND OBEY OUR CULTURAL HERITAGE AND TO INDULGE IN ACTIVITIES AIMED AT PROMOTING THE INTEREST OF OUR QUATER IN AMICHI AND OUR COMMUNITY. 2. TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INTEGRATION AND TO ENGENDER MEMBERS INTERDEPENDENCY IN ALL SITUATIONS 3. TO FASHION OUT RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE CONDUCT OF THE AFFAIRS OF OUR QUARTERS , MEMBERS AND COMMUNITY. 4. TO ENSURE PEACEFUL CO- EXISTENCE AS THE FIRST SON IN OUR AMICHI COMMUNITY AND TO CHOOSE PATRIOTIC INDIVIDUAL AS A CANDIDATE FOR THE POSITION OF IGWE OR TRADITIONAL RULER IN AMICHI .

5. TO RENDER MUTUAL ASSISTANCE TO MEMBERS IN TIMES OF NEED .

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR_GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIR COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT , OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET , MAITAMA , ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: IKE MALACHY CHIJIOKE ESQ. 08069041967

AJIBOLA KAMILA KEMI

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IMOGIMHE BLESSING

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ADEGBUYI ADEBAYO ABRAHAM

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FOLASADE OLULENU YOMI Formerly known and addressed as FOLASADE ADENIKE OLULENU, now wish to be known and addressed as FOLASADE OLULENU YOMI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

OKAFOR SAMUEL FABREGAS

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OWOLABI LUQMON ADESHINA

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DIPEOLU MUJIDAH BOLANLE LAWAL

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CORRECTION AND CONFIRMATION OF NAME This is to notify the general public that my names were wrongly written, stated and called as Ishola Fatai Festus and Festus Moronkeji instead of Ishola Festus Moronkeji. Henceforth I wish to be known, called and addressed as Ishola Festus Moronkeji. First & Zenith Banks take note.

GOD’S THEMELION CHURCH INT’L.

The general public is hereby inform that the above named has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part ‘C’ of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, Decree No. 1 of 1990.

TRUSTEES ARE; (1). REV. CHARLES SOPRINYE ALLISON. ( 2). ALLISON CHARLES SOPRINYE JUNIOR. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ; 1. To propagate the gospel of our lord 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: REV. CHARLES SOPRINYE ALLISON (PRESIDENT) CONCERNED ELDERS, ENLIGHTENED INDIGENES, MONITORING AND ADVISORY OF IFA IKOT AKPAN MBIA FORUM The general public is hereby inform that the above named Forum has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part ‘C’ of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, Decree No. 1 of 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Pastor Ime Asuquo Efa - Chairman 2. Elder Edet Okon Edet - Secretary 3. Sir Francis Okon Udo 4. Rev. Edet Okon Udodong

5. Mr. Patrick Asuquo Akpan 6. Mrs. Grace Etim Okon 7. Elder Effiong Asuquo Akpan 8. Mr. Okon Effiong Asuquo

AIMS/OBJECTIVES: 1. To foster peace and unity among the indigenes of Ifa Ikot Akpan Mbia.

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: Pastor Ime Asuquo Efa Chairman

NIGER DELTA YOUTH PEACE FOUNDATION THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED FOUNDATION 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) Prince Emmanuel Njoku (chairman) (2) Ugochi Nwankwo (3) Christopher Aleruchi Orduh (secretary) (4) Benjamin lgbinosa okundia (5) Okpoebi Appah THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE : 1.To promote peace and unity amongst our youth.

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

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NZE TITUS CHIKWADO

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xx CHISOM JENNIFER EPHRAIM

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ABUBAKAR MOHAMMED UMAR

CORRECTION AND CHANGE OF NAME

ESTHER ASUQUO ANIEDI

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NNALUE DESTINY GOD’SWILL

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SANI BARAKA

This is to confirm and certify that SANI BARAKA and ISIAKA BARAKA is one and same person but now wish to be known called and addressed as SANI BARAKA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

OLUCHI LUCIANNE CHUKS ZOM

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I, formerly known and addressed as OJO ABIMBOLA AGNES, now wish to be known and addressed as KAREEM ABIMBOLA AGNES. All former documents remain Valid.

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BEATITUDES SISTERS IN MISSION The general public is hereby inform that the above named has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part ‘’C’’ of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, Decree No. 1 of 1990.

TRUSTEES ARE 1.Chima Agbaeze Becky Ada 2.Daniel Ruth 3.Obiageli Ani 4.Faith Chukwuma

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CHANGE OF NAME/ CORRECTION OF BIRTH DATE

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IKEDIASHI JUSTINA GODSGIFT

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All former documents remain valid. General public take note EMIABATA- AYILARA ISLAMIA KOFOWOROLA

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MERCY OF GOD ORGANISATION AND HUMANITARIAN INITIATIVE The general public is hereby inform that the above named has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part ‘’C’’ of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, Decree No. 1 of 1990.

TRUSTEES ARE 1. Harry Elijah 2. Amalaha Stanley Nnamdi 3. Otobo Dennis Ibiye-yembebara

- Chairman

Aims and Objectives 1. Helping the poor,the less privilege,widows and orphans.

2. providing medical service to the less privilege.

Aims And Objectives 1.Awareness creation on public health related issues 2.Advocacy 3.Care and support 4.Prevention for key affected population.

5.Empowerment of youth and women in the society

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

Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420 Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja, within 28 days of this publication

Signed: Trustees

SIGNED CHAIRMAN

ASSOCIATION OF BREAD VENDORS NIGERIA The general public is hereby inform that the above named Association has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part ‘C’ of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, Decree No. 1 of 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Udofia Ephraim Augustine 2. Liberty O. Anasi 3. Akpan Sylvanus Sylvanus 4. Udeme Bassey Udosoh 5. Mary Samphil Albert AIMS/OBJECTIVES: 1. To cater for the welfare of members 2. To foster unity among members Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420 Tiqgris Crescent, Off Aguiyi ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja, within 28 days of this publication Signed: TRUSTEES

FAMILY CHANGE OF NAME FORMER NAME 1) MR, OGBUAKA ANTHONY SUNDAY 2) MRS, OGBUAKA REGINA NNENNA 3) OGBUAKA SARAH ONYINYECHI NEW NAME 1) AKACHUKWU ANTHONY SUNDAY. 2) AKACHUKWU REGINA NNENNA 3) AKACHUKWU SARAH ONYINYECHI All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

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This is to notify the public that my name was wrongly written as CHRISTIANA ELESUANYA OGBAZIRIONYE and MRS CHRISTIANA ONWUBIKO (Nee Elesoanya) instead of MRS CHRISTIANA UCHE CHARLES ONWUZURUIKE (Nee Elesoanya) Henceforth my correct name is MRS CHRISTIANA UCHE CHARLES ONWUZURUIKE (Nee Elesoanya). All former documents remains valid the general public please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MOHAMMED GREMA FANDI now wish to be known and addressed as ABUBAKAR MOHAMMED UMAR. That my date of birth is 10 October 1987.

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ADA UCHE ELEAZU

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IHENYEN ODION JULIET

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THE BALM OF GILEAD DELIVERANCE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRY The general public is hereby inform that the above named has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part ‘’C’’ of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, Decree No. 1 of 1990.

TRUSTEES ARE 1.Apostle Dr Abikari Hope 2.Alieze Patrick.I 3.Orisa Emmanuel Onybuchi 4.Elder Godwin Wonah 5.Ogu Vinian Adaku

Chairman Secretary Fin.Secretary Treasurer PRO

Aims and Objectives 1.To preach the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ 2. To raise intercessors 3.To deliver the oppressed through prayers and the word of God 4.To embark on evangelism and render intercessory prayers 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: Chairman

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Nigeria is our collective responsibility, says Professor Timothy-Asobele Ganiyu Obaaro Across the country these recent times, the drumbeat of war is seriously shaking the nation’s foundation.

Hate speeches among other derogative remarks have become a common currency across tribes and tongues. Sounds of break up, secession, “quit” notice, restructuring - and rejection of devolution of powers, among others, have taking the centre stage of our national discourse.

But well meaning Nigerians are quick to caution the harbingers of war to thread softly and allow reason to prevail.

One of them is a Professor at the Department of European Languages and Applied Arts, University of Lagos, Akoka, Yaba, Professor Samuel Timothy-Asobele, who has moved against hate speeches and any impending war in Africa’s most populous country.

He attempted to achieve his aim through the use of theatre to dissuade Nigerians, particularly the youths, to eschew violence and embrace peace.

For him, theatre is a veritable tool to fight societal ills. And that was why, on Thursday, July 20, 2017, eminent professors, including the university’s Deputy Vice Chancellor, Academics, Professor Ola Rotimi and scores of the university’s enthusiastic students, thronged the Board Room 401 of the Faculty, venue of the play, written by the don. Head, Department of English, Professor Hope Eghagha moderated the programme.

Purpose According to the playwright who has been described as a man of high intellectual standing, imbued with uncommon energy over the past three decades of academic prowess, there is urgent need to deploy resources and legal avenues to move against any impending war in the country.

One of these, he said, is theatre/plays like the one he has espoused.

The Kabba, Kogi State-born Professor of French Language and one-time Head of the department, says “Nigeria is a collective responsibility, and should not be torn apart by strives or wars.”

For him, there is need to restructure the country, enunciate true federalism as agitated for by various ethnic groups like the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, Arewa Youth, Middle Belt Group, Niger Delta Group and Afenifere, but cautioned that this must be done with good reasoning.

In particular, he warned against violence being used by IPOB, led by Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, who is seeking the proclamation of Biafra Republic, adding that the move by the Igbo Leaders to douse tension in the region by calling Kanu to order was in good taste.

“Kanu should listen to Igbo leaders like, Abia state Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu; Governor of Enugu state, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Anamra state Gov, Mr. Willie

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dead is equal to one European dead? We are a victim of a hoax, a sort of April fool!

Prof. Samuel Timothy- Asobele

Obiano; former Chairman, All Progressives Grand Alliance, Chief Victor Umeh; former Senate President, Ken Nnamani; former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Prof Charles Soludo; Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Nnaemeka Achebe and General( rtd) Ike Nwachukwu,” he said.

The play The professor described his book, ‘The three unending Transition plays,’ which he dramatised as a “child of necessity and a contribution to the spread of democratic norms in Africa.”

As his audience watched the play on stage, he said that, “In Nigeria of today, there is that longing to know more about the unsettling conflict of governance that has beset our body politics. Also, ‘The

Commander’s Telegram’ interprets the allegory of what happens when the family unit is endangered by misunderstanding that too often leads to war in the Nigerian Biafran Civil War of 167-70.”

Characters like Gen Ndigwe; Steiner; Capt. Olowo; Sgt Rimi; Lt. Maman; Gen Ekpeyong featured prominently in the book/play.

For example, page 94 of the book and dramatised in the Nigerian Civil War, reveals its atrocities and the conversation between Steiner and Gen Ndigwe thus: Steiner: You cannot compare those (over 4000 Biafran dead soldiers) to our brave and expensively trained European liberators.

Gen Ndigwe: An end to your joke! Mathematicians of the world; how many African

Road to peace in Nigeria Professor Timothy-Asobele, while condemning embers of war, said, “We all say ‘No’ to Prof Ango Abdulahi’s order on Igbo to leave the North in support of the Arewa Youth. We need to eschew violence.”

He said that the cherished philosophy, ‘Go On With One Nigeria’ (GOWON) must be continually imbibed by Nigerians, particularly the youths, to inculcate unity and development to Nigerians.

The Prof likened the ongoing hate speeches across the country to an armoured tank which, when in operation, could destroy just anything within its shooting range.

For the moderator, Professor Eghagha, who described his colleague as an “intellectual, who has been very active and courageous for over three decades,” there was the need to enunciate true Federalism in the country.

He said the pronouncement by the Arewa Youths could trigger North-South migration with dire consequences on the polity, and called for caution, describing theatre as a tool for highlighting and correcting societal ills.

Conclusion No doubt, the play was a wakeup call for Nigerians to eschew divisive tendencies and issues that could cause war.

Meanwhile, the students and others who watched the play written, organised and presented by one of their own eminent dons, were full of commendation for its import and purpose.

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Use of monotherapies increasing malaria burden in Nigeria Angela Onwuzoo The gaps in the knowledge of the right and recommended anti-malaria drugs, even among the educated ones, show that Nigeria still has a long way to go in defeating malaria and the need to intensify awareness about the ailment.

Worldwide, malaria has been described as a killer disease.

Experts say malaria is caused by female anopheles mosquitoes and it remains a serious disease affecting both adults and children with more severe impact on pregnant women and children.

However, the World Health Organisation has, for many years, stopped recommending the use of chloroquine, camoquine and other anti-malaria related medicines under monotherapies for the treatment of malaria.

Instead, the use of Artemisinin Combination Therapies (ACTs) is approved and recommended by the world health body.

Investigation by our health desk discovered that though cross sections of the public are aware of WHO’s recommendation of ACT products for the treatment of malaria, the cost of this brand of drugs has forced most people to revert to chloroquine, camoquine and other anti-malaria related medicines under monotherapies, or simply look elsewhere for alternative treatment. But experts however, warn against this practice as patients who opt for drug classified under monotherapies are only getting symptomatic relief while the parasite keeps multiplying, thereby exposing themselves to complications which may eventually lead to death.

According to recent reports, the wrong use of anti-malaria medicines such as chloroquine and other monotherapies is increasing the malaria burden in Nigeria.

AMFm Initiative to the rescue Even with the official launch of the Affordable Medicines Facility for malaria (AMFm) initiative in the country seven years ago - an initiative aimed at reducing the cost of ACTs and make the drugs available to the rural people, many Nige-

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ing for between N1,100-N1,200.

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rians are still unable to afford them, let alone now that the country is in recession.

Hence, many Nigerians are still using monotherapies while others resort to traditional medicine Agbo in treating malaria.

Only recently, the Senate raised the alarm that as many as about 42 anti-malaria drugs banned by the European Union (EU) were still in circulation in the country.

Though the Acting DirectorGeneral, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration

and Control (NAFDAC), Mrs. Yetunde Oni, had refuted the Senate’s claim, a patent medicine dealer who preferred anonymity, told The Daily Times that the drugs were still in the market and that they are the ones most Nigerians can afford than the ACTs. He revealed that since March that the news of the ban was circulated in the social media, the prices of ACTs drugs have doubled.

“Lonart DS that sold between N600-N700 before, is now sell-

Nigeria in malaria endemic environment Speaking in an interview with our correspondent, Chairman, Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria (ACPN), Lagos State Branch, Mrs. Bola Paul-Ozieh, said because Nigeria is in a malaria endemic environment, the Federal Government had put a treatment policy in place that is backed by WHO which must be followed in treating the ailment.

The Federal Government policy, according to the pharmacist, stipulates that a combination therapy and not a monotherapy be used in treating malaria.

She revealed that monotherapies were banned to prevent resistant strains and stressed that the use of combination therapy produces better recovery outcomes.

She explained: “The Federal Government and the WHO recommended Artemether+Lumefantrin (AL) and Artesunate+Amodiaquine (AA) as the very first line drugs.

Sulphadoxine Pyrimethamine (SP) is also a combination of anti-malaria medicine recommended by both WHO and the Nigeria National Anti-Malarial

Treatment Policy for Intermittent Preventive Treatment (IPT) of malaria.”

Paul-Ozieh further noted that “This means that we are using more than one drug to treat malaria. So, every Nigerian with malaria episode must treat it with the approved first line ACT drugs.”

She noted also that those who use monotherapies to treat malaria were ignorant of the recommended therapies.

“People will not buy the wrong anti-malaria medicine if they go to genuine pharmacy with the right registered premises and ask their pharmacists the type of drug they need to take in treating malaria”, she said.

To avoid confusion and mistake, Paul-Ozieh advised Nigerians not to buy them separately, but to buy the ones that has been totally combined by the manufacturers.

Managing Director, Lefas Pharmaceuticals and President, Nigerian Representatives of Overseas Pharmaceutical Manufacturers (NIROPHARM), Pharm. Lekan Asuni, told our correspondent that monotherapies are no longer prescribed for malaria treatment, asserting that any drug that does not conform with WHO’s recommendation, should not be consumed in Nigeria.

As a manufacturer, Asuni said Nigeria needs to be selfsufficient in anti-malaria drugs through improved local capacity to produce them.

According him, the current local capacity to produce ACTs in the country is still very low.

His words: “If we have the right active ingredients locally, we would manufacture locally. Although we can produce ACTs, but we are not growing the plant here in Nigeria.

“The ingredient is a plant extract, therefore, there should be huge investment to grow the plant enough in the country that will meet our needs. We, the manufacturers, still depend on few sources from Asia, and that is a big challenge.”

In line with the recommendations of the Nigeria National Anti-Malarial Treatment Policy and the WHO, NAFDAC said it had stopped registration of anti-malaria monotherapies.

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Daily Times Nigeria Thursday, August 17, 2017

Our closure by FG is political witch-hunt, Firm alleges Kingsley Chukwuka, Jos .A mining company in Plateau state, Solid Unit Nigeria Ltd, has flayed its closure by the federal government saying it is corporate sabotage which may not be devoid of political witch-hunt.

The company called on the government to check its records and “reverse the assault” carried out on it.

Minister of Solid Minerals and Steel Development, Dr. Fayemi Kayode, in company of the National Security Adviser, Babagana Mungonu, and Plateau state governor, Mr. Simon Lalong, led by a member of the House of Representatives representing Wase federal constituency, Hon Idris Maje, had on Monday undertook a tour of the mining site of Solid Unit Nigeria Ltd in Zurak, Wase local government area, during which the minister accused the company of carrying out illegal mining operations and poor community relations.

But in a press statement issued to newsmen, the company described the action of the federal government as ill-informed and an unsavoury corporate sabotage.

The statement, which was signed by the company’s image maker, Suleiman Adamu, said it obtained its exploration license in 2010, and later renewed the document

in 2015, which is due to expire on September 28, 2017.

Adamu further said; “At the time of the government action which purportedly closed the operations of the company, its exploration license was well in force and duly operational according to the law. We therefore wonder what informed such emotional official slam of the corporate citizen.

“According to section 148 of the Nigeria Minerals and Mining Act 2007, when the holder of a mineral title applies using the pendency of his title for renewal of the mineral title, the current mineral title shall remain in force until the date of the mineral tile, or the refusal of the application.”

Basing its position on the provision of another provision of the same Solid Minerals Act, section 65 which states to the effect that “subject to the provision of this Act, the Minister shall upon receipt of a valid application from a qualified applicant, grant an issue to that person a mining lease for the purposes required within forty five days of such application”.

The company expressed concern why the minister will act in contravention of the enabling law, especially when it has since applied for the mining lease 2011 and has fulfilled all conditions including payment of fees and levies amongst others.

NIPR empowers Ukah to reorganise Delta chapter Nosa Akenzua, Asaba

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Speaker Plateau State House of Assembly Hon. Peter Azi, yesterday advocated the inclusion of Peace Corps in the 2018 budget.

The Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) has empowered the Delta State Commissioner for Information, Mr Patrick Ukah, to reorganize the state chapter of the body.

A letter, dated August 1, 2017 and signed by the President and Chairman of Council of the Institute, Dr. Rotimi Oladele, reads in part, “please kindly reorganize the Delta State Chapter of NIPR, and dissolve the o u t d a t e d / u n a p p r ove d

leadership structure you might have come across over there”.

According to the letter, Mr. Ukah was given 60 days from the date it was signed to conduct a credible election of the Chapter’s Executive Committee as laid down by NIPR laws.

The letter further stated that “the Council has absolute confidence in your person as a senior member of the institute and also in your office as the Honourable Commissioner for Information in the state as well as the Supervisory Commissioner for NIPR in the state “.

“On behalf of the Council, l thank you very much for your cooperation “ the letter concluded.

L-R:Chairman, Lagos State House of Assembly, Committee on Youth and Social Development, Adedamola Richard Kasumu; CSR Lead, Airtel Nigeria, ChiomaOkolie and Commissioner, Lagos State Ministry of Youths and Social Development, Pharm (Mrs.) UzamatAkinbile – Yussuf, at the 2017 International Youth Day Celebration in Lagos… on Tuesday.

PDP chairmanship: It’s turn of S’West - Babatope Patrick Okohue

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Former Minister of Aviation and Transport, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, has said that it is the turn of the South West to occupy the position of National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), just as he reiterated his support for the emergence of Chief Olabode George as the party’s chairman.

Speaking at a press conference in Lagos Wednesday which also had in attendance other members of Bode George for Chairman Campaign Organisation, Babatope said that giving the chairmanship position of PDP to the South West region was the righteous path.

“Our party, the Peoples Democratic Party was in power for 16 years of unbroken democratic gov-

Ï ƃƈ 1Ƅ ƍ Ƅ ƅ ƍ ƃ ƐƄƎƄƕ Ƌ ƆƎƆ ernance. In this particularisation, every zone in this pluralistic nation had enjoyed the significant helmsmanship of our party’s apex leadership except the South West.

“This is troubling. This is not fair. This is unacceptable. This much we will fight against with all our strength, with all our energy and with all our purposeful dedication.

“There is no doubt about it : it is our turn. Now it is our right as the people of the South West to mount the apex leadership of our party.

“Now, this much is our position. Now this much is our pursuit. Now, this much is our absolute declaration: We need the best of us. We are resigned and

resolved to bring out the great personality that will seize the moment and steer our party back to national leadership and purposeful renewal.

“In this pursuit, in this firm resolve and contemplative clarity, we hereby proclaim and assert that Chief Olabode Ibiyinka George is the best candidate for the job,” Babatope said.

He said PDP can be enhanced and renewed towards the winning ways only “when we bring out the tested, the proven, the matured and the responsible person to lead us to electoral victory in 2019.

“This is not the time for trial and error. This not the time for some crude illogic experimentation.

“We dare not fail. We

dare not falter. We dare not temporize nor make the wrong move. Chief Olabode Ibiyinka George is now the man of destiny.

He is the right choice for our party, now in this challenging time”, Babatope further said.

He continued, “Our resolve is not frivolous. We are very serious. We want the best for our party. We want the best for our nation.

“We have weighed Chief Bode George on all complementary criteria for our party’s leadership. He is proven and tested. He is serious and dedicated.

He is honest, fair, smart, sharp, intelligent, humble, sincere, patriotic, accommodating, selfless, candid, totally resolved on justice and fair play.

Be forthright in handling corruption related cases, Masari urges NBA Segun Olaniyan, Katsina

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Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina state has urged members of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) to intensify efforts in the current war against corruption by being forthright in the handling of corruption related cases.

Masari made the call on Wednesday during a courtesy visit by the Katsina and Funtua NBA branches led by Barrister Abubakar Mohammed at the Government house council chamber in katsina.

According to him, being the custodian of law and order, as magistrates and judges, there should be a baseline for operations.

“Lawyers should be above partisan divide to guarantee a peaceful society and allow for professional operation”, he posited.

He said the NBA should be at the forefront in defence of the right to benefit the larger society, especially at this critical time in the development of the country.

On the Association’s resolve to partner with the

state to develop primary and secondary education, the Governor revealed that N1.9billion would be expended for the improvement of secondary education in the state.

Masari who also disclosed that another three billion naira would be spent on primary education, however assured of continued heavy investment in the sector to secure the future of its teeming youths.

On their requests, Governor Aminu Bello Masari promised to donate a land, a bus and other assistance to the asso-

ciation to enable the two branches to become vibrant.

Earlier, the chairman of NBA, Barrister Abubakar Mohammed applauded the present administration efforts at improving the education, health and other sectors, assuring of their readiness to partner with the state government to develop primary and secondary education in the state.

Barrister Mohammed however solicited the state government assistance for a land, bus and monthly financial subvention to enable them function efficiently.

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Human parts discovered in church as Police arrest prophet, three others in Ogun Abiodun Taiwo, Abeokuta

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The Ogun State Police have arrested a prophet and three other suspects in connection with the discovery of suspected human parts buried inside a church.

The arrested 77-year-old prophet, Samuel Babatunde, is the founder of Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Itedo Isinmi Ayo Parish, Egan Road in IyanaIyesi area of Ota. The state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, who paraded the cleric in Ota, told reporters that the discovery followed the arrest, on Saturday, of a suspected serial kidnapper, Jeremiah Adeola.

He said Adeola, 32, specialised in kidnapping children and had already confessed that the prophet of the white garment church was the receiver of the abducted children.

The police boss added that a 43-year-old herbalist, Haruna Afolabi, was among the suspects, who allegedly buried the human parts at the entrance of the church.

According to him, operatives attached to the police Area Command in Ota on Sunday received technical intelligence about Adeola

and eventually apprehended him.

Iliyasu said, “On the strength of the intelligence, detectives from Ota Area Command were detailed to effect the arrest of the suspect; and at about 10:20am of the date, their efforts paid off when the said Jeremiah Adeola was promptly arrested.

“On interrogation, he confessed being a serial kidnapper and mentioned a prophet of a white garment church as the receiver of the kidnapped children.

“Upon his revelation, he was taken to the house/ church of the said prophet at Iyana-Iyesi Ota, where one Prophet Samuel Babatunde, 67 years, a pastor in charge of the church and one Haruna Afolabi, 42 years, a traditional worshiper, were arrested.

“The floor of the church was dug as described by the first suspect, and parts suspected strongly to be human parts were dug out there in.”

The commissioner, however, said the police command will conduct forensic investigation into the case.

He assured that all those found guilty of the crime will be brought to justice, adding that “Ogun State will never be a safe haven for criminals.”

Cultural icon advocates African traditional oath taking ÏÏÏOne of the female pio-

neers and advocates of traditional cultural practices in Nigeria, Chief (Mrs.) Yeye Sola Animashaun, has advocated that Nigeria should go back to its roots in finding solution to its myriad of political challenges plaguing it.

Sola Animashaun, the Obabinrin Ero Agbaye – Olori Iya Abiye Ile-Ife, a multitalented woman is also vast in cultural practices.

During a cultural programme on Egungun festival in Ota, Ogun state, Chief (Mrs.) Animashaun advised Nigerians to retrace their steps to the good old traditional practices, “not abandoning our cultural practices for modernity.

“My advice to Nigerians is to go back to our traditional practices so that the country will not get worse. We must make sure the country did not get worst before we fix it. We need to go back to our deities and accord them their due recognition in order to find solution to the myriads of problems facing the country.

Speaking further, the Obabinrin also advocated

traditional way to serve as alternative for oath of office for Nigerian politicians, even in courts. Public office holders know that if they swear by any deity, it will require them to live by the oath. They know the deities don’t tolerate lies and deceit. She also appealed to Nigerian leaders both at federal and state levels to approve August 20 as Public Holiday to celebrate Isese Day. Chief (Mrs.) Animashaun who hails from Ile-Ife, Osun state, has championed a remarkable development towards the growth of traditional practices in Nigeria and overseas. She has received many awards for her integrity, hard work and innovation.

Obabirin Ero Agbaye, Yeye Sola Animasaun during Egugun Festival in Ota recently

L-R: Former Governor of Old Ondo State, Evangelist Bamidele Olumilua; his son/All Progressives Congress (APC), governorship aspirant, Ekiti State, Mr. Muyiwa Olumilua; his wife, Olufunke and mother of the aspirant, Chief (Mrs.) Theresa, during the formal declaration of Muyiwa Olumilua at the party secretariat, Ado-Ekiti... on Wednesday.

With 548 days to 2019, we’ll conduct credible general polls -INEC boss Lateef Ibrahim, Abuja ÏÏÏThe count down to the 2019 general elections has begun and with 548 days to the elections, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, has assured Nigerians that the Commission will do everything possible to ensure that the polls are conducted in a free, fair and credible exercise with remarkable improvement.

Yakubu disclosed this development at the Commission’s headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday while swearing in nine new Resident Electoral Commissioners.

He noted that from the outcome of recent elections conducted by INEC, it was clear that votes now count and will continue to be the

sole determinant of the outcome of elections.

He assured that INEC shall continue to uphold the sanctity of citizens’ choice as the only basis for determining elective representation in Nigeria.

The Chairman also said that a new political party, the African People’s Party (APP) has been registered

by INEC in obedient of a court order, thus bringing to 46, the number of parties in the country.

This is even as the INEC Chairman revealed that a total of 2, 092,434 citizens have been registered by the Commission so far under the ongoing voters registration exercise in the country.

The INEC Chairman said, “the Commission has, by order of court, yesterday (Tuesday) issued Certificate of Registration to the African People’s Party

(APP) which originally applied for registration as a political party three years ago in 2014.

With this development, the number of political parties in Nigeria now stands at 46, he said.

Speaking on the number of citizens registered so far by INEC, the Chairman said; “At the end of the first quarter of the exercise, some 1,810,153 citizens were registered. The exercise is now in the second week of the second quarter and already some 282,281 citizens have been registered, making a total of 2,092,434 new registrants so far”.

Yakubu also urged the Resident Electoral Commissioners on the need to prepare for the task ahead, saying that, “I wish draw your attention to the task ahead. As you are already aware, the Commission has

fixed the date for the next General Elections.

“The Presidential and National Assembly elections will hold on Saturday 16th February 2019 while Governorship, State Assembly and Area Council elections in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) will hold two weeks later on Saturday 2nd March 2019.

“It means that from today, (yesterday) we have exactly 548 days to the General Elections. It is important to always remind yourselves of this date and to be tracking and appraising our preparations. “ You are therefore coming at a very auspicious time. I wish to reiterate our commitment to Nigerians that the 2019 General Elections will be a remarkable improvement on the acclaimed success of the last General Elections.

Thousands rendered homeless, as Ogun demolishes houses in Ifo community Ibe Uwaleke Scores of residents in Yakoyo Community of Ojodu area of Ifo local government area, Ogun state, on Wednesday, broke down in tears as bulldozers from the state government demolished their buildings, in continuation of the multi-billion naira Ojodu-Sango Road project embarked upon by the state government.

The residents, who included landlords, tenants and entrepreneurs, lamented their ordeal, saying the state government ought to have paid

compensation before embarking on the demolitions, especially with the state of the economy.

Specifically, the residents alleged that the state government failed to fulfill its promise of compensating persons whose properties were demolished between 2014 and 2015 when the ambitious project that runs through Ojodu, Odozi, Akute, Giwa, Okearo and Sango began.

Speaking on behalf of Yakoyo-Odozi Landlords and Residents Association, the president, Prof.

Olakunle Macaulay, lamented the approach of

Ogun State Government in going about the road project.

“Nobody is against development; nobody is saying the road should not be constructed. But we are human beings for God’s sake; the state government is treating us like animals in the way they are going about the demolition exercise.

“In the first place, nobody has been compensated since they started the road project in 2014.

As for the set of people whose houses are now being demolished, there was no prior notice. The government just came

with bulldozers and set the whole community into pandemonium.

“It is an established fact that a lot of people have died, had stroke and impoverished owing to the way they had been treated by the state government.

“We want our government to treat us with respect. We had a consulting firm that evaluated the costs of properties being demolished by the government but for over three years, there was no indication that its recommendation was considered, much less acted upon.

Lagos Junior League: Veterans applaud Ambode Andrew Ekejiuba

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he first ever Lagos Junior League symposium was successful Wednesday at the Sports Bar of the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, Lagos with football veterans Muyiwa Oshode, Tunde Disu (OFR) and Segun Adenuga amongst others applauding Lagos State

Executive Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode for sustaining the U-15 Football programme that began in 2010.

Oshode who alongside Disu were products of Ahmadiya College Lagos before playing for defunct Stationary Stores, ECN FC of Lagos and members of Mexico ‘68 Olympic Games Eagles team were emphatic that the Lagos Junior League

would produce more quality players after the likes of Wilfred Ndidi, Kelechi Iheanacho and Dele Alampasu were discovered through the programme.

The Lagos Junior League is scheduled to kick off on Saturday, September 23, 2017.

Oshode was particularly excited that all 57 Local Government Areas and Local

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igeria international Ogenyi Onazi has been denied a work permit to play for English Championship side Birmingham City.

Birmingham had agreed terms with the 24-year-old to sign him from Turkish club Trabzonspor.

However the Football Association turned down a first application for a work permit for Onazi last week.

An appeal made by the club was rejected on Wednesday despite Onazi being a regular in the Nigeria national team.

Reports revealed that the player and his representatives are bitterly disappointed that the panel rejected an appeal.

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Honourable Kamal Bayewu also assured that they would organize a hitch freeleague, adding that they are determined to produce players that would be better than Ndidi, Alampasu and Iheanacho who are now playing with different clubs in Europe after graduating from the Lagos Junior League established by the Babatunde Raji Fashola’s regime.

ITTF Challenge fallout: Union Bank vows to discover stars

Super Eagles and helped them to win the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations and reach the last 16 of the World Cup in Brazil a year later.

However Nigeria’s failure to qualify for the past two editions of the Nations Cup has affected his chances of securing a work permit to play in the English Championship.

Despite appearing in over 80% of the national team games, Onazi failed to earn a permit after the FA considered the West African nation’s world ranking in the past two years.

They are ranked 38th in the August 2017 ranking, but Nigeria finished 54th on aggregate over the past two years.

Onazi joined current club Trabzonspor from Lazio last year and scored twice in 27 Turkish Super Lig matches last season.

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Council Development Areas have signaled their interest to participate in this year’s edition.

Disu who is the Technical Director and Acting Executive Secretary promised a better organized Lagos Junior League while appealing for the usual cooperation of all stakeholders.

Chairman of the Lagos Junior League,

FA denies Onazi work permit Andrew Ekejiuba with Agency Report

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emi- final matches of the on-going Season 15 of the annual Bishop Mike Okonkwo football tournament will be decided on Saturday August 19, 2017 at the Practice Pitch of the National Institute for Sports (NIS), Lagos.

According to the fixtures released by the Local Organising Committee of the championship, FC Bethel will trade tackles with Synergy Ultimate Strikers while Young Tale 99 FA will face Young Stars in the second semi- final match.

To get to this stage of the tournament, Young Talent 99 FA recorded a 1-0 victory over Soccer 99 FC while Young Stars defeated Potters FC by 5-4 penalties.

FC Bethel also recorded 8-7 penalty defeat over Sam Jassy after their game ended 1-1 at regulation time, just as Synergy Ultimate Strikers recorded a 2-1 victory over hard fighting Staruf FC. Speaking on the semi- final matches, Chairman of the LOC, Deacon Malachy Ndubuzor expressed confidence that all the teams will live up their expectation having emerged as the best four among the 64 teams that started the championship.

Ndubuzor while reminding the teams of the need to continue playing to the rules charged them to be focused and disciplined even as he announced that the LOC will continue to ensure that only the best teams qualify for the finals slated for Saturday September 2, at the Yaba College of Technology.

ven as foreigners carted away the top prizes at the just ended ITTF Nigeria Challenge, Union Bank Table Tennis Club is aiming to produce more quality players that would give the nation better representation in future meets.

Head coach of Union Bank Table Tennis Club, Samson Ajayi, said they are proud of past and present players, adding that the stallions would keep playing a leading role in table tennis development.

Speaking after Sunday’s closingceremony at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos, Ajayi said, “We were encouraged by the fact that two of our past players; Aruna Quadri and Bode Abiodun (Portugal-based) clashed in the quarter finals of the Men’s singles. As Abiodun won, we held our heads high because it was a Union Bank beat Union Bank or Nigeria beat Nigeria situation”.

Reflecting further, Ajayi said, “Our present players were also very impressive in various categories. It is exciting that Hassan Nurudeen got as far as Round of 16 with the likes of Azeez Solanke, Augustine Emmanuel, Aina Alimat, Bose Odusanya and Limota Aregbesola got to the Round of 32 and queuing for improved rankings soon. Surely Union Bank’s Management has proved the best in table tennis.”

Evah makes case for Roller Sports Federation Ben Nwachukwu, Abuja

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ith few months to this year’s Africa Speed Skating Championship slated to hold in Togo from December 8-9, 2017, President of the Roller Sports Federation of Nigeria, Com-

rade Joseph Evah, has appealed to the Ministry of Youth and Sports and corporate organisations in the country to extend financial help to the federation to enable it sponsor athletes to the continental showpiece.

He made the appeal during a stakeholders meeting with club owners, coaches and technical of-

ficials aimed at charting a way forward for the game which he said is now practiced in every state of the Federation.

“As you can see roller sports is now a household name in the country and its now being practiced by many youths in almost all the states of the federation, but our problem is

paucity of funds to organize as many competitions as possible to reposition the game because the Sports Ministry has not given us any grant to run the Federation.

“We invited club owners, coaches and technical officials from all states of the Federation to brainstorm on how to move the game forward.

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“What we achieved� as reported by The Daily Times of Nigeria on August 17, 1959 wherein Alhaji Tafawa Belewa, the then Prime Minister of Nigeria, boldly enumerated his administrations achievements in five years with the assistance of the pre-independence law makers, is antithetical to what plays out today in our polity. Most Nigerians feel that the Executive, Legislature and Judiciary work at counter-purposes.

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Development: Wike calls for more investments in science, technology Amaka Agbu. Port Harcourt The Governor of Rivers State, Barrister Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has called for increased investments in the field of science and technology for the nation to experience rapid and sustained development.

Speaking at the Government House, Port Harcourt, on Tuesday, when he granted audience to the National Executive Council of the Science Teachers Association of Nigeria (STAN), Wike regretted that the Federal Government was yet to give sciences enough the priority in the nation’s development.

The governor stated that science teachers should be encouraged with necessary incentives to carry out their responsibilities of preparing Nigerian children for developmental roles.

“Nigeria cannot develop unless the nation invests in the teaching of science and mathematics at all levels. That is the way to go. We cannot talk of development without science and mathematics. There must be the

needed encouragement and incentives for teachers of mathematics,” he said.

He commended STAN for their contributions to the development of science education over the last six decades and informed that his administration had invested in the equipping of science laboratories in selected schools to ensure that students had practical knowledge.

He directed the sponsorship of 400 science teachers for the ongoing workshop in the state, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of STAN, noting that such workshops would improve their capacity to impact knowledge.

Speaking earlier, the President of STAN, Mallam Mohammed Moulud commended the state government for enhancing quality of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education in the state schools.

Mallam Moulud noted that STAN was re-positioning itself for more effective roles in the professional development of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics teachers.

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natnuPreneur farmers enjoy 37.5% profit pa on investment – Adewole

The ongoing reforms of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) will place the Corporation on a

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24 ships with petrol, food items expected at Lagos port Ganiyu Obaaro & Abiodun Oyindamola, with Agency report

Twenty four ships laden with petroleum products, food items and other goods are expected to arrive Apapa and TinCan Island ports in Lagos from Aug. 16 to Aug. 27.

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) stated this in its publication, `Shipping Position’, a copy of which was made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, on Wednesday.

NPA said that the ships con-

tained buck wheat, bulk fertiliser, frozen fish, crude palm olein, bulk corn, bulk gypsum, Aviation Turbine Kerosene (ATK), base oil, aviation fuel, petrol and containers laden with goods.

It was gathered that 13 ships had arrived the ports, waiting to berth with bulk fertiliser, bulk corn, soya beans, bulk maize, bulk palm olein and petrol.

Also, NPA said, 18 other ships are at the ports discharging buck wheat, bulk corn, bulk fertiliser, general cargo, bulk gas, truck, frozen fish, petrol, and containers.

L-R: Chairman, Local Organising Committee, Investiture Ceremony, Mr. Bisi Onadipe; National Secretary, Boys’ Brigade, Nigeria (BB), Mr. Adamu Malgwi; National President, BB, Sir Sunny Nwosu and trainer, BB, Mr. Festus Adeniyi, during a press conference on the forthcoming Investiture Ceremony and Brigade Project Development Fund Raising in Lagos… on Wednesday.

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Restructuring will place NNPC on growth trajectory – GMD Simon Ugwu

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long-term growth trajectory for the benefit of all stakeholders.

The Group Managing Director, Dr. Maikanti Baru, who disclosed this when he received a delegation from the NNPC Retired Staff Association, led by its president, Chief George Owarieta, in Abuja, on Tuesday, stated that restructuring the corporation was the surest way to sustainable growth and profitability.

“On restructuring of the NNPC, definitely there are benefits in the exercise both to the nation and to the organization itself. If we don’t take actions, we shall continue in the trajec-

tory of declining revenues and increased deficit, a trajectory that will ultimately lead to no Corporation at all. The trajectory that so many state-owned corporations had followed and they are no more. The trajectory that will lead to chaos and I don’t think it is the trajectory that we would like the NNPC to follow,” Dr. Baru said.

The GMD stated that NNPC management under his leadership was working hard to block any identifiable leakage within the system to ensure that all resources are judiciously utilized for the benefit of all stakeholders

and the nation at large.

He stated that the corporation would ensure that its restructuring plan aligned with that of the Federal Government for the benefit of all Nigerians.

Baru called on members of the association to make valuable contributions based on their wealth of experience to the successful implementation of the ongoing reforms in the Corporation for better results.

The GMD said the corporation was working round the clock to weather the storm in the wake of prevailing economic reality in the country.

ILO to establish global commission for future work Joy Ekeke The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has concluded arrangement to establish a Global Commission on the Future of Work. ILO Director-General, Mr. Guy Ryder said this in Abuja.

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Entrepreneur tasks CBN on sanctioning banks

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The Managing Director, Pel Extract Limited, Linus Kotey, who is also the Chairman, Lagos State Small Scale Industrial Estate Matori, Lagos, has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to sanction the banks for making it difficult for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) to access the N220 billion set aside by the apex bank for MSMEs. He stated this in an exclusive interview with Daily Times in Lagos, adding the banks may have their own criteria of disbursing the loan which is not known to the applicants.

“But I think the delay in disbursing the loan to SMEs is their way of keeping the money longer in the banks. I have not seen many who have

access the loan. This is an estate of about 37 occupants. I have not seen one person who has accessed the loan. That means something is wrong somewhere. The government should ask the banks why have you not disbursed the loans?

May be they will seat up,” he stated.

He maintained that the CBN being the owners of the fund and being in position to translate the government objective should monitor the banks to know how much disbursed to MSMEs because that is the objective.

“And if necessary sanction some banks for not disbursing the credit facility. They should have a way of monitoring the number of applications that are submitted to these banks and how many applications treated and disbursed,” he said.

L-R: Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike (2nd R), President of the Science Teachers Association of Nigeria (STAN), Mr. Mohammed Moulud (2nd L), Former President of STAN, Prof Obioha Nwana (l) and Executive Director of STAN, Prof Ben Akpan after STAN’s visit to the governor... on Tuesday.

ECOWAS to enhance electricity access by 35% on renewable energy Simon Ugwu

ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency has reaffirmed its commitment to increase household access to electricity in the sub-region by 35 per cent through renewable energy sources by 2020, reports Today.

The International Energy Agency estimates that in order to achieve universal electricity access, mini-grids will have to provide around 40 per cent of new capacity by 2030 with the largest percentage needed in Sub-Sharan Africa.

The centre noted that at the mo-

ment, household energy access to electricity in the ECOWAS sub-region was below 50 per cent, which was among the lowest globally.

The Executive Director, Mr Mahama Kappiah, made this known at a regional training for 17 renewable energy experts from English-speaking member states of the sub-region in Abuja on Monday.

He said that the regional policies developed by ECREEE were aimed at increasing renewable energy access to 35 per cent by 2020 and 48 per cent by 2030.

Kappiah said that the policies were adopted by the Heads of State and member states were en-

gaged to develop national action plans.

“The ECOWAS Renewable Energy Policy aims to increase the share of renewable energy in the region’s overall electricity mix to 35 per cent in 2020 48 per cent in 2030.

“The ECOWAS Energy Efficiency Policy aims to implement measures that would free 2,000 MW of power generation capacity.

“Following the adoption of these policies, the Heads of State engaged member states to develop their national action plans towards the attainment of the goals of these policies.

“Every member state has devel-

Lagos lauds Sterling Bank’s sustainability campaign Azubike Nnadozie

In a massive show of endorsement of Sterling Bank’s sustainability campaign known as Sterling Environmental Makeover (STEM), senior officials of the Lagos State Government have paid glowing tributes to the initiative, saying it is in line with the state government’s vision of encouraging residents to show respect for the environment.

Addressing the mammoth crowd at the flag off of the mega cleaning exercise which took place at the Computer Village in Ikeja at the weekend, Dr. Babatunde Adejare, Lagos State Commissioner for the Environment, commended Sterling Bank for its outstanding show of commitment to the campaign for a livable environment.

Adejare said, “We need to have more

respect for our environment than we do now. The state government cancelled the monthly sanitation exercise because it believed that cleaning the environment should be part of our daily lives and not just a monthly routine.”

The commissioner disclosed that the state government recently introduced the Cleaner Lagos Initiative in a bid to better manage solid waste. He urged participants in the cleaning exercise to extend the practice to their different homes as part of their contribution to the emergence of a cleaner Lagos that is fit for human habitation.

Adejare enjoined residents in Lagos not to block drainages with their refuse but to put them in bags and tie the mouths before leaving them in front of their houses for officials of Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) to pick up.

oped their national action plans.

“Following that they (Heads of State) said every country should develop an investment prospectus, that is the investment requirement to meet this action plan that will take everybody to this target,” he said.

He further said that 10 countries had developed their investment prospectus adding that the other five countries would conclude theirs by the end of 2017.

“Once all this is done, then we, together with member states will go on the fund mobilisation to look for ways to get funding to support one another and get these plans implemented,” he added.

Virgin Atlantic launches entrepreneur campaign in Nigeria Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo Virgin Atlantic has launched a new consumer campaign in Nigeria showcasing Nasir Yammama and Sophia Ike-Onu, the two winners of the Virgin Atlantic and British Council enterprise challenge.

The Enterprise Challenge was launched in 2014 as an online competition developed by the British Council Nigeria, and Virgin Atlantic to help young Nigerians reach for the sky.

The competition, according to the airline, provides a platform for young, brilliant entrepreneurial minds to further develop their skills and businesses.

It’s the Virgin Atlantic entrepreneurial spirit, the drive and ambition that lives inside all Nigerians and that has never been more true than for Nasir Yammama and Sophia Ike-Onu. Commenting on the initiative, Sir Richard Branson, Founder and Chairman Virgin Group, said: “Virgin Atlantic is delighted to have supported the Enterprise Challenge program dedicated to supporting young Nigerian entrepreneurs and fostering new ideas. Innovation has been an important part of Virgin’s heritage and I was pleased to see so many young Nigerians keen to embrace new ideas through the competition.”

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He said that, the responsibilities of the commission will involve around four centenary conversations on work and society, decent jobs for all.

He said others were the organisation of work and production, and the governance of work.

The ILO boss noted that the Global Commission on the Future of Work was being set up under the ILO’s Future of Work Centenary Initiative launched in 2013.

“The formation of a Global Commission on the Future of Work marks the second stage in the ILO’s Future of Work Initiative.

“Its job is to undertake an indepth examination of the future of work that can provide the analytical basis for the delivery of social justice in the 21st century.

“The commission will produce an independent report on how to achieve a future of work that provides decent and sustainable work opportunities for all.

“The report will be submitted to the centenary session of the International Labour Conference in 2019, ‘’he said.

The ILO boss, however, said that the global body is expected to address many critical issues of the time and of the future that are rooted in the world of work.

He added that the commission would tackle the fundamental question of how a rapidly transforming world of work should be organised so that it responds to the values of social justice.

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Diamond Bank to empower entrepreneurs In order to equip and better re-position Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the country, Diamond Bank Plc, has said plans have been undertaken to select, train and empower 50 entrepreneurs in the seventh edition of its Building Entrepreneurs Today (BET) initiative.

This initiative, which is in partnership with the Enterprise Development Center of the Pan Atlantic University, is at the core of the bank’s corporate social responsibility strategy; and is aimed at creating a new generation of entrepreneurs who will not be overwhelmed by the challenges posed by the harsh operating business environment but will, with the training and seed capital from the Bank, provide the needed value to the economy.

According to the Bank, the BET initiative is in line with its strategic quest to ensure that entrepreneurs in the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) are properly trained, equipped with upto-date business knowledge and given enough capital to effectively play in the economy, adding that the 50 entrepreneurs that will be selected for the six months entrepreneurial training programme would be those whose businesses have the potential to stimulate sustainable economic growth and development in Nigeria.

The Head of Corporate Communications, Chioma Afe, said in a statement made available to the press that the BET programme is part of the Bank’s decision to give back to its community by supporting human capital development in Nigeria, pointing that as the backbone of a healthy pro-

Diamond Bank MD, Uzoma Dozie

ductive economy, entrepreneurs in the MSME sector need proper and up-to-date knowledge of how to run a business successfully in an inclement environment.

She said: “Diamond Bank believes that empowering entrepreneurs will contribute to the economy and boost production and employment. These informs our passion to drive the training of entrepreneurs at the MSME sector and ensure that they are empowered with the knowledge to succeed and build sustainable businesses. By helping them to build capacity and providing them with seed capital, it is obvious that their chances of survival will be higher and they will be better positioned to continue to contribute to the GDP”.

Speaking further, Afe said that the theme for this training season is: innovation and social impact, adding that the training will focus on entrepreneurs in all sectors of the economy with entries expected from all the geographical zones in Nigeria.

She emphasized that the Bank is encouraging and inviting local small businesses to submit their applications to be considered for the training programme, stating that the knowledge to be gained at the training would make the participants to be actively competitive and maintain stable business relevance in the economy.

According to the bank, there have been six seasons of the BET training series since 2010 when it was first initiated, and each of the seasons were geared towards growing different sectors of the economy such as fashion, ICT, education, health, agriculture, etc.

Over the years, these sectors were strategically chosen because of the recognition of MSMEs as a major accelerant of economic growth and development in any economy; and the need for the Bank to sustain the gains of the previous entrepreneurial training seasons; these spurred the choice of the theme for BET 7 season, which covers ‘innovation and social impact’ in all sectors of the economy.

B3 Money Market

Naira steadies at forex markets, as CBN injects $364m Stories by Motolani Oseni

Despite lifting the official foreign exchange market on Tuesday, with injection of $364 million by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the nation’s currency, naira, on Wednesday, remained unchanged at both the official and unofficial forex markets.

As at the close of daily trading activities on the official segment of the market, the local currency stood at 305.65 against the dollar, the same rate it traded on Tuesday but lower than 305.60 sold the preceding day.

However, the same scenario replicated itself at the

parallel market yesterday, when the naira exchanged between 368 and 370 per dollar, the same range it traded in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt but closed at 369 in Kano the previous day.

Against Pound and Euro, the naira exchanged at 477, which was a depreciated rate from 475 closed on Tuesday, while losing two points to the euro recording new rate of 432 against 430 sold earlier in the week.

At the interbank market, it stabilized at 366.05 the rate it sold on Tuesday and Monday, while depreciated slightly against pound at 471.36 compared to 471.28 and 428.35, against 429.88

the previous day.

But extended gained points at the Investors &Exporters FX window, when it recorded a total 0.74 per cent as at close of yesterday market with closing rate of 359.69 to the dollar against 362.38 sold, which had opened at a better rate at 362.91 as against 363.25 of Tuesday.

Although, the turnover traded yesterday declined further to $93.21 million from $117.36m compared to an improved volume of $142.88m sold on Monday, FMDQ OTC data has revealed.

Meanwhile, the apex bank in a continued effort to sustain liquidity in the Forex Market had increased

its usual $195 million injection into the market to $364m on Tuesday, to boost Retail Secondary Market Intervention Sales (SMIS) with $264.1m, getting the largest allocation from the total injected fund.

Explaining the allocation of the injected FX, the Acting Director of Corporate Communications, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Isaac Okorafor, said that $100m was offered to authorised dealers in the wholesale window; adding that the results for the requests sent to the CBN by authorised Forex dealers on behalf of their customers will be made available.

Abdullahi Ibrahim, ED, Retail Banking North, FirstBank,(middle) with Alhaji Bala Getso, Chairman Giwa Dynamics, Kano, (left) and Alhaji Usman of Nam Nam Nigeria Limited (right) at FirstBank’s Voice of the Customer Forum in Abuja ... recently.

The Federal Government of Nigeria has concluded all plans to raise a total sum of N135 billion ($442.62 million) through bonds next Wednesday, August 23.

The Nigerian government, through its Debt Management Office (DMO), disclosed that it will sell N35 billion of bonds due in 2021 and N50b each of bonds due in 2027 and in 2037, using a Dutch auction system.

The debt office noted that settlement is expected two days after the sale, while the bonds are

FG to raise N135b through bonds next week re-openings of previous issues.

Meanwhile, continued fund raising by the CBN, and thus indirectly the Federal Government, has left the private sector crowded out of the market, and having to borrow at high interest rates.

According to the FMDQ half year report, foreign exchange derivatives stood at N7.930 trillion

($25,365,000,000) between January to June this year, while Treasury Bills accounted for N31.309tr ($100,348,000,000b).

Also, FGN Bonds Turnover from January to June 2017, stabilsed at N5.353b ($17,169,000,000), but recorded N1.631b ($5m) on Other Bonds in the second quarter The data, extracted from the report indicated that

Eurobonds made during the quarter under review was N51.347b ($164m), while Repurchase Agreements/Buy-Backs steadied at N15.734tr ($5b).

The West African country expects a budget deficit of 2.36 tr naira this year, as it tries to spend its way out of a recession. It expects to raise money to cover more than half the deficit from the local market.

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Equities slide further as ASI drops 2.68% Afolabi Adesola The down trend recorded at the beginning of this week, on the Nigerian Stock Exchange has persisted to the third consecutive session as AllShare Index slide further by 2.68 per cent on Wednesday.

Although, stocks have notably been closing at lower prices in previous sessions, heavy losses recorded by some blue chips, including Dangote Cement- the most capitalized stock on the exchange, led to a significant dip in market capitalisation which fell N342.7bn to settle at N12.444trn.

The ASI plunged below the 37,000 market only just achieved, to close at 36,102.38 points, follow-

Nigerian Emalware files 2017 results with 66% PAT decline Afolabi Adesola Nigerian manufacture and marketing of Enamelware products, Nigerian Enamelware Plc. has announced the release of its Audited Financial Statement for the year ended 30th April, 2017.

Although the release of the result is about 2 months late, the company in a notice filed with The Nigerian Stock Exchange and addressed to its esteemed shareholders, investing public and other stakeholders explained that the results were held up by the Financial Reporting council.

The notice stated, “The slight delay in filing these accounts was necessitated by the need for the company to obtain the waiver of the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRCN), for the Financial Controller to sign the Annual Report and Financial Statements without indicating any Financial Reporting Council (FRC) registration number with the certification in compliance with Section 7(2g) of the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria April 2011.”

The company went further to assure its various shareholders of its commitment to timely filing of its financial statements and other disclosures.

Meanwhile, financial highlights of the results how that profit after tax (PAT) for the financial year ended 30th April, 2017 was down 66 per cent to N45.1m compared to N133.5m reported in the preceding year.

ing a decline of 994.22 points (the highest decline so far this week), further trimming the YTD return to 34.34 percent.

Meanwhile, the banking sector remained at the core of investors attention as activity in that sector continues to dominate the NSE’s most traded chart.

FBN Holdings topped activity chart with the sale of 34.5mn shares valued at N206.8mn. Access Bank, yet to release its half year earning has also garnered investors attention recently. The stock was seen as the second most traded stock on Wednesday, with the sale of 27.4mn shares worth N276.9m.

GTBank exchanged 25.2mn shares worth N970.8m, Jaiz Bank

traded 15.1mn shares valued at N12mn, while Zenith Bank transacted 12.7m shares at N284.7m.

As at the close of the market, investors in 4,822 deals had exchanged a total of 224.8million shares worth N5.1b compared to 391.6mn shares worth N5.4bn traded by investors in 5,285 deals on Tuesday.

An overview of the price movement chart, showed market closed with just 10 gainers to 31 losers, while all sectoral indices closed in the red.

The NSE Industrial Goods Index declined by 3.11 per cent. The NSE Banking Index dropped by 2.84 per cent, while the NSE Consumer goods depreciated by 0.96 per cent. The NSE’s Insurance In-

dex and NSE’s Oil & Gas Index depreciated by 0.08 and 0.97 per cent, respectively.

Jaiz Bank led the decliners with a loss of 5 per cent to close at 76 kobo. Access Bank trailed with a loss of 4.98 per cent to close at N9.93, FCMB dropped 4.96 per cent to close at N1.15, Stanbic declined by 4.93 per cent to close at N37.03 and Dangote Cement fell 4.89 per cent to close at N214.

On the positive, CI leasing led the advancers with a gain of 5.15 per cent to close at N1.02, Vitafoam rose by 4.43 per cent to close at N2.83, UPL added 3.73 per cent to close at N2.78, Union Bank gained 3.63 per cent to close at N6 and Nascon Allied Industries fell 2.65per cent to close at N12.

Nwosu, president, BB, moves to initiate 30m members into capital market education

. Launches N100m development fund

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Ensuring that Nigerian children and youths become financial savvy, and the completion of national secretariat of the Boys Brigade of Nigeria (BB) in Abuja Municipal Capital (AMAC), has been identified as part of the key focus of the 7th president of the Christian Uniformed Youth Organization, to be inducted on August 27th, at St Ferdinand Catholic Church, Ipaja, Lagos.

Sir Sunny Nwosu, whose induction as the national president of the BB Nigeria is scheduled for Sunday August 27th, 2017, at the St Ferdinand Catholic Church, Boys Town, Ipaja, Lagos, said that the investiture ceremony would be crowned with the launch of N100 million Brigade Development fund, which will be deployed to continue work on the national headquarters in Abuja, fence its 4.5 acres of land and strengthen youth empowerment ventures.

He revealed that the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, who has remained committed to youth empowerment will serve as the father of the day on the investiture ceremony, while a frontline the President of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, Mr. Aigboje AigImoukhuede, would the guest of honour.

At the event graced by graced by chairman local organising committee of the investiture, Mr. Bisi Onodipe, National Secretary of the BB Nigeria, Mr. Sunday Magwe, National Secretary, Mr. Festus L-R: Vice Chairman, Ikorodu North LCDA, Ameen Olawole; Leader of the House, Ikorodu North LCDA, Abiodun Adekoya; Comedian, Adeniyi among others, Nwosu Hamed Basheer (Bash), and Majority Leader of the House, Ikorodu North, LCDA, Balikeez Ibraheem, at the Ikorodu edition of the mega said that the Boys Brigade is comcomedy show, Glo Laffta Fest ...on Sunday. mitted to the development of vocational center for empowerment of youth to enhance their knowledge on earnings, as well as power of investing, hence information drives Bonny Amadi the Nigerian capital market.

“I have actually been talking to He said,”It is not for us to ap- of base of investors in the marThe Director General point the board, but for the pres- ket; members about the capital market, Securities and Exchange idency. Yes, it is good to have a Imo state and Ogun state you are all living witnesses to what Commission, Mallam board, but the lack of a board is paired at the second position has happened to the capital marMounir Gwarzo has said that not negatively impacting on the with 9 per cent of investors re- ket from 2007 to present day, it is even without a properly consti- development and work of SEC.” spectively, Abuja ranked 3rd very discouraging to get people to tuted board of the commission, The SEC DG said that the com- with 8 per cent of investors turn in whatever capital they have the commission was function- mission is intensifying its focus captured as indigenes of Abuja; into the capital market, the organiing effectively. on market sensitization and Delta, and Edo /Rivers states zation I belong to, we have always Gwarzo said this on Wednes- enlightenment to capture the ranked 3rd and 4th and 5th with been trying to convince people to day, in Lagos, during the com- youth population and to ensure 8 per cent, 7 per cent and 6 per invest in the market, therefore I mission’s post Capital Market more indigenous retail inves- cent of investors from the states cannot isolate the Boys Brigade from that understanding.”

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Brands & Marketing B6 Stories by Godwin Anyebe Creating and amplifying a well-defined purpose for the Nigerian brand have been identified as the strongest step to be taken to attract foreign direct investment; and also ensure global competitiveness.

This was the view of marketing and communication experts who spoke recently in Lagos at the second edition of BRANDish Meeting of Minds.

The experts said that the absence of a purpose statement for Nigeria, corruption, bad leadership, opaque governance and crime have combined to stymie the maximization of economic potentials of the country.

They argued that the country is at a point where it should face the reality about impediments to its progress, insisting that the situation where the country is ranked 136 out of 175 countries surveyed on the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index raises issues that must be seriously and urgently addressed.

Speaking while delivering a paper titled, “The Economics of a Market-led Purpose for Nigeria,” Managing Director, The Lucent Consulting Company, Lampe Omoyele highlighted the urgent need to search, identify and amplify Nigeria’s common purpose with a view to creating a uniform and consistent narrative around the Nigerian brand.

He said,“For Nigeria to be truly successful in crafting a strategic positioning, a concerted effort at unearthing our shared values and amplification, not fabrication, of these truths in a manner that resonates with Nigerians is required. This would involve engaging stakeholders in the Nigerian enterprise. Participation and conviction of the populace in the overall agenda of the country in

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Experts advise government on global competitiveness manners where ideas are not just imposed on them, but communicated as partners in progress is imperative.”

He said there was the need for Nigeria take the lead in economic transformation on the continent of Africa; and called for the evolution of political leadership that is sensitive to the overall aspiration of the country as an economic giant.

“Leadership is critical to evolving a strong nation brand. As a result, the country’s leaders should be the ambassador plenipotentiaries of the positioning, accentuating the positives. Their actions and body languages should resonate the very fabrics of the envisioned brand promises that Nigeria represents,” Omoyele, who was the immediate past Man-

aging Director of AC Nielsen Nigeria, stated.

According to him, branding Nigeria, as has been seen in the examples of other nations, should be a multi-disciplinary project that cannot be successful without strong public-private partnership and the employment of professionals, inclusion of young, digital natives and the harnessing of already existing gains in music, movies growing Information Technology success stories in some parts of the country Also speaking while presenting a paper titled, “Foreign Direct Investment and the Power of Made for Purpose PR,” Managing Director of The Quadrant Company MSL, Bolaji Okusaga, called for a redefinition of Nigeria’s “In-

vestment Brand Essence” with a view to creating a clear purpose of both appeal and direction.

This, he said, must be articulated in well-thought out above-theline and below-the-line campaigns that would effectively communicate the country’s selling-points, as well as build and sustain equity through strategic Reputation Management.

Okusaga cautioned that Nation branding is essentially a long term project that outlives the government of the day and must be designed it in the form of national development plans to ensure the aggregation of economic opportunities and other intangible emotional selling propositions, including influence and soft power.

Nigeria, as a brand, he

emphasized,“must be designed to position itself as the “right” place to invest in Africa, especially following the recent trends of underperformance of commercial portfolios in European, American and Asian markets. These must be backed by incontrovertible data that would generate a high level of awareness; and thus arouse the interests of global deep pockets.”

He called for the strengthening of institutional frameworks in such a transparent way as to allow international audit of governance structures and Peer reviews of projects.

“The global community will be suspicious of opaque public sector structures. A Multi-Disciplinary Ease of Doing Business Council must be critical pegs of a new Brand Nigeria project, while government must also quicken pace on infrastructure development, using the “Right Policies,” while also allowing private participation,” he said.

L-R: Ikem Okuhu, Analyst-in-Chief, BRANDish; Bolaji Okusaga, Managing Director, The Quadrant Company MSL; Lampe Omoyele, CEO, The Lucent Company and Nkechi Alli-balogun, former Chairman, Nigeria Institute of Public Relations at the 2nd edition of BRANDish Meeting of Minds, themed, ‘In Search of the Right Purpose for the Nigerian’, held recently... in Lagos.

Abuja, Oyo end Power Oil WalkheartOn 3.0 The walk-for-the-heart engagement activity in FCT Abuja and Oyo State has finally brought the third edition of the annual Power Oil WalkHeartOn initiative which began couple of weeks back to a successful conclusion recently.

The Power Oil WalkheartOn 3.0, which officially kicked- off few weeks ago back in Lagos State at the National Stadium Surulere, followed by Enugu and Port Harcourt at Nnamdi Azikwe Stadium, Ogui; and the Liberation Stadium, Elekahia, respectively, generated lots of accolades from participants, before its final lap in Abuja FCT and Ibadan last weekend.

The annual heart health awareness walk, was strategical-

ly designed to promote a healthy lifestyle and remind Nigerians on the benefits of a daily fitness routine. It is aimed at encouraging Nigerians to walk at least 30 mins every day to keep fit and stay healthy.

The 5 kilometres walk, which observers said, recorded a huge turnout at both locations started off in Ibadan at the Obafemi Awolowo Stadium into Liberty Road; towards Challenge Round About and back to the Stadium, was led by the Honorable Commissioner for Youths & Sports, Oyo State, Barr. Abayomi Oke, along with the invited artistes.

However, the Abuja movement began from the River Plate Park, Wuse 2, into Ahmadu Bello Road towards the Adetokunbo Ademola roundabout and back to the

park.

Oke, who addressed the participants advised them on the benefits of engaging in sporting/ fitness activities as a form of exercising the heart to keep the entire body functional.

He lauded the brand and team for their continuous partnership with Oyo State, describing the initiative as a worthy one, more so as it encourages everyone, especially the youths, to imbibe the culture of exercising, which is in line with the vision of the state.

The Brand Manager, Power Oil, Miss. Amisha Chawla, who was also part of the fitness walk in Oyo state, said, “participation in Ibadan has always remained amazing, even in the last edition, which held at this same venue.

And going by the information

received from the FCT Abuja activity, the turnout is equally high. And we are delighted that the WalkheartOn 3.0 project has successfully come to an end for the year; and the advise is for Nigerians to keep the fitness and healthy living flying, which is the whole objective of the initiative.”

Comedians and Guest Artists who performed at both cities (Sound Sultan & MC Bonus in Abuja and & Woli Arole and Afoja Sanyeri in Ibadan), also took active parts in leading the walk to encourage and demonstrate to the public the importance of leading a healthy lifestyle by taking a healthy walk for a healthy heart.

Mrs. Beatrice Aroja, the walk Participant in Abuja, commended the brand for the laudable ini-

tiative of encouraging healthy living amongst Nigerians. She confirmed that she felt light and better and hoped to engage in walk as part of her daily routine.

Power Oil health camps were also available to all, offering free basic medical checks for participants to ascertain their health statuses, including blood pressure, BMI and general medical consultation.

It will be recalled that the Power Oil WalkHeartOn Health awareness project, which is in its third edition, started in 2015, in Lagos, to promote fitness and healthy living amongst Nigerians. In the following year 2016; it further expanded into 5 cities across the nation (Lagos, Ibadan, Owerri, PHC and Abuja).

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B7 AgriBusiness

natnuPreneur farmers enjoy 37.5% profit pa on investment – Adewole Azubike Nnadozie

The Coordinator of natnudO Foods’ broiler out-grower scheme tagged “natnuPreneur,” Mr. Gbolade Adewole, has disclosed that farmers registered under the six- seven week broiler production scheme, have consistently enjoyed between 7.5% and 15% profit on investment per cycle. With a potential to conclude 5 cycles per year, efficient farmers stand to make between 37.5% - 75% profit per annum, making natnuPreneur “broiler out-grower” the most profitable poultry scheme in the country.

Adewole made the revelation while addressing journalists at a press brief-

ing on Tuesday, August 15, 2017 in Lagos.

He also disclosed that between October 2014 and July 2017, poultry farmers registered under the three year ‘pilot phase’ have reared over 4 million birds and the firm has off-taken birds to the value of over 4 billion naira.

Mr. Adewole stated that the natnuPreneur initiative is not only in the business of providing a ready market for broiler farmers, but also in ensuring that they are consistently in business and that they make profits that can be sustained consistently over time.

“We treat our farmers’ farms as our own and invest a lot of time in ensur-

ing their poultry businesses are run with global best practices as we run and manage ours, because we believe that our success is closely tied to the success of our farmers”.

“Our vision is to create passionate, knowledgeable, and wealthy poultry farmers nationwide through sustained profitability” “It is not enough to help farmers achieve profitability after just one cycle.

We have heard of many out-grower schemes in the past where farmers make millions but couldn’t retain it afterwards. What we are most concerned about is that the profit our farmers make increases and is sustained.

In other words, we make

and retain broiler millionaires through frequent training on poultry management processes and continuous monitoring/ supervision of farm activities” He further emphasized, “We help our farmers understand the dynamics of poultry business through effective and regular training, monitoring and mentorship. We also help them increase efficiency of production by taking them through good management practices on how to manage their resources, using our Net profit calculator to understand the details of the economics of broiler production, and how to reduce mortality of birds”.

He further said that in

their three years of operation, they have been able to increase the capacity of their farmers in terms of number of birds stocked, thereby making them grow profitably. “natnuPreneur has a standard operating manual used in monitoring optimal farm management, such that, lapses in standard processes are quickly noticed and brought to the attention of the farmer. Aside from this, we pay weekly visits to farms to monitor their progress and offer business and technical advice when needed. These activities have helped to achieve the success level recorded by our farmers so far.

According to him, “these processes are what distin-

guish natnuPreneur from other broiler out-grower schemes the country has witnessed in the past”.

In terms of societal impact, Adewole pointed out that natnuPreneur has created thousands of direct and indirect employment across the country. “natnuPreneur has directly employed 150 graduates, working as extension officers (Farmer Satisfaction Representatives, in the Feed mill, hatchery and abattoir) and there are plans to recruit 60 more to manage the increase in capacity. Presently, the initiative indirectly influences the employment of over 5,000 people, who work at various levels with farmers and farmer cooperatives”.

Nigeria to stop issuance of fish importation quota – Minister Abiodun oyindamola, with Agency report

L-R: Mr. Fagbile Remi, Group Head Internal Control, Mr. Gbolade Adewole, Coordinator natnuPreneur, Dcn. Toromade Francis, Group General Manager, Amo Group and Mr. Oloruntoba Emmanuel, General Manager Amo Byng at natnuPreneur press briefing in Lagos recently.

Only agric can provide jobs to all Nigerians – AFAN Chairman, Kaduna State Chapter of All Farmers’ Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Alhaji Nuhu Aminu, has said that agriculture is the only sector that can provide jobs to every Nigerian irrespective of qualification.

Aminu made the observation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Zaria, Kaduna on Wednesday.

“Agriculture not only in Nigeria, but the world over, remains one of the sectors necessary for human existence.

“It is of course the

only sector that can provide jobs to all manners of people regardless of their qualification, what is needed most is your physical and mental ability to produce.

“You don’t need to be a professor, doctor, masters degree or degree holder before you practice agriculture, all you need is the skills, physical and mental ability, plus capital, that’s all,’’ he said.

Aminu said that apart from job creation and poverty alleviation, agricultural practices would reduce social vices to the lowest level.

While applauding the courage of Nigerians for re-embracing farming as advocated by President Muhammadu Buhari, the chairman urged them to sustain the tempo.

According to him, going by the level of production this year, farmers can boast of feeding the nation and even beyond.

“Nigerians have really answered the call by the President, we are happy that the call is yielding a lot of benefits because many people who abandoned farming long ago are now go back to farm.

“Apart from that, there are many people who are engaging in farming business for the first time, yet they are enjoying it,’’ he said.

The chairman, therefore, appealed to the Federal Government to rescind its decision to import maize, assuring that Nigerian maize was more nutritious.

He called on Nigerians, especially farmers, to rally round the current administration to pave way for successes and to attract more democratic dividends to their respective areas.

The Federal Government says it will stop issuing fish importation quota to importers, saying the venture was no longer sustainable.

Heineken Lokpobiri, the Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, said this during a meeting with the Ijebu Development Initiative on Poverty Reduction (IDIPR) in Abuja on Tuesday.

The minister said that stopping the trade would help boost local production of fish and other aspects of agriculture in the country.

According to him, the current deficit in fish in Nigeria is over two million tonnes. He urged citizens to invest to boost fish production and create jobs in the sector.

“We realised that fish import is no more sustainable and what we did was to encourage those that import it to think of the backward integration by reducing the quota year by year in agreement with the CBN. “Very soon, we are not going to give quota for fish importation. We want everybody to set up their fish farms, employ our people and create jobs for our peo-

ple.

“When we came last two years, Nigeria was producing about 700,000 tonnes of fish but this has increased to about 1.2 million tonnes which means that there has been an increment of 400,000 tonnes.

“This increase represents more than 50 per cent of what we were producing,” he said.

Lokpobiri, who commended the IDIPR for contributing to fish production in the country, advised other states to emulate the community’s agricultural initiative.

He said the government would soon complete and commission the fish feed mill located at Eriwe village farm in Ijebu community of Ogun.

The minister quoted the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) as saying that Ijebu community had the highest number of fish clusters in the world.

Earlier, Olanipekun Alausa, the Chairman, Board of Directors of the initiative, listed some challenges hindering the agricultural initiative to include inadequate access to loans and lack of modern agricultural tools for mechanised farming.

Motoring B8 Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo Mobility has once again been refined with the introduction of vehicular control using voice commands.

Mercedes-Benz has further enhanced the performance of the LINGUATRONIC voice control system for navigation use and entertainment. This is one of the many efforts aimed at perfecting mobility in the autonomous future.

The new E-class features a new Audio 200 entry-level radio that comes with a larger display, new infotainment software and the option of a widescreen cockpit.

In fact, its major highlights include, the new Mercedes-Benz SD map navigation, which turns the radio to a high-end navigation system, online access and car telephony with fast LTE technology, additional interior appointment options and ambient lighting with dynamic light scenarios.

The LINGUATRONIC Voice control is an evolutionary leap forward, as it comes with a wide variety of control options and an additional eleven new languages. For example, when the vehicle is equipped accordingly, blower level, temperature and seat heating can be controlled conveniently by voice command, with no need for drivers to take their hands off the steering wheel or their eyes off the traffic.

Other controlled func-

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Mercedes-Benz: New E-class showcases attractive features tions include, the rear window heater and various comfort and lighting functions. Another new feature enables the driver to call up a wide range of information – such as the date the next service is due, the current speed limit, the vehicle’s range or the current date.

Interestingly, LINGUATRONIC uses commands, which are incorporated in the software, and is thus not reliant on an internet connection. In order to cover the vast range of control options, up to 450 voice commands are available, depending on the language version and the vehicle’s equipment.

The commands are designed to be as simple, intuitive and natural as possible to match likely instinctive commands of the driver such as: “Navigate to ABC” to reach a desired destination, “Take me home” for already home addresses, “Call XYZ” triggers a call to the desired number and “massage me” initiates the seat’s massage function.

Several hundred alternatives are stored in LINGUATRONIC for each command, resulting in a high likelihood that the user will hit on the right phrase at the first attempt. By way

of additional support, a “teleprompter” presents possible commands on the display as soon as the driver presses the push-to-talk button.

In regards to human re-

sponse, a new function allows the user to interrupt the system’s voice output to halt the current dialogue and move on to the next dialogue step, for example.

This makes voice control

faster and more efficient.

Another new feature lends the voice control system from MercedesBenz an appealing human touch. The system avoids constantly reacting to a

command with the same answer, instead varying its response between three or four synonymous sentences. This lends communications with the system a pleasant and almost human touch.

In addition to the standard-specification Audio 20 USB multimedia system and the high-end COMAND Online multimedia system, Mercedes-Benz will be offering a new variant of the Audio 20 system in the E with a larger 12.3inch media display (basic variant 8.4inch) and new infotainment software in the future.

This is not all.The new auto product comes with a host of improved details, such as audible feedback from the touch control buttons on the multi-function steering wheel for even more intuitive operation.

Boot lid convenience closing feature with additional closing function by means of a gentle push on the lid, Enhanced ambient lighting with 64 colors and three color zones showcases the interior like a work of art.

Indeed, other exciting feaures of the automobile include, en color schemes, emphasing the hi-tech setting and lend structure to the interior. A new dynamic mode features changing colors, including a colored “welcome effect” for the driver, for example. The dynamic ambient lighting also offers functional aspects. It confirms the wish for a higher temperature by briefly highlighting in red the area of the vehicle, currently being heated up.

Kia Niro, Soul, Cadenza named segment winners in J.D. Power rating Kia Motors has earned three J.D. Power Automotive Performance, Execution and Layout (APEAL) awards with the Kia Niro, Kia Soul, and Kia Cadenza, all garnering awards in their respective segments.

Kia is the only non-premium brand to register wins in three segments, earning accolades in the Small SUV segment (Niro), Compact Multi-Purpose Vehicle segment (Soul) and Large Car segment (Cadenza).

The announcement follows on the heels of Kia Motors recently being ranked highest in the industry in the J.D. Power Initial Quality Study (IQS) for the second year in a row; and all three Kia Apeal study segment

winners were also IQS segment winners. , Vice President, Product Planning, Kia Motors America, Orth Hedrick, “Customers always want cars they’re proud to own and Kia earning three J.D. Power APEAL awards reflects the global focus we have placed on ensuring our customers come first. Buyers today have more choices than ever and are looking for vehicles that offer a superior combination of design, technology, safety, efficiency and premium amenities.

The Niro, Soul, and Cadenza are prime examples of these important attributes as more people discover Kia’s worldclass model line every day.”

Amid tough competition, the new Niro crossover hybrid performed a substantial 51 points above its segment average. The Cadenza also outperformed strong competitors in the Large Car segment, surpassing the segment average by an impressive 27 points. The Soul, a long-running favorite among consumers looking to stand out from the crowd, garnered its fifth APEAL award (2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017), making it the vehicle with the most APEAL accolades in Kia’s lineup of awardwinning offerings and is the only vehicle in the Compact Multi-Purpose Vehicle category to score above its segment average.

The J.D. Power APEAL study measures new-vehicle

owners’ overall satisfaction with their vehicles in the first 90 days of ownership.

The results are divided into 10 categories and weighted accordingly: exterior, interior, storage, audio, seats, heating and ventilation, driving dynamics, powertrain, visibility and fuel economy.

Porsche Achieves garners positive first-half result, repositions for Motorsport In the first half of 2017, Porsche AG increased its operating result, revenue, deliveries and number of employees.

Six months into the year, Porsche’s operating result has reached 2.1 billion euro, an increase of 16 per cent.

Revenue rose by eight per cent to 11.8 billion euro. The

company’s profit margin came to 18.1 per cent (prior half year: 16.8 per cent), while the number of deliveries rose by seven per cent to 126,497 vehicles.

Also, The company’s workforce increased by twelve per cent to 29,280 employees.

Chairman of the Executive Board of Porsche AG, Oliver Blume, says: “The priority of Porsche is to have thrilled customers and secure, sustainable jobs.

Strong financial results create a solid foundation for the future. Porsche counts on puristic and passionate sports cars – this currently includes the new 911 GTS, the 911 GT3, the 911 Turbo S Exclusive and the 911 GT2 RS – as well as on future technologies such as plug-in hybrids

and pure electric mobility.”

Lutz Meschke, Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board and Member of the Executive Board for Finance and IT at Porsche AG, stresses that a long-term currency hedging strategy and efficient organisation with a further optimised cost structure underpin the trend of positive results. However, he speculates that the extremely high result from the first half of the year may well be difficult to sustain in the future.

He says: “We will only see a return on our sizeable investment for the development of Porsche’s first purely electric sports car and the expansion of production at the Zuffenhausen site once the Mission E goes on sale at the end of the decade.”

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Hajj: Obaseki charges Edo Pilgrims to be good ambassadors ÏÏÏThe

L-R: Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, his wife, Mrs. Betsy Obaseki, and the Deputy Governor, Rt. Hon Philip Shaibu, at the flag-off of the distribution of insecticidal mosquito nets in Benin City last Friday.

Human trafficking: Obaseki seeks home-grown solution, sets up task force Stories by Titus Akhigbe Benin

ÏÏÏ The Governor of

The Edo

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Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has inaugurated the State Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force, a measure that will proffer a new set of homegrown solutions to the age-long social problem.

Obaseki lamented that the state was fast becoming synonymous with human trafficking and charged the taskforce to urgently redeem the state’s image as Edo people do not want to be associated with the stigma any more.

The new measure, according to him, would complement the efforts of the Federal Government through the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking In Persons (NAPTIP) and other international organisations involved in the fight against human traffick-

ing.

“It is has been suggested that a special court be established in the state to prosecute perpetrators. We are losing our young people to this negative trend and we must make human trafficking a thing of the past in the state,” the governor said.

He charged the task force made up of representatives of security agencies, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), NAPTIP, Ministries, Departments and Agencies of government, religious and traditional institutions, to come up with modalities on how to domesticate the federal government’s law on trafficking in the state.

The taskforce was also charged to come up with a comprehensive action plan for combating trafficking in persons as well as programmes that will help in reintegrating victims of the illicit trade

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Correspondent Titus Akhigbe

into the society.

In her remarks, the Chairman of the task force, Professor Yinka Omorogbe, who is also the Attorney General of the state, commended the governor for the initiative and said that it would bring an end to the problem, with

the cooperation and support of all members of the society.

She assured that members of the taskforce would live up to the confidence reposed on them and pledged that a working document would be ready within the sixweek period given to them.

…inspects state media outfits, to revamp EBS, Observer

ÏÏÏThe Governor of

Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Monday, paid an unscheduled inspection visit to the state radio and television stations, Edo Broadcasting Service and the Nigerian Observer, publishers of the Observer newspaper titles and hinted that the media outfits would be overhauled for optimal performance.

Speaking after inspecting the facilities at the Edo Broadcasting Service in Benin City, Obaseki said his administration has resolved to leverage on digital technology so that the media outfit can compete favourably with similar enterprises across the

country.

“Clearly, we need to upgrade the technology of this media outfit to conform to the requirements of the digital era. We also need to upgrade the premises and the quality of people working here,” the governor said.

He explained that the radio and television stations did very well in ages preceding the digital era, but stressed that the digital age demands continuous scaling up to meet present day quality of service delivery.

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Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Tuesday, charged the state delegation to the 2017 Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to be good ambassadors of the state.

Obaseki, who gave the charge during a visit to the 260 intending pilgrims at the Hajj Camp on Dumez Road, Benin City, said: “The exercise you are about to embark on is a holy one, and one of the pillars of the Islamic religion. Don’t joke with it. You are courageous, upright, honest citizens of the state and I know you will demonstrate all these qualities in the ‘Holy Land’.”

He maintained that he was ready to partner with people that gather in the name of God because of what God has done in his life and added that his presence at the Hajj Camp was to make sure the pilgrims were comfortable and bid them farewell to the ‘Holy Land’.

Obaseki however disclosed that the late inauguration of the State Muslim Welfare Board was due to the efforts of some people to politicise the selection of the members.

He stressed that “the work of God is not about politics, as every politician wants to be on the State Muslim Welfare Board. I wonder if the board is for politics or the work of God. If Allah calls you to serve him, serve him with a true heart and a sincere mind, not to manipulate a religious process. The interference in the process delayed the setting up of the Board.” he concluded.

The Chairman of the State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board, Alhaji Ibrahim Oyarekhua, said the governor’s visit to the intending pilgrims at the Hajj Camp ahead of their departure, was the first of its kind and a demonstration of the governor’s humility.

He appealed to the governor to provide the board with an official vehicle and a befitting Hajj Camp at the board’s office in the state capital.

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Obaseki inaugurates panel to probe Edo Polytechnic, Usen ÏÏÏThe Governor of

Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has inaugurated a seven-man committee of enquiry to investigate the activities of Edo State Polytechnic, Usen.

He charged the committee to carefully scrutinise the financial books, admission process, quality of the training programmes, lecturers, administration, the ratio of students to lecturers and come up with resolutions that will guide his administration in repositioning the institution.

Inaugurating the committee recently in the Government House, Benin City, Obaseki expressed

confidence in the wealth of experience of the committee members and stressed that the state was in dire need of technical manpower that will strengthen critical areas of the state’s development plan.

Other areas to be looked into include the mode of employment and promotion. He gave the committee six weeks to submit its report.

Responding, the Committee Chairperson, Professor Rose Egonmwan, thanked the governor for the confidence reposed in them and assured him that the committee would work round the clock to carry out the assignment.

…assembles experts to reposition agric sector ÏÏÏThe Governor of

Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has inaugurated a 15-man Governor’s Council on Agriculture to reposition the state’s agricultural sector.

The decision to assemble the team of agricultural experts was the outcome of a strategy session to revamp the College of Agriculture, Iguoriakhi, located in the state.

According to the governor, the expanded Council would take a broad view of the state’s agricultural sector and outline strategies that would make the state the number one crop enterprise zone, specifically in, oil palm, tubers, cocoa, rice, vegetables, aquaculture and livestock amongst others.

The Council would also tackle the issue of dearth of manpower for modern agricultural activities by transforming the College of Agriculture, Iguor-

iakhi into a world class institute that would deliver the desirable graduates to service the agricultural sector.

Obaseki urged the Council to break into sub-committees that would handle the referenced areas and meet quarterly to review their work.

He added that he expects the transformed College to be able to train between 2,000 to 5,000 capable students that would contribute to the development of the sector in the state, and assured that 200,000 hectares of land would be provided for the graduates to display their skills.

In their responses, the Managing Director of Presco Plc and Okomu Plc, Felix Nwabuko and Grahem Hefer, respectively thanked the governor for the steps taken so far to revamp the agricultural sector in the state and promised to deliver on the assigned tasks.

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ager (AGM) Engineering, Mrs. Ameze Osagie, assured that his administration would reclaim the portion of EBS land taken over by private developers to ensure there is enough land space for effective operation of the media outfit.

“We have laws in place, for those who have taken government land around this area, we need to recover the land to enable us carry out the overhaul we are planning for the outfit,” he added.

A similar feeling of disappointment was expressed by the governor at the facilities of the Nigerian Observer, publishers of

the Observer titles established by the late Brig. General Samuel Ogbemudia (rtd) fifty years ago.

Obaseki said he was in consultation with media experts to come up with a clear roadmap on what to do with the newspaper company.

“I don’t know what we will end up doing with this organisation right now because by the time it was set up in 1968, it served the need of that time. Today the media world has changed, technology has changed the operations of newspaper houses. This was a front line technology 50 years ago. But 50 years after, we should look at where the world is today,” he added.

EDSG not testing the competence of public servants –Obaseki Stories by Titus Akhigbe Benin

ÏÏÏ The Governor of Edo State, Mr.

Godwin Obaseki, has dismissed the fear looming in some quarters that the ongoing assessment of senior civil servants in the state was designed to fish out incompetent workers for sack, assuring that such fears are baseless.

Obaseki, who was at Imaguero College, Benin City, venue of the assessment, on Wednesday, said that the exercise was in good faith and not a competency test as being rumoured.

He explained that Edo civil servants are competent and do not require any further competency test, adding “Before they were employed, their competency was tested and that

is why they are working in the Civil Service. But before promotions are made in the Civil Service, senior civil servants go through assessments to fill vacant positions in the directorate cadre”.

He added that the exercise was part of the strategy to strengthen the Civil Service for effective service delivery and assured that no employee writing the examination will be sacked.

The governor disclosed that the recent examination conducted for staff members on levels 16 and 17 in the state was an eye opener as some civil servants were discovered to be very good and were appointed Permanent Secretaries.

“We are not sacking anybody, but want to strengthen the service so that it can deliver quality services to

the state. The assessment is not compulsory but necessary for promotion as those who need to be promoted would have to be assessed. If you refuse, then there may be no basis for your promotion,” Obaseki said.

For teachers who kicked against the assessment, the governor said it was unfortunate as his administration did not intend to exclude teachers from the resulting promotion exercise and added that the two teachers that performed very well in the last exercise were appointed Permanent Secretaries.

“We want to give everyone the opportunity to participate but if teachers say they don’t want to be part of the process, no one will force them, we would have no basis to promote their senior colleagues,” he added.

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State ( 2nd Left); Special Adviser to the governor on Media and Communication Strategy, Mr. Crusoe Osagie; Commissioner of Communication and Orientation, Hon. Paul Ohonbamu (3rd Left) and the DGM, Edo Broadcasting Service (EBS), Mr. Abu Osagie, during the governor’s impromptu visit and inspection of the state’s broadcasting outfit ...on Monday

Patients protest rape, robbery in Edo Central Hospital ÏÏÏPatients

on admission and those who cater for them on Tuesday protested incidents of robbery and attempted rape at the Edo Central Hospital located along Sapele road in Benin.

The patients who protested round the hospital appealed to the management to provide security for their safety.

Some of the victims who spoke to The Edo Times decried that the lack of security, especially at night has worsened their plight.

The patients alleged that those on admission had been robbed at gun point and disposed of their money and other valuables while they also alleged rape in the process.

They said the recent incident of attack occurred last weekend when some armed men allegedly broke into the gynaecology ward where they robbed and raped patients for several hours.

One of the victims, Mrs. Maurine

Idahosa said she experienced robbery in the hospital on Sunday night.

“I saw somebody and I thought he was going to ease himself because you cannot stop somebody like, I thought he was a patient who was going to urinate but before I knew it, they had taken my bag with almost a hundred thousand naira and four phones monies meant for my sister that is sick and for myself and when we came out, we saw that they had gone through one window near the bathroom and in the process, one of them was caught.

“We have come out to protest because our lives are not safe, doctors’ lives are not safe, nurses lives are not safe, patients are not safe” Another victim, Frances Oghenekharo, said: “Robbers came on Sunday at about after 1 am. There is no enough security and when we shouted, we thought security will come, it was only one elderly man that was at the gate but one of them was caught because he doesn’t have

a patient here and he is not a patient here and we insisted that he must be arrested; how come he is here at that time. Police came and went with the man.”

The State Commissioner for Health, Dr. David Osifor, who however denied incident of rape and robbery in the hospital, said it was a case of theft.

Osifor explained that a lady who lost money at the hospital must have given information to people who are close to her about the money with her.

He said the matter which is currently under investigation had been reported to the police and promised that adequate security will be put in place to prevent future occurrence.

“It happened in the female ward, it was not really an armed robbery, it was just a minor scare and we are handling the matter. It is also not true that patients on admission are been raped as been speculated,” he stated.

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ÏÏÏThe

Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice, Edo State, Prof. Yinka Omorogbe, who is to serve as the Chairman of the Committee on Human Trafficking, addressing Governor Godwin Obaseki, during the inauguration of the committee, at Government House, Benin City...on Tuesday

EDSG orders removal of structures under High electricity transmission cables Stories by Titus Akhigbe Benin

ÏÏÏThe Edo State Government has

ordered the immediate removal of structures, temporary or permanent, under high electricity transmission cables in the state due to the associated health hazards.

The resolution was reached at the weekly Executive Council Meeting presided over by the Chairman-inCouncil and Governor of the state, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, at Government House in Benin City, on Wednesday.

Commissioner for Communica-

tion and Orientation, Mr. Paul Ohonbamu, who spoke to journalists after the Exco meeting, said the state government was concerned about the health and safety of Edo people and directed that all structures located under High power transmission cables be removed immediately. ‘‘The radiation from high tension electricity lines has been linked to cancer, and there is also imminent danger of electrocution and incineration,’’ Ohonbamu said and assured that massive sensitisation campaigns would be done to ensure that members of the public comply with the

safety rule.

On the threat to the security of lives and property in the state, he said that the State Executive Council urged Edo people to go about their daily duties as the government was determined to ensure their safety and protection.

“Security would be beefed up in all the institutions of the state including hospitals, government offices and schools amongst other places,” Ohonbamu said.

He added that the ongoing promotion examination for public servants in the state was not conceived to sack any one from the state civil service.

Obaseki flags off distribution of 2.6m insecticide nets

ÏÏÏThe Governor of Edo State, Mr.

Godwin Obaseki, on Tuesday, flagged off the distribution of 2. 6 million long lasting insecticidal nets with a call on households to ensure they sleep under the nets to eradicate malaria from the state.

The event tagged ‘Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLINs) Replacement Campaign’, organised by the Edo State Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Catholic Relief Service (C.R.S), attracted international and local stakeholders in the health sector, who lauded the Obaseki-led administration for putting health care on the front burner.

Assuring Edo people of “wellarticulated policies on public health issues”, the governor stressed that “a healthy society is a wealthy society” and advised that a proactive approach like sleeping under the nets was cheaper than treating the disease.

He further said that his administration has set a 100 per cent distribution target for the insecticidal nets, from the current 86 per cent.

In his words of commendation, the Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole, said Edo State has been in the forefront and continues to make giant strides in keeping up with malaria elimination intervention.

He added that the presence of Governor Obaseki at the event showed

his resilience in the fight to eliminate malaria and improve the health of the people in the state.

The minister, who was represented

by Dr. Evelyn Ngige, Director of Public Health in the ministry, added that the state occupies a strategic position in the country and maintained that “If we succeed in the replacement of the LLINs in Edo State, it will translate to rapid scale up of our overall national coverage target.”

The minister assured that the Federal Government would continue to collaborate with Edo State to win the war against the disease and promote the use of modern technology to fasttrack distribution of LLINs. Also at the event, First Lady of Edo State, Mrs. Betsy Obaseki, who was installed as the Ambassador of the Roll Back Malaria campaign in the state, noted that the LLINs was an effective way to control the spread of malaria by mosquitoes.

Drawing from her personal experience, she said she was taught by her parents early in life to always sleep under nets and that the practice kept her and her siblings free from malaria for the most parts of their childhood.

“From the time I started opening my eyes as a child, I have always slept under mosquito nets and I remember that my father at that time will go round all our beds where we slept as

children to ensure that our nets were well tucked under the mattresses.

This did not only keep us free from malaria, it also created a strong bond between us and our father,” Mrs. Obaseki said.

The Edo State Coordinator, World Health Organisation (WHO), Ms Faith Ireye, noted that efforts by Obaseki’s administration in the health sector have ensured that young children and pregnant women have access to life saving prevention tool such as the LLINs. She lamented that malaria remained a daily threat and noted that with commitments from governments such as the Edo State Government, private sector and communities working together with development partners, the disease would be eradicated from the country.

In his remark, Acting Country Representative of CRS in Nigeria, Dr. Emeka Anoje, said Edo government has demonstrated that it is a dependable and reliable partner in the campaign against malaria through the provision of operational funds to support planning and logistics of the distribution of the LLINs. The Commissioner for Health, Edo State, Dr. David Osifo, said prevention was key to the reduction of the burden of malaria which accounts for approximately 11 per cent maternal mortality and 30 per cent mortality in children of less than five years.

Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said that political power is for uplifting the downtrodden in society and not for amassing wealth and oppressing the weak.

He said this recently during the one year anniversary thanksgiving service organised by the Christians Prayer/Contact Committee for Godwin Obaseki at the Government House in Benin City.

At another event, Obaseki, who attended the 90th birthday celebration of his aunt, Deaconess Victoria Ojemudia, described her as an encyclopaedia of the Obaseki family who can comfortably provide anyone with useful information about the family.

Speaking further at the thanksgiving service, the governor said political power is about living a life of service to enhance the well-being of people especially the oppressed in the society.

“I don’t need to flaunt my power to show that I am the most powerful person in the state. Power is for correcting the anomalies in society and for making life better for the people,” he explained.

He said God never taught us to be wasteful in politics but to use political power to uplift the downtrodden in society, and stressed that “holding political positions does not mean that you should waste scarce resources but to judiciously use these resources to uplift the people.”

Reading from the Bible Book of Psalm, chapter 91, verses 1-6, Obaseki said thanksgiving should not be a day’s event but a way of life and expressed his gratitude to the Christians Prayer/Contact Committee for their role in his election.

Earlier, the Chairman of the Christians Prayer/Contact Committee for Godwin Obaseki, Pastor Eghosa Omuruyi, thanked God for answering their prayers and said that the group was inaugurated to mobilise all Christians for the party’s success at the last gubernatorial election.

Meanwhile, in his tribute to Deaconess Ojemudia, Obaseki described her as “a wonderful woman with a beautiful heart who does not conceive evil against anyone,” adding that she affected his life positively as she has always prayed for him.

…makes case for more voting centres in Edo

ÏÏÏThe

Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has made a case for the creation of more voting centres in the state to decongest existing centres in the state.

Obaseki made the request when he received the new Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) posted by the National Electoral Commission to the state at the Government House in Benin City.

The governor said that some Edo voters in the September 28, 2016 gubernatorial election complained that voting centres were located far from their homes while others complained that some of the centres were congested.

He maintained that the creation of more voting centres would encourage the electorate to exercise their franchise in future elections as the issue of long queues that leads to time wastage would be mi-

nimised.

Speaking on the issue of the non-collection of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs), he said that local government councils and state government agencies would be mobilised to fast-track the distribution process to members of the public.

Earlier, the new INEC Edo REC, Mr. Obo Effanga, said that the commission was working towards the creation of more voting centres in the state.

He explained that about 460, 000 PVCs were yet to be collected in the state and appealed to the governor to help mobilise the citizens to come forward for their cards.

He added that the voters’ registration process was on-going in the state and urged persons yet to register and those that have misplaced their PVCs to take advantage of the ongoing exercise.

NSCDC operative shot dead in Benin

ÏÏÏAn operative of the Edo State

Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Mr. Rawlings Osagie, has been shot dead by gunmen in Benin City.

Late Rawlings, an Assistant head of Anti-vandalism unit of the Command, was shot dead on Monday at his residence shortly after he returned home from work.

He was about to lock the gate when the gunmen fired shots at him.

A brother to the deceased, Mr. Aghatise Osagie, who confirmed the killing, told newsmen that late Rawlings was shot in the stomach by the gunmen.

Aghatise said his brother died before he was rushed to the University of Benin Teaching Hospi-

tal after spending some time at the Benin Central hospital.

He stated that a four-man gang laid siege at late Rawlings’ home and fired at him as he made to open the gate for his house at Ugbor area of Benin.

“We went to Stella Obasanjo hospital, there was no doctor in duty. At the Benin Central hospital, there was no surgeon that night but before the call-in doctor could arrived, his breathing was no longer stable so we tried to take him to UBTH but he died on the way.”

When contacted for comments, spokesman of the Edo Police Command, DSP. Moses Nkombe, said he was yet to be briefed on the killing of the NSCDC officer.

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Obaseki and his knack for tough decisions

By Crusoe Osagie

ÏÏÏ Lying adjacent to the Univer-

sity of Benin, Ekehuan Campus, is Garrick Memorial Secondary School (GMSS), a privately owned institution, which consists of rows of classroom blocks facing a vast open field.

Regularly, especially on weekends, the open field hosts loud parties complemented with shrilling music. From burial ceremonies to wedding receptions to birthday celebrations, the catalogue of activities it hosts is endless.

But, on August 2, the Edo State Government released a press statement, signed by the Commissioner for Communication and Orientation, Hon. Paul Ohonbamu, announcing the immediate ban of the use of public school premises, roads and other public places for social events.

The rationale for the ban, the government said, was that the act is detrimental to the advancement of learning and the overall development of children who are forced to cope with the adverse after effect of this practice.

“By our ancestry as Edo people, we have always shown the example of public order and decency which others have emulated over the years and this administration is determined to make Edo a model of magnificence and beauty once again,” the release

said. “Henceforth, any violation of this decision of government will be dealt with in accordance with extant laws.”

So, although the GMSS parties will continue considering that the school and its property are privately owned, the same will not be the case for its contemporaries that are owned by government.

A ferocious backlash In a report published by a national daily (not The Daily Times) ten days after the ban was announced, it was alleged that a number of Edo people are not happy with the decision, after some scheduled burial and wedding ceremonies had to be disrupted as a result of the ban.

The thrust of the article was that the policy was targeted against the poor masses, “who may be unable to afford to hold such ceremonies in event centres, hotels and other private places.”

The article quoted a press release by the Benin Youth Congress (BYC) condemning the government’s decision.

One Osadolor Okonzuwa who issued a statement on behalf of BYC said: “The decision came too sudden for those who have made elaborate plans for marriages and burials of loved ones.

Partying in houses, schools are age-long customs.”

He claimed that the policy is anti-poor, and a gross disservice to the mass of the electorate who

Gov. Obaseki

Whether Obaseki’s “doing the right thing” will earn him favourable ratings is a political mystery, but there is no question about his commitment to the welfare of the state as he continues to clear out entrenched negative behaviours that inhibit development in societies. favoured the governor’s candidature.

“The saddest part is that youths who survive by installation of canopies and chairs will be out of business since event centres have fixed chairs and tables,” he claimed.

However, it is rather unfortunate that the likes of Okonzuwa whose view on this issue seems

Obaseki seeks partnership with EFCC on capacity building for civil servants

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The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, is seeking the collaboration of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the introduction of a capacity building programme to enlighten civil servants about corruption related issues.

Obaseki made the request recently when he received the Head of the Benin zonal office of the EFCC, Mr. Mailafia Yakubu, on a courtesy visit at Government House in Benin City.

The governor expressing satisfaction with the creation of the commission’s office in the state, said civil servants in Edo State would have to enroll in the course as part of evalu-

ation process for them.

Obaseki said the problem in the country was not lack of resources but of corruption, which has eaten deep into all sectors of the country.

He said that the commission shared the same vision as his administration and as such would work together in re-orientating the minds of the public on the destructive effect of corruption to nation building.

“It is our responsibility to raise consciousness and tell the people about the negative implication of corruption in the society and the penalties for wrong doing,” he said.

He added that the commission’s support would also be needed to

eradicate human trafficking from the state.

Earlier, Yakubu said the Benin zonal office of the EFCC which is the 9th to be established in the country, covers activities in Edo, Delta and some parts of Ondo and Anambra States.

He said the office was created to extend the fight against corruption to the grassroots and to allow more Nigerians take ownership of the fight.

Yakubu solicited the support of the state government and that of the people of the state to ensure that corruption and related crimes were fought to a standstill.

Edo CP parades 70 suspected armed robbers

ÏÏÏ Edo State Police Commissioner,

Mr. Haliru Gwandu, last Friday paraded 70 suspected armed robbers, cultists and kidnappers, disclosing that the killers of the reporter of the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) in Benin City, Mr. Lawrence Okojie, last month have been arrested and are currently in prison.

The CP also disclosed that the incessant robbery attack along the Benin-Lagos express road has been

checked as the Command is currently patrolling the area with Armoured Personal Carriers (APC) to check the activities of armed robbers.

Some of the items recovered from the suspects include three cut to size double barrel guns, one cut to size pistol, two locally made pistol guns, cutlasses, military uniform, military ID and booth, 4 vehicles and two cut to size double barrel guns.

Commenting on the killers of the NTA reporter, CP Gwandu, said: “It was a cult related matter, the cultists were fighting around that area and unfortunately the NTA reporter ran into their shooting and he was killed while he was trekking back home after work. But very fortunately, we were able to arrest the guy who gunned him down. The guy is cooling in prison right now because it was a clear case of murder”.

precariously shallow was given the privilege of responding on behalf of the masses.

It is sad that Okonzuwa and his co-travellers who claim to be defending the interest of the poor and downtrodden in their response to Obaseki’s policy could not wrap their minds around the fact that preserving the sanctity of these public schools is in fact an action towards the protection of the future of these poor people and their children.

These half-baked activists need to wake up to the very elementary fact that the only sure path out of poverty for these ordinary people is a sound education which is clearly imperilled by the acts which Obaseki has now moved to terminate.

Okonzuwa and his friends must remember that only the children of the poor attend public schools these days, and if Governor Obaseki takes a step to prevent the continued vandalism of these schools by banning partying in their premises, then it is a step invariably targeted at the wellbeing of the less privileged and not the other way round.

Meanwhile, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Basic Education, Dr. Joan Osa Oviawe, explained that the ban by the Edo State Government on the use of premises of public schools for social activities would check vandalism of government infrastructure, create an effective line

of communication and strengthen the harmonious relationship between schools and communities where they are located.

“With such a measure in place, communities will take over ownership of the infrastructure as critical stakeholders and put the problem of vandalism behind them,” she said.

Law and Order for socio-economic advancement Obaseki’s ban is not a surprising move, judging from the kinds of decisions he has set in motion since becoming the state governor. When he decided to sanitise Benin-City’s busiest spot, Ring Road, he was confronted with lots of criticism. “He should have built a motor garage for us first,” a taxi driver lamented to me recently in the ancient metropolis.

But more than physical infrastructure, Obaseki believes that development starts from the mind, a function of mental gymnastics. If a people cannot think development, then no level of infrastructural progress can lift them out of the muddle of mediocrity.

“People from this side of the world have always believed in doing the wrong things. So, for me, he has done the right thing,” a Doctor of Communications at the University of Benin, Daniel Ekhareafor, noted. “It is the same with his decision to clear Ring Road. Do you know the level of crime in that place before now?

What the man is trying to do is that we must have a saner society where people play according to the rules.”

Whether Obaseki’s “doing the right thing” will earn him favourable ratings is a political mystery, but there is no question about his commitment to the welfare of the state as he continues to clear out entrenched negative behaviours that inhibit development in societies.

For example, because a prominent person dies, some people will just decide to block major roads, pausing the flow of economic activity. This is what the Obaseki government is against.

In a civilised society, there should be law and order. If you want to celebrate, rent a hall – there are actually cheap alternatives – or use a personal space, like a family compound. At least, be creative, so the wheels of Edo society can continue to function without unnecessary hiccups.

Osagie is the Special Adviser to Governor Obaseki on Media and Communication Strategy

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Ifeanyichukwu Onyeabo: Why I want to reposition Nigeria’s movie industry L2

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Why I want to reposition Nigeria’s movie industry –Ifeanyichukwu Onyeabo The movie industry in Nigeria otherwise known as Nollywood is set to witness a turnaround as a renowned movie legend stormed the city of Jos ready to shoot an epoch movie that will stand the test of time: The Producer, Director and CoDirector of this all-time movie, Mr. Ifeanyi Chukwu Onyeabo and Chinyere Ozoh, were caught in a gist with our Correspondent in Jos, KINGSLEY CHUKWUKA and what seems like an anecdote narrated thus: Excerpt:

Ghana and grew big in the business and in 2009 I traveled to Berlin where I was conferred with award of loss of other awards both local and international. Just

abroad.

What part of Nigeria are you from?

What brought you back to Jos?

was born and raised in Jos. How long have you been in the movie business?

ince 1993 to date what has been happening?

So how long have you been in Jos trying to package this? because the actors and the entire cast have to do Haven stayed in Jos and traveled worldwide and now back to Jos, are you trying to pass any message across?

in Ghana and started shooting constantly and in the

negative narrative as a result of the crisis that We understand you left Nigeria for Europe, what motivated you to take such move?

So why did it take seven months just for rehearsal alone?

How are you coping with this arrangement, considering it is capital intensive?

In a brief conversation our correspondent also engaged the Co-producer, Mrs Chinyere Ozoh and she had this to tell us………

Why have you collaborated with Ifeanyi Chukwu Onyeabo to co-produce this movie?

This project is sure gulping a lot of money?

As a lady what would you say about sexual harassment by producers to the female gender before they can be featured in a movie?

Will you recover this money? can tell you that if you are good as an actress, then

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‘I do not want what happened to PMAN to happen to COSON’ – Tony Okoroji When I left as President, suddenly, all kinds of people descended on PMAN and it was torn apart.

Uzo Chikere is one of those exceptional Nigerian journalists who have dedicated their entire careers to the promotion of the Nigerian creative industry. the Nigerian entertainment industry. Whether on radio or in of a conversation I had with him which he published in his blog, Beats-onit.

engagement of the creative industry with Minister Lai Mohammed. Welcome to Saturday Breakfast on a day we mourn the passing of the great musician, Segun Bucknor.

Please read on. jettisoned the Nigeria Music Awards (NMA) which it revived entertainment industry presently?

Awards has not been felt for a while is a pointer to the fact that I am human after all. It is true that the Nigerian Music Awards is the forerunner to all the major entertainment award events that take place in Nigeria today.

You can therefore say that now there are alternative interests wish I had the resources to do more for more young people Awards, etc. none of which existed when the NMA used to who need assistance. I really wish. titillate the country and the continent. I know that none of these events can quite replace the NMA when you think of its history No. I do not want what happened to PMAN to happen and the national pride and prestige associated with it.

Physical presence does not matter much anymore.

More and more, I am deploying technology to work for

gradual and systematic.

I am human and not indispensable but I understand the

requirements, the funding necessary for the NMA to be held to the standard for which it is known can be enormous. blocks have been laid. I know the unique strengths and With other award events emerging, I had to make a very weaknesses of the organization. to do such very tasking events like the NMA or to deploy my time to building a copyright collective management system that want to defend the interest of the members but because the music industry in Nigeria so desperately needs especially in the digital age. You cannot imagine the amount of work and hands on. with the very complex subject of collective management of me. He however refused to grant my request for 26 hours a

who are determined to thwart the system.

re-emerge.

level especially as it relates to your romance with some young music talents being seen around you recently?

I know that because of my close engagement with the building of the Intellectual Property infrastructure in the continent, people tend to forget that apart from having been

In less than six months, such people will destroy this wonderful organization we have carefully built.

I saw it happen at PMAN. As you well know, I gave everything to building PMAN which was a most respected organization in Nigeria. When I left as President, suddenly, all kinds of people descended on PMAN and it was torn apart. It has been so painful to watch. At some point, four people claimed to be president of PMAN at the same time!

as a producer and A&R Manager at the international recording used to because the management is gradually maturing company, EMI. and professionalized and a lot of the systems are being I enjoy the challenge of providing wings for young talents to automated.

For instance, very soon much of the membership issues, remote registration, monitoring of the use of works romance. It is a marriage.

We are a unique family working closely together and to human frailties. bouncing ideas off each other and we are painstaking in our

Each of them has access to my knowledge, experience and

Licensing Application Platform).

accountability which are absolutely necessary for the do things differently and be a leader in the entertainment continued growth of the organization. I remain a very active business.

By the grace of the Almighty, working with the team I have,

especially with regards to music recording and production given your background as a producer, artiste and repertoire (A & R) Manager and also recording artiste yourself?

I look forward to the Nigerian creative industry making helping to reverse the recession which the nation is facing.

We have the potentials to be a major contributor to fashion, programming and content are in great demand across the world. In other words, we have the products that the world wants.

We just have to ensure that we get true value for these products. For this to happen, those who make policies in the country need to understand that the nature of wealth in mortar economy is gone.

As a nation, our mind-set must change if we must be on the price of oil is not helpful. What is the value of our intellectual property which is massively pirated at home and abroad?

I have repeatedly asked for serious dialogue between the government and those who understand what we must do to get true value for our intellectual property so that we can earn better income, encourage more investment and provide good paying jobs for our citizens.

We have sent major recommendations to the government. We are asking for serious meetings and not photo opportunities. I am not interested in a hand out from government. We have concrete policy recommendations which the nation can implement and seriously energize our part of the economy.

What we presently lack is a serious partner in government to work with. When the President asks us to think out of the box, we are an example of citizens thinking out of the box. I want to see proof that the government is ready to engage.