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The Senate on Wednesday, confirmed Justice Walter Onnoghen as the new Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN).

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PDP crisis: Sheriff camp extends olive branch to Makarfi’s faction

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HIV/AIDS: Institute assures on secured future for Nigeria ÏÏÏ The

Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN) has assured that the next generation of Nigeria’s population will not have to deal with the prevention and spread of HIV in the country.

Dr Patrick Dakum, the Chief Executive Officer of the institute, said this while fielding questions at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum on Wednesday in Abuja.

Dakum spoke on the impact of the campaign against the management and prevention of HIV and AIDS in Nigeria.

He explained that the campaign, being powered by the U.S President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), also mapped out actions to be taken in the HIV/AIDS battle.

However, he said for the next Nigeria’s generation to be free from HIV, more attention should be given to pregnant women to prevent mother to child transmission of the virus.

He disclosed that the in-

stitute has placed 244,000 people living with HIV on treatment, adding that the country has little above a million people on treatment at the moment.

Dakum said that without intervention, transmission from mother to child would be inevitable but with interventions HIV positive mothers could give birth to HIV negative children.

“Our coverage for impact is still not acceptable; we are working to ensure that no child is born to a HIV positive mother and with this the next generation is saved from having to deal with HIV. “To prevent mother to child infection, every woman that is pregnant must get tested because there are drugs that will be given and if you take those drugs your child would not have the HIV. “It is as simple as that and there is a technology that has been proven that you would hardly find a child that is in the U.S born

with HIV. “It still happens periodically but it is very rare and within a short period, we can achieve that.

“There are countries that have embraced modern technology which makes mother to child HIV transmission zero.

“That is our priority in terms of prevention. We are making a lot of progress but we still have a long way to go,’’ Dakum said.

The IHVN boss also pointed out that his institute and PEPFAR campaign against HIV would also be channeled towards eradicating the virus among sex workers whom he described as the “most at risk population’’.

“The next priority is what we call most at risk population; some other people call them key population and they are the commercial sex workers.

“Another are those engaged in gay. They can be female or male and the prevalence is highest amongst these groups.

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N5.1bn unremitted fund: Senate orders investigation of NNPC Chris Emetoh, Abuja

ÏÏÏ The Senate has mandated its committee on petroleum (downstream) to exhaustively review and investigate the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) over its accounts relating to fuel subsidy and the abuse of product marketing and distribution between 2006 and 2016.

The move is contained in the resolutions of the upper legislative chamber on Wednesday following concerns raised in a motion by Senator Dino Melaye (Kogi West) on discrepancies in subsidy payment and nonremittance of funds by NNPC to the federation account.

Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, urged the committee to get to the root of the matter directing that a thorough job be done at investigating the allegations.

Emphasising the importance of the investiga-

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tion, Saraki said that the National Assembly cannot condone a situation whereby people continue to suffer others for their own selfish ends.

Senator Melaye had informed the senate that, despite the crackdown on corruption by the present government led by president Muhammadu Buhari, there has been continuous violation by the NNPC as regards non-remittance of proceeds from the sale of refined products into the federation account, likening the practice as being similar to the problems that sparked the national outrage against the last administration.

Melaye explained that although independent marketers account for 49 percent of imported petroleum products while NNPC accounts for 51 percent of imported products, this does not justify the huge amount it has been paid as subsidy in the last 10 years.

“We are concerned that

from the records derived from the PPMC, between five and ten cargoes of imported crude arrive the country monthly, while about five cargoes are refined locally and each cargo contains 5.8 million litres of refined crude products, the excess products which cannot be dispensed that go into different tank farms owned by private individuals are not properly accounted for as they are illegally sold off by the owners of these tank farms in a manner that is opaque and usually designed to rip off the public and enrich a few persons stupendously at the expense of the masses,” he said.

Melaye noted that since this administration clamped down on subsidy payment, NNPC has solely been responsible for retail with companies like BOVAS and RANO paying between N20 and N25 per litre for the sales of the product which amounts to over N1billion monthly.

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News 6 PDP crisis: Sheriff camp extends olive branch to Makarfi’s faction Lateef Ibrahim, Abuja

ÏÏÏ The National Working Com-

mittee (NWC), of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led by Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, has expressed satisfaction at the stand of the body of elected governors of the party on the need to adopt a political solution in bringing an enduring peace to the crisis torn party.

The NWC of the party expressed the satisfaction at the end of its meeting yesterday in Abuja sequel to the official reopening of the party’s National Secretariat at Wadata Plaza, Abuja.

The PDP, it will be recalled, has been engulfed in a leadership crisis which has sharply divided the party into two factions for some time now.

The two factions are; the Senator Ali Modu Sheriff-led group, which was recently accorded recognition by the Court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State and the party’s National Caretaker Committee (NCC), under the chairmanship of Senator Ahmed Makarfi.

Some members of the PDP Governors’ Forum, including its Chairman and governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose, Rivers State governor, Mr Nyesom Wike and their colleagues in Delta and Akwa Ibom states, Patrick Okowa and Udom Emmanuel respectively , among others have vehemently opposed the recognition of Sheriff as the National Chairman of the PDP, pledging their loyalty to the NCC of the party led by Makarfi.

However, the NWC members of the party, who are loyal to Sheriff, said in a communiqué after their meeting that, “The NWC noted with satisfaction the stand of the body of PDP governors on the need to adopt a political solution in bringing an enduring peace to the party.”

The NWC equally commended the immediate past President of the country, Dr Goodluck Jonathan for his leadership role at ensuring that a lasting solution is found to the crisis rocking the opposition party (PDP).

The communiqué of the NWC was signed by the National Secretary, Prof Wale Oladipo.

According to the communiqué, “The NWC commends the leadership role exhibited by His Excellency, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in finding a lasting solution to the PDP leadership crisis.”

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At last, Onnoghen is CJN Continued from page 1 of senators to drive the Nigerian judiciary for the next four years after he satisfactorily answered questions put to him by the lawmakers in the committee of the whole.

Congratulating the CJN, the Senate President Bukola Saraki described the screening as a milestone on the way of progress for Nigeria’s democracy.

Saraki said the new CJN, more than anyone else, appreciates the challenges of his office, and urged him to ensure that the judiciary remains the last hope of the common man, urging him as well to seek to enhance the relationship between the three arms of government.

Fielding questions from the senators during the screening, Onnoghen said he will use his office to ensure judicious and timely discharge of justice in the country, mostly on politically re-

lated cases.

Earlier the deputy Senate president, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, had expressed worry at the time frame within which political related matters are dealt with. He asked: “My lord, I am sure you are aware that prior to 2010, election matters take four to five years to conclude, sometimes beyond the lifespan of the tenure of the incumbent but after we amended the constitution, giving time frame to deal with that... Some other parts of political debate matter, the court caught up in the web of long periods of trial; matters such as the internal dynamics of the party. Is there any way you think that those political related matters can be dealt with judiciously?”

Ekweremadu also asked: “The second question relates to the issue of corruption, there has been this argument whether there should be separate courts for corruption related matters and

it appears that the judiciary has been reluctant in supporting that move. As the head of the judiciary, what do you think should be the way forward in determining whether to set up separate courts for corruption matters or to allow the regular courts to continue as they are doing?

“Finally, do you believe that judiciary is the last hope of the common man; but with the present searchlight on judiciary by the anti-corruption agencies; people are worried that we may get into a situation where courts are intimidated in such a way that even the common man cannot be sure of justice. What is the guarantee that in spite of everything, the judiciary will remain resolute and determined to ensure that they remain the last hope of the common man?”

The Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan, following suit, asked Onnoghen thus: “Recently, there were some cases of corruption

charges against some of the people that work in the judicial arm of government. You have about four years to be the CJN. I want you to tell us how you intend to, within this period, reform the judiciary, bring back confidence of public because some people would feel our judicial system is under heavy question mark of integrity but we need to do something to regain confidence of the public?”

Responding to their questions, Justice Onnoghen said: If you look back, there has been tremendous improvement in that respect. Today, for instance, every Wednesday is set aside for special panel of the Supreme Court to deal with pre-election matters and there will still be a regular panel.

Then on Wednesday, another panel that have sat earlier would sit to handle this matter and the intention is to obviously try as much as possible to finish with them so as Continued on page 7

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Gunmen kill mother, 3 children inside Church in Lagos Joy Anyim

ÏÏÏ Tragedy struck in Agbowa,

in the Epe area of Lagos State on Wednesday when suspected gunmen stormed a church in the area killing a mother and three children.

It was gathered that the incident occurred at about 3am at a Cherubim and Seraphim church located at Mosafejo Street, where the woman and her three children were praying in the sacred ground of the church when the assailants walked in and hacked them to death.

According to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni, who disclosed the incident to journalists at the police headquarters, the mother who sustained serious injuries when she was attacked by the assailants later died at the hos-

pital where she was rushed to around 5am after losing excessive blood.

It was learnt that some members of the church who were going for early morning service, saw the lifeless bodies of the children in the pool of their blood and their mother writhing in pain and then raised the alarm, which attracted other members of the community.

The residents were said to have reported the matter to the Agbowa Police division and the mother, who was immediately rushed to the hospital, but later died, and the children were deposited in the mortuary.

The children were said to be about the ages of four, five and nine years-old, but their mother’s name and age was not made available to our correspondent.

It was further gathered that

some residents of the community, who besiege the church rained curses on whoever that committed the dastardly act against the family members in the community, noting that they were easy going people.

A source in the community told our correspondent that the death of the woman and her children came to them as a surprise.

She said: “I was sleeping when someone close to the area called me on phone to inform me about the incident, behold, when we got to the scene, the children were lying face down and they were seriously injured.

“I urged the Lagos State Commissioner of Police to make everything possible to arrest anybody behind the crime, because we don’t want the family to die in vain and the church have

been sealed up by the police authority.”

Speaking further on the incident, the Commissioner of Police assured residents of the state of their safety.

He said: “we got a worrisome case in the early hours of today about 3am at Agbowa area that some hoodlums entered into an uncompleted church building and brutally murdered three children and one person, who we later discovered to be their mother was wounded and rushed to the hospital where she later died.”

He also said, “As soon as we got the information, policemen rushed to the scene, it is hasty to conclude the reason behind the murder, weather it was ritual killing or something else. We are doing everything to arrest the suspects.”

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Continued from page 6 to give the politician the opportunity to carry out their duty of governing the state or whatever office they are aspiring to without always having this kind of distraction because the normal cases are there. So far, they have enjoyed tremendous cooperation.

Already, as I came on board, for instance, I have tried to really understand.

I have passed different circulars to all the heads of the Nigerian judiciary in

At last, Onnoghen is CJN the country to send me details of pending matters on corruption, matters on terrorism, and high profile criminal matters in terms of banking. The problems that need to be addressed in terms of election separate courts for corruption matters. I don’t see some of the corruption matters as such but they are there and from the explanation they have given from the data base,

I believe it takes three to have an effective and efficient judiciary.

“In criminal prosecution for instance, you need to have an effective and efficient investigator, who will investigate first before charging to court based on his evidence, a lead prosecutor who will go through this when the investigator brings this report to him to go through and decide

whether it has any weight.

You have the judge, who is the final piece of the...Matters that get to court that are properly ready for trial actually you will normally see them moving from day to day and expeditiously.”

Actually, it is the government and if the government wants to establish any court and how many courts, the judiciary wouldn’t say no, but I believe if we can

do house together and do the right thing, carry out proper investigation before charging the man to court and when you get there be ready to prosecute your case because judges are always there. But there would be adjournment most often, not at the instance of the court. The decision has to either go by way of establishment of specialised court for corruption.”

L-R: Managing Director, Ambees Nigeria Ltd., Anayo Onuegbu; Ebonyi Commissioner for Water Resources, Euphemia Nwale; Director of Irrigation and Drainage, Federal Ministry of Water Resources, Okechukwu Offie; Deputy Governor of Ebonyi, Kelechi Igwe and Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, during the Minister’s inspection visit to Ivo Irrigation Water Project, in Ebony State… on Wednesday.

DSS arrests Peace Corps Commandant, 48 others Mathew Dadiya & Chris Emetoh, Abuja

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the Department of State Services (DSS) on Tuesday night, arrested the national commandant of Peace Corps of Nigeria (PCN), Mr. Dickson Akoh and 48 other national executives from the 36 states of the federation and Federal Capital Territory (FCT) were also taken away to an unknown destination.

The PCN Public Relations Officer, Ms Milicent Umoru, confirmed to the Daily Times that the commandant and the 48 officers of the corps were arrested by the DSS operatives who were accompanied by the police and army.

Umoru disclosed that three of their officers were beaten and brutalized to comma and have been admitted and were receiving treatment at the national hospital in Abuja.

She also disclosed that the security operatives have laid siege on their headquarters and other offices and have denied them access to the office.

However, the police on Wednesday paraded the Commandant and 48 other national executives at the force headquarters in Abuja saying that their operation was illegal.

Meanwhile, some youth groups in the FCT have described the arrest of the national commandant of the PCN as an affront on the sensibilities of the Nigerian youths.

The youth groups that included the National Youth Council (NYC), National Youth Democratic Congress, Middle Belt Christian Youth Vanguard, Media Network Against Corruption and Nigerian Advocate called for the immediate release of Akoh and others.

Okoronkwo James, who spoke on behalf of the others at a press briefing said “the arrest of Mr. Akoh is a direct attack on the sensibilities of Nigerian youths who see him as the best thing to have happened to them since the nation’s independence.

“The arrest was made without any valid warrant of arrest neither was any reason given by the secu-

rity agencies.

“For these agencies to have invaded peaceful, nonarms bearing organization like PCN in large numbers and fully armed is tantamount to killing an ant with a sledge hammer.

“For an organisation that is duly registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) under the Companies and Allied Act and whose bill has just been passed by both chambers of the National Assembly which is awaiting Presidential assent to be treated in this manner speaks volume about the despicable level to which we have sunk as a nation,” the youth groups said.

Recall that there had been a report of friction and alleged fracas between the PCN and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Osun state in January to which the defence corps, through its spokesperson, Mr. Emmanuel Okeh, came out to deny.

Also, the police later shut down the Peace Corps’ training camp in Kwara state, saying it was an illegal camp. The Commis-

sioner of Police in Kwara state, Olushola Amore had while addressing newsmen said that the force shut down a training camp of Peace Corps of Nigeria in Offa local government area of the state, describing it as illegal.

In the Bwari Area Council of the FCT, the police also attacked the Peace Corps during a training exercise.

The arrest came weeks after the Senate and the House of Representatives harmonised the Nigerian Peace Corps Bill to give the group, which had operated as a volunteer organisation for 18 years, government backing.

It was gathered that the DSS and police submitted memoranda to the National Assembly against the establishment of the Peace Corps, but the lawmakers went ahead with the passage of the bill, anyway.

The bill is expected to be forwarded to President Muhammadu Buhari for his assent, although it is not clear if the president will support the creation of another paramilitary agency.

It was not immediately

clear if the arrests had anything to do with security agencies’ opposition to the legalisation of the Peace Corps.

The raid occurred around 11:30 p.m. late Tuesday when Mr. Akoh was holding a meeting with national executives of the Corps who were in Abuja for the commissioning of a new national headquarters in Utako District.

“It was around 11: 30 last night when were saw men from the police, Army and the SSS at our new office.

“They said the commissioner of Police, (FCT Command), sent them to arrest our commandant. But he explained to them that he already had a pending appointment with the Inspector-General of Police for 9:00 a.m. Wednesday,” one Peace Corps official said.

The officer said the police team was led by M.D. Garba, an assistant commissioner of police.

A witness in the area said she saw soldiers taking strategic positions around the premises. She said the soldiers were led by a major and they came in three Army vans.

7 News Ex-Perm Sec forfeits 47 cars to federal government Olufemi Samuel, Abuja

ÏÏÏ Former Permanent Secretary in the Power Ministry, Godknows Igali, has forfeited 47 SUV cars to federal government.

According to Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the cars were seized in Utako residence of the former Permanent Secretary in Abuja.

Igali is currently under investigation by the antigraft agency over corruption allegations.

This is contained in a report submitted by the EFCC to the Senate Committee on Financial Crimes and Anticorruption.

However, the Senate kicked against donation of building and some sets of furniture to the EFCC by an unnamed state governor.

The Senate said such donations could hamper the progress of the war against corruption in Nigeria.

Senator Dino Melaye, in his remarks during the budget defence by the antigraft agency, expressed dissatisfaction with an idea of governors donating money to the EFCC, averring that such development would weaken the independence of the anti-graft agency.

Also, Senate demanded for review of details of a building contract by the EFCC amounting to N26 billion against the initial sum of N18.8 billion awarded to Julius Berger Nigeria limited.

Senators during the EFCC budget defence frowned at the increase in the cost of the contract which initially stood at N18.

8 billion while the sum was jerked to N24 billion.

Senators, also, queried the EFCC’s request for additional N2 billion for power plant and sewage for the building.

Dino Melaye expressed surprise that the contract for construction of a 10-storey building could be awarded without sewage and power plant while, a special request would then be made for such later.

The chairman of the Senate Committee on Anti-Corruption, Chukwuka Utazi said the signing of the contract was against the advice

by Bureau of Public Procurement.

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Osinbajo applauds military successes in North-East ÏÏÏActing President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday lauded the performances of the armed forces in routing Boko Haram in the NorthEast and stemming violent crimes in Kaduna state and other parts of the country.

He gave the commendation while addressing the monthly Security Council meeting at the Presidential Villa.

The event was used to review the performance of the troops as well as the police in tackling terrorism, kidnapping, cattle rustling and other violent crimes.

“The extra ordinary thing is that, our men are doing extremely well in the North-East, that of Southern Kaduna has also been contained and the peace building process there is going on very well.

“These are very laudable

achievements and so we congratulate the military and the police and also the intelligence agencies for the excellent work they are doing.’’

The acting president reiterated that Boko Haram had been effectively degraded, adding that the group no longer control any territory in the NorthEast.

According to him, what the country is finding now are a few sporadic, may be every once-in-a-while type of IED attacks or suicide bombers.

He noted that by every form of asymmetric warfare, one would be able to say that insurgency had ended adding that the terror operations are “just sporadic attacks here and there’’.

“There is no question at

all that Boko Haram as a fighting force has been severely degraded.

Contributing, the Minister of Defence retired BrigGen. Mansur Dan-Ali, said that the council had tackled most of the security issues in the North.

“We have been having security briefs and this is one of them.

“We have thrashed most of the security issues concerning the country, including the Southern Kaduna and the North East and other parts of the country like North West in Zamfara, Katsina and other places.

“We are very safe and I believe that with the effort of the security agencies all the security challenges are being surmounted.’’

The minister had earlier said that current strategy being adopted by the mili-

tary in North-East involved the simultaneous consolidation and stabilisation cases.

He said it was to enable the civil authorities to take lead role as quickly as possible.

Dan-Ali said the raids jointly carried by the military and vigilante groups led to recovery of weapons and communication equipment as well as apprehension of many suspects.

“This is being supported by continuous aerial surveillance by the Nigerian Air Force to ensure that terrorists do not regroup.

“In addition, several high profile Boko Haram commanders were arrested and over 20,000 persons, mostly women and children held hostage by the terrorists were rescued,’’ Dan-Ali said.

Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, has said that the federal government is looking towards attracting over $10 billion new investments in the oil and gas industry in the next five years. The Minister said this on Wednesday in a statement.

Kachikwu said that the investments will target challenges in the industry such as covering pipelines development, refineries rehabilitation, gas and power infrastructure, facility refurbishment and upstream financing- to bridge the infrastructure funding gaps in the industry.

According to him, the Federal Government thinks the time is right to reduce cost of crude oil production in the country in order to attract investments.

Kachikwu said that as at three years ago, the coun-

try had challenges on cost and technology, rather than where to get the money, because of bad crude price regime.

“Between 2015 and 2016, we took drastic measures to moderate crude oil prices,” the minister said. “But, between July 2016 and now, there have been lots of stability in the downstream economy.

There are still some challenges, but work is in progress,’’ he said.

He said major problem the upstream sector now faces is how to resolve the $6 billion Joint Venture, JV funding debt and other litigations.

He said an outstanding debt of $5.1 billion would be paid over five years through incremental oil production volumes, pointing out that government believes the new cash call model it recently approved would help free its resources and help production stability.

Work to commence on some selected schools, hospitals in Adamawa -Gov. Bindow Tom Garba, Yola

The governor of Adamawa state, Senator Muhammad Umaru Jibrilla Bindow, has given assurance that his government would embark on a massive rehabilitation of some selected hospitals and schools in the 21 local government areas of the state.

Bindow said this while commissioning an industrial water system in Ganye General Hospitals immediately after the routine townhall meetings held at the

local government secretariat organised to interact with people in all the LGAs every Wednesday.

He said that a state of emergency has been declared in the education and health sectors with the greater part of this year’s budget allotted to the sectors.

He reminded the mammoth crowd who hailed his administration that his government is purely a people oriented in all its ramification as and he has no excuse not to work for them despite the dwindling economy.

Senate lauds enhancement of powers of ECOWAS parliament

Olufemi Samuel and Chris Emetoh, Abuja

The Senate has commended the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for enhancing the powers of the regional ECOWAS parliament.

It also resolved to congratulate the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government as well as well as the ECOWAS Par-

liament on the milestone, and pressed for the amendment of the Electoral Act to empower the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to eventually conduct election to fill Nigerian’s 35 seats at the Community Parliament.

The resolutions were sequel to a motion sponsored by the deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu in the plenary on Wednesday.

Moving the motion, former Speaker of ECOWAS Parliament, Senator Ekweremadu, recalled that although the Parliament was established in the year 2000 sequel to the Article 13 of the 1993 Revised Treaty of ECOWAS, and ECOWAS Protocol A/P2/8/94 of 1994, the Parliament had existed only as a mere advisory body.

He further recalled that while previous efforts to

enhance the powers of the Community Parliament had failed, the 3rd Legislature of the Parliament, which he headed as the Speaker, championed a robust advocacy for the actualisation of this project, “including coming up with a Draft Supplementary Act on the Enhancement of the Powers of the Community Parliament to bring the institution to the international best standards.”

The Deputy President of the Senate, however, regretted that despite the adoption of the Supplementary Act by the 46th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of the State and Government in Abuja in December 2014, the 47th Ordinary Session of the Authority had failed to sign, to bring it into force in Accra in May 2015, before the expiration of the 3rd Legislature.

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Ibori’s generosity outweighs his mistakes -Amori

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Nosa Akenzua, Asaba Basking in the euphoria of the release of his political benefactor from incarceration, Senator Ighoyota Amori has described Chief James Ibori, former governor of Delta State, as a man next to God politically, saying that his generosity brought him closer to the people.

Amori who spoke to Journalists at his residence in Asaba on Wednesday, on the significance of Ibori’s return said; “I have a friend, an Igbo man, he said after God is money. It is almost a general belief for the Igbo. Politically, here after God, James Ibori is next. You don’t need to be told. Here is a man who ruled this state for eight years and, since he left office, he has been incarcerated. He has been in Kaduna and Dubai prisons and in United Kingdom and now he is released. His good deeds have overwhelmed his mistakes,”.

According to Amori; “I worked with Ibori

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closely, so l knows him. He was born in Mosoga, where his mother hailed from. He is somebody I respect very well. His generosity alone is amazing. You will love to work with him. The generosity that the people have lost is what they want to regain by welcoming him with ovations,” he added.

Going down memory lane, Chief Amori recalled with nostalgia, the mysterious circumstances surrounding the Appeal Court tribunal judgment that nullified his election to the Senate, saying he cannot be stupid again.

Hear him; “I won the election clean and clear.

The APC and LP candidates took me to the tribunal, canvassing the same case at the tribunal and the same time with the same Judges. After delivering the case of APC, the Judges were changed.

They delivered the judgment on LP and PDP at night in less than one minute, that was the last date for the tribunal, which tells you something went wrong. They waited till night and the judgment is just one line. Being the last appeal, we

have committed everything to God.” He vowed that no Urhobo man in Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will contest the governorship election against Senator Ifeanyi Okowa in 2019, saying that; “We know and accept that as long as PDP is concerned, Okowa will complete eight years in office.”

Speaking on the protracted crisis that is nearly tearing the PDP apart, Amori described the feud as a necessary agreement within a family which will be solved through dialogue after the war situation.

“Senator Makarfi and Sheriff are never contenders of the coveted seat of chairmanship of PDP. They were entrusted with the position. Party is a life time project, and we should be happy it is happening now. People are crisscrossing to other parties pretending that there is a crisis, but where they are moving to is worse. It is said generally that if you want peace declare war. For now we are in war in PDP. Every war ends on a table. PDP will assert itself.”

Okowa appoint Committee to improve IGR in Delta Nosa Akenzua, Asaba Towards improving on the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of the state, the Delta State government has appointed a revenue committee and approved haulage duties to be paid annually or on daily basis as the case may be, by all haulage operators at all levels with immediate effect.

Addressing journalists, the Secretary to the Ministerial Tenders Board, Mrs. Stella Opuware disclosed that the haulage fees’ collection in Delta State has been awarded to Solo Integrated Conception Limited for effective result in collection of the fees.

The Tenders Board Secretary advised all haulage operators ranging from tricycles to heavy duty lorries to comply in the interest of their businesses, themselves and the collective efforts to increase the IGR of Delta State, warning that failure to comply would attract some stiff penalties on such operators.

Mrs Opuware further disclosed that the haulage operators are expected to pay an annual rent ranging between N10, 000 and N1m among tricycles and heavy trucks.

Also speaking after the state government had put in place a constituted authority to handle haulage fees’ collection, the Managing Director of Solo Integrated Conception Limited, Ambassador Solo Okowa made it very clear that for easy collection and accurate accountability, the major contractor, Solo Integrated Limited has sublet the collection of haulage fees in Delta State Central Senatorial District to Edo and Alex International (Nig.) Enterprised under the coffer of the Delta State government.

Ambassador Okowa further warned the sub-contractors in each of the three senatorial districts of Delta State to operate in line with the established Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) reached and signed by all parties.

Ambassador Okowa, however, appealed to all haulage operators in Delta State to support the ongoing revenue drive of the state government, knowing full well that prompt and timely payment of taxes and other revenue sources in the state in the heart of project execution in Delta State; and as such, will not tolerate any form of sabotage or non-compliance from both the contractor, sub-contractors and haulage operators.

Leadership, policy consistency driving development in Lagos — APC Chieftain Alhaji Abdulganiyu Egunjobi, a Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State, on Wednesday attributed the rapid development in the state to visionary leaders and continuity in policy.

Egunjobi, the secretary of APC in Agege Local Government Area, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the state had been blessed with “masses-spirited’’ leaders.

The scribe called on the residents to remain steadfast in ensuring that the state remained under the leadership of the APC. “Lagos, in spite of its population, has been recording enormous successes in social and infrastructure development as a result of the good vision of the party leaders.

“These achievements are made possible by uninterrupted leadership since 1999 and consistency in policies.

“We give kudos to APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, for providing the template that has galvanised the state thus far.’’

Egunjobi commended Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode for his prompt approach in providing basic social amenities to assuage the needs of the state’s residents.

According to him, the incumbent government has worked hard in the areas of road construction and re-

pairs, provision of adequate security for the safety of residents aside other social amenities.

The scribe, who also commended Lagosians for supporting the party called on all to support so as to enjoy uniform benefits across board.

Egunjobi, who noted that politics was not sweet without opposition, said the party in the state never regarded any election as a do-or-die affair.

He described the recent de-

fection of six PDP lawmakers in the State House of Assembly to the ruling APC as a welcome development and a step in the right direction.

“The decision of the lawmakers to move to the APC cannot be unconnected with the pace of development in the state.

“Also, the non-discriminatory leadership style of the Speaker of the House, Mr Mudashiru Obasa, could have drawn them to APC,’’ he

added.

Egunjobi, who has shown interest in contesting for the Chairmanship position of Agege Local Government Council in the forthcoming local government elections, described Obasa, as a “pragmatic team leader and stickler to party ethics.”

“In Lagos, we can’t have it better in terms of quality leadership with genuine sense of commitment to the people.

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Obasa has brought innovation, difference to Lagos Assembly -Ogundimu Hon. Oluyinka Ogundimu represents Agege State Constituency 2 in the Lagos State House of Assembly. A two time lawmaker, he is also the Chairman, House Committee on Finance.

In this interview with PATRICK OKOHUE, he speaks on his experience in the House so far, the leadership style of the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa, among other issues.

As the chairman of the house committee on finance, what does the job entail?

Wow, that is a very big question; well it entails the activities of revenue and monitoring of MDAs that has to do with revenue generation in Lagos State and getting the budgeted figures given to them and ensure they meet up with the standard expected.

You know the budget of this year is more focused on improving the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of the state and that means there is a lot of work to do for the finance family. Aside from monitoring of the finance agencies like LBIC, Ibile Holdings, LAGBUS, STOs and also the debt management office, even the governor is on ground monitoring the process, hence being the chairman of the Finance Committee of the House involves a lot of work.

As the Chairman of the Committee, what does the committee do in case there is a shortfall in the revenue expected?

What we have just done is not to wait till the last quarter of the year when they have to bring their returns, we have decided at the committee level that at each quarter of the year, we will have to call for the revenue figures from all the MDAs and we get our own figure from the STOs, Ministry of Finance and Oracle, so we marry them together to reconcile and see the differences. Actually, there are bound to be differences because the standard limit for each of the organs is different, if we get the final figure, we then ask the MDAs to bring their performance figure and see if it conforms with the standard figure and if there are deviations, we have to see what is responsible either it is shortage of staff or they have not been doing their best, we correct them right there and they go back to the field. If they are still not conforming, we will see the result in the next quarter which will be the middle of the year, and then we can raise the issue on the floor of the House.

You are a second time legislator, during your first term in office, what were the challenges you faced?

As a first timer, you are said to be green, one lacked the technical know-how, the skill required of the office, one’s residual knowledge might not be enough, there is need for experience on this job. If one does not have the experience, people will just be calling you honourable and one will be answering without knowing the rudiments of the office. Optimally for one to perform there is need to learn from the senior colleagues and secondly, there is need to get involved in training that will expose you to the core aspect of the job and thirdly is learning on the job, where you will be able to sit down with other honourable members and read fervently from the books. We are very lucky in this House as we are exposed to a lot of trainings, even if one is learning carpentry or mechanic, I think it is enough to know the rudiments of the job.

Even during your first term, you were rated one of the best honourables, how did you manage to surmount the pressure?

Well, one has to just throw away every possi-

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bility of making errors, face the business from day one, if you make mistakes, they will correct you, then you learn from your mistakes. I don’t think that is an offence, just determination that you should face the job from the beginning, secondly, you need to get some mentors and one’s background also is a factor to assist in doing better on the job.

Recently, you commissioned boreholes in all the wards that make up your constituency, as a lawmaker, are you expected to do this?

Yes, I commissioned seven bore holes that make up my constituency; the issue is like a business organisation that is set up in a particular community which is out to make profit, as the organisation is expected to be responsible like providing good roads and other commu-

nity activities, in management, it is referred to as Corporate Social Responsibility, so as a lawmaker too, we should be socially responsible. Beside our legislative assignment, we should be able to set aside part of our salary to do these things one after the other. I may not be doing it at the same time, I just give myself a period of time to do it, I get some of the materials myself not minding the stress without awarding the contract to anybody and people appreciate it so well. So, I need to be socially responsible.

What plans do you have on ground to monitor these projects?

Ones the people are the curtain in the process of establishing the project, they take it up as their own and monitor it at all times. I asked them to get the elders, youths and the

This is a very determined Assembly, having been part of the 7th Assembly, I think we are more focused and determined. Determination is the key word; you will discover that there are some bills that people will just shy away from, but this Assembly never relent. A very good example is the Land Grabbing law; we’ve been on it for a very long time and at a point, it looks impossible but this Assembly went ahead and passed the bill

religious bodies, they were asked where they want it situated and they gave reasons, so the project was handed over to them. They gather to determine the price to be selling the water and whatever they get will be used to maintain the project like buying fuel and other stuffs to ensure the project last longer.

How will you rate the performance of the 8th Assembly?

What you have asked me is a very difficult question, it’s like asking a child to mark his own script, what do you expect other than awarding marks to himself or herself, but to be candid, this is a very determined Assembly, having been part of the 7th Assembly, I think we are more focused and determined. Determination is the key word; you will discover that there are some bills that people will just shy away from, but this Assembly never relent. A very good example is the Land Grabbing law; we’ve been on it for a very long time and at a point, it looks impossible but this Assembly went ahead and passed the bill. Another example is the Neighbourhood Safety Corps bill, it is something that we look into severally and passed to the Federal Government, but it’s like we’re crying lonely in the wilderness, but the fact is we need to help ourselves, kudos to the leader of the 8th Assembly in person of Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa for showing us the way. He single headedly pushed the bill and we all gave it a good shot as it becomes a law. These and many others are landmark achievements that doesn’t come easy, also is the kidnapping law; the 8th Assembly is very proactive. Not forgetting that in law making business, there is what we call impact assessment of all the laws, even the existing ones and that is what we are doing presently.

And you made your mark by moving the motion for the fly over bridge at pen cinema…

WOW… I have to give kudos to the Rt. Honourable Speaker and my colleagues, it was an overwhelming support that I had on the floor that day, because it’s an eyesore, when we came up with that idea, the Commissioner for Works was talking about stigmatisation and I told him nothing concerns me with that, all I want to achieve is to ensure the traffic from Moshalashi Alhaja to Iju road, from Agunbiade to Oba Ogunji and other routes moves well, so, at the end of the day, the governor reasoned along with us and included it in the budget, if this is not achieved, it will affect the 2017 budget which I know the governor won’t like.

People are saying that along with the Speaker, you have brought development to Agege, how does that make you feel?

Well, we have to give the Speaker a lot of kudos; he is always ready to support a laudable and genuine idea that will serve humanity.

Like that of Abule Egba bridge that is on-going, Abule Egba to Oshodi, a lot of construction is on-going as well like the BRT lane, the road will even come with a service lane. We also have to appreciate the gesture of the governor who is always ready to support the laudable ideas. These are what we’ve been working on in Agege and we have just started.

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Lateef Ibrahim, Abuja The Court of Appeal recognised National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff has assumed duty at the party’s national secretariat amidst tight security.

This tight security, Daily Times gathered, was not unconnected with the protest by the National Caretaker Committee (NCC), of the party, headed by Senator Ahmed Makarfi that Sheriff cannot move into the secretariat in view of the fact that it (the NCC) has filed for stay of execution of the Court of Appeal’s judgement.

The NCC, it will be recalled, had on Monday specifically called on the police and other law enforcement agencies to throw out Sheriff from the office, alleging that he broke into the office without due authorisation.

But Sheriff, after formally mov-

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Sheriff assumes duty at PDP Hqts amid tight security ing into the party’ national secretariat, assured concretely that the party will not die in his hands.

Sheriff, a two-term former Borno State governor and erstwhile Senator, while addressing a delegation of party members from Imo State, during a solidarity visit on him at the PDP headquarters popularly known as ‘Wadata House’ reiterated his call to all aggrieved members of the party to join hands with him in rebuilding the party.

The visit of the Imo delegation, which was led by Senator Hope Uzodimma, Sheriff pointed out, has put a lie to claims by his traducers that he does not enjoy the support of PDP members at the grassroots.

Notwithstanding, the National Chairman stated, repeatedly, that he

would not join issues with anyone regarding the leadership dispute in the party.

His words, “Every day, I say I don’t want to join issues, but every day when I open the pages, I read stories that give me doubt about these people, the respect I give them, whether they are truly deserving of it.

“This party belongs to all of us.

After the judgment, the first statement I made was let us come together and rebuild this party. We are not going to give this party to people who are not members of this party.

“People should go back to their states and get the party together.

Time will tell who is right and who is wrong. And Nigerians are watching.

“I still appeal to everybody, let’s

come together. Let us work together. By the grace of God, this ship will not capsize. The cargo will not sink,” he assured.

While expressing his appreciation to the Imo PDP members for the solidarity visit, the PDP National Chairman promised to support women in the party to get 30 representation in elective offices.

Earlier, the former Minister of Information, Professor Walter Ofonagoro who was part of the delegation, said that the people of the state abhor illegality and impunity, hence the decision to identify with Sheriff.

Ofonagoro however called for an end to the leadership tussle in the party, stating that the PDP crisis is hurting Nigerians.

His words, “We have the highest regard for the rule of law. That is why we are here. We are here because we cannot allow a situation whereby a vacuum is allowed in our party.”

The former Minister called on Sheriff to strive for reconciliation between all feuding members of party, so that the party can move forward.

Our reporter noticed that the PDP national secretariat is already wearing a new look as series of renovation work and face lifting works are going on there.

Policemen and men of the National Security and Civil A Defense Corps (NSCDC), are visibly on ground to provide security at the secretariat.

Anambra 2017: PDP group disassociate from Obiano’s adoption From Alphonsus Nweze, Awka

Lagos State governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode (middle), signing the Environmental Management and Protection bill into Law, at the Banquet Hall, Lagos House, Ikeja. With him are Commissioner for the Environment, Dr. Babatunde Adejare (L); Deputy Governor, Dr. (Mrs) Oluranti Adebule; Chairman, House Committee on Environment, Hon. Dayo Fafunmi and Special Adviser to the Governor on Civic Engagement, Mr. Kehinde Joseph, yesterday.

Ayade advocates two party system for Nigeria Edem Edem, Calabar

Cross River State governor, Prof.

Ben Ayade has advocated for two political parties for Nigeria as was done during former military President Ibrahim Babangida’s regime, explaining that multi political parties was a waste of time and resources, maintaining that most of the parties have not won a seat in their local government areas.

Prof Ayade made his position on the electoral reform known on Wednesday at the presidential committee on constitution and electoral reforms for the South South state in Calabar.

Ayade who was represented by his deputy, Prof Ivara Esu said Nigerians should not border themselves with multi party system as it was unproductive.

“We should not border ourselves with many political parties, parties that have not won a seat in their local government, we should return to two party systems, a little to the right and a little to the left” Prof Ayade said, while complaining about defection by politicians, requesting the committee to look into that with a view to putting enabling laws in place that will stop it.

“Defection by politicians is electoral fraud, people should remain in a vehicle that took them to great height, this committee should make law that will stop defection to other parties.”

On elections, the governor said that accreditation and voting should be done at the same time rather than subjecting the voters to suffering by waiting without meal.

Consequently, on the issue of Card Reader, the governor said that Nigeria was not electronically perfect to

handle electronic voting given that the nation has no constant supply of electricity, “There is no electricity in our rural areas even in the urban areas there is no constant supply of electricity, we should abandon Card Reader.”

Also speaking, the chairman of the Reform Committee, Senator Ken Nnamani debunked the claims that various electoral reforms’ reports have not been implemented, saying “other electoral reforms reports have been implemented, from Uwais reports and others.”

However, he said that it was not mandatory or constitutional that government should hold public hearing, but that it has become conventional in our country that we subject matters of this nature to public scrutiny and give opportunity to those who have contributions to make to come forward and make them.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members of the Anambra North People’s Assembly (ANPA), have disassociated themselves from the adoption of Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State as the their choice for the November 2017 governorship election.

A prominent member of ANPA and the chairman of PDP in Anambra East Local Government Area, Mr Thompson Chikezie, told newsmen that they, members of PDP in the association were not part of the February 26, 2017 adoption of Governor Obiano at the Tourist Garden Hotel, Otuocha, Aguleri.

Chikezie, an Onitsha based legal practitioner who was in the meeting where the resolution was taken, said ANPA was a non-partisan group with members from different political parties including PDP, UPP, SDP, Labour party, PPA among others.

“APGA is not the only party in Anmbra North and therefore cannot represent the interest of other political parties . We therefore condemn in totality that idea of adopting Obiano as read out in that meeting by the Secretary-General, O.C Ilozue.

ANPA is a body not only for politics but for the welfare of the people of Anambra North. But today some elements have hijacked it,” said Chikezie.

He said it was pertinent to inform the entire people of Anambra North, that the people that constitute the executive “ are sycophants and inconsistent politicians who are battling to reap where they did not sow.”

The PDP boss noted that there are many governorship aspirants from

the North Senatorial zone from different political parties such as Chinedu Idigo, Dr. Alex Obiogbolu, Oseloka Obaze, PDP, Tony Nwoye, Dr. Chike Obidigbo, APC among many others, saying that none of these people except Obiano supporters called for his adoption as sole candidate for the North.

“It is absolutely unwarranted because all of them are planning how to siphon money from the Government of Anambra State. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on its publication stated that November18 will be for proper election, then July to September 4 will be for campaign. Therefore, the call makes no sense to the people of the North Senatorial zone. Our sincere resolution is that all parties should work hard to see that somebody from Anambra North emerges from the above parties as to give us clear opportunity to clinch the office,” Chikezie advised.

He however advised all the PDP members in the local government to remain calm, not minding the Court of Appeal judgment which gave the Modu Sheriff led faction the control of the leadership of the party, stressing that the party from the wards to the zone has no problem.

The legal practitioner said they have proceeded to the Supreme Court and there was every hope that the judgment of the Appeal Court would be upturned, saying that people from various political parties are already discussing with them on how to cross over to PDP. “We are ready to welcome all those who want to join us. Anambra North PDP is solidly behind our state chairman, Chief Ken Emekayi” Chikezie assured.

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ÏÏÏ Senate President, Dr. Abuba-

kar Bukola Saraki, on Wednesday, pledged that the Senate would partner with critical institutions in the country like the media, to ensure the continued survival and strengthening of democracy in the country.

Saraki spoke in Abuja when the Board of Directors of the Daily Times of Nigeria (DTN), led by its chairman, Mr. Fidelis Anosike, visited him to convey the decision of the newspaper’s Board of Directors to name him the ‘Politician of the Year 2016’.

The Senate President, who accepted the honour of being named ‘Politician of the Year 2016’ by DTN, said the Senate and indeed the National Assembly will partner with critical institutions in Nigeria like the media to ensure the survival of the nation’s democracy.

“I think it is a responsibility of all of us to ensure that we keep those institutions to continue to grow. We commend the role the Daily Times as an institution that has played in our democracy for many years and the role you will continue to play in our democracy.

That is why I want to encourage you keep up the passion and commitment you have displayed so far,” Saraki said.

The Senate President also commended the management of Daily Times, saying: “Let me first commend those of you who are part of the management of the Daily Times when it came back because Daily Times is not just a newspaper, it is part of the history of this

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Saraki pledges partnership with media for survival of democracy country. It is an institution because being in business for over 90 years is not a joke in whatever sector you find yourself.”

He continued, “Since the time you came on, it has not been easy at all, we all know that newspaper business is not easy, but that has not deterred your passion for the business. I commend you for that and reassure you that the Senate and National Assembly in general will continue to partner with institutions like yours because it

is your strength and capacity that will help us sustain this democracy.

“One of the problems we have not only here in Nigeria but all over the world is the issue of fake news. So I think it is very important that you write news that are truthful and accurate for the consumption of our people,” he charged the management of Daily Times of Nigeria.

On the honour conferred on him, the Senate President said,

“I thank you for the honour you have bestowed on me by the award. All I know is that we will continue to do our best for this country and again to do that, we need partnership like yours towards better governance, development of our country, transparency, fight against corruption and all the challenges ahead of us, we are committed to make this country a great country.”

Earlier, Publisher and Chairman of DTN, Mr. Anosike, com-

Rev. Father Emmanuel Sikuku Likuku, administering the ash on the worshipper to mark Ash Wednesday, at St. Matthew’s Catholic Church, Amukoko, Lagos… on Wednesday. Photo: BOLAJI OLASUNKANMI.

No evidence to show IPOB is unlawful –Court Andrew Orolua, Abuja

ÏÏÏ The federal high court in Abuja on Wednesday struck out six out of the 11 count charges filed against the leader of the Indigenous peoples of Biafra,(IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu and three others for being incompetent.

The federal government had brought the 11 count charges bordering on treasonable felony against Nnamdi Kanu, Chidiebere Onwudiwe, Bejanmin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi in amended charges it filed on November 7, 2016.

Ruling on objections filed by Kanu, Onwudiwe and Madubugwu, yesterday, the trial judge, Justice Binta Nyako, said the proof of evidence filed by the prosecution did not disclose prima facie case to support counts 3,6,7,9,10 and 11 of the charge.

The court sustained counts 1,2,4,5, and 8 of the charge, which the judge said prosecution had placed evidences of elements of offences before the court.

Specifically, Justice Nyako said that the prosecution had not

mended the leadership qualities of the Senate President, recalling with nostalgia how Dr. Saraki reformed the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) with the introduction of the peer review mechanism among the state governors.

He, also, commended the Senate President on how he has managed the red chamber, which has resulted in less rancour as well as describing Dr. Saraki as a detribalised Nigerian leader.

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placed evidence before the court to show that Kanu and Onwudiwe are managing an unlawful society or that IPOB was unlawful.

She also ruled that some of the charges against the defendants that bordered on intentions to commit crimes would be better handled at the magistrate court not federal high court. Therefore, those charges cannot stand. Consequently, they were struck out.

After the ruling, the four defendants took a fresh plea of not guilty when the remaining charges were read to them. The charges read thus: That you Nnamdi Kanu, ‘M’, Onwudiwe Chidiebere, ‘M’, Banjamin Madubugwu, David Nwawuisi ,’M’, and others now at large on diverse dates in 2014 and 2015 in Nigeria and London, United Kingdom, did conspire amongst yourselves to broadcast on Radio Biafra monitored in Enugu and other areas within the jurisdiction of this court, preparations being made by you and others at large, for states in the South-East and South-South zones and other

communities in Kogi and Benue states to secede from the Federal Republic of Nigeria with a view to constituting same into a Republic of Biafra and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 516 of the Criminal Code Act CAP. C38 laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2000.

That you Nnamdi Kanu, ‘M’, being the leader of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), on diverse dates in 2014 and 2015 in London, United Kingdom, did broadcast on Radio Biafra monitored in Enugu and other areas within the jurisdiction of this court, preparations being made by you and others now at large, for states in the South-East and South-South zones and other communities in Kogi and Benue states to secede from the Federal Republic of Nigeria with a view to constituting same into a Republic of Biafra and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 41 (c) of the Criminal Code Act .CAP C38 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.

That you, Nnamdi Kanu, on or

about the 28th April, 2015 in London, United Kingdom, did broadcast on Radio Biafra monitored in Enugu, Enugu state and other parts of Nigeria within the jurisdiction of this court, referred to Major General Muhammadu Buhari, GCON, President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as a pedophile, a terrorist, an idiot and an embodiment of evil knowing same to be false and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 375 of the Criminal Code Act. CAP C .38 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004.

That you, Nnamdi Kanu, between the month of March and April 2015, imported into Nigeria a radio transmitter known as TRAM 50L and kept it in your house at Ubuluiuzor in Ihiala Local Government Area (LGA) of Anambra State, Nigeria, within the jurisdiction of this court and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 47 (1) (a) (1) of the Federation of Nigeria 2004.

That you, Nnamdi Kanu, between the months of March and April 2015 imported into Nigeria and kept in Ubulusiuzor in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State within the jurisdiction of this court, a radio transmitter known as TRAM 50L concealed in a container of used house hold items, which you declared as used household items and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 47/(2) (a) of the Custom and Excise Management Act, CAP .C45 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 and punishable under the same section of the Act. Justice Nyako adjourned trial to 20 and 21 March following prosecution request for time to enable him call witness. The judge also said she will entertain defendants’ fresh applications for bail but it would not stop the trial from proceeding.

Justice Nyako also promised the defendants who were very bitter about security operatives’ disobedience to court that an earlier order, which allowed at least four members of their families to attend and witness the trial, would be enforced.

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Editorial Nigeria and continuing electricity crisis

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t will be stating the obvious that Nigeria as an independent country is currently undergoing the worst electricity crisis in her history since independence in 1960. Definitely, the paroxysms can be felt all over the country and in all facets that make for daily living and welfare. There is no gainsaying the fact that these are hard times for both country and the citizens. Incidentally, nowhere is this pain and social dislocation more acute than in the power sector, which for long has remained erratic and moribund. It is a fact that irregular electricity in the country is causing disruptions in the lives of Nigerians, which also poses a serious challenge to investment and business activities. It does not need clairvoyance to know that, electricity is pivotal to the development of any nation, given that its use is directly correlated with healthy economic growth.

Unfortunately, the worsening electricity crisis is a hallmark that has marked Nigeria, out from the crowd of other responsible countries in the world. This sad reality is made starker by the fact that in past 17 years, more than N4 trillion has been wasted on attempts by successive administrations to provide electricity for the more than 170 million Nigerians. At end of the day, over 80 percent of that fund was pilfered by very few powerful but corrupt Nigerians. The consequence for Nigeria and Nigerians is the pervasive darkness that has enveloped the land.

Nevertheless, how did we descend to this abysmal level after having spent such huge sums ostensibly for the provision of electricity? It is even more absurd that the more the country pours money to boosting power supply, the farther it retrogresses into darkness. The nation’s woes in

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Even when during the immediate past Goodluck Jonathan administration, when the power production rose from an abysmal 2,400 megawatts to nearly 5,000 megawatts, it was discovered that the distribution network were too obsolete to evacuate the power generated. The reality is that today, rather than improve, the amount of power being generated has not only scandalously fallen, it is very different from what it was only eleven months ago.

Suffice to say that without adequate power supply, the engine of industry and growth would be at standstill, even as technology, production and vibrant economy would remain a mirage.

Without doubt, the consequences of lack of power to the economy is enormous, and these include high cost of running business, closure of multinational companies, prohibitive prices of goods and services due to individual investment in purchase of generators, poor investment climate amongst others.

Nigerians were elated when President Muhammadu Buhari came on board with his ‘Change’ mantra and promise to fix the power sector. Almost two years into his four-year tenure, that hope has turned a distant dream. We believe the administration still has many opportunities to battle the dark forces responsible for the continuing darkness in the country. Can it do it? Nigerians are waiting to see.

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“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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Count me out of your troubles, Sen Omo-Agege tells embattled Labour Party Chairman Chris Emetoh, Abuja

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The Senator representing Delta Central in the National Assembly, Senator Ovie OmoAgege has exonerated himself from the leadership crisis rocking the Labour Party.

Omo-Agege who said that his attention has been drawn to the current factional leadership crisis in LP said he has never instigated the division in the party as alleged by the embattled National Chairman of the Labour Party, Alhaji Abubakar Abdulkadir

Salam, adding that it is rather Salam’s very questionable and poor leadership methods that have thrown LP into the factional crisis.

Senator Omoagege in a press statement made available to Daily Times yesterday, Said that Alhaji Salam has persis-

tently prevailed on him to dissuade the NEC members from removing him as LP’s National Chairman.

“However, i could not do that because the NEC members were determined to clean the party, particularly given the allegations against

Salam,” the senator affirmed.

“The main fact that we know a at today is that sequel to resolutions reached two days ago by the National Excecutive Committee (NEC) of the party, Comrade Atare Bobo Adou is now the Acting National

Chairman of the Labour Party while Barrister Akingbade Oyelekan is the Acting National Secretary.

We also know that NEC suspended / removed Alhaji Salam from office as the Chairman of the Party as well as some other officials, “ the statement read.

Notorious cultist rearrested in Lagos Joy Anyim

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Director, Radio Biafra and leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu (l), at the Federal High Court, Abuja premises for his on-going trial on alleged treasonable felony ... on Wednesday.

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Gov. Tambuwal assures Air Peace of hitch free operations Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo

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ziri Tambuwal of Sokoto state has assured the management of Air Peace airline that the government would provide it with all the necessary support to ensure smooth and efficient flights.

Speaking yesterday during the Flag off of the Abuja-Sokoto-Abuja and Lagos-Sokoto-Lagos flight services, Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, who was represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Bashir Garbage, also led other high ranking government officials to welcome the inaugural flight, a Boeing 737-300 aircraft.

According to the Governor “We will do everything possible to make sure that you would not regret extending your services to Sokoto State.”

The governor said air travelers in Sokoto are not

happy with the experiences they have had with other airlines, hence the government decided to invite Air Peace to commence flight operations to the state.

Gov Tambuwal said all the necessary facilities have been provided for the airlines smooth operations adding that the people of the state were ready to do business with them.

Daily Times gathered that Tambuwal had on September 16, 2016 sent a five-man delegation led by the SSG to Lagos to meet with the Air Peace Management.

Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of Air Peace, Barr. Allen Onyema said the invitation by Sokoto State government coincided with the airline’s plan “to embark on a massive expansion project to connect different cities in Nigeria, Africa and other international destinations.”

Onyema who wws represented by the Quality and

Safety Manager, Patrick Achurefe said the airline recognises Sokoto as “a very strategic economic and social capital in the North and Nigeria as a whole”, adding the airline is keen to partner the state and people of Sokoto to address the challenges of air travel in the area.

He said the commencement of the Sokoto flight was a new dawn for air travellers on the route, adding, “Prepare yourself for an exciting flight experience. We have come to Sokoto to inaugurate on-time departure, uncompromising premium on the safety and comfort of air travellers and affordable flight services.”

Onyema assured that “safety is the first law of business” at Air Peace, saying the airline maintains its aircraft at some of the best maintenance facilities in the world just as it has BCT Aviation of the United Kingdom on ground in La-

gos to handle maintenance of its fleet 24 hours every day.

He said, “Air Peace is a symbol of hope and determination to offer nothing but the best. Since we started commercial flight operations on October 24, 2014, we upended route monopolies and set new parameters for providing air travel services in Nigeria.

“Our mission in the aviation industry is to make air travel seamless, safe, pleasurable and affordable. Our consistency in pursuing these objectives has established us as the preferred airline on the Abuja, Benin, Calabar, Uyo, Owerri, Enugu, Port Harcourt and Lagos routes.”

The inaugural flight arrived Sultan Abubakar International Airport, Sokoto enroute Abuja at about 12:45 p.m. amidst excitement and euphoria by travelers and the Sokoto state government officials.

Lagos state police command has rearrested a 36-year-old an alleged notorious cult member, Ibrahim Balogun (aka jailbird) who has been responsible for many heinous crime in the state.

The suspect who is said to always have his way out of the prison was arrested while in a court premises by policemen for another offence.

Balogun who claim he hadn’t committed any crime to warrant his arrest said he had turned a new leaf, after many residents of Somolu and Bariga upon hearing his name would tremble and scamper for safety.

He said: “I am. A changed man and it is all thanks to my mother. Although, I used to be a cult member, but now, I have not being relating with my cult members again.” “surprisingly last Tuesday I was in a magistrate court at Yaba for different charges I

have committed before, when policemen came and arrest me.

“I am suffering from my past mistakes, because whenever anything happened in the community my colleagues who I had left in the cult group would lie to the policemen that I am their leader that was why they kept arresting me. They lied against me.”

The suspect told our correspondent that due to his release from prison the police prosecutor and investigation police officer in charge of his case have been arrested and detained.

“One of my friend identified simply as Asumon facilitated my release from prison with the assistance of one chief Judge.

I don’t know how much my friend paid to get me out. I was only brought out of prison.”

Robbery suspects denied using pistols for operations Oguntade Ismaila

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The Lagos State Police Command, on Wednesday, arrested and paraded suspects who robbed an hotel around Oju Elegba area of the state.

Their names were given as, Sule Saidi, 18, Daniel Ajayi, 24, Tunde Sheu, 20, and Waheed Leke, 23.

The police said they recovered two locally-made pistols from the suspects, when they allegedly stole a mobile phone and the sum of N10, 000.

According to one of the suspects, Sule Saidi, is an indigene of Kwara state, and an aluminum fabricator, “We were coming from a party (naming ceremony) on Wednesday night at exactly 10pm with my friends; and we were four in numbers; we decided to lodge in a hotel that night till the following day,

but we were lodged in separately rooms.”

Saidi added that, “Suddenly, we got information that they were looking for phone and money at the same time; and we didn’t have any knowledge of how the money and the phone got missed until the following morning when the police came to arrested us.”

Another suspect, Daniel Ajayi, who rides a tricycle, denied the allegations that, “we used the pistol to fight as means of selfdefense, but not to rob; a friend (name withheld) invited us to a party, and we decided to lodge in an hotel while coming back at night. We were about ten who were arrested in the hotel, but only just four of us were taken to the police station, while others regained their freedom on the way.

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Ogongorigo Gongomasha: Masters forever

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his is a simple narrative direct from the mouth of the born master: I shall drive you into the sea. All of you without an exception. I, I mean we where I is interchangeable with we and we can also mean I. This time around there should be no surrender, no half measures. The other time we allowed indecision to limit us to half the battle ground. Our masters had given us all that we needed to rule over you till the end of time.

They gave us their brain. They gave us their cunning. They gave us their soullessness and heartlessness. We were taught never to forgive or forget and to yield not an inch in argument.

We were taught to be taciturn and not to allow infidels to read our mind or to know where we are headed to. It is called diplomacy. If you are on your way to Sokoto, tell your competitors, even your friends that you are on your way to Port Harcourt. It is duplicity. That is the name of the game. The game of self survival.

You have not seen anything yet. All the killings and slaughtering you have seen so far are mere child’s play. We are just testing the ground. We are test-

ing the waters. Unknown to you we have dug a great dish round your territories. We have encircled you, north, south, east and west. Wherever you turn to we are there. We are in your homes, on your roads, in your markets, in your neighbourhoods all over the land.

We did not learn okada riding for nothing. We are into every trade imaginable. We are itinerary tailors and shoe makers. We even sell water and bring it to your homes. I bet you you have seen nothing. It is AK47 you are seeing and getting jittery. We have pump action guns and propellers. Our stockpile of ammunitions is more than what you will find in the national armoury.

I have left you to continue blowing your big grammar. That is what you are known for. Your forbears spoke big English and yet we floored them any time they were foolish enough to want to wrest power from us. You think power flows from the bowel of grammar. As we speak you are still in the woods blowing grammar, organizing seminars, colloquiums, symposiums and workshops exhibiting empty intellectualism after we have collapsed the education system and frustrated the best brains in your midst.

Right now we are on the march again. We are going to overrun the entire landmass from north to south and east to west. We are going

to drive all of you into the sea while we occupy the whole space. It is a matter of time. And we are masters of patience. If it is going to take us 1000 years we do not care as long as we reach our goal.

Our methodology is to come in disguise. That was how our masters of old took over the whole world and established the greatest empire ever known to man. As big as India is, our masters from their tiny island brought her into their pocket.

We ask for your land to do our business. Within a small space of time we declare war on you and drive you away and occupy your land. We frighten, we terrorise, and we plunder and commit all sorts of atrocities because we believe that we are always above the laws of the land.

Who will dare challenge us? Who will dare night marauders?

We have no respect for other people’s religion because we ourselves merely pretend to be religious. We have used the cover of religion to commit many atrocities in the past and we are still using same.

I, Ogongorigo Gongomasha hereby publicly declare war. I shall impoverish all of you to the extent that you will be eating from the dustbin. I shall direct all my agents to ruin all your farms and famine shall take over the land. Wives will run away from their husbands and there will be no peace in your

homes. All your children will be withdrawn from schools and colleges because you can no longer pay school fees. Teachers will not be paid and schools and colleges will be shut down. The same fate awaits all hospitals in the land. People will be dying in thousands as a result of epidemics.

What you call kidnapping and armed robbery will be a child’s play when the real terrorism grips the land, your land.

I know you will resort to prayers.

That is what you are noted for apart from your big grammar. We continue to enslave you and this fellow or Supreme Being you call every day has not been able to deliver you from our systemic onslaught.

I am aware that you have hundreds of self determination groups, protesters, agitators and all sorts of clowns crying for independence.

You must be joking. The truth is you can never be united. Besides, our masters have taught us that we should forever retain all weapons of coercion and Intelligence. Where are your forces?

Ogongorigo Gongomasha continued his boast all night and said many provocative and unprintable words. The sum total of his rant was that he held all other people in the land in absolute contempt.

When I woke up it was the Harmattan dust I found on my bed!

Forex: Can CBN Sustain the Black Market Onslaught?

W Omoniyi Akinsiju

ith the dramatic appreciation of the Naira against the dollar and other major international currencies starting Monday, February 20, there had been shifty discomforts as expressed by many Nigerians despite the unrestrained excitement that greeted the impact of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) recently introduced foreign exchange policy reforms.

Four days after the take-off of the policy, the Naira, at the black market, appreciated exponentially by more than 4% from N525 to a dollar to N480 to a dollar. As at Tuesday, a dollar was exchanging for N445, with even greater prospect of appreciating further against the greenback.

Of course, the market response is a testimony to the multiple layers of measures rolled out by the CBN to salvage a hitherto savaged foreign exchange market where the local currency had been on a free fall, especially at the black market.

Expectedly, the naira had been severely pummelled in the forex segment of the economy in direct consequence of an acute shortage of organically sourced dollars and a slowed down flow of the greenback from foreign investors.

However, the CBN, had through

an insistence on managing the float of the Naira against other currencies sustained the naira/ dollar rate at N305 to a dollar at the interbank forex market. This had drawn different hues of flaks from some commentators who insisted on a free float of the Naira even as some other commentators rallied to the support of the CBN, defending the apex bank managed float of the country’s forex regime on basis of the lean foreign exchange earnings as a result of the combination of vastly reduced crude oil production and internationally compelled low price of crude oil.

Things started taking a perceptible turn for the good in November 2016 when militant activities in the oil producing Niger Delta area started petering out while the collaborative position of the OPEC and non OPEC member countries led by Russia, fired crude oil price over the $50 per barrel mark.

This was the needed elixir the Nigerian economy desperately needed, especially at a time inflation rate was looking runaway and productive activities were grounding to excruciatingly painful halt. Thankfully, the crude oil price spike and increased price provided the juice to the country’s dwindling foreign reserve which had been decimated to as low as $23billion. The reverse of fortune soon commenced the con-

sistent accretion to the foreign reserve. Within a twelve week period, starting November, 2016 to February, 2017, the foreign reserve added more than $8billion and hugged the $30billion psychological mark.

Apparently, this provided the impetus to the CBN to stream the ‘meet all demand’ measure. So now, the Personal and Business Travel Allowance that had hitherto had peripheral access to the foreign reserve, and payment of school fees plus medical treatment abroad were all brought in to banking circle thus vastly reducing the pressure points that led to the flourishing of the black market.

This is even as the CBN pumped more dollars into the interbank forex market at $6million daily intervention in the spot segment of the market. This compares with the miserly $1.5million daily intervention it used to undertake. This, combined with the clearing out of more than four billion dollar backlog of demand through its shorter 60 days maturing future market segment, were enough reasons for the Naira to start a sharp climb up against the dollar.

But now, a new concern seems to have emerged; can this new Naira virility be sustained? The first response to this is predicated on keeping the peace in the Niger Delta. It would seem the Federal Govern-

ment has been able to persuade the Niger Delta of its seriousness to dialogue and impact a developmental agenda in the area.

In the matter of sustaining this marginal oil price increase, there’s a growing international confidence that price of oil per barrel may hit the $60 mark. This is because critical stakeholders in the collaboration to cut down on oil between OPEC and non OPEC countries have started demanding for a push back of the six month due date for the expiration of the collaboration.

Iraq has been particularly loud in the call to extend the time period for scaling down national supplies for another six months with eyes set on $60 per barrel. Iraq is being joined by oil producing giant, Total, in this call. The prospect of this call being endorsed is said to be potent and so guarantees sustained high price.

As it were, it would seem this new forex regime is sustainable.

CBN decision to heavily fund the supply side of the forex market is truly a welcome policy, however, substantial credit should be ascribed to the emerging culture of transparency and integrity that is defining government responsibility and service delivery.

Akinsiju, Public Policy Analyst, writes from Abuja.

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Features

s Man chased by gun man moments after release from prison A 54-year-old miner, Alhaji Ibrahim Ibuoye last weekend in Lagos, escaped death by the whiskers moments after he was released from Ikoyi Prison.

The chairman/chief executive officer of GB Ibuoye Nigeria Limited, the Kwara State born businessman from Arado, Irepodun Local Government Area was arrested last Sunday

by Police operatives attached to zone 2 Onikan, Lagos, led by one Supt of Police Taofeek and was arraigned on Wednesday 15, 2017 on allegation of attempted kidnap and murder of an unnamed son of one Mr. Abraham Akanle.

It was gathered that though he was granted bail, the suspect could not fulfill the bail condition before Friday 17, 2017. Sources however said after regaining his freedom, he was furiously chased after and shot at by an unknown gunman right in front of Ikoyi prison, but the suspected assassin missed his target.

Narrating his ordeal in his hospital bed at Egbeda, in Lagos amid intense pains sustained while running for dear life, the visibly distraught miner traced his ordeal to his ex-business partner who, he claimed, trumped up the kidnap/murder attempt allegation against him following a petition he lodged with the EFCC on a N92 million royalty debt which his ex-business partner owes the federal government.

“I know the source of my travail; it is the handiwork of my ex-business partner,” he was quoted to have said, and gave more details: “I got to know one Mr. Abraham Akanle sometime in 2008 when I wanted to do some mining works at Ojo Barracks and he offered to assist me to procure a licence from the Ministry of Defence for the purpose. He requested for N15m as the total cost of procuring the licence which I gave to him and he was able to procure it. But when we wanted to start job at the Barracks, Military authorities prevented us on the ground that the documents we were parading were fake.

“Mr. Akanle, in the meantime, assured that he was going to ensure that I get my money back and promised to work out an alternative.

The following week, he came with a suggestion that we moved to Itele, a hilly site in Ogun State which belongs to former President Olusegun Obasanbjo, adding that it would not cost more than N3m to secure the site. And because I had worked near the area before, I agreed with him and gave him the money and shortly afterward, the approval came and we moved to the site and commenced job pending when he would get the papers from the Defence Ministry perfected, or make a refund of my money.”

They were making progress, Ibuoye said, until Akanle brought his wife into the picture as a partner and another Aremo Saheed Arowolo, said to be Omo onile who he claimed facilitated the approval of the site.

“He did not stop at that, he changed an earlier agreed sharing formula, started using my staff against me and even went further to ask that income realised from the mining be paid directly into his account while I be paid N10,000.00 daily on the ground that it was him that facilitated the approval to work on the site.

“I could not understand where that was coming from, so I reported the matter to those that

knew us and they tried without success to broker peace. I said that could not happen in my own company so I contacted one chief Demola Ikuforiji, a close friend of chief Obasanjo to come into the matter since it was on his land we were working, but that move was again truncated by Akanle.

“Things degenerated to a point in 2015 when I had to withdraw some of my loyal staff from the site because by this time, he had bought over some of my staff as well. I equally ordered that work at the site be stopped because we were operating in my company’s name and the royalty that was due to the federal government was not paid neither was I paid my due as well. He later connived with one of my staff, one Sunday Soguro and they petitioned the Police that I had a gun and that I was planning to kill him. I was arrested and taken to Idimu Police station but at the Area Commander’s office, I met other Policemen who claimed they were from zone 2 and that we were going to zone 2. It was at zone 2 that I was told that my offence was an attempted murder allegation.

“Initially, I was given the impression that I was being arrested on the order of chief Obasanjo and so, I called someone who is close to him to find out what my offence was and only for that man to call Mr. Akanle first to inform him of my travail and he was told that it was not chief Obasanjo who arrested me, that it was my staff whom I planned his assassination that petitioned the Police. But while investiga-

tion was on, God arrested the petitioner and he confessed that it was Mr. Akanle that commissioned him to lie against me.

“The Police wanted to charge the petitioner for false information but the same Akanle prevailed on them, also, using chief Obasanjo’s name. That was how I was left off that hook.”

On his present predicament, Ibuoye said it came up because sometime in 2016, “I received a letter from the Ministry of Mines and Steel that my company was indebted to the tune of N92m royalty to the federal government. I had to petition the EFCC that though the debt was actually incurred on my company’s name but that the money was set aside and lodged in Mr. Akanle’s account.

“The EFCC invited him but he did not go, so they went to his house and picked up his wife which forced him to show up. While the investigation was on, I was told that a senior Police officer of the rank of AIG called the chairman of EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu to discontinue the matter on the ground that Mr. Akanle was related to ex-President Obasanjo, but the same source also told me that Magu insisted that it was federal government’s money that was in contention and that the allegation has to be investigated.

“We were therefore asked to come back on a Wednesday of the week when Policemen stormed my house on a Sunday while I was having my breakfast and bundled me into their waiting van and taken to zone 2. It was at the

Police Station that I was told that Mrs. Taiwo Adenike Akanle petitioned against me that I wanted to kidnap and kill her son. That was after the Police had laid siege to my house and harassed my family for days when they couldn’t see me.

“At the court, eight lawyers including one from the Directorate of Public Prosecution DPP appeared against me and prayed that I should be committed to prison on the ground that I was a notorious kidnapper who, if allowed to move freely, will become more vicious. The Magistrate who sensed that there was a vested interest, told the lawyers that I was entitled to a bail and added that so many innocent persons had languished in jail on account of sine-die Pronouncement. She therefore, insisted on hearing the matter.

“However, I was to receive the shock of my life when I was called out on Friday that my bail condition had been met and that I should go. When I insisted that I wouldn’t leave until my relations show up, prison warders violently pushed me out, fueling speculation that all was not well.

“Outside the prison, I beheld some fierce looking persons and took to my heels while they chased after me and when I looked back, I identified my IPO Taofeek and other unknown persons running after me and I ran as fast as my legs could carry me, shouting for help. I scaled a fence and landed on my back in a compound and heard sporadic gunshots.

“It was the piece of broken bottles on the fence of the compound I scaled that cut my hands, pierced my stomach and tore my clothes into shreds. I lost my GSM handsets in the process. I was later rushed to a nearby hospital by sympathisers in that compound after I narrated to them that my life was in danger.

“As I speak to you now, my life is not safe; Mr. Akanle wants me dead so as to cover the track of the N92m he owed the federal government as well as the money he owes me. Presently, my Toyota corolla by which I drove to zone 2 is still being held because Mrs. Akanle alleged that it was the vehicle that I used in attempting to kidnap her child; that same child whose school fees I paid when they had no money.”

Lawyer to Alhaji Ibuoye, Mr. Destiny Takon who described the whole incident as sad, said he was taking the matter up with a view to ensuring that justice was done. “It is sad that here in Nigeria, we do the right thing for the wrong purpose and sometimes the wrong thing for the right purpose. That is the level our Police have degenerated to. I salute the courage of the Magistrate who smelt that there was a vested interest in the matter and granted my client bail. But I assure you that this will not be swept under the carpet because we are not in an anarchic nation.”

Speaking on the development, a senior police officer at Zone 2, who preferred anonymity, said that the matter should be better left for the courts to adjudicate upon, but maintained that Iluoye deserve justice in the face of persecution.

An aide to Akanle, who sought not to be named, claimed that his principal was innocent of the accusation proffered against him, but wished not to comment further.

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Crime

Sexual abuse: Group moves against the crime Joy Anyim Sexual violence against the girl child is one of the major issues plaguing the Nigerian society. According to some experts, the reasons the inhuman act is on the increase is due to the fact that many who have fallen victim in most cases, choose not to talk for fear of stigmatisation, among other reasons.

Recently in Lagos, relationship experts, who were concerned about the need for young people to toe the part of sexual purity once again, charged victims to speak out and access all the available options in getting the needed help from the society and relevant institutions set up to address the issue.

At a programme, tagged, ‘Singles Summit’, organised in Lagos, one of the keynote speakers, Dr. Princess Olufemi Kayode stated that molested persons needed support and care to overcome their trauma.

Olufemi, who is also the executive

director of Media Concern Initiative, noted that young people ought to be enlightened in sexual matters, which will also help remedy the decaying sexual values in the society She said, “ The truth is that our sexual attention differs from stage to stage; and this calls for the need to get things right at every stage. If the message about sexual purity can get across to youths and they intentionally accepts it, then, it will help remedy our society from the many sexual vices that abound. It is important to also state that children must be protected and not abused sexually.”

According to her, any who had been molested can seek help from God to get over the trauma or make themselves available for therapy, find resources and places, such as, NGOs. This, she said, is vital because silence kills.

Speaking further, she noted, “For example, in Lagos alone, there are many NGOs you can get help from and mine

is one of them. We opened the first rape crisis centre and we have treated over 30,000 cases of sexual of violence.”

Another speaker, Pastor Victor Olukoju, praised the organisers, saying that the strategy being adopted is to reach out to one person per time.

Pastor Victor, who is the founder of War Against Immorality Talks (WAIT), a Ghana-based NGO, said if the orientation of one person is changed as regards sexual issues, it could have a multiplier effect, and as such, l create positive impact in the communities.

He, however noted that, “On the issue of sexual violence, it may not be easy to completely eradicate it, but we can reduce it greatly. The fact remains that some girls don’t speak out. But I would want to say that there is help for anyone who have been violated or abused.

There is hope of a better future regardless of what may have happened.”

The clergyman also called on Nigerian youths to look far above the pres-

ent situation and make choices with the future at heart.

He said, “This generation is waiting for that youth that knows the reason for his or her existence. Most achievers we see today achieved when they were young, they had a direction in life.

But today, the case is different, as most of our young people don’t have focus.

They just copy the what they see abroad without thinking of how to cave a niche for themselves.”

He said,”I want to encourage Nigerian youths that this is the time to remember their creator and make up their mind on what they would want to be remembered for when they are no more. We need to have a rethink, let’s forget about fraud and even other vices, like cultism.”

Explaining the motive behind the summit, Rebecca Olurunkomi, the convener, said the summit was inspired due to her passion for impacting lives.

Shedding more light on the vision of the event, which had been operating since 2011, she said, “The vision is to sensitize singles and even married persons. It’s not just about the ladies, but the men too. Since the family is the cell unit of the society, I strongly believe that if the family is okay, the society will be okay too.”

Olorunkomi said, “The government cannot do everything, change begins with me. If I don’t practice corruption in the little I’m doing, definitely, when I get to the top, I also won’t practice it.

Nigerian youth should stand up, get busy even of it means learning a trade.

We just have to start affecting lives positively.

She added,”It isn’t necessarily about having money at hand, all you need do is to conceive the idea, write it down, run with it and money will come.”

Owoseni absolves Police in suspect’s death in dention Joy Anyim The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni has denied the alleged killing of a robbery suspect, Atonsuyi Ifesolapo, in detention by men of the Area A Police command, Lion Building, Lagos.

Whilev washing the hands of his officers and men from the act,Owoseni, however, said that the deceased committed suicide by hanging himself using his shirt as a rope, which he tied to the ceiling while in the cell.

It could be recalled that the 22 year-old man, who was a gospel musician, reportedly died on Saturday at the police post under the Area A Command.

It was learnt that Ifedolapo was arrested by the police for allegedly stealing a phone from

one Mrs. Idris Adewale, who worships in the same church with the deceased.

The Daily Times gathered that the owner of the phone had sent him to the bank and also to buy her food, but in order to be certain that he has done the transfer of the money, he requested for his phone number for verification.

The deceased was said to have told Mrs. Idris that he didn’t have a phone; and to ensure that Ifedayo reached her, she had given him her i-phone to use.

However, Ifedolapo had alleged that he had lost the phone in a tricycle while returning from the bank. Mrs. Idris, who was shocked, had called her husband to intervene; and upon interrogating Ifedayo, he had allegedly confessed to have sold the phone.

The husband said, “When I got to the church where my wife and the boy were, I asked him to tell me the truth, the phone for N120,000. He begged me not to tell his father and the elders of the church. I later told his father, who insisted that we should take him to the police station.

“I even told the father to discuss with the investigating police officer on how they will repay us for the phone, which is worth over N400,000. After which I left.

“I was however supposed to hear of his death. People were even saying I had bribed the police to kill him. What will be my benefit if I do so?. In fact, his father has even seen him at about 8 am same day before he committed suicide.”

The Commissioner, however, stated that the deceased father

had threatened to hand the deceased over to the Special AntiRobbery Squad of the Lagos, before he left; and shortly after, the deceased was found dead.

On his part, father of the deceased, Pastor Gabriel Atonsuyi said that the owner of the phone, said to be worth about N200,000, had allegedly engaged some miscreants to torture his son before he was handed over to the police.

He said: “My son said the phone got lost, but the owner insisted he sold it. When I met with him on Saturday morning in the cell, he showed me the injuries inflicted on his body by some boys before he was handed over to the Jankara Police Post. He said the phone actually got lost, but the torture made him to confess. I have agreed to pay for a refund of the money.”

He said,“Around 3pm on Saturday, while I was trying to get him food, I was called to come and see the Divisional Police Officer, Adeniji Adele Division, for a settlement. On getting there, I was told to wait for the complainant. The DPO later took me to the Area Commander in Lion Building, who told me Ifedolapo was dead.

He said he committed suicide.

But, he was murdered. He had no reason to commit suicide.”

According to him,“He was a gospel musician; and was easy going. He had put some lyrics together and he was supposed to produce them by Easter. Now, they have truncated his vision.”

The Commissioner, however said that investigations have been launched into the death of Ifedayo and that autopsy will be carried out on the deceased.

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FIRE BRAND RESTORATION PRAYER MINISTRY

BIKERS WITH ATTITUDE AND DETERMINATION INITIATIVE

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

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

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

THE TRUSTEE ARE: 1. LADY EVANG. AMOLE JANET MOJISOLA - CHAIRMAN 2. REV. AGBOOLA MICHAEL GBADEBO - VICE CHAIRMAN 3. DEACONESS UYIEKPEN JULIET ODION - GENERAL SECRETARY 4. PASTOR ADELEKE SIMEON MOSUNMOLA - TREASURER 5. MR JOSEPH SEGUN - FINANCIAL SECRETARY 6. PASTOR ADEDOYIN DAVID OLUWAGBENGA - MEMBER 7. EVANG.AMOLE OLUWATOYIN TIMOTHY - MEMBER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO WIN SOUL FOR CHRIST 2. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. NKECHI DURU JULIET 2. EMEKA ELEMA 3. EKENE THANKGOD ODi 4. ANDREW CHINEDU DURU 5. OGBUGO HILLARY CHUKWUKA

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ADEDAMOLA SOLANKE - CHAIRMAN 2. Muhammad-Aminu Aliyu - SECRETARY 3. OLADIPUPO OGUNTAYO 4. OLUSEGUN SOLANKE 5. KENNETH OJEH 6. JIDE JEJE

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

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

THE TRUSTEE ARE: 1. LADY EVANG. AMOLE JANET MOJISOLA - CHAIRMAN 2. REV. AGBOOLA MICHAEL GBADEBO - VICE CHAIRMAN 3. DEACONESS UYIEKPEN JULIET ODION - GENERAL SECRETARY 4. PASTOR ADELEKE SIMEON MOSUNMOLA - TREASURER 5. MR JOSEPH SEGUN - FINANCIAL SECRETARY 6. PASTOR ADEDOYIN DAVID OLUWAGBENGA - MEMBER 7. EVANG.AMOLE OLUWATOYIN TIMOTHY - MEMBER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO WIN SOUL FOR CHRIST 2. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRSCOMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJAWITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: GENERAL SECRETARY.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. To preach the gospel of our lord Jesus Christ

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROMOTE PEACE AND UNITY AMONG MEMBERS.

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

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

Signed by Secretary

SIGNED: TRUSTEES.

STEAM EMPOWERMENT FOUNDATION

AUTO SPARE PARTS AND MACHINERY DEALERS ASSOCIATION (ASPMDA) – IT/NO.4250 CHANGE OF TRUSTEES AND AMENDMENT OF CONSTITUTION The general public is hereby notified that the above-named Association is seeking for Change of its Trustees and Amendment of its entire Constitution under Part ‘C’ the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2004. a. OLD TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Alhaji Ade Salami.

-Retained 2. Mr Charles Okafor.

3. Alh. A. O. Oshunkoya.

-Removed 4. Mr. Ezulike.

5. Mr. Cashumia Ifekwem. -Removed NEW ELECTED TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OKAFOR DANIEL CHUKWUEMEKA 3. EZECHILUE ONYEAMACHI 5. GARUBA MABAYOMIJE KAYODE

-Removed - Removed

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 trustee names are : 1. Bisi Ozo-onyali (Chairman) 2. Folashade Odewale (Secretary) 3. Ifeanyi Ozo-onyali Member.

4. Ifeoma Ikirigbe- Member.

2. EBEKU NNAMDI INNOCENT 4. EGWUATU JOSSY

REASONS FOR THE CHANGE OF TRUSTEES; The trustees were removed as a result of relocation out of the vicinity of the organization as they no longer reside in the State and are no longer available for the work and activities of the association and they do not attend meetings of the association anymore.

AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION: The entire constitution was amended REASON FOR THE AMENDMENT: The entire Constitution was amended as a result of expansion and various development that has occurred in the Association in order to better streamline its management and structure in line with its ideals and current membership, executive composition, administration and day to day running of the work/programmes of the Association with focus on its aims, objectives, aspirations and support for its members interests in line with current trends and to better position the Association.

Any objection to theses change should be forwarded to the Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 240, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiy Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days from the date of this publication.

Aims and Objectives 1. To build the concept of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts &Crafts and Mathematics into our children in Nigeria in an informal manner from a tender age.

Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, P.M.B. 198, Garki, Abuja within Twenty-Eight (28) days from the date of this publication.

Signed Nneka Offiah Esq

Signed: Kehinde Yekeen Esq. solicitor

REMILEKUN AMOS INTERNATIONAL GOSPEL MINISTRY

FULL SUCCESS ASSEMBLY

CARING MIRACLE MISSION

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

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

Names of Trustees: 1. Amos Olalekan Samuel.

2. Amos Olakunle Emmanuel.

3. Thompson Tobi Kayode.

4. Amos Olajide Samson.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Asuquo Martin Bassey - President 3. Sampson Akaninyene John - Secretary 5. Akpan Ekpenyong Sunday 7. Essien Esther Okon - Treasurer 9. Asuqkwo Slyvanus Bassey

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Pastor Ebong, Paul Charles 2. Pastor Mrs. Ebong, Blessing Paul 3. Mr. James, Luke Christopher 4. Mrs. Friday, Eno-obong Nsikan 5. Mr. Henry Nealbrown Henry

Aims and objectives.

1. To preach the gospel of our lord jesus Christ.

2. To care for the 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, P.M.B. 198, Garki, Abuja within Twenty-Eight (28) days from the date of this publication.

Signed: Toye Owoeye suite 40, Area 2, Shopping Complex, Garki Abuja.

Tel: 08033684861, 08023410144.

2. Asuquo Mercy Martin 4. Bassey Elijah Martin 6. Umana Edem Ibanga 8. Udom Udom Solomon

AIMS/OBJECTIVE: 1. To preach the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

Signed: Asuquo Martin Bassey

EKA EME FOUNDATION

SAVED BY GRACE PEOPLE ASSEMBLY

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

The general public is hereby notified that the above named has applied for registration with the Corporate Affairs Commission Abuja , Under Part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matter Act 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Essien, Jimaimah Jimmy 2. Essien, Andikan Nsima 3. Essien, Glory Jimaimah 4. Mary Obot Udoh 5. Ebong, Ekere Morgan

THE TRUSTEES ARE:-

AIMS/OBJECTIVE: 1. To provide financial support to widows and orphans in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria and the world at large.

1. APOSTLE NYIZE REGINALD EZEKWESILI OKECHUKWU -FOUNDER / PRESIDENT. 2. MR. NDUBUISI NWAONYEOCHA - SECRETARY. 3. PASTOR (MRS) REGINALD SALOME - TREASURER. 4. EVANGELIST IKECHUKWU DIMKPA - MEMBER. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:1. To preach the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

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

Signed: CHAIRMAN

Signed. PRESIDENT.

AIMS/OBJECTIVE: 1. To preach the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

Signed: CHAIRMAN. DIVINE BLESSING TRANSFORMATION CHURCH OF TRINITY IJO IBUKUN ATUNLUSE ATOKE WA TI METALOKAN 69/71, SOLOMON AKINTOYE STREET, AKINTOYE PALACE, BODE OLUDE, ABEOKUTA, OGUN STATE. The general public is hereby notified that the above named has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

THE TRUSTEE ARE 1.

Primate Dr. Solomon Olawale Akintoye (JP) – Chairman and General Overseer 2.

Evangelist Samuel Oluyomi Adegunle – Secretary 3.

Pastor Samuel Oluwadamilare Akintoye – Member 4.

Sister Olabisi Yetunde Akintoye –Member AIMS& OBJECTIVE: 1.

To work in line with God’s directives through dreams, vision and prophecy 2.

To find a lasting solution to Nigerians problems through God intervention 3.

To wage war against Satan and its agents and bring perfect peace to the world 4.

Rainbow is the inscription of the church worldwide 5.

Create job opportunity, establish school, industries and open micro credit bank for church member to have access to soft loans 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: Primate Dr. S.O Akintoye (JP) Chairman

GOLDEN 20 ASSOCIATION

FRIENDS EMPIRE BUILDING CLUB

GRACE FOR EXCELLENCE FAITH MINISTRY

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE:(1) ONONUJU CHUX -CHAIRMAN (2) BARR MADUBUKO PETER ONWUZULIKE

-SECRETARY

THE AIMS & OBJECTIVES ARE:(1) PROMOTE SOCIAL AND BUSINESS RELATION AMONG MEMBERS (2) ENGAGE IN SOCIAL AND CHARITABLE WORKS (3) PROMOTE TOLERANCE AND RESPECT AMONG PERSONS OF DIVERSE SOCIAL BACKGROUND, WORKS AND/OR RELIGION Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama Abuja within 28 days from the date of this publication .

SIGNED BY : BARR. FRANCA OKAFOR(MRS)

THE TRUSTEES ARE:1. Anyichie Julie Nwaka 2. Oguno Geraldine Chinelo THE AIMS/OBJECTIVES ARE:1. To establish a volunteer social club for the welfare and benefit of members.

2. To build a united network of volunteers who voluntarily contribute and invest for the benefit and welfare of the members.

3. To engage in activities that will be of social and economic benefit to the members.

4. To bring to the attention of and make accessible to members a wide range of activities to meet the varying budget of all the members, Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama Abuja within 28 days from the date of this publication SIGNED BY : Signed by Ehirim Barbara Uche Esq (Mrs)

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Okolo Benjamin Peter (President) 2. Okolo Benjamin Mary (Secretary).

3. Adesegun Abayomi Ifeanyichukwu AIMS & OBJECTIVES: 1. To preach the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2. To win souls for 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

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GODFREY ENYERIBE UZOMA FOR THE FAMILY: PUTING CAVEAT/ NOT FOR SALE IN THE PROPERTY OF LATE PATRICK NSOAGBARA UZOMA, PROPERTIES’S ADDRESSES 1. NO7, LEACH STREET, EZIUKWU ABA, ABIA STATE, 2. NO 82, UMULE ROAD, ABA , ABIA STATE. AMAZING CHRISTLIFE CHURCH THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED MINISTRY HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE. 1) APOSTLE. NWACHUKWU IFEANYI EMMANUEL 2) PASTOR. NWACHUKWU KATHERINE OLUCHUKWU 3) BRO. NWACHUKWU JOSHUA CHIMNEDUM 4) PST. ONUOHA LAWRENCE OBINNA 5) BRO. ONYEJI KELECHI KENNEDY AIM AND OBJECTIVE 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF 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: APOSTLE NWACHUKWU IFEANYI EMMANUEL

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JESUS DIVINE GLORY & FIRE MINISTRY

ANTHONY OKOLIE INITIATIVE FOR YOUTH DEVELOPMENT

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

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE. 1) PASTOR. ISAIAH EFEURHOBO OKORO (GENERAL OVERSEER) 2) MRS. ROSE ISAIAH OKORO 3) PASTOR. ERICSON DURHIE 4) MRS. HELEN OBUKADETA

THE TRUSTEES ARE. 1) OKOLIE IFEANYI ANTHONY 2) OJUGBANA MOSES ( SECRETARY) 3) DAVID OGBUEWU 4) NGOZI OKOLIE AIM AND OBJECTIVE 1. TO PROMOTE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMS

AIM AND OBJECTIVE 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF 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: PASTOR. ISAIAH EFEURHOBO OKORO

(GENERAL OVERSEER)

ST CHARLES SPECIAL SCIENCE SCHOOL ONITSHA OLD BOYS ASSOCIATION, CLASS OF 1996 THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED ASSOCIATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE. 1) CHUKELU CHUKWUDI JUDE (PRESIDENT) 2) OJUKWU IFEANYI CHRIS ( VICE PRESIDENT) 3) ANANTI JOHN EGBUNIKE ( SECRETARY) 4) OKOYE FRANCIS NNAMDI ( MEMBER) 5) IWUORAH CHUKWUMA STANLEY (MEMBER) 6) OFODUM OBINNA BONAVENTURE (MEMBER) 7) NWOKOYE EMMANUEL CHIKWELU (MEMBER) 8) OKEKE MADUABUCHUKWU JOHN ( MEMBER) 9)OFFOR CALLISTUS CHIJIOKE (MEMBER) AIM AND OBJECTIVE 1. TO PROMOTE UNITY AMONG MEMBERS ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

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

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. DR BEN AYENE--CHAIRMAN 2. MR CHRISTOPHER OGBONNA--SECRETARY 3. MR JEDIDIA AYO MAKINDE 4. MRS PHILOMINA OSHOKE UGWUOKE 5. MR JETSON CHIBUISI NWANKWO 6. MS ABIMBOLA JUNAID 7. MR EARL UGOCHUKWU OKEZIE THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1.

TO CREATE AWARENESS ON THE IMPORTANCE FOR THE DEVLOPMENT INITIATIVES, NEEDS AND PROJECTS IN THE SOCIETY. 2.

TO BE THE VANGUARD OF SOCIAL/CIVIL EDUCATION FOR DEVELOPMENT NEEDS AND PROJECTS 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.

SIGNED: CHUKELU CHUKWUDI JUDE (PRESIDENT )

YOUTHS FOR CHRIST FELLOWSHIP

SAPPHIRE FOUNDATION FOR THE EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN IN AFRICA

HOLY GHOST LIGHT OF GOD SALVATION CHURCH

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.

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

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. PROPHET JACKSON OTABOR 3. IKOGHO FRIDAY 5. OBAKPOLOR ANGELINA 7. OKORO GODSPOWER

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1- Olowookere Simon Oluwabunmilola 3- Alonge Olatunji Benjamin 5- Olowookere Opeyemi Olusola

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Jennifer Okhianosen Osuide (President) 2. Michelle Ijeoma Eze (Secretary) 3. Omaojor Ogedoh 4. Christiana Edili Osuide 5. Mary-Ann Irete Akujobi 6. Joshua Ehizuele Arabome THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE : 1. To rehabilitate victims of gender based violence.

2. To empower women through capacity building.

3. To instill values in youth that will aid in the actualisation of gender equity.

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 : Amani Ayuba, Esq.

THE FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC ADO-EKITI ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. 1994-1996 SET

2. PASTOR GODDAY ANOKA 4. GLORY OTABOR 6. CHIDINMA ANOKA

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE : 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST TO ALL NATIONS. 2. TO CARRY OUT EVANGELISM AND REVIVAL ACTIVITIES AMONG BELIEVERS AND ALL THE CHILDREN OF GOD. 3. TO ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE FULL GOSPEL MINISTRY THROUGH CHURCH PLANTING, HOSPITALS, SCHOOLS AND MISSIONS IN NIGERIA AND ANY PART OF THE WORLD THE SPIRIT OF GOD LEADS US. 4. TO PRINT, PUBLISH AND DISTRIBUTE CHRISTIAN LITERATURE AND MATERIALS. 5. TO TRAIN, ORDAIN AND CONSECRATE BISHOPS, APOSTLES, PASTORS, EVANGELIST, MISSIONARIES, PROPHETS, CHURCH MINISTERS, TEACHERS AND HEALTH WORKERS. 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: ALIEMEKE EWELEN ESQ

THE FRAGRANCE PLACE INTERNATIONAL CHURCH

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

The general public is hereby notified that the above named has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. AGAGBO JOHNSON IKPORHO - CHAIRMAN 2. OSHUNMAKINDE MAYOKUN ALEX - SECRETARY 3. ADEPOJU EIREMIOKHAE MABEL - MEMBER 4. AYOOLA IMONIKHE VICTOR - MEMBER

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ZELIBE CHUKWUKA JOSEPH - PRESIDENT 2. ZELIBE SAMUEL CHIABOM 3. NWAJEI RICHARD - SECRETARY

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1.

TO PROVIDE AN ASSOCIATION FOR ITS MEMBERS. 2.

TO CARTER FOR THE WELFARE OF ITS MEMBERS.

The aim and objective: 1. To preach the gospel of Christ

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.

Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the RegistrarGeneral of Corporate Affairs Commission Maitama Abuja within 28 days of this publication

SIGNED: SECRETARY

CHRISTIAN CITY OF ROYALS INT’L ASSEMBLY The general public is hereby notified that the above named has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Pastor lsaac Ameh.

2. Janet Abdul 3. Ayeh David .

4. Daniel Joseph.

The aim and objectives: 1. To preach the gospel to the world.

SIGNED: Barr. Ani Jacqueline

ANSAR -UD-DEEN GRAMMAR SCHOOL SURULERE OLD STUDENTS ASSOCIATION THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC), ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1.Alh. Abdul Lateef Olanrewaju Bakare 2.Dr.Babatunde Alli Masha 3. Mr. Sunday Job THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE : 1.To promote welfare of members.

2.To promote the well-being of the school.

2- Owoeye Elisha Olatunji 4- Akande Oseniyi Emmanuel 6- Ologundudu Mayowa Eunice 7- Balogun Rhoda Modupe

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. To be a witness unto Jesus Christ by reaching the unreached with the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2. To organize Gospel crusades, youth empowerment and entrepreneurial trainings and outreaches to schools, prisons, hospitals.

3. To establish a charity home to serve the needy and for the rehabilitation of young drug addicts.

4. To sponsor free health talk and medical services to the poor, to give financial support to the less privileged and to provide for the welfare of orphans, widows and elderly persons.

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

BETTER GREEN YOUTH INITIATIVE FOR PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT The general public is hereby notified that the above named has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Ndayuwarda Bulus Garba 3. Dzarma Sinabiji Paul 5. Samuel Ishaku 7. Hedima Luka Usman 9. Ahudati Samaila Ahmed

2. Nuhu Musa 4. Magai Abubakar Suleman 6. John Tumba 8. Joel Usman 10. Thomas Jatau

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. Youth empowerment through agriculture, vocational skills acquisition, social networking for improved standard of living 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: Barr Joe Okete Suite A31, Emab plaza Wuse 11 Abuja 08104548409 , 08056439630

GOSPEL HUB WORD CHURCH

The general public is hereby notified that the above named has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Iwuchukwu Jason Obinna - President 2. Ugoh Ogadinma Kingsley - Secretary 3. Okechukwu Stanley Chinedu 4. Uwandu Douglas Ndubuisi The aim and objective: 1. To preach the gospel of Christ

Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General of Corporate Affairs Commission Maitama Abuja within 28 days of this publication

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.

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: SECRETARY

SIGNED : SECRETARY

SIGNED: Barr. Ani Jacqueline

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THE WORLD CHRIST CHURCH The general public is hereby notified that the above named has applied to corporate Affairs commission for change of trustees under the Companies and allied matters Act. THE OLD TRUSTEES ARE 1. PASTOR KELVIN C NJOKU 2. PASTOR (MRS) NGOZI H NJOKU 3. PATRON CHRISTAIN N NWAGIRI 4. SENIOR EVANGELIST ANAYOCHI I EKEH

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE : (1). EVANG. DESMOND GABRIEL - CHAIRMAN (2). PASTOR EVELYN DESMOND (3). MR. JONATHAN EMENE (4). MR. CHRISTIAN CHUKWUGBOGU OKAFOR.

THE NEW TRUSTEES ARE 1. PASTOR KELVIN C ONYEKWERE CHUKWU 2. PASTOR (MRS) NGOZI H CHUKWU 3. PASTOR AMADA OKON EDET 4. EVANGELIST CHIMA MICHAEL CHUKWU 5. EVANGELIST SAMUEL IKECHUKWU CHUKWU 6. EVANGELIST OGBU AMADI

AIMS/OBJECTIVES :

Aims and objectives of the church remains the same.

Any objection to the change of trustees should be forwarded to the Registrar general, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja, within 28 days of this publication.

SIGNED; TRUSTEES

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 FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION.

TRUSTEES ARE: 1.PROPHET ONIPEDE PETER OLADUNJOYE. 2. APOSTLE ADEWALE ADEBAYO OLATUNDE. 3.ELDER OLUKAYODE ARIYO. 4. MR SURAJU ALAUSA 5.PROPHET DADA OGUNKOYA. 6.MRS OLUWAFUNMITO KEMI ODUMOSU. 7.MR GABRIEL ENIOLA 8.MRS YUSUF AYANJOKE ELIZABETH- SECRETARY 9.DEACON LUKE OLAMIDE YUSUF. Aims and Objective 1. To preach and practise the word of God according to the Holy Scriptures.

2.Teaching literacy and other educational skills in charitable or other religious institutions.

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 from the date of this publication Signed : Trustees

PUBLIC NOTICE

MANAAL-RAHMAH CHARITABLE ORGANISATION

THIS IS TO NOTIFY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAME ASSOCIATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION TO BE REGISTERED UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

TRUSTEES: MR TIJANI YUSUF FOWOROLA PRESIDENT MR ABDULHAKEEM JAMIU SECRETARY MR SOLIU ISMAIL JEJELAIYE MEMBER MR ZAKARIYYA YUSUF OLASUNKANMI MEMBER MR ABDULHAMEED ISIAK ODEBODE MEMBER OBJECTIVES: PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND OTHER SUPPORTS TO THE LESS PRIVILEGE IN THE SOCIETY PROVIDING FOR WIDOWS AND TAKING CARE OF ORPHANS AND ENSURING THEY HAVE PROPER ISLAMIC EDUCATION PROVIDING QUALITY EDUCATION FOR MUSLIM YOUTHS AND ADULTS PROVISION OF SOUND UNDERSTANDING OF ISLAMIC DAWAH ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION

This is to inform the general public that the above named Ministry has applied for registration to Corporate Affairs Commission under part “c” of the companies and Allied Matters Act No: 1 of 1990 THE TRUSTEES ARE: Evangelist Odunoye Olayinka Oladimeji Evangelist Olutusin Oludare Yusuf Mrs. Olutusin Tomilola Elizabeth AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Available to help the populace in the area of Health Empowerment, education, love to widows, orphans and prayers.

To preach the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ To set captive free through prayers and deliverance.

Any objective 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 by EVANGELIST ODUNOYE OLAYINKA OLADIMEJI – (PRESIDENT)

KING AUGUSTINA SEKYEN

CALLED HUSSAINA SAMAILA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AS KING AUGUSTINA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESS AS KING AUGUSTINA SEKYEN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. FIRST BANK AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESS AS USAINA SAMAILA, NOW WISH TO BE CALLED HUSSAINA SAMAILA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, FIRST BANK, U.B.A AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD NOTE.

ODU ANTHONY CLERGY

ANAYO IKELUKA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS ODU ANTHONY ASU, NOW WISH TO BE CALLED, ODU ANTHONY CLERGY, ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESS AS ANAYO IKE, NOW WISH TO BE CALLED ANAYO IKELUKA, CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 19/11/1976 AND NOT 20/4/1981, FIDELITY BANK AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

KAYODE BABATUNDE RUFUS

OPEFEYIJIMI OLATUNDE SAMUEL I, formerly known and addressed as OPEFEYIMI OLATUNDE GBENGA SHOLA, now wish to be known and addressed as OPEFEYIJIMI OLATUNDE SAMUEL All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as TUNDE KAYODE ADEFEMI, now wish to be known and addressed as KAYODE BABATUNDE RUFUS. All former documents remain valid.

General public should please take note.

SAKA MODUPE LATEEFAH

OLOHITARE EUNIE EDEH

I formerly known as and addressed as AROWOLO MODUPE LATEEFAH, now wish to be addressed as SAKA MODUPE LATEEFAH. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as AMU OLOHITARE EUNICE, now wish to be known and addressed as OLOHITARE EUNIE EDEH. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

This is to inform the general public that the above named has applied for Registration with the Corporate Affairs Commission under part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matter Act 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE : (1). ALEGEH MOJISOLA SONIA (2). IBE PATRICK ONWUKWE (3). JIMOH MUNIRAT ADEMUNI. 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 from the date of this publication.

IGBOLOGUN, IGBO ESE YORE, IGBOSU PARAPO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION This is to inform the general public that the above named Ministry has applied for registration to Corporate Affairs Commission under part “c” of the companies and Allied Matters Act No: 1 of 1990 TRUSTEES 1. BOLARINWA OLALEKAN KAMORU........CHAIRMAN 2. BOLARINWA OLANIRAN LATEEF.....SECRETARY 3.IBIKUNLE ALIU SEIDI 4. SURA FATAI AYINDE 5.FASASI GBOLADON 6. BALOGUN ALIASAU AREMU 7. ALLI MOSHOOD BABATUNDE 8. GBADABIU TEBU AKINDELE 9. JINADU TAIWO 10. TIAMIU MUFUTAUDEEN ALANI AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. To foster and strengthen the bonds of unity among the people of Igbologun, Igbo Ese Yore and Igbosu community 2. To contribute to the development and welfare of Igbologun, Igbo ESE Yore and Igbosu community 3. To preserve, protect and promote the diverse cultures and traditions of the community of Igbologun. Igbo Ese yore and Igbosu Any objective 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 BOLARINWA OLANIRAN LATEEF.....SECRETARY

SIGNED A.O YEKINI ESQ

ODUNOYE OLAYINKA EVANGELICAL MINISTRY

CHERISH TRUTH INT’L FIRE MINISTRY

SIGNED : THE TRUSTEES.

SIGNED : THE TRUSTEES.

CHRIST REDEMPTION EVANGELICA MINISTRY ALADURA This is to inform the general public that the above named has applied for Registration with the Corporate Affairs Commission under part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matter Act 1990.

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OWANI COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION

This is to inform the general public that the above named Ministry has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission, Abuja for Registration under Part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

This is to inform the general public that the above named has applied for Registration to corporate Affairs Commission under Part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act NO1 of 1990.

TRUSTEES 1.Pastor Godswill Dickson 2.Bro. Ime Vincent Udoh 3. Pastor (mrs) Isabel Godswill 4.Elder Udoh Friday 5. Elder Joseph Chukwuma Okoro 6. Elder George Akpapan 7.Pastor Job Omolaiye

Trustees Are: Prince Nathaniel Oloyede Atewogboye Dr. Tunji Adepeju Mr. Victor Aayooluwa Barr. Dotun Owanikin Prof. Harrison Oloruntade Longe Olori Funmilayo Olateru-Olagbegi Chief Adekunle Filani

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.To preach the gospel of our lord Jesus Christ 2. To undertake missionary and evangelistic work in Nigeria and the whole world 3. To organize seminars, conferences, workshops on Christians faith related matters 4. To reconcile man back to God 5. To help the poor and the needy in the church.

Any objection to the Registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General,Corporae Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Togris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Sreet, Maitama Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To establish and implement protocols for harmonious and peaceful co-existence among all the willing inhabitants of Owani Communities in line with current best practices.

To develop vehicles for galvanizing resources for the social, cultural and economic development of the communities.

To attract the attention and intervention of governmental and non-governmental organization towards the issue requiring organized attention and resolution within and around the communities.

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

Signed: Secretary

Signed – Secretary

BALKISU DANTATA I FORMERLY KNOWN AS RIFKATU JOSHUA, NOW WISH TO BE CALLED BALKISU DANTATA, ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC NOTE.

UMAR ADAMU SALLAMA I FORMERLY KNOWN AS UMAR ADAMU, NOW WISH TO BE CALLED UMAR ADAMU SALLAMA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, FIRST BANK AND GENERAL PUBLIC NOTE.

SAMAILA ADAMU I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESS AS ADAMU SAMAILA GALADIMA NOW WISH TO BE CALLED, SAMAILA ADAMU, ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC NOTE.

Chairman Vice Chairman General Secretary Treasurer Member Member Member

CALLED SAKINA MUHAMMAD AKUYAM

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS SAKINA KABIR MUHAMMAD, NOW WISH TO BE CALLED SAKINA MUHAMMAD AKUYAM, ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC NOTE.

OBETTA NKEIRUKA PATIENCE

FADA MOH’D S

ANGELA VIOLET AJA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS ANIVUNGU ISAIAH AZA, NOW WISH TO BE CALLED ANIVUNGU AZA, N_POWER , U.B.A AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN. AND ADDRESS AS AMADIFE NKEIRUKA PATIENCE, NOW WISH TO BE CALLED OBETTA NKEIRUKA PATIENCE, ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MUHAMMAD SARKI FADA. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FADA MOH’D S. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS SHOULD REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITIES CONCERNED AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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CHIOMA NKEIRUKA FATUBARO

ELIZABETH IYABODE OJELEKE

ALAKE APATA OLUWAYOMI OLUMUYIWA

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OLUYEDUN AMINAT ATINUKE

BEREBON BLESSING

CHINYERE NJOKU

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I, formerly known and addressed as CHINYERE ODIKANWA AMAREAGBU, now wish to be known and addressed as CHINYERE NJOKU. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

MRS. GRACE OLUSEYI SOGAOLU-OMOLE

ANIVUNGU AZA

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AHMED OLANREWAJU GBADAMOSI

xx CONFIRMATION OF NAME This is to confirm and certify that ABEBI OLUWAKEMI AJOKE is same person as OGUNMOLA OLUWAKEMI AJOKE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

ADEKUNLE ADEWALE OSHINOWO

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AFOLABI- ADISA OLUWABUNMI

MRS. UCHE PATIENCE AKUSOBI

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UWAZURIKE CHIEMELA PRECIOUS

MRS. BOSE AKINWALE-AYENI

KADIRI EMMANUEL

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I, formerly known and addressed as FELIX EMMANUEL, now wish to be known and addressed as KADIRI EMMANUEL. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

CORRECTION OF NAME

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ATUBI PRISCA CHINYEAKA

MRS RUKAYAT AJOKE ROBERT

CORRECTION OF NAME

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ADIJAT AKINOLA MUDASHIRU

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This is to inform the general public that my name was mistakenly written on as RASAQ MUHAMMED ABIOLA instead of ASHIPA MUHAMMED ABIOLA. My correct name is ASHIPA MUHAMMED ABIOLA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

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PETER HEDOKENGBE DASI

MATTI LUKMAN

YUSUF BINTA TITILAYO

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OLEWUNNE IJEOMA AUGUSTINA

ADEJOH COMFORT OJOMASHEUN

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SUNDAY OLUMIDE SAMSON

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

CHIMDI HENRY EZECHIDI

UKA NNEOMA SAMUEL I, formerly known and addressed as SAMUEL NNENNA UKA, now wish to be known and addressed as UKA NNEOMA SAMUEL. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

FETUGA MORUF KEMI

This is to confirm and certify that OBIAJULU NNEKA and OBIAJULU AUGUSTINA NNEKA is one and same person but now wishes to be known and addressed as OBIAJULU AUGUSTINA NNEKA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as CHIMDI HENRY EBIKAM, now wish to be known and addressed as CHIMDI HENRY EZECHIDI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

MAKINDE AZEEZ ADEBAYO

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ANUOLUWAPO O. OMOYIBO

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Formerly known and addressed as Anuoluwapo O. Oguntuase, now wish to be known and addressed as Anuoluwapo O. Omoyibo. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

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MRS MOGBADUNOLA JANET TIJANI Formerly known and addressed as MISS MOGBADUNOLA JANET ADEBOYE, now wish to be known and addressesd as MRS MOGBADUNOLA JANET TIJANI. All former documents remain valid.

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ADEWUNMI ADEBOLA. A. Formerly known and addressed as ADEWUMI ADEBOLA ALEXANDRA, now wish to be known and addressed as ADEWUNMI ADEBOLA. A. All former documents remain valid.

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DANLAMI SAULIS I FORMERLY KNOWN AS SAULIS DANLAMI MAILERE NOW WISH TO BE CALLED, DANLAMI SAULIS, FIRST BANK AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

My name was wrongly written as UDEFIX OBINNA instead of UDEFULA OBINNA REMIGUS. My correct date of birth is 15 January 1985. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

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ANKELI BENJAMIN GODWIN

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Formerly known and addressed as MAIYAKI ZAINAB YETUNDE, now wish to be known and addressed as ODUFUWA ZAINAB YETUNDE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as SOTOMIDE ABOLANLE ALICE and ALIU ALICE ABOLANLE, Now wish to be known and addressed as SOTOMIDE ABOLANLE All former documents remain valid.

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SHILI ELISHA JOHN I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESS AS SHILI ILIMI ELISHA, NOW WISH TO BE ADDRESS AS SHILI ELISHA JOHN, N.Y.S. C AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD NOTE .

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I, formerly known as ALHAJI YUSUF and GARBA YUSUF, now wish to be known and address as GARBA YUSUF. My correct date of birth is 08-06-1979. All former document remain valid.

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I, formerly known and addressed as Emmanuel Raphael Okechukwu, now wished to be known and addressed as Emmanuel Raphael Okechukwu Alele.

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I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SALAU JIMOH ADEKUNLE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IJAODOLA JIMOH ADEKUNLE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

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I, formerly known, called and addressed as BARAKAT BOLANLE OLADENDE, now wish to be known, called and Addressed as SAKA BOLANLE BARAKAT. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

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I, formerly known and addressed as Abayomi Oluwaseun Boluwaduro, now wish to be known and addressed as Oluyomi Ogundare Nathanial. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as Miss Orekoya Mojisola Olufunke, now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs. Odubiro Mojisola Olufunke. All former documents remain valid.

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I, formerly known and addressed as Agatha Ebhodaghe, now wish to be known and addressed as Agatha John - Phillips. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.

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I, formerly known and addressed as MRS. SAKA RUKAYAT IBIYEMI, now wish to be known, called and addressed as MISS ADEBANJO RUKAYAT IBIYEMI. All former documents remain valid.

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I, formerly known and addressed as TOWOJU FOLAKE ALOYE, now wish to be known, called and addressed as TOWOJU FOLAKE ANN. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known, called and addressed as TEMITOPE ESTHER JOHN, now wish to be known, called and Addressed as TEMITOPE BALIKIS BALOGUN. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I, formerly known, called and addressed as RHODA FOLUKE ABIOLA OLADIPUPO, now wish to be known, called and Addressed as MRS. FUNMILOLA ABIOLA OLOKUN. All former documents remain valid.

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That I am the same person bearing ISIMENMEN HENRY which I used in my International Passport, that I am the same person bearing ISIMENMEN HENRY ERI in some of my other documents. That I am the same person bearing both names mentioned above. All documents bearing both names are mine and remain valid. General public take note.

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CONFIRMATION OF NAME This is to confirm herewith that KES-AGBOSA KARO is my name. That I bear KES-AGBOSA KARO as my name. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

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Formerly known and addressed as Miss Awoneye Yemisi Lolade, now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs Balogun Funke Oluwayemisi Lolade. All former documents remain valid.

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I, formerly known as MISS IGWE HOPE OLUCHI, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. ENYIOMA HOPE OLUCHI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

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I, formerly known as IORPINEN ORGBER, now wish to be known and addressed as CELESTO ORGBER. All former documents remain valid.

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I, formerly known as OLOWOSELE LARAI GIFT, now wish to be known and addressed as OLOWOSHILE LARAI GIFT. All former documents remain valid.

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I, formerly known as KAREEM ABIODUN AYEYEMI, now wish to be known and addressed as KAREEM MUSIBAU. All former documents remain valid.

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I, formerly known as ONABAJO OLUWAKEMI ALABA and ONABAJO AJIMO OLUWAKEMI, now wish to be known and addressed as FATAI AJIMO OLUWAKEMI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

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I formerly known and addressed as ABUO EDILO MATHIAS now wish to be known and addressed as PETER MATHIAS ABUO.All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as AWEDA JIMOH TAJUDEEN now wish to be known and addressed as JIMOH TAJUDEEN ISHOLA .All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

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I formerly known and addressed as MS. OLUFUNMILAYO OLAPEJU OLANIAWO now wish to be known and addressed as MRS OLUFUNMILAYO OLAPEJU OYEBADE .All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

In some of my documents my name was written as EGBEDARE KEHINDE and EGBEDARE KEHINDE FOLAJIMI While in some other ones It appears as EGBEDARE KEHINDE ABEEB.The names refer to the same person.All the documents bearing all the names are valid.General public to please take note.

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I formerly known and addressed as EMMANUEL CHINAZA CLARA, now wish to be known and addressed as DIALAEME CHINAZA CLARA. All former documents remain valid. The general public please take note.

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I formerly known and addressed as MMADUEKE SUCCESS CHINASA, now wish to be known and addressed as MADUEKE CYNTHIA CHINASA. All former documents remain valid. The general public please take note.

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I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS Nee - OSHITELU GBEMISOLA OLAMIDE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS Mrs.ONABOLU GBEMISOLA OLAMIDE.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UMOGBAI KATHERINE ENILUNA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWOSU KATHERINE ENILUNA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

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Formerly known and addressed as Miss Lurita Obi now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs Laurita Okoronkwo. All former documents remain valid.

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I formerly known and addressed as FAITH ABOR now wish to be known and addressed as ADEFOLAJI OLUWASEYI FAITH. All former documents remain valid. The general public please take note

In some of my documents my name was written as RAJIOTUN SAKARIYAU AKANJI While in some other ones It appears as SAKARIYAU AKANJI RAJIOTUN.The names refer to the same person My date of birth is 22/03/1966.All the documents bearing all the names are valid.

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I formerly known and addressed as DURU ONYEBUCHI MALACHI SOLOMON, now wish to be known and addressed as NWOKEOTUBE ONYEBUCHI MALACHI SOLOMON. All former documents remain valid. The general public please take note.

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I formerly known and addressed as OFONMBUK EDET NYAH, now wish to be known and addressed as OFONMBUK KINGSLEY MORRIS. All former documents bearing my former name remain valid. General public and authority concern should please take note

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I formerly known and addressed as SANNI TAIBAT ABIOLA , now wish to be known and addressed as SALAUDEEN TAIBAT ABIOLA. All former documents remain valid. The general public please take note

On my First Bank Document, my name was written as SANUSI ISMAIL .A. instead of SANUSI ISMAIL AREMU. First Bank, Authority Concerned and general public should please take note.

I, formerly known as OLATUNJI SULIYAT DOCAS, now wish to be known and addressed as OKESANYA TEMMY SULIYAT. All former documents remain valid.

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I formerly known and addressed as ADAMS OMOWUNMI KHADIJA now wish to be known and addressed as ADAMS BOLARINWA OMOWUNMI.All former documents remain valid.

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I formerly known and addressed as IKEM NGOZI BRIDGET , now wish to be known and addressed as TUYO-AKILA BRIDGET NGOZI. All former documents remain valid. The general public please take note

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I formerly known and addressed as OGOCHUKWU EZEAGU now wish to be known and addressed as OGOCHUKWU EZEAGUOGBEIDE.All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

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I, formerly known and addressed as AJOKU EUNICE EBELE, now wish to be known and addressed as AGWUENU EUNICE EBELE .

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I formerly known and addressed as MISS OPARA CAROLINE NNENNA , now wish to be known and addressed as MRS EMEKA NNENNA CAROLINE .

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WHO stresses need for R&D of drug -resistant TB

Lara Adejoro

The World Health Organisation (WHO) reaffirms the critical need for research and development (R&D) of new antibiotics to tackle the threat of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB).

“Addressing drug-resistant TB research is a top priority for WHO and for the world,” said Dr. Margaret Chan, WHO DirectorGeneral. “More than US$ 800 million per year is currently necessary to fund badly needed research into new antibiotics to treat TB.” The MDR-TB public health crisis continues: there were an estimated 580, 000 cases and 250 000 related deaths in 2015. Only 125 000 were started on treatment,

and just half of those people were cured.

Only two new antibiotics to address MDR-TB have completed Phase IIB trials in the past 50 years. Both are still in Phase III trials, and more funding will be required to complete the process and to develop other effective treatment regimens.

On February 27, WHO published a list of antibiotic-resistant pathogens that have recently been prioritized as posing a great risk to human health.

“Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for human TB, was not included in the scope of the prioritization exercise as the intention was to identify previously unrecognised health threats due to in-

creasing antibiotic resistance.

There is already a consensus that TB is a top priority for R&D for new antibiotics,” said Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny, Assistant Director-General at WHO. A series of high-level global meetings on TB have been scheduled in 2017-2018. Drug-resistant TB and research will be major themes at the WHO Ministerial Conference on TB planned in Moscow in November 2017. It will also be a key agenda item at the UN General Assembly high-level meeting on TB in 2018.

MDR-TB and research needs are also under discussion in wider fora such as those focusing on antimicrobial resistance and health security.

Maternal health: Edo gets $1.5m intervention fund Lara Adejoro Edo state government has received the federal government’s $1.5 million “Save a Million lives” intervention fund to the state.

Governor Godwin Obaseki commended the federal government for releasing the money when he hosted the Minister of State for Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, at Government House in Benin on Saturday.

He said the fund, geared toward improving maternal and child health, would be judiciously used in

the state.

The governor said the state had set up a contact group to ensure that the programme achieved its aims.

“The contact group has done quite a number of work on the programme. I have taken personal responsibility to chair the contact group to show the level of seriousness we take the programme in the state,” he said.

The governor, who intimated the minister of his administration’s plans to reposition the state’s heath sector, said much support would be needed from the federal govern-

ment.

“We have refurbished the general hospitals across the state, but we have not been able to staff them adequately to provide the level of care we need. That is a major challenge and that is one area we will like to have more conversation with the federal government on how to resolve the challenge,” he said.

Obaseki said the state also needed assistance in the repositioning of its school of Nursing and Midwifery and School of Health Technology.

Earlier, the minister commended

Obaseki for his scientific approach to addressing issues in the health sector and other sectors in the state.

Ehanire said that the federal government, through the ministry, had come up with policies and schemes geared toward reforming of health care delivery in the country.

He said government had created a committee to resolve the issues of salaries and wages of health workers and incessant strikes in the sector.

According to him, the federal government was currently repositioning the primary health care system

to take health care to the grassroots.

The minister said that plans were ongoing to link the primary, secondary and tertiary health institutions for having an effective referral system that could be made up of an ambulance service.

Ehanire also said plans to extend health insurance scheme to the state levels were also being worked out.

He however, urged the state government to give support to the management of the federal government’s health facilities in the state.

Screen your kids for lazy eyes by age 5, experts urge parents Young children should be screened, at least, once for lazy eye before they turn five, experts say.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task (USPSTF) is still advising parents to have their kids screened, at least, once for lazy eye or its risk factors. Screening should be done when the children are between the ages of three and five years old. These draft guidelines are an update to 2011 recommendations.

Early identification of lazy eye, technically called amblyopia, is critical. If the condition isn’t treated by the time a child is between the ages of Six and 10 years, vision can be permanently affected, the experts said.

With lazy eye, the brain and one eye don’t communicate properly. Symptoms may include a wandering eye, eyes that don’t seem

to work together, or poor depth perception, the experts explained.

It’s estimated that up to Six per cent of children of pre-school age have lazy eye or conditions that increase the risk of it. The other conditions include crossed eyes and the eyes that don’t focus together properly.

“Identification of vision abnormalities in preschool-aged children allows the abnormality to be corrected while the brain is still developing, which can prevent permanent vision loss,” task force member Dr. Alex Kemper said in a task force news release.

Kemper is with Duke University Medical School in Durham, N.C. The task force said there’s not enough research to know whether screening should be done before age three.

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UN, ERA/FoEN kick against Lagos environmental bill Edokpolor Osayande The United Nations expert on human rights to water and sanitation and Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA FoEN) have raised serious concerns about a recent Bill in Lagos state, which criminalises sinking of boreholes, and imposes fines and sets prison terms for any Lagos citizen that sells or transports water, among others.

The Special Rapporteur on the human rights to water and sanitation, Léo Heller, says: “When the State fails to provide adequate access to drinking water, no one should be criminalized or fined for fetching water from lakes, rivers, or any other natural sources.”

The Deputy Executive Director of ERA/FoEN, Akinbode Oluwafemi, said the law is a conspiracy against the people.

“We believe the added pressure, which the crafters of this law impose on Lagos citizens could be the guise of introducing Public Private Partnership (PPP) in the water sector, which Lagosians have roundly condemned. Lagosians have rejected PPP in the water sector through civil disobedience, public marches, using the instrumentality of the media. We are again rejecting the push towards PPP through the back door as this law portends.”

Recall that on February 20, the Lagos State House of Assembly passed the Lagos Environment Bill called, “A Bill for a Law to Consolidate all Laws Relating to the Environment

for the Management, Protection and Sustainable Development of the Environment in Lagos State and for Connected Purposes.”

The new bill is nothing but a clandestine maneuver to unleash extreme capitalism, business without morals, and politics without values in Lagos state. It is draconian, obnoxious and anti-people, said Oluwafemi.

He said, “Solving the Lagos water

crisis is not rocket science. It is not aliens from space that will solve deliberate hurdles strewn in the way of an efficient water sector that is possible. We, again, reiterate that corruption, mismanagement of billions of dollars in donor funding, deliberate starving of the water sector needed funding are the causes of where we find ourselves today. However, PPP is not the solution.

“The Our Water Our Right Coali-

tion, which is made up of civil society, grassroots campaigners, women groups and community voices, has already recommended the solution to the challenges to accessing water in Lagos in a document titled: “Lagos Water Crisis: Alternative Roadmap for the Water Sector” launched October 2016.”

No doubt, some giant strides have been recorded by the Ambode Administration, but we should not

be afraid to tell them that this time they are wrong.

We are asking Governor Akinwunmi Ambode not to assent to this obnoxious bill but rather, send it back to the House to throw it open again for wider consultations and inputs from Lagos citizens.

Also speaking, deputy chairman of Joint Action Front (JAF), Achike Chude, said the primary responsibility of the government is the people’s welfare, as there can be alternative to other resources but there is none to water.

“Why should government subject Nigerians to all manner of hardship and difficulties, we know how important water is to human health,” he said.

L-R - Abiodun Bakare of Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service, Technical and Recreational Services Employees (AUPCTRE), Betty Abah, executive director of Centre for Children’s Health Education, Orientation and Protection (CEE-Hope), Akinbode Oluwafemi, deputy executive director of ERA/FoEN and Achike Chude of Joint Action Front, and Funmi Sessi of Africa Women Water Sanitation and Hygiene Network (AWWASHNET) at the press briefing held in Lagos

NURHI commissions family planning clinic in Itire -Ijesha Lara Adejoro

Initiative (NURHI) 2 at Itire-Ijesha Primary Health Centre, A new family planning (FP) Mushin, Lagos to improve health clinic has been installed by the Ni- services.

The family planning unit at gerian Urban Reproductive Health

Itire Ijesha PHC is one of the 50 selected PHCs and hospitals in Lagos State under the NURHI 2 “72-hour Family Planning Clinic Make-Over’’ project.

Dr. Duduyemi Adeola, a family planning expert with NURHI, said family planning was an important intervention strategy to avert maternal death.

“It is established that there is high rate of maternal mortality in the country and all efforts are geared toward reducing it.

“Family planning is one of the most effective ways to prevent maternal, infant and child mortality.

It reduces maternal mortality by reducing the number of unintended pregnancies, the number of abortions and the proportion of high risk births,’’ she said.

“Increasing access to family planning among women and men of reproductive age in Lagos State and in Nigeria as a whole will help to achieve this.

“Our target is to achieve 74 per cent contraceptive prevalence (CP) use by 2018.’’

She said: “Mushin is one of the areas in Lagos identified as being highly populated, especially with people of reproductive age, who are equally sexually active.

“So, with family planning in place, pregnancies can be prevented in the first instance and quality of life will also improve for the mother, husband, children, family and nation as a whole’’.

The Itire Ijesha PHC serves the Itire community situated at the boundary between Mushin Local Government Area and Itire-Ikate Local Government, as such, people from both LGAs access it.

“What we have done is to convert an area of the centre to be a family planning unit; we now have a place for counseling and family planning procedure.

“All these were done within 72 hours, from a Friday to a Monday;

we have also repainted the waiting hall as well as provided some consumables.

“We urge the people of the area to access the facility and seek family planning counsel; it will go a long way in improving the quality of their life.

“We also appeal to the government to maintain the place and continue to put it to good use for the benefit of the people,’’ she said.

Contributing, Olayinka Kazeem, Sole Administrator of Mushin LGA, commended NURHI for the gesture.

He said there would be programmes to mobilise the residents of the area to use the facility and access family planning care.

He advised men to embrace family planning as it was good for the entire society and not just women.

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Obasanjo condemns S’African leader over xenophobic attacks Abiodun Taiwo, Abeokuta

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Former Nigeia President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has raised his voice against the current Xenophobia attacks on Nigerians living in South Africa blaming it all on the insincerity of the government of that country.

He made his position known in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital while receiving the leadership of the Nigeria Institute of Policy and Strategic Study, Kuru, Jos, at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, during a courtesy call on him by the management of the institute led by its chairman, Major General Laurence Onoja (rtd).

The former president said the current development in south Africa betrayed the struggle for the emancipation of the country against apartheid regime.

He however called on

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African head of governments to ensure good governance for overall development of the continent for its teeming population.

His words, “Youths can be so immature, they may not understand what Africa stands for ,what our continental organizations stand for, but if the youths do not understand what happened to the elders, what happened to the leadership, I will blame the youths of the country for the attacks but I will blame the leaders more

in any country that allows xenophobic attacks against fellow Africans for whatever reason.’’

“Having said that, it is also the responsibility of every one of us in our different countries to prepare our countries so that those our youths that think that there is an Eldorado somewhere outside their countries will be made to know that there is no green pasture anywhere, the green pasture is here in your country.I feel disheartened to know

Obasanjo that many of our youths perished while crossing the sahara desert or the Mediterranean.

Osun High Court deserted following NBA protest ÎÎÎ

The premises of Osun High Court were on Wednesday deserted following a protest by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) over the state government’s hike in filing fees.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that activities inside the court’s premises were paralysed following the development

with only a few lawyers sighted moving in and out.

A legal practitioner, Mr Najite Okobie, urged the state government to reverse the hike in fees.

He also called for a round table discussion with the NBA in the interest of all stakeholders.

Okobie said the sudden hike in fees would discourage citizens from coming

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An Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court sitting at Isabo has remanded five men in prison for allegedly robbing a chief magistrate and others in the state.

The accused persons–Ahmed Yusuf, 32; Abdullahi Hassan,37; Abbas Garuba,39; Abba Ismail,30; and Aruna Memud, 41; whose addresses were not given, are facing a two-count charge of conspiracy and robbery.

The Prosecutor, Insp Olakunle Shonibare, told the court that the accused persons and others still at large committed

the offence on Sept. 15, 2016, at Layering Estate in Abeokuta.

Shonibare said the accused robbed a chief magistrate, Mrs Oriyomi Sofowora, and six others in their houses while armed with dangerous weapons.

The prosecutor said the accused robbed the complainants of their properties, all valued at N259.6 million.

The prosecutor said the first accused person, who was a security man in Laderin, Ahmed Yusuf, had invited other accomplices from Sango Ota for the robbery operation.

to the courts to seek justice. He said this might result in people taking the laws into their hands. The Chairman of the NBA, Osogbo branch, Mr Sanusi Asafa, had told newsmen in Osogbo that the association would continue to oppose the fees hike.

“We were not consulted before the indiscriminate increase in fees,” he said.

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Moses extends contract with Chelsea Victor Moses is looking to play a bigger part in Chelsea’s expansion project after signing a new two-year deal with the club.

The 26-year-old has extended his stay at Stamford Bridge until 2021 – having established himself as a regular in Antonio Conte’s squad this season. ‘’I feel very excited. I’m delighted to be here for another few years now and to sign a new deal,’’ Moses told reporters. ‘’Now it’s time to concentrate on the team and keep working hard to make sure we win games and try to win the Premier League this season. ‘’We’re having a great season, I’m en-

joying my football and we have a good manager here that has given every single one of us confidence. I just want to keep on enjoying it and working hard for the team.’’

Moses arrived at Chelsea in 2012 from Wigan Athletic and enjoyed a solid first season at the club, helping them lift the Europa League trophy.

However, he spent the next three seasons on loan at Liverpool, Stoke City and West Ham United.

The Super Eagles’ forward has made 72 appearances for the Roman Army, 28 coming so far this season, scoring 14 goals.

ANDREW EKEJIUBA Super Eagles’ Technical Adviser, Gernot Rohr has listed goalkeeper Carl Ikeme, midfielder Ogenyi Onazi and forwards Ahmed Musa and Kelechi Iheanacho for this month’s international friendly matches against Senegal and Burkina Faso in London.

Also included are home –based goalkeeper Ikechukwu Ezenwa, defenders Leon Balogun and William Ekong, midfielders Wilfred Ndidi and Oghenekaro Etebo and forwards Victor Moses, Alex Iwobi and Moses Simon.

Experienced left back Elderson Echiejile,

Portugal –based Chidozie Awaziem, Israel –based John Ogu and Watford FC of England forward Isaac Success are also called.

Germany –based forward Noah Joel Bazee and Holland –based defender Tyronne Ebuehi will join up with the squad for the first time, while youngster Victor Osimhen, record top scorer at the FIFA U17 World Cup, returns.

The Super Eagles will be up against Senegal’s Teranga Lions on Thursday, 23rd March before taking on the Etalons of Burkina Faso four days later.

Both matches will be played at The Hive, home ground of Barnet Football Club.

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OpeOluwani Akintayo Hopes for economic and industrial growth will be dashed if inhibitors such as the Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) Fiscal Incentives, Guarantees and Assurances Act, are permitted in the Nigerian gas industry, the Managing Director of NLNG, Tony Attah, said on Wednesday.

Attah spoke at the ongoing 2017 Nigeria Oil and Gas Strategic Conference and International Exhibition in Abuja titled: “Nigeria’s Gas Sector – The Catalyst for Economic and Industrial Growth?”

“It is time for gas. We need deliberate decisions and policies to decouple oil from gas and attract investment. We need to do that now. Investments in the gas and LNG industry are declining. It is already difficult as things stand to find Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and growth in the gas industry has been cautious after the recent down-beat global crude oil price. In addition to this, Nigeria is ranked 167 of 189 countries in the ease of doing business index.”

“Yet, experts maintain that there is the strong likelihood of increased gas demand in future and that is where the silver lining is. However, if we continue with the self-inflicted barriers in our gas industry, we might miss the opportunity to make this country a major player in the global energy mix,” he said.

“The industry has benefited the economy, diversifying the revenue and export base as well as channelling FDI into the country, creating jobs and contributing significantly to the local manufacturing capacity in the country, but all that

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Don’t amend NLNG Act - NLNG MD would be laid waste if we continue shift policies and renege on international agreements that put some framework into the business and generated investor confidence. We need to be creative with incentives that will attract investments and preserve the sanctity of contracts and agreements for all of this to come together in our national interest.

“Take Nigeria LNG for in-

stance. Only recently, the House of Representatives began moves to amend the NLNG Fiscal Incentives, Guarantees and Assurances Act, a key enabler responsible for the success of the company. NLNG is a successful Nigerian company, with an asset base of $11 billion as well as the fourth largest LNG plant in the world. It has generated $90 billion in revenues as at 2015, paid $5.7 billion in tax-

es as well as committed more than $200 million to corporate social responsibility projects especially in the areas of capacity building and infrastructure development. All these were achieved with a management staff entirely made up of Nigerians, with 95% of the total workforce made up of Nigerians.

In addition, he said the NLNG has contributed signifi-

cantly to the domestic LPG industry, supplying some 40% of cooking gas, and this intervention continues as part of strategies and initiatives aimed at deepening the availability and usage of cooking gas in Nigeria. “The company has helped strengthen in country manufacturing capacity through several projects such as the recent CONTINUED ON PAGE B2

L-R: Mr. Fraser Graham, Senior Director, Spectrum Policy Engagementat Global System for Mobile Association (GSMA); Executive ViceChairman (EVC) Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Prof Umar Garba Danbatta and Executive Commissioner, Stakeholder Management of NCC, Mr. Sunday Dare at the on-going World Mobile Congress organised by GSMA in Barcelona, Spain.

DMO introduce savings bonds for retail investors

Motolani Oseni

The Federal government of Nigeria through its Debt Management Office on Wednesday announced its plan to target retail investors with a new savings bond that will go on sale this month.

The debt office said the bonds will be offered in Two- and three-

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year maturities, with interest paid quarterly. The interest rate has yet to be announced, but the debt office paid 16.5 percent on a five-year bond sold to institutional investors last month.

According to DMO, “The bonds will be good for savings towards retirement, marriage, school fees and house projects.”

The nation’s debt office explained that savings accounts at Nigeria’s commercial banks pay up to 5 percent in interest, but the country’s inflation is running at more than 18 percent annually.

The bond offer will open on March 13 and end after five days, the debt office said. New

issues will be sold every month.

The minimum subscription will be 5,000 naira ($16) and the maximum 50 million naira. Nigeria’s government depends on local borrowing to fund more than half its budget deficit, which is expected to reach 2.36 trillion naira this year.

It issued a $1 billion Eurobond last month and is now seeking approval from parliament for an additional $500 million Eurobond. Last week, it said it would offer a 20 billionnaira “green bond” in April.

The government also plans to sell a $300 million diaspora bond abroad this year and its first sovereign sukuk in the lo-

cal market.

Meanwhile, the 8 fold oversubscription of the recent Eurobond orders in excess of US$7.8 billion compared to a pre- insurance target of US$1bn is a strong indication that international investment community are confident in Nigeria economic reform agenda, the federal government has said.

The federal government position was contained in a bulletin of the Aso Villa, “Government at Work,” released, in Abuja, Tuesday.

According to the report, the nation’s economy is already on its road to recovery as showed in the marginal non-oil sector

growth rate of 0.03 percent in 2016 Q3 (after two quarters of consecutive negative growth The federal government attributed the marginal growth to the continued good performance in agriculture and solid minerals, the two sectors that have received greater attention from the Buhari administration It further explained that agriculture grew by 4.54 per cent in the quarter under consideration, with growth in crop production recording nearly 5 per cent, its highest since the first quarter of 2014.

Growth in the solid mineral sector was said to have averaged about 7percent.

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Motolani Oseni Following the poor state of power sector and dwindling global oil prices, Zenith Bank Plc has reported N71.37 billion bad loans in financial year ended December 31, 2016.

The lender in 2015 reported N44.89 billion bad loans, 59 per cent increase above 2016 bad loans. With the growth in bad loans in 2016, the lender’s Nonperforming loans (NPLs) moved to three per cent in 2016 as against 2.2 per cent recorded in 2015.

Zenith Bank gross loan in 2016 rose by 16 per cent from N2 trillion last year to N2.36 trillion in year under consideration while impairment rose significantly by 104.6 per cent to N32.50 billion as against N15.67 billion recorded in 2015.

Key contributors to Zenith Bank’s bad loans in 2016 include investment in Power General Commerce and Oil & gas sectors.

The Group bad loans in the power added N30.7 billion, 43 per cent of N71.36 billion recorded in 2016. General commerce and Oil & gas contributed N13.22 billion and N10.8 billion respectively.

The bank explained that it has put in place hedges against drop in crude oil price for customers with loans, encourage customers to increase production capacity to generate more cash flows and customers are advised to diversify into gas production Other guide against delinquent loans by Management of Zenith bank in the Oil & gas sector include restructuring of loans in line with expected cash flow.

Also, loans in the Power Sector, the bank supported customers with other thriving businesses.

Zenith Bank advanced loans to Distributing Companies (DISCOs) with high cash generating capacity.

“While loan book growth may remain uninspiring due to weak economic growth, we expect banks to continue to benefit from

Deputy Commissioner, National Insurance Commission (NAICOM), George Onokhena, Partner/Head, Financial Risk Management, KPMG in Nigeria, Thierry Mbimi and the Director, Financial Services/ Industrial Market, KPMG South Africa, Gerdus Dixon, during KPMG insurance conference 2017, held in Lagos.

Zenith Bank records N71.37bn bad loans in 2016 the higher yields and interest rate environment which should be supportive of net interest margin (NIM) performances,” the Bank in a statement to investors added.

However, a group of analysts at Investment One Research in a report had said the difficult macro environment, n addition to the disruptions to oil production (negatively impacting the quality of loans to Oil & Gas companies), bad loans may increase further.

According to the Lagos based analysts, “This may keep loan im-

pairment charges high in the immediate as banks try to maintain adequate bad loans coverage.

“Conversely, if the administration adds more flexibility to its foreign exchange policy, we may see the local currency depreciate further at the interbank market.

Although this should boost foreign exchange related gains and income, it may also lead to an expansion in risk assets.

“This may pressure capital adequacy levels, particularly for tier 2 names, thereby increasing the need to raise fresh capital to

Kerosene imports gulps N70.7bn in quarter Q4, 2016 Simon Ugwu The petroleum products imports statistics for the full year 2016, show that 18.8 billion litres of premium motor spirits (PMS), 4.89billion litres of automotive gas oil (AGO) and 713.79 million litres of household kerosene (HHK), valued at N2.01trillion, N505.8billion and N70.7billion respectively, were imported into the country (NBS Q4 Report 2016) The head of Banking and Finance Department, Nassrawa State University, Dr Uche Uwaleke who is also a Financial Economist and an Associate Professor of Finance at the University stated this at the 23rd CBN seminar for Business Editors and Finance Correspondents in Sokoto State.

In view of the huge import bill amidst dwindling external

reserves, he said that the CBN introduced some policy measures to help conserve foreign reserves as well as facilitate the resuscitation of domestic industries.

These he said include excluding 41 items (including toothpicks) from accessing the official window of the Nigerian foreign exchange markets.

The measures also involve Interventions in Agriculture, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and Infrastructure “Specifically, the interventions include the Agricultural Credit Guarantee Scheme Fund (ACGSF),the Commercial Agricultural Credit Scheme (CACS), the Agricultural Credit Support Scheme (ACSS), the N300 billion Real Sector Support Facility (RSSF), the N 220 billion Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

Development Fund (MSMEDF), the Small and Medium Enterprises Refinancing and Restructuring Facility (SMERRF), the N75 billion Nigeria Incentive Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL), the N 213 billion Nigeria Electricity Market Stabilization Fund and only recently, the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme,” he said.

“In particular, the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme which was launched in November 2016

by President Buhari aims at creating economic linkages between over 600,000 smallholder farmers and large-scale processors with a view to increasing agricultural output. There is also the Dangote Rice projects in 14 states which is capable of generating a significant number of jobs and reducing the nation’s food import bill,” he stressed.

maintain adequate buffers.

The company explained that the weak economic environment, foreign exchange scarcity, in addition to the fragile situation in the Niger Delta, which may negatively impact upstream Oil & Gas asset quality despite the recent

restructurings, may put further pressure on the sector’s bad loans ratio.

“This should see loan impairment charges remain high as banks try to maintain adequate coverage,” the company explained.

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acquisition of six new LNG ships built by Samsung and Hyundai Heavy Industries of South Korea. Courtesy of that single initiative, several Nigerian companies were able to export goods worth more than $10 million to Korea for use in the construction of the six ships.

There is also the N2 billion University Support Programme where the company supports capacity building in universities among others.”

According to him, all of these achievements are in jeopardy with the proposed amendment by the House. “The amendment will result in immediate loss of investor confidence. This is especially pertinent in view of the imminent requirement of over US$1 billion investment every year in the upstream for the next few years in order to guarantee steady gas supply just to ensure that NLNG’s Trains 1 – 6 can be kept full over the contracted life of the plant.

If shareholder confidence is negatively impacted, it would mean that those funds will not be forthcoming, and this would clearly constrain even the ba-

sic survival of NLNG’s current operations and Nigeria’s opportunity for gas development,” he added.

Continuing, he said, “It also means an immediate loss of foreign investment of US$25 billion in respect of Train 7 investment (USD$15 billion by the upstream and USD$10 billion for construction). Another impact will be the potential loss of about 18,000 jobs required for the construction activities of Train 7.”

Attah pointed out that an amendment or change in the NLNG Act portrays Nigeria as a promise-breaker and untrustworthy, sending a wrong signal to the investment community regarding Nigeria’s sincerity in keeping to agreements with investors and the international community.

Other factors responsible for the success at NLNG, he said, were the shareholding and governance structure of the company which made the company an independent Incorporated Joint Venture, guaranteeing an independent Board of Directors, minimal interference by the government, effective decision making as well as funding for its projects.

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Full implementation of 2016 budget key to growth - Economists

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Economists within and outside the country are optimistic that the Nigerian economy is on its way out of recession, if the federal government ensures a full implementation of the ongoing 2016 budget.

This is just as the fourth quarter (Q4) 2016 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) showed contraction of -1.30 percent in real terms, from N18.5 trillion in Q4 2015 to N18.2 trillion in Q4 2016, as latest figures from the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) have revealed.

Commenting on this development, Dr. Uche Uwaleke,

HOD, Banking &Finance, Nasarawa State University, noted that before 2017 runs-out, Nigeria is going to record positive growth in GDP. According to him, when the first quarter 2017 report comes out, my expectation is that we are going to record an improvement in GDP growth.

“The signs are there, because if you look at the nation’s purchasing Manager’s Index (PMI), it improved slightly in December and that tells you that production is gradually picking up.

“I believed that if government continues to implement the 2016 budget, which will still run till May, the chances

are that, the recession that we are in will be over. But I also want say that is not just about the number. So that, we don’t preoccupy ourselves with the number, hence if at the end of first Quarter (Q1) now they tell us that GDP is now positive that doesn’t really mean that it is all well for Nigeria”, he stated.

He explained that it shows that things are improving but government must be conscious of the fact that it doesn’t tell the full story. Government should be after the poverty level because inflation is the key misery index.

“Aside from having the GDP figure coming positive, it is also very important that the price of commodities is brought down, because it is only when you brought down inflation rate, with direct effects on prices of goods in the market that is when you can begin to have positive impacts on the life of ordinary Nigerians”, he explained further.

He stressed that it is not just the absolute number of GDP but to look at the totality of its effects on the common man.”

Meanwhile, the NBS report for the full year 2016, indicated that the GDP contracted by -1.51 percent, representing of N67,984.20 billion for the year. This contraction reflects a difficult year for Nigeria, which included weaker inflation-induced consumption demand, an increase in pipeline vandalism, significantly reduced foreign reserves and a concomitantly weaker currency, and problems in the energy sector such as fuel shortages and lower electricity generation.”

Ecobank explains innovative e-payment channels L – R: CEO, Graeme Blaque Advisory, Zeal Akaraiwe; Head, Structured Products, FBN Capital Ltd, Michael Okon and the Managing Partner, Radix Legal and Consulting Ltd, Elizabeth Uwaifo, during panel session on Derivatives at the Nigerian Structured Product Summit by the Capital Market Solicitors Association (CMSA), held in Lagos recently.

ACCA building finance professionals in Nigerian institutions

By Motolani Oseni, Lagos and Yakubu Salisu, Kano Identifying importance of professional accountants in achieving sustainable economic growth through effective contributions from finance professionals, Association of Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA) has recorded another milestone in equipping Nigerian accountant student in various tertiary institutions across the country with professional tools.

The global professional body for Accountants at the seminar organized recently in Kano, titled: ‘Polytechnic Connect’, believed it is very necessary at this crucial point in the Nigeria economy to develop finance professionals from schools through capacity building for accountant students from Northern Nigeria Poly-

technics and Colleges of Education.

According to the Business Relationships Manager, ACCA, Abuja, Mrs. Evelyn Isioye, this is aimed at preparing the students for the future, equipping them with basic tools and knowledge needed to become professional accountants that will be globally relevant.

The participants, were equipped with skills that would enable them gain special recognition during an interview such as how to draft a comprehensive CV, interview skills what to do and what not to do during an interview, relevant information about how to become employable after graduation as well as how to develop one’s self to fit into any given opportunity.

Commenting on scholarships for outstanding students, Esioye stated that the professional body

does not grant scholarship but that there are other professional bodies willing to partner with ACCA to give out scholarship.

It would be recalled that the global professional body successful signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Babcock University in October 2015, and made it became the first ACCA accredited private university in Nigeria.

However, the body had promised to build capacity for the university internally and proposed engaging the lecturers of the university who were interested in becoming ACCA certified to offer them differentiated support to enable their success via the Tutor Excellence Program; which may not require academics to sit and pass ACCA exams in order to begin teaching the qualifica-

tion.

Meanwhile, part of the highlights of the Kano’s workshop, included a quiz competition which representatives from six various schools participated.

Muhammad Zahraddeen from Kano State Polytechnic came first with 20,000 naira cash prize and a trophy, Olawoye Blessing Oluwapelumi from COE Mina came second and went home with the token of 15,000 Naira and a trophy while Collins Simon from Nuhu Bamali Zaria Accounting Dept HND 2 went home with the some of 10,000 naira cash prize and a trophy The workshop was attended by about 300 students from Nuhu Bamali Zaria, College of Education Mina, Federal Polytechnic Namuda Zamfara, Niger State Polytechnic Federal Polytechnic Gboko and Kano State Polytechnic respectively.

The Deputy Managing Director, Ecobank Nigeria, Tony Okpanachi, has said the introduction of various innovative electronic payment platforms by the bank was in line with its deliberate policy to provide seamless and innovative services to customers and banking public.

According to him, the e--payment system will further engender the financial inclusion strategy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and continue to stimulate commercial activities in the nation’s economy.

Speaking in the same light recently, Head, Consumer Distribution, Ecobank Nigeria, Tunde Kuponiyi, said the various mobile payment applications being introduced by banks in the country will soon dominate the epayment system, stating that, the payment system only requires sensitization among the banking public.

According to him, “Nigerians will embrace the culture of using the phones for payment. As with every new product, sensitization is key to speedy uptake and with every financial institution focusing on it, uptake will grow consistently in the coming years. Mobile banking is the future and we believe this will be em-

braced faster than any of the traditional electronic products i.e. ATM and Cards that we have today.”

He projected a steady growth in the migration to alternative channels as they become more stable and reliable with new technology, adding that, stakeholders are committed to addressing the emerging challenges in the various channels to ensure general acceptability.

“The issues particularly PoS have been well documented such as no uniformity in transaction charge, high transaction cost against a slim margin, connectivity etc. this is being reviewed by stakeholders to find a lasting solution that will engender inclusion.”

Only recently, Ecobank introduced Ecobank Masterpass QR, which makes electronic payments safe, simple and smart. It improves customer experience with a clean frontend design and a built-in sophisticated and secure supporting technology.

Users of Ecobank’s mobile banking platform can safely pay for online and in-store purchases by scanning a Quick Response (QR) code displayed at checkout on their smartphones, or by entering a merchant identifier into their feature phones.

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TransCorp 2016 result records N59.42bn revenue Bonny Amadi Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc’s 2016 audited financial statement for the period ended December 31ST further showed remarkable growth in key performance as revenue increased remarkably The result raised investors’ hope of reaping from their investments soon as increased earnings and result oriented earnings diversification keep yielding positive results and erasing weaker indices wherever applicable.

The company’s result for the year ended 31 December 2016 released on Wednesday by the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) showed that revenue for the group grew to N59.42 billion, from N40.75 billion recorded in the 2015, while that of the company dropped to N2.54 billion, from N3.24 billion in the preceding year.

Gross profit for the group grew to N30,.66 billion from N24.33 billion posted in the preceding year 2015, while that for the company dropped to N2.54 billion, against N3.24 billion in the corresponding period 2015.

The result showed that profit before tax (PBT) for the group rose to N5.9 billion from N3.32 billion in 2015, while the company’s PBT closed the period at N439.93 million, from N1.04 billion in 2015.( Loss for the year was remarkably reduced to N1.1 billion, against N2.03 billion in 2015, that of the company stood at N-849, 09 million, from N559, 67 million in 2015. The company disclosed that the loss has been transferred to general reserve.

Tax of N4.80 billion was paid in 2016 financial year by the TransCcorp group, against N1.29 billion in 2015, while the group paid N409.17 million, also reflecting a boost in tax paid, from N477.48 million in 2015.

Other comprehensive income closed the year at N547.48 million, from N587.55 million in 2015. That of the company in 2016 stood at N547.48 million, from N475.87 million in 2015.

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Rotimi Fashakin during the visit of the NIMASA Management to the Oba’s Palace in Lagos recently.

Positive sentiments: Investors stake N2.4bn on 228m shares Afolabi Adesola Positive market sentiment on Wednesday drove investments higher as N2.4 billion was staked on 228 million shares by investors in 2,958 deals.

The increased turnover was in contrast to 444.5 million shares valued at N3.6 billion in 3336 deals traded on Monday.

The Oil and Gas Index was the only sector which closed higher

with growth of 1.01 percent on account of a 3.09 percent increase in share price of Seplat The Banking index and the Consumer Goods index closed 1.18 and 1.27 percent lower than previous figures. The decline was triggered by sale receded in Zenith Bank, FBN, Diamond Bank Guinness amongst others Market capitalization settled at N8.715 trillion following a loss of N50.5 billion as market breadth closed with 8 gaining stocks against 19 stocks that

declined. Vitafoam emerged the day’s highest gainer with a growth of 4.65 percent to close at N1.80, NPF Microfinance Bank was next with 4.46 percent increase to close at N1.17 while Seplat added 3.09 percent to close at N400.

In contrast to the day’s top three gainers, Cadbury emerged the highest loser for the day with a loss of 8.77 percent to close at N7.80 percent, Guinness lost 4.96 percent to close at N62.11 while FCMB dropped

Cutix grows Q3 revenue by 31.71% to N2.77 billion

Bonny Amadi

Shareholders of Cutix Nigeria Plc, Nigeria’s foremost cable manufacturing company , have course to look forward to brighter investment future as the company appears

to be emerging into a profitable era.

This was justified by the company’s third quarter result for the period ended January 31st 2017 recently released to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) which reflected growth in key

performance indices.

The result showed that revenue rose significantly by N665.67 million or 31.71 per cent to close the period at N2.77 billion. N2.10 billion was reported in the corresponding period of 2016.

Profit before tax(PBT) swelled

ETI: Nedbank Africa’s growth strategy lifewire – Brown Bonny Amadi Nedbank, a subsidiary of Anglo-South African conglomerate, Old Mutual, has said that Ecobank Transnational Incorporation (ETI) remains vital to its expansion across Africa and holds key for its future African growth prospects.

The future growth prospects and opportunities across Africa, Nedbank revealed recently that it holds in high esteem irrespective of booking a $293 million write-down on the value of its

stake in the sub-Saharan lender.

Nedbank competes with Standard Bank, FirstRand, Barclays Africa and Capitec.

ETI’s operations in Central and West Africa are exposed to some economies that have been pressured by the commodity price slide and unfavourable currency swings since Nedbank bought a 20 per cent stake for $500 million in 2014.

Nedbank Chief Executive, Mike Brown, speaking to reporters recently emphasised that Ecobank operations in about 40

countries outside its home market, has remained a boost to its operations and the growth in the African market.

Brown said that $293 million write-down on the value of its stake to the Sub-Saharan lender certainly raises air of disappointment, but noted that Nedbank remains optimistic on the long term growth prospects across Africa “It’s obvious that we would be disappointed. But we still, however, remain optimistic on the long-term growth prospects in the rest of Africa.”

4.88 percent to close at N1.17 Zenith Bank was the most actively traded stock with 81.7 million shares valued at N1.2 billion, UBA followed with 27.3 million shares at N135.8 million, United Capital was next with 22.6 million units with total value at N78.7 million, NEM Insurance was the day’s fourth most traded stock with 16.6 million shares at N13.4 million while Guaranty traded 12.7 million shares worth N312.7 million.

by N202.99 million or 98.32 per cent to N409.45 million, from N206.46 million posted in 2016 third quarter. The growth manifested in Profit After tax which also grew by 98.32 per cent or N131.95 million to N266,144 million, against Nn134.20 million in the Q3 2016.

For the third quarter ended January 31 2017, the company’s total; assets grew by 23.87 per cent to N2.18 billion, from N1.80 billion recorded in the corresponding period of 2016.

The results further showed that total liabilities grew by 16.05 per cent to N1.01 billion from N872.99 million posted in the third quarter 2016, while the value of the company’s net assets rose by 31.58 per cent to N1.17 billion, against n886.12 million recorded in Q3 of 2016 Income tax for the period stood at N143,308 million from N72.261 million in 2016 Q3, accounting for N71.05 million or 98.32 per cent growth.

Earnings per share also rose by 98.30 per cent to 30 kobo, from 15kobo posted in 2016 third quarter, reflecting growth by 14.98 kobo.

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Brands & Marketing B6 Fundamental issues affect personality branding, a family life practitioner, counsellor and educationist, Kemi Tony-Akinwunmi, has said.

Kemi who stated this in a chart with Daily Times recently in Lagos disclosed that most Nigerians children lack the confidence to express themselves due to verbal abuse from relatives and friends. This therefore affect the personality of their brand when they grow older.

Explaining further she said; “in today’s world, personality branding has assume a dimension to something to which the consumer can relate; an effective brand increases its brand equity by having a consistent set of traits that a specific consumer segment enjoy. As a young child, I discovered it was a vacuum and I was determined to fill it. I picked interest in talking to people. So, my love for counselling started at a very early age because I wanted to be someone people could run to. Someone people could trust to cry with and confide in while we both address the issue psychologically, even though I was ignorant of the study of psychology or counselling.”

The Lagos-born who attended her primary and secondary education in Lagos before heading to the Lagos State University where she studied English Language, said she had always desired to lend a shoulder to people, see them come out of their relationship agonies and live a fulfilling and happy life.

While explaining further why fundamental issues affect personality branding in Nigeria, she pointed out that; “Parents think they have to spend five hours with their children. That’s why they keep giving time excuses when it comes to their family life.

But the same parents have time for weekend parties. And I have always told people that there’s no time for anything in life, except what we create time for. Let everybody go back to being friends with their children and ensure strong and frequent personal communication in the home.

“Using myself as an example, I could remember my parents sat me down several times and gave me cautions. But nowadays, if you ask teenagers when last their parents sat them down for close conversation, you will be shocked at their responses. Parents of today have failed in nurturing and have left their children at the mercies of social media information.” She added.

Again, making reference to herself, she said; “I grew up with a lot of verbal abuse from relatives and friends and I remember each time I tried to express myself as a child, no one was listening and no one cared about my feelings.

So as a young girl, I wanted to be the shoulder of support to many because I didn’t experience it and I know how it feels to go through a lot but not allowed to express it.

Responding to questions on what informed the passion for her choice career she stated that,

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Fundamental issues that affect personality branding in Nigeria

Kemi Tony-Akinwunmi As a family life practitioner, counsellor and educationist, Kemi’s desire to reach out to people through counselling, emotional and psychological therapy, was born out of her background of verbal abuse from relatives and friends.

On her journey to the counselling world, the Lead Counsellor at the Pasture Counselling Centre, Kemi, said she couldn’t opt for counselling as a career against her father’s wish, who had penned down political science for her because he was a politician.

Though, she said the University of Lagos had twice offered her admission to study psychology but she turned it down due to the ignorance of what it entails and how it would lead her through

her counselling desire.

“After hoping for dad’s political science career and mum’s banking and finance choice to no avail for three years, I had to opt for English Language. But back in school, friends would refer other friends to me saying Kemi would listen to you and proffer help in this situation. And finally, I had to study psychology as a second degree 3 years ago and I also went back for counselling study professionally. This is what I love to do and do effortlessly.

“My counselling life started about 13 years ago with a programme we started tagged ‘Just Talking Relationships’ where we talked to teens; but professionally, I would say I started counselling 7 years ago.”

“My husband is my number

one fan. He discovered my counselling gift before anyone else.

His support and commitment towards my success in the field is enormous.” She said smiling when asked the role he plays in her career.

Though, they got married 9 years ago, Mr Akinwunmi, a Chartered Accountant, supported her to commission the ‘Just Taking Relationship’ in 2004 and has been a financial pillar to the growth of her career and had supported in various teenage outreaches. “He also doubles up as my critic. He tells me when I go wrong and helps me find my path again.”

Even though her counselling services cover many areas, Kemi focuses more on family life; premarital and post-marital coun-

selling, and she has recorded countless homes which were at the verge of break-up but through her consultation such homes are back and strong together.

“We have had people walked in to report marital abuses and some even think we are government agencies or social units, and in some cases, we have had to refer them to the right authorities. There’s a lot going on in homes and until we go back to the basic, the future looks terrifying.”

As she adjusts on her seat and squeezes both palms together, she firmly points out that marital abuse does not exclude men.

“I have seen men walk in here to report physical abuse from their wives. They couldn’t express this to anyone because the society places more emphasis on female marital abuse and no one would believe them.”

But despite the efforts of counselling firms, one would wonder if marital cases are on the increase or decline in the country.

“They are on the increase and people are beginning to see the need for counselling.” She said affirmatively. “These days, people want to talk to someone who feels them, someone who understands the reality on ground and would not be bias based on religion.” She added.

She confirmed that most of the pre-marital counselling systems in churches are archaic and does not conform to the reality on ground. “We have had pastors tell women to stay in abusive marriages, saying it pays to die in it and make heaven other than divorce or separate as they would end in hell fire.” This is why Pasture Counselling Centre also collaborates with mosques and churches for counselling supports.

OMD named most creative agency Omnicom Media Group’s Agency OMD was awarded the most Creative, Innovative and Effective Agency Network of the Year for the 11th consecutive time by the Gunn Report for Media.

The Gunn Report for Media is the industry standard for evaluating media creativity, innovation and effectiveness.

The report summarises media agencies’ overall performance from January to December 2016 based on the results of global, regional and national Media creative award contests spanning over 40 markets in the world.

Most importantly, it

recognizes the vital role media agencies play in today’s highly competitive and fragmented media landscape.

The emergence reflect a point system based on awards won in more than 50 annual award competitions worldwide.

In addition to OMD leading the list with 632 points, PHD (again an Omnicom Media Group) ranked, moving up one rank with four hundred and seventy six points. OMD and PHDs top ranking reflects recognition earned in 2016 by agencies in every region across its network.

Commenting on the findings in a statement made avail-

able to newsmen recently in Lagos, Isabelle Musnik, editor of the Gunn Report for Media, said: “Media agencies have become their clients’ key strategic partner. They are “creative orchestra conductors” at the intersection of technology and traditional media. The Gunn Report for Media shows that, while technology and data are fundamental to achieving results, insight, strategy and innovative ideas are essential to delivering them.”

According to him, “2016 marked the year of data, mobile-only, apps, programmatic advertising and vertical video,

to name a few. OMD is therefore proud to have continued to produce the most creative, innovative and effective work in the world for our clients, not only pushing the boundaries of innovation but delivering strong business results for our clients.”

Also speaking, Regional Managing Director, mediaReachOMD Tolu Ogunkoya “Our global culture cascades to local markets, with many local initiatives. We encourage our teams to produce works that deliver on objectives and help overcome Business Challenges”.

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Wheat farmers want FG’s intervention in price peg by flour millers Some wheat farmers in Abuja on Wednesday appealed to the Federal Government to intervene in the off-take price peg on wheat by flour millers to encourage production.

They expressed regret that the agreement between them and flour millers to purchase a 100kg bag of wheat at N14, 000 was not commensurate with the cost of production.

A wheat farmer from Jigawa, Mr Abdullahi Maigari, said that the price was not encouraging.

Maigari explained that a 100kg bag of wheat was sold between N30, 000 and 35, 000 at the open market.

According to him, most farmers prefer to sell their produce at the open markets than to sell directly to flour millers.

The farmer said the upward review of the price, would encourage more entrants into the business, boost production and ensure food security.

He also appealed to the Federal Government to sustain the ban on imported wheat to enable local production flourish.

“I am going to farm 10 hectares of wheat this year but the problem is that the buy-back price agreement we have with flour millers is not encouraging.

“Wheat production generally increased in the country but some of us are backing out because of the low off-take price.

“We want the Federal Government to intervene so that the price can increase and many farmers can come into the production,’’ he said.

Mrs Malama Alhaji, a farmer in Kano State, said that inter-

vention from the Federal Government will encourage them to produce more wheat.

She called for prompt distribution of farm inputs to boost agricultural production.

“We want timely distribution of seeds and other farm inputs.

“Bank of Agriculture (BOA) does not give loan until the farming season is almost gone.

“We want the government to come and intervene so that we will have a better buy-back price for our produce,’’ Alhaji said.

Hajiya Salamatu Kuka, a

wheat farmer in Jigawa, said that wheat farmers in the state were yet to benefit from the CBN’s Anchor Borrowers Scheme.

“If the government can address our challenges, we are ready to grow more wheat even for export,’’ she said.

Recall that wheat farmers association and flour millers association in 2016, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to off-take locally produced wheat across the country at a fixed price of N14, 000 per 100kg bag.

Expert urges Nigerians to adopt natural farming practices The Country Coordinator, Ecological Organic Agriculture Initiative (EOAI), Dr Olugbenga Olaoluwa, has called on Nigerians to adopt natural farming practices so as to protect the environment and boost food production.

He made the call in a lecture he delivered at a one-day stakeholders’ meeting in Awka on Wednesday.

Olaoluwa said that the advent of inorganic fertilisers as well as genetically modified and engineered inputs had caused untold damage to the ecosystem.

He called on the Federal Gov-

Farmers need more training programmes — Oyekoya A former Chairman of Agric and Agro Allied Group, Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), Mr Wale Oyekoya, on Wednesday said organising of training programmes for farmers in Nigeria should be intensified.

Oyekola told newsmen in Lagos that training farmers would help them to imbibe modern farming practices.

According to him, the finding that transportation is the main cause of high price of staple foods was understated; adding that it was the least of farmers’ myriad problems.

“Farmers need training and retraining, and the organisation of training programmes for them is very important.

“The training programmes will take farmers through what has been done within and outside Nigeria, to achieve good farming practices.

“Farmers can also be taken through some countries like

Malawi, China, Indonesia and Brazil systems of farming operations and be encouraged to introduce them in their farms.

“Farmers will be in position to understand better the dry season farming, and know how to fit in, to improve their farming knowledge and practice.

“The training will afford farmers the platform to start considering coming together to do farming on a large scale,’’ he said.

Oyekoya said although the new Federal Task Force on Food and Security was established with good intentions, it was poorly constituted.

He said the task force did not have farmers or stakeholders in farming among its members to advise the ministers on the committee on challenges of farming in the country.

Oyekoya said that farm infrastructure was a huge challenge that should be tackled urgently, to enhance proper planting and

harvesting.

The former agric group chief said the government needed to ensure that storage silos in the country work better and effectively.

He said that allocation of farmlands was an issue that the government should tackle head on, to ensure availability to the farmers to practice mechanised agriculture.

Oyekoya said there was need for government to put in place price control measures to check unnecessary increase in prices of food.

Recall that recently the Federal Government set up a task force on food security to look at the causes of increase in the prices of food items across the country, and address them.

The task force was expected to review the transportation and preservation processes, and see how government could intervene in those aspects, to bring down food prices.

ernment to support and protect farmers who opted for organic farming in order to save the country from health challenges like cancer.

He said that his agency’s project was aimed at ensuring maximum agricultural production via the adoption of natural methods of farming.

Olaoluwa called on the stakeholders in the South-East and South-South geopolitical zones to set up structures that would strengthen the people’s awareness of organic farming.

Speaking on the workshop, Mr Nnamdi Ibezim, the Regional Director of the Enugu office of Federal Ministry of Agriculture, said that it was in line with the objectives of the Federal Government’s programme on promoting sustainable agriculture.

Ibezim, who rated the country’s agricultural production as high, said that the population of the country was, however, putting enormous pressure on the food supply chain.

He noted that food production in the South East had increased

considerably and pledged that the Federal Government would render the necessary support to farmers in the region.

“The Federal Government’s position is in tandem with the advocacy, especially at this time when we are promoting the export of agricultural produce; we need to meet the international standard.

“There are quality tests for genetically modified (GM) crops but people are careful because of the reliability of the results. GM foods are a global concept that is not bad in itself but we are trying to avoid GM foods as much as possible,’’ Ibezim.

On his part, Mr Emeka Okoli, Director of Technical Services, Anambra Ministry of Agriculture, said that the state government had already adopted the use of organic fertilisers in its agricultural programmes.

He said that the state’s agricultural extension workers and officials had been reaching out to farmers so as to sensitise them to the health and environmental implications of using of inorganic fertilisers.

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PAN to boost local market with 2017 models

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Peugeot Automobile Nigeria (PAN) Limited, the Kadunabased auto giant is set to hit the Nigerian market with different models in spite of the harsh economic terrain. The company looks forward to beef up its models lineup, among which are the 301, which won Car of the Year last year, 508, 3008, 4008 and Partner Tepee.

Coming in three trimsAccess, Active and Allure, the Peugeot 301 comes in two engine variants including 1.2 and 1.6 litre power plants. The 1.2 litre engine comes standard with manual transmission, while the 1.6 litre engine version is equipped with automatic transmission. Its 15 inch alloy rim, and reinforced suspension, it fits perfectly on the Nigerian roads and delivers unbeatable ground clearance.

Other outstanding features of the car include rear parking sensor, touches of chrome, electronic windows and dual air bags, ABS, radio/MP3/CD player/USB Bluetooth etc. The 508

is probably one of the most powerful cars in its category, yet the engine capacity is 1.6 litres. It is fitted with a 1.6 litre turbo engine that delivers more power than most 3.0 litre engines.

The turbo engine in the 508 delivers twice the power of a 1.6, making it more powerful than most cars in its segment. There is also Peugeot 3008, which was earlier launched as

Stallion rolls out made-in-Nigeria Hyundai Grand Xcent To meet up with high demand, Stallion Hyundai Motors Nigeria Limited has rolled out made-in-Nigeria B-segment Hyundai Grand Xcent family sedans to cater for growing demand for functional cars and cushion imminent scarcity due to last year ban on importation of used vehicles through the land borders.

The 1.25Litre Kappa Dual VTVT capacity saloon car is a wholly indigenously assembled Hyundai vehicle, uniquely designed to mitigate eventual surge in demand for family sedans.

Stallion Hyundai Motors Nigeria Limited Head of Sales and Marketing Jatin

Nadkarni who disclosed this in Lagos said: “We are particularly delighted to churn out substantial units of B-segment Xcent saloon cars to cater for the growing need of a highly important market segment in the wake of dearth of such vehicles because of the prohibition of used car imports through the land borders.”

He described the Grand Xcent as a sturdy functional saloon car with the capability of a C-segment sedan, mated to a five-speed manual or four-speed automatic transmission with an entirely new level of art suitable for every day commuting.

an MPV. It made its debut at the Paris motor show in October as a full blown Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV). By the first look, the car looks great with a raised ride height, long bonnet body cladding and roof bars.

All these constitute that the car is more practical than before. The interior of Peugeot 3008 looks like a futuristic design with Peugeot’s latest i-Cockpit

design. The new cockpit is easily accessible by Driver as well as the passenger. There is an eight inch high-resolution screen compatible with both Android auto and Apple Car-Play.

Peugeot has also the 4008. For many auto enthusiasts, especially, those with preference for Peugeot vehicles, the wait is over, as their demand for a Sports Utility

Vehicle (SUV), commonly known in Nigeria as Jeep, has been met by the renowned auto maker. The Peugeot 4008 is here to answer all the questions about off-road and offroad drives.

The new Partner Tepee comes in two trim levels – Active and Outdoor. The entry-level trim equips the Partner Tapee with 15in steel wheel, front fog lights and LED day-run-

ning-lights outside, and inside there is air conditioning, Bluetooth, USB connectivity and cruise control inside. Upgrade to the Outdoor model and you’ll find the Partner Tepee adorned with 16in alloy wheels, dual-zone climate control, parking sensors, electrically folding mirrors, automatic wipers and lights, and Peugeot’s touchscreen infotainment system.

Weststar launches new E Class models in Nigeria The most intelligent business saloon Mercedes-Benz taking a big step into the future with the new EClass. Tenth-generation business saloon delivers stylish highlights with its distinct, emotive design and high-grade interior.

New E-Class also marks the world premiere of numerous technical innovations. They enable comfortable, safe driving on a new level plus a new dimension in driver assistance – among other things.

Complete with infotainment and control systems offering an all new experience. Likewise exem-

plary: a newly developed diesel engine coupled with lightweight design and record-breaking aerodynamics figures set the standards for efficiency in this segment, while

new, optionally available multi-chamber air suspension ensures outstanding ride comfort and driving dynamics.

The sum total of its innovations, including the

Active Lane-change Assistant which allows the driver to steer into the selected lane as if by magic, make the E-Class the most intelligent saloon in the business class.

The new E-Class

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100 Days in Office: Obaseki is a performer -Okaeben

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Assembly passes harmonised local govt levies, charges bill ET 3 Oshiomhole lauds Gov. on performance

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Governor Godwin Obaseki and other Government functionaries in a group photograph with the NABTEB delegation led by Prof. (Mrs.) Ifeoma Isiugo-Abanihe during their visit to Government House Benin…recently

We’ve performed well in 100 days in office, says Obaseki

Stories by Titus Akhigbe Benin

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Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has stated that his administration achieved a lot during its first 100 days in office.

Governor Obaseki disclosed that his administration had been able to come up with reforms and policies geared towards the actualisation of the 200,000 jobs promised during his electioneering campaign.

The governor, who made the disclosure while receiving members of the Alumni Association of the Nigerian Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), said that his goal was to make the state an

economic hub.

Obaseki also revealed that during his 100 days in office, about 200 ‘agriprenuers’ had been identified to utilise 5000 hectares of land for the cultivation of maize and other arable crops.

“We are planning to produce 25,000 metric tonnes of maize this cropping season. We have begun to screen young entrepreneurs and are getting them ready to key into the CBN anchor-borrower’s scheme. We are hopeful that in two cropping seasons we should be able to produce 100 millionaires”, he said.

On the trajectory of his administration and efforts to

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boost power supply, the governor noted that his administration was already wrapping plans up and about to commence execution.

He said that his administration was finalising its first power purchase agreement to boost power generation in the state.

EDSG plans 24/7 power supply ÏÏÏ Governor Godwin Obaseki

of Edo State has disclosed that his administration would in the next one week sign its first Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to ensure 24/7 electricity supply in some parts of the state.

Obaseki disclosed this recently while addressing participants at the on-going Technical and Vocational Education Workshop organised by the state government in Benin City.

According to him, following the strategic dialogue meeting held in the state two months ago and the provisions in our 2017 budget, Edo State is attracting several investors in sectors like agribusiness, power, manufacturing, transportation and ser-

vices.

“We will be signing our first PPA with a Power generating company in a week’s time, which means that within the next three months, we will have constant electricity in some part of Benin City’’, he said.

Speaking on the essence of the technical and vocation workshop, he stated that youths in the state needed to be equipped with the right skills to take advantage of the emerging opportunities in the industrialisation plans of his government.

He, therefore, urged the experts to brainstorm and come up with ideas that will help revamp technical and vocational education in the state.

The Edo State caucus of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has picked the immediate past governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, as the leader of the party in state.

The decision was reached at the inaugural caucus meeting of the party since the coming of Governor Godwin Obaseki, at Government House on Monday evening.

Oshiomhole, who addressed the leaders after the unanimous endorsement, expressed appreciation over the endorsement, declaring that the performance of Governor Obaseki so far is an indication that the leadership of the party did not make any mistake in backing him.

He said: “Obaseki has proven to be a good choice because with the steps which he has taken so far to continue and deepen the developmental strides which the APC represents in this state means he is on course and we are all very happy for it. I want to thank all of you for your support both when I was in office and out of office. It is my strong believe that Edo State will be greater and better under Obaseki and I urge all of us to continue to give him the desired support to succeed”.

The state chairman of the party, Anslem Ojezua, disclosed to the meeting was about the ongoing processes for the nomination of commissioners in the state Executive Council, explaining that guidelines have been given to party leaders across the 18 Local Government Areas and that the response so far has been very encouraging.

“The guidelines were clear enough, most of the choices will be home grown. We will have minutes of meetings where the decisions were taken and all the processes that led to their nomination. It must be ascertained that there was a consensus. The governor also has the prerogative to make appointments depending on what he wants. And I want to say that the responses of our party members have been very encouraging and where there are issues, we will be there to solve the problem,” he said.

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Community leader petitions IG over alleged threat to life ÏÏÏ

The Odionwere of Ogiso community in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State, Pa Nicholas Omoigui, has petitioned the Inspector General of Police over threat to his life and unlawful harassment.

In a petition written by his solicitor, P. Eromosele & Co, and addressed to Inspector General of Police which was made available to journalists, he accused one Odion Obasohan of the same community of threat and unlawful harassment by police officers.

He alleged that Obasohan together with his gang have made life unbearable for him as the Odionwere of Ogiso community.

“He Odion Obasohan is seeing me as a threat to his criminal and nefarious activities regarding land grabbing, extortion, illegal collection of development fees and unlawful trespassing.

“I have severally made complains to Esigie Police station which did little or nothing about the matter, as the alleged Odion Obasohan has openly boasted that the Police station together with the DP0 is under his control.

“Odion Obasohan, who has been named by a confessed cultist as a member, continue to walk the streets despite our complaints to the Police. The Anti-Cultism Department team leader has refused to transfer the reported case to AIG despite our petition,” Pa Nicolas Omoigui alleged.

The community leader appealed to the IGP to as a matter of justice intervene in the case to save their lives as they are no longer safe in the community.

Pa Omoigui also alleged that Obasohan and his group are still busy selling community lands despite Omo N’Oba N’Edo, Uku Akpolokpolo Oba Ewuare II recent ban on CDAs in the seven communities that make Edo South.

Oba Ewaure II had said the ban became necessary for the kingdom to return to its enviable position as the most peaceful, safest and haven for investors.

The Oba equally warned against flouting his order on CDAs, saying that some of them have resorted to using new and conventional nomenclature to replace CDAs. He warned sternly that whoever flouts the order would be sanctioned according to the rules of tradition of the kingdom.

In a swift reaction, Obasohan, denied all the allegations and said he never threatened the Odionwere or anybody’s life in the community as alleged by Pa Omoigui and his group.

He said: “I was elected by the youths in the community in a well organised election to lead them.

“Nicholas Omoigui who claim to be the Odionwere handed over the leadership to my late father who died in 2012. Pa Nicholas Omoigui in a full ceremony handed over to my late father, who was his second in command, when he said he could no longer leave in his house in Ogiso because of the threat of erosion.”

“Pa Nicholas Omoigui relocated to Okhoro and made my father head of the Ogiso community. I have been attacked several times by boys loyal to Omoigui and his colleagues, to the extent I was shot on the head.

“I don’t collect money nor do we threaten people, we are peace loving community. Nicolas Omoigui has taken the community to court; the community has several cases with Omoigui in court as well as my case with him. He is just accusing the police wrongly. The Police are tired of him, “he concluded.

When contacted, the Police said the matter is already before the court of law.

Group pledges support to diabetic patients ÏÏÏ Eghianruwa Diabetic Founda-

tion, a non-governmental and nonprofit organization, has promised to cater for patients of diabetes in Edo State.

President of the foundation, Mr. Ikponmwosa Charley Aghayere, a philanthropist based in the United States of America, made this known in Benin City while hosting Alumni of New Era College in his residence.

Mr. Aghayere, while introducing the foundation said it was established in honour of his Late Mother, Madam Eghianruwa Aigbomonyufumwen.

Aghayere said diabetes is a disease that is responsible for a lot of health issues resulting in death at an alarming rate. He said the disease can lead to loss of sight, kidney failure, complications in injuries among many other challenges and that from his findings and that of experts, a lot of actions needs to be taken to help in the man-

agement of the disease as well as its prevention.

He informed that the aims and objectives of the foundation which has been in existence since 2015 is to provide needed information to the general public on the likely causes of the disease, its prevention and management.

Aghayere said the foundation is out to help sufferers in getting access to quality drugs and equipment for the management of the disease by collaborating with drug manufacturing companies around the world. He advised the regular testing for blood sugar in the body by all as regular as possible in order to detect early signals.

He called on the government, corporate organisations as well as kind hearted individuals to seek ways of partnering with sufferers to make life meaningful through the foundation.

Census serves as document for policy formulation, economic planning –Obaseki Stories by Titus Akhigbe Benin

ÏÏÏ Edo State governor, Mr. Godwin

Obaseki, has reiterated the importance of periodic census, noting that it serves as a document for policy formulation and economic planning for the government.

Obaseki, who said this when he received the delegation from National Populations Commission (NPC) recently, also said that this function cannot be over-emphasised.

Speaking at the Government House in Benin City, the Edo State capital, Obaseki assured the delegation of his administration’s readiness to support them effectively in Edo State’s Enumeration Area Demarcation (EAD) in preparation for the proposed 2018 Nigerian population census.

He called on the commission to collaborate more with local govern-

ments in the state as this would make their job easier and will enable them to get more data on deaths and births in the areas.

Meanwhile, the leader of the NPC delegation, Dr. Tunde Lakoju, who is also the Federal Commissioner, representing Edo State in the Commission, said the NPC has commenced EAD in Edo State as it prepares for the proposed population census in the country in 2018.

Lakoju said that Egor Local government Area of the state had been successfully demarcated while the demarcation of Esan West Local Government Area would commence soon.

He said: “The demarcation exercise for the 2018 proposed population and housing census in Edo has commenced. One of our most important pre-census activities is the delineation of the county into EDAs. The EAD essentially serves as the foun-

dation building blocks of the census pyramid and architecture, hence the commission places very high premium on the exercise. In the EAD exercise, no human beings are counted, we only count and number houses and demarcate the areas using satellite images”, he said.

Speaking further, he added that the results of the EADs would be used to generate zip codes for the country and the EADs would also serve as a national frame for future censuses.

Lakoju said that the commission had proposed the Biometric option for the census to overcome challenges of previous censuses and to guarantee accurate and reliable data.

He, however, solicited for the state government’s support to ensure adequate security for the demarcators and appealed to Local Government Areas and traditional institutions to provide accommodation for field staff of the commission while the exercise lasted.

Rev Fr. Andrew Obiyan administering the ash on Edo State Deputy Governor, Rt. Hon. Phillip Shaibu, at the Government House Chapel in Benin to mark the beginning of the Catholic Church 40 days lent period.

Shaibu receives committee report on harmonised revenue law ÏÏÏ Deputy Governor of Edo State,

Rt. Hon. Philip Shaibu, has received the report of the technical committee for the implementation of the harmonised revenue law in the state.

The report is expected to provide a general framework for the full implementation of the new tax and revenue law which would give a human face to harmonised revenue collection in the state.

Chairman of the technical committee and outgoing Chairman, Edo State Internal Revenue Service, Chief Useni Elamah, briefed the Deputy Governor, who is the Chairman of the main Committee, on the outcome of their assignment.

Chief Elamah explained that due to some challenges envisaged in the use of Point of Sale (POS) machine in some of the Local Governments, the committee had to recommend a 21- day pilot programme to be run

in the three metropolitan local government areas of Oredo, Egor and Ikpoba Okha.

He said the arrangement was necessary due to the fact that revenue collection has been put on hold since January across the state coupled with the fact that some of the local governments do not have the financial capacity to take off with the planned automated platform.

He said during the 21 days of the pilot test, more sensitisation campaign will be carried out to ensure smooth take off in the rest local government areas with the training of revenue officers across the eighteen local governments, assuring that the Edo State Internal Revenue Service will take the responsibility.

Elamah presented samples of aprons and other forms of identification to be used by revenue officers to distinguish them both at local and

state levels, assuring that nobody can easily fake it.

He also explained that the collections so made goes into IGR accounts and that the POS will be configured to specific locations with the money going into a non-checking account.

He added that as part of their recommendations, the state shall be responsible for the enforcement and monitoring of the process to ensure checks and balances.

Having received the report, the Deputy Governor thanked the Committee for their resourcefulness and diligence.

He said the report is an important document that will help government finally put an end to illegal rates and levy collection in the state with a common understanding of the distinctions between local and state government in revenue matters.

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Obaseki woos Japanese investors, guarantees safe environment Stories by Titus Akhigbe Benin

ÏÏÏ Edo State Deputy Governor, Rt.

Hon. Philip Shaibu has said that the state government will not relent in its efforts to completely put in place all enabling laws to guarantee safety of lives and property to boost the confidence of prospective investors.

Comrade Shaibu gave the assurance when he received the Japanese Ambassador to Nigeria, Sadanobu Kusaoke, on behalf of the state Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, in Government House, Benin.

Shaibu, who warmly welcomed the Japanese to the state, urged them to encourage their countrymen to explore the abundant business potentials in Edo State while assuring them of safety of lives and their investments. He added that the governor is working round the clock to ensure that the necessary laws that guarantee favourable investment climate are

put in place.

He particularly drew the attention of the visitors to three key sectors of the economy- Agriculture, Education and Green Energy which might be of interest to them, insisting that Edo State remains the most peaceful state in the country.

Shaibu said: “We wish to partner with Japan and strengthen our international relations through business ties. And it might interest you to know that in addition to the peaceful nature of the state, Edo State is strategically located such that it connects the four geographical zones of the country. And we are also building an industrial park at Gelegele sea port to aid the industrialisation process.”

In his response, the Japanese Ambassador, who said he was visiting for the first time, told the deputy governor that their visit was to intimate the Governor with their interest to enhance ties between their country and the state.

Kusaoke also said that Japan is cur-

rently paying attention to Edo State because unlike some other states, Edo State is peaceful and has some attractive potentials.

“Your Governor visited Japan and he has been talking about industrialisation process and agric potentials, hence we are here to see how we can do business together,” he said.

The deputy governor later led the visitors to the palace of the Oba of Benin, His Majesty, Oba Ewuare II on a courtesy call where the monarch also urged the foreigners to invest in Edo State, citing cultural renaissance and industry as areas of mutual interest.

The Benin monarch who specifically requested the Japanese Diplomat to advise the palace on the possibility of building a twin city (Benin) in Japan, also urged them to site a big industry in Edo State to help fasttrack industrialisation process in the land to foster closer ties, just as he saluted the technological strength in the Japanese.

L-R: Governor Godwin Obaseki being welcomed by the Onogie of Igueben, HRH Ehiziogie Eluojerior I; while the Speaker of the Edo House Assembly, Dr. Justin Okonobo, and other chiefs watch during the Governor’s visit to the College of Education Igueben…recently

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Pay us our pension, pensioners beg Gov. ÏÏÏ

The Chairman of Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP), Edo State Chapter, Mr. Pullen Noruwa, has passionately appealed on behalf of State and Local Government pensioners to well-meaning people of Edo State to prevail on Governor Godwin Obaseki to expedite action in paying outstanding pensioners’ benefits (arrears and gratuities) due to them.

He made the appeal in a statement issued in Benin City after the review of the critical condition of pensioners owing to Government’s insensitivity and unwarranted delay in settling the debts owed to teeming population of pensioners despite

availability of bailout funds of Nl1.38 billion.

Noruwa observed that the bailout funds reportedly released by the Federal Government to many states including Edo State to pay up debts owed to pensioners and workers has regrettably remained undisbursed by the Edo State Government.

The Chairman condemned the double standard perpetuated in governance by successive rulers wherein State Civil Servants, Local Government and Judicial workers, who served diligently and retired, are suffocated and subjected to deprivations, ailments and untimely deaths while elected and appointed political office holders are comfortable.

Nation-building: Obaseki commends NIPSS

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win Obaseki, has said that strategic policy is one of the key factors that would help to sustain the socio-economic activities of any government.

Governor Obaseki gave this admonition in his office when he received the Alumni Association of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Plateau State, who were in Government House, Benin City, on a courtesy visit.

Obaseki, who expressed delight over the visit, said the membership of the association was a clear attestation of why the public has held the alumni in high esteem.

The governor, who commended the association for producing one of their own as immediate past governor of the state, said his administration is focusing on the structural change of Adams Oshiomhole.

He added that in the area of capacity development, agriculture, mining and infrastructure, his administration will take advantage of the available potentials in Edo being a strategically located state.

While expressing his administration’s determination towards creating 200,000 jobs, Obaseki said government had engaged Azura to boost the state power plant with about 450 megawatt.

Other areas to be focused on, ac-

cording to him, include the preparation of 5,000 hectares of land in March for this year’s cropping season and the ongoing business and vocational workshop organised by the state government to address issues militating against primary education.

The leader of the delegation and one-time governor of Plateau and Katsina states, Major Gen. Lawrence Onoja (rtd), said the purpose of the visit was to congratulate him on his victory at the poll, and also to appreciate the achievements recorded by his predecessor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, who is an alumnus of the association.

He charged the governor to build on his legacy, adding that Oshiomhole’s style of leadership has brought transformation to the people of Edo State.

He used the opportunity to advocate peace in Africa, stressing that the recent killings of Nigerians in South Africa is quite barbaric and unacceptable.

Among the alumni present during the visit were Major General Airhiavere (rtd); former Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs. Josephine Anenih and the Executive Director of Edo State Board of Internal Revenue Service, Chief Oseni Elemah.

Assembly passes harmonised local govt levies, charges bill Obagie Nokenkporo CDAof dissolved the community, the Odionwere,

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The Edo House of Assembly, on Tuesday, passed the Local Government Harmonised Levies, Rates, Fees and Charges Bill.

The Speaker of the House, Dr. Justin Okonobo, announced the passage of the Bill at plenary.

He said that when endorsed by the governor, the Bill would be known as Edo State Uniform and Harmonised Levies, Rates, Fees and Charges Collected by Local Government Law 2017.

He said that it stipulated that all local government councils in the state should constitute an Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) Committee to collect levies and charges.

Okonobo explained that the Bill gave the IGR committee power from the operations of the local

government council authority.

He said that the Bill also stipulated that no person(s), aside members of the IGR committee, should forcefully collect or attempt to collect levies and charges while armed.

According to him, any person(s) who collects or attempts to collect levies and charges while armed, commits an offence and shall be imprisoned for 25 years without an option of fine, when found guilty.

The speaker, thereafter, directed the Clerk of the House to make clean copies of the bill for presentation to the state governor for his assent.

Earlier, Majority Leader of the house, Mr. Foly Ogedengbe, (Owan East-APC) moved the motion for the house to dissolve into

the committee of the whole to consider bill clause-by-clause.

Mr. Bright Osayande (Ovia North-East 1- APC) seconded the motion for the consideration and passage

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Association (CDA) of Obagie Nokenkporo in Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area of Edo State has been dissolved.

Making this disclosure shortly after a well-attended meeting by elders

Suspected herdsmen kidnap 3 teachers in Ovia ÏÏÏ Three secondary school teach-

ers in Ebomisi Secondary school, Ugbogiobo village in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State have been abducted by suspected herdsmen.

The three male teachers were said to have been abducted on Monday while returning from school.

Three other female teachers who were said to be in the company of the abducted teachers were allowed to go by the abductors.

Students of the school on Tuesday abandoned classes and took to

the Benin-Akure express road to protest the abduction of their teachers.

The students set up bonfires on the road and left passengers and motorists stranded on the road for several hours.

Some of the school teachers who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the kidnappers have demanded N10 million as ransom on each of the teachers.

When contacted for comments, Edo State Police spokesman, DSP Moses Nkombe, said he was not available for comments.

Pa Moses Omoregie Okhiaro, stated that the decision was in line with the directive of Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II. Speaking further, Pa Okhiaro stated that Mr. Unity Erharuyi and Friday have ceased to be the CDA chairman and youth leader respectively, adding that the dissolved CDA and youth leader no longer have the powers or the authority to sell land in the community.

On the appointment of a new Okaghele (Okaevbo), the chairman stated that a decision to that effect was yet to be taken, noting that whoever is playing that role now is strictly on ad-hoc basis.

While warning members of the public to take note and stop any transaction bordering on land with the former CDA members, he thanked the Benin monarch for this support and intervention.

The Edo Times 4 Hon. Chris Okaeben is a member of the Edo State House of Assembly representing Oredo West Constituency. In this interview with TITUS AKHIGBE, the lawmaker speaks on Governor Godwin Obaseki’s 100 days in office among other issues affecting the polity.

Excerpts:

What is your assessment of Governor Godwin Obaseki’s 100 days in office?

The assessment is continuous and of course by the grace of God, what one can say is that the state is fortunate to have someone like the Governor at this crucial time of our nation’s history and our state history.

There’s no doubt that Obaseki has indeed vindicated me as a person, one as a legislator, two as one of the representatives of his local government and three as that man who went through the rain, sun, round the markets, going on my knees to beg for support for him and the people kept asking me, how much can you vouch for this man and I did say to them that I have absolute confidence in the capacity of Godwin Obaseki.

Of course, his actions and level of performance today speaks volume of as to what he has done in Edo State.

First of all, there has been a lot of workshop, lectures and seminars, which has been very rare in this part of the country. There have been a lot of consultants, investors and experts who have besieged Edo State, and of course, he has proven from his track record, that yes, as an investment banker he knows what it takes to attract business and build and boost the economy of Edo State.

In the 100 days that Governor Godwin Obaseki has been in office, I have been privileged to go for several meetings in different recreational places, eateries and hotels, all one saw were different investors discussing about the economy of Edo State and how they can add value. For me, that is a man who has set the ball in centre of the pitch and has blown the whistle, the match is on-going.

Investors who have probably not appreciated the need to invest their money in Benin, and I remember some people back then saying, what is there to do in Benin, what are the potentials to make me bring my franchise to Edo State and Godwin Obaseki has provided that platform now by giving the enabling environment to Agro farmers; by giving C of O and of course Adams Oshiomhole gave a lot C of O, and Godwin Obaseki is still enforcing those C of O to ensure those people come fully to berth in Edo State.

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100 Days in Office: Obaseki is a performer -Okaeben in this state is that today in Edo State, one of the biggest subsidiaries of the NNPC which is the NPDC is cited in Edo State. All contractors who do business with the NPDC they fly above our state, they come in with private jet and even chartered aircraft. They go for their meeting in NPDC and they are out, they take their tax out of our state and also our economy.

Well of course, they have hidden under the excuse that Edo wasn’t viable, but I bet to say that even NPDC as a subsidiary of NNPC has enjoyed the goodwill of the people of Edo State, because Edo State is on record as the most peaceful state to do business in Nigeria, and of course the hospitality which we are known for. Our people have lived very well towards that direction, we are not violent, we are very accommodating, we welcome everybody, whereas in Delta and Rivers states respectively before you even put a pipe on the ground, you must negotiate with the host state, and the host communities and of course restive youths, who must always tell them before they start operations, but here, we are glad and I have been among those who have also advocated, because we are going to have an interactive session with the NPDC. Most of their companies and service providers do not have an outlets offices in Edo State, and of course they are denying our teeming youths employment and if they have liaison offices here, some of our youths who have gone to school and can also add value could get jobs. So those are the things Obaseki must look out for as regards the private sector, because the public sector cannot bring about the well-deserved development in the state. You know in the western world, what is the business of the government with petroleum? It is the private sector that controls these areas.

Coming back home, the man Godwin Obaseki has encouraged Agro farmers and Agro investors to come into Edo State, and the turnout has been very impressive and wonderful. Upon assumption of office, he also appreciated the need to enhance and rehabilitate the Benin Technical College, so that we can bring our technical and vocational studies. With the technical and vocational studies, this will further enhance those who want to be involved in skilled labour, and can learn and be self-sufficient in it. That is why the Governor is on the same page with our Royal Father, Oba Ewuare ll, with the issues that bothers on the CDA’s and today there is a bill in the State House Of Assembly, which has passed through the first reading and by the grace of God that will be expressly

Okaeben passed so that we can begin to manage a lot of our youths who have been misinformed and ill-advised as to them going after something that will give them a better future as against something that is just temporary. A lot of them live on selling of lands and the money to go to the nearest car shop and buy a car of their choice. Instead of them to even be investing that money, they use the money in hotels and night clubs, and the Governor is trying to re-orientate and rehabilitate our youths. That again is an achievement by the Governor.

What’s your take on road rehabilitation in the state under Governor Obaseki?

The roads in the GRA Benin at a point in time was almost a national anthem in the mouth of some many inhabitants in the area and even some places within the Benin metropolis. Some days ago, I tried to access Wire road and use it to connect Ibiwe and they told me construction work was going on in Wire road and I said, “Oh My God”. Again, I tried to access Plymouth road through the Palace and they told me work was ongoing; even Oghosa and Obetoer by Royal Marble used to be a refuse dump, but now the Governor has been able to arrest those areas of failed portions on roads across the Benin metropolis. If you go to Aikwonbare by Westley Hotel, those areas are now wearing a new look, and I can go on and on. I remember upon his assumption to office, I had the opportunity of having a brief chat with Obaseki, and he said that he already had a blueprint of what to do in the state, and he gave his

The Governor is on a mission in Edo State, to take us to the next level, and so the fear of the association of Politically Displaced Persons is that the capacity of Obaseki is much more than what any of them possesses. word. He said: “My brother, at the end of 24 months and if I do not convince at least 65 percent of Edo people, then it means I have not fulfilled my campaign promises”. So that is a man that has his eyes on the ball.

He has visited the proposed site for Tayo Akpata University, and I can assure you work would begin immediately and blueprints and designs and the consultants are all on the board already, including Benin Technical College which has a totally different team altogether, and so I can say that in the 100 days of Godwin Obaseki in office, a lot has been done.

What’s your take on the opposition’s allegations that Governor Godwin Obaseki is running Edo as a sole administrator?

On the opposition, what they have is an association of Political Displaced Persons, but in any society there is bound to be opposition and critics. For us as a Government, let the eyes be on the goal.

It took Oshiomhole about 6

months and some weeks to appoint commissioners. As a leader, you must take time to choose who you work with, in order not to work with liability, hence he has delegated the leadership of APC to summit names of prospective commissioners who will look outside the box and bring new ideas to the Governor and the party is working on that. So, I’m sure by the first week of March, we would have those names, and we would ensure that none of those names presented to us has “Toronto certificate”, because if we receive any of those certificates, I’m sure with President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption crusade, no one can evade justice anymore. So you must understand that the Governor is on a mission in Edo State, to take us to the next level, and so the fear of the association of Politically Displaced Persons is that the capacity of Obaseki is much more than what any of them possesses.

What are your last words?

I am not surprised because we are in society where some of our elders and leaders, those who we respect so much have further destroyed our values. Edo State has been a place where even those that are not your biological parents correct you when you go wrong, but nowadays, nobody cares. We are now in a system when a father sees a small boy under 21 drives a Camry car home and the father is not interested in where the child got the money from and they say bring cartons of beer and the father is dancing, when he does not know where the son got the money from. Today, we are even in a state during the electioneering campaign, I heard the some members of the PDP open their mouth that Adams Oshiomhole did nothing in Edo State, then I said to myself nothing they will say that can ever bother me “because nothing good comes out of Egypt. They have decided to remain in Egypt until we flush them out from the political system of Edo State.

And of course they are almost going out of the system as they are now fighting for relevance. As you are aware, the authentic Chairman of their party has been unveiled and they do not have a coordinator for their association here in Edo State.

That is why I say to people that when you bend down to look at another man’s anus, don’t forget yours is also exposed and you that point one finger at Godwin Obaseki, also remember your other four fingers are pointing back at you. Even in the Bible, Jesus Christ said if there be any of you who is free of sin, let him cast the first stone. What happened thereafter? The man Godwin has done well and we are going to be seeing new projects in Edo.

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I have a good body figure waiting for endorsement call –Minjin Former Kennis Music act, Adewale Lawson Junior, So what will you say inspired the song?

It was the beat that inspired the song. I never really anthem across the shores of the country. Now signed on Swaga Records, Minjin who is a famous musician is not just an act to be side-lined in the and creativity cannot be measured when it comes

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What inspires your fashion?

like and people see it and say you look good. However,

ordinary on other people will look good on you.

Most artistes are only interested in getting their

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end? on billboards and you wonder how they ended up there because they are

that wants to sign you will want you to acquaint people

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2Face Idibia lends hand to charity cause

African Queen Crooner, 2face Idibia, has donated N3.5 million to United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, to provide lifesaving assistance for the internally displaced people in Africa.

singer, who had a sore throat after his performance at a Lagos concert over the weekend, visited gos on February 27 for the announcement along with his manager, Efe Omoregbe

several charity organisations before, but this is the highest.

the UN Refugee Agency record of being at the fore front of displacement

Fela re-awakens on stage: Smooth FM to stage award –winning Broadway musical in concert Great music never dies. It lives on after the last notes have fallen silent.

Over the years, artistes have risen and fallen but very few have left our hearts still humming to their symphonies.

One voice, who is indeed a music legend is Fela Anikulapo- Kuti.

In a chaotic world burdened with non-stop sic was borne of humanity and an overrid-

want to help the people who have been forced to it is an issue I care about and this donation is one of The singer, also, announced a charity concert – planned to hold in June – to raise more funds for the IDPs while offering royalties from his music.

the tide of the tempests tormenting civilization.

His melodies has over persistent rebirth in several forms. The pioneering father of Afrobeats, is

In celebration of this legend, Smooth FM is set to present the award

in Lagos from April 13th-15th 2017.

The concert which was conceived by iconic Bill T. Jones, will hold at the Eko Convention Centre.

Consisting a blend of Jazz, Funk, African tivist and a Revolutionary Musician. It will feature series of his most captivating songs and imaginative staging hereby presenting a provocative hybrid of concert, dance and musical theatre.

Tango with me! More than just an emotional film, a movie with a difference hilarious part of the music is the part that he said pretty face go old, big boobs go fall, big buttocks go scretch (whatever know), her beautiful shape will change. But a good woman will never change, she will give you happiness, joy, and

Solidstar has released yet another interesting music video and he tags this one “Good Woman.

The music is viewed by over 53,597 people, and was produced by Achievers Entertainment on October 21st, 2015.

The music is one of a kind. It emphasizes the importance of a good woman. It further illustrate the enviable qualities of a

good woman, that a good woman is industrious, hardworking, committed, a care-giver, a good cook etc.

Indeed a good woman

should never let her go because they are worth keeping.

The music you go for beauty it will surely fade away. The

indeed cannot be bought with money, because the rich also cry. You may have the money yet, you are not happy. You can also have the money but a bad woman will not allow you to enjoy it and live a happy life.

According to him he has gone through a lot in the hands of women and that he has learnt his lessons that pretty girls are something else, that all they want is to be recognised. He said he wants a good woman that

will make him feel better and give him a good life.

The lyrics of the song is deep and very clear, and is worth listening to the beatings and sound

stop shaking my head.

The background is also good, its shows every actions of the song, there are no dancers in

a quiet video. The video informative. I give it a 9/10.