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Motolani Oseni, Lagos The Monetary Policy Members (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) haS condemned declining banks’ credit to the private sector, as government borrowing continues to gain momentum. https://plus.google.com/+DailytimesNgr/posts

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This is even as the apex bank on Tuesday lifted the inter-bank foreign exchange market with a fresh injection of $210 million.

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possible threats to accretion to external reserves due to softening crude oil prices.

The CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, in a statement obtained from the apex bank official website on Tuesday, said the private sector credit (PSC) of about two per cent was significantly below the target of 12.4 per cent.

“I note the unsatisfactory pace of PSC and continue to emphasise the importance of enhanced credit flows to strategic private sector ventures through an effective collaboration of all stakeholders,” Emefiele stated.

He acknowledged the risk aversion of banks to supposedly high-risk real sector ventures, stressing that improvements in banks Non-Performing Loan (NPL) position and continuing efforts at de-risking the target activities which are steps in the right direction.

His words: “We expect that this could begin to bolster domestic investment, household demand, and aggregate productivity while accelerating economic diversification, and ensuring strong and inclusive growth.”

The Deputy Governor, Economic Policy, CBN, Dr. Okwu Nnanna, in its statement said the financial system remained resilient, despite concerns about NPLs in the banking sector.

He noted that sustained regulatory oversight is reducing the NPLs, and the relative rebound in the oil sector would further

strengthen financial stability.

He posited that credit to the core private sector has remained sticky upward, as government borrowing continued to gain momentum.

Another member of the committee, Robert Asogwa, in a statement, said: “On the banking system, CBN staff report indicates a modest improvement of the indicators as compared to the situation at the MPC meeting of November 2018.

“Both the Capital Adequacy Ratio and the NPLs Ratio showed positive signs in December 2018 and partly attributed to some prompt corrective actions taken by the Central Bank.

“Of key concern, however, is the trend in total bank credit which reduced in November 2018 and further in December but surprisingly total bank assets increased between November 2018 and December.

“The inverse movement between bank total assets and bank total credit at the same time may simply be as a result of banks’ excessive interest in securitization and other nontraditional banking activities rather than real sector lending.

“The negative implications of this credit reluctance by banks in a period of economic recovery have been discussed severally and remain significantly limiting for the economy.”

In addition, Prof. Festus Adenikinju noted that aggregate credit expansion to the real economy continues to pose serious challenges.

According to him, Net credit growth to the private sector

is lower than the provisional benchmark for 2018.

“The high-interest rate spread and the high lending rates are challenges that require new and innovative approaches.

“The proposed National Microfinance Bank; strengthening of the existing Micro Finance Banks, and other initiatives by the CBN to promote financial inclusion and access to credit by those in the rural areas, semi/urban; and even the poor areas in the cities across the country at affordable interest rates would boost real sector activities at the MSMEs level,” he stated.

The Committee had acknowledged the strategic role of the private sector in economic growth and remained concerned over the slow growth in credit to the private sector through last year, while noting the sudden increase at end December 2018.

The MPC commended the initiative of the Bankers Committee in addressing the phenomenon of low credit to the small and medium scale enterprises through partnering with the Nigeria IncentiveBased Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) to establish a national Microfinance bank with branches in all States and Local Government areas of the Federation to provide low interest rate lending to small scale businesses.

A further initiative by NIRSAL with the CBN to derisk lending to small scale enterprises is also being finetuned.

The committee had voted to retain its rates.

FG protests inhuman treatment of Nigerians, as Ghana deports 723 The Nigerian High Commissioner to Ghana, Michael Abikoye, has protested the inhuman treatment of Nigerians by the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) with the deportation of 723 Nigerians between 2018 and 2019.

Abikoye said this at a meeting between him and the Comptroller-General of GIS, Kwame Takyi, in Ghana, with report obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Abuja.

The High Commissioner said 723 Nigerians were deported on alleged illegal stay, cybercrime and prostitution between the January 2018 and January 2019.

According to him, 81 Nigerians are deported on alleged cybercrime and illegal stay in January, while 115 have so far been deported in February on the allegation of overstay and prostitution.

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cautioned against inhuman treatment of Nigerians by Ghana, warning that any form of torture or ill treatment of Nigerians would not be acceptable to Nigerian Government.

He said, though the High Commission would not condone any form of criminality on the part of Nigerians, saying inhuman treatment and alleged torture of some Nigerians in Ghana would no longer be tolerated.

“Although, the GIS had linked prostitution and cybercrimes as some of the reasons for the deportation, it is improper to deport Nigerians for alleged illegal stay in Ghana.

“There are several Ghanaians living in Nigeria and the Nigeria Immigration Service has never deported any of them on ground of illegal stay, because of a sense of brotherliness between our countries,” he said.

The Ambassador, therefore, presented to the CG a copy of the Mission’s records on deportations of Nigerians from January 2018 till date.

He expressed displeasure that Nigerians were not being fairly treated, stressing that there had been reported cases of molestation, harassment and torture of Nigerians by GIS officials, especially those awaiting deportation at the GIS’s detention facility.

The Ambassador also showed photos of some of them who sustained injuries on their legs, arms and eyes in the process of the torture.

According to him, the inhuman act was against the United Nations Convention against Torture.

He appealed to the CG to prevail on his officials to treat Nigerians and other ECOWAS nationals with human face, caution and not as common criminals.

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Ballot box snatchers will be punished legally- INEC boss Tunde Opalana, Abuja The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, on Tuesday, said that anyone who engages in ballot box snatching during the rescheduled general elections will be punished legally in according to the stipulations of the Electoral Act as amended.

The INEC chairman said this at the at the International Conference Centre Abuja while updating the press on preparations of the Commission towards Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections in response to question on President Muhammadu Buhari’s order to military to deal decisively with ballot box snatchers.

He also debunked speculations that the INEC National Commissioner incharge of Logistics, Prof. Okechukwu Ibeanu, was being interrogated by the Department of State Security (DSS), stressing that no official of the Commission was invited by security agencies.

The chairman said “no Commissioner of INEC was picked up or being interrogated by security agents”.

He specifically said “Prof. Ibeanu is as we speak in his office at the Commission”.

Yakubu pointed out that plans by the Commission to correct its steps consequent upon the botched polls last Saturday has been strictly followed to the letters.

To this extent, he promised that from today, Wednesday, all election materials will be transmitted from local government areas across the country to polling units.

Despite the fact that INEC has identified eight local government areas in Borno State that has security challenges and being tormented by Boko Haram insurgents, Yakubu promised that election will take place in the troubled state.

Speaking on logistics infractions that led to the rescheduling of last Saturday’s polls, he admitted mix up of election materials especially the mistake in transmitting parcels of materials meant for Katsina State to the Federal Capital Territory.

While explaining that there was no way the mix up could have affected the election, the chairman assured that

such mix up will not happen during the March 9 governorship and State Assembly elections.

He as well assured that there is no way the firm contracted to provide smart card readers and PVCs could have an input in the configuration of such machines for the election, even as he disclosed that “98 per cent of the Smart Card Readers have been reconfigured” in preparation for the presidential and National Assembly elections rescheduled for this Saturday.

He said: “Last Saturday, the Commission, after extensive review of our preparedness for the 2019 general elections, decided that it was necessary to reschedule the elections by one week. As I explained to stakeholders, we were constrained to shift the polls due to severe challenges and lapses we experienced with arrival and distribution of sensitive materials, as well as the fires that gutted some of our offices in quick succession, destroying several election materials”.

In order to achieve its set objectives, INEC, Prof. Yakubu said, had identified six areas covering three broad areas like deployment of materials, movement of personnel and reconfiguration of Smart Card Readers.

“Let me therefore present to you the level of implementation so far achieved as follows; “By 4pm yesterday, all issues relating to the delivery of the materials were identified and virtually addressed.

Ballot papers, result sheets and a host of non-sensitive materials are now in location across the 36 States of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory FCT. “Our State offices commenced the process of inviting stakeholders to the Central Bank of Nigeria to examine the retrieved materials deployed last week and to witness the batching of materials according to Local Government Areas LGAs. This is ongoing at the moment and is expected to be completed today, Tuesday 19, February 2019.

“The movement of materials to LGAs for batching according to Wards and Polling Units shall take place on Wednesday 20th and Thursday 21st February 2019.

“All Registration Area Centres RACs are to be activated by 9.00m on Friday 22nd February 2019. “Personnel and materials should be at the RACs by mid-day on Friday 22nd February 2019. “Refresher training for ad hoc personnel should take place at the RACs on Friday 22nd February 2019.

“Personnel and materials must arrive at the Polling Units latest 7am on Saturday 23″ February 2019. Opening of polls nationwide will take place at 8am on Saturday 23rd February 2019”, he declared.

Explaining further on the rationale for a week long postponement of the polls, the INEC Chairman said: “You would recall that in my address to stakeholders, I mentioned that we intended to reschedule the elections for just 24 hours to enable us to deliver the final batch of sensitive materials for the elections. However, our ICT team notified us that it would require more time to reconfigure the Smart Card Readers in time for the elections. Let me explain why.

“The Smart Card Readers (SCRs) are configured to only open for use at 8am on Election Day, and to automatically shut down by 10 pm. This is designed to forestall any illegal use of the SCRs before the appointed time of elections.

“There are roughly 180,000 SCRs to be deployed for the elections and the ICT team said that they would require 5-6 days to complete the configuration.

I am glad to say that as at today, about 98% of the SCRs have been reconfigured and we are confident that by tomorrow all would be ready, which is a day earlier than scheduled. ” “Following requests by some stakeholders last Saturday and further consultation with political party leaders, the Commission has approved that campaigns by political parties and candidates can resume immediately for the first set of elections. Consequently, campaigns for the Presidential and National Assembly elections shall now end at midnight on Thursday 21st February 2019 while campaigns for the Governorship, State Assembly and FCT Area Council elections shall end at midnight Thursday 7th March 2019.

Accordingly, media organizations are at liberty to accept, publish, broadcast and circulate campaign materials until the specified end of campaigns.

“Preparations for Governorship, State Assembly and FCT Area Council elections are well underway. Already, the sensitive materials for the elections have started arriving at various locations for onward movement to various Central Bank branches across the country.

“Indeed, some of these materials arriving through our airports have been erroneously construed by some people as materials for the elections holding this weekend. I want to reassure you

EFCC kicks against judgment on Maina, vows to appeal The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it has noted with concern, the judgement of the Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, in which Justice Folasade Ogunbanjo restrained the commission from declaring the chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, Abudulrasheed Maina, wanted.

The judge also gave an order of perpetual injunction, restraining the EFCC and its affiliates or related bodies from further declaring Mr Maina wanted in relation to the issue of the pension scam.

The anti-graft agency in a statement on Tuesday said: “As a commission, we state that such a pronouncement amounts to a clog on the wheels of our operations in execution of our statutory duties. The judgment must not be allowed to stand because it is not only a miscarriage of justice but grossly inimical to the culture of corrupt-free society which the Commission is striving so hard to enthrone. We will therefore, appeal the judgement.

“We further wish to state that we will not relent to do all that is required within the ambit of the law in our avowed commitment

to bring every Nigerian with illgotten wealth to justice,” the EFCC said in a statement Tuesday night.

The EFCC had in 2017 declared Maina wanted, following his refusal to honour the commission’s invitations.

But in his bid to evade the long arm of the law, Maina, on September 5, 2018, in a suit no: FHC/ABJ/CS/957/2918, asked the court to decide whether the commission can lawfully exercise powers of declaring him wanted, either on its official website or any other media platform, or “harass him.”

Yakubu all that all materials for the rescheduled Presidential and National Assembly elections next Saturday are already in the States ready for deployment to LGAs, Ward and Polling Units.

“We have learnt a lesson from the preparations for the elections holding this weekend. For this reason, we shall start the movement of materials for the next elections early to ensure that nothing disrupts our process.

“While we fully understand the disappointment and even anger that followed that rescheduling of the elections on 16th February, I wish to appeal to stakeholders to be more dispassionate and circumspect in their comments in order not to overheat the polity.

“The Commission is focusing on the elections to be held on 23rd February and 9th March 2019 to ensure that they are free, fair and credible. We urge all Nigerians to participate fully in the elections, notwithstanding the disappointment caused by the rescheduling of dates”, he added.

He said the commission would continue to speak to Nigerians daily to let them know the extent of readiness of the commission.

Meanwhile, both the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and PDP national chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, have urged the military and other security agencies to conduct themselves professionally and disregard President Muhammadu Buhari’s order asking them to deal ruthlessly with would-be ballot box snatchers.

Rather, they insisted that the law should be allowed to take its course in prosecuting electoral offenders.

The PDP leaders berated President Buhari for giving undemocratic order capable of truncating the thin peace at this Electoral period and cautioned him not to let loose anarchy in the country during the upcoming elections.

Recall that Buhari had on Monday at a national caucus meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja said, “Anybody who decides to snatch boxes or lead thugs to disturb the election, may be that would be the last unlawful action you would take. I have given the military and police the order to be ruthless. I am going to warn anybody who thinks he would lead a body of thugs in his locality to snatch boxes or to disturb the voting system; he would do it at the expense of his/her own life”.

Atiku said Buhari’s actions and utterances since he mounted the saddle in 2015 have been painful reminders of

the era of military dictatorship, adding that it is shocking for any head of state to utter such words in a democracy.

He urged Nigerians not accept this from President Buhari, adding “We have fought more ruthless dictators than himself”.

“General Buhari has consistently violated the constitution, he failed to uphold the rule of law. Recent instances include the unconstitutional suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria a day before he was supposed to inaugurate the committee for the election tribunals that will decided any appeals or whether our elections were subject to manipulation, thereby crossing the immutable line that divides the executive from the judiciary.

“When you people are talking about democracy, I have always said that Gen. Muhammadu Buhari is not a democrat, he has never been a democrat. We started the fight to drive the military, he was never there, he never participated.

You can see that he just wore the garb of democracy so that he can come back to power and do whatever he is doing.

So Gen. Buhari is not a democrat, he doesn’t believe in democracy, he is a lip service, he is more of a power monger than a democrat.

“A precondition for free, fair and credible election is that the people are able to freely vote the candidate of their choice. You owe it to the people to let them give their verdict in the same way that you were elected. If you do so and if you win, then the people will commend you for it. Otherwise, history will condemn you for it. But before history does that, we will condemn you for it”, Atiku added.

The party chairman, Prince Uche Secondus said Nigerians were still in shock as a result of the order, stressing that the same President who has been “off duty” since the needless bloodletting in various parts of the country over the years, could give what amounted to shoot-on-sight orders against ballot snatching.

Secondus said: “By that directive, ordering soldiers to kill our citizens without recourse to the law and with impunity, the President has unwittingly given licence to APC leaders to carry military personnel on Saturday.

“The agenda of that directive is clear: to scare away voters and agents, that we have directed to defend their votes, so as to give way to a military protected political thugs to come into the polling booths, and implement their result replacement strategy.

“The President’s body language alongside that of his party hierarchy,

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Atiku aims to set Nigeria on fire to become President, APC alleges

Says $111m cash to configure Card Reader raises fresh alarm

Tom Okpe, Abuja The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has stated that the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has no other aim than to set the country on fire to become President.

In a press statement at his Aso Drive office Annex in Abuja on Tuesday, Oshiomhole alleged that the PDP and Atiku introduced thuggery, institutionalised it and hoping to continue with it.

He also noted that the accusation of $111m against the major opposition, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its Presidential candidate to configure Card Reader is raising fresh fears.

He said: “In the aftermath of the configured card readers recently recovered from PDP agents in some states, the PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has gone to town with face-saving conspiracies that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has imported slow-working card readers from China which will be deployed to the South- South and

South East which Atiku considers his “stronghold”.

“Atiku also alleges a plan to shut down communication on Election Day. How illogical that a party in a contest with clear superior numerical support would shut down communication on Election Day. Will the communication shutdown affect only the PDP while leaving APC supporters and agents? Nigerians can see through the infantile lies.

“Nigerians will recall that the APC had earlier reported the PDP’s plot before last Saturday’s postponed elections. The recent arrest of several armed PDP political thugs and recovery of INEC card readers and arms from PDP agents in some states points directly to the PDP’s plan as revealed by the security report.

“Atiku has called on the president to retract his instruction to security agencies regarding violence, ballot box thieves, and other electoral malpractices.

The question is how such instruction disturbs anyone that is truly interested in free, fair and credible elections. We reiterate the resolution of the Monday’s meeting of the APC expanded National Caucus which urged the security agencies to step up their activities by ensuring that

all those involved in violence, ballot box snatching, falsification of results, vote-buying and other election illegalities should face the full weight of the law. It is a shame that PDP is kicking against this. We are not surprised because PDP has marshalled plans to get to power by all means possible. The option of one man one vote is not on the PDP’s table”.

Meanwhile, the ruling party in a press statement on Tuesday, signed by the National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Issah- Onilu, said it is clear that the PDP has no plans to win the elections through legitimate votes, but through illegally procured votes.

The statement reads: “Atiku has admitted what we already know that he is not popular by claiming he has two geopolitical zones while the APC has the four other geopolitical zones. On Election Day, Atiku and the PDP should prepare for the shock of their lives. The South South and South East are not oblivious of the unprecedented developmental achievements recorded in the zones under the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC administration, compared to the PDP’s wasted years. The good people of the South South, South East and indeed all the

geopolitical zones will speak through their legitimate votes, not the procured ballots planned by the PDP. “The PDP’s illegal plot requires improved surveillance by our security agencies particularly the Department of State Services (DSS), Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and allied agencies to check illicit financial flows and movement in the lead up to and on Election Day. “On INEC’s part, following the unfortunate last-minute postponement of the election, the electoral body must realise that it has a lot to prove to the Nigerian electorate that it is still able to conduct credible elections. A first step will be that the electoral body identify and change its officers who have now beyond doubt become partisan and are actively working for partisan interests.

“PDP Tuesday’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting has achieved only one thing: Atiku and PDP sank into a new low of rudeness and incivility. They showed acute disrespect to the office of the President with the choice of words employed. This is the same office they intend to occupy”.

Presidency reiterates Buhari’s warning to ballot box snatchers The Presidency has reiterated President Muhammadu Buhari’s comment that anyone who dares to snatch ballot boxes during next weekend’s elections will be doing this for the last time.

It said President Buhari’s comments should be seen as a strong message against the long history of “savagery associated with elections in the country.”

Speaking on Monday, Buhari had delivered a blunt warning that, “Anybody who decides to snatch boxes or lead thugs to disturb the election, maybe that would be the last unlawful action you would take.

He added: “I have given the military and police the order to be ruthless. I am going to warn anybody who thinks he would lead a body of thugs in his locality to snatch boxes or to disturb the voting system; he would do it at

the expense of his/her own life.”

The president’s remarks at a meeting of the ruling All Progressives Congress on Monday has been criticised by many who argue that such declaration may lead to mob justice and arbitrary killing of innocent persons.

Speaking to State House Correspondents on Tuesday, presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu, recalled some past elections in parts of Nigeria, during which innocent voters lost their lives while ballot boxes were being snatched by armed thugs.

“Snatching ballot boxes often entails putting the lives of innocent Nigerians at risk,” he said. “About 10 years ago, evidence was brought before an election tribunal from one of the states in North Central of the gruesome killing of 26

prospective voters by ballot box snatchers.

“Their modus operandi is well known. They storm election venues in commando style, overwhelm the law-enforcement agents and seize ballot boxes leaving a trail of death and injury,” Shehu said.

According to him, “Anyone who dares to put the lives of innocent citizens at risk in their desperation to rig elections, must be prepared for the possibility of losing their own lives because our security agents will certainly not stand by, clap for them and watch them kill and maim.”

He added that President Buhari had the safety and security of Nigerians uppermost in mind when he made the comment, and should be praised rather than criticised for issuing this stern warning to potential ballot

box snatchers.

Shehu further expressed concern about those attacking the president’s comment, and their worry over the fate of anyone caught snatching ballot boxes.

“This sounds like members of the opposition, specifically the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP who have perfected plans to rig the elections and to snatch ballot boxes. They can tell that President Buhari is not prepared to tolerate their antics this time around, and they are afraid.

They have shown their intent,” he said.

He said no one had anything to fear from the President’s comments if their conscience and intentions are clear.

“Let’s just have free and fair elections and no one need worry about anything,” he said.

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Abikoye expressed displeasure on the long detention of Nigerians in the GIS custody after proper documentation and issuance of Emergency Travel Certificate for their repatriation by the High Commission.

He appealed that considering the poor state of the GIS’s facility; the Ghana Immigration Service should expedite action in their early repatriation to Nigeria immediately after the issuance of Emergency Travel Certificates.

In his response, the CG acknowledged the existing bilateral relationship between the two countries as earlier pointed by Mr. Abikoye.

According to Mr Takyi, the GIS are being compelled to carry out repatriation because of the conduct of some Nigerian nationals in Ghana.

He alleged that besides engaging in cybercrime and prostitution, “some Nigerians had become laws in themselves;

they do road blockages in major Ghanaian streets where they drink, fight and stab one another.

“This unruly behaviour” which contravenes the local laws in Ghana has led to directive from higher authority for their arrests and eventual deportation of those who do not have the requisite immigration papers.”

The CG, however, promised to investigate alleged torture of some Nigerians.

He, however, showed the Ambassador a video of some Nigerians, obstructing justice by preventing the official vehicle of the GIS the right of way after arresting a Nigerian in Kasoa area.

The report said the incessant deportation of Nigerians and alleged inhuman treatment of some of them, had once again brought to fore, the urgent need for Nigerian Government to hasten on earlier proposal to fix a date for hosting of the Ghana and Nigeria Permanent Joint Commission meeting.

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appeared remorseless for the damage done to our democracy or the huge private and public resources wasted by the inability of APC hawks acting as contractors and consultants to allow INEC to operate.

“I can indeed make the conclusion, that from inception, President Buhari, was not ready for free and fair elections, otherwise he would easily have signed the amended Electoral Act, which would have enabled peaceful and hitch free elections in 2019.

“President Buhari’s disregard for institutions of states, which started with the attempt of the Executive to hijack the Legislature, has continued unabated, with the illegal suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, and the swearing in of an acting CJN”.

The party chair insisted on

paramilitary units to electoral duties, as, according to him, elections are civil activities, which the police are best trained to handle.

He also sought assurances from the Federal Government that all communication assets – fixed and mobile, including the Internet, will not be interrupted or compromised during the elections.

The party chair similarly urged adherence to steps taken by the government to safeguard the conduct of the elections, including restriction of movements and closure of the nation’s borders with the Republics of Chad and Niger.

The meeting, which lasted several hours, was attended by key party stakeholders, including governors, federal lawmakers, former cabinet Ministers and members of the Board of Trustees.

Polls shift: NYSC expresses concern over corps members’ plight Says their security, welfare, a priority

By Ukpono Ukpong, Abuja Sequel to the uninspiring pictures and tales of woes experienced by many corps members assigned to INEC duties in several states across the country on the eve of the postponed general elections, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) management has expressed deep concerns, noting that discussions are ongoing with leadership of INEC towards forestalling future occurrence of the sad incidence in the rescheduled elections.

In a statement signed by its Director, Press and Public Relations, Adenike Adeyemi, and made available to The Daily Times in Abuja, she stressed that the unpleasant occurrences which have been adduced to the logistic challenges which the INEC experienced are totally at variance with the spirit of the MoU the scheme signed with INEC ahead of the pools.

NYSC therefore thanked the parents, individuals, groups and other stakeholders for the show of concern for the well-being of the corps members and also

assured all Nigerians that its commitments to their welfare is unwavering.

“The attention of NYSC Management has been drawn to uninspiring pictures and tales of woes experienced by many corps members assigned to INEC duties in several States across the country on the eve of the postponed general elections.

These have been confirmed as authentic situation reports and have since been brought to the attention of the INEC Management.

“While these incidents have

been adduced to the logistic challenges which the INEC experienced, the NYSC wishes to note that the unpleasant occurrences are totally at variance with the spirit of our MoU with INEC. Therefore, we are currently engaged in discussion with INEC Management towards ensuring that these and all other sundry issues bordering on the welfare and security of corps members are quickly addressed and redressed before the rescheduled elections,” the statement read.

To this end, the scheme in the statement, said it is therefore

expecting an improved safety and welfare provisions by INEC in the rescheduled elections.

“In view of the above, Management wishes to use this medium to give further assurances to the corps members and the general public that the safety, welfare and remuneration shall be provided by INEC as agreed and in accordance with the spirit of the MoU. “In this regard, INEC has assured Management that it has commenced payment of training and feeding allowances to the corps members nationwide, as well as the election duty allowances.”

Recall that in the build up

to the participation of corps members as ad-hoc electoral staff, the Director-General of the NYSC, Major General S. Z Kazaure and members of Management, had embarked on a nationwide tour to meet with INEC State officials, heads of security agencies, community and opinion leaders to obtain assurances on the welfare and security of corps members before, during and after the elections.

In these meetings, NYSC received full assurances on adequate arrangement for transport, accommodation and security, especially at the Registration Area Centres (RACs) throughout the period.

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1 year after, Group tasks FG on Leah Sharibu’s release Urges Buhari to assure Nigerians of her return if re-elected

Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja Coalition of groups under the aegis, Coalition for Leah, Christian Lawyers Fellowship of Nigeria (CLASFON) and Advocates for Peoples and Community Rights have called on President Muhammadu Buhari and all the presidential candidates in the Feb. 23 elections to assure Nigerians that they will bring back Leah Sharibu if elected.

This is coming exactly one year after she was abducted by the Boko Haram terrorists with other girls at Government Girls Science Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State.

Addressing newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday, the groups demanded for the release of Leah, the only Christian girl left in captivity for refusing to deny her Christian faith.

Speaking on behalf of the group, Mr Emmanuel Ogebe ask President Buhari and all the presidential candidates to tell Nigerians how they intended to rescue Sharibu and others still in captivity.

He said, it was disheartening that

throughout all the campaigns, none of the candidates said anything about ensuring Leah and other abductees’ release.

“We are urging the political parties and their candidates that now that the campaigns have reopened, they should not begin any campaigns without addressing us on the future of Leah.

“Leah has been gone for too long, so tell us how you are going to bring her and the remaining Chibok girls back.

“The fact that they were able to bring back the 100 girls that were adopted alongside Leah show that they have the capacity to release Leah.

“The government should not give an impression that Leah is forgotten because she is a christian”, Ogebe added.

Also speaking, Mr Godswill Iyoke said that Sharibu, in refusing to renounce her faith, demonstrated uncommon courage that should be emulated by politicians who easily abandon one political party for another.

He added that she had demonstrated

that she was a highly principled Nigerian, willing to pay a price for it and should be brought back to contribute to the development of the county.

Meanwhile, friends and members of Dapchi community in Yobe on Tuesday gathered at the home of Leah Sharibu, demandibg for her release.

Muslims and Christians also offered prayers for the release of Leah at her parent’s home in Dapchi.

Secretary of Association of Parents of Abducted Dapchi Girls, Kachalla Mohammed regretted the Federal Government’s efforts to rescue have not yielded dividends.

Kachalla noted the government needs to act fast to save her from Boko Haram and bring joy to the traumatised family.

“We are fasting and praying in the mosques and churches for Leah. Her parents are also praying in Yola.

“We have organised ourselves to show our displeasure over the slow rescue of Leah from Boko Haram by the Federal Government. We are looking forward to Leah’s releases.

Short News Kebbi records first Lassa fever case Haruna Aliyu Usman, Birnin Kebbi The head of clinical services of the Federal Medical Center, Birnin Kebbi, Dr. Teslim Lawal has confirmed the first Lassa fever case in Kebbi State.

Teslim gave the confirmation at the Federal Medical Center, Birnin Kebbi when Daily Times visited to confirm the rumour making the rounds in the state capital.

He said that the signs manifested when the patient under observation began to urinate blood; his blood sample was taken to the Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) where he tested positive of Lassa fever.

“Soon as the patient was confirmed positive the hospital authorities quarantined the patient to avoid the risk of its spread and health professionals of the Centre managed and treated the patient that was discharged on Friday,” the Doctor said.

For professional reasons Teslim refused to mention the name of the patient but added that another one is under observation by the centre.

Kebbi state ministry of health frustrated efforts to get the epidemiology unit to speak on the matter as the Director, Public Health, one Bubuce said only the Permanent Secretary or Director Clinical Services has the right to speak on the matter but confirmed off record.

Recent attacks hinders release of 150 ex-Boko Haram members, says Commandant Andrew Orolua, Abuja The Commandant of Operation Safe Corridor (OPSC) Camp in Mallam Sidi, Gombe State, Colonel Beyidi Martins, has said that 150 de-radicalized ex-Boko Haram members who went through a de-radicalization programme could not be discharged because of the resurgent attacks in the North East.

State governments and other stakeholders who received such persons are also having problem addressing inherent bureaucratic issues associated with the release.

Even as National Security Council meeting held on September 2015 emphasis on Deradicalization, Rehabilitation and Re-integration (DRR) programme continue to linger hoping that it will facilitate safe passage of over 2, 000willing insurgents and additional 200 who surrendered in Borno State last week.

Col. Martins said 260 have been treated comprising the pilot set of 6 associated and long detained persons. Another batch of 95 graduated in February 2018 and handed over to their states-Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno and Yobe, are fully re-integrated and gainfully re-settled.

The last set comprising 150 graduated on November 24, 2018 are still in the camp due to recent attacks but will be released to their states who have expressed willingness to accept and re-integrate them as the situation improves.

OPSC is a joint multi-national humanitarian operation in line with International Humanitarian and Human Rights Laws and the Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria, conceived as a soft strategy to break the ranks and fighting will of Boko Haram.

APC campaign directorate charges CSO, observers to interrogate electoral process Tom Okpe, Abuja

L-R: Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson, State Chairman, Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Comrade Samuel Numonengi, Mr. Datonye Alambo of Radio Nigeria, and his counterpart of the Niger Delta Television (NDTV), Yenagoa, Mr. Nikade Anderson, during a Press Briefing by the governor, over the postponement of the 2019 general elections, at the Government House, Yenagoa.

Tension in A’ Ibom as CUPP, IPAC rise against plan to redeploy REC Isaac Job, Uyo

There is tension in Akwa Ibom as Coalition of political parties has kicked against some moves by All Progressives Congress party (APC) to deploy the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mr. Mike Igini in the state.

Addressing a press conference in Uyo yesterday under the aegis of Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), the Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC) and the conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP), the parties said there were disturbing attempts by the opposition political party in the state to impugn the integrity of Mike Igini, the resident electoral commissioner in the state.

The parties also noted that the opposition groups in the state never raised concerns about the REC’s integrity but only resorted

to blackmail when attempts to make him compromise in the performance of his duty failed.

“We are however worried that the opposition just like other parties should be glad that there is an umpire in Igini’s mould who is committed to ensuring credible, free and fair elections by seeking ways of multiplying such reputation in the commission rather than work to have him conform especially in this era when Nigerians have grown an all-time-high electoral consciousness,’’ the parties stated.

The state chairman of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) and publicity secretary of IPAC, Mr Aniebiet Emmanuel told the news conference that the protest staged yesterday by the opposition in the state was “an attempt to blackmail the electoral umpire for refusing their advances to rig the polls in their favour, a move that

was designed to corroborate the outburst from Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC).”

According to him, “our position is that INEC should refuse sacrificing her independence to assume appendage roles to men who rather than work for the common good of the nation are bent on destroying what is left of our national fabrics for their personal gains,’’ he said.

The chieftains of political parties and their governorship candidates said they have resolved to defend the nation’s democracy and principles of free choice by ensuring nothing untoward is imported into the conduct of the forthcoming election.

According to them, they have promised to abide by the rules of engagement and would stoutly oppose and frustrate every plot aimed at derailing the peaceful conduct of the 2019 polls.

Ahead of the rescheduled election on Saturday, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Directorate of Contact and Mobilisation has called on Civil Society Organisations (CSO) and Election Observers to feel free to interrogate the electoral processes.

Director of the Directorate, Hajia Hadiza Bala-Usman, gave the charge while speaking with journalists on Tuesday in Abuja when she visited the YIAGA Election Situation Room of the Directorate.

She said: “As I mentioned earlier, we are keen to have a transparent, free and fair election, so we encourage observers, CSOs, as we encourage any form of interrogation of the process.

“I am here today to lend to the voice of the APC to show encouragement to CSO, to encourage them to ensure that whatever is happening at the polling units are highlighted for the world to see. They should ensure that whatever incidences that occur are brought up for the necessary agencies to take action”, she said.

Hadiza Bala Usman further stressed that highlighting happenings at polling units was necessary to ensure a free, fair and credible elections adding that the Directorate was however, looking forward to INEC to brief Nigerians daily on its preparations for the elections and to ensure that materials were deployed to the right places and at the right time.

Violence Against Persons Law: Edo First Lady, Attorney General charge police on enforcement Salute Obaseki’s courage, pro-women policies

Wife of the Edo State Governor, Mrs. Betsy Obaseki, has charged the Police in the state to ensure strict enforcement of the Violence Against Persons (VAP) Law. Mrs. Betsy gave the charge during a march to protest acts of violence against persons in the state, which coincided with the signing of the VAP Law by the Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki.

The protest was also held against the inhuman treatment meted to a young girl, Miss Ada Favour, over allegations that she stole a mobile phone.

Also, the Edo State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Prof. Yinka Omorogbe, urged the police to ensure that they properly prosecute cases of crimes against persons, even when they go against the grain of societal acceptance, noting that justice must be served in all cases.

Mrs. Obaseki said the state governor is gender-friendly and would work to advance the interest of women, adding, “We have a gender-friendly governor, and for these things to be happening in his time, it shows that they are about to end.

We have to know that we have a governor who loves to promote women issues.”

She urged the Police to ensure a thorough investigation of the assault on Miss Ada Favour and ensure that justice is served on the matter.

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Why can’t Nigeria get its election timetable right?

Fisayo Soyombo

Had everything gone to plan, a new or recycled Nigerian President would have emerged by now. But it wasn’t to be. Roughly five hours to the scheduled commencement of voting on Saturday morning, Mahmood Yakubu, a Professor and Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), announced a one-week postponement, citing sabotage, bad weather and other logistical challenges. But the issues run deeper.

This is the third consecutive general election to be postponed in Nigeria. In 2011, voting was already in progress when INEC halted proceedings, sensing that the inadequacy of ballot papers could derail the integrity of the vote. In 2015, the country’s highest security officials — and it is widely believed they had the backing of former President Goodluck Jonathan — boxed INEC into a six-week postponement on the claim that they couldn’t guarantee protection during elections unless they were given time to further decimate Boko Haram. But, even if the security chiefs hadn’t forced INEC’s hands, the election would have failed spectacularly — because INEC was not ready Yakubu’s election game plan lacked flexibility. With the benefit of hindsight, it is clear it focused mainly on best-case scenarios, giving little thought to bad-case or no-case scenarios. Suspected incidents of arson led to the destruction of vital electoral materials in three local governments in Nigeria’s

South-East and the North-Central, but had there been a plan for last-minute loss of vital materials, the pace of readiness in those places would not have been affected. INEC created five zonal airport hubs to facilitate the delivery of electoral logistics round the country. But it had no fallback options for flight cancellations, which can be triggered at any time by bad weather. Maiduguri and Yola, two of those airport hubs, have been raided by Boko Haram this month, yet there was no backup plan for the worst, such as another raid by the insurgents.

There’s no denying that INEC left far too much in the hands of fate, but the umpire has at times been a victim of desperate political power tussles at the expense of national interests. Adams Oshiomhole, Chairman of the ruling party, President Muhammadu Buhari himself and Senate President Bukola Saraki were all part of events that set INEC back by many months in 2018. First, it was the Executive, for whatever reason, that didn’t include INEC’s supplementary needs into the 2018 budget. Again, after presenting the 2018 budget to the National Assembly in November 2017, the Executive didn’t immediately submit a supplementary budget, waiting a further seven months before finally presenting it in June 2018. By then, tension between the Executive and the Legislature was sky-high due to suspicions Senate President Saraki was about to dump Buhari’s party for the opposition. Saraki failed to

consider the supplementary budget for INEC. Instead, he announced his defection from Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC) to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and ordered an abrupt and lengthy recess to prevent impeachment by majority members of Buhari’s party. The Senate eventually approved a budget of N189billion for INEC in October, but by November 2018 it was still dilly-dallying over the mode of sourcing payment; that was five months lost from date of budget presentation, and close to a year wasted in all. Crucially, November 2018 was four months to the presidential election; meanwhile, the INEC smart card reader takes six months to make! Incidentally, those at the heart of that atrocious politicking have been some of the most vociferous critics of the election rescheduling.

Despite all these, recent history shows it isn’t all doom and gloom for Nigeria yet.

After the 2015 postponement, Attahiru Jega went on to lead INEC to organise an election that saw an opposition candidate defeat an incumbent President for the first time in Nigeria’s democracy. It may not have been perfect but the opposition couldn’t have won if the election wasn’t largely fair. Yakubu can do the same. However, for waiting till the 59th minute of the eleventh hour before announcing the postponement, voter apathy is already brewing. Of the 14.28million voter cards added to the voter bank ahead of this year’s elections, 10.87 million (representing

76.12%) had been collected as of the February 9 deadline. The percentage comparison to the overall 2015 figure shows a decline of 5.86%. This postponement coupled with the non-decentralisation of voting — voters must travel to the original locations where they registered — means INEC can expect a significant downturn in voter turnout on February 23.

When the 2019 elections are done and dusted, Africa’s largest economy must hold “important conversations” about its electoral process, as cited by Yakubu. The budgeting and funding process should be made immune to the whims and caprices of the Legislature or Executive; one law compelling budget presentation and passage within a certain timeframe takes care of that. It’s time for voting to get electronic, consequently decongesting polling booths and removing a major percentage of INEC’s logistic burden.

Nigeria’s diaspora makes the sixth largest remittance in the world yet it is sidelined from voting — something well in progress in smaller African countries such as Botswana, Chad, Central African republic and Cape Verde.

But, the most important of all, Nigeria’s election dates need sacrosanctity. Everyone knows that Election Day in the US is the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

By default, the next Election Day is November 3, 2020. It will be so shameful if Nigeria can’t achieve something similar, beginning from 2023.

INEC: Beyond the postponement

Amir Abdulazeez

The first person that came to my mind when I was given three lengthy ballot papers to vote in the 2015 Presidential and National Assembly Elections, was the typical uneducated Nigerian voter. While I cast the votes, I had many thoughts; how will the average unsophisticated voter sort out and know the difference between each ballot and what time will it take each voter to locate the party he wants and vote for it without spoiling the ballot? How can we guarantee the credibility and integrity of an election largely decided by the bandwagon effect? Why will INEC ignore the nature of the Nigerian voters and combine many elections together just because it apparently wants to save cost?

True to my thoughts, when the results for that polling unit was made available later in the day, close to 10% of the votes were invalid.

Apart from APC and PDP, the two leading contenders, no party was able to secure more than five votes out of a possible 1000 in that polling unit.

Sometimes, you sit down and wonder why we deliberately do certain things that are neither useful nor necessary? Why do we need to add to our logistical burden by having close to 100 useless parties that are not serving any purpose? Will Nigerians still not have abundant reasonable options in five to ten parties? How has the political system improved with the continuous registration of these briefcase parties? Now, imagine the printing, organizational and other logistical costs that INEC will significantly cut if it were dealing with only seven parties? Apart from cost, the time and energy that will be saved is too huge to be ignored. Imagine how less confused will the voters be and the few postelection litigations that will be involved.

This makes it imminent for all stakeholders in the executive and the legislature to make sure the Electoral Act and Constitution are amended to accommodate only a manageable size of performing political parties. While winning elections is not the only function of political parties across the world, in Nigeria it seems to be the determining factor not only for recognition but for meaningful existence.

With the general lack of ideological basis in the Nigerian Political Party System, only winning

elections can be used to determine the strength of the political parties. For instance, the APC may be ruling Imo and Borno State, but almost nothing in terms of policies will show that the two states are being governed by the same party.

When Professor Attahiru Jega’s tenure expired as INEC Chairman in June 2015, it took President Buhari up to late October to appoint his substantive replacement; many National Commissioners and State Resident Electoral Commissioners were appointed several months after the tenure of their predecessors expired. Some states were without RECs for more than a year. These things may look inconsequential over four years, but the truth is they are the kind of issues that accumulate to mar painstaking preparations of several months.

Many Nigerians never expected the 2019 General Elections to take place without an amended, comprehensive and reforming Electoral Act in place. Unfortunately, the bad politics between the presidency and the National Assembly had greatly ensured that we are deprived of one. How does it feel to go into an election under an act that doesn’t even properly recognize the card reader which is currently the most important electoral instrument? How about operating under a system that doesn’t even have decisive punishment for election riggers?

We are all witnesses to how the 2019 Election Budget presentation and consideration was deeply politicised. We clearly saw how selfish interest superseded national interest in broad day light. We all saw how INEC got its funding very late because some people who love themselves more than their country also double as our leaders. Given circumstances like these, we must start thinking of a more reliable funding mechanism for the commission in the future. Let us not even talk of the lingering judicial battle over election sequence between the Presidency and INEC and the National Assembly on the other. In general, politicians have not been helping matters for INEC. The Zamfara and Rivers State APC cases are clear testimonies to this.

This is not to absolve INEC of all blames.

However, it is to acknowledge the fact that

the dilemma the commission found itself was caused by so many other stakeholders whether directly or indirectly. One of the shortcomings of INEC is that it has for long retained staff that are largely corrupt, dormant and incompetent.

That election is a four year exercise doesn’t mean staff should abandon their duty posts for months until when the election is near.

This has contributed in largely making INEC full time staff at some levels being little or no different from the Ad-hoc staff in terms of performance and readiness for the job. With such kind of staff, many of INEC’s problems are from within.

Historically, to be fair to INEC, the first time it really had the independence to prepare and conduct an election was in 2011. Not much can be said of 1999 when it was under the direct supervision of the military, but it is clear to all of us that in 2003 and 2007, results were apparently written even before the elections.

During those days, INEC need not to care about any preparation or lack of it, nor of the consequences that comes with. Those elections had a predetermined outcome. Abel Guobadia and Maurice Iwu’s INEC apparently didn’t care of any credibility or legitimacy issue that will arise from the elections they conduct.

If we observe, any election post 2007, have seen INEC becoming gradually more independent and hence its preparations mattered. All the postponements and inconclusiveness of elections conducted in recent years are perhaps a testimony that the commission can now take decisions with little or no interference and that it is willing to do things right. In 2011, when we began to get a semblance of an election, the commission had to postpone the exercise after polling had begun. Therefore, as painful and costly as these postponements are, they represent some progress on the part of INEC. The only problem is when it keeps repeating them.

It is surprising that this government under President Buhari, who was a serial victim of Electoral fraud have done close to nothing towards electoral reform. One of the key attributes of periodic exercises is improvement upon past experiences until a certain level of perfection is attained. It is sad that the current INEC doesn’t represent a better one than 2015,

even if it is not worse.

Already, this election is expected to witness a huge voter apathy even before the postponement and with the postponement, it can only get worse. How Nigerians are gradually getting disinterested in the voting and political process is a subject of discussion for another day. However, before we set to comprehensively address all these issues by 2023 General Elections, there are some issues the recent last minute election postponement

by Yakubu’s INEC had raised that need to be urgently addressed.

Henceforth, INEC must consider postponement as the very last resort.

Depending on the law, if conducting the elections can hold over three voting days in certain areas to take care of unforeseen problems, so be it. All ad-hoc staff should be recruited and trained at least two weeks before the election and then the postings may be delayed to avoid compromise. The commission can conduct a final review of its preparedness at least a week before the election and come out with a solid decision that will not change except in the case of a serious emergency beyond its control and not logistics.

With people risking their lives by travelling long distances to vote, INEC must consider making the PVC flexible enough to allow people vote anywhere they are at least in the presidential elections. It must also look at the possibility of allowing voting by postage from any location around the country and make arrangement for transparency in handling posted votes. With the amount of money INEC is gulping, it has no excuse in failing to do things as simple as this.

INEC can look into the possibility of taking advantage of technology to make room for online voting. A secured platform can be set up which a voter can log in, enter his PVC details and vote the candidates of his or her choice and find a way of making the process effective, transparent and reliable. We are in the 21st century; we cannot afford to be wasting lives and resources just because of a voting process whose outcome doesn’t even guarantee the safety and quality of those lives.

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Editorial Commentary Lafiya Dole, UNICEF and matters arising

Times Guest Columnist Festus Adedayo

Apart from the booming of bombs and painful cries at the Northeast theatre of the Boko Haram war that the world has been accustomed to since the war of terror berthed on the Nigerian soil, another booming, shocking and destabilizing bomb exploded at the war front on Friday. This time, it reverberated beyond the theatre of war, across the length and breadth of the world. A terse press statement signed by Onyema Nwachukwu, a colonel and Deputy Director of Public Relations, on behalf of the Theatre Command of the Operation Lafiya Dole, had ordered the world-acclaimed United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) out of the precinct of war. Its reason for this was a very weighty allegation that UNICEF was aiding the insurgents by training spies who had affinity with the dreaded militia. Seismic an allegation, no doubt, Operation Lafiya Dole Commandant further alleged, in concrete terms, that the Nigerian Army had credible information that UNICEF was “playing the terrorists’ scripts” by engaging in acts that are “unwholesome practices that could further jeopardise the fight against terrorism and insurgency as they train and deploy spies who support the insurgents and their sympathisers.” Proceeding on this path, the Army also alleged that UNICEF “tend(s) to benefit more from expanding the reign of terror on our people.”

The training of spies, the Commandant alleged, was sequel to information within the reach of the Command which “specifically indicates that the organisation commenced the said training on Wednesday 12 December 2018 at the Ministry of Finance Conference Hall, Musa Usman Secretariat, Maiduguri and ended on 13 Thursday December 2018.”

The Army’s statement immediately courted diatribes across the globe. International human rights organisation, Amnesty International, said it was an attempt to demonize the humanitarian agency and intimidate it from carrying out its globally recognised assignment, while tagging the allegations against the body as absurd. On the effect of this ostensibly depthless decision, Amnesty said it “will, in fact, deprive those whose lives have been devastated by the Boko Haram conflict from receiving much-needed humanitarian assistance.” However, the Commander shortly reversed its order, basing it on “intervention by well-meaning and concerned Nigerians” and that it had “convened and held an emergency meeting with representatives of UNICEF” on Friday evening. The Presidency had before this apparently spineless about-turn, through Garba Shehu, in an apparent attempt to thaw the audacious ice of this order, said a meeting was afoot to mend fences between UNICEF and the Nigerian Army.

For a patriotic Nigerian who subscribes to the Walter Rodney thesis of how Europe underdeveloped Africa and any student of Claude Ake who over the years gobbled the late scholar’s theories of how developmental problems in Africa were sustained by powerful global interests, especially in his thesis that “power is everything and those who control the coercive resources use it freely to promote their interests,” there would be a patriotic urge to offer Nwachukwu and his Commander a bottle of cold beer for their unqualified patriotism. However, the issues involved in these very weighty allegations, the peremptory ordering of UNICEF out of this theatre of war, vis a vis the very delicate nature of Nigeria’s position on the global radar, far outweigh all these. In fact, the reversal of the order by the military notwithstanding, the cause for the order and the mind-set behind it are in need of urgent prognosis for the sanity of our nation and the future of Nigeria’s international relations.

Queer as the Lafiya Dole commandant’s allegation may sound, a patriot may want to give him the benefit of the doubt. What exactly is the composition of the Nigeria Army’s alleged security information about UNICEF? Upon what premises did it base this decision to expel the globally acknowledged humanitarian agency? Does logic justify this allegation? Placed side by side Afrocentric concoctions native to us which reason fabulously that the west gangs up against Africa’s development, based on an alleged projection that a developed Africa could threaten the west’s neo-colonial aspirations, there is the probability that this thesis may

fructify in the minds of Nigerians, in support of the Army’s expulsion. On remembrance of Nigeria’s security forces’ penchant for acting abysmally contradictorily to the norms that sane and reasonable organizations, as well as nations are used to, there may be the need to tarry awhile before applauding this move which ordinarily looks skewed and less than sensible.

Many of the humanitarian agencies operating in Nigeria had earlier taken up cudgels against the activities of the Nigerian Army in this fight against insurgents. For example, in a report it entitled They betrayed us, Amnesty International had alleged that girls fleeing the insurgents were being raped by Nigerian soldiers, starved and were coerced to exchange food for sex. Thousands of these women are reported to have lost their lives in their quest for survival in the so-called Internally Displaced People’s Camps where the Nigerian federal and state governments claim to be funding with billions of Naira. The report further claimed that the Civilian Task Force (Civilian JTF) “separated women from their husbands and confined them in remote ‘satellite camps’ where they were raped, sometimes in exchange for food.” If you recall the atrocities of the Nigerian Army in Odi and Zaki Biam, you will not put past Nigerian soldiers the tendency to act like a recount of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Conrad’s book, a narration of a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, is woven across a central theme of the submission that little difference exists between so-called civilised people and savages.

For us as Nigerians, the diffident ordering of UNICEF out of the war-torn area in the Northeast can only be a throwback to a similar order and disdain for the rest of the world by General Sani Abacha. Abacha, you will recall, ran a government that disdained the world. Accused of gross human rights abuses which reverberated across the world, especially after he ordered the hanging of Ogoni activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, ostensibly as a result of the tobacco-pipemouthing writer’s unqualified opposition to the exploitation of oil and the attendant despoliation of the environment by multinational oil companies, among others, the Abacha government became repeatedly condemned by the US State Department. Its attempt to court Americans like Louis Farhakan, Jesse Jackson notwithstanding, as well as his strong support for the Economic Community of West African States by sending Nigerian troops to Sierra Leone to fight the needless war in the tiny African country, Abacha was hated across the globe and Nigeria became a pariah in international reckoning. Thus, the question to ask is, was Nigeria ready for the angst of the world again by its expulsion of UNICEF or the Army Commandant was too illiterate about the purport of such explosive action which has gross international proportion? Did he get the buy-in of President Muhammadu Buhari in this order or was it just one of those off-keyed military actions taken at the thick of frustration? Was it as a result of a sudden loss of mental direction, a momentary skew occasioned by the pressure of war?

From whatever prism it is looked at, there is no lafiya in this order by the Theatre Command of the Operation Lafiya Dole to expel UNICEF from the Northeast and there is an apparent chaos in the thought process of whoever incubated such a senseless command. Lafiya is a Hausa word denoting peace. The Nigerian Army itself has been grossly derelict in providing succour for children of its officers and men killed by these dreaded insurgents, a brief within the responsibilities of UNICEF. It is apparent that because there is no camera beamed on its actions by local Nigerian journalists, the Nigeria Army is uncomfortable with global searchlight beamed on its atrocious actions on helpless civilians, in the name of fighting the war. It apparently fears that the information the world gets on its gross human rights abuses were supplied by UNICEF and its allied group. Nigeria stands to suffer immensely from this action of ordering a respected body like UNICEF out of Nigeria and harangue of Amnesty International. What that means is that the world would continue to look at us as some alien country where there is dissonance between the brain and the brawn.

Our POSITION Out-of-school children and future leaders

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igeria with the current figure of 13.2million out-of-school children occupies first position on the table of countries with the highest number of out-of-school children in the world certainly calls for sober reflection.

More worrisome is the fact that the figure instead of decreasing in the last few years is rather increasing. This statistics which represent approximately 20 per cent of the world’s population of such children is an alarming and ticking time bomb that will spell doom for the country if urgent steps are not taken by relevant authorities to address the situation.

We observe that governance in Nigeria has become a circle of family business where politicians secure the future of their children to the detriment of poor Nigerians.

Also, inadequacy of funding, lack of teaching tools and modern classrooms, poor numerations and the acute shortage of qualified teachers are some of the factors leading to the fall in the standard of education in Nigeria.

Recently, the Multiple Indication Cluster Survey report for 2016 (MICS 2016) revealed that out of the 11.5 million of out-of-school children in Nigeria, Northern states have the highest rate with an average of 69%.

The latest data MICS 2016 showed that out of the 11.5 million out-of-school children in Nigeria, 7.5.million (69%) are from the Northern part of the country while the North East has the largest number of out-of-school children followed by the North West.

With this number, Nigeria accounts for more than 1 in 5 number of out-of-school children globally and 45% of this number are from West Africa. Within the huge number of the out-ofschool children, girls are the majority especially in Northern Nigeria.

Education indicators for Northern Nigeria are however different from the Southern part of the country.

Nigeria’s future prosperity depends on producing children who are well prepared to take their right place in the society but unfortunately, a large number of Nigerian children are at risk of deprivations of the basic social amenities.

Most of these children are situated in the rural areas and hard to reach communities. Majority of them are living in conflict and communities under emergencies, and it has been difficult taking basic amenities to them. All children have the right to better life, an opportunity to survive, develop and reach their full potentials without discrimination, bias or favouritism which cannot be over emphasised.

We also observe that the rising number of children engaged in street trading in our major cities is becoming a worsening menace. The problem is further exacerbated by rising poverty and general insecurity in the country. In the North, the ravaging insurgency has added to the problem.

If drastic measures are not taken to correct the situation, things would only get worse. Let us learn from France, Britain, Canada and other advanced countries which built the foundation of their countries and rapid technological advancement on good and quality education. It must be pointed out also that in these countries, teachers are amongst

the best paid workers. Unfortunately, the reverse is the case in Nigeria.

Having failed to fund public education, the children of the poor are roaming the streets, hawking goods while the rich are educating their children in private schools at home and abroad. But to the detriment of the society, the abandoned children of the poor are being recruited to criminality by terrorists, kidnappers and other criminal gangs. The irony of the crisis is that a government, which claims that it lacks money to fund education is spending several billions of naira to fight insurgency, kidnapping, armed robbery and banditry.

We believe that an uneducated population will be locked in a cycle of poverty for their entire lives.

Additionally, these children could constitute the next generation of suicide bombers and militants.

We are of the opinion that it is high time the government and relevant stakeholders address the problem frontally. It is sad that government’s free education for all pupils up to the first nine years of schooling has not been fully implemented. There is the need to increase the percentage of the annual national budget that goes to education. Schools should be adequately funded and the enabling environment provided for teachers and support staff to deliver functional and effective education to the children.

We submit that the improvement of the classroom environment is key to lowering the growing figures of out-of-school children in the country. We also wish to state that teachers must not only be well trained, their welfare must be prioritised while the Federal Government should muster the political will to adequately fund education.

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Airport security: FAAN commences automation of restricted areas, prioritises continuous AVSEC training Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo, Lagos

To prevent unauthorized access into the sensitive areas of the airports across the country, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has commenced automation of the restricted areas.

The action is aimed at preventing unauthorised persons from accessing the areas.

Capt. Usman Sadiq, Director, Security Services, FAAN who stated this recently at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos during an interview with aviation journalists, said this had helped to reduce touts and touting

activities at the nation’s airports, stressing that the aim of the management was to eradicate touting within the industry.

He noted that agency would continue to take training of its personnel, especially the Aviation Security (AVSEC), with high priority it deserves.

The Authority said continuous training of AVSEC would ensure their compliance with the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) standards.

Sadiq insisted that training and retraining of security personnel was key to forestalling unwarranted attacks in the industry, stressing that this would also improve their knowledge on the current terrorism threats around the world.

According to him, the training of

AVSEC, which had already commenced, was being carried out in phases across the country.

He said all Avsec personnel would participate in the continous training programme to enhance their competences.

He said: “Training is very key, especially to the third world countries. Since I became the Director of Security Services in FAAN that has been my priority; we have up our game on training”.

“The intention of the management is for everybody to be trained and retrained.”

“Also, aviation itself is capital intensive and there are so much to be done in terms of equipment and even manpower. So, we are trying to see areas we can build upon,” he added.

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Short News 2019 election: Gov Dickson urges Buhari to begin his ‘ruthless threat’ with APC leaders in Bayelsa Akam James, Yenagoa Bayelsa state Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to begin his Presidential directive to deal ruthlessly with trouble makers during the elections in the country with leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa state, adding that APC leaders in the state have been subverting the security and stability of the state and buying arms for the youth to cause mayhem in the state.

He also called on the President to convene an expanded emergency meeting of the National Council of State to discuss issues involving the postponement of the elections, adding that the meeting should comprise leaders of the security agencies, party candidates, and other stakeholders apart from the normal members of council.

Dickson made his position know during a press briefing yesterday at the conference room of the Bayelsa state government house, Yenagoa.

“I call on President Buhari, in his capacity as the leader to convene an expanded meeting of the National Council of State.

NGO to organise 2019 guber debate in A’ Ibom Isaac Job, Uyo A nongovernmental organisation, Policy Alert, in collaboration with Youth Alive Foundation (YAF) and TV Continental have concluded arrangements to conduct 2019 Governorship Election Debate in Akwa Ibom.

Billed to hold next week Wednesday at the mini-theatre of the state e- Library along IBB way Uyo, the debate would be second just after BBC News pidgin organised the first one last month but was shunned by candidates of All progressives Congress(APC), Obong Nsima Ekere and Governor Udom Emmanuel of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in the state.

Addressing a press conference in Uyo yesterday, the Head of programmes at policy, Alert, Utibe Archibong explained that 2019 Governorship Debate was designed to afford candidates of various political parties chances to enlighten citizens with their manifesto and programmes for the masses.

“The Governorship debate is designed to afford candidates of political parties the opportunity to engage citizens, civil society and other interest groups with their proposed programmes and actions with a view to deepening active participation in electoral process.”

“It will also afford candidates a platform to further market their suitability while promoting trust between candidates and potential voters thereby strengthening the social contract element of our democracy.”

L-R: Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information and Strategy, Mr. Fola Adeyemi; Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Kehinde Bamigbetan; Special Adviser to the Governor on Information and Strategy, Mr. Idowu Ajanaku and Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Habib Aruna during a press briefing on the launch of a Reality TV Programme ‘Lagos Rescue’ by the State Government, at the Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre, the Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja.

7 years after, Labour Ministry yet to obey A’Court order to issue certificate of registration to AAUN Despite the landmark consent judgment of the Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos compelling the Federal Ministry Labour and Employment through the office of the Registrar of Trade Unions to issue certificate of registration to Agricultural and Allied Union of Nigeria (AAUN) as agreed by parties, the ministry is yet to comply with the order of court.

The two contending parties, Agricultural and Allied Employees Union of Nigeria (AAEUN) and Agricultural and Allied Workers Union of Nigeria (AAWUN) had at a peace-mending meeting on June 19, 2012 agreed to set aside their different names: AAEUN and AAWUN and adopt and merge with a common name known as AAUN. Why this matter was still pending at the court, one of the unions AAEUN circumvented the process and approached the office of the Registrar of the Trade Unions of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Abuja and caused it to issue certificate of registration in its favour in contravention of the agreement.

At the conclusion of the matter at the Court of Appeal, the consent judgment was entered that the Registrar of the Trade Unions should reverse herself and recognise and issue certificate of registration only to Agricultural and Allied Union of Nigeria (AAUN), a new name as finally agreed by contending parties.

The ministry is yet to comply.

Instead of complying with this order of

court, the Registrar after being committed to prison by a Federal High Court, Lagos on March 2, 2018 as a contemnor of the court’s earlier order to issue same certificate to AAUN, escaped arrest by the police and in hiding, her office quickly withdrew the certificate of recognition and registration of AAEUN with a letter dated January 31, 2019 and signed by the director of Trade Union Services and Industrial Relations Department of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Mrs. O.U. Akpan.

The letter titled: “Compliance with Court order”, reads in part: “I am directed to refer to the above mentioned suits: FHC/L/ CS/311/2009 and CA/L/92/10 and Appeal Court judgment involving your unions and to inform you that the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, pursuant to its statutory mandate of ensuring a peaceful industrial relation climate, and especially in compliance with the consent judgment as referred to above has decided as follow: (1) The Ministry forthwith declines recognition of both the Agricultural and Allied Employees Union of Nigeria (AAEUN) and Agricultural and Allied Workers Union of Nigeria (AAWUN) factions as unions in the agriculture sector. Consequent upon the above, the Ministry hereby withdraws the certificate of registration Reg.No.0112 issued to AAEUN. “In view of the above, both factions

AAEUN and AAWUN are hereby directed to meet and come up with a registrable name in compliance with Section 27 of the Trade Unions Act CAP.T14 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria (LFN) 2004.

Unfortunately, this letter did not address the consent judgment as entered by the Court of Appeal, Lagos on December 6, 2012 which reads:”The application dated and filed 27/712 is hereby granted as prayed. In line with Order 16 Rule 4 of the Court of Appeal Rules, 2011, the terms of settlement agreed upon by the parties to this appeal is hereby adopted and incorporated as the judgment of the court in respect of this appeal”.

On the basis of this judgment the Ministry wrote to the secretary of AAWUN on May 10, 2018 informing him of its readiness to comply with the order of court by issuing the certificate of registration to Agricultural and Allied Union of Nigeria (AAUN) which never came. The letter signed by J.A. Damachi on behalf of the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige reads in part: “Sequel to our letter Ref. No.ML.ITU/1/IV/178 dated 11th April, 2018 on the above subject matter, I am directed to inform you that this office in compliance with the court order in respect of suits Nos. FAL/L CS/311/09 and APP/No.CA/L/90/10 is ready to issue the Union with a certificate in the name, Agricultural and Allied Union of Nigeria (AAUN).

Igbo President will be feasible in 2023, says World Igbo Union Sunday Nwakanma, Umuahia People of the South East have been advised to vote for a Presidential candidate that has the interest of Igbo presidency at heart come 2023.

The President, World Igbo Union, Eze Amb. Mishak Nnanta disclosed this Monday in his Olokoro, Umuahia South LGA while hosting a world press conference, stating that the 2023 presidency is devine.

He said that that ndigbo is the first son in Nigeria and important in the affairs of the country and condemned the marginalization of the tribe.

He maintained that even if any presidential candidate of Igbo extration wins at the Saturday presidential election, it is an addition, “but the 2023 mandate remains”.

Nnanta used the opportunity to advise igbos living in the North not to entertain any fears during the election period as the country is for all.

He noted that the postponement of the election has happened on 2011 and in 2015, adding “God knows why”.

The will of God, he said will prevail, pointing out “after this, Nigeria Will be good”.

He also condemned the call by IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu over boycott of the election, stating that it is counterproductive to the aspirations of ndigbo.

Nasarawa PDP raises alarm over ‘command centre’ in Government House Augustine Kuza, Lafia The People Democratic Party (PDP) in Nasarawa State has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of manipulating election results in the Government House.

PDP Chairman, Mr Francis Orogu, who made the allegation Tuesday while briefing journalists at the party’s secretariat, said APC government in the state has been using the command centre for years to carry out atrocities, especially thumb printing and hacking into INEC website to change result sheets.

According to Orogu, “it is longer news that there is room in government house caledl command centre and controlled by one Hamza Elayo, to create confusion through manipulation of election results in favour of ruling party.

“We opposition don’t have right to go government house to search by ourselves but we want to the formed INEC and tell the whole world about it.”

Expressing those APC candidates knew that they are unpopular to win the 2019 election therefore relied in the said Command Centre to win elections as usually done in 2011 and 2015.

Orogu, who thanked the INEC for blocking all leakages ahead of the forth coming election, which made the ruling party to resolved into taking to the street to protest against state INEC of siding the PDP in the recruitment of ad hoc staff.

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Kano INEC takes delivery of sensitive, Short News Alleged sexual harassment: AAA ASUU non-sensitive materials chairman drags varsity management to court Assures genuine adhoc staff of position

Yakubu Salisu, Kano The Kano State Resident Electoral Commissioner of INEC, Prof.

Riskuwa Shehu Arabu has revealed that, the Commission is now fully ready to conduct the forthcoming general election after receiving all the non-sensitive and sensitive materials required for the conduct of the rescheduled election.

Arabu made the disclosure on Tuesday at the Commission’s headquarters in Kano while briefing news men on progress made so far by

his office.

According to him, the non-sensitive materials have since been distributed to the INEC Local Government Offices of the state while the sensitive materials are sorted and batched according to the LGA and retrieved

by Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN) for safe keeping.

According to Arabu, the Commission has received complaints from persons who claimed to have attended INEC training and certified as Adhoc staff but only to learn that, their names have been substituted with those of other persons.

He said the Commission has summoned an emergency meeting with all the Electoral Officers (EOs), to address the issue and assured that, only those who received authentic messages from the commission as confirmed Adhoc staff would be entertained and, no one whose name is on the master list would be replaced.

Riskuwa assured that only genuine Adhoc staff of the commission would be entertained.

He further disclosed that 41,552 adhoc staff were trained and posted to the various local government areas of the state.

Titus Akhigbe, Benin-City

Chairman, Ambrose Alli University (AAU) branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Monday Igbafen, has given the management of the University 30 days within which to retract what he described as “Defamatory Materials” allegedly published in the University Bulletin of February 13, 2019 which is widely distributed both within and outside the University.

Dr. Igbafen, an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy in the University also alleged that the said publication was widely distributed to several media houses, which gave it prominent places in their Newspapers on 14 February, 2019.

The AAU ASUU Chairman in a letter titled “ Defamation of Dr. M.L. Igbafen: Demand for Refraction, Apology and Damages” by his lawyer, Osehon Irebhude & Co. to the University demanded a written apology to be published in the University Bulletin and in at least four national dailies.

Dr. Igbafen’s lawyer is also asking the University authorities to pay his client the sum of N200 million as compensation for the injury he suffered by reason of the said offensive publication.

PDP NEC meeting discusses campaign issues, others Tunde Opalana, Abuja An emergency meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is ongoing at the Wadata Plaza, national secretariat of the party in Abuja.

Top of the agenda of the meeting would include a review of the coming Presidential and National Assembly elections which was postponed last Saturday.

Also expected to be discussed is the continuation of campaign in the next two days as craved for by the party and which the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) alluded to by granting request of political parties to allow further campaign.

It is expected that resolutions made at the meeting would be made known in a communique at the end of the all important meeting.

‘Gov Akeredolu set to ‘ruin’ APC, Buhari chances at polls’ Adewale Momoh, Akure

All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate for Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu (right) acknowledging Cheers, with him his running mate, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat and some of the ‘Sanwo Angels’ at the Ikeja leg of the ‘A Passion to Serve’ campaign, held across Lagos.

‘Allegations against A’ Ibom REC are baseless’ Isaac Job, Uyo Akwa Ibom State Government has described all the allegations against the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) by the National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) Adams Oshiomhole and former Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio as baseless.

In a statement issued yesterday in Uyo, the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Charles Udoh said the allegations were part of “an orchestrated script of the APC to actualise their vaunted plans of taking over power in the state through violent and sinister plots.”

Udoh recalled several instances where the former Senate Minority Leader had boasted how he would capture Akwa Ibom within three hours on Election Day “His supporters have also repeatedly chanted that elections results will be written and announced without recourse to the will of the people at the polling centres using federal might.”

“A combination of these raises a lot of dust over the intent of the seemingly persistent and overt interest of Oshiomhole in the affairs of Akwa Ibom State to the extent of canvassing for the replacement of the electoral umpire.

“It paints a graphic picture of a man who is pulling the puppet strings for the former Senate Minority Leader.

“It is worrisome that these two supposedly respectable former Governors; who are expected to be role models to the younger generation, have taken the art of unguarded utterances and reckless actions to a new realm with impunity.

“Against this backdrop, it is obvious that the ongoing desperate chant by the APC for the removal of the electoral umpire in Akwa Ibom State is an orchestrated plan to manipulate the electoral process.

“We therefore draw the attention of the International Community, Human Rights Organizations, Foreign Missions in Nigeria, Law Enforcement Agencies, and the general public to the nefarious plots being hatched against the government and people of Akwa Ibom State.

“It is on records that at several instances the APC in Akwa Ibom State have displayed flagrant acts of impunity that alludes to their desperate desire to actualize their hideous script.

“At a rally in Ikot Ekpene, their Governorship candidate; the former Managing Director, of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) proudly received

and flaunted gifts of guns, daggers and machetes from his party chieftains who admonished him to be ruthless in utilizing those instruments of assaults.

“This was seen on National TV live broadcast and streamed live on several social media platforms.

“We are all living witnesses to the incessant threats by the former Senate Minority Leader to visit mayhem on the Government and people of Akwa Ibom State as part of his plot to wrestle power at all cost,” the statement said.

Udoh further urged the people to remain law abiding and civil but never to compromise their legitimate rights addition that the state government remains firmly committed to the observances and protection of the rule of law in Nigeria with utmost integrity.

“We must not allow the peace, safety and security we have enjoyed as a state since May 29, 2015 to be compromised by a few self seeking individuals who lead a pack of misguided elements, the statement stated.

It would be recalled that the APC leadership had accused Akwa Ibom Resident Electoral Commissioner of unholy alliance with People Democratic Party with allegation of recruiting Ad hoc staff in their favour.

Following the postponement of the February 16th Presidential and National Assembly Elections which was rescheduled by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for this Saturday, 23rd February as regards logistics failure on the part of the electoral body, the Ondo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is set to approach the elections with a more divided house.

The latest crisis rocking the party is the current allegation by the leaders and elders of the party in Akoko North West local government area of the state on the alleged anti-party activities by Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu as regards his support for the candidates of Action Alliance, AA in the state as well as the funding of the party at the detriment of his party, APC and the candidates contesting underneath.

In a statement signed by the spokesperson of the group, Thalis Apalowo, the Presidential candidate of the APC, President Muhammadu Buhari and national leadership of the party were alerted on what they described as the looming failure of the APC at the polls as a result of the diversion machineries meant for the support of APC in the state to AA by the Governor.

Presidential election: It’s fake news that Atiku gave me $1m -Adamawa REC Tom Garba, Yola A viral social media post trending in all platforms is seen to be implicating the Adamawa State Residence Electoral commissioner (REC), Barr Kassim Gaidem to have collected one million US dollars in connection with the coming presidential elections of 23rd February 2019.

An earlier report revealed that the Presidential candidate of Peoples Democracy Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar gave one million dollars with a promised of a House in Dubai to Gaidam for the purpose of Saturday’s elections.

Making a rebuttal of the weighty allegation, Kassim considers the report as ‘’fake news”; he revealed that in his whole life he has never had a one-on-one contact with Atiku Abubakar who has been accredited as the source of the money given to him.

“I can state without fear of contradiction that Atiku probably does not know how I look, because I’ve never met him personally, all my life. I was shocked to read what was credited to me by some unscrupulous persons,” Kassim said.

Kassim who is an experienced senior official of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC),conducted many elections in Adamawa state and other States in the country said his integrity at this time cannot be challenged by some unscrupulous elements that are good in propagating and fake news.

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Buhari’s order: You may face ICC, Short News Ortom warns military

Buhari, el-Rufai making lawless statements to scare voters - Tapgun

Tunde Opalana, Abuja

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has warned the Nigerian military that obeying the directive by President Muhammadu Buhari to shoot intended ballot snatchers in the coming polls will amount to perpetrating extra-judicial murder and can lead to prosecution of culpable military personnel at the International Court of Justice (ICC).

This followed President Buhari’s statement at the National Executive Council Meeting of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) that anyone caught snatching ballot boxes will pay with his life and his charge to the military to deal ruthlessly with ballot box snatchers.

Governor Ortom who addressed the press in Abuja on Tuesday before the 84th Emergency meeting of the National Executive Council meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) warned the military against such unprofessional conduct but stick to the rules of engagement during the conduct of the coming elections.

He said he or the PDP does not condone election malpractices but insisted that due process must be followed in dealing with deviants of electoral laws.

The Governor stated that “It is unfortunate that Nigeria is gradually drifting to a banana

republic where no rule of law is respected and observed.

“A government that was elected democratically is gradually turning into a dictatorship. It is unfortunate for our own President to come out and disregard the provisions of the laws of the land and give orders for extra-judicial killings in the state and torture against innocent Nigerians.

“Let me say unequivocally that I am completely against the rigging of any form by any political party. It is wrong and we do not need that.

“For me, I did not rig election to become governor. But the truth of the matter is that we have laws. And I expect that Mr. President who is the chief custodian of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria should protect our constitution and the laws of the land. It is unfortunate that Mr President gave that order.

“I was just reading from the social media the reaction of the military that they are going to obey the directives of Mr President to the letter.

It is unfortunate. This cannot stand, this cannot hold.

“I want to advise those who are in the military, police and the other security agencies that they should know that they are also Nigerians.

Today, they are serving the public; tomorrow they will not be there. Maybe some of them will

become politicians like some of us are.

Kingsley Chukwuka, Jos “It has happened in the past and it will happen again. And I also want to remind them A stalwart of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and a that the day of reckoning will definitely come Nigerian former Ambassador to Kenya, Sir. Fidelis Tapgun, has said the when they will be alone to give account of their statement credited to President Muhammadu Buhari, and Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state, are lawless and aimed at scaring electorates who stewardship.

“So, I want to advise them to respect the rules have made up their minds to vote the ruling All Progressive Congress of engagement based on the laws of the land. No (APC) out of power.

Recall that President Buhari had early on Monday while speaking at a matter the directives of Mr President. The police, army, DSS and all other security agencies should national caucus meeting of the All Progressives Congress in Abuja, said be professional rather than taking arbitrary ballot box snatchers would pay with their lives as security agencies had directives. This is not correct. In a democratic set been given the go ahead to be ruthless with them.

Also, El-Rufai had said foreign observers who interfere with the up, things must be done rightly.”

Ortom berated President Buhari for giving elections will go back in ‘body bag’.

However, Tapgun who is also a former governor of Plateau state said a blanket order to security agencies to deal ruthlessly with Nigerians, saying “It will not be the negative comments made by the duo were part of the grand design to manipulate the polls. accepted and we are going to contest this.

Tapgun told Journalists on Tuesday in his Jos residence, while reacting “To the security agencies, I want them to know that beyond Nigeria, there is International to the postponement of the general elections, that Buhari’s comment is Criminal Court. And when you finish your irresponsible and laughable. tenure, you will still be liable. If you do that which is wrong, Mr President will not be there Court sacks APC candidacy for Enugu tomorrow to protect you. So, they have to be East senatorial zone mindful. We must protect the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, otherwise none of Moses Oyediran, Enugu us will be safe again including the President. “ On the postponement of the presidential and A Federal High Court sitting in Enugu, Tuesday nullified the Enugu National Assembly elections by the Independent East Senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Prince Lawrence Eze. Governor said it was not acceptable.

The court presided over by Justice Ibrahim Buba held that Eze was not the validly nominated candidate of the party.

In the suit filed by Mrs. Adaku Ogbu-Aguocha, she had contended that having won the party’s primary election, she was the right candidate of the party but that her name was wrongfully substituted.

Ogbu-Aguocha said Mrs. Uche Ezemba, having stepped down after winning the primary, the lot fell on her as the 2nd runner up in the election.

She adduced evidences before the court that Eze was not even a member of the party at the time the primary elections were conducted.

Justice Buba in his judgement, agreed with the plaintiff and held that it was a case of ‘monkey dey work, baboon dey chop.’

The court lambasted the plaintiff, Eze, for laying claim to what never belonged to him.

Court sentence manager to 6 years imprisonment for fraud Andrew Orolua, Abuja Justice Ibrahim Wakil Jauro of the Yobe State High Court, sitting in Damaturu, on Tuesday, sentenced Mohammed Baba Isah, a manager in Damaturu-based MBC Synergy Limited to six years imprisonment for forgery and misappropriation.

Isah faced a three-count charge preferred against him by the Maiduguri Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for offences that border on criminal misappropriation and forgery to the tune of over N16 million only.

Isah’s road to jail began on January 18, 2018 when a complainant brought allegations of criminal misappropriation, parade of counterfeit documents, including secondary school result and possession of forged stamp belonging to some banks against him to the Commission.

Investigations by the EFCC revealed that the complainant invested L-R: Oyo State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Adebayo Adelabu; state Chairman of the party, Chief Akin Oke; the sum of N25million in MBC Synergy Limited, where Isah worked and Oyo South Senatorial District candidate of the APC, Governor Abiola Ajimobi, during a stakeholders’ meeting at the Western Hall, state as manager for the purpose of doing telecommunications business, which the convict dishonestly misappropriated the sum of N16,463, Secretariat, Ibadan... on Tuesday.

052 (Sixteen million, Four Hundred and Sixty Three Thousand Fifty Two Naira), out of the sum.

Cult killing escalates in Edo Titus Akhigbe, Benin-City

Renewed cult clashes have claimed several lives in the last 48 hours in Benin City, Edo state.

In one of the attacks, a man simply identified as Africa was said to have been gunned down Tuesday morning at his beer parlour, located at Uyiosa Junction, Upper Sakponba.

It was gathered that his assailants dragged him out and shot at him several times.

When they discovered that bullets could not penetrate him, they allegedly used machetes on him.

The lifeless body of the victim was sighted inside a police van who deposited his corpse at the Benin Specialist Hospital.

Not long after that, two other bodies were

reportedly taken by police operatives to the same hospital mortuary.

It was gathered that the two victims whose identities could not be ascertained, were also killed at Upper Sakponba area of the City.

A young man, who was identified as John Terry, was allegedly killed at Upper Uwa area, between 2nd and 3rd East Circular of the City.

It was gathered that unidentified assailants attacked and smashed the head of the victim with a stone.

It would be recalled that a hotel manager, Okunkpolor Osatohamwen, was also murdered at his place of work by yet to be identified assailants.

As at the time of filing the report, it could not be ascertained the number of victims who have lost their lives.

It could also not be ascertained which cult groups were involved in the attacks.

When contacted on phone, the Edo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hakeem Odumosu, said he was in Kano on election duty.

The State Police Command Spokesman, Chidi Nwabuzor, could also not be reached for confirmation, as calls made to his mobile phone went unanswered.

Meanwhile, the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Edo State Chapter, has condemned the unabated cult-related killings in Benin.

A statement signed by the Council Chairman and Secretary, Sir Roland Osakue and Titus Akhigbe respectively, described the development as “unwarranted killing of youths in Benin City, particularly Upper Sakponba axis”.

There will not be election in Nigeria, Clergy predicts Sunday Nwakanma, Umuahia Even with the recent Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) postponement of the general election in the country by one week, it has been predicted that come Saturday, February23, and March 9, the elections will not hold.

Rev Evans Paul C of Praise and Truth Worship Center, Ngbaja Amawom Oboro in Ikwuano LGA handed out this prediction to news men in Umuahia Monday, stating that this was because God is not happy with Nigeria.

Rev Evans who had last Tuesday, 12th of February told anyone who cared to listen that the Presidential election will not hold stated further “God is angry with politicians in Nigeria because many of them are ritualists who don’t care for the masses”.

“There will be no election in Nigeria. If anyone wants to force it, the person will faint and be rushed to the hospital where the person will be (die)”.

In Abia state, he said he is offering the Governor the opportunity to seek God’s face through him as the state is one from where the “healing of Nigeria will start”.

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Zenith Bank records N193bn profit, declares N2.50 dividend Temitope Adebayo Zenith Bank Plc has reported N193 billion profit in its audited financial statement for the year ended December 31, 2018, an increase of 11 per cent compared to N173 billion reported in 2017.

The financial institution in its report to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Tuesday announced that, Profit before tax rose by 16 per cent to N232 billion in 2018, compared to N199 billion reported in 2017.

The bank sustained growth in earnings and profitability despite a challenging macroeconomic environment.

Given increased profit, the management declared a final N2.50 dividend for every share of 50k, bringing the total dividend for the financial year to N2.80kobo.

The group total assets gained six per cent to N6 trillion from N5.59 trillion, driven by 0.5 per cent increase in shareholder’s funds and seven per cent growth in customers’ deposits that closed 2018 at N3.69 trillion compared with N3.43 trillion reported in 2017.

Meanwhile, the Group Return on average equity (ROAE) gained four per cent to close 2018 at 23.8per cent from 22.9 per cent reported in 2017.

The bank in a statement stated: “This record Profit before Tax (PBT) was achieved through the Group’s optimisation of its cost of funds, cost-to-income ratio and cost of risk, ensuring that earnings per share strengthened by 11 per cent to N6.15.

“Due to a challenging macro-environment, gross earnings and interest income reduced by 15 per cent and seven per cent respectively, driven by declining trading income, compressed yields on assets, and a reduction in the loan book by 10 per cent.

“Despite the decline in gross earnings, the Group mitigated these knock-on effects through the growth of its net interest income and operating income by 15 per cent and eight per cent respectively as it was able to ensure improved cost efficiencies across the business.

This focus on cost efficiencies is yielding tangible benefits as the Group recorded its lowest ever cost-to-income ratio at 49.3 per cent from 52.8 per cent in 2017”, it stated.

The lender further noted, “Our risk-centric approach also ensured that cost of risk reduced significantly by 79 per cent from 4.3 per cent in the prior year to 0.9 per cent in 2018. This was reflected through the drop-off in impairment charges by 81 per cent (N80 billion) compared to 2017, re-affirming the Group’s enhanced asset quality.

“In the same breadth, coverage ratio increased by 34.2 per cent from 143.4 per cent to 192.4 per cent over the same period, reflecting a prudent disposition to credit risk management. Cost of funds also moved in the positive direction, declining by 41 per cent from 5.2 per cent in 2017 to 3.1 per cent for the year, supported by a 33 per cent decrease in interest expense (N72 billion) over the same period, demonstrating a robust treasury and liquidity management.

“Customer deposits grew by seven per cent led by an increase of N109 billion in savings and an increase of N122 billion in current accounts providing it with a platform to rebalance its deposits mix. In 2018, expensively purchased deposits were foregone in favour of cheaper and more stable deposits resulting in a reduction of expensive and shorter dated deposits by N110 billion.

On the asset front, this increased by six per cent to close the year at N6 trillion”, the statement added.

L-R: Niyi Omojola, Partner; Moji Bakare, Divisional Head, Corporate Client Coverage & Sales; Abubakar Suleiman, CEO, Sterling Bank Plc, Olumide Bolumole, Divisional Head, Listing Business, The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE); Justina Lewa, Company Secretary and Chief Legal Counsel and Enabruke Oju, Capital Management & Investments Analyst both of Sterling Bank Plc, at the listing ceremony for the Sterling Investment Management SPV Plc Bond on the NSE... on Tuesday

How Nigeria can hit 70% broadband penetration by 2024 - Investigation Ladesope Ladelokun Following the expiration of the five-year broadband plan that saw Nigeria hit and exceeds the 30 per cent mark, however, 70 per cent broadband penetration is possible by 2024 with the right will, as the current 32 per cent penetration is far from being sufficient, findings by The Daily Times has revealed.

The President, Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria(ATCON) Mr Olusola Teniola, in an exclusive interview with our correspondent disclosed that 70 per cent broadband penetration can be achieved through a total collaboration between government and other stakeholders

to ensure that the blueprint missed in the 2013 to 2018 broadband plan is implemented, adding that there was need to get ubiquitous penetration which cannot be achieved until Nigeria hits 80 or 83 per cent penetration.

He further stressed that there was a need for every stakeholder to collaborate to ensure the rollout of 4G so that Nigeria can witness an increase in 7000 base stations that are LTE-enabled to 12000 by the end of 2019. Teniola said Nigeria needed to build more base stations in order to begin the process of converting 2G to 3G network.

The ATCON helmsman, however, cautioned that significant progress cannot be made in the telecoms sector no matter the technology deployed when base stations are destroyed, theft

of batteries is predominant with citizens causing mayhem and destroying available infrastructure. He added that lower interest rate, ICT funds that support ICT development and a friendly business environment would attract Foreign Direct Investment.

In the build-up to the recently held ATCON-organised symposium with the theme, “The Nigeria National Broadband plan 2013-2018: Success, Prospects and Challenges”, ATCON had harped on the need for the entire industry to work towards achieving a greater broadband in the next five by harvesting from the gains of the 2013-2018 plan to deepen broadband penetration.

Expressing delight at the resolve of the Bankers Committee to support

the ICT sector through special funds, Teniola says it is commendable but wants the committee to engage ATCON and other stakeholders in the telecoms sector to make access to the funds easier.

The MD/CEO of Access Bank, Mr Herbert Wigwe, had at the end of the 342nd Bankers Committee meeting held in Abuja recently said, “The Bankers Committee after a lot of researchers identified the ICT and the Creative sectors as critical sectors to support special and inclusive growth in Nigeria. We found out that the sectors will generate a significant amount of jobs and contribute to GDP growth.”

Herbert added that the funding would be under a reasonable interest rate and structure until they become profitable.

Emirates introduces daily flight to Abuja services Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo Emirates has announced adjustments to its operational schedules in 2019 to minimise the impact of the closure of Dubai International Airport’s Southern Runway in April and May 2019, and to respond to global travel demand trends.

The airline also outlined its fleet plans for the year and will step up services to Abuja with three additional flights, beginning from

1st June 2019, thus increasing the frequency to the Nigerian capital to a daily service, which will be operated on Emirates Boeing 777-300ER aircraft.

The new service flight EK786 will depart Dubai every day at 10:40hrs and arrive Abuja at 14:55hrs. The return flight EK785 will leave Abuja same day at 18:10hrs.

Sir Tim Clark, President Emirates Airline, said: “At Emirates, we pride ourselves on being a customerfocused airline with a commerciallydriven business model. We invest in a modern and efficient aircraft fleet

so we can offer industry-leading comforts to our customers, and we are agile in deploying our aircraft to destinations where it best serves customer demand.

“The changes we are implementing to our network schedules in 2019 are in line with this approach, taking into consideration global market dynamics and operational limitations including the maintenance work on Dubai Airport’s Southern Runway.

Through the year, we will continue to keep a close watch on global markets and will maintain our flexibility to optimise the usage of our aircraft

assets.”

A significant number of scheduled Emirates flights will be impacted by the closure of Dubai International Airport’s Southern Runway for maintenance work between 16 April and 30 May 2019.

Given the limitations around operating flights using a single runway at its hub, many Emirates flights will be cancelled, re-timed or have the operating aircraft changed in order to reduce the impact on customers. This will result in up to 48 Emirates aircraft not being utilised during the 45-day period.

Technical hitches responsible for Tin-Can trailer park - NPA Temitope Adebayo The General-Manager, Corporation Communications of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA), Mr Jatto Adams, on Tuesday said technicalities were responsible for stalling in the take-off

of its trailer park.

The general manager made the disclosure in Lagos, explaining that the Federal Ministry of Works, Housing and Power had finally gotten approval for the completion of the park.

“The park as you know is located

beside the shoreline. So it is the barricade of the shoreline that needs to be protected.

“Now that the work has been approved, the park will soon come alive as the port area will be free of gridlock,” Adams said.

Adams said that the park, which

would act as a buffer to trucks plying the ports in Lagos would help clear the roads of parked articulated vehicles.

It is, however, worthy to note that movements of trucks have been causing traffic gridlock in most parts of Lagos State.

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Nahcoaviance, FAAN set up machinery to defray debts Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo Management of Nahcoaviance and the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) have agreed that a mutually beneficial relationship will help both organizations grow leaps and bounds and improve airports operations especially with regards cargo handling around the nation’s airports This is just as the Group Managing Director of Nahcoaviance, Mrs Olatokunbo Fagbemi has said that the handling company has set modalities in place to defray its debts as it intends to keep its books current.

The nahcoaviance boss who made this known while speaking to the Managing Director of FAAN, Engineer Saleh Dunoma, said that plans are already underway to pay FAAN N100million monthly to ensure that the debt is defrayed in the shortest time possible.

She said,”Our journey from Lagos is a very simple journey, our story is simple but essentially first is to say thank you, we have received substantial support from FAAN in the last few weeks on an issue that has been pending for a while and I believe we’d be able to find common grounds it has to do with safety and security around the air cargo complex. ‘ The other thing is before I got in we were owing a lot of money but I said we need to know that we can’t ask for things if we are not paying because so we are saying thank you for that support. We have been able to work out something with the director of finance so we pay N100 million every month, hopefully, we believe that by the end of this year we will not owe, we will keep our books current. we have to say thank you because unto who much is given much is expected. ” “We are going to clear the backlog so that doesn’t continue because if you want a lot of

things from FAAN, you should also pay She, however, highlighted some key areas of mutual development to the FAAN boss seeking his assistance to correct certain trend that could hamper both their businesses including crowd control and others both at Lagos and Abuja Airports.

“We need to safeguard our business and we need to operate at an international standard.”

She also commended the FAAN management for the rapid changes ongoing at the nation’s airports stating, ”A lot of things have been done at the airport and no one can go around any of the airports and walk away from the airports without noticing any positive difference.”

Reacting, FAAN MD, congratulated the new GMD and went down memory lane stating that the airport authority would do all in its power to support nahco especially since nahco used to be a part of FAAN before

privatisation.

He also said FAAN would look at Nacho’s requests on the Lagos and Abuja cargo areas critically stating that the ground handlers were critical to safety and security around the airport.

Dunoma said, “Nahco and FAAN used to be one and so whatever nahco brings to the table nahco is an attachment of FAAN, FAAN created nahco and in the wisdom of government, they decided nahco be privatized. Privatization is done, nahco is a success story till date so whatever nahco request, we have little reason to say no because you started with one statement, our success is your success and your success is our success, so it has to be a win-win situation, so we continue to support you and do everything possible to assist you to improve your business because if you look at your operations of nahco it is critical to the operations of FAAN.

SEC shuts down Growing Circle office over illegal activities Motolani Oseni The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sealed off the premises of Growing Circle in Lagos for engaging in illegal fund management activities.

According to the Commission, the company was shut down for carrying out investment operations that fall within fund management without registration with the apex regulator.

The commission had established that the company’s activities also constituted an infraction of the Investments and Securities

Act (ISA), 2007.

According to SEC, “They do not have registered with the SEC and the Commission has powers according to Section 13 (w) of ISA 2007, to shut down any company carrying out capital market activities without due registration.”

“The mode of operation of the company is that for a new entrant, registration is N10,000 and the person is not entitled to products while the second category has a registration fee of N16,000 that entitles the registrant to receive products. “for anyone to come under the company, he has to come under an up liner since the

company engages in networking business.

For the networking business, the Least stage is a starting point with a minimum registration of $50 with an incentive of $15 for a member who introduced two down liners.

It was gathered that the company also engages in free seminars at its head office for people to learn more about the products and the money making business with an unbeatable compensation plan and huge bonuses.

The SEC disclosed that however, after registering, the members claim they do not get any products from the company and all efforts to retrieve their funds proved abortive,

hence the complaint to the SEC. While the company claimed to have a factory in Ogun state, the said factory could not be located even though the products were on display at their Lagos office.

The SEC Management said the closure was to end unlawful activities of the company against unsuspecting investors and therefore urged investors to ensure they only deal with fund managers that are registered with the Commission.

“The accounts of the company have been frozen, the promoters have been arrested by the Nigeria Police Force and are undergoing interrogation.

Unilever, Sky Ad spend fall by 30% in 2018 Godwin Anyebe Unilever dropped out of the top three spending advertisers in the UK in 2018 for the first time in five years, as its expenditure fell 29 per cent to £82.8 million, figures from Nielsen have revealed.

The owner of brands including Marmite, Dove and Persil has been on a mission to cut back marketing spend since 2017 and reduce the number of agencies it works with.

Unilever’s key rival Procter & Gamble, which owns brands such as Gillette, Ariel and Always, clawed back the number one spot from Sky, even though the FMCG giant’s spend dropped 5% to £186.5 million.

Sky moved to second place, after overtaking P&G last year and reducing year-on-year spend by 30 per cent to £124.2 million. Nielsen said this was the biggest decline among the topspending brands.

McDonald’s has entered the top three in the third position, up from fifth, as it increased spending by 28 per cent to £122.6 million. It has overtaken Unilever and BT, which dropped

spend by 5.6 per cent to £109.3million.

Amazon’s spend is also up 18% in the UK to £87.5m. Outside the top 10, Comparethemarket. com and Camelot posted significant increases in spending, up 30 per cent to £62.2m and 40% to £53.3 million respectively.

Asda has entered the top 10 with a 13.7 per cent rise to £68.8 million, making it one of only two supermarkets in the list alongside Tesco.

L-R: Business Manager, Landover Aviation Business School (LABS), Mr. Mobolaji Durojaiye, Executive Director, Landover Company Limited, Mrs. Aduke Atiba; 2018 IATA Best Performer in Nigeria and graduate of LABS, Ms. Adeola Alade, Manager, Corporate Services, Landover Company Limited, Mrs. Aderonke Emmanuel-James and Business Manager, Operations, Landover Company Limited, Mr. Tunde Adeniyi at the presentation of the 2018 IATA Best Performer Award in Nigeria, at the School in Lagos…recently

Heritage Bank boosts economic growth with new ‘HB LAB’ tech start-ups Temitope Adebayo Heritage Bank Plc has adopted a focused approach that removes barriers and galvanizes the critical sector of the economy around a bold growth agenda with the launching of its innovation accelerator programme tagged, “HB LAB”.

The maiden edition of HB LAB is a 12-week programme, expected to provide technology startups with enabling environment, resources and support required to innovate and accelerate impactful solutions with the potential to radically improve financial Inclusion/ Intermediation, agriculture and other related problems affecting critical sectors of the economy.

The application portal https://www.hblabs.com.ng/ which was launched on the 31st January 2019 closed on the 14thFebruary 2019.

About 154 applicants who applied were reviewed and 24 of them scored above 60, whilsts the final selection will produce seven successful applicants, which the winner will emerge.

Speaking on the HB LAB, the MD/CEO of the bank, Ifie Sekibo explained that in Nigeria, technology startups still account for a relatively small share of all businesses, but they have an outsized impact on economic growth, because they provide betterpaying, longer-lasting jobs than other start-ups, and they contribute more to innovation, productivity, and competitiveness.

He disclosed that the team with the most compelling solution will be awarded a $25,000 grant alongside access to workspace and IT infrastructure for solution testing and development for a defined period.

According to him, the HB Innovation Lab Programme is open to product development teams and technology driven startups across Nigeria.

Sekibo stated that the critical areas of focus are Fintech, agriculture, education, digital, security and power, whilst noting that the application requirements include names, age, gender, contact number, home and email addresses of the participants.

Meanwhile, for participants who have previously enlisted to participate in any entrepreneurial/innovation programme with a current website or demo reference point, were expected to discuss idea/solution not more than a 140-character limit.

Also, such participant discussed problem statement (not more than 140-character limit), ideation/solution stage (not more than 140 characters), target market (Max 150 words), any challenge(s) faced requiring professional intervention (Max. 150 words), introduced its team (Max 150 words) and upload business plan.

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Election postponement: Dickson seeks convening of expanded National Council of State meeting Stories by Patrick Okohue Bayelsa State governor, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to convene an expanded emergency meeting of the National Council of State to discuss issues involving the postponement of the elections.

A statement by His Special Adviser, Media Relations, Mr. Fidelis Soriwei, on Tuesday quoted the governor to have made the

call during a press briefing at the Government House, Yenagoa.

The governor said that the meeting should comprise leaders of the security agencies and party candidates, apart from the normal members of the council.

He said that the leadership of INEC should be made to brief the council on its decision to unilaterally postpone the elections a few hours to voting.

He added that INEC should pick a new date only after the proposed expanded meeting of the National

TMG cautions political parties over allegations against INEC officials, warns against heating up polity The Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) has called on political gladiators to desist from further heating up the polity with the numerous allegations being peddled against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officials and security agencies.

TMG in a statement signed by its Chairperson, Dr. Abiola AkiyodeAfolabi said it is concerned about attempts to damage the credibility of some of the National Commissioners of INEC who over time have proved themselves as worthy ambassadors of Nigeria.

“We are more concerned in particular, about the petition submitted by the Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Akwa Ibom chapter, calling for the removal of the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Akwa Ibom State, Mike Igini, for alleged partisanship and other sundry offences ahead of the general polls in the country,” the TMG boss said.

Igini has since refuted these allegations.

The TMG added “To be clear however, these allegations deserve scrutiny from the authorities, if Nigerians are to get a sense of closure from the terrible events of the recent past when politicians subverted the democratic choices and aspirations of Nigerians through whimsical political gimmicks to gain electoral advantage.

“Nevertheless, the call for the removal and probe of REC Igini and other INEC top officials few days to the general elections on unfounded allegations would only amount to a shady scheme to undermine the credibility of the electoral process and unnecessary meddling in the affairs of INEC by the ruling party.

“As we expect INEC to discharge its duty without fear or favour, we therefore call on all political parties to refrain from actions that are capable of overheating the polity as well as activities that tend to derail our fledgling democracy.

“We also urge various stakeholders to be vigilant as we move closer to the

2019 polls. TMG makes no mistake about the fact that the country will witness more of such allegations and counter-allegations from political parties as the 2019 polls approach.”

According to Akiyode-Afolabi, the current INEC has a reputation of having some of the finest brains in the country in their midst and this should be appreciated by all Nigerians.

Of course, the postponement of last Saturday’s election may have affected the perception of Nigerians, but we must support INEC to deliver a credible electoral process. Any attempt to rupture its credibility will affect the democratic journey of this country.

“We also call for a general audit of logistic and operational processes of INEC after the elections and a panel to investigate its systems and processes to prevent future elections postponement.

Nigeria’s electoral system should be experienced enough to avoid the kind of hiccups that are gradually defining our electoral processes.

“It is the vigilance of the electorates and critical stakeholders that would prevent any plans to subvert and undermine the vote of the people.

It is clear to us that the only way to prevent electoral malpractices is for all stakeholders to keep an eye on the entire electoral process, in order to protect its credibility.

“TMG calls on CSOs to build synergies, share information and massively engage the electoral process, with a view to deterring desperate political actors who may want to unnecessarily charge the polity in order to compromise the electoral process.

“We also call on former Head of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar’s Peace Commission to step up its game to ensure the commitment of political parties to the peace agreement and pact signed for peaceful elections to prevent any form of violence and malpractices that could trigger pre-or post -election conflicts,” the body said, adding that Nigeria is too fragile to go into full scale conflict. “We, therefore, call on all Nigerians to maintain peace and shun violence for the sake of Nigeria.”

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Council of State, to prevent the country from the costly experience of having the election postponed on Election Day. He stressed that INEC, for instance, did not have the ballot papers for the Presidential election, necessary inks and other items needed for the election in Bayelsa State.

The governor also said that, it was indeed important for INEC to explain why some of the materials for the elections were not customized, contrary to the standard practice for which INEC is reputed.

The governor called on Nigerians and indeed the political leadership to avoid the temptation to call for the

removal of the Chairman of INEC to avoid plunging the country into an avoidable protracted crisis of succession.

He warned that the sudden postponement of the election might be steering the country in the direction of a constitutional crisis.

Dickson said that the reactions which trailed the sudden shift in the date of the elections a few hours to the vote had belittled the country and portrayed the citizens as an unserious people.

The governor said that it was his expectation that the Presidential directive to deal ruthlessly with trouble makers would include leaders of the APC in Bayelsa who

have been subverting the security and stability of the state and buying arms for the youths to cause mayhem in the state.

“I call on President Buhari, in his capacity as the leader to convene an expanded meeting of the National Council of State.

“The meeting should be attended by the security chiefs, the candidates, and political leaders to examine the issues which could plunge our country into a prolonged constitutional crisis, a crisis of succession if not properly handled.

“It is at the end of the meeting that INEC should pick a new date. I disagree with INEC on the unilateral choice of a date. I don’t believe all the challenges that INEC had could be resolved within six days, that the country should expect a hitch free election on Saturday.

“In Bayelsa, INEC did not have the ballot papers for the Presidential election, necessary inks and some of the materials are not even customised.

This contradicts the standard for which INEC is reputed over the years.

“This is important because our nation cannot afford another postponement on election date. I believe that before INEC should announce another date, we should have the expanded meeting of the National Council of States, “Also, I hope that the President’s directive to deal ruthlessly with trouble makers during the elections would include leaders of his party in Bayelsa State who have been fomenting trouble, buying arms for the youth to cause mayhem in Bassambiri, Nembe, Brass, and other parts of the state. I take it as a presidential directive to go after such trouble makers.”

CODER deploys 380 Field Observers to monitor 2019 elections across Nigeria The Coalition of Democrats for Electoral Reform (CODER) has said that it has trained 380 Field Observers and deployed them to their assigned states to help in monitoring the 2019 Presidential, National Assembly, Governorship and State Assembly elections.

This development followed the accreditation of CODER by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to monitor the election.

CODER, a coalition of Nigerians of different political persuasions determined to ensure that “every vote counts” was founded in 2009 by a coalition of individuals

and organisations committed to supporting the electoral reform process in Nigeria.

CODER is currently undergoing a restructuring process led by the Executive Director and Chairman of the Transitional Committee, Dr. Wunmi Bewaji.

According to the convener of the organisation, Mr. Ayo Opadokun, CODER’s objective is very simple and it includes “to ensure that every vote counts”, adding that “all stakeholders are committed to this objective.”

Since the first phase of the struggle for Electoral Reform concluded with the enactment of

far-reaching reforms initiated by late President Umaru Yar’adua following the recommendations of the Uwais Committee, CODER has continued to be in the forefront of safeguarding the electoral process by participating in election observation activities, as well as educating and engaging voters.

Each election cycle, many Nigerians have relied on POLLWATCH, the CODER election reporting platform, for up-to-date, verified election reports. #NigeriaDecides2019 will not be different, the group assures.

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FUNAAB Alumni celebrate 21st annual convention in grand style As Association lays foundation of 11-Room Guest House

Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETfund), Professor Suleiman Elias Bogoro (5th left); Chairperson, Gindin Old Students Association (GOSA), Mrs. Adeline Fompun (6th left); Chrysanthus Zphim, PRO (7th left) and other members of the Association during their visit to TETfund headquarters in Abuja...recently

Expose children early to natural resources management – Prof. Morgan Stories by Esther Taiwo A Professor in the School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri, United States of America, Professor Mark Morgan, has called for early exposure and education of children on best natural resources management practices.

Making this call at the International Summit on Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries Management organised by the College of Environmental Resources Management (COLERM) of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Professor Morgan said children should be made to value natural resources from a young age because eventually the task of sustaining natural resources will fall on them.

Suggesting the right age when exposure to education on natural resources management for children should begin, the University don said it should start right from elementary school as the future depends on the proper management of natural resources.

He said: “Try and teach the children how to manage natural resources from elementary, junior and senior schools”.

He challenged older people to maintain optimal natural resources management because of its effects on the future generation, stressing that any decision taken today will determine what will happen to natural resources tomorrow.

Prof. Morgan also admonished Natural Resources Managers to ensure a balance in their research activities and engage in researches that will benefit the public.

He stressed that for the conservation of the world’s natural resources to be taken seriously, people should be educated on the impact, importance and effect of climate change.

He advised that all hands should be on deck in the task of ensuring proper natural resources management stating that more summits, collaborations and researches would enhance the potentials of our natural resources.

Earlier in his Keynote Address, Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Professor Kolawole Salako, commended

the organisers of the summit comprising the University of Missouri, USA, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria, Ibadan and the University du Agriculture, Benin Republic for the intellectual discourse which he said is expected to lead to the establishment of an agreement that will bring about further collaborations.

The Vice-Chancellor said: “My expectation, therefore, is that the summit will lead to establishment of an agreement to foster international cooperation, research and academic development via exchange of educational and research materials, exchange of faculty and research personnel as well as collaboration on acquisition of grants for research work of common interests”.

Corroborating the Vice Chancellor, the Dean COLERM, Professor Tunde Omoniyi, who disclosed that the objective of the summit was to promote staff exchange, research collaboration and to encourage students training, solicited for enhanced partnership among institutions all over the world to proffer solutions to the challenges facing humanity.

VC inaugurates Friends of LASU Initiative The Vice Chancellor, Lagos State University, Prof.

‘Lanre Fagbohun, SAN, has inaugurated “Friends of LASU Initiative” Committee.

The brief inauguration was held on February 11, 2019, at the Vice Chancellor’s Conference Room, Faculty of Science New Building, Main Campus, Ojo, Lagos State.

In his address the Vice Chancellor, Prof.

‘Lanre Fagbohun, SAN, charged the Committee members who were head hunted to deliver on their responsibilities with deep passion, high level of discipline and commitment to the LASU Project.

He commended the duo of Mr. Olabode Akinrinmade (Principal Assistant Registrar, Exams and Records) and Mr. Stephen Fatonji (Assistant Lecturer, Broadcast Department) for being the brains behind the brilliant initiative.

Furthermore, he charged the Committee members to ensure that what they bring to the table will enhance the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of the university.

His words: “I want to commend Mr. Akinrinmade and Mr. Fatonji, and equally members of this committee for the brilliant initiative. We have

gone on a very selective head hunt to have you on board“.

The Vice Chancellor counselled the Committee members on ways to go about actualising the lofty idea, saying that the APPLICATION to be deployed for the donation must be kept simple and seamless. He urged the Committee to liaise with the Centre for Information, Press and Public Relations (CIPPR) in the area of publicity.

He added that administrative and academic duties of members of staff should be carried out with passion and commitment so that our world class students will remember their stay with nostalgia after graduation.

“It is only by this that our world class students would consider giving back to the university. It is only posterity that will thank this team,” the VC said.

The Convener, Mr. Olabode Akinrinmade, on behalf of the committee members, further appreciated the Vice Chancellor for embracing the initiative.

Thereafter, the Vice Chancellor inaugurated the team, as a team that will support and take LASU to the level of a world class institution.

The Friends of LASU Initiative (FOLASU) is a vision geared towards building a

global community of donors and partners for sustainable development of Lagos State University. The initiative aims to raise at least ten million development partners across the globe who will voluntarily donate as little as One Thousand Naira (N1, 000.00 i.e. $3 - $4 dollar) or more to Lagos State University, annually.

The generated fund would be solely for Infrastructural development, maintenance of facilities, staff training, students’ welfare, and research, among

others. Furthermore, the initiative going by the vision is to create a robust and sustainable revenue generation system for all-round development of the Institution.

Targeted donors include All LASU Staff, Families and Friends of LASU staff, Students, Parents of Lagos State University (LASU) Students, Alumni (from 1988 till date), Traders in Lagos, all industries in Lagos and its environment, Nigerians in Diaspora, general populace of Lagos, the global community, public and civil servants.

It was not business as usual but another day to reckon with history during the 21st Annual Convention and 20th Annual Lecture series of the Alumni Association of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, as the association laid the foundation for its 11Room Guest House in the University.

Speaking during the Lecture, the ProChancellor, Dr. Barr. Aboki Zhawa, OON, commended the Alumni Chairman and his team for their achievements in the area of linkage.

In his remarks, the Vice-Chancellor charged the Association and reminded them that Alumni is the University’s image-maker. He also tasked them on the responsibilities that alumni should shoulder.

The Vice-Chancellor charged youths to engage in positive activities that will bring about change in their immediate environment and condemned those that engage in fraudulent means of enriching themselves, especially, the self-acclaimed “yahoo boys”, warning that they do not have a place in FUNAAB and should not be part of the Alumni.

He also frowned at those people that want to use FUNAAB campus for their political ambitions to desist. He stated that he would not allow anybody to kill FUNAAB. Instead, FUNAAB would continue to wax stronger.

“We are not going to kill FUNAAB, FUNAAB shall live”, he stressed.

Earlier in his welcome address, President of the Association, Mr. Olusola Tobun, stated that FUNAAB Alumni have assisted members to gain employment and admission of their children into the university.

He said that the association is working towards creation of business opportunities and attracting development of facilities to the University by philanthropists and corporate organisations.

Tobun revealed that the association has increased the number of buses in its fleet to 13 and said that the alumni branch in North America and the United Kingdom are active and ready to give back to FUNAAB. The President solicited for more bonding among members, and charged members in positions of authority and influence to think of the less privileged and equally direct any opportunity of development towards their Alma-mater.

Highpoint of the ceremony was the investiture of His Royal Highness, Oba Awosanya Abimbola Akinyemi, Fesogboye, Erinjogunola III, Ebi of Idena, Iperu-Remo as the Patron of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta Alumni Association.

Distinguished alumni and dignitaries who have made their marks in their various endeavours were also honoured.

UniAbuja resumes 2018/2019 academic session on March 4

The management of University of Abuja (UniAbuja) says the institution will resume the 2018/2019 academic session on March 4.

The school through its official portal, asked fresh students to commence registration on March 4, returning students will begin their registration on March 11, while registration will close on April 26.

Meanwhile, parents who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Abuja, expressed happiness that academic activities would soon commence.

Mrs. Oluchi Izu said she was ready to send her children back to school.

Abiola Tunji another parent said March 4 and 11 were good dates as most working parents must have received their salaries.

He said: “We thank God that the students will finally return to school after staying at home for three months due to ASUU strike.’’

Grace Ali, a 300 level student of the University of Abuja, who spoke, said she was tired of staying at home and expressed joy over the resumption dates.

Chinenye Nwanfor, another 400 level student of the institution, said everything possible should be done to avoid another ASUU strike.

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JOSEPH ADARAMOLA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 PART C

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THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THE ABOVE NAMED MINISTRY HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS

CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 PART C

COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 PART C

TRUSTEE 1MR ADARAMOLA AKIN. 2MR OLUMOKO EDWARD OJO. 3CHIEF (MRS) AKANDE FUNMILAYO IYADUNNI. 4SURV ADARAMOLA OLUBAYO FRANCIS ,.

5MR AJIGA OLAJIDE FREDRICK

1] MONEBI BEATRICE ADENIKE 2] MONEBI SAMUEL OLUSEGUN

AIM AND OBJECTIVE. TO BUILD THE FUTURE OF NIGERIA STUDENT FROM SCRATCH BY DEVELOPING THEIR ACADEMIC SKILLS THROUGH COMPETITION AND MOTIVATION AND TO REACH OUT TO LESS PRIVILEGED IN ORDER TO HAVE ACCESS TO BOOK, EDUCATION MATERIAL AND QUALITY EDUCATION

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES TO PROVIDE SHELTER, CLOTHING, EMOTIONAL CARE AND HOPE TO ORPHANS AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN IN THE SOCIETY. TO ADVOCATE FOR THE RIGHT TO GOOD LIFE OF ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE GROUP AND TO MOBILIZE COMMUNITIES, CIVIL SOCIETIES IN PROVIDING SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR THEM.

ANY OBJECTION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION. NDOLA SQUARE, ZONE 5, WUSE, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

ANY OBJECTION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION. NDOLA SQUARE, ZONE 5, WUSE, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ADANIKE OMULA BENSON

THE TRUSTEES ARE:

2. UMUKORO EJIRO THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

3] KOLADE DEBORAH OLUWAFUNMILAYO

SIGNED SECRETARY MR ADARAMOLA AKIN

- CHAIRMAN - SECRETARY

TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO ALL NATIONS OF THE WORLD IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE WORD OF OUR LORD JESUS

SIGNED SECRETARY

CHRIST. RAISING A GENERATION OF CHRISTIANS THAT WILL BUILD A BETTER CHURCH FOR THE COMING OF OUR LORD. TO PREACH AND BRING DELIVERANCE TO THOSE WHOSE JOY HAS BEEN TAKEN AWAY BY THE ENEMIES AND RESTORE HOPE TO THE HOPELESS, JOY TO THE SORROWED AND LIGHT TO THOSE IN THE DARK TO PREACH AND TRAIN CHRISTIAN TO POSSESS THE GOOD CHRISTIAN VIRTUES AND SHINES AS LIGHT IN THE WORLD AND SALT OF THE EARTH ANY OBJECTION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION. NDOLA SQUARE, ZONE 5, WUSE, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: ELDER J. K. NANA (J.P) CROWN KINGS CONSULTANCY CO. 08037769526

GOD’S REVIVAL ARK MINISTRY WORLD WIDE

OBABIOLORUNKOSI HERBAL HEALERS ASSOCIATION

EMPATHYADVOCACYFORCONFLICTRESOLUTIONINITIATIVE

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

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

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

1). MR. AKINPELU RASHEED ASEFISUN 2) MR. ARIFADELE TAJUDEEN 3) MR. OYEBAMIJI RASHEED ADEKUNLE 4) MR. AYOOLA RAHMAN OPAYAKATA 5) MR. SALAM ISIAK 6) MR. AJIFERUKE QUADRI AJIBADE 7) MRS FAGBEMI RUTH EBUNLOMO

1. ADEGBOYE SARAH OLUWAKEMI 2. AZEEZ TAOFEEK OLALEKAN 3. ADEBAYO ISIAKA OLAWALE 4. OJEMUYIWA OLAJIRE LUKMAN 5. AREMU MURITALA OLUWATOSIN 6. LAWAL HAKEEM MOJIBOLA 7. ASHIRU YUSUF OLAKUNLE 8. ADESINA MAYOWA ADEGBOLA

AIMS: 1) TO CREATE AWARENESS ON THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF HERBS. 2) TO EDUCATE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ON THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF HERBS. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

AIMS: TO PROMOTE EQUITY, JUSTICE AND PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE AMONG NIGERIA CITIZEN. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1.DORE VICTOR JEFFREYSON - CHAIRMAN 2.DORE EFETURI SUCCESS - VICE-CHAIRMAN 3. ENITE MONICA - P. R. O 4.OBUENWE GOODLUCK OGHENERO - CHURCH ADMINISTRATOR 5.AGHOMOTSEGIN TERRY - SECRETARY 6. OGHENEJOBOR ESE ONOKPEVWE - TREASURER THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO ALL NATIONS OF THE WORLD IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE WORD OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. GRACE TO SPREAD GOD’S LOVE & HEAL THE WORLD WITH THE POWER OF HIS WORD. TO RAISE THE DEAD OF THIS WORLD AND ESTABLISH HIS KINGDOM HEALTH & WEALTH UPON THE EARTH. TO PREACH AND TRAIN CHRISTIAN TO POSSESS THE GOOD CHRISTIAN VIRTUES AND SHINES AS LIGHT IN THE WORLD AND SALT OF THE EARTH. ANY OBJECTION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION. NDOLA SQUARE, ZONE 5, WUSE, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: ELDER J. K. NANA (J.P) CROWN KINGS CONSULTANCY CO. 08037769526

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

SIGNED : TRUSTEES

INDEFATIGABLE DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION

THE PRODIGY CHILDREN ORPHANAGE INTERNATIONAL

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 THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACTS, 1990.

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

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

THE TRUSTEES NAMES ARE: 1.ASIA ROTIMI ALLISON. 2.ABIGAIL FUNMILAYO ALLISON

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. CASMIR EZEORAH OKORO 2. DAVID EZE AYOGU 3. JULIUS EZENWA EZEMA 4. MATTHIAS ADAMA AMEH 5. CLEMENT OKECHUKWU EZEA

THE TRUSTEES ARE:1. OSHODI RILWAN ADESEGUN- CHAIRMAN 2. OLATUNDE VICTORIA TOLADE -SECRETARY. 3. OSHODI WASILAT OMOWUNMI

PUBLIC NOTICE REHOBOTH ABUNDANT GRACE EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY.

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. TO REACH OUT TO THE LOST SOULS BY PREACHING THE GOSPEL MESSAGE OF CHRIST JESUS TO THEM. 2. TO TEACH THOSE WHO ARE BEING SAVED ABOUT THE UNDILUTED WORD OF GOD AND TO ADMONISH THEM TO LIVE A LIFE WORTHY OF THE CALLING THEY HAVE RECEIVED. 3. TO MAKE DISCIPLES FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 4. TO PREPARE PEOPLE FOR THE SECOND COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. 5. TO CATER FOR THE LESS PRIVILEGED IN THE SOCIETY BY PROVIDING WELFARE PACKAGE BASED ON AVAILABILITY OF RESOURCES HAVING ACCEPTED CHRIST JESUS. 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 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED:

RESTORER OF STREETS FOUNDATION

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OSHODI RILWAN ADESEGUN - CHAIRMAN 2. OLATUNDE VICTORIA TOLADE– SECRETARY 3. OSHODI WASILAT OMOWUNMI THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE:1. TO SUPPORT ORPHANS AND OTHER VULNERABLE CHILDREN 2. TO CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS FIGHTING POVERTY. 3. TO HELP EX-INMATES LIVE AN IMPROVED LIFE BY SUPPORTING THEM IN VARIOUS WAYS. 4. TO ENABLE DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN AND CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES TO PURSUE AND COMPLETE THEIR EDUCATION TO A HIGH LEVEL. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL,CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION,PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, FCT, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

IGBO CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION.

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SECRETARY

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

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE:1.TO HELP CHILDREN, BABIES AND RESCUE THEM FROM PLACES LIKE BABY FACTORIES. 2. TO HELP MOTHERS WHO CANNOT TAKE PROPER CARE OF THEIR BABIES. 3. TO HELP BRING UP SUCH CHILDREN AND GIVE THEM A BETTER CHANCE IN LIFE. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL,CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION,PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, FCT, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: SECRETARY

AMBROSE ALLI UNIVERSITY ACCOUNTING CLASS 97 ASSOCIATION 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 ACTS 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: (1) MR. CHRISTOPHER EROMOSELE ITUA (PRESIDENT) (2) MR. OSEGHE UNITY NOSAKHAE (VICE PRESIDENT) (3) MR. AZIA FRIDAY(SECRETARY GENERAL) (4) MR. AZETA BENSON IYONAGBE (TREASURER) (5) PASTOR DIRISU SULEMAN (PROVOST) (6) MR. DARAMOLA OLUSEGUN ADEDAPO (MEMBER) (7) MRS. EDOHAMHEN OSARHIEMEN STELLA (MEMBER) (8) MR. ASIJE BAMIDELE AKPOFURE (MEMBER) AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: (1) TO FOSTER FELLOWSHIP, POSITIVE CO-OPERATION, MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING AND EXCLUSIVE COMRADESHIP AMONG OURSELVES. (2) TO CATER FOR THE LEGITIMATE INTEREST OF OUR MEMBERS. (3) TO FOSTER AND CULTIVATE THE SPIRIT OF MORAL, FINANCIAL AND MUTUAL ASSISTANCE AMONGST MEMBERS. (4) TO INITIATE, ENCOURAGE AND EXECUTE PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES DESIGNED TO RAISE FUNDS FOR THE ATTAINMENT OF THE SET OBJECTIVES OF THE ASSOCIATION. (5) TO CARRY OUT ANY OTHER ACTIVITIES WHICH WILL PROMOTE THE INTEREST OF THE AMBROSE ALLI UNIVERSITY ACCOUNTING CLASS 1997 ASSOCIATION. ANY OBJECTIONS TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS NOTICE.

SIGNED BY: SECRETARY

36 CHILDREN FOUNDATION

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: (1) UZODIMA MICHAEL CHUKWUMA (2) AYALOGU PATRICK CHUKWUDI (3) NWANKWERE CHINWE ANNEH (4) ANOCHIE MICHAEL CHUKWUMA (5) AYALOGU JOHN CHUKWUMA THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: (1) TO ASSIST LESS PRIVILEGED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS IN SOCIETY. (2)TO PROVIDE RELIEF MATERIALS TO INDIGENT CHILDREN WHICH INCLUDES INTERNALLY DISPLACED CHILDREN. (3)TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS AND ENABLE THEM TO OVERCOME SOCIAL PROBLEMS THROUGH ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT, (4)TO CO-OPERATE WITH GOVERNMENT AND ORGANIZATIONS/PERSONS WITH SIMILAR OBJECTIVES. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI INRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED BY: PRESIDENT

SIGNED BY: SECRETARY

CHRIS ONYEMAECHI CARE FOUNDATION

CHRIST-ALONE EVANGELICAL MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL.

SIGNED BY: SECRETARY

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

THE NAMES OF THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. AMAH OBINNA NICKY 2. EZEILO KINGSLEY CHIGOZIE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES : 1. TO PROMOTE SOCIOCULTURAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AMONG NDI-IGBO. 2. TO PROPAGATE CULTURAL HERITAGE. ANY OBJECTION TO THE ABOVE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR - GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED : TRUSTEES

CHAIRMAN

AIMS & OBJECTIVES 1) WELFARE AND PROGRESS OF MEMBERS AND ALL CITIZENS. 2) PROMOTION OF JUSTICE FOR ALL. 3) COOPERATION AMONGST MEMBERS FOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMMUNITIES.

AJAYI OLUWABUKOLA A. 08034869159

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

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ONYEMACHI CHRIS NDUBUISI 2. GONEH EEDEE SARO 3. ONYEMACHI ELSIE OPURUICHE

- PRESIDENT - SECRETARY - TRUSTEE

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: TO RENDER HUMANITARIAN AND CHARITABLE ASSISTANCE TO HUMANITY THROUGH EDUCATION, HEALTH CARE, SKILL ACQUISITION, YOUTH EMPOWERMENT, GENERAL WELLBEING OF PEOPLE. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED. ONYEMACHI CHRIS NDUBUISI PRESIDENT.

THE ABOVE NAMED MINISTRY HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISION OF “PART C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. WILLIAMS JOHN OPEYEMI (CHAIRMAN) 2. WILLIAMS OPEYEMI REBECCA 3. AKINOLA OLUBUKUNMI ABIDEMI (SECRETARY) 4. BAMABOSE EMMANUEL OLUWAFEMI 5. NDUKA NKEM WILFRED 6. OKEKUNLE BABATUNDE ADEWALE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROPAGATE THE MESSAGE OF JESUS CHRIST 2. TO ESTABLISH CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS 3. TO IMPACT POSITIVE EVANGELIZATION 3. TO IMPROVE MORAL STANDARDS OF NIGERIA CITIZENS. 4. TO HELP MEMBERS AND THE SOCIETY AT LARGE ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MARITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: SECRETARY.

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THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED MINISTRY HAS APPLIED FOR CHANGE OF TRUSTEES AND AMENDMENT OF CONSTITUTION] WITH THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, UNDER ‘PART C’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 2004.

RETAINED TRUSTEES: 1. LAWAL ADEBAYO DAVID. 2. OLIVER MBAMARA. 3. SALAMI IYABO BILIKIS. 4. EZE FRED NWAEZIGWE. REMOVED TRUSTEES: 1. CAJETAN EZEOKE.

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

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

TRUSTEES: 1. ADEMOLA OLAYINKA OGUNLEYE JOHN 2. PASTOR GABRIEL ILEMOBOLA ADESUNLOYE 3. ADEBAYO JOSEPH AYODELE

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. JIMOH MUFALALU BOLANLE 2. NOSIRU MUFUTAU AJAYI 3. SIKIRU JIMOH 4. YESIRU ISIAKA DAMILARE 5. GANIU AJIMO

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST 2. TO RECONCILE SOUL FOR CHRIST IN THE BODY OF CHRIST

NEWLY APPOINTED: 1. ILEH ANTHONY ONU. ANY OBJECTION TO THE CHANGE OF TRUSTEES AND AMENDMENT OF CONSTITUTION] SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

IFESOWAPO LANDLORDS AND LANDLADIES ASSOCIATION, AKODO

ANY OBJECTION TO THE CHANGE OF TRUSTEES AND AMENDMENT OF CONSTITUTION] 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: BARR. CHIJIOKE EZEH

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. TO SEE TO THE WELFARE OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE COMMUNITY 2. TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE CLEANLINESS AND SECURITY OF THE COMMUNITY ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT ‪420 TIGRIS CRESCENT‬ OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: BARR. (MRS.) ABIMBOLA ABAYOMI

EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL RIGHT INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVE

GLOBAL LEARNING ENHANCERS INITIATIVE

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

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

TRUSTEES: 1. ANIFOWOSHE ZAEED ADELEYE - CHAIRMAN. 2. BALOGUN MOSHOOD KASHIMAWO-OLATUNDE - SECRETARY. 3. TIJANI GANIAT FOLASHADE - MEMBER. 4. OYEDIRAN GABRIEL ADESOLA - MEMBER.

TRUSTEES: 1. ANIFOWOSHE ZAEED ADELEYE - CHAIRMAN. 2. BALOGUN MOSHOOD KASHIMAWO-OLATUNDE - SECRETARY. 3. OYEDIRAN GABRIEL ADESOLA - MEMBER.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVE: 1.TO PUT SMILE ON EVERY FACE AND REBUILD THE BROKEN? 2. TO PUT SMILE ON EVERY FACE AND REBUILD THE BROKEN WALLS OF ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVE: 1. PROMOTING AND ENHANCING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT. 2. TO PUT SMILE ON EVERY FACE AND REBUILD THE BROKEN WALLS OF ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE.

TRUSTEES: 1) SEGUN ABATAN 2) AJOKE DELE AKINGBADE 3) JOSEPH AJANI OLUYOMI 4) OLUWAKEMI JANET ABATAN 5) SAMSON OLUWATOBILOBA ABATAN.

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

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

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

THE NAPOLEON OGHENE FOUNDATION 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 MATTERS ACT 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE:1. ONORIEZINO BENJAMIN 2. OGHENE GLORIA 3. OBAMOGUN THEODORA 4. OGHENE ONOSAKPONOME EMMANUELLA 5. OGHENE EMONENA DANIELLA 6. OLUKAYODE SOREMEKUN AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:1. TO RENDER FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO INDIGENT INTELLIGENT STUDENTS FROM PRIMARY LEVEL TO THE UNIVERSITY LEVEL IN NIGERIA THROUGH AWARD OF SCHOLARSHIPS; 2. TO PROVIDE SKILL ACQUISITION AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO WIDOWS IN THE RURAL AREAS IN NIGERIA; 3. TO PROVIDE MEDICAL ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF SCHEME TO RAPE VICTIMS; 4.TO CO-OPERATE AND PARTNER WITH CORPORATE ENTITIES (BOTH LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL) AND GOVERNMENT PARASTATALS AT ALL LEVELS IN PROVISION OF RELIEF MATERIALS TO ALL INDIGENT MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC IN NIGERIA. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT ‪420 TIGRIS CRESCENT‬ OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION.

ST. VICTOR’S WIDOWS’ & ORPHANS’ HELP FOUNDATION

THE TRUSTEES ARE (1 ) ORUITEMEKA IBINABO IRENE (2) MUNABO ALABARABA AIMS AND OBJECTIVES (1) TO EMPOWER RURAL FISHERMEN (2) TO EMPOWER RURAL DWELLERS 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.

IYANA-IBA TRADERS ASSOCIATION. CAC /IT/NO. 17906

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:- OSAHON IWENAMEN OSAHON

REIGN FAITH GOSPEL MISSION

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 MATTERS ACT 1990.

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. STEPHEN JOSEPH --- PRESENT. 2. SAMSON DANJUMA -- SECURITY. 3. OTACHE STEPHEN JOSEPH 4. DAVID SHAIBU 5. OTACHE MOSES JOSEPH AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST THROUGH PRAISE AND WORSHIP. 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. CHIEF JOSHUA ESIM ALOBO, L P ALOBO & CO 08036223434

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

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 MATTERS ACT 1990.

FRAME THE WORLD INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN CENTRE

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST 2. TO CARRY OUT THE WORK OF EVANGELISM

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.

SHARKHOUSE FOUNDATION FOR RURAL EMPOWERMENT

SIGNED:- SECRETARY

TRUSTEES: 1. DR. KELECHI CHUKWUEMEKA 2. DR. MARVEY KELECHI CHUKWUEMEKA 3. OSAHON IWENAMEN ESQ 4. MR. ISRAEL BARTHOLOMEW ELOCHUKWU 5. MR. JOSEPH BALA GENDE

AIMS AND OBJECTIVE: TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.

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 MATTERS ACT 1990.

SIGNED: CHAIRMAN

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 MATTERS ACT 1990.

THE HAMMER OF CHRIST CHURCH

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR CERTIFIED TRUE COPY OF LOSS OF CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION (CTC) UNDER ‘PART C’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1990.

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

LIVINUS DURU NWANGUMA FOUNDATION

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 NO. 1 OF 1990 TRUSTEES: 1. CHRISTY EKERETE UDOFIA 2. NWANGUMA STEVE IFEANYI 3. PATIENCE NWANGUMA OKEKEARU 4. ANUGWA VANESSA 5. JUDE OGAZI AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROVIDE SUSTAINABLE SHELTER FOR THE ELDERLY, SUPPORT ORPHANS, WIDOWS AND THE VULNERABLE POPULATION THROUGH FUND RAISING. 2. TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. 3. TO PROMOTE INNOVATIVE ENTREPRENEUR AND RURAL AGRICULTURE.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ABDUL-RAZAK AIGBONOGA JIMAH 2. ABOSEDE BENEDICTA JIMAH 3. NNENNA UKPAI IRO AIMS/OBJECTIVES: 1. TO OFFER HELP TO INDIGENT WIDOWS AND ORPHANS IN THE SOCIETY. 2. TO AID THE INDIGENT WIDOWS AND ORPHANS IN ACHIEVING THEIR SET GOALS FOR GOOD LIVING; AND GIVE THEM HOPE. 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: SECRETARY. 08032773398

AFRICA SUPPORT INITIATIVE FOR VETERANS 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 MATTERS ACT 1990.

TRUSTEES ARE. 1. PROFESSOR WARISU OYESINA ALLI - FORMER DEAN FACULTY OF SCIENCES UNI JOS: NO 2 NELSON BOSSMAN ROAD NAVY ESTATE KARSHI ABUJA - CHAIRMAN 2. MRS JUMMAI RM PETER-NO 4 YAYALE AHMED ROAD NAVY ESTATE KARSHI ABUJA -MEMBER 3. NAVY CAPT (RTD) MUHAMMAD SANI MUSA - NO 4 LAAFIA CRESCENT NAVY ESTATE KARSHI ABUJA - SECRETARY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PROVIDE MEDICAL AND EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT TO FAMILIES OF DISABLED AND DECEASED SECURITY PERSONNEL. 2.TO EMPOWER WIDOWS OF FALLEN HEROES 3 TO PROVIDE 2-BEDROOM BUNGALOW TO THE DISABLED AND WIDOWS OF FALLEN HEROES AS WELL AS HOMELESS VETERANS. 4. TO ADVOCATE FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF NIGERIAN SECURITY AGENCIES ENTREPRENEURSHIP VETERANS. 5. TO REINTEGRATE AND ENGAGE SECURITY PERSONNEL THAT ARE PREMATURELY RETIRED. 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 FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

AFRICAN UNITED CHRISTIAN LEADERS ASSOCIATION, NIGERIA 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 NO. 1 OF 1990 TRUSTEES: 1. REV. BROWN C. M. GODWILL 2. GABRIEL BARAU 3. COL. FEMI M JACKSON 4. ELDER EMMANUEL A EWA 5. REV. SAM C. OGBODO 6. DINDAM GARBA DASHE

-PRESIDENT

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO STRATEGISE THE AFRICAN CHURCH 2. TO PLAN AND MOBILIZE THE AFRICAN CHURCH FOR A STRONG ECONOMY. 3. TO BRIDGE THE GAP AMONG THE CLERGY AND NON –CLERGY

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

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NIGERIAN ARMY HOUSING ESTATE RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION KURUDU

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR AMENDMENT OF THEIR CONSTITUTION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 AMENDMENT OF CONSTITUTION THAT THE ENTIRE CONSTITUTION BE AMENDED IN LINE WITH THE PRESENT STRUCTURE OF THE ASSOCIATION WITH THE APPROVAL OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION. THAT THE REGISTERED OFFICE OF THE ASSOCIATION BE CHANGE FROM NO 3 ONIPIDE CLOSE, NIGERIAN ARMY HOUSING ESTATE KURUDU ABUJA TO GATE 2 HOUSE, NIGERIAN ARMY POST SERVICES HOUSING SCHEME, KURUDU 1 , FCT ABUJA ANY OBJECTION TO THIS AMENDMENT SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION SIGNED: SECRETARY

IGWEBUIKE LANDLORDS ASSOCIATION, UMUERI AMUCHE NKWELLE

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 NO. 1 OF 1990 TRUSTEES: 1.NNOROM KINGSLEY ONYEBUCHI 2. MR OBINERO ELIAS IKECHUKWU 3. MR NWANOZIE CHIBUEZE BASIL 4. MBAJI EUSABIUS UGOCHUKWU 5.ENEH CHIDI 6. EKEH ANAYO ANTHONY 7.OBIGWE JOSEPH 8. NKOBI IZUCHUKWU 9. ABUGU PETER NNAMDI 10. MOUBIKWU EMMANUEL OKWUDILI 11. OGODO SIMON AZUBUIKE. 12. AKPUA JUDE EJIKEME 13. OBI FRANCIS. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES TO PROMOTE THE INTEREST AND WELFARE OF MEMBERS ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION SIGNED: CHIMA OBIH SOLICITOR

KNCV TUBERCULOSIS FOUNDATION (CAC/IT/NO 89618) THIS IS TO NOTIFY THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED, HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR RETAINED OF TRUSTEES AND APPOINTED OF TRUSTEE UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT , 19 RETAINED 1.DR MUSTAPHA GIDADO 2. MR VERHOEF JOHAN 3. DR BASSEY NSA 4. DR CATHARINE SIMONNE 5. MR OLUKAYODE ARIBABA APPOINTED: 1.PROF JOHN ALECHENU IDOKO 2. DR NASIR SANI - GWARZO

IRI BIKO DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR CHANGE OF TRUSTEE TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 OLD TRUSTEES: 1. JOSEPH YARO MACHIKA 2. AZUMI USMAN MACHIKA 3. USMAN SULE MACHIKA

-REMOVED -RETAINED

-REMOVED

NEW TRUSTEES APPOINTED: 1. USMAN HUSSAINA MACHIKA

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS AMENDMENT SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION

SIGNED: OBY ONYEKWULUJE SOLICITOR

SIGNED: SECRETARY

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. AKANNI SEGUN OLALEKAN, CHAIRMAN, 2. KESHIRO MORENIKE KAUSARAT, SECRETARY 3. OYELUDE HAMEED ADEKUNLE 4. ADEOGUN OLUFEMI 5. AYODELE AKELE 6. SUBAIR SIKIRU OMOTAYO 7. AKANNI OLAJIDE RUFUS AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO ASSIST THE LESS PRIVILEGED AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CHILD ABUSE IN THE SOCIETY ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

IJEBU SOCIAL ELITE CLUB MOWE

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. AWOYEMI ORISUMIBARE OLUSEGUN - PRESIDENT 2. ONASANYA ADEWALE ADENIYI - VICE PRESIDENT 3. ORESANYA ADEWALE ALEXANDRA - TREASURER 4. ONABANJO ADEREMI ADEDAYO - SECREATARY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. FOSTER 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, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

UBIMA ELITE ASSEMBLY

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE; 1. DIKE COLLINS CHINWEIKPE - CHAIRMAN. 2. AMADI EMMANUEL AZUBUIKE - SECRETARY. 3. AMAECHI NICHOLAS OKENNA 4. ASOBI SIMEON CONTRO 5. WALI AUSTIN EMEKA 6. OKONU MONO IBEKWE 7. IKECHI PRINCE OBINNA

THE BEAUTIFIED DIVA FOUNDATION

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. FUNTO IBUOYE 2. AKINADE IBUOYE 3. MARYJANE EGWUNYEGA (SECRETARY) AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO INSPIRE AND MOTIVATE LESS PRIVILEGED WOMEN TO LIVE UP TO THEIR FULL POTENTIAL. 2. TO EQUIP AND EMPOWER WOMEN TO GIVE THEIR BEST AND CONTRIBUTE THEIR QUOTA TO ADVANCE THE SOCIETY AND THE NATION. 3. TO EDUCATE WOMEN ON PRACTICAL WAYS TO LIVE IN THE FULLNESS OF LIFE GOD HAS CALLED THEM TO VIA WORKSHOPS AND COACHING SESSIONS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, P.M.B. 198.

GARKI, ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

SEKI DANCE DRAMA FOUNDATION. THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE

CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART ‘’C’’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE; 1. YIBO KOKO - CHAIRMAN 2. KELECHI-YIBO KOKO - SECRETARY. 3. AMONI MUNACHIMSO YIBO-KOKO 4. KESTER OSHIOREAME 5. AZEEZ MOMOH 6. FRANCA KEMEBRADIKUMO AKPI

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES; (A). THE UNITY OF UBIMA COMMUNITY. (B). REDUCTION OF CRIME RATE THROUGH SENSATION OF OUR YOUTH. (C). PROTECT, DEFEND AND PROMOTE THE CULTURE, TRADITIONS AND WELFARE OF UBIMA INDIGENE BOTH AT HOME AND ABROAD.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVE; 1. TO CONVERT THE SOCIOCULTURAL GROUPS INTO ART FORMS THAT WILL CREATE WEALTH FOR YOUTHS IN THE VILLAGES.

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

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

SIGNED; CHAIRMAN.

AMENDMENT OF CONSTITUTION THAT ARTICLE 3 (5) BE AMENDED TO READ “ TO SUPPORT THE REHABILITATION OF MENTAL HEALTH PATIENTS”

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS CHANGE SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION

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

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

FRIENDS OF ARO FOUNDATION

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

SIGNED; CHAIRMAN.

TRANSFORMATIVE EDUCATION INITIATIVE

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OLUWADAMILOLA IBUKUN OKONKWO 2. DAVID CHIDOZIE OKONKWO 3. EFOSA OJOMO 4. WINIFRED AWA THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. A NON-PROFIT FORWARD LOOKING EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVE, AIMED AT OFFERING A DISRUPTIVE NEW MODEL FOR EDUCATION - ONE THAT PUTS THE CHILD AT THE CENTRE OF THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE; 2. IT IS AIMED AT PROVIDING WORLD-CLASS LEARNING EXPERIENCE FOR CHILDREN IN NIGERIA; 3. IT IS AIMED AT FACILITATING LEARNING THAT IS REAL, RELEVANT, MEANINGFUL AND APPLICABLE IN THE WORLD WE LIVE IN TODAY. ITS LEARNING PROGRAMS WILL HELP CHILDREN THINK CRITICALLY, EXPLORE DEEPLY, CHALLENGE THEMSELVES AND LEARN FROM THEIR FAILURES AND SUCCESSES. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OLUWADAMILOLA IBUKUN OKONKWO.

THE ELIZABETH OWHE FOUNDATION

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

BOARD OF TRUSTEES 1. OWHE GLADYS OGHENEKPAROBOR- CHAIRMAN 2. EGUAIBOR RUTH OMOSEFE - VICE CHAIRMAN 3. ILE NEWMAN 4. OSAYENDE IMUWAHEN PEACE 5. ISUKU SAMUEL ODION 6. INGO ISAIAH TAMARAUNIMI 7. SAIBU SHAKA JOHN 8. AKPAN EMMANUEL SUNDAY 9. OGBESOYEN EBUN 10. ERO OMOSEFE UWAGIE 11. OGHENEGUEKE CHRIS EJIRO 12. OBAGIDI VICTOR OLUWAGBENGA - SECRETARY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHARITIES AND ADVOCACY 2. PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR THE SICK,DISEASED AND DISABLED MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY 3. PROVIDE RELIEF MATERIALS SUCH AS FOOD,CLOTHS FOR THE NEEDY 4. PROMOTE AWARENESS ON HEALTH AND SAFETY MATTERS 5. ADVOCATE FOR THE AGED IN OUR SOCIETY. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, P.M.B. 198. GARKI, ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

EZEANYAGU GLORIA

ADDITIONAL OF NAME/CORRECTION OF NAME

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS IFEBI GLORIA ODIRACHUKWUNMA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EZEANYAGU GLORIA ODIRACHUKWUNMA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

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ARIYO AMENZE

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MRS FALODUN FOLAKE

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MRS ADEBESIN HANNAH

MRS ADENIRAN ROSEMARY

OGUNDIPE ADEKUNLE

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AJAYI AJIBOLA AZEEZ

ABDULLAHI ISSA

LAWAL AKINBOHUN

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IJELU CHIMEZIE.

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CHIGOZIE DECLAN

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OKORIE CHINYERE PRECIOUS, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. IHEJIETO CHINYERE PRCIOUS. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWANEKWU CHIAKA ELIZABETH, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UGORJI ELIZABETH CHIAKA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS

REMAIN

VALID.

THE

GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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

OKEDINACHI FRANCISCA

CONFIRMATION OF NAMES/CORRECTION OF DATE OF BIRTH

MRS. ADEDINI ADEBOWALE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKEDINACHI JENNIFER PRINCESS, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKEDINACHI FRANCISCA OKWUDILICHUKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

THAT ON MY VOTER’S CARD, MY NAME APPEARS AS ONWUKA BASSEY, WHILE ON MY INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT, IT APPEARS AS ONWUKA BASSEY OBASI. THAT I AM THE SAME PERSON BEARING BOTH NAMES AND ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING THESE NAMES ARE MINE AND REMAIN VALID. THAT ON MY VOTER’S CARD, MY DATE OF BIRTH WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AS 27TH OF MAY, 1976 INSTEAD OF 3RD OF APRIL,1976. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ALIU SEFINAT OMOWUNMI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. ADEDINI ADEBOWALE OMOWUNMI DORCAS. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ODUYEMI OLUWATOBI

ARAWOLE OLUWASEUN

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JEMISEYE OLUWATOBI VICTORIA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ODUYEMI OLUWATOBI VICTORIA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED

ADEBANJO ELIZABETH

KABIRU ILIYASU

I, FORMERLY, KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS ELIZABETH ADEBAYO, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS ADEBANJO ELIZABETH KEHINDE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

VIVIAN OGECHUKWU I WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS VIVIAN OGECHUKWU NWORAH, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS VIVIAN OGECHUKWU AKWUOBA. ALL DOCUMENT BEARING MY FORMER REMAIN VALID, AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

TAPRE TAMARAUDOUEBI

I ,FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, TAPRE EBIMOERE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, TAPRE TAMARAUDOUEBI GLORIA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

AS ARAWOLE OLUWASEUN DAVID, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ARAWOLE OLUWASEUN OLAGOKE. ALL DOCUMENT BEARING MY FORMER REMAIN VALID, AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ABDULKABIR IIYAS, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS KABIRU ILIYASU ABDULAHI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

ADEGBITE BABATUNDE I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEMOLA BABATUNDE WILLIAMS, ADEGBITE TUNDE WILLIAMS, ADEGBITE TUNDE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEGBITE BABATUNDE WILLIAMS. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ONANWAENYI EDITH I FORMERLY KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS EZEMA EDITH CHIOMA. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS ONANWAENYI EDITH CHIOMA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

RUFAI GLORIA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IYOHA GLORIA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS RUFAI GLORIA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CORRECTION OF DATE OF BIRTH THAT I, ADEBAYO OLAOLU ISAAC, ON MY INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT WITH NO. A00817490, MY DATE OF BIRTH WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AS 5/2/1986 AND ON MY INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT WITH NO. A3062834A, MY DATE OF BIRTH WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AS 5/2/1990 INSTEAD OF CORRECT DATE 5/2/1986, ON MY NEW INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT WITH NO. A09733652. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

ROBINSON RUTH

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EMUOBOR RUTH , NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ROBINSON RUTH NAKOME. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

EJIOFOR SAMUEL

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EJIOFOR SAMUEL UGWUOKE. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EJIOFOR SAMUEL ALEX. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS AWOTUNJI

MY NAME IS WRONGLY SPELT AS MRS AWORINDE OYINDAMADE AMINAT INSTEAD OF MRS AWOTUNJI OYINDAMADE AMINAT. APL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME. I, DANIEL MIASIGHENI AND NWUNEKE IBELAMI ROKALKE REFERS TO ONE AND THE SAME PERSON. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AKA ADEOLA KAFILAT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS OGUNKOLADE ADEOLA KAFILAT, DUE TO MARRIAGE. ALL DOCUMENTS AND CERTIFICATES BEARING MY FORMER NAMES REMAIN VALID. RELEVANT AUTHORITIES AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE

AGOMUO DEBORAH

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AJAYI ABIOLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AJAYI AJIBOLA AZEEZ. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

WISH

OGUNSANYA SOLOMON

FORMERLY KNOWN AS OGUNSANYA OLUWASANJO SOLOMON NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGUNSANYA SOLOMON SANJO ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS

MATTHEW

OBONG AND

DEBORAH

OTO-

NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN

ADDRESSED

AS

AGOMUO

DEBORAH OTO-OBONG . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

OMOLOLA EMMA ZAINAB

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OMOLOLA EMMA ZAINAB OLANIPEKUN NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OMOLOLA EMMA ZAINAB DARTEY . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

CORRECTION OF NAME

. IN SOME OF MY DOCUMENTS MY NAME WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AS CHINONSO THADDEUS INSTEAD OF OKOROZOR CHINONSO THADDEUS .

ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

CORRECTION OF NAME MY NAME WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AS ANUSIONWU NDUBUISI STANLEY INSTEAD OF ANUSIONWU NDUBUEZE STANLEY. I NOW WISH TO STATE THAT MY CORRECT NAME IS ANUSIONWU NDUBUEZE STANLEY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. ACCESS BANK PLC AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ABDUL AZEEZ JUMAT I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLANIYI AKANNI JAMIU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ABDUL AZEEZ JUMAT OLANIYI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME THIS IS TO CONFIRM THAT ADEDEJI JOSEPH OKOLO AND ADEDEJI .J. OKOLO REFERS TO ONE AND SAME PERSON. THAT I AM THE ONE BEARING BOTH NAMES. THAT .J. STANDS FOR JOSEPH. THAT ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING BOTH NAMES ARE MINE AND REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ONIBON BOLANLE I, FORMERLY KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS ONIBON BOLANLE ADEOLA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS ONIBON BOLANLE MARIAM. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ADELEKE ADENIKE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGUNSAKIN ADENIKE MARY, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADELEKE ADENIKE MARY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

SURAJUDEEN IDRIS

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS KAREEM IDRIS ROFIULLAHI. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SURAJUDEEN IDRIS ADENIYI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OGUNKOLADE ADEOLA

MUHAMMAD ISMAIL

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MUHAMMED SAMAILA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MUHAMMAD ISMAIL. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME : IN SOME OF MY DOCUMENT MY NAME WAS WRITTEN AS OLADEINDE LBUKUNOLUWA OMOWONUOLA. (APPEAR ON MY SCHOOL LEAVING CERTIFICATE) ALSO APPEAR AS OLADEINDE LBUKUNOLUWA RUTH. (ON INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT). AM SAME PERSON BEARING ALL THE NAMES. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

COLLINS CHIMAMANDA I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKEKE MANDONA AMARACHI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS COLLINS CHIMAMANDA CYNTHIA. MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 15TH DECEMBER 1998. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ADEYEMI OLUBUSOLA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AMOLE OLUBUSOLA CHRISTIANA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEYEMI OLUBUSOLA CHRISTIANA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

PIUS BLESSING UWANNA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS PIUS CLARA UWANA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS PIUS BLESSING UWANNA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

TAMUNO BOMASIME I, FORMERLY, KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS BOMASIME IBUOMIE IYALLA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS TAMUNO BOMASIME IYALLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OGBONNA PATIENCE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS OGBONNA OLUCHI ESTHER, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS OGBONNA PATIENCE ESTHER. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OBASI CHRISTIANA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OBASI CHRISTIANA EKEMMA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OBASI CHRISTIANA NWEVO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OLASODE ADIAT

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OSHIJIRIN ADIAT OMOLARA. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS OLASODE ADIAT OMOLARA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS LASISI RUKAYAT

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS MURITALA RUKAYAT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS LASISI RUKAYAT OMOBOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID.BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

SAIB NKONYE I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKELUE NKONYE LINDA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS SAIB NKONYE LINDA. ALL DOCUMENTS AND CERTIFICATES BEARING MY FORMER NAMES REMAIN VALID. RELEVANT AUTHORITIES AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE

OLAJUWON VINCENT

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLAJUWON VINCENT FOLLY NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLAJUWON VINCENT AS APPEARED ON MY NATIONAL I. D. CARD. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

REARRANGEMENT OF NAME:

IN SOME OF MY DOCUMENT MY NAME WAS WRONGLY ARRANGE AS MRS CHINELO CECILIA ADAMA. INSTEAD OF MRS CECILIA CHINELO ADAMA. ALL DOCUMENTS/CREDENTIALS BEARING THE NAMES ARE VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

EZENWOKE ANDREW I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EZENWOKE ANDREW UZOMA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EZENWOKE ANDREW NWAKOLAM .ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

PROMISE CHINAZA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ALOZIE CHINAZA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS PROMISE CHINAZA IBEZIMAKOR. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CORRECTION OF NANE

THAT ON MY BVN, MY NAME WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AS RAJI MARIAM AVOYI INSTEAD OF MUMUNI MARIAM AVOYI. THAT MY CORRECT NAME IS MUMUNI MARIAM AVOYI. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ABANIKANDA SAMUEL I, FORMERLY, KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS ABANIKANDA ADENIRAN, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS ABANIKANDA SAMUEL ADENIRAN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

BAMIGBADE FAITH

I, FORMERLY KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS ADEPOJU FAITH OLUWASEUN, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS BAMIGBADE FAITH OLUWASEUN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS. BAPAKAYE CHINWE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, MISS. CHINWE ENYIOKO, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, MRS. BAPAKAYE CHINWE GIFT. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

YUSSUF ADIJAT

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS YUSSUF KUBURAT OMOWUNMI. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS YUSSUF ADIJAT OMOWUNMI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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MRS. ANUCHA DORIS

ADELAJA MONSURAT

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. ANUCHA DORA. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. ANUCHA DORIS ONYEKACHI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OYEBISI ADEBOLA. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADELAJA MONSURAT OYEBISI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

THAT SOME OF MY DOCUMENTS MY NAME WAS WRITTEN AS OLAWALE MUYIDEEN ADEMOLA ALSO APPEARS ADEGOKE MUYIDEEN. NOW WISH TO KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLAWALE MUYIDEEN ADEMOLA. THAT MY CORRECT DATE BIRTH IS 25/10/1995. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS UGWU EGBOPEACE

MRS EZEAGU EUNICE

MRS OKECHUKWU REBECCA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS EGBO PEACE CHINOYE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS UGWU EGBOPEACE CHINOYE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. NIGERIA IMMIGRATION SERVICE AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS NWANKWO EUNICE OLUCHUKWU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS EZEAGU EUNICE OLUCHUKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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

MRS OKOLIE ROSELINE

NWAIWU NKEM KATE

MRS UGWU NKEMJIKA

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

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWAIWU NKEMJURUM KATE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWAIWU NKEM KATE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS IBUDIALO CHIAMAKA

EDEH JOSEPH

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS MAGBO CHIAMAKA RITA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS IBUDIALO CHIAMAKA RITA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWAKA OKECHUKWU CYRIL, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EDEH JOSEPH OKECHUKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

NNAMCHI EVERISTUS

BENEDICT ZIMUZOCHUKWU

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NGWU HYGINUS DESTINY AND NNAMCHI EVEREST DESTINY, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NNAMCHI EVERISTUS DESTINY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ABUGU ZIMUZO JUSTICE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BENEDICT ZIMUZOCHUKWU JUSTICE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

SHALOM EGWEYE

THIS IS TO CERTIFY AND CONFIRM THAT, NDUMA SIMON FRIDAY, NDOMAR FRIDAY AND NDOMA SIMON EYAWA REFERS TO ONE AND THE SAME PERSON NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NDOMA SIMON EYAWA. MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 08/06/1990. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ELUMA SHALLOM EGWEYE., NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SHALOM EGWEYE BASSEY- KUFRE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ALWAJUD LATEEFAT

CORRECTION OF NAME

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AGBAJE LATEEFAT OLAYIMIKA , NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ALWAJUD LATEEFAT OLAYIMIKA .

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

PHILIP NYECHI I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS PHILIP NYEBUCHI LOVEDAY. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS PHILIP NYECHI IHEOHA LOVEDAY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MY NAME WAS WRITTEN AS SHOBONA OLUWATOYIN SAUDATU IN STEAD OF SOBONA OLUWATOYIN SAUDATU IN SOME OF MY DOCUMENT. MY CORRECT NAME IS SOBONA OLUWATOYIN SAUDATU. GENERAL PUBLIC NOTE.

OLAGOKE BILIKISU

I WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLAGOKE DAMILOLA ENIOLA BUT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLAGOKE BILIKISU DAMILOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID, THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS EGWUAGU NKEMJIKA CONSTANCE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS UGWU NKEMJIKA CONSTANCE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

EDET JOSHUA ONEN

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ONENE EDET OKPONG, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EDET JOSHUA ONEN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. NIGERIA POLICE SERVICE, BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

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ALIKE CHINONYE

OWHOS IDOWU I FORMERLY KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS DANIEL IDOWU RACHAEL. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS OWHOS IDOWU RACHAEL. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHINONYE IWUEKE ALIKE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ALIKE CHINONYE SYLVERLINE. MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 11TH FEBRUARY, 1980 . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS UGWU NKEMJIKA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS EGWUAGU NKEMJIKA CONSTANCE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS UGWU NKEMJIKA CONSTANCE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

EDOGAMHE RITA I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OBUEKE RITA AMUCHE, NOW WISH TO

BE

KNOWN

AND

ADDRESSED

AS EDOGAMHE RITA AMUCHE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL

PUBLIC

SHOULD

PLEASE

TAKE NOTE.

NNAMANI AMARACHI

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NNAMANI AMARACHI TINA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NNAMANI AMARACHI MIRACLE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS NDUBUISI CHIOMA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS MBAH CHIOMA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS NDUBUISI CHIOMA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS AJAH EUPHEMIA

OMEJE LILIAN I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EZEMA LILIAN IFEANYICHUKWU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OMEJE LILIAN IFEANYICHUKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. CIVIL SERVICE, NYSC AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ODOH EUPHEMIA CHIKAODI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS AJAH EUPHEMIA CHIKAODI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CHANGE OF FAMILY SURNAME

ATTAH CHINYERE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKECHUKWU CHINENYENWA ELINA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ATTAH CHINYERE ELINA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CHRISTOPHER OBINNA

WE, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS PHILOMENA CLEMENT AND INNOCENT CLEMENT, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS PHILOMENA SIWHAIN AND INNOCENT SIWHAIN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE. FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ORADIEGWU CHINYEAKA PASCHALINE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ONYEMENA CHINYEAKA PASCHALINE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

BUKOLA OMOWUNMI

AKAWA SAIDAT FORMERLY ABUBAKER SAIDAT FOLASHADE. NOW AKAWA SAIDAT FOLASHADE. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

FORMERLY ADEYEMI OMOWUNMI ADEWUNMI BUT NOW BUKOLA OMOWUNMI ADEWUNMI. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE. DANIEL DAVIDSON

ADENIRAN MUYIWA

I WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS DAVID NWAFOR ONYENATURUCHI AND NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS:DANIEL DAVIDSON ONYENATURUCHI ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME THIS IS TO CERTIFY AND CONFIRM THAT, UGWU EVELYN NWADIKU, UGWU ENELYN NWADIKU AND NWOBODO EVELYN NWADIKU REFERS TO ONE AND THE SAME PERSON NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWOBODO EVELYN NWADIKU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

BALIKIS ABIOYE

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H o t e l s - L e i s u r e -To u r s - R e s t a u r a n t s

Kryxtal Suites

120, Aminu Kano Crescent, Wuse 2

HOTEL INFORMATION

Kryxtal Suites Wuse 2, is an exclusive boutique hotel located opposite GLOBACOM Headquarters in Abuja and a few seconds from KFC. This hotel is very well appointed and its one of the reference points in the Wuse area of Abuja for visitors and Abuja residents. It is situated at 120, Aminu Kano Crescent, Opposite Glo Office, Wuse 2, Abuja, Nigeria.

Ecowas Court (0.7 km) City Park (0.6 km) Globacom Office KFC

Terms and Conditions Check In: From 12:00 PM (ID Required) Check Out: By 12:00 PM Cancellation: Cancellation policies vary according to room type.

Children: All children not older than 12 are allowed to stay for free.

Interesting Places near Kryxtal Suites Wuse 2 Pets: Pets are not allowed.

Cameroon Embassy (2 km) Payment: Cash, Visa and MasterCard are Afro-Asia Garden (0.4 km) accepted here.

Kryxtal Suites is a budget hotel in Wuse 2, Abuja

House 14

14 Kudang Street, Off Moronvia Street, Wuse 2, Abuja

HOTEL INFORMATION House 14 has a total of 27 uniquely well-furnished and comfortable rooms which are of different categories.

Terms and Conditions Check-In: From 1:00 PM (ID Required) Check-Out: By 12:00 PM Cancellation: Cancellation policies vary according to room type.

Interesting Places To Visit Near Children: All children are allowed House 14 (Max. Age: 18).

JD Leisure park (900m) Pets: Pets are not allowed with Federal High Court (1.6km) exception of service dogs.

4U Supermarket (3.6km) Payment: Cash, Visa, MasterCard, IBB Golf Club (9.1km) and AMEX accepted here.

House 14 is a budget hotel in Wuse 2, Abuja

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Kryxtal Lounge, Apo Beside AP Filling Station, Near Apo Legislative Quarters Apo.

HOTEL INFORMATION Kryxtal Suites and Lounge Apo is an exclusive hotel located near the popular Apo Legislative Quarters in Abuja. The hotel is tastefully finished to create a home away from home for visitors and Abuja residents.

At Kryxtal Suites Apo we have 26 exclusive room types on 2 floors to cater for our guests.

Facilities Spacious suites and rooms

Uninterrupted power supply Banquet hall 24 hours internet service Numerous satellite TV channels Standby car hire service Laundry service Restaurant and bush bar, niteclub, sharwarma, barbeque and conference hall.

CHECK – IN is at Anytime CHECK – OUT is from 12.00 Noon.

Kryxtal Lounge is a budget hotel in Apo, Garki District, Abuja

Treasures Suites

Plot 66, 1st Avenue by Shehu Shagari Way, Central Business District, Opp Federal High Court, Abuja

HOTEL INFORMATION

With facilities uniquely designed to cater to guests comfort at every level, Treasure Suites is located at Plot 66, 1st Avenue by Shehu Shagari Way, Central Business District, Opposite Federal High Court, Abuja, Nigeria. It boasts business related amenities such as a business centre and 2 meeting rooms.

Turf Arena (1.5 km) Durban Neighbourhood Park (0.95 km) Silverbird Cinemas (2.0 km) DHL Express (1.8 km)

Terms and Conditions Check In: From 12:00 PM (ID Required) Check Out: By 12:00 PM Cancellation: Cancellation policies vary according to room type.

Children: All children are allowed to Interesting Places to Visit near stay for free.

Pets: Pets are not allowed.

Treasure Suites Payment: Cash, Visa and MasterCard Federal High Court (1.1 km) are accepted here.

Harrow Park (1.8 km)

Barcelona Hotels, Abuja

23 Blantyre Street, off Aminu Kano Crescent, Wuse II HOTEL INFORMATION Barcelona Hotels, Abuja is a 4-Star hotel. It is situated in the heart of town and enjoys proximity to a number of public and private owned institutions.

Barcelona Hotels, Abuja offers a number of spacious and tastefully designed rooms which come in the categories: Standard, Superior, Executive, Executive Twin, Diplomatic, Ambassadorial, Ministerial, Barcelona, Senatorial and a Presidential Suite. Each of these rooms comes with top quality facilities such as flat-screen television with a full cable subscription, sofas, luxurious bed, wireless internet connection, luggage storage and en-suite bathroom with shower facilities.

Barcelona Hotels Abuja also offers guests banquet, event and conference halls; a rooftop sit-out with a breathtaking view of the environs; a restaurant that offers a wide range of tasty dishes plus continental breakfast; an adequate parking space; a 24-hour power supply; gym facilities; a swimming pool and guaranteed security.

Barcelona Hotels is a budget hotel in Wuse 2, Abuja

Kapino Suite

128 Aminu Kano Cres, Wuse, Abuja

HOTEL INFORMATION Kapino Suites is a hotel brand created with the client in mind. Our aim is to provide the most comfortable, memorable and delightful stay for our customers. Kapino Suites was established in 2014 and is located in the heart of Nigeria

O’neal Centre (1.1km) Rock of Ages Mall (2.6km)

Terms and Conditions Check In: From 3:00 PM Check Out: By 12:00 PM Cancellation: Cancellation policies vary according to room type.

Children: All children are allowed to Interesting Places To Visit Near stay for free.

Grand Cubana Hotel Pets: Pets are not allowed.

Utako Motor Park (0.7km) Payment: Cash, Visa and MasterCard Patsy Plaza (0.35km) are accepted here.

TREASURES SUITES is a budget hotel in CBD, Abuja

Kapino Suite is a budget hotel in Wuse, Abuja

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Peace at last between Jose Mourinho and Arsene Wenger

Arsene Wenger received the Laureus Lifetime Achievement award on Monday but it was the glowing tribute from the unlikeliest of sources Jose Mourinho that caught the eye.

The 69-year-old Wenger won the award on the back of his revolutionising English football especially in the first part of his over two decades in charge of Arsenal.

The veteran former Gunners boss and Mourinho clashed often on and off the touchline.

However, Mourinho — sacked by Manchester United in December, paid handsome tribute to Wenger via a video.

The volatile Portuguese, who had two spells at Chelsea and then the turbulent one at United, acknowledged there had been moments when they had been at odds with each other.

It boiled over when Wenger pushed Mourinho on the touchline during the latter’s second period in charge of Chelsea and Mourinho made some

barbed remarks about the studious Frenchman, commenting he was a “voyeur” and a “specialist in failure”.

“There were some episodes along the road,” said Mourinho.

“I can only speak by myself. I really enjoyed the competition. But the real respect is always there.

“He (Wenger) made lots of history in that football club.

“One of the best football managers in the history of football.”

Wenger, who was virtually unknown but proved an inspirational choice by then Arsenal vice-chairman David Dein when he was hired in 1996, accrued among other trophies three Premier League titles and lifted the FA Cup seven times.

However, perhaps his greatest achievement was the title winning side of the 2003/04 campaign who went through the league season unbeaten.

“The nickname is there -– the Invincibles,” said Mourinho.

“Amazing. A coaching philosophy, the almost perfect team.”

Wenger, who has been linked with several jobs since leaving Arsenal at the end of last season including the director of football post at Paris Saint-Germain, admitted he had been taken aback when he watched the video at the awards ceremony.

“That is a very good question,” he replied as to what was the biggest surprise the award or Mourinho praising him.

“It was a surprise yes. We had some good fights at times.”

Wenger said what was even more unexpected was that the man on the touchline won an award.

“An even bigger surprise is usually the lifetime achievement award goes to a Pele, a Maradona or a Beckenbauer.

“Tonight it is a player from a little village but it is good that coaches are rewarded in our game.”

One of Wenger’s recipes of success involved tearing up the book on the players diet when he arrived at Arsenal and introduced healthy eating habits.

He concedes that was not universally accepted.

“I forbid them eating Mars bars,” said the man who still has the “virus” of football in his blood and wakes up every morning wondering what match is on that night.

“So at first I was greeted on the team coach with chants of “we want our Mars bars”. They did not get them.

“Today it shows how much football has changed you would never hear footballers demanding Mars bars.”

Laureus is a global movement that aims to use the power of sport to tackle social challenges in the world.

Taiwo Ogunjobi to be buried on March 15 The family of late Taiwo Ogunjobi on Tuesday announced March 15 for the interment of the former NFF Secretary-General, according to a statement signed by Mr Rotimi Ogunjobi, the deceased’s younger brother.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the 65 year-old former national team and IICC player died in the early hours of Feb. 11 at University College Hospital (UCH) in Ibadan.

“Whilst we consider it a heavy

loss to the family, we have since his death realised that our ‘Taiwo’ is not just ours but one that the sporting community and the nation at large loved and respected so much.

“Though pained beyond comprehension, we are consoled by the many comforting messages from across the sporting world.

“We firmly believe he could only have gone to a better place, where if football is played he will once again excel as a talented natural leader. We are delighted to have shared him with

Nigeria, even the world,’’ the family said.

The family said that the final burial rites of the deceased would hold from Wednesday, March 13 to Friday, March 15 in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

“Full details of events would be published at a later date,’’ the family said.

The family thanked those who had directly or indirectly offered their heart-felt condolences, support and well wishes during the trying period.

Odion Ighalo: Quique Sanchez Flores ‘brain’ behind Shanghai Shenhua move Paul Pogba targets Manchester Shanghai Shenhua new signing Odion Ighalo has described the chance to be coached again by coach Quique Sanchez Flores as a ‘great opportunity’.

Earlier this week, the 29-year-old made a return to the Chinese Super League, joining Shenhua following Changchun Yatai’s relegation to League One last season.

Speaking, Ighalo revealed how the coach made it clear to his former club Changchun Yatai that he really wanted to sign him, even as they were holding out for a high price.

“Quique Sanchez Flores is a man I know very well, he was the one responsible for this deal to happen, even when Yatai were holding out for a high price for me, he called my president in Yatai and told him how much he needed me to come to play for the club” “He really fought hard for this deal to

United silverware

happen and we were on it for months, but thank God everything has been sorted out” “He knows what I can do and what am capable of, am just looking forward to the start of the season, and everyone knows it’s not just about me, we have a great squad here that can do it this coming season, he concluded.

The former Granada man scored 15 times in 37 games and, alongside the Spaniard tactician, made history while they were at Watford in December 2015.

The pair clinched the Premier League player and manager of the month awards which was a first time ever for anybody from the club.

Ighalo who ended the 2018 Chinese Super League as second top scorer with 21 goals will hope to continue where he stopped when the 2019 season start on March 1.

Jarrell Miller: I’ll knock Anthony Joshua in eighth round After putting pen to paper for a world title fight against Anthony Joshua, American Jarrell Miller believes the Nigeria-born British pugilist would kiss the canvass when they clash in June.

Boasting ahead of the encounter Miller told Boxingtalk .com: “We’d been talking about it for a while, but I’m a big believer in pen and paper.

What can I say? It’s a long time coming and I’m ready to knock his ass out. I’m not the kind of person to get overly excited about anything, I just go in there and do work and after I knock him out I’ll break a big smile. Maybe that’s when I’ll get excited.”

Predicting an eight round knockout for Joshua, Miller said: “I think it’s going to be seven or eight rounds and I’m going to get his ass. I’m going to get him OUT OF THERE, I mean OUT OF THERE. I know we’re fighting in my city, but I’ve been in enough close calls already and I don’t want none of that bullcrap. He gotta go.”

“Everything. Everything. Everything will shock Joshua. Even when I fought Johan Duhaupas

I put enough weight on him, but I didn’t put enough. I’ve been improving every fight and I’ve been changing certain things up. When I fought Adamek I wanted to just pick my shots, when I fought Bogdan I took my time with it because I knew the shot would come. For this fight I’m going to be on him the whole entire time and I’m talking like he just took my girlfriend and my plate of food. He’s got no idea.”

With the prospect of walking home with four belts [WBA, INF, WBO, IBO] on June 1, Miller said: “Man I’m not going back to the hood with no L’s. I’m going to win, period. They’re extra cocky, a lot of the British fans, but I know some real gritty Brits who come from the slum and know what I’m talking about. A lot of these posh mofos, they don’t know man. He has no idea man, that’s all I could tell you.”

On a possible rematch, he said: “I had to give him a rematch, but once I knock him out the first time it’s going to be even easier the second time.”

Miller is a former kickboxer who competes in the Heavyweight division. He first came to

prominence in 2007 when he competed for the New Jersey Tigers in the World Combat League and made it to the finals of the New York Golden Gloves tournament that same year.

Miller is currently ranked the world’s fifth best active heavyweight by Boxrec, and ninth by The Ringmagazine.

From 24 fights, Miller won 20 on knockouts while one ended in draw and he is yet to lose as a boxer.

Paul Pogba is still hurting from last season’s lack of silverware and says Manchester United “want to win something”.

The France World Cupwinning midfielder was sent off in United’s first-leg defeat to Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League last 16 – the first loss under caretaker manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

He will be suspended for the second leg in Paris but went some way to making amends with a goal and assist as United knocked holders Chelsea out of the FA Cup on Monday night.

“Losing a game after 11 games without losing hurts and it’s a really bad feeling, so you don’t want this to happen again,” Pogba told MUTV after the victory, which sets them up for a trip to Wolves in the quarter-finals.

“All the competitions are important. We want to win something.

“Last year we didn’t win any trophies. I still remember that. This year we want to win something.”

Pogba made Ander Herrera’s opening goal and headed United’s second from Marcus Rashford’s cross.

“We knew how to hurt them, (by) running behind their midfielders,” added Pogba, who now has 14 goals this season.

“Two runs in the box, two goals.

“My job as a midfielder is not to score goals, it’s more to make assists. But when I get a chance to

score goals it’s a great feeling.”

Pogba felt United, who next play Liverpool on Sunday, live on Sky Sports, had more to give.

“The result was great, but we should do better. We should react even better,” he added.

“We made it harder for ourselves. We can control more, play more and hurt them more with the ball.”

Herrera was deployed in a more attacking role than usual to put pressure on Chelsea playmaker Jorginho.

The Spain midfielder said: “I played a more offensive role, because the manager asked me. He (Solskjaer) told me they struggled in some of the zones around Jorginho and I did it.”

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