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Equities market gains N438bn, as Naira appreciates by 0.28% Motolani Oseni, Lagos The equities market segment of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) gained the total sum of N438 billion in just one week, as the nation’s currency, Naira, at the unofficial foreign exchange market appreciated by 0.28 per cent to close the week at N362 against the US

dollar.

The closing weekly statistics showed that the equities market capitalisation, opened trading on January 14 at N11.124 trillion, gained N438 billion or 3.94 per cent to close trading on January 18 at N11.562 trillion.

Specifically, the All-Share Index (ASI) gained 1174.47 basis points,

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L-R: Group Managing Director, Dangote Industries Limited, Olakunle Alake; Group Executive Director, Strategy, Capital Projects and Portfolio Development, Dangote Industries Limited, Devakumar Edwin; Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Aishah Ahmad; Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele; and President/CE, Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote, during the Central Bank Governor’s facility tour of the Dangote Oil Refinery and Fertilizer Project, Lekki, Lagos ...on Saturday

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Founder of DAAR Communications, High Chief Aleogho Raymond Dokpesi (Middle); Customer Care Team Lead, Globacom, Wunmi Oladipo (left); and Regional Manager, North Central, Globacom, Mr. Kemi Kaka, at the 3rd DAAR Awards held in Abuja on Saturday where Chairman of Globacom, Dr. Mike Adenuga Jr., won the Businessman of the Year Award. Mr. Kaka received the award on his behalf.

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representing a growth of 3.94 per cent to close at 31,005.17 basis points from 29,830.70 basis points it opened for trading last week.

All other indices finished higher with the exception of the NSE Banking Index that depreciated by 1.04 per cent while the NSE ASeM index closed flat.

According to NSE weekly market report, the total volume of transactions traded appreciated to 1.270 billion shares, worth N13.463 billion, and traded in 16,476 deals in contrast to a total of 1.265 billion shares valued at N14.074 billion, and traded in 19,278 deals in the previous week.

The Exchange revealed that 38 equities appreciated in price during the week, higher than 22 in the previous week. 29 equities depreciated in price, lower than 44 of the previous week, while 102 equities remained unchanged lower than 103 equities recorded in the preceding week.

NEM Insurance Plc topped the gainers’ chart with 43.35 per cent to close at N2.48 per share. Sovereign Trust Insurance Plc followed with 30.00 per cent to close at N0.26 while Royal Exchange Plc. gained 28.57per cent to close at N0.27 per share.

Cement Co. of North. Nig. Plc grew by 25.50 per cent to close at N25.10, while Custodian Investment Plc appreciated by 21.70 per cent to close at N6.45 per share.

On the other hand, Resort Savings & Loans Plc led the losers’ chart, dropping by 29.73 per cent to close at N0.26 per share. Beta Glass Plc. followed with a loss of 17.91 per cent to close at N55.00, while Linkage Assurance Plc was down by 13.85 per cent to close at N0.56 per share.

Other losers are Berger Paints Plc shed 9.88 per cent to close at N7.75, while E-Tranzact International Plc declined by 9.87 per cent to close at N3.56 per share.

Further breakdown of the trading showed that “The Financial Services Industry (measured by volume) led the activity chart with 1.131 billion shares valued at N10.573 billion traded in 10,352 deals; thus contributing 89.06 per cent and 78.54 per cent to the total equity turnover volume and value respectively.

“The Consumer Goods Industry followed with 37.744 million shares worth N1.628 billion in 2,054 deals. The third place was Conglomerates Industry with a turnover of 37.699 million shares worth N102.918 million in 566 deals.

“Trading in the Top Three

Equities namely, Diamond Bank Plc, Guaranty Trust Bank Plc and Zenith Bank Plc (measured by volume) accounted for 696.955 million shares worth N8.509 billion in 3,753 deals, contributing 54.86 per cent and 63.20 per cent to the total equity turnover volume and value respectively.”

Also traded during the week were a total of 55 units of Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) valued at N5,610.00 executed in 2 deals compared with a total of 15,288 units valued at N236,445.40 that was transacted last week in 4 deals.

A total of 3,573 units of Federal Government Bonds valued at N3.764 million were traded this week in 24 deals compared with a total of 17,996 units valued at N18.426 million transacted last week in 10 deals.

Analysts at Cordros Capital said: “The absence of a positive catalyst and political concerns ahead of the 2019 election guide our conservative outlook for equities in the short-tomedium term.

“However, stable m a c r o e c o n o m i c fundamentals remain supportive of recovery in the long term.”

In a related development, Sovereign Trust Insurance Plc has proposed to raise N2.085 billion in new equity funds through a rights issue.

A statement on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) confirmed that Sovereign Trust has submitted an application, seeking the bourse approval and listing of the rights issue.

Under the rights issue, Sovereign Trust will issue 4.17 billion ordinary shares of 50 kobo each at offer price of 50 per share.

As rights, the new shares to be issued have been preallotted on the basis of one new share for every two ordinary shares held.

In the statement, “The company, through its stockbroker, Dynamic Portfolio Limited, submitted an application to the Nigerian Stock Exchange for the approval and listing of a rights issue of 4,170,411,648 ordinary shares of N0.50 each at N0.50 per share, on the basis of 1 new share for every 2 ordinary shares held.

“The qualification date for the rights issue was Tuesday, 15 January 2019.”

Meanwhile, the Central Bank of Nigeria weekly intervention (CBN), has continued to stabilise the naira across various forex segments.

For instance, the naira appreciated by 0.59 per cent to N362.79 at the Investors &Exporters (I&E) foreign exchange window with the influx of hot money into both

fixed income and equities markets for much of the week.

A total foreign exchange turnover at the I&E window surged by 83.0 per cent w/w to $1.73 billion.

Furthermore, increased autonomous flows also bolstered foreign exchange reserves in the period as the CBN recorded foreign reserve accretion of $42.57 million w/w to $43.08 billion.

“With FX reserves comfortably sitting atop $43 billion, we believe CBN has more than enough firepower to leave currency stable for much of the year. However, the still elevated maturity profile, combined with some speculative tendencies will drive mild depreciation as the progress,” analysts at Cordros capital explained.

However, the overnight lending rate moderated by 633 basis points w/w to 16.17per cent, against prior week’s close of 22.50per cent.

Rates remained elevated throughout the week, amidst the CBN’s N574.59 billion Open Market Operation (OM) interventions.

However, inflows of matured OMO bills, N73.45 billion treasury bills, and N106.03 billion bond coupon payments boosted liquidity towards the end of the week, resulting in a rate decline.

“The treasury bills market last week were bullish driven by the increase in system liquidity, and increased demand from foreign investors,” analysts at Cordros capital stated.

Consequently, yields fell 40 basis points to close the week at 14.91per cent on average.

In addition, activities in the bond market were also bullish as market players sought to re-invest coupon payments. As a result, average yield moderated by six basis point w/w to close at 15.19 per cent.

“Yield moderated at the mid (-10 bps) and long (-16 bps) segment, following demand for the MAR-2027 (-34 bps) and MAR-2036 (-25 bps) bonds. On the flip side, yields widened at the short (+7 bps) end of the curve following a selloff of the FEB-2020 (+19 bps) bond.

“Demand is likely to persist over the next week as market players seek to reinvest inflows from incoming coupon payments (N67.82 billion). However, theme for the bond market continues to favour modestly higher yields in the medium term, anchored on (1) domestic monetary policy direction, (2) sustained uptick in inflation rate, (3) capital flight amid higher yields in safe-haven assets, and (4) political uncertainty stemming from the upcoming general elections,” analysts at Cordros capital added.

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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki greeting market people during the inauguration of TraderMoni at Oba Market, in Benin... at the weekend.

Senate President and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Campaign Council Director-General, Dr. Bukola Saraki (middle); Kwara State Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed (fourth left) with the Kwara North Council of Traditional Chiefs and others in Ilorin, Kwara State... on Saturday.

Cross-section of traders at the Oba Market, in Benin City, who are being credited with the N10,000 Trader Moni loan during the launch of the programme by the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, accompanied by the Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, at markets in Benin City, at the weekend.

President, Edo Market Women Association, Mrs. Blacky Omoregie (4th left) with other traders, during Vice President Prof Yemi Osinbajo’s launch of TraderMoni at Ekiosa Market, in Benin City, Edo State, at the weekend.

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Again, Obasanjo attacks Buhari over Feb poll Abiodun Taiwo, Tunde Opalana, and Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

Former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has widened his enmity with incumbent, President Muhammadu Buhari with yet another epistle titled “Points for Concern and Actions”.

In the missive released at a world press conference in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Sunday, Obasanjo likened Buhari’s administration to the military junta era of the late Gen. Sani Abacha, accusing the President of plotting to perpetuate himself in power through electoral fraud.

The Ota-born General fingered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the conspiracy to rig the February 16 Presidential election in favour of Buhari.

Obasanjo expressed deep concern about the nation’s democracy which he described as being threatened by various actions and inactions of the Buhari administration.

He said from all indications, President Buhari is using State institutions to suppress opposition voices, deny people of their fundamental human rights, and intimidating would be antagonists in a bid to ride back to power through means contrary to constitutional stipulations as exactly done by Abacha in his self-succession bid.

“Buhari’s watch can be likened to what we witnessed under Gen. Sani Abacha in many ways. When Abacha decided that he must install himself as Nigerian President by all means and at all costs, he went for broke and surrounded himself with hatchet men who on his order and in his interest and at high costs to Nigeria and Nigerians maimed, tortured and killed for Abacha.

“We have heard of how Buhari and his party are going about his own self-succession project. They have started recruiting collation officers who are already awarding results based on their projects to actualise the perpetuation agenda.

“Buhari’s “henchmen are working round the clock in cahoots with security and election officials to perfect their plan by computing results right from the ward to local government, state and national levels to allot him what will look like a landslide victory irrespective of the true situation.

“President Buhari and his hatchet men in the coming election think that the judiciary must be primed in their favour. Hence, the Chief Justice of Nigeria... has been harassed and prosecuted.

“President Buhari and his people believe no stone should be left unturned to rig Buhari in. It seems to be a ploy to intimidate the judiciary as a whole in preparation for all election cases that will go before them.

“Buhari has succeeded in deceiving us the first time and we will be fools to allow ourselves to be deceived the second time.

“Even when figures, facts and statistics are made clear to Buhari, he keeps repeating what is untrue, either because he cannot understand or for mischief purposes and that places him on the level of a pathological liar.

“Buhari believes he can get away with impunity and deceit as he seems to have done on many occasions in the past.”

“The current plan is to drape the pre-determined results with a toga of credibility. It is also planned that violence of unimaginable proportion will be unleashed in high voting population areas across the country to precipitate re-run elections and where Buhari will be returned duly elected after concentration of security.

“Buhari’s scheme bears eloquent testimony to this road similar to

Abacha whom he has praised to high heavens and as an arch-supporter and beneficiary from Abacha, he has seen nothing wrong done by him.

“It is clear from all indications that Buhari is putting into practice the lessons he learned from Abacha.

Buhari has intimidated and harassed the private sector, attacked the National Assembly and now unconstitutionally and recklessly attacked and intimidated the Judiciary to cow them to submission”, he said.

Warning Nigerians that all have duties to safeguard democracy, he said: “This is a time for vigilance to fight to safeguard our votes and defend our democracy. The price of liberty and sustenance of our democracy is eternal vigilance and appropriate reaction to ward off iniquities.

“We must all be ready to pay that price and not relying on hollow words of callousness. The derailment of Nigerian democracy will be a monumental disaster comparable to the disaster of the Nigerian first military coup.

“Nigeria must not be allowed to slip off the democratic path nor go into anarchy and ruin. No individual nor group has monopoly of violence or gangsterism”.

Obasanjo passed a vote of no confidence on INEC while he doubts the possibility of the Commission conducting free, fair and credible elections.

He said the track record of the present INEC is “fairly sordid and all men and women of goodwill and believers in democracy must be prepared for the worst from INEC and their encouragers.”

He alleged that the transmission and collation of results are subject to interference, manipulation and meddling, saying “ if the INEC’s favourite political party wins with all the above infractions, the result will be conclusively declared and if not, there will be a ‘rerun’.”

He suggested that for 2019 Election to be free and fair, that separate accreditation and separate voting method used in 2015 election must be retained, adding that accreditation figures must be announced and recorded before voting starts.

Obasanjo said that a national commissioner, Mrs. Amina Zakari, has become too controversial a figure to be able to give assurance of free, fair and credible election for INEC. Advising INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, to act courageously by relieving her of the Collation assignment, Obasanjo said Zakari is not the only Commissioner that can be in the Collation Centre.

He said “a judge does not sit in judgement over a case once he or she becomes a cause for controversy...

Madam Amina Zakari should, in honour, stay out and not be seen as a source of contamination of the election”.

He opined that democracy becomes a sham if elections are carried out by people who should be impartial and neutral umpires, but who show no integrity.

Reacting to the allegations during his appearance on Sunday Politics, Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media, Femi Adesina, described the claims as mere opinion of the former President.

“Talking of the statement today, I can only say that it is the opinion of a man,” the Special Adviser to the President said.

“There are about 196 million Nigerians; if one man says anything, it is just his opinion; it does not mean that is the gospel … this is a democracy, he has a right to it.”

Meanwhile, the Presidency has described the allegations of former President Obasanjo against President Buhari on Sunday as the last push

by desperate politicians who can’t handle the President politically and have resorted to subterfuge.

Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, in a reaction on Sunday, said: “Our first message to the former President is that he needs a good doctor for good treatment and to say to him, “Get well soon.”

“As repeatedly said of him, since Chief Obasanjo left office in 1979, he never let every succeeding leader of the country function freely, and this included the one he personally handpicked against all known rules drawn up by the party that put him in the office of the President. But Chief Obasanjo is jealous because President Buhari has more esteem than him and the sooner he learns to respect him the better.

“It is a notorious fact that in dealing with any leader that he failed to control, he resorted to these puerile attacks. As the grand patron, more correctly the grandfather of corruption as described by the National Assembly, Chief Obasanjo released today’s letter purely for the reason of rescuing his thriving corruption establishment.

“The elections starting in February will be free and fair as promised the nation and the international community by President Buhari.

“What Chief Obasanjo and his cotravelers in the PDP should expect is that from the outcome, we will teach them a political lesson that they will never forget. This margin will be much bigger than we had in 2015.

“Claims that President Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) have embarked on the president’s “self- succession project, by recruiting collation officers who are already awarding results based on their projects to actualise the perpetuation agenda, in which the people will not matter and the votes will not count” is not only utterly false, but a copious note from the book on the failed third term agenda of President Obasanjo.

“The man, President Buhari who has taken Nigeria’s reputation to a higher level internationally and is working hard to improve on the records of elections he found in place cannot descend to the level that Obasanjo has himself sunk.

“As for his attacks of the administration’s records in fighting corruption, what the former President said is no more than evidence that President Buhari’s war against corruption is succeeding. They thought it is all a joke.

“A leader who took USD 16 billion “upfront” to supply electric power yet failed to add a single megawatt to the national grid and to date, there is no trace of the money is jittery that he will be called to account. He is a coward.

“Chief Obasanjo, manifesting a confused state of mind blames President Buhari for the fall of Libya into a failed state and the unholy alliance between the Boko Haram terrorists and the ISIS, while at the same time calling it an African problem, saying “the struggle must be for all West African, Central African, North African and most East African States,” which really does not amount to saying anything new.

“Nigerians looked up to him as a role model and a ray of hope to ethical and clean leadership until President Yar’Adua called him out to explain what happened to the sixteen billion dollars of taxpayer’s money. It is clear that with him sitting on top of the heap of corruption, he is no different from the crowd he leads.

“This language of his 16-page letter, likening President Buhari to General Sani Abacha, a man he dreaded and the one who jailed him under military laws is most unfitting from a former President of Nigeria.

Buhari “The claim that President Buhari has put in place rigging machinery is both outlandish and outrageous.

We are unable to get the words to describe a 90-year old liar, except to say that by the publication of this tissue of lies against the President, he Obasanjo, not the President will fall from everyone’s esteem.

Also, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it will take time to study the allegations against the Commission the former president before reacting appropriately.

Rotimi Oyekanmi, Chief Press Secretary to INEC chairman, told The Daily Times in a telephone interview that INEC was is studying the statement issued by Obasanjo.

When asked if INEC’s reaction could be released before press time, he said “if somebody takes a whole day to write such an essay, we need to study it.

“You cannot get our reaction today.

It is not something you respond to in a hurry. You need to study it”.

APC, PDP react Meanwhile, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Sunday, reacted to the allegations by former President Obasanjo against President Buhari.

Speaking at an interactive session with reporters in Abuja on Sunday, the APC National Publicity Secretary, Lanre Issa-Onilu, noted that the party has no reason to rig the elections as alleged by Obasanjo.

He explained that the allegation of plot to rig the poll was a mere imagination of the former president whom he alleged was afraid of his past.

Issa-Onilu said: “We can understand where the former president is coming from; his past is haunting him.

“2003 and 2007 elections were nothing to write home about, those happened under former President Obasanjo. We all know how the elections went. So, for us in the APC, votes will count.”

The APC spokesman stressed that President Buhari has no reason to rig the election, having promised Nigerians that he would ensure the votes were free and fair.

He added that while the President’s work would speak for him at the poll, it was during former President Obasanjo’s administration that manipulation of the electoral process was alleged a norm.

Issa-Onilu further advised the former president to readjust himself to the reality of what he described as an imminent defeat.

“We are going to have a free, credible and fair election,” he insisted, adding, “We have no reasons to want to rig election; our achievements speak for us.

“Former President Obasanjo should

Obasanjo adjust himself to the reality of imminent defeat that is staring him in the face.”

In its reaction, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said everything said by Obasanjo had vindicated the party which has been raising alarms on actions of the All Progressives Congress government described as inimical to peaceful conduct of free and fair elections.

The party said the concerns raised by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, detailing President Muhammadu Buhari’s scheme to use apparatus of state power to subjugate Nigerians, undermine the democratic system, subvert the electoral process and perpetuate himself in office, have further vindicated its stand that Mr. President is out for a self-succession plot.

It said Obasanjo’s submission has also reinforced its position that President Buhari, and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), having realised that there is no way they can win in a free and fair election, is now besieging all democratic institutions, including the Judiciary, the Legislature, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), while engaging in acts that threaten the unity, peace and corporate existence of the nation.

The party’s national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement, said the entire world can see how President Buhari and APC’s desperation for power is putting the lives of over 200 million Nigerian citizens at great risk as their actions stoke violence and push the nation to the precipice.

“We are however not surprised that the APC, a party that has shown that it is completely anti-people, quickly rose in defence of the Buhari Presidency’s assault on our democratic order. The APC has always been a deceptive soulless mob that would rather have our nation burn than to be out of power.

“President Obasanjo’s concern is therefore a clarion call to all compatriots, irrespective of ethnic, religious and political affiliations to rise in defence of our democracy.

“He has reinforced the fact that this nation belong to all of us; that our pride as a people lies in our resilience and globally acclaimed ability to rise above and defeat every situation that challenges our nationhood”.

The PDP warned concerned citizens never to allow anybody to set the nation on fire just to achieve selfish ambitions.

“We must eschew all our differences and unite in using our votes to take back our country from this dwindling, incompetent, ineffectual, corrupt and anti-people administration.

“If we don’t take action with our votes, we would be giving up our nation to totalitarian forces at our own peril and those of generations yet unborn”, he said.

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Refinery: FG will source forex from Dangote – CBN Gov Motolani Oseni, Lagos The Federal Government will soon start sourcing foreign exchange (forex) from Dangote Group, as soon as the latter’s refinery, petrochemicals and fertilizer projects come on stream.

This potential reversal of roles was disclosed by the Central Bank Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, after he spent over four hours touring the ongoing Dangote Refinery, Petrochemicals, Fertilizer projects and Dangote deepwater jetty at the weekend.

Emefiele toured the project sites in the company of the President/CE of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote; Deputy Governor of the CBN, Aishah Ahmad; Group Managing Director, Dangote Industries Limited, Mr. Olakunle Alake; Group Executive Director of Dangote Industries, Mr. Devakumar Edwin; and the Managing Director of Guaranty Trust Bank, Mr. Segun Agbaje.

The CBN governor premised his comment on the huge forex earnings that are expected to accrue from the export of the petrochemical and fertilizer products from the Dangote refinery and fertilizer plants by the time the fertilizer plant begins operations in May this year, and the refinery takes off as planned in 2020.

Emefiele, who commended Aliko Dangote for the volume of work done on the Dangote projects since his last visit over two years ago, also enthused that the refinery and fertilizer projects would help Nigeria to create thousands of jobs and check importation of fuel by the federal government; thereby saving government huge amounts of forex currently being spent on fuel import.

He added that about 55 to 60 per cent of Nigeria’s spending on foreign exchange for the importation of petroleum products and food items would

be saved when the Dangote Refinery come on stream.

Emefiele said one third of Nigeria’s spending on forex will also be retained when the Dangote Refinery is completed.

He described the Dangote Refinery as transformational project for Nigeria, which totally keys into the objectives of President Muhammadu Buhari on self-sufficiency in petroleum products, conservation of forex and diversification of the economy.

“I am sure by that time, the CBN will be begging Dangote to sell its dollars to the bank,” he said.

He noted that the completion of the refinery would make Nigeria self-sufficient in the production of refined products and also make the country to be among the league of exporters of petroleum products.

Emefiele declared the CBN’s support to any company or individuals who are ready to invest in the transformation of the Nigeria economy.

“We are ready to support in Naira and also ready to provide foreign exchange for any investor who is ready to support Nigeria’s transformational agenda.

“I use this opportunity to repeat that we are ready to support any individual like Aliko Dangote who is willing to invest in this country. We will continue to support companies that display the determination to support the CBN. I feel so delighted and I am happy this is happening in my own lifetime and I am sure you are all so happy.”

Speaking also, President, Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, said the project would definitely transform the Nigerian economy.

“We have a couple of projects at hand and we will continue with these transformative projects. The biggest problem we have in Nigeria is that we currently import more than we produce like any other African countries. But, by the time

Emefiele we finish our fertilizer plant, Nigeria will be the largest exporter of fertilizer in Africa.

We will also be the largest exporter of petrochemicals and the largest exporter of petroleum products in the whole of Africa. This is a major transformation.”

He said the 3 billion Standard Cubic Feet gas pipeline and other Dangote Projects are geared towards Nigeria’s economic transformation.

Dangote commended CBN for its moral support to the refinery project.

“There are lots going on in Nigeria. We want the CBN to support us like what it did in cement sector, which made Nigeria not only self-sufficient in the production of cement, but it became an exporter of the product. Today, Nigeria will not even import cement because we no longer have capacity for importation of cement,” he added.

In a presentation made to the CBN governor, Group Executive Director at Dangote Industries Limited, Devakumar Edwin, disclosed that the company’s target is for a significant portion of Nigeria’s crude oil production to be refined domestically, rather than imported, thereby

creating jobs within Nigeria, and bringing a halt to the current importation of refined petroleum product.

Edwin said the refinery is going to provide over 100,000 indirect employment through retail outlets. He said the refinery is designed to meet Euro V grade, which is the highest standard in the world, hence products can be exported to any part of the world.

“It will be well diversified and able to process Nigerian crude, African crude and crude from other parts of the world.

In terms of evacuation routes, two crude oil single point mooring (SPM) buoys and three multi-product SPMs will be located within the Atlantic Ocean to transfer crude oil to a calling tanker.

“The 2-Line Dangote Fertilizer Complex, consisting of Ammonia and Urea plants, is conceived to be one of the world’s largest fertilizer plants with a total capacity of 3 Million Tonnes per Annum of Urea fertilizer. Therefore, the Dangote Fertilizer is positioned to bridge the gap between local demand and national capacity.

Dangote Fertilizer Plants will produce Urea that will assist farmers boost their crop yields through easy access to fertilizer,” he added.

Feb poll: Re-election of Buhari will consolidate progress made so far, says BSO The Buhari Support Orgnaistion (BSO), United Kingdom chapter says the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari in the coming election consolidate the progress made so far.

Mr Joseph Adebola, leader of BSO UK, said this in a statement, a copy of which was made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja According to him, Buhari`s re-election in the presidential election slated for Feb, 16 would guarantee the advancement of the country to the next level and make it the envy of other nations.

He said the chapter in its bid to boost the re-election campaigns of Buhari, recently inaugurated five E-flyers and jingles in the country`s major languages.

Adebola said the jingles would be released to major

Nigerian radio stations across the 36 states of the federation including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

He said the idea was to further educate the people, especially, those at the grassroots on the achievements of Buhari and why he should be re-elected.

According to him, inauguration of the flyers and jingles is just a tip of the iceberg in the BSO campaign strategy.

Adebola enjoined Nigerians to come out enmass on Feb. 16 to re-elect Buhari for continuity, adding that he deserves a second term in office.

He said BSO was poised to sensitise and educate Nigerians on the need to re-elect Buhari and APC candidates at the coming elections.

Adebola noted that the Buhari administration which met an almost empty treasury

on assumption of office, had managed to achieve a lot with minimal resources through prudent management and even redistribution of our commonwealth.

“This is through the Social Investment Programme and blocking loopholes created by previous administrations through which our common patrimony were either pilfered or looted to enrich political allies.

“Buhari and APC have managed to get Nigeria out of recession in record time and are steering the ship of governance steadily toward a progressive and prosperous future for the country,’’ he said.

Adebola further said that the achievements of the Buhari-led administration entitled him to a second term in office.

According to him, the administration has banned

fraudulent foreign vessel lifting of crude oil and increased foreign investment and electricity generation in the country.

He added that through the Treasury Single Account (TSA), the administration had blocked revenue leakages and embarked on several social investment programmes in the interest of the common man.

Adebola said the administration had also been able to restore the dignity of Nigerians in the international community and had drastically reduced the menace of insurgency in the country.

He, however, said there was still more to be done to move the country to the next level.

According to him, it is only Buhari and the APC government that has the capability and the political will to take Nigeria to the Promised Land.

Your fixation on Atiku’s US visit defeatist, PDP replies Presidency Tunde Opalana, Abuja

The Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation (PPCO) has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s fixation on the success of its Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar’s trip to the United States, as defeatist and smacking of a pre-defeat hallucination.

The PPCO said in a statement by its Director, Media & Publicity, Kola Ologbondiyan, that the Buhari Presidency “should hide its face in shame that after spending billions of naira in propaganda to stop the trip.

The party said Atiku Abubakar, freely traveled to the United States, where he engaged in fruitful sessions with critical international business entities on ways to revamp Nigeria’s economy ruined by President Buhari.

He said: “President Buhari and the APC were so disturbed about Atiku Abubakar’s acceptance by the international community that they wasted billions of naira from the coffers of the Niger

Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to organise a failed protest in the United States.

“When that failed, they attempted to use the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, to threaten and level spurious allegations against Atiku Abubakar, which also came to naught, as the entire world saw through the fabrications.

“Today, Atiku Abubakar has a global support, unlike President Buhari, who, as a pariah President, has no friends all over the world. This is the reason President Buhari has gone into frenzy over Atiku Abubakar’s global acceptance”.

The PPCO noted that President Buhari’s failure in all his plots against Atiku Abubakar signposts his eventual failure before Atiku at the February 16, 2019 Presidential election, as Nigerians have since reached a consensus to vote him in as their next President.

The party suggested that if President Buhari has anything to tell or ask its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, he should be bold to meet him at an open debate any day, any time and at any venue.

FG releases over N9bn to clear backlog of scholarship allowances The Federal Government says it has released N9.5 billion for the payment of backlog of scholarship allowances owed Nigerian students at home and abroad up to December 2018.

The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, who was represented by Alhaja Asta Ndajiwo, the Director, Federal Scholarship Board, disclosed this during a press conference in Abuja at the weekend.

Adamu said that the government of President Muhammadu Buhari had already expended over N800 million in 2018 for the payment of scholarship stipends to students at home and abroad.

According to him, with the current release, the administration will be spending a total of N10 billion for payment of scholarship to students in the 2018 budget “and we are determined to do more’’. ”Let me use this opportunity to direct the scholarship board to immediately undertake all due processes required to clear the backlog of scholarship allowances owed Nigerian students both home and abroad. ”The Federal Government has already released the sum of N9, 752, 000 for this purpose. ”In the third edition of our weekend press briefing, I informed you that the government of President Muhammadu Buhari has already expended over N800 million in payment of scholarship stipend.

Adamu said that the board had inherited scholarship liabilities from the scheme operated by the National Universities Commission (NUC).

He said that these liabilities should be thoroughly verified before payment, adding that the board must ascertain that the admissions of such scholars were still valid and that the scholars were still currently pursuing their programmes.

He said that the number of scholarship applicants had risen to 30,000 as against the usual 12,000 applicants for the four scholarship schemes.

The minister therefore appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) to call off their prolonged strikes in the interest of Nigeria, parents and students.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Nigeria has four scholarship opportunities which can be enjoyed by students to further their academic pursuits.

They are the Commonwealth scholarship, the Bilateral Education Agreement (BEA) scholarship, the Federal Government scholarship and the Sustainable Development Goals scholarship.

However, the qualifying examination for the commonwealth scholarship had just taken place in Abuja on January 17, 2019.

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Why I’m supporting Dapo Abiodun Short News – Gov Amosun’s commissioner Why we have not opened Ashade

The Ogun State Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Rt. Hon. Muyiwa Oladipo has declared his support for the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in the state, Prince Dapo Abiodun, saying he remain loyal to the party’s principles which is superior to any personal interest.

Oladipo made this known while fielding questions from journalists in Abeokuta, noted that many were wondering about his political stand and why he remain silence in the ongoing political imbroglio in the state but saying that he remain resilience with the APC which is the ruling party in that in the state, noted that he never thought of decamping to Allied Peoples’ Movement (APM).

He said “Truly there has been many gossiping here and there based on where I belong, most especially when I am silent about the ongoing political machinations in the state. But I must confess to you that I Basorun Muyiwa Oladipo, I am in support of APC progressive principles which are similar to the Action Group (AG), founded by our late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, that was later transformed to Alliance for Democracy (AD), and now APC by the collective agreement of all progressive political leaders and elders in Nigeria.

“There was a time I showed my interest in contesting for Governorship position of this state, but God said it is not yet time. Let me be frank with you, I am in ruling party, APC and I am in support of Prince Dapo

Abiodun the governorship candidate of APC in Ogun State who I am very sure by the grace of God will emerge as the Amosun’s successor”.

Oladipo pointed out the reasons for him in remaining in APC and why supporting the party’s candidate Prince Dapo Abiodun for the March Governorship election in the country, saying that the supremacy of the party needed to be putting in consideration while playing politics, there are some principles guiding everybody in the party.

“I am in APC because my boss Senator Ibikunle Amosun who appointed me as Commissioner still remains and committed to APC progressive ideology.

The Governor has his reasons for standing with Buhari in APC and that is why all of us cannot sleep and put our heads in the same direction, and we all have our conscience to follow. The Governor asked some of his party followers to decamp to the Allied Peoples’ Movement (APM) to actualize their political dreams and ambitions, while some did not complied but remain in APC just as the Governor Amosun himself standing in APC”, Oladipo said He noted that the Governor Ibikunle Amosun was in support of Hon. Abdulkabir Adekunle Akinlade from opposition party, APM. That doesn’t means that every other cabinet members of the Amosun should follow his footstep, but one need to be steadfast and committed to the party’s principle that made him as

Amosun’s cabinet members.

He said “This life is like a talking drum, what faces someone may back another.

There is something my boss, Governor Amosun saw in supporting Hon. Abdulkabir Adekunle Akinlade which is personal, so the sky is very wide enough to accommodate variant birds to fly without conflict of interest, many Commissioners have resigned their appointment but I have not resigned because the party that appointed me as commissioner is still the ruling APC. The governor never said he is going to APM, so I have no reason leaving the party when our leader in the state is still in support of APC.” The Commissioner restated his commitment to the party’s principle at all time but noted that he was ready to leave the party if the governor also leave the party for APM, noting that he was not into any anti-party activities but in line with the Amosun’s principle of APC which he said that it can be justified by his Boss in the state.

“You see, there is no any consequences for my action, especially for not supporting the governor adopted candidate triple A which l know, but l am not in any way into anti party activities, I am in line with the governor’s principles of remaining in APC, so if I am sacked for being a loyal APC member, then I think I will be justified, but I know my boss cannot do that because everybody is entitled to his own opinion.”

level crossing to motorists – NRC

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) says it is collaborating with the Lagos State Government to reopen Ashade level crossing which was closed to motorists following a recent train derailment.

Mr Jerry Oche, the Railway District Manager, Lagos State, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos that the corporation was working with the state government to raise the road level to meet the rail track.

According to him, the step has become imperative to guard against future derailment and accidents.

Oche said: “A level crossing is made up of two components – the track and the road. We have done the track component.

“The road component of the level crossing is not for us, it is for Lagos State.

“Here is a good news because of our very good relationship with the Lagos State Government, we have been discussing with them.

“What makes Ashade level crossing unique is the fact that the track is higher than road. As the vehicles come in, it is like climbing a mountain with the track as the peak.

“What we agree with the Lagos State Government is that instead of having this mountain and a peak; fill the size of the roads, reduce the slope and this the government has accepted to do.

Troops kill 8 insurgents in fresh Baga attack

The Nigerian Army on Sunday said its troops had killed eight Boko Haram insurgents in a fresh encounter with the terrorists in Baga, Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno.

Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, in a statement in Maiduguri, disclosed that troops of the Special Forces command on Saturday repelled the insurgents’ attack and inflicted heavy casualty of men and equipment on the terrorists.

Nwachukwu said that the troops successfully neutralized five insurgents in two mounted Gun Trucks, a suicide bomber and two other terrorists on an Improvised Explosive Device (IEDs) borne vehicle.

He said the combined Special Forces troops of the Nigerian Army, Navy and the Air Force operating under the auspices of ‘Operation Lafiya Dole’ inflicted devastating man and equipment casualty on Boko Haram terrorists on Saturday.

“The terrorists; armed with two Gun trucks, a vehicle laden with IED and a suicide bomber, met their waterloo while frantically fighting to break into the formidable defensive position of the troops.

“The gallant troops responded swiftly in a fierce counter offensive, unleashing superior and overwhelming firepower on the terrorists, neutralising five of them, including a driver and a gunner firing from a gun truck,“ he said.

Cleric calls for intensified political education, awareness among electorate ahead of elections

L-R: SA media to the party, Mr. Remi Adelowo, National Publicity Secretary of APC, Mallam Lanre Issa –Onilu and Assistant Director on Media, Mr. Edegbe Odewinge during a Press conference on the APC reactions to the 2019 presidential debate in Abuja on Sunday.

Photo: Temitope Balogun

A cleric, Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Okechukwu-Okorie, has called for intensified political education and awareness for Nigerians ahead of the forthcoming general elections.

He said that many Nigerians were still ignorant of the roles expected of them in the forthcoming general elections.

Okechukwu-Okorie made the call during his sermon at Saints Timothy and Titus Catholic Church, Isheri-Osun, Lagos State.

He said that politics should be a big deal for the citizenry as it was going to be an opportunity for them to elect leaders who would make ‘project Nigeria’ work.

He advised that as citizens of the country, they must be aware of the political developments in the country and that every citizen has a role to play.

“Politics should be a big deal to us all because we have the opportunity to elect someone we feel is good and fit for the future of our country at election period.

Vote Atiku, Obi, Chuba-Ikpeazu urges Ndigbo Lagos records its first rainfall Alphonsus Nweze, Onitsha

The member representing Onitsha Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Lynda ChubaIkpeazu, has urged Ndigbo to vote the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), all the way in the coming February elections.

Hon. Chuba-Ikpeazu spoke at Housing Estate, Fegge, Onitsha in Onitsha South Local Government Area of Anambra State Friday when the Communities in the Local Government adopted her as their Candidate for the House of Representatives in the coming election.

She said the people of Nigeria were

suffering because the economy of the country was bad.

Ikpeazu said the economy was bad because the present Federal Government headed by President Muhammad Buhari has no economic blue- print for the country.

The Legislator said Nigeria needs Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi to transform the economy of the country, so that the suffering of the Nigerians would be drastically reduced.

She said good economy is not rocket science but need people who are knowledgeable like Atiku and Obi to restore it.

Chuba-Ikpeazu said if Ndigbo Miss this opportunity of supporting Atiku and

Obi, power will return back to South West after Buhari and they have to wait for the next 16 years for another opportunity.

“If they tell you that APC will give power to Ndigbo, they are deceiving you.

Join hands to support Atiku and Peter Obi. Whatever anybody is saying Obi worked when he was the Governor of Anambra State. And if he worked in Anambra State, he will join hands with Atiku to work at the centre,” she said.

Chuba-Ikpeazu who was endorsed by the Onitsha South due to her performance in the green chamber in the last four years especially the construction of seven solid roads at Fegge through the Ecology fund office in Abuja promised to do more if reelected.

Residents in some parts of Lagos metropolis on Sunday witnessed the first rain of the year at 12:30pm.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the rain lasted for about one and a half hour, causing heavy flash floods and traffic gridlock in some areas, especially in the Surulere axis.

Many residents heaved a sigh of relief due to the harsh weather experienced since the yuletide seasons.

Mrs Laide Abayomi, a hair stylist, told NAN that the rain was long overdue. ”We thank God for the rain, though we have been expecting it since last week when other states were experiencing there own. ”The weather pattern has also changed, everything now has changed, even the harmattan started late. We pray the rain brings good increase in our agricultural sector,” Abayomi said.

Mr Akinyemi Badmus, a transporter said the first rain of the year was a sign of blessing. ”I never knew it will come today (Sunday). It has really affected my business, the roads are blocked. ”I want to advice that government should prepare for the rainy season so that we will not be caught unawares when heavy rain comes.

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ICC, Gbagbo and matters arising

Owei Lakemfa

Africa this Tuesday, January 15, scored a stunning victory at the Hague against the International Criminal Court (ICC), a contraption of the West to maintain a neo-colonial stranglehold on the continent. On that day, the ICC, like hot potatoes, dropped the contrived charges against Laurent Gbagbo, the antiimperialist politician and immediate past president of Cote d’Voire, and ordered his immediate release.

It was a sweet victory against the neocolonial powers who tried to humiliate the continent by hurling an African president on trumped up charges of murder, rape, inhumane acts, and persecution. But the painful aspect is that an innocent man was abducted in his country, imprisoned without trial for five years and tried for another three years, before being set free. Seventy threeyear old Gbagbo lost eight years of his productive life locked up in Europe and deprived of family life. Additionally, he had to sit in prison while his supporters and family were persecuted; his wife, Simone, who was the country’s First Lady, was publicly humiliated and harassed before being sentenced to twenty years imprisonment, while his son, Michel, was sentenced to five years.

Mrs. Gbagbo spent seven years in prison before being released.

All these were attempts to pulverise a man who stood up to France and its centuries of exploiting Cote d’Voire.

It was also, giving a helping hand to puppets of the West, like incumbent President Alhassan Quattara and their errand boys who are tools in the recolonisation of Africa.

When the ICC ‘trial’ of Gbagbo and co-accussed, Blé Goudé began, I wrote in my Vanguard newspapers column of February 12, 2016: “The fact is that this is essentially a political case and Gbagbo

is a Prisoner of War who was captured on April 11, 2011 by the combined forces of rebels, French and United Nations troops…how will the ICC realise that jailing him will hurt national reconciliation in Cote d’Voire? What the country needs is national reconciliation, not a show trial.”

Gbagbo, the then Ivorian president had been captured, following an avoidable civil war that broke out after the controversial 2010 presidential election that pitched him against his former jailor, Quattara. The latter had been prime minister in 1992 when the radical Gbagbo was arrested for allegedly supporting a national students protest, and sent to prison.

The election was designed to unify the country after rebels from the north, where Quattara comes from, had seized half of the country. The president of the Electoral Commission had gone to the opposition headquarters to announce the results, which gave Quattara 54 per cent of the votes, while Gbagbo, who was the incumbent president, approached the Constitutional Court, which declared him victorious by 51 per cent. Both were sworn in as president, with the United Nations and the West recognising the opposition, which was emboldened to take up arms. I thought what was needed was for the African Union to take the initiative for a recount of the disputed votes. In my January 7, 2011 column in Vanguard titled, “Military Option Won’t Work In Abidjan”, I had argued against a resort to armed conflict. I wrote: “I do not have any doubt that a military intervention will result in a dreadful bloodbath of Africans. Another danger is that the military option is likely to result in the dissolution of the Ivorian armed forces and the police; the security implications for the country will be quite

immense. If this happens, the core of the new armed forces is likely to be made up of the rebel Army. This means that there will be serious ethnic and religious schism in the new military whose officer corps will be northern and Muslim.”

But the UN, France and the rebels preferred the military option, and over 3,000 Ivorians were killed. The country’s armed forces was defeated. Gbagbo was captured and paraded shirtless before being flown to the Hague jail. He and his supporters were persecuted, while the rebel forces and their political bosses were not just left free, but emboldened to bring the southern part of the country to its knees. But this could not go on for long as national reconciliation and development was impossible without the input of the leaders in the south, and the people who saw Gbagbo as their lea The ICC case was built on shaky foundations. First, its investigations were one-sided; the rebel Quattara forces, who massacred people and were reported to have wiped out some 800 Ivorians in two days, were neither investigated, nor charged. Secondly, some of the ‘evidence’ it produced against Gbagbo were exposed as fake or fraudulent.

For instance, a video footage allegedly showing pro-Gbagbo supporters committing crimes, turned out to have been shot in Kenya. Thirdly, it was preposterous that the ICC seized Gbagbo and imprisoned him before spending years ‘investigating’ when there should have been investigations before arrest.

Fourthly, the political pressures on the ICC by France could not be concealed.

South African columnist on foreign affairs, Shannon Ebrahim, in her November 25, 2018 column titled, “Time for the ICC to release Laurent Gbagbo” argued that the trial was a political backlash, as: “Gbagbo (as

Ivorian president) was determined to relax France’s control over banking, insurance, transport, cocoa trading and energy policy, and had invited companies from other countries to tender for government projects. Gbagbo was appalled by the gross overspending on French projects, such as the bridge France was to build in the capital Abidjan for 200 billion CFA francs, a contract he cancelled when the Chinese said they could build the bridge for 60 billion CFA francs in 2002.”

In my February 10, 2017 column titled, “Africa’s push back from the ICC”, I had pointed out that: “since its inception in 2002, all the ten cases under investigation/trial and the three under preliminary investigation are on Africa except the preliminary investigation in Georgia.”

Also, that the ICC had made a show of hurling African leaders like Gbagbo, incumbent Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Vice President William Ruto before it, while Western leaders who carried out crimes against humanity in Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and Yemen are free to continue perpetrating their crimes. I pointed out that the ICC is an European Court made for Africans “The Europeans provide the logistics, the prisons and 63 per cent, or about two thirds of the ICC budget.”

My conclusion was that: “the ICC and such Western-influenced tribunals essentially undermine the sovereignty of Africans and are new tools for recolonisation.” I had also pointed out that Africans are capable of bringing their leaders to book as the African Union did in its investigation, prosecution and conviction in Senegal of former Chadian president, Hissen Habre.

Africans should no longer be treated as colonial subjects.

Governor Shettima’s crocodile tears

Wale Fatade

In the ding over the accusations against the high priest in our country’s temple of justice, one could be pardoned for forgetting a governor’s theatrical performance recently.

Governor Kashim Shettima wept publicly while visiting President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, January 7, in the company of others from the state. Most dailies reported the encounter and it is instructive that journalists were asked to excuse the gathering because of the governor’s tears.

It will soon be five years on April 14 when Boko Haram terrorists kidnapped some secondary school students in Chibok, Borno State.

While some were recovered at different times after ransom was paid, 112 still remain in captivity; only God knows how many are alive still. In a month’s time, it will be one year too that Leah Sharibu, the only girl still held captive because of her Christian faith among those kidnapped by the Islamic State West Africa Province ISWAP), a faction of Boko Haram, from Government Girls Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State on February 19, 2018 has been in captivity. While the Federal Government negotiated and secured the release of others, Sharibu refused to renounce her faith and her reward is continuing captivity. I recalled this to show that the horrors of Boko Haram have been with us for a while just as

I can imagine the pain and trauma of the parents of these students.

Just as the House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, lampooned the northern elders – read politicians – who continually threw jabs at President Goodluck Jonathan but who suddenly have lost their voices over the continuing Boko Haram onslaught, Shettima too ought to examine his own roles critically in what, sadly, might define his eight year in office as governor over his people. Two colleagues whose work I’ve come to admire and respect, speak glowingly of Shettima’s good heart in solving the Boko Haram menace but his perpetual enmity with Jonathan must surely have clouded his desire to see his people rid of the terrorists. His latest needless spat with the former president over the latter’s account of his stewardship in his autobiography as regards the Chibok girls’ abduction says much about what ought to be his priority.

Now the chickens have come home to roost for Shettima and others of his ilk who thought Jonathan was the problem. For whatever he did or not do, and his initial handling of the kidnap left much to be desired, we could all see now that the problem goes beyond the former president. Even when folks invested President Buhari with the superpowers he does not possess, we’ve discovered, sadly, that more ought to be done to

combat the terrorists. Good enough that our soldiers are pushing back to reclaim the territories under the control of Boko Haram, we must not deny any longer that things are still grim and we have ceded some territories to these devilish elements. That might not be entirely correct, we have lost seemed more appropriate as we never relinquished any territory.

Denials notwithstanding, our efforts are still inadequate in the war and we can see the results.

Our soldiers are still waging war without the necessary equipment just as we still have saboteurs who are bent on sabotaging the military efforts. Journalists continue to be demonized and arrested for doing their legitimate duties as seen in the latest episode involving Daily Trust. A wonderful newspaper but which must take the blame for what happened to it even though it was a continuation of our soldiers’ refusal to accept that they are subordinates to civil authority, the newspaper’s management must remember that one does not dine with the devil and then turn around to exorcise his agents. Here is a newspaper that acquiesced to the demand of the authorities to let go of some columnists who were becoming too critical of the Buhari administration thereby silencing critical voices relevant to the good of the people of the area where the paper is based. By the way, Uthman Abubakar, the Maiduguri

Bureau Chief of the newspaper, is a colleague I worked with before and he is a true professional.

While the information the newspaper published was available in other sites, especially those dedicated to global defence issues; you can’t have a cosy relationship with the government on the one hand and then turn around to write critical reports on the other. We remember also how our military repeatedly denied that Boko Haram was controlling any part of Borno State but we all know better now especially with the increasing number of our internally displaced people.

The fact remains that we must all do more than we’ve been doing including journalists who continually censor themselves from bringing home the horrors of this war. The insurgency ongoing in Zamfara, Katsina and Sokoto States which we keep calling “bandits attack” is a pointer to what we might be dealing with in future if we failed to act decisively now.

To Governor Shettima, tears alone will not solve the problem we have in Borno and we must all know that we are dealing with a terrible enemy than you’ve always acknowledged, also that proverb which says that the pest destroying the vegetable is on the vegetable should speak eloquently more to you now.

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Editorial Commentary Minimum wage and matters arising

Times Guest Columnist Chinemelu Nwokike

To all you who believe we shouldn’t have a minimum wage — that the minimum amount you can be paid should be determined solely by your employer. We tried it once before: it was called SLAVERY ~ Quentin R. Bufogle Analyzing the absurd in Nigeria is like trying to crack open a palm nut with an egg: fascinating but futile — yet time and again one is brought back to the same place by the seeming indifference of our leaders to the daily struggles of the average Nigerian. Where will I start analyzing the fact that the so-called ‘Giant of Africa’ is still grappling with a minimum wage of $50 whereas poorer neighbouring countries like Cameroon and Chad have minimum wages of $75 and $115 respectively?

Going by the International Labour Organisation (ILO)’s definition, a minimum wage is “the lowest wage that an employer is allowed to pay the employee, the price floor below which workers may not be willing to sell their labour”. In arriving at the figure consideration must be given to the prevailing inflationary trend, cost of living index and the employer’s capacity to pay the amount. It can, therefore, be deduced from the foregoing that any wage which falls below the minimum wage cannot guarantee a decent living for a worker or an employee. In other words, any worker that does not receive up to such stipulated amount after rendering services is more or less a slave.

Last Sunday my Goddaughter popped in to say hi, she informed me that she has started work in a shop where she will be earning over €200 monthly for putting in a total of just 32 hours on Saturdays and Sundays. Add that to the pecks of child benefits accruing to her from the social welfare office and it will sum up to about €400. That is five times more than the N30,000 minimum wage that the government has agreed with the Nigerian Labour Congress. And she’s only 16!

I am not one to compare Nigeria with ‘saner climes’ because even though I live in and feel both worlds I have always maintained that there is no magic wand to Uhuru in a developing nation which has been pauperized by decades of misrule from monumentally corrupt and visionless leaders.

I am also an optimist but sincere optimism requires an appreciation of the rot to have realistic expectations of what is attainable but I just couldn’t help imagining how a €400 monthly salary will transform the life of an average Nigerian worker.

Nevertheless, for the purpose of this piece, I will limit the juxtaposition to Africa.

In 2016 the World Bank through its World Developers Indicators (WDI) released data which revealed that among a sample of 19 African countries, Nigerian was a runnerup from the bottom position (beating only Malawi) in the minimum wage rate addition but ranked 11th in the inflation rate (14.32%).

Two years on the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) put the inflation rate in the second quarter of 2018 at 11.23% with the exchange rate of Naira at approximately N362 in the parallel market. However, despite the gradual decline in the inflation rate witnessed since the last quarter of 2017, as an import-dependent nation, the over 100% increase in exchange rate actuated an increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which is the weighted average of prices of consumer goods and services resulting in a huge reduction of the purchasing power of the naira.

What all these jargon mean in layman’s terms is that the current value of N30,000 is less than what it was 3 years ago.

As a matter of fact, the N30,000 minimum wage is more or less meaningless, it was long overdue even in 2015 and that prompted many economists to propose an amount ranging between N50,000 to N65,000 considering the prevailing indices or parameters.

Paradoxically, one can equally understand those who objectively queried the verisimilitude of implementing the above figure or even the agreed N30,000.

So how realistic and achievable is it in the face of the country’s current economic reality for workers to be paid this amount as at when due? Salaries still constitute a major part of the annual recurrent expenditure that gulps over 70% of both state and federal budgets. Moreover, 33 out of 36 states are currently owing workers arrears of salaries for up to 11 months in some cases going by what the NLC says. If state

governors cannot pay N18,000 how can they scratch N30,000 let alone N50,000? Mind you this is in spite of the frequent bail-out funds doled out by the federal government.

Certainly, a majority of the states cannot pay the new minimum wage as it is no secret that we have a serious problem of economic viability among many states. Are we then set for another era of random overseas trips by governors seeking foreign loans to cushion this pressure?

And if the motivation is political for the federal government which retains a large chunk (52%) of the government revenue and recently weeded out over 50,000 ghost workers from its payroll, then how can it avoid a repeat of the Jonathan era mistake when the government which increased minimum wage could no longer pay salaries as oil prices dipped? Any government that borrows to pay salaries is tightening the noose and mortgaging the future of generations unborn.

The situation is just a mess. There are more questions than answers. Ours is a country with limited social welfare andinfrastructure, at N18,000 the average Nigerian worker has been catering for feeding, clothing, transport, and shelter with only N600 daily. Isn’t that a miracle in a place where rent is paid annually and two years in advance for a new tenant? I think it is.

Some have argued that service delivery is nothing short of pathetic. Our public institutions are notorious for being unkempt and often under-equipped working environment, add that to the nonchalance of civil servants and you ‘ve got your work cut out for you. If you have a business with a government ministry or public institution in Nigeria on any given day then you are better advised to devote the entire day to achieving that task.

The private sector is not particularly great either. Any professional in the construction industry will certainly know the difference in the quality component between what our artisans and those from smaller neighbouring countries like Togo or Ghana deliver. Simply put, ours is a nation with plenty of activity with little productivity.

However, it will be uncharitable to dismiss the importance of these services.

Whatsmore, once services are rendered it is only equitable that the wages are paid at the end of a given period.

We can only strive to improve the workplace and quality of service delivery because those are the negotiable factors and not the payment of agreed wages.

Again, when you consider that the president reportedly cuts has a budget of N70m for haircut, senators receive N13.5m pocket money in addition to monthly salaries and governors are free to take N500m as monthly security vote then you have to sympathise with civil servants because a huge chunk of the work of these elected officials are done by them. It is a case of “monkey de work baboon de chop”in the common Nigerian parlance.

It, therefore, is our collective duty to sustain the pressure on government at all levels to focus on the developmental projects like mass transit systems, lowincome housing and other social infrastructures that erode a large percentage of the workers’ salaries. Legislators must be put on notice especially on the state level, to thoroughly scrutinise frivolous loan requests from the executive and decline accent if found wanting.

Labour should also work together with the government to explore ways of improving service delivery via training, skill acquisition, capacity building, and responsive feedback mechanism. With the regular technological innovations, quality service is getting easier to deliver. It is also more satisfying for the giver and receiver.

It is preposterous that in this digital era when we have better and cheaper tools, one can still find public offices without a single desktop computer.

So I would rather the government, civil servants and indeed Nigerians keep the champagne on ice because there is still much to do before the average worker can heave a sigh of relief and kick off her shoes. Be that as it may, I wouldn’t term the perceived victory by Organised Labour pyrrhic as I have read in some commentaries.

Even if I won’t celebrate I have to commend every group that worked towards getting to a resolution because the alternative would have been worse for everybody. It is a step albeit a small one but without taking a step no matter how little you will not get to the destination.

OUR POSITION FG, recognition and heroic performance The unique occasion of December 6, 2018 where President Muhammadu Buhari decorated the sole winner of the 76th Nigerian National Order of Merit (NNOM) Award 2018, Olufemi Obafemi, a Professor of Literature from the University of Ilorin, definitely represents a positive development. The award, no doubt is commendable and there is the need to celebrate the recipient nationwide so as to encourage other citizens especially the young ones to develop passion for research and academic excellence in their various fields of endeavours.

NNOM is Nigeria’s national bard which is held by tradition and popular acclaim to represent the identity, beliefs and principles of our national culture. The national poet as culture hero is a long-standing symbol.

NNOM is the highest award for intellectual academic and creative achievement given by the Nigerian state on the statutory fixed date - first Thursday of December every year.

It is instructive to note that the 2018 award was conferred on Obafemi by President Buhari on Thursday at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

President Buhari further urged the awardee to hold high the intellectual work, assuring that his administration would continue to promote excellence and national unity.

The Chairman, Governing Board of the Nigeria National Merit Award, Prof Shekarau Aku Yakubu, also said that members of the board were very proud to present the 76th recipient of the award for 2018 to Mr President.

Yakubu described Prof Obafemi as a true embodiment of the noblest ideas of Nigerian citizenship and genuinely committed to social crusader, a nation builder and pathfinder.

“Obafemi is a multi-talented and many-sided personality, playwright, poet, novelist, a great scholar and translator and a public intellectual per excellence.

He is morally committed to promotion of social justice in our nation. This Laureate is indeed a source of pride to Nigeria and the Nation is indeed blessed to have such a distinguished teacher whose potentials should always be tapped for the growth and sustainable development of the country.

His efforts will continue to blaze new trails of academies excellence for the progress of our nation.

In is acceptance speech, Prof Obafemi expressed profound gratitude to President Buhari for accepting the decision of the Board of the Nigerian National Merit Award to confer NNOM Award 2018 on him.

The Kogi State born laureate also disclosed that with good educational policies combined with merit, the children of the poor with humble and lowly parentage can rise to stand before the President to receive the Nigerian National Order of Merit, the highest honour and recognition for ‘academic and intellectual contributions made by citizens of Nigeria’.

He also thanked the Board for finding him deserving of the Award. “I must say that I do not take the honour for granted at all, considering the number of nominees from among whom I was picked for the Award. It compels me to take a deep reflection on how I arrived at this point in life,” the recipient said.

It is significant to note that Obafemi told Buhari that “with the Change philosophy of your government, added to your proverbial and nationwide personal reputation for integrity and commitment to national development, peace and national security, the time is now to utilize the merit inherent in these institutions and other similar institutions in this potentially great country, with the bubbling energies of its teaming youths, whose future depends on today’s envisioned governance.”

Obafemi also disclosed that his undergraduate and graduate studies were financed through the Kwara State Government Scholarship and the University of llorin Staff Development Schemes as two critical lessons emerge from this narrative.

He said, “It is time for us to open participation space for the production, distribution and exchange of the nation’s mammoth endowments-material and ineffable in order to take the nation to where it can, and should be, as the country on whose shoulders the destiny of the Africa continent rests.

Dedicating the award to his family and other stakeholders, Obafemi acknowledged their roles “as represented here by my wife and children, and to my larger family of teachers and mentors, living and deceased, as well as all my students who have crossed my path in the nearly five decades of my academic and intellectual journey-without whom I will not be here today.”

We are of the opinion that Obafemi, the recipient of this year National Merit Award, represents the true spirit of dynamic and articulate Nigerians who are breaking new grounds and excelling in any human activities. We also submit that there is the need to ensure that the award is turned to enviable national prize that will make every Nigerian youth to aspire to win, thereby promoting critical research and development in different academic field.

In a situation where only one person was found worthy of the prize in a country of two hundred million people, definitely NNOM is not a prize anyone can buy with money but exceptional knowledge. We therefore call on the federal government to increase the prize for the winner to make it very competitive and a national pride.

We salute the heroic performance of Prof Obafemi and we urge Nigerians take a cue from him.

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Court enters $16.4m, N100.4m judgement Short News against ex-Aviation minister, Stella oduah Gov Ahmed calls for Peter Fowoyo, Lagos

A Federal High Court, Ikoyi Lagos has entered judgement in favour of Sterling Bank Plc jointly and severally against the former Aviation minister Senator Stella Oduah and her company Sea Petroleum and Gas Limited in the sum of $16,412,819.06 and N100,493,225.59 respectively.

The sum being the outstanding debt owed by the Sea Petroleum and Gas Company and duly guaranteed by Senator Stella Oduah as at November 2016 to the bank with accrued interest.

Justice Ayotunde Faji in his judgement while granting six reliefs out of the fourteen reliefs sought by the bank, issued order of attachment in favour of the bank against such entire assets of Sea Petroleum and Gas company, cash in bank, bond, deposit, real estate, stocks, all forms of negotiable instruments in all stock broking firms, discount houses, mortgage institutions, financial houses, microfinance houses, and all licensed banks within Nigeria having Sea Petroleum as beneficial owner funds to the full extent of the unsatisfied portion of the sum of $16,,412,819.06 and N100,493,225.59 respectively as at November 2016.and other accrued interest.

The court also declared that having regard to the clear and unambiguous provisions of the deed of guarantee and indemnity personally executed by Senator Stella Oduah in favour of Sterling bank over facility advanced to the Sea Petroleum and Gas company limited who has failed upon demands to liquidate same, Judgement can be granted against Senator Stella Oduah for the unsatisfied portion of the sum

owed by Sea Petroleum and Gas company to the bank.

The judgement of the court was sequel to a debt recovery suit filed before the court by a Lagos lawyer Barrister Oluwakemi Balogun SAN on behalf of Sterling bank Plc. In an affidavit sworn to by business manager, Maritime of Sterling bank Plc Mr Segun Akinsanya,with 34 exhibits attached filed and argued before the court by Mr Balogun (SAN),Mr Akinsanya in the said affidavit averred that on October 8, 2012, the bank granted a lease /cabotage vessel finance facility to Sea Petroleum and Gas Company in the sum of $10,069,620.25 to finance one unit 5,000 MT tanker vessel.

The loan was secured by unconditional personal guarantee of the company director, Princess Stella Oduah supported by statement of her net worth, legal mortgage of two properties worth N135 million, power of Attorneys of the tanker vessel in favour of Sterling Bank and fully executed irrevocable standing payment order and tripartite remittance agreement between First Bank plc, Sterling Bank and Stella Oduah.

It was further averred that on June 27, 2013 Sea Petroleum Company requested for and was granted additional facilities in the sum of $449,600.00 for post delivery expenses, $642,954.00 and $350,000 to meet the requisite conditions in securing of the Federal High Court in securing the release of the tanker.

Upon the persistent failure of the defendants to liquidate their indebtedness Sterling Bank instructed the law firm of Oluwakemi Balogun to recover the debt.

Despite several reminders, demands, pleas and persuasions emanating from the bank and its solicitor, the defendants failed and refused to liquidate their indebtedness which has culminated in the sum of $16,412,819.06 and N100,493,225.59 as at November 2016.

Consequently, the bank urged the court to enter judgement in its favour as per its claim.

However, in her counter affidavit, Senator Stella Oduah, contended that, the Vessel purchased with the loan facility was registered in the name of Sterling Bank until the defendant discharges the facility.

The bank was to appoint technical managers for the Vessel to ensure it is in good condition.

The managers appointed by the bank mismanaged the vessel resulting in several losses to the defendants.

The bank ignored all pleas for the managers to be changed. The Company, Sea Petroleum and Gas limited, could therefore not meet up with its financial obligations.

The non payment of the loan was thus occasions by the bank’s inaction and it would be unjust to impose on the company the liability occasioned by the bank’s inaction. The bank still retained the Vessel since ownership was in the bank. The bank would have expected to sell the vessel but failed to do so in spite of the company’s consent to the sale. The bank is not also seeking a sale of the vessel in this suit.

Consequently the impossibility of performance is a defence to claim for specific performance. Where a Plaintiff defaults in his obligation under an agreement he cannot succeed in an action for specific performance.

revival of reading culture Kehinde Akinpelu, Ilorin

Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara has called for concerted efforts to revive the reading culture, enhance writing skills and acquire knowledge that will serve the country well.

Ahmed made the call on Saturday in Ilorin at a public presentation of a book titled: “Guide to Writing Effective Minutes of Meetings’’.

The book was authored by Mr Rasheed Aiyelabegan, the Registrar of the International Aviation College (IAC), Ilorin.

The governor was represented by the state Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, Mrs Bilikisu Oniyangi.

Ahmed urged the people to always take advantage of the knowledge, information and education available in books.

He commended the author for the initiative in writing the book and the tenacity of bringing it to fruition, in spite of the demands of his position as registrar of IAC. “My delight stems from the fact that today’s event creates an opportunity to add to the body of knowledge, especially in an aspect of administration and management that is gradually becoming a lost art.

“It is also a means of boosting the reading culture.

“While rapid advances in technology, especially in the area of information, have transformed our lives in many ways, these developments have also discouraged the art of reading “It has also eroded much of our writing standards, particularly in the specialised area of administration.

“Minutes-taking is not only crucial for accurate record keeping but it also enhances meetings and their outcomes.

“It is, therefore, important that this skill is not only encouraged but taught to many; whether they are involved in administration or not,” the governor said.

NAF seeks proper media understanding of its activities, reportage Andrew Orolua, Abuja Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar has said that efficient and effective information management is critical to National development and a boost to national security.

He also said accurate processing of information was essential as it could affect national security positively or negatively.

Air Marshal Sadique said this at the weekend in his address at a one day enlightenment programme organised for Defence Correspondents by the Nigerian Air Force at its Headquarters in Abuja.

The Chief of the Air Staff, whose addressed was read by the Chief of Administration, Air Vice Marshal Kingsley Lar, also said that accurate information is required to win any war including the fight against terrorists and to curb the menace of criminals in the society.

He said that proper management and processing of war information for public consumption necessitated that journalists understand the terminologies associated with the defence beat to enable them report event professionally, hence the need for the enlightenment programme.

Earlier in his welcome address, the Director of Public Relations and Information Nigerian Air Force, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola had noted some level of improvement in the reportage of the Nigerian Air Force activities in the ongoing counterinsurgency operations and other monumental achievements of the

current NAF leadership.

He observed, however, that there are still some gaps in the manner the news on NAF are being reported and disseminated, omitting the right terminologies.

Daramola said that continued interface between the Directorate of Public Relations and Information and the journalists could further improve existing relationship and provide a platform for better professional performance.

According to him, “Public Relations practice has moved from merely informing the public to actively engaging them. Accordingly, the Nigerian Air Force relies on the entire spectrum of the media, including the traditional and new media, for information dissemination.

Social media of course has the advantage of providing avenues for real time engagement of the public.

“Hence, we have endeavoured to sustain public engagement through social media and will continue to do so in the future. Moreover, Public Relations is also now more about creating value in order to generate awareness rather than creating awareness to generate value,” he added.

Air Commodore said that notwithstanding the difficulties being experienced in the fight against terrorists in the country, NAF leadership had achieved some milestone in capacity building, research and development.

He said that NAF is collaborating with 14 universities and over six other institutions in all aspects of aircraft development and it has already 19 PhD holders in aeronautic designs.

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CUSTOMER

ITEM OF IMPORT

DATE OF FUND PURCHASE

EXCHANGE RATE

USD AMOUNT

1

CBN

UNUTILISED BAL

14-Jan-19

338.00

188.27

2

CORONATION MERCHANT BANK LTD

PERSONAL HOME REMITTANCE

17-Jan-19

355.35

7,794.00

3

CORONATION MERCHANT BANK LTD

PAYMENT FOR SUBSCRIPTION

17-Jan-19

355.35

35,000.00

4

CORONATION MERCHANT BANK LTD

PAYMENT FOR SUBSCRIPTION

17-Jan-19

355.35

28,432.50

5

CORONATION MERCHANT BANK LTD

PAYMENT FOR SUBSCRIPTION

17-Jan-19

355.35

11,440.50

6

DE-UNITED FOODS IND LIMITED

CANADIAN WESTERN RED SPRING WHEAT NO.2 IN BULK

17-Jan-19

355.35

50,000.00

7

MASSILIA MOTORS LIMITED

22 UNITS L200

17-Jan-19

355.35

150,000.00

8

BSV INDUSTRIES LIMITED

POLYVINYL CHLORIDE

17-Jan-19

355.35

89,000.00

9

BSV INDUSTRIES LIMITED

POLYVINYL CHLORIDE

17-Jan-19

355.35

66,200.00

10

BSV INDUSTRIES LIMITED

POLYVINYL CHLORIDE

17-Jan-19

355.35

5,000.00

11

SUNLIGHT RESOURCES LTD

CORN CURLS FOOD FLAVOR X117 (25KG)

17-Jan-19

355.35

39,800.00

12

CBN

WHOLESALE RETURNS

17-Jan-19

354.85

17,333.00

13

DE-UNITED FOODS IND LIMITED

CANADIAN WESTERN RED SPRING WHEAT NO.2 IN BULK

17-Jan-19

355.35

50,000.00

14

FAREAST MERCANTILE COMPANY LIMITED

QUICK QUAKER OATS

17-Jan-19

355.35

50,000.00

15

SARO AGRO SCIENCES LIMITED

AGRICULTURAL HERBICIDE: SLASHER

17-Jan-19

355.35

30,720.19

16

DE-UNITED FOODS IND LIMITED

CANADIAN WESTERN RED SPRING WHEAT NO.2 IN BULK

17-Jan-19

355.35

194,279.81

17

CBN

WHOLESALE RETURNS

17-Jan-19

354.85

175,000.00

18

MINL LIMITED

INDUSTRIAL RAW MATERIAL FOR MANUFACTURING GALVAFLUX (CHLORIDE BASED)

18-Jan-19

307.42

13.29

19

CORONATION MB

BANK CHARGE

18-Jan-19

307.42

382.07

20

CORONATION MB

BANK CHARGE

18-Jan-19

307.42

1,478.24

S/N

SOURCES

DATE OF FUND PURCHASE

EXCHANGE RATE

USD AMOUNT

1

OTHER SOURCE 1

14-Jan-19

306.40

130.74

2

OTHER SOURCE 2

14-Jan-19

338.00

188.27

3

HERITAGE BANK

17-Jan-19

306.85

10,000.00

4

CBN

17-Jan-19

348.85

500,000.00

5

CBN

18-Jan-19

348.85

500,000.00

1

TOTAL AMOUNT

1,010,319.01

2

AVERAGE AMOUNT

202,063.80

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Daily Times Nigeria Monday, January 21, 2019

Enugu APC crisis: PDP using Ogbodo to Short News NGO partners NAFDAC, SON to enlighten destabilize our party, APC cries out young women on entrepreneurship in Bauchi Moses Oyediran, Enugu

The Enugu state chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC) has again insisted that a onetime Commissioner for lands in the state, Chief Okey Ogbodo, who is laying claim to the leadership of the party, is not its member.

It reiterated her earlier allegation that the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the state is sponsoring Ogbodo to destabilize the opposition party ahead of the 2019 general polls.

The state chairman of APC, Dr. Ben Nwoye, stated this at the weekend in his office, while addressing newsmen on last Thursday’s ruling on a suit filed against him and his executive at the Federal High court Enugu, by Ogbodo.

Nwoye declared that the Ogbodo knows in his innermost heart that he is not a member of the party, but rather chooses to remain a cog in the wheel of progress of the party in the state because of his selfish benefits from the ruling PDP. He maintained that he remains the authentic chairman of the party in the state.

“The records are still clear that Okey Ogbodo is not a member of the APC. Everybody in Enugu Politics understands that Okey Ogbodo is a PDP man who is paid by the PDP in Enugu State to destroy and destabilize Enugu State APC. Nwoye however advised Ogbodo to do the needful if he truly wants to join the party rather than offering himself to be used as agent of destruction by a political party.

According to him, “the April fool news” that I, Dr. Ben Nwoye was removed by court last Thursday is just a false alarm. I still remain the only Chairman of Enugu State APC, having survived over seven litigations filed in multiple courts and in different states by Ogbodo and co.

He said he is not against genuine aggrieved persons going to court to seek redress, but frowns at the likes of Ogbodo who went to equity with dirty hands.

“Law suit is a democratic process and we are in a democracy, so when people feel aggrieved or that their rights have been short changed, they have every right to go to court just like Okey Ogbodo.

“That fact became very clear on Thursday, 17th, January when they paid new age media and some bloggers to disseminate to Enugu people and the rest of the world false news despite the clear pronouncement by the court, the incompetency of Okey Ogbodo’s paper, despite a well reasoned opinion of the court, “Okey Ogbodo and those who sponsored him-the PDP are entitled to their opinion but they are not entitled to they are not entitled to their own fact, the fact remains that I still remain the chairman of APC, Enugu State” On the rumoured disqualification of the APC gubernatorial and other candidates in the state, the Chairman, maintained that “the outcome of the court on Thursday does nothing to the candidates of the party in the state, APC candidates are not in any jeopardy, and we are going to win all the elective positions in the coming election fair and square “he boasted.

Nwoye described the PDP as a sinking ship that has lost tactics plan, and has no method on how to canvass votes, hence it has resulted to using Okey Ogbodo and some unwilling participants to destabilize the system.”

Samuel Luka, Bauchi A Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) known as Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) in collaboration with National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) and Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) have sensitized young women on entrepreneurship development in Bauchi.

CITAD Programme Officer, Mr Muhammed Chiroma said at the sensitisation and closing ceremony of the 6 weeks training on Friday in Bauchi that a total number of 20 women were trained on computer literacy and other entrepreneurship and skill acquisition programmes.

Chiroma who maintained that entrepreneurship is an antidote for youth employment and self reliance added that CITAD is passionate about youth entrepreneurship, as according to him, it would help reduce employment challenges facing the country.

“The youth need to be self reliant and as such needed to be trained as entrepreneurs. It is a known fact that entrepreneurship is the cornerstone of every economy and has the transformational power, that is why CITAD has been engaging this young people on how to become employers of labour,” Chiroma said.

ARMTI chief lauds FG for sustaining agric training funding Kehinde Akinpelu, Ilorin The Executive Director, Agricultural and Rural Management Training Institute (ARMTI), Ilorin, Dr. Olufemi Oladunni has lauded the Federal Government for its sustained interest and funding of vocational training for women and youths in Nigeria.

Oladunni in a chat with reporters yesterday in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital, said the world over, the women and the youths formed the largest human population noting that meaningful investments in them therefore would not be in futility.

He said, “We need to praise the efforts of President Muhammad Buhari led government especially in the areas of the vocational training of the nation’s youths and children. This drive, had in the past brought out the best in some nations of the world we see today as notable. Very soon if we sustain same, we will begin to see the positive side of it in our economy.”

The ARMTI boss recounted on the recent trainings of 80 women and youths at Ankpa, Omala and Olamaboro Federal Constituency of Benue state. The programme he noted was designed to equip the youths with relevant skills in Agro-based value chain and Business Development.

He said the participants were trained in such courses as Market Analysis and Linkages in Agricultural Value Chain, Formation and Management of Cooperative Society, Operation and maintenance of Grain Threshing, milling machine and improved cassava production.

Group endorses Maku for Nasarawa gov Augustone Kuza, Lafia

L-R: Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas; Chief of Defence Staff , General Gabriel Olonisakin; and Widow, Mrs. Mary Iya Badeh during the service of songs for Alex Badeh at the Headquarters of Nigerian Air force Protestant Church Air force Base in Abuja... on Sunday.

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2019 Polls: NAS tasks INEC on increased voters’ education Embarks on nationwide sensitisation campaign

Adebisi Oyindamola, Abuja The National Association of Seadogs (NAS) also known as the Pirates, has called on the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) to engage more in voters’ education and sensitisation before the 2019 general elections commences.

They said there still remains a huge gap to fill in ensuring that the citizens are motivated to exercise their franchise, and are aware of the importance of voting as a powerful key to determine the future of the nation and generations to come.

Under its nationwide Citizens’ Summit Program on Saturday, NAS embarked on a sensitization walk around major public places in Abuja, reminding citizens of their inalienable rights to vote and ensure their votes count in the upcoming polls.

Although judging from the responses of most people during the walk, a high level of

apathy and lack of interest in the electoral process was apparent, revealing that a lot of public engagements especially in local dialects is pertinent.

The National Director of Publicity and Public Relations NAS, John Okey, noted that credible elections are dependent on large voters’ turnout and to achieve and sustain its credibility, INEC needs to work closely with political parties and especially the citizens to attract greater of participation from electorates.

“It is obvious that INEC needs to engage more, you don’t sit in your office and then decide what you think is right for the people.

I listened to the INEC chairman’s interview some few days ago, and he was justifying the electoral guidelines, saying it is best for the people and they have decided what is good for the people, you don’t do that.

“You need to engage across board, the political parties are critical stakeholders, you need to engage them because they

have experience you need to draw from, the citizens also have experiences you need to draw from,” he said.

He disclosed that a survey conducted

by NAS confirmed a high level of apathy amongst the electorates towards elections, prompting them to embark on a nationwide sensitization campaign to galvanize Nigerians to collect their PVCs, exercise their franchise and ensure their votes count.

“Now I give you an example there was a man we spoke to in the market and he said ‘oga, my anger be say children of big men no dey vote, una we wey dey commot come campaign why children of big men no follow una’. I told him that is the irony, I explained to him that the principle of democracy is built on the system that majority carries the vote. If APC, SDP or PDP or any other party get more votes, they win. So our objective is to draw out more people, so that everybody comes out, to vote,” he further revealed.

GROUP under the aegis of Vision 2019, has endorsed Mr Labaran Maku, as the sole governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Nasarawa state.

Chairman of the group, Mr. Peter Uzua, made the decision known at a press conference in Lafia, the state capital at the weekend.

He informed that the group was a conglomeration of political groups, comprising prominent and seasoned politicians, respected community leaders, leaders of thought and indigenous tribes across the 13 Local Government Areas of the state.

He explained that the decision to endorsed Mr. Maku as their sole candidate for the forth coming governorship election was reached at an enlarged meeting of the group in Lafia, recently.

The chairman of the Union noted that Mr. Maku was fit for the state number one job not only because of his intelligent but also as someone with vision that meant well for the state and country.

Police arrest 72-year-old fraudster, 7 others Chioma Joseph, Lagos The Ogun state police command have arrested a 72-year-old man, Abiodun Bamgbopa and seven others who are 419 syndicate that specialize in defrauded many unsuspecting members of the public of their hard earned money.

The suspects who were arrested on January 11th were arrested following information from a member of public who reported that some men just arrived the town and that their movement was suspicious.

The identities of the other suspects were given as - Olashile Raheem, 35, Nureni Raheem, 32, Raphael Joseph,24, Ganiu Olawale 24, Adenubi Samiu 25, Mustapha Lukman 39 and, Raimi Ramoni 42.

According to the Police Public Relations Officer for the Command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, upon the information, the DPO Ago-iwoye division CSP Ade Adedoyin directed his detectives to be on the trail of the said men and technically profile and investigate them.

Daily Times Nigeria Monday, January 21, 2019

10,000 APC members dump party for PDP in Bauchi as Speaker Dogara, Kaura kick against plan to manipulate votes Samuel Luka, Bauchi No fewer than 10,000 members of the ruling All Progressives Congress in Bauchi state have defected to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) citing lack of purposeful leadership qualities and nonperformance in the state as their reasons for the defection.

The PDP Chairman, Bauchi state Chapter, Alhaji Hamza Akuyam who received the decampees on Saturday at the PDP flagoff campaign in Bununu, the Headquarters of Tafawa Balewa local government area berated Governor Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar for not working for the people of Bauchi State.

He called on those still supporting the APC to understand the lapses in the party and defect to PDP to foster progress and development in not only Bauchi State but the country at large.

He said that the PDP will not accept the planned relocation of collation centre from Zwall to Dass local government area of

Bauchi State at this point in time as according to him, the move was illegal.

Akuyam who said that those against Speaker Dogara are enemies of the progress of not only Bauchi State but Nigeria as a whole added that, “ because they see him working for his people, the people of Dass Tafawa Balewa and Bogoro Local Government Areas that is why they don’t want him in that position, but let them know that the people of his constituency are hundred percent behind him and are poised to return him elected.

He further said, “if these people come to solicit for your votes simply ask them what have you done to warrant our votes?

In his speech, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara accused some members of the state assemblies of conniving with their governors by ensuring that Local Government autonomy was made impossible.

He said that when he became the speaker of the National Assembly, he pushed hard for local governments to have self determination but some State Assembly members across the country, in collaboration with their

Governor’s who are feasting on monies meant for developing local governments at the grass root levels thwarted the effort.

Dogara assured that Senator Bala Mohammed will ensure the autonomy of local governments if elected Governor of Bauchi State in 2019 general elections.

“You know what you are passing through, though we need not to tell you, we have absence of projects not only in Dass, Tafawa Balewa and Bogoro Local Government Areas but the entire state of Bauchi. I fought for local government autonomy but they refused to accept the idea and local government funds are been mismanaged by the All Progressives Congress (APC) led government”. The speaker revealed.

The speaker while urging Nigerians to vote out the APC, said “they said even if we win they will announce what they want, they behave as if they don’t know God ,they are acting God but we know what God did to Pharaoh, we know what God did to Hitler, we know what God did to Ghadaffi and may God do same to them for taking the position of God”.

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Short News Kwara SDP guber candidate promises to focus on agric to create employment Kehinde Akinpelu, Ilorin The governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Kwara, Dr Olajide Joseph Adebola has promised to focus on Agriculture to create employment to the youth if elected.

Adebola gave the promise in Ilorin on Saturday at the flag-off of his campaign and that of other candidates of the party.

According to the governorship candidate, the only way to curb youth restiveness and poverty in the state was to create jobs through rapid agricultural reform initiative, which would employ 200, 000 youths between 2019 and 2021, by 2022 would be self sustaining.

He said in each of the 16 Local government would set up a rural agricultural reform initiative which would be owned by the people.

Adebola also promised to create infrastructure that would link all the senatorial district which would ease the movement of goods produced to where they were needed.

“The agricultural product will not only be food crops but also cash crops, we would create minimum of 200, 000 jobs by 2021; in that way it will help curb poverty.

Blind national football team begins preparations for 2020 Olympics Moses Oyediran, Enugu The Ministry of youth and Sports through the Para- Athletics Federation of Nigeria have concluded arraignments for the raising and unveiling of National blind football team to be known as Star Eagles.

National President of Para- Athletics Federation of Nigeria, Dr. Geoffrey Ogu, who disclosed this to sports writers’ weekend at the Nnamdi Azikiwe sports stadium Enugu, during a 4 -day national blind football trial, hosted

by BINA Foundation in Enugu, said that his Association wants to raise a national blind football team ahead of the 2020 Olympics games in Tokyo.

BINA Foundation is an Enugu based multi- national pharmaceutical company, which has a department that takes care of people with special needs, including the blind.

The 4- day national trial is being attended by blind footballers from various parts of the country including Abuja, the trial will be coming to an end on Sunday, 20th, January.

Dr. Ogu also said the Foundation was choosing by the Federation to host the trials because it has an existing blind football team and relevant facilities for the special game.

Taraba political attack: APC, PDP in war of words Okerafor Athanatius, Jalingo

L-R: Executive Secretary, Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC), Ms Yewande Sadiku; Acting Director General, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Ms Mary Uduk; Acting Commissioner, Corporate Services (SEC), Mr Henry Rolands, and Acting Executive Commissioner, Legal and Enforcement (SEC), Mr Reginald Karausa during a meeting between NIPC and SEC in Abuja ... weekend.

PDP channelling time, resources to corrupt judiciary, says Rivers lawmaker Memoye Oghu, Port Harcourt Rivers State lawmaker, Chief (Hon) Martyns Mannah, representing Ahoada East constituency 1, in the state House of Assembly has alleged that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state was channelling all resources and time to corrupt the Judiciary, noting that the poor masses of this country are doomed when their last hope for justice is corrupt.

Hon Mannah, in an exclusive chat with the Daily Times over the weekend in Port Harcourt, the state capital observed that when corruption engulfs the Judiciary then the whole country is sank into corruption, advising that, “that’s where we all must focus on.”

He wondered why the cacophony about the planned arraignment of the Chief Judge of Nigeria (CJN) by the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), Justice Walter Onnoghen when the man has accepted his fault and commended President Buhari for his courageous war against corruption.

“We thank God for the Federal Government to

have exposed the CJN because a situation where a man of such status will involve himself in that level of corruption is threatening; if the Judiciary is corrupt, it means that a lot of people who are in jail today are there because somebody paid for corruption. If you can’t sue anybody to court, pay the lawyers, pay the Judges, then they’ll just sentence you to jail,” he said.

He expressed the hope that God in His infinite mercies will continue to expose more corruptions in the Judiciary: “It’s a pity that our Judiciary is aligning itself to a party. At the end of the day, what they don’t know is that they will be exposed. As God, in His infinite mercies divined the ways to expose the CJN, we know that many more will follow suit.”

Hon Mannah, who defected from the ruling PDP to the opposition APC in the state blamed PDP for the rot in the Judiciary, alleging that the party was now channelling its time and resources to corrupt the last hope of the common man.

“You see, corruption is the order of the day in Nigeria and the last line of defense for the common man is where the PDP have now

invested all their time to get it corrupt. The PDP administration has so corrupted the country; every nock and cranny of this country; every sector, security agencies, the INEC. They’ve spread corruption everywhere and the only line of defense for the common man, which is the Judiciary, they’ve now channelled all their resources to get it corrupt,” he alleged.

The House Committee chairman on Youth and Employment had no kind words for the state House of Assembly which he described as more of a rubber stamp, often dancing to the tune of the executives. “We sit only when the Governor says so and the eighth Assembly has only been passing executive bills,” he charged.

The vocal opposition lawmaker further alleged that the opposition lawmakers in the Assembly were receiving lesser salaries than their PDP counterparts, saying that, “there is always a difference of one million Naira between our salaries. During the last Xmas, all PDP lawmakers were given an Xmas bonus of ten million Naira each by the state governor while the APC members were left out.”

The Thursday, January 17th, attack on the All Progressives Congress (APC) Gubernatorial Candidate, Alhaji Sani Abubakar Danladi at Wukari town has continued to raise dust as APC has accused Governor Darius Ishaku and the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of sponsoring the attack.

The Taraba State Government on its part, has claimed that the attack was a growing desperation of Alhaji Sani Abubakar Danladi, Gubernatorial Candidate of APC, to destabilize peace in the State, make the State ungovernable and for the 2019 elections not to hold as scheduled.

The Director General (DG), Sani Abubakar Danladi Gubernatorial Campaign Organisation, Comrade Bala Bobboi Kaigama, who condemned the attack during a Press Conference in Jalingo, said it is a dastardly attack planned to kill the APC Gubernatorial Candidate.

“We strongly believe that the attack on our convoy was a poorly executed plan to kill our Gubernatorial Candidate, Alh. Sani Abubakar Danladi, whose car was directly hit

APC rally: Buhari smuggled out of Jos stadium Kingsley Chukwuka, Jos President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday in Jos during the All Progressives Congress (APC), rally, was smuggled out of the Stadium due to uncontrollable crowd that thronged the rally venue.

The crowd which turned violent became impossible for security operatives to manage especially when Buhari’s convoy made his way into the stadium.

It took over 15 minutes for the President and Governor Lalong to exit the vehicle as crowd became increasingly uncontrollable.

The APC presidential flag bearer couldn’t make a single speech as the microphone wires were destroyed and the podium in which the President was suppose to mount was overtaken by the crowd.

The President vehicle and his convoy were almost destroyed by irate youths who claimed on top of the car roofs, and some of the windscreens were smashed Unable to control the crowd, securities attached to the President advised him to leave the stadium as the only alternative to disperse the crowd.

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A’Ibom PDP uncovers alleged plot by APC to arrest leaders on trumped-up charges Isaac Job, Uyo As political parties continue their campaign for next month general elections, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state of plotting to incriminate its leaders and supporters on trumped-up criminal charges and eventually clamp them into detention so that they would not participate in the election.

Addressing a press conference yesterday at the party secretariat in Uyo, the state chairman of the PDP, Obong Paul Ekpo alleged that the party has received intelligence report that the APC was planning to plant arms and ammunition in buses and other vehicles branded as PDP or state government buses during APC rallies to perfect their evil plot.

“We have received credible intelligence that on Monday, 21st January, 2019 or any other day during APC rallies, buses branded as PDP buses or vehicles bearing state government number plates, will be

loaded with arms and occupied by some criminals, heading to the venue of the APC rally.

“On approaching, the buses and their occupants will be arrested and the contents of the buses displayed for all to see as a major breakthrough. Additionally, the criminals will mention some PDP top shots as their financiers necessitating their arrest and subsequent prosecution under the antiterrorism Act.” “This plot which is hatched and sponsored by the opposition APC is aimed at arresting and incarcerating our key leaders and keeping them away from circulation throughout the elections. This is, to say the least, very crude, anachronistic and antediluvian, signalling APC’ imminent defeat at the approaching polls”, Ekpo said.

The state PDP chairman disclosed that members and supporters of their party across the state have for weeks now been wantonly arrested and detained without any lawful justification.

He cited instances in Essien Udim

council area where the former governor Godswill Akpabio comes from and PDP members were arrested and detained on frame up charges “In Essien Udim, scores of our youths and elders have been arrested on trumped up charges of defacing or destroying posters belonging to the President”, he said Ekpo said the PDP is a peaceful party hence has not directed any of its supporters to disrupt APC rallies, cause violence or destroy posters of any political party, adding that it would not be intimidated by the oppressive antics of the APC. It would recalled that last month, the Akwa state elders under the aegis of Akwa Ibom leaders Vanguard rejected plans by the state Commissioner of police Mr kimo to set up Anti Terrorism unit at the state police headquarters, Ikot Akpan Abia.

The elders further alleged that such unit within the police was not necessary considering the peaceful disposition of the state adding the proposed plan was aimed using it to intimidate members of PDP and government functionaries in the state.

Short News Police arrest tricycle operator for defiling teenager in A’Ibom Isaac Job, Uyo A 27-year-old tricycle operator is in the police custody after he was apprehended by concerned youths for allegedly defiling a 10-year old girl in Use Offot, Uyo local government area of Akwa Ibom State.

The tricycle operator identified as Edet Sunday Edem hails from Oku Iboku in Itu local government area of Akwa Ibom State allegedly committed the crime in his rented apartment in Use Offot, Uyo metropolis and dumped the girl at Use Offot market square leaving in pool of her blood.

The girl (names withheld) was rescued by passersby and was rushed to St Luke’s hospital, Anua for medical attention.

Mariam Daniels who is a member of a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), Journalists Alliance against Gender Based Violence who took the girl to the hospital said she noticed that the girl was lying helplessly in the market square.

According to Daniels, moved by the victim’s pitiable state of health, she insisted that she should be taken to the suspect’s residence and when she arrived she was confronted with ‘a pool of blood’ in the suspect’s apartment.

Quack journalists responsible for blackmail, fake news – CISLAC

The Executive Director, Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) Mr Auwal Rafsanjani, on Sunday blamed quack journalists for blackmail and spread of fake news and hate speech in Nigeria.

Rafsanjani said this at the Campus Journalism Awards 2019 organised by Youths Digest, a media Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) with support from CISLAC in Abuja.

According to him, persons who falsely pretend to have knowledge of journalism but only care for money have invaded the profession thereby causing trouble.

“Most of the quacks in the profession are responsible for causing trouble, those without training are the perpetuators of fake news and other vices.

“This is because anybody who has been trained as a journalist will keep to ethics of the profession.

“Journalism is not a business for accumulating money, it is about sacrifice to the nation by being responsible and being a voice to the voiceless.’’

Buhari condoles Borno over Amb Giltimari death Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

Governorship Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, his Running Mate, Mrs. Haleemat Busari, with President of the Muslim community in Lagos State, Professor Tajudeen Gbadamosi, at the Lagos Central Mosque, recently.

Gov Ganduje team reveals why Kwankwaso is not running for Senate again The Chairman, Publicity Committee of Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje Campaign Organisation, Malam Muhammad Garba, has advanced reasons why Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso declined from re-contesting Kano Central Senatorial seat, saying he is afraid of defeat by former Governor of Kano state, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau.

Malam Garba who spoke to journalists during Ganduje’s campaign tour in Karaye Local Government Area on Sunday, described Senator Kwankwaso as, “a spent force who is no longer relevant politically.”

According to Malam Garba who is also Kano state Commissioner of Information, “Senator Kwankwaso saw the handwriting on the wall and tactically withdrew, because he is afraid of being disgraced at the polls by His Excellency, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, Sardaunan Kano.

“You can recall how Shekarau dealt with him in 2003 and 2007 when he defated him as a

sitting Governor and also defeated his preferred governorship candidate in the 2007 governorship elections.

“Kwankwaso’s utterances in recent times depict that of a defeatist who is aware that he has lost touch with the realities in Kano politics.

“The depletion of his Kwankwasiyya Movement and the gale of defection by former chieftains of the Movement to our great party, the All Progressive Congress (APC) is also a pointer to the fact the the former Governor and his governorship candidate has already lost out even before the election.

“You are also aware that even the remnants of the Kwankwasiyya Movement who pretend to be with him are not committed to ensuring that his in-law and political godson, who he singlehandedly made the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, against the wish of the party stakeholders, smell victory at the end of the day.

“As I speak with you, we are still receiving decampees from the Kwankwasiyya and the PDP, an indication that victory is sure for His Excellency, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.”

Malam Garba further stated that, “the modest achievements of Governor Ganduje have also intimidated Kwankwaso and his group so much that they are finding it very difficult to sell their governorship candidate.”

He advised Kwankwaso and the PDP to, “swallow their pride and accept defeat because the good people of Kano state have seen the light.

“We are already moving to the Next Level.

As we move round campaigning, we are also planning on how to consolidate on our achievements so far within the next four years.

“Our desire to bring back the lost glory of Kano as a mega economic city is non-negotiable.

We appreciate the support and prayers of the good people of Kano state and we have vowed never to disappoint them,” he said.

President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with the government and people of Borno State over the passing of the Chairman, Borno State Elders Forum, Amb. Usman Gaji Giltimari.

The President also condoles with family, friends, professional colleagues and associates of Amb. Giltimari, who served as Chairman Federal Civil Service Commission and Nigeria’s Ambassador to Chad Republic.

Buhari commended the late elder’s piety, sacrifice and philanthropy throughout the period he served his community, the state and Federal Government.

The President believes the legacies of humility, hard work and dedication of Amb. Giltimari will always be remembered, and his investments in humanity evergreen.

The President prayed that the almighty God will receive his soul, and comfort his family.

Yobe set to host President Buhari

Damaturu, Yobe capital wears a new look to receive President Muhammadu Buhari for the Presidential campaign on Monday.

Major streets were cleaned, while the Damaturu stadium, venue of the campaign was given a facelift.

Similarly, security operatives have been deployed to strategic areas and other black spots.

Some of the residents who spoke to NAN expressed excitement on Buhari’s visit to the state.

Modu Ali, a resident of Sabon Pegi, said “we can’t wait to welcome President Buhari to show him our love and readiness to re-elect him for a second term.”

Hajia Bintu Mustapha of Ajari ward, said: “APC has a perfect company of President Buhari, Mai Mala Buni for governor and our legislative candidates.”

Aliyu Abubakar, a university student, said “there is no alternative to President Buhari and Mai Mala Buni in the forthcoming elections.”

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Seme Customs generates N1.1bn, intercepts rice, 22 vehicles, Fresh Yo yogurt Temitope Adebayo The Seme Border Commend of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has said it has generated a revenue of N1.1billion in January, 2019.

The Command also disclosed that it seized contraband items which included 13 trailers load of foreign parboiled rice smuggled into the country through neighboring Benin Republic and Fresh Yo Yogurt.

Speaking while displaying the seized items to journalists in Lagos at the weekend, the Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Mohammed Uba Garba said that the command also seized 22 exotic vehicles worth N177million According to him, 71×25 liters’ kegs of PMS worth N105,500, 45×25 litres jerry cans of vegetable oil worth N573,750, 21 cartons of tinned tomatoes worth N125,575, 135x50kg bags of sugar with cost of N573,00 and 2 sacks of used shoes worth 67,500.

Narrating the seizures, the Customs Boss said that a Mutsibush van belonging to Fresh YO drinking yoghurt with DPV of 2,337,416 with 20 bags of smuggled rice was seized.

Uba also said that in the month of December 2018, the command generated the sum of N623millon, representing about 92% of the commands to 8ooòandcruiser prado (2011), Mercedes Benz GLK 350 (2010), T 4444Sienna (2013), Toyota 4runner (2014) among others.

However, Mohammed disclosed that seven suspects who are connected to the act were arrested and in various stages of investigations and conviction.

“Already, seven suspects were arrested, some were convicted, bailed and currently detained in connection with the seizures and are undergoing interrogation for possible prosecution.

“Beyond the above statistics, it is obvious that the seizures represent the protection of the economy and security of our people. Let me state clearly that it is simply not enough to inform you about the revenue and seizures (with the DPV); what is of paramount importance is to boost our economic growth and provide employment for our teeming youths.”

“Take, for instance, the government policy on rice; the rationale behind the policy is geared towards selfsufficiency in terms of food production that would meet the demand of the citizenry. Incentives have been created for rice farmers, individuals and state governments have committed so much in terms of finance in order for this goal of self-sufficiency to be actualized.

“We as a Command cannot afford to be complacent.

The dangers inherent in this illegality are too numerous to mention, hence our resolve to fight them relentlessly.

2019 Cowbellpedia Competition kicks-off with N2m prize Godwin Anyebe A cash prize of two million naira and other exciting opportunities are for grab as the entry stage for this year’s Cowbellpedia Secondary Schools Mathematics TV Quiz Show opened in Lagos.

The annual competition is sponsored by Cowbell Milk, the flagship brand from Promasidor Nigeria Limited, the makers of Cowbell Milk.

Briefing journalists at the flag-off, the Managing Director of the company Mr. Anders Einarsson disclosed that the ultimate prize for this year’s edition is N2 million and an all-expense paid educational excursion outside the country.

The first and second runners-up will go home with N1.5 million and N1 million respectively.

The teacher of the top prize winner will be awarded N500,000, while those of the first and second runners-up will get N400,000 and N300,000 respectively.

The competition according to him is divided into two phases: Stage 1 Qualifying Written Examination and Stage 2 TV Quiz Show.

“As part of the brand’s deliberate effort in encouraging Girl Child interest in STEM courses, Mr. Einarsson, reiterated the company’s appeal to mixed secondary schools to nominate a minimum of two female students for each category. As research has shown that a positive relationship exists between girl child education and the GDP of a nation,” he explained.

L-R: Head, Internal Audit, FBNHoldings, Bode Oguntoke; Head, Investor Relations, FBNHoldings, Tolu Oluwole; General Secretary, Independent Shareholders Association, Clement Opara; National Co-ordinator, Independent Shareholders Association, Adeniyi Adebisi; Company Secretary, FBNHoldings, Seye Kosoko and Investor Relations, FBNHoldings, Simisola Salami during FBNHoldings visit to the Independent Shareholders Association in Lagos…recently

e-transaction: Report defaulting banks for sanction, CBN tells customers Mathew Dadiya, Abuja Abuja, Jan. 20, 2018. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said any failed instant payment transaction not reversed into the customer’s account within 24 hours, based on the complaint of the sender or beneficiary should be reported to them.

The Director, Consumer Protection Department, CBN, Mr Kofo Salam-Alada said this in an interview on Sunday in Abuja.

The Director recalled that in September 2018, the CBN published a circular on the guidelines for instant electronic payments, which also include sanctions for banks and other financial institutions who abuse the system.

He said that the CBN had mandated banks to pay a fine of N10,000 to customers for each failed transaction not resolved within 24 hours.

“When you do instant payment, you want it to be instant and when it is not achieved then there should be sanctions to such providers.

“However we want to use this medium to inform the public that the first point of call is actually your service provider not CBN and it is only when your bank cannot resolve it and there’s no promise of resolution that you come to CBN. “After that, the CBN can step in and look at the issues and see whether the customer is entitled to what he’s claiming against the bank.

“It is not all the time that customers come to the bank that they will get what they want.

“We will examine the issues and see whether there was any failure on the part of the bank before the decision is made,” he said.

The Daily Times recalls that the CBN had on September 23, 2018, issued a circular on the regulation on instant inter-bank electronic funds transfer services in Nigeria to all Deposit Money Banks, microfinance banks, mobile money operators, development finance institutions and payment service providers.

The apex bank in the circular warned that any failed instant payment transaction not reversed into the customer’s account within 24 hours will

attract a fine of N10,000.

It also stated that delayed application of inward NIP into beneficiary’s accounts beyond four minutes would attract a penalty fee of N10,000 per item.

According to the CBN, all instant electronic funds transfer disputes should be resolved within three working days.

Also, where customer and the bank could not come to an agreement, the aggrieved entity should report to the Director, Consumer Protection Department, CBN within five working days of the failure to resolve the dispute so as to minimise customer pain.

Some customers who spoke on their experience on failed transaction, called on the CBN to do all it takes to ensure the banks complied with its directive.

Mrs Agatha Eze, a trader, narrated that she transferred money to her customer who supplied some items to her in Kano and it took three days before the customer was credited.

Eze said:”I had to go to my Gurantee Trust Bank (GTB) branch to make a complaint on the

issue after two days and I was told to fill a form.

“It took up till the next day before the customer was finally credited, after much misunderstanding from all parties.

Mr John Ogar, a businessman, also complained of having issues with a client due to a failed transaction which he said, took time before the money was reverted.

Ogar said ,” Yesterday I had a serious clash with a client who I transferred money to and he did not receive the money.

“The money left my account but did not get to him immediately due to network failure from his bank according to what my accountant said.

“The advent of e-transactions is good and commendable but with all these issues it is causing, me and my clients may not continue using it.

“If the CBN is asking us to go cashless and do e-transactions, they should also ensure the certainty and ease of doing such transactions.

Another First bank customer, Mrs Blessing Adole, also said she had similar issue where she did a transaction that failed and the money was

N30,000 minimum wage to increase liquidity, hike inflation rate - Sekibo Motolani Oseni The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Heritage Bank, Mr. Ifie Sekibo has said that the N30,000 minimum wage proposed by Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) will increase liquidity and money supply in the economy, leading to hike in inflation.

Sekibo noted that the increased will force the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to mop up the excess money through Open Money Operation (OMO) as means to stabilize the economy.

The lender last week announced partnership with Vanguard Media to organise the 2019 edition of its economic discourse in a bid to achieve inclusive economic development in the country.

The theme of the discourse on last Thursday was Human Capital Index versus

Economic Growth, Nigeria’s policy options.

According to Sekibo, the bank decided to partner with the organisers to achieve inclusive growth in the economy.

Sekibo who was also one of the discussants at the event noted that there was need to deal with the energy problem confronting the country because it accounted for about 35 per cent of overheads of banks.

The discourse was informed by the recent World Bank Group ranking of Nigeria 152 out of 157 countries on its firstever Human Capital Index.

Also, the Brookings Institution said Nigeria had overtaken India as the nation with the highest number of extremely poor people. The report showed that about 87 million Nigerians are in extreme poverty, with six Nigerians falling into extreme poverty every minute.

The discourse was therefore organised for economic experts to proffer solutions

to the problems confronting the economy such that government would be able align the nation’s economic with that of human capital development.

Also speaking as a discussant, DirectorGeneral of Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) said because of inadequate resources available to the Federal Government to adequately fund human capital development vis-à-vis economic development, government should grant complete tax holiday to private operators in the educational and health sectors to enable them to complement the efforts of government.

He observed that there was a need to grow investments in a bid to grow revenue.

Also contributing, Mr. Doyin Salami, an economist and former member of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the CBN noted that there was a need for inclusive government for human

capital to grow in tandem with economic development.

He also said there was a need to set the target like other developed economies such as China and focused on achieving it, remarking that because there is a capital deficiency in the economy, there is need to encourage the private sector to invest in the economy.

Earlier in his keynote address, former Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer of Guaranty Trust Bank, Mr. Fola Adeola had identified 12 giant evils plaguing the Nigerian economy. They include hunger, disease, voidness, illiteracy, corruption, aimlessness, ignorance, visionless, directionless, crookedness, insecurity as well as fear of exploitation.

He said there was a need to systematically and comprehensively deal with those evils for the inclusive growth of human capital and economic development.

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SEC reiterates commitment attract investments to boost economy growth Mathew Dadiya, Abuja The Securities and Exchange Commission has restated its commitment to partner with relevant government agencies and the private sector to attract more investments to the country in a bid to further boost the economy.

Acting Director General of the SEC, Ms. Mary Uduk stated this when she received the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) Ms. Yewande Sidiku, in Abuja.

Uduk said that it is in furtherance of its

objectives of attracting more investors to the capital market that the SEC is poised to revitalize the commodities exchange market among other initiatives.

“There are opportunities in the Commodities market and we need to scale up participation in that regard to attract investors. And we will require the collaboration of the NIPC in that regard as the direct investors you are seeking to attract “Various opportunities abound in the capital market for both individuals and government and that is why we are exploring avenues to attract states to come to the market and raise funds for infrastructural projects. We are happy

to partner with you to make the market and the country richer and better” Uduk said.

Earlier speaking, the NIPC Executive Secretary, Yewande Sidiku said that the Commission is committed to ensuring that the nation has the required business climate to attract both foreign investors and Nigerians in the diaspora.

Siduku explained that the Commission was visiting different states to explore investment opportunities and also looking at some investments that were started by states but are now moribund and find ways to revitalize them.

“There are many investment opportunities

in the states and what we have done now is to design a platform for profiling such investment opportunities. Part of the strategy is to enlighten the state officials as it is important that the states are ready for the investors” Sidiku stated.

She said the mandate of the Commission is to encourage investors to come and that was why incentives were being put in place to make it easier for them to come.

“The work that we do is connected to the work of the SEC, we encourage investors to come while the SEC is here to protect the investors and that is why we need to collaborate.

We are happy to work with the SEC to further grow our economy,” the DG added.

CBN challenges Varsities, researchers contribute to Agric sector Mathew Dadiya, Abuja The Deputy Governor in charge of Economic Policy Directorate at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr. Okwu Joseph Nnanna has tasked universities and research institutes in the country to find solutions to challenges confronting Nigeria’s agricultural sector.

Dr. Nnanna gave the charge at the weekend in Uturu, Abia State, while delivering the 26th PreConvocation Lecture of Abia State University entitled: “Diversification of the Nigerian Economy through the Agricultural Sector”.

While acknowledging that much had been done by various institutions in developing improved agricultural technologies, he noted that a lot more research still needed to be done to in developing and adopting technologies and innovative ways to combat issues relating to pests and diseases in addition to new techniques in biotechnology for agricultural activities.

The Deputy Governor also noted the crucial role played by the private sector in economic diversification through access to affordable credit facilities and other opportunities that support innovation and exploitation of untapped resources. In spite of this, he regretted that Nigeria still lacked the human capacity with entrepreneurial and innovative skills to drive the economy to the height of industrialised economies.

According to him, universities remained knowledge and innovation hubs where fresh ideas could be developed and used in industry for economic transformation, adding that research and development were invaluable in the transformation of agricultural systems, increasing productivity and driving innovation in economies across the globe.

Rationalising the need for diversification of the Nigerian economy away from crude oil, Dr. Nnanna said the country’s vulnerability to the oil sector did not augur well for the long-

term economic stability and development of Nigeria. He therefore emphasized the need for all stakeholders, including the government, private sector, organised labour and research and academic institutions to actively participate in the process of diversifying the economy.

He cited inadequate requisite infrastructure, poor storage and processing facilities, low publicprivate-partnership and underdeveloped value chain as some of the challenges of economic diversification in Nigeria. He, however, said the fiscal and monetary authorities in the country were doing the needful to fast-track economic diversification in Nigeria, particularly in agriculture through crops such as rice, cassava, fish, cotton, maize, oil palm, soya beans, all of which the country has comparative advantage.

On the part of the CBN, he said the Bank would continue to implement both conventional and non-conventional policies to sustain macroeconomic stability in the country. He noted that policies of the Bank had been

yielding positive results, as indicated by the improvements in domestic production of 42 items restricted from the Nigerian foreign exchange market. He disclosed that non-oil export in Nigeria increased by 59 percent in 2017, over the level in 2016.

In addition to intensifying food and animal production, he stressed the need for the improvement of the agricultural value chain in order to unlock the sector and harness its full potential. According to him, this would transform the agro-food systems from being farm centres to commercialised, productive and off-farm centred enterprises and in the process boost employment, promote inclusiveness, reduce the cost of food prices and improve efficiency in the agricultural enterprise.

Dr. Nnanna therefore urged tertiary institutions in the country to focus on innovative and entrepreneurial researches to facilitate a broad-based diversification of the Nigerian economy through agriculture.

Baro port will enhance intermodal transportation connectivity Mathew Dadiya, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Baro port will enhance intermodal transportation connectivity in the country.

Buhari made this statement during the commissioning of the Baro River Port complex in Niger state.

Buhari said that he has a personal attachment to Baro River Port project because he assisted in the design of the port complex when he was

chairman of Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF).

According to him, the port will reduce the pressure of big trucks off our roads and create huge employment opportunities for Nigerians, and help decongest other similar ports in the country.

Buhari also promised that his administration will do more if re-elected into office during the forthcoming election, especially the rehabilitation of roads leading to Baro river port and its environment.

The Minister of Transportation, Honourable

Rotimi Ameachi commend the President for directing them to complete all the abandoned projects in the past of which Baro river port is one of them.

The Managing Director of National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora in his welcome remarks thank the president for personally commissioning the BARO River Port Complex.

He said the port is a veritable outlet to ensure transportation of goods, service, and passengers in the country. the port will also help in the

creation of the intermodal transportation system across the country He added that the port will facilitate sociocultural relationships, commerce, trade and agricultural development.

The Baro River Port was built by Chinese firm (CGCC Global Project Nigeria Limited) at the total cost of six billion naira, Baro port is equipped with a mobile harbour crane, transit shed, administrative block, fire hydrant system, water treatment plant, reach stacker, 100KVA power generating set and three forklifts of

RMD, Sheri Riley, Ubong king, others inspire youths at Thinkation 2019 Ladesope Ladelokun It was a convergence of entertainment, information and education at Thinkation 2019 as Nigerians and foreigners who have distinguished themselves in their various fields of endeavour converged on the Harbour Point event centre, Victoria Island, Lagos at the weekend to provide the compass to navigate Nigeria’s harsh economic terrain to a fruitful life style.

The convener, Ubong King, said that the event aimed at helping youths think outside the box in an economy where opportunities to get employed after school continue to shrink as economic indicators point south.

Addressing the youths, King said that he had put the programme together to help to discover the talents Nigeria has and how to monetize them.

Speaking on the frightening unemployment statistics, King said, “If you have noticed, there are hardly any jobs available and because there are no jobs, the unemployment indices has gone up.

“Statistics has shown that 75 percent of

Nigeria’s population is made up of young people under the age of 45 and if the estimate population of Nigeria is put at 180 million, it means that the youthful population will be about 935 million. “ That same report has it that 40 percent of that number cannot be employed,which translates to 625 million if you have that number of the unemployable, and in ingress of 17 million children born into the society,then we should know that there is a lot coming for us.’’

On why Nigerians must begin to think out of the box, he buttressed that “It is common knowledge that Lake Chad, in the North East of the country has receded by 90 percent and this has affected five countries in the process. That explains why migration has increased towards the Southern part of Nigeria. How are we ready to deal with this?

“We are not the first to have this kind of situation.There are many countries that have had food scarcity issues,issues with population explosion and have dealt with it.How do we deal with ours? We need to start thinking out of the box.Gone are the days when the standard was:go to school,graduate and get a job.’’

L-R: Mrs. Marie Macfoy, Globacom’s State Manager, SME and Mrs. Justina Abdulateef, Globacom’s Lagos Public Sector Account Manager showing off the Telecommunications Company of the Year Award won by Globacom at the Independent Newspaper Limited Awards 2018 held in Lagos... on Thursday.

Attempt to hike fuel price ‘ll trigger inflationary pressures in H2 – analysts Motolani Oseni A group of analysts at ARM Research have expressed fear that possible hike in price of premium motor spirit (PMS) commonly called petrol could likely fuel fresh inflationary pressures in second half of 2019.

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) had disclosed that inflation rate 11.44 per cent for December 2018, highest peak of 15.13 per cent reported by the bureau in January 2018.

The renowned research agency projected that naira would remain stable for most part of the year due to the weekly foreign exchange intervention of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

The Lagos based research company in its latest report said, “As tested, there is a strong relationship between PMS and core Consumer Price Index (CPI) thus, higher PMS prices could likely fuel fresh inflationary pressures in second half of 2019.

“In framing our outlook on Inflation, we analyzed the possible source of shocks to the CPI over 2019.

“We assessed the impact our view on the currency would have on the price level, possible increase in petrol (PMS) prices, a raise in electricity tariff and the introduction of a wage increase by the FG. “Starting with our view on currency, while we believe the naira would remain stable for most part of the year as the apex bank sustains its market intervention, we believe its intensity would reduce as accretion to the reserves would drop due to our expectation of lower oil receipts in the fourth quarter of 2019.”

They predicted that average foreign exchange rate might be trading at N368.02 to a dollar for the year.

The report by ARM Research said, “With regards to electricity tariff, given frequent kick-backs by the FG and other groups with regards to an increase in general tariffs, especially with the FG holding the view that the sector players are yet to satisfy the conditions that accompanied the previous electricity review and therefore holds off the implementation of an electricity hike.

“Based on the foregoing as well as distractions from elections over the first half of the year, we perceive the hike could be delayed.

The report explaining on proposed new minimum wage said, “Elsewhere, though the implementation of the proposed new wage bill, from N18,000 to N30,000, seems to be gaining more grounds, our findings suggest a little to no impact on the inflation numbers.

“We note that Nigeria’s inflation is largely cost-push (cost driven) and not demand-pull (demand-driven) even as the decline in real income in prior years does suggest the increase will mainly drive a recovery than fuel renewed demand pressures.

“For context, inflation moderated over 2011 to an average of 10.9per cent, the year in which the minimum wage was increased to N18,000 form N7,500.

“Consequently, we have modeled our inflation outlook using the impact of currency and PMS increase in the latter part of 2019.

“We have adopted a blended approach of our regression and weighted average model to arrive at an average inflation rate of 12.4per cent over 2019 (2018E: 12.2per cent), which forms our base case scenario.”

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Ogun 2019: APC and battle to retain its prized crown?

Patrick Okohue Among the three South West states of Lagos, Ogun and Oyo where governorship elections would take place this year, Ogun has suddenly become an interesting case to political watchers and analysts as it continues to make sundry news headline.

As at this time last year, all parameters suggested that the 2019 governorship elections in the state would be a one-horse race with the All Progressives Congress (APC) comfortably retaining the seat.

Though there are over 25 parties fielding candidates, with less than two months to the governorship election, realities on ground in Ogun State today suggest that it would be a battle among APM, APC and PDP. Indeed, what had promised to be a comfortable victory for APC a few months ago has now become a battle in which the party does not hold any commanding advantage whatsoever any more.

Several analysts have noted that a series of costly errors on the part of the APC towards the end of 2018 has, not only given a lifeline to the hitherto gasping Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the State, but has also led to the emergence of a strong third party contestant in the form of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM).

The most telling of these errors was made when the APC National Working Committee (NWC) decided to overrule the state chapter after the latter, firmly under the control of Governor Ibikunle Amosun, had organised its internal primaries to select candidates for the forthcoming elections.

The process which produced Hon. Adekunle Akinlade as the party’s governorship candidate was rejected by the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) which refused to ratify the emergence of Akinlade and the other candidates.

The APC NWC subsequently set up a panel to organise new primaries from which Dapo Abiodun emerged as the party’s governorship candidate for the state.

Predictably, Hon. Adekunle Akinlade who had emerged from the initial primaries conducted by the state APC later decamped to the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) together with a large chunk of the APC structure as well as Amosun’s undisguised backing.

Feeling aggrieved and insulted, Governor Amosun has publicly vowed to work against his party in the gubernatorial elections for Akinlade of APM to emerge the next governor of the state. In a novel arrangement, the governor has vowed to ensure victory of his anointed candidate on the platform of the APM in the next election while backing President

Amosun

Muhammadu Buhari who is the APC presidential candidate.

As things stand with APC in the state today, the Amosun camp still controls all party structure across the state while the governor enjoys unparalleled popularity in Ogun Central and Ogun West Senatorial zones. The decamping of a huge majority of Amosun’s foot soldiers and political associates to APM and the continued disagreement between the remnants of the camp who still stay back in APC and the party’s national executive, have remained a great albatross for the party.

The governor himself is still in APC and controls almost all levers of the

party in the state. From all indications, this governorship election has become an opportunity for the Amosun Political family to show the APC NWC their political clout, relevance as the mainstay of APC in the state. Aside the Amosun group’s solid grassroots structure and statewide network, the governor also has sound performance record to his advantage.

The festering crisis within APC has therefore greatly dimmed their chances of out rightly winning the forthcoming governorship election. Feelers reveal that more members would likely defect to APM close to the election while many who would remain in the party may cast protest votes from

The governor himself is still in APC and controls almost all levers of the party in the state. From all indications, this governorship election has become an opportunity for the Amosun Political family to show the APC NWC their political clout, relevance as the mainstay of APC in the state. Aside the Amosun group’s solid grassroots structure and statewide network, the governor also has sound performance record to his advantage

within. Since the governorship election would hold after the Presidential election, the overriding political feeling among APC members in Ogun State today is that the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari is the unifying project and, once it is achieved, everybody could then vote their conscience in the governorship and State Assembly elections.

Unless a major change happens, it is difficult to predict that majority of APC members especially in Ogun Central and Ogun West Senatorial districts would work for the party’s victory in the governorship election given the suppressed bitterness occasioned by perceived sense of injustice and high handedness of the national party exco they see in the process that produced Dapo Abiodun as the governorship candidate.

Given the above, watchers of Ogun politics have submitted that it would be difficult if not impossible for the ruling APC to win the governorship without Amosun’s support. The governor’s political clout in the Ogun Central and Ogun West Senatorial zones is unrivalled by any politician in the state, as at today. It is also an acknowledged fact across the state that Amosun’s preferred candidate – APM’s Akinlade – has pedigree, strong political structure, incumbency and right political mood in his favour.

As a sitting House of Representatives member, he is more grounded politically than any of the other candidates.

Coming from Ogun West which has not produced a governor since 1976 when the state was created, Akinlade seems to have good political fortunes thrust on him from several sides. Ogun West Senatorial District is dominated by the Yewa with Ogun East largely inhabited by the Ijebu and Ogun Central by the Egba. Out of the three Districts, only Ogun West is yet to produce a governor to date.

The Yewa people who dominate Ogun West have expressed great enthusiasm at the possibility of having their son occupy the Ogun Government House for the first time in the history of the state.

Will the Yewa therefore be expected to vote for an Ijebu man from Ogun East in the person of either Dapo Abiodun of APC or Ladi Adebutu or Buruji Kashamu, depending on who the PDP eventually settles for, thereby depriving themselves the golden chance of possibly winning the governorship seat for the first time?

The votes from Ogun West, presumably, would be overwhelmingly shared between Akinlade of APM and Gboyega Isiaka of ADC. Both are Yewa indigenes. However, Akinlade has proved to be more accepted by the masses, given his appropriation of and adoption by the well-oiled Amosun grassroots machinery and his highly successful door-to-door campaign across the zone.

Also worthy of note is the fact that a growing number of Yewa frontline opinion moulders and leaders, including monarchs and even the usually politically neutral Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey, have declared their support for Akinlade as their preferred candidate. Major economic and socio-political blocs in the zone have

also done same.

Therefore, as at today, in two of the three Senatorial Zones in the state – Ogun Central and Ogun West – Akinlade and APM appear to have been gifted good electoral fortunes by the continuing APC crisis.

Though Ogun East does not promise good fortunes for the APM candidate, it also does not give the APC any advantage.

Given that both Dapo Abiodun and Ladi Adebutu/Buruji Kashamu of PDP are from the zone, PDP seems better placed to reap more votes from the zone than either APC or APM. Unless there is a miracle, Adebutu is not going to work for Abiodun just as it is ludicrous to expect Buruji Kashamu or Otunba Gbenga Daniel to work for the APC man to secure Ogun East Senatorial votes. With Ogun East, it is clear that just before the elections, both the Kashamu and Adebutu camps of the PDP would close ranks and work together. As a result, Adebutu, backed by a combination of the OGD, Buruji Kashamu and the Adebutu Kensington political might in the Ogun East zone would naturally get more of the votes with both Abiodun and Akinlade sharing the rest.

In other words, as Ogun State braces up for the 2019 governorship contest, the battleground would be Ogun East.

And theoretically, this makes APM and Akinlade appear to be eminently placed to clinch victory. This is because as things stand, he has the two other zones well in his grip.

Ogun West would be won by him through a combination of factors that are all aligned in his favour. It is predicted across the zone that there would be a large switch of alliance in the governorship elections by majority of APC members immediately the Buhari re-election project is concluded.

The most placed beneficiary of this switch is Akinlade. As Ogun East is not ready to pass off the opportunity to claim a prize that has appeared so elusive for decades, having their son as the governor to take over from Amosun who has been roundly applauded as a friend of the Yewa will indeed be a sweet victory.

Additionally, in Ogun Central Senatorial District which is considered to be Amosun’s stronghold, the belief is that no matter how much other candidates try, Amosun’s preferred candidate would win overwhelmingly. This is because the governor’s legendary infrastructural development of the state during his eightyear tenure has greatly transformed Ogun Central and therefore the electorate in the district would like to pay him back by voting for his candidate. Unless there is a change, Amosun’s preferred candidate is APM’s Akinlade.

Although in politics, nothing is really over until it is actually over and permutations may change in less than 24 hours to an election, Akinlade appears firmly poised to win handsomely in two of the three Senatorial zones in the state during the forthcoming governorship elections and may well be on his way to the Government House come May 2019.

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TRUSTEES ARE 1 OSAYAMWEN OSARUGUE CYNTHIA 2.OZIGBO PRECIOUS 3 JOEL-KEMIE PAMELA ABIEYUWA 4 IGUMAH AMPERE PAUL 5 AIGBE HARRIETH OSAMEDE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1TO RENDER ASSISTANCE TO IMPOVERISHED MOTHERS.* *2 TO REDUCE MORTALITY RATE AND ADVANCE MATERNAL HEALTH IN THE LOCALITY.* *3 TO PROVIDE BASIC NECESSITIES FOR ORPHANS AND LESS PRIVILEGED CHILDREN.* *4 TO PUT AS MANY OUT-OF-SCHOOL CHILDREN FROM INDIGENT BACKGROUNDS BACK TO SCHOOL.* *5 TO SUPPORT CHARITABLE PROJECTS THAT ARE IN LINE WITH THE GOALS OF THE ORGANISATION.* ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420,TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI, ABUJA WITHIN TWENTY-EIGHT(28) DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED/SECRETARY

THE KILN CITY INTERNATIONAL CHURCH

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 ACT, 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE 1. IGWE FAITH IBUCHI 2. OKOLI CHIEDOZIE OBIKWELU AIMS AND OBJECTIVES TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.

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

KIDS OF TOMORROW FOUNDATION

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

TRUSTEES ARE 1. IROH ANTHONY NNAMDI 2. NKWONTA IFEANYI CHRISTIAN

TRUSTEES ARE 1. DR. ANITA LUKONG 2. TEKUM FOMUM PENTOCOSTER 3. RAMATU GARBA UMAR 4. MUKEN JACOB TIFUH

AIM AND OBJECTIVE 1 TO IDENTIFY AND DEVELOP TALENTS, SENSE OF CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION AMONG THE YOUTHS AND PEOPLE OF NIGER DELTA

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO CATER FOR THE WELFARE OF IT’ S MEMBERS 2. TO PROVIDE HOME TO THE ORPHANS 3. TO PROVIDE EDUCATION TO ORPHANS AND DISABLED PERSONS.

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

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

SIGNED: IROH ANTHONY NNAMDI

PUBLIC NOTICE OLD NAME: BLESSING ONWUMERE FOUNDATION CAC/ IT/ NO. 183574

SIGNED: J.K MBANEFO IKWEGBUE ESQ PEHCAN ANTHONYS 08037234033

IBEABUCHI MADUFORO FOUNDATION

NEW NAME: SAVERA AFRICA GENDER INITIATIVE

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

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR CHANGE OF NAME AND AMENDMENT OF CONSTITUTION UNDER PART ‘C’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1990

TRUSTEES ARE 1. MADUFORO MATHEW IBE -CHAIRMAN 2. ANYANWU JUSTINA NGOZI -FINANCIAL SECRETARY 3. BARTHOLOMEW IFEMEJE -SECRETARY

TRUSTEES REMAIN THE SAME

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PROMOTE THE INTEREST AND WELFARE OF ITS MEMBERS

AIMS AND OBJECTIVE REMAIN THE SAME

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

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

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

SIGNED SECRETARY

SIGNED. SECRETARY.

SIGNED: BARR. BARTHOLOMEW IFEMEJE

KNOW NOW BIBLE CHURCH

CHRIST BREAKING FORTH PRAYER AND PROPHETIC MINISTRY

TURF CLUB FEDERATION OF 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

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

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 OSARO KENNETH OTABOR.CHAIRMAN 2.

PASTOR ( MRS) RUFINA OTABOR 3. DEACONESS ESTHER OTABO 4. DEACONESS GRACE OMOIFO

TRUSTEES ARE 1. PROPHETESS SUNDAY OMOEFE FAVOUR - GENERAL OVERSEER/ CHAIRMAN 2. UGBOGBO SATURDAY - PASTOR 3. OBORAGARE MEMIRURAYE ABIGAIL - MEMBER 4. ENEGIDE FELIX - SECRETARY

TRUSTEES ARE 1. ALHAJI (DR) YAHAYA ABUBAKAR (CFR) - NATIONAL PRESIDENT 2. ALHAJI ABDU USMAN NAGOGO 3. NDASABA MOHAMMED IBRAHIM 4. ALH. MOH’D. TANKO ZANGO. 5. ALHAJI ABUBAKAR AHMADU BAHAGO 6. HALIRU ABUBAKAR (SK) 7. ALH YAHAYA ALHASSAN GWAGWA 8. ALH DALHATU SIDI MAMMAN 9. ALH ADAMU ALIYU MUSTAPHA 10. AWWAL ABUBAKAR DATTIJO - SECRETARY

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS ROUND THE WORLD. 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. SIGNED: BARR SOLOMON WISDOM AKHIGBE. 08037257296 BENIN CITY

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: A. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST TO ALL NATIONS OF THE WORLD B. TO WIN SOULS FOR THE EXPANSION OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES TO CARRY OUT HORSE RACING COMPETITION

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 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

SIGNED SECRETARY

CHRISTIAN WOMEN IN BUSINESS ROUND TABLE FELLOWSHIP

THE YOBE YOUTH FOR SOCIO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FORUM

THE GENTLEMEN OF HONOUR CLUB, KANO NIGERIA

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

TRUSTEES ARE 1) REGINA GEORGES DELICES- PRESIDENT 2.AUGUSTA CHILEZIE UME -SECRETARY 3.AWA KALU UME.

TRUSTEES ARE 1. FIKA, ABUBAKAR ADAMU -PRESIDENT 2. NA’IBBI, NURA IBRAHIM -SECRETARY 3 BAGARE, HARUNA ALIYU 4. IBRAHIM, SULEIMAN KURA 5. USMAN, HAUWA ADAMU

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.TO ENCOURAGE AND SUPPORT CHRISTIAN WOMEN IN BUSINESS 2.TO TAKE THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST TO RURAL AND URBAN AREAS 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. SIGNED: ENE IDOKO (ESQ) SOLICITOR

THE ABDULRAHEEM FAMILY

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.TO PROVIDE CAPACITY BUILDING INITIATIVES FOR THE ENHANCEMENT OF OPPORTUNITY FOR THE YOUTHS AND NEEDY IN YOBE STATE. 2.TO PROVIDE FOR THE NEEDY.

AIMS OBJECTIVES 1. TO PURSUE AND STRENGTHEN THE AWARENESS ON GOOD HEALTH LIVING AMONGST MEMBERS THROUGH SPORTING ACTIVITIES. 2. TO PROMOTE PEACE, UNITY AND SOCIAL ECONOMIC PROGRESS OF MEMBERS AND THE SOCIETY AT LARGE.

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 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: ENE IDOKO( ESQ) SOLICITOR

SIGNED:- SECRETARY

GIVERSDEN FOUNDATION

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

TRUSTEES ARE 1) ABDULRAHMAN OLANREWAJU ABDULRAHEEM 2) GRACE BABATUNDE 3) MOHAMMED ABDULRAHEEM

TRUSTEES1. ABDULHAKEEM OLANREWAJU JIMOH 2. SULIAT TEMITOPE YUSUFF 3. ARINOLA KHADIJAT JIMOH 4. OLUWASEUN STEPHEN OSIKALU 5. OGUNSANYA MOSES 6. FARIDAH JUMAI AMEH 7. OGUNNIYI AYOBAMI 8. NWAZULUAHU THEOPHILUS 9. MUTIAT YETUNDE YUSUFF-OYEDELE

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1 ANNUAL DONATIONS TO ORPHANAGE (S) OF THE FOUNDATION( S) CHOSEN THROUGH THE HELP OF SOCIAL MEDIA AWARENESS AND OTHER RELATED MODE OF PUBLICITY. 2 QUARTERLY FOUNDRAISING INITIATIVES EG SOCCER TOURNAMENT, OUTDOOR MOVIE, FITNESS BOOT CAMP, YOGA CLASS AND MORE. 3. ABLE TO HAVE IMPACTED SOLIDLY IN THE LIVES OF 1,000 ORPHANS BY 2020.

4 RAISING AND GIVING CHANCES TO OTHERS AND MORE INITIATIVES WHO SHARES SIMILAR CHARITABLE PASSION TOWARDS ESTABLISHING PROJECTS TO ALLIVIATE POVERTY, CARE FOR THE ORPHANED AND DISPLACED WARDS. 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. SIGNED: SECRETARY

TRUSTEES 1. OKUBANJO LATEEF OLORUNTELE 2. AHMED JIBRIN

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

NAME OF TRUSTEES 1. KAKO MAVALLA 2. MARYANNE OGUNLEYE 3. DANIEL KASILI

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PROMOTE PEOPLE’S WELFARE AND ALLEVIATING SUFFERING 2. TO IMPACT AND DEVELOP THE DISTRESSED, NEEDY, NEGLECTED, AND VULNERABLE PEOPLE IN NIGERIA 3. TO ESTABLISH ADULT EDUCATION SCHOOL 4. TO ASSIST THE POOR PEOPLE

AIM AND OBJECTIVES: 1. PROMOTING SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE BY RAISING AWARENESS ON THE IMPACT OF CONFLICT AND VIOLENCE ON YOUTH AND SOCIETY. 2. IGNITE AND ENCOURAGE COLLECTIVE ACTION TOWARDS PEACE PROMOTION, PARTNERSHIP AND HARMONY IN COMMUNITIES.

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

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

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

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FATHER LEONARD WOBILLA SHWEI FOUNDATION

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

TRUSTEES: 1.LEONARD WOBILLA SHWEI, CHAIRMAN. 2.FELIX IFEANYI UNAEZE, SECRETARY. 3.LIVINUS IKECHUKWU EJIOFOR, MEMBER AIMS & OBJECTIVES: 1.TO LOOK AFTER THE POOR, THE HOMELESS AND THE LESS PRIVILEGED. 2. GIRL CHILD AND WOMEN EDUCATION. 3. YOUTH EMPOWERMENT.

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GOD’S POSSIBILITY BELIEVERS CHURCH

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

TRUSTEES 1 PROPHET WILLIE DAVID JOHN 2 PASTOR WILLIE DAVID MARTINA IDONGESIT 3 PASTOR SUNDAY GODWIN EBONG 4 ESSIEN OFONMBUK ESTHER 5 UBONG OFONMBUK ESSIEN 6. UBONG EDET ESSIEN

TRUSTEES 1 REV. OLADELE JULIUS OGUNDELE 2 REV. (MRS.) OLADELE FAVOUR AYOWUNMI 3 PASTOR FALEYE OLALEKAN 4 MR. OLADELE JOSHUA SEGUN

AIM: TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST TO THE WHOLE WORLD

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

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

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

CHRIST APOSTOLIC MISSION JOY OF SALVATION

AL-UMMAH ZAKAT AND SADAQAH FOUNDATION

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

TRUSTEE ARE (1) MR EMMANUEL OLAWALE ISAIAH (2) ADEBOLU MODUPE ALICE. (3) EMMANUEL AYOOLA ADEBAYO AIMS TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST TO THE WHOLE WORLD ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: TRUSTEES

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

TRUSTEES 1. HIGH CHIEF OWOEYE AYODELE -- CHAIRMAN 2. ALHAJI AKANBI AKINBAMI SULAIMAN 3. JEGEDE OLUKAYODE PATRICK 4. PASTOR AWODOLA ISIAKA YEMI -- SECRETARY 5. ALHAJI ADENIYI IBRAHIM BANKOLE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF THEIR MEMBERS. 2. TO ENSURE THAT MEMBERS ADHERE TO GOVERNMENT POLICY ON SALES OF PETROLEUM. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: SECRETARY

MARVELLOUS CHAPEL INTERNATIONAL CHURCH

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

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

TRUSTEES: 1. PROF AFIS AYINDE OLADOSU CHAIRMAN 2. ALH MUSHAFAU KEHINDE ALARAN SECRETARY 3. BARR KASIMU BABATUNDE ODEDEJI MEMBER 4. DR LAWAL WASIU MEMBER 5. DR ABIDEEN OLAITAN OLAIYA MEMBER 6. ENGR TAWFIQ TEMITOPE AGBAJE MEMBER 7. ALH ABDUL JALIL ALABI ABDURRAZAQ MEMBER 8. ENGR ABDULLAHI OLAWALE ADEBAYO MEMBER 9. DR MODINAH ADENIKE ABDUL RAHEEM MEMBER 10. DR MUSLIHAH ADEPEJU BADMUS MEMBER 11. ALH MUKADAS ADENIYI HASSAN MEMBER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO RECEIVE AND MANAGE SADAQAH, ZAKAT AND WAQF (ENDOWMENTS) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE MUSLIM UMMAH IN NIGERIA. 2.TO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL SUPPORTS, ASSISTANCE AND SCHOLARSHIPS TO MUSLIM STUDENTS. 3. TO ENCOURAGE AND SUPPORT THE LEARNING OF QURAN AND ARABIC LANGUAGE AMONG MUSLIM STUDENTS. 4.TO EMBARK ON ANY OTHER PROJECT OR ACTIVITY THAT WILL BE IN LINE WITH THE INJUNCTION OF ALLAH AS CONTAINED IN QURAN CHAPTER 9 AYAH 60 ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: ABUBAKRI YEKINI ESQ TRIOJURIS LP +2348028898491, ABU.YEKINI@NIGERIANBAR.NG

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

TRUSTEES 1. OSATIMEHIN JOSHUA WOLE -- CHAIRMAN 2. DR. SARKIN BAKA MIJINYAWA 3. DR. UMOH EMMANUEL EDET 4. ASANGA SAMUEL JOHN 5. BARR. LAWRENCE OKONKWO 6. AIG ( RTD) EMPHRAIM UZOR AMARKULOR, FWC -- SECRETARY AIMS AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO PROMOTE HUNTING EXPEDITIONS AND PRESERVATION OF THE FLORA AND FAUNA LIVES 2. TO PRESERVE AND SECURE THE COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENT IRRESPECTIVE OF HUNTING EXPEDITIONS

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

GREEN CITY SANITATION INITIATIVE

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

TRUSTEES 1. DR KASHIMANA TYOVENDA -- CHAIRMAN 2. PROF. MRS DORA NGUEMO IORTSUUN 3. MRS NGUVAN UZOAMA 4. MR ELLIOTT FUNMBI ADELANI -- SECRETARY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PROMOTE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND SANITATION. 2. TO ENHANCE ADVOCACY IN ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: SECRETARY

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

TRUSTEES: 1)MRS CLARA FUNMILOLA ADENODI - FOUNDER /PRESIDENT. 2)OTUNBA OLU ADENODI 3)ADEOLU SAMUEL ADENODI --SECRETARY 4) MRS ADEOLA OMOSHALEWA ADELEYE 5)ADEAYO JOSEPH ADENODI 6)ADEWALE ADELEYE AIMS OBJECTIVES: 1. TO ASSIST THE NEEDY AND LESS PRIVILEGED IN THE SOCIETY. 2. TO PROMOTE SKILL ACQUISITIONS AND SELF DEVELOPMENT AMONG THE YOUTHS AND UNEMPLOYED. 2. TO HELP WIDOWS AND ORPHANS.

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

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

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGN: SECRETARY

THE FOOD AND HEALTH HELPING HAND INITIATIVE

GRACE TABERNACLE MINISTRY HOME OF SALVATION

HEAL THE YOUTH EMPOWERMENT NETWORK

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

TRUSTEES: 1. ONATE GODDAY AKWUBA 2. ONATE GRACE AKWUBA 3. NWANKWO CHINEDU CELETIN 4. OKEKE. ONYEBUCHU 5. NDUBUISI NNAMDI AUSTIN

TRUSTEES: 1. HASSAN ABONYI AJOOKU - CHAIRMAN. 2. JA’AFAR OMOLORI SANNI - SECRETARY.

TRUSTEE 1. BABATUNDE ABDUL GANI ADEGBINDIN- CHAIRMAN 2. FATIMA LADI MAHMUD OYEKAN. 3. RAFEEQAH OLUWATOYIN ADEGBINDIN. - SECRETARY AIM AND OBJECTIVES 1. PLAYING OUR QUOTA IN LENDING A SUPPORT( FINANCIAL OR IN KIND) TO INDIVIDUALS OR FAMILIES IN THE AREAS OF FEEDING AND ANY HEALTH RELATED ISSUE. 2. POOLING FUNDS TOGETHER FROM INDIVIDUALS, CORPORATES, GOVERNMENT AND INT DONORS TO ACHIEVE THE AIMS OF SUPPORT TO BENEFICIARIES WITH FEEDING AND HEALTH RELATED NEEDS.

AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, HEALING AND DELIVERANCE TO MANKIND

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES1. TO DESIGN INTERVENTIONS THAT INCREASES THE COMPETITIVENESS OF YOUTHS AND INCREASES THEIR ACCESS TO ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES. 2. TO CONDUCT SKILL ACQUISITION TRAININGS, WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS AIMED AT YOUTHS IN UNDER SERVED AREAS.

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

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

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

SIGNED: BARR. POPOOLA GRACE

SIGNED: BARR SAMIRAH

SIGNED BY: SECRETARY

YOUTH WITHOUT BOARDERS CHARITY FOUNDATION

THE LORD’S PURE WHITE GLOBAL SOUL WINNING FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD MISSION

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

NAMES OF TRUSTEES 1. BANKOLE AKINBOWALE 2. OLAJIDE WILLIAMS 3. OLUSESAN AWONOIKI AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO ENGAGE IN TRAINING AND CAPACITY BUILDING, COMPUTER APPRECIATION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP; TO ENGAGE IN YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS, VOCATIONAL TRAINING, SKILL ACQUISITION ETC. 2. TO ORGANIZE SEMINARS, ACTIVITIES AND FORUMS THAT WILL EMPOWER YOUNG PEOPLE TO REALIZE THEIR POTENTIAL.

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. HASSAN TEMITOPE RAHEEM 2. OLAOGUN BEATRICE ITUNOLUWA 3. AREGBESOLA OLAWALE MICHEAL

INTERNATIONAL BIBLE CENTRE

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. EDDY IKIRIGBE 2. OLUJOBI OLADIMEJI CLEMENT 3. IFEANYI EDWARD OZO-ONYALI

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND THE GOSPEL OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST TO ALL NATIONS.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO FURTHER THE COURSE OF THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST 2. TRAINING AND BRINGING THE PEOPLE OF GOD TO LIVE OUT THE REALITY OF THIS SUBLIME MOVE OF GOD

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

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

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

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

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DAUGHTERS OF GLORY MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL

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

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED NGO HAVE APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANY AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MRS. OBASI JECINTA - PRESIDENT 2. MR. UKPAI KALU NNACHI - SECRETARY

THE TRUSTEES ARE SULE MATTHEW OLOCHE • SULE LAURETTA OMOHA • GRACE ELEOJO ONOGU-SAM •

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

AIMS & OBJECTIVES 1. TO RAISE CHRISTIAN PRAYING WOMEN 2. TO RAISE WOMEN WHO WILL LIVE AND BUILD GODLY HOMES 3. TO GIVE SUPPORT TO MISSION WORKS AND EVANGELISM. 4. TO ASSIST THE LESS PRIVILEGE IN THE SOCIETY

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

ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, WUSE ZONE 5, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. ITOHAN IRORO FOR: HAZON SOLICITORS 08068156039 81, AWOLOWO WAY IKEJA.

SIGNED: PRESIDENT

SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING ARTS MATHEMATICS ENTERPRENEURSHIP DESIGN YOUTH FOUNDATION 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 BOARD OF TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ISAAC EZIRIM 2. MICAH DAMIAN - SECRETARY AIMS & OBJECTIVES : 1. TO PRODUCE ACCESS TO TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION TO EVERYONE REGARDLESS OF THEIR STATUS 2. TO PRODUCE DIGITAL SKILLS TO YOUNG PEOPLE IN UNDER-SERVED COMMUNITIES. 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.

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED ORGANIZATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 2004.

ITS TRUSTEES ARE: 1. BABATUNDE OLUWAFEMI ADEGOKE 2. OLUWAYEMISI BOLANLE AWOLESI 3. EUNICE IYABOWALE ADEGOKE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PROMOTE EDUCATIONAL AND VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AND RESOURCES FOR INDIGENT STUDENTS THROUGH SCHOLARSHIPS, TUTORING AND MENTORING. 2. TO IMPACT THE LIVES OF INDIGENT STUDENTS’ B FUNDING, SUPPORTING AND ENCOURAGING THEIR EDUCATIONAL AND VOCATIONAL PURSUITS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SCHOLARSHIPS, BURSARIES AND ENDOWMENTS. 3. TO SEEK FOR ENDOWMENT AND SCHOLARSHIPS FROM CHURCHES, CORPORATE ORGANIZATIONS, INDIVIDUALS, INSTITUTIONS AND OR GOVERNMENT TO SUPPORT AND ASSIST THE INDIGENT AND FINANCIALLY CHALLENGED IN ORDER TO PROMOTE THEIR EDUCATIONAL AND VOCATIONAL PURSUITS. ANY OBJECTION THERETO SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SECRETARY

HOPE FORTRESS GLOBAL INITIATIVE.

PIJUBE EMPOWERMENT FOUNDATION.

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED “ INITIATIVE “ HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 2004.

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, 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ADESANYA OLUSEGUN AYODELE - CHAIRMAN. 2. ADESANYA HELEN UMOH - TREASURER. 3. DR. ITA PAUL ASUQUO - GENERAL SECRETARY. 4. IBRAHIM PONFA MADUABUCHI - MEMBER. 5. OGUNKUNLE TITILOPE OLAJIDE - MEMBER.

THE TRUSTEES ARE; 1. BEEKUE PIUS - PRESIDENT. 2. BAKAM KENNETH TUAWA - SECRETARY. 3. BEEKUE CAROLINE - TREASURER.

AIM AND OBJECTIVE/S. 1. TO HELP THE LESS PRIVILEGED IN THE SOCIETY ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET, PMB 198, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DAY OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: MICAH DAMIAN

SIGNED BY; GENERAL SECRETARY.

ALUBARIKA SOCIAL CLUB.

PRINCESS EUNICE IBIYO ADEGOKE FOUNDATION

AIMS AND OBJECTIVE 1. TO REACH OUT TO THE LESS PRIVILEGED IN THE SOCIETY. 2. TO ENCOURAGE HUMAN CAPACITY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. 3. TO EMPOWER PEOPLE; ADULTS, MEN, YOUTHS AND WOMEN THROUGH VARIOUS ENTREPRENEURIAL PROGRAMS SUCH AS SKILLS ACQUISITION, EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS, TRAININGS AND INTERVENTION PROGRAMS. 4. TO PROMOTE INTEREST/WELFARE OF MEMBERS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED; BEEKUE PIUS (PRESIDENT).

DAVID ADETOLA INTERNATIONAL CHARITY ORGANIZATION

EMBASSY OF SOLUTION AND MIRACLE MINISTRY

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

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

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

TRUSTEES. 1 LASIS MUSIBAU KOLADE-CHAIRMAN. 2 KAREEM AKEEM ADEWALE-SECRETARY. 3 MORUFU OLALEKAN-TREASURER.

THE TRUSTEES ARE:1. ADETOLA DAVID OMOGBOLAHAM- PRESIDENT 2. ADETOLA VINCENT MAYOWA- SECRETARY

TRUSTEES: 1. NDUBUISI COSMAS OKECHUKWU 2. DONALD IFEANYICHUKWU ONUEGBU 3. CORDELIA NGOZI NWOYE

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

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

SIGNED SECRETARY

LKE FELICIA NNEDINMA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS DAMILOLA TOLUWALASE SOYODE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS DAMILOLA TOLUWALASE AKANI . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE

MAU IDRIS I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AMINAT MIMI IBRAHIM NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AS MAU IDRIS . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OJIEGO FELICIA NNEDINMA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS LKE FELICIA NNEDINMA . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

AJALA ABDULATEEF

GRACE OZIOMA

IBE EJIKE AKWARI.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ABDULATEEF AJALA ADEOLA. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AJALA ABDULATEEF ADEWALE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS PRINCESS OZIOMA EBUBEOGU.NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS GRACE OZIOMA MARAIHE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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

UBOKULOM GOGO

GLORY HELEN

SOGE GRACE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS GOGO MONDAY AARON, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UBOKULOM GOGO MONDAY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

AJAYI KEMPE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JAMODU KEMPE JANET NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS AJAYI KEMPE JANET ALL DOCUMENTS AND CERTIFICATES BEARING MY FORMER NAMES REMAIN VALID. RELEVANT AUTHORITIES AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ADEBAYO BUKOLA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BELLO BUKOLA MOJISOLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEBAYO BUKOLA MOJISOLA . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE

OLABODE SARAH

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLABODE SARAH OLAIDE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLABODE SARAH OLABODE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

AJISEFINNI ADE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS HELEN GLORY ALFRED, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS GLORY HELEN IDONUA, THAT MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 01/02/1958. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, FIRST BANK, ACCESS BANK. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

‭ I WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWAOGBO GRACE OBIAGELI AND NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SOGE GRACE OBIAGELI ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE..

‭ I WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AJISEFINNI RAHOOF ADEBARE AND NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AJISEFINNI ADE AKANBI RAHOOF ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE..

MISS ONWUMELU ADAORA

LAWAL BILIKISU MUHAMMED FORMERLY BAKARE BILIKISU ABIMBOLA .NOW TO BE ADDRESSED AS LAWAL BILIKISU MUHAMMED. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID . GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

AZEEZ RUKAYAT : FORMERLY ADEGBEYENI BOLATITO RUKAYAT. NOW TO BE ADDRESSED AS AZEEZ RUKAYAT BOLATITO, FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. AKINYELURE ADA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ONWUMELU ADAORA JUDITH. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC/AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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

SIGNED BY: SECRETARY

MRS DAMILOLA TOLUWALASE

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST 2. TO WIN SOULS FOR JESUS CHRIST

OSITA NDUBUISI

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EZE NDUBUISI CALISTUS NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OSITA NDUBUISI UCHE . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE

OJARUWEDAE OGHENEKARO

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UFUOMA OGHENERUKEVWE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OJARUWEDAE OGHENEKARO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

UYOKU CHRISTIANA

AKOMA NNENNA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHUKWU NNENNA MABEL NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AKOMA NNENNA MABEL . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE

HASSAN MOPELOLA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BUSARI MOPELOLA ADIKAT, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS HASSAN MOPELOLA ADIKAT. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OYENIYI FELICIA

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS: OCHOMMA UYOKU CHRISTIANA. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UYOKU CHRISTIANA OCHOMMA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLADOSU FELICIA OLABIMPE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS OYENIYI FELICIA ADEBIMPE ALL DOCUMENTS AND CERTIFICATES BEARING MY FORMER NAMES REMAIN VALID. RELEVANT AUTHORITIES AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASETAKE NOTE.

THIS IS TO CONFIRM THAT GOODNESS EZINNE OCHUBA, IS THE SAME PERSON BEARING EZINNE MARGARET OCHUBA. HENCEFORTH WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS GOODNESS EZINNE OCHUBA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. ACCESS BANK AND DIAMOND BANK AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

CONFIRMATION OF NAME.

MRS. BUSAYO MERCY I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS BUSAYO MERCY OMOTUASE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. BUSAYO MERCY ALASI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

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FLORENCE MOFE

OFORDILE ONYINYECHI LUCY

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS BAKRIN OYENIKE MOTOLANI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MOTOLANI OYENIKE BUCKNOR. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FLORENCE MOFE OLAMOYESAN NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FLORENCE MOFE OWATE. THAT MY DATE OF BIRTH IS 02 APRIL 1956.

ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ONAH ONYINYECHL LUCY NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OFORDILE ONYINYECHI LUCY . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

MRS ALFRED PEACE

LA-DAMI EKUNDAYO I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS DAMILOLA LANRE EKUNDAYO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS LA-DAMI EKUNDAYO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

AYODELE ISAIAH I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGUNDEJI ISAIAH IMOLEAYO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AYODELE ISAIAH IMOLEAYO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OKEMS PESCE UDOCHI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ALFRED PEACE UDOCHI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

EMEFIELE NGOZI

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS JOHN

UGOCHUKWU QUEENETH

VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

.I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ANYALENKEYA QUEENETH OBINNA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS UGOCHUKWU QUEENETH OBINNA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

FAKUYIDE RUTH I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AKPOMIEMIE RUTH MARGARET NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FAKUYIDE RUTH MARGARET FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AKPOMIEMIE RUTH MARGARET NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FAKUYIDE RUTH MARGARET FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. ALL BANKS, FOREIGN HIGH COMMISSIONS, PENSION FUND ADMINISTRATORS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

ONYINYECHI GIFT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ONYINYECHI FORMER

GIFT

ABAZIE. ALL

DOCUMENTS

REMAIN

MRSAJIBO CHARITY

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS UGWUENE CHARITY CHINASA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRSAJIBO CHARITY CHINASA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MUMINI HABEEB

FAKUYIDE RUTH

OYIMADORATHYONOJA

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

MRS SANNI FOLUKE

BROWN-ASAKPA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS BROWN ASAKPA GRACE LYNDA OMEZI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BROWN-ASAKPA LYNDA GRACE OMEZI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

OKOLO VERONICA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKOLO VERONICA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKOLO VERONICA UDEKWESIRI. MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 8TH MAY 1967. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

EZEONYINYE ESTHER.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWOBODOONYINYE ESTHER, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EZEONYINYE ESTHER. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE.

MRS OKURU JANE

I,FORMERLY KNOWN AS JIMOH HABEEB GBOLAHAN T., NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MUMINI HABEEB AYOBAMI.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS JOSEPH FUNMILAYO KEHINDE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS SANNI FOLUKE FUNMILAYO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

EBOLO-JERRY

DECLARATION/CORRECTION OF DATE OF BIRTH

CHANGE/CONFIRMATION OF NAME

THAT I, DANIEL IFECHI MICHAEL, STATED ON SOME OF MY DOCUMENTS THAT I WAS BORN ON 28TH AUGUST, 1987 BUT MY DATE OF BIRTH APPEARS AS 28TH AUGUST, 1983 ON MY BAPTISMAL CARD. THAT I HEREBY DECLARE AND NOTIFY THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 28TH AUGUST, 1983.

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REMOVAL/REARRANGEMENT OF NAME:

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CONFIRMATION OF NAME AS THUS:

BECKLEY OLUWATOYIN OLUSESI AND BECKLEY VICTORIA OLUWATOYIN BELONGS TO ME, THAT NOW I WISH TO BE KNOWN AS MRS.. BECKLEY OLUWATOYIN OLUSESI VICTORIA

BABALOLA ELIZABETH

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ONIFADE MUDIRAKAT

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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. ALAKIU KUDIRAT ATINUKE 2. ALAKIU FATAI AKANNI 3. OLOWU FEYI YETUNDE 4.ALAKIU FATIMOTA TAIYELOLU 5. ADEKOLA TITILAYO OMOTOLA 6. ALAKIU OLUWASEGUN FATAI IDOWU 7. SHOFELA LUKMON

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ENSIGNS CENTRE FOR ADOLESCENT WHOLENESS FOUNDATION

DISTINGUISHED CHILD’SINITIATIVE INITIATIVE

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED ORGANISATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF 2004.

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) MR SHAIBU JOSEPH O. - CHAIRMAN 2) MRS JOSEPH-SHAIBU TEMILOLU E. - SECRETARY 3) ARCH KUMAPAYI OLUDOTUN TITUS

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF PEACE, LOVE AND DELIVERANCE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST IN ALL PARTS OF NIGERIA 2. TO SERVE AS A FORE RUNNER OF THE SECOND COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS LIKE CREATING AWARENESS OF HIS COMING. 3. TO TEACH THE BODY OF CHRIST THE UNDILUTED WORD OF GOD. 4. TO ENGAGE IN SOCIAL WORK,COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND CHILD WELFARE PROGRAMMES AND OTHER SIMILAR ACTIVITIES 5. TO ESTABLISH SCHOOLS FOR THE LESS PRIVILEGE FROM NURSERY,PRIMARY SCHOOL AND TERTIARY INSTITUTION 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

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1) TO RESEARCH INTO ADOLESCENT PSYCHOSOCIAL ILLNESSES. 2) TO PROVIDE COUNSELLING AND FOLLOW UP ON MEASURES TO ALLEVIATE SUCH PSYCHOSOCIAL ILLNESSES. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: OLUWATUYI OLUWAKEMI IDOWU 08037785698

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MRS. MEDINAT IJILADE JIMOH. - PRESIDENT. 2. MR MUFTAU IYANDA JIMOH. 3. BARRISTER OBIORAH C. EMEDOLIBE. 4. MRS ADEKEMI AKOSILE. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO TEACH, CORRECT AND INCULCATE LOST VALUES. 2. TO HELP KIDS KNOWN THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND ENCOURAGE THE FEAR OF GOD. 3. TO ORGANISE SEMINARS AND PROGRAMS ON ITS OWN OR IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ORDER ORGANISATION OR GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS WITHIN SIMILAR AMIS AND CREATE A CONDUSIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR INTERACTION. 4. TO ENSURE THAT AFTER EVERY PROGRAM A CHILD OR SOME CHILDREN ARE PICK OFF THE STREET BY WAY OF EDUCATION OR EMPOWERMENT. 5.TO RE_INCULCATE IN THE CHILDREN THE OLD SPIRIT OF VOLUNTARY SERVICE TO COMMUNITY , NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

CARE AND COMPASSION NETWORK

HEAVENLY HARVEST CHRISTIAN CENTRE

PEACE AND FAITHLINE REFORMATION CENTRE

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

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

CHANGE OF NAME/AMENDMENT OF CONSTITUTION

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MORUF ADEMOLA OLANREWAJU 2. OLAYIWOLA OLAYIDE WALIYULAH 3. ABDRAUF ABDWASIU EMIOLA 4. ASAFA-OLAORE SAKIRAT AYOWUMI 5. RABIU ANIS ADEWALE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO OFFER FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO POOR PEOPLE WITH PRESSING NEED FOR HEALTHCARE 2. TO MOBILIZE PEOPLE’S DONATION TOWARDS HELPING THE LESS PRIVILEGE 3. TO HELP EMPOWER WOMEN, ESPECIALLY WINDOWS 4. TO FEED THE HUNGRY, CLOTHE THE NAKED AND SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS 5. TO OFFER RELIEF MATERIAL FOR DESTITUTE PEOPLE ( INTERNAL DISPLAY PERSON) 6. TO VISIT HOSPITAL AND HELP THE NEEDY 7. TO REACH OUT TO THE INMATES IN PRISON 8. TO VISIT RURAL AREAS WITH RELIEF MATERIALS AND OFFER HELP TO THOSE IN NEED. 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.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: (1) BAMGBOSE OLANREWAJU PHILIP (2) UMUKORO UYOYO RITA

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION OF CHANGE OF NAME AND AMENDMENT OF CONSTITUTION FROM PEACE AND FAITHLINE REFORMATION CENTRE TO ELISHA PEACE CENTRE, UNDER PART ‘C’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, NO 1. OF 1990.

OLD NAME: PEACE AND FAITHLINE REFORMATION CENTRE

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

NEW NAME: ELISHA PEACE CENTRE 1. THAT THE AMENDMENT SHOULD REFLECT THE NEW NAME AS ABOVE 2. THAT ARTICLE 3 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF PEACE AND FAITHLINE REFORMATION CENTRE IS AMENDED AND TWO OBJECTS ADDED. THEY ARE (A) PROPAGATION OF PEACE IN NIGERIA ( (B) ORGANIZE SEMINARS AND PROGRAMS ON FINANCIAL AND POLITICAL LITERACY. 3. THE AMENDED ARTICLES OF PEACE AND FAITHLINE REFORMATION CENTRE ARE 1, AND 3.

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

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

JESUS TABERNACLE OF CHRIST MISSION

JESUS TABERNACLE OF CHRIST MISSION

JESUS TABERNACLE OF CHRIST MISSION

JESUS TABERNACLE OF CHRIST MISSION

JESUS TABERNACLE OF CHRIST MISSION

CHINWE CYNTHIA I FORMALLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHINWE CYNTHIA OYERE, NOW WISHES TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHINWE CYNTHIA OKEFE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

MARIAM UFELI I FORMALLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MARIAM UFELI USMAN, NOW WISHES TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MARIAM UFELI ALFRED. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

ANELE FAVOUR

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UMARU ZAINAB

MRS. VICTORIA AINA I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS VICTORIA AINA AJIBOYE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. VICTORIA AINA JOLAYEMI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

MRS. FUNMILOLA WEMIMO I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS FUNMILOLA WEMIMO AKINKUNMI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. FUNMILOLA WEMIMO AKANNI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

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SPORTS TIMES Daily Times Nigeria Monday, January 21, 2019

Pep Guardiola unhappy as Manchester City keep pace with Liverpool in Huddersfield win

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola was far from satisfied despite a 3-0 win away to Huddersfield Town on Sunday that saw his side cut Liverpool’s lead at the top of the Premier League table to four points.

Liverpool’s compelling 4-3 win over Crystal Palace on Saturday heaped huge pressure back onto reigning champions City but they were rarely troubled by a Town side that look a certain bet for relegation this season.

City’s first goal, a deflected strike for Danilo in the 18th minute, brought up their 100th goal of the season in all competitions before Raheem Sterling scored a diving header from Leroy Sane’s cross in the 54th minute and Sane himself made it 3-0 with a calm finish just two minutes later.

For Guardiola, it should have been an afternoon of enjoyment as his side again proved their willingness to push Liverpool all the way this season.

The City manager, however, has forged a footballing reputation based on sublime performances as well as ruthless goalscoring and, on that basis, his team’s showing in West Yorkshire was not a success as the

visitors never really clicked into gear on a day against a Huddersfield side who had parted company with manager David Wagner on Monday.

– ‘Improve in the future’ – “During the season you have these kind of games,” Guardiola said. “It is important to win. We have scored many goals in all competitions. “(But) the way we played, we didn’t deserve more than three goals. We will improve in the future.

“We have to demand more from ourselves in every game and do our best, but sometimes it’s difficult.

“Today we are happy we have won but after immediately we have to analyse. During the season you have games when maybe you are not in the top level and it is important to win these games.”

Although City’s fans were happier than their manager following this result, Guardiola could at least take some heart from the fact his side again refused to blink first in the race for the title.

For the second consecutive week, City kicked off knowing Liverpool had already

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won their weekend fixture and that, consequently, the onus was back on his players to secure three points as well.

Once again, Guardiola’s side managed to do that following up the 3-0 victory over Wolves with this showing and the City manager was more than happy to remind everybody that silverware is not handed out for another four months.

“One team has been better but we’re in January and there’s many more games to play,” he added.

“You don’t win or lose the Premier League in January. We have to focus on what we have to do. If Liverpool win, we have to win. And if Liverpool lose then we also have to win.”

This match was a baptism of fire for Huddersfield’s caretaker boss Mark Hudson and while the Terriers showed impressive fight to inspire some hope this season, this defeat still left them 10 points adrift of safety.

If, as expected, the Borussia Dortmund Under-23 coach Jan Siewert is appointed as Wagner’s permanent replacement, nobody would blame him if he spent his first day in the job preparing for a return to the secondtier Championship next season.

Four-nation tourney: Nigeria’s Super Falcons defeat Romania Nigeria’s Super Falcons on Sunday trounced the women national team of Romania 4-1 in the third-place match at the ongoing four-nation invitational tournament in China.

Super Falcons who are the current African women champions, had lost 3-0 to host China on Thursday.

But they put up a better display on Sunday to overcome their European opponents.

It was Chiwendu Ihezuo that got the opening goal for the Falcons

in Sunday’s encounter; scoring in the 44th minute but the Europeans leveled the game 10 minutes into the second half.

The Falcons seized the initiative afterwards as skipper and defender Onome Ebi put Nigeria back in front in the 63rd minutes before Rita Chikwelu made it 3-1 in favour of Nigeria.

England-based Ini Umotong put the icing on the cake as she netted the 4th goal in the 83rd minutes to give the Super Falcons a resounding

as well as morale-boosting win.

Sunday’s win ensured that the Nigerian ladies finished in third place behind China and Korea who will be slugging it out in the final match of the four-nation Invitational tournament later today.

Next on the agenda for Super Falcons is the Cyprus Women Cup starting from February 27, 2019.

The Super Falcons are using the various tournaments to prepare for the Women’s World Cup coming up later this year in France.

Falcons star Ngozi Ebere joins Norwegian side Arna Bjomar Super Falcons star Ngozi Ebere has penned a one-year deal with Norwegian outfit Arna Bjomar.

The tough tackling defender enjoyed two successful seasons with Barcelona Women FC of Cyprus before making the current switch to Norway.

Arna Bjomar, who finished third in the top flight last season confirmed the news on their official website.

A statement read: “Ngozi Ebere has signed a contract with Arna Bjørnar.

Born in 1991, Ngozi played for the Nigerian club River Angels before signing in 2015 for Paris St. Germain. In 2017-2018, she played for Barcelona FA. Ngozi is a defender and her choice fell on her recommendations from Nigeria’s Swedish national team coach.

“Ngozi has played on the following Nigerian national team – U20 where she has played 2 games and the A-national team where she has played 20 games and scored 1 goal.

“She should have been with the Nigerian national team to China now, but some formal issues with visas made her rather take a trip home to Nigeria before returning to Norway. its rainy weather, but she is looking forward to coming to Norway.”

Ngozi becomes the second Nigerian at the club after Precious Dede represented the club in the past. She is expected to join her new teammates in Turkey for preseason.

Former Super Eagles goalie Carl Ikeme resumes TV punditry role Former Wolverhampton Wanderers goalkeeper Carl Onora Ikeme now radiates with a clean bill of health and resumed his television punditry role for BT Sports in the Premier League on Saturday when Wolves defeated Leicester City 4-3 at the Molineux Stadium on Saturday .

The 32-year-old who spent his entire career at Wolves, making 207 appearances across all competitions was diagnosed with an acute leukaemia in July, 2017 after returning abnormal blood tests during a routine pre-season checkup.

Wolves won the English Championship title and returned to the Premier League, but Ikeme took no part due to his ill-health and subsequent treatment.

Ikeme who was in complete remission after a tough year and intense chemotherapy finally announced his retirement from football on medical grounds on 27 July, 2018.

The former Nigeria international, however, made a comeback to the public glare on Saturday when Wolves hosted Leicester City in a Premier League encounter at the Molineux Stadium.

Ikeme who made one Premier League appearance for Wolves in 2012 looked radiant and appeared to be in great health as he previewed the match on BT Sports and predicted a 1-0 win for his former club.

Wolves, however, defeated the Foxes 4-3 with attacking midfielder, Diogo Jota netting a hat-trick. Ryan Bennet netted the other goal for the Nuno Espirito

Santos’ team.

Conor Coady scored an own goal to gift Leicester City the second of their three. Demarai Gray and Wes Morgan netted the other two.

The duo of Ikeme’s former Nigeria teammates; Wilfred Ndidi and Kelechi Iheanacho featured for Leicester City in the match.

CAFCL: Lobi Stars humbled by ASEC Mimosa in Abidjan Lobi Stars of Makurdi lost by a lone goal to Asec Mimosas of Cote d’Ivoire in Saturday’s CAF Champions league second Group A game played at the Houphouet Boigney Stadium in Abidjan.

The win saw Asec Mimosas leveled on points with the Nigerian champions with three points from two matches but remained in third position due to inferior goal difference having suffered 5-2 in the opening game away to Moroccan side Wydad Casablanca.

The 1998 CAF Champions league winners took the lead in the

38th minute through penalty kick score by Ahmed Diomande and it happened to be the only goal of the game.

The Solomon Ogbeide tutored side which was the services of key players like Sikiru Alimi, Samad Kadiri, John Lawrence and Anthony Agbaji fought hard to score an equalised but all their failed to materialised as they struggle to create clear cut chances.

A total number of seven players were yellow carded by the Algerian referee Mustapha Ghorbal with three going to the Lobi’s trio of

Monsuru Bashiru, Chidiebube Duru and Kwambe Solomon while the remaining four card picked by Asec Mimosas players.

The Makurdi-based side will now face Wydad in a crucial double-header meetings next month.

In other Group A match, Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa failed take advantage of Lobi’s loss in Abidjan as they were forced to a 1-1 draw at home to group leaders Wydad Casablanca to remaining bottom of the group with a point .

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