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IPOB: FG re- arraigns Kanu in absential, 4 others over 7 treasonable felony 2018 Budget: Submit your estimates to NASS by Friday, 6 Buhari orders MDAS ABS Film Academy admits first set of students 7

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Oyegun receives Fellowship Award

New Amnesty boss, Dokubo assumes duties

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Tom Okpe, Abuja

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National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has been nominated for a Fellowship Award by the Federal Polytechnic Bida, Niger state declaring that despite difficulties and challenges, the President Muhammadu Buhari APC led administration is delivering on its election promises.

He also said the fight against corruption, one of the major promises of the APC is being won to the extent that it can no longer be a threat to the national economy where it becomes an acceptable way of life and business.

Oyegun spoke when he received the Rector of the institution, Dr. Abubakar Dzukogi and the management team of the polytechnic on a courtesy visit and official notification of his nomination for the award and invitation to the 15th combined convocation ceremony of the academy scheduled for Wednesday, March 28, 2018.

“I am particularly pleased by your recognition that in spite of difficulties, challenges the government of the APC is delivering on its promises to the Nigerian people.

That is important for me and I really see this award as coming to me on behalf of the government and party. It is the passionate leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari that has made it impossible for opponents to distract and derail the administration.

“Yes, there are still challenges in the land, there is no question about it, and we took over in very difficult circumstances including a fundamental problem of the collapse of the price of crude oil.

Conditions were such that we needed an extraordinary man of courage to be able to lead the country out of the crisis that we inherited to the increasing economic stability and progress which this nation clearly is beginning to attain”, Oyegun said.

He pointed that in the area of security, the administration has recorded successes particularly in the fight against Boko Haram terrorists which have been limited to attack on soft targets.

“What is clear is that

Boko Haram has been degraded to the extent that they do not occupy any inch of Nigerian territory where it can raise its flag”.

The APC National Chairman also highlighted successes the administration has recorded in the area of infrastructure and the fight against corruption.

“On infrastructure, a lot of beautiful work is going on, particularly on the railway system. Development has to be carried on the back of a modern railway system and the president has made that a top priority and today we can say on the implementation platform is 5ooo km of modern standard gauge railway that will cut across the length and breadth of this country.

“On corruption, we all know that corruption is fighting back. But it is not a problem you fight with a flick of a switch, because corruption is very rich, corruption is very wealthy, corruption is very elitist, they are bound to fight back and they are fighting back.

But thank God we have a president who is singleminded about taming that scourge and tame it we will. We know now that corruption is not as brazen as it was”.

In his earlier remarks, the Rector Dr. Abubakar Dzukogi said OdigieOyegun’s choice was informed by many successes recorded by the APC-led administration.

While commending the National Chairman for leading the Party to the 2015 Presidential election victory and successive electoral successes, he described Oyegun as a ‘Master Strategist’.

“We have taken into consideration, your contribution to education generally, both in and outside government. Having put in place this government, the government has been doing wonderfully well to the acceptance and admiration of Nigerians”, Dzukogi said.

Present at the meeting were members of the APC National Working Committee (NWC) including the Deputy National Chairman (North), Senator Lawal Shuaibu, National Auditor, Chief GeorgeMoghalu and National Treasurer, Alh. Bala Mohammed Gwagwarwa.

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newly appointed Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Professor Charles Quaker Dokubo formally assumed official duties at the Presidential Amnesty office on Tuesday, in Abuja.

Addressing the management and staff of the Presidential Amnesty Programme on Tuesday, Prof.

Dokubo Noted that his strategy would be focused on addressing the core mandate of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, with a view to sustaining the existing peace and stability for the holistic development of the Niger Delta region.

He assured the staff that he would run an open door administration where constructive criticisms from all

Ï^Ə ƌƈ Ɔ Ɛ ƏƑ ƍƆ Ɨ Ə ƍ Ƌƈƅƕ stakeholders will be tolerated, adding that he accepted the appointment to enable him render selfless service to the society, particularly people of the Niger Delta and the country at large.

He told the staff to feel free to reach him on any issue that bothers on the development of the region, while assuring staff of a good working relationship under his tenure at the Amnesty office.

Prof. Dokubo had earlier had his first management with all heads of department before addressing the general staff at the Amnesty office annex at No 4 Buzi Close, Maitama.

The Daily Times recalls that the new Amnesty Coordinator took over from Brigadier General Paul Boroh (Rtd), recently.

Until his new appointment; Professor Charles

Quaker Dokubo was an Acting Director of Research and Studies and a Research Professor at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs in Lagos.

Professor Charles Quaker Dokubo, was born in Abonnema, Akuku Toru Local government of Rivers state on the 23rd of March 1952. His primary and Secondary School education were all in Abonnema.

He proceeded to the United Kingdom on the 13th of September, where he did his ‘A’ levels at Huddersfield Technical College in West Yorkshire.

Between 1978 and 1980 Prof. Dokubo was a student at the University of Teesside at Middlesbrough, where he undertook a course in Modern History and Politics and was awarded a BA (Hons.), at the University of Bradford.

He completed his Masters Degree in Peace Studies, before continuing his doctoral degree in Nuclear Weapon Proliferation and its control.

In 1985, he was awarded his doctoral degree in the same University of Bradford and was later appointed a temporary lecturer in the department before proceeding to Nigeria in 1993.

Prof. Dokubo, a very regular face on television talk shows in Nigeria. As a prolific writer, he has authored and edited various scholarly books and journal articles, amongst which are: Nigeria’s Security Interest in Africa, Nuclear Proliferation and the Probability of Nuclear War: the effectiveness of the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Regime.

His latest publication is on the Defence Policy of Nigeria: Capability and Contest by Author house Publishers.

L-R: General Manager, Oyo State Agriculture Credit Corporation, Chief Bode Raji; Senior Special Assistant to Oyo State Governor on Agriculture, Sakirudeen Fajinmi and Special Adviser to the Governor on Agriculture, Prof. Segun Adekunle, during a forum organised by Oyo State Government on Youth Empowerment Project on Agriculture in Ibadan, Oyo State.

Lopsided composition of security agencies, cause of Jihadist killings in Nigeria- Group Alphonsus Nweze, Awka

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International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety) has said the present butchering of host communities in the country by the Fulani Jihadists cannot be effectively tackled without total restructuring and reversal of the current lopsided military and para-military composition in the country.

The group also decried the domination of the South East by the Muslim security officers from the North.

In a detailed statistical analysis of the composition of top security hier-

archy in the country since 2015, when Buhari took over power, Intersociety in a statement signed by the Chairman Board of Trustees (BoT), Nze Emeka Umeagbalasi, lamented that from 82 Division of Nigerian Army, Enugu to all other military formations in the zone including Airforce and Navy were manned by the Muslim officers of Northern extraction.

The case was not different with police formation in the South East, where virtually all the Commissioners of Police in South East and AIG zone 9 are predominantly Muslim Northern officers.

Nze Umeagbalasi said addressing the killings with-

out ensuring equity in the composition of top echelon of the security in the county in accordance with Section 14 (3) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic will be counter-productive.

He said restructuring the appointment of top security hierarchy to reflect fair representation of the geo-political zones in the country will provide a sense of security among all the ethnic groups in the country, especially now that the country is sharply divided along ethnic lines.

He lamented that the composition of the Nigeria Police Force Management team composed of IG, DIGs, AIGs, the Force Secretary among others, which formulates and implements Policies for the

Nigerian Police Force, has only one Igbo man, a DIG. Intersociety said out of 29 AIGs in Nigeria Police today, there is no single Igbo person, apart from the fact that they with South South have no single zonal Commander out of 12 zonal command manned

by AIGs. The group decried “In the categories of CPs, DCPs and ACPs, the South East population is terminally diminishing; with orchestrated plans or policy to eliminate the zone the top command structure of the force. It is further appalling that out of the country’s 37 State and FCT serving CPs, only two are from South East and the entire Igbo nation, with their retirement barely one year ahead”.

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Civil Defence officers lobby against deployment to N’East schools Continued from page 1 Muhammadu Buhari’s directive that the Corps should provide security for schools in the North East where Boko Haram has been wrecking havoc over the years.

Many officers and men of the Corps, who spoke to our correpondent but begged not to be mentioned because of the risk on their job, said they have vowed not to go to the zone which they said is like sentencing them to death.

But Sola Odumosu, Deputy Commandant, Public Relations Officer of the Corps, said he is not aware of such complaint. He said rather that officers and men of the Corps are excited and are good to go for the national call anywhere in the country.

One of the officers, who spoke to us, said there is no way the Corps can defend or protect the schools, a task he said the core military has failed to provide.

He said, “How do we secure all the schools in the North East? How many of the schools can we secure? Securing the schools means that you should have at least 10 officers in

each school and the officers must be fully armed.

So where do you get such number of officers to guard all the schools in the seven states that make up the zone? Remember we are talking of secondary and primary school in the zone.”

Another officer said people from the zone should be the ones to go to the North East and not everybody, as according to him, most of the areas in the zone are dangerous for people from other zones.

“I will not go to North East even if I am deployed to go there. I will rather resign because I don’t think Nigeria deserves such sacrifice. Boko Haram has sophisticated weapons. This is in addition to the new trend which is the Fulani herdsmen that are becoming more ruthless than Boko Haram. How do we go there? How many officers has the Corps trained in arms handling? As I speak with you, I have not been trained to handle such weapons and you want to send me to secure school against terrorists and bandits,” the officer told our correspondent.

Another dimension was

added to the story by yet another officer, a woman who said the manner in which names of those to be sent to the North East are being compiled show that they will use the deployment to victimise people.

She said: “There is nothing wrong if they say peo-

ple should be sent to North East. But the management should know that this is a new development for us.

I don’t think that NSCDC envisaged that a time will come when they will ask us to go and confront terrorists. So in making selection, they should not use it as opportunity to victim-

ise perceived enemies or those they are envious of as has been the case in the past. They should deploy only those that are trained in that area. Otherwise, they will just be sending people to go and be slaughtered”.

But Sola Odumosu said there is nothing to fear

over the President’s directive as the Corps is familiar with such duties and had commenced operations along that line before the directive came, adding that the directive would boost the morale of officers the more.

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Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje (right), during the distribution of free delivery kits to pregnant women at Murtala Mohammed Specialist Hospital Kano State.

Dapchi girls abduction: Defence Hqrts refutes Amnesty International report Andrew Orolua, Abuja.

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The Defence Headquarters has refuted Amnesty International (AI) report that Nigerian Military and security forces failed to act on information that a convoy of Boko Haram fighters were heading towards Dapchi in Yobe State to abduct some schoolgirls.

A statement signed by the Acting director of Defence Information, Brigadier General John Agim said “no security force was informed of Dapchi schoolgirls abduction as alleged by AI”.

The Defence Headquarters said that apart from the motive of Amnesty International which has been to discredit Nigerian military force , it is pertinent to state that most of AI narratives are outright falsehood.

The statement reads in part,”That the AI objective is a calculated attempt to

whip up sentiments and mislead unsuspecting Nigerians, demoralise friendly nations and people collaborating with security forces to end the forces of evil in the North-East.

“For the avoidance of doubts, no security force was informed of Dapchi schoolgirls abduction as alleged by AI. “The Nigerian public and the International Community should know that the Armed Forces of Nigeria is a professional military and has attained the highest form of professionalism in line with international best practices. And so, could not have ignored warnings of Boko Haram attack only to work tirelessly to get the girls back.”

According to DHQ, it is not proper for an organization like AI that does not meant well for Nigeria going by its previous reputation of denigrating the

security forces anytime they make gains against the forces of evil to incite the Nigerian public and international community against the military.

It said, “Some of our Services Chiefs, senior commanders presecuting the war against insurgency and even some heads of security and paramilitary services are from the North- East. They have put their lives on the line severally to end the madness in the North-East.”

“It is therefore very unfair for AI that does not care if the country survives as a united indivisible entity to come up every time to put doubts in the minds of the people about the military that has remained dedicated to keeping the country one.

“Amnesty International always brings out damming reports about the Nigerian Military at strategic points.

Amnesty did that in the pre-

vious administration and the United States invoked the Leahy Law against Nigeria at the peak of the Boko Haram insurgency.

Within this year, Amnesty International issued reports against the Military in January 2018, February 2018 and now March 2018.

“The question is; what is the motive of the AI? The answer is simple; President Donald Trump of the United States of America has agreed to collaborate with the current government of Nigeria to end insurgency in the North East and AI wants to do everything within its powers to make sure that the US-Nigeria anti-terrorism cooperation does not succeed in accordance with their paymasters design.

“The question Amnesty International has not answered satisfactorily is; which of the security forces and what unit was informed that a convoy of

Boko Haram fighters were heading towards Dapchi where they abducted Dapchi schoolgirls? What was the telephone numbers used to inform the Military or the Police?

“Why has AI refused to communicate its findings with the Federal Government’s Committee set up to investigate what happened before, during and after Dapchi girls abduction? Is AI trying to undermine the outcome of this committee?

The answer is simple, AI is not ready to contribute towards finding a solution to our problems, if anything, they are ready to complicate the problems.

“Within the military and amongst well meaning Nigerians at home and in diaspora, we know that AI is an organ established to embark on orchestrated campaign of calumny against the Nigerian Military and undermine its laudable

achievements against Boko Haram. Unfounded and inaccurate reports such as this by AI is completely unacceptable, and only exist in the figment of AI imaginations and should be discountenanced by well meaning Nigerians and foreign friendly nations.

“For avoidance of doubt, the Armed Forces of Nigeria is more than ever, poised to bring the activities of Boko Haram Terrorists to a complete end and no amount of discouraging fabrications by the AI will deter the military from achieving its constitutionally assigned responsibilities.

“The defence of our national territorial integrity is our utmost goal and as such the Armed Forces in conjunction with sister security agencies will continue to strive towards entrenching peace in the North-East and indeed every part of this great nation.”

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Polls sequence: Court dismisses joinder application Continued from page 1 hammadu Buhari’s assent to the Electoral Amendment Bill, 2018.

In his ruling on Tuesday after the lawyer to the APP, Okere Kingdom, moved an application seeking to be joined, Justice Ahmed held that “the the National Assembly (the first defendant) is

competent to defend the suit without joining any other party”.

Justice Mohammed also held that he did not see how the applicant (APP) can become a necessary party to the suit.

He said that the declarative relief sought by the plaintiff, that is to the effect that the Independent National Electoral

Commission (INEC) is the body to fix elections of President, Governors, National Assembly and State Houses of Assembly and other reliefs don’t effect the party seeking to be joined.

Earlier during the court proceedings , the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Mr Abubakar Malami (SAN), who led a

team of lawyers from his office had agreed with the submission of the lawyer to the National Assembly, Mr Joseph Daudu (SAN), and the lawyer to Accord Party, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), that “the subject matter of the substantive suit is important and requires urgent attention.”

Referring to the submis-

L-R: Vice Chairman, Lagos Island Local Government Area, Hon. Wadood Bashorun; Executive Chairman, Hon. Adetoyese Olusi; beneficiary, Alhaja Anota Ibrahim; All Progressives Congress (APC) Chieftain, Prince Oluyole Olusi and Head of Administration, Mr. Babatunde Disu, during a cash donation and distribution of food items to the aged in Lagos Island...on Tuesday.

Senate faults interpretation of legislative proclamations

Olufemi Samuel and Tunde Opalana, Abuja

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Senate on Tuesday took a swipe on those it described as ‘road side Supreme Court and Court of Appeal’ lawyers for frivolously interpreting legislative proclamations with a view to negatively set the legislature against the public.

Rather than engaging in unjust criticism of legislative processes including proclamations, the Senate urged critics of the National Assembly to always make useful suggestions and inputs to legislative deliberations at public hearing stages.

The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, who was represented by deputy Senate Leader, Senator Bala Ibn Na’Allah, gave the warning

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at the public hearing on three bills by the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters.

The three bills are Legal Practitioners Act 2004 Amendment Bill 2017; Facial Mutilation Bill and the Data Protection Bill 2017.

He said the critics can make their observations known through constructive suggestions that can assist the Parliament in performing its task rather than setting the parliament against the public.

The Senate President, however, said the Senate has not taken any position on the three bills, giving room to stakeholders to extensively deliberate on the bills to make legislative de-

cision on them easier and acceptable to Nigerians.

Meanwhile, opinions of both the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and Office of the Attorney General of the Federation differ on the amendment of the Legal Practitioners Act Cap C11 LFN. The National President of NBA, Mr. Abubakar Mahmood (SAN) said the Bar has always given priority to the reformation of the legal profession and that a position paper of NBA will be submitted in six weeks time after due consultations, suggestions and inputs from stakeholders, including Body of Benchers.

He said NBA is taking the matter seriously and expressed gratitude to the Senate Committee for its

commitment to the reformation.

Representative of the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. Yusuf Abdulahi, said the office had a contrary view to the amendment though it is not opposed to reform.

He said “the amendment, if it scales through will affect the performance of state counsels in the Office of the AGF”.

The Nigerian Law Reform Commission appreciated the reform and aligned its position with that of the NBA and expressed willingness to be involved in the consultation process while urging the NBA to avail NLRC copies of the draft position to enable it make its input.

sions of Daudu, Malami said that above all, “the constitutional colouration attached to the matter points to the fact that it has greater effect on our democracy and separation of powers.

“This underscored my appearance. I am, however, disturbed even though we are in an agreement that judiciary is in the storm. The intimidation and threats is unfortunate. Moreso when the National Assembly has submitted to the jurisdiction by appearance and submissions” in the open court.

“We have collective duty to support the entrenchment of the doctrine of separation of powers. We must work hard to ensure independent is indeed sustained,” Malami said.

He said that his attention has been drawn to a motion filed by a party seeking to be joined in the matter. He was referring to the submissions made

by Daudu, who had in his submission opposed the APP application.

Daudu (SAN) had said he welcomed the AGF’s appearance in the matter.

He said that “the matter is important for the continued well-being of our democracy. It is also right to have attracted comments, some condemning and some commending the pronouncement of the court.

“Again, judiciary is in the storm. We agreed that the matter required an urgent attention. That

is why we are surprised that the plaintiff had filed 90 pages of written address and served it on us.

Incidentally, viewing the whole case, the matter is very narrow”, he stated.

On the application filed

by APP, Daudu (SAN) said that it violates order 9 (15) (2) of the court, so it is incompetent.

While introducing the matter after it was mentioned by court clerk, the plaintiff ’s lawyer, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), had announced that parties have agreed to go straight to the substantive matter in the originating summons.

On what happened at the last sitting, Olanipekun said although he applied for preservative order in form of injunctive relief intra party, the court it its wisdom simply ruled that the parties maintain status quo ente bulum.

He said that “this has been interpreted by many including the first defendant to mean court making an order to prevent it from performing its constitutional duty.”

Also in his submission, lawyer to INEC, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), concurred with the view expressed by the other senior lawyers. He, however, urged the court to ignore the threats and intimidation to avoid been drawn into unnecessary controversy.

The matter has been adjourned to Monday, March 26, 2018 for the hearing of the originating summons.

2018 Budget: Submit your Ɔ Ɛƈƌ ƐƆ Ɛ M dd Ƅƕ 0ƏƈƗ ƕè Buhari orders MDAs Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

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President Muhammadu Buhari has directed Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), as well as Federal Government owned companies to submit details of their 2018 budget estimates to the appropriate Committees of the National Assembly not later than Friday The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, who stated this in a Circular letter dated Monday 19th March, 2018, with reference num-

ber: SGF/OP/1/S.3/XII, conveyed the directives to all MDAs titled “Submission of Details of the 2018 Budget Estimates by Federal Government Owned Agencies, Parastatals and Corporations to the National Assembly” The SGF further directed the MDAs to comply with the provisions of the law and honour invitation to defend their estimates timeously.

The Circular also urged supervising ministers to ensure timely compliance with the content of the circular

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POB: FG rearraigns Kanu in absential, 4 others over treasonable felony Andrew Orolua, Abuja.

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Federal Government on Tuesday rearraigned four associates of Nnamdi Kanu the leader of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), who is at large before the Federal High Court in Abuja on three count charge of alleged treasonable felony.

The defendants: Bright Chimezie, Chidiebere Onwudiwe, Benjamin Madubugwu, David Nwawuisi and Nnamdi Kanu (now at large )were re- arraigned before Justice Binta Nyako at the resumed trial of the matter on Tuesday.

But the four defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges which were read to them by the court clerk after an hour of arguments by the Defence lawyer who initially was opposed to their clients taking the plea because they were served with the amended charge sheet on Tuesday morning in the court premises.

According to the charge , Bright Chimezie, Chidiebere Onwudiwe, Benjamin Madubugwu, David Nwawuisi and Nnamdi Kanu (now at large )and others at large on diverse dates in 2014 and 2015 in Nigeria and London, United Kingdom, did conspired amongst themselves to broadcast on Radio Biafra monitored in Enugu and other areas within the jurisdiction of the court preparations made by you and other at large ,for states in the South East and South South zones and other communities in Kogi and Benue states to secede from the Federal Republic of Nigeria with a view to constituting same into the Republic of Biafra and you hereby committed an offence punishable under section 516 of the criminal Code Act , Cap, C77,Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.

Second count: That you, Bright Chimezie and one Nnamdi Kanu, (now at large), between the months of March and April 2015 imported into Nigeria and kept in Ubulusiuzor in Iheala Local Government Area of Anambra state within the jurisdiction of this honourable Court, a Radio Transmitter known as TRAM 50L concealed in a container of used household items which you declared as used household items, and you hereby committed an offence con-

trary to section 47(2) of the Criminal Codes Act, Cap, C77, laws of the Federation of Nigeria,2004.

Third, “That you Benjamin Madubugwu sometimes in the month of October 2015 had in your possession, in your house at Ubulusiuzor in Ihiala Local Government Areas of Anambra State, INEC(1) Emerald Magnum pump Action Gun with Serial Number TS 870-0046 and one Delta Magnum pump Action Gun with serial number 501 , as well as forty -one cartridges /ammunition without lawful authority or licence and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 27 (b)(1) of the Firearms Act, Cap, F28,Laws of the Federation of Nigeria.

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Civil Defence officers lobby against deployment to N’East schools Continued on page 5 “Rather than grumble, our officers and men are excited about the development.

We have trained thousands of them on anti-terrorism and counter insurgency, so they are good to go.

“In addition, the Corps had deployed 3,750 officers before the President’s directive and those deployed were drawn from the state Commands within the zone which means they are familiar with the terrain already.

More will be deployed in due course to ensure that all the schools in the zone are well secured,” Deputy Comman-

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returned briefly to Abuja, adding that the tour was part of the mobilisation and sensitisation on the schools security assignment.

Apart from killings and destruction of property, the Boko Haram terrorist group has abducted many people especially women and school children over the years.The latest was the 110 schoolgirls taken from a government school in Dapchi, Yobe State. The public outcry generated by the Dapchi incident prompted the directive by the President to NSCDC to deploy its personnel to secure schools in the North East.

Before the the charge was read, the prosecuting lawyer Shuaibu Labaram had informed the court that there was a breach of security at the last sitting.

He said that a member of IPOB posted in social media photograph of one of the members of state security operatives who is an Igbo extraction and asked IPOB members to deal with him.

The judge said that the lawyer knows what to do and should not waste the time of the court on issue not before it.

The matter has been adjourned to Thursday for trial.

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BS Film Academy has opened its doors for academic studies with a cohort of 30 students.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, the Managing Director and CEO of Anambra Broadcasting Service and Rector of the Academy, Nze Uche Nworah, said that the Academy, the first in the South East

of Nigeria, will provide training in various areas of the creative industry including film making, scriptwriting, animation, broadcast journalism, etc.

He urged the students to work very hard during their 3-months stay at the academy as the best graduating student will be sponsored for further stud-

ies at the New York Film Academy courtesy of an American based development partner and sponsor.

In a goodwill message, Managing Director of Rockland Development Co. Ltd, Mr. Obi Ene, encouraged the students to aspire to create movies that will help place Anambra on the map. He donated the sum

of one million Naira to the academy.

Several guests from within and outside the creative industry took turns at the event to encourage the students. Among the guests were members of ABS Board of Management, Bob-Manuel Udokwu, James Eze (Chief Press Secretary to Gover-

nor Willie Obiano), Marcel Manafa (Group MD of Olis Warren Group), Oby Okafor (Nollywood actress), Emeka Ozumba (Media Aide to Governor), Mike Meze (Principal Partner, Winning Concepts/ Brand Aristotle), Chinedu Nkwonta, Anambra State Publicity Secretary of APGA and others.

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Buhari approves negotiations for $15bn loan for rail project - Amaechi

Atiku welcomes withdrawal of police guards from VIPs

Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

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ÏÏÏPresident Muhammadu Buhari has approved that negotiation should be carried out for 15 billion dollars loan for the completion of work on the Port Harcourt – Maiduguri rail project.

The Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Rotimi Ameachi disclosed on Tuesday while briefing State House correspondents after a closed-door meeting with President Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

According to him, the President has also given the approval for negotiations of funds for the execution of Lagos – Calabar rail project to ensure its speedy completion.

“Don’t forget that the LagosCalabar project is yet to start because of funds; the Port Harcourt – Maiduguri is yet to start because of funds, but the President has approved that we negotiate for funds.

“We are almost concluding negotiations for the Port Harcourt – Maiduguri. We are looking at the cost – is in the neighbourhood of between 14 billion and 15 billion dollars.’’

According to the minister, a lot of progress is being made in the area of revamping rail transportation network across the country.

The Minister further disclosed that laying of tracks on the LagosIbadan route would commence next month, and expressed the hope that the project would pro-

vide a lot of job opportunities to Nigerians.

“If the rain doesn’t start early we will start laying tracks on the Lagos-Ibadan route in April and hopefully we believe we can complete it in December or January and open it up for passengers and business and we expect about 6, 000,000 tons of cargo out of the 30,000,000 tons of cargo that we have between Lagos and Kano.

“In terms of job creation, you can be rest assured that it will be in thousands,” he said.

On Itakpe – Warri rail project, Ameachi said the project was being reconstructed and expressed the hope that it would be inaugurated by August.

Amaechi said: “The tracks were already there but they were

vandalised so we are rebuilding those tracks and then building new stations.

We are also reconstructing a yard that was abandoned. All things being equal, the place should be ready soon, we gave them May as completion period but let’s say by August we should be commissioning.’’

The Minister reassured that adequate security had been taken to guarantee safety of passengers aboard rail transportation in the country.

He added, “There are policemen in all the coaches that ply our routes. So if the passengers are attacked by armed robbers, they will report while they take action.”

President Buhari receives in audience Former Vice President Namadi Sambo in State House....Tuesday

Amnesty: EFCC arrests Boroh

Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja

ÏÏÏThe embattled sacked Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme for former Niger Delta militants Brigadier-General Paul Boroh (Rtd) has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, reports the Daily Times.

Boroh is being questioned for his role in the alleged mismanagement of funds meant for the Amnesty office since in assumed duty in 2015.

A source at the EFCC told the Daily Times that Boroh was invited on Monday and was still

at the commission’s office in Abuja as at press time.

Boroh is being questioned for his role in the alleged mismanagement of Amnesty Funds between October 2015 till date.

It has been alleged that since 2015 when Boroh was appointed, over N50 Billion have been spent in the name of Empowering Niger Delta Youths but there is almost Nothing to show for it.

President Muhammadu Buhari had last week announced Professor Charles Quaker Dokubo as the new co-ordinator of the programme. He also ordered the National Security Adviser to carry out a full investigation

into the financial engagement of the programme since 2015.

The new development was contained in a statement by Femi Adesina, the special adviser to the president on media and publicity on Tuesday, March 13.

The president had also directed the National Security Adviser (NSA) to carry out a full investigation into the activities of the Amnesty Programme from 2015 to date, especially allegations of financial impropriety and other acts that are allegedly detrimental to the objectives of the Presidential Amnesty Programme.”

It will be recalled that a Niger

Delta group asked President Buhari to order Boroh to step aside or a mass action will be carried out against the office.

The group, Niger Delta Emancipation (NDE) in collaboration with Northern Youth Council (NYC) on Friday, February 16, said Boroh should be given 14 days to step aside as the coordinator of the programme.

In a statement signed by Sani Sa’idu Jimetta, the president of the NYC and Jude Tamuno, the coordinator of the NDE, the group jointly said that Boroh should be suspended pending investigation on allegations of names replaced in the programme.

Vice President Atiku Abubakar has thrown his weight behind the decision of the police authorities to withdraw their personnel providing security for important private citizens.

In a statement issued by his media adviser, Paul Ibe in Abuja on Tuesday, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain observed that the 150, 000 police personnel withdrawn from such persons were needed to provide security in schools in the northeast and other troubled zones.

The former Vice President recalled that he had earlier called for the withdrawal of the police personnel from private individuals and was glad that the authorities had heeded his call.

He said: “That Nigeria has a security emergency cannot be overstated. Our security forces are overstretched. We do not have enough military and paramilitary forces to provide security for the peace-loving people of Nigeria which is why the recent Government Girls Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State kidnapping occurred. Their school was left unguarded.”

The statement also recalled that Atiku had earlier called for the reassigning of the 150,000 policemen guarding private citizens to core police duties.

“Recently, the Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Chief Mike Okiro, revealed that 150,000 policemen are guarding various elites and those we know as ‘big men’. If I had my way, I would have recalled all of those 150,000 policemen who are not performing core police duties and send them to provide security for every school in the North-East region. That to me would be a better use of their time and services. We already know that Boko Haram has an agenda to cripple Western education in Nigeria. So how could we have left those schools unguarded? Why should the police be guarding VIPs who can afford personal guards and leave vulnerable girls unguarded? We are spending billions of Naira trying to encourage girls to go to school only to allow them to be abducted by terrorists,” the statement quoted Atiku as saying.

The Waziri Adamawa reiterated his call on the President Muhammadu Buhari government to “be open to solutions from well-meaning Nigerians and friends of Nigeria so we can navigate this nation away from the precipice.”

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Wike urges leading European investors to invest in Rivers State Amaka Agbu, Port Harcourt

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Rivers State Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has encouraged leading European investors to invest in the state, declaring that his administration had implemented sound economic policies and programmes that made the state the investment destination of Nigeria.

Speaking during a Special Investment Programme Organised for Rivers State by the Financial Times tagged: “Invest in Rivers State”, at their headquarters in London on Tuesday, Governor Wike told the select investors at the event that return on investment in the state was the highest in Nigeria.

Governor Wike said: “The Government of Rivers State remains committed to making Rivers State the best place in Nigeria to live, work and do business through the implementation of sound policies and creating the enabling peaceful, secure, and friendly environment for doing business in Rivers State. Investors are warmly welcomed, Rivers State awaits you.”

The governor assured intending investors that his administration had lined out incentives that made the state investor friendly.

According to the Rivers State Governor, the Rivers State Government under his leadership had provided visibility gap funding, minimum revenue guarantee, provision of land for development, provision of subsidies and reduction of exemption from payment of taxes and levies.

“There is a stable, focused and progressive government that is committed to the state’s economic objectives, which is to build a strong, balanced and growing economy for Rivers State.

“The Government has created the most business friendly environment for Rivers State with unprecedented investments in infrastructure, tax reforms and related economic incentives to reduce cost of doing business”, Governor Wike explained.

Governor Wike added: “We have given unprecedented attention to security of lives and property, Rivers State is now safe and secure for businesses and investors.”

The governor added that his administration had eliminated double taxation, instituted expeditious processing and grant of land documents, facilitation of investment processes and regulatory approvals.

Governor Wike said that intending investors in oil and gas would benefit from the presence of the Oil and Gas Free Zone in the state, noting that the facility provided opportunities for the establishment of businesses across the oil and gas value chain.

The governor declared that the Rivers State Government had also institutionalised laws, processes and policies to protect investments in the state.

He said: “Besides national laws, the Rivers State Government has also put in place appropriate legal framework to promote and protect investments in the state.”

Governor Wike said as a gateway into the SouthSouth and South-East zones, Rivers State also boasts of immense investment opportunities in the area of information and communication technology.

He added that there were remarkable investment opportunities in the areas of tourism and hospitality, pointing out that as the destination of choice for organisers of events, conferences and sporting events, Rivers State investment climate would reward any foreign investor.

He pointed out the successes recorded by establishing the innovative Port Harcourt Pleasure Park, which was a regional centre of tourism, attracting several thousands of Nigerian and foreign visitors.

Governor Wike informed the European Investors that investment opportunities existed at the Greater Port Harcourt City Development Authority, where his administration had established framework for public-private partnerships, land subsidies and the development of infrastructure.

He also stated that there were investment opportunities in the area of manufacturing where investors could take advantage of the Trans-Amadi Industrial Estate.

He added that Public Housing and property development remained another profitable outlet because

of the population of the state.

The governor maintained that the availability of vast arable land and water, made Rivers State the national hub of agriculture and agro processing.

He said: “The state’s population, including the middle class is increasing in geo-metric proportions.

Besides, the availability of a young educated, skilled and semiskilled population eager for employment offers abundant workforce and large emerging and relatively untapped market for consumer products and services.

Governor Wike said that Rivers State pos-

sessed abundant natural resources, two existing seaports, an international airport and Nigeria’s second largest economy, waiting for credible international investors.

In his remarks, Commercial Director of Financial Times in charge of Africa and Middle East, Mark Cowardine assured the Rivers State Governor that the message of the investment potentials of Rivers State would promote economic growth in the state.

Vice Chairman of Westminster Africa Business Group, Mr. Tim Johnsen noted that the presentation of Governor Wike had highlighted key areas of investments to be

explored by European Investors.

The Chief Executive Officer of Invest Africa and United Kingdom Business Council for Africa, Karen Taylor said that the State Government had redefined the economic advantage of Rivers State, making it attractive to the world.

Leyla Boulton, Editor, Special Reports of Financial Times said that Rivers State has become Nigeria’s leading economic destination due to the programmes initiated by Governor Wike.

Imad Mesdoua, Senior Consultant at Control Risks expressed satisfaction with the quality of information and opportu-

nities that Governor Wike had exposed to Europe on Rivers State.

Governor Wike was accompanied by Senator George Sekibo, Commissioner of Information and Communication, Emma Okah, Chairman of Greater Port Harcourt City Development Authority, Chief Ferdinand Anabrabra, Commissioner of Sports, Boma Iyaye and Former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt Hon Austin Opara.

These were contained in a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Tuesday by the Special Adviser of the governor on Electronic Media, Mr. Simeon Nwakaudu.

L-R: Wife of the Chairman, Lagos Island Local Government, Alhaja Aminat Olusi; representative of Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, Hon. Wasiu Eshinlokun-Sanni; Council Chairman, Hon. Adetoyese Olusi; Head of Administration, Mr. Hakeem Disu and pupil of St. John Primary School, Aroloya, during the distribution of free school kits and learning aids to students of the school in Lagos

Ex-President Jonathan’s VP meets Presidency gives MDAs dateline to submit 2018 Budget estimates Buhari behind closed doors respondents asked him on to NASS ÏÏÏPresident Muham- the essence of the visit, Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

ÏÏÏPresident

Muhammadu Buhari has directed that Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), as well as Government owned Companies should submit details of their 2018 budget estimates to the appropriate Committees of the National Assembly not later than Friday 23rd March, 2018.

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, in a Circular letter dated Monday 19th March, 2018, with reference number:

SGF/OP/1/S.3/XII, conveyed the directives to all Ministries, Departments and Agencies titled “Submission of Details of the 2018 Budget Estimates

by Federal Government Owned Agencies, Parastatals and Corporations to the National Assembly” He directed that the agencies comply with the provisions of the law and honour invitation to defend their estimates timeously.

The Circular enjoined supervising Ministers to ensure timely compliance with the content of the Circular.

madu Buhari has met behind closed doors with former Vice-President Namadi Sambo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Sambo was vice-president to former President Goodluck Jonathan during the last administration that transited power to Buhari in 2015.

The meeting of the two leaders, which was held inside the President’s office on Tuesday, lasted for 25 minutes.

Sambo arrived the Presidential Villa at about 12:00 noon and went straight into the President’s office and he left the premises at about 12.25pm.

When State House cor-

Sambo simply said, “It was a private meeting,” before stepping into his waiting car.

The former Vice President has not been a regular visitor to the Presidential Villa since he and Jonathan left office on May 29, 2015 He had, in 2017, visited Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo in his office; while he also joined Buhari for a Jumat service in commemoration of the nation’s independence last year.

The meeting of the two leaders came barely 24 hours after Osinbajo openly accused the administration Sambo served of “grand corruption.”

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Enough Is Enough, Metuh’s lawyer cries out ...claims threat to life Idu Jude Abuja

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APC National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun (second left) Rector, Federal Polytechnic, Bida, Niger state, Dr. Abubakar Dzukogi(second right), APC Deputy National Chairman (North), Senator Lawali Shuaibu (left) and the Polytechnic’s Registrar, M.B Ndama (right) when the rector led the management team on a courtesy visit to the national secretariat of the APC in Abuja…on Tuesday

Niger Delta militant groups threaten to resume pipeline vandalism over Boroh Amaka Agbu, Port Harcourt

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combined Niger Delta militant groups have issued a four-week ultimatum to President Muhammadu Buhari to reinstate the sacked Coordinator of the Amnesty Programme and Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, Retired Brigadier-General Paul Boroh, or face resumed attacks on oil installations and facilities in the Niger Delta region.

In a statement circulated in Port Harcourt Tuesday, the militant groups led by the Leader of the Reformed Niger Delta Avengers, General Johnmark Ezonbi, said that in an enlarged meeting of the groups in Bayelsa

State, they rejected the sack of the Amnesty Coordinator.

The group alleged that it was obvious that the Federal Government was playing with the destiny of the people of the Niger Delta region.

The statement read in part: “The Federal Government will hear from us at the expiration of the four-week ultimatum as no stone will be left unturned by the groups since the President Buhari-led administration preferred to go back to the recession period when Boroh played a major role by visiting the creeks with other stakeholders to prevail on the “militants to drop their arms and embrace peace.

“Nothing tangible has been recorded since the

coming of the present APC-led Federal Government, rather President Buhari was sacking Boroh, who had succeeded in setting a template for the smooth operation of the amnesty office,” it said.

According to the group, all its striking units across the Niger Delta had been put on red alert to commence operation zero oil to cripple the economy in a well-coordinated destruction of all major delivery oil pipelines after the expiration of the four weeks ultimatum without looking back.

“I want to warn that any intruder into our planned action in four weeks’ time if the Federal Government fails to reinstate General Paul Boroh will be severely dealt with without mercy because

our attack will make security agencies in the creek very small. We are fully ready to take on anybody as we have the instrumentality of warfare that will make the biggest military might to marvel at our coordinated attacks,” according to the statement.

President Muhammadu Buhari last week sacked Retired Brig.-Gen. Paul Boroh. The President in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, announced the sack and the replacement with Prof. Charles Quaker Dokubo, a director of Research and Studies at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, as the new Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme for exNiger Delta militants.

Benchuks Nwaosu, the defense lawyer to the embattled former People’s Democratic Party(PDP) national publicity secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, has alleged a perfect plan to exterminate his client owing to the seek and hide game being played by the Federal Government with regards to his pending court case.

In a press statement issued by the defense lawyer Tuesday, alleged that Justice Okon Abang may have been specially assigned the case to end the life of Mr. Metu, whose health is deteriorating daily.

The lawyer states that his office in the past few weeks, have witnessed statements, sponsored articles and comments by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and some federal government office holders and apologists in furtherance of the well- funded media trial against his Client, Chief Olisa Metuh.

More disturbing he alleged, is the direct threat, harassment and intimidation of medical personnel and institutions involved in the treatment and management of his client’s illhealth.

“We have instances and evidence of these APC controlled agents and agencies directly interfering with the various hospitals that have admitted Chief Metuh in the last two months but the latest is the letter written by APC to the Wellington hospital, London, U.K, depicting our client as an enemy of the Nigerian state and one that should not even access to medical treatment abroad.

A simple Google search

on Dr. Adrian Casey would have revealed his profile including his references in the wellington hospital website. Howeve, these individuals were actually more interested in continuing with the ridicule and media trial of our client and to go further to create controversies even with his last hope for medical succour. Are they just more interested in ensuring that he must be denied access to medical treatment at all cost?

The statement also read in part: “It should be recalled that the APC and government officials had launched a massive campaign to ridicule, mock and make cruel jokes of Chief Metuh’s appearance on a stretcher and subsequently in a wheelchair in his obedience to the Rulings and Orders of Justice Abang.

These people are quite aware that the learned Judge had ruled that he will no longer accept medical reports from any doctor in Nigeria. On the same day, the Court ordered that Metuh must appear in Court at the next adjourned date and the only clear choice for a bedridden person would be to appear in Court with his hospital bed or in a stretcher.

The clear fact, as evidenced by his MRI report, is that Chief Olisa Metuh has severe spondylosis with disc herniations, cord and nerve root compressions in his Cervical, Thoracic and Lumbosacral spine. This has resulted in semi-paralysis and we have even gone further in open Court to request that the prosecution be allowed to conduct their own independent clinical examination of the person involved.

SMEDAN holds capacity building for informal sector Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

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Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) has organized a capacity building workshop for the informal sector of the economy under the aegis of Federation of Informal Workers Organization of Nigeria (FIWON) in Kaduna state.

Speaking on Tuesday at the programme titled; “Transition from the informal to the formal economy”,

the Director General of SMEDAN, Dr. Umaru Dikko Radda, said that the capacity building programme was designed to deliver tailored capacity development to members of FIWON to help improve their general and functional management capacity.

Radda said, “This is to bring the challenges of the informal micro and small enterprises to the front burner. Over the years the informal economy has been alienated and neglected.

This monumental neglect

of the informal sector as stimulus for socio-economic development has contributed to the economic imbalance that bedeviled the country.”

Represented by the Director, Strategic Partnership and Liaison Department of SMEDAN, Dr. Friday Okpara, said that the government has realized the importance of the sector as a catalyst for the growth, productivity and competitiveness of the economy of the country.

“Not only are they the seedbed of wealth creation,

employment generation and poverty reduction. They have been recognized as the critical breeding and nurturing grounds for domestic entrepreneurial capacities, technical skills, technological innovativeness and managerial competencies for the development of a vibrant and productive economy.”

He said the informal sector still faces challenges despite the recognition of their significant roles, adding that developing the issues in to the main stream

of the economy require plan and strategy to enhance their effectiveness and efficiency.

Other measures to help ensure its effectiveness include; “the impact of government policies and interventions, the self-propelling dynamism of the sector and the nature of linkages between the informal and the formal sector”.

The Director General further said that adequate and appropriate mobilization and channelization of funds to existing and po-

tential operators in the sector and change of policies to ensure tax payment and registration will help curb some of the challenges beclouding the sector.

“We need to design and promote measures that protect the operators of the sector and expand existing poverty reduction and employment generation schemes to include them.

Also, we need to build capacity of the sector and make them relevant in decision making and institution building in the country.”

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Buhari is the glue holding APC together – Sen Shehu Sani Senator Shehu Sani, a member of the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly representing Kaduna Central District, was at the All Progressives Congress (APC) national Secretariat recently to meet with the fact finding committee led by Mr. Segun Oni on the party crisis in Kaduna State. The Senator spoke with journalists shortly after the meeting. TOM OKPE was there for The Daily Times

SANI

May you please tell us why you are at the party secretariat?

My presence here at the APC National secretariat was in response to an invitation I received from the Segun Oni-led fact-finding committee that was sent to Kaduna to investigate the political crisis in Kaduna State.

Unfortunately, I was not able to meet the committee when they were in Kaduna despite the fact that we waited at No 11B, Sambo road, and the very secretariat that was demolished by the governor of Kaduna State.

But now, the committee invited me to the office and I am here to state my own side of the story and it is very clear that the Kaduna APC is in crisis and the crisis must be addressed by the National secretariat of the party and by the leadership of the party so as to avert the tragedy that may befall the party in the upcoming elections.

The crisis in the APC has been lingering for a very long time and it has been left to reach such a crescendo whereby the broom automatically transformed to a hatchet. The Segun Oni committee came to Kaduna and requested that we should all sheath our sword and bury our hatchet, but as for now, we only covered our hatchet with leaves and we are waiting for the next step which is the national secretariat of the party (NWC) and see what the Asiwaju-led reconciliation committee is going to do.

As you know, most political parties in Nigeria and in the history of Africa, crisis as a result of an internal purpose is

implosion that destroys political parties and it is something that they have to do everything possible to avert. Our position is this, that if the governor of Kaduna State is for peace, we are for peace. If he’s for war, we are also for war and a bigger war.

And that, it is the desire of everyone that we should all come together, to work together, to heal the wounds, in order to restore confidence and hope in the hearts and minds of the millions of Nigerians that voted us in 2015.

But a situation whereby some people are treated as outcasts and slaves, that will not augur well for the party and I said it repeatedly that it is wrong for anyone to simply categorise some people as pro-Buhari and some people as anti-Buhari, all of them within APC. Everyone who is in the APC is pro-Buhari, but the only thing is that some are not sycophants and some are sycophants. So, as far as I am concerned, the success of this party in the upcoming elections is dependent on how it would be able to manage the crisis and solve the problems.

I can understand that the tenure of the existing leaders of the party has been extended by a year, so, I see that the stakeholders of the party have used helicopters to flyover the problems of the party. But we still have to solve the problems. We must confront our problems and solve them. I am in support of any effort that is aimed at bringing peace, unity and stability within the party. But it’s also in the interest of the party that we don’t defer our problems and crisis, we will solve them.

There is no problem in the APC

that cannot be solved. There is no problem in this party that cannot be solved, but you can only solve problems when the contending parties are all ready for the problems to be solved. If one person is ready and the other person is not ready, certainly we are not going to make any headway.

So, I, very much identify myself with any effort that is aimed at bringing peace.

The Segun Oni panel that was set up by the National secretariat of the party is serving in that direction and the Asiwaju reconciliation committee is serving in that direction and there is no conflict there, because they told us that they are on the fact-finding missions. We gave them the facts. So, it is now left for the reconciliation committee to address it properly. For me, I see Asiwaju as a tailor of how he can use his own skill to mend the crisis as far as I am concerned.

Asiwaju sent a memo to the President, which was leaked to the press recently expressing fear that the NWC led by Oyegun is trying to frustrate his efforts, do you still have confidence in the Tinubu’s troubleshooting team to solve the party’s crisis by agreeing with the tenure elongation of the party leaders?

First, I must tell you the fact that with the appointment of Tinubu to chair the reconciliation committee that gave many contending parties within the party the hope and the confidence that the issues could be addressed. For example, for those of us in Kaduna, there were two attempts at peace. One was the one

led by the National Vice chairman of the party, Inuwa Abdul-Kadir which failed, and the second one was the one led by the governor of Katsina State, Aminu Masari which also failed.

So, before Asiwaju, there was virtually no hope that this crisis would come to an end. And the very fact it was said that this committee is to reconcile while that of Oni is to gather facts is also very clear. We have provided the facts and then we are waiting for Tinubu to act on it. So, as far as I am concerned, I believe that Oni is working together with Tinubu and there is no conflict of responsibilities.

Now, about the extension, as far as I am concerned from what I foresaw is the fact that the party want to mend itself before it goes to the public. So, it wants to wash its linen in the room before drying it in the public. There is no doubt about it if there is no healing process and if there is no reconciliation and we all move to the convention centre, which means; there is going to be fireworks there. So, to me, extension or no extension, if the crisis in the party is not solved, we are simply postponing this day.

Is it possible that there will be a situation where the parties involved in this crisis will say I am tired of this reconciliation, I will quit?

You see, we say all politics is local. As far as I am concerned, if the crisis in Kaduna lingers and it defies all sorts of peaceful moves, certainly people will take the next step. And as far as I am concerned, everyone has plan B. Even for me, I have plan B, Plan C and Plan D. So, If anybody feels he can enslave me,

if anybody thinks he can dictate to me, if anyone felt that this party belongs to him and doesn’t belong to me and I am not needed in the party, there is no way I can continue to remain in the party, after all it is a free world.

The chieftains of this party are worried, I am sure you know the lacuna within the legislature and the presidency…

I will start with this, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, is a man who is expected to bring peace to our Somalia, to bring peace to Syria, to bring peace to Afghanistan and also to reconcile Palestine and Israel, so, we pray for him to be able to achieve all these, but we can say this clearly that we allowed APC’s problems to move from being a cat to being a tiger. And it now grew to such a level that threatens to consume everyone.

I still see President Muhammadu Buhari as the glue of APC. These three words you are seeing, A, P and C, Buhari is the glue. If we don’t have Buhari in the APC, suddenly everyone will find way to his home. So, as he remains the glue, he must also be up and doing in addressing these crisis. And part of the problems we are having here is the philosophy of being for everybody and for nobody; it led the party to nowhere.

So, as far as I am concerned, I believe that there is a future for this party, but if only every member of the party is treated with equity, justice and fairness. We must avoid the symptoms of crisis that destroyed the PDP. It must not come over here. If this problem is not counseled and resolved, as I said earlier, it has been allowed to move from being a cat to the tiger.

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Rivers LG poll: IPAC, GPN, others berate APC for threat to boycott election Memoye Oghu Port Harcourt The Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC), the umbrella body of all registered political parties in Rivers State and the Green Party of Nigeria (GPN) have called the bluff of the threat of the main opposition party in the state, All Progressives Congress (APC) to boycott the forthcoming local government elections in the state.

In a press briefing in Port Harcourt, the state capital, IPAC chairman in the state, Mr Samuel Ihunwo condemned the threat of APC to boycott the polls, saying that the reasons for their action were untenable and unpatriotic.

Mr Ihunwo, who is also the state chairman of the Independent Congress of Democrats (ICD) party said that APC, which challenged the removal of its council chairmen by the state governor in 2015 failed to appeal against the ruling of the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt which dismissed its suit on the matter.

While commending the state Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) for planning to conduct local government elections in the state, he observed that a democratically elected

WIKE government at the grassroots level in the state was overdue.

He however appealed to the state Electoral body to conduct a free and fair election by providing a level playing field for all participants in the polls.

This is the position shared by the state branch of the Green Party of Nigeria (GPN), whose state Coordinator, Mr Alphine Whyte said his party was fully ready and prepared for the election, pointing out that the polls would be the first to be undertaken by his party and

caretaker.

“Of course, I agree with the fact that nature abhors vacuum. Somebody must be there to oversee their affairs.

But with this recent development of RSIEC of an election, I am happy that the whole thing about caretaker will come to an end.

The grassroots will directly experience democracy as it affects them,” he told our correspondent in an exclusive chat at the party secretariat in Port Harcourt.

Mr Whyte who said AMAECHI that his party was yet to be a member therefore a veritable testing of IPAC however expressed ground for his party to prove its fears about the credibility of the election because, according popularity.

“First, I must thank them to him, “he who pays the piper for the boldness to come up dictates the tune.”

He went on: “however, I have with an election timetable to usher us into local government some fears. Within this short elections. Of course, since period as Coordinator of GPN after 2015, precisely May when in the South South, I have been we had a local government opportune to witness that of election, we have been expecting Akwa Ibom and Edo states. If because at the moment, the what I saw is regarded as local local governments have been government elections, then I run by caretaker committees think there is more to it than and I don’t think there is a meet the eyes.

“We have seen situations proper legislation backing the where the government in power

Lagos community commends Ambode on infrastructure It was celebration galore in Ogudu, a Lagos community, comprising Adebola street, Asejere, Alhaja Eleshin and other adjoining streets following Governor Akinwumi Ambode’s timely response to the Save Our Soul (S.O.S) message sent to him by the community on the incessant flooding in the area that had been wrecking havoc on residents for some time now, as well as the traffic jam that has defied solution for a long time.

The community had on February 21, 2018, sought the help of the Lagos governor, on the problems confronting the area.

Speaking with journalists, Chairman of the Community Development Association (CDA), Mr. Olamuyiwa Akinsoyinu, stated that the work the governor is doing in Lagos speaks volume.

According to him, “We wrote a letter to him and he responded with alacrity, we are most grateful. We promise the governor and APC all our votes as usual in the coming elections.

With this development, traffic

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grid lock around Ogudu, Association Close and OguduOrioke will be a thing of the past, as Adebola street will now serve as a link road from the GRA through Gafari street down to the Oworonshoki Expressway,” he maintained.

Also speaking, a landlord, Chief Adebola Majeobaje, prayed God to continue to guide Mr. Governor in his transformation drive which has fully endeared him to Lagosians and all Nigerians home and

abroad. His words: “All of us are solidly behind him in the coming elections. We appreciate him for turning Lagos to a mega city,” he said.

According to the Secretary, Adebola Peace Valley Estate, Stephen Osita, “The governor has wiped away tears from residents of Adebola, Asejere among others with the timely response. With the construction of the road, we will only be hearing flooding from far away and no longer in our area.

We will always support the governor and if there is the possibility of third term for him, we are solidly behind him because the governor’s second term aspiration is a done deal,” he added.

While imploring the women folks to rally round the governor and APC, Mrs. Odugbesan F.O. said, “Mr. Governor has further proven that he is gender sensitive because each time disaster struck, women and children are the most vulnerable and with the governors response, the women are happier for it, as the women will continue to support his aspirations.”

in a given state will ensure that all the chairmen that would emerge in that election are from a particular party. They don’t give room for contest, which is not right. So, when I heard the news that RSIEC came up with it, I was happy. But in the midst of my happiness, I had the feeling; can RSIEC be an unbiased umpire? Because, there is the saying that he who pays the piper dictates the tune. Won’t they dance to the paymasters?”

He asked.

Earlier, at the stakeholders meeting with RSIEC, the state PDP chairman, Bro Felix Obuah had told newsmen that his party was set for the polls and commended the state Electoral body for coming out with the timetable, pointing out that the tenure of APC chairmen who challenged their removal in 2015 would expire on May 25, this year and that a vacuum would be created if the election was not conducted.

Calling off the APC threat, he said, “if out of 60 political parties only one is objecting, then they are on their own.”

A day after the RSIEC announcement of the polls timetable, the state APC told Journalist at a press conference in Port Harcourt that the party will not only boycott the election but would also challenge its legality in the court.

Igbos more disposed to restructuring than Igbo presidency – ABC Nwosu Former Minister of Health, Prof A.B.C. Nwosu has clarified the position of Ndigbo as 2019 general elections draws near.

He said Ndigbo are more favorably disposed towards political restructuring of Nigeria than Igbo presidency.

He stated this while fielding questions from another newspaper.

Asked as a prominent Igbo politician where Ndigbo stand on APC, PDP, “ Third Force “ or Igbo presidency, he said Ndigbo was both troubled about what Nigeria had become and their status in Nigeria.

In his words: Ndigbo are not only troubled by what Nigeria has become, but

also by what they have become in the diminished country they had very high hopes for at Independence.

“Consequently, forces more than third, fourth and fifth forces are currently operating in the South East. Everyone outside Igboland sees only the neo-Biafra forces, but the forces for restructuring of Nigeria are more potent and cut across all segments.

“In my view, Ndigbo are more interested in political restructuring of Nigeria than in Igbo presidency. As the time for 2019 election approaches, these forces and tendencies in Igboland will begin to be resolved in a manner that will permit prediction as to what Ndigbo will do in the 2019 general elections,” he said.

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Editorial Lessons from Benue floods

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nce again, the rains have wrecked havoc in many parts of the country especially along the flood plains of many rivers, taking the lives of many people, submerging hundreds of houses and sacking many people from their homes. Worst affected were Benue, Kogi, Cross River and Akwa Ibom states. In Makurdi, the Benue State capital and its environs alone, at least 110,000 people were sacked from their homes. The flood also washed away many roads and drains and cut off many inhabitants from the main town. In Kogi State, many parts of Lokoja, the state capital and the confluence of Rivers Niger and Benue were submerged.

The Benue flood, apart from being a natural disaster, was made worst by blocked drainage and the erection of buildings on drainage channels. People built houses on the flood plain of River Benue and also blocked drainage channels, thus preventing free flow of excess water from flowing into the River.

Hardest hit areas were Achuasa Media Village, Wadata Rice Mill, Behind Police Zone Four, Larozone Nyiman Quarters, Judges Quarters, Gboko Road, Logo, New Bank Road, Abu, Shuluwa Road and the neighbourhood of Radio Benue, where all the houses in the community, including the transmitter of the state-owned radio station, were submerged.

The lessons to learn from the Benue flood are many and varied. The indiscriminate building of houses along the flood plains and on storm water channels of rivers across the country must henceforth be checked. Evidence has shown that flooding is made worst by those who build houses and structures on the flood plains

of rivers and on drainage channels, thereby blocking the free flow of flood water.

In the Benue floods, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) response was quick just as it was quick in many of the other states. Temporary shelters were provided for flood victims while relief items such as clothing, beddings, food and water were provided Also, human life is very precious. No amount of money can equate with human life. Government must be prepared to provide for the security of every Nigerian anywhere within and outside the country. The rainy season is still around and flood prone areas of the country must always be prepared for flood , while NEMA must be prepared to reach any affected people with relief materials without delay.

In addition, accurate weather forecast is important to enable the government, NEMA and the people to prepare adequately for bad weather, the accompanying rains and floods. The country must use its satellites to accurately predict the weather. Nigeria must learn from the experience of the US where accurate weather forecast using satellite imagery has enabled that country to predict the arrival of violent hurricane storms and to cope with them.

Above all, urban and regional planning is important. All the major towns and cities in the country should be better planned than they are now. The issue of flood is a perennial one and there should be better response to distress calls from people whenever flood hits any place. In addition, every state should have its own state emergency management outfit to cater for people who are involved in flood disaster, or other emergencies and to liaise with NEMA whenever there is need for it.

Speaker, House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, signing condolence register in honour of Late Sen. Malam Ali Wakili in front of the Senate Chamber, National Assembly‌. on Tuesday

L-R: Chairman, Flour Mills of Nigeria Group, John Coumantaros and Governor of Kebbi State, Senator Abubakar Atiku Bagudu, during the commissioning of Sunti Sugar Estates, an FMN Group company in Niger State.

L-R: Front Row: Member, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), Pharm. Ramat Kuranga, Kwara State Chairman, PSN. Pharm. Bakau Alli, Kwara State Governor, Dr. Abdulfatah Ahmed, National President, PSN, Pharm. Ahmed Yakasai, and Secretary to the Kwara State Government, Alhaji Isiaka Gold during courtesy visit to the Governor by PSN. at Government House, Ilorin....Tuesday.

L-R: Permanent Secretary Ministry of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Muazu Abdulkadir; Deputy Head of Mission (Nigeria), Medicines Sans Frontieres, Dr. Simba Tirima; Head of Mission MSF, Philip Aruna: during the inauguration of the Local Organizing Committee for the 2nd International Conference on Lead Poisoning Associated with Artisanal Gold Mining in Nigeria, with Special Focus on Prevention in Abuja‌ on Tuesday.

News 14 2019: Okorocha’s kinsmen reject son in-law, say no to guber aspirant from Orlu zone Val Okara, Owerri

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of the 2019 gubernatorial election in Imo state, the Orlu Council of Elders, an apex body in the zone has restated that it would not support any gubernatorial candidate from the zone, stating that there must be equity and social harmony in the state.

Thé Council observed that by 2019 the zone would have completed 16 years in office through Chief Achike Udenwa and the incumbent Governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha and that charter of Equity signed by three zones must be respected.

Prof. Nathan Protus Uzoma, Secretary of the group on Tuesday stated this during a press briefing in Owerri, thé state capital, disclosed that the Orlu Elders Council headed by Prof. Francis Dike (SAN), had resolved after its general meeting last month that there must be equity and balance in the governance of the state.

He said that while the council recognises that it the constitutional right of every indigene to contest for the office of the Governor of the state, but that it is morally wrong for a zone that would be concluding 16 years in 2019 in governance of the state still be clamouring to occupy the same office beyond 2019. “ The Orlu Elders Council has made it abundantly clear that it will not support any gubernatorial candidate from Orlu in 2019 because of equity and social harmony in the state. By 2019 they would have ruled the state for 16 years and it would be wrong for the zone to be talking of producing another governor in 2019”.

According to him, a charter of equity in the state on how power is shared and that those who are saying that zoning is dead in the state are the same people who want the office of the President zoned to the South East in 2023. “ There is a charter of equity in the state which was signed by the three zones in the state on how political power is shared for there to be equity and social harmony in the state.

Daily Times Nigeria Wednesday, March 21, 2018

APGA’ll Sweep S/East 2019 –Senator Umeh Alphonsus Nweze, Awka

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Victor Umeh, representing Anambra South Senatorial zone in the Senate has rejected Inspector General (IG) ‘s directive that people including vigilant groups should return their firearms.

Umeh had some weeks ago on the floor of the Senate condemned the order by the IG for the surrender of firearms, saying that such a policy is tantamount to invitation of kidnappers and other criminal elements.

He maintained that

Anambra State as one of the federating states in the country has a law establishing local vigilante in the State.

Speaking in Awka shortly after the mass to celebrate the inauguration of Governor Willie Obiano’s second term in office, the former national Chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), said Anambra state is peaceful under the watch of Chief Obiano, so such policy is not necessary in Anambra state.

He said the retrieving of firearms will bring back kidnapping, armed rob-

bery and other criminal activities in the State.

Umeh peeped into the chances of his party in the forth coming general election, he said APGA will take over the leadership of all the eastern states of Nigeria in 2019.

Senator Umeh said APGA has put everything in place to defeat the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and its opposition counterpart the All Progressives Congress (APC), in the forthcoming general election in the zone.

“APGA, as a party, has continued to provide level playing ground for all its

members. We are fully prepared for the forthcoming elections by God Grace”, he said.

According to him, the achievements recorded so far by the administration of Governor Willie Obiano, in the area of agriculture, Security, education, prompt payment of workers’ salaries, youth empowerment among other related programmes in Anambra State, showed APGA will win the Governorship and legislative election in all the South eastern states of Enugu, Abia, Imo, Ebonyi and Anambra state.

He said: “We have continued to mobilise our people, especially those who are yet to join the APGA and we are getting positive results.

A lot of people are decamping to APGA, coupled with the obvious fact that our people are already fed up with the poor performance of PDP and APC. “So, expect APGA to sack PDP, APC in the forthcoming elections which will also herald the defeat of the parties in the region during the governorship, National Assembly and State House of Assembly elections come 2019”.

President of Chad, Idriss Deby (right) receiving Chairman of Dangote Foundation, Alhaji Aliko Dangote and the C-Chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Mr. Bill Gates, when the duo visited the Chadian president at his Presidential palace...recently

Lagos restates commitment to protection of consumers’ rights Benjamin Omoike ÏÏÏThe Lagos State Consumer Protection Agency (LASCOPA), has restated its commitment to the protection of consumers’ rights even as the Agency joined the rest of the world to celebrate the 2018 Consumer Rights Protection Day. The assurance to members of the public that the Agency is fully prepared to ensure that every resident of the state gets value for goods purchased and services rendered, was unequivocally and unanimously voiced by its top of-

ficials.

Chairman of the LASCOPA Board, Mrs. Funmi Falana, who gave the assurance while addressing pressmen, urged Lagosians to be aware of their rights to know when to seek redress or assistance from the Agency.

She said LASCOPA will continue to explore every means of creating adequate awareness about its activities and also enlighten the public through its Complaints and Mediation Directorate.

Falana disclosed that the establishment of the Agency confirms the state

government’s desire of maintaining international standards in the quality of goods and services that Lagosians purchase.

“I am sure that you are aware that Lagos state is always setting the pace with popular, masses-oriented policies and that is why we are joining our counterparts across the world today 15th of March to celebrate the annual Consumer Rights Protection Day as a way of telling members of the public that protection of their rights is of uttermost concern to the present administration in the state,” she said.

She advised members of the public who feel their rights have been infringed upon to take advantage of the open door policy of the Agency to lodge their complaints, stressing that the entire process of complaint to resolution is entirely free.

Earlier, during a sensitisation walk from Alausa Secretariat, Ikeja, to the Agency’s office at Allen Avenue, the General Manager of the Agency, Mrs. Oluwakemi Olugbode, explained that LASCOPA would cause offending companies or individuals to compensate consumers affected by the effects of

harmful products or services of such establishments.

Olugbode added that the Agency will also ensure replacement of hazardous products with safe ones and seek ways and means of eliminating hazardous products from Lagos markets in conjunction with other relevant stakeholders.

“As part of our responsibilities, we will periodically publish the list of products that are not safe for members of the public through the various mass media and will consequently advise members of the public not to buy such products,” she declared.

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Soyinka and Nigeria’s dinner with the devil

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REUBEN ABATI

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trying to make any difference in Nigeria is like having a dinner with the devil and to make any difference at all would require special table manners. The Nigerian environment is a sorry theatre of struggle and violence – physical, social and psychological between the forces of good and evil. Governments, the military, the police, and similar institutions, designed for public good have over the years signed up in the corner of the devil, with the oil boom and petrodollar imposing a level of greed that makes a grab, steal and destroy mentality the new morality. The people themselves, glad to have access to part of the oil largesse simply assume government would take care of morality.

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rofessor Wole Soyinka was keynote speaker at the maiden annual lecture of the Ripples Centre for Data and Investigative Journalism held in Lagos on March 15. Topic: “Rebuilding Trust in a Divided Nigeria: Can Nigeria be fixed?” The Nobel Laureate did not disappoint. His presentation titled “From Miyetti to Haiti: Notes from a Solidarity Visit” took us on a journey to Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, the United States, Nigeria also, and other parts of the world, including the past and the present, raising questions along the line about the humanity of the average Nigerian – the leaders, the followers - his or her humanity or non-humanity, the possession of a sense of dignity, shame, decency, memory, common sense, or lack of it, in comparison with conditions elsewhere.

Whereas other countries, classified along with Nigeria by Donald Trump, the loud-mouthed, twitter-obsessed American President as “shithole countries” and who may well fall under the same category with us as developing countries, may claim the right to feel insulted, Professor Soyinka asked his audience whether with the established mentality of enslavement, patterns of alienation between power and society, the distorted relationships within our communities, the failure of governance and the gross idiocy/shamelessness of the political elite and the moral turpitude of the Nigerian, whether indeed the Nigerian has earned the right to feel insulted or not to be insulted.

Can any Nigerian really rise to full height and ask Trump to shut the hell up, coming from a country as we do, where the leaders would rather be elsewhere when the people suffer: “I am not even obliged to be here”, they would rather say. Ours is a country where in a conflict between murderous Fulani herdsmen and defenceless farmers, the government’s response is to take sides with the aggressor, rather than check impunity and ensure that justice is done. The Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, the umbrella organization for Fulani cattle rearers actually, publicly admitted the title Fulani herdsmen, and so there is no point quibbling over that label, publicly stated as the right tag of identification by its very owners. Human lives invariably mean nothing to Nigerians. Our sensibilities have been inured by too much familiarity with tragedy.

Can Nigerians claim the right not to be insulted living as they do in a country where mass murder in fact, no longer means anything to political leaders- right after the slaughter of hundreds of persons or the abduction of young school girls, the leaders would rather troop to a wedding party. And when the main man manages to visit later, he gets a red carpet reception, and talks about sympathy.

“Who needs sympathy?”, Soyinka asked.

“What we are talking about is justice, evenhandedness, fairness”, the Nobel Laureate declared. These are obviously strange words to the constituted authorities of Nigeria. After all, one Minister had the audacity to declare that whoever has been killed by Fulani herdsmen has himself or herself to blame, for planting a farm or a house or even daring to stand, wait or engage in anything at all, including the intake of oxygen, along the cattle route that Fulani ancestors had carved out of Nigeria. Soyinka wondered what such a cruel person is still doing in the

Soyinka corridors of power.

But of course, to further strengthen the climate of fear in the land, any form of opposition or criticism has been branded “hate speech”. There is even a Bill to this effect in contemplation before the National Assembly. The prescribed punishment is “death by hanging” – this at a time when the rest of the world is trying to move away from the death penalty. The Bill may never become law but it is a whip to be held above the head of the populace, to enslave, intimidate and frighten the people. And so on and so on, Soyinka delivered one blow after another, painting at the same time, pictures, with anecdotes, humour, and references to particular personalities in Nigerian history, notably his life-long sparring partner, President Olusegun Obasanjo whom he once confronted over his famous “I am not obliged to be here” remark only to be told: “Kampala ti e niyen.” Soyinka had warned at the beginning of his presentation that the moment for introspection and frankness had come and he wanted the audience to “look in the mirror”. He practically held up that mirror; what the audience saw or remembered about their country was ugly and disconcerting.

Professor Soyinka soon took his leave.

I joined the Director of the Centre to see off our esteemed guest. As he stepped out of the venue, he was surrounded by a group of reporters and admirers who wanted selfies. One of them asked him to provide a quick summary of his keynote address. I thought that was an odd question. Was the reporter not at the event upstairs, did he not just exit the hall with us? One lady pulled at the Nobel Laureate’s shirt, determined to gain his attention.

“Yes, Prof. you have described everything happening in the country but what is the way forward?”

“Way forward?”, Soyinka asked “Yes. Way forward? What is your solution?”, she persisted “Way forward”, the Nobel Laureate repeated as if he wasn’t too sure. Then he answered: “Way forward? Just keep walking, you’ll find the way.”

I was pleased with that sarcastic response. It was obvious the reporter did not understand the presentation. Or may be she was fishing for a headline, or a tailor-made sound-bite. This is also a national predilection. Nigerians are very good at over-simplifying everything.

They like slogans, sound-bites, the same way they crave short-cuts even in matters that require the minimal use of the brain. Reporters these days are in a class of their own. When they invite you for an interview, don’t be surprised if they ask you for example: “Can we meet you?”

How? If you didn’t know who I am, why invite me for an interview?

The debate that followed at the event was of a different tenor, drawing heavily on the energy and excitement Professor Soyinka had infused the audience with.

A panel of three led the discussions. Dr.

Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi reviewed the crisis of governance in Nigeria and spoke about national unity and the urgent need for restructuring. Professor Pat Utomi, represented by Mr. Rasheed Adegbenro spoke about values in leadership, and offered a five-point plan including civic engagement, value re-orientation, civic participation, education, and a more positive role to be played by the Nigerian media. Mr. Peter Obi, former Governor of Anambra state focused on the failure of governance as the cumulative effect of years of neglect and omissions, the greed and indiscipline of the political elite and the bad politics Nigerians play, relying largely on his own experience as Governor.

Professor Soyinka had spoken for less than one hour, but the discussions went on for about three hours. Everyone had something to say. The event had mostly young people in attendance. As Nigeria enters yet another election season, most young Nigerians –many of whom have just attained the age of franchise since the last election, and frustrated by the travails of their country insist that they are determined to fix Nigeria.

It is not for nothing that more than 25 young Nigerians within the age bracket 35 -45, even when the age of qualification for the Nigerian Presidency is 40 want to be President in 2019. They include the publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, motivational speaker Fela Durotoye Adamu Garba, Ahmed Buhari, and so many others. The urgency of this task was obvious in the tone of the discussions. When Peter Obi urged that Nigerians should simply “take back their country”, more so as the line between governance and comedy had become blurred, and that it is not really a matter of age, but capacity, because many young people are in government already and have been part of the rot since the First Republic, the audience was ecstatic.

It was time to close the programme with Peter Obi responding to the last set of questions. But one young man wouldn’t have that. He suddenly jumped atop his seat, and raised his hand, towering above everyone and screaming that he must have a say or the programme would not end. Earlier, there had been actual struggle for the microphone, but this particular young man insisted he had found the solution to all of Nigeria’s problems. We had to allow him provide his earth-shaking, cure-all, solution. He ended up merely repeating what had already been said.

But can we really fix Nigeria? The consensus was that this is indeed possible. How? Look in the mirror and reflect. Education. Value reorientation.

Leadership recruitment. Restructuring.

Civic engagement. Media activism.

Take back our country! What of the people factor? Are we going to import a new set of Nigerians and value system after restructuring? Professor Soyinka had prefaced his keynote address with the presentation- what he called the in-

formal launch- of his latest book titled “The Road Map of a Nation: A Narrative of the First African Road Safety Corps (Ibadan: Bookcraft, 2018, 203 pp).” Like a teacher recommending further reading for his students, he had asked us to read the book, copies of which were on display at the venue. Being an obedient student, I complied. The preface to the book: “Table Manners for Dining with the Devil” is an excerpt from Soyinka’s You Must Set Forth At Dawn, there is an appendix titled “The Pyrates” - a commentary on the confraternity which Soyinka founded in 1953, but essentially the book tells the story of Nigeria’s Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), how it began, the challenges faced by the founder and his team of volunteers, the attempt by many forces including internal saboteurs, homicidal figures masquerading as drivers, suicidal passengers, koboko and sword-wielding soldiers, military leaders, Nigerian big men and corrupt elements who tried everything possible to frustrate the vision of the Road Safety Corps, from Oyo state to the national stage. This is a book to be read by all officers of the FRSC and the general reader as well. The FRSC is part of Soyinka’s legacy to Nigeria, his own way of giving back, and here he documents that legacy, and the pains of bringing it to fruition.

There are echoes in this narrative, of previous writings: The Road, From Zia with Love, A Play of Giants, Opera Wonyosi, and the recent A Personal Odyssey in The Republic of Liars (2005), making the book much more than a narrative on the FRSC but a further interrogation of the environment called Nigeria and particularly of the Nigerian character.

Is there something that can be called a Nigerian character? The setting for this interrogation is the road: the same road that lies famished, claiming lives due to reckless driving, robbing people of their lives prematurely, turning teachers at the time Soyinka was teaching at the then University of Ife, into perpetual mourners and the entire community an arena for endless mourning and condolences.

In the mid-70s, Soyinka had drawn up a blueprint for a Road Safety intervention, a volunteer, self-policing initiative which stepped in, to fill the vacuum created by a military and a police force that didn’t care about death on the roads or the odoriferous pile of cadavers that littered them.

But here is where the character issue begins: trying to make any difference in Nigeria is like having a dinner with the devil and to make any difference at all would require special table manners.

The Nigerian environment is a sorry theatre of struggle and violence – physical, social and psychological between the forces of good and evil. Governments, the military, the police, and similar institutions, designed for public good have over the years signed up in the corner of the devil, with the oil boom and petro-dollar imposing a level of greed that makes a grab, steal and destroy mentality the new morality. The people themselves, glad to have access to part of the oil largesse simply assume government would take care of morality.

The road map of Nigeria covered in this book is about the failure of government, institutions and even more so of individuals. A Third Force seeking to make a difference, starting with the roads, soon found itself attacked by the same persons whose lives it sought to save. Wole Soyinka tells the story in a way only he can. His table manner is to deal with the Nigerian pathology by preaching about it, teaching about it, offering advice, intervening where necessary and withdrawing when necessary, guided in all cases by the public good. He sees nothing wrong in direct intervention and in wielding the cudgel to crack the heads of agents of impunity no matter how highly placed.

This dinner with the devil in Nigeria is now in a worse shape: no longer a regular dinner, but a banquet! The forces of evil have seized the nation’s throat. But Soyinka can draw consolation from this: there are still a few good men in our community who are prepared to stand up to evil, even if their table manners may be notably different.

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Daily Times Nigeria Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Court dismisses suit seeking removal of Gov Bello Andrew Orolua, Abuja

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L-R: Kwara State Governor, Dr. Abdulfatah Ahmed, National President, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), Pharm. Ahmed Yakasai and Kwara State Chairman, PSN. Pharm. Bakau Alli during courtesy visit to the Governor by PSN at Government House, Ilorin.....Tuesday

Dickson rallies support for PDP national chair Secondus ÏÏÏ Governor Henry Se-

riake Dickson of Bayelsa state has again, called on all leaders of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) to support the Prince Uche Secondus - led National Working Committee (NWC) of the party to deliver on its mandate.

The Governor said, it is by so doing that, the PDP will be stronger and effectively lead a coalition to challenge the All Progressives Congress (APC) in

the 2019 general elections.

The Governor in a press statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Francis Ottah Agbo said, he will intensify consultations with party leaders across board, including those who have defected from the party with the view to bringing them ba ck.

Governor Dickson, who is also the Chairman of the PDP Standing Committee on Reconciliation said, now that a

new leadership has been put in place, what PDP Stakeholders and leaders owe the NWC is their unflinching support, for without that, the PDP cannot regain its lost glory.

While stressing that, Nigerians are waiting for the PDP to lead the charge to wrest power from the APC, the Governor said this generation and the unborn generation will not forgive the PDP leadership ‘’ if we

fail to work together to salvage the country.

He said: ‘’The PDP is not owned by any individual, it belongs to all Nigerians, so all of us should remain united under the umbrella. Let me reiterate my call on those who have left the party to return to the fold, for PDP remains home to all.

“Now that we have a new leadership led by the National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, I call on all leaders/ Stake-

holders, Youths and women of our great party to rally round the National Working Committee (NWC) of our great party, for it is by so doing that PDP will be stronger, it is by so doing that PDP can lead a broad-based coalition to regain power and salvage the country. Without the support and cooperation of party leaders/ Stakeholders, it will be difficult for PDP to realize its manifest destiny of salvaging Nigeria...’’

Buhari congratulates Russian President Putin, German Chancellor Merkel on re-election Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

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Muhammadu Buhari has extended his “sincere congratulations” to President Vladimir Putin of Russia and the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel on their victory in the recent presidential election in their different countries.

Buhari, on Tuesday, in a letter on behalf of himself, the government and

people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, said that Putin’s “success for the fourth time in the election is a clear testimony of the confidence” Russians have in his leadership.

He also urged his Russian counterpart to “see this victory as a base to continue to promote international peace and stability.”

President Buhari assured President Putin of “Nigeria’s commitment to

a stronger and mutually beneficial relation with the Russian Federation under your watch.”

He said he looked forward to continue working with the Russian leader to strengthen Nigeria’s defence, trade and technical partnerships as well as promotion of private sector participation in all sectors of our economies.

Meanwhile, President Buhari, in a letter to the German leader, said he

was “most delighted to learn of the successful conclusion of the inter-Party negotiations to form a new Government after the last election in Germany.”

Buhari told Chancellor Merkel that her victory “is a testimony of your hard-work, competence and trust of the German people, qualities which are much admired in many parts of the world especially here in Africa.”

Stressing that “We

greatly value your humanity and concern for refugees,” the Nigerian leader, on behalf of the Government and people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, wished his German counterpart and her new Cabinet, “a successful new term of office.”

According to President Buhari, “We look forward to greater cooperation between our two countries as we strive to confront shared challenges.”

John Tsoho of the Federal High Court Abuja on Tuesday dismissed a suit seeking the removal of Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state from office.

The suit marked FHC/ ABJ/CS/488/2017 was filed against Governor Bello by Michael Elokun, Ibrahim Sule and Mrs. Hauwa Audi as plaintiffs.

Other defendants in the suit were the All Progressives Congress, the People’s Democratic Party, the Independent National Electoral Commission, and the Attorney General of the Federation.

The plaintiffs had sought from the court in reliefs 5 and 7 of their said originating summons “an order seeking the return and immediate swearing in of the former Governor of Kogi state, Captain ldris Wada as Governor”.

Delivering judgement on the suit on Tuesday, Justice Tsoho sustained the objection of the 1st defendant that the plaintiffs had no locus standi to institute the suit.

The court noted that the plaintiffs were neither member of the APC nor aspirants in the primary election that ushered in the (1st defendant) Governor Bello as the flagbearer of the party in the governorship election.

More so, the court agreed with the 1st defendant that the plaintiffs were not the only electorate in Kogi state.

Furthermore, the presiding judge held that the subject matter of the suit was not within the jurisdiction of the court as it was not a pre-election matter.

The court stated that the suit was bound to fail because it was filed almost two years after the 1st defendant had been sworn in as a democratically elected governor of Kogi state.

Specifically, Justice Tsoho sustained the grounds of objection raised by the 1st defendant to the effect “that the court lacks the jurisdiction to adjudicate on matters outside the purview of Section 251 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) as the subject matter and reliefs sought by the plaintiffs in this suit are predicated on issues which only an Election Tribunal can exercise jurisdiction pursuant to Section 285(2) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria”.

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BON Hotels International to open a hospitality school in Nigeria

Lagos assembly sacks monarch, indicts commissioner

Mathew Dadiya and Oluchi Richard, Abuja

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its continuous effort to enhance and promote the hospitality industry in Nigeria and around the world, BON Hotels International and Dewdrop Institute have entered into partnership to establish a hospitality school in Nigeria so as to provide top quality services.

This has been part of their efforts to make a positive contribution towards tourism development and the growth of the hotel industry at large.

The Executive Director of the board for BON Hotel International West Africa (BHIWA), Bernard Cassar, announced on Tuesday that they plans were underway to open “a hotel school in Abuja early next year.”

Cassar who has been involved in Nigeria from 1998 and opened his first hotel in the region in 2001, recognised the necessity to adopt more formalised training.

BON Hotels International presently has 72 branches in nine African countries including Nigeria with 28 branches making it the country with the highest number of the branches across the continent.

In collaboration with Ike and Agatha Tosan, a prominent Nigerian couple with strong roots in the hospitality industry who share the group’s vision to localise, transform and uplift the local community, they are committed to creating a centre of learning for the betterment of Nigerians, tourism and the economy.

The early days saw man-

agement being sourced from South Africa or the UK, and staff members who showed potential were being fast-tracked through the ranks through focussed on-site training.

Speaking at the launch of the newly refurbished hotel, BON Hotel Abuja, Cassar said, “We saw the need to localise every aspect of management – from our board of directors right through to hotel management and staff - hence the dream to develop a legacy project that would provide decent, accredited hospitality and specialised service training, in a hands-on, working environment.”

Located in the capital city of Abuja, Dewdrop Hospitality Training Institution will be run as an operating hotel attached to lecture

rooms so that students will be simultaneously working and learning to achieve accredited diplomas and certification.

Plans are afoot to expand to other areas in Nigeria in order to make the offering more accessible.

Chairwoman, Dewdrop Institute, Agatha Nnaji’s belief in the human spirit and in the youth of Nigeria together with her passion and drive for the industry with a focus on tourism is the driving force behind this project, making this dream a reality.

Nnaji, a Managing Director/CEO OF Dewdrop Institute, expressed satisfaction with the development saying, “For me today marks the beginning of realizing the dream I have had for over a decades of establish-

ing a top quality hospitality management school with key industry stakeholders to empower our training, hard working youth and enable them to compete globally with peers.”

She said “Hospitality, industry includes roles in the hotels, food and beverage area and hotels compete favourably with the health and education sector as one of the three global employers of labour, including having the highest rates of female employment.

Nnaji believes that the hotel school will ensure the survival of the industry. “We, the family, want to make sure that we keep growing, that we remain part of a learning culture – that we develop a culture of service rather than subservience, that we add value

to Nigeria and cultivate a truly Nigerian entrepreneurial spirit.”

One of the many local Nigerians who have been fast-tracked through the group’s localisation policy, Paul Umoh, Executive Director and shareho lder at BHIWA, says that the challenge now will be in getting industry and Government on board.

“We urge all international hotel groups, suppliers and the service industry operating in Nigeria to add value to this school, to make it their own, to get involved, offer bursaries and their time localisation can no longer be ignored – instead of bringing in expatriates, we need to be sourcing, securing and nurturing staff from our local talent.”

R-L:Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Hon Abubakar Bawa Bwari; Permanent Secretary Ministry of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Muazu Abdulkadir; and Director Artisanal Small-Scale Mining (ASM), Patrick Ojeka; during the inauguration of the Local Organizing Committee for the 2nd International Conference on Lead Poisoning Associated with Artisanal Gold Mining in Nigeria, with Special Focus on Prevention in Abuja… on Tuesday.

Police arrest 8 suspected kidnappers in Taraba Tom Garba, Yola

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Taraba State Police command has arrested eight suspected kidnappers who have been terrorising the state and its neighbours.

The Commissioner of Police (CP), Mr. David Akinremi, made this known on Tuesday at the Command’s headquarters while briefing journalists in Jalingo.

He said the command’s anti kidnapping team had on Feb 22, arrested Jibrin Buba, Suleiman Ahmadu, Haruna Abdullahi and Usman Mohammed for threatening one Abdullahi Ahmadu with ab-

duction if he failed to keep the sum of N500,000 for them at a location in Ardo-kola area.

The commissioner said the sum of N70,000, being part of the ransom paid to the gang, was recovered from the suspects who confessed to committing the offence and other kidnapping offences in the area.

Similarly, Akinremi said, on March 9, one Ali Usman and Babaji Mohammed called one Alhaji Garba Mohammed of Tella town on phone and compelled him to pay to them a ransom of N300,000 or risk being kid-

napped.

He said the victim reluctantly agreed to pay the amount, but when the kidnappers went to collect the money, the police acting on a tip off, arrested them.

The CP said another kidnapping gang of Hassan Adamu and one Ibrahim, with eight others at large, had on March 1 stormed the resident of Fila Hussaini of Sunkani town; grabbed one Sunday Husseini at gun point and whisked him away.

Akinremi said the police trailed the kidnappers, arrested them and recovered a locally made revolver pistol

from them.

He said the State Intelligence Bureau had on March 10 raided a criminal hide out in Gassol area and arrested one Khalidu Bello who called one Emeka Okonkwo of Magami Ward in Jalingo, and threatened to kidnap him if he failed to pay Bello N2 million within 24 hours.

Meanwhile, the Taraba Police Command on Tuesday said it had arrested 15 persons for allegedly being involved in armed robbery, burglary and theft.

The Command’s Spokesman, Mr. David Misal (ASP) disclosed this to newsmen in

Jalingo.

He said 13 of the suspects led by one Usman Bello, were arrested on March 10 for conspiring and breaking a boutique owned by one Mercy Buba in Jalingo.

Misal said investigation had revealed that the syndicate broke into four shops in Mile Six, NTA and stadium areas in Jalingo over the last three months.

The spokesman said one Abdulrahman Ahmed was arrested on March 11 for stealing a motorcycle, while Nazibi Dayabu was arrested on March 14 for car snatching.

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has added about 1.4% to Nigeria’ Gross Domestic Product, totaling, $7.2bn to Nigeria’s economy, says Dr. Chidia Maduekwe, the Managing Director and Chief Executive of the Nigeria Film Corporation.

The Lagos State House of Assembly on Tuesday sacked Baale of Okeegun Ladeseso in Ibeju-Lekki local government area of the State, Mufutau Olamiji and ordered the Commissioner for Local Government and Community Affairs, Mr. Muslim Folami and Onibeju of Ibeju-Lekki, Rafiu Salami to ensure the order of the State House of Assembly is given effect by reversing the installation of Mufutau Olamiji as Bale of Okeegun Ladeseso, threatened that failure to comply would attract disciplinary action.

The sacking of the Baale followed the resolution of the House after adopting the report of the House Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights, Public Petitions and LASIEC on a petition titled, “Complaints Against the presentation of One Mufutau Olamiji as the Bale of Okeegun of Ibeju-Lekki Local Government Area of Lagos State.”

The Chairman of the Committee, Hon. Funmilayo Tejuoso had read a report over the chieftaincy tussle in Ibeju-Lekki between Ismaila Ogunkoya of Okeegun Odofin and Olajimi of Okeegun Ladeseso.

The report had noted that only Okeegun Odofin, Okeegun School were the genuine lineage but the Okeegun Ladeseso allegedly created by Onibeju and to which Olamiji laid claim was unknown in the original layout of Ibeju-Lekki.

Tejuoso had explained that Onibeju, Oba Salami fraudulently installed Olamiji who was his Personal Assistant as Bale of Aladeseso to override that of Ogunkoya who was seen as not being submissive to Onibeju.

The lawmaker further disclosed that the State Commissioner for local government and community affairs connived with Onibeju and also bypass Committee for Chieftaincy Affairs to install Olajimi. Adding that Folami also proceeded to the tribunal while the House committee was still conducting its findings despite given the order to stay action.

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2018 UTME: Parents threaten to sue JAMB Stories by Augustine Okezie, Abuja

Some aggrieved parents of the candidates who sat for the on-going Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) are threatening to drag the board to court following lots of complaints that characterised the exercise and the mal-functioning of the technical facilities deployed at some CBT centres in Katsina State which caused candidates to continue the examina-

Katsina Poly rector tasks new students on good conduct The Rector of Katsina State owned Hassan Usman Katsina Polytechnic, Dr. Ibrahim Murdi Kurfi, has admonished newly admitted students of the institution during 2017/2018 matriculation ceremony numbering about 7000, to be of good behaviour and to strive for excellence in all their endeavours.

The Rector, who was speaking during the 2017/2018 matriculation ceremony, also informed the gathering that the institution has been placing prominent positions during the National Expos for Technical institutions in the country, and would wish the newly admitted students to contribute in maintaining the standard in all competitions.

On the accreditation of course programmes run by the polytechnic, the rector disclosed that arrangements has been concluded with Federal University of Technology Minna, Niger State, to introduce Bachelors’ Degree in Education, and that the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) as well as the Board for Technical Education (NBTE0, are set to accredit several courses.

He said: ‘’I’m happy to inform you that the polytechnic is recording high turnout of students’ intake simply because of the standard image of the institution in the eyes of the general public and the qualities of the certificates given. From our records, the Polytechnic has a total number of over seven thousand students both on and off campus’’.

The Rector further commended the state government for always ensuring adequate funding of the institution. He described the support from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) as most invaluable and a gesture that cannot go unnoticed.

tion, with only 20 minutes left for the submission of the papers.

Investigation by The Daily Times revealed that centres that were hardest hit by loads of technical deficiencies which led to last minutes changing of examination centres and cancellation of others include: The Dialogue Computer Institute, AL-Qalam, Barda International School and Umaru Musa Yar’Adua University, all within the Katsina metropolis.

At AL-Qalam University, there were cases of mal- functioning of the cyber system thereby causing most candidates to wait for hours before

the situation could be rectified and writing their papers only with 20 minutes remaining for submission.

At Barda International School, the system kept fluctuating in the examination hall, as candidates were held up until the systems got restored eventually, but the remaining time according to them, was insufficient for them to write anything meaningful.

A visibly angry parent, who accompanied her daughter to the centre and who doesn’t want to be named, said she was afraid her daughter may not pass the examina-

tion as she wasn’t given sufficient time to write the paper due to the failure of the server.

She said: ’’We may have to find a way to force JAMB to repeat this exercise, even if it involves going to court, because it’s no fault of ours that the equipment weren’t functioning’’.

Another parent, who simply identified himself as Alhaji Mohammed whose ward wrote at the Barda International School, said that he had already lodged a complaint with the state zonal coordinator of JAMB. When contacted through the

telephone for her reaction to these complaints from the parents and candidates, the state Coordinator for JAMB, Hajara Tambari, admitted experiencing technical hitches at the early stages of the examination in some centres, especially system failure which delayed the examination particularly in Al-Qalam University centre on Friday March 8, 2018.

She said: ’’We are making sure things run smoothly and ensure a hitch free examination. Yes we had technical challenges but they are being addressed’’.

Cross section of matriculating students of Anchor University, owned by Deeper Life Church during their matriculation ceremony

VC decries cultism, immoral conducts amongst students Vice Chancellor of Federal University, DutsinMA, Katsina State, Professor A. H Bichi, has decried the increasing practices of cultism and immoral conducts amongst staff and students of the institution, warning that they should desist from such acts and other social vices as it may damage their future and affect their academic growth.

The Vice Chancellor, who made the observation in a welcome address, he presented at the just concluded 2018 National Universities Commission (NUC), Parastatals’ Servicom Committee meeting hosted by the university, said the university management will not tolerate acts of indiscipline and wanting behaviour

amongst students and staff.

He said ‘’the management will always frown at any act of indiscipline amongst staff and students, and will not hesitate to punish such misconducts.

Students are encouraged to bring their complains through the focal officer in the Servicom unit of the school with the assurance that they will receive prompt attention’’.

Also while presenting one of the lead papers at the meeting, former focal Officer of the Servicom unit of the Federal University, Dutsin-MA, Professor Aminu Dalha Kankia, condemned what he called fallen standard of ethical values in Nigerian universities, arguing that the development portends bad omen both to Nigeria’s

education and the society in general.

Professor Kankia, whose paper titled, ‘’Work ethics in the Nigerian University System: Implications for staff and students’’, examined the consequences of such declining standards, and further maintained that that the management of every university’s organisational focus must be consistent with generally acceptable ethics and values.

He urged staff and students to be guided by ethical values, good conduct and moral behaviour and compliance to acceptable norms.

He said ’’several social vices are very rampant in most varsities, whereas ethics which constitutes set of rules, val-

ues, discipline and integrity amongst staff and students are vastly on the decline’’.

Also speaking in a paper titled ’’Effective service delivery, a cure to illegal association and cultism’’, the chairman, NUC Public Service Committee on Servicom, Mr. Adewale Bakare, urged the students to always channel their complaints through the focal officer Servicom and to feel free to seek counseling on any issue threatening their academic careers.

He noted that frequent interactions between students and Servicom officers will go a long way in guiding the students from secret cult membership.

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VC’s succession rocks Federal varsity Dutsin-MA Augustine Okezie,Abuja The newly established Federal University, Dutsin-MA in Katsina State is currently engulfed in Vice Chancellor’s succession crisis since the university’s governing council announced the termination of the appointment of Professor Abdu Kaita as the Acting Vice Chancellor early February 2017 and replacing him with Professor Armaya’u

Bichi also in an acting capacity.

The decision by the council however did not go down well with Professor Kaita as he dragged the governing council of the institution to the Federal Industrial Court in Kano and obtained an injunction restraining it from appointing a substantive Vice Chancellor.

Investigation by The Daily Times revealed that the varsity is presently at crossroads over a new Vice Chancellor as the pro-

cess leading to the appointment has been stalled by the court order with the acting appointment of Professor Bichi due to expire April this year.

The university’s Public Relations Officer, Comrade Yahaya Salisu, told The Daily Times that in the worst case scenario, the council may extend Bichi’s tenure for another 6 months, pending the dispensation of the case instituted

by Professor Kaita who has since

returned to his teaching Job at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

He further pointed out that there might not be any hitch in the renewal of the appointment of Professor Bichi since he had exhibited remarkable progresses through purposeful leadership and commitment to duty Regulatory agencies including the Federal Ministry of Education and the National Universities Commission (NUC) are yet to issue

a statement, as the controversy still lingers.

Meanwhile, the university authorities have started recalling about 250 members of staff whose appointment were terminated by the former Acting Vice Chancellor, Professor Abdu Kaita.

A statement from the Public Relations Office also stated that the recalled staff will be paid their entitlements.

Author offers panacea to child sexual abuse in schools, society Esther Taiwo Having being a survivor of child sexual abuse herself, Mrs. Eky Nwokoro, an author and founder of Balm of Gilead Resource Centre, recently launched a Book titled, ‘How To Prevent Child Sexual Abuse’.

The Book which was launched at Sheraton Hotel, Lagos, explores different cases of child sexual abuse and offers panacea to the menace.

According to the author, the decision to write the book became necessary because of the endemic nature child sexual abuse has assumed in the society, adding that the book is a testament of her unending fight against child molestation and sexual abuse.

She said according to World Health Organisation, Child Abuse refers to all forms of physical and emotional ill-treatment, sexual abuse, neglect and exploitation that results in actual or potential harm to the child’s health, development or dignity.

“This book provides insight and enlightens the readers about the prevalence and dangers of child sexual abuse. I tried to examine the impact of child sexual abuse on the victims, their families and the society at large and offers hope for families who have been affected”, she said.

Nwokoro also suggested that one of the ways for school administrators to avoid child sexual abuse in their schools is to have proper check on the teacher, have proper information about their background and know the reason why he/ she leaves the former school to detect probably he was sacked for same reason.

“There is the need to educate children to know that there is what is statutorily called private parts and why they are termed, so that they will know that no other person has the right to touch them, also parents should befriend their chil-

dren so that they will easily tell them what has been happening to them, parents should not shun their children when they are complaining to them so that they can take necessary action immediately”, she said.

On the issue of peer group pressure, she said it is the duty of parents to edit the type of friends their children keep, invite them friends to their homes so as to know the kind of friends their children are keeping.

“The job of a teacher is next to that of a pastor. The person that should be recruited into teaching should not be judged based on paper certificate qualification but someone found to be morally sound and also school management should do a background check of the person to avoid employing questionable characters as teachers or staff in their schools”, she said.

Chairman of the event, Dr. Uche Ogah, said people need to be informed, adding that most parents, guardians and care givers are not informed and that is why child sexual abuse is becoming prevalent in the society, thus the need for such books to be written by someone who has gone through the same experience before.

“We need to watch out for our children. Information will make parents to be at alert and anybody can be a victim, the fact from research shows that over 90 percent of abusers are people known to the child, they are not strangers and anybody can be a suspect”, he said.

Some of the signs provided by the book include physical signs of pains or when a child suddenly becomes withdrawn or gets very close to a particular adult wanting to be with him/ her always, gets scared of an adult and does not want to move close to him/her.

“Don’t get paranoid, be empowered and equipped with the right information, let us explore ways through which we can rid our society of this deadly virus”, Mrs. Nwokoro said.

Some staff of JSP Communications and some members of African Blind Restoration Foundation (ABRF) during the presentation of food items to the Bethesda Home of The Blind, Mushin, Lagos...recently

JSP, African Blind Foundation launch food, love programme at Blind school JSP Communications, one of Nigerian’s leading Public Relations agencies, has teamed up with the African Blind & Restoration Foundation to commence a long term food support programme for the Bethesda Home of the Blind, Mushin, Lagos.

The programme was specially launched in February, the month of love. The first round of food supplies was formally presented to the blind school at a well-attended ceremony.

Under the Food & Love programme, JSP will arrange a steady supply of essential foods through the African Blind Foundation to the Bethesda Home of the Blind at periodic intervals. This will ensure the food and nourishment needs of the blind students in the school are met to a large extent.

Speaking at the food presentation event, JSP Executive Director, Ronke Adebule, stated that there could be no better time than now to make this love offering.

“We are highly impressed that the blind students at Bethsaida have approached life with

great faith, confidence and optimism despite their obvious challenges,”she added.

Steve Ajayi, the Programmes Manager of the African Blind and Restoration Foundation, pointed out that the Foundation has remained in the forefront of providing moral, educational financial and vocational support to Nigerians living with blindness.

Commenting, the Foundation Advisory Board member, Mr. Michael Fadeyi, said: “We are starting this love and food programme at Bethsaida blind school because of the huge needs here. We plan to extend the programme to other centres for the blind. We hope more good hearted Nigerians and organisations will emulate JSP and join us in this campaign and give concrete support and hope to the blind and needy.”

The Founder and Administrator of Bethesda Home of The Blind, Mrs. Chioma Ohakwe, applauded both organisations for their support and encouragement.

She remarked that the African Blind Foundation is not just

paying lip service to helping the blind.

“They just don’t talk. They are taking specific actions. We are most delighted and grateful that the Foundation chose our centre to launch this great initiative of food and love. The Foundation has provided us in the past with essential school supplies and also offered university scholarships to some of our students,” she said.

Ohakwe used the occasion to announce that some of their students recently gained admission into top universities in Nigeria.

The Bethesda Home of the Blind (BHB) is a voluntary and non-profit making boarding school for the visually-impaired in the society. It focuses on providing specialized secondary school education for young blind students, preparing them for the JAMB exams and helping to get them into universities.

The students are also offered other vocational skills, home management skills and motivational life lessons, to give them all round preparations for life.

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Fuel scarcity: Queues disappear in Port Harcourt filling stations and environs Memoye Oghu, Port Harcourt

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spite of the fact that Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly known as petrol and which is also the livewire of economic activities in the country is surplus in Port Harcourt and its environs, the product is still being dispensed above the official pump price of N145 per litre in the state capital.

Our correspondent who went round some filling stations in the city observed that while major marketers like NNPC Mega stations and their accredited outlets, Total and others sell at the official pump price, gas stations owned by Independent marketers still sell above the approved N145 per litre.

Some of them sell between N160 and N180 per litre. A manager of one of the stations, Palflox along

the new Airforce road in Port Harcourt who gave his name simply as Emeka told our correspondent that they sell their products according to how they purchased at the Independent Marketers depots.

Although, the price of fuel is still high in some of the stations visited, our correspondent observed that there were no more queues at all as motorists don’t spend up to five minutes to

fill their tanks in all filling stations in the city.

The Head of Downstream department of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) in Port Harcourt was not available for comments when the Daily Times visited. However, a highly reliable source informed us that all filling stations in the state would soon level up with the official pump price because the product was now in abundance in the state.

According to the source who did not want name in print, “yesterday (Monday), we got 102 trucks as against 20 per day last week. If we get the same again today, then everywhere will be wet. That is, every station in the state would have the product in excess and the price would be forced down to the approved pump price.”

The source, which said that fuel would be in abundance in the state also ap-

pealed to motorists and other users of petroleum products in the state to avoid panic buying and to report any erring station to the department for necessary actions.

It would be recalled that the DPR had, two weeks ago, in the course of its monitoring exercise sealed up about five filling stations in the state capital for under-dispensing of the product and selling above the official pump price.

2019: NULGE endorses Ugwuanyi for second term, seeks LG autonomy Charles Onyekwere, Abakaliki

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Enugu state chapter of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, (NULGE), Tuesday, endorsed Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi as their sole candidate for the 2019 governorship election in the state.

NULGE workers finalised Ugwuanyi’s endorsement at a mega rally held in solidarity for the Governor at the Michael Okpara Square Enugu. The council workers stated that Ugwuanyi had wiped away their tears.

The workers at the rally appealed to the Governor and members of the Enugu State House of Assembly to firmly support the controversial local government autonomy in the country.

The NULGE president, Enugu state, Comrade Kenneth Ugwuanyi in his speech, said the Governor had within his three years in office changed the story of local government workers from that of woes to songs of joy.

His position was also re-echoed by the National President of NULGE, Comrade Ibrahim Khaleel who was also at the rally.

Ugwueze said the endorsement of the Governor came after the mandate was endorsed by the council workers in the 17 local government areas of the State owing to Ugwuanyi’s special attention to workers.

He said: “You Excellency, the workers in Enugu State have converged here today to say thank you to the Governor who has wiped away our tears.

“You have demonstrated democracy and good governance at work in all areas. This is manifest in your transparency, rule of law, health, inclusiveness, service delivery, which are all manifest in your leadership style and also endeared you to the good people of Enugu State.

“We commend you for the paradigm shift in

the government labour relationship which has created a peaceful industrial atmosphere in Enugu State, which has made you to the friendliest governor.

“You have achieved this through payment of outstanding arrears of salary ranging from one to 15 months, payment of arrears of leave allowance ranging from one year to 7 years, four months areas of pensions, commencement of payment of gratuities to local government retirees after 16 years of its non-payment and making the payment of salary a first line charge of your administration.”

He added that the Governor had also approved “for the full improvement of the national scheme of service for the local government workers in the state, approval of the conduct and release of outstanding promotions, payment of 13 month Christmas bonus to the local government workers in the State, the first of its kind since the creation of Enugu State.

“We appreciate you immensely for the payment of pension arrears and gratuities that was paid last in 2011; through the Paris Club Refund, those retired in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 were paid their gratuities amidst jubilation.

“There is also massive infrastructural development of both urban and rural communities in the State, positive transformation in the areas of agriculture, health sector, education, and other areas of governance which has to a great measure improved the quality of life among the good citizens of the State.

“We congratulate you for the conduct of the most peaceful local government election in the State last year, which has brought in a democratically elected government at the grassroots; the outcome of the election has ushered in executive chairmen who have a clear vision of bringing democracy dividends and extending the gesture of the governor.

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Adekunle Ajasin Varsity: Akeredolu begins consultation over hike in tuition fee ‘Tosin Ajuwon, Akure.

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The Ondo state government led by Governor Rotimi Akeredolu has commenced the process for the upward review of tuition fees being paid by students of Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba Akoko (AAUA) despite resistant against the decision.

Daily Times learnt that the members of the governing board of the state owned institution have begun to hold “consultation meeting” for the hike in the tuition by sampling opinions of the stakeholders.

Governor Akeredolu had on March 13th, 2018 inaugurated a new governing council for the

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During the inauguration, Akeredolu had again reiterated his decision of “no going back” on the increase in the tuition fees noting that, what was currently being paid in the school could only buy a pair of shoe.

The governor had also charged the Pro Chancellor not to entertain fears but be bold enough to make recommendations for the upward review of the school fees.

“What we pay as tuition can only buy a pair of shoe. The council members should look at it critically and advise

us right.

“There is no other place in the South West where they pay meager tuition but People don’t want to hear it but we will say it, we are elected to take decision, and that decision we will take”.

The Governing Council through the Pro Chancellor, Dr. Abayomi had met with Students Union leaders of the Adekunle Ajasin University over the plan in the hike of their tuition fee.

Ijanusi Olawale, the Students Union President told journalists through a short message that the meeting was held behind closed door, and lasted five hours.

Comrade Olawale also

said during the meeting there was long-term discussion and arguments on the reasons why the state governor should rescind its decision on hiking the tuition fee.

“We were made to realize in the meeting, that the governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, only entertains a proposition of a minimum of N200,000k which we (the students’ union leaders) frankly disagreed with.

“A lot of time passed as we engaged in arguments and analysis of reasons why the state government should continue its good deed in maintaining the present affordable amount paid by the students of the university.

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I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MBELE DANIELONYEMA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ONYEZE DANIEL- ONYEMA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS OKEAGU

MRS ODOGWU NKECHI

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS AKUJOBI UCHECHI NGOZICHUKWUKA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OKEAGU UCHECHI NGOZICHUKWUKA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. NYSC AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ONU NKECHI PERPETUAL, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ODOGWU NKECHI PERPETUAL. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. NYSC AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CHIDIUME CHIAGOZIE

CHIDIUME NWADIOGWA

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

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

MRS NNAJI

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS NNADI CHIDERA JANE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS NNAJI CHIDERA JANE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. NYSC AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OCHI

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ANIEKWE GOODNESS IJEOMA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OCHI GOODNESS IJEOMA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS EUGENIA

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

MRS ADINE

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

MRS CHIMELU

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS UCHE MAUREEN CHIZOBA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS CHIMELU MAUREEN CHIZOBA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

EZEOGWO

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

NWOBODO

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWOBODO PETER CHUKWUEMEKA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWOBODO JAMES CHIDIOGO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS UZUEGBUNAM

MRS NWACHUKWU

SYLVIA

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

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS CHUKWULO CHIDIMMA STELLA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS NWACHUKWU CHIDIMMA STELLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SYLVIA IHEGADI IVOKO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SYLVIA IHEGADI NDUBUISI-IKE . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

Change of Names 21 AWOLAJA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AWOLAJA SHOL, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AWOLAJA ATINUSHOLA ABIGALI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

HARRIETH

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS HARRIETH OKORO, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS HARRIETH OGUGOR. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

UCHE BRIDGET

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

MISS CHIBUOGWU I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. CHIBUOGWU NNAEDU KPATINKPO, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS CHIBUOGWU BESS NNAEDU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OKOLIE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKAFOR CHINECHEREM FRANCISCA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKOLIE CHINECHEREM FRANCISCA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS NNAMANI

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS NNAJI NKECHI JULIANA . NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS NNAMANI NKECHI JULIANA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE..

SAMUEL CHINAZA

OLOWOLABAYAKI

SULAIMON

MRS EMERIBE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, CHUKWUMA AMANZE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, SAMUEL CHINAZA PRINCE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ALICE OSELAYO FISAYOMI. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLOWOLABAYAKI ALICE OSELAYO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SHITU SERIFAT, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SULAIMON SERIFAT. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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

MRS INEME

NDULUE NKIRUKA

MRS. NGBOR

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, NDULUE NKIRUKA CHIKAODILI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, NDULUE NKIRUKA FLORENCE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, MISS. NEKABARI SIRAMENE TEEH, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, MRS. NGBOR SIRAMENE TEEH. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

EMEKA RICHARD

CORRECTION OF NAME/ DATE OF BIRTH

OGUNBIADE ADEBOLA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EZEANA FESTUS AFAMEFUNE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EMEKA RICHARD. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

THAT ON MY BANK ACCOUNT AND MY VOTER’S CARD, MY NAME WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AS ADEYENI FIKAYO ABIODUN AND ADEYEMU HAKEEM ABIODUN INSTEAD OF ADEYEMO HAKEEM ABIODUN. DATE OF BIRTH WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AS 11/11/1986. INSTEAD OF 11/11/1985.WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEYEMO HAKEEM ABIODUN. GENERAL PUBLIC NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS DOPAMU ADEBOLA BILIKISU NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGUNBIADE ADEBOLA BILIKISU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, OTOKO INEME GRAHAM, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, MRS. INEME AMININIM BATUBO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

GIDEON GODWIN I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, TOM GODWIN NSIKAN, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, GIDEON GODWIN NSIKAN TOM. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

BULUS SIMON

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AYUBA USMAN SIMON, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BULUS SIMON YAHI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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

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

JUDE AMAKA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NNAMANI AMAKA PRECIOUS, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JUDE AMAKA PRECIOUS. MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 15/4/1992. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

UMETIETIE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UMETIETIE AUGUSTINE ORITSETUOYO, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UMETIETIE ALEXANDER AUGUSTINE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS AKAOLISA I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OCHIAGHA CHINYERE VERONICA., NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS AKAOLISA JANE CHINYERE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS FRANCISCA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS FRANCISCA EKWUTOSI OKOYE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS FRANCISCA EKWUTOSI IBEZIM. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS ONWUKA

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

KENNETH

I, KENNETH CHUKU, AND AGBURUHUO CHUKU, REFER TO ONE AND SAME PERSON BUT, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, KENNETH AGBURUHUO CHUKU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE. CHANGE OF NAME AND DATE OF BIRTH I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS. MERCY OLADAPO. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. DANIEL MERCY OLADAPO. CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH,15TH AUGUST, 1975. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS OTASOWIE

I FORMALLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AIGBE OTASOWIE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OTASOWIE AIRIOHUODION.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID,GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OKAFOR

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGUEJIOFOR LINDA ADAEZE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKAFOR LINDA ADAEZE ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

AKUBUKO

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKOYE NKEMDILIM FAVOUR, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AKUBUKO NKEMDILIM FAVOUR. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS UMETIETIE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS IWENEKHA DORCAS JOAN, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS UMETIETIE DORCAS JOAN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS IGWE

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

EZEH CHIAMAKA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EBERE AMAKA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EZEH CHIAMAKA LOVETH. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS AGBO

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ANIKWE NGOZIKA RACHEAL NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS AGBO NGOZIKA RACHEAL. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ANTHONY PRISCILLA I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, CHINWE AKANOLO, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, ANTHONY PRISCILLA AKAROLO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

OPESAYA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHRISTIANA ALPAN,NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OPESAYA TAWAKALITU OMOLAFE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CHINYERE ROY

OLULADE ABEL

OLULADE BEATRICE

IBRAHIM DAMILOLA

LOVE SINATU

MRS STELLA EDET

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AGBAKURUCHUKWU CHINYERE ONYENOBI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHINYERE ROY LAWRENCE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OJELADE ABEL OLUDELE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLULADE ABEL OLUDELE . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEKOAJO BEATRICE OLAIDE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLULADE BEATRICE OLAIDE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE

I FORMERLY KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS OKEDEYI DAMILOLA AFUSAT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS IBRAHIM DAMILOLA AFUSAT. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS BELLO ABEBI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS LOVE SINATU BEBI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS STELLA CORINTH UDOFIA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS STELLA EDET OKU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. THE GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

22 Companies Registration HOME OF GOD VINEYARD MISSION THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART ‘C’ OF THE COMPANIES & ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1990.

TRUSTEES ARE 1.RT REV. JAMES FRIDAY EGBE JP - PRESIDENT 2.PASTOR STELLA JAMES F. EGBE - VICE PRESIDENT 3.PASTOR IKOKO W. AWAJI - SECRETARY 4.ENGR. PRECIOUS ERADIRI - MEN’S LEADER 5.HRH MATTHIAS STANLEY IKWUT - MEMBER 6.DEACON ETIM EKING - FIN. SECRETARY 7.DEACON EMEKA ANOSIKE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 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,PMB.198,G ARKI,ABUJA WITHIN TWENTY EIGHT (28) DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION.

MIGHTY KING OF GLORY MINISTRY THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART ‘C’ OF THE COMPANIES & ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1990.

TRUSTEES ARE 1.PASTOR SHEDRACK EBIOGBO KOROYE - CHAIRMAN 2.NGOZI UZUNMA KOROYE - SECRETARY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES TO PREACH THE WORD 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,PMB.198,GARKI,ABUJA WITHIN TWENTY EIGHT (28) DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: PRESIDENT

SIGNED CHAIRMAN

DOMINION SPORTS CLUB

OKIJA YOUTH ASSEMBLY

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE:1. NWACHUKWU EMEKA HENRY (CHAIRMAN) 2. EGWURUGWU DOMINION 3. NWOKOMA VALENTINE OGOCHUKWU ( SECRETARY) THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE:1. SCOUT FOR TALENTED SPORTS MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND HELP THEM DEVELOP THEIR SPORTS CAREERS. 2. PROMOTE THE PHYSICAL, MENTAL, SOCIAL AND ACADEMIC LIFE OF GIFTED SPORTS MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN TO ENABLE THEM ATTAIN THEIR GOALS IN LIKE 3.TO INCULCATE AND PROMOTE SOUND ETHIC, VALUES, AND SPORTSMANSHIP IN PEOPLE ENGAGED IN SPORTS. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THE PUBLICATION. SIGNED BY: SECRETARY

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

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. WACHUKU ASANATH EWEA - PRESIDENT 2. WACHUKU CHINWENWO SARAH - SECRETARY 3. ORIANU KINGSLEY 4. MOKWENYE HELEN NKEM AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE WORD OF GOD 2. TO WIN SOULS FOR THE KINGDOM 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. SIGNED: WACHUKU ASANATH EWEA (PRESIDENT)

CEDAR COMFORT CARE INITIATIVE

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

TRUSTEES: 1. MRS LAIDE LATINWO 2. MR BANLOLE LATINWO AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO DEAL WITH EMOTIONAL HEALTH ISSUES COVERING AREAS SUCH AS ANGER MANAGEMENT .

2. TO FACILITATE AND ENCOURAGE MEASURES THAT WILL OFFER HOPE AND MAKE LIFE MEANINGFUL FOR UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

NEW DYNAMIC YOUTH COMPATRIOTS FOR VALUES RE ORIENTATION 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 TRUSTEES: 1. MR TOYIN OLUWAGBEMI JACOBS 2. MR. AMBO EKPEYONG. 3. MRS GRACE UTIUNG 4. MRS VICTORIA AGBA 5. PROF MRS FRANCES OBAFEMI AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO SUPPORT. PROMOTE AND INCULCATE CHERISHED VALUES IN THE YOUTHS. 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

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE:(1) NNAKA VITUS EMMANUEL - CHAIRMAN (2) UDEMADU CHIBUZOR EMMANUEL - SECRETARY 3. ONWUDIEGWU EZE JUDE - MEMBER 4. NWAZULUAHU ONYEBUCHI - MEMBER 5. JOSEH ECHEZONA DANIEL - MEMBER 6. EZE SUNDAY ARINZE -MEMBER 7. ONYEAKUSI ARINZE NORBERT -MEMBER THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE:1. TO FOSTER LOVE AND UNITY AMONG MEMBERS 2.TO ASSIST THE LESS PRIVILEGED IN THE SOCIETY 3.TO RENDER, SELFLESS SERVICE AMONG INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS 4.TO DISSEMINATION USEFUL INFORMATION AMONG MEMBERS ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THE PUBLICATION. SIGNED BY: SECRETARY

DE UNIQUE BROTHERS CLUB OF NIGERIA

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ONUOHA NNAEMEKA CHRISTIAN 2. JIBULU UCHENNA AUGUSTINE 3. CHUKWUMA OLISA DESMOND 4. UGWU MMADUABUCHI AIMS AND OBJECTIVES (1) TO FOSTER UNITY AMONG MEMBERS (2) TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF MEMBERS (3) TO HELP THE PRIVILEGED. (4) TO LIAISE WITH OTHER CLUBS WITH SIMILAR OBJECTIVES.

MADUABUCHUKWU IKECHUKWU OHAEGBU

FAJUYITAN BOLADE DAMOLA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IKECHUKWU BRENDAN MADUABUCHUKWU OHAEGBU NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IYKE BRENDAN MADUABUCHUKWU IKECHUKWU OHAEGBU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FAJUYITAN BOLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FAJUYITAN BOLADE DAMOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

CHANGE OF NAME AND DATE OF BIRTH

ADAMA IKWUJE PATRICK BLESSING

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BELLO ADEJUMOKE MORUFAT, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADELABU JUMOKE MORUFAT. OLD DATE OF BIRTH 5/5/1971, NEW DATE 5/5/1978. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IKWUJE PATRICK BLESSING NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADAMA IKWUJE PATRICK BLESSING. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, ABU ZARIA AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

NEW GENERATION EMPOWERMENT AND POVERTY REDUCTION ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA THIS IS TO NOTIFY THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED ASSOCIATION 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.

OBASI IZUCHUKWU KINGSLEY 2.

OBASI CHINWENDU IJEOMA 3.

OSUAGWU CLEMENTINA ADAURE

CHAIRMAN SECRETARY

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.

TO EMPOWER THE PEOPLE THROUGH SKILLS ACQUISITION, ENLIGHTENMENT AND OTHER LAWFUL WAYS OF REDUCING POVERTY ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI, STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

MACGREGOR HERITAGE FOUNDATION

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

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE:(1) MACGREGOR OLUSEGUN ALEXANDER - CHAIRMAN 2). MACGREGOR ALEXANDER - TRUSTEE 3). MACGREGOR CHRISTIANA UROLI - SECRETARY 4). MACGREGOR MOTUNRAYO OLABISI - TRUSTEE 5). MACGREGOR-ITEGBE ADEDOLAPO MICHELLE - TRUSTEE THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE:1.TO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT AND FUNDING FOR EDUCATION AT PRIMARY SCHOOL LEVEL TO IDENTIFIED IMPOVERISHED FAMILIES AND CANDIDATES. 2.TO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT AND FUNDING AT SECONDARY SCHOOL LEVEL TO IDENTIFIED TALENTED CANDIDATES FROM IMPOVERISHED FAMILIES. 3.TO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT AND FUNDING FOR EDUCATION AT TERTIARY LEVEL TO QUALIFIED ACADEMICALLY ASTUTE AND TALENTED CANDIDATES IN AREAS OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND JOURNALISM. 4.TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR RESEARCH IN TRADITIONAL HISTORY, SOCIOLOGY AND POLITICAL GOVERNANCE. 5.TO ESTABLISH LEGACY SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE. 6.TO ESTABLISH FUND RAISING ACTIVITIES AND VENTURES IN SUPPORT OF THE FOUNDATION GOALS AND OBJECTIVES. 7.TO SUPPORT CROSS CULTURAL EDUCATION AND DIASPORA RELATIONS. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THE PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: BARR.IBEHOGECHUKWU O.N

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

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MR. CAPPA OCHE-E OLUJI - CHAIRMAN 2. FORTUNE SALOKA NYIMEOBARI - SECRETARY 3. TEMPLE EDNA LALE (MRS) 4. ISAIAH OBELE CHU 5. NNE OBO AWAA (MRS) 6. OKAKA NWOSU 7. AUGUSTINE IKODIE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROTECT THE INTEREST OF MEMBERS 2. TO FOSTER UNITY, LOVE AND PROGRESS AMONG ITS 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: MR. CAPPA OCHE-E OLUJI (CHAIRMAN)

USANG FOR GOD FOUNDATION

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

TRUSTEES: 1.

MBANG USANG USANG 2.

MBANG USANG OMOLOLU BOSEDE 3.

JOHN NELSON UDO AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1.

TO PROVIDE AID TO THE LESS PRIVILEGED CHILDREN AND SCHOOLS IN THE SOCIETY. 2.

TO ASSIST IN CURBING SOCIAL VICES AMONG YOUTHS AND CHILDREN THROUGH POSITIVE IMPACT, MENTORING AND MEANINGFUL ENGAGEMENTS. 3.

TO EMPOWER THE LESS PRIVILEGED ONES IN THE SOCIETY ESPECIALLY RURAL DWELLERS 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. GERALD OGOKEH-GREEN SOLICITOR

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MR. EDEBIRI AZUWAGHAE TAIWO COLLINS 2. SIR GIDWIN OKUNS 3. AIGBODUWA CHRISTY MERAB 4. MR. OBASOGIE EDWIN AGHEYERE 5. ORIAIKHI GREGORY OSATOHAMMWEN SAMSON AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO FOSTER AND PROMOTE LOVE, PEACE AND UNITY AMONG MEMBERS AND SOCIETY AT LARGE. 2. TO PROMOTE AND BE THE VANGUARD OF THE WELFARE OF MEMBERS AND IN SO DOING, TO EXCHANGE AND DISSEMINATE INFORMATION FOR THE MUTUAL INTEREST AND BENEFITS OF MEMBERS. 3. TO INITIATE, PROMOTE AND EXECUTE PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES THAT WILL ENHANCE THE OBJECTIVES OF THE ASSOCIATION, COMMUNITY AND SOCIETY AT LARGE. 4. TO ENGAGE IN CHARITABLE AND PHILANTHROPIC ACTIVITIES ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: MR. EDEBIRI AZUWAGHAE TAIWO COLLINS (PRESIDENT)

ASSOCIATION OF TRADITIONAL MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS OGUN STATE THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR CHANGE OF TRUSTEES TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 OLD TRUSTEES 1.

OTUNBA IREKOYA ABIMBOLA -RETAINED 2.

ADESANYA ADEDAPO -RETAINED 3.

OTUNBA LADEJOBI ADELAJA ADEGBESAN -RETAINED 4.

OGUNLABI MUNIRU ADEBOLA -REMOVED 5.

OSHO OLUBENGA SURAJUDEEN -REMOVED 6.

OGUNDE KOLAWOLE AFOLABI -REMOVED NEW TRUSTEES ALL APPOINTED 1.

CHIEF MORAYO OGUNYEMI 2.

CHIEF OLUKAYODE ADEBISI OYEDERU 3.

CHIEF DR. SIKIRU OLAGUNJU LIASU BAKARE ANY OBJECTION TO THIS CHANGE SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

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Companies Registration 23 GOD’S FRUITFUL LIFE CHURCH INT’L

LIGHT OF GOD’S HOLY MOUNTAIN SALVATION MINISTRY

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

TRUSTEES: 1. PASTOR AGUNSOYE ISAAC SUNDAY 2. EVANG. AGUNSOYE IBUKUN GODSWILL 3. MR. EMEKA ONYEBUCHI ISAAC 4. MR. OLADEJO SUNDAY 5. MRS EYITAYO JOHNSON 6. MRS ADENEKAN MARYAM IBHADE 7. MR. ADEDEJI TUNJI OLUGBENGA AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR — GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (C.A.C.), PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

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

TRUSTEES 1. REV. EZEKWESIRI OBASI ISAAC 2. OTUM IFEOMA FLORENCE 3. EJIKE OBASI EZE 4. NWAOSU CLEMENTINA 5. ILONWA BLESSING UZOAMAKA AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST 2. TO WINS SOUL FOR CHRIST

MERCY ANU IMANI EBERE FOUNDATION

GREAT GOLDEN STAR BROTHERS FRIENDS CLUB OF NIGERIA

18MILLION FAMILY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION

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

TRUSTEES: 1. MAGDALENE KADINMA DELU JUWAH (CHAIRMAN) 2. EMMANUEL OKEOGHENE OKENA (SECRETARY) 3. MOSES NDUKA JUWAH 4. RICHARD ONYEDIKA OSADEBAY 5. JOY IFEYINWA ONWODI 6. FLORENCE NONSO ANWATU AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO CATER FOR THE MENTAL HEALTH OF RETIRED MILITARY VETERANS. 2. TO LIAISE WITH FOREIGN AGENCIES, CORPORATE BODIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS AND CREATE AWARENESS FOR THE MENTAL WELL BEING OF OFFICERS, SERVICE CHIEFS AND RETIRED VETERANS IN NIGERIA AND THE DIASPORA. 3. TO PARTNER WITH GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN THE AREAS OF MENTAL HEALTH, GENERAL HEALTH AND WELFARE OF MILITARY VETERANS. 4. TO CATER FOR THE MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS OF THE LESS PRIVILEGED AND OTHER VULNERABLE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY INCLUDING WOMEN AND CHILDREN. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: N.N OSAKWE SOLICITORS OSAKWE NEYE NWAMAKA

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. NWAFOR JOHNPAUL IFEANYICHUKWU. 2. UCHENNA AMALUM GIBSON. 3. EZEANOWII NONSO PETER. 4. EGBO HENRY CHUKS. 5. EZEAKA CELESTINE ODINAKA. 6. OGUEJIOFOR CHUKWUMA SUNDAY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO FOSTER UNITY AMONG MEMBERS AND ADVOCATE BROTHERLY LOVE TOWARDS ONE ANOTHER AND HUMANITY. 2. TO PROMOTE THE IMAGE, INTEREST AND INTEGRITY OF THE ASSOCIATION AND STRENGTHEN THE GENERAL PROGRESS AND WELFARE OF MEMBERS AND THE THE GENERAL PUBLIC. 3. TO CULTIVATE BROTHERLY LOVE AMONG THE MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION. 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 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. ALIU JONATHAN OJO 2. IRABOR TONY EKATA 3. ADELAKUN HENRY OLOYEDE 4. SALAMI OLALEKAN SEFIU 5. AWOYEMI MAGENTA AMOKE 6. MABAYOJE-BALI RAMOTA KIKELOMO AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROVIDE A PLATFORM FOR FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES TO COME TOGETHER AS A FAMILY, IN ORDER TO HARNESS AND DEVELOP THEIR FULL POTENTIALS IN EVERY AREA OF THEIR GIFTINGS AND NATURAL ENDOWMENTS, SO AS TO ENHANCE THEIR INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY AND SOCIETAL LIVES AND VALUES FOR THE GOOD OF ALL. 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 GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED MINISTRY HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 2004.

NEW TRUSTEETS 1. PASTOR IKPONMWOSA FELIX OSABUOH - GENERAL OVERSEER 2. MRS. IKPONMWOSA JOYCE UHUNWA - SECRETARY 3. MRS. GRACE OGBOMO THE AIM AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. TO PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST TO ALL NATIONS. 2. TO PLANT CHURCH BRANCHES AND ADVANCE SPIRITUAL AWARENESS IN THE SOCIETY. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B. 198, GARKI, ABUJA WITHIN TWENTY-EIGHT (28) DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: MRS. IKPONMWOSA JOYCE UHUNWA (SECRETARY)

SIGNED BY: ANTHONY OKECHUKWU ESQ. 37 CAMPBELL STREET, LAGOS. 08038778254.

ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR — GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (C.A.C.), PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

ANNOUNCER: BARR OLUGBENGA TOBE.

IJEGOM CHRIST SALVATION GOSPEL CHURCH

HEAVEN RACE CHRIST GOSPEL CHURCH

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 2004 TRUSTEES: 1. ADELOWO SAMSON AJANI 2. ADELOWO ADENIKE MARY 3. IRAWOJESU ISREAL DAMILARE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO RESCUE THE LOST SOULS THROUGH THE PREACHING AND TEACHING THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST 2. TO EQUIP THE SAINTS FOR THE WORK OF MINISTRY 3. TO CONDUCT INDOOR AND OUTDOOR CRUSADE FOR THE TOTAL LIBERATION OF TOTAL MAN 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: J A OLADAPO & CO 08030696558

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 2004 THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. REV, AKINDELE ZACHEUOS BABATUNDE 2. PASTOR (MRS). AKINDELE COMFORT OLUYEMISI 3. DEACON AKINDELE VICTOR OLANREWAJU 4. MR. IBRAHIN NURUDEEN ABIODUN AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO RESCUE THE LOST SOULS THROUGH THE PREACHING AND TEACHING THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST 2. TO EQUIP THE SAINTS FOR THE WORK OF MINISTRY 3. TO CONDUCT INDOOR AND OUTDOOR CRUSADE FOR THE TOTAL LIBERATION OF TOTAL MAN. 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: J A OLADAPO & CO 08030696558

CHRIST CHOSEN DELIVERANCE FELLOWSHIP MISSION

GOSPEL FIRE TRANSFORMATION ASSEMBLY WORLDWIDE

NOSABEST CHARITY ORGANIZATION INT’L.

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 TRUSTEES ARE: 1. REV. EMMANUEL UDOCHUKWU IHEMEMBI (GENERAL OVERSEER) 2. ELDER DONATUS MBEWU. 3. ELDER CHRISTOPHER CHIDUMAGA IHEMEMBI. 4. BRO. KINGSLEY OGUDO. 5. PRINCESS ULOMA UDOCHUKWU - SECRETARY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

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

BOARD OF TRUSTEES: 1. PASTOR ERNEST EMMANUEL OSHOKE 2. PASTOR (MRS.) ROSEMARY OSAHENRHUNMWEN OSHOKE 3. SISTER OSAZUWA ENOMA MAUREEN 4. PASTOR ANDREW OKIEMUTE 5. DEACONESS (MRS.) LORRETTA OSAGIE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. THE ADVANCEMENT AND TEACHING OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION AS CONTAINED IN THE HOLY BIBLE. 2. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO ALL THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE WORDS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. 3. TO TEACH AND TRAIN CHRISTIANS TO POSSESS GOOD CHRISTIANS VIRTUES AND SHINES AS LIGHT IN THE WORLD AND SALT OF THE EARTH. 4. TO CARRY OUT EVANGELISTIC OR MISSIONARY WORK IN ANY PART OF NIGERIA AND OVERSEAS AS A BRANCH OF THE CHURCH AND TO MAKE RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE SMOOTH FUNCTIONING OF SUCH BRANCHES. 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: F. I. OSHODIN, ESQ. (LEGAL ADVISER)

GOD’S WINNING LADIES WORLD OUTREACH

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LEADERSHIP APPRAISAL FORUM

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ABODUNRIN SAHEED 2. ABODUNRIN KABIR ENIOLA 3. ABODUNRIN JUBRIL AKOLADE 4. OYEBODE ADEKUNLE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: TO PROVIDE A PLATFORM WHERE NATIONAL ISSUES CAN BE DISCUSSED ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

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

TRUSTEES: 1) FELIX-VINAZOR ONENGINYEOFORI - PRESIDENT 2) ADIUKU ESTHER CHINENYE - SECRETARY AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO REACH THE UNREACHED FOR CHRIST ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

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

TRUSTEES: 1. JAMES, OGBODE PHILIP 2. JAMES, ANGELA PHILIP 3. EXCEL, DONALD PRISCILLINA AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST TO ALL NATIONS 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

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 TRUSTEES ARE: 1) APOSTLE (DR) NOSA BEST OJO 2) PASTOR (MRS) IRENOSEN EVANGELINE OJO 3) PASTOR FREDRICK UBHIMIYE OKPIAB 4) MR. OSAIGBOVO AMOS IDEMUDIA 5) PASTOR OGHENERO DILLION 6) MR ISIMHENMHEN LUCKY ODIANOSEN AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO PROMOTE THE REHABILITATION OF NIGERIA STREET CHILDREN ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

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

TRUSTEES: 1. BASSEY ROBERTS 2. PRINCEWILL WHITE AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO PROMOTE GOOD GOVERNANCE THROUGH MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND ENCOURAGE ACCOUNTABILITY AND INTEGRITY IN GOVERNANCE GENERALLY 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

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I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSES AS MISS IBEGBULEM GOODNESS OGECHI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSES AS MRS. THEOPHILUS IHEZIE .U. GOODNESS OGECHI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. NYSC AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

THAT MY BVN IS 22143130514 WHICH BEARS THE NAME OLUFEMI JOE FAKUADE THAT I WANT MY BVN TO REFLECT MY FULL NAME BEING JOSEPH OLUFEMI FAKUADE THAT ALL MY RELEVANT DOCUMENT BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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 TRUSTEES ARE: 1. EZE CELESTINE IKECHUKWU 2. EZEIGWE CHINAECHEREM NGOZI 3. IGBORI ESTHER NEBECHUKWU 4. OKEKE BRIDGET NNONYELUM AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST ROUND THE GLOBE 2. TO ESTABLISH A BIBLE BASED CHURCH WITH BRANCHES PLANTED IN MANY PARTS OF NIGERIA AND IN 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. ARINZE J. UZOCHUKWU 08038466838 (SOLICITOR)

IGHAGHA I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UANREBUEGBE STELLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS IGHAGHA MERCY STELLA ALL DOCUMENTS AND CERTIFICATES BEARING MY FORMER NAMES REMAIN VALID. BANKS, NIGERIA IMMIGRATION SERVICE, RELEVANT AUTHORITIES AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OGBEIDE FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OKUONGHAE OSAYENDE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGBEIDE OSAYENDE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

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I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UCHENNA CHARLES OGBURIE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS UCHENNA EBELECHUKWU. ALL DOCUMENTS AND CERTIFICATES BEARING MY FORMER NAMES REMAIN VALID. BANKS, NIGERIA IMMIGRATION SERVICE, RELEVANT AUTHORITIES AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS IJOKOH

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS EGUAKUN BELIEVE BAH NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS MRS IJOKOH BELIEVE BAH. ALL DOCUMENTS AND CERTIFICATES BEARING MY FORMER NAMES REMAIN VALID. BANKS, NIGERIA IMMIGRATION SERVICE, RELEVANT AUTHORITIES AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CHRISTIAN DANIEL OMORU

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I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHRISTIAN OMORU NOW WISH TO BE CALLED AND ADDRESS AS CHRISTIAN DANIEL OMORU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID AUTHORITY CONCERN AND GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS GBADAMOSI BASIRAT OLUSOLA BUT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS TOKOSI BASIRAT OLUSOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

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OGUNSOLA RAFIAT MOSUNMOLA

THIS IS TO CONFIRM THAT I BEAR OLADOTUN KAMOLI ABIODUN ON MY BVN AND OLADOTUN KAMOLI ON MY BANK ACCOUNT BUT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS OLADOTUN KAMOLI ABIODUN. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS AKINLEYE RAFIAT MOSUNMOLA NOW WHICH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OGUNSOLA RAFIAT MOSUNMOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

SAKA CLARA ADEMAKHE-ISI

EDET SUNDAY

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SAKA CLARA ISI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SAKA CLARA ADEMAKHE-ISI. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SUNDAY EDET BILL NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EDET SUNDAY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

HEAVEN RACE CHRIST GOSPEL CHURCH

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 2004 THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. REV, AKINDELE ZACHEUOS BABATUNDE 2. PASTOR (MRS). AKINDELE COMFORT OLUYEMISI 3. DEACON AKINDELE VICTOR OLANREWAJU 4. MR. IBRAHIM NURUDEEN ABIODUN AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.TO RESCUE THE LOST SOULS THROUGH THE PREACHING AND TEACHING THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST 2. TO EQUIP THE SAINTS FOR THE WORK OF MINISTRY 3. TO CONDUCT INDOOR AND OUTDOOR CRUSADE FOR THE TOTAL LIBERATION OF TOTAL MAN 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: J A OLADAPO & CO 08030696558

THE CECILIA EDWARD FOUNDATION THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 TRUSTEES: 1. AGHADIUNO WEYINMI RITA 2. OLAOFE MOYOSORE AKINWAMIDE-SECRETARY 3. AGHADIUNO NGOZI RITA 4. YUSUF OLANREWAJU OLATUNBOSUN AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PROVIDE QUALITY EDUCATION FOR LESS PRIVILEGED CHILDREN FROM START TO FINISH. 2. TO PROVIDE QUALITY HEALTHCARE SERVICES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO NECESSARY HEALTH AWARENESS PROGRAMS, SUPPLY OF TEST KITS, DONATIONS FOR SPECIAL HEALTH CASE. 3. TO PROVIDE RE-INTEGRATION PROGRAMS, HALFWAY HOMES, VOCATIONAL TRAININGS FOR EX-CONVICTS 4. TO DONATE GENEROUSLY AT INTERVALS TO EXISTING CHARITY FOUNDATIONS IN VARIOUS SECTORS. 5. TO WORK IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ESTABLISHED NGO’S AND FOUNDATIONS TOWARDS THE ATTAINMENT OF THE OBJECTS OF THIS FOUNDATION AND TOWARDS GIVING A BETTER LIFE TO THE LESS PRIVILEGED IN THE SOCIETY. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

OSARO EKHATOR WORLD OUTREACH 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.

OGHOGHO FRIDAY OSATO - CHAIRMAN 2.

IGBINAROHDE BLESSING ANDY - SECRETARY 3.

OSATOHANWMEN IRENE EGHIA AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.

TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS 2.

TO TAKE CARE OF THE NEEDY 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

ECONOMIC STRATEGIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE OF AFRICA 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.

PROF. PATRICK LOCH OTIENO LUMUMBA - CHAIRMAN 2.

CHRIS AGBITI - SECRETARY 3.

OBINNA AGOMMUO - FOUNDER 4.

DR. RAMATU TIJANI ALIYU AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO PROMOTE ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA 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

AMOUR FOR THE NEEDY FOUNDATION

KIRIJI BROTHERS AKOKA YABA LAGOS ASSOCIATION

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OJIEKHUDU STEPHEN UWA 2. OJEKHUDU JULIANA AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO HELP THE LESS PRIVILEGED CHILDREN AND WIDOWS 2. TO SEND LESS PRIVILEGED CHILDREN BACK TO SCHOOL

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. ODUNTAN EKUNDAYO KOLAWOLE--PRESIDENT. 2. MR. UDEH KINGSLEY NDUBUISI- VICE-PRESIDENT 3. MR. SONNY PHILLIPS- SECRETARY GENERAL 4. MR. OLADIMEJI OLALEYE- ASSISTANT GENERAL SECRETARY 5. MR. AKWENUKE OMORARO JOHN, FINANCIAL SECRETARY 6. MR. JAMES BABATUNDE BARROW- PROVOST. 7. MR. AYODELE GBOTOSHO- TREASURER. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO EMPOWER AND LOOK AFTER ONE ANOTHER. 2. TO FURTHER DEVELOP OURSELVES THROUGH INNOVATIVE PROGRAMME AND SERVICES TO HUMANITY. 3. ACTIVE INTEREST IN CIVIC, SOCIAL AND MORAL WELFARE OF COMMUNITY. 4. TO FURTHER OUR IDEALS BY MEETINGS, VISITS AND ENGAGING THE NEEDY IN OUR SOCIETY. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, MAITAMA, ABUJA. SIGNED: OMUWA RALIAT DIRISU

ESAN DEVELOPMENT AND EMPOWERMENT FOUNDATION THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 TRUSTEES: (I) SAINTMOSES EROMOSELE ESQ (II) MR. LAWRENCE ODIASE (III) PROF PATRICK ONOLEMHENMEN (IV) PROF GODWIN RAY OKOGUN (V) DR TEDDY ABDULLAHI IKHUORIA (VI) PROF EFOSA OSEGHALE (VII) PROF OYAZIWO ALUEDE (VIII) MR. GODWIN NANAKUMO (IX) DR. CHARLES UHIOH (X) ENGR. ANTHONY OTUE (XI) SIR HILARY EKHOYE AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO PROMOTE YOUTH EMPOWERMENT IN ESAN LAND. 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: AKHIGBEMEN EHIMEN ESQ

COVENANTED CHILDREN OF GOD OUTREACH 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.

PST CALLISTA UZOAMAKA EJIOFOR - PRESIDENT 2.

SISTER HELLEN NGOZI MBAONU 3.

MR EJIOFOR KENNETH IKECHUKWU - SECRETARY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.

TO PREACH THE WORD OF GOD WORLDWIDE 2.

TO WIN SOULS FOR CHRIST 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

WINDING UP

THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT CAP C20 LFN 2004 _______________________ PRIVATE COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES ___________________________ WRITTEN RESOLUTION OF THE MEMBERS OF CAE NIGERIA FLIGHT TRAINING SERVICES LIMITED PURSUANT TO SECTION 234 OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT CAP C20 LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIAN 2004, WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, BEING ALL THE MEMBERS FOR THE TIME BEING CAE NIGERIA FLIGHT TRAINING SERVICES LIMITED (“THE COMPANY”) ENTITLED TO ATTEND AND VOTE AT THE COMPANY’S GENERAL MEETING, RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS: 1.

“CAE NIGERIA FLIGHT TRAINING SERVICES LIMITED (THE “COMPANY”) BE VOLUNTARILY WOUND UP BY ITS MEMBERS; AND 2.

MR. BLESSING OGEDENGBE BE APPOINTED AS LIQUIDATOR FOR THE WINDING UP OF THE COMPANY.” DATED THIS 19TH DAY OF MARCH 2018 SIGNED: CAE INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LTD MEMBER

SIGNED: CAE SIMULATOR SERVICES INC. MEMBER

MASJID 1001 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 TRUSTEES: 1.

DR. RABIU MUSA MURAM CHAIRMAN 2.

ALHAJI GAPHER OJETOLA 3.

ALHAJI NIYI YUSUF 4.

ALHAJI SALMAH ADETUTU NASIR 5.

DR. (MRS) KADIRI FAUSAT AJOKE 6.

BARR. OMOTOSHO ADEBAYO 7.

ALHAJI TAOFIK YEKINI SECRETARY 8.

BARR. SHARAFADEEN ALI 9.

MALLAM ABDUL-RAHAMAN ADEBAYO AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.

BUILD MOSQUES IN RURAL AREA OF NIGERIA. 2.

TO REFURBISH DILAPIDATED MOSQUES IN RURAL AREAS OF NIGERIA 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: NWOKORIE SAMUEL ESQ , MILD 08053957522

IJEGOM CHRIST SALVATION GOSPEL CHURCH 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 2004.

TRUSTEES 1. ADELOWO SAMSON AJANI 2. ADELOWO ADENIKE MARY 3. IRAWOJESU ISREAL DAMILARE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO RESCUE THE LOST SOULS THROUGH THE PREACHING AND TEACHING THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST 2. TO EQUIP THE SAINTS FOR THE WORK OF MINISTRY 3. TO CONDUCT INDOOR AND OUTDOOR CRUSADE FOR THE TOTAL LIBERATION OF TOTAL MAN 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: J A OLADAPO & CO 08030696558

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KARIMU

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS KARIM WASIU ISHOLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS KARIMU TAOFEEK ISHOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

CORRECTION OF NAME I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEKOLA OLUBUNMI ESTHER NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADELEKE OLUBUNMI ESTHER. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

IBRAHIM

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NASIRU ABIMBOLA OLUWATOYIN, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IBRAHIM ABIMBOLA OLUWATOYIN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

AGBO

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MRS ADEBAYO

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GAFAR

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OGIDAN

MRS CHINENYE

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS CHINENYE ANTHONIA NWOGBO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS CHINENYE ANTHONIA NWEZI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

DEGBEGNI

Change of Names 25

CONFIRMATION OF NAME THIS IS TO CONFIRM AND CERTIFY THAT CECILIA EZEUGO IS THE SAME PERSON AS EZEUGO CECILIA NEBECHUKWU. THAT I HENCEFORTH WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EZEUGO CECILIA NEBECHUKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

MRS LAWAL

AHAIWE

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AHAIWE CHILE JOE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AHAIWE CHILE CHARLES. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

OJOMU

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGIDAN NANCY SEGILOLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGIDAN SEGILOLA OLUBUKUNOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

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FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEBAYO SARAT AJIKE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OJOMU SARAT AJIKE. THAT MY DATE OF BIRTH IS 31 AUGUST 1984. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

KESHINRO

ONYEACHUSIM

ADERINTO

CALISTUS

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ROKOSU KEHINDE REMILEKUN, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS KESHINRO KEHINDE REMILEKUN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

OMOTOSHO

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OMOTOSHO JAMIU SHEIKH, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OMOTOSHO JAMIU ALAGBEDE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

MRS VIVIAN

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS. CHRISTOPHER VIVIAN KELECHI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. VIVIAN KELECHI BODE ADEBAYO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

OSHO

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSESD AS FLORENCE ADEYEMI OLUWASOLA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OSHO OLUWARANTI OLUWASOLA, ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

CORRECTION AND ADDITION OF NAME

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS DIKE CHUKWUEMEKA PETER, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ONYEACHUSIM CHUKWUEMEKA PETER. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

SHITTU

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS TIJANI ADENIKE WALIYAT, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SHITTU ADENIKE WALIYAT. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

AGUNKWO NWANNEKA FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IKEDIONU NWANNEKA GLADYS, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AGUNKWO NWANNEKA GLADYS KING. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

MAKANJUOLA

I FORMERLY KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS MAKANJUOLA ADEDOYIN OREOLUWA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MAKANJUOLA SHADIAT ADEDOYIN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED TAKE NOTE.

SHOWUNMI

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS PHILIP ROSELINE FRIDAY, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADERINTO ROSELINEFRIDAY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

EDEH

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHGBO ESTHER CHINEMEREM, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EDEH ESTHER CHINEMEREM. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

AGUNKWO CHIKE

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AGUNKWO CHIKE EMMANUEL, AGUNKWO CHIKE EMMANUEL KING, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AGUNKWO CHIKE EMMANUEL CHAIRMAN KING. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

INNOCENT

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AGBAKA BETINA IFEOMA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS INNOCENT BETINA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ABDULSALAM

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS KADIRI BLESSING FITIME, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CALISTUS BLESSING FITIME. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

HAMMED

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AMODU MUSTAPHA ADEBAYO, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS HAMMED MUSTAPHA GBOLAHAN ILERO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

COLE

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OSUMAH JOY IYORE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS COLE JOY IYORE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

IBRAHIM

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IGBOZIMAKO

JIMOH GANIYU

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JIMOH GANIYU ON MY BVN, NOW WISH TO ADD ADESEUN. HENCEFORTH, I WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JIMOH GANIYU ADESEUN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

OKUNADE

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OBADARE OMOLARA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKUNADE OMOLARA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE CORRECTION OF NAME /BIRTH DATE THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT MY NAME WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AS MUIS OLANREWAJU MUIS ON MY BVN INSTEAD OF NASIRU MUIS OLANREWAJU. THAT MY DATE OF BIRTH IS 15 MAY 1991. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

CORRECTION OF NAME THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT MY NAME WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AS UKWANDINA DAI IDUH INSTEAD OF IDUH OGORCHUKWU UKWAMUDI. THAT MY CORRECT NAME IS IDUH OGORCHUKWU UKWAMUDI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

AKINBODE

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MRS ATANDA

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FORMERLY KNOWN AS ABDULSALAM ISIAKA AJIBOLA NOW WHICH TO BE KNOWN AS ABDULSALAM ISIAKA GIDADO WITH MY DATE OF BIRTH OF 21ST OF JUNE 1952.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID,GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

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MRS MOLIKI

AKINDELE LATIFATU

AKINDELE RUKAYAT

CHANGE OF NAME /CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OMOLUABI ROBERT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADOSSOU ROBERT AND CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH: 25/02/1990.

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OBAJAKE

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Police arrest 3 suspected cultist who attacked corpers’ lodge in Bayelsa Ïơǀ ƕƏ ƋƗ ddƾ ƐƑƗƆ Ɛ ƏƏƆ ƐƆƗ ƓƈƐ Ƒ Akam James, Yenagoa

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cult members involved in the Sunday armed robbery attack on a Corpers’ Lodge and severed the hand of a Youth Corps member identified as Luntis Julius at Angalabiri community of Sagbama Local Government, has been arrested, the police confirmed.

The arrest of the suspects, according to the Police, was made possible by the indigenes of the community who were shocked by the dastardly acts.

The suspects arrested were identified as Mosan Moses Youdougha, 22 years and Godswill Vincent, 21years old. The Third suspect arrested by the community is yet to be handed to the police.

Confirming the development, the Bayelsa Command Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Astimin Butswat, confirmed the arrests and said further investigations is ongoing to arrest the fourth suspect involved in the demonic criminal attack.

Butswat revealed that, “At about 12:00 noon on Monday, the Police with the help of youths of Angalabiri community arrested two persons involved in the attack and robbery of some persons at the Corpers’ Lodge in the area.”

Meanwhile, a fifteen years old Senior Secondary School Student, Master Emmanuel Apiakise, was on Tuesday, arrested with a locally made pistol during lecture hours along the Akenfa-Epie area of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.

Daily Times gathered that the 15 years old boy, an SS2 student of the Community Secondary school, Akenfa-Epie, was apprehended while on school uniform by some indigenes of the Akenfa community led by the local Vigilante Committee.

Sources confirmed that the student was accosted and searched by the Vigilante youths after he was fingered by some indigenes.

But some other source however claimed the boy was arrested in the classroom after a tip off by his school mate. But the management of the school dismissed the claim as untrue and insisted that the arrested boy was not their student.

The member of the School management who pleaded anonymity, told our correspondent that “the boy was not arrested in the classroom as alleged. And the uniform he was putting on is common among students in the state. “ The arrested teenage has been handed over to the Akenfa Divisional Police Station for onward transfer to the State Police Headquarters.

Declare state of emergency on drug abuse, Gov Ahmed tells FG Kehinde Akinpelu, Ilorin

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Ahmed of Kwara state, has called on the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency on drug and substance abuse in the country.

Speaking during a courtesy call by the National President of Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), Pharmacist Ahmed Yakassi, on him at Government House, Ilorin, he said the country is faced with a major challenge, such as increased crimes such as kidnapping, armed robbery, cultism and insurgency largely induced by abuse of drugs usually among youths.

The Governor said the right steps must be taken by governments at all levels towards curbing the menace of drug abuse which is spreading across all strata of society like

a cancer and must be arrested before it becomes malignant.

Alhaji Ahmed said drug abuse goes hand in hand with violence, stressing that the most theatres of violence and crime in the world have associated problems of drugs and substance abuse.

The Governor said a tripartite arrangement between governments, regulatory authorities and the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) should be instituted to form platforms to dissuade youths from drug abuse, especially the misuse of over the counter and prescription drugs According to him, “the level to which our youths have imbibed this habit of drug abuse is getting to an alarming rate at all levels; at the basic education level, at the secondary level, at the tertiary level, it is a very serious situation.

L-R: Deputy Governor of Sokoto State, Ahmad Aliyu; Dr. Linda Robertson of Kent University and Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, during the Robertson’s visit to Sokoto Government House... at the weekend.

Sack herdsmen from Nigeria, clerics urge FG Kingsley Chukwuka, Jos

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clerics under the umbrella of The Fellowship of Churches of Christ in Nigeria, otherwise known in Hausa as ‘Tarayyan Ekklisiyoyi Kristi a Nigeria’ (TEKAN), has called on the federal government to as a matter of urgency expunge herdsmen who have been terrorizing the country

in recent times.

TEKAN said since the federal government has said the herdsmen terrorizing the country are not from Nigeria, they should as a matter of necessity fish them out to face the full wrath of the law.

Speaking at the end of an emergency meeting held in Jos, the Plateau State capital, the President of TEKAN, Rev. Caleb Ahima, empha-

sised that government should secure the borders if they claim that herdsmen bedeviling the country infiltrates from neighboring countries.

Ahima said, “TEKAN observed that the federal government has admitted that some of the herdsmen killing Nigerians are illegal aliens, we call that government should depot such persons as a matter of urgency.

“We also call on the federal government to use all available instrument of peace to stop the incessant killings of innocent Nigerians”, he said.

On kidnapping, the clerics also condemned the kidnap of Dapchi school girls which occurred in Yobe State last month, adding that government should prove to Nigerians especially the youths that their safety is paramount.

Promasidor career workshop for secondary school holds in Abeokuta

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second edition of the Promasidor Harness Your Dream, a career guidance workshop for public secondary school students holds Wednesday at the African Church Grammar School, Abeokuta.

The workshop, which had its maiden edition at Oregun Junior High School, Ikeja, Lagos last year, is aimed at exposing students to relevant information they required to make the right career choice.

In Abeokuta, the Ogun State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Mrs. Modupe Mujota is expected to be the Special Guest of Honour at the event, accompanied some other government officials.

Promasidor’s Head of Legal/PR, Mr. Andrew Enahoro, said the first edition recorded an overwhelming success. This, he said, inspired the company to sustain the initiative, which will now be held across Nigeria.

Enahoro explained: “It is a catch-them-young scheme. This implies that the young people who benefit from the initiative will have the opportunity to think through their options before they start learning the essential subjects required for their chosen professions. This is the reason it is targeted at JSS 3 students.”

Facilitators for the allday workshop are drawn from the staff of Promasidor Nigeria, who are not only committed to their

primary duties but also have passion for education and youth empowerment.

As part of its effort to support career awareness among school children, the company has also created a Facebook page tagged Promasidor’s Harness Your Dream.

Promasidor’s corporate citizenship is beyond passive giving, a major policy thrust that is at the heart of its various CSR initiatives including Harness Your Dream.

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Bus conductor killed after alleged overdose of “Tramadol” drug in Delta Nosa Akenzua, Delta

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Director- General, Cross River State Emergency Management Agency, Mr. John Inaku (right); One of the Cameroonian Refugees, Mr. Francis Ewera (middle) and others, during the presentation of relief materials to the Refugees in Ikom, Cross Rivers State,

Police bust underage prostitution haven in Lagos Joy Anyim & Daniel Ojukwu

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fourman gang responsible for running an underage prostitution ring in the Iyana-Ipaja area of Lagos has been smashed by men of the Lagos State Police Command.

The suspects, Thomas Emmanuel and Okon John, Monica Ita and Bright Effiong, operated a hotel known as Collabor Hotel located at No. 3 Ige Street, Iyana-Ipaja.

It was gathered that the suspects specialized in recruiting young teenage girls from villages, bring them to the said hotel where they worked as commercial sex workers.

Parading the suspects before journalists on Tuesday at the State Police Headquarters in Ikeja, Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal revealed that the suspects were arrested based on intelligence which led to the arrest of four others.

He said, “Based on intelligence, a team of policemen from the

Command and Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) Operatives stormed the hotel on March 10th and arrested one Glory Asuquo, aged 15 years and she confessed that she was brought to the said address some weeks ago and handed over to one Monica Ita, 25years.

“This led to the arrest of other underage girls, namely Destiny Ota, 19 years and Bright Effiong 18years.

Meanwhile, the coordinators of the prostitution ring were also arrested. “ One of the victims, Asuquo said: “My sister brought me from Calabar to sell drinks for one Monica Ita. I was selling the drinks for her at her shop and then we would go to her hotel in the night.

That was how she said we would ‘hustle’, so different men will come and sleep with us and pay aunty Monica.”

Another suspect, Bassey was more defiant in her defense as she stated that she did not commit any crime as all she is doing is ‘hustle’.

She denied the age claim of the police report and insisted that she was 28 years and had a legal right to hustle and do whatever she wanted with her body.

She described their mode of operation as a mutual agreement between the hotel management and the girls.

According to her, “I got into the business four months ago and has no regrets whatsoever. I had a permanent room in the hotel where men visit me every night for a token of N1,000 and I usually had at least three men per night.

Effiong who is the youngest of the gang confirmed Bassey’s story but denied involvement with underage girls.

She said, “ To the best of my Knowledge, we have not scouted for young girls or gone after children for our personal gains. When girls needed help to make money to fend for themselves, they have no choice but to ‘hustle’ and prostitution was just like any other means.”

It was also gathered that the girls were brought in by Ita, who used the guise of help to lure the underage children into prostitution.

Another suspect, 29 years old Thompson Emmanuel, who managed the hotel along with 34 year old Okon John, told newsmen that they usually let rooms out to girls who in turn brought in customers who paid for the rooms.

Emmanuel said, “ the girls helped the hotel stay afloat so we had no reason to meddle in their business.”

Edgal said the suspects would be charged with conspiracy, Human Trafficking and prostitution upon completion of investigation, while the underage girls would be handed over to partner organizations for necessary rehabilitation.

The State commissioner used the medium to urge Lagosians to pay close attention to their wards and those they entrust them to.

middle-aged Bus conductor (name withheld) in Abraka community, Delta State in the early hours of Tuesday was reported to have died of alleged overdose of sexual enhancement drug “Tramadol”.

Police Officers attached to Abraka Police Division who did not want their names in the print confirmed the middle-aged man slumped after an unbridled sexual inter-course with his girlfriend (name withheld), and was rushed to a nearby clinic where he gave up the ghost few minutes after he was brought in while doctors battled to save his life.

The police sources added though his girlfriend is currently being interrogated, adding that investigation into the death of the man was ongoing.

But family sources said the victim had been epileptic patient before the bubble burst adding that his marriage failed few years ago following his epileptic sickness.

His corpse as at the time of this report was said to have taken to Obiaruku General Hospital Morgue.

Meanwhile, following frequent cases of intimidation, harassment of innocent persons by suspected cultists in Issele-Azagba, Aniocha Local Government Area of the state, the traditional ruler of the community, Obi Francis Ijei II has embarked on steps to ensure all forms of cult, and its related activities are banned.

To this end, the traditional ruler warned that anybody or group of persons found in any cult related activities, would be banished from the community henceforth.

Obi Ijei II who spoke with journalists in his palace on Monday, said: “The kingdom is now ready to rise against the perpetrators of such crimes by invoking spirit of the gods against them, and we have banned all forms of all cult related activities in our community. We are also ready to work with security agencies.

Herdsmen killings: Delta NUJ harps on collaborative synergy with security Nosa Akenzua, delta

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Delta State Council of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), has called on the State Government to synergize with relevant agencies in the state to address the menace of alleged killings by Fulani herdsmen in various communities in the state to forestall the unwholesome activities from degenerating into full blown crisis.

A communiqué issued at the end of congress of the union, signed by its chairman, Mr. Nuke Ikeogwu, and the communiqué drafting committee chairman, Prince Nosa Akenzua, the union condemned the attitude of some security agents who often molest journalists, as they perform their legitimate duty, explained that as security agents with constitutional agents to do their job, so also the journalists, noting that both parties should see themselves as partners in progress.

The union while commending the Delta State Government for taking the steps to re-award the

failed projects of Asaba International Airport, and the deplorable Maryann Babangida way in Asaba to competent contracting firms, Setraco & Co., thanked the Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa for finding lasting solution to the perennial flood in Asaba and its environs through the construction of deep drains, among others. The union noted with satisfaction the links initiated by the state government of the Delta Broadcasting Service (DBS) to the 330 KVA Line as easy access to public electric supply for stable and invariable putting an end to epileptic broadcast of programmes to the viewing and listening public by the station.

While urging the state government to explain the current situation of Delta Line Transport Company since it was concessioned to God is Good Motors, the union however regretted the present irregularities

bedeviling the transport company at present and expressed utmost concern at the state of alleged misconduct of journalists in the recent times.

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Daily Times Nigeria Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Senate frowns at frivolous interpretation of legislative proclamations

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The Senate on Tuesday took a swipe at those described as ‘road side Supreme Court and Court of Appeal’ for frivolously interpreting legislative proclamations with a view to negatively set the legislature against the public.

Rather than engaging in unjust criticism of legislative processes including proclamations, the Senate urged critics of the National Assembly to always make useful suggestions and inputs to legislative deliberations at public hearing stages.

The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki who was rep-

resented by Deputy Senate Leader, Senator Bala Ibn , drew this warning at the public hearing on three bills by the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters.

The three bills are Legal Practitioners Act 2004 Amendment Bill 2017; Facial Mutilation Bill and the Data Protection Bill 2017.

He said they can make their observations known through constructive suggestions that can assist the parliament in performing its task rather than setting the parliament against the public.

The Senate President however said the Senate has not taken any position on the three bills, giving room to stakeholders to extensively deliberate on the bills to

make legislative decision on them easier and acceptable to Nigerians.

Meanwhile, opinions of both the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and Office of the Attorney General of the Federation differs on the amendment of the Legal Practitioners Act Cap C11 LFN. The National President of NBA, Mr. Abubakar Mahmood said the Bar has always given priority to the Reformation of the legal profession and that a position paper of NBA will be submitted in six weeks’ time after due consultations, suggestions and inputs from stakeholders, including Body of Benchers.

He said NBA is taking the matter seriously and expressed gratitude to the

Senate Committee for its commitment to the reformation Representative of the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. Yusuf Abdulahi said the office had a contrary view to the amendment though it is not opposed to reform.

He said “the amendment, if it scales through will affect the performance of state counsels in the Office of the AGF”.

The Nigerian Law Reform Commission appreciated the reform and align its position with that of the NBA and expressed willingness to be involved in the consultation process while urging the NBA to avail NLRC copies of the draft position to enable it make its input.

Police nab notorious kidnappers at various locations in Taraba Okerafor Athanatius, Jalingo.

ÏÏÏNotorious Kidnappers,

terrorizing the people of Taraba State over the years at various local government areas have been arrested by the men of the Taraba State Police Command.

Parading the suspects, Tuesday before newsmen at the Command’s Headquarters in Jalingo, the Police Public Relations Officer (ASP) David Missal, said the Command, in the last one month has embarked on massive raids, intelligent gathering and all forms of security measures which according to him, were aimed at achieving a sustainable peace in the State.

He stated that such measures brought about remarkable achievements that led to the arrest of the Gangs.

PPRO Missal disclosed that on 22 of February, men of the Anti- kidnapping team of the Command arrested one Jibrin Buba, Suleiman Ahmadu, Haruna Abdullahi and Usman Mohammed all residents of Ardo Kola Local Government Area of the State.

His words: “The suspects

called and threatened one Abdullahi Ahmadu of Zangon Kombi, Ardo Kola LGA on Phone to drop the sum of N500,000.00 at a particular location and failure to do so that he will be kidnapped.

“Based on the report, Detectives attached to Anti Kidnapping Squad through actionable intelligence arrested the above suspects who confessed to the crime and further disclosed their involvement in various kidnapping activities in the state and subsequent collection of huge sums of money from their victims as ransom”.

The Command spokesman further added that the sum of N70,000.00 was recovered from the suspects being part of the N500,000.00 ransom collected from the victim.

Also paraded were 13 armed gang men headed by one Usman Bello who hails from Akko village of Gombe State who specialized in house breaking and other criminal activities.

ASP, Missal said, the 13 gangsters have on many occasions broken into the houses and shops in Jalingo and carted away with valuables worth thousands of Naira.

Delta Lawmaker in alleged messy juju scandals Nosa Akenzua, Asaba

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L-R: President of NEPAD Business Group (Nigeria)/Chairman, Lagos State Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mrs. Nike Akande; President, Africa Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwumi Adesina and National Coordinator /CEO, NEPAD Nigeria, Princess Gloria Akobundu during a meeting in Cote d’Ivoire…at the weekend.

EFCC arraigns businessman over dud cheque Issuance ÏÏÏA

businessman, Duke Onoruere and by extension Dugbeh International Services Limited, were on Monday, March 19, arraigned before Justice T. O. Uluho of the Delta State High Court sitting in Warri, Delta State by the Benin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Onoruere together with his company, Dugbeh International Services

Limited were arraigned on a two - count charge bordering on intent to defraud and issuance of dud cheque.

He was alleged to have presented a cheque of N2,900,000 (Two Million, Nine Hundred Thousand Naira) only, to one Aggrey Ogheneothoke, as payment for hiring/ leasing of heavy duty swam buggy equipment.

The cheque upon presentation was returned

unpaid due to insufficient funds. The alleged offence is contrary to section 1(1) (a)(1) of the Dishonoured Cheques (Offences) Act Cap. D11 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria vol.5, 2004.

The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charge when it was read to him.

In view of his plea, the defense counsel, Obafemi Ainerua pleaded with the court that his client who has been on bail granted

by the court be allow to continue to enjoy the terms of the bail, assuring that the defendant will always be in court whenever he is needed.

The prosecution counsel Abieyuwa U. Iriebe did not object but asked that she be given a date for trial.

Justice T.O.Uloho after listening to both counsel adjourned to April 12, 2018 for hearing while the defendant was ordered to continue on his bail.

brewing in the Delta State House of Assembly following the alleged messy juju (voodoo) scandal linked to one of its members, Engr.

Emeka Nwaobi. Nwaobi, member representing Aniocha North Constituency in the Assembly had in the last four months been allegedly swimming in litany of scandals; ranging from leadership struggle, power tussle among others.

But in a swift reaction, the lawmaker told journalists: “No it is not true, whatever that is going around me, are handiwork of my traducers, my God will see me through,” he said.

It was gathered that the lawmaker sometime last week allegedly dragged one Prince Victor Egbuna, Aniocha North PDP Chairman to swear to an oath over some irreconcilable differences, a situation that had set the political scene of Aniocha North on fire.

Unconfirmed sources said besides the lawmaker

alleged indulgent of fetish consultations, he patronizes marabouts and traditional diviners with deep rooted ancestral deities to pave way for his active involvement as means to scare-off his political enemies.

It was further gathered that the lawmaker who addresses himself as “Oji Chukwu Bulu Uzor” allegedly deceive unsuspecting Aniocha North people who had in the past dispelled rumours of incompetency and fetish involvement around him.

Investigation revealed that trouble started with the lawmaker following his alleged leadership tussle with his political godmothers and fathers, especially with his overvaulting ambition to clinch to power as the political Lord of Aniocha North Constituency.

But this was not as the lawmaker apart from his ambition, allegedly mastermind troubles at the Local Government Council by purportedly taken his desperation to all forms political opposition to his ambition with all manners of “I don’t care”.

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Engage in research, training, to address challenges, board chairman urges UBTH doctors Titus Akhigbe,Benin

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Benue State Governor, Dr. Samuel Ortom (left), receiving a symbolic relief item presented by the Executive Director, British American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation (BATNF), Abimbola Okoya (right), during a courtesy visit to the governor, when the Foundation came to deliver relief materials to victims of the Benue flood recently.

Customs intercepts 7,201 bags of rice concealed in Nigerian Breweries truck Joy Anyim

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the FOU for the various seizures.

Speaking further on the seizures made between March 1 and March 19, the Controller said six of the detained vehicles were evacuated from a car shop along Lekki/Epe Expressway, while the other 10 vehicles were intercepted while on information patrol at various locations.

According to Uba, “After an intensive onslaught on dare devil smugglers, deploying our tactical operational modalities, we have intercepted 16 exotic vehicles mostly 2017 model, 7,201 bags of foreign parboiled rice (12 trailers), 1,172 cartons of frozen poultry products, 1,352 jerry cans of vegetable oil.

“Also 72 bales of used clothing, 464 pieces of used tyres, 407 sacks of Pangolin scales and 629 pieces of textiles Ankara material among others were also intercepted. “ You will recall that the ban on the impor-

of the Nigerian Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit Zone A, have intercepted 7,201 bags of parboiled rice,16 exotic vehicles and other items with a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of over N2.557 Billion.

The Customs Controller of the Zone, Comptroller Mohammed Uba, who made the disclosure during the monthly briefing at the headquarters in Ikeja, said some of the bags of rice were neatly concealed in-between empty crates in a Nigerian Breweries truck.

Uba revealed further saying the bags of rice which were intercepted at different areas in Iseyin, Oyo/Osun axis, a warehouse in Ogbomosho and Lagos were seized based on credible Intelligence.

It was learnt that although the driver of the Nigerian Breweries truck had fled on sighting the Customs personnel, five suspects had been arrested by

tation of foreign rice through the land was to encourage efficiency in local production.

Therefore, the need to support the Federal Government’s Policy on rice, encourage local rice farmers, the millers and patronize our own nutritional rice cannot be over emphasized. “ Some of the impounded vehicles were said to include - two Lexus Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) (RS350 2016, 2017), one Rolls Royce, one Lincoln Limousine (2014), three Toyota Camry (2009, 2013 and 2017 models), one Toyota Rav 4, one Toyota Avalon (2016), one Toyota Tundra, one Dodge among others - were impounded due to lack of Customs documents and violation of procedures.

“The 16 exotic vehicles alone have a DPV of over N340 million.

The vehicles are still under detention pending the grace period allowed for the owners to

bring relevant Customs document.”

He also called on organisations who use trucks to deliver services to always ascertain the credibility of those they employ as drivers, in order to avoid recruiting persons with criminal intents and ultimately implicating such organisations.

Commenting on the letter of commendation from the Comptroller General of Customs (CGC), Col. Hameed Ali (Rtd), Uba said he is determined to do more. “ Let me still use this opportunity to thank the CGC and the entire management team of the Nigeria Customs Service, for appreciating us with a commendation letter and providing necessary logistics that brought about this feat. “ We are very determined to ensure sustenance of this laudable sterling performance by making sure we give economic Saboteurs a run for their money.”

Board of Management, University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) Bashorun Adedoja Adewolu Tuesday called on the management of the UBTH to embark on research and training to address challenges in the health sector.

Adewolu, who eulogized the contributions of the founding fathers of the hospital said, there was need to sustain the legacies of Late Dr. Samuel Ogbemudia insisting that such can only be achieved by pursuing aggressive research and educational training of medical personnels.

Addressing the Vice Chancellor of the University of Benin, Prof. Osasere Orumwense, Adewolu urged the vice chancellor to partner with UBTH in the areas of research and training noting that the university community is a partner in progress with the University of Benin Teaching Hospital.

“To make the Teaching Hospital meaningful, we need your cooperation and that is why you see the decree that

set up the hospital make provision for the University representative to be a member of the Board. There cannot be a teaching hospital without a University. I was a member of the Board of University of Abuja. At that time, there was dichotomy between the University and the Teaching Hospital. Back then, I approached the vice chancellor to say you cannot be in the university without a hospital, even when you have a faculty of medicine. What I want to say here is that, we were the first board to set up the Gwagwadala Teaching Hospital in Abuja and of course they are following UBTH and UNIBEN,” Adewolu said.

He sued for collaboration between the University of Benin and the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) to enhance the hospitals productivity and service delivery.

On his part, Vice Chancellor of the University of Benin assured the UBTH Board Chairman of the necessary support to the Teaching Hospital noting “that there is no gap between UBTH and UNIBEN.”

‘We formed our gang in prison, snatch vehicles, sometimes kill the drivers’ Joy Anyim

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of the robbery suspects arrested by the operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command for killing a Taxi driver and snatching his vehicle have confessed that they formed their robbery gang in Kirikiri Prison.

The suspects, Simon Tyozemda (27) from Benue State and Lucky Friday (24) from Delta State were arrested on Wednesday, March 14, with two long knives inside a UBER operated cab, a Toyota Camry Saloon with the registration number APP 145 EE, which they had planned to kill its driver and steal the vehicle.

The gang leader, Simon had through his girlfriend’s UBER app ordered a Taxi at past 11:00 p.m. last week. The suspects’ plan was to lure the driver of the Toyota Camry to a desolate location, kill the driver and take away his vehicle.

The suspects were taking the driver to a lonely place on Lekki – Epe Expressway, Lagos, when their vehicle was stopped by RRS officers for a stop and search. The officers noticed one of the suspects seated at the back of the vehicle hiding a long knife.

Investigations revealed that the suspect’s intention was to divert the driver to a lonely place and snatch his Toyota Camry.

Further police investigations revealed that the duo exconvicts who were released between December 2017 and January, 2018, from Kirikiri had sometime in February, 2018, in a similar manner snatched a Taxi Toyota Corolla with the registration number, FST 663 EZ along Badore Road, Ajah at about 2:00 a.m. after killing its driver.

The suspects had after snatching the Toyota Corolla, sold it to one Mohammed Usman for N350,000:00. Mohammed had only paid N100,000 and was to move the vehicle to Jigawa when RRS Decoy Team arrested him.

According to Simon, an erstwhile security guard turned stylist in Badore “I met my colleague, Lucky Friday in Kirikiri Prison. We became friends and when I was released I gave him the number of my brother for him to call me.

When he was released, I promised him I was going to assist him to resettle properly. Since then, we have been working and operating together”.

“Our first operation was where we killed the driver of the Toyota Corrolla.

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l Kanemi Warriors attacking midfielder, Samuel Mathias has said his side tough a time is over with the first away point at newcomers, Kwara United in the top-flight matchday 12 clash in llorin.

The Borno Army are hosts of FC IfeanyiUbah in Sunday’s Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) matchday 13 clash at the Maiduguri Township Stadium.

Warriors’ NPFL tough time is over – Mathias Mathias said though his side foresee difficult clash against the Anambra Warriors being tutored by their former coach, Ladan Bosso the Maiduguri outfit are positive for a good result in the match.

“In life there is the tough and sweet time and everybody faces it at one time or another.

“The best time to face the tough time is early in one’s life and it applies to football as well.

“It’s better to face the hard time in the early stage of a competition and as time goes on you overcome it to be better.

“Our tough time is over with the first away point at Kwara

United in llorin on Sunday.

“People thought that Kwara United would beat us with as many as three or four goals but we held onto our lead until the home side got the equaliser.

“Tough time is always there in football and life but we are happy to have overcome it against Kwara United.

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“Against FC IfeanyiUbah we will rather allow 90 minutes to be the best judge of the encounter. “However, I believe in my teammates to always rise to the occasion at the right time to defend our names.

“Certainly, there will be a real fight for the maximum three points between both sides.

“FC IfeanyiUbah are coming with our former coach, Ladan Bosso who was with us for the entire last season.

“I know for sure that our worries are over and we will come out victorious at the end of the day,” said the Super Eagles goal poacher to frontpixs.com.

The Warriors are 18th on the 20-team top-flight log on 13 points 10 behind league leaders, Lobi Stars.

Wednesday, March 21 2018

Tornadoes hold Kano Pillars at home K ano Pillars Football Club on Monday drew 1-1 draw with Niger Tornadoes in a week 12 match of the 2017/2018 Nigeria Professional Football League in Kano.

The rescheduled match which was played at the Sani Abacha Stadium was witnessed by large number of spectators as usual.

Niger Tornadoes surprised the hosts with good resilience from the first to the last blast of the referees whistle in Kano.

The visitors put much more pressure on their hosts in the opening minutes, resulting in a goal in the 19th minute of the game through Andrew Ikefe.

Pillars fought back in the second half, forcing the visitors to handle the ball in the six yard box which resulted in a penalty which Junior Lokosa converted in the 81st minute for the equaliser and increase his season tally to 11 goals.

Pillars fans wildly celebrated the equaliser, after having lost all hopes of their team coming back into the match.

Speaking later, Pillars handler, Ibrahim Musa commended his players for their fighting spirit and thanked the fans for believing in the team even in a difficult match.

Musa also added that his team would work on how to win their next match against Kwara United in Illorin.

Kano Pillar players jubilating after their 1-1 draw with Niger Tornadoes at the Sani Abacha stadium, Kano

Akwa United celebrate victory against Ithad as they qualify for CCC round of 16.

Akwa United FC of Uyo at the weekend inside Godswill Akpabio international stadium, Uyo, qualified for round of 16 in the CAF Confederation Cup by beating Al Ittihad of Libya. Aiteo cup winners prevailed 4-3 on aggregate over the Tripoli-based team.

Eagles begin training as 22 players hit camp

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he Super Eagles’ Radisson Blu Hotel camp in Wroclaw has become a beehive of activities following the arrival of 22 players and the beginning of training sessions yesterday.

Technical and backroom staff, alongside six players, opened the camp on Monday, but the facility exploded into life with the arrival of goalkeeper Francis Uzoho, defenders Kenneth Omeruo, Elderson Echiejile, Stephen Eze, Abdullahi Shehu and Chidozie Awaziem, midfielders Joel Obi, John Ogu, Ogenyi Onazi, Uche Agbo and Wilfred Ndidi, and forwards Ahmed Musa, Moses Simon, Odion Ighalo, Kelechi Iheanacho and Victor Moses yesterday.

Nigeria –based goalkeeper Ikechukwu Ezenwa and South Africa –based Daniel Akpeyi are expected today (Wednesday).

Skipper Mikel John Obi is unlikely to make it to Wroclaw as he has been working hard at renewing his work permit in China, where he plays for Tianjin Teda. Team Administrator Dayo Enebi Achor said “We all had been hoping that the renewal would come in good time for him to fly to Poland. As it is now, it is not likely that he would make the trip.” Midfield Trojan Oghenekaro Etebo is injured, and Egypt –based Junior Ajayi, who was unable to secure visa into Poland, will fly directly to London for Tuesday’s clash with Serbia at The Hive, Canons Park.

The team trained twice on Tuesday, with the same schedule

for Wednesday, before Thursday’s training at match time inside the Municipal Stadium in Wroclaw. The match kicks off at 8.45pm (Nigeria and Poland are on same time zone) on Friday.

Friday’s showdown inside the 43,000 –capacity stadium formally opens the first phase of the Super Eagles’ preparation for the 21stFIFA World Cup finals, taking place in the Russian Federation 14th June – 15th July this year.

After Tuesday’s game with Serbia in London, the three-time African champions will play a Send –Forth match against the Democratic Republic of Congo in Nigeria, before flying back to London for a prestige clash England’s Three Lions at Wembley on 2nd June.

Four days later, they come up against the Czech Republic at their final training camp in Austria, and another friendly game is on the cards before the squad jets out to the World Cup finals on 11th June.

Nigeria’s team base camp at the 21st FIFA World Cup finals is located in Yessentuki, Stavropol territory in the southern region of the Russian Federation

not progress to the group stage, I give the players kudos.

“The first leg result in Sousse largely unsettled us, we were unlucky not to have made our several chances count positively in the second leg.

“Now we are going to compete in the Confederation Cup and I know that our experiences in the matches we played in the Champions League will help us greatly in the Confederation Cup. “We have shifted our focus to the Confederation Cup as well as the league as we still want to excel in those competitions.

“We have three outstanding matches to play against Go Round FC, Yobe Desert Stars and Kwara

United.

“We must work hard to get something from those matches to help improve on our standing on the league log.

“A side that aspires for the summit cannot afford to drop points irrespective of where the match is played,” said the former Sunshine Stars and Abia Warriors coach.

The Jos outfit will wait to know their Confederation Cup playoff stage opponents on Wednesday at the draw ceremony coming up at the Caf headquarters in Cairo, Egypt.

Other nation’s campaigners, MFM FC, Akwa United and Enyimba are competing in the Africa’s second tier club competition.

Coach Rohr

Ahmed Musa joins autofreak We’ve shifted focus on CafCC, NPFL – Boboye

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uper Eagles forward and CSKA Moscow star, Ahmed Musa has bought himself a brand new Mercedes Benz G Wagon (G63) AMG. Kannywood actor, Ali Nuhu took to Instagram to congratulate the Nigerian footballer on his new whip.

He shared a photo of the premium vehicle and wrote: ‘Congratulations friend @ahmedmusa718, Allah ya kara arziki ya sa rai aka yi wa.’

25 year old Ahmed Musa is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Russian club

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Musa

CSKA Moscow, on loan from English team Leicester City, and the Nigeria national team.

lateau United manager, Kennedy Boboye has said his side have moved on toward excelling in the Caf Confederation Cup after their ouster from the Caf Champions League in the hands of Tunisian giants, Etoile Sportif du Sahel.

The Jos Elephants piped the North African side 1-0 in the reverse fixture clash of Caf Champions League first round tie on Sunday at the side’s temporary ground, Sani Abacha Stadium in Kano.

The result proved inadequate to see the Tin City side progress to the lucrative group stages of the competition falling 2-4 to the Tunisian side in Sousse thereby lost out on 3-4 aggregate.

The Nigerian champions have now dropped to the Africa’s second tier club competition, Caf Confederation Cup playoff stage.

Boboye said his side gave the campaign their very best as first timers and inexperienced in the continent’s top club competition but damn unlucky not to have made it to the group stage.

“Plateau United tried their very best in the competition but could not achieve the first mark – making it to the group stage of the competition.

“Plateau United are young team and I guess first timers in the Caf Champions League compared with their opponents, Etoile du Sahel.

“They tried their best but could

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EXTRATIME

England World Cup team jubiliating during one of their friendlies

Fight for Mo Salah between Barcelona, PSG, Real at £200m

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arcelona, Paris St-Germain and Real Madrid are all interested in signing Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah, 25, for a world record £200m. The Egyptian has scored 28 Premier League goals so far this season. (Sun) Manchester United defender Luke Shaw, 22, feels manager Jose Mourinho is freezing him out, and the Englishman could take his complaint to executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward. (Mirror) Mourinho is considering a summer move to take Arsenal and Wales midfielder Aaron Ramsey, 27, to Manchester United. (Star) United have already enquired about Arsenal defender Hector Bellerin, but Juventus remain favourites to sign the 23-year-old Spaniard. (Mirror) Bosnia forward Edin Dzeko’s proposed transfer to Chelsea in January collapsed after Roma pulled out of the deal for the 32-year-old. (Radio Rai, via Metro) Bayern Munich head coach Jupp Heynckes has ruled out a move for Bordeaux forward Malcom, 21.

The Brazilian has been linked with Tottenham and Arsenal. (Evening Standard) Liverpool striker Roberto Firmino says the Reds had to change the way they played following the

January sale of fellow Brazilian Philippe Coutinho to Barcelona.

(Goal) New York Times journalist Rory Smith believes Firmino would interest Bayern Munich if Poland striker Robert Lewandowski, 29, leaves this summer. (BBC Radio 5 live) A transfer study claims Tottenham and England striker Harry Kane would be worth more in profit to the north Londoners than Lionel Messi would be to Barcelona. (Express) Chelsea’s Danish defender Andreas Christensen turned to former Blues captain John Terry – now playing for Aston Villa – for advice after a poor run of form. (Eurosport Denmark, via Evening Standard) Barcelona forward Lionel Messi has revealed he no longer vomits during matches because he avoids chocolate and fizzy drinks. (Goal) Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo apparently had a bet with his Real Madrid team-mates that he would win La Liga’s Golden Boot – when Messi was 11 goals ahead of him. (Marca) Brazil will use Tottenham’s training facilities as part of their preparation for this summer’s World Cup in Russia. (Evening Standard)

Lewis Cook rules out jitters ahead of England ‘Dream’ B ournemouth midfielder Lewis Cook is confident he can overcome the jitters and make the most of his England debut if given the chance to play in the team’s upcoming international friendlies.

The 21-year-old, who captained the England youth team to the under-20 World Cup title last year, was named in man-

ager Gareth Southgate’s squad for the friendlies against Netherlands on Friday followed by Italy four days later.

“There are always a few nerves but I think I’m just excited. If I get the chance to play, I am going to give my all for the team and try to implement my style of play and adjust to how they play as well,” Cook is

quoted as saying by the Bournemouth Echo.

“I have a lot of learning to do but I have to enjoy it as well.”

Cook was previously called up to England senior team for a friendly against Brazil in November but did not play in the stalemate.

The midfielder says he is focused solely on making a mark

in the friendlies rather than worry about his chances of being selected to play in the World Cup finals in Russia in June.

“If I get the chance to play in these games, I need to do what I do here and enjoy it,” Cook added. “If (going to the World Cup) happens, it happens but I am focused on this camp now and giving my all.”

Maamria named Stevenage boss

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tevenage have appointed Dino Maamria as their new first-team manager.

Maamria, who has left his position as Nuneaton boss to take the role, replaces Darren Sarll, who was sacked by the Sky Bet League Two club on Monday.

The 46-year-old Tunisian re-

Dino Maamria

turns to Broadhall Way having previously worked for Boro as a player, coach and assistant manager.

Stevenage chairman Phil Wallace told the club’s official website: “I have always loved his passion for the club, our fans and for winning football matches.

“The Nuneaton chairman (Lee Thorn) was outstanding in the way he handled our interest but he was desperately sad to see Dino leave after the difference he had made to their results.

“We had a lot of applications for the job yesterday but we needed to bring Dino back home. I hope our fans will turn out in force to welcome him back.”

Former striker Maamria, who had three spells as a player with the club, will take charge of Saturday’s game at home to Colchester with his new side 16th in the table.

Why I’m the best in the World – Ronaldo

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ristiano Ronaldo insists he is the best player in the world because he proves himself “year after year” with Real Madrid and Portugal.

Speaking after winning Portugal’s Best Player of 2017 – to go with the fifth Ballon d’Or which equalled Lionel Messi’s haul – Ronaldo, 33 said he was determined to succeed for his children.

Ronaldo scored 42 goals in 46 games in 2016/17, helping Real

Madrid win La Liga and the Champions League. He has netted 37 goals in 35 games so far this term to help Los Blancos reach the Champions League quarter-finals, where they will face Juventus next month.

“I am grateful for this award to all those who are here, it is also an award for all my colleagues; 2017 was an excellent year, unforgettable both collectively and individually,” said Ronaldo

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FCTA to commence land allocation soon, says Bello

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Fulani communities, others counsel FCTA on grazing reserves, AT3 land allocations DOAS descends on practitioners over unregistered lamp posts ÏÏÏIrritated by practitioners and

FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello (2nd right, 2nd row) in a group photograph with members of the House of Representatives Committee on Procurement, when they paid a working visit to the FCT Administration in Abuja...recently.

FCT minister urges FG to encourage science, tech education Stories by Idu Jude, Abuja

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Federal Government has been advised to improve the value of education to encourage the development of science and technological education among Nigerian students.

The FCT Minister, Mallam Muhammad Musa Bello, made the call recently while declaring open 2018 Expo of FASTECH held at Utako district of the Federal Capital Territory.

The minister, in his speech, reiterated resolve to ensure greater involvement of youth in science and technology, for the advancement of the society in the 21st century.

Bello noted that the FCT Administration remains unwavering towards harnessing the economic and scientific potentials of the science and technology sector.

Bello, who was represented by the Secretary for Education, Senator Isa Maina, at the FASTECH Expo, holding in the FCT Department of Science and Technology, in Utako, stressed that the importance of science in human endeavours.

According to him, the recent excellent performance of FCT students in science and technology competitions demonstrates our priority attention to sector.

He called on the Department and stakeholders to ensure that the exhibition becomes a continuous event, in order to sustain the technological development in the FCT. In her welcome address, Acting Director, Department of Science and Technology, Mrs. Ibrahim Christiana, said purpose of the event is to showcase the innovations from

schools and stakeholders in science and technology.

She added that rationale for this occasion is to promote indigenous enterprises, build trust in made in Nigeria goods, link innovators with entrepreneurs for effective commercialization of innovations and inventions.

She urged stakeholders to actively participate in the exhibition, as it is a rare opportunity for all to see in practical terms the creativity in Nigerian scientists, fabricators inventors, which will impact positively in the economy.

In a goodwill message, Chairman, FCT Council of Chiefs and Ona of Abaji, Adamu Baba Yunusa, stressed the need to always embark on the development of technology to solve the ever changing problems of the society.

The monarch, represented by Esu Kwali, Audu Shaban Nizazzo, noted that there’s not enough research works without developing them into viable products for the use of the society.

He therefore urged the government to encourage schools especially teachers to do more than churning out research works without putting them into useful things to the society.

Similarly, pioneer Director, FCT Science and Tech Department, Hajya Fatima Baba-Ari, noted that overtime, something positive always comes from science and technology sector.

She appealed to the government to continue offering support in the form of finance and policies, adding that technical and vocational education should be given priority attention by the government because of its economic importance to the society.

On his part, Vice Chancellor, University of Abuja, Prof. Michael Adikwu while presenting a paper on the theme of the Expo, decried the fallen standard of education in Nigeria especially advanced learning, which must improve to pave way for the advancement of science and technology.

organisations who place lamp posts without registration in the streets of Abuja, the Department of Outdoor Advertisement and Signage (DOAS), the regulatory body with the statutory responsibility of regulating, enforcing and controlling outdoor and mobile advertising in the Federal Capital Territory has moved to halt the menace.

Director of DOAS, Alhaji Yusuf Ibrahim Yakassai, expressed worry over the increasing nonpayment and unregistered lamp posts littering the entire city of Abuja and disclosed that his department’s Planning, Design and Beautification Unit has begun removing all the unregistered lamp posts.

According to Yakassai, the enforcement exercise commenced last Monday and will continue until all the lamp posts without registration have been removed.

Also, a Deputy Director in DOAS, Mr. Udoh Akanimo, who is the head, Planning, Design and Beautification Unit, explained during the enforcement exercise, the exercise came up after noncompliance to a letter issued to all affected practitioners to come and re-apply and pay up their outstanding dues for the citing of the lamp posts.

In the letter, he stated, they were given 48 hours to comply or suffer the removal of their lamp posts.

Akanimo further explained that the removal of the street lamp posts was due to the cluster of lamp posts on roads and streets in the city. He also emphasised that the department realised that it has lost much revenue as a result of the refusal to pay up on their outstanding.

Highlighting the intended results of the exercise, the Deputy Director said it would help compliance by practitioners, insisting that non-payment and re-application of street lamp posts must be discouraged.

He disclosed that since the commencement of the exercise, about N15 million has been generated for FCT Administration, a development, Akanimo noted, will help DOAS meet its revenue target.

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Legal Aid Council pledges support for Abuja tricycle riders

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Aid Council has pledged support for Tricycle operators otherwise known as Keke NAPEP under the umbrella of Abuja Tricycles Riders Association (ATRA), to further boost ease of doing business in the Federal Capital Territory.

Director of the Council in FCT, Barrister Oseni Agboghaiyemeh, gave the assurance while playing host to ATRA officials, on a courtesy visit to his office recently.

Oseni assured the association that the Council is willing and ready to provide them with any legal need whenever that it arises.

He reiterated that the Council was established to offer free legal services to the less privileged in the society.

He, however, advised the tricycle operators to always obey traffic regulations and other related matters, in order to minimise the possible legal tussle that may arise.

He equally urged members

of the association to cultivate and maintain good behaviours while carrying out their activities on the FCT roads.

Earlier in his remarks, ATRA chairman, Al-hassan Haske informed the Council that the association was there to seek cooperation with the Council, in resolving legal issues within and outside the courts.

He decried plight of members of the association due to their inability to effectively pursue legal issues affecting their operations in the territory.

He therefore appealed to the Council to fashion out the members can benefit from its services with much ease.

ATRA boss noted that it’s been a long time that the association has been trying to get the attention of the Council.

He however thanked the Director for receiving and obliging to swiftly help handle any legal issues affecting members of the association.

FCTA to commence land allocation soon, says Bello Stories by Idu Jude, Abuja

ÏÏÏLand developers and buyers in

the Federal Capital Territory will soon hit boom as the administration has promised opening of new districts ready for allocation sooner than later.

The Minister of FCT, Mallam Mohammed Musa Bello, stated this while playing host to members of the House of Representatives committee on Public Procurement.

According to the minister, the gesture has become necessary more especially now that the population of the FCT is increasing tremendously.

Again, he noted that Abuja was originally meant for just 3 million people but due to the security situation in the country, there has been a large influx of people surging to find a peaceful place like the FCT. He said that the Administration is considering the option of opening up new districts in the territory to ease pressure on the city, stressing that the embargo that was placed on land allocation in the last two years was done to clear up issues of double allocation as well as allocation without consid-

eration for infrastructure that his administration inherited.

His words: “We are working to open up new phases with a view to decongesting the city. We have not done any land allocation within the last two years because we set up a committee trying to redress so many of the issues that we inherited and also areas where allocations were done without any plan whatsoever for infrastructure, either in the short term, medium term or even in the long term. But we have been able to cover all that now”.

The minister reiterated that the promise made by the present Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) to Nigerians and indeed FCT residents upon inception has largely been accomplished.

The minister recalled that he had told Nigerians that the Administration would be concentrating on the completion of critical infrastructure and public utility projects. He announced to the delight of members that by 2018 most of these projects would exit the budget.

He said evidence of this could be gleaned from the major arterial roads

into the city that have been completed as well some of the major secondary roads traversing major sections of the city.

Malam Bello noted that one project that has been at the heart of many residents has been the Abuja Light Rail Project which he announced has been significantly completed. He said the Administration has commenced the process of procuring the main rolling stock.

Furthermore, the Minister said: “The tracks have been done. 12 stations along the track have been completed. We have started procurement of the rolling stock, the wagons and so on. We now have a set of rolling stock that is enough for us to start what we call trial phase where our Nigerian engineers and staff and coach drivers will work together with the Chinese contractors for a number of months before the real rolling stocks arrive.”

Earlier in his remarks, Chairman, House committee on Procurement, Hon. Oluwole Oke, commended the Minister for his forthrightness, saying the country would be a lot better if it had other ministers with similar attributes as Muhammad Bello.

Jahi explosion: AMAC to monitor sale of gas ÏÏÏThe

Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) is set to scrutinise the sale of domestic gas in the council, as part of precautionary measures against incidents of explosion.

To this end, the Council has set up a committee to study how gas and its accessories are to be displayed and sold in the area especially suburbs and rural communities.

This move was against the backdrop of rampaging fire incident in Jahi II village, which occurred as a result of cylinders Gas explosion, leaving about 23 people with severe injuries.

According to AMAC Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu Candido, by the time the committee will submit its findings and report, the Council would come up with the Government White paper that will be enable it to take a decision to guide against its reoccurrence in the future.

A statement signed by Candido’s Chief Press Secretary, Chief Dayo Lawal said he made this disclosure while on a visit to the Chief of Jahi

II to console with the leaders and people of the village over the fire incident.

“I have already put in place a committee to study how gas and its accessories are being displayed and sold in our locality, so that we guide against what has happened here.

“There are specific areas that gas and its accessories are supposed to be sold. They must never be within the community.

“And so at the end of the committee findings and report submitted, we will be able to come up with Government White paper on what the Council will take as a decision to guide against its reoccurrence,” Candido affirmed.

The statement added that the AMAC Chairman made cash donation of N690,000 to the victims.

“The Council would have loved to settle all the hospital bills of the victims, explained that because of the Council’s dwindling resources, it could only provided this amount of money to assist the victims,” the statement stated.

FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello (1st right), being briefed on specifics of the Light Rail project by the FCT Transport Secretary, Comrade Kayode Opeifa (2nd right), during the tour, while the Deputy General Manager, CCECC Nig. Ltd, Huong Qiam (3rd right), listens.

Pam moves to ensure adequate drugs in FCT hospitals ÏÏÏThe

Secretary, FCT Health and Human Services Secretariat, Barrister Amanda Pam, has held an inaugural meeting with the tenman ministerial committee to Fast Track and fashion out major ways for the Administration to achieve contract manufacturing of essential medicine, bearing in mind the legal and financial regulations.

This is with the view to ensuring that drugs were henceforth available at all FCT health facilities at affordable cost, genuine quality and branded for FCT. According to the Secretary, the management team of the Secretariat had held several high level meetings with the various Managing Directors and Chief Executives of local Pharmaceutical industries.

She added that the focus of the

meeting was to demonstrate leadership commitment of the Administration to the project, understanding the company’s capacity to deliver on quality and competence and the ready market available in the FCT Administration’s facilities as well volume of products envisaged which will bring reduction without compromising quality.

Pam further said that all the Chief executives signified their buy-in and applauded the administration for the laudable concept which, they agreed, would see to the growth of local industries in the country.

She said that following the agreement to work towards actualisation of the concept, the Chief executives directed their respective representatives to make presentations to the

Technical Committee within the shortest possible time.

With the initiative, the FCT can boast of availability of quality products, readily available products, and it will also reduce cost of the products because of direct engagement and bulk purchase.

Pocket-friendly retail prices of essential medicines at all the FCTA hospitals and the companies will have ready market, volume sales, cut-off marketing and logistics of supply chain.

The terms of reference of the committee include study the proposal for contract manufacturing, evaluate the modalities and system requirement, peer review of states involved in contract manufacturing as well as to evaluate the financial implication and make recommendations.

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N38m fraud: Police nab fake FCT minister

ÏÏÏPolice have arrested one suspect,

Terhemba Tsuum, 39, for impersonating the FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, and defrauding unsuspecting public of N38 million.

Parading the suspect last week at FCT Police Command, PPRO, Anjuguri Manzah, said that upon report of the matter, “the Police launched an investigation, and with the deployment of modern technology, we were able to trace the suspect to Benue State, where he was arrested and brought back to the FCT to face the law”.

The Command Public Relations Officer seized the opportunity to advise FCT residents and indeed all Nigerians to always “be vigilant and more conscious of people they go into business with. Always verify, even if it means going to the office to check.

Do a proper check before parting with your money because money is not easy to come by. Ensure you are dealing with the right persons, especially when it comes to the issues of land”.

He assured the residents that “this is a pointer that the FCT Police Command is alive to its responsibilities and will broaden its investigation and ensure that those who are carrying out nefarious activities will be arrested and charged to court to face the wrath of the law”.

In a chat with the media, the suspect confessed to committing the crimes and regretted that he was unaware of the gravity of the offence, even as he also disclosed that he has since refunded almost all the monies to his victims, except about five million naira, including N1.950 million, belonging to one Mimi, who reported the case to the Police for failure to return her money.

According to him, he returned the monies because his mind was “shaking” and he “could not bear it.” The only money that is remaining is this girl’s (Mimi) own, N1.950 million. Another man gave me N1.3 million, but I paid him back only N300, 000.00, with the hope when business improves, I would return their monies.

“It was when I knew I was doing something wrong that I started returning all the monies to them. I have been in Abuja close to five years now, but I had not always been in this busi-

ness. I went into the agent business because things were not going well.

“I started using the minister’s name because I thought it is the person people would be convinced, not because I have any contact or any dealing with him. I don’t even know him, he doesn’t even know me.”

On how he was able to convince the people to part with their money, the 39-year-old holder of a Diploma in Theatre Arts, disclosed that as an agent, his job was to “connect those who have land to sell with buyers and get five percent.”

He further stated: “I meet them and tell them that I have someone that will help them to get land, so those interested would give me their acknowledgement papers, while some will give me money to get them the acknowledgements from AGIS. “Some, I paid and gave them the acknowledgements, that is why I totalled the whole money and said it is N38 million. Some brought their old acknowledgements, so I minuted on the acknowledgements myself as if I am the minister (FCT), just to convince them, but I did not take them (acknowledgements) to anybody because I don’t have any link with anybody in any of the offices who deals with allocating land.

“Everything I did alone. I don’t have any link with anybody. The total money, when I calculated it was N38 million. Though I didn’t collect the money at one time, people were giving me the money one after another at different times.

When pressed further to name names of possible collaborators, he said: “what I am telling you, I am not lying. The condition I am in now it is better I tell the whole truth. I had not been in this business throughout my close to five years’ stay in Abuja. I started it in October, last year, while I met Mimi around December, 2017”.

Speaking further on his mode of operation, the suspect said, displaying a list of monies collected: “This paper you are seeing here, nobody paid me a single naira that is listed here. To God who made me, I sat alone and wrote this so that I will use it to convince people to pay me. If I am lying, God should do with me anything He wishes as far as this list is concerned”.

Again, FCTA threatens to revoke undeveloped plots ÏÏÏAgain,

the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), last weekend, threatened to revoke all undeveloped plots in the FCT, especially those within layouts where infrastructure has been provided.

Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC) Coordinator, Umar Shuiabu, who issued this threat during clearing of the Abuja airport road corridor, advised owners of plots on both sides of the road to choose between either developing their plots or having them revoked by the Administration.

He said: “We are hereby, once again, sending a strong message to owners of plots of land in Abuja, especially in places where infrastructure has been provided to come out and develop their property, because failure to do so will have those plots revoked by the Administration.

“It is their responsibility to clear all dirt in and around their plots. We are not the ones to do it for them. All property developers who are given allocations across the Territory should also develop them as a matter of urgency.

“But if they do not develop their plots, it means they do not have capacity to do so, so we will go ahead and revoke those plots and allocate them to those who are willing and able to develop them. We cannot continue to waste resources meant for other equally important ventures on cleaning some of these places for them.

Asked whether it was part of restoring the beauty on the Airport road, similar to what it used to be before the trees were uprooted to give room for the rehabilitation and expansion to the current 10lane expressway, the Coordinator said: “Whatever we are going to do to make this important road beautiful, we are going to do it.

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Fulani communities, others counsel FCTA on grazing reserves, land allocations Stories by Idu Jude, Abuja

ÏÏÏFulani communities as well as

traditional stools across the six area councils of FCT have warned the Federal Capital Territory Administration, through its ministerial committee on Fulani/herders clash, to ensure that government implements the grazing reserves policy to accommodate the cattle breeders and to avoid incessant clashes, just as they also advised that government should henceforth involve the community leaders in land allocations to avoid misunderstanding and end the menace.

The Fulani leaders, made this appeal in Kwali Area Council of the FCT, during the visit of the ministerial committee on peace mission as the farming season is about to set in.

According to one of the Fulani community leaders, “one fact that remains is that land allocation in the FCT is being done without the

involvement of the locals and without the consideration of their farm lands. I can tell you that the land is getting more and more scarce, as it was not enough for farming and grazing activities”.

“How can you wake up, go to your farmland and see a beacon on it, or even a fence. It is not good at all. We want government to look into it. Let them not allocate land without first letting us know about it or relocate us another place, these are some of the things that brings communal clashes,” he added.

While the Fulani representatives at the meeting asked government to reserve grazing land, and also restrict others from going into water bodies, where cattle drink from to avoid clashes, the farmers decried a situation where their lands were been taken over by the government without any recourse to them.

While countering the fact that Fulani herders involved in killings of

farmers, one of the farmers at the meeting disclosed that the committee must do its job more diligently to identify those who are involved in this heinous acts, stating that those who kill were not part of those who had lived with the farmers for many years.

The Fulani leaders, however, requested that cattle routes be respected, places where cattle drink be preserved and that the Fulani be respected as human beings, adding that the trouble makers were strangers.

Another Fulani herdsmen leader, Haruna, Maiyangwa, while corroborating, revealed that they were three categories of Fulani - “those who have been with us for many years that we do not have problem with. And we have others who come around in trailers to sell their cattle as well as the other group which are involved in night grazing. It is the last two groups that we have problem with”.

NASS: FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello (right), with the Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Procurement, Hon. Oluwole Oke, when a delegation from the Committee paid the Minister a working visit in Abuja...recently.

AMMC orders shanties along railway corridor to relocate ÏÏÏOccupants of shanties along the

FCT railway corridors, sooner than later, are to face evacuation and the demolition of all the shanties to enable easy commencement of operations as the FCT version of the rail projects kicks off.

Officials of the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC) last week commenced sensitisation of settlers in Ruga Village, one of the illegal settlements on the Abuja Metro rail corridors, expected to be cleared before its test run.

A team from FCTA recently visited Ruga Community and others, sensitising them on the necessity to leave Abuja rail corridors and pave way for the demolition of all structures on the Abuja rail corridor.

Addressing stakeholders in Ruga, AMMC Coordinator, Shuaibu Umar disclosed that because the Metro line runs through the community, all

structures would be removed to give room to a hitch-free operation of the rail when it commences operations soon.

Umar told the people that the exercise, which would take place in Kukwaba, Dei Dei, Gwagwa, Kuchigoro, among others would be done in line with the FCTA’s policy of a human face.

He said: “This is first in the series of sensitization meetings with the stakeholders in the various railway corridors over illegal settlements around, with the view to giving them enough time to vacate the railways corridors and station access ways.

“Recall that ahead of the Abuja railway test run to the public, FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, had directed relevant agencies to clear all illegal settlements and structures obstructing rail corridor and station access ways”.

According to him, in about two weeks’ time, the Council through the Department of Development Control would commence removal of all structures in the community.

Noting that even though Abuja was for everybody, the AMMC boss stated it was governed by law, explaining that it was also in keeping with the law that the structures in Ruga and other places must go.

Disclosing that the people developed those structures without approval of the appropriate authorities, he reiterated that only indigenes were supposed to be compensated or resettled whenever there is reason to displace them.

However, the Coordinator urged the Ruga community leaders to get records of people there for possible palliative measures so as to cushion the effects of the exercise.

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FCT minister glad over AMMC maintenance culture ÏÏÏThe

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, has said he was impressed with the innovative and maintenance culture of the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC), promising that his administration would support them to do more.

Malam Bello, who appeared visibly elated over the development while inspecting the some refurbished utility vehicles at AMMC head office in Wuse, Zone 5, midlast week, lauded the efforts of the Council and pledged that he would encourage the Council to fix all its 25 vehicles broken down.

Warning that those using the vehicles must be careful with the utility vehicles in order not to damage them, the Minister said: “Your staff have to be very conscious of what you have spent on repairing these vehicles, are very important for your operations for the good of the city.

“Your drivers have to be very careful in using the vehicles, not to damage them. I am impressed with what you have done and I encourage others to emulate the good work”, instead of sitting idle and complaining that there was no money to work with.

“You have also created employment for the people -the mechanic, painters, panel beaters and vulca-

nizers, and so on, and this is the part of the change President Muhammadu Buhari wants. We have to be positive both in our public and private lives, and think out of the box on what we can do help the territory and the country continue to move forward”.

Inspecting a locally improvised vehicle used for removing posters in the city, Malam Bello advised the Council to continue talking to those who paste posters indiscriminately to stop the indecent practice and use legal ways of advertising in Abuja.

However, he directed the AMMC to use mobile court in penalising them and enforcing their compliance, even as he noted that some religious organisations who were notorious for pasting indiscriminately in the city have started complying by using bill boards, even as he expressed hope that they would comply.

AMMC Coordinator, Umar Shiabu, who spoke earlier disclosed that his organisation spent N6.3 million in refurbishing 11 utility vehicles, including two 14-sitter Toyota Hiace, Seven Toyota Hilux vans and one 206 Peugeot car.

A locally improvised truck, used for cleaning and removing posters, which had also been abandoned was fixed.

FCT SDS boss tasks FCT Councils chairmen on youth dev’t

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Secretary, Social Development Secretariat (SDS), Alhaji Oladmeji Ali Hassan, has implored chairmen of the six Area Councils in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to support capacity building in skills acquisition for youths, as a sustainable way of reducing unemployment and poverty.

Hassan specifically called on the various leadership of the Area Councils to take advantage of the FCT Youth Support Centre in Nyanya to further train their youths in assorted skills acquisition programmes available there.

The SDS boss, who made this call at the ongoing 2-Day FCT Youth skills development/empowerment summit in Nyanya, said the initiative aims to equip youths with skills and opportunities for self-reliance and poverty alleviation.

He noted that the Nyanya Centre

trains youths in several income generating skills such as wielding/metal fabrication, leather works and shoe making, carpentry, tailoring, bead making, graphic design, computer appreciation amongst others.

According to him, it is imperative that authorities of respective Councils help their teeming youth focus on harnessing abundant economic opportunities, in ore to improve their wellbeing and society at large.

He reiterated that the FCT Administration remains committed to supporting the youth in any endeavour targeted at overcoming its unemployment burden.

“The development of any nation rests on the positive engagement of its youth through various developmental and capacity building initiatives targeted at making them selfreliant and reducing unemployment significantly.

“When youth are not actively that engaged in meaningful skills empow-

erment, they are exposed to those risk factors that trigger violence, drugs abuse, extortion, kidnapping and other forms of social menace that are inimical to the nation,” he stressed.

Similarly, Secretary, FCT Area Councils Services Secretariat, Adamu Bappah, disclosed readiness to issue directive to council chairmen for immediate use of the Nyanya Centre for empowerment of youths within their respective domains.

This, he said, has become necessary, as there are no longer white collar jobs out there for the teeming qualified youths in the FCT. Earlier in his welcome address, Director, Youth Development Department, Ereodichukwu Anulunko, said the summit targets 500 youths, for personal skill development and empowerment.

He disclosed that 2,000 youths annually are being trained at the Nyanya Youth Centre, in various viable vocational and ICT based skills.

FCTA pays N 96.7m counterpart funding for UNESCO sponsored ICT training for youths ÏÏÏMinister of the Federal Capi-

tal Territory Administration, Mallam Muhammad Musa Bello, has announced that the leadership of the territory is determined to ensure the proper training of its youths in modern ICT. He stated this a training organised by United Nation’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) for youths in the FCT recently.

He said the programme which was mainly targeted for the FCTA Youth Mobile Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is designated in using the skills they have acquired for nation building.

The FCT Minister gave this charge in Abuja during the graduation ceremony for 400 participants of the UNESCO/FCTA YouthMobile project in the FCT drawn mainly from Abuja Municipal and Bwari Area Councils.

Bello, who was represented at the occasion by the FCTA Permanent Secretary, Mr. Christian Ohaa, said the next phase has been scheduled for Gwagwalada town and will involve 600 participants covering the southern axis of the FCT, namely Kuje, Kwali, Abaji, and Gwagwalada Area Councils.

He said the FCT Administration has committed over N96.7 Million by way of counterpart funding to match UNESCO’s support of N42 million.

The Minister while congratulating the participants, urged them to justify the investment of both the global community and the home government towards the realization of their full potentials by starting their own businesses where necessary.

Bello said beneficiaries have been given skills required to excel, adding that government and the larger society expect them to translate these skills to increased productivity and employment.

He said: “The importance of knowledge, they say, is not in having it, but in using it. Similarly, “to whom much is given, much is expected. I therefore urge you all to leverage the skills you have acquired for self-actualisation and for nation-building. Let this serve as a clarion call for you all to live up to this dream and to brace up to the challenges of starting off your own businesses where necessary as well as being the torch-bearers of change.”

Malam Bello expressed appreciation to UNESCO for the successful conclusion of the first segment of the YouthMobile Project. He said the knowledge gained would enable participants to contribute towards the building of inclusive knowledge-based society, by leveraging Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) skills.

FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello (right), conferring the honorary citizenship of Abuja on Liberian President, George Oppong Weah, during his arrival at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja...recently.

FCTA partners Aviation ministry to ensure airport passenger convenience ÏÏÏThe

Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has concluded arrangements to ensure that passengers connecting to or from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport and railway terminals enjoy seamless flow and access to the facilities.

FCT minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, and his counterpart, the Minister of State, Aviation, Engr.

Hadi Sirika, jointly made this disclosure while addressing the media after a joint inspection of the facilities, recently in Abuja.

On his part, the Minister of State Aviation said his Minister will work to ensure a temporary access for passengers arriving the airport or departing to the city upon arrival.

This, he said, has become necessary in view of the need to meet up with the target required for the commencement of rail operation in a few weeks’ times. This, according to him, will resolve likely human and vehicular traffics in the airport.

According to him, the temporary access will give time for officials of Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and the FCT Administration to work together to harmonise issues affecting the formal concourse that is designed to link up the airport and railway terminals.

Engr. Hadi Sirika commended the FCT Administration for its dedication to completion of the facility, saying the railway would greatly enhance the outlook of the city and give a modern transport facility to its resi-

dents. He underscored the immense benefits that the light rails will provide to both the airport passengers and residents.

Also speaking at the occasion, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello expressed delight with the seriousness with which the Aviation Ministry is taking up the aspect of providing a concourse between the railway and the airport. He added that the entire project has been in fulfillment of the commitment of the FCT Administration to completing critical ongoing infrastructure projects.

He expressed his appreciation to the CCECC Nigeria Ltd for its dedication to duty and for commitment to ensuring a timely completion of the project.

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Oil producing communities landlords petition NASS

Pensioners petition Emefiele on payment of benefits

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Reps c’ttee knocks oil coys over $59m gas flaring penalty Henry Omunu, Abuja

L-R: Vice President Yemi Osinbajo in a handshake with Dr. Oba Otudeko, CFR, Group Chairman, FBN Holdings Plc., flanked by Dr. Adesola Adeduntan, MD/CEO, First Bank of Nigeria Limited and Subsidiaries at the Ogun State Investors’ Forum 2018, Abeokuta, Ogun State.

Nigeria’s economic growth outlook positive – Adeosun

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The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun has said that Nigeria’s economic outlook for the year 2018 and beyond was positive.

Adeosun maintained that the country was now resilient after exiting recession and has the potential to achieve a seven per cent economic growth in the next two to three years.

She gave this assurance on Tuesday at the fourth Ogun State Investors Forum attended by the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo; Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun; former President of Mexico, Mr. Felipe Calderone and eminent persons and captains of industries.

The Minister disclosed that the current Administration had succeeded in building macroeconomic

resilience for the country, particularly revising the funding mix, rebuilding fiscal buffers, enhancing foreign exchange reserves and focusing on import substitution strategies.

She said, “President Muhammadu Buhari has laid the foundation for the repositioning of the economy with a series of reforms which are being sequenced to ensure maximum impact and benefits to Nigeria and the citizens. “These include massive investments in infrastructure and social welfare across the country, improved revenue mobilisation, rebuilding of foreign reserves and stabilization of exchange rate.”

The Nigerian economy had returned to growth in the second quarter of 2017 after five consecutive quarters of negative growth.

The country exited recession with a growth of 0.72 per cent, which was

further consolidated with growths of 1.40 per cent and 1.92 per cent in the third and fourth quarters of last year, respectively.

The Minister explained that the quick reversal of the recession meant “less damage” was done to the economy and provided an opportunity for faster positive growth.

As revenue and growth return, Adeosun said the Government would increase the fiscal space for infrastructure spending. According to her, revenue mobilisation is potentially the master key to unlocking Nigeria’s huge growth potentials and funding the infrastructure programmes.

“The Federal Government will continue to create more fiscal space for reforms to enhance productivity and opportunity in the non-oil sector.

“Greater focus will also be placed on cost efficiency, blocking revenue

leakages and continued support to the States,” she added.

Recalling the actions taken by the Administration on assumption of office in May 2015, the Minister said it had two options of “balancing our books by cutting down on expenses and also investing massively in infrastructure and the economy”.

“If we had gone for the first option of cutting down on our costs, it means we would have laid off workers. But we chose to stimulate the economy with massive investments in roads, power, rails and other infrastructure as part of deliberate efforts to grow the economy.

“We have invested over N2.5 trillion in infrastructure, especially on capital projects, between 2015 and 2017. If you move round the country, Contd on B2

The House of Representatives ad-hoc committee investigating revenue leakages in the oil and gas sector on Tuesday, walked out two oil companies for non-payment of over $32million gas flaring penalty because of improper representation.

The committee chaired by Rep. Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe walked out officials of the Newcross Oil Company and Shebah E and P Limited, a subsidiary of SEPLAT when they appeared before the ad hoc committee.

Both companies were asked to give definite dates of paying their arrears of unpaid royalty to the federal government.

Chairman of the Committee, Rep Jarigbe, who was apparently disappointed with the approach adopted by officials of the two oil firms over the issue, said “you have one week to pay back or your permit will be suspended.”

It was at this point that Rep. Ehiozuwa Johnson Agbonayinma raised a point that both companies were not represented by their chief executives.

He thereafter moved that the committee must not overlook the issue of representation and demanded that officials of both companies be excused from the hearing.

The motion was adopted when it was put to voice vote and E and P Limited was the first to be excused while the oil firm was ordered to pay $32m within one week.

Newcross was also not spared by the ad hoc committee as the officials were given the matching order and directed to pay the $27m penalty within one week.

Gas flaring in an oil rig

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Heritage Bank attains ISO 27001 Information Security Management Certification

Heritage Bank Plc, has achieved the Information Security Management Certification from International Standards Organisation (ISO).

The bank explained that the certification also known as the ISO 27001: 2013 is part of the ISO 27000 family of standards which helps organisations keep information assets secure.

According to the bank, “the certification was achieved on the heels of the bank’s drive to revolutionalise the banking sector digital experience with Octopus, by putting in place a

systematic approach to managing sensitive organisational information, ensuring it remains seamless, secure and available.”

The Octopus platform owes numerous benefits to the users, thereby enable small businesses key into electronic payment system easily, efficient collections, social integration, retention strategy, bills payment, mobile virtual top-up, funds transfer, balance enquiry, movie show time, news.

With the introduction of Octopus, the ISO 27001: 2013 Information Security Management Certification is proof

of the Bank’s demonstrated ability to consistently provide products and services that gives service consumers and customers an easily recognisable security hallmark.

Speaking on the award received, The MD/CEO of Heritage Bank Plc, Ifie Sekibo reiterated the bank’s commitment for secured services, whilst assuring customers that their information is appropriately protected and, as such, reduces the need to undertake time consuming and costly onsite security audits reducing time and cost for both parties.

According to him, the certification demonstrates credibility and trust, which reduces customer and supply chain audit and ISO 27001 certification reduces third party scrutiny of your Information Security Management by customers and the wider supply chain.

“The achievement of ISO 27001 will differentiate two competing organisations in the market place, providing a valuable competitive advantage. Increased legislative and regulatory compliance ISO 27001 supports compliance with relevant laws such as the Data Protection Act 1998 and

software copyright legislation. This in turn reduces the risk of facing prosecution and fines. An organisation’s liability in security incidents may be reduced if it is certified ISO 27001 compliant,” He further explained that it reduces customer and supply chain audit, stating that ISO 27001 certification reduces third party scrutiny of your Information Security Management by customers and the wider supply chain.

As ISO 27001 is the current international benchmark for Information Security Management, it is increasingly recog-

nised that compliance with the standard is supportive evidence of adequate security.

Considerations and outcomes To achieve ISO 27001 certification, an organisation must produce documentation that demonstrates that it has developed an Information Security Management System that complies with the standard. Organisations should consider producing most of this documentation even if they are not going for certification as it provides a best practice approach for compliance as well.

There are three key issues to note about the standard: Its generic requirements mean that it is applicable to all organisations, regardless of size, type or nature.

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you will see ongoing works in roads, power, bridges, rails and other projects. These are important building blocks for the Nigerian economy.

“Look at the road sector when we came in, it was N19 billion that was invested in the sector in 2015. We invested N307.4 billion on roads in 2016 and N208 billion in 2017.

“Capital spending for the Transport sector has also been remarkable. It was N6.49 billion in 2015, N143.1 billion in 2016 and N133.9 billion in 2017. From where we are coming from, it is a huge chunk, taking it from N6 billion to N133 billion. And there are so many other projects and sectors like that,” the Minister stated. In his address at the Investors Forum, which has as theme “Consolidating the Gains and Accelerating Growth”, Governor Ibikunle Amosun disclosed that the State attracted 148 new industries that invested between a minimum of $200 million and in excess of $2 billion in the past seven years.

He noted that the State Government had improved the enabling environment for businesses to thrive.

“No investment can flourish in an unsecure environment. We made significant investments in our security infrastructure and architecture, and built strong collaborations with the security services, so as to guarantee the security of lives and property,” he said.

Amosun further noted that the State Government had entered into a partnership with a private firm to develop the Lisabi Independent Power Project in Abeokuta. “This 12 megawatts power plant has been completed and is ready for commissioning. We have also signed MoUs with eight private power providers for the establishment of a total of 314 megawatts IPP in different parts of our State,” the Governor said.

He assured existing and prospective investors of the safety of their investments in the state, adding that improved approaches have been adopted by the State Government to consolidate the gains of the last few years.

Workers on strike, demanding for their salaries

SMEDAN holds capacity building for informal sector Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) has organized a capacity building workshop for the informal sector of the economy under the aegis of Federation of Informal Workers Organization of Nigeria (FIWON) in Kaduna state.

Speaking on Tuesday at the programme titled; “Transition from the informal to the formal economy”, the Director General of SMEDAN, Dr. Umaru Dikko Radda, said that the capacity

building programme was designed to deliver tailored capacity development to members of FIWON to help improve their general and functional management capacity.

Radda said, “This is to bring the challenges of the informal micro and small enterprises to the front burner. Over the years the informal economy has been alienated and neglected. This monumental neglect of the informal sector as stimulus for socio-economic development has contributed to the economic imbalance that bedeviled the country.”

Represented by the Director, Strategic Partnership and Liaison

Department of SMEDAN, Dr. Friday Okpara, said that the government has realized the importance of the sector as a catalyst for the growth, productivity and competitiveness of the economy of the country.

“Not only are they the seedbed of wealth creation, employment generation and poverty reduction. They have been recognized as the critical breeding and nurturing grounds for domestic entrepreneurial capacities, technical skills, technological innovativeness and managerial competencies for the development of a vibrant and productive economy.”

He said the informal sector still faces challenges despite the recog-

nition of their significant roles, adding that developing the issues in to the main stream of the economy require plan and strategy to enhance their effectiveness and efficiency.

Other measures to help ensure its effectiveness include; “the impact of government policies and interventions, the selfpropelling dynamism of the sector and the nature of linkages between the informal and the formal sector”.

The Director General further said that adequate and appropriate mobilization and channelization of funds to existing and potential operators in the sector and change of policies to ensure tax payment and registration will help curb some of the challenges beclouding the sector.

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Oil producing communities landlords petition NASS ÏRƒƆƏ d ƆƋƋ Ɨƈ ƅƏƈƌƈ Ɛ Əƕ ƏƆ Ɛ ƍ ƕƌƆ Ɛ Olufemi Samuel & Tunde Opalana, Abuja

Landlords in some oil producing communities in Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Abia, Imo and Rivers States of Nigeria on Tuesday staged a protest at the National Assembly and subsequently presented a petition to the parliament over what they described as ‘discriminatory land re-acquisition and rentals for land by Shell Petroleum Development Corporation (SPDC) Nigeria Limited in the Niger Delta. They as well protested against SPDC’s refusal to address issues of non-payment of land owners in oil producing states as raised in the petition.

Speaking on behalf of the landlords, Mr. Isaac Oninye, a former member of the Bayelsa House of Assembly said they had on 2oth October, 2017 through their lawyer, Bekele Jones & Associate had petitioned the Senate against the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd stating that, amongst several other issues, the rental payment by the company to

its host communities for the 20142018 payment cycle was discriminatory, the company paying N200, 000 per hectare for some communities as against N600, 000 per hectare for other communities.

He said the petition was referred by the Senate to the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions before which both parties appeared on Tuesday the 21St day of November, 2017. He, however, said that the Managing Director and other delegates from the SPDC Nigeria Ltd failed to satisfactorily explain the discriminatory payments. ‘’But the said Senate Committee magnanimously gave the SPDC Nigeria Ltd a soft landing, mandating it to hold a meeting with the parties in that regard to harmonise the issues raised but at the meeting which the said company thereafter convened on the 29th day of November, 2017 inviting only Parsley Consult Ltd and ignoring Emagu Nigeria Ltd against the directive of the Senate Committee the said Company circumscribed what to discuss and bluntly restated their company’s initial position on all the issues raised in the Petition.

‘’In a bid to address this intransigence by SPDC Nigeria Ltd the company was directed by the Committee to pay all our client’s claims unfailingly in December 2017 but the said company neglected and refused to do so till date. Both parties were thereafter slated to appear at the proceedings of the said Committee for the 23 day of January, 2018 but the said company refused, and neglected to come. ‘’Hence, the said Company holds the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and by extension the entire National Assembly of this great country in contempt, which that company, a Multinational certainly cannot do in either of its home countries of the Netherlands or the United Kingdom or in any other country for that matter without repercussions,’’ he said.

The affected landlords, therefore prayed that the Senate, in exercise of its constitutional powers to ‘’in line with Section 89(1)(d) of the 1999 Constitution lssue a warrant for the arrest of the Managing Director of Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd so as to compel his attendance to enable him come forward and explain why it has in disobedience to the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions refused to

Oil communities protesting

obey the Directive that it pays off all the claims raised in the aforecaptioned Petition which the SPDC Nigeria Ltd had been mandated by the said Senate Committee since December, 2017; to pay’’.

A community leader, Chief Hezekiah Odede from Opolo Community of Bayelsa State said ‘’the raw material for oil industry is the crude oil and you cannot af-

ford to shortchange the area where the crude oil is being explore. How can they be paying communities where they rented leaving apartments N600,000 and pay owners of lands on which oil is produced just N200,000. That is injustice and we can no longer tolerate this’’ They gave SPDC seven day to do the needful or face unrest in the Niger Delta area.

EFCC arraigns businessman for dud cheque The Benin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on March 19, 2018 arraigned Duke Onoruere and Dugbeh International Services Limited before Justice T. O. Uluho of the Delta State High Court sitting in Warri, Delta State .

Onoruere together with his company, Dugbeh International Services Limited were arraigned on a two (2) count charge bordering on intent to defraud and issuance of dud cheque.

Onoruere was alleged to have presented a cheque of Two Million, Nine Hundred Thousand Naira to one Aggrey Ogheneothoke as payment for hiring/ leasing of heavy duty swam buggy equipment. The cheque upon presentation was returned unpaid due to insufficient funds. The alleged offence is contrary to section 1(1)(a) (1) of the Dishonoured Cheques (Offences) Act Cap. D11 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria vol.5, 2004.

The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charge when it was read to him.

In view of his plea, the defence counsel, Obafemi Ainerua pleaded with the court that his client who has been on bail granted by the court be allow to continue to enjoy the terms of the bail, assuring that the defendant will always be in court whenever he is needed.

The prosecution counsel , Abieyuwa U. Iriebe did not object but asked that she be given a date for trial .

Justice T.O.Uloho after listening to both counsel adjourned to April 12, 2018 for hearing while the defendant was ordered to continue on his bail.

EFCC operatives at Iyaganku court, Ibadan recently

Pensioners petition Emefiele on payment of benefits Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, has been petitioned by pensioners of the apex bank, urging him to expedite action on payment of their benefits, as contained in the twopoint agreement reached on March 1, 2017 between management and pensioners. The former CBN workers contended that non-implementation of the agreement had caused discomfort as many of them were no longer able to take care of their basic needs

including medical, leading to death.

The two-point agreement borders on enhancement of benefits and medical care. On the aegis of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Pensioners’ Welfare Association, CPWA, the pensioners recalled that the agreement was arrived at, following a meeting between CBN and the pensioners’ body.

According to the petition, a highpowered CBN management team of five Departmental Directors, led

by the then Director of Human Resources Department, now newly appointed as a CBN Deputy Governor, Mr. Edward Adamu, nominated by the Governor, was mandated to negotiate with the CBN Pensioners and pensioners’ parent body; the CBN Pensioners’ Club led the president, Chief Charles M.E. Katchy, a retired CBN Director.

The pensioners found it unbelievable that close to a year after the agreement was reached between the

parties, the CBN is yet to implement the content.

Following the protracted delay, the pensioners said after a meeting of representatives of the 15 branches of the body of the pensioners in Lagos, resolved among others, to “Write an SOS message to the CBN Governor as we are now doing, embarking on hunger strike, street demonstrations/protests to draw the attention of the Federal Government and the general public to our plight, and tak-

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Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 20, 2018

We are securing airports with CCTV cameras - FAAN boss we have these facilities in all the airports, but security challenges always come up in different forms. If you address this challenge, the challenge will come back again in another form. So, the only way out is to improve on our technology. As we speak, there are things going on at Lagos and Abuja airports to make sure that we cover all the restricted areas with Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras

Recent aircraft thefts on runways of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport might have forced the management of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) to purchase seven kilometer Close Circle Television Cameras to cover the stretch of the runway. The Managing Director of FAAN, Engr Saleh Dunoma, in a recent encounter with aviation journalists. spoke on challenges and progress such as debts, airport terminal buildings and scanning machines.

CHUKWUEMEKE IWELUNMO was there for The Daily Times

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ostly revenue generation points in FAAN are from the aeronautical sources at the airports. What is the agency doing to ensure that non aeronautical sources generate revenue?

Yes, aeronautical revenues are very straight forward and very easy to capture; these are services that are much defined and the charges are also well-defined. That also makes it easy for us to collect. A lot of our revenues come from aeronautical sources, but that is not to say that we don’t have non-aeronautical sources. However, we are trying to develop non-aeronautical revenues this is because we want to concentrate on our core activities, which is providing facilities to flight operations and passenger movement.

In most cases, in order for us to free ourselves from distractions, we try to see that the non-aeronautical revenues are concessioned out; so, we concession out the car parks, toll gates and others so that FAAN can concentrate on their core issues. That is providing and managing the airports operations. I know there are some countries that have high non-aeronautical revenues and aeronautical too. Nigeria is moving towards that gradually and by the time we design projects like aerotropolis, bring about a lot of developments on the landside of the airport, we would be seen to have developed the non-aeronautical sources of revenues.

We have issued out pieces of land for construction of hotels and other giant projects that we feel by the time they are completely completed and commissioned, w are going to earn more revenues from non-aeronautical sources. We are working hard on that, but we want to concentrate on the aeronautical sources so that we make sure that we provide the services that we are expected to provide to airlines and passengers.

Sir, what is the level of indebtedness by airlines and other concessionaires to FAAN? As long as we continue to do business, there would continue to be debts here and there. There is no day you will say nobody or airline owes FAAN, but as long as we continue with credit policy that gives them two weeks, indebtedness will always be there, you can never eliminate it, but what we have done in recent time was to call all our concessionaires in our regional offices to a meeting to reconcile and we have reconciled with almost everybody and we created a programme of payment, which is signed up by each and every person.

So, we look at what is reasonable and what they can pay monthly. We signed off on that. Everybody has some debts to pay,

Dunoma but we are making arrangement and with that plan in place, I think we are good to go, we don’t have issues with the airlines. Unless if they now default on the programme of payment, then, it means we need to call them back again and sit down for us to look at it and know why you are defaulting. We are ready to listen to everybody that is doing business with us; we will listen to them, consider their issues and see how we can work with them to make sure they are also comfortable and make them to make commitments on how to pay our debts.

Recent incursions into the restricted areas of the nation’s airports have been more pronounced in recent time, what is FAAN doing to have perimeter fences in most of our airports and eliminate these incursions?

Airport is a public place; there are certain areas that are restricted and there are some of the areas that are allowed for public to have access. As you know, we have various categories of people coming to the airport apart from the airline staff, you still have other people that are providing services. So, that is why we have the airport access control system. Apart from that, since it is a public place, there is a limit to what you can do in order to stop people from getting access to some areas they are not sup-

posed to access. So, we have a lot of measures in place and one of them is of course the proper fencing of the airport to restrict access to the place, we have perimeter patrol and there is technology also, which is for surveillance.

To some extent, we have these facilities in all the airports, but security challenges always come up in different forms. If you address this challenge, the challenge will come back again in another form. So, the only way out is to improve on our technology. As we speak, there are things going on at Lagos and Abuja airports to make sure that we cover all the restricted areas with Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras.

This is ongoing; in Lagos, it is 80 per cent completed and it is about 70 per cent completed in Abuja. We will soon commission this and once it is commissioned, our people will sit up and monitor these restricted locations. This is going to help us a lot.

In addition to that, we are buying another technology, which is a mobile system that has cameras on it and can see up to seven kilometers. So, we will position it and even at night, it has cameras that will watch all the sensitive areas of the airport; the runway, apron and the other restricted areas.

By the time we have all these technologies in place and we improve on the pe-

rimeter road, we mend some of the broken fences, the security will be watertight and nobody will be able to have access to the restricted areas and if you try to access it, you will be caught because of the technology put in place.

The CCTV cameras will not just be installed in Lagos, but in the five international airports across the country. The CCTVs have always been there, but you know that the facilities keep on growing; in Abuja and others, we are building new terminals and as we keep developing the airport, we have to keep developing on the security apparatus we have at the airports too. It is a continuous thing and a priority for the government.

The car park at the international wing of the Lagos Airport is a far distance from the terminal, what is FAAN doing to address the challenge?

I don’t think this distance is something we should worry about, but because in our airports, we are used to short distances. If you travel out, before you get to your gate from the security and immigration areas, you either spend 15 to 20 minutes walk and I am not sure if the distance between the terminal and the car park is more than five minutes walk. But, what we need to do is to improve the ambience. May be, when the passengers are walking, they should walk under a shed.

However, once this terminal under construction is completed; the whole thing would be linked. The car parked would be linked to the terminals. So, you don’t have to come out. You can trek the terminals to the car park all within under a roof.

However, on a temporary basis, we have buses that are working there and they carry passengers, but what we need to do is to increase the frequencies of the buses. We are going to improve on that and we are try-

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‘We are securing airports with CCTV cameras’ ing to get more buses to complement on the ones that we have.

Sir, what is FAAN doing to curb runway flooding at our airports?

I don’t think there are floods in our runways because one of the critical things in runway pavement is the drainage system.

You drain the runways in two directions; you know, runway is most times 60 meters wide. The centre is slightly high so that water does not stay on the runway at any point in time and most of the runways are properly designed for drainage. If it is raining heavily, the airlines know their safety limit; they either land or avoid landing at a particular point in time. Our runways are designed in such a way that they are properly drained.

What is the current situation at Enugu Airport?

Just last week, we were there with the Minister of State for Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika and we met the governor of the state on the issues pertaining the runway. Of course, the market is there, but you know the government has a programme of extending and expanding the runway. This programme started sometime in 2011 and we have successfully extended the runway, but we could not finish the approaches because of land issued.

However, the land issue is not within our purview, but within the state government and the minister has made this issue known to the governor. In fact on the day we visited him, the governor gave a directive right there and then that all the encroachments on the approach should be stopped.

He also gave a directive to Enugu State Radio, which has a mast there to immediately prepare and remove the mast there and that included Nigerian Television Authority (NTA). He has also promised us that he’s going to look into the relocation of the market and if these issues are addressed, then we will continue with the approach.

The runway is wide enough because it is 60 meters wide.

As soon as all these are addressed, we are going to go back, finish the runway and the installation of the lighting system and that makes the airport 24 hours.

What kind of partnership does FAAN have with State Governments that have airports in the states especially with upgrading of facilities at those airports?

We have Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) with several State Governments that have airports; about six or seven of them. These include Gombe, Bauchi, Gigawa, Kebbi, Akwa Ibom and Delta States. We are providing security service, fire cover, marshalling and some technical assistance. The airports are standards already because they did not build the airport without our consultations. They consulted us, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) and all the parastatals through the Ministry of Aviation. During those consultations, we gave the guidelines, consultants and others in designing the airports. So, the airports are complainant by standards. The only thing they need to do is to improve these airports on either infrastructure, technology or personnel and they will get back to us and we provide them with technical materials so that they will do it in accordance with international best practices, International Civil Aviation

For the purpose of day-to-day data, we have to rely on what we collect and then, later on, we can do reconciliation either with our agencies or our immediate stakeholders so that whatever data that is sent out, is data that is agreeable to all of us Organisation (ICAO) and NCAA standards.

They don’t work in isolation; they work with us so that at the end of the day, whatever they are providing in terms of technology and what have you, they are cleared by us. They can then go ahead and implement.

There are allegations that the scanning machines at the major airports don’t have the capacity to detect illicit drugs, how true is this?

We have various types of screening machines and equipment at the airports, but I will quickly add that it is not the set of that equipment that we have, but we are planning to buy equipment that can check almost everything. Recently, I went to Qatar where they were displaying some scanning machines. There are scanning machines now that would tell you the atomic number of anything. So, it can detect almost everything. We don’t have these machines now, things are being tested and they have to obtain airport certification before they are deployed to aviation.

But, what we have currently is a combination; the scanning machines that we have there are doing different jobs and we also have the hand held scanners, which are detecting narcotics. So, the combination of that can help security men t detect whatever they want to detect. Normally, the screening machines tell you it suspects something in a luggage and now, it is left for the security personnel on ground to carry out further analysis, using the machines or you can focus on the area detected by the machines and if you are not satisfied, bring up the bag and check manually. So, it has to be a combination of technology.

Right now, these are the technologies we are using, but I can assure you that these technologies would change very soon as companies have developed something that is more sophisticated and more efficient.

Very soon, we will get these equipment at our airports.

The new terminal buildings under construction have suffered several completion dates, when will these terminals be eventually commissioned?

We have to change the completion dates of the terminals under construction in the

Dunoma five or six airports because of issues raised by the contractors. There was an evaluation because of the devalued of naira to dollar. When the contract was awarded, I think a dollar was N165 and today, it is over N300 and the approval process to the variation was a bit lengthy. As we speak today, we are getting to the end of the journey, we have got Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) approval. So, the contractors have never stopped work. If you visited recently, Port Harcourt is over 80 per cent completed, followed by Abuja and Lagos.

If you go to Abuja, the avio bridges are shooting out from the terminal building and all the materials are there on sight, but just awaiting the installations. So, we believe that by the middle of this year, Lagos and Abuja should be ready. We have a lot of external work to do because we need to extend the apron especially in Lagos; in Port Harcourt, they have already started with the apron and it is about 33 per cent completed; Abuja also, they have started with the apron, already installing the avio bridge in Abuja.

So, Abuja will come up very soon. Just recently, we were there with Sen. Sirika and the Federal Capital Territory Minister to look how we can commission the building with the light rails that are servicing the airport. We are working with the FCT to make sure that we synchronise our activities in such a way that passengers can start using the light rail to the airport. Very soon, the light rail in Abuja would be commissioned, alongside the terminal building

and passengers can now come by train and also leave the airport by train.

Data gathering is one of the major challenges confronting this sector as several government agencies dish out conflicting figures, how can this be addressed?

If you have two or three people doing the same thing, the tendency is that there would be difference in whatever they are doing and if you have four or five agencies collecting data, definitely, there would be differences in data collection at the end of the day, but what we have resolved to do in order to get to the root of these differences, is to have better reconciliation. All the statisticians in the agencies will come together from NCAAA, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), FAAN and others will come together so that we will reconcile the information, the numbers before we issue them out.

But, for the purpose of day-to-day data, we have to rely on what we collect and then, later on, we can do reconciliation either with our agencies or our immediate stakeholders so that whatever data that is sent out, is data that is agreeable to all of us. So, this reconciliation we do quarterly with the agencies helps us a lot in order to make sure that at the end of the year when we want to publish our information, the data is captured by all of us and the airlines. These data are regularly reconciled to ensure we get required information and all the errors are usually minimised.

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L-R: Group Head, Agric Finance, Heritage Bank Plc, Olugbenga Awe; Senior Private Sector Development Adviser, British Deputy High Commission, Richard Sandall; Dean, Dangote Business School, Bayero University, Kano, Prof. Murtala Sabo Sagagi and Deputy Country Director, Sasakawa Africa Association, Sani Sagagi, at the Lagos-Kano Economic and Investment Summit in Epe, Lagos.

Stories by Motolani Oseni Unity Bank has debunked media reports claiming a freign company, Milost Global has concluded all plans to invest total sum of $1billion in the bank.

The lender, in a statement issued by its Head, Corporate Communications, Mr. Matthew Obiazikwor, said the Bank has unequivocally stated that it has not reached any agreement with Milost to warrant such speculation. According to him, “We categorically dismiss media claims of any such deal and advice the public to disregard any information to the contrary.”

The Bank hereby makes further clarifications regarding its on-going recapitalization programs to the effect that Unity Bank has not received commitment for investment of USD1bn from Milost.

Although, the bank’s spokes person noted that Unity Bank is in talks with a number of potential investors and has not con-

Unity Bank debunks $1bn investment boost from foreign company ÏM ƈ ƒƆ ƐƌƆ Ɛ Ƈ nd#ơƄ é n ƈƐƕ Ɗ cluded to pave way for commit- not to be identified as talks are Unity Bank, which was formed ment of an investment.

“The Bank has set realistic milestones on the recapitalization program and will update the public on the progress from time to time”, he stated.

It would be recalled that Bloomberg reported on Monday 19 2018, that Milost Global Inc. is looking to inject as much as $1 billion to recapitalize Nigeria’s Unity Bank Plc,.

The New York-based Milost offered to invest $700 million in equity and $300 million in five-year bonds that can be converted into shares in the Nigerian lender, said one of the people, who asked

confidential. The private-equity firm will get an initial stake of about 30 percent in the Lagosbased bank in exchange for its first equity investment of $250 million, the person said.

The media outfit rrpirted that transaction is still subject to a due diligence as well as regulatory approvals, the people said. The first part of the deal may be completed in the second quarter, one of the people said. The rest of the cash will be drawn down in intervals over a period of four years, provided Unity Bank has sufficient shares to issue to Milost, one of the people said.

out of the merger of nine banks between December 2005 and March 2006, said in April last year that it is in talks to sell its non-performing loans to avoid penalties after missing a deadline set by regulators on its recapitalization plans.

An investment in Unity Bank will be Milost’s third in a publicly traded Nigerian company since it agreed to pump $350 million into oil-services company Japaul Oil & Maritime Services Plc in February and to provide a $250 million financing facility to Resort Savings & Loans Plc. Several calls to the numbers listed on Milost’s

Naira gains as Forex market lifted with $210m As the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) injected fresh $210million into the inter-bank Foreign Exchange (Forex) market, the Nigerian currency, Naira, at the close of Tuesday 20 March, trading activities appreciated against the US Dollar at the official forex market, checks by The Daily Times revealed.

The local currency at the official Spot market settled at a stronger rate of N305.70 compare to N305.75 sold per dollar on Monday.

The Naira, also, recorded a better rate of N360.30 to the dollar at the Investors & Exporters Foreign Exchange (I & E FX) window, against N360.57 traded the previous day, as well opened at an appreciable figure of N360. 03 per dollar as against N360.15 recorded on Monday.

The autonomous forex window,

also, declared a better transactions turnover of $166.22 million, compared to weaker value of $98.60 million exchanged on Monday and Friday.

The Central bank had explained that it’s forex sales was aimed at sustaining liquidity in the forex market, and making forex available for customers’ needs in various segments of the market.

Tge apex lenderm had offered $100m to authorised dealers in the wholesale segment of the market, while the Small and Medium-scale Enterprises segment received the sum of $55m.

Customers requiring forex for invisibles such as tuition fees, medical payments and Basic Travel Allowance, among others, were also allocated the sum of $55m.

The Acting Director, Corporate Communications, CBN, Mr. Isaac Okorafor, while confirming the figures, reassured the public that the bank would continue to intervene in the interbank forex market in line with its desire to sustain liquidity in the market and maintain stability.

He said that the steps taken so far by the CBN in the management of forex was paying off, as reflected by reduction in the country’s import bills and accretion to its foreign exchange reserves.

Meanwhile, the nominee for deputy governorship of CBN, Mrs Aisha Ahmad, had called for diversifying the economy, which would help to diversify the sources of foreign exchange.

She, also called for a non-oil exports-boosting policies, saying they

were crucial in diversifying nation’s sources of foreign exchange.

Ahmad made the call while being screened by the Senate Committee on Banking and Finance The Senate on Wednesday mandated the committee to begin the process of confirming four presidential nominees as members of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) and two others as Deputy Governor of the CBN. “One of the key challenges that we are facing is over-reliance on oil and our sensitivity to changes in the price and availability of oil.

“The real action we need to take concerning diversifying the economy is to diversify the sources of foreign exchange.

“It is a simple demand and supply situation; if you have a high demand

website went unanswered.

The private-equity firm is targeting companies that trade at less than half of their intrinsic value using a facility combining debt and equity that it calls the Milost Equity Subscription Agreement, it said in an emailed statement on Monday.

Milost buys shares of a company at a minimum 50 percent premium to its market value, and then pegs this price over the next 90 days. If the stock fails to exceed this threshold, the target company will pay the difference to Milost in the form of extra stock, and a penalty of 10 percent to 20 percent of the discount that the share is trading at over a five-day period, it said.

for your good and supply is not there, there is a problem.

“Over the last 18 months we have seen a steady stabilization of our rates.

“What the importer and exporter window has done for us is to provide some assurance, some liquidity and some transparency in that market in terms of price.

“The stability we have seen has also encouraged some foreign investors to come and invest.

“While working on structural issues that are more long-term in diversifying our sources of foreign exchange, coming up with policies that stimulate domestic production and encourage exporters, we ensure we are converging on the rates.

“So, the difference between the official rates and the rates you have in some of the other channels are to be converged,’’ she added.

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The reign of local rappers!!! our next topic on the list.

Phyno Our Igbo Monarch has to be the next on my list.

Coming into the music scene as an igbo rapper hailing from the east side of Nigeria, Enugu state to be precise. Phyno has come to crown himself the overall King of the igbo indigenous rappers.

Beginning his career as a producer in 2003, He switched and took to rapping when banging tracks, “MAN OF THE YEAR”, “PARCEL”, “GHOST MODE” from his debut album NO GUTS NO GLORY was released in 2014. Phyno has three studio albums in his record; alongside 2 KINGS which he work on with best friend and business associate, Olamide. Phyno has been nominated for twenty eight awards with which he has won from big companies such as beating company, Naira Bet and Telecommunication Company, Airtel.

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Reminisce The third person that has to take the throne on this list of Kings is Reminisce also known as ALAGBA IBILE. Taking the Yoruba language as a tool for rapping, Reminisce made it into the music industry in 2008 when he performed a rap verse

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sophomore album titled “GONGO ASO”. He then By: Nwaokocha Daniel

It has been a feud in the music industry over a couple of years on who truly are the local rappers in the industry. We tend to see that these guys, the the industry and they are already taking over the industry with every single move they make. As for me ladies and gentlemen, I have my own pick and without contradicting your own list of course, here are my own top picks of the kings of the local rappers.

Olamide Yes. You guessed it. There is no doubt that Baddo is taking the number one spot for the king of local rappers on the music scene. From his breaking single ENI DURO that hit the market in 2011. Olamide brought about the local indigenous rap that made way for a lot of other rappers; who we would be talking about much later; to make it into the lime light. Olamide can be regarded as the king of the local rappers. He has shown this as he has

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awards, and won at least twenty including ones like “Album of the Year” and “Rap Act of the Year” by the Nigerian Entertainment Awards. Olamide is known to have created most of the “movements” that have been sweeping through the country, the continent and even the globe at large. Movements like “LEAVE TRASH FOR LAWMA”, “SNEH”, and the very present one “PEPPER THEM GANG”, a track off his very resent album, “THE GLORY”.

Olamide has bagged endorsement from big brands such as Telecommunication Company, Etisalat and sport beating company, Sure bet. Olamide already has six studio albums in his record along with one compilation album he created together with Phyno;

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Reminisce has three studio albums in his record.

Reminisce has been nominated for three award with which he has won three. He also has bagged his own share of endorsements from big companies such as ORIGIN, a popular herb and liquor cocktail and SAMSUNG. This ladies and gentlemen are my top pick of the three monarchs ruling the music industry in their own unique ways and styles.

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