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President to Governors: Enforce free, compulsory basic education

Says it’s a crime for any parent to keep his child out of school

Mathew Dadiya President Muhammadu Buhari has urged state governors in the country to vigorously enforce free and compulsory basic education for every child of primary and

junior secondary school age.

The President also advised the governors to pay special attention to security, health and agriculture in the next four years of this administration, adding that implemented, Continued on page 3

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R-L: President Muhammadu Buhari; CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele; Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Henry Dickson; Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun; and Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum, after the inauguration of National Economic Council (NEC) held at the Council Chambers State House Abuja…on Thursday.

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Nigeria would move out of poverty.

Buhari charged the state executives on Thursday while inaugurating the National Economic Council (NEC) at the Presidential Villa Abuja, reminding them that providing “free and compulsory education is a constitutional provision.”

He said: ‘‘Section 18(3) of the 1999 Constitution as amended places on all of us here an obligation to eradicate illiteracy and provide free and compulsory education. ‘‘Section 2 of the Compulsory, Free Universal Basic Education Act provides that every Government in Nigeria shall provide

free, compulsory and universal basic education for every child of primary and junior secondary school age. ‘‘It is indeed a crime for any parent to keep his child out of school for this period. In my view, when a government fails to provide the schools, teachers and teaching materials necessary for basic education, it is actually aiding and abetting that crime. ‘‘This is, therefore, a call to action. I would like to see every Governor rise from this meeting and rally his local Government Chairmen towards ensuring that our schools offer the right opportunities and provide the needed materials and teachers

for basic education, at the minimum. ‘‘If we are able to do this, the benefits will surely manifest themselves,’’ the President said in his 24-paragraph speech at the inaugural session of NEC. Buhari told the Governors that successes in the four key areas of education, security, health and agriculture would go a long in lifting Nigerians out poverty, and securing the future for sustainable growth and development.

Buhari had said during the maiden celebration of the June 12 Democracy Day in Abuja about a week ago that Nigeria would move 100 million citizens out of poverty in ten years.

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President Muhammadu Buhari in handshake with the Director General, National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Mr. Ahmed Rufai Abubakar while introducing President, Republic of Benin, H.E Patrice Talon (Third right). Others with him are Permanent Secretary FCT Mr. Christian Chinyeaka Ohaa; Director General, Diaspora Commission, Hon Abike Dabire-Erewa during President Talon’s visit to State House, Abuja... on Thursday.

NNPC GMD appointment: NEITI, OPEC express confidence on transparency of new leadership Michael Ajayi and Joy Obakeye, Lagos

The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) and Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) have expressed confidence in the transparency and accountability in the operations of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) under Mele Kolo Kyari as the incoming Group Managing Director (GMD).

P r e s i d e n t Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday approved the appointment of Mele Kyari as the corporation’s I9th Group Managing Director (GMD), replacing the incumbent, Maikanti Baru, who retires later this month.

According NEITI’s Executive Secretary, Waziri Adio, the choice of Kyari’s appointment is well-deserved and an intimation of more openness and reforms in the national Oil company, explaining that the new NNPC boss commitments to the values of EITI is not in doubt.

“On behalf of the Board, Management and Staff, we do hope that transparency and accountability will be taking notches higher and indeed mainstreamed in

the operations of NNPC under his watch”, NETTI said.

He further explained that as a member of the global EITI working group on commodity trading transparency, Mele Kyari’s appointment has placed him in a vantage position to push the frontiers of openness and to work more closely with NEITI and the global EITI to implement remedial issues in NEITI’s reports.

He added that the implementation of the findings of NEITI’s reports will not just be effective for operations of NNPC but also for optimisation of benefits of the oil and gas sector to Nigeria and Nigerians.

Also commenting on the well-deserved appointment, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Economic Commission Board (ECB) and the staff of the OPEC Secretariat conveyed their sincere congratulatory message to the new NNPC GMD. In a statement by the OPEC Secretary General, Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, Kyari was said to have secured his appointment on the basis of his performance.

“This appointment has come as no surprise and it is a testament to your

exemplary record and exceptional performance over the many years you have worked for NNPC in a variety of strategic roles. You have earned the respect of your colleagues in the ECB where you have conducted yourself with gravitas and greatly contributed to the discussions and decisions of this body”, Barkindo said.

Kyari’s appointment has, however, opened a channel of exposure for his credibility in the past years, as an expert in crude oil marketing and currently Nigeria’s representative at OPEC, he provides leadership and participates in engagements relating to Crude oil, Gas production, and associated market issues.

Kyari was NNPC’s former General Manager, Crude Oil Stock Management, 2014-2015 and has also participated in various deepwater projects across the globe.

Kyari as head of Crude Oil Marketing Division of the NNPC has ensured optimum determination and secured government’s equities and entitlements of crude oil, Natural Gas Liquids, NGL, Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG production from various fiscal arrangements.

President Muhammadu Buhari (right) with Sudan Special envoy who visited him at the State House Abuja...on Thursday

L-R: Deputy Vice Chancellor, Lagos State University, (LASU), Prof. Oyedamola Oke; Executive Director and Guest Lecturer, Mr. Liadi Ayoku; Regional Director, United Bank for Africa Plc, Ms Emem Usoro; and Dean, Faculty of Management Science, Prof. Babatunde Yusuf, during the 2019 Annual Guest Lecture of the Faculty of Management Sciences (FMS) delivered by Mr Liadi titled: The Future of Finance; Technology at Play, held at the University campus in Ojo ...on Wednesday

R-L: Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki; President, Benin Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (BENCCIMA), Mrs. Helen Odemwingie; First Deputy President, BENCCIMA, Mrs. Aina Omo-Ojeonu; and other members of the Chamber, during a meeting with the governor at the Edo Production Centre, along Sapele Road, Benin City... on Thursday.

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Again, Obasanjo attacks Buhari, says nepotism is corruption Mathew Dadiya, Moscow

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has for the umpteenth time, attacked President Muhammadu Buhari over his fight against corruption, accusing the President of nepotism in the appointment of people in his government.

Obasanjo said that corruption and development “are strange bed-fellow,” saying that “corruption is not only when money, goods and services are involved.”

The former president said this on Thursday during a panel discussion moderated by BBC news presenter, Lukwesa Barnes, at the 26th Afreximbank Annual meetings 2019 holding in Moscow, Russia.

According to him, nepotism is a form of corruption, condoning what is bad is corruption and lack of fiscal discipline is corruption.

He said that corruption and development cannot meet; urging African leaders to eschew corruption to make sure that their development makes significant progress.

“Fighting Corruption is not a one day matter, those who are entrenched are smart and what they do is to study you, when you say you are fighting corruption. Once they know what you are doing they take their time, let you go and comeback again.

“It must be consistently fought; it must not be a matter of do it today and leave tomorrow. It must not be a matter where you have sacred cows

but comprehensive and all inclusive,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner for Trade and Industry, African Union (AU), Mr. Albert Muchanga, has raised concern over Nigeria’s continued delay in endorsing the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), saying that the country has nothing to fear because the free trade agreement would even benefit Nigeria more than other countries.

Muchanga said that the objective of the agreement is to open up Africa by promoting free trade amongst its countries thereby promoting growth and economic activities that would enhance infrastructure.

Muchanga commended the Afreximbank for the initiative and continuous support for business and development of infrastructure.

On why Nigeria has been reluctant to sign the AfCFTA, Obasanjo said: “I don’t think there is any confusion. I was talking to somebody in government in Nigeria not long ago, he said, ‘we would be like a sleeping giant and when a sleeping giant wakes up he will surprise everybody.’

“I believe we have enjoyed the time of the delay but of course we have no choice than to sign it”.

The AfCTA is a trade agreement signed in Kigali, Rwanda, on 21 March 2018 between 52 African Union member states, with the goal of creating a single market followed by free movement and a single-currency union.

Speaking further on Nigeria’s delay in appending its signature to the pact, Obasanjo expressed optimism that

Obasanjo Nigeria would sign it before the formal launching in Niamey on 7th or 8th of July.

However, he said: “I hope that Nigeria would not be absent at the launching because I see no reason why Nigeria can be present at the launch when she has not signed the agreement.

“It is out of place talking of Eritrea and even Niger and Benin who are our neighbours who have signed and Nigeria is counting itself out. Nigeria should be where it should be before the 7th or 8th of July. If you hear the statement of the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Trade, you have

nothing in a statement more beautiful than that but he is not a policymaker, he is a policy executor. Now he will go home and tell the policy makers that I have made the right statement, so it’s now right for action for that statement.

I hope that when he gets home and said that it’s time for right action, they will follow through.”

Speaking further Obasanjo said: “What is happening in Nigeria is that the consultations that should have taken place in Nigeria came last.

Nigeria I supposed did the negotiation from Egypt and we had a Nigerian minister actually led the negotiation but

APC will not get away with what it wants in Senate – Abaribe Tunde Opalana, Abuja

Senators elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will not allow the All Progressives Congress (APC) government to have its ways freely unchallenged in the 9th parliament.

Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe (Abia South), made this disclosure on Thursday in Abuja at the opening of the 86th National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the party.

He said that the APC controlled Senate will not be allowed to ratify every demand of the APC led executive without subjecting such to proper legislative process, adding that PDP legislators under his leadership will not allow the red chamber to be willingly used to rubber stamp every bill or motion of the Presidency.

Abaribe promised that PDP Senators will put the APC government on its toes.

While calling on Nigerians not to be intimidated to speak against any injustice in governance, he said: “We will speak, we will act, and we will do everything to ensure that APC government does not get away with whatever they want”.

In his opening remark titled ‘Nigeria in Distress’, the National Chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus, castigated the process that produced the leadership of the National Assembly as a new

twist in corruption by the APC administration.

“Our party also put up some showing during the inauguration of the National Assembly but the ruling APC came up with their ‘green card’ ‘vote and snap’ fraud that introduced an unprecedented dimension to the growing corruption index of this administration. My worry is the consequences this brazen corruption would have in the legislative activities of the 9th Assembly.

“While the executive is having their wish in the 9th Assembly, PDP as the main opposition party is very uncomfortable that the level of corruption that preceded the emergence of the leadership is capable of undermining the desired robust legislative activities.

“Having ‘purchased’ the leadership of the parliament, we expect the cabals to now fully take over and dictate the show at the legislature. We have even seen the first sign of what is to come when the APC group in the Senate killed a motion to debate the June 12 speech of the imperial President.

“Only a conquered parliament with credibility challenge can shy away from discussing a major address of a President just sworn into office, but that is a sign of what is to come when choosing legislative leadership is heavily monetised by a regime that claims to be fighting corruption.

“The bazaar that took place during the election of National Assembly

leaders clearly gives a picture of the anti-corruption status and how the APC has become home for looters.

“Just last week, Nigerians witnessed how some corruption charges involving APC chieftains were withdrawn from the EFCC and handed over to the Attorney General for final dropping”.

The National Chairman, however, was not happy with the role played by some members of the PDP caucus in the elections and castigated them for backstabbing the party.

Recall that PDP anointed candidates for the positions of Senate President and Speaker House of Representatives, Senator Ali Ndume and Mohammed Bago were not voted by all Senators and Representatives of the party. Also, Senator Ike Ekweremadu failed to secure the full votes of all PDP members to regain his seat as Deputy Senate President.

He said: “Permit me at this juncture dear leaders to express the disappointment of our party on the embarrassing roles of some of our party members at the National Assembly during the election of their leaders.

“Party loyalty demands that you stick to your party at any given situation. When personal interest clash with party interest, personal should drown into that of the party, that’s what real democrats are expected to do.”

“The party has therefore decided to set up an investigation Committee to look into the role played by party

members during the inauguration process”.

He, however, congratulated the leadership of the 8th Assembly in particular the former Senate President, Bukola Saraki and Hon. Yakubu Dogara, for the wonderful job they did especially in resisting the executive, maintaining the independence of the legislature and sustaining the doctrine of separation of power.

Immediate past Speaker, House of Representatives, Rt. Hon Yakubu Dogara, said the report of the 2019 General Election by the European Union Election Observation Mission clearly shows that the PDP did not lose the February 23 Presidential election.

He said the observations made by international bodies that observed the last general elections; the EU EOM, the American based National Democratic Institute, NDI, and International Republican Institute, IRI, merely confirmed the feeling of Nigerians that the election that produced President Muhammadu Buhari was marred by rampant irregularities and therefore fell below credibility standard.

Chairman of PDP’s Board of Trustees, Senator Walid Jibrin, dismissed insinuation of crack in the party.

He said the party is united and all organs of the PDP back every decision taken by the party, adding that “there is no room for cabal in our party.”

unfortunately while that negotiation was going on the type of consultation that should be going on with trade unions, MAN and Chambers of Commerce and Civil society was not going on.

“Government is only a facilitator but the people who will really make work are the private sector operators but they were not carried along. So when this was presented they were asking what is all about?

“The other day I was in Addis Ababa on this same issue, the trade unions, MAN and the chambers of commerce were there and they all said they are now fully informed and now fully onboard. It is now left for government to do the needful by signing the African continental free trade agreement.”

However, the Permanent Secretary, Politics and Economic Affairs, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Gabriel Aduda, said: “If we do not work hard to ensure that a few protective steps are put in place, what we will likely end up with is a dumping ground which is what we do not want.

“With time, Nigeria is going to sign, we have to do like what China did even with the World trade agreement – they gave a condition and that is what we are going to do and you have to look at the size of your market. You do not expect a country like Nigeria to be given the same size of cake with a country like the Gambia even though we are all in Africa, it doesn’t work like that because Gambia is just like a local government in Nigeria.

“We need to understand how these things work and we should also understand one thing that behind all these trade issues – the barriers, the policies, the rules and everything - are the big players behind the masquerades- who are the former colonial masters.

“You cannot just go ahead and enter into an agreement with a neighbouring nation without looking at who is standing behind that nation; how are you going to protect yourself.

“Even though we need a free and fair deal, but how also do we protect ourselves to ensure that we do not just become a dumping ground. These are some of the issues we are looking at the moment. Absolutely, we are coming back to the table to say this is what we want.”

Earlier, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Mr Sergey Lavrov, expressed Russia’s willingness to contribute to the development of the African continent.

Lavrov said more than 20 billion dollars investment deals were done on the continent in 2018.

“Russia is building a long term relationship with Africa and has become a shareholder in Afreximbank.

“To give an additional impetus to all our cooperation, including commercial and economic, it was decided to jointly organise the first Russia-Africa summit in October 2019 in Sochi.

“We are waiting for African Heads of State and Government, leaders of the African Union and other major sub-regional organisations. We hope that Afreximbank will contribute to the substantial content of the economic part of the programme, which seems very solid. I take this opportunity to call on dear participants of the current conference to actively join future activities in Sochi.”

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Factional HDP chairman asks tribunal to strike out petition against Buhari Andrew Orolua, Abuja

The internal crisis in Hope Democratic Party (HDP) between its presidential candidate, Chief Ambrose Oworu and a factional Chairman, Poland Awinitabre, surfaced on Thursday at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal as the factional chairman asked the tribunal to strike out HDP’s name from the party’s petition challenging President Muhammadu Buhari’s re- election.

The factional chairman in an application filed on June 18, also asked the tribunal to effect a change of counsel.

Though, Awinitabre, who had without success during the last sittings sought to replace Oliver Eya who filed the party’s petition on the instruction of Oworu, he was

not represented by counsel on Thursday.

However, the tribunal at the resumed sitting expressed desire to hear all pending applications in respect of Ambrose Oworu and Hope Democratic Party joint petition, and observed that there were still two pending applications.

The first application seeking to strike out the name of the party from the petition while the second is seeking for a change of counsel.

Chairman of the presidential election petition, Justice Mohammed Garba, drew the attention of counsel representing the various parties to the pending applications.

But, while counsel to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Yunus Usman (SAN), that of President Buhari,

Osaro Eghobamien (SAN) and Charles Edosamwam (SAN) all claimed knowledge of the applications, the counsel to Ambrose Oworu, and the HDP, Oliver Eya said he was not aware of the said applications.

Eya asked the tribunal to disregard the applications as they did not emanate from his clients. He specifically told the tribunal that the applications were filed by some busy bodies and meddlesome interlopers who are not known to the petitioners.

This was after acknowledging that the two applications were served on him in court.

However, counsel to the APC, Edosamwam, drew the attention of the tribunal to a counter affidavit filed by the presidential candidate of HDP and the first petitioner, Ambrose Oworu against the

two applications.

Responding, Justice Garba said since the applications have become part of the process in the tribunal’s file, it is only pertinent to hear them.

Meanwhile, Eya applied that since the applications were served on him in court, he needed time to respond to them.

It would be recalled that during one of the tribunal’s session, the factional National Chairman of the HDP, Poland Awinitabre, openly disowned Eya as counsel for the HDP and its presidential candidate, Chief Oworu.

In his short ruling, the tribunal held that “in view of the fact that the applications were served on Eya this morning, his request is hereby granted.”

The tribunal consequently adjourned to June 25, 2019 for hearing on the applications.

How corps member was freed from Boko Haram captivity - Borno Govt

The Borno State Government on Thursday confirmed how collaboration between security agencies and an undisclosed journalist led to the freedom of a female corps member, Halima Umar from Gwoza, who was abducted by Boko Haram insurgents in January.

The freed lady was handed over to Borno State Deputy Governor, Umar Kadafur, at the Government House, Maiduguri on Thursday.

The General Officer Commanding 7 Div, Brig.

Gen. Abdulmalik Biu alongside the state director of the Department of State Services (DSS), presented

the corps member to the state government.

The statement by the state government reads: “A serving corps member, kidnapped in January 2019 by one of the terror groups in the North East, Halima Uwani Umar, has been freed.

“Her freedom came as a result of a joint coordinated engagement involving key stakeholders. It is an outcome of a preliminary level negotiation involving the state government, the Kalthum Foundation for Peace, a non- governmental organisation with intermediatory negotiation with the leadership of the terror group handled by a prominent investigative

journalist with critical access.

“The state government states that the step is in line with its desire to work with strategic partners to open lines of communication with the insurgents as a means of freeing several non combatant captives of the terror groups.

“The strategic interventionist team was empaneled to use every necessary tools and good spirited individuals to engage the insurgents in noncombatant ways as a means of de-escalation framework that will eventually result in freeing more captives and safe return of displaced persons in the state.

“The insurgents released

Ms. Umar as a sign of goodwill to commit to a new process of resolving the conflicts in the region.

The state government, the military, the DSS played vital roles deploying professional field experience and strategic cover for the process. The state government shall continually bring the media up to speed as may be necessary.

“We, as a government, are committed to working with the Federal organs of security as well as non -governmental organizations and well meaning citizens to pursue with vigour the safe return of captives, displaced persons and vulnerable population of our great state.”

Kwara eyes N200bn CBN fund for innovation hubs Kwara State would benefit from the N200 billion fund the Central Bank of Nigeria has set aside to promote innovative ideas and entrepreneurship, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has said.

Gov. AbdulRazaq said talks have reached an advanced stage for the state to be considered for the fund that would establish innovation hubs in the area of high-end movie production and textile manufacturing.

“We have Kwara Youth Centre talking with the CBN on the innovation hub and I’m glad to inform you that our proposal to access the fund is receiving favourable ratings,” AbdulRazaq told a delegation of (KYC), who visited him in Ilorin, the state capital on Wednesday night.

“When these hubs are created, they would generate at least 2000 jobs in the area of movie production and textile designs,” he stated.

The Kwara Youth Centre is an umbrella body of young people, especially professionals, who research into the challenges in various communities and offer short and long term solutions or interventions.

The governor said the hubs would attract European and Chinese firms and lead to technology transfer to the indigenous workers.

AbdulRazaq said he envisions a state where government would create the right environment for individuals to create wealth and employment rather than anyone relying exclusively on the government to give them job.

He restated his commitment to agricultural value chains, especially in the area of cashew and sugarcane.

The governor said Kwara State, with the right investment in infrastructure, has the potential to be the number one producer of sugar in Africa.

According to him, Kwara State under his administration would pay counterpart funding to access funds set aside by the Federal Government and multilateral

institutions to drive growth in the grassroots, especially in the area of education and provision of basic amenities.

Referring to his meeting with the directors of personnel management in the local government areas where the executive were suspended, AbdulRazaq said he would pursue e-governance to fasttrack governance.

“I told the directors of personnel management that everybody wanting to work with government must be computer literate. We have to do things differently.

We’ve got to run efficient government,” he said.

Convener of KYC, Kayode Oyin-Zubair, said they had come to bring AbdulRazaq up to speed on the activities of the group which the governor had long been supporting.

The group urged the governor to focus on empowering the youths in various ways and establishing economic clusters for different categories of entrepreneurs, artisans and creative sector.

The group also called on AbdulRazaq to open up Kwara with access roads, saying that is the only way to boost agriculture and other initiatives of the administration.

The governor later inducted the KYC as an advisory board to the government.

The governor meanwhile has directed the directors of personnel management to henceforth run their respective local government areas following the recent suspension of the executive and legislative committees.

AbdulRazaq urged them to bring development closer to the grassroots in line with the constitutional mandate of local governments.

He, however, warned them against mismanagement of public funds, adding that his administration would frown at anybody making away with public resources.

AbdulRazaq also said his administration would henceforth refer any case of ghost workers to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

purposes and disbursed to those who executed the purposes as directed by the then president, adding that he later submitted details of the disbursement to the president.

He urged the court to take a look into the list of disbursement carried out in cash and in checks.

Metuh also dismissed the insinuation that the N400m was meant to fund the PDP, adding that at the period, the PDP was rich to the tune of N33bn, with N12bn generated from sales of nomination forms and N21bn raked from fund raising.

According to him, the N400m was not for PDP, because there was no need to take a cup of water to the ocean.

Meanwhile, further cross examination has been adjourned to June 24, 25 and 26.

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N400m payment is not from unlawful source, says Metuh Andrew Orolua, Abuja

Former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh, on Thursday, denied that the N400 million payment to his company, Destra investment Limited, came from an unlawful source.

He also stated that the payment was not an illegal act but for a specific national project as directed by former President Goodluck Jonathan.

Metuh stated this on Thursday while testifying as a witness of Destra Investment Limited which opened its defence in the N400m money laundering charge before Justice Okon Abang of the Abuja division of the Federal High Court.

He reiterated that former President Jonathan and not the former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd), approved the payment.

Metuh also told the court that the money was paid to him by Jonathan to execute some national assignment for the Federal Government.

Giving evidence on behalf of his company, Destra Investment Ltd, which is the second defendant in the suit, Metuh said that the account where the N400m was paid into belong to the company.

He said that he could not consider the money for act of any unlawful purpose because it came from the then president.

Metuh recalled that he held a meeting with the then president where various issues and challenges facing the country were

discussed; adding that former president Jonathan promised and made the N400m available to him to carry out the national assignment.

He stressed that the money could not have been for an unlawful purpose because he was helping and contributing to stabilising the then government because President Jonathan was elected on the PDP platform.

Metuh specifically dismissed allegations that the money was channeled to him through Dasuki.

“I did not receive any money from Col. Sambo Dasuki. Dasuki represents one of the finest and most brilliant military officers ever produced in the Nigerian military.

He has had a distinguished career, served a lot of government and finally served as National Security Adviser for this country, under

former President Jonathan.

“Up till May 29, 2015, no individual or group had ever questioned Dasuki’s integrity not to talk of been charged or arrested for any unlawful act. I am not aware of any criminal charge against Dasuki or any unlawful act until we lost government in 2015.

“As I am talking on oath before this court now, I can say categorically that Dasuki has not been interrogated, charged or convicted for any act relating to me and my company. The N400m was paid into my account by the then president and I did not conceal or disguise the money and it was not transferred out of jurisdiction”, he said.

Metuh insisted that the money was paid him for specific

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Court adjourns Kashamu’s extradition suit to June 27 Andrew Orolua, Abuja

Embattled Senator Buruji Kashamu who in the last five years has engaged in a legal battle to stop his extradition to the United States to face charges for alleged drug smuggling has again approached the Federal High Court in a fresh suit to prevent his extradition.

Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday adjourned the hearing of the suit to June 27.

This followed the absence of the attorney general of the federation or his legal representation in court when the matter came up for hearing on Thursday.

The suit is one of the three new cases instituted by the embattled former senator who is praying for an order to prohibit the federal government from giving effect to the extradition request of the American government.

When the matter came up on Thursday, counsel to Kashamu, John Olusola Odubela (SAN) informed the court that the matter which bothers on fundamental human rights of the senator was for hearing and that he was surprised that there was no representative of the attorney general in court.

However counsel to the National Drug law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Puis Gande told the court that the case was transferred from Justice Ahmed Mohammed and that the attorney general was not notified of the transfer and was not issued with the hearing notice.

Gande argued that the issue of hearing notice is fundamental and that the court should endeavour to indulge the attorney general to be served with the hearing notice to enable his presence or legal representation in court.

He specifically, said that the principle of fair hearing would be breached if the court should go ahead to hear the matter in the absence of the attorney general who is listed as the first respondent in the suit.

Furthermore, Gande submitted that he became aware of the transfer of the case to Justice Abang during one of his visits to the court, adding that his presence was out of respect for the court and not that he was issued with the hearing notice as required by law.

“The issue of hearing notice is fundamental and must not be toyed with. We want this matter to expeditiously hear the matter on

its merit so that we can arrive at a just conclusion and as it is now, it is in the best interest of justice that the attorney general be allowed to come in through the issuance of hearing notice and if he fails, the matter can go on in his absence,” he added.

In his ruling Justice Abang agreed with Gande that hearing notice is a fundamental issue as it bothers on fair hearing.

Consequently, he adjourned the matter till June 27 for hearing.

The judge further said that no court of law will proceed with any matter until all the parties have being duly served with the hearing notice, adding that any court that proceeds without hearing notice to parties is embarking on a nullity ‘’It is clear that the attorney general is not served with the hearing notice and this condition cannot be waived by any party because its absence will render proceedings a nullity,” the judge declared.

Kashamu had sued the attorney general of the federation and the NDLEA, alleging breaches of his fundamental rights, which he is praying the court to enforce by stopping the two respondents from extraditing him to America to face trial for drug peddling.

Short News NYSC director general tasks corps members on good conduct Ukpono Ukpong, Abuja Director General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig. Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, has called on corps members to remain good ambassadors of the scheme, even as he reiterated his commitment towards ensuring that the welfare and security of corps members are prioritised.

Shuaibu while addressing the newly sworn-in 2019 batch ‘B’ corps members in the Federal Capital Territory, warned against indecent dressing and unauthorised journeys which he said the scheme under his watch will not tolerate.

He advised the corps members to always be security conscious and report any case of threat to live and property to the NYSC management and security agencies.

“Please avoid unauthorised journeys. Most of the times, we record problems on accounts of unauthorised journeys. Be security conscious and avoid indecent dressing.

“Don’t tamper with the NYSC uniform except for adjustment that are not only visible but, are absolutely necessary,” the director general added.

Similarly, the FCT Permanent Secretary, Sir Chinyeaka Ohaa, in his address pledged the Federal Capital Territory Administration’s willingness to support, encourage as well as provide the enabling environment for corps members to carry out laudable development projects in the nation’s capital.

Delta assembly confirms eight commissioner nominees

The Delta state House of Assembly on Thursday confirmed the list of eight nominees submitted to it by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa.

The list comprises four former commissioners who served during the first tenure of the governor and a former speaker and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state.

Top on the list is Basil Ganagana, a former speaker of the state assembly and Chief Festus Ochonogor, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state.

It list also consisted of four former commissioners who served during the first tenure of Okowa. They are Peter Mrakpor, Chief Patrick Ukah, Chief James Augoye and Chika Ossai.

They were all given the privilege of taking a bow and go after they introduced themselves to members of the House.

Two other nominees, Mrs. Florence Alantan and Prof. Patrick Muoboghare also enjoyed the privilege of taking a bow and go as directed by the Speaker of the Assembly, Chief Sheriff Oborevwori.

The confirmation of the commissioner nominees followed a motion moved by the Majority Leader of the Assembly, Tim Owhefere during plenary of the Assembly in Asaba.

NDLEA arraigns businessman for allegedly peddling cocaine

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Thursday arraigned a businessman, Adewale Ibrahim at a Federal High Court in Lagos for allegedly trafficking 840grammes of cocaine.

Ibrahim, 49, was arraigned before Justice Mohammed Liman on a two-count charge bordering on illegal exportation of cocaine to India.

He however, pleaded not guilty to the charge. The NDLEA in the charge marked FHC/118c/2019 alleged that the defendant committed the offence on February 28.

Ibrahim was said to have been arrested during the outward clearance of Ethiopian Airline passengers at the departure hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.

The prosecutor, Mrs. Juliana Imaobong, alleged that the defendant aided one Kunle and Aina, who are resident in India with the exportation which was concealed in a false bottom travelling bag.

The offences, she said contravene the provisions of Sections 11(b) and 14(b) of the NDLEA Act, 2004.

After his plea, defence lawyer, Chief Lilian Omotunde, informed the court of a bail application filed on behalf of the defendant and urged the court to grant him bail on liberal terms.

Although, the prosecutor opposed the bail application on the ground that the defendant was a flight risk, the court however, granted him a N2 million bail with one surety in like sum and adjourned the case till October 2 for trial.

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Court orders Ganduje, Sanusi to maintain status quo

A High Court sitting in Kano on Thursday again ordered Governor Abdullahi Ganduje and the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi ll to maintain the status quo in respect of the interim order issued against the governor on May 10.

On May 10, the court through the ex-parte application by the applicant, Rabiu Gwarzo restrained the governor and all other respondents in the case from appointing or recognising any purported emir under the Kano state Emirs Appointment and Disposition

Amendment Law 2019, pending the hearing of motion on notice.

In his ruling, Justice Nasiru Saminu, ordered that all the parties in the suit should still maintain status quo pending the hearing of the motion on notice and thereafter, adjourned the matter until July 15 for hearing.

Earlier, the counsel to Ganduje, the former Attorney-General of Kano state, Ibrahim Mukhtar, urged the court to vacate the order since it was issued over 20-days-ago and has expired.

“An ex-parte order has seven days life spam under Section 39, sub -section III and Section IV grants the court power to extend the sevenday life spam of the ex-parte,” he argued.

Counsel to the applicant, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN) however, objected to the oral application to vacate the order by informing the court that the application should be accompanied with a written address.

He added that “l urge the court to allow the motion to keep its cause, it is not ripe for hearing.”

Belgore explains sharing of N450m election funds from Diezani Peter Fowoyo, Lagos A Federal High Court, Lagos has heard how the f N450 million received from the former Minister of Petroleum, Dr. Diezani Madueke, during 2015 general elections was shared to the police, army, Department of State Services (DSS), other security agencies and members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara state.

Dele Belgore (SAN) told the court that the decision on how the money was to be shared was taken by stakeholders in the PDP campaign organization at a meeting held in the house of another party chieftain named Sheriff Shagaya.

Belgore alongside Prof. Abubakar Sulaiman, a former minister of national planning are standing trial before the court over a N450 million fraud. The duo are being prosecuted by the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a nine-count charge bordering on the alleged offences.

They had however, pleaded not guilty to the charges and were granted bail.

Belgore, who was the Kwara state coordinator of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaign organisation while being cross-examined by counsel to the EFCC, Rotimi Oyedepo, denied singlehandedly taking the decision on how to share the N450 million, insisting that the decision was taken by all members of the campaign organisation.

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This ‘Next Level’

Dele Agekameh

What next? This is a curious thought that may have popped into the mind of Nigerians after the 2019 elections and the unceremonious inauguration of May 29. Whether as supporters of the present government and ruling party or members and supporters of the opposition, the question will remain lingering in the mind of Nigerians for at least the next few months. Many expect President Buhari’s administration to keep people guessing for some time, especially going by events at this stage in the last dispensation.

Nigerians got a first taste of things to come in the political arena on the eve of Democracy Day, when the new leadership of the Senate arrived at Aso Rock on a courtesy visit. It appeared to be more of a visit to pay obeisance to the president, especially as Ovie Omo-Agege, the new deputy Senate president, literally resorted to “break-dancing” by bending a knee to greet President Muhammadu Buhari as the latter received him, with Ahmed Lawan, the new Senate president. Promises of swift passage of budgets have set the tone for an improved executive–legislature relationship in the Ninth Assembly. However, members of the opposition are already calling it a potential “rubber stamp” legislature. This remains to be seen.

The following day, on the newly designated Democracy Day, June 12, the nation finally heard the president speak about the direction of his administration in this new dispensation. The president’s speech was dotted by the customary citation of achievements that political leaders the world over are proud to remind the electorate about. Although there was some acknowledgement of the room for improvement, some may say that the dire situation in many areas may have been understated, albeit in true political tradition, especially for incumbents. The highlight of the speech may have been the renaming of the National Stadium in Abuja after M.K.O Abiola, the original hero of June 12, 1993.

No inaugural address can completely

cover all areas of interest to the teeming population of this country, or any other country in the world, but the president’s speech as a returning incumbent is a step down from the rousing speech he gave in 2015. That speech was full of righteous venom and contained an unapologetic and realistic appraisal of the situation in the country at the time. It was brutally honest, while not being unduly critical. Last Wednesday, the president may have been hindered by the need to show progress, while displaying a consciousness of present needs. In the end, the preservation of image won against brutal honesty and the result was the watery delivery that did little to satiate the heightened sense of foreboding in many sections of society.

It is not that the president has not delivered on many promises made in his first inaugural speech. In 2015, President Buhari spoke about unemployment and widespread poverty, and programmes that would be introduced to check them. Today, a series of social intervention programmes have been instituted, with beneficiaries in different sections of society. These exist alongside the agricultural revolution that the government is championing. We know about his anti-corruption crusade. Although controversial at times, it is just what he promised to do. He was also clear about his respect for the distinction between tiers of government, and a recent move through a presidential panel is aimed at highlighting that distinction in addressing the most pressing concern – that of insecurity.

In the area of insecurity, the president has left Nigerians with mixed feelings. In 2015, President Buhari said that, “Boko Haram is not the only security issue bedeviling our country. The spate of kidnappings, armed robberies, herdsmen/farmers clashes, cattle rustlings, all help to add to the general air of insecurity in our land”. If his handlers copied and pasted this into his speech this term, no one would have raised an eye brow. And that is despite the fact that his administration indeed brought the fight to

Boko Haram and reclaimed lost territory early in the administration. And he has largely managed to contain and restrict the terrorists. He is also credited with the return of many of the Chibok girls, as promised, including the Dapchi girls who were seized on his watch. But there is the very big issue of Leah Sharibu, the elusive Abubakar Shekau and the new stem of banditry in the insecurity mix.

The president also said in 2015 that the rising state of insecurity was aided by “official bungling, negligence, complacency or collusion”. Again, if this were copied into his speech this term, very few would protest. He also spoke, in 2015, about small fires leading to larger fires when talking about the mishandling of the then little Boko Haram sect, with the extra-judicial killing of Mohammed Yusuf, the founder of the group. Today, the Shi’ite leader, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky has been in detention indefinitely for years and his followers are a constant nuisance in Kaduna and Abuja. The president spoke about protecting citizens from human rights abuses in 2015, but now we have an out-of-control Special Anti- Robbery Squad (SARS), a Gestapo-like Department of State Services (DSS), and a sometimes high-handed military.

Power generation, which was a subject of some lament by the president in 2015, has gone the same way as the fight against Boko Haram. Early gains, which included the increase in generating capacity and in supply, are now being reversed with supply currently hovering around the same level it was in 2015, even with the privatisation in that sector. The leaps and bounds of the Buhari administration in some areas have been followed by dips and drops in other areas. In moving forward, the country and this administration must realise that we can only be as strong as our weakest link. We must not get lost in the euphoria of success in one area and bleed to death from an untended wound.

Therefore, we must identify the weakest

link in every area of society and actively work to correct the uneven progress we are experiencing. This includes in the area of governance, with appointments and agencies. Some federal (and state) appointees have done better than others who may have even had lesser challenges to face. Some agencies have also underachieved or caused more negative exposure/results than they recorded positive ones. The president promised, last Wednesday, to correct the lapses made through the human factor in governance.

A (timely) review of appointments will be a good place to start, so that the administration can hit the ground running.

The president is again tasked with leading the somewhat sleeping giant of Africa back onto the road of success. As this country has proven, through its myriad of spiritual and tribal leaders, bringing people to their knees is common. Raising people up, out of poverty, out of stagnation and out of oppressive leadership, that is the true hallmark of the most renowned leaders the world has seen. If the Buhari administration can lift up Nigerians, like the 100 million it promises to raise out of poverty, then the next level will be fulfilled.

Like the president said, if India, China and Indonesia can do it, with their populations, so “we can”.

President Buhari ended his speech in 2015 with poetry by Shakespeare: “There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life, is bound in shallows and miseries”. No doubt, at the time of that speech, the president believed the country to be, or soon to be, at that pivotal point suggested by Shakespeare in the poem. In view of developments since then, one wonders whether the country has ridden that figurative tide or missed it. Has it even come yet? If Nigerians are unable to answer one way or another, it may be a reflection on the administration that began by quoting this text. Hopefully, we have not missed the tide.

EU Election Report: Straight from Janus!

Banji Ojewale

Janus was the Roman mythological god that had two faces – front and back. One looked backwards into the past, with the other gazing forward into the future. Heaven help you if you lost your way and ran into Janus at a crossroads. He would blight your plight. For, his mien would indicate two directions, when all you required was one, to lead you to your destination. But alas the ancient Romans celebrated this god of guile, elevating him as inspirer of “auspicious beginnings.” That’s how the month of January was imposed on us in honour of Janus.

And that is what the European Union Election Observer Mission (EU EOM), that came for Nigeria’s 2019 poll has given the nation: a report with two deceptive sides. The document has been hailed and contemned by the country’s two major political parties, the All Progressives Congress (APC), and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), suggesting that there are two angles, each suiting or damning one side or the other. You go home with what gratifies you and drop that which offends. Yet it’s one report.

But the ideal is to have a presentation that gives a definitive conclusion, from which none of the parties would have cause to celebrate. We looked for a report that would roundly blame the ballot umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and the sitting government for their poll misdeeds that disenfranchised tens of millions of Nigerians in February and March. True, the EU monitors did refer to these, but only timidly, in my view. It’s

what has given room to the double face of the document. A place for the opposition to laud itself; and a corner for the ruling government and INEC to extol their prowess. All due to the half-way work of the EU observers.

An aide of the president, Festus Keyamo, appeared to also have perceived these deficiencies. Speaking shortly after the EU team briefed the world on the election, Keyamo faulted the observers for not “coming to a conclusion” in their report. He said “… if you are an observer, you should come to a definitive conclusion, don’t be dodgy about it, don’t run away from that fact…It is not enough for you to discuss the anomalies, they must discuss the overall results coming from the entire country and whether it did reflect the wishes of the people.”

The expectation is that such a report, in which the credible monitors spoke of widespread “systemic failures” during the ballot, would lead to grief and remorse, not to a blame game or to laudatory remarks by the players. What’s there to be proud of? The report, even with its shortcomings, makes it clear that we failed, both at the macro-system level and at all the outer ripple fallout phases of the poll conduct.

The government lost a golden opportunity to give the nation a 21st century ballot by not assenting to the progressive new Electoral Bill. The security paraphernalia was porous as to allow grave security breaches that led to violence and deaths, despite a controversial and draconian pre-poll order from President Muhammadu

Buhari that ballot snatchers should be dealt with mercilessly. Voter apathy plagued the process. There was massive underage voting in several places, such that as you stood watching the throng, you would wonder if it was a centre for the enrollment for admission to primary schools. How about monetary vote-inducement? Observers saw it in action. Outright cancellations of votes, postponements and undercounting and over-counting of ballot were also on display to blemish the exercise.

A concerned Wole Soyinka has been speaking of witnessing a body count and not a vote count. The summary: the 2019 elections were dragged into dishonour by “operational and transparency shortcomings.” EU EOM says the last time it conducted this mission in 2015, it recommended some measures to steer us from repeating our errors. But we didn’t take note of the warning, and here we are four years after falling into a deeper ditch.

The response of others to the EU verdict has been to call for the resignation of Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of INEC. A civil society group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has asked: “What is Mahmood Yakubu still doing as chairman when the shoddy and shabby electoral heist he supervised has been discredited locally and globally?” Our normally tardy Presidency in times of reactions to integrity issues has not given any signal it would do away with the election body boss. But it has promised to study EU’s post-poll ruling and come with something better than what it gave

Nigerians in February and March, 2019.

Apart from an immediate implementation of the new Electoral Bill, the government must go the way of late President Umar Yar’Adua. He admitted in his inaugural speech: “We acknowledge that our elections have shortcomings. I…believe that our experiences represent an opportunity to learn from our mistakes. Accordingly, I will set up a panel to examine the entire electoral process with a view to ensuring that we raise the quality and standard of our general elections, and thereby deepen our democracy.” He did in 2007, shortly after being sworn in and by December the following year he gave Nigerians the 297-page document commonly called the Justice Uwais Report.

Yar’Adua didn’t live long enough to see to realising the mission of the work he commissioned. More than ten years after the report was prepared and submitted to the government, it’s still gathering dust. Yet, it addresses demons we have grappled with over the ages: “Nigeria as the arena of electoral contests, weak democratic institutions, negative political culture, weak constitution/legal framework and lack of independence and capacity of the electoral management bodies.”

I have no doubt EU EOM’s report is Janus-faced in giving room for complaisant sentiments from the poll gladiators. But its moral verdict isn’t double-edged. It is crystal clear: it is asking us to go back to what we neglected in Uwais which could have spared us this crushing cudgel of the EU.

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Editorial Commentary NEWS PDP releases timetable for Kogi, Bayelsa gov’ship polls Jerks nomination fee to N20m, fixes Gov’ship primary Oct 3 Tunde Opalana, Abuja The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has released timetable of activities for the November 16, 2019 governorship election in Kogi and Bayelsa states.

This was as the party raised the nomination fee from N5 million to N20 million while the fee for Expression of Interest form remains N1 million.

The party also fixed governorship primaries in both states for October 3.

These were part of decisions taken at the 86th National Executive Council meeting of the PDP on Thursday at its Wadata Plaza, Abuja national secretariat.

Briefing the press at the end of the meeting, PDP National Publicity

Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said the tenure of the Kogi State executive of the party will end on July 22 while a caretaker Committee will be put in place pending the election of a new executive.

In the time table signed by PDP National Organising Secretary, Col Austin Akobundu (rtd), sales of nomination and expression of interest forms commences on June 24 and ends on July 24, while the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will publish notice of election on August 18.

Governorship aspirants in both states will be screened on August 19 while appeal on screening will be heard on August 21.

Campaign for elections will end on Thursday November 14.

We’re not challenging Umahi’s devt efforts, traders tell court Charles Onyekwere, Abakaliki Traders at the Abakaliki Regional Market on Thursday told an Abakaliki High Court that they were not in court to challenge the developmental efforts of Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State.

The traders said that they are challenging the alleged unlawful process adopted by state government in issuing the revocation order to owners of stalls and buildings in the market.

Mr. Ikechukwu Nwabo, former Commissioner for Special Projects had in a letter dated February 13, and addressed to the chairman of the Building materials Dealers Market of Ebonyi asked the traders to vacate the market before March 25, 2019.

The Abakaliki Regional Market is housing the Abakaliki Building and Almunium Materials markets and located along the Abakaliki /Afikpo road.

The traders, Messrs Chibogu Nwite, Fredrick Odanwu, Dennis Osuachala, Beneth Nwosu and others, who are plaintiffs in the matter in suit no.

HAB/43/2019, sued the Ebonyi State government on behalf of themselves and other concerned traders in the market.

The plaintiffs, who are traders at the building materials segment of the regional market, are challenging the government’s revocation of Certificates of Occupancy order issued to shop owners in the market.

According to the plaintiffs, the order violated their rights to occupancy of the said parcels or plots of land they are occupying having legally acquired the parcels or plots of land where they built their stalls.

Mr. Anthony Ani (SAN), counsel to the plaintiffs, told the court while submitting his written address that the plaintiffs were not in court to challenge the developmental efforts of the Ebonyi State government.

He said that the petitioners were in court to challenge the process and procedure employed by government and its agents which were aimed to unlawfully ejecting them from their property in the regional market.

He said that the construction and

maintenance of markets were the exclusive competence of local government areas.

Ani, who cited relevant sections of the 1999 constitution as amended and other legal authorities, therefore urged the court to grant all five reliefs sought for by the plaintiffs as contained in the final written address as the plaintiffs’ final request.

He said: “The plaintiffs are not in any material particular opposed to the developmental efforts or goals of the state government led by Umahi or his constituted authorities, the plaintiffs are only insisting that the rule of law be followed”.

Meanwhile, Mr. Paul Awada, counsel to the state government and director, Civil Litigation, in his written address, urged the court to discountenance the reliefs sought by the plaintiffs and award judgement in favour of state government.

Awada told the court that the regional market falls within the Abakaliki Capital Territory (ACT).

He said that the Abakaliki Local Government Area ceased to have title on the property allegedly leased to the plaintiffs upon the coming into effect of Abakaliki Capital Territory Development Board law.

“My Lord, we urge the court to adopt all the prayers contained in our written address as our final submission and request and I urge my lord to dismiss the plaintiffs’ claims and to resolve the matter in favour of the state government”, Awada said.

Justice Vincent Nwancho, the Presiding, after listening to the submissions of both counsels, adjourned to July 15, for judgement.

It was gathered that the suit filed on April 3, against Ebonyi State government is seeking to stop government from forcefully evicting the traders at the building materials market from the market.

The Umahi administration under the urban renewal programme is seeking to relocate Abakaliki regional market to the International Market, Abakaliki to pave way for government to use the land to build an ultra modern interstate Polo Park.

OUR POSITION Out-of-school children and future leaders Nigeria with the current figure of 13.2 million out-of-school children occupies first position on the table of countries with the highest number of out-ofschool children in the world certainly calls for sober reflection.

More worrisome is the fact that the figure instead of decreasing in the last few years is rather increasing.

This statistics which represent approximately 20 per cent of the world’s population of such children is an alarming and ticking time bomb that will spell doom for the country if urgent steps are not taken by relevant authorities to address the situation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Most of these children are situated in the rural areas and hard to reach communities. Majority of them are living in conflict and communities under emergencies, and it has been difficult taking basic amenities to them. All children have the right to better life, an opportunity to survive, develop and reach

their full potentials without discrimination, bias or favouritism which cannot be over emphasised.

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

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

Having failed to fund public education, the children of the poor are roaming the streets, hawking goods while the rich are educating their children in private schools at home and abroad. But to the detriment of the society, the abandoned children of the poor are being recruited to criminality by terrorists, kidnappers and other criminal gangs.

The irony of the crisis is that a government, which claims that it lacks money to fund education is spending several billions of naira to fight insurgency, kidnapping, armed robbery and banditry.

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

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

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

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

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Don’t appoint Abubakar into your cabinet, Short News Buhari names Kyari as NNPC GMD, appoints new 7 anti-graft coalition tells Buhari chief operating officers Samuel Luka, Bauchi President Muhammadu Buhari has been admonished not to consider former Bauchi state Governor, Mohammed Abubakar for any ministerial or political appointment.

The Coalition against Financial Crimes and Injustice which gave the advice through its Chairman, Alhaji Bibi Dogo at a press conference in Bauchi, said by appointing people facing allegations of corruption, the image of the Buhari administration as being intolerant of corruption will be dented.

According to Dogo, the ex- governor was a nemesis to the progress and development of Bauchi state when he

ruled the state for four years without completing any single project despite the billions of naira he collected from the federation account.

He therefore, prayed that Buhari shouldn’t consider nominating the former governor as a member of his yet to be constituted cabinet or for any other political appointment.

“We are giving this advice because our organization believes in the administration of Buhari whose track record is fighting corruption, corrupt practices and entrenching truth, honesty and integrity. We advise that the President should appoint his cabinet in a manner that will ensure they do not become liabilities to the government or dent his impeccable image,” Dogo said.

He implored the President to be circumspect in appointing exgovernor Abubakar as minister so as not to appear insensitive to the people and counter-productive in the eyes of Nigerians.

“By allowing him to acquire afresh political power from the back door as minister,” Dogo said may not augur well for the people of Bauchi state who voted him out of power due to non- performance.

He further declared that appointing the former governor could hurt Buharis next level agenda.

“I served in the transition committee and it is on record that Governor Abubakar left Bauchi with over N137 billion debts,” Dogo alleged.

Tunde Opalana, Abuja

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a new Group Managing Director for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kolo Kyari.

Kyari whose appointment takes effect from July 7, replaces Mai Kanti Baru.

The President has also appointed seven new chief operating officers with effect from July 7. They are Roland Onoriode Ewubare (South-South), chief operating officer, upstream; Mustapha Yinusa Yakubu (North-Central), chief operating officer, refining and petrochemicals; Yusuf Usman (North-East), chief operating officer, gas and power and Ms. Lawrencia Nwadiabuwa Ndupu (South-East), chief operating officer, ventures.

Others are Umar Isa Ajiya (North-West), chief financial officer; Adeyemi Adetunji (South-West), chief operating officer, downstream and Farouk Garba Said (North-West), chief operating officer, corporate services.

The President directed the new appointees to work with the current occupants of their various positions between now and July 7 towards a smooth transition on July 8.

Ihedioha attends Russia-Africa economic summit, Afreximbank AGM Val Okara, Owerri

Imo state Governor, Emeka Ihedioha in efforts to rebuild the state is leading a delegation on a trade and investment working visit to the Russia-Africa Economic Conference and the annual general meeting of the AfreximBank.

According to a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Chibuike Onyeukwu the conference and meetings associated with the trip would take place from June 20 - 22 in Moscow.

Afreximbank is an export - import bank that supports the expansion, diversification, promotion and development of African trade. The meeting will be a melting pot for international fund custodians, fund managers, investors as well as multilateral finance agencies.

The trip is vital in the state’s matrix to provide out-of-the-box funding for economic and industrial development. By the establishment of a viable credit line with favourable conditions, promoters of investments in Imo for critical sectors, such as critical infrastructure, technical education, healthcare, recreation and power.

The governor was accompanied by a delegation of key government functionaries, prominent industrialists and entrepreneurs of Imo state extraction.

Lalong assures corps members of gainfully jobs in Plateau Kingsley Chukwuka, Jos

Director General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig. Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim (l); NYSC FCT Coordinator, Hajiya Walida Isa (m); Acting Chairman, NYSC FCT Governing Board, Hajiya Umar Safyia (r); during the swearing-in ceremony of the 2019 Batch ‘B’ stream 1 corps members in FCT.

Women group calls for restructuring of almajiri system of education Ahead of its 14th annual national conference, Women in Da’awa, a Muslim group on Thursday called for the restructuring of the almajiri system of education in tune with current realities in the country.

The group also called for concerted efforts at addressing the myriads of challenges facing the country.

National President of the group, Maryam Idris-Othman, made the appeal at a press briefing in Kaduna on activities lined up for the conference expected to be attended by the First Lady, Hajiya Aisha Buhari and wives of state governors.

“We call on government at all levels to intensify concerted efforts in addressing challenges threatening our communities, rekindling hope in the populace and providing opportunities to actualize them.

“We especially call for the restructuring of almajiri schools, to give all children a chance in living purposeful lives. We call on citizens to fulfil their obligations to Allah in word and deed by imbibing

noble citizenship values, excellent communal relations, community development and contributing to the betterment of their own societies,” she said.

Maryam also urged Nigerians to connect with their purpose in life, commit to individual and collective contribution to the betterment of society and inspire and symbolize positive change for the betterment and empowerment of our future generations.

On the three-day conference, she said it will showcase lectures, discussions, meetings and a youth session. Among scholars scheduled to participate are Dr. Muhammad Sulaiman-Jos, Dr. Bashir Umar-Aliyu, Sheikh Muhammad Bn Uthman, Dr. Mansur Ibrahim-Sokoto, Amb. Bukar Yusuf Al-Amin, Dr. Shettima Aji-Ali, Dr. Jabir Sani-Maihula, Dr. Mansur Yalwa and Prof. Bello Dogarawa.

Some of the topics that will be analysed include, “reconnecting with Allah through our actions – a guide

for Muslims; the almajiri phenomenon in Northern Nigeria and the burden of society; institutionalizing Zakkah and Waqf as social safety nets for the ummah.”

She said that the conference will begin on Saturday in Kaduna with Gov. Nasir el-Rufai as chief host while the guest speaker, Dr. Abubakar Sani Birnin Kudu will present a lecture titled: “A retrospective assessment of excessive ritualization of the Islamic message and its direct link to the present state of the ummah in Nigeria.”

Women in Da’awah is an umbrella group of Muslim women organizations involved in education, enlightenment, outreach, empowerment and advocacy on women and general family issues in Nigeria.

It is a registered organization established in 2003 with the overall goal of ensuring the spiritual, moral, economic and psycho-social well-being of members and the entire community and presently, has chapters in 18 states.

Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau state has assured the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members that their sojourn in the state will provide them with the opportunity of being gainfully employed.

Lalong stated this on Thursday at the formal opening and swearing-in ceremony of the 2019 batch B stream 1 corps members posted to Plateau state which held at the permanent orientation camp in Mangu Local Government Area.

“The opportunities here are innumerable and with the next level government back on board for a rapid transformation of the state, you will be gainfully engaged and experience a fulfilling service year,” the governor stated.

Represented by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Youth and Sports, Mrs. Abi Ishaya, the governor tasked the corps members to position themselves as positive and dependable agents of transformation and symbols of national integration and rapid socio-economic development.

“You should build bridges across your origins, regions and backgrounds by living peacefully with your fellow compatriots in order to achieve the desired objectives of the scheme,” Lolong said.

The NYSC state Coordinator, Mrs. Caroline Embu, assured the corps members of their safety, welfare and general well-being, adding that “let me at this point assure you that Plateau state is the place to be as stringent measures have already been put in place to ensure your safety and welfare.”

APC senatorial candidate withdraws petition against incumbent Kingsley Chukwuka, Jos

The Plateau North senatorial candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and former Secretary to the State Government, Rufus Bature on Thursday formally withdraws his petition challenging the victory of Senator Istifanus Gyang and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), at the National and state Houses of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Jos, the Plateau state capital.

Senator Gyang, who succeeds Senator Jonah Jang was elected to represent Plateau North in the National Assembly.

Bature through his counsel M.S. Salihu filed a motion for the withdrawal of the petition, informing the tribunal that the prosecution of the petition would be a further waste of time.

The tribunal’s presiding judge, Justice T.N. Nzeukwu granted the motion and dismissed the petition before the tribunal since there was no objection over the application for the withdrawal from the respondents, Senator Gyang, PDP and INEC. Leading a team of lawyers for Sen. Gyang, Counsel to the PDP candidate, H. N. Uguawala expressed satisfaction with the withdrawal of the petition by the APC candidate.

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Domestic staff kills employer, mother in Lagos Chioma Joseph, Lagos

Barely 24 hours after being employed, a male domestic staff, Joseph Ogbu has been arrested for killing his employer, John Oreoluwa and her 89-year-old mother at No 4 Ogulana Drive, Surulere area of Lagos.

The 22-year-old suspect, who was employed June 18, had allegedly stabbed his boss to death with a kitchen knife on Wednesday night.

Ogbu, an indigene of Benue state alleged that the aged mother of his employer, who heard her daughter screaming for help before she gave up the ghost, also slumped and died after she found the lifeless body of her daughter.

Sources said that Oreoluwa had asked the suspect to clean the house at about 9pm on Wednesday, when an argument ensued between the two, resulting in her been stabbed.

After the killing, the suspect attempted to escape with a Toyota Camry car, phones, television set, jewelleries and other valuables of the deceased persons.

However, luck ran out on him when policemen on patrol at Ogunlana intercepted him and recovered the vehicle and other stolen items from him.

Confirming the arrest of the suspect, the Lagos state Police Public Relations Officer, Elkana Bala, said “on June 20, at 3am, the Surulere Police Station received a distress call from No 4 Ogulana Drive, Surulere that one Joseph Ogbu from Oju Local Government Area, Benue state, who was employed as a domestic staff on June 18, 2019, murdered his employer, John Oreoluwa and her mother, Adejoke John at their above mentioned residence.

“The suspect confessed to the crime.

In his statement, he averred that, his employer asked him to clean the house at about 9pm of June 19, 2019, but an

argument ensued between them which prompted him to stab her with a knife.

He said the shock of her dead body made her aged mother to slump and die.

“Considering the fact that they are dead, the suspect moved some valuable properties such as electronics, handsets and household items into the employer’s Toyota Camry salon car and attempted to escape before he was apprehended by policemen on patrol at Ogunlana pin down point.

“The vehicle and items stolen were recovered. The crime scene was sealed off and the corpses of the two victims were taken to Mainland Hospital, Yaba for autopsy.”

Bala further stated that the Commissioner of Police, Zubairu Muazu has ordered the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID), Yaba to take over the investigation and charge the suspect to court.

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Women group urges Ihedioha to implement affirmative action Val Okara, Owerri

A group, the Imo Gender Forum has urged the Imo state Governor, Emeka Ihedioha to give women opportunity to contribute their quota to the development and good governance of the state.

Imo Gender Forum, a non -political women organisation in the state made the plea at a press conference held in Owerri, State Coordinator of the group, Prisca Durueke stated that the governor, in keeping to the United Nations resolution on gender equality should in his appointments consider the 35 per cent affirmative action.

She said that women should not only be carried along in the appointments across board, but should also be assigned to critical positions in the government.

According to her, the immediate past Governor of the state, Rochas Okorocha did a lot in allowing women to participate in his administration, but “it is imperative that Gov. Ihedioha tries and exceeds Okorocha’s effort in that regard.

“The call for the full implementation of the 35 per cent affirmative action, which ideally would encourage women participation in politics and governance, is one that should still not be taken with kid gloves by any state administration.

Okowa backs skills acquisition for corps members in Delta Nosa Akenzua, Asaba

Delta state Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa has reiterated his commitment towards enhancing skills acquisition for corps members in the state Speaking at the induction ceremony for batch ‘B’ stream1 corps members deployed to the state at the Issele Uku orientation camp, Okowa emphasized the need for the corps members to be actively involved in skills acquisition training to enhance their productivity.

“I implore the corps members to take the opportunity into the skills acquisition training in the camp seriously to sharpen their knowledge in productivity after their NYSC in the state.

“Government will continue to create the enabling environment for youth to maximize their potentials for self -realization and self -actualization in skills acquisition.

“My administration will at all costs add value to your training in the camp and throughout your service in the state,” Okowa stressed.

The governor represented by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Chiedu Ebie urged the corps members not to be distracted by the little inconveniences at the camp, rather they should be focused on the attainment of the intended objectives.

“Your call to orientation service therefore, requires sacrifice, dedication and perseverance.

Government will continue to do everything possible to ensure that the welfare of corps members is enhanced.

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Presidendent Muhammadu Buhari (7th right), and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (7th left) with members of the Nigeria Governors forum during the inaguration of the Nigeria Governors Forum at the Presidential Villa, Abuja...on Thursday.

Ekiti appeals to citizens against victimising Fulani herders Gbenga Sodeinde, Ado Ekiti The Ekiti state government has appealed to its citizens not to victimise any Fulani herder performing legitimate businesses in the state.

The government urged the populace to be cautious and be circumspect of their actions in order to be able to distinguish herders pursuing their legitimate means of livelihood in a decent manner and those that perpetrating evil.

The government revealed that it has approved the appointment of Prince Alexander Adebukola Aina as the new Owa of Oke Oro in Ijero Local Government Area of the state.

Speaking in Ado Ekiti on Thursday at the post- state executive council press conference, the Information Commissioner, Muyiwa Olumilua, said part of the security strategies of government

has been that all residents must be vigilant and report strange faces to security agencies for prompt action.

“The government has no problem with Fulani herders doing legitimate businesses.

Our people must know that we have the Ekiti anti-grazing law in place and it shall be applied when necessary.”

Olumilua said the council also approved the contract for the completion of Oba Adejugbe Market in Ado Ekiti, construction of internal roads at the Ekiti state University Teaching Hospital and additional upgrading of the Technical College, Ado Ekiti for optimum productivity.

As part of the efforts to boost food production, Olumilua added that the state government has approved the clearing of 1, 500 hectares of land across five local government areas which will be done in partnership with multi-national agencies for direct investment in the state.

Speaking further on the

Oba Adejugbe Market, the Commissioner for Works, Sola Adebayo, said “the facility is 70 per cent completed and we want to commission it during Fayemi’s first year in office.

“The contractor has been mandated to deliver by September ending. We have done a lot of amendments by removing some structures therein. We have a local content law that will make the indigenes participate in the contract and allocation,” he said.

On the government’s commitment to improve the health sector, the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Mojisola YayaKolade, said Ekiti has 320 health centres, clarifying that 177 of them were being rehabilitated to give improved healthcare delivery across all the wards in the state.

Yaya-Kolade said the state will introduce the universal healthcare insurance scheme to bolster the health sector and elongate the life expectancy of citizens.

Dana Air says it is partnering Project Pink Blue to conduct free prostate cancer screening for 3, 000 men in five states across the country.

The free screening initiative which is tagged: “Men on blue project’” will commence on the June 29 and will hold in Abuja, Niger, Nassarawa, Rivers and Akwa Ibom states.

Accountable Manager of Dana Air, Obi Mbanuzuo while speaking during a visit by the Project Pink Blue team to the corporate headquarters of Dana Air said, that “at some point in 2014, we just felt the need to redirect our corporate social responsibility drive.

“We realized that cancer was becoming a big secret killer, but the awareness was really low. Then we decided to partner Project Pink Blue in 2015 to assist survivors, create more awareness and conduct free screening for Nigerians at intervals.’’

“Last year, we partnered the Rotary Club to conduct blood donation camps in Lagos and we are planning other lifesaving projects in the coming months. We have a lot of initiatives ongoing at the moment and we are glad to announce that we have impacted millions of lives in a positive way. We can only thank our guests for their support and Nigerians for embracing these initiatives.’’

“We commend the Project Pink Blue team and we encourage more corporate bodies to support them because at Dana Air, we are unrelenting in our humanitarian efforts across Nigeria,’’ Obi said.

Omo-Agege appoints Igbuzor, Odunuga as aides Tunde Opalana, Abuja Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie 0mo-Agege, has approved the appointments of Dr. Otive Igbuzor as his chief of staff and Yomi Odunuga as the special adviser, media and publicity.

He also announced the appointment of Ms. Lara Owoeye-Wise as senior special assistant on electronic and new media.

Omo-Agege, in a statement personally signed by him and released by his office yesterday, explained that the appointments which take immediate effect are based on merit.

Igbuzor is founding executive director of the African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development Centre. He was once the international head of campaigns of ActionAid International and Country Director of ActionAid Nigeria.

He was also a commissioner in the Police Service Commission.

Odunuga is the Abuja bureau chief and deputy editor (nation’s capital) of The Nation newspapers.

Born on June 2, 1966, Odunuga a poet, lyricist, reporter and columnist, started his journalism career with the Punch newspaper over two decades ago. He was, for several years, the State House correspondent of the paper where he maintained two columns--Life in Abuja and the popular weekend treat called Inside Aso Rock.

His insightful and critical analysis of the intriguing politics of that period earned him accolades and recognition which later saw him being promoted to the position of Abuja bureau chief of the newspaper.

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Prison chief bemoans over-crowding Short News Police arrest 16 cultists in Delta in nation’s holding facilities community Moses Oyediran, Enugu

Comptroller of Prisons in Enugu state, Ndubuisi Ogbodo has bemoaned the level of over-crowding in prisons across the country, saying that it was the biggest problem facing the prison systems.

Ogbodo lamented that overcrowding of prisons compromises the basic functions of prisons in the provision of effective rehabilitation programmes such as educational, vocational training and recreational activities for inmates.

To cushion these negative effects, Ogbodo urged the police and other law enforcement agencies to limit the number of petty offenders they send to the courts for trial.

The comptroller made the call during a 2-day training of law enforcement agencies on human rights and treatment of petty offenders, organized by the Prison’s Rehabilitation and Welfare Action (PRAWA) in Enugu to decriminalize and declassify petty offences.

Represented by Benjamin Ugwu, Ogbodo lamented that the Enugu

prison which has the capacity to shelter 800 inmates now has over 2, 000 inmates. He disclosed that overcrowding can also worsen mental health problems, increase rate of violence and cause self-harm among the inmates.

“The prison is meant for rehabilitation not for dumping of criminals. We found it very difficult to perform our functions properly as a result of over-crowding. I wish the law enforcement agencies will use what they will learn here today to limit the arrest of petty offenders to reduce over-crowding in the prisons and also stop suffering them.

“We work with security agencies, but our own is to receive culprits from them and try to rehabilitate them. It’s not every case that police need to take to court and detain the offender. They need to make another arrangement on how to settle the matter without charging them to court.

“Such cases like land issues which can be settled at the community level, charging someone to court because he/she is owing N5, 000 and

other petty offences.

“So, the police should also find a way of settling cases involving underage offenders without bringing them to prison. Bringing them to prison will expose them to crimes because they will associate with hardened criminals in the prison, thereby causing more violence and selfharm to the society when they leave the prison,” he explained.

In a welcome address, the Director of PRAWA, Enugu state branch, Chioma Ogbo, who commended the law enforcement agencies for participating in the ongoing training on human rights, charged them to ensure the intervention would be sustained and utilised to achieve the goals and purpose of the training.

Ogbo stated that the purpose of the training was to improve awareness on the impact of excessive custodial sentences as it relates to petty offences, including applying standards and principles of human rights in protecting the poor and promoting equality, and fairness to decriminalize and declassify petty offences in Nigeria.

Nosa Akenzua, Asaba The police in Ogwashi Uku Delta state have arrested 16 suspected cultists in a renewed raid on their hideouts.

The suspects, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in the area, Tobi Debakeme, who confirmed their arrest said they confessed to be members of the dreaded cult known as Vikings Debakeme, who was addressing members of the vigilante group in the area, noted that it was the duty of the group to synergize with other security agencies for effective collaboration to stamp out crimes in the area.

“We have worked as partners in progress since I assumed office here in Ogwashi Uku Police Division. We all in the recent times did witness some spate of kidnappings around some of the communities, but it becomes imperative that we redouble our efforts to ensure that all forms of criminal activities are no more in Ogwashi Uku. “The 16 suspects were arrested at two locations in their hideouts with the help of the vigilante group who supplied us with the tips. Investigation is ongoing as they are detained and on completion of the investigation, they will be charged to court,” Debakeme disclosed.

Emir of Ilorin receives 2018 durbar festival report Kehinde Akinpelu, Ilorin The Emir of Ilorin and Chairman Kwara state Traditional Council, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari has received the report of the 2018 annual durbar festival from members of the committee.

The committee led by Yahaya Alapansanpa, presented its report to the emir when they paid the monarch a courtesy visit in his palace.

Alhaji Sulu-Gambari expressed appreciation and satisfaction to the committee for organizing a befitting and historic 2018 durbar even as he offered special prayers for members of the committee.

He further assured that he would do everything possible to sustain the cultural event and praised the committee for their accountability and transparency throughout the epoch -making event.

The emir however, enjoined all sons and daughters of Ilorin emirate to join hands with the committee to ensure a hitch -free celebration in the future, adding that the durbar event has come to stay.

The monarch used the opportunity to appeal to the people of the emirate to continue to love one another and ensure meaningful development of the community and cautioned youth against all forms of social vices.

Ortom offers N50m to Makurdi market fire victims

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state has offered N50 million to victims of Tuesday’s fire incident that gutted parts of the Makurdi Modern Market.

Ortom, who visited the market, said that the gesture was to help them to “restart something. Billions of naira has been lost and traders have been reduced to zero level. It is very painful.”

He lamented the magnitude of damage caused by the inferno and sympathised with the traders over their losses, just as the governor regretted the frequent fire outbreaks at the market as well as the Gboko and Wadata markets, declaring Tuesday’s disaster as one incident too many.

“Government will have to take proactive steps to end the ugly trend. We understand that there are issues between the market and the host community. We will set up a commission of inquiry to investigate the immediate cause of the fire. If there are technical or man-made issues, we will find out and look at how the market can be resuscitated to benefit Benue people,” he added.

The governor also called for a quick resolution of the lingering union issues that were affecting the smooth operation of the market, urging leaders to “talk with each other.”

L-R: General Secretary, Nigerian Society of Engineers, Lagos Branch, Engr. Adesina Osinloye; Treasurer, NSE, Lagos Branch, Engr. Olufemi Ogundipe; Education officer, Nigeria Prison Service, Ikoyi, Idris Ibikunle; Immediate Past Chairman, NSE, Lagos Branch, Engr. Johnson Komolafe; and Deputy Controller, Nigeria Prison Service, Ikoyi, Tolu Ogunshakin, dueing a welfare visit and donation of food items to the Ikoyi prison by NSE, Lagos Branch, in Lagos...on Thursday.

CCB to prosecute 12 in Enugu over assets declaration About seven ex-commissioners in the last administration in Enugu state will be prosecuted if they fail to regularise their assets declaration with the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) by July ending.

Enugu state Director of the CCB, Mrs. Lucy Ijetta, who disclosed this in an interview in Enugu, also said that five special advisers in the state between 2015 and 2019 will face prosecution by the end of next month for the same offence.

She explained that the affected former commissioners had till the end of July to either regularise their assets declarations having ended their stewardship with the state government or risk prosecution.

Mrs. Ijetta said that 24 commissioners and 15 special advisers served in the last dispensation in the state, but that only 17 former commissioners and 10 special advisers have complied with the regularisation rule.

“Among the 24 former commissioners, 17 have ended their tenures with us while 10 of the former special advisers had also done the same thing. The defaulters have until the end of July to do so failing of which I will list their names as defaulters and forward to our head office for onward transmission to the Code of Conduct Tribunal,” she said.

On the level of compliance with assets declaration by political office holders and civil servants in the

state, Ijetta said there was substantial compliance, disclosing that Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi and the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Chief Edward Ubosi, who were returned for a second term in office, have declared their assets.

The state director said that many members of the state assembly in the last and current dispensations have also complied, but regretted that there were civil servants in the state who have failed to comply with the assets declaration rule.

“Every civil servant is expected to declare his/her assets every four years while political office holders declare theirs at the beginning and the end of their tenures,” Ijetta said.

NDDC to clear foreign scholarship debts soon – MD

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has promised to clear all outstanding debts owed beneficiaries of its foreign scholarship programmes in the United Kingdom.

Acting Managing Director of the commission, Prof. Nelson Brambaifa, gave the assurance in a statement by the NDDC’s Director of Corporate Affairs, Charles Odili in Port Harcourt.

He said that payments of tuition and stipends for students studying in various universities in the UK, running into millions of pounds sterling would commence coming week.

“This follows the resolution of issues with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) that had delayed the remittance of monies for six weeks.

Some universities have already gotten their funds. The management had in January taken keen interest in the welfare of the scholars, so that they can focus on their academics.

“The scholars, who fall under the 2018 foreign scholarship programme, were awarded funds to study in disciplines of critical development needs in various UK varsities,” he said.

Prof. Brambaifa said that management had in March sent a team on fact finding mission to the universities with focus to appraising the welfare needs of the scholars.

He said that one of the issues frowned at by the varsity officials was late remittance of tuition to the universities as well as allowances to students.

“On return to Nigeria, management commenced immediate payment of the fees and allowances. However, the last batch payments got held up at CBN due to regulatory issues but have now been resolved.

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AHC: Telco, Banks to be affected as NCAA begin masts demolition Ladesope Ladelokun Due to failure to obtain statutory Aviation Height Clearance (AHC), the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has said it would immediately commence the demolition of one of Africa’s fastest growing telecommunications companies, Globacom Nigeria Limited, and some financial institutions in different locations across the country.

The regulatory authority listed the names of the telecommunication operators who are yet to regularise their masts as; Globacom Nigeria with 7,012 masts, United Bank of Africa with 439 masts, Guaranty Trust Bank with 295 masts, Unity Bank with 217 masts and Sterling Bank with 159 masts.

Others are Union Bank with 92 masts, First City Monument Bank with 205 masts, Fidelity Bank with 83 masts, and Access Bank with 303 masts.

The Authority said a total of 8,805 masts belonging to the aforementioned organisations will be decommissioned instantly.

Just recently, the authority threatened to demolish over 7,000 telecommunications mast and towers, saying they blatantly failed to obtain AHC, but later withdrew the threat following the compliance of the affected companies with its directive to obtain the statutory Aviation Height Clearance.

In its latest statement signed by the Authority spokesman, Mr Adurogboye, stated that it is compelled to commence the demolition, as the 30-day ultimatum issued to the telecommunication service providers have expired.

It also said the demolition exercise will also affect some banks and financial institutions who took exception to the authority’s regulatory requirements on the clearance to erect any high structure within the navigable airspace in Nigeria.

According to the statement, prior to the expiration of the ultimatum, the regulatory authority wrote a letter of reminder to the affected organizations to obtain Aviation Height Clearance (AHC) for their masts.

“It will be recalled that the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) had earlier warned all Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) providers and telecom operators against violation of safety regulations. A 30-day ultimatum was therefore handed down for compliance.

“This is derived from the Nigeria Civil Aviation Regulations (NigCARS) Part 12.1.7.1.3.1 which stipulates that No person or organization shall put up a structure (permanent or temporary) within the navigable airspace of Nigeria unless such a person or organization is a holder of Aviation Height Clearance Certificate granted under this regulation.

“In line with this, the Regulatory Authority requires an Aviation Height Clearance (AHC) approval for every tower installation in the country irrespective of the height and location.

“It should, therefore, be noted that under the Civil Aviation Act. 2006, section 30(3) (1), the NCAA is empowered to prohibit and regulate the installation of any structure which by virtue of its height or position is considered to endanger the safety of air navigation,” it said.

It also said some of the providers and operators have since commenced regularisation of their masts while others have not.

‘The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) wishes to reiterate that it will continue to apply requisite sanctions for violation of extant regulations, especially, where the resolve of the Authority is tested”, it said.

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African mining sector attracts Russian investors in Moscow Mathew Dadiya, Moscow Russian has declared interest in developing the mining industry in Africa through multilateral approach.

This was disclosed on Thursday during a panel session at the ongoing Afreximbank Annual Meeting in Moscow, Russia.

One of the key focal points of the session were Russian and African cooperation in the development of the mining industry The panel session ‘Mining Industry: A Sustainable Approach to Field Development’ was held in Moscow during the open Russia–

Africa Economic Conference, part of the Afreximbank Annual Meetings with the support of the Roscongress Foundation and Russian Export Center.

The discussion, which was moderated by IHS Markit Russia’s Director for Consulting Maksim Nechaev and participants included: President and General Director of Wassoul’Or and Chairman of Petroma Inc Canada Aliou Diallo; ALROSA Vice President Vladimir Marchenko; General Director of Vi Holding, Doctor of Mathematics, and Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences Karima Nigmatulina; Chief Executive Officer of Uralkali and Chairman of the Russian-Nigerian Business Council

Dmitry Osipov; and Co-founder and Managing Director of Rich Africa Consultancy Ndapwilapo Selma Shimutwikeni.

In 2017, the Russian Export Center, part of VEB.RF became Afreximbank’s third-largest non-African financial institution or organization shareholder, which has allowed for the rapid acceleration of investment, trade, and economic relations between Russia and African countries. One of the areas positively affected were mining projects in Zimbabwe and Sierra Leone. Interest has also been expressed in attracting Russian partners to the implementation of projects in the oil industry.

“Notable Russian-African foreign

economic projects include the signing of a memorandum of cooperation between the REC and OJSC Afromet (Vi Holding) regarding the comprehensive development of the Darwendale platinum field project in The Republic of Zimbabwe, which was signed during a visit by the president of Zimbabwe to the Russian Federation in January of this year,” said Andrey Slepnev, Chief Executive Officer of the Russian Export Center (REC).

The Russia–Africa Summit will be held in October 2019 in Sochi and will be co-chaired by President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and President of the Arab Republic of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who also heads the African Union.

UBA advocates curriculum overhaul to equip graduates for tech advancement Temitope Adebayo The Group Executive Director of United Bank for Africa (UBA), Mr. Liadi Ayoku, has called for the overhaul of the training curriculum in financial institutions across Africa to reflect current technological realities.

Ayoku, said this while delivering a keynote address during the annual lecture of the Faculty of Management Sciences, Lagos State University (LASU) titled: “The Future of Finance – Technology at Play”, believed that this will reflect the modern business expectations and ensure the relevance of graduates to the continent’s economic growth and aspiration.

He explained that finance graduates and

professionals must be aware that it was no longer business as usual following the fastchanging technological landscape.

He said: “I am not certain if the finance and accounting graduates of today are familiar with modern financial software packages, including global accounting and financial reporting standards.

“Have they been imbibed with the readyto-market soft skills like leadership, communication, commercial acumen, flexibility/openness to change and strategic vision? “If not, I will like to propose an overhaul of the curriculum to accommodate these,” he noted.

Ayoku further explained that with technology replacing basic financing, the finance

professional that would excel in the future must be quick to retool and adapt to changes.

“Traditional knowledge of finance is getting stale in today’s business world and indeed there is a dire need for retooling our skills if we must remain relevant n tomorrow’s financial world. Technology is fast replacing the basics of finance,” he surmised.

According to Ayoku, financial reporting is increasingly being automated, just as data analytics is demystifying performance analysis.

Tomorrow’s finance professionals must have capabilities for business intelligence and cognitive analysis. “We must apprise ourselves of the most recent technology and continue to retool our skills to remain relevant today and into the future,” Ayoku said.

The Chairman of the occasion, Dr. Rotimi Oladele, the Executive Secretary, Institute of Entrepreneurship, commended Ayoku for delivering a profound paper worthy of equipping account graduates for a future driven by technology while also praised the Chairman of UBA, Mr. Tony Elumelu for his contribution to entrepreneurship in Africa, describing him as a ‘global brand of the rarest value’. He said LASU would benefit from its collaboration with the entrepreneur.

“We believe LASU partnering with Elumelu could be the best testimonial of a befitting support to the most multi-cultural and multitribal university in Nigeria. The profile of LASU Staff and studentship speak for this fact,” he said.

Airbus launches longest range single-aisle airliner: the A321XLR Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo Following the very positive feedback from the market, Airbus has launched the A321XLR to complement its best-selling A321neo Family.

The A321XLR thus becomes the next evolutionary step which response to market needs for even more range, and creates more value for the airlines by bringing 30 per

cent lower fuel burn per seat than previousgeneration competitor aircraft.

Starting from 2023, the aircraft will deliver an unprecedented Xtra Long Range of up to 4,700nm – 15 per cent more than the A321LR and with the same unbeatable fuel efficiency.

With this added range, airlines will be able to operate a lower-cost single-aisle aircraft on longer and less heavily travelled routes – many of which can now only be served by larger and less efficient wide-body aircraft.

This will enable operators to open new world-

wide routes such as India to Europe or China to Australia, as well as further extending the Family’s non-stop reach on direct transatlantic flights between continental Europe and the Americas.

For passengers, the A321XLR’s new Airspace cabin will provide the best travel experience, while offering seats in all classes with the same high-comfort as on long-haul widebody aircraft.

The A321XLR has been designed to maximize overall commonality with the A321LR and the

rest of the A320neo Family, while introducing minimal changes needed to give the aircraft an Xtra Long Range with increased revenue payload.

The changes include: the new permanent Rear Centre Tank (RCT) for more fuel volume; a modified landing gear for an increased maximum take-off weight (MTOW) of 101 metric tonnes; and an optimised wing trailingedge flap configuration to preserve the same take-off performance and engine thrust requirements as today’s A321neo.

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MIPAN tasks advertisers on pitch fee Godwin Anyebe

L-R: Executive Director (ED) , Maritime Labour & Cabotage Services, Nigerian Maritime Administration & Safety Agency (NIMASA) Ahmed Gambo, Director General (DG), Dr Dakuku Peterside and ED, Administration & Finance, Dr Bashir Jamoh, during a meeting by the NIMASA DG with media executives, in Lagos.

Russia-African trade volume to hit $17.5bn – Experts Mathew Dadiya, Moscow Experts have predicted that the trade turnover between Russia and Africa would double in the next three years.

Last year, the total export volume of Russia and African countries grew by 18% and reached USD 17.5 billion.

Managing Director of Afreximbank’s Intra-African Trade Initiative, Kanayo Awani and Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Egypt, Gamal Mohamed AbdelAziz Negm disclosed this on Thursday in Moscow during a panel discussion at the Afreximbank’s Annual Meetings taking place at the Raddison Raddison Collection Hotel in

Russia.

The economic experts said that the volume of non-energy non-commodity exports grew to USD 14.3 billion. Egypt, the Republic of South Africa, Zambia, Angola, Algeria, Nigeria, and Kenya are key African consumers of Russian non-commodity exports.

One of the key focal points of the discussion at the event was the strengthening of trade and economic relations between Russia and Africa.

The Afreximbank Strategy for Export Trading Companies was launched in Moscow during the open Russia–Africa Economic Conference, part of the Afreximbank Annual Meetings with the support of the Roscongress

Foundation and Russian Export Center.

Also speaking the Chief Executive Officer of the Russian Export Center (REC) Andrey Slepnev, said that the African continent currently has enormous potential as a sales market.

According to him, many African countries are enacting economic reforms, demand is growing for high-quality, competitive products.

He said, “Russian businesses are interested in this niche, and our goods are already competitive in terms of price and quality. We plan to increase export volumes in the next few years.”

Slepnev disclosed that “a Russian Industrial Zone is currently being built in

Egypt’s Suez Canal Economic Zone. This is the first such infrastructure megaproject launched by the Russian Export Center (part of VEB.RU).

“Residents of the industrial zone will have several key advantages: proximity to vital transport canals, a number of trade agreements with Egypt, maximally simplified business regulations, and a single point of contact for solving any problems or addressing any issues.

In the next five years, this 525-hectare area will be transformed into a comprehensive industrial park for Russian companies. In the future, the Russian Industrial Zone will serve as an outpost for promoting Russian goods and services in Africa.”

NUPENG: I’ll support the visions of late Olabode Johnson – Akporeha Joy Obakeye The National President of the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG), Comrade Williams Akporeha has pledged to support the ideas and visions of the Late Francis Olabode Johnson.

Akporeha who made the promise during a condolence visit to PENGASSAN National Secretariat in Lagos on Thursday,

added that the NUPENGASSAN alliance and the sustenance of policies in the Oil and Gas industry.

Comrade Johnson was the President of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), who died after a brief illness in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.

“On hearing the sad news of Francis Johnson’s death, a lot of questions popped up as why the incident could take place.

But that each time I asked I never get convinced that my close ally and confidant

is no more, and I pray that such incident will not happen again in the history of the Labour movement in Nigeria.

“I will support all the ideals and visions of the Late Johnson with regards to the NUPENGASSAN alliance and the sustenance of policies that will grow the Nation’s Oil and Gas industry, the spirit behind NUPENGASSAN will never die”, he added.

Meanwhile, PENGASSAN’s Acting President, Comrade Frank Esanubi, appreciated NUPENG for the visit and

revealed plans by the union to float an endowment trust fund that will cater for the educational needs of the late leader’s children.

“Late F.O. Johnson is a man whose activities touched many lives we vowed never to abandon his family especially the children.

“Towards this, plans are on ground to float an Endowment Trust Fund that will cater for the educational needs of the children up to the university level”, he added.

Access Bank launches Womenpreneur Pitch-A-Ton 2019 ... opens call-for-entry to support women in business Motolani Oseni As part of efforts to provide financial and business skills to female entrepreneurs, Access Bank Plc has announced the launch of its Womenpreneur Pitch-ATon 2019, a capacity building initiative which will provide financial grants as well as mini-MBA in conjunction with the International Finance Corporation (IFC, a member of the World Bank Group) for fifty winners.

The Womenpreneur Pitch-A-Ton is targeted at women above the age of 18 years who have been in business for at least one year.

Speaking on the initiative, Ayona Aguele-Trimnell, Coordinator, W

Initiative, Access Bank, stated that the Pitch-A-Ton is an expansion of the Womenpreneur Business the workshop, under the Bank’s women proposition, the W initiative.

She said, “In line with our value proposition as the No. 1 Bank of Choice for women in Nigeria, we are happy to announce the launch of the Womenpreneur Pitch-A-Ton 2019 which will provide up to N10 million financial grant and a unique capacity building program aimed at empowering women entrepreneurs.”

“The Pitch-A-Ton is designed as a 3-month programme incorporating pitching sessions and 3 weeks of miniMBA training in collaboration with the IFC.

“Access Bank has been a leading advocate for women’s economic empowerment in Nigeria and this is the key motivation for the W Initiative which caters to the women economy particularly in the areas of capacity building and creating networking opportunities for women” she added.

Explaining the mechanics for participation, Ada Udechukwu, Head, Women Banking said: “Interested persons who meet the criteria are required to fill an online application. The five hundred candidates selected from this pool will then send in a sixty seconds video pitch which will be screened by a credible panel of business experts to select fifty finalists.”

She added: “As part of the graduation

requirements, the fifty finalists will pitch their businesses, infusing learnings from the mini-MBA and will stand an opportunity to win financial grants up to N5 million.

As a leading commercial bank in Nigeria, Access Bank has made significant investments aimed at enhancing growth in the Small and Medium-size Enterprise sector. The Bank is also a major advocate for women in business through innovative offerings like the W Power Loan, a discounted financing at 15 per cent interest per annum, for women to grow their business as well as other Business Support services.

The Womenpreneur Pitch-A-Ton is the first women-in-business support initiative of its kind in the industry.

Practitioners under the aegis of the Media Independent Practitioners Association of Nigeria (MIPAN) have tasked the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON) to come to the rescue of their agencies insisting that the advertisers should mandate multinationals and other brand owners to pay pitch fees.

They hold that pitch fee is a precarious situation in Integrated Marketing Communications industry at the moment, noting that most multinationals invite many agencies just to gather information from them.

Speaking on this development recently in Lagos, the Business Unit Director, MediaReachOMD, Promise Oduh, noted that MIPAN agencies could not call to order multinationals that refused to pay pitch fees without the help of APCON. He stressed that APCON needed to take a stand on pitch fees because that would help discourage multinationals from inviting too many agencies to a pitch.

In his words: “If they know that they are going to pay those agencies, then of course they will streamline to about two or three agencies in the course of calling for a pitch.”

The MediaReachOMD boss, however, lamented that no agency had ever been paid pitch fee, stressing that it was very unprofessional because multinationals were taking agencies for granted by inviting too many agencies to pitches.

“I think the issue of pitch fee should be in the front burner and it needs to be addressed urgently,” he warned.

Also speaking, the Director, Buying & Control at MediaReachOMD Nigeria, Yinka Adebayo noted that the problem of pitch fee was persistent in Nigeria because most agencies were living on a survival mentality.

Mr. Adebayo pointed out that until agencies moved away from the conservational level to the level of adding value to their clients’ businesses, clients would not recognise them enough to pay them pitch fees.

He said: “Here you are, from January to December, you don’t have any new business as an agency and a client now calls to say ‘come and take’; you won’t even think about pitch fees.”

“So, I think we need to begin to instil a high sense of professionalism to what we do and how we do them. Even the clients will begin to appreciate it because for me we need to move to a situation where we shift the conversation away from price to value; because clients need to begin to see the value.”

Meanwhile, the Executive Secretary, MIPAN, Eki Adzufeh, has this to say on pitch fees; “It is not different from any other rule.

It is self-regulation. The truth of the matter is that there are some agencies that I know in MIPAN that if you don’t talk about pitch fee they will not come but there are some who are basically surviving.”

“Therefore, anything you flash at them goes. But such poor business decisions and choices are the banes of our industry.”

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Alleged certificate forgery: Reps member, Mutu gets clearance from institution says allegations are frivolous, ill-motivated Benjamin Omoike A member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Nicholas Mutu, representing Bomadi/Patani Federal Constituency in Delta State, has reacted to allegations of forgery and impersonation leveled against him by the defeated candidate of the All Peoples Congress (APC), in the Constituency in the February 2019 general election, Mr. Collins Eselemo.

Mutu, who contested and won on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), described the allegations as frivolous and ill-motivated, adding that they were aimed at damaging his hard-earned reputation.

The conventional and social media have been awashed lately with allegations of certificate forgery and impersonation against Mutu, by his main opponent in the election.

However, Mutu, in his reaction in a statement issued by his Media Adviser, Mr. Ebitimi Ogbomah, said all the allegations bordering on certificate forgery and impersonation had been “rubbished by the responses of the appropriate authorities, including all the schools he (Mutu) attended and the National Assembly, where he had been a member, courtesy of the good people of Bomadi/ Patani Federal Constituency, since 1999.”

On the allegation that Mutu’s West African Examinations Council ((WAEC), Ordinary Level School Certificate/General Certificate of Education (GCE), issued by the management of Rivers State

Nicholas Mutu School of Basic Studies, Rumuola, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, now known as Captain Elechi Amadi Polytechnic, was fake, Ogbomah said the letter written by the Registrar of the institute, Mr. Chris Woke, on the matter, had cleared Mutu of any wrongdoing.

In the letter, Woke confirmed that the school was not only recognised but was a centre for WAEC and GCE in 1986, when Mutu sat for the examination.

2023: We are undecided on mode of electoral reform, says INEC Patrick Okohue The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that it was not yet sure of the mode of electoral reforms it would embark upon ahead of the 2023 general elections.

The commission has continued to receive knocks from local and international observers over lapses which characterised the conduct of the 2019 general elections across the country.

In its final report on the conduct of the polls, which it submitted recently, the European Union (EU) revealed that the 2019 election was marred by systemic failure, violence and intimidation of voters.

The report also stated that the low level of voters’ participation called for fundamental electoral reforms, and gave 30 recommendations on how to improve future electoral processes.

Several candidates from opposition parties said the general election was flawed across the country and disputed the results released by INEC. The main opposition, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, have equally disputed the result of the February presidential election, won by incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari, and are seeking an upturn of the result at the tribunal.

However, speaking in an interview, INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of the Commission’s Committee on Information and Voter Education, Festus Okoye, said the

Mahmood commission does not know the mode of electoral reforms to carry out, but would rather wait till it completes its on-going review of the election and interaction with stakeholders.

He however admitted that the commission was aware of the need for a holistic reform before the 2023 election to regain the confidence of Nigerians in the electoral process.

“We have not decided what type of reforms we would have before the 2023 election, but we have started a review of the 2019 election. Most of our national officers are in states speaking with our state officers on the way the election was conducted.

“So, through this we can harvest recommendations on areas to improve on. But no one would just tell us what to do,” he said.

Woke, who attached the certified copies of the master list/computer printout of candidates who sat for the examination in the centre in 1986, said Mutu, with number 21648/094, was among the candidates.

Woke in the letter, which was sequel to an enquiry made by Mutu’s solicitors, Mr. Patrick Ikwueto, SAN, stated, “I write to confirm that the former Rivers State School of Basic Studies, Rumuola, Port Harcourt (now Captain Elechi Amadi Polytechnic), was a recognised school and centre for West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Ordinary Level School Certificate/General Certificate of Education (GCE), Examinations as at May/June 1986.”

“The then Rivers State School of Basic Studies, Port Harcourt, functioned as a recognised school/centre for May/June WAEC/GCE Examinations from 1977 to June 1987 and continued with November/ December General Certificate of Education (GCE), up to 1990, before it was discontinued following the introduction of the 6-3-3-4 education system in Nigeria.

“The Master List/Computer Print Out of the candidate, 21648/094, Mutu Nicholas Eboma, amongst other candidates that sat for the May/June Examinations in 1986 is certified, attached hereto and marked as Annexure 1.

“The former school of Basic Studies established in 1977 by the Rivers State Government was changed to Rivers State College of Arts and Science in 1991 (vide Annexure 2), Port Harcourt Polytechnic in 2016 (vide Annexure 3), and now Captain Elechi Amadi Polytechnic Rumuola, Port Harcourt, Rivers State,” Woke added.

Ogbomah also said the degree certificate awarded to Mutu by St. Clements University was authentic and genuine, adding that contrary to Eselemo’s claim, his boss was awarded a Bachelor of Arts and not Bachelor of Science degree in Business Organisation by the reputable institution.

Similarly, Ogbomah clarified the issue of his boss’ usage of fake name in the National Assembly from 1999 to 2003, adding that the records were available in the National Assembly website for verification.

He said, “We expected the petitioner to visit the National Assembly Website or write the National Assembly, but he decided to rely on a faceless magazine report. But to put the record straight, it is Hon. Nicholas Mutu’s profile that has been in the National Assembly website from 1999 till date. It is also on record that Hon. Nicholas Mutu has won all his elections from 1999 till date and certificate of return has always been issued by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in his name, with which he does his documentation in the National Assembly at all times.

“Instead of Collins Eselemo to visit the website of the school or write to the school to confirm the authenticity or genuineness of the certificate, he prefers to tow his characteristic dishonorable path of character assassination and smear the good image of Hon. Nicholas Mutu. For the records, St. Clements University Certificate is genuine and anybody can go to the University’s website, write or visit the school to confirm that Hon. Mutu Nicholas indeed obtained his degree from the school,” he added.

Start electoral reforms now, reduce number of political parties, Lagos lawmaker tells NASS Patrick Okohue A member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Victor Akande has advised the 9th National Assembly to commence work early on the amendment of the Constitutional and the Electoral Act reforms to deepen the nation’s democracy.

Akande, a second-term member of the Lagos State House of Assembly representing Ojo Constituency I made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) in Lagos.

According to the legal practitioner-turned politician, it is high time the federal legislature gave the nation an electoral law that will address challenges facing elections and reduce number of political parties.

“NASS should know what is right and start working on electoral act cum constitution.

Let them look at it and start now because we know that the process of amending written and rigged constitution is cumbersome.

“So, the earlier the better,in the next six months or one year, significant progress should

have been made by the National Assembly on electoral reforms and amendment to some anachronistic and outdated laws that do not meet current realities.

“There is a lacuna in the constitution and in the electoral act. The power should come from the constitution to specify the number of political parties the nation should adopt.

“If we want to be two-party state, let us be a two-party state; if we want to be a three-party state, let us be a three-party state.

“Having a multidimensional parties is a problem for the country. It has created a lot of confusion.

“I would have loved us to go back to the days when we had just five political parties. If at all we need up to five, five should be the maximum. The constitution and the electoral act should state this categorically,” Akande said.

The lawmaker expressed hope that the nation would get it right gradually with various amendments to the constitution and electoral acts.

“We must correct all these anomalies now that we have ample time before next elections.

The eighth National Assembly

has done well and tried its best on electoral act amendment, this should continue until we get it right and receive Presidential assent,” he added.

Speaking on INEC’s proposal for deregistration of dormant political parties, Akande said that the constitution was clear about registration of political parties, but did not envisage dormancy of some parties.

The legal practitioner said the electoral act had addressed the situation and given conditions for deregistration of political parties.

According to him, Section 78 subsection 7 (1 and 2) of the electoral act states that “The Commission shall have the power to deregister political parties on the following grounds: “Breach of any of the requirements for registration and for failure to win at least a seat in the National Assembly or any state assembly.”

He said that most political parties are not worth being called political parties, hence the need for the commission to be more empowered to deregister parties that fail to meet requirements of winning at least a seat in the parliament.

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THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. NWAGBOROGUOBI UDOLISA DESMOND- GENERAL OVERSEER. 2. FERDINAND PASCAL UCHE - SECRETARY. 3. NWAGBOROGUOBI PROMISE INNOCENT- FINANCIAL SECRETARY. AIMS & OBJECTIVE *TO DEMONSTRATE THE ESSENTIAL UNITY OF SPIRIT- FILLED BELIEVERS IN ANSWER TO THE PRAYER OF JESUS IN JOHN 17 VS 21 THAT THEY ALL MAY BE ONE. * TO SERVE AS FORUM OF SPIRITUAL UNITY, DIALOGUE AND FELLOWSHIP FOR ALL CHURCHES AND PARA- CHURCH ORGANIZATION PAKISTAN/WORLD BASED ON MUTUAL EQUALITY, LOVE, RESPECT AND SOUND DOCTRINE. * TO SET UP A DEVELOPMENT TRAINING CENTRES IN REMOTE RURAL AREAS OF THE STATE, TO UPLIFT THE EDUCATIONAL AND ECONOMIC STANDARD OF THE NEGLECTED SECTIONS OF SOCIETY. * TO PROMOTE MINISTRY IN THE NETWORK OF FELLOWSHIP OF ETHNIC CHRISTIAN MINORITIES.

YUSUF OLATUNJI FANS CLUB

HEARTS OF GOLD HUMANITARIAN INTERNATIONAL CLUB

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

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. AKINPELU RASHEED LAMIDI 2. ADETOLA TESLEEM OLALEKAN 3. BAMIDURO BASIRU ALADE 4. AKINPELU YEKEEN ADESOKAN 5. BALOGUN BOLANLE 6. KAREEM WASIU ADEKOLA

THE TRUSTEES ARE: (1) BELLO SULAIMON JIMMY - CHAIRMAN (2) ADEBANJO KOFOWOROLA OMOBOLANLE - CHAIRLADY (3) ADEKUNLE GANIYU SALAM - PRESIDENT (4) ADEBAYO ATINUKE KAFAYAT - VICE PRESIDENT (5) OGUNDELE OLUBUKOLA MARY - SECRETARY

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROTECT THE INTEREST OF YUSUF OLATUNJI FANS AND CATER FOR THE WELFARE OF MEMBERS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO BE A WORLD-LEADING NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION THROUGH OUR SELFLESS HUMANITARIAN SERVICE AND TO ENCOURAGE A BETTER WORLD THROUGH A SHOW OF KINDNESS, MEET HUMANITARIAN NEEDS, ENCOURAGE PEACE AND PROMOTE UNDERSTANDING IN OUR RESPECTIVE COMMUNITIES. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, P.M.B. 198. GARKI, ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

LOSS OF DOCUMENTS

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT TITLE DOCUMENTS TO WIT: CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPNCY NO. NE/97 WITH THE DEED OF ASSIGNMENT DATED 1ST DAY OF FEBRUARY 1977 REGISTERED AS NO. 120 AT PAGE 120 IN VOLUME 4, GRANTED IN FAVOUR OF UNITED AREWA CHEMIST LIMITED AND THE DEED OF ASSIGNMENT REGISTERED AS NO. 289 AT PAGE 289 IN VOLUME 14 BEING AT MAIDUGURI, (NORTH- EASTERN STATE), BORNO STATE NOW BELONGING TOTAL ESTATES AND PROPERTIES LIMITED IS MISSING AND ALL EFFORTS TO LOCATE THE DOCUMENTS PROVED ABORTIVE. THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OLUMIDE OLADAPO EMMANUEL MINISTRY

ASTUTE SHAREHOLDERS’ ASSOCIATION

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OLUWA-LAWAL, HAKEEM 2. LAMINA, SIKIRU TAIWO 3. AJANI, RASHEED OLALEKAN AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO CATER FOR THE WELFARE OF MEMBERS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, P.M.B. 198. GARKI, ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY THE EDUCATION REFORM & INNOVATION TEAM FOUNDATION

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED MINISTRY HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA, FOR THE REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACTS NO. 1 OF 1990.

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT THE ABOVED 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. EMMANUEL OLUMIDE OLADAPO 2. CLEMENT OLADIPUPO TIMOTHY 3. EZEKIEL WISDOM AHAMEFULA

TRUSTEES : 1. ABOLAJI ADEYEMI OSIME- CHAIRPERSON 2. OBASANYA ABISOLA OLANREWAJU- SECRETARY 3. CHINENYE CHIJIOKE MBA-UZOUKWU 4. ABOYEJI IYINOLUWA SAMUEL 5. OMOBOLANLE MOROUNMUBO KALEJAIYE 6. AYIDA-OTOBO ALERO ABOYOWA

AIMS & OBJECTIVES: 1. TO ENGAGE IN CHURCH PLANTING AND ADOPTION 2. TO RUN GLOBAL RADIO AND TELEVISION MEDIA MINISTRY 3. TO ORGANISE GLOBAL CONFERENCES AND EVENTS ON RELATIONSHIP, FINANCE AND LEADERSHIP 4. TO ENGAGE IN AUDIO, VIDEO AND BOOK PRODUCTION AND PUBLISHING MINISTRY. 5. TO ESTABLISH SCHOOL OF MINISTRY AND TRAINING ACADEMICS. 6. TO BECOME A GLOBAL MENTOR. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR– GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. IVORY SOLICITORS LEGAL PRACTITIONERS & NOTARIES PUBLIC 374, IKORODU ROAD, MARYLAND, LAGOS 08037122564

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE INDIGENT AND LESS PRIVILEGED 2. TO ENCOURAGE AND PROMOTE THE STUDY OF AFRICAN LANGUAGE IN NIGERIA AND ELSEWHERE. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, P.M.B. 198. GARKI, ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

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TAIBAT ADEPITAN OKUSAGA FOUNDATION

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

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

TRUSTEES: 1. FRIDAY, UBONG THOMPSON,CHAIRMAN 2. AKPAN, NSE-ABASI, SEC. 3. SUNDAY, JOSEPH EMMANUEL, MEMBER 4.UMOH, EMMANUEL JOSHUA, MEMBER 5.ENOH, INI-ABASU FRANCIS, MEMBER

TRUSTEES 1. ADEKOYA VICTOR OLUDAISI 2. ADEKOYA AYODELE BUSURAT

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, P.M.B. 198. GARKI, ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: IFEANYI UNAEZE, ESQ. (SOLICITOR) 08033247782

GOD’S BELONGING EVANGELICAL MINISTRY INT’L.

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

TRUSTEES 1. EMMANUEL FOLORUNSHO BOLADALE ~GENERAL OVERSEER 2. ABIGAEL ADEBOMI BOLADALE. 3. NATHANIEL OLADIMEJI BOLADALE~ GENERAL SECRETARY. 4. ADEYEMI ADEBAJO 5. SANYAOLU OLUWASEGUN FOLORUNSHO 6. ADENIKE YEMISI OSIJONWO. 7. OLUSUYI MOSUNMOLA OLAOLUWA .

AIMS AND OBJECTIVE YOUTH EMPOWERMENT AND VOCATIONAL UNDERPRIVILEGED ONES IN THE COMMUNITY

TRAINING

FOR

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, P.M.B. 198. GARKI, ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

NEO-ATLAS FOUNDATION THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT THE ABOVED NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

TRUSTEES 1. OYEDEJI, OLUBUKOLA TOPE 2. ODUMOSU, OLARUNTOBA OPEYEMI AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO INCREASE THE CAPACITY OF FEMALES TO CONTRIBUTE MEANINGFULLY TO THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR SOCIETY. 2. TO PREVENT AND PROVIDE A PLATFORM FOR VICTIMS OF GENDER BASED VIOLENCE TO GET SUPPORT 3. TO CONSTANTLY ENGAGE THE CHALLENGE OF GENDER INEQUALITY THROUGH EDUCATION, ADVOCACY, CAMPAIGNS, SEMINARS AND EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS. 4. TO PROVIDE DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES THAT EMPOWERS GIRLS AND WOMEN. 5. TO CONTRIBUTE TO KNOWLEDGE AND POLICIES THAT IMPACT GIRLS AND WOMEN THROUGH RESEARCH. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, P.M.B. 198. GARKI, ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

ENDTIME HEAVENLY REVIVAL MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL

GRASSROOTS INITIATIVE FOR HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT

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

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

TRUSTEES 1. OLUFEMI OLAMILEKAN ADEBAYO( PRESIDENT) 2. FRANCIS ADEBAYO IDOWU( SECRETARY)

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MRS. JIBUNOH PATIENCE IKORI 2. MR. ANYEBE HENRY 3. MR. IFEANYI IGWILO

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO ALL NATIONS OF THE WORLD IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE WORDS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. 2. TO TEACH & TRAIN CHRISTIANS TO POSSESS THE GOOD CHRISTIAN VIRTUES 3. TO ADVANCE & TEACH CHRISTIAN RELIGION AS CONTAINED IN THE HOLY BIBLE.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO ALL NATIONS OF THE WORLD IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE WORDS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. 2. TO TEACH & TRAIN CHRISTIANS TO POSSESS THE GOOD CHRISTIAN VIRTUES 3. TO ADVANCE & TEACH CHRISTIAN FAITH AS CONTAINED IN THE HOLY BIBLE.

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. REDUCING THE LEVEL OF RURAL POVERTY AND RURAL UNEMPLOYMENT; INTEGRATION OF THE GRASSROOTS COMMUNITIES INTO THE NATIONAL SOCIOECONOMIC AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EFFECTIVE PARTICIPATION IN THEIR OWN AFFAIRS 2. TO CREATE A SOUND INSTITUTIONAL BASIS THROUGH WHICH WOMEN FROM THE TARGET LOCALITIES COULD ENGAGE IN PROFITABLE ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES AND UNDERTAKE ASSET BUILDING PROJECTS WHILE ENSURING THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS, THEREBY IMPROVING THEIR WELL-BEING

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, P.M.B. 198. GARKI, ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION.

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, P.M.B. 198.

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

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: GENERAL SECRETARY.

SIGNED: GENERAL SECRETARY.

SIGNED: SECRETARY

PUBLIC NOTICE

GOD OF WONDERS INTER-DENOMINATIONAL PRAYER MINISTRY

ELDER BEN CHUKWUEMEKA OBINABO FOUNDATION.

CHANGE OF NAME OF THE CHURCH FROM OLD NAME “: KINGDOM FAMILY GLOBAL CHURCH OF GOD RC NO: 121823.

TO NEW NAME REIGNING CITY INTERNATIONAL

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC), ABUJA FOR CHANGE OF NAME. OLD NAME “: KINGDOM FAMILY GLOBAL CHURCH OF GOD RC NO : 121823.

TO NEW NAME REIGNING CITY INTERNATIONAL UNDER PART “C” OF COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1990.

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

TRUSTEES: 1. KALU MICHAEL CHINADOM 2. SALUFU VICTOR 3. UBAH OTOKPA

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

TRUSTEES ARE CHUKWUEMEKA CHIDI CHUKWUEMEKA IFEOMA

AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO PROVIDE A PLATFORM FOR INTERCESSORY PRAYERS FOR PEOPLE WITH NEED.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: TO HELP THE LESS PRIVILEGE IN THE SOCIETY. THE ABOVE IS FOR PUBLICATION.

ANY OBJECTION TO THE CHANGE SHOULD BE FORWARDED WITHIN 28 DAYS TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 430, TIGRIS CRESCENT, MAITAMA, ABUJA.

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

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

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED B .O AMEH ESQ.

TRUSTEES NAMES REMAIN THE SAME AIM AND OBJECTIVES REMAIN THE SAME

ADO CITY CLUB

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

THE TRUSTEES: 1. MR KOLE JEGEDE 2. PRINCE TONY ADEJUGBE 3. MR SHOLA AJAKAYE 4. ENGR. ADEBAYO ADEDAYO 5. PRINCE DIRAN ALADESANMI 6. MR OJO POPOOLA 7. MR KEHINDE FAMUYIBO 8. PRINCE AYO ADEJUGBE. 9. PRINCE KUNLE ALADESANMI. 10. DAPO ADEBAYO AIM & OBJECTIVE: 1. TO ASSIST AND PROTECT THE INTEREST OF MEMBERS.

INITIATIVE FOR IDEAL VALUES AND EDUCATION

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

TRUSTEES 1. TYOZUA TERTSEA ISAAC. 2. TYOZUA VICTOR AIMS & OBJECTIVE: 1. TO PROMOTE QUALITY AND PRODUCTIVE EDUCATION FOR THE LESS PRIVILEGE 2. TO ASSIST IN THE ERADICATION OF THE EXAMINATION MALPRACTICE

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

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

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

SAFEGATE RURAL & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION

ASSOCIATION OF POLITICAL SCIENCE ALUMNI UNILAG

FAITH AND FIRE WONDERS TABERNACLE CAC/RC/NO: 75033 THIS IS TO NOTIFY THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED, HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, FOR APPLICATION FOR CTC OF CERTIFICATE, CHANGE / REMOVAL OF TRUSTEES UNDER PART ‘C’ OF COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT. 1990.

THE OLD TRUSTEES ARE: 1. PASTOR VICTOR AGBEBAKU - RETAINED 2. PASTOR (MRS) COMFORT AGBEBAKU - RETAINED 3. SIS MAIGARET AKHIMIEN - RETAINED 4. MR DAVID AGBEBAKU - RETAINED 5. BARRISTER MACANTHONY AKHARIALA 6. THEO NWADIKE THE NEWLY APPOINTED TRUSTEES: 1. AGBEBAKU EFUA SUCCESS 2. AGBEBAKU EHI JOHN 3. OKAFOR PATRICK IFEANYICHUKWU 4. BARR. RAYMOND ODION ANY OBJECTION TO THIS APPLICATION 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

BIDA STANDARD AMBASSADORS ASSOCIATION

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

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR INCORPORATION UNDER THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, CAP C20 LAWS FOR THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA (LFN) 2004.

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR INCORPORATION UNDER THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, CAP C20 LAWS FOR THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA (LFN) 2004.

TRUSTEES ARE 1. ANDREW DUYA- CHAIRMAN 2. LADI JAMES- SECRETARY

BOARD OF TRUSTEES ARE 1 BROWNE ONUOHA 2 BABAWALE OLATUNDE GABRIEL 3 ASHIRU NOSIRU OYEDELE 4 QUADRI MARYAM OMOLARA, 5 SALIU NURUDEEN ADEBOLA

BOARD OF TRUSTEES 1. IMOLEHIN EDWIN OLADAPO 2. OMOTOSO RABIU MOHAMMED IDOWU 3. OLAIYA OLADELE OLUKAYODE

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. UPLIFTING PEOPLE WHO ARE LESS PRIVILEGE 2. VISITING RURAL AREAS TO EDUCATE WOMEN, WIDOWS AND ORPHANS 3. HELPING AND SUPPORTING CHILDREN WHO ARE WITH DISABILITIES AND SPECIAL NEEDS ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: CHAIRMAN

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE 1. TO PROTECT THE PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE GRADUATES. 2. TO EXPANDED ACADEMIC AND NON ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR MEMBERS ANY OBJECTIONS TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE TO FOSTER UNITY, LOVE, TOLERANCE AND PROGRESS AMONG MEMBERS BIDA STANDARD AMBASSADORS ASSOCIATION ANY OBJECTIONS TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

Classified EVIVAL SANCTUARY INTERNATIONAL CHURCH

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR INCORPORATION UNDER THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, CAP C20 LAWS FOR THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA (LFN) 2004.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES ARE 1 PASTOR GREATNESS ADISA.-CHAIRMAN 2 PST. MRS KEMI ADISA 3 PST. JAMES ONORHERE 4 BRO. ERUNSE EMMANUEL - SECRETARY 5 SIS. GLORIA ERUNSE 6 PST. ETHEL NJOKU

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE 1. TO WIN SOULS 2. TO STIR REVIVAL. 3. TO PROVOKE MEN TO WALK WITH GOD THROUGH THE MOVE OF THE SPIRIT AND THE WORD. ANY OBJECTIONS TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

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IBADAN BEANS SELLERS ASSOCIATION BODIJA THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR INCORPORATION UNDER THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, CAP C20 LAWS FOR THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA (LFN) 2004.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES ARE 1 ADIGUN MUMINI OLAIDE. - CHAIRMAN 2 TIJANI KABIR OLATUNJI. - SECRETARY 3 OYELAMI MORISELOLA ARIKE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES TO PROMOTE LOVE, PEACE AND UNITY AMONG MEMBERS ANY OBJECTIONS TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

FRIENDS OF THE COVENANT INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION

PUBLIC NOTICE

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

WE THE SONS OF LATE SAMUEL IWUALA EKWECHILE AND THEIR FAMILIES FROM UMUNKWOKEOCHA, UMUNGORI, UMUOKORIE OKUKU IN OWERRI WEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF IMO STATE, NIGERIA HEREBY STATES AS FOLLOWS:

THE NAMES OF THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. CHIMAH PATIENCE ONYINYECHI 2. ILOANUGO ONYINYE STELLA 3. CHUKWUDALU SHADRACH ANTHONY 4. CHRIS CHIKE OBASIH 5. NICHOLAS OMONJEVA

1. THAT UGWUEGBU FELIX OF SAME ADDRESS IS THE ELDEST MAN IN THE UMUNWOKEOCHA KINDRED. 2. THAT THE SAID UGWUEGBU FELIX BEING THE ELDEST AND OFOR TITLE HOLDER HAS NO RIGHT WHATSOEVER TO SALE OUR COLLECTIVELY COMMUNAL OWNED LANDED PROPERTY INHERITED FROM OUR GREAT GRAND FOREFATHERS WITHOUT INFORMING US AND IN OUR AGREEMENT. 3. THAT ANY INDIVIDUAL PERSONS OR GROUPS THAT BUYS ANY PLOT OF LAND FROM HIM OR FROM ONE PETER OGBONNA WHO IS A STRANGER (NON INDIGENE) IN OUR MIDST, DOES SO AT THEIR OWN RISK.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO WORK FOR THE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF UNDERPRIVILEGED INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS AND COMMUNITIES IN NIGERIA AND BEYOND. 2. TO ENCOURAGE HEALTHCARE DEVELOPMENT AND HEALTH PROMOTION; 3. TO ASSIST IN THE PROCESS OF SOCIAL INTEGRATION AND PERSONAL REALISATION OF UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE, ADULTS AND FAMILIES; 4. TO ENDORSE THE HUMAN RIGHTS AND IN PARTICULAR THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AS WELL AS THE RIGHTS OF UNDERPRIVILEGED GROUPS AND COMMUNITIES; 5. TO ENCOURAGE AND POPULARISE VOLUNTARY WORK. ANY OBJECTION TO THE ABOVE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR - GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED : SECRETARY

MARK HAPREJE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION

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

TRUSTEES ARE: 1 ADUBI OLUWASEUN MARK. 2. ADUBI HAPPINESS NKEMDIRI. 3. ADUBI SUNDAY OLALEKAN. 4. ADUBI GRACE OLURANTI.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROVIDE MEDICAL SERVICES TO THE LESS PRIVILEGED IN THE SOCIETY. 2. TO FOSTER PEACE AND UNITY AMONG MEMBERS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEE

THEY HAVE NO PERSONAL LAND TO SALE. THIS NOTICE IS TO STRENGTHEN MY EARLIER PUBLICATION IN FRONTLINE EXPRESS OF JANUARY 16-18, 2015, PAGE 6, COLUMN 5.

THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE. SIGNED: COMR. EKWECHILA CHRISTIAN AMAECHI (HEAD EKWECHILA FAMILIES) WHICH INCLUDES: 1. EMMANUEL EKWECHILA AND FAMILY 2. UGOCHUKWU EKWECHILA AND FAMILY 3. BENARDINE EKWECHILA AND FAMILY 4. IK EKWECHILA AND FAMILY.

REEN_CARES FOUNDATION

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OBIH MAUREEN NKEIRU - PRESIDENT. 2. OBIH CYNTHIA ADAEZE - VICE PRESIDENT. 3. RONALD IKECHUKWU KENNETH - SECRETARY 4. EJEOGO IFEOMA NUELA - TREASURER. 5. GODWILL MINWO METONG - P.R.O AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREVENT CHILDREN FROM ROAMING ON THE STREETS, TO ASSIST CHILDREN WHO ARE ORPHANS AND THOSE LIVING WITH HIV\AIDS TO LOOK AWAY FROM WHAT THE SEE THEMSELVES AS, BY HELPING THEM BE PRODUCTIVE AND ACTIVE IN THE SOCIETY. 2. TO EMPOWER THE CHILDREN \YOUTHS OF SCHOOL GOING AGE BY PROVIDING: A. NUTRITION AND EDUCATIONAL AND SKILL TRAINING. B. TO PROTECT AND PROMOTE THE WELLBEING OF THE YOUNG GENERATION BY ENSURING THAT THEIR FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS ARE RESPECTED AND THAT OF CAREGIVERS ARE PROTECTED, RESPECTED AND FULFILLED. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: PRESIDENT

PEACE VALLEY NEIGHBOURHOOD RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION THE IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER THE PART C OR THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF 1990 THE TRUSTEES ARE (A) MR. OLUBIYI AYOBAMI-(CHAIRMAN) (B) MR. AJEGBEMIKA BABATUNDE - (MEMBER) (C) MR. MUSTAPHA FOLUSO AKEEM- (MEMBER) (D) MR. OMOYAJOWO AKINWUNMI JOHNSON- (SECRETARY) (E) MR AKINYELE OLADIPO- (MEMBER) (F) MR ABIGHE GODSPOWER BENSON- (MEMBER) (G) MR ADEBAYO BABATOPE - (MEMBER) (H) MR. OLAYINKA LIAMEEN OLANREWAJU - (MEMBER) (I) MRS ADEGBITE NIHINLOLA OPEYEMI- (MEMBER) AIMS AND OBJECTIVES : 1. TO ESTABLISH A BODY DEDICATED TO THE UNITY, SERVICE AND PROGRESS OF THE ESTATE. 2. TO CREATE A FORUM FOR REGULAR MEETINGS OF ALL RESIDENTS. 3. TO FOSTER CORDIAL RELATIONSHIP, AND PROMOTE MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING AMONG THE RESIDENTS. 4. TO DEVELOP SPIRIT OF ONENESS AND ENSURE COLLECTIVE ON MATTERS AFFECTING RESIDENTS. 5. TO ENCOURAGE COMMUNAL DEVELOPMENT, AND IMPROVE THE HEALTH STANDARD AMONGST US IN GENERAL, TO UNDERTAKE OTHER THINGS THAT MAY TEND TO PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENTS OF THE RESIDENTS’ TOTAL WELFARE.

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1) OBOT ANTHONY ODUDU 2) OBOT GIFT AMARACHI 3) OBIM EDITH ONOBI

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: OBOT ANTHONY ODUDU CHAIRMAN

SIGNED SECRETARY

ERITH SYNERGY FOUNDATION

TRUSTEES* 1. FAGBOLA OLUMUYIWA OLADIMEJI 2. FAGBOLA OLUWATOYIN TAIWO 3. FAGBOLA OLUTOMI OLUBUKOLA 4. HARRISON DEHINDE OMOJUWA AIMS AND OBJECTIVES A. TO SUPPORT ORPHANS, MOTHERLESS/ABANDONED CHILDREN AND ABUSED WOMEN. B. TO SPONSOR THE EDUCATION OF GIFTED BUT INDIGENT STUDENTS THROUGH PRIMARY, SECONDARY AND TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS. C. TO SUPPORT ANY ASSOCIATION WHICH PROTECT AND DEFEND THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN AGAINST ALL FORMS OF ABUSES. D. TO SAFEGUARD THE GIRL-CHILD AGAINST ABUSE AND PROVIDE A SAFE SPACE FOR HER TO MAXIMIZE HER POTENTIALS. E. TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL AND MATERIAL ASSISTANCE TO EXISTING ORPHANAGES AND OLD PEOPLES’ HOMES F. TO PROVIDE MENTORSHIP AND GUIDANCE TO CHILDREN, YOUTH AND CAREGIVERS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, WUZE ZONE 5, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED BY SECRETARY*

CHAIRMAN SECRETARY

AIMS & OBJECTIVES 1) TO PREACH THE WORD OF GOD.

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, WUZE ZONE 5, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

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

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SHE IS EMPOWERED FOUNDATION

THE IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER THE PART C OR THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF 1990 TRUSTEES: 1. UZOMA UJA 2. BLESSING UJA OBJECTIVE 1- TO PROMOTE EDUCATION IN THE SOCIETY. 2- TO EMPOWER THE LESS PRIVILEGED IN THE SOCIETY. 3- TO PROMOTE THE RIGHT OF THE GIRL-CHILD. 4- TO PROMOTE THE DIGNITY OF THE GIRL-CHILD , WHILE EMPOWERING GIRLS AS AN INSTRUMENT OF CHANGE IN THE SOCIETY. - TO PROMOTE LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE. - TO EDUCATE THE GIRL-CHILD TO BECOME CAREER DRIVEN AND SELF SUFFICIENT. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, WUZE ZONE 5, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED SECRETARY

ALHAJA SABALEMOTU AYINKE MEMORIAL CENTRAL MOSQUE THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR INCORPORATION UNDER THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, CAP C20 LAWS FOR THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA (LFN) 2004.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES 1 DARAMOLA SHADIAT MORONKEJI. - CHAIRPERSON 2 ALHAJA OLANIYAN TAWAKALITU ABIODUN 3 PROF. OLA-ADAMS BINYAMINALAO. - SECRETARY 4 ADAMS MOJEED OMOLAJA 5 BARR. KASSIM-LANIYAN TAIBAT B. 6 OLA-ADAMS BOLAJI AKINOLA 7 OJO TAIWO FOLAKE 8 ADAMS SULAIMAN AKINTUNDE AIM AND OBJECTIVE TO PROPAGATE ISLAM ANY OBJECTIONS TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

ARTISAN FISHERMEN ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA APPOINTMENT/ADDITION OF TRUSTEES

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED FOUNDATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR APPOINTMENT TRUSTEES/ADDITION NEW TRUSTEES UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990 THE TRUSTEES ARE; 1. BISHOP (DR) GODKNOWS MIO NIFEIPIRI - NATIONAL PRESIDENT. (RETAINED).

2. MR BILLY PREKUNOMAA THANKYOU - ADMIN SECRETARY. (NEWLY APPOINTED) 3. ENGR MARCUS SUNDAY JOMBO. (NEWLY APPOINTED) 4. MR EMMANUEL AKPOLOME. (NEWLY APPOINTED) 5. MR THANKGOD AGUNOWEI. (NEWLY APPOINTED) 6. MR UGBANA DAGOGO EGBE. (NEWLY APPOINTED) 7. CHIEF SIITU EMMANUEL KOBAH. (NEWLY APPOINTED) AIMS AND OBJECTIVES; 1. TO UNITE ALL FISHERMEN AND FISHING ASSOCIATION IN NIGERIA SO THAT THEY CAN SPEAK WITH ONE VOICE ON MATTER AFFECTING THEIR COLLECTIVE WELFARE. 2. TO PROMOTE THE COLLECTIVE INTEREST AND WELFARE IN MEMBER AND AFFILIATED ALLIED FISHERMEN ASSOCIATION IN THE COUNTRY AND OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS APPLICATION/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 BILLY PREKUNOMAA THANKYOU (ADMIN SECRETARY)

KINGS FAITH GLOBAL CHURCH

UTUECHI COMMUNITY, OMOKU, RIVERS STATE THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1, OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. APOSTLE SUNDAY CHARLES- CHAIRMAN 2. MR. IGNATIUS EKWENZE - SECRETARY 3. MRS. EBI IRONAH - TREASURER 4. MRS. COMFORT CHARLES 5. MRS. BRIDGET ANANI 6. MR. NNALUE EDWIN AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. MAGNIFYING GOD BY WORSHIPPING HIM IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH 2. TRAINING AND DEVELOPING PEOPLE TO CHRISTLIKE MATURITY 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

ORRIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1) DR. PETER OKEY 2) DR. CLEMENT OFOR 3) PHILIP UDEH 4) NGOZI OKEY AIMS & OBJECTIVES 1. TO ENSURE ACADEMIC SUCCESS AND BEYOND THROUGH PROGRAMMES THAT SUPPORT LEARNERS MORALLY. 2. TO ESTABLISH EDUCATION CENTRES FOR PUPILS IN SCHOOL LEVEL. 3. TO ASSIST YOUTHS AND CHILDREN IN THE SOCIETY IN THEIR ACADEMIC PERSISTS VALUES AND CAREERS. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: CHAIRMAN/SECRETARY

SUPERNATURAL GOSPEL MISSION

THE IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER THE PART C OR THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF 1990 THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1 APOSTLE ARIZI FETCHMOORE - PRESIDENT 2, PASTOR (MRS) ARIZI AGHOGHO GOLD -SECRETARY, 3 PASTOR EKUBIRI SAMUEL EZE AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, WUZE ZONE 5, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

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ONYINYECHI

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS SHERIFAT YAKUBU NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SHERIFAT ALIYU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAINS VALID AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS GOODNESS CHINASAOKWU UWAKWE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS RITA GOODNESS CHINASAOKWU NNAJI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. ALL AUTHORITIES CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS NWAOKORO HELEN EZINNE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OKORIE HELEN EZINNE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. NYSC AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

EZINNE

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

THAT I WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SIMON NWANKWO, THAT I NOW WISH TO ADD ONYEBUCHI TO MY FORMER NAME THAT I NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SIMON ONYEBUCHI NWANKWO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY AND CONFIRM THAT, OKANAZU KATE CHINEYE, OKANAZU VERA KATE AND OKANAZU VERA CHINENYE NNEOMA, REFERS TO ONE AND THE SAME PERSON BUT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKANAZU VERA KATE CHINENYE NNEOMA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF LOSS OF ORIGINAL LAND DOCUMENTS BELONGING TO SAFLOT ISLAND LTD ABUJA, THE LAND PROPERTY KNOWN AS PLOT 9 XXII REPUBLIC LAYOUT ENUGU. ALL EFFORT TO TRACE THOSE DOCUMENTS PROVED ABORTIVE. IF FOUND, PLEASE, CONTACT THE FEDERAL MINISTRY OF LANDS ENUGU.

THAT I WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKONKWO MARTHA THAT I NOW WISH TO ADD CHINYERE TO MY FORMER NAMEREMAIN THAT I NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKONKWO MARTHA CHINYERE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ADDITION OF NAME

MY NAME WAS OGBAJI F O R M E R LY WRONGLY ARRANGED ON MY BVN AS OGBAJI FRANCIS OGAR. THE CORRECT ARRANGEMENT IS OGAR FRANCIS OGBAJI. AND MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 10TH JUNE, 1997. NOT 10TH JUNE 1982.

BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS MISS OJI NGOZI ONYINYECHI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS MRS OGBONNA NGOZI ONYINYECHI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

IDUMA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWAMBAM GLADY NNEKA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWOFE GLADYS NNEKA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ESSIEN

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ANIEMA ANTHONY VERO, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ANIEMA ANTHONY ESSIEN. MY. CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 28TH OCTOBER, 1984. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

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LOSS OF DOCUMENT

NNEKA

CHEKWUBE

ALIYU

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS IKEH MAUREEN EKWUTOSI AND MISS IKEH MAUREEN EDITHY, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS AGBO MAUREEN EKWUTOSI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS CHUKWUAJA IRENE CHIDINMA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS TOCHUKWU IRENE CHIDINMA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. NYSC AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CHIDINMA

CAROLYN

I, FORMERLY K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS MISS AJAHGILBERT UGOCHUKWU CAROLYN, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS PATRICK UCHENNA UGOCHUKWU CAROLYN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. NYSC AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS UMEALO CHIENYEMOKE DIVINE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UMEALO CHIJIOKE DIVINE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY UZOAMAKA KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OWUOBE BLESSING UZOAMAKA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS NNALI BLESSING UZOAMAKA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS JOSEPH NKEMJIKA FAVOUR, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS NWALI NKEMJIKA JOSEPH. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

IRUOMA

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RITA

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I, FORMERLY NNADI K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS NNADI SCHOLASTICA ENYINNAYA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NNADI SCHOLASTICA EBERECHUKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS EMENGINI APPOLONIA NGOZI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS NNEBEDUM APPOLONIA NGOZI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

NGOZI

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EGWUATU BONAVENTURE IZUCHUKWU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ONWUZOBE ONYEBUCHI EMMANUEL. MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 16TH JUNE 1992. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

IBRAHIM

NWACHUKWU

I FORMERLY K N O W N CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS CHIDI AMAM. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS BONAVENTURE CHIDI AMAM NWACHUKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY EBUBE K N O W N CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS NWACHUKWU STANLEY PIUS NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS NWACHUKWU PIUS EBUBE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY DAVID KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, MR. KELVIN JOB DAVID, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, BARIZOMDU JOB DAVID. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

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

EKWUTOSI

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EUKERE

I FORMERLY KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS EUKERE BEAUTY NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS MISS MONDAY BEAUTY EUKERE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

AREMU

I FORMERLY KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS MUHAMMED IBRAHEEM. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS MUHAMMED SHETTIMA IBRAHIM. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

DIVINE

JOSEPH

EMMANUEL

JULIET

NNAJI

ADDITION OF NAME

JEREMIAH

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWAFOR SUNDAY, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHUKWU SUNDAY JEREMIAH. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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EZEBUILO

OGECHI

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UNACHUKWU OGECHI .E. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UNACHUKWU OGECHI. MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 4/8/1992.

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I FORMERLY

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OSONOIKI OLUSEUN ABIDEMI. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS OGUNMUYIDE OLUSEUN ABIDEMI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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LAMINA

CHANGE OF NAME & CORRECTION OF DOB I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JACINTA CHIAMAKA NDUDO. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JESSICA CHIAMAKA LAWRENCE.THAT MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 30/10/1991, AND NOT 19/10/1992.

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CHANGE OF NAME & CORRECTION OF DOB I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NDUDO EBUKA FRANCIS. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS LAWRENCE CHUKUEBUKA FRANCIS. THAT MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 10/03/2000.

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NWAOGU

I FORMERLY K N O W N CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS UZOMA PRINCE NWAOGU. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS BRIGHT UZOMA NWAOGU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY K N O W N C A L L E D AND ADDRESSED AS ADIO MORUFAT MORENIKEJI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS OKULU MORUFAT AYOMIDE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS ALI MATINS CHUKWUEMEKA. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS MICHEAL MATINS CHUKWUEMEKA . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OSATUYI OLUWABUKOLA ABIODUN. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS OLUWATUYI OLUWABUKOLA ABIODUN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ABIODUN

I FORMERLY K N O W N AND ADDRESSED AS KASSIM YEWANDE RUKAYAT. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS OLUWATUYI YETUNDE ELIZABETH. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OGUNMADE

I FORMERLY KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS MUSILIAT GBADAMOSI. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS MARY ADUKE OGUNMADE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CHINEDU

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGODO CHINEDU MOSES. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS EZE CHINEDU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY K N O W N C A L L E D AND ADDRESSED AS ADELEYE KABIRAT. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS OYETUNJI KABIRAT BIDEMI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ABIOLA OMOLADE JANET. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADERINOLA OMOLADE JANET. THAT MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 10/03/1994. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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Daily Times Nigeria Friday, June 21, 2019

Sudan prosecutor general sacked as new protests held Sudan’s Transitional Military Council (TMC) has sacked the country’s prosecutor general, days after charges of corruption were brought against overthrown President Omar al-Bashir as new protests got under way.

The official SUNA news agency reported on Thursday that Abdullah Ahmed would replace Alwaleed Sayed Ahmed as prosecutor general, but did not give any reason for the sacking.

Abdullah had recently been appointed prosecutor for Khartoum, a role in which he was overseeing an investigation into the June 3 bloody raid on a protest camp in the capital that killed scores of pro-democracy demonstrators.

Al-Bashir, on Sunday, appeared in front of another prosecutor to face charges of corruption and illegal possession of foreign currency.

Thursday’s announcement comes weeks after protesters were violently dispersed on June 3 by men in military uniforms who, according to witnesses, shot and beat demonstrators who

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had taken part in the weeks-long sit-in outside the military headquarters.

The TMC has steadfastly denied it had ordered the dispersal, but said it had ordered a purge of a nearby area notorious for “criminals” selling drugs.

The council has said that the purge of the area, known as Colombia, was carried out only after a meeting of legal and security chiefs, which was attended by Alwaleed.

Last week, he told reporters he had attended the meeting but had left by the time the purge operation was discussed, saying: “In our presence, the dispersal of the sit-in was not even remotely discussed.”

At least 128 people have been killed since the June 3 crackdown, the majority on the day the sit-in was cleared, according to doctors linked to the protest movement that led to al-Bashir’s removal.

The health ministry gave a nationwide death

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toll of 61.

On Thursday, the TMC deputy head, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, said that the mastermind behind the raid had been “identified” but said he would not reveal the identity due to an ongoing investigation.

“Whoever it is, whether from regular forces or a civilian, will be brought to trial. The investigation will be transparent and the trial will be public,” Dagalo, who is widely known as Hemeti, said.

Protesters say the crackdown was carried out by members of Hemeti’s feared paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Hemeti defended his force and warned of impostor troops, saying anybody could wear the unit’s uniform which could be bought in the markets.

“We arrested a general yesterday for distributing IDs of the RSF,” he said, adding that 23 other individuals were arrested in the Red

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Sea city of Port Sudan for wearing the unit’s uniform and “checking people”.

“Anyone who had crossed his limits whether they are from the military or civilians, I swear to God, will stand trial,” Hemeti said in an address to a military-backed women’s rally in Khartoum.

The June 3 raid came after protest leaders and generals failed to reach an agreement over who should head a new governing body - a civilian or a member of the military.

Hundreds of Sudanese demonstrated in state capitals on Thursday, putting pressure on the TMC to cede power to civilians in ongoing tumult since the overthrow of al-Bashir more than two months ago.

On Wednesday, TMC head General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan called on protest leaders to resume talks without any conditions.

Protest leaders have expressed readiness to resume talks but on certain conditions.

They insist an internet blackout imposed after they launched a civil disobedience campaign this month be brought to an end.

They are also seeking an international probe into the killings and the acceptance of all earlier agreements reached in previous negotiations with the generals prior to the crackdown.

“We came out today because our revolution is still incomplete. Our main demand is civilian rule and I’m sure we will achieve it,” said Mohamed Khalil, a protester from Port Sudan.

Witnesses said dozens of employees from private companies and ministries, including oil and information, held silent demonstrations outside their offices in Khartoum.

Some carried banners that read “Murderers of June 3 must face trial”, a witness said.

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Daily Times Nigeria Friday, June 21, 2019

Mohamed Morsi: An Egyptian tragedy The death of former President Mohamed Morsi is only the latest in a series of untold tragedies that have afflicted Egypt since the spark of revolution flickered more than eight years ago. His unlikely rise to the presidency reflected the aspirations of millions of Egyptians for a future free of despotic military rule. His subsequent arrest at the hands of a resurgent dictatorship made him one of 60,000 Egyptians imprisoned for daring to seek a better life.

The mysterious circumstances surrounding Morsi’s death while in the custody of Egyptian state security services bring up many questions.

But there is no doubt about the regime’s culpability for a death it has long sought, whether through a series of spurious death penalty cases against the former president, or as a consequence of the appalling prison conditions that have contributed to the demise of his health and which have been roundly condemned by international human rights bodies.

For Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the field marshal who overthrew Morsi in a July 2013 coup and restored military rule in Egypt, his death signals yet another milestone in a six-year mission to bury any remaining vestiges of Egypt’s short-lived democratic transition.

That process began when the then-defence minister ordered the arrest of the democratically elected president, who had appointed him, and proceeded to crack down on his supporters. The massacre at the Rabaa Square sit-in six weeks later in which nearly 1,000 protesters were killed represented the largest single-day mass killing of civilians by security forces in Egypt’s modern history. In the years since, the el-Sisi regime has banned all forms of protest, shut down independent media, imprisoned tens of thousands of activists and even engaged in extrajudicial killings.

El-Sisi was anointed president in 2014, following a sham election held under extremely repressive conditions, and re-elected for a second term last year in another equally absurd vote in which the incumbent’s sole opponent had endorsed him.

The constitutional amendments the regime pushed through earlier this year have all but cemented the Egyptian military’s extraordinary privileges over civil society and were intended to ensure an el-Sisi presidency for decades to come. All the while, the economic deprivation, physical insecurity and basic human indignity against which millions of Egyptians mobilised in 2011 have gotten far worse.

In contrast to el-Sisi’s iron-fist approach to power, Morsi’s path to the presidency mirrored the uncertainties and anxieties of the society from which he emerged. Born in 1951 in a small village northeast of Cairo, Morsi came of age during the height of Gamal Abdel Nasser’s presidency in which Egypt’s authoritarian system first took root.

He relocated to Cairo to pursue his higher education as part of a broader wave of urban migration from the

Egyptian late President Mohammed Morsi was deposed in a coup led by his defence minister, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, in July 2013

Egyptian countryside. But the collapse of Nasserism following the country’s defeat in the 1967 war with Israel, and the inability to meet the basic needs of a rapidly growing population, sent Egypt into a crisis. Like many other Egyptians, Morsi pursued further studies abroad, receiving a doctorate in engineering in the United Statesbefore returning to teach at an Egyptian university during the early years of PresidentHosni Mubarak’s rule.

In some ways, Morsi represents a lost generation, millions of Egyptians deprived of any say in their own governance for decades, who were later forced to watch as an octogenarian president prepared to hand over power to his son Gamal who was in his early 40s. Rather than wallow in his own marginalisation, Morsi joined many others of his generation in devoting much of his life to public service, working within the Muslim Brotherhood’s political wing, which offered itself as an alternative to the corrupt ruling National Democratic Party.

Although it had been outlawed since 1954, by the late Mubarak era, the Muslim Brotherhood had steadily emerged as a significant opposition movement within Egyptian civil society, offering crucial social services and joining a broad cross-section of society in calling for serious political reforms and demanding democratic elections. That opportunity finally arose following the mass protests that unseated Mubarak in February 2011.

Unlike Gamal Mubarak, who believed himself destined to inherit his father’s seat, there was nothing to suggest that Morsi ever desired the presidency he eventually won in the country’s first-ever free presidential election. Nor did he prove particularly

suited for the position, which had little use for his years of experience in activism within a closed political system. However, what most of Morsi’s harshest critics failed to grasp during his precarious year in office were the structural impediments that would have doomed any figure from the ranks of Egypt’s revolutionaries to failure.

On the eve of the country’s historic presidential election, the ruling military council quietly issued a decree that effectively stripped the incoming president of all executive powers.

Months later, when Morsi attempted to reclaim the powers of his office, a predictably alarmist state media and a distrustful political opposition condemned it as a sinister power grab.

The weakest president Egypt ever had, had incredibly become “pharaoh” in the eyes of an increasingly fractious public.

In a sense, Morsi’s greatest mistake was in managing to convince Egyptians that he held the powers of the office to which he was elected.

Whether fairly or unfairly, by the end of his first year as president, every new failure had been laid at Morsi’s feet. The accusations had even crossed over into the ridiculous: Morsi was supposedly negotiating a secret sale of Egypt’s pyramids to a foreign country when he was overthrown. Some of the conspiracy theories would have been laughable had they not ended up on a list of court charges for which he would later face a possible death sentence.

Absent from many of the critiques of Morsi’s ill-fated presidency was the role of countless other actors committed to ensuring the failure of Egypt’s revolutionary moment: government bureaucrats loyal to the former regime who refused to implement

presidential policies; an oligarch class that created artificial energy shortages to stir popular discontent; a political opposition that cynically played the role of spoiler when it could not defeat Morsi or his party in elections; foreign governments that bankrolled the counter-revolution; and of course, the Egyptian armed forces, which continued to hold most of the cards during the contentious revolutionary transition.

One could certainly point to Morsi’s leadership flaws, his poor communication of key decisions, and his inability to forge a broad revolutionary coalition to withstand the coming counter-revolution, but in the face of such an onslaught, it is unlikely that any opposition figure would have stood a chance.

And so his presidency came to an unceremonious end before it ever really began. Morsi’s legacy encompassed little more than the momentary hope for a democratic future embodied in his ceremonial assumption of a post long regarded as the sole domain of ruthless authoritarians.

But as his successor would soon realise, that brief hope has proven to be stubbornly hard to extinguish. Six years after the coup that overthrew Morsi, many Egyptians continue to perceive the current regime as illegitimate.

It is probably for this reason that the el-Sisi regime, consistent with its rampant inhumanity, denied a former president a proper public funeral, instead hastily arranging a pre-dawn burial which only two of Morsi’s surviving family members were allowed to attend. By choosing to bury him in the dead of night, the regime has only succeeded in shining a light on the enduring tragedy of a nation.

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Brown Ideye joins Greek Super League outfit Aris

Nigeria international Brown Ideye has joined Greek Super League club Aris on a oneyear deal.

The 30-year-old has been without a club since he left Malaga at the end of the 2017-18 season and he will hope to revitalize his career at the Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium during the 2019-20 season.

Ideye previously played in Greece with Olympiacos where he enjoyed a rich vein of form

with 28 goals in 65 matches across two seasons.

He also helped them win the 2015-16 Super League title before his departure to Chinese Super League club Tianjin Teda in February 2017.

Ideye will hope to help Aris qualify for next season’s Uefa Europa League group stage after their fifth-place finish in the 2018-19 league campaign.

The Yellow and Blacks have been scheduled to play Cypriot

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outfit AEL in a double-header qualifying fixture for the European tournament later in July.

On the international scene, Ideye was part of the Nigeria team that won the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) in South Africa but he has not been invited to the national team since October 2016, with his last outing dating back to the 2018 Fifa World Cup qualifying game against Zambia that ended 2-1 in favour of the Super Eagles.

Ighalo: Nigeria has all it takes to win AFCON Nigeria forward Odion Ighalo believes that they can go all the way to the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) final and win the title for the fourth time.

The biennial tournament is set to commence in Egypt on Friday and the Super Eagles will kick-off their Group B campaign a day later against Burundi at the Alexandria Stadium.

Ighalo was the top scorer during the qualification round for the this year’s Afcon with seven goals and he remains confident that Nigeria have the quality to conquer the rest of the continent in a ‘tough’ tournament.

“If anybody says the tournament will be easy, it is a lie because it is going to be tough, it is going to

be hot but I believe in the team we have, we have all it takes to do well at the Afcon,” Ighalo told the NFF media.

“Nigeria has a good team that can play in the semi-final and the final.

As I said, we will not get carried away.

“We have a team that can even win the trophy if we work hard and if we give everything we have on the pitch, not saying had I known later.

We have all it takes to win it but let’s just start with the first game, to the quarter-finals, semis then we will see how it goes.”

Although Nigeria coach Gernot Rohr has dismissed opinions that his team is one of the favourites for the title in Egypt, the Shanghai Shenhua attacker echoed the German’s views

as he prefers the ‘underdog’ tag for their quest for glory.

“Anything I do in life, I like people to take me as an underdog because I like to surprise people and I like to take people unaware, that’s for me as a person,” he added.

“If they are taking us [underdog], it is very good because it won’t give the team more pressure.

“When the team has more pressure of winning this and that, that’s when you will start thinking of the final when you have not even played the first game.”

After Saturday’s game against Olivier Niyungeko’s men, the three-time African champions will play against Guinea on June 26 and Madagascar on June 30 at the Alexandria Stadium.

FIFA scribe Fatma Samoura up Adam Mukhtar emerges as FCT FA chairman for CAF position Fifa and the Caf are contemplating assigning Fifa secretary general Fatma Samoura to the position of Fifa delegate for Africa.

The global and African football governing bodies took the decision following the recent governance challenges on the continent, which culminated in Caf president Ahmad Ahmad being arrested by French police recently.

Prior to Ahmad’s arrest, there was controversy surrounding the Caf Champions League final between Esperance and Wydad Casablanca, which was marred by a VAR storm.

In addition, there was confusion regarding the rescheduling the 2019, 2021 and 2023 Africa Cup of Nations finals.

The African supremo proposed to the Caf cxecutive committee in Cairo on Wednesday, July 19 that it should seek Fifa’s know-how on how to examine the existing state of affairs in the African governing body and execute the required reform process.

That should help Caf perform its duties with the necessary “transparency, efficiency while abiding to the highest governance standards.”

Ahmad’s proposal was accepted in unison by the cxecutive committee.

Furthermore, in line with the development, Fifa and Caf are going to carry out a full forensic audit of the African football body.

Given the aforementioned, the following were agreed upon by Fifa and Caf: Fifa secretary general Fatma Samoura to be appointed as “Fifa general delegate for Africa” for a six-month period from 1 August 2019 to 31 January 2020, renewable with the agreement of both organisations.

Ms. Samoura will be assisted by a group of experts who will work in a spirit of partnership with President Ahmad and his team in several areas, which include amongst others: – To oversee operational

management of Caf, including governance and administrative procedures, – To ensure the efficient and professional organization of all Caf competitions; – To support the growth and development of football in all countries and regions of Caf; During this period, Fatma Samoura will stay secretary general of Fifa and will delegate her functions within the Fifa administration in accordance with the relevant internal regulations.

Lastly, the unique and temporary measure has been approved by the bureau of the Fifa council.

Mohammed Adam Mukhtar has emerged the new chairman of the Federal Capital Territory Football Association, FCT FA chairman.

Mr Adam, a foremost grassroots football promoter and President of Heart FC pulled a total of 11 votes to defeat the incumbent chairman, Musa Talle, who got 4 votes.

Speaking with newsmen, he said he is prepared to use his contacts, resources to develop football in the nation’s capital, while promising to secure corporate sponsorship for the FCT league.

“I am pleased for this victory. I have great plans to develop football in FCT and I will be working hand in hand with the new board.”

“I am prepared to spend my own money; I have been doing it and I will continue to do it but I can’t do it alone.”

“I am not pretending to be a messiah but I am willing to take charge and lead, it is when you are ready to commit yourself others will

commit and attract funding and sponsorship,” he said.

Adam who is also a licensed FIFA agent also vowed to turn the Area 3 playground around by building toilets, dressing rooms, stadium stands, renovate the car park and stadium environment.

Meanwhile, Patrick Ngwaogu, the incumbent 1st Vice Chairman lost to Kolo Salisu. Mr Salisu had 10 votes to defeat Mr Ngwaogu who got 5 votes.

For the office of 2nd Vice Chairman, John Gaza, secured a total of 9 votes to defeat Sariki Hamidu who got 6 votes.

Ngozi Eze got 11 votes to defeat Barrister Victoria Nlemigbo who got 4 votes for the position of female representative in the Board.

In other elections for the position of Ordinary Board Member, the following emerged winners – Hasimu Adamu, 9 votes. Bassey Patrick, 8 votes. Wakali John 7 votes. Abimbola Samuel, 9 votes. The 4 winners scored the highest number of votes to emerge winners.

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June 12 and its new false interpreters

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By Louis Odion

Never known to be in the habit of turning the proverbial other cheek, it is a big puzzle that Chief Olusegun Obasanjo chose to absorb a sucker punch of volcanic severity on June 12 last week without as much as a grunt. Babagana Kingibe had baited him with a charge of complicity in the high conspiracy that aborted June 12.

Not that we did not know that before.

But afraid that his old skeletons might be unearthed finally, ordinarily voluble and perennially crusading OBJ uncharacteristically retreated into a cowardly silence to a claim that, considering his assumed brotherhood with MKO, would sound very abominable indeed.

Baba has no comment, whispered his spokesman to inquisitive newshounds.

Well, as an aside, it is perhaps a measure of the ethical flux pervading the land today that Kingibe, otherwise a June 12 renegade himself, could permit himself the liberty to so question the former president in the first place.

Let it however be noted that OBJ’s ensuing silence is also strategic. Replying Kingibe would inevitably usher an even darker question. Following his release from Abacha gulag in June 1998, he, with MKO Abiola still alive, famously forswore the prospects of any presidential aspiration.

So, in dodging Kingibe’s pointed challenge, OBJ, a master of political chess game, surely demonstrates a possession of enough native intelligence to anticipate possible apocalypse.

Let us, as a mark of charity, even concede OBJ’s earlier misspeak in Harare in 1994 that “Abiola is not the messiah” was a foible of the head and not the heart.

Now, the more monumental poser of history still left unanswered in the last twenty-one years: would the “Ebora of Owu” swear by the most potent deity of his native land that never did he under any circumstance ever say “So, what happens to MKO?” at some point to the conniving generals pressuring him to accept a draft into the presidential race before Abiola’s mystery death on July 7, 1998?

The old witch wailed last night; the child died the morning after.

To be sure, this writer is not ashamed to confess a partisanship, even fanaticism, whenever and wherever June 12 resurrects. The sensitivity thus aroused is not just civic, but also professional.

Some of us were living witnesses to the momentous events before, during and after June 12. I was a politics reporter with Concord Press (owned by MKO) through the 90s and knew first-hand what it meant to function under constant threat of military bullet or detention and yet labored for months on end without salary.

So, as conscientious bearer of national memory, we certainly know the real soldiers of fortune, the double agents, who sought to profiteer from the sacrifice of others. Just as we can distinguish the fake labour activists in funny costumes who chanted “Aluta” in daylight but cavorted with the evil generals at night as informants on the payroll. Another

authentic June 12 hero, Frank Kokori, already said enough in last Saturday’s Vanguard to make the surviving ones among this category of traitors regret all the blood money they collected from the military in the 90s.

Indeed, as immortal Shakespeare forewarned, truth crushed to the earth shall rise again. And Sophocles added poetically, there is danger in unnatural silence.

But while the shrewd chicken farmer of Ota keeps a crafty silence under the circumstance, some of his political slaves would rather resort to rehabilitating history and falsefying accounts, obviously to impress their idol.

Without shame or fear, one of them, Doyin Okupe, even lied that it was the north that blocked OBJ from duly recognizing June 12 or formally acknowledging Abiola’s colossal sacrifice throughout his eight-year imperial reign.

Really? So, was he also told to cajole all the South-west states (except Lagos under Tinubu) to stop observing June 12 as public holiday in Abiola’s honour once his PDP “captured” the region from Alliance for Democracy (AD) in 2003?

The truth is however imperishable: in his moment of power and glory, Obasanjo never seemed to realize that righting historical wrong is not a political favour to anyone, but a moral duty to community or country.

Already, the fact of his perfidy here has been corroborated by Ayo Fayose in a tell-all account published by The Interview magazine in 2017. As Ekiti governor in 2003 and one of the early beneficiaries of OBJ’s guerrilla politics, Fayose recalled he and other PDP governors in Osun, Ondo, Oyo and Ogun were coaxed by the then emperor of Aso Rock to worship only May 29 as part of a deliberate pagan rite to wipe June 12 from the nation’s memory.

Well, Okupe failed to clarify whether it was iron bar or raffia mat that was deployed to barricade OBJ from doing the needful on June 12. Were we to buy this argument, how ironic then that his master who couldn’t dare contemplate June 12 out of fear of the north, yet had the temerity to conceive and bid for treasonable Third Term that would have completely shut the zone out of contestation for presidential power for as long as it pleased OBJ. But let it be said that the “north” cited couldn’t be that of Dangiwa Abubakar Umar, Shehu Sani, Mathew Hassan Kukah, Dan Suleiman, Jonah Jang and other men of conscience. Of course, the “north” the jobbing Okupe actually meant could only be that of now discredited generals who unchained OBJ from prison after Abacha’s demise and literally railroaded a fellow general to Aso Rock barely a year later.

The bug of revisionism afflicting Okupe would also appear to have infected Kola, the scion of the Abiola dynasty. The the word, outrage, perhaps best describes the reactions of many disciples of MKO to a slew of wild claims

by Abiola’s heir in a Sun interview last week which tended to belittle the sacrifice made by others in defence of June 12

even as they inadvertently diminish the mystique of his illustrious dad.

While boxing himself into such blissful detachment, he, therefore, would seem far removed to view reality like the rest of us.

So, when Kola then decided to come out of his shell and grant rare interview this year, we should have anticipated that a major disaster was about to unfold.

Well, NADECO activist and the revolutionary Army colonel, Tony Nyiam, has already gone a great length in another media reports to dispel the fallacy in the ridiculous claim that Tinubu only became radicalized into NADECO because Abacha refused to make him governor or commissioner in Lagos, to warrant dwelling further on that point.

Note, Nyiam cannot be called a Tinubu apologist. For he has consistently disagreed with Asiwaju since the latter teamed up with Buhari to found APC in 2014. But forthright Nyiam would not stand by and condone Kola’s crude revisionism against Tinubu because of today’s political difference. That would have amounted to a rape of history.

Nyiam is unlike Bode George, a grandpa who still relishes toddler’s fables and seems quite unaware of the shame – if not curse – in lying with hoary hair.

Note, this “bread and butter” Admiral could not, in real terms, be counted among the generals who truly mattered then and his understanding of events was obviously shaped by hear-say from his master, Diya.

Perhaps, we should empathize with a man consistently worsted electorally in Lagos by Tinubu since 1999. He fancied a new career in politics after leaving the Navy on account of being the barefoot messenger of Dipo Diya who would later fall out of favour with their overall lord and master, despot Abacha. But despite all his desperate toil since, not once has BG been able to win even a polling unit in his ancestral Isale-Eko. So, it is pointless attaching any weight to the words of the political eunuch of Lagos.

But, to me, even more disturbing is Kola’s reported allusion to Abiola’s high blood pressure. No one disputes that.

His physician, Dr. Ore Falomo, already told us MKO had battled that medical condition for decades.

However, viewed against the certainly murky circumstances of Abiola’s sudden death on July 7, 1998, such unguarded comment by Kola will only profit those who would have the rest of us buy the juvenile fiction that MKO, who had endured four harrowing years in open grave called solitary confinement, suddenly became overwhelmed by excitement on the very eve of freedom, so much that he suffered cardiac arrest after sipping from a curious cup of tea offered by visiting American diplomats in a presidential lounge in Abuja.

In summary, illogical verbiage like this will only lend credence again to the notion held by some that Kola was perhaps too consumed by the hot pursuit of a love interest in Minna all through the 90s to have a clear understanding of what otherwise transpired right under his nose.

AFCON: Super Eagles dismiss fears of a depleted side ahead Burundi opener Fears that the Super Eagles of Nigeria may find it difficult to raise a strong side in their 2019 Africa Cup of Nations opener against the Swallows of Burundi on Saturday in Alexandria has been dismissed.

Sources revealed that all the ten players that were reportedly ravaged by an ‘unknown sickness’ are not as serious as initially feared and have been training with the players with the video of their sessions on the pitch posted on the Twitter handle of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).

It later emerged that the players came down with cold, cough and flu as a result of playing under torrential rain in their friendly match against the Warriors of Zimbabwe penultimate Saturday at the Stephen Keshi Stadium in Asaba, Delta State.

Our source revealed that the team’s medical crew led by Dr. Ibrahim rose to the occasion by treating all the players and officials who were sick pointing out that there was never a time a virus ravaged the

players.

The players have been involved in rigorous training sessions since they arrived at the Helnan Palestine Hotel last Sunday from Ismailia where they camped for one week.

“There is really no cause for alarm because everything is okay in the camp of the Super Eagles.

“The players and almost all the officials had cold after the friendly match against Zimbabwe which is not unexpected. They all got prompt medical attention and returned to training immediately,” the source disclosed.

Last Monday, the panic button was pressed across the country following reports that not less than 10 players have been ravaged by an unknown sickness.

The sickness was initially attributed to the air conditioning system of the hotel the Eagles lodged in Ismailia but with all the players training yesterday, there is hope that Rohr would not field a depleted Nigerian squad against debutants, Burundi on Saturday.

Anthony Joshua decides Andy Ruiz rematch next week Anthony Joshua will finalise a rematch with Andy Ruiz Jr next week, which could mean a swift return to Madison Square Garden, says promoter Eddie Hearn.

Joshua’s world heavyweight title reign and unbeaten record were ended by a stunning defeat to Ruiz Jr in New York earlier this month and Hearn has activated a clause to enforce an immediate second fight.

The British star’s team are considering a number of British venues, including Wembley Stadium for a date in November or December, but the Matchroom Boxing boss has confirmed that Joshua is still open to the idea of staging the return bout at the scene of his first defeat.

“The job over the next week is just to finalise the details now of just where and when that will be,” Hearn told Sky Sports News.

“I can’t tell you too much, just because I don’t know other than, between November 16 and December 14 will be the date of the fight.

We’ve had offers from five

different countries to stage the fight. For me, it’s a straight decision between the UK or America.

“In the UK, we’re talking to Cardiff, to Wembley, to Tottenham and in America, we’ve had a couple of approaches, but our preference is Madison Square Garden.

“Anthony feels as though it would be special to rewrite history and get the win at Madison Square Garden. It’s really not about the money so much, it’s just about where we believe this fight should take place and those decisions will be made in the next week.”

Hearn had revealed how Joshua voiced his desire to fight again at the famous venue in a bid to restore his reputation in America.

But the 29-year-old would receive huge home support at stadiums where he has produced emphatic wins in the past, and Joshua is weighing up his next career move.

“He’s going to make the decision at the end of the day, wherever he wants the fight is

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where it’s going to be,” said Hearn. “Right now, there’s definitely an element of ‘I feel like I should do it there’.

“We’ve seen him in great performances in Wembley and in Cardiff and it would be a special night to do it there, 80,000, 90,000 – it’s the biggest fight in boxing in the moment.

“But like I said, he will be the one who calls the final shots, and once we give him all the information, the dates, the possible venues, he’ll make a decision.

“Right now, I couldn’t tell you what that will be, but I would definitely say it will be between the UK and America.”

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