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Magu in Dubai as Illicit funds for vote buying suffers setback EFCC boss meets Dubai intelligence community over tracing of stolen assets, properties

Anderw Orolua, Abuja The plans by moneybags to use illicit funds to bankroll the forthcoming elections through voters inducement has hit the rocks as the Acting Chairman of the Economic and

Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu, is in Dubai for intelligence gathering and tracing of stolen assets and properties.

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L-R: President Muhammadu Buhari; former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki during the National Council of State meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja...on Tuesday.

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Magu in Dubai as Illicit funds for vote buying suffers setback Continued from page 1 Security Summit with crack detectives from the commission, met with Dubai intelligence community on Monday over the need to block such illicit funds from coming to Nigeria.

The summit is one of the largest security and intelligence gathering in the world while concerted efforts are being put in place to take proactive steps against illicit funds that are capable of undermining the national security.

A source close to the

summit said: “I can tell you authoritatively that the acting EFCC Chairman met with Dubai intelligence in company of crack detectives for intelligence sharing and cooperation on Monday.

“This is directly connected to the illicit assets tracing and financial flow vis-avis the commission’s active surveillance on vote buying and monitoring its funding source.

“You will recall that the purpose of those who looted our commonwealth is to bring in the illicit funds into country in order to undermine the national security and engage

in voters’ inducement.

“Please note that the development is capable of scaring investors, discourage investments and cripple the economy.

“But I can tell you that the commission is equal to the task and all hands are on deck to ensure that this infamous action is tackled for the progress of the country.”

When contacted over the issue, Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the acting Chairman of the EFCC, Mr. Tony Amokeodo, confirmed the development.

He, however, declined to give details.

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L-R: Former Head of Interim National Government, Chief Ernest Shonekan; former Head of State, Gen Abdulsalami Abubakar; former President Goodluck Jonathan and former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Muhammadu Uwaise, during the National Council of State meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja...on Tuesday.

MPC keeps monetary rate unchanged amid global, domestic risks MPR at 14%, CRR 22.5%, Liquidity 30%

Mathew Dadiya, Abuja The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has retained the nation’s Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) at 14 per cent, to combat inflation due to foreseen increase in global and domestic risks to the economy.

The decision was taken on Tuesday by the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) during its 265th meeting held at the CBN Headquarters, Abuja.

Briefing finance correspondents on the outcome of the meeting, the Central Bank Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, said all the 11 members were present at the meeting and they all voted to retain the MPR, which was last changed in July 2016.

The Cash Reserves Ratio (CRR) also remained unchanged at 22.5 per cent, liquidity at 30 per cent and Asymmetric Corridor at +200 and -500 basis points around the MPR. Emefiele, while giving an insight to what informed the committee’s decisions, said that concerns were raised on the impact of the continued trade tensions between the United States of America and China as well as the Brexit situation in Europe.

On the domestic risk to growth, he mentioned the persistent security challenge in the north east, the herdsmen attack in other regions, and perceived political risk due to the upcoming general elections.

“In light of the concerned risk confronting the economy, including the global and domestic inflationary measure which has intensified the risk of currency depreciation, the MPC was of the view that a

loosening option was very remote.

“The MPC also felt that tightening will result in the loss of the gains so far achieved, noting that it may drive the banks to reprise assets, thus increasing the cost of credit as well as elevating credit risk in the economy.

“It will also worsen nonperforming loans in the banks.

“The committee also felt that tightening will dampen investment and hamper improvement in output growth given the already fragile growth performance so far achieved.

“In light of the above factors, the committee decided by a vote of all eleven members to keep the policy parameters unchanged from their current levels,” he said.

On the overall outlook and risks, the CBN governor said forecasts of key macroeconomic variables indicate a positive outlook for the economy in 2019.

He said that while the IMF had forecasted that the country’s GDP would grow by two per cent, the World Bank, by 2.2 per cent, the CBN was of the view that the country would grow by at least 2.28 per cent.

“Committee noted the relative stability at both the bureau de change and investors and exporter’s window of the foreign exchange market supported by the bank’s exchange rate market polices.

“It was observed with satisfaction the contribution to stability in the market and positive implication of the currency swap agreement with China and the inflow of the 2.8 billion dollars Euro Bond.

“The committee also noted the marginal increase

in the foreign reserve from 42.45 billion as at the end of December 2018 to 43.28 billion dollars as Jan 21, 2019.

“The committee recommended that government should focus its expenditure on infrastructure investment and urged the Federal government to sustain the pace in addressing the infrastructure deficit in Nigeria.

“It noted that the immediate impact of this approach on GDP will be slow in coming but eventually expand the economy’s productive base, reduce unemployment and increase aggregate demand in a more sustainable manner,” he said.

Emefiele said that the committee acknowledged the strategic role of the private sector in the economy’s growth and remained concerned over the slow growth in credit to the private sector in 2018.

He revealed that it was for this reason that the bank in collaboration with the Nigerian Incentive Based Risk Sharing for Agric Lending plan to establish a National Micro Finance Bank with branches in all states and Local Government areas.

He said the main objective of the bank would be to provide low interest rate lending to small scale businesses in Nigeria.

The committee, according to Emefiele, also raised concern on the country’s debt level, warning that it could fast be approaching the pre-2005 Paris Club exit level.

In addition, he said that the committee advised the fiscal authorities to expedite action in broadening the country’s tax base to increase its revenue.

Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo(second right); and Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi(right); during the inauguration of Tradermoni and Micro Small and Medium Enterprises clinic in Ado-Ekiti…on Monday.

Presidential candidate of the PDP and former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar exchanging greetings with the Archbishop of Owerri Catholic Diocese, Bishop Anthony Obinna during Atiku’s visit to Owerri for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential rally in Imo State...on Tuesday.

Nigerian business magnate, Aliko Dangote (left) poses next to French president, Emmanuel Macron (right) prior to a meeting as part of the second edition of the ‘Choose France’ summit in Versailles...on Monday

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At last, Council of State okays new Minimum Wage Mathew Dadiya, Abuja and Joy Obakeye, Lagos

The National Council of State has approved two different new minimum wage for federal and state governments putting to rest the prolonged the argument over the new minimum wage.

The Council in its meeting presided

by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, approved the sum of N27,000 for states and N30,000 for the Federal Government workers as the new monthly wage.

Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige, who disclosed this to State House correspondents after the council meeting, said that the bill on the recommendation for the new salary benchmark will be transmitted to the National Assembly today, Wednesday, January 23, 2019.

According to Ngige, organisations with less than 25 personnel have been exempted from paying the new minimum wage.

The Labour minister asserted that the approved amount is subject to review after five years.

He said: “The issue of national minimum wage as you are aware, we have had a series of consultations on the new national minimum wage starting from the inauguration of the tripartite committee in September, 2017 by Mr. President.

“This committee was to handle all the issues surrounding the new minimum wage. It made use of laws, constitution, conventions on minimum wage fixing and specialist bodies like the National Bureau of Statistics, NISER and all other bodies that have to do with economic research.

“The Federal Executive Council received the report. After a tortuous debate, at that level, treated it. The National Economic Council comprising the governors and the vice-president chairing, looked at the report and finally today, the council of state. These three organs have permitted Mr. President now to transmit to the National

Assembly the new National Minimum Wage Bill.

“Thus, in consonance with the fact that the issues of national minimum wage prescription is in the exclusive list, second schedule, item 34 and being on that list, it is not a job that can be done by the executive alone. The president has to transmit the bill to the National Assembly and the National Assembly will take legislative action and return the bill that has been so treated to the president for his assent.

“So, a bill will now be transmitted to the National Assembly that will amend the 1981 Act and 2011 Act. The highlight is what you want to know. The figure of N27,000 monthly has been approved for transmission to the National Assembly.

The frequency of the review of the bill is five years, to get it in consonance with pension law of the federation as enshrined in the constitution.

“Exemptions to this bill will be establishments that are not employing people up to the number of 25. The various times prescribed have also been altered in the bill and will be sent to the National Assembly before the close of work tomorrow (today),” he stated.

Recall that the Federal Government had offered to pay N24,000; states, N22,500 whereas the organised labour is demanding for N30,000.

The Independent National Electoral Commission chairman, Prof. Mahmud Yakubu, also briefed the council on the readiness of the electoral body for the general elections.

Ondo State govenor, Rotimi Akeredolu, told State House correspondents that everybody in the council was convinced that INEC was ready for the election.

According to him, “the council was briefed by the INEC chairman and the briefing as accepted by everybody was lucid and clear. It was all encompassing.

The INEC chairman took the council through all the processes that are going to be followed at the national and state elections.

“In his briefing, he informed the council of the preparedness of INEC and

everybody in the council was convinced that INEC was ready for this election.

And a lot of things have been put in place and I think we all concluded that it is important for the chairman to even speak to the nation on the preparedness of INEC for this election.

“That would convince all of us that this forthcoming election would be free and fair and then the way we see it. They have improved card readers, the details of what have been done to improve it was made known. It was made known that look, the process of continuous voting and accreditation system was the best so that when you are accredited, you vote at the same time and you leave.

Akeredolu further stated that the INEC boss also informed the council on all the necessary ballot boxes and everything to be used and change in the ballot boxes.

He said: “He also informed us that rather using collapsible ballot boxes, they are going to use framed ballot boxes, transparent ones because we have lost so many and a lot have been purchased.

“He also told the council that they are not lacking in terms finance and that all the money appropriated have been given to them and they are ready for the election. And he went further to inform the council that all training and retraining of every category of staff that they will use have started and they are having consultations with every group of people, religious, artisans and trade unions and so on to let them know.

“He has informed us that there is no way they are going to go out of the category of people they use for election when it comes to the issue of university vice chancellors, University students at times, and NYSC members.

So, everybody was convinced. INEC as at today is ready for election and questions were put, he was interrogated and he respondent and gave adequate explanations to the satisfaction of every one of us.

On the alarm raised by former President Olusegun Obasanjo that the electoral body may be partisan in the

Tinubu replies Obasanjo, says ex-President hunted by ghosts of his misdeeds Patrick Okohue, Lagos Former Lagos State governor and CoChairman of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has berated former President Olusegun Obasanjo over his recent letter to President Muhammadu Buhari chastising him and his administration, claiming the president was preparing to rig the 2019 poll.

Tinubu in his response which he personally signed, said Obasanjo lacked the moral credential to write such a letter, as activities of his recent past in government was still too fresh in the minds of Nigerians.

According to him, “Chief Obasanjo should be the last to complain about election rigging. His administration was an unalloyed miscarriage of justice and of the best aspirations of the Nigerian people. We all know he was not elected in 1999. He was handed Nigeria on a silver platter; perhaps because Nigeria was so easily given that he went about treating the nation as if it was a less than precious thing; he thought it was a cheap give-away not a privilege to govern this nation.”

He added that Obasanjo lost the opportunity to be the father of the Nigerian nation, which he now so craves, as he squandered the goodwill of the people when he choose to ride rough shod over the people.

“This man should have positioned himself to be the father of the nation. All the goodwill that could be granted a political figure was bestowed on him. The global economy was such that it fueled our growth. Everyone wanted Nigeria to succeed after emerging

from years of noxious military rule. Despite the flawed exercise that rendered him president, we all bit our tongues in hope that he would say and do the right things that would move Nigeria forward.

“Instead of being a unifying figure as Commander-in-Chief, he lowered himself to being a divisive, vindictive conniver. There was no table which he neared that he did not upset and overturn. There was no one who came into his company for any period of time with whom he did not fall out if he expresses a thought contrary to one of his.

“He tried to convert our young democracy into a one party state. His PDP boasted that they would rule for 60 uninterrupted years.

Never did they boast that they would govern us well during even one year of the sixty.

“He could have placed the economy on the path to durable growth and shared prosperity through diversification, industrialisation and creation of a social safety net for the poor.

Instead, he handed the economy over to a tight group of cronies, turning what should be a modern economy into a version of the mammoth trading companies that dominated the 17th and 18th century.

“The Transcorp conglomerate was intended to be a throwback to monopolistic enterprises such as the East Indian Company wherein a select handful would control the national economy’s strategic heights.

“We hoped that Obasanjo would personify statesmanship, thus showing the way to a more benign political culture. Instead, he bickered and feuded with his vice president and mostly anyone who dared remind him that he was human and thus infallible.

“Given the vast margin between the good

he could have achieved and the nebulous feats that comprise his true record, Chief Obasanjo is the person most responsible for the flaws in the Nigerian political economy since 1999.

His ego is as expansive as the firmament, but his good deeds would fit into a modest sachet with ample room to spare.

“The worst of Obasanjo’s record, I have yet to describe. When it comes to elections, he has been a rigger without peer. There is no election which occurred under Obasanjo’s watch or in which he participated that did not involve cheating on his part. Even the late President Umaru Musa Yar‘adua admitted he was the beneficiary of a flawed election engineered by none other than today’s vociferous complainant. For Obasanjo to lament over electoral malpractice is tantamount to the ocean complaining that a few raindrops are causing it to get wet.

“In his writing, Obasanjo alleges the Osun election indicates rigging will take place in the coming contests. Let’s go straight to the truth, Obasanjo has no grievance with the process.

His personal history suggests fair process is the least of his concerns. What knocks Obasanjo off kilter is that he could not dictate the result in Osun. He told those in the PDP that he held sway in Osun and throughout the Southwest. They believed him. He led them to defeat notwithstanding the almost impossible voter turnout in PDP strongholds in that state.

Obasanjo can only win an election when he has the final say over the final vote tally.

Otherwise, he is a troubled man.”

Continuing, Tinubu said: “In an attempt to relieve his trouble, Chief Obasanjo makes

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Buhari polls, he said: “Well, let me tell you, this point you made, the chairman of INEC without being specific made a point.

And that point is what I want all of us not only in this hall but the whole of Nigeria that the success of election is not

by INEC alone”.

He said election will only be successful by the participation of every body and that whatever it may be,” we will must take politics out of the exercise. All of us owe a duty as leaders of our people at least, to be sure that we have confidence in the electoral body so, that at the end of the day, assist the electoral body to succeed”.

Explaining further, he contended:” I think the message is very clear to everybody. I think that all of us in the hall have heard that look, whatever it is, we have now listened to the chairman of INEC and we are convinced that they are prepared for the election.

“I am not sure any other person will come out to talk about INEC any longer. So, the point has been made, all of us now have our hands on deck to ensure the success. Because, without our participation, without our cooperation, INEC itself cannot be successful.

On claims by the Federal Government that opposition elements are plotting to use Boko Haram insurgents and bandits to scuttle the forthcoming general elections, Governor Akeredolu said the matter was not up for discussion.

“Seriously, there was no discussion on that. As we mentioned to you, what we received was briefing by INEC on how prepared they are for the election.

So, their level of preparedness that was what we listened to.

“There is no way INEC will come and tell us, they have information on what opposition is doing or what opposition is not doing but what INEC is doing is what was received and there was no discussion about that. I am not too sure that we have that fact,” he added.

Former presidents, Olusegun Obasanjo, Goodluck Jonathan, ex-military head of state, Abdulsalami Abubakar, and Ernest Shonekan, former head of interim government, also attended the meeting.

Others at the meeting were the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and former CJN, Mohammed Uwais.

Also present were State governors from Osun, Kebbi, Zamfara, Plateau, Ebonyi, Adamawa, Edo, Lagos, Niger, Borno, Ogun, Ekiti, and Kogi.

State deputy governors at the meeting were those from Bauchi, Kaduna and Rivers, Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, Head of Service, Winifred Oyo-Ita, National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno, FCT Minister, Mohammed Bello and Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige also attended the meeting.

Former Heads of State, Yakubu Gowon, Ibrahim Babangida and former CJN, Mariam Muktar, sent apologies for their absence at the meeting.

Meanwhile, the United Labour Congress of Nigeria ( ULC) has rejected the proposed N27,000 minimum wage by

Federal Government through the National Council of State which is contrary to the N30,000 agreed by the National Minimum Wage Tripartite Committee and which has since been submitted to the President.

ULC rising from its just concluded Central Working Committee (CWC) meeting on Tuesday in Lagos, speaking through its president, Comrade Joe Ajaero, said: “The emerging news of the unfortunate decision of the Federal Government through the National Council of State to unilaterally propose N27,000 as the new National Minimum Wage is shocking and goes against the grain of all known traditions and practices of Industrial Relations especially as it concerns National Minimum Wage setting framework.”

“We state that the National Council of State in a National Minimum Wage setting mechanism is an aberration. It is also important that we make it clear that the National Council of State does not have powers to approve, confirm, affirm or accept any figure as the new National Minimum Wage. What they have pretended to have done is therefore without any force of Law, standards or other known practices of Industrial Relations the world over.”

“It is a mockery of the essence and principle behind the setting of a National Minimum Wage to attempt to segregate it between Federal Workers and State Workers. We want to state that workers are workers everywhere whether at the Federal Level or at the State Level. They all have the same challenges; go to the same market, same schools and much more they suffer the same fate. You cannot therefore pay them differently.”

“Government’s attempt at this dichotomy is an effort at segregation and apartheid in nature. It is an attempt to put a sword within the trade union movement and to further the marginalisation of Private sector workers in Nigeria thus seek to weaken the trade union movement in the country.”

“ULC saw this coming earlier in January and that was why we distanced ourselves. We will however in the next few days in consultation with other Labour Centres if they are still in the struggle for a just national minimum wage take steps to ensure that the interests of Nigerian workers as it concerns the National Minimum Wage are protected.”

ULC urged the President to disregard the pronouncement of the National Council of State as it ridicules the statutes and principles governing the nation.

“The only honourable path he should tread is to transmit the N30,000 figure as agreed by the Tripartite Committee and even the President on the day of submission of the Committees report.

We will not accept the use of any cover of state to jettison the collective will of Nigerian workers and the trade union movement.

“Once again, we remind the President that he promised Nigerian workers that he was going to transmit the N30,000 as agreed by the Tripartite committee, the National Assembly for passage into Law.

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Court orders stopping Onnoghen’s trial not binding on us, says CCT Interim orders violate Constitution- CCT Court orders must be obeyed until set aside- Atedze

Andrew Orolua, Abuja In a split ruling of two to one, the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), on Tuesday, held that four separate orders of the Federal High Court, Federal Capital Territory High Court and National Industrial Court Abuja restraining it from proceeding with the trial of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, are not binding on it.

The tribunal also ruled that it cannot stop Onnoghen’s trial even in view of the appeal he had filed challenging the decision of the Tribunal because his trial is criminal in nature.

Ruling on the submissions made by defence lead counsel, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), and the prosecution counsel, Aliyu Umar (SAN), the Chairman of the Tribunal, Danladi Umar, stated that the interim orders by the Court was made in violation of the Constitution.

He said the orders must be discountenanced on the grounds that Federal High Court and National Industrial Court are of equal and coordinate jurisdiction with CCT. He said besides the High Courts being of coordinate jurisdiction, the CCT is a special Court empowered to handle exclusively the issues relating to public officers and public servants misconducts and assets declaration.

Umar said that those who obtained the orders of the High Courts restraining the tribunal were mere busy-bodies and they are not parties in the matter at the tribunal.

He maintained that the orders of the High Courts and that of the National Industrial Court are null and void on account of being inconsistent with the provisions of the Constitution, adding that section 246 makes it crystal clear that the tribunal has unquantified jurisdiction to hear any assets declaration case as may be referred to it by the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB).

Umar also disagreed with the request to adjournment the trial Sine Die, (indefinitely) on the grounds of a pending appeal at the Court of Appeal, adding that section 306 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, ACJA, 2015, did not make provisions for stay of proceedings in a criminal matter and that in the instant case, it shall proceed with trial by hearing the application on jurisdiction.

The first member of tribunal, Mr. Williams Atedze, gave a dissenting ruling. He held that it would result to judicial anarchy for the tribunal to proceed with the trial in view of the four subsisting court orders and the pending appeal at the Court of Appeal.

According to him, orders are binding on the tribunal until they are set aside in view of section 287(3) of the 1999 Constitution which allow court orders to be enforced in all parts of the county, stressing that the CCT cannot operate in isolation.

“Having summarised arguments from both parties, it is my opinion that CCT as a creation of law is bound by the existing court orders to avoid judicial anarchy”, he held.

Atedze agreed that the issue of jurisdiction of the tribunal to entertain the charge against CJN

must first be resolved, but held that status quo must be maintained while proceedings adjourned sine die until all contending issues are resolved.

The second member of the Tribunal, Juli Anabor, in her brief ruling, agreed with the Chairman, Danladi Umar’’ ruling and adopted it as her own.

Although the Chairman ordered that the motion challenging the jurisdiction of the tribunal be moved immediately, counsel to the defendant, Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, however, informed the tribunal that the response of the complainant, Federal Government was served on him late Monday and as such he needed time to study the response and then filed reply on point of law.

Counsel to the Federal Government, Aliyu Umar, agreed that the government’s response was served late on the defendant, prompting the Chairman to adjourn further proceedings till Monday, January 28.

At the resumption of sitting on Tuesday, a private prosecution counsel, Aliyu Umar (SAN), who led nine other government counsels, had informed the tribunal that the business of the day was to arraign Justice Onnoghen and hear two applications.

He said that one of the applications was filed by the prosecution praying the tribunal for an order directing CJN Onnoghen to step aside from office, while the second application by the defendant is challenging the jurisdiction of the Tribunal to hear the suit.

He said however that Onnoghen’s arraignment cannot take place because he was not in court. Umar recalled that at

the last sitting on January 14, the tribunal could not proceed because the defendant was not personally served.

Umar, then asked the tribunal whether the defendant have been served with the charge.

In his response, the lead defence counsel, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), leading 43 other Senior Advocates and about 80 lawyers disagreed with the prosecution that the matter was adjourned for arraignment. He said it was adjourned specifically to hear two pending applications.

He said however, that there have been intervening orders between last sitting and yesterday (Tuesday).

He informed that the Federal High Court Abuja, the National Industrial Court Abuja, Federal Capital Territory High Court and Federal High Court Abuja on 14 January, 14 January, January 15 and January 19, 2019 respectively made various orders restraining the parties including the Code of Conduct Tribunal and Chairman who are also parties to the suits from proceeding with the trial pending the determination of the suits.

Olanipekun further informed the tribunal that CJN Onnoghen is also a party to the suits in which the Federal High Court had ordered the parties to maintain status quo.

He said that a senior counsel in the defence team had written the tribunal and furnished it with all the processes filed in the four suits and the respective orders of each of the Courts.

Besides, Olanipekun SAN, continued that Justice Onnoghen had appealed against the 14 January ruling of the tribunal.

At last, Council of State okays new Minimum Wage Continued from page 5 give semblance of authority to He should not allow himself to be seen as a President who does not keep to his words. We hold him to that agreement and there is no other thing that would be acceptable to Nigerian workers except the N30,000 arrived at through the Tripartite process.”

However, the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) in a statement signed by the national President and General Secretary, Comrade Bobboi Bala Kaigama and Comrade MusaLawal Ozigi, said: “The Council State decision though advisory in nature is weighty and may

Go beyond Babachir, Oke, probe other indicted APC leaders, PDP tells Buhari Tunde Opalana, Abuja The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has charged President Muhammadu Buhari to go beyond the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal and former Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and prosecute other leaders of his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), who have been openly indicted of corruption.

The party said by singling out Babachir Lawal and Ayodele Oke, for prosecution, while providing official cover to numerous other indicted APC leaders and persons close to him, President Buhari has further confirmed that he is indeed partisan and insincere in prosecuting the anti-corruption fight.

Harping on a statement credited to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo that Mr. President had to give his nod before Babachir and Oke could be prosecuted, the party said this confirms that President Buhari has annexed the

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reference to a joke about INEC. He says, ‘The INEC was asked if the Commission was ready for the election and if it expects the election to be free, fair and credible. The INEC man is reported as saying in response, ‘we are ready with everything including the results.’ The joke has a touch of humor; we are glad that Obasanjo is not completely devoid of this most human of traits. However, he makes a telling omission by failing to give you the vintage of this bit of sarcasm.

“The jest was not born last week.

Its vintage is circa 2003- a time when a certain President Obasanjo rode roughshod over INEC. He would summon the nervous INEC chairman to the Villa, proceeding to hector the man until he gave way to Obasanjo’s demands. At Obasanjo’s urging, INEC improperly published fake election results on the gubernatorial race in Lagos. Not until a public outcry did INEC back away from rigging Lagos.

A similar attempt was made in Lagos in 2007. In essence, for Obasanjo to laugh at this joke means he has belatedly developed the ability to laugh at himself.”

The former Lagos helmsman insisted that Obasanjo has no interest in a free and fair election, adding, “If Obasanjo was so committed to free elections, how could he countenance

Atiku’s recent boast of single-handedly rigging elections in the Southwest?

“Atiku claimed that he took all states for the PDP, but left Lagos alone due to some misguided affinity for me. By this statement, Atiku publicly admitted to rigged elections in the South West.

Beyond resort to wholesale rigging, Atiku could never deign to be more popular and potent in the Southwest than the panoply of good and decent leaders that guided the defunct AC. “Moreover, I can assure you that we did not need Atiku’s false beneficence to win the elections in Lagos. The people voted for us and their votes countered the ill-designs Obasanjo and Atiku set in motion. Thus, if Obasanjo cannot chastise Atiku for publicly boasting that he rigged elections, then Obasanjo’s display of righteous indignation is but a magician’s trick.

“His fine words and sentiments come a dozen years too late. These noble things would have greater effect had he placed them into practice when he was at the helm of affairs. At that time, he was powerful so he did as he might. Now that he lacks power, he has taken to preach that which he never did.

“In his commentary, he mentions that INEC has a record of past rigging. I wonder if he understands the admission he makes. No other president has exercised such tight control over INEC for as many years

as Obasanjo. No president has had the domineering relationship with INEC that Obasanjo enjoyed. If there are reports of past INEC rigging, those reports are of Obasanjo’s making. It is the irony of ironies for Obasanjo to complain of the fruit on the table when his was the hand that planted the tree.

“Chief Obasanjo tries to further confuse matters by pointing to the case of the CJN’s assets declaration as evidence of future vote-rigging via tampering with the judiciary. Again, Obasanjo goes into a personality shift. For years, Obasanjo has boasted of himself as our corruption fighter nonpareil. The very aim of this current letter is to attack imagined INEC malfeasance. Yet, with regard to the CJN, he blithely ignores the large cache of dollars in the CJN’s account and the millions of dollars that passed through the accounts. Obasanjo seems unbothered by the unexplained presence of such sums. Perhaps Obasanjo’s nonchalance regarding the money is that he expected the funds there because he knows both the origin and reasons for the trove.

“Chief Obasanjo sinks so low as to suggest that the Vice President, during the exercise of his official duties, was taking the PVC numbers of market women and traders. This statement reveals the bilious nature of the man. Obasanjo even quotes the notorious Bode George in claiming

that the VP was “gutting our collective treasury” by giving loans of N10,000 to market women under the administration’s empowerment programs.

“What? Giving money to poor people to enhance their lives and escape the maw of poverty is, by PDP metrics, gutting the collective treasury.

If helping the poor is gutting the treasury, Atiku’s privatizing large chunks of the economy into his own pocket must have been seen by the PDP as a vital public service. Jonathan and his Petroleum Minister’s siphoning government coffers of several billion dollars to enrich the already-rich must have been viewed by the PDP as the epitome of a social safety net.

Obasanjo’s and the PDP’s disdain for the common person could not be clearer.

“Obasanjo should be ashamed to even raise this issue. When he was president, the economy was on an easy sledding due to positive global trends. Obasanjo did not raise a finger to do anything for the poor.

He and Atiku were champions of trickle-down economics. If anything good trickled down to the poor it was by accident. Obasanjo left the poor unattended because he cared nothing for them. Poverty increased under his cold indifference. Not one meaningful social program was

the decision. This decision must not be allowed to stand because it will set a wrong precedence for the future: i.e, after statutory bodies have done their jobs, Council of State will now sit to review it.”

“Let it be known that N30,000 minimum wage is a product of negotiation, not legislation, not advise and not a decree.”

“Minimum wage issue therefore, is moving to a new theatre, the National Assembly.

We expect the representative of the people if really they are to do the needful during the public hearing.”

established during his watch. The banking and pension deregulation he brought were geared to profit the wealthy CEO’s and managers of these financial entities. The malpractices attendant to these deregulation fiascos extinguished the savings of millions of Nigerians. In reliance on these artifices of Obasanjo and his ilk, many Nigerians were thrust down the lower rungs of the poverty they so desperately sought to avoid. Obasanjo’s allies gobbled the savings of the poor and still feast on them to this day.

“Chief Obasanjo is one of the last people to preach to anyone about using public funds to care for the poor. He had the gall to fret that funds should not be given to the urban poor because they are not poor enough. But his grouse does not show any defect in the administration’s program. His complaint shows the defect in Obasanjo’s humanity or lack of it.

To complain that some people are not poor enough for his liking is to reveal that seeing human suffering does not motivate him to cure it. He would rather that people suffer it the more. Your unease and distress becomes his entertainment or at least evidence he is superior to the common man. Watching a laborer struggle against penury is no more than a spectator sport for Obasanjo.

system and directly determines who is prosecuted and who is spared.

The PDP in a statement by its spokesperson, Kola Ologbodiyan, on Tuesday, challenged President Buhari “to immediately order the prosecution of all APC leaders, particularly members of his Presidential Campaign Council, beginning with the APC factional National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, the campaign Director-General, Rotimi Amaechi, other directors and zonal coordinators, who have allegations of corruption hanging on their necks.

“Mr. President should also immediately order the prosecution of the former aide to the First Lady, Aisha Buhari, Mr. Baba Inna, who was arrested in September last year, over accusations of receiving N2.5 billion from politicians, businessmen and women on behalf of the First Lady.

“In the same vein, he should also order the prosecution of Mrs. Amina Mohammed, who while being paraded by the Department of State Services (DSS), last year stated in public that persons close to President Buhari were involved in serial fraud and looting of public resources under the official cover of the Buhari Presidency”.

The party further demanded that President Buhari should also order an open inquest into alleged involvement of some individuals said to be close to the Buhari Presidency in the N1.032 trillion alleged corrupt acquisitions in 9Mobile and Keystone Bank Plc. “He is also invited to order an investigation into allegations that persons close to him and serving in his Presidency took N500 million as bribe to reduce the fine imposed on a telecommunication company operating in the country, from N1.03 trillion to N330 billion.

“Furthermore, we challenge President Buhari to allow an inquest into the N14 trillion looted oil money under his watch, as detailed in the NNPC leaked memo; the handling of the repatriated $322m that has been siphoned under the guise of sharing to the poor; the N33 billion Internally Displace Persons (IDP) intervention fund and the billions of naira already frittered through the ‘Tradermoni scheme’”, the party added.

The party insisted that until Mr. President musters the required political will to carry out these actions, his war against corruption remains a charade.

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Vote PDP and return to power, Short News Ekweremadu urges Ndigbo Defamation: Buhari Campaign Organisation Idu Jude, Abuja Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has urged the people of the South East region not to miss the opportunity of the 2019 general election to reposition Nigeria and also return the geopolitical zone to the realm of power.

Ekweremadu said that although the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, lost power in the 2015 general election, the leaders of the PDP had worked hard and repositioned the party to serve

Nigerians better.

He spoke at the flag-off of the South East presidential campaign of the PDP at the Dan Anyim Stadium, Owerri, Imo State, on Tuesday.

He noted that the candidacy of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar held greater promises for the people of the region in particular and the nation as a whole.

He said: “My people, it is time for us to make a statement. We lost the election about four years ago. Now we have a golden opportunity to make a statement that we are part of this country and that we will continue

to contribute to the progress of this country, and nobody can exclude us.

“We have party leaders and candidates to work with so we could return our people to the realm of power and give our people a sense of belonging.

“It is also time to ensure a better leadership for the good people of Nigeria. We are going to secure the country, ensure good governance and secure the independence of the legislature and judiciary”.

“This is what awaits us when we return PDP to power”.

EFCC re-arraigns 3 alleged visa scammers Idu Jude, Abuja Andrew Orolua, Abuja The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan zonal office, on Tuesday, re-arraigned Adeshina Taoheed Aderemi, Adekoya Abosede, and Ishola Abiodun Kazeem before Justice A. Olajide of the Oyo State High Court, sitting in Iyaganku, Ibadan, on an amended nine-count charge bordering on forgery, uttering and obtaining money by false pretence.

The defendants were earlier arraigned on August 30, 2018 before Justice R.B. Akintola of the state’s High Court on a seven-count charge

bordering on forgery, uttering and obtaining money by false pretence.

EFCC filed the nine counts to take care of additional facts of the matter after a thorough investigation of the scam.

One of the counts reads: “That you, Adeshina Taoheed Aderemi, Adekoya Abosede, Ishola Abiodun Kazeem and Odejobi Yussuf Olatunji (at large) sometimes in 2018 at Ibadan within the Ibadan Judicial Division with intent to defraud, obtained N250, 000 from Adesina Idowu falsely pretending that it was the cost price of Canadian Visa you have secured for him and thereby committed an offence”.

They pleaded “not guilty” to the

charges.

Prosecuting counsel, A.I. Suleman, thereafter, applied for a trial date.

However, the defence counsel, Samuel C. Uzoelu, prayed the court to allow the second and third defendants continue on the earlier bail granted them by Justice Akintola, and told the court that he had filed a bail application for the first defendant, which was yet to be served on the prosecution.

Justice Olajide granted the second and third defendants bail on the same conditions earlier granted them on August 30, 2018, but ordered that the first defendant should be remanded in Agodi Prison, pending the hearing of his application.

slams libel suit against Atiku Seeks N40m damages

Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja The Buhari Campaign Organisation (BCO) has dragged the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, before a High Court in Abuja over defamation against President Muhammadu Buhari and his family.

In the suit brought by way of writ of summons, the BCO is praying the court to order Atiku and his party to pay N40 million damages for libellous claims that president Buhari and members of his family own substantial shares in 9mobile and Keystone Bank.

The president’s support group had two weeks ago threatened to sue Atiku and the PDP if within seven days they fail to provide proof of the said allegations against the first family.

Relying on sources, Atiku had in a statement issued in Abuja last week by his Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, claimed that the first family now plays big in the nation’s financial sector after acquiring mouth-watering shares in Keystone Bank with total assets of $1.916 billion (equivalent to N307.5 billion) as well as purchasing about N3 billion worth of shares in the new Pakistani Islamic Bank.

Making real its threat, the BCO last week approached the FCT High Court seeking a declaration that “the 1st Defendant (Phrank Shaibu) on behalf and for the 2nd Defendant (Atiku) neglectfully, unlawfully and recklessly permitted and caused to be published in Newspapers defamatory and damaging statements against the 1 st Plaintiff (President Buhari)”.

Reps criminalise estimated billing by DISCOS Offenders to pay N.5 - N1m fine, serve jail term

Henry Omunu, Abuja The House of Representatives has criminalized estimated billing by electricity distribution companies and has passed for third reading a bill mandating distribution companies to issue pre - paid meters to electricity consumers or face a jail term of six months or fine ranging from N500, 000 upon conviction.

Passing four amendments to the extant law on Tuesday, the House outlawed estimated billing, declaring that electricity distribution companies shall issue pre - paid meters to consumers within 30 days upon application.

It said that customers who buy pre - paid meters through credit advancement metering must be metered within 30 days while electricity charges or billing of consumers should strictly be based on pre - paid metering.

No consumer should be made to pay any bill without a pre - paid meter first being installed at the premises of the consumer, the House further said in the amendment.

However, it maintained that an unmetered customer may be issued with estimated bill for a stipulated period, provided that such estimated bill is issued the approved centralized automated system that reflects the approved estimated billing methodology.

Lack of quorum mars Senate plenary, adjourns till Wednesday Tunde Opalana, Abuja

Presidential candidate of the PDP and former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar acknowledging cheers from the mammoth crowd that thronged the Dan Anyiam Stadium venue of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential rally in Imo State on Tuesday.

Restructuring, jobs, defence of votes dominant as PDP campaign train lands in South East Tunde Opalana, Abuja The solidarity of the South East geopolitical zone for the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was visibly demonstrated on Tuesday as the Presidential campaign train arrived Owerri, Imo state capital for the region’s zonal rally.

Chieftains of South East political leadership, former governors, former Ministers, former Senate President all combing with the three state governors of the party, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Enugu, Okezie Ikpeazu, Abia and Dave Umahi of Ebonyi and the former Senate President Anyim Pius Anyim and the Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu to declare unflinching support of the region to the PDP. PDP zonal chairman Austin Umahi

opened the talk with an assurance to the Presidential candidate and his Vice Peter Obi that the region has decided to invest in them because it’s a worthy investment that they are sure will yield dividend.

The Vice Presidential candidate Obi told the jubilant crowd that thronged Dan Ányiam Stadium, Owerri that Atiku and PDP are the correct place to vote because they are ready to create job and restructure Nigeria.

Obi said that with Atiku Nigeria environment will be good again for Ndigbo to carry on their businesses.

The Senate President Bukola Saraki who is also the Director General of the PDP Presidential campaign told the people to dump APC as he did because they have nothing good for Nigeria Saraki said that they cannot give job nor keep existing ones and the country is going

down under their watch.

The Wife of the Presidential candidate, Bar Jamila Atiku Abubakar who hails from the region urged her people to come out embassy on February 16, to cast their votes for her husband because he has what it takes to put the country right.

The PDP National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus whose media office released this statement continued his warning to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), that a rigged election is an invitation to crisis and they will held responsible.

Secondus said that Nigeria is ripe for an energetic, texted and tried President like Atiku Abubakar unlike the APC candidate who cannot engage or even articulate issues as was witnessed by the whole World in a recent televised interview.

Senate plenary was marred yesterday as only 10 senators were present in the chamber for only five minutes before they adjourned at 10.35 am.

To form a quorum, 37 of the 109 senators must be in attendance.

Senator Andrew Ochendo (APC Rivers East) had moved for adoption of votes and proceedings of sitting of Thursday January 17, 2019 and was seconded by the Senate Minority Whip, Philip Aduda (PDP FCT).

The Senate Majority Whip, Olusola Adeyeye (APC Osun Central) raised a point of order pointing out that plenary cannot continue because the number of members on seat did not form quorum. He was seconded by Emmanuel Bwacha, Deputy Minority Whip (PDP Taraba).

Both the Senate Standing Rule Order 10(1) and Section 54 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) required 37 senators which is one- third of the 109 senators.

“The quorum of the Senate shall be one third of the members of the Senate. “ (2) ii, at any time during the daily sessions of the Senate, a question is raised by any Senator as to the presence of a quorum, the presiding officer shall within fifteen minutes forthwith, direct the “Clerk to can the roll and announce the result, and these proceedings shall be without debate.

Resist desperate politicians, NYSC warns participating corps members

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Osun State has issued a stern warning to corps members participating in the 2019 general elections to remain apolitical and avoid desperate politicians.

The State Coordinator of NYSC, Mr. Emmanuel Attah, gave the warning on Tuesday, during his sensitisation visit to local governments in the state.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the visit was to sensitise serving corps members on what is expected of them during the elections.

“Corps members are not expected to fraternise with politicians or allow themselves to be used by politicians for their selfish aims and ambitions.

“The NYSC is apolitical. We do not belong to any political party, and so, corps members, as children of the scheme, are expected to be apolitical and neutral during elections.

“You (corps members) are to work with INEC as neutral agents to give credibility to the election, just like your predecessors have done in time past.

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The last of Awo’s cavalrymen

Louis Odion

It appeared odd, if not outright farcical.

Reappearing after disappearing briefly from the dinning-table that memorable morning in 2001, the steward miraculously produced a medium jar of Milo, to the culinary relief of the choosy one among the guests.

Not until our chief host casually waved off the chef who had tried to tender the change from the little grocery shopping did it become clear to some of us why Chief Bisi Akande had momentarily been distracted from the hearty banter earlier as he gave out some bank notes from his pocket for an errand obviously intended to be discreet.

Actually, one of the visiting editors would prefer beverage drink to the Lipton tea available for breakfast. It happened that such “indulgent” brew was not normally served at the governor’s table at the Osogbo White House then, reflecting his abstemious taste.

On noticing the abstention at the other end of table from the feasting going on, Baba Akande, long famous for his disdain for protocols, beckoned the waiter and simply mobilized him from the pocket of his trademark “danshiki” to do the needful just across the road outside the Government House, rather than show off power to the august guests by summoning the whole department supervisor, lest he ended up making a big ceremony of a simple matter.

Fleeting as the foregoing drama might appear, it typified the culture of frugality Osun State would know after Akande was sworn in as the second elected governor in 1999.

Such virtue is surely now a rarity in high places in Nigeria as extravagance is commonly glorified instead of modesty, debauchery preferred by those of whom chastity is expected.

As Baba Akande then joins the octogenarian club, there can be no better moment to pause and reflect on an exemplary life, whose cocktail of trials and triumphs truly inspires, a reminder that politics is at its noblest when guided by high principle.

Today, on account of the prevalence of political “cross-breeding” of the past three decades in the South-West in which actors often switch parties and forswear allegiance with the unpredictability only matched by the fabled volatility of British weather, the term “Awoist” clearly now bears different meanings.

Well, let it be first acknowledged that it is within the perimeter of liberty by mutants to lay claims. A fact already conceded by the sage himself. While offering clarification on the prospects of immortality, Awolowo had famously declared those who could truly be called “Awoists” in future would not necessarily be those related to him by blood or old association, but by shared values.

So, if Awoism could be defined in broad terms as a fierce fidelity to a progressive ideology, stubborn resolve against compromising principle however the temptation, and that unquestioning loyalty to the cause of friendship as exemplified

by the very literal meaning of “Afenifere”, then Baba Akande could perhaps rightly be described today as Awo’s last general standing in more than one way.

Indeed, the referenced mission to Osogbo that fateful weekend in 2001 was more of factfinding. Osun had been engulfed by a debilitating industrial crisis. Workers wanted higher wage.

Akande, in turn, opened the books to show that the state’s meager earnings could not fund the raise the labour wanted.

As tension swirled around the province of the fabled “living spring”, a homeboy who happened to be a senior journalist decided to weigh in, perhaps as a civic contribution to his troubled homeland in search of solution. Drawing on “professional solidarity”, he pressed this writer as THISDAY editor then and a few other newspaper editors to visit from Lagos to not only engage the governor directly but also have a first-hand feel of Osun reality with a view to better understanding the raging crisis.

So, for more than two hours, we literally grilled the governor in a brutally frank exchange in which no hard punch was spared. Like a seasoned matador, Baba Akande took all the darts, not dodging any, sometimes resorting to native humour to explain his difficulties.

From that frank conversation, his position was unambiguous: the only option available to meet the workers’ demand then was to go on borrowing spree. To him, that was unthinkable on ethical grounds. It simply meant stealing from the unborn generation.

There were a few other things he also could not contemplate, out of ideological fidelity to welfarist values. One of which was the bias for social spending in form of free and compulsory education to Osun children so much that between 1999 and 2001, a colossal N522.85m had been spent as subsidy on education. The magnitude is better appreciated considering that Osun’s entire annual budget then was a few billions of Naira.

Expectedly, before leaving town, we visited a number of projects being undertaken by Akande including the construction and furnishing of hundreds of modern classrooms to meet the inherited huge deficit at both primary and secondary levels.

Leaving Osun two days later, one could not but now see Akande and the Osun impasse in two inter-related lights. One was the uncommon fortitude he brought to bear in defending Awo’s core value – free education as a tool to fostering an egalitarian society. Second was the dialectical crisis arising from the former. Osun’s fiscal failure spoke, in turn, directly to the crisis of federalism in Nigeria. Indeed, the state, like most others across the Nigeria, would only continue to manage poverty, given the prevailing queer federal architecture.

For instance, studies confirm that Ilesha is rich in gold. But Nigeria’s own warped federalism forbids states from exploiting the riches of their

soil to better themsleves. Everyone is made to forfeit ownership to a buccaneering Leviathan at the centre which, in turn, dispenses crumbs to the federating units by a principle that glorifies predation than production.

So, the gripping irony: even though living by the river, the proverbial swamp-dweller is left to die of thirst.

The enduring fiscal crisis can hardly be divorced from one grave oversight at the founding of the present Republic, however. By 1999, the nation had clearly grown weary of military occupation and appeared too impatient to see the back of the now discredited generals to have had the presence of mind to detect before hand that the working document handed down as chart for the democracy voyage ahead was, at best, faulty.

Once the euphoria petered out, disillusionment naturally set in. So, barons of Alliance for Democracy like Akande contemplating the imposition of a progressive agenda soon found they were a minority pitched against ruthless conservative forces, fiercely committed to preserving the existing predatory order at the centre.

In hindsight, it would perhaps not be too harsh now to accuse the early optimists of sheer naivety in trusting Obasanjo too much on account of merely professing being “born-again democrat” and expecting a fulfillment of the inaugural promise to consider structural change.

But adapting military stratagem of ambush for a purely civil outcome, OBJ would intensify such lip-service to seduce the grandees of the progressive community in South-west into lowering their guard at home until they were routed electorally in one fell swoop in 2003.

Alas, the newly politically displaced would realize too late that the hyena remains and acts like the hyena, regardless of the fancy apparel deployed as disguise.

Ironically, that electoral defeat of 2003 would now appear Akande’s own defining moment.

Others would have willingly entered into any deal to secure comfort, however temporary.

But Akande was not ready to compromise his principle of prudence and accountability.

Not even OBJ, the eternal narcissist, would fail to admit Akande’s honesty in a rare acknowledgement of good in any human being other than himself.

While fielding questions a year after PDP’s historic capture of South-West (except Lagos), he said: “Chief Bisi Akande of Osun State is the only governor whose integrity I can vouch for.”

But honesty is only one of the qualities that set Akande apart. Equally discernible in his political odyssey is the virtue of consistency – a rarity in a political environment where folks would trade honour and betray associates just for mere accommodation by anyone in power.

Rather than be tamed, he parlayed that political adversity to an opportunity to rededicate himself to the advocacy of progressive values.

Not surprising, his has since remained a trenchant voice for a return to fiscal federalism as originally conceived by the 1960 constitution as the most sustainable prescription for equity and justice in the increasingly conflicted Nigerian family.

A true measure of character is said to be where an actor stands in the season of moral crisis. Nigeria’s 90s was undoubtedly defined by the popular resistance of military despotism symbolized by June 12. When it was most perilous, Akande stood to be counted among those who valiantly fought the military.

By falling for the carrots dangled by IBB and Abacha, not a few Awoists would forfeit their own reputation. Those who returned from the dingy dalliance with the military during that momentous decade found themselves carrying mortal scar forever. They became enfeebled by emotional fracture arising from being estranged from old comrades, thus losing their voices in the civil space henceforth.

Also, the murk that permeated the Jonathan era would prove pestilential for some other Awoists of old. Ordinarily, being found in varying compromising positions with barons of the then presiding conservative party would be enough political heresy already. With the details of how dollars meant to buy arms to fight Boko Haram was also generously shared in SouthWest ahead of the 2015 general elections by desperate Jonathan to buy support now public knowledge, many more have since become a bit more subtle in openly displaying their Awo cap in Yorubaland, more out of shame than selfrestraint.

In their quiet moments today, those implicated in that abominable tryst must be feeling bitter regret, humbled by shame at being found to have toiled all their youth building a worthy name only to be caught in strange – if not seedy – company in their hoary days.

Coincidentally, it was in the same season that Akande’s political stock rose sharply. The titan from Ila-Orangun would undoubtedly go down in history as the man who as Interim Chairman inspired a broad coalition of progressives and some conservative rebels to unseat the ruling reactionary party in Nigeria in 2015.

Thus, Akande would seem to have fulfilled yet another of Awo’s old prophecies: “For the progressive to be in power they need the support and collaborations of some conservatives. After attaining power, the conservatives would on their own, walk away. The progressive would now build a great party that would move the nation forward.”

If we then remember the sordid circumstances under which likes of Atiku broke away from APC last year, we cannot but be in awe of the sage’s prescience.

No less compelling, therefore, is the need to also salute Akande’s abiding faithfulness as the last of Awo’s cavalrymen standing.

Nigerian electorate deserve how they are being poorly governed

Ademola Adeoye

Some years ago, I was discussing football with a lad who was about eleven (11) years old. After going back and forth on the round-leather game, I ended up asking him, “What foreign club are you supporting?” To which he quickly responded, “I am an Arsenal fan!” I said, “Why are you still supporting Arsenal Football Club (Arsenal FC), seeing that they have not been doing fine in recent times?” With tears in his eyes, he said, “I don’t have anywhere else to go. I am stuck with Arsenal Football Club. This is why I ask my mom to give me house chores to do each time Arsenal is having a football-match, so I do not develop a heart problem.”

When I heard this, I almost laughed my heart out on the day I am ex-raying. I said all that to say this, about 90% of our electorate in Nigeria are like Arsenal fans. They are stuck with either Atiku or Buhari as Arsenal fans are stuck with Arsenal FC. They cry in their bedchambers—because they do know that they are being faultily and shoddily led, but they fake it on the outside, saying they are either “Buharists” or “Atikuists”! Before Arsenal fans tear me into pieces, I am also an Arsenal fan!

Many years of being impoverished by both the military and military men in “buba and sokoto” has really impacted negatively on the psyche and value of our people. Nigerians no longer care a hoot about excellence and high-value governance. They are now romancing mediocrity as a man would romance his newly wedded wife. And even when you have the guts to raise the bar of excellence,

they would pounce on you as a lion, tearing you into pieces and screaming on top of their lungs, asking—who sent you to drag them out of the effect of inhuman leadership? No one kicks against saviors more than those they are trying to rescue! Nigerians electorate love their oppressors!

Long before last week Saturday, it was announced that Presidential election would hold, and date and venue were chosen and every aspirant was kept in the loop. Kindly note that Neither Buhari nor Atiku did not inform Nigerians and those who put the event together before Saturday that they would not be able to honor Nigerians, facing them, asking them (Atiku and Buhari) questions and sharing with Nigerians—on how they are taking the country frontward.

On the day that was set aside for the Presidential debate, PMB said he was busy campaigning and Atiku refused to mount the podium, because Buhari did not show up. Millions of both Buharists and Atikuists went on social media, defending their tin-gods—who can never be fallible. Many ‘educated’ Buharists even took us down memory lane that the PDP never honored any of the past Presidential debates and still won convincingly and compellingly. Also, they said PMB did not need to debate with four (4) political-dwarfs and also did not need to respect Nigerians, asking him questions and explaining to them how he has performed in leadership in the last four (4) years.

They tauntingly said that without debating that

PMB would coast home victoriously as PDP did in times past. Nigeria is clearly back to her inglorious past!

A political party that did ride on the wings of “change” to power is back maintaining the statusquo! I thought the APC would bring to an end— every shenanigan of the PDP, but I never knew that the APC is an extension of the PDP. Both the PDP and APC are as a Siamese twin! It is clear that both Atiku and Buhari do not have the required capacity to lead us beyond our present marsh and bog. I do have any respect for those who do not respect me.

Politicians are our employees and employees that dishonor those who employ them are supposed to be fired. This is what happens in sane climes—in the nations where value is highly cherished.

The PDP and APC got the concept behind debates wide off the mark. Debates are structured for prospective employees (politicians) to sell themselves and their noble ideas to their employers (citizens). They are not structured to attack the man in office, though the man in office is supposed to submit himself to be questioned by the citizenry on how he has led them in the last four (4) years and if he fails to impress them, he is supposed to be fired! Within the context of what happened on Saturday—both Atiku and Buhari were scared of their past. You know PMB has performed woefully in leadership in the last four (4) years and Atiku is part of the major political party that has brought us to where we are today as a people.

As an effect of what happened on the 19th of January, 2019, you would think that our electorate would burst into anger the following day (and sustain it till after 16th of February, 2019) for being disrespected by those who think they are bigger than all of us in Nigeria, and start considering one out of the three Presidential aspirants (Fela, Oby and Kingsley) who honored them, but reverse is the case. What pains me to the marrow is not what those who are untaught and illiterate are doing within the context of politics, what makes tears well up in my eyes is what those who emptily say they are educated are doing—both offline and online.

It is very clear to me now that the canopy of our patriotism hardly extends beyond our myopic and selfish interests. We are only loyal to our interest and those who are protecting them, not necessarily the country.

As I begin to coast home, I like to say that it is a waste of time, organising Presidential debates, on the condition that incumbent and sitting Presidents wouldn’t be attending them. Going forward, if the status-quo is going to be maintained, I move that it should be scrapped neat. And lastly, for the umpteenth time, if Nigerians do not punish both Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and President Buhari for disrespecting them, then they deserve how you are being poorly governed—by those they are both feeding and clothing. You cannot ignore a Presidential debate in a nation like America and not be punished for it.

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Editorial Commentary The Obasanjo Bombshell

Times Guest Columnist Reuben Abati

“Former President Obasanjo is a courageous patriot and statesman who tells truth to power when he is convinced leaders are doing wrong” – Muhammadu Buhari, March 4, 2015.

“Buhari is sick in the spirit, body and soul. Let’s beg him to go and rest…Let’s give chance to another person” – Olusegun Obasanjo, January 21, 2019.

On Sunday, President Olusegun Obasanjo addressed a press conference at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL) in Abeokuta where he gave the equivalent of a state of the nation address which was essentially a testimonial on the performance of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration, an assessment of the integrity and credibility of the electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) visa-vis the upcoming 2019 general elections, and a general commentary on recent developments in the country and the tactics and methods of the incumbent administration.

This is the second time in the last one year that President Obasanjo would be taking on the Buhari administration in an extensive and provocative expose. In his 2018 intervention, Obasanjo had advised President Buhari not to bother to run for a second term in office because his performance was disappointing and even more importantly, he would need more time to go and attend to his failing health.

He accused Buhari of cronyism, nepotism, incompetence and failure to bring about the change that he promised Nigerians. The former President’s advice was ignored at the time. Professor Itse Sagay, the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption who hijacked the job of the President’s spokesmen launched an attack on Obasanjo. He told Nigerians that Obasanjo is “irrelevant” and he needs to show President Buhari ‘some respect.” Titled “The Way Out: A Clarion call for Coalition for Nigeria Movement” (January 23, 2018), the Obasanjo letter then generated ripples within the polity and energized those seeking a third force as an alternative to the PDP and the ruling All Progressives Congress.

We should all take special notice of the fact that this was all in the month of January 2018, precisely in the third week.

On the anniversary of that very episode, almost exactly to the day, President Obasanjo has intervened again. If his January 2018 letter to Buhari was hot, this one of 2019 is explosive.

The 2018 letter was 13 pages long; the 2019 contribution titled “Points for Concern and Action” runs into 16 pages.

But the key difference is not in the additional three pages; it can be found in the fact that Obasanjo’s tone in this latest one is not advisory at all. This is a brutal, dismissive, utterly condemnatory commentary which seeks to consign the Buhari administration to the ugly chapters of Nigerian history. The style of writing is lucid, frank, assertive, no one is left in doubt that Obasanjo considers the Buhari administration a mockery of sorts, some of its programmes such as TraderMoni “idiotic”, and its management of the country’s security situation, utterly laughable.

Obasanjo is so impressively quotable, virtually every line from his pen drips with venom and journalistic topicality, his words sound like stones, hitting their targets with devastating force, drawing “blood” and pain. He does the job of the opposition in this January 2019 piece, barely 28 days to Nigeria’s general election, better than the opposition itself. Obasanjo may not always be right, and he has had cause to revise his assessment of people and circumstances when confronted with a different set of facts and variables, but his timing is always carefully chosen, his courage to speak up is unmistakable, and he is probably the only Nigerian statesman alive today who speaks, whenever he does on public issues, with a startling combination of poignancy, histrionics and a ricocheting effect. For this reason, he manages to capture the attention and imagination of both local and international audiences.

Three, his statement is couched in the language of statesmanship. He is raising “concerns” and calling for “action.” It is not a crime under any jurisprudence for a former Head of State and a former President who is also a global eminent person to raise such concerns about his country. The world will listen. And Obasanjo knows.

However, the standard response from government spokespersons is to dismiss every piece of criticism as sour grapes and to impugn the integrity of the critic. This is a

default position in the government-public communication process. It is so, I must explain, because what is called criticism in Nigeria can be sometimes biased, uninformed, partisan, sponsored or downright malicious. This in itself is a reflection of the level of our development. In Third World politics, the stomach rules the head, emotions suppress reason, idiots become kings, imbeciles pose as wise men.

In practical politics, every political leader believes his own vision of reality. In his mind, he wants to do his best for his people. He wants them to love him. From the little that I have seen, there is no political leader who wants to be disliked.

Power is like an injection: people react to it differently.

It is something about the DNA. It is also something about the level of exposure, belief-system, competence, knowledge, strength of character and the quality of the environment in which the leader finds himself. Nonetheless, when someone comes along and sticks a pin into that balloon, and bursts the bubble, those who protect the leader, and the leader himself are bound to fight back, oftentimes viciously. To that extent I can understand the viciousness with which President Buhari’s handlers have gone after President Obasanjo in the last 72 hours. I have been through that route before. When President Obasanjo attacked President Goodluck Jonathan under similar circumstances a few years ago, it was my duty to put out a quick rebuttal. I dismissed the attack on President Jonathan as “mischievous and reckless”. The President himself later took on the battle and responded to every point raised by President Obasanjo in what became a famous epistolary war in Nigerian politics.

That war produced at least three books!

Both Presidents have since reconciled, and have been visiting each other, but there are persons in Abeokuta who have not forgiven me till today for responding to Baba because as far as they are concerned, it was wrong of me to support a man they regard as a “kobo-kobo” against a man they consider an icon. The Jonathan administration’s crisis with President Obasanjo had its long-term effect, but when the fire burned, it was Mrs. Patience Jonathan who stepped in to stop further responses from our end. The only witness to that story is Senator Andy Uba. I will tell that story some other day.

Despite that experience, I must confess that I am shocked beyond words by the official responses to President Olusegun Obasanjo’s January 2019 state of the nation statement. The counter-attack is pointless, for it is exactly the kind of tonic Obasanjo needs. It will be difficult to convince anybody locally or internationally that Obasanjo is uninformed or that he has some ulterior motives, or that he is sponsored. The man has earned a global reputation that grants him the privilege to pronounce on world matters with the credibility of an oracle. The totality of his public career has brought him to that place of security, and that is why his almost life-long spat with his arch-rival, Professor Wole Soyinka has not had any effect on either of the two well-placed gladiators’ reputation. INEC promised to study Obasanjo’s submissions and has offered a polite, reassuring re-affirmation of its resolve to be independent and run a free and fair election. In comparison, the Presidency has embarked on a name-calling offensive as various officials and party chieftains raise questions about Obasanjo’s moral integrity – his record as military Head of State, and later as President – the usual things – Third Term, Odi massacre, and anything else that can be thrown into the net. They forget that Obasanjo is not running for President. By calling him names, they merely reinforce his claims and the more they abuse him, the more they give further credence to his declaration that the Buhari administration does not tolerate “criticism, choice and being different.” Obasanjo set a trap for them.

They have walked into it, so unwisely.

In a strange twist, Garba Shehu, the alternate Presidential spokesman, in a written response even suggests that President Obasanjo is sick, and he should “please get well soon”. He refers to him as a “coward” and a “90-year old liar.” Garba Shehu was a Presidential Assistant during the Obasanjo years (1999- 2007). Obasanjo was his boss and benefactor even if he worked directly with Vice President Atiku Abubakar. Now, the same Garba Shehu says Obasanjo is sick! Does he have a medical report to confirm that? Who really should get well soon? Garba Shehu’s current boss or Obasanjo?

OUR POSITION Need to overhaul nation’s security architecture The need to overhaul the nation’s security architecture has been over emphasised in the last one year. It is instructive to note that the main reason for the persistence calls for a thorough overhaul of the security network by almost all the segments of the society is not far fetched.

It is principally to ensure peace, cohesion and to rejuvenate the national security .

The overhaul of the national security architecture has become imperative as the country faces political campaigns and election year.

If the experiences of political party primaries are to be a guide as to what we should expect from campaigns that will begin today, then the public definitely need assurances and confidence of the security agencies that they would guarantee credible, free and fair elections.

While we commend the heads of the key security agencies that have put in their best in the last three years for degrading the insurgents, we strongly believe that the emerging challenges such as the circumstance leading to the killings of Major General Idris Alkali (rtd) , the kidnapping and the eventual killing of the Paramount Chief of the Adara Chiefdom in Kaduna State , His Royal Highness , the Agom Adara , Dr. Maiwada Raphael Galadima amplified the call for an overhaul.

Like the Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai stated recently when the Governor of Plateau State , Mr. Simon Lalong paid him a condolence visit on the death of General Alkali, “ the security architecture of the country must be reviewed to ensure that current killings are stopped.”

According to him, the death of Major General Idris Alkali, who was killed by yet to be arrested persons in Dura Du community in Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State on September 3, 2018 should be “ a wake up call for all including the military to be decisive on the issues of insecurity in the country.”

General Alkali and Galadima cases are just one among many instances of killing of innocent people. Several Nigerians have been killed in communities whose cases are not investigated and even where investigations are caused to commence have remained inconclusive and suspects are not prosecuted.

Even at that, security remains

fundamentally the focus of good governance. When authorities renegade it, so many things goes wrong and peace suffered. Presently, we have a very big gap between arrests and prosecution in our hands while the security and prosecution agencies must bridge the gap. Going forward, we believe that the time has come for the government to invest heavily on intelligence gathering to reduce social evils in the society.

It is taking us as a country too long to realise the need for peace despite our bitter experiences of civil war, several unrests that arose from communal clashes, political unrest and the ongoing Boko Haram insurgency that has taken us about 10 years to bring the infamous action to an end.

We therefore lend our voice to the persistence calls for a total overhaul of the security system with a view to replacing security chiefs who have overstayed their welcome.

We are of the opinion that decisive action on the country’s architecture will restore public confidence on nation’s security agencies. We submit that the way forward is to ensure harmony and cohesion between the larger society and security forces for positive development.

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2019: EU election observer mission tasks INEC, Short News security agencies, others on transparency Adebisi Oyindamola, Abuja The Chief Observer, European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM), Maria Arena, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), security agencies and other election stakeholders to maintain a high level of transparency and accountability in the upcoming elections.

Arena who is also a member of the European Parliament from Belgium made the call in Abuja on Tuesday during the launch of EU Election Observation Mission to Nigeria.

Arena said,” Transparency and accountability of all the institutions involved in the elections are absolutely essential for public trust and confidence in the process.

“Thus, we hope that INEC and also the security forces will provide clear real-time information on what they are doing and actions they’ve taken. INEC

and the security forces need to be seen to work neutrally in all their actions from the leadership down.

She expressed hope that the state bodies and political parties will cooperate to promoting a fair and peaceful process before, during and after the elections.

“This means working with integrity for the sake of the nation, and promoting a calm response to any problems or frustrations,” she said.

The Chief Observer disclosed that in addition to the EU EOM’s core team and 40 long term observers, the mission will be joined over the election days by a delegation of seven Members of the European Parliament, as well as diplomats from EU member state embassies in Nigeria, Canada, Norway and Switzerland.

“We will assess the electoral process against Nigeria’s laws and international commitments in relation to democratic elections. We are here with a team of 11 election experts in Abuja, and 40

experienced long-term observers, who deployed around the country yesterday (21 January) to cover all states,” said the Chief Observer.

The EU EOM head of mission also highlighted the importance of civil society organisations in the electoral process, describing them as an indispensable role in increasing the transparency and credibility of the process, and in advocating for electoral improvements.

She assured that the EU observers will adhere to a strict code of conduct for international election observation that requires they maintain strict neutrality and impartiality in the course of their work and do not interfere in the electoral process.

“After both election days, the mission will issue a preliminary statement.

A more comprehensive final report, including recommendations to improve future elections, will be published approximately two months after the end of the electoral process,” she added.

Reps c’ttee summons PenCom mgt, 21 PFAs over pension funds Henry Omunu, Abuja

The House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating the apex pension body, National Pension Commission (PenCom) has invited the commission’s top management staff and 21 Pension Funds Administrators (PFAs) to appear before it on Thursday.

The ad hoc committee set by the House last December is investigating the unwholesome practices by pension administrators and custodians.

In a letter obtained yesterday and dated January 21, the committee invited the PenCom acting Director General, Aisha Dahir-Umar and other top management staff to explain their roles in the unwholesome practices by pension custodians.

Also invited are the pension administrators and custodians mandated with the management of pension funds.

In the letter signed by the ad hoc committee Chairman, Rep. Ehiozuwa Johnson Agbonayinma (APC/Edo), the stakeholders are expected to furnish the committee with vital information on the allegations levelled against the fund managers.

LASG opens additional dispatch centre in Igando Benjamin Omoike, Lagos The Lagos state government has renewed its commitment to improving its response time towards effective management of emergency across the state with the establishment of additional LASEMA Response Unit at Igando, Alimosho Local Government Area of the state.

The General Manager Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Mr. Adesina Tiamiyu, disclosed this on Tuesday in his office.

According to him, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode approved the establishment of the Centre to cater for Lagosians residing around Ikotun, Idimu, Egbeda, LASUIgando Road and the Badagry Axis, while process for the establishment of LASEMA Response Unit, by the Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Ijanikin is ongoing.

The General Manager explained that the decentralisation of emergency/disaster management by the present administration from one response Unit in Alausa to three Centres, namely: LASEMA Response Unit (LRU), Cappa Oshodi, LASEMA Response Unit, Lekki, by Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge and LASEMA Response Unit, Onipanu, on Ikorodu Road is aimed at improving response time to emergency interventions.

9 teenagers emerge winners in InterswitchSPAK innovation challenge Benjamin Omoike, Lagos

Nine teenagers who emerged winners in InterswitchSPAK innovation challenge.

Buhari expresses joy with INEC’s readiness for elections Mathew Dadiya, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has told the European Union Observer Mission (EOM) to Nigeria’s general elections starting in February 16, that he was impressed by the preparations made by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and was optimistic that the electoral body would deliver on its mandate of a credible poll.

Buhari expressed the optimism on Tuesday when he received the EOM, led by the Chief Observer and member of the European Parliament, Maria Arena, at the State House, Abuja.

The President said that he had listened earlier in the day, to the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, when he briefed the National Council of State.

“I am happy and impressed with

the briefing he gave. I hope that the confidence he exuded and the intellect he brought to bear on the Report will be justified at the end of the day,” Buhari said.

The President told the EU delegation that Nigeria had grown its electoral system incrementally, getting better year after year.

According to him, having participated in elections four times in the past, I would say that since 2015, technology has helped the credibility of our elections.

He said that Nigeria, with over 250 cultural groups across religions and ethnic groups, with each group canvassing for identity and primacy in the affairs of the nation, “patriotism demands that we identify the nation’s best interest and go with it.”

He stressed that the governing All Progressives Congress (APC)

administration had the good sense of identifying the national interest to include security, peace and stability, improved economy, jobs creation and the campaign against corruption.

The president noted that the party was not wrong in 2015, and was not wrong going into the election this year with the same issues in its campaigns.

Buhari thanked the delegation for taking interest in Nigeria’s elections, and in the affairs of the nation generally.

The EOM team, accompanied by Ambassador Ketil Karlsen, Head, European Delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS, said that the EU had observed every election in Nigeria since 1999, and had come here again for the next one, following an invitation by INEC. The delegation promised impartiality and neutrality in the monitoring of the elections.

A group of nine teenage students have emerged winners of the InterswitchSPAK 1.0 Innovation Challenge, for collaborating to develop a technological solution posed to provide Nigerians with easier access to National Health Insurance.

The InterswitchSPAK 1.0 Innovation Challenge is a segment of the InterswitchSPAK National Science competition organised by Interswitch Foundation.

Grouped into nine teams, the InterswitchSPAK finalists were tasked with developing solutions to three salient socio-economic issues. These issues were in the areas of health care, public transport system and education, with focus on the outof-school concerns.

The students proffered brilliant solutions to their given tasks by leveraging technology. Each team was headed by Interswitch staff who volunteered as mentors.

Winners of the challenge, Team Neptune, made up of nine SS2 kids, were mentored by the trio of Princess Edo-Osagie, Inalegwu Alogwu and Abiodun Adebisi. They were tasked to: “propose a solution that promotes an all-inclusive health insurance scheme in Nigeria, leveraging technology”.

The nine-man team’s health solution which incorporated the current National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), makes provision for web doctors for policy holders with access to the internet and telemedicine option for those without access to the internet.

Police in Anambra nab 5 car snatching syndicates Nkiru Nwagbo, Awka The Anambra State Police have arrested four robbery suspects for snatching Acura Jeep from one Mr. Mbaezue Chizoba.

The suspects are: Emeka Ihenacho aged 25 years; Ekene Edeh, aged 28 years; Nwobodo Kosichukwu, aged 26 years, and Rapuruchukwu Obum, aged 28 years.

According to the Commissioner of police in the State Garba Baba Umar PSC ,”Suspects had on the 10/1/2019 at 10: 30 pm robbed one Mbazue Chizoba of Nsugbe of his Acura Jeep with Reg. No. AAA 114 FF. “On the 20/1/2019 at about 12: 30 pm, the Police Detectives attached to Command Special Anti Robbery Squad arrested the suspects following the intelligence report.

“Suspects confessed to the crime and the stolen vehicle was also recovered in their possession and the Case is under investigation.

In a related development the command also arrested another car snatching syndicates and recover arms and ammunition from them.

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FRSC issues traffic alert as FG resumes Short News construction work nationwide More employment opportunities for Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has issued a traffic alert to the motoring public following the resumption of construction work on some major roads in the country These roads include Lagos-Ibadan expressway being constructed by Julius Berger Nigeria Plc (JBN) and Reynolds Construction Company (RCC) with temporary diversions and narrowing at certain areas of the route.

According to the statement signed by the Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem, JBN has also resumed the construction work on Kaduna-Kano road with more critical sectors along Kaduna-Zaria and Kachia routes. He also disclosed that RCC has commenced work on Kweita Bridge along Gwagwalada-

Lokoja road.

“As a result of the construction work on the Kweita Bridge, the road will be diverted from Piri, immediately after Yangoji on Gwagwalada to Lokoja road.

Motorists are by this notice advised to be aware of this development and drive carefully when approaching Piri to avoid colliding into erected traffic barriers,” he stated.

Kazeem further disclosed that FRSC ambulance will be stationed at the appropriate point of the diversions to direct traffic to LokojaGwagwalada road while patrol vehicles would be at kweita to return traffic to normal routes to ensure free passage along the roads.

He added that the construction exercise has led to the mobilisation of construction materials and erection of traffic barriers which could narrow the carriageways and even cause occasional diversion of traffic; hence FRSC advises

alternative routes to be explored by motorists within the construction period if possible.

In the interim, the Corps Marshal, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi has directed the intensification of traffic control along the affected routes for easy passage and free flow of traffic,’ he stated.

Kazeem further stated that the Corps Marshal advises the motoring public to imbibe safe motoring culture and bear with any inconveniences that might come with the temporary diversions and cooperate fully with the FRSC patrol teams that would be strategically deployed to control the diverted traffic throughout the period of the construction work. “Motorists are further advised to preplan their trips and allow for extra travel time while being reminded that the maximum speed limit allowed by law at construction zones is 50km/hour,’ the statement added.

youths as A’ Ibom discovers fresh oil Isaac Job, Uyo

The Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel has assured youths of more employment opportunities following the discovery of fresh oil well in Uruan council area of the state.

Addressing party supporters during campaign for his re- election in next month general election, Governor Emmanuel confirmed that Akwa Ibom is the highest oil producing state in Nigeria which would be expanded for more revenue to the state with the recent oil discovery.

Governor Emmanuel said that the state government was waiting for final documentations with relevant authorities to commence drilling of crude oil in the area.

Governor Emmanuel maintained that the oil exploration in the area was one of government’s efforts to boost the economy and create employment for the people.

“Uruan is at the verge of becoming one of the oil producing communities in the state. That’s why you see a new oil rig in the area, once we are done with signing of papers, we will commence exploration’. He said “We are playing politics of development.

2019 Elections: Foundation trains Northwest police officers in Kano Yakubu Salisu, Kano

Ahead of the forthcoming general elections, a foundation under the auspices of Cleen Foundation has organised a two-day training workshop for police officers in Kano State on election security management for the 2019 general elections.

The training workshop which started on Tuesday in Kano had in attendance, officers of the Nigeria Police Force comprising of both males and females of different ranks.

Speaking on the occasion, the Executive Director Cleen foundation Dr. Benson Olugbuo stated that, the training is in line with the foundation’s mission of promoting public safety, security and accessible justice through the strategies of empirical research, legislative advocacy, demonstration programmes in partnership with government agencies, civil society and the private sector.

Olugbuo who was represented by the assistant programme manager of the group, Mr. Oluwale Ojawale, stated that, participants were drawn from all the states of the North-West regions of the country mindful of the challenges facing the police as an institution and the general public expectation on the police to handle elections with sense of professionalism.

Abule-Egba pipeline explosion: Police arrest 5-

Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo(2nd right); and Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi(right); during the inauguration of Tradermoni and Micro Small and Medium Enterprises clinic in Ado-Ekiti…on Monday.

2019 budget debate suffers setback in House Henry Omunu, Abuja The 2019 Appropriation Bill debate yesterday suffered a setback on the floor of the House of Representatives.

The development followed the illpreparedness of the lawmakers to make inputs and contribute to debate on the money bill as only 18 House members were at the plenary presided over by Deputy Speaker Yussuf Lasun, when debate on the bill commenced.

No sooner had the deputy speaker introduced the bill as the seventh item on the order paper, authorizing the issuance from the consolidated revenue fund of N8,826,636,578,915 and called for debate on the general principles of the

bill, than the House Leader, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila requested that the debate be stepped down to the next legislative date (today).

Rep. Gbajibiamila stated that the request has become expedient so as to enable members have a full grasp of the budget document which they only received some days back for them to make any meaningful contributions.

“Let’s step the bill down because of the importance of the budget, to allow members study the bill in - depth so that they can make inputs,” the House leader said.

He maintained that copies of the budget were only made available to the lawmakers last week and as such they required more time to study the document

before they can make fruitful inputs.

The deputy speaker in his ruling, slated today for the commencement of debate on the budget.

He asked the members who wish to make contributions to register their names so that they can be accommodated and allocated dates to speak on the general principles of the budget.

Said Lasun: “We commence debate tomorrow (Wednesday). Those who are interested should come today and register their names: So the bill is stepped down by leave of the House.”

In the over N8 trillion budget estimate, N492 billion is for statutory transfer, N2.2trillion for debt service, N4 trillion for recurrent while N2.031 trillion is for capital expenditure.

The Lagos State Police Command, says it has arrested five persons suspected to be allegedly responsible for the Abule-Egba pipeline fire explosion, which destroying more than 100 houses and cars.

The Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, CP Imohimi Edgal, told newsmen on Tuesday that the suspects were arrested after evidence from the fire scene were picked up and analysed.

There was an NNPC pipeline fire explosion on Dec. 18, 2018, where no less than 100 houses and 77 cars were destroyed, but no life was lost.

The Lagos police boss said that one Rasak Oyekunle, who has an electrical workshop close to the spot where the fire started, was first arrested and he confessed that he belongs to the gang responsible for the explosion.

Edgal further said that the suspect claimed he situated his workshop closed to the spot they were siphoning NNPC products so as to divert public attention from the illegal operation in the area.

SDP leadership biased against me – Jerry Gana

The Prof. Jerry Gana Presidential Campaign Team has decried an alleged bias by the leadership of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) against its principal in favour of former governor of Cross Rivers, Mr Donald Duke.

The Director-General of the team, Mr Ike Neliaku, said this while addressing newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday.

Neliaku frowned at the party’s refusal to submit Gana’s name to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as its presidential candidate as directed by a Federal High Court.

He specifically blamed the SDP National Chairman, Chief Olu Falae, and the National Secretary, Alhaji Shehu Gabam, for Gana’s travails.

According to him, both leaders are acting a script other than the interest of the party, which they have manipulated thus far.

“I call on credible leaders of the SDP and our teeming supporters to rise and rescue the party from the hands of traders and merchants.

“This is not about Prof. Jerry Gana, it is about right versus wrong!

It is about the destiny of millions of Nigerians whose lives have been mismanaged,” Neliaku said.

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Workers chase Enugu Federal Psychiatric Hospital MD out of office Moses Oyediran, Enugu Workers at the Federal Neuropsychiatic Hospital Enugu, on Tuesday chased the embattled Medical Director, Dr. Jojo Onwukwe out of his office.

Onwukwe, who was suspended by the Board of the Hospital, suddenly staged a comeback to resume duties.

He is said to be in a last minute attempt to install his crony as successor.

Our correspondent reports that Onwukwe was suspended on 10th January, 2019 by the Hospital Board over a wide range of issues.

A letter to that effect, which was addressed to the Minister of Health, was obtained by our correspondent.

The letter, which chronicled some of Onwukwe’s poor management activities, was signed by the Board Chairman, Hon. Shaban Ohimoni Shuaibu.

He recalled in the letter that “Onwukwe was arrested during the inauguration of the Board of the Federal health institutions in March, 2018 and after I stood surety to have him released, he jumped bail.

“You will also recall that the Board frequently

had to resolve industrial and serious interpersonal differences, first a local strike at the beginning of our tenure, and most recently rowdy protest by workers during the last board meeting because of his refusal to comply with my advice to pay and offset staff claims emanating from promotion arrears, interdiction and other shortfalls in their emoluments.

“Dr. Onwukwe has refused to implement Board decisions, instead he gives counter directives to the staff and withholds correspondences, ignores phone calls and text messages of the Chairman and members of the Board, even going as far as summoning Board members, including the Chairman, to meetings on his own assumed authority.

“Matters came to a head when he tried to usurp or scuttle the process of selection of a new Medical Director refusing to call Board meeting to ratify the report of the Appointment Promotion and Disciplinary Committees on the process and instead invited the ministry, summoned the Board and invited shortlisted candidates for an interview and deliberately refused to invite the Federal Character Commission that has a constitutional mandate to monitor the process of recruitment exercise of this magnitude.

“Confronted with his misdeeds, he walked out

on the board, leaving behind several disgruntled workers.

“Consequently, the Board has resolved to suspend him indefinitely to create room for the selection of a new Medical Director.”

Onwukwe had on Monday commenced moves to return to the Hospital two weeks after his suspension.

He sent advanced team of policemen, an action that provoked the Hospital workers.

They quickly mobilized to the gate where they all laid in wait for the Medical Director, vowing not to let him in. He was not seen throughout the day.

However, on Tuesday, he eventually stormed the Hospital and ended into the waiting hands of the workers, who made real their threat and bundled him out of the Hospital.

He was chased away, alongside four other key officials of the hospital.

Speaking on the developments, Mr. Friday, secretary of the Medical and Health Workers’ Union, Ozurumba Anthony, Chairman of the Senior Civil Servants’ Association in the Hospital and Dr. Udeagha Charles, President of the National Association of Resident Doctors vowed that they would not allow a return to the dark days.

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Short News Sen Uba, Ukachukwu may not contest 2019 election Nkiru Nwagbo, Awka

The incumbent Senator Andy Uba representing Anambra South Senatorial District and the candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC) for 2019 general election may not contest the forth coming election following the litigation at the Federal High Court in Awka.

According to the suit filed by Hon Azuka Okwuosa, Senatorial aspirant of the APC against the candidacy of Andy Uba at the Awka Federal High Court, the plaintiff prayed the court among others to restrain the second respondent, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from accepting any name whatsoever from the first defendant, APC as the candidate of the party.

Okwuosa also prayed for an order restraining INEC from publishing the name of Any Uba as the candidate of the party for the 2019 Senatorial election and compelling the electoral body to expunge the name of Uba from its records as Senatorial candidate of the party in the area.

Okwuosa further prayed for a declaration that the submission of Andy Uba name as candidate of the party is wrongful and a violation of the construction and guidelines of the APC and section 87 of the Electoral Act 2010 as amended.

NCS strike force boss warns against use of Secondhand clothes, others Yakubu Salisu, Kano

The National Co-ordinator, Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Strike Force Unit, DC. Abdullahi Dahiru Kirawa, has warned the General Public on health hazards associated with second hand clothes, prohibited eatables as well as women underwear, such as braziers in particular, which are all parts of contra-band goods smuggled into the country.

He gave the warning on Tuesday in Kano while parading before news men, smuggled items confiscated by the Customs’ strike force men with total Duty Paid Value of N189,692,336.00.

Kirawa Warned that, health expert have revealed that, the nature of hazardous chemicals used in the preservation of such fabrics and eatables like Dates among other items, as well as the mode of packaging and conveyance, poses great dangers to human health.

He said, women who patronize such second hand clothes, (braziers) are prone to contracting life threatening diseases such cancer which has claimed the lives of many. This is just as the team also confiscated over 3,797 bags of 50kg parboiled rice smuggled into Nigeria.

INEC moves to halt electoral violence against women Kingsley Chukwuka, Jos

Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson (2nd R), his wife, Dr(Mrs) Rachael Dickson (R), the Governor’s classmates of 1992, (Faculty of Law), Rivers State University of Science & Technology, Port-Harcourt, Mr. Golden Tamuno (2nd L), and Mr. Ikenna Morgan Enekweizu (L), on arrival at the Harold Dappa Biriye conference centre, for a dinner, at the instance of the Governor, in honour of his classmates of 1992, Faculty of Law, Rivers State University of Science & Technology, Port-Harcourt.

Photo by Michael Owi.

Osun ranks highest in Nigeria’s development indicators – NADIM Oyindamola Adebisi, Abuja

Recent development survey conducted by the Nigeria and Africa Development Indicators Monitoring Foundation (NADIM) has ranked Osun state highest in the development performance indicators among the 36 states in Nigeria.

In an event to formally launch the NADIM Foundation and publicly present the research book titled ‘Development Performance Ranking of Nigerian States and African Countries’ in Abuja on Wednesday, the author of the book and Vice Chancellor of the Al- Hikmah University Ilorin, Prof. Mohammed Toafeek Ibrahim, said the survey was a quantitative scorecard for state governors to appraise their performances and prioritize develop blueprint where needed.

The findings revealed that most of the states in Nigeria have failed to meet all the global

development indicators, with only Osun state meeting 64% of the requirements, while Yobe state ranked most poorly in the indicator requirements.

Disclosing the modalities for arriving at the ranking, Prof Ibrahim said the study utilized data based on the most recent figures released in 2013 by the Nigerian Demographics and Health Survey and the National Population Commission with partnership from international bodies like USAID on development indicators in Nigeria.

“The basic development indicators include availability of housing, accessible roads, functional healthcare services, schools, water supplies, electricity functional industries, and employment of youths among things.

“When you look at the summary of some of these indicators, Osun state came out as the best state in Nigeria, followed by Anambra and Lagos states in close tie second position, and the third being Ekiti and FCT taking the fourth and

fifth positions respectively”.

Prof. Ibrahim explained that the study showed that some states have done well, but no state has done very well and this is affecting the productivity and economic ranking of Nigeria among other African countries, “there are states who did very badly scoring under 25 percent of social indicators of development ranking, this has affected productivity in the country generally making Nigeria to be compared with countries like Somalia that is currently in crisis,” he noted.

He said the book is the first indigenous effort

by Nigeria to release a credible national data on the performances of individual states, and urged African countries to partner with NADIM to generate development data that will reposition the continent for development strides.

The University Don assured that NADIM will continue to demand accountability from governments across Africa and produce enlightened citizens.

In an effort to minimize electoral violence against women, the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), on Tuesday engaged Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), in a one-day seminar.

The seminar tagged “Mitigating Violence Against Women During the 2019 General Elections”, the electoral umpire seeks to understand specific forms and levels of electoral violence women face during the electoral process, either as candidates, supporters or voters.

Speaking at the workshop, the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Plateau state, Halilu Pai, said women are getting more involved in the country’s electoral process hence falling prey of victims of violence.

Pai said violence does not necessarily involved getting physical but also intimidation which women face because they are mostly perceived as weaker beings.

Represented by the Head of Legal Unit, Plateau state Independent Electoral Commission, Mrs Caroline Okpe, the INEC boss said the commission is working closely with security agencies to identify the perpetrators of violence on women aimed at strengthening female participation in the electoral process.

IGP assures of adequate security during elections

The acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Mohammed Adamu, on Tuesday, gave the assurance that the police would provide adequate security for a free, fair and credible elections in the country.

Adamu, who gave the assurance during a visit to the Minister of Interior, Lt.-Gen. Abdulraham Dambazau (rtd.) in Abuja, said that the Police would deploy its professionalism during the elections.

“I have said it before and will say it again, the police are professionals and we have been given the assignment to secure the election, creating a level playing field for everybody.

“We will provide security before, during and after the election,’’ he said.

The IGP also sought the support of the ministry to collectively tackle the internal security challenges in the country.

Adamu said the visit to the police parent ministry was to “rub minds’’ on some strategies “we are trying to implement.’’

Dambazau assured the I-G of the ministry’s continued support to the police force.

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Echostone Nigeria to bridge housing deficit with 20,000 homes in one year Motolani Oseni As part of efforts in bridging housing deficit in the country, Echostone Nigeria Limited has partnered the Lagos State Ministry of Housing to construct 20,000 affordable homes in one year.

The public-private partnership with Lagos state aimed to provide 100,000 affordable homes in five years with modern day technology.

Speaking with journalists during a site inspection by the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESV) Lagos State Branch, at Idale, Badagry startup phase of the projects, the Chief Executive Officer, Echostone Nigeria Limited, Mr. Sammy Adigun, said the company aimed at delivering affordable homes to low income earners with full infrastructure.

According to him, “ our home will start at N3 million for the studio homes, and we have three to 13 million and will not sell any home higher than N13 million in Lagos, and they will be a highquality home with full infrastructure.

Speaking on what the home provider binging differently into the housing industry, he said: “We are bringing affordability, we are bringing funding, and we are going to rent to own our home, with as little as N30,000 a month.”

The Echostone Nigeria boss poited out that with the partnership of the Lagos State Ministry of Housing, that the firm in 2019 alone targets 20,000 homes, which has never happened before, this going to be the first time.

Mr. Adigun added that all the housing projects that have been done in Lagos by the government is just like 20,000 and that is what we are going to be delivering every year going forward.

Her, however, assured that his firm would meet the housing needs of Lagos residents, with the support of all the relevant stakeholders, without compromising quality.

Inspecting the project, the Chairman, Lagos State Branch, Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers Esv. Olurogba Orimolade lauded the company’s partnership with Lagos State on it moves to tackle the housing deficit in the country.

According to him, the use of technology in house, construction has fastened the pace and enhanced concrete quality.

In his words, “we are thrilled and fascinated by what we are seeing, on how you can use technology to able to rollout homes at a quick rate. And it is something that gladdens our hearts as professionals in the industry. I think it is something a lot of states and partners should be able to look at and emulate.

“Using technology process are simple. There is no major difference between the manual home construction and technology.

“The cement used and other ingredients of the building are the same but the key thing that comes with the technology used is the quick pace of house delivery and solidity of the concrete itself”, he explained.

L-R: Managing Director, Afrinvest Securities Limited, Ayodeji Ebo; Group Managing Director, Afrinvest West Africa Limited, Ike Chioke; Deputy Managing Director, Afrinvest West Africa Limited, Victor Ndukauba; Head, Afrinvest Research, Robert Omotunde and Associate, Afrinvest Research, Jolomi Odonghanro, during the unveiling of the ‘Nigerian Economy and Financial Markets 2018 Review and 2019 Outlook’ report in Lagos recently.

Nigeria’s Equities market to rebound after polls - Afrinvest Sam Nzeh Leading independent investment banking firm, Afrinvest (West Africa) Limited, has predicted that Nigeria’s Equities will rebound after the forthcoming general election.

According to the firm, some of the factors that will shape the market rebound include Post-election stability resulting in the return of foreign investors, new listings on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Corporate Earnings Performance and Sustained improvement in Macroeconomic indicators.

Disclosing this at the unveiling of the ‘Nigerian Economy and Financial Markets 2018 Review and 2019 Outlook Report’, in Lagos last week, Deputy Managing Director of Afrinvest (West Africa), Mr. Victor Ndukauba, said the firm expects the Equities market to remain unflavoured by investors until after the general election when the effect of negative sentiment will

dissipate.

Ndukauba, who was flanked at the presentation by top management of Afrinvest (/West Africa) Limited, including its Group Managing Director, Ike Chioke, stated that the firm modelled the Equities market return scenarios around expectations on domestic monetary and fiscal policy, possible election outcomes, momentum of economic growth, dynamics of fund flow and outlook on global growth with possible effect on policy normalisation.

He said although the company is positive on Equities market performance post-election, its expectation hinges on possible scenarios amidst the various risk factors envisaged for equity investing in the year.

Ndukauba revealed the company conceptualised three major possible outcomes that could play out in the general election irrespective of the winner. They are the ‘Pessimistic Case,’ the ‘Base Case’ and the ‘Optimistic Case’.

“Consequently, our forecasted market

return for 2019 on the three scenarios are Bear: -33.4 per cent, Base: +42.0 per cent and Bull: +117.7 per cent”, he stated.

According to him, the firm’s ‘Pessimistic Case’ with a probability of 40.0 per cent envisions a less likely post-election violence characterised by slower than expected pace of economic growth in addition to negative signals in monetary policy management and increased the pace of policy normalisation, especially from the Bank of England (BoE).

He said: “We estimated that this scenario would necessitate at least 20.0 per cent decline in market EPS and force P/E as low as 6.7x; hence, crystallising in 33.4 per cent decline in the broader index by year end.”

“Our ‘Base Case’ assumes that the status quo is maintained in major policy disposition with successful and violencefree elections, irrespective of the winner, this will result in a base case. Our scenario also envisages that the country maintains a slow but steady economic growth path with fiscal and monetary policy conditions

subsisting while the current pace of global policy normalisation remains.

“In our analysis, this scenario would result in a 6.8 per cent EPS growth with higher market P/E (11.4x) resulting in 42.0 per cent market return. We believe the possibility of this occurrence is most plausible at 50.0 per cent.

“In our ‘Optimistic Case’, which we assess as the least likely scenario in our view with a probability of 10.0 per cent, given the current realities, we assume a change in monetary and fiscal policy to drive investments would improve macroeconomic fundamentals.

This scenario would be most bullish for equities if combined with liberalisation of downstream oil and gas sector, new big listings on the NSE (including MTN) and weaker than expected global growth that could reverse the current course of policy normalisation. This, we estimate, would result in 15.0 per cent growth in EPS with estimated market P/E at 15.2x and market return of 117.7 per cent.”

Our policies on poverty alleviation making impact, says Budget minister Mathew Dadiya, Abuja The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma has said that the Federal Government’s initiatives aimed at reducing poverty in the country have been achieving its objectives.

Udoma stated that the implementation of these programmes has made many Nigerians, particularly the poor and vulnerable, to feel directly the impact of governance.

The Minister who was speaking at an International Social Protection Crosslearning Summit in Abuja on Tuesday, said the determination of the Buhari

Administration to continue its work to substantially reduce poverty among Nigerians are the major reasons for the Summit; to see how the lessons from implementing the government’s social protection programmes can be applied to further improve the lives of the poor and vulnerable.

The Summit was organised by International Development Partners working with the Ministry of Budget and National Planning.

He narrated that last Sunday, January 20, he was at an event organised by the Ministry of Information at which some of the beneficiaries of the Federal Government’s Social Investment Programme gave heartfelt testimonies of how their lives have been impacted

by the programmes.

“Listening to these testimonies brought home to me the importance of the work we are doing and how real lives are transformed by these interventions. This work is important, and we must all work hard to do more.

Step by step we are helping to reduce poverty and ameliorate the plight of the poorest of our citizens”, he indicated.

Senator Udoma said whilst there is no doubt that these programmes have been impactful we must continue to intensify the implementation of these laudable programmes so that the benefits may touch more and more Nigerians. He assured that government will continue to focus attention and activity on the poverty alleviation

programmes and will implement them consistently over a number of years to ensure that we achieve the desired dramatic reduction in poverty.

He explained that the objective of the summit is to deepen stakeholders’ awareness and understanding of the benefits of continuing the investments we are making in social protectionrelated programmes in Nigeria.

“It will also provide the opportunity for participants to be briefed about the various social protection programmes put in place by this Administration since we assumed office three and half years ago,” he added. Participants would be expected to proffer suggestions on how to improve the impact of these very popular programmes.

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Reps reject ‘generous report’ on Intel/NPA imbroglio Henry Omunu, Abuja The House of Representatives on Tuesday rejected the report of its committee that recommended that the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) withdraw the termination of contract letter it issued to Intels Nigeria in which Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is a shareholder.

The House of Representatives had on October 2017 set up an ad hoc committee to investigate the process that led to the termination of the contract between NPA and Intels.

The ad hoc committee chaired by the Deputy Whip of the House, Rep. Pally Iriase had recommended that the NPA withdraw the contract termination notice it issued

Intels since the firm has complied with the government’s Treasury Single Account (TSA) policy.

Also, the House committee recommended that Intels and NPA sign a new standard operating procedure in the supplemental agreement which should be in the best interest of Nigeria, while a schedule for the repayment plan for the amortization policy should be proposed and signed by both parties within one month.

Similarly, it said that NPA should henceforth, adhere strictly to the provisions of the Nigerian Ports Authority Act in the administration and management of its operations.

Speaking against the consideration of the report, Rep. John Dyegh (APC/Benue), said

that Intels is owing the federal government over $200 million.

He added that the executives of the logistics company also failed to appear at the hearing held by the ad hoc committee and therefore, called for the rejection of the report.

“Intels is owing the federal government $200 million and we have not seen any evidence that they have paid the money.

According to the report, everyone came for the public hearing, except Intels.

“You don’t have respect for the House, for the committee, but you want benefits from the House. I urge the House to reject this generous report,” he said.

Also opposing the report, Rep. Sodiq Ibrahim said that “the contract

was terminated on the principle of not remitting $200 million and the committee is recommending that Nigerians should go back into agreement with them?

“I think the House should step down the report and rework it; it’s a pro - Intels report.”

Reacting to contributions on the report, Chairman of the ad hoc committee, Rep. Pally Iriase agreed that the report should be reworked.

He demanded that the House Committee on NPA should join the committee to conduct a holistic investigation into the relationship between NPA and Intels.

Other members who spoke on the report questioned the credibility of the report, calling for the rejection of the report.

BPE concessions Warri Port, tasks operators on improved service Mathew Dadiya The Director-General of Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Mr. Alex A. Okoh has tasked Ocean & Cargo Terminal Services Limited-the Concessionaire of Terminal ‘B’ Warri Old Port to focus on increased efficiency, improved service delivery, modernized port development and reduction in the cost of shipping & clearing of goods in line with the Federal Government’s objective in Port Concession.

Okoh gave the task on Tuesday at the signing ceremony for the Concession of the Port between the Concessionaire and the Bureau; witnessed by critical stakeholders, including the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) in Abuja.

“Government expects nothing less than strict adherence to the terms of the Concession Agreement from the Concessionaire”.

He reminded Ocean & Cargo Terminal Services Limited that the pursuit of its business objectives must

be tailored in a way that would assist in the realisation of objectives of the Port Concession programme of the Federal Government.

According to the Director General, the Federal Government’s Ports Concession Programme under the management of the BPE commenced in 2005 and culminated in the concession of over 23 terminals to private operators.

The BPE Director noted that it represents one of the success stories of the privatisation and commercialisation programme in Nigeria and credible testimony of the viability of the Private Public Partnership (PPP) model in the development and delivery of critical public infrastructure in Nigeria.

He recalled that the Federal Government upgraded the facilities at Terminal B Warri Old Port, which included the construction of a new quay wall and apron equipped with requisite facilities for berthing vessels, making it one of the most modern port terminals in the country at the time.

“Upon completion of the rehabilitation and

reconstruction works, there was a need to concession the Terminal to a private Operator who would be responsible for the operation of the Terminal and carrying out further development of its facilities in line with the Ports Concession Programme”, he stated, adding that following the approval by the NCP, advertisements inviting Expressions of Interest (EOIs) from prospective concessionaires for the concession of the Terminal were carried out by the Bureau.

“At the closing date for submission, 13 EOIs were received and subsequently evaluated. After the evaluation, 7 firms achieved the minimum qualification mark and were prequalified for the issuance of Requests for Proposals (RFP) and Information Memorandum. Unfortunately, due to certain challenges, the issuance of the RFPs was delayed for about two years.

“At the coming of the current government, the NCP at its meeting held on the 22nd & 23rd August, 2017 approved the continuation of the bidding

process which included issuance of RFPs and Information Memorandum to the subsisting 7 prequalified firms, physical due diligence and data room exercise, evaluation of the technical proposals and finally the financial bid opening”, he added.

In her remarks, the Managing Director of Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) Ms. Hadiza Bala Usman expressed delight at the conclusion of the concession of the terminal and noted that the concession of the Port is an important milestone in the economic development of the country.

While pledging support to Ocean and Cargo Terminal Services limited, she commended the teams from BPE and NPA for working assiduously for the completion of the project.

In his remarks, the Managing Director of Ocean and Cargo Terminal Services, Mr. AdekunleAbdulrasak Oyinloye thanked the staff of BPE and NPA for their transparency and diligence in executing the project and promised to work for the success of the port.

Glo clicks best customer service as Adenuga wins Businessman year award Ladesope Ladelokun Chairman of Globacom, Dr. Mike Adenuga Jr. has been adjudged the Businessman of the year by a crack team of judges at the 3rd DAAR Awards which held at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, and attended by top government functionaries and Captains of industry on Saturday evening.

At the same event, Globacom has voted the Best

Customer Service Company of the Year.

Dr. Adenuga was singled out for the honour based on his keen eyesight for juicy investment opportunities and a knack to succeed where others fail. According to the citation, his telecoms network Globacom is a network to be reckoned with across the continent and his prospecting company, Conoil Producing, has the enviable record of being the first indigenous venture to strike crude oil in shallow waters.

In the case of Globacom, the company stood

out sharply among gladiators in a sector where the competition is very keen among unrelenting players.

Globacom was found to be growing very fast as a result of “ ...several attractive and user-friendly packages which offer a lot of appeal to pre-paid and postpaid phone users, thus making its services the most accessible and most accessible.”

The citation said that Globacom was the first to launch the 4G LTE network nationwide, “ ...offering instant efficient broadband internet to millions of

Nigerians at speeds that are several times faster ...”

Receiving the awards on behalf of the awardees, Globacom’s Regional Manager, North Central, Mr. Kemi Kaka, said the awards were a call to greater services.

He said he was not surprised that the company was chosen as the best company in Customer Service and the Globacom’s founder, Dr. Mike Adenuga Jr., who is already a multiple award winner, as the Businessman of the Year.

L-R: GAIM 3 Jingle Contest Winner, Israel Samson Ayomide; Divisional Head, Retail Bank, Fidelity Bank Plc., Richard Madiebo; N1 million winner from the second GAIM Season 3 Promo Draw, Obianuju Patricia Njepu; Executive Director, Shared Services and Products, Fidelity Bank Plc., Chijioke Ugochukwu; N2 million Star Prize Winner, Abdulraman Olarenrewaju Yusuf; Divisional Head Operations, Fidelity Bank Plc., Martins Izuogbe; N1 million winner, Alhaji Oluwa Kareem Amodu during the 3rd Prize Presentation ceremony of the Get Alert in Millions Season 3 (GAIM Season 3) Promo which took place at Fidelity Bank Plc., Trinity Branch, Apapa Lagos...on Tuesday

International Breweries Plc commissions CSI projects across South-Western states Godwin Anyebe International Breweries Plc, a member of ABInBev, has commissioned a number of beneficial projects, under its corporate social investment initiatives, across several communities in Osun, Ogun and Oyo states. These projects, which were completed in the last quarter of 2018, were recently handed over to the communities, amid fanfare.

The projects are part of the company’s strategic policy of impacting the communities where it operates, especially in the areas where basic amenities are either lacking or inadequate. The projects include solar-powered boreholes, an adequately equipped primary healthcare centre and a sanitary facility.

A newly renovated primary health centre was donated to Esa-Odo community in Osun state along with critical equipment including weighing scales wheelchairs, mattresses, a generator, among other hospital equipment, to facilitate the efficient running of the facility.

Ilase-Ijesha community in Ilesha Osun State; Obafemi-Owode and Orile-Imo Logbara communities in Sagamu, Ogun State; and Christian Mission School for the Deaf in Onireke, Ibadan, Oyo state, each received a solarpowered borehole. Omi-Asoro Elementary Primary School, also in Osun State, received a newly built sanitary facility.

Speaking on behalf of International Breweries, Legal and Corporate Affairs Director, Otunba Michael Daramola, said the aim of the donations is to positively impact communities and improve their overall wellbeing “We are here to hand over completed projects as promised.

At International Breweries, we strive to impact every community where we operate and make it better than we met it. As a result, our projects are designed to be beneficial to the whole community and this is the essence of our give-back policy as encapsulated in our cleaner world and better world programmes, comprising water, health, culture, and economic empowerment.”

“We are glad we are able to play our own little role as a business and hope it will make a difference in the lives of the people, especially women, children and the vulnerable in the society,” Otunba added.

In their remarks, the royal fathers present commended International Breweries for providing the facilities and always responding positively whenever it was called upon by the people.

They urged the organisation not to relent in supporting the efforts of the government in providing basic amenities for those at the grassroots and promised to continue to maintain peaceful and cordial relationships with the organisation.

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Why Lagos Assembly stalled Ambode’s budget presentation governor and the House of Assembly had been on standby since 8.00am on Monday waiting for Ambode to appear for the presentation.

At around 2:30pm, the governor’s press crew were hurriedly conveyed to the Assembly after information had it that Ambode was then ready to appear before the Assembly to present the 2019 Appropriation Bill.

At the Assembly, an advance team of the governor including aides, protocol, security, etc., was already on ground, while the anti-bomb vehicle was stationed at the Assembly’s car park, while policemen could be seen around the premises, raising expectation that Ambode would finally present the budget.

At the Assembly’s lobby, journalists covering the governor were not only barred from accessing the main gallery, but were eventually asked to vacate the Assembly hallway where people had been waiting since morning for the longawaited budget presentation.

After waiting for about 30 minutes, a police officer, who claimed to be the ‘OC’ of the House briefed the governor’s press corps that he had information from

Patrick Okohue Reasons behind the mild drama that ensued at the Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday as the much anticipated 2019 budget presentation

by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode was stalled by the lawmakers, have become clearer.

Investigations reveal that all is still obviously not well between the Executive and the Legislative arms of government in the state as the lingering impasse was laid bare before all and sundry, with the lawmakers refusing to entertain the governor.

It will be recalled that relations between the two arms of government had become fragile due to alleged infractions in some quarters and issues around allegiance, loyalty, etc., within the ranks - including top hierarchy of the House - and some party members, which has snowballed into the present unhealthy situation.

Some close observers have variously described the situation as a clash of ego between Governor Akinwunmi Ambode and the Speaker of the House, Mudashiru Obasa, who is alleged, along with some of his members, to be preventing the budget presentation. These observers say the

Ambode

fragile situation, if not properly and carefully handled, has the potential of affecting the party’s fortunes in the forthcoming gubernatorial election.

There had been widespread projections last weekend that Ambode would be presenting the

2019 budget on Monday after the governor could not present it in December 2018 due ‘irreconcilable’ differences between the Executive and Legislative arms of government in the state.

Journalists covering the state

Presidential Election: Buhari will win, but victory will cause chaos, Prophet Ramas predicts A cleric, prophet of the Universal Church of Absolute God, Prophet Dr. Ramas Okoye Asuzu has alerted Nigerians to be prepared for the storm that is likely to follow the forthcoming presidential election next month.

The Ezeoba Akajiofondigbo Gburugburu who predicted accurate events of many administrations in the past revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari will win the February 16 election, but his victory will provoke a terrible storm that may take many lives across the nation.

Asuzu, who is also the custodian of Igbo Culture said, “I therefore urge all Nigerians, irrespective of religion or ethnicity to pray against the chaos that the February 2019 election may cause.

“I also appeal to the international community to ensure that the country’s stability and unity does not crumble as Nigeria is strategic to the survival of democracy in Africa and the third world.”

In an exclusive interview with The Daily Times at his country home in Nri kingdom, Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State, Dr. Ramas

explained that for the 16 years of its reign, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was rigging elections in the country.

“Now the All Progressives Congress (APC) is set to do their own, but the opposing party will contend with them; rigging will jam rigging; the politicians will revolt and so will their supporters. Party members and outsiders will die in the process for the sake of those desperate politicians who want power at all costs,” he said.

Assuring that there will be no military intervention, the renowned prophet assured it is going to be politicians against politicians employing all rigging machineries, money and thugs.

The prophet said: “President Muhammadu Buhari’s saving edge is the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo who has used his good offices to help the downtrodden; the primary schools feeding programme and the cash relief he is giving the poorest of the poor across the country. God has heard the prayers of the children and the poor. Also it is the spirit of the Vice

President that is lifting Buhari up, and all that will add together to help Buhari retain his second term, but people will not be happy, for the opposition is very desperate to wrestle power from him.

“My advice to Buhari is that if he retains his office after the dust settles, he should not embark on witch-hunting.

He should focus on the restructuring of Nigeria and ensure true federal character in his government.

“If he will steer the nation in God’s direction I see him handing over government to a younger dynamic Nigerian; I cannot say what part of the country he will come from, but I will look into that at a later date,” he assured.

Speaking on Igbo Presidency, the prophet said a kingdom divided against itself can never stand.

His words: “The picture I see of Igbo presidency is that of a people searching for a black goat in the middle of the night. A kingdom divided against itself can never stand; it shall surely fall. I have looked into the crystal ball and I assure you that Igbo Presidency is nowhere in sight.”

the Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, that they should leave the premises as the House would not be receiving the governor’s budget presentation as earlier expected.

He said the Speaker was having a private meeting with other lawmakers and would not want to be disturbed, insisting that the Speaker said the budget presentation would not be taken and ordered the pressmen to leave.

Another aide to the Speaker, who craved anonymity, confirmed that the Assembly would not take the governor’s budget for the day.

It was, however, gathered that the governor had informed the lawmakers since Friday that he would be coming to present the budget on Monday, as the two arms of government seemingly successfully resolved their differences which had hampered the presentation since last year.

A top government source, who spoke in confidence, said the problem was from the lawmakers, as, according to him, the budget presentation was their show.

The source said the lawmakers were engrossed in a meeting to iron out their differences, as there were issues among them yet to be resolved.

Group backs Buhari, says Obasanjo’s allegations frivolous Patrick Okohue A pro Buhari group, Re–elect Buhari Movement (RBM) has asked Nigerians not to be distracted by the recent allegations leveled against President Muhammadu Buhari by former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

According to the RBM, the action is nothing but a failed plot to de – market the President ahead of the coming polls.

The group however said, the action would not affect Buhari negatively as the former President was known for his antics.

The RBM in a statement signed by its Convener, Mr. Emmanuel Umohinyang particularly noted that Obasanjo himself knows that he has no electoral value.

This is even as the RBM predicted that Akwa Ibom State where Obasanjo endorsed its governor for second term last year despite a woeful performance would fall to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the coming elections.

It posited that the issue has been made worse with the defection of Senator Godswill Akpabio, the immediate past governor of the state to the APC, which has altered the political equation of the state.

Said he, “We have said it before, Nigerians have since turned their backs on Obasanjo and his antics, especially his ill informed tirades against the Buhari administration.

“The state of Akwa Ibom in particular has fallen to the APC with Akpabio’s defection, and that tells you the picture of things to come. With Akpabio’s defection,

the people have also moved which shows the deep love they have for him.

“We have also told you that though he represents Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District, he has successfully impacted on other constituencies by way of constituency projects, even in districts controlled by the PDP “Even the governor’s Eket senatorial district is a major beneficiary of Akpabio’s benevolence, so, for the governor to have gone to the senator’s Senatorial District to campaign for another candidate is an aberration.

“The antecedents of the two are well known to the people and there is no hiding the fact that Akpabio is too much for any pretender because this is somebody who did not attract a single project to his area even as deputy governor .

“It is a settled principle that you don’t change a winning team, so, the people know where to cast their votes when the time comes.

“The types of Akpabio come only once in a century and he is out to ensure that the state of Akwa Ibom returns to the glorious days.

“That is why we have our governorship candidate in Nsima Ekere, a man who has come to rescue Akwa Ibom.

“He is out to change the dynamics of the state. He is a man out to ensure that the era of uncommon transformation returns.

“We must and we will match to chase away the current governor of the state and elect a leader who can bring development, a leader who has capacity to move the state forward from abysmal performance.

Classified 16 SANITY ADVOCATES INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 PART C -TRUSTEES :1) AGBAMU JAPHET STEPHEN 2) CHUKWU CHRISTIAN IKE 3) AHODU CHINENYE DORA AIM AND OBJECTIVE TO CREATE AN INSTITUTION THAT STRIVES AGAINST RAPE AND OTHER VICES; PROMOTES VALUES, REASONABLE AND RATIONAL BEHAVIOURS IN THE SOCIETY. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION.

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RAODAT-L-FAEDOT TIJANIYAT SOCIETY OF NIGERIA RAFTIAN INTERNATIONAL. THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 PART C NAME OF THE TRUSTEES 1.’KOLAJO AKEEM ABIOLA:- PRESIDENT 2 ADESHINAHABIBAT A- VICE PRESIDENT 3. RASAQ SIKIRAT TUNRAYO:- TREASURER 4. KOLAJO MULIKAT OMOTOLANI- FINANCIAL SECRETARY 5. IBRAHIM FATIMO BINTU:- GRAND MATRON 6JIMOH HAWAU TAMILOLA:- MATRON 7. JIMOH. TAIWO LUKMAN- PATRON 8) ABDULAZEEZ, FUNMILOLA LOLA SECRETARY. AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO PROMOTE PEACE AND TRANQUILITY AMONGST THE MUSLIMS AND IN THE SOCIETY.

SIGNED SECRETARY

ORRI EDUCATION FOUNDATION

THE TRUSTEES ARE:(1) EZEKIEL ENE ----- PRESIDENT (2) MOSES EZEKIEL ENE (3) SOLOMON EZEKIEL ENE --- SECRETARY

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1 DR PETER OKE 2 DR CLEMENT OTOR 3. MR. PHILIP UDE

AIM AND OBJECTIVES: (1) TO PREACH THE WORDS OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. (2) GIVING SPIRITUAL SUPPORT TO MEMBERS AND ALSO STAND IN SUPPORT OF MEMBERS IN NEEDS.

AIMS & OBJECTIVES 1 HELPING THE LESS PRIVILEGED CHILDREN THROUGH SCHOOL. 2. TO HELP POOR CHILDREN IN SCHOOL. 3. TO SECURE THE FUTURE OF THE SOCIETY BY GIVING DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN AN OPPORTUNITY TO EDUCATION.

ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS 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: TRUSTEE.

SIGNED: DR PETER OKE CHAIRMAN

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CHAIRMAN

THE ESSENCE OF FRIENDSHIP CLUB

SPRINGS OF LIFE GLOBAL EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY

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

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE:1. NWAKANMA MARGARET OLUFEMI - CHAIRMAN 2. KEHINDE BABATUNDE OLUSOLA - VICE CHAIRMAN. 3. OISE EDITH AKHERE - SECRETARY 4. SHODUNKE ELOVIANO OGHENEROBO 5. OISE HENRY IMOGBORE 6. ONOHWAKPO OGHENEKARO EMMANUEL 7. OHIHOIN AIGBE GREGORY 8. IDOWU-OSEHOBO SABINA ONOSENIGBUAN 9. GIWA-AMU MICHAEL OHIOMERO THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE:1. TO PREACH THE SOUL SAVING GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST 2. PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR MISSIONARY ACTIVITIES TOWARDS A BETTER AND MORE EFFECTIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY.

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

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

SIGNED BY: SECRETARY

SIGNED BY: SECRETARY

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE; 1. MR. OTI, CHUKWUEMEKA OKORO. 2. MR. CHIDIEBERE AUGUSTINE IWEGBULA. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES; 1. TO FOSTER PEACE, LOVE, UNITY AND PROGRESS AMONG MEMBERS. 2. TO PROTECT THE INTEREST/WELFARE OF MEMBERS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, MAITAMA ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION.

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. CHINEDU IHEKORONYE (PRESIDENT) 2. MODESTUS CHIMA IROEGBU 3. BELLO OLALEKE ADEYI. AIMS & OBJECTIVES: 1. TO STAND FOR THE POOR WHO ARE VICTIMS OF OPPRESSION AND BRUTALITY. 2. TO VISIT THE PRISONS AND PICK UP CASES OF LESS PRIVILEGED ONES WHO ARE AWAITING TRIALS AND CANNOT AFFORD TO HIRE LAWYERS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED; MR. OTI, CHUKWUEMEKA OKORO

PREMIUM CARE INITIATIVE

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. SIBOR LEELEEBARI - PRESIDENT 2. SIBOR BLESSING - SECRETARY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROVIDE OPTIMAL CARE TO HUMANS AND DEVELOP NEW WAYS TO ENHANCE DISEASE CONTROL THROUGH EFFICIENT PROGRAMMING, STRENGTHENING HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES, RESEARCH, STRATEGIC INFORMATION AND ADVOCACY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ORGANIZATIONS WITH SIMILAR INTERESTS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: PRESIDENT

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PROVIDE WELFARE FOR THE LESS PRIVILEGES, ORPHANS, WIDOWS AND OLD AGES. 2. TO ORGANIZE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMMES FOR TEENAGERS, YOUTH, WOMEN AND LESS PRIVILEGES.

SIGNED SECRETARY

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 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE:1. CRAVING FOR HUMANITY AT ITS BEST 2. TO LIVE IN UNITY , PEACE AND HARMONY 3.TO RAISE FUND FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CLUB 4.TO PROMOTE GOOD RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CLUB AND OTHER ORGANIZATION

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. SHOMORIN OLAITAN TAJUDEEN 2. DABIRI BABATUNDE AKINWUNMI 3. SHOMADE MUBARAK FOLU 4. SHOMORIN SULEMON AKOREDE 5. YUSUF ADEBAYO JAMIU

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

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 ARE:1. ADEDEJI BABATUNDE NURUDEEN -PRESIDENT 2. OLUBUADE MIKHAIL KEJI 3. FAWOLE ABAYOMI ABIODUN TAOHEED 4. LONGE AFIS OLUMIDE 5. ABASS SIKIRU OKANLAWON 6. SHODARA JAMIU TEMIDAYO

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

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

SIGNED SECRETARY

“EVANGELICAL APOSTOLIC INTERNATIONAL GOSPEL MINISTRY”

AKUTE YOUTH EMPOWERMENT FOUNDATION

SIGNED: PRESIDENT

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. AMB. AYOOLA OLUKANNI 2. OLUDAYO OGUNBOWALE. 3. ENE JUDE ATAH 4. PROF. MK YAHAYA. 5. DR. ABAYOMI OJO 6. ISAAC OLUYI 7. HAFEEZ OLADEJO. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: (1)TO TRAIN AND SENSITISE ADVOCATE ON DEMOCRATIC AND GOOD GOVERNANCES MATTERS. (2) TO HELP AND GENERATE TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR SELF EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN AND EDUCATED, UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE AND TO WORK FOR ADULT EDUCATION. (3) TO WORK AGAINST FEMALE CIRCUMCISION AND TO FIGHT AGAINST THE VICTIMIZATION OF GIRL /WOMEN BY ANYBODY IN THE SOCIETY ON FEMALE CIRCUMCISION ON ANY OTHER RELATED ISSUES. (4) TO WORK FOR UPLIFTING THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN THE SOCIETY. (5) TO EDUCATE THE PEOPLE FOR ADOPTION OF THE GOOD NAME, OF A GOOD CITIZENSHIP AND TO INCULCATE INTO THE PEOPLES MIND, IDEALS OF NATIONAL UNITY. (6) TO ENCOURAGE AND POPULARISE VOLUNTARY WORK, MAKING SOCIAL CHANGES MORE VISIBLE IN IMPLEMENTING AND FUNDING NGO’S THUS IMPROVING THE DEVELOPMENT POLICY WORK. (7) 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. (8) TO ASSIST IN THE PROCESS OF SOCIAL INTEGRATION AND PERSONAL REALISATION OF UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN YOUNG PEOPLE, ADULTS AND FAMILIES. (9) TO WORK FOR THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF UNDERPRIVILEGED INDIVIDUAL, GROUPS, AND COMMUNITIES. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. -----------------------------SINGED BY SECRETARY

LIFE INSIDE LIFE MINISTRY

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. NWAEZE ANSELEM NWANKWO ……..…………………. CHAIRMAN 2. NWOKOCHA EJEKWOLU CHRISTOPHER………………….SECRETARY AIMS & OBJECTIVES 1) TO WORSHIP AND SERVE GOD. 2) TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO ALL NATIONS 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: NWAEZE ANSELEM NWANKWO CHAIRMAN ROSEE DIVINE CHILDHOOD CANCER AND PALLIATIVE CARE FOUNDATION THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE; 1. DR. EKE, GRACIA KER 2. MR. EKE, GRAHAM EZEBUNWO 3. MR ADI, MOSES TYORUMUN 4. MR. EMAVIWE ANTHONY ONORIODE 5.MR. OSAGIE KINGSLEY IGBINEVBO 6.MR. EKE CHIJIOKE DAVID 7. MRS. EKE, ADAEZE CHINYERE 8.MISS. EKE, IFEDINMA CHITURU. AIMS AND OBJECTIVE 1. TO REACH OUT TO THE LESS PRIVILEGED IN THE SOCIETY. 2. TO PROVIDE OPTIMAL CARE TO HUMANS AND DEVELOP NEW WAYS TO ENHANCE DISEASE CONTROL THROUGH EFFICIENT PROGRAMMING, STRENGTHENING HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES 3. TO EMPOWER PEOPLE; ADULTS, MEN, YOUTHS AND WOMEN THROUGH VARIOUS ENTREPRENEURIAL PROGRAMS SUCH AS SKILLS ACQUISITION, EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS, TRAININGS AND INTERVENTION PROGRAMS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, MAITAMA ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED; DR. EKE, GRACIA KER.

THE ALMIGHTY ABLE GOD MINISTRY

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. APOSTLE OYAKHILOMEN VICTOR OHIWERE - CHAIRMAN 2. PASTOR (MRS) VICTOR GLORIOUS - SECRETARY 3. OYINBO JULIANA MODUPE 4. OYINBO FRIDAY. E 5. OFEIMU KINGSLEY IMEVBORE 6. OSARENREN DAVID OSAHON AIMS AND OBJECTIVE BUILDING LIVES, SAVING SOULS AND MAKING THEM READY FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONS STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: BARR. OBARO S. OTUAGOMA 08076046442.

IKENGA MERIT CLUB

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

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. CHIEF OGUERI NWAUGO -CHAIRMAN 2. CHIEF ERIC OKONKWO 3. CHIEF STANLEY DURU AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. ENCOURAGE UNITY AMONG HER MEMBERS. 2. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 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: CHIEF OGUERI NWAUGO - CHAIRMAN.

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. NWARUEZE JOSEPH IKECHUKWU 2. OKECHUKWU PRINCE KENNETH 3. EDECHIME NNABUIKE JAMES 4. ONUIGBO CHINWE JULIET 5. NWARUEZE IYKE ALEXANDER THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: AGRICULTURAL AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, POVERTY ALLEVIATION, DISASTER RELIEF, EDUCATIONAL, MEDICAL AND GENERAL CHARITY WORKS 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.

GREAT ACHIEVERS BROTHERS INITIATIVE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE ABOVE NAME HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, LFN 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE1. AMOO MURITALA IDOWU- CHAIRMAN. 2. RAFIU ABIODUN SAHEED-SECRETARY 3. NOSIRU NURUDEEN ALOWONLE. 4. AMINU MOSHOOD OLAWALE. 5. AMOO RIDWAN IYANDA. 6. BAKARE SURAJU ADEBAYO. 7. OBAJIMI ISMAIL ABAYOMI. 8. NURAIN QASIM AYINDE 9. FAWALE ABASS ADEOLU 10. OGUNBONA LATEEF ABOLORE 11. ATOLOYE SHERIFF OLAYINKA 12. OGUNBONA IDRIS

FROM: NEWAGE APOSTOLIC COLLEGE BISHOPS TO NEW AUDACITY APOSTOLIC COLLEGE OF BISHOPS

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE-NAMED ORGANIZATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR CHANGE OF NAME FROM: NEWAGE APOSTOLIC COLLEGE BISHOPS TO NEW AUDACITY APOSTOLIC COLLEGE OF BISHOPS UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT CAP C 20 LFN 2004.

NO CHANGE OF TRUSTEES

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AKAM-UKANNYIN CITY OF TESTIMONY CHURCH THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORM THAT THE ABOVE NAMED CHURCH HAS APPLIED TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART ‘C’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, DECREE NO. 1 OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. EFFIONG ELIJAH SUNDAY - PRESIDENT 2. ASUQUO EDOAMA OKON - SECRETARY 3. EDEM ANIETIE OKON 4. OKON EMMANUEL IME

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE ASSOCIATION ARE 1. THE REPAIR AND REBRANDING OF MOSQUES. 2. ASSISTING LESS-PRIVILEGED MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY IN THE ATTAINMENT OF THEIR DREAMS

BY FINANCING THEIR EDUCATION AT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF STUDY AND THE ORGANIZATION AND SPONSORSHIP OF SPORTS TOURNAMENTS. 3.FACILITATING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES AND IMPROVING THE EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS OF COMMUNITIES BY ORGANIZING COMPETITIONS FOR STUDENTS. 4. ORGANISING ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILL ACQUISITION PROGRAMMES FOR YOUTHS AND PROVIDING FINANCIAL AID IN THE STARTUP OF THEIR BUSINESSES. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

PUBLIC NOTICE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

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

SIGNED: SECRETARY

BEYOND LIMITS AFRICA FOUNDATION FOR LEADERSHIP AND ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORM THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART ‘C’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, DECREE NO. 1 OF 1990.

TRUSTEES 1.EHIMUAN JULIET IGUEHI 2.OMOYZA ICHA

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. SAMUEL STANLEY - PRESIDENT 2. UCHE IKWOEGBU THOMPSON- SECRETARY 3. OLADELE OLAMIDE JOHN- MEMBER

REASONS FOR CHANGE OF NAME: (A) TO PROPERLY REFLECT THE OBJECTS OF THE INCORPORATED TRUSTEE. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES REMAIN THE SAME

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1) TO HELP CREATE MORE DYNAMIC LEADERS IN AFRICA AND ENTREPRENEURS THAT CAN BUILD STRONG AFRICA BRANDS THAT CAN SCALE GLOBALLY. 2.COACHING AND MENTORING OF YOUNG PEOPLE

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1) TO FINANCE OUT REACHES ORGANIZED BY MINISTRIES, MISSIONARY GROUPS AND CHURCHES. 2) TO FINANCE INDIVIDUAL MISSIONARIES. 3) TO SUPPORT PROGRAMS THAT ARE CENTERED AROUND THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM AS PREACHED BY JESUS CHRIST.

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

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

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

SIGNED: BARR CLARE.

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

SIGNED: SECRETARY.

EKPEYE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ASSEMBLY

360DEGREE EMPOWERMENT FOR WOMEN INITIATIVE

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I, MRS CHIKA NDULUE OF PLOT 17 , BLOCK 88 , CHRIS EFUYEMI ONONUGA STREET , LEKKI PHASE 1, LAGOS STATE NIGERIA ,WISH TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE OFFER OF TERMS OF GRANT / CONVEYANCE OF APPROVAL NO : MFCT / LA/AN,234 DATED 27TH MAY , 1999 IN RESPECT OF PLOT 140 , WITHIN JAHI DISTRICT ABUJA WAS LOST IN THE PROCESS OF MY MOVEMENT FROM ABUJA TO LAGOS .IF FOUND PLEASE RETURN TO THE NEAREST POLICE STATION OR TO THE ABOVE NAMED PERSON AND ADDRESS.

THE EXTRAORDINARY WOMAN INITIATIVE THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 PART C THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OYOEWE CHRISTY 2. ISAH AMINA SULE AIM AND OBJECTIVE TO BRING WOMEN FROM ALL WORKS OF LIFE TOGETHER. ANY OBJECTION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION. NDOLA SQUARE, ZONE 5, WUSE, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED SECRETARY HANDICAPPED, ORPHANS AND WIDOWS FOUNDATION THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 PART C THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OLUGBILE OLUMUYIWA M. 2. ASHIYANBI OLAYINKA 3.OSHO ARINOLA ADEBISI 4. ADEKAMBI ABOSEDE ADERINSOLA 5. ADESANYA TEMITOPE ESTHER. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. ENPOWERING THE UNDERPRIVILEGED ON DIFFERENT VOCATIONAL SKILLS TO ENABLE THEM REALISE THEIR FULL POTENTIALS. 2. SUPPORTING THE ABANDONED WOMEN AND WIDOWS FINANCIALLY AND ALSO MEETING EDUCATIONAL NEEDS FOR THE ORPHANS. 3. PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR SOCIALIZING WITH THE UNDERPRIVILEGE AND WITH VOLUNTEERS THROUGH DAYS OUT SPECIALLY ARRANGE ACTIVITIES.

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

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

TRUSTEES ARE. 1. OMEYI AUSTIN. 2. UGWU MACSUNDAY UZIUKE. 3. UHUO OGBOKA IDE. 4. CHIKOBI GODGIFT FYNEFACE

THE TRUSTEES ARE 1. OYOEWE CHRISTY 2. ISAH AMINA SULE

AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO PROMOTE PEACE AND UNITY IN EKPEYE ETHNIC NATIONALITY .

AIM AND OBJECTIVE TO BRING WOMEN FROM ALL WORKS OF LIFE TOGETHER.

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

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

SIGNED SECRETARY

SIGNED SECRETARY

THE ASHABI ABILITY AWARENESS INITIATIVE

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 PART C THE TRUSTEES ARE 1. EMMANUEL OMOLAJA OLUWADARE. 2. FLORENCE IDOWU OLUWADARE. 3. OLADEJI OJERONKE. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROVIDE EDUCATION AND AWARENESS ON PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DISABILITY. 2. TO PROVIDE AWARENESS ON MENTAL HEALTH THROUGH SEMINAR AND SYMPOSIUM. 3. TO PROVIDE AWARENESS ON DEMENTIA AND AUTISM. 4. TO PROVIDE FREE MEDICAL ASSISTANCE INDIGENT PATIENT.

HABITATION CITY CHURCH INT’L

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OMOLAPEH FRANK 2. OSAIGBOVO EROMOSELE AMOS AIMS/OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. TO TEACH AND PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST 2. TO CARRY OUT ENLIGHTENMENT CAMPAIGNS 3. TO UNDERTAKE CHARITABLE DUTIES

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

ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PMB 198, WUSE 5, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED SECRETARY

SIGNED: UIKAIROM UZONO, ESQ.

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1 MOHAMMED LANRE IBRAHIM 2 TAJUDEEN BALOGUN ADETONA 3 DAUDA LAWAL ADESINA 4 MUTIU LAWAL THE AIM AND OBJECTIVES: 1 TO BRING MEMBERS TOGETHER UNDER ONE UMBRELLA 2, TO ASSIST THE LESS PRIVILEGED PEOPLE IN THE SOCIETY

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1ABE ESTHER OLUREMI - PRESIDENT 2 OLUSEGUN BLESSING AYOMIDE - SEC. THE AIM AND OBJECTIVES: TO SUPPORT THE LESS PRIVILEGE CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE IN ACCESSING EDUCATION & CONTINUE IN EDUCATION BY PROVIDING SCHOOL RESOURCES & IN PAYING SCHOOL FEES

ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PMB 198, WUSE 5, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

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

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

SIGNED SECRETARY

SIGNED TRUSTEE

SIGNED TRUSTEES

Classified 18

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GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH SUPPORT FOUNDATION

FAMILY CHANGE OF SURNAME FROM OGUNDANA TO OLUWALONA

HOLY WATER UNION

KARMALINCON HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION

HOLY CITY EMPIRE OF GOD BEULAH LAND MINISTRY

NATION BUILDERS NETWORK FOR PEACE

THE APOSTOLIC PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF THE WORLD

JESUS PALS CALENDAR MISSION

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

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

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

LOSS OF LAND DOCUMENTS

TRUSTEES: 1.HON. UCHE CHUDI-OKEKE 2.ARC.PETER OKEKE 3. MRS LOVETT OBIAKALUSI AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO ADVOCATE FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE AND WORK FOR PEACE, UNITY, AND ORDERLY DEVELOPMENT OF THE CITIZENRY. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION,PLOT 420,TIGRIS CRESCENTS,OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MALTAIMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SWIM PARTNERS 0806 887 5363

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

TRUSTEES ARE 1. IWUCHUKWU IFEANYI OBIANYO - CHAIRMAN 2. IWUCHUKWU FRANCES NSA - SECRETARY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PROVIDE FREE HEALTH CARE SERVICES TO THE INDIGENT AND LESS PRIVILEGES IN THE SOCIETY ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION,PLOT 420,TIGRIS CRESCENTS,OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MALTAIMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

THE INTERVENTION ADVOCATES FOR EDUCATION AND HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION

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

TRUSTEES: 1. RUFAI IBRAHIM OPEOLUWA 2. ONIFADE SHAKIRU ABAYOMI 3. SALAWU MUIDEEN OLUWATOSIN 4. SALAKO ALAO RASHEED 5. AYOMAYA BADRUDEEN AJIBOLA. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO ADVOCATE AND RAISE FUND FOR THE WELFARE OF THE LESS PRIVILEGED. 2. TO SPONSOR THE EDUCATION OF THE LESS PRIVILEGED AND CARTER FOR THEIR HEALTH ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION,PLOT 420,TIGRIS CRESCENTS,OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MALTAIMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: BARR. DURU

THE TRUSTEES ARE 1.APOSTLE EZEKIEL TITUS -PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN 2.EVANGELIST (MRS)MERCY EZEKIEL TITUS -SECRETARY 3.ELDER KWAME GOLDPIN -PATRON 4.BROTHER UZOMA GOODLUCK -MEMBER 5.BROTHER INNOCENT JOSEPH -TREASURER 6.PASTOR IMMANUEL EZEKIEL TITUS- MEMBER 7.EVANGELIST MFON EZEKIEL CHARLIE’S - MEMBER. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.TO TAKE THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST BY PREACHING AND TEACHING TO THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOT KNOWN OR HEARD ABOUT JESUS AND HIS KINGDOM THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. 2.TO GIVE HOPE,SHOW LOVE AND OFFER HUMANITARIAN SERVICES TO THE LESS PRIVILEGE 3.TO BRING DOWN THE KINGDOM OF GOD HERE ON EARTH THROUGH GOD’S MANIFESTATION OF HIS POWER. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION,PLOT 420,TIGRIS CRESCENTS,OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MALTAIMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

RISEN LIFE MISSION INT’L

THIS IS TO NOTIFY THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTER ACT. TRUSTEES ARE 1,EFOSA EDOSA PETER- PRESIDENT 2,OGBEIFUN LAWRENCE- SECRETARY 3, CHUKWUMAH KENNEDY EMEKA 4,ERHUNMWUNSE.B.UYI 5,DAVID TARENOS DAN 6,AITUARIAGBON OMOREGIE 7,OJO JOHN EFOSASERE

THE TRUSTEES OF THE I. T ARE; 1. ADEOGUN BOLATITO OLAYIWOLA. 2. ADEOGUN MOJIRAYO MEMUNAT. 3. IDOWU SUFIAN OLAWALE. 4. YUSUF ABOSEDE ABIODUN. 5. ODEBIYI ABOSEDE OLUWATOYIN. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST THROUGH THE PUBLICATION OF CHRISTIAN CALENDARS, TRACKS, HANDBILLS, BILLBOARDS, ETC. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION,PLOT 420,TIGRIS CRESCENTS,OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MALTAIMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 2004 AND

IN THE MATTER OF THE ASTON MOTORS LIMITED (RC 1058501) IN COURT’S ORDERED (WINDING -UP)

ADVERTISEMENT OF NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING PURSUANT TO SECTION 427 OF CAMA.

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

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE FINAL MEETING OF ASTON MOTORS LTD SHALL HOLD ON THE 7TH DAY OF FEBRUARY 2019 AT SUITE 86 DOLPHIN PLAZA, CORPORATION DRIVE DOLPHIN ESTATE, IKOYI, LAGOS AT 10.00AM TO TRANSACT THE FOLLOWING BUSINESS: AGENDA: (1) TO LAY BEFORE THE MEETING THE REPORT OF THE WINDING UP OF THE AFFAIRS OF THE COMPANY AND TO RECEIVE ANY EXPLANATION THEREOF. (2) AND ANY OTHER BUSINESS

SIGNED: PRESIDENT

SIGNED BY LIQUIDATOR

AIMS AND OBJECTIVE 1, TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.

ISHAH CHAZON FOUNDATION CAC/IT/NO 112439

IFETEDO CENTRAL MOSQUE, ALAGBOLE

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

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

OLD NAME: ISHAH CHAZON FOUNDATION TO NEW NAME: VISIONARY WOMEN EMPOWERMENT INITIATIVE

TRUSTEES: 1. JOKOSENUMI SANOYIN OLASUNKANMI 2. ILAKA ABIODUN 3. ADENIYI TAJUDEEN

THAT THE CONSTITUTION BE AMENDED TO REFLECT THE CHANGE ON THE NAME OF THE ASSOCIATION ANY OBJECTION TO THIS CHANGE SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: FRANCA ELINA CHUKWUMA CHAIRMAN

AIMS & OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROPAGATE ISLAMIC RELIGION 2. TO PREACH PEACE IN THE SOCIETY 3. TO ENCOURAGE THE COMMITMENT OF THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY TO THE IDEALS OF AN ISLAMIC ORIENTED AND CIVILIZED SOCIETY ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

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COLLINS AKUGBE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS SAMUEL COLLINS EKHATTOR NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS COLLINS AKUGBE EKHATOR. THAT MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 12/05/1995 AND NOT 12/06/1995.

ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

MRS ONUH JOY I FORMERLY KNOWN AS MISS OWUNOJA JOY GINIKACHUKWU NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ONUH JOY GINIKACHUKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

MRS GRACE IFEOMA I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS GRACE IFEOMA NWOYE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS GRACE IFEOMA EZEDIKE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE. CONFIRMATION OF NAME

REMI OLUWASEYI I FORMERLY KNOWN AS LAWAL LUKMAN OLUWASEYI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS REMI OLUWASEYI LAWAL. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

MRS BOLANLE OSINUBI I FORMERLY KNOWN AS MISS BOLANLE ODUWOLE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS BOLANLE OSINUBI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

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ATOROUGH DAVID

NWANWULA MADUBUCHI I FORMERLY KNOWN AS NWAKALA MADUABUCHI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWANWULA MADUBUCHI CHIBU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

MBAMALI IKECHUKWU I FORMERLY KNOWN AS MBAMALI IKECHUKWU JOSEPH NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MBAMALI IKECHUKWU EMMANUEL. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

FELIX KELECHI I FORMERLY KNOWN AS OBI KELECHI CHUKS NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FELIX KELECHI FLORENCE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

JIM CHIMEZIE I FORMERLY KNOWN AS JIM CHIMEZIE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JIM CHIMEZIE BRIGHT. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS JIME DAVID LUIKYUA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ATOROUGH DAVID LUIKYUA. THAT MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 16/11/1994. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

SANNI KUBURAT I FORMERLY KNOWN AS SANNI ADIJAT KUBURATU SUBULOLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS SANNI KUBURAT ADIJATU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

MARCUS ABRAHAM I FORMERLY KNOWN AS MARCUS. ABRAHAM OMODION NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MARCUS ABRAHAM IDAHEN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

AJIBOYE OLUWAYEMISI I FORMERLY KNOWN AS AKINKUNMI OLUWAYEMISI MARY NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AJIBOYE OLUWAYEMISI MARY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

NNABUKO OLUWAKEMI

ULASI CHIBUIKE I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS URAIS CHIBIKE JUDE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ULASI CHIBUIKE JUDE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS KAFILAT DAMILOLA LAWAL, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS KAFILAT DAMILOLA YUSUF. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC/AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OYEBAMIJI PRECIOUS ANTHONIA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NNABUKO OLUWAKEMI ANTHONIA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC/ AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

JOSEPH OLUREMI

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

KAFILAT DAMILOLA

FLORENCE JOSEPH

ON SOME OF MY DOCUMENTS, MY NAME APPEARS AS AKINBODE TINUOLUWA DOCAS AND ON SOME OF MY OTHER DOCUMENTS, IT APPEARS AS AKINBODE OLAJUMOKE DORCAS. THAT I AM THE ONE BEARING BOTH NAMES. THAT ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING BOTH NAMES ARE MINE AND REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC/AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLUADEYEMI DANIEL OMOLOLU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JOSEPH OLUREMI IBITOYE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC/ AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CHINEDU CHIGOZIE I, FORMERLY KNOWN AS IBEAWUCHI LONGINUS EZE FAVOUR, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHINEDU CHIGOZIE EZE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NURAT TIMILEYI FADIPE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEOTI NURAT ADEWUNMI. DATE OF BIRTH IS 24 / 06 / 1974. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLUKOYA OLUWABUSAYO AFOLASEWA,NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ROBBIN OLUWABUSAYO AFOLASEWA.ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AKINREMI OLUWADAMILARE ADEWALE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AKINREMI EMMANUEL OLUWADAMILARE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CYRIL-UBOCHIOMA AUGUSTINA

NUSIRAT OLAJUMOKE I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NUSIRAT OLAJUMOKE DIKO NOW WANT TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NUSIRAT OLAJUMOKE ADEWALE, BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ORISANMI ABOSEDE EUNICE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS ABRAHAM ABOSEDE EUNICE ALL DOCUMENTS AND CERTIFICATES BEARING MY FORMER NAMES REMAIN VALID. NIGERIA IMMIGRATION SERVICE, RELEVANT AUTHORITIES AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

EGBULA INNOCENT

THIS IS TO CONFIRM THAT EGBULA INNOCENT CHIMEZIE AND INNOMA INNOCENT EGBULA REFER TO ONE AND THE SAME PERSON, BUT HENCEFORTH WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EGBULA INNOCENT CHIMEZIE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS IBENEME CHIOMA

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

EDEH CAROLINE

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

EZECHUKWU SARAH

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

GWAGWA MUNDI

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS KADDUNG MUNDI JOHN, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS GWAGWA MUNDI JOHN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ADEOTI NURAT

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKORIE AUGUSTINA CHINONSO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CYRIL-UBOCHIOMA AUGUSTINA CHINONSO ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS EZEAGOR CHIOMA

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

MRS MARYANN UKPAI

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS MARY CHIBUZO KALU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS MARYANN UKPAI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS ANEKE JENNIFER

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ANI JENNIFER EBERE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ANEKE JENNIFER EBERECHUKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

AGWU VICTOR

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

THAT SAIDAT OLUWAKEMI MUSTAPHA, SAHEEDAT OLUWAKEMI MUSTAPHA AND SAIDAT OLUWAKEMI MUSTAPHA AMODU ARE CORRECT AND REFERS TO ONE AND SAME PERSON. THAT I AM THE ONE BEARING THESE NAMES MENTIONED ABOVE. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING THESE NAMES ARE MINE AND VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC/AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ROBBIN OLUWABUSAYO

MRS CHIAKWA NKIRUKA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS IBEKWE NKIRUKA FRANCA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS CHIAKWA NKIRUKA FRANCA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ANAYO DENIS

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

SULE MUHAMMED

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

OKEREKE REBECCA

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

Classified

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FLORENCE UWA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FLORENCE JOSEPH DICKSON. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC/AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

AKINREMI EMMANUEL

ABRAHAM ABOSEDE

HIBUKO ANGELA

CHANGE OF FAMILY SURNAME

WE THE UNDERLISTED FAMILY MEMBERS HAVE DECIDED TO CHANGE OUR SURNAME FROM “BADEJO”’ TO “OLUKOYA”. THAT HENCEFORTH, WE WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLUKOYA OLUGBENGA; OLUKOYA ANUOLUWA LOVETH; OLUKOYA OLUWAKEMI FAITH; OLUKOYA OLUWANIFEMI PRAISE; OLUKOYA JESUTOFUNMI HALLELUYAH. THAT ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING OUR OLD SURNAME “BADEJO” REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE NOTE.

ONYEKACHI CHINASO

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ONYEKACHI CHINASO LILIAN AYOKA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ONYEKACHI CHINASO LILIAN IWEWEZINEM. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC/AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CHUKWUBUIKE CHINYERE

BOLAJI ZULIKHAT

OROKE FRANCIS I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OROKE FRANCIS NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OROKE FRANCIS IKECHUKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS LAWAL ZULIKHAT KOFOWOROLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS BOLAJI ZULIKHAT KOFOWOROLA ALL DOCUMENTS AND CERTIFICATES BEARING MY FORMER NAMES REMAIN VALID. NIGERIA IMMIGRATION SERVICE, RELEVANT AUTHORITIES AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS UGWU JUSTINA

NWOBODO OLUCHUKWU

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

ONWUEGBUNA VINCENT

OLOVO CHIDIEBERE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLOVO CHIDIEBERE VICTOR, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLOVO CHIDIEBERE WILLIAMS CHINENYE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OBI JONATHAN

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Daily Times Nigeria Wednesday, December 23, 2018

JENNIFER AKUNNA

ADEOGUN DAMILOLA

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Daily Times Nigeria Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Sudan targets demonstrators, journalists as protests continue

Mnangagwa back in Zimbabwe, vows to probe protest crackdown Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa says he will investigate wrongdoing by security forces in the wake of their brutal crackdown on nationwide protests.

The president cut short a foreign tour and returned to Harare on Monday night to deal with the crisis.

Police and soldiers launched a large-scale operationagainst suspected protesters, activists and organisers of the strike last week, which was triggered by a sharp rise in fuel prices.

Mnangagwa said misconduct by the security forces towards demonstrators would be investigated, but he added the increase in fuel prices were the right thing to do.

“Violence or misconduct by our security forces is unacceptable and a betrayal of the new Zimbabwe,” Mnangagwa wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.

“Chaos and insubordination will not be tolerated. Misconduct will be investigated. If required, heads will roll,” Mnangagwa said, calling for a “national dialogue” over the protests.

He also criticised the protesters.

“Everyone has the right to protest, but this was not a peaceful protest,” Mnangagwa said Tuesday, noting “wanton violence and cynical destruction.”

At least 12 people were killed and 78 treated for gunshot injuries, according to the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum, which recorded more than 240 incidents of assault and torture. About 700 people have been arrested.

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Hundreds of Zimbabweans were arrested on public order charges during the protests People reported being hunted down in their homes by security forces and severely beaten. Some said arrests continued even after Mnangagwa had returned.

There were reports of a “total internet shutdown” on Friday in what critics called an attempt

by Mnangagwa’s government to prevent a security clampdown from being broadcast to the world.

The High Court in Harare ruled on Monday that government had no powers to order the shutdown of the internet which was imposed as protests swept across the country.

In Iminyela, many residents doubt an investigation into the recent raids will yield anything.

Soldiers went door to door searching for people they

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MRS JEGEDE OLUFUNKE

claimed were responsible for looting the neighbourhood shops and the stoning to death of a police officer in Njube.

Nazareth Tshuma, an unemployed 21-year-old, whose home was raided on Sunday evening, said everyone in his house was made to lie down and beaten up.

With red marks across his back, Tshuma finds it hard to believe the president’s words as his raw wounds still hurt.

“They [security personnel] promised us they will come back,” said Tshuma.

“I don’t have faith or hope there’s any help the president can promise to the people because what the police and soldiers did to us make it look like it’s their job to do these bad things to people.”

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Sudanese police in the capital’s twin city Omdurman has fired tear gas at crowds protesting the fatal wounding of a demonstrator last week, witnesses said.

The demonstration on Tuesday, coming ahead of planned evening rallies in Omdurman and Khartoum, was the latest in more than a month of escalating protests against the threedecade rule of President Omar alBashir.

The crowd chanted “overthrow, overthrow” and “freedom, peace and justice”.

The doctors’ branch of the Sudanese Professionals’ Association (SPA) said one protester died on Monday from wounds sustained when demonstrators clashed with security forces in Khartoum a week earlier.

Protests also took place at alWataniya University, Al Jazeera’s Hiba Morgan, reporting from Khartoum, said.

“Tear gas was once again fired at students inside the university,” said Morgan. “But people are determined to continue protesting.”

Human rights groups said several medics were among more than 40 people killed in clashes with the security forces since the protests erupted on December 19.

The authorities say 26 people have been killed, including at least one doctor, but blame rebel provocateurs they say have infiltrated the protesters’ ranks.

The mushrooming protests are widely seen as the biggest threat to al-

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Bashir’s iron-fisted rule since he took power in an Islamist-backed coup in 1989.

Triggered by the government tripling the price of bread, which brought demonstrators onto the streets of the eastern farming hub of Atbara and other provincial towns, the protests rapidly spread to the capital and other big cities as people vented their anger.

Journalists have also faced a government crackdown in the country.

Sudan’s State Security Prosecution issued arrest warrants for 38 journalists and activistson charges of “incitement” and spreading “false news”, local media reported.

In addition, three Al Jazeera journalists have also had their accreditation revoked, the media network said on Tuesday, adding that it “denounces this arbitrary decision which lacks any credible justification and contradicts the basic norms of press freedom”.

Sudan has lived a chronic shortage of foreign currency since the secession of South Sudan in 2011 deprived the government of most of its oil revenues and stoked spiralling inflation and widespread shortages.

Al-Bashir, who made defiant appearances at loyalist rallies in Khartoum and other cities, arrived in Qatar on Tuesday to seek the support of his long-standing Gulf Arab ally.

Experts say cash injections from the Gulf states, led by Qatar, have helped stave off economic collapse and alBashir was due to hold talks in Doha seeking further support.

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Daily Times Nigeria Wednesday, January 23, 2019

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A Review of Today in History as captured by Daily Times On this same, 23rd January, 1956, the Chairman of the Federal Electoral Commission, Mr. R. E Wraith was rattled by an allegation made the previous day, 22nd January, 1956

by Alhaji Aliyu Makama Bida that the government which was under British administration had not done enough to provide material for people of northern region to register and therefore be qualified to vote during elections.

Makama Bida who was then the National Treasurer of the Northern Peoples’ Congress (NPC) as well as Minister for Finance, Northern Nigeria therefore lamented that the region was lagging behind the South in terms of voter registration, putting the blame on the government.

In response, Wraith said there was no deliberate policy on the part of government to hinder northerners from registration, explaining however that there was no time enough to send registration materials to Kaduna for the region.

“The Commission has not neglected and will not neglect any part of the region,” the said adding that the Governor General had, following the recommendations of the Commission prepared a special warrant for the sum of 100,000 Pounds for the purchase of registration equipment even before the House of Representatives approved 520,000 Pounds for that purpose earlier in November of the preceding year, adding that the equipment were arriving gradually and in order of sequence.

“Last Monday, a batch of stationary was received from the United Kingdom,” Wraith said.

On allegations by the same Alhaji Aliyu Makama Bida that publicity in the region for people to register was scanty, Wraith said action was being taken according to design.

“We do not carry out blazing publicity. There is a stipulated policy for publicity and we do it through the press, radio posers and where necessary, town criers,” he explained.

But 63 years down the line, the table did not just turn, the north has so overwhelmingly taken the lead in both general population density as well as number of citizens that vote

Voter Registration: Time really changed in favour of the North on election days, that many have questioned are some are still asking what really went wrong?

According to the latest figures released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday, 7th January, 2019, the North West has about 20million registered voters, the North Central, about 13million while North East has about 11million. Put together, there about 44million voters in the north while the South has close to 40million registered voters.

For so many people from the South, especially those from South East Nigeria, it is a puzzle yet to be explained how the North could emerge from relative obscurity in terms of willingness to register to vote to become the region that decides who becomes President and other first-rate political positions in Nigeria.

It is no wonder therefore that both President Muhammadu Buhari of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) and opposition candidate, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are traversing the length and breadth of the North in desperate bid to take larger chunk of the millions of potential votes in the region.

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Omatseye Nesiama promises hitch-free Access Bank Lagos City marathon

A retired Navy Commodore, Omatseye Nesiama, has promised a hitch-free outing during the forthcoming 4th Access Bank Lagos City Marathon scheduled for Feb. 2.

Nesiama is in charge of security matters before and during the event.

Nesiama who was in charge of the security committee of the first and second editions of the 42km race revealed that he was back to run with the template developed for the first and second editions.

“I could not take part in the third edition because I was engaged in some other critical ventures. But,

I am back to bring all relevant security stakeholders on the same page,” he said.

News Agency of Nigeria reports that the security situation during the first and second editions of the event was adjudged of international standard.

No fewer than 5,000 marathoners from 45 countries have registered for the 2019 race.

Nesiama, who headed the security committee for the 2018 Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) Championships held in Asaba last year, said that security at the marathon would be topnotched.

He specifically appreciated the Lagos State police command who gave him good cooperation during the first two editions.

As part of preparations toward organising a hitch-free competition, Nesiama said that a crucial meeting with heads of security agencies in the state was held on Jan. 16.

“The crucial meeting was held to fine-tune strategies for protecting participants at the event,” he said.

Nesiama is a renowned security expert for major sporting events and has managed security at various Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN’s) competitions from

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2009 to 2017.

He was a one-time deputy director of Naval Intelligence and a counter-terrorism fellow of the George C Marshall Centre for Security Studies in Germany.

Apart from security, Nesiama is the only Nigerian certified and licensed International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) athletes’ manager.

He is an IAAF lecturer and a CAA International Technical official. He is also a member of the CAA Technical and Competitions Commission and a one-time technical director of Athletics Federal of Nigeria (AFN).

Samson Siasia: Be patient with Mikel Obi Former Nigeria national team coach Samson Siasia has urged supporters to have patience with veteran midfielder John Obi Mikel.

Nigerian fans are calling for the former Chelsea player to return to the Super Eagles set-up ahead of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations.

However, Siasia insists that the 31-year-old must sort out his club career before he returns for the national team.

Mikel is currently a free agent, having recently left his Chinese club Tianjin

Teda. He is reportedly looking to return to Europe, though recent reports suggest he was turned down by English second-tier club Middlesbrough.

“Everybody knows that Mikel is a patriotic and devoted captain of the Super Eagles. To the best of my knowledge, he will never shirk his responsibility as Eagles captain.

He will not also abscond from the team without cogent reasons,” Siasia explained to Nigeria’s Adante Sports.

“One thing we should also know

is that Mikel has not played for a while now, and he is trying to move to another club. I believe he wants to secure his job situation before he will worry about the Super Eagles,” Siasia said.

Nigeria will return to action in March with their final 2019 AFCON qualifier at home to the Seychelles (a dead rubber, given that the Super Eagles have qualified, while the island minnows cannot) followed by a friendly with Egypt.

Cardiff striker Emiliano Sala missing after suspected plane crash Premier League club Cardiff City’s record new signing, Argentine striker Emiliano Sala, was missing on Tuesday after a light aircraft he was travelling in disappeared over the English Channel.

Sala, signed on Saturday from French club Nantes for a reported fee of 17 million euros ($19.3 million), was flying to Cardiff aboard a small plane that disappeared from radars around 20 kilometres (12 miles) north of Guernsey on Monday night.

French civil aviation authorities confirmed that 28-year-old Sala “was on board the plane”.

A statement from police on Guernsey, a British island just off the coast of France, said the pilot had requested to lower his altitude shortly before air traffic control in neighbouring Jersey lost contact with the plane.

After a search was called off on Monday because of high winds, two helicopters, two planes and a lifeboat joined renewed efforts on Tuesday morning to find the singlepropeller plane.

“So far over 1,000 square miles have been searched by a total of five aircraft and two lifeboats,” Guernsey police said at 1145 GMT. “There has been no trace of the aircraft. The search is continuing.”

It is thought Sala was one of two passengers on board, but French civil aviation authorities were unable to confirm that.

Sala, who had been at Nantes since 2015 and had scored 13 goals in all competitions this season,

had signed a three-and-a-half-year contract with relegation-threatened Cardiff subject to receiving international clearance.

Neither club has commented publicly on the disappearance, but Nantes have postponed their French Cup match against third-tier side Entente SSG on Wednesday as a mark of respect.

When he put pen to paper at Cardiff on Saturday, Sala, who also has Italian nationality, said in a statement: “I’m very happy to be here. It gives me great pleasure and I can’t wait to start training, meet my new team-mates and get down to work.

“For me it feels special (to be the club’s record signing). I have come here wanting to work and to help my team-mates and the club.”

Sala’s last post on Instagram showed him surrounded by players from Nantes. “La ultima ciao (the last goodbye),” he wrote.

Cardiff, who currently sit third from bottom of the English Premier League with 19 points, said they were “very concerned”.

“We are awaiting confirmation before we can say anything further.

We are very concerned for the safety of Emiliano Sala,” the club said in a statement.

The accident, if confirmed, comes only three months after the Thai billionaire owner of Leicester City football club died in a helicopter crash that shocked the club and supporters around the world.

Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and four others died on October 28 shortly after taking off from the

pitch of the club’s stadium in central England.

Disconnected cockpit pedals, which are used to control the rotor on the helicopter’s tail, were found to be the cause of the accident by investigators.

‘Likeable lad’ Sala began his footballing career at French club Bordeaux, who he joined in 2010, and spent loan spells at other French clubs including Orleans, Niort and Caen.

He joined Nantes in 2015 for one million euros and appeared to be peaking as a player in recent seasons, overcoming technical shortcomings that had held him back earlier in his career.

He was tipped for a move to Turkish giants Galatasaray last summer.

“He’s a very likeable lad, very hard working,” his coach at Nantes, Vahid Halilhodzic, said of him recently.

Cristiano Ronaldo fined €18.8m in tax evasion case Cristiano Ronaldo has pleaded guilty to tax evasion, accepting a fine worth 18.8 million euros ($21.4m) and a suspended 23-month jail term after a pre-agreed deal with Spanish tax authorities last year.

The 33-year-old Portuguese captain appeared in a court in the Spanish capital, Madrid, on Tuesday, over accusations of using shell companies outside Spain to hide income made from image rights.

The five-time world footballer of the year is unlikely to serve a jail term under the deal because Spanish law states that a sentence of under two years for a first offence can be served on probation.

Ronaldo, who plays for Italian club giant Juventus, came out of the courtroom smiling, pausing to sign autographs before leaving in a black van.

The charges against the striker stem from his days at Spanish league side Real Madrid, whom he played for from 2009-2018.

In 2017, a state prosecutor accused Ronaldo of four counts of tax fraud between 2011-2014 worth 14.7 million euros ($16.7m)

via a shell company based in the British Virgin Islands and another in Ireland, known for low corporate tax rates.

In addition, prosecutors said Ronaldo declared only 11.5 million euros ($13.6m) of Spain-related income from 2011 to 2014, during which time his actual earnings were close to 43 million euros ($50.8m).

They also accused the star footballer of “voluntarily” refusing to include 28.4 million euros ($33.6m) in income linked to the sale of his image rights for the 2015 to 2020 period to a Spanish company.

Ronaldo had previously denied the charges through his agents.

After reaching the deal, he paid a fine of 5.7 million euros ($6.5m), plus interest of about one million euros, in July 2018, the prosecutor’s office said last week.

Ronaldo, who is also facing rape allegations by a former model in the United States, is the latest football star to fall foul of tax evasion in Spain.

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi was handed a 21-month prison sentence in 2017 on similar charges, but Spanish law allowed him to exchange it for a fine.

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