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Presidency fumes over Catholic Bishop’s comment on North-East Says North East better off under Buhari

Mathew Dadiya, Abuja The Presidency has said that the North East which has been under siege by Boko Haram Islamic sect over a decade is now better and secure under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

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of Yola Diocese, Rt. Rev. Fr. Stephen Mamza said to have delivered a homily in which he spoke angrily against President Muhammadu Buhari, whom he described as “sleeping on duty as Commander-in-Chief.”

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homily saying, “This is not a fair comment.”

According to the Presidency, there is so much that has changed in the past three to four years in and around Yola, and the Catholic Church in particular that a true assessment would show that.

The Presidency said, but for the Change Administration of President Buhari, things would have continued the way they were, or even get worse. These could not have happened if a Commander-in- Chief was asleep.

“Bishop Mamza was, and is still a strong member of the Adamawa Peace Initiative, (API), composed of religious and community leaders which did the lovely work housing and feeding 400,000 displaced people from Northern Adamawa and Borno States in 2015.

The API also did the extraordinary work of easing tensions between Muslims and Christians during that period and ensured that both groups did not turn on one another based on suspicion.

“As widely reported by the local and international press, in the premises of St. Theresa’s Cathedral where Rev. Mamza ministered, there were more than 1,500 IDPs, mostly women and children on whom the church

administered food rations and issued bags of maize, cooking oil and seasoning. We are truly touched and very grateful for the work that the Bishop and the others had done in that difficult period.

“Now that Boko Haram has been degraded, the more than 400,000 displaced people absorbed by the Adamawa community have all gone back to Borno State and to those council areas in northern Adamawa.

“In addition to the capital,Yola, the towns of Michika, Madagali and Mubi which had been occupied by Boko Haram during their military advances have since been retaken by the Nigerian military, whose personnel are also clearing litters of Boko Haram’s carnage and are, through the support of the administration as well as local and international partners, rebuilding roads and bridges, power lines, burnt schools, markets, destroyed churches and mosques.

“Without an iota of doubt, the Northeast is better off with President Buhari than it was under the previous administration. That should explain the massive turnout of voters in the region, in spite of threats to life and property, to vote for the return of the President for a Second Term of four years.

“Sadly, one of the realities of

today’s Nigeria is that it easy to blame President Buhari for the violence all around us.

Community leaders are too scared to blame the warlords and the sponsors of killings we live with because they fear for their own lives.

“What is happening in several communities racked by interethnic and religious violence is arising from the refusal of community leaders to point at known criminals in their midst for the law enforcement agencies to act against them. They rather blame President Buhari for their woes.

“It is indeed an irony that in the week that Bishop Mamza was speaking, another Bishop with a known commitment to peace, and results to show for his work in neighbouring Plateau State, is being dispatched to go to Taraba, Adamawa and Benue states to work in collaboration with security agencies in mending broken inter-communal relationships.

“This senseless violence can never be condoned by the administration and we sympathize with the families of those who lost loved ones as well as those injured. The administration’s intense security efforts and peace building will not only continue, but will expand in response to such explosions of violence in the country,” the Presidency stated.

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L-R: Deputy British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Laure Beaufils; Lagos state Governor-elect, Mr. Babajide SanwoOlu; British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing; Ogun State Governor-elect, Prince Dapo Abiodun and his Deputy Governor-elect, Mrs. Noimot Salako-Oyedele, at a reception hosted by British High Commission in Nigeria, in Lagos...on Thursday.

A cross-section of youths being trained on beekeeping by EdoJobs, in partnership with Ethree Enterprise at the Edo Food and Agriculture Cluster (EDO-FAC) in Ehor, Uhunmwonde Local Government Area, Edo State.

Don’t sell off public assets, Expert urges Buhari Benjamin Omoike, Lagos As President Muhamadu Buhari takes oath of office for a second term next month, the Executive Director of Pecmee Omotola International limited, Engineer David Opatola, has urged the president to resist recommendations for sales of public assets to those he termed as economic predators.

Opatola, who stated this while speaking with newsmen in Lagos, urged the president not to hesitate to formulate policies that will quicken the struggle to banish poverty and stabilise the political economy of the country.

He urged the Federal Government to hasten arrangements for the establishment of modular refineries in at least 10 locations in Nigeria in addition to existing ones.Opatola, who is one of the few Nigerians sponsored by the Commonwealth in machine design and manufacturing, said he had submitted a document to President Muhammadu Buhari, tagged: “Springboard of Economic Development Towards Industrial master Plan for Nigeria’s Active and Meaningful Industrialisation”, to set the agenda for the government.

While frowning at the habit of selling the country’s sensitive assets to people and or organisations whose knowledge in such field is unknown and to those who lack the capacity to run such,

Engineer David Opatola suggested that every State asset should henceforth, be made public through the stock exchange.

He said: “The entrenched trend of allowing individuals whose financial background cannot be known to buy our assets has done a lot of damage to the economy of the country and has denied her the chances and opportunity to generate employment and create wealth for the country. ‘’Nigeria, with a population of about 200 million and still dependent on oil which today remains fragile in the international market, there is an urgent need for the president to put in place structures that can springboard the country’s economic development towards an industrial master plan, so as to make the citizens enjoy good life, get employed, banish poverty and grow the country’s GDP. “The president should challenge every tier of government to put things in order for the survival and stability of Nigeria, now that a new political dispensation for another four years will soon start. I have a strong belief that if we springboard the economic development towards industrial master plan, active and meaningful industrialisation is around the corner,” he stated, adding that Nigeria needs to plan to have an estimate of five million barrels of crude oil per day for both local consumption and export.

According to him, since none of those that got the licenses for the construction of Modula Refineries have demonstrated their willingness to hit the ground, the Federal Government may need to get involved in providing initial backing to ensure the Modular Refineries are actualised.

He averred that the huge sum being spent and wasted on subsidy every time will be eliminated once the modular refineries are on board, saying the issue of bunkering will also be stopped once these structures are laid properly.

Opatola further advised the president to approach countries that have vast experience in modular refinery technology for their constructions which he said should not take more than 18 to 24 months to complete.

“As practiced in the advanced nations, the countries or firms so contracted for the constructions of the modular refineries must provide technical assistance for at least five years as part of the contract, supply at least two years spare parts, materials with preventive maintenance, must provide mini-repair shops and should also be built on solid ground that requires little or no sand filling to avoid delay in construction.

“Another major raw material that needs urgent development in larger scale which can generate employment opportunities in Nigeria is cassava chips and ethanol, which have large potential export to China, especially if well planned,” he said.

L-R: CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, Minister of Finance, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Finance, Dr. Mahmoud Isa-Dutse and Director General Debt Management Office (DMO) Ms. Ms Patience Oniha during a press Brief after a successful outing at the Spring Meeting 2019 of the IMF and Wolrd Banking in Washington DC.

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Saraki tackles Tinubu over claim of hijacking 2018 budget Tunde Opalana, Abuja

Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has in a riposte replied the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who on Sunday, accused him and the House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, of hijacking the 2018 national budget process.

Saraki, who replied to Tinubu’s allegations in a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, took time to educate Tinubu on the inner workings of the National Assembly, describing all that the former Lagos governor said about him as lies.

The Senate president in the statement, said characteristically, Tinubu released another of his quarterly vicious attack on his person, asserting that in Tinubu’s statement, one could see the master of media spins getting ensnared in his own game as he struggled to extricate himself from the narratives about the contest for leadership positions in the 9th National Assembly.

Saraki stated that since Tinubu’s quarterly attacks is expected, he would have ignored the statement that was filled with untruth, fallacies, misrepresentations and another attempt to sell a concocted narrative about the 8th National Assembly and its leadership.

The statement reads: “First, he alleged that national budgets were delayed, distorted, padded, new projects introduced, funds for projects reduced, “to halt progress of government”. It is unfortunate that a man like Tinubu who had been in the Senate (though for 22 months and under a military regime) should have a better understanding of how the legislature works.

“The passage of budgets is definitely not the exclusive responsibility of the leadership of the Senate. Most of the work is done in the various committees.

These committees are headed by

senators representing different parties.

“It is the level of co-operation between the committees and the MDAs in the timely defence of the budget proposals and the ability of the two chambers of the National Assembly to reconcile their figures that usually determine how soon the budget is passed. To put the blame of budget delay on the Senate President or Speaker can only be mischief, or at best, playing to the gallery.

“It is also a known fact that any socalled delay in the passage of budgets under the Eighth National Assembly is traceable to the refusal of heads of MDAs to defend the budget proposals for their agencies on time.

“Last year, the President himself had to direct the Secretary to Federal Government to compel heads of MDAs to appear before the National Assembly committees following the report made to him by Dr. Saraki and Speaker Yakubu Dogara.

“So, if a man like Tinubu is spreading this falsehood about budget passage and delay being deliberately orchestrated by the National Assembly leadership, one wonders whether he tries to even understand what happens in the federal legislature at all or is that the only thing that is of interest to him is “jockeying and maneuvering for influence”, as he puts it.

“To further make the points here clear, we invite Tinubu to look at the records of the time of submission of budgets and their passage since 2010 and he will see that with the exception of the 2013 budget which was passed on December 20, 2012, all the budgets have been passed between March and May of the same fiscal year.

“This should give him a better understanding of the fact that the date the Appropriations Bill is submitted to parliament and the readiness of the MDAs to defend the proposals submitted as well as timely agreement on the figures by both chambers of the National Assembly are the main determining factors in when the budget is eventually passed.

“So, Tinubu should see that the facts cannot support his spins and fake narrative. In all the three budgets already passed by the National Assembly, we challenge Tinubu to make specific reference to where Dr. Saraki and the leadership of the National Assembly “sought to pad with pet projects” as he alleged. Tinubu should be graceful enough to substantiate this allegation.

We consider that allegation careless, irresponsible and callous. We therefore demand that he should withdraw it.

“However, there is need to let him know that it is the constitutional responsibility of the National Assembly to review the proposals sent by the executive and where it deems necessary, it is within the power of the legislature to make changes.

“A good example, is the decision by the National Assembly to include in the 2018 budget the one percent of the total budget, amounting to N33 billion, as allocation for Universal Health Coverage as provided by an extant law, which had been hitherto observed in the breach. Is this what Tinubu considers as budget padding? And this was a decision which was praised across the world as a real benefit to ordinary people across the country.

“Tinubu also claimed that the Senate leadership “stymied APC legislative initiatives while attempting to hoist noxious reactionary and self-interested legislation on the nation”. We wonder what these “legislative initiatives” are because in the four years of the Buhari administration, it has only forwarded 11 bills to the Senate, apart from the routine annual appropriations and supplementary budget proposals.

“Two of these bills, the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Bill and the National Minimum Wage Bill, have been passed. One of the bills, the Money Laundering Prevention and Prohibition Act (amendment) Bill was withdrawn by the executive following the disagreement between the Attorney General and the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Also, another

Ms Liz Ahua one, the National Water Resources Bill was rejected because it infringed on the rights of states to develop their water resources.

“The remaining seven which are the National Centre for Disease Control and Prevention Establishment Bill, Federal Institute of Industrial Research for the Development of Micro, Small and Large Industries Bills, the Suppression of Piracy Bill, Communications Service Tax Bill, 2015; Federal Institute of Industrial Research Bill, 2017; Raw Materials Research and Development Council (Repeal and Re-enactment Bill 2018; Nigeria Natural Medicine Development Agency (Establishment etc) Bill, 2018 — are at various stages of passage.

“As a leader of the 8th National Assembly, Dr. Saraki is proud that under his watch, the Senate has surpassed the records of all previous Senates in the number of bills passed, the significance of these bills to the revival of the economy, the fight against insecurity and corruption, improvement in the provision of health service and the education sector, as well as better social service delivery to

Corruption: Don’t judge us by conviction figure – FG Doorsum Iwambe, Abuja The Federal Government says it will be unfair for Nigerians to measure its achievements in the fight against corruption by the number of convictions it has secured.

Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated this on Monday when he featured on a live TVC news programme: “This Morning” monitored in Abuja.

Mohammed said that the Buhari administration has succeeded in laying enduring foundation for fight against corruption through sustainable policies, including the Single Treasury Account (TSA) and whistle blower policy. He said that with this solid foundation, the fight against corruption will remain the bedrock of this administration in the next four years.

“Under this administration, we insisted and have succeeded in ensuring that all payments and revenues are paid into the TSA. Before we came in, the federal government had over 2, 000 different accounts in various banks which resulted in paying several

billions on Naira in charges.

“The government then also never had an idea of how much it had as revenue. Today, over N9.3 trillion has gone into the TSA and that is why it is possible for us to invest especially in the area of infrastructure and social investment programmes,” he said.

The minister said with the TSA savings, the government spent unprecedented N2.7 trillion on development of infrastructure in 2017 and 2018 and also introduced accountability in spending of government resources.

He stated that the whistle blower policy has helped in blocking corruption and the recovery of looted funds, adding that the government has so far, recovered several billions of Naira and about $53 million through the policy alone.

He said the administration’s fight against corruption has been recognized abroad with the AU recognition of President Muhammadu Buhari as the champion of anti-corruption.

The minister said that the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) also recognized

the efforts of the administration in fighting corruption.

“When we say the fight against corruption is successful is because we have laid the foundation that would make it difficult for people to engage in the evil act. For us success of the fight against corruption is the fact that we have driven corruption under the table and make it unattractive as it was before.

“Those who are corrupt are doing so with the fear of the law. It will be progressively become more and more difficult in Nigeria for corruption to be attractive,” he said On the allegation that the government’s anti-corruption fight was against perceived enemies and opposition, the minister said it was a misconception, insisting that “we had 16 years of unbroken rule by the PDP so the likely people who will be accused of misuse of resources should be the people who were in charge.

“We also have some former governors who decamped to APC who have also been convicted,” warning that the anti-corruption fight would be frontal in the next four years of the Buhari administration.

Also, the minister added that the international community has expressed satisfaction with the economy reform programmes of Buhari’s administration, especially for nurturing the nation’s economy from recession to sustainable growth.

He said based on his interactions with international think-tanks and influential media organizations in Washington and London, said they were happy with the agenda of the administration at reforming the economy.

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the generality of the people.

“The bills passed, motions moved, interventions made and frequent engagement with the people were all directed towards addressing the day to day issues that affect the lives of the ordinary Nigerians.

“This Senate has passed 282 bills (the highest any Senate had passed is 129 bills recorded by the 5th Senate), among which is the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act, Public Procurement Act (amendment) Bill, Petroleum Industry Governance Bill, Electoral Act (amendment) Bill, Police Reform Bill, Police Trust Fund Bill, Nigeria Railways Authority Bill, Company and Allied Matters Act (amendment) Bill, Secured Credit Transactions Act, Whistleblowers Protection Bill, constitution amendment bills, Discrimination Against Persons With Disability Bill, Electronic Transaction Bill, Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, North East Development Commission (NEDC) Act, Witness Protection Programme Bill, Credit Bureau Reporting Bill, Sexual Harassment in Tertiary Educational Institution Bill and Compulsory Treatment and Care of Victims of Gunshots Bill, National Financial Intelligence Agency Act, Federal Audit Services Commission Bill, among others.

“It will be good to know which of these bills Tinubu believes is “selfinterested” and not in the interest of Nigerians. We will like to point the attention of Mr. Tinubu to the fact that most of the bills listed above got international and national endorsement from stakeholders who lauded the Senate for the move.

“For example, the Financial Intelligence Database Agency (Ultrascan) commended the Senate for passing the NFIU Act which enabled the country to be re-admitted into the Egmont Group. Also, the Nigerian Police leadership have praised the Senate for passing the Police Reforms Bill and the Police Trust Fund Bill.

Again, when the National Assembly in the 2018 budget gave effect to the law allowing one percent of the budget to be devoted to Primary Health Care Delivery, it got kudos from Bill Gates, Bono, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of WHO, and various national groups who believe the move would bring health care delivery to the poor people across the country.

“The passage of the UBEC Act (amendment) Bill was praised by Pakistani child education campaigner and youngest Nobel Laureate,

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Boko Haram activities now restricted, says Buratai The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, says the Boko Haram terrorists are being contained with the recent renewed joint military offensive against them in Northern Borno and border areas.

Buratai said the offensive had pushed them to the remote Islands on the Lake Chad basin.

Represented by Maj.-Gen. Lamidi Adeosun, the Chief of Training and Operations, the chief of army staff disclosed this in an interview with newsmen at Monguno in Borno North after celebrating the Easter with troops.

He said the containment of the terrorists was made possible by joint operations by troops of the Lake Chad Basin countries, including the Multinational Joint Task Force – MNJTF. “You will discover that the Boko Haram terrorists are now lurking around the borders, especially the dangerous and inaccessible areas of the Tumbun and Islands (of Lake Chad).’’

“And the best way to handle them is to have concentration of forces,’’ he said.

On the ongoing joint operations between Nigerian and Chadian troops in Northern Borno, Buratai said that the coming of the Chadians had given a boost to troops and equipment concentration in the area.

He said that this was necessary to route the terrorists from their hiding places in the Islands.

Earlier, while addressing troops of Sector 3 of the Operation Lafiya Dole, Buratai expressed satisfaction that they had turned the tide against the terrorists, adding that it was no longer business for them as usual.

“I urge you not to relent; you must continue to heat the iron now that our iron is very, very red so that we can beat the iron to the shape that we all like.

“You must maintain the momentum; we must never ever allow the reverse to be the case again. Now that we are moving, we must continue to move.

“Now, we are pursuing, we must continue to pursue, we are on the offensive, we should never withdraw to defensive position.

“You must remain bold and continue to do all that it takes to take the power, life and breath out of Boko Haram,’’ the army chief charged the troops.

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Buratai also visited the Chadian troops deployed alongside their Nigerian counterparts for a joint operation at Cross Kauwa, the Headquarters of Sector 2 of Operation Lafiya Dole.

In an address, he commended them for their zeal, courage and commitment, saying that they were not only working for the safety of Nigeria and their country, but humanity.

He described the Chadian troops as brave soldiers, and assured them that their requirement in terms of logistics would be provided.

While he prayed for the repose of soul of personnel among them that had paid the supreme sacrifice, he also prayed for quick recovery of those wounded in action.

Col. Bokit Ali Dijar, the Commander of Chadian troops in the sector, expressed happiness that countries in

the Lake Chad basin were working in unity to tackle the Boko Haram menace which he described as a common enemy.

Ali Dijar thanked Buratai for the visit, saying that they were honoured by the gesture.

He also lauded the Theatre Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, Maj.-Gen. Benson Akinroluyo and Brig.-Gen. O.T. Akinjobi, the Commander Sector 3, for always meeting their request.

NAN also reports that on April 18, troops of the MNJTF killed 39 Boko terrorists, captured many equipment from them as they attempted to attack military position at Cross Kauwa.

Cross Kauwa is located in Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno.

Between December 2018 and January 2019 a faction of Boko Haram led by Al Barnawi and Islamic State West African Province or ISWAP infiltrated Baga and surrounding towns, including Cross Kauwa and attacked military positions.

They were, however, pushed out by sustained ground and air offensives after a few days.

Ekiti set to revive farm settlements through World Bank’s intervention The Ekiti State Government on Monday said that it would soon revive its agricultural and rural development programmes having secured the World Bank’s support for the initiative.

He also said that the government would soon transmit a bill to re-enact the establishment of ” The Ekiti State College of Technical Agriculture,” to the State House of Assembly.

He said that the House would be expected to consider the bill and subsequently pass it into law.

Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti said this while addressing newsmen at his Isan Ekiti country home.

He said that part of the cardinal programmes of his government was reviving aagricultural sector and boosting food production in the state.

According to him, the World Bank assisted initiative called “Rural Access and Marketing Programme (RAMP),” will connect Ekiti rural communities to the urban centres and market places.

He added that it would also help in the reconstruction of farm settlements, many of which he said were built in the 1950s by the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo-led administration but were not put to good use.

He explained that the initiative would help provide basic amenities at the farm settlements.

It would also encourage farmers in areas where they would be located to focus on their agricultural activities, he said. ”One of my assistants is going to be focusing on agric and farmsteads because in the course of my campaigns, I went round those farmsteads. ”My wife also toured the farmsteads extensively. There are things that are required by the people in those farmsteads that will make their work a lot better. ” These will include social amenities and social investment that will help in ensuring that we connect the farms to the markets. ”So we have another initiative that is being supported by the World Bank which is known as Rural Access and Agricultural

Marketing Programme (RAMP). ”This is meant to assist us to connect our rural communities to the urban centres and the market places.

“We hope that we can also reconstruct our farm settlements, and provide the necessary amenities there. ” We will also ensure that our people stay back in those places without missing the amenities they ought to have if they were to be in the cities,” he said.

Fayemi also spoke on the College of Technical and Commercial Agriculture which he established during his first term in office, but was scrapped by his predecessor-in-office, Mr Ayo Fayose.

Fayemi said that a bill for the re-establishment of the College would soon be sent to the State House of Assembly to enable the school begin operation legally.

The governor also disclosed that the ongoing construction works in the school would be completed before September when the school would formally open for academic activities.

He said the college was designed to train and equip young people who would be interested in agriculture value chain. ”Work has resumed there and a significant progress has been made on the road construction.

I believe the builders are also on site. ”The idea is that the school will be ready for use by the beginning of a new session between September and October. Some six months of intense work should get it ready. ”The law that will support its existence and operation is going back to the Assembly for reenactment because of what the last administration did to it.

“And once that is done, it will be legally covered to undertake the business of recruiting our young people who are interested in becoming middle-level managers and technical operators in commercial agriculture in Ekiti.”

Fayemi said that the citizens of the state believed that agriculture was important to them as an agrarian society.

Police confirm 11 persons killed in Gombe Easter accident IGP orders speedy, comprehensive probe Andrew Orolua, Abuja An unfortunate fatal motor accident on Easter day has claimed the lives of 11 persons and injured 30 others in Gombe, the capital of Gombe State.

The acting Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, said on Monday that the police have begun a comprehensive investigation into fatal incident.

The accident occurred along Gombe-Biu Road. Eyewitness accounts reveal that the accident occurred as a result of loss of control of the vehicle by the driver while driving along Gadan Malale and heading towards Central Roundabout and on reaching a point at Unguwan waja, rammed into a procession of worshippers evidently celebrating Easter.

With assistance from the policemen from Gombe

Division, the victims were immediately rushed to Gombe Specialist Hospital where the driver, one Corp Assistant Adamu Abdullahi, a staff of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) attached to Government House, Gombe and 10 others were confirmed dead and their bodies deposited at the morgue while 30 other persons injured are currently receiving treatment.

The state commissioner

of police visited the scene of the accident to have an on -the-spot assessment as well as the hospital to monitor the treatment of the victims.

The inspector general while condoling the families and friends of the dead and the injured victim, has advised motorists to exercise utmost caution by obeying all traffic signs, rules and regulations while driving especially this festive period and beyond.

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“When the PIGB was passed, APC led by Tinubu, National Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE), among others, hailed the Senate for a good job. Even, the World Bank commended the National Assembly for the passage of the Company and Allied Matters Act and Secured Transactions in Movable Assets and Credit Bureau Reporting Act. Of course, all these initiatives will be ignored by a man who is still sulking because his vow in 2015 that Saraki and Dogara will never lead the National Assembly did not materialise.

“Tinubu and his mob have been sponsoring the narratives in the media that the emergence of the present leadership of the National Assembly was a mistake.

We hereby submit that Dr. Saraki and other leaders of the National Assembly were democratically elected by their colleagues. And it is because they are the choice of their colleagues that they have remained in office for the past 46 months, despite all the plots hatched by anti-democratic, reactionary and fascist elements pretending to be ‘progressives’.

“In fact, Tinubu should know that if there was any mistake made on June 9, 2015, it was the miscalculation by himself and his small cabal in the APC who felt they could decide for the Senators-elect and House of Representatives Members-elect.

When they failed after their grand-standing that they could always get whatever they desired, they resorted to undermining the institution of the legislature by waging a campaign of calumny against the law making body. It is now clear that those who took Senators away from the chambers contrary to the directive contained in the proclamation signed by President Muhammadu Buhari on June 9, 2015 are ‘mistake personified’.

“It is obvious that if they repeat that arrogance during the inauguration of the Ninth National Assembly, they will fail again because Nigeria is greater than them. The institution of the legislature is bigger than the over-bloated egos of these power mongers and dirty schemers.

“Let us repeat again that we know that a Machiavellian politician like Tinubu will forever agonize over his erroneous belief that Dr. Saraki frustrated his ambition from becoming running mate to President Muhammadu Buhari through a Muslim-Muslim ticket in 2015. In his usual cavalier manner, he will stop at nothing to punish Saraki for that.

“We know that this attack is not about the interest of the nation or that of President Muhammadu Buhari. It is about his 2023 ambition and it is obvious in the statement as he struggled to explain this away.

However, Tinubu should leave Dr. Saraki out of his schemes and manipulations towards 2023. It is obvious his arbitrary and tactless interference in the process for the

emergence of the leadership of the Ninth Assembly is already falling through.

“The frustration from this experience might have been responsible for this needless and baseless outbursts. Our only advice for him is that if he is interested in the stability of the National Assembly, he should allow the members to elect their leadership in consultations with the party leadership. He should stop treating the legislators like hapless pupils receiving orders from a cane-wielding headmaster.

“A situation where he, Tinubu, is dictating to elected legislators and ordering them to either comply with his directives or get out of the party will not augur well for the legislature in the next dispensation. History should have thought him that only a leadership that truly enjoys the support of members can help the President and his administration to achieve their objectives.

“It is a good development that the candidates for the various positions are already reaching out to their colleagues and forging alliances. We can see that after he realized that he has misfired, he is trying to retrace his steps and in his usual devious manner, he is looking for scapegoats. We advise him to leave Dr. Saraki out of his manipulations and “jockeying and maneuvering for influence and power”, as he termed it.

“The 8th Senate has done very well and will leave a good legacy.

Despite all the underhanded tactics to undermine the legislature by outsiders and the public posturing, members have always worked as a team on critical issues that benefit our nation.

“That is why hitherto unachievable legislations like the PIGB, Police Reform Act and other bills or amendments to existing laws were passed with ease because the members and the leadership know that they are elected as Senators of the Federal Republic not as party representatives. Tinubu should know that while we await his attack for the next quarter, we can only advise him to stay on facts”.

Our reporter recalls that Tinubu in his statement titled, ‘Tinubu Focusing on the Issues of Today: ‘Tomorrow is the Master of Itself’, said that the “outgoing Senate President Bukola Saraki and House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara and their likes, highjacked the budget process these past four years.

Continuing he said that “National budgets were delayed and distorted as these actors repeatedly sought to pad budgets with pet projects that would profit them. Even worse, they cut funds intended to prosper projects that would have benefitted the average person.

“After four years of their antics halting the progress of government, we should do all we can to prevent a repeat of their malign control of the National Assembly”.

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We are convinced beyond doubt that Jesus Christ is God - Kaigama Kingsley Chukwuka, Jos

The Catholic Archbishop of Jos, Most Rev. Ignatius Kaigama, has said Christians are convinced beyond doubt that Jesus Christ is God. He said God sent Jesus in His place to die for our sins, adding that just as God created the world without consulting humans, He has also sent His son to help humanity feel who He is as God. Kaigama stated this yesterday in Jos, the Plateau state capital at the Fatima Cathedral, during the Easter Mass celebration.

He said that “Jesus came like a normal man born into a family, grew up like every normal human being. He was baptized, did so many good things and then died for our sins, to give us a new hope and

to bring reconciliation between man and God. “Christ has resurrected, went to heaven seated with the Father and our dream, aim, hope and desire as Christians is to reach that point where we are in union with God. “With what Christ has done, we are to believe that there is no situation that is hopeless.”

Acknowledging the fact that Nigerians are suffering, Kaigama appealed to politicians to reflect on the message of Easter, aimed at providing the dividends of democracy to the people.

“There is no doubt that people are suffering, I am a grassroots priest, I go to the villages and I know what people are going through.

Apart from people displaced as a result of violence and crisis, some people naturally cannot

even afford to feed because of the economic situation of the country.

“Elections has come and gone; what Nigerians now expect from politicians is an improved quality of life. It’s not enough to campaign for election using all the resources to get to power, what is important is for government to bring to an end the sorry situation of the masses, such as hunger, sickness and poverty and to also ensure that our youth are taken off the streets.

“We hope to see a revival, Easter is about resurrection and we want to see something resurrecting about Nigeria; we are tired of excuses, politicians doing nothing while people are in agony. All we want, is to see a different orientation from the leadership of this country,” he added.

Short News Easter: No victory without cross, priest tells faithful

A cleric, Rev. Fr. Andrew Abhulime, has urged the faithful to regard the experiences they acquired during Lent and Easter as lessons they needed to succeed during every stage of suffering in life.

He also advised them to see such experiences as part of their roadmaps to victory in life.

He spoke at the end of the Easter Monday picnic organized by the parishioners of Saints Joachim and Anne Catholic Church, Ijegun, a suburb of Lagos, on Monday.

According to him, sincere victory can only be attained through the cross, because without death by Jesus Christ on the cross, there would not have been any victory over sin.

He said that the death of Jesus Christ on the cross and his resurrection on the third day from the dead had brought joy to those who believe in him, declaring that “the events from Good Friday to Galilee day are a celebration of faith, confirming that Christ conquered death, rose from the grave and that he will die no more.

“The resurrection of Jesus Christ was a mystery and a unique mission of God fulfilled for the salvation of human souls. The plan of God cannot be obstructed if we have faith and strong belief in him.”

Father Abhulime noted that the significance of the light during the vigil mass was that light had overcome darkness in the lives of God’s children. He added that where there was light, there should be no division or chaos.

“Without the light, you cannot make success; the light is a symbol of divine encounter with Jesus. The light dispels the darkness of failure, disappointment, sin, and all forms of challenges. The uniqueness of the whole celebration is victory over death, success over failure,” he said.

Communal clash: Benue imposes 24 -hr curfew in Katsina Ala Tom Okpe, Abuja The Benue state government has imposed a 24- hours- curfew on Katsina - Ala community of the state due to a violent communal clash that erupted within the area.

Deputy Governor, Benson Abounu, who is acting on behalf of his principal, Governor Samuel Ortom, who is said to be on vacation imposed the curfew with effect from April 22 as part of efforts to restore peace and ensure the security of lives and property in that part of the state.

The curfew in the affected area of the state is as a result of 11 persons killed by unknown gunmen on Good Friday after leaving their worship centers. Katsina-Ala in Benue state is known for its large production of yam in the state and country and harbours the largest yam market in Nigeria.

In a statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the acting Governor, Ede Ogaba Ede, the curfew which comes into immediate effect shall be reviewed as the situation demands.

Abounu urged the people of Katsina-Ala to cooperate with security operatives by obeying the curfew.

The state government warned that anyone found fomenting trouble in the area or in other parts of the state will be apprehended and punished according to the law, reassuring the people that more security personnel have been deployed to Katsina-Ala to end the crisis and will continue to give security agencies every needed support to succeed.

Delta to organize cultural festival, Okowa declares Nosa Akenzua, Asaba

Fun lovers besiege the Johnson Jakande Tinubu (JJT) Park, Alausa, Ikeja for the Easter celebration, on Monday.

Fulfill your campaign promises, Catholic priest tells office holders

A Catholic priest, Joseph Awoyale, has urged elected office holders in the country to always fulfill the promises made to the electorate during their electoral campaigns.

Awoyale, who is the parish priest of St Andrew’s Catholic Parish, Oro, Kwara state, made the plea in a sermon he delivered during a thanksgiving service in Oro. The programme was the second leg of a thanksgiving service to celebrate the victory of the community at the Supreme Court in the dispute over its name, Oro. The first leg of the thanksgiving service was held on Friday, immediately after the Muslim congregational prayer at Oro Central Mosque.

The apex court had in its January 18 judgment granted the prayer of the community and

affirmed Oro as the authentic name of the community.

Awoyale said it was only when elected officials fulfill their promises that they can command the respect and confidence of the people at all times. He said there was much expectation in the areas of improved healthcare, education, housing, transportation as well human capital development.

“When promises made in line with the aforementioned demands are fulfilled by the leaders, every other thing becomes a child’s play and simple,” he said. The priest also urged the congregation to imbibe the act of truthfulness in their daily dealings.

“Truth is eternal, it can never be buried, so also do lies have expiry date. No matter the circumstances, truth will always prevail,” he said.

National President, Oro Descendants Union (ODU), Chief Bode Alayoku, the urged the people of the community to imbibe unity and tolerance in moving the community forward.

“It is only in such atmosphere that the socio-economic development envisioned for the community can be achieved,” he said.

The Asanlu of Oro, Chief Simon Olayioye, praised the community leaders for their dedication and perseverance that ensured the victory of the community at the court, adding that “kudos must be given to our own son, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who is the minister of information and culture for his generosity towards this noble cause.

“We will forever remain proud and grateful for his magnanimity,” he said.

Delta state Governor, Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa has asked the Ministry of Culture and Tourism to partner with the Organization for the Advancement of Anioma Culture (OFAAC) to organize a state-wide cultural festival.

Speaking at the 16th Anioma Cultural Festival organized by OFAAC in Asaba on Monday, the governor observed that cultural fiesta boosts the unity of a people and promote their culture.

“This kind of cultural festival breeds peace among our people, unite them and rekindle our traditional practices,” he said, adding that “it provides opportunity for our children to understand our custom, culture and traditions.

“We will work with OFAAC this year to put up a cultural festival that will involve the entire state working with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism,” he stated.

Gov. Okowa commended OFAAC for its consistency in organizing the cultural event and used the occasion to thank Deltans for their support for him and his deputy, Kingsley Otuaro which manifested in the last general elections.

While assuring that his administration will work harder within the next four years to meet the yearnings and aspirations of Deltans, Okowa reiterated that cultural festivals provide a boost for the unity of the people.

Kwara South elders want speaker position zoned to North

A group of elders in Kwara South Senatorial District on Monday called on the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to zone the position of speaker of the state assembly to the northern part of the state in the interest of fairness and justice.

Chairman of the group, Elders of Kwara South, Chief James Bamisaiye Ayeni, made this known in Ilorin in a statement made available journalists.

“The people of Kwara South Senatorial Zone hereby echo their support for the emergence of the speaker of the House of Assembly from Kwara North Senatorial Zone,” Ayeni said.

He expressed the commitment of elders from Kwara South Senatorial District to ensure that the next speaker of the assembly emerges from the northern district of the state.

Ayeni said it was only fair to concede the speakership slot to the north since the remaining two districts of the state, the central and south would occupy the elective positions of governor and deputy governor respectively.

He said while there was nothing wrong in anyone nursing an ambition, this must engender peace and unity among the people.

“While people reserve the right to pursue their ambition, Kwara South Senatorial Elders believe that ambition must be tamed and must not be wild to the point of threatening our unity,” he added.

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Remembering the street child

Jideofor Adibe

April 12, the day set aside since 2012 as the International Day for Street Children, has come and gone. In our dear country, with its hustles and hassles, the day went largely unnoticed, barely reported and scarcely celebrated.The International Day for Street Children is meant to call attention to the plight of children without home – variously called ‘homeless children’, ‘beggars’, ‘juvenile delinquents’ ‘street urchins’ or ‘bad kids’.

They are the children, who, while their mates are being pampered elsewhere; rough it out daily with the inclement elements.

During the day you can find some going through trash, begging for alms, working in motor park as touts, hawking items on streets, hustling as bus conductors or doing sundry other menial jobs. At nights, most sleep in uncompleted buildings, under bridges and flyovers or in street corners. Quite a number are on cheap drugs such as sniffing glue or paint thinner to get high – initially as a way of numbing pangs of hunger, keeping out the cold or as a mental escape from the sorrows and travails of life – before eventually becoming addicted to the substances. Not only are street children among the most vulnerable people on earth – deprived of basic needs like food and shelter and disproportionately targeted by purveyors of violence – they are also penalised for the things they have to do to survive.

The International Day for Street Children reminds us of the humanity of these children, and that just like our own children, or those chubby, well-groomed children we too often admire, they too need love. Just like other children, they too deserve access to education, healthcare and the care and compassion of the society.

While the notion of who is a street child remains contested, many practitioners and policymakers use the United Nations International Children Emergency Fund’s (UNICEF’s) definition, which regards a street child as a boy or girl, aged under 18, for whom the ‘street’ (including unoccupied dwellings and wasteland) has become home and/or a source of

livelihood, and who are inadequately protected or supervised. While the exact number of street children worldwide remains a matter of conjecture, UNICEF estimates that they run into tens of millions. In Nigeria, the UK charity Street Child estimates that about 1.3 million children have been forced to flee their homes from Boko Haram conflict in the North East -with another three million being unable to go to school. Many are struggling in temporary (IDP) camps – where diseases and hunger are strife.

Every part of the country has its own ‘street urchins’ and child beggars.

UNICEF differentiates between three categories of street children – candidates for the street (street children who work and hang out on the streets), children on the streets (children who work on the street but have a home to go to at night), and children of the street (children who live on the street without family support).

The causes of street children phenomenon are varied. They are sometimes related to domestic, economic or social circumstances such as poverty, breakdown of homes and/or families; political unrest; sexual, physical or emotional abuse and domestic violence.

Some street children are youngsters lured away by pimps, Internet predators and begging syndicates; some are on the streets due to mental health problems, substance abuse and sexual orientation.

Children may also end up on the streets due to cultural factors. For example, some children in parts of Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda are sent away from their homes on suspicions that they are witches who bring bad luck upon their family. In Afghanistan, young girls accused of ‘honour crimes’ such as adultery or who refuse arranged marriage, may be forced to leave their homes. In Nigeria, some children from the ‘core north’, known as the almajiris, are forced to leave their homes to be under the tutelage of a mallam (Islamic religious teacher).

Several countries around the world are increasingly developing programmes and projects to care for street children and give them the love the streets cannot give

them. In South Africa for instance,street children are legally protected by the South African Children’s Act 38 of 2005, which defines street children as “children living, working and begging on the street” and as “Children in need of Care and Protection”. The South African government not only partially funds street children organizations, parents of vulnerable children can get a monthly child care support, and some organisations have developed effective street outreach programmes and drop-in centres.

In India, which has an estimated one million street children in each of its mega cities of New Delhi, Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) and Mumbai, one of the notable successful interventions was Ashalayam (house of hope) set up by Salesian Father Antony Thaiparambil.

Fr. Thaiparambil opened his first night shelter for 14 street children in a slum area near Howrah and began to live with them. His second shelter, which he named Ashalayam in 1991, was blessed

by St Mother Teresa of Kolkata. It is estimated that about 500 street children now live in 23 Ashalayam shelter homes in Kolkata and Nadia district of West Bengal state. Fr Thaiparambil, who died on March 19,aged 84, was reputed to have rescued over 80,000 Indian children from the streets.

In Kenya, which has an estimated 250,000 street children, you have the Saint Boys Project – an effort to take boys off the streets and put them in a home where they will be loved as members of the family. In the United States, where an estimated two million youth run away from or are forced out of their homes each year, the government uses a number of legislation to protect this section of the population such as the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act of 1978, which made funds available for shelters.

I am not aware of any governmental intervention to cater specifically to the needs of street children in Nigeria. True, the Jonathan government set up almajiri schools and Nigerians tend to show some compassion to street beggars by giving whatever they can, a nation-wide policy

targeting this section of the population is largely absent. Rather state governments routinely announce ban on street hawking and round up beggars for deportation to their states of origin. Certainly the International Day for Street Children is a golden opportunity for us to reflect as a country if we are doing enough for this section of our population.

True, street children may have rough manners (what do you expect from people who are denied parental love and have to fend for themselves on the street?), they are not irredeemable. There are numerous instances of rescued street children who were successfully re-integrated into the society. For instance during the funeral of Fr.Thaiparambilmany of the former street children he rescued from the street turned up, some from very far distances to mourn the priest they literarily regarded as their father. One of these, Bimal Das, was reported to have made a very emotional statement in-between cries and sobs: “I have not seen God, nor have I seen my parents. But if God is there, I am sure he looks like this man,” he reportedly said after the ceremony.

Another was quoted as saying: “I hardly remember when I was rescued because I was too young, barely six years old, and was wandering with other children there,” he said. “My name and age were given by father [Thaiparambil]. But not just that … my entire life is his gift.” For me, this is what ‘touching lives’ is all about while we are still on this side of life’s divide.

We can certainly do more for our street children. We need street angels – because let’s face it; any of us could have had their fate. Even if we simplistically blame poor parenting for their fate or theirresponsibility of parents siring more children than they can cater for, the truth is that they did not choose their parents. As the screenwriter Darlenne Susan Girard noted in her book Freefalling (2012), “On the street there is no tomorrow. There is only here and now and nothing else. And yesterday is just another day you’re trying to forget.”

That’s how chilling life is for our street children.

LASU’s cesspit of scandals

Wale Fatade

This is not the best of time for our academics in Nigeria. The ivory tower is under a renewed focus, not for groundbreaking research or new innovations, but corrupt acts and overbearing attitude of some administrators. The last seven days have shown us that our universities are not really different from the rest of us in the rot we see around.

First is a damning indictment of Bayero University academics by a former vice chancellor of the institution and our former electoral chief, Attahiru Jega, who complained bitterly about the conduct of his fellow academics in the heist we call election in Kano State. Not sure there could be stronger words from someone who straddles both words: academia and elections management.

Hopefully, we will get to hear the full story of what went down in Kano one day.

Similarly, my alma mater, the University of Ibadan is in the news for the wrong reasons. The institution’s vice chancellor, or maybe more fittingly, emperor; Idowu Olayinka, with the active connivance of its senate, rusticated a former student leader for four semesters for leading a protest over non issuance of identity cards that students paid for amidst other issues. More painful is the fact that our alumni body, of which Olayinka

is a member as alum of the university, had interceded and pleaded with the school’s management with the student leader eating the humble pie over the issue. Granted there would be excesses on students’ part, but must we kill a mosquito with an AK47? Which better environment should foster a culture of dissent, debate and demonstration?

While we must acknowledge the toiling academics who strive daily to make something worthwhile of their scholarly pursuits in an unfavourable environment like ours, and I should know as I have them as family, friends and former mates, the fact is that too often our academics remain insular to societal needs and thereby unable to fashion appropriate responses to our challenges.

However, the two instances pale into insignificance when we look closely at happenings in the Lagos State University, LASU. This column once described the institution, as one in “perpetual crisis” and sadly, it appears things have not changed for the better.

We have a journalist, Nicholas Ibekwe, incidentally an alumnus of the school, to thank for shining his investigative lights on happenings in his former school.

Full disclosure – Ibekwe was once my reporter or colleagues as he prefers I refer to him, but I had no hand in his two investigative reports on LASU. The

first told of how a professor in the school falsified his age so as to stay in service beyond the retirement age. No big deal, we might be tempted to say as this is a common occurrence in our society, but when this continues with the active connivance of the vice chancellor, a professor of law for that matter, who knows more or should know about laws, we are done for.

His second story is on how staff pension were withdrawn ostensibly to fund accreditation exercise when the state government did not release money in time for it. Nothing untoward at least but when the funds expended were not up to what was taken out, we should ask further questions. The story also alleged that the fund was released without authorization as only the vice chancellor and council chairman, himself a former academic, were in the know of its release without the authorization of the council. The surplus, or remainder, as you can only have surplus when the requirements have been met, was spent in buying vehicles. These include cars for the council chairman and the vice chancellor’s personal assistant with some buses sprinkled for effect. I think there must be something with our public officials and cars, this theme has been nicely explored by Tope Fasua, economist and presidential candidate in the last presidential election, who has

been compiling figures of how much we usually budget for vehicles’ purchase even when we don’t produce them.

I remember how on getting to the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta last year, a Toyota Land Cruiser Prado drove past us. It was with the university’s number plate and my son; an automobile enthusiast declared magisterially that it is a 2017 model. Upon asking some lecturers in the institution, they confirmed my son’s observation and that the one I saw belongs to the vice chancellor while there are two others for his deputy.

Can’t remember the exact figure they said the vehicles were bought, usually inflated as it would have been contracted out, but the three cost over N200 million.

The tepid defence from LASU’s management on the pension money withdrawal and disbursement should cause us all sleepless nights. We can be sure that the lame duck Akinwunmi Ambode administration will do nothing as it went to sleep since last year, but the least we can demand of Babajide SanwoOlu as he assumes office next month is a thorough investigation of this sordid act. It should not be swept under the carpet, as LASU ought to be free from the clutches of those who continue to hold it hostage, stifling her from becoming a university indeed.

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Editorial Commentary

Forgive sinners, but punish crime

Times Guest Columnist Mohammed Adamu

“When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom”, Shakespeare wrote, “it is the gentler gamester that is the soonest winner”. Nigeria, it appears, is fast becoming a self-harming, ‘lenient’ but ‘cruel’ society whose softness on crimes hardens the hearts of outlaws. A lawgoverned society, ironically seems more adept at toasting rather than roasting its gangsters. By the wanton let of the many, the few have unleashed life-threatening crimes and misdemeanors. The wrongs that now menace our societies are no longer the analogue, ‘your-life-or-your-money’ kinds of crime. Now we have sadistic, bloodletting daredevils, so obsessed with killing that they give their victims no option: it is now ‘your life and your money’! The nation is now littered with trigger-happy killer-zealots, of a religious, ethnic or merchantilic type: from the free-reigning, ransom-taking killer-kidnappers who are now so bold they knock on the doors of their victims, to the murderous, gold-digging Zamfara bandits with senses numbed by tramadol and other classes of across-the-counter, mind-bending stuff, to the notorious, optionally-radicalizing killer-machine, the boko-haram. And that is not to mention the huge army of cattle-rustling rogue communities of the middle belt whose un-assuageable taste for others’ belongings feeds the army of would-be killer herdsmen and kidnappers.

These murderous classes of criminals we allow to get away with murder. A principle of law warns that no one should be allowed to profit from their own wrongdoing. But we allow criminals to do more than just profit from their own wrongdoing.

We let them profit even from the proceeds of their wrongdoing. When a criminal escapes the rigors of the law and is not punished he has already profited from his wrong doing. But when he also gets to keep the proceed of his crime, he even profits more. A nation that regales in wanton lawlessness cannot hope for salvation even from the bounty of her own gratuity. Letting criminals get away with murder does not curb crime. It encourages it. Forgiveness of sin has its place only in religion; and punishment for wrong, in the body of man-made laws. Yet rather than punish wrong, we self-righteously make a self-harming virtue of forgiving wrong doers. We want looters not only to be forgiven, but we want them to keep the loot. In fact as proof that we have forgiven them, we even want them back into political office to misgovern us again. If we have our way, Evans the kidnapper should be pardoned. The Dubai five and the numerous Saudi drug peddlers on death row, should too.

When the law will do no right, Shakespeare wrote, “let it be lawful that the law bars no wrong”.

If the law will not punish offenders the law has no business criminalizing offences. Because people affrighted by wrong doers are always bound to take the law into their hands when they know that the law that should affright all, will not take them into its protective sanctuary. And so when a nation foolishly makes a ‘scarecrow’ of its laws, like we do, letting it stay mute in statute when it should be brute in action, the birds of prey that the dummy should scare, may soon make the law their idle perch and not their terror. When evil deeds have their permissive pass and not their strict punishment, a breakdown of normative values ensues and a nation is said to be in a season of anomie to everyone then, his own statute.

We murder while we smile. Yet we frame our faces to each mournful occasion –wetting our cheeks with artificial tears. We are so villainous we deceive easier than Ulysses could –Ulysses, the Greek legend who sold to Troy the dummy of the Trojan Horse, to win a crucial war for the fatherland. But the Ulyssess of our own nation today are not those who plot for the nation.

They are dissembling bigots in plots to harm the

fatherland. The so called patriots are those who array their cunnings to deny the nation a Trojan victory, preferring instead, to put her through an Athenian defeat. These false ‘patriots’ are bent on drowning the nation in the flood of her own blood. Enemies of state, obdurate at heart, malevolent in intent, motivated only by personal gains, are now up in arms against one and all. We are assailed on the one hand by deviants engaged daily in high crimes and misdemeanor, and on the other, by traitors bent on making capital out of everyday criminality.

Tribes and tongues now take the law into their hands, because the law being mute in statute and lame in action, does no right. The army of venal politicians, making the law their perch and not their terror, now freely stoke the fire of mischief. The sectionalized public is reduced to schismatic mutual self-loathing –debating what ‘grievous wrong’ shamelessly to defend or what ‘noble right’ wickedly to debase. And the question is asked: ‘is this at last the sullen presage of our nation’s final decay?’ -that we are now condemned foolishly to array our might against ourselves; or that we are now determined make a shameful conquest of ourselves! Our so called men of God happily now are prophets of a new calling –of gloom and of doom. They speak no longer of peace because they have themselves become the harsh and boisterous tongue of woe.

Woe betides every subject that they lay their evil tongues on! Our so called men of God have now turned the ‘word’ to ‘sword’, their ink to blood, their pens to piercing lances and their mouths to trumpets and beagle of war.

If we persist in taking no heed, then the blood of innocents shall continue to manure the ground; and future ages will bear the brunt of our inaction.

We must not allow our grief minister unto our reason -as it is evident now it does- making us seek always to heal the inveterate canker of one wound by making many. Our fault must not be our folly. We must not afford always to find out ‘right’ with ‘wrong’. Because two wrongs, as every Jack should know, will not make a right!

And to all and sundry, it should be said: sheath thee thy swords. He that steeps his safety in blood shall find but bloody safety in return. Just as he who lives by the sword, shall die by the sword.

For there is no sure foundation set on blood; no certain life achieved by others’ death. In a false quarrel there is no true valor. But in peace there is victory for all. For peace, they say is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued and no party loser. Pray, no more the thirsty entrance of this soil should daub her lips with her own children’s blood. No more should trenching war channel her fields, nor bruise her flowers with the armed hoofs of hostile rebellion.

President Buhari must not spare the instruments of chastisement; lest his power, like to a fangless lion, is disdained and disregarded.

He must be great in act as we know him to be in thought. He must stir with the times and be fire for fire! To gain the popular mood, he has to threaten the threatener and must outface the brow of bragging horror. Mr. President has to put on the dauntless spirit of resolution. He has to glister like the god of war when he intends to become the field! He must not allow our dreadful laws to be slighted or the dignity of our state so wantonly profaned. Buhari has to break some bones! Yes, advantage, as they say, is a better soldier than rashness. But even as the President is right to be ‘slow and steady’, it is expedient that he makes haste to keep us merry. It may be great that he does not have the scholar’s melancholy, but it is unacceptable that he should not have the jauntiness of a soldier.

Yes, let’s be gratuitous with forgiveness of sins; but we must be severe in punishing wrong!

Our POSITION Tackling the menace of drug abuse in Nigeria The devastating consequences of drug use know no geographic, economic, social, or ethnic boundaries.

Each year hundreds of thousands of people around the globe – rich, poor, educated, illiterate, male, female, and even young children die from drug abuse, and millions more are victims of addiction and drug-fueled violence.

Beyond the toll drugs take on health and welfare, substance use disorders undermine economic development, diminishes social and political stability, and reduces security in countries and regions around the world.

It is no longer news that 70% of youth in Nigeria today get themselves involved in one form of drug abuse or the other.

Amidst the widespread commendations over the ban of codeine by the Federal Government, a new large-scale nationwide survey has revealed that drug use by people within the ages of 15 and 64 years in Nigeria is on the rise.

A survey on drug use in Nigeria last year had revealed that the nation is breeding a wild generation of drug addicts. This gory state of affairs of substance abuse calls for the declaration of a state of emergency, considering the fact that the youth population is the fulcrum of national development.

The nationwide survey by the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) funded by European Union (EU) in partnership with the Federal Government said 10.6 million Nigerians abused cannabis in 2018, while 4.6 million abused opiods.

The report said that 2.4 million youths and adults also abused cough syrups with 92,000 more using cocaine. Other drugs commonly abused during the period are tranquilizers and sedatives, solvent, inhalers, amphetamines and prescription stimulants.

This survey also reports that one of four drug users in Nigeria is a woman. Adding that the extent of drug use in Nigeria is comparatively high compared to previous global annual prevalence of any drug abuse use.

Basically, youths in the country inhale, inject and consume psychotic and narcotic substances and drugs at will, easily evading the scrutiny of a society distracted by economic malaise at the expense of their future wellbeing.

Truth be told, the impact of drug abuse is lethal.

Many families are contending with drug addicts; some of them have quit schooling and work; others are on the verge of lunacy or battling with acute diseases.

The number of drug users in Nigeria is estimated at 14.4 per cent or 14.3 million people aged between 15 and 64 years according to the results of the National Drug Use Survey. The data suggests that the prevalence of past year drug use in Nigeria is more than twice the global average of 5.6 per cent.

The extent of drug use in Nigeria is comparatively high when compared with the 2016 global annual prevalence of any drug use of 5.6 per cent among the adult population.

There is a gap in meeting the needs for treatment and care for people with drug use disorders. With close to three million Nigerians living with some level of drug dependence, the extremely limited availability of drug counselling and treatment services exacerbates this health crisis.

This is indeed striking and alarming and

calls for concerted efforts to mitigate the negative consequences of this rising menace on the health, socio-economic and security of our nation.

Even though the Federal Government has over the years responded boldly to this global challenge with innovative, standard-setting drug demand reduction programs, we are of the opinion that there is need to solve the problem.

Awareness programmes need to be developed to address the perception of stigma among the youth and their families over substance use and to remove barriers towards seeking care for these problems.

These programmes should also address the inability of the youth to perceive addictive behaviours as a health risk.

Parents and support persons’ involvement and engagement in youth programmes should be strengthened further as it improves communication and better decision-making for youth health issues.

Family-based prevention programmes emphasising parenting skills, training or improving family functioning, communication and family rules regarding substance abuse needs to be introduced.

Also, teachers are a major source of information to young people. Hence, strengthening the role and performance of educational institutions, ensuring availability of counselling services, gender sensitivity issues, making life skills courses a part of curriculum are required for health and welfare of young people.

Most importantly, in all youth related programmes, young people should be involved and engaged to empower them to take informed decisions.

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Acting News Editor Henry Omunu 08033047507 The opinions expressed in the articles published in this newspaper are solely those of the authors. Articles may be reproduced, provided that the original source is indicated.

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Again, Atiku, PDP tell tribunal to disqualify Buhari Andrew Orolua, Abuja The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar have again asked the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to disqualify President Muhammadu Buhari on the ground that he was not qualified to have contested the election.

The plaintiffs said the issue surrounding Buhari’s qualification falls under the 1999 Constitution as amended and the Electoral Act and therefore, prayed the tribunal to discountenance APC’s argument that it is a pre -election matter.

They said that it is not only a preelection matter as claimed by Buhari and the All Progressive Congress in their replies to Abubakar Atiku and PDP petitions, but a post-election matter.

They said that the issue of Buhari’s non qualification is a post-election matter which the tribunal is vested with power to adjudicate upon and determine.

These arguments are contained in the PDP and Atiku’s reply to the preliminary objection raised by the

APC. Replying to paragraph six of the preliminary objection, the petitioners contend that the petition discloses reasonable cause of action capable of conferring the court with jurisdiction to entertain same.

In answer to paragraphs 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 of the preliminary objection, the petitioners state that all the allegations of non-compliance in the petition have been tied to specific polling units, wards and local governments associated with the allegations where irregularities and other infractions took place.

Also, responding to paragraphs 13, 14, and 15 of the preliminary objection alleging failure to join persons named in the paragraphs of the petition, the petitioners contended that the individuals, officers, institutions and personages named in those paragraphs acted for and on behalf of (INEC) as agents and/or on the authority of the electoral umpire.

Concluding, the petitioners stated that the entirety of the third respondent’s objection is puerile, face saving, vexatious, absolutely and completely unfounded.

… Says am a Nigerian citizen by birth

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar has declared that he is a Nigerian citizen by birth contrary to claims by the All Progressives Congress (APC) that he is not a Nigerian.

Atiku and the PDP stated this in their reply to the objection raised by All Progressives Congress (APC) to their petition challenging Muhammadu Buhari’s victory at the February 23 election.

Though, they said that they will object to APC’s claims regarding Atiku citizenship as being “in bad faith and designed to embarrass him” and the averment questioning his qualification as “speculative and incompetent,” nonetheless, they stated for the avoidance of doubt that Atiku is a Nigerian by birth.

They said that they shall take objection to Buhari’s challenge to Atiku qualification contained in paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of the respondent’s reply on the following grounds; that the issue of citizenship ought to have been brought within 21 days after the date of declaration of the result of the election under Section 285 (5) of the constitution and having not been so brought is therefore, incompetent and statute barred.

They also contend that the averments in the said paragraphs touching on the qualification of Atiku cannot be raised vide a reply to a petition in the absence of a petition by the APC and having not been supported by any relief in the APC’s reply are hypothetical, academic, speculative and incompetent.

Atiku stated that he was born on November 25, 1946 in Jada, Adamawa state by Nigerian parents and he is therefore, a citizen of Nigeria by

birth, and that his father, Garba Atiku Abdulkadir was a Nigerian by birth who hailed from Wurno in present day Sokoto state while the mother, Aisha Kande was also a Nigerian who hailed from Dutse in present day Jigawa state.

That the parents of Atiku are both Fulani, a community/tribe indigenous to Nigeria. The birth of Atiku in Jada, in present day Adamawa state was occasioned by the movement of his paternal grandfather called Atiku, who was an itinerant trader, from Wurnoo in present day Sokoto state to Jada in the company of his friend, Ardo Usman.

“That in Jada, Atiku, the grandfather of the first petitioner gave birth to Garba, who in tum gave birth to the first petitioner and named him after his own father, Atiku. The first petitioner’s mother, Aisha Kande was the granddaughter of Inuwa Dutse, who came to Jada as an itinerant trader too from Dutse in present day Jigawa state.

“That all averments concerning Germany, British Cameroons, League of Nations and the plebiscite are false and misleading in relation to the first petitioner and therefore, completely irrelevant more so, that the first petitioner is a Nigerian by birth within the contemplation of the constitution. The averments in the aforesaid paragraphs are indeed, fabricated, contrived, made in bad faith and designed to embarrass the first petitioner,” Atiku added.

In response to paragraph 7 of the APC’s reply, the petitioners averred that the votes of Atiku, the first petitioner in the election to the office of the president are not wasted votes and that Atiku being a qualified candidate in the said election, indeed, secured majority of the lawful votes over and above the votes of Buhari.

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Oil firm sues local content board, Mobil for breach of Act Isaac Job, Uyo

An indigenous oil servicing company operating in Akwa Ibom state, the Pioneer Divers International Limited has commenced legal action against the Nigeria Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) for the alleged breach of local content laws that regulate the patronage of local firms by international oil companies.

In a suit number HEK/96/2019, filed at the state High Court in Eket, the plaintiff through its lead counsel, Nwabueze Onukogu alleged that the NCDMB has breached the provisions of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development Act, 2010.

Joined in the suit as defendants are ExxonMobil, Boron Oil and Gas Limited of the United States and Subtech Company from South Africa.

Onukogu further alleged that the Nigerian Development Content and Monitoring

Board conspired with some international oil companies, such as ExxonMobil to short change Nigerian companies from benefiting in contract awards which can facilitate the transfer of technology that would help indigenous firms acquire the expertise as envisaged by the Local Content Act, 2010.

The plaintiff is claiming that Mobil awarded a $90 million diving contract to Boron Oil and Gas in partnership with Subtech, observing that the services would have been executed by local companies, but that the first defendant (NCDMB) recommended the third and fourth defendants to Mobil in breach of the local content law.

The plaintiff said the recommendation by the Nigeria Content Development and Monitoring Board was a violation of the local content laws which they are supposed to protect, safeguard and implement for the benefit of local companies operating in the oil industry to protect them against foreign competitors.

In the writ of summons made available to our correspondent, the plaintiff is seeking for the court to declare that the defendants have breached the provisions of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development Act, 2010.

“There shall be exclusive consideration of indigenous companies of which plaintiff is and demonstrate ownership of equipment, Nigeria personnel and capacity to execute and bid for any work on land and contract services, including diving, ROVs and topside as contained in the Act,” he argued.

The plaintiff also prayed the court to award the sum of N100 million as damages in relief having established that the defendants have failed in their duty as enshrined in the law and an order compelling Mobil to also cancel an earlier contract awarded to CNS International, an Italian company providing similar services in their oil field in Akwa Ibom state.

The case has been adjourned to May 20 for hearing.

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Short News Enforce ban on street begging, group urges Northern governors Samuel Luka, Bauchi Governments in the North have been advised to initiate welfare programmes for people with disabilities, vulnerable members of the society and enforce the ban on street begging.

A social group known as “Mu Kawar da bara Movement” (meaning ‘let us eradicate begging) said that it was worried by the endemic child begging associated with the almajiri system of education in the northern parts of the country and is appealing to all stakeholders to solve the menace by equipping the almajiri children with skills.

The Kano state Coordinator of the movement, Aliyu Assufy Algambiyawy made the call yesterday during a sensitization meeting with stakeholders on the menace of street begging by children in the state.

The group, Mu kawar da bara, called on the governments in the region to train ‘almajiris’ on skills acquisitions as part of measures to transform them to be self-reliant and end child begging.

According to him, the movement was established in March in Kaduna state, adding that the objective is to prevail on governments and stakeholders on the need to implement solutions that have been offered by many scholars on how to end street begging.

I’ll run an inclusive government, union leader pledges Abiodun Taiwo, Abeokuta The National President of the Amalgamated Commercial Tricycle and Motor-cycle Owners, Repairs and Riders Association of Nigeria (ACOMORAN), Alhaji Samsudeen Apelogun has promised to run an allinclusive government.

Apelogun stated this after his swearing in ceremony as the fifth national president of the association, held at the Women Development Centre, Abuja.

He identified the crucial role of land transportation in contributing to the robust economy of any country, promising adequate welfare for members and rebranding of the association in order to key into government’s plans and policies of having a vibrant economy.

“As we mount the leadership of this great association and also in line with world best practices, we will rebrand the association, enhance members’ welfare and partner with government and security agencies and run an all-inclusive government by giving every members his role, as part of our four-point agenda,” he stated.

Apelogun thereafter, thanked the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration for supporting the association and promised to create a mutual relationship with all tiers of government, especially the Federal Ministry of Transportation.

Also speaking at the ceremony, the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, represented by the Director, Road Transport and Mass Transit, Mrs. Anthonia Ekpa, assured that the ministry will always support and collaborate with stakeholders in the transport industry, to further key into the job creation plan of government.

Amaechi hinted that a solar-powered tricycle and motor-cycle would soon be launched by his ministry.

L-R: Social Secretary, Island Club, Hon. Olukayode Ogundipe; Lord Bishop, Diocese of Lagos, (Anglican Communion), The Rt. Rev. Humphrey Olumakaiye; and Chairman, Island Club, Mr. Olabanji Oladapo, during annual Lenten Talk, Choral Rendition & Breaking of fast in Lagos... on Monday.

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Petroleum varsity VC appeals to Buhari to sign bill establishing institution Nosa Akenzua, Asaba

Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun in Delta state has lamented the absence of a law establishing the institution and has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to sign into law the bill creating the university to enable the institution fulfill its mandate.

The Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Akaehomen Ibhadode, who spoke to our correspondent in Effurun, disclosed that the university was at a disadvantage considering the non-provision of any take off grant at its inception.

He therefore, appealed to the federal government to approve the implementation of the special funding window in the University Establishment Act because of the challenges of funding

that is slowing down the development of the university.

“We believe that the spirit with which Mr. President assents to the Act would be the same to implement its letters because it’s on that platform that our journey to the apogee of academic glory would commence with earnest zeal and truly make our university the first in Africa and sixth in the world.

“Our major challenge as a university is that of funding which may not be much different from those of other institutions. However, we are particularly disadvantaged considering the manner the university took off, the non-provision of take-off grant at inception has slowed down the development of the university,” Prof. Ibhadode said.

He added that if the university is to live up to the expectations of its founding fathers, government must do more to

adequately fund the university.

The vice chancellor said that it was disheartening that key stakeholders in the oil sector have not identified with the university even when they were already getting global accolades.

He expressed optimism that assenting to the University Establishment Act by the president will motivate key stakeholders to collaborate with the university, reiterating that the vision of the institution is to serve the interest of the nation in particular and humanity at large.

“We are not deterred by the uphill task that would culminate in fulfilling our mandate,” he assured, disclosing that the university has achieved 100 per cent full accreditation from both the National Universities Commission (NUC) and the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) for all its academic programmes.

Unhealthy lifestyle cause of non-communicable diseases - Don Nosa Akenzua, Asaba

A university don, Prof. Olutayo Ajayi of the Department of Physiology, University of Benin at the weekend, said that non -communicable diseases are occasioned by the change in life-style among other factors.

Prof. Ajayi, who spoke to our correspondent in Abraka at a lecture he delivered at the Delta state University Teaching Hospital during the maiden edition of the World Biomedical Day and public lecture organized by Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria, DELSUTH chapter, disclosed that non-communicable diseases are caused by a combination of factors, such as unhealthy diet leading to obesity, consumption of genetically processed foods, excess intake of alcohol, environmental pollution and lack of physical activity.

“These are the causes of non-communicable diseases which manifest later in life,” the don stated, adding that 60 per cent of deaths are caused by non-communicable diseases.

Speaking on the theme: “Non -communicable diseases, the role of biomedical laboratory scientists in detection, screening and treatment,” Prof. Ajayi added that “we can run away from all these if we can modify our lifestyle.”

Meanwhile, professor of Comparative Politics and Developmental Studies, Charles Onvughe, has urged governments at all levels to devise initiatives that will curb rural urban migration across the country, adding that one of such ways was for government to build agro based industries and companies in villages so that the youth and others can be gainfully employed.

He said that “government at all levels must devise progressive and visible means of engaging people at the rural areas as that will reduce to a large extent the movement of people from rural to urban areas.

“If you visit most villages across the country, you will observe that most villages look deserted because most youth and some middleaged persons have moved to urban areas since there is nothing tangible to engage them.

“These people move to urban areas in search of greener pastures, resulting in the over -population in some of the major cities across the country. For instance, Lagos is over -populated because people move from our rural areas on a daily basis to Lagos, Abuja and other areas.”

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Presidency and Judiciary Andrew Orolua The presidency this week recorded three major achievements in its strives to reposition the Judiciary.

It has been the desire of Buhari administration from inception in 2015 to ensure that the judiciary tow it line of thoughts in the fight against corruption. The administration, whether rightly or wrongly from its actions and in action perceived the Judiciary as one of those institutions populated with corrupt persons whose belief must be checked or be forcefully removed in order to clear the judiciary of obstacles obstructing the fight against corruption.

Two years ago the Presidency look aside as the Department of State Services’ conducted string operations on houses of seven judges. It is true that the operation have led to a premature retirement of at least one of the justices from office and an indefinite suspension of one Supreme Court justice from office.

The legal battle which trail the string operations has also led to an unpalatable consequence in the fight against corruption.

It gave the officials of the judiciary who were taken unexpectedly by the arraignment of some judges an opportunity to seek an escape route.

A Lee way was found in the decision of the appeal

Court in the famous case of Justice Ngejiwa vs FG where the appellate Court held that a judicial official must first be subjected to the disciplinary committee of the National Judicial Council that was vested with the power to discipline judicial official before any charge could be brought against them.

Besides Justice Ngejiwa, several other judicial officers have benefited from the decision including Justice Sylvester Ngwuta a Supreme Court justice whose trial on alleged non asset declaration before the Code of Conduct Tribunal and criminal charges bordering on alleged corrupt practices at the Federal High Court were truncated.

Though, the judgment of the Court of Appeal remains the true position of the law, the judgment of the Code of Conduct Tribunal of last week Thursday in the case of Federal Republic of Nigeria and Justice Walter Onnoghen deviated from its earlier judgment on same issue, probably to demonstrate the disenchantment of the federal government on what the judicial officials believed is the law.

Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Danladi Umar explaining the reason for over ruling its earlier decision said the tribunal is vested with power to reverse itself if it is proved that the decision was made in error.

According to him, the Constitution of the Federal Government of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) is supreme to any other law and can not be subjected

to any rule or act of Parliament.

If this argument is canvass at the Supreme Court where the appeals in the cases involving Justice Ngejiwa , retired Justice Adeniyi Ademola and probably Justice Walter Onnoghen are to be reviewed and if the decision favours the federal government position , then the Presidency which at the weekend prematurely celebrated CCT judgment , would have triumph over one of its major obstacle obstructing its interference with the judiciary.

How soon would that be ? Your gaze is as good as mine because an appeal that lie to the Supreme Court will take not less than five years to decide except the matter is an exceptional case, such as election related matters.

Justice Onnoghen has already filed an appeal at Court of Appeal challenging the decision of the Code of Conduct Tribunal that surprisingly clothed itself with jurisdiction and convicted the Chief Justice of Nigeria CJN for failing to declare his five accounts with Standard Chartered bank.

The appeal as I said earlier is not likely to receive an urgent attention but the ruling on Onnoggen earlier appeal challenging the jurisdiction that arguments and addresses of parties have been taken may receive attention mainly because in which ever ways it goes would not obstruct the Code of Conduct Tribunal from doing it work.

In the appeal , Onnoghen is asking the Court of Appeal to upturn the decision of the Code of Conduct Tribunal which last week’s Thursday removed him from office, even though the appellant had the previous week voluntarily resigned.

Onnoghen also asked the Court of Appeal to set aside the tribunal order confiscating his money and barring him from holding public offence for ten years.

Onnoghen conviction like the arrests of seven justices two year ago are pointers that the fight against corruption in the judiciary is on going and will be intensified in the near future.

Even as that fight continue last week , critics said the government now seeks avenue to correct some of its lapses, such that the presidency last week recommended to National Judicial Council the extension by three months the Acting appointment of Justice Ibrahim Muhammad whose first three months tenure had expired on 25 April.

While, some are wondering why such request when the disciplinary recommendation forwarded to the Presidency by the council on its finding on the petitions written against Justices Onnoghen and Muhammad have yet to receive attention about a month after.

What the Judiciary need is a substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria . That decision must be made to save this arm of government from drifting.

The propriety of inconclusive election declaration by the independent national electoral commission: Breeding an unquestionable electoral umpire By: Dinne, Israel Chukwuemeka Esq. 08068613825 Abuja Chapters 5, 6 and 7 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) established the Legislature, the Executive and the Judiciary arms of Government respectively and did set out their various powers in Sections 4, 5 and 6. The whole requirements, expectations, duties, powers and means of upholding and implementing the Constitution revolves around these three arms be it at the Federal or State level and this is geared towards making sure that Nigeria is and remains one indivisible and indissoluble sovereign State.

Basically, the powers and duties of the above arms of government remains the making of laws by the Legislature, the enforcement of these laws by the Executive and the interpretation of the laws by the Judiciary.

The Executive which is perceived as the first/ highest among equals (primus inter peras) indeed has a lot to do in the implementation of these laws and the constitution is not oblivion of this fact (we must remind ourselves that Nigeria is one of the Countries that has numerous laws). It is in light of the above that it allowed for the establishment of certain Federal Executive bodies known as Federal Commissions and Councils in section 153 (1) to help in the implementation of the laws and went ahead to list their powers and means of composition in Part 1 of the Third Schedule to the constitution. Among the 14 mentioned bodies is the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) which is stated to be composed of a Chairman, 12 National Electoral Commissioners, a Resident Electoral Commissioner for each of the States and the FCT being persons of a specific age bracket and appointed by the President. The Constitution did set out a number of things which the Commission has power to do and these among others include; a) to organise, undertake and supervise all elections to the offices of the President and Vice-President, the Governor and Deputy Governor of a State, and to the membership of the Senate, the House of Representatives and the House of Assembly of each State of the Federation; b) to monitor political campaigns and provide rules

and regulations which shall govern the political parties; c) to carry out such other functions as may be conferred upon it by an Act of the National Assembly.

It is in compliance with (c) above that on the 20th day of August 2010, the National Assembly enacted an Act repealing the Electoral Act 2006 and the Independent National Electoral Commission Act 2004 and then set up the Electoral Act 2010 to aid the Electoral Commission regulate the conduct of Federal, State and Area Council elections and related matters. Since the inception of the above Act, the Electoral Umpire have conducted its activities in adherence to the provisions therein and sequel to that, several issues and challenges have been experienced as the shortfalls of the 2010 Act in putting up with the 21st century electoral practices among which is the issues surrounding the Card Reader, Electronic transmission of results and others. The Commission have tried to proffer solution to these challenges by making and giving itself Rules, Regulations and Guidelines for a smooth and better implementation of the provisions of the Electoral Act and its other responsibilities though these have proofed not to be enough. The last general election conducted by the Commission exposed more issues and areas where the Electoral umpire needs to do more and where it has to be very mindful of its decisions so as not to be seen as trying to constitute itself as the alpha and omega in election matters, carrying on its business as if its actions and their consequences should not be subjected to scrutiny and answers officially demanded – (this is because the Commission is surely a branch that draws its life from the stem and must work in line with the laid down legal system).

Among the noted challenges are disenfranchisements of some eligible voters, the postponements and the several ‘’inconclusive’’ election declarations by the Commission. These are in total contrast with the objective of setting up the Commission and its responsibilities. It is the view of the writer here that it was not and is not envisaged by the Constitution or the Electoral Act (even in its contestable state) that any election be construed or termed as being inconclusive in whatsoever manner by INEC. A study of the Electoral Act shows that the only section that comes close to empowering/allowing the Commission

to reschedule an election is section 26. For clarity purpose, part of the said section shall be reproduced here. Section 26 (1) ‘’Where a date has been appointed for the holding of an election, and there is reason to believe that a serious breach of the peace is likely to occur if the election is proceeded with on that date or it is impossible to conduct the election as a result of natural disasters or other emergencies, the Commission may POSTPONE the election and shall in respect of the area, or areas concerned, appoint another date for the holding of the postponed election provided that such reason for the postponement is cogent and verifiable’’.

It has always been the rule and norm in legal parlance that a draftsman intends the meaning of the word he uses in a legislation, and among many definitions available, the word POSTPONE means ‘’to delay an event and plan or decide that it should happen at a time later than the first scheduled date – a deferral’’. It therefore means that an ongoing event cannot be postponed in its actual sense and irrespective of the provisions of subsections (3) and (4) of the section, the Commission cannot come under here to declare an ongoing election as inconclusive. It is believed that even in line with section 26(5) of the Act, that where a date have been fixed for an election and the election have commenced, (having in mind that it is a mandatory duty of the Commission to ensure that all have been put in place ranging from voters/parties education and sensitization, availability and security of the materials, the security of its personnel, logistics among other requirement for a successful election are on ground) the Commission has the duty to carry it out till completion and declare a result which any contest on the result may be challenged by any of the contestants at a Court or Tribunal of competent jurisdiction. It is only at this point that the Court or Tribunal as the case may be and being the proper entity empowered to interpret the actions and procedure of an election and make pronouncements can therefore cancel the said election, order for a rerun, declare it inconclusive or make any other pronouncement as it may deem fit in the circumstance.

In reaching any of the decisions above, the Court/ Tribunal is expected to ensure that it hears from all the parties or at least the key players involved and interested in the election among which is INEC

that is almost always given ALL it demands for a successful, free, fair and a hitch free election on their roles in the said election/result being contested.

Ordinarily it should not be heard that the electoral umpire with all its powers and expertise will return to state that it failed in carrying out its major national assignment and glory in it by unilaterally pronouncing a ‘’judgement’’ over an election and rescheduling same. Further, the declaration is equal to having the Commission exercise a quasi – judicial power which no body corporate is allowed to exercise unless the law establishing it expressly grants it that, if the Commission that holds a key place in the election arena, who is expected to be an unbiased umpire is allowed to wield such powers without restrictions and consequences we may get to a point where it will suo moto for whatever reason (be it in the bid to ensure that a particular candidate wins or out of sympathy for any of the contestants) make such declarations.

The well known doctrine of nemo judex incausa sua which translates into ‘’no one should be a judge in his own case’’ is another reason why it is believed that the law could not have intended to allow such decision to be at the discretion of the Commission.

The responsibility of organising and concluding elections remains that of INEC and where it fails, it is expected that it must take responsibility of it, each act or omission of the Commission which is a very crucial Commission goes a long way to affect almost all aspect of the Society, the Courts are not functioning at its best presently as they are engaged with several cases coming from the election, the Legislature is almost not ready to be inaugurated as many persons who ought to be members of the law making chambers are undergoing another contest in the Tribunals.

The ills of the last general election which are mostly informed by the decisions of INEC are still here with us and shall remain for some time. The early determination to do the ‘’right thing’’ by the political parties, election candidates, electorates, the electoral umpire (INEC) and those it is their duty to ensure workable society, will greatly help us to desist from making a ‘’mockery’’ of our system among the league of Nations – If the new Electoral Act is assented to and passed into law, it is expected that some of the anomalies experienced so far will be addressed.

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Sterling Bank unveils movie on infant maternal mortality this week Temitope Adebayo In an effort to bring greater awareness of the plight of the less privileged Nigerian child and mother, Sterling Bank Plc and the Malaria, Child, Maternal Mortality Eradication (MACMME) movie project titled ‘ANAVE’ to debut this week.

The film which was written, produced and directed by Nicolette Ndigwe had Abubakar Suleiman, Chief Executive Officer of Sterling Bank, and Frank Nweke Jnr., former Minister of Information and Communications, as co-executive producers.

Commenting on this development, Head of Technology and Digital Compliance, Sterling Bank, Mr. Lekan Akintemi, said the lender committed itself to be at the heart of Nigeria’s accelerated development by focusing on five critical sectors of the economy namely Health, Education, Agriculture, Renewable Energy and Transport.

“It should not be surprising that we supported the production of Anave – a malaria, infant and maternal mortality advocacy movie - because it promotes health and improved access to healthcare for the most vulnerable in society.

“In with our commitment to the health sector, we are continuously developing solutions that would promote preventive health as part of our overall strategy towards making Nigeria a nation that is populated by healthy people.”

Also, Ndigwe explained that, “Anave tells the story of an eight-year-old boy whose mother dies from malaria complications at childbirth, leaving him at the mercy of an orphanage. He ends up on the street in a quest for an education where he faces the struggles of the vulnerable poor and homeless.”

She said the movie campaign would raise a voice for the plight of the underprivileged Nigerian child and mother, 3,000 of whom die daily from preventable diseases and about the need to cooperate in the fight against malaria mortality, the creation of basic health care, as well as housing and education opportunities for the underprivileged Nigerian.

According to her, ANAVE parades some of Nigeria’s most celebrated artistes and actors such as Omawunmi Megbele, Aituaje Iruobe popularly known as Waje, Shawn Faqua, Seun Ajayi, Rita Edwards and many others, adding that it also parades in its crew, internationally acclaimed cinematographer, Adekunle “Nodash” Adejuyigbe, among others.

She said the film would premiere before a select audience at fund-raising events in Lagos on 25 April 2019, followed by a series of screenings to larger audiences across Nigeria including educational institutions, as part of a plan that not only aims at sensitising the public about the plight of the underprivileged Nigerian, but also to bring about tangible and sustainable change to society’s solvable problems.

She added that in keeping with this, the MACMME project has an end goal of establishing viable solutions for improved quality of life for the underprivileged Nigerian such as homeless shelters with access to basic healthcare, rehabilitation and empowerment programmes.

“The project’s overall strategic focus takes cognizance of five United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and recognising the potential of film in impacting the minds of people, Anave became the best tool to pass this message,” Ndigwe said.

She explained that the MACMME project is an advocacy project which seeks to reduce the gruesome rates of maternal and child mortality attributable to preventable causes such as malaria, homelessness, hunger and opportunistic diseases in Nigeria.

She said the dream which was born out of the need to ensure that no life was lost to anything that as a people, their resources could be brought together to fix or stop, was fueled by the statistics which showed that malaria is responsible for the death of an average of 300,000 children and 11 per cent of all maternal deaths each year in Nigeria.

She noted that data obtained from UNICEF further indicated that each month, “Nigeria loses about 2,300 under five-year-olds and 145 women of child-bearing age, making it the second largest contributor to under five and maternal mortality rates in the world.”

L-R: Health Desk, Sterling Bank, Oluwaseunayo Lojede; Maccme Board Member, Juliet Kego; Former Minister of Information and Communications, Frank Nweke Jnr; Founder, Maccme, Nicole Adigwe; and Head, Technology & Digital Compliance, Sterling Bank, Lekan Akintemi, at a press conference on Anave movie in Lagos... recently

How NAHCO recorded 74.6% drop in profit in one year Motolani Oseni The Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc (NAHCO) has reported a drop of 74.6 per cent in profits in the financial statement for the year ended December 31, 2018, to N196 million as against N775 million posted in 2017.

The group’s profit before tax declined by 16.13 per cent from N600 million in 2017 to N503 million recorded in 2018.

The group’s revenue increased to N9.83 billion in the full year of 2018 from N7.93 billion in 2017, an up of 24

per cent, the operating costs incurred by the firm increased to N6.66 billion from N5.61 billion in 2017, reducing the gross profit to N3.2 billion, though higher than the N2.3 billion in the corresponding period of 2017.

However, income tax expense increased to N360 million in 2018, an up of 74.4 per cent from N175 recorded in the previous year.

A breakdown of the group’s revenue showed that N5.39 billion was made from passenger/aircraft handling in 2018 as against N4.47 billion in 2017, N277 million from leasing in 2018 to

N192 million in 2017, while N3.77 billion made from cargo handling as against N2.96 billion in 2017 and N387 million made from equipment rental and maintenance to N302 million made in the full year of 2017.

The company’s earnings per share (EPS) closed the year at 12 kobo against 48 kobo of the previous year.

Meanwhile, NAHCO has declared a final dividend of 25 kobo per ordinary share, amounting to N406 million for the financial year ended December 31, 2018.

According to a statement on the

Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), signed by the Company Secretary, Bello Abdullahi, stated that the dividends will, on Friday July 26, 2019, be paid electronically to shareholders whose names appear on the Register of Members as of Monday, July 8, 2019.

Also, only shareholders who have completed the e-dividend registration and mandated the Registrar to pay their dividends directly into their bank accounts will receive payment.

The Register of Shareholders will be closed from to Tuesday, July 9, 2018, to Thursday, July 11, 2018.

Nigeria can generate $13b through digital ID - Report Ladesope Ladelokun Not less than $13 billion can be raked as additional revenue, but only if Nigeria could use digital ID to expand the tax base, a report

by Mc Kinsey Global Institute has revealed.

The report, also, showed that the use of digital ID will be helpful in including informal income and reduce fraud and errors in tax filing.

Governments and businesses, according

to the report, are implementing digital identification programmes with mixed results and adoption levels. The report further stated that good use of digital ID programmes can help people participate more fully in their economy and society, which will lead to a bounteous economic value and inclusive growth.

The new Mc Kinsey Global Institute report explains further that, with the adoption of digital ID and the right principles, Nigeria can be helped to unlock

3 per cent economic value equivalent of Gross Domestic Product(GDP) in advanced economies and 6 per cent in emerging economies.

The report, which X-rayed seven economies - Nigeria, Ethiopia, Brazil, China, the United Kingdom and the United States analysed almost 100 ways digital ID can be used, helping countries on its radar to understand the economic benefits of proper deployment of the digital ID. According to Rogerio Mascaren has,

Managing Partner, Mc Kinsey, Nigeria office, three-quarter of the potential economic value accrue to individuals in Nigeria, making it a powerful key to inclusive growth, noting that the rest flows to the private sector and government institutions.

He added that Nigeria’s unmet financial needs are huge as 64.5 million individuals are unbanked and therefore may be cut off from access to credit or the ability to deposit income.

Glo increases customers amid decline in total GSM subscribers Motolani Oseni Despite a decline in the total Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network services in Nigeria, Globacom (Glo) has increased its customer’s base by 400,879, claiming the highest number of subscribers for the month of February, latest data by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has revealed.

The commission, in its monthly subscriber/operator data report for the month under review explained that the increase for Glo comes despite a reduction in active subscribers on all the telecommunications networks from 174,012,136 in January to 173,670,035 in February.

According to the data, 173,276,528 of the 173,670,035 active numbers subscribed to the four GSM network services.

Among the other GSM network operators, 9mobile also recorded an increase of 345,264 new customers, while Airtel gained 4,559 new users.

MTN, however, lost 1,099,480 of its subscribers within the one month review period.

A breakdown of the figures showed that Glo had 1,028,985 more subscribers than Airtel in February with 46,004,517 users compared to Airtel’s 44,975,532.

Glo led 9mobile by 29,218,321 subscribers in January, widening the gap further to 29,273,936 in February.

Glo’s customer base grew by 0.87 per cent in February from 45,603,638 subscribers in January, while that of Airtel grew by 0.01 per cent in the same month.

For 9mobile, its subscriber base grew by 2.1 per cent in February to close at 16,730,581 after adding 345, 264 subscribers to the 16,385,317 it had in January.

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Africa Prudential posts 17.2% decline in profit Temitope Adebayo

L-R: CSO Keystone Bank, Mr Clement Ezeifedikwa; Divisional Head, Marketing & Corporate Communications Keystone Bank, Mrs Omobolanle Osotule, Ag. MD/CEO, Keystone Bank, Mr Abubakar Danlami Sule; Lagos State Commissioner Of Police, Mr Zubairu Muazu and Divisional Head, Corporate Services, Keystone Bank, Ms Olayemi Sule, during a courtesy visit to the CP, Lagos State Police Command on Thursday.

How Dangote Refinery will drive world crude oil refining capacity - OPEC Motolani Oseni The organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is upbeat at the prospect of the Dangote Oil Refinery serving to drive world crude oil refining capacity increase especially in Africa by 2020.

The organisation in the current edition of its World Oil Outlook (WOO), said that the Dangote refinery, which is the first privately owned and operated a refinery in Nigeria will refine as much as 650,000 barrels of crude oil per day at installed capacity.

Presently, total world oil production in 2019 averaged 80,622,000 barrels per day.

Approximately 68 per cent is coming from the top ten countries and an overlapping 44 per cent comes from the fourteen current OPEC members.

OPEC said in the outlook that the world is expecting some capacity expansion coming from Nigeria in Nigeria by 2020, either through the rehabilitation of existing refineries – in part to raise their utilisation rates, or through grassroots projects, like the Dangote Oil Refinery.

OPEC stated: “Last year’s World Oil Outlook hinted that, in Africa, “new projects could improve the situation somewhat toward the end of the period”.

This year, increasing confidence that the Dangote project in Nigeria will go ahead is indeed changing the picture.

“Allowing for some uncertainty in the project’s start-up timetable, incremental potential in Africa is expected to continue to lag incremental demand-based requirements through 2020, after which the potential is for a balance or excess requirements.

“A deficit of around 0.2 million barrels

per day (mb/d) from 2019 to 2020 is estimated to swing to an excess of around 0.3 mb/d by 2022 to 2023. It must be borne in mind that this regional outlook is unusual in that it hinges largely on a single project”.

OPEC said the completion of the project would reduce the importation of petroleum products in West Africa. “Since the project is in West Africa, its implementation does not necessarily alter the situations in North and East/South Africa. What should happen, especially in West Africa, is a reduction in the need and opportunity for product imports,” it added.

According to OPEC, in Africa, there are some 50 listed refining projects, which, if all built, would add nearly 5mb/d of new refining capacity to the continent.

The organisation noted, however, that in recent WOOs, the proportion of projects considered firm has generally been low, for example, 0.4 mb/d for 2017 to 2022

the period in WOO 2017. “This year, the outlook represents a significant reversal from recent history. For the first time in many years, projected firm additions at 1.1 mb/d exceed regional demand growth for 2018 to 2023 at 0.7 mb/d.

“This change relates primarily to one project in Nigeria now under construction.

Recognizing that this one major project is in West Africa, the prospects for North and East/South Africa continues to be for further increases in regional net product imports.

“It must be borne in mind that this regional outlook is unusual in that it hinges largely on a single project. Moreover, since the project is in West Africa, its implementation does not necessarily alter the situations in the North and East/South Africa. What should happen, especially in West Africa, is a reduction in the need and opportunity for product imports”, it stated.

Ecobank Transnational raises $138bn through Debut Eurobond Temitope Adebayo Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) the parent company of the Ecobank Group, has said that it has successfully raised N138 billion or $450 million (equivalent of N306.95/$) in its debut Eurobond which was oversubscribed.

The Global Offering for the capital is a 5-year unsecured note (144A/RegS) listed

on the main market of the London Stock Exchange. The bond matures in April 2024 and was issued with a coupon pricing of 9.5 per cent with interest payable semiannually in arrears.

The proceeds will be used for ETI’s general corporate purposes and to refinance existing Holdco obligations.

Investor interest was global, including United Kingdom, United States, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa.

On this debut Eurobond issuance, Group Chief Executive Officer of ETI Mr Ade Ayeyemi, in a statement, said, “This is another first for Ecobank and I’m very excited at the prospects for the Group as we continue the second phase of our 5-year ‘Roadmap to leadership’ strategy.

“Our efforts toward greater operational and capital efficiency are paying off, and this offer is another example of the measures we are taking to strengthen our

institution and deliver value for all of our stakeholders.”

The Group hief Financial Officer, Mr Greg Davis, also commenting on this Eurobond said, “The success of this Eurobond reflects appetite from high quality and real money institutional investors globally and the trust that continues to be conferred on our institution and the markets we have chosen to participate in.”

We’re committed to robust renewable energy sector, says REAN Joy Obakeye The Renewable Energy Association of Nigeria (REAN) has said the group is committed in its efforts in ensuring a robust renewable energy sector.

REAN is the umbrella body of Renewable energy companies in Nigeria.

Speaking with newsmen, Executive Secretary, REAN, Lande Abudu said the activity within the sector has increased its awareness.

She said, “We are unrelenting in our efforts

to build a robust renewable energy sector and this comprises numerous activities such as spearheading efforts to ensure favourable, business-friendly policies for the sector and proper implementation of the same.

“Within a multi-stakeholder group including REAN members, renewable energy experts, public sector stakeholders and regulators, other associations, developers and more, we are engaging with the wider power sector to encourage sustainable growth for what is essentially an evolving sector.

“While this is very much a work-inprogress, we are making strides. Increased

activity within the sector has increased the visibility and the conversation has reached a wider audience.

“With the increased awareness, comes an understanding of the need to put our collective efforts into ensuring that the sector works effectively, supports the players within it and that there is a good foundation for long term sustainability.

“Our common aim, we must not forget, is to give Nigerians access to clean, reliable and affordable access to power. These activities are meant to make it happen”, she stated.

Speaking further, she said the regulatory environment should encourage increased

investment in the sector.

“The regulatory bodies have to be open to listening to the industry players.

“The Industry operators can operate optimally where regulation is fit for purpose but not so stringent as to stifle the very industry that they are trying to regulate.

“The regulatory environment should give comfort to those committed to working in the RE space, thereby encouraging their growth for the benefit of the Nigerian economy. Investor confidence will naturally follow, thereby increasing investment into the sector”, she said.

Africa Prudential Plc has reported a decline of 17.2 per cent in profit, posting N381 million in its unaudited financial statements for the period ended March 31, 2019, compared to N406 million reported in the first quarter (Q1) of 2018.

Africa Prudential’s profit before tax also dropped to N453 million in Q1 2019 from N541 million in Q1 2018, a 16.2 per cent decline.

The Company recorded a weak balance sheet as it closed the quarter ended March 2019 with total assets of N20.38 billion as against N21.27 billion in the full year of 2018.

The drop in total assets was as a result of the 37 per cent reduction in debt instruments at amortized cost, the latter which was the result of a reduction in debt instruments such as Treasury bills and Loans & Advances by 67 per cent and 28 per cent respectively.

Commenting on the result, The Managing Director/CEO of Africa Prudential, Mr Obong Idiong, stated that “While we were faced with some challenges which impeded our performance this past quarter, one of which was the declining yield environment thus mildly impacting one of our income line item- Interest Income.

“On the other hand, we saw a 23 per cent increase in our revenue from contracts with customers which were as a result of the several corporate actions were undertaken by many of our clients in view of their full-year Annual General Meetings, dividend declaration etc.

“The management is however committed to improving our performance in the coming quarters following the launch of our strategic business units (SBUs), namely; Digital Technology, EasyCoop Mart and Cooperative business.

“To complement the traditional Registrar business, the benefits of the new business segments are expected to be felt from Q2 2019 going forward.”

Furthermore, he reiterated that “The various strategic steps we have been taking is towards establishing us as the registrar of choice, while making a foray into new ventures with high growth prospect, to do this we would be leveraging on technology, research & development as well as capacity building to ensure we achieve the aforesaid goals.

“We would continue to bring to bear, our doggedness whilst taking pragmatic steps towards tackling the arrays of issues plaguing us and our industry for a long time now.

Going into the second quarter of 2019, we would not be resting on our oars as we would ensure we keep to our promise of delivering unique customer experience to our wide clientele base”, Idiong added.

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Nigeria to represent Africa in ILO’s Titular governing board Stories: Ukpono Ukpong, Abuja Nigeria has scored yet another international feat with the African Regional Labour Group of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) nominating her for a Titular Membership of the ILO Governing Board, representing West Africa.

The nomination came at the 3rd Session of the Specialised Technical Committee on Social Development, Labour and Employment of the Africa Union, which took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

The mandate was sequel to days of intense lobbying and horse-trading which saw Nigeria breaking the ranks of the French speaking Africa who had always used their numbers as ‘veto’ in continental decision making.

By this mandate, Nigeria which is currently holding a deputy position in the Governing Board of the ILO will assume the Titularregular membership of the Board in June 2020 when fresh elections will be held.

Other West African countries also nominated for deputy positions are Senegal and Niger Republic.

Speaking on the development, the Minister of Labour and Employment Sen. Chris Ngige, said moving Nigeria back to her rightful place in the comity of nations is a cardinal focus of the Buhari’s administration thus, no effort would be spared in international Labour diplomacy

Ngige to buoy the nation’s labour administration.

“Besides South Africa, Nigeria makes the highest yearly contribution to the ILO in Africa.

It is in millions of dollars. We can’t therefore as a nation be making such humongous contributions and be shut out at the highest decision making organ of the international labour body. This informed the dogged effort of Nigeria to fight her way back to the Governing Board last year when we were elected deputy after ten years absence.

“Beyond national pride, the benefits are invaluable in terms

of technical assistance, manpower development and skills training; all intangible values which would ordinarily cost the nation a lot.”

Meanwhile as preparations for the centenary anniversary celebration of the ILO gather momentum, a glowing tribute was paid to Nigeria’s pioneering efforts as the first African nation to enlist and open the ILO office in the continent in 1959. The commendation was contained in an address by the ILO Regional Director for Africa, Cynthia Samuel-Olonjuwon at the Specialised Technical Session.

Labour ministry seeks more collaboration with AfDB The Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment has stressed the need to further deepen partnership with the African Development Bank (AfDB) on its ongoing projects, aimed at generating employment for the teeming Nigerian youths.

The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment, William Alo, stated this in Abuja on the occasion of the Review of Country Strategy Papers (2013 – 2019) and Launch of the Preparations for the New Country Strategy Paper (2020 – 2024) between the AfDB and the Ministry.

While calling for more funding for the two projects in which the Ministry is in partnership with AfDB, he proposed the inclusion of some intervention projects in the 2020 – 2024 Strategy Paper.

Alo disclosed that the Ministry has been working in partnership with AfDB on two projects since 2018, one of which is the Public-Private Partnership for Youth Employment and Skills Development, aimed at

implementing eight priority projects, across relevant sectors, to boost massive job creation and skills development among the teeming unemployed youths in the country.

The other project, according to him, is implementing the labour content of an Inclusive Basic Services Delivery and Livelihood Empowerment Integrated Programme (IBSDLEIP) for Livelihood Enhancement and Support for Internally Displaced Persons in the North East.

The aim of the IBSDLEIP is to document the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the productive age and provide technical support to the participating states with a view to building capacities on alternative means of livelihood as tools for self-reliance, rehabilitation and resettlement of the IDPs. Speaking further, the Permanent Secretary reiterated Government’s efforts in generating youth employment through the skills acquisition centres scattered across the country, adding that

Government has not been resting on its oars.

Alo also disclosed that Government is in the process of including skills acquisition in the nation’s secondary schools curricular, as well as in the curriculum of the mandatory National Youth Service.

In her remarks the Director Special Duties/Projects, Dr Martina Nwordu, said the Ministry needed technical and financial support to enable it play the role of formulating policies, guidelines and model projects/ prpgrammes on the reduction of unemployment in the country.

Responding, the Chief Development Economist/ Migration Officer of the African Development Bank Group, Rosemond OFFEI-AWUKU, said the Group was in the Ministry to assess its performance in the previous years, and discuss its strategies.

She gave the assurance that the employment issues would be incorporated into the new Country Strategy Paper (CSP) 2020 – 2024.

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ILO remains our dependable partner - Alo Nigerian government has identified International Labour Organisation (ILO) as a dependable partner considering the long, robust and smooth relationship both have enjoyed within the period spanning over 60 years.

The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Mr. William Alo, stated this when he received in audience the ILO Country Director, Dr. Dennis Zulu and his team in his office, in Abuja.

“ILO and the Ministry have had a long, robust and smooth relationship spanning a period of 60 years. The Ministry has benefitted from the relationship in many ways and that has made the country maintain her pride of place in the Comity of Nations on Labour issues. This has also gained the country the position of a member of the Governing Board of ILO, which is a testimony that Nigeria has paid its dues in respect of Labour issues”, Alo said.

Speaking further, the Permanent Secretary said Nigeria, as a pathfinder, has introduced innovations to decent work environment and maintained a harmonious relationship with its workers through responsive legislations in line with global best practices.

According to him, “We preach peace as well as good relationship to our workers which are key to increased productivity as no economy succeeds without enabling and peaceful environment for its employees”.

He then solicited the continued support and cooperation of ILO in the provision of decent work for Nigerians, and congratulated it on the forthcoming Centenary celebration of its existence and 60thanniversary of ILO in Nigeria.

Earlier, in his remarks, the ILO Country Director, Dr. Dennis Zulu, said that the essence of his visit was to familiarise himself with the newly-posted Permanent Secretary and to intimate him of the existing programmes of ILO in collaboration

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with the Ministry.

He acknowledged that Nigeria is currently facing the challenge of unemployment, like other countries, and assured that ILO remained committed to supporting the Ministry in implementing the National Employment Policy aimed at reducing the number of unemployed youths in the country.

Zulu said ILO has been an important partner of the Ministry and pledged more collaboration with the Ministry towards achieving its mandate, “ILO has been working very closely with the Ministry since 1959 when the first ILO Office was opened on the continent in Lagos Nigeria. This year is very important to us because ILO is not only commemorating 100 years globally but also celebrating 60years of ILO in Africa and Nigeria in particular”.

“ILO is working with member states on Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP), a document that is prepared in collaboration with the Ministry, with the workers represented by Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC), and employers represented by the Nigerian Employers Consultative Association (NECA). DWCP states the priorities of collaborating for a fixed period of four years and we implement our support through this document. The programme that we had come to an end in 2018, and we will be expecting the Ministry to lead the process with our support of working on a new programme for the coming four years” he added.

He disclosed that ILO would also be hosting a Global Youth Employment Forum, scheduled for August, 2019; a very important event with participants drawn from across the world, and for the first time the Director General of ILO would be coming to Nigeria to participate in the forum.

Zulu said efforts are ongoing to put in place the logistics needed for the events and requested for more collaboration with the Ministry for the success of the forth coming programmes.

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Bayelsa governorship poll: Dickson urges INEC to shift election from November 2 Stories by Patrick Okohue The Bayelsa State governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson has said that he will not interfere in the choice of who becomes the next governor of his state, assuring that “The next leader of our state is not going to be selected from my pocket.”

He also called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to shift the governorship polls scheduled for November 2 in the state.

Dickson who spoke at a church programme on Sunday, said the election would hinder the November 2 Thanksgiving Day in the state which had been declared as public holiday by the laws of the state.

Dickson charged the Chairman of INEC, Prof Mahmood Yakubu to show respect to God by shifting the election.

Dickson spoke on Sunday during the monthly praise night and the eighth edition of the Easter Cantata programme in Yenagoa.

The governor, who will complete his eight years tenure this year, added that his successor would emerge through prayers and consultations.

He said, “As usual, let me call on all of us to seize this period of Easter, which is a period for sober reflection, to continue to invite the presence of God in our state.

“We must not relent in our prayers because the enemies of our land are planning hard to destroy the peace and

stability we have laboured to build.

“But, we have nothing to fear. They put their trust in chariots, weapons and connections in Abuja, but we trust in the Almighty God who has always saved us.

“Since we handed over our government to God, we have been reinforcing it through prayers and positive declarations that this state, which I call the Jerusalem of the Ijaw nation, shall not be handed over again to anybody who does not fear the authority of the Almighty God above.

“I will formally invite everybody in this state to pray because I feel the next leader of our state is not going to be selected from my pocket. No, I won’t do that; it is too important a decision to come from one person,” he added.

PDP alleges plot by Niger APC to compromise election tribunal The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Niger State has alleged that some elements in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) are plotting to compromise the state governorship election tribunal.

The party said in a statement in Minna on Monday that it is aware of moves by some members of the party through some retired judicial officers in the state to reach the tribunal members.

But, the APC has dismissed the claim of the PDP with a wave of the hand describing it as the “figment of the imagination of the drowning party.”

According to the statement signed by the Director of Communication, Umar Nasko Governorship Campaign Organisation, Alhaji Yahaya Mohammed Usman, and made available to newsmen in Minna on Monday, the party said: “We know for a fact that the Niger State APC has made approaches through several fronts including enrolling past judicial officers to link up to the panel members.

“While we in the PDP have tremendous confidence in the judiciary, we have no reason yet to suspect that the members have compromised in anyway or form.

“We have absolute confidence that they will not and they should not because the truth must prevail one day.”

The statement further added that the suspicion of the PDP had been further heightened by the persistent claims by some leaders of the APC who have continued to boast that “nothing will come out of the tribunal; we have the power and will do as we want.”

Usman in the statement, however, said that the PDP “will continue to build a water tight case that will ensure that our stolen mandate is recovered and given back to the rightful owners.

“We are very much aware of all the electoral malpractices and electoral frauds perpetrated during the sham governorship election, at the commencement of sitting

all the facts will be tendered before their lordships,” Yahaya Mohammed Usman said.

He called on the “tribunal members to remain resolute and ensure justice is served so as to write their names in gold.”

However, Media and publicity coordinator to Governor Abubakar Sani Bello, Mr Jide Orintunsin, said the PDP was known “for fake news and propaganda, we will not join them in the illegal act, it is a false alarm.”

Orintunsin said that the APC and in particular Governor Abubakar Sani Bello “has no reason to try to compromise the tribunal because we won the election clean and clear.”

“It was a clear mandate freely given to the governor and other APC elected members by the people.”

The governorship election tribunal after its first sitting during which it directed substituted service on Governor Abubakar Sani Bello adjourned sitting to May 6 this year. The three man tribunal has Justice Halilu Yussuf as its chairman.

Lagos lawmaker charges Sanwo-Olu on fulfilling promises to Badagry division A member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr Victor Akande, has urged the state Governor-elect, Mr Babajide SanwoOlu to fulfil promises made to the Badagry division of the state during his electioneering campaign.

Akande, representing Ojo Constituency I at the Lagos State House of Assembly, made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lagos.

He urged Sanwo-Olu to prioritise massive rehabilitation of the roads in Badagry division.

According to him, the governor-elect should ask for wisdom from God to fulfill the promises and surpass the successes of the previous administrations.

Akande, who described Sanwo-Olu as an embodiment of knowledge based on his antecedent, said: “We want him to look at the roads in the state, especially the ones in

Badagry division.

“We don’t have a solid government presence in the division and our roads are so bad.

“We want Sanwo-Olu to look into this and meet the promises he made to our people by giving us access roads. He should give us electricity to change the commercial activities of the state.

“We want Lagos State to be industrialised and the only way that can be done is through power supply, which is another aspect he wrote down in his diary during his electioneering,” he said.

Akande, who is the Chairman, House Committee on Science and Technology, advocated for massive investment in the youths, saying that “a state or country that does not develop the youth will be in comatose.

“The government should help the youth to

develop, support them to become somebody and actualise their dreams; some of the youths are inventors and they only need a little support to excel.”

On the caliber of cabinet members for the governor-elect, Akande said that the selection would be done by the leaders of the party, who had the technicality of doing that over the years.

“Since the time of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to that of former governor Babatunde Raji Fashola and now Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, we have been having best brains as our cabinet members in Lagos and we have been achieving.

“Now, our agitation is that we are going to the next level. We will do that by harnessing the best brains to work with the governorelect.

“It is not just for one person to do. The governor-elect cannot do it alone.”

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Arewa youths tackle Tinubu, say actions on leadership of 9th NASS shows he is anti-North The Arewa Youth Forum (AYF) has accused National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, of turning himself into a dictator by trying to pocket the party’s structure.

The group made the accusation in a statement in Kaduna on Sunday.

They accused the former governor of Lagos State of trying to impose his stooges on the members of National Assembly, a move they described as “antidemocratic” and against the political interest of the North as a whole.

The Northern sociocultural group made the accusation in a statement jointly signed by Gambo Ibrahim Gujungu and Bello Abdulhamid, the National President and National Director, Public Affairs of the group, respectively.

The statement read: “To any right thinking and close observer of the polity, this unfolding development showcases Bola Tinubu as anti-North and is selfishly paving the way to have total control of the APC and its tidings, as well as influence the decision of the party chairman, all as a build-up to the 2023 elections.”

“AYF has received with surprise, the recent position of the National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, dictating who will emerge as the Senate President as well as the Speaker, House of Representatives for the 9th

Assembly.

“We are also amazed by the statement credited to the party chieftain, where he was quoted to posit that party officials not comfortable with the choice and dictates of the party as orchestrated by him and some party officials are free to leave the APC. So much so that we consider this statement as unbecoming of the national leader, also, we believe that these dictatorial tendencies are undemocratic, unethical, not in line with international best practices, politically incorrect and in bad taste.”

The Northern forum condemned Tinubu’s approach as unbecoming of a true elder.

It said: “An elder who is supposed to toe the path of amicable resolution and embrace the spirit of reconciliation, particularly amongst the contestants, is openly found to be overbearing and divisive by all intents.

“The Arewa Youth Forum, therefore, maintains that this singular action, especially as it affects the National Assembly, smacks of the problematic issue of influence of godfathers, which overtime has been a serious draw back to the tenet of good governance, because the so called ‘godsons/ daughters’ are in shackles, enslaved and captive to the whims and caprices of their bosses; hence the desirous and ever needed delivery of democracy dividends through good governance is stunted and threatened.”

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES 1.SADIAT TOYIN LAWAL* - CHAIRMAN 2. MS TAIWO LAWAL* SECRETARY 3.MRS CLEMENTINA SOLA SHOOLA* 4.MS OLASUNBO LAWAL* 5.MR WILLIAMS ADEGOKE*

TRUSTEES 1.KUKU-ONAYEMI SIMISADE ADERONKE. 2. ALI HADIZA DIJE 3.OLANREWAJU OGUNKOYA OLUWASEUN

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.TO PROVIDE SOCIAL AMENITIES IN RURAL AREAS SUCH AS BOREHOLE, ELECTRICITY, AND CIVIC CENTRE ETC. 2.TO RELIEVE POVERTY AMONGST VULNERABLE CHILDREN, WOMEN AND THE YOUTH 3.TO ENGAGE IN YOUTH AND WOMEN EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS, VOCATIONAL TRAINING, SKILL ACQUISITION AND CAREER TALK. 4.TO SUPPORT EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND ADVANCEMENT THROUGH THE DISTRIBUTION OF SCHOOL MATERIALS AND OFFERING OF EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS TO LESS PRIVILEGED CHILDREN AND YOUTH.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1.TO CREATE AWARENESS TO ALL AFRICA WOMEN, BE IT IN POLITICS, WORK PLACE, BOTH PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL APPOINTMENT, AS WELL AS OTHER OPPORTUNITIES THAT COULD AID THE AFRICA WOMEN IN CONTRIBUTING TOWARDS ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTS, PEACE AND SECURITY OF THE AFRICA CONDIMENT IN GENERAL. 2.TO SERVE AS A PLATFORM THAT GIVES ALL THE AFRICA WOMEN A COMMON VOICE 3.TO CREATE AWARENESS WITHIN AFRICA WOMAN BY PROVIDING OBJECTIVES ACCURATE AND ENCOURAGING INFORMATION TO THEM AT ALL LEVELS

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

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

SIGNED: TRUSTEES AND BARR. IKENNA ACHARA

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

OGUN POLYTECHNIC ACCOUNTANCY 83/88 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE-NAMED ASSOCIATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATERS ACT CAP C20 LFN 2004.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. LUWOYE SHINA OLASUNKANMI 2. OGUNYEMI OLADIMEJI MUSIBAU 3. AKINDE OLUBUNMI VICTORIA AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO FORGE SOCIAL INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS AND COOPERATION AMONG MEMBERS FOR CONTINUED LIFE EDUCATION / LEARNING. 2. TO UNDERTAKE CHARITABLE PROJECTS AND FUNDING OF ACTIVITIES IN SUPPORT OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION AT OGUN STATE POLYTECHNIC, OR ANY SUCCESSIVE INSTITUTION, IN HER QUEST TO ACHIEVING A HIGHER STANDARD OF EDUCATION.

GRACE STELLA 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 OF 1990.

TRUSTEES: 1. IKE ANYATUONWU - CHAIRMAN 2. STANLEY OCHONMA - SECRETARY 3. BARR. ALEX BIG NWOSU 4. SANDRA AMARACHI WILLIAMS-ORAZULIKE 5. DUKE CHIGOZIE WILLIAMS 6. EMMANUELLA ONYEKWERE 7. DORIS OLUCHI OLIVER 8. CHINELO COLLETTE ORAZULIKE AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO EMPOWER THE LESS PRIVILEGED WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN THE SOCIETY

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

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

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

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

BEREAN FAMILY WORSHIP CENTRE

THE GREAT TIV COMMUNITY FORUM, MOSIMI, OGUN STATE

SOCIETY FOR CHILDHOOD OBESITY CARE AND PREVENTION

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 OF 1990.

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 OF 1990.

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 OF 1990.

NAMES OF TRUSTEES ARE 1: PASTOR JOHNSON OKHUMODE EMMANUEL - PRESIDENT 2. JOHNSON CHIEBONAM NNEADINLOZO - TRUSTEE 3. EDOBOR OSAYOMORE BARRET - TRUSTEE 4. EMMANUEL THOMAS - SECRETARY 5. EVANGELIST EDWARD DENNIS ADEYI - TRUSTEE AIMS AND OBJECTIVE: TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. ANY OBJECTIONS TO THIS SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MR CHIA CHRISTIAN CHIANGI - CHAIRMAN. 2. MR. ALEM BENJAMIN MSUGH - SECRETARY. 3. IGBACHER LIAMBEE FRANK. 4. MR. IBUA JOSEPH IORFA. 5. MR. NYIUMA SIMON AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROVIDE FOR THE BASIC AND SPECIAL NEEDS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY WHO ARE IN NEED OF FINANCIAL OR MATERIAL ASSISTANCE. 2. TO PROMOTE AND PROVIDE A FORUM FOR UNITY, PEACE AND HARMONY AMONG TIV PEOPLE IN MOSIMI AND OGUN STATE AT LARGE ANY OBJECTIONS TO THIS SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: BARR SUZIE DUNG

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

EMPAWA AFRICA MUSIC FOUNDATION

ROYAL GLOBAL POWER CHURCH

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 OF 1990.

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 MATTERS ACT 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OLUWATOSIN OLUWOLE AJIBADE - CHAIRMAN 2. OSINACHI JIDEOBI IRRECHUKWU - SECRETARY

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1.PASTOR KINGSLEY C.D OKONKWO--FOUNDER/G.O. 2.CHRISTOPHER N.NNAEGBUNA---V. CHAIRMAN. 3. LUCKY DANIEL AGADAGA--MEMBER. 4. VINCENT UGWUOKE--MEMBER 5. ANTHONIA ESIOME--SECRETARY 6. JEREMIAH OKOEDO--MEMBER 7. GRACE DANIEL--MEMBER. 8. DEBORAH N.NNAEGBUNA--MEMBER

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVES: 1. MUSIC AND VIDEO PRODUCTION MENTORING 2. FOSTER TALENT ACQUISITION AND SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL GROWTH 3. TO CATER FOR THE GENERAL WELFARE OF CHILDREN AND YOUTHS IN SELECT COMMUNITIES ANY OBJECTIONS TO THIS 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.

AIM AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH AND PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST IN NIGERIA AND WORLDWIDE.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. DR. ANTHONY CHINEDU IWU 2. DR. UGOCHUKWU CHINYEM MADUBUEZE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: TO JOIN THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF PROFESSIONALS AND PATIENTS WHO ARE COMMITTED TO ENSURING THAT OBESITY IS PREVENTED AND RECOGNISED AS A DISEASE. ANY OBJECTIONS TO THIS SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: BARR. LAURA E. OVIAWE

GREEN EDUCATION SUPPORT INITIATIVE

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 MATTERS ACT 1990.

NAMES OF THE TRUSTEES 1. EKE AMAKA AMINA 2. SHOYEMI HADE 3. BABALOLA OPEYEMI OLUSEUN 4. MOSES ADEYEMI SEWANU 5. IFEGBESAN TEMITOPE BOSEDE 6. OKEKE CHINWE NKECHINYERE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OPERATING A STRONG AND EFFECTIVE NATIONAL, REGIONAL AND BRANCH ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO PROVIDING SERVICE TO SCHOOLS BY DELIVERING EFFECTIVE TRAINING AND SUPPORTING TEACHERS AND STUDENTS.

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

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

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: BARRISTER ABRAHAM OCHEJE SULE

SIGNED: AMAKA

APEX FAITH INT’L CHURCH

AFRICAN FOUNDATION FOR DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION

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 MATTERS ACT 1990.

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. AYIBIOWU MOSES 2. AYIBIOWU COMFORT 3. ADEKUNLE AMOS ROTIMI AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO FAITHFULLY PROCLAIM AND PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST TO ALL PEOPLE. ANY OBJECTIONS TO THIS SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: CHAIRMAN.

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 MATTERS ACT 1990.

TRUSTEES ARE 1. CHINEDUM OKORONKWO CHUKWU 2. CHINEDU OKORONKWO CHUKWU 3. EZECHUKWU ROMEO CHUKWU 4. OBETENG ETENG OKPA AIMS AND OBJECTIVES THE USE OF COMMUNICATION TO FACILITIE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION AND EDUCATION, BEHAVIOUR, BEHAVIOUR CHANGE, SOCIAL MARKETING, SOCIAL MOBILIZATION, MEDIA ADVOCACY, COMMUNICATION FOR SOCIAL CHANGE, AND COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION ANY OBJECTIONS TO THIS 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: CHINEDU OKORONKWO CHUKWU

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ANYANWU ERNEST 2. UCHE CHINEDU KINGSLEY 3. SUNNY CHIDI OKERE 4. OKERE MOSES IKENNA 5. HENRY OKERE THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. ENCOURAGE THE YOUTHS OF NGOR OKPALA TO EXCEL IN THEIR ENDEAVOURS. 2. TO FOSTER UNITY, LOVE, PEACE AND PROGRESS AMONGST THE YOUTHS OF NGOR OKPALA. 3. TO DEFEND THE INTEREST OF ITS MEMBERS. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION 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. SIGNED: BARR. C.N NOSIKE (SOLICITOR)

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THE PARTAKER’S OF GOD GLORY MINISTRY

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 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.

TRUSTEES ARE .

1. BAABA MENEYII PAUL. 2. BAABA ODINAKACHI EMILIA. 3. OGARASHI ANTHONY CHINAZOR.

TRUSTEES (1).PASTOR EYITEMI ONOME MATHEW(CHAIRMAN) (2).BRUME PETER MATHEW(SECRETARY) (3).OSENI DICKSON (4).IGUDIA EMEKA GODWIN (5).AMAH ADANNE EUCHARIA.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES. 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO ALL NATIONS OF THE WORLD. 2. TO WIN SOULS FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES (1)TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO ALL NATIONS. (2).TO CARRY OUT DISCIPLESHIP OF ALL NATIONS. (3).TO CARRY OUT MISSION ON CRUSADE AND EVANGELISM IN ALL NATION. (4).TO TRAIN AND LICENSE MINISTERS FOR THE WORK OF THE GOSPEL

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

DELENIKE 33 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 1. PASTOR ADEYEMO GABRIEL AYOADE..CHAIRMAN 2. MRS ADEYEMO ABIGAIL ADENIKE...PROJECT COORDINATOR 3. ADEYEMO PETER AYOADE 4. ADEJUYIGBE ESTHER OLUFAYOKEMI 5. ATANDA EUNICE FUNMILAYO 6.ADEYEMO PAUL AYODEJI 7. ADEYEMO PHILIP AYOKUNLE 8. ADEYEMO ELIZABETH ODUNAYO...SECRETARY 9. AGBEDE PEACE...LEGAL ADVISER 10. AROMOLARAN ADERONKE MARY AIM AND OBJECTIVE. TO HELP THE LESS PRIVILEGED IN THE SOCIETY. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT ‪420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET‬, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

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

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

NAME OF ORGANISATION: FREEDOM & LIGHT BEARERS INTERNATIONAL ASSEMBLY

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. ASEMOTA GOODFRIDAY AIGBENOSADEBA– CHAIRMAN 2. ASEMOTA MARGARETH TOPE- SECRETARY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST TO ALL NATIONS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT ‪420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET‬, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

THE PARTAKER’S OF GOD GLORY MINISTRY THE PARTAKER’S OF GOD GLORY MINISTRY

SIGNED: BARR. WOLE AWOFADE ESQ. & BARR. EMMANUEL BAMIDURO ESQ.

BUILD NIGERIA FORUM

DOWN SYNDROME SKILLS ACQUISITION CENTRE

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.

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.

NAME OF THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MR. OLAITAN STEPHEN TITILOYE 2. ANTHONIA OMENOGOH OSHINIWE 3. AISHAT OMOTAYO TEMIM

NAME OF THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. YAHAYA USMAN 2. YAHAYA MUHAMMED AWWAL DAYO 3. YAHAYA ABDULAZEEM 4. ABUBAKAR AMINAT OYINDAMOLA 5. YAHAYA IYABO AWAWU

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. TO CONTRIBUTE POSITIVELY TO THE “NIGERIA PROJECT “ 2. TO CONTRIBUTE TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN THE ASPECT OF WELFARE, EDUCATION, HEALTH AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT. 3. TO BE A POOL FOR DEVELOPMENTAL IDEAS BY THE CITIZENS FOR THE GOVERNMENT ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT ‪420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET‬, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED SECRETARY

INCORPORATED TRUSTEES OF PLAYMATES ROYALE CLUB ASSOCIATION.

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AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. TRAINING OF DOWN SYNDROME 2. TO REPRESENT AND ADVOCATE FOR THE EQUALITY, RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES OF PERSON WITH DOWN SYNDROME 3. TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO THE LESS PRIVILEGED DOWN SYNDROME 4. TO CATER FOR THE WELFARE OF DOWN SYNDROME 5. TO SERVE AS UNIFYING MECHANISM FOR DOWN SYNDROME 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.

SIGN: SECRETARY

YOU MATTER TO US 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

SIGN BY THE CHAIRMAN FISEBILILLAH INITIATIVE FOR MASJID DEVELOPMENT AND ISLAMIC AWARENESS

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

TRUSTEES ARE: (1) AWONUGA OLATUBOSUN ABDUL-AZEEZ ( CHAIRMAN).

(2) IGONI DAN OGEYOYE (SECRETARY) (3) TIJANI KAMAL ADEYEMI (4) ADEOYE OYEYINKA AJANI

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. AJETUNMOBI OMOLARA HEATHER : CHAIRMAN 2. OSHOBAJO BUKOLA FUNMILAYO 3. BAKARE ADEOYE AJAO 4. ORESANYA OLUSEYI ABRAHAM:SECRETARY

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. TO PROTECT THE INTERESTS OF MEMBERS 2. TO PROMOTE ACTIVITIES THAT SEEK TO EMPOWER THE WELFARE AND MENTAL DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICAN YOUTH.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1 TO GIVE AND SERVE THE LESS PRIVILEGED

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1 TO FACILITATE THE PROPAGATION OF ISLAMIC KNOWLEDGE AND GOOD MORAL BEHAVIOR

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

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

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

GRACE SMILE FOUNDATION.

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ITIVE OGHENEYOLEME GRACE - CHAIRMAN 2. ODESANYA ADERINSOLA ENIOLA - SECRETARY 3. ITIVE EVI 4. ITIVE EBIKABOERE ESTHER 5. ABDUL OLAYINKA AYOYEMI 6. ONITILO KEHINDE OLUFUNKE 7. BOROH SUNDAY TARIBO 8. BOROH STANLEY EBIKHARE. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES TO PROVIDE SOLUTION TO THE BASIC NEEDS OF PEOPLE IN LESS PRIVILEGED COMMUNITIES ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR- GENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED CHAIRMAN

GO YE MINISTERS NETWORK INTERNATIONAL.

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE; 1. APOSTLE SAM-ONUEGBU EMEKA DAN - PRESIDENT. 2. JOHNSON VICTOR ONYEMA - SECRETARY. 3. ONUEGBU GABRIEL CHIBUNNA. 4. EMOVEFE GIDEON AUSTINE-PEACE. 5. PROPHET DR. DESIRE DAVID GEORGE SAMSON. AIMS/OBJECTIVES; 1. TO PROMOTE A SENSE OF UNDERSTANDING AND MUTUAL COOPERATION AMONG MINISTERS IRRESPECTIVE OF DENOMINATIONAL AFFILIATION TO BE MISSION ORIENTED. 2. TO TRAIN, DEVELOP AND DEPLOY MINISTERS FOR MISSIONARY WORK WITHIN AFRICA AND BEYOND. ANY OBJECTION(S) TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR- GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED; PRESIDENT.

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

ELSHADAI CHRISTIAN CHURCH

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THE ABOVE NAMED CHURCH 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. UNUATASE THOMAS ODION 2. UNUATASE PROMISE NKWAONYE 3.LUCKY FLORENCE 4. OKOCHA KENNETH CHINONSO

- CHAIRMAN - SECRETARY - TREASURER - ASSISTANT PASTOR

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

PUBLIC NOTICE THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT LATE LADY UCHENNA FELICIA OKONKWO DIED AFTER A BRIEF ILLNESS ON 9TH NOVEMBER, 2018 AT CITY HOSPITAL, ENUGU. SHE WAS BURIED ON 7TH DECEMBER, 2018 AT HER HOME TOWN IN ENUGWU-AGIDI, ANAMBRA STATE. SIGNED: OKONKWO VICTOR

BOARD OF TRUSTEES: 1. RAMOS AKINOLA NURUDEEN - CHAIRMAN 2. SANNI HAKEEM ABIODUN - TRASURER 3. RAMOS MUNIRAT BIMPE - SECRETARY

SIGNED: TREUSTEES

IULEHA PROGRESSIVE FORUM

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

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‘Just their shoes’: Sri Lanka struggles to identify the dead In a courtyard outside the mortuary, a doctor dressed in scrubs, white boots and hairnet sat at a table in front of a laptop. Around him, family members stared at the screen as he scrolled through a gory tableau of blood-stained faces, mangled limbs and twisted bodies.

The process of identifying the dead from Sri Lanka’s worst attacks in decades begins and ends here - the mortuary of Colombo’s National Hospital.

“It’s very difficult to identify the bodies,” Father Shelton Dias of the Archdiocese of Colombo told Al Jazeera. “They are so disfigured. With some of the children it’s just their shoes.

That’s all. Terrorism has no mercy.”

A day after a series of deadly bombings in Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, and two other cities, Sri Lankans are struggling to come to terms with the tragedy. The attacks killed nearly 300 peopleand wounded hundreds more, prompting the government to deploy the military, shut down social media, and declare a state of emergency.# At the morgue, MN Jenson and his mother were among the families waiting to look at the images of the dead. His grandfather, Sebamalai Pichchai Liner, IBHAFIDON OSASENAGA

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had been celebrating Eastern Mass at St Anthony’s Shrine in central Colombo, and was now missing.

Desperate for news as the death toll rose, Jenson and his mother called Liner’s mobile phone again and again, but when the phone was turned off they started to make the rounds of the city’s five government hospitals.

After their third trip to the National Hospital, the biggest in Sri Lanka with 3,500 beds, and with no sign that his grandfather has been admitted to a ward or been formally identified, they headed to the morgue on Monday.

Moments after he sat down at the screen, Jenson stepped outside, steadying himself against the wall. Tears welled in his eyes. He grasped at his beard and held his head in his hands.

He could barely speak.

Together, he and his mother must steel themselves for the formal identification of the body before they can bring him home for burial.

Tuan Yoonus, 85, and his family, were just leaving the morgue where they found the body of their relative, Arshad Yaheya.

Arshad, who had been an employee at the Cinnamon Grand, was enjoying a complimentary stay at the hotel to celebrate his 36th birthday when the

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bomb ripped through the restaurant where he and his family were having breakfast. Arshath was killed while his wife and two daughters were wounded.

Yoonus pushed up his glasses and struggled to hold back tears as he read the hotel’s tribute to his nephew on a mobile phone.

“We want to bury him today,” said Yoonus, whose family is Muslim. “We need to do it within 24 hours. That’s our religion.”

The Catholic Church has been using its network to help identify the missing and the dead. Father Shelton told Al Jazeera he visited the intensive care units of Colombo’s government hospitals on Monday to gather information on the patients to help district and parish priests locate family members.

Pushpa De Soysa, a nurse at the triage department at the National Hospital, said some 267 people were brought to the hospital as the tragedy unfolded on Sunday.

Fifty-one were already dead, De Soysa who has been a nurse for 25 years, told Al Jazeera.

“Over the last three decades we’ve faced many disasters,” she said. “But we have never had anything like this.”

On Monday, 118 people were still in the National Hospital, including 25 in

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intensive care and six children under the age of 12. Some had been transferred from other hospitals in the capital.

“It’s manageable,” De Soysa said, noting the hospital had been inundated with donations of water and other necessities since the attacks.

Outside, Colombo’s usually bustling streets remained largely empty with schools closed and shops shuttered. Security was tight at major government offices, landmarks and hotels across the city, while police, armed soldiers and sniffer-dog teams patrolled the streets.

At St Anthony’s Shrine, white streamers hung across the streets in remembrance of the dead, but residents remained on edge.

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A controlled explosion at about 4pm of a device that had been found in a van parked on the street triggered panic on the streets as people rushed to safety.

The discovery of what was suspected to be a second explosive device an hour only added to the unease.

The Catholic Church, meanwhile, is providing money and support to those needing to organise funerals, from preparing the body to providing a coffin and a suitable location for a wake, particularly when entire families were killed.

“People came as a family to church, especially to Sunday Mass,” Father Shelton said.

“They sat as a family. They died as a family.”

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Aruna Quadri: I’m ready for battle

As the main draw of the singles event serves off today Tuesday April 23, Aruna Quadri believes he is ready to rock the boat against the world’s best at the ITTF World Championships holding in Budapest, Hungary.

The Nigerian star is seeded 22 in the men’s singles and he is expected to confront a qualifier in the first round of the men’s singles and the Portugalbased athlete told NationSport yesterday that he is fully fit to take on any opponent.

“I am fit to take on any player having arrived one week ago in Budapest to prepare myself for this competition. There is no doubt that it promises to be tough but I am ready to make myself and my country proud in Budapest. I have been lucky in this tournament but I am hoping that I can move forward this year and give my 100 percent best against any player,” he said.

Like Quadri, Egypt’s Omar Assar has said that he hopes to

exceed his last 32 feat in 2015; “I think I have the performance of 2015 behind me as I am looking to do better than that in Budapest. There is no doubt that everybody is playing well and there is bad player so I am hoping that I can do well this year. I had trained with Aruna Quadri in Budapest, and I can see that he is in shape for the tournament and I hope we can both be good ambassadors of Africa in the singles,” Assar said.

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Super Falcons’ Ngozi Ebere secures first victory for Norwegian club Arna-Bjornar of Norway and Nigeria defender Ngozi Ebere on Monday helped her club record their first league victory of the season after scoring the only goal of the match against Klepp.

The victory has taken them to the seventh position on the Toppserien standings.

The left back who is known for her overlappings was on for the entire game.

She got the winning goal from a pull out which the Klepp goalkeeper thought was going to be a pass, instead it found the back

of the net in the fourth minute.

An excited Ebere is one of the Super Falcons players that head coach, Thomas Dennerby, would be depending on to go very far at this year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup in France.

She joined the Norwegian side this season from Cyprus club, Barcelona FA Women.

Since the league got underway in March, Arna-Bjornar who face Valerenga this Saturday have drawn twice and lost once from five matches.

NUGA to hold trials for world university games at Obafemi Awolowo university

AFCON: No time to experiment with new players – Gernot Rohr

Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr says two months to the Nations Cup in Egypt is too short a time to experiment with new players.

Rohr who has dismissed insinuations in some quarters that he is under pressure to But in a swift reaction Rohr told whoever cares to listen that he has decided on the trio of Francis Uzoho, Daniel Akpeyi and Ikechukwu Ezenwa.

“We have a little challenge because our young goalkeeper Uzoho has not really played at his club this season,” Rohr told BBC Sport.

“Uzoho made one mistake in the last qualifier [against Seychelles] but we gave him a chance with the youth under-23 and it was good for his confidence.

“Daniel Akpeyi is playing now for a big team in South Africa and doing very well. Our third goalkeeper Ikechukwu Ezenwa too is good so we can work harder with them.

“We have a good spirit as a team since the World Cup, so there’s no time to bring in new players,” he submitted Luckily Eagles who got what has been described as soft draw will face two debutants of the Nations Cup Burundi and Madagascar with only Guinea expected to pose a bit of a

win a laurel with the team he inherited from former international Sunday Oliseh in 2016, maintained that the devil you know is better than the Angel you know nothing about.

Some analysts had opined that though the Eagles did well challenge having been to the Nations cup 11 times and posting their best performance in 1976 in Ethiopia where they ended up as runners up to eventual winners Morocco.

The Syli Nationale, have also made it to the quarterfinals four times, the latest being at the 2015 edition in Equatorial Guinea.

Incidentally Eagles were absent in the last two editions and will need to show on the pitch that indeed they are back.

All the 24 teams that will battle for honours in Egypt have till June 10th to submit their final 23-man squad.

in qualifying for the Nations Cup without the usual migraine before qualification, the team needs to be given a close look with a view to effecting some changes especially in the goalkeeping area considered a bit shaky.

The Nigeria University Games Association (NUGA) says trials for selection of athletes for the 30th World University Games, would hold at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife. NUGA Secretary, Bola Orodele, disclosed this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Monday, saying that the event will hold between April 24 and April 28.

Orodele said the trails would hold in five events – Athletics, Judo, Table tennis, Taekwondo and Tennis.

The World University Games is scheduled for between July 3 and July 14 in Stadio San Paolo, Napoli, Italy.

The NUGA scribe said university students wishing to participate in the trials must be between the age of 18 and 25.

“To participate, the athlete must either be a university student or a newly graduated student of less than a year.

“Universities are to register their students

(athletes) because we do not deal with individuals.

“The universities know who is who, we don’t, the website is still open for registration,” he said.

Orodele also said there is room for sponsorship, saying that the body’s door is opened to intending sponsors.

“We are making some moves already in the direction of sponsorship, there has been some things that have been approved by African Vice-Chancellors of Universities on what universities should do.

“We are hoping to make request from government because the University Sports is suppose to be under grassroots department.

“Attending the games in Napoli will help prepare athletes for the African Games after the World University Games.

“We are opened to sponsors, our hands are open for sponsorship, even if it is two individuals they want to sponsor, we will appreciate it,” he said.

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