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confusion and uncertainties seem to be trailing Etisalat Nigeria Telecommunications Limited, despite the ‘cosmetic’ takeover of the company by 9mobile, the new buyer a few days ago.

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bile continues in its transitory stride, indication has emerged that BUA Group, Virgin Mobile from the United Kingdom and Vodacom of South Africa, are some of the companies that have indicated interest to buy 9Mobile, formerly Etisalat Nigeria.

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state government has so far made a top up of more than nine billion naira within the last two years to assist in the payment of the 34 local government councils staff salaries.

The state Governor, Aminu Bello Masari confirmed this in his opening remark at the stakeholders meeting on local government administration held in katsina on Monday.

According to the Governor, from January -July this year more than N583 million naira was added to enable local governments pay salaries.

Masari also added that,N760 million naira is needed to enable the councils settle down after the conduct of the election, while each council would

Katsina spends N9b on LG staff salaries in two years need an addition of two million from existing amount to run it’s administration.

He reiterated the commitment of the current government to conduct local government elections, expressing dismay that, despite efforts to fish out ghost workers, lack of cooperation from senior staff and politicians made the exercise a futile one.

Masari revealed that, the state got N14.5 billion from the Paris club refund and 49 percent of the amount belong to the local governments in the state.

Similarly, he said N4.2 billion was expended to settle local government retirees as at December 2016.While thanking all those who responded to the invitation, the governor reiterated that, the meeting was part of effort to ensure transparency and accountability by the current APC led administration in the state.

Earlier, the Secretary to the State Government, SGS, Mustapha Mohammed Inuwa said the stakeholders meeting was the third in the series since the

inception of the administration as part of its promise to keep the people informed.

In his presentation, the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Abdulkadir Ahmed Zakka said N11 million naira was inherited from the previous administration, while N298 million is currently in the coffers of the ministry.

He however stated that, despite low revenue, local governments in the state and their staff are owed no single kobo.

On his part, the Special Adviser on Budget, Abdullahi Imam who gave the breakdown of local government funds said of the 34 local government councils, only seventeen can pay salaries without executing a single project.

Also contributing, the state Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice, Barrister Ahmed Usman El-marzuq said the only impediment to the conduct of the local government elections is the pending case before the court of law.

Notorious robbers lose their lives on Kano Katsina highway Yakubu Salisu,

R-L: Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu; Deputy Director, PDM, Comrade Obinna Nwaka; Director, Political and Democratic Matters, Comrade Adedotun Omoleye; Program Officer, PDM, Sule Yakubu, during the presentation of Award of Excellence Performance to Mr. Magu by the Youth Ambassadors of AntiCorruption/Officials of National Youth Council of Nigeria in Abuja… on Monday.

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notorious armed robbers whom had terrorised people on KanoKatsina high way met their water loo on Sunday night after a fierce gun battle with the Kano State Police command special task force.

Briefing news men on Monday, the command’s public relation officer ASP Musa Majia said that the command received a distress signal that the group whom had terrorised motorist between Lamba and dan siri village of Katsina had set up a road block on the Kano Katsina high way which prompted the command’s Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) and STF special task force to move into action.

“On sighting our men, the robbers opened fire which our men retaliated.

After 15 minutes of fierce gun battle, our men over powered the robbers and a result of tactical measures employed by or well trained men. On reaching hospital, the doctor on duty confirmed the three robbers’ dead” Items recovered from the robbery scene include two AK47 riffles, a machete, one locally made pool, magazines, bullets, handset and some amount of money in local currency.

Majia called on the general public to support the command by reporting suspicious persons and activities of bad elements within their midst to the police for appropriate measures to be taken either by reporting to the nearest police Station or via the command’s public lines.

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400 women gain skills on conflict management Kingsley Chukwuka, Jos

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Nations women empowerment program has trained 400 rural women on conflict management aimed at equipping the female gender on proactive measures in tackling insecurity.

This was made possible through the Christian Women for Excellence and Empowerment in Nigeria (CWEENS), says the Project officer CWEENS, Ms Noro Nature.

Nature who spoke yesterday at the UN Woman Steering Committee quarterly meeting in Jos, said the training was conducted in Mangu and Riyom

LGs, with 80 participants who later organised a step down training to 400 women in their various communities.

“We trained 80 women, 40 each from Mangu and Riyom LGs, this training yielded training a step down training to 400 more women in their various communities.

“We also established Girls Empowerment Mainstream (GEM) club in 8 schools which would extend to other schools in the next quarter,” she said.

Speaking also at the meeting, Mrs Jumai Fidelis, the Project officer for Centre for Peace Advancement in Nigeria

(CEPAN) said that the organisation has conducted an exchange visit in communities in Wase and Jos North LGs. “We conducted advocacy visit to high level stakeholders where score cards were administered, the scorecards contained the number of women in leadership positions at various levels in the selected LGs. “The exchange visit was for them to share their experiences in the rural areas and share strategies if forestalling conflict,” she said.

Ms Sewuese Surma, the Gender and Technical Advisor of UN Women on Promoting Women par-

ticipation in peace and security in Plateau said that they were working with partners for gazetting of the Gender Equal Opportunity law ( GEOL).

“We are working with Plateau Ministry of Women Affairs and Social development with other partners for the gazetting of GEOL in Plateau.

“We paid courtesy visit to the Attorney General in plateau and the Commissioner of Justice for the gazetting who expressed commitment to ensure it was gazetted to enhance its implemtation,” she said.

Daily Times reports that various implementing partners of the UN Women project on engaging women in peace and security processes were advised to synergize for optimal result.

Protest in Asaba over NOUN refusal to release 2014/2015 results Nosa Akenzua, Asaba

ÏÏÏAlleged refusal to release results of students who graduated at the National Open University (NOUN) Asaba study centre yesterday sparked off protest.

The protesters, many of who are Masters, and Post Graduate Diploma graduates, alleged that since 2014/2015 had completed their programmes including project works, and submitted to no avail.

Their results/certificates were yet to be released, adding their efforts on the delay had met a brick wall with no cogent reasons.

Armed in peaceful protest with placards “Give us our results, release our certificates, we are tired of excuses, NOUN do something for our certificates”, the protesters matches in various streets of Asaba including at the gate of Asaba study centre where officials of NOUN assured them of speedy attention to their protest.

Leader of the protesting NOUN graduates, Mr. John Olomeh, who spoke to our reporter, alleged that authorities of NOUN had paid deaf ears to their request in the release of their certificates over times before they embarked on the protest.

“Officials of NOUN, Asaba study centre had been telling us stories that Senate had not approved the results, since 2014/2015, we cannot present our certificates, rather than getting excuses from the officials, we are tired, we need our results, or we shall embark on another protest soon.”

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9mobile: BUA, others may buy brand Continued from page 1 have stood out as centre of attraction for a few other companies that have also signified interest to takeover 9Mobile despite its crisis.

The first item on the front burner is on negotiations with investors is on how to offset its $1.2 billion bank loan.

It would be recalled that the embattled telecommunications’ provider has been contending

with a number of crises, ranging from huge debt overhang, resignations, massive migration by its subscribers, thus depleting its revenue base, as well as worsening its corporate image.

In fact, despite the interven-

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tion of the Federal Government, through the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and the telecoms’ regulators, the Nigerian Communication Commission, NCC, to save the firm from its sinking boat and the latest inauguration of a new buyer, 9mobile, all seemed not be well with the firm, going by the latest development of a new suitor angling to buy the firm.

BUA, Virgin and Vodacom are ready to submit their memoranda of interest and technical presentations, while the banks have appointed advisers, which include Standard Bank of South Africa and Citibank of New York, to receive and evaluate bids.

Daily Times gathered that every bid received will be evaluated before they will be tendered to the board of new directors.

Hakeem Bello-Osagie first resigned as Chairman, while chief executive officer (CEO), Mr. Matthew Willsher, and Chief Fi-

nancial Officer (CFO), Mr. Wole Obasunloye, both resigned.

It will be recalled that Etisalat Nigeria, after its takeover by banks, constituted a new board, following wind of resignations.

In the new board is a deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and chairman of African Finance Corporation (AFC) as its chairman, Boye Olusanya, MD/chief executive officer of 9mobile, Funke Ighodaro, Chief Finance Officer, Mr. Oluseyi Bickersteth – Non Executive Director, and Mr. Ken Igbokwe – Non Executive Director.

Etisalat Nigeria, last Wednesday, officially unveiled its new brand identity, 9mobile, with a new logo.

Boye Olusanya, Chief Executive Officer of 9mobile, said the new logo was in conformity with the new name and reflects the bold and creative attributes which the company shared with its valued subscribers.

Ongoing diversion of Mokwa-Jebba highway road… on Monday.

South West govs meet, harp on regional integration

Abiodun Taiwo, Abeokuta

ÏÏÏ Governors of the South West states of Nigeria under the aegis of Southwest Governor’s Forum, met in Abeokuta, Ogun State on Monday.

The programme which was held at MITROS Gateway Annex, Ibara, Abeokuta featured talks on development of the geopolitical zone, through the platform of the Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN) Commission.

Areas of common interest that the forum deliberated upon, included security, education, Agriculture, infrastructure, rail and road networks The meeting, hosted by the Ogun state governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has in attendance all the six governors of the region, namely; Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo), Rotimi Akeredolu (Ondo), Akinwunmi Ambode (Lagos), Ayo Fayose (Ekiti), Raid Aregbesola (Osun) and Amosun.

They met under the aegis of Western Nigeria Governors’ Forum.

The programme was organised

by DAWN, a technocratic institution for the sustainable development of the Southwest Region which according to Amosun had been the Vanguard for socio-economic and re-engineering of the South West.

A communiqué read by the host governor, Amosun, indicat-

ed among others that “A joint task force and Joint actions will be pursued and sustained on security threats to guarantee the safety of lives, property and prosperity of the people of the region.”

According to the communiqué, the governors agreed that the artificial boundaries of states, religions, political affiliations among others would not be a barrier to regional development and urged all the states to be encouraged to significantly improve bilateral and multilateral cooperation to foster regional development.

Among other issues they agreed on were that: “The competitive advantage of constituent states would be harnessed for sustainable regional development.”

“In order to improve the food security of the region, DAWN should convene a regional agric summit to be held in Ibadan.

“Approval is given for the establishment of a Western Nigeria Export Development Initiative (WENEDI) to drive the export potentials of the region.

“A committee be set up for codification of our values and ethos as an instrument of Yoruba uniqueness to strengthen our identity and unity of purpose.”

Earlier in his welcome address, Amosun charged his colleague governors to, in the interest of the South West, not to allow themselves to be used as “instruments of division.”

He stated that creation of States from the Old Western Region in 1976 which should have been an impetus for development in the South West had been “allowed to create artificial boundaries between the Yoruba nation.”

His words, “And, to further worsen the situation, some of our people are also making themselves available as instruments of division because of their selfish political gains. The consequence is that our people begin to see themselves as a people of one State or the other rather than as a sub-unit of the entity of the Yoruba people.”

“This”, he said “is not without its attendant challenges of intra and inter-state boundary disputes which have worsened security in some States and, hampered socioeconomic development instead of building bridges.”

According to Amosun, “some of our people are digging trenches for protection against their own brothers and sisters.”

The governor recalled that all the enviable achievements, in terms of infrastructure and high standard of living in the defunct Western Region under late Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s government became possible because of unity of purpose.

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Inspector, 2 police officers dismissed over illegal extortion, detention in Lagos Oguntade Ismaila

ÏÏÏ The Police Headquarters, Abuja, has announced the dismissal of three officers over extortion and illegal detention of innocent Nigerians.

According to an online medium, Today, the dismissed officers, Inspector Okelue Nkemeonye, Sergeant Braimoh Sunday and Sergeant Yusuf Olukoga, were, until their dismissal attached to Area ‘N’ Command Ijede-Ikorodu under the Lagos state police command.

Their dismissal, according to the commissioner in charge of Public Complaint Rapid Response Unit (PCRRU), Abayomi Shogunle, followed series of complaints against them from innocent Nigerians.

The complainants had alleged that the dismissed policemen were “Yahoo Yahoo boys” as they specialize in arresting, detaining and extorting huge amounts of money from suspects and innocent people before setting them free.

Upon arresting their victims, the dismissed police officers were said to always taken them to the banks and made huge withdrawals from their victims’ bank accounts.

Upon receiving the complaints, Shogunle said the three were arrested and investigated and found to have been deeply involved in the act

Shogunle also said an Orderly Room trial conducted at the Zone Two Command Headquarters, Onikan-Yaba, Lagos, found them guilty on a two count charges of offence against discipline as provided for in paragraphs C (ii) Corrupt Practices and E (iii) Discreditable Conduct of the First Schedule of Police Act and Regulations Cap. P19, law of the Federation of Nigeria 2004.

During investigation, CP Sholunle said: “All the arrested officers, witnesses and recovered exhibits, including the N200,000 cash and printed bank statement of account, were handed over to the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 2 Lagos for further detailed investigation and necessary disciplinary measures.

“The approval of the punishment of dismissal from service as recommended by the Adjudicating officer is part of the outcome of the disciplinary measures.

“In the case of ASP Bayo Obadiah who led the team of the infamous men on this unacceptable conduct, an official query was issued to him by the AIG Zone 2 Lagos, both his reply and query have been forwarded to the office of the Force Secretary, Force Headquarters, Abuja from where it would be sent to the Police Service Commission as required by Police Regulations.”

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Pass anti-grazing bill, Journalist charges Delta Assembly Nosa Akenzua, Asaba

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Journalists of the Indigenous Correspondents Chapel (ICC) of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Delta state chapter, has called on members of the Delta state House of Assembly to come to the rescue of Deltans by urgently passing the Anti-Grazing Bill currently before the Assembly into law.

The journalists made the call during a courtesy call by the Chapel’s new executive led by Comrade Barth Ozah to the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, and principal officers of the House.

Ozah, who spoke on behalf of the Correspondents,

explained that passing the Bill into law will help check the excesses of the rampaging herdsmen that are terrorizing Deltans.

He said: “It is however expedient to sue for urgent passage of the Anti-Grazing Bill currently before the House, as the Bill will not only check the excesses of the rampaging herdsmen terrorizing Deltans but will go a long way in ensuring that the SMART Agenda of His Excellency, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa , which is anchored on agriculture is realized.

The Indigenous Correspondents also called for more robust engagement between the House leadership and the Parliamentary

Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) to avoid the unnecessary bickering that characterized its relationship with the leadership of the House in the past.

Comrade Ozah while congratulating the Speaker on his emergence as leader of the Assembly, he also commended him for appointing a seasoned journalist, Comrade Dennis Out as his Chief Press Secretary, pointing out that it is an appointment that underscores the recognition nd importance that the Speaker attaches to the press.

He also applauded the harmonious working relationship that currently exists between the three arms of government in the in

the state, which has helped in promoting good governance, and also commended the House for the numerous bills, motions and resolutions passed by the House, and geared towards promoting good governance.

Rt. Hon. Oborevwori in his response said that the Anti-Grazing Bill before the House is being worked on, pointing out that the House of assembly is still doing consultations on it. “We decided to put it on hold to do more consultation. When we come back from recess, we will work on the Bill so that by the time we finish work on it Deltans will be happy. I want to assure you on that,” the Speaker said.

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NAPTIP, Italian Anti-Mafia, Police Team Up Against Human Traffickers

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The Lagos State House of Assembly on Tuesday directed Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to effect the immediate removal from office, of the Sole Administrator of Oriade Local Council Development Authority (LCDA), Habib Aileru, for alleged misappropriation of council funds, disobedience of local council laws and flagrant disregard of the governor’s directives.

Hard times now await human traffickers involved in trafficking Nigerians to Europe through Italy as the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) and the Security authorities in Italy have agreed to collaborate more effectively in curbing trafficking of human beings from Nigeria to Italy.

This was the outcome of the high powered strategic meetings held in Italy between a delegation from NAPTIP led by the DirectorGeneral, Julie Okah-Donli and officials of various Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) of Italy. The NAPTIP delegation was made up of Investigators and Prosecutors. The delegation met with the Head of the Italian AntiMafia and Terrorism department; officials of the Public Safety Department; the Italian Police; the Prosecutors of Palermo and Catania Sicily, handling trafficking and smuggling in migrants issues and investigations amongst others.

The meetings were sequel

to the plans of NAPTIP to deepen its partnership with authorities of destination countries and jointly drawing a road map to crumbling the businesses of those who traffic or smuggle Nigerians to Europe where they are exposed to lives of misery. The meetings were also aimed at discussing the possibilities of using the criminal evidences in Italy to prosecute criminal gangs of Nigerian origin when they are brought back home.

One of the resolutions was the proper utilisation of all existing global, mutual or bilateral conventions and protocols on combating trafficking in persons (TIP) in curbing further trafficking of young persons from Nigeria to Italy.

Speaking at the various meetings, Okah-Donli called for better partnership between NAPTIP and the Italian security forces in the arrest and prosecution of perpetrators of the crime of trafficking in persons. She stressed the need for the Italian authorities and those of other European countries to show more commitment in the fight against human trafficking by arresting and prosecuting their own nationals involved in trafficking. ‘’We are trying our best in prosecuting our own people, but the fight looks one sided as we do not hear much of the prosecution of your own people who are involved. Nigerians cannot successfully exploit the victims of trafficking here without effective connivance and collaboration from your people’’, she said.

Anambra election: Nnamdi Kanu backs down, agrees restructuring will guarantee poll Moses Oyediran, Enugu Executive Director, National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr. Faisal Shuaib (left) and Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, during a courtesy visit to the Governor in Sokoto State… recently.

NGO cautions Amnesty delegates over planned protests Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

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Following a statement allegedly issued by some faceless Amnesty beneficiaries to embark on massive protests in the nine Niger Delta states simultaneously, a Non-Governmental Organization, the Patriotic Niger Deltans for Good Governance (PNDGG) has called on youths in the region, particularly Amnesty delegates to dissociate themselves from such call.

PNDGG, in a statement signed on Sunday by its Secretary General, Bekes Aere advised the youth in the region to be weary of politicians who take pleasure in sponsoring unsuspecting youths

to carry out protests against constituted authorities.

President of the group, Comrade Adonbra Amgbare, advised the youths to rather focus their energies on developing the region and the nation in general, lamenting that politicians with inordinate ambitions have continued to mastermind such protests in the region, using Amnesty delegates as tools of violence to the detriment of the region.

According to the group’s president, the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Brigadier General Paul Boroh (Rtd) has not faulted in any way to warrant

such unguided protests to embarrass his office, stressing that those behind the planned protest are cowards, who hide behind unsuspecting youths to manipulate the system governance to their own advantage.

The President therefore warned that “this time around the youths in the region will not tolerate such anti-social conducts from political leaders whose past time is to pull down their fellow brothers and sisters in public offices.

He called on all Amnesty delegates in schools within and outside the country to remain calm and go about their normal academic activities as law abiding citizens, just as

urged the student delegates to be innovative, productive and creative, reiterating that “they are great assets to their families and the nation at large, in its strides towards attaining stability and development.

He maintained that Boroh, within a short period in office has introduced programmes that are aimed at improving economic fortunes in the Niger Delta and the country at large, pointing out that the youths should be grateful that a visionary leader like Gen. Boroh, is appointed as Special Adviser to the President/Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme in this era of change and accountability.

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Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has recanted on his earlier position on “No referendum, no election” when on Monday he embraced the restructuring of the country and added that only restructuring of Nigeria between now and October 1, 2017 would guarantee the holding of November governorship election in Anambra State.

The IPOB leader who spoke in Enugu where he received awards from three Igbo groups, including the Eastern Consultative Assembly and the Igbo Students’ Association.

Kanu, who was confronted by newsmen over the reaction generated by his call for election boycott, boasted that unless the Federal Government restructures the country before October 2017, the world would be shocked with

the fate that would befall the scheduled Anambra election.

He said, “There will be no election in Anambra State come November 2017 and going forward there won’t be any election until they give me date for a referendum.

“They know what to do; convene a meeting, I will send my rep, give us a date for referendum, that is the only way.

“In which part of this earth have you ever found a measure of self-determination to be equated to war except in Nigeria because the political leaders do not understand the difference between self determination and war?

“Self-determination does not mean hate speech; the status quo can no longer remain. Like my brother Evangelist Eliot Ugochukwu-Uko said, if on or before October 1 nothing happens in terms of substantial restructuring, then there won’t be any election; the people will support us.”

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Niger CAN hails FG on CRK, IRK Saka Bolaji, LƆ

ÏÏÏThe Niger state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has hailed the federal government’s directive to make the Christian Religious Knowledge (CRK) and Islamic Religious Knowledge (IRK) distinctive subjects in the basic education curriculum.

Speaking to newsmen in Minna, the CAN state chairman, Revd. Mathias Echioda, on Monday called on the state government to immediately implement the federal government’s directives if they want the best According to him “this showed that the government listens to the plights of the

Ï ƉƉ Ǝ ƎƄ ƐƎ Ǝ ƆƊƋƉƄƊƄ Ǝ ƕƆƍƄƃƎƆƐƄ people. It is a welcomed development because a government that does not listen to the people will have itself truncated.

A government that listens is a responsible one.

“If you lead a people and they are not attuned with what you are doing then there is a problem. The step in the first place was a wrong one, they have not been able to really convince us why the change in the first place.”

He added that “we had the CRK and IRK standing on their own before, and going on smoothly. But beyond the embarrassment of government coming up with the idea of not making each of the

subjects stand alone, we are grateful that they listened to common sense and the cry of the people. To this extent we appreciate the effort they have done because it would be like a political suicide not to listen to the people who elected you into power.

He further called on the government at all level to consult relevant stakeholders before taking decisions adding that “we hope that before they do certain things, they would have wide consultations with Stakeholders, not just hand picking a couple of Civil servants or loyalists to do what they want.

Let them go all round to get enough information and see

the heartbeat of the stakeholders.” Furthermore, he called on the State government to promptly respond to Federal government’s directive, for immediate implementation and engage teachers for the subjects.

“Let it go beyond political rhetoric, they should swing into action because the purpose of the change is to make things work. Application is the reason for learning. Where there is no application, learning is useless.

“So, let the state government not hide its head anywhere, they should come all out as has been made known nationally, implement to the fullest

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Fuel tanker collides with passenger bus in Osun

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currence of an auto-crash that claimed no fewer than 10 lives in Osun state, another fuel tanker on Monday morning collided with a mini bus popularly called Korope.

The accident happened at the popular Olaiya junction in Osogbo, the Osun state capital with no life lost.

It was gathered that the tanker lost control and rammed into an electric pole on the high way.

The tanker, which was coming from the Odi Olowo end of the road, was not fuel laden.

The tanker also rammed into a mini bus popularly known as Korope parked at the other end of the road just before the Olaiya junction damaging the vehicle to an extent.

L-R: National Chairman, Labour Party, Alhaji Abdulkadir Salam; National Chairman, National Conscience Party, Dr. Yunusa Tanko and National Chairman, African Democratic Congress, Chief Ralphs Nwosu, during the press conference organised by the coalition of political parties called, The Coalition for a New Nigeria, in Abuja... on Monday. Photo: TEMITOPE BALOGUN.

Task-force arrests two police officers, seven hoodlums for extortion in Plateau Kingsley Chukwuka, Jos

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Implementation Committee on the curtailment of cattle rustling and special squad on curbing multiple taxation on Nigeria highway, has arrested two police officers and seven hoodlums in Kuru, Plateau state for extortion of money from commercial drivers on the highway.

Desk Officer of the Committee, North Central Zone, Superintendent of Police Yahaya Usman, who confirmed the arrest on Monday during the stakeholders meeting of Nigeria As-

so that the children will be brought up in the fear of God and of course morally so that we will have a better country than what we presently have,” he advised.

In a swift response to the call by the Chairman of CAN, the State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Hajiya Fatima Madugu assured government’s readiness.

“Well, based on the federal government’s pronouncement, we (the state government) will equally implement it accordingly. It will be implemented because all arrangements have been put in place for us to implement it.

“We cannot violate federal government’s directive, it will be implemented accordingly and very soonest.”

sociation of Agricultural Product Dealers of the state, said any police officer found extorting money from the public will be arrested.

He said the police officers, who were arrested on Saturday, have been transferred to Force Headquarters Abuja, for investigation and appropriate sanctions to deter others from indulging in such fraudulent activities.

Usman, who represented the Inspector General of Police at the meeting, said constant harassment and multiple taxation on commercial drivers who convey agricultural product from one part of the country to an-

other has led to hike in price of foodstuff.

“Police officers and seven hoodlums were arrested in Jos for harassment and extortion of money from commercial drivers who carry agricultural product from one point to another. They were taking to Abuja for appropriate action.

“The Inspector General of Police is a man of action and any police officer found on the highway, aiding fraudulent activities against the public would be arrested and sanction. I know that a lot of erring police officers have been sacked from work and anyone who encourages mul-

tiple taxation on farmers will be equally sanction.”

North Central Coordinator of the association, Dr. Jonah Ogbaji, lamented over multiple taxes and levies, intimidation and harassment of members and destruction, stealing of goods and maltreatment of drivers on the highway by hoodlums aided by security personnel.

He noted that activities such as multiple taxes and levies, unnecessary harassment of traders on the highway among others have hike the price of agricultural products in the country.

However, when Daily Times contacted the Plateau State Police Command spokesperson, Mr. Tyopev Terna, he said he is yet to receive any information that two police officers were arrested for any offense.

a statement allegedly issued by some faceless amnesty beneficiaries threatening to embark on massive protests in the nine Niger Delta states simultaneously, a NonGovernmental Organization, the Patriotic Niger Deltans for Good Governance (PNDGG) has called on youths in the region, particularly amnesty delegates to dissociate themselves from such call.

PNDGG, in a statement signed on Sunday by its secretary general, Bekes Aere, advised the youth in the region to be weary of politicians who take pleasure in sponsoring unsuspecting youths to carry out protests against constituted authorities.

President of the group, Comrade Adonbra Amgbare, advised the youths to rather focus their energies on developing the region and the nation in general, lamenting that politicians with inordinate ambitions have continued to mastermind such protests in the region, using Amnesty delegates as tools of violence to the detriment of the region.

According to the group’s president, the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Brigadier General Paul Boroh (Rtd) has not faulted in any way to warrant such unguided protests to embarrass his office, stressing that those behind the planned protest are cowards, who hide behind unsuspecting youths to manipulate the system governance to their own advantage.

The President therefore warned that “this time around the youths in the region will not tolerate such anti-social conducts from political leaders whose past time is to pull down their fellow brothers and sisters in public offices.

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Lagos LG poll: As APC secures total victory, what hope for aggrieved parties?

Patrick Okohue As the Lagos State governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode get set to inaugurate the newly elected chairmen for the 20 local governments and 37 local council development areas of the state today, just a day after the state Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) officially released the results and issued the winners with Certificates of Return, some people have started to ask, why the hurry?

This election of council chairmen and councilors in the state is the first to hold in the state in the last five years and the fixing of the swearing in date for today is perhaps strategic for the state.

Though the ruling party in the state, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has started congratulating itself for claiming victory in all the 57 LGA and LCDA, going by the press statements from the offices of the party chairman in the state and that of the governor, many people are questioning the credibility of the election and its result in some quarters.

The election itself which was marked by voter apathy, late arrival of voting materials and none arrival of materials in some polling units was not a positive to the process.

For instance, hours into the commencement of the elections, many polling units had no voters on the queue ready to vote.

From observations made at various wards and polling booths in Ifako-Ijaiye, Maryland, Ojota, Ketu, Ikeja among other places, only a handful of voters were seen casting their votes as at 12 noon.

At ward E in Ifako-Ijaiye, the few voters available complained of late arrival of voting materials.

Similarly at various wards in Oshodi-Isolo, including, Ward D2, many of the polling booths were virtually empty with just a few ballots cast as at 12noon.

A similar observation was made at various wards in Ikeja, as residents preferred to turn empty roads into football pitches.

Also in Ikosi Ketu, voting materials did not arrive most of the polling units until about 11am despite that the election was billed to commence at 8am.

However, voting materials never arrived at the only polling station on Kola Adeyeye Street, in Ikosi, Ketu, even though the Police and party agents were there waiting for the LASIEC officials throughout the period the election was supposed to last,

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There is no way you won’t face the turbulence of democracy – the twists and turns and the complaints. As we have 57 LGAs and LCDAs, the problem is that, to every slot, you have an average of 13 aspirants.

That is the popularity of our party. We can only have one chairman; we can only have one vice; we can only have one ward councillor and you have 18 people in a ward fighting for the seat of a councillor.

Conflict and conflict resolution are the hallmark of democracy. but when the local government LASIEC was contacted they insisted that the electoral officers were dispatched with necessary materials.

Still in Ikosi Isheri LCDA, at Olowora Ward A, unit 13 C, LASIEC officials also did not show up, but some opposition Accord Party members alleged that results were written for these places and more by LASIEC officials.

However, chairman of the Lagos State Independent Electoral

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Commission (LASIEC), Justice Ayotunde Phillips attributed the delayed take off of the voting process in some parts of the state to heavy downpour that started in the morning of the day.

Speaking with newsmen while monitoring some polling units in Yaba area of the state, she said the downpour affected the movements of electoral materials.

Justice Philips appealed to those who were yet to vote on the affected area to exercise patience as the commission was addressing the situation.

She assured that all eligible voters would vote, as materials were being deployed to the affected areas, adding that the commission would allow some people to vote beyond the 3pm deadline if there was the need to do so.

“The delay in the delivery of materials in some areas, hence voting, is caused by the heavy downpour. However, we are addressing the situation and we are assuring that everybody in the affected areas will vote.

“Once people have been accredited and are on queue, they will be allowed to vote even after 3pm,” she said.

While expressing satisfaction with the peaceful conduct in most areas, Justice Phillips said there were few incidences of violence in some areas, but said security agents had quelled the situation.

In Ikeja, after casting his vote in Ikeja the polls at 12:15p.m. at Polling Unit 026 in Ward F, Ikeja LGA, former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Ti-

nubu, who is also the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, said that the complaints and protests that followed the party’s primaries for council elections in the state showed its popularity.

Tinubu told newsmen, “You must have competitiveness if you are a popular party,’’ adding that complaints are normal in democracy He expressed confidence that the protests and complaints would not affect the chances of the party in the council elections.

“There is no way you won’t face the turbulence of democracy – the twists and turns and the complaints.

“As we have 57 LGAs and LCDAs, the problem is that, to every slot, you have an average of 13 aspirants. That is the popularity of our party.

“We can only have one chairman; we can only have one vice; we can only have one ward councillor and you have 18 people in a ward fighting for the seat of a councillor.

“Conflict and conflict resolution are the hallmark of democracy. You have to find a way to resolve all conflicts, and we have done so,” Tinubu said.

Like, the LASIEC chairman pointed out about disturbances in some places, there is report that indicates that a policeman was among 110 persons arrested for various electoral offences during the election.

According to the report, the policeman was arrested in a commercial bus at Agege Local

Government Area with electoral materials while escorting two others to an unknown destination.

Items recovered from the suspects included tomb printed ballot papers and boxes, witnesses said. Aside the arrests, policemen also recovered a ballot box and some electoral materials from hoodlums who allegedly hijacked them from officials of LASIEC. Explaining reasons for the delay in officially releasing the results, sources at LASIEC explained that the delay in the announcement may not have been unconnected with slight hitches recorded in some council areas, particularly, Agbado-Oke-Odo LCDA, where election was rescheduled in some wards for Sunday.

It was also gathered that the chairman prefers to announce all the results after a comprehensive list, most have been collated across the 57 councils, to eliminate speculation.

The spokesman of the Commission, Mr. Dapo Olatunde, declined any comment on the development, saying, the chairman will brief the media as soon as the results are ready for public consumption.

The 12 parties that contested in the council elections are Accord, Action Alliance (AA), Alliance for Democracy (AD), All Progressives Congress (APC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Labour Party (LP), All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), United Democratic Party (UDP), United Progressive Party (UPP), Kowa Party (KP), National Action Council (NAC) and Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM).

Meanwhile, the Lagos State Police Command said it has arrested about 110 suspects for various offences during the local government election which held on Saturday.

The Commissioner of Police, Mr Fatai Owoseni, said: “As of the time I left the office (on Saturday evening), we should be having about 110 suspects that have been arrested for one thing or the other. There may still be more because we’ve not finished the whole process but as of now, we have close to about 110 suspects in custody.”

Mr Owoseni who said he also monitored the process in some areas of the state noted that the police responded promptly to the incidence of violence in some parts of the state.

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PDP NCC affirms Fagbemi as Kwara PDP chairman Kehinde Akinpelu ilorin The leadership crisis rocking the Kwara State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been laid to rest.

This followed the affirmation of Prince Sunday Adeniran Fagbemi as the PDP chairman in the state by the party’s National Caretaker Committee (NCC).

Until the Supreme Court’s ruling which resolved the PDP leadership tussle at the national level in favour of Senator Ahmed Makarfi, Prince Fagbemi’s faction of the party in the state had always pledged its allegiance to Makarfi.

It was therefore not surprising when Fagbemi was accredited to attend the maiden national executive council (NEC) meeting of the PDP’s NCC in Abuja last Tuesday after the Supreme Court’s ruling as the only recognised party chairman from Kwara State.

Fagbemi’s name is number 88 on the

accreditation list of the party’s NEC meeting.

The pioneer chairman of PDP in Kwara State, Barr. Kunle Sulyman confirmed the development to mammoth crowd of party supporters that gathered at the party’s secretariat along Asa Dam road, Ilorin yesterday.

The PDP supporters in their hundreds had converged at Ganmo, near Ilorin to give Fagbemi and his team a rousing reception on their return from Abuja, where they had gone to attend the NEC meeting.

Another leader of the party in the state and former Special Adviser on Legislative Matters to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Senator Makanjuola Ajadi also corroborated the PDP’s pioneer chairman in the state.

Ajadi said “in my honour, I stand here to inform you that our party’s NCC has affirmed and confirmed Prince Sunday Fagbemi as the only PDP chairman in

Kwara State.

“However, there is no victor nor vanquish in this issue. We are therefore urging our brothers in the other divide led

by Akogun Iyiola Oyedepo to return to the mainstream so that together we can return our great party to its winning streak again.”

Responding, the PDP chairman, Prince Sunday Fagbemi said he was overwhelmed by the recognition accorded him by the PDP NCC in Abuja as well as rousing welcome organised in his honour by the party supporters on his arrival from Abuja.

He extended a hand of fellowship to the leader of the other faction of the party, Akogun Iyiola Oyedepo and his team.

He requested them to join hands with him in rebuilding the party that once ruled the state for eight years.

Fagbemi thanked the party supporters in the state and urge them to continue to work hard for the victory of the party in future elections.

I left PDP for APC to serve my constituents better, says Senator Enoh Edem Edem, Calabar Senator John Owan Enoh, Senator representing Cross River Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly has said that he defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), because the interest of his senatorial district was not protected and joining his new found party, the APC, the interest of his senatorial district was protected.

He said in 2019 he would be evaluated on the basis of the work he has done for the people of the state adding that in his two years in the Senate he had done 44 water projects, 12 roads and culverts, attracted employment opportunities to so many youths of the constituents and so far 4,023 have benefited from his education support intervention scheme across the 66 wards of his senatorial districts.

Speaking in Ikom Local Government Area of the state, Enoh who was presenting his mid-term scorecard said “Since I joined the APC, I have found myself coming back to the way politics ought to be played, that you have no reason not to follow me to APC, please come and join me.

“There is no reason if you not decide to follow this wind of change that is blowing across the central Senatorial District” and urged the people to compare his work with that of the governor, “Please just compare my work with that of the governor when he was a senator.”

The National Assembly lawmaker stated that he took a bold step to defect to his new party because he had a conviction that in the APC, people of the Central Senatorial District can become liberated from the whims and caprices of those who had the erroneous belief that the senatorial district is their personal estate.

He said that the decision to pull out

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from the PDP and move to the APC was not a decision to toy with stressing that he had no regret in taking the bold step that he took. The former chairman for Finance and Appropriation Committee in the House of Representatives maintained that the APC was the only party that could offer him a fresh opportunity for open and inclusive politics.

The former University of Calabar staff turned politician said, “Majority of our people in the Central Senatorial District have been excluded by the state controlled PDP and I believe that the interest of my senatorial district will best be served in an alternative platform like the APC.” He maintained that the mandate given to him by his people to represent them in the Senate in 2015 came with a huge challenge and expectation of becoming responsive to the plights of his constituent at the point of their need.

“When you win election to represent a people, you do not just do things that

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concern you alone, but you strive to do things that will impact positively on the lives of the people. Do those things that you know will excite the people who elected you,” he said.

Enoh said, “I found out that so many people who supported me to contest against former Senate Leader Victor Ndoma-Egba, did that not just because they loved me but because they hated Victor Ndoma-Egba.

“It was more because they hated Sen. Victor Ndoma Egba. Some of these our leaders did not support me because of my work and the love that they had for me, but because of the hatred that they had for Ndoma-Egba.

“Why do I say this? I expected these leaders to at least give me a chance to see if I will fail or succeed. They should have given me a chance to see if I will do well or not, instead these leaders started showing me the real motives why they supported me,” Enoh said.

APC describes C’River’s Assembly as rubber stamp, dishonourable Edem Edem, Calabar The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Cross River State has described the State House of Assembly (CRSHA) as rubber stamp House that is made up of dishonourable members, noting that the House will say one thing and do a different one.

In a statement by the APC Publicity Secretary, Mr Mens Ikpeme and made available to our correspondent, the APC said that the House had told the people that there was no meeting held to declare Hon (Dr.) Ekom Elucate’s seat vacant.

Hon Elucate the member representing Obubra II state constituency in the Assembly had defected from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the APC, recently and the House had declared his seat in the House vacant.

“The Speaker of the Cross River State House of Assembly, Right Hon. John Gaul Lebo, told Cross Riverians and the whole world on the 7th of July, 2017 that, there was no meeting with the governor in respect of hatching a plan to declare the seat of Hon (Dr.) Ekom Elucate, who recently decamped to the All Progressives Congress (APC) vacant.

“Few days later, this same dishonourable honourable and his co-travellers declared the seat of Hon. Ekom vacant despite very clear constitutional provisions on the above matter.

Cross River State Assembly legislators are insensitive to their constitutional positions and they intentionally break the laws for political gain.

“This has exposed the level of immaturity and poor understanding of constitutional provisions on the part of the Assembly members.

The portion of the Nigeria constitution quoted; section 109, subsection 1G as a lay man’s excuse of the 1999 constitution as amended by declaring the seat of Honourable (Dr.) Elucate Ekom Vacant.”

He said that the portion of the 1999 constitution has A and B and the State Assembly is supposed to conform to that. They rather tied a noose around their neck by citing subsection 1G which reads “Being a person whose election to the House of Assembly was sponsored by a political party, he becomes a member of another political party before the expiration of the period for which that House was elected provided that his membership of the latter political party is not as a result of a division in the political party of which he was previously a member or of a merger of two or more political parties or factions by one of which he was previously sponsored.

“Goats, fowls, the blind, deaf and dumb know that PDP is in serious crisis in the state and national. The Makarfi group and Sheriff group. Their fundamental political process occurs in all level of their hierarchy each with its own diverse split up system with less strength and bond linking to their national hierarchy.

“Therefore, what the PDP House of Assembly has just done is a clear violation of the law and impunity which tore PDP apart and made them loose relevance. What the PDP House of Assembly has done cannot stand their purported 108 days for bye election to replace Hon. (Dr.) Elucate Ekom is a fallacy.”

According to the state, the Publicity Secretary it was a clear evidence that the Cross River State Assembly always played to the gallery to prove to the innocent masses that they are working, but always fail to complete the mandated period for legislative sitting.

It is common knowledge that there is conflicts of interest in Cross River Assembly as they have been promised second term which has hindered effective functionality of the state legislators for them to uphold basic democratic governance.

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Yusuf Maitama Tuggar The last time Dan Masani and I spoke was two weeks before he passed away. The subject of our discussion was the brewing Biafra debacle. He expressed disappointment in the threats being made to the Nigerian state and concern over the slippery slope of brinkmanship that the nation seemed to be heading towards.

He found the fact that, at the time, political leaders and influencers in the South East had seemingly shied away from disavowing IPOB’s secessionist vitriol to be regrettable. In line with this and with the possibility that things might escalate even further, I suggested a back channel of communication between himself and his First Republic federal cabinet colleague Chief Mbazulike Amechi.

I knew Dan Masani held Chief Amechi in high regard and the feeling was mutual. He promptly agreed and Chief Amechi’s son Tagbo (an old school mate) and I arranged for the two to speak over the phone at length. The next stage was to be a face-to-face meeting, the major challenge being both men were frail with age and facing physical challenges that required ample time to prepare for a journey between Kano and Ukpor in Anambra State, even if they were to meet halfway. And besides, the Sallah festivities marking the end of Ramadan were about to commence. Unfortunately, that meeting was not to be.

As a former Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations, Dan Masani was aware that there have arguably been only two peaceful modern secessions, that of Norway from Sweden in 1905 and the Irish Free State from the United Kingdom in 1921. And in the case of the latter, the long drawn-out conflict in Northern Ireland vitiates that assertion.

Ambassador Maitama Sule was also aware that successful secession was in itself a rarity; Bangladesh’s break from Pakistan and Eritrea’s drawn out struggle against annexation

by Ethiopia stand as the only examples in the strictest sense of the word. East Timor’s ‘independence’ from Indonesia was from military occupation and annexation at the end of Portuguese colonisation and not secession by part of an integrated colonial state from the whole.

The jury is still out on South Sudan’s success or otherwise as a state.

This low success rate of secession is however CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9

Ambode on Sunday congratulated the APC for recording landslide victory at the local government election in the state, saying that the development was an eloquent affirmation that Lagosians have confidence in the party.

Governor Ambode, in a congratulatory message signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Habib Aruna, said the development was not just a victory for democracy but the people at the grassroots, who he said would experience continuity with improvement in terms of dividends of democracy.

The governor said it was particularly gratifying that the party emerged victorious in all the positions not only for the chairmanship positions but also the councillorship, which is the closest to the people.

“This victory for us is nothing more than a confirmation of the trust that Lagosians have placed on the party. In that regard, I like to congratulate our great party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the landslide victory at the Saturday’s election in all the 57 Councils.

“I particularly note with joy the peaceful conduct of electorates who came out to exercise their franchise in favour of their preferred candidates despite the heavy rain. This is indeed a welcome development and it will go a long way to strengthen our resolve to push ahead with our vi-

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not due to lack of trying, because there are said to be as many as 8,000 distinct cultures in the world, yet only 196 countries, 193 of which are members of the UN. But a cultural area is not the same as a nation-state.

The penchant for declaring every cultural group in Nigeria a nation does not exactly contribute to national unity, rather it fuels hatred among ethnic chauvinists and a yearning for some utopian tribal nirvana that clearly stands against what history holds up as the results of such misadventures.

Although the United Nations charter has national self-determination as one of its cardinal principles, its members are not keen on supporting secessionist movements for the simple reason that most of them encompass several cultural areas that could equally agitate for secession and appeal for outside help. And outside help is of paramount importance for the

success of state creation in an increasingly globalised world where countries depend on each other for trade, aid, and military assistance.

No country in the world today is autarchic (self-sufficient) and each requires the recognition of others to exist. The more the number of countries that recognise a country and establish relations, the better.

As leader of the Nigeria delegation to the 1960 Conference of Independent African States in Addis Ababa and mover of the motion that led to the creation of the Organisation of African Unity, Maitama Sule was also conscious of the fact that the continental body stood against territorial revisionism from the onset.

The comity of modern nations have clearly exhibited a willingness to recognise and support the creation of new states when empires fall, as in the 19th century when the Spanish empire ended with the Spanish-American war

and new states emerged in Latin America, or the end of WWI when the German, AustroHungarian, Ottoman and Russian empires crumbled and new states were created in Europe and parts of the Middle East, or the end of WWII when British and French colonial empires receded and countries gained independence in Africa and Asia, or more recently the end of the cold war when the Soviet Union buckled and states re-emerged in Central Asia and by extension Marshal Tito’s death catalysed the dissolution of non-aligned socialist Yugoslavia. Nigeria is not an empire.

I cannot put a date to when I came to know the late Yusuf Maitama Sule, I was named after him and grew up knowing him as my late father’s closest friend and political associate dating back to their First Republic NPC days.

In the early seventies, they were a trio with the late Alhaji Ahmadu Gaga, a cigar-smoking Fulani man from Yalleman (present day Jigawa State) who lived in the heart of Ebute Metta in Lagos. In their bid to draw their sons closer and to expose us to Nigeria outside of Kano, Mukhtar Maitama Sule and I were sent to holiday in Ahmadu Gaga’s house in Ebute Metta in the summer of 1974.

We quickly acclimated to the beats of King Sunny Ade’s Syncro System and Fela’s Lady, oblivious to Nigeria’s cultural differences. It was reverse acculturation for Gaga’s eldest sons, Umaru and Ahmadu who were proper Lagosians; they were sent to Maitama Sule’s house in Kano and enrolled in Government College, Kano (Rumfa).

Maitama Sule lived by a creed of truth and forgiveness: seek the truth, establish the facts and then forgive each other. That way disputes were less likely to rear their ugly heads over and over again. Some mistook his jocular nature and incredible rhetoric for triviality. He was a very focused, principled individual dedicated to the Nigerian cause who kept growing intellectually until his death because he was always willing to listen to others (even those much younger), much as he spoke quite often.

Nigeria has lost a patriot at a time of need.

LagosLG poll: What hope for aggrieved parties? sion to transform the local government system, being the closest to the people.

“I am also happy that we are conducting the Local Government election during my time after almost six years that the election was last held in the state,” the governor said.

While congratulating the LASIEC for the success of the election, Governor Ambode said the outcome of the election was a demonstrable evidence that the people have keyed into his vision to evolve participatory governance especially at the local level, just as he assured that his administration would not relent in promoting good governance both at the state and local government levels.

“I also like to congratulate LASIEC and all Lagosians for the success of the election which is reassuring about the culture of participatory democracy we are building in the state. It is on record that Lagosians comported themselves peacefully before, during and after the period of the election and this confirms the readiness of the people to support us all the way in our bid to truly take Lagos State to greater heights.

“On our part, we shall continue to work assiduously to move the state forward and make life better and comfortable for the people,” Governor Ambode assured.

He, however, urged those aggrieved with the result to channel their grievances to the appropriate quarters rather than resort to self-help.

Also following in the same line with the governor, the state chairman of the APC, Chief Henry Oladele Ajomole, congratulated the newly elected Chairmen and Councilors across the 57 Local Government and Council Development Areas in the state for making the party proud in the elections.

Chief Ajomole, while congratulating the newly elected council officers specifically thanked all members and supporters of APC in the state for voting for candidates of the party who are expected to run the affairs of local administrations for the next four years in the state.

The state party chairman, in the press release issued by his Media Adviser, Peter Ajayi called on the officers who have just been elected to see their election’s victory as a call to service by making sure that their campaign promises are delivered within the time frame of their administration.

According to him, the confidence the people of Lagos State have in the party is as a result of the dividends of democracy being delivered by the Governor Akinwunmi Ambode led administration

across the entire local governments and council development areas.

“The chairmen and councilors will only make the party proud by working in their respective local government and council areas to complement efforts of our hard working and People’s Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode”, he said.

Ajomole reassured citizens and the people of Lagos State that the party will continue to deliver on her promises at all levels of governments. “People of Lagos State have not regretted voting for the governorship candidate of our great party in the last general election as he has turned out to be the best governor in the country.”

According to Chief Ajomale “I hereby call on our new council officers to emulate Governor Ambode who has continued to make us proud in the state by replicating his efforts in their council areas,” he added.

However, despite these celebrations, some aggrieved electorates are carrying placards in some areas calling for the cancellation of the election results, and as it stands it is not unlikely that more protests will be recorded in the coming days, but for now the APC has claimed victory and it is their legitimate right to celebrate.

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Hembe: Anger as Dogara refuses to obey Supreme Court order Continued from page 1 of Representatives representing Vandeikya/Konshisha Federal Constituency, Benue State and ordered his replacement with Hon. Mrs Dorathy Mato, the Speaker of the House, Hon.Yakubu Dogara has refused to comply with the order.

The development has also led to anger, condemnation as the stakeholders are wondering if the speaker and the leadership of the House are claiming ignorance of the apex court order or simply playing politics with the verdict of the highest court in the land.

The Daily Times further gathered yesterday that Dogara has rebuffed all entreaties by close associates of Hon Mato to administer the oath of office on her, despite the fact that the Senate had on July 5 ,2017 sworn in Senator Shuaibu Isa Lau, Taraba North, who obtained similar order same day from Supreme

Court with Hon. Mato.

A credible source at the House who is abreast with the issue also confided in the Daily Times sthat the new Senator Lau and Hon. Mato were desperately trying to have audience with Dogara on the issue yesterday.

But a cross-section of Nigerians who spoke on the issue yesterday condemned the Speaker for flouting the Supreme Court order. They were unanimous in their reasonings that it is unfortunate that Dogara, who is also a lawyer by profession could flout the Supreme Court’s order over a month after it was served on the House he presides over.

The Daily Times recalls that the Supreme Court had on June 23, 2017 sacked Hembe as member of the lower chamber representing Vandeikya / Konshisha Federal Constituency, Benue State The apex court also ordered Hembe to vacate the seat immediately and refund all salaries

and entitlements he collected from 2015 to date to the National Assembly within 90 days.

Similar orders were also made by the apex court in respect of Senator Alhaji Sani Abubakar Danladi, Taraba North Senatorial District who had since vacated his seat.

The apex court specifically ordered Dogara to swear in Mrs Dorathy Mato as the member House of Representatives representing Vandeikya / Konshisha Federal Constituency at the lower chamber of the National Assembly.

The order was contained in the lead judgment delivered by the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen on the appeal filed by Mrs Mato where in she challenged the decision of the Court of Appeal on the matter. The Apex court also ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to withdraw the certificate of return issued to Hembe

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development in the Region, insisting “Our concerted efforts and our unflinching commitment towards the fulfilment of the DAWN Agenda will continue to be part of a fulfilling memorial for him (Dipo).”

“The onerous task on our hands is to lead our people to further prosperous living. That is why the chosen Agenda for this meeting “Economic SelfDetermination for South-West Nigeria” with special focus on “South-Western Nigeria Export Initiative” is very apt. Instead of the bow-in–hand practice that each of the states seeks from the Federal Allocation, the Governor affirmed.

“The time has come for us to

map out strategies to harness the natural resources of the entire Region for further socio-economic development of the South-West Region as a whole and for more prosperity for our people.

“One of such approaches is to identify the export potentials of the Region. This will bring not just more revenue but also increase the availability of foreign currencies which will, by extension, make the Region a stronger player on the international market stage. We can do this by exploring and strengthening the different areas of comparative advantage of our States which will then be pooled together for further development of the different States and the entire Region as a whole.”

For him, “The geographical lo-

cation, climatic condition and the total landmass of our six States pooled together is a catalyst to drive an agricultural programme that will feed us, feed our neighbours and even beyond. I suggest that we encourage more mechanized farming systems to improve on productivity, speed up harvesting, enhance processing and advance storage so that our products will meet world-class standard and be more desirable for export.”

“In addition to Agriculture, the entire South-West Region is also blessed with a high potential in the extracting industry”.

Amosun said the SouthWest Region could boast of rich mineral resources which the Governors could take advantage of for development.

and further ordered INEC to issue the Certificate of return to Mrs Mato.

Four other members of the panel headed by the CJN unanimously agreed with the judgement that the “the appellant has the right to participate just like any other candidate in the primary and if he feels his right was infringed upon, he has the right to approach the court.

“From the totality of the appeal before this court, all the issues are resolved in favour of the appellant. The appeal filed by Hon Mrs Dorathy Mato against the decision of Court of Appeal Makurdi division has merit and it was upheld in the lead judgment delivered by Justice Onnoghen’.

The apex court held that Mrs Mato was the winner of the general election of March 28, 2015 with respect to Vandeikya /Konshisha federal constituency.

But constituents of Dorathy Mato, who was declared the authentic winner of the March 28, 2015, general elections for Vandeikya/Konshisha Federal Constituency of Benue State are angry at the failure of Dogara to swear her in as replacement for the former Chairman of the House Committee on FCT, Herman Hembe who was sacked by the Supreme Court.

The constituents are angry that in spite of the apex court ruling and efforts by Mato to occupy her seat, she has been frustrated by the House leadership because the deposed lawmaker is said to be perceived as an ally of the speaker.

In an attempt to force the House leadership to obey the court judgment and swear -in their representative, supporters of the declared winner of the poll had staged a peaceful rally at the National Assembly complex.

Spokesperson of the aggrieved constituents, Mati Maureen Acka, decried the manner their representative has been treated and laid the blame on the speaker.

She said: “Mato has done everything that is required to have been done. I just pray and hope that it is not some kind of a game because it will not be right. We know the law; we are hopeful that women will be carried along. Besides, the House will soon go on recess.

The spokesperson further alleged that the failure of the speaker to swear in their representative was an intimidation of the women folk, adding that “this issue of gender equality, empowerment and all of that, yet they are intimidating us. We got victory at the court, but they now want to shove us back to drown.

“We have come to the right quarters where victory is to be

sealed, but we are trusting that the speaker and every other person will do the right thing.

Acka further stated that “Mato was manipulated out of the election, just as I was by this same person (Hembe), whom God gave victory against him. I’m rejoicing with her and the women and they are truncating our victory.

There is no tangible reason that has been given.”

But the House Spokesman, Hon Abdulrazaq Namdas, in his reaction, explained that the member-elect was yet to be sworn in because she needed to complete certain documentation.

Namdas also denied the allegation that the non-swearing in of Mato was as a result of gender discrimination.

He said, “It is not true that because she is a woman that we have refused to or the speaker has refused to swear her in. That is not true. In my state, a colleague of mine from Adamawa State, the Court of Appeal ruled and he lost his seat and a woman replaced him. Her name is Talatu; she was sworn in immediately.

“So you can see, it is not an issue of gender and I know that as a matter of fact, if there is any pronouncement by the court, there are also some processes you have to undergo in the House before you are sworn in.”

According to Namdas, “I’m not aware that has been done. I have to look at it and I can tell you that if all the necessary processes have been fulfilled, I don’t think there is any reason that she will not be sworn in.

“But the truth is that as far as I’m concerned there are certain processes that you have to undergo here before you get swornin, if not people can just come from the market. So some due process must be followed and if those process are followed, you will be there to report it.”

Meanwhile, the Daily Times has gathered that that the deposed Hembe has filed a motion on notice by his lawyer, Mr. Paul Erokoro (SAN).

In the fresh application dated July 18, 2017 before the apex court, Hembe is seeking an order invalidating the judgement and remitting the matter to the Federal High Court, Makurdi for retrial.

He is also asking the Supreme Court to set aside the consequential orders made against him.

In his grounds of his application, Hembe noted that “this Honourable Court (SC) struck out as incompetent, the appellant’s grounds of appeal numbered 1,2,6,9,10 and 11 as well as the appellant’s issues 2 and 3 formulated from those grounds.

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t is incontrovertible that one of the factors that put Nigeria at the brink of a failed state is the willful bastardisation of the structure of Nigeria and the principles of federalism by successive military regimes and maintained by the civilian governments. Without the opinion and consent of other stakeholders, the military created more states, local governments and federal constituencies to enable a section have surplus and be better placed to have more statutory revenue allocations and majority votes in the national legislature.

Of course, there has been groundswell of discontent from other marginalised sections of the country on these critical factors in the governance of the country.

Those marginalised had hoped that with return of democratic governance, there would be proper restructuring to engender equity, justice and fair play. Unfortunately, the departing military oligarchy attached an apron string, which made it impossible for the emergent civilian government not to tamper with the lopsided political structures.

One of the crucial facts borne out of palpable ignorance of the concepts of governments like democracy, federal and unitary systems, was that these concepts have underlining principles which emanated from gathering of data, analysis and synthesis of data, hypothesis and theories. It stands to reason that when the underlining principles are applied in each case, the outcome is predictable; and when they are violated, the consequences become disastrous. This is the primary and proximate cause of Nigeria teetering at the brink of a failed state.

Nigeria’s founding fathers at independence were sufficiently aware of

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these underlining principles and consciously chose federal system of government based on land mass, diverse ethnic groups, cultures, religions and perception of life. Consequently, there was a true Federal/Republican Constitution with proper items in the legislative lists to enable the federating regional governments have a measure of autonomy to meet the yearnings and aspirations of their people for development.

There was healthy competition among the regional governments in development as each explored and exploited the vast mineral and natural resources within their respective areas and remitted an agreed sum to the federal government for the administration of foreign affairs, defense, immigration and customs.

It is lamentable that the Federal Government deliberately bastardised the Exclusive Legislative, Concurrent Legislative and Residual Legislative lists to pander to the vaulting ambition of a section of the country to lord it over the others.

Centralised governance led to the intimidation of state governments over the items in the Concurrent Legislative list.

The Federal Government does not need to operate all the present MDA’s like agriculture, health, education, commerce and industry, prisons, solid minerals, power, housing works; and agencies such as FRSC which usurped the motor licensing, plate number and driving license from the board of internal revenues of state governments. We are therefore calling for the restructuring the country to reinvent true and fiscal federalism in order to put a stop to these aberrations. The National Assembly currently in the process of amending the 1999 Constitution should rise to the occasion by ensuring that above anomalies are addressed.

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Being rich is no longer fashionable if it cannot be used for human development.

Pastor Tunde Bakare

Pope John Paul II

What God purposed and did before time cannot be destroyed by time, because once upon a time, there was no time at all.

Christianity is called to offer a genuine ‘DNA’ for a universal humanity; a Trinitarian vision and life that can animate a civilisation of love.

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Lagos taskforce nabs two for impersonating AIG Ibrahim Joy Anyim

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The operatives of the Lagos State Task Force had arrested 2 persons for impersonating the Assistant Inspector General of Police (Zone 2) Mr. Adamu Ibrahim over the release of a forfeited unregistered (Bajaj) motorcycle.

SP Olayinka Egbeyemi, Chairman of the Lagos State Task Force disclosed that the unregistered (Bajaj) motorcycle was impounded and subsequently charged to court for plying Mushin-Oshodi Express Road which is one of the 475 restricted routes to motorcycles as contained in the Lagos State Road Traffic Laws of 2012.

He stated that Magistrate Lateef Owolabi of the Lagos State Mobile Court at Oshodi forfeited the motorcycle to government while the rider (Mr. Mohammed Aliyu) was sentenced to a 6-hour ‘Community Service’ after pleaded ‘Guilty’ to the one count charge levied against him.

SP Egbeyemi Stated further that investigations revealled that it was after the rider completed the 6 hours ‘Community Service’ and was subsequently released by court officials that he went and engaged one Mr Sadiku Alaraman who claimed to know Mr. Adamu Ibrahim (A.I.G

Zone 2) to assist him and get his forfeited motorcycle released from the Government.

“After an unsuccessful attempts to convinced the Cordinator, Lagos State Mobile Court (Mr. Oluwafemi Alabi) through a phone call from someone who impersonated himself as the A.I.G (Zone 2) from both Mohammed Aliyu and Sadiku Alaraman they went to ‘Lagos State Motorcycle Dump Site’ at Ojota.

“Inspector Gambo Aich who is the officer in charge of the Lagos State Motorcycles Dump Site was also deceived by both Mohammed Aliyu and Sadiku Alaraman to have spoken on phone with same person who impersonated himself as the A.I.G (Zone II) and ordered him to release the forfeited motorcycle immediately but he insisted that they must get a clearance from the Government” Inspector Gambo Aich however reported the matter and both men were arrested and taken before the A.I.G (zone 2) Mr. Adamu Ibrahim who denied knowing any of them.

The Assistant Inspector General of Police (Zone 2) Mr. Adamu Ibrahim not only denied knowing both men but ordered for their arraignments in court.

Tension as Naval rating stabs commercial Motorcyclist in Bayelsa Akam James, Yenagoa

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There is rising tension in Bayelsa State between Commercial Motor Cyclists popularly known as the Keke Riders and security personnel in the State following the stabbing of their colleagues by a Naval Rating over transport fare.

The Naval Rating, identified as Boco Ene and attached to the Central Naval Command, had on July 3rd, 2017 stabbed Richard Efone, a Commercial Motor Cyclist along the Agudama Epie area of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.

According to the aggrieved Keke Drivers, though the victim of the stabbing incident survived the evil act by the

Naval Personnel, the shoddy handling of the Investigation by the Police at the Akenfa Police Station and the intimidating Invasion of the Police station by some Naval personnel over the detention of their colleague is wicked, unlawful and provocative.

Already, the family of the stabbed Keke Driver, has sent a Save Our Soul message to the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbanjo and the Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), demanding that the accused Navy Personnel be brought to justice over the alleged stabbing of the left arm of their brother and the aggravated body injury and torture he was made to go through in the hospital.

The Petition, signed by

the cousin to the Victim, Mr. Egadah Peter, accused the authorities of the Central Naval Command of shielding the accused Naval Rating and frustrating the Police investigation into the incident, “the culprit who was alleged to have been arrested and brought to the Akenfa Ploice Station was released by some Naval superior officers led

by Egwutu Baa from Kwale in their absence, allowing the culprit walk freely without punishment or recourse to compensate the victim.”

According to the Petition, “ All we are asking from the Acting President and the Naval authorities is for the accused Naval personnel to be made to answer for his indiscipline act and show that the

Naval Authorities uphold the new campaign by the Federal Government that “change start with me”.”

The victim of the incident, Mr. Richard Efone , while narrating his ordeal, said he pulled over after the naval base turning point at Agudama Epie to pick a family of three, when the Naval Personnel, Boco Ene rushed inside his keke.

He pleaded with him to join the next keke in other to allow the family occupy his own keke since they were together going to Akenfa but Boco Ene threatened to stop their movement by destroying his keke if he doesn’t take him to Royal FM.

Ondo new female Acting Chief Judge, Akeredolu, to be sworn in today Tosin Ajuwon, Akure Justice Olarenwaju Oluwatoyin Akeredolu has been appointed as the new Acting Chief Judge of Ondo State. Justice Akeredolu was appointed by Governor Rotimi Akeredolu according to the appointment letter obtained at the weekend by journalists.

Her appointment which would elapse for three months also takes effect from Saturday 22nd of July till Saturday 21st October 2017. She will be sworn in today (Tuesday) at the Coca Conference Hall of the Governor’s office in Akure.

Justice Akeredolu latest appointment is in accordance to section 271 (15) of the 1999 Nigeria constitution as amended.

The appointment was also based on the recommendation of the Chief Justice of Nigeria and Chairman of the National Judicial Council (NJC).

Daily Times gathered

Justice Akeredolu was born into the Fagboyegun family in Uso, Owo Local Government Area of the state. She was also Head of Criminal Division in the Ondo State High Court and next in line as the most senior Judge.

The female Acting Chief Judge took over from the embattled Justice Temitayo Osoba whose tenure has since expired.

The appointment of Justice Akeredolu came after months of legal tussle seeking the removal of Justice Osoba from the position.Osoba took over from the former Justice Olasehinde Kumuyi and later appointed in acting capacity by the immediate past Governor Olusegun Mimiko.

Femi Emmanuel Emodamori, a human rights lawyer based in Akure had been challenging the eligibility of Justice Osoba as the Acting Chief Judge of the State even in the face of alleged forgery in her credentials and academic records.

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Inspector, 2 police officers dismissed over illegal extortion, detention in Lagos Oguntade Ismaila

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The Police Force Headquarters, in Abuja, have announced the dismissal of three officers over extortion and illegal detention of innocent Nigerians.

According to the online media (Today) said that, the dismissed officers Inspector Okelue Nkemeonye, Sergeant Braimoh Sunday and Sergeant Yusuf Olukoga, who were until their dismissal attached to Area ‘N’ Command Ijede-Ikorodu under the Lagos State police command.

Their dismissal, according to the commissioner in charge of Public Complaint Rapid Response Unit (PCR-

RU), Abayomi Shogunle, followed series of complaints against them from innocent Nigerians.

The complainants had alleged that the dismissed policemen were “Yahoo Yahoo boys” as they specialize in arresting, detaining and extorting huge amounts of money from suspects and innocent people before setting them free.

Upon arresting their victims, the dismissed police officers were said to always taken them to the banks and made huge withdrawals from their victims’ bank accounts.

Upon receiving the complaints, Shogunle said the three were arrested and investigated and found to have been deeply involved in the

act Shogunle also said an Orderly Room trial conducted at the Zone Two Command Headquarters, Onikan-Yaba, Lagos, found them guilty on a two count charges of offence against discipline as provided for in paragraphs C (ii) Corrupt Practices and E (iii) Discreditable Conduct of the First Schedule of Police Act and Regulations Cap. P19. Law of the Federation of Nigeria 2004.

During investigation, CP Sholunle said: “All the arrested officers, witnesses and recovered exhibits including the N200,000 cash and printed bank statement of account were handed over to the Assistant Inspector-General of Police,

Zone 2 Lagos for further detailed investigation and necessary disciplinary measures.

“The approval of the punishment of dismissal from service as recommended by the Adjudicating officer is part of the outcome of the disciplinary measures.

“In the case of ASP Bayo Obadiah who led the team of the infamous men on this unacceptable conduct, an Official Query was issued to him by the AIG Zone 2 Lagos, both his reply and Query has been forwarded to the office of the Force Secretary, Force Headquarters, Abuja from where it would be proceeded to the Police Service Commission as required by Police Regulations.”

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Living in a divided country

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Monsignor Livinus Ukah

hen you look at what is happening in Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Libya, Yemen etc, you will be able to understand that a divided country is like a broken egg that will never be a full egg again even if you use spoon to gather it again.

If you do so, what about the shell?

The quantity will be reduced as you gather it.

It is better to remain united than be divided. Opinions, ideologies, cultural concept of each other, stereotypes, political greed all contribute to conflicts that cause division in a country. Rwanda is another typical example that resulted to ethnic politics, tribes fighting each other for unattainable needs in this transient world, a world that is not a society of angels. Nigeria is caught up in this web of social disorder. There is no place you go that people will not talk about their sitz-im-leben – their life situation, a situation common to all. When a situation is common to all, it can cause a blow-off. It can create big crisis that will not be controlled easily. The clouds are gathering as if there is going to be a heavy rain.

But the good sunshine of thought and understanding can clear the

rain and its storm. The whole world is watching.

There has been huge amount of international opinion about Nigeria’s case especially Boko Haram and Nigeria’s political agenda. What is in the mouth of everybody today is “Restructuring Nigeria”. We are afraid of the conspiracy of silence among the international community. They have listed Nigeria as one of the terrorists’ countries in the world. And we know what that means. Not only that, we hear the cries of many clamouring for autonomy, to be masters of their political and social destiny. All these lead to a divide. Agitation upon agitation everywhere. Opinions vary. The international community is there waiting for the time Nigeria will explode and when we shall be like Alepo in Syria, where life is like hell because of the fierce battle there. If they do not help now, time will come when we will not need their tears when a majority of Nigerians will be dying like in Alepo. At that time, we may not need their tears or their prayer.

All we need now is action to help stop what is going on.

America declared that Nigeria will split in the year 2015. That feeling is still haunting many Nigerians.

As a result of this many Nigerians

Towards universalism

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O. Jason Osai

n the sleeve of the 1971 album Aqualung, Jethro Tull wrote thus: “In the beginning, man created God in his image and likeness;” that was a rather profane affront on the creation myth of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic belief. In its lyricism, the album featured a central theme on the distinction between organised religion and the search for the face of God, including dour contemplations and speculations on faith and religion.

Blasphemous as the audacious statement and lyrics sounded, more and more people are now realizing that in his knack for anthropomorphism, man superimposed his corporeal attributes on his concept of God; this resulted in a God that is male in one religion and female in another and amorphous in yet another.

A censorious review of the creeds of World Religions with special reference to the attributes of the Divine One presents us with a God that is: bargainmaking, egotistic, narcissistic, temperamental, mischievous, sadistically punitive, sometimes unknowing and, on occasions, sufficiently threatened by man’s exploits; and a God that requires to be feared, worshiped and praised. These are attributes of man and therefore portraiture aimed at frightening the daylight out of unsuspecting humanity to submission in the interest of organized religion.

Oneness with the Divine is strictly an individual quest; to this extent, it is harmonious as it

requires man to love his neighbor as himself towards global brotherhood of man; this is at the core of the teachings of Christ, Buddha and Mohammed. Conversely, organized religion seeks to maintain and service complex bureaucracies, humongous physical structures and millions of functionaries across the world.

Given the economic reality of this, the flock is kept in line through softly-spoken supernatural spells drawn from ossified creeds and rituals that separate them from adherents of other religions; efforts are made through intensive proselytization to swell the ranks of the congregation to support the rapacious predatory system. This is where division arises in the search for oneness with the Divine.

Tapping into this phenomenon, politicians and venture capitalists expand the resultant religious and social crevices into canyons and the outcome is the current mayhem in Syria, terrorist attacks and resultant panic and paranoia on the streets of Europe and America and the frayed nerves over the precarious situation on the Korean Peninsula.

It is very unfortunate that humanity allows the use of religion as an instrument of division.

This is more so when religion and unnecessary man-made divisions degenerate into intolerance, violence and wanton destruction of lives and property. Christians must jettison the conceited and misguided claim of “the only way” and wake up to the essence and potency of Galatians 6:7, which warns man not to be

are living in a limbo of uncertainty.

The National dailies are littered with many junk articles full of different views on Nigeria not being a country. This can drag us low and we begin to look for the country that is ours. Once we think that we are not one, it takes time to build up a Nigeria that is ours. Misconception of who we are leads to bad politics. We need to know that we are living in a fragmented global world and that there is conflict in ideologies we embrace. We Nigerians need to reassess our polity to avoid marginalizing the other parts of Nigeria.

Nigeria needs to learn from these aforementioned countries that are ravaged by war. They have allowed ideology to create division in their countries. The world is now heading to ruin. If we allow these ideologies to surface and the young people to swallow these ideologies, that will not create a better future for them.

The devastation of Alepo is very barbaric. Houses built by people are destroyed in a twinkle of an eye, and some buildings are seen as idolatry by the crazy guys. ISIS is training children to be bombers. They resort to different tactics.

How long will the world continue to watch? The international diplomacy is weakened. Hospitals are targets; children are targets. Embassies are burnt even diplomats divert

deceived and states that “God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap;” implicit in this Biblical injunction is the fact that Divine forgiveness of sin as touted by the clergy is permissive philosophy; so also is the knack for violence and senseless destruction of lives and property in anticipation of voluptuous rewards from Allah.

It is in the interest of humanity for man to embrace religious universalism. When this consciousness permeates humanity, then and only then will progress be made towards amity on earth and the realization of the purpose of creation. Governments should, therefore, embark on enlightenment campaign to educate the masses on harmony and the needlessness of religious division. After all, the sun shines on Hindus, Buddhists, Christians, Moslems, and Traditionalists etc alike; the rain is not selective either while the earth gives her bounties without discrimination; the winds pump human lungs in same vein. These nondiscriminatory elements are manifestations of Divine love. The tragedy is that universalism does not serve the selfish purpose of politicians, organised religion and venture capitalists that thrive on conflict.

The path to harmony with God is one and the laws are universal; it is within every individual in God’s creation and applies in equal measure to all irrespective of color, creed, station and location; the division in religion is a product of man-made fences. As implied earlier, Buddha preached universalism; so did Jesus, Mo-

to enemies of their country as it is in North Korea. There are diplomatic rows all over. Patriotism is dwindling and sectarian divide continues to spread all over the world and Nigeria is caught up with these dangerous ideologies. The complexities of problems in Nigeria cannot lead to economic benefit. And what legacies are we getting from our leaders?

Do they inspire hope for the future?

Nigeria should wake up. She needs to join the global world in competition.

America, Britain, China, Russia and Japan used their technology to create world impression. What has Nigeria to offer the world? – Corruption, ethnicity and nepotism. Nigeria should outgrow international negativism, phobia from our leaders and soar higher because it has what it takes to be there. Nigeria has to be a model to keep up with the changing world. Nigeria needs to adjust properly in thinking and avoid been a fragmented and divided country.

By the way if Nigeria is divided, is it not the same people that will navigate and continue to fight for their largesse? Nigeria should wake up and formulate proposals that will help bring peace to stop what is happening. It is unfortunate that we have a branch of ISIS in Nigeria, what a country! The thought of this is very nightmarish.

hammed and all the avatars and sages over the ages. If humanity imbibes this higher consciousness, then no person will think or plan evil against another, no lecturer will demand cash and/or horizontal installment from students for grades, no bureaucrat or politician will appropriate public funds to self and no country will wage war against another. At that point, humanity will have arrived at what the Vedic Scriptures call Nirvana and the Bible and Koran refer to as the Kingdom of Heaven; for Plato, it is the Ideal State while St. Augustine of Hippo called it the City of God, where good triumphs.

And if I may succinctly wrap up this humble submission, I would poetically offer thus: We can transcend our differences Tear down man-made fences; And live in brotherhood For the good Of this community And humanity You can start By just saying hello From your heart To that fellow Next door And what’s more You can share a warm embrace With a smiling face.

Obviously, we all have ears; however, for some, the ears are ornamental, hence the Bible says “he that hath ears to hear, let him hear.” (Matt 11:15) O. Jason Osai is a professor at the Institute of Foundation Studies, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt jasonosai1@ yahoo.com

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FG urged to review Abuja Master Plan to deploy cell sites Stories by Tony Nwakaegho Indications have emerged that the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja has no provision for telecoms’ infrastructures for the deployment of cell sites in the City.

An expert in the telecom industry, had informed the press, that the exclusion of critical telecoms’ infrastructures from Abuja Master plan is a contributory factor to the persistent poor quality of network services in major parts of the Federal Capital Territory.

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Gbenga Adebayo, chairman ALTON, who made the remark in Lagos, recently stated that, “following recommendations by Justice Akinola Aguda Panel in 1975, the Federal Government established the Federal Capital Development Authority in 1976, which commissioned a US-based IPA Group, to prepare a draft Master Plan for the new Federal Capital of Nigeria.

“The Master Plan of Abuja by IPA, completed in 1979, according to FCDA, is now undergoing review by Messrs. Albert Speers Partners in collaboration with four other Nigerian Town Planning Consultants, namely, Multi-system Consultant, Austin Aike & Partners Fola Konsult and Benna Associate.”

He asserted that the master plan has no provision for modern technologies to drive telecommunications services in the FCT thereby causing poor quality of service and limiting operator’s ability to expand their operations.

Adebayo said that efforts made to get attention of relevant

FCT minister Mohammed Bello authorities in the FCT to make provision for such infrastructure has not yielded enough results.

The ALTON Chairman said, “The reality is that if we want good telecoms’ services, we have to leave with the environmental pains that come with it. It is very simple- you have a very nice looking building, but you need to receive good TV signals at home.

So, you go to instal apparatus to capture digital signal. It’s a pain you have to leave with. In our case, I am not saying a painful infliction on the people. No, rather why we need good telecom services, there are supporting infrastructure that we need to tolerate. The reason being for example, the problem of approval for cell sites. We were told, there are no areas designated for cell sites towers within Abuja central

area. Now, Abuja is one of the most difficult cities to drive in and out at the peak times.

“The reason is it is the seat of the government; yet, we don’t have approval to build cell sites.

We have been in discussions with Abuja Authorities in the last four years on how to mitigate on this problem. They keep saying, ‘no approval’.

“The implication is that you are at the seat of Government yet it is difficult to make calls.

Very simple. And they did say there are no designated areas for building cell sites, because it was not in the masterplan.

“The masterplan was developed about 40 years ago.

When it was done, there were no mobile telecom services. We think it is time for somebody to look at that concept again

and grant approvals to service providers so we can improve the quality of service.

“I make bold to say until we have the necessary template to deploy infrastructure in Abuja, we will continue to struggle with QoS in the FCT. “It is high time somebody did something to allow us to build more cell sites in and around Abuja to have better coverage and improve on the quality of services. We are told it is because of aesthetics and revenue. But we think, the common good of the socio-economic benefits of telecoms’ services to the economy should override other interests.

“So, the disruption of infrastructure on the environment is something we may need to compromise. Now, what policy do we require going forward? It is as basic as give us access to foreign exchange.”

He underscored the need for the government to pay close attention to the telecoms’ industry to understand where to intervene and make amends for better service delivery to the populace.

“Those are policy issues. In the first instance, we don’t know how some industries are designated as priority and telecoms didn’t appear on the list. Government talks about Aviation, Agriculture, Manufacturing, while telecoms disappeared from the list. We know that telecom is key to infrastructure. So, what policy do we need for government to solve this problem? Give us access to foreign exchange!”

He also called for end to multiple taxation and regulations in the industry, which he said,

were slowing down investment in the sector.

“That is my cry; remove the issue of multiple taxation, multiple regulations, classify our infrastructure as national and economic infrastructure.

Give us first layer of protection.

Now, report said people are complaining about the state of power supply to our homes.

Many are buying inverters. Now, battery stolen from cell sites on Shagamu-Benin Express road, were sold to the supplier in Benin, then, to the distributor in Agbor, then to an aggregator in Onitsha, then to Alaba market and finally, to a consumer in Kano.

“Therefore, we need to secure our infrastructure. These are the policy issues we are clamouring for, believing that when they are addressed by way of healthy modifications, it will help to move the industry forward.”

He said, “Whether we have not done enough engagement with stakeholders, you are our voice. Please, tell them about our predicaments. We are engaging government in all levels. Recently, we were in Ebonyi State, the other week, we were in Kaduna State, the upper week- Imo State.

Yesterday, they were in Abuja; all to engage stakeholders.”

According to him,“You might be surprised that after the meeting in Ebonyi, despite all the problems we had there, the report they gave to His Excellency was different from the realities. He came to the meeting to express surprise at what the Advisers told him. That’s why we need you to tell the right stories about the problems that we face.”

Nigeria, others to account half SSA’s 115 new mobile subscribers by 2020 As the telecom industry continues to expand and build their subscribers’ base, the GSMA, in its new report, titled: ‘The Mobile Economy: SubSaharan Africa 2017,’ has disclosed that Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, is among four countries in sub-Saharan Africa that will account for half of the 115 million new subscribers expected in sub-region (SSA) by 2020.

The other three countries, where subscriber growth is expected to be concentrated in large numbers are, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ethiopia and Tanzania.

The new report, published at the GSMA Mobile 360 event in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, predicted that

more than half a billion people across Sub-Saharan Africa will be subscribed to a mobile service by the end of 2020, adding that the number of unique mobile subscribers in the region will grow from 420 million, representing 43 per cent in 2016 to 535 million, representing 50 per cent in 2020.

According to the report, this will make the region the fastest growing mobile market in the world over this period, highlighting the sub-Saharan Africa mobile ecosystem’s growing contribution to regional Gross Domestic Product, jobs, innovation and socio-economic development.

“Sub-Saharan Africa will be a key engine of subscriber

growth for the world’s mobile industry over the next few years, as we connect millions of previously unconnected men, women and young people across the continent,” Mats Granryd, Director General of the GSMA said.

Granryd said that mobile is also offering sustainable solutions that address the lack of access to services such as health, education, electricity, clean water and financial services, which still affect large swathes of the population.

According to GSMA, growth will also focus on currently underrepresented segments such as the under-16 age group, which accounts for more than 40 per

currently 17 per cent less likely to have a mobile phone subscription than their male counterparts.

“Mobile is also a vital tool in delivering digital and financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Around 270 million people in the region now access the internet through mobile devices, while the number of registered mobile money accounts has reached 280 million. Mobile operators and others are also leveraging the ubiquity of mobile networks across the region to deliver services that are working towards Mats Granryd, Director General achieving the UN Sustainable of the GSMA Development Goals (SDGs)2 in areas such as energy, water cent of the population in many and sanitation, healthcare, and countries, and women, who are education,” the report added.

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Stakeholders crave for emergence of virtual, regional telecom operators Stories Nwakaegho

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As the date for the actualization of the 30 per cent target broadband penetration draws near, stakeholders in the telecommunications ecosystem have urged Federal Government and the regulatory authorities to implement policies aimed at supporting the emergence of regional and Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO), in order to increase broadband penetration and tackle consistent poor quality of service.

MVNO is a provider of management services and a re-seller of network services from other telecommunications suppliers that do not own the telecommunication infrastructure.

These network providers are categorized as, virtual, because, they provide network services to customers without owning the underlying network.

A MVNO typically leases bandwidth (a range of frequencies within a given band, in particular that used for transmitting a signal) at the wholesale rates from various telecom providers in order to provide solutions to their customers.

They said that emergence of community or regional operators will reduce the over dependence on Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) networks which has resulted in consistent

quality of service issues.

Fola Odufuwa, Country Partner, Nigeria Research ICT Africa, said there were policies in place that community network providers can utilize to deliver communications’ services within Nigeria.

He said,“There are sufficient license categories within the telecoms framework too. The challenge for companies that seek to operate community networks is however multi-dimensional which could be stream line by regulatory intervention.”

“First, they will be faced with issues of economies of scale in the sense that telecom is a game of numbers.

Equipment vendors as well as the financial markets naturally favour the biggest players who get the lowest possible prices.

These players also control

most of the frequencies which community operators would need for transmission.

Without economies of scale, smaller operators would find it increasingly hard to survive. It is an unfortunate reality that it is yet to be solved even in advanced markets such as the USA and the UK.” “The policies are in place for community network provisioning but the market realities are such that except smaller telecoms’ companies develop innovative ways to compete, delivering services to communities as a sole business proposition would be highly risky. The same scenario applies when you consider the impact of technology on CDMA operations in Nigeria. It is not technology per se that has affected CDMA companies. It is rather CDMA operators’ inability to generate economies of scale to deliver ubiquitous mobile communications,” he said.

On his part, Engr. Gbenga Adebayo, chairman, Association of Licensed Te l e c o m m u n i c at i o n s Operators (ALTON), said that community and regional networks can be driven by policy.

“Today, our operators are national in outlook, by definition; telecom is all networks in one network because we have one national network.

Different operators are Fola Odufuwa, country partner, contributing members of Nigeria Research ICT Africa this national network. If our policies encourage

people to become regional, state or local operators, then there will be room for everybody to play,” Adebayo said.

He said that, “in the area of technology, we need to understand that technology is expensive as telecom is all about volume, so, players try to compete with less expensive technology due to high volume to face the struggle. The best of this would be, if there are policies to direct people to say you can be a regional operator or local operator, then you will have people that can deploy technology for a community with 1000 inhabitants using CDMA or other technology and then connected to the national network, people will be comfortable and happy with their service provider.”

According to him, “Community network from my experience is the most efficient.

When I was operating a community network it was good because we know all the subscribers and they know us. Today, everybody is speaking to a pole that personalized service is no longer there.

Community networks give better personalised service that you can’t find in national network; this is understandable because, if you are dealing with 10,000 subscribers compared to the other operators dealing with 20million subscribers, their operational intricacies are not the same.”

19 Tech Times Global cyber-attack could trigger $53bn loss – Report

Inga Beale, Lloyd’s of London chief executive Lloyd’s of London, in a recent report, has affirmed that a major global cyber-attack could trigger an average of $53 billion of economic losses, a figure on par with a catastrophic natural disaster such as US Superstorm Sandy in 2012.

The report, co-written with risk-modelling firm Cyence, scrutinized potential economic losses from the hypothetical hacking of a cloud service provider and cyber-attacks on computer operating systems run by businesses worldwide.

Insurers are struggling to estimate their potential exposure to cyber-related losses amid mounting cyber risks and interest in cyber insurance. A lack of historical data on which insurers can base assumptions is a key challenge.

“Because cyber is virtual, it is such a difficult task to understand how it will accumulate in a big event,” Lloyd’s of London chief executive Inga Beale told Reuters.

Economic costs in the hypothetical cloud provider attack dwarf the $8 billion global cost of the

WannaCry ransomware attack in May, which spread to more than 100 countries, according to Cyence.

Economic costs typically include business interruptions and computer repairs.

The Lloyd’s report follows a US government warning to industrial firms about a hacking campaign targeting the nuclear and energy sectors.

In June, an attack of a virus dubbed, NotPetya, spread from infections in Ukraine to businesses around the globe. It encrypted data on infected machines, rendering them inoperable and disrupted activity at ports, law firms and factories.

NotPetya caused $850 million in economic costs, Cyence said.

In the hypothetical cloud service attack in the Lloyd’s-Cyence scenario, hackers inserted malicious code into a cloud provider’s software that was designed to trigger system crashes among users a year later.

By then, the malware would have spread among the provider’s customers, from financial services companies to hotels, causing all to lose income and incur other expenses.

Average economic losses caused by such a disruption could range from $4.6 billion to $53 billion for large to extreme events. But actual losses could be as high as $121 billion, the report said.

As much as $45 billion of that sum may not be covered by cyber policies due to companies under insuring, the report said.

Shittu laments huge ICT deficit in Africa Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, has attributed greatest challenge to socio-economic development in Africa to huge Information Communication Technology, ICT, infrastructure deficit across various countries on the continent.

Shittu said that the huge deficit has greatly impacted the living conditions and welfare of Africans with various countries initiating policies and programmes to reduce the deficit.

The minister,who was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Arc. Sonny Echono, stated this recently at the FutureSat Africa Summit 2017, held in Abuja.

He said that most economies across the globe are becoming knowledge-based with the ICT playing a pivotal role as central drivers of the globalization process.

He re-emphasised that the cardinal objective for ICT development in Nigeria was to

provide a ubiquitous, robust and cost-effective ICT infrastructure to support the creation of a digital economy, adding that it was in this regard the National ICT Roadmap 2017-2020, has recently been approved by government.

Shittu charged the organizers of the Future-Sat Africa Summit 2017 to “Pay deliberate attention to issues around technology transfer and capacity development”, so that Africa would have a fair share of the business opportunities

provided by telecommunication infrastructure development.

The minister described, as timely, the theme for this year’s summit, “Smarter networks”, stressing that the ideas generated from this summit would serve as input into Government various policy review processes, such as the National ICT Policy and the National Broadband strategy review process which will commence before the end of this year.

Barr.Adebayo Shittu, minister of Communications

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Hembe: Anger as Dogara refuses to obey Supreme Court order Continued from page 12 2 in the 1st respondent’s brief, which had been formulated from the said incompetent grounds.

“By so doing, this Honourable Court struck out the grounds of appeal that had questioned the decision of the Court of Appeal not to hear the matter on the merits as well as the two issues that it resolved in favour of the appellant may have given this Honourable Court the jurisdiction to consider the case on its merits under section 22 of the Supreme Court Act.” He also said that , “in spite of the above, this Honourable Court, in error arising from an accidental slip, proceeded as if the said grounds had not been struck out and determined the matter

on the merits and made far reaching consequential orders against the applicant (Hembe) in favour of the appellant/ respondent(Mato), when the court had no jurisdiction.

“In error arising from an accidental slip, this Honourable Court granted claim IV in the appellant/ respondent’s originating summons, (which was that the primaries conducted by the 2nd respondent on 7th-10th December, 2014 were null and void) and further held that the appellant/respondent was the winner of the voided primaries, when the court had no jurisdiction to do so.

“Also in error arising from an accidental slip, the Court further held that the appellant/respondent was the candidate of the

2nd respondent (APC) at the general election, when the court had no jurisdiction to do so.

“In error arising from an accidental slip, this Honourable Court ordered the applicant (Hembe) to refund all salaries, allowances, and emoluments the applicant had collected from the House of Representatives, when the court had no jurisdiction to do so.

“This Honourable Court possess the power ex debitio justitiae to set aside the consequential orders made in this matter and substitute therefore an order that meets the justice of the case, which is that the matter be heard on the merits by the trial court” Meanwhile, Hembe in an affidavit in support of the motion on notice, claimed that he has va-

cated the National Assembly and paid the N700,000 cost awarded against him but unable to refund the salaries he collected as a member.

Hembe said, “I have however been unable to refund the salaries I received from the House of Representatives. The salaries were received monthly and were used for the upkeep of my family and the high cost of living made it impossible for me to have any savings.

“I have tried very hard to raise a loan to enable me comply with the above order of this Honourable Court, but have not yet succeeded. I will comply with the order of this Honourable Court as soon as I am able to raise the money.

“I need to add that the aside monthly salaries, I received no allowances

L-R: Former President of Mauritius, Cassam Uteem; former President of Botswana, Festus Mogae and Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, during a courtesy visit by members of The World Leadership Alliance Club de Madrid… recently.

SON hammers Samsung over registration failure

Godwin Ayebe

ÏÏÏ The premises of Sam-

sung West Africa office in Victoria Island, Lagos recently came under the locks and keys by the Standards Organisation of Nigeria, (SON), over alleged registration infractions on some of the products the company markets in Nigeria.

Head of Public Relations of SON, Mr Bola Fashina, says the action was in accordance with the provisions of the SON’s Act 14 of 2015.

According to him, the Act provides for every product imported into Ni-

geria to be registered with SON for traceability and confirmation of quality status.

According to him,“SON records showed that many Samsung products in the Nigerian markets were not registered.” Fasina, while disclosing that the sealed off facility would be reopened once the company registered all its products as required by law, warned against any flouting of the law.

He said,“We are in the era of ensuring ease of doing business in Nigeria within the laws of the land.”

He said that the repre-

sentatives of the company feigned ignorance of the need to register the products, and that they did not import or sold products, but only marketed them.

Fashina said that it was the duty of the distributors to register the products.

Meanwhile, Samsung has issued a holding statement on the SON’s action saying that: “Electronics West Africa’s office was besieged by SON,” adding that SON’s action was due to ‘miscommunication’ between both parties.

Samsung said, “We want to confirm that the office of Samsung Elec-

tronics West Africa in Lagos was recently besieged by the Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON).

“SON’s action was apparently due to a miscommunication between both parties regarding the registration of products in Nigeria. Samsung is working in collaboration with SON to reach an amicable resolution of the matter”.

Samsung reiterates that as a best practice company with footprints in over 79 countries worldwide, it “will not willfully disrespect the laws and regulations of the countries where it operates.”

or other emoluments as a member of the House of Representatives.”

But senior lawyers and other stakeholders in the nation’s justice system have said that any legislator removed by a court judgment but has continued to remain in the Senate or House of Representatives is an illegal act that amounts to disobedience of court orders.

The lawyers spoke yesterday while reacting to the refusal of Dogara to swear in Mrs. Dorothy Mato as member representing Vandikwa/Konshisha Federal Constituency of Benue State.

Speaking on the development, a legal practitioner, Mr Ikechukwu Ezechukwu (SAN), condemned the development, saying that it is illegal and unconstitutional for the National Assembly to disobey the court orders.

He said Hembe’s ouster

by Supreme Court is final as there’s no further appeal to anywhere else except perhaps to Almighty God and the court of public opinion.

He said, “Once INEC cancels both their certificate of return and reissues same to both their opponents, that’s the end of the matter and the both heads of NASS are duty bound to swear them in respectively into the Red and Green chambers”.

On his part, another lawyer, Mr Sam OlogunOrisa, SAN, said it will be too hasty to condemned the National Assembly.

According to him, the legal team representing Mrs. Mato knows what to do, adding that it is too early in the day to speculate.

He said, “I don’t want to speculate because it is not enough to just go to National Assembly. Has the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC issued a certificate of return? If INEC has issued a certificate of return, has Mato submitted her own certificate of return to the appropriate officer at the National Assembly? “ It is not enough to say the Supreme Court has given an order but NASS has not obey because National Assembly will not operate on the basis of what is sustainable on the pages of newspaper.

“The lawyer or the legal team should be able to come out clean and say

this is what we have done or this is what the law requires us to do, until that is done, that is when we can speak unequivocally that these people has breached the order of the court and once that is done, they will issue form 49 and I can assure you that the lower court which is the High Court will enforce the judgement of the Supreme Court”.

Also, an Abuja based Lawyer and Human Rights Activist Chief Nkereuwem Akpan said the National Assembly should be careful to ensure that their duties does not collude with other arms of government.

He said, “ The principal officers of both houses of the National Assembly owe themselves a duty of ensuring that they do not collude with sitting members of Parliament so to subvert the cause of justice otherwise they would be personally liable for such gross violation of their oath of office and of allegiance to the 1999 constitution” .

Meanwhile, lawyer to Mrs Mato, Mr. Chidi Nwankwo, has said that Dogara does not want to swear in Mato for no just reason.

He said, Dogara has been pushing her up and down since the verdict of the Apex court even after they did all the necessary documentation.

He said, “They have been pushing us up and down, and we have done all the necessary documentation, we have done everything we are supposed to do but it appears that the speaker does not want to swear her in for no just reason.

“We don’t want to start taking a legal action for now. We have been speaking to them to obey the judgement of the Supreme Court so that when the woman eventually enters there, they will not see her as been confrontational but it appears now that that the next line of action will be to file contempt charge against the leadership of the House.

“We believe that we have given them enough time and the next step to take is to resort to the due form of law and that is to commence contempt proceedings against the leadership of the House of Representatives”.

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I, formerly known and addressed as NICHOLAS AGBO, now wish to be known and addressed as AGBO NICHOLAS OKONWA. All former documents remain valid. Banks and General public should please take note.

MRS OKEKEARU CHINYERE ANASTESIA

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS IROAKAZI CHIMA ADAKU, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS NWOBODO CHIMA ADAKU. All former documents remain valid.

General public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS UGWU EUPHEMIA EBERE, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS OKUMEZE EUPHEMIA EBERE. All former documents remain valid.

General public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MR. ANTHONY NWOYE, now wish to be known and addressed as MR. OGBE OKONKWO. All former documents remain valid.

General public should please take note.

MRS EMENIKE GIFT ONYINYECHI

MRS RUTH SAMUEL PAM

EGBERE BENJAMIN

MISS ADAOBI VIVIAN EZECHUKWU

ONUORAH NNEKA GLORIA

NWOBODO OGECHI PATIENCE

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS MAMAH MARYROSE ONYINYECHI, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS EMENIKE GIFT ONYINYECHI. All former documents remain valid.

General public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS RUTH LAMI PAM, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS RUTH SAMUEL PAM. All former documents remain valid.

General public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as BENJAMIN EFIA EGBERE, now wish to be known and addressed as EGBERE BENJAMIN. All former documents remain valid.

General public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MRS ADAOBI EKETTE, now wish to be known and addressed as MISS ADAOBI VIVIAN EZECHUKWU. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as ONUORAH COLETTE NNEKA, now wish to be known and addressed as ONUORAH NNEKA GLORIA. My correct date of birth 20/05/1989. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as NWANKWO OLUCHI RUTH, now wish to be known and addressed as NWOBODO OGECHI PATIENCE. All former documents remain valid. UBA/Fidelity and General public should please take note.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

CONFIRMATION OF NAME This is to certify and confirm that EGBO CHRISTIANA CHINELO and EGBO CHRISTIANA CHINELO refer as one and the same person now wish to be known and addressed as EGBO CHRISTIANA CHINELO. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

YISAU TOHEEH HABIB

MRS AGWULONU SOPHY NKEMJIKA I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS AJEKWU SOPHY NKEMJIKA NOW I WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS AGWULONU SOPHY NKEMJIKA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID NIGERIA IMMIGRATION SERVICE AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO TAKE NOTE.

BLESSING UKPO

EJIMMADUEKWU MAGNUS

I, formerly known and addressed as AMAZUO ABUOMA CHURCHILL, now wish to be known and addressed as MAXWELL ABUOMA CHURCHILL, All former documents remain valid.

Banks and the general public should pleasetake note.

NORA NGOZI JESSE

I, formerly known and addressed as, MISS. SONGO LAWSON, now wish to be known and addressed as, MRS. SONGO UKOKO. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

This is to certify and confirm that ANIOKE FRIDAY and ANIOKE FRANKLINE UCHENNA refer as one and the same person now wish to be known and addressed as ANIOKE FRANKLINE UCHENNA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

RABBI MMADUABUCHI YAWEHSOWN I, formerly known and addressed as JOSEPH MMADUABUCHI IBE, now wish to be known and addressed as RABBI MMADUABUCHI YAWEHSOWN, All former documents remain valid. The general public should please take note.

ONYEMERE CHINWE PEACE

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS OKAFOR CHINYERE ANASTESIA, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS OKEKEARU CHINYERE ANASTESIA. All former documents remain valid. NYSC and General public should please take note.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OYEBOADE KABIRU AKINLOLU NOW I WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS YISAU TOHEEH HABIB. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ROSE AMOGU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BLESSING UKPO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAMES REMAIN VALID., GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ANIMASHAUN AMOKE MARIAM NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ANIMASAHUN AMOKE MARIAM. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE. MRS. UDODIRI CONSTANCE EKWUTOSIM

I, formerly known and addressed as, MISS. MIEBAKA IYAGBA, now wish to be known and addressed as, MRS. MIEBAKA LEIZOU. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESS AS IKE MAGNUS NDIDI, NOW WISH TO BE CALLED AND ADDRESS AS EJIMMADUEKWU MAGNUS , ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE .

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Public Notice

THE GLORIOUS FUTURE FRIENDS CLUB OF NIGERIA

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, July 25, 2017

DIOCESE OF UDI ANGLICAN COMMUNION

The general public is hereby inform that the above named association has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act No 1 of 1990

This is to inform the general public that the above named Diocese has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission Abuja for registration under part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act of 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OPARANOZIE EMMANUEL CHIKA 2. NNADIKA MAXWELL ONYEKACHI 3. NWADIKE CHIBUZO MADUABUCHI 4.AJAGWUNOBI CHUKWUKA 5.OBASI CHINEDU SUNDAY 6.NWAMKPU LAWRENCE OKECHUKWU 7.OCHEMBA CHIJIOKE BENJAMIN 8.NNANNA ONYEDIKACHI VITUS

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1.Bishop C. A. Aneke 2.Prof. Gab Agu 3.Ven. T. N. Igwenagu

- CHAIRMAN - VICE CHAIRMAN - GENERAL SECRETARY - TREASURER - MEMBER - MEMBER - MEMBER - MEMBER

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To promote unity,peaceful coexistence,progress and welfare of members.

AIMS & OBJECTIVES 1.To evangelize and promote knowledge of God. 2.Welfare of the poor and needy.

3.To promote Christian Education, values and morals.

4.To provide for spiritual welfare of members etc.

Any objection (S) should be forwarded to the Registrar- General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420 Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street Maitama, Abuja within 28 days from the date of this publication.

SIGNED NWADIKE CHIBUZO MADUABUCHI (GENERAL SECRETARY)

Signed: Barr. Emma Owonta Registrar

MRS TERIBA RHODA TITILAYO

ADEGOKE ESTHER OLAIDE

I formerly known and addressed as miss ADAGBON RHODA TIITILAYO Now wish to be known addressed as MRS TERIBA RHODA TITILAYO, all former document remain valid general public take note

I formerly known and addressed as Adedoja Esther Olaide, now wish to be known and addressed as Adegoke Esther Olaide. All former documents remain valid.

General public please take note.

ABIDOYE OLUWATOFUNMI ESTHER

I, formerly known, called and addressed as OLUWAFEMI OLUWATOFUNMI ESTHER, now wish to be known, called and addressed as ABIDOYE OLUWATOFUNMI ESTHER. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

OSENI ABDULLATEEF OLATUNDE

I, formerly known, called and addressed as JIMOH ABDULLATEEF OLATUNDE, now wish to be known, called and addressed as OSENI ABDULLATEEF OLATUNDE. All former Documents remain valid.

General public take note.

ANWOJU AGBOLADE ANUOLUWAPO

OTUWE MONDAY

ANSLEM YVONNE ANWULIKA

OLALERE SAHEED AKOREDE

OSENI MURITALA OLANREWAJU

OGUNWOLE BABAJIDE AMEEN

I, formerly known, called and addressed as ANWOJU AGBOLADE SAHEED, now wish to be known, called and addressed as ANWOJU AGBOLADE ANUOLUWAPO. All former Documents remain valid.

General public take note.

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OJIMA AUDU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OTUWE MONDAY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

I, formerly known and addressed as OMEGO AMULIKA ANASTESIA, now wish to be known, called and addressed as ANSLEM YVONNE ANWULIKA. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as IMRAN SAHEED AKOREDE, now wish to be known, called and addressed as OLALERE SAHEED AKOREDE. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as OYEWOLE PAPASHAF BACON MURITALA OLANREWAJU, now wish to be known, called and addressed as OSENI MURITALA OLANREWAJU. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as OGOWOLE BABAJIDE AMEEN, now wish to be known, called and addressed as OGUNWOLE BABAJIDE AMEEN. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

EBITI OLAIDE MONSURAT

USSENI ABUBAKAR

OLAGUNJU IBUKUN JAMES

MRS. UNWANA SUSAN ADEDEJI

I, formerly known and addressed as GARUBA HUSSENI, now wish to be known, called and addressed as USSENI ABUBAKAR. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as OLAGUNJU IBUKUN OLATOMIWA, now wish to be known, called and addressed as OLAGUNJU IBUKUN JAMES. All former documents remain valid.

General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

ONU MARTIN UKPAI

I, formerly known and addressed as FUNMI MUNSURAT KAYODE, now wish to be known, called and addressed as EBITI OLAIDE MONSURAT. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

MRS. AL- HASSAN MUHEEBAT BOLANLE

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS ABDUL GANNIU MUHEEBAT BOLANLE, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. AL- HASSAN MUHEEBAT BOLANLE. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS AKPAN UNWANA JOHN, now wish to be known, called and addressed as MRS. UNWANA SUSAN ADEDEJI. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as ONU MARTIN JOE., now wish to be known, called and addressed as ONU MARTIN UKPAI. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

ANIMASAHUN WAHEED ROTIMI

CORRECTION OF NAME/DATE OF BIRTH

CORRECTION OF NAME

GODLOVE SALAU

TOLA OYEDIRAN DANIELS

MRS. ADIELE GIFT CHIMUANYA

That on my BVN, my name was wrongly written as OFURE PATIENCE OFURE instead of EDEAWE PATIENCE OFURE. That my correct name is EDEAWE PATIENCE OFURE. The General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known, called and addressed as CELETINE SALAWU, now wish to be known, called and addressed as GODLOVE SALAU. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I, formerly known, called and addressed as OYETOLA OLUWAKEMI OYEDIRAN, now wish to be known, called and addressed as TOLA OYEDIRAN DANIELS. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as ANIMASAHUN WAHEED, now wish to be known, called and addressed as ANIMASAHUN WAHEED ROTIMI. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

That on my BVN Form/Bank Documents, my name was wrongly written as OGUDU JOY CHINYERE instead of OGUDU CHRISTABEL CHINYERE. That on my UBA Account, my date of birth was wrongly written as 4th day of April, 1996 and also on Sterling Bank Account as 4th day of April, 1997 instead of 4th day of April, 1998. That my correct name and date of birth is OGUDU CHRISTABEL CHINYERE and 4th day of April, 1998 respectively. General public note.

NWAGA UZOR

EMEKA PATIENCE IYOWOICHO

OPARINDE PETER

I, formerly known, called and addressed as IBEKWE GIFT CHIMUANYA, now wish to be known, called and addressed as MRS. ADIELE GIFT CHIMUANYA. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

SHOYOYE FUNMILAYO YINKA

JIMOH FOLASHADE SIMIAT

I formerly known and addressed as OPARINDE TOLULOPE SEYI now wish to be known and addressed as OPARINDE PETER .All former documents remain valid.

General public to please take note.

MRS OJEDIRAN MARY

ANN UZONTA CHINASA

SAMUEL KATE OMAWUNMI

I formerly known and addressed as SAMUEL KATE now wish to be known and addressed as SAMUEL KATE OMAWUNMI .All former documents remain valid.

General public to please take note.

I, formerly known, called and addressed as OGBONNAYA UZOR, now wish to be known, called and addressed as NWAGA UZOR. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

I, formerly known, called and addressed as UDUH PATIENCE IYOWOICHO, now wish to be known, called and addressed as EMEKA PATIENCE IYOWOICHO. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I Formerly known and addressed as ADEOLU FUNMILAYO YINKA now wish to be known, called and addressed as SHOYOYE FUNMILAYO YINKA All documents and certificates bearing my former names remain valid Banks, Immigrations, Relevant Authorities and the General public Please take note.

I Formerly known and addressed as OGUNSABI FOLASHADE SIMIAT now wish to be known, called and addressed as JIMOH FOLASHADE SIMIAT All documents and certificates bearing my former names remain valid Banks, Immigrations, Relevant Authorities and the General public Please take note.

AWUJUOLA TAYEEBA FOLAKE

MRS NWOYE CHINYERE JULIET

NELSON OSAROBO OGBEIDE

I formerly known and addressed as MISS OPARA CHINYERE JULIET now wish to be known and addressed as MRS NWOYE CHINYERE JULIET. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as NELSON MANDELA OGBEIDE now wish to be known and addressed as NELSON OSAROBO OGBEIDE. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

MRS REBECCA OJEZELE OTEPEN ADENAIKE

I formerly known and addressed as MISS REBECCA OJEZELE OTEPEN now wish to be known and addressed as MRS REBECCA OJEZELE OTEPEN ADENAIKE .All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as NGNOKAM MEPE BEATRICE now wish to be known and addressed as MRS OJEDIRAN MARY. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as ANN UZONTA CHINASA and VIRGINA UZONTA CHINASA now wish to be known and addressed as ANN UZONTA CHINASA .All former documents remain valid.

General public to please take note.

GLORY OSARON EGUAGIE

BENSON ZION ESHIOTSUMI

LAWAL ADEDAYO KABIRU

CORRECTION OF NAMES

ONIFADE OLAJUMOKE AYOBAMI

I formerly known and addressed as FAVOUR OSARON now wish to be known and addressed as GLORY OSARON EGUAGIE. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

CORRECTION OF NAMES

I formerly known and addressed as BENSON PEE ZION,BENSON PETER,BENSON ESHIOTSUNI PETER now wish to be known and addressed as BENSON ZION ESHIOTSUMI .All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as LAWAL ADEDAYO KABEER now wish to be known and addressed as LAWAL ADEDAYO KABIRU .All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

In some of my documents my name was written as OKE JACOBS TOBILOBA instead of OKE JACOBS OLUWATOBILOBA.Henceforth I wish to known and addressed as OKE JACOBS OLUWATOBILOBA..

All former documents remain valid.

General public to please take note.

In some of my documents my name was written as HENRY CHUKS UZOSIKE instead of HENRY CHUKWUNYERE UZOSIKE.Henceforth I wish to known and addressed as HENRY CHUKWUNYERE UZOSIKE. I was born on 21/05/1970 not 21/05/1969.All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

I formerly known as DAVID OLAJUMOKE AYOBAMI wish to be known and addressed as ONIFADE OLAJUMOKE AYOBAMI. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

CHANGE OF NAME /CORRECTED DATE OF BIRTH

UWAEZUOKE ADERONKE OLUWAFUNMILAYO CHRISTIANA I formerly known as Adeniyi Aderonke Oluwafunmilayo wish to be known and addressed as Uwaezuoke Aderonke Oluwafunmilayo Christiana. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

ADESINA DAMILOLA GANIYU

BASIL APETY MONDAY

MRS FLORENCE ALABA FABIYI

I formerly known as Kareem Ganiyu Olosho wish to be known and addressed as ADESINA DAMILOLA GANIYU. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

CORRECTION OF NAME

OMONIJO DORCAS BOLANLE

IGWE ISRAEL AZUBUIKE

That I PASTOR NWEZE PAUL my name was wrongly written as PASTOR NWEKE PAUL wish to be known and addressed as PASTOR NWEZE PAUL. All Documents /Credentials bearing these names remain valid, general public please take note.

I formerly known as OLUWASEGUN DORCAS BOLANLE wish to be known and addressed as OMONIJO DORCAS BOLANLE . All former documents remain valid General public please take note.

I formerly known as ISRAEL IGWE wish to be known and addressed as IGWE ISRAEL AZUBUIKE . All former documents remain valid, General public please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as TAIBAT SHOLA now wish to be known and addressed as AWUJUOLA TAYEEBA FOLAKE. All former documents remain valid.

General public to please take note.

CHANGE OF NAME /CORRECTED DATE OF BIRTH I formerly known as TAIWO HASSAN OLADENI wish to be known and addressed as OLADENI HASSAN TAIWO corrected DATE of Birth is 1107-1985. .All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

I formerly known as REMILEKUN ALADE BABATUNDE wish to be known and addressed as ALADE TUNDE OLUREMI. wrong Date of birth is 16/07/1973 while the corrected Date of Birth is 1/06/1979. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

MRS OYETUNJI KAFILAT OMOWUNMI

CHANGE OF NAME AND DECLARATION OF AGE

I formerly known as Miss Mustapha Kafilat Omowunmi wish to be known and addressed as Mrs Oyetunji Kafilat Omowunmi. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

I formerly known as Omotala Atinuke wish to be known and addressed as Omotara Atinuke Ajoke. and corrected Date of Birth is 22-02-1974.

All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

I formerly known as BASIL APETY KOJO wish to be known and addressed as BASIL APETY MONDAY. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

I formerly known as FLORENCE OWOLABI wish to be known and addressed as MRS FLORENCE ALABA FABIYI . All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

BALOGUN ISREAL AKANDE I formerly known as TUKURU SAHEED ADEDOLAPO wish to be known and addressed as BALOGUN ISREAL AKANDE. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, July 25, 2017

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

NAMES OF TRUSTEES: 1. ENGR. RAUF ADEREMI OLANIYAN. 2. BARR. LATEEF ADETUNJI ADEDIGBA. 3. MR ABDUL- HAKI KAYODE OLANIYAN. 4. ZENAB ADEDOLAPO OLANIYAN. 5. FOLASADE ADEWUMI. 6. ENGR BASHIR OYEBOWALE AKANDE.

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

TRUSTEES: 1. MR. SOGO OSIKOYA 2. MRS. ADEBOLA MAKINDE

AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO TAKE GOOD CARE OF THE LESS PRIVILEGED PEOPLE WITHIN THE COMMUNITY. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: TO PROVIDE HOPE AND EMPOWERMENT TO THE HOPELESS, VOICE TO THE VOICELESS---WIDOWS, ORPHANAGES, ABUSED AND TRAFFICKED YOUTH/ WOMEN AND DISPLACED PEOPLE IN THE SOCIETY AT LARGE. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: TOYE OWOEYE, AREA1 SECTION1, BLOCK 3 FLAT 24, ODEREMO CLOSE, ABUJA

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1) PASTOR OLUMIDE ROTIMI ADESUYI (CHAIRMAN) 2) DR. ABIDEEN IDOWU ADEOGUN (SECRETARY) 3) DR (MRS) ADETOKUNBO JOAN LARA AFOLABI 4) MR OLUMUYIWA ADEBAYO ADETUNJI 5) MRS YETUNDE MARY AKIN-AKINSANYA 6) MR ABAYOMI ADESHINA ADEWUYI 7) MRS OMOWUNMI SIMBIAT OLATUNJI 8) MR WILSON TOYIN AKINWUNMI 9) MR AYODEJI ABUL-YEKEEN AWE 10) MR ABIODUN ADEDEJI ENIAYEWU

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

AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO FOSTER UNITY AMONGST ITS MEMBERS.

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE : 1. TO ORGANISE WOMEN AND EMPOWER THEM IN RICE PRODUCTION.

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

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

SIGNED : SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

AKWA IBOM GOSPEL MINISTERS NETWORK IN DIASPORA

COMMUNITY HEALTH INITIATIVE BAUCHI STATE OF NIGERIA

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ARC BISHOP DR DAVID OKPONOESIP 2. BISHOP DR STEVENKING KYRIAN UKPONG (JP) 3. BISHOP DR. ABRAHAM EDEM UMANAH JP 4. APOSTLE DR. UKPONGETTE EYOKUNYI ISONG 5. APOSTLE OROK EDET EFFIONG JP 6. NKAN UBONG EDWARD 7. TONY OTUK 8. AKPAN IMI 9. THOMPSON GODWIN ISAAC

- CHAIRMAN - SECRETARY - VICE - CHAIRMAN

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR_ GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIR COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT , OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET , MAITAMA , ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: BARR AIGBIREMOLEN LORETTA 08181978323

AKOMU SOCIAL CLUB OF NIGERIA

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

This is to inform the general public that the above named CLUB has applied for registration to the Corporate Affairs Commission under Part ‘C’ of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 1990.

TRUSTEES 1. ADAMU AHMADU - CEO/CHAIRMAN 2. ISAH MUSA - MEMBER 3. MOH’D UMAR LADAN MEMBER 4. LAMI SANI MEMBER 5: RABI ISAH MUSA MEMBER 6. MUSA ABDULLAH - ADMN. SECRETARY.

The Trustees are: 1. MRS. MESHACK DORCAS IKUMEHINLO -PRESIDENT 2. MRS. OMOMOH ANNA – VICE PRESIDENT 3 MRS. OMORUYI ROSELINE OSAZEE - SECRETARY 4 MRS. OJO LYDIA UNUAGBON - FINANCIAL SECRETARY

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. ENSURE IMPROVED ENVIRONMENT FOR TOTAL ANNIHILATION SOFTWARE DISEASE THAT AFFECTS COMMUNITY SUCH AS EPI/PEI TARGETED DISEASES MALARIA, TUBERCULOSIS, DIARRHEA, DYSENTERY, HIV/AIDS. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B. 198, GARKI, ABUJA WITHIN TWENTY-EIGHT (28) DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY MRS ADETOUN NURAT AROBIEKE

Formerly known and addressed as MRS ADETOUN NURAT ARO now wish to be known and addressed as MRS ADETOUN NURAT AROBIEKE.All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

OSUNKOYA DAVID AYOBAMI

Formerly known and addressed as Osunkoya David Wealthcome, now wish to be known and addressed as Osunkoya David Ayobami. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. HAJIYA RUGAIYYA MUSTAPHA 2. AMB. FATIMA BELLO ABDULLAHI 3. NAIMA ABUBAKAR ABDULLAHI 4. YEMISI KOMOLAFE 5.HAJARA YUSUF KANGIWA 6.CHIKA-BLESSING NWOHA

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

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

ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN RICE PRODUCERS IN NIGERIA

REGINA OGBONNAEKE FOUNDATION

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

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: I) TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST TO THE WORLD II) TO PROMOTE GODLINESS AND PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE IN THE SOCIETY.

IPENT 5 EXTENSION LANDLORD’S ASSOCIATION LOKOGOMA ABUJA THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED ASSOCIATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC), ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART ‘C’ OF COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1990.

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

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO PROMOTE CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE SOCIETY.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1) PASTOR ADESUYI OLUMIDE ROTIMI (CHAIRMAN) 2) MR ODELANA ABIODUN EMMANUEL (SECRETARY) 3) MR ADEWUYI ADESHINA ABAYOMI 4) PROPHET AKINWUNMI TOYIN WILSON 5) MR OLANIYI ADEOLA GBENGA

SIGNED: OLUSOJI KAYODE EMMANUEL

SIGNED: OLUSOJI KAYODE EMMANUEL

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ADONU IFEANYI KINGSLEY 2. ADONU PERPETUAL CHINYERE

CHRIST PATH REVEALERS MINISTRY

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

SIGNED: SYNTEGRAL LP

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. TEMITOPE JOHN OLADELE 2. GAJI ENITAN 3. OKORO ODOSA VICTOR 4 SIMISOLA ABIGAIL ADEYEMO 5. ADAMU USMAN TUBO 6. MARTINS ONUCHE OGWUCHE 7. ARUEHI ELIJAH EROMOSEH

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: I) TO HELP THE LESS PRIVILEGED YOUTHS AND THE ELDERS IN THE SOCIETY II) TO EDUCATE & PROMOTE ENTREPRENEURSHIP OF YOUTHS TOWARDS SELF RELIANCE.

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TRUSTEES: 1. MR. SOGO OSIKOYA 2. MRS. ADEBOLA MAKINDE OBJECTS: TO PROVIDE HOPE AND EMPOWERMENT TO THE HOPELESS, VOICE TO THE VOICELESS---WIDOWS, HE NS, ABUSED AND TRAFFICKED YOUTH/ WOMEN AND DISPLACED PEOPLE IN THE SOCIETY AT LARGE. SIGNED SYNTEGRAL LP AKACHUKWU UCHECHUKWU EDMOND

FAMILY CHANFGE OF NAME

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS ADIEME UCHECHUKWU EDMOND NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESS AS AKACHUKWU UCHECHUKWU EDMOND. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE

THE OTONS FAMILY NOW WISHES TO CHANGE THEIR FAMILY NAME TO PETERS. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS BEARING THAT OF OTONS REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITIES CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC NOTE.

EGBOR ANTHONY EHIKIOYA

SALAUDEEN MUZIBAUDEEN OPEYEMI

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NEBO CHINYERE THERESA

CHIMDI NKIRUKA LILIAN

OSHIFADE ADEOLA SHALEWA

CORRECTION OF NAME

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This is to inform the general public that my name was mistakenly written on as FATAI TEMITAYO BASIRAT instead of ABDULFATTAH BASIRAT TEMITAYO. That my correct name is ABDULFATTAH BASIRAT TEMITAYO. All former documents remain valid.

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CONFIRMATION OF NAMES

JOSEPH SHADE HANNAH

OBAYEJU KEMI BOLA

JINADU LUKMON TINU

CORRECTION OF NAME

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My name was wrongly written as SHEDRACK CHINEDU, instead of CHINEDU SHEDRACK CHIBUIKE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

That i am the same person bearing ADONIS-OGWUMIKE PATIENCE MODUPEOLA as well as ADONIS PATIENCE CHINELO. That all documents bearing either of the two names remain valid.

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CORRECTION OF NAME/ DATE OF BIRTH My name was wrongly written as BALIKIS IBRAHIM instead of BALIKIS OLAIDE IBRAHIM. My date of birth was wrongly written as 3rd March 1991, instead of 3rd March 1981. All former documents remain valid.

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UZAMAH HENRIETTA REBECCA NNAJI

HAMEED MUSIBAU LAMIDI

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AZANDE AONDONA UMENGER MATHEW

AYOOLA HASSAN SOPHIAT ABIDEMI

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MRS. OGBU NGOZI

PATRICIA AFULENU ANENE

MRS.IKPEAMA ANYANWU-UTUTU CECILIA

I formerly called and addressed as ENE ONYEMA OCHAI now wish to be known called and addressed as ENE FAVOUR EJEH. All former documents remain valid. The general public please take note.

I formerly called and addressed as MISS. ONITA BLESSING NGOZI now wish to be known called and addressed as MRS. OGBU NGOZI. All former documents remain valid. The general public please take note.

I formerly called and addressed as MRS. PATRICIA AFULENU ANALOGBEI now wish to be known called and addressed as MRS. PATRICIA AFULENU ANENE. All former documents remains valid. The general public please take note

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OYAFEWE ROTIMI MATTHEW

NWAMINI EZEKIEL SUNDAY

OYATOKUN TEMITOPE RASHIDAT

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Formerly known and addressed as SULAIMON TEMITOPE RASHIDAT, now wish to be known and addressed as OYATOKUN TEMITOPE RASHIDAT. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

UWAZURUIKE CHINONSO MODESTA

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EHIAGWINA BLESSING OMOYE MARY

YUSUF KWAMTA

DOMINIC BROWN ABUTU

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FEYISARA BELLO OSO

AZEEZ RASAQ ABIODUN

MRS CHIMAMKPA MERCY IHEANAETU

AFOLABI FOLAFEMI OLUWASEYI

ADIO OBAFEMI OLAMILEKAN BROWN

OLOGUN MARY TEMITOPE

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PETGRACE RANDOLPH OLATUNJI MEYER

BIODUN-BADMUS JNR.

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MISS ADEBAYO EKUNDAYO YEMISI

ONWUAMAM CHIKADIBIA MAXWELL

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IBITUNDE BALOGUN

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Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, July 25, 2017

IPOB accuses politicians of plotting to kill Kanu Alphonsus Nweze, Awka

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The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has raised the alarm alleging that some top politicians were plotting to kill its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, and other principal officers of the group.

The group alleged Monday thst huge amount of money and political patronages had been offered to certain people to execute the plot.

In the statement signed by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, IPOB said any attack on Kanu would radicalize the Biafra struggle in a manner nobody ever imagined.

The group named certain governors, an elder statesman, a socio-cultural organization, a security chief and a religious head as some of those masterminding the act.

The statement said, “A lot of people have been massacred in cold blood and others laid down their lives for Biafra freedom between 1967 and 1970 and during our peaceful protests and rallies in Biafra land, while the Nigeria state and all these political errand boys and contractors did nothing to stop or condemn it .

But we promise them that any attack on Nnamdi Kanu or assassination attempt will radicalize the struggle for Biafra independence to the

point which no one can contain”.

The group reiterated its call on the federal government to conduct a referendum in all the Biafra territories for the masses to determine where they want to belong, instead of forcing them to stay together in a cage called Nigeria.

It added, “If the masses of Biafra decide otherwise then Biafra quest can be put to stop but for now IPOB has passed the Rubicon, no going back. We still maintain our stand that we are not asking for war or any confrontation with any person, group or Nigeria state.

“We are putting all the world leaders, Amnesty International, Human Right Watch, relevant Human Rights organizations, people of good conscience around the world on notice to prevail on Nigeria Government and her Hausa Fulani dominated security outfits to stop their evil plots against our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB members worldwide.

Continuing, the group said “We are reminding those evil plotters that if anything happen to our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, who has been using non-violent methods for Biafra liberation since the inception of IPOB that they will experience what they have not seen before since the creation of the contraption called Nigeria by Britain.”

Former Akwa Ibom governor, Attah, hails NDDC boss Amaka Agbu, Port Harcourt A former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Obong Victor Attah, has reviewed the achievements of Mr. Nsima Ekere, the Managing Director of the Niger Development Commission, NDDC, in the last eight months and declared that he has brought joy and hope to the people of Akwa Ibom state.

Speaking at the thanksgiving service of Mr. Ekere and his family at the Methodist Church Nigeria, Ikot Abasi on Sunday, Obong Attah said the NDDC boss had done the state proud.

“This thanksgiving is not just ordinary thanksgiving. You can see the outpouring of support for a man who has successfully restructured NDDC. Akwa Ibom people are very proud of him. Akwa Ibom people say Nsima Ekere has brought a lot of joy and hope to the people,” he said.

The leader of Ibibio Nation reasoned that having done well at NDDC, Mr.

Ekere could be entrusted with more responsibilities.

His words: “Nigeria is talking about restructuring today. If Nsima Ekere can successfully restructure NDDC, there is every possibility that he can restructure a few more institutions.”

Obong Attah suggested a reception for Mr. Ekere by Akwa Ibom people, saying, “I want to appeal to Akwa Ibom people. He has come here to thank God by himself. We must call him to appreciate him.”

Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State, eulogized Mr. Ekere as a true friend and brother and prayed God to continuously bless him and his family.

The National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, represented by the Deputy National Chairman (South), Engr.

Segun Oni, congratulated Mr. Ekere and his family for his success story at NDDC and expressed optimism that the NDDC boss will completely turn round the commission.

L-R: Vice-Chancellor, University of Ibadan, Prof. Idowu Olayinka; Minister of Communications, Alhaji Adebayo Shittu and representative of Ondo State Governor, Mr. Micheal Lana, at the Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan’s Public Lecture in Ibadan.

Niger gov’s wife advocates death sentence for rapists Saka Bolaji - Minna ÏÏÏWife of the Niger state governor, Dr. Amina Sani Bello, has advocated for life jail sentence for those convicted of rape saying that “on weekly basis I receive reports of one or two rape cases most of them minors.

She described the development as disturbing because the lives of the victims were being destroyed.

Dr Amina Bello made the suggestion in Minna on Monday when she re-

ceived top officials of the state Ministry of Justice on an advocacy visit to her office decried the present punishment for offenders saying that “ it is not stringent enough to deter people from committing the crime.”

According to her if “life sentence is the maximum punishment for rapists those involved will think twice before committing the offence.”

Dr. Bello also took exception to the N10,000 fine and two month jail term recently handed down to

a homosexual who “raped a 12 year old boy to death” said that “the punishment was not commensurate with the offence committed.”

She also said it was incredible that a magistrate court could release a homosexual suspect who raped 12 boys at the same time when charged before the court.

Dr. Bello promised to collaborate with the ministry to bring to justice those committing rape and homosexuals in the state.

The Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Nasara Danmallam, in his remarks disclosed that the state Judicial Service Commission had set up a high powered committee to investigate the magistrates that handled the rape and homosexual cases saying the committee would soon submit its report.

Nasara Danmallam said that the ministry had established a “Gender and domestic relations department” to handle cases related to abuse of women and the youths.

Lagos council poll: LASIEC presents Certificates of Return to elected chairmen, councillors Iniobong Iwok

The Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC), on Monday presented Certificates of Return to all the victorious 57 local government chairmen and 377 councillor of the various political parties in the last Saturday council election in the state.

This is as the chairman, of LASIEC, Hon. Justice Ayotunde Phillips, has commended residents of the State, particularly leaders of Political Parties, their members, the Electorate, Royal Fathers, Religious and Community Leaders, Security Personnel, Election Personnel, the press and other stake-

holders for their support towards the successful conduct of the elections Before handing over the Certificates, Justice Philips, noted that the election was one of the most peaceful in the history of Lagos State, adding that the election was free and fair.

She charged the elected chairman and councillors to strive and fulfilled their promises to the electorates, adding that the commission had fulfilled its mandate.

She said, “I congratulate you all for the victory in last Saturday’s election, you have brave odd to win the election, it was peaceful and free and fair, one

of the best in recent time.

But I want to implore you to strive and deliver on your promise the people.”

Speaking to The Daily Times, the newly elected chairman of Orile Agege LCDA, Sunday Babatunde said his focus would be on empowering the youths through skills acquisition, adding that he would also set up a committee to find modalities for improving the internally generated revenue of the council.

The event which was held at the LASIEC secretariat in Yaba, was attended by the supporters of the elected officials and party officials.

A breakdown of the

election result shows that while the All progressive Congress (APC), won all the 57 chairmanship seats, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), won four councillorship positions, while the Accord Party also won three councillorship sit.

Still speaking on the performance of the commission, the political parties and the people, Justice Phillips said that in fulfillment of her pledge at different fora prior to the day of the elections that the Commission would provide a level playing field, the Commission worked tirelessly to guarantee fairness and justice for all the political parties and their candidates.

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A plaintiff with a good cause of action cannot enforce same by judicial process because he has sat over his right for all times as the time stipulated by law for initiating such an action has become extinct.

Fabiyi, JSC. in Nasir v. Civil Service Commission, Kano State & 2 Ors. (2010) 1-2 S.C. 65

NBA constitutes disciplinary committees in six geo-political zone Stories by Ibe Uwaleke The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), has recsonstituted membership of its disciplinary committees in order to cope with serious challenges of indiscipline which have arisen in recent times.

Speaking at the formal inauguration of nine (9) NBA technical committees, yesterday, in Abuja, the NBA In a statement signed by the general secretary, Isiaka Abiola Olagunju said the president, Abubakar Balarabe Mahmoud OON, SAN, said that the association has found it expedient to reconstitute its disciplinary committee and would not fold its arms and watch helplessly as waves of indiscipline erode the culture of decorum, discipline and decency which had distinguished the legal practice as a noble profession. “I like to say that we have had serious challenges of indiscipline and I like our members to reflect on this.” said A. B. Mahmoud, OON, SAN. “These challenges bother on unruly behaviours which are contrary to the entrenched traditions of the profession. He said: “These issues include discipline, respect for elders in the profession, seniority and decorum. I like to say that many of us are deeply concerned and have been despondent at the turn of events.

“At times, some lawyers make hateful comments

ABUBAKAR MAHMOUD, SAN against their leaders, against their senior colleagues. This is very unacceptable. We will really put a stop to this.

“The spate of litigations by members across the country is worrisome. Believe me, one of the

first challenges that confronted me as President of NBA was the spate of litigation from various branches.

“In Abuja, here, we have had serious issues of indiscipline, indecorum and indecent conducts.

It is not about who is right but about what is right and appropriate for our profession.

“I went to Osun State about two months ago and was confronted with serious issues of indiscipline perpetrated by our members who showed gross indiscipline to the Chief Judge, barricading the Chief Judge from entering the court premises. This is most unacceptable. I will plead with our members to show utmost restraint, utmost discipline and utmost respect.

“Let me remark about comments we receive on social media. While we live in an era of social media, we, as lawyers must be careful about comments we make in the social media about our profession. Let us be advocates of discipline, let’s be advocates of decorum and let’s be advocates of decency.”

In view of the foregoing development, it has become pragmatic for the Nigerian Bar Association to reconstitute its disciplinary committee in order to cope with contemporary challenges of indiscipline which are manifesting themselves in our profession.

The list of the panels from the six geo-political zones can be accessed from the NBA web

...Mahmoud removes quotas for members The president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Abubakar Bararabe Mahmoud (SAN) has announced the removal of quotas imposed for certain categories of members which the Technical Committee on Conference Planning (TCCP) had previously approved in order to get a good mix of participants.

At an emergency meeting with TCCP, Mahmoud disclosed the slight adjustment in the ongoing registration of members for the forthcoming conference of the NBA in August, 2017.

He said: “Dear Colleagues,The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Annual General Conference (AGC) 2017, is fast approaching. The NBA has continued to receive immense encouragement, support and enthusiasm shown not only by our members, but also by non-lawyers alike. The response received this year has been unprecedented, as many of our colleagues were quick to take advantage of the online registration process.

We experienced some initial glitches with the registration process. Most of these were promptly addressed and resolved. The biggest challenge we have

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had has been the limitation on the numbers of participants, as determined by the limited capacity at the Conference facilities, and our desire to have a meaningful Conference taking into account security, health, safety and other factors.

The Conference was sold out within 12 days of the opening of registration.

Despite this, and in order to meet the yearnings of our members, I held an emergency meeting with the Technical Committee on Conference Planning (TCCP) on 9th July, 2017. We reviewed the situation and decided to remove the quotas assigned to categories of members which the TCCP had previously approved in order to get a good mix of participants. We also approved the increase of participants by 20%. The TCCP continued the registration on a first-come, first-served basis as directed. After tak-

ing professional advice, it is clear that we cannot have the numbers exceed the current limit. Nevertheless, having regard to the continuing interest and pressure from our members, we have held a further meeting with the members of the TCCP and approved the following measures: 1. The TCCP has been directed to look into the possibility of setting up a remote viewing center in the vicinity of the Conference Venue that will allow our colleagues to view proceedings from the viewing centre.

2. The TCCP shall open the portal for further registration as an overflow list.

Members who have hitherto been unable to register will now be able to log on to the website and register their names and particulars. Members registering for the Conference at this time will indicate

their desire to either : a) Receive the tablet and Conference materials only; or b) Receive the tablet, Conference materials and have access to the remote viewing center (the viewing center shall be set up only if we receive sufficient expressions of interest from members interested in remote viewing.)

3. In addition to these measures, the TCCP is arranging for the following, to enable as many of our members as possible have access to the conference proceedings live regardless of registration: a. There will be live streaming of the proceedings on the Conference website. b. We are negotiating for a dedicated DSTV Channel for live broadcast of the Conference Proceedings on all days of the Conference. c. We are also negotiating for some limited live broadcasts with local TV stations as well as with the CNBC station.

This will be in addition to other broadcasts of Conference summaries and the Conference documentary to be aired after the event, on some of these channels.

We are confident that these measures will meet the expectations of our members who desire to be part of the conference experience without compromising the legitimate concerns of health and safety. I will like to appeal to our members for their cooperation and support as we continue our efforts to deliver a conference befitting of the Bar.

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Procedural lacuna with special reference to service of summons B. Vijayalakshmi

The mechanism of procedural laws is to drive the parties to the court and aiding them to get proper justice from the judiciary through so many procedural provisions. The civil procedural code, 1908 and Criminal procedural code,1973 are the important piece of legislations framed by our Parliament to meet the requirements of parties whenever they are encountered with violations of their rights.

These are effective tools in rendering justice to the aggrieved parties but nowadays losing its sanctity because of certain procedural loopholes at every stage of the suit starting from serving of summons, recording of evidences, availing of adjournments and so on dragging the proceedings over a period of years causing mental agony and economic loss to the parties concern.

It is undisputable fact that procedural laws pour life into substantive laws and substantial laws are of no use without this procedural mechanism. Our Civil Procedural code, 1908 contains so many provisions guiding the parties in moving to the court. These procedural technicalities are not either too stringent or too liberal. They are maximum flexible in nature so as not to be a hurdle to the parties in deriving the benefit instead aiding them in drawing the benefit.

The very purpose of procedural laws is to see that every aggrieved person is suitably compensated for the injury caused to him. Despite the significance and importance assigned to CPC and CRPC, people are frequently encountered with so many problems in getting speedy and effective justice because of procedural lacunae.

I would like to focus on the important provision in CPC which is creating some sort of hurdles to the parties concern.

That is, regarding Service of Summons Order V and its Amendment in 2002. The object of these provisions and the amended provisions are to speed up the proceedings so as to benefit the parties. But in reality the proceedings themselves are paving the way for getting exparte decrees in favour of plaintiff and causing problem to the defendant and also on the other side by considerably reducing the time for reissue of summons from one month to 7 days is causing so much inconvenience to the plaintiff and again directing him to file a fresh suit instead of continuing the original suit.

My fundamental point is as per the new Order, summons are permitted to be issued by the plaintiff or by the courier service. Though, it is very much laudable since it is trying to speed up the proceedings by permitting the courier service but at the same time give a chance for abuse of this provision by the plaintiff as well as by the courier service This is to be utilized properly to derive the true intention of the legislature. But in practice it is used to stab the interest of the defendant taking undue advantage of the provision. If we analyze the provisions given in Order V rule 9 of CPC, it may be clear that in some cases how it is being misused.

Order V rule 9(Amendment w.e.f.

1/7/2002) runs as follows: (1) Where the defendant resides within the jurisdiction of the Court in which the suit is instituted, or has an agent resident within that jurisdiction who is empowered to accept the service of the summons, the summons shall, unless the Court otherwise directs, be delivered or sent either

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to the proper officer to be served by him or one of his subordinates or to such courier services as are approved by the Court.

(2) The proper officer may be an officer of a Court other than that in which the suit is instituted, and, where he is such an officer, the summons may be sent to him in such manner as the Court may direct.

(3) The services of summons may be made by delivering or transmitting a copy thereof by registered post acknowledgment due, addressed to the defendant or his agent empowered to accept the service or by speed post or by such courier services as are approved by the High Court or by the Court referred to in sub-rule (1) or by any other means of transmission of documents (including fax message or electronic mail service) provided by the rules made by the High Court: Provided that the service of summons under this sub-rule shall be made at the expenses of the plaintiff.

(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-rule (1), where a defendant resides outside the jurisdiction of the Court in -which the suit is instituted, and the Court

directs that the service of summons on that defendant may be made by such mode of service of summons as is referred to in sub-rule (3) (except by registered post acknowledgment due), the provisions of rule 21 shall not apply.

(5) When an acknowledgment or any other receipt purporting to be signed by the defendant or his agent is received by the Court or postal article containing the summons is received back by the Court with an endorsement purporting to have been made by a postal employee or by any person authorised by the courier service to the effect that the defendant or his agent had refused to take delivery of the postal article containing the summons or had refused to accept the summons by any other means specified in sub-rule (3) when tendered or transmitted to him, the Court issuing the summons shall declare that the summons had been duly served on the defendant: Provided that where the summons was properly addressed, pre-paid and duly sent by registered post acknowledgment due, the declaration referred to in this sub-rule

shall be made notwithstanding the fact that me acknowledgment having been lost or mislaid, or for any other reason, has not been received by the Court within thirty days from the date of issue of summons.

(6) The High Court or the District Judge, as the case may be, shall prepare a panel of courier agencies for the purposes of sub-rule (1).

9A. Summons given to the plaintiff for service (1) The Court may, in addition to the service of summons under rule 9, on the application of the plaintiff for the issue of a summons for the appearance of the defendant, permit such plaintiff to effect service of such summons on such defendant and shall, in such a case, deliver the summons to such plaintiff for service.

(2) The service of such summons shall be effected by or on behalf of such plaintiff by delivering or tendering to the defendant personally a copy thereof signed by the Judge or such officer of the Court as he may appoint in this behalf and sealed with the seal of the Court or by such mode of service as is referred to in sub-rule (3) of rule 9.

(3) The provisions of rules 16 and 18 shall apply to a summons personally served under this rule as if the person effecting service were a serving officer.

(4) If such summons, when tendered, is refused or if the person served refuses to sign an acknowledgment of service or for any reason such summons cannot be served personally, the Court shall, on the application of the party, re-issue such summons to be served by the Court in the same manner as a summons to a defendant.]

Now if closely analyse the provision given under 9 (3) and 9 (5) of Order V, where summons are served through registered post acknowledgment due addressed to the defendant or to his authorised agent empowered to accept the service or through courier service which are approved by the High court and If the same which is purported to be signed by the defendant or his authorised agent is received by the court or postal article containing summons is received back by the court with an endorsement “ refused “ to accept when tendered to the defendant , the court issuing the summons shall declare that the summons are duly served on the defendant provided it is properly addressed and duly sent. This declaration referred to in this sub rule is irrespective of any other reasons that is may be the acknowledgement is lost or otherwise.

To be concluded next week

CJN describes NCC Act as obsolete, needs review Tony Nwakaegho

Justice Walter Onnoghen, chief justice of Nigeria, (CJN), has described the Act establishing the Nigerian Communications Commission, (NCC) which came into effect in 2003, as obsolete and urged for a review.

The CJN said new issues and other technological challenges had arisen that require to be taken into consideration 14 years after the NCC Act came into effect.

Justice Onnoghen who was represented by Justice Olu Ariwo-Ola of the Supreme Court made the remarks in Abuja, recently while declaring open the

2017 annual workshop for judges on legal issues in telecommunications organised by the NCC. He affirmed that the law should be reviewed to bridge the gap created by technological advancement in the telecommunications sector following the invention of smart phones, tablets and expansion of wireless and broadband internet infrastructures in the country.

“It is important to mention that with the enactment of NCC Act of 2003, new issues and other technological challenges that have arisen that have not been adequately envisaged, for instance, the arrival of smart phones, tablets, expan-

sion of our wireless and broadband internet infrastructures, have attracted a new breed of smart and intellectual subscribers.

“These categories of subscribers rely on their devices to perform ordinary daily activities which have made consumers privacy protection very paramount. This has given rise to more sophisticated way of committing crimes,” the CJN, said.

The CJN said it was necessary for judges to be updated with developments in the sector to ensure speedy dispensation of justice and lauded the National Judicial Institute (NJI) for partnering the NCC to organise the annual workshop.

News 28 Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo

ÏÏÏThe Nigerian Airspace Man-

agement Agency (NAMA) has concluded plans to deploy new Instrument Landing Systems (ILSs) like the Distance measuring equipment (DME),DVOR Doppler VOR (DVOR) to replace obsolete facilities at the nation’s airports. Already, NAMA is extending the VHF coverage in Northern Nigeria, to address the communication challenges due to blind spots. This will cover Kaduna, Jos, Enugu and Benin.

NAMA said it is a capital intensive project, but determined to get it right.

The DME is a transponderbased radio navigation technology that measures slant range distance by timing the propagation delay of VHF or UHF radio signals, just as this would help to enhance pilot-air traffic controller communication.

Director, Safety Electronics and Engineering Services (DSEES) of the agency, Engr Umar Ahmad Faruk, said when the newly elected executive of the National Association of Air Traffic Engineers (NAAE) met with him in his office.

He said the deployment of the expensive equipment would a phased process starting with

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the busiest airports like Lagos, Abuja, Port-Harcourt and Abuja.

Farouk stated that similarly, ten watt radios are already in place with the capacity to cover 150 nautical miles on aerodrome and approach, adding that the requirement is 70 miles coverage.

He further disclosed that the equipment for both Lagos west and east and Kano west and east have the capacity to cover 241 nautical miles at 41,000 feet and beyond depending on the line of sight. Similarly, he stated that NAMA is going fully, the renewable green energy way, with solar power installations for all navigational and communications field equipment, stressing that NAMA is determined by the end of 2018 to ensure all equipment are solar powered.

He noted that the process of conversion, modifications and testing are already in full gear.

His words, “Ratings are being developed for power systems.

Similarly, batches of engineers are already on standby to proceed to the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT), Zaria for various trainings inclusive of ATSEP preparatory training”.

General Manager, Terrestrial services, Mrs. Mojisola Dokun congratulated the new NAAE leadership on its emergence.

She used the opportunity to commend the leadership Faruk, and stated that he has the singular quality of carrying everyone along.

She stated that the new NAAE leadership inherited a divided house and hence a herculean task of mending fences and bringing everyone on board. She admonished the new NAAE leadership to carry everyone along, redeem the image of all NAAE members in NAMA, Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), NCAT and IBOM with haste as valuable time had been lost already. She reminded the new exco that this is leadership by service, urging the executive to be willing and ready to serve in all humility the whole engineering profession.

The NAAE General Secretary, Ishaya Idris Akaaba stated that NCAT in full collaboration with the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has developed Standard training packages (STP’s) covering power systems and navigational aids.

He stated that NCAT is in the process of constructing renewable power systems laboratories that are designed to teach students hands on the harnessing, installations and maintenance of Wind, Solar and Bio-mass energy alternative sources of power.

Paris Club loan refund: Kogi earmarks 50% for salary arrears Idris Ahmed, Lokoja

ÏÏÏ Over 50 percent of the N6billion Paris Club Loan refund to the Kogi state government will be spent on workers’ salaries.

Commissioner of Finance, Asiwaju Idris Ashiru, told journalists on Monday in Lokoja that all those who have scaled the huddle of the screening exercise will be paid their arrears of salaries.

“We are still spending but it will not be less than 50 percent. I will give you the bank statement at the end,” he said.

The Paris club refund was the over deduction from state’s contributions to the loan repayment before the federal government under Chief Olusegun Obasanjo secured reprieve in 2005.

This latest refund was the second tranche of the refund. The first tranche was released last December.

Convicted oil marketer begs court to restrain order Titilope Joseph

Chairman, Muslim Pilgrims’ Welfare Board, Gombe State, Alhaji Sale Muhammad (right); Chairman, Izalatil Bidia Waikamatis Sunnah, Gombe State, Sheik Hamza Abdulhamid (left) and others, during the 2017 closing ceremony of induction /training for intending pilgrims in Gombe State… on Sunday.

Ashiru also debunked the rumours making round that the state’s share of the refund have been hijacked by banks to service the States loans burden, saying,” it is a big lie.”

Rumours of banks hijacking of the states share went viral particularly on social Media over the weekend with some claiming that as soon as the money hit the state’s account last week,it was swallowed by the loan burden put at several billions.

Also reacting to the rumours, the Director General, media and publicity to the Governor Kingsley Fanwo said “It is not true and shouldn’t be given any credence.

“Kogi State Government will not deviate from the guideline set to be used for the refund to pay wages of the civil servants.

We have no problem with our bankers. We maintain excellent relationship with the financial institutions handling our accounts,” Kingsley Fanwo said.

ÏÏÏ The CEO of Brila Energy, Rowaye Jubril, who is currently serving jail term over stolen subsidy money, has re-approached an Ikeja High Court asking for a stay of execution over an order of the court asking his company to refund N963.7 million stolen subsidy money back to the federal government.

Justice Lateefa Okunnu had ordered Jubril, currently serving a 10 year jail term and his company, to refund the money which it fraudulently obtained as subsidy.

They were both found guilty on all the 13 counts bordering on conspiracy, obtaining money by false pretence, forgery and use of false documents and sentenced to 10 years on the first count while receiving eight years for counts two to

13.

The convicts, through their counsel, Lawal Pedro SAN, had filed an application before the court asking for a stay of proceedings regarding the monetary part of the judgment.

Pedro in a 20 paragraph affidavit in support of his prayer asked the court to restrain the respondents, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission from enforcing the monetary aspect of the judgment.

“I appeal to the court to stay execution pending the outcome of an appeal.

“If the monetary judgment is enforced, that would be the end of the 2nd defendant applicant (Brila Energy), as it would not be able to enforce its constitutional right of appeal anymore,” Pedro said.

Glo Professor Johnbull discourages ‘trial marriage’ among students ÏÏÏ The incidence of trial marriages among students in tertiary institutions has received knocks from Professor Johnbull, the popular television sitcom sponsored by telecommunications giant, Globacom.

In the edition which goes on air this week, the TV drama series will be taking a critical look at the morally deficient practice which is prevalent among student-lovers who co-

habit without going through any nuptial procedures.

Globacom, in a press release on the episode titled Campus Marriage said: “The issue of ‘trial marriage’ is common among undergraduates, especially those in institutions where there are no established official accommodation or hostel facilities. While in some instances, the campus couples do have the chance of living together as husbands and wives after graduation, the majority

have tales of woe as the relationships hit the rocks leading to avoidable heartaches. Campus Marriage, therefore, highlights the dangers of ‘trial marriages’ and the lessons therein are not only for the young ones in schools, but also for parents and guardians”.

The company posited that the episode is “in line with the tradition of Professor Johnbull to highlight moral decadence in the society” and expressed the assurance that “viewers will

certainly have value for their time as they watch Campus Marriage”.

The lead character, Kanayo O. Kanayo delivers his usual homily in the drama which also has Bimbo Akintola as Ufoma; Yomi Fash-Lanso, Olaniyi; Imeh Bishop, Etuk; Bidemi Kosoko, Jumoke; Stephen Odimgbe, Fash and Jnr. Pope Odonwodo, Churchill.

The episode answers questions bordering on the appropriateness or otherwise of the

culture of ‘trial marriage’visà-vis Jumoke’s moral rectitude or lack of it; who falls victim of campus marriage and whether trial marriage is real or mere fantasy.

The episode comes on air on NTA Network, NTA International on DSTV Channel 251 and NTA on StarTimes at 8.30p.m. on Tuesday with repeat broadcasts on the same television channels on Friday at 8.30.p.m.

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French businessman admits lying on Ghana’s Abedi Pele’s HIV status in 1987 Stories by Bonny Amadi with agency reports

ÏÏÏBernard Tapie, French busi-

nessman and politician has revealed that he lied in 1987 THAT Ghana’s footballer, Abedi Ayew Pele had HIV initiated, Tapie said that he initiated the rumour that Ghanaian football legend Abedi Ayew Pele was HIV positive in 1987 in order for AS Monaco to reject him during a transfer from Mulhouse.

The 74-year-old former Marseille president said on Friday in an interview with French media Le

Monde that he leaked the false information to AS Monaco to get the Ghanaian to sign for Olympique Marseille.

“I told him (Pele) that he will be subjected to a blood test, which is generally done for African players.

But he should refuse and say he does not support it,” he said.

He added that he told an employee of Monaco about the HIV rumour: “I told him, ‘you know, we have escaped him beautifully. I did not take Abedi Pele. He is HIV positive’, I knew he will betray me and tell Monaco. He did not fail at that. So when Pele refused the medical test, Monaco

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said: Ah yes, it is true. He is HIV positive, so we won’t take him.”

“And the next day, he signed for Marseille! It’s like that. You should win,” he added.

He made the revelation after he was asked about the months he spent in jail for financial in appropriation and fixing a match between Valenciennes and Marseille in 1993.

“I was caught for stuff I did not do and not caught for stuff I did …

I’m going to give you an example of something I did without getting caught … Hmmm, which one?” this led to the revelation.

Abedi Pele went ahead to win French Division 1 league for Olympique Marseille in 1991 and 1992 as well as the the UEFA Champions League in 1993. He left Marseille for Lyon in 1993.

The club was stripped of its French league championship, suffered relegation to the second division because of financial irregularities blamed on Bernard Tapie who led the club till 1994.

Somali government warns citizens against paying Al-Shabaab taxes

Amaka Agbu, Port Harcourt

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Somali government has for the first time warned businesses from paying taxes to Al-Shabaab after recent reports of the practice.

Mohamed Abukar Dualle, Somalia’s security minister and the various security chiefs gave the warning when they addressed the press on recently,, they threatened among others, to seize businesses who will pay any money to the insurgent AL-Shabab fighters group.

Business in the central Soma“We will hold accountable and confiscate every business lia’s region of Hiiraan dropped center, large or small that pays following the ban of the 1000 tax to al Shabaab. The govern- Shilling banknote which is the ment will not tolerate funding only Somali currency in circulation. the group,” the minister said.

Al Shabaab has been able to He also ordered telecommunications companies to end any carry out deadly bombings deservices provided to al Shabaab spite losing most of its territory as well as all businesses that to African Union peacekeepers manage the finances of the supporting the Somali government. group.

The group’s insurgency aims Court actions will be initiated against those who fail to comply to drive out the peacekeepwith these orders, the security ers, topple Somalia’s westernbacked government and impose chiefs warned.

These orders follow reports its strict version of Islam on the last week that the Islamist group Horn of Africa state Meanwhile, four Al-Shabaab had banned the Somali Shilling in the central and southern re- militants on Monday surrengions under its control over al- dered to the Somali National Army at Gof-gudud Burey near leged influx of fake notes.

Foreign News 29 Ugandan judges warn government to avert strike by raising wages ÏÏÏUgandan judges have issued

the government 30 days grace to increase their salaries and living conditions or they will down tolls.

The judges issued the communique after a meeting over the weekend when they voted overwhelmingly for the strike on August 23 if their demands are not met.

Present at the meeting was justice minister Kahinda Otafiire who failed to convince the over 400 judges against the strike after promising to fulfil their demands in three months.

Daily Monitor, Uganda’s local me-

dia reported that the judges among other demands calls on government to bridge the salary disparity between them and government agency workers, official vehicles, medical insurance, housing and security, The decision comes days after state prosecutors went on strike over low wages and poor working conditions leaving courts empty.

The prosecutors suspended their strike last week after the government made commitments that it will solve their issues.

They also gave the government 90 days to meet their demands or continue the strike action.

World neurosurgeon Varsity admits first African neuro surgeon ÏÏÏWhen

Nancy Abu-Bonsrah discovered she had been accepted to train as a brain surgeon at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the fact she had made history took a while to sink in.

The 26-year-old from Ghana is the first black woman to join the neurosurgery program at the prestigious US College, where the medical discipline of neurological surgery was founded.

“It’s something I didn’t really think about too much until I opened the envelope and was like, ‘woah’,” she was reported to have told a local Independent newspaper “Then talking to other people in the department confirmed the suspicion.”

Ms. Abu-Bonsrah said she had moved to the US from Ghana around 11 years ago and studied chemistry and biochemistry at Mount St Mary’s University in Maryland. She then went straight to Johns Hopkins University, also in Maryland, to study medicine.

Her interest in neurosurgery stems from a trip to Ghana she took

in her winter break in her junior year of college, to shadow doctors and learn more about the country’s health system, because she hoped to return there to work one day.

“It happened that the physician I shadowed there was a neurosurgeon. I was impressed by his skill, and I was also impressed by his boldness in general,” she said.

“Ususally when I think about brain surgery, I think the brain is sacred and you don’t touch it or do anything to it, but to see them do these remarkable surgeries, and have good outcomes was something that impressed me.”

She also noticed how “overwhelmed” the surgeons appeared to be, saying: “There were countless patients that they had to see and there are so few of them.

“I thought it would be nice to combine my interest in this field with an opportunity to provide service back to my country and other countries that don’t have as much surgical infrastructure.”

South Sudan sexual violence on ‘massive scale,’ Report Says ÏÏÏA new Amnesty InternationBaidoa town, the administrative capital of Southwest State, officials said Monday.

Chief of Gof-gudud Burey, Sidow Ali told reporters that the militants had prior communications with Somali National Army’s 60 Division in the area before laying down the arms.

“Four Al-Shabaab militants including senior member who is in charge of finance in some areas near Baidoa town surrendered to Somali National Army’s 60 division on Sunday afternoon, they made contacts with the army,” Ali said.

He added their administration is committed to welcoming any member of Al-Shabaab militant who denounces terror activities.

al report has indicated high rate of sexual violence in Southern Sudan, the world’s youngest nation, four years into the country’s devastating civil war.

The report said that thousands of women, children and some men are suffering in silence, grappling with mental distress. Some now have HIV. Others were rendered impotent.

The report is based on interviews with 168 victims of sexual violence in South Sudan and in refugee camps in neighboring Uganda, home to the world’s fastest-growing refugee crisis.

Some of the sexual assaults occur not during the fighting but among the millions of people sheltering from the conflict.

The U.N. last year reported a 60 percent increase in gender-based violence in South Sudan, with 70 percent of women in U.N. camps in

the capital, Juba, having been raped since the start of the civil war in December 2013.

“This is premeditated sexual violence. Women have been gangraped, sexually assaulted with sticks and mutilated with knives,” says Muthoni Wanyeki, Amnesty’s regional director for East Africa.

Victims are left with “debilitating and life-changing consequences,” and many have been shunned by their families.

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Rohr monitors three goalkeepers ahead WCQ ANDREW EKEJIUBA with Agency Report

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uper Eagles coach Gernot Rohr has revealed that he is already planning for two crucial World Cup qualifiers against Cameroon in September and also monitoring three goalkeepers from the local scene.

The German manager is expected to attend the CHAN Eagles get-together in Kano, where he will monitor the invited goalkeepers Theophilus Afelokhai (Enyimba FC), Okiemute Odah (Lobi Stars) and Dele Ajiboye (Plateau United).

Rohr already knows the strengths and weaknesses of another goalie called up Ikechukwu Ezenwa (FC IfeanyiUbah), and

there’s a possibility that one of the quartet could be in goal against Cameroon if they impress him. ‘’I may not be specific but what I can say is he’s expected to see the CHAN team in Kano,’’ NFF Communications Director, Ademola Olajire said in a radio programme monitored in Lagos. ‘’He wants to be there to see what

they are doing and especially to look out for a home-based goalkeeper, one of whom could be in goal in the match against Cameroon and probably Zambia.’’ The Super Eagles goalkeeper trainer Alloy Agu will work with another trainer who will build the confidence of the home-based goalkeepers during the training camp.

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Dalung debunks Collins claims ANDREW EKEJIUBA

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inister of Youth and Sports, Barrister Solomon Dalung, has debunked claims by NAWIS representative on the Board of the Athletic Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Rosa Collins, that she was robbed of her presidential mandate describing it as falsehood and a ploy to mask her inability to emerge as president of the federation.

This followed accusations in the media that the Minister cancelled the bye elections as decided by the Electoral Appeals Committee into the Athletics Federation just to favor some unnamed groups.

“I do not wish to join issues with aggrieved persons over their defeat in the just concluded National Sports Federations elections, but I need to clear the air on some presumed falsehood about decisions taken by the Appeals Committee.

“The Appeals Committee entertained petitions from aggrieved persons after the elections and took decisions based on the facts available to them,” Dalung said.

He explained that in view of additional information provided by those affected by committee’s decisions which showed clear evidence that the Appeals Committee was mis-

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he Niger State Government said it would not review upward the N64 million renovation works at the state handball complex which was awarded to an indigenous sports facility company.

The contract which was awarded in 2014 by the immediate past administration had released N30 million to the contractor but work was halted due to a bureaucratic bottleneck.

But with recent agreement reached between the state and the contractor, the government has agreed to pay up the balance immediately work reaches an advance stage.

Head of Facilities and Marketing in the Sport ministry, Mr. Fred Issiah, told Extra Time that government is fully committed to the project so as rebuild the handball complex.

According to him: “This contract is not a fresh one, we only have a good understanding with the contractor to effect the completion of work and he has agreed to finish the two courts without any additional cost from government.”

‘No upward review of Minna handball complex contract’ But the chairman of Mamtas, Hon Danjuma Masun disclosed that he was happy with the position of government, though the price of items have gone high especially now that most of the equipment needed to complete the job would be imported from Europe .

He said the two handball courts would be completed in a record time of six weeks and stressed that the moral of some of the players who visited the complex to have a glimpse of work going on have been very high.

It would be recalled that the Niger State handball complex was build to host the 1994 Commonwealth Handball Championship under the supervision of Major General ishola Williams (Rtd).

guided, some decisions were upheld while others were dismissed.

“In the Athletics Federation for instance, there was a petition by one Charles Yayock from the North West Zone who petitioned that he was denied the right to contest the zonal congress and he had presidential ambition. He alleged that he was even denied the right to contest the presidential election.

“The Appeals Committee said it was unlawful exclusion and that it affected the election, so the election was canceled.

“Thereafter, the winner of the North West zone election Ibrahim Gusau who was affected now counter -petitioned the panel and provided evidence of participation of Yayock where he was cleared to participate in the zonal election and got 1 vote against himself who got 6 , therefore, the appeal by Yayock to hold a re-run was dismissed.

“In the case of Rosa Collins, her name was replaced by Dr. Gloria Obajimi who did not contest the NAWIS election. The Appeals Committee reviewed the case with evidence and reinstated Collins with Brown Ebewele who was also replaced by Gad Onwuamegbu on the Technical and Coaches committee.

“Collins alleged that she was not

allowed to contest the presidential elections but the winner Ibrahim Gusau again provided additional evidence of Rosa Collins who claimed she was unlawfully excluded. The evidence showed that Collins also contested the same election and got 2 votes against 48 won by Gusau.

“On the strength of that, the Appeals Committee in their review judgment recommended to the Harmonization Committee that the facts outweighed the allegation and therefore the election should be upheld since both candidates duly took part in the election.

“It was the review report of the Appeals Committee that came to the Harmonization Committee which in turn took the entire reviewed appeals one after the other and affirmed them.” Dalung explained.

He concluded that the Legal Department of the Ministry will not hesitate to file legal proceedings against individuals or group of people who have initiated a smear campaign against the Ministry rather than taking their defeat in good faith by joining hands with all other stakeholders in their various federations to develop the sport.

NPFL: MFM’s Bashiru happy with Katsina win Ben Nwachukwu with Agency Report

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ountain of Fire Miracles Ministries (MFM) FC central defender, Monsuru Bashiru is quite thankful to God that his side won the five-goal thriller clash against newcomers, Katsina United.

The Olukoya Boys beat the Changi Boys 3-2 in Monday’s Nigeria Professional Football league (NPFL) matchday 31 clash at the Agege Township Stadium in Lagos.

The Lagos side gave away two first half goals by top-flight leading scorer, Stephen Odey and Sikiru Olatunbosun as the visitors came back strongly in the second half to even scores at two-goal apiece through midfielder, Destiny Ashadi and forward, Obinna Eleje before Chukwuka Onuwa grabbed the winner in the 78th minute for his side.

Bashiru said a careless mistake and loss of concentration almost

Bashiru caused them the match against the hard fighting visitors, Katsina United.

“A very little mistake gave the visitors, Katsina United the opportunity to come back from two goals down to level scores before we went ahead with the winner through Chukwuka Onuwa.

“We almost suffered the same fate that befell FC IfeanyiUbah who

went two goals up only to watch as the visitors, Gombe United came back strongly to cancel the goals to end tie at two goals apiece.

“We thanked God that we were able to rally round resolutely to win the match 3-2 at the end of the day.

“The hard fought victory has put us on strong path to still challenge for the league crown, though we are three points behind leaders, Plateau United.

“We strongly believe we will earn points on the road in the remaining four away matches on the calendar to put ourselves firmly on a good footing to realise our lofty dream of becoming the champions at the end of the day.

“MFM FC will be champions and we are determined to see it becomes a reality in the on-going top-flight,” said the MFM FC strongman.

The Lagos landlords are second on the 20-team top-flight log on 52 points three behind league leaders, Plateau United.

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C Milan icon Paolo Maldini has welcomed the audacious signing of Leonardo Bonucci from Juventus and hopes the Rossoneri are now equipped to return to the Champions League.

Milan’s squad has been comprehensively overhauled in the off-season, Italy international Bonucci joined by the likes of Franck Kessie, Lucas Biglia and Andre Silva in moving to San Siro.

One of the best defenders in the history of the game, Maldini is certainly qualified to assess the merits of Milan’s marquee signing and the 49-yearold, who hung up his boots in 2009, is a fan of his Azzurri successor.

“It’s certainly difficult to find good centre-backs and Bonucci’s one of the best,” he said.

“Bonucci’s certainly an excellent buy.

“It seems a bit early for Milan to go for the Scudetto, but they’ll fight for a place in the Champions League.”

According to Maldini, the full impact of Bonucci’s departure from Juve will not be known until the end of next month and may depend on the Scudetto holders’ own recruitment activity.

“First of all, we have to say the transfer window is still open and that we have to wait until it’s closed

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Cassano quits Verona

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ntonio Cassano has left Hellas Verona but says he will not retire from football in the latest twist to his remarkable short spell at the club.

The former Real Madrid forward signed for the Serie A side on July 10 but told club officials that he would be retiring just eight days later, only to reverse that decision within a matter of hours. Cassano dismissed the incident as “a moment of weakness” after saying he had found it difficult to spend pre-season training away from his family.

The 35-year-old promised fans he would commit fully to the club for the 2017-18 season but he has now confirmed that he will leave as he no longer feels “stimulated to continue”.

“I’m not going to leave football, I simply don’t feel I can continue with Hellas Verona...”

Cassano said in a statement that was tweeted by his wife, Carolina Marcialis.

“Physically I’m really good, as I’ve shown in the last 15 days of training, but mentally I don’t feel stimulated to continue at this club!

“I thank president Maurizio Setti from my heart... the director of sport Filippo Fusco, head coach Fabio Pecchia and the squad for accepting me!”

Setti later confirmed that Cassano had struggled to settle mentally at Stadio Marc’Antonio Bentegodi.

Reports in Italy suggest Cassano could now join Genoa, having held talks with the club before moving to Verona.

Bernardeschi

before we can pass judgement on any team,” he said.

“But Juve’s strength is their group, which has been in place for several years now.”

BRIEFS

Omeruo confirms Turkey offers

Kenneth Omeruo has confirmed that he has received offers from Turkish clubs but his priority is to continue his career with an English club. It was recently reported that the Nigeria international is in talks with newly promoted Turkish Super Lig club Göztepe S.K, while Sivasspor and Yeni Malatyaspor are also interested in his services. Chelsea are preparing to bid farewell to the Super Eagles star before the close of the summer transfer window, as they are seeking an outright sale, rather than loaning him out again. The 23-year-old has spent the last five years on loan at ADO Den Haag, Middlesbrough, Kasımpașa and Alanyaspor.

iorentina winger Federico Bernardeschi has attended a medical at Juventus ahead of a proposed transfer to the Serie A champions.

Juve are expected to pay €40million for the Italy international, whose exit from Stadio Artemio Franchi had appeared likely as speculation over his future intensified. The 23-year-old pulled out of a Fiorentina training camp last week, complaining of what the club called “acute gastroenteritis”.

And La Viola’s sporting director Pantaleo Corvino confirmed earlier this month that Bernardeschi had turned down their offer of a new, improved contract.

The forward, who scored 11 goals in Serie A last season and had previously been linked with Inter, Manchester United and Chelsea, will add to coach Massimiliano Allegri’s attacking options after the loan signing of Douglas Costa from Bayern Munich.

Juve have also brought in Juan Cuadrado and Medhi Benatia on a permanent basis after successful loans, while goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny and full-back Mattia De Sciglio have arrived from Arsenal and AC Milan respectively.

Tomic unhappy over ‘shaky’ tennis career

Bernard Tomic says he has never “really tried” throughout his tennis career, adding that he has probably been operating at “around 50%”. The Australian claimed he was bored during his straight-set defeat

by Mischa Zverev at Wimbledon on July 4.

A series of lacklustre displays has seen the 24-year-old drop from 17 in the world last year to 73. Tomic has won three ATP Tour titles and has earned almost £4m in career prize money, including £35,000 for his defeat by Zverev. However, he has not won a tour title since 2015 and has struggled for form this year, winning just nine matches overall and losing in the first rounds at the French Open and Wimbledon.

Dortmund rule out Sokratis sell to Juve Borussia Dortmund sporting director Michael Zorc has ruled out selling defender Sokratis Papastathopoulos to Juventus.

The Greece international is reportedly Juve boss Massimiliano Allegri’s first choice to replace Leonardo Bonucci, who was sold to AC Milan this month. Premier League clubs including Chelsea and Manchester United have also been linked with the 29-year-old but Zorc has made it clear that Dortmund do not want to sell. Sokratis made 41 appearances in all competitions last season for the DFB-Pokal winners.

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anchester City have signed left-back Benjamin Mendy from Monaco on a five-year contract, the Premier League club said on Monday.

The 23-year-old France international is manager Pep Guardiola’s third major defensive signing in the current transfer window following his purchases of Kyle Walker from Tottenham Hotspur and Danilo from Real Madrid.

No financial details of the deal were disclosed, but British media reported that City paid 52 million pounds ($68

million).

“I am absolutely delighted to be joining Manchester City,” Mendy said on the club’s website. “They are one of Europe’s leading clubs and in Pep Guardiola they have a manager committed to playing attacking football.

“I am sure that over the next few years we will be successful.”

Mendy began his career with Le Havre, who currently play in France’s second tier. He moved to Marseille in 2013, where he made 101 appearances in three seasons and established himself as one of the best full-backs in France.

He joined Monaco on a five-year deal

last season, winning the Ligue 1 title in his sole season at the club, which also reached the Champions League semifinals.

“Benjamin has all the qualities we are looking for in a full-back,” City’s director of football Txiki Begiristain said.

“For such a young player, he has a wealth of top-level experience. He is undoubtedly one of the world’s best full-backs, our No 1 target in this position.”

Mendy will join City, who are preparing for their second pre-season tour game against Real Madrid in Los Angeles.

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Abia First Lady trains 100 care givers on neonatal resuscitation, essential newborn care

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Abia state Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu (middle); his deputy, Sir Ude Okochukwu (3rd left); Chairman of the Committee on revitalisation of moribund industries in the state, Amb. Empire Kanu (3rd right) and other members of committee after her inauguration in Umuahia, the state capital...recently

Moribund industries in Abia attracts attention of Gov. Ikpeazu Stories by Sunday Nwakanma Umuahia

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furtherance of his quest to show difference in governance, Abia State Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, last week, inaugurated a six-member State Committee on moribund industries with the aim of revitalising ailing government and private industries in the state.

The committee which is headed by a renowned industrialist and former Nigeria Ambassador to Argentina, Chief Empire Kanu, is also to interface with the private companies to match-make them with those with experienced industrialist/businessmen to revive them.

While inaugurating the committee at the Government House, Umuahia, Ikpeazu charged the

committee to reach out even beyond the shores of the state in particular and the country in general to ensure that such ailing companies are brought back to life.

“It doesn’t matter who owns the industries. Government has no interest in the companies other than that Abia Youths will work in them and by so doing, unemployment and crime will be reduced.

“All that I’m interested in is that we can begin to tackle unemployment and have the key items needed in the state”, he said, stating that the continued existence and sustenance of moribund industries in the state rests on the shoulders of the committee, while noting that some of the industries have gone down due to unavailability of raw materials and ob-

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solete technology among other reasons.

He expressed his confidence that the team can reach out to those who will bear the resuscitation of the moribund industries.

Responding on behalf of others, chairman of the committee, Chief Empire Kanu thanked the Governor for choosing them, promising that they will use their various professional experience to achieve results.

18m people require Hospic, palliative care each year, says HPCAN ÏÏÏ

Hospic and Palliative Care Association of Nigerian (HPCAN) says 18 million people require Hospic and palliative care at the end of each year in the world.

Speaking during the tenth annual meeting of Hospic and Palliative Care Association of Nigeria (HPCAN) in Umuahia, recently, Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole, who disclosed this, stated that about 18 million people die annually across the world due to this unnecessary pain and distress which has affected the health and well-being of their family members.

With the aging population and the rise in the incidence of noncommunicable disease across the world, these figures, Adewole said, are increasing while the response to

it is not keeping pace.

Represented by the Chief Medical Director of Federal Medical Centre Umuahia, Dr. Abali Chuku, the minister said that members of the association are involved in drafting the national policy for controlled medicines and its implementation strategies in collaboration with the United Nations office on drugs and crime with European Union, pointing out that palliative care experts which includes HPCAN, have been involved in drafting the National Cancer Control Policy Document (2018-2022) which is almost ready to be unveiled.

He assured that his ministry will continue in the development of palliative care services in all the key CONTINUED ON PAGE AT 2

the Abia State First lady, Deaconess Nkechi Ikpeazu, last Tuesday in Umuahia embarked on the training of more than 100 caregivers on neonatal resuscitation and essential newborn care.

This was in collaboration with Nestle Nutrition Institute, Africa, Nigerian Society for Neonatal Medicine, Abia State Ministry of Health and the First Lady’s Vicar Hope Foundation.

Speaking during the occasion, Deaconess Ikpeazu said that through her pet project, Vicar Hope Foundation (VHF), she has chosen to bring comfort and hope to vulnerable persons, having discovered that there is great pleasure in promoting activities that would make the people healthier, stable and safe.

While thanking the partners, she recalled that the Nigerian demographic health survey in 2013 showed that of every 1000 babies born in the country, about 69 die in circumstances related to absence of neonatal care.

“The figures for babies who suffer long term effects as a result of neonatal asphyxia are higher.

This puts our country among a group of countries with unsatisfactory progress towards the attainment of SDG goals.

“We must step up efforts towards the reduction of maternal, newborn and child mortality rates”, she said, describing the programme as one of the holistic approaches to reducing preventive deaths.

“We must save families from the emotional trauma they go through when their babies die or become mentally deformed due to asphyxia”, she said, and charged the trainees to ensure they take the training serious as the burden of providing crucial intervention at the point of birth rests on them.

Earlier in his opening speech, chairman of the occasion and Chief Medical Director of Abia State Teaching Hospital (ABSUTH), Aba, Prof. Chucks Kamalu, said the over 100 participants who are also trainertrainees would give impetus to programme in the state, adding that the essence of the training was to empower and equip skilled manpower who will take care of the babies at birth.

He said the collaborators had found a worthy partner in the person of Nkechi Ikpeazu “especially with her interest on the destitute in the state, stating “she is a chamCONTINUED ON PAGE AT 2

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CAN youth wing president vows to restructure body in Abia

ÏÏÏNewly elected Chairman of the

Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Youth wing, Abia State chapter, Comrade Eugene Okonta (JP), has promised to make Abia CAN youth wing envy for other states to come and emulate from his good works.

Speaking to newsmen at St. Peter’s Presbyterian Church, Aba, shortly after his election, Comrade Okonta promised to ensure that Christian youths in the state remain vibrant.

He said: “I will make sure that Christian youths in Abia State will be vibrant and I, and my executive will work hard to ensure that things move very well in Abia State. We will strive to make sure that some of the needs of CAN Youth wing, like office accommodation, evangelism bus and other structures are realised. God being on my side, it is my dream that we achieve something for CAN Youth wing.

“God knows why He wants me to be the leader of the Christian youths in the God’s own state. I see it that God has a plan for me. I am very happy that God has chosen me to do His work and I see it as a call to serve humanity and God. I am also asking God to give me the ability, inspiration and understanding to carry out this noble task to make sure that the Christian youths in Abia State will renew the face of Abia”.

On how he planned engaging the youths in order to reduce ever

increasing restiveness in the state, Okonta said: “I plan to meet with youth leaders in some of the Churches in the state, have audience with them, sit down and strategise with my executive to know the way forward. I believe if we go down on our knees in prayers, God will give us the inspiration of what we can do to curb youth restiveness in the state”.

Okonta called on politicians to assist make the CAN Youth wing vibrant by giving the body subventions, so that the body will carry out its legitimate functions and remain vibrant in the state. He also called on politicians to avoid using the youths to carry out dirty business like thuggery, snatching of ballot boxes during elections, kidnapping and other vices.

According to him, “Politicians should carry Christian youths along in their lawful activities knowing well that they have the mandate of the youths”, while advising Christian youths not to lose hope nor succumb to unlawful intimidation from politicians but remain focused and believe in God, adding, “He knows whatever happens and why it happened.

Meanwhile, the Christian Association of Nigeria, South-East zone and its chairman in Abia as well as Umuahia Diocesan Catholic Bishop, Most Rev. Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji, has congratulated Okonta on his election victory, praying God to use him to change the face of Christian Youths in Abia State.

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areas, stressing that they intend to enhance the quality of palliative care services across different care settings.

Earlier, the HPCAN President, Dr. Otene Samuel, noted that the association has grown since it came into being in 2007 with hundreds of members scattered across all the six geopolitical zones of the country, stating that with its growth, the association is now faced with a challenge which is how to coordinate its members properly.

“It is only when palliative care occupies its rightful place with re-

gards to budgetary allocations at all levels in government that we can really begin to make the impact we crave for”, he said, disclosing that they are working hard to ensure that palliative care is put on the curriculum in tertiary institutions, adding that the process may seem slow, “but we have to keep our eyes on the target goal”.

The HPCAN boss expressed the association’s readiness to partner Federal Ministry of Health to champion its agenda towards palliative care in the country and urged the ministry to see them as partners in progress in the noble cause.

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pion of the defenceless and urged her “not to be weary in doing good”.

Also speaking, Chairman of the Organising Committee and personal physician to the wife of the governor, Dr. Suzzy Nwachukwu, harped on the importance of the training for a healthy child, especially in the rural areas and urged the participants to take the training serious.

According to Nestle Nutrition Institute, Africa, represented by its Manager, Anglophone countries and Coordinator, Sub-Saharan African Region, Mrs. Chioma Emma-

Nwachukwu, its collaboration was in line with the mission and vision of the organisation to ensure that people in the state live longer.

Nestle, she said, saw a lot of passion in the first lady over health, hence the decision to assist her with the resources available, while the Nigerian Society for Neonatal Medicine representative and Course Director, Dr. Obumneme Ezeanosike, who gave a vivid account of the situation of newborn in the country, stated that 200 newborn that die every day was not because the country does not have the capacity.

WASCE: Ikpeazu excited, congratulates Abia students

ÏVows to prioritise teachers’ welfare Stories by Sunday Nwakanma Umuahia

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by the first position clinched by Abia State in the just released West African School Certificate Examinations (WASCE), Abia State Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, has congratulated students of the state who wrote the 2017 West African School Certificate Examination (WASCE) for

emerging as the overall best performers in the examination.

The Governor, had in Umuahia, applauded the students and their teachers for a job well done and vowed to prioritise the welfare of teachers within the state’s school system.

He also called on the newly inaugurated state scholarship board to ensure that the best performing student from each

of the 17 local government areas is given tertiary education scholarship to study in any school in Nigeria.

Governor Ikpeazu assured that his administration will continue to work hard to ensure that the state maintains its prime position in education in Nigeria and re-stated his commitment to construct new model schools that are equipped with modern learning tools and resources across the state before the end of the year.

Abia State Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, presenting keys to cars procured for judges in Abia State to the State Chief Judge, Justice Theresa Uzokwe, in Umuahia, recently, as other judges (behind); Deputy Governor, Sir Udeh Okochukwu (1st left) and Chief Emmna Nwabuko, Principal Secretary to the Governor watches with admiration.

…seeks peace in Abia ÏÏÏAhead of 2019 general election

in Abia State, the state Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, has set up a seven man Reconciliation Committee headed by Architect Benson Ezem with a task to reconcile all Abians.

The committee has since been inaugurated.

Inaugurating the committee in Government House, Umuahia, Governor Ikpeazu charged members of the committee to reconcile all opinions and individuals in the state, stressing that everyone has a contribution to make in the development

of the state.

The Governor said it is as a result his desire to carry everybody along and make sure everybody is given the platform of contributing to the governance of the state that the committee was set up.

The team, he said, was carefully chosen based on the character of the members of the team and maintained that the assignment would be taken to all the 17 local government areas in the state.

Ikpeazu assured that the government would assist the committee to

discharge its duties and hoped the members would perform.

Responding, Chairman of the committee, Architect Benson Ezem, promised that the committee would be committed to the assignment.

He thanked the Governor for giving them the opportunity to serve in the reconciliation committee.

The members include Igwe Nonso Ogbunamiri; Gladys Nwamuo; J.C Mbonu; Joseph Ogwo; Navy Captain Chris Osondu (rtd.) and Chinedum Elechi, who would serve as the secretary.

MSMEDS retreat debuts in Abia as Ikpeazu sues for talent dev’t, descent living ÏÏÏGovernor

Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has charged Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Scheme in the state to aim at the sky so as to achieve the needed economic empowerment.

Speaking at Women’s Development Centre, Umuahia, the state capital, while declaring open the maiden retreat of the Abia State Technical Board for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Scheme, Ikpeazu said the essence of promoting and championing Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises was to encourage Abians to develop their talents and earn

living through it.

According to him, he looked at how the artisans were working with bare-hands and decided to introduce to them modern shoe-making and fabrication.

He congratulated them on their graduation from training and assured that government would continue to support them.

Also speaking, Chairman of Abia State Technical Board for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Scheme, Chief Theo Nkire, thanked the Governor for championing the made-in Aba products and making Abia the hub of

MSMEs in Nigeria.

He said the Governor had earlier provided N100 million take-off grants for the graduands and noted that over one thousand participants have graduated from the entrepreneurial training.

The Chairman of the occasion and Vice Chancellor, Abia State University (ABSU), Prof. Uche Ikonne, represented by Prof. C. O Emerole and the representative of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Osha Elisha, thanked Abia State Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, for his interest in developing and empowering young men and women in the state.

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Igbo politicians calling for restructuring are cowards–MASS OB- BIM ÏÏÏThe

Abia State Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu (left) with others when he was honoured by Ndi Ngwa at the National Theatre Iganmu, Lagos...on Sunday

N5.7b second Paris Club tranche inadequate, says ABSG Stories by Sunday Nwakanma Umuahia

ÏÏÏAbia State government says it

received the sum of N5.7 bilion only as its share of the 2nd tranche of the Paris Club refund from the Federal Government.

However, the government said the amount is not enough to solve its problems especially over salary debts.

The state government however noted that it was expecting over N12 billions as its share of the refund.

The Commissioner for Finance, Obinna Oriaku, who disclosed this

while briefing newsmen on the outcome of the meeting of leadership of the organised labour with the Governor, said this development has put the state in a difficult situation especially when the Governor had earlier promised to clear arrears of salaries and pensions owed Abia workers by the end of this month.

According to him, Abia State was expecting between N12 to N14 billion and regretted that the N5.7 billion cannot take care of all the outstanding debts owed workers.

He, however, assured that the state is still committed to clearing the outstanding arrears of salaries and pensions owed Abia workers

whether bailout or not.

According to Oriaku, in the present circumstance, those parastatals owed more months will be given more attention as MDAs are owed only one month, adding that the highest state received about N6 billion.

Also, the state chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Uchenna Obigwe, said the development is worrisome as there is a lot of indebtedness not caused by the present government.

He said that they will brainstorm to ensure that workers’ salaries and pensions are addressed.

Physically challenged thank Ikpeazu over past appointments, gifts ÏÏÏJust as the Abia State Gover-

nor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, is set to reconstitute his cabinet, the physically challenged persons in the state have thanked him for appointing some of their members in his last set of aides.

However, they have requested that more of such appointments and gestures be extended to them.

Coming under the aegis of Okezuo Abia Disabled Friends, and led by an immediate past Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Disability, Mr. Chinedum Henry, as well as Mr. James, the group said they came to thank the Governor for all he has been doing for them and appreciated the Governor for giving them sense of belonging.

They also appreciated the Governor for giving them wheel-chairs, scholarships, and other gift items during his ‘thank you visit’ to local government areas in the state as well as houses built for them by the Governor’s wife and the opportunity to be part of his Education for Employment initiative.

Addressing them later, the state Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, directed them to submit to him, spe-

cific areas of their needs to enable his government know what could be done for them.

According to Governor Ikpeazu, his government may not solve all their problems but would ensure that the problems are reduced, describing it as their right to be treated well.

Governor Ikpeazu disclosed the intention of his administration to accommodate the physically challenged in future building plans in the state.

He also encouraged them to rely on God in everything they do and not to allow people to pity them as God is capable of taking care of them.

Group empowers 81 Ibeku youths ÏÏÏThe Ibeku Egwu Asaa Develop-

ment Association under Emeka Enyiazu last week empowered 81 Ibeku youths under its Apprenticeship Empowerment Programme.

Speaking at the ceremony held at Ibeku Civic Centre, Ishieke, Enyiazu said the beneficiaries were drawn from the 48 villages in Ibeku land as recommended by their village youth leader, woman leader, village chairman and as approved by the programme committee.

He disclosed that the occasion was made possible by Governor Okezie Ikpeazu following their visit to him on March 9, this year.

He assured that the programme

will be a continuous exercise, pointing out that he expects good result from the beneficiaries.

Declaring open the programme, the chairman and Abia State chairman of the PDP, Sir Johnson Okebaram Onuigbo, described the programme as first of its kind in Ibeku and thanked Governor Ikpeazu for making the programme possible.

Also speaking, the immediate past Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in the state, Chief Charles Ogbonna, said the amount involved is small but is intended to try the beneficiaries, expressing hope that they would empower themselves with the money.

Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra- Biafra Independence Movement (MASSOB-BIM) says it is not in support of the call for restructuring of the country as being put forward by politicians from the South East geopolitical zone, describing the call as an act of cowardice.

According to a statement endorsed by Anselam Ogbonna, zonal Information Director, Abia Central zone of the group, these set of politicians forget to seek the minds of people who they represent before making such utterances.

The statement which was made available to newsmen in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, reads in part: “Are they calling for restructuring while the people they are owing salaries are aggrieved over their nonchalant attitude towards the electorate who, given the opportunity, will stone them to death.

“Instead of them to have the pertinent feeling on how to address the problems of the masses, rather they are busy clamouring for restructuring because of their selfish interests”.

The group had insisted that these people do not really know what they want, stating that such people are on their own, even as it recalled that

it was the same call made by the late Biafra leader, Chief Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, in 1966 which the then Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, refused to heed to at that time.

The group was not happy that even with Boko Haram sect fighting for 19 states out of the 36 states of the country; OPC and Afenifere in the West agitating for Oduduwa republic; Niger Delta militants from South-South calling for resource control and MASSOB -BIM in the South East calling for Biafra, the politicians are busy campaigning for restructuring of the country.

They alleged that the same politicians had earlier attempted to hijack the Biafra struggle without success, hence the turn around to back the restructuring agitation.

The group therefore asked them to stop deceiving themselves and others.

“They should stop suffering people since they don’t have any good agenda for the masses. What we are talking about is a total Biafra freedom from Nigeria and there is no going back on it.

“They should go and restructure their bedrooms and stop deceiving the people”, the group further warned.

Apostle Suleman’s visit to Abia will heal wounds, move state forward –Cleric

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the General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministries, Apostle Johnson Suleman, get set to storm Umuahia, this week, the Vice Chancellor, Dominion University of Theology (DOMUTH) Nigeria, Umuahia campus, Apostle Kachi Daniels, has said that the apostolic visit will be a great blessing to the Abia State government and entire Abians, especially Umuahia, the seat of government.

This is because, according to him, “Abia is backward. Abia is small but a lot of horrible things are happening. The coming of my father (Apostle Suleman) will unveil, heal many wounds and set Abia forward.

He is coming to change the state entirely”.

Speaking on the scheduled visit, Apostle Daniels said: “Ministers will have their way, there will be breakthrough, and there will be speed in the ministry. In Umuahia precisely, ninety percent of Ministers believe that if your hand is not into something, you can’t make it in the ministry. But that is lie, my father does not use anything, he doesn’t apply anything, only prayers. As he comes, I know that the same breakthrough, the same grace and favour that follow his life will follow us automatically”.

He said that all prophets with Omega Fire Ministries will hold a rally with the theme, “Help From Above”, adding, “We are expecting a lot to happen during the crusade,

like the Bible said that Jesus Christ was going about doing good and healing those that were sick and oppressed. That is exactly what my father is coming with the help of Jesus Christ in his life. Again, look at what the Bible says in Luke that Jesus was teaching and was doing good. This has being the life of my father. He will teach and he will do.

“What do I mean that he will do?

My father is not coming to share your money. I am not telling you that, but if need be that there is somebody who God is telling him that he must help, he wouldn’t mind, he will do it immediately.

“I will quote him, he said, prosperity is not having everything in this world, prosperity is affecting somebody’s life and who you have affected with what God has given to you. That is when you can say that you are successful”.

On the expectations of Abians during the crusade, the DOMUTH VC said: “We are expecting a lot, healing will come, deliverance and salvation will come. There is going to be a change. There is going to be movement and there will be all sorts of miracles. I know what God can do”.

He seized the opportunity to call on Abians and various churches to attend the crusade, adding: “There is nothing like ‘Omega Fire Ministries doing crusade or not Omega doing’. We are one that is born again in the Lord Jesus. There is no church in heaven.

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Decentralise power to curb agitation, royal father tells FG ÏÏÏThe Federal Government has

been asked to encourage and implement the decentralisation of power from the centre to curb agitations from different zones of the country.

A royal father, Eze John Onyebuchi Ibezim, the Ugwu 1 of Amuzukwu Ibeku, in Umuahia North Local Government Area, handed down this advice to the government in his palace recently, He urged that the 2014 National Conference report should be looked into and the recommendations thoroughly implemented, pointing out that in Nigeria, power is so much centralised that the President has overwhelming power.

Secession, he said, may not solve the problem of agitations in the country but said that there should be resource control through confederation in the country.

He stated that the Federal Government should not dabble into everything in the country, maintaining that under confederation, the police and other armed forces should remain under the control of the Federal Government as if allowed to be controlled by the confederating units, power would be abused.

“With decentralisation, there will be no need for secession as all states will depend on each other. Let there be competition amongst the states.

“Take for instance, why should things be shared by the number of local government areas in a state?

This is cheating when putting into

consideration that such state like Bayelsa that produce the oil has only eight LGAs when compared with Kano with about 44 LGAs and which relies on the oil produced from Bayelsa.

“Power should be decentralised as in the US, a state can challenge the decision of the central government and even drag it to court to get things corrected,” he said.

The Federal Government, the monarch said, should not be in Abuja and take over our responsibilities and none is working, like the roads and other infrastructure in the states.

State autonomy, he said, will “let us know how the states are performing so that states will know where our development is based.

“Federal Government roads in some states are smooth while they are not in other states and some left behind”.

He said that asking Ndigbo to go is not where the trouble of the country lies, but said “the cause of the trouble must be addressed”.

Nigerian politicians, the royal father also pointed out “have no agenda, no principle and no faith in the political party that has its own agenda” and where politicians learn the modus operandi is where there is agenda to better the country.

“Here in Nigeria, the objective of politicians is what they will get or do not have plans but what they will get long afterwards.

ABSG, FADAMA III to reactivate 22-yr-old Igu Dam

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Abia State Government through the state FADAMA III Coordination Office is planning to reactivate the popular Igu Dam for an all-the-year rice production on the Bende rice belt.

The FADAMA III State Programme Coordinator (SPC), Dr. Ezinne Otuka, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday.

Otuka said that the Igu Dam situated in Bende Local Government Area of Abia State was a World Bank project completed and handed over to the old Imo State in 1979.

Otuka, however, said that it was sad that the project which was to encourage rice production in the country had been moribund for over 22 years.

She said that the dam when functional could irrigate over 4,300 hectares of rice field all through the year.

Otuka said that with over 20,000

hectares of rice field across Bende Local Government Area, “we want to make a statement that Abia can produce enough rice to feed its people and beyond.

“We have well over 20,000 hectares of land in the rice belt of Bende Local Government Area of the state.

“We also have the Igu Dam which was a World Bank project to encourage rice production in the old Eastern State that we are trying to reactivate through the FADAMA III office,” she said.

She said that the state government had already contacted the World Bank for work to start at the site and the financial institution did not object.

Otuka commended the state governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, for its interest and assistance in ensuring that the state participated in the FADAMA III Additional Financing project.

She said that the state government under the current administration had brought back life to FADAMA activities through the payment of

counterpart funds.

“It is because of the interest Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has in agriculture that we are talking about FADAMA III Additional Financing in the state.

“We are indebted to him for making things right and reactivating the production cluster of the state,” she said.

She said that the state was piloting two crops: rice and cassava, under the project.

“Today, FADAMA is promoting and trying to cultivate over 7,000 hectares of rice in the state to ensure we produce Made-in -Abia rice before the end of the year.

“Once we have been able to make the production of rice available, even the farmers will know that they are in business,” she said.

Otuka said that the state government through the FADAMA III office had installed rice de-stoners in Atani Abam and Ofeme in Arochukwu and Umuahia North Local Government Areas of the state, respectively.

Season of corn harvest provides respite to hunger in Abia ÏÏÏ

The aggressive campaign embarked upon by the Federal as well as Abia State governments on agriculture has achieved a positive result in maize production in the Abia State.

This was as a result of the aggressive campaigns by the government as well as the economic realities on ground, hence non-farmers like lawyers and politicians also joined in commercial farming activities in the state.

As a result, markets have been flooded with the farmers’ yield, making wholesale price of a bag of maize to be between N800 and N1, 200 in most markets visited, against N1, 300 and N1, 700 it sold in the year 2016, while the quality of the seeds are also of improved variety and better than the one of previous year.

A trip within and around major community markets and the streets of Umuahia, Aba and Ohafia in the state indicates that this year’s harvest of the commodity has provided hope for food sufficiency for households in the state and the promise of dependency on locally-sourced food items for the country.

At Orie Ntigha, Orie Amaorji, Nkwo Ngwa, Orie Ugba and Isi Gate markets in Isiala Ngwa North, South, Umuahia North Local Government areas respectively, investigations revealed that the commodity kept arriving the markets from different localities with buyers be-

ing provided the option of choosing the best-sized ones.

Not only that, the prices were also most affordable because those who come to sell applied the best strategy to capture buyers, and fend off competition from other sellers.

Investigations also revealed that Isiala Ngwa North Local Government Area topped the chart of the areas where farmers recorded good maize yield, followed by Ukwa West and Umuahia North LGAs, followed closely by Ohafia and Isiala Ngwa South LGAs. The situation, according to an Economist, Chief Greg Idika, has contributed to a slight drop in prices of some other fruits and staple foods in the state.

“Many consumers shifted attention to corns, away from other fruits, leading to the drop in prices of other food items. It also helped the masses to have alternative to mainstream foods like rice, beans, yam and others”, Chief Idika said in Umuahia.

The contributing aspect of the development is that people from other ‘respected’ ‘professions like Law, Engineering, Accounting and Politicians also invested heavily in agriculture, especially maize production this year in the state, while many landlords utilised every empty space around their buildings to plant corn, while those with undeveloped plots of land used them for massive planting of maize and other plants.

Participants at Shoes Pavilion at the Made-in-Aba exhibition in Abuja ...recently

Abia to establish Export Processing Zone –Ikpeazu ÏÏÏ Abia State Governor, Dr. Okezie

Ikpeazu, on Sunday, said plans had been concluded for the establishment of an Export Processing Zone (EPZ) in the state.

He said that the facility would be located in the 9,000 hectares of land designated as Enyimba Industrial City.

Ikpeazu made the disclosure at the National Theatre, Iganmu, Lagos, during a reception organised in his honour by Ukwa-Ngwa indigenes in Lagos.

He said that his administration had embarked on the construction of 115 roads, out of which 51 had been

completed.

He said that some local government areas in the state where roads had never been tarred “now have tarred roads”.

“We are using grade `A’ contractors in all the construction works, and the first flyover in the state is being constructed in Aba. “Cement pavement technology is what we are using to construct drainages to ensure long-lasting roads,” the governor added.

Earlier, the President of Ngwa Social Club, Mr. Sam Onukwue, had urged the governor to complete the various road projects in the state.

“Within a year of your assumption of, you are building enduring legacies.

“We implore you governor to complete the various infrastructural development going on in the state.

“We appreciate that you are constructing and rehabilitating roads in Aba town which were neglected by the previous administration under the guise that they are federal roads,” Onukwue said.

In his speech, Prof. Ikechi Mgbeoji of the Department of Finance, University of Lagos, complained that Ukwa-Ngwa had continued to be marginalised in political positions in the state.

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NDDC to spend N2billion on Niger Delta Schools from 2017 budget Amaka Agbu, Port Harcourt The Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Mr Nsima Ekere, has announced that the commission would spend N2billion for the renovation of schools in the Niger Delta region as provided for in its 2017 budget.

The NDDC boss revealed this in Port Harcourt, weekend, when members of the executive of the Regina Coeli College, Essene, Old Boys Association, paid him a courtesy visit at the Commission’s headquarters.

Mr. Ekere assured the Old Boys Association that their alma mater would benefit from the renovation exercise. He regretted that the school which used to be a center of excellence in education was now saddled with dilapidated infrastructure.

Unfortunately, he said, that was the lot of many schools in the Niger Delta region.

He stated: “This is what has made NDDC to be intervening actively in the renovation of schools. This year we have made a provision of N2billion for the renovations of schools in the region. We have an extra N1billion for schools in Akwa ibom State and some of this will definitely be extended to Regina Coeli College.”

The NDDC boss noted that education was the key to the development of the society, adding that it was also the tool that could be used to fight insecurity.

“If you educate the minds of the people, and educate the minds of the youths, they will know that violence is not an option. They will concentrate and channel their energies and resources towards sustainable livelihoods rather than engage in violence and criminality,” he said.

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IMF predicts Nigeria’s faster growth over S’Africa in 2018 Ganiyu Obaaro, with Agency report

. Nigeria, 1. 9%, South Africa, 1.2 %

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) projects that Nigeria’s economy will grow at a faster pace than the South Africa’s in the 2018 fiscal year.

According to its World Economic Outlook (WEO) for July, 2017, the IMF said Nigeria will grow at 1.9 per cent in 2018, while South

Africa will only climb by 1.2 percent.

In 2016, the Nigerian economy contracted by 1.6 percent, while South Africa expanded by 0.3 percent. Projections for 2017 put South Africa’s growth at 1 percent, while Nigeria is expected to

muster just 0.8 percent.

The Bretton Woods institution - which held global growth projections at 3.5 per cent in 2017 and 3.6 per cent in 2018 - said growth was marked down in South Africa, due to elevated political uncertainty.

“In Sub-Saharan Africa, the

outlook remains challenging.

Growth is projected to rise in 2017 and 2018, but will barely return to positive territory in per capita terms this year for the region as a whole-and would remain negative for about a third of the countries in the region,” the IMF said CONTINUED ON PAGE B2

GE partners Lagos govt on wealth creation, employment Azubike Nnadozie, with Agency report

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MPC ‘ill keep rates at current levels, say analysts ÏMƆ ƐƈƒƆ 1#^ Ə ƐƆè ƋƋ ƍƈ ƈ ƇƋ Ɛƈ Ɛ ƍ ƗƆƅƈ ƈ Motolani Oseni Financial analysts have predicted that Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the apex bank will keep rate at current levels.

They say this against the backdrop of high inflation rate currently at 16.1 per cent in June, coupled with the continuous effort by the Central Bank if Nigeria (CBN) in mopping up liquidity from the system through incessant sales of Treasury bills and other market securities, As the MPC ends its two days’ meeting on Tuesday, July 25, to

decide on the issues affecting the economy, including negative GDP growth rate, foreign exchange market stability and galloping inflation.

The committee would, also, determine whether or not to change the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR), the benchmark interest rate, which was maintained for the sixth consecutive period at 14 per cent, and the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR), which was sustained at 22.5 per cent.

Also, to decide whether or not to tinker with the liquidity ratio, this was left unchanged at 30 per cent at its last meeting.

In view of this, Economists and financial analysts opined that there is high likelihood that the committee may not tamper with any of the economy indices.

Speaking in an exclusive telephone chat with our correspondent, the Managing Director/ CEO, Cowry Asset Management Limited, Mr. Johnson Chukwu, explained that due to the high inflation rate at 16.1 per cent, the committee may not be able to make any changes in the economic indices.

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GE, the world’s Digital Industrial Company, has announced a skill development partnership programme involving its GE Lagos Garage, the Lagos State Ministry of Wealth Creation and Employment and the Lagos State Technical and Vocational Education Board (LASTVEB), aimed at developing the skills of students in the State in advanced manufacturing.

The GE Garage Advanced Manufacturing programme will involve 20 final year students and five instructors from the five Government Technical Colleges in the State taking part in an intensive one-week training that will hone their skills in advanced manufacturing.

The selected technical colleges, spread across the state and under the supervision of the Lagos State Technical and Vocational Education Board are located in Ikotun, Ikorodu, Agidingbi, AdoSoba and Epe. The programme takes place at the LASTVEB HQ School Complex, Ikeja GRA. The programme will commence on Monday July 24 and end on Friday July 28.

During the programme, the students will be exposed to cutting-edge technology, experiencing GE’s Digital Industrial leadership in shaping modern manufacturing. They will also learn how such readily available technology can help their future businesses.

To facilitate this, GE has set up a temporary scaled version of its Garage at the venue. This comprises select equipment like 3D printers, CNC mills, among other equipment.

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FG priortises infrastructures at Seaports Babajide Okeowo The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, has expressed the readiness of the Federal Government to explore the potential of the nation’s maritime resources to improve infrastructure at the seaports.

Amaechi made this declaration in a keynote address sent to the celebration of “African Day of Seas and Oceans’’, in Lagos, on Monday.

The Minister of Transportation, who was represented by Director, Special Duties, in the ministry, Mr. Aminu Dutse, said that inland dry

ports were being developed across the country to ease movement of cargo from the seaports.

He said, “This is in line with our diversification programme aimed at repositioning the nation`s economy and reducing the dependency of foreign patronage, thereby retaining our capital flight.The Ministry of Transportation has embarked on massive railway infrastructural development and upgrading.”

He said,“The motive is to bridge the gap between hinterlands and the oceans to link all the states of the federation to the international trade logistics chain through the seaports.It is only this way that

prosperity through trade can reach all our people.”

The Chairman, Governing Board of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Retired Maj. - Gen. India Garba, said the viability and sustainability of the oceans should be of importance to every person.

Garuba said, “We need to appreciate the fact that our seas and oceans harbour natural resources, which if properly harnessed and used responsibly can exponentially increase Africa’s economic prosperity, provide youth employment and fuel growth in other sectors of the continental economy.’’

He called for collective efforts and cooperation by the stakeholders to tackle the menace of sea piracy and other forms of economic sabotage which occurred within the maritime domain.

The Director-General of NIMASA, Dr Dakuku Peterside, said decade of Africa’s Seas and Oceans declared by the African Union (AU) from 2015-2025 should be perceived as a shift in perspective that recognizes the fact that our oceans and seas are economic infrastructure, necessitating the need for stakeholders in the sector to work together to realize the opportunities embedded in the sector.

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Agric, electricity will create jobs in Africa - Elumelu Chairman of Heirs Holdings and Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, Tony O. Elumelu, h as called on African leaders and development institutions to help address the deepening job and employment crisis bedevilling the continent by lending support and paying more attention towards the agricultural sector, creating access to electricity and developing entrepreneurship.

Elumelu, who said this while speaking on the theme ‘How do we create 10 million jobs by 2020?’ at the Youth Connekt Africa Summit in Rwanda at the weekend, opined that access to electricity and increased focus in the agricultural

sector would enhance entrepreneurship and tackle the challenge of unemployment through the creation of more jobs in the continent.

Elumelu, a passionate advocate of entrepreneurship and Africapitalism, also upheld the notion that the private sector has the responsibility to play the lead role in contributing to job creation in Africa, and cited the example of the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) and its various investments in these key areas, adding that this is visible from the $100million commitment towards supporting African entrepreneurs over the years.

He said: “Today we have busi-

nesses in 20 African countries and employ 30,000 people directly and 50,000 people indirectly. Agriculture, access to electricity and entrepreneurship have the potential to create more jobs in Africa”.

The TEF boss stated that Africa can be self-reliant and self-dependent if the right infrastructure and government support are put in place to boost these sectors. In this regard, he commended the effort of President Paul Kagame for his brilliant initiatives in the areas of entrepreneurship and attracting key investments to the African continent.

The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akin-

wumi Adesina, who supported Elumelu’s stance, acknowledged that agriculture can create jobs for the teeming African population if youths approached the sector, not just as a way of life, but as a business.

He seized the opportunity to commend Elumelu for his work in entrepreneurship and pledged to support the work of the TEF in the creation of jobs. “I applaud Tony Elumelu’s work in entrepreneurship, because entrepreneurship is key. We will help to scale up what Tony Elumelu is doing. If others are doing same, we will succeed in Africa”.

EDF needs N5bn to promote exports The Export Development Fund (EDF) scheme needs about N5 billion to promote exportation of goods.

Executive Director of the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), Mr Olusegun Awolowo, disclosed this while addressing newsmen shortly after visiting some industries in Kano on Monday.

“The council has put a request of N5 billion to the Federal Government for this year, which will be used to provide free shipment incentives to exporters.

“The Export Expansion Grant was suspended three years ago and now the Federal Government wants to encourage exportation through EDF

by giving exporters free incentives,” he said.

Awolowo said he was in Kano to see for himself the exporters’ level of commitment for exportation of goods.

He assured exporters that the Federal Government was committed to boosting exportation of goods.

“Exporters are contributing

heavily in the nation’s economy, hence the decision by the government to support them to ensure economic growth and development in the country.

The Managing Director of Mamuda Industries, Mr Hassan Mammoud, noted that export was the engine of a nation’s economy and urged government not joke with it.

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the inflation rate target is about 11 per cent, which may not allow them to adopt an accommodating monetary policy.

According to him, the CBN has been busy mopping up liquidity from the market system through the sales of Treasury bills and sometime through other securities. So, the MPC may not be able to conflict the actions of the CBN by injecting liquidity through an accommodating monetary policy.

“I think on that basis, they will want to maintain the rates at the current level. And they cannot afford to tighten further, because the economy has not exited the recession looking at the first quarter (Q1) Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate of -0.5 per cent.

Although, the second quarter GDP report has not been published, one should not expect that the economy will be on the growth rate by the second quarter.”

He stressed that the MPC cannot tighten further, because the liquidity is already quit tight, while operating with the CRR at 22.5 per cent, MPR at 14 per cent liquidity ratio of 30 per cent, which represent a restrictive monetary policy environment.

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via WEO. “The slight upward revision to 2017 growth relative to the April 2017 WEO forecast reflects a modest upgrading of growth prospects for South Africa, which is experiencing a bumper crop due to better rainfall and an increase in mining output prompted by a moderate rebound in commodity prices.’

It adds,“However, the outlook for South Africa remains difficult, with elevated political uncertainty and weak consumer and business confidence, and the country’s growth forecast was consequently marked down for 2018.”

IMF also said that global growth will be aided by growths in the US and the UK, who are projected to grow at 2.1 per cent and 1.5 per cent respectively.

According to the Fund,“China’s growth projections have also been revised up (6.7%), reflecting a strong first quarter of 2017 and expectations of continued fiscal support. Inflation in advanced economies remains subdued and generally below targets; it has also been declining in several emerging economies, such as Brazil, India, and Russia.”

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Sterling Bank rewards customers in promo Not less than 29 millionaires have emerged in the on-going Sterling Savers Reward Scheme launched in March to reward loyal Sterling Bank customers and encourage a savings culture among Nigerians.

At the first draw held in Lagos at the weekend, 29 individual customers with a monthly balance of N25,000 in their savings accounts won N1 million each. Similarly, 40 customers with a weekly balance of N10,000 in their accounts won N50,000 each, while four non-individual customers with Sterling Plus accounts won N250,000 each.

The lucky winners were selected via an electronic raffle draw system. They were from various parts of the country. The draw was witnessed by officials of the Consumer Protection Council (CPC), Lagos State Lotteries Board (LSLB), National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC) and Akintola Williams Deloitte.

Explaining the Savers Reward Scheme, Chief Marketing Officer, Sterling Bank, Mr. Henry Bassey said that customers with a minimum of 25,000 automatically qualify for the monthly N1 million draws with one ticket.

He disclosed that the total number of tickets were 1,509,383, while the number of qualified accounts were 11,305. He added that the total number of tickets in the weekly draw with a cut-off date of June 30, 2017 were 4,126,681 while the number of qualified accounts were 180,946.

Speaking on Sterling Plus account, Bassey said it is a hybrid offering with the combined features of a savings and current account.

He said,“Sterling Plus Account offer customers exciting benefits that include a free debit card, free cheque book, free SMS and access to cash rewards amongst other value added benefits. The product, which could be accessed at any Sterling Bank branch with an opening and minimum balance of N5,000 is the perfect solution for individuals interested in enjoying the benefits of both current and savings account offerings, without the associated cost of running a current account.”

He said that Sterling Plus was developed after an extensive market research to address the needs of the existing and potential customers, adding that it would also encourage saving’ culture in Nigeria.

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Naira drops against Pound as MPC decides on economy today

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The Nigerian currency, Naira, on Monday, dropped to 474 to a Pound sterling against 470 traded over the weekend at the parallel market.

This is just as the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is set to end its two days’ meeting today, Tuesday, July 25, to decide on the issues affecting the economy, such as the negative Gross Domestic Product’s, GDP’s, growth rate, foreign exchange market stability, among many others.

The naira, also, closed at 367 per US Dollar, dropping a point compared to 366 exchanged during the weekend but remained unchanged at 420 to the Euro at the parallel market.

At the official segment of the

foreign exchange market, the local currency remained steady at 305.80, the same rate it traded on Friday and the previous day.

The Naira, at the Investors and Exporters FX window, opened at a depreciated rate of 365.96, against 365.43 opened to a dollar on the last trading day of last week, but closed at 366.37, the same rate it exchanged on Friday, indicating 0.08 per cent improvement when compared to last Thursday.

The Nigeria Autonomous Foreign Exchange Market (NAFEX) window, otherwise known as the Investors and Exporters FX window, recorded a daily turnover of $66 million as at close business on Monday, data obtained from FMDQ website has revealed.

Although experts had predicted that the Monetary Committee might hold interest rate at 14 per cent and Cash Reserve Ratio at

22.5 per cent, they, however, said that the weekly invention of CBN will aid the nation’s economy in exiting the current recession, as the manufacturing and non-manufacturing activities continued to increase.

The CBN, in a notice to commercial banks, announced plans to sell foreign exchange to manufacturers, airlines, fuel importers, and agriculture businesses at a special auction to clear backlog of foreign exchange obligations this week.

Researchers at Cordros capital said, “the impact on the Naira will be largely reflected across segments of the foreign exchange market. Thus, we expect the Naira to appreciate further against the Dollar in the week, while remaining stable against the Pound and Euro.”

Meanwhile, considering high inflation rate currently at 16.1 per

cent in June, coupled with the continuous effort by the apex bank in mopping up liquidity from the system through incessant sales of Treasury bills and other market securities, financial analysts, have said that Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the apex bank will keep rate at current levels.

Despite the calls from various financial experts and stakeholders, including Manufacturers’ Association of Nigeria (MAN); and organized private sector, that the MPC should review its MPR from the current 14 per cent to 12 per cent, in order to enhance economic recovery, but the MPC at the end of its two days’ bi-monthly meeting, left all indices unchanged.

The committee, at the end of its last meetings, left MPR at 14 per cent, Cash Reserves Ratio at 22.5 per cent and Liquidity ratio at 30 per cent.

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POS transactions hit N610.11bn in six months The value of transactions through Point of Sales (PoS) channels across the country increased significantly by 97.8 per cent to N610.11 billion between January and June, 2017, compared with the N308.46b recorded in the corresponding period of 2016, data gathered from the Nigeria Interbank Settlement System Plc (NIBSS) revealed.

The data showed that with N111.6b, May 2017 recorded the highest value of transactions with N90.20b, the lowest in the year under review.

NIBSS had reported N91.99b in January and it dropped to N90.29b in February.

Report by NIBSS disclosed

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further that value on PoS transactions increased to N104.48b in March and N104.8b, N111.63b in April and May of 2017.

The value of transactions through PoS channels across the country increased significantly by 69.2 per cent to N758.99b between January and December, 2016, compared with the N448.5b recorded in the corresponding period of 2015, data gathered from the NIBSS revealed.

The apex bank had introduced the cash-less policy with a view to significantly reduce the volume of cash-based transactions, and PoS was one of the tools to achieve this objective.

The policy was introduced for

a number of key reasons, including driving development and modernisation of the payment system in line with Nigeria’s Vision 2020 goal of being amongst the top 20 economies by the year 2020.

The target for Nigeria, according to the CBN, is to meet Brazil’s PoS deployment rate of 2,247 per 100,000 people by 2020.

The initiative would lead to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contributions and job creation with a ripple effect on the economy while boosting national pride and reducing exposure of national security in the area of espionage.

As part of efforts to encourage

Nigerians to widely make use of electronic payment systems, the CBN had introduced an awareness campaign for electronic payment users.

A report stated that Nigeria occupies seventh position among African countries where the use of PoS form part of transactions.

According to a report by Indexmundi only 21 per cent of total transactions in the country are done through the PoS device.

South Africa leads with 91 per cent, followed by Ghana, 80 per cent, while Tunisia is third with 79 per cent. Other countries ahead of Nigeria are, Egypt, Morocco and Kenya.

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Investors react to Transcorp’s N4.2bn HY profit as stock lead Afolabi Adesola Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc recorded the highest growth of 8.05 per cent on the Nigerian Stock Exchange market on Monday on account of aN4.2billion profit declared for the first six months of 2017, as against a loss of 12.2 billion recorded in the corresponding period of the prior year.

The Stock consequently gained 12 kobo and closed the day at N1.61 per share.

Also in anticipation of an impressive half year result, Dangote Cement and Julius Berger rose five per cent and 4.96 per cent respectively to close at

N222.60 and N36 per share.

These stocks alongside 17 other gainers led the market to a robust gain of N218b or 1.86 per cent, as market capitalization closed the day at N11.943 trillion from its opening figure of N11.725 tr.

Lead market indicator- The All-Share Index remained upbeat with an appreciation of 632.15points or 1.86 percent to close at 34,652.52points against 34,020.27 achieved last Friday, extending rally to the 13th consecutive session.

The day ended with 20 losers also. They were led

by AIICO Insurance, which dropped 5 per cent to close at 57 kobo per share, while

Morison Industries and Vitafoam followed with a loss of 4.85 per cent each to close at N1.57 and N2.55 per share.

The volume of shares traded in 3,712 deals, howeve,r depreciated by 22 per cent, as investors moved 293.8 million shares as against 378.2 million shares traded in previous session. Total value also dropped to N3.9 billion compared to N5.11 billion staked in 4,516 deals.

Meanwhile, NSE says African Alliance Stockbrokers Limited has resigned its Membership as a dealing member firm According to a notification from the Exchange

dated Monday, July 24, 2017, and signed by Council Secretary, Mojisola Adeola, the stockbroking firm disclosed that the resignation takes effect from Monday, July 31, 2017.

The notice titled, “Notification Of Resignation Of African Alliance Stockbrokers Limited’s Dealing Membership Of The Nigerian Stock Exchange” further noted that “Any person(s) with any objection regarding the resignation of African Alliance Stockbrokers Limited Dealing Membership of the Nigerian Stock Exchange should immediately contact the appropriate quarters.”

L-R: Uttam Nayak, Head of Emerging Products Digital at Visa Inc, Andrew Torre, President Sub-Saharan Africa, Visa inc , Ifeoma Onibujie, Head, e-banking, Fidelity Bank, Robert Giles, Head Of Retail Banking at Diamond Bank Plc, Emezino Afiegbe, Acting Country Manager, Visa inc Nigeria at the launch in Lagos.

Transcorp reports 38% growth in revenue Afolabi Adesola

Half year results of Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc (Transcorp), a leading Nigerian conglomerate, shows significant growth on all parameters, indicating an improving economy.

The Group, in its financial results for first half ended June 30, 2017, says total revenue increased from N24.8bn to N34.2bn, representing a 38% increase, when compared to the Group’s performance in the corresponding period of 2016.

The group’s income statement showed Gross Profit was up 30 per cent from N11.5b to N14.9 b, while operating Profit soared 57 per cent to N9.5b from N6.1b.

Transcorp group Net Finance cost stood at N4.98bn, compared to N17.3bn in H1 2016; Tax was moderated to N368.5million compared to N984m in

H1 2016; and Profit Before Tax settled at N4.5bn compared to a loss of N11.2 billion in H12016; The group announced a profit after tax of N4.29 b, compared with a loss after tax of N798.7m it recorded in the corresponding period of 2016.

The conglomerate’s Balance Sheet showed Total Assets stood at N264.3bn up 14 per cent from N232.2bn as at 31 December, 2016; and Shareholders’ Fund was N92.7bn, up 7.2 per cent from N86bn, as at December, 2016.

In a reaction to the company’s investment property, which remained stable at N1.7 b, Transcorp Plc said its investment property, which relates to a piece of land at Rumens Road Ikoyi measuring approximately 4,876.15 square meters has undergone valuation.

Transcorp stated that “An independent valuation of the company’s land was performed by Ubosi Eleh and Co

to determine its fair value of the land as at 31 December 2016.

“The title to this property was revoked in a newspaper publication dated 29 May ,2015, by a revocation order of the Minister of Lands, Housing & Urban Development (The Ministry).

“A suit has been filed at Federal High Court challenging the legality of the revocation. An interim Order of injunction was obtained restraining Minister of Lands, Housing & Urban Development from giving effect to the revocation order (FHC/L/CS/794/2015 TNC V AG Federation & Minister of Lands).

“The court subsequently struck out the suit while ruling on a preliminary objection challenging its jurisdiction.

“The company filed a notice of appeal against the ruling of the Federal High Court and an application for stay of proceedings both at the Court of

FG Launches $1m venture capital for creative artists ÏG Əƕ 6ƄƍƆƎ Ƅ ƈ Bonny Amadi

Federal Government launched a $1 million venture capital to boost Nigeria’s creative industry; this was revealed by the federal government recently in Lagos at Heritage organized summit to enhance financing for the entertainment industry, The Federal Government applauded Heritage Bank Limited, for its commitment to the development and growth of the creative industry.

Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture gave the commendation at a two-day Creative Nigeria Summit held in Lagos recently with the theme: Financing the Film, Television and Music Industries; which was cosponsored by the Bank.

The minister announced the establishment of a $1m venture capital to boost the industry.

He said the Federal Government has held discussions with about 20 foreign/local investors who were expected to invest a minimum of $50,000 each to raise the $1m, adding that five investors have already indicated interest to invest $50, 000 each and expressed the hope that more were also expected to show their firm commitment in due course.

According to the minister, the $1m venture capital would provide seed money for young and talented Nigerians to set up businesses in the creative industry.

The minister remarked that the conference which was jointly organized by the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture and the Think-Tank Media and Advertising was to take

the industry into a golden era with smooth access to short and long term financing, world class management and local and international distribution.

Mr. Dike Dimiri, Acting, Chief Risk Officer of Heritage Bank, as a member of panel of discussants on Alternative Sources of Financing for the Creative industry, articulated some issues that have continue to plague the entertainment industry over the years.

He said that the industry is being hindered by lack of infrastructure such as, studios, equipment and talented manpower, adding that at a time when some international universities are offering cinematography as a course in mass communication, Nigeria’s educational system is still skewed towards the print industry which is dying rather than electronic industry that is widening, so there is deficiency that needs to be corrected.

Other issues he cited as hindrances to the creative industry are legal framework around which the industry runs its business, especially how intellectual property is protected as well as the right type of finance for the industry.

The Chief Risk Officer also touched on the need to have value chain in the industry, instead of one person being involved in every stage of the business as well as the need for operators to package their works into libraries and use them as collaterals to access money from banks.

Dimiri said Heritage Bank was committed to the development and growth of the entertainment industry.

Summary of trading activities on NSE

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34,652.52

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3,712.00

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293,750,886.00

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3,949,068,585.42

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Th e local b o urse o p e n e d t h e w e e k o n a p ositive n o t e as t h e b e nch m ark in d ex a dva nce d 1.9 % t o close a t 34,652.52 p oin ts o n t h e b ack o f g ains in D A N G CE M (+5.0 %) a n d o t h er b a n kin g st ocks - A CCESS (+4.5 %), U B A (+3.6 %), ST A N BIC (+3.1 %) a n d ZE NIT H (+1.3 %). A ccor din gly, YTD re t urn clim b e d 28.9 % . Invest ors a d d e d N217.8b n as m ark e t ca pit aliz a tio n se t tle d a t N11.9t n. H o w ever, m ark e t activity w a n e d as volu m e a n d valu e slid 22.3 % a n d 22.8 % t o close a t 293.8m u nits a n d N3.9b n resp ectively.

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Labour B6 FMC workers elated at resolution of promotion arrears The Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN), Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Keffi Chapter, has expressed delight and relief after the Federal Government paid its members’ promotion arrears of 2015 and 2016.

Mr. Monday Otso, the Chairman of the union commended the FMC Medical Director, Dr. Joshua Giyan for ensuring the payment of promotion arrears and other infrastructure developments taking place with direct bearing on patients and staff members’ lives.

The union chairman further urged the members to reciprocate the Federal Government’s gesture by improving on the health status of Nigerians.

“I must be fair Dr Giyan is doing his best in transforming the centre. I commend his efforts because before now in FMC Keffi, we had cases of stagnation and improper placement during promotion.

“Also before now, we have been having strikes because of lack of payment of promotion arrears among other things but as I am speaking to you, 2015 and 2016 promotion arrears have been paid to our members and we don’t have any single promotion arrears.

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FG to revive occupational health, safety laws Stories by Joy Ekeke Stories by Joy Ekeke Minister of Labour and Employment Dr Chris Ngige has said that the Federal Government will revive the enforcement of Labour laws in country, especially those bordering on occupational health and safety of workers and employers.

Ngige made the assertion when a delegation from the Nigerian Institution of Safety En-

gineers, a division of the Nigeria Society of Engineers, NSE, paid him a courtesy visit in his office, in Abuja.

Ngige noted that occupational safety and health had been neglected and taken for granted in the country for a longtime.

“We are geared up towards implementing and enforcing those laws, because we have a enough labour laws in this country to cater for occupational health and safety of the workers and the employers”.

try would soon recruit health inspectors, factories inspectors, among others to beef up the department the Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC).

He said that by this week, the Acting Chairman of Commission of FCSC would issue letters for the recruitment of those qualified to fill the vacancies in the Occupational Health and Safety Department of the Ministry.

Ex-NNPC workers owed 10 yrs’ pension, seek Osinbajo’s intervention ... as many pray for death

The Retired Staff Association of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) want the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo to intervene and save tyem from starvation, following the non-payment of their entitlements in the last 10 years.

Vice-Chairman of the Lagos State Branch of the pensioners association, Femi Johnson, while briefing journalists recently, called on Osinbajo to help ensure they are paid so as to save their lives and end the sufferings of those still managing to survive.

According to Johnson, life had been unbearable for most of the 1,200 NNPC pensioners in Lagos; and about 12,000 nationwide, as their meagre entitlements had not been paid for more than a decade.

He said that since government was magnanimous enough to release money for the payment of contractors and oil marketers, it should extend same to the pensioners, who spent most of their useful lifetime serving the nation, many at the risk of their lives.

Earlier in the month, the Federal Government approved the

Minimum wage: SSANU urges FG to negotiate with NLC The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, (SSANU), has advised the federal government to urgently negotiate with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) for review of the National Minimum Wage and ensure Nigerians are given living It stated that the Federal Government should make public all recovered money from politicians and public office holders and inject same into the economy to help it out of recession.

SSANU also condemned hate speeches, threat for secession and the drumbeat of war in some sections of the country and called on workers to unite against poverty, deprivation and exploitation by the elite or ruling class.

The Association in a communiqué signed by its National President, Comrade Samson Chijioke Ugwoke and the National Public Relations Officer, Comrade Salaam Abdussobur, after its National Executive Council, NEC, meeting which held at Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, said the country will gain more by staying together than going separate ways.

He said,” Nigeria has enough laws but it is enforcement that is the problem. Today, Certificates of Occupancies, C of Os, are given, building plans are approved without input from occupational health and safety engineers.

“That is without the Occupational Health and Safety Department of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, so realising that, I decided to awaken that department.”

The minister said the minis-

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release of N27 trillion for the payment of outstanding debts, which it owed contractors, pensioners and oil marketers over the last 20 years.

Making the declaration on Wednesday, Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, said, “the Federal Executive Council approved the Ministry of Finance’s proposed validation process to ensure that beneficiaries were paid through the issuance of liquid promissory notes of 10-year tenure.

The minister said government was determined to resolve a number of inherited and long outstanding Federal Government’s obligations to contractors, state governments and employees.

Reacting to the approval to pay contractors and oil marketers, the pensioners enjoined the Federal Government to also put pensioners of the state-run oil company into consideration as many had not been paid in the last 10 years.

Johnson expressed regret that many had died in frustration while those still living were virtually becoming walking corpses.

NLC President

Labour seeks legislation to raise employers’ commitment to workers The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has decried the spate of abuse and neglect perpetrated against workers, under the guise of casualisation by employers.

The union, is therefore, and is seeking to end it through a legislative act.

According to the NLC president, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, the proposed legislation would ensure that workers rights were

not abused and that they enjoyed good welfare packages at work.

“The employers do not want to pay gratuity and are against decent jobs. They want to make more profit and to reduce their commitments to their workers,’’ Wabba said.

The NLC president also noted that casualisation was against the Nigeria labour laws, the ILO convention and human dignity

and that organised labour would use its national appeal to ensure that laws to protect workers were appropriately enacted.

“The Congress has directed unions to send the names of companies involved in casual employment so that we can unite to criminalise casualisation,’’ the labour leader said.

On the maritime sector, Wabba called on the Federal Govern-

ment to look into the Ports and Harbour Bill, to stem the increasing insecurity at the ports.

“Now that we have seen an influx of arms and ammunition coming into the country, we are putting the lives of many Nigerians on the line.

He called on the government to fix port access roads, because the ports had become the economic nerve-centres of the economy.

Energy Simon Ugwu The House of Representatives has decried the rising electricity tariff in the country, adding that the increases were not justified considering the commitment of N213billion to the operators that has failed to boost supply to Nigerians.

In addition, the lawmakers said the increments were not in tandem with the economic realities of the country with Nigerians being confronted with several economic hardships.

As a result, the House has mandated an ad hoc Commitee to interface with the National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) and other stakeholders to critically evaluate the Multi-Year-Tariff

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Reps seek downward review of electricity tariff Order (MYTO) system and re-assess all its inputs and assumptions in order to come up with a realistic tariff regime.

The Committee has six weeks to carry out the assignment and report back to tell House.

Sponsor of the motion, Shehu Musa (APC, Bauchi) recalled that in 2008, NERC adopted the MYTO methodology to regulate electricity tariff and the tariff setting in consultation with industry stakeholders, labour and consumer groups to provide

a correct pricing of electricity, taking into consideration the key principles of cost reflectivity, affordability, incentives for efficient operations and other assumptions such as in tertiary rates, exchange rates, inflation, gas prices and subsidies.

“The new tariff regime continues to increase from an average of N10 per kwh (RI) in 2007 to an average of N24.20 per Kwh (RI) in 2017 without significant improvement in power supply.

“We are concerned by the quantum of public outcry over the continuous increase in the price unit of electricity set under this new tariff regime, despite the N213b Nigerian Electricity Market Stabilisation Fund provided by the Federal Government, as subsidy to the industry operators.

“We should be concerned that even the presently fixed price unit of electricity is said to be underpriced and yet plans are underway to gradually increase

the tariff to cover full costs “Equally of concern is that the increments were not in tandem with the economic realities of Nigeria, coupled with the attendant untold hardships being experienced by Nigerians due to the collapse of small and medium scale businesses and industries,” he said.

The motion was unanimously adopted after it was put to a voice vote by the Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara.

Nigeria’s sovereign wealth fund lowest among OPEC countries – NEITI Abiodun Oyindamola, with Agency report Despite its current status as Africa’s largest crude oil producer, Nigeria has been listed as the only crude oil exporting country with the lowest Sovereign Wealth Savings often created to hedge against volatility in the international oil market.

According to the Nigerian Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (NEITI), the country’s $8 Sovereign Wealth Fund per capita can best be described as one of the lowest, better than only that of war-torn Iraq and crisis-hit Venezuela, both of which are members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

Executive Secretary of NEITI, Waziri Adio, who made these observations in an Occasional Paper series presented in Abuja, stated that the balance in the three funds currently in existence (0.5 per cent stabilisation fund, ECA and NSIA), was less than $3.9 billion, which is not sufficient to fund 20 per cent of the N7.44 trillion 2017 federal budget.

He said with Nigeria facing gloomy prospects of depleting oil reserves and oil prices, it was time for government to take bold steps to avoid the looming danger against the future of its economy by paying attention to demands for a stabilisation fund for the country.

OPEC won’t prevent Nigeria, Libya from increasing output Abiodun oyindamola, with Agency report

Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, seems to be willing to let exempt members Libya and Nigeria boost their crude oil output further before asking them to join the supply control deal aimed at propping up prices.

That’s according to Bloomberg’s Ben Sharples, reporting on a meeting of OPEC ministers ahead of a wider ministerial meeting on Monday, in St. Petersburg.

Sharples noted that both Nigeria and Libya have signaled

they are not opposed to capping their production at a certain level, over 1 million barrels per day for both.

Libya, he added, had said it would be willing to stop building production when it hits 1.25 million barrels daily. Nigeria’s oil minister said earlier this year Abuja is targeting 1.8 million bpd before it considers joining the cut.

The oil cartel seems optimistic about the effect of the production cut deal, despite falling compliance rates and growing production both in OPEC and in the U.S., which is not a party to the deal.

Reuters quoted OPEC’s Secretary General, Mohammed Barkindo as saying that although, so far, progress with the rebalancing of global oil supply has been slow, it should pick up in the second half of the year.

As drivers of this acceleration in supply decline, Barkindo pointed to the satisfactory compliance rates among OPEC members and its partners, three consecutive weeks of falling U.S. crude oil inventories, as reported by the EIA, and recovering demand.Related: Daily OPEC Oil Prices Now Public For The First Time Ever Yet, Russia may beg to dif-

fer with OPEC on the issue of Nigeria and Libya joining the cuts. In an interview with the Financial Times ahead of the ministerial meeting, Alexander Novak said the two African producers should join the pricepropping effort as soon as their output stabilizes.

“I think that these countries should join other responsible oil producers and contribute to the market stabilisation initiative, as they reach a stable level of output. We believe that once oil output in Libya and Nigeria stabilises, there will be less uncertainty on the market as to their future moves,” Novak told the FT.

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Simon Ugwu The current Nigerian economy plundered into recession in the third quarter of 2014.

Since then, the economy has been in recession but all hope is no lost as the economy can be rebuilt though the consumption of home made goods, popularly called, Made-in-Nigeria goods.

To realise this objective,the Chief Consultant, B. Adedipe Associates Limited (BAA Consult), Dr. ‘Biodun Adedipe has stressed the need for increased patronages of goods and services made in Nigeria, in order to stimulate economic activities and attain sustainable growth.

Adedipe, who said this at the “Half Year 2017 Economic Review and Outlook for the second half of the year,” organised by members of the Finance Correspondents’ Association of Nigeria (FICAN), recently, in Lagos, advocated that in terms of production that Nigeria should copy the examples of China and India, especially the latter, that promotes ‘Make-in-India’.

Also, on consumption, the economist said Nigerian economic agents (governments, corporate and individuals) should buy ‘Made-in-Nigeria goods.’

By adopting such economic policy, Adedipe held the view that trade would thrive on internal activities, while the country would engage in international trade to complement its earnings.

Nigeria, according to him, should endeavor to significantly export more products other than crude oil which has been its major foreign exchange earner for decades.

He noted that any country that does not produce a significant proportion of what it consumes would always be at the mercy of those countries that are producing the goods and services it needs.

Nigeria has estimated population of 190.88 million, as at 1st July 2017 (7th largest in the world, with potential to become 3rd by 2050) ;and with a huge appetite for consumption of just about anything imported into the market for any tradable commodity.

“My take on the episodic economic troubles Nigeria falls into, is simply that: We produce what we don’t consume (natural resources that we harvest and export). We consume what we don’t produce – largely import dependent for all conceivable things.

“The salvation for the Nigerian economy, beyond engendering recovery from the abating recession, is found in promoting aggressively the ‘Made-in-

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Nigeria’ campaign. In Nigeria, most of the things that catch our fancy, we actually don’t produce them. We therefore end up creating jobs offshore,” he added.

Adedipe supported the “unorthodox” monetary policy stance of the Central Bank of Nigeria, saying, it should continue until the economy achieves stability.

“The issue is using your orthodox policy for as long as your financial system is at risk, once you are outside of the risk region, that is, where your economy is no longer fragile, you abandon it and you turn to orthodox management “In my latest encounter with the CBN, they said no we haven’t got to a comfortable level yet. But I understand that because they know that if government is spending to expand the economy, that’s expansionary fiscal operation; and that would trigger interest rate, and so they recognise that even if they drop interest rate it will more or less demoralise the situation.”

This will spur huge domestic economic activities and prick the balloon of unemployment.

He listed factors that will grow businesses to include rel-

evance, innovation, knowledge and value added.

So he said Nigerians should endeavor to be relevant interms of adding value to whatever they offer in their businesses.

So also being innovative in terms of taking a fresh look at every situation encountered.

Knowledge base, he said, is also important with regards to understanding the terrain and bring that as added advantage and assuring that customers will get value for their money.

He further stated that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has the capacity to sustain ongoing foreign exchange (forex) interventions, despite the pressure on the foreign exchange reserves.

The economist disclosed that on the 30-day moving average, the reserves have risen from $29.07 billion at end of 2015 to $30.36 billion in July 11.

Adedipe said the liquid portion of the reserves stood at $29.62 billion, which translates to 12.31 months of imports cover.

He said the exchange rate has gradually depreciated and been devalued to N168 to dollar at the end of 2014; N197 to dollar at end of 2015; N305 to dollar at the end of 2016 and N305.85 to

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dollar as at July 19, 2017.

Adedipe, said the required international benchmark was for external reserves to be able to sustain at least, six months of the import bill adding that Nigeria is still doing great with its reserves covering over 12 months import cover.

The economist, said Nigeria’s total import figure for the first half of this year was N2.2 trillion ($7.218 billion), with an average monthly figure of $2.406 billion.

He explained that due to recession, the current import figure was a decline from $14.171 billion or monthly average of $4.724 billion in the first quarter of 2015. He said that foreign trade had picked up since the first quarter of last year, with imports declining.

Adedipe described as aberration, calls on the CBN to freely float the naira, adding that no country in the world adopts such approach to exchange rate management. He said the ongoing spike in naira exchange rate occurred after the CBN was pressured by several stakeholders to adopt flexible exchange rate system and freely float the Naira.

“That of course, was a huge aberration, as there is no coun-

try that freely floats its currency (even the US) – the job of the central bank is to defend and protect its currency by intervening in the markets as necessary.

The voices are coming from too many experts that know nothing other than to echo what the Breton Woods institutions have said,” Adedipe stated.

Operators in the financial economy, such as, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises, SMEs, also canvass patronages of indigenous products so as to revive the economy, create jobs, empower people and reduce poverty.

For example, the Chairman, Association of Small and Medium Enterprises, Lagos State Chapter, Mr. Kuti George said, “With adequate papatronage of locally made products, Nigeria could grow the nation’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP, create more jobs and reduce poverty across the country.

He said Made-In -Nigeria product has the capability to revive the economy, reduce tension in the land, more so as the country has huge and diverse population, land mass and excellent weather to grow agricultural products, among other things.

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Empress Njamah: On acting and entreprenurship

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Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, July 25, 2017

I’m a freak. I have over three hundred perfumes –Empress Njamah Dark skinned curvy actress Empress Njamah is one interesting character any day, any time.

In this interview with MUTIAT ALLI she speaks on her other passion, fashion among other

What have you been up to?

How long have you being wearing your claws? And what made you to start wearing them? acrylic and they were long for a character movie. After the

What other fashion fetish do you have? coming to Lagos sometime soon. Lagos is clustered for me Do you have a few favorites?

your beauty routine?

Will it be right to say you are falling out of love for acting?

A good name will always remain no matter what if you

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Nutritional benefits of taking milk

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Wellness L4

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Nwaokocha Daniel

Boost your metabolism A countless number of individuals frequently want to head to the gym to gain muscle, lose body fat or just keep their bodies in shape. But many of them fail to accomplish these results because most of the time, they do not understand the metabolism of their bodies. So, before we speed up our metabolism, there are some basic things we need to understand so as to effectively speed up our metabolism. Metabolism is a term that is used to describe all chemical reactions involved in maintaining apple off the living state of the cells and the organs in our bodies. We took it upon ourselves to share with you ways in which you can speed up your metabolism before hitting the gym this summer.

Components of Your Metabolism Your metabolism consists of three primary parts.

Your resting metabolic rate, or RMR, which makes up about 60 percent of your metabolism, is the number of calories you use daily for essential bodily functions, such as breathing and pumping blood. Physical activity can comprise as much as another 30 percent of your metabolism. Formal exercises, as well as everyday actions such as bath-

of your metabolism is called the thermic effect of food i.e. the calories your body uses to digest food and process its nutrients.

Substances in foods that can speed up your metabolism 1.

PROTEINS gredients — including caffeine, tea and capsaicin from hot peppers — may modestly increase your metabolic rate for short periods of time. Protein has a high thermic effect, which means your body burns more calories to digest high-protein foods, according to a study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2008.

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CAPSAICIN Capsaicin is the only one of these ingredients integrates pretty readily into some juice recipes.

Capsaicin is the compound in hot peppers that gives them their intense, spicy bite. Consuming red pepper as part of a meal increased energy expenditure and promoted a higher body temperaPhysiology and Behavior. The higher calorie burn ries compared to people who did not consume red pepper.

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Natural, Spicy Juice Recipes To keep calories low, use a variety of veggies

and hot peppers in your natural juice recipes.

The hotter the pepper, the greater the capsaicin content, but too much hot pepper could make juice, add small slices gradually until you reach the desired intensity.Try a little fresh cayenne, habanero, jalapeno or Serrano pepper added to a green mix of kale, cucumber, lemon and green apple or juiced with pineapple, lime and spinach makes for a spicy juice that revs your metabolism just a bit. Or make a low-calorie, spicy juice that plays on the bloody Mary cocktail. Juice tomatoes, lemon and celery and stir in a pinch of powdered cayenne pepper for extra kick.For another spicy, tomato-based mixture, blend cherry tomatoes, celery, carrots, spinach, cilantro, arugula, garlic, lemons and jalapeno. Stir in a drizzle of honey if your mix comes out too bitter for your taste.An Asian-inspired juice uses hot Serrano Tapping your foot, walking to the water cooler, peppers, celery, sugar snap peas, scallions, red climbing stairs and doing laundry are examples bell pepper, cherry tomatoes and lime. Finish with of NEAT that boost your calorie burn.Eating at a splash of refreshing coconut water. regular, predictable intervals during the day can also maximize the thermic effect of food.

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Other Effective Ways to Boost MetaboIndividuals,who consumed the same number lism of meals per week with the same number of An occasional fresh juice drink can be a nucalories, but in an erratic pattern, experienced a lower calorie burn after meals than people other metabolism-boosting strategies, such as who ate at six regular intervals, showed a 2004 strength-training. Lift weights to add muscle study in the International Journal of Obesity and Related Metabolic Disorders. Do your best to maintain compared to fat tissue. Move as much eat each meal around the same time daily and as you can all day. Formal exercise helps burn snack on healthy foods between meals. Quality calories, but so do small movements — known as snacks include whole fruits and vegetables, a non-exercise induced thermogenesis, or NEAT. scant handful of raw nuts or low-fat yogurt.