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Expect more acquisitions, increase in banking competition in 2019 – Report

Says Banks with lower regulatory CAR may raise fresh capital ’CBN will continue monitoring activities to maintain FX stability’

Motolani Oseni, Lagos Nigeria’s banking industry may not have witnessed the last acquisition or merger this year, as more of such deal may likely happen before the end of 2019, the latest report by analysts at Guaranty Trust Bank Plc (GTBank) has revealed.

This, they believe, will increase competition in the nation’s banking industry in 2019. Although, their projections followed the Access Bank Plc acquisition of Diamond Bank Plc, in a process that is expected to be successfully completed by April this year.

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L-R: Convener, Re-elect Buhari Movement (RBM), Mr. Emmanuel Umohinyang; National Co-ordinator, Pro-Buhari groups and South-South Co-ordinator, Buhari Presidential Campaign, Senator Godswill Akpabio and RBM National Co-ordinator, Prince Goodluck Obi, when Akpabio paid a solidarity visit to RBM in Lagos.

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‘Expect more acquisitions, increase in banking competition in 2019’ Continued from page 1 The Analysts in a report titled ‘Macro-Economic and Banking Sector Themes For 2019’, noted that the post-integration challenges and downside risks cannot entirely be dismissed on the back of historical experience of one of the banks but expected that the process will be well-executed by the banks and properly monitored by the relevant regulators.

They noted that the success of the merger could trigger other such mergers, with the potential to strengthen the industry, adding that the short term interest rates would remain elevated, and market liquidity tight due to the expected contractionary monetary policy.

According to the report, “All existing policy measures deployed towards achieving the monetary objectives of the CBN should remain in force – at least up through to the half year 2019. In light of the expected increase in Federal Government borrowings, the highinterest rate regime could exacerbate any crowding out effect which may negatively impact bank lending rates and cost of funds, with attendant implications for growth and profitability.

“The highly regulated foreign exchange environment is expected to remain unchanged. With foreign exchange reserves closing 2018 at $43.1 billion, an estimated 15 months of import, we see room for the

CBN to maintain a policy of defending the currency.

“While this, in our opinion, may provide some level of stability and positive view for the currency in the short term, a continued decline in crude oil prices will create downside risks to further accretion to the reserves, and capacity to continue to support to currency.

“It is not unlikely therefore that we will witness a divergence in the rates offered at the CBN interventions and rates available on the Investors & Exporters (I&E) Window.

“We expect the CBN to continue to monitor activities within the market that could adversely affect foreign exchange stability.”

On assets quality of Nigerian banks, the report noted that banking industry revealed that there’s a positive relationship between performing loan book and elevated global oil prices, and the reason is not far-fetched as over 30 per cent of the total industry exposure is to the oil and gas sector.

According to the report, “With oil prices relatively elevated, the industry had to contend with the combined effect of IFRS 9 resulting in increased loan loss charges against shareholders’ fund which decreased capital, declining loan book due to the relatively low demand for credit and reduced capacity of banks to lend.

“We expect banks to intensify efforts to grow their loan books albeit to quality risk rating names,

and also expect NPLs to decline from present level.”

They disclosed that the impact of IFRS 9 would force commercial banks with lower regulatory Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR) to raise fresh capital this year.

The report by GTBank said: “The impact assessment of IFRS 9 on the industry revealed that the transition to the new standard resulted in a lower capital position in view of the shift from Incurred Loss to Expected Credit Loss (ECL) model.

“In effect, most banks saw between 150-500 basis points (bps) shaved off their capital, resulting in significant decline in the regulatory CAR of some banks below the minimum of 15per cent (and 16per cent for D-SIBs) bringing to fore the need for these banks to raise fresh capital.

“In a move to cushion the effect of the ECL provisions on tier 1 capital, the CBN introduced a 4-year transitional arrangement which will require banks to hold static the Adjusted Day One impact of IFRS 9 impairment figures and spread it over a 4-year period.

“Consequently, the capital position of banks will improve relative to the figures that were published for the 2018 reporting periods.

“We expect to see more steps by banks to cover any shortfalls in their capital ratios including raising qualifying debt capital to shore up their capital base.”

Presidency faults US, UK, EU on CJN’s suspension

Says Onnoghen responsible for his misfortune

Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

The Presidency has said that the United States of America, United Kingdom and the European were biased in their reaction to the suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Nkanu Onnoghen, adding that they acted in a haste without being properly informed on the nitty gritty of the issue.

According to the Presidency, while the “three friends” seem to give much credence to those who question the constitutionality of the suspension, they seem to give less to those who believe what we did is constitutional and protective of the integrity of the judiciary”.

Garba Shehu, Senior Special

Assistant to the President, Media and Publicity, on Sunday, stated that the statements by “the three seem more driven by unfounded assumptions and to be honest, a certain condescension to this African democracy.

The presidential spokesman said that “only the three can answer why they have assumed this bias.

“This is unfortunate. But this gives us an opportunity to clarify some points in the hope that these three friends reach a deeper understanding of the situation.”

The government pointed that “the three” make a curious direct linkage between the CJN suspension and the elections; explaining that, in Nigerian law, however, there is no such linkage.

The statement read in part: “The CJN does not run the election. Nor is he the first arbiter of any electoral complaints.

He and the Supreme Court will only get involved as the final arbiter at the end of the appellate process.

“For the authors to link the CJN to the elections in this way is illogical unless they assume that election complaints will be filed and will go all the way to the Supreme Court. Here perhaps they know something about the intentions of certain political actors to which we are not privy.

“Yet, even with that, the US , UK and EU should want any such matters to be heard by a Supreme Court led by a CJN without an obvious and

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Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki addressing a mammoth crowd of supporters during the PDP’s campaign rally in Offa, Kwara State.

Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. John Kayode Fayemi (middle); his wife, Bisi and others, cutting the tape at the flag off ceremony of new Iyin Road as part of activities marking Fayemi’s 100 days in office...on Sunday.

L-R: Grand Patron, Centenary Anniversary, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (Rtd.); his wife, Senator Daisy Danjuma; Archdiocesan Bishop of Lagos, (Anglican Communion), Rt. Rev’d. (Dr.) Humphrey Olumakaiye; his wife, Prof.

Motunrayo Olumakaiye; and Immediate past diocesan bishop, Rt. Rev’d Prof. Adebola Ademowo: his wife, Mrs. Oluranti Ademowo, during the unveiling of centenary logo of the Anglican Communion in Lagos. at the Weekend.

Photo: Olawale Rotimi

L-R: Wife of the Primate, African Church, Lady Evng. Ene Udofia; Primate, African Church, His Eminence (Dr.) Emmanuel Josiah Udofia; Representative of the Vice president, Rev’d Yomi Kasali; Deputy Governor, Ogun State, Mrs. Yetunde Onanuga; and Patron of the African Church, Oba Dr. Adedapo Tejuoso, during the 60th birthday thanksgiving service for the Primate in Lagos. at the Weekend Photo: Olawale Rotimi

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Stakeholders decide Onnoghen’s fate this week Doosuur Iwambe and Tunde Opalana, Abuja

The National Judicial Council (NJC), Senate and the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) are set to hold an emergency meeting this week to discuss the suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen and the swearing-in of Justice Tanko Mohammed as the acting CJN by President Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday.

A top anonymous source from the NJC told our correspondent on Sunday night that past Chief Justices of Nigeria will be in attendance where strong decisions will be made at the end of the meeting.

According to the source, the meeting scheduled to hold at the Supreme Court premises by 10am on Monday will take place behind closed doors.

“The meeting was earlier billed to hold last week but Justice Onnoghen said that it should be temporarily placed on hold in view of the situation on ground.

“Both Justice Onnoghen and the acting CJN, Tanko Mohammed may be allowed to participate in the meeting”, the source added.

Also, the National Executive Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has summoned emergency meeting over President Buhari’s action against Onnoghen, which the legal body insisted was illegal.

Those summoned to attend the meeting holding at the National Headquarters of the NBA are all its National Officers, Past Presidents, Past General Secretaries, Branch Chairmen, Branch Secretaries, Branch NEC Representatives and Chairmen and Secretaries of Sections.

The NBA noted in a statement by its General Secretary, Jonathan Gunu Taidi, Esq, that only the statutory members of the NEC will be attending the meeting.

In the meantime, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) has urged the NJC to immediately set up a committee to investigate the allegations of breach of constitutional asset declaration requirements against him.

Also, if following your investigation, the allegations against Justice Onnoghen is established, the NJC should refer the case to appropriate anticorruption bodies for prosecution, SERAP added.

The organisation also asked the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammed, to recuse himself from the process as the Ag. CJN. In the petition dated 26 January 2019, and signed by SERAP senior legal adviser, Bamisope Adeyanju, addressed to the Next-In-Rank to the Chairman of the National Judicial Council (NJC), the organisation said: “The urgent intervention by the NJC would remove the allegations against Justice Onnoghen from the vicissitudes of political controversy, and a clear and present danger to the independence and authority of the judiciary. It would

also help to reverse the country’s increasing movement toward anarchy or despotism.”

According to the organisation, “It is in time like this that the NJC must be most vigilant and alive to its constitutional duties, if it is not to permit a diminution of our treasured constitutional rights.”

The petition, copied to Mr. Diego García-Sayán, UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, reads in part: “Neither knee-jerk reactions by politicians nor abuse of the legal and judicial process by the government and some senior lawyers would be acceptable to break the constitutional logjam.

The NJC ought to be concerned with the gravity of allegations against Justice Onnoghen.

“This matter has inevitably thrown our country into a judicialcum-constitutional crisis, which if not urgently addressed would lead to political crisis that would seriously put at risk Nigeria’s fledgling democracy, consequently exacerbating the declining respect for human rights at all levels of government.”

“The NJC should not and cannot stand-by while the authority and independence of the judiciary is diminished to the point at which the citizens lose confidence and trust in its ability to render justice to those need”, SERAP added.

The NJC is an organ of the judiciary that is responsible for the Appointment, Promotion and Discipline of Judicial Officers.

The Daily Times recalls that Justice Onnoghen who was accused of failing to declare his assets as prescribed by the law, as well as maintaining five separate foreign accounts, had insisted that Federal Government ought to have allowed the NJC to investigate and recommend him for prosecution.

He challenged the jurisdiction of the Code of Conduct Tribunal to hear the charge marked CCT/ ABJ/01/19, contending that the petition against him, likewise the outcome of the investigation purportedly conducted on his assets declaration forms by the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, ought to have been forwarded to the NJC for proper actions to be taken.

The tribunal which earlier declined to hand-off Onnoghen’s trial, had on January 23, granted the ex-parte order President Buhari relied upon to suspend him as the substantive CJN. The order that was signed by its Chairman, Danladi Umar, and another member of the panel, Mrs. Julie A. Anabor, read: “It is hereby ordered as follows: That the defendant/respondent shall step aside as the Chief Justice of Nigeria and Chairman National Judicial Council over allegation of Contravening the provisions of the code of Conducts and Tribunal Act CAP C15 Laws of the Federation 2004 pending the determination of the Motion on notice dated 10th January 2019.

Meanwhile, the Senate will cut short its recess by recovering on Tuesday to discuss issues of urgent National importance which include the constitutional crisis that looms over the suspension of Justice Walter Onnoghen.

In a statement by the Clerk of the Senate, Nelson Ayewoh, the senators were informed that resumption of plenary earlier scheduled for Tuesday, 19th February, 2019 has rescheduled for Tuesday, 29th January, 2019.

Senate President had earlier announced that the leadership of the National Assembly will meet on Sunday ahead of the resumption date.

But as at the time of filing this report, there was no sign of such meeting.

The President of the Senate, who is the chairman of the National Assembly, was said to be busy with PDP political campaign in his Kwara, his home state.

The Chief Press Secretary to the Senate President, Mr. Sanni Onogu, said he was not sure the meeting was slated for Sunday.

He, however, confirmed the resumption of the Senate on Tuesday.

Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki had earlier given the indication that the resumption might not be unconnected with issues surrounding the suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Hon. Justice Walter Onnoghen, by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Saraki had described the action as a coup against democracy and a deliberate attempt to endanger Nigeria’s hard-won democracy.

Saraki, in a statement personally signed by him, stated that the suspension was another act of desperation by President Buhari.

He noted that by the suspension of the CJN, Buhari has acted outside the provision of the constitution, has exercised the powers which he does not have and that this action amounted to gross misconduct.

“This is an action aimed at undermining the nation’s judiciary, subverting the constitution, intimidating judges of all the courts of record, and creating uncertainty in the electoral process, thereby laying the foundation for influencing the outcome of litigations that might arise from next month’s elections.

“There are already the general belief that this hasty action was taken to pre-empt the already scheduled inauguration of election petition tribunals by Hon. Justice Onoghen and to destroy national institutions that are perceived to be unco-operative in his bid to manipulate the electoral process leading to next month’s general elections.

“By unilaterally suspending the CJN without following the provision of the constitution, President Buhari has taken an action which amounted to gross misconduct. He has simply sent a dangerous signal to the entire world that Nigeria is no longer a democratic nation and that we have returned to the old, jaded era of military dictatorship.

“Our constitution makes no provision for suspension of the nation’s highest judicial officer.

The constitution provides a clear process for removal of the CJN and specify the roles of the three arms of government, beginning from the National Judicial Council (NJC), the National Assembly and lastly, the Presidency, have

Onnoghen different roles to play in that process. There is no condition under which the President can usurp the powers of other arms of government. I do not know where the President and his advisers got this idea of suspending the CJN on the so-called order of the Code of Conduct Tribunal but this is novel, disingenuous and alien to our laws.

“The President and his team must have seen this so-called suspension as a short-cut to getting Hon. Justice Onnoghen out of the way since the appellate court has eventually stopped the CCT from continuing with the trial of the CJN. It is strange that President

Buhari is claiming to be taking orders from a Tribunal which has been ordered by a superior court to halt all actions on the trial.

“With this action, President Buhari has initiated a process the consequence of which nobody can predict. They have precipitated a constitutional crisis.

“At this point, all democratic institutions in the country, the international community and democrats across the world should rise against this blatant act of impunity. We should jointly condemn this retrogressive, uncivilized and despotic measure”, Saraki stated.

INEC okays 144 observer groups for 2019 polls The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has approved 144 domestic and foreign observer groups for the 2019 General Elections.

A statement by the commission on Sunday said that those approved will monitor the 2019 general elections holding on 16th February, 2019 and 2nd March, 2019.

While 116 were approved as domestic observer groups, including government and nongovernmental organisations, religious bodies and unions, the remaining 28 were foreign observer groups including African Union, ECOWAS, missions, embassies and international organisations among others.

According to the INEC statement, all accredited observers shall abide by the code of conduct for election observers and that the commission reserves the right to cancel and withdraw the accreditation of any organisation if its members or agents breach the

code of conduct.

“Accredited groups are to obtain and complete form EC 14A (ii) from the Elections and Party Monitoring Department, INEC Headquarters, Maitama, Abuja between 8am-4pm (MondayFriday) starting from 28th January, 2019 to 1st February, 2019.

“To ensure prompt and efficient processing of ID cards, all accredited Observer groups are enjoined to compile the list and photographs of their members for deployment on State basis and submit hard and soft copies (CD please, using JPEG drive) to the Elections and Party Monitoring Department, INEC Headquarters on or before 1st February, 2019,” it said.

It added that the distribution of observer kits (including ID cards to individual observers) will be done by the Elections and Party Monitoring (EPM) Heads of Department (HODs) at INEC state offices between 11th and 15th February, 2019.

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FG orders immediate crackdown on illegal tertiary institutions Doosur Iwambe with agency report The Federal Government has directed the immediate crackdown on all illegal tertiary institutions across the country.

The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, said at a press conference in Abuja on Sunday that the move was necessary to make the job of regulatory agencies easier and protect students. ”It is crucial to state that while some of the illegal providers are operating illegal institutions based in Nigeria, some are online in unapproved linkages and affiliations with substandard foreign institutions that have no accreditation or recognition of regulatory bodies either in Nigeria or their home countries.

“The proliferation of these illegal institutions has made the job of regulatory agencies in the sector very difficult. Such institutions also default in taxes. They do not

keep to the rules of the game. ”They have no admission quota, they run unaccredited courses with practically no standards, their products are half baked and unemployable.

“The Federal Government is determined to confront this menace frontally.

“The Federal Government will not sit back to allow lawless conduct to overwhelm the sector,” he said.

The minister stressed that the ban placed on satellite campuses and study centres was still in force, and directed all regulatory agencies in the education sector to work with security agencies to track, close the illegal centres, apprehend and prosecute their owners.

The regulatory agencies are the National Universities Commission (NUC), National Commission for Colleges of Education and National Board for Technical Education.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some of the illegal universities as identified by the NUC include, University of

Adamu Accountancy and Management Studies, University of Industry, Yaba, Lagos, Blacksmith University, Awka, Atlanta University Anyigba, Logo state and UNESCO University, Ndoni, River State.

Also, Columbus University, UK, London External Studies, UK, Pebbies University, UK, Tiu International University, UK, among others.

Similarly, Adonai Polytechnic, Benue, Al-Ameen College of Health Sciences and Technology, Kaduna state, Assam School of Basic Health Science and Technology, Kaduna, Bethel Polytechnic, Benue State and Grand Royal College of Health Technology, Ekiti State were on the list of 68 unapproved polytechnics and Monotechnics operating in the country.

APC plots violent takeover of NASS leadership, CUPP alleges

As PDP alerts of moves to bribe senators

Tunde Opalana, Abuja

The Coalition of United Political Parties ( CUPP), on Sunday, alleged that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has perfected plans to stage a coup in the National Assembly by replacing current leaders with persons loyal to President Muhammadu Buhari.

Addressing a press conference in Abuja on Sunday, its Publicity Secretary, Ikenga Ugochinyere said the Coalition uncovered plots to unseat both Senate and House of Representatives leadership at the resumption on Tuesday.

The CUPP further alleged that there is a plan to arrest Senate President, Bukola Saraki, his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, Speaker Yakubu Dogara and Senator Dino Melaye.

He said the ruling party has perfected plans to announce factional leadership of the parliament by proposing to install Sen. Ahmed Lawan, Hope Uzodinma, Godswill Akpabio as factional Senate President, Deputy Senate President and Senate Leader respectively.

It further alleged that part of the thick plot was to install Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, Abdulmimin Jibrin as factional Speaker and Deputy Speaker of House of Representatives.

While the Coalition said the Presidency has given a nod to the he plan, it also fingered Senators Ali Ndume, Ovie Omo Agege, George Akume, Hope Uzodinma and Abdullahi Adamu as arrow heads of the plot.

Ugochinyere said part of the plan was to prevent Saraki, Ekweremadu, Dogara, Lasun Yusuf from addressing the parliament on Tuesday.

The CUPP called on Nigerians

to rise up and be vigilant to defend the nation’ democracy before it is too late.

“The APC is ready to do whatever it takes to destroy the very fulcrum of our constitutional democracy on Tuesday and has vowed it is tomorrow or never.

The judicial coup which they believed was supposed to be more difficult went very easily beyond their imagination hence the need to complete the takeover of the National Assembly immediately so that the distraction of the election campaigns will be put to use. They have also resolved that the government will make some big positive announcements tomorrow being Monday, 28th January so as to deflect the minds of Nigerians. Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, Chibuike Amechi and Babatunde Fashola have been saddled with the responsibility of choosing the issue for announcement by the government.

“The plot will see the criminal announcement of Sen. Ahmmed Lawan as the Senate President, Sen. Hope Uzodimma as the Deputy Senate President and Sen. Godswill Akpabio as the Senate Leader. While in the House of Representatives, Hon Gbajabiamila will be announced as the Speaker of the House and Hon Abdulmimin Jibril will be announced as the Deputy Speaker. The decision on who will be the House leader will be resolved by the trio of Bola Tinubu, Adams Oshiomhole and Sen. Gorge Akume.

“The arrowheads of this treasonable plot in the National Assembly include Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege, Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, Ali Ndume, George Akume and Kabiru Gaya. While the members of the House who are part of this plot to destroy democracy include Hon Femi Gbajabiamila, Hon. Abdulmimin

Jubril and Hon. Agbonayima.

“To ensure the plot goes successfully, the Federal Government has mapped out the sum of $70, 000 for each Senator and $40, 000 for each House member for what it called welfare since majority of them will be compelled to be in town suddenly.

The money for the bribes have already been released to Senator Lawan and Hon. Gbajabiamila for onward distribution to their members as they return. The money amounting to $15 million ($8 million for the House and $7 million for the Senate) was sourced from NNPC, CBN, NDDC, NPA, NIMASA, a commercial bank and a company the owner of whom is a member of the cabal,” the CUPP alleged.

Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alerted the nation of moves by certain agents of the Presidency to bribe Senators of the All Progressives Congress (APC) extraction to protect President Buhari from imminent parliamentary sanctions for constitutional breaches and gross misconduct.

Intelligence available to the PDP showed that this is the reason the jittery Presidency had summoned all APC senators to the Presidential Villa to a clandestine meeting on Monday night, ahead of the Senate’s resumption on Tuesday.

PDP National Publicity Secretary and Director of Media & Publicity of the party’s Presidential campaign organisation, Kola Ologbondiyan, said this in a statement on Sunday night.

He said the party had been informed of how the Buhari Presidency has been unsettled following national and international outcry over his constitutional breaches,

particularly the assault on the judiciary in his attempt to forcefully remove the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen and impose a pliable CJN to do his bidding.

He said: “President Buhari is not only apprehensive that the Senate might sanction him for violating the constitution and usurping its statutory duties regarding the handling of issues related to a CJN, the parliament might also open an inquest into how President Buhari, who parades as Mr. Integrity, allegedly procured an Order from the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) upon which he announced the illegal suspension of the CJN. “There are reports that the said order is suspicious and subject to investigation, being not argued or issued in the open court; following which a distressed Buhari Presidency now seeks to corrupt and undermine the Senate.

“The PDP has been made aware of how money has been moved from the coffers of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to bribe the APC senators, as well as how each APC senator has been offered huge sums of money in foreign currency to engage in heckling during the session, particularly when the matter is raised.

“However, the PDP wants the APC senators to note that the issue at hand is not partisan; it is not even about Justice Walter Onnoghen, but about nationhood, as well as the protection of our democracy and constitution from despotism.

“The Buhari Presidency is bent on corrupting our democratic institutions but Nigerians are watching the action of our lawmakers at this critical time,” the party said.

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outstanding ethical and legal blemish on his ledger. To have such a person preside over any case, would call into question the impartiality of any decision rendered and undermine the rule of law.

“This cannot be what these three friends of Nigeria intended.

Thus, they should do a bit more research on this matter and refrain from being too hastily attracted by the arguments of those who have partisan agenda at odds with the government’s positions on most matters and who thus hope to use this issue as a new arrow in their quiver of partisan contestations.

“The Presidency notes with interest the coordinated statements of the US, UK and EU linking the suspension of CJN Onnoghen to the conduct of the upcoming elections. We appreciate the concerns voiced by the three statements and accept that the authors of the statements believe they were acting in friendship toward Nigeria with regard to making the statements.

“However, we also note that friends, when not properly informed or acting in haste, can indeed make serious mistakes even with the best of intentions.

Such is the case here.

“The statements by the US, UK and EU speak of their respect for constitutional practice and fair elections. However, the positions they stake tend to contravene rather than strengthen these laudable objectives.”

The presidency stressed that CJN Onnoghen’s situation “is one of his own making and, to a large degree, his own choosing.”

“The CJN was brought before the CCT because of a serious breach of law regarding his assets declaration. This is not a mere technicality like innocently placing a document in a wrong file or mistakenly placing yesterday’s date on a document.

“All credible evidence indicates the CJN owned and operated several secret bank accounts. Unexplained large sums of money, exceeding several million dollars have passed through these accounts.

Several thousand dollars are currently parked in the accounts. Multiple deposits of equal sums of money were deposited in some of those accounts during the same day.

Such rapid and equal deposits are indicative of a person attempting to evade banking reporting laws and regulations.

“Thus far, CJN Onnoghen has given no plausible explanation for the funds or for failing to report the subject accounts in his assets declaration despite having ample time and opportunity to explain the omission. Given the amount of money involved and the CJN’s inability to explain the source of the funds, the most plausible explanation at this point is also the most unfortunate explanation. No one did this to CJN Onnoghen. He and he alone

is to blame for this turn of events.

“Over the years and with great frequency, the authors of the three statements have advised and even chided Nigeria about official corruption. Now we are presented with the sad and unwanted situation where the CJN is discovered to have a vast, unexplained amount of money in his pocket.

“Because of this he has been thoroughly discredited. It is untenable that a person in such compromised circumstances would be allowed to preside over the entire judicial system of a great nation. That would travesty the nation and what it stands for.

“Had the situation been reversed and the US, UK or any EU member government found that its chief judicial official is the recipient of large sums of money of questionable origin and Nigeria suggested that you retain the person in that position, you would question Nigeria’s bona fides.

You also would swiftly move to suspend the official pending final determination of the causes against him.

“Not one of your nations would allow a person enmeshed in legal uncertainty to preside over your legal systems until the cloud has been cleared from him. That would incentivize corruption and assault the rule of law.

“Thus, the CJN should have and could have helped the process in this regard by recusing himself from the bench until this matter is settled.

“Instead, he indefinitely postponed a NJC meeting for no plausible reason except to avoid any consideration of this matter by the NJC. “Again, this calls into question his motives while undermining the normal operations of the judiciary. The CJN cannot be allowed to use his office to shield himself from the normal operation of the law as applied to any other jurist or any other Nigerian for that matter. Such a ruse is effectively an abuse of office. His position is one of utmost public trust; it is not a shield to protect him from the fair consequence of his own actions.

“Despite these errors and omissions by the CJN, let us make this very clear, he has not been removed from office. Nor has he been permanently replaced. Those who claim that he has been permanently removed, do so out of imprecision of thought or mischief,” the presidency stated.

According to Shehu, CJN Onnoghen has been suspended pending the final determination of the substantive issues in his matter.

The presidency emphaised that the suspension is only temporary, saying, “This is only as it should be. He cannot sit as both defendant and umpire in his own matter. No legal system allows for such self-interested adjudication; the US, UK and EU should not now ask us to embrace such an anomaly.”

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Short News Pull Nigeria back from brink of extinction, Gov Wike charges voters Lassa fever: Plateau records 5 Amaka Agbu, Port Harcourt

Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike of Rivers State has called on Nigerians to pull the country from the brink of extinction by voting out President Muhammadu Buhari on February 16, 2019.

Speaking during the 2019 PDP Campaign Rally at State School 1, Bori, weekend, the Governor said that Nigeria was at an unfortunate crossroad and that everyone was under obligation to salvage the country from the grip of an alleged non-performing President.

He charged: “On February 16, 2019, all Nigerians should persevere at the polling units to ensure we vote Atiku Abubakar and other PDP candidates and sack President Muhammadu Buhari.

“Nigeria is at a crossroad and anything can happen at any time. The enemies of the country will never succeed,” he said.

The governor urged Nigerians to defend their votes and their permanent voters’ cards because the APC Federal Government had allegedly set up a committee to steal PVCs. The governor warned security agencies and officials of the National Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, against plotting to rig, saying that any official involved in rigging would suffer the consequences.

He said that his administration had kept all his promises to the Ogoni people,

pointing out that his second term would witness more profound projects in the area.

Governor Wike warned the people of Khana Local Government Area against “being deceived by the empty promises of the failed APC Federal Government.”

He said the Buhari administration had used the Ogoni cleanup exercise as a lying political tool which would never be implemented.

Governor Wike said that at the federal level, President Muhammadu Buhari “wanted to cripple the Judiciary and the Legislature, the way the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, closed the courts and State House of Assembly of Rivers State in 2013.”

Deputy Governor, Ipalibo Harry Banigo who was present at the occasion expressed happiness that Khana people were solidly behind Governor Wike. She said that Governor Wike would never disappoint Khana people.

She also said that anyone plotting to scuttle the forthcoming elections would face the consequences of their actions.

Rivers State PDP Chairman, Chief Felix Obuah, said that Khana Local Government Area had proven to be a stronghold of Governor Wike and urged the people to remain steadfast in their support for Governor Wike in 2019.

He presented PDP Candidate for Rivers South-East Senatorial District, Rt. Hon. Bari Mpigi, PDP Candidate for

House of Representatives, Khana/Gokana Federal Constituency, Dum Dekor, PDP Candidate for Khana State Constituency 1, Bariene Deeyah and PDP Candidate for Khana State Constituency 2, Prince Ngbor to Khana people. He said the people should vote them for the development of the area.

Speaking, PDP candidate for House of Representatives, Khana/Gokana Federal Constituency, Dum Dekor, said the rally was a history making event because the governor’s journey to Government House Port Harcourt started on the same point.

He said the people were prepared for battle, noting that nobody would be allowed to use the military to rig elections in the area.

In his remarks, Senator Lee Maeba, said Governor Wike was for the Ogoni people, alleging that the former governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, sacked Ogoni son and replaced him with an Ikwerre man.

He said that Governor Wike had always been a friend of the Ogoni, as he nominated an Ogoni son, Kenneth Kobani as a Minister of State for Trade.

Former Leader of APC in Khana, Elder Austin Nwanko, said since 1956 till date, Governor Wike was the first to touch the lives of the people through the dualization of the Sakpenwa-Bori Road.

He said about 1800 members of the APC defected in Kpean Town because of the works of Governor Wike.

deaths, 17 confirmed cases

Plateau State has recorded 17 confirmed cases of Lassa Fever with five persons killed, according to Dr Kunden Deyin, the state’s health commissioner.

Deyin told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Sunday in Jos that 33 cases were taken to the laboratory for confirmation where the 17 were confirmed to be cases of Lassa Fever.

According to him, 13 persons on admission are responding to treatment, while others have been discharged. He, however, could not ascertain the number of persons discharged.

The commissioner said that 73 persons, who had primary and secondary contacts with the patients, were being monitored.

“The 73 persons are currently being monitored. We shall do that for 21 days because the incubation period is from six to 21 days.

“After the 21 days, those not affected by the disease will be discharged from the contact tracing list and certified free of Lassa fever.”

He advised people with symptoms such as headache, body pain and general feeling of being unwell, to promptly report for checks, noting that prompt checks were key to reducing the mortality rates associated with the disease.

Nigeria is safe with my husband - Aisha Buhari Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo, Lagos Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari has urged Kogi women and youths to vote for her husband, President Muhammadu Buhari in the forthcoming Presidential election as Nigeria will remain secured in his hands.

Mrs. Buhari stated this during a Town Hall meeting organised by women and youths mobilisation arm of President Buhari campaign organisation being coordinated by the All Progressives Congress (APC) Women Leader, Hajia Salamatu Baiwa Umar-Eluma in Lokoja the state capital at the weekend.

She spoke through the wife of the Vice President, Mrs. Dolapo Osibanjo who represented her at the crowded event.

She said, “Nigeria is secured in the hands of my husband because he will not steal Nigeria’s money and he is a very prudent man”.

The amiable First Lady who described the people of Kogi State as kind and hard working people assured the people that their future was guaranteed because president Buhari was already laying a solid foundation for that through the anti-corruption war.

Earlier in her address, the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Woman Leader, Hajia Salamatu Baiwa Umar-Eluma had challenged Kogi Women and youths to begin door-to-door campaign to ensure a land slide victory for the party in the state in the forthcoming general elections.

Endorsement of Atiku: Ohaneze urged to suspend Nwodo Nkiru Nwagbo, Awka

Abia State First Lady, Mrs. Nkechi Okezie Ikpeazu, (l) receiving international humanitarian service award, tagged, ‘Distinguished International Service Award’, from Rotary International District 9142 in Umuhia ... Saturday.

‘To end insecurity, 5m PWDs ready to vote Atiku’ Tunde Opalana, Abuja

A group of associations of physically disable persons is set to rally over five million persons living with disability to campaign and vote for the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in the February 16, 2019 presidential poll.

Concerned with the need to put an end to insurgent activities and other forms of violence that result in maiming of people and causing bodily harm, the group hoped that a presidency under Atiku Abubakar will find lasting solutions to insurgency in Nigeria.

The group under the aegis of Atiku/ Obi Vision 4 Disabilities at a press conference

in Abuja on Friday promised to galvanize and mobilize disabled persons eligible to vote to come out February 16 and vote Atiku Abubakar.

Member associations under the group include: Nigerian Women with Disabilities, National Association for the Blind and Voice of Ability Initiative, among others.

Speaking on behalf of the National Coordinator, Comrade Patience Aghimile Igbiti, the National Spokesman of the Atiku/ Obi Vision 4 Disabilities, Hon. Paul Danladi said it is unfortunate that over 25 million persons with disabilities (PWDs) have been marginalized by past governments while the current Buhariled All Progressives Congress (APC)

administration has done little in bettering the lots of physically challenged.

The group lamented the increase in number of people being disabled on daily basis due to activities of insurgents, criminals and hoodlums that have rendered parts of the country unsafe for habitation.

Danladi said the disabled are the most vulnerable apart from women and children in period of crises and violent situations.

The group bemoaned continuous increase in number of internally delivered persons and camps across the country because the present government has failed to provide adequate security especially in the North East region.

Members of the Ohaneze Ndigbo have been challenged to commence suspension proceedings of its National President, Chief John Nwodo for his personal endorsement of the PDP presidential candidate.

A group under the edges of the Igbo Integrity Forum led by Ndukwe Nwamkpa made this call for the suspension of the Ohaneze President in a statement signed yesterday and made available to newsmen in Awka.

The statement alleged that Nwodo compromised the wishes and aspirations of Ndigbo, adding that for him to have acted on his own without recourse to the apex organisation is a betrayal of Ndigbo.

“This betrayal of Ndigbo calls for the suspension of Nwodo because of using the office to execute his personal ambition”, they added.

Similarly, the endorsement of Atiku Abubakar by the Ohaneze Ndigbo as its presidential candidate has been described as a huge lie and the activities of fifth columnists.

Speaking with reporters in Awka yesterday the Secretary General of Ohaneze Ndigbo Bar Uche Okwukwu said that there was never a meeting of Ime -Obi Ohaneze where the body endorsed a candidate for Ndigbo.

LASG introduces French quiz competition in secondary schools Benjamin Omoike, Lagos

The Lagos State Government (LASG), through the Multilingual Centre, has introduced a new Quiz Competition to the extra-curricular activities of Secondary Schools with the maiden edition of a French quiz competition tagged: “A la connaissance de Lagos” - meaning “How much of Lagos do you know”, held at the Immaculate Heart Comprehensive School Hall, Maryland.

18 Schools drawn from the Six Education Districts competed at the Grand Finale of the maiden edition of the competition which saw Sito Gbetrome Senior Secondary School, Seme, Badagry, winning the star prize, while Ikeja Senior High School and Badagry Grammar School came 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Speaking at the event, Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Dr. Idiat Oluranti Adebule commended the ingenuity of the Multilingual Centre for the initiative, saying that the quiz would serve as an impetus for the students as well as endear them to learning other languages.

The Deputy Governor, represented at the event by the Director, Basic Education Services, Lagos State Ministry of Education, Mr. Abiodun Oni, noted that the new competition was meant to redirect the minds of the pupils/students towards keeping abreast of happenings in their immediate environment, have a sense of history and develop penchant for reading wider to broaden their knowledge.

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Nigeria, transparency and salient issues

Soji Apampa

2018, a milestone year in which impunity caused a messy divorce, on a global scale, between transparency and accountability. Whether it was the killing of a Saudi journalist writing for a U.S. paper, in the Saudi Embassy, in Turkey or the attempted murder on British soil, of a former Russian Spy, some events happened in ‘full glare’ of the world, leaving an undisputable ‘smoking gun.’

And yet those involved seem to have gotten away with it simply by acting in high office, with unprecedented impunity – as if daring the world with a smug, “and what are you going to do about it?” Meanwhile, back in Nigeria, accountability seems to have accepted to undergo ‘marriage counselling’ with transparency, following the ‘arrest and prosecution’ of impunity.

The present administration vowed to fight corruption, but many are divided over how successful they have been in that quest. However, on the issue of a war they didn’t declare – that against impunity, few are those who can dispute the level of success they have achieved.

Those who acted with impunity under the Jonathan regime seem unable to continue in that vein, too scared, perhaps, to flaunt the wealth they have amassed in their reckless pursuits. The 2019 elections now seem to be giving them a platform and voice with which to stage a comeback.

The scene is now set for an epic, battle royal – a ferocious war amongst many combatants sworn only to one purpose – the ouster of the Muhammadu Buhari administration to reinstate ‘the way

things were before.’ This is not a political piece however, but an attempt to appeal to sense and reason. Let me digress for a moment. Some women I know are great fans of Nollywood and long before the renaissance of going to see madein-Nigeria movies at the cinema, these ladies religiously followed the new titles released each week by the “marketers.”

They could tell, simply by the line-up of the cast whether a movie would be interesting or boring and could often tell the storyline simply from the theme song – to them, these are very Nigerian stories and those stories follow a pattern.

Looking at the array of combatants for the coming electoral battle in 2019 and the theme song they are chorusing, even if they have changed the movie title, should the discerning expect the storyline to be different or should they expect a more interesting story from these actors they have come to know so well? Can those who made a fortune out of acting with impunity be trusted to midwife a reconciliation between transparency and accountability? Can those who made a fortune at the expense of poor Nigerians now be the trusted architects of a more inclusive economy?

Like it or not, all our politicians have seen the global rise of populism. Many will be seduced by the politician’s ability to couch in populist terms the lust for wealth-by-all-means and the lust for power to keep it coming; or the greedy longings for what the Nigerian rich flaunt, regardless of the means adopted in acquiring it or the selfish reliance

on material resources as a yardstick of national progress. The battle lines are drawn between those who believe the ends justify the means, so long as the economy “grows” (meaning money is swirling around freely again – the way things were) versus those who seek more sustainable paths to growth through building the right societal foundations, including good ethics and values like transparency and accountability in pursuit of a Society that is good for all. A vote for this brand of populist rhetoric is a vote for the destruction of the foundations of our society and a mortgaging of the already slim chances we have at making a proper recovery from years of abuse by various brands of dictators.

We need a government that is interested in and capable of identifying the constraints to growth in each community in Nigeria, one capable of finding innovative ways of removing such constraints in ways that enable the majority of Nigerians see a sustainable increase in their incomes. A government that is able to help each citizen living on less than N500 a day (and that is over 125 million Nigerians) achieve at least N1,500-N2,000 a day, through productivity gains. This should include women and Nigeria’s teeming youth, persons living with disability and the chronically unemployed. A government that is able to develop policies that encourage the existing value-chains incorporate the poor as producers, employees and customers to improve

their livelihoods and spark off inclusive business models. The establishment of such a clear proposition will attract serious investment from the private sector in response.

This is when government resources can be freed up to consolidate on these gains by strengthening infrastructure and the rule of law. Nigeria’s GDP could more than quadruple and sustainable economic growth could be a natural outcome. If you start ab initio, on the premise that you could sacrifice good values such as integrity, transparency and accountability, so long as you record some “economic growth” that makes “money flow freely again”, this high risk (foolish) strategy would turnout at best to be a bubble, and false growth which will inevitably end in a major crash.

Nigerians need to see through the wiles of crafty, foxy politicians who are after nothing but their own self-perpetuation and preservation in wealth and power.

It is true the new breed may not fully seize power till 2023 but can such a fresh, new future come from old guard, re-cycled, politicians? What should the reasonable Nigerian do? If your choice candidate and party is unlikely to be able to improve the situation by 2023 then why not make a choice that will do no harm until then? Vote in the leaders and party that will hold fort even if repair is beyond them and banish those who will return us to ‘the way things were.’

Nigerians deserve a better future and now is the time to prepare for it. What do you think?

Onnoghen and the foreign accounts saga

Carl Umegboro

AFRICA’s most populous nation, Nigeria presently witnesses a new hubbub on anti-corruption battle involving a high profile figure - the head of another arm of the Federal Government. Earlier on, it was against the head of the legislative arm - Dr. Bukola Saraki, the Senate President.

Saraki was subsequently discharged and acquitted by technicalities procedural defects.

Presently, the arrow is unprecedentedly pointing to the head of the judiciary- Hon Justice Walter Nkanu Onnoghen, JSC, Chief Justice of Nigeria that heads the nation’s Supreme Court and National Judicial Council (NJC), for operating undeclared foreign accounts contrary to Code of Conducts for public officers as provided in Sec 11 (1) (2) of the 5th Schedule of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended.

The incident has cacophonously engendered pandemonium with two distinct sides; one in solidarity and the other for the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) for charging the head jurist to the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT). Despite hue and cry, Federal Gvernment through the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) uncompromisingly froze Justice Onnoghen’s five affected accounts by means of Presidential Executive Order No. 6 of 2018, and demanded his resignation as CJN. In the two proceedings, Justice Onnoghen was absent.

Consequently, President Muhammadu Buhari as ordered by the tribunal suspended him as CJN pending the conclusion of the trial pursuant to Section 11 of the Interpretation Act, Cap 123, Vol. 8, LFN, 2004. If acquitted, reinstatement is certain.

Nonetheless, the die is cast as both sides have radical legal luminaries.

However, the learned jurist admitted ownership of the foreign accounts but explained he forgot to declare them as statutorily required from public officers. By the admission alongside banks extracts, the prima facie cases have been established which pointed to commission of crimes. Unfortunately, proof doesn’t solely determine a conclusion as substantive law merely governs rights and obligations.

Enforcing them to secure convictions and sentences is entirely a different ballgame as it demands absolute compliance to stipulated rules and procedures. For example, established crimes with evidences may still end up in futility if characterised by procedural defects in the judicial process.

Thus, the issue is more of a clash between substantive and procedural laws. Hence, notwithstanding the apparent breach of the laws as admitted by the learned jurist, the proviso demanding the agency to first invite the accused public officer for a written response; either to admit or refuse to react may render the charges defective since it allegedly wasn’t done.

However, this clause is ill-conceived for selfish motives. The blunder transcends the present brouhaha and demands justification as it isn’t for public interest knowing the offenders would seek settlement during the invitations.

In generic sense, it is deficient but however, remains the law until reviewed.

A fundamental challenge is the explanation to provide especially to the masses that are constantly bundled and convicted for crimes they sometimes committed unconsciously. For example,

several motorists have been arrested for mistakenly or forgetfully breaking traffic laws, and excuses of oblivion fell on deaf ears. Similarly, former Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun after her admission threw in the towel and lost her job over omission to get authentic NYSC exclusion certificate.

By the position of the accused as helmsman of the judiciary, anything short of conviction and sentence after his open admission will be perceived in public quarters as undue influence.

Meanwhile, the procedural defects probably led to the cataclysm.

Another critical issue in the issue is the Appeal Court’s decision in Ngangiwa v FRN (2017) LPELR-43391 which however, ruled that judicial officers accused of offences must first be subjected to investigation and disciplinary actions by the National Judicial Council. Incidentally, the accused jurist heads the NJC expected to investigate the allegations pursuant to the appellate decision, and therefore, it would incontrovertibly clash with the principle of natural justice; ‘Nemo judex in causa sua’ (nobody may be a judge in his own case) which is sacrosanct.

Convincingly, the Appeal Court never envisaged such a catastrophic scenario.

Again, having openly admitted the omission or commission, the question that may rationally arise is the essence of further investigations by the body since investigation is possibly aimed at ensuring that a judicial officer accused of offences actually committed the alleged offences prior to prosecution in the court.

The most delicate aspect of the saga is the clash between rule of law and equality before the law.

Critically, should the crimes be

overlooked by CCB over the accused jurist’s status? Fifth Schedule of the Constitution incidentally exempted none, not even the President of the Federation that enjoys immunity. By his admission, the public are eagerly hoping to see conviction which may not come. Suffice to say it is high time agencies of government as a remedial mechanism split legal departments into Solicitors and Advocates units for shared responsibilities. This would optimistically, technically separate their duties such that while Solicitors department guides operations on substantive matters, the Advocates unit ensures strict compliance to rules and procedures for efficient service delivery.

The gargantuan omission certainly exists as a result of the fusion of the two distinct professions; solicitors and advocates in Nigeria. Resultantly, law enforcement agencies merely consider issues vis-à-vis substantive laws but rarely consider the procedural aspects which lead to convictions prior to embarking on their actions. If judiciously measured, numerous high profile cases that nauseatingly suffer defects in court every now and then over technicalities will be minimised as that has continually led to public’s loss of confidence in the judiciary each time obvious crimes shockingly got dismissed in court. As remarkably expounded in R v Sussex Justices ex parte McCarthy [1924] 1 KB 256, “Justice must not only be done but seen to be done”. Thus, the legal system should necessarily, convincingly reflect justice at all times especially to the officious bystanders - average citizens for unflinching confidence in the system.

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Editorial Commentary Minimum wage and matters arising

Times Guest Columnist Chinemelu Nwokike

To all you who believe we shouldn’t have a minimum wage — that the minimum amount you can be paid should be determined solely by your employer. We tried it once before: it was called SLAVERY ~ Quentin R. Bufogle Analyzing the absurd in Nigeria is like trying to crack open a palm nut with an egg: fascinating but futile — yet time and again one is brought back to the same place by the seeming indifference of our leaders to the daily struggles of the average Nigerian. Where will I start analyzing the fact that the so-called ‘Giant of Africa’ is still grappling with a minimum wage of $50 whereas poorer neighbouring countries like Cameroon and Chad have minimum wages of $75 and $115 respectively?

Going by the International Labour Organisation (ILO)’s definition, a minimum wage is “the lowest wage that an employer is allowed to pay the employee, the price floor below which workers may not be willing to sell their labour”. In arriving at the figure consideration must be given to the prevailing inflationary trend, cost of living index and the employer’s capacity to pay the amount. It can, therefore, be deduced from the foregoing that any wage which falls below the minimum wage cannot guarantee a decent living for a worker or an employee. In other words, any worker that does not receive up to such stipulated amount after rendering services is more or less a slave.

Last Sunday my Goddaughter popped in to say hi, she informed me that she has started work in a shop where she will be earning over €200 monthly for putting in a total of just 32 hours on Saturdays and Sundays. Add that to the pecks of child benefits accruing to her from the social welfare office and it will sum up to about €400. That is five times more than the N30,000 minimum wage that the government has agreed with the Nigerian Labour Congress. And she’s only 16!

I am not one to compare Nigeria with ‘saner climes’ because even though I live in and feel both worlds I have always maintained that there is no magic wand to Uhuru in a developing nation which has been pauperized by decades of misrule from monumentally corrupt and visionless leaders.

I am also an optimist but sincere optimism requires an appreciation of the rot to have realistic expectations of what is attainable but I just couldn’t help imagining how a €400 monthly salary will transform the life of an average Nigerian worker.

Nevertheless, for the purpose of this piece, I will limit the juxtaposition to Africa.

In 2016 the World Bank through its World Developers Indicators (WDI) released data which revealed that among a sample of 19 African countries, Nigerian was a runnerup from the bottom position (beating only Malawi) in the minimum wage rate addition but ranked 11th in the inflation rate (14.32%).

Two years on the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) put the inflation rate in the second quarter of 2018 at 11.23% with the exchange rate of Naira at approximately N362 in the parallel market. However, despite the gradual decline in the inflation rate witnessed since the last quarter of 2017, as an import-dependent nation, the over 100% increase in exchange rate actuated an increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which is the weighted average of prices of consumer goods and services resulting in a huge reduction of the purchasing power of the naira.

What all these jargon mean in layman’s terms is that the current value of N30,000 is less than what it was 3 years ago.

As a matter of fact, the N30,000 minimum wage is more or less meaningless, it was long overdue even in 2015 and that prompted many economists to propose an amount ranging between N50,000 to N65,000 considering the prevailing indices or parameters.

Paradoxically, one can equally understand those who objectively queried the verisimilitude of implementing the above figure or even the agreed N30,000.

So how realistic and achievable is it in the face of the country’s current economic reality for workers to be paid this amount as at when due? Salaries still constitute a major part of the annual recurrent expenditure that gulps over 70% of both state and federal budgets. Moreover, 33 out of 36 states are currently owing workers arrears of salaries for up to 11 months in some cases going by what the NLC says. If state

governors cannot pay N18,000 how can they scratch N30,000 let alone N50,000? Mind you this is in spite of the frequent bail-out funds doled out by the federal government.

Certainly, a majority of the states cannot pay the new minimum wage as it is no secret that we have a serious problem of economic viability among many states. Are we then set for another era of random overseas trips by governors seeking foreign loans to cushion this pressure?

And if the motivation is political for the federal government which retains a large chunk (52%) of the government revenue and recently weeded out over 50,000 ghost workers from its payroll, then how can it avoid a repeat of the Jonathan era mistake when the government which increased minimum wage could no longer pay salaries as oil prices dipped? Any government that borrows to pay salaries is tightening the noose and mortgaging the future of generations unborn.

The situation is just a mess. There are more questions than answers. Ours is a country with limited social welfare andinfrastructure, at N18,000 the average Nigerian worker has been catering for feeding, clothing, transport, and shelter with only N600 daily. Isn’t that a miracle in a place where rent is paid annually and two years in advance for a new tenant? I think it is.

Some have argued that service delivery is nothing short of pathetic. Our public institutions are notorious for being unkempt and often under-equipped working environment, add that to the nonchalance of civil servants and you ‘ve got your work cut out for you. If you have a business with a government ministry or public institution in Nigeria on any given day then you are better advised to devote the entire day to achieving that task.

The private sector is not particularly great either. Any professional in the construction industry will certainly know the difference in the quality component between what our artisans and those from smaller neighbouring countries like Togo or Ghana deliver. Simply put, ours is a nation with plenty of activity with little productivity.

However, it will be uncharitable to dismiss the importance of these services.

Whatsmore, once services are rendered it is only equitable that the wages are paid at the end of a given period.

We can only strive to improve the workplace and quality of service delivery because those are the negotiable factors and not the payment of agreed wages.

Again, when you consider that the president reportedly cuts has a budget of N70m for haircut, senators receive N13.5m pocket money in addition to monthly salaries and governors are free to take N500m as monthly security vote then you have to sympathise with civil servants because a huge chunk of the work of these elected officials are done by them. It is a case of “monkey de work baboon de chop”in the common Nigerian parlance.

It, therefore, is our collective duty to sustain the pressure on government at all levels to focus on the developmental projects like mass transit systems, lowincome housing and other social infrastructures that erode a large percentage of the workers’ salaries. Legislators must be put on notice especially on the state level, to thoroughly scrutinise frivolous loan requests from the executive and decline accent if found wanting.

Labour should also work together with the government to explore ways of improving service delivery via training, skill acquisition, capacity building, and responsive feedback mechanism. With the regular technological innovations, quality service is getting easier to deliver. It is also more satisfying for the giver and receiver.

It is preposterous that in this digital era when we have better and cheaper tools, one can still find public offices without a single desktop computer.

So I would rather the government, civil servants and indeed Nigerians keep the champagne on ice because there is still much to do before the average worker can heave a sigh of relief and kick off her shoes. Be that as it may, I wouldn’t term the perceived victory by Organised Labour pyrrhic as I have read in some commentaries.

Even if I won’t celebrate I have to commend every group that worked towards getting to a resolution because the alternative would have been worse for everybody. It is a step albeit a small one but without taking a step no matter how little you will not get to the destination.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Even at that, security remains

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

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

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

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

S I G N AT U R E Publisher

Folio Communications Plc

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

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Strike out charge against Ajumogobia, Obla, EFCC pleads with Court Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has urged the Lagos State High Court to strike out a suit in which it instituted against Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia and Godwin Obla (SAN).

Counsel to the EFCC, Mr. Rotimi Oyedepo, at the resumed hearing on 25 January 2019, appealed to the court to strike out the charge before the court and to discharge the defendants.

Oyedepo predicated his appeal to the court on the decision of the Court of Appeal in the case of Nganjiwa Vs Federal Republic of Nigeria and the preliminary objection raised by counsel to Ofili-Ajumogobia, Robert Clarke SAN. (The Court of Appeal had in Nganjiwa’s case held that where there are allegations of misconduct or any breach of the law carried out in the course of a judicial officer’s functions, such a judicial officer must first be disciplined by the National Judicial Council before arraignment in a Court of law).

Oyedepo further conceded, in agreement with Robert Clarke (SAN), that the court lacked the jurisdiction to try Ofili-Ajumogobia without first having recourse to the National Judicial Council.

Clarke who is counsel to OfiliAjumogobia, however, pointed out to the court that Oyedepo had been aware

of the decision of the court of appeal in Nganjiwa’s case since it was delivered but deliberately failed to draw the court’s attention to it- thus giving the impression that the prosecution had set about to persecute and not prosecute the 1st defendant. Clarke (SAN) further argued that Oyedepo’s action constitutes an act of professional misconduct for which he (Oyedepo) ought to be sanctioned.

Ifedayo Adedipe (SAN), leading Chief Ferdinand Orbih (SAN) and other members of the Defence team for Mr. Godwin Obla (SAN), OfiliAjumogobia’s co-defendant, however urged the court to separate the joint charges of the defendants and to permit Obla’s trial to continue, in the event that Ofili-Ajumogobia is discharged.

Adedipe SAN’s application was anchored on Section 151 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos which permits the severance of criminal charges and the separation of joint criminal trials. Adedipe SAN, relying on the decision of the Court of Appeal in the recent case of SULE vs STATE (2018) 10 NWLR (Pt. 1628) 545 at 566-567, paras. G-A, also argued that where a Court is faced with a criminal trial where one of the defendants is unavailable or the charges against him/ her are to be struck out, such a Court may proceed to separate the joint trial and proceed with the trial of one or more co-defendants on the existing charge.

Rivers PDP denies tearing Dumo Lulu-Briggs’ campaign posters Amaka Agbu, Port Harcourt The Rivers State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Felix Obuah, has denied claims by the Accord Party governorship candidate in the state, Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs, that his campaign posters were being destroyed by members of the PDP in the State.

Chief Obuah who was reacting to Dumo Lulu-Briggs’ comments on Silverbird 93.7 FM live radio programme, View Point, described the accusation against the PDP as false, misleading and a fragment of his imagination.

The Rivers PDP boss said he was not surprised at such vituperations from Dumo Lulu-Briggs, “as he was apparently frustrated, having to lose every election he had contested.”

He described Dumo Lulu-Briggs as a joker, who could not win election in Rivers.

“Dumo Lulu-Briggs is a serial election loser. He thinks it is the All Progressives Congress (APC) where he was incubated and midwifed, where hooliganism is a culture,”Obuah said.

He affirmed that the PDP was a body of matured and civilized minds that would not tamper with the campaign posters of political opponents.

“We in the PDP are civil, matured and responsible, and would not belittle ourselves by tampering with other political party candidates’ posters.

“In his wild imagination, he forgets that Rivers State is not Lagos, Kaduna, Ekiti, Edo, Imo and all the APC states

where billboards and posters of the PDP candidates are destroyed at will,” Chief Obuah said.

The Rivers PDP Chairman also slammed Dumo Lulu-Briggs following what he said were false statistical index on employment, poverty and insecurity in the State, stressing that the Accord Party guber candidate would continue to lose elections as he allegedly knew little or nothing about his Local Government Area and the State.

Governor Wike, according to Chief Obuah had done well, and Rivers people would vote massively for him and all the PDP candidates in the coming election.

“How can he claim to run election when he doesn’t have campaign offices in any of the 23 Local Government Areas of Rivers State? Does he know that the Accord Party did not have candidates in all the elective offices for the forthcoming general elections?

“How can a candidate like Dumo boast of winning election in Rivers State, with what? Politics is a game of number, and Dumo does not have the number,” Chief Obuah said.

He continued: “Let Dumo LuluBriggs understand that the PDP is recognised in all the 4,442 Electoral Units and has offices in the 319 Wards in the State. PDP also has campaign offices in all the Chapters and local government areas in the State,” he said, alleging that Lulu-Briggs could not run election for the exalted office of Governor of Rivers State, because, according to him, he did not even know the number of Wards or Political Units in the state.

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Omoluwa, Pinnacle boss slams N1bn Short News Rotary International canvasses violence-free suit against ICPC spokesperson election in Nigeria Andrew Orolua, Abuja

Chairman, Board of Directors of Pinnacle Communications Ltd, Sir Lucky Omoluwa has slammed N1billion libel suit against the spokesperson of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), Mrs Rashedat Oloduwa, for maliciously publicizing falsehood against his person.

The suit dated 13th December 2018, and marked CV/578/20187 was filed at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Maitama by Nnamonso Ekanem SAN, on behalf of Omoluwa.

By the suit, the Pinnacle boss wants the court to order Okoduwa to pay him the sum of N1,000,000,000 (One Billion Naira) damages.

Omoluwa is also praying for a declaration that the defendant’s publication on the website of the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission from 15th of November, 2018 under the caption “News Release”, which is widely read in Nigeria and worldwide is libelous of claimant.

The claimant is seeking an order of public apology, retraction and rebuttal of the libellous publication and statements on the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission website and the Vanguard Newspaper, Daily Trust Newspaper

and Premiumtimesng website for seven consecutive days.

In addition, Omoluwa is asking for an order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendant, her cronies, group of people, agency or anyone however called through the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission website or any website or news media used or that may be used by the defendant from further publishing or disseminating the libelous material or similar ones against the claimant forthwith.

In his statement of claim, Omoluwa said that the defendant stated that he (Omoluwa) had repeatedly failed to honour invitations from the Commission to come and explain his role in the alleged N2.5bn Digital Switch Over fraud.

Omoluwa said Okoduwa accused him of seeking leave of the Federal High Court, Abuja, to stop the investigation as well as unfreeze the Zenith Bank account of the Company that was frozen by ICPC, but was however ordered by the same court to appear before ICPC for interrogation before the next adjourned date of 3rd December, 2018 before his case would be heard.

“In compliance with the Court Order, Mr. Omoluwa has appeared before the Commission where he made useful statement to investigate...”

the ICPC spokesperson alleged.

Contrary to the publication of ICPC on its website, the claimant said he did not file any suit in any court to prevent the Commission from investigating him or carrying out its statutory duties.

The claimant among other claims, stated that at all material times the commission’s website and the newspapers that subsequently quoted and reported the said “News Release”, was accessible to millions of internet users within Nigeria and worldwide.

“The claimant states that the defendant knew that once she published the statement concerning the claimant at the Commission’s website, it would be accessed by an unquantifiable number of internet users worldwide “The claimant states that the defendant knew and intended that the news release should be republished and such republications were natural and probable consequence of the defendant’s publication of the news release on the commission’s website.

“The claimant states that the act of publication of the news release by the defendant on the commission’s website was done maliciously, capriciously aimed at tarnishing the claimant’s reputation.

Prince Nwankwo, Owerri The Rotary Club International, District 9142, which comprises seven states in Nigeria, Abia, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Cross River, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo states, has organised three days programme tagged ‘Walk Against Electoral Violence’ , “Ethics in Business & Professions’, and ‘Women in Rotary’, from January 25 to 27, 2019, at Abia Hotels and Continental Resort, Umuahia, Abia state.

The programme which began on Friday with registration of guests and members, continued with training, seminar, lectures, cocktails, etc, while in the morning on Saturday, the members of Rotary International District 9142 and some Abians walked round Umuahia city, telling Nigerians the need to avoid violence and anything that will affect negatively, the forthcoming general election.

Some of the roads covered were, Bende Road, Fimbarrs Road, Azikiwe Road, Aba Road, Secretariat Road, Lagos Street and Umudike Road.

Addressing those who gathered at Abia Tower Umuahia, the District Governor, Rotn. Dr. Dan Chiedozie Ajawara, told them that, it is not right to cause or allow any form of violence in the upcoming general election.

CJN suspension: EU Election Observation Mission reacts Adebisi Oyindamola, Abuja The European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) has expressed concern over the process and timing of the suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen just 20 days to the general elections.

In a statement issued on Saturday in Abuja, by the Election Observation Mission, the EU said the timing of Justice Onnoghen’s suspension has raised a lot of questions as to whether the constitutional provisions and due process was followed.

The EU also warned that the credibility of the Judicial System in the delivery of electoral justice will be contested following the decision of the government to suspend the CJN. “The decision to suspend the Chief Justice has led to many Nigerians, including lawyers and civil society observer groups, to question whether due process was followed.

“The timing just before the swearing in of justices for Electoral Tribunals and the hearing of election-related cases has also raised concerns about the opportunity for electoral justice,” they stated.

Greg University Uturu partners Rutgers Varsity, NJ to improve public service Sunday Nwakanma, Umuahia

Wife of Ondo State Governor, Mrs Betty Anyanwu Akeredolu, (right), with Governor of Oyo state, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, (left) during the Ibadan Recreation Club Award Night, held at the Recreation Club center, in Ibadan ... on Friday.

FG to collaborate with UK, others on economic development - Ahmed

The Federal Government has assured of its readiness to partner with any group or stakeholders towards the transformation and economic development of the country.

Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed stated this at the closing session of the UK-Nigeria Climate Finance Accelerator workshop (CFA) held at the Zonal office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Lagos, weekend.

Ahmed, represented by Mr Israel Igwe, Director, Economic Research and Policy, Ministry of Finance, said there was need for a coordinated green climate finance platform like the CFA in the economy.

According to her, the CFA programme is an innovative concept that would aid government’s developing approach of the “Ease of Doing Business”.

In his presentation, Mr Chris Dodwell, Director, Climate Change and Clean Growth Ricardo Energy, called on stakeholders in the financial sector to collaborate towards financing developmental projects.

Dodwell said that CFA was an innovative

international initiative supported by the UK Government and other international donors including Nigeria, Colombia and Mexico.

According to him, its aim is to accelerate the transformation of countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) into bankable projects to attract investment from the private sector.

He added that CFA was a powerful example of creating a productive dialogue between financiers and policymakers, focused on scalable opportunities.

“The CFA progresses financing proposals for identified projects while ensuring Technical Assistance is provided to policymakers across ministries so that planning for delivery of the NDC is better aligned with available capital from local and international markets.

“For its actualisation and success, there is need for dialogue and collaboration among policymakers, governments, project developers and financial experts,” Dodwell said.

Contributing, Mr Kyari Bukar, former Chairman, Nigeria Economy Summit Group

(NESG), said the CFA programme was the kind of investment initiative the country currently needed to boost its investment portfolios for enhanced economic growth.

Bukar said the initiative would help to diversify investment portfolio of the banking sector and also transform the capital market.

“There is a driven finance community that is growing in the Nigerian economy, which needs to be identified and developed.

“With the much-valued support of the Nigeria Economic Summit Group, since October 2018, we have been engaging with private sector companies interested in undertaking ambitious low carbon development projects.

“This is with a view to creating a mature pipeline of bankable projects contributing to Nigeria’s NDC and strengthening the climate finance capacities of public and private sector institutions,” he said.

Four banks namely; Access, Union, Sterling and First City Monument Bank (FCMB) made presentations of the bank’s proposed projects.

In an apparent move to make Gregory University, Uturu (GUU) one of the best in Nigeria, the Proprietor and Chancellor of the university, Prof Gregory Ibe early this week, visited Rutgers University New Jersey, United States of America.

This was even as Rutgers University, New Jersey and Gregory University, Uturu, Nigeria have agreed to explore potential areas of partnership in the areas of student exchanges and improving public service in Nigeria and the United States.

According to the university’s Principal Assistant Registrar, Media & Public Relations, Ogbonnaya Sleek Ogwo, exchanging views with the visiting Chancellor of Gregory University at the Newark Campus of Rutgers, the Dean of School of Public Affairs and Administration, Dr. Charles Menifield spoke of the importance of education as the key to fighting ignorance, poverty, and disease.

As an institution that prides itself on diversity, Dr. Menified Stated said Rutgers’ School of Public Affairs and Administration – SPAA, ranked 7 in the United States, adding that his university will continue to support educational initiatives around the world.

Task force arrests 126 for violating sanitation law in Kano Yakubu Salisu, Kano

The Kano State Sanitation Task Force Team under the leadership of the state’s Commissioner of Environment, Ali Haruna Makoda, has arrested 126 persons for violating the state sanitation law.

The defaulters, mostly made up of tricycle operators, were arrested on Saturday between the hours of 7-10am, being time set aside for sanitation exercise at the end of every month to allow for general sanitation across the state.

The Commissioner, who spoke to news men shortly after supervision of the exercise, lamented over the non-compliance attitude of the tricycle operators despite previous meetings with their various leaders on the need to educate their members to obey the law restricting movement during the hours of the exercise, describing them as constituting nuisance.

He warned that, his team will spare no one who deliberately violate the law and that the leaders of the group will be summoned once again on the attitude of its members in order to avoid repetition in such incidences.

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2019: INEC tasks security operatives on Short News professionalism, neutrality in Taraba Okerafor Athanatius, Jalingo

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has charged Security Operatives to exhibit high sense of professionalism as they discharge their duties during the February 16th and March 2nd general elections.

The Taraba State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), INEC, Alhaji Baba Abba Yusuf stated this while declaring open a one day Workshop on training of hundreds of Security Operatives on how to remain neutral while discharging their duties during the February 16 and March 2 general elections.

The INEC Boss also added that the Electorates will be watching how the Commission and the Security Aparatus will protect them and their votes.

He noted that high level of professionalism and efficiency is expected from Security Operatives to apprehend Electoral offenders during elections.

Alh. Baba Yusuf further reiterated that the Commission can only conduct free, fair and credible polls through the cooperation of the Security Agencies and Stakeholders in the State.

According to him, the Electorates expect the Commission to work in synergy with the Security Operatives

with a view to protecting their votes and making sure it counts.

Speaking at the event, the Taraba State Commissioner of Police, CP, David Akinremi called on other Security Agencies to cooperate with the Police towards achieving a common course.

“We hope that other Security Agencies would see this as a clarion call and team up with the Police for credible and peaceful polls,” he said.

Dave Akinremi frowned at the previous elections across the country where according to him, the Police alone were left to protect Votes of the Electorates at the various Collation Centres which is not really encouraging.

Buhari’s visit: Kwara PDP raises the alarm over plot to arrest its leaders on trumped-up charges Kehinde Akinpelu, Ilorin

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kwara state chapter, raised the alarm yesterday about alleged plans by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to implicate some of its members ahead of a campaign rally to be led by President Muhammad Buhari on February 4, in Ilorin, the state capital.

State chairman of the party, Alhaji Kola Shittu who raised the alarm at a press briefing listed seven top members of the party who have been allegedly slated for arrest on trumped up charges in order to intimidate the party.

Shittu asked Nigerians to prevail on the security operatives not to be used for political vendetta, pointing out that his party has been engaged in campaigns for long now without any untoward incident.

Shittu’s text of the address reads: “As you are all aware, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari is billed to visit Kwara state on February 4, 2019 in furtherance of his campaign tour of the country. We welcome him and his entourage to our dear state of Harmony.

“However, we want to draw the attention of the public to plot by members of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state to rope and get prominent members of our party arrested on trump up charges before the date of Mr President’s visit to the state.

Police foil attempt to snatch Uber car, arrest 1 suspect Chioma Joseph, Lagos

Operatives from the Maroko Police Division have arrested one Ogundoju Olalekan for allegedly snatching a Toyota Corolla saloon car, with registration number KJA 69 FE from an Uber driver.

The suspect who lives at No.14 Shomorin street, Ifako Gbagada had bordered the Uber car alongside his friend who is still at Large from the African Shrine on January 23, 2018, at about 11:30pm.

Shortly after the car drove from African Shrine, the suspects had threatened the driver, Ogadinma Ikeagu with two wooden prototypes of berretta pistols and made away with the car.

The Anti crime patrol team of Maroko Police Station led by the Divisional Police Officer, CSP Isah Abdulmajid, who were on crime prevention patrol, came across the driver who was crying for help.

According to the Lagos Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Chike Oti who confirmed the arrest said, “the driver narrated that his car had just been snatched by two passengers he picked at the African Shrine.

Abia First Lady receives international humanitarian award Prince Nwankwo, Owerri Rotary International District 9142 canvassing for violent free election in Nigeria at Umuhia, Abia State.

2019 Election: Publisher, REC, guber candidates charge media on accurate reporting Patrick Okohue, Lagos

The Publisher of The Drum Online, Prince Akanni Segun has urged the Nigeria press to be accurate in the reportage of the 2019 elections for peace and stability of the nation.

He harped that “in order to fulfil their roles, the media need to maintain a high level of professionalism, accuracy and impartiality in their reportage. Regulatory frameworks can help ensure high standards. Laws and regulation should guarantee fundamental freedoms essential to democracy, including freedom of information and expression, as well as participation.”

Akanni pointed out that the provisions such as requiring government media, funded with public money, to give fair coverage and equitable access to opposition parties, help ensure appropriate media behaviour during elections.

Delivering a lecture organised by the All Nigerian United Nations Students and Youth Association’s Conference (University of Ibadan Chapter), Akanni posited that “there is no gain saying that the media has a big role to play, not only in ensuring that elections are transparent, but in ensuring, that the outcome of any given election reflects the true wishes

of the people.”

According to Akanni, at the event which held at the Alumni Auditorium, University of Ibadan, Thursday, with the theme: ‘The Role of the Media In Ensuring People’s Vote Count,’ “The media is responsible for providing information, education and entertainment.

The word media was first used in reference to books and newspapers that is the print media.

But with the advent of technology, media now encompasses television, movies, radio and the internet,” he added.

He pointed out that the watchdog role of the media, “naturally comes to bear at election periods,” adding that “it is safe to propagate therefore that the media is essential to democracy, and a democratic election is impossible without it.”

“A free and fair election is not only about the freedom to vote and the knowledge of how to cast a vote, but also about a participatory process where voters engage in public debate and have adequate information about parties, policies, candidates and the election process itself in order to make informed choices.

The media acts as a watchdog to democratic elections, safeguarding the transparency of the process.”

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)’S Resident Electoral

Commissioner (REC) in Oyo State, Mr Mutiu Olaleke Agboke who was the Keynote speaker at the event urged politicians to shun violence while urging youths not to be malleable tools in the hands of the political parties.

The Head of Media and Publicity of The National Orientation Agency, in Oyo State, Alhaji Kehinde Isiaka, who represented the State Director of the agency, Mrs Dolapo Dosunmu, spoke on vote buying, urging students not to be part of the political scandal that is presently rocking the nation’s political space.

In his remarks, The President of the Association, Mr Oluwasegun Olalekan Oladokun said the event was a political conference 2019, organised by All Nigerian United Nations Students and Youth Association (ANUNSA), University of Ibadan.

The association which was established in 1958 at the University of Ibadan, it’s the first registered and recognised United Nations Students and Youth Association in Nigeria.

Present at the event are Dr. Yemi Faronbi, the gubernatorial candidates of National Interest Party, Princess Bolanle Ashabi Sarumi Aliyu, Engr Akinwale Omololu Laosun of African Action Congress, Mr Akande Akin Sanyaolu of Peoples Democratic Change, Prof.

M. O. Abdul rahman among others.

The Abia State First Lady, Mrs. Nkechi Okezie Ikpeazu, has received an international humanitarian service award, tagged, ‘Distinguished International Service Award’, from Rotary International, on Saturday, during a district event “Women In Rotary”, organised by Rotary District 9142, Nigeria.

The Abia First Lady was at the event, where she received the award from the District Governor, District 9142, Dr. Dan Ajawara.

The citation of the wife of the state governor read by Rotarian Mrs. Oby Nwankwu, stated a lot of things done by her, before her husband became the governor of the state and the numerous ones she has done since her husband became the governor of Abia state.

The achievement tells much on her humanitarian services, which she has given to the people of Abia state.

This include providing free food to pupils in primary schools from primary 1 to 6, provision of 125 wheelchairs to disabled persons, procurement of over 1000 sewing machines to tailors, etc.

Atiku’s Endorsement: Nwodo rigged Ohaneze constitution - VON DG Charles Onyekwere, Abakaliki The Director General, Voice of Nigeria (VON) and chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Osita Okechukwu on Sunday accused the President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, John Nnia Nwodo (jnr.) of rigging the constitution of Ohanaeze in his purported endorsement of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and running mate, Mr. Peter Obi. Okechukwu who is an ardent supporter of President Muhammadu Buhari, the APC presidential candidate, said Nwodo deliberately sidelined the General Assembly, which is the Supreme Organ of the apex Igbo sociocultural organisation, going by Article 10, subsection VI of Ohanaeze’s constitution.

The VON DG was reacting to the controversial endorsement of Atiku/ Obi ticket of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) last week and the attendant fury and outrage of Governor of Anambra state, Willie Obiano, Ken Nnamani, Chris Ngige, Geofrey Onyeama and a host of other prominent Igbo leaders.

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I will fulfill all my campaign promises - Gov Obiano Stories by John Ndu, Awka

Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano, has restated his resolve to continue achieving all his campaign promises irrespective of the present economic crunch in the country.

Obiano made the promise during his on going Thank-you tour at Idemili South Council Headquarters, Ojoto and St. Alphonsus Nkpor in Idemili North.

The Governor re-emphasised that the mission of his government was to create enabling environment for businessess to strive, geared towards making the state financially independent.

While soliciting for support in the forthcoming general election, Governor Obiano said that a win for all APGA candidates would help him concentrate on his mandate and avoid distractions from the opposition.

He described unity as the greatest need of the moment on the part of all party faithful,

assuring of doing his best to ensure that APGA continues to advance stronger and better.

Senator Victor Umeh, who stressed that APGA has been on ground for over twelve years without break, pointed out that the party, having delivered good governance to the people, cannot be contended with, and added that winning the election will make Anambra a complete APGA family.

Also speaking, APGA candidate for Idemili North and South Federal Constituency, Mr.

Onyeka Ibezi and the member representing Idemili South Constituency in the State House of Assembly, Barrister Chuka Ezenwune, assured victory for all candidates in the election.

The Transition Committee Chairmen for Idemili North and South Council areas, Mr. Don Unachukwu and Mr. Asha Nnabuife respectively, observed that APGA had been consolidated in the areas and noted they would repeat the victory of the last governorship election.

…Urges FG to review Armed Forces welfare

Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano (3rd right); Senator representing Anambra Central at the National Assembly, Sen Victor Umeh (first right); the member representing Awka North and South at the House of Representatives, Chief Anayo Nnebe (3rd left); member representing Awka South at Anambra State House of Assembly, Dr. Nnamdi Okafor and others, during a Thank-you tour by Governor Obiano to the people of Awka South at the weekend.

In the Senate, Umeh made Igbos proud - Ogbuefi A stakeholder in Anambra State, Chief Dan Ogbuefi, has commended the Senator representing Anambra Central in the National Assembly, Sen Victor Umeh, for making Igbos proud in Nigeria.

Ogbuefi, who is a capitalist, noted that within one year, Senator Umeh emerged, he had transformed legislative processes and created avenues for Igbos to strive.

Chief Ogbuefi, also known as Ide Agulu, stated this during

a thank-you visit by Governor Wiullie Obiano at Nneni, the Headquarters of Anaocha Local Government Area.

Ogbuefi recalled that the motion seeking reconstitution of the membership of the National Defence Council (NDC) and the National Security Council (NSC) suffered setback in the Senate.

He observed that the motion urged President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint a military officer from the South East as a Service Chief.

“In doing so, it will pave way for equitable representation of the people of the South East in both councils.

“Coming to today’s event, Anaocha has the full support of APGA government. We will record a landslide victory in the forthcoming general election.

“All APGA candidates for this election will win in Anoacha.

Governor Obiano has done marvelously well that APGA will conquer other states,” Chief Ogbuefi pointed.

Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano, has called on the Federal Government to review the welfare packages of the Nigerian Armed Forces to attract more intelligent and hardworking young men.

Governor Obiano made the call when he received 11 newly commissioned Assistant Superintendant of Police (ASP) at the Governor’s Lodge, Amawbia.

The 11 ASP, who were selected from different communities in Anambra State, were indigenous to the state.

They are Okoli Tochukwu, Egbunike Emmanuel, Henry Okolo, Abacha Emmanuel, Okoye Henry, Obi Ifeoma, Okuefunna Micheal, Unchendu Blessing, Eze Nnamdi, Ugochukwu Jeffrey and Odili Victor.

Receiving them, Governor Obiano charged them to be good ambassadors of the state to further promote the integrity of Anambra State.

Governor Obiano, who referred to them as the future hope of the Nigerian Police, cautioned them to desist from any act capable of smearing the image of the state.

“I charge you to conduct yourself in in line with the stipulated laws guiding the police force. You must represent Anambra and project it to limelight,” Obiano charged.

The State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Garba Umar, recalled that Governor Obiano had been in touch with the Cadets during the period of their five years intensive course.

While commending Governor Obiano for his caring attitude and immense provisions to the police officers in the state, CP Umar urged the cadets to observe every guiding principle in the force.

One of the cadets, who spoke on their behalf, ASP John Tochukwu, commended Governor Obiano for his unprecedented tone of security in the state.

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Buhari pledges to dredge Onistha River

President Muhammad Buhari has announced the inclusion of Onitsha among the rivers that would be dredged for seaports if re-elected into office.

Other seaports, which he said, includes Warri and Lokoja rivers among others were geared towards decongesting the Lagos seaport and open economic activities in Anambra State.

The President disclosed this during an interactive session at the Palace of traditional ruler of Onitsha, when he visited Anambra State to commission Zik’s Mausoleum in Onitsha.

The interactive session witnessed in attendance the traditional rulers in the state, the President Generals of every community, representatives of religious leaders and some other dignitaries.

President Buhari restated that his administration was determined to completing the on going federal projects in the state, especially the second Niger Bridge and Enugu-Onitsha expressway.

Fielding questions on the alleged marginalisation of Igbos, the President debunked the allegation, saying the five Eastern states were represented in his government.

He said: “Let us be fair here. South East has five states, while North East has 18 states. Every appointment was based on fairness to accommodate every state.

“The Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonaya Onu, Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, Minister of State for Education, Anthony Onwuka, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Okechukwu Enelamah.

“In terms of security appointment, it is based on performance. Recruitment into any security agency is done across the state, while appointment is done among the senior officers based on your records of performance after recruitment.

“So the appointment is based on the most qualified among the senior officers.

“I don’t know most of them. I don’t know the present IG before appointment. So it is based on individual performance.” the president stated.

He further charged the traditional rulers to join hands in fighting insecurity as they are immediate supervisory of security in their neighborhood.

Also speaking, the representative the traditional rulers who is the Traditional ruler of Okpuno, Igwe Sunday Okafor, the representative of President Generals, who is also the President National Association of Town Unions, Chief Alex Onukwue and the representative of religious leaders, Rev. John Ndubisi, called on the president to speed up construction of the second Niger Bridge and the Enugu Onitsha expressway.

They also pleaded with the president to adequately involve the South East in decision making, as well as appointment in key positions.

Other projects they requested for completion include the Federal secretariat, Onitsha -Nzukka federal road, opening of seaport in Onitsha, among others.

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Glo remains Nigeria’s 2nd largest telecom operator Ladesope Ladelokun Digital transformation leader, Globacom, has consolidated its industry leadership position as the second largest telecoms operator.

Following a blazing performance in November 2018 when Globacom topped the gainer’stable with an additional 1,691,133 subscribers, the company, again in the month of December 2018, grossed 1,982,109 subscribers to move up from 43,273,188 to a new high of 45,255,297 subscribers.

The latest figure represents 26.24 per cent of total industry subscriber figure which has seen Globacom firmly in the second place.

This is contained in the latest figures released by the regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on its official website.

The latest statistics show that Airtel remained in third place after increasing by 1,061,330 subscribers, to 44,180,484 in December, pushing its market position to 25.61 per centof the total industry subscriber base. 9mobile added 555,344 subscribers to move up to 15,917,015 in December, from 15,361,671 in November while MTN stands at 67,133,009, having added 158,017 in December 2018.

Consequently, Globacom remains number two in the industry with 45,255,297 subscribers as of December 2018.

Reasons for Globacom’s stronger showings in the last few months are traceable to constant improvement of its services across the country with massive infrastructure renewal.

Globacom in a statement on Friday said it was working round the clock to further enhance the network experience of its subscribers in 2019.

“We are ramping up our network backbone with new critical infrastructure equipment and new avant-garde software solutions that will improve the quality of service, quicken problem resolution and deepen customer care operations,” the statement said.

To show its resolve to increase customer satisfaction, Globacom, early in January 2019, awarded new contracts to French telecom equipment manufacturers, Nokia Alcatel-Lucent, to supply, install, and integrate a new Sure Pay Intelligent Network platform to boost its operations. The company also contracted Software company, Vocalcom Technology, to supply new Interactive Voice Response and Contact Center solutions for the network.

L-R: Head Corporate Services, Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN), Mr. Idris Salihu; MD/CEO, DBN, Mr. Tony Okpanachi, and Executive Vice Chairman, Verdant Zeal Group, Dr. Tunji Olugbodi at the DBN interactive forum in Lagos.

Economy downturn: Banks have become more creative, efficient to remain in business - Analyst Motolani Oseni Former Chief Economist/Group Head, Research & Economic Intelligence Group at Zenith Bank Plc, Marcel Okeke, has said that commercial banks that are creative and efficient will keep on doing well, no matter the odds in the industry and Nigeria’s economy.

He also, said that the plan by Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to achieve single currency for the region by 2020 is no longer realistic.

Speaking at the Finance Correspondents Association of Nigeria (FICAN) 2018 Economic Review and 2019 0utlook held in Lagos at the weekend, Okeke said that banks do not operate in a vacuum but are the product of the domestic

economy where they do their business.

“They are parts and parcel of the economy.

All these variables, if the economy is doing well, generally, the banks will also be doing well. On the other hand, how well a bank does, is also a function of creativity.

The truth is that even in an economy as bad as this, some businesses are still doing well in the system. And so, a bank that is efficient, no matter the odds in the system, will keep on doing well,” he said.

Continuing, he said: “If you check, and if one of us have one or two accounts or three, you will notice that whatever you do with your phone, there is a service charge. Those charges were not there years back. It means those banks are becoming more creative. And you cannot on the course of that, decide to keep your money

under your pillow in your house. As long as you keep banking your money, and they keep making those gains, and adding them to their performance, and balance sheet, they will keep doing well”.

According to Okeke, banks are also careful as to who to lend money to because of interest rates on loans. “The essence is that if the rates are high, they will not be keen on lending to everyone that comes. So, that means that want to give money to borrowers with the capacity to repay the loans.”

“In a nutshell, those banks that have been doing well ill keep doing well. That means there will not be undue exposures to the banks. I will say that the banks the are doing well to do well, head or tail. Some of the banks are going into forced mergers and acquisitions, but many other

banks are still waxing stronger,” he stated.

Okeke, who is now the Lead Consultant, Mascot Consult Limited, said single currency for the region comes with some challenges and criteria that many of the member’s countries will not be able to meet.

According to Okeke, the ECOWAS common currency has been on for many years and needs the member countries to attain key milestones for its successful takeoff.

“It is not certain that it will happen in 2020.

For instance, a country like Nigeria and other countries must not have inflation rates that are double digits. They must not have exchange rates that move up and down. So, there must be stability in all those indicators across the board.

As I stand with you, many member countries have not attained this feat”, he said.

FG to collaborate with UK, others, on Economic Development - Ahmed Ladesope Ladelokun The Federal Government has assured of its readiness to partner with any group or stakeholders towards the transformation and economic development of the country.

Minister of Finance, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed stated this at the closing session of the UKNigeria Climate Finance Accelerator workshop (CFA) held at the Zonal office of the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, in Lagos, weekend.

Ahmed, represented by Director, Economic Research and Policy, Ministry of Finance, Mr. Israel Igwe said there was need for a coordinated green climate finance platform like the CFA in the economy.

According to her, the CFA programme is an innovative concept that would aid government’s developing approach of the “Ease of Doing Business”.

In his presentation, Director, Climate Change and Clean Growth Ricardo Energy, Mr. Chris Dodwell called on stakeholders in the financial sector to collaborate towards financing developmental projects.

Dodwell said that CFA was an innovative international initiative supported by the UK Government and other international donors including Nigeria, Colombia and Mexico.

According to him, its aim is to accelerate the transformation of countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) into bankable projects to attract investment from the private sector.

He added that CFA was a powerful example

of creating a productive dialogue between financiers and policymakers, focused on scalable opportunities.

“The CFA progresses financing proposals for identified projects while ensuring Technical Assistance is provided to policymakers across ministries so that planing for delivery of the NDC is better aligned with available capital from local and international markets.

“For its actualisation and success, there is need for dialogue and collaboration among policymakers, governments, project developers and financial experts,” Dodwell said.

Contributing, Mr Kyari Bukar, former Chairman, Nigeria Economy Summit Group (NESG), said the CFA programme was the kind of investment initiative the country currently needed to boost its investment portfolios for enhanced economic growth.

Bukar said the initiative would help to diversify investment portfolio of the banking sector and also transform the capital market.

“There is a driven finance community that is growing in the Nigerian economy, which needs to be identified and developed.

“With the much-valued support of the Nigeria Economic Summit Group, since October 2018, we have been engaging with private sector companies interested in undertaking ambitious low carbon development projects.

“This is with a view to creating a mature pipeline of bankable projects contributing to Nigeria’s NDC and strengthening the climate finance capacities of public and private sector institutions,” he said.

Four banks namely; Access, Union, Sterling and First City Monument Bank (FCMB) made presentations of the bank’s proposed projects.

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NNSL: PTAD gets approval to verify payment status of ex-workers Mathew Dadiya, Abuja Contrary to reports that it deliberately delayed the verification process of exworkers of Nigerian National Shipping Line (NNSL), Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD), has said it had received approval from Minister of Finance to verify the payroll of the ex-workers.

Executive Secretary of PTAD Sharon Ikeazor, in a statement on Sunday, said the clarification became necessary due to alleged misleading information by representatives of

ex-workers of NNSL on the verification.

According to Ikeazor, representatives of the ex-workers had issued information allegedly insinuating that PTAD had deliberately delayed their enrolment into the Defined Benefit Scheme (DBS).

Ikeazor said the representatives had alleged that the delay on the verification was frustrating payment of N3 billion pension arrears owed to their members.

She, however, said that the allegation was misleading noting that enrolling pensioners of defunct and privatised agencies was part of the commitment of President Muhammadu

Buhari’s administration.

“The policy of government saw to the enrolment of pensioners of Delta Steel Company, NICON Insurance, Nigeria Reinsurance, New Nigerian Newspapers, NITEL, and MTEL. “All (are) agencies that were either privatised or liquidated by previous governments without contingency safety nets.

“Plans are already underway for the verification and enrolment of qualified ex-workers of Savannah Sugar Company, Aluminum Smelter Company, Nigerian

National Shipping Line and others as approved by the Minister of Finance.

“In the case of NNSL, the approval for enrolment was received in April 2018, several months after the first set of agencies were approved,’’ Ikeazor explained.

According to her, pre-verification for pensioners is a long and painstaking interministerial process that requires the collection of data and digitisation of documents.

She said the process required getting the authentic salary structure of the agency concerned, noting that the case of NNSL wasn’t an easy feat for the directorate.

NCAT to sign MoU with CAA of Sierra Leone Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT) is set to sign a Memorandum of Understanding ( MoU) with the Civil Aviation Authority of Sierra Leone and has expressed the college’s intent to continuously improve to maintain its Regional Training Centre of Excellence ( RTCE) status.

The Rector of the college, Captain Abdulsalami Mohammed made this known over the weekend in Zaria, Kaduna State as he graduated no fewer than 60 participants from various courses in the institution including journalists from the League of Airports and Aviation Correspondents ( LAAC).

Captain Mohammed who said that its

signage of the MoU with the Sierra Leone CAA was due in part because of its improved status as a Regional Training Centre of Excellence ( RTCE) said the event to boost training partnership between both countries will hold on the 5th of February.

At an earlier interview, the NCAT Rector said that the school was making a lot of efforts to partner.

“We are making a lot of efforts to collaborate with some of the universities around. I just returned from Tunisia and I was actually asked to join the Bilateral Air Services Agreement (BASA) team between Nigeria and Tunisia, at the request of Tunisia.

Tunisia wants a representative of NCAT to be part of the team because the country wants to collaborate with the institution. So, we

are making efforts on this issue. We have the Vice-Chancellor of Madonna University with us in 2018 and it wants to set up an aircraft maintenance engineering school there and they have approached us for help in seeing this dream come to reality.”

On the combined graduation ceremony, the Rector expressed pride to have graduated such large amount of students and was joyous of the sponsorship from the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria ( FAAN) and the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority ( NCAA).

The 60 graduates include two (2) Gambians for the Air Traffic Control Refresher Special Course No.1 (ACRFS-01); three (3) participants for Aviation English for Fire Fighters (ETP-01).

Other includes eight (8) participants from Maintenance and Repairs of Diesel Engine

Generator Course No 2 ( MRDEG-02) and forty-seven (47) participants of the League of Airports and Aviation Correspondents (LAAC) Course in Basic, Advance, Management and Refresher courses.

Captain Abdulsalami also stated that with the college’s ICAO RTCE status it has to be up m doing to retain the status including developing of training packages.

“ICAO that gives you the RTCE status has a lot of expectations from you. There are a lot of things you have to do to retain the status and if you don’t do, they will yank it off from you, one of such is that you have to develop ICAO Training Package (ITP), you have to be able to train people from outside the country since it is for region. You are not a local organization, but now a regional organization”, he said.

Fidelity Bank bags Entrepreneurship Support Bank of the Year award Motolani Oseni Fidelity Bank Plc has been adjudged “Entrepreneurship Bank of the Year” at the third edition of DAAR Awards held in Abuja recently.

The Bank clinched the prestigious award in recognition of its unrivaled leadership position and consistency in enhancing the growth and development of Micro Small Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the country.

According to the organisers of the event which was attended by top government functionaries and captains of industry, Fidelity Bank came tops on all measurable indices to emerge the entrepreneurship bank of the year.

The award was received by Head, Corporate communications, Ejike Ndiulo, who said “It is an honour for the success of our tailored capacity building initiatives for MSMEs to again be recognised at this time.

“The award further underlines our unwavering commitment to building a new

crop of entrepreneurs who will birth and power the next generation of conglomerates in the country. According to him, the Bank will continue to explore fresh opportunities to improve the competitiveness of MSME in Nigeria,” he added.

He disclosed that the Bank had partnered with the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) and the Lagos Business School (LBS) to provide impactful, world-class training needed to improve the competitiveness of Nigerian enterprises, particularly export-

oriented businesses and the associated valuechain players in the international market.

Tagged, “Export Management Programme (EMP)”, this initiative, currently in its eighth stream, is catalysing export business in Nigeria.

Providing valuable insights into Fidelity Bank’s approach to supporting MSMEs in the country, Ndiulo said that the lender set up a full-fledged SME Banking Division dubbed ‘Managed SME’ to provide one-on-one business advisory to its customers.

L-R: Head, Internal Audit, FBNHoldings, Bode Oguntoke; Head, Investor Relations, FBNHoldings, Tolu Oluwole; General Secretary, Independent Shareholders Association, Clement Opara; National Co-ordinator, Independent Shareholders Association, Adeniyi Adebisi; Company Secretary, FBNHoldings, Seye Kosoko and Investor Relations, FBNHoldings, Simisola Salami during FBNHoldings visit to the Independent Shareholders Association in Lagos…recently

I-invest excites investors, as downloads hit over 70,000 Temitope Adebayo Africa’s first-ever investment mobile application (app) which allows users to purchase Treasury Bills (T-Bills) directly from their smartphones has recorded a combined figure of more than 70,000 downloads on Apple App Store and Google Play Store in less than 10 months of its entry into the market.

The app, known as i-Invest, was embraced by investors who had been yearning for a fast and convenient means to access investment products in a secure manner using technology. The fast pace of innovation in the FinTech space is indeed helping to make life easy for the customer. Today, millions of customers are able to perform most of their banking transactions from the comfort of their homes.

A 36 years old teacher, Mr. Remi Oduntan, who could not hide his excitement at the discovery of the i-invest app last month said, “I have been conducting most, if not all, of my banking transactions through the app that I downloaded on my android phone many years ago. The only reason why I still visit the banking hall occasionally is in respect of my investments in treasury bills.

“You can, therefore, imagine my surprise upon learning that I can also engage in my favourite form of investment in treasury bills from the convenience of my home or from anywhere else as soon as the app is downloaded on my smartphone. So, with the i-invest app, I guess visits to the banking hall by me will now be nearly non-existent except for the purpose of renewing debit cards.”

The i-invest app which is supported on both Android and iOS platforms aims to encourage users to build a savings and investment culture. It provides access to an array of T-bill investments that assist investors to match their investment maturities to their need.

Developed by Parthian Partners, a pan-African inter-brokerage services firm, in partnership with Sterling Bank Plc, the i-invest app provides a level playing ground for investors regardless of status or category.

So, equal opportunities exist for working-class or retiring people and pensioners as well as experienced and institutional investors to save money and improve their money market portfolios through T-bills.

In addition to the low-risk profile of Treasury bill investments, the capacity of the i-invest app to bring such opportunity to the mobile devices of everyone who is interested in it makes it quite attractive to potential investors. It also eliminates the entry barriers posed by exorbitant minimum investment amounts typically in millions which existed before the introduction of the platform. With the i-invest app, anyone with a minimum of an N100,000 is free to invest in T-bills.

Once the i-invest app is downloaded for free, the first step is to register using a valid identification number, BVN, and a valid phone number. The app is available to every Nigerian that has a BVN number as well as a smart mobile device.

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Vote Buhari, he is clear hope for Nigerians – Abiru tells Lagos electorate “We are for peaceful, free and fair Election in Bariga, we have over two hundred thousand votes in Bariga Area”, Abiru stated while urging all eligible voters in the area to vote for all the APC candidates to ensure better Nigeria and for progressive, qualitative dividend of democracy as well as inclusive governance to the people in both the state and at the federal level.

Alade Tasma Barely three weeks to the Presidential election and as the contending parties are currently engaged in electioneering campaign all in an attempt to woe electorates to their side, Nigerians have been advised to vote a known credible candidate among those jostling for the seat at the February 16th election.

Giving the advise recently at the APC Bariga LCDA campaign rally, the Chief Whip of the Lagos State House of Assembly who is also the party candidate for Shomolu constituency 02 in the March 6th State Assembly election.

Hon Rotimi Lateef Abiru urged Nigerians to re-elect Muhammadu Buhari whom he described as the only Clear Hope for the country at this time.

Addressing the crowd of party supporters at the rally held at Ladilak area of Bariga Local Council Development Area, Abiru said it’s only the All Progressives Congress (APC), a progressive party that can guarantee a people oriented and inclusive government geared towards providing steady dividends of democracy to the people.

Some of the party faithful who

Green Party ’ll turn Ogun to a model state, says Odunowo

Abiru

stormed the rally venue in their thousands disclosed that they came out in large numbers to show solidarity with the APC and all its candidates and to express their readiness for peaceful, free and fair

Election at the February and March General Elections.

Speaking further at the rally, the lawmaker said the people of Bariga are fully ready and prepared for the general elections.

2019: Kosofe APC rallies support for Buhari, others Patrick Okohue Members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kosofe area of Lagos State have stated their resolve to vote enmasse for President Muhammadu Buhari in the forth coming election for having fulfilled most of the promises he made to the people, in his first term bid.

A large number of APC faithful most of whom were clad in white vest with bold pictures of Buhari/Osinbajo and APC logo, converged on the car park of the popular Mile 12 market in the heart of Kosofe, for a support rally organised by an APC chieftain in Kosofe, Chief (Mrs) Lucy Omosefe Ajayi, the Executive Director of Lagos International Trade Fair Management Board.

The Arewa community stakeholders in the area, market women and traders all trouped out to show their support for President Buhari and APC, describing him as a man who detest corruption and is capable of restoring Nigeria’s lost glory.

The initiator, Madam Lucy Ajayi, while speaking with newsmen, stated

The campaign flag off also had in attendance party leaders in the area among whom were; Hon. Sesan Olarenwaju, Hon. Omoyele Oris, Hon. Ademorin kuye, Hon. Sanya Oshijo, Hon. Adeola Kuponiyi. Others are the party Chairman Rev. Timothy Oyasodun, Hon. Wole Diya, Chief Adeoye Oriade and Chief Olowolagba who took turns to address the crowd.

why Buhari’s second term bid will be a smooth one.

“We are here to tell the people of Kosofe to vote APC across board, that since APC came here three and half years ago to promise them the dividends of democracy, you have heard from their mouth, you have seen the people and we are saying that we would do times two of what we have done so they should come back and vote APC across board for the 2019 elections.

“Seeing is believing ‘Baba is talk nah do’ he doesn’t need to talk much, you have seen all the states he had been to, you don’t need a soothsayer to tell you that it is a tsunami, you don’t need it even me the representative, if he doesn’t come here and they put ballot box, they would all vote PMB, this crowd are not rented they are voluntary, they are volunteers, they voluntarily came, I do not have money to bring crowd but you can see them all over and to tell you they all have their PVCs.” Speaking on why the rally was organised in the market square, Mrs. Ajayi painted an historic link of a strong bond with the Mile 12 people.

“Kosofe is a Federal Local

Government, where I was a party chairman for CPC, so I used here Mile 12, because they have the crowd and space to accommodate us all, those you see here are from various local governments Ojo, Alaba, Apapa, Amuwo Odofin and more, the market people are very reliable, another local government, I have taken over for APC is Amuwo Odofin, you can see no sign of PDP there, come to the International Trade Fair you can see for yourself.

“I have influenced the revenue drive target to the tune of 1billion naira not up to a year of heading the management board there, an unprecedented feat at the International Trade Fair, all thanks to President Buhari’s intolerance for sharp practices, through Treasury Single Account (TSA), with Buhari Nigeria is on a speedy recovery path to restoration of lost glory.

“You have gotten Tradermoni here, is that not an improvement?

Some of the people considering where they were years back, go and see them now they are the ones giving testimonies, the first lady have reeled out programmes for the women and girl child which is a bold step on her part.”

The governorship candidate of the Green Party of Nigeria (GPN) Ogun State, Otunba Abayomi Odunowo, has taken a look at the level of socio-economic development in the Gateway State and concluded that he would implement people-oriented programmes that would make it a model for other states of the federation if elected governor of the state in the forthcoming general elections.

Otunba Odunowo, who said this during a chat with news men at Ota, Ogun State recently, said a lot of researches have been conducted by his party on ways to move the state forward, stressing that with all the nature’s gifts in the state, all his government would need on assumption of office was the proper harnessing of the resources in order to turn them into fortunes.

The Ogun State GPN candidate noted that with his wealth of experience that cut across both engineering, agricultural, manpower development, public and private sectors of the nation’s economy, the attainment of an articulate socio-economic system and optimum use of the human and material resources in building a virile economy in the state were achievable.

He further stressed that with his proven integrity, track record and broad experience, the Green Party of Nigeria was set not only to provide leadership worthy of emulation, but equally ensure high morale among the citizenry and bring back the state’s lost glory.

Odunowo, an Agricultural Engineering graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), assured the people that his government would shore up the state’s Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in order to ensure regular payment of staff salaries, as well as provision of necessary infrastructures across the state’s three senatorial districts.

While stressing that his government would focus on entrepreneurship in order to make a larger percentage of the people employers of labour, he explained that he would invest heavily in agriculture, which would provide employment opportunities for the state’s teeming young school leavers.

The politician and philanthropist condemned the incessant epileptic power supply, which had crippled many businesses in the state and promised to deploy necessary technology and distributed generation to power the state within his party’s first 24 months in office,

thereby ensuring uninterrupted power supply in the Gateway State.

He stated that for an even-spread of social amenities, his government would introduce Ogun Residence Card in order to ascertain the kind of infrastructure that would be needed by the people at every point in time.

Speaking on his vision and mission, Odunowo said that he would work assiduously to improve the standard of living of the hard working people of Ogun State, as well as bring integrity back into governance by being absolutely transparent.

He however, assured that his administration would do the state proud by bringing about the much expected accelerated development through preservation of the environment and in the performance of agriculture, education, improved health services and other social services and amenities.

The GPN governorship flagbearer, who presently runs PNN Group, a leading international company in the communications and power sectors of the economy, promised that in as much as government is a continuum, his administration would complete all abandoned projects in the state in order to alleviate the suffering of the people caused by so many abandoned projects.

On the forthcoming general elections, Otunba Odunowo, however, counseled Nigerians to be wary of self-seeking politicians who would come around with money to buy their votes and inflict more pains on them once elected into offices, adding that the country could only be better with the election of the right candidates with the fear of God. He further appealed to the electorate to shun all forms of violence before, during and after the elections, noting that no human soul is worth sacrificing for election.

The GPN gubernatorial candidate also pleaded with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to maintain professionalism and neutrality in discharging its mandates of administering the elections, stressing that the electoral body should let the people’s votes count, more so that any election not seen as credible would cause chaos, which would be difficult to manage in view of the prevailing security challenges in the country.

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TRUSTEES ARE 1,PASTOR MICHAEL AIGBE OMOREBOKHAE- PRESIDENT 2,PASTOR SAMUEL IMIEWEAN OMOREBOKHAE-VICE PRESIDENT 3,BARR.(MRS)IZEHI OMOREBOKHAE-SECRETARY 4,UYI EHIGIE OBASEKI-FINANCIAL SECRETARY

Classified FLOURISHING HELP INITIATIVE

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE. 1. OLADIMEJI AKINJIDE KAMARUDEEN. CHAIRMAN. 2. OLADIMEJI OLUTOMI OLUFUNKE. SECRETARY. 3. ADEOTI ADETUNJI OLALEKAN. MEMBER. THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE 1. TO ASSIST INDIGENT AND VULNERABLE PERSONS IN THE SOCIETY AND PROVIDE ACCESS TO URGENT MEDICAL CARE ANY OBJECTION TO THIS APPLICATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: KAYODE OYEDEJI ESQ SOLICITOR (0803-359-8319)

ILESA GRAMMAR SCHOOL’S OLD STUDENT ASSOCIATION OMOLUABI SET 94

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

TRUSTEES ARE 1. AWE AYODEJI OLUWADAMILARE 2. OGUNYEMI VICTOR MAKINWA 3. KOMOLAFE OLUWANIYI OLATUNDE 4. OSUPALA OMOBOLA OMOLOLA 5. AJIBOLA ELIZABETH OMOLOLA 6. ADENIJI OLADELE ADEWOLE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES TO REPRESENT AND PROMOTE THE INTERESTS OF MEMBERS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS APPLICATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: UZOWULU UGO & CO. 08056040845

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

TRUSTEES ARE 1. OCHI OBEKA MATHIAS 2. PRAISE ELIZABETH NGOZI 3. UDE BLESSING 4. UDEH NGOZIKA UKERIA 5. UDE ALPHONSUS AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PREACH THE WORD OF GOD ANY OBJECTION TO THIS APPLICATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED SECRETARY

EGHENAYARIORE WORLD FOUNDATION

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED CHURCH HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT. THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. UDEFIAGBON EGHE DARLINGTON – PRESIDENT 2. UDEFIAGBON PHILIP EYOGHIREN 3. UDEFIAGBON ODEH BENSON – SECRETARY 4. ODIGIE AUSTINE

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST TO ALL NOOK AND CRANNY OF THE EARTH 2. TO MINISTER DELIVERANCE BY PRAYER OF FAITH TO EVERYONE OPPRESSED AND UNDER THE BONDEGE OF SATAN

AIMS AND OBJECTIVE 1,TO PROVIDE A PLATFORM FOR THE PROMULGATION, PREACHING AND TEACHING OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH. 2,TO ORGANIZE MISSIONARY WORK FOR TEACHING OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST WITHIN AND OUTSIDE NIGERIA IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TENETS OF CHRISTIAN FAITH.

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

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

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

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED- PRESIDENT

SIGNED: SECRETARY

NGASAM COMMUNITY FORMERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED CHURCH HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT.

YOUTHS AWAKEN FOUNDATION

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

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

MERRENGE FOR BETTER TOMORROW INITIATIVE

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

TRUSTEES ARE 1, IBRAHIM HARUNA NGADA ESQ (CHAIRMAN) 2. MUSA INUWA (MEMBER) 3 PAUL GARBA (MEMBER) 4 DANLADI INUSA (MEMBER) 5.NOAMI MUSA (MEMBER) 6 UMOR INUWA, (MEMBER) 7. YAKUBU MOHAMMED MSHELLA (SECRETARY)

TRUSTEES ARE 1. KADALA EZEKIEL (CHAIRMAN ) 2 REV EMMANUEL AUDU BALAMI 3 EZEKIEL DUNAMA DUNAS (SECRETARY ) 4 MSHELIZZA IBRAHIM GWAMMA 5. ISHAKU MAINA YAGA ESQ

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1 TO PROVIDE AN ORGANIZED, SUSTAINABLE AND INTENSIFIED FARMING SYSTEM THAT SUFFICIENTLY IMPROVE FOOD, NUTRITION AND INCOME SECURITY TO MEMBERS. 2.TO INITIATE, FOSTER AND MAINTAIN A CONSULTATIVE COOPERATIVE AND COMMUNICATIVE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MEMBERS AS WELL AS OTHER LOCAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL STAKEHOLDERS DEALING WITH FARMERS , FARMING AND FARM-RELATED ORGANIZATION. 3.TO ADVANCE POLICIES AND PROGRAMMES THAT CHAMPIONS THE CAUSE OF NIGERIA AGRICULTURE. 4. TO PROMOTE UNDERSTANDING AND CO_EXISTENCE AMONGST ITS MEMBERS.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1 TO BUILD NORMS AND VALUES IN THE YOUTHS AND ARISING AGENTS OF CHANGE AND NATIONAL TRANSFORMATION. 2. TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE YOUTHS THROUGH SKILL TRAINING AND EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS. 3. TO DEVELOP LEADERSHIP CAPACITY AMONG THE YOUTHS 4. TO BE A LEADING PARTNER IN REACHING OUT TO THE LESS PRIVILEGED IN THE SOCIETY.

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

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

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

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED:- SECRETARY

TRUSTEES ARE 1. OKOYE OKECHUKWU TIMOTHY 2. AGBAFOR ELIZABERTH AIMS AND OBJECTIVES TO SPONSOR CO-OPERATION AMONG MEMBERS AND BUILDING A SYNERGY TOWARDS A BETTER FUTURE AND DEVELOPMENT FOR MEMBERS

Classified FAITH GOSPEL INTERNATIONAL CHURCH

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED CHURCH HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT. TRUSTEES: 1. VICTOR OWOICHO ANEBI. - GENERAL OVERSEER 2. COMFORT ANEBI. - SECRETARY AIM TO PREACH THE WORD OF THE GOD TO THE PEOPLE ANY OBJECTION TO THE PUBLICATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420,TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: BARR EKWUNIFE BLESSING

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR RESTORATION OF INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS IN NIGERIA THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORM THAT THE ABOVE NAMED SOCIETY HAS APPLIED TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART ‘C’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, DECREE NO. 1 OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OKON-EDEM EMMANUEL ASUQUO - PRESIDENT 2. ORE TUNDE ISAH - SECRETARY 3. INGWE MARIA OHUBU AIMS/OBJECTIVES: 1. TO CATER FOR THE VULNERABLE AND INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS IN THE SOCIETY.

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NGUNOHCHIN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED CHURCH HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT. TRUSTEES: 1. JONATHAN SALE JUKUWA - CHAIRMAN 2. JOSHUA HULCHANGE NJIWAH - SECRETARY 3. EMMANUEL NJIWAH - MEMBER 4. JONAH VUALEL LEVI- MEMBER 5. EZEKIEL KIRLU J.- MEMBER 6. NGINWOH ANTHONY - MEMBER AIMS: TO UNITE AND ASSIST ONE ANOTHER AS FAMILY

SIGNED: CHAIRMAN

ECHIMMA DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE

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. ERIM COLLINS OBAJI - PRESIDENT 2. AYITU RITA EGONG - SECRETARY 3. ABANG PIUS OTU - AUDITOR

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1) SHITTU AFEEZ ORIYOMI 2) AJOSE MUSLIU ADENIJI 3) RAMONU RASHEED 4) ADAGUN YISA AKANNI 5) ASHIMIU SEMIU ATONDO 6) SHITTU SALIU ADARAN

AIMS/OBJECTIVES: 1. TO FACILITATE THE PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL AND NATIONAL PROGRAMMES IN RESPONSE TO IDENTIFIED FELT NEEDS.

AZARIAS CHARITY 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 GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAME HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION WITH THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, UNDER ‘’PART C’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, CAP C20, LAWS OF THE FEDERATION, 2004.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ANYANWU BARNABAS IZUCHUKWU 2. IKEH CHIDOZIE JOSHUA 3. EZE PROMISE IFEANYI 4. OKEKE IGNATIUS OGBONNA

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. NWOSU AMARACHI LOVETH - PRESIDENT 2. NWOSU KELECHI ROBERT - VICE PRESIDENT 3. AWAJI CECILIA IHUAKU - SECRETARY

WOMEN EMPOWERMENT & GENDER EQUITY CENTER THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA TO OBTAIN CTC OF CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO 1 OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. HON AKINDELE ADUNNI OPEYEMI 2. HON LATEEF ADEREMI IBIROGBA 3. OLABISI OLATERU OLAGBEGI 4. CHIEF (MRS) ABIOLA AKIYODE AFOLABI 5. MRS OLUWAKEMI KOMINA AIMS AND OBJECTIVES REMAIN THE SAME. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS APPLICATION TO OBTAIN CTC OF THE CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

AGBOJOJOYE ROYAL FAMILY IBASA/ IJEGUN EGBA ASSOCIATION

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

SIGNED: ERIM COLLINS OBAJI PRESIDENT

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

AIMS/OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE WORD OF GOD

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: OKON - EDEM EMMANUEL ASUQUO PRESIDENT.

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. INIESE, BASSEY OKON 2. INIESE, EKAETTE BASSEY

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

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

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROTECT AND SAFEGUARD THE INTEREST OF OUR MEMBERS AS WELL AS OUR BUSINESSES 2. TO CREATE UNIFORMITY IN OUR BUSINESS ACTIVITIES. 3. TO MAINTAIN PROFESSIONAL ETHICS OF OUR LINE OF TRADE 4. TO ACT AS A PRESSURE GROUP IN ORDER 5. TO INFLUENCE CERTAIN GOVERNMENT POLICIES AS IT AFFECTS OUR BUSINESS AND SHARED INTEREST

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

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

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

GOOD NEWS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION

POWER COVENANT DELIVERANCE MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1) TO CARRY OUT VOLUNTARY AND CHARITY SERVICES FOR THE BENEFIT OF WIDOWS, DESTITUTE, MOTHERLESS BABIES, ORPHANS, AND OTHER LESS PRIVILEGED MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY. 2) TO FACILITATE ACCESS TO SOUND CHRISTIAN AND WESTERN EDUCATION BY ESTABLISHING/ BUILDING LIBRARIES, SCHOOLS/EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, PLACES OF WORSHIP, SKILL ACQUISITION CENTERS, PROMOTING SCHOLARSHIP AND ACADEMIC RESEARCHES. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED BY: CEE FAVOURED CHAMBERS (SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES) PLOT 294, HERBERT MACAULAY WAY, SABO-YABA, LAGOS STATE TEL: 08023596047, 08034789697.

POWER CITY EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN CENTER

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) EMMANUEL DOMINION CHUKWUEBUKA - CHAIRMAN 2) IBE CHRISTIANA NNENNA 3) EKWUAZI OLUCHI EMMANUELLA - SECRETARY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE MINISTRY ARE: 1) TO PREPARE THE WAY OF THE LORD THROUGH THE WORD OF SALVATION. 2) TO RESTORE THE LOST BACK TO THEIR MAKER. 3) TO EMPOWER MEN AND WOMEN WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD’S WORD. 4) TO MANIFEST THE FULLNESS OF GOD’S EXCEEDING GRACE AND GLORY AS THE END TIME ARMY OF CHRIST. 5) TO HELP MEN AND WOMEN DISCOVER AND FULFILL THEIR GOD GIVEN DESTINIES.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROMOTE FOR BETTERMENT IN 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. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

BASIRI EMPOWERMENT INITIATIVE OF NIGERIA

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ADENUGA ADENIYI OLUWADAYISI 2. ADEFILOLA MODUPE OMOLARA - SECRETARY 3. BAMGBOPA OLUWOLE AKANJI - MEMBER 4. OGUNDIMU TAIWO ORIYOMI - MEMBER 5. SALIU SAHEED OLASUNKANMI - MEMBER 6. WILLIAMS FELIX OKANLAWON AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO ASSIST, PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE WELFARE AND INTERESTS OF HER MEMBERS 2. TO REACH OUT TO ALL INDIVIDUALS BY EMPOWERING THEM IN ORDER TO BOOST THEIR PRODUCTIVITY AND WELFARE 3. TO PROMOTE ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS AND SPIRIT TOWARDS SELF EMPLOYMENT IN OUR SOCIETY 4. TO EMPOWER WOMEN, YOUTH, CHILDREN AND THE LESS PRIVILEGED THROUGH SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SERVICES AND SKILL ACQUISITION PROGRAMMES FOR SELF RELIANCE ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: ADENUGA ADENIYI OLUWADAYISI

AYEWA RELIEF 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. OLAITAN OLATUNDE JOHN 2. ISMAHEEL RIDWAN - OKIN ADEKUNLE 3. AJASA MOSUNMOLA VICTORIA AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO FOSTER THE WELFARE OF COOPERATIVE AND THRIFT

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.

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

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

SIGNED BY SECRETARY

EMMANSON EMMANUEL I FORMERLY KNOWN AS EMMANUEL NSEABASI, NSEABASI NOW WISHES TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EMMANSON EMMANUEL. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. NIGERIAN POLICE FORCE TAKE NOTE

ANTE MICHELLE I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EDOKPAYI MICHELLE ADESUWA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ANTE MICHELLE ADESUWA ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VAILD GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE

LAYODE MODUPEOLA I,FORMELY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGUNSANYA MARIAM IYABO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS LAYODE MODUPEOLA IYABO. CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH 21/3/1973.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

IKPEKUMA FRIDAY I,FORMELY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IKPEKUMA FRIDAY JOHN NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IKPEKUMA FRIDAY ICHEHONO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID.GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

MRS. KENNETH ONYEBUCHI I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS. IDEYI ONYEBUCHI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. KENNETH ONYEBUCHI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS OLUGBENGA OYEYEMI

MRS. KENNETH ONYEBUCHI I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS. IDEYI ONYEBUCHI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. KENNETH ONYEBUCHI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY AND CONFIRM THAT AZEEZ OLAYEMI OYENIRAN, IDOWU MUTIU OYENIRAN AND IDOWU MUTIU OLAYEMI IS ONE AND THE SAME PERSON BUT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IDOWU MUTIU OLAYEMI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS, GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

OGUNYEMI PHEMMY I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGUNYEMI FEMI OLAWALE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGUNYEMI PHEMMY OLAWALE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERA PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS AYANLADE ABOSEDE OLAJIRE. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS BABATUNDE ABOSEDE OLAJIRE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. FCMB AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OLU OYEYEMI PRISCILLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OLUGBENGA OYEYEMI PRISCILLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS BABATUNDE ABOSEDE

SIWOKO ABIMBOLA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESS AS MISS AMOO ABIMBOLA SAKIRAT, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SIWOKO ABIMBOLA TEMITOPE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAMES REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ABAYOMI ROSELINE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OBISEH ROSELINE BENEDICTA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ABAYOMI ROSELINE BENEDICTA. DUE TO MARRIAGE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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Classified PUBLIC NOTICE

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

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFY THAT THE ABOVE NAME ORGANIZATION HAS APPLIED TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART”C”OF THE COMPANIES ALLIED MATTERS ACT1990 CAP20.LAW OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA 2004.

WE MESSRS:ADEGOKE AGORO,ADEDEJI AGORO,OLALEYE MICHEAL

TRUSTEES IGOCHE ADAH JOHN - CHAIRMAN OMALE JENNIFER - SECRETARY IGOCHE INNOCENT DOXA - MEMBER

THE TRUSTEES ARE (1)ILESANMI AYOKUNLE FEMI (2)MYEM AONDOFA ADDMORE-FAITH (3)ALEXANDER GOODNEWS JOHN (4)UGWOKE KINGSLEY OFORMA

AS CHILDREN OF LATE JOSHUA AGORO,AND BENEFICIAL OWNERS OF

OBJECTIVE ASSISTING PERSONS WHO HAVE BEEN PHYSICALLY DISPLACE, MENTALLY DISTRESSED AND EMOTIONALLY DESOLATED IN DESIGNATED CAMPS AND SHELTERS IN THE TROUBLED COMMUNITIES IN THE MIDDLE BELT OF NIGERIA DUE TO COMMUNAL CLASHES. ANY OBJECTION OF THE ORGANIZATION SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA,ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED SECRETARY

DIVINE LIFE ENCOURAGEMENT INT’L CHURCH

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

GATEWAY BIBLE CHURCH WORLD WIDE

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THE ABOVE NAMED CHURCH HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 PART C THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. EDOJA SOLOMON ORIEDOGHENEBRURU 2. OKODIYA ETURHOBORE OHWO 3. EDOJA CAROLINE OGHENEKARO 4. OKPERUKEME FRIDAY AKPOBARO

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THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO ALL NATIONS OF THE WORLD IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE WORD OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. RAISING A GENERATION OF CHRISTIANS THAT WILL BUILD A BETTER CHURCH FOR THE COMING OF OUR LORD. 2. TO PREACH AND BRING DELIVERANCE TO THOSE WHOSE JOY HAS BEEN TAKEN AWAY BY THE ENEMIES AND RESTORE HOPE TO THE HOPELESS, JOY TO THE SORROWED AND LIGHT TO THOSE IN THE DARK 3. TO PREACH AND TRAIN CHRISTIAN TO POSSESS THE GOOD CHRISTIAN VIRTUES AND SHINES AS LIGHT IN THE WORLD AND SALT OF THE EARTH ANY OBJECTION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION. NDOLA SQUARE, ZONE 5, WUSE, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: ELDER J. K. NANA (J.P) CROWN KINGS CONSULTANCY CO. 08037769526

ITESIWAJU OMO ODUDUWA PROGRESSIVE FORUM THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED AS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFARS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF UNDER PART C OF 1990 THE TRUSTEES ARE 1. RABIU ABAYOMI BAALE AKEEM -PRESIDENT 2. OJIKUTU OLAYINKA ADESINA -SECRETARY 3. OLUYIMIKA ELDAH KOLAWOLE TOMI -TRUSTEE MEMBER 4. BASHORUN BAALE RAUF ADEWALE -TRUSTEE MEMBER 5. AJAYI MOJISOLA HARY -TRUSTEE MEMBER 6. AJISEFINNİ IBUKUN IDONU -TRUSTEE MEMBER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO UNIFY ALL YORUBA PEOPLE BOTH WITHIN AND IN DIASPORA 2. TO IDENTIFY WITH ALL YORUBA PEOPLE BOTH WITHIN AND IN DIASPORA AND PROMOTE SOCIOCUITURAL DEVELOPENT E YORUBA SPEAKG PEOPLE BOTH AT HOME AND IN DIASPARAS 3. TO STRIFE TO UNIFY VARIOUS WARRING GROUPS WITHI THE YORUBA NATION WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE WEL MEANING MEMBERS OF THE YORUBA NATION AND VARIOUS OBAS. 4. TO PROMOTE WELL-BEING OF THE YORUBA RACE TODAY AND TOMORROW. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, WUZE ZONE 5, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED KEHINDE ABIOYE (MRS) 08056538722

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AIMS AND OBJECTIVES (1)TO FACILITATE AND IMPROVE DEBATE COMPETITION AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE IN NIGERIA. (2)TO PROVIDE A SIGNIFICANT TRAINING GROUND FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS COMMUNICATIVE ABILITIES (3)TO DEVELOP LEADERSHIP SKILLS (4)TO ORGANISE DEBATE COMPETITION AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE. ANY OBJECTION OF THE ORGANIZATION SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA,ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

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JESUS FAMILY HEALING INT’LS MINISTRY THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED AS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFARS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF UNDER PART C OF 1990

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. NKECHI ROSITA OPARA -GENERAL OVERSEER 2. OPARA RICHARD CHINAEDU -SECRETARY 3. OBASI UCHENNA PATRICK -MEMBER AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST JESUS AND SAVE THE SINNER 2 TO GIVE MORAL SUPPORT TO WIDOWS AND ORPHANAGE HOMES HOSPITALS AND PRISONER 3 EMPOWERING HUMANITY TO MAXIMIZE POTENTIALS. ANY OBJECTIONS TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR - GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA,ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

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3. MRS. MOHAMMED KARIMAT OMOWUNMI. -SECRETARY. 4. DR. AMINA MOHAMMED JAJI (BDS).

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ABDULLAH IBNU ABAAS FOUNDATION.

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

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

TRUSTEES ARE: 1 PASTOR FRANCIS EMANKHU- GENERAL OVERSEER. 2 MRS VICTORY EMANKHU FRANCIS - MEMBER. 3 BRO GODWIN IZEDO - GENERAL SEC 4. BRO EBO ODIRI SOLOMON - MEMBER 5. BRO GEORGE EGHERAMHE IMUEFI - MEMBER

TRUSTEES ARE 1. ADEYINKA ABDULWAHAB ADEGOKE 2. IBRAHIM ABDULGAFAR OMOBOLANLE

AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS TO EVERY NATION. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, WUZE ZONE 5, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED SECRETARY

ACTION OF GLORY MINISTRY

AIMS. AND OBJECTIVES: TO FOSTER UNLTY, LOVE, TOLERANCE AND PROGRESS AMONG MEMBERS 2, TO PROPAGATE ISLAMIC RELIGION AND VALUES 3. TO PROPAGATE THE TEACHING OF PROPHET MOHAMMED (SWAT).

ANY OBJECTIONS TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR - GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA,ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES SIGNED TRUSTEE 07081161191

GREAT EQUITY WELFARE ASSOCIATION.

ADDR. 6, FASANMI STREET, AYEDERE. KETU. LAGOS. THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR CHANGE OF TRUSTEES REGISTRATION UNDER THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 PART C

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

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

THE OLD TRUSTEES: 1. REV ZECHARIAH ADEMOLA OLUMOLAWA PRESIDENT FORMALLY (ZACHARIAH A. OGUNMOLA) 2.REV (MRS) SELINA OLUBANTO OLUMOLAWA- GENERAL SECRETARY. FORMALLY LADY EVANGELIST TAIWO C. OGUNMOLA.

TRUSTEES ARE 1. DR. EBUBE CLARA EKWU 2. PROPHET BABALOLA DAVID ADEREMI 3. PLEASE BABALOLA ADEGOKE JOHN 4. BABALOLA ADEWALE IBRAHIM

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ADEGBOYE ADETOYESE BOLA 2. ADENIRAN JOSEPH OYEYEMI 3. BIDMOS FAISAL ADEMOLA 4. OLUBI KEHINDE.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST ALL OVER THE WORLD. TO DELIVER THE OPPRESSED THROUGH THE WORD OF GOD AND THE MINISTRY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

AIM AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO ENCOURAGE, FOSTER AND PROMOTE CORDIAL RELATIONSHIP AMONG MEMBERS THROUGH COMMUNICATIONS AND ORGANISING MEETINGS.

OUTGOING (RESIGNED TRUSTEES) 1. ASST. PASTOR M.A. KADIRI 2. ASST. PASTOR NATHANIEL A. AMAO 3. SIS. F.A. OSHAMIKA RETIRED TRUSTEES: (1) ASST. PASTOR M.A. KADIRI. (2) ASST. PASTOR NATHANIEL A. AMAO. (3) SIS. F.A. OSHAMIKA. NEW TRUSTEES: ( (1).REV BABALOLA BABATUNDE M. ADEYEMO (2) REV PETER FAYOMI. (3) PASTOR (MRS) ELIZABETH ADEJOKE KEHINDE. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, WUZE ZONE 5, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED BOLA OJO AKINBOLA & CO. 08157072509

ANY OBJECTIONS TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR - GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA,ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES SIGNED AYODELE SEGUN 08188299357

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

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MRS. UGOCHUKWU LYNDA

UMEOKA CHINENYENWA

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REMOVAL OF COMPOUND NAME FROM BVN

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THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS NOTIFIED THAT I, MAXWELL OBUNIKE OBI WISH TO STATE THAT MY DATE OF BIRTH WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AND STATED AS 12/12/78 INSTEAD OF 12/12/70. HENCEFORTH MY DATE OF BIRTH SHOULD BE 12/12/70.

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ADDITION OF NAME

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MRS. MICHAEL ELIZABETH

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I WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ISIAKA AKEEM OLALEKAN AND NOW WISH TO BE KNOW AND ADDRESSED AS ISIAKA AKEEM OLD DATE OF BIRTH IS 18/10/1989 NEW DATE OF BIRTH 27/08/1997 ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

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FORMERLY KNOWN AS OYEKALE, OLAJIDE, OLUWAFERANMI, NOW KNOWN AS OYEKALE, OLAJIDE, OLUWATOSIN. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC NOTE.

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WE, MR & MRS YUSUF OLUSEGUN OLAKUNLE APOLOGISE TO BADRU ISMAIL WHO WAS ACCUSED WRONGLY OF HACKING MY FORMER FACEBOOK ACCOUNT KNOWN AS YUSUF OLAKUNLE. GENERAL PUBLIC NOTE.

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Philippines church bombing: Twin blasts hit Jolo cathedral At least 20 people have been killed in twin blasts at a Roman Catholic cathedral on the southern Philippine island of Jolo.

Sunday’s incident claimed the lives of at least 15 civilians and five soldiers, police said, adding that 111 others were injured.

The number of fatalities was revised after police earlier said that 27 people were killed.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the bombings, the SITE monitoring group reported, citing the group’s Amaq website.

According to security officials, the first bomb went off in or near the cathedral of Jolo, the capital of Sulu province, followed by a second blast outside the compound as government forces were responding to the attack.

The initial explosion scattered the wooden pews inside the Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and blasted window glass panels, and the second bomb hurled human remains and debris across a town square fronting the church, witnesses said.

President Rodrigo Duterte’s Spokesman Salvador Panelo condemned the “act of terrorism” and vowed that government forces will pursue the perpetrators of the attack.

“The Armed Forces of the Philippines will rise to the challenge and crush these godless criminals,” he said.

Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, said he expressed “the firmest reproach for this episode of violence. As too did Yousef Al-Othaimeen, the head of the OIC, the world’s largest body of Muslim-majority countries, who said he expressed “deep indignation” over the bombings.

In a separate statement, the Philippine Army said the explosions were likely caused by improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

Photos on social media showed debris and bodies lying on a busy street outside the Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, which has been hit by bombs in the past.

Troops in armoured carriers sealed off the main road leading to the church while vehicles were transporting the dead and wounded to the hospital.

Some casualties were evacuated by air to nearby Zamboanga city.

“I have directed our troops to heighten their alert level, secure all places of worships and public places at once, and initiate proactive security measures to thwart hostile plans,” said Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana in a statement.

‘Offertory prayers disrupted by explosions’ Bishop Angelito Rendon Lampon served as a priest at the Cathedral for almost two decades, until his transfer to Cotabato, another city in Mindanao, last week. He said many of his former parishioners were shaken following the attack.

“I know many of the victims because I worked there for 21 years. I am praying for the victims and their families,” Lampon told Al Jazeera.

“We are condemning this attack. Those who are responsible have no respect even for the sanctity of the place,” he said, adding that the priest, who was officiating the mass at the time of the bombing, Fr.

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Ricky Bacolcol, “was still in shock and could not speak about what happened”.

According to Lampon, the first of the two explosions reportedly happened while the parishioners were saying their offertory prayers.

Jolo has long been troubled by the presence of Abu Sayyaf, an armed group blacklisted by the United States and the Philippines as a “terrorist organisation” because of years of bombings, kidnappings and beheadings.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, according to Al Jazeera’s Jamela Alindogan, reporting from Manila.

“But the timing is suspicious because, last week, there was a referendum and the island of Jolo voted to not be part of this new autonomous government that is being created,” she said.

The Bangsamoro, meaning Moro nation, is an expanded autonomous region, that is expected to replace the existing ARMM, which has been criticised as merely nominal, and failed to end the violent conflict that has left at least 120,000 people dead over the past five decades.

On Friday, it was announced that voters in Mindanao overwhelmingly voted for the creation of the Bangsamoro. However, voters in Jolo and the entire Sulu province voted against the new regional unit.

Rebels and the government in Manila hope a new, peaceful Bangsamoro will finally draw the investment needed to pull the region out of the brutal poverty that makes it a hotspot for violence.

Muslim rebels have long been battling for the independence or autonomy on Mindanao, which they regard as their ancestral homeland dating back to when Arab traders arrived there in the 13th century.

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Bashir says Sudan protesters trying to emulate Arab Spring Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir has said protesters in the country are trying to imitate the 2011 Arab Spring and blamed unidentified outside groups for trying to destabilise the region.

During a visit to Cairo on Sunday, where he met Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, alBashir said the unrest in Sudan was “an attempt to copy the socalled Arab Spring for Sudan.”

It is Bashir’s second overseas visit since last month, when protests triggered by an increase in bread prices erupted in the country. The demonstrations have also called for al-Bashir, who has been in power for nearly 30 years, to step down as the country’s leader.

Sisi said he was eager to maintain the close historical ties between the two countries, while al-Bashir said the protests against him were not as bad as they seemed, accusing outside groups of trying to undermine his rule in what he compared with Egypt’s own experience during its 2011 uprising.

“There are many negative

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“We acknowledge that there is a problem, we are not claiming there is nothing but it is not as big as described by some media platforms. It’s an attempt to copy the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ for Sudan.”

Citing what he said was the “harmful agitation” that such countries had witnessed, he added: “The Sudanese people are alert and will not allow for any intrusion or attempt to destabilise the security of Sudan.”

The protests, which began in the northeastern town of Atbara and have spread to several cities, initially erupted over the rising costs of bread and fuel and other economic hardships, including skyrocketing inflation and limits on bank withdrawals.

But they quickly morphed into calls for al-Bashir, who has been in power for 29 years, to step aside.

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Novak Djokovic dominates Rafa Nadal to win record seventh Australian Open title

Novak Djokovic claimed a record seventh Australian Open crown on Sunday as he demolished Rafa Nadal 6-3 6-2 6-3 in his most dominant Grand Slam win over the Spaniard.

The Serb broke Nadal five times while conceding only a single break point to clinch his 15th Grand Slam title and third in succession after winning Wimbledon and the U.S. Open.

The pair’s 53rd Tour clash and eighth in a major final failed to live up to their great rivalry, as Djokovic bulldozed through the first two sets with machine-like precision.

Having won only two points off Djokovic’s first seven service games,

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Nadal finally prised a break point in the fifth game of the third.

It helped him to get back on serve but it quickly disappeared in a maelstrom of power hitting.

Djokovic who was the event’s top seed held serve, and knuckled down to complete an astonishing rout.

He fired a furious forehand down the line to bring up two championship points, then sealed the title when the Spaniard sent a backhand long.

The Serb went down on his knees and shook his fists at the sky, roaring in triumph.

He has moved past Roger Federer and Roy Emerson’s six Melbourne titles to take sole ownership of the record.

Dalung rues Jide Fashikun’s death Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Barrister Solomon Dalung has expressed deep shock at the death of one of Nigeria’s foremost investigative reporters and Sports journalist, Olajide Fashikun, who died at the early hours of yesterday (Sunday 27th January 2019) at the Federal Medical Center Jabi, Airport Road Abuja.

The Minister lamented the death, describing the loss as colossal to Journalism and the Sports industry.

In a statement signed by its media aide, Nneka Ikem Anibeze which read in part: “It is a very sad day for sports journalists and athletes in the country.

“Jide created a platform to support athletes and stimulate performance through his

mobilization of training funds to assist athletes. This made us look forward to a better podium performance in the years ahead.

Today, the curtains have been drawn on that project.”

Barrister Dalung paid glowing tribute to the publisher of Gong News who excelled not only in sports reportage but also politics and investigative writing.

“Jide was a dedicated journalist who went far to uphold the truth. He was a fighter, fearless, thorough and an epitome of investigative journalism while contributing immensely to grassroots sports development . His love for grassroots sports informed his personal effort to raise funds for athletes to

Alvaro Morata edges closer to Atletico Madrid move Chelsea striker Alvaro Morata appears close to securing a move to Atletico Madrid after the striker was pictured passing a medical with the Spanish club on Sunday.

Morata was shown leaving Atletico’s medical clinic on Sunday morning, with the 26-year-old giving a thumbs up and telling reporters, “everything has gone well”.

Atletico have not made any official statement but Morata spoke to reporters at Madrid’s Barajas Airport, after landing in the early hours of the morning.

“I’m very happy, I have been waiting for days,” he said. “I am looking forward to everything being closed so I can start training with my teammates.”

Morata spent two years in Atletico’s youth ranks as a teenager but later joined their city rivals Real Madrid in 2008, where he enjoyed two separate spells either side of a move to Juventus.

Some of Atleti’s fans have not forgotten Morata’s links to Real, with a minority even chanting against his arrival during the team’s La Liga victory over Getafe on Saturday.

“Their opinion is respectable and people can say what they want,” coach Diego Simeone said after the match. “I look for players that serve the club and the team.”

After an impressive start at Chelsea, Morata lost form and confidence, with

train with and prepare for future Olympic Games. Now, Jide is gone. I pray that God will receive him and give his wife and family the fortitude to bear this loss.”

Olajide Fashikun initiated the Nigeria Sports Development Fund to raise funds for athletes to prepare for 5 sports at the Olympics. He was an ex -international in handball and athletics and a stakeholder in all sports. Fashikun was a one-time Chairman of the Kwara State Chapter of Sports Writers Association of Nigeria, Sports Editor of the Herald newspaper, Managing Editor of Gong News, a senior Sports correspondent at ThisDay and a former lecturer at Kwara Polytechnic.

He was aged 54.

coach Maurizio Sarri admitting last week the Spaniard had requested to leave at the start of this month.

Morata will bolster Simeone’s options up front, which already include the inform Antoine Griezmann and Diego Costa, who is expected back from injury next month.

Croatia’s Nikola Kalinic, who joined Atletico in August, could be allowed to leave.

NFF: Mikel Obi’s move to Middlesbrough good for Super Eagles The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has expressed happiness over the movement of Super Eagles captain, John Mikel Obi, to the English second tier league, emphasising that the national team will be the biggest beneficiary of his return to a competitive league.

NFF second vice president Mallam Shehu Dikko, who reacted to the move during the presentation of certificate to the participant of the La Liga coaching clinic programme in Abuja at the weekend, described Mikel as an asset to the senior national team.

“The move is very good for him and the country. Having played in China, not too competitive league, which helped him to recover much energy, coming back to the English league is good for him. The League Championship is even more difficult that the Premiership. He will certainly play his heart out and get himself into shape. The move will be beneficial to Nigeria.

“Don’t forget that he is still our captain. The national team plays well whenever he plays. It does not matter to me whether our national team captain is playing in lower league. We should understand that a captain that has played 10 years for a national team is not a pushover.

How many people that started with Mikel are still actively playing now?” he asked rhetorically.

On the benefits of La Liga coaching training programme, the NFF second vice president said: “We have over seven players in the national teams especially the U-17 and U-21 that

are products of the series of this training programmes we have organised because they passed through you.

“We can all clap for ourselves for what we have benefitted from this coaching training programme. We are actually getting reward for this coaching clinic with La Liga. We don’t know where the next Messi will come and those who will product the next Messi.

“La Liga gave us the best hands they have available and Nigeria is one of the only two countries that have the benefit of enjoying this kind of training from La Liga.

“Don’t hold back what you have learnt. Give it back to other coaches with you and you have to keep working because the biggest success of any coach is to look back and count the number of players that passed through

you.

“Our utmost objective is for our league to be a depot to source for players to feed the national team and foreign leagues. We have 200 million people but we can only register less than 1000 players in the NPFL. We have to make sure we flood the best league in the world with our available best players.

“At the end of the day, it will be good for Nigeria, our national team and the revenue that will come into the country from the earnings of these foreign-based players. I don’t care if Nigerian players join foreign league so long as they are going to play, earn money and bring them into the country because they leave, we have competent coaches to nurture more players. Others must leave for others to come up the stage,” he said.

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...And Daily Times made a remarkable feat on the queen’s first visit Queen Elizabeth 11 and her husband the Duke of Edinburg came on a visit to Nigeria on this day, January 28, 1956.

The visit was both historic and remarkable in many ways, the most been that it was her first of such visits to a nation preparing for independence in just a few year away.

At the age of 30 then, she was young and delectable, even as she had been found to have matured quickly on the throne, mounted four years earlier when she was 26, February, 6, 1952, following the death of her father, King George VI in the summer of that year.

For Nigerians, the coming of the Queen was to be the greatest ceremony ever, in its history, for no dignitary of such honour, power and splendour has visited the emerging nation before.

According to a report by Daily Times, thousands of excited people lined the streets to welcome Her Majesty in a show of love to her person and loyalty to her government. Those who travelled with the Queen on that 3,500 miles journey were reported to have been highly impressed with the enthusiasm and obvious feeling of hope on the faces of Nigerians who were confident that their nation had all it takes to emerge strong and prosperous.

They therefore sang and danced for Her Majesty and her entourage.

Looking at Nigeria and her people today, 63 years after, it may not be right to says that all the hopes have been completely lost, but a lot of things have gone wrong.

Yes, Nigeria has made progress in some areas, satisfying some of the dreams of her citizens and the expectations of Her Majesty who has lived long to become the longest reigning monarch

in British history. However, has on the other hand disappointed the millions of people that make up her population.

For example, one of the unique things about Nigeria when the Queen visited first time was the diversity of the people which was harnessed to create unimaginable beauty in homogeneity as culture, language and religion fused together to make Nigeria a potential great nation. But all that have changed. Nigerian leaders now deploy differences in culture, language and religion to divide and segregate the people as appointments are made on nepotistic consideration, same as the appropriation of what is supposed to be commonwealth, among other failings.

Another remarkable feature of the Queen’s first visit to Nigeria was the outstanding performance of Daily Times newspaper which was the only indigenous paper to capture live, the images of Her Majesty’s visit and published it same day in The Evening Times, one of the babies of the Daily Times family then.

Unlike today when the social media has made it possible for events to be captured and published immediately, in 1956, you have to wait until the following day to read stories of what happened and see their images on newspaper.

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When a nation tells the world «leave us alone» From 17th November, 1993 to 8th June, 1998 when Gen. Sani Abacha ruled over the land of Nigeria, the nation was treated like an orphan by the international community because Abacha saw Nigeria as his own personal estate. He often reacted with anger over the pressure by civil soceity groups and foregin governments for Nigeria to return to civil rule.

Clap-trapped by many educated Nigerians including adacemics, journalists and lawyers, Abacha saw himself as an omnipotent and omniscient god, repressing everyone that opposed his authocratic style of governance with many of them shot dead by his goons.

One question that baffled many then was how Abacha, a semi-illiterate soldier could lay seige and successfuly manipulate a nation of millions of people, hundreds of thousand of were earned, and its vibrant independent press and assertive civil society. The only feasible answer was that Abacha’s junta was fed and nurished with the intellect of those who were supposed save the nation by virtue of their training and civilisation but who rather put their

bellies as first line charge.

Fed up with the constant negative stories coming out of Nigeria, the United States of America, the European Union and many other countries mounted pressure on Abacha to commit himself and his administration to the rue of law as well as provide enabling environment for a peaceful transition to civil rule. But Abacha’s spin doctors repeatedly told the world to « leave Nigeria alone » as the government will not tolerate external interference. The rest is now history.

Just like Abacha era, trouble is brewing in Venezuella that if not handled well has the potency to put the lives of citizens at risk of mass death because the president has refused to hear the voice of reason and has continued to say « Leave is alone .»

Those who pretend not to know should be reminded that the world is now one small village. There is nothing like « us » for those bent on inflicting pain and missery on others. No matter how far you think you are, you are quite close to everywhere and everyone and would face the consequencies of your action, sooner than later.

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