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sociation (DAPPMA) that its members were not hoarding fuel while their tanks were empty. The NNPC has also described as unfortunate, claims by DAPPMA that the fuel scarcity witnessed across the country was due to the inability of the Continued on page 6

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5 months after, Buhari yet to act on suspended NHIS boss’ report

Ï Yusuf seeks support of 2 influential figures from Katsina Ï Stakeholders decry unethical conduct by suspended ES

Angela Onwuzoo, Lagos

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access to needed healthcare

services without the risk of financial ruin at the point of accessing care or after Continued on page 5

L-R: Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr. Boss Mustapha; wife of Senate President, Mrs. Toyin Saraki; her husband, Dr. Bukola Saraki; Speaker of the House of Representatives/ celebrant, Hon. Yakubu Dogara; his wife, Gimbiya; former First Lady, Mrs. Maryam Abacha and others, during a book launch to mark Dogara’s 50th birthday celebration in Abuja… on Wednesday.

Okorocha bows to pressure, returns Assumpta Avenue from President’s name 6

Royal father, 5 others remanded over alleged 7 murder in Ekiti

Ex- soccer star Weah makes history, wins Liberia Presidential election 7

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5 months after, Buhari yet to act on suspended NHIS boss’ report Continued from page 1 accessing care, the Federal Government must remove obstacles especially corruption militating against the smooth operation of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). Currently, all is not well with the scheme, owing to allegations of fraud and abuse of office by the suspended Executive Secretary of the NHIS, Prof. Usman Yusuf.

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, had in July suspended the NHIS boss over alleged N919 million procurement scam and abuse of office. Many have raised concern over the delay by President Muhammadu Buhari to act on the report of the panel that investigated Yusuf. The Ministry of Health, four months ago, submitted the report of a panel on the allegations against Yusuf to the Presidency. In its re-

port, the panel accused the suspended NHIS boss of N 919m fraud. But The Daily Times gathered that the President is yet to take any concrete action on the report five months after it was submitted to him in August. Such high level of fraud, stakeholders say, accounted for why the scheme had not been able to cover more than five per cent of Nigerians since its establishment in 2005. The NHIS was estab-

lished to ensure that every Nigerian has access to good health care services and to also protect families from the financial hardship of huge medical bills. Many believe that these allegations and revelations are undoubtedly weighty and further reinforce the numerous complaints by Nigerians about the dysfunction in the scheme since its inception. Reports showed that every executive secretary at the agency has been re-

A pick-up van overloaded with traders and goods in Abuja… on Wednesday.

Google unveils policy to generate revenues for news publishers Ladesope Ladelokun with agency reports

ÏÏÏ Responding

to scathing criticisms that online platforms cream off the majority of revenues belonging to news publishers, Google has unveiled new steps to assist ailing news organizations, which includes putting an end to a “first click free” policy to generate fresh revenues for publishers that are hurt by the shift from print to digital. Speaking on the development, Google’s Vice President Philipp Schindler says Google and news publishers share a common

cause, adding that users of the search engine value high quality journalism. Among series of measures announced by Google is the plan to replace the old policy of requiring news organizations to provide one article discovered in a news search without subscribing, which is otherwise known as “first click free’’. It will be replaced by a “ flexible sampling’’ model that will allow publishers to require a subscription if they choose any time. According to Google’s Vice President for news , Richard Gingras, the new policy will be be in place

worldwide effective from Monday. He said the new policy would allow news organizations to decide whether to show articles at no cost or to implement a “paywall” for some or all content. He added that it was not clear how many publishers would start implementing paywall as a result. On reactions to the new policy, Gingras said, “ The reaction has been positive. This is not a silver bullet to the subscription market. It is a very competitive market for information. And people buy subscriptions when they have perception

value.’’ Gingras added that , “ Sometimes painful process of signing up for a subscription can be a turn off . That’s not great for users or for news publishers who see subscriptions as increasingly important source of revenue.’’ Research firm eMarketer estimates that Google and Facebook will take 63 percent of digital advertising revenue in 2017 , making it harder for news organizations to compete online. Facebook is also believed to be working on a similar effort to help news organizations drive more subscriptions.

moved because of corruption which had caused the Federal Government billions of Naira and stifled the growth of health insurance as a result. According to stakeholders, considering the importance of the health sector, such allegations of corruption, official recklessness and unethical conduct by the suspended NHIS boss should not be ignored, if the APC-led administration is truly committed to achieving Universal Health Coverage for the country and its fight against corruption. Key players in the health sector say Buhari-led administration must begin to walk the talk in its fight against corruption by taking decisive action against Yusuf for alleged corruption charge levelled against him as the President did in other corruption cases involving other members of his cabinet. The Daily Times recalls that the President had in October sacked the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, and Director General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, after both were accused of corruption allegations. Buhari had suspended Lawal on April 19 due to allegations of his complicity in the misappropriation of funds earmarked for the welfare of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) through the Presidential Initiative on North East (PINE). While Oke was suspended after his public involvement in the humongous N13billion cash lrecovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from an Ikoyi private home in April. But five months after the suspension of Yusuf over similar corruption allegations, investigations by The Daily Times showed that Buhari, who vowed to stamp out corruption in the country, is yet to take administrative action against the NHIS boss who hails from Daura, the same home town as the President. The Daily Times however gathered that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has begun investigations into the allegations of misappropriation of funds and abuse of office levelled against Yusuf. The EFCC stated this in a letter dated December 21,

2017, which was addressed to the current acting Executive Secretary of the NHIS. The EFCC’s letter was titled ‘Investigation into activities of Prof. Usman Yusuf – suspended Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme’. The EFCC stated that it was investigating suspected cases of fraud and misappropriation levelled against Yusuf during his tenure as the executive secretary of the NHIS between July 2016 and July, 2017. Besides the EFCC, the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) is investigating the suspended executive secretary and four other officials of the NHIS. The ICPC, in its letter dated December 11, 2017, and addressed to the acting executive secretary of the NHIS, stated that the officers were being investigated for “alleged violation of the provisions of the Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Act 2000”. The ICPC added: “Pursuant to Section 45 (3) of the cited Act, you are hereby directed to recover the money advanced to the five officers (of the NHIS) and two staff from the Ministry of Health for the aborted trip to the Netherlands. “You are further required to furnish the commission with the evidence of compliance by each of the beneficiaries”. Meanwhile, further investigations by The Daily Times have shown that the embattled NHIS boss has solicited the support of two influential figures from the hometown of Buhari to help him return to his position at the NHIS. A source in the Presidency who pleaded anonymity, disclosed that the suspended NHIS boss has warmed his way into the heart of these two influential figures and reportedly using the ethnic and religious cards. The source said: “Prof Yusuf has gotten the support of two powerful people from the President’s hometown in Daura while these individuals have been making moves towards ensuring that the President reinstates Yusuf back to the NHIS”. Efforts made by our correspondent to get Yusuf ’s reaction proved abortive as his telephone number was switched off at press time.

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NNPC, DAPPMA trade words over fuel scarcity Continued from page 5 Direct Sales Direct Purchase (DSDP) partners of the Corporation to deliver on their business obligations. The NNPC stated this in a statement made available to journalists in Abuja on Wednesday by the NNPC Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, about 24 hours after the allegation was made. The DAPPMA Execu-

tive Secretary, Mr. Olufemi Adewole, had said in a statement on Tuesday that there were no products in their tanks, although they could not confirm NNPC’s claims of having sufficient product stock. He had said: “If the products are offshore, then surely, they cannot be considered to be available to Nigerians. The NNPC imports and distributes through DAPPMA, Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN) and

Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN). “Our members pay the PPMC/NNPC in advance for petroleum products, and fully paid up PMS orders that have neither been programmed nor loaded are in excess of 500,000 metric tonnes, about 800 million litres as of today (December 26), and enough to meet the nation’s needs for 19 days at a daily estimated consumption of 35 million litres.”

But the NNPC spokesman said the claims were “unfounded and selfindicting”, alleging that many of DAPPMA members also patronise the same DSDP international counterparts as the corporation. He affirmed that the NNPC has supplied appreciable volume of petroleum products to DAPPMA, MOMAN, and IPMAN, to rid the challenges currently being experienced in the country.

Ugbamadu said: “The NNPC regrets that DAPPMA, which members had taken receipts of products from Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC), a subsidiary of NNPC and owe the company to the tune of N26.7 billion as at December 21, 2017, has the audacity to indict NNPC unjustifiably. “Despite the concession by the government giving access to DAPPMA to obtain Forex at an official rate of N305 per dollar for

Sympathisers trying to put out fire in Abeokuta, Ogun State…on Tuesday.

PMS import, their members have not been able to do so, leaving the NNPC as the sole supplier of PMS to the Nigerian market.” The NNPC further assured Nigerians that despite the increase it effected in the supply of petrol in December, arrangements have been made to supply 1.2 billion litres of the product in January 2018. According to the corporation, the development translates to about 40 million litres of PMS supply per day compared to about 700 trucks (about 27million – 30million) litres the country consumes per day. Ughamadu also stated that despite the current challenges, the Federal Government has no plan to increase the pump price of petrol above N145 per litre. He added that the NNPC would continue to maintain ex-depot price of N133.28 per litre, which guarantees the pump price not exceeding the N145 per litre capped by the government. The Corporation noted that it was not the time to play the blame game and urged all stakeholders to support government efforts towards bringing a speedy end to the current fuel distribution challenges in the country.

Bowing to pressure, Okorocha reverses renaming of Assumpta Avenue to President’s name Myke Uzendu, Abuja

ÏÏÏ Following the uproar

generated by its decision to rename the popular Asumpta Avenue in Owerri, the Imo State capital, to Muhammadu Buhari Avenue, the Imo State Government on Wednesday made a U-turn, restoring the erstwhile name. The government action came following tension generated by what some many described as “the unwholesome renaming of Assumpta Avenue”. Confirming the restoration of the street name, the Commissioner for Information, Professor Nnamdi Obiaraeri, said

that it was never government’s intention to rename the said strategic road, which he claimed spans from Assumpta Cathedral and terminates at Warehouse Roundabout. “Assumpta Avenue is symbolic for both religious and historic reasons in Imo State, and these facts are not lost on the government and people of Imo State. “All inconveniences occasioned by the initial oversight or error of wrongly installing a Street sign, suggesting a renaming of the street is highly regretted”, Obiaraeri said. Reacting to the development, the Catholic

Archbishop of Owerri Ecclesiastical Province, His Grace, Dr. Anthony J. V. Obinna, said that there was no need to celebrate the restoration of the street name by Governor Rochas Okorocha. He said: “Catholics were already putting heads together to face the unwarranted and most uncharitable frontal attack on the Church, when he retraced his locus. His misdeed had already reached the ends of the earth before he did the needful”. The cleric wondered why Gov. Okorocha wants to destroy everything that predated his administration, including Assumpta Avenue.

In his own reaction, an Owerri based legal practitioner, Mr. Chikaodi Igbokwe, said: “If a rabbit enters a hole with speed and jams a snake in that hole, it will reverse with a turbo speed”. While saying that any leader who plays God will certainly commit deadly blunders, Igbokwe also opined that “this mistake exceeds the allegation of slapping a Revered Father”. “After that rumour gained ground, nothing could save that government. As I said earlier, time will tell”, Igbokwe said. Reacting also, a Catholic Knight, Sir McDonald Ebe-

re said: ”Rochas Okorocha has finally bowed to the power of Catholics. This is the beginning of the end and there shall be no end until the beginning ends”. It would be recalled that before the restoration of the Asumpta Avenue on Wednesday, residents of Owerri, the capital of Imo State, were apprehensive, following the decision of the state government to rename of the Maria Assumpta Avenue to Muhammadu Buhari Road. In a statement made available earlier Wednesday by Sir Steve Nwokeocha, he said at the invitation of His Grace, Archbishop Obinna of the Owerri Catholic Arch-

diocese, he chaired a highlevel meeting on the matter after Mass on Sunday, December 24, 2017 at the Maria Assumpta Cathedral, Owerri. He added that Imo State Catholic faithful were worried because the Maria Assumpta Avenue is a heritage for the people and strategically connects Maria Assumpta Cathedral which is the Metropolitan Sea of Owerri Archdiocese with other major cities in the South. He said that the Street, Maria Assumpta is not just symbolic but also makes conscious the catholic tradition which is dominant in the state, and has spanned decades.

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Ex Soccer star Weah makes history, wins Liberia’s presidential election Bonny Amadi with agency report

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Liberia’s ex-soccer star, George Weah, has entered the world records as the first ex-footballer to emerge president of his country. The former striker helped Chelsea win the FA Cup in 2000, helped his country to boost its football proficiency and now has added to his list of achievements with his election victory, defeating

serving vice president, Joseph Boakai. Weah was also former AC Milan, Manchester City and Chelsea striker. He was the first African to win the Ballon D’Or and FIFA World Player of the Year - won comprehensively, clinching 12 of the 15 counties in the West African country. His opponent, Joseph Boakai, who has been vicepresident for the last 12 years, only had two counties vote for him.

Congratulatory messages have continued to flood the office of the Liberian president elect, George Weah, sketches of results announced by the country’s election body on Wednesday showed that the ex-footballer won a landslide victory. According to agency report, vote counting started after close of polls and went on throughout the Tuesday evening. The National Elections Commission (NEC) said it will

begin releasing preliminary results later Wednesday, Its chairman Jerome Korkoya, said the process had been an improvement on the first round in October. Even though Liberia’s NEC has insisted that it was the only body mandated to announce any results, journalists covering the polls are hinting of a Weah victory going by the trend of results announced at precincts so far.

Ongoing Railway Project at Awado in Osun State…on Wednesday.

Royal father, 5 others remanded over murder in Ekiti Gbenga Sodeinde, Ado-Ekiti

ÏÏÏ A royal father in Ik-

ere Ekiti, the Olukere of Ikere-Ekiti, Oba Ganiyu Obasoyin, and five others were on Wednesday remanded by an Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court for alleged murder. Obasoyin and Governor Ayo Fayose were said to be having running battle over claims by the royal father that he founded Ikere town and that he was a traditional ruler, saying he should be giving his due recognition by the government and a monarch. Obasoyin and others suspects were arraigned in connection with violence which erupted shortly after Obasoyin inau-

Fayose gurated his hotel located in Gbemisola area of the town on Friday. Suspected thugs had vandalized the hotel over a statement made by Obasoyin which they believed was against the interest of a governorship aspirant who hails from the town. Obasoyin’s loyalists al-

legedly launched a reprisal attack on those identified as the perpetrators on Monday which claimed the life of one Kolade Adefemi. Others remanded alongside with Olukere on an order filed by the Commissioner of Police were Ajewole Sunday, Adetowoju Bode, Kayode Michael, Olowolafe Tola and Aluko Taiwo. In a remand order form marked MAD/181fk/17, the accused persons were charged with conspiracy, attempted murder of Ayodele Osanyinbola and murder of Kolade Adefemi. The offences are punishable under Section (1) and 319 (1) of Criminal Code Cap C16, Laws of Ekiti

State 2012 within Ado-Ekiti Magisterial District on or about the 25th December, 2017. The Defence lawyer, Mr. Ademola Adeyemi, urged the court to grant bail to his clients while the police prosecutor, Inspector Johnson Okunade, opposed the bail application and urged the court to grant the remand order request. In his ruling, Chief Magistrate Adesoji Adegboye refused the bail application and ordered the accused persons to be remanded in prison custody pending the issuance of legal advice on the case. The matter has been adjourned till January 8, 2018.

Following this trend, social media has trailed the development as leaders have continued to congratulate Weah on his electoral victory as president of the West African country. Amidst the ordinary words of congratulation are those that can be described as official as is the case with the Namibian president Hage Geingob and Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose. Fayose tweeted first and urged Nigeria’s elections body, INEC, to learn from the Liberian process. “I congratulate the President-Elect of Liberia, George Weah. I salute his courage and resilience. He is such an inspiration to the youths of Africa. I urge INEC to learn from what happened in Liberia and allow the will of the people to prevail in 2018 and 2019 elections,” his tweet read. Hours later, the Namibian president’s official Twitter account sent a similar tweet. “Congrats to @GeorgeWeahOff on your election as President of Liberia. Namibia and Liberia enjoy good relations, which we hope to strengthen.” It is not the first time “unofficial” results have led to congratulations for Weah. A Nigerian senator Shehu Sani also tweeted a Weah victory after the first round of vote in October, which was ostensibly true, hence Weah won the first round of the election. Weah, when he is offi-

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cially declared winner by NEC would emerge as Liberia’s 25th president. George Weah, former Liberian footballer presidential aspirant has told his supporters that they are on the verge of making history, in reference to victory in the December 26 presidential runoff vote between his Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) and the Unity Party (UP) led by incumbent vicepresident, Joseph Boakai. “I am deeply grateful to my family, my friends, and my loyal supporters who contributed to our campaign during this extremely long election season. We are on the verge of making history for our people,” the 51-year-old said in a tweet after close of polls on Tuesday December 26. This is Weah’s second presidential shot having lost his first attempt to outgoing Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. He won the first round of the 2006 vote but was defeated in the second round. Many blamed his political immaturity for his loss. In 2011, he contested in the capacity of vice presidential candidate along with Winston Turnbull but Sirleaf and the Unity Party went on to secure a second term. Three years on, Weah was elected to the Senate. He is running this time as the standard bearer of the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) with his vice presidential candidate Howard-Jewel Taylor.

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Buhari’s son, Yusuf, breaks limb in bike accident ÏÏÏPresident

Muhammadu Buhari’s son, Yusuf, broke one of his limbs in a bike accident on Boxing Day in Abuja. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu, revealed this in a statement signed by him on Wednesday in the nation’s capital. “Yusuf Buhari had a bike accident last night around Gwarimpa in the Federal Capital Ter-

ritory, Abuja,” Shehu said in the statement. “He broke a limb and had an injury to the head as a result. He has undergone surgery at a clinic in Abuja. He is in a stable condition,” he added. President Buhari and his wife, Mrs Aisha, are thankful to Nigerians for the good wishes and prayers for their son. They also prayed that God rewards their wellwishers.

Civil servants resuming duty at the Federal Secretariat after Christmas Celebration in Abuja…on Wednesday.

NGO sustains campaign to end farmers, herders’ clash Kingsley Chukwuka, Jos

ÏÏÏCampaign to end the

incessant clashes between farmers and herders has further been sustained by a Non-governmental organisation (NGO), otherwise known as Global Peace and life Rescue Initiative ( GOPRI ). The push to end the conflict was captured in a one day summit held on Tuesday in Jos the Plateau State capital. In a lecture delivered by Mr. Sani Suleiman, a Senior Program Manager at Search for Common Ground, admonished the warring groups to stop their hostilities and find a common ground where both parties would see themselves as partners crucial in boosting the economic growth of the

country. Suleiman said the fight between farmers and herdsmen has taking both religious and ethnic coloration, which is a time bomb waiting to destroy the entire country if not checked. He said before now both Christians and Muslims alike celebrate festivities together without rancour and without anyone sighting difference between both religion, adding that the aim of the various summits held in this regard, is to end the hostility and bring back the good old days where Nigerians see themselves as one indivisible country, where not even farmers and herders, religion or ethnicity could cause a divide, he said. Also at the forum, the Special Task Force Commander in Plateau, Major General

Anthony Atolagbe, said the crisis between herdsmen and farmers in Plateau will soon be a thing of the past as he has given a matching order with dispatch to all those concerned to maintain peace and tranquillity in their various domain. Gen. Atolagbe warned that law does not respect class, religion, language and tribe, if violated, stressing that no section of people is above the law and the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He urged citizens to continue to corporate with security agencies to sustain the existing peace in the state. “I am calling on them to continue with the corporation and peace parley held in various fora aimed at promoting peaceful coexistence”, he said.

On his part, the Director General, GOPRI, Melvin Ejeh, said peace is very important, adding that the State will return to what it is known to be as home of Peace and Tourism. “I am appealing to residents of Plateau to continue to stay peacefully with one another”. Ejeh commended the Plateau State Governor Simon Lalong, for his efforts at restoring peace in the state . However, the occasion also doubled as a spring board to recognise one Sadeeq Plaza, whom according to GOPRI, is a philanthropist and someone who has promoted peaceful coexistence among citizens of Plateau State. Our correspondent reports that the occasion was attended by stakeholders in the peace building business across the State.

Utazi lauds Ugwuanyi over plan to capture Police Station in 2018 budget Moses Oyediran, Enugu

ÏÏÏThe Senator represent-

ing Enugu North Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Chukwuka Utazi says Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has promised to build the abandoned Divisional Police Station in Nkpologu, Uzo-Uwani of the State. The project which was an intervention police station after the herdsmen attack on the people of Ukpabi-Nimbo in 2016 was approved by the

former Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase. The senator commended the Governor for showing interest in a Federal Government abandoned project aimed at addressing insecurity in his state. Utazi told Daily Times Wednesday that the Governor made the promise to carry out the project during their telephone conversation some days back. “For us in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area, the governor has given us his support in the fight against herdsmen

which occurred in UkpabiNimbo and he is following it up by promising to build the Divisional Police Station at Nkpologu. “This is to make sure that we don’t have a repeat of the bloodbath we had”, he said. “The governor spoke to me in a telephone chat and assured me that he is going to capture the project in the 2018 budget of Enugu State. Utazi said that Governor Ugwuanyi has shown commitment in some parts of the state that has suffered negligence under past administrations.

“Our amiable governor has assured the people of my constituency that the project would be completed. This project is very important to us, this is why the governor has agreed to carry out the project that will address the security needs of the area”, he said. The senate Committee Chairman on Anti Corruption expressed confidence that the project, when completed will stem the tide of insecurity in Nkpologwu, Ukabi-Nimbo, Nrobo, UgbeneAjima, Uvuru.

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NITDA pledges cooperation with Kano Govt Yakubu Salisu, Kano

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Director General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, has pledged the Agency’s commitment to develop capacity of youths of Kano in Information and Communications Technology (ICT). The aim is to empower them to stand on their feet and also become employers of labour, thereby contributing to the GDP of the Nation. Dr. Pantami made the pledge when he led the Management Staff of the agency on a courtesy visit to the state governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje in his office. The DG was at the Government House to

express appreciation to the governor for donating an office building to NITDA, at Sheikh Nasiru Kabara Housing Estate, to enable it open its Zonal Office in Kano. On his part, Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje appreciated NITDA in its effort to develop and regulate Information Technology (IT) and also in promoting the diversification of the revenue generation from oil to ICT related innovation in Nigeria. Governor Ganduje urged NITDA to make good use of the Kano office in promoting ICT innovation in the state and assured of continuous support and collaboration with the agency in the development of ICT in Kano and the nation at large.

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We ‘ll purchase form for Umahi - Group Edward Nnachi, Abakaliki

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People of Ebonyi South senatorial zone under the aegis of Ebonyi South Public Officers Forum, Wednesday declared their readiness to purchase the nomination form for the re-election of Governor Dave Umahi for 2019 general election. Speaking by a way of motion moved by the Chairman of Afikpo South Local Council of the state, Chief Eni Uduma Chima, President of the Forum and Deputy Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Chief Odefa Obasi said they adopted Governor Umahi as a sole candidate in the 2019 general election because of his developmental programmes. Chief Odefa said the forum having witnessed the monumental development in Ebonyi State have decided to in addition to his adoption as a sole candidate in the PDP from the zone, also purchase his nomination form.

Earlier in a motion for the adoption Umahi for second term, Chairman of Afikpo South local government area of the state, Chief Chima said the governor has done so much that only thing that would sustain the tempo of development in the state will be re-election of governor Umahi for a second term. Seconding the motion, member representing Ivo South Constituency, Mazi Oliver Osi commended the governor for his support and his numerous developmental projects in the state and beyond. Governor Umahi, while responding to the endorsement described the show of solidarity and love by the stakeholders of Ebonyi South and assured them that his administration will continue to sustain the development of the state. He assured them that his administration is committed to development of all sectors of the state by ensuring that every sector is developed simultaneously.

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Osun workers begin indefinite strike over unpaid salaries ÏÏÏAs Nigerian workers

resume from the Christmas holiday Wednesday, civil servants in Osun were barred from gaining entry into the Abere secretariat by the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). The NLC on Wednesday morning at about 7 am

took over the entrance gate of the secretariat to ensure total compliance to its directive of going on an indefinite strike over the modulated workers salary being received for over two years now. The Leadership of the state NLC had last week directed their members not to return to work this

week as they will no longer take half salary from the state government. However, the chairman of the NLC, Jacob Adekomi, said the directive by the Head of Service, Festus Olowogboyega, that workers on Grade Level 1-7 resume work got the unions infuriated hence

the resolve to ensure they turn any erring worker back home. The workers are demanding confirmation of appointments of some workers since 2012, promotion for others and stoppage of modulated salary being paid to workers and pensioners since July 2015.

Stranded commuters at Nyanya Bus-Stop in Abuja…on Wednesday.

Widow heads to NHRC over disputed property Moses Oyediran, Enugu

ÏÏÏA 55-year old widow,

Theresa Nwosu who is at the verge of losing a house she allegedly built with her life savings in her father’s compound has approached the National Human Rights Commission over her plight. Nwosu, a native of Uru, Lokpanta Autonomous Community in Umunneochi Local Government Area of Abia State, is a petty trader. She deals on stock fish and vegetables. According to the widow, for four years she invested her business savings in the building project on the portion of land her father gave her before his death. “Since the house was completed, I have been living there with my son”, she said. She noted that her late brother, Innocent Nwosu, also built and resided in his own house in the

compound. The widow alleged that trouble started with the death of her brother, Innocent Nwosu, last December, after her nephews went to court to stop her from staying in the compound. “They are contending that the tradition forbids a woman from sharing in the inheritance of family property. “The three of my brother’s children, namely Emeka Nwosu, Obinna Nwosu and Ikechukwu Nwosu have dragged me before the Leru Customary Court, praying the court to grant a perpetual injunction restraining me and my son, Christian, the second defendant in the case, from further entry into the compound. The grief-stricken woman who broke down in tears while narrating her ordeal to a team led by the Voice to the People (V2P), a programme of Christian Aid Nigeria, sobbed:

“I built this house with my sweat. It is different from the house our father built which I have no interest in. But my brothers are insisting that I must pack out of the compound and leave my house for them.” Several mediations in the matter by relations, village authorities, it was learnt, that have failed to yield positive results. A group, Voice to the People (V2P) Safe Space, a forum raised by V2P, an enlightenment programme by Christian Aid Nigeria for women in the rural villages to discuss issues affecting them and articulate solutions thereto, encouraged her to approach the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in Enugu to see if the matter could be resolved. However, it was gathered that the intervention by the NHRC also failed, hence the court action by the Nwosu brothers. Madam Nwosu is now

in court, battling to convince the court on why she must retain and live in her building. In the suit,No. CC/ UO/3/2017, Mr Emeka Nwosu, Obinna Nwosu and Ikechukwu Nwosu (Plaintiffs/Applicants) are praying the court to make a declaration that the First Plaintiff (Emeka Nwosu) being the first son of late Innocent Nwosu, is entitled to the Customary Right of Occupancy of that piece of land known as and called Ala Obi Innocent Nwosu (Compound) at of Ugwuogo, Uru Lokpanta. The plaintiffs also want the court to award N200, 000.00 as general damages for several acts of trespass on the said land against Madam Nwosu and a perpetual injunction “restraining the defendants, their servants, agents, privies, workmen from further entry into the said land/compound or claim joint ownership, or in any manner whatso-

ever interfering with the plaintiff ’s right.” In their particulars of claim, the First and Second plaintiffs acknowledged that the First Defendant, Mrs Theresa Nwaele (nee Nwosu) is a blood sister of their late father. They also stated that their late father built a five-room house without toilet and bathroom in his land called Ala Obi Innocent Nwosu (compound). They added that with the death of their father, Theresa Nwaele (nee Nwosu) started disputing the Innocent Nwosu compound with his children. According to them, parties (Umunna) have looked into the matter and advised Mrs Theresa Nwaele “to remove her hand on Alaobi Innocent Nwosu but she refused.” In a further affidavit in support of motion on notice deposed to by Emeka Nwosu, the First Plaintiff, he narrated that the land in question was where his

grandfather, Igwebuike Nwosu , lived and died and was buried before his first son, Innocent Nwosu, inherited it under the native law and custom of Ugwuogo, Uru Lokpanta. He also contended that under the Ugwuogo, Uru Lokpanta native law and custom, a man’s daughter married out of the family has no inheritance in her father’s compound. In the affidavit, Emeka also stated that it is the sole right of the first son to inherit the compound of his late father. He equally averred that when his father was alive, his sister, Theresa Nwaele, never challenged or disputed the compound with him. Emeka maintained that the court has the jurisdiction and the discretionary power to grant the application. The case which was adjourned on the 17th of last month comes up for accelerated hearing on the 7th, 28th and 29th of next month.

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Fuel Crisis: PDP accuses APC, FG of covering fraud Myke Uzendu, Abuja

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Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the Federal Government of providing cover for huge sleazes directly involving APC interests and urged its officials to stop dishing out falsehood to suffering Nigerians. PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan in a statement on Wednesday said it is completely reprehensible that

the APC and the Federal Government has continue to stick to lies, particularly on the real reasons behind the biting fuel scarcity as well as their exposed attempt to pilfer $1bn from the Excess Crude Account (ECA). The PDP charged the APC-led Federal Government to tell Nigerians the truth regarding its handling of fuel related funds, particularly the circumstances surround-

ing the exposed diversion of fuel funds in sleazy oil subsidy payouts, rather than dissipating its tenuous energy on name callings. The party also tasked the APC Government to speak out on reports of fraud in the oil regime whereupon 18 unregistered companies were used to lift and divert $1.1 trillion worth of crude oil in the last one year. “This APC Government

is not only grossly incompetent and corrupt, but also a champion in the use of lies and manipulations against innocent and unsuspecting citizens. “We all know that it was convenient for the APC Presidency to promise Nigerians that it will no longer import fuel only because the PDP government had already laid the foundation including revamping the refineries and ensuring a domestic

production of 5 million litres out of the 25 million litres daily domestic consumption. “Sadly this incompetent APC government, in its almost three years, has not added one litre to the 5 million litres which the PDP administration was producing. “Instead of improvements, the APC has wrecked the system and now pushing the nation to depend solely on importation, while engaging in heavy sleazes in hidden subsidy regimes. “Is it not also ridiculous for the Federal Government, in its bid to cover for its ineptitude and oil subsidy corruption, to announce that it is the NNPC and not Nigeria that is paying for the so called fuel subsidy? “The question is; who owns the NNPC? Is it not Nigeria? Can NNPC spend a kobo without the authorization of the Presi-

dency? Has President Muhammadu Buhari ceased to be the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Minister of Petroleum Resources? “Moreover, if the NNPC, which is under his purview, has been paying fuel subsidy, who authorized the payment and who are the beneficiaries? Nigerians need to know the truth on this subsidy regime. “We therefore challenge the APC- Federal Government to come clean on these issues and stop telling lies to Nigerians who have suffered enough under its deceptive, inept, uncoordinated and wicked regime.” The PDP however urged Nigerians not to be forlorn adding that it has repositioned to stand with the people in the inevitable mission to rescue and restore the nation to the path of prosperity once more come 2019.

Ortom confirms troops deployment to combat herdsmen attacks Pius Angbo

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Attacks on monarchs: Ondo monarchs call for prosecution of perpetrators ÏÏÏOndo

State Traditional rulers under the auspices of “130 Crowns Club” on Wednesday, called on the security agents in the state to arrest and prosecute the perpetrators of attack on the traditional ruler of Igbokoda, the Olu of Igbokoda, Oba Afolabi Odidiomo. Speaking on behalf of the traditional rulers, the President of the 130 Crowns Club, Oba Olusegun Akinbola who is the Aladeokun of Alade-Idanre, described the attack on Oba Odidiomo as abomination saying those behind the

attack have desecrated the exalted stool of Igbokoda. According to Oba Akinbola, failure of security operatives in the state to bring to book those behind the attack was an indication that government no longer value the revered stools. He said: “failure of security agencies to arrest and prosecute appropriately some thugs who attacked the Olu of Igbokoda, Oba Afolabi Odidiomo at his palace recently will amount to desecration of the exalted stool. “Those behind the at-

tack should be brought to book to serve as deterrent to others. It is a taboo to attack a monarch in this part of the world and you move around freely without any punishment.” The monarchs said it was downgraded for the leader of the suspected hoodlums, one Tale Iwatan and his gang members to still be walking freely around Igbokoda town after being identified as the leader of the hoodlums who attacked the monarch and inflicted serious injuries on Oba Odidiomo. The Olu of Igbokoda narrowly escaped death

after he was machete by some suspected hoodlums at his palace in the town, the headquarters of the Ilaje Local Government Area of the state two weeks ago, but the Ondo state police command said it had arrested two of the suspects while Iwatan was declared wanted by the force. The traditional rulers expressed their dissatisfaction over the delay in bringing the perpetrators of the attack to justice urging police and the state government not to be foot-dragging in prosecuting the thugs and their sponsors.

tack by suspected herdsmen on Odonto in Adim Akpa a community in Otukpo local council area of Benue State security forces have been deployed to the area. The attack which occurred on Christmas eve, left two people dead and two others wounded. Governor Samuel Ortom who made this known while receiving visitors for this year’s Christmas homage, also confirmed that security operatives, troops have been deployed contain the violence. Despite threats of more attacks on Adim Akpa communities he asked the residents to report early signs of threats and avail security agencies with information of any

form of information to enable them to respond promptly. The traditional ruler of the community, Adirahu Igede, HRM Oga Ero who spoke on behalf of Benue South where the killings took place appealed to the governor for increased surveillance and ensure strict implementation of the antigrazing law. He said the government should not relent in the implementation of the open grazing prohibition law, which has helped to reduce the spate of herdsmen attacks. Stakeholders at the governors’ country home, including former governor George Akume, urge the people to support governor Ortom, denying any rift between them as leaders.

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Buhari has no hand in Kano APC crisis —Presidency . Stories by Patrick Okohue The Presidency has warned everyone associating it or President Muhammadu Buhari with the recent removal of the Chairman of Kano chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Umar Doguwa, to desist from doing so, as it has nothing to do with the politics of the state. Giving the warning in a statement in Abuja, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu described as false, the allegation that Buhari was behind the removal of the erstwhile APC chairman in Kano State. The presidential aide was reacting to the allegations made at a press conference in Kano by a political support group “Concerned Members of the APC in Kano State”. He stated that at no time did the President involve himself in the internal conflict of any APC chapter in the country, and would never do so. “President Buhari would not risk his integrity to support one side against the other in the affairs of the APC or any other political party anywhere in the country. “Anybody who knows the President’s principles would not believe any allegation linking him (Buhari) to interference in

BUHARI the election or removal of party leaders across the country.” He noted that Buhari was accused in the past of not taking control of the National Assembly by imposing some people on the legislature as Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives. Shehu said that it was ironical that the President would now be accused of abandoning those principles to order the removal of the chairman. “I am 100 per cent convinced that this group, which is being associated with the respected

senator representing Kano, Rabiu Kwankwaso, did not seek his permission before dragging President Buhari’s name into this matter. “Kwankwaso knows President Buhari too well to reduce him to this level,” he said. The presidential aide therefore advised the group to stop belittling the person and office of the president by dragging his name into their local party quarrels. He added that it was unfair to attack the President over an issue he knew nothing about.

Obiano has no intention of contesting against Buhari in 2019 The All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), has provided reasons why Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State will not be contesting against President Muhammadu Buhari come 2019 presidential election. Speaking with a national newspaper, the National Chairman of APGA, Dr Victor Oye, said that Obiano was not contesting the 2019 presidential poll because the party was targeting to win the remaining South-East states. He said that the recent reports linking Obiano to 2019 presidential campaign were fallacious and designed to pitch him against his admirers and scuttle

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his administration. He said, “That is ridiculous. The governor holds his colleagues and, indeed, any other person for that matter in high esteem. For the whole period I have

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known the governor he has never been associated with vainglory, undignified utterances or uncouth words. “There was no time the governor told anybody, dead or alive, that he would want to run for the presidency.” He said being the national chairman of the party, he should have known about such an ambition before it would be made public. He stressed that the party’s support for President Muhammadu Buhari was “because of the urgent need to work collectively to heal the wounds of the nation and build an egalitarian and just society for the present and future generations.”

Stakeholders in Mosan-Okunola endorse Ambode for second term Iniobong Iwok

As the 2019 political race gathers momentum, political Stakeholders within the All Progressive Congress (APC), in Mosan-Okunola Local Council Development Area (LCDA), in Lagos State, have thrown their weights behind the second term bid of incumbent Lagos State governor, Mr Akinwunmi Abode. In a meeting of stakeholders held at Lagule Primary School, Waterside Mosan, which included party members, officials and some elected political office holders in the council recently, they noted that the council would work assiduously for the victory of the governor, while calling for total support from the public for the success of the bid. A top official of the APC in the council who spoke

with The Daily Times on condition of anonymity said inspite of rumoured recent disagreement between the governor and the council over sharing of positions in the CDA it has decided to stick with the governor and support his second term bid. He stressed that the issues between the governor and the council had been resolved, stressing that the recent meeting was to declare this position. He said “We have declared our support for the second term bid of Ambode, he merits it considering his performance. There had been disagreement between the governor and the council over some positions, but that has been resolved and we are solidly behind him for a second term and that meeting on Sunday was held to make our position known,” the sources said.

Newly registered AGA threatens to unseat Buhari, zones presidency to N/East …V/P to South East

Newly registered political party All Grassroots

Alliance (AGA) has threatened to unseat President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 general elections. The party said it plans to achieve this by fielding a presidential candidate from the North-Eastern part of the country, in the presidential election come 2019. Prof. Yekinni Salimonu, the National Publicity Secretary of the party who said this in a statement he issued in Abuja also said the party would seek its vice-president from the South-Eastern part of the country. “We have observed that in the last 50 years, the NorthEastern and South-Eastern parts of the country had no opportunity to produce civilian presidents,” he observed. He said the party held emergency national ex-

ecutive committee’s meeting after its registration at the party secretariat in Gwagwalada, Abuja on Dec. 22, where some decisions were taken. Salimonu said the party agreed to adopt indirect primaries for nomination of presidential and governorship candidates. “AGA will, by referendum, promote modified presidential system with single legislative chamber, and a six-year single tenure for president and governors. “The new system will not accommodate constituency projects, while professional support staff will be on part time,” he said. Dr Olukayode Oshiariyo, National Chairman of AGA was quoted in the statement as saying that the party would promote the unity and indivisibility of the country, co-existence of constituents’ geo-political zones and ensuring that minority interest was protected.

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Anambra Central: Umeh confident January 13 rerun will hold Stories by Patrick Okohue The candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), in the Anambra Central Senatorial rerun election already scheduled by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), for January 13, 2018, Chief Victor Umeh, has said the date is sacrosanct. This is coming as INEC is studying the judgments in its custody over the vacant Anambra Central Senatorial District seat. Umeh, who spoke in a Radio programme at Obosi in Idemili North Local Government of the state assured the people that nothing would prevent the election from holding on the date already fixed by the electoral body. His assurance came just as personalities in the state, including the traditional ruler of Ndiokpalaeke, Igwe Kanu Okpalaeke, have expressed their support for him and called on electorate in Anambra Central to come out en masse and vote for Umeh. Giving reasons he was optimistic of the January date, Umeh dismissed the order of the Federal High Court, Abuja which gave an order that Chief Obiorah Okonkwo of PDP should be sworn in as the Senator representing the zone. Describing Okonkwo’s claim

UMEH and order as a huge joke, Umeh noted that the Court of Appeal judgement of December 7, 2015 had effectively nullified the result of the March 2015 Anambra Central Senatorial District election. He said the claim by Okonkwo was “a nullity and cannot be enforced,” adding that the constitution of Nigeria and the Electoral Act have guaranteed the January 13, 2018 date already fixed by INEC for the re-run election. He therefore called on the electorate in the Senatorial

District to brace up to exercise their franchise for effective representation of their District at the Senate. In a related development, Centre for Democratic Governance (CDG), has flayed INEC for the continued delay in the presentation of Certificate of Return to Okonkwo in line with the directive of the Federal High Court, Abuja, for the Anambra Central Senatorial seat. Coordinator of the group, Dr. Bassey Etim, said the commission must obey the judgment

even if it was opposed to the court’s decision warning on the implication of INEC’s flagrant disobedience to the ruling. The group said this in a statement issued in Abuja accusing INEC of taking side on the matter, CDG claimed that by refusing to issue certificate of return to Obiora despite being asked by the court to do so and by insisting on the January 13 rerun election for the seat, the commission was showing that it has no regard for the court. A source hinted that leadership of the commission is already divided over the court order, adding that despite a legal opinion by the director of legal affairs at the commission to the effect that the order of the Federal High Court be respected; some other forces are bent on disobeying the order. According to the source, leadership of the commission was uncomfortable with the legal opinion from the commission’s legal department and opted to consult its external legal adviser, who is a senior member of the inner bar. But, in a reaction, the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC chairman, Rotimi Oyekanmi, dismissed speculation about the lingering crisis dividing the commission, stressing that the commission has applied for the Certified True Copy of the ruling.

South West PDP chief drags party to court, seeks sack of treasurer, deputy spokesperson A member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the South-West, Chief Pegba Otemolu, has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to nullify the elections of the party’s National Treasurer and the Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the party. While Aribisala Adewale emerged as the National Treasurer, Diran Odeyemi won the Deputy National Publicity Secretary at the December 9, 2017 convention. In his suit marked FHC/ ABJ/CS/ 1284 /2017 and filed on December 23, 2017, Otemolu prayed the court to substitute Adewale with Chief Folorunsho Babalola as the National Treasurer and Bamidele Salam as the Deputy National Publicity Secretary. The PDP and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Adewale and Odeyemi were joined as defendants by the plaintiff.

In his contention, the nomination and the subsequent emergence of Adewale and Odeyemi as national officers of the party violated an earlier judgement of the court delivered on June 24, 2016. Otemolu also contended that he remained the PDP’s zonal secretary in the South-West having been elected for a tenure of four years alongside other members of the party’s executive committee in the zone at a congress held on October 11, 2017. He insisted that failure of the party to recognise his executive committee’s list of delegates for the party’s December 9, 2017 national congress had rendered the elections of Adewale and Odeyemi “purportedly” nominated by the South-West zone of the party a nullity. A supporting affidavit filed alongside the suit was deposed to by Egodo Elvis, a litigation officer in the law firm of the plaintiff ’s lawyer, Rickey Tarfa, SAN. He stated, “That by the terms

of the judgment dated June 24, 2016 of this honourable court, the plaintiff ’s South-West Executive Committee of the 1st defendant (PDP ) are the valid and authentic executive committee until their tenure expires; as such, they are the Executive Committee to be accepted and recognised for any purpose on issues relating to the South-West Executive Committee of the 1st defendant including the convening of the national convention of the 1st defendant. “The 1st defendant proceeded with its national convention on December 9 , 2017 at the Eagle’s Square as scheduled, however, it failed and refused to accept, accord or recognise the delegates of the plaintiff ’s South–West Executive Committee of the 1st defendant as forwarded by the plaintiff ’s executive committee to the 1st defendant. “That the nomination of the 3rd and 4th defendants, Hon. Aribisala Adewale and Hon. Diran Odeyemi respectively as

the nominees of the South-West Zone of the 1st defendant (PDP) for the position of the National Treasurer and the Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the 1st defendant by the parallel executive committee of the 1st defendant in the South–West ought to be nullified.” He is seeking among others, “An order nullifying the conduct of the convention of the 1st defendant at Eagle’s Square, Abuja, on December 9, 2017, as relates to the offices of the National Treasurer and Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the 1st defendant. “An order directing the 1st defendant to immediately replace Hon Aribisala Adewale, the 3rd defendant and Hon. Diran Odeyemi, the 4th defendant with Chief Folorunsho Babalola and Bamidele Salam respectively as the Treasurer and Deputy National Secretary of the 1st defendant.” No date has been fixed for the hearing of the case.

APC has nothing to offer Nigerians, says Cleric A Cleric and founder of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has advised former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to consult God before running for the office of president in 2019. The Primate warned that if the Waziri of Adamawa fails to consult God, he “may not get it right.” The warning was contained in Ayodele’s 2018 prophecies, where he called on Nigerians to be prayerful. While predicting that President Muhammadu Buhari’s aides will create problems for him in the coming year, Ayodele said Buhari will have to do a lot of alliance to boost his political chances. In a statement he issued, the cleric listed five politicians who are likely to be future presidents of Nigeria. He identified Governor Aminu Tambuwal, Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde Fashola and Governor Ibikunle Amosun. The clergyman also said Nigerians should pray against scarcity of food commodity in the country. The prophecies read: “Bread will be scarce in the country, even garri. Some markets will be shut down, and let’s pray against explosion in some markets. “We should also pray so that we don’t lose any Iyaloja or Babaloja. “Iyaloja General should pray against multiple troubles, she should also be watchful of scandals. “For the presidential election, this is what you should be expecting: Buhari will do a lot of alliance, he will try to settle so many things and try to balance right and left. But Buhari’s aides will create problems for him. “The only people who can hold Buhari’s government are Fashola and Amaechi. “In 2019 Atiku wants to be president; it’s going to be serious. Only if Atiku consults God very well before he takes the right step, otherwise, Atiku may not get it right.

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The worth of economic summits

hen the first Nigerian Economic Summit (NES) was held in Abuja in February 1993, little did the organisers know that economic summit will one day snowball into an idea that is widely accepted across the country. Today, families, corporate bodies, states and the federal government have embraced the idea and they regularly organise their economic summits. For state governments, the purpose of economic summits is usually to expose to local and foreign investors the investment opportunities that abound in their states, the enabling environment in place that would make investments thrive in the state and to invite such investors to invest there. Recently, the Niger State Government organised a two-day economic summit to market the state’s economic potential to investors. Tagged “Impact Investment for Advancing Agricultural Economy and Innovation,” the summit attracted economic experts, industrialists, manufacturers and some state governors across the country. It was organised to attract investors in various fields to boost the state’s economy. Judging from the interest shown by investors at the summit there is no doubt that the state is poised to become an agricultural giant among the states in the country. Niger State is certainly a state to watch in the area of accelerated agricultural development in the next few years, a situation which made Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo to declare that Niger State has the capacity to produce varieties of food crops that will feed African continent. Among other investors who showed interest in the state, the Dangote group is investing $450 million in the state to establish a large scale rice processing mill to process 200,000 metric tonnes of paddy rice and to establish a stateof-the-art fully integrated sugar refining industry in the state. The company

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will also establish a state-of-the-art fully integrated sugar industry involving the development of 30,000 hectares of sugarcane plantation and the production of about 500,000 metric tonnes of refined sugar. Another company is to establish a N1.6 billion shea butter factory in Mokwa Local Government Area of the state and would engage about 10,000 workers. To attract the investors the state had put in place various enabling environment measures that would make businesses thrive. Towards this end the state has laws and agencies that encourage private sector participation in the development of the state’s economy. Key among such agencies is its One Stop Investment Centre which the state government uses to put forward to would-be investors its investment potential and priority areas of agriculture, solid minerals, tourism, transportation and energy. The example of Niger State’s success in wooing investors to the state so far is an eye opener and a pointer to the fact that where there is a will there is a way. It also shows that with a good vision and determined leadership every state in the country can successfully market its potential to investors and turn around the economic conditions of the state, the recession in the economy notwithstanding. Another example is Lagos State government which last year joined hands with Kebbi State to develop Kebbi’s rice fields. It was an instant success. The rice from that joint venture, among others, enabled the Lagos State government to bring down the price of rice in its markets. Going forward, state governments must know that they are in a healthy race for development of their economies. In doing so, they must learn that through healthy, positive competition, cooperation and learning from each other’s successes and failures, state governments can better develop their state’s economies and bring tremendous development to their people.

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How corruption in oil industry forced the nation to its knees at Christmas

C Gbemiga Olakunle

hristmas season is one of the most celebrated festivals in the world. The Christmas day marks the date of the virgin birth of the Saviour of it is a tradition that some airlines in Europe and other parts of the world don’t normally operate their international flights that day because they expect their cabins – crews and other ground/officials staff to spend the Christmas day with their families. It is a period that is characterised with high frequency of human movements through all forms of transportation including, roads, air, railways and waterways. Those who couldn’t travel for one reason or the other do make use of money transfer systems to send money to their loved ones. The courier – services operators are not left out of this pleasant rush hour/ period as their clients/ customers send goods in form of parcels and bulk items across to their family members and friends whom they couldn’t pay visits to because of other pressing demands. As a matter of fact, that is the time when most expatriates/foreigners send or repatriate money to their respective home countries. In addition, the characteristics of the period do encourage a lot of people to fix their social events within the season. And so it is very common to note that a lot of villages/towns in the African settings are agog with community festivals, wedding, burial and chieftaincy and house warming ceremonies. It is also a time when old friends, acquaintances and family members do meet with a lot of funfair. Unfortunately for most Nigerian commuters who desire to experi-

ence and share the love of this yuletide season with their loved ones in their home towns/villages, that is the same period that the monster called corruption decides to bare its fangs and bite deeper into the nation’s oil sector; thus dashing the hopes of these Nigerians and as a result prevent them from attending scheduled important social functions or enjoy the Christmas festive mood with their loved ones. Those who made it had to pay through their noses as the transport fares jerked up astronomically. A story was told of a man who wanted to travel from Abuja to Lagos. And on getting to the motor – park he was told that the transport fare has skyrocketed to N15,000 instead of the usual N6,000 – N9,000, (depending on the type of vehicle and park). The man therefore decided to transfer his transport fare through an ATM (Automatic Teller Machine) to his family. Obviously, knowing the status of his account balance, the man might not want to risk a situation where he may get stranded on his return journey. In a similar circumstance, a brother/friend of mine who resides in Abuja informed me that he decided to cancel his scheduled trip to our hometown in Oyo state when he realized the status of his pocket after servicing his car and putting fuel into his car’s tank. He told me plainly that he would be stranded if he dare ventures to embark on the journey because he reasoned that he would find it difficult to get anyone in the town to borrow him money to facilitate his journey back to Abuja since he drives a big car in the reckoning of people at home. Even as at the time of writing this article, a liter of fuel/petrol sells for N400 per liter in Abuja Municipal!

And if the Federal Government do not remedy the situation within the next 48 or 72 hours, those who travelled out of their working – stations may be stranded; thus they may resort to borrowing or selling some of their personal effects like expensive phones, `i– pads, wrist – watches, etc to finance their return – journey back to their respective stations. A lot of transport operators and car owners may also be tempted to buy petrol into jerry – cans and put in their vehicle boots to avoid being stranded on the road – a situation/ practice that is very risky especially during this dry – season when fire can easily ignite at the drop of petrol on the exhaust pipes. To underscore the seriousness that the Federal Government attaches to the ongoing fuel – crisis, even President Muhammed Buhari, known for his taciturnity on crucial/burning national issues had to quickly issue a letter from his own office and not through the offices of any of his media aides or the enigmatic Minister of Information and Culture – Alhaji Lai Mohammed. And for the benefit of those who have not come across this crucial correspondence from Mr. President on the Social Media or in the mainstream media, his letter reads and we quote: “Dear Nigerians, the fuel scarcity being experienced nationwide is regrettable. I sympathize with all Nigerians, on having to endure needless fuel queues. I’m being regularly briefed, especially on the NNPC’s interventions to ensure that there is enough petrol available during this period and beyond. I have the NNPC’s assurance that the situation will improve significantly over the next few days, as new shipments and

supplies are distributed across the country. I have also directed the regulators to step up their surveillance and bring an end to hoarding and price inflation by marketers”. The President concludes his letter which he dated December 24, 2017on the eve of Christmas where he wrote, “ Let me also assure that the relevant agencies will continue to provide updates on the situation. I thank you all for your patience and understanding – Muhammed Buhari, President, Federal Republic of Nigeria.’’ A very crucial point that can be noted from the above letter is Mr. President’s allegation that some marketers are hoarding the fuel product and arbitrarily inflating the price for their own selfish purposes against the nation’s discomfort- an unpatriotic practice which can spark off mass protests and national uproar against the Federal Government if the ugly situation is not quickly addressed on time. The President through his letter to the nation is saying the obvious and what is already known to the public. The responsibility now lies on the Federal Government to rise up to the challenge with a determination to curtail or stop these sharp corrupt practices among the marketers and ensure that the hoarded products in their petrol stations are sold to members of the public at the regulated price. In addition, some unscrupulous members of the public should be discouraged from storing–up petrol in their vehicle tanks, shops/offices or residences to avoid fire accidents. Gbemiga Olakunle, JP gbemigaolakunle@yahoo.co.uk, Abuja

Now that Ambode has broken a financial record and Obasa says it can be achieved

Mufutau Egberongbe

ince May 2015 when Governor Akinwunmi Ambode took over the mantle of leadership in Lagos, the state, for sure, has never witnessed a better last year. It is the end of 2018 and the state marches towards a new year. The governor knows this and has continued to maintain his passion to leave Lagos far better than how he met it. Silent, less talking and ever smiling, he broke a financial record never heard in the state since its creation. The governor got to the House of Assembly, read out a short and very concise budget speech that held everyone breathing anxiously. The governor knows how to suspend people till the end. He has done this with the many projects his administration has embarked upon. He waits to blow the trumpet when the result becomes positive. This was what he did on the floor of the chamber till he finally revealed the estimate. The budget of progress for 2018 is N1.046 trillion. Unprecedented. Again, for a governor who knows why he is in office as well as what his state needs, the budget was further broken into a recurrent of N347 billion and a capital expenditure of N699 billion.

You may want to know that the governor scored another milestone in the management of the state resources. In the last one year, the state did not borrow a dime. It only maintained what was borrowed in the past. What this translates to is that the resources for all the projects embarked upon by Ambode were part of what accrued to the state in terms of internally generated revenue and allocation from the centre (which is oftentimes nothing much to be excited about). How many state can match this feat? It is better to understand it this way: In the proposed budget, the estimated total revenue for 2018 stands at N897.423 billion of which N720.123 billion will be generated internally, while a total of N148.699 billion will be sourced through deficit financing within the medium term expenditure framework. So you see that with a round peg in a round hole, Lagos remains one of the only states that can survive in the country without allocations from the federal government. I am not sure any resident of Lagos needs to ask what the government did in 2017 in the area of infrastructure. Every area of the state has been touched. Is it deep down Aboru in Alimosho or upscale Lekki? A friend told me recently he visited Epe and almost forgot

the primary reason he was in the once sleepy town. “Epe is becoming a small London. You need to see the level of development going on there,” he said. For anyone who has not visited Lagos state in the last four years, I bet you that person would find it very difficult recognising Berger area today. To now think that these projects were executed without any borrowing speaks a lot about the person in charge of affairs in the state and those who he has surrounded himself with. Enter the Lagos state House of Assembly. This arm of government headed by Mudashiru Obasa has ensured, in the last two years, that the governor succeeds. At the inception of office, Obasa told some journalists that the paramount responsibility of the Assembly under his watch is ensuring the best environment for the governor to excel. Through these efforts, the House has been able to plug major holes and assisted, even though indirectly, to boost the state’s internally generated revenue. Obasa further reiterated his resolve to move at the speed required for the development of the state with Governor Ambode, when the latter presented the 2018 budget recently. This is why the budget would be passed shortly. It is currently bring examined by a committee of

competent hands. The governor continues to have the assurances of the House that his zeal, dreams and mission for the state will be achieved. The governor and Obasa do not doubt how the budget of N1.046 trillion could be achieved. The speaker has confirmed the state has the capacity just like Ambode shares same belief. The two officials have come a long way, starting from the lowest level of governance being the local government. The speaker was a councillor in 1999, while the governor started his career at the local government level too before moving to the state. The duo had been part of the modern Lagos policies charted by Ashiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Hence they have both been students of the same school of thought Tinubuism. Again, Obasa was the chairman in charge of the committee on budget of the Assembly before becoming its speaker. On the other hand, Ambode has been and remains a finance guru leading the state to success on many fronts even when he was yet to become the governor. The budget will surely be achieved. Egberongbe is the special adviser to Speaker Mudashiru Obasa on political and legislative matters.

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Who’s Jerusalem? III

Times Columnist MOHAMMED ADAMU

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The Jews with their esoteric, non-proselytising, cult-like attitude to religion which racially discriminates the admittance of new converts, were not that lucky. While the Arabs grew and expanded by Arabisation and Islamisation, the Jews had to wage series of relentless bloody wars of ethnoracial annihilation and decimation to gain territories. They had to wipe the Canaanites the Amorites, the Edomites, the Philistines, the Moabites, the Hittites and others to establish the nation of Israel and the Kingdom of Judea. A fact which the Bible admits in Joshua 6:21

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e have seen that none of the three Abrahamic faiths, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, came into possession of Palestine or Jerusalem by being the original owners or the earliest ‘settlers’. They were all virtually ‘strangers’ to the lands -just like God Himself in the Bible had said to Abraham in Genesis 17:8: “the land wherein thou art a stranger”. Virtually all the three faiths, at various times in religious history came into possession of the whole or parts of the ‘Holy Land’ chiefly by conquest. Although we also saw that the indigenous Canaanites, being essentially self-Arabized and selfIslamized, the Islamic Caliphate under Umar Ibn Al-Kattab, did not originally have to wage a war to ‘conquer’ them. The Caliphate was ushered in by ‘red carpet’. Almost all the wars fought by the Muslims were either in defense of the territories against Crusaders or in offense against Crusaders to repossess them. Which is not to excuse the fact that the Islamic Caliphate had mightfully expanded its territory to encompass Palestine and Jerusalem, and that like the Romans did, it too, by proxy or by vice-gerency, had ruled these territories. As Arabization effortlessly made Arabs out of essentially non-Arab populations, even so the rampaging expansion of the early Islamic Caliphate, had, willfully or inevitably, made Muslims out of already Arabized peoples. Said Maxime Rodinson in his book ‘The Arabs’: “Well before Islam… a slow process of Arabization got under way”; and that although “Islamization followed a parallel course…. Here (Rodinson admitted) physical coercion was the exception.” The Jews with their esoteric, nonproselytizing, cult-like attitude to religion which racially discriminates the admittance of new converts, were not that lucky. While the Arabs grew and expanded by Arabization and Islamization, the Jews had to wage series of relentless bloody wars of ethno-racial annihilation and decimation to gain territories. They had to wipe the Canaanites the Amorites, the Edomites, the Philistines, the Moabites, the Hittites and others to establish the nation of Israel and the Kingdom of Judea. A fact which the Bible admits in Joshua 6:21: “And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword”. On the other hand, Christian Europe –without being in any way remotely Middle Eastern by descent, let alone being Arabs or Jews or Israelites- had also persistently laid claim to Palestine and Jerusalem. And you wonder, if Arabised Palestinians who had always been the original inhabitants of Palestine and of Jerusalem are not entitled to the land belonging to their forefathers, why should some blond-haired, blue-eyed ChristianEuropeans or European converts to Judaism -merely because the one had accepted and appropriated Christianity and the other had invaded Judaism- have superior title over the ‘Holy Lands? Yet Europe’s Christendom, by series of Vatican-organized Crusades, travel thousands of miles from Europe, to conquer the Holy Lands, and during which, ironically, the lives both of Jews and of Muslims were pleasurably always fair game. Just as, by a streak of another strange irony today, the lives, both of Muslims and Christians are also pleasurably fair game to the Jews in the occupied territories.

Trump TITLE DEEDS But historically, long before societies came to be law-governed that is, ‘conquest’ was one of the many means by which claimants to territories could come into possession or ownership of land. Or they could also do so by being the earliest ‘settlers’ - free that is, from the adverse claims of other settlers. A claimant to a territory must trace his title (or right of ownership) to an ‘original owner’ who was either a ‘first settler’ or, less controversially so, a ‘conqueror’. But if anyone claims to be an ‘original owner’ himself, he can only prove that he became so by being the ‘earliest settler’ –because ‘conquerors’ of a necessity must have displaced some settlers to come into ownership. And so, in fairness to the three ‘monotheistic’ religions, even by as obnoxious a means as ‘conquest’, it can safely be said that at the various times that they ‘possessed’ or ‘owned’ some or all of the ‘Holy Lands’, they each had both de facto and de jure right to do so. Notwithstanding some had had to kill and maim to do so. But the Balfour Declaration which created the State of Palestine in 1922, although it first resulted from a unilateral action by the British government, the fact that “the declaration was (subsequently) embodied in the League of Nations mandate to Britain, for Palestine”, made it also both de jure, legally speaking, and de facto, by fait accompli. The Balfour Declaration becomes legally binding –even if not morally soon the Palestinians as it is binding on the Israelis. And so any land taken by Israel –by whatever meansin excess of what International law had given, cannot be covered by the existing title. The world has long gone past the era of proving title by ‘conquest’ or by the earliest ‘settlement’. Said Dr. Norman Finkelstein: “The law is clear. There is a tenet, a basic principle of international law. It is inadmissible to acquire a territory by war…. You cannot resolve any conflict unless there are basic principles. And the principle for resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict or the Israel-Syrian conflict has to be the International law. East Jerusalem is occupied Palestinian territory under International law. That was the ruling of International Court of Justice in July 2004. Israel has no title under International law, to East Jerusalem.” THE ‘PROMISED LAND’ Said one of the Chief Rabbis of Palestine, Rabbi Sonnenfeld: “Zionists came to the region. Jewish people have no demand over any place holy and sacred by the Muslims”. Said another Chief Rabbi of Palestine Dushinsky, in a written testimony to the United Nation: “We furthermore wish to express our definite opposition to a Jewish State in any part of Palestine.” But Dushinsky also warned that the irredentism of International Jewry –or Judaism- regrettably is transforming “Judaism from a religion, into a nationalism –uprooting all sacredness from our religion.” Because as he argued “The concept of creating a sovereign homeland for Jews happens to be totally forbidden according to Judaism, since according to our belief, w are in exile and we are forbidden to end exile by any political

means.” In support of this Finkelstein, who is a Jew also, said “Zionism believes in an exclusively Jewish State; an ideology rejected by both religious and secular Jewish people.” These are the views of the orthodox Jews. But not of the blond-haired, blue-eyed European Jews like Natanyahu who, not believing in the Christian Bible, yet, will cite Genesis 17:8 to assert the Jewish ‘Holy Title Deed’. Which says: “And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession.” Ask any Jew including the many atheists and agnostics among them who doubt or disbelieve the existence of God, ‘Who gave you Palestine? And the answer conveniently is always ‘God’. The reference also being always Genesis 17:8. VALIDITY OF TITLE But the question is asked: ‘can a valid title to any territory be established on the basis strictly of a prophesy contained in a scripture which belongs to, and is believed only by, people of a particular faith and not by those of others? Can the scripture of just any religion create possessory and ownership rights in land enjoyable by total ‘strangers’ to it, and in a manner adversely detrimental to its original inhabitants? What right for example, had Abraham to leave the Ur of Chaldea and to come to Canaan to claim a land belonging to others, on the strength of a prophesy personally revealed only to him, and by a ‘God’ only he believed? If a valid title can be established on the basis of the prophesy of just any religion, will any one prophesy of a particular religion then be more valid than the prophesies of others, on the same property? Ironically though almost all three Abrahamic faiths, -Judaism, Christianity and Islam- believe there was indeed the promise of a ‘Promised Land’; -a land promised to the seeds of Abraham. (Genesis 17:8). And whether or not the Jews believe in the God of the Christians or the Allah of the Muslims, is immaterial to the fact that that promise is there as well in the Quran of the Muslims as in the Christian Bible. It makes unnecessary, dissipating any textual energies or splitting scriptural hairs along the ethereal or the metaphysical to probate or to approbate the validity of that promise. But in the search for the beneficial heirs of that promise, the Muslims –if not their fellow Christians- it appears, are always ready to take off the gloves! Over the years the argument against the Jewish claim had always been based strictly on morality and ethics. Hardly ever on Biblical and or Quranic exegesis. Because it is always a ‘given’ that there is in fact the promise of a ‘Promised Land’ made to Abraham and to the seeds of Abraham. But the question arises: ‘Who are the seeds of Abraham?’ or put another way, ‘are the Jews or the Israelites, or both of them, the only seeds of Abraham?’ Nope! The Israelites, the Jews and the Arabs are all seeds of Abraham. Because in far more number of places than can be reckoned in the first book of the Bible, Ishmael the progenitor of the Arabs –like Isaac his younger brother- is spoken of as the son and seed of Abraham; viz:

“And Hagar bore Abram a son: and Abram called his son’s name, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael” (Genesis 16”15); “And Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised” (Genesis 17:25); “In the very same day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael, his son” (Genesis 17:26); and “Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son” (Genesis 25:12). And in Genesis 21:13 God said to Abraham “of the son of the bondwoman, I will make a nation, because he is thy seed.” And in Genesis 16:10 “the angel of the Lord said to her (Hagar), I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude” In truth Ishmael was more so Abraham’s legitimate son than Isaac could have been, because he was a first born. And to borrow a paraphrase of Deuteronomy 21:16 in the Bible: ‘if the Lord God, disdaineth not to recognize Ishmael as the son and seed of Abraham in the Torah, who are we to deny him his patrimony’. God, the verse says, will not allow the right of the ‘firstborn’ (in this case Ishmael) to be jeopardized even if the child (Ishmael) is the offspring of a hated wife (in this case Hagar)’. In fact the claim that Ishmael was a ‘bastard son’ of a ‘legitimate marriage’ is textually preposterous; because to be a legitimate son, it is sufficient that a child is a product of wedlock approved by God, and of which Abraham’s and Hagar’s was. If Isaac –in spite of being virtually the product of an incestuous marriage, between Abraham and his blood step sister, Serah- was still a legitimate son of his father Abraham, why should Ishmael –in spite of being the product of a legitimate marriage- be deemed illegitimate merely because he was the son of a father (Abraham) who had to marry his bondwoman (slave), Hagar, to sire him? Who is more legitimate? -the product of a marriage of two blood siblings or the product of a marriage of a freeborn and a slave? THE CHOSEN ONES The choice by God of the people of Israel from whom to raise warners, was a divine test and not a divine indulgence. It carried with it enormous spiritual and temporal responsibilities. And the promise of a ‘Promised Land’ must be viewed strictly in that perspective as a ‘Land’ to be earned by godly and righteous living and not one to be conquered by the arrogance of ‘exclusive faith’ or the pride of racial superiority. The plan of God, as one black American Muslim, Tariq Abdallah Al-Mansur, once said was to use the Jews to establish a model community of godly people, so that in addition to the Mosaic tablet containing the does and don’ts of a righteous people, the whole of humanity would regularly pay pilgrimage to the ‘Holy Land’, and it would be sufficient to see from the lives of God’s own ‘chosen people’, the practical demonstration of a righteous, ‘Ten-Commandment’ living. Said Abd Al-Karim Biazar in his ‘The Covenant in the Quran’, “the Covenant made with the children of Israel must not be turned into a claim for special rights.” But did the Jews fulfill their own side of the bargain? Or as the Quran would ask ‘did they fulfill their covenant with Allah?’. Nope! Or do you still wonder why God in the Bible referred to them as “stiff-necked (Exod. 33:5)” and “rebellious(Deut. 9:7)”. Or what can be more anti-Semitic than in the words of the same Jewish prophets of the Bible, the Jews are variously referred to as ‘vagabonds’ (Deut. 9:7); ‘wicked and adulterous generation’ (Math. 16:4) and ‘brood of snakes’ (Luke 3:7)? The message they repudiated! The messengers, they killed! “Lo,” the Quran says in 8:55 “the worst of beasts in Allah’s sight are…. who break their treaty and they keep not their duty” . And further in Quran 2:124, Allah clearly says “My promise is not within the reach of wrongdoers”; confirming also like the Bible does, that “Those of the children of Israel who went astray were cursed by the tongue of David” (Quran 5:78). And the warnings of Jeremiah and Jesus about the inevitable revocation of God’s promise to the Jews in Jeremiah 31:36 and Mathew 21:43 can only foreshadow the vision of Isaiah in Isaiah 21:7 of “a chariot of camels” after those of “horsemen” and of “asses”. Said Jesus: “Therefore say I unto you, the kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof (Mathew 21:43)” CONCLUDED

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DPR seals 5 filling stations in Lokoja over price adjustment ÏÏÏThe

Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Kogi state has sealed five filling stations in Lokoja for selling Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) above the government regulated price of N145 per litre. The operations controller of DPR in Kogi state, Amos Jokodola, who ordered the sealing while inspecting all the filling stations to assess the level of compliance and sales of the product, expressed disappointment over the attitude of some fuel dealers that had been floating the government price. According to him, many of the filling stations were discovered to have hoarded petroleum in their underground tanks. He said, “Imagine, some filling stations have enough fuel but they choose not to sell to a customer, we coming round

the stations to force them to sell at government price. “The five stations we sealed up have fuel and sell above government price while some saw us coming and closed their fuel station. We will continue to monitor them until they comply and make the petrol available to motorist to buy” He, however, warned that petroleum dealer that goes against regulations would be sanctioned, adding that DPR would not hesitate to seal any erring fuel station in the state. While urging motorists and tricyclist in the state to display orderliness in order to get the fuel at government price, the organisation warned filling stations owners to desist from reserving petrol for people without the concert and approval of the regulating body.

L-R: Chairman, of the occasion/Chairman, Gwaram LGA, Alhaji Sani Mohammed; Chairman, Orient Restaurant, Alhaji Yahya Abubukat; Hajiya Hauwa Ahmed and former Chairman Bauchi LGA, Alhaji Lawal Babamagaji, during the inauguration of Orient Restaurant on Bank Road in Bauchi State… on Wednesday.

Aregbesola presents 2018 budget Thursday ÏÏÏRegardless

of the ongoing industrial action by workers in Osun, Governor Rauf Aregbesola, is expected to present the budget for the 2018 fiscal year to the state House of Assembly for scrutiny and approval in line with Section 121 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. This was contained in a press statement issued on Wednesday by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Adelani Baderinwa. According to the statement, “the presentation of the 2018 budget proposal by Aregbesola is peculiar being the last by his administration in a glorious two terms adventure in the government of Osun with a legacy that may be

difficult to surpass soon and will definitely outlive Ogbeni Aregbesola himself ”. It reads in part: “The budget is expected to capture the essence of governance and billed to be the crowning glory of the last previous years of Aregbesola’s administration which is already a success with a legacy of good governance. The budget comes with the ability to set progress march of clear socio-economic agenda for a worthy successor for the good of the people and the state”. “Ogbeni Aregbesola is thus personally inviting all the elites, leading lights in the socio-economic life of the state, bankers, economists NonGovernmental Organizations, religious leaders,

traditional rulers, leaders of artisans and all stakeholders to the Budget proposal presentation”. All Executive Secretaries in all the Local Governments and Development Area and Council Areas (LCDAs) are expected to attend as a matter of duty and mobilize their constituents to Osun House of Assembly to the event. Financial experts, political functionaries and other stakeholders in the state of Osun are invited to grace the occasion which takes place by 10:00 am tomorrow”. However, when contacted if the current strike action would not affect the budget presentation, the media adviser to Aregbesola, Mr Sola Fasure said “the industrial action would not affect the bud-

He said that the locals were encouraged to jettison their antiquated practice of open lavatory and embrace VIP toilets which he said “is affordable and much safer”. The UNICEF Desk Officer who said that some wealthy men in some communities in Aba South had also started building VIP toilets for their poor neighbours expressed delight that the efforts of the agency had started yielding fruit. He also said NOA in the state had, courtesy of UNICEF, organized a “speaking session” with women groups during which messages on essential family

practices such as exclusive breast feeding and hand washing were taken to churches during their women conferences. “Resultantly, more women in the state now patronize health centres instead of traditional homes for child delivery”, he said, adding that more women have also embraced exclusive breast feeding. He also said the agency courtesy of UNICEF held quiz competition for mothers in Osisioma LGA where questions on exclusive breast feeding, immunization and essential family practices were thrown at the

participants, and prizes given to the winners and runners up. Onwuchekwa also expressed joy that the town hall meetings on anti - vaccination rumours held by NOA with critical stakeholders in the communities across the state were yielding positive results. NOA, he said had engaged key stakeholders including traditional rulers, President Generals of Town Unions, and the clergy to dispelled misconception in some quarters that solders were forcefully injecting monkey pox virus on pupils to depopulate states in Southern

get presentation. There are two things. Negotiation is still on between workers and the government and anything can happen. The idea of the strike is that you withdraw your service and not to sabotage the government”. “The strike is just to keep people away from work and not go around and stopping other people in the pursuit of their lawful duties. I would expect workers to respect the wish of the people and government also demand this from them. If indeed the members of the workers comply, you don’t néed to go to their office and start chasing people. They (labour leaders) went to the secretariat today (Wednesday) and they were chasing people and eventually they got tired and left”, he explained.

Bende community moves against open defecation with VIP toilets Sunday Nwakanma - Umuahia

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CEF- sponsored campaign against open defecation in April this year, Ndibe community in Bende Local Government of Area of Abia State has constructed three Ventilation, Improved, Pit, VIP) toilets Located at strategic points in the community for easy accessibility by locals the VIP toilets were constructed jointly by the community. Speaking with newsmen, a village source, Mr. James Nkemakolam said the action was in response to the

sensitization on the dangers of open defecation which he blamed for the prevalence of some diseases in the community, stating that more of such toilets would be constructed in the community by 2018, while adding that even the village women in their meetings now preach against open defecation due to its inherent dangers. Confirming the development, the UNICEF Desk Officer in the National Orientation Agency Umuahia office, Mr. Goddy Onwuchekwa, said the agency held the campaign against open defecation in all three senatorial zones in the state.

Nigeria. According to him participants at such meetings forward the message against the rumour to no fewer than 200 persons in their contact groups via the social media. He also expressed delight on the positive impact of the Volunteer Community Mobilizers , another UNICEF -sponsored programme of NOA at Ikwuano LGA where he said volunteer youths now move around the communities to mobilise pregnant women to access health centres for their anti- natal and post - natal cares.

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Gov Ahmed signs 2018 Budget, pledges improved welfare, infrastructure

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people of Kwara State have been assured of improved welfare and infrastructure in the coming year. The State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, gave the assurance while signing into law the State’s 2018 budget of N190, 997,425, 571, as passed by the State House of Assembly. Ahmed also promised that in the coming year, focus will be on ensuring that all ongoing and new projects across the State are completed before the expiration of his administration. He listed some of the ongoing projects to include GeriAlimi Diamond Underpass, new campuses of Kwara State

University in Ekiti and IleshaBaruba, dualisation of Kulende-Sango-UITH-Oke Oyi Road, New State Secretariat for civil servants, Rore-IpetuArandun, Anilelerin road; Share-Oke Ode Road, among others. Speaking further, Ahmed said the State Government under his leadership would work harder to boost the state’s economy, create more jobs and enhance the welfare of the people. He said in line with the commitment of the State Government to the wellbeing and health of its people, all arrangements have been concluded to commence the State Health Insurance Scheme in

2018. According to him, under the new scheme, all categories of people in the State will enjoy access to qualitative and affordable healthcare. The governor also pledged that the state government would strive to ensure adequate implementation of the 2018 budget and achieve better rating than the 70 per cent implementation recorded in the 2017 budget. He added that there will also be renewed efficiency in the collection and management of Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of the State. Governor Ahmed commended members of the State House of Assembly led by

Speaker, Hon. Ali Ahmad for the speedy consideration and passage of the budget, which has ensured the State’s return to the January to December budget cycle for the first time in ten years. Recall that the House last Thursday passed the 2018 budget of N190.9 billion, which was N9,111,369,016, higher than the N181,886,056,555 budget estimate presented to the legislature by Ahmed in November. The budget, tagged: “Budget of Sustained Growth and Prosperity,” has a provision of N110, 689,173.434 (58%) for Capital Expenditure and N74, 702,775.870 (42%) for Recurrent Expenditure.

L-R: Managing Director, RBF Energy Resources Ltd, Ben Osigwe; Vice President, Ebede Football Company, Gloria Olise; Author, Engr. Isaac Umelo; his wife, Ngozi and Chief Executive Officer, Vibrant Ventures Ltd, Godwin Amos Akpan, during the public presentation of a book titled: They Have No Birthday held in Lagos… on Tuesday. Photo: EDOKPOLOR OSAYANDE.

Ikpeazu reflects on Nigeria unity, laments Ndigbo plight Sunday Nwakanma, Umuahia

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Governor of Abia State, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu has stressed the need for Ndigbo to think of their relationship with themselves and other ethnic groups with a view to emphasizing things that unite the country. Governor Ikpeazu stated this at the Government House, Umuahia, Tuesday when he received in audience a delegation of Nzuko Umunna, an Igbo socio cultural group led by former

Nigeria Ambassador to Switzerland, Amb. Umunna Orjiako. He said he was concerned about the plight of Ndigbo in Nigeria despite contributing a lot to the economy of the country. ‘’Igbos have demonstrated more commitment to the unity of Nigeria more than any other race’’, he said, stating the need for mental restructuring of Nigerians such that people will have the opportunity to advance wherever they find themselves in the country, maintaining

that even though fiscal federalism is good in geography, of greater importance is giving people a sense of justice, equity and fair play. According to him, Ndigbo cannot continue to play second fiddle, pointing out that Igbos are very creative and industrious people. He assured of the support of his administration to the visions and aspirations of Nzuko Umunna towards rediscovering the Igbo man. Earlier, the leader of the delegation, Amb Umunna Orjiako said the group which

is not a replication of other Igbo socio cultural groups like the Ohaneze explained that the association is a unique group of people of all ages spanning across all Igbo nationalities, noting that the intention is to rediscover Ndi Igbo and pursue their collective interest. Amb Orjiako who said that the Igbo man built and wielded Nigeria pointed out that there is need for a handshake across Nigeria by bringing the Igbos to collaborate with the Yorubas to achieve a change in Nigeria.

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Group to partner Enugu Govt on education, health, other sectors Moses Oyediran, Enugu

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resident in the United States of America, USA, have expressed their readiness to continue to partner with the State Government in improving the well being of its citizenry in areas of health, education and economic empowerment. This is even as it conferred an award on the state chairman of All progressive Congress (APC),Dr. Ben Nwoye, for his service to mankind. The group, operating under the agies of Enugu (USA) Association incorporated, said they decided to honour Dr. Nwoye, who is also a member of the organization with the award of “philanthropic and distinguished Services to Humanity and Enugu USA, “because of his immense contribution to the group and society at large. Speaking during the 2017 annual national convention of the association in Enugu on Wednesday, the National President of the organization, Chief Chukwuma Ojukwu, said this year’s event marks the 19th edition of the conference. According to him, “the motivation to bring this event to our homeland is driven by this singular philosophy of mine, which is anchored on the fact that the wellbeing of our people, their health, their access to quality education, and economic empowerment are my fundamental concern. Ojukwu, added that “this is a major reason behind the choice of the theme for the conference which is “Delivering Good health care,

Education and Youth/ Rural Women Empowerment for Enugu people”. The president stressed that the theme was apt going by the alarming rate of poverty, sicknesses, inequality among other human challenges threatening the entire globe, including Enugu state and Nigeria. Reacting to the award, the elated Enugu state APC boss expressed appreciation to the organization which he described as a foremost diaspora group in the state. Nwoye called on others to emulate what the “Enugu USA Association incorporated has been doing in the last 19 years to improve the lots of the citizens. Nwoye said: “This is a wonderful group made up of professionals, such as medical Doctors, lawyers, Engineers, among others, and they have continued to make serious impact on the lives of the people of the state in the areas of medical intervention, education and many more. I must sincerely say that they are the best export. “They always come back home to give back to their homeland, they are the best export .Am most grateful and honoured by this award, coming from a very reputable organization as Enugu USA. They have continued to make life meaningful for the people of our great state, via their various interventions, insisting that the organization remains the best among all diaspora groups. The event was attended by prominent dignitaries from within and outside the state including Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi.

Buhari congratulates elder statesman, Christopher Kolade at 85 ÏÏÏPresident

Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated veteran broadcaster, administrator and Nigeria’s former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Dr Christopher Kolade, who turns 85 on Thursday. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina in a statement on Tuesday, said President Buhari joins to celebrate the graceful life of the versatile scholar whose achievements in various undertakings, both in the private and public sector, clearly underscore the power of discipline, focus

and integrity. “As he turns 85 years, the President commends Kolade’s many years of contributions to national development as an academic, administrator and a diplomat, especially in continually counselling leaders and mentoring the younger generation,” the statement read in part. President Buhari believes the octogenarian has earned the respect and honour of both the young and old by walking in the fear of God and leading a life of integrity, which are invaluable attributes that he recommends to all Nigerians, especially aspiring leaders.

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TRUSTEES: 1. PASTOR ONAH CHRISTOPHER ODEH (G.O), 2. ONAH ALICE ENEJI (VS), 3. ODIGIRI LISTON SUNDAY (SECRETERY), 4. EMMANUEL EHIE (MEMBER), 5. ELDER GODWIWN OLAJE (MEMBER). AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST ANY OBJECTION TO THIS APPLICATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR -GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: JACOB U. BLESSING (BARR) 08073777229

NIGERIA ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS (NASOW) NO. 6776/CAC/6INCT THIS IS TO INFORM ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT NIGERIA ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS (NASOW) NO. 6776/CAC/6INCT HAS APPLIED TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR THE ISSUANCE OF CERTIFIED TRUE COPY (CTC) OF THE CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION. THE ORIGINAL COPY OF THE CERTIFICATE GOT MISSING AND CANNOT BE FOUND AFTER A THOROUGH SEARCH. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS APPLICATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED :BARR OLALEKAN OLADAPO ESQ

OGHENERO ORPHANAGE HOME THIS IS TO NOTIFY THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990. THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OGHENERO AVWORO 2. FONSECA AVWORO AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROVIDE SHELTER AND CARE FOR ORPHANS AND THE LESS PRIVILEGED 2. TO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT TO THE LESS PRIVILEGED AND ORPHANS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR -GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION

SIGNED: SECRETARY

CENT DYNAMITE FRIENDS CLUB OF NIGERIA

FOUNTAIN OF GRACE AND EVANGELICAL ASSEMBLY INTERNATIONAL

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

TRUSTEES: (1) OKAFOR CHINEDU GODWIN - CHAIRMAN. (2) MADUIKE PETER CHINEDU - SECRETARY. (3) UGWU DENNIS OSITA. AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO ENHANCE THE WELFARE OF MEMBERS ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28TH DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

GREAT HOUSE OF MEN EXECUTIVE FRIENDS CLUB OF NIGERIA

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

TRUSTEES: 1. OKORO IKECHUKWU LINUS 2. IKEGWUONU FESTUS OBIORA 3. EDEH BENJAMIN, AIM AND OBJECTIVE: WELFARE OF MEMBERS

TRUSTEES: 1. OSITA REUBEN OKOYE. 2. OKPALAEKA NWABUEZE STANLEY 3. OKOYE CHUKWUDI BONIFACE 4.NDUBUILO ANENE CHARLES 5 MADUEKWE OKWUCHUKWU SAM AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: WELFARE OF MEMBERS

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28TH DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: SECRETARY

OPERATION RESCUE SOULS FOR CHRIST INTERNATIONAL GOSPEL CHURCH THIS IS TO NOTIFY THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR CHANGE OF TRUSTEES UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

SIGNED: SECRETARY

TRUSTEES: 1,EMMANUEL JUBILANT_ANN UZOCHUKWU (PRESIDENT) 2 ONYEKA OLIVER OZOEMENA, 3 EFEJUNTI EUNICE OBIOMA, 4 GODSPOWER ORIEHI, 5 LOUIS FAVOUR, CHIDINMA, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: TO PREACH THE GOSPEL ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28TH DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED- BARR. CHIOMA OGBUNACHARA, 08090866281

HIS GLORY ECCLESIA ASSEMBLY WORLDWIDE THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990. TRUSTEES 1.PST GUZOROCHI REGINALD NGOZI (PRESIDENT) 2.AMARACHI RUTH NGOZI (SECRETARY) 3.MR DAVID OGBUAGU AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO PREACH THE WORD OF GOD WORLDWIDE ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28TH DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

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EDUCATION FOR THE NEEDY CHILDREN INITIATIVE EDUCATION FOR THE NEEDY CHILDREN INITIATIVE 2, Okun Street, Power line Bus Stop, Sholuyi, Gbagada, Lagos The General public is hereby notified that the above named has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under part C of the Companies and Allied Matters 1990. THE TRUSTEES ARE:1. Ibikunle Olajide Felix 2. Adebayo Adeshina 3. Yaya Olufunke Elizabeth THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE IS:To take Health and Education to the Under-served Children in the Society. Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the RegistrarGeneral, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama District, Abuja within 28 days from the date of this publication Signed by:- SECRETARY

CORRECTION OF NAME

IHEDIOHIAMNA FAMILY

I mistaken called and addressed as Ogun Ayibamiedei, now wish to effect this change to be called and addressed as Canus Ayibamiedei, and also my date of birth that was wrongly written as 10th July, 1995 instead off 3rd January 1999. All documents bearing my former name still remains valid. The general public, UBA Bank and all relevant authorities should please take note of this change.

We Formerly Known and Addressed as ISINKPU FAMILY now wish to be known, called and addressed as IHEDIOHIAMNA FAMILY. All Documents and Certificates bearing Our former name remain valid. Banks, Nigeria Immigration Service, CHURCH, WELL WISHERS, COMMUNITY, FRIENDS Relevant Authorities AND GENERAL PUBLIC Please take note.

KELECHI UDO

xx MARGARET OKWU

I, formerly known and addressed as JONATHAN KELECHI UKAH now wish to be known and addressed as KELECHI UDO. All former documents remain valid. Genera public to take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MARGARET TITIMA OKWU now wish to be known and addressed as MARGARET OKWU. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

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SUPREME WORD AMBASSADORS INTERNATIONAL MINISTRY

The General public is hereby notified that the above named MINISTRY has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under part C of the Companies and Allied Matters 1990. THE TRUSTEES ARE:(1) TIMOTHY OKECHUKWU NWOKORIE (2) NGOZI OBICHERE MAVIS (3) CHRIS EBERE NWOKORIE THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE:(1) To preach the Gospel to all Nations (2) To take to the grassroots, the Salvation Ministry of our Lord Christ Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama District, Abuja within 28 days from the date of this publication Signed by: OKATTA VINCENT ESQ. 08033280673 JOHN JEFFERSON OKECHUKWU I Formerly Known and Addressed as IHEUKWUMERE JEFF OKECHUKWU now wish to be known, called and addressed as JOHN JEFFERSON OKECHUKWU All Documents and Certificates bearing my former names remain valid. Banks, Nigeria Immigration Service, Relevant Authorities and the General public Please take note.

GUNDU TERDZUNGWE ALFRED I formerly known called and addressed as GUNDU ALFRED, now wish to be known called and addressed as GUNDU TERDZUNGWE ALFRED. All former documents remain valid general public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

DAMISA - ADEYANJU ADEBOLA YETUNDE I Formerly Known and Addressed as ADEYANJU ADEBOLA YETUNDE now wish to be known, called and addressed as DAMISA - ADEYANJU ADEBOLA YETUNDE All Documents and Certificates bearing my former names remain valid. Banks, Nigeria Immigration Service, Relevant Authorities and the General public Please take note.

AGBARIKO ADETAYO WAHAB I formerly known called and addressed as ALLIU ADETAYO WAHAB, now wish to be known called and addressed as AGBARIKO ADETAYO WAHAB. All former documents remain valid general public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

OTEH MARTINS CHINONSO

I formerly known and addressed as OMORUAN OJE ROBERT now wish to be known and addressed as CHRISTIAN INYAMA. all former documents remain valid. general public should please note.

I formerly known and addressed as OTEH CHINONSO OKWUDILI now wish to be known and addressed as OTEH MARTINS CHINONSO.All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

NWEKE GODSWILL UCHE

MRS WAGBARA SCHOLASTICA NNE

THIS IS TO CONFIRM THAT AREMU TAIWO OSENI AND OSENI RASAKI AREMU REFERS AS ONE AND SAME PERSON NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS OSENI RASAKI AREMU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID,GENERAL PUBLIC NOTE.

xx EZEH MIRACLE CHINAZA I formerly known and addressed as EZE MIRACLE CHINAZA now wish to be known and addressed as EZEH MIRACLE CHINAZA. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as SMART UCHE MARTINS now wish to be known and addressed as NWEKE GODSWILL UCHE. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as MISS UHIO SCHOLASTICA NNE now wish to be known and addressed as MRS WAGBARA SCHOLASTICA NNE. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

MRS JOLAOSHO BUKOLA FISAYO

VOTAR OLAMIDE OSHOKO

OKORO DIKACHI FRANKLIN

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OLADEHINDE BUKOLA FISAYO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS JOLAOSHO BUKOLA FISAYO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS VORAT OLAMIDE OSHOKO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS VOTAR OLAMIDE OSHOKO,ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID,GENERAL PUBLIC NOTE

FATHER NUBARI IGBOH

xx SAMUEL RICHARDS PRECIOUS

I, formerly known and addressed as, NIABARI INYORNE, now wish to be known and addressed as, FATHER NUBARI IGBOH. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as, PRECIOUS ONYINYECHI RICHARDS, now wish to be known and addressed as, SAMUEL RICHARDS PRECIOUS. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

MRS. CELINA U. ESSIEN JACKSON I, formerly known and addressed as, MISS. IGBOANUGO CELINA UZOR, now wish to be known and addressed as, MRS. CELINA U. ESSIEN JACKSON. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note. CONFIRMATION OF NAME In some of my documents my name appears as AJAO ALIMI While in some other ones it appears as YUSUF ALIMI BABATUNDE.The names refer to the same person. All documents bearing all the names remain valid. General public to

YUSUF RAFATU

I, formerly known and addressed as, YUSUF RAFATU OYIZA, now wish to be known and addressed as, YUSUF RAFATU. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note. IME OKON AWAKAFANG I formerly known and addressed as MFON UDO AWAKAFANG now I wish to be known and addressed as IME OKON AWAKAFANG .All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as UZOWULU ONYINYECHUKWU C. now wish to be known and addressed as UZOWULU ONYINYE CELESTINA. All former documents remain valid. Banks and General public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as OKORO DIKACHI CHIBUIKE now wish to be known and addressed as OKORO DIKACHI FRANKLIN. Former documents remain valid. General public take note. MRS. PATIENCE AKAN JOSEPH I, formerly known and addressed as MISS. PATIENCE JOHNNY THOMPSON, now wish to be known and addressed as, MRS. PATIENCE AKAN JOSEPH. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME I, MONDAY INNOCENT, and TEDDY INNOCENT ZORLE, refer to one and same person but, now wish to be known and addressed as, MONDAY INNOCENT. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

Trustees are : 1. ADEBAYO ADEYEMI MATTHEW 2. OYEWOLE SARAH ADEBUNMI AIMS: 1. aim at liberating people from poverty but also, sanitizing our society from evil and illegal ways of making MONEY. 2. To reach out, touch lives positively, empower people to achieve Financial Independence and to help ORDINARY people achieve in an EXTRAORDINARY manner through our proven system, outstanding leadership valor, integrity and excellence with passion. Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General, plot 420, Tigris Crescent, off Aguiyi Ironsi street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days of this publication. Signed: Trustees

CHRISTIAN INYAMA

UZOWULU ONYINYE CELESTINA

MATTROSE FOUNDATION This is to inform the general public that the above named has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Acts of 1990.

CHIME LOVETH CHIMGOZIRIM I formerly known and addressed as CHIME LOVETH ADAEZE now wish to be known and addressed as CHIME LOVETH CHIMGOZIRIM. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

OLAMUYIWA TEMITOPE KAZEEM

I, formerly known and addressed as ALUKO GBADEBO now wish to beknown and addressed as OLAMUYIWA TEMITOPE KAZEEM . Former documents remain valid. General public take note. BOMA ELIZABETH KOSI NWAJIUBA

I formerly known and addressed as MISS .BOMA ELIZABETH ASSAH, now wish to be known and addressed as BOMA ELIZABETH KOSI NWAJIUBA. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note OGUNJIMI OYESHOLA FATIMOH

Formerly AKEJU OYESHOLA FATIMOH now OGUNJIMI OYESHOLA FATIMOH . Former documents remains valid. General public should take note.

MRS OLOYEDE OLUWATUNMISE MAYOWA

COKER OLUWATOBI EMMANUEL

I formerly known and addressed as ODEWOLE OLUWATUNMISE MAYOWA now I wish to be known and addressed as MRS OLOYEDE OLUWATUNMISE MAYOWA .All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as FAKIYESI EMMANUEL ABIODUN now I wish to be known and addressed as COKER OLUWATOBI EMMANUEL .All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

EIGBE BLESSING OMONIGHO

EKE EBUBECHUKWU KENNETH

I, formerly known and addressed as ORIABURE BLESSING OMONIGHO now wish to be known and addressed as EIGBE BLESSING OMONIGHO . Former documents remain valid. General public take note

I, formerly known as KAMALU KENNETH EBUBECHUKWU, now wish to be known and addressed as EKE EBUBECHUKWU KENNETH. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

NKERE OBIOHA UGORJI I, formerly known and addressed as OBIOHA NKERE EZE, now wish to be known and addressed as NKERE OBIOHA UGORJI. All documents bearing my former name remain valid. Banks and the general public should please take note xx NGEREGWOM LORETTA EKWUTOSI MRS I formerly known and addressed as MISS ILOEJIONWU LORETTA EKWUTOSI now wish to be known and addressed as MRS NGEREGWOM LORETTA EKWUTOSI. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

MRS NKIRU UZOHO I formerly known and addressed as MISS JOY NKIRU ONUOHA, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS NKIRU UZOHO. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note. MRS UZUAKPUNDU PEACE CHINENYE

I formerly known and addressed as MISS AGBO PEACE CHINENYE now wish to be known and addressed as MRS UZUAKPUNDU PEACE CHINENYE. All former documents remain valid. Banks and General public should please take note.

ADDITION OF NAME

AGU TOBECHUKWU NONSO

That I was formerly known and addressed as ONYEYIRICHI NNAJIOFOR that I now wish to add JUSTINA to my former name that I now wish to be known and addressed as JUSTINA ONYEYIRICHI NNAJIOFOR. All former documents remain valid. Banks and General public should please take notes.

I formerly known and addressed as AGU TOBECHUKWU CHUKWUNONSO now wish to be known and addressed as AGU TOBECHUKWU NONSO. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

MATTI MORUFAT AJOKE

MRS. OLOGURE TOBI LORETTA

I, formerly known and addressed as HASSAN MORUFAT AJOKE, now wish to be known and addressed as MATTI MORUFAT AJOKE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BASSEY BEN LORETTA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. OLOGURE TOBI LORETTA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

MRS. OLANIYI HASSANATOU MARTHA

CONFIRMATION OF NAMES

I formerly known and addressed as MISS .DIALLO HASSANATOU MARTHA now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. OLANIYI HASSANATOU MARTHA. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

This is to confirm that I, OLUWATOYIN AFOLABI OKEMATTI is the same person answering ETIKO OGUNNOWO EFUKOMAIYA, now wish to be known and addressed as OLUWATOYIN AFOLABI OKEMATTI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

ANIETIE EMEM PEACE

ALIYU DEBORAH

I formerly known and addressed as ALPHONSUS PEACE EMEM now I wish to be known and addressed as ANIETIE EMEM PEACE .All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JAMES DEBORAH OHUNEME NOW I WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ALIYU DEBORAH . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

IDAHOSA ERNEST OJIESE

PHILLIP YURHEM CHRISTIAN

I formerly known and addressed as PAUL ERNEST OJIESE now I wish to be known and addressed as IDAHOSA ERNEST OJIESE .All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as PHILLIP EMBERGA now I wish to be known and addressed as PHILLIP YURHEM CHRISTIAN .All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note

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AJOKU VIVIAN CHIAWUOTU

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AKINSANYA FOLASHADE RUTH

ADESANYA BIMBO AJOKE

ADDITION OF NAME/CORRECTION OF DATE OF BIRTH

I, formerly known and addressed as AJOKU VIVIAN CHIOMA, Now wish to be known and addressed as AJOKU VIVIAN CHIAWUOTU. All former documents remain valid. General public/authorities concerned should take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as AJIMAJASAN FOLASHADE RUTH, now to be known and addressed as AKINSANYA FOLASHADE RUTH. All former documents remain valid. Authority Concerned and general public should take note.

ADESHINA FOLASHADE ELIZABETH

VICTORIA OLUBUKOLA ALONGE

ADELEYE-IKUOMOLA IFEOLUWA OMOLOLA

I, formerly known and addressed as ADESHINA FOLASHADE OLUBUNMI, now to be known and addressed as ADESHINA FOLASHADE ELIZABETH. All former documents remain valid. Authority concerned and General Public should take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as VICTORIA OLUBUKOLA ADEKUNLE, now wish to be known, called and addressed as VICTORIA OLUBUKOLA ALONGE. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as IKUOMOLA IFEOLUWA OMOLOLA, now wish to be known, called and addressed as ADELEYE-IKUOMOLA IFEOLUWA OMOLOLA. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as SOREMEKUN ALIMOT TAIWO, now wish to be known, called and addressed as OLADEPO ALIMOT TAIWO. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as ABDUL GANIYU MUSTAPHA, now wish to be known, called and addressed as ABDULGANIYU OLAYIWOLA MUSTAPHA. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

KUKU SOLOMON I formerly known and addressed as KUKU SOLOMON SULAIMAN now I wish to be known and addressed as KUKU SOLOMON .All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

WILLIAMS ANULI AMAKA I formerly known and addressed as NWOKEBI ANULI AMAKA now I wish to be known and addressed as WILLIAMS ANULI AMAKA . This is due to marriage. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

That on my Sterling Bank Account, my name was wrongly written as JIDDA RALIMAT RAMADE instead of ALI JIDDA RAHMAT. That my correct name and spelling is ALI JIDDA RAHMAT. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

MICHAEL ESSIEN MICHAEL

OKEKE UCHENNA FRANCIS

I Formerly known and addressed as ESSIEN NSWABIA MICHAEL now wish to be known and addressed as MICHAEL ESSIEN MICHAEL,all documents remains valid, general public take note.

I Formerly known and addressed as Okeke Uchenna Francis and Victoria okeke now wish to be know and addressed as OKEKE UCHENNA FRANCIS,all documents remains valid, general public take note.

PETER SOLOMON OJO

KASIKA MARIAM OMOLARA I former known and addressed as AZEEZ MARIAM OMOLARA now wish to be known and addressed as KASIKA MARIAM OMOLARA AZEEZ and my Date Of Birth is 14/5/1988.all documents remain valid,general public take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as ATSOR MARGARET CECILIA, Now wish to be known and addressed as ATSOR MARGARET. All former documents remain valid. General public/authorities concerned should take note.

CORRECTION OF NAME

OBADAN ROSEMARY AMAKA

In some of my documents including my BVN and ACCOUNT my name was wrongly written as KAKA OLUWADAMILOLA JAMIU instead of KAKA OLUWADAMILOLA JOSEPH . Now I wish to be known as KAKA OLUWADAMILOLA JOSEPH.All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as MISS ROSEMARY ACHA DICKSON, DICKSON ROSEMARY and NJOKU ROSEMARY ONGIE now I wish to be known and addressed as OBADAN ROSEMARY AMAKA .All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

DUGO DANIEL DIMIE

xx ANYANWU JONATHAN AMAECHI I formerly known and addressed as Ihuoma Jonathan Anyanwu now wish to be known and addressed as Anyanwu Jonathan Amaechi,all former documents remains valid, general public take note.

I Formerly known and addressed as Angalapele Dugo Daniel now wish to be known and addressed as Dugo Daniel Dimie,all former documents remains valid, general public take note. IYABO ALAKE BELLO

I formerly known as Bello Nofisat wish to be known and addressed as Iyabo Alake Bello. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note. MR SAMUEL OLATUNJI OLAONIPEKUN

I formerly known as Samuel Quadri wish to be known and addressed as Mr Samuel Olatunji Olaonipekun. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

OLAPADE SADIAT ALIMOT I formerly known and addressed as OLAPADE OLALEKAN HALIMATH now wish to be known and addressed as OLAPADE SADIAT ALIMOT and my Date Of Birth is 3/9/1970.all documents remain valid, general public take note. xx AKEEM ISHOLA LUQMAN I formerly known as PETER ODEYEMI wish to be known and addressed as AKEEM ISHOLA LUQMAN, FORMERLY A CHRISTAIN NOW A MUSLIM corrected date of birth is OCT. 22. 1979. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

GOD’S CALLING ORPHANAGE HOME THIS IS TO NOTIFY THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990. TRUSTEES: 1. MR. AMOS AMINU (CHAIRMAN) 2. MRS BUNMI ADENIJI 3. ENGR. SUNDAY APATA (SECRETARY) 4. MR. JOHN OLAYEMI AMINU. 5. MR. JEREMIAH BALA YUSUF AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO GIVE CARE AND ASSISTANCE TO THE NEEDY. 2. TO PROVIDE A SOURCE OF LIVELIHOOD TO THE ORPHANS IN THE SOCIETY. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR -GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: JACOBS U. BLESSING. 08184740407

THE TRUE REVELATION OF CHRIST MINISTRY

THIS IS TO NOTIFY THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR CHANGE OF TRUSTEES UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990. TRUSTEES: 1. ALI MALACHI EJIKE. 2. KELVIN EJEMBI OWUNEBE - SECRETARY 3. ONA ROMANUS OYEMA 4. MIRACLE OKOYE 5. AGBO AUGUSTINE CHUKWUEMEKA - CHAIRMAN AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST ANY OBJECTION TO THIS APPLICATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR -GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: BARR. BASSEY ETUKUDO.

I formerly known and addressed as MAUTIN PETER OJO now wish to be known and addressed as PETER SOLOMON OJO and my Date Of birth is 16/12/1973,all documents remain valid, general public take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as BAMIDELE ABIMBOLA, now wish to be known, called and addressed as ADESANYA BIMBO AJOKE. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, OLALOMI NUREENI OLAYEMI, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLALOMI OLAYEMI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLALOMI NUREENI OLAYEMI. THAT MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 21-06-1996 AND NOT 21-06-1987. GTBANK, RELEVANT INSTITUTIONS AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

OLADEPO ALIMOT TAIWO

ABDULGANIYU OLAYIWOLA MUSTAPHA

CORRECTION OF NAME

DANIEL BOLUWATIFE SAMUEL

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

I formerly known and addressed as APIESON BOLUWATIFE SAMUEL ,now wish to be known and addressed as DANIEL BOLUWATIFE SAMUEL, all former document remain valid general public take note., my date of birth is 21 April 1998

MRS AGUOCHA GLORY

CONFIRMATION OF NAME AND DATE OF BIRTH

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ALANEME ADANNA NOW WISH TO BE CALLED AND ADDRESS AS MRS AGUOCHA GLORY ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID AUTHORITY CONCERN AND GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

THIS IS TO NOTIFY THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT KOMOLAFE ISAAC OLUSEGUN, AKOMOLAFE OLUSEGUN ISAAC AND AKOMOLAFE ISAAC OLUSEGUN ARE THE SAME NAME AND SAME PERSON ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS WITH THIS NAMES REMAIN VALID, AND MY DATE OF BIRTH IS 6TH OF MARCH 1981.AUTHORITY CONCERN AND GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MATHEW AYODELE OLOYEDE I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEOYE OLUSOJI OLUWAKUNMI NOW WISH TO BE CALLED AND ADDRESS AS ADEOYE MATHEW AYODELE OLOYEDE, ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID AUTHORITY CONCERN AND GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CORRECTION OF NAME This is to inform the public that the name registered with WAEC exams in 2013 is Shamsudeen Shuaibu. Upon releasing my result with registeration number 4272234422, Jibrin was mistakenly added. The correct name is Shamsudeen Shuaibu. The Federal University Gusau, other educational institutions and general public should please take note.

WHITE FIELD MINISTRY CAC/IT/NO/19685 THIS IS TO NOTIFY THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR CHANGE OF TRUSTEES UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990. THE OLD TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ELDER JOSEPH IKPATT - RETAINED 2. PROF. REMI AJIBEWA -REMOVED 3. EVANG. SEGUN POPOOLA -RETAINED 4. RAPHAEL EZEOHA -REMOVED 5. KAYODE KOLAWOLE -REMOVED THE NEW TRUSTEES ARE : 1. MRS. FEHINTOLA OLABAMIWAYE POPOOLA -SECRETARY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES REMAIN SAME ANY OBJECTION TO THIS APPLICATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR -GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: SECRETARY

CORRECTION OF NAME

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

IBE ANDREW AMAECHI

I, formerly known and addressed as IBE ANDREW, now wish to be known, called and addressed as IBE ANDREW AMAECHI. That my date of birth is 05/05/1959. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note. AWOSUNLE ODUOLA COMFORT I, formerly known and addressed as ODUOLA COMFORT NSINI, now wish to be known, called and addressed as AWOSUNLE ODUOLA COMFORT. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

UYINOR EFFIONG

I, formerly known and addressed as UYINOR OSAGIEDE, now wish to be known, called and addressed as UYINOR EFFIONG due to change in my marital status. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

IKEH IJEOMA IFEOMA

In some of my documents my name appears as OLUWADAISI ADURALERE While in some other ones it appears as AJIBADE ABIGAEL ABIODUN.The names refer to the same person. Henceforth I wish to be known as AJIBADE ABIGAEL ABIODUN. All documents bearing all the names remain valid. General public to please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as UME-AGUDOSI IJEOMA IFEOMA now I wish to be known and addressed as IKEH IJEOMA IFEOMA. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

IBRAHIM AYINDE ABRAHAM

CORRECTION OF NAME I formerly known and addressed as FOLARIN FOLAYAN AKINSHETE here by DECLARE THAT MY CORRECT NAMES ARE FOLARIN ANDREW,all documents remains valid, general public take note.

I formerly known and addressed as Abraham Ayinde Ibrahim now wish to be known and addressed as Ibrahim Ayinde Abraham,all documents remains valid, general public take note. NWEZI EMMANUELA CHINEDU

SAMUEL PETER OLAWALE

I formerly known and addressed as AKALUE EMMANUELA CHINEDU now wish to be known and addressed as NWEZI EMMANUELA CHINEDU,all former documents remains valid, general public take note.

I formerly known and addressed as SAMUEL OLAWALE HEZEKIAH now wish to be known and addressed as SAMUEL PETER OLAWALE,all documents remains valid, general public take note.

OLABAMIDELE MEDINAT DEBORAH

CORRECTION OF NAME My name was wrongly written as IHUOMA TOCHI GIFT instead of my correct name which is EMEONYE GIFT NKEIRU. All former document remains valid. Banks and general public take note.

I formerly known and addressed as IBRAHIM MEDINAT PRISCILLA ,now wish to be known and addressed as OLABAMIDELE MEDINAT DEBORAH, all former document remain valid general public take note.

OWOLABI ABUBAKAR I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS RASHEEDMURI OWOLABI ABUBAKAR NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS *MURITALA* OWOLABI ABUBAKAR. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

ISRAEL SOLOMON UYEH

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BRIGHT SOLOMON UYEH NOW WISH TO BE CALLED AND ADDRESS AS ISRAEL SOLOMON UYEH, ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID AUTHORITY CONCERN AND GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

LOSS OF DOCUMENT THIS IS TO NOTIFY THE GENERAL PUBLIC PARTICULARLY THE CONSULATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA THAT I, MRS. AKHIGBE PEGGY OTIVBO THAT ON SUNDAY DECEMBER 24, 2017, BURGLARS BROKE INTO OUR HOME WHILE WE WERE AWAY IN CHURCH AND STOLE SOME VALUABLES AND MY PURSE CONTAINING MY GREEN CARD AND SOCIAL SECURITY CARD ALL EFFORTS MADE TO RECOVER SAME PROVED ABORTIVE. IF FOUND PLEASE RETURN TO THE APPROPRIATE AUTHORITIES OR THE NEAREST POLICE STATION.

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Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, December 28 , 2017

Boko Haram: America approves sale of super aircraft to Nigeria craft to the Nigerian government. The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Stuart

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS ADELEKAN AKINWINSOLU TINUOLA OYINKANSOLA now wish to be known and addressed as MRS SAMAGBEYI TINUOLA OYINKANSOLA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Symington, conveyed this approval in a letter of offer and acceptance (LOA), in respect of the A29 Super Tucano Aircraft, presented to the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, at NAF Headquarters in Abuja, on Wednesday. In a statement by Director of Public Relations and Information, NAF, Olatokun-

bo Adesanya, Symington said the development was in showing the resolve of the US government to help Nigeria to completely oust Boko Haram and all forms of terrorism. While asserting that peaceful existence in Nigeria was strategic to the security of the entire West African Sub-Region in particular and the entire world at

large, Symington said the capacity of the NAF would be greatly enhanced by the Super Tucano Aircraft. Noting that both parties would, in January 2018, meet to jointly study the LOA, Symington assured of fast delivery of the aircraft once the Nigerian government made requisite payment. Furthermore, Symington

expressed the willingness of the US government to support the NAF in requisite training on the use of the aircraft and timely supply of needed aircraft spares. Commenting, the Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar assured that the NAF would abide by the stipulated deadlines in the LOA.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME /BIRTH DATE

ODEJIMI SEYI SIMON

KOLAWOLE OLAIDE KAUSARAT

OLADIMEJI VICTOIRE JEANNE

OMOLARA TAJUDEEN

OFEM DENNIS INNOCENT

This is to confirm and certify that AMDALAT KEMISOLA OLOYODE is same person bearing OLOYEDE OLUWAKEMI AYINKE. That my date of birth is 24 February 1972. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as JIMMY OLUWASEYI SIMON, now wish to be known and addressed as ODEJIMI SEYI SIMON. That my date of birth is 07/01/1995. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as BINDOP VICTOIRE JEANNE, now wish to be known and addressed as OLADIMEJI VICTOIRE JEANNE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as ABOSEDE ATOROMOLA, now wish to be known and addressed as OMOLARA TAJUDEEN. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as ENO DENNIS OFEM, now wish to be known and addressed as OFEM DENNIS INNOCENT. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

MRS BALOGUN ODUMADE MARIAM.

LAWAL ALAO ADEYINKA SHAKIRAT

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

OLANREWAJU WASIU YUSUPH

HUGHES OLOLADE ABOSEDE

Formerly known and addressed as TAIWO WASIU YUSUF, now wish to be known and addressed as OLANREWAJU WASIU YUSUPH. That my date of birth is 01 January 1991. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as OYEYIGA OLOLADE ABOSEDE, now wish to be known and addressed as HUGHES OLOLADE ABOSEDE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

the United States has approved the sale of 12 x A29 Super Tucano AirCONFIRMATION OF NAME This is to confirm that KOSIN PHILIPS ONIOVOSA & KOSIN ONOKPISE PHILIPS is the same person as ONOKPISE PHILIPS ONIOVOSA . Henceforth I wish to be known and addressed as ONOKPISE PHILIPS ONIOVOSA. All documents bearing these names remain valid and should be treated as one person. Eco, Sterling Banks & the general public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as MISS ODUMADE ADEROJU MARIAM, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS BALOGUN ODUMADE MARIAM. All former documents remain valid. General public take note. OKONYE NWAKAEGO ECHEKWUBEMCHUKWU

MRS SAMAGBEYI TINUOLA OYINKANSOLA.

Formerly known and addressed as LAWAL ADEYINKA SHAKIRAT, now wish to be known and addressed as LAWAL ALAO ADEYINKA SHAKIRAT. All former documents remain valid. General public take note. OYEYEMI OLUWATOBI EMMANUEL

. Formerly known and addressed as OKONYE NWAKAEGO ECHEKWUREM, now wish to be known and addressed as OKONYE NWAKAEGO ECHEKWUBEMCHUKWU. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as OLANREWAJU OLUWATOBI EMMANUEL, now wish to be known and addressed as OYEYEMI OLUWATOBI EMMANUEL. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

AJAYI VERONICA OLANIKE

OYEGUNLE TEMITOPE AJOKE

Formerly known and addressed as OSHUYINKA MIKE VERONICA, now wish to be known and addressed as AJAYI VERONICA OLANIKE. That my date of birth was wrongly written as 27th of October, 1975 instead of 29th of October, 1976. That my correct date of birth is 29th of October, 1976. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

EMODI HEZEKIAH CHUKWUDUBEM

Formerly known and addressed as EMODI HEZEKIAH CHUKWUCHEBEM now wish to be known and addressed as EMODI HEZEKIAH CHUKWUDUBEM. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note. MORKA ISIOMA VICTORIA . I, formerly known and addressed as ISIOMA CELESTINE NKWOCHA, now to be known and addressed as MORKA ISIOMA VICTORIA. All former documents remain valid. Authority concerned and General Public should take note.

ATOYEBI LUKMAN EJIWUNMI I, formerly known and addressed as LUKMAN EJIWUNMI OLUWATOSIN, now wish to be known, called and addressed as ATOYEBI LUKMAN EJIWUNMI. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME That I am the same bearing DADA OLATUNJI HENRY and DADA OLUKAYODE SAMUEL, now wish to be known and addressed as DADA OLATUNJI OLUKAYODE SAMUEL. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

Formerly known and addressed as OYEGUNLE TEMITOPE OLAMIDE, now wish to be known and addressed as OYEGUNLE TEMITOPE AJOKE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

. Formerly known and addressed as KOLAWOLE OLAIDE OLAYINKA, now wish to be known and addressed as KOLAWOLE OLAIDE KAUSARAT. All former documents remain valid. Banks and the general public take note.

FORTUNE OBOT OSAGIE Formerly known and addressed as MOHAMMED OSAGIE IBRAHIM, now wish to be known and addressed as FORTUNE OBOT OSAGIE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

This is to confirm and certify that EMMANUEL JOSEPH LIVINGSTONE, JOSEPH EMMANUEL LIVINGSONE and JOSEPH OGENECHAVWUKO LIVINGSTONE refer to one and same person but henceforth wish to be known and addressed as JOSEPH OGENECHAVWUKO LIVINGSTONE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

ADEDOYIN-TUYO HARRIET SUNBO

ALABI NANA HAWAW OZOHU

CORRECTION OF NAME

FRANCIS JOSEPH ORDAFE

Formerly known and addressed as TUYO HARRIET YETUNDE OLASINMBO, now wish to be known and addressed as ADEDOYIN-TUYO HARRIET SUNBO. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as LIADI NANA HAWAW OZOHU, now wish to be known and addressed as ALABI NANA HAWAW OZOHU. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

This is to inform the general public that my name was wrongly written as BOSE RUTH ADE instead of RUTH EMMANUEL ARCHIBONG. That my correct date of birth 03/09/1988 and not 30/09/1985. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as EGBAMUNO JOSEPH ORDAFE, now wish to be known and addressed as FRANCIS JOSEPH ORDAFE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

ADEDAYO OLUFUNKE INE

AKAPO JOSHUA OLABAMIJI

Formerly known and addressed as ADEDAYO OLUFUNKE ADEWUSI, now wish to be known and addressed as ADEDAYO OLUFUNKE INE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

MRS. OKONJI JULIET OGECHUKWUKAMA

Formerly known and addressed as AKAPO JOSHUA OLA, now wish to be known and addressed as AKAPO JOSHUA OLABAMIJI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as MISS. OBANYA JULIET OGECHUKWUKAMA, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. OKONJI JULIET OGECHUKWUKAMA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

ADEWUYI MUFUTAU OLALERE Formerly known and addressed as OLALERE MUFUTAU, now wish to be known and addressed as ADEWUYI MUFUTAU OLALERE. That my date of birth was wrongly written as 21st of October , 1967 instead of 24th of August, 1964. That my correct date of birth is 24th of August, 1964. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

IKE-FRANCIS EMMANUEL CHUKWUNONSO

OLALEKAN SEGUN VICTOR

MRS ODUBELA OLAYEMI RAFIAH

OGOEGBUNAM JOHN CHIGBO

KELECHI ROMANUS UTULO

Formerly known and addressed as EMENIKE EMMANUEL CHUKWUNONSO now wish to be known and addressed as IKE-FRANCIS EMMANUEL CHUKWUNONSO. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.

. Formerly known and addressed as OLALEKAN SEGUN GBENGA, now wish to be known and addressed as OLALEKAN SEGUN VICTOR. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as Miss ADENIYI OLAYEMI DOYINSOLA now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs ODUBELA OLAYEMI RAFIAH. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

.Formerly known and addressed as OGOEGBUNAM UCHENNA now wish to be known and addressed as OGOEGBUNAM JOHN CHIGBO. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.

Formerly known and addressed as KENECHUKWU ROMANUS now wish to be known and addressed as KELECHI ROMANUS UTULO. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.

ABOSEDE AISHAT ERINOSHO

OGWU EMEKA INNOCENT

SALAMI WASIU

RAIMI RAFIU ADEWALE, ADEWALE

I formerly known and addressed as Mudashiru Wasiu Ayinde now wish to be known, called and addressed as Salami Wasiu. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I formerly known and addressed as RAHEEM RAFIU ADEWALE now wish to be known, called and addressed as RAIMI RAFIU ADEWALE, ADEWALE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

ADERINOKUN VICTORIA OLUWAKEMI. . I, formerly known and addressed as AKINNAGBE KEMI VICTORIA, now to be known and addressed as ADERINOKUN VICTORIA OLUWAKEMI. All former documents remain valid. Authority concerned and general public should take note.

ADENUGBA BUKOLA MARY

MRS. NWATU HARRY CHIOMA

AMADI SAM OGOCHUKWU JULIANA

. I, formerly known and addressed as ABOSEDE OLABISI OTITOLAYE, now wish to be known, called and addressed as ABOSEDE AISHAT ERINOSHO. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

OKORO NWABUEZE HENRY I, formerly known and addressed as OKORO NWABUEZE MBA, now wish to be known, called and addressed as OKORO NWABUEZE HENRY. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

OLADIPUPO VICTOR SUNDAY I, formerly known and addressed as OLADIPUPO SEGUN SUNDAY, now wish to be known, called and addressed as OLADIPUPO VICTOR SUNDAY. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

Formerly known and addressed as OGWU C.J EMEKA now wish to be known and addressed as OGWU EMEKA INNOCENT. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.

VWA REGINA THLAMA I, formerly known and addressed as REGINA PERIJU as appears on my BVN, now wish to be known, called and addressed as VWA REGINA THLAMA as appears on my Account. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

. I, formerly known and addressed as ADEKOYA BUKONLA MARY, now wish to be known, called and addressed as ADENUGBA BUKOLA MARY. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

CHANGE OF NAME/CORRECTION OF DATE OF BIRTH

AKIODE - LAWAL BILIKIS AFOLASHADE

That I was formerly known and addressed as REMMY ILORAH EZENWA. That henceforth, I wish to be known, called and addressed as EKWEONU REMIGIUS ILORAH. That my correct date of birth is 12th day of July, 1964 and not 12th day of July, 1963. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as LAWAL BILIKIS AFOLASHADE, now wish to be known, called and addressed as AKIODE - LAWAL BILIKIS AFOLASHADE. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS NNAJI CHIOMA, now wish to be known, called and addressed as MRS. NWATU HARRY CHIOMA. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

MRS. BOMA KOSI NWAJIUBA I, formerly known and addressed as MISS BOMA ELIZABETH ASSAH, now wish to be known, called and addressed as MRS. BOMA KOSI NWAJIUBA. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as ODO OGOCHUKWU JULIANA, now wish to be known, called and addressed as AMADI SAM OGOCHUKWU JULIANA. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

OBIECHINA IFEANYI CORNELIUS. I, formerly known and addressed as OBIECHINA IFEANYI, now wish to be known, called and addressed as OBIECHINA IFEANYI CORNELIUS. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

Daily Times Nigeria Thursday, December 28, 2017

Health

Why FG, private sector should invest in cancer care Stories by Angela Onwuzoo Cancer is one sickness in the world today that many people fear like death owing to its devastating impact on its victim. To many, it is even a death sentence not because it has no cure, but as a result of the huge financial resources involved in its management coupled with lack of functional treatment facilities. Currently, Nigeria has no comprehensive cancer treatment centre in place while the few available radiation machines are not working. Yet, the country is witnessing an alarming increase in new cancer cases on daily basis according to experts. More disturbing is that thousands of children are now coming down with the disease annually. According to reports, the cost of treating cancer both in adults and children, is extremely expensive and beyond the reach of the poor, hence, the survival rate is poor owing to lack of proper treatment in developing countries like Nigeria. Considering the current economic hardship in the country, where many parents are still struggling to feed their children, experts say, it would be practically impossible, for poor parents whose child is diagnosed of cancer to foot the bills. Even the rich, some experts say can still not afford cancer treatment without necessary support from the government. The attack of cancer on any member of a family in Nigeria, usually comes with so much pain and grief, owing to the huge amount of money required for both diagnosis and treatment.

President Buhari

The World Cancer Report 2014, shows that the disease is now the world’s biggest killer. Hence, stakeholders are fashioning out more proactive ways of addressing the burden of cost of cancer treatment in Nigeria, especially childhood cancer which they say can be treated or even cured when detected early. It is against the backdrop that The Dorcas Cancer Foundation (TDCF), a non governmental organisation for children living with cancer, is calling on the government and the private

Aliko Dangote

sector players to invest in cancer care. This, the foundation said would help in saving the lives of children battling with the ailment in the country, by making treatment accessible and affordable to them, thereby reducing the huge financial burden on the parents who are still struggling to pay out of pocket. Besides providing financial support for children living with cancer, TDCF, also believes that increased information about childhood cancer and availability of equipment for di-

agnosis and treatment would boost early detection and survival rate. Speaking at a cancer awareness programme in Lagos recently, Founder and Executive Director of TDCF, Dr. Adedayo Joseph, said with adequate support and care, no child will die of cancer in Nigeria. Joseph who is a Clinical Radiation Oncologist, said troubled at the way children were dying of cancer in Nigeria and the huge financial challenges faced by their parents, she decided to devote her life for the fight against cancer in children and

How regular eye check reduces risk of blindness To reduce the number of Nigerians going blind by the day as a result of glaucoma, eye experts also known as ophthalmologists, have urged Nigerians to embrace regular eye check while those affected by the disease should ensure they receive appropriate treatment. Glaucoma according to experts is the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide. Though glaucoma is a serious disease, experts believe its progression can be halted by effective and consistent treatment. According to them, unlike in the case of cataract, blindness from glaucoma is irreversible. One of the experts who is the chairman, Ophthalmological Society of Nigeria, Lagos State chapter, Dr Abiola Oyeleye,

revealed that no fewer than 1.2 million Nigerians above 40 years are living with glaucoma. Oyeleye revealed that late diagnosis, poor medication compliance, high cost of treatment, and poor access to eye care were some of the challenges facing the management of glaucoma in the country. Insisting that the issue of glaucoma should not be treated with kid glove if the rate of blindness in the country was to go down. He pointed out that the above figures were valid statistics from the Nigerian National Blindness and Visual Impairment Survey of 2005 to 2007. According to him, up to 90 per cent of those affected with glaucoma are unaware that they have glaucoma and one in five people, that is, 20 per cent

of those with glaucoma, are blind. “These statistics are staggering. However, early detection by screening and appropriate treatment can prevent blindness,” he said. Oyeleye said that glaucoma, when not well managed, could alter the strata of an individual’s life. “Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide. “Before glaucoma gets to that stage, vision diminishes progressively and the individual may not be able to maintain the same job to earn a living. “The individual may also be vulnerable to all sorts of accidents, which may cause loss of life. “There can be poor health

indices like depression and the need to rely on others for dayto-day things. “In Nigeria, you will see a lot of blind people being led around by children; what is the future for that child, who loses the opportunity to get educated,’’ Oyeleye noted. Corroborating the views of her colleague, another consultant ophthalmologist, Dr Chigozie Mbadugha, urged governments at all levels to subsidise the cost of test, drugs and treatment of glaucoma to prevent blindness in the country. She enjoined the government to ensure that drugs were available at the teaching hospitals across the country and make it accessible for other government hospitals.

by providing financial assistance to those currently battling with the disease through her foundation. Calling on well-to-do Nigerians to support children living with cancer, Joseph noted that children have higher chances of survival than adults when detected early. She explained: “ The truth is that many childhood cancers have an excellent prognosis when detected and diagnosed early; promptly and properly treated. The good thing about childhood cancer is that it has higher survival rate abroad that is close to 90 percent and that is what the TDCF wants to achieve in Nigeria because our survival rate is very low.” Listing other ways to tackle childhood cancer, Joseph urged parents especially mothers to always take their children to the hospital whenever they are ill for proper medical check. According to her, the Childhood Cancer Handbook Series was written to dispel the stigma associate with the disease and provide parents and physicians with good understanding about facts and myths surrounding cancer. She noted that the foundation established two years ago in memory of late Dorcas Adepitan, a 13-year-old girl ,who died of bone cancer in 2015, had so far, sponsored the treatment of four children with many still awaiting sponsorship. A board member of the foundation, Dr. Peju Daodu,in her welcome address, said though Nigeria is ranked as a developing country, no child should be allowed to die of cancer in the country, going by her huge natural resources. She called on the government to address the challenges in accessing cancer treatment in the country and to also invest in research. “ We have to do everything possible to change the face of cancer in Nigeria”, she added. For President, Cancer Education and Advocacy Foundation of Nigeria (CEAFON),Prof. Abayomi Durosinmi- Etti,a renowned cancer expert, “Cancer is terrible and destructive. Let’s do something about it.” He decried the lack of cancer treatment facilities in the country, stressing that doctors would only work with equipment and not their teeth, while appealing for early diagnosis and proper treatment of the disease in order to reduce the mortality associated with it. Another renowned oncologist with the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Prof. Remi Ajekigbe also said:, “the poor cannot survive cancer and even the rich do not always survive.” The reason, according to him, is because treatment is either unavailable or, where available, it is extremely expensive.

Daily Times Nigeria Thursday, December 28, 2017

27 Health

Environment contributes 80% to children’s IQ – UNICEF Stories by Angela Onwuzoo

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF),has said that 80 per cent of children’s IQ is derived from the environment. Swadchet Sankey, UNICEF Education Specialist,who disclosed this in Abuja on Tuesday , frowned at the popular attribution of brain development or quality of child’s brain, intellectual capacity to genetic factors or parental genes. Sankey emphasised that the kind of environment a child grows in or is nurtured in would to a large extent affect the quality of his/her brain irrespective of the intellectual capacity of the parents. She explained that a child’s brain develop in response to both genes and the environment, describing the process of early brain development as constantly modified by environmental influences. The specialist further emphasised that the environment of a child’s earliest years could have lifetime effect on him/her.

Children playing with tyres

“Though biology and environment are key to brain development but the later is more critical because no matter the quality of parental gene if the environment is unhealthy it will impact negatively on their brain. “Nurturing environments contribute to positive health outcomes and fewer devel-

opmental challenges. When poverty set in its impact on environment poses a threat to individual’s growth and development,” Mrs. Sankey said. She identified the period of child’s brain development as ranging from age zero to three years, describing the period as critical. According to her, if you

Breastfeeding protects women against breast cancer-Expert Giving the numerous health benefits of breastfeeding to babies and their mothers, Chief Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at the National Hospital, Abuja, Dr Chris Agboghoroma, has urged mothers to exclusively breastfeed their babies in the first six months of life. Besides protecting the infants against diseases, Agboghoroma, said breastfeeding mothers are at lower risk of developing breast cancer and other health conditions. Agboghoroma, noted that most women that breastfeed adequately experience hormonal changes during lactation which he described as delaying their menstrual periods. Lactation according to experts is the production of milk by a woman or other female animals. According to him, breastfeeding reduces a woman’s lifetime exposure to oestrogen, a hormone that can promote breast cancer cell growth. “Women who breastfeed are less likely to develop cancer of the breast than those that do not breastfeed, so in terms of the mother’s health breast feeding is generally better. “During pregnancy and breastfeeding, women shed breast tissue and this can help remove cells with potential DNA damage; thereby helping to reduce the chances of developing breast

A mother breastfeeding her baby

cancer. “DNA is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms and some viruses. “Breastfeeding can also help to lower women ovarian cancer risk by preventing ovulation and the less you ovulate the less exposure to oestrogen and abnormal cells that could become cancer,’’ he said. Agboworoma further identified other benefits of breastfeeding to women and family in general to include reduc-

tion of family cost of living and protect mothers against unwanted pregnancy. He noted that it is cheaper to breastfeed a child than buying formulae at the detriment of other members of the family. The consultant who reaffirmed that breastfeeding gives a baby a healthy start, added that it also go a long way to protect mothers against all forms of diseases. He therefore advised women to imbibe the culture of breastfeeding to guard against exposing their body to cancer and other related diseases in future.

can have a child that has inherited good brain, good intelligent but malnourished, sick and lack the opportunity of early learning, nurturing care, stimulation, such child’s brain development will be hampered. “A stable environment is the one that is sensitive to health and nutritional needs of the

children. So any environment that is not sensitive to health and nutrition of children is not a complete environment that allows development to occur. “Any environment that does not protect children, that does not make them to be save, does not protect them from toxic stress like children in an environment of conflict will affect the quality of their brain. “Children that are in an environment where there is crisis, pollution among others will not be intelligent no matter the gene of their parents,” she said. “Early childhood development is a whole package that deals with environment and the child, the kind of environment they are exposed to whether at home or outside goes a long way to affect the child’s development,” she added. The specialist urged parents and caregivers to be conscious of the kind of environment they groom their children, ward in order to better their lots and impact positively in the development of the nation.

‘Focus more on prevention of kidney diseases rather than treatment’ The rise in kidney diseases has become a major source of concern globally. In Nigeria, the situation is even more worrisome owing to wrong diagnosis and lack of access to quality healthcare. Experts say the number of Nigerians with kidney diseases have doubled in recent times Worried about the development, a Consultant Nephrologists with the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), IdiAraba, Dr. Babawale Bello, has called on Nigerians to find out the causes of the diseases and prevent them. Bello said many Nigerians were predisposed to kidney disease because one out of four of them have hypertension. He identified high salt content in the nation’s foods, increasing rate of obesity among children and adults and sedentary living as factors increasing the population of Nigerians living with high blood pressure. He explained: “We should focus on prevention and early detection. If people can check their blood pressure levels regularly, they can know if they have hypertension and man-

age it so that it does not develop into kidney failure, a situation that is irreversible. So, people should be aware of the causes of kidney diseases. People who have hypertension should have their blood pressure controlled. People who have diabetes should have their blood sugar controlled and people who have all these diseases associated with kidney diseases including infections should have proper treatment. In addition to that, all adults should have annual medical checkup to ensure their kidneys and other major organs of their body are healthy.” According to the nephrologist, such tests are simple to perform both in terms of cost and procedure. “It requires just a urine and blood tests. Now, it’s impossible to screen everybody every time. I advise people who have the risks of kidney diseases to go for regular checkup”, he added. He enjoined people with diabetes, hypertension, HIV infection and those with history of kidney diseases to go for regular checkup.

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Daily Times Nigeria Thursday, December 28, 2017

I won’t sleep until Nigeria is in shape - Buhari Edward Nnachi, Abakaliki

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L-R: Managing Director, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Mr. Saleh Dunoma and Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu, jointly hoisting Anti-Corruption Frame during a Sensitisation Workshop on Money Laundering for Aviation Workers in Abuja.

FG inaugurates, hands over 6 classroom blocks in Niger Delta Idu Jude Abuja

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and improve the learning environment of the students in the Niger Delta region, the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs has inaugurated six blocks of classrooms to some Niger Delta States. Speaking at Ode-Aye in Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State, while inaugurating one of the projects in the region, the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Pastor Usani Uguru Usani, stated that the project was a further proof of the commitment of the present administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to provide quick relief and improvement in the living standard of students in the Niger Delta region. Pastor Usani who was represented by a Deputy Director in the Housing and Urban Development Department of the Ministry, Mr. Silas Bamai, assured the people of the state that Federal Government is committed to redressing the inequalities in the Niger Delta region. In the words of the Honourable Minister, “This is just the beginning; the Ministry is passionately seeking better and faster ways of delivery on its mandate”. He expressed gratitude for the cooperation of the school management and the people of Ode-Aye community assuring that the Ministry would continue to give prime attention to its commitment in the State. The Minister urged the benefiting communities to be dedicated to the upkeep of the environment, the protection and maintenance of the facili-

ties, saying the improvement of lives and better learning environment in the Niger Delta region was the responsibility of all. Similarly, the Chairman Education Committee of the Government Secondary School, Odi, Kolokuma/ Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, Mr. Anthony Torulagha expressed his gratitude to the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, for the gesture. Other States in the Niger Delta region where block of classrooms were handed over include: Alaghodaro Primary School Izikhiri, Uhunmwode Local Government Area of Edo State, Government Secondary School Odi, Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, Egbuoma Secondary School, Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State, Army Day Secondary School Bori Camp, Obio Akpor Local Government of River State, Methodist Primay School Edemaya, Ikot Abasi Local Government Area of Akwa –Ibom State, Comprehensive Secondary School Nkor, Yakurr Local Government Area of Cross River State. In Imo State, the Chairman Education Commitment, Honourable Ohanuba Emmanuel appreciated the Ministry for bringing such innovative learning facilities for the students of Egbuoma Secondary School, Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State. Col. A. Mohammed who represented the Director of Education, Six Division of the Nigerian Army, Bori Camp, Portharcourt Local Government Area of River State as-

sured the Ministry that the new facility provided would be adequately utilized by the students and staff of the School. Comrade Enobong Jumbo, the Chairman Education Committee, Atan-Ikpe, IkotAbasi Local Government of Akwa Ibom State, represented by the Secretary, Pastor Attah Nelson said that the event was another turning point as they witnessed the official opening of the six classroom block constructed by the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs. The Traditional Ruler of Egbuoma Autonomous Community, HRH Eze Okozie, Oguta Local Government of Imo State, represented by the Principal of the School thanked the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs for the provision of the new classroom building provided with library facilities and a principal office. The Community Leader, Mr. Eleidung C.J Akpan of Atan Ikpe in Edemaya Clan, Ikot Abasi Local Government of Akwa Ibom State, said since education was the bed rock of any society advised teachers in the school to put more efforts in teaching so as to impact knowledge to the students of the school. The Head Teacher of Methodist Primary School of Ode Aye, Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State, Comrade Adefeyiju G. B, thanked the Federal Government for bringing an organized educational facility for the pupils of the School. “As Oliver Twist we will always ask for more”. He pleaded with the Honourable Minister of Niger Delta Affairs to help in building a security fence for the protection of the

school equipment. In Edo State, the Head Teacher of Alaghodaro Primary School, Izikhiri, Uhunwede Local Government Area of Edo State, Comrade Igbinovia Patrick Aibuedefe, said that was with keen interest to note that the driving force behind government passion for building one of the best schools with well-equipped facilities for a good academic foundation in order to compete globally. The Principal of Government Secondary School, Odi, Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, Mr. Binaebi Gomet, applauded the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs for providing a structured facility with blackboards, computers, desktops, scanners, fridge and generator for the school. The Principal, Army Day Secondary School, Bori Camp, Obio Akpor Local Government of River State, Chief Abbey O.R, commend the effort of the Hourable Minister of Niger Delta Affairs for being an instrument of improving the education sector of the state by providing the block of classrooms, black boards, tables, chairs, printers, computers, generator and borehole for the school. The Principal, Comprehensive Secondary School, Nkor Yakurr Local Government Area of Cross River State, appreciated the inauguration of six classrooms block which was the first of its kind since the inception of the school, courtesy of our illustrious and indefatigable son, who deemed it fit for us to experience democratic dividends from a ‘Ruling Party’.

P r e s i d e n t Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday, said he would not sleep until Nigeria was brought back to shape. Buhari said the country under his watch had started working but must be properly shaped to right the wrongs that had been endemic in the system for so many years, adding that all the accusations, insinuations and blackmail against him that “he is a religious fundamentalist and hater of the south east” were all lies calculated to sow seed of discord in the country. Speaking during empowerment/ Christmas party of a non-governmental organisation, Initiative for Demonstrating Change in Nigeria (IDCN) organised for the people of Amagu community in Ikwo local government area of Ebonyi state, President Buhari who was represented by Executive Director of Administration and Training, Nigeria Television Authority (NTA), Dr. Steve Egbo explained that he was a detribalised Nigerian who loves all sections of the country.

“President Buhari asked me to tell you that Nigeria is working, Nigeria has started working. He asked me to tell you that he will not relent; he will not sleep until Nigeria is brought back to shape. He told us we the south east leaders a lot of things that have gone wrong in this country in the last few years. “Some of the things he said we never heard before, some of them we never read in the press. As a commander in Chief, he knows a lot of things we do not know. He asked me to tell you that he loves the southeast and that he is a friend of the south east. He asked me to tell you that all these accusations and insinuations against him and his administration are all lies calculated to create a bad feeling between him and the Igbo people. He asked me to assure you that from the beginning, he has been the friend of the south east and he will remain a friend of the south east to the down”, he stated. He noted that in 2003, he picked an Igbo man late Chuba Okadigbo as his running mate and the south east refused to vote for him.

Community protest over kingship stool in Lagos

Esther Taiwo

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IsheriOke Church town in IkosiIsheri Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of Lagos State, yesterday stormed the Governor Office and National Assembly in Ikeja, to register their grievances over the controversy surrounding the kingship stool in the last 18 years. Members of the community, in their hundreds, marched to the House of Assembly and converged in front of the complex chanting solidarity songs. They said they needed to see Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to use his good office to ensure that justice prevails. Lawyer to the Olofin family, who claims ownership of the throne, Lekan Odunsi, described the people’s struggle to have their king installed by the Lagos government as “long suffering and oppression”. “Our clients’ long and endless wait, hoping against all hopes seem to have been stretched to its elastic limit,” he said. Some of the inscriptions on the placards they displayed read: “Governor Ambode give us our right”, “we deserve our crown”, “please stop the injustice and give

us our king”, “the kingship belongs to the Olofin family”, “we have waited for too long”, “we don’t need strangers as our oba”, Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, stop embarrassing Ambode’s government”. Lawyer to the Olofin family, who claims ownership of the throne, Lekan Odunsi, described the people’s struggle to have their king installed by the Lagos government as “long suffering and oppression”. “Our clients’ long and endless wait, hoping against all hopes seem to have been stretched to its elastic limit,” he said. Odunsi said the state government, in the last 18 years, had consistently refused to consider the yearnings of Isheri-Oke Church notwithstanding intrinsic judicial and historical facts presented before the constituted authorities. He alleged that a member of the state House of Assembly in connivance with the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Musiliu Folami, was working round the clock in a bid to install a non-indigene of the community to become a king over them.

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Stories by Frank Jumbo eicester City flop Ahmed Musa has been told to leave Leicester City by former Nigeria footballers Justice Christopher and Victor Ezeji. Signed from CSKA Moscow in the summer of 2016 for a record £20 million, the Nigeria international has had a shocking stint at the King Power Stadium. Since his arrival, Musa has man-

Musa urged to leave Leicester City aged just 33 appearances for Leicester City (five goals), of which, only a single appearance has come this season. Musa arrived in the East Midlands as a hot young striker, having scored 18 goals (and six assists) in 44 appearances for his former side CSKA the previous season. However, his career has since fallen off a cliff, arguably because of Leicester’s own treatment of him.

With the FIFA World Cup 2018 drawing ever closer, former Nigerian footballers have now spoken up, exhorting him to leave the King Power Stadium. Speaking of Ahmed Musa, Justice Christopher said: “I don’t think he should stay in Leicester if he wants to be part of the trip to Russia; it’s clear he doesn’t have

a place there. “What is happening to him happened to a big player like (Andrei) Schevchenko at Chelsea, it happens to players. But Musa has limited time ahead of the World Cup and needs a quick move to resurrect his career. Nigerians are not happy that he’s not playing. I think he should try his luck elsewhere.

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Agege stadium will soon be ready for CAF inspection Ambode assures

ONYEKURU

Onyekuru ruled out of world cup by coach

nderlecht coach Hein Vanhaezebrouck does not think Henry Onyekuru would have

sufficiently recovered before Nigeria play their first game at the 2018 World Cup against Croatia. The Everton loanee damaged the medial ligament during Anderlecht’s 1-0 win over his former club Eupen on December 22, and Vanhaezebrouck has suggested that the striker faces a minimum of six months on the sidelines, which effectively

rules him out of next summer’s football festival in Russia. Hein Vanhaezebrouck was quoted as saying by Liverpool Echo: ‘’He is possibly out for six months.’’ The 20-year-old had been in contention to be included on Nigeria’s roster for the World Cup due to his success at club level over the past two seasons and his versatility in attack. In 2010, Chelsea’s John Obi Mikel was

registered for the World Cup by the Nigerian Federation but was eventually replaced by Brown Ideye after the midfielder aggravated a knee injury while training with the national team. Left-back Elderson Echiejile was ruled out of the 2014 World Cup with a muscle injury sustained in the Super Eagles last friendly against Greece and was replaced by Ejike Uzoenyi.

he Lagos state Government has assured fans of MFM FC and football stakeholders that the Agege stadium will be ready on time for the CAF inspection team who are expected to visit the ground ahead of the 2018 football season. The Special Adviser to the Lagos state Governor on Sports, Mr Deji Tinubu gave this assurance on Tuesday during a scheduled visit to the on-going reconstruction project going on at the stadium popularly known as The Temple. He allayed fears in the public space on the possibility of the construction work not completed before the arrival of the inspection team in Nigeria by January for their final inspection and approval. Speaking while going round the project to upgrade the stadium in line with continental standards after MFM qualified to represent Nigeria in the 2018 CAF Champions League, Tinubu expressed optimism that the project will be ready on time. “After going round to have a first-hand evaluation of the work being carried out here and having interacted with the project manager who you can see on site, I am optimistic that this place will be ready in the third week of January.” With the CAF Champions League expected to commence in February, Tinubu said contractors have given the assurance that work will be intensified to meet up with the deadline given to them by the Lagos state government. “By the beginning of next week, work will be going on here round the clock as we are poised to deliver on time. “The government of Lagos state under his Excellency, Akinwunmi Ambode is synonymous with excellence and prompt service delivery and this particular project will not be an exception,” Tinubu concluded. The Lagos state government under Governor Akinwunmi Ambode approved the upgrading of the Agege stadium from a community stadium to a standard continental stadium as part of the state’s support for sports. According to the masterplan, the stadium is expected to have a VVIP section, standard and well secured dressing rooms for teams and officials, internet enabled press gallery and a mixed zone for post-match interviews.

Ndidi rallies team mates ahead Liverpool clash

NDIDI

Wilfred Ndidi was disappointed at Leicester City’s 2-1 loss to Watford on Boxing Day, in which he started his nineteenth straight game in the Premier League. Exactly two weeks ago, the Foxes had won their fourth game in a row against Southampton but in a reversal of fortunes there has been a dip in form in recent weeks, after they suffered their third loss in four matches in all competitions against the Hornets. ‘’It is very disappointing to lose this game but we will focus on the other games,’’ Ndidi told lcfc.

com. ‘’We had so many chances in the first half which could have sealed it but we’ll work hard now. ‘’If we would have sealed the game in the first half, it would have given us the confidence to carry the game along. ‘’After their equaliser, it made them come and it gave them more confidence to play.’’ Ndidi and his Leicester City teammates travel to Anfield to take on Liverpool in their next Premier League game on Saturday, December 30

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Madrid to Man U - You can sign Bale in January Real Madrid have told Manchester United they’re prepared to sell Gareth Bale in January. Diario Gol says Real want to cash in while he’s off the treatment table. It’s suggested Real are hoping to get top dollar for the former Tottenham player. However, few teams want to pay more than £53m given his lengthy injury record. Reports last week claimed Bale wants a move to Manchester United - but his price tag is problematic. Real are demanding around £80m, which is just under the fee they paid for him in 2013.

Milan’s Donnarumma to miss Coppa Italia derby DONNARUMMA

C Milan will be without goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma for Wednesday’s derby against Inter Milan in the Coppa Italia after he withdrew from the squad through injury on the day of the game. Donnarumma, 18, had been set to

make his 100th appearance for the club at the San Siro in the quarterfinal, but will now miss out as the Rossoneri take on their bitter local rivals. A club statement read: “Gigio Donnarumma has been removed from the Derby Milano squad list and is undergoing

Liverpool´s Flanagan charged for assault L iverpool defender Jon Flanagan has been charged with common assault, Merseyside Police has confirmed. Flanagan was charged following an incident in

Liverpool city centre in the early hours of Friday morning. “Merseyside Police can confirm that Jonathan Patrick Flanagan, aged 24, from Cressington in Liv-

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erpool has been charged with Section 39 common assault following an incident on Duke Street in Liverpool city centre at around 3.20am on Friday 22nd December 2017,” a police statement read. “He has been released on conditional police bail and will appear before Liverpool City Magistrates Court on January 2nd, 2018.” A Liverpool spokesperson said: “The club has been made aware of an alleged incident involving a member of the first team playing squad. “We will be making no further comment on the matter while the process is ongoing with the relevant authorities.” Flanagan spent last season on loan at Burnley and has made only one Liverpool appearance in 201718, in the EFL Cup defeat to Leicester City.

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Balotelli going nowhere in January - club president

medical examination. “Milan Primavera goalkeeper Matteo Soncin has been added to the list.” Milan are next in action on Saturday, ario Balowhen they travel to Fiorentina, before telli will not be leaving Nice beginning 2018 by hosting Crotone on during the January transJan. 6.

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fer window, the French club’s president has told Nice Matin. Balotelli last week told BALETOLLI Italian media he would happily return to Manchester City “for free” while adding he had been in contact with two other former clubs in Serie A, AC Milan and Inter. The Italy international forward signed a new one-year deal on the Mediterranean coast last summer and has again thrived, firing 16 goals in 21 games, just one strike shy of his tally for the entire 2016-17 campaign. Those goals have helped Nice recover from a poor start to the season to ease into sixth place at the halfway stage of the campaign, and means Nice president Jean-Pierre Rivere will not be allowing his star striker to go anywhere next month.

Yaya Toure comes out of international retirement

aya Toure has reversed his international retirement and hopes to win another trophy with Ivory Coast, according to his agent. Dimitri Seluk tweeted on Tuesday that the 34-year-old was ready to return to international action, having last played for his country in September 2016. “Yaya @YayaToure has decided to return to Ivory Coast national team. He wants to win another trophy with the Elephants of Ivory Coast,” Seluk wrote. Toure, who has over 100 caps, was part of the team which won the 2015 African Nations Cup. He has been reduced to a bit-part role with Manchester City this season, making only three Premier League appearances and eight in total after signing a one-year contract extension in the summer. But Seluk’s tweet suggests he has no imminent

thoughts of retirement, given Ivory Coast failed to qualify for this summer’s World Cup so their next opportunity for silverware will be the 2019 African Nations Cup. In quotes reported by Sky Sports, Seluk also claimed Toure will not depart City in the January transfer window because he is keen to win another Premier League title and help the club develop the next generation of stars. “Everything is good at Man City. He will 100 percent stay at City in January,” Seluk said. “He wants to be a three-time champion of the Premier League, but he is also enjoying using his experience to help the young players at the club. “During the Leicester Carabao Cup game, he had more appearances for City than all of the other starting players.”

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Power generation increases by 66.4MW in 10 days – TCN Simion Ugwu Again, power generation has increased by 66.4 megaw atts in ten days, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), at the weekend said. The national peak level, which as at December 8th was 5,155.9MW, on 18th of December increased to 5,222.3MW.

This was disclosed in a statement issued by the General Manager, Public Affairs, Ndidi Mba in Abuja. It said this is the highest ever recorded generation recorded in the nation’s power sector todate. “This surpassed the 5,155.9MW achieved on December 8, 2017, and the earlier peak

of 5,074.70MW, achieved on February 2, 2016,” it said. The statement noted that the gradual but steady improvement in the nation’s power sector is attributable to the strategy of the Federal Government FG to growing the Power Sector, in line with its policy on incremental power. To properly key into the in-

cremental power policy, TCN stated that it has developed the Transmission Rehabilitation and Expansion Programme to enable it prioritise and execute critical transmission projects. It said this necessitated the clearing of the company’s stranded containers carrying various transmission equipment at the seaports, to enable

it to complete previously abandoned projects to further expand the grid capacity. Of the 759 containers abandoned by contractors at the seaports within the last five years, it said 454 have been cleared since March to-date. “Payment for 193 containers has been made and they are being

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CAC committed to open government partnership – Azuka Myke Uzendu, Abuja The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) Lady Azinge Azuka has pledged commitment of the Commission to the Open Government Partnership (OGP) initiative of the federal government in furtherance to the reforms recently adopted in the commission. She made the pledge when the Director General of the National Orientation Agency (NOA) Dr Garba Abari led some stakeholders including the African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development (Centre LSD) to the commission visited her on a courtesy call in line with the principles of citizen engagement and participation in governance processes. She requested for the support of stakeholders to its proposal to review two aspects of the Companies and Allied Matters Act especially those relating to annual returns form to e nsure that owners of up to five percent share are fully disclosed in the returns form; and that beneficial ownership is incorporated in its publications. The commission also explained that as part of its openness drive, it has connected 20 of its offices across the country to its online processes

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50% of NIPPs power stranded over distribution hiccups Electricity Generation Companies (GenCos) under the National Integrated Power Project (NIPP) have over 50 percent of their power generation stranded due to the poor distribution network to wheel it to consumers, Daily Trust can reveal. The NIPPs parent company, Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) which built, operates and maintains the 10 NIPP GenCos, have a combined design capacity of 5,453 megawatts (MW) with 4,774MW installed capacity. NDPHC said it has drastically

combated gas constraints, but it is now facing the lack of adequate distribution facilities and networks for the 11 Distribution Companies (DisCos) to take more electricity to customers in spite of the huge generation capability and the incessant outages being recorded in Nigeria. The Managing Director of the NDPHC, Mr. Chiedu Ugbo confirmed this last week in Abuja when he said gas supply to the NIPP GenCos improved due to the N701bn PAG intervention. “The introduction of the N701bn Payment Assurance

Guarantee (PAG) by the federal government since April this year, operators of the NIPP GenCos along with other power stations said they now get up to 80 percent of their monthly invoices for January 2017 till 2019.” The Nigeria Bulk Electricity Trading Plc (NBET) in its recent publication said it has paid about 50 percent of such fund in addition to the 30 percent remittances from the DisCos for GenCos’ invoices from January to October 2017, ensuring gas suppliers are paid adequately for the last 10 months.

Statistics on electricity generation obtained from the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) yesterday showed the status of the operational NIPP plants as at last Thursday when the national grid reached a peak generation of 4,293MW with 6,083MW available generation capacity. After seven years, the first two, 434MW Geregu Generation Company (GenCo) in Kogi state and 513MW Omotosho GenCo in Ondo state were commissioned in October 2013. Six others were commissioned and began operation between 2014 and 2016.

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L-R: Consultant, House of Representatives Committee on Digital Switch-Over, Tony Dara; Chairman of the committee, Chris Asubogu; Kwara State Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara; a member of the committee, Segun Adekoya and Managing Director of TV Enterprises, Maxwell Loco, during a courtesy visit by the committee to the Governor in Ilorin…on Monday.

50% of NIPPs power stranded over distribution hiccups Ganiyu Obaaro

Electricity Generation Companies (GenCos) under the National Integrated Power Project (NIPP) have over 50 percent of their power generation stranded due to the poor distribution network to wheel it to consumers. The NIPPs parent company, Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) which built, operates and maintains the 10 NIPP GenCos, have a combined design capacity of 5,453 megawatts (MW) with 4,774MW installed capacity. NDPHC said it has drastically combated gas constraints, but it is now fac-

ing the lack of adequate distribution facilities and networks for the 11 Distribution Companies (DisCos) to take more electricity to customers in spite of the huge generation capability and the incessant outages being recorded in Nigeria. The Managing Director of the NDPHC, Mr. Chiedu Ugbo confirmed this last week in Abuja when he said gas supply to the NIPP GenCos improved due to the N701bn PAG intervention. “The introduction of the N701bn Payment Assurance Guarantee (PAG) by the federal government since April this year, operators of the NIPP GenCos along with other power sta-

tions said they now get up to 80 percent of their monthly invoices for January 2017 till 2019.” The Nigeria Bulk Electricity Trading Plc (NBET) in its recent publication said it has paid about 50 percent of such fund in addition to the 30 percent remittances from the DisCos for GenCos’ invoices from January to October 2017, ensuring gas suppliers are paid adequately for the last 10 months. Statistics on electricity generation obtained from the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) yesterday showed the status of the operational NIPP plants as at last Thursday when the na-

tional grid reached a peak generation of 4,293MW with 6,083MW available generation capacity. After seven years, the first two, 434MW Geregu Generation Company (GenCo) in Kogi state and 513MW Omotosho GenCo in Ondo state were commissioned in October 2013. Six others were commissioned and began operation between 2014 and 2016. Breakdown of the TCN report showed that the 434MW Geregu GenCo generated only 100MW which was less than half of its capacity; Alaoji GenCo could do about 540MW but it was down during the period; Sapele GenCo generated

174MW but has the capacity for 451MW; Benin GenCo generated 86MW but has 451MW installed capacity. The others are 562MW Calabar GenCo which generated 287MW; Omotosho GenCo has 451MW capacity but generated 103MW; Olorunsogo GenCo has up to 676MW capacity but only produced 153MW, and Gbarain GenCo produced 94MW from its 225MW capacity. The records, however, showed that the generation was below 50 percent of their installed capacities while two GenCos – 338MW Egbema NIPP and 225MW Omoku NIPP, are still under construction.

NGO empowers low income women as chrismas gift Esther Taiwo Residents of Ago-Egun, Bariga were given a surprise Christmas package by a Non Governmental Organisation, Knowledge Aid Initiative who organized an event tagged “One Bariga Woman” aimed at empowering women living with low income in slum areas of Africa. According to the founder , a Human Right activist and medical practitioner, Ms Success Ojo said the One Bariga Woman is a project put together to help low income women who are living in the slum of Arica and

Christmas season signifies a time to show love. About 30 women were given cash donations at the event ranging from N20,000 to N100,000 depending on their businesses. Ojo said during the empowerment programme that women in the slum are vulnerable women who live below $1 (One Dollar) a day as they are mainly fish sellers while husbands are fishermen. “The poverty level is so high in this area, no social amenity given to them all the things that rich people throw away as wastes are not available to the people

living in the slumps. We are here to take the lead in assisting them so that others too can follow, the women need help, look for a woman to give N2,000 to, their business is not up to N5,000 there are some of them we gave just N20,000 and it’s a whole lot to them. People should not wait until they have millions they can start from little amount”, she said. The activist said this is not the time for government to ask how they got there adding that what they need is help because they have children who are also citizens of Nigeria and this is the time for government to

think of ensuring quality education for those children by empowering their mothers. “Government should organize empowerment programme for the women, the men don’t need help because they are constituting more problems to the society by marrying multiple wives and procreating easily, if we are empowering the men they will continue to marry more wives but women when empowered they can take care of their children and their homes that is why we want to give a voice to the women”, she said. The residents however

cried out against what they described as indiscrimination and marginalization of their community by Lagos state government as they lack basic amenities such as pipe borne water, toilet facilities, health centers and schools among others. The community head Mr Joseph Ayanfe said Lagos State government should build houses for fishermen and stop blocking the rivers where they are fishing in the name of building structuresA resident of the slum Mr Rex Ajenifuja, Executive Director of Hope for HIV/ AIDS said he started as an HIV/AIDS advocacy.

The Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) has licenced three new Free Trade Zones (FTZs) and added over $2.751billion in Foreign Direct Investment for the country. The Managing Director, Hon. Emmanuel Jime disclosed this on Wednesday in a statement. He gave the names of the new Free Trade Zones as: Nasco Town FTZ; Quit Aviation Services FTZ; and Tomaro FTZ. He also said that, besides the collection of the $2.751billion in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows, the new FTZs are targeting direct jobs in excess of 50, 000. “Under my stewardship, we have so far been able to licence three new industrial parks i.e. Nasco Town Free Zone, which is valued $2,086billion. It is estimated, at completion, to be able to provide 15,000 direct jobs. “The second is Quit Aviation Services Free Zone, valued at $215million, and is estimated to provide jobs in their thousands. And there is: Tomaro Industrial Park, in Lagos, valued at $450million. It would also provide jobs running into the thousands,”he said. The NEPZA boss listed said that some of tue challenges he met upon assumption of office include low staff morale, inter-agency rivalry, delayed promotions and poor investor-confidence, but said he has been able to make appreciable impact with the support of his cooperative management team. He also debunked the erroneous media reports that the Authority padded its 2018 budget estimates. Making the clarfications he said, “I wish to state clearly, categorically and emphatically that any story about a padded budget or a bloated personnel cost by the Authority is false and misleading. NEPZA has neither padded her budget proposal nor bloated its personnel cost! “Although the stories mentioned figures here and there, both failed to state clearly that the figures were queries from the Distinguished Senators to which the NEPZA leadership gave clear, detailed and satisfactory explanations.

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to enable its clients perform business registration without inhibitions and expressed hope that the 38 state offices will be covered by March next year. The NOA is Co-Chair of the Citizens Engagement Working Group (CEWG) of the OGP National Action Plan (NAP) of Nigeria as well the lead agency for commitment 12 with the mandate to develop a Permanent Dialogue Mechanism (PDM) on transparency, accountability and good governance between citizens and government to facilitate a culture of openness. Dr Abari said the CAC as a service oriented agency of government was selected by OGP stakeholders to demonstrate citizen’s participation in its activities as part of the citizen engagement and empowerment principles of the OGP. He requested for the setting up of the OGP desk to enable other stakeholders to interact with the Commission with regard to its work and mandate as set out in the fourteen commitments signed by President Muhammadu Buhari. On his part the Programmes Coordinator of the African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development (Centre LSD) Mr. Uchenna Arisukwu told the gathering that the centre as the CoChair of CEWG and Lead CSO for Commitments 13 of the OGP NAP, has commissioned a research into the extant laws of agencies implementing the OGP commitments which CAC is among. According to him, the report of the research has since been validated by a Government-CSOs round table convened by the centre and the reports are being published into a book.

NNPC, DPR Intensify Raid on Errant Fuel Stations Simon Ugwu

The combined team of officials of the Nigerian National PetroleumCorporation (NNPC) and the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), led by the Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru, on Tuesday heightened the tempo of unscheduled visits to fuel stations across the Federal Capital Territory suspected to be involved in underhand dealings. The raid which was facilitated by the operatives of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) led to the

clampdown of a notorious fuel outlet in the Kubwa District of the FCT caught selling petrol at the rate of N250 per litre, a price well above the approved retail price of N145/litre. The NNPC GMD promptly ordered an on-the-spot dispensing of the remaining product in the storage tank free to motorists in conformity with extant sanction for such misdemeanour. Addressing journalists after the exercise, Dr. Baru noted that in line with its mandate as supplier of last resort, the NNPC would continue to work with relevant stakeholders like the

DPR and Civil Defence Corps to bring to a quick end the prevailing hardship in accessing petrol across the country. The GMD enthused that with the recent directive by the Presidency for the security agencies to tighten the noose on smuggling of petroleum products, the issues of cross-border activities and diversion of products would be curtailed, thus allowing Nigerians to benefit from the massive injection of fuel into the system being undertaken by the corporation within the last few weeks. In a related development, the NNPC has announced the tem-

porary suspension of products dispensing activities at its mega station along Lagos Road, in Port Harcourt due to a fire incident which occurred near the station. The fire resulted from a Toyota Camry car which exploded outside the station after product was dispensed into an extra inbuilt locally fabricated tank designed to siphoned fuel. Though the fire did not affect the station, the corporation noted that it was imperative to suspend operations to enable security agencies clear the resultant traffic situation at the scene.

L:R: Chairman Investment and Securities Tribunal IST Akor, Acting Director General Securities and Exchange Commission Dr. Abdul Zubair, Member IST Nosa Smart during a meeting between IST and SEC in Abuja

Power generation increases by 66.4MW in 10 days – TCN CONTINUES ON PAGE B2 years by contractors, for cleared, while payment for the outstanding 112 containers is yet to be made,” the statement added. TCN further explained that all the 454 containers cleared from the ports have been taken to various construction sites such as Yola, Gulak, Katsina, Jos, Dambatta, Ganmo, Abeokuta, Onitsha and Benin. Other construction sites include Odoguyan, Ede, Igangan, Okene, Walalambe, Akwanga, Kachia, Kumbotso, Kaduna, and Yola. The statement added that the containers had been abandoned at the ports for between 2 to 6

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various reasons including suspension of TCN Import Duty Exemption Certificate(IDEC) in 2013, by the Ministry of Finance, slow processing of IDEC by TCN in the past and inefficiency of the contractors. It said this had led to the various uncompleted transmission projects in various parts of the country. The company, however, reiterated its commitment to working to further stabilise, rehabilitate and expand the grid and called on all Nigerians to work with the sector in safeguarding electricity installations nationwide.

CBN, rice farmers to crash price of local rice The National President, Rice Farmers Association, Alhaji Aminu Goronyo, has assured Nigerians that the market prices of locally produced rice will soon crash. Goronyo said in Abuja on Wednesday that the price of a 50kg bag of locally produced rice would plummet from N18,000 to between N6,500 and N7000 by April 2018. He said that the pricereduction plans would be achieved under a joint programme of RIFAN and the Anchor Borrowers Programme of the

Central Bank of Nigeria, which would be launched in Abuja on Jan. 13, 2018. Goronyo said that 12 million rice farmers in the country would benefit from the one-year partnership, adding, however, that 300,000 rice farmers from 20 states would be supported at the beginning of the programme in January. He said that under the new initiative, the CBN had modified the programme to facilitate its direct relations with RIFAN so as to ensure timely disbursement and full repayment of loans, unlike what

obtained in the past. He said that the new initiative would double the achievements of the earlier edition of ABP, which was launched on Nov. 17, 2015 in Kebbi, with a target to produce additional 2.5 million tonnes of paddy rice. He said that in 2015, Nigerians spent not less than N1bn daily on rice consumption, adding that while the spending had reduced drastically, rice consumption had increased significantly because of the increase in local production of rice. Goronyo said that the

available statistics indicated that the rice consumption rate in the country now had increased from 7.9 million tonnes to over 8 million tonnes, while the volume of rice production had increased from 5.8 million tonnes to 6.9 million tonnes per annum. He, however, noted that several efforts had been put in place to cut down the price of rice, adding that some of the efforts included collaborations with Competitive African Rice Initiative (CARI) and other African countries to boost rice production and exports in Africa.

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Stories by Motolani Oseni As foreign exchange market opens officially on Wednesday for trading for the remaining days in 2017, the Nigeria’s currency, Naira, recorded significant gains across the fiorex markets and windows, while strengthened over the US Dollar, Pound Sterling and the Euro. This followed the exclusive report by The Daily Times on Tuesday that stakeholders in the financial industry and foreign exchange traders are excited about the resumption of the official forex market; however, anticipated better days ahead for the Naira in the remaining day in 2017.

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At the end of yesterday trading activities, the Naira continued in its gaining streak against the dollar to close at an appreciable rate of N306.10, stronger than N306.15 traded last Wednesday, N306. 20 last Tuesday and Friday N306.25 exchange last Monday at the official forex market. The parallel segment of the forex market, also,

recorded significant gains against the Dollar to close at N364 compared to N385 sold a week ago, while pound sterling stood at a better rate of N484 against 485 traded last week, as well as Euro at N426 against 428 seen last Friday. The Investors and Exporters (I&E) FX window, however, began Wednesday trading on a positive

note at N359.85 to the dollar against N360.17 and ended well with closing rate of 360.70 per dollar against N360.82 recorded the last day before market closure for the Christmas holidays. Meanwhile, the I&E FX window, closed last week with total transactions turnover of $1.319 billion, data obtained from the FMDQ OTC has revealed.

But our checks showed that the Investors’ FX window at the close of first trading day during the week under review, recorded the lowest transactions turnover of $109.67 million compared to $205.05 million traded a week earlier at the same forex window. Further breakdown, showed that the I&E FX window declared a better

closing figure of $113.58 million, looking at the daily closing rates and as well as against $96.77 million sold in the previous week. At the close of last Wednesday forex activities, the Investors FX window recorded a single daily trading figure of $856.45 million, represented the highest in the recent time stronger than $301.21million declared in the corresponding period in the previous week.

Why Ultimate Microfinance Bank denies Shareholders dividend Esther Taiwo Ultimate Microfinance Bank, has linked its failure to declare dividend to the shareholders as a result of fraud committed by the lender’s former Managing Director. Speaking at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the bank, the chairman, Mr. Wale Odunayo, explained that the Bank declared 10k per share as dividend in 2013, 5k per share in 2014 and no dividend in 2015 financial year because of the loss from the fraud. According to the report and financial statements ended December 31st, 2016, the bank cannot declare dividend this year because the bank is yet to recover from the fraud perpetrated by some officials of the Bank in conjunction with some customers earlier in the year under review. He said:”We are still in the process of recovering over N40 million through the EFCC, but to date, the sum of N20.389million has been recovered. The Bank is still making efforts towards more recovery.” Odunayo, noted that the Bank’s authorized share capital remains N50million while the paid up share capital as at 31st of December, 2016 was N29,622,539k leaving the sum of N20,377,461.00k yet to be subscribed. he explained further that other steps taken to sell the Bank’s shares towards increasing operating capital include adopting a policy

that customers applying for certain categories of loan from the Bank must purchase a minimum of 10,000 units of shares. “In this way additional shares are being sold and more shareholders are being added to the current list of shareholders. I still call on shareholders to purchase more shares”, he said. The chairman however bemoaned the economic situation of the country as one of the factors that have impacted negatively on the running of the Bank saying the recession impacted negatively on the cost of goods and services. He also called on the Central bank of Nigeria to correct the anomalies of clearing of third party cheques adding that cheques of microfinance banks do not go through clearing like that of commercial banks which makes it compulsory for microfinance banks to approach a commercial bank as correspondent bank. One of the shareholders, Mr Albert Babatunde urged the Bank management to do everything possible to declare dividends for shareholders saying the Bank should be run with the interest of shareholders and not like a family bank. Meanwhile the Bank is supposed to inaugurate new Board of Directors but could not due to some internal crises which resulted to three months extension of the current Board in order to settle the crises.

How IT infrastructures, others gulp N34.2bn from 8 banks in 9 months Not less than N34.2 billion has been splashed on Information Technology (IT) and Electronic Business by eight of the commercial banks operating in the country in nine month of 2017. This is burnout of the drive to leverage on the benefits of the cashless policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and numerous benefits attached to the IT development. The figure of the nine month in 2017, recorded by the considered lenders is against the N25 billion spent on Information Technology related infrastructures; software, computers, and introduction of Mobile apps during correspondent period in 2016. Although, findings have

showed that commercial banks operating in the country have increasingly depended on the deployment of IT infrastructure to drive their processes, grow their business operations in order to deliver superior financial performance to meet and surpass customer expectations. However, the breakdown of the commercial banks include, Zenith Bank Plc, Access Bank Plc and United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA), and Stanbic IBTC Others are Fidelity Bank Plc, Union Bank of Nigeria Plc and Sterling bank Plc. Access Bank top Tier-1 commercial banks when it comes to IT and Electronic Business expenses, spending N13.3 billion in nine months ended September 30, 2017,

an increase of about 50.4 per cent from N8.87 billion reported in nine months ended September 30, 2016. Following Access Bank is Zenith Bank with N8.6 billion on IT expenses from N4.6 billion in prior nine months while UBA’s IT support and related expenses dropped by 48 per cent to N1.06 billion as against N2.02 billion reported in nine months ended September 30, 2016. Zenith Bank over the years became synonymous with the use of IT in banking and general innovation in the Nigerian banking industry. The bank in a statement said, “We have renewed our commitment in ensuring that all our activities are anchored on the e-platform and providing service delivery

through the electronic media to all customers irrespective of place, time and distance. “Zenith group only recently scored another first, becoming the first Nigerian institution to be awarded a triple ISO certification by the British Standards International (BSI):theISO22301, 27001 and 20000 standards.” In reducing its branches network, Union Bank of Nigeria’s expenses on IT related gained 33 per cent to N2.97 billion from N2.23 billion while Stanbic IBTC expenses on IT dropped by 3.7 per cent from N3.7 billion to N3.59 billion in nine months ended September 30, 2017. Most Tier-2 commercial banks were spending less on IT, Electronic Business Infrastructures, attributable to smaller networks.

Capital Market

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NSE ASI opens year’s last trading week on NSE-ASI 1.64% decline

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Indications that last trading week of the year may close negative as the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) All- share index (ASI) opened the week bearish losing 1.64 per cent. Trading on equities resumed Wednesday after two days holidays, Christmas and boxing days (Monday and Tuesday) ,as the equities market started the first trading session of the week on a bearish note Wednesday, the NSE-ASI shed -1.64 per cent to close at 37,889.57pts.

Market activity improved as the total volume and value rose by 108 per cent and 39 per cent, as 426million units of shares valued N2.12billion were transacted by investors. TRANSCORP led the losers –table with 1.36 per cent, the stock was also the most actively traded stock with 107million units of shares worth N155m. The equities market was bearish today across most sectors as investor sentiments was weak. With two trading sessions left to end the year, we expect the market to trade sideways even as investors position

ahead of the next quarter earnings season. However, we maintain that the sell-off presents a decent entry opportunity in our recommended names. The day’s performance was largely driven by the sell-off in highly priced Dangote Cement (DANGCEM) which declined by -466pts Nigerian Breweries (NB ) which depreciated by -136pts, Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) which also dropped -25pts and PRESCO’s -10pts decline, which more than offset the gains in Dangote sugar (DANGSUGAR) of 17pts as well as Fidelity bank’s

9pts growth.

Most sectors closed negative with the exception of Oil and Gas which gained 0.48 per cent. The Industrial declined by 2.62 per cent, Consumer Goods lost 1.17per cent, while Banking sub sector lost 0.31 per cent. Market price movement closed negative as 24 stocks declined against 14 stocks that gained. The market’s best performer was Cadbury which gained 9.91 per cent, while Okomu Oil 5.00 per cent lost topped the losers’ chart.

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CBN’s OMO auctions N95.89Bbn Wednesday ….As money market rate declines further Against traditional market developments when OMO auctions forces money market rates to soar, the auction on Wednesday couldn’t sustain the trend as money market rates declined further from last week’s drop. Despite CBN’s OMO auction Wednesday through sales of N95.89 billion worth of bills at 12.90 per cent and 14.90 per cent stop rates, money market rates dipped further as Overnight and Open Buy Back rates shed 58bps and 67bps to close at 5.75 per cent and 5.00 per cent respectively.

Also, the 1month, 3month and 6month NIBOR rates declined by 164bps, 133bps and 147bps to 13.62 per cent, 15.09 per cent and 16.59 per cent. Activities in the bond market was relatively quiet which may not be unconnected with the festive period. While the yields on the 5yr and 7yr benchmark bond remain unchanged at 14.04 per cent and 13.96 per cent respectively, the yield on the 10yr benchmark bond inched up +34bps to 14.12 per cent. In the near term, we expect market activity to be influenced by liquidity levels and foreign investor interest.

Meanwhile, the Naira appreciated 0.17 per cent against the USD to close at N360.70, it, however, shed -0.61 per cent and -0.46 per cent against the GBP and EUR to close at N483.74 and N429.16 respectively in the IEFX window. In the parallel market segment, the NGN gained +0.27 per cent, 0.21 per cent and 0.47 per cent against the USD, GBP and EUR to close at N364/USD, N484/GBP and N426/EUR. However, in the near term, analysts expect the Naira to continue to see support from the CBN’s intervention.

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SEC, journalists collaborate on investor education Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has pledged to work with Finance Correspondents to ensure proper reporting of the capital market in order to enlighten and educate the investing public. Dr. Abdul Zubair stated this when Executive of Finance Correspondents Association of Nigeria (FICAN) Abuja Chapter visited him recently. Zubair commended the journalists for their assistance so far in propagating the initiatives of the Commission and enjoined them to continue to support the SEC in its quest to educate and enlighten the investing public, as means of further deepening the market. Some of the initiatives, he stated, include direct cash settlement, dematerialization, consolidation if Multiple Accounts and e-Dividend Mandate Management System; as they promote transparency, protect and enhance investors’ confidence in the capital market. “We have rolled out a number of initiatives among which is the e-dividend campaign where investors will now be paid their dividends directly to their bank accounts. E- Dividend simply refers to an online system of paying dividends to investors when companies declare dividends, which are the profits meant for investors. Rather than send it by post, Registrars will just wire it to the investor’s bank account.’’ “This will help in no small measure, reduce the problem of unclaimed dividends and also ensure that investors receive the benefits of their investments in the capital market timely. “We also have the direct cash settlement, dematerialization, Nigerian Capital Market Development Fund (NCMDF), National Investors Protection Fund (NIPF) among others, all in consonance with the present administration’s economic strategy focused on deepening the capital market as a vehicle for encouraging a private sector-led economy with enhance productivity” Zubair added. Zubair therefore enjoined all shareholders to take advantage of the initiatives introduced in the capital market aimed, primarily, at strengthening the market and accelerating economic development.

Business Interview

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Some MDA’s still operate illegal account - Olatunde

Daniel Olatunde is the Executive Director, Citizens for Impact Foundation, a Social Justice organisation that promotes the interests of ordinary hardworking Nigerians. In this exclusive interview with MYKE UZENDU and OLUCHI OKOROAFOR, Olatunde speaks on how a ministry is operating an illegal account, not captured by the TSA. What inspired the foundation. I have looked at impunity and what was not right in the society. I am a born activist. Even when I was in the secondary school, I saw injustice when a man slapped a lady, immediately something in me said that something must be wrong somewhere. In Citizens for Impact Foundation, when you look at our logo, it is like a diamond shape that has dots in all the edges and that tells you that the dots connects and impacts everywhere, around us, within the nation, outside the nation. If you look at everything that is happening in the nation, you will know that the dignity of citizens have been eroded, not completely but dignity for human lives, human beings is no longer there and the dignity of persons is enshrined in the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Human dignity, respect for persons, they are constitutional rights of people. Today you hear about #ENDSARS, you see a policeman on the way assaulting citizens. Even if the citizen commits a crime, it is not total for you to cut the head of that citizen because there is a process to get justice. Many people have benefited from this nation. Nigeria is a woman that is blind, she is deaf, she is dumb but she has all the resources. But this woman has been raped, abused and nobody cared for her. We that benefited from the nation, it is what we can do for the nation that will project her. By the time the dignity of the person is restored here at home, by the time you go outside Nigeria, they will accord same respect to you. But because citizens are not respected at home, the same thing happens to them outside. Since this administration came in, they promised a lot of thing and right some of these wrongs. Do you think they have done enough to restore the citizens confidence on the nation. I, sitting before you, I fought for this administration to come in, I made enemies, I lost friends because we were not on the same page. By and large this administration has not given me this hope. They have done the beat that they can do but the President made a fundamental error. His fundamental error was that when he came in, yes it took a space of six months to set up his cabinet which we would have said, yes we have super humans. But it’s no because people who are

Olatunde there as ministers, as his kitchen cabinet, they don’t carry his vision. There is something about vision, the people that carry your vision, they drive the same way with you. The people that the President brought in to carry his vision, they don’t have his vision at heart. The ministers are corrupt because if ministers see corruption and they take their eyes off it, something is not right. Corruption is what brought Nigeria to her knees. The president is fighting it alone, he needs to know. The Vice President is fighting with him, Ibrahim Magu is fighting, Hadiza Balla Usman of NPA, she is fighting and the custom man. However, a ll the people that carried his vision that fought for him to get there are supposed to have been placed into positions to drive this process but they are not there. So it is difficult because people that did not even campaign for you, you put them at the helms of affairs. Some body like Senator Eta Enang, he is from the opposition party, you have somebody like Dr. Mamora, that was also in the Senate, you just sidelined them and brought people who do

not carry your vision and drive your process, they will kill it and that is what has happened to this administration. There are clogs on the wheel of progress of this nation, so it is doing locomotive, it is not even going manual. If it is going on manual drive, it could have been better but the locomotive is not even having the glide that it should take. But are you truly convinced that the President is truly fighting corruption because there are instances where his attention was drawn to some allegations of corruption and he looks the other way. Well, if you bring up all these cases, if me, as the Chief pilot of the vehicle of Nigeria, the President, I don’t see him to be totally in charge. One, we have the fiasco between the DSS and the EFCC. You see the EFCC working, you see the DSS frustrating their efforts. Before Babachir issue, when Ibrahim Magu’s case went to Senate, it was a big slap on the face of the President of the country that Daura, that is his appointee, can thwart his decision and there is no consequence. So it is a dent on the integrity of the President on being in charge

because your DSS boss cannot do that to you and remain one second as the boss on that seat. That is why they say that you don’t bring you family or your cronies into business, Daura from Katsina state. So probably, they are blackmailing him with the family tie or whatever but it is so wrong, you cannot be having this. They wanted to pick up Ekpenyon the former DSS boss, they wanted to pick up Oke, these are people that should be handcuffs. It is even wrong for the President to ask the VP to investigate first. What he was supposed to do is to ensure that he is handcuffed publicly. Because if you say that you are the NIA boss, and you have that N43 billion somewhere and the President is not aware, it is not correct. It is either something is wrong some where because if this happened, and your stand is against corruption, I tell you the truth the man shouldn’t be walking free, he should be somewhere. Even if his case has not gone to the court, he should be in solitary confinement for that action. That of Babachir, we didn’t even hear about him, he might be in Dubai because whenever they commit their atrocities, they go to

Dubai, because they have stolen enough to live in another man’s land. So the President has not really proved himself for these actions, he has not. You recently wrote a petition to the president on the anomalies going on in some government ministry’s and agencies. What rally happened. If you check, we had Federal Ministry of Commerce, now it is called Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment. This ministry is a revenue generating agency of the government. There is this Novalsys Solution that got a contract to built software, website and things that will aid the patent, trademark and commercial department, things that will aid their work and they were supposed to train the staff. Yes they built a website which they control to the extent that the money that should be going to the federal government, is going to private account. Now if we forgive the misgivings that they got the contract in 2010 and it expired in 2014, as we speak, this is 2017, the contract is still on. And if you check the contract agreement or contract paper between Novalsys solutions and Einao Solutions that has taken over, it is still the same person. The Person that was the project manager for Novalsys is still a director with Einao Solution. And the big man of Novalsys is still the man, through the search in Corporate Affairs Commission. He is still the person that has the highest share in Einao Solution. Now, the monies that come was supposed to go to TSA since 2016, but Einao Solution collaborate with Bissila, that was the Permanent Secretary, and the Minister. The Permanent Secretary is the administrator of the ministry, the permanent secretary serves as a check for the minister. The permanent secretary can cut the excesses of the minister but if permanent secretary plays ball on corruption, they can be friends. Now, it got this contract, it was illegal because they did not pass through the Bureau of Public Procurement, it didn’t get FEC approval but they got this contract in 2010. But only contracts of N200 million requires FEC approval It is N200 million which did not go through these channels that I am talking about. And I am telling you, there is no way they may not have made over N200 million, since 2010, about 7years today. Now the Minister is aware. There was a letter I got from a source in the accountant general’s office, making recommendations that this contract be terminated. The permanent secretary then minuted to the minister, no1 - 11 for your consideration, 12 that they should action on it and No.12 was that the contract should be terminated. And the ministers response was “this ties to our reforming the Commercial Law Department (CLD), let’s discuss”.

Motoring

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Jaguar’s new 2-litre turbo enters market Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo Jaguar’s new two-litre turbo FType, serves as a more affordable, entry-level model for buyers to get into the brand’s sports sexy car. There is just over 100 grand savings to be had over the next priciest variant, which comes with a gutsy supercharged V6, but that hardly seems worthwhile in this neck of the woods. So, just who is targeted with this four-cylinder GT car? Perhaps, the 18 F-Type derivatives with blown V6 and V8 engines in varying states of tune are just too intimidating for some customers. And that would be a fair point. Even the 250kW V6 can be a handful at times. More likely, it’s been made to cater for those in love with the looks, but who don’t give a hoot about what’s under the hood. Even more likely, however, is that Jaguar is attempting to steal some wind from the sails of Porsche’s base model, and notably cheaper, Cayman and Boxster 718s. Worthy rival? Yes, in terms of pure performance it holds its ground. Jag has managed to extract decent power from this engine, which also does duty in all

sorts of JLR sedans and SUVs, and with 221kW and 400Nm it’s on par with a number of two-litre turbo hot hatches in output. The test car, a fairly stripped down coupé (a convertible is also available), was impressively peppy, especially in the middle of its rev range where boost comes on strong. The F-Type’s standard eight-speed auto does a good job of keeping the tacho’s needle in its happy place too, though Dynamic mode can sometimes see the motor spinning into an agonised frenzy where it’s making more noise than power. At the test track the coupé achieved a best 0-100km/h time of 6.5 seconds and it covered the quarter mile in 14.75 - figures that are again comparable with some of the hottest hatches around. Less impressive is the two-litre’s character. Where this same engine, in a tuned-down state, performs with a refined, more chilled-out attitude in Jaguar’s XE and XF sedans, here it feels and sounds a bit too high strung.

At idle, especially when cold, it resonates with a tinny buzz unbefitting a million rand sports car, and under load it shrieks with a harsh howl. It’s also quite obvious that engineers have tried to disguise the note with a synthesised V8 burble through the speakers, but the effect is far from genuine. It’s all a bit juvenile really. I’m not sure if the R1100 optional exhaust flap will hurt or help. Our test car wasn’t specced with it. That said, the package does settle down nicely at cruising speeds, where a steadier throttle keeps the noise to a minimum. Like all F-Types, this is a grand tourer at heart and it works best on the open road. But handling is also a strong suit. Not to say the heavier V6 and V8 models lack in direction changing ability, because they’re all quite sharp, but with less bulk over the front axle the 2.0’s steering is noticeably more responsive. Steering weight is quite light, to the point it’s almost overassisted, but that’ll

Volkswagen Bakkie yet to pick up after launch Volkswagen is one of the few bakkie makers that hasn’t yet climbed onto the “black” bandwagon with a limitededition, more attitudinous version of its one-ton bakkie, as have Ford with the Ranger Raptor, Toyota with the Raider Black and Isuzu with the X-Rider. Instead, it has chosen to sell the Amarok on merit rather than image, which is probably why it took so long to release the V6 TDI version that every boer from Bethlehem to Bapsfontein was begging for, and why none of the superb concepts we‘ve seen at successive editions of the Hannover commercial vehicle expo has made it into production.

But, wherever there’s a pick-up there’s a pimp, and in this case it’s Polish attitude purveyor Carlex, which specialises in distinctive upmarket interiors and composite body kits, rather than engine or chassis performance upgrades, on the principle that, in a society where the need for speed is rigidly policed, it’s not about how fast you are but how good you look. Carlex specialises in very expensive bespoke projects for wealthy individuals, but its bread and butter is in small production runs of luxuriously upgraded bakkies for the leisure market - including the Amarok. The Amarok Amy comes with seriously aggressive replacement front mould-

probably suit this particular model’s clientele nicely. The car rolled on standard 18 inch wheels, and though tyre size is staggered front to rear, both ends get enough sidewall profile for a relatively cushioned ride. Optional 19 and 20 inchers with much thinner rubber will look cooler and undoubtedly make for crisper turn in and directness, but will sacrifice some ride quality as a consequence. As mentioned, the test unit came in bog standard trim, and while ‘rental spec’ is probably an unfair stretch, it was noticeably bare compared to fancier F-Type Ss, Rs and SVRs we’ve driven. Without its standard colour touchscreen to offset the black and grey everything, the cabin would be rather lacklustre. It is possible to go wild with optional extras to spruce the place up, with niceties like

alcantara headliners, fancier seats with added adjustments, coloured leather upholstery (at R75 800!), more hi-tech infotainment systems and some carbon accents. Likewise the exterior with bigger wheels, a proud fixed wing in place of the standard electrically-raising one, carbon-fibre roof panels and meaner-looking LED headlights. But, once you’ve created your spicier dream model, pricing rises well above what you’d pay for a more excitingto-drive and better-speccedout-the-box V6 F-Type. Verdict The 2.0 F-Type makes sense in concept, but prices edge too close to beefier V6 derivatives to consider it a budget offering. It also offers similar performance to what can be had for half the price in some hatches, so, it’s really just an expensive pretty face. Make that a very pretty face.

Chevrolet’s redesigned Bakkie

ings, made using the latest reaction injection technology and featuring bigger air intakes, black headlight trim and a metallic grey bashplate. The body kit also includes wheel-arch flares, all-terrain rubber on black rims, an LED light bar and a narrow rear spoiler on the top of the tailgate. The interior trim is a lot less subtle, with combined leather and fabric trim in black with beige inserts, special seams, graphic quilting patterns and a numbered plaque on the centre console telling you which of just 500 examples

Chevrolet redesigned bakkie

Volkswagen Amarok

General Motors’ best selling model, and cash cow of note, has been given a complete redesign in a fresh challenge to Ford’s F150, which outsells it on the US market. Chevrolet’s left-handdrive-only Silverado range has only ever been a fantasy to bakkie fans and now that GM has pulled out of our market, the chances of this new one reaching our shores has gone

from slim to none. According to Chevrolet, the 2019 Silverado has been completely redesigned from the ground up; and boasts a muscular new design with more prominent sheetmetal creasing. The American carmaker has yet to disclose the engine line-up - that will likely happen at the Detroit show in January. For the record, the current Silverado offers a range of V6

and V8 petrol engines, culminating in a 313kW 6.2-litre powerhouse. The new one is likely to offer a fair share of V8s, but perhaps also alongside a downsized turbocharged alternative. The new Silverado will be offered in eight different trim flavours, and what you see in the pictures is the LT Trailboss version, which includes the Z71 off-road kit and a two-inch suspension lift.

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AgriBusiness

Brazil wants Nigeria to protect small farmers Stories by Simon Ugwu

agricultural products were always exported to the international market. She said that the delegation was visiting to explore the possibility to explore the Nigerian market for the importation of agricultural equipment from Brazil.

The President of the Nigerian-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mr Emmanuel Ibru, said that there would continue to be synergy between Nigeria and Brazil. Ibru, who said that there was a lot for Nigeria to learn from Brazil, also announced his or-

ganisation’s plan to soon organise another visit to Brazil. He said that the chamber would continue to encourage and promote trade and knowledge transfer between Nigerians and Brazilians. Trade relationship between Nigeria and Brazil dates back to 18th century. Nigeria and Brazil enjoy warm cultural and trade relationship. Many AfroBrazilians trace their roots to Nigeria. Brazil is the largest country in Latin America and Nigeria is the most populous nation in Africa. Both countries are key players in the economies of their regions. Brazil is a leading political and economic power in Latin America. Nigeria is equally the leading political and economic power in West Africa. Nigeria is the second largest trade partner of Brazil in SubSaharan Africa and 11th in the world. Brazil is the third largest importer of Nigerian crude oil after USA and India. Nigeria balance of trade with Brazil is very favourable. Brazil’s key industries are textiles, shoes, chemicals, ce-

The Consul-General of Brazil in Lagos, Amb. Maria Figueiredo, has announced her government’s plan to share its philosophy of protecting small farmers with Nigeria. Figueiredo made the announcement in Lagos at a Business Forum between a Brazilian Delegation, members of the Nigerian-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and other Nigerian businessmen and women. The consul-general said that it was imperative for Nigeria to protect her small farmers to be sustainable and self-sufficient in the production of food for home consumption. According to her, about 70 per cent of food produced and consumed in Brazil is from the small farmers. “We are really ready to share our philosophy for protecting small farmers with Nigeria. “An official from my country’s Ministry of Agriculture will be visiting Abuja soon to share our philosophy for protecting small farmers with Ni-

gerians. “In Brazil, there are laws that are made to protect small farmers. So, I feel that Nigeria should also protect such farmers,’’ she said. Figueiredo said that Nigeria should not only continue to promote big farmers, whose

Lagosians laud Ambode for Lake Rice, fair sales As Lagos State government commences sales of Lake Rice for the festive season, residents have lauded government for logistics put in place to ease purchase at designated centres. According to a statement by Assistant Director, Public Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture, Tunbosun Ogunbanwo, those who besieged the centres expressed satisfaction with the process, noting that the officials were courteous and pleasant. Mr. Hassan Adewale, who was at the Lagos Television (LTV) Complex, Agidingbi-Ikeja, said getting the product is on the basis of first come, first serve. “Lake rice is of very good quality and has become a household name and I am pleased with the arrangement at this centre,” he said. Another resident, Olamide Fashola who was at the Agricultural Development Authority (ADA) Oko Oba, Agege also expressed satisfaction with, stressing that getting the product was a lot easier than she thought. She however, urged the state government to consider a further price reduction in the spirit of the season. “The price of Lake Rice has forced down the prices of other brands of rice, government should further consider reducing the price since the price of the im-

Ambode

ported rice has also dropped drastically,” she said. The Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr. Oluwatoyin Suarau who visited the designated sales centre at the (LTV) Complex, AgidingbiIkeja to monitor activities, said government would ensure the continuous availability of the rice in already established designated centres, and would work to ensure adequate supply all over the state. The Commissioner said residents could easily get Lake Rice product at Lagos Agric Input Supply Authority Ojo, (LAISA), Farm Service Centres Odogunyan, Ikorodu, Farmers Mart Surulere Benson Street off Akerele, Agricultural Development Authority (ADA) Oko-Oba Agege, Farm Service Centre Agric Complex Ajah, Farm Service Centre Temu Epe and Lagos State Television Complex Agidingbi.

NABG advocates law on national agribusiness investment plan Agribusiness Group (NABG) has called for the enactment of a law on National Agribusiness Investment Plan for Food and Nutrition Security in Nigeria, noting that with it, it is confident that the present administration will achieve sustainable success in its commitment to build upon the foundations of the Agricultural Transformation Agenda of the previous administration. NABG President, Sani Dangote, who stated this during the group’s press conference in Lagos, with the theme: “Strengthening Agribusiness Investments Partnership Platforms In Nigeria,” said the law is intended to remove some of the major constraints facing private sector agribusiness investment in the country. He said lack of affordable long-term financing; lack of government coordination; policy inconsistencies; lack of supply security; inadequate public-sector infrastructure investments; lack of applied Food and Agricultural Research Science and

Technology Transfer Capacity; lack of Consumer Insights and Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture Best Practices; lack of Local Content Foreign Direct Investment Policies, Regulations and Laws; and lack of Climate Smart Agriculture Best Practices, are some of the major constraints facing the private sector. As part of its specific objectives for 2018, he called for increase in crowd funding at affordable single digit interest rates for agricultural investments to at least N1.8tr in the country. Dangote said the crowd funding, which currently stands at N700b should be increased to at least 10 per cent target of agricultural contribution to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). He added that there should be fundamental shift towards commercial farming mindset from subsistence farming by millions of smallholder farmers, women and youth entrepreneurs. According to him, Nigeria needs to scale up irrigation farming best practices

(at least two crop cycles for grains and fresh produce) to ensure supply security of locally grown raw materials that meet the demand of food and beverage processors. He said, “our vision for 2018 is to facilitate the drafting of a bill and its passage into law of a National Agribusiness Investment Plan for Food and Nutrition Security in Nigeria. “Our specific goals include sharp focus on policies, regulations and laws to promote affordable financing, significantly improve the agricultural input and output markets and the processing of locally grown staple foods into nutritious, conveniently packaged consumer food products.” The group also advocated immediate passage of the Fertiliser Quality Control Bill, which public hearing held on November 14, 2017 and immediate passage of the Seed Bill, which had passed the first and second readings at the House of Representatives, and currently at the 3rd reading stage.

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Meet rebranded Paul Play Dairo

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While I was down, I never thought I would recover –Paul Play Dairo Nigerian music producer and musician, Paul Play Dairo has been off the music scene for a while due to health related issue and the fact that he has been in and out of the country. But the good news now is that the Eleda Mi Mo di e mu crooner is back bigger!! Stronger!! And better to what he loves best which is dishing out quality message driven music. Cornered at the African International Music Festival, Paul Play spoke with MUTIAT ALLI about why he has been off the music scene, what he misses about his glorious days, coming projects amongst others. Enjoy… 2017 is virtually gone, how would you describe the year in a nutshell? economic situation in the country, so many people who actually believed in the new

been the same as well, without clients, there

is no way business can actually improve and there is no way you can actually make money everyone financially. In terms of music, when is an album coming out from you? album. The idea is to actually try and win back

which is what my father was known for. So another side of the album is R & B, urban

this time around. It seems you have been quiet for a while now… Yes, I have been quiet because I have been from entertainment, but no matter how I try to

People feel you have not been as vibrant as you used to be because you relocated from Lagos to Abuja or probably because you fell ill at a point in your career or probably because you left music for like 7 years. What will you say to such comments? reasons for this. Some of the reasons are two: my health situation; that is why I have been

of these elderly people are left out because there that people in their forties and fifties, sixties

not out there. So, I think that space has to be

poor health. That has been a major factor. The apart from music. Other things like?

that are different from entertainment. Still on your music, you caught a lot of attention when you did a remake of your

it comes to the younger ones who excessively they abuse drugs, alcohol and the likes, some even die of overdose, you have been there, done that, what do you have to say to that? not know what works for them or what makes their performance tick. Some of them say that

it helps them to be more creative. But I have never been there before, so I will not be able to actually say why. go?

run into them there is so much pressure on me

(Cuts in) Are you attached to any of these things? No, never.

that they can enjoy because these days, most for them anymore. The music now is for the

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At that moment you fell ill, did you think you would ever do music again? Did you think you would ever recover?

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;There is so much vacuum in Yoruba highlifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; I never thought I would even recover because it was a major operation and there had to be some follow-up treatments. Sometimes I need to do check like every 4-6 months. What was exactly the nature of the illness? cancer but a tumor that grew in my kidney which overwhelmed the kidney and rendered it useless to the point that it had to be taken out. How were you able to afford such an expensive procedure? Well I went through with it myself because it happened at a time that I was not broke so I was able to take care of it myself. But it was an extensive treatment so I had the likes of Dr. Mike Adenuga there for me after the surgery. I had friends so I did not have to go on the papers or public space to ask for money. In Nigeria when people fall sick, the first thing they do is go public to ask for funds. Did you ever think of doing that? It cannot be that bad that I will not have friends that will take care of me if I had issues

For those that do it, what do you think? Well, they have to stay alive anyway. You never know, the industry is full of assumptions. You believe that this guy is so popular so he has the money to take care of himself. But when such situations arise, and the person comes out imagine when compared to back then, you can solve that problem with N10-15 million, but now you are talking about N40, N50 million minimum. care of a N50 million bill right now. You said it was labeled cancer, how did you feel when you heard those statements? come up with different reports, you know the truth, and the people around you know the truth. How many people are you going to run to say it know the fact found out what really happened. Cancer is more or less like a death sentence, it can be if not properly taken care of. How much support did you get from your wife? A 100%. She was there for me. She was in South Africa when I was there. What do you miss about your glorious days? actually a very private person, not because of

my music, because even before music, I had always been private. I still go out and do my stuff; I have never had a bodyguard. I miss the fans appreciating what I do. Staying away for so long is not cool for me. I believe I need to get that fixed in time because I get a lot of

released is titled, Radio. It is actually a love song; pretty much what people know me for. I do not want to play out of my circle; I just want to keep it within what people love me for, love

IK Dario totally.

Do you think you can still come back, considering the evolution of the industry? I do not believe anything is impossible. You just have to be you; do not try to be somebody else. It is me, nobody can be Paul Play, and I can only be myself. If I want to come back and do whatever I want to do with my music. I do not think there should be any reason to fear or have that belief that there is competition because my music is unique, my approach is unique. My brand is unique, so nothing is impossible.

for. What do you think about the whole initiative and how has the experience been so far?

more effort needs to be put publicity-wise.

So that means you will never stop singing love songs? do not want to take chances trying to do anything different. You are known for recording love songs. Would you describe yourself as emotional?

(Cuts in) Are you a lover boy? boy. I just see myself as somebody who goes through a love life normally and loves just like everybody else. I am not a sex symbol; I am not a lover boy. People just love me for my simplicity. Looking at the lyrics of your hits songs, would one be right to say you were once a player? Or what is now referred to as a Yoruba Demon?

come. African music needs to be projected the publicity issue.

how would that work without the confidence to

Tell us about your new single?

add up.

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Faces of dignitaries at Miss Nigeria 2017 beauty pageant

A cross-section of Judges.

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Runway at Miss Nigeria pageant

Photos: BOLAJI OLASUNKANMI, SUNDAY ELOMOH AND OLAWALE AKINOLA

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Top 7 male actors of the year As 2017 comes to an end, here are the seven best performances of the year in no particular order: Bolanle Ninalowo challenges our perception of him as an actor. He completely disappears into the mannerism of a typical area to admire, love and care for his character.

Shawn Faqua

blend of violence and comedy.

Akah Nnani He might have a successful vlog, but portraying a sergeant in

super entertaining. Enyinna Nwigwe

Seun Ajayi

class citizens because of their sexuality. be ignored. His interpretation of the role reiterates an already

makes him relatable. Ron Mgbatogu

importance of an unforgettable antagonist to a plot.

Sambasa Nzeribe

his acting skills.

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Mutiat Alli

Doris Simeon, 10 others unveil as ‘Celebrity Housemates’ in new TV show

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Winners emerge in StarTimes Yoruba Xmas ‘Watch N’ Win’ promo

Reality show focus on lifestyle, interpretation of lovers in Nigeria and other parts of culture, special games, entertainment the world are in for a good time as a television screens from January 12 role models in the society will visit the house to relate with the housemates Unveiling the new show themed, and share ideas on projects, careers

Executive Producer of the show,

The promo is targeted at viewers of StarTimes lan-

promoting peace and unity in the negative perception and showcase

cases various movies from the Epic to comedy, ro-

is committed to putting customers at the core of the We remain committed to exploring various ways to im-

from the six geo-political zones as well as selected across the spheres of the Nigerian entertainment home with a cash prize of N7 million They are actor and model while the remaining contestants will

Other winners were Afolayan Bashirat, Olayemi OlaHis words: “We will continue to reward loyalty to the -

Simeon, rap star Ruggedman, selected viewers will have a cash of Ada Ameh, Peggy Ovire, Eniola Badmus, Bolanle Ninalowo and scheduled online media platforms, daily on national terrestrial TV and

Future awards nominee, Oluwatoyin Onigbanjo, feeds 1000 children

prove their entrepreneurial acumen The content of the show will

Estate, Royal Security are among the

Mr. 2Kay releases BTS photos, video for ‘Pray for Me’

Oluwatoyin said that children in such areas need stated that their parents most importantly, need more empowerment and community interventions their children using homegrown foods such as soya,

the video shoot of his latest

“We hope to do more of this in the coming year and most importantly empower their parents with

translates the song in mono-

In the light of the prevalent scourge of infant malnutrition,

ed the plans, hence the need credited to Shola Animashaun

complete nutrition for children in a creative way for

Society Circle L8

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Ex-Taraba Acting Governor, Alhaji Garba Umar celebrates Former Acting Governor and chieftain of the All Progressive Congress APC, Alhaji Garba Umar, is an epitome of good governance. The man who implemented N18,000 minimum wages for local government workers and paid backlogs of pension arrears in the state during his tenure as the acting governor of Taraba State is in a joyous mood at the moment as he celebrated his 70th birthday amidst

friends, family and wellwishers recently. Umar is an apostle of peaceful co-existence, whose influence cut across ethnic and religious groups because of his contribution to development of Taraba State. His good gesture towards workers in the state recently earned him an award of excellence from RATTWU. Umar has been described as a political colossus whose contribution to the state is immeasurable.

Oni Opeyemi gets N350,000 as best designer Recently, on Monday, December 16, 2017 to be precise, the glamorous Harbour Point, Victoria Island, Lagos as winner emerged during the Annual Fashion event put

favourably well among themselves as they brought back decency in dressing especially among the youths and society at large. The 2017 GFS featured exquisite designs from Fashion Designs Master class

Ministry of Redeem Christian Church of God (RCCG) City of David Parish. Oni Opeyemi eventually emerged as the overall winner with N350, 000, while

Tara Koko (THOD BESPOKE), Peter Adebayo among others. The event, however, created an avenue for budding young entrepreneurs

runner up went home with N200,000 and N100,000 respectively. The event was exceptional as young creative designers competed

fashion, modeling, photography, media, videographer, graphic designs among other related vocations to showcase their talents.

CEO Segun Odukoya of Mingles Place management meeting is second-to-none in the entire Ibadan. businessman, Segun Odukoya, who has been a major player in hospitality business. One is to have a hotel but another thing is to build it harbour elite both within and outside the state. The neat and highly conducive conference hall for staff training, annual general meeting and top

our customers that is our major watch word. Our event centre is a very unique one, because we provide all what our clients want for their occasions.”

Garba Umar

Evang. Itunu Segun Oseni hosts friends Evangelist Itunu Segun Oseni is one of the most creative gospel musicians whose dexterity cut across friends, fans, family and other notable personalities from all sphere of life at the prestigious Regia Luxuria Hotel around, Iyana Ipaja, Lagos on 26th of December, 2017. Aside hosting friends and fans, she also used

According to Evang. Itunu, the event served as a way of meeting some of her loyal fans in person and also to merry with them since most of them only get to hear or see her on radio or television She said: “It is a way of saying thank you to my fans and also to merry with them in this ember month. Aside that, it gave me the opportunity to launch my new album titled, “Afefe Loro”.

Shade Okoya’s fashion statement Ajibade Alabi Sade Okoya, the fun – loving wife of Lagos billionaire industrialist, Alhaji Akanni Okoya, was a major attention at the 80th birthday soiree of billionaire businessman, Gen. Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma (rtd) recently. Just like she stole the show at the 50th birthday party of Janet, the beautiful wife of Seni Adetu, former managing director of Guinness Nigeria Plc, a few weeks back, she was also the

cynosure of all eyes at the party. Shade attained her present height by moving out of the shadows of the older and elegant society ladies and into the circle of younger and trendier wives of men of means. She is thought to spare no of the wealthy Okoya clan, taking into consideration the ornaments that caress different parts of her body. She has no doubt become a rising force in the midst of aging powerful dressers.

Shade Okoya