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Senate passes PIB II, amends NDDC Act, suspends sale of PHR

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Reps aligns with Senate, rejects restructuring Emmanuel Iriogbe, Henry Omunu and Tom Okpe Abuja

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House of Representatives on Thursday toed the line of the Senate which on Wednesday rejected the devolution of powers, in the ongoing constitution review, as it also rejected the devoluContinued on page 12

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Decreasing number of women in government is worrisome –Aisha Buhari Maryam Inuwa and Aisha Inuwa, Abuja

ÏÏÏWife of Nigerian President Mrs. Ashia Mohammed Buhari, has said that the decreasing number of women in government was alarming calling on the present administration to create equal opportunities for women to enable them to contribute towards nation building.

Mrs. Buhari who was represented by the former deputy governor of Plateau state, Dame Pauline Tallen, at a two-day International Women Security Workshop in Abuja, urged women to unite for a common goal.

She said that most women politicians are worried over declined in numerical strength of women currently in appointive and elective

positions in Nigeria despite their population.

The Wife of the President, while declaring the workshop open, spoke extensively on the theme “Women, Peace Advocacy & Security Matters For Nation Building,” advising women to always be “good listeners” in order to impact positively on their well-being, families and society.

In her address, the Wife of Zamfara state governor and Chair Lady of Nigeria’s Governors Wives Forum, Hajia Asma’u Abdulazeez Yari, said men should not be blamed for women’s backwardness in politics as most a times women are problem to themselves.

She used the occasion provided by the event to advised parents to always take proper care of their children and

wards as such measure might prevent them from becoming wayward in the future.

Hajia Yari who also lamented against what she calls “reckless marrying of many wives” by some men who could not cater for even “one wife” in some states of the north part of the country, noted with shock that most children raised by such parents have no alternative in life than to become prostitutes, Boko Haram, armed robbers among other vices.

The Zamfara first lady also advised women to always work on their mindset adding that positive impact might come their way once they make up their mind to accomplish any given task they want for themselves.

She admonished, “mothers must always be ready to play active role in the mainte-

nance of peace and security in the country because they are the most vulnerable all cases of violence outbreak, war or epidemic.”

Also speaking, the wife of Kogi State Governor, Hajia Farida Bello advocated for support to each other so as to achieve their collective dreams of better Nigeria.

The Director General, Institute of Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR) Professor Osita Osita was represented

by Mrs. Grace Audu, a director in the Institute. .

The Managing Director of Skyhigh Security Safety and Skills Limited, Mrs. Folake Yoba, explained that the workshop was meant to address topical issues affecting the female gender in Peace advocacy and security matters.

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Peace Corps lauds NASS for passage of its Bill Benjamin Omoike

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The Nigerian Peace Corp South-West Zone has stormed the streets of Lagos to celebrate the passing of the Bill establishing the Corps, while lauding the National Assembly for demonstrating deep sense of commitment to national security and development.

Speaking with journalists in Lagos, the Zonal Commandant, Peace Corps of Nigeria South -West, Habib Mutairu, said the security challenges in the country demanded complementary roles from an organisation such as the Peace Corps The corps members brandished placards with inscriptions such as: “Thank you Acting President; “We are Peace Ambassadors”; “God Bless Nigeria”, “Truth Will Always Be Pathway To Peace”, “We Wish The President Quick Recovery”, “Thank You Nigeria For Your support”, National Security is Anchored On Development”, among others.

Mutairu said, “From here, it is the presidential accent.

When Mr. President, Muhammad Buhari is to sign it, then passing it into law

when he comes back. He has already recovered, he is just resting. This is the bill that will empower the entire youth of Nigeria, the teeming youths to be engaged and to contribute to the overall development of the nation.

“This will be in the areas of complementing the effort of the other security agencies.

The Peace Corps stands for peace and you will agree with me that peace is germane to Nigeria at this time.”

The commandant added that, “The Corps will take a lot of youths off the streets.

As you know, the issue of national security is anchored in national development and also, national development is anchored on security. Peace Corps would eliminate poverty and create jobs for youths.”

On issue of the possibility of its members carrying arms, he said: “We are not allowed to carry arms. We are an affiliate of African Union and the United Nations. Basically, it’s all about peace; the propagation and ensuring of peace. Our essence is to build moral values of people and to make them better. There’s room for volunteers, who’re ready to partner with us in this regard.”

N150m Fraud: Court grants banks’ hackers bail Peter Fowoyo

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President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki (right), with a six-year-old Boko Haram victim/survivor, Master Ali Ahmadu, during a visit to the Senate President, who promised to assist him to undergo a spinal cord surgery in the United Arab Emirate, in Abuja… on Wednesday.

Senate urges FG to investigate harassment, killing of Nigerians in Bakassi Chris Emetoh, Abuja

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Worried by the recent harassment and killing of Nigerians in the Bakassi Peninsula by the Cameroonians gendarmes, the Senate has mandated the federal government through the ministry of foreign affairs to investigate the recent cause of deaths of Nigerians and their mass return.

The Senate also urged the Government of Cameron to respect the provisions of the Green Tree Agreement entered signed by the two country in ceding the zone.

The resolution followed motion during plenary yesterday by Senator Rose Oko (Cross River North) on the plights of Bakassi indigenes in the Cameroons.

Senator Oko in motion Cosponsored by five other senators, drew Senate attention to the inhuman treatment being meted out to Nigeria citizens in Bakassi which recently resulted to the deaths of several Nigerians drowned in sea.

Senator Oko alleged that the Nigerians were feared to have been killed in an attack by the Cameroonian gendarmes over failure to pay a

discriminatory boat levy of N100,000. She said that the attack was targeted mainly at Nigerians from Akwa Ibom, Cross River and Ondo States.

She expressed concern that these Nigerians already traumatized by suddenly finding themselves as foreigners in their natural habitat are being subjected to further harassment, noting that those that returned after the ICJ ruling and the Green Tree Agreement had not been properly ressettled back in Nigeria and have been living in makeshift accommodations for several years.

While urging the Senate to prevail on the the Federal Government to investigate the harassment of Nigerians from Bakassi and identify the cause of their fleeing from the zone, Senator Oko posited that the actions of the Cameroons violate the tenate of the Green Tree Agreement, adding that the alarming rate of discriminatory treatment of Nigerians in diaspora often leading to deaths as has been the case in South Africa and in the Cameroons since the ceding of Bakassi Peninsula is worrisome.

Ten suspects who were bank account hackers, charged before a Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos on alleged N150 million fraud, were on Thursday granted bail to the sum of N10 million with one surety each.

The suspects: Ismaeel Salami, 49; Akinola Oghuan, 34; Sarumi Abubakar, 32; Salako Idowu Abdulsalam, 30; Cgukwumnonso Ifeanyi, 30; Okpetu John, 29; James Idagu, 56; Oyelade Shola Isaac, 32; Osuolale Hammid, 40; and Akeem Adesina, 40; were arraigned before the court on July 20, by the Special Fraud Unit of the Nigerian Police, on six count charges, bordering on conspiracy and fraud.

Justice Chuka Obiozor, admitted them to the bail sum, after taking argument on their bail applications.

In addition to the bail sum, the judge also ordered that the surety to-be, must be a landed property owner within Lagos State, and filed title document before the registry of the court.

Furthermore, each of the surety must furnish the court with three years tax payment, and that both the surety and each of the defendants must submit their recent passport photographs with the registry of the court.

The Judge also ordered that all the documents must be verified by the court’s Deputy Chief Registrar (DCR).

Justice Obiozor however ordered that all accused persons be remanded at Ikoyi facility of Nigeria Prison Service, pending the time they are able to perfect the bail conditions.

In the charge marked FHC/L/248c/17, SFU alleged that the 10 defendants had sometimes in March, 2017, conspired among themselves to fraudulently obtained and transferred the sum of N150 million from various banks customers’ accounts without any authority to do so.

They were also alleged to have blocked the fraud victims’ GSM numbers, so that they will be unable to receive alerts of any financial transactions within the period their accounts are being sipponed.

They were said to have committed the alleged act between Lagos and Oyo States.

The offences according to the prosecutor, Mr. Azubike Sylvester are contrary to and punishable under sections 8(a)(B)(c), 7(1)(a)(b)(I)(ii) and 1(1)(a) of the Advance Fee and other related Offences Act 2006, and punishable under section 7(2)(B) of the same Act. They had all pleaded not guilty to the charges.

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This is just as the red chamber condemned “non-transparent process” being adopted by the Ministry of Petroleum and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to concession the PortHarcourt Refinery to ENI/AGIP and OANDO. The Senate, therefore resolved that the process be stopped for advertisement and open bidding.

The Senate also approved amendments of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), to clear certain ambiguities.

In the new amendment, “an indigene of an oil producing area” to be appointed into the NDDC Governing Board has been clari-

fied to read “an indigene of an oil producing Local Government Area”.

The remaining piece meals of the PIB that passed their Second Reading in the Senate, yesterday, included: “A Bill for an Act to Establish a Fiscal Framework that encourages further investment in the Petroleum Industry whilst increasing accruable revenues to the Federal Government of Nigeria and for other connected matters; A Bill for an Act to provide for Framework relating to Petroleum Producing Host Community’s participation, cost and benefit sharing amongst the Government, Petroleum Exploration Companies and Petroleum Host Communities and for related matters.”

Also, the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly passed ‘A Bill for an Act to provide for administrative framework for the Petroleum Industry and for other connected matters.’

According to the Senate, the Host Community’s Bill, provides for Petroleum Host Community Associations (PHCA) “to be funded through a direct contribution from petroleum producing companies.”

There is also a provision for National Committee on Petroleum Host (NCPHC) Communities designed solely to be “a small advisory body, which provides support to the Petroleum Host Community Associations when required.”

The Senate resolved that the cost of Registration of the PHCA

L-R: Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udo Udoma; Minister of State, Budget, Hajiya Zainab Ahmed and Director General, Budget office, Ben Akabueze, during public consultative forum on the 2018-2020 medium-term Fiscal Framework and Fiscal Strategy in Abuja… on Thursday.

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will be borne by relevant communities, while the running cost of the NCPHC will be deducted from the funds payable to the communities.

Also, as part of its resolution on Thursday, the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, has been directed by the Senate to review the current Revenue Allocation formula to ‘reflect the current and changing economic realities’ of the country.

The directive by the Senate is contained in Thursday’s resolutions on a motion by Senator Muhammad Adamu Aliero (Kebbi Central) on the need for the RMAFC to discharge its constitutional functions under paragraph 32 of the third schedule to the Constitution.

The Senate also urged the Federal Government to table the proposed revenue collection formula before the National Assembly for deliberation and passage into law, just as it charged the commission to discharge its Constitutional duties and functions.

It noted that pursuant to paragraph 32 of the third schedule of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as Amended, the RMAFC was established to among other things review, from time to time the revenue allocation formula and principles in operation to endure conformity with changing realities, provided that any revenue formula which has been accepted by an Act of National Assembly shall remain

in force for a period not more than five years from the date of the commencement of the Act. The upper legislative chamber during debate on the motion observed that the present Revenue Allocation before the commencement of present democratic dispensation in 1999.

It stressed that there is no extant Act of the National Assembly accepting the present Revenue Allocation formula which means the formula in use now is unconstitutional.

The Lawmakers noted also that the constitution does not contemplate that a particular revenue formula is to be in force in perpetuity.

It stressed the need for the formula to be reviewed every five years as provided by the Constitution.

“Senator Aliero had in the motion raised awareness to the fact that most of the States of the Federation are under the bailout of the Federal Government which runs into billions of Naira, and as a result of this bailout most of the States are deeply in debt and the fear is that successive state governments are going to inherit huge and insurmountable debts.”

The Senate expressed concern that unless the present formula is reviewed in favour of the States and Local Governments, real growth and development will continue to elude Nigeria.

However, the bills would be subjected to Public Hearings before their final passage by the National Assembly for the President’s assent.

Senate moves to resolve lingering nation’s economic issues

Olufemi Samuel & Chris Emetoh, Abuja

ÏÏÏ Senate of the Federal Republic yesterday, passed through Second Reading, the remaining issues regarding the elusive, but highly critical Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB. The passage of this important Bill, which has generated a lot of controversies following its long delay, may have laid to rest, at least for now, the doubts trailing it.

This is just as the red chamber condemned “non-transparent process” being adopted by the Ministry of Petroleum and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to concession the Port-Harcourt Refinery to ENI/AGIP and OANDO. The Senate, therefore resolved that the process be stopped for advertisement and open bidding.

The Senate also approved amendments of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), to clear certain ambiguities.

In the new amendment, “an indigene of an oil producing area” to be appointed into the NDDC Governing Board has been clarified to read “an indigene of an

Ï Passes PIB, amends NDDC, suspends PHR sale Ï Directs RMAFC to reviews sharing formula oil producing Local Government Area”.

The remaining piece meals of the PIB that passed their Second Reading in the Senate, yesterday, included: “A Bill for an Act to Establish a Fiscal Framework that encourages further investment in the Petroleum Industry whilst increasing accruable revenues to the Federal Government of Nigeria and for other connected matters; A Bill for an Act to provide for Framework relating to Petroleum Producing Host Community’s participation, cost and benefit sharing amongst the Government, Petroleum Exploration Companies and Petroleum Host Communities and for related matters.”

Also, the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly passed ‘A Bill for an Act to provide for administrative framework for the Petroleum Industry and for other connected matters.’

According to the Senate,the Host Community’s Bill, provides for Petroleum Host Community Associations (PHCA) “to be funded through a direct contribution from petroleum producing com-

panies.”

There is also a provision for National Committee on Petroleum Host (NCPHC) Communities designed solely to be “a small advisory body, which provides support to the Petroleum Host Community Associations when required.”

The Senate resolved that the cost of Registration of the PHCA will be borne by relevant communities, while the running cost of the NCPHC will be deducted from the funds payable to the communities.

Also, as part of its resolution on Thursday, the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, has been directed by the Senate to review the current Revenue Allocation formula to ‘reflect the current and changing economic realities’ of the country.

The directive by the Senate is contained in Thursday’s resolutions on a motion by Senator Muhammad AdamuAliero (Kebbi Central) on the need for the RMAFC to discharge its constitutional functions under paragraph

32 of the third schedule to the Constitution.

The Senate also urged the Federal Government to table the proposed revenue collection formula before the National Assembly for deliberation and passage into law, just as it charged the commission to discharge its Constitutional duties and functions.

It noted that pursuant to paragraph 32 of the third schedule of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as Amended, the RMAFC was established to among other things review, from time to time the revenue allocation formula and principles in operation to endure conformity with changing realities, provided that any revenue formula which has been accepted by an Act of National Assembly shall remain in force for a period not more than five years from the date of the commencement of the Act. The upper legislative chamber during debate on the motion observed that the present Revenue Allocation before the commencement of present democratic dispensation in 1999.

It stressed that there is no extant Act of the National Assembly accepting the present Revenue Allocation formula which means the formula in use now is unconstitutional.

The Lawmakers noted also that the constitution does not contemplate that a particular revenue formula is to be in force in perpetuity. It stressed the need for the formula to be reviewed every five years as provided by the Constitution.

“Senator Aliero had in the motion raised awareness to the fact that most of the States of the Federation are under the bailout of the federal government which runs into billions of Naira, and as a result of this bailout most of the States are deeply in debt and the fear is that successive state governments are going to inherit huge and insurmountable debts.”

The Senate expressed concern that unless the present formula is reviewed in favour of the States and Local Governments, real growth and development will continue to elude Nigeria.

However, the bills would be subjected to Public Hearings before their final passage by the National Assembly for the President’s assent.

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ÏÏÏ Ekiti state governor, Ayodele Fayose, on Thursday made shocking revelations of how former President Olusegun Obasanjo used him to wreck the presidential ambition of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.

Fayose also alleged that Obasanjo used him to stop the former governor of Kaduna state, Ahmed Markafi, from becoming the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in 2007.

These revelations are in

the current edition of The Interview.

In a statement, made available to journalists yesterday, the MD/EditorIn-Chief of The Interview, Azu Ishiekwene, described the edition as “a window on a dark troubling past and a must read for any important political figure who has crossed Fayose’s path in the last 18 years.”

Fayose alleged in the interview that Obasanjo took advantage of his naivety to attack former Abia state governor, Orji Kalu, among other political foes.

He also revealed how, on two major occasions when

he went to visit Atiku at the height of Obasanjo’s third term bid, security details promptly reported him to the then president, even before he left the venue, leaving him feeling spooky and vulnerable.

On the Obasanjo-Atiku saga, Fayose said: “Obasanjo told me that when you capture a general and you don’t kill him, he’ll come back and kill you; that since Atiku tried to stop him and failed, he must pay for it, and he (Atiku) is still paying for it.”

Fayose told The Interview that the scale fell off his eyes when, on a trip

with former President Obasanjo to Tripoli, Libya, where Obasanjo had gone to ask Moummar Ghaddafi to support his third term bid, the former Libyan president treated Obasanjo like a serf.

Recalling the encounter, he said, “It was such a pathetic scenario, so shameful. Obasanjo was speaking rapidly like a parrot. I was shocked beyond words.

I never knew Obasanjo would be that humble.

“He was on one knee till the end of the conversation.

Gadaffi kept quiet and was just watching Obasanjo.

When Obasanjo stopped

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Reps bow to pressure, to swear-in Benue female lawmaker after recess Henry Omunu, Abuja

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Indications have emerged that the House of Representatives will swearin Dorathy Mato, who was declared by the Supreme Court as the authentic winner of the March 28, 2015, general elections as duly elected representative for Vandeikya/Konshisha Federal Constituency of Benue state.

She is expected to replace Rep. Herman Hembe, the erstwhile chairman of the House Committee on FCT.

But since the apex court delivered its judgment on June 23, the leadership of the House has failed to swear her in despite several attempts made the Benue politician to that effect.

The delay in her swearing her in has forced Mato and her supporters to accuse the House leadership of frustrating her attempts to occupy her seat and discharge her responsibilities as an elected lawmaker.

However, Chairman, House Committee on Information and Public Affairs, Rep. Abdulrazaq

Namdas, gave a ray of hope on Thursday when he informed journalists that the female lawmaker is likely to be sworn-in when the House resumes plenary from its six-week annual recess.

Rep. Namdas said that by the time the House resumes from recess, Mato would have completed all the processes for her to be sworn-in as Hembe’s replacement.

“Our tenure hasn’t lapsed. We’re going on break and when she’s through, we can still swear

her in.

“The recess is a constitutional matter and when we return, we will conduct our legislative business,” he added.

Namdas declared that the law provides for anyone coming to the House or holding any elective position, such a person must pass through a process which is the election.

“You can’t be sleeping in your house without going through a process and then you go and obtain a court order or ruling to achieve your ambition,” he stated.

rambling, Gadaffi said, ‘Have you finished? Just know that I will not attend that meeting. I have other engagements.’”

He also revealed how on two major occasions when he went to visit Atiku at the height of Obasanjo’s Third Term bid, security details promptly reported him to the former president, even before he left the venue, leaving him feeling spooky and vulnerable.

On the Obasanjo-Atiku saga, Fayose said, “Obasanjo told me that when you capture a general and you don’t kill him, he’ll come back and kill you; that since Atiku tried to stop him and failed, he must pay for it.

And he (Atiku) is still paying for it.”

In a statement that could reverberate beyond Nigeria’s shores, Fayose said he knew, as an insider at the time, that Obasanjo betrayed former Liberian President, Charles Taylor to induce U.S. support for this Third Term bid, after promising Taylor safe haven in Nigeria.

He revealed how the current Chairman of the PDP was sidelined in favour of a sick and stubbornly reluctant Umaru Yar’Adua and his role in it as chairman of the Presidential Selection Committee.

Fayose warned Kalu against “selling” the Igbo down the river “for cheap politics” and blamed President Muhammadu Buhari’s government for making IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu popular.

He also spoke on his attempts to reach Buhari directly; former governor Kayode Fayemi’s relationship with APC leader Bola Tinubu; and futile attempt to discourage former governor Peter Odili from accepting Obasanjo’s dummy that he was heir apparent.

Meanwhile, the national chairman of the All Progressive congress (APC), Chief John Odigie Oyegun, has said that the Governor Fayose has taken leave of common sense and all decency with his outburst against an elder statesman and president of the country, Muhammadu Buhari.

Oyegun speaking to journalists at the party secretariat on Thursday during the presentation of the reviewed constitution of the

party by its Constitution Review Committee to the National Working Committee said he “hate to comment on anything the governor of Ekiti state says because when people have taken leave of common sense and all decency, when people have thrown overboard, basic cultural upbringing, when people cease to have respect for elders and cease to have respect for the fact that an elder statesman who is also president of this nation is going through a serious health crisis and seek to make fun of it and seek to say things that are totally unbecoming, it is not really worth commenting on. But I am glad that even yesterday, PDP governors went there.

“There has been sufficient information given to the public. We want to confirm that Mr. President is convalescing very strongly.

Right now, all he is doing is having enough rest as much as he can, to build up his energy and stamina. But the worst is certainly over. Mr. President is going to come back and is going to face the responsibilities for which the people of this country elected him. I am glad to say that he is recovering beautifully.”

When asked when the president is expected back he said, “Only Mr. President can speak on when he is coming back, but I am glad that he is having a lot of rest and I wish it is not going to take a longer time to be truly ready. He is beautifully making progress with his recovery.

“We discussed issues with him, but basically it was a courtesy call. People were genuinely concerned and wanted to see him. We had a good chat with him and had a good meal as you could see. He is still his own jovial self. He asked so many questions about events back home, just wanting to get our own perspective. I personally enjoyed the visit and I came back very happy.

“Thank God, nice sober people were very excited and were happy with the pace of Mr. President’s recovery. We are glad that finally, even with the most hardened political adversary, that common sense and decency will finally prevail.”

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Dentists decry existence of quacks in Abia Sunday Nwakanma Umuahia

ÏÏÏThe Nigerian Dental Association Abia State branch says for every four core practicing dentist in Abia, there are twenty others out there as quacks.

The Patron of the association HRM Eze Dr. Eugene Ndimele revealed this during their inaugural ceremony of the association’s chapter held in Umuahia, stating that this represents an average of 80percent quacks in the industry in the state.

Speaking with newsmen after the occasion, Eze Dr. Ndimele, who is also a retired dentist, attributed the existence of quacks in the state to government who is supposed to checkmate the practice of dentistry through

relevant agencies at their disposals.

Eze Ndimele regretted that the association has no constitutional powers to put an end to this dangerous practice, stating that only Medical and Dentist Council of Nigeria can, through proper enlightenment program eliminate the ugly trend.

Speaking earlier while inaugurating the state chapter, the National President, Dental Association Dr. Bode Ijarogbe noted activities of quacks in the profession as worrisome and called for urgent measures to stern the tide as quickly as possible.

Dr. Ijarogbe while congratulating the pioneer executive of the body in the state, charged them to be united and be vigi-

lant in order to fish out quacks and those portraying dental profession in bad light.

He reminded them that their inauguration was not a ceremonial exercise but to general wellbeing of the society and for a solution to prevent other health related cases.

He appreciated their commitments to ensure that the profession does not go into extinct in the state despite non existence of executives for the body during the period under review.

In his remarks shortly after his inauguration, the state chairman Dr. Innocent Iwegbu noted that since 1998, efforts to establish the State chapter could not come to fruition until today.

He also decried the flourish-

ing of Quackery in dental practice in the State and to expose quacks among their midst just, assuring the National president that the era of quacks in Abia was over and promised to collaborate with relevant authorities to achieve the desired goals.

Dr. Iwegbu also said he will be looking forward to partnering with the State government through Ministry of Health in stamping out the activities of charlatans in dental practice and deliver Abians from the menace, appreciated the national President, Eze Ndimele, M/D FMC Umuahia Dr Abali Chuku and others for making their dream come to reality.

The association used the occasion to honour some dignitaries, including the current State

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Integrate into World Trade System, EU tells Nigeria Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

ÏÏÏThe European Union (EU) has urged Nigeria government to encourage local businesses to explore opportunities in the non oil sector and integrate into the World Trade System.

The EU noted that local businesses have continued to grow hence the need to go global, and increasing opportunities for the export of agricultural products such as food, fish and textile materials, which are yet to be exploited in the European market.

Mr Michael Arion, EU Ambassador and Head of Trade Delegation made the call in Enugu on Thursday during the concluded EU/Enugu Trade and Investment Seminar organized by the European Union (EU) Delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS in collaboration with the ECOWAS Commission, and the Enugu Chamber of Commerce Industry, Mines and Agriculture (ECCIMA). Mr Arion who was represented by the Deputy Head of Mission, Mr. Richard Young said that the EU is the largest trading partner of Nigeria.

He emphasized the need to diversify the country’s economy from crude oil export, arguing that there can be no sustainable economic growth without keying into the global market.

Chairman of University of Ife (Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-ife Alumni Association and the Deputy Chairman Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Abia State Chief P.C. Onyegbu who expressed his delight that the era of dental quacks was over in Abia.

In his speech later, the OAU Alumni chairman said it was time State Government partner with Dental Association in Abia considering the fact that the association has established its Executive for the first time, assuring that the Association has come to stay like its other counterparts such for Doctors and Nurses and enjoined them to be focused and committed.

Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal(right), presenting a gift to USAID’s Nigeria Mission Director, Mr. Stephen M. Haykin, when the latter visited Sokoto… recently.

Adamawa varsity crisis: SSANU embarks on indefinite strike Tom Garba, Yola

ÏÏÏThe Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) Adamawa State University (ADSU) Chapter on Thursday embarked on an indefinite strike.

The institution reports that activities at the entire senate building housing the university top management were in low key as most offices were closed and vari-

ous offices occupied by senior administrative offices across the institution were shot down.

Mr James Fwa, Chairman of the union said that the union had exhausted its patience, stressing that the resumption for the strike was its last option.

Fwa said that the state government was adamant to the plight of the union as well as refused to hounor the MOU earlier entered into between the union and the

state government.

He recalled that the government had dissolved the university governing council and the top management as well as appointed a new acting vice chancellor.

He said that the dissolution was not a solution to the welfare of the union.According to him, our primary demand is our academic earned allowances, promotions implementations and our pensions.

ÏÏÏImoore and Apapa kingdom was agog as HRM (Oba) Taofik Adegboyega Akeju, Awojo III, the Alahun of Imoore and Apapa land clocked five on the throne of his forefathers.

As part of the activities to celebrate his fifth coronation anniversary, Oba Akeju installed new chiefs – they are: High Chief Babtunde Babalola Shabi as Asiwaju of Kirikiri land, High Chief Michel Abboud as Aare Onakakanfo of Imoore land, Chief Adewale Akeju as Odofin, Chief Tunde Olayemi as Eletu, Chief Hassan as Aro, High Chief Sheu Hassan as Balogun, Chief Nojeem Hassan as Odemo, Chief Isiaka Hassan as Aare, Chief Teslim Lawal as Olowa. Others are Chief Taiwo as Opeluwa, Chief Musa Amodu as Lisa, Chief Titus Olayemi as Osunba, Akeem Hassan as Osi, Chief (Mrs.) Rukayat Adeola Balogun As Yeye Oba, Chief (Mrs.) Basirat Awojo as Iyalode, Chief (Mrs.) Patricia Leo Nwokedi Udeh as Iyaloja Oba Alahun MiniMasrket, Chief (Mrs.) Shefiat Jimoh as Otun Iyalode, Speaking with journalists on the five year coronation, High chief Mukaila the Oloriebi of Imoore and Apapa land, also Odofin of Kuje Amuwo expressed his satisfaction and happiness at the reign of the king, describing the king’s reign as a “Landmark” because of Oba Taofik’s reign had witnessed an enviable progress and development in the history of Imoore and Apapa land.”

Read about Badoo boys terror in Lagos inside

Over the last half decade, there has been a rise in gang violence in Lagos, Nigeria’s economic and commercial capital. From the Somolu and Bariga districts which have been the stronghold of the Eiye and Aiye confraternities, to the Mushin and Fadeyi axis, Ijora and Badia; and Festac andAmuwo areas, street gangs, generally known to Nigerians as cults, have constituted an increasingly dangerous but seemingly ever present menace to 17 million people who, according to the Lagos State Government, call Lagos home. In Amuwo Odofin, the gang known as ‘One Million’ boys became particularly notorious for robbing commuting workers at bus stops in the early morning back in 2015.

However, for a majority of these petty robbery incidents, most of the fatalities attributed to these gangs were from inter-gang wars or wars of supremacy within the gangs. Most of those killed were also gang members. While many Lagosians have suffered loss of life, health or property few were direct targets of the violence. With the rise of the Badoo gang in Ikorodu, this time-honoured pattern of criminality has been upended.

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Anambra PDP re-unites under Prince Emeakayi –P.11

MPPP denies plans to change name Patrick Okohue The Mega Progressive Peoples Party (MPPP), has debunked rumour making the round that it has concluded plans to change its name.

Rising from its National Executive Committee (NEC), meeting, the MPPP said that those feeding Nigerians with lies for cheap popularity are impostors.

They disclaimed one Hamisu Santuraki who they said claimed to be a member of the party, noting that his actions are unhealthy for the nation’s democracy.

The MPPP NEC in a release signed by National Chairman; Hon Akanni Olayinka, Lagos State Chairman; Comrade Dele Idowu, Osun State Chairperson; Serah Elujulo and Osun State Public Relations Officer, Isaac Adeyinka, said it viewed seriously the “recent release by some political jobbers and looters of MPPP treasury as an attempt to cause internal division within the party.

“MPPP NEC said it has disclaim an Impostor ( Hamisu Santuraki) who is currently parading himself as the national chairman of Mega Progressive People’s Party (MPPP).”

The party absolved itself of his recent

declaration to change the name of the party and describe such step as selfish and with ulterior motive.

The MPPP called on the media to disregard such attempt by the said Hamisu Santuraki and his cohorts to change the party’s name to Mega Party of Nigeria (MPN). ‘’We are using this medium to inform all Nigerians and our party members that there is no internal division among us and Hamisu Santuraki was never the National Chairman of our party, but a legally dismissed National Secretary on the count of gross misconduct in 2015.

Secondly, We are also using this medium to inform the entire populace that we had never conceived or proposed to the National Executive Committee that the name of our party be changed to Mega Party Of Nigeria.’’

The MPPP said its National Chairman, Hon Akanni Olayinka’s name and data are duely registered with INEC and not that of Hamisu Santuraki.

The National Chairman, Hon Akanni Olayinka had also in a message sent across to all party stakeholders urged them to disregard the emergency meeting Santuraki proposes to hold with

them on July 25.

They also called the attention of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC),Nigerian Police ForcE, Concerned Nigerians and all party members to take note of the proposed illegal meeting and also to halt the illegal process, while calling on members not to be part of the meeting.

“We declare solely that Hamisu Santuraki is not our National Chairman and there is no faction in our party. All NEC Members of MPPP are solidly behind the only recognised National Chairman of the party who is Hon Akanni Olayinka and therefore declare that Mega Progressive People’s Party is not holding any emergency meeting as proposed by the dismissed former National Secretary; Hon Hamisu Santuraki who is on his toes to bring down the great party with a view to causing internal and external divisions among members.

“Furthermore, the National Chairman urge Senator Buruji Kashamu and his loyalists to be mindful of who they transact with in the name of Mega Progressive People’s Party, as the party is not for sale, it is untouchable for Hijackers and political jobbers,” the release added.

South-South Youths to Wike: PDP is a discredited platform …Warn Timi Frank, others Patrick Okohue The South –South Youths on Thursday commended the All Progressives Congress (APC) for bringing about the needed change in Nigeria.

The youths heaped praises on the leaders of the party for getting Nigeria out of what it called the predicament of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The Youths in a statement by the South-South Youth Leaders Forum’s Dr. Uche Amadi, also condemned the reported stand of Governor Nyesom Wike concerning the performance of the APC in the country.

“Governor Nyesom Wike in his heart of hearts knows the truth and should be man enough to accept the fact that PDP disappointed Nigerians.”

They praised the APC for liberating the political space from the suffocating control of the PDP and injecting the needed political and economic re-engineering into governance in the country.

They also commended President Muhammadu Buhari and Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo for tackling the country’s numerous challenges and building a virile nation for generation yet unborn.

“APC is not like PDP. PDP is a discredited platform, a cult house of discord and enmity. APC has a vision and mission. The party will win the 2019 presi-

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dential election.”

The youths applauded the APC dominated National Assembly for looking into some areas in the 1999 Constitution and addressing the problems confronting Nigeria.

Particularly, the youths eulogised the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun for bringing his wealth of experience to bear on the party’s administration.

“In party politics, members of the party want to be given the chance to make their contributions. Chief John OdigieOyegun is a man of wisdom, dedication and integrity. He is handling the affairs of the party in a pleasant manner” The youths who noted with dismay

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the unhealthy comments by Timi Frank described Oyegun as symbol of peace, a good manager of men and resources as well as a strong believer in the national cause.

They called on APC members all over the country to continue to have confidence in the ability and capacity of the chairman to move the party to the next level.

“Timi Frank has lost relevance. The only value that he has, is that of being a nuisance to the good people of Bayelsa State” “Oyegun, a versatile and time tested technocrat, administrator and a stickler for transparency, is carrying everyone along,” the youths added.

Apapa LG chairman talks tough on gridlock Newly elected Apapa Local Government chairman, Hon. Owolabi Adele has said that he would leave no stone unturned to ensure that the perennial traffic gridlock in the area is tackled.

Adele, who spoke to journalists in Apapa, said his administration is a new era of traffic decongestion in Apapa.

The chairman, while noting other focus-areas of his administration agenda, which he captured under the acronym – YEESSWHIWAT to include youth empowerment, environment, education, security, sports, women empowerment, health, infrastructure development, welfare, agriculture and transport, said the issue of traffic management in the area is paramount to his administration in order to prevent continuously wasted man hour and lives, occasioned by gridlock caused by indiscriminate packing of tanker.

“Nobody is above the law,” he said.

“Anyone,” he continued, “who misbehaves will be arrested to face the wrath of the law.

“We’ll detain them and will only be released after signing an undertaken not to flout the law again. Although we don’t have the right to shutdown any company whose tanker driver flouts the law, but we will impound the vehicle and until the owner pays the necessary fine, we will not release it.

“And you can imagine if we impound a tanker for like one week you know what money the company and tanker driver would have missed for that period, in addition to fine.”

He said a template has been adopted to maintain a one-lane packing order for tanker and truck drivers in the local government to ensure free-flow of traffic.

Besides, he revealed that security measures would be put in place to checkmate any possible flout of the order by the drivers.

“We’ll ensure that all the tankers and trucks coming into Apapa maintain aone lane policy.

“To achieve this, we’ll hold a stakeholders meeting with the firms and security agencies and we will come up with four shift system (six-hour on duty) each day, morning, afternoon, evening and night. This policy we have identified 12 strategic points, where there will be three security or traffic personnel per shift.

“I believe within four months in office this traffic situation will be a thing of the past,” he assured.

The chairman said apart from the salaries of the security and traffic officers, provision of N1,500 allowance would be made available for each personnel on shift everyday in order to discourage them from collecting bribes from tanker drivers.

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Nigeria’s unity is negotiable until injustice, imbalances are addressed Many people have described two years of this administration as wasted years. What is your view on this?

The two years so far spent by President Buhari and his cabinet, is not only wasted years but a serious setback to the country.

This administration did not only fail to develop infrastructure, but has steadily dismantled those that were put in place by the previous administration. The government so far can be best described as national disaster and the worst regime since Nigeria’s independence. May I borow some words from the bible to describe the extent of the failure of the Buhari government so far.

(The Buhari government has failed – ‘press down, shaking together and running over’.

This administration when they were seeking to be elected, promised to tackle security, in your view do you think they have achieved that?

The truth is that this government so far has failed in all things. Our security system since the inception of this government has become worse than what we have before.

You can see that Boko Haram is still killing innocent Nigerians every day. Fulani Herdsmen and kidnappers are having field day unabated. All we hear on daily basis are lies and propaganda from the government. Our security agencies are largely politicised, with nobody having any iota of trust on them anymore. Cultism and all forms of crimes have become the other of the day across the country.

What do you think is the major achievement of this administration or what areas have they failed to deliver?

As a matter of fact, the only achievement of this government is confusion, destruction of democratic institutions through witch-haunt; and corruption in another dimension. However, one good achievement of this administration is that it has thought Nigerians the need to appreciate good leadership, any other time we are fortunate to see one again.

How do you think the unemployment situation in the country can be addressed?

Once those in the saddle have the political will, unemployment will be a thing of the past. Every part of this country is richly endowed, but lack of proper and committed management of resources has kept the citizenry down to nothing. Critical infrastructures such as transportation systems and electricity will go a long way to end the night mare of unemployment in the whole country. Restructuring of our political system will enable the component states to look inwards and develop local resources.

What do you think the absence of President Muhammadu Buhari has contributed in the way the country is being run?

The incessant absence of President Buhari has resulted in the slowdown of decision taking by the Presidency, since the Acting President usually wait for approval from his boss before concluding even in matters that requires urgent attention e.g. the 2017 budget. The Nigeria Presidency wields too much power to entertain any form of vacuum.

President Buhari has been described as an absent president, do you agree with this?

The quit notice issued by the Arewa youths is a welcome development; and we don’t see that as a reason for any crisis in the country. The Arewa youths are being misguided youths and their statements in their Kaduna declaration showed that they lacked sense of Nigeria history and also lack good mentorship. They are so shortsighted about their future and more unfortunate is the fact that most of their leaders issuing the quit notice are living and doing businesses outside the North. But like we said earlier, their threat and quit notice is a welcome development because that will surely make Ndigbo to have a rethink over their attitude of investing all in a foreign land. However, we urge Ndigbo and indeed all Easterners not to ignore the threat but must be taken very seriously. Therefore, necessary steps must be taken by Easterners to embark on serious repatriation of acquired wealth, even if nothing happens after the October deadline. The hard earned wealth and the investments of Ndigbo have suddenly become sources of envy from other tribes that wished to eat their cakes and also have them back. Ndigbo can recover from any loss in short while; the same way they recovered from the civil war losses.

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Charles Anike is the President, EASTERN UNION, a non political pressure group. In this interview, Anike speaks on various national interests, from the state of the nation, economy and the call for restructuring. PATRICK OKOHUE reports Apart from the medical vacations of President Buhari, remember that his first one year in office was characterized by foreign trips. At that time, his penchant for foreign travels became scandalous. Therefore, on his present incessant medical trips, we agree with those who described him as an absentee president.

How will you place theActing President in his management of crisis in the country in the absence of the President?

We can tell you authoritatively that the Acting President is not in full charge of things. He is more or less acting like an errand boy to the power drunk Buhari’s cabals. From his speeches, every experienced person can see clearly that he is only acting the scripts written for him. And I bet you, some of his statements can trigger off more troubles in the country. Statements like ‘Nigeria unity is not negotiable’ and that ‘Nnamdi Kalu is not an Igbo leader’.

Such statements are very provocative and uncalled for. If the IPOB leader can successfully persuade millions of Ndigbo across the country to a one day sit-at-home and the people complied, what else qualifies one to be a leader? The Acting President must understand that Nigeria’s unity remains negotiable until injustice, and imbalances in our systems are addressed properly. It is a bankruptcy of wisdom for a leader to say such things.

Well let’s just pray that President Buhari comes back and then sees reasons why he should travel the part of honour and safety by resigning from office on health grounds, for the best interest of the country. Then we will know if the Acting President can be himself to speak his real mind on issues.

The Arewa youths issued a quit notice to all Igbo in the North from this October. How will you access this as a possible tinder box to crisis in the country?

If the IPOB leader can successfully persuade millions of Ndigbo across the country to a one day sit-at-home and the people complied, what else qualifies one to be a leader? The Acting President must understand that Nigeria’s unity remains negotiable until injustice, and imbalances in our systems are addressed properly. It is a bankruptcy of wisdom for a leader to say such things.

There is stringent clamour for the restructuring of the country, are you in support of this. If you are, what will be expected from the restructuring?

The clamour for restructuring of the country is long over-due and is almost becoming out of fashion. Something more drastic than restructuring may soon overtake the clamour. The failures of the previous administrations to heed to the clamour for the restructuring of the country and the present high handedness and outright abuse of political powers by the Buhari administration in the running of the affairs of the country combined to trigger the renewed clamour and threat of secession.

Recall that since the inauguration of the present administration it has somehow set aside the constitution of the country and has been running the affairs of the country with ignominy and to the provocation of other ethnic nationalities.

The result of course is the present agitations and tensions we are witnessing throughout the country.

The South East governors have come out to speak against breakup of the country. Do you think restructuring can bring about a break up?

The only option left for the Nigeria leaders now is total and undiluted restructuring of the country. Remember that this same fear by some people that restructuring or introducing true federalism will bring about break up plunged the whole country into thirty months of civil war, and today the realities are still stirring us in the face.

We believe that if we come to a round table to discuss terms and conditions to our corporate existence, and if we agree and everyone show sincerity, the country will remain united. It should not be like what happened at Aburi, where after agreements were reached some leaders came back to become unfaithful and treacherous. So what must be paramount here should be sincerity and commitment to any agreement reached.

Always there is this clamour for Biafra and many well meaning Nigerians say breakup will create more problems.

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Anambra PDP re-unites under Prince Emeakayi The day was 25th of July, 2017; the event was the reunification of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Anambra State under the leadership of Prince Ken Emeakayi. And the venue was the Marble Arch Hotels, Awka. It was a day that you need no prophet to tell you that PDP is still the leading party in Anambra State, if numbers really count in democracy.

In his introductory speech, Prince Emeakayi pronounced that “PDP is back and better, back to reclaim what is ours, back to our state that we temporarily lost because we made some mistakes here and there. We are back to the state that rightly belongs to us. And on the heels of the victory of Senator Ahmed Makarfi at the Supreme Court and to the glory of God, I, Ken Emeakayi, today, being the 25th day of July, 2017, assure you all that come the 18th of November, 2017, that PDP will reclaim the Government House in Anambra State,” he exclaimed.

He also informed the party members that PDP would hold her National Ward Congress on the 8th and the Local Government Congress on the 10th, all in August. The State Chairman explained that while ‘’the Ward Congress gives root to our party, especially the 326 wards in Anambra State; the LG Congress is for the National Convention of the party to try to retain our brother, Senator Ben Obi as the National Secretary, Senator Ahmed Makarfi as our Chairman, Olisa Metuh and the other national officers to continue in office.”

Prince Emeakayi declared that henceforth “the National Working Committee has authorised that any party member is free to contest the governorship election in the state and we have no new or old member.”

He told his party members that those members who ran away are free to come back. “I hereby flag-off the membership drive exercise. And as the Bible says, you all are now the fishers of men for PDP. Go to APGA, APC, UPP and any other party and bring them back to PDP because PDP is Anambra and Anambra is PDP. Do not exclude anybody. I have a prize for the highest number of new

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members by any ward executive which is one million naira; the second prize is half a million and the third one is three hundred thousand naira.”

On a final note, Prince Emeakayi sounded it loud and clear that “PDP will not enter any alliance with any party in this election.” He cautioned that any member found romancing any other party will be severely dealt with. “We PDP lose elections because PDP fails or betrays herself in most elections,” he rounded up.

Iniobong Iwok The immediate past sole administrator of Yaba Local Council Development Area, (LCDA) Hon Dayo Adefuye has noted that the All Progressives Congress (APC), led administration of president Muhammadu Buhari and other APC controlled states has no rival in the 2019 general election because they have fulfilled their promises to Nigerians, stressing that the party was working to transform key sectors in the country while urging Nigerians to be patient.

Adefuye stated this in an address after being conferred with an award of excellence for his visionary leadership in the council over the last one year, by the Nigerian Community

A governorship aspirant in Anambra State on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Donatus Okonkwo, has called for a free and fair governorship primary to rekindle the confidence of the electorate.

Okonkwo made the call after collecting the expression of interest and nomination forms at the party’s secretariat in Awka.

According to him, only a hitch-free primary will rekindle the confidence of party faithful and electorate that the party has come to stay in the state.

Okonkwo reiterated his support for any aspirant that might emerge as the candidate of the party in a free and fair contest.

“It has always been our word that once the primary is credible, free and fair, we will strongly support whoever wins the primaries.

“Money will not play any role in the primary; those who bribe their way will be punished by not even going near winning the primaries.”

He described the attitude of some aspirants, who insist on going to Abuja to collect expression of interest and nomination forms as “a show of shame”.

According to him, the forms should have been picked in the state since it is the governorship of the state and not that of Abuja.

“We have a strong party in the state. I am the first person to have insisted that the form should be collected in the state.

“This is to show that we are ready to serve the people and engage the process,” Okonkwo said.

He expressed confidence that the party

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would win the election in the state, but further urged the party’s leadership not to pervert the process by selecting a candidate of their choice.

In an interview, the state Chairman of APC, Mr Emeka Ibe, said that 12 aspirants had so far picked the nomination and expression of interest forms for the governorship election.

Ibe, who said a date would soon be fixed for the primary election, gave an assurance that the exercise would be credible. (NAN)

APC has no rival in 2019- Adefuye ...Bags merit award

News Point, noting that the APC administration in Lagos State had performed well because they were in tune with the expectations of Nigerians.

The sole administrator lauded the administration of Akinwunmi Abode of Lagos State for it various achievement in the state and for the opportunity given to him to serve the people of Yaba.

Speaking further, the graduate of Estate Management of the University of Lagos, expressed gratitude to the staff of the council for giving him the needed support to excel

and the members of the APC in Yaba LCDA for their assistance.

He said: I want to thank God for the opportunity to serve the people of Yaba, it was the grace of God that we were able to do what we have done. If you look at where we met the council and where it is now, am also thankful to the council staff for supporting me.

“But I want to appreciate the governor of the state for a good job in the state, the opportunity for me to serve my people.

“Ambode has done well within the little time, the APC government is working and if we continue at this pace there would be no rivalry in 2019,”Adefuye added.

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How do you think this agitation can be curtailed?

The truth is that agitation is part and parcel of human being and one form of agitation or the other is taking place everywhere in the world. So agitations can never stop as far as the earth remains. Even if Nigeria breaks up today, that will not see to the end of clamours and agitations, because other forms of clamours and agitations will still spring up here and there. However, the present agitations in Nigeria, both for Biafra and others can only be curtailed by total and undiluted restructuring of both the political and economic systems of the country. That will definitely bring down tensions and fears of one tribe or religious group trying to dominate the others in the scheme of things. If the present concentration of power at the centre is decentralised, tensions and agitations will drastically reduce or even disappear.

Do you think the absence of the PDP as a viable opposition party has af-

fected the vibrancy of opposition in the country?

The PDP as it stands today has failed the citizenry. And the PDP’s failure started with its former national chairman who called himself a game changer. He came and actually changed the winning party to loosing party. The truth is that in PDP things has fallen apart and I wonder if the centre will ever hold. Of course one cannot expect any vibrancy from the party because the bible also said that, when the foundation is destroyed, what can the righteous do? Nothing of course .The party became demonised the more with the arrival of Ali Modu Sheriff who dealt the final blow on the party. The party’s problems were self inflicted, because the ideals of the founding fathers were jettisoned by some unworthy beneficiaries who over amassed wealth through corruption and became out of control. This is always the result when one hand over sensitive estate and achievements to a prodigal son like the former national chairman of the party (The game changer). Of course if the PDP had risen to

the occasion, the APC government would have long collapsed.

New political parties have been registered whereas the old ones do not seem to deliver on political promises or even make serious promise to the masses.

Do you see this as a further distraction in the political processes?

The registration of new political parties is a good omen and is the beauty of democracy. Every good democratic system must provide endless opportunities for everyone to participate. The choice will be left for the masses to make and chose who leads them from the lots. Also bearing in mind that it is possible to deceive the people at a time, but certainly not all the time, we are presently witnessing the APC change and we cannot be deceived again with any form of propaganda. The people are becoming wiser now and more politically aware these days. So the registration of new parties is welcome development What will you say of the rejection of the South East Development Commis-

sion in the House of Reps?

Point of correction, the proposal for the establishment of South East development commission was not rejected by the majority members of the House of Representatives, rather the proposal was opposed and rejected by the Speaker. The Speaker used his veto power to throw away the proposal, but you can also see that his decision is not final; as the proposal had a smooth sail and gained acceptance of the President of Senate and his Senators.

You must understand that in politics, not everybody will support your project, no matter how good and noble the project looks like. Besides, you should also understand that since the Speaker of the House of Representatives compromised his office on the issue of budget padding and other such issues, he then lost control since then and ever since his actions and body language are always directed to favour the interest of the Presidency. The Green Chamber lacks strong and courageous leadership, unlike the Red Chamber that has weathered the storm and then standing very strong.

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Reps align with Senate, rejects restructuring Continued from page 7 tion of power to the states, a key ingredient for the much sought restructuring of the nation.

But Reps contradicted the Senate on certain key provisions as it concluded votes on 33 alterations of the 1999 constitution in the amendment proposals.

Voting on the provision on yesterday, 191 members of the House voted Yes in favour of devolution of power, while 91 voted No, and 3 abstained.

However, despite the majority vote of 191, the amendment was rejected having failed to meet the 240 votes prescribed by the standing rules of the House on constitution amendment.

The House began by amending Bill number 1 on matters of inclusion of former presiding of-

ficers of the National Assembly on the National Council of State by including any dismissed former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) in the proviso that disqualifies any impeached former presiding officer and president.

The green chamber also disagreed with the Senate on a provision that any Nigerian who has spent a certain number of years in the Federal Capital Territory can be appointed a minister of the Territory by rejecting the clause.

The Senate had Wednesday, passed the same amendment during voting exercise on the alteration process of the 1999 constitution.

On the change of some local governments’ names to reflect their true identities in Federal Government records with regard

to issues of revenue allocation and other sundry considerations, the House also differed with the Senate which passed the clause on Wednesday.

220 lawmakers voted yes in favour of the amendment, 57 voted no while 8 members abstained.

It however failed to sail through, having fallen short of the 240 votes set by the House rules.

On the removal of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), and the Office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) establishment Acts from the constitution, lawmakers in the House voted to retain them as against the pro-removal votes by the Senate.

The only clause which attracted unanimous verdict from both chambers in that class of amendment was the Land Use Act for

Commandant, Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, Lagos State Command, Mr. Tajudeen Balogun (left), parades suspected traffickers in Lagos… on Thursday.

which they voted to be removed.

On amendment guaranteeing 35percent affirmative action for appointment of women into positions of authority, particularly ministerial appointments, the House favoured the alteration allowing it to pass, even though, the Senate rejected it.

Also on the separation of the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation (OAGF) from the Minister of Justice which the Senate approved, the House of Representatives rejected the clause, leaving the two offices under the control of one individual.

On the proposal seeking the abolition of State Independent Electoral Commission’s (SIECs) to enable the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) handle all elections from states to local governments, the House of Reps rejected it in opposition to the senate which approved it.

In all, the House of Representatives rejected a total of 9 amendments while the Senate rejected 4, to force the composition of a conference committee for the harmonisation of differences before the document can be transmitted to State Assemblies.

Meanwhile, former Vice President and APC chieftain, Atiku Abubakar, has described as shocking and saddening the decision of the APC-led Senate to block the passage of Bill No. 3, which would have granted devolution of power to the states saying it is a lost opportunity.

According to a press statement released by his media office in Abuja on Thursday, the Waziri of Adamawa decried the lost opportunity to honour one of the Party’s election promises to bring about

change by shifting power closer to the people in the remotest regions of our country.

Atiku said, “This blockage of the Bill by an APC-led Senate majority is a betrayal of our Party’s pre-election promise. It was an important vote and I am shocked by some so-called progressive’s visceral and cynical opposition to restructuring”.

Atiku frowned at the reluctance of democratically elected lawmakers to remove the insidious structural impediments to development which decades of military rule had hoisted upon our nation.

According to him, “instead of building the foundations for a true federation, a small group of so-called progressive Senators decided to stick with the new party line, pretending they did not know what restructuring is all about, and that even if they knew, it couldn’t be done.

“I think this is disingenuous; and I think it is a sad day for our party. But I am confident the APC will learn the right lesson from this self-inflicted defeat and remember the mission and mandate given to us by the people”.

The Waziri also expressed hope that Nigeria’s lawmakers would find the courage to stand by what is right, and not by what serves their personal vanities and political interests.

“Let me be clear; restructuring is no panacea to all our nation’s problems. Devolving resources and responsibilities from an overbearing, unresponsive, and ineffective federal government to the states is the first step we must make if we are serious about putting our nation back on track; and our people to work”, he added.

Court orders accelerate hearing on Melaye’s recall suit

Andrew Orolua, Abuja

ÏÏÏ The vacation judge of

the Federal High Court Abuja, Justice Nnamdi Dimgba, on Thursday, ordered an accelerated hearing of the suit seeking to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), from proceeding with Senator Dino Melaye recall.

The judge also directed Chief Olowo Cornelius, John Ajorin and Mallam Yusuf Adamu, who brought application to be joined as co-defendants and Michael Olowoleyemo who is also seeking to be joined as co-plaintiff, to file all their papers in respect of the substantive suit before August 7, 2017 when the matter will be heard and determined.

When the matter came up yesterday, the judge asked Sulayman Ibrahim, the counsel representing (INEC), and Nkem Okoro, the counsel for Senator Melaye, to address the court on the motion praying the vacation judge to hear the matter.

In his submission, Ibrahim

Ï Chief Olowo, Ajorin,Adamu seeks to join as co-defendants Ï Michael Olowoleyemo also seeks to join as co-plaintiffs prayed the court to give the summons filed by Senator Melaye accelerated hearing because the 90 days allowed for the recall process to be completed is constitutionally bound. Then the judge asked the counsel if the foundation (that is the petitions) upon which the recall process was initiated were questionable and if the 90 days still stand. Ibrahim said the 90 days is sacrosanct.

On his part, Okoro said that his counter affidavit and averments were not denied by the defendant.

He said that INEC who waited three weeks before responding to Melaye suit cannot suddenly turn round to demand that matter be treated with utmost urgency.

In a brief ruling, Justice Dimgba agreed with commission that the matter should be heard speedily and he granted the prayers as prayed.

But the court could not proceed to hear the substantive matter or INEC application seeking to

vacate the interim exparte order restraining it from continuing with the recall processes as two lawyers Anthony Adeniyi and Ponsak Bigun had announced appearance for the parties to be joined.

While Adeniyi said that his clients the petitioners: Chief Olowo Cornelius, John Ajorin and Malam Yusuf Adamu have filed their joint application since 28, June 2017 , Bigun said he filed Olowoleyemo’s application yesterday.

Melaye’s counsel Okoro said he opposed both applications and insisted that he should be given seven days to respond to Michael Olowoleyemo application. The applicant is seeking to be joined as co-plaintiff.

Though INEC counsel who initially opposed the applications of the parties seeking to be joined had withdrew his objection, Okoro insisted on he need an adjournment to enable him respond.

Justice Dimgba adjourned the matter to August 7, 2017.

It should recalled that Senator Dino Melaye had filed the suit against INEC before Justice John Tsoho of the Federal High Court Abuja who granted an interim exparte order that restrained the commission from proceeding with recall processes it began in June this year following petitions for Melaye recall.

The Commission said that the Ex-parte Order of interim injunction for the parties to maintain status quo “ as it stand “on 6th day of July ,2017 is in violation of the right to fair hearing under Section 36 (1) as well as infringement of one of the constitution duties of the Defendant/Applicant as conferred on it by Sections 1 and 69 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999.

Beside fair hearing , the Commission is arguing that the interim Order ought not to have been made considering the nature of

the claims sought in the substantive matter vis- a- vis the constitutional duty conferred on the commission to act within statutory time frame.

The section 69 of the constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria provide thus: A member of the Senate or of the House of Representatives recalled as such a member if; (a)”there is presented to the Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission a petition in that behalf signed by more than half of the persons registered to vote in that member’s constituency their loss of confidence in that member ; and which signatures are duly verified by the Independent Electoral Commission “ (b) “The petition is therefore,in a referendum conduct Independent National Electoral Commission within ninety date of receipt of the petition, approved by a simple majority of the persons registered to vote in that member’s constituency.”

Justice Dimgba yesterday agreed to hear the matter during vacation.

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SON and substandard goods in Nigeria

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ot long ago, the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) announced additional measures to combat the influx of fake and substandard goods into the country by introducing a reference code on products.

Other additional measures include increased market surveillance; to make it harder for products without the code to be imported into the country, even as those caught selling such products would be held accountable until the agency traces the manufacturer.

We definitely welcome these initiatives by SON, especially against the background that some international cartels now see Nigeria as dumping ground for illegal and substandard goods. Before the latest SON initiative, another outfit, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) had been at the forefront of checking the influx of expired and counterfeits drugs into the country.

The success so far achieved by NDLEA, especially in confronting powerful drug barons and their supporters has come at very great and bloody price. Even at that, no one will accuse SON of being soft in the fight against importation of fake and substandard products into the country. For example, the agency in 2016 claimed it had seized and destroyed substandard product worth billions of Naira.

Such revelations underscore the urgent need to check the importation and local manufacturing of such products. A visit to any of our markets would reveal the clandestine and mind boggling volume of trade in counterfeit goods. This trade spans anything from paint, electric bulbs, wires and cables, tyres, cement, auto spare parts, steel products, mobile

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There is no denying the fact that SON has made giant strides in the war against fake products. Incidentally, the recent upsurge in substandard products presents a fresh challenge.

According to the agency’s Inspectorate and Compliance Directorate, the importation of substandard goods into the country has risen several folds, especially given that its personnel charged with checking containers bringing products into the country have been withdrawn from all our nation’s seaports.

We therefore call on the Federal Government to reconsider sending the agency’s personnel back to the ports, if the war on fake and substandard products is to be won. The fight needs all hands on deck. The danger of both imported and locally manufactured substandard goods on the citizens and country cannot be overemphasised. It is a fact that cheap, low quality imports are disincentive to manufacturing, just as local manufacturing of fake and substandard products are equally dangerous to peoples lives and the economy.

However, it is not enough waging war against manufacture and importation of substandard goods into the country, without taking cognizance of the fact that poverty and low purchasing power are reasons for patronage of such items. It is therefore imperative that the government addresses the increasing poverty among Nigerians.

Most importantly, the SON should liaise with the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) and exporting countries to ensure that only high quality goods are brought into Nigeria for interest of the citizens and economy.

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STATEMENTS BY THOSE WHO MATTER

Mathew Kukah

Ibrahim Babangida

Wole Soyinka

“The world can provide for the need of everybody but cannot provide for the greed of everybody.”

“The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.”

“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”

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Sokoto defends purchase of office/ residence for Sultanate in FCT Patrick Okohue

ÏÏÏThe Sokoto State govern-

ment Thursday denied any wrong doing or any back hand dealings in the purchase of office and residential accommodation for the Council in Abuja, Federal Capital Territory.

The government said the clarification has become necessary as a result of some rumour making the rounds with regards to the approval for the purchase.

Speaking through a press statement signed by the Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs to Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, Malam Imam Imam, government said every laid down procedure concerning such purchase was followed and complied with.

The statement reads in part; “the attention of Soko-

to state government has been drawn to rumours making the rounds as to the nature of approval given for the purchase of office and residential accommodation for the Sultanate Council in Abuja, Federal Capital Territory.

“We wish to state the facts of the matter as follows: The Sokoto state government, concerned by lack of a befitting office and residential accommodation for use by officials and members of the Sultanate Council, approved within its capital estimates of the 2016 supplementary budget and 2017 budget, the sum of N200 million and N500 million respectively, provision and furnishing of sultanate council office and residence in Abuja.

“The items are on Pages 11 and 362 of the approved budget documents with Sub Head Numbers 467/131 which was passed by the Sokoto State

House of Assembly and signed into law by Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal on Friday, February 10, 2017.

“Furthermore, the Sokoto State Executive Council, the highest decision-making body in the state, via a resolution of the Exco with number CC (2016) 5R of Wednesday, December 28, 2016, approved the purchase of the office and residential accommodation in Abuja.

“Thereafter, the Office of the Secretary of State Government received three offers from different estate developers which were vetted and assessed by the Ministry of Works and the State Due Process Office.

“Following adherence to laid down procedure, the process of acquiring the property was set in motion upon which some elements are now trying to make political capital out of it.

“We wish to make it clear that all laid down legal and admin-

istrative procedure has been followed in the execution of the matter.

“The Sultanate Council and its officials are important component of the life of Sokoto State.

Its funding is taken care of by extant provisions of the laws of Sokoto State and executed primarily from revenue sources accruing to the State and Local Government Councils.

“We felt that providing a befitting office and residential accommodation to its officials will further strengthen the work officials of the Sultanate Council are carrying out in Abuja. The present situation where officials pay huge sums of money to stay in hotels is economically unsustainable in the long run.

“We urge reporters and other members of the public to discountenance rumour mongers and always verify news stories from authorised channels,” the statement added.

PTAD verifies retired Federal Perm Secs, embarks on mobile verification Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

ÏÏÏThe Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) has embarked on a mini-verification exercise for retired Federal Permanent Secretaries under the Defined Benefit Scheme (DBS).

Executive Secretary of PTAD, Sharon Ikeazor who flagged off the three-day exercise yesterday in Abuja at the Office of the Head of Civil Service (HOS), said it was an effort to continue the momentum of successful verification exercises.

Ikeazor said that she was there to monitor the efficacy of the exercise which involved capturing the data and biometrics of the retirees.

In his remarks, the secretary of the Council of Retired Federal Permanent Secretaries (CORFEPS), Mr. Joseph Nwosu encouraged all their colleagues who are resident in Abuja to take advantage of the mini-verification.

Nwosu said “it is an opportunity to be captured and complete the process once and for all,” adding that those who are not physically fit, should provide PTAD with a list to reach out to them in their homes and hospitals to conduct a mobile verification.

The exercise, it was a reunion for the former top bureaucrats while the PTAD Executive Secretary shared a lively time with them.

L-R: Member, Senate Ad-Hoc Committee on Planned Concession of the Port Harcourt Refinery to AGIP/ENI and OANDO, Matthew Urhoghide; Chairman of the Committee, Abubakar Kyari and another Member, Sabo Mohammed, during the Committee’s Public Hearing at the National Assembly in Abuja… recently.

Kano to return students abroad for poor performance

By Yakubu Salisu, Kano

ÏÏÏKano State govern-

ment is set to return home 37 out 154 Kano State Nursing students in Egypt due to poor academic performance.

This followed report from the Faculty of Nursing of Mansoura University to the consultant overseeing the welfare of the students submitted to Scholarship board.

The report indicated that the 37 students risk withdrawal due to their poor performance in 2 semesters.

The students could not make 2.0 GPA for the 2 consecutive semesters of 2015/2016 academic year, despite what the report refer to as, close academic supervision and support during their summer semester.

The Kano Government based on the report and discussion with the consultant decided to provide return tickets to the students to enable them come home and start another academic programme.

Meanwhile, 12 out of the remaining 98 students who will complete their study in August, this year have also been provided with their return tickets.

It is important to advise students to stop hiding under political sentiment to cover their deficiency.

It would be recalled that no Kano State foreign students was returned without completing his study despite economic and political challenges being faced by the government.

MAN to hold breakfast meeting with directors, CEOs Tuesday ÏÏÏThe

Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), Ikeja Branch, will hold a breakfast meeting with managing directors and Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of companies in the state on Tuesday, August 1, 2017.

The breakfast meeting, which holds at Lagos Airport Hotel, 111 Obafemi Awolowo Way,

Ikeja, Lagos by 10:00 am, with the theme “Nigerian Economic Recovery: Strengthening the Real Sector”, is to discuss some topical issues on how to grow the real sector by harnessing the non-oil exports.

The Breakfast meeting previously tagged Business Luncheon is a yearly event that provides a plat-

form for effective interactions of over 300 Chief Executives, thereby helping them to chat the way forward to overcome the economic challenges/ threats that they face.

The Guest Speaker, Mr. F. Babatunde Odunayo, the Chairman of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, Apapa Branch, will be speaking

on “Boosting the Zero Oil Earnings: A Catalyst to the Growth of the Real Sector”.

Special Guests at the Breakfast meeting include the MAN president, Dr. Frank S.U Jacobs (MON), as Special Guest of Honour; Lagos State Commissioners for Commerce, Industry and Cooperatives;

Environment, and Finance respectively; and President, National Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, NACCIMA; Director General, Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA); Director General of MAN, as the Guests of Honour; and other heads of MDAs in Lagos State.

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London visitations to President Buhari by governors, ministers

T William Bozimo

here is usually a tradition in Nigeria for politicians to follow the paths taken by their colleagues, either as an act of solidarity visitations or to be recognised and counted as belonging to the follower syndrome.

The first visit by APC Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun and group of APC governors literally stormed London, as if, they were on a bright summer holiday shopping spree.

They had told all those who cared to listen that they had gone to see the President who is recuperating in the Abuja House of Nigeria in London.

As if that visit was not enough, another group led by Governor Yari of Zamfara State went on a similar trip, this time taking along with him two PDP governors, Udom and Umahi for the purpose of balancing the two parties.

I overheard someone whispering why one of the blistering critics of Mr. President was not part of the team to London, I mean, Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State who had never felt at ease with the progress of the President’s ailment with threats of releasing eleven graphic pictures of the president’s state of incurable

health status.

That may have been a justifiable travelogue coup against Governor Fayose, whose loquacious style and invectives against the person of President Buhari had been to say the least, a little too un-gubernatorial.

For a nation caught in the throes of economic woes, and for a nation fighting corruption almost like a an unwinnable war of sorts, when we see Nigerian governors abandoning their states in various degrees of salaries arrears and several projects needing their attention to jumping a presidential plane on what many see as blatant jamborees in the midst of want, bespeaks gubernatorial irresponsibility .

Many teeming unemployed Nigerians could make do with the amount of allowances governors collect and other perks of office is to say the least unpardonable.

If they had taken their annual vacations and travelled out nobody would quarrel with that. But under the guise of going to London to see the President, who is waiting on the London hospital doctors to certify him fit to travel back to Nigerian and resume his duties is simply callous and wasteful.

It is in the pathological nature of politicians to engage openly in eye service to please the lord and master, who when possessed as he returns

to Nigeria could move EFCC against all those who had been wishing him dead.

But the pictures one saw in the online media displayed a happy and smiling President Buhari, who is ably being supported by his wife, Aisha and another lady, possibly, one of the governor’s wives, who would not want her spouse to travel to London with a mistress .

The President was generous to entertain his visitors with all kinds of soft drinks after perhaps a rich lunch of Nigerian dishes , tuwo shinkafa, eba and pounded yam plus egusi soup and bush meat imported from Nigeria.

It is tragic enough for the country to have elected a President whose health status was not too clear for the giant task of running a country of 180 million, and whose problems had become ossified over time and space, so deep-rooted to the point of beyond redemption.

Nigeria is a country in dire need of intensive care, just like its President is recuperating in faraway London.

Nigeria and Nigerians are not for sale no matter how bad the economy is, and with the resilience of the average hard working Nigerian, whose spirit is un-cowable, we shall overcome all the endemic and teething problems gaping at us in our col-

lective faces.

Nigerians are optimistic and we have no doubt we can overcome all the shortcomings in the land.

The promise of the Buhari presidency may not be as rosy as it was touted to be but with his improved health, Nigerians believe that let him just muddle through his first term and retire from active politics as many of his die-hard supporters are routing for him to re-contest in 2019.

Must we insist on Buhari and Buhari alone to win the 2019 presidential elections?

I do not think so. A willing political horse should not be flogged to death.

Muhamadu Buhari had been a lucky Nigerian who had ruled Nigeria as a former military head of state and now a civilian President elected on the APC platform in 2015.

This makes them two Nigerians: Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo from 19761979 and civilian president from 1999- 2007.

In selfsame manner, Gen Buhari ruled as a soldier and came back after several presidential attempts to be elected president in May 2015 and under these trying times, his health is not helping matters.

As uncompromising optimists, Buhari should come home and finish the job for which he was elected.

We wish him and Nigeria well.

This time Independent National Electoral Commission got it right

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Ezeani Chukwunonso Elvis

n autopsy report issued by the Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital, Oshogbo suggests Isiaka Adeleke died of an overdose of painkillers administered on him by a private nurse. There are also indications that some of the substances administered on him may have been banned earlier by Nigerian authorities.

Isiaka Adeleke, who until his demise represented Osun West Senatorial zone in the Nigerian Senate was pronounced dead by doctors at Bikets Hospital, Oshogbo on the 23rd of April 2017, shortly after he returned from a funeral ceremony and reportedly complained of pains. He was the first executive governor of Osun State.

His death did not pass without some drama. His supporters disrupted public peace and accused specific officials of the Osun State government and associates of Rauf Aregbesola of conspiring to eliminate the senator who chaired the senate committee on capital markets via unorthodox methods.

The death of Senator Adeleke caused the Independent National Electoral Commission to conduct a by- election to fill the vacancy in the Nigerian Senate his death caused.

The election held on the 8th of July 2017 and in less than 48 hours, US-based Dr. Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples’ Democratic Party and younger brother to the deceased senator trounced his opponent, Sen. Hussein Mudashir of the All Progressives Congress by a margin of over 30,000 valid votes to emerge winner.

Thus, for the first time since 2015,

an election held in Nigeria during the President Muhammadu Buhari administration where voting was concluded in record time and acceptable results announced.

A lot of factors have been counted as possible reason for this sudden show of capacity by the INEC. Many Nigerians think that tremendous sympathy for the Adeleke clan over the loss of one of theirs accounted for massive turnout of votes in favour of Senator Ademola Adeleke hence rigging was impossible. Others suggest that the not too pleasant performance of Governor Rauf Aregbesola as governor especially after he won a second term is responsible for a decline in pro-APC solidarity. A third group of public opinion however (comically) suggests that the absence of President Muhammadu Buhari and the refusal of Acting President Adeyemi Osinbajo to meddle in the process might be responsible for its timely conclusion.

Notwithstanding the extent to which these views may be valid, it is my opinion that the most important factor responsible for a smooth conduct of this particular election was a decision by INEC to serve as an umpire in a manner described by the electoral act (as amended) and nothing else. Unlike in Rivers and Bayelsa States where the INEC openly indulged in not a few extraordinary business, the Osun West by-election was a classic instance of how exactly elections should be conducted.

Recently, the INEC have come under intense scrutiny over involvement of some of Her senior officials in matters ranging from inappropriate and unauthorized disclosure of classified information, misrep-

resentation of facts, misinterpretation of court pronouncements, serving as private consultants to politicians, serving as bribe conduits and in some instances receiving cash running into hundreds of millions of naira as payment for rendering unknown services. These revelations are courtesy of information available on both Nigerian electronic and print media.

In some instances, senior officials of the commission, like some members of the Nigerian bar and bench have been discovered to live lavish lifestyles far above their means.

While some solicit and receive all manner of financial assistance from politicians, others maintain suites in the most exclusive hotels at the expense of politicians. The fact that these nefarious activities have suddenly come to the knowledge of Nigerians with officials of anti-graft agencies on standby to conduct sting operations cannot be divorced from the recent willingness of the INEC to get it right.

There’s however a strong point to note here. The current censorship of the INEC by Nigerians isn’t going to be a continuous affair because at a point, as special creatures which Nigerians are known to be, we may move on to other important matters like the next edition of Big Brother Africa or American Idol.

We could even decide to start a national discuss on who the next Miss Nigeria should be or if President Omar Al-Bashir of Sudan deserves a jail sentence for genocide.

Many therefore agree that it cannot be out of place to suggest that the rotten eggs in the INEC may be calmly waiting for Nigerians to look elsewhere to something more entertaining before they roll out an

advanced version of their strategies to remain in business.

Data from the Federal Finance Department indicate that in 2014, N62B was proposed for the INEC and included in the 2015 fiscal estimates as submitted to the National Assembly by the federal finance minister and CME, Ngozi OkonjoIweala. This figure is about half the annual budget of some economically unviable Nigerian states like Ekiti, Osun, Imo, Zamfara and even Kebbi. This amount reflected an increase of N17b from the previous budget allocation. In the same year, during a stakeholders’ session, INEC disclosed that at least N93b was required to conduct an election devoid of hitches; stressing that it spent an average of $8 on each voter during the 2011 elections.

Notwithstanding the figures contained in budget estimates, documents from INEC’s budget estimates for the election year revealed that at least N108.8b was spent to conduct the 2015 elections which produced the Muhammadu Buhari administration, the 8th national assembly, most Nigerian state governors as well as thousands of state assembly members. With just 68,833,476 registered voters, it means INEC spent N1,749.38K administering the voting process on each voter who turned up either in person, by proxy, ghost voters, double voters and even security agents and ad-hoc staff of INEC who are often seen on video mass thumb printing on ballot papers.

Ezeani Chukwunonso Elvis is a research associate at the office of the Chairman, Capital Oil & Gas Industries Limited and a Thursday columnist for Daily Times, Nigeria.

He tweets @NonsoEzeani1

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AFRICA’S RICHEST PASTORS IN THE PEOPLE’S COURT AS...

Nigerians vote pastors who spend God’s money for God’s purpose It was Kwuanguli Wewe’s two-minutes video for eNCA.com, currently rocking the social media that revealed Africa’s top five richest pastors all Nigerians, with a combined net worth of over 235 million US dollars.

Our features editor, GBUBEMI GOD’S COVENANT SNR felt the pulse of the public and presents the people’s verdict on pastors who spend God’s money for God’s purpose - and those whose churches are their bellies.

His report: FIRST, THE ENCA.COM REPORT: In a typical Sunday in Nigeria, Pentecostal churches fill to capacity. Some services here accommodate up to 50,000 people, and (but for a few), the message on most Sundays is about wealth and prosperity.

Africa’s richest pastors are all Nigerians. To many here, it’s difficult to convince them that these men are not running a profit-driven organisation.

Winners Chapel’s David Oyedepo is said to be worth 150 million US Dollars; Mathew Ashimolowo ($10 million), Chris Oyakhilome ($50 million), T.B. Joshua (N15 million) and Chris Okotie ($10 million).

With a net worth of some $235m, Nigeria’s top five richest pastors have shown that the gospel of prosperity is truly working in their lives.

Those super rich pastors are not sincere because most of their members live in abject poverty and can barely afford a decent meal a day.

Reactions: THE PRESIDENCY, THE CLERGY A disappointed former President, General Olusegun Obasanjo (rtd), towards the end of his 2nd tenure, concluded top men of God that daily visited Aso Rock as “business men”. “I thought they were men of God, I didn’t know they are just business men,” he told the press.

THE LATTER RAIN ASSEMBLY’S SERVING OVERSEER, PASTOR TUNDE BAKARE: “There’s still a lot going on in our churches that are extra biblical devices employed and deployed by men to attract crowd to themselves. Of course, Satan can pastor a church because he can transform himself, according to the Bible, to an angel of light.”

“May be they need prison, may be they need to be

locked up for them to know it, but God has a way of throwing a Jonah into the sea…”

Pastor Ashimolowo

CATHOLIC PRIEST, THE VERY REVEREND MONSIGNOR LIVINUS UKAH: Whether a pastor, individual or corporate organisation, being rich is no longer fashionable if it cannot be used for human development. I like the T.B. Joshua initiative; he pours out his soul and resources to help the poor: that is how to use God’s money for God’s purpose THE PEOPLE’S VERDICT: Three out of every five respondents indicted the billionaire pastors. A former teacher of Word of Faith Bible Institute, (WOFBI), the bible college arm of Winners Chapel confided in The Daily Times that every church built up its estate from the earnings of their poor and vulnerable members.

“It has become a trend for pastors to collect tithes and offerings, including “special offerings” from members, most of whom are impoverished, and they invest the liquid cash in building schools - from crèche, nursery, primary, college and even university. Only the super rich can afford to send their children there. That is not the pattern Jesus set for us as example to run with.”

Lawyer and cleric, Barrister G.P. James settled the controversy with a reading from Matthew 25 from verse 32 to 46 and concluded that, “Then shall He say unto them on the left hand, Depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: “For I was hungry and you gave me no meat, I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink. I was a stranger and ye took me not in, I was sick, in prison and ye visited me not” Then all these pastors will say, “Lord, when did we see thee in these conditions and we did not minister

Prophet Joshua unto thee?” Then shall He answer them, “Verily I say unto you. Inasmuch as ye did it not one of the least of these, ye did it not to Me.” So, if you keep prophesying and quoting the Bible

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May be they need to be locked up to realise it – Pastor Bakare

Obasanjo

Relief, new hope as Returnees from Lybia cart away their bags of rice at The Scoan “Look deep into history of churches in Nigeria, even worldwide for that matter: there had never been a church, nor a pastor, founder or general overseer that had seen their wealth as God’s money or spent it to give lasting solution and relief to the poor in times of dire need as T.B. Joshua has been doing.”

A Professor at the Institute of Foundation Studies, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt who spoke in confidence said Churches of today have no part with the poor though they make their money from the poor.

Monsignor Ukah

Pastor Bakare

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 18 and you are getting richer and God’s people under you are poor, God has not sent you, and your Church is your belly.

Period.”

Weighing the top five pastors indicted in the video, the lawyer said it was wrong to bring T.B. Joshua into that group.

HIS WORDS: “Churches of today are too busy, extremely busy making money via prosperity teachings and wealth creation to bother with healing the sick or setting the captives free. In the early days of the Apostles, the church didn’t have silver or gold; they didn’t thirst for them either, but they had power in the Name of Jesus - as the Beautiful Gate example.

“So, comparing him with pastors running businesses and educational institutions that are not priority in the Apostles’ Creed, (one of them own and operates an airline), T.B. Joshua stands far out.

“He has written fewer books than mega church overseers; his anointed Morning Water, stickers and flags are not profit-driven: they are for signs and wonders as testimonies abound across the globe Soave proven.

“His teachings are simple and prudent and focus majorly on faith, forgiveness, purity, service to one another and love, the altruist kind of love which are very much in evidence in all Scoan’s activities globally.”

Monsignor Ukah again pointed to the vast investments of pastors who are supposed to be servants of God: “By their fruits we have known them. With TBJ, both stakeholders and critics of the pastorate are yet to see or hear of a Scoan College or University and, even though records show that The SCOAN’s multi-

national status has the propensity and capacity to generate enough international passenger fleet to profit a private airline, this humble pastor did not take that advantage.

Our investigation revealed that Scoan’s Emmanuel.TV team are on ground all over the world, doing good not only to the afflicted, the bound, the sick, but the impoverished, people pushed out of circulation from the glare of public view, victims of natural disasters, strife or conflict.

Numbering about 72 (or more), Emmanuel. TV team is drawn from many nations of the world - including seven couples drawn from South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Bahamas - and their mission spans cultures, individuals, communities, nations and continents, reaching out with Christ’s love to a troubled world through diverse humanitarian projects and interventions: they are committed to Christ’s mission of bringing bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, hope to the brokenhearted and a roadmap to the lost.

A glance at their track record shows T.B. Joshua’s $100,000 US dollars donated to the Colombian National Metropolitan Police Force to support their widows, orphans or wounded.

The team also located the Naha community, an indigenous and isolated tribe who live in the Lacandon jungle in Chiapas, Mexico and gave them life changing materials ranging from staple foodstuffs to essential utensils and tools to improve quality of life in the jungle.

From building and equipping school in the heart of Pakistan to provide free quality education aimed at creating a bright future for the less privileged children of all religions in Lahore, Pakistan - to providing hundreds of pairs of winter gear, essential foodstuffs and supplies of firewood to help protect the homeless from hash winter conditions in Haborovski region in far eastern Russia through his Open Heart Homeless Project where more than 150 men and

women are fed and housed every day.

There simply is no space in any publication to chronicle the philanthropic outreach of TBJ’s Emmanuel.TV outreach across the globe.

Above all that, an early beneficiary of T.B. Joshua’s healing miracle, Pa James Adelakun who was part of TBJ’s birthday feast in June, reveals a deeper outreach beyond cash and foods to the poor: “I was blind in August of 1995 when Synagogue was still new. It was there I gained my sight back for free. Now, if you have not been blind before, lame, demon-possessed or locked out of every door or opportunity, favour and denied good health, etc, by witches and wizards, you may never appreciate what it means to be free – without the kind of money one would spend seeking for solution in hospitals and yet not healed or set free.

“T.B. Joshua is not exploiting the people; it is the people who are exploiting him and he has shown that is what God sent him to do.”

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES A top member of the RCCG in charge of CRS in his parish acknowledged that TBJ’s ministry excels far above corporate organisations, NGOs, Churches in sustained corporate social responsibilities.

“In fact, Scoan is unarguably the Centre for Social, Human and Spiritual Responsibilities. Note that the emphasis is on “sustained” and it is important to note also that it is a centre where citizens from all the nations of the world can walk in and receive attention, hospitality and succour.

“So, the man (T.B. Joshua) is simply a phenomenon. In recorded cases, TBJ would heal in the name of Jesus and give cash to resettle distraught people, not only in his home country Nigeria, but across the nations of the world, even to governments, so you cannot equate him with those prosperity seeking pastors people talk about. It is rare to find two of such people in many generations.”

News 20 NAF commissions electronic shooting range in Bauchi Samuel Luka, Bauchi

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Bauchi state governor, Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar, on Wednesday commissioned the Composite Electronic Shooting range of the 251 Base Groups of the Nigerian Air force in Bauchi state. Governor Abubakar also commissioned an ultra model primary and nursery school and three officers messes constructed at the base.

He commended the sacrifices of the Nigeria Air force at ensuring peace and unity among Nigerians and outside the country.

Abubakar said “The Nigerian Airforce has demonstrated professionalism and discipline in the conduct of its operations.

I have noted with great admiration, the steps been taken by the current leadership of the Airforce to reposition the service into a highly professional one with human capacity building initiatives at the core of its endeavours”. The governor expressed delight that in keeping with the laudable aspiration, the leadership of the Nigerian Airforce deemed it wise to build an electronic range, messes and primary school for its personnel in Bauchi state. He explained that the facilities will go a long way in enhancing the weapon handling skills of its personnel as well as meeting their social and recreational needs.

The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadik Abubakar while in his address said that building the capacity and skills of its personnel in weapon handling has become imperative in view of the various security challenges confronting the nation as it relates to terrorism, militancy and other forms of armed criminality.

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Custom area command generates N1.4bn in six months - Comptroller Saka Bolaji Minna

ÏÏÏThe Niger state area com-

mand of the Nigerian Custom Service generated N1.4billion as revenue at the end of the second quarters of the year, representing 50 percent of the targeted revenue of N2.8billion for the year.

This was disclosed by the Customs area comptroller comprising Niger, Kwara and Kogi states, Mr. Binga Benjamin, when he briefed newsmen in Minna on Wednesday on the activities of the command at the end of the first half of the year, He said despite the activities of smug-

glers, the command will not only meet its targeted revenue for the year, it will exceed it.

Mr. Binda also said that in the area of anti-smuggling, the command has made a total of 42 seizures, which comprises of rice, used vehicles, textiles materials and other general goods with a total duty paid value of N57.3million Binda pointed out that since his assumption in office in April this year, the command has intensified the war against smuggling which paid off in the number of seizures made so far, especially in the last three months.

According to him, “we have continued to work hard in re-

ducing the incident of smuggling in the command especially rice”, stressing that as at June, the command has made a total seizure of 2,431 of 50kg bags of Rice with duty paid value of N20,551,549.55.

The command also within the period intercepted two 20ft containers along Tegina in Rafi local government area of the state loaded with 1,421 numbers of 25 litres jerry can of vegetable oil with a duty paid value of N17,052,000.00.

He said the command has been directed to hand over all the seized items to Internally Displaced People (IDP) in Borno state, adding that “the command is only waiting for

Osinbajo directs Buratai, Sadique Abubakar to relocate to Maiduguri ÏÏÏActing

L-R: Deputy Commissioner of Police, Osun State Command, Aminu Koji; Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola and former Inspector-General of Police, Dr. Solomon Arase, during the Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC), National Conference in Osogbo, Osun… on Wednesday.

NDDC chairman charges monarchs on N’Delta master plan

Amaka Agbu, Port Harcourt

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chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Senator Victor NdomaEgba, SAN, has underlined the importance of traditional rulers in the quest to develop a new master plan for the Niger Delta region.

Senator Ndoma-Egba spoke when the South-South Monarchs Forum led by King Edmund Daukoru, the Amayanabo of Nembe, paid him a courtesy visit at the NDDC headquarters in Port Harcourt on Wednesday.

The NDDC Chairman regretted that the Niger Delta Regional Development Master Plan was abandoned shortly after it was launched in 2007.

“We must return to the Master Plan.

the military authority for evacuation of the items” He stated that the successes so far recorded in its anti smuggling operations in the command were made possible by the robust network of intelligence the Command has deployed, in addition to the handwork and commitment displayed by officers and men.

The Comptroller maintained that despite the problems of logistics facing the command, it will not relent in its efforts until the menace of smuggling of rice, new/used vehicles and other unwholesome goods is rid off.

We have to agree on whether to terminate the current Master Plan, update or upgrade it. And we need the traditional institution to play a role in this process,” he said.

Senator Ndoma-Egba stated that a comprehensive plan was necessary for any meaningful development to be made as no state could make progress without a plan.

He said that the NDDC was guided by the need for transparency and accountability, stating that while the Commission should insist on getting its dues, it must also be accountable to earn the trust of its stakeholders.

Senator Ndoma-Egba stated that NDDC must not be seen to be in competition with the state governments but should rather collaborate with stakeholders to add more value

to our communities.

According to the Chairman, the traditional institution played a key role in the relative peace now existing the Niger Delta. He added: “There is no doubt that the SouthSouth region has to speak with one voice and that is why engagements of this nature are very important because it will help us find a common ground. It will help us synchronize our thoughts and our ideas so that whenever and wherever we speak as leaders of the South-South, whether as traditional rulers or political leaders, we speak with one voice.

“I believe that the reality on ground is that the traditional institution plays a role in ensuring peace, mobilizing for development, providing a forum for dialogue, or

providing a framework for furthering an action with others in this country. If we recognize that as a reality, then there is need to give that reality a legal backing because you cannot play that role in a legal vacuum. So, I support a constitutional role for our traditional institution.”

The leader of the South-South monarchs, Dr Daukoru, said that NDDC had come of age, noting that the landscape of the Niger Delta was dotted with “fruits from the Commission.”

He declared: “We are ready to partner with NDDC and give all the encouragement you need and we are hoping that we will see a bit more of you in terms of outreach through us to the grassroots people. We also want to act as a channel and an advocacy institution for you so that through us, you will be able to communicate to the people whatever opportunities are open that they can participate more effectively.”

President Yemi Osinbajo has directed the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Gen Tukur Buratai and Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Sadique Abubakar and other military personnel to relocate to Maiduguri with immediate effect.

Osinbajo was said to have given the directive after an emergency meeting with the service chiefs.

The Acting President had met behind closed doors with service chiefs over terrorists’ attacks in some parts of the country, especially in Borno State.

Several people have been reportedly killed in recent renewed attacks by remnants of Boko Haram sect in the North East.

Osinbajo was also said to have ordered the movement of troops back to the command centre in order to check the onslaught of the terrorists.

Speaking with the State House correspondents at the end of the meeting, the Minister of Defence, Mansur DanAli, said: “We just finished a meeting with the Acting President and the three Service Chiefs. We agreed that they should move back to the Command Centre again and see what is happening there.

“We have also agreed that we should get more surveillance devices, cameras that would be able to see distant attackers coming to the position of our troops.

“So also the period of the raining season is a difficult moment for us. We cannot dominate the environment like we did during the dry season. But effort is geared towards regaining back our areas and we assure that all these ambushes that are happening regularly would be stopped.”

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THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. BALOGUN IFAROTIMI AYINLA 2. OLORI MORUFF ABIODUN 3. BALOGUN ADIJAT

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1 TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER AND TO HELP ONE ANOTHER 2 TO PROMOTE THE SPIRIT OF HAMONY AND UNITY AMONG IGALA PEOPLE 3 TO TURNE THE DREAM OF CLUB TO REALITY 4 TO PROMOTE THE ECONOMIC WELFARE AND SOCIAL LEAVING OF EVERY MEMBER 5 TO PROMOTE THE CULTURE AND THE TRADITION OF IGALA KINGDOM BOTH HOME AND ABROAD 6 TO INCREASE THE LEVEL OF OUR SOCIAL UNDERSTANDING AND CIVIL RIGHT 6 TO CREATE AN ENABLING ENVIRONMENT FOR MEMBER TO KNOW EVERY PART AND PASSLES OF BROTHER AND SISTER IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

MRS EGBUEDIKE BENITA CHIAMAKA

ODUSANYA-ODOFIN OLUBUNMI MARIAM

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OKEKE BENITA CHIAMAKA NOW I WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS EGBUEDIKE BENITA CHIAMAKA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ODUSANYA OLUBUNMI IYABODE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ODUSANYA-ODOFIN OLUBUNMI MARIAM. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID AUTHORITY CONCERN AND GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE

CORRECTION OF NAME

OKORIE FRANCISCA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OBINNA CHIMEZIE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKOLI OBINNA, AND THAT MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 23RD NOVEMBER, 1987.

ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC, PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

Public Notice

SIGNED: BARR. NDUBISI OFOR

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED : SECRETARY

TECHSTART DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION

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I formerly known and addressed as BLESSING ANI now wish to be known called and addressed as OKORIE FRANCISCA. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

4. ODUMRE JIMOH 5. HUNKOKO SEVEHO 6. OLOGUNDUDU MUIDEEN ORISADAMILARE

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF CULTURAL AND TRADITIONAL RELIGION WORSHIPER 2. TO COME TOGETHER AS ASSOCIATION AND WORK FOR THE PROGRESS OF THE CULTURAL AND TRADITIONAL RELIGION DEVELOPMENT. 3. TO PROMOTE FREE EXCHANGE OF BETWEEN THE ASSOCIATION AND SIMILAR ASSOCIATION. 4. TO COMFORT AND GIVE SUPPORT TO PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM DIFFERENT PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED DISABLED FAMILY COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT. 5. TO PROVIDE ASSISTANT TO ALL MEMBERS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGERS 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. MR. ADEBAYO AGBOOLA FEMI 2. MR. AKINGBADE AYODELE MATHEW 3. MR. ADENIREGUN ADESOJI KEHINDE 4. MR. KAYODE EZEKIEL ADELEKE 5. MISS. OLUFAYO OLUWATOBILOBA

6. MRS. FARINDE RHODA 7. PST ORUNESAJO SAMUEL 8. MR. OBIENE SOLOMON JOSEPH 9. MR. OKUNRINMETA EMMANUEL

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO ENCOURAGE CHRISTIAN HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGERS TO SPEAK ABOUT CHRIST AND LIVE OUT THE GOSPEL IN THE HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PROFESSION. 2. TO CATER FOR THE WELFARE CHRISTIAN HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGERS 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 FROMTHE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

22 Public Notice DR. YUSUF BALA USMAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION 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. AISHATU BALA USMAN 2. ATTAHIRU BALA USMAN 3. ZAINAB USMAN SADA 4. HALIMA DAGGASH 5. MARIYA BALA USMAN 6. HADIZA BALA USMAN 7. HASSAN BALA USMAN 8. HUSSAINI BALA USMAN 9. ABDULLAHI MOHAMMED LAMIDO.

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 FROMTHE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

This is to confirm and certify that Ogunrinde Akanbi and Ogunrinde Ebenezer is one and same person but now wish to known and addressed as Ogunrinde Ebenezer Akanbi. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

CORRECTION OF NAME

This is to inform the general public that my name was mistakenly written on as AINA OLOGUN IDRIS on my BVN and account number instead of AINA-OLOGUN IDRIS SUNDAY. That my correct name is AINA-OLOGUN IDRIS SUNDAY. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

AGBOOLA FRANCIS GBENGA

CHUKWUNYERE NWIHIM FOUNDATION 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. SIR OBINNA RICHMOND NWIHIM -CHAIRMAN 2. LADY IFEOMA KATHERINE CHUKWUNYERE 3. BARTHOLOMEW IFEMEJE -SECRETARY 4. REV. CANON SIMEON UCHENNA IWUEKE 5. MRS GRACE EKPERI

AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO CARTER FOR THE EDUCATION NEEDS OF THE LESS PRIVILEGED

OGUNRINDE EBENEZER AKANBI

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JAMES NGOZI This is to state that my name was wrongly written on some of my documents as James Ngozi Chidinma instead of James Ngozi. That my correct name is JAMES NGOZI. That I was born on the 26th July 1955 .General public take note.

AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO CATER FOR THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC WELLBEING OF THE MASSES 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 FROMTHE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED: BARR. BARTHOLOMEW IFEMEJE 08055954741

ONYEUKWU ANN ADA

I formerly known and addressed as Joy Obi Rita now wish to be known called and addressed as Onyeukwu Ann Ada . All former documents remain valid. That I was born on the 23th November 1971.

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OBIOHA GRACE

I formerly known and addressed as Miss Damilola Abigeal Johnson now wish to be known called and addressed as Mrs Damilola Abigeal 0ladunjoye. All former documents remain valid. General public and NYSC take note.

I formerly known and addressed as Uzoma Onukwume Grace now wish to be known called and addressed as Obioha Grace.

All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

GLORIA ALEX

LUCKY BELENDIGI MESSIAH

I formerly known and addressed as HASSAN AWERO WASIRAT now wish to be known called and addressed as HASSAN NOSIRAT OMOLOLA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as IFEOMA GLORIA EGEONU, now wish to be known and addressed as GLORIA ALEX. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as BITEBOYE EBIAMA, now wish to be known and addressed as LUCKY BELENDIGI MESSIAH. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

MRS. EWAUMA NNAJI EKPE

I, formerly known and addressed as EMMANUEL CHRISTOPHER OSAGIE now wish to be known and addressed as OSAGIE CHRISTOPHER. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I formerly called and addressed as MISS. EWAUMA ELIAH NNAJI Now wish to be known called and addressed as MRS. EWAUMA NNAJI EKPE. All former documents remain valid. The general public please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as AKUNNA ANTHONY IKENNA now wish to be known as AKUNNA IKENNA ANTHONY HEZEKIAH .All former documents remain valid. EMBASSIES, BANKS and General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as MISS ALIU NIMOTALAHI TAIWO, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS ONAKADE NIMOTALAHI TAIWO. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

ASIRIUWA STANLEY SUNDAY

DOSUNMU TOLANI TAWAKALITU

UMEJIKE LUCY

EKE FRANK

AKUNNA IKENNA ANTHONY HEZEKIAH

Formerly known and addressed as ASIRIUWA STANLEY OSARENIEN, now wish to be known and addressed as ASIRIUWA STANLEY SUNDAY. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as IDOWU TAWAKALITU OLUWASEYI, now wish to be known and addressed as DOSUNMU TOLANI TAWAKALITU. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as OKONKWO LUCY, now wish to be known and addressed as UMEJIKE LUCY All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

MURITALA ADEBAYO AYINLA

MR. ACHONWA MICHAEL ANYANWU

MRS. ACHONWA VIVIAN CHISOM Formerly known and addressed as MISS. IWU VIVIAN CHISOM, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. ACHONWA VIVIAN CHISOM. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

AS DORCAS IYERE

Formerly known and addressed as MR. MBAGWU MICHAEL ANYANWU, now wish to be known and addressed as MR. ACHONWA MICHAEL ANYANWU. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

CORRECTION OF NAME

ADEKUNLE FAUSAT AJOKE

My name was wrongly written as PATRICK GIFT MUMMY instead of PATRICK GIFT PEACE, My correct name is PATRICK GIFT PEACE as written on my international passport. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

This is to confirm that I, BELLO FAUSAT AJOKE is also known as ADEKUNLE FAUSAT AJOKE. All documents bearing the above names are mine and remain valid. General public take note.

BAKARE AMINAT TEMITOPE

ONAKOYA AYOADE TAWAKALITU

CHANGE OF NAME/ CORRECTION OF NAME

Formerly known and addressed as SUBAIR AJOKE HABEEBAT, now wish to be known and addressed as OWOLABI AJOKE ABIBAT. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

FOLARANMI BARUWA ADIJAT ADEJOKE

Formerly known and addressed as AKODU AMINAT TEMITOPE, now wish to be known and addressed as BAKARE AMINAT TEMITOPE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as AYOADE TAWAKILITU DAMILOLA IYABO, now wish to be known and addressed as ONAKOYA AYOADE TAWAKALITU. All former documents remain valid.

UNION BANK and general public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as OLUBAJO ADIJAT ADEJOKE, now wish to be known and addressed as FOLARANMI BARUWA ADIJAT ADEJOKE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

KOLAWOLE AYODELE ABDULFATAI

MRS KUYE OMOBOLANLE OLASUBOMI

MRS BENSON AKUCHINYERE SUSAN

OYENEKAN FAUSAT ATINUKE MORENIKEJI Formerly known and addressed as DUROJAYE FAUSAT ATINUKE MORENIKEJI, now wish to be known and addressed as OYENEKAN FAUSAT ATINUKE MORENIKEJI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

MRS DAMILOLA ABIGEAL 0LADUNJOYE

OSAGIE CHRISTOPHER

Formerly known and addressed as MURITALA AKANJI AYINLA, now wish to be known and addressed as MURITALA ADEBAYO AYINLA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

BADOM PATIENCE BARIZAA I formerly known and addressed as VOCATIONAL ICUREMOTE NAFOWA now wish to be known called and addressed as BADOM PATIENCE BARIZAA. All former documents remain valid. That I was born on the 25th october, 1993. General public take note.

HASSAN NOSIRAT OMOLOLA

Formerly known and addressed as AFANU FRANCIS GBENGA, now wish to be known and addressed as AGBOOLA FRANCIS GBENGA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as Obadimeji Ayodele Fatai now wish to be known and addressed as Kolawole Ayodele Abdulfatai.

All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

ONYENUSI CHIDIMMA PATIENCE I formerly known and addressed as ONYEAUNSI PATIENCE CHIDINMA now wish to be known called and addressed as ONYENUSI CHIDIMMA PATIENCE. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as DORCAS FOLUKE OMONKHEGBE, now wish to be known and addressed as AS DORCAS IYERE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

CHANGE OF NAME/ CORRECTION OF DATE OF BIRTH

Formerly known and addressed as PELUMI DORCAS JESULOBA, now wish to be known and addressed as RACHEAL ABOSEDE JESULOBA. Wrong date of birth is April 28th 2002, the correct date of birth is December 12th 1973, All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

MRS ONAKADE NIMOTALAHI TAIWO

Formerly known and addressed as EKE FRANKLIN, now wish to be known and addressed as EKE FRANK. All former documents remain valid.

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MEMUNATU SILLAH

Formerly known and addressed as JESSICA SILAH, now wish to be known and addressed as MEMUNATU SILLAH. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

CORECTION OF NAME My name was wrongly written in my account as MICHEAL CHUKWUKA EZIUZO, instead of EZIUZO FRANCIS OGOCHUKWU. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

MRS AMEH KEMISOLA ADEJOKE

OMOLARA MERCY AYEOKERE

Formerly known and addressed as OLuwakemi Adejoke, now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs Ameh Kemisola Adejoke. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as OMOLARA MERCY Amosu, now wish to be known and addressed as OMOLARA MERCY AYEOKERE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

OSINBOWALE VERLERIE NWAKAEGO

ELISHA YUNANA

Formerly known and addressed as OLU-OBOH VERLERIE NWAKAEGO and OLU VERLERIE NWAKAEGO, now wish to be known and addressed as OSINBOWALE VERLERIE NWAKAEGO. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as ISHAYA GEOFFERY, now wish to be known and addressed as ELISHA YUNANA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

ODEAR MICHAEL

ADAMSON MONISOLA ADUNNI

LAWAL AISHATU MUHAMMED

Formerly known and addressed as UZOEGBU GODWIN ODIHA, now wish to be known and addressed as ODEAR MICHAEL. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as COKER MONISOLA ADUNNI, now wish to be known and addressed as ADAMSON MONISOLA ADUNNI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as Aishatu Ahmed now wish to be known and addressed as Lawal Aishatu Muhammed. My correct date of birth is 15th October 1965. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

MRS ENEYI MILLICENT OWOUPELE

AYEWA OGHENEKEVWE GIFT Formerly known and addressed as AYEWA OGHENEKEVWE, now wish to be known and addressed as AYEWA OGHENEKEVWE GIFT. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

OGUNFUYE OLUWAKEMI ELIZABETH Formerly known and addressed as FASHOLA OLUWAKEMI ELIZABETH, now wish to be known and addressed as OGUNFUYE OLUWAKEMI ELIZABETH. All former documents remain valid.

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I, formerly known and addressed as Miss ADEBANJO OMOBOLANLE OLASUBOMI now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs KUYE OMOBOLANLE OLASUBOMI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as Miss AGOMOH AKUCHINYERE SUSAN now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs BENSON AKUCHINYERE SUSAN. All former documents remain valid.

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I, Formerly known and addressed as Miss Eneyi Millicent Porbeni now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs Eneyi Millicent Owoupele . All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

AJAYI OLUBUNMI BOLANLE

ODUNWOLE OLUBUKOLA RHODA

AMAECHI UCHECHI GRACE

MRS NNEKA MARYANN OKECHUKWU

OLAWEPO TEMITOPE VICTORIA

Formerly known and addressed as SOMADE OLUBUNMI BOLANLE, now wish to be known and addressed as AJAYI OLUBUNMI BOLANLE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as AYEGBAYO OLUBUKOLA RHODA, now wish to be known and addressed as ODUNWOLE OLUBUKOLA RHODA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as PETER UCHECHI GRACE, now wish to be known and addressed as AMAECHI UCHECHI GRACE. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as MISS NNEKA MARYANN IFEDIATA, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS NNEKA MARYANN OKECHUKWU. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as OMOTAYO TEMITOPE VICTORIA, now wish to be known and addressed as OLAWEPO TEMITOPE VICTORIA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

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ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL FOOD VENDORS OF NIGERIA

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CAMPBELL STREET MEDICAL FOUNDATION

This is to notify the public that the above - named Association has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission, Abuja for registration under Part “C” of the Company and Allied Matters Act, Cap. 59, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.

This is to inform the General Public that the above named FOUNDATION has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Acts, 1990

The Trustees are: (1) Mrs Williams Florence Abike (2) Mrs Opabunmi Esther (3) Mrs Adefi Comfort Mope Olawale (4) Mrs Akinsipe Felicia Titilayo (5) Mrs Oyelade Kehinde Iyabo Lawal (6) Mrs Oyewole Rachael

THE TRUSTEE ARE:(1) DR. KAMORU ADISA OMOTOSHO ( 2) DR. CHRISTOPHER CHUKWUEMEKA OTIGBUO (3) DR OLUWOLE MUYIWA ABIODUN- WRIGHT

The Aims and Objectives of the Association are: (1) To provide nutritious meals to school children at affordable price.

(2) To provide balanced diet to school children at affordable price (3) To promote amicable relationship among school food vendors in Nigeria.

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

Signed: R. Adelere Eyinade

CHRIST REDEMPTION LOVE AND POWER MISSION INT’L THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED CLUB HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION,ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART ‘C’ OFCOMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT,1990.

The Board of Trustees: (1.) Rev.(Dr.) AYOOLA Victor Oladiran.

(2) Rev.(Mrs) Ayoola Esther Olatoyosi (3) Rev. Odunlami John Olorunsogo.

(4)Bro. Olaogun Abiodun Akanni (5) Minister Ayoola Victor Ayobami AIMS AND OBJECTIVES (1)To teach and preach the undiluted Word of God in all nations (2) To train leaders for the end-time mission and plant Churches in rural and urban areas worldwide.

Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General, plot 420, Tigris Crescent, off Aguiyi Ironsi street, Maitaima, Abuja within 28 days of this publication Signed: Secretary

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE :(1) To promote improvement in medical education and the quality of medical practice in Nigeria (2) To consider and express its views on issues affecting medical education and the medical profession (3) To promote the interaction of membres of the foundation Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama Abuja within 28 days from the date of this publication SIGNED BY: BARR. JOHN EDET BASSEY. TEL.0803-308-3806

SALAMI WASIU

THAT MY NAME WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN ON MY NATIONAL IDENTITY CARD AS AJOSE ABEOO INSTEAD OF ELEGBEDE AMUDAT OMODELE. THAT MY CORRECT NAME IS ELEGBEDE AMUDAT OMODELE. UNION BANK RELEVANT INSTITUTIONS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, formerly known and addressed as DIVINE CHIKWADO OGOKE, now wish to be known, called and addressed as DIVINE CHIKWADO VICTOR. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

MRS. TEMITOPE TITILAYO GANIYU

OYENIRAN IDOWU TEMITOPE

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS TEMITOPE TITILAYO TUNDE-DAVID, now wish to be known, called and addressed as MRS. TEMITOPE TITILAYO GANIYU. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as, OYENIRAN TEMITOPE now wish to be known and addressed as, OYENIRAN IDOWU TEMITOPE. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

CHUKWU ROSE ONYEMAECHI

MRS. ANI AMARACHI JOY I, formerly known and addressed as, MISS. IFEOMA A. NGWAKWE, now wish to be known and addressed as, MRS. ANI AMARACHI JOY. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

ENGR. TAMUNOYE NELSON HAMILTON BOB-MANUEL

I, formerly known and addressed as, IBIENE BRUME REGHA, now wish to be known and addressed as, IBIENE BRUME-REGHA. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as, ENGR. OYOTAYE NELSON HAMILTON BOB-MANUEL, now wish to be known and addressed as, ENGR. TAMUNOYE NELSON HAMILTON BOB-MANUEL. All former documents remain valid.

General public should take note.

AKPOWENE OVWIGWEN

NCHONU UDOKA MARYCYTHIA

I, formerly known and addressed as, TEJIRI JESSY BRUME REGHA, now wish to be known and addressed as, TEJIRI JESSY BRUME-REGHA. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

I, OKORIE OGBONNA, wish to correct my name which was wrongly written as, OGBONNA OKPO OKORIE, OGBONNAYA IGBOKO, and OGBONNA OKPO, instead of, OKORIE OGBONNA, in my bank account details. I now wish to be known and addressed as, OKORIE OGBONNA. All former documents remain valid.

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I wish to correct my name which is wrongly spelt as AKPOWEN OVWIGWEN. Now wish to be known called and addressed as AKPOWENE OVWIGWEN. Ecobank and general public please take note. Former documents remain valid.

I formerly have known and addressed as NCHONU UDOKA CYNTHIA, Now wish to be known and addressed as NCHONU UDOKA MARYCYTHIA. All former documents remain valid general public should please take note.

OKWUDILI NKIRUKA OBINWANNE VERA

CONFIRMATION OF NAMES

MRS NJOKU RACHAEL NKECHI

MRS SADARE OLUWADAMILOLA AMINAT

Formerly known and addressed as OKERE NKIRUKA OBINWANNE and OKONGWU NKIRUKA OBINWANNE VERA, now wish to be known and addressed as OKWUDILI NKIRUKA OBINWANNE VERA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

EDUN JANET BOLANLE

I, formerly known and addressed as ALLI GANIYAT, now wish to be known and addressed as EDUN JANET BOLANLE. All former documents remain valid general public take note

This is to notify the public that AKOLADE TEMITAYO OWOLABI DAVIDS and SALISU AKOLADE DAVIDrefers to one and same person. Any documents bearing those names should be treated as same. All former documents remain valid. The general public please take note.

DOMINIC OKEY NKWONTA

I, formerly known and addressed as JANET PAUL ENEJOR, now wish to be known, called and addressed as JANET ENEJOR. All former documents remain valid.

General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

IBIENE BRUME-REGHA

CORRECTION OF NAME

SIGNED: EKPEMOGU GODWIN OJINANUSI - CLERGY/CHAIRMAN

DIVINE CHIKWADO VICTOR

MRS. PANAMA AGOFURE OGHENETEGA

TEJIRI JESSY BRUME-REGHA

Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, plot 420 Tigris Crescent, off Aguiyi Ironsi street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

CORRECTION OF NAME

I, formerly known and addressed as, FELIX ROSE ONYEMAECHI, now wish to be known and addressed as, CHUKWU ROSE ONYEMAECHI. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as, MRS. GRACE NNENNAYA OYOTAYE BOB-MANUEL, now wish to be known and addressed as, MRS. GRACE NMESOMACHI BOBMANUEL. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST TO THE PEOPLE 2. TO RESCUE THE LOSS SOULS THROUGH PRAYERS AND PROPHETIC WORD OF GOD. 3. TO UPHOLD THE BELIEFS OF HOSSANNA FREEDOM GATE ASSEMBLY INT’L.

JANET ENEJOR

I formerly known and address as IDENYI NWEDE VIVIAN now wish to be known and addressed as NWOGBAGA VIVIAN EJIMA. All former document remain valid.

General public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as, MISS. OGHENETEGA IRIKETOMA, now wish to be known and addressed as, MRS. PANAMA AGOFURE OGHENETEGA. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. EKPEMOGU GODWIN OJINANUSI - CLERGY/CHAIRMAN 2. OKORONKWO IKECHUKWU NGOZI - CLERGY/SECRETARY 3. MRS. EKPEMOGU HARMONY NNENNA CHINEDUM - CLERGY 4. OKORONKWO UGWUNWA IKECHUKWU - CLERGY 5. CHINDA CHARITY - CLERGY 6. MENE FRIDAY NWIGBOR - CLERGY

I formerly known called and I’m addressed as MISS ONIKETU HAFSAT OLABISI, now wish to be known called and addressed as MRS. SEKONI HAFSAT OLABISI. All former documents remain valid. General public, please take note.

SHITTA-BEY ADELAYO CHARLES I fomerly known and address as AKINNAGBE CHARLES OLADIMEJI now wish to be known and address as SHITTABEY ADELAYO CHARLES. All former document remain valid.

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MRS. GRACE NMESOMACHI BOB-MANUEL

NO 15, ODANI ROAD, ELELENWO PORT HARCOURT, RIVERS STATE

This is to inform the general public that the above named has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, Degree No. 1 of 1990.

I formerly known and addressed as PEACE OKEY NKWONTA, now wish to be known called and addressed as DOMINIC OKEY NKWONTA due to my church Baptism and I was born baby on 24/12/1988. All former documents remain valid.

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NWOGBAGA VIVIAN EJIMA

HOSSANNA FREEDOM GATE ASSEMBLY INT’L

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ONUOHA MARITA CHINYERE I, formerly known and addressed as NWAOKOLO MARITA CHINYERE, now wish to be known, called and addressed as ONUOHA MARITA CHINYERE. All former documents remain valid.

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ASHLEY SUNDAY SEGUNOSHIN

JOSHUA FOLASADE OLAIDE DEBORAH

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PELET CLARA

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CONFIRMATION OF NAME

That on some of my documents, my name appears as NWALOZIE EME LEONARD, while on my Union Bank Account, it appears as ALOZIE LEONARD, while on my BVN, it appears as LEONARD NWALOZIE ALOZIE. And on others, it appears as NWALOZIE LEONARD. That I now wish to be known as LEONARD NWALOZIE ALOZIE. That I am the same person bearing all the names mentioned above. That all former documents bearing these names are mine and remain valid. General public take note.

JAMES BLESSING MLUMUN

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RUNO MICHELLE BRUME-REGHA

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EMUKO TINA VOKE WHITE

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BALOGUN OLANREWAJU VICTOR

MRS. GILLIAN IMADE OLAJIDE

KEVWE FAITH BRUME-REGHA

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DECLEARATION OF NAME I formerly known and addressed as OLAITAN HABIB OLANREWAJU , that am the same person bearing OLAITAN HABIB GANIU. Now wish to be known and addressed as OLAITAN HABIB GANIU. All documents bearing my former name remain valid, general public should please take note.

MAZELI NWAMAKA ANTHONIA

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OLORUNYOMI OLUWAFUNSHO IDAYAT

JOHNSON DOGO

OGWU OLUWATOMISIN OMOWUNMI

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KUNLIRE JONES

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I, formerly known and addressed as KUNLIRE CHARKA JONES, now wish to be known and addressed as KUNLIRE JONES, henceforth.

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CONFIRMATION OF NAMES

This is to confirm that I, OJO OLUWATOYIN REMI is the same person answering OJO OLUWATOYIN DEBORAH, now wish to be known and addressed as OJO OLUWATOYIN REMI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

OWOSENI HAFSAT ADENIKE.

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MRS SARAH JAMES

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OKOYE PATRICK WILFRED

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BELLO SEKINAT BOLANLE

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YUSUF TAWAKALITU NIKE

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LAWAL NURUDEEN AJANI

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MRS. EGODIMMA FRANCISCA IGBOKWE

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AKINTELU FOLAKEMI ADUNNI

AYOBAMI OMOJADESOLA ADEKOYA

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OYELERE DEBORAH OLUDUNKE

I, formerly known and addressed as MODINAT GBEMISOLA INIOLUWA, now wish to be known and addressed as COKER MODINAT INIOLUWA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

FALADE SODIQ DEWALE

OBOH OLUWAKEMI HANNAH

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I, formerly known and addressed as OMODELE OLUWAKEMI HANNAH, now wish to be known and addressed as OBOH OLUWAKEMI HANNAH. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

RASAQ ZUBAIR

OKOSUN OSAGIE BENJAMIN

Formerly known and addressed as RASAQ AYINDE SUBAIR now wish to be known and addressed as RASAQ ZUBAIR. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as BENJAMIN ODION PIUS Date of Birth-16th of June 1990 now wish to be known and addressed as OKOSUN OSAGIE BENJAMIN Date of Birth-1st of February 1991. All former documents remain valid.

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I, formerly known and addressed as OLANIYI OLUWAKEMI IDOWU, now wish to be known and addressed as AKINTELU FOLAKEMI ADUNNI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

MRS FOLASHADE HELEN OLOWU Formerly known and addressed as MISS FOLASHADE HELEN SALAMI now wish to be known and addressed as MRS FOLASHADE HELEN OLOWU. All former documents remain valid.

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ANNE MICHAEL NSE Formerly known and addressed as ANITA MICHAEL now wish to be known and addressed as ANNE MICHAEL NSE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

MMADUABUCHI IKENNA OKONKWO Formerly known and addressed as MMADUABUCHUKWU IKENNA OKONKWO now wish to be known and addressed as MMADUABUCHI IKENNA OKONKWO. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

MOHD MOHD

DANIEL SUNDAY CHINWENDU

OLUWAGBAMILA AYODELE VICTOR

Formerly known and addressed as Mohd Jibrin now wish to be known and addressed as Mohd Mohd.

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Formerly known and addressed as Egbo Sunday Chinwendu now wish to be known and addressed as Daniel Sunday Chinwendu.

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I formerly known and addressed as Fagbamila Idowu Ayodele, now wish to be known and addressed as Oluwagbamila Ayodele Victor.

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ALADE BILIKISU DESOLA

ADAMS AFUSAT ABISOLA I formerly known as Adetona Afusat Abisola wish to be known and addressed as Adams Afusat Abisola. All former documents remain valid, general public please note.

ODEMWINGIE OSAGIE NESTA I Formerly known and addressed as Odemwingie Osagie Nester now wish to be known, called and addressed as Odemwingie Osagie Nesta. All documents and certificates bearing my former names remain valid Banks, Immigrations, Relevant Authorities and the General public Please take note.

NWOKORIE NDIDIAMAKA

SULAIMON ADEKUNLE EYINFUNJOWO

ATOBAJAIYE A. RUQAYAT - OMOLARA

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ADDITION OF NAME

I formerly known as NWOKORIE NDIDIAMAKA THERESA wish to be known and addressed as NWOKORIE NDIDIAMAKA . All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

I formerly known as Sulaimon Eyinfunjowo Azeez wish to be known and addressed as Sulaimon Adekunle Eyinfunjowo. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

That I SULAIMON SAHEED OLÁTUNJI my name was formerly written as SAHEED OLATUNJI want to add ‘’SULAIMON’’ wish to be known and addressed as SULAIMON SAHEED OLÁTUNJI. All Documents /Credentials bearing these names remain valid, general public please take note.

ABODUNRIN MUTIAT BOLANLE

ODIONYE UGOCHUKWU SUNDAY I formerly known as OKAFOR AKACHUKWU STEPHEN wish to be known and addressed as ODIONYE UGOCHUKWU SUNDAY. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

SAFIRIYU - SULIAT I formerly known as QUADRI IYABO SULIAT wish to be known and addressed as SAFIRIYU - SULIAT. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as FRIDAY OKOH STEPHEN now wish to be known and addressed as FRIDAY OKOH NNAONA. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

OLUSOLA BABATUNDE BAMIDELE I formerly known and addressed as OLUSOLA BABATUNDE OKANLAWON BAMIDELE now wish to be known and addressed as OLUSOLA BABATUNDE BAMIDELE .All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as ADEBISI ADENIKE FAUSAT now wish to be known and addressed as OSHIKOYA ADENIKE FAUSAT .All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

FRIDAY OKOH NNAONA

I, formerly known and addressed as RAINAT ASANI OBIDINA, now wish to be known and addressed as ABDULLAHI RAINAT. All former documents remain valid.

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COKER MODINAT INIOLUWA

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I Formerly known and addressed as MISS DOWOLE OMOWUMI AYODEJI now wish to be known, called and addressed as MRS AKINTADE OMOWUMI AYODEJI All documents and certificates bearing my former names remain valid Banks, Immigrations, Relevant Authorities and the General public Please take note.

I formerly known as BOLANLE OLAYIWOLA MUTIAT wish to be known and addressed as ABODUNRIN MUTIAT BOLANLE. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

ABDULLAHI RAINAT

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CONFIRMATION OF NAME

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

In some of my documents my name was written as SHUAIB BILIKIS MONISOLA While in some other ones it appears as SHUAIB BILIKIS. The names refer to the same person .All documents bearing all the names remain valid.

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In some of my documents my name was written as ADEUSI BRIDGET OBEMIRORO While in some other ones it appears as BIVBERE-ADEUSI BRIDGET OBEMIRORO. The names refer to the same person.I was born on 31/01/1990 .All documents bearing all the names remain valid.

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ANUSIONWU BARTHOLOMEW CHINEDU

ALKASIMU BINI IBRAHIM

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I, formerly known and addressed as IBRAHIM ALIKASIMU ABDULLAHI SARIKI, now wish to be known and addressed as ALKASIMU BINI IBRAHIM. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.

MRS UGWUEGBE BLESSING ONYINYE

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CORRECTION OF NAME

I formerly known as Bello Bilikisu Desola wish to be known and addressed as Alade Bilikisu Desola. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

I formerly known as IWE ADA ONYINYECHI wish to be known and addressed as IWE ADA CHIDINMA. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

MRS. SOLIU AWAU I formerly known as MISS BALOGUN AWAU IYABO wish to be known and addressed as MRS. SOLIU AWAU. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

AKINSEMOYIN BASIRAT IBUKUNOLUWA

UWAEZUOKE ADERONKE OLUWAFUNMILAYO

IWE ADA CHIDINMA

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OGBEBOR NGOZI AUGUSTINA

BABAJIDE OLUSEGUN SAMSON

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I formerly known and addressed as OLUSEGUN BABATUNDE now wish to be known and addressed as BABAJIDE OLUSEGUN SAMSON. My date of birth is 13/09/1983 .All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

CORRECTION OF NAME

REMOVAL OF NAME

In some of my documents my name was wrongly written as AKINSUNMADE JAMES KOLAWOLE instead of AKINSUNMADE JONES KOLAWOLE . My date of birth is 15/07/1955 not 15/09/1955.All former documents remain valid.

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In some of my documents my name was wrongly written as O’MAILEY ERIC ALEXANDER DONARD instead of O’MAILEY ERIC ALEXANDER DONALD O’MAILEY ERIC ALEXANDER DONARDO’MAILEY ERIC ALEXANDER DONARDO’MAILEY ERIC ALEXANDER DONARD O’MAILEY ERIC ALEXANDER DONAR O’MAILEY ERIC ALEXANDER D. O’MAILEY ERIC ALEXANDER DONAR O’MAILEY ERIC ALEXANDER DONARD All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

ANUMBA EBELE CHINELO

MRS OGBODO UCHENNA UGOMMA

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

I, formerly known and addressed MISS EJIM UCHE UGOMMA,now wish to be known and addressed as MRS OGBODO UCHENNA UGOMMA. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

In some of my documents my name was written as DAVID SAMUEL GRACE and I wish to remove DAVID Now I wish to be known and addressed as SAMUEL GRACE.All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

FRANK PERFECT CHIBUZO DANIEL

I, formerly known and addressed as FRANK DANIEL CHIBUZO,now wish to be known and addressed as FRANK PERFECT CHIBUZO DANIEL. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

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Abia NLC assures workers over Paris refund Sunday Nwakanma Umuahia

Highchief Babatunde Babalola Shabi after his installation as Asiwaju of Kirikiri land, Lagos.

CPC seeks partnership with CSOs to protect consumers interest Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

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The Director General of Consumer Protection Council (CPC), Babatunde Irukera, has canvassed for mutual trust between Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and the Council for a healthier relationship in the interest of Nigerian consumers.

Irukera, lauded the clamour for more partnership between the Council and CSOs, saying that no government anywhere in the world can single-handedly protect its citizens against exploitation.

He made the assertions on Thursday at the headquarters of the Council while receiving members of the Coalition of Civil Society Organisations on consumer protection, led

by Omoluabi Bode Adeyemi, on a courtesy visit.

While acknowledging

the positive role of civil societies in the development of the country, he said that for more entrenched progress to be achieved there must be mutual trust and confidence in the ability of each party in the relationship between government and civil societies.

According to him, “it is a very important thing that civil societies recognise that there is a split at a certain point and the fine split is when you are talking of a place like the Consumer Protection Council, and we are holding each other accountable, not based on the adversarial context but more on a partnership level”.

He emphasised that “it is important because what will happen is that if we do not have mutual trust and confidence on how we do our work, you will succeed to a certain extent and we will suc-

ceed to a certain extent too, because there will be people who will say that we have done well and there will be others, who will credit civil societies for being the conscience of the society.

“But there will be a point that we could both reach, that we do not reach. That point that we could reach but do not reach will not affect your resume or your credentials, neither will it affect ours, but the real people who will be affected is the society itself ”, he stated On the clamour for more partnership, the director general asserted that “there’s nowhere in the world where government is the only one that has ever succeeded in protecting its people” noting that “government improves every time because civil society holds it accountable”.

Irukera assured that the Council would be will-

ing to work with organisations and civil societies to increase consumer education with the aim of “letting people really know what their rights are and then the harvesting of feedback”.

He assured the group that “whatever credibility and statutory mandate that the Consumer Protection Council needs to support your organisation, to access the type of support that is required for you to assist us to percolate sensitisation and consumer awareness all the way down to the ground, I want to bring that to the table”.

In a related development, the DG also received two other non-governmental organisations, the Save the Consumers Initiative and the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), which also paid courtesy calls on him.

NEPP moves to build structures, calls on women to join politics ‘Tosin Ajuwon, Akure

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Nigeria women have been challenged to wake up and join the political struggle to enable them occupy positions of authority in the scheme of things in the country.

The Ondo state Chairperson of the Nigeria Elements Progressive Party (NEPP), Mrs. Ibitoye Olusola threw the challenge at the maiden

state Congress of the party held at the party Secretariat in Akure, the Ondo state capital on Thursday.

At the Congress supervised by the officials of the INEC and the security agents, Olusola who was former acting chairperson of the party emerged the substantive chairperson alongside other state executive members.

Other state executive members elected by the delegates across the 18 local government areas of the state include, Chief Adeyemo Balogun, deputy chairman; Pastor Simire David, state Secretary; Mrs Agboola Makanjuola, state Woman Leader; Mr Olaoye Oparanti, state Youth Leader; Mr. Ojo Sunday, state Treasurer, Chief Okunuwa Yakub,

state Financial Secretary; Mr. Adara Segun, state PRO and Mrs Ademakin, state welfare officer.

Olusola explained that gone are the days when women would be taking the back seats when it comes to active politics in the country.

She added that as prudent managers of resources, women are better positioned to perfectly run the affairs of the nation at all levels of governance.

The Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Abia state chapter, Comrade Uchenna Obigwe yesterday, assured Abia workers that government had dedicated the entire tranche of the recently released Paris club refunds for payment of salaries and pension arrears alone, even as he expressed his worry that the money would not be enough for that purposes The State Chairman revealed this to the Statesman newspapers in his office in Umuahia while reacting over the Paris club refunds and the state of Abia workers Speaking with newsmen in his office, he noted that the committee constituted by the state government with Labour inclusive had met and had taken note of the actual indebtedness of salaries and pension arrears in order to guide the committee as to know how far the money can go before disbursement.

The Labour leader disclosed that before now, the state government told workers that they were expecting the sum of about N13 to N14 billion as part of Abia share from the Paris club refunds and that it would be used to clear all outstanding arrears but unfortunately what came into the state coffers was 5. 7 billion Naira making it practically impossible for government to keep it promises of clearing all arrears.

Comrade Obigwe appreciated the federal government for not attaching the second tranche of the money to any infrastructural projects while he urged both the state and federal government to ameliorate the sufferings of workers particularly Abia workers where he said both salaries and pension arrears are in a high magnitude.

He lauded the resilient of Abia workers added that despite the low level of payment they have remained dedicated to their job.

C/R govt constructs houses for Bakassi IDPs Edem Edem, Calabar

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Cross River state government is constructing robust houses for Bakassi Internally Displaced People (IDPs). Inspecting some of the buildings tagged Bakassi resettlement camp, Governor Ben Ayade said the housing estate is to house the internally displaced people of Bakassi who have been rendered homeless.

“This is part of the whole resettlement process which should include giving them a new political Identity, granting them permanent ownership of the resettlement area and creating political structures and traditional leadership,” Ayade said.

The Governor notified the public and Director General of Cross River State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr Betta Edu on the need for a comprehensive primary health center for the Bakassi people to cater for their health needs. According to him, it will afford the people access to quality healthcare as he does not expect them to lack basic amenities in the new resettlement.

In her contribution, the Director General (DG) of Cross River State Primary

Healthcare Development Agency Dr Betta Edu said Bakassi people are blessed to have a caring and listening Governor who takes their plight of his people very seriously and has been doing everything possible to see how they can start a new fulfilled live in their new settlement. She lauded the Governor for once again showing his resolved to providing accessible healthcare for all.

The DG however decries the poor response of the federal Government to the plight of the Bakassi people. “It is a shame that the green tree agreement is not kept and Nigerians are killed every day in their numbers by the Cameroon soldiers.”

“We have received several rape cases and the plight of our people is almost completely ignored by the federal government and international community that were part of this injustice in the first place” she recalled.

Meanwhile a lot of Commissioners and Special Advisers/Assistant who accompanied the Governor to the resettlement site confess to the Governor over what they term the Structure, “Aesthetically appealing”

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Google adds 1,000 new addresses to Ikeja, Ikoyi in Lagos Tony Nwakaeghor

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L-R: Deputy Governor of Bauchi State, Alhaji Nuhu Gidado; Gov. Muhammed Abubakar and Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, during a courtesy visit to the Governor in Bauchi… recently.

FBN Holdings grosses 7.8% to N288.8bn Motani Oseni

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First Bank of Nigeria Holdings Plc, on Thursday, announced 7.8 per cent increase in gross profit in its unaudited result and accounts for half year ended June 30, 2017 (H1).

The Holdings’ financial institution reported N288.8 billion in H1 2017, as against N267.9b in H1 2016.

The increase in gross earnings was driven essentially by a 37.3 per cent growth in interest income, which was partly offsets by a 46.3 per cent decline in non-interest income.

Notably, the Group’s Net-interest income rose up by 30.2 per cent to N164.1b, from N126.1b in H1 2016, while Impairment charge for credit losses closed the period under review at N62.4 billion, 10.7 per cent below N69.9 billion reported in H1 2016.

With operating expenses gaining about 11.8 per cent to N116.6b from N104.3b, Profit Before Tax, PBT, closed the half year of 2017 at N35.6b, as against N45.9b recorded in prior half year of 2016.

Commenting on the results, in a

statement by the bank, the Group Managing Director, FBN Holdings Plc, UK Eke, said: “FBNHoldings has again demonstrated its strong revenue generating capacity in the current economic environment reporting gross earnings of N288.8b - up 7.8 per cent.

He said, “In line with our strategic focus on improving asset quality; cost optimisation; and, enhancing revenue generation, we are beginning to see improvement across a number of metrics associated with these initiatives.

“Our focus on enhancing the quality of our loan book is reflected in a decline in non-performing loans, a reduction in our impairment charge following improvement in the asset quality outlook, and we will continue to prioritise this area through the rest of this year.”

He said,“Similarly, consistent improvement in the efficiency ratio is testament to the efficacy of our cost optimisation initiatives, though these results have been partly offset by the currency devaluation and high inflationary environment.”.

According to him,“Overall, we

have seen strong growth trajectory in our Merchant Banking & Asset Management and the Insurance Group. These businesses complement our Commercial Banking franchise and represent new frontiers for our Group, firmly supporting our aspiration of becoming a leading financial services institution in Middle Africa. We remain committed to maximising returns to our shareholders as well as creating sustainable value.”

The group’s Cost-to-income ratio closed period under review at 54.4 per cent, from 47.42 per cent.

The financial institution said: “Though within our guidance, the higher ratio in the current period reflects a normalised performance from the one-off foreign exchange revaluation gains of the previous period. We remain optimistic on

further efficiencies in our business following the implementation of a number of initiatives within the Group.”

The group’s Total assets thus increased by three per cent to N4.9 trillion, as against N4.7 tr recorded in full year of 2016; this was essentially driven by

an increase in investment securities and other treasury activities.

The breakdown of total assets showed that investment securities increased by 1.3 per cent to N1.26 tr in H1 2017, from N1.25 tr in 2016, while loans to banks grew

to N731.2b, a growth of 64.4 per cent from N444.9b recorded at year end.

Total customer deposits declined by 3.5 per cent to N3 tr in H1 2017, from N3.1 tr in 2016 full year as the group focuses on ensuring an appropriate deposit mix at an optimum price.

The financial institution explained that, “The group’s domiciliary deposits declined to N468.9 billion from N564.7b, following State related remittances, which have now been completed.

The bank says,“Savings deposit representing 32.4per cent of total deposit grew by 1.9 per cent to N971.1b from N952.7b in 2016; reflecting the strength of our retail franchise and the ability to keep attracting a well-diversified funding base despite the difficult but improving market condition.”

Mob kills two policemen as tipper crushes mother, two children Alphonsus Nweze, Awka

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sha yesterday as mob lynched two Policemen for allegedly causing the death of a woman and his two children at Owerri Road.

Eyewitnesses told newsmen that the tipper lorry driver which was carrying sand was escaping from Policemen who allegedly demanded money

from the driver.

The tipper driver who was said to have lost control in the process crushed a woman and her two children who were waiting to board a vehicle.

The Police on seeing the development took to their heels but the mob spontaneously pursued them and lynched two, while others escaped.

The Policemen were said to be on special duty, guarding

a factory along Owerri Road, which was equally tourched by the mob.

Consequently, the Okpoko Police Station immediately went into massive and indiscriminate arrest of persons along Owerri Road.

When Daily Times visited the scene of the incident, where about 200 persons were said to have been arrested, it was deserted obviously to

avoid arrest by Police.

All efforts for Police in the State to speak on the matter failed as the GSM numbes of the State Commissioner, Police Garba Baba Umar, his image maker, Nkiru Nwode, were engaged as well that of the DPO Okpoko Division under whose jurisdiction the took place, Gabriel Elaigwu, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP)

veiled in Nigeria about nine years ago has received a boost as Google has added not less than 1, 000 new addresses to areas like Ikeja and Ikoyi areas of Lagos State.

The Chief Executive Officer, Google, Sundar Pitchai, made this known in Lagos, while speaking at the Google for Nigeria event, adding that the company took the decision because the number of people using Google Map had doubled in the past one year.

Pitchai said that the additions would help improve address search experience, among others and for the world to know the uniqueness of Lagos.

“The second addition is to buildings. Google also added detailed outlines of more than a million commercial businesses. This building footprint will help users get a better understanding of the world around them,” CEO Google said.

According to him, “Google has added more than 100,000 small businesses across leading cities in Nigeria, like Abuja and Lagos, to help improve local search experience significantly.”

He highlighted that “Nigeria has over 100,000 local guides, and one of them includes Samson who has added more than 700 places, which were initially missing, to Google Maps.

“For instance, Google Street View is now available in Nigeria with over 10,000 kilometres available in Lagos only.”

Council of Legal Education expels Bello from Nigerian Law School Andrew Orolua, Abuja

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has expelled one Olusegun Kayode Bello from the Nigerian Law School, Abuja Campus for allegedly lacking the core attributes and comportment of an aspirant to the Bar. A statement signed by Chinedu Ukekwe,the Head of Information and Protocol of the Nigerian Law School said Bello was found guilty of improper conduct after a thorough investigation of allegations leveled against him by the school authority .

The management of the school had also reported activities of the expelled student to Bwari police station including his petitions against the school authorities to the Secretary-General of the United Nations and Amnesty International.

The statement added that all attempts by the school authorities to get Bello to conform with the school rules and good behaviour have been ignored by the student.

“All entreaties of the Auditorium Marshall, the Chairman of the Students Representative Council (S.R.C.) and other students fell on deaf ears,” the statement added.

News 27 lAmbode’s performance legendry, exceptional – Akeju Ï6 ƈƋ ^ ô ƒƈƅƐ Əƕ ƈ the last Lagos council election

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The All Progressive Party Chairmanship aspirant of Oriade Local Government – Hon. Modiu Olamikunle Akeju has rated the Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode high on his policies, welfare and infrastructure development in the state.

Modiu said he gave his objective rating based on the visible development and progressive improvement in Lagos State since the governor’s assumption of office on May 29, 2015.

“Ambode’s achievement is visibly clear to everybody. We can all see it and I think is one of the best governors we have in this country if we want to be honest at a time when other states are in recession and looking for money even borrowing from federal government, Lagos state and few other states have been steadfast in paying workers salaries when due.”

“If we look at the infrastructure development in the state, Governor Ambode has really put in place critical infrastructure that has really helped in the state and putting it on world map. He is a wonderful governor and I think the best in the country. Over 200 roads have been constructed and commissioned.”

He congratulates Hon. Ramota Akinola Hassan the Executive Chairman Oriade L.C.D.A and Hon. Olalekan Akinwunmi (Councilor) for their victories, urging them to focus on grassroots development.

Shabi honoured for community development ÏÏÏ Good leadership as defined

by many scholars comes with great responsibilities that require certain skills and personal attributes. Today various people including kings and various interest groups come together to ensure that they put right individual(s) at the helm. High chief Babatunde Babalola Shobi a quite essential community leader with a clear understanding of grassroots.

High Chief Shobi is accountable transparent and possesses high sense of humility and responsibility he is a dynamic individual that has the capacity to organize complex structures and also manages people and carries an aura of excellence.

Recently HRM (Oba) Taofik Adegboyega Akeju, Awojo III honoured Chief Babatunde Babalola Shabi with a chieftaincy honour of Asiwaju of Kirikiri Land for his active roles in community development especially Kirikiri and its suburbs.

Describing the honour as inspiring, Chief Shabi said the honour has re-emerged him to continue in the community service of Kirikiri and Apapa as a whole.

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LASG pays N8bn compensation to land owners Benjamin Omoike

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Lagos state government on Thursday said it had, through its Lands Bureau, paid the sum of N8 billion as compensation to individuals and groups whose properties were affected by key projects in the State in the last one year.

The Special Adviser to Governor Akinwunmi Ambode on Urban Development, Mrs. Yetunde Onabule, revealed this at a One-Day seminar on “Urban Thinkers Campus-The City We Need”. She pointed out that government does not indulge in forced eviction of people arbitrarily without taking into consideration the welfare of the evictees.

She added that compensation is paid promptly by the government

on any land acquired by the State government for public interest with the presentation of all necessary documents that might be required.

According to her, the beneficiaries include those affected by the Abule-Egba link bridge, Oko Baba Sawmill relocation, Isale Igangan regeneration project, Olorunsogo Market, Mosafejo community and the Epe Phase I road expansion, among others.

She said the government would consistently advocate the titling of all lands in the State, while urging the people to obtain governor’s consent on subsequent transactions, regularise and register their titles.

Onabule said, “You do not want to own dead capital. The uncer-

tainty of ownership decreases the value of the asset and/or the ability to lend or borrow against it.”

Harping on the need to have a livable city, Lagos State governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, who was represented by the Secretary to the state government, Mr. Tunji Bello, said the state government was delighted to be chosen as one of the 74 Urban Thinkers Campuses worldwide.

Ambode said the development confers on the State the privilege of being one of the global centres providing a platform for stakeholders in sustainable urbanization to exchange ideas, forge partnerships and develop solution to the challenges of urbanization in contemporary modern cities.

“As a mega and fast development

city, Lagos State is strategically positioned to play a leading role in propelling development on the continent. Not only is Lagos the economic capital of Nigeria, it is the fifth largest economy and fastest growing city in Africa with population of over 22 million people.

The huge economic opportunity available in Lagos State makes it a major destination for prosperity seekers which translates into thousands of people migrating into the State on daily basis.”

The State’s Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Town Planner Anifowoshe Abiola, lamented that the major challenge facing Lagos presently is the influx of people into the State.

A cross-section of participants at the JC-Best School International Graduation Ceremony in Abuja… recently.

Kogi state govt dispels rumours of retrenching Health/Sanitation Idris Ahmed, Lokoja

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Kogi state state government. has debunked rumours making the rounds that it is planning to disengage environment and sanitary workers.

Commissioner for environment and natural resources, Rosemary Oshikoya who allayed the fears of the state environmental workers said government has no plans to lay off any staff or outsource their job to private organisation.

This was coming on the heel of environmental and health workers union’s threat of industrial dispute with the state government over its plans to engage the services of private licensed sanitary inspectors in the state.

The state government has plan to sign a private partnership agreement

next week that will see private investors actively involved in premises inspection across the state.

The union had argued that the involvement of private premises inspectors was never discussed with the Union and so have seen it as an attempt to take over th eir responsibility and rendered them redundant However, the commissioner said it was a misconception on the part of the Union to think that government is out to render them redundant when in actual fact government is involving the private partners to train them within a period of time to attain required license that will qualify them for premises inspection as required by relevant environmental laws.

According to Oshikoya it is also not true that the Union was not carried along when taking the decision, be-

cause their chairman was part of the committee that had been deliberating on the issue.

She said that the new direction blueprint clarifies on the role of PPP in delivering on its targets for the sector.

According to the Commissioner, the Kogi State waste management Board law 2013 and the PPP law 2014 empowers the state to engage PPP in the sector adding that the PPP process include adequate stakeholder sensitization and engagement.

This she said was followed by meetings with traditional institutions and community stakeholders. at federal constituency level in 2017.

The commissioner explained that the participation of the private sector in environmental health monitoring (premises inspection) would among

other thing Contributes to capacity building and on the job training of EHOs currently in the civil service, Improve residents protection and responsiveness and improve environmental safety and protection for the people through enforcement.

It will also strengthen the capacity of government institutions to deliver on their mandate at a cheaper cost as the law recommends that each premises be inspected at least once in 3 month by licensed environmental health officers of which the State currently have gaps.

Some of the advantages include an improved capacity of the sanitation and waste management board to enforce its laws, since only license EHOs can carry out certain functions, and the state has very few of such, she said.

28 News Paris Refund: Plateau to settle debt, overdraft of N1b in July Kingsley Chukwuka, Jos

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Plateau State Ministry of Finance, has said it has a debt profile of N1.9billion which came as a result of overdraft drawn from the bank, to be settled in this month of July.

It also said the total debt owned in two years since the inception of Governor Simon Lalong led government is N42billion.

Speaking to newsmen at a press briefing on the receipt of the second tranche of the Paris/London Club Refund on Thursday in Jos, the Commissioner of Finance, Mrs. Tamwakat Wali, said given the background, 50 percent of the proportion of the second tranche due for payment of salaries and pension cannot offset the current outstanding overdraft balance talk more of paying the July salaries and pension.

Represented by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Mr. Sani Yahaya, the Commissioner said, 50 percent of the first tranche of the Paris/London Refund which came in 2016 was also to offset salaries and pension arrears while the remaining 50 percent was also used for the payment of other obligations accordingly.

The commissioner advised that the cash trap situation in which the state found itself calls for inward look at the states Internally Generated Revenue with the aim to enhance and boost its efficiency.

“The state should come together to enhance its IGR, as I crave the indulgence of the populace to seriously consider paying all their outstanding and current taxes to be able to generate the much needed IGR with less dependence on revenue from the center.”

Daily Times reports that the state received the sum of N5.6 billion from the federal government in July 2017.

Daily Times Nigeria Friday, July 28, 2017

SDGs commissions N1.2bn projects in Ekiti

Gbenga Sodeinde, Ado Ekiti

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a United Nations-financed programme in partnership with the federal and state governments on Thursday commissioned projects worth N1.2 billion in Ekiti state.

The facilities, spread across the three senatorial districts of the state, concentrated on education, health and agriculture sectors, under which schools and hospitals were built, renovated and supports given to farmers to sustain food production in the state.

Some of the local governments that benefited

from the scheme included: Ado, Ikere, Irepodun/ Ifelodun, Ise/Orun, Ikole and Ilejemeje .

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on SDGs, Mrs. Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, while commissioning the projects, said a sum of N18 million was expended to fortify various agro-based cooperatives in the state to boost food production and reduce hunger.

Adefuliru who was represented by a leader of the SDGs in Ekiti state, Mr. Urombo Uche-Iwaje, appealed to rural dwellers to take ownership of the projects to prevent vandalism and underutilization of the facilities.

Adefulire said the federal government, under

President Muhammadu Buhari, won’t take partisan interest in the execution of projects under SDGs, saying that what the administration intended to do is to synergise with the states of the federation to spread the dividends of democracy to the populace.

“This programme is not about who is in power but is about what government can do. We are not going to discriminate based on political inclinations. What we wanted is collaborations from all the states of the federation to make the scheme a success.

“Let me say this, if you fail to take ownership of these projects, vandals will take charge and the facilities will depreciate.

So, you have to be vigilant and observant to save these facilities from destruction”, he said.

Also, the Chairman, State Implementation Committee, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Ekiti and Chief of Staff to the Governor, Mr. Dipo Anisulowo, urged the local governments to partner with private organizations to be able to maintain the facilities.

Anisulowo, who was represented by the MDGs’ Coordinator in Ekiti, Mr. Francis Adunmo, disclosed that no efforts will be spared to ensure that all the facilities are given adequate protections, especially against vandalism.

Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo (right), in handshake with Clerk of the House of Representatives, Hon. Ataba Sani Omolori, during the official opening ceremony for the 16th Commonwealth Speakers and Presiding Officers Conference in Abuja... recently. Photo: TEMITOPE BALOGUN

Unilag professors move against war in Nigeria Ganiyu Obaaro

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Following agitations by various ethnic groups across the country, particularly ethnic sovereignty, two professors in the University of Lagos have counseled against the dismemberment of the country.

The university dons said that while some of the agitations, especially by the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB), led

by Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, Arewa Youth, Middle Belt agitators, MASSOB, Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), Afenifere, Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), among other groups have genuine cases for their agitations,

such as restricting of the federation, fiscal federalism and resource control, they were not enough reasons for Nigeria’s breakup.

The professors were Samuel Timothy-Asobele and Hope Eghagha who both spoke separately as presenter and moderator at one of the lecture rooms, which also had the University’s Deputy Vice Chancellor, Professor Ola Rotimi and scores of students in attendance.

Speaking at a theatre presentation, entitled, ‘Reading from 3 unending Transition Plays’ (The Commander’s Telegram), organized by the Department of European Languages of the university recently, Professor Samu-

el Timothy-Asobele of the same department and author of the book, said that efforts should be made by well-meaning Nigerians to stop any impending war hovering over Nigeria from taking place at all/aid he was using theatre as tool to campaign against war because of its consequences on the nation should it not be nipped in the bud, Quoting references from the play, which were satires of the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970) and the involvement of the Europeans, who had little regard for the Biafrans, who incurred colossal human and material losses during the war, Timothy-Asobele said, “Mathematicians of

the world, how many African dead is equal to one European dead; mathematicians, tell me how many Africans dead make one European dead?; adding that, “We are victims of a hoax, a sort of April Fool!”

He said, well-meaning Nigerians, such as Professor Wole Soyinka, who had said that Nigeria’s sovereignty was negotiable; Igbo leaders have moved against war in the country, and urged the youths, whom he said never experienced war and its atrocities before to rise against hate speeches and any attempt to fan embers of discord, such as, religious bigotry and political annihilation.

Biafra: MASSOB warns against fraudsters masquerading as freedom fighters Moses Oyediran, Enugu The Movement for the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and Biafra Independent Movement (BIM) has raised the alarm warning members of the public against fraudsters masquerading as pro-Biafra agitators who are collecting money from politicians in the name of Biafra freedom fighters.

MASSOB Director of Information, Chief Sunday Okereafor, accused “the self acclaimed leader” of the group, Uchenna Mmadu, and the media and publicity secretary of Independent Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) Emma Powerful, as fraudulent people.

The MASSOB-BIM spokesman alleged that Emma Powerful, a onetime Area Administrator of Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra state embezzled money belonging to the group and was kicked out.

“Emma Powerful is a criminal who was sacked based on anti-MASSOB and criminal activities after he allegedly embezzled N0.9million that belong to MASSOB in Idemili in 2006.

“Besides, no one has questioned why he chooses to go with a pseudo name “Powerful.” Where have you heard someone go with such a name if his intension is not to swindle people?” he queried.

He challenged Emma Powerful to come out and reveal his true identity.

Okereafor also accused Mmadu, a former member of the Ralph Uwazuruike led group of compromising the struggle when he colluded with federal government and other politicians to frustrate efforts of MASSOB leader.

“If Uchenna Mmadu wants to be the leader of MASSOB, let him come back into the struggle. Can a bishop be a bishop outside the diocese,” he asked.

He described Chief Uwazuruike as the undisputed founder and national leader of MASSOB. “The MASSOB agitation is a product of Chief Uwazuruike that was formed in 1999.

Okereafor revealed that it was Chief Uwazuruike who established Radio Biafra in London and made Nnamdi Kanu the director.

“Kanu was a no body when Chief Uwazuruike picked him up in London. Our leader gave him money to get an accommodation after he was ejected by his Ghanaian girlfriend he was living with as at that time in London.

“It was after then that Chief Uwazurike established Radio Biafra and made Nnamdi Kanu the director.

“Today Kanu is claiming that he established the station.”

Daily Times Nigeria Friday, July 28, 2017

Italy to deploy ships in Libyan waters by August to fight human trafficking ÏÏÏItaly

intends to deploy several ships in Libyan waters by the end of August to fight human trafficking and stem a flood of immigrants, a government source said on Thursday.

A mission plan should be brought to the Cabinet for approval on Friday, and the necessary parliamentary vote to endorse it may be held next week, the source said.

“The exact number of ships and sailors is still being worked out,” said the source. If parliament approves, the mission might begin “by the end of August”, he said, explaining that the navy can be ready to put it in place “in a matter of hours”.

Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni met with military chiefs and ministers on Thursday to discuss “security, immigration and the Libyan situation”, according to a statement.

He had said on Wednesday Libya’s U.N.-backed government in Tripoli had NNAMANI JOSEPHAT EDEOGA

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invited Italian warships into its territorial waters.

Tripoli had refused access to its waters to the European Union’s antitrafficking sea mission Sophia since 2015, hobbling efforts to stop smugglers.

As a result, some 600,000 migrants have reached Italy by sea from North Africa since 2014. Most came through Libya, where people smugglers operate with impunity amid the turmoil that has gripped the country since Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown in 2011

Libya’s political future may accommodate Gaddafi’s son ÏÏÏSon

of late Libyan President, Muammar Gaddafi may play active role in the future of the country’s political developments, indications have revealed.

General Khalifa Haftar, leader of Libya’s easternbased government says son of the country’s late leader, Saif-al-Islam Gaddafi, reserves the right to play a political role in the country.

“Why not? If he wants to play a political role,

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Tear gas filled the air in Dakar’s city center this week as police dispersed an opposition demonstration called by former president Abdoulaye Wade to denounce the organiza-

tion of the upcoming election.

Wade’s return to the country to lead the main opposition coalition has been just one spark raising the temperature during this campaign period.

Another key political figure, the mayor of Dakar, is leading his “Manko Taxanu Senegal” coalition from prison. Khalifa Sall

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there is no problem,” Haftar said in response to a question about the feasibility of Gaddafi’s son entering politics.

The 44-year-old, was freed on June 10 by a Libyan militia group based in the western town of Zintan. He had been arrested and kept in captivity since 2011.

Haftar confirmed the release adding that Saifal-Islam was living freely in areas under his jurisdiction like ‘any ordinary Libyan citizen.’

“I have not seen him but have followed his moves since his release; he is in a specific place.

I have nothing against him; on the contrary, he is welcome,” Haftar told Al-Hayat, a Saudi-owned newspaper based in the United Kingdom.

The Libyan ‘successor’ turned ex-prisoner: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi Saif-al-Islam is the subject of summons by the International Criminal Court (ICC) which has charged him for his role

in a violent crackdown on protesters against his father’s regime back in 2011.

Incidentally, the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) has called for his arrest and surrender to relevant authorities. GNA leader, Fayez Al-Serraj last Tuesday (July 25) met with his rival, Haftar, in Paris under the auspices of the French government to dilate on ways to return the North African country to the path of peace.

was arrested in March and charged with embezzling public funds. He demanded temporary release during the campaign period, but his request was rejected by the Supreme Court.

Supporters waited for the verdict outside the court. Mama Gueye, a coordinator for Ande Dollel Khalifa, a political movement supporting the mayor, was among them.

She said the verdict will not affect the “Manko” campaign. “We will continue the battle until he is released,” she said. “Our objective is to see him live and become the next presi-

dent in 2019.”

There are 165 seats to be filled in the National Assembly, and voters on Sunday will choose from a record 47 lists, casting their ballots by party rather than for individual candidates.

Many see the vote as a sort of referendum on the current government of President Macky Sall and a preview of his potential challengers for the top job in 2019, although analysts say it is unlikely the ruling party will lose its majority in parliament.

In and around Dakar, supporters of Sall’s

‘Manko’ coalition have clashed several times with members of the president’s Benno Bokk Yaakaar coalition, which is led by the current prime minister.

Senegalese political analyst Aly Fary Ndiaye says the mayor’s coalition has made his continued detention work for them.

“It is a tactic to put pressure on the government,” he said, “to question the independence of the justice system and remind Senegalese citizens of the injustice [they say] Khalifa Sall is suffering,” Ndiaye said.

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ANDREW EKEJIUBA he Local Organising Committee of the on-going Season 15 of the annual Bishop Mike Okonkwo Football competition has defended its decision to disqualify six teams in the Round of 32 matches, saying it took the action to discourage cheating and keep to the rules of fair play which the championship is noted for.

Chairman of the committee Deacon

Six teams see red in Okonkwo tourney Malachy Ndubuzor, told Extra Time that the teams were discovered to have fielded ineligible players which prompted the committee to apply the rules, warning that any team that flouts the rule at any stage of the tournament will face similar punishment.

“When we started the competition, we had rules that were drawn accord-

ing to FIFA regulations stating that any team found cheating at any stage of the championship would be disqualified and all the teams signed that agreement.

“But we discovered that some of the teams brought in unregistered players which were against the rules of the game. All the teams were given the opportunity to make tree changes but they

Badminton Classics: Orbih assures on N Nigerian players

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resident of Badminton Federation of Nigeria, Francis Orbih, has expressed optimism that Nigerian players participating in this year’s third edition of the Lagos International Badminton Classics which served off Wednesday at the Indoor Sports Hall of Teslim Balogun Stadium, has what it takes to surpass their quarter- finals finish in the last two editions.

He noted that the Federation in order to ensure good representation by the country’s players, organised close camping to enable them horn their skills ahead of the biggest Badminton prize money tournament in the continent.

“In the last two editions, Nigerian players never went beyond the quarter- final stage and that was why we organised close camping for them and encouraged some of them to attend some invitational tournaments to keep them in shape ahead of the classics.

“I don’t want to sound optimistic that they will win the tournament because most of their opponents have built up a lot of confidence having participated in many international championships before coming to Nigeria, but I expect them to go beyond the last eight in the tournament,“ he stated.

According to him, the target of the organisers is to see that the game is played at its best, even as

he challenged other states in the country to emulate Lagos State and organise Badminton championships in their states.

“Our major target is to see the game played at its best and improve on the achievements we recorded in previous editions.

“This improvement involves improving Nigerian players whom we expect to give their opponents from Benin Republic, Ghana, India, Egypt, Israel, Uganda, Cameroon, Italy, Ghana, Portugal and Sri Lanka a good fight,” concluded Orbih who also doubles as chairman of Lagos State Badminton Association.

igeria international Ini-Abasi Umotong has joined Brighton & Hove Albion women from Oxford United.

The 23-year-old forward had impressed with the FA Women’s Super League 2 side where she scored four goals in seven appearances for the U’s last season.

The striker becomes new coach Hope Powell’s first signing as she looks to bolster her attacking options ahead of their upcoming league campaign.

“Ini is a player that we have monitored for a while, and is someone we are well aware of after her spells at both Portsmouth and Oxford,” assistant coach Amy Merricks said.

“She is a proven goal scorer and will add a new dimension to our forward options for the upcoming FAWSL 2 season.”

still went ahead to bring in players from the back door,” he lamented.

Ndubuzor noted that the LOC is out to ensure equal playing ground for all teams and maintain the integrity the tournament is noted for since inception.

“We don’t want to encourage indiscipline and cheating because the sponsor, Bishop Mike Okonkwo is a man of integ-

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Irhene backs Jos grassroots football development

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igerian born AEL Limassol of Cyprus defensive midfielder, Fidelis Irhene, said he will organise grassroots football competitions in Plateau State to discover talents in the state.

Irhene told Extra Time in Jos that he would assist the best among the talents to play professional football.

The midfielder who was born in Jos on the January 20, 1996 said

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the tournaments and eventual assistance was his way of giving back to the society that made him.

A former U20 invitee during Manu Garba’s time in charge of the national team added that all participating teams would be given sports materials to encourage them.

He stated that apart from the competition, he intends to visit

orphanages with gifts as part of his corporate social responsibility.

Irhene first signed a 5-year contract for FC Porto 2014 and a year later he was loaned to Portimonense FC. The midfielder, in the 2nd year of his loan was among the squad that promoted the team to top division (Portuguese Primera Liga) in the season 2016/2017.

Immediately after the season, he signed for AEL Limassol in Cyprus.

He played his first home match last weekend for his current club against St Joseph, and he played the full 90 minutes, as they defeated their opponents 6-0 and was rated one of the best players on parade.

Irhene also scored as his team defeated Niedercorn FC of Luxemburg 2-1 in his side’s UEFA Europa League qualification match played on July 20, 2017 in Cyprus.

WWE,SuperSport announce multi-year agreement

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WWE and SuperSport, Africa’s premier sportchannels provider, has announced a new multi-year agreement to broadcast WWE programming live for the first time in more than 50 countries insub-Saharan Africa. Starting August 28, DStv and GOtv customers will have access to the world’s biggest wrestling enter-

rity and we want to present teams that are indeed qualified to play the finals,” he stated.

It would be recalled that Synergy Ultimate All Stars, Great Commission FC, Great Innovation FC and three others were sent packing from the championship for tampering with their players’ licenses.

tainment when SuperSport airs WWE’s flagship shows Raw and SmackDown as well as WWE specials, including WrestleMania and SummerSlam. All programs will be available with English commentary and on demand. To celebrate the new partnership, SuperSport will televise the prior week’s episodes of Raw and SmackDown on Monday August 28.

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Villar resigns from FIFA,UEFA roles

Deposed Spanish football boss Angel Maria Villar, in custody on corruption charges, has resigned as vice-president of both FIFA and UEFA, the two governing bodies announced on Thursday. The 67-yearold’s near three-decade tenure as head of the Spanish federation ended this week when he was suspended following his arrest on July 18.

Villar was detained with his son as part of a fraud probe launched last year. Also arrested last week were the Spanish federation’s financial vice-president Juan Padron and Ramon Hernandez Baussou, general secretary of the Tenerife federation.

They face charges including falsifying documents, misappropriation of funds, collusion and administrative breaches linked to skimming profits from international friendly games.

Ozokwo joins Turkish club MKE

Newly-promoted Turkish First League club MKE Ankaragücü have announced the signing of former Flying Eagles skipper Nduka Ozokwo on a two-year deal. The 28-year-old attacking midfielder is the second Nigerian player to be acquired by MKE Ankaragücü in the summer transfer window, as they have also struck a deal with striker Olanrewaju Kehinde. Ozokwo is joining MKE Ankaragücü from Swiss Challenge League side FC Wil, for whom he made 18 appearances, scoring 3 goals over the course of last season.

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anchester City new recruit Benjamin Mendy is unlikely to be ready for the start of the Premier League season as he struggles with a thigh injury.

City broke the world-record fee for a defender by splashing out a reported £52million for to sign Mendy from Monaco this month, the left-back following on the heels of Kyle Walker’s big-money move from Tottenham and the capture of Danilo from Real Madrid.

The 23-year-old signed a five-year contract at the Etihad Stadium after impressing for Monaco last season as they

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anchester City coach Pep Guardiola wants Kevin De Bruyne to stay positive and produce his best form on a consistent basis after orchestrating a 4-1 friendly victory over Real Madrid.

The Belgium international playmaker provided two assists and ran the show in the International Champions Cup win in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

And Guardiola hopes to witness a similar level of performance throughout the 201718 campaign, as City aim to improve on a third-place finish in the Premier League last term.

“Since I arrived I’ve seen Kevin and when he’s in the right mood, optimistic and happy, he makes a performance like this,” Guardiola told a post-match news conference.

“It’s difficult to find a player with his quality, they’re not easy to find. He’s a guy who fights, passes, assists, who does many things.

“Hopefully he’ll be stable in his mood. If he stays positive like the last three weeks, he’s able to do what he wants.”

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omas Kalas has signed a new four-year deal with Chelsea and immediately re-joined Fulham on a seasonlong loan.

The Czech Republic international, who has made just two Premier League appearances for Chelsea, spent the 2016-17 campaign with Fulham.

Fulham also have Lucas Piazon on loan from Chelsea as they seek promotion from the Championship, having lost in the playoff semi-finals last season.

Chelsea’s deal with Kalas follows their decision to allow fellow centre-back Kurt Zouma to spend next season on loan at Stoke City after signing a new six-year contract.

lifted the Ligue 1 title and reached the Champions League semi-final.

Mendy said he was “absolutely delighted” to join City and work under Pep Guardiola, but his first outing for the club is unlikely to come for a couple of weeks due to a thigh injury.

“Unfortunately Mendy is a little bit injured and is not ready for the next two or three weeks,” said Guardiola after City’s 4-1 International Champions Cup win over Real Madrid.

That will likely mean Mendy will miss City’s Premier League opener against Brighton and Hove Albion on August 12.

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Barca target Dybala ‘happy’ at Juve

Paulo Dybala has indicated he is content to remain at Juventus amid reports of a potential switch to Barcelona. The Argentina international has been touted as a possible replacement for Neymar should Paris Saint-Germain break the world transfer record to lure the Brazilian international away from Camp Nou. The 23-year-old has impressed since joining the Bianconeri from Palermo in 2015, winning Serie A twice and helping Juve to reach the final of the Champions League last term.

Allegri eyes UCL final return

Massimiliano Allegri is targeting a return to the UEFA Champions League (UCL) final for Juventus in 2017-18 but expects a tricky finish to the Serie A season to impact their hopes. Juve are looking for a seventh successive Serie A title this term after claiming a 33rd Scudetto in May, Allegri’s side finishing four points clear of Roma in second. Allegri hopes to see his side back in contention for European silverware come May 2018 when Kiev will host the final, but acknowledges a tough domestic run-in that sees them face Napoli, Inter and Roma in the final five matches will make it tough.

Senegal’s Sarr rejects Barca for Rennes move

Senegal international winger Ismaila Sarr says he rejected a move to Spanish giants Barcelona to sign for French side Stade Rennes. The 19-year-old Teranga Lion has secured a four-year contract in a deal worth $20m (£15.2m) as he switched from rivals Metz. With just six caps for his country, Sarr has already been compared to former Rennes winger Ousmane Dembele, who now plays for Borussia Dortmund.

However the teenager is keen to create his own legacy. He made his international debut for Senegal at the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon in January and played in all their group matches.

Double-seeking Froome to race in Vuelta

Four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome has confirmed he will ride in the “vicious” Vuelta a Espana this year in pursuit of a historic double. Briton Froome, 32, won his latest Tour title on Sunday in Paris.

No rider has won the Tour and Vuelta in the same year since the race moved from April, to August and September in 1995. The 2017 Vuelta - the Spanish race that is the third of the three Grand Tours along with the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France - begins on August 19 in the French city of Nimes and finishes three weeks later on September 10 in Madrid.

The City boss also praised goalkeeper Ederson, who produced an improved showing after being at fault for a goal in the 2-0 loss to Manchester United last week.

Milner closing in on Reds return J ames Milner will begin full training with the Liverpool squad when they return from their preseason trip to Germany.

The midfielder has been struggling with a quad injury since their Premier League Asia Trophy clash with Leicester City on Saturday.

The Reds are currently in Germany ahead of clashes with Hertha Berlin and Bayern Munich, but Milner is unlikely to feature in either game.

Jurgen Klopp instead expects to have the 31-yearold back fit ahead of their final friendly with Athletic

Bilbao on August 5 in Dublin.

“It was clear from the first day there’s a little bit of tendon involved, so that means that it’s around 10 days,” Klopp said.

“That means he will do his rehab here in Germany and then should be fit again when we’re at home.

“With injuries, you can’t be sure but it shouldn’t be much longer.”

While there is good news on Milner, Klopp remains unsure when Nathaniel Clyne will return from his back problem.

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Electricity: Consumers to be carried along in future tariffs’ review – Fashola Page B2

Active telephone lines decrease by 2.3m in June, says NCC

By Tony Nwakaegho Nigerian Communication Commission, NCC, says the number of active lines in the country has decreased from about 144.9 million in May to 142.6 million in June, showing some 2.289 million shortfall.

This is made this known in NCC’s monthly Subscriber/Operator Data made available on its Website.

It would be recalled that Nigeria is reputed as the fastest growing telecom economy in Africa,following the introduction of the Global Satellite for Mobile, GSM, Telecommunication in 2001 by the Federal Government.

The NCC said that the decrease of 2.289 million subscribers in June has implications for the economy, showing that the bubble may be bursting.

The Code Division Multiple Access, CDMA, had 217,566 users in June, same with the result in May. The report said that the Fixed Wire Less for June was 142,316 and 142,496, also recording a decrease of 180.

According to the report, Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) for June was 49,870, while in May, it was 46,348, recording an increase of 3,522.

Teledensity for May was 102.19; and June, 103.82, recording a decrease in teledensity.

Teledensity is the number of telephone connections for every hundred individuals living within an area. It varies widely across the nation.

The NCC said that the number of connected lines in June was 236.8 million; and for June, it was 238.7 million, showing a decrease of 1. 8million.

The Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) had 3.5 million in June same with the result in May.

BUSINESS TIMES Business Editor Ganiyu Obaaro Deputy Business Editor Azubike Nnadozie Asst. Business Editor Simon Ugwu Capital Market Editor Bonny Amadi

Housing deficit: Stakeholders canvass innovative financing, infrastructure Page B7

Naira stabilises at 364/$1 at parallel Page B3 market

Revenue formula: Senate directs RMAFC to review Act Chris Emetoh, Abuja The Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, has been directed by the Senate to review the current Revenue Allocation formula to reflect the changing economic realities of the country.

The directive by the Senate was contained in Thursday’s resolutions on a motion by Senator Muhammad Adamu Aliero, (Kebbi Central), Kebbi state, on the need for the RMAFC to discharge its

... rues states’ huge debts

constitutional functions under paragraph 32 of the third schedule to the Constitution.

The Senate is currently debating amendments to the Constitution, some of which include, revenue formula, local government autonomy, devolution of powers, among other considerations.

The Senate also urged the Federal Government to table the proposed revenue collection formula before the National Assembly for deliberation and passage into law, just as it charged the com-

mission to discharge its Constitutional duties and functions.

The Senate noted that pursuant to paragraph 32 of the third schedule of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria of 1999, as amended, the RMAFC was established to, among other objectives, review from time to time the revenue allocation formula and principles in operation to endure conformity with changing realities, provided that any revenue formula, which has CONTINUES ON PAGE B2

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The Federal Government has assured Nigerians that the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) will complete the Baro, Lokoja and Oguta River ports before the end of the present administration.

This is even as the agency launched the Aquatic Weed Harvester (FX-IIB) and the Vegetative Cutter (AVC)-Swamp Devils I, II, and III to combat the menace of water hyacinth on Nigerian waterways.

This assurance was given recently by the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi at the 2017 NIWA International Conference and Exhibition tagged “Im-

proving Navigability and Inland Port Development For Sustainable Investment On Nigerian Waterways”, held in Lagos recently.

Amaechi who explained that budgetary appropriations have been made to ensure the completion of the Baro, Lokoja and Oguta River ports urged private sector to maximally utilised the network of Rivers, Creeks, Lagoons and lakes in the country.

He however tasked the NIWA to procure bigger dredgers in order for the agency to perform better in its operational activities.

His words, “Similarly, adequate budgetary appropriations have been made to ensure the comple-

tion of the Baro, Lokoja and Oguta River ports within the lifespan of this administration.”

“I am pleased to confirm that we have recorded tremendous progress on the concessioning of Onitsha River Port and we are very hopeful that the process of concessioning of the port will be completed before the end on the year.”

“I am happy to announce that NIWA, especially under its new leadership, has been able to look inward and through their in-house engineers, have commenced the maintenance dredging of te Ajaokuta to Onitsha channels of River Niger; and this will save the country huge sums of money.

FEC seeks local refining in oil & gas Simon Ugwu The Ministry of Petroleum Resources is pushing for a refining processing environment and moving away from exporting to refining petroleum products.

This is contained in the approved National Petroleum Policy

by Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting held on Wednesday 19th July, 2017 in Abuja, which ended on a high note as the cabinet meeting presided by Ag. President Yemi Osinbajo, The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, reiterated that apart from the fact of fluidity in pricing and uncertainty in terms of the price regime in crude, while speaking to state house correspondents after the Federal Executive Council Meeting in Abuja.

The National Petroleum Policy defines the strategy of the Federal Government with respect to Nigeria’s oil resources. It establishes the medium to long-term targets for oil reserves growth, and utilization and record strategies to be pursued to ensure the successful implementation of the policy in accordance with Nigeria’s national socio-economic development priorities.

It articulates the vision of the Federal Government of Nigeria for the petroleum (specifically oil) sector, sets goals and strategies, promotes a level playing field between State Owned-Enterprises and the private sector, proposes fundamental reforms to improve the operational efficiency and performance of NNPC and proposes a long-needed overhaul and modernization of the existing petroleum industry legislation. It is intended to remove the barriers affecting investment and development of the sector. The policy will be reviewed and updated periodically to ensure consistency in Government policy objectives at all times.

“The main aspects of the petroleum policy are: Governance (Legal and Regulatory Framework) which includes institutional reforms, regulatory framework, commercial framework, fiscal Framework, Sector Financing and PSC - Plus Cost Structures,” he stated.

Business News B2 IYC demands 70% ownership of modular refineries M ƊƆ ƖƑ è Ƅ The Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) has vowed to frustrate the operations of licensed modular refinery operators in the region if the federal government fails to review the licensing process and give 70% ownership of the refineries to people from the Niger Delta region.

Factional President of the IYC (Worldwide), Oweilaemi Pereotubo, who gave the warning yesterday at a press conference in Warri, also said the Ijaw nation’s support for the call for the restructuring of the Nigerian federation only meant the call for resource control and fiscal federalism.

The Ijaw youth body also gave a 90-day ultimatum, starting from July 12, 2017, to all multinational companies with field operations in the Niger Delta, but headquartered outside the region, to relocate their headquarters back to the region, where their primary field activities are located, or face dire consequences.

Pereotubo, who addressed the conference at the Press Centre of the Warri Correspondent Chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), noted that the decision of multinationals to take the headquarters of their businesses to other places, especially Lagos state, had robbed the people of the Niger Delta of their due benefits and growth, but had on the other hand nourished Lagos.

“After series of meetings, the IYC has resolved that as long as the Ijaw nation remains part of Nigeria, the oil companies must comply with the presidential order by relocating their headquarters to their operational bases in the Niger Delta within 90 days (three months), beginning from the 12th day of July, 2017. We do not wish to reiterate that the failure to heed this ultimatum will have dire consequences.

“Over the years, monies that were supposed to accrue to the Niger Delta states and their people have been paid to Lagos state, thereby boosting their Internally Generated Revenue (IGR). Relocating the headquarters will not only boost the revenue base of the Niger Delta states, it will also bring about employment opportunities, thereby reducing youths restiveness in the region”, he said.

On the threat to frustrate operations of modular refineries if the current arrangement is continued, Pereotubo, who said that the 56 licenses already issued had been issued to non-Niger Delta private investors.

Daily Times Nigeria Friday, July 28 , 2017

Electricity: Consumers to be carried along in future tariffs’ review – Fashola

Simon Ugwu

The Minister of Power, Works, and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has said that the methodology for the future review of tariffs in Nigeria’s electricity market would be made clear to customers to end the prevalent suspicion about tariffs in the country.

He made this known at the recent presidential Quarterly Business Forum (QBF) in Abuja, adding that there were misunderstandings about electricity tariff issues by consumers, so also that consumers do not really understand why tariffs should be costreflective.

He noted that the government has decided to make the processes simpler to enable consumers

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them.

“There are issues about whether they are cost reflective. Tariff issues have also been subject to the vicissitudes of the larger economy; what was supposed to be tariff gains have been wiped out by exchange rate depreciations. And so, one of the things we are trying to do now is to re-evaluate the tar-

iff regime in a way to see first that the methodology must be simpler; those who pay must understand how they arrived at the price and all of us must be able to say this is what the tariff is saying and it is a little complex at this moment,” he said.

He also stated that the government decided to work with the World Bank to create the Power Sector Recovery Programme because it needed the support of the Bank to clear up existing operational challenges in the sector.

“It is really a series of carefully thought out policies and actions that have emanated from government’s interactions with all the players in the industry, not only as a result of my monthly meetings but also meetings at the higher

levels of government which have come as feedback to us as issues challenging the industry,”he stated further The programme according him was developed to activate and achieve the energy supplies needed to meet the economic objectives of the government which were articulated in its Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP).

“We have developed this document in collaboration with the World Bank to whom we will be looking for support, not only in terms of technical areas, but also in particular the financial support they can offer to the government side and also to the few Operators that may need financing support from the Private Sector arm of the World Bank which is the IFC,” he said.

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Union Bank unveils innovations on digital banking platforms ƖƑƄƈƊƆ M Ɨ ƖƈƆ Union Bank has unveiled a plethora of digital banking solutions at an interactive media event on Wednesday 26th July, 2017 at the Heritage Place, Ikoyi, Lagos. The solutions include a new version of its mobile banking app, UnionMobile, and *826#, a unique USSD code which will allow customers perform banking transactions through short code messaging on their mobile phones.

The Bank also revealed its upgraded online banking platform, UnionOnline, with aesthetic improvements, new features and targeted offers for its customer segments. With *826#, Union Bank joins a growing financial industry trend which hopes to extend banking ser-

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Speaking at the launch event, Emeka Emuwa, Chief Executive Officer of Union Bank, spoke effusively about the Bank’s new banking solutions and its commitment to delivering on its brand proposition.

“Simpler, Smarter banking is not just a tagline for us. We have worked tirelessly for nearly two years to deliver the solutions we are presenting today because we invested time and resources to understand what our customers really need and how we can deliver the right solutions to meet those needs.

This investment in understanding our customers’ needs

has led to the innovations and first-to-market features we are unveiling today. Our new platforms marry simplicity, functionality and aesthetics to deliver a seamless and improved user experience for our customers” Emuwa said.

Borrowing from the UBER innovation concept, Union Bank has introduced a ‘Locate An Agent’ feature on its banking app, designed to bring its mobile banking services directly to its customers.

Using the mobile app, customers can locate the Union Bank Direct Sales Agent (DSA) closest to them and request cash collection for deposit or withdrawals. Agents can also open accounts and assist customers with other banking services at a location convenient for them.

been accepted by an Act of National Assembly shall remain in force for a period not more than five years from the date of the commencement of the Act. The upper legislative chamber, during debate on the motion on the floor of the Chamber, observed that the subsisting revenue allocation formula before the commencement of current democratic dispensation in 1999, deserved to be re-examined.

It stressed that there is no extant Act of the National Assembly accepting the formula, which means its use now is unconstitutional.

The Lawmakers noted also that the Constitution does not contemplate that a particular revenue formula is to be in force in perpetuity. It stressed the need for the formula to be reviewed every five years, as provided by the Constitution.

According to the Senate,”Aliero had in the motion raised awareness to the fact that most of the States of the Federation are under the bailout of the Federal Government, which runs into billions of Naira; and as a result of this bailout, most of the states of the Federation are deeply in debt and the fear is that successive state governments are going to inherit huge and insurmountable debts.”

The Senate expressed concern that unless the current formula is reviewed in favour of the states and local governments, real growth and development would continue to elude Nigeria.

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Naira stabilises at 364/$1 at parallel market

Stories By Motolani Oseni

The Nigerian currency, Naira, on Thursday, stabilised at 364 to a US Dollar, the same rate it traded on Wednesday at the parallel market.

The local currency, which had opened at a depreciated rate of 367.75 at the Investors’ and Exporters’ FX window on Wednesday, strengthened by 0.25 per cent to open at a better rate of 366.82 on Thursday; and extended the gaining streak to close at 362.29 per cent per dollar, against 368.60 sold the preceding day.

Although, the total volumes traded in the Investor & Export FX window settled at $1.81 billion in the month of June, an increase of 37.73 per cent ($0.49bn) when compared with volumes recorded in May ($1.32bn).

So far, the total volumes traded on the I&E FX window since its inception, stand at $3.74b, this according to the latest monthly report of the FMDQ OTC. However,the naira, at the parallel market, remained flat at the depreciated rate of 424 to a Euro and 474 against the Pound sterling.

Also, at the official segment

of the foreign exchange market, the naira at the end of market activities yesterday appreciated slightly to close at 305. 70 per dollar, compared to 305.75 traded on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, a financial analyst and renowned economist, Henry Boyo, in his presentation at the ninth Annual Distinguished Lecture of the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (NIQS), Lagos Chapter, recently, said the distress in the nation’s economy, based on available evidence, is a function of “too much money supply,” of the naira, and foreign

currencies.

He said the distress in the economy, based on available evidence, is a function of “too much money supply,” of the naira, and foreign currencies.

Boyo opined that said Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN’s) failure to manage an “irrepressibly” surplus naira supply has continued to stimulate a higher inflation rate for several years.

He said it has serious consequences on the purchasing power of the persons whose incomes are in naira.

He said that the naira and the

economy would remain stagnant as long as the CBN persistently auctions the dollar against the naira in a market that is suffocated by excess naira supply, created by the apex bank’s unilateral substitution of naira allocations for distributable dollar-denominated revenue.

“Thus, CBN’s forex interventions are, in fact, deliberate and a suicidal approach to gradually kill the naira, since the CBN would consciously sell its dollar stock for higher naira bids in such auctions. In this situation, the banks flourish, while the rest of the economy wrestles with deepening poverty,” Boyo said.

NDIC: Lead Merchant Bank’s depositors to get N556m

L-R: MD/CEO Bank of Industry, Mr. Olukayode Pitan; Executive Director (SME), Bank of Industry, Mr. Waheed Olagunju; Chief Operating Officer, Kwara State MSME Bureau, Mr. Segun Soewu and Executive Governor of Kwara State, Mr. Abdulfatah Ahmed during a courtesy call to the Governor in Ilorin... recently.

Africa’s economic confidence improving - Report Economic confidence across Africa has been improving since the end of last year, according to the latest edition of the Global Economic Conditions Survey (GECS), released by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA).

The quarterly survey of global CFOs and finance professionals, conducted by both the ACCA and IMA found that confidence in Africa is now at its highest since the second quarter of 2015.

Jamil Ampomah, Direc-

tor, Sub Saharan Africa, ACCA, said,‘Economic confidence in Africa has picked up, with the survey results showing that although government spending expectations have slightly fallen, they remain relatively healthy.

‘The previous year was challenging, but there are now signs of improvement, led by the continent’s major economies, Nigeria and South Africa.’

‘Growth in Nigeria may benefit from an increase in oil production, given it is not bound by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting

Bonny Amadi Sterling Bank Nigeria Plc has shown commitment to reward shareholders remarkably for the 2017 financial year with a promising first Half year(H1) 2017, which reflects growth in key performance indices.

The bank’s second quarter

Countries’ ,OPEC’s, deal to restrict production.

Meanwhile, in South Africa, despite continuing political instability, a rebound in agricultural production, following a drought last year and falling inflation may support the growth outlook.

Globally, the GECS results were quite positive, with many economies set for reasonable growth over the coming years.

‘Global confidence fell from the previous quarter, but is still above levels seen throughout last year.

Healthy employment prospects in the US and a gentler

than expected slowdown in China will help.

Meanwhile, the Eurozone may benefit from easing austerity, and investor confidence after parties opposing the European project failed to deliver in recent elections’ says Narayanan Vaidyanathan, senior business analyst at ACCA. ACCA is the global body for professional accountants, offering business-relevant, first-choice qualifications to people of application, ability and ambition around the world who seek a rewarding career in accountancy, finance and management.

The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has secured a landmark judgement to the tune of N556.493 million in favour of depositors of Lead Merchant Bank Limited (in-liquidation).

The judgement was recently delivered by Justice Ibrahim N. Buba of the Federal High Court, Lagos, in a matter instituted by First Bank of Nigeria Plc over a claim of indebtedness by Lead Merchant Bank (in-liquidation) to the FBN prior to the revocation of the closed bank’s licence in 2006 by the Central Bank of Nigeria.

FBN had claimed in its suit before the court that the closed bank became indebted to it under a clearing and settlement banking transaction; and that as at March 9, 2006 when the bank’s licence was withdrawn, the indebtedness stood at N556,493,034.16.

The applicant further claimed that the transaction was secured by an unregistered legal mortgage over Lead Bank’s property at 1, Oladele Olashore Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.

It added that the property was covered by a registered Deed of Assignment, the originals of which the defunct Lead Bank deposited with the applicant as security for the transaction.

Following the revocation of Lead Bank’s licence, the applicant claimed that it approached/notified the Respondent, that is the NDIC, of the aforesaid indebtedness of the closed bank, but that the Respondent classified the Applicant’s claim as creditor’s claim, which would only be considered after the claims of depositors had been fully paid/settled.

Not satisfied with the response, the applicant approached the court, claiming amongst other reliefs a declaration that FBN being an equitable mortgagee of the said property was entitled to an order of court to sell same and liquidate the outstanding indebtedness of the defunct bank in the sum of N556,493,034.16m owed to the applicant.

However, NDIC contended that it indeed recognised the applicant’s claim of N556,493,034.16 indebtedness by the defunct bank, but that such a claim constituted creditor’s claim, which could only be settled in strict compliance with the priority ranking of applicable Laws, and having gone through its records, the respondent (NDIC) confirmed that it was yet to meet its entire obligation as a deposit guarantor by fully paying the depositors of the defunct Lead Merchant

Sterling Bank posts H1 14% growth earnings to N57.1b

result for the period ended 30th June, 2017, release by the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) Thursday, showed that Gross earnings closed the Q2 at N 57,101 billion, from N50, 55b gross earnings that closed the bank’s financial year ended 31 December 2016.

Sterling Bank Plc, has reported gross earnings of N57b for the half year ended June 30, 2017, representing a growth of 14 percent over the corresponding period of 2016.

The bank’s other performance indicators showed that net interest income increased

by 5.4 per cent to N27b, against N25.6b during the corresponding period of 2016, while operating expenses declined by 1.6 percent to N25.7b as against N26.1b in 2016. Overall, the bank’s profit before tax was N4.3b, while profit after tax was N3.8b.

Yemi Adeola, Managing Director/Chief Executive of the Bank said, the board and management of the bank has remained focused on delivering solid earnings. He said that the 14 per cent growth in gross earnings was powered by 20 per cent increase in interest income.

Capital Market B4

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Transcorp: Power output buoyed N4.2bn Q2 PAT Bonny Amadi Increased power generation by Transcorp’s Ugheli power plant, is one of the major factors that lifted the Transnational Corporation of Nigeria (TransCcorp) Plc Q2 2017 financial result.

President and Chief Executive Officer, Transcorp Plc, Mr. Adim Jibunoh disclosed this in his reaction to the company’s remarkable 2017 second quarter result saying that the company’s performance, which highlighted significant recovery from the financial year 2016, was lifted by commitment to deliver value to stakeholders.

Transcorp Q2 2017 results showed significant growth in key financial indicators, as its Profit After Tax (PAT) grew to N4.2billion for the half-year ended 30th June, 2017, translating into 134 per cent growth, compared to N12.19bn loss recorded in the corresponding period in 2016.

Appraising the result, Jibunoh said, “Our results show continued growth and a substantial step-up in profitability despite the volatile economic environment. It was achieved largely through increased power output, following improved gas supply. Our power plant, Ughelli Transcorp Power Company, has consistently ranked as the number one power producer, contributing an average of between 13% -15% of total power exported to the national grid during the 2nd quarter of 2017,” He said that Transcorp Plc is on track for strong performance in the third quarter of 2017, as it has already initiated the process of enhancing the available capacity of the power generating plant from 620MW to over 720MW to take advantage of improving gas supply.

“In addition, improvements in general economic activity in Abuja and return to operations of the newly upgraded rooms at the Transcorp Hilton Hotels Abuja, will boost occupancy and top line performance for Transcorp Hotels in the 2nd half of 2017. These changes are keeping us responsive to fast changing consumer trends and accelerating our drive to a stronger financial performance in the second half of the year. We see this as a proven way of delivering long-term shareholder value,” The result showed that, the conglomerate achieved the impressive growth in profit from a total comprehensive income of N6.22bn, a 285 per cent growth from the loss of N11.50bn recorded in the second quarter of 2016.

While the company’s total assets capped at N264bn for the period under review from N232bn attained as at December 31st, 2016, the shareholders’ fund grew to N93bn, up from N86bn as at December, 2016.

(R-L): First right, Mr. Chinedu Ikwudinma, Executive Director Risk Management, Citi Bank Nigeria, 3rd right, Mr. Akin Dawodu, CEO, Citibank Nigeria, 5th right, Mr. Chido Nwakanma, Adjunct Faculty, School of Media and communications of the Pan Atlantic University , flanked by 17 Journalists that benefited/completed the Citi Financial Journalists Training organized by the SMC Pan Atlantic University Lagos.

Afolabi Adesola The Bulls have continued to dominate the equities market, as the macro-economic narratives are recording positives.

The stock market, which mirrors the outlook of the economy, is showing indications of a speedily recovering economy, as three major benchmarks have been surpassed this week on vigorous bargain hunting embarked upon by investors.

The Nigerian Stock Exchange’s All-Share Index, having surpassed yet another milestone, crossed the 37,000 benchmark to close at 37,245.17 points, on Thursday. The ASI grew by 1.37 per cent, as most

Equities market hits 37,000 points on 1.37% gain …as Conoil, Champion lead gainers; Cadbury, UAC lead losers

sector index closed the day in the positive zone except the oil & gas index, which close 0.06 per cent lower, slightly hurt by investor apathy, following news of some recovery by the EFCC from listed oil and gas marketers.

Lead market indices, ASI and Market Capitalisation hit three-year highs after the close of trade on Wednesday.

Conoil, emerged the day’s top gainers, with a growth of 10.17 per cent to close at N36.40 per share, Champion rose 6.74 per cent to close at N2.85 per share and Jaiz Bank grew by 5 per cent to close at 63 kobo per share.

However, Cadbury led the day’s losers, with a decline of 9.68 per cent to close at 11.20 per share, UAC-Prop fell 5.46

per cent to close at N2.77; while Morison Industries ended with a loss of 4.90 per cent 4.57 to close at N1.36 per share.

At the end of the day’s trading, investors, on 5,939 deals, moved a total of 542.8 million shares valued at N8.01 billion, leading market Capitalisation to a robust close of N12.8 trillion after gaining N174b.

Seplat Petroleum reports 34.2% reduction in H1 losses Afolabi Adesola.

Half year results of Seplat Petroleum Development Company released on Thursday, has shown the company’s loss position for the half year period ended June, 2017, has reduced significantly by 34.2 per cent.

Although Seplat reported a loss after tax of N8.4 billion for the review period, the loss was about N4b lower than N12.8b reported as loss after tax in H1’2016.

Highlights of the results indicated that Revenue was up by 27.7 per cent to N40.3b from N31.6b in June, 2016.

Cost of sales was hiked by 41.9 percent to N23.9 billion from N16.9b reported one year ago.

Seplat’s gross profit thus grew at a rate of 11.4 per cent from

N14.7b to N16.4 billion as at June 2017.

The financial results revealed that finance income reduced

by Over 95 percent to N270 million from N5.7 billion reported in the coressponding period of the previous year while finance cost soared 27.1 percent to N10.6b from N8.3b.

A loss before tax of N12.2b recorded in June 2016, consequently reduced by 33.7 percent to a loss after tax N8.1b in June 2017.

The company was levied with a tax of N342 million against N615 of the previous year representing a decline of 44.4 per cent.

The company’s statement of financial position showed Net assets was negatively impacted by 1.7 per cent. It fell to N369.8m from N376.4m recorded June, 2016.

Financial ratios compared to measure the financial strength of the oil company depicted declining profitable position.

Gross margin dropped from 46.6 percent to 40.7 per

cent, net margin fell from a negative 40.6 percentage to a negative 20.9 per cent. While the percentage of cost to sales rose to 59.3 percent from 53.4 per cent recorded for 2016

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B6 Tourism

Hike visa procurement worries tourists Stories By Ebere Chibuzor Stakeholders in the tourism sector have identified high cost of visa procurement to Nigeria as one of the major challenges facing the economy High cost of visa application overseas has been identified as one of the major factors discouraging tourists from coming into Nigeria. Other identified challenges are, poor infrastructure, power and insecurity.

According to investigation, US intending tourists pay 500 dollars just to obtain visa, UK An American and lecturer from University Of Nigeria Calabar , UNICAL, Dr. Ivor Miller, said that the foreigners we see in Nigeria are not tourists but expatriate.

Further investigations show that some of the tourists go for solid mineral extraction as tourist and as a result, Nigeria as a nation has lost a lot for not having foreign patronages.

Speaking on Nigeria visas United States of America tourist, Aric Kenedy added that high rate of tourism visa inhibits Nigeria tourism .

He noted that tourism is expensive in Nigeria and felt it could be one of the things that affect tourism in Nigeria. “ I spent 500 dollars just for tourism visa, it is on a high side. But I do come here often, he noted”, he said Kennedy said, another obstacle is Boko Haram and is a major challenge in Nigeria tourism and he advised the Nigeria to curb the menace .

Chief Executive officer of Nkosiwe Travel Agency, Chief Onyekachukwu Onyeka said that tourism in Nigeria is facing a lot of challenges.

According to him, the current insurgencies killing people in the North Eastern part of the country, the kidnapping of the south east and the Niger Delta youths that has engaged in all kind of atrocities in the recent past, Nigeria could less be described as tourist destination.

“The regime of years did not help to develop the infrastructure as you will see today in South Africa, Morocco or even Ghana. Nigeria is a country that can attract tourism in its greatness should the government give maximum attention to tourism development. The Tourism visa fee may not scare visitors away if indeed there are activities that can attract them to visit. The new President must invest in this sector while fighting other challenges as tourism can boost the economy of any nation, including USA and UK”, Onyeka said.

He added: “Like in Anambra State, the Current governor Chief Willie Maduabuchukwu

RTD Lt-Gen Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau, Minister of the Interior Obiano is taking a bold step towards tourism development and we in the diaspora are matching up to partner with him”.

The General Manager of Luton Park Hotel in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state, Mr. Chuks Agboje said the movement of tourists will surely affect the cash flow in the industry, adding that Calabar for example depends on is tourists visiting the state.

According to Agboje, the state has just commissioned the Calabar International Conference Centre targeted at hosting international conferences to drive and increase the states’ economic fortunes.

He said,”If we become in accessible due to high visa tariffs then Cross River State being the nations’ tourism destination will have to define another product through which the state will be identified.”

He advised the present administration to tackle security issues. He equally commended Buhari ‘s government for taking the right step towards the right direction because the insecurity in the country according to him

is also affecting the industry.

“Even so many Nigerians in the Diaspora refused coming for last year’s carnival due to bombings and Boko Haram. If the present government should make Nigeria a safe haven again, we will experience massive inflow of tourists.

The tariff on visa will not be an issue if the country is safe.

The Chief Executive Officer of Mashy Guest House And Sport Bar, Mr. Monsuru Adeyemi Adeboye, pointed out that there is need for the country to provide accommodation for the people.

He said Nigeria hospitality is still below standard but the tourism as a whole is a huge market in this country but it seems like the people in the tourism ministry have not found the right approach on how to boost tourism yet.

The efforts of Cross River State are encouraging tourism and that has created an avenue for people to come into Calabar and see for themselves. They create well organized carnivals, recreation events which have brought in a lot of tourists to the state.

Meanwhile, Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, Al-

Lai Mohadmmed, The Minister of Information, Arts and Culture haji Lai Mohammed has said that the visa on arrival regime was initiated to encourage tourists into the country.

Speaking at the Aviation Safety Round Table Initiative (ASRTI) breakfast meeting recently at Ikeja, Lagos, Mohammed said that his ministry was working together with the Ministry of Interior because the first thing a tourist think when he is coming is to think of visa and that is why they have initiated visa on entry regime The minister, who said that Visa on arrival, which is done within 24 hours now, will go a long way to encouraging tourists into the country.

Advising members of the ASRTI, Mohammed pointed out that remaining an activist or a critic alone cannot help the industry, stressing that the ASRTI members should find a way to be part of the decision making process. zz Mohammed said, “There are lots of challenges in the areas of regulatory framework and capacities; until you and I go there to change things, nothing will change. The greatest challenge

that will face someone is institutional challenges.”

Mohammed, who said that the government has never taken excuses for non-performance because they inherited a bad governance, stated that all they did was to let the world know what the government inherited. The minister emphasized the importance of government obeying agreement arrangements, just as warned that disobedience to agreements reached is a bad signal not only to the international community but to the local community.

“Agreement must be obeyed.

We must not continue to be government to look at ethnic considerations in making policies.

When you sit and make an agreement, it is not anyone’s fault that the other party did not come to the table ill prepared”, he said The minister said that tourism is not a stand-alone ministry and that is why they are collaborating with other government agencies, such as Ministries of Agriculture, Aviation, Interior, Transport, including Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) so as to survive..

Nigeria not fully developed for tourism -Shyllon Nigeria has not been fully developed for tourism, despite its natural inhabitants, identifying tribalism and ethnicity as vices for domestic tourism growth. These observations were made by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Omoba Yemisi Adedoyin Shyllon Art Foundation (OYASAF), Prince Yemisi Adedoyin Shyllon.

Shyllon made the statement during an interaction session

with Daily Times, Tuesday at his arts residence in Lagos.

He noted that Nigerians do not travel far and wide apart from the Igbo people.

Speaking further, OYASAF CEO said, international tourists are facing many problems right from the airport. “The attitude of the immigration officers within the airport is bad, facilities are bad.”

At this point, Shyllon urged, there are many aspect vulner-

ability, arising from kidnapping, violence, robbery as well, stressing, all these are not encouraging international tourism.

According to him, “Transportation system is very bad and we do not develop tourist sites. We have Olumo rock at Abeokuta, yet not developed.

We don’t have monuments, no artistry and tourism parks.”

Describing Lagos, Cross River, Oyo, Kano and Ogun as

states that have the facilities to encourage tourism, also, he noted that there are one or two places in Lagos tourists can visit. “In Lagos State there were freedom park, Lagos museum , very good numbers of galleries, three and four stars hotels and fantastic transport facility.”

While He further commended the Lagos state government in trying to protect the people and property, which he said would encourage tourism.

Property B7

Daily Times Nigeria Friday, July 28, 2017

Housing deficit: Stakeholders canvass innovative financing, infrastructure Stories by Babajide Okeowo At the recently concluded 11th Abuja Housing Show organized by Fesadeb Limited, stakeholders in the housing sector have called for innovative financing and sustainable infrastructure to address the nation’s huge housing deficits.

This is just as they urged for government’s intervention in the sector given its employment generating potentials.

These were contained in a communiqué issued at the end of the summit organized by the company.

According to the communiqué issued at the end of the summit, “We need appropriate innovative finance and infrastructure to address the country’s housing deficit of over 17 million units. There is the need to build at least one million housing units per year in spite the problems of high cost and high interest finance, through appropriate government policies.”

The stakeholders noted that housing for the poor or social housing programme needs at least N1 trillion through the private sectors, but mainly public sources, to also stimulate economic growth for the entire country.

Hence, Federal Government should contribute N100billion and mobilizing business and private sectors to also partake in the programme. The Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) needs to be recapitalized to provide decent houses for people in line with the provisions of the programme.

They observed that multi-finance approach to housing programmes also requires critical evaluation to enable partners, like the Nigeria Mortgage Refinancing Company (NMRC), to play their roles effectively.

Real estate tip Abandonment in real estate can be referred to as the act of surrendering a claim to, or interest in, a particular asset.

In some other circles, it is believed to be the permitted withdrawal from a forward contract that is made for the purchase of deliverable securities, and also the act of allowing an option to expire unexercised.

It can also be added that

They say the contributory pension scheme should be explored to make available funds for investment in stable outlets like housing.

The Daiy Times gathered that innovations in the sector can create jobs, even through informal markets feeding housing construction value chain and other related sub-sectors, just as, instituting innovative solutions could also tackle housing infrastructure problems.

They say that, “We need to identify our responsibilities and assign them efficiently.

Construction of houses should reflect culture and not to destroy traditional architecture that also relates efficiently with other areas like roads, recreational and open spaces.”

Accordingly, the summit said that experts’ attention is needed to address deficit issues by examining the increasing phenomenon of vacant houses

in Abuja in order to be made affordable to those in need. Affordability test, the communiqué said, for example, can determine those in need and can afford housing, because salary alone cannot fund mortgage, resulting into housing units not been affordable by the contributors because salaries could not service present mortgage arrangements.

‘Forex policy endangers real estate sector’ Stakeholders at the ninth Annual Distinguished Lecture organized by the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (NIQS), Lagos Chapter, have blamed the country’s foreign exchange policy for the challenges facing the real estate sector.

This is just as they called for the encouragement of the use of local building materials to

save the industry from collapse.

Delivering an address at the lecture titled “Foreign exchange problems, prospects and solutions in Nigeria: Construction industry perspective,” the Lagos NIQS Chairman, Mr. Bamidele Mafimidiwo bemoaned the effect of foreign exchange (forex) on the industry.

He explained that the lingering forex problems had caused a huge disruption to businesses in the sector, a situation that has been compounded by the recession. This has grounded new construction projects, leaving builders and suppliers in difficult financial positions, he added.

To transform the economy and boost industrial activity, Mafimidiwo said there was the need to restructure the monetary framework.

“Construction, housing, infrastructure, manufacturing,

mortgage and other business activities of tangible output represent the construction industry; and today’s forum is to provide a platform to x-ray the industry vis-a-vis the meltdown effects and chart a way forward for the sector,” he said.

The guest lecturer, Henry Boyo, in his presentation, titled: “For the successful resolution of oppressive contradictions in Nigeria’s economy”, said: “It is appalling that the country has become so poor, despite her abundant human and material resources.”

He emphasised that the naira and the economy would remain stagnant as long as the CBN persistently auctions the dollar against the naira in a market that is suffocated by excess naira supply, created by the apex bank’s unilateral substitution of naira allocations for distributable dollar-denominated revenue.

“Thus, CBN’s forex interventions are, in fact, deliberate and a suicidal approach to gradually kill the naira, since the CBN would consciously sell its dollar stock for higher naira bids in such auctions. In this situation, the banks flourish, while the rest of the economy wrestles with deepening poverty,” Boyo said.

Boyo said the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN’s) failure to manage an “irrepressibly” surplus naira supply has continued to stimulate a higher inflation rate for several years.

This, he explained, has serious consequences on the purchasing power of the persons whose incomes are in naira.

Similarly, Executive Director, UACN Property Development Company Plc (UPDC), Yemi Ejidiran, said the forex challenge affected Grade A and B residential projects. “The government should encourage production of most of our finishing materials locally. We also need to come up with efficient designs, as it is clear that banks are not ready to finance any real estate project,” he said.

Understanding property abandonment abandonment is, “The surrender, relinquishment, disclaimer, or cession of property or of rights. Voluntary relinquishment of all right, title, claim, and possession, with the intention of not reclaiming it.”

Abandonment in real estate includes both the intention to abandon and the external act by which the intention is carried into effect. In determining whether someone has aban-

doned property or rights, the intention is the first and paramount object of inquiry, for there can be no abandonment without the intention to abandon.

Abandonment in real estate, however differs from surrender in that surrender requires an agreement, and also forfeiture, because forfeiture may be against the intention of the party alleged to have forfeited

the property.

Reasons for abandonment in real estate Corporations will generally abandon assets or projects that no longer offer any profitability. In most instances, proper legal documents must be filed with authorities and any damages must be recouped.

Abandonment can also oc-

cur in forward contracts that permit the purchasers to withdraw from the contract, rather than purchase the deliverable securities.

In many instances, an option may not be worthwhile or profitable to exercise and, therefore, the purchaser of the option will let the option expire without being exercised.

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Daily Times Nigeria Friday, July 28, 2017

Fighting Wall Street predators with game theory Ï ^Ƒ ƈ ƈ Ɛ Ɔ Ƈƈ ƅƈ Ƌ ƗƆƇƆƅƐ Ə The newest Wall Street bestseller by Michael Lewis; Flash Boys chronicles the unlikely emergence of fairness in the corrupt world of highfrequency trading (HFT). It’s a gripping and enlightening read for anyone who doesn’t already know the story, but it becomes especially enlightening when viewed through the lens of evolutionary game theory (EGT).

The EGT story is simpler than the HFT story. It consists of only four actors, who reflect combinations of two binary strategies: whether to cooperate or defect in a social interaction, and whether to punish or ignore defections by others. These actors interact with each other in a social environment defined by the parameters of the game.

In one classic version of the game, each player is given an endowment, which they can keep or contribute to a common fund.

The fund is multiplied and distributed equally to the players. This is a social environment that rewards defection, since players that don’t contribute get the highest returns. When actual people play the game, most start off moderately generous, but as soon as they realize that they are being exploited by others, they withhold their own contributions.

Cooperation goes down the drain, leaving only defection and the lack of social benefits.

There is no way to punish defectors in this version of the game, so the punish vs. ignore option is inoperative. The only way to punish defectors is to withhold one’s own cooperation; that is, to become a defector oneself.

The punishment option can be added to the game by allowing players to contribute to the first common fund, where it is multiplied and distributed as before, or to a second fund, where it is multiplied and used to punish defectors by deducting from their payoffs. When

this version of the game is played by real people, if enough players are motivated to punish defectors, then cooperators earn the highest payoffs and everyone ends up cooperating.

But there are still financial losers in this game and they are the punishers. Since they must pay to punish, they place themselves at a disadvantage compared to cooperators who don’t punish. The problem of freeriding hasn’t gone away, but merely relocated from the provision of the public good to its protection.

A lot depends on the multiplier of the punishment fund. If it is high, then a little goes a long way toward punishing defectors. If it is low, then punishment can only be levied at a substantial personal cost. A lot also depends on the number of members playing the game who are willing to punish.

If they are many, then the per capita cost of punishment becomes low. If they are few, then the per capita cost becomes prohibitive.

Acting like the Lone Ranger can get you killed.

Against this background, the world of high-frequency trading can be seen as an enormously complex game that the defectors have won.

According to Lewis, the parameters of the game were established by a set of rules called the Regulation, National Market System (Reg NMS) that was passed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2005 and enacted in 2007.

Reg NMS was intended to correct trading abuses and required brokers to find the best market prices for the investors that they represented. This required a mechanism for comparing prices across stock markets. The system created by the SEC became known as the Securities Information Processor (SIP) and was slow by computational standards. High-frequency traders could exploit this weakness by building faster processors, allowing

them to preview the market and trade on what they had seen.

The result was an arms race for processing speed of mind-boggling proportions.

Flash Boys begins with the story of a fiber optics cable that was built to connect a data center in Chicago to a stock exchange in New Jersey at a cost of tens of millions of dollars, just so information could be transmitted a few milliseconds faster than existing communication channels. Like the fastest running cheetah, this tiny difference in speed enabled the owners of the cable to charge banks and investment companies millions of dollars to gain an edge over their rivals without producing any social benefits whatsoever. This was just part of a feeding

frenzy in which the highfrequency traders were the predators and the average investor was the prey.

The heroes of Flash Boys are a small group of people who discovered the injustice of high-frequency trading and were morally offended by it. In game theoretic terms, they were cooperators who were inclined to punish. But the game they were playing was wickedly stacked against them. They were few in number. The cost of attempting to punish would be severe. And it wasn’t clear how to punish, even if one decided to make the sacrifice. The world of HFT was like the first version of the game described above, in which the only way to protect oneself is to join the defectors.

Not everyone who inhabits the world of HFT is morally corrupt, but the moral landscape is nevertheless bleak. Some inhabitants are predators and proud of it.

Some know what is taking place, but don’t see how it can be stopped. Some enjoy the money and the technological challenges without thinking or caring about the societal consequences.

Some are misled by free market ideology to think that the system is actually good. Here is how Lewis describes the moral landscape of HFT through the eyes of one of the book’s characters, Don Bollerman.

Don wasn’t shocked or even all that disturbed by what had happened, or, if he was, he disguised his feelings. The facts of Wall Street life were inherently

brutal, in his view. There was nothing he couldn’t imagine someone on Wall Street doing. He was fully aware that the high-frequency traders were preying on investors, and that the exchanges and brokers were being paid to help them to do it. He refused to feel morally outraged or self-righteous about any of it. “I would ask the question, ‘On the savannah, are the hyenas and the vultures the bad guys?’ “ he said. “We have a boom in carcasses on the savannah.

So what? It’s not their fault.

The opportunity is there.”

To Don’s way of thinking, you were never going to change human nature— though you might alter the environment in which it expressed itself.

Not everyone is this morally apathetic, even on Wall Street. Laboratory studies show that people who punish in game theory experiments are morally indignant and take pleasure in seeking revenge. Some of the characters in Flash Boys bring these scientific results to life, such as John Schwall, who felt this way about high-frequency trading.

“It really just pissed me off,” he said. “That people set out this way to make money from everyone else’s retirement account. I knew who was being screwed, people like my mom and pop, and I became hell-bent on figuring out who was doing the screwing.”

What causes some people to become morally active in this way? In an interview on National Public Radio’s “Fresh Air”, Lewis commented on the fact that most of the heroes in his book are Canadian, immigrants to America from other countries, or the children of recent immigrants.

John Schwall is an American, but his father and other men in his family are firefighters. The common denominator might be a sense of good old-fashioned decency that makes the world of HFT particularly offensive.

The result was an arms race for processing speed of mind-boggling built to connect a data center in Chicago to a stock exchange in New Jersey at a cost of tens of millions of dollars, just so information could be transmitted a few milliseconds faster than existing communication channels.

Nwaodu Chukwuemeka, is a consultant with IDEAS Exchange Consulting, Lagos. He can be reached at nwaodu.lawrence@hotmail.co.uk (07066375847)

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Being dedicated to my craft is my driving force –RMD No doubt, Richard Mofe Damijo better known as RMD, is one entertainer who has made his own mark in Nollywood as he has virtually touched so many lives as an actor and has featured in so many movies. Not only that he has been in Nollywood for a long time now and remains one of the relevant veterans in the entertainment industry. In his early for a while to answer to clarion call. RMD came back to the industry just like he never attracted him to the set of the movie, his driving motivation as an actor, thought on the

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Its been good and pleasant and at the same time, I am happy that the movie is portraying the Nigerian police in good light and I am super excited playing the role of inspector Joseph Kilanko

script is a fantastic one that no actor will want to miss

The take-home will be that everyone should rededicate his/herself not just within the family

nation will be a better place if we all contribute our Well, Cross Road tells the good story of Police at work and it also shows some of the challenges Police

a movie about a guy who is upstanding and who happens to be a Policeman and also further shows the need to be patriotic and be dedicated to their job Joseph is just an upstanding man who is a goal getter

that the man in question in

We all should understand that the movie is telling a story and there are people that are drawn from the different part of the country and it traps every The fact is dedication because I am 100 percent is the issue of neglect; which is why you will dedicated to the job I do and anywhere I work I put my see in the movie that the guy moved from Bayelsa to other region in search of greener got me on the job of Cross Road is the fact that the your regular kind of movie as it touches patriotic Nigerian because I love both my country and around several societal issues and at the same time proffering solutions at the end any opportunity to work, it is key that you treat such doing is that which is gauged by an audience and I can never take my audience for granted because the day Yes!! Everybody likes the man/woman which is not paying attention to your work or craft; they in uniform; more importantly I have got a good body structure and so clothes the strength to work and in the process of doing it, it is me and I cannot toil with it because toiling with it is like Not at all, I am 56years old and I have been working for 34years, what I feel excited and happy that through my own little already and perhaps the Police job will not even wealth of knowledge, I can still imbibe in the lives of others; I am the industry where we the older generations

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Why everyone needs to anticipate the movie ‘Cross Road’ –RMD internally focused than going elsewhere to do We were given the platforms when we also started; here apart from Lagos; there are lots of places people are scared of going due to insecurity to

with young ones.

Social Media this days; you have turned a motivational speaker? insecurity which the federal government needs to focus more on.

There have been reports of lots of jungle justice in parts of Lagos and other states; do you think that is the way to go?

Do you think it is right for the Federal Government country?

it is a must for the state government to act fast.

When was the last time you read a book?

Title?

Philosophy that keeps you going?

Keep it simple always Do you patronize made in Nigeria?

person.

This days the society has been thrown to several cases of Domestic Violence; what is your view on this? against domestic violence in any forms that

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Who can beat Sade Okoya to this!

Talk of one society woman who knows how to do things right, then the wife of Chief Rasaq Okoya. For records the Okoyas popularized the Aso Ebi when in 2002 they dazzled the fashion world with their uniform now known as aso ebi during the 60th birthday of Alhaja kuburat Okoya And recently the Okoyas once again hosted the a-list of Lagos social establishment. It was 40th birthday of Sade Okoya. The ceremony was indeed super fabulous and had the trappings and land mark of hailing and style Sade Okoya proved that day that as far wearing dramatic is concern her match is yet to be born

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Top society women posit that it was rather the product of hours of handcrafting by a retable jeweler.

Anyway the question now is who can beat shade Okoya to her trade?

Fidelis Duker to preach national security, patriotism

Finally, rift between Alake and Awujale ends If there is anything that also come with the wedding of Amosun wedding it is none other thing that the protracted feud between two big monarchs in Ogun state, Alake of Egbaland Oba Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo and the Awujale of ijebuland, oba Sikiru Adetona which seems to have come to an end thanks to the governor of the stae, Senator Ibikunle Amosun who brokered peace The revered monarchs have been at loggerhead over the hierarchy of Obas in yorubaland.

Gbadebo who rated the Alake as superior to the Awujale His rating was based on the colonial masters based on their remunerations. Oba Adedotun

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however, returned the salvo by declaring that Alake is a junior Oba in Yoruba land and even in his domain in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.

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So it was not a surprise when both heavyweight Oba were seen at the wedding, exchanging pleasantries.

How Gov. Amosun dragged top dignitaries to daughter’s wedding

Fidelis Nollywood icon and onetime guide of Nigeria Fidelis Duker has unveiled the theme for the 14th edition of the Abuja theme FILM AS A TOOL FOR NATIONAL SECURITY AND Previous editions of the festival had witnessed participation from delegates from over 40 countries amongst them the United Kingdom, Ghana, South Africa, China, Japan, Niger, USA, Poland, Togo, Burkina Faso, India, Dubai, Singapore.

According to Duker , this year Abuja International Film Festival has witnessed an from over 70 countries with the largest number of entries coming from India, the united states and Iran with 310, 258,201 entries and countries like Trinidad and Tobago, Uzbekistan and Jamaica accounting for one entry each. .

This highly reputed Film and Video Broadcast Festival attracts entries from over 50 countries worldwide with an attendance of over 3,000 participants from the

The Abuja International Film and Video Festival which daily times was told has been scheduled for the 9th – 13thof October 2017 at the prestigious silver birds Galleria Abuja Nigeria and Sheraton Hotel Abuja respectively.

Duker spoke more about the festival “As a follow up to the 2016 the capacity building initiative between Abuja International Film Festival that culminated in the training of over 60 young Nigerians in cinematography and photography will continue this year with training of another

fashion photography.

The festival will this year reward excellence in 15competitive categories with 5 special recognition award to deserving Nigerians for their contribution to the development of the Nigerian movie industry.

The awardees for 2017 will be announced at the 2017 Nomination party scheduled for the 30th of August 2017”

IT was a day of glamour and joy in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital as the governor of the state, Senator Ibikunle Amosun

hand in marriage to Mr. Oladipo Dabiri-Erewa, the son of Mrs. Abike DabiriErewa, the senior special assistant on Foreign Affairs and Dispora to President Muhammadu Buhari.

The wedding ceremony which attracted dignitaries from all walks of life had in

attendance the Acting President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, serving and former governors All progressive congress party leaders, members of the National Assembly, royal fathers as well as business moguls.

Also present at the august wedding were former president of Nigeria chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Lagos socialites, Joko Oni, Governor of Ondo state Rotimi Akeredolu and his wife Speaker of the House of Representatives Hon Yakubu Dagora, Ooni of Ife, Oba

Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Chief Adebutu Kessington, Alake of Egba land, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo, Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, Lagos state Governor Akininwunmi Abode, Chief Bisi Akande, Minister of Information Lai Mohhammed, Finamce Minister Kemi Adeosun and so many important personalities Experiencing his joy , the of Ogun State, senator Ibikunle Amosun thanked all for honouring his family and sharing in his family happiness

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New Act Alert: Jabby Jay out with Paper Gifted artiste Jabby Jay (born Jabbar Usman) is a Nigerian rapper and a record producer who started his music career at the early age of 16 in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Having worked with a number of artistes from the commencement of his journey till date.

Jabby Jay is taking the music industry by storm on the stables of TONE DEF MUSIC Company as he unlocks this thrilling afro hip-hop song titled “PAPER” (produced by E Kelly). Jabby Jay is planning to release more stellar material in the musical calendar as he rises to the top.

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TwistDaFireman, others ignite at July edition of Basement gig The July edition of The Basement Gig which held at the Cielo Lounge on Oduduwa Way, Ikeja GRA, Lagos was well attended by top notch celebrities in the entertainment industry.

The Basement Gig since its inception, provides an avenue for budding musical talents to showcase their gifts as they break into the Nigeria music industry and establish themselves.

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Tuface, Harrysong, Wande Coal, Styl Plus, Small Doctor, others thrill Fans at Funnybone Untamed 2

sensational acts such as Yonda, Jinmi Abduls, D-O, Wavy The Creator, Hanu Jay & Twist Da Fireman. As always the event will be hosted by popular radio OAP Kemi Smallz and this edition will feature a guest DJ, TMXO. The monthly show is fast becoming the most sought after hub for new artists and music lovers for its interactive atmosphere. The Basement Gig is an initiative of The Zone Agency and is proudly supported by Zebra Stripes Networks and Cielo Lounge.

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Why Seyi Asurf ‘Hakkunde’ is a must watch …as Frank Donga, Toyin Aimakhu, Ali Nuhu others stars in the movie

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Nigerian music legend, Tuface Idibia, Harry Song, Skales, Kcee, Duncan Mighty, Wande Coal and Small Doctor were among the long list of artistes that entertained fans at held recently at Eko Convention Center.

The show witnessed several rib-cracking performances from stand-up comedians including Funnybone himself his performance was one of the most memorable of the night.

There were also A-list celebrities in attendance including comedian AY, business mogul E-money, actor Gbenro Ajibade, Made Men Music Group CEO Ubi Franklin and his estranged wife Lilian Esoro, Comedian Yaw, actors Osita Iheme and Chinedu

Ikedieze, actresses Fathia Balogun and Iyabo Ojo among others.

One of the highlights of the show was when celebrity fashion designer Yomi Casual proposed to his longtime girlfriend Grace during Styl

Set in Lagos and Kaduna, Hakkunde as produced and directed by Oluseyi Asurf ex-rays the story of a young graduate who battles everything from discrimination, insecurity and his journey toward self-discovery.

Hakkunde further highlights the merits of steadfastness, humility, and self-denial and also espouses the gains of harnessing opportunities, delimiting the much muchcelebrated mediocrity of high-handedness, and divulging the demerits of pride, greed, and inconsistency.

According to the producer, Seyi Asurf, he disclosed that the production crew ended up shooting the 8th version of the movie so as to be able to project the right message at the end of the movie nothing that one of the challenge of the production was the demise of veteran actor, Bukky Ajayi who was meant to be part of the production.

Funnybone who could not hide his excitement during the show came on stage several times to give special thanks to the sponsors and supporters of the event. to an end when ex-Mavin Records artiste Wande Coal and musician CDQ serenaded the audience with some of their hit songs which thousands of fans sang along with gusto and excitement.

the everyday Nigerian society, with its ups and downs and with a particular focus on the life of a job hunting graduate.

The movie featured staller cast that includes comic actor, Frank Donga, Toyin Abraham, Ali Nuhu, Seyi Law, Maryam Booth, Ibrahim Daddy, Isa Bello Ja, Rahama Sadau and Hadiza Soja.

Hakkunde is a much watch for every viewers as it is a movie that depicts that all hope is not lost The movie is however written by Oluseyi, Tomi Adesina

Socialite Rasheed Ishola task government on fake and non-licenced agents Rasheed Ishola is the chief

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noted that he was part of the production process because

Shol limited a well-known socialite not only in Lagos but also beyond has come out to government to help eradicate the fake men in their profession. speaking with daily along airport road, Lagos state - the very “happening “ man frown at the way the fake non licensed agent are trying to hijack their business from them. “ these people have caused a lot of havoc, they will pretend to be authentic yet they are not. They will go to exporter promise to do the job for them at a very low price but at the end of the day they will come for more money, unlike us the

authentic who will tell you the real price that will cost you. “Stated the man who has been in business for over twenty years having started with panapina Speaking further , Mr. Ishola who though acknowledged the fact that the business is rewarding and he left Panapina to start his own “it was not easy at initial stage when I left Panapina it was not easy to see customer, but now I thank God.” .

He however advised government on how to tackle the fake agent “to me all agent should be told to and not just carrying fake identity card, they also not be allow into

Ishola port, with these I think the fake ones can be curb” conclude Mr. Ishola whose face physical appearance cannot mistaken among his peers, especially in social gathering.

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Managing your emotional reactions Emotions are the most present, pressing and sometimes painful force in our lives. We are driven day by day by our emotions. We take chances because

we love. Without a doubt, our emotions dictate our thoughts, intentions and actions with superior authority to our rational minds. But when we act on our emotions too quickly, or we act on the wrong kinds of emotions, we often make decisions that we later lament. Our feelings can alter between dangerous

state of euphoria. As with many other aspects of life, emotions are best met with a sense of moderation and logical perspective. This is not to say that we should stop ourselves from falling in love or jumping for joy life. It is negative emotions that must be handled with Negative emotions, like rage, envy or bitterness, tend to spiral out of control, especially immediately emotions can grow like weeds, slowly conditioning the mind to function on detrimental feelings and

way. But they allowed certain emotions to stir within them for so long that they became inbred feelings arising all too frequently.

Follow this steps to control your emotions and regain rationality in any challenging situation:

Forgive your emotional triggers: Your emotional triggers may be your best friend, your family members, yourself or all of the above. You may feel a sudden wave of anger when your friend “does that thing she does,� or a stab of self-loathing when you remember something you could have done differently.

But when you forgive, you detach.

You detach from the resentment, the jealousy or the fury lingering within you. You allow people to be who they are without the need for escalating emotions. As

emotional triggers can be an immense mistake. It is regret. Before refuting the trigger with your emotional argument, take a deep breath and stabilize the overwhelming impulse. Continue to breathe deeply your heart rate returns to normal. As you become

Ask for divine guidance: Faith is our saving grace in our darkest moments. No matter your creed, developing a healthy relationship with the disassociating from the harsh divine world will help you surmount your obstacles feelings attached to your being. more easily. This is because when you believe in a Accept responsibility for your higher force, you also believe in the power of divine reaction: Accept yourself as intervention to show you what you must do, teach powerful instead of as victim to you why something is happening or even save you remove the veil of self-deception. from a certain unwanted situation. When burdened When you seek to identify what with emotion, close your eyes, envision a positive is triggering how you feel in the solution to your problem, and ask the universe to and discern the greater meaning of any given moment, you give yourself the illuminate the best path forward. situation. You may not understand it in the chance to feel differently if you want to. You will also have more clarity on what you need to the bigger picture falling into perfect order. Even do or what you need to ask for to change your way. Emotions should never be bottled up. Call or in the midst of an emotionally upsetting moment, circumstances. go see someone you trust and recount to them what Choose what you want to feel: With practice, the happened. Hearing an opinion other than your own you will come to comprehend soon. reaction to your emotional triggers could subside, broadens your awareness. Keep a journal and transfer but they may never go away. The best you can do your emotions from your inner self onto the paper. us to recurring negative thoughts, creating cycles is to quickly identify when an emotion is triggered discharge their feelings. Others meditate and chant to return to a tranquil state of being. Perform whatever activity is best-suited to you in order to liberate your being from pent-up sentiments.

See the bigger picture: Every happening of our lives, whether good or bad, serves a higher purpose.

Wisdom means being able to see past the moment

of downright negative patterns. Whenever you are confronted with an emotion which is making you feel or think something bad, force it out of your mind and replace it with a different thought.

Imagine the ideal resolution to your problem playing out, think about someone who makes you happy or remember an event that makes you smile.

yourself: Are you really losing this need or not? Is the person actively denying your need or are you someone is ignoring your need or blocking you from achieving it, can you either ask for what you need go for now?.

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Movie Review

Aiye o Gbofe (Life is not free): Helen Paul takes film production to another level A fabulous story. Great acting skills. An intelligent directing effort. Helen Paul has really killed it with this movie. The popular gorgeous comedian really created a beautiful performance in Bunmi Olatilewa, Dapo Orishajobi, Seun Olatunji, Johnson Olowolefa, and Emmanuella Pobeni Adepoju. Together they killed this story of Awele (Bunmi Olatilewa) who decides to join an occultist group called Sisterhood, because of the pains, sufferings, insults and poor life style she had. But when she thought all hope was lost, Hope was restored to her. When she thought her sufferings and pains had ended she realizes they had just begun. Despite her sufferings she never stopped praising God.

from Yoruba movies and I am not happy about that. I kept watching it over and over again. There is plenty of suspense and comedy in Aiye o Gbofe, little suspense and that is quite refreshing to see.

to be in pleasurable emotion of anticipation.

Bunmi Olatilewa really did fairness to the role of a poor but God fearing woman. Who love her children so much.

Despite her sufferings she still thank God and pray for riches for her children. Even when she was taken to the

she still made she kept Sunday apart to worship God. She is kind, hardworking and her quality in acting makes this call. She was very rich and never accept things free performance worthy to be remembered. I rate the movie an from people. She met Awele and decided to help her by eight out of ten because it was extremely good. initiating her to her so called group called Sisterhood.

Although she was trying to be of help to her so as to end indeed a great acting outcome, she made the movie look her pains and sufferings. She succeeded in initiating a gets a round of applause from me. Cinematography is and unbearable. great, sound, lighting, costume, make up and editing are To be Sincere, this is one of the recently made wonderful.

Yoruba movie that I watched and feel comfortable, However, a lot of people do not know that most of the production crew members are students of the Helen Paul Theatre Academy and with this I say kudos for a job well waste of time watching people speaking Yoruba most watching the movie I realized I have been missing a lot 8/10 movie score for me.

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Private Valentine: Blonde and dangerous Director: Steve Miner Year of release: 2008 Running Time: 98 minutes The private valentine is an award winning movie in America. The movie is an exciting and decent movie that thrives on explaining the challenges and frustration that celebrities face and how they live their life.

Jessica Simpson plays the role of Megan valentine in the comedy, the movie is thrilling actress Megan valentine who ran out of luck and got frustrated and later found herself in the United State army. The movie private valentine is about an American actress who cannot make decision on her own, she was controlled by her director and her personal assistant, she was crazy when she discovered that her boyfriend duped her and sold her properties, she was frustrated and later found herself in the United State army hoping in vain that will change her life. Going into the army was very difficult for her because sergeant Louisa (vivica

A. Fox) vowed to make life miserable for private valentine, and opting out is not possible for her so she was left with no other choice than to stay in the army. She was encouraged by sergeant mills Evans (Ryan Sypek) a junior to Sergeant Louisa The funny part of the movie is how Megan valentine makes silly mistakes she and her colleagues gets punished for her mistakes. Her colleagues hated her and get frustrated every day because she always makes silly mistakes and Sergeant Louisa would not spare them but along the line they liked her. Along the line she got used to the army and enjoyed the training. She graduated from the United States army and went back to the movie industry and sacked her staffers and she never regretted joining the army Jessica Simpson really performed greatly and was able to gain the attention of her audience. The movie is a perfect one and I rate the movie 9/10.