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Osun governorship poll: PDP kicks as INEC declares APC candidate Oyetola winner Jide Oke, Osogbo and Tunde Opalana, Abuja

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday declared the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Adegboyega Oyetola, as the winner of the Osun State governorship poll. https://plus.google.com/+DailytimesNgr/posts

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Declaring Oyetola as the winner of the poll at about 1.10 am on Friday morning, the Returning Officer, who is also the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Prof. Joseph Fuwape stated that Oyetola scored majority votes of 255,505 to defeat his closest challenger, Senator Continued on page 3

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PDP kicks as INEC declares APC candidate Oyetola winner Continued from page 1

Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who scored 255,023, with a difference of 482 votes.

There was a rerun poll in seven units of the state on Thursday while the outcome of the results were added to that of inconclusive election on Saturday.

The Daily Times recalls that INEC had on Sunday declared the keenly contested governorship poll of Osun State on Saturday as inconclusive.

Prof Fuwape who stated this at end of collation at the INEC headquarters in Osogbo, Osun State capital. At the end of the collation of votes, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Senator Ademola Adeleke, won majority votes of 254,698 votes while Mr. Gboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) came a close second with 254,345 votes. Both leading candidates had a difference of about 354 votes. Speaking on the turn of event, Afuwape said, “Unfortunately as the returning officer, it’s not possible to declare anybody as the clear winner of the election on the first ballot.”

He added that the total registered voters in the seven polling units where elections were cancelled is 3,498 votes. Since that figure was higher than the difference between the votes of the leading candidates, a re-run election had to be conducted, the INEC chief explained. Fuwape then said: “I, Joseph Adeola Fuwape, hereby, declare this election inconclusive.” INEC’s election guideline made pursuant to Section 153 of the Electoral Act stipulates a rerun if the margin of victory in an election is lower than the number of voters in units where elections are cancelled. In that case, rerun will hold in areas where elections are cancelled.

The electoral commission later

declared Thursday, September 27 as the day of the rerun election.

But the announcement by INEC came shortly after the Adeleke campaign organisation urged the electoral body not to declare the election inconclusive But the PDP has rejected the conduct of the Supplementary election in Osun State on Thursday, describing the rerun as the most brazen assault on democracy and biggest robbery ever witnessed in Nigeria political history.

The party at the national and state levels said the entire conduct of the rerun election in seven polling units was an open robbery perpetrated by the APC aided by security personnel will be resisted by the party.

Both the National Chairman and Osun State chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus and Hon Soji Adagunodo, respectively at different occasions, berated the disenfranchising of PDP members who were prevented from voting by hired thugs in connivance with security agents.

The party alleged that only voters wearing t-shirts bearing the logo of APC candidate were allowed access into polling booths.

Rising from an emergency meeting of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party in Abuja, Secondus said that Osun State was under siege throughout Thursday’s voting.

He said Thursday rerun was a black day for Nigeria, saying that, “The right of the citizens to be able to come out and vote had been trampled upon and the entire state and the wards and units have been seized by the security agencies who are acting on behalf of APC to make sure the election is rigged by all means.

Secondus added that the PDP doubted the conduct of a free, fair and credible election next year, saying, “We are sad that

if this is what is going to take place in 2019, then the future of Nigerian democracy is bleak and we are sliding into crisis because what we have witnessed in Osun show clearly that APC is not ready for election and we are afraid that Buhari will not handover if he loses election next year”.

The PDP Deputy National Chairman, South-West, Dr. Eddy Olafeso, specifically said in Orolu and Garage Olode and many of the seven units, PDP members were denied voting after seizing their PVCs while INEC staff were induced with cash they could not refuse.

The Osun State PDP chairman, Adagunodo, explained that thousands of eligible voters were chased away from their homes in Orolu, Ife North and Ife South Local Governments in the early hours of yesterday.

He said: “Scores of our supporters in those local governments were shot and matchetted on their way to polling centres and in the full glare of security men. Hundreds of people holding PVCs from other polling units were accredited and allowed to vote in Osogbo and Ife South Local Governments.

“PDP agent in Olode was axed and abducted at about 7am. Media men and election observers were denied access in several polling units. By the time access was granted to journalists at about 11am, ballot boxes had been stuffed by APC agents acting in connivance with INEC officials.

“We reject any returns of results from this sham and call on the INEC authorities in Abuja to direct that the so called supplementary election result be cancelled.

“We equally invite leaders of thought in Nigeria and the International community to rise up now to rescue Nigeria’s democracy from being ruined”.

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Senate President and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant, Dr. Bukola Saraki (second left), acknowledging cheers from supporters on arrival in Jigawa State with his team to meet with PDP delegates... on Thursday.

L-R: Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike; Taraba State Governor Darius Ishaku and Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose at the Government House, Port Harcourt ... on Wednesday.

Magu wants looters to return stolen funds or face prosecution

The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu, has warned looters of the country’s treasury to voluntarily return stolen funds and assets or face prosecution.

Magu, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York, described corruption as “an evil that would not be tolerated.’’

He said: “All of them (looters) should return all the looted funds and join us in the fight against corruption because it is important.

“All of us have a responsibility in the fight against corruption, whether you are corrupt or not.

“But my take is that they should return all the stolen funds and we can see what we can do.’’

The anti-corruption chief, however, warned that if looters decide to remain adamant, the law would catch up with them.

He said, “We would prosecute them, we would get them, no matter how long it would take, we would get them; I’m telling you.

“Corruption is an evil that affects all of us. So we should join hands to eradicate it.”

He also said that there was hope that Africa would win the war against corruption if there was collaboration among the anti-corruption and law enforcement agencies through “timely intelligence.”

Magu further said that the EFCC had been able to collaborate with sister agencies in African countries.

According to him, EFCC mentors many countries in West Africa.

He said, “Recently, we were able to get somebody in Ghana who was a wanted person in Nigeria.

“The collaboration between us and the Ghanaian authorities helped us to get him extradited to Nigeria and the man is going to face the music by going through court processes.

“EFCC has been able to extradite people to the United States of America in our collaboration with even nonAfrican nations like the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigations) and DOJ (Department of Justice), the UK, Switzerland, Netherlands and Dubai.

“So there are so many collaborations between us and

other countries in Africa and around the world.”

According to him, there is a significant reduction in criminal activities in Nigeria because of the zero tolerance for crime.

Magu said, “In those days you can do things with impunity, but now you have to think twice.

“I think we have made a lot of progress as people are more cautious in going into crimes.

“Some of them enter into plea bargain arrangement with us and it is working. ” For some of them, we apply this issue of non-convictionbased forfeiture. “ If it is money or property that you have but you cannot explain, we take it to court and the court will now look at both sides and they will decide.”

Magu, however, said he has personal reservations about plea bargain.

“You don’t do it alone; you have to bring in the courts, the accused persons and the prosecutors.

“I don’t really like it but it is very difficult to get something done. Plea bargain reduces the time and the money spent on prosecution,” he added.

L-R: Bayelsa State Deputy Governor, Rear Admiral Gboribiogha Jonah (rtd); Governor Seriake Dickson and Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshall Sadique Abubakar, shortly after a courtesy call by the Air Chief at the Government House, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.

L-R: Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Fidelity Bank Plc, Nnamdi Okonkwo; Executive Director, South, Aku Odinkemelu; Chief Executive Officer, Next Cash and Carry Shopping Mall, Ndibe Obi; former Anambra State Governor Peter Obi and Chairman, Genesis Group, Ichie Nnaeto Orazulike, at the formal opening ceremony of Next Cash and Carry Shopping Mall in Port Harcourt, Rivers State…on Thursday.

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Minimum Wage: Workers comply with Labour directives as strike paralyses states Joy Obakeye, Lagos, Jude Idu, Andrew Orolua, Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja, Samuel Luka, Bauchi

The Organised Labour has vowed to continue the warning strike if the Federal Government refuses to comply with the workers’ demand by dropping its figure for the implementation of the national minimum wage.

The development came just as workers nationwide obeyed directives of Labour while warning strike paralysed activities states nationwide including Lagos, Benue, Anambra, Bayelsa, Kano, Bauchi and FCT. The organised unions, who spoke through the Vice President, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Amechi Asugwni, while addressing workers before the mop-up demonstration, said that for the duration of the strike, they will be going round to ensure full enforcement of the action, including companies that will not adhere to the directive.

He also emphasised that labour does not expect to see any worker on duty neither should companies be operational, ‎else they will be forced out and shut down.

He said, “Nobody should be allowed to fly out of this country. We have not gone to the Airport but we will be there tomorrow (today). This strike will continue to linger until the Federal Government comply with us.

“We have never gotten wage on a platter of gold. It has always been by struggle and we will keep struggling until we win”.

The NLC Vice President however wondered why the Federal Government has refused to drop its figure just like the other 21 governors had done after the promises made by the president.

“It is unbelievable that the Federal Government has failed and bluntly refused to drop its figure on the table even after setting up the committee and the promises. All we want is for the Federal Government to bring it to the table. There is no negotiation to this, there’s no private discussions to it.

“This minimum wage we are asking of is supposed to have been reviewed before now because according to law, it is reviewed every 5 years and it was last reviewed in 2011,” he said.

He also made a call to President Muhammadu Buhari to return from the UNGA because according to him, it was not what the committee bargained for.

“This is not what we bargained for.

The Federal Government is playing on our intelligence. Their refusal is an insult to the committee and we will not take it. You imagine we went to demand for workers right at the table but we were told that there is nothing for us under the Labour ministry.” he said.

Speaking also, Secretary General, Nigeria Union of Railway Workers, Comrade Segun Esan, said that the unions do not mean evil but that they are all out to start the strike and to sound a note of warning to the federal government.

He said: “We are not out for evil.

It is to start the strike, sound a note of warning because we got to know that the government is not ready to do anything, so we realised that it can only be achieved by struggle.”

He, however, appealed to workers not to come to work tomorrow (today) to avoid embarrassment because the strike is going to be stronger.

“It’s either we struggle it now or we all go down and sink,” he added.

Also commenting, President, Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions (ASSBIFI), Comrade Oyinkan Olasanoye, saluted the courage of Nigerian workers for cooperating with labour on the warning strike, while clarifying the claim that the action is hinged on selfishness.

Olasanoye also noted that the unions had given the Federal Government enough time to put things in order but they did not.

She explained to some traders that the

minimum wage they are clamouring on is for workers to have the ability to buy things and also to increase the nation’s GDP. Meanwhile, PENGASSAN has assured their commitment towards the minimum wage by issuing a statement that it has concluded every necessary plan to join other unions in the general strike, while emphasising that all its members are clear on the position of the union towards ensuring that the Federal Government shows commitment to the minimum wage.

“We are to proceed on the action with immediate effect. However, those on critical and essential services are required to remain on their duty posts”.

The day one protest in Lagos started from the Lagos State Secretariat in Alausa to Ikeja while shutting down banks and companies who failed to comply with the strike.

But the strike took its toll at the third arm of government, the judiciary, as the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa were on Thursday locked out of their offices by officials of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN), in compliance with the indefinite strike that was declared by the Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC).

Also locked out by JUSUN officials were Chief Judges of both the Federal High Court and the FCT High Court as well as the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN. Justices of the Supreme Court, Judges, lawyers and litigants were equally denied entry into any court within the FCT. Aside the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal, other places currently locked down by the protesting workers are the Federal Ministry of Justice, the National Industrial Court, the Code of Conduct Bureau & Tribunal, the Legal Aid Council of Nigeria and the National Human Rights Commission.

Meanwhile, JUSUN president, Mr. Marwan Adamu, has said that the current strike will continue till financial autonomy is achieved for the judiciary.

Speaking while addressing Judiciary correspondents at the Federal High Court headquarters complex in Abuja, Adamu said that JUSUN was compelled to down tools following the inability of the authorities to comply with a 2014 court order granting financial autonomy to the judiciary.

He said: “The strike is indefinite and we are not ready to go back until the government complies with the court judgment.

“There was a court judgment since January 13, 2014; no stay on that judgment and nobody is willing to comply with that judgment.

“If a court of competent jurisdiction delivers a judgment and the state governors who are beneficiaries of the judgment decide not to respect it, I do not think we are doing the right thing for this country.

“By the same token, state governments through their accountants-general and commissioners for finance being members of Federation Account Allocations Committee (FAAC) equally contributed to this industrial action,’’ he said In the meantime, commercial banks within the premises of both the Court of Appeal and the Federal Ministry of Justice were equally affected as labour officials ensured that all the gates remained under lock and keys.

The Daily Times recalls that NLC had directed its members and affiliate unions to commence a nationwide strike on Thursday.

The NLC President, Mr. Ayuba Wabba, said the industrial action was necessitated by Federal Government’s refusal to reconvene the meeting of the tripartite national minimum wage committee to enable it to conclude its work.

The workers are demanding a new minimum wage of about N50,000 from the current national minimum wage of

Wabba N18,000.

Wabba directed all workers and private sector at all levels across the country to comply with the down-tool order.

“All public and private institutions, offices, banks, schools, public and private business premises, including filling station, are to remain shut till further notice,” the labour leader ordered.

In compliance with the directive, JUSUN asked its members to shutdown courts nationwide to press home their demand for a new minimum wage.

In a related development, commercial activities were affected in Bauchi State as the Nigeria Labour Congress embarked on a warning strike to press home their demand for salary upward review.

One of our correspondent who went round the state capital saw workers down tool as business activities at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University and the Federal polytechnic Bauchi were grounded.

The Daily Times observed that the industrial action also led to the closure of banks, state Secretariat, State and federal high courts, tertiary institutions and Electricity distribution Company in the state.

Transport workers and traders who provide services on the campuses of the two academic institutions, lamented the negative impact of the strike embarked upon by the workers .They said that the strike was not favourable to thier businesses as very few students and lecturers came to the campuses with no academic activity going on.

Business centres where photocopies and printing works normally carried out were closed as only few shops were operating at the campus, but selling at high cost.

Mallam Shuhu Sani, an Okada rider attached to the campus, decried that business was not encouraging with the commencement of the strike as few students were left to patronise them.

Sani said: “This strike is just beginning and we have started feeling it’s effects.

I only made N200 since morning compared to before where I make between N1,500 to N2,500 in a day” “So many students and workers of this institution did not show up today and this has affected transportation business on campuse. I hope the government resolve this strike problem on time to save us from hardship”.

At the Federal Polytechnic Bauchi, traders situated at the polytechnic market opened shops, but lamented very low patronage.

Mr. Haruna, who operates a business centre at outside the polytechnic, said that he had not made a single kobo throughout the day and blamed the situation to the strike by the NLC. “I want the federal government and NLC to find a lasting solution to this strike because it is us the masses that are suffering. Now, there are no customers, how do they want us to survive. “The Federal Government and NLC should reach a compromise so that we can find our daily bread” he said.

However, normal businesses were carried out at the Abubakar Tatari Ali Polytechnic, ATAP, Bauchi as staff of the

institution were seen ‎busy at their duty posts.

One of our correspondents observed that normal academic activities took place as students were seen receiving lectures at different lecture halls in the school.

A student at the polytechnic, Ishaq Yakub, said he was impressed with the decision of the polytechnics management not to take part in the ongoing nationwide strike by the Nigeria Labour Congress.

He said: “I am happy that my school didn’t go on strike, and this will not temper with the academic calendar and will enable us to graduate within the time frame”.

Yakubu thanked the Rector and the entire management of the polytechnic for considering the plight of the students by abstaining to partake in industrial action.

But the two gates to the premises of Ikeja High Court in Lagos were closed as organised labour began a nationwide strike on Thursday following the inability of the Federal Government to meet the demands for a new minimum wage.

A Correspondent of NAN observed that all courtrooms were under lock and key, lawyers, litigants and members of the public who attempted to gain entry into the premises were turned away by security men manning the premises.

Mrs. Taiwo Olatokun, the Chief Registrar of the Lagos State Judiciary, who on her arrival to the court premises, was observed to be unable to gain access to her office because the administrative building was also under lock and key.

Officials of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) were however, unavailable to answer enquiries from the media as their national union had on Wednesday directed its members to join the strike by the organised labour.

The first day of the warning strike declared by the Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC), has already taken its toll on businesses, government offices, schools and banks in Umuahia and Makurdi.

All public and some private offices, including banks in Umuahia and Makurdi were on Thursday, shut down in line with the strike order by the Nigeria Labour Congress.

In most of the places in the two state capitals monitored by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the offices were not opened for the day’s activities.

Bank customers were stranded at all the commercial banks visited, as the security guards told them the banks were not opened for business.

The ATM points were however over crowded as some of the stranded customers resorted to them for their transactions.

All the state ministries were equally shut down, and the secretariat virtually empty when our correspondent visited.

A worker, who spoke to our correspondent in Umuahia, said that they received a directive on Wednesday to join the strike.

Public schools in Umuahia were also shut down, pupils and students in various schools, including Community

Primary School, and Comprehensive Secondary Umuda, who were probably not aware of the strike, were sent home.

A teacher at Central Primary School, Ugwunchara, Umuahia, told our correspondent that she came to monitor the exercise and as well inform the pupils who might not be aware of the development.

Activities were on at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Umuahia, as the health workers were attending to the few patients seen at the hospital.

In Makurdi, the Benue State capital, the local government secretariat, the main entrance gate was firmly locked with fresh leaves hanging on it.

Some staff were also seen with leaves and placards with inscriptions such as: “We Deserve Better Pay, Minimum Wage Increase A Necessity, FG, Listen To Our Pleas.”

Also at the High Court, Appeal Court and Judiciary Service Commission in Makurdi, the premises were empty as a few lawyers walked in and out of them with no sign of any administrative staff to attend to them.

NAN reports that few banks were however opened for transactions while most others complied to the ”stay at home” directives of the NLC. Both the Urban Development Board and Chief Magistrates’ court were under lock and key, but officers of the immigration service were seen at work.

Speaking on the strike, the NLC chairman in Benue State, Comrade Godwin Anya, said the state would adhere strictly to the order from its National Body of the union.

He said it was a known fact that civil servants deserved the best and insisted that the demand for enhanced pay package was in order.

“We will ensure all offices comply with the warning strike,”he said.

NAN reports that while government establishments complied wholeheartedly with the directives of NLC, the private sector did not comply.

Union officials were seen picketing offices within and around Makurdi, the officials also disrupted the official inauguration of the Benue Micro Finance House scheduled to hold at 10a.m in Makurdi.

Banks such as Access Bank and Zenith Bank were opened while Polaris Bank, Union Bank, Ecobank, UBA, First Bank, were closed.

Also, markets such as High Level Market and Wurukum were opened.

NAN reports that the organised labour had on Wednesday, ordered total shut down warning strike across the country, following the deadlock of the meeting with the Federal Government, over minimum wage.

Meanwhile, Government workers in Okitipupa, Ondo State has downed tools in compliance with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) warning strike which began on Thursday nationwide.

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Guber primaries: APC NWC disqualifies Communications Minister, Mama Taraba, 6 others Clears Ambode, Madumere, Alao-Akala, Ribadu, 148 others

THE National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has refused to clear Minister of Communication, Mr. Adebayo Shittu, for the Oyo State governorship election.

The development might not be unconnected for his involvement in the controversial skipping of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC. The APC NWC also refused for clear Senator Aisha Alhassan (Mama Taraba) for the Taraba State governorship primary.

In a statement made available on Thursday by the Acting National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mr. Yekini Nabena, other governorship aspirants denied clearance are Chief Osiobe Eric Okotie (Delta), Barr Ejikeme Ugwu

(Enugu), Ibrahim Mohammed Mera (Kebbi), Danladi Envulu- Anza Halilu (Nasarawa), and Ibrahim Mohammed Bomai (Yobe), who withdrew from the race.

But the party has cleared 152 aspirants for governorship primaries elections in 26 states. Borno State topped the list with 21 followed by Taraba, 11; Nasarawa, 11; Ebonyi, 9; Imo, 9; Zamfara, 9; Abia, 7; and Oyo,6. Kebbi, Plateau, and Niger have an aspirant each.

Among those cleared for the governorship primaries are Governor Akinwunmi Ambode; Jide Sanwo-Olu; Obafemi Hamzat; Professor Pat Utomi; Sen. Magnus Ngei Abe; Sen Ayogu Eze; Sen Hope Uzodinma; Uche Nwosu

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CBN: How 182 financial institutions became insolvent, distressed Says 154 MfBs, 22 finance coys, 6 PMBs affected

Motolani Oseni, Lagos The Central Bank of Nigeria has concluded plans to revoke the operating licenses of not less than 182 financial institutions across the country.

The apex bank disclosed that 154 of the affected institutions are microfinance banks; six are primary mortgage banks; while the remaining 22 are finance companies.

But the CBN explained that 62 of the microfinance banks had already closed shop, while 74 became insolvent, 12 were terminally distressed and six voluntarily liquidated.

The CBN listed the primary mortgage banks for revocation as Accord Savings and Loans Limited in Lagos that failed to recapitalise; and Ahocol Savings and Loans Limited in Anambra (state

government-owned) that closed shop.

Other mortgage banks for revocation are Trans Atlantic Savings and Loans Limited in Bayelsa (state government-owned) that became insolvent; Royal Savings and Loans Limited in Delta State that also closed shop; Amex Savings and Loans Limited in Lagos that failed to recapitalise; and Supreme Savings and Loans Limited also in Lagos that closed shop.

The CBN noted that eight finance companies voluntary liquidated; 13 failed to recapitalise; while one became insolvent.

According to the apex bank, the affected institutions are from different states of the federation.

Just last week, the CBN in collaboration with Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), established a bridge bank, Polaris Bank, to assume the assets

and liabilities of Skye Bank Plc. Skye Bank before now had failed to meet minimum thresholds in critical prudential and adequacy ratios, which culminated in the bank’s permanent presence at the CBN Standing Lending Window on daily basis.

In a statement, The CBN governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, said the bank’s performance has improved considerably compared to the pre-July 2016 era.

“The result of our examinations and forensic audit of the bank has, however, revealed that Skye bank requires urgent recapitalisation as it can no longer continue to live on borrowed times with indefinite liquidity support from the CBN. The shareholders of the bank have been unable to recapitalise it,” he said on Friday.

Emefiele added: “The focus of the action then was to save depositors’ funds and to ensure

that the bank continued as a going concern, being a systemically important bank.

“Part of our intention was also to stem the imminent job losses to staff if a liquidation option had been adopted.

“These objectives have been fully achieved and the bank has been able to meet customer obligations, having curtailed the liquidity haemorrhage and restored depositor confidence.”

He assured depositors that under the new management, their deposits remain safe and that normal banking services continued in the new bank on Monday, September 24, 2018, to enable customers to transact their businesses seamlessly.

“Thus, all customers of Skye Bank shall be automatic customers of the new bank and their accounts and records duly purchased by Polaris Bank”, he added.

Buhari tasks Africans in diaspora on anti-corruption measures Mathew Dadiya, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has called on Africans in the Diaspora to come up with suggestions on how to curtail the menace of corruption on the continent.

Buhari made the call while addressing participants on Wednesday in New York at the High Level Media Launch on “Illicit Financial Flows and the Fight against Corruption: Curbing the Existence of Safe Havens – the Role of Africans in the Fight against Corruption,” organised by the NEPAD/APRM Nigeria on the margins of the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly.

The President also enjoined them to support measures against “Safe Havens” for illicit financial outflows from Africa.

Describing corruption as a “cancer” which required global efforts to contain, President Buhari recalled that the negative impact of corruption on the continent informed the “resolve of African Heads of State and Government to remain committed to the fight against corruption,” and the declaration of 2018, as the African year of combating corruption with the overriding theme: Winning the Fight Against Corruption: A Sustainable Path to Africa’s Transformation.

He expressed appreciation to his fellow African leaders for the honour bestowed on him as the African Union Anti – Corruption Champion to lead the continental War Against Corruption in 2018 and beyond.

The President noted that the change agenda of his administration “has overhauled, revitalised as

well as institutionalised the machinery for an out and out fight against corruption and its agents, with a particular focus on illicit financial flows.”

Buhari, while acknowledging that the social and economic costs of corruption and illicit financial flows are massive, and have continued to stunt the development of Africa, cited a 2015 study by an African Union Panel led by Thabo Mbeki which estimated US$50 billion illicit financial flows out of the continent every year.

“According to the report, about US$2.5 billion of the US$50 billion of Illicit Financial Flows was in respect of commercial activities. It is obvious that the continent still battles with grand corruption at the highest level, with Safe Havens, opaque systems in many recipient countries and the outright willingness of some advanced countries to harbour stolen funds from Africa,” he said.

Listing some of the negative impact of illicit financial flows out of the continent to include draining of foreign exchange reserves, reduction of tax/revenue collection, poor investment inflows and escalation of poverty, the President noted that these “nefarious practices are being perpetrated by some of the 60 international tax havens and secret jurisdictions with thousands of disguised corporations, shell companies, anonymous trust accounts, fake charitable foundations, money laundering and transfer pricing mechanisms.”

Observing that efforts were now being made by African leaders to checkmate these ills and ensure greater transparency and accountability in government business, the Nigerian

President said: “One of the measures necessary if we are to make any headway is to bring in laws, regulations and policies that encourage transparent financial transactions, as well as implementing measures that would mitigate the incentives that facilitate illegal outflows from the continent.”

He recalled that during the January 2018 AU Summit, he pledged to “organise African Youth Congresses against Corruption, in order to sensitise and engage our youth in the fight against corruption; mobilise African Union Member States to implement African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption; and advocate for the strengthening of the criminal justice system across Africa through exchange of information and sharing best practices in the enforcement of anti-corruption laws.”

On the measures taken at the domestic level to curb corruption in Nigeria, Buhari said a mechanism had been put in place “for budget implementation and monitoring as well as assessing the impact on the lives of the citizens.”

Other measures include: “The Federal Government had successfully commenced implementation of a whistle blowing programme and so far tens of millions of Dollars have been recovered; as part of the global initiative, Nigeria has joined the open Government Partnership (OGP) having been committed in 14 areas which are categorized into four thematic areas as follows; Promoting fiscal transparency; Access to information under FOI Acts; Anti-Corruption and Asset disclosure and Citizens’ Engagement and

Empowerment.”

According to the President, “the above measures have not only assisted in alleviating fears of foreign investors, but have also attracted billions of Dollars in Portfolio investments since April, 2017.”

Buhari also noted that the “enforcement of the Bank Verification Number (BVN) has helped in no small measure to identify and curb the deeprooted corrupt practices by looters of government revenue with multiple accounts.”

The President said that he had “enlisted the support of multi-lateral institutions like the World Bank, IMF, Security Agencies, and friendly nations to locate and recover and help repatriate stolen assets.”

In same vein, Buhari recalled that “In the first quarter of 2016, I embarked on trips to the Middle East to sensitize their governments on the need to return stolen assets and hand over the looters for trial in Nigeria. In January 2017, Nigeria and UAE signed judicial agreements on extradition, transfer of sentenced persons, and mutual legal assistance on criminal matters.”

He noted further that “In March 2016, the Federal Government and the Swiss Government signed a letter of intent on the restitution of illegally acquired assets forfeited in Switzerland,” adding that under the agreement, the “Swiss government would repatriate $321 million USD illicitly acquired.”

Buhari affirmed that “machinery has also been set in motion for monitoring, assessing and reporting on the UN 2030 Goals on Sustainable Development.”

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reports that NLC gave the directive after its meeting with Federal Government over the minimum wage hit deadlock.

Okitipupa Local Government Secretariat, Nigeria Postal Service, State Specialists Hospital, Ondo State University of Science and Technology, state primary and secondary schools, Customary, Magistrates and High Courts were under lock and key.

Some of the secondary school students who said they were unaware of the strike went back home disappointed as their schools were locked and keyed.

On the contrary, some private schools and banks in Okitipupa opened for business while bank customers trooped to the banking to withdraw cash.

Dr. Dipo Komolafe, the Chairman, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), told NAN on telephone that the union complied with NLC directive.

In the same vein, Mr. Olayinka Olademi, the Secretary, Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN), Okitipupa told NAN that the union joined the strike.

In Ibadan, Oyo State, Public primary and secondary schools also remained paralysed while students who turned up for learning went home disappointed.

Some of the schools visited include, Community High School, Mokola, Eleyele Grammar school, and Obanday Grammar school, Eleyele, Baptis high school, OKe Ado and Basorun Ogunmola high school, ring road.

Others are People’s Primary School Adeoyo ring road, St. Leo’s Primary Orita challenge, Anserudeen Secondary school 1and 2 Liberty road, and St. Louise Grammar school Mokola.

Workers in Kano State joined their counterparts in the country by complying with NLC strike as they deserted their places of work.

The main entrance of the Audu Bako Secretariat which houses most of the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) was shut.

Some senior officers who attempted to go to their offices were prevented by officials of the union monitoring the situation.

Private and public schools as well as public hospitals also joined the strike.

However, markets, filling stations and some commercial banks in the state like UBA, GTBANK and Jaiz banks were opened for business.

Mr. Ado Minjibir expressed satisfaction with the level of compliance on the strike by the civil servants in the state.

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(Governor Rochas Okorocha’s son-in-law); Imo Deputy Governor, Eze Madumere; Niyi Akintola, SAN; Chief Christopher Alao-Akala; and Malam Nuhu Ribadu among others.

Below is the full list of National Working Committee Decisions on Governorship Aspirants Screening Committee Report Akwa Ibom State: 1. H.E. Obong Nsima Ekere Cleared; 2.

Sen. John Akpan Udoedeghe, Phd Cleared; 3. Dan Abia, Esq. Cleared; 4. Dr. Edet Okon Efretui Cleared.

Delta State: 1. Prof. Pat Utomi Cleared; 2. Dr. (Hon). Cairo Ojugbo Cleared 3. Rt. (Hon.) Victor Ochei, Esq. Cleared 4.

Chief Great Ovdje Ogboru Cleared 5. Chief Osiobe Eric Okotie Not Cleared; Cross River State: 1. Pastor Usani Uguru Usani Cleared 2.

Sen. John Owan Enoh Cleared 3.

High Chief Edem Duke Cleared 4. John Upan Odey Cleared 5.

Prof. Nyong Eyo Cleared.

Rivers State: 1. Tonye Cole Cleared 2. Sen. Magnus Ngei Abe Cleared 3. Dumo Lulu Briggs Cleared 4. Dr. Dawari George Cleared.

Abia: 1. Dr. Uche Ogah, OON Cleared; 2. High Chief Ikechi Emenike Cleared; 3. H.E. Comrade Chris Akomas Cleared; 4. Rt. Hon. Martins Azubuike, Esq. Cleared; 5. Barr. Friday Nwosu, Esq. Cleared; 6. Prince Amb. Okey Emuchay Cleared; 7.

Prince Paul Ikonne Cleared; Ebonyi State: 1. Sen. Sunny Ogbuoji Cleared; 2. Arc. Dr. Edward Nkweagu Cleared; 3.

Sen. Emmanuel Agboti Cleared 4. Obasi Ogbonnaya Obasi Cleared; 5. Hon. Kelechi Chima Cleared; 6.

Engr. Paul Okorie Cleared; 7. Comrade Christain Cleared; 8. Chief Austine Igwe Edeze Cleared; 9.

Prof.

Benard Odoh Cleared;

Enugu State: 1. Sen. Ayogu Eze Cleared; 2. Barr. Ifeanyi Nwaoga, Esq. Cleared; 3. Akubue Augustine Cleared; 4. Ben Eche Cleared; 5. Barr. George Ogara, Esq. Cleared; 6. Barr. Ejikeme Ugwu, Esq Not Cleared; Imo State 1. Sen. Hope Uzodinma Cleared 2. Hon. Uche Nwosu Cleared 3. H.E. Prince Eze Madumere Cleared 4. Sir Jude Ejiogu Cleared 5. Barr. Chima Anozie Cleared 6. Dr. Chris Emenike Nlemoha Cleared 7.

Sir Eche George Ezenna Cleared 8. Chukwudi Celestine Ololo Cleared 9. Air Commodore Peter Gbujie Cleared; Lagos State 1. H.E. Akinwunmi Ambode Cleared 2.

Dr. Kadir Obafemi Hamzat Cleared 3.

Jide Sanya-Olu Cleared; Oyo State 1. Niyi Akintola, SAN Cleared 2. H.E. Christopher Alao Akala Cleared 3. Joseph Olasunkanmi Tegbe Cleared 4. Dr. Olusola Ayandele, PhD Cleared 5. Dr. Owolabi Babalola Cleared 6. Dr. Azeez Popoola Adeduntun Cleared 7. Adebayo Adekola Adelabu Cleared 8. Hon. Barr. Adebayo Shittu, Esq Not Cleared (No NYSC Certificate); Ogun State 1. Jimi Lawal Cleared 2. Dapo Abiodun Cleared 3. Hon. Bimbo Abiodun Cleared 4. H.E. Sen. Adegbenga Kaka Cleared 5. Hon. Kunle Akinlade Cleared 6. Abayomi Semako Koroto Hunye Cleared; Jigawa State 1. H.E. Alh. Abubakar Badaru Cleared 2. Alh. Hashim Ubale Cleared; Katsina State 1. H.E. Rt.Hon. Aminu Masari Cleared 2.

Abubakar Ismaila Isa Cleared 3.

Garba Sani Dankani Cleared; Kebbi State 1. H.E. Alh. Atiku Bagudu Cleared 2. Ibrahim Mohammed Mera, OON Not Cleared; Sokoto State 1. Abbakar Abdullahi Gumbi Cleared 2. Hon. Farouk Malami Yabo Cleared 3. Ahmed Aliyu Cleared 4. Sen. Abubakar Umar Gada Cleared

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2019 polls: International observers identify Short News Adamawa, Lagos, Kano, others as violent, hot spots UNIFPA advises gender based Adebisi Oyindamola, Abuja

International Organizations have identified eight violence hot spots in Nigeria, prone to escalating conflicts if not managed before the 2019 elections.

The states identified are Adamawa, Plateau, Anambra, Rivers, Ekiti, Lagos, Kano and Kaduna, respectively.

In a Special Report on preventing Electoral violence in Nigeria, released in Abuja on Thursday, they posited that the challenge require innovative approaches on account of the shift in the dynamics of violence since the last elections in 2015.

The report revealed that the public expectation for credible elections

from INEC is low, stating that the umpire would benefit a lot from a transparent result management and staffing reforms.

According to the report, social and economic inequalities, ethnic and religious divisions, and corruption contributed to the risks of electoral violence.

These findings were sponsored by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), Fund For Peace, Middle East and Africa Center and the Fund for Peace, the International Republican Institute, and other agencies.

They predicted that grievances arising from recent local government elections may also have significant consequences for the national elections.

It suggested that successful statelevel initiatives in Plateau State will tamp down on religious intolerance.

The programmes Director, Fund for Peace (FFP), Patricia Taft, added that the findings showed that most conflicts during or post elections are usually orchestrated, and not as spontaneous as they seem.

She said the active involvement of civil societies and Non-governmental Organizations as peace brokers should be explored to build trust in the polity.

The agencies unanimously called for greater attention to be paid to preventing violence at the local level, and strong will from political parties to consciously prevent violence.

In his words, the convener Centre for Peace and Development, Jibril Ibrahim warned against the circulation of fake news, adding that unverified stories were responsible for most of the conflicts recorded in recent times.

violence survivors on justice Tom Garba, Yola

United Nations Population Fund (UNIFPA) in collaboration with Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Mubi Branch and Adamawa State University (ADSU) Mubi organized a one-day stakeholders’ seminar on how best to improve access to justice for sexual and Gender based violence survivors in humanitarian setting.

The one day seminar with the theme, Sustainable Development Goals has in attendance members of Nigerian Bar Association, MBA, NGOs, security operatives as well as religions and traditional leaders.

Chairman MBA, Mubi Branch, M.D Mahmud said cases of Gender Base violence (GVB) are rising on daily basis and called for prompt intervention by authorities concerned.

Also speaking, the Regional Programme Officer of UNFPA, Doctor Danladi Idrisa Saleh said the main purpose of the seminar was to intimate the stakeholders on the raising cases of sexual and gender base violence in the society and the need for prompt intervention and justice for victims.

Land dispute: Police deny extortion from family Joy Anyim, Lagos The Zone 2 police command, Onikan Lagos, have denied allegations of corrupt practices, wilful subversion of justice and extortion of N500, 000 levelled against the Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG Ibrahim Adamu and his men - SP Tijani Ijani and Insp Segun by one Mr. Peter Nwoseh.

While responding to a petition by Nwoseh to the Police Service Commission and the Inspector General of Police, the Zone 2 Police Command described the allegation as not only false and baseless, but also a fallacy concocted by the petitioner to bring the image of the Command, its AIG and officers to disrepute.

The origin of the petition centred on a land dispute which one Akiona family allegedly encroached into a property situated at Awori Close Kuditi Estate, off Adeniyi Jones, Lagos belonging to one Akiniran family, who Nwoseh works for.

The Zone 2 Police who were called upon to stop the alleged trespassers had allegedly conspired with same to dispossess said legal owners, the Akiniran family of their property.

Speaking for the Command, the Zonal Spokesperson, CSP Dolapo Badmos said, “We would have treated the allegation as figment of the petitioner’s imagination and let it slip but for the members of the public especially within Lagos and Ogun that holds the Command in high esteem. It is pertinent for the Command to state its own side of the story.

L-R: National Chairman, Interparty Advisory Committee (IPAC), Chief Peter Ameh; Member, Nigerian Working Group on Peace Building and Governance, Prof. Jibrin Ibrahim and Programmes Director, The Fund for Peace, Patricia Taft, during the Peace and Security Network Quarterly Confab Series in Abuja... on Thursday:

Temitope Balogun

Police deny arresting INEC accredited observers in Osun Andrew Orolua, Abuja Nigerian Police have refuted report that it arrested some accredited INEC Observers and denied them access to polling units in the re-run election in Osun State.

Force public relations officer, Mr. Jimoh Moshood said in a statement on Thursday that the police arrested 16 persons in illegal possession of customized INEC Observers’ tags, face caps, jackets and PDP membership cards.

According to him, “Police team on stop and search duties at Orolu intercepted vehicles with 16 persons on board in possession of customized INEC tags, face cap and jackets with the inscription

of “INEC Osun 2018 Election Observer” and PDP membership cards.

“The suspects are using the items to have easy access to restricted areas meant for personnel with due accreditation,” he added.

“The Nigeria Police Force wish to debunk report that some accredited INEC Observers were arrested or denied access to polling units”, he stated.

He assured the people of Osun State and other critical stakeholders of its renewed commitment and resolve to ensure adequate security for a free and fair re-run election while investigation continues.

The police also listed those arrested as: Moshood Adejare ‘M’ - People’s Democratic Party (PDP), House of Representatives aspirant

in Orolu Federal Constituency, Oyelayo Dayo ‘M’- PDP member, Orolu LGA and Olaoye Asimi ‘M’PDP member Orolu LGA. Others are: Raimi Taofeeq ‘M’- secretary, PDP Orolu LGA; Gbenga Olapade ‘M’, Charles Amibiogoiu ‘M’, Ayomide Ayansola ‘M’, Kayode Dada ‘M’, Daramola Segun ‘M’, Tunji Akinroyinmi ‘M’, Kunle ADEDEJI ‘M’ ,Habeeb Bahiru ‘M’, Yisa Sodiq ‘M’, Adeolu Bamijoko ‘M’ Oladipo Samson ‘M’ and Adeolu Bamidele ‘M.’ The police reiterated its determination to discharging its responsibilities of ensuring peaceful conclusion of the inconclusive Osun 2018 Gubernatorial Election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Armed Forces College honours 1992 military plane crash victims The Armed Forces Command and Staff College Jaji, Kaduna State, said it would construct a befitting Cenotaph in honour of the 165 military officers who died in a military plane crash in 1992.

The 165 military officers were attending senior course 15 of the college when the Nigerian Air Force Plane C130 crashed while on tour of naval formation in Lagos on to Sept. 26, 1992.

The Commandant of the college, AVM Lawal Shittu-Alao said out of the 165 officers that died, 116 of them were at the College.

He disclosed that a road leading to the quarters of senior staff course participants had been officially named Sept 26 road in their memories Alao identified those who died to include Seven Directing Staff, 102 students of senior course 15 and seven supporting staff of the College.

Flood: AFAN appeals to FG, states to compensate affected farmers The All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) has appealed to the federal and state governments to compensate farmers who are affected by flood in different states across the country.

Vice-President of AFAN, Chief Daniel Okafor, made the call in an interview with newsmen in Abuja on Thursday.

Okafor, who is also the National President of Potato Farmers Association of Nigeria (POFAN), lamented that many farms had been submerged by flood, while crops worth millions of naira were consequently destroyed.

He said that farmers in Delta, Anambra, Kogi, Niger states, among others, were badly affected by the flood, adding that the development would hinder food production in the states.

He noted that crops in many farms across the states were washed off by floods, causing the farmers to lose a lot of money.

He said that potato, cassava, fish and rice farmers were largely affected in the states.

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Daily Times Nigeria Friday, September 28, 2018

UN and need for dialogue, inclusiveness

Muhammadu Buhari

During the past year, the world saw some positive results and encouraging signs from the bilateral and multilateral efforts of the international community to address conflicts, crises and threats to world peace. We particularly commend the efforts of the leaders of the United States, North Korea, and South Korea, to realise our shared goal of a nuclear free Korean Peninsula.

In this connection, we acknowledge the commitment to peace shown by President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-Un by initiating a historic Summit. We urge that they continue this positive engagement.

Regrettably, many of the crises and threats to peace and security around the world, which we debated last year as we did over several previous years, remain unresolved. In some cases, matters got worse. The continuing plight of the Rohingyas in Myanmar, the protracted Israeli/ Palestinian conflict, the wars in Yemen, and Syria, and the fight against international and local terrorism, such as Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab come to mind.

The terrorist insurgencies we face, particularly in the Sahel and the Lake Chad Basin, are partly fuelled by local factors and dynamics, but now increasingly by the international Jihadi Movement, runaway fighters from Iraq and Syria, and arms from the disintegration of Libya.

In Myanmar, the carnage appears to have thankfully abated somewhat. We commend the United Nations for staying focussed on the situation of the Rohingya people, to bring their suffering to an end, and hold to account the perpetrators of the atrocious crimes committed against innocent and vulnerable members of this community, including women, children and the old.

The international community should strengthen its resolve to combat ethnic and religious cleansing everywhere. We support the UN’s efforts in ensuring that the Rohingya refugees are allowed to return to their homes in Myanmar with security, protection, and guarantee of citizenship. We note the indication by the government of Myanmar of its willingness to address these issues and we encourage them to do so expeditiously.

In this context, Nigeria commends the government and people of Bangladesh, in particular, and all other countries and organisations that have contributed to shouldering the burden of providing shelter and other vital assistance to the Rohingya Refugees.

The carnage and the worsening humanitarian situations in Syria and Yemen continue unabated.

But the international community cannot afford to give up on the Syrian and Yemeni people. We must pursue all efforts to find peaceful negotiated political solutions to these wars, which cannot be won by force of arms alone. Regarding Syria, we hope that the UN sponsored Geneva process

and the Sochi initiative, led by Russia, Iran, and Turkey advance this objective.

The international community must keep up the pressure to encourage the parties to pursue the path of dialogue, negotiations and inclusiveness in resolving their sectarian divides and bringing to an end the immense human suffering in Syria, as well as Yemen. We commend Turkey, Jordan, Greece, Germany, Italy and France for hosting the millions of the refugees fleeing these brutal conflicts.

The situation in the Middle East, grave as it has always been, is now worsened by developments since our last meeting. Nigeria continues to call on the Israelis and the Palestinians to make the necessary compromises in the interest of justice, peace and security, in line with our numerous UN resolutions and applicable international laws.

Unilateral, arbitrary and insensitive actions only prolong the conflict and undermine world peace and security. The deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza is an appalling result of the unrestrained use of power. We urge both parties to re-engage in dialogue on the basis of relevant UN resolutions, the Madrid Principles, the Quartet Roadmap and the Arab Peace Initiative, among others.

Nigeria reaffirms its unwavering support for a just two-state solution, negotiated without intimidation and with Israel and Palestine existing side-by-side in peace and security.

The crises in the Middle East have deep roots and have remained unresolved for too long. Yet, we should not fall into self-defeating despair and conclude that they are not amenable to solution.

We should draw inspiration from the remarkable leadership that got Ethiopia and Eritrea to restore long-lost hope for peace between them, a remarkable show of statesmanship which has now galvanised neighbouring countries, including Djibouti and Somalia to push for peace in the sub-region. I believe that with hard work, commitment, and a disposition to compromise and make necessary sacrifices, peace is achievable in the Middle East as well.

Most crises usually have a variety of festering causes and effects. It is the failure to address them early and effectively that leads to out-of-control conflicts. Addressing them includes national and international collective actions which positively impact on peoples and communities.

Hence, ‘Making the United Nations relevant to all people: Global Leadership and Shared Responsibilities for Peaceful, Equitable and sustainable Societies’, which is the theme for this year’s General Assembly, is very apt indeed.

A topical consequence of the current conflicts around the world is the irregular migration of affected people from the Middle East, Afghanistan, and Africa to Europe. Irregular migration entails huge avoidable losses of

human lives, puts strains on services in host countries and communities, and fuels antiimmigrant and racist sentiments in Europe.

That is why we welcome the successful conclusion of the negotiations on the first-ever Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, and we look forward to its adoption in Marrakech later this year. The aim is to protect the rights of migrants worldwide, while addressing the concerns of countries of ‘origin’, ‘transit’, or ‘destination’ alike.

Migration is a constant in human affairs.

We in Africa are grateful to countries that treat migrants with compassion and humanity – notably Germany, Italy and France.

Irregular migration is not a consequence of conflicts alone, but of the effects of climate change and the lack of opportunities at home.

Climate change remains one of the greatest challenges of our time. Very close to us at home, it is our lot in Nigeria, together with our neighbours around the Chad Basin, to live with the climate change consequences of a drastically shrunk Lake Chad and the parching up of otherwise fertile arable lands.

The Lake was a major source of livelihood to more than 45 million inhabitants of the region.

Its shrinking meant the loss of livelihoods and the people of the area are now rendered poor and vulnerable to the activities of extremists and terrorist groups. The instability thus caused in the sub-region intensified internal displacements leading, among other consequences, to intense economic competition, especially between farmers and herdsmen.

This is why we continue to call for a rededicated international engagement to accelerate the recovery efforts in the Lake Chad Basin to address the root causes of the conflicts in the region. What is required is continuous and robust UN cooperation with national governments and sub-regional and regional organisations, such as the Lake Chad Basin Commission, the Economic Community of West African States and the African Union, to enhance capacity in conflict prevention, conflict management and peace building.

With regard to the Lake Chad Basin plight, I extend our heartfelt appreciation to the United Nations, the governments of Germany, Norway, the United States, Sweden, the United Kingdom, France and a host of other development partners for their laudable support in assisting us to address both the humanitarian challenges and the on-going stabilisation drive in the region.

Corruption within countries and the illicit flow of funds across national boundaries have huge negative impacts on the stability, peace, and economic prospects of millions in developing countries. Corruption significantly deprives national governments of resources to provide meaningful livelihoods to their populations who are predominantly the youth,

thus giving rise to more irregular migration.

The fight against corruption, therefore, involves us all. It is in our collective interest to cooperate in tracking illicit financial flows, to investigate and prosecute corrupt individuals and entities and to repatriate such funds to their countries of origin.

Fighting corruption or resolving international conflicts, crises and wars; defeating terrorism and piracy; curbing arms trafficking and the proliferation of small arms and light weapons which fuel these conflicts, particularly in Africa; stemming irregular migration by addressing its root causes; and the many other global challenges we are faced with today can only be effectively addressed through multilateral cooperation and concerted action.

The only global institutional framework we have to address these challenges is the United Nations system. That is why we continue to call for the strengthening of the organisation and making it more effective by speeding up the pace of progress towards its reform, including that of its principal organ, the Security Council.

The reconstitution of the Council to make it more equitable and more representative of our global community is both a political and moral imperative.

We believe that a reformed Security Council with expanded membership in both the permanent and non-permanent categories, is in accord with prevailing international consensus and it is in our collective interest to do so. It is high time we stopped skirting round the issue and establish achievable benchmarks and time frames for these reforms.

I assure you all that in this advocacy, I am only reflecting Nigeria’s deep and abiding commitment to our organisation and its founding principles and goals. From the date we joined in 1960, we have contributed our quota to the fulfilment of the mandate of the UN. We have been active participants in many Security Council and African Union authorised Peace Keeping operations around the world, beginning with the Democratic Republic of Congo operations in 1960.

Furthermore, Nigeria has always mobilised the required human and material resources to achieve set United Nations goals, including the recently adopted 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. We are resolute in complementing the efforts and examples of the United Nations to promote gender equality and youth empowerment as necessary pillars for sustainable development.

Without these, there can be neither enduring peace nor security. As we set and implement our national policies to achieve these goals, we, in the spirit of international solidarity, will readily cooperate with other nations seeking to achieve similar goals for their own populations to help ensure that no one is left behind.

Federal Character Principle and matters arising

Kenneth Amaeshi

The federal character principle in the Nigerian Constitution is intuitively appealing. Its primary goal is “…to ensure that appointments to public service institutions fairly reflect the linguistic, ethnic, religious, and geographic diversity of the country” (Adamolekun, Erero, and Oshionebo, 1991:75 in Publius: The Journal of Federalism). It is difficult to contest this.

Some people have argued that the federal character principle helps to keep Nigeria in check and balance. Without it, they argue, a few people from the same kindred, if not the same family, could rule Nigeria and or occupy ‘juicy’ government positions for eternity. According to this line of argument, this is nepotism and should be avoided.

For such people, diversity and representation across peoples and regions is a virtue worth protecting and safeguarding through the Constitution. In this case, diversity becomes a valuable object of consumption in itself, and the only way to achieve it effectively in Nigeria is through regulation. In other words, such diversity would not be easily achieved in Nigeria, if it is not embedded in the Constitution of the country.

This presents two fundamental but similar problems. First, Nigerians are incapable of voluntarily making decent choices. Second, compulsion is the most effective way of getting Nigerians to act decently. In either case, the reasonableness of the average Nigerian is questioned.

But to what extent is this line of thinking reasonable? Is regulation the only way for a meaningful inclusive society?

Obviously not! Meritocracy can also be useful,

given that we all bring different competences and abilities on board the one Nigeria project. In other words, meritocracy is not against diversity and inclusion, as it is often misconstrued.

Based on the view that meritocracy matters, there are significant voices against the federal character principle; pointing to the atrocious manner in which the federal character principle has decimated and impoverished Nigeria instead. According to this line of thinking, the country has invariably sacrificed meritocracy on the altar of a seemingly spurious principle, as if the latter mattered that much. To appreciate this, all we need, as a case study, is our public service institutions. Do they attract the best hands in the land? Are they the pride of the nation? Are they as efficient and effective as we would want them to be?

If not for anything, we can at least learn from other emerging economies like China. It is not a perfect country, but it has managed to create enormous economic development and lift millions out of poverty in the last few decades.

It did not do this accidentally or on a federal character principle, as emphasised in Nigeria.

The China story is obviously different. There are about 56 ethnic groups in China. You hardly hear or read a single word about anything akin to the federal character principle there. It does not matter as much as prioritising the interest of the country. It also does not matter if all the key people in government come from one village, as long as they are capable of meeting the national goals.

Competition appears to be the key word in China. The best and brightest candidates go into public service – your religion and region do not

make any significant difference, and they make no apologies for it. Does that work for China? I do not think it takes anything less to power the Chinese economy and society. Serious countries and societies prioritise their talents, irrespective of where they come from.

Arguably, the current implementation of the federal character principle in Nigeria seems ineffective. It is difficult to find any empirical evidence that supports it. As such, one wonders why it is still vigorously pursued in Nigeria. The use of the federating States of Nigeria, as the unit of analysis, is even more preposterous. First, the States are not of equal size. Second, some geopolitical zones have more States than others – which means that using the States as the unit of analysis may run against the fundamental goal of ethnic, linguistic, and religious diversity of the federal character principle.

The problem of the odd practice of the federal character principle in Nigeria is trying to satisfy every ethnic group, state, and religion but no one. We have found a way to deify the federal character principle. It has become a sacred space everyone needs to behold with awe and reverence. It is in this apparent deification of the federal character principle that one finds its ability to silence any opposing voice. It has become a cheap way of antagonising anyone who opposes it as a saboteur of the One Nigeria project. In effect, it has inadvertently become a tool to oppress and marginalise – the exact opposite of what it aims to achieve. Therein lies the paradox of the federal character principle.

Many successful countries and societies often prioritise merit. One would like to think that public service jobs in Nigeria used to be

for our best and brightest. Where, when, why, and how did we lose it? This question will continue to haunt us until we find the courage to reconcile our desired goals with commensurate policies. Anything short of that is likely to be unproductive.

In the end, we become poorer for our very incoherent choices. The federal character principle should be deleted from our Constitution. If at all we need it, it should have a timeframe and deadline. It should not exist in perpetuity. The proverbial and omnibus problem it targets should be specific and time bound.

Leaving it, as it is, only creates room for abuse, corruption, patrimonialism, and division in a country where unity, efficiency, and productivity are very rare commodities.

Let us retrace our steps and find creative ways to treat this national malaise called the federal character principle. Nigeria needs the best irrespective of their ethnicity and religion. The best should think and work for Nigeria. No ifs, no buts. That is how countries and societies develop.

It is folly to think and act otherwise.

As long as we continue to push a system that undermines meritocracy and enthrones patrimonial patronage, we shall always reap the rewards of underdevelopment, a disunited society, and poor governance.

Perhaps, it is time for us to be brave enough to dismantle the colossal edifice of the federal character principle and wait for the often-argued Armageddon, as the outcome of this iconoclasm!

There are better ways of creating an inclusive society. Obviously, an outdated federal character principle implemented in perpetuity is not one of those.

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Editorial Commentary The election result they want in Osun

Times Guest Columwnist Azu Ishiekwene

If the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) had its way, its candidate in Saturday’s governorship election in Osun State, Ademola Adeleke, would have been declared governor that day.

The party is so upset with the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to declare the election inconclusive, that it has threatened dire consequences should the result go the other way.

Adeleke scored 254,698 votes, giving him 353 votes more than his main rival and candidate of the All Progressives Party, Gboyega Oyetola. But 3,498 potentially consequential votes were unaccounted for.

Yet there are those who insist that by simple majority, Adeleke should have been declared winner. Why is INEC wasting time?

As the parties return to the seven polling units in the four local councils that will finally decide the election, it appears that it is not only PDP that wants Adeleke declared winner, anyhow.

In the run-up to the election, the ruling APC had been so weakened by defections and fragmented by infighting that it seemed to be working hard not just to invite its own defeat but also to receive it on a red carpet.

Last Saturday, the aggrieved leavers and thousands of their supporters did not care about the incomplete process; they didn’t want to win, they would have been pleased if Adeleke was announced winner on that first ballot.

Perhaps, a substantial number of civil servants (especially between levels 8 and 17) in Osun felt that way, too. Two weeks to the election they were still being owed salaries of between 24 and 30 months and only the last-minute life-line of N16.7billion by the Federal Government closed the gap to an average of 18 months, depending on the level.

For eight years, Governor Rauf Aregbesola had tried to reset things, bringing to his job the zeal, energy and honesty that he is known for. He invested massively in infrastructure, especially in the state capital, Osogbo. He also tried to rebrand the state and transform it into an agricultural hub while strengthening its linkages with other markets in the Southwest, especially Lagos.

At the same time, he poured state funds into various youth empowerment programmes and tried to frogleap the state into a digital park of sorts. Regrettably, where hard-headed economic consideration might have saved the state from misery down the road – especially when funds began to dry up – Aregbesola didn’t let economics get in the way of his passionate populism. His intentions were noble and his courage unwavering, but he had spread himself too thin.

Despite Aregbesola’s effort to persuade voters that Oyetola will pick the slack, they seemed to have had enough, preferring instead, a man whose public life so far is cringeworthy and whose closet is breaking at the seams with baggage.

It’s difficult to imagine that the Osun (and part of the old Oyo) of Omololu Olunloyo, Bola Ige and Bisi Akande will find itself at this crossroads.

From the look of things, for swathes of Osun civil servants, announcing Adeleke’s victory, right or wrong, would have been well worth more than their salary and pension arrears and a just rebuke for Aregbesola and his strongest supporter and national leader of the APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

It doesn’t stop there. For a good number of people outside Osun, Saturday was a referendum on the APC Federal Government. While Abuja is absolutely convinced that it is doing its best to make life better for Nigerians, an increasingly skeptical and frustrated public can barely find the evidence in their daily lives.

If in spite of the patient, the doctor insists that the treatment is excellent, and yet the patient is not getting well, then there’s a problem. Keep in mind that this is the same Osun which defied its party then, the Action Congress of Nigeria, and voted for Nuhu Ribadu in the 2011 presidential election, when much of the Southwest toed the party line and voted for former President Goodluck Jonathan.

In a dramatic turn of events, that same state, Osun, appears to have turned against Nuhu Ribadu’s current party and swathes of people left behind across the country do not need Abuja to interpret the tea leaves. The feeling is that losing Osun, by hook or by crook, would be the clearest message yet to APC that it is not doing well.

But the elections would have to be concluded first – and not just concluded, concluded according to the law. No matter how badly Adeleke’s supporters and sympathisers may want him to get over the line, he can’t be assisted to do so by breaking the rules.

There are those who have smelt victory and can almost touch it. They cannot wait for Adeleke to be declared winner even though INEC has shown that doing so after the Saturday poll would be breaking the law.

The Electoral Act provides three scenarios where an election may be declared inconclusive: a) where none of the candidates achieve the required spread; that is, 25 per cent in two-thirds of the states in the case of a presidential election, or 25 per cent in two-thirds of the local councils in the case of a governorship election, b) in case of widespread and consequential violence, or c) in a case where the difference in the cancelled ballot is more than the difference in the votes between the leading candidate and the next candidate.

Adeleke’s supporters may still prepare to carry him on their backs over the finish line, with Davido supplying background music. But it’s not the first, second or even third time INEC would be declaring inconclusive elections on account of consequential marginal differences between leading candidates.

In the Imo State governorship election in 2015, Rochas Okorocha (APC) scored 385,671 votes; while Emeka Ihedioha (PDP) scored 306,142 votes, with a difference of 79,529. But 144,715 votes, which could have altered the balance, were cancelled. Attahiru Jega, who was the INEC chair at the time, declared the election inconclusive, a decision that was hailed by the ruling PDP then.

The same scenario repeated itself in the Anambra Senatorial election between Dora Akunyili (APGA) and Chris Ngige (ACN) in 2011; in the Kogi governorship election in 2015; and in the Taraba and Bayelsa governorship elections in the same year. In all the instances, the cancelled votes were greater than the margin of the difference between the vote of the leading candidate and the vote of the next candidate.

Of course, Mahmood Yakubu’s INEC has a role to ensure that elections are properly and transparently concluded on schedule. But we must concede that it has come a long way from the time when 80 election results were nullified by the courts from the 2015 general elections alone to only three court-ordered cancellations out of 178 conducted as at February this year on his watch.

While we continue to insist that INEC must do more, politicians and law enforcement agencies have to raise their game. They won’t if citizens don’t hold them to higher standards. Every inconclusive election – whether caused by man or machine – must be fully and transparently investigated and the results published, with the names and photos of those involved and the party or parties they represent.

In the Osun poll, for example, the disruption in three polling units in Orolu local council (stronghold of deputy House of Representatives Speaker Yusuf Lasun), was instigated by party agents on the orders of their paymasters who were also reportedly playing deadly number game as they scavenged for votes from their situation rooms as the final figures were streaming in.

Unless and until electoral offenders are punished – whether they are foot soldiers, party henchmen, security or electoral officials – we would continue to have disputed election results.

There’s no point scapegoating INEC or pressing it to announce defective results. Flawed elections, even when they’re conclusive, will only produce illegitimate public officers.

OUR POSITION 2019 polls, vote buying and good governance

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ince 1999 when the current Nigerian political dispensation came into being, the system has gone through many processes.

At the beginning, just as it has always been experienced in the nation’s political past, elections were more or less war situation in the country, when tension in the land rise to high heavens because of the uncertainty and possibilities at elections.

It was a time when ballot boxes were snatched at gun point from polling stations, stuffed with ballot papers and returned to the voting centres in commando style and the electoral officers seemed helpless and at the end of the day it is those with more thugs or with better shooting prowess that emerged winners at election.

Because of the situation, many electorate were not eager to vote, because as far as they were concerned, their votes will never count and indeed it never counted.

But things took a drastic turn when in the last administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan, the leadership of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) headed

by Prof. Atttahiru Jega introduced the Permanent Voters Card (PVC).

With the PVC came the electronic voters register and electronic accreditation of voters at elections.

This process meant that it became more difficult to snatch ballot boxes and the votes from that polling unit will still be counted, as it was most likely going to be at variance with the number of accredited voters.

The introduction of PVC and other systems that came with it gradually made it more difficult to rig elections and manipulate the electoral process while election was gradually becoming more credible and Nigerians from all walks of life then began to agitate that the process should be taken a step further by introducing electronic voting.

Though the INEC has not acceded to the agitation for electronic voting, perhaps because of the legislative challenges it is already having with the efforts it is making in sanitising the system, it however also introduced electronic transmission of results, which also means that it will become more difficult to tamper with the election results along the line of transmitting results from the polling booths to the collation centres.

But undeterred by the efforts of the electoral umpire to sanitise the system, politicians also daily devise new ways to circumvent the system and one of the ways it found out was vote buying.

Though vote buying has always been part of Nigeria’s electoral system, it however was done discreetly, as politicians send gifts of different shades and types to electorate, including money, foodstuffs and other such items, but that practice went out of hand during the Edo, Anambra, Kogi and Ekiti states governorship elections and also at the just concluded Osun State election.

The process of vote buying in the country which first was seen as stomach infrastructure in some quarters has now gone from being discreet to open business as many uninformed voters, either educated or not, who are always in the majority, see their voter’s cards as a means to an end.

Because of the poverty in the land which is mostly a result of bad governance, it is now being exploited by politicians who are always on standby, to cash in on the vulnerable poverty – stricken voters, who like sex hawkers, do not understand the risks associated with the act.

Vote buying does not only happen in the wee hours of the Election Day, it starts from the party’s primaries. At the ward level, the amount may be

minimal. But as the party primary moves towards election of local government party executive, local government chairmanship aspirants and on to state executive; and then National Assembly as well as national executive positions, the stake goes higher.

The danger posed by this practice is not only to our electoral process, but also to democracy as a whole.

It will simply mean that the choice of leadership will no longer be on the basis of programmes or party manifestos but rather, the highest bidder on election days, no matter how incompetent.

It also means that whoever wins an election through this process does not really have a pact with the people, as it was his money, rather than the legitimate votes of the people that puts him in office.

We submit that as we approach 2019 polls, Nigerians must understand that the moment they sell their votes for any amount, they have lost the right to complain about lack of good governance, lack of portable water, quality health care, and general good condition of living for the next four years.

This is so because it will be immoral of anyone to expect to see development from anyone who invested his hard earned money to purchase votes that puts him in office, because once he buys the votes that put him in office, it has simply become a business transaction from which the investor expects to make profit.

We are of the opinion that Nigerians must know that the cure for bad governance, the cure to poor electric power supply and lack of basic social amenities in the country starts with credible electoral process, where those who aspire to political offices are elected based on their programmes and vision for the people rather how much money they have to offer.

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2019 re-election: Gov Sani-Bello inaugurates campaign committee ... Reiterates commitment to actualise restoration agenda Joseph Inokotong, Abuja Niger State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani-Bello on Thursday reinforced his bid for second term by inaugurating a 14-man state campaign committee for the 2019 governorship election in the state on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC).

He charged the committee to work as a team and ensure effective liaison with the zonal and local government campaign committees in order to achieve victory for his 2019 governorship aspiration.

In a statement by the Chief Press Secretary, Jibrin Baba Ndace, he said the Governor reiterated commitment to actualize the restoration agenda which is designed to reposition the state, lift the social, economic and political statues of Nigerlites.

Addressing the committee shortly after inauguration in Minna, the state capital, the governor urged them to bring to bear their wealth of experience in ensuring effective and efficient coordination of the campaigns at all levels in the state for delivery of the desired result.

“The major task of this committee is to ensure team work, seamless networking and effective collaboration with zonal and local government campaign committees in order to achieve success at the party primaries and the general elections come 2019,” the governor charged the committee.

The committee is headed by Mal. Yusuf Suleiman, who was the director of publicity of the 2014 campaign committee and Alhaji Abdullahi Arah, Director General, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) is to serve as the Secretary.

Also on the committee were the Chief of Staff to the Governor, Hon. Mikail Al-Amin Bmitosahi; Secretary to the State Government, Hon. Ibrahim Isah Ladan; Commissioner for Works, Ibrahim Balarabe; Commissioner for Mineral Resources, Ramatu Moh’d Yar’adua; Chief Political Adviser to the Governor, Mr. Solomon Nyanze and former Commissioner for Water Resources, Idris Azozo.

Others are one time Commissioner for Investment, Hon. Yakoi Kango; Mr. John Sani, Umar Alkali, Aliyu Tumaka, Aisha Usman and Sa’adatu Bokane.

OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF ARMED FORCES THE MINISTER OF DEFENCE THE MINISTER OF CAPITAL TERRITORY CHIEF OF DEFENCE STAFF CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF CHIEF OF AIRFORCE STAFF CHIEF OF NAVAL STAFF MINISTER OF JUSTICE SENATE PRESIDENT SPEAKER OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE THE GENERAL PUBLIC SAVE THE SOUL OF OUR CLIENT ON ATTEMPT BY CHIEF B. A. OMOLE AGBOWORIN of No. 153 Union Homes Estate, Kuje, Abuja.

We urge the public to note that the said property is not for sale and the real owner Alhaja Sekinat Afolabi Abdulsalam already has all relevance titled documents on the property in question and particularly to let the public aware that in case anything happen to either our client or her family or we the counsel representing her, Chief B A. Omole Agboworin and his Cohorts be hold responsible.

To use some unknown military personnel to convert our client's land to his own.

That our client (Mrs. Sekinat Afolabi Abdulsalam) is the lawful owner of the land with Plot Number 159 situated at Phase AA3 Layout, Kuje, Abuja.

That our client did perimeter fence with concrete (ALL RAFT) about 4 years ago.

That unknown people tried to destroy the existing fence, they also went far to erect a small room on the land. We have gone to court and court orders placed on everywhere on the fence for them to appear and nobody has appeared or shown up to the illegal activity.

Chief B. A. Omole Agboworin is hereby warned to desist from illegal acts on the land with his cohorts, who he claimed he owed two million, five hundred thousand naira (N2.5m).

The armed forces are people of integrity, honest and dedicated Nigerians set up to protect Nigeria and her people. Nobody should bring the military into domestic issues of struggling for land and trivial issues. They are too mighty for trivial matters.

The land has been fenced about 4 years ago. Our client did RAFT FENCING with concrete. They have tried to alter the structure with unidentified men in uniform. Our client reported the case at Kuje Police Station.

L-R Capt. Mshelia; NUATE President, Comrade Dauda Sefiyanu and NLC President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, at the Natioal Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) 10th Quadrennial National Delegates Conference & Awards Ceremony, at Grand Hotel, Asaba.

Lagos APC primaries: Ambode trains 1,960 ward agents ...Gets endorsement from special interest groups Benjamin Omoike, Lagos In readiness for Saturday’s direct primary election, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s team has approved specialised training for 1,960 personnel that will serve as agents in all the 245 wards in the constitutionally recognised 20 Local Government Areas where the primary election is expected to take place.

This development comes on the heels of the inauguration of the Ambode Campaign Organisation (ACO), coordinators and offices in the three senatorial districts in the state, with functional outposts across the 20 Local Governments.

In a press release on Thursday from the Directorate of Media and Strategy of ACO, the agents have been selected and trained “to be the eyes and ears of Governor Ambode as the candidate of choice in the primary election.”

The statement added that, while being vigilant and uncompromising, the agents have been tutored to conduct themselves in a peaceful and orderly manner as loyal members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who want the best for the party and for democracy by ensuring that the best candidate emerges on a level playing ground.

Governor Ambode had on Wednesday reiterated his intention to participate in Saturday’s primary

election in line with the preference of the party and the influential Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC).

The governor’s position has sent jubilation and encouragement to the teeming supporters of the governor who believe that governor Ambode deserves a second term in office in order to consolidate on his numerous landmark socioinfrastructural achievements in the past three and half years.

In his declaration on Wednesday, Ambode had stated his intention to seek re-election with a “grateful heart, open arms and a pledge to open and deeper attention to the concerns of this one, big family.”

He also stated that a return of the party’s ticket to him will “guarantee the stability of the state’s growing economy; ensure continuation of the growth and development it has witnessed over time and ensure that the opposition does not take root in Lagos State.”

Meanwhile, buoyed by the governor’s genuine commitment to the development of the state as well as his gratitude and reference to the National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and elders of the party in the state, several special interest groups in Lagos APC have endorsed the governor’s candidacy, insisting that his sterling performance and reconciliatory conduct should earn him the deserved second term in office.

Note, our client fully paid for the Economic Trees, cleared the land and paid fully for the land to the so called Chief B. A. Omole Agboworin who shuttles between his house No. 153, Union Homes Estate, Kuje, Abuja and his unknown home address in Ilesha, Osun State.

He has vehemently refused to disclose the identity of the military man he has dealing or release his phone number.

The Court Order obtained from court asking them to come out and be known is hereby quoted for verification. There is no contention on the ownership of the land, neither is it for sale. Any efforts to forge the C of O or to void the current C of O are going to be futility and will not see the light of the day.

The case was filed in the District Court 1 of Federal Capital Territory, Wuse II, Abuja.

Suit No. CV/M/30/18 and Court Injunction granted on the 23rd day of April, 2018.

This publication becomes necessary as our client had been receiving threat calls and letter from unknown people threaten her life and that of her family.

This publication becomes also as the violator, who erected illegal structure refuses to show up despite the court order.

Please, Nigerians come to our client aid, as she doesn't want to lose her life, any member of her family or lose her landed property.

The ploy to use the name and might of the Armed Forces to cheat Nigerians is illegal, unconstitutional and barbaric. It will not work.

This is also to serve as CAVEAT EMPTOR. I, Barrister J. T. Adebara Esq. makes this publication on behalf of my client Mrs. Sekinat Afolabi Abdulsalam with the support of her husband Multiple Chief Afolabi, the Oluomo of Surulere-Lagos, Sobaloju of Igbore-Ogun State, Oluomo of Iro-Ogun State, Olunla of Akute land, Aare Akinrogun of Mushin, Mayegun Meran, Aare Apesin Ola of Idimu, Otunba Bobasere of Isolo, Aare Taiyese of Shasha Kingdom, Gbobaniyi and Bobasiro of Iju Ishaga, Jagunmolu of Agodo Egbe, Okanlomo of Itire land, Asiwaju Gbobaniyi of Ifako land and Baaloro of Mainland, Lagos State.

SIGNED J.T ADEBARA, Esq 07050575099, 08033763800

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Buhari tasks Africans in Diaspora on anti-corruption measures Mathew Dadiya, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has called on Africans in the Diaspora to come up with suggestions on how to curtail the menace of corruption on the continent.

Buhari made the call while addressing participants on Wednesday in New York at the High Level Media Launch on “Illicit Financial Flows and the Fight against Corruption: Curbing the Existence of Safe Havens – the Role of Africans in the Fight against Corruption,” organised by the NEPAD/APRM Nigeria on the margins of the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly.

The President also enjoined them to support measures against “Safe Havens” for illicit financial outflows from Africa.

Describing corruption as a “cancer” which required global efforts to contain, President Buhari recalled that the negative impact of corruption on the continent informed the “resolve of African Heads of State and Government to remain committed to the fight against corruption,” and the declaration of 2018, as the African year of combating corruption with the overriding theme: Winning the Fight Against Corruption: A Sustainable Path to Africa’s Transformation.

He expressing appreciation to his fellow African leaders for the honour bestowed on him as the African Union Anti – Corruption

Champion to lead the continental War Against Corruption in 2018 and beyond.

The President noted that the change agenda of his administration “has overhauled, revitalized as well as institutionalized the machinery for an out and out fight against corruption and its agents, with a particular focus on illicit financial flows.”

Buhari, while acknowledging that the social and economic costs of corruption and illicit financial flows are massive, and have continued to stunt the development of Africa, cited a 2015 study by an African Union Panel led by Thabo Mbeki which estimated US$50 Billion illicit financial flows out of the continent every year.

“According to the report, about US$2.5billion of the US$50billion of Illicit Financial Flows was in respect of commercial activities. It is obvious that the continent still battles with grand corruption at the highest level, with Safe Havens, opaque systems in many recipient countries and the outright willingness of some advanced countries to harbour stolen funds from Africa,” he said.

Listing some of the negative impact of illicit financial flows out of the continent to include draining of foreign exchange reserves, reduction of tax/revenue collection, poor investment inflows and escalation of poverty, the President noted that these “nefarious practices are being perpetrated by some of the 60 international tax havens and secret jurisdictions with thousands of disguised corporations, shell companies,

anonymous trust accounts, fake charitable foundations, money laundering and transfer pricing mechanisms.”

Observing that efforts were now being made

by African leaders to checkmate these ills and ensure greater transparency and accountability in government business, the Nigerian President said: “One of the measures necessary if we are to make any headway is to bring in laws, regulations and policies that encourage transparent financial transactions, as well as implementing measures that would mitigate the incentives that facilitate illegal outflows from the continent.”

He recalled that during the January 2018 AU Summit, he pledged to “organise African Youth Congresses against Corruption, in order to sensitise and engage our youth in the fight against corruption; mobilise African Union Member States to implement African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption; and advocate for the strengthening of the criminal justice system across Africa through exchange of information and sharing best practices in the enforcement of anticorruption laws.”

On the measures taken at the domestic level to curb corruption in Nigeria, President Buhari said, a mechanism had been put in place “for budget implementation and monitoring as well as assessing the impact on the lives of the citizens.”

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Short News NPC Ogun registers 25,728 births in 6 months Abiodun Taiwo, Abeokuta The Ogun State office of National Population Commission (NPC) has said it has registered a total of 25, 728 births in the State between January and June this year as against the expected 67, 434.

The Commission said the number represent just about 20 percent, calling on the people to take the issue of birth registration a priority.

NPC also called on federal, state as well as local government to evolve a plan that will make it compulsory for parents to register birth of their children within two months of such birth.

With particular mentioning of Ogun state, NPC charged the state government to come up with plans that would compel parents to register birth of their children not later than a year after such delivery.

The State Director of NPC, Gbolahan Olude said this in his address at the flag-off of the media campaign on promoting birth registration in Ogun state.

Bayelsa PDP raises the alarm over alleged intimidation, violent attacks on members Akam James, Yenagoa The leadership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Brass Local Government Area, Bayelsa State has again cried out over alleged violent attack and intimidation on the secretariat and security personnel in the area by thugs suspected to be members of the All Progressive Congress (APC).

The PDP leaders from Brass Local Government Area led by the Senator representing Bayelsa East Senatorial district, Senator Ben Murray Bruce, the Deputy Speaker of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Hon. Abraham Ngobere and the Brass Local Government Chairmen, Hon. Victor Isiah alleged that the alleged attack was masterminded by the leaders of the APC. Speaking at a media briefing held Thursday in Yenagoa, the caretaker Chairman of the Brass Local Government Council, Hon. Victor Isaiah, claimed that the suspected armed APC members stormed the PDP secretariat, destroying the party flag and setting it ablaze.

APC guber primaries: CP promises tight security, warns policemen against partisanship Joy Anyim, Lagos

Work in progress on the reconstruction and upgrade of the Onikan Stadium, by the Lagos State Government.

Kano rates highest in malnutrition, as group canvasses support for balanced diet Yakubu Salisu, Kano A Group, under the aegis of Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), has called on the Kano state government to step up efforts towards addressing malnutrition cases in the state as figures shows Kano has the highest number of malnutrition cases numbering about 1.4 million.

The group made the call during a round table dialogue, held in Kano in partnership with United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), aimed at bringing together all stakeholders to identify opportunities for financing nutrition, understand existing efforts by the State towards increasing domestic investment for nutrition and address nutrition emergency.

According to the CSO, Kano State records the highest number of stunted children with 1.4 million (out of 12 million in the country) a figure they say must be checked by the state

government through the scale-up of CMAM, and increased budget line for nutrition in the state.

However, the group applauds the state government’s Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) programme, which has scale-up from Six (6) to Thirteen (13) LGAs (out of 44 LGAs)which has been the most devastating among children under-five and pregnant mothers, a propensity by the State Government to scale-up the interventions.

Malnutrition according to them, constitutes a serious setback to socio-economic development of the nation, and sustainable growth in Northern Nigeria cannot be achieved without prioritized attention to scale-up and sustain investment for nutrition.

Furthermore, that, while the Ministry of Planning and Budget prepares the budget, the State Ministry of Finance, particularly Treasury which has the sole mandate for release of nutrition funds should endeavour to do so on time.

In her remarks, Commissioner, Kano state ministry of Planning and Budget, Aisha Yusuf Jafar, represented by the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Ali Sani, stressed that the state government is ever ready to collaborate with any development partner to pave way for effective implementation of nutrition policy and programs in the state.

She appealed that a vibrant and robust system that can catalyze the integration of the group and her ministry, be evolve as a coordinating Ministry, in targeting wider nutrition coverage as a key to reducing poor nutritional practices and improved knowledge of nutrition among the populace.

The CISLAC project which is tag; Influencing state and Federal Budget Processes for improved Nutrition Budget Allocation, release and accountability in Northern Nigeria, had in attendance, participants from the State House of Assembly, State ministry of Health, Budget and Planning, civil society groups, development partner and the media.

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Imohimi Edgal, has assured Lagosians of the police readiness to provide watertight security during the All Progressive Congress Governorship (APC), primaries scheduled to hold on Saturday, September 29, across the local government areas of the state.

Edgal who spoke through a press statement issued on Thursday by the Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Chike Oti urged party faithful to be law-abiding and stay clear from any conduct that can jeopardize free, fair and peaceful conduct of the election.

The State Police Boss also advised the aspirants to talk to their supporters to shun violence saying any person caught engaging in acts capable of constituting a breach of the public peace will be arrested and made to face the full wrath of the law.

He said, “The Police will ensure adequate security across the state during the exercise, Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers and heads of departments will work to ensure that due diligence is followed during the primaries”.

PSN calls on FG to respect deadline to close open drugs market Amaka Agbu, Port Harcourt The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has called on the Federal Government to respect the deadline of January 2019 it set for the closure of all Open Drugs Market in Nigeria.

This call was made in Port Harcourt on Thursday during a press briefing addressed by the Chairman of the PSN, Rivers State branch, Pharm. Wale Oladigbolu, ahead of the Pharmacy Week 2018 of the state.

Pharm. Oladigbolu reminded the Federal Government of its commitment to start the implementation of the National Drug Distribution Guidelines for the Nigerian society.

The PSN also called on the Rivers State Commissioner for Health and indeed the Ministry of Health to, as a matter of urgency, collaborate with the Pharmaceutical Council of Nigeria to rid Rivers State of Open Drug Markets such as the illegal and drug markets in the Rumuokoro, Mile One, Mile Three, and Garri Market axis of Port Harcourt.

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How 182 financial institutions became insolvent, distressed, others Motolani Oseni The Central Bank of Nigeria has concluded all plans to revoke the operating licenses of not less than 182 financial institutions across the country.

The apex bank disclosed that 154 of the affected institutions are microfinance banks; six are primary mortgage banks; while the remaining 22 are finance companies.

The CBN, however, explained that 62 of the microfinance banks had already closed shop, while 74 became insolvent, 12 were terminally distressed and six voluntarily liquidated.

The CBN listed the primary mortgage banks for revocation as Accord Savings and Loans Limited in Lagos that failed to recapitalise; and Ahocol Savings and Loans Limited in Anambra (state governmentowned) that closed shop.

Other mortgage banks for revocation are Trans Atlantic Savings and Loans Limited in Bayelsa (state government-owned) that became insolvent; Royal Savings and Loans Limited in Delta State that also

closed shop; Amex Savings and Loans Limited in Lagos that failed to recapitalise; and Supreme Savings and Loans Limited also in Lagos that closed shop.

The CBN Central Bank noted that eight finance companies voluntary liquidated; 13 failed to recapitalise; while one became insolvent.

According to the apex bank, the affected institutions are from different states of the federation.

Just last week, the CBN in collaboration with Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), established a bridge bank, Polaris Bank, to assume the assets and liabilities of Skye bank Plc. Skye bank before now had failed to meet minimum thresholds in critical prudential and adequacy ratios, which culminated in the bank’s permanent presence at the CBN Standing Lending Window on daily basis.

In a statement, The CBN governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele said, the bank’s performance has improved considerably compared to the pre-July 2016 era.

“The result of our examinations and forensic audit of the bank has, however, revealed that Skye bank requires urgent recapitalisation as it can no longer

continue to live on borrowed times with indefinite liquidity support from the CBN. The shareholders of the bank have been unable to recapitalize it,” he said on Friday.

Emefiele said, “The focus of the action then was to save depositors’ funds and to ensure that the bank continued as a going concern, being a systemically important bank.

“Part of our intention was also to stem the imminent job losses to staff if a liquidation option had been adopted.

“These objectives have been fully achieved and the bank has been able to meet customer obligations, having curtailed the liquidity haemorrhage and restored depositor confidence.”

He assured depositors that under the new management, their deposits remain safe and that normal banking services continued in the new bank on Monday, 24th September, 2018, to enable customers to transact their businesses seamlessly.

“Thus, all customers of Skye Bank shall be automatic customers of the new bank and their accounts and records duly purchased by Polaris Bank”, he maintained.

Short News PHCDA holds 3-day workshop on waste management in Taraba Okerafor Athanatius, Jalingo The Taraba State Primary Health Care Development Agency (PHCDA) has held a 3-day sensitization Workshop on the management of Waste at various health facilities across the State.

Declaring the Workshop open yesterday at the Star Exclusive Hotel, Jalingo, the State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Innocent Vakkai stressed the need for participants to take the issues of waste generated at health facilities very serious.

Vakkai, who described the programme as timely added that diseases like cholera, tuberculosis and many more can be easily contacted at hospitals and other health facilities.

While calling on the participants to give adequate attention to the teachings, Dr. Vakkai lauded Governor Darius Ishaku for always paying counterpart funds for the improvement of the State Health Sector.

Welcoming Participants, the Executive Secretary, Primary Health Care Development Agency (PHCDA), Aminu Jauro Hassan said Nigerian State Health Investment Project (NSHIP), a project under the State PHCDA has successfully piloted its activities in Ardo-kola and moving forward to two more LGAs of Jalingo and Takum.

Infrastructure: FG urges states, private sector to partner The Federal Government has called on the 36 State Governments to use Public Private Partnership (PPP) model to improve public service delivery and infrastructure in their respective states.

The acting Director-General, Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), Mr Chidi Izuwah, made this call in Abuja on Thursday at the launch of the 2018 Nigeria PPP Network (NPPPN).

The theme was “Accelerated Infrastructure Transformation for Sub-National Governments in Nigeria: the PPP Imperative”.

Izuwah said states could use PPP to deliver projects such as schools, hostels, state of the art markets, bus terminals, hospitals, Argo processing and farm mechanisation, among others.

He said that the ICRC was already working with some states to develop PPP projects that were economically viable to the country.

He cited the Lekki Deep Water ports, and the Ibom Deep Water ports as some of the projects that are currently being carried out in collaboration with the federal government, state government and private actors.

Awka monarch urges politicians not to overheat polity L-R National Vice President, Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN), Comrade. Hassan Ahmed; Secretary General, Medical and Health Workers Union, Silas Adamu; National Chairman, Medical and Health Workers Union, Joy Biobelemoye and Deputy Secretary General Medical and Health Workers Union, Mr. Tony Oghanghou during a press conference in Abuja... on Thursday. Photo: Temitope Balogun

Al-Makura, Sen Abdullahi fighting over stolen mandate – Maku Tom Okpe, Abuja Former Minister of Information and governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Labaran Maku, has said that Nasarawa state governor, Tanko Al-Makura and Senator representing Nasarawa west, Abdullahi Adamu, are fighting because of his stolen mandate in 2015 Maku contested the governorship election on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) but lost and had alleged that the election was rigged for Umaru Tanko Al-Makura, incumbent governor of the state.

Both governor Al-Makura and Sen. Adamu recently disagreed politically with the governor setting up a committee last week to probe his predecessor (Adamu) for allegedly defrauding the state.

According to the governor, Sen. Adamu awarded a hydro-electricity power project in May 2004 at the cost of N5.4 billion,

which was billed for completion within 36 months. The project was abandoned after Aliyu Doma, Adamu’s successor, reviewed the cost upwards.

The Senator replied, saying that probing him is a waste of tax payers money.

Speaking with journalists after submitting his expression of interest and nomination forms at the national secretariat of APGA yesterday in Abuja, Maku revealed that the fight between the outgoing governor and Sen. Adamu was as a result of his stolen mandate in 2015 governorship election.

He said: “Both Adamu and Al-Makura know that they didn’t win election, both of them are sitting on seats they did not win, they know it and they have been confessing it in recent times of this crisis.

They know Maku won the election but they upturned it, now there is crisis.

“You know robbers fight at the point of dividing the spoils, so now the crisis has erupted, that crisis tells the people of Nasarawa state clearly that the mandate was stolen – I knew there will be a fight

over it; all they can do now is, call the owner and hand it over so that the state can witness peace and development.

They don’t need to fight over it”.

The former minister said from 2015 till date, things have turned worse in the state saying; “In the period of this four years that the mandate was stolen, things have gotten worse in Nasarawa state, killings have multiplied. In many communities today people cannot go to farm.

“The government has been run in the most criminal way, N390 billion have been collected in these seven years but there is nothing in his own local government of Lafia; I defeated him. I defeated him in his own zone in four out of five local governments then I took the rest of the states, the results were awaited, some people conspired and changed the results in the full glare of the people”.

On his chances of winning the seat back in 2019, Maku said: “I took the ticket of APGA on Christmas day within three months, on April 11, I defeated the sitting governor Al-Makura in his own ward by 200 votes.

The Traditional Ruler of Awka, Obi Gibson Nwosu, has appealed to politicians jostling for offices to go about their electioneering without breaching the nation’s peace.

Nwosu made the plea in an interview with newsmen in Awka on Thursday.

He said, “Peace is priceless and necessary in ensuring meaningful development.’’

The monarch noted that peace engenders development wherever it reigns.

He urged politicians to always place national interest over and above their personal interests.

The traditional ruler said that any negative action or utterance capable of instigating war or overheating the polity should be avoided at all costs.

Nwosu was delighted at the result of his efforts toward restoring sanity in his domain by tackling the crisis generated by impersonation of the position with no loss of life and property.

He urged women to be in the vanguard of promoting peace by using their Godgiven abilities to create peaceful environment with their neighbours, families and communities.

Nwosu emphasised the importance of education to the citizenry, saying that any society with a greater percentage of civilised citizens would manage its affairs for greater development.

Armoured cable wire thieves arrested in Imo Prince Nwankwo, Port Harcourt Two transformer armoured cable wire thieves were caught yesterday in the act in Umuoshinta Ikenanzizi Obowo, Imo state.

The accused, two men, who arrived the vicinity on a motorcycle and electrical equipment were practically removing the armoured cable wires at Umuoshinta transformer, near the house of former minister for commerce cum former governorship aspirant of Imo state, Hon. Charles Ugwu, but luck ran out for the duo when they were apprehended by night security men on duty.

Speaking to our correspondence, one of the thieves who is in a nearby hospital told Daily Times reporter that two of them are from Nkumeato in Ihitte/Uboma L.G.A, but he operated from Obigbo in River state where he lives with his wife and a daughter.

The D.P.O of Obowo division police, Otoko, CSP Nsikak Nse Effiong said the rate of robbery incidence in Obowo cannot be over emphasized as he has been apprehending many of them daily. He frowned at the situation where youths of nowadays no longer engage in apprenticeship, but engage in all sorts of unlawful acts.

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Non-oil export: NEXIM Bank boosts Delta industrialisation drive with N1bn intervention fund Nosa Akenzua

Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki (left), with other dignitaries at the African Union High-levelled Meeting on Winning the Fight Against Corruption: Leveraging International Cooperation to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals in Africa,” in New York

NLC demands prosecution of N300bn aviation intervention funds mismanagement Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo The president of the Nigerian Labour Congress NLC Comrade Ayuba Wabba has called on the Federal government to investigate the mismanagement of N300 billion intervention funds in private

pockets meant for bail out of airlines in distress.

Comrade Wabba speaking at the 10th Quardrennial national delegates conference of the National Union of Air Transport Employees NUATE in Asaba said intervention funds running into billions of naira meant for bail out for the aviation sector in the past went into

individual pockets.

According to Wabba, those funds must be accounted for by those involved in the disappearance of the funds meant for bail out.

He said it must be recovered and ploughed back into the system for infrastructural development in the aviation sector.

The NLC boss while commending the government for the release of part of Nigeria Airways workers severance package, Wabba called on the government to ensure the total settlement of the remaining money.

He recalled that a lot of former workers of the defunct Nigeria Airways have died since the airline was liquidated.

Oil marketers urge FG to pay over N650bn subsidy arrears Oil marketers on Thursday appealed to the Federal Government to hasten payment of over N650 billion subsidy arrears to save their assets from being taken over by banks.

The marketers, under the aegis of Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN), which include Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN); Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association (DAPPMA) and Independent Petroleum Products Importers (IPPIs) made the call in Lagos.

The Executive Secretary of DAPPMA, Mr.

Olufemi Adewole, urged the government to lessen the bureaucratic process involved in the payment process.

Adewole said that 60 per cent of marketers had been forced out of business, as banks had taken over their depots, assets and properties due to their inability to pay back monies borrowed.

He added that many marketers were forced out of business, while others are presently struggling to survive due to the unpaid subsidy arrears.

“It has had very adverse effects on our operations. I am aware of two depots that

have been forcibly taken over by banks because they got injunctions from the courts.

“They did so the moment they heard that National Assembly has approved payment to marketers. Unfortunately, as at today, Sept. 27, the money is yet to get into our accounts.

“Another challenge we have is that many of the marketers had to lay off more than 90 per cent of their staff because of financial challenges.

“Although, few of them are still operating, but not in good number with just

about three to four staffs,” he said.

Similarly, the Chairman of South-West Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), Mr Tayo Aboyeji, said that loading activities had been bad at most private depot.“Government should find a way to pay the marketers and deregulate the sector to allow more players into the industry.

“When the downstream is fully deregulated, more marketers will engage in importation and it will help tanker drivers in their businesses because of the financial challenges,’’ he said.

How to develop Northern Nigeria, by Sterling Bank MD Motolani Oseni The Managing Director of Sterling Bank Plc, Mr. Abubakar Suleiman, has outlined ways through which the economy in northern Nigeria can experience rapid growth and development.

Suleiman who was speaking as a panelist on the theme of ‘Obstacles to Economic Opportunities in Northern Nigeria’ at the closing ceremony of the Kaduna Book and Arts Festival (KABAFEST), outlined three key indices needed to jumpstart economic growth in the region in his contribution.

According to him, the first key ingredient required for a successful transformation of the economy of northern Nigeria is to ensure an environment that is safe and secure enough to give investors the needed confidence to come in and operate.

Secondly, the people must be equipped with relevant skills that can make them

competitive, he said, adding that the kind of education that can achieve this objective must be one that inculcates the right kind of skills that can take advantage of available job opportunities.

Finally, the MD said efforts must be made to ensure that the capital required by those that are ready to do business and take the risk needed for a successful operation is readily available.

Explaining why Sterling Bank decided to sponsor the festival, Suleiman said “I believe that the value this event has created goes beyond the arts and books. I think it is fundamentally trying to help the society to improve.

“The work we do here is useful not just in view of supporting the arts, but of helping the society to become sustainable.

“If, for example, Nigeria wants to be selfsufficient in food, Kaduna would be central to that. Clearly, Kaduna remains one of the largest producers of major crops such as ginger, maize and tomato and we will

continue to support them.”

He said the bank is prepared to support the state government in its efforts to creatively improve agricultural productivity and reduce the conflict between herders and farmers. “We also think Kaduna State as an investment destination is increasingly moving from just food production to processing and to manufacturing. We want to support that process as well.

“If you bring in a lot of food processing capacities, it would impact on the quality of life of even the farmers and that is something we want to continue to support,” he said.

According to him, “Sterling Bank was the first bank to use the Anchor Borrowers Scheme as a model to work with clusters of farmers and an anchor to create essentially a system that improves the productivity of the farmer and ensure that they have access to right quality inputs.

“The system also guarantees that there is a buyer for the farmers’ products and that allows the anchor to have the input that they

need for processing.

So, working with Labana rice out of Kebbi State, we were able to demonstrate the value of that programme and that was how it became widely accepted by banks and states across the country to improve productivity.”

Also contributing to the panel discussion, Kaduna State Commissioner for Budget and Planning, Muhammad Sani Abdullahi, said even though the north has the highest population among the zones of the country, it contributes the least to the economic development of the country.

He explained that one of the issues militating against the concerted plan for economic development of the region is the inability of the north and the rest of Nigeria to agree on the way forward.

Abdullahi said most of the working population in the north are employed by the government to the detriment of the private sector, adding that the working population is so small compared to the unemployed.

The industrialization drive of the Delta State government, has received additional boost as the Federal Government through the instrumentalities of the Nigeria Export Import (NEXIM) Bank allocated N1billion Export Development Fund for production and packaging of non-oil exportable goods in the State This was revealed by the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, NEXIM Bank, Mr. Abubakar Abba Bello when he received Board and Management Staff of the Delta State Investments Development Agency (DIDA) on a Study Tour to the Bank in Abuja.

According to him N1billion Export Development Fund was allocated to each State. He advised that States should endeavor to access it to boost local industries.

He stressed that NEXIM Bank outside financing nonoil Exports products, enhances value chain and provides advisory services to Large, Medium, Small and Micro Industries. “Most Small and Micro businesses think that NEXIM is not for them, but we finance, package and promote Small and Micro Businesses and currently we have a scheme for women that are into export.

Abba Bello said he was delighted that Delta State happened to be a forerunner to embark on a Study Tour of the Bank and urged them to sustain the relationship for effective investment facilitation.

He encouraged DIDA to focus on Domestic Direct Investment (DDI) in consonance with what is obtainable at NEXIM. Responding, the Chairman Delta State Investments Development Agency (DIDA) Ogbueshi Afam Obiago who led the team of Board Members and top Management Staf of the Agency on the Study Tour said that His Excellency Sen. Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa’s vision of establishing DIDA to facilitate and promote investments in the State is in line with the mandate of NEXIM Bank.

According to him “the essence of the visit is to interface with Federal Government Agencies and Institutions that impact on issue of investments”. We believe that information we gather during the Study Tour will be beneficial to us in DIDA, he further stated.

Obiago said he was delighted to note that DIDA in attracting the NEXIM Bank of Delta State will boost the employment and empowerment programmes of His Excellency Sen. Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa.

On his part the Director General of DIDA Olorogun Lucky Oghene Omoru disclosed that the Government of Delta State was already in the process of creating clusters of Micro businesses.

He expressed delight at the confirmation that NEXIM Bank is in a position to render financial support to them.

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Public Private Partnership’ll enhance infrastructure dev if.. Mshelia Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo Chief Executive of WestLink Airlines, Captain Ibrahim Mshelia, says Public Private Partnership (PPP), if handled transparently is a lofty idea and would help the nation as a whole improve on the current infrastructure deficit it faces.

Mshelia who is chairman at the National Union of Air a Transport Employees (NUATE) 10th Quadrennial National Delegates Conference holding in Asaba Delta State made this known when he gave the opening address.

The aspirant however said the concept is not catching on in Nigeria due largely to shoddy and lopsided agreements that have stalled the development of the arrangement from the controversies that bedeviled Maevis to the one generated in the BiCourtney agreement.

Mshelia said, “On the surface, this is a very lofty idea. If done transparently, we all should encourage it because that is the modern practice in all fast growing economies across the world. “ “However, the PPP seems not to be walking on the fast lane in the Nigerian aviation sector.

This is largely due to shoddy and lopsided packages that oftentimes constitute grave and lethal therapy for the growth of the sector. “ “Examples fresh in our minds today are the controversies that bedevil the Maevis and Bicortney contracts. There is no gain saying that the sector can only succeed in the drive towards PPP when we have a government that is answerable to the people in place. “ According to him, a Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement involves the private sector in aspects of the provision of infrastructure assets and or Services, new or existing that have traditionally been provided by the government.

Stating that through such private engagements, governments broaden their options for delivering better services to its people and increase the economic multiplier effects while the private sector provides finance and expertise to ease fiscal constraints and increase efficiency.

He further called on the unions to begin marking out plans to make their umbrella party, the Labour Party (LP) great by working to install a responsive, responsible, and intellectual and worker friendly government, stating that’s why he entered the fray for Borno State Governorship.

“The upcoming election is around the corner.

We need to begin to mark out plans and back them with actions to ensure we grow our own party, The Labour Party (LP), to relevance, so that through that platform we can install a government that will be responsive, responsible and workers friendly”, he said.

We tackled multiple taxations to promote economic growth, says Wike Airtel operates 500 towers, 2,000 agents in Rivers - MD

Amaka Agbu, Port Harcourt Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike of Rivers State has said that his administration had tackled multiple taxations to encourage economic growth in the state.

Speaking during a courtesy visit by the management of Airtel Network Limited at the Government House, Port Harcourt during the week, Wike urged corporate organisations to partner with the Rivers State Government for the empowerment of the people.

He explained that the State Government had worked hard to reduce multiple

taxations. “If you run into any problems with any local government area, get in touch and we will resolve them. Also, if investors go away, our people will not be employed. So, we will provide an enabling environment that is conducive for investors to thrive”, he said.

The governor called on Airtel Network Limited to work with the State Government for the successful hosting of National Festival of Arts and Culture.

Governor Wike charged corporate organisations to always employ Rivers indigenes in top positions and also avoid cutting corners in their operations.

He added that the investment climate of

the state had improved because of the efforts of his administration to create opportunities for the people.

Earlier, the Managing Director of Airtel Network Limited, Mr. Segun Ogunsanya said that the company operated 500 towers and had employed 2,000 agents operating kiosks in different parts of the state.

He said that the team was in the state to officially launch its 4G Network, which he claimed was the largest and most efficient in the country.

Ogunsanya commended the Rivers State Governor for his outstanding projects delivery which he said had developed the business climate in the state.

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike (right) receiving a 4G SIM from the Managing Director of Airtel Network Limited, Mr Segun Ogunsanya at the Government House in Port Harcourt... on Thursday

Buhari, Ghanaian leader tackle issue of attacks on Nigerian traders Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo President Muhammadu Buhari and President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana Thursday met in New York, on the sidelines of the ongoing United Nations General Assembly, during which the Nigerian leader expressed delight that the attacks against Nigerian traders in Ghana were being decisively taken care of.

Briefing President Buhari, the Ghanaian leader said there was no intention to deliberately target Nigerians, noting that it was all about complying with the rules that guide trading in the country.

“I have met with the different groups, and have been reassured that there was no agenda to send anybody away. It is just that they needed to regularize their positions according to the trading laws of the country,” President Akufo-Addo said.

He added that Ghana’s Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr Alan Kyerematen, had issued a press statement on the

matter, which reads, inter-alia: “The Ministry of Trade and Industry wishes to inform the general public that the National Committee on Retail Trade will continue to ensure that all businesses operating in the retail trade sector of Ghana are given the opportunity and support to regularize their operations and comply with the laws and regulations in the country.

In this regard, all owners of the affected businesses and shops are requested to contact the relevant State Institutions and Agencies to regularize their operations as required by the various bodies under reference.

“The Ministry takes this opportunity to assure the general public, particularly the international community, that there is no orchestrated action

by Government or any State Institution targeted at Nigerian nationals or any particular foreign nationals.”

Buhari stressed that Nigeria and Ghana have a relationship that dates back in time, and urged citizens of both countries to comply with the laws.

Marketers to cut media spend as content creation increases - Study Godwin Anyebe Marketing spend by financial service businesses on content creation is expected to increase significantly this year, but advertising in print and TV is set to drop, according to a survey of financial services marketers.

While some traditional media channels are predicted to see a decline in ad spend from financial services companies, the overall budgets of the majority of those marketers working in the sector are set to stay the same, with just four in ten reporting their budgets will increase this financial year.

Financial services specialist agency Yell surveyed 250 senior marketers for its third ‘State of Financial Marketing’ report.

It found that 77 per cent of those questioned were planning to increase spending on content creation, followed by 62 per cent who said that budgets would be increased in building and maintaining their websites.

Paid social media advertising will also increase according to 54 per cent of marketers, following by 53 per cent who said spending on email spend would rise.

While budgets for these ‘active’ channels are on the rise, so-called ‘passive’ traditional media channels including TV and print will see a net reduction in advertising spend.

23 per cent of marketers said that their investment in print advertising would decline,

with just 12 per cent saying spending would increase.

11 per cent said TV advertising would drop by just 8 per cent predicting an increase in TV budgets.

When asked what barriers there were to achieving their objectives, almost half of marketers (49 per cent) attributed it to a lack of time and resources, increasing from 19 per cent who said it was a ‘significant’ issue in 2016 to 35 per cent in 2017 and now 49 per cent in 2018.

Compounding this are the continuing issues with marketing technology being as much of a hindrance as it is an accelerator.

Almost eight in ten marketers said inefficient tech platforms were a hindrance to them achieving their objectives.

Speaking on this development, Yell founder partner Nigel Roberts said: “The pressure being placed on financial services marketers to do more with the same, or even fewer resources, is once again the top of the charts when it comes to marketers concerns.

“Last year it was our contention that this was due to a massive increase in channels that marketers are being asked to service, without necessarily being given more budget or people to assist them.

“This year it feels like much of the same, but there is a sense that the focus is moving away from traditional channels, with content delivery being regarded as having greater importance within financial service institutions.”

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Why there’s face-off between Legislature, Executive – Okoyefi Kingsley Chukwuezugo Okoyefi, a lawyer is vying for the Njikoka State Constituency 1 seat in the Anambra State House of Assembly in the 2019 general election. In this interview with SAM NZEH, Okoyefi lists reasons that lead to face-off between the Legislative and Executive arms of government, what he intends to achieve if voted into office as a legislator, among others.

What do consider as the missing link in the legislature that you want to fill should you be elected into the House?

The issue is that most legislators we have had in the past and in recent times have not looked at their job descriptions as entrenched in the Constitution. This lack of understanding is the principal reason for the face-off between the legislative and the executive arms of government in most states and at the national level.

We have ended up having people who are in the legislature thinking that they are part of the executive which in turn makes it difficult for us to thrive because they have failed to make laws to regulate the environment and the society in a way that will serve us and we’re going to make good out of it.

If given the opportunity, do you think you can make the difference?

Yes, of course. It is because I can make the difference that I am currently vying for the Njikoka State Constituency 1 seat in the Anambra State House of Assembly come 2019 general election. I know there are a lot of things begging for attention starting from portable water, agricultural financing, healthcare, waste management, and education among others. I believe that going by the experience I have garnered from working for different organisations and agencies as a lawyer, and exposure to better societies, I believe that I am properly equipped to make good laws which are going to be suitable for the growth and development of Anambra State in particular and Nigeria in general.

Some people say youths lack requisite experience and are not qualified to seek the highest office in the land. Even President Muhammadu Buhari not

Kingsley Okoyefi

long ago asked the youths not to contest against him in the 2019 general election.

What is your view?

I think that President Buhari was politicking when he said youths should not contest against him in the 2019 general election. I am a youth and I know a lot of youths who are very experienced and intelligent enough to be able to man certain things. I’m a private sector person and I know youths who are below the age of 25 organising and managing over a 100 persons and running efficient organisations. Whoever says the youths cannot manage the country or manage anything is being delusional. Such a person is detached from the reality on

ground.

Also, the President who said youths should not contest against him; we should look at when he started seeing himself in government. That should be over 40 years ago when he was barely 35 years or thereabout. If he believes that he has done so well as a young man to still be there today, I don’t think he should have made that statement, rather he should encourage the youths to run against him and let the best win.

How would you rate the performance of the Governor Willie Obiano-led Anambra State government?

Ananmbra State government led by

Governor Willie Obiano to be candid has been moving at a very great speed towards development and meeting the yearnings of the people. However, I think the governor and his management team seem to be the only arm of government working. This, in my view, ought not to be so. Government is made up of three armsExecutive, Legislature and the Judiciary.

The Judiciary is doing well, so we don’t need to talk about them. The Executive led

by Governor Willie Obiano is working so hard but not getting the needed support which they should be getting from the legislature. We end up seeing legislators who are pushing to be like executives; they want to be seen constructing roads, classrooms, boreholes which are things that should be done by the executive.

Legislators should be able to make laws that will make it easier for the executive to deliver dividends of democracy to the people.

In summary, the Governor Willie Obiano-led executive is doing so well in Anambra State, but I think they need to be supported by the legislature through law-making.

What qualities should Anambrarians look out for in those aspiring to be lawmakers?

I want Ndi Anambra to look at the challenges they are facing today and elect people who can solve these challenges through legislation. Anambra State currently does not have a functioning Water Board. There are boreholes everywhere, but this is a danger to the society. The markets are not neat and not well regulated; people are getting sick without requisite hospitals to take care of them, etc. All these can be tackled through legislation.

So, I want Ndi Anambra to elect as legislators people who are strongly built on ideologies that can transform the state.

I want Ndi Anambra to shun money politics which has become the bane of the Nigerian society where every Tom, Dick and Harry who have made illegal wealth from somewhere comes to buy off governance and when they get into they are unable to perform.

What kind of legislature would you work to realise if you are elected?

In government, there should be harmony between the Executive, Legislature and Judiciary. The Executive and the Legislature should be able to work together. However, the Legislature should be the engine room, the thinking part of the government. So if I’m elected, I will work with others to ensure that there is harmony between the Legislature and the Executive in Anambra State. Also as much as we as legislators are going to work together with the Executive to meet the yearnings of the people, we also are conscious of the needs of the people and make necessary laws to tackle such needs.

I will also in concert with other colleagues see to it that we monitor the Executive to make sure they are performing satisfactorily.

What is your message to your constituents?

My message to the electorate in my constituency is that if they want better water, good technical education, good health, good waste management, they should vote me. If they want to feel government close to them, they should choose someone like me who has ideas on how to transform and bring the government closer to them.

My aspiration centres on bringing Nigeria out of the woods – Owuru Presidential Candidate of the Hope Democratic Party, HDP, High Chief Ambrose Albert Owuru has declared that his aspiration to become Nigeria’s president was built on his vision of rescuing the country from many years of social stagnation and economic instability.

Chief Owuru, who disclosed this to Nigerian Pilot yesterday, noted that his campaigns were focused on silence revolution with determination to brighten the future of all Nigerians.

He further decried the level of poverty among Nigerians and Africans in general.

“If you know the level of poverty we have in Africa and in Nigeria in particular… They are not going to election to say what a man with a good message has. It’s you that refuse to see the light. We need to educate Nigerians better.

“We have the World Bank, IMF, etc.; we cannot continue engaging and mortgage our future and our resources for the county’s welfare. We are focusing on industrialisation and distribution. Every individual has cross

to carry.

“We must wipe out poverty entirely from the land; that is our focus. We have to develop a system that will develop Africa. We must look for innovation, not visionless leadership.

On the viability of HDP to produce a president of Nigeria, the British-trained human rights lawyer noted that “we have what it takes. We will recover, reserve those politics that have held us to the ground and reverse all of them. In the first republic, Awolowo was the only one ahead of others.

He came up with good programmes at hand – free education, free this and free that, plus other good programmes. If they had allowed that to work, maybe others would have followed; we would have begun to see a new Nigeria by now. Since then, others have derailed. Now we have come to the end.

What next?” he queried.

He went ahead to lampoon the major political parties, which he said had done more harm to the growth of the nation by ignoring those indices that build a viable economy.

“All the major parties have no

programme. What they fight for is sharing of positions. We all have read how corrupt every system is; it’s not limited to any group. To fight corruption is not limited to a particular party. It’s now becoming an insult to the nation. Imagine, many have not been paid salaries, no means of livelihood, nothing by the way. Where is the welfare programme?

“Even in capitalist countries – Britain, America, etc., they operate welfare programmes. China is everyday working tirelessly to bridge the gap between the poor and the rich, reviving the system on daily basis. Nigeria is doing nothing; rather fighting on how to share positions and contracts. No way! We and you will not live to continue seeing things get worse. We have to do something; that is why we rolled out this programme and we need to you all to campaign with us. It’s for our good. We have a lot to give at the time of election. No money to give to you, but ideas to develop yourselves. Africa must have its own innovation programme.

“Capitalism will give us good governance; it will kill corruption and all that accompany it. People have to look after their own wealth; be part of their own wealth. I challenge everyone who has better ideas as the election comes up. Not about how serious we are. At my level as a British trained lawyer, I will tell you something and you will ask me how serious I am?

What ideas do I have? Which one do those fighting for positions have? They will tell you I have been in government for long. Is that an issue? Not how long but how well.

What have you brought to the table? What can you be noted for? We need everybody’s corporation,” he said.

Speaking further on his vision for Nigeria and achievements so far, the HDP national leader averred that his major focus had always been on how to revamp every sector to give Nigerians good living conditions, adding that “I have all my life been planning for good life for Nigerians through good leadership quality.

“Leadership has been my major

problem; I set up a foundation called Hope Foundation, Continental Leadership and Advocacy that has advocated seriously on good leadership. All activities you are seeing on the internet nowadays are good activities we have been putting together to bring about consciousness of leadership. We have to bring it to Nigeria because Nigeria is the leader of Africa. Every nation now looks for leaders that are good, sound, healthy and with ideas.

“Look at Kuwait, Malaysia and co, whether they like dictatorship in their land or not, they have leaders who are also old, but strong. The kind of leaders we have had in Nigeria, check them out, none of them has one day sat down and think about ideas. No ideology, just to share contracts every week.

We have to give every Nigerian hope.

“All other countries have what they manufacture; Nigeria is just consumption.

After Hope Part has taken the mantle of leadership, we promise within the first stanza, the true Nigeria will emerge,” he noted.

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

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

NAMES OF TRUSTEES: 1. DR. BUNMI OMOSEYINDEMI …………………….. CHAIRMAN. 2. MR. LOOKMAN OSHODI ……………………… SECRETARY. 3. DR. VINCENT DA SILVA …………………….. MEMBER. 4. PROF.CHRISTA EINSPIELER ……………………. MEMBER. 5. MR. FELIX MORKA ……………………. MEMBER. 6. MR. IDOWU GOWON ……………………. MEMBER. 7. MR. AYESEMINIKAN BAWO SABO …………. MEMBER. 8. MRS. CHRISTIANA ADEYEMI …………. MEMBER. 9. DR. ADEYANJU OYETOYAN …………………… MEMBER. 10. MRS. MUNIRA SHONIBARE …………………… MEMBER. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO QUALITATIVE PRIMARY HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOR RESIDENTS OF LOW INCOME COMMUNITIES IN NIGERIA. 2. TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF THE MOST VULNERABLE GROUPS, MOTHERS, CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENT GIRLS IN LOW INCOME COMMUNITIES. 3. TO REDUCE MATERNAL AND CHILD MORTALITY AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE REDUCTION OF ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY AMONGST THE LOW INCOME AND VULNERABLE IN NIGERIAN COMMUNITIES. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT OF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: SOLICITOR - GRACE FASOTO GRACE FASOTO & CO. LEGAL PRACTITIONERS CENTAGE PLAZA, 4TH FLOOR 14, ALLEN AVENUE, IKEJA. TEL. 08023065650.

ALIIA EMPOWERMENT FOUNDATION THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED FOUNDATION HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990 TRUSTEES 1.MR AYODEJI AKINTOKUN-CHAIRMAN 2.MRS OMOLOLA AKINTOKUN 3.MR TAJUDEEN AKANDE. 4.MR GBOLAHAN BLADE 5.MR SAMSON ATAYERO(JNR) AIMS AND OBJECTIVES TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL HELP TO MOTHERLESS AND OLD PEOPLE HOMES. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT OF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: BARR NIYI ADEKAULA

IMMACULATE INITIATIVE FOR PEACE THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990 TRUSTEES: 1. BANKOLE DADA MUTIU 2. BANKOLE OLUWATOYIN KAFILAT 3. BANKOLE AKINDIPO OPEYEMI 4. BANKOLE SODIQ OPEYEMI AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: TO PROMOTE PEACE AND HARMONY IN THE SIX GEO POLITICAL ZONE FOR BETTER NIGERIA. TO INITIATE PEACEFUL AND TOLERANCE CO- EXISTENCE AMONG THE GEO POLITICAL ZONE AND THE LEADERS BOTH AT STATE AND FEDERAL LEVELS IN OUR COUNTRY ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT OF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION

TRUSTEES: 1) OLUFEMI ADEKUNLE 2) ESTHER MUSA 3) CONSTANCE EGONDU SHEHU 4) ADELYN FOYEKE IMABEH 5) OLUBUNMI WISDOM ELEWOYORI 6) WISDOM ELEWOYORI AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. ADVOCACY: WE ADVOCATE FOR PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE AMONGST WOMEN OF DIFFERENT CULTURAL BACKGROUND AS WELL AS RELIGION. 2. TRAINING: WE DO TRAINING IN FORM OF CAPACITY BUILDING, WHERE WE BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER TO TRAIN THEM ON A SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE AT PARTICULAR TIME. THIS CAPACITY BUILDING GEARS TOWARDS EMPOWERMENT 3 OBJECTIVE : WE SENSITIVE WOMEN ON THE DIGNITY IN LABOUR. WE EDUCATE THEM ON HOW TO MAXIMISE OPPORTUNITIES IN THEIR ENVIRONMENT, WE CONCENTRATE MOSTLY ON FLASH POINT AREAS WHERE MOST WOMEN DEPEND ON THEIR HUSBANDS FOR SUPPORT TO ORGANISE SUCH SENSITISATION. WE LEAD THEM TO IDENTIFY THE AREAS OF NEED AND THEN WE EMPOWER THEM. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT OF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED : SECRETARY

OLALEKAN IJIDALE FOUNDATION THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED FOUNDATION HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990 NAMES OF TRUSTEES: 1. IJIDALE OLALEKAN STEPHEN. 2. ADEYEMO ADEKUNBI LATEEFAT. AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO CATER FOR THE LESS PRIVILEGE ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT OF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: TRUSTEES.

TUZUMS 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. LUCAS EBOH UZUM 2. EMMANUEL KIDOCHUKWU UZUM AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO CATER FOR THE LESS PRIVILEGED 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 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION SIGNED: SECRETARY

ASSOCIATION OF POWER GENERATION COMPANIES

GIBBOR OF FAITH INTERNATIONAL GOSPEL CENTRE

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

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

NEW TRUSTEES ALL APPOINTED 1. OKHAI-AKHIGBE IRETEKHAI 2. DR. OGAJI OFINJITIE JOY 3. ABDUL –AZIZ DAUDA 4. ONOH CIWEKU HEATHER

IRANWO FOUNDATION THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED FOUNDATION HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990 NAMES OF TRUSTEES : 1.CECILIA OLUWAFISAYO ARANSIOLA 2. OLORUNFUNMI YEMI ADEBAJO 3.OLUWAFUNMILAYO AYOBAMI ONI

SIGNED: SECRETARY

OLD TRUSTEES 1. ISMAILA ISA -REMOVED 2. GEORGE OLUWANDE -RETAINED 3. ENGR. ADEYEMI ADENUGA -RETAINED 4. EMMANUEL NNOROM -RETAINED

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TRUSTEES 1. PASTOR HENRY OKEKE 2. EVANGELIST SIMON PETE 3. JOHN EKUNDAYO BALA 4. UGWU RACHEAL CHINWENDU 5. UGWU PROMISE IFEANYI

AIM OF THE ORGANIZATION : A YOUTH LED NON PROFIT WHOSE AIM IS TO BREAK THE VICIOUS CYCLE OF POVERTY AMONG WOMEN AND CHILDREN .

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT OF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: ACHILE ELIZABETH

EJEKARIGBO FOUNDATION THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED FOUNDATION HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990 TRUSTEES: 1. MRS ODUKOYA IYABODE ADERINMOLA 2. OLOWU QUADRI BABATUNDE 3. MR SADIKU SULAIMAN ADENIYI 4. MR ODUKOYA ODUTAYO CALEB AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO SERVE AS MOUTH PIECE FOR THE OPPRESSED AND THE VULNERABLE IN THE SOCIETY VIA MEDIA INTERVENTION AND AWARENESS ON THEIR PLIGHT ON BOTH PRINT AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA. 2. TO ASSIST AND RAISE FUNDS TO SUPPORT THE OPPRESSED AND THE LESS PRIVILEGED MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY ON WELFARE, HEATH AND ALL OTHER NEEDED AREAS .

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

ULTIMATE LOVE FOUNDATION FOR THE INDIGENT 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. EZEUGWUNWANNE CHIBUZOR JUSTIN CHAIRMAN 2. UDOFIA IBEREDEM ETUKUDO SECRETARY 3. EZEUGWU NKIRU AGATHA AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.

TO SERVE THE LESS PRIVILEGED AND INDIGENT INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILIES IN THE POOREST COMMUNITIES IN THE WORLD AND INSPIRE CONVERSATIONS ON IMPROVING THEIR LIVES AND PROTECTING THEIR FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT 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 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION SIGNED: SECRETARY

DIVINE HOPE ORPHANAGE AND LESS PRIVILEDGE HOME. THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED FOUNDATION HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990 TRUSTEES: 1. MRS. CHIBUZOR GRACE - CHAIRMAN. 2. MR. CHIBUZOR CHINEDU OLIVER - SECRETARY. 3. MR. CHUKWUMA FRANCIS UZOCHUKWU.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PREACH THE WORD OF GOD

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES. TO PROVIDE FOR THE WELFARE OF THE VULNERABLE CHILDREN AND NEEDY WIDOWS.

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

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 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION

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

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED. A.S EGBO, ESQ

AMENDMENT OF CONSTITUTION TO REFLECT THE CHANGES

AJANGAMO FOUNDATION THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED FOUNDATION HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990 TRUSTEES 1. AKINTUNWA ADESOKEJI FRED 2. AKINTERINWA ADERINMOLA OLUWAKEMI 3. AKINTERINWA OLUSINA AKINTOKUNBO 4. AKINTERINWA ADEWALE OLUMUYIWA 5. AKINFEMIWA OLUWAFEMI GBEKELOLUWA 6. AKINTERINWA OYINDAMOLA ADEOLA 7. ADESUYI FOLAJIMI VICTOR AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO THE INDIGENT, ORPHANS AND THE DOWNTRODDEN IN THE SOCIETY 2. TO GIVE SUPPORT, TECHNICAL KNOW-HOW AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO BUDDING ENTREPRENEUR AND YOUNG SCHOOL LEAVERS 3. TO GRANT SCHOLARSHIP TO INDIGENT, PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED AND BRILLIANT STUDENTS FROM ONDO STATE AND ITS ENVIRONS 4. TO RENDER FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND MEDICAL SUPPORT TO AGED PEOPLE, WIDOWS AND OTHER FINANCIALLY HANDICAPPED INDIVIDUALS 5. TO ORGANIZE AN ALL ROUND EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMME AND SUPPORT FOR ILE OLUJI INDIGENES AND ITS ENVIRONS

WEDNESDAY SOCIAL CLUB OF NIGERIA RC NO. CAC/IT/NO 18906 THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED CLUB HAS CHANGED THEIR TRUSTEES UNDER THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1, OF 1990.

OLD TRUSTEES: 1. CHIEF SAIBU OLASUPO FADARE - REMOVED. 2. ALHAJI RASAQ AWOLOLA AWOJOBI - REMOVED. 3. DR ISAAC IBUKUNDAYO DUNSIN (JP)- REMOVED. NEW TRUSTEES: 1. TAYO TIMOTHY OLUROTIMI (PROF) 2. ADEROJU OLATUNJI ADENIYI. 3. ARIYO ADEMOLA. THE AIM AND OBJECTIVES REMAIN THE SAME.

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

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

SIGNED: BARRISTER DAYO ODUNEYE

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

CARDOSO HIGH SHOOL OLD STUDENTS ASSOCIATION THIS IS TO NOTIFY THE PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED ASSOCIATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC) UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1990 FOR REGISTRATION. THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. NWADEI LUCKY 2. MAI-OKOH, ALIMOTU 3. IBE, IFEANYI JUDE 4. OSAZUWA, CHUKWUMA FRANCIS 5. ANYAGARA, NKECHI LOVELINE 6. ODUWOLE, MOJEED ADEDAPO 7. OYEBODE, OLUSEGUN HAKEEM 8. ONYEABOR, NWACHUKWU GODSON 9. ADEIGBE, ADESINA SURAJUDEEN

CHAIRMAN

SECRETARY

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO ENCOURAGE, FOSTER AND PROMOTE CLOSE RELATIONS AMONG THE ALUMNI THEMSELVES. 2. TO ASSIST AND SUPORT THE EFFORTS OF CARDOSO HIGH SCHOOL IN OBTAINING FUNDS FOR DEVELOPMENT. ANY OBJECTION TO THE ABOVE SHOULD REACH THE OFFICE OF REGISTRAR-GENERAL OF THE COMMISSION WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: NWADEI LUCKY THE CHAIRMAN

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DIVINE GIVERS & LIFE REHABILITATION PROJECT FOUNDATION. THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE MENTIONED “FOUNDATION” HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER THE PART C OF COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACTS 1990.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES ARE 1. NWAGHA VALENTINA OMOTOHAME. 2. ELUAKA VIVIAN OBICHUKWU. 3. EZEKWE HENRY NKEMDIRIM. 4. NWAGHA OGECHI CODETH. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO USE GOSPEL, SUPPORT AND GIVING, TRAININGS , SKILL ACQUISITION ,IN ORDER TO EMPOWER/REHABILITATE THE LESS PRIVILEGED IN OUR SOCIETIES AS PROJECTS OF THE FOUNDATION .

ANY OBJECTION(S) TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, PMB 198, GARKI, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED BY; SECRETARY.

HAND OF GOD GOODNESS AND GOSPEL MINISTRY INTERNATION THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACTS OF 1990.

TRUSTEES ARE : 1. REV. PHILIP ABBEY ALAKHUME 2. MN MRS. ELIZABETH ABOECHIA ALAKHUME 3. PITAR ALAKHUME 4. KANU ABED CHIBUZO 5. GEORGE ALAKHUME 6. PATRICK MODEBE

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ATLANTIC HALL SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACTS 1990.

TRUSTEES ARE : 1. ADEBOWALE OLUWAKEYE ADEBAYO 2. AJIJOLA OLAWUNMI ALOKOLARO 3. AYOMIDE OLUFEMI SMITH 4. AYORINDE OLUGBAYI SOGBESAN 5. ELIZABETH OLUWATOSIN OKOGUN 6. OLUROTIMI BODUNRIN MARTINS 7. TAIWO LADIPO OPEOLUWA 8. MARK OKOYE AIMS: I. FOSTER FRIENDSHIP, BROTHERLINESS, LOVE AND PROMOTE PEACE, UNITY AND PROGRESS AMONG MEMBERS. II. PROVIDE A FORUM FOR DISCUSSING MATTERS OF COMMON INTEREST OF THE ASSOCIATION AND MEMBERS. III. RENDER MORAL AND OTHER REQUISITE ASSISTANCE TO INDIVIDUAL/COLLECTIVE MEMBERS. 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: TRUSTEES

SCOLIOSIS FOCUS INITIATIVE

TRUSTEES ARE : 1. REV’D FATOKI JACOB OBAFEMI 2. PASTOR(MRS) FATOKI GRACE OLUREMI 3. PASTOR OGINNI YEMI KUNLE 4. ELDER DADA OMOTAYO 5. TEWOGBADE ABIODUN ADEYEMI 6. PASTOR FATOKI DIPO SIMON 7. EVANGELIST ADEKANBI TEMITAYO OLUSEGUN. AIMS: TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. 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: TRUSTEES

PEACEMAKER INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVE NIGERIA

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

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

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. AKINTAN BISOYE- CHAIRMAN 2. AKINTAN ROTIMI RAPHAEL, 3. AKINTAN-ADEYEMI ATINUKE- SECRETARY

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MRS. COMFORT ADENIKE AYANDARE - CHAIRMAN 2. MRS. DORCAS OLAYEMI AMUSAN-FAGBORUN, MBE SECRETARY 3. MRS. ABIOLA ADETAYO

AIMS: TO PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL AND WIN SOULS FOR CHRIST IN THE URBAN AND RURAL AREA OF THE COUNTRY.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVE: TO PROMOTE AWARENESS, CONDUCT RESEARCH ON SCOLIOSIS AND HELP PEOPLE DETECT AND MANAGE SCOLIOSIS.

TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. 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.

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

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

ZION PLACE OF RESCUE MISSION.

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

SIGNED SECRETARY

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: TO ENGAGE IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION THROUGH MEDIATION SERVICES AND TRAININGS .

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

RHEMAWORLD LIBERATION CHURCH

THE SOUP KITCHEN MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL

DAWA ‘H ENLIGHTENMENT SOCIETY OF NIGERIA

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

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

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

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. DR. OLAMIDE OTI - CHAIRMAN 2. DR. OLUWAPELUMI AKINGBOLA -SECRETARY 3. DR. ODUNAYO FAMILONI

THE TRUSTEES ARE: ALH BASHIRUDEEN OLANIPEKUN CHAIRMAN 2 ALH LIADI GARUBA SECRETARY 3 ALH SULEIMAN ISHOLA TREASURER

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. 2)TO ORGANIZE OUTREACHES AND HELP THE NEEDY IN COMMUNITIES.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: TO PROPAGATE ISLAM RELIGION IN OUR SOCIETY.

TRUSTEES ARE .

1. REV.DR SETH OGUIKE. 2. BENNARD PETERS CHUKWU. 3. HENRY IKECHUKWU OGUIKE .

4. RICHARD CHIEKE.

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

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

SIGNED SECRETARY

SIGNED SECRETARY

OGBOZOR FOUNDATION

DOMINION PROGRESSIVE DEVELOPMENT CLUB INT’L

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

THIS IS TO NOTIFY THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART ‘’C’’ OF THE COMPANY AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 2004

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1 DR. UCHENNA OGBOZOR 2. MR CYRIL OGBOZOR 3. MR. AUSTINE OGBOZOR 4. ENGR. IFEANYI OGBOZOR 5. ENGR. CHIDIEBERE OGBOZOR

THE TRUSTEES ARE (1) ADENIJI ABIODUN AKIBU..CHAIRMAN (2) ALAWODE ADESHINA ADEWALE..SECRETARY (3) OMOTOSHO SAHEED OLAMIDE (4) MUSA JIMOH FUNSHO (5) AWAL SAKIRULAHI ABIODUN (6) BALOGUN MURUFF SOLADOYE (7) OLAMILEKAN KABIR (8) ADEBAYO ISIAKA OLALAKAN (9) OGUNYANWO ADENIYI KABIRU (10) OMOTOSHO KEHINDE

AIMS & OBJECTIVE 1.TO HELP THE LESS PRIVILEGED IN THE SOCIETY 2.TO PROVIDE FREE MEDICAL SERVICES TO THE INDIGENT PEOPLE 3.TO PROVIDE FREE SKILLS ACQUISITION TO PROSPECTIVE ENTREPRENEUR ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED:

TRUSTEES

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES. 1. PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. 2. TEACHING ON THE WORD OF GOD TO ALL NATION. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

FRUITFUL PEOPLE INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN CENTRE. THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART ‘’C’’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACTS, DECREE NO. 1 OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE; 1.LEVI ABEL ALABOMA - CHAIRMAN. 2. BABALOLA OLATUNDE JAMES - SECRETARY. 3.OGBEIDE SUNNY IDEMUDIA 4. LOOLO AURELIA GODWIN. 5. LEVI TAMUNOALA. 6.OKOH JOSEPH.

AIMS & OBJECTIVES TO FOSTER LOVE AND UNITY AMONG MEMBERS.

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SIGNED; LEVI ABEL ALABOMA ( CHAIRMAN)

JESUS ORDAINED FOLLOWERS ASSEMBLY INT’L

CHURCH OF FAMILY IN CHRIST INTERNATIONAL

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THE TRUSTEES ARE; 1. APOSTLE THEODORE AKWAOWO ISAAC - CHAIRMAN 2. MRS RACHEL ISAAC OFFIONG - SECRETARY

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SIGNED: PRESIDENT

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Saudi demands Canada apology, says it is not a ‘banana republic’

Saudi Arabia has demanded an apology from Canada for calling for the release of Saudi women’s rights activists and that Canada stops treating the kingdom as “a banana republic” if it wants to resolve an ongoing diplomatic dispute.

“We don’t want to be a political football in Canada’s domestic politics.

Find another ball to play with,” said Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said on Wednesday night at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City.

“It’s very easy to fix. Apologise and say you made a mistake.”

In August, Saudi Arabia froze new trade with Canada, blocked grain imports, expelled Canada’s ambassador, and ordered all Saudi

students home after Ottawa called for the release of activists detained for urging more rights for women in the kingdom.

Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said earlier this week she hoped to meet al-Jubeir on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly to discuss the dispute. That meeting never happened.

The Saudi foreign minister called Canada’s criticism of the activists’ arrests “outrageous”.

“We demand the immediate release and independence of Quebec, granting of equal rights to Canadian Indians... You can sit down and talk about it, but demand the immediate

release [of the Saudis]? What are we, a banana republic? Would any country accept it? No! We don’t.”

Canada’s ministry of foreign affairs had said in a tweet it was “gravely concerned” about the detention of activists in the kingdom, including Samar Badawi.

Samar is the sister of Raif Badawi, a prominent human rights campaigner sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2014 on charges of insulting Islam. His wife and children are naturalised Canadian citizens.

Freeland said on Tuesday Ottawa would not be changing its position.

“Canada will always stand up for human rights... We feel a particular obligation to women who are fighting

for their rights around the world,” she said. “And we feel a particular obligation to people who have a personal connection to Canada.”

A number of women’s rights activists - who campaigned for the right to drive and an end to the kingdom’s male guardianship system - have been targeted.

Germany and Saudi Arabia agreed earlier this week to end a diplomatic dispute. Their spat started last November when Germany’s foreign minister at the time, Sigmar Gabriel, condemned “adventurism” in the Middle East, comments seen as an attack on increasingly assertive Saudi policies, notably its air campaign in Yemen.

A gay teacher at a top Zimbabwean boys’ school has resigned after death threats and pressure from parents.

Neal Hovelmeier, deputy head for St John’s College’s sixth form, came out to his students last week.

He was encouraged to do so as a Zimbabwean newspaper was planning on outing Mr Hovelmeier, the school’s chairman wrote in a letter.

Some parents threatened legal action against him in a country where homosexual acts are illegal.

“I will not submit myself to a sham trial,” Mr Hovelmeier wrote in his resignation letter.

The teacher, who has worked in the elite school for 15 years, apologised for the distress caused by revealing his sexuality, saying it has since led to “death threats as well as threats of physical danger to myself and my pets”.

“I have come to realise that my current position as deputy headmaster is now untenable,” he wrote in the resignation letter.

Mr Hovelmeier came out to the student body on 21 September when the school, which is based in the capital Harare, released a statement by him.

He wrote that former students had confided to him that they had felt intimidated and ostracised at the school amidst a homophobic atmosphere.

He said he could only deal with the issue if he was “open and transparent about it myself”.

Netanyahu: Israel discovered second atomic storage facility in Iran Dutch police Israel has discovered a second it?” he said. “They took it out and they said was a pile of archives taken from a “have had at least 15 ship containers, “secret” atomic storage facility in Tehran, spread it around Tehran in an effort to hide warehouse in Tehran that showed Iran they’re gigantic, 15 ship containers full of arrest seven for Benjamin Netanyahu told the UN General the evidence.” was secretly continuing to pursue nuclear nuclear-related equipment and materials Assembly on Thursday as he urged Netanyahu called on the UN’s atomic weapons despite the deal. stored there,” he said. plotting attack European leaders to abandon the Iran agency to carry out immediate inspections He said Iranian officials had started “This means that this site contained nuclear deal.

Holding up photos and maps, the Israeli prime minister pinpointed a site in the Iranian capital which he said proved Tehran was continuing to pursue a nuclear weapon.

“Today I am disclosing for the first time that Iran has another secret facility in Tehran, a secret atomic warehouse for storing massive amounts of equipment and materiel from Iran’s secret nuclear programme,” Netanyahu said.

“Since we raided the atomic archive, they’ve been busy cleaning out the atomic warehouse. Just last month they removed 15 kilograms of radioactive material. You know what they did with

at a location known to Israel.

He used the discovery to urge the European countries still committed to the 2015 deal to curb Iran’s nuclear program.

Donald trump withdrew the US from the agreement earlier this year and started to reimpose tough sanctions.

Netanyahu accused nations like France, Britain and Germany of “appeasing” Iran by trying to renew trade despite Iran’s nuclear activity.

He said they should join the US, Israel and most Arab countries by supporting the new tough sanctions, which will include a new phase in November targeting the Iran’s energy sector.

Netanyahu in April unveiled what he

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Dutch authorities on Thursday arrested seven men suspected of plotting a large attack with hand grenades, automatic weapons and explosives belts, prosecutors said.

Three of the seven suspects had previously been detained after attempting to join foreign militants abroad. The lead suspect was a 34-year-old Iraqi who was convicted in 2017 for traveling abroad to join Daesh insurgents.

The men, aged 21-34, were detained in four locations across the Netherlands after nearly six months of investigations by authorities.

“The suspects were in search of AK47s, hand guns, hand grenades, explosive vests and raw materials for several (car) bombs,” prosecutors said in a statement.

They will be brought before a judge on Friday.

Police were initially tipped off by the intelligence service than the main suspect was targeting “a large event in the Netherlands where there would be a lot of victims.”

The arrests took place nearly a month after an Afghan man was shot by police at Amsterdam’s central station after stabbing two American tourists.

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Aliko Dangote keen on partnership with NFF

Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) president Amaju Melvin Pinnick has disclosed why he invited business moguls Aliko Dangote and Femi Otedola to the FIFA Best Awards ceremony in London on Monday night.

Dangote, who holds Nigeria’s second highest national honour (GCON), is the President of Dangote Group and is ranked as the richest person of African descent in the world.

The Dangote Group has interests in various commodities in Nigeria and other African

countries.

Alongside oil baron Otedola, Dangote was conspicuous at the Awards, and both met with FIFA President Gianni Infantino and the crème de la crème of world football in the British capital.

“Alhaji Dangote is perhaps the biggest business brand in Africa, and one of Nigeria’s leading Ambassadors. I am very happy to be in a position to invite himself and Mr. Otedola to such an event of global stature and essence.

“As a nation, it is important that we continue to showcase our

best brands in all fields. Doing this enhances the stock of our country globally. Alhaji Dangote and Mr. Otedola were happy to meet the world’s top governors of football and the football governors were also happy to meet them.

“Our objective as a Football Federation is to attain financial autonomy so that the Government can channel resources otherwise taken up by football into other critical sectors, and we believe that if we have persons like Dangote and Otedola partnering with Nigerian Football, we will

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get there faster,” said Pinnick, who is also the 1st Vice President of the Confederation of African Football.

A notable football, Dangote is reportedly worth over $15 billion.

“The NFF has invited Alhaji Dangote to a couple of matches previously, including the friendly match with England in London before the FIFA World Cup in Russia, but he was unable to attend. Now, we are discussing with him on a relationship with Nigerian Football and he is showing immense interest.”

FIBA World Cup: D’Tigress survive Greece scare, book place in quarterfinals Nigeria’s national women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, on Wednesday in Spain escaped with the narrowest margin of one point to book their place in the quarterfinals of the ongoing FIBA Women’s World Cup. The Nigerian team, which was playing at the Qualification to Quarterfinals stage having finished second behind Australia in Group D, defeated Greece 57-56 points at the Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

D’Tigress had a nervy start to the game and surrendered a comfortable lead in the first quarter to tie Greece 15-15.

They, however, rallied in the second quarter, after falling five points behind at the early stage to emerge winner of the second quarter 16-11. The third quarter also saw Nigeria extend their lead by winning 17-11.

But it was in the final quarter that the Greeks took matters into their hands by constantly asking questions of the Nigerian guards. Their persistence paid off as they overtook D’Tigress.

The Greek needed just a few points to hang on to victory when Nigeria managed to score nine points, including two crucial ones at

dead of the game, to end the fourth quarter 9-19.

Evelyn Aktahor was Nigeria’s top performer, recording a 14-point, 13-rebound double-double performance in the slim win.

Greece Maria Fasoula was the overall top performer with 18 points, 12 rebounds and three blocks.

D’Tigress’ Chinemelu Elonu attributed their victory to team spirit.

Elonu said: “I’m happy because we’ve been through a lot and our motto was to stay together and we stayed together.

“Greece is a really tough team. I don’t know how we pulled it off but I’m beyond happy and proud.

“It sounds really nice. I’ve never really thought about it. I don’t know what to expect but we’re just going to keep pushing.

“We didn’t know what to expect from the World Cup as none of us had been here. It’s just a ride that we’re taking.”

Nigeria’s will now meet US in one of the quarterfinal games at the Santiago Martin Arena, San Cristobal de la Laguna on Thursday.

Cristiano Ronaldo gets one-game Euro 2024: Germany beats Turkey to host tournament Champions League ban, free to face Manchester United Cristiano Ronaldo will be able to face his old club Manchester United in the Champions League next month after UEFA handed the Juventus forward a one-game ban on Thursday.

The Portuguese superstar was sent off in the first half of Juve’s 2-0 win away to Valencia last week after a clash with Jeison Murillo.

He risked a potentially lengthy suspension, but instead the 33-yearold will only sit out his team’s game at home to Swiss champions Young Boys next week.

Juve then plays Jose Mourinho’s United at Old Trafford on Tuesday, October 23, before hosting the English club in Turin on November 7 in Group H. Ronaldo, a five-time Champions League winner, first won the competition with United in 2008 before leaving for Real Madrid a

year later.

He moved to Juventus in July after nine years in the Spanish capital and has so far scored three goals in Serie A for his new club.

Germany has beaten Turkey to host Euro 2024 after a vote by Uefa’s executive committee on Thursday.

The two countries made final bid presentations before voting took place in Nyon, Switzerland.

The decision means Germany will stage the European Championship for the first time as a unified country, with West Germany having hosted the 1988 tournament.

Turkey is yet to host a major international football tournament.

It has seen previous attempts to host the Euros in 2008, 2012 and 2016 fail, as well as the 2020 Summer Olympics. Germany staged the 2006 World Cup. Euro 2024 will return to a singlehost format after Euro 2020 is held across Europe, including Germany.

Before announcing the winner, Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin said Germany and Turkey had made “very strong bids”.

After announcing the winner, he added: “The procedure was transparent. The voting was democratic. Every democratic decision is the right decision so I can only say I am looking forward to seeing a fantastic Euro in 2024.”

Euro 2024 will feature 24 teams, taking place in June and July, with 51 games scheduled for up to 32 days.

Berlin will stage the final, while matches will also take place in Cologne, Dortmund, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Gelsenkirchen, Hamburg, Leipzig, Munich and Stuttgart.

Former Germany captain Philipp Lahm, an ambassador for his country’s bid, said: “We have amazing stadiums, fans who love football, first and foremost we have people who love celebrating with other Europeans.

“We will organise a huge football

party in Germany.”

Germany and Turkey were the only countries in the running for Euro 2024 and, in the build up, an evaluation report by Uefa stated Turkey’s bid had risks.

The report added that Turkey’s lack of an action plan in the area of human rights and limited hotel capacity in many cities were matters “of concern”.

It also labelled the scale of transport infrastructure work required “a risk”.

However, it did say the Turkish bid was “in line with the long-term objectives of Uefa.”

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VAR to be used in Champions League next season – UEFA UEFA has confirmed the use of video assistant referees (VARs) in the Champions League from next season and plans to use them at Euro 2020, European soccer’s ruling body said on Thursday.

UEFA’s executive committee agreed that the VAR system would be used in the final qualifying round, the group stage and the

knockout stages of next season’s Champions League.

“We are confident that introducing VARs in August 2019 will give us enough time to put in place a robust system and to train match officials to ensure an efficient and successful implementation of VAR in the Champions League,” UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin

said.

Ceferin had announced UEFA’s intentions of using the system next season at an event in Monaco last month.

UEFA said in a statement that it planned to subsequently use VARs at the Euro 2020 tournament and in the Europa League, from the group stage onwards, in the 2020-21 season. (Reuters/NAN)

Former Nigerian international, Ebitimi Collins dead It was gathered that Collins, who was nicknamed Barbwire by fans, slumped in the early hours of Wednesday close to his house in Ikorodu.

Collins’ younger brother, Fabian told Punch that the family would announce the burial of the former Stationery Stores star in due course.

“We will have to take his corpse down to our family house in Surulere. After then, we will announce the burial arrangements,” Fabian said.

A close family friend, Olabisi Olawepo added that,

“Collins slumped and died around 5.30am on Wednesday.

“He had slept out but was coming home to pick up his hospital card because he had an appointment with his doctor when he slumped a few metres to his house.”

Collins started his career at Green Beret in the early 80s, before playing for Hoest of Otta and Concord of Abeokuta.

He joined Stores in the 90’s and went on to play for Enugu Rangers before returning to Stores, where he ended his playing career.

EPL: Keown reveals how Wenger, Ferguson would have handled Paul Pogba

Former Arsenal defender, Martin Keown has stated that Gunners ex-manager, Arsene Wenger and former Manchester United boss, Sir Alex Ferguson would have handled midfielder, Paul Pogba’s situation differently is the case with the current Red Devils coach, Jose Mourinho.

Keown expressed optimism that Wenger and Ferguson would have kept the matter in house rather than playing it out in public.

The former defender described Mourinho and Pogba’s feud as a ‘power struggle’, but advised the United boss to keep the row behind closed doors.

He pointed out that the ex-Chelsea and Real Madrid manager should be ‘building bridges’ with his players rather than burning it down, reiterating that Mourinho is approaching the situation the wrong way.

And he advised Mourinho to borrow a leaf from Wenger and Ferguson’s books, by disciplining Pogba in private.

“The footage that emerged of Jose Mourinho and Paul Pogba’s interaction

at Manchester United’s training ground was telling. These are two men locked in a power struggle,” Keown told the Daily Mail.

“He clearly feels Pogba is being disrespectful, whether that is through his comments on the tactics or his social media posts. Whatever the reason for Mourinho’s mood towards his player, the £89million man is refusing to be restrained.

“They need to have a proper discussion in private, not in public. Do it in Mourinho’s office at Carrington, not on the training field while those eagleeyed cameras are rolling. Show one another respect by doing that then keep whatever is said between yourselves.

Don’t go leaking it.

“Mourinho should be building bridges with his players. I remember at the start of the season when Manchester United lost 3-2 at Brighton and Mourinho said he would not criticise his players in public.

“Instead, after that defeat, it was actually Pogba who came out and said the players’ attitude at the Amex Stadium

was unacceptable. That looked like the manager was handing responsibility to the players. I thought that was perfect.

“That’s why I had so much respect for Arsene Wenger, because he never criticised his players in public. The same went for Sir Alex Ferguson. They saved it for behind closed doors, like it should be,” he added.

victory for the hosts.

Casemiro said Los Blancos lost because Madrid’s players didn’t play better in the first half.

“We gave away the first half,” Casemiro told Movistar.

“We did not play like we have

played all season. “[Sevilla] are a very difficult opponent and, if we give away 45 minutes, this happens.”

Asked whether the reverse made the derby more difficult, the Brazil international added:

Ambitions to challenge Anthony Joshua (22-0) is one of the reasons why Oleksandr Usyk (15-0) has agreed to fight Tony Bellew (30-2-1) on November 10 in Manchester, says the Ukrainian fighter.

WBSS winner Usyk and David Haye conqueror Bellew go head to head at the Manchester Arena on November 10 live on Sky Sports Box Office – when the 31-year-old Ukrainian will defend his four world crusierweight titles in what promoter Eddie Hearn has already labelled as “the fight of 2018”.

Nicknamed ‘The Cat’, southpaw Usyk has already won twice on English soil – including a gold medal at the London Olympic Games in 2012 and the undisputed world cruiserweight champion is firm favourite to beat the Liverpudlian hero, who twice trumped ‘The Hayemaker’

“Each game is difficult. When playing the derby at home we have to get points. They are a great rival.”

Meanwhile, Julen Lopetegui’s men will take on Atletico Madrid in their next La Liga fixture on Saturday.

against all odds, sending him into retirement.

Unbeaten Usyk is already planning his next fight with AJ, who retained his IBF, WBA and WBO heavyweight titles with a devastating knockout of Alexander Povetkin to move up to 22 fights undefeated.

“One reason we have agreed to fight Bellew is to get to Joshua,” Usyk was quoted. “It is exactly part of the strategy and why we have this co-operation with Eddie Hearn.

“He has Tony, he has Anthony, he has Dillian Whyte and a couple more heavyweights.

“It’s the best way, the shortest – not the easiest – way to fight Anthony.”

Hearn insists Joshua is “100 per cent” focused on fighting WBC world heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder next, and is hopeful a deal can be agreed in the coming weeks.

Charleroi’s Felice Mazzu hails Victor Osimhen after second straight goal Sporting Charleroi coach Felice Mazzu has hailed Victor Osimhen after he scored for the second straight game in Belgium.

“I like him and I hope he continues to score more goals,” Mazzu said after the young Nigeria striker came off the bench to score and ensure Charleroi

LaLiga: Casemiro reveals who caused Real Madrid’s 3-0 loss to Sevilla Real Madrid midfielder, Casemiro has blamed his side for their 3-0 defeat to Sevilla in the La Liga fixture played on Wednesday.

Three first half goals from Sevilla stars, Andre Silva and Wissam Ben Yedder ensured

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advanced in the Belgium Cup. At the weekend, the Wolfsburg loanee scored his first goal in the league.

It was his first goal in an official game in Europe.

Charleroi have the option to buy the 19-year-old Osimhen at the end of his loan spell next summer.

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