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Heritage Bank, Rivers partner to make arts, culture key driver of GDP growth Mathew Dadiya, Abuja Heritage Bank Plc has disclosed that it will continue to work closely with Rivers State Government in an effort to make arts and culture a unifying factor and major earner to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country.

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the pledge during the 2018 National Festival of Arts and Culture (NAFEST) at Sharks Stadium, Port Harcourt, Rivers Sate.

The NAFEST attracted 22 states across the country with the theme, “Nigeria: Our Festivals, Our Heritage.”

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the importance of Arts and culture as consistent sources of economic growth, during both good and difficult economic times.

“The art and culture industry has become one of the major contributors to so many countries’ gross domestic products and Heritage Bank is committed to supporting it because it is part of Nigeria’s heritage,” he said.

According to him, Heritage Bank has continued to make efforts in supporting ideologies like this, using arts as a tool to promote cultural awareness and to help younger Nigerians form a strong sense of National identity and peaceful coexitence.

He assured that the bank would always be driven by cultural heritage, as the initiative aligns very much with the vision of the bank, which is to help partners create, preserve and transfer wealth across generations.

The Heritage Bank MD noted that if government at all levels adopt the right

arts and culture policies and programmes, it will increase economic development in attracting businesses, creating new jobs, increasing tax revenues and promoting tourism.

However, Sekibo urged banks to support arts and culture through investments in programmes that will promote economic development, jobs creation, and community revitalisation at the three tiers of government.

Earlier while declaring the festival officially open, Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, who commended Heritage Bank and other sponsors, said NAFEST provided a platform for the states to make the most of the nation’s culture, adding that culture empowers humanity by improving interpersonal relationships.

He said, “Over the years, NAFEST has become the veritable platform for the 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory to meet, showcase and make the most of our cultures and diversity.”

He stated that the essence of the festival was to promote

national peace, unity and cohesion.

“Whether we agree or not, our diversity is what defines and binds us as a nation under the glorious sun. Although our tribes and tongues may differ, we are a nation bound by a common destiny and firmly glued together by the spirit of brotherhood, cultural harmony, and inter-ethnic solidarity instead of discord, tribalism, nepotism and sectionalism,” the governor explained.

According to him, NAFEST provides creative images and expressions to engage our leaders on the politics of nation-building, human rights, regional integration, inter-ethnic harmony, national peace and development.

In his remarks, the Director-General, National Council for Arts and Culture, Otunba Olusegun Runsewe, commended Rivers Government for uplifting arts and culture in the country, which has contributed immensely co-existing peace and economic growth.

Entertainment industry, key to Nigeria’s economic growth, Osinbajo, Ambode Mutiat Ali, Lagos Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, have re-emphasised the importance of the entertainment industry to Nigeria’s economic growth, assuring that the sector would continue to enjoy support to maximize its potentials.

The duo spoke at an event at the weekend organised for entertainers and tagged “An Evening with the Vice President” held at the Eko Hotels and Suites, Victoria Island and was well attended by scores of entertainers including actors, comedians and musicians, among others.

Osinbajo reassured stakeholders in the entertainment industry of the Federal Government’s commitment to support them to enhance national growth and development, adding that they remain key players in the nation’s all round development and Government was not oblivious of it.

The Vice President said he had met frequently with entertainers with a view to developing policies around the industry for economy growth, revealing that the government decided to create Technology and Creativity Advisory Council to see how the government could move the industry forward through proper policies, especially on how to address the issue of piracy.

“No sensible politician can ignore entertainers; if you do, you do so at your own risk. Entertainers also cannot ignore politicians; it is impossible. If you do, you do so at your own peril.

“Already, there is a lot going on. Your industry has to respond to what is going on. This industry is important and crucial to our economy.

“We must set up the environment that will make it happen. No environment is completely ready; whatever it is that we have at the moment, we have to make the maximum use of it to grow this industry,” he said.

He said it was gratifying that some entertainers were already in politics and urged others to participate, in order to make a change and a difference.

“Your support is actually important. What we need to do is to sit together and solve the problem. The country is what it is today because some people stole the treasure,” he said.

In his remarks, Governor Ambode said the state had always been the hub for entertainers and would continue to support the industry to grow the state’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

He also called for synergy between the Government and entertainers in order to create a convergence to grow the economy of not just the State, but also Nigeria.

“I just want to promise this time around that whatever

it is that we have done as a government in the last three and half years, we have proven that the arts and entertainment industry can actually create a convergence with the culture of the city and then promote tourism using that convergence to grow the economy of Lagos and we have proven that.

“So, beyond our action, there are other things that have to do with the framework, the things that have to do with copyright and access to capital to promote the entertainment industry and I hope that within the next one hour, we should be able to tell ourselves the truth on which way we can actually push this synergy to create that grows the GDP, not only of Lagos but the GDP of the whole country and we would be able to attract tourists to this country,” Governor Ambode said.

Also speaking, Sen. Goodwill Akpabio, who promised to support the industry as he had also been, assured the entertainers of government’s readiness to help them on issues of legislation.

Akpabio, who noted that the artistes were ambassadors of the country, urged them to promote Nigeria’s oneness.

Many of the artistes, who spoke at the event, identified the challenges in the industry as piracy, distribution of artistic works, poor power supply, lack of infrastructure, censorship, licensing, and access to credit facilities, among others.

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L-R: Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II; Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki and others during the 7th Oba of Benin Golf Tournament at the Benin Golf Club in Benin City, at the weekend.

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2019: APC senator, BoT member in war-of- words Tunde Opalana, Abuja Former Yobe State Governor and a serving senator, Bukar Abba Ibrahim (Yobe, APC) and a member of Board of Trustees (BoT) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Nasiru Danu, have expressed divergent views over the chances of the party during the 2019 polls.

Sen Abba Ibrahim has claimed that current situations of the socio- political and economic trends in the country are indicators of an imminent defeat for President Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling APC in the 2019 general elections.

He also claimed that his party (APC) has failed on virtually all pre-2015 election promises, saying that social and economic conditions of Nigerians have been worsened by the Buhari administration as he claimed that the people are bitter.

But Nasiru Danu, the APC BoT member, has debunked the claims of Sen Abba Ibrahim, saying that the ruling party is addressing the infrastructural deficits in the six geo-political zones in the country despite challenges.

Danu added that it was laughable for an APC senator whose wife is a serving minister to castigate his party for selfish reason, knowing that the party is doing its best in fulfilling its campaign promises.

The three times former governor fired the first salvo when he said that as a progressive, his hopes have been dashed by the supposed progressive party that has lost every tenet of progressivism and not better that the previous

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) it sought to replace.

Sen Ibrahim dropped this bombshell on Saturday night in a 17-paragraph speech he delivered at the world-wide internet launch of a book he co-authored with Dr. Sam Egwu, titled: Poorlitics, at the Barcelona Hotel, Abuja.

He went ahead to declare that nothing will save Buhari from the imminent defeat as realities on ground show that Nigerians are worse off under him within the last three and half years than they were throughout the 16 years of governance under the PDP from May 1999- May 2015.

His words: “As we move towards the elections, I have to give a dire warning to the APC that things are no longer the way they were in 2015 when we road to power on a cloud of euphoria believing that things will change for better.

“Simply put, things have not changed and many things are getting worse and the people are bitter. We should not assume that we can win even with massive rigging.

“The economy has gone down because of our action and inaction and we are blaming the past too much rather than solving the present problems.

“I had in mind that Progressives will be in power and will show Nigeria how to run a progressive nation.

“Without mincing words, as an elder statesman, I must say that my dreams and hopes have been dashed. We have certainly not done what I dreamed we will do, and in many ways, we are no better than the PDP that we sought to displace”.

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defeat, Ibrahim projected certain things that progressive such as APC profess need to do and must be seen to do.

He said: “We must be seen to obey the rule of law. If courts rule, we must obey. We must respect the separation of powers and let the legislature make its Independent decisions”.

He also chose the occasion to set an agenda for the North East geo-political zone comprising Yobe, Borno, Bauchi, Gombe, Adamawa and Taraba states ahead of 2019 polls, saying the support or otherwise of the people of the zone for Buhari’s candidacy and the APC is not automatic but conditional.

Senator Ibrahim said the North East should not be taken for granted since it is not a must for it to support Buhari from the North West as both zones only came together for the first time under one political umbrella in 2015 since several decades of party formations and democratic governance in

the country from 1950s till date.

His words: “In fact, the politics of the North East has always been different from the politics of the North West and it was under APC that we all united for the first time.

“I am going to give a dire warning. Let the North East not be taken for granted that we must support the APC. “Our interest in the North East has always been progressive and I will personally be watching for required improvements in the APC before the elections.

“Improvements that can guarantee victory such as respecting the rule of law and releasing political prisoners as well as unselective war against corruption as against one sided witch hunt”.

He categorically stated that if the APC under Buhari did not get its bearings in terms of good governance before the 2019 general elections, the North East will have no any other option than to vote for candidate of another political party.

It is instructive to note that former Vice President and PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, is from Adamawa State in the North East zone.

Gov Sani Bello seeks collective, stakeholders approach to national security

Niger State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani-Bello, has said that solution to the nation’s security challenges requires collective and all stakeholders approach.

The governor also stressed the need for Community Policing in order to checkmate the pockets of security challenges, especially in the rural areas.

Governor Sani Bello stated this after commissioning of a block of 20 room hostel he donated to his alma matar, the Nigerian Military School, Zaria, Kaduna State, shortly after Passing out Parade of 77 Regular Recruits Intake, 77RRI of the Depot, Nigerian Army.

The Governor, who is an Ex- Boy (Ex-Boys are those who attended Nigerian Military School as Boy Soldiers), was accompanied by the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. General Tukur Buratai at the commissioning.

He added that for a lasting solution to the nation’s security challenges, all hands must be on deck.

He said: “Security is everybody’s responsibility now. It is not just for

the police or army or any security agency alone. Everybody and indeed our traditional institutions should be up and doing.

“Nigerians also need to be vigilant, especially those in the rural areas. It is necessary to know who are the people coming into our communities and from where they were before settling in our communities”.

The Governor said the need for collective efforts in attending to the country’s security challenges has further strengthened the call for Community Policing, especially as an effective platform for nipping the pockets of security challenges in our rural areas.

“As a governor, I have found out that Community Policing is required to nip the activities of miscreants formenting security challenges in our communities in the bud.

“Community policing is very important, it has been found to be a reliable source of providing necessary information and intelligent gathering by security agencies for effective security of our communities,” Governor Sani Bello

maintained.

Elated that he was able to give back to his former school, Gov. Sani-Bello urged other old boys of the school to come to the aid of the centre of academic excellence.

“We are happy to have been able to give this little (hostel block) back to the school. I appeal to other exboys to come to the aid of the school.

We owe this school for the positive impact it had on us”, the governor appealed.

In his own comment at the occasion, COAS Buratai, commended the efforts of Governor Sani-Bello in donating the block hostel to the school.

Earlier at the passing out parade of about four thousand recruits, Buratai said that the recruits are coming at the right time to fill the manpower shortage at a critical time the country is faced with security challenges.

Also with Governor SaniBello were the state Chief of Staff, Hon Mikhail Almin Bmitosahi, Commissioner for Finance, Alhaji Zakari Abubakar, some of classmates at NMS and associates among others.

“I shall sit back and continue encouraging my party do the right thing. But if we don’t, I still reserve the capacity to ask my people to go our separate ways and do what must be done for good governance to reign in Nigeria,” he added, Faulting the claims of Sen Bukar Ibrahim, the APC BoT member, Nasiru Danu said: “I hope the distinguished Senator is not being misquoted. This is because he is a respected leader of the ruling APC. “But if it is true that he said what you quoted him as saying, then I disagree with him. It is wrong for any member not to talk of party leader that we have not done anything. That is not true on the grounds of what is happening nationwide.

The records are there that the APC has done well.

“The APC-led Federal Government is doing its best to address infrastructural deficits in the six geo-political zones without discrimination on party affliliation despite some challenges.

“The senator knows and he is aware that Yobe State is one the greatest beneficiaries of the APC and it still work in progress.

“For the records, President Muhammadu Buhari- led Federal Government came to power on three distinct agendaWar against corruption, security and revival of the economy. The President and his team have been working on these agenda in the last three years and the party is going to run on its achievements to win the 2019 polls.

“We know that there are issues arising from the primaries in the party. But all the stakeholders are currently working to resolve the contentious issues. The time has come to stop the blame game. The APC is the party to beat in 2019 and we will win the presidential election by the grace of God.”

Buhari, PDP, others mourn as Tony Anenih dies at 85

By Mathew Dadiya, Tunde Opalana, Abuja and Titus Akhigbe, Benin President Muhammadu Buhari has extended his heartfelt condolences to the Anenih family on the death of its beloved patriarch and elder statesman, Chief Anthony Anenih.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain died on Sunday at the age of 85 In a statement made available last night by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, President Buhari also condoled with the government and people of Edo State and the PDP on the passing on of their illustrious son and former Chairman, PDP Board of Trustees.

The statement reads in part, “As a frontline figure in the annals of our country’s political history, the President attests that Chief Anenih lived a life of service, as State Chairman of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN), National Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), chieftain of the PDP, and a former Minister of Works.

“President Buhari affirms that across the political spectrum of Nigeria, Chief Anenih was known for his strong views on issues pertaining to the unity and stability of the nation.

“The President prays almighty God to grant Chief Anenih’s soul eternal rest and comfort all who mourn the octogenarian.”

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NAFEST 2018 ends in style in Port Harcourt ...mourn as Tony as 25 states show unity in diversity Anenih dies at 85 Amaka Agbu, Port Harcourt

The colourful display of the nation’s culture and tradition ended on a high-note in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, at the weekend as 25 participating states showcased the diversity of the nation at the National Festival of Arts and Culture (NAFEST) 2018.

NAFEST 2018 which was described as a masterstroke saw Rivers State emerging as the overall best state of the festival.

Bayelsa State emerged second place, Ondo State took third place, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) emerged fourth place while the overall fifth place went to Delta State.

Traditional musicians, cultural dancers, traditional acrobats and masquerades displayed during the closing ceremony at the Sharks Stadium in Port Harcourt.

Top government officials from different states of the federation were led by the Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, his Ebonyi State counterpart, Dave Umahi, the Abia State Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, and the Director-General of the National Council of Arts and Culture, Otunba Segun Runsewe, joined thousands of spectators to appreciate the rich cultural heritage of Nigeria.

Speaking at the closing ceremony, Governor Wike said that NAFEST was not just a competition, but a platform to promote the culture of Nigeria.

He said: “I see NAFEST not as a competition, but a showcase of our diversity and cultural heritage.

Let us use culture to unite this country. The entire country is here and we are celebrating in unity. Apart from sports, culture is the uniting factor in

Nigeria”.

He described Rivers State as the economic nerve centre of the country, which is the most peaceful state for investment and hosting of events.

“With the successful and peaceful hosting of NAFEST 2018, we have made another statement that Rivers State is safe and secure. Rivers State has hosted the PDP National Convention, NAFEST, and the Presidential Visit without hitches,” he added.

The Rivers State Governor announced cash gifts of N5million to each of the 25 participating states.

Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi, said at the occasion that if politics and religion had failed the nation, culture would unite the country and enhance her greatness.

He said that NAFEST Rivers 2018 would serve as a

springboard for the greatness of the country.

The Director-General of the National Council for Arts and Culture, Otunba Segun Runsewe, in his own speech, said the outstanding Rivers Show proved that Nigeria was a great country.

The Chairman of the events, Chief Ferdinand Alabraba, said that NAFEST 2018 did not disappoint as it achieved the core objectives of the festival.

He said NAFEST 2018 had set a new standard by which future events would be measured across the country.

Highpoint of the closing ceremony was the presentation of different categories of prizes to winners.

There was a colourful closing parade by the states, while guests witnessed a star performance by international musician, Duncan Mighty.

2019: Obasanjo, Atiku can’t match Buhari on integrity test - APC spokesman Tom Okpe, Abuja The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Yekini Nabena, has said that on integrity contest, not former President Olusegun Obasanjo or his deputy, Atiku Abubakar, can beat President Muhammadu Buhari any day.

He noted that the though Obasanjo had once described Atiku Abubakar as a corrupt, disloyal and unpatriotic leader who was not fit and proper to handle the mantle of Nigerian leadership, this is enough to rubbish any sudden endorsement from him.

Nabena, who stated this while speaking with some journalists in Abuja on Sunday, pointed out that Obasanjo contradicted himself when he made a volte-face to tell Nigerians that he has forgiven Abubakar.

He said: “Throughout their second tenure in office, 2003-2007 and until a fortnight ago, former President Olusegun Obasanjo had described Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as a corrupt, disloyal and unpatriotic leader who was not fit and proper to handle the mantle of Nigerian leadership.

Only recently, Obasanjo vowed that God would not forgive him if he supported the Presidential aspiration of Atiku as, “it would amount to handing Nigeria over to sharks and looters”, he said.

The APC Deputy Spokesman stated that soon after his (Atiku) declaration, Obasanjo made a volte-face and announced that he had forgiven Atiku and that he had decided to also support his presidential aspiration, adding that “Obasanjo’s message to Nigerians therefore was that his former deputy, whom he had accused of various acts of corruption, had suddenly

become clean, credible and prepared to lead Nigeria. What a contradiction?

“When a supposed national leader makes declarations that are subject to change at any time based on his mood, such a leader loses integrity and reliability, “It is surprising that Obasanjo who had accused Atiku of corruption tendencies, suddenly turned around and declare the sinner, forgiven and eminently qualified to govern Nigeria.

“It is this tendency towards indecision, insincerity, double talk and deception that has made Nigeria ridiculed in the eyes of the international community.

A statesman is known for his principles and his statements are based on the strength of his convictions”, the APC spokesman noted.

He also faulted the integrity and nationalistic image being brandied by the PDP’s 2019 vice

presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, decribing him as doublefaced and pretentious, saying that many world-class shopping malls owned by Mr. Peter Obi sprang up in various cities in Nigeria soon after he left office as Anambra State Governor.

“Nigerians cannot be deceived, we have seen them all, Presidential Library, Bells and American University of Nigeria, Breweries and Shopping Malls, all established with largely public funds but privately owned by public officers.

“President Muhammadu Buhari as a former Military Head of State and Petroleum Minister never attempted to acquire oil well, private jet or estates in Nigeria and abroad for himself or family so, made him different and stands out tall from the double-faced candidates seeking election,” he added.

Restructuring: Osinbajo goofed in reinventing history- Atiku Tunde Opalana, Abuja Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), has been accused of reinventing history and being economical with the truth in his statement that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar was against restructuring while in office between 1999 and 2007.

The Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation in a statement on Sunday berated Osinbajo for turning down history and being mischievous in his statement concerning Atiku’s niche for restructuring of the nation’s polity.

Speaking at a public lecture, entitled: ‘Developing the Nation through Youth Empowerment’, as part of activities marking the 68th anniversary of the Sigma Club, University of Ibadan, Professor

Osinbajo said: “All this time, this was 2000, some of those people, including the presidential candidate of PDP, who is talking about restructuring, was the vice president then; they opposed every step that we took.

Of course, we were taking the Federal Government to court then.

They opposed every step.”

Faulting the diverse views of President Muhammadu Buhari and Osinbajo on restructuring, the Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation said there is evident desperation by the APC government to revise history, however, it is impossible to revise documented history.

It urged Osinbajo to note that there are well documented accounts in the Nigerian media chronicling Atiku Abubakar’s support and struggle for restructuring.

“To set the records straight, we recommend to Prof Osinbajo the article ‘Nigeria: 6-1 OnshoreOffshore Jurisdiction Verdict’ written by Jide Ajani, then the Political Editor of Vanguard Newspapers and published on July 13, 2001. “ In that piece, which is still available online (see link https:// allafrica.com/stories/200107130417. html), Vanguard newspapers chronicled the successful efforts of His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar, to restructure the revenue allocation formulae to allow littoral states of the federation benefit from off shore oil proceeds. Ironically, it was precisely Mr. Osinbajo’s boss, Muhammadu Buhari, who as military dictator, cheated these states of their just due by military fiat.

“It is also common knowledge that the six geo-political zones

structure which all parts of Nigeria benefit from today is the fruit of the collaborative efforts of His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar, the late Alex Ekwueme and other patriots.

“Their efforts at restructuring Nigeria are captured in the Hansard of the 1995 Constitution Conference, which is a public document and is still available at the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation. Prof Osinbajo may want to familiarise himself with that document.

“The question we want to ask Prof Osinbajo is this - why do he and his boss constantly resort to rewriting history? Why can they not campaign on their achievements? Is it that they are forced to campaign on subterfuge because they have no achievements to campaign on?” the campaign Organisation added.

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celebrated his 85th birthday on August 4, 2018, was said to have been battling old age related health challenges until he breathed last on Sunday.

Popularly known as ‘Mr. Fix It’, the late politician was born in Uzenema-Arue in Uromi.

He joined the joined the Nigeria Police Force in Benin City and was trained at the Police College in Ikeja, the Bramshill Police College, Basingstoke, England in 1966 and the International Police Academy, Washington DC in 1970.

He served as a police orderly to the first Governor General of Nigeria, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe. He worked as an instructor in various police colleges, and in 1975 was assigned to the Administrative Staff College (ASCON), Lagos.

He retired from the police as a Commissioner of Police.

The political icon was State Chairman of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) between 1981 and 1983, helping Dr. Samuel Ogbemudia become elected as civilian Governor of the defunct Bendel State.

He was National Chairman of the Social Democratic Party from 1992 and 1993, when he assisted in the election Chief M. K. O. Abiola as president. He was a member of the Constitutional Conference in 1994.

Anenih, from Arue, Uromi, headquarters of Esan North East Local Government Area of Edo State, was a member of the PDM until early April 2002, when he transferred to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Anenih was said to have masterminded the 26 April 2002 declaration of President Obasanjo at the International Conference Centre, Abuja.

He was deputy national coordinator of Olusegun Obasanjo’s campaign Organisation in the 1999 and 2003 elections.

He was a former chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees.

He is married to Josephine Anenih, a lawyer, who was the chairperson of the Federation of Women Lawyers from 1994 to 2000, and also was the first National Woman Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from 1999-2005.

Meanwhile, it was shock and disbelief on Sunday in Benin, the Edo State capital, when news of the death of Anenih filtered in.

All was quiet at his house on Delta Crescent in the Government Reserved Area (GRA) Benin as the massive gate was under lock and key.

The two security guards confessed that they were not aware of the death of the Iyasele of Esanland, adding that the younger son who drove in shortly before our correspondent visited at about 6 pm was inside and not disposed to talking to the press.

The situation was also the same at the residence of his wife, Iyom Josephine Anenih, on Liberty Avenue, GRA, as the gate was under lock and key.

However, in a telephone interview, a grief stricken, Mrs. Anenih, a former Minister of Women Affairs told The Daily Times-that she will only speak

after the family issues a statement.

Another of his son, Mr. Usolo Anenih confirmed the demise of the former Minister of Works in a private hospital in Abuja after a brief illness, adding that the eldest son, Mr. Tony Anenih, Jnr. flew to Abuja from his base in Lagos and will issue a statement after a family meeting.

Speaking in the same vein, the Edo State chairman of the PDP, Chief Dan Orbih, said that the party will only come out with a statement after the family officially broke the news of the death of the political titan.

The Special Adviser to Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki on Media and Strategy, Mr. Crusoe Osagie, said that the government was aware of the death of Anenih but was only waiting for an official announcement from the family before its reaction.

Meanwhile, the PDP has expressed shock over the news of the demise of one of its founding fathers, former Board of Trustees (BoT) Chairman and former Minister of Works and Housing, Chief Tony Anenih, the Iyasele of Esanland.

The late Anenih was described as a great Nigerian, a light bearer, brilliant administrator, fine officer, quintessential nationalist and democratic icon, who made innumerable sacrifices for the unity, stability and development of the nation.

The party’s publicist, Kola Ologbondiyan, said Chief Anenih, who was known in the political circle as “Mr. Fix it”, owing to his ability to find solutions to very knotty political and governance issues, remains a colossus with unparalleled array of legacies which will be celebrated for generations.

“His roles in ensuring the stability, not only of our great party but also for our nation at large, stood him out as a patriot who dedicated his life for the service of humanity.

“The PDP is particularly pained that Chief Anenih left the stage at the time the party and the nation needed his wealth of experience the more, especially in our collective quest to restore good governance and democratic ideals in our country”, he said The PDP condoled with the Anenih family, the government and people of Edo State and prayed that God will grant the nation the fortitude to bear this monumental loss.

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Short News Ebola: Gov Ambode, Canadian Governor General, to open new biosecurity lab in Lagos Police in Anambra protest non Benjamin Omoike, Lagos Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode will on Tuesday join the Governor General of Canada, Rt Hon Julie Payette to inaugurate a new biosecurity laboratory in Lagos.

In a statement on Sunday, the Lagos State Government said the inauguration of the State Biobank, is located at the Mainland Hospital in Yaba, where the isolation unit used by the State Government to contain the 2014 Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak was located.

According to the statement, the Laboratory, funded by Canada in partnership with the State Government, would serve as a single repository for all high-concentration pathogens in the State, adding that it would also help the State mitigate post-EVD threats and build capacity for prevention, detection and response to future outbreaks in

Nigeria and West Africa.

It said the State’s Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris would also be part of the delegation to accompany Governor Ambode to receive Hon. Payette at the Muritala Muhammed International Airport and thereafter proceed to unveil the new facility.

According to the statement, after the inauguration of the Biosecurity Laboratory, the Canadian Governor General would also visit students participating in the CodeLagos computer literacy program.

“Her Excellency will visit Akande Dahunsi Memorial Senior High School to interact with students taking part in the CodeLagos program and talk to them about her background in informatics. During this time, members of the Canadian delegation will give presentations on their own experiences and careers in other classrooms,” the statement said.

The CodeLagos program, currently running in public and

private schools in the State, is an initiative of the Lagos State Ministry of Education aimed at educating over one million residents for the future of work – by teaching how to write code and creatively solve problems.

The statement added that the August visitor would have a lunch discussion with members of the Lagos business community, where she would deliver brief opening remarks which would bring the business community together.

It said she would round off her visit with a reception for Arts and Culture Friends of Canada.

The statement further said that the reception would see her meet with individuals who have made and continued to make exceptional efforts in promoting and enhancing the Canada-Nigeria relationship, adding that it would provide an opportunity to celebrate the vitality of the arts and culture scene in Lagos.

payment of promotion allowances Nkiru Nwagbo, Awka

Concerned police officers in Anambra State promoted from the rank of Inspector to Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) in 2017 have cried against delay of their allowances.

Spokesman of the angry police officers who did not want his name in print, yesterday, claimed before journalists that the officers involved were promoted in May 2017 from Police Inspector to ASP without their promotion allowances between that May and December 2017 which he said amounted to N400, 000 per a promoted officer.

He noted that some of them retired before December that year while police authorities continued to withhold their allowances with no reason given for the action.

“Those serving were only paid as ASPs from January 2018 till date but the allowances from May 2017 to December 2017 have never been paid and no explanations are offered as to why we will not be paid the allowances.

Tension in Bayelsa over armed thugs attack on monarch Akam James, Yenagoa Ikeibiri community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State was on Saturday enveloped with tension following attacks by suspected thugs on the Community Monarch, Chief Kingdom Orio, and many others over the disputed leadership of the community.

According to a eyewitness, the suspected thugs, numbering about 30, and allegedly hired by the Chairman of the of the Community Development Committee (CDC), Abiola Beredou, invaded the community during a peace meeting to resolve the disputes over the Chairmanship of the Youth Leadership.

Our correspondent gathered that the incident turned bloody when the suspected thugs invaded the peace meeting and beat up the Chief to a state of stupor and attacked those attempting to resist the invasion.

A source also said that the attack, which would have led to killings, was thwarted by the arrival of military personnel stationed at Ogbeinbiri Oil Station in the Southern Ijaw Area.

According to the source, “the suspected thugs invaded the Usaku Wari family meeting and they were led by the CDD Chairman of Ikebiri Kingdom who was imposed to the Community last December.”

IDPs, orphanage homes appeal to STF for security, protection Kingsley Chukwuka, Jos

L-R: Regional Sales Lead, MIXTA Nigeria, Joy Olaye; Executive Chairman, Edo Development and Property Agency (EDPA), Isoken Omo; Head, Marketing, MIXTA Nigeria, Funmi Akinwolemiwa; and Head, Business Development, Sales and Marketing, MIXTA Nigeria, Lawrence Korede-Salu, at the 7th Oba of Benin Golf Tournament, at the Benin Golf Club, Benin City, Edo State.

Flood sacks over 2, 000 residents in Kwara Kehinde Akinpelu, Ilorin About 2,000 residents of Patigi in Patigi Local Government Area of Kwara were rendered homeless by flood as a result of heavy rainfall that lasted several hours.

Member representing Patigi Constituency in Kwara State House of Assembly, Hon Shuaib AhmedAbdulKadir, made this known in a press release on Saturday in Ilorin, He said the over 2,000 affected victims were still unable to have access to their residences.

According to the lawmaker; several of the victims have lost all their personal belongings, including farm produce to the flood, which had become an annual occurrence in Patigi

and its vicinities.

“Large volume of water is yet to subside at the residences of over 2,000 flood victims and this was why they are still at the lDP camps,’’ he said.

Ahmed-AbdulKadir attributed the annual flooding to heavy downpour and release of water from the Kainji, Shiroro and Jebba dams.

He said the flood affected all schools in the area making it impossible for normal academic activities to take place.

The Lawmaker said some stakeholders, organisations and public spirited individuals are currently assisting the victims on feeding and provision of other necessities of life.

He therefore appealed to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), and Kwara

Government to provide immediate succour to the victims.

While reacting to the incident, the Special Adviser to Gov. Abdulfatah Ahmed on Emergency and Relief Services, Alhaji AbdulRasaq Jimoh said the state government was aware of the plight of the victims.

He said the state was working round the clock to provide succour for the victims.

The flood victims include the aged, children, pregnant women and physically challenged are now taking refuge at three Internally Displaced Persons’ Camp (IDP) in Patigi.

The flood has become an annual occurrence in Patigi and surrounding communities which damaged property and farmlands worth millions of naira.

Managers of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps and Orphanages have appealed to the Special Military Task Force, (STF), to provide them with security considering the volatile insecurity situation in Plateau State.

“Whenever there is crisis most of the children hardly sleep for fear of being attack. You know most of them narrowly escaped from terrorists in the north-eastern part of the country to this place, so the sound of guns still frightens them”, says the camp Director, House of Recab, Mr. Sam Akaakka Akaakka stated this on Sunday while appreciating the Special Military Task Force team in Plateau who visited the IDP camp to donate relive materials.

He said the presence of the task-force around the camp will help reassure the safety of the IDPs. On her part, the house officer of the Plateau State Orphanage Home, Mrs Victoria Chikak, also emphasised on security, saying that the functionality of the orphanage home depends largely on how secured the environments are especially now that Plateau is witnessing civil unrest.

Ex-Gov Chime condemns attack on Enugu APC Chairman Moses Oyediran, Enugu Former Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu state has described the attack on the state chairman of All Progressive Congress (APC), Dr. Ben Nwoye as unfortunate and condemnable.

Chime’s reaction followed Saturday’s assassination attempt on Dr. Nwoye.

Daily Times reported that Nwoye was at the early hours of Saturday escaped assassination attempt by heavily armed assassins who gained entrance into his compound at about 2:15 am but only succeeded in shooting one of the police details attached to him in the head.

Reacting to the development, which has been widely condemned, Chime hoped the development was not a sign of what will come with the 2019 elections.

He however called on aspirants who lost out in the primaries conducted by the party to drop all forms of hostility and help move the party in the state forward.

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Daily Times Nigeria Monday, October 29, 2018

Atiku and the prophecy of Fashawe’s mother

Eric Teniola

The emergence of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as the presidential candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has compelled me to re-read a book on him by a colleague, Onukaba Adinoyi Ojo (1960-2017).

The 338 page book was published in 2006 by Africana Legacy Press, and an autographed copy of it was given to me by Alhaji Atiku Abubakar on November 8, 2013.

Mr. Onukaba Adinoyi Ojo died in a motor accident along the Ife-Akure road on March 5, 2017. The book appears to be the most authoritative book on the PDP presidential candidate. According to Onukuba, he had produced the book with the assistance of Amina Titi Abubakar, Ladi Atiku Abubakar, Princess Rukiya Atiku Abubakar, Jamila Atiku Abubakar, Adamu Atiku Abubakar, Governor Boni Haruna, Senator Jonathan Zwingina, Hamman Ahmed Kojoli, Yahaya Bala, Peter Okocha, Yomi Edu, Umar Ardo, Abdullahi Nyako, Chris Mammah and Nath Yaduma.

Others who helped him in putting the book together included Otunba Oyewole Fashawe, Sola Akanmode, Patrick Adaba, Tokunbo Adeola, Jamilu Lamido, Mohammed Shata, Ambassador M.G. Samanki, Ahmadu Bode, Sa’ad Abubakar, Justice Abubakar Alkali Abba, Boss Mustapha, Maxwell Gidado, Onyeama Ugochukwu, and Garba Abdullahi. Also, Chubado Jada, Idris Yusuf, Chigbo Anichebe, Tunde Olusunle, Babalele Abdullahi, Muyiwa Oyekan, Chuks Anyanso, Garba Shehu, Adeola Akande, Shima Ayati, Jauro Sidiq and Koko Olugbesan.

As far as those close to Atiku Abubakar, those mentioned are his core advisers. The narrative in the book is quite interesting, and on page 31 of the book, we were told of how Atiku Abubakar lost his father at the age of eleven.

Otunba Oyewole Fashawe is the best friend of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. He is a Muslim and the Asiwaju of Owo in Ondo state. Interestingly, he is also Atiku Abubakar’s best friend. It is still a mystery how the man has been able to maintain his friendship with the two men, even through their fights with each other.

On page 138 of the book, we were told

that, “Otunba Oyewole Fashawe was also eking out a living as a clearing and forwarding agent at Apapa Ports when Atiku met him.

They had known each other as far back as Idi Iroko and Gamboru border post in the Northeast. “Whenever he was on duty, any clearing and forwarding agent who was not sure of himself would not go near him. He was strict and firm. He did not like agents who tried to cheat the government of its revenue.

You know importers always try to cut corners to be able to pay lower duty. Importers put a lot of pressure on us agents. We had to be very careful with Atiku because he was a nononsense officer”, Fashawe remembered.

One day at Apapa, Atiku was on tour of Customs’ facilities at the ports when he ran into Fashawe. He asked if Fashawe had set up his own licensed clearing and forwarding agency. Atiku had often advised Fashawe to set up his own company. Fashawe said he was yet to own a license. Atiku advised him to register a company and then apply for a Customs license so that he could operate legally. Fashawe registered Bako Services and Atiku assisted him in getting a license.

“He assisted me without compromising his position”, Fashawe remembered. Bako Services would later become a multi-million Naira business with interests in many sectors of the economy”.

Working under Bello Mohammed, the man Babangida gave the directorship of the Customs to, turned out to be the most frustrating experience of Atiku’s career.

Mohammed was not comfortable having around him a person who had competed with him for the same job. He felt he could never trust Atiku, who would not be loyal and committed to his success on the job. He wanted Atiku gone. Thrice he recommended him for retirement, but Shagaya (the then minister of Internal Affairs) turned it down.

Atiku went to see Shagaya and told him that he would like to leave the service voluntarily as he did not want to be disgraced out of office.

However, Shagaya advised him not to quit.

Atiku had at least 10 more years to go in the service and Shagaya felt he could still head the agency before his retirement. But Atiku’s soul

was no longer in the Customs. He needed to move on. He had always wanted to work for himself anyway. He asked for his annual leave and it was approved. He then left for the lesser hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

Before his departure, Atiku had written his resignation letter, put it in an envelope, sealed and given it to a friend, Adamu Yaro, to hand it personally to Bello Mohammed, his boss. Adamu Yaro did not know the content of the letter but simply did as his friend had requested of him. Yet, the director was not happy to see Atiku go voluntarily.

He briefed Shagaya about it and the Internal Affairs minister advised him to accept the resignation. By then Atiku had packed out of his Reeve Road official flat in Ikoyi and moved into a spacious, furnished guesthouse owned

by NICOTES (his oil services company) on Bourdillon Road, Ikoyi. When he joined the Customs 20 years earlier, he had drawn a graph anticipating his career progression from cadet to director of Customs by the age 40. “I told myself that if by the time I was 40 years old I did not head the organisation, I would quit. Well, I almost did, I retired at 43 as a Deputy Director”, Atiku said.

One of those Atiku consulted about his planned resignation was his old friend from Apapa Ports, Fashawe. He visited Fashawe in Owo, his hometown. And like most of his friends, Fashawe advised Atiku not to rush out of Customs until he had served as director. But Mrs. Lydia Ijamolayemi, Fashawe’s mother, had a different opinion. She advised Atiku to leave the Customs and embark on the journey God had destined for him. Five years earlier, she had visited Atiku in his office in Lagos and predicted that he would be presiding over the affairs of Nigeria sometime between the ages of 52 and 55 years. The matriarch of the Fashawe family was well known all over Owo and beyond as an extraordinarily gifted seer.

On how Atiku entered politics. Adinoyi Ojo Onikaba wrote, “Look, you are good, you relate well with people. I think you will make a good politician. Why don’t you join me in politics”, Shehu Musa Yar’Adua told Atiku during one of their meetings. Atiku then consulted his family and friends such

as Adamu Bello, Adamu Yaro, Oyewole Fashawe and Magdiel Samanki. Some family members and friends advised him against it; they had wanted him to reach the peak of his career as Director of Customs before bowing out. Some felt that Nigerian politics was too messy, expensive, treacherous and dangerous to rush into. They urged him to reconsider his plan. Atiku likes to take his time before taking a decision as weighty as his next career move.

But once he makes up his mind, he stands by it no matter the pressure on him to reconsider things. He can be quite stubborn.

After mauling over the matter for sometime, Atiku finally decided to quit Customs and go into politics. By 1988, Atiku had started attending regular meeting at Yar’Adua’s Ikoyi home. The retired General had brought together an eclectic group of old and new politicians, progressives and radicals, intellectuals and the semi-educated ones, Muslims and Christians, Southerners and Northerners, and the rich and poor. He invited as many political leaders as were willing to come. He did not discriminate. For example, when some people protested against the invitation of Lamidi Adedibu, a controversial politician from Ibadan whose name had been associated with thuggery in the past, Yar’Adua overruled them, arguing that the group would someday need the Adedibus of Nigerian politics. Besides Adedibu, others invited to the new political association included M.S. Buhari, Yomi Edu, Chuba Okadigbo, Farouk AbdulAzeez, Patrick Dele Cole, S.M. Afolabi, Yahaya Kwande, Dapo Sarumi, Bode Ajewole, Babalola Borishade, Deji Fashina, Ishola Filani, Ango Abdullahi, Garba Abdulkadir, Tunde Oyeleke, Titi Ajanaku, Babagana Kingigbe, Tony Anenih, Akin Omoboriowo and Atiku Abubakar. Atiku knew some of them personally but there were others he was meeting for the first time. “Strange bedfellows”, was how some people described members of the political family that came to be known as the Yar’Adua Group. They were held together by Yar’Adua’s vision and determination to radically alter the politics of Nigeria by building a strong and popular party.”

Poverty anywhere is danger to prosperity everywhere

Owei Lakemfa

A beautiful looking lady, perhaps in her mid- twenties, smiles into the camera. The chubby-cheeked child she is carrying is wearing a cap, but he is shirtless. They are part of the over 7,200 Latin Americans who embarked on an estimated 17-day walk towards the United States (US) border.

They had bid goodbye to their ancestral homes mainly in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. Many have just the clothes on their backs, the bags (some nylon) they are clutching, and their lives.

Their determination is to get into the US by any means necessary. For this, they are trekking on roads and highways, through forests and fording waters including swimming and rafting the Suchiate River which separates Guatemala and Mexico .

For such a desperate movement, virtually no threats can dissuade them, at least not the massive deployment of Mexican police and the threats of American President Donald Trump to cut aid to the countries they have left behind and to deploy the mighty American Army.

Except the children being carried, these are thousands of mainly young and physically fit people, because only such persons can undertake such a grueling migration. These Latinos are like the Biblical Abraham who heard a voice in his native Ur, in today’s Southern Iraq, telling him “Go forth from your country, And from your relatives And from your father’s house, To the land which I will show you”(Genesis 12:1) The marked difference is that unlike Abraham, this exodus has a promised land it is headed to; the United States. The marchers are no different from the desperate African migrants who travel through the desert and take to the seas in unsafe rickety boats to get to Europe.

The fact that this exodus was spontaneous, and its huge size, might be

an indication of the desperate situation in some Latin American countries characterized by mass unemployment, organized and unorganized violence, hunger and bad governance.

The idea of this caravan had started when Bartolo Fuentes of the Freedom and Refoundation Party of Honduras reproduced a poster on his Facebook page inviting people for a migrant march with the slogan: “We’re not leaving because we want to, but because we are being expelled by violence and poverty.”

The march commenced last week with 160 people from the gang-plagued city of San Pedro Sula, deciding to leave for a safe haven which they identified as the US. By the time this group reached the Guatemalan border, it had swelled to over 1,600 due partly to words of mouth, the mass and social media and the panicky response of President Donald Trump who was issuing threats rather than a more organized response to tackling a desperate human convoy. This is more so, when American law gives those fleeing violence, the opportunity of applying for asylum.

Thousands of the marchers sleep and bath in the open. Despite assistance by ordinary Mexicans, and some help from the Mexican government, the marchers are in need of water, food, medicine and blankets. The world, especially the United Nations need to come to their aid. Some may argue that the marchers predicament, is a choice they consciously made. I will say, no! Hunger and poverty are never a choice; they are mainly imposed. As I watched them on television and video, I was conscious of the fact that almost all the marchers will not reach their destination; some will end up living in Mexico, some will return to their countries, some may even die. But that will not deter the next wave of marchers

because they want their tomorrow to be better than their yesterday. Mexico itself is highly volatile and crime-infested with hunger and violence forcing some Mexicans to make illegal crossings into America; so I foresee many of the marchers who are opting to stay in Mexico, making attempts in future to cross into America. It will be a continuous test of endurance and human will.

The current state of many Latin American countries is the result of mindless American exploitation and political intervention which turned them into ‘Banana Republics’ Take for example, Honduras where the caravan took off. It has virtually been an American colony since the 1890s with the American banana companies seizing most of its fertile land and rendering the farmers destitute.

Additionally, the Americans dominated the banks and mines, imposed structural adjustment while turning the country into one huge American military base.

The country’s military had a free hand violating human rights and running American-backed death squads like Battalion 3-16 which physically eliminated hundreds anti-American activists. When a reformist President, Manuel Zelaya came to power in 2006 and tried to carry out changes in favour of the populace, the military kidnapped him on June 28, 2009 and exiled him to Costa Rica without their bosses in Washington calling them to order. Incumbent, President Juan Orlando Hernández is authoritarian with no respect for democratic values. He changed the electoral rules to be eligible for re-election in the November 2017 elections. When opposition politician, Salvador Nasralla was in the lead in that election, the results were suspended for 30 hours and the incumbent eventually declared winner. When people protested, they were shot at with over thirty killed

while America asked the people to accept the announced results.

Guatemala where the caravan gathered strength before forcing its way to Mexico is another American Banana Republic. When a patriot, democratic President Jacobo Arbenz took 1.4 million acres of uncultivated lands mainly from the American United Fruit Company, paid compensation, and redistributed them to about 500,000 farmers (a sixth of the population) then American Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, got permission from President Dwight D. Eisenhower to overthrow the government. The coup, executed between June 18-27, 1954 was supervised by the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headed by Allen Dulles, the Secretary of State’s brother. It was Code-named Operation PBSUCCESS. Subsequently, brutal military regimes and anti-people governments were imposed.

Another large number of the marchers came from El Salvador, a country the Americans ran like Honduras, except in this instance, it was the showcase of American–backed killer squads including a private one. In one of its most infamous atrocities, the Atlacatl Battalion, newly trained by the US, was sent on its first mission in December 1981 to the El Mozote area. It killed over 1,200 Salvadorans including at least a hundred children.

The human caravan is a reminder to America and most rich countries that centuries of dominating and exploiting other peoples, and the prevailing unfair globalization, will have to be addressed in favour of the victims. Like the International Labour Organisation (ILO) stated in its May 10, 1944 Declaration of Philadelphia: “Poverty anywhere constitutes a danger to prosperity everywhere”

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Editorial Commentary The children of a lesser god

Times Guest Columwnist Chinemelu Nwokike

“We are under attack in Rann. They are shooting everywhere please pray for me; please go and tell my parents that I am in trouble. Please, look for Fatima and tell her they are taking us away. They have entered here now…”

Those were the last words of Hauwa Liman before she was abducted by Boko Haram terrorists alongside other health workers on the 1st of March 2018. She had recorded the words in Hausa language and the audio clip which went viral left the masses of the Nigerian cyberspace in shock, disbelief and utter consternation. Her trembling voice pierced through our innermost parts in a visceral manner that evoked vivid imaginations of the dangers faced by many of our compatriots in the conflict infested North East region.

Last week she was reportedly executed by the terrorists at the expiration of the October 15th deadline given to the Nigerian government.

She is the second aid worker to be killed by the terror group in two months after her colleague Saifura Hussaini was killed on the 16th of September. The media reported it alright, there was the usual outrage on social media and the Bring Back Our Girls campaign led by Oby Ezekwesili even marched in protest to the presidential villa where they reminded the president that they were once a campaign slogan and a pledge.

Ironically, the news broke a few days after President Buhari was reported to have called Leah Sharibu’s parents to reassure them of his administration’s efforts towards the safe return of their daughter. But following Hauwa’s reported execution the Minister of information Lai Mohammed only had these ‘comforting’ words: “We did everything any responsible government should do to save the aid worker. As we have been doing since these young women were abducted, we kept the line of negotiations open all through. In all the negotiations, we acted in the best interest of the women and the country as a whole”, The usual lines often regurgitated by official spokespersons to absolve the government of blame.

They are just as pale as they are irritating. So much for assurance, so much for succor and hope to numerous grieving parents whose loved ones are held in captivity by these mindless killers.

Sadly, that was just about it. We seem to have moved on to the next and little may be heard of Hauwa going forward. While the media is obsessed with serving us the daily sound bites from callous politicians, we are too engrossed to bother about the depraved activities of a murderous sect. Oh yes, we are approaching the elections, the campaign season is taking off, we are now in that period when every sensibility and even humanity is lost to politicking.

They will regale us with tales of how the insurgents have been technically defeated. How they are now reduced to attacking soft targets but we have witnessed the deaths of Mohammed Yusuf, Momodu Baba and perhaps even Abubakar Shekau yet Boko Haram remains a threat, the scourge continues to ravage many communities in the North East albeit intermittently. As I write about 100 Chibok girls are unaccounted for, while thousands of other children including Leah Sharibu who was abducted in Dapchi are still missing.

The enormity of the problem becomes even more profound considering that Hauwa wasn’t kidnapped in some nondescript region deep in the dreaded Sambisa forest. No, Hauwa was snatched in a supposedly secure military environment. The Jihadists had brazenly attacked the town of Rann which is host to a military base and the IDP camp where she worked, killing a number of soldiers and aid workers in a way that further exposed the frailty of our ill-equipped defence forces.

Just put yourself in the shoes of the Liman family for a moment. You can imagine a situation where a devastated father is appealing for a ‘proof

of death’ from terrorists in order to get a last look at her angel and to bury her according to Islamic rites.

The thought of such pain is the reason we cannot afford to relent, focus on the issue must be allowed to wither away under the campaigns.

This is even more so for those conversant with Northern Nigeria, for we are better apprised on the magnitude of the dilemma. We can attest the vast complexity of the region, especially the poverty-stricken North East. A land where the most vulnerable members of the society are susceptible to doctrinal malleability and often used by unscrupulous politicians to achieve selfish ends. Mohammed Yusuf the late founder of Boko Haram capitalised on this canker to gather huge followership. He was so powerful that he nominated cabinet members for the Borno state government. A pointer to the ugly truth that beneath the facade of religious ideology lies a brutal and opportunistic political agenda.

That is why we have so-called political leaders from the region walking along the corridors of power. Men like Ali Modu Sheriff and serving Senator Ali Ndume have at one time or the other been directly accused of sponsoring Boko Haram activities. But they are free men, they wine and dine among the most powerful in the country today and their daughters attend Ivy League schools on the other side of the Atlantic.

We also have politicians like Atiku aspiring to lead the nation even when his kinsmen in Adamawa are perennially haunted by the dark shadow of terrorism. How is it possible that his interests and investments in the region are intact in the midst of all these atrocities by Boko Haram?

How long shall we endure the incessant invasion our schools, and IDPs to abduct hapless women and children? When will this government bring the promised end to the devastating suicide bombings in churches, mosques, bars, parks, and markets?

President Buhari has gained notoriety for his slow response to burning issues. An unfortunate and frustrating style that is eroding much of his hard-earned reputation as a strict soldier. The seeming helplessness of his administration in the face of these persistent attacks should be giving him insomnia and if it is not then it is our duty to continually remind him of his pledge “to stamp out Boko Haram and all other terrorists of whatever persuasions and bring all sponsors to justice.” He is a military general and security is supposedly his strong point, so he should know that without a deeper interrogation of the latent factors behind this madness, then bringing it to an end is only a pipe dream.

No sane society will allow this to continue.

No responsible government should continue to condone it because it is the primary responsibility of any government to provide for the safety and security of its citizens. And Buhari himself affirmed this in a 2013 BBC interview when he specifically blamed the previous administration for the killings in the north by positing that “insecurity generally should be blamed on the Federal Government”.

Hauwa was only 24, she became a nurse at an early age and was truly dedicated to her work of assisting women in her region to bring lives into the world in their most painful and vulnerable moments. Someone tweeted that she did not deserve us, I agree but I also hope like her father that she is still alive so that she would not have lost her life in the service of an undeserving nation. There are very few in our material world today who will choose the risky path of selfless humanitarian work in a conflict zone. Those who work hard to make our world a better place must be appreciated. They cannot be the children of a lesser god.

OUR POSITION APC Govs, Oshiomhole and party supremacy

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hen former Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole was elected a few months ago as the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), not a few people expressed their fears about the future of the party, not because they doubted Oshiomhole’s leadership ability, but they were worried about his hard stance on issues and stance on keeping strictly to the rules, against politicians’ penchant to bending the rules and contravening due process.

This fear is gradually coming to light, especially after the primary of the party to elect the various flag bearers for the various offices, as his hard stance in ensuring that the party rules and regulations are strictly adhered to has now pitched him against key party leaders, among them powerful governors who are now moving to ensure that he is removed from his seat.

This position of the party leaders who cut across the country and are aggrieved about their inability to either pick their desired ticket for the election for themselves or for their anointed aspirants and insisting that their failure to either get the ticket for themselves or their anointed was as a result of the position of the party chairman have now put the party under threat as they have put machinery in place to give effect to their threat.

One of the key opponents to Oshiomhole over his position is Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun.

Amosun is protesting against the outcome of the APC primaries in his state and has accused Oshiomhole of colluding with “a cabal in Lagos” to write fake results which produced Dapo Abiodun as the party’s governorship candidate for the 2019 election.

He alleged the involvement of former governors Bola Tinubu (Lagos) and Segun Osoba (Ogun) in the alleged fraud, citing their silence on the matter as evidence of their consent to it.

Amosun insists that there was no election in Ogun State, that those he is accusing only just went to Lagos to write all results, and that what they did is fraud.

He said, “If the National Working Committee or the National Chairman said there was any election in Ogun State, it was all fraud,” he said insisting that the only primary he knows about was the one which produced his anointed aspirant, Hon Adekunle Akinlade, as governorship candidate.

The governor had initially announced Akinlade as a consensus candidate before the NWC of the party insisted on conducting direct primaries. But the NWC, after the primaries declared Dapo Abiodun as governorship candidate of the party.

Some stakeholders in the state had also accused Amosun of hand picking candidates to almost all the offices in the state and allocating a senatorial ticket to himself, which was not agreeable to the NWC of the party who rather insist that a proper primary must hold.

Though the governor took the senatorial ticket of Senator Lanre Tejuosho, who against all odds elected to remain in the party when many other senators elected on the platform of the party jumped ship to other political parties, especially the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), naming him as one of them, it seem that the NWC have decided to allow him hold on to that ticket, but that has not placated him.

Now, Amosun is insisting that Oshiomhole must vacate his seat and some women in the state loyal to him have even threatened to protest naked in Abuja in support of their governor’s position.

Amosun is not alone in this mission, another governor who is determined to see the back of Oshiomhole over the party primary is Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha.

Okorocha who has had a running battle with many key members of his party, including his deputy, Prince Madumere, Senator Hope Uzodima and many others over his insistence that his son-in-law, Uche Nwosu, would succeed him in office, is now accusing Oshiomhole of being behind his failure to have his way in the state.

To Okorocha, because of Oshiomhole refusal to dance to his tune, he must be removed from office.

Across the various states, the situation remains the same, many members are angry. The Director General of the Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita Okechukwu, also recently declared on a live television interview that Osdhiomhole must be removed from office. Okechukwu also failed to get a senatorial ticket in his home state of Enugu.

There is also confusion in Zamfara State where the party is under threat of not going to be able to field candidates for the various offices due to issues arising from the primary, same as Kaduna where there is also a crisis.

Even though Oshiomhole had earlier in the week raised the alarm that some governors are after him and working to remove him from office, he later disowned the statement by his aides, saying that he has a good working relationship with the majority of governors within the APC fold and that he has no cause to worry.

This development and the recent reaction of the APC spokesperson, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, describing those complaining about the outcome of the primary as bad losers doe not in any way help the peace building process which many believe should be the next line of action of the party after such a rancorous primary.

It is our sincere belief that the APC should by now be working on its peace building process towards a full reconciliation before the 2019 elections, considering the importance of the election to its continuous survival.

Party primary, which is a means to an end and not an end in itself, we believe should be a process that should unite a party and whatever the outcome should not be enough to divide a party in such a way that can threaten the seat of a national chairman.

We are of the opinion that the introduction of the direct party primary by the Oshiomhole-led national leadership of the party remains the best option in picking candidates to run on the party platforms, we also believe that key stakeholders within the party must be patient and patriotic enough to help build a system that will endure rather than eager to pull it down because the outcome does not favour them.

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Daily Times Nigeria Monday, October 29, 2018

Kwara 2019: ‘Only true reconciliation Short News Kebbi NLC directs civil servants to join would ensure APC victory’ Kehinde Akinpelu, Ilorin Hon Mashood Mustapha has stated that only true reconciliation of aggrieved aspirants, stakeholders and members within All Progressives Congress (APC), in Kwara state would help the party win elective posts come 2019.

Hon. Mustapha popularly call MM disclosed this during the weekend while addressing his supporters at MM Campaign Secretariat located along Fate Road, Ilorin.

He thanked thousands of his supporters who attended the meeting for their support, loyalty and prayers despite the fallout of Kwara APC governorship primary election, adding that the massive turnout shows the formidable structure he built remains intact and strong.

While narrating the event that led to his illegal disqualification on the day of primary election (October 6, 2018) he said some elements within the party orchestrated it, to make their preferred candidate emerge as APC flag bearer.

According to him: “We uncovered moves by some selfish elements within the party hierarchy to ensure emergence of a particular aspirant. This information prompted us to double our efforts in build to primaries and

visited all the local government in the state to solicit for APC members’ support”.

“The reception we received throughout the tour was impressive and encouraging as I sell my candidacy to party members. One day to the primaries we secured endorsement of Kwara North during a meeting organized at Senator Ahmed Ahmed’s residence in presence of stakeholders from five local government areas in the state”.

“I guess my detractors within the party decided to issue illegal disqualification statement on Harmony FM to stop my impeding victory at the primary election. It’s really sad and disheartening but we now know what to do in future. Nobody lose in a race like this, you only gathered more experience that will be useful for your next level” Hon. Mustapha told his group that APC National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has disowned the disqualification letter and pledge to issue him public apology.

“Imagine; our national chairman disowned the letter. Comrade Oshiomhole has promised to issue public apology that will be circulated in different media houses across the country. He also directed new National Publicity Secretary to brief the press about the development” MM also described the meeting with President Muhammed Buhari during the week as another plot to cover-up impunity and injustice happening in Kwara APC.

“Meeting of the Stakeholders and aspirants with President Muhammadu Buhari was staged by the same elements that perpetrated the evil act during the primary election to cover their mess. The national leadership needs to reconcile aggrieved members, if we want to win 2019 general elections.” He added.

The former Federal lawmaker, however, assured his teeming supporters across the 16 local governments in the state that he will protect their interest within the party and ensure that they are properly updated.

Meanwhile he talked about how he was magnanimous rejected premature support for a party governorship candidate and told them frankly that MM Group is bigger than him and Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq must seek for MM group support not Mashood Mustpatha’s support only. He (Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq) is planning to visit MM Group soon to formally seek for their support ahead of 2019 general elections.

He reiterated that he will not work against APC interest as we approach next general election. The meeting was attended by Mashood Mustapha Campaign Organisation; Director General, Chief Raimi Adedoyin, (Kwara South) Deputy Director General, Honourable Sabi, (Kwara North) and 16 local government coordinators and other personalities numerous to mention.

Tuesday protest

Haruna Aliyu Usman, Kebbi In compliance with the directive of the national headquarters of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), the Kebbi state chapter of the union under the leadership of Comrade Umar Halidu has directed the entire civil servants in the state to support and join the peaceful protest slated for Tuesday.

According to him, the protest is preparatory to the proposed nationwide strike by the Union to compel the government to accept and pay the N30,000.00 minimum wage for Nigerian workers.

He added that all is set for the protest as all the security agencies in the state are adequately informed; the workers will assemble at the Labour House in Birnin Kebbi to kick start the peaceful protest to the government house and the Emir’s palace and later enter the town of Birnin Kebbi for the proper protest.

He urged the protesting workers to be peaceful, and not to engage in unsavoury behaviour.

ONDOFEST 2018 will be replica of FESTAC 77 - Oshodi Adewale Momoh, Akure The Ondo State Arts and Cultural Festival (ONDOFEST) 2018 which will be held this December will no doubt surpass the globally recognised Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC) 77, which took place in 1977.

The Chief Executive of Oshodi Arts Gallery, Seyi Oshodi stated this in a press statement made available in Akure, the Ondo State capital.

According to Oshodi who is also partnering the Ondo State government on the hosting the festival, the ONDOFEST 2018 was designed to rejuvenate the dwindling interest in arts and culture among Nigerians, particularly after the FESTAC 77.

“After FESTAC in 1977, we haven’t really experienced a broadbrush cultural event that rolls out an all encompassing arts form in Nigeria, arguably, various attempts are made in isolation to either showcase a particular area of culture or to commemorate an annual occasions and most cases treated with foreign costumes and Western theatrical properties; therefore leaving room for mitigating criticism concerning the construct of our cultural potential.

Aesthetics: Deface Abia tower, go to jail – Commissioner Sunday Nwakanma, Umuahia

Members of Medicaid Cancer Foundation during the walk away cancer awareness in Abuja... on Saturday.

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Bauchi seeks intervention on maternal mortality from Nigerians in Diaspora Samuel Luka, Bauchi The Bauchi state government has called on Nigerians living outside the country to intervene on issues of Maternal Mortality in the state.

The State Governor, Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar who made the call when the Nigerian in Diaspora paid him a courtesy visit in Bauchi said, “The state needs much intervention and partnership to reduce high rate of maternal mortality, improved education system, Agricultural development and viable tourism in the state”.

He added that, “the state have been recording high mortality rate, school drop

outs and influx of internally display Persons (IDPs) that increases population of the citizens in the state.

“Bauchi’s population has increased from about a million people to close to 6.8 million in 2015. The population of Bauchi is estimated to be close to 7.3 million.

The governor while stressing that the state government recognises the need to improve access to vital resources such as education, healthcare and employment opportunities noted that facilities are overstretched as a result of the growth in population within the last few years.

“Therefore population of the youth would have implications on future socioeconomic development as many of the youth are unemployed.

“We need more interventions in the

Education, Agriculture and tourism sectors to boost our economy and provide employment opportunities in the state”, he said.

Governor Abubakar who said his administration has done well in all sectors of the economy, especially health and education pointed out that, “that is why we are appealing to investors to come and invest in the state, the enabling environment has already been created for prosperous growth of all kind of business”.

In a comment, the leader of the delegation, Mrs Abike Dabiri who is also a Senior Special Assistant to President Mohammadu Buhari on Diaspora said they were in Bauchi to partner with the state government on developmental issues and to trace the roots of some of the African Americans.

Abia state government says, it is poised to restoring the beauty of the Abia Tower and areas around it.

The state commissioner for Environment, Dr. Aham Uko disclosed this Saturday during the October edition of the state cleanup exercise he monitored, stating that it is collaborating with the Abia State Environmental Sanitation Authority, ASEPA in that regard.

He disclosed that the state will ensure that public light supply from the Onhiya 33 KVA sub-station will be tapped into to illuminate the area, especially during the oncoming yuletide, warning people who deface the edifice indiscriminately with posters that if caught, will be subjected to the law.

He also disclosed a partnership agreement with Arab Contractors to clear the dump site along the Ubakala- Aba expressway through pulling down the wall they erected at the site and pushing the refuse further into the site, while the state government will be embarking on efforts to remediate all erosion spots/locations in the state.

Abia CP arraigns pro-Biafra female vendor for selling IPOB newspapers Sunday Nwakanma, Umuahia Abia State Commissioner of Police, Ogbizi, Friday arraigned one Mrs. Felicia Ejezie, otherwise known as Mama Biafra “F” at an Umuahia Magistrate Court presided over by Magistrate Linda Ugboaja for selling Pro-Biafia newspapers.

The Police had in the charge number U/9512018, charged Ejezie, aged 55 years for “promoting membership of a terrorist group, IPOB by selling g different IPOB newspapers”, thereby committing “an offence punishable section 64(A) of the Criminal Code, Cap. 80 Vol 3, Laws of Abia state of Nigeria 2005”.

The woman pleaded not guilty.

However, the Police prosecuting Counsel opposed bail application by her lawyer, Grant N. Nwokoma on the condition that her crime was seditious in nature and that she may abscond if granted bail.

However, the Magistrate, Linda Ugboaja ignored the plea by the Police prosecuting Counsel not to grant Mrs. Ejezie bail and granted her bail in the sum of N300,000.00 (three hundred thousand naira).

It would be recalled that Felicia Ejezie (Mama Biafra) was midWednesday last week arrested by a team of police men armed to the teeth, at Umuwaya road vendors’ distribution point around 3 pm and had since then put her under police custody.

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5000 IDPs to benefit from Word Bank grant in Bauchi Samuel Luka, Bauchi Not less than N200,000.00 each has been earmarked to be disbursed to the first batch of 5,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) taking refuge in Bauchi state that are willing to go back to their respective communities.

A grant from the Targeted Grant Transfer (TGT) under the Youth Employment and Social Support Operations (YESSO), a World Bank assisted intervention is responsible for that.

This was disclosed by the head of TGT component in Bauchi state, Mallam Kabiru Yusuf Kobi at the flag off ceremony of the TGT held at the banquet hall of government house Bauchi.

Yusuf said the primary objective of TGT programme is to encourage the 13,836 IDPs enumerated to go back to their respective communities or any other safe and secured location to resettle.

“The N200,000.00 to be disbursed to IDPs that are willing to go back to their indigenous communities will be given in four batches. The

first batch of N30,000.00 is the one we are flagging off today and it cut across all enumerated IDPs mined from the state social register.

“Thereafter, those IDPs willing to go back to their communities will be entitle to additional N20,000.00 as relocation allowance, N50,0000.00 resettlement allowance and the final N100,0000.00 as stabilisation allowance, which brings it to the sum total of N200, 000.00 per beneficiary”, Kobi said.

In a remark at the flag off ceremony, the state Governor, Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar commended the TGT intervention which he described as timely.

The secretary to the state government, Mohammed Umar Nadada who represented the Governor said, “It is hoped that the beneficiaries will use the grant to improve their economic status in wherever they find their selves”.

He added that, “for those of you who want to go back to your respective communities, I urge you to make good use of what you are getting from the TGT intervention.

For those of you that want to remain in Bauchi state, you are

welcome and you will be given all the privileges that the indigenous people are enjoying too”.

While commenting during the ceremony, Bauchi state chairman of IDPs Mallam Buba Musa Shehu expressed his gratitude to the World Bank, the Federal and Bauchi state governments for their efforts towards rehabilitated the IDPs in the state. He also appealed to the beneficiaries of the grant to use it into the purpose for which it was given.

“For us (IDPs), living in Bauchi state, I will say without any fear of contradiction that we are well taken care of. This is not the only intervention that is targeting IDPs in the state. There is also the Fadama project too and many other donor and local intervention aimed at making our lives better.

We thank Bauchi people for their hospitality”, the IDPs chairman said.

At the event, a credit card loaded with the sum of N30,000.00 was presented to some IDPs beneficiaries by the representative of the Governor to symbolise the actuality of the programme.

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Short News 2023: ‘It’s Ndigbo turn to produce president’ Charles Onyekwere, Abakaliki The Buhari Support Organisation (BSO) South East Geopolitical Zone, has said that 2023 would be the turn of the South-East geopolitical zone of the country to produce the next President of Igbo extraction.

The caucus of the BSO South- East met in Enugu Sunday,after exhaustive and detailed analysis of the zoning and rotation of president convention from Southern Belt to Northern Belt in 1999 to date, came to the inevitable conclusion that it is the turn of the SouthEast to produce the president.

In a Communiqué signed by Hon. Stanley Ohajuruka, SE Coordinator and Barrister Godwin onwusi, Ag Secretary respectively.

BSO stated that the proclamation is hinged on the truism that the rotation convention was introduced in 1999 for equity, justice, peace and unity of our dear country.

According to the organisation, the rotation convention is meant to erase the fears of marginalisation of any ethnic nationality, hence implant sense of belonging to all Nigerians.

“We are also witnesses on how Dr Alex Ekwueme of blessed memory was shoved aside from a party he co-founded, in order to appease the South West, and His Excellency Ogboniya Onu was also in the same manner shoved aside, hence the commencement of the rotation of president from the South West in 1999.

Continue,the group said in spite the shoddy manner Ekwueme was treated at the Jos, Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) Convention and Onu at the defunct All Peoples Party(APP) convention at Kaduna, Ndigbo still went ahead to vote along the agreed rotation convention.

“It is as well worthy to note that in spite of unintended consequences, the zoning convention train progressively moved North in 2007, South South in 2010 and North in 2015”.

Insecurity: IDFP urges Buhari, govs to end crisis in volatile states Mathew Dadiya, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari and state governors have been called upon by the Interfaith Dialogue Forum (IDFP) to intervene and rein in criminal elements causing violence and killing Nigerians in various parts of the country, especially in Kaduna, Plateau, Zamfara, Taraba and Benue states.

The Co-Chairmen of IDFP, Alhaji Ishaq Kunle Sani and Bishop Sunday Onuoha made the appeal while addressing the media after advocacy visits to the five states by the Forum.

The Forum said, “President Muhammadu Buhari, Governor Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai and relevant security agencies to ensure quick resolution of the crisis that has engulfed Kaduna state, urging the people in Kaduna to see the current curfew as a painful necessity to combat agents of destruction and prevailing insecurity.”

In its brief observation on recently concluded visits to the states, he called on state governors and critical stakeholders to hearken to the cries of citizens in order to ensure improved conditions of living for the people.

While in Zamfara the forum was told that “activities of cattle rustlers and other criminals engaged in kidnapping and armed robberies remain obvious bumps to peace” the involvements of the local vigilante known as ‘Yan Sakai’ were listed as major reasons for the violent crimes ripping across the state.

In Benue, the interfaith discovered that what it described as “resource struggle” between herders and farmers, while both the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and Jama’atul Nasril Islam (JNI) dismissed the crisis as being religious. Stakeholders insisted, according to the IDFP’s finding that

government must work fast to “economic empowerment through job creation was harped upon to tackle the joblessness faced by youths.”

In Plateau the forum noted that clashes between farmers and herdsmen are becoming an albatross to peace efforts and called on both government and international community to intervene by enhancing security and providing financial aids to alleviate the suffering of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). In Taraba State, the forum further revealed, it was appalled by the worsening conditions at the IDP camps and called on government and the international community, especially donor agencies, to assist in averting the pitiable conditions of these IDPs. Kaduna State stakeholders, the IDFP identified “hypocrisy among some members of communities, actions and inactions of some religious and political leaders who are not practicing what they preach as factors responsible for the conflict.”

Identifying youth restiveness caused by unemployment and mutual distrust among various groups remain a major challenge, the forum lamented that it was unfortunate “His Royal Highness, the Agom Adara, Dr Maiwada Raphael Galadima, was abducted and killed less than 48 hours after he granted audience to our team. The IDFP’s team cheated fate as Kasuwan Magani was enmeshed in an orgy of violence, less than an hour after the team interacted with critical stakeholders.

The IDFP was founded in 2016 and is supported by the Vienna-based King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue, popularly known as KAICIID Dialogue Centre, an international organization that supports dialogue platforms and trains peace builders globally.

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CUSTOMER

ITEM OF IMPORT

DATE OF FUND PURCHASE

EXCHANGE RATE

USD AMOUNT

1

FRIESLANDCAMPINA WAMCO NIGERIA PLC

DISODIUM/MONOSODIUM PHOSPHATE

16-Oct-18

341.00

8,455.39

2

FRIESLANDCAMPINA WAMCO NIGERIA PLC

LAC SPRAY/THINNER/FOODPRO OLC9867

16-Oct-18

341.00

41,538.06 45,260.00

3

CROWN FLOUR MILLS LIMITED

ANIMAL FEEDS

16-Oct-18

361.51

4

CROWN FLOUR MILLS LIMITED

ANIMAL FEEDS (CONSISTING OF FISH OIL)

16-Oct-18

361.51

4,740.00

5

MASSILIA MOTORS LIMITED

6 UNITS NEW MITSUBISHI ECLIPSE CROSS

16-Oct-18

361.51

41,844.00

6

WORLD WIDE COMMERCIAL VENTURES LTD

GLAXOSMITHKLINE PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS - BETNOVATE - N CREAM

16-Oct-18

361.51

33,156.00

7

FAREAST MERCANTILE (NEW HOME PRODUCTS INDUSTRIES LIMITED)

SCANFROST BRAND AIR CONDITIONAER IN CKD FORMAT

16-Oct-18

361.51

6,380.05

8

FAREAST MERCANTILE COMPANY LIMITED

EMBORG BRAND - UHT FULL CREAM MILK, 3.5%

16-Oct-18

361.51

48,573.00

9

FAREAST MERCANTILE (NEW HOME PRODUCTS INDUSTRIES LIMITED)

SCANFROST BRAND COOKERS IN CKD FORMAT - SCANFROST TABLE TOP LPG COOKER IN CKD KITS (2 GAS

18-Oct-18

361.51

1,570.00

10

ARVEE INDUSTRIES LIMITED,

NOVACOTE NC-272-A & CA-12

18-Oct-18

361.51

560.00

11

WORLD WIDE COMMERCIAL VENTURES LTD

NOVARTIS PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS - AZOPT 1% 5ML

18-Oct-18

361.51

50,193.52

12

WORLD WIDE COMMERCIAL VENTURES LTD

GLAXOSMITHKLINE PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS - BETNOVATE - N CREAM

18-Oct-18

361.51

19,806.48

13

DE-UNITED FOODS IND LIMITED

FLAVOR CHICKEN (KAD)

18-Oct-18

361.51

147,916.95

14

CORONATION MERCHANT BANK LTD

PAYMENT FOR SUBSCRIPTION

18-Oct-18

361.51

100,000.00

15

WORLD WIDE COMMERCIAL VENTURES LTD

GLAXOSMITHKLINE PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS - BETNOVATE - N CREAM

18-Oct-18

361.51

20,000.00

16

CBN

WHOLESALE RETURNS

18-Oct-18

361.01

480,000.00

17

PROVIDUS

INTERBANK SALES

26-Oct-18

307.05

20,000.00

S/N

SOURCES

DATE OF FUND PURCHASE

EXCHANGE RATE

USD AMOUNT

1

CITI BANK

25-Oct-18

340.50

343,964.22

2

GT BANK

26-Oct-18

306.55

20,000.00

3

CBN

25-Oct-18

361.01

500,000.00

4

CBN

25-Oct-18

361.01

500,000.00

1

TOTAL AMOUNT

2

AVERAGE AMOUNT

1,363,964.22 340,991.06

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Daily Times Nigeria Monday, October 29, 2018

Don’t destroy our nation, PDP tells Buhari Short News Tunde Opalana, Abuja The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has charged President Muhammadu Buhar not to allow his personal ambition to push the nation into chaos.

The PDP also cautioned the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu not to succumb to pressure to manipulate the electoral process for President Buhari as such could cause serious crisis capable of disarticulating the nation.

In a statement on Sunday by its publicist, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party warned that President Buhari’s handlers, who are desperate to force him on an unwilling nation, are fast pushing the nation to the brinks and should be checked before it is too late.

PDP’s fresh caution to INEC Chairman is predicated on an alleged secret meeting he held with President Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Mallam Abba Kyari, at the Presidential villa last Friday.

The party asked Prof. Yakubu to note that the polity is already tensed over INEC’s listing of President Buhari for election despite his failure to present the constitutionally required academic credentials like other candidates, stressing that this development casts a dark shadow on the credibility of INEC to conduct a transparent election.

The party invited INEC “to further note that Nigerians are aware that by President Buhari’s declaration, in an affidavit, that his said certificates are with the military, his nomination documentation is therefore constitutionally incomplete, making him ineligible to contest the 2019 Presidential elections.

The PDP said “by failing to write to the military authorities to release his claimed certificates, Mr. President leaves Nigerians with no option than to hold that he does not have the credentials and the 1999 Constitution (as amended) did not provide that affidavits can be used as a substitute for any candidate’s credentials.

“Moreover, Mr. President’s affidavit also shows that he did not submit any certificate in 2015, making his candidacy

for that election improper and defective under our laws.

“Prof. Yakubu must have noted the heavy public criticisms that have been trailing his provocative declaration that Nigerians should go to court over the certificate saga. His statement betrays an electoral umpire who is under threats and heavy pressure to abdicate his statutory duty of enforcing constitutional requirements for elections”.

The party said that allowing such siege mentality on national democratic institutions to fester will surely spell doom for the nation while it advised the APC to accept its self-inflicted misfortune.

“On our part, the PDP is ready for election. Our candidate, Atiku Abubakar, with his proven competencies, has met all the requirements for the election and is now enjoying the support of the overwhelming majority of Nigerians across all sections of our country.

“Nigerians are tired of a deceptive, dishonest and grossly incompetent Buhari administration, which has brought so much anguish and pain to our nation”, said the party.

FG’s unpaid subsidy arrears is affecting our operations – Marketers Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association (DAPPMA) on Sunday said the unpaid subsidy arrears of over N650 billion by the Federal Government poses huge financial challenges to the downstream operations.

DAPPMA Executive Secretary, Mr Olufemi Adewole, told newsmen in Lagos that the settlement of the debts owed them would save their assets from being taken over by banks.

Adewole said the downstream segment of Nigeria’s petroleum industry was fast becoming unattractive to lending institutions owing to rising debt profiles of its players on account of unpaid subsidy arrears by government.

“This is posing a huge financial challenge to oil marketers and threatening business survival,” he said.

He said that 60 per cent of marketers had been forced out of business as banks had taken over their assets (depots and other investments) due to their inability to pay back funds borrowed.

According to him, aside marketers that have been forced out of business, others are struggling to survive due to the government’s inability to settle the subsidy arrears.

Wike compensates traders of burnt Fruit Garden Market *Flags off reconstruction of the market

Amaka Agbo, Port Harcourt The Rivers State Governor, Barr. Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has redeemed his pledge to compensate traders of the burnt Fruit Garden Market Port Harcourt, as he handed over bank drafts to them.

The government also flagged off the reconstruction of the burnt section of the Fruit Garden Market, with the foundation stone laid by the Ebonyi State Governor, Engineer Dave Umahi.

Speaking before presenting the bank drafts to the affected traders weekend, Governor Wike stated that traders with shops got N400,000 (four hundred thousand naira) while traders who operated as attachment got N300, 000 (Three Hundred Thousand naira) each.

He said: “Today, Government will compensate you, so that you can pick up your lives. We have the bank drafts because we don’t want you to be targeted by criminals.

Go to the banks, open accounts and expand your businesses.”

The governor charged the contractors to ensure that the market was completed within the next three months.

“We have paid 60 per cent of the contract sum. So, this market must be completed in three months. We have the funds to complete the market in record time.

Ganduje laments high cases of malnutrition in Kano Yakubu Salisu, Kano Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike (right), presenting bank drafts to the affected traders of the burnt Fruit Garden Market in Port Harcourt... on Saturday.

Reps member alleges oath taking by politicians to induce voters Henry Omunu, Abuja House of Representatives member, Rep. Israel Ajibola Famurewa (APC/Osun) has alleged that desperate politicians are inducing voters to take oath as a means of vote buying during elections.

The lawmaker who said this phenomenon was rampant during the just concluded Osun state governorship election, declared that the All Progressives Congress (APC) underestimated the desperation of the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ademola Adeleke to win the governorship election.

Rep. Famurewa, who was the director - general of the campaign organisation of the Governor-elect of Osun state, Gboyega Oyetola, in a chat with journalists over the weekend warned that Nigeria’s democracy is facing its most perilous time ever with the introduction of oath taking by politicians to buy votes.

He said if the trend is not checked, the nation’s democracy will be at a greater risk of losing voters’ choice which he described as the most important part of citizens franchise.

“We discovered one frightening development during the just concluded

governorship election in Osun state and it’s a very sad commentary for our democracy; and it has to be checked urgently.

“We realized that desperate politicians were offering cash to voters and asking them to swear to an oath before they could get the money so that they don’t take their money and vote their preferred candidate.

“One surprising incident occurred in my own poling unit where I know virtually everybody. On the morning of the elections, I went out calling on my people to come and vote, but they were stepping back after seeing me, saying that they had collected money from the other candidates.

“When I offered to give them the money so they could return same to those people, they said they were made to swear to an oath. I couldn’t find my voice to say anything.

“And I think, poverty is responsible for that, if not, how can a family man or woman compromise his or her religious belief just to get N3000 or N5000 from somebody who claims he’s seeking office to safeguard the peoples’ interests?”, the lawmaker wondered.

The lawmaker who is the APC senatorial candidate for Ijesha-North/Ijesha-East called for stringent measures by the authorities to curb the situation before the general elections in 2019 so as not to erode

the credibility of the polls.

Giving reasons for the runoff, he said that the APC, though fortunate to have assembled a competent campaign team didn’t envisage the PDP manipulating the process as it did in Ede, the strong hold of its candidate.

“Our concern was more on other candidates such as Otumba Iyiola Omisore of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and that of the ADP who until his defection was the secretary to the state government.

“However, the PDP candidate was able to make it to the runoff against our expectations because of massive overvoting that took place in Ede. “How can a poling unit produce about 600 votes with no single case of voided vote? You will see the veracity of what I’m saying by the time the tribunal is done with its proceedings.

“But preliminary audit by our team of lawyers has shown beyond reasonable doubts that there was a serious case of overvoting in Ede where Adeleke won.

“How did we know this? The number of voters accredited by the card readers was far below the number of votes returned, which means that at a point, the device failed and they continued with manual accreditation which was against the INEC guidelines,” he added.

Kano State Governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Gandje has lamented that the lives of about half a million children are threatened by health cases that are related to malnutrition.

The Governor decried the health challenge culminating in the large number of stunt children which is now rampant in the state, describing the situation as disturbing and worrisome.

Ganduje, while launching a dietary diversification project supported by UNICEF said, the affected children are prone to death before age of five.

He affirm that the state Government is committed in the fight against stunting, calling on traditional rulers to join the campaign against the ubiquitous menace of stunt children, which is currently bedevilling the state.

“Locally, we have the required food to address the issue, we only need to sensitize our people especially those in the rural areas on how to use, the available crops and legumes to achieve balance diet.

“Nigeria is one of the four countries in the world, that is faced with the problems of malnutrition and Kano as the most populated state should under this circumstance account for a good number of affected children, as parents we must all of us combine forces to address the problem and ensure we overcome it.”

Ganduje stated.

Traffic: Police launch joint operation in Lagos Benjamin Omoike, Lagos The Lagos State Police Command has launched a joint operation with other sister agencies to seriously tackle the upsurge in traffic gridlock on roads across the State caused by lawlessness on the part of some motorists, among other factors.

Tagged Operation Restore Sanity on Lagos Roads/Operation Velvet, the police said it would henceforth impound the cars of defaulting drivers and arraign them immediately in a Mobile Court that will be attached to the joint service team to enable quick dispensation of justice to erring motorists.

In a statement on Sunday by the Public Relations Officer of the State Police Command, CSP Chike Oti, the police said it had already identified the worst hit areas, while the joint operation team involving the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) had been constituted to commence enforcement activities with immediate effect.

According to Oti, “The frustrations of commuters plying Lagos roads, substantially caused by recent upsurge in the volume of traffic and lawlessness of some road users with its attendant gridlock, has attracted the attention of the Nigeria Police, Lagos State Police Command and it has resolved to tackle the hydra headed problem with all the seriousness it deserves in order to bring back law and order on the roads through a Joint Service Operation code named ‘Operation Restore Sanity On Lagos Roads/Operation Velvet.’

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ANSG signs N1.4bn Agric contract with NKO Farms Stories by John Ndu, Awka Anambra State Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with NKO Farms Limited in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Mechanisation, Processing and Export.

The contract has a capacity size of N1.4 billion, as the investor would provide N1.7 billion over a three year development period, which translates to 75% equity, as against the state’s 25%.

It is for establishment of a 100 hectare yam farm and processing plant for production of yam tubers and processed yam flour for export.

Speaking during the signing at the Governor’s Lodge, Amawa, Governor Willie Obiano said the MoU was the first on yam production the state government

had signed on agriculture.

Governor Obiano stressed that agriculture was one of his four pillars, geared towards improving food production to creating food sufficiency.

He said: “The NKO Farms will bring to 43 MoUs signed on agriculture, making a total amount of $5.6 billion investment, only on agriculture, since my administration.

“Out of the 43, eight companies are already on ground and 14 are in various stages of development.

“With this development, Anambra State will compete Benue State on yam production and would further export to other countries,” Gov Obiano explained.

The Governor noted that the establishment of the NKO Farms would not only promote food production, but create direct and indirect jobs for the youths.

He encouraged youths to embrace mechanised agriculture, as the

government had mapped out various measures to support them in different areas of production.

The Chairman, Anambra State Investment Promotion and Protection Agency (ANSIPPA), Igwe Cyril Enweze, emphasised that the revenue sharing formula for the investment remained 83.5% for the investors, 13.5% for the state, while 3.0% would be for the Host Community.

Enweze stressed that the investor would be expected to mobilise to site within 90 days of signing this MoU, saying non compliance would have the land title revoked, with the land automatically reverted to the state.

Also speaking, the President as well as the Chief Executive Officer NKO Farms, Mrs. Cordelia Udo, said the processed yam flour would be packaged in various sizes from 1kg to 10kg and would be exported to Japan, Europe and America

where the market share of Nigerian produced yam is increasing.

Mrs. Udo, represented by the Managing Director of the company, Mr. Chikwube Okwuonu, noted that the project would be state-of-the-art facilities with sophisticated processes and storages.

Mrs. Udo pointed that the mission of the company was to sustain all year round production, to surpass yam consumption in the nation.

“Within the first five years of our operation, we have planned to export 480 metric tons of wareyam tubers, 480 metric tons of processed yam flour, and 240 metric tons of processed yam chips.

The reason why 80% of our products will go for export is that it will avail both Anambra State government and NKO Farms Limited the opportunity to scoop in revenues in hard currencies,” she added.

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Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano (centre); Chairman, Anambra State Investment Promotion and Protection Agency (ANSIPPA), Igwe Cyril Enweze (left); Director of NKO Company, Mr. Chikwube Okwuonu (right), during the signing of N1.4 billion Agric contract with NKO Farms, at the Governor’s lodge, Amawbia.

Orumba South LG Council marks 27th anniversary As part of activities lined up to mark the twenty-seventh year anniversary of Orumba South Local Government Area, an inaugural lecture was held at the Federal College of Education, Technical Umunze.

The event which was a moment of sober reflection for the people of the area on the journey so far attracted political stakeholders, traditional rulers, captains of industry and religious leaders, among others.

Delivering a lecture on “Orumba South yesterday, today, and tomorrow,” the Member representing Orumba North and South Federal Constituency at the National Assembly, Chief Ben Nwankwo, described the people of the area as benevolent which according to

him was evident in their ability to harbour and protect refugees during the war and noted that the local government area is divinely blessed with talented people with different skills, natural endowments including the Ogbaukwu cave and waterfalls.

Chief Nwankwo, while tracing the political history of the area, observed that they have been backward in the state’s polity, and emphasised the need for them to forget their individual differences and collectively work on how to secure a bright future for the younger generations.

In a speech, the Transition Committee Chairman for the Local Government Area, Mr. Raymond Onyegu, who noted that the event was aimed at rekindling the spirit

of love and unity amongst the people, charged them to always strive to contribute their quota to the development of the council.

Earlier in his opening remarks, the Chairman on the occasion, Chief Ben Oranusi, tasked the people on peace, forgiven spirit and unity of purpose for them to be able to realise the greater local government area of their dream.

In their separate speeches, the Chairman of the Planning Committee of the event, Mr. Chukwudi Ugochukwu, and the traditional ruler of Nawfija, Igwe Clifford Okeke, described the event as remarkable, and commended the Transition Committee Chairman of the local government area, Mr. Onyegu, for the initiative.

The Department of Religion and Cultural Studies of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu, Enugu state last week honoured prominent Nigerians as patriots who came to receive awards having distinguished themselves in various areas of life.

The occasion was the International Conference and 2nd Home Coming 2018 organised by the Department which ended last Saturday after three days of brainstorming on the volatile Nigerian political situation.

The International Confab which attracted scholars from all over the globe was the second Home Coming for all graduates of UNN’s famous ‘Den of Lions and Lionesses’ from her inception since 1963.

Also present were eminent philanthropists, custodians of culture and politicians of note as well as ordained ministers of God. Besides the state Governor, His Excellency Dr. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, who received the Best Governor in Nigeria award, other awardees include Ambassador (Dr.) Ramas Okoye Asuzu, FCON (Ezeoba Akajiofor Ndigbo Gburugburu and Ezeofo Igbo), who received the esteemed Custodian of Igbo Culture award along with 18 other recipients.

At a rendezvous with The Daily Times during a dinner held to consummate the occasion, Dr. Ramas Okoye, the multiple award winning icon, spoke of his vision and mission for the Igbo race.

“I am on a rescue mission to ensure a cultural rebirth, restoration and propagation of the ailing Igbo cultural heritage and essence. For many decades, I have dedicated my time and resources to rejuvenate our Igbo cultural identity and correctness.”

Notwithstanding challenges trailing his noble quest, the traditional protagonist has scored landmark achievements and high performance ratings as a lone ranger.

“My aim is to give back to the Igbo man a valid sense of infinite pride and confidence in his esteemed culture”.

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ANSG intervenes in Ihiala power outage As part of measures to electrify the entire state, Anambra State government has quickly intervened in the protracted power problem in communities in Ihiala Local Government Area.

The state Governor, Chief Willie Obiano, promised to proffer lasting solutions that would ensure uninterrupted power supply.

Governor Obiano made the promise during a power summit held at Ihiala Local Government Council, Ihiala.

The Governor regretted that some communities in the state were still in dark due to insufficient transformer, to power their loads.

The Governor represented by his Senior Special Assistant, Public Utility, Power and Water Resources, Engr. Victor Meju, recalled that over 400 transformers had been procured and distributed to some communities who had suffered power outbreak in the past.

He said: “We are making further arrangements to procure more transformers to distribute to other communities that need them.

“Last year, we connected 32km from Awada to Nnewi as Orumba North and South from Oji River. This will continue till every community enjoy uninterrupted power supply”.

He further warned them to take charge of government facilities in their communities against theft and vandalism.

The Community Laison Manager, Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, (EEDC), Mr. Tony Obi, said his team had been duly directed to ascertain the various communities in Ihiala that needed urgent attention.

Chief Obi, in-charge of five states in the South East, explained that over 6 million people in South East were benefiting power generation, which according to him, the team had commenced capturing to regulate distribution.

He stressed that 61 transformers had been procured in Ihiala, out of which, 40 had been suspended and 21, very active, adding that they had commenced upgrading facilities to solve power challenges.

Also, the Technical Manager, EEDC, Engr. Canice Emeka noted there is an on going Federal Government transmission station in Ihiala, which when completed, Ihiala would experience steady power supply.

Emeka further explained that the existing line at Ihiala had been over stretched and his team were installing a breaker line and rehabilitating 33KV at Obosi to assist supply at Ihiala.

Equally speaking, one of the stakeholders in Ihiala and the Anambra South Senatorial Candidate for Advanced People’s Democratic Alliance (APDA), Mr. Ken Emekaya, commended Governor Obiano for his zeal to electrify the entire state.

Emekaya, who was the former Anambra State Chairman, PDP, urged EEDC to speed up action in some areas where power was a challenge.

In their separate reactions, the Transition Chairman Ihiala Local Government Area, Barr Ifeanyi Odimegwu, the President General, Azia community, Sir Kenneth Mmaduako, the Senior Special Assistant, Project Monitory and Management Office, Barrister Ifeanyi Ezeka, and the Chairman Planning Committee, Engr. Akaolisa Basil, complained they had suffered for the past 10 years due to lack of power, yet received monthly bills from EEDC. They regretted that the inadequate power supply in Ihiala had affected their socio-economic activities, calling on government to urgently intervene.

Other stakeholders in the meeting were traditional rulers, community leaders and other meaningful individuals in Ihiala local government.

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Produce Armoured Personnel Carriers to fight insurgency, IGP tells Innoson Stories by John Ndu, Awka The Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, has asked the management of Innoson Motors to go into full production of Armoured Personal Carriers to assist the government in fighting insurgency in the country.

The IGP gave the advice at the weekend in Nnewi, Anambra State at the commissioning of Innoson Vehicle Automated Plant and unveiling of innoson IVM Granite 2019 edition.

Represented by his Deputy, Agboola OshodiGlover, Idris commended Innoson for providing camouflaged vehicles for the army to tackle all forms of insecurity.

He assured of police patronage on armoured vehicles produced by the company, just as he called on other organisations to support the locally made vehicles.

“Innoson is making history. This type is rare. I congratulate you and want to assure you that police will give you all the necessary supports you need.

“But you need to commence production of Armoured Personal Carriers to enable the police tackle insurgents and other security challenges in the country,” he added.

Also speaking, Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano, praised the ingenuity of the company amidst apparent challenges in the industry.

“I’m happy this is happening in our state. It’s only here that we’re manufacturing vehicles. Others travel to other countries and gather parts to assemble in Nigeria,” he said.

He, however, regretted the epileptic power supply in the state, which he said, has hampered the production possibility frontier of the company.

The governor urged the Federal Government, as a matter of urgency, to provide adequate power supply and enabling environment for maximum productivity.

He also appealed to both governments to

commence placing orders on the vehicles produced

by IVM. “With what innoson is doing, he’s contributing immensely to the nation’s GDP and should be encouraged to do more,” Obiano added.

Earlier, the chairman of the Innoson vehicle manufacturing company, Chief (Dr.) Innocent Chukwuma, said the vehicles’ major strength depended in its ability to produce according to clients’ specifications.

He said: “The fact that the Nigerian Police vehicle operate in diverse and dangerous retains as a result of its functions., Innoson vehicles can produce specific operational vehicles that will meet the operational requirements of the Nigerian Police.”

He, however, urged the police to partner with them for the manufacturing of its specific and customized vehicles that would enhance its constitutional responsibilities to the nation.

“This pick up is built for our roads and it’s in line with the latest generation of international brands of high end pick up,” he said.

APGA faithful urged to remain united The Willie Obiano Support Group has implored members of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), who are aggrieved by the outcome of the recent primaries, to take advantage of the reconciliation committees set up respectively by the National Executive Committee of the party and Governor Willie Obiano, to ameliorate their grouses.

The National Chairman of the Support Group, Chief Jude Emecheta, gave this advice after a crucial meeting of some stakeholders of the groupin Awka.

Chief Emecheta maintained that no efforts should be spared to sustain the unity of APGA in order to guarantee its victory in Anambra State and other parts of Nigeria, especially the South East geo-political zone in the 2019 general election.

He assured that the Support Group would lend total support to all candidates of APGA who would eventually fly the party’s flag in the general election.

The Willie Obiano Support Group National Chairman maintained that Governor Obiano deserves the support and co-operation of all genuine APGA faithful because of his good governance and impressive delivery of democracy dividends in Anambra State.

Chief Emecheta maintained that all the party faithful should be united to ensure the survival of APGA as a political party which according to him has the interest of the people of the South East geo-political zone at heart more than any other party in Nigeria.

University of Nigeria Alumni Association visits Anambra HOS

Chairman, Anambra State chapter of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Chief Demian Okeke Ogene (standing), the Youth Leader, Ohaneze Ndigbo, Anambra State, Mazi Chukwuma Okpalaezeukwu (4th left) and others during the meeting of Ohaneze Ndigbo in Awka.

Scholarship: Aniunoh presents N12m cheque to 150 students The premises of Urban Girls’ Secondary School, Fegge, Onitsha, was a beehive of activities recently as the member representing Onitsha South I State Constituency in the Anambra State House of Aseembly, Honourable Sir Patrick Paddy Aniunoh, presented a cheque of twelve million naira to one hundred and fifty successful students who participated in the Holiday Lesson examination organised by Honourable Patrick Aniunoh’s Scholarship Foundation.

There was a free tutorial for secondary school students which was organised and funded by Hon Patrick Aniunoh who saw to the payment of teachers who handled the students and other logistics in the one month lesson programme.

At the end of the lesson programme, examination was conducted and graded accordingly.

The beneficiaries gathered at the Urban Girls’ Secondary School, Fegge, Onitsha, with their parents and guardians where they received the award certificate from the lawmaker.

Presenting the scholarship certificates to the beneficiaries, Hon.Aniunoh revealed that the project gulped over twelve million naira, noting that hundred and fifty junior and senior secondary students in Onitsha South I State constituency would attend school for the next academic year on scholarship.

According to the Umuoji-born legislator, the long vacation lessons and scholarship scheme started three years ago, noting that the beneficiaries would receive an average of N40, 000 each per term for 2018/2019 session, which amount to N12 million Naira over

three terms.

He said the gesture was to assist parents reduce the burden of funding their children’s education and to support education development of youths in his constituency.

Hon. Aniunoh expressed satisfaction that the scholarship scheme which, he said, had lasted for three years, had enhanced academic pursuit of students in his constituency.

“My aim in Education includes granting of scholarship to qualified students, promoting quality and gender sensitive education in my constituency, assisting students to continue their studies by providing grants and educational materials for better success and building youths’ and women’s intellectual capacity for a better Onitsha South I,’ he said.

The Education-Loving Legislator thanked the students who painstakingly attended all the lessons and encouraged those who were not listed among the 150 scholarship beneficiaries to study hard in next holiday’s lessons and ensure that they did well in the lessons in order to qualify them to benefit from the scholarship scheme.

For his part, chairman of the occasion and Chairman, Anambra State Universal Basic Education Board (ASUBEB), Chief Nzemeka Olisah, who was represented by member One ASUBEB, Dr. Chinelo Okechukwu, stated that the Board would continue to key into good programmes of Honourable Aniunoh, which, he said, had direct bearing on the people of Onitsha South I State Constituency.

He noted with delight that gone were the days when bright students from poor backgrounds could not go to school due to lack of funds as lovers of education like Honourable Aniunoh now funded such.

The ASUBEB boss went further to encouraged the students, even as he asked them to take their studies seriously. He lauded the philanthropic gesture of Aniunoh towards promoting Education, urging him not to relent in his selfless deeds, adding that only God would reward his philanthropy.

In her remarks, Coordinator, Honourable Aniunoh Education Foundation, Mrs. Ngozi Okonkwo, explained that the students who were offered scholarship by the lawmaker were those that excelled in the examination conducted for one thousand, three hundred students that took part in holiday’s lessons sponsored by the same benefactor.

In an interview, some of the beneficiaries including Favour Okechukwu and Collins Obienu, thanked the lawmaker for the gesture and promised to be serious in their academic pursuit.

The beneficiaries are students from Federal Government College, Onitsha, Promise Secondary School Onitsha, Urban Boys, Onitsha, Metu Secondary School Onitsha, Our Lady’s High School, Onitsha, QRC Onitsha, and Patterson Secondary School, Onitsha, among others.

Those who attended the event included APGA ward chairmen, ward Women’s Leaders, Youth Leaders, Aniunoh Support group, major stakeholders and numerous APGA faithful.

Some members of University of Nigeria Alumni Association, Awka Branch, have described Anambra State Head of Service (HOS), Barrister Harry Udu, as ``a resourceful lion of great repute’’. ``We are here to give honour to whom honour is due, as the pillar of support to the association,’’ Vice-President of the association, Mr. Kanayo Egwuonwu, stated during a courtesy visit to HOS. The members paid him the courtesy visit at his office at the Jerome Udoji Secretariat Complex, Awka. ``We feel highly elated to always identity with you and associate with your success story in reordering Civil Service in Anambra,” Egwuonwu said.

Egwuonwu, who led the delegates, said their visit was to inform the HOS of their 2018 Annual Alumni Forum, scheduled to take place on November 17 at Parktonian Hotel, Awka.

He pointed out that the theme of this year’s lecture is: ``Restoring the Lost Gap in Nigeria’s Electoral Process, Challenges and the Way Forward’’, with the HOS as the ‘Guest of Honour’.

He noted that the association had maintained its existence and relevance in spite of all challenges. ``The forum will be an avenue for the association to lend a voice, in the discussion of tropical national issues through a public lecture. ``We strive to uphold `the motto of our university’, which is to `Restore the Dignity of Man’, through our Alumni engagements and outreaches. ``We plan also to engage with students and young ones in workshops, trainings, career guidance and mentorship; as part of our corporate social responsibilities,” Egwuonwu said.

He, however, added that the event would also feature award of excellence to selected personalities, who have distinguished themselves in various areas of human endeavour.

Egwuonwu thanked the HOS for the opportunity to interact with him.

The HOS lauded the association and assured them of his continued support as well as accepted the honour done him, to be the guest of honour at the event.

Udu enjoined them to scout for more people in order to promote and cushion the sustainability of the association.

The President Emeritus of the association, Mr. Leo Imoka, said that the association cut across the retired and non-retired individuals still in civil service.

He noted that commitment was key, to sustainability of any organisation and enjoined all to be more committed to ensuring the association reached enviable heights.

Mr. Ogemdi Ozoemena, one of the delegates, lauded the HOS for the reception and prayed God to make the event a success.

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Diamond Bank records non-interest income of N27.3bn in Q3 Temitope Adebayo

L-R: Former Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, Chief Joseph Sanusi; Group Managing Director/CEO, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc and Honorary Fellowship Awardee, Mr. Kennedy Uzoka; President Chairman of Governing Council of Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN), Dr Uche Olowu; Guest Speaker and Former Vice Chancellor of Igbinedion University, Prof. Eghosa Osagbae; and Awardee and Former Governor, Bank of Siera Leone, Dr Saidu Conteh, during the award of Fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria on Uzoka in Lagos... on Saturday

BoI disburses N81bn loans in one year Motolani Oseni As part of efforts to bridge financing gap estimated at $800 million, the Executive Director, Corporate Services of Bank of Industry (BOI), Tobin Jonathan, has said a total sum of N81 billion loans was disbursed in 2017.

The bank’s director made this disclosure in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital at the just

concluded 26th edition of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Seminar for Finance Correspondents and Business Editors, in contributing to the topic: “Incentivizing lending to boost employment- elastic sectors of the economy.”

He explained that N8 billion was disbursed to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in 2017, while N23 billion loans were disbursed in nine months of 2018.

The BoI, the executive director, noted

that as a government agency, which was established primarily to lend to businesses, had disbursed N66 billion to hundreds of SMEs in 2016.

In order to boost the nation’s industrial capacity, the lender said it had secured an Afreximbank syndicated loan of $750 million, backed by the CBN, which has been deployed in deepening support for the economy.

On his part, the Executive Director (Technical) Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk-

Sharing System for Agricultural Lending, (NIRSAL) – an arm of the CBN established to de- risk investment in the agriculture value chain, Mr. Babajide Arowosafe, said the agency had helped facilitated a total of N78 billion for the agricultural value chain.

Arowasafe said that NIRSAL was an active player in the CBN Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP) window for intervention, provided over N30 billion within a short span of its existence to smallholder farmers.

Manufacturers caution FG on signing of African Trade Agreement Mathew Dadiya, Abuja The new President of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, Engr Mansur Ahmed, has called for a detailed study of the potential benefits and costs of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement, AFCFTA, to Nigeria.

Mr. Ahmed, on Sunday, said though MAN recognises the potential value and desirability of expanding trade and economic integration in the Continent, Nigeria should not sign any

agreement without fully comprehending its impact on the economy and wellbeing of the People.

The President of MAN, made the remarks at a Meeting with the African Union Commission, AUC, Chairperson, Moussa Faki Mohamat, during his visit to Nigeria recently.

“It is an open secret that, given Nigeria’s demography and rapidly growing population any initiative of far-reaching consequences on the survival of our fledging manufacturing sector and the production sector, in general, must be approached with great caution.

“At the minimum, we insist that a detailed study of the potential benefits and costs to the various sectors and sub-sectors of the economy must be undertaken” Ahmed said adequate consultations with key affected stakeholders are necessary to identify opportunities and risks that would result from implementation of the agreement, to mitigate any negative fallouts and facilitate access of potential opportunities.

He noted with gratification, the approach of Government- inauguration by President Buhari, of a high-level multi-stakeholder Committee to

assess the impact and Nigeria’s readiness for the AFCFTA. Ahmed said MAN should be in a position to fully support whatever action Federal Government takes when the Committee completes its assignment and establishes Nigeria’s readiness for AFCTA within the next three months.

President Muhammadu Buhari had on October 22, 2018, inaugurated a Committee for Impact and Readiness Assessment of African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) in State House, Abuja.

N31m Shoreline’s payment: NAMA restores air traffic services to Osubi airstrip Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo Following the payment of N31 million

by Shoreline Oil Services Ltd, operators of the Osubi airstrip to the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency ( NAMA) as part payment of its accumulated debt, the latter has announced resumption of air traffic services at Osubi airstrip.

This is just as the airspace managers said they were not responsible for “shutting down” Osubi airstrip as they do not have such statutory or physical powers as they only withdrew Air Traffic services from the airport.

Following the debt profile at the airport, NAMA withdrew its Air traffic services which technically halted operations at the Warri

airport.

NAMA in a statement from General Manager Public Affairs, Khalid Emele said the debt balance was N566, 422, 000.50 after the payment enjoining Shoreline Oil Services to take advantage of this window of opportunity to make additional payment that will substantially defray the above debt.

His statement read, “This decision is consequent upon the payment of N31M by Shoreline Oil Services Ltd, operators of the airstrip, being part payment of accumulated charges for the provision of air traffic services at the airstrip by NAMA. The payment leaves Shoreline Oil Services with a debt balance of N566, 422, 000.50 as of today, the 28th October, 2018.”

“We recall that we took the difficult decision to withdraw air traffic services to Osubi airstrip after Shoreline Oil Services persistently refused to honour financial obligation to us despite several entreaties.”

“As a responsible corporate citizen and provider of critical services to the nation’s civil aviation sector, we felt obliged to restore our services to the airstrip with the understanding that Shoreline Oil Services will take full advantage of this window of opportunity to make additional payment that will substantially defray the above N566, 422, 000.50 debt as well as agree on a concrete and workable payment plan that will clear the outstanding balance.”

It is our hope that going forward, and in the spirit of the renewed understanding between

both organizations, Shoreline will reciprocate this gesture by paying for our services as and when due.

“We would also like to clear the misconception being bandied about that the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) was responsible for “shutting down” Osubi airstrip. Nothing could be further from the truth as we do not have such statutory or physical powers. We merely withdrew air traffic services to the airstrip but we did not shut it down.”

NAMA reassured all our service users, stakeholders, and the general public that NAMA remains committed to its goal of providing seamless air traffic services in a safe, economic and efficient manner.

Diamond Bank Plc, has announced its third-quarter 2018 results highlighting its strong focus on the Nigerian market, even as the bank’s contribution of non-interest income to profit rose by N27.32 billion from N24.66 billion recorded in 2017, representing a 10.81 per cent increase.

Unaudited report released on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) showed that the bank’s retail strategy was quite rewarding as the bank recorded a landmark figure in the value of funds disbursement of over N1 billion to small business owners under the cash flow-based SME lending scheme in partnership with the Women’s World Banking (WWB), thus earning the bank, the leading financial institution ranked among the first five SME customer bank in Nigeria in the KPMG customer service survey 2018.

Despite the challenging trading environment, the bank’s contribution of non-interest income to profit increased by 10.81 per cent from N24.66 billion (Q3 2017) to N27.32 billion (Q3 2018) while Impairment charges decreased by 24.21 per cent from N33.21 billion recorded in the corresponding period of 2017 to N25.17 billion in 2018.

The bank’s interest expense up 18.32 per cent to N41.26 billion year-on-year, but it has continued to decline in-line with guidance, falling by 15.36 per cent from N14.83 billion in the first quarter of 2018 to N12.56 billion and 2.89 per cent year-on-year increase in operating expense to N66.20 billion (Q3 2018).

However, cost containment measures are underway with the digitization process contributing to quarter-on-quarter gains with OPEX declining 0.36 per cent from N22.07 billion (Q2 2018) to N22.15 billion (Q3 2018).

Commenting on the business, Chief Executive Officer, Diamond Bank, Uzoma Dozie explained that since the global economy is currently witnessing a shift in trade relations alongside continued interest rate adjustments, there is greater volatility across markets and increasingly fragile economies.

Uzoma added that the nation’s economy has not been immune to certain headwinds, so that while the economy recorded quarters of expansion, the rate of growth has weakened.

He said, “our digital-led retail strategy has remained robust and through this strategy we have been able to continue scaling up by reaching a wide pool of customers both cost effectively and efficiently.

As we move into the final quarter of the year, we expect headwinds to continue driven by emerging situations in developed economies as well as our domestic political realities. Despite this, our investors can expect a further decline in Non-Performing Loans (NPLs), a further increase in our digital footprint and completion of the sale of the UK subsidiary. Through these actions we remain optimistic about the medium to long term outlook of Diamond Bank and its return to strong profitability.”

Customer deposit dropped by 8.0 per cent year-on year to N1,107 billion due to re-pricing and non-rollover of high priced maturing deposits, and migration to government securities while Liquidity position remains strong as current and savings account balances increased from 77.4 per cent (FY2017) to 78.08 per cent of total deposits in September 2018.

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Road congestion looms amidst nationwide strike threat As Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) planning to embark on a nationwide strike on November 6, 2018, the president, National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF), Increase Uche, has predicted heavy road congestions around Apapa axis in Lagos state.

The NAGAFF president, said such mode should not be allowed by the federal government because is not good for the nation’s economy at this stage.

According to him, “As we speak congestion is still building up even without the strike and if any reason port user of service providers are forced to withdraw their services as a result of strike action by labour congress it will compound the gridlock issues and condition of the port.”

Uche explained that it may also result into economy crunch against the regeneration of the economy that the government has been targeting.

He said, “Anything that will lead to averting strike action at this stage will always be welcome by freight forwarders, we would not support any kind of strike action at this stage.

“We have suffered enough, the last one embark on really created serious uncertainty and people lost their investment, up till now many are yet to recovered.”

Uche therefore encouraged federal government to do whatever is necessary and negotiate with labour and make sure they do not embark on strike action, knowing that this is a festival period which is a peak period in the year that cargo inflow will increase.

Also, the national publicity secretary of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA), Joe Sanni said, the labour are fighting a course which will have implication on the economy negatively.

Sanni speaking on the implication of the strike on the maritime industry said “the action is going to be big time more difficult, there are so many cargoes that are coming in now, couple with the bad roads and with the fact that empty containers are blocking the road, the congestion is going to be high because the last strike congestion as not been cleared.”

Recently spokesman of STOAN, Bolaji Akinola explained that the economy will also be greatly affected in the event of another labour strike.

Chairman of the Governing Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba (rght), with former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu (first left) and Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe, the Senator representing Abia South at the National Assembly, during the traditional marriage of his son, Hugo Bassey to Nneoma John Obuh, at Ohafia Ndi-Uduma in Abia State.

NAMA, Edo to commence night operations at Benin airport Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo

SON, NIPRD partner to improve access to healthcare Mathew Dadiya, Abuja The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has reiterated its commitment to assisting the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD) in human and systems capacity development towards improved access to healthcare in Nigeria.

This commitment was made during a working visit of the Director General of NIPRD Dr. Peter Obi Adigwe and his management to the Corporate Headquarters of SON. The SON Director General Osita Aboloma Esq; promised to provide necessary concessions to NIPRD in training of its officials in the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Quality Management Systems (QMS) Standards and the conversion of its systems certification to the most recent 2015 standards.

He described public service as a journey and posited that public officers should optimize their time in office to improve the lives of Nigerians and growth of the Nation’s economy through Standards and Quality Assurance.

Aboloma acknowledged the existing mutually beneficial relationship between NIPRD and SON. He promised to strengthen it, through greater involvement of NIPRD’s personnel in standards development, review and adoption activities.

Earlier speaking, the NIPRD Director General said that he cherished his relationship with SON as former Executive Secretary of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Group of the Manufacturer’s Association of Nigeria as much as the NIPRD institutional relationship with SON. He stated that the Institute was focusing on new and novel molecules development to ensure that Nigerians have greater access to healthcare facilities and services.

Adigwe sought SON’s support and assistance in human and institutional capacity development particularly in training more of NIPRD personnel as QMS Auditors in addition to the 12 existing Auditors in the Institute.

The NIPRD DG also requested for SON waivers in the training of personnel and conversion of the QMS certification to the most updated 2015 version as well as a possible extension in the dateline for the QMS conversion.

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State says the state government is working closely with the management of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency NAMA to ensure the final installation of night landing facilities at the Benin airport Speaking as the Special Guest of Honour at the 5th Annual General Meeting of the National Airtraffic Communicators Association of Nigeria (NACAN) over the weekend in Benin City, Gov. Obaseki urged NACAN to support the government and people of the state to make Benin airport more viable with the commencement of night flight operations.

“I want to thank Capt Akinkuotu for the work he is doing in Benin airport, he has worked very closely with us to ensure thst we have night landing facilities and ILS in Benin airport. That’s one of the reasons why I personally decided to attend this event to express the gratitude of Edo people to him and to NAMA for all the support “ According to the governor, the Benin airport remained one of the first five airports in the country with rapid passenger growth.

Obaseki noted that the country with almost 200 million people create huge market for aviation with only about one percent traveling by air transport, still remained high in the continent when compared with other countries.

Obaseki charged NACAN members to avail

themselves of the benefit of regular training to come up with the best practices to to be abreast with happenings across the globe to proffer solutions to challenges in the aviation industry in the country.

The governor told NACAN members that much was expected from them by the government by working hard to achieve a culture of safety, regularity, efficiency and economic operations of the air navigation industry in line with the International Civil Aviation Organisation.

“Why we are working to improve on our air transport system, so much is requires from the air traffic Communicators, if out country is to achieve a culture of safety regularity, efficiency and economical operations of the air navigation industry in line with the provision of ICAO.”

TraderMoni: Sokoto petty traders laud FG N10, 000 collateral free loans Motolani Oseni Sokoto State petty traders were full of praises and appreciation to the federal government upon receiving bank payment alert for Tradermoni in the State.

The scheme aims to take financial inclusion to the grassroots so that petty trader can access collateral free credit facility to expand their businesses.

They trooped out in their large numbers at the launch of the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme, GEEP, which took place at the two main market within the state capital, Sokoto Central Market and Sokoto Old Market.

Beneficiaries however, have six months to repay with flexible options of N85 daily or N430 weekly.

A cross section of the beneficiaries could not hide their joy as they explain how the loan facility would boost their businesses.

Malam Isah Shuni, a beneficiary who reside in Dange Shuni, a nearby town and sell meat at Sokoto Central Market, expressed his gratitude to the federal government for the scheme targeted at petty traders.

He said, “No government in the history of Nigeria has come out with such programme to assist petty traders.

“Petty traders lack access to loan and even where it is available, the processes is too cumbersome to

borrowers. This is where Tradermoni is different as, it requires no collateral, paper work or guarantor.”

On his part, Salisu Mohammed said, “I have been buying onions from Aliero town, in Kebbi state and resell in Sokoto on credit and my family rely on the meagre profit I made for our survival.

“With this N10, 000 Tradermoni, I will graduate from buying on credit and my business will grow.

“The money will help me buy more bags of onions to sell and I will not have problem with repaying the loan”, he stated.

Hajiya Hauwa Muhammad, who sell bean cake, was moved to tear, narrating her harrowing experience and how the Tradermoni will help her business.

Afrinvest projects N1.6trn spending on oil subsidy in 2018 Motolani Oseni Afrinvest, an independent investment banking firm, has projected Nigeria to spend a total of N1, 595.6 billion (N1.6 trillion) on fuel subsidy in 2018.

According to figures presented by Afrinvest, in its 2018 Nigerian Banking Sector Report 2018 and An Economic Agenda for a New Government launched in Abuja, the firm projected that Nigerian banking industry is projected to make a profit of N1.023.9 billion or N1.023 trillion by the end of this

year.

Making a presentation at the Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja, Group Managing Director, Afrinvest (West Africa) Limited, Ike Chioke lamented that the cost of opaque subsidy regime continues to escalate as oil prices rise.

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2019: Nigerians in Diaspora back Buhari, says Atiku not credible alternative Patrick Okohue A group based in the United States of America, Nigeria Coalition for Change, has urged Nigerians to vote for the reelection of President MuhamaduBuhari in the 2019 presidential election.

The group however advised the Federal Government to tame the rampant and horrendous killings in the Northern part of the country, under the guise of communal clashes in Kaduna, insurgency in the North East and alleged marauding herdsmen in Benue, describing the scenarios as constituting a huge threat to national security.

The group based in Washington DC stated that with the emergence of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as the candidate of the major opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), that it became obvious that the country has no reliable and credible alternative to President Buhari in the coming election.

In a statement made available to journalists in Ado Ekiti and signed by its Coordinator, Mr. Samuel Ayodele, the group said it would be a great mistake for Nigerians to elect Atiku as the president on the premise that he played pivotal role in the running of the

economy during the eight years reign of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo.

Ayodele hinted that Atiku was at the forefront of the government that ruled the country between 1999 and 2007 and was given unfettered access to lead Nigeria as the leader of Obasanjo’s Economic team He stated that it would be an herculean task for Atiku to make any tremendous and remarkable impacts within four years he promised to superintend over Nigeria if elected President, if he could fail to accomplish the arduous task of turning Nigeria around when he had the opportunity.

The group added that Nigerians would not have forgotten the odious multi million dollars corruption that allegedly characterised the Bureau of Private Enterprises(BPE) and Petroleum Development Trust Fund (PTDF) where Atiku presided as Chairman under Obasanjo, saying Nigeria won’t want a slide into such an era when pilfering of public funds was the order of the day.

Ayodele said, “Though, we quite agree with the fact that Nigeria has not reached that enviable height we envisaged under President Buhari, but those of us living abroad understood the enormity of his fight against corruption.

“We are feeling and enjoying the

Buhari group tackles PDP on abandoned projects Patrick Okohue The Buhari Media Organisation has dismissed claims by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on the Port Harcourt Airport project as an attempt to water down the achievements of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.

The opposition party had not only claimed credit for its completion but said the project was conceptualized and financed by the Goodluck Jonathan administration But, the BMO said in a statement by its chairman Niyi Akinsiju and secretary Cassidy Madueke in Abuja that PDP’s position was laughable.

“We wondered how the party could even claim that the PDP administration financed a project that the Chinese through the China EXIM bank provided a loan of $500m to cover three other airports in Lagos, Abuja and Kano.

“It is not even a surprise because here is a party that has no qualms about twisting tales to suit its false narratives “This is a project that was only

30 percent completed at the time President Buhari assumed office in May 2015,” it noted.

The group also found it amusing that whenever President Buhari completes abandoned projects or those left at low level of completion, the PDP would rush to issue press statements deriding the administration’s effort.

BMO noted that “If it is a ploy to deflect attention then the opposition party has only exposed itself to ridicule.

“This is because the APC-led administration of President Buhari would continue to complete all projects left at various stages of completion “We are however convinced that the President would not approve the completion of the long-abandoned PDP headquarters project in the Abuja city centre.”

The group also assured Nigerians that Buhari would not back down on its avowed commitment to complete all ongoing infrastructure projects within the specified time regardless of the musings of opposition figures.

dignity and respect the anti-graft war of this administration has brought to the image of our nation.

In the past, we were being treated with contempt all over the world, today the rhythm has changed.

“Again, since President Buhari came on board, there had never been allegation of corruption against him in the fashion of acquisition of sprawling landed properties all over the globe like other past Presidents. He has been modest and this is gradually permeating every sphere of our country.

“We don’t need a descent to the

abyss of mis-governance anymore.

We have had enough in the past and Nigeria must move ahead by embracing fresh ideas that will catapult the fortunes of our dear nation to an enviable stature.

“Under Obasanjo/Atiku era, Nigerians were adjudged to have been badly governed via economic deprivation, looting of public funds, electoral rigging, abuse of human rights and several other social vices that held the country down and deprived it of its dignity in the comity of nations.

“Now that the PDP that could have been alternative platform

had decided to allow someone who contributed to the ills of the past to emerge, available facts substantiated the fact that the present was better than the past and we advise Nigerians to back President Buhari than allowing any slide into the dark years of the past”, he advised.

Ayodele urged the APC-led government to equip all security apparatuses of government and make them effective in fostering national security, to guarantee security of lives and property as well as boost investments in Nigeria.

Bamisile, ex-Ekiti Speaker lauds Fayemi’s over declaration of emergency in education sector Gbenga Sodeinde A former Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Hon. Femi Bamisile, has lauded the new governor of the state, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, on his new education policy of free and compulsory education for all primary and secondary school students as well as the provision of 200 million naira Car and Housing loans for Teachers in the state.

Bamisile, who is the All Progressives Congress (APC), House of Representatives candidate in Ekiti South Federal constituency II, said that the latest education policy of Fayemi’s administration is no doubt “a declaration of emergency on the sector” to among other things alleviate the sufferings of the masses especially parents and guardians across the state irrespective of their political backgrounds.

Governor Fayemi had on Wednesday signed an Executive Order banning school heads from collecting any illegal charge as well as abrogating taxes paid under the last regime by the pupils in the state.

Hon. Bamisile gave the remark in a statement made available to newsmen in Ado Ekiti.

He said: “Ekiti people can now differentiate between the government of slavery, despot, propaganda, deceit and directionlessness of the former Governor Ayodele Fayose, and the new administration in just less than 10 days.

“The new education policy will, no doubt, increase education enrolment in the state geometrically and also go a long way at relieving poor parents and guardians of immeasurable stress of paying school fees and other illegal charges

Fayemi at various schools through their nose,” he said.

According to him, the level of commercialisation of education in the state under the last administration was “not only wicked but barbaric, uncouth and frustrating, hence abysmal low record in school enrolment under the last administration, a development that is not good for the future of the State.

“Any government that could formulate a policy, making it compulsory for all pupils including those who are less than two years to be paying taxes could be best described as an enemy of the society that voted it into power. The beauty of democracy is for the government to work for the people.

“But the reverse was the case under the last administration during which pupils of nursery and primary schools including those who are in private schools had to pay a tax of N1000 each into the government

coffers apart from school fees, transport fares, uniforms, books and other illegal charges among others.

“Therefore, it is now crystal clear that the present administration is out to right all the wrongs perpetrated by the last administration in order to lay a good and sustainable foundation for the people of the state.

“Also the pronouncement of N200 million car and housing loans for teachers across the state will serve as a morale booster for the beneficiaries and encourage them to continue to put in their best at giving the pupils and children a sound education.”

The House of Representatives candidate called on people of the state to always support APC to deliver more dividends of democracy to them.

He called on teachers to justify the latest government largesse by being more dedicated to their duties at all times for educational advancement in the state.

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TRUSTEES ARE 1. YISA KOBEBIJE OKE ABDULKAREEM 2. MR. BASHIR OLUGBENGA OLOKO 3. MRS. SHERIFAT FUNKE ABDULKAREEM 4. DR. LATEEF WOLE ABBAS 5. HAMID ‘TOSIN ABDULKREEM AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMMUNITY BY PROVIDING TECHNOLOGICAL SKILL, SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND FELLOWSHIP NECESSARY TO CREATE POSITIVE CHANGES. 2. TO ADVOCATES FOR PUBLIC EMPOWERMENT AND PROVIDE SOCIAL WELFARE FOR THE LESS PRIVILEGE IN THE SOCIETY. 3. TO ENHANCE SOCIETAL DEVELOPMENT BY EMPOWERING THE YOUTHS FOR COMMUNAL AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 4. TO PROMOTE PEACE AND UNITY, LOVE, FRIENDSHIP AND SPIRIT OF BROTHERHOOD. 5. TO ORGANIZE EMPOWERMENT ACTIVITIES

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AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE 1. TO ACHIEVE A POSITIVE IMPACT ON DECISION MAKING AT ALL LEVELS THROUGH EMPOWERMENT OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES. 2. TO ADVANCE THE NEED FOR INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR OWN HEALTH. 3. TO IMPLEMENT EFFICIENTLY RESOURCES GENERATED. 4. TO ADVOCATE FOR A SUSTAINABLE HEALTH AND CARE SYSTEM 5. TO ACHIEVE BETTER HEALTH, QUALITY OF LIFE AND WELL-BEING THROUGH THE COURSE OF LIFE

ANY OBJECTION TO NAME, OBJECTS OR PERSON STATED AS TRUSTEE OF THIS ASSOCIATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR -GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

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

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: BARR.KEHINDE U. IMOOHI

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SI’ON NETWORK INTERNATIONAL MINISTRY

THE GNOSIS HELP INITIATIVE

OLATOKUNBO’S FOUNDATION

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

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

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

TRUSTEES 1. ODEY JOSEPH JAMES. - CHAIRMAN 2. ODEY ISAAC JAMES. - SECRETARY 3. EMMANUEL AGOCHA 4. SAMAILA MONDAY

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OLUMIDE KAYODE OMOSEBI - CHAIRMAN 2. OLAIDE ADEDOYIN - SECRETARY

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ABIOLA OLATOKUNBO - CHAIRMAN 2. BUKOLA OYETIBO - SECRETARY 3. OLAWUNMI ONABANJO 4. ADEFISAYO ONAKOYA

AIM TO PREACH THE WORD OF GOD

AIMS AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO COMBAT THE INCREASING RATE OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, SEPARATIONS, AND DIVORCES THROUGH ENLIGHTENMENT 2. TO HELP IN ENSURING A MARRIAGE DEVOID OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AS WELL AS REDUCE SEPARATIONS AND DIVORCES.

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, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1) TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION, CHARITY AND THE GENERAL WELFARE OF THE LESS PRIVILEGED. 2) TO OFFER ASSISTANCE TO THE ORPHANED AND LESS PRIVILEGED FOR THEIR EDUCATION AND SOCIAL WELFARE. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: CHAIRMAN

Daily Times Nigeria Monday, October 29, 2018 CAREERS CONTINENTAL CLUBFOUNDATION APOMU INDIGENES IN DIASPORA THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAME HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION WITH THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, UNDER ‘’PART C’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, CAP C20, LAWS OF THE FEDERATION, 2004.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. LAWAL NAJEEM SUNDAY : CHAIRMAN. 2. ANIMASAHUN MOSHOOD OLAITAN: SECRETARY. 3. EMIOLA ABIOLA BABATUNDE 4. BAEZ ADEOLA MONSURAT 5. IBRAHIM MUSTAPHA AKINROLE 6. TOMORI O. TUNDE 7. EFUNTOYE GANIYAT FUNMI AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1) TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION, CHARITY AND THE GENERAL WELFARE OF MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY. 2) TO PROMOTE THE GROWTH, AND ATTAINMENT OF HIGHER ACADEMIC STANDARDS IN EDUCATION FOR OUR TEAMING YOUTHS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION.

IMOTA AYAYO DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION

LIONHEART ABILITY LEADERS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION

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

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. JIBOWU ADELEKE GILBERT 2. OGUNJIMI BILIAMINU OLALEKAN 3. AKINSANYA SUNDAY 4. AKINBOWALE SOLAJA 5. OSILOKUN HASSAN TAIWO 6. BABASANYA AYO TOLA AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROMOTE UNITY, SPIRIT OF BROTHERHOOD, MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING, LOVE AND COOPERATION AMONG IMOTA CITIZENS AND ITS ENVIRONS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: CHAIRMAN

JESUS SOLUTIONS PROVIDING LIFE AND HOPE MINISTRY THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE-NAMED ASSOCIATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER “PART C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF 1990.

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ADEJAYAN SUNDAY OYEDEJI - CHAIRMAN 2. ADEJAYAN FUMILAYO KEMI - SECRETARY 3. AKINWOLE EUNICE MOROLAYO 4. OKEDIJI GRACE ANUOLUWAPO AIMS: 1.TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. 2. TO CARE FOR THE NEEDS OF MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH. 3. HELP THE LESS PRIVILEDGE. 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: M. E. JIBRIL ESQ . EVANONO JIBRIL & CO.

FIREBRAND MINISTER’S FORUM

19 Classified

AJIKE FOUNDATION THIS IS TO NOTIFY THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED ORGANIZATION HAS APPLIED TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION AS A FOUNDATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 2004.

TRUSTEES 1. MRS. BOLADE AJOKE ADENIYI ……………… CHAIRMAN 2. MR. OLUSOLA OMOTUNDE- YOUNG 3. MRS. OLUBUKUNOLA ADEBAYO ………………………… SECRETARY AIMS & OBJECTIVES A. TO PROMOTE THE CARE, WELL-BEING AND DEVELOPMENT OF ALL CHILDREN IN NEED, ESPECIALLY THE DEPRIVED, THE ABUSED, THE DESTITUTE AND THE HOMELESS. B. TO TAKE ALL NECESSARY STEPS TO GIVE EDUCATIONAL SPONSORSHIPS TO THE LESS PRIVILEGED CHILDREN WHILE PROMOTING THE REHABILITATION OF NIGERIA’S STREET CHILDREN. C. TO PROVIDE COUNSELING, EDUCATIONAL AND VOCATIONAL SKILLS TRAINING FOR WIDOWS IN NEED TO ENABLE THEM TO BECOME SELF-SUFFICIENT IN VARIOUS TRADES AND OCCUPATIONS. D. TO WORK TOWARDS THE PROVISION OF BASIC HEALTH CARE FOR LESS PRIVILEGED CHILDREN AND ENSURING THAT THE BASIC NEEDS OF CHILDREN ARE PROVIDED. E. TO WORK WITH OTHER CONCERNED CITIZENS AND ORGANIZATIONS TO IMPROVE THE PSYCHE OF THE LESS PRIVILEGED CHILDREN AND TO PROTECT SUCH CHILDREN FROM ABUSE AND OPPRESSION. F. TO PROVIDE FREE LEGAL AID SERVICES TO NEEDY PEOPLE WHILE CREATING AN AWARENESS AMONG THE GENERAL PUBLIC ON THE NEED TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE IN ANY FORM TO WIDOWS AND THE LESS PRIVILEGED CHILDREN. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DAY OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED: INSIGHT SOLICITORS

PROSPERITY FAMILY MINISTRY

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

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

TRUSTEES: 1. JOSHUA-ELKANAH CHIDIEBERE OBINNA CHRISTIAN...... PRESIDENT. 2. OHALETE EMMANUEL UCHENNA.....SECRETARY. 3. PETER SAMUEL JOHN.

TRUSTEES: (1) PROPHET PROSPER CHIDI MGBEAHURU. (2) NNENNA JUSTINA MGBEAHURU. (3) IBODE EDWARD. (4) EMMANUEL AKPOR OKUBO. (5) ODIKAESIEME KENNETH CHIJIOKE. (6) DABA ELLIOT.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO BE A PLACE WHERE MINISTER FROM ALL EXTRACTIONS CAN COME TOGETHER TO FIND LOVE WARMTH AND FELLOWSHIP IN ORDER TO SHARPEN ONE ANOTHER. 2. TO BE A PRAYING COMPANY WHERE MINISTERS OF GOD CAN COME TOGETHER TO RECHARGE THEIR SPIRITUAL FIRE AND FIND SPIRITUAL SUPPORT TO RISE ABOVE MINISTRY CHALLENGES AND OPPOSITION. 3. TO SERVE AS WATCHMEN OVER OUR CITIES, NATION AND CONTINENT AND STAND IN THE GAP FOR LEADERS AND NATION AS THE NEED ARISES. 4. TO MODEL GODLY CHARACTER, EXHIBIT KINGDOM GRACE AND MANIFEST THE LOVE OF GOD TO ALL MINISTERS IN OUR COMPANY. 5. TO INTERCEDE FOR THE BODY OF CHRIST, CHRISTIAN LEADERS AND CHURCHES.

AIMS & OBJECTIVE: (1) PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST WORLDWIDE. (2) SOUL WINNING/EVANGELISM. (3) PROCLAMATION OF GOD’S WORD, COUNSELING, DELIVERANCE AND DIVINE INTERCESSION TO MANKIND. (4) TO RESTORE DIGNITY OF MANKIND. (5) TO PREACH UNDILUTED WORD OF GOD. (6) MAKE DISCIPLES AND EXPANSION OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD.

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PILOT 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: TRUSTEES.

ABRAARUS-SALAAM ISLAMIC FOUNDATION

LOVE AND PEACE CHERUBIM AND SERAPHIM CHURCH ORI - OKE IMOLE

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

TRUSTEE: 1.MUSTAPHA ABD AZEEZ TAIWO - CHAIRMAN 2: TAIRU ISIAKA ADESHINA : SECRETARY 3. ABDUL KAREEM AHMODAH TIJANI - TREASURER 4. BELLO TAOFEEK ABOLADE- P.R.O 5. TADES YEKINI ADAM: MEMBER AIMS AND OBJECTIVE: TO PROMOTE AND PROPAGATE ISLAMIC RELIGION AMONGST THE PEOPLE. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TAIRU ISIAKA ADESHINA, SECRETARY

JULIUS & MARTINA CHARITY AND RELIEF FOUNDATION THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED 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.

THE TRUSTEES ARE 1. ODENIYI ADEKUNLE JULIUS 2. ODENIYI MARTINA EDEGHONGHON 3. OLUSEYI-PETER ENIOLA BUKOLA AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO THE LESS PRIVILEGED IN OUR SOCIETY 2. TO PROMOTE SOCIAL ACTIVITIES (INFORMAL EDUCATION E.G RECREATION ACTIVITIES, YOGA,CULTURAL DANCING AND OTHER PHYSICAL AND COGNITIVE SKILLS ACTIVITIES E.T.C) 3. TO BE THE VOICE OF THE VOICELESS ANY OBJECTIONS TO THIS SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED BY: BARR. (MRS) OLUSEYI-PETER ENIOLA BUKOLA

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ALEXANDER KOLAWOLE OLUGBODI 2. SOLOMON OLAKUNLE OKELOLA 3. IKECHUKWU AMBROSE NWAZUOKE 4. ISUWA JIKUKKA JURMANG 5. FRANCIS ONYEBUEZE NMERIBE 6. FRIDAY OVIE AZANOR 7. VICTORIA MOVIHINZE APAM 8. AMINAT OLOLADE ASHIMI 9. FUNMI OMOKOREDE SAMUEL AIMS & OBJECTIVES: 1. TO REPRESENT AND ADVOCATE FOR THE EQUALITY, RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES OF PERSONS LIVING WITH DISABILITIES ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYIIRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: EMEKA NWADIOKE, ESQ. NOTARY PUBLIC/SOLICITOR

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

TRUSTEES: 1. DR.LEDISI NWATE..............CHAIRMAN. 2. KILSI NWATE ......................SECRETARY. 3. MRS. NWATE VIRGINIA. 4. NWATE BARISI LEDISI. AIMS & OBJECTIVES: 1. TO SUPPORT RESEARCHES AND PROGRAMS LEADING TO SURVIVAL AND WELLBEING OF UNBORN BABIES. 2. TO MAXIMALLY REDUCE MORTALITY IN PREGNANT BY ENSURING TIMELY INTERVENTION IN COMPLICATED PREGNANCIES AND DELIVERIES. 3. TO ENABLE EXPRESS ATTENTION TO EMERGENCY CAESEREAN SECTIONS. 4. TO RAISE FUND LOCALLY AS WELL AS INTERNATIONALLY; AND MAKE FUND READILY AVAILABLE TO MEET UP OUR PRIMARY AIM. 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.

NDI IGBO BELOVED BROTHERS CLUB NOTICE IS GIVEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE SOCIAL CLUB; NDI IGBO BELOVED BROTHERS CLUB HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATERS ACT, LFN 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE1. NNODU SOMADINA DANIEL - CHAIRMAN 2. OBIDIGBO KINGSLEY IFEANYI 3. NDUJEKWU ANTHONY TOCHUKWU 4. AGBA NNAMDI NNABUEZE 5. OKONKWO JOHN CHUKWUNWE THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE CLUB ARE: 1). TO PROMOTE CULTURAL VALUES. 2). TO FOSTER BROTHERHOOD AND FRIENDSHIP AMONG MEMBERS 3) TO CREATE AN AVENUE FOR MEMBERS TO MEET, INTERACT AND SHARE PROFITABLE IDEAS FOR THEIR WELFARE. ANY OBJECTIONS 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-: OKEKE NICHOLAS CHINEDU SECRETARY

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

THE TRUSTEE’S AS FOLLOWS 1.PROPHET BABATUNDE OMOTAYO MUSILIU (FOUNDER) 2.MRS BABATUNDE FATIMOH CECILIA 3.MR AGBOOLA SHOLA ETA 4.MRS OLUYOMI KAFAYAT MONISOLA 5.BABATUNDE OLAMIDE SOLOMON

TRUSTEES 1). PASTOR SUNDAY UDOH 2). PROPHETESS CHRISTIANA 3). MR. MATTHEW A. UDOH 4). DEACON HENRY ABIAKOLOM 5). SIS. ENO FRANCIS S. USORO 6). ELDER UDUAK WILSON THOMAS -

OBJECTS 1.TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST TO THE WORLD AND WIN SOULS FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD 2.TO MINISTER HEALING, SALVATION AND DELIVERANCE TO MANKIND.

OBJECTIVES 1.

TO TEACH PEOPLE HOW TO PRAY USING THE BIBLE.

CHAIRMAN FOUNDER TREASURER MEMBER MEMBER SECRETARY

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

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

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

SIGNED. TRUSTEES.

EBENATOR OKPALA DEVELOPMENT UNION AMICHI (CAC/IT/ NO/14522) THIS IS TO NOTIFY THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED, HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR CHANGE OF TRUSTEES UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

THE OLD TRUSTEES ARE: 1. CHIFE OKAFOR ONYEUNO FRANCIS - RETAINED 2. CHIFE COLLINS OJIAKO ------- REMOVED 3. CHIFE (SIR) EMMANUEL UMEOHIA ---------- RETAINED 4.CHIEF ERICO UMEOFIA ------ REMOVED 5.CHIEF GODWIN UMEOFIA ---- REMOVED 6. MR. SAMSON OKAFOR ---------- REMOVED 7. MR AUGSTINE OKEKE ---------- REMOVED 8. MR MICHAEL NWEJE ------ REMOVED 9. MR MATTHIAS ONWUKWALU --------- REMOVED 10. MR KENNETH OKOLI ------ REMOVED 11. MR SUNDAY OKONKWO ---------- RETAINED 12. BRO. EDWARD NNAEKEZIE --------- REMOVED THE NEW TRUSTEES ARE: 1. CHIEF OKAFOR ONYEUNO FRANCIS 2. CHIEF (SIR) EMMANUEL UMEOHIA 3. MR SUNDAY OKONKWO FELIX 4.MR BENEDITH NWOBI 5. MR BENEDITH ANOLIEFO 6. MR EMEKA JOACHIN MONEME 7. MR IFEANYI C. OKEKE 8. MR EBERE OKAFOR 9. MR MICHAEL OBIEKEZIE

IF NOT GOD FOUNDATION

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

TRUSTEES 1). MEZIEM STANLEY CHIMARAOKE 2). MEZIEM UZOCHUKWU SOLOMON 3). ADIERO OGECHI LAUREN 4). NWABIA PATRICK MONDAY 5). MEZIEM MIRIAN KELECHI AIMS AND OBJECTIVE: 1. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS, DISTRESS AND SUFFERING OF ANY PERSONS WHO ARE IN NEED AMONGST THE PEOPLE OF OGBAKU AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY IN MBAITOLI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF IMO STATE.& THE ADVANCEMENT OF OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THEIR BENEFIT.

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES REMAIN THE SAME ANY OBJECTION TO THIS APPLICATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: OBUMNEKE ONUOHA ESQ

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

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I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, MISS. UGAH CHISOM PEACE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, MRS. CHISOM PEACE OKEZIE-BROWN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

SUNDAY JOY BOSE.

MY NAME WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN ON MY VOTERS CARD AS CHUKWUREH OBIÀGEL JANET INSTEAD OF IHEKÀ JANET OBÍAGÉLI ON MY BVN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTSU REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

ADDITION OF NAME

MY SURNAME WAS WRONGLY CAPTURED AS NWCHUKWU AND MY MIDDLE NAME CHINAZA WAS OMITTED DURING THE BVN REGISTRATION. I HEREBY AFFIRM THAT MY COMPLETE AND CORRECT NAME IS JOYCE CHINAZA NWACHUKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE

CHUKWU AMAKA

MRS ODOABUCHI RITA I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS EDE RITA CHIKAODILI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ODOABUCHI RITA CHIKAODILI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWANKWO NICHOLAS AMAKA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHUKWU AMAKA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS.OKWE EGENA

MADUKA IFEYINWA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS. OKPABI EGENA GRACE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. OKWE EGENA GRACE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IGBOANUGO IFEYINWA LORETTA, NOW TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MADUKA IFEYINWA LORETTA. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITIES CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

AJENIFUJA IYABO

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS TITO JAMES, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AJENIFUJA IYABO SIDIAT. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITIES CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS BANKOLE ASISAT OLUWAPELUMI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS LASAKI ASISAT OLUWAPELUMI .ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS. OBIAERI REJOICE

FORMERLY OLADAPO IGBAYILOLA SHOLA NOW FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

CHINYERE JESSICA FORMERLY -AYILARA CHINYERE JESSICA....NOW CHINYERE JESSICA NWANYISUNDAY. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

AFAM CHUKWUDI FORMERLY AFAM OPEYEMI CHUKWUDI NOW AFAM CHUKWUDI SAMUEL. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

OMOTOSHO OLUSHOLA FORMERLY OMOTOSHO MATTHEW OLUSHOLA NOW OMOTOSHO OLUSHOLA ADIGUN . FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS KESHINRO IDOWU TAIWO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IDOWU ARAMIDE TAIWO ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

MRS IDOWU COMFORT

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS GBADEGESHIN MORUFAT FADEKEMI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS HAMZAT MORUFAT FADEKEMI, DUE TO MARRIAGE ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS SHORETIRE COMFORT TEMITOPE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS IDOWU COMFORT TEMITOPE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CHANGE OF NAME /CORRECTED DATE OF BIRTH

MRS SHITTU AJOKE I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS AJAYI AJOKE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS SHITTU AJOKE ESTHER. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC AND APAPA L.G.E.A KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OBE FRANCIS ESSO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OFULUE FRANCIS ESSO. THAT MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 30/10/1975 . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS LASAKI ASISAT

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JOY OLUGBODE, NOW TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SUNDAY JOY BOSE. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITIES CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKAFOR REJOICE UCHECHI NOW WISHES TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. OBIAERI REJOICE UCHECHI ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID NYSC AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

HAMZAT MORUFAT

OMISSION/CORRECTION OF NAME

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OSARENREN BLESSING , NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OSARENREN BLESSING GIFT. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JOHNSON JOY, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IDU JOHNSON JOY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

IDU JOHNSON

EWENLA SIMIAT

AWAH LILIAN FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKORIE LILIAN CHISOM, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AWAH LILIAN CHISOM. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

IDOWU ARAMIDE

TAIYE NKECHINYE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS TAIYE NKECHINYE IKHIDE-OHIKHUEME. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS TAIYE NKECHINYE JIGIDE. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

SOWANDE ADETOKUNBOH

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ODUTUYO ADETOKUNBOH OLUWADAMILOLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SOWANDE ADETOKUNBOH OLUWADAMILOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OLADAPO MATE

HANAFI SAFI

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ANOFI SAFI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS HANAFI SAFI AJAPE, THAT MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 10/03/1975 ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

QUEEN BLESSING

I, FORMERLY KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS BLESSING ODEGUA ITUA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS QUEEN BLESSING OSE ITUA. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME/CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH:

IN SOME OF MY DOCUMENT MY NAME WAS WRITTEN AS BALOGUN MICHEAL LATEEF ALSO APPEARS AS BALOGUN MICHEAL ALABA .AM SAME PERSON BEARING ALL THE NAMES. WRONG DATE OF BIRTH IS 1ST JUNE1965. WHILE CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 1ST DEC 1963.

ALL DOCUMENTS/CREDENTIALS BEARING THE NAMES REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ATANDA BASHIRU

ABOLADE BUKOLA I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEGOKE BUKOLA TENIOLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ABOLADE BUKOLA TENIOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

OLOKUN ABÓSÉDÉ

STEPHEN A. ABÍGAIL I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ATTAGUBA AFOR NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS STEPHEN A. ABÍGAIL. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLADIMEJI BASHIRU ABDUL-RAUF, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ATANDA BASHIRU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MACAULAY ABÓSEDE OLUWAKEMÍ NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLOKUN ABÓSÉDÉ OLÚWAKEMI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

UKAERU UGÓÇHÍ

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EBEREONWU UGOCHI PRISCA JANÉ NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UKAERU UGÓÇHÍ JANE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

MERCY IHEOMA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OKARA MERCY IHEOMA AND MRS ONYEMAUCHE MERCY IHEOMA REFERS TO ONE AND SAME PERSON. NOW MRS ONYEMAUCHE MERCY IHEOMA THE GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE

OBINNA SUNDAY

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OBINNA NDUNAGA CHRISTOPHER, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OBINNA SUNDAY CHRISTOPHER. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

SIMEON BUKOLA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BAKARE BUKUNOLA OYEDELE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SIMEON BUKOLA OYEDELE ESTHER. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC/ AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS AJANI-SUUTI

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS AJANI OLUWATOYIN MUJIDAT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS AJANI-SUUTI OLUWATOYIN MUJIDAT. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE. KIEL-AJAYI OLUWAFIFEHANMI

SAKA KHADIJAT

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ZACHA KHADIJAT KUBURÀ NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SAKA KHADIJAT OYIÑDAMOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

UDE COSMAS

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UDEMBA COSMAS OTI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UDE COSMAS UDE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. DIAMOND BANK AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OSAHON ETINOSA JOSHUA

WE FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGUNMWONYI ETINOSA JOSHUA, OGUNMWONYI IVIE RACHEL & OGUNMWONYI OSAZE JOSHUA,WE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OSAHON ETINOSA JOSHUA, OSAHON IVIE RACHEL & OSAHON OSAZE JOSHUA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

FASHIKU OLUFUNKE I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ISAAC OLUFUNKE DEBORAH, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FASHIKU OLUFUNKE DEBORAH DUE TO CHANGE IN MARITAL STATUS. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC/AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ADDITION OF NAME

THAT MY NAME WAS WRITTEN AS ENYINNAYA JULIET INSTEAD OF ENYINNAYA JULIET CHINONSO. HENCE I WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ENYINNAYA JULIET CHINONSO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OBIKOYA OLUWABUNMI

I, AJAYI OLUWASEUN EZEKIEL WISH MY CHILDREN TO BE KNOWN AS 1 KIEL-AJAYI OLAOLUWAKIISHI ZARA 2 KIEL-AJAYI MOYINOLUWA JOAN 3 KIEL-AJAYI OLUWAFIFEHANMI TOBIAH. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

DECLARATION OF MARRIAGE FORMERLY KNOWN AS ODUSAGA OLUWABUNMI RUTH NOW KNOWN AS OBIKOYA OLUWABUNMI RUTH. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

CHANGE OF NAME/ CORRECTION OF DATE OF BIRTH :

WANAMI HANAH I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OSEH ADIJAT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS WANAMI HANAH ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS KOLAWOLE JUNIOUR PHILIP NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS KOLAWOLE AROWOLO PHILIP, THAT MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 05/07/1992 AND NOT 05/07/1994 ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

EPHRAIM KOREDE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS SAMSON KOREDE BAJULAYE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS EPHRAIM KOREDE BAJULAYE. ALL DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

MRS ADELAJA ZAINAB I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS SERIKI ZAINAB ABIOLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ADELAJA ZAINAB ABIOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS JOY NKENNACHOR

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS JOY NKENNACHOR OGWU. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS MRS JOY NKENNACHOR AMADIGEORGE. ALL DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE NANCY AKINAKALA I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NANCY OGHENEMARHO AKENI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NANCY AKINAKALA AKENI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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TALK ABOUT JESUS INT’L WOMEN CENTRE

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED ASSOCIATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPAINES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO.1 OF 1990 TRUSTEES 1. MONICA EKO-AYO - PRESIDENT 2. WALIAT AKANKE BABATUNDE - SECRETARY 3. JOSHUA IGBEKELE ADELANA 4. AYO IGIEREMHE EKO 5. BLESSING OJO ADEEKO THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. TO RAISE WOMEN WITH A RENEWED MIND VIA THE WORD OF GOD. 2. TO RAISE INTERCESSORS LIKE ESTHER. 3.TO TEACH WOMEN THEIR IMPORTANCE AND ROLE IN RAISING GODLY CHILDREN. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR – GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION. PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B. 198, GARKI, ABUJA, WITHIN TWENTY-EIGHT (28) DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

THE CONVERGE TECHNOLOGY HUB FOUNDATION. THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THE ABOVE NAMED MISSION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 PART C THE TRUSTEE ARE: 1. JACOBS AKANIMO UDOAKAHA - CHAIRMAN 2. JACOBS IGHIWIYISI IZEGBUWA - MEMBER 3. BABAJIDE BODEDE ADETOKUNBO - SECRETARY.

21 Classified

THE HIGH DIVINE COMMISSION MISSION

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THE ABOVE NAMED MISSION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 PART C THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. RIEBELLE JAMES OGHENEGOMA - CHAIRMAN 2. IKUEGBEMERA TIMOTHY - ASSISTANT PASTOR 3. AKOKAIFE OBRUCHE - ASSISTANT PASTOR 4. ODUEGU HARRISON - SECRETARY THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO ALL NATIONS OF THE WORLD IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE WORD OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. 2. RAISING A GENERATION OF CHRISTIANS THAT WILL BUILD A BETTER CHURCH FOR THE COMING OF OUR LORD. 3.TO PREACH AND BRING DELIVERANCE TO THOSE WHOSE JOY HAS BEEN TAKEN AWAY BY THE ENEMIES AND RESTORE HOPE TO THE HOPELESS, JOY TO THE SORROWED AND LIGHT TO THOSE IN THE DARK 4. TO PREACH AND TRAIN CHRISTIAN TO POSSESS THE GOOD CHRISTIAN VIRTUES AND SHINES AS LIGHT IN THE WORLD AND SALT OF THE EARTH ANY OBJECTION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION. NDOLA SQUARE, ZONE 5, WUSE, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

TRUSTEES 1. UGOCHUKWU CHIMA IHEANYI. REV. 2. EMECHEBE UGONNA CHIJIOKE 3. CHIEMEZIE IZUCHUKWU GABRIEL 4. UMEZURIKE NWABUKO KINGSLEY 5. MBAMALU LAUD IFUNANYA AIM AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO SPONSOR WELL TALENTED AND INTELLIGENT YOUTH, WHO HAVE IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER INVENTED SOMETHING IN THEIR SCHOOL AND ALSO FINE TUNE THEIR INVENTION AND PUSH THEM TO LIME LIGHT. 2. TO ENCOURAGE READING THROUGH GIVING OUT GIFTS AND AWARDS TO THE BEST THREE GRADUATING STUDENTS IN THE SCHOOL IDEM FIT, AND ALSO TRAIN THE INDIGENT STUDENTS FROM SECONDARY TO UNIVERSITY LEVEL ON SCHOLARSHIP. ANY OBJECTION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION. NDOLA SQUARE, ZONE 5, WUSE, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: ELDER J. K. NANA (J.P) CROWN KINGS CONSULTANCY CO. 08037769526

ABLE GREAT GOOD FRIENDS CLUB OF NIGERIA. THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED CLUB HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTER ACT CAP C20 LAWS OF FEDERATION OF NIGERIA 2004.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES ARE; 1. IBE FELIX CHIDOZIE 2. OKARFOR AMAECHI 3. OZONDU BARTHOLOMEW C. 4. EZE MMADUABUCHI SOLOMON

AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO PROVIDE WORLD-CLASS TECHNOLOGY CONTENT AND TRAINING TO STUDENTS AND YOUTHS TO EMPOWER THEM IN ALL AREAS OF THEIR ENDEAVORS AT NO COST TO THEM.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE; 1. TO ENSURE THAT THE HINGES OF FRIENDSHIP AMONG THE MEMBERS NEVER RUST, 2. TO PROMOTE SOCIO-ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT OF THE MEMBERS, 3. TO EMBARK ON PROJECT AIMED AT ENHANCING THE IMAGE AND SOLIDARITY OF THE CLUB.

ANY OBJECTION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION. NDOLA SQUARE, ZONE 5, WUSE, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA.

SIGNED SECRETARY

SIGNED: BARR. ANEKE UGOCKUKWU HOLYS. (LEGAL ADVISER) 08034544918, 08052693563.

THE LOVE OF MAN SOCIETY.

GLOBAL GRACE GOSPEL CENTRE.

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

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

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

SIGNED: SECRETARY

OGONI SCRAP DEALERS ASSOCIATION NO.1 SCRAP DUMP, BORI-YEGHE BRIDGE, HOSPITAL ROAD, BORI-OGONI, RIVERS STATE OF NIGERIA. 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 COMPANY AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF 1990 .

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MR. OKORO STEPHEN - (CHAIRMAN).

2. MR.IKECHUKWU AKOCHI - (GEN. SECRETARY) 3. NDUBUISI MMADUABUM 4. MR. OKONKWO OGBONNA 5. MR. OKOHA STEPHEN 6. MR. IGWE CHUKWUMA 7. MR. MICHAEL CHUKWU 8. MR. KANOBI ONYENWE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: (1) TO IDENTIFY ALL SCAP DEALERS AND TO OPERATE UNDER DE UMBRELLA OF A SINGLE AUTHORITY (2) TO WORK AS A TEAM AND TO OVERCOME IDLENESS PROMOTING THE SPIRIT OF HARDWORK AND CAPACITY BUILDING (3)TO FOSTER SPIRIT OF LOVE, HONESTY, MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING AND BROTHERHOOD AMONG US AND AMONG THE RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBOURHOOD (4) TO PROMOTE CHARACTER TRAINING, ENTERPRENEURSHIP SKILLS AND ABILITYTO FOCUS ON ONES BUSINESS WITHOUT BEING DISTRACTED. ANY OBJECTIONS TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: CHAIRMAN

DIVINE GRACE FOUNDATION FOR HUMAN CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT.

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE : 1) GRACE FRANCIS UDO 2) JEPHTER BENJAMIN DAVID 3) NMA FAVOUR OBED ELI

THE TRUSTEES ARE; 1. IDIKA, DANIEL UDEH - PRESIDENT. 2. OKEREKE MICHAEL TETENWI - SECRETARY. 3. NWIKPOSI, PROMISE NIABARI - FINANCIAL SECRETARY. 4. EMMANUEL, MARIA - TREASURER. 5. MBANG, UBANGHA EKPO - P.R.O.

THE TRUSTEES ARE. 1. PASTOR SAVIOUR EMMANUEL ISAAC. 2. SUNDAY BONIFACE MKPA. 3. FAVOUR SAVIOUR ISAAC.

AIMS/OBJECTIVES; 1. TO ESTABLISH WORKSHOPS FOR TRAINING AND EMPOWERMENT FOR THE LESS PRIVILEGES.

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES. 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVE 1) CAPACITY BUILDING AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT THROUGH SKILLS ACQUISITION IN OUR SOCIETY 2. TO ENCOURAGE HUMAN CAPACITY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

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

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

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

SIGNED; PRESIDENT.

SIGNED; SECRETARY.

CHRIST APOSTOLIC GLORIOUS MISSION WORLDWIDE.

OIL AND GAS LANDLORDS ASSOCIATION OF EIGHT COMMUNITIES IN OMUWOJIEWHOR SUB CLAN-IBAA CLAN

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART’ C’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF 1990 THE TRUSTEES ARE; 1. DEEWII SORBARI EZEKIEL ZIAGBARA - PRESIDENT. 2. BARILUMENE VICTOR DEEWII - SECRETARY. 3. GLORY KEANIABARIDOO DEEWII. 4. LEKARA KABAARI. 5. DEEWII SAMUEL NEEKIA. ANY OBJECTIONS 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: PRESIDENT.

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Anthony Joshua: My son lacks ‘killer instincts’

Heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua says it is unlikely his son JJ will become a boxer because he will lack the “killer instinct” his father got from a tough upbringing.

Joshua, 29, was brought up on the Meriden Estate in Garston, Hertfordshire and was an angry teenager who had brushes with police including a warning after he threw an opponent by their neck onto the floor at secondary school.

Looking in a more relaxed pose he and his son pose for photos in the new December issue of GQ magazine

and Anthony says: “We all have that killer instinct, but we dampen it down in life. That’s what we train for – that killer instinct. It’s what I do for a living.

“I had that instinct before I ever boxed, but now I know how to handle it, control it and when to use it.

“And that’s why I think maybe JJ won’t be able to box, because when you come from a less violent background, do you have that instinct?

JJ has the bloodline but will he be the strongest in the pack?

“That’s what people will wonder and I would wonder that too and

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probably wouldn’t want him to do it.”

Asked what it takes to be a boxer, Joshua adds: “As soon as I walked into the that gym for the first time I knew I wanted to give myself to boxing.

“Boxing is the sport that rewards hard work, the sport that if you apply yourself, dedicate yourself, train hard, you can become one of the best in the world.

“I stopped smoking, I stopped late nights, I cut out everything that didn’t help boxing.

“Does taking out lots of women help boxing?”

Gernot Rohr: Our target is to win AFCON title in Cameroon

Having taken over the driver’s seat of group E in the Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers, Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr said his team’s focus now is to remain unbeaten in their remaining games, and then seal their spot for the 2019 tournament holding in Cameroon.

Rohr hinted that it was not just about qualification, but working hard to win the AFCON, after the Super

Eagles failed to make two back-to-back appearances.

Rohr’s wards will tackle South Africa’s Bafana Bafana on November 17 in Johannesburg and thereafter host Seychelles at home.

The Super Eagles currently top the group with nine points, while South Africa have seven points.

“We didn’t qualify for two editions and so we must return in a big way. We are

working very hard to make sure that we get the necessary points in our next match in South Africa.

“We want to make sure that we don’t lose the match just like what happened in our first match.

“We know that a good result in the match will put us at ease before the visit of Seychelles in our last match at home. We want to finish top of the group.”

Fears for Leicester City’s Thai chairman after helicopter crash Leicester City’s charismatic Thai chairman was the subject of growing concerns on Sunday after a helicopter belonging to the billionaire crashed and burst into flames in the stadium carpark shortly after taking off from the club’s pitch.

There was no confirmation whether London-based Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, who frequently flies to and from Leicester’s home games by helicopter, was on board the aircraft which appeared to develop mechanical problems.

The BBC’s Southeast Asia correspondent tweeted that a “source close to the family” had confirmed he was on board, but there was no word from Leicester City or from Thai officials of King Power, Vichai’s duty-free shopping empire.

Images showed smoke rising from the fiery wreckage in the carpark at King Power Stadium — the scene of unbridled jubilation after Leicester’s against-all-odds Premier League title victory in 2016.

Freelance photographer Ryan Brown, who was covering Saturday’s 1-1 draw with West Ham, told BBC Radio 5 Live that he saw the helicopter rise out of the stadium before it crashed.

“Literally the engine stopped and I turned around, and it made a bit of a whirring

noise. It turned silent, blades started spinning and then there was a big bang,” he said.

He said he saw “a huge fireball” when he ran to the scene.

None of the identities of the pilot or passengers was revealed, and there was also no information about whether anyone on the ground was injured.

“We are assisting Leicestershire Police and the emergency services in dealing with a major incident at King Power Stadium,” the club said in a statement.

‘Heartbreaking’ As expressions of concern poured in from around the football world, England legend Gary Lineker, a former Leicester player and host of the BBC’s Match of the Day, tweeted: “That was the most difficult @BBCMOTD I’ve ever hosted… A terrible tragedy.

Heartbreaking.”

Leicester footballers Jamie Vardy and Harry Maguire both tweeted praying hands emojis and West Ham defender Pablo Zabaleta, who also played in Saturday’s game, tweeted: “My thoughts and prayers are with all those involved in the helicopter accident at Leicester City.”

Nualphan Lamsam or Madam Pang, an influential figure in Thai football who manages the national women’s team, sent “moral

support to Vichai and family” in a post on Facebook.

Vichai bought Leicester City in 2010 and became chairman the following February, pouring millions into the team and becoming a beloved figure in the club and the city — a feat not always achieved by the Premier League’s foreign owners.

“Thoughts and prayers with all — particularly owners who’ve done so much for Club and our City,” Leicester’s mayor Peter Soulsby tweeted.

Sky Sports said the helicopter took off from the pitch between 1930 and 1945 GMT but developed problems shortly afterwards with its tail rotor.

The local ambulance service said it was alerted at 2138 GMT. “We sent a doctor, two paramedics in ambulance cars, a crewed ambulance and our Hazardous Area Response Team, with the first resource arriving within two minutes of the call,” it tweeted.

Air crash investigators were also examining the scene.

Roger Federer to face Marius Copil in Basel final World No. 93 Marius Copil will face Roger Federer in the Swiss Indoors final after he shocked Alexander Zverev in the semifinals Saturday.

Copil, who entered the tournament in Switzerland as a qualifier, broke world No. 5 Zverev in the final game of the match to secure a 6-3, 6-7(6), 6-4 win, adding to his upset of Marin Cilic earlier in the week.

The Romanian also fired 26 aces in two hours and

33 minutes of play as he advanced to only his second ATP Tour final.

Copil will face Federer in Sunday’s final after the No. 1 seed cruised to a straight-sets win over Daniil Medvedev in the second semifinal.

The world No. 1 needed just over an hour as he defeated the No. 7 seed 6-1, 6-4.

Federer will be aiming to lift his ninth Basel title as he once again plays the final of his home tournament.

Uganda confirm November 20 friendly against Nigeria The Federation of Uganda Football Association (FUFA) has affirmed November 20 as international friendly date between the Super Eagles and Cranes of Uganda.

The match is slated to hold at the Stephen Keshi Stadium in Asaba, Delta State.

The match comes up three days after Nigeria’s November 17 duel with South Africa in the Confederation of Africa Football (CAF) match day five of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) to be hosted by Cameroun next year.

According to the Ugandan football federation’s website, FUFA Communications Manager, Ahmed Hussein, said the match is part of the international friendlies lined up for Uganda Cranes after engaging Cape Verde in the 2019 Total Nations Cup qualifier at the Namboole Stadium.

“The Uganda Cranes technical team

will make use of the FIFA International break that runs from November 12 to 20, by playing a high profile friendly with the former African Champions.

Matches between these two soccer giants have always been so close since time immemorial.

“A 30-man contingent will depart on November 18 for the trip to Nigeria. The foreign-based players in

the contingent will then connect to their respective clubs after the friendly.

Both nations will field national A men’s teams,” Hussein stated.

It will be recalled the last time Nigeria met Uganda; the Eagles suffered a shocking 0-1 defeat to the Cranes at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium in Uyo, Akwa Ibom S¬¬¬tate.

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