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Senate probes invasion of A’Ibom Assembly Okays 9 new federal institutions, Olukorede as EFCC Secretary Tunde Opalana, Abuja The Senate Committee on Police Affairs headed by Senator Tijjani Kaura (APC Zamfara North) was on Wednesday mandated by the upper Chamber to urgently investigate the alleged invasion of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly by https://plus.google.com/+DailytimesNgr/posts

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suspected thugs on Tuesday and report back within 48 hours.

The probe, it was resolved, will assist the Senate in taking position over what was described as meddlesomeness of security agencies in the political crisis rocking the state legislature.

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Some of the 20 landed properties in Edo, Rivers and Lagos States recovered from a convict, Michael Osasogie by the Economic and Financial Crimes (EFCC) during their handover to First Bank Plc...on Wednesday. See story on Page 6.

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Air Peace takes Reps demand FAAC: FG, delivery of 6th 26% hike in states, LGAs 145, assures education g 5 share N788.1bn ERJ on seamless funding by 2022 in October g 13 operations g 13

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Senate probes invasion of A’Ibom Assembly Continued from page 1 report of the alleged invasion presented to the Senate

by Senator Bassey Albert Akpan, PDP, Akwa Ibom North East, who alleged that suspected thugs invaded and disrupted activities at the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly on Tuesday.

Akpan, who claimed to have personally witnessed the alleged invasion when he visited the Assembly complex in the company of the state governor, Udom Emmanuel, said the alleged invaders were led by a top police officer in the state while he specifically accused the state Commissioner of Police, Musa Kimo, of leading and taking side with the invaders to truncate democracy in the state.

He also accused the police commissioner of taking side with the minority All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmakers in the state to cause break down of law and order.

In his contribution, Senator Jibrin Barau, (APC, Kano North), who raised a point of Order, Order 53(5), informed the Senate that the issue of Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly was in court, just as he cautioned that the Senate should learn to distance itself from state matters, adding that the Senate should concentrate on national issues and leave state matters for the states.

He said: “We are tired of this issue of Akwa Ibom.”

Barau’s position however did not go down well with some senators, even as they made moves to shout him down and tempers began to rise.

Senate President, Bukola Saraki, at this point then intervened and insisted that the Senate should be interested wherever democracy was under threat.

Saraki said: “We were all here when this chamber was invaded. We cannot tolerate the invasion of the hallowed chamber of any legislative

house. It is completely unacceptable. The Police Affairs committee should find out what happened and report back to the Senate within 48 hours.”

Meanwhile, the establishment of nine new federal universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education got the nod of the Senate on Wednesday after the upper Chamber passed third reading of bills sponsored by different senators for their establishment.

The passage of the nine bills was sequel to recommendations made to that effect in a cumulative reports presented by the Chairman Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND, Senator Jubril Barau (APC Kano North).

The institutions include the Federal University of Education Aguleri, Federal University of Technology Manchok in Kaduna State, Federal Polytechnic, Daura in Katsina State and Federal Polytechnic Ikom in Cross Rivers State.

Others are Federal Polytechnic Langtang in Plateau State, Federal Polytechnic Kabo in Kano State and National Institute of Construction Technology and Management.

Federal Colleges of Education established through passage of the bills are Federal College of Education (Technical) Arochukwu and Federal College of Education Usugbenu- Irrua in Edo State.

In remarks after the passage of the bills, Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, who presided over the session, said assenting to them by President Muhammadu Buhari would go a long way in making education acquisition centres available for the teeming millions of school age Nigerians seeking for self-discovery knowledge.

He added that approval of

the federal schools would further register required federal presence in the affected communities with attendant positive multiplier effects.

Also, the Senate on Wednesday confirmed the appointment of Mr. Olanipekun Olukorede as Secretary of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) despite protests from two PDP lawmakers.

Recall that the Senate had on Tuesday suspended Olukorede’s confirmation till Wednesday following a complaint by a member of the Senate Committee on Anti-Corruption and Financial Crimes, Senator Hamma Misau, that the committee did not follow due process in submitting its report.

However, the report of the Committee on AntiCorruption and Financial Crimes was adopted on Wednesday at plenary.

The approval witnessed a mild drama when two members of the committee Isah Misau and Dino Melaye, accused the committee chairman, Chukwuka Utazi, of running a one-man show.

Although three Principal Officers: Saraki, his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu and Senate Leader, Ahmad Lawan insisted that the committee’s report be considered since the panel formed a quorum, the two senators argued that this was against the resolution of the upper legislative body on wTuesday, which asked the panel chairman to meet his members and resolve the issues.

Utazi, who is also a PDP legislator, explained that the two committee members refused to endorse the committee’s report.

But efforts by the two lawmakers to stop the Senate from proceeding on Committee of the Whole to consider the committee’s report, proved abortive, as lawmakers confirmed his appointment.

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L-R: Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki; former President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Patience, during the night of tribute for late Chief Tony Anenih at the National Ecumenical Centre in Abuja...on Tuesday.

R-L: Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike; Netherlands Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Robert Petri; Chairman of Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON), John Momoh and Vice Chairman of Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON), Mr Godfrey Ohuabunwa during a state banquet organised for the Ambassador of Netherlands to Nigeria, Mr Robert Petri and the members of BON at the Government House Port Harcourt, Rivers State ...on Tuesday.

New Osun State Governor Gboyega Oyetola, being congratulated by the Chief Judge of Osun, Hon. Justice Adepele Ojo, during his inauguration at the Osogbo City Stadium...on Tuesday

Falana to Buhari, other ECOWAS Leaders: Obey Court orders Andrew Orolua, Abuja Human Rights Lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), on Wednesday, called on President Muhammadu Buhari and other leaders of the member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to obey Court orders.

He said it is important the leaders “comply with judgments and orders of municipal courts and regional tribunals in the interest of public accountability and political stability.”

Falana made the call in a speech he delivered on Wednesday at the ongoing “ECOWAS Consultative Meeting on Access to Justice and Respect for

the Rule of Law” in Accra, Ghana.

The human rights lawyer blamed the lack of respect for court orders on “prolonged years of military rule and the belief of African leaders that they are as powerful as the emperors and kings who ruled many communities in Africa before colonialism.”

He said that the

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Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki (right); Chief of Transformation and Innovation, Nigerian Army, Major General Felix Agugo (middle), at the Nigerian Army’s Research and Innovation Exhibition and Trade Fair, in Benin City, Edo State.

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Abdusalami’s Peace Committee raises the alarm over 2019 polls Tunde Opalana, Abuja

The National Peace Committee led

by Gen. Abdusalami Abubakar (rtd) has expressed worries about the security situation in some states in the Northeast region and Rivers State ahead of the 2019 polls.

It identified Rivers State and some states in the North East as flash point areas of the 2019 general elections and called on concerned stakeholders to ensure adequate peace in threatened areas.

After the meeting of the Committee with Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, in Abuja on Wednesday, Gen. Abdusalami Abubakar disclosed that the committee would meet with National Chairmen and secretaries of registered political parties today (Thursday).

Fielding questions from journalists after the meeting held at NICON Luxury Hotel, Abuja, he said “I’m worried about the security situation in the North East and it is necessary that we try to contain violence there in order for the INEC to go there and conduct election.

“You should know that INEC will not send people to endanger

Abdulsalami their lives in order to conduct election, and in actual fact, no agent or no political party will endanger the lives of its people in any conflict area”.

According to him, INEC has assured the committee of its readiness for the general election but called for issue-based campaign by political parties.

He emphasised the importance

of peace during the election, adding “there must be peace before we have a country, there must be peace before we (could) conduct election.”

He promised that the committee would ensure there is decent campaign during election as well as there are no hate speeches, no name calling and undesired utterances by politicians.

“We are going to meet with the Chairmen and Secretaries to all political parties tomorrow (today) in order to discuss also and listen to them and to see how we can make progress.

“After the meeting with the political parties, we are going to draw a Memorandum of Understanding of peace and tranquility and this we hope will be signed by all the presidential candidates and the chairmen of the registered parties.

“Like all Nigerians, we pray and we hope, and we will get assurances that the INEC will do the right thing and the political parties will help them also in exercising their right, free and fair election. Each Nigerian has a role to play and I hope they will play their parts,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday parleyed with transport unions to improve on timely delivery of election

Reps demand 26% hike in education funding by 2022 Henry Omunu, Abuja The House of Representatives on Wednesday resolved that subject to the availability of funds, the federal education budget should increase from seven per cent to 26 per cent by 2022.

This resolution, the House said, is in line with the recommendation by the United Nations Education and Scientific Organization (UNESCO) for developing countries.

Furthermore, the House resolved to hold a one week education summit in January 2019 to enable stakeholders brainstorm on how to reposition the country’s education sector.

These resolutions were sequel to the adoption of the motion sponsored by Rep. Ayodele Oladimeji (PDP/Ekiti) on the need to reform Nigeria’s tertiary educational system.

Leading the debate, Rep. Oladimeji stated that the strategic importance of education to any nation cannot be over emphasised being the fulcrum of national growth and development.

According to him, tertiary education is the platform for developing human capital for social, economic and technological transformation

and advancement of any nation.

He added that the right to education is a fundamental human right and a tool of attaining not only academic excellence, but also social justice and progress through which citizens achieve not only personal growth, but also develop their civic and political consciousness.

The lawmaker expressed worry that Nigeria loses trillions of naira to education tourism annually because about 75, 000 Nigerians are currently studying in Ghana, Benin Republic and Egypt among others.

Rep. Oladimeji said the dwindling quality of education in Nigeria is making her graduates unemployable, asserting that “no fewer than 1.8 million graduates in the country move into the labour market every year with the hope of getting jobs that are not available”.

He said further that numerous problems beset the nation’s educational system, leading to poor quality and exodus of youth from pursuit of tertiary education because of inadequate funding and decaying infrastructure, epileptic power supply and examination malpractices.

Lawmakers in their debate,

agreed that Nigeria’s educational sector requires urgent reform, maintaining that failure to proffer solutions to the problems will ensure that the sector spirals downwards while Nigerians will continue to spend their hard earned foreign exchange in financing education tourism.

House Leader, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila while reiterating that poor infrastructure affects students learning, said “it is time we consider education as a privilege and not a right.

“When looking at quality education, we have to talk about the quality of teachers,” he added.

Similarly, Rep. Albert Adeogun said that “school buildings don’t make schools, but students and teachers do.

“We must address the issue of pricing education in Nigeria.

Also, parents and governments must participate in the education of their children”.

The motion after being adopted was subsequently referred to an 11-man ad hoc committee by Speaker Yakubu Dogara.

The ad hoc committee is expected to liaise with critical stakeholders in the education sector to proffer solutions to the dwindling standard of education in the country.

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Chairman, INEC Committee on Elections Operations and Logistics, Prof. Okechukwu Ibeano, said the Commission has done well in recent elections by opening voting centres on time and delivering election material promptly.

He said this at the opening ceremony of a roundtable discussion between INEC and three prominent transportation unions

in the country on the Modalities for Efficient Transportation Delivery for the 2019 General Election, held at the Electoral Institute, Abuja.

The transport unions are National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Road Transport Employees Association of Nigeria (NARTO) and National Association of Road Transport Owners (NARTO).

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intervention of President Buhari who overruled the National Chairman of the ruling party All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole’s decision barring contestants who challenged the conduct and results of primaries in court, “is a welcome development in view of the growing culture of impunity in Nigeria.”

However, Falana said it is not sufficient for the President to recognise the court as a civilized forum for the amicable resolution of disputes in a democratic society, his actions should be indication that he meant it.

“The aggrieved litigants require a firm assurance that the party leadership will not follow the bad example of the Federal Government by treating the judgments and orders of the court with contempt,” he stated.

He added that “having now embraced the rule of law, President Buhari ought to direct the State Security Service to release Sheik Ibraheem El-Zakzaky and his wife from custody in line with the orders of Federal High Court of December 2, 2016.

“In the same vein, to comply with the orders of the Nigerian courts and the ECOWAS Court of Justice for the release of Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) on bail pending trial without any further delay.”

According to Falana, “other high-profile judgments that President Buhari must obey without further delay include at least four judgments obtained

by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP).

“The first is the judgment by Justice Hadiza Rabiu Shagari ordering the government to tell Nigerians about the stolen asset it allegedly recovered, with details of the amounts recovered.

“The second judgment, by Justice Mohammed Idris, that ordered the government to publish details on the spending of stolen funds recovered by successive governments since the return of democracy in 1999, while the third judgment, also by Justice Idris, that ordered President Buhari to act on reports of investigations into allegations of padding and stealing of some N481 billion from the 2016 budget by some principal officers of the National Assembly,

and to ensure prosecution of indicted lawmakers.”

“The fourth judgement by the ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja also obtained by SERAP ordered the Nigerian authorities to provide free and quality education to all Nigerian children without discrimination.”

He said that “Nigeria has a duty to show leadership by example in the region since President Muhammadu Buhari is the current Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Governments of the ECOWAS. He said good leadership has just been demonstrated by the Nigerian leader who has been reported to have distanced himself from the decision of the ruling party in Nigeria, the All Progressives Congress (APC), to expel its aggrieved members who sued the party in court over their grievances against the outcome of the recently concluded primaries of the party.

“President Buhari should equally show leadership in the region by ensuring that all judgments of the ECOWAS Court against Nigeria are fully and unconditionally obeyed.

“The hostile disposition of African states to courts is essentially the same. African governments including Nigeria are yet to move away from the era of military and apartheid regimes when martial law was the order of the day”, he said.

Falana observed that in an era where “the rule of law is substituted for the rule of rulers not only are orders of courts disregarded, judges who rule against governments are also harassed by security forces. The same attitude has been extended to regional and international Courts.”

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FAAC: FG, states, LGAs share N788.1bn in October Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) has distributed a total of N788.139 billion to the Federal Government, State Governments and Local Government Councils for the month of October, 2018.

The communiqué issued by the Technical Sub -Committee FAAC at the end of the special session held in Kaduna, after the 2018 National Council on Finance and Economic Development (NACOFED), indicated that the Gross statutory revenue received is N682.161 billion which is higher than the N569.281 billion received in the previous month by N112.880 billion.

According to the committee, crude oil export sales increased by 0.82 million barrels resulting in an increased revenue to the

Federation of $54.19 million.

However, the average unit price dropped further from $75.69 to $73.92.

The distributable Statutory Revenue for the month is N682.161 billion, while the total revenue distributable for the current month (including VAT and Exchange Gain Difference) was N788.139 billion.

Giving the breakdown of the net statutory revenue, the Federal Government received N299.912 billion representing 52.68%; States received N194.920 billion representing 26.72%; Local Government Councils received N146.693 billion representing 20.60%; while the Oil Producing States received N58.193 billion also representing 13% derivation revenue.

The Cost of Collection, Transfer and DPR Refund came up to N 88.421 billion.

It stated that the Shut-in

Zainab and Shut -down of Pipelines at various terminals persisted due to leaks and maintenance.

Revenues from Oil and Gas Royalities, Petroleum Profits Tax (PPT) and Value Added Tax (VAT) increased significantly while Companies Income Tax (CIT), Import and Excise duties increased only marginally.

The NACOFED conference was held for State Commissioners for Finance, Accountants-General of states, Federal Inland Revenue Service, Budget Office of the Federation, Debt Management Office of the Federation and other stakeholders in the Finance sector.

EFCC hands over forfeited 116 cars, 20 properties to First Bank Andrew Orolua, Abuja The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday, handed over 116 cars and 20 landed properties in Edo, Rivers and Lagos states that were fraudulently acquired by one Michael Obasuyi Osasogie to First Bank Plc where he fraudulently stole the sum of N11, 498, 944, 038.29.

The agency returned the cars and properties to the bank following the conviction and sentencing of Osasogie by the Lagos State High Court to one year imprisonment. His sentence followed a plea bargain the convict entered into including the forfeiture of the properties.

Trouble began for Osasogie after a petition he wrote to the Commission against E-tranzact in March 2018.

The Commission had, however, investigated Osasogie’s business interests, following receipt of a counterpetition written by E-tranzact against Osasogie and one of his companies, SmartMicro.

SmartMicro was said to have approached E-tranzact in 2012 for the deployment of bulk purchase solution called “Corporatepay” to facilitate payment of salaries of Delta State employees in microfinance banks.

It was also alleged that E-tranzact configured an additional outbound fund transfer solution called “Fundgate” in 2017, which required SmartMicro to maintain a pre-funded settlement account with First Bank Plc for settlement of account it had initiated.

However, E-tranzact had further alleged that the bank, sometime in March 2018, revealed that the settlement account was in debit of N11, 498,944,038.29.

Obasuyi, in his statement to the Commission, confessed to have committed the crime, stating that he created fraudulent and imaginary monies through the aid of Fundgate Financial Application from the company.

Consequently, Osasogie was arraigned alongside his firms-Platinum Multi-Purpose Co-operative Society, SmartMicro Systems Limited and Platinum Smart Cruise Motors Limited on May 24, 2018 before Justice Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja on a 14-count charge bordering on stealing to the tune of N11, 498, 944, 038.29.

One of the counts reads: “That you, Michael Obasuyi Osasogie, Platinum Multi-Purpose Co-operative Society, SmartMicro Systems Limited and Platinum Smart Cruise Motors Limited, sometime in the year 2016 in Lagos within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, conspired to commit felony, to wit: stealing of the sum of N11, 498, 944, 038.29 (Eleven Billion, Four Hundred and Ninety Eight Million, Nine Hundred and Forty Four Thousand, Thirty Eight Naira, Twenty Nine Kobo) property of First Bank Nigeria Ltd.” He pleaded guilty to the charge preferred against.

During his trial, an investigator with the EFCC, Orji Chukwuma, had told the court how the proceeds of crime were housed in some new generation banks.

Led in evidence by the prosecution counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo, Chukwuma had told the court that “SmartMicro Systems Limited assumed a position of a fictitious microfinance bank in Nigeria through a software, Micro switch Server 1.1 created by the defendant as well as two genuine microfinance banks, which he used to carry out his fraud.

“The defendant later opened an account with First Bank Plc and subsequently raised an overdraft from his fictitious microfinance bank for his account in the bank, which it ignorantly paid.”

In his further testimony, the witness had told the court that when E-tranzact disconnected from the chain, all the transactions carried out by the defendant collapsed on his own account with First Bank, thereby leading to the discovery of the fraud.

The sums of N2, 903,727,563.92, $37, 992.87 and €18,538.09 were recovered by the Commission from Osasogie’s accounts in various banks in the country.

The Commission also recovered 116 cars and 20 properties located in Lagos, Abuja, Benin and Port Harcourt.

The prosecution counsel had, therefore, urged the court to convict the defendant on counts one to 14, according to the law.

The defendant later entered into plea bargain. The prosecution counsel therefore urged the court to consider the plea bargain entered into by the defendant on May 21, 2018 as judgment in his sentencing.

Counsel to the first and second defendant, Osasu Ogebor, had told the court that his clients went into a plea bargain in order to give out what does not belong to him.

“It is not enough for the accused person to say I am sorry for what he has done. But from his inner heart, he is absolutely sorry, my Lord”, Ogebor had pleaded.

Counsels to the third and fourth defendants also aligned themselves with Ogebor’s prayers.

Delivering her judgment, Justice Dada convicted the defendant on all the counts and sentenced him to one-year imprisonment.

The Judge also ordered the forfeiture of defendant’s 116 buses, 20 properties and monies in various accounts to First Bank Plc. At the hand- over ceremony, which held in one of the forfeited houses at Osapa London, Lekki-Lagos, Kaina Garba, Head Asset Forfeiture and Recovery Management Unit of the EFCC, Lagos office, handed over the documents and keys to the properties to Gabriel Edobor, Head, Remedial and Classified Assets Management Department, First Bank Plc and Eme Godwin, Group Head, Legal Unit, E-transact.

In a show of appreciation, both Edobor and Godwin thanked the EFCC for ensuring the recovery of the properties through diligent and uncompromising investigative efforts.

FG reduces cost of JAMB, NECO exams

Okays N14.7bn for ECOWAS Biometric Cards

Mathew Dadiya, Abuja The Federal Government has approved the cut down of the cost of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) application forms from N5, 000 to N3, 500, from January 2019.

The approval was given during the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, on Wednesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

It also announced the cost reduction of Senior Secondary Certificate (SSCE) handled by National Examination Council (NECO) from N11, 350 to N9, 850 and Basic Education Certificate handled by NECO, is reduced from N5, 500 to N4,000.

The House of Representatives had in May urged the Federal Ministry of Education to slash the cost of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) application forms.

The call for the reduction followed JAMB’s announcement that it remitted N7.8 billion to the Federal Government as proceeds from sales of Unified Tertiary Examinations (UTME) application forms in 2017.

The lawmakers had accused JAMB of becoming a “revenue generating agency”.

The Education Minister Adamu Adamu, who briefed State House Correspondents at the end of the three hours meeting on the memo he presented on the reduction of fees for JAMB, Senior Secondary and Basic Education Certificate Examinations, said the reduction followed the pleas from parents.

He said: “Since the new administration came into office and a change in management and prudent management by JAMB, we have been able to see that most of what have been charged doesn’t have to be because a lot of it have been siphoned by corrupt officials.

“So, in answer to yearnings my parents, Mr. President directed that we should look into the possibility of reducing the charges.

“So accordingly, from January 2019, JAMB fees will be from N5, 000 to N3, 500 for the UTME, Senior Secondary Certificate charged by National Examination Council (NECO) from 11,350 to N9, 850 and Basic Education Certificate handled by NECO is reduced from N5,500 to N4,000.

“As I said, our concern is not to make money as such, we are not revenue generating agencies. Since we found that JAMB has been able to bring into government coffers about N8 billion, we said we should relieve the burdens on parents.

On if the reduction was as a result of the 2019 elections, Adamu said: “A good thing doesn’t have to have a reason. Whether it is because of election or not, I think parents deserve to have the fees reduced. And I think there is no better time to do a good thing than now.

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, said Council also approved 11 ecological interventions projects for N9.600,415,324 in Lagos, Oyo, Ondo, Cross River, Adamawa, Bauchi, Jigawa, Niger ABU Zaria, Kaduna and Abuja.

The said the projects are spread in Lagos - Jetty and Shoreline Protection Facilities, flood and

erosion control in Oyo town, Oyo State, erosion control of flooded areas/road improvement in Owo, Ondo state, erosion control of flooded areas in Akampa in Cross River, road and stem water defiance in Federal College of Education in Yola, Adamawa, road and bridges at Dutse Saki village in Buguru local government in Bauchi, erosion control at Kazaure in Jigawa, intervention at Main Campus Phase II Site at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Kaduna, Erosion and flood control at Kontagunra local government are of Niger State, Gully erosion and road improvement at Army Post Service Estate, Kurudu Abuja and Erosion and flood control at Asharawa area council in Phase II in FCT, Abuja.

Adesina said Council also approved three industrial wastes combined incinerators for environmental friendly destruction of counterfeit and substandard regulated products.

It was approved for NAFDEC at the sum of N267, 585,160.

Another approval by FEC was the business plan for ECOWAS Biometric Cards intended to replace the current ECOWAS Travel Certificate. It is a contractor-financed project that will cost N14.7 billion.

Minister of the Interior, Abdurahman Dambazzau, explained that the project was recommendation of West African regional leaders since 2016 as the ECOWAS travel papers can easily be faked. The biometric cards are expected to be issued to about 13 million persons over the next 19 years.

To make it easier for Nigeria, the project will incorporate her National Identity Number (NIN).

It is hoped that the new cards will help safeguard Nigeria’s borders.

The Minister of State for Power, Works and Housing, Sulaiman Hassan, said council approved two memos.

“The first one is the furnishing of the federal secretariat complexes in three states of the federation, Awka in Anambra State, Gusau in Zamfara and Yenagoa in Bayelsa State at the cost of N3.48 billion.

“It is the duty of the Federal Ministry Power, Works and Housing to provide decent accommodation for federal agencies and other offices in various states of the federation to make their workings easier and more comfortable for better results.

“So these there complexes have been completed and ready for commission before the end of the year,” he said.

The council also approved the rehabilitation of some broken down bridges in the North East region that were destroyed by insurgents at the cost of N813, 458,132.

“The first is on the road between Maiduguri, Dikwa and Gamboru, second is at the famous Limankara.

There is a bridge there that links Maiduguri to Dama, Goza, Honk and Yola at the cost of N331.2 billion and the bridge in Gombe State at the cost of N304 million. The total cost of the bridges rehabilitation is N813, 458,132. The contractor is the Army Corps of Engineers that have a limited liability company, Sappers Engineering Limited. Why we gave to Sappers Engineering is because of the security concerns, no civil contractor will want to go there insecure,” the minister stated.

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Buhari, heads of state, govt of lake Chad Basin meet over security Mathew Dadiya, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari, in his capacity as Chairman of the Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC), has convened a consultation of Heads of State and Government of the LCBC scheduled to take place in N’Djamena, Chad, on Thursday November 29,

2018.

Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Wednesday, stated that the one-day meeting will review the security situation in the areas affected

by Boko Haram insurgency and adopt measures to enhance the capacity of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) to meet the challenges of securing the areas.

The presidents of the LCBC member countries of Chad, Cameroon, Niger,

and the Central African Republic have been invited to attend the meeting. The President of Benin Republic, a troopscontributing country, has also been invited to attend.

The MNJTF and the national operations of the affected countries have appreciably degraded the capacity of Boko Haram terrorists, although the insurgents still retain the capacity to attack isolated targets in desperate search for supplies.

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Short News National Peace Committee seek peace in N-East, Rivers Tunde Opalana, Abuja The National Peace Committee led by Gen. Abdusalami Abubakar (rtd) has expressed worry over the security situation in the Northeast region and Rivers State ahead of the 2019 polls.

The committee identified Rivers State and some states in the North East as flash point areas of the 2019 general elections and called on concerned stakeholders to ensure adequate peace in threatened areas.

After the meeting of the Committee with Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof.

Mahmood Yakubu and Gen. Abdusalami Abubakar disclosed that the committee would meet with National Chairmen and secretaries of registered political parties today.

Fielding questions from journalists after the meeting held at NICON Luxury Hotel, Abuja, he said “I’m worried about the security situation in the North East and it is necessary that we try to contain violence there in order for the INEC to go there and conduct election.

1,189 pensioners drag Nasarawa Govt to court over entitlements Augustine Kuza, Lafia

L-R: Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, National Peace Committee, Gen. Abubakar Abdulsalami (rtd), and a membe/ former Chief of General Staff, Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe (rtd) during a meeting with INEC Chairman on the preparation of forthcoming 2019 general Election in Abuja on Wednesday .

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ACPN Presidential candidate laments current 52 year expectancy in Nigeria Kehinde Akinpelu, Ilorin Presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, has lamented the current 52-year life expectancy in the country, saying that her administration will improve the status with calculated measures contained in the party’s manifesto.

This is just as the party unveiled its vice presidential candidate, a grassroots politician from Kwara state, Alhaji Abdulganiyu Galadima, in Ilorin on Wednesday.

The ACPN presidential candidate, who said that the party was determined to rescue Nigeria from myriads of its present challenges, added that the present security situation had made life so cheap in the country.

Dr. Ezekwesili, who said that present life expectancy in the country was unacceptable, added that the nation had what it takes to equal Singapore’s 85 year life expectancy.

“To achieve this, we have to improve people’s health condition and human security. In a way, everything that we will do to improve business opportunities for everyone, where we were targeting higher productivity and competitiveness of Nigerian economy will lead to improved

income level for Nigerians. When you have better income level, you’ll be able to afford basic things of life. We’ll focus on improving our health system. Our health system today discriminates between wealthy and poor. The poor do not have access to quality healthcare. Our ACPN manifesto focuses on universalising access to national health insurance scheme for Nigerians, and we’re emphasizing on improving maternal and child related issues to ensure that we’re not above Africa average in infant, child and maternal mortality. That will go towards improving life expectancy”, she said.

The ACPN presidential candidate, who condemned present security situation in the country, said that primacy of Nigerian life is the epicentre of the ACPN programme.

“We want to make sure that human capital is the new economy and that education is the new oil. If we’re going to achieve that, we must keep our people alive.

This means that everything that has to do with their security will matter to us. We will not be the government that slacks in her responsibility and watches on helplessly while invaders take over our territory and kill our people with no consequences. It will not happen under my time as commander in chief of Armed Forces”, she said.

The presidential candidate also

promised to deploy same intelligence used in the administration of former president Olusegun Obasanjo in tackling challenges in the telecommunication sector then, to now tackle the nation’s power problems.

She told party members that the party’s manifesto was put together through data review and several analysis and promised to ensure that it is properly followed if Nigerians elect her party into office in 2019.

Lamenting that Nigeria has been rated as the 14th most fragile nation in the world due to insecurity and bad governance, Ezekwesile promised to overhaul the nation’s security apparatus and fight corruption in a clean manner.

“Nigeria was ranked 14the most fragile nation in 2017. That means that any little thing can bring the national down. But we will not allow that; we will work hard to make Nigeria a strong nation again”, she said.

She promised that if voted into office, the ACPN will use workable policies to take at least 80 million Nigerians out of poverty citing the example of China which she said had to take some 700 million of her population out of poverty at a point in time.

While lamenting the current 52 percent literacy rate in Nigeria, she said her party plans to embark on revolutionising the knowledge industry as the next source of prosperity for Nigeria instead of oil and gas.

About 1, 189 Pensioners in Nasarawa state has on Wednesday, ( yesterday) dragged the Nasarawa State Government (NSSG) to National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN), based in Makurdi, over non payment of pension arrears and gratuity.

Addressing the court, counsel to the claimants (pensioners), Mr Sunday Okpale, said that his clients were being paid monthly pensions in percentages since September 2016.”Since September 2016 to date my clients were being paid their monthly pension in percentage.He Stated.

The counsel said that the case was scheduled for hearing, but the respondents – the state government, the state pensions board and the board’s director-general were not represented in court.

Justice Salish Danjida adjourned the case until February 11, 2019, for summary judgment.

Rivers, Netherlands to partner on agriculture

The governments of Rivers State and the Netherlands have agreed to partner in the development of the agricultural sector in Rivers State with a view to creating employment opportunities.

The agreement was announced at a State Banquet organised for the Ambassador of Netherlands to Nigeria, Mr. Robert Petri and the members of the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON) at the Government House Port Harcourt, Tuesday night.

During colourful banquet which was marked by traditional dances of Rivers State and music by the Port Harcourt Male Choir, Governor Wike said that Rivers State hoped to benefit from the technical support of Netherlands in agriculture, since the state had similarities with that country.

He said: “We are willing to partner with the Kingdom of Netherlands in the area of agriculture. This is because we can create thousands of employment opportunities for our people.

“Luckily our environment is covered by water like the Netherlands, hence it will be a realistic partnership,” the governor opined.

He said that he was passionate about the development of Rivers State, hence his total commitment to the growth of the state.

He urged the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria to be unbiased in their reportage of events in the interest of the nation.

2019: Moghalu challenges INEC, others on transparency Adebisi Oyindamola, Abuja The Presidential Candidate of Young Progressive Party, Kinglsey Moghalu has challenged INEC and Police on transparency and vigilance during the upcoming elections.

He also advised Nigerians not to be complacent during the elections, and be on the outlook for irregularities in the conduct of 2019 elections.

Moghalu, spoke on deepening democracy in Nigeria, at a retreat for Governors, organized by the centre for Value and leadership, in Abuja on Wednesday.

He reaffirmed his trust in INEC to conduct a free and fair election as well as the security operatives to act fairly, but he added he would closely monitor the process to ensure his votes and other Nigerians’ count.

According to him, the independence of public institutions like INEC and police was the only way to deepen democracy in Nigeria.

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Nigerian soldiers, Boko Haram and matters arising …how can a soldier come up and say ‘I’m not well equipped’ yet you have a rifle; what do you want? You want APC, you want tanks? The basic weapon of an infantry man is rifle, so why should there be mutiny? Why? — Alex Badeh, Chief of Army Staff (January 2014 – July 2015)

Fisayo Soyombo

It initially started out as 44. Then 100. Then ‘more than 100’. And now 118. There is even a chance it could, when all is said and done, end up as more than 200. In the end, the truth is somewhere in between. In an attack that ranks among the deadliest this year, Boko Haram downed scores of soldiers in Metele, Borno State, on November 18.

With the benefit of hindsight, we now know that the insurgents lurked around for the Army to dispatch a team to retrieve its killed or injured men. When that rescue, treatment and evacuation team arrived in Metele, the insurgents struck again.

Among the victims of that first raid were five officers, including a Lieutenant-Colonel; and from the second raid, the fallen include the Major who led the rescue team.

The latest attack is a continuation of Boko Haram’s newfound confidence to take the battle to military zones in recent months, often yielding high casualty tolls.

The past few days have been truly difficult for the political neutrals.

The social media has been awash with mourning and the gnashing of teeth, not only by the opposition, as the government and the Army are wont to always believe, but by those genuinely concerned about the failure of two governments running to pocket Boko Haram. This grandscale attack has happened despite repeated government assurances

of “decimating” and “technically defeating” the insurgents. So, the question goes: Why, and three years after electing a Major-General as president, can Boko Haram so easily overrun hundreds of soldiers in one fell swoop?

As I have previously written, the Army is indeed waging a war against Boko Haram — not with weapons but with propaganda. In its trademark downplaying of its own casualties and exaggerating that of the insurgents, the Army attempted to sweep the Metele attack under the carpet. And despite its protests over the so-called “well-doctored” reports of the media, the Army has, after eight days, refrained from making definitive remarks about the attack, particularly the casualty on its side.

A war that thrives on misleading the public, ostensibly including the president and commander-in-chief, is doomed to fail.

So is a war steeped in hypocrisy.

Two soldiers who survived the Metele attack, and are set to desert the Army, released a now-viral video of the post-attack ruins. Laden with anger, frustration and despair, it is a video that should humble every true Nigerian patriot. It is a video that President Muhammadu Buhari — if his advisers have any idea what they’re doing — should have seen and self-analysed by now.

But the shocking response of the Army has been to brand members of the public as “detractors or tacit supporters of the enemies of our beloved country” and to threaten them with court suits. This type of sickening hypocrisy should not be judged just on its face value but on its implications for decision-taking in the highest recesses of the Army.

It is the same type of hypocrisy that caused Alex Badeh, as chief of Army

staff in January 2015, to say soldiers cannot say they’re not well-equipped when they have a rifle, only for him to claim, at his pull-out ceremony six months later, that he was “head of a military that lacked the relevant equipment and motivation to fight an enemy that was invisible and embedded with the local populace”.

Badeh had already rendered himself an accomplice to the damage that had been done. Unfortunately, this same strategy of misleading the government and the people has been adopted by the current Army hierarchy. Boko Haram can only be the beneficiary.

Everyone knows the most important move that must be made to whittle down Boko Haram’s powers. The foot soldiers know; the senior officers do. Even the insurgents themselves know. I found out in June 2016. During an undercover trip to the NorthEast in June of that year, I was in a hospital where a soldier receiving treatment for a gunshot injury was recalling events on the battlefield to his colleagues. He was one of 15 soldiers who ran into 18 insurgents in Kala Balge, the easternmost local government area of Borno, very close to Cameroon, on April 30, 2016. While the insurgents came in six motorcycles and carried a mortar Rocket-Propelled Grenade (RPG) and a General-Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG), the soldiers had only their trucks and their 1949-made Kalashnikov (AK-47) rifles. Still, it was the insurgents who took to their heels while the soldiers chased on with their trucks. One by one, the soldiers killed the insurgents until only two were left. Then they ran out of ammo. Tables suddenly turned, and the hunter became the hunted.

“When our ammo finished, we

were looking at them and they were looking at us,” the soldier recalled.

“We were about boarding the truck when three of us were fired at the same time with a GPMG.” In all, six of the soldiers were shot. I remember that soldier was filled with optimism about how Buhari’s coming would strengthen the weaponry of the Army. If that soldier is still alive — he promised to return to the field once his leg healed up — he must feel let down that the coming of Buhari hasn’t altered the balance of weapons between soldiers and insurgents.

Much as it hurts to say, Boko Haram will continue killing soldiers.

I have met quite a number of Nigerian soldiers involved in the counter-insurgency operations, and my conviction is that they are some of the bravest soldiers available anywhere in the world. However, if we’re stuck with fighting Boko Haram with weapons that are older than Nigeria itself (the AK-47 was made 11 years before Nigeria’s Independence), then our soldiers have no chance. No serious military should still be parading the T-12 in this age. This was a tank made between 1925 and 1931, and they are prone to mechanical failures; the soldiers in that video weren’t lying. As they said, Buhari must “interfere” in this matter. This is beyond intervening, the president, as the C-in-C should ‘interfere’ with the operations of the military, the same way he does with the petroleum industry. At the very least, it’s time to establish the correlation between the Army’s armoury and the funds recently invested in this war. Until such a time when that gap is closed, expect high casualties on the Army’s side, from time to time.

That tacit side of ASUU almost unsusceptible to strike action

Binta Zakari

By definition, University, as a community of teachers and scholars, is an institution of higher education and research. ASUU (Academic Staff Union of Universities), is the umbrella of academic staff of Nigerian universities, committed towards ensuring the adequate provision of resources and facilities necessary for achieving the missions and visions of the Nigerian Universities.

These missions and visions are generally centred on excellence in teaching and research; and the application of both in promoting national development through addressing prevailing socioeconomic challenges. Consequently, the responsibilities of academic staff in Nigerian Universities, the ASUU members, are broadly classified into teaching, research and general/administrative duties. The teaching aspect is the most obvious, while general/ administrative duties can be anything necessary for the welfare of students and staff, as well as for the smooth running of the universities – from office responsibilities; to quality assurance and enhancement; to curriculum development; to mentoring students and provision of emotional support through guidance and counselling, etc.

Contribution to excellence in research is mostly through publications and sharing of the research findings (with the broader scholarly and professional communities) via publications in academic journals, books, conferences, seminars, workshops, etc.

Commitment to research requires remaining constantly active in investigating new ideas within a specialist area; determining improved research methodologies and/

or analysis techniques; formulating new concepts and ideas; and ultimately generating new products or solutions to certain challenges. Ideally, the end result of a carefully organised, adequately funded, and well executed research activity is innovation and skills development.

However, in most Nigerian Universities neither time nor necessary resources are specifically allocated for the academic staff to engage in valuable researches. In general, research is tacitly regarded as a sort of personal thing, despite it being an essential part of the job. But most academic staff in Nigerian Universities engage in research with a passion, and a personal commitment regardless of receiving required support (or not) either from the universities or the Federal Government. Research commitments rarely get acknowledged, except for the publications being necessary requirements for promotion.

It is not surprising that even ASUU hardly attempt refraining the members from engaging in research related activities, as part of strike. Even with the current strike action, the focus of ‘the total, indefinite, and comprehensive strike’ are largely about ‘… no teaching in any programme, no attendance of statutory meetings, no examination of any sort, no convocation, no inaugural lectures, no accreditation exercise, etc’. Almost everything is around teaching (and learning) and administrative duties.

But to truly obtain the productive graduates needed by Nigeria, and generate the necessary human capital required for the successful diversification

of the Nigerian economy, our universities need to do a lot more just than teaching and learning. Education in general, and especially university education, requires research related activities (and findings) to be well integrated into the teaching and learning process. Developing transferable skills, building capacity, and empowerment of the upcoming generation cannot be achieved through teaching and learning alone.

Research is one of the first steps towards conceptualization, practical application and appreciation of knowledge. It is among the best means of engaging and inspiring individuals to realise their full potentials and figure out the right questions to be asked in solving problems, and consequently, how to go about answering them. It is through research that curiosity and ingenuity are explored so that ideas are brought to life; it is through research that talents are revealed and innovations ensued; it is through research that things get created and jobs emerge; it is through research that nations develop by inciting creativity, innovation and generation of new ideas.

One of the primary aims of ASUU is “to encourage the positive contributions which the Academic Staff Union of Universities can make to the economic and social progress of Nigeria …” The creation of an enabling environment for a teaching and learning system, well integrated with focused and vibrant research activities, is key to achieving the stated aim.

ASUU, with unwaivered resolve to save the system, from what can be

regarded a blithe attitude of the Federal Government towards education over the years, is playing a leading role towards resuscitating the system. But there is only so much that ASUU alone, can do. It is necessary to consider realignment of our University policies, to be more research oriented and focused towards acquisition of knowledge, skills and attributes necessary for the establishment of a diversified and knowledge-based economy.

Although there are more than insignificant efforts by the Federal Government in support of academic research, it is quite indequate. The Federal Government need to show more interest, commitment and support towards the realisation of better research and teaching environment. There is need to have structures in place (both tangible and intangible) to support research, not only from its inception to actualisation, but up to and including the establishment of its findings as marketable products or services.

If all the current investments in youth empowerment and entrepreneurship programmes are guided by such research findings, and used as basis for directing the teaching aspects in universities, the vast majority of our problems will be sorted in the very near future.

In the words of Dr. Abdul Kalam, in his famous speech ‘Teachers Should be Role Models’: “the education and learning process has to culminate in the creation of professional capability leading to confidence and will power to make a design, to make a product, to make a system, bravely combating many problems”.

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Editorial Commentary Buhari: To debate or not to debate

Times Guest Columnist Mohammed Adamu

Virtually everywhere in the world now democratic nations seek to add electoral value to the democratic process by the phenomenon of pre-election political debates. Quite less frequently, aspirants battling to secure the candidature of their political parties debate between or among themselves in the build up to intra-party primaries. And more often than not they do so also now as ‘candidates’ of their parties especially at gubernatorial and presidential levels. “Men working from notes inside their heads” was the metaphor America’s language maven William Saffire used to describe a typical two-man presidential debate, where candidates attentively answer impromptu questions and also make instantaneous, off the cuff rebuttals to bareknuckle charges. It is believed that this pre-election phenomenon gives the electorate an opportunity to be informed -so that they, in turn, may make ‘informed’ choices at the polls when they vote.

Said Saffire, “Modern debates allow an audience to size up two candidates under the same pressure at the same moment (so as) to reach judgment on which person seems more trustworthy or (more) in presidential command”.

But whether or not pre-election presidential debates have always achieved these acclaimed ends has been –itself- a subject of intense debate since 1858 when the phenomenon was ignited by a little-known Illinois lawyer, Abraham Lincoln who was said to have challenged his local Senator, Stephen Douglas, in a series of seven controversial debates in a bid to replace him. And although Lincoln lost the election, the debates had ‘elevated his national stature and set him up for a successful presidential run against Mr. Douglas two years later’. Now whether or not Lincoln or Douglas won those debates must also have been a subject of debate, because the phenomenon of impartial, independent rating was not available to attend to those encounters. Which is not to suggest that with their existence today, outcomes of political debates, even in the so called bastion of democracy itself, America, are no longer debatable. Because they still are. Or at least as recently as 2016, they were: in spite of the clear verdicts of independent rating institutions, Trump and his supporters had claimed rancorously that he won at least two of the three debates he had with Mrs. Clinton. Nor were all rating institutions unanimous that he did not.

And so as ‘beauty’ is said usually to lie ‘in the eye of the beholder’, so is victory in a political debate nowadays, often more in the ‘subjective’ mind of those who have listened to it, than in the ‘objective’ verdicts of so called independent polling institutions –no matter how impartial we may think they are. This will still be so even if we can prove that those who privately or institutionally rate others have not brought their biases, prejudices and sentiments to bear on their verdicts. Most verdicts especially of keenly contested debates cannot possibly be free from the elements of subjectivity -no matter how infinitesimally so. Yet many selfacclaimed impartial rating institutions are known even to be unable to demonstrate their vaunted impartiality. For example rather than announce Trump’s triple defeat or emphasize Hillary Clinton’s three-times trumping of Trump, some of these institutions preferred accentuating and even praising the fact that Trump’s performances in the debates had ‘exceeded expectation’ -as if the object of the debate ab ignition, was to know by what low or high margin he would lose to Hillary.

And so, deciding who wins a political debate or who has lost one is not the only problem with political debates. Agreeing on who should be trusted to organize and conduct them is even more major. And so, if even independent, so called impartial polling institutions cannot be trusted to be objective in their assessments of who has won or lost a debate, what institutions are there with the most minimum potential for bias that can be

trusted by all candidates and all political parties to organize, set criteria for and conduct a presidential debate? As we can see again, even in this so called bastion of democracy itself, America, this species of trust remains grossly at a premium because seriousminded political parties will not risk investing it in any other than themselves! Presidential debates in America are solely the prerogative of a bipartisan body, called ‘Commission on Presidential Debate, CPD which is jointly owned and run by the country’s two major political parties, the Democratic and Republican Parties.

Established in 1987, the Commission on Presidential Debate, CPD is staffed almost equitably by members of the two political parties and jointly headed too, by their chairmen who mutually by themselves set the criteria for, organize and conduct pre-election presidential debates.

This is so as to eliminate any possibility for the subtlest manipulation of the rules or substance of the debate by any persons or groups in favor or disfavor of any candidate or political party. And so if the question arises ‘who should conduct a debate trustworthy enough to be attended?’ America’s Republican and Democratic parties have answered it: ‘Us’! If it is not owned and conducted by us, it will not be attended by us! The morale is clear: Who should own the debate-organizing body? Us! Who should set criteria for the debates? Us! Who should organize the debates? Us?’ The CPD only invites credible media anchors from the outside to conduct these debates using questions mostly transparently sourced from the public to avoid the allegation of bias in their selection -including sometimes the possibility of bias in the manner that they are either couched or even asked.

Generally, in the United States attendance of CPD-organized presidential debates is neither a right that candidates of all political parties may claim, nor is it a duty that they are all obligated to discharge. It is a privilege that has to be earned by all candidates –including those of the two major political parties. Being privately-organized, the chance to participate is made contingent upon a rule that only candidates of the Republican and Democratic parties –given their sizes- are preeminently opportune, always to qualify for. qualification is a fifteen percent minimum threshold of support a candidate must have in any five national opinion polls in the run up to the debates. Thus there is always room for a ‘third-party’ candidate participation from among the many small issue-based political parties that abound in the polity, provided that such candidate meets the fifteen percent requirement. It was on meeting that threshold that the Texas billionaire and Independent candidate, Ross Perot joined Bush Senior and Bill Clinton, in 1992, on an interesting threesome-debate after he was said to have also led these two preeminent candidates in a historic early public opinion polls. It was unthinkable that any candidate of minor political parties could do that; let alone an Independent candidate.

This highly restrictive criterion for participation in the CPD-organized presidential debate was once challenged in court by some of the smaller parties who claimed that it was discriminatory against them. But a District Court judge dismissed the case on the grounds that the ‘Commission on Presidential Debate’ is not a public forum and that the defendants –namely the Republican and Democratic parties who control it- are private entities engaged strictly in a private activity. In other words, the court was suggesting that other parties too were free to create their own debate commissions, organize their own debates, set their own criteria, invite their own participants and conduct their debates however they wished. As candidates have no right to participate in debates organized by other than themselves, so have others no right to impose on candidates the obligation to attend particular debates.

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Kogi Gov marginalises Deputy, denied him Short News payment of one year, Sen Aidoko alleges Gov Ugwuanyi awards contracts for ...As Senate probes plans by Kogi Govt to secure $500m foreign loan

Tunde Opalana, Abuja Kogi State governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello has been accused of marginalizing his deputy,Mr. Simon Achuba by not paying his due allowances for a year while electricity at his official residence has been disconnected by the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), over unpaid charges by the state government.

Senator Aita Aidoko. Aidoko representing Kogi East Senatorial District revealed this Wednesday during Senate plenary.

Aidoko also alleged that the State House of Assembly has adjourned sine die, following the failure of Governor Yahaya Bello-led government to pay salaries and allowances of state lawmakers.

He added that civil servants have not been paid in the last one year. He further claimed that judicial officials are planning to embark on a state-wide strike over failure by the State Government to pay their salaries.

The senator who is from the Deputy governor’s Constituency made the revelations while contributing to a motion moved by Senator Dino Melaye on plans by Kogi

State Government to secure a $500 million foreign loan, without recourse to the National Assembly, which is empowered by law to approve such borrowings.

While calling for a stall to the loan request, Idoko said the state has borrowed over N40 billion since the current administration came on board in January, 2016 despite huge revenue received by the State Government from federal allocation.

He said: “I want to bring to the notice of the Senate of some things going wrong in Kogi State. As I speak, the salaries, allowances and other payments due to the Deputy Governor of Kogi State have not been paid in the last one year. As I speak, the Deputy Governor is broke.

“Again, the official residence of the Deputy Governor has been thrown into darkness.

The State Government has refused to pay the electricity bill of the residence of the Deputy Governor. AEDC has disconnected the residence.

“On Tuesday, the State House of Assembly adjourned sine die. Members said they have not been paid their salaries and allowances in the last few months by the State Government.

As I speak, only one arm of government is operating in Kogi State. This is the situation on ground.

“If the State Government has not been able to justify all the monies it has received in form of allocations, Paris Club refund, bailouts and loans, why will it go for another foreign loan of $500 million? Let us save our state.”

Melaye (PDP Kogi West) , had in the motion, alleged that an approval for the loan had already been given by the Ministry of Finance, despite the clear contravention of the provisions of the law. He called for resistance against the approval.

He alleged the State Government is going for the loan, to enable it prosecute the 2019 elections and cause mayhem during the polls.

Melaye further claimed that the House of Assembly was not carried along by the State Government.

He named East West Capital Cooperation, based in United Arab Emirates and owned by one Mahmood, behind the foreign loan to the government.

“Melaye said: “Kogi State Government has approached East West Capital Cooperation, based in UAE, to get a loan of $500 million.

That is about N186 billion. Already, the State Government has borrowed about N40 billion since it came on board in 2016.

“The law clearly states that any foreign loan must be approved by the National Assembly.

multiple road projects

Moses Oyediran, Enugu Enugu State Government has awarded contracts for another set of development projects across the state, totaling over N1 billion, to deepen its noble vision to develop the rural areas in line with the government’s fourpoint agenda.

Briefing newsmen after the meeting of the State Executive Council (EXCO), the Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Engr. Greg Nnaji, stated that the projects duly considered and approved by the council include the extension of the construction of Ogurute-Mkpamute, Igogoro-IkpamodoOkpo-Amaja road and the Ogurute -Umuogbo-Umuokpu-Ette road both in Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area of the state.

Engr. Nnaji noted that the present administration had constructed phase one of the two roads, adding that the newly awarded projects were the phase two.

Also approved for rehabilitation/construction, according to the works commissioner, were selected roads in Igbo-Etiti LGA, namely, the 9th MileMakurdi expressway- Community Secondary School road, Ozalla; the Akaibute-Ohebe Dim-Aku road and the St. Mary’s Catholic Church-Ezi Ukehe-Afia Four-Umurusi road.

Engr. Nnaji further explained that the Akaibute-Ohebe Dim-Aku road will be rehabilitated while the St. Mary’s Catholic Church - Ezi Ukehe-Afia Four-Umurusi road was classified as “a full construction which entails site preparation, earthwork, drainages, pavement and surfacing”.

FG needs $30b to Link all zones with rail -Amaechi Idu Jude Abuja The Minister of Transportation, Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has said that delay of approval for foreign loans by the National Assembly, is the reasons for the incomplete rail project around the country.

The Minister however, assured Nigerians, especially those from the South East geo-political zone that every zone will benefit from the Standard Gauge Rail line being constructed by the Federal Government across the country.

Ameachi who gave the assurance in Abuja Wednesday, while appearing before the Senate Joint Committee on Land Transport, Local and Foreign Debts, promised that South East leaders that the region was not excluded in the on-going revitalization of rail projects by the Federal Government.

The Minister further reiterated that what was actually stalling the projects was the non-approval of the $30billion Foreign Loan request by the Federal Government by the National Assembly needed to construct the Standard Gauge Rail line from Port Harcourt to Maiduguri. “We didn’t abandon any rail project All the projects are there. The truth is that we can’t go to work without funds and that has to come when the Senate approves the $30billion loan request,” he said.

Bauchi Govt to disburse N1bn interest-free loans to traders, artisans Samuel Luka, Bauchi

L-R: Secretary to Oyo State Government, Mr. Olalekan Alli; Executive Secretary, Oyo State Security Trust Fund, Mr. Femi Oyedipe; state Deputy Governor, Chief Moses Adeyemo; and Special Adviser on Security to the governor, Mr. Segun Abolarinwa, at a security stakeholders’ summit, in Ibadan.

NGO tasks well-meaning Nigerians on partnership for SDGs …Donates uniforms to indigent students of Lagos public school

Patrick Okohue A non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Blossom Africa Initiative, has challenged well meaning Nigerians to key into the achievements of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations to take effect in Nigeria.

The group, which said this when it took the SDGs campaigns to Agidingbin Primary School, Ikeja, when it donated free school uniforms to indigent primary school pupils in Lagos State, said it is resolved to ensure the achievements of the SDG in the country.

The President of the group, Mr Tope Musowo, who led the group to the school, said they felt the need to intervene after seeing pupils wearing torn uniforms to schools.

According to him, the group decided to provide school uniforms in its bid to contribute toward realisation of the first SDGs which bothers on waging war

against abject poverty ravaging the society.

“We are giving these uniforms to assist students whose parents are finding it difficult to change their worn-out dress.

We became worried seeing some of these students in this situation.

“Wearing worn-out uniforms to schools has a way of affecting the psychology, emotion, self-esteem of these students, thereby affecting their students.

“It is poverty that makes students to go to school with torn uniform. We don’t just teach SDGs, we want to practise them.

“It is poverty for parents to see his children going to school bear footed and with torn uniform without doing anything about it, that is why we are doing this as our own contribution to the society.

“Government cannot do it all, well meaning Nigerians should rise up to ensure realisation of SDAs,” he said.

He said that the exercise would be replicated in other schools in fulfilment of the SDGs. Musowo added: “The organisation is out to create awareness about the 17

Sustainable Development Goals and to awaken the consciousness of our people towards their roles in the actualisation.

“We discover that one of the reasons why none of the Africa countries achieved the Millennium Development Goals is because the awareness was too low, that is why we are creating awareness about the SDGs. “We are not just creating awareness we are also demonstrating what we are talking, that is why we are distributing free uniform for students.

In her response, Mrs Janet Agbebi, the Assistant Head Mistress of the school, who commended the group for the gesture, said it would go a long way to motivate the pupils.

According to Agbebi, some students do not come to school because their uniforms are in bad conditions.

Two of the beneficiaries, Miss Kadijat Mohammed and Master Ibrahim Rilwan commended the group for the gesture, saying it would help them to concentrate on their study.

About N1 billion have been earmarked by the Bauchi State government for onward disbursement to traders and artisans in Bauchi state on interest -free loans to augment their businesses.

As contained in a press release, the government said “worried by the decline in economic and commercial activities and increased dependence on government for employment opportunities in Bauchi state Governor Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar has offered one billion naira interest-free loan to traders and artisans in the state”.

The Press Secretary to the governor, Abubakar Al-Sadique said governor Abubakar announced the offer of the loan on Wednesday while addressing leaders of the state traders and artisans association who paid him a courtesy visit in his office.

Governor Abubakar who observed that Nigerians must embrace businesses in order to reduce over-reliance on government, explained that the loan package was in line with the cardinal objectives of the All Progressives Congress which his administration pursues since inception.

Protesting police officers from Imo command transfered to Borno Val Okara, Owerri

Police high command have transferred officers of the Counter Terrorism Unit(CTU) from Imo State command who protested over accommodation and ill-treatment by police authorities to Borno state to fight against Boko Haram insurgents.

No fewer than 100 police officers penultimate weekend took to the streets to protest their planned eviction from their new base in Owerri by their commander, Usman Muhammed Taaba without provision for alternative accommodation.

Daily Times reports that the affected officers, were fully armed and masked, marched in their dozens in front of their base on old Orlu Road Secretariat, Owerri, where they barricaded the highway with burning tyres, shooting sporadically into the air and forcing motorists nearby to scamper to safety.

It was gathered that the officers were being forced to relocate from their base to the new Egbeada Market to occupy the shops upstairs with their families while traders use the ground floor even without toilet and bathroom facilities, an arrangement they vehemently rejected.

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Senators differ over alleged N177bn Scam in Port Authority Tunde Opalana, Abuja

Senators yesterday held diverse views over the authenticity of an alleged none remittance of N177bn operational surplus made by the Nigerian Port Authority (NPA) into the consolidated federation account.

The disagreement arose when a member of the Senate Committee on Marine Transport oversighting NPA’s operations, Senator Mohammed Hassan (PDP Yobe South) drew the attention of the Senate to it.

Anchoring his motion on Senate standing orders 42 and 52, Senator Hassan said the agency kept to itself N177bn operational surplus it made from accruing revenues in the 2017 fiscal years , without remitting it into the federation account, against provisions of the 1999 Constitution and Act establishing the NPA. He said the committee discovered that NPA in its budget defence of the performance of the 2017 budget in April this year , got N303bn as total operational revenue out of which N125bn was taken by it as operational cost as allowed by extant

laws but refused to remit the balance of N177bn realised as surplus into the federation account . “ This to me and by extension, the Senate , should not be condoned because the Committee discovered this seven months ago and ordered the agency to do the needful which it has not done up till now . “ Attention of the Senate is being drawn to this impunity because six months down the line , the agency has not complied with the directive of the committee or communicated to it on the matter in anyway “, he said .

Disagreement started when the Deputy Senate Leader, Senator Bala Ibn Na’Allah (APC Kebbi south), cautioned the senate from relying on the allegation made by Senator Mohammed Hassan.

He said there are three categories of income derivable into accounts of any public agencies while he advised the Senate that it would be premature for it to attach legislative seriousness to Senator Hassan’s allegation since the figures he quoted is not clear to be in the category of perceived income, drive income or accrued income.

Na’Allah said “Mr President, as a lawyer, I studied taxation law , we should not be in haste to conclude on the submission Senator Hassan has

just made “ .

In the same vein, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Marine Transport, Senator Ahmed Sani Yerima ( APC Zamfara West) disassociated himself and other committee members from the allegation .

According to him, Senator Hassan as a member of the Committee, did not raise such an issue at any of the committee’sittings before raising the alarm on the floor of the Senate .

The former governor of Zamfara State said “ as Chairman of the committee, am not aware of this allegation raised against NPA by Senator Hassan and I don’t think any other member of the committee is aware as well “ .

In a swift move to douse tension, Senator Mao Ohuabunwa ( PDP Abia North), urged the senate leadership to compel the committee members to meet over it in before bringing it up for general debate on the floor of the Senate in line with procedures and process of law making .

Consequently, the Senate President, Bukola Saraki directed the committee chairman to meet with the entire members on the allegation and report back within three days.

He called the Senate to set up an adhoc committee to investigate the claims .

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Short News Mrs Atiku condoles with Gov Dickson, wife on death of mother ma gold Goldcoast Dickson The wife of former Vice President, and Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dr. (Mrs.) Jennifer Atiku Abubakar has visited Governor Henry Seriake Dickson and his Wife, Dr. Rachael Dickson, to condole with them on the Death of Ma Goldcoast Dickson.

The Special Adviser to the Governor on Media Relations, Mr. Fidelis Soriwei, said in a statement on Wednesday that, Mrs. Abubakar came to visit the Governor, his wife and members of the family, over late Ma Goldcoast Dickson, who passed unto glory on August 8, 2018 and to be buried on December 8, 2018.

Mrs. Atiku Abubakar said that, she was in Bayelsa to condole with the Governor and to pray for God to give him and the family the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.

She stressed that, it was not an easy thing for anybody to lose his or her mother no matter how old.

“I am here with my friends to condole with the Governor on the death of his mother. It is not easy to lose a mother. No matter how old our mothers are, we don’t want to allow them to go.

Speaking also, the Governor thanked Mrs. Abubakar and her entourage for the visit.

Okowa warns against crisis in Niger Delta Nosa Akenzua, Asaba Delta State Governor, Senator (Dr.) Ifeanyi Okowa, has called on those who are trying to foment crisis in the state using oil surveillance contract as a ploy to desist as such could cause economic challenges to the nation.

Governor Okowa made the call on Wednesday in Asaba when he addressed some aggrieved youths from host communities to OML 30 and some ex-agitators from phases one to three of the Federal Government amnesty programme.

“I want to advise that whosoever is plotting against the people, those who are benefiting and through the process of surveillance contracts are being empowered, should allow Delta State remain peaceful, because, in peace, we will be able to produce and export more crude oil and in that export the nation and the state gains,” “It is our hope that nobody especially as the oil prices are going down should take any action that will foil the quantity of oil that we are currently producing,” he stated while calling on the protesters to remain peaceful as his administration would take necessary actions to address their grievances.

Abia Police command promise qualitative service, re-establish anti-kidnapping squad Sunday Nwakanma, Umuahia

L - R : Son of Late Taslim Olawale Elias ,Dr Gbolahan Elias ; Captain ,Right F.A.Football Club ,Yusuf Aweda ; Daughter of late Taslim Olawale Elias ,Mrs Olabisi Elias and Son of Late Taslim Olawale Elias ,Mr Olusoji Elias ,at the 7th Edition of Taslim Olawale Elias Memorial Soccer Tournament ( under 15 Boys and Girls ) in Lagos ,recently .

How Jonathan betrayed Obama in 2015 - Prof. Onuoha Moses Oyediran, Enugu Director Centre for American Studies and Professor of Political Science in University of Nigeria Nsukka, Prof. Jonah Onuoha has reacted to former President Goodluck Jonathan’s claim that former President of the United State, Barack Obama’s video message scuttled his 2015 reelection ambition.

Jonathan in his book tittled, “My Transition Hours” recently launched noted that the outlandish video message of Barack Obama to Nigerians prior to the 2015 general elections which greatly influenced the outcome of the election was “condescending”.

Revealing the intrigues that play out in an interview with Daily Times, Onuoha said Jonathan should have explained why Obama ruined his 2015 re-election bid. “Jonathan was not able to explain why Obama did what he did; I can tell you that what happened was that Obama felt betrayed by Jonathan not voting for his two state policies for Israel and Palestine.

“There were two major things that happened during Obama’s administration, I will explain

one which is the most important. Obama solicited for support from UN Security Council member states to get two state structure for Israel and Palestine.

“Jonathan had assured him of Nigeria’s support.

“What Obama needed was nine country’s vote out of the fifteen member states to have a two State structure.

“If you remember Nigeria was a UN nonpermanent Security Council member from 1966 to 2015.

“Unfortunately, another group came to Jonathan and convinced him that voting for two State structure will be a fight against Israel and Christians.

“At the end Nigeria voted against the two State structure leaving the result to be eight votes as against Obama’s targeted nine.

“So, Obama saw what as a big betrayal despite Americans huge contribution to Nigeria and Africa development. U.S wanted a president that will support and respect Americans foreign policy.

“That was why Obama plotted the regime change that will usher in Buhari as Nigeria president.

“He went further to place arms sale embargo on Jonathan’s government, making it difficult for him to fight Boko Haram.

“Jonathan saw the handwriting on the wall that the 2015 election war against him was not only within the country. That was the major reason he conceded defeated before the final result was announced.

The university don however warned that what happened to Jonathan may happen to Buhari if care is not taken.

“Recall that recently President Donald Trump gave recognition to Jerusalem as capital of Israel and had since moved US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

“It is no more news that Nigeria and other African countries do not support this move, America is not always happy with governments that fails to implement its foreign policies.

“Trump has threatened to deal with dissident countries.

“Let us hope that Trump who is believed to be more serious and brutal in implementing his foreign policy will not show interest in Nigeria’s 2019 election”.

Abia Police Command says its focus in the coming months in the state will include provision of qualitative police service to the people of the state among others.

Addressing the officers and men of his command in Umuahia, even as he paraded 57 suspects over different crimes they committed in the state, the new Commissioner of Police, Chris Okey Ezike, vowed that “together with all my officers, we have resolved collectively that our mission under my leadership shall be to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour, enhance safety and security in Abia State”.

He said he will also fight violent crimes, partner with other security agencies and non-state actors in transparent and professional manner, promote community policing, establish structures that will aid him fight violent crimes, enhance traffic control and management throughout the state and provision of security to Abians in Diaspora and others that will be coming into the state during the yuletide.

Cert scandal: UK Council confirms Atunwa was called to bar Tom Okpe, Abuja The United Kingdom Bar Council has confirmed that the governorship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara state, Rasaq Olatunde Atunwa, was called to the bar in October 1994 in the UK. The confirmation is coming through a United Kingdom based special investigator, Evangelist Victor Uwajeh, who had written the council to authentic the information the governorship candidate released to the public in Nigeria.

Recall that there have been alleged reports of certificate scandal involving Atunwa on whether he was called to bar.

But according to a response the special investigator got from the UK Bar Council and signed by Tahnee Reynolds, Atunwa is currently on the record of the Council as an unregistered Barrister.

The letters made available to newsmen by Uwajeh on Wednesday revealed further that in the UK, “a Barrister can only work (known as “practising”) as a barrister if they are registered with the Bar Standards Board and hold a valid practising certificate.”

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Appeal Court reverses lower court Short News verdict, jails Zamfara UBEC boss 7 years Andrew Orolua, Abuja A five-man panel of the Court of Appeal sitting in Sokoto and presided over by Justice Hannatu Sankey on Wednesday set aside acquittal order passed on Chairman of the Zamfara State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Murtala Adamu Jengebe

by Federal High Court in Gusau.

The appellate Court replaced his freedom with an cumulative jail term of 41 years for the embattled Chairman of SUBEB, Jengebe who will now spend seven years in prison as the seven counts in which he was found guilty are to run concurrently.

Jengebe was convicted by the court after the appellate court found him guilty on the seven out of the 10 counts for which he was earlier acquitted at the Federal High Court, Gusau, Zamfara State.

In the lead judgment of the Court read by Justice Habeeb Abiru, the earlier acquittal of the embattled Chairman by a Federal High Court in Gusau was set aside.

The appalate court held that the prosecution has proved beyond reasonable doubt seven out of the ten counts of the money laundering charge brought against him by the EFCC. He was consequently sentenced to five years imprisonment on each of four of the counts and seven years each on three other counts respectively.

However, the Court ordered that the sentences shall run concurrently.

It would be recalled that on the 12th day of May 2017, the Federal High Court sitting in Gusau presided over by Justice Z.B Abubakar discharged and acquitted the convict on the 10 counts charge of Money Laundering but convicted him for engaging in private business while he was still in public service. An offence he was never charged for by the Commission.

Dissatisfied with the judgement of the lower court, the prosecution approached the Court Of Appeal seeking it to set aside the judgement of the lower court.

Education reforms: Niger, Edo, Kebbi to benefit from World Bank Education Global practice programme Andrew Orolua, Abuja

Three states: Niger, Edo and Kebbi State Governments are to benefit from the World Bank, Education Global Practice program.

Indication to this came to the fore in Abuja on Wednesday when Governor Abubakar Sani-Bello of Niger State, Godwin Obaseki – Edo State and Atiku Bagudu – Kebbi state held a meeting with the global apex bank Senior Director, Dr. Jaime Saveedra on the program.

The modalities for the program which will last for four years are being worked out with the global apex bank by the benefiting states.

Speaking at the meeting, Governor Sani-Bello of Niger State expressed concern over the lack of funds required to revamp the education sector in the country but maintained that the improvement of the professional status of teachers and the restoration of their “glory” will be a step to solving the crises in the sector.

He also said that the massive infrastructural and technical deficiency in the sector, must be addressed along with adequate and sustainable funding to enable the revival of the sector.

Edo Civil Service Recruitment: Govt releases names of successful candidates The Edo State Government has released the names of successful candidates who participated in the recent oral interview conducted by the state government for people who applied for vacant positions in the state’s civil service.

A statement issued by the Chairman, Edo State Civil Service Commission, Princess (Mrs.) Ekiuwa Inneh, in Benin City, on Wednesday, November 28, 2018, requested successful candidates to check for their names at the commission’s office and appear before it for appropriate documentation.

The statement said: “This is to inform candidates who attended oral interview held from Wednesday 12th September – 22nd October, 2018, that the list of successful candidates is on display at the Civil Service Commission Building, Secretariat Building, and the Information Communication Technology (ICT) Block D Notice Boards in Benin City.

The statement added: “Successful candidates are hereby requested to check for their names and appear before the Commission for appropriate documentation as scheduled.”

PDP accuses Borno governor of sustaining Boko Haram, harassment of opposition members Tunde Opalana, Abuja Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode (3rd right), receiving a report from the Lagos State Security Summit 2018, presented by the Chairman, Board of Trustees, Lagos State Security Trust Fund (LSSTF), Mr. Oye Hassan Odukale (right) during the 12th Annual LSSTF Security Town Hall meeting with the Governor, at the Civic Centre, Ozumba Mbadiwe Avenue, Victoria Island, Lagos, on Wednesday, November 28, 2018. With them are Board members, Mr. Opeyemi Agbaje (2nd right); Special Adviser to the Governor, Office of Overseas Affairs and Investment (Lagos Global), Prof. Ademola Abass (left) and others.

EFCC warns against misuse of public funds for elections Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja

The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu has warned that as another election cycle approaches, the EFCC will not fold its hands and watch the nation’s commonwealth squandered by corrupt politicians.

Magu, who spoke through Olanipekun Olukoyede, his Chief of Staff, during a paper presentation at a one-day retreat for 36 state governors and key election stakeholders in Abuja said, “We shall keenly monitor the financial affairs of political parties to ensure that the use of public funds to finance political parties and prosecute campaigns at all levels of government is checked”.

He assured that henceforth, donations to political parties and the identities of the donors will be of massive interest to the Commission going forward.

“To minimize corruption and the use of public funds to fund political parties and finance elections, there is need for greater effectiveness in enforcing the provisions of the various electoral laws in Nigeria

especially as it relates to penalties upon breach of their provisions.

“Political parties should be required to keep proper records of all incomes, contributions and expenditure, and to open their books for inspection by relevant security agencies after every electioneering cycle.

In addition, politicians prosecuting campaigns must be required to keep proper records of all donations received by them including the identities of the donors; and to turn their books over to relevant security agencies, and to INEC for inspection after every electioneering cycle, including the costs of litigations arising from the elections and the source of funding for the litigations”.

While acknowledging that the work to be done is enormous, he explained that the EFCC cannot do it alone. “We do not have the manpower and other resources to confront this hydra headed monster alone. I implore fellow Nigerians to share credible intelligence with the Commission on the activities of criminal politicians, so that our tasks can be made easier”, he added.

The anti-graft czar commended the Centre for Values in Leadership (CVL) for providing a platform to share experiences on the subject of the electoral process in Nigeria and said “my hope is that the politicians

here see that the reality of playing outside of the rules is that they become exposed to the consequences as stipulated by the law or to the caprices of their paymasters.

While taking a retrospective look at the Dasukigate, Magu said “when you consider the fact that the money was disbursed for the purpose of procurement of arms to fight insurgency in the North, then the negative impact of funding elections with stolen government funds becomes real and relatable all at once”.

He added that President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurated the Presidential Committee on Review of Arms Procurement on 31 August 2015 with a mandate to investigate the procurement of ammunition to fight against insurgency during the administration of Goodluck Jonathan.

In his opening remarks, Rasheed Adegbenro, Senior Vice President, CVL, said the forum, which began in Lagos, was meant to sensitize the electorate on the coming elections.

Also speaking, Ibrahim Idris, the Inspector General of Police, who was represented by CP Kenneth Ebrimson, gave assurance that the Nigerian Police Force will ensure that the 2019 elections will be free and fair.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused Borno State governor, Kashim Shettima on exhibiting deeds and actions that sustain the festering of Boko Haram insurgency in the State.

A delegation of Borno State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who were at the PDP national secretariat on Wednesday alleged that the deeds and misdeeds of the the state government is responsible for the continued sustenance of insurgency in Borno State.

They party also decried Intolerance of Governor Shettima to members of opposition parties, especially members of PDP The group led by Senator Mohammed Abba Ajji acvused the state government of dismantling of billboards, posters and other campaign items of PDP candidates ahead of the visit of President Muhammad Buhari to the state.

Senator Ajji stated that the state governor constituted an illegal vigilante group known as ‘Boyes’ under the supervision of the Attorney General of the State that goes about harassing members of the opposition parties, dismantling bill boards so that the visiting President Buhari will not notice the overwhelming support being enjoyed by PDP in the state.

EFCC arraigns Prof. Sawa, 2 others for N52.4m fraud Andrew Orolua, Abuja The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday arraigned Professor Fatima B.J. Sawa, Umar Modibbo and Abdurrashid Abubakar before Justice N.I. Afolabi of the Federal High Court, Gombe on a four-count charge bordering on conspiracy, concealment and fraud.

Sawa, is alleged to have as Provost, Federal College of Horticulture, Dadinkowa, Gombe, connived with Modiboo and Abubakar, the college’s Expenditure Officer and Bursar, to illegally transfer N52,444,097.06 from the college’s bank account to personal use.

They are alleged to have used the Government Integrated Financial Management Information System, GIFMIS payment platform without justification.

Investigations carried out by the Commission revealed that the said money was transferred to a company, Freeman ICT Hub on a single day in several instalments, for services not rendered.

One of the counts reads: “That you Fatima B.J. Sawa, Umar Modibbo and Abdurrasheed Abubakar sometimes in December, 2017 at Gombe, Gombe State within the Jurisdiction of this Honourable Court in your capacities as Provost, Expenditure Officer and Bursar of the Federal College of Horticulture, Dadinkowa, respectively with intent to defraud, did conspire amongst yourselves to commit an offence, to wit; attempt to obtain monies, the sum of N52,444,097.06 (Fifty Two Million Four Hundred and Forty Four Thousand Ninety Seven Naira and Six Kobo) under false Pretence thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 8 (a) and Section 1 (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Fraud Related Offences Act 2006 respectively.”

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Bauchi set to introduce TSA system, says Gov Abubakar Samuel Luka

Director General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and safety Agency (NIMASA) Dr. Dakuku Peterside, Secretary General International Maritime Organisation (IMO) , Kitack Lim and the Secretary General International Seabed Authority Michael W. Lodge at the first global conference on sustainable blue economy currently going on in Nairobi, Kenya.

PPMC to regulate cross-border product smuggle Idu Jude, Abuja To stem cross-border leakages and forestall attendant products price hikes, Managing Director of the Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC), Mr. Umar Ajiya, has enjoined Major Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN) to regulate the volumes of petroleum products dispatched to their members’ affiliate stations close to the country’s borders.

Mr. Ajiya, who spoke during an interactive session with MOMAN executives in Lagos, said price arbitrage, the differential between regulated price

in Nigeria and the high products prices in neighbouring countries, encourages smuggling.

The PPMC MD expressed confidence in MOMAN, saying its members remain most reliable in the Nigerian Downstream Petroleum Sector distribution network, even as he advised that members of the Association endeabour to increase the respective storage in their depots and stations to avoid stock-out as the Yuletide approaches.

He gave the assurance that NNPC/ PPMC has enough stock of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), otherwise called petrol, and other products, adding that

the company’s petrol stock alone would last about 45-days even in the absence of fresh supplies, and that the target is to get the sufficiency level to 50 days. ``We have 2.2 billion litres of Petrol, 1.1 on land and 1.1 on marine, 800 million litres in PPMC depots in addition to 27-day sufficiency of AGO, 98-day sufficiency of ATK and 48-day sufficiency of DPK,’’ the MD stated.

He implored MOMAN to take advantage of the NNPC/PPMC stock sufficiency and request for products to always wet their stations across the country.

The MD stated that NNPC/PPMC has stocked-in products in the nine

Inland depots, including Enugu and Aba and will commence selling by 1st December 2018 with a view to forestalling frequent shortages being experienced during Christmas and New Year in the eastern part of the country.

Responding, MOMAN executive secretary, Mr. Clement Isong, said the association was committed to wetting their stations in state capitals and other locations across the country.

“We are ready to support NNPC/ PPMC to flood the nation with products during the Yuletide season and beyond as we go into general elections next year”, the ES stressed.

Thomson Reuters partner Blackstone to birth Refinitiv

Awards its loyal West Africa customers

Joy Obakeye Thomson Reuters has officially unveiled its new brand identity and renamed its financial and risk business unit, ‘Refinitiv’, at the West Africa Excellence Awards, recently organised in Lagos to appreciate its existing customers who have in no small measure, patronised and contributed to the success of the company.

The new brand identity was necessitated after a partnership deal was struck with a consortium of investors led by Blackstone, who now owns 55 percent of the new business.

The stand-alone business which includes the largest multi-dealer forex platform, with a daily average of $400

billion traded on FXall, FX Trading and Matching-was the outcome of a deal whereby Thomson Reuters sold a 55 percent stake in its Financial and Risk business to private equity firm Blackstone, while Thomson Reuters retained 54 percent equity stake at an overall valuation of US$20 billion.

Tagged the ‘Excellence Awards’, this award, the first of its kind in West Africa, had six (6) categories through which the customers with remarkable imparts and outstanding performances were rewarded.

Speaking at the event, Managing Director for Africa, Thomson Reuters’ Refinitiv, Sneha Shah, said: “We are very excited to be bringing the Excellence Awards for the first time in West Africa. What is going to drive the success and growth of our economy is

committed individuals and companies that are contributing to strong and stable financial systems and institutions.

The inaugural 2018 West Africa Excellence Awards will recognise and highlight the great work of individuals and companies who amongst many outstanding nominees were selected, by the independent judges, like the ones producing the most impact for West Africa’s financial markets.”

Mr. Ini Ebong of First Bank Nigeria carted away the award, for his respected contributions to the industry. He also got an award of the longest serving customers.

Others who emerged winners are Bola Onadele Koko, the MD/CEO, FMDQ Securities Exchange who also received two (2) awards - The Best Partner Award and the Innovation

awards for embracing disruption with new ideas; Mrs. Ibukun Oyedeji of Ecobank, who got the Most Impactful Business Award, and Mr. Jacob Brobbey of the Barclays Bank of Ghana who clichéd the Embracing Technology award.

Also speaking, Deputy Governor, Economic Policy, Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr. Okwu Joseph Nnanna, represented by Dr. Alvan Ikoku, x-rayed Refinitiv supportiveness to CBN, and to the Nigerian Capital Market, adding that “in 1999, when the CBN introduced inter-bank foreign exchange system of trading (FEM 2 Way Quote Trading System), Refinitiv rose to the challenge of installing trading terminals and training dealing room staff across, the banking industry to actualise the operation of the new system”.

The Bauchi State Governor, Mohammed Abubakar has revealed that his administration is ready to review its tax laws, by introducing the Treasury Single Account System and other robust‎ initiatives that would put the state within the Nigerian tax sphere.

The Governor made his position know through a statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary, Abubakar Al-Sadique in Bauchi, during the official launching of the 142 Joint Tax Board.

The statement quoted Abubakar to have expressed his dissatisfaction that; “it is disheartening that in this age where the cost of running government and provision of services is huge as a result of population growth, some businesses and individuals still evade taxes.”

“The government is mindful of how difficult collecting taxes could be, which was why I gave the Revenue Board the ability to carry out their activities with full autonomy and strong political backing.

He added, “To build a Nigeria of our dreams, we must, as citizens and as government, show our great deal of patriotism in the discharge of our civic responsibilities.

Governor Abubakar said the success story of the FIRS has encouraged the waves of positive change that blows in the country by stabilizing the economy for the government to fund its infrastructural revolution and social intervention programmes, aside from its other primary responsibilities.

“The resounding feat the Federal Inland Revenue Services has achieved over the years by exceeding its revenue target is another testimony of patriotism and professionalism which are the major ingredients that propel efficiency and prosperity”.

‘Irrespective of political leaning, we are responsible for success of the Nigerian brand’ Godwin Anyabe The convener of the top 50 brands award in Nigeria, Taiwo Oluboyede, believes that a nation’s reputation is crucial to attracting tourism and foreign investment, which is a critical driver of their economy.

Oluboyede made this known while delivering a speech during this year’s top 50 brands in Nigeria with the theme; ‘I am brand Nigeria and I am proud of it’ recently in Lagos. He further disclosed that, “most first world nations and even the so-called ‘third worlds’ have consciously engaged experts to launder their image in order to enhance reputation and attract interests in foreign investment, tourism, i.e. deliberately laundering the reputation of their national brand has yielded immeasurable return in terms of investment and brand value”.

According to him, the Nigeria nation brand has not fare well in the global market, more so because there has not been an adequately executed nation brand efforts with tangible equity to show.

“Many nations of the world understand this necessity, so despite their challenges, they are always out making the compelling narrative about their heritage; their national brand.”

The fact is, he continued, the value of the Nigeria brand directly affects all of us personally and the premium we can attract to our businesses, regardless of which political party or the person in Power.

For him, the moment you get out of our borders, there are two simple and common questions you are often asked; the first is what is your name? The second is where are you from? The person asking hardly pay attention to your name, however, he will always recall where you are from.

Your reputation or value is a function of the reputation of where you are from, regardless of your worth, qualifications, experiences etc.

Further, he pointed out that, “This then leaves us with the responsibility to do everything within our capacity to promote, jealously guide and tenaciously work towards enhancing the value of the brand Nigeria, the same way we do our reputation, careers and businesses.”

On the annual top fifty brands, he said; “we are particularly happy that Nigerian brands are coming up strong in this annual rating, having a better understanding of the consumer’s needs and engaging every opportunity with the better brand proposition”, he added.

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Baru charges NNPC business units to deliver on mandates Idu Jude Abuja As part of the ongoing efforts to reposition the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the corporation’s Group Managing Director, Dr. Maikanti Baru, has signed performance agreements with his management team to ensure that all the Autonomous Business Units (ABUs) and Strategic Business Units (SBUs) of the state-owned company deliver on their mandates.

Speaking at the meeting, Dr. Baru said the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) contained in the agreements would serve as guides to the Chief Operating Officers (COOs) to deliver tangible and measurable key deliverables in the advancement of the manage meet objectives of the NNPC. The GMD stated that the KPIs would also serve as a management tool to gauge the performance of the Chief Operating Officers.

“Signing of the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) is important because it will guide the COOs in their operations and when we reconvene next year to evaluate activities, the document will help us to see if what was signed corresponds with delivery”, Dr. Baru said.

The signing of the performance contracts was the highpoint of a two-day NNPC Second and Third Quarter (Q2&3) 2018 Management Steering Committee (STEERCO) meeting which commenced Monday at the NNPC Towers, Abuja.

The GMD noted that the NNPC Q3 STEERCO meeting was a platform to assess the health of the corporation and interact with top management in providing solutions to move the corporation forward.

“Through SEERCO meeting we can note the various businesses of the corporation that are doing well, so that we encourage them to be better; those that are not doing very well, to enable us to devise means to salvage them; and those beyond salvaging, we take a hard decision to shut them down in the interest of the corporation”, the GMD stated.

While commending the management team and other participants for their maturity, Dr. Baru charged the COOs to replicate the review exercise at their various Autonomous Business Units (ABUs) and Strategic Business Units (SBUs) and cascade outcome to all staff for efficient service delivery.

He applauded the Corporate Planning & Strategy Division (CP&S) for the quality of the programme, noting that at 41, NNPC needed a change in its operational strategies, especially with the imminent passage of the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB), to remain relevant.

Air Peace takes delivery of 6th ERJ 145, assures on seamless operations Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo West Africa’s leading airline, Air Peace has received the last of the six 50-seater Embraer 145 jets it recently acquired, assuring that its vision of providing seamless flight services on the domestic, regional and international routes was running according to plan.

The aircraft marked 5N-BUW and named Virginia Omeogo Adegoke (Nee Onyema) arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.

A statement issued by the carrier’s Corporate Communications Manager, Mr. Chris Iwarah said the airline’s goal of guaranteeing seamless flight operations as well as connecting unserved and underserved routes was fast being fulfilled.

“We are delighted to announce the arrival of our sixth 50-seater Embraer 145 jet at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos at about 4 a.m. on Tuesday, November 27, 2018. The arrival of the aircraft has further strengthened our resolve to provide seamless flight services on the domestic, regional and international routes as well as extend the reach of our exceptional operations to many more unserved and underserved destinations under our no-city-leftbehind project.

“Upon the arrival of our first Embraer 145 aircraft in February this year, we set another record in Nigeria’s aviation industry with the establishment of a subsidiary, Air Peace Hopper to organise our plan to democratise air transport and deliver exceptional flight services to unserved and underserved cities in Nigeria and the West Coast of Africa. Since we started this project, the pieces of feedback have been quite encouraging.

“We are in aviation to create massive job opportunities, connect people and business and leisure destinations, help in growing the economies of Nigeria and other nations we operate in and make our dear nation proud overall in the global aviation community. “We are quite proud that this vision is unraveling on a great positive note, especially with the support, loyalty, and patronage of our esteemed customers. With our deepened capacity, we have no doubt it is early yuletide for the flying public this year”, Air Peace said.

L-R: Executive Director Corporate & South Bank Wema Bank Plc; Wole Akinleye; Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi and Managing Director Wema Bank Plc, Ademola Adebise, during a courtesy visit to the Governor in Ekiti

Nigeria GDP to hover below 2% in 2018 - World Bank Says economy remains sluggish with unstable sectoral growth Mathew Dadiya, Abuja The World Bank has said Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth is expected to hover slightly below 2 percent in 2018, primarily driven by non-oil industry and services.

The World Bank stated this in its Nigeria’s biannual Economic Update released on Wednesday’ in Abuja.

According to the report titled “Investing in Human Capital for Nigeria’s Future,” Nigeria, like many other countries, has underinvested in human capital and remains very low compared to other countries.

However, the report noted that bold actions are required to address years of underinvestment in human capital, the Government of Nigeria has established a Human Capital Working Group to develop a unified vision for human capital development and drive implementation of interventions within the ‘Investing in our People’ pillar of the Government’s Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP).

“The World Bank welcomed the Government of Nigeria’s recent ‘Call for Action’, requesting all stakeholders to join the Government’s effort

to address Nigeria’s alarming human capital outcomes,” said Rachid Benmessaoud, World Bank Country Director for Nigeria. “As a member of the Human Capital Working Group, the World Bank stands ready to support the Government of Nigeria in its bold steps to improve the lives of its citizens.”

Nigeria’s emergence from recession remains sluggish, and sectoral growth patterns are unstable.

In the second quarter of 2018, the oil sector contracted by 4.0 per cent, the usually-resilient agricultural growth slowed significantly to 1.2 per cent, impacted by the security challenges in the Northeast and Middle Belt regions. The non-oil industry and services, which constitutes over half of Nigeria’s economy, picked-up to 3.1 per cent and 2.1 per cent respectively, driven by growth in construction, transport, and ICT. The Update reports that the Nigerian economy remains dependent on the small oil sector (under 10 percent of GDP) for the bulk of its fiscal revenues and foreign exchange earnings. Although oil revenues are increasing with recovering oil prices in 2018, distributions from oil revenues to the three tiers of government are constrained by the petrol subsidy and other prior deductions.

In the first half of 2018, the current account surplus surpassed 4 percent of GDP, primarily driven by

higher oil exports, while non-oil revenue collections have come in lower than envisaged.

Despite sustained efforts to improve the business environment, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows remain stagnated.

According to the update, the fiscal deficit will likely widen in 2018 due to increased spending and sustained revenue shortfalls.

Furthermore, the current account balance is expected to remain positive, benefitting from the rising value of oil exports and limited growth of nonoil imports.

The capital account faces significant uncertainty, as external portfolio investors may exercise further caution, especially during the pre-election period, despite rising domestic yields.

Given the challenging economic backdrop, the Update suggests specific fundamental policy reforms would be essential to support macroeconomic resilience for Nigeria.

These include among others, the acceleration of the economic diversification agenda, the reform of petrol subsidy regime to improve the fiscal space, improvements in the domestic revenue (mainly nonoil) to reduce volatilities in government revenues and increased investment in human capital for a genuinely sustainable growth.

NDDC reiterates commitment to sustain human capacity development in Niger Delta Motolani Oseni The Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Mr. Nsima Ekere, has reiterated the commitments of the Commission to support the development of appropriate human capacity to facilitate the sustainable development in the Niger Delta region.

Ekere gave the assurance during a courtesy visit by executives of the National Association of Nigerian students, NANS, at the headquarters

of the Commission in Port Harcourt.

The NDDC Chief Executive Officer, who was represented by the Director Special Duties, Dr. Princewill Ekanim, declared that the Commission would continue to play its role in developing and supporting efforts to advance education, stressing that “we can facilitate sustainable developments if we build human capacity.”

The NDDC boss affirmed the determination of the interventionist agency to continue investing in the education of the youths in the Niger Delta. He stated that the Commission was currently involved in the 2018 Foreign

Post-Graduate Scholarship Programme for students where 200 graduates have been selected to study abroad.

“We have sponsored over 1,409 postgraduate students to different foreign universities in key skill areas needed in the oil and gas industry. The Foreign Post-Graduate Scholarship Programme has produced many great stories, including Mr. Obong Peters, a Ph.D. Student who won the three minutes thesis competition in Australia and Mr. Augustine Osarogiagbon of Memorial University, who completed his Ph.D. in less than the stipulated time”, he said.

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I’m prepared for governance, ready to fight for Nigerians, eradicate poverty - Ezekwesili The Presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, has expressed readiness to fight for the rights of Nigerians and eradicate poverty in the country.

She said this at a dinner in Lagos where Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, former President of Liberia, endorsed her presidential ambition.

During the dinner, which was organised by Women in Successful Careers (WISCAR), Ezekwesili narrated her age-long friendship with Sirleaf, part of which was her role as a senior adviser on economic reforms to the exLiberian president.

The ACPN presidential candidate explained that the exemplary leadership of Sirleaf showed that when “a woman stands up to say ‘I want to lead’, she is ready to serve.”

Ezekwesili said that Nigerians needed “a leader that is willing to give their all in character, competence and capacity to serve the people and take the country out of stagnation, mediocrity and cycles of failure in the hands of old order politicians.”

According to her, women and youths must find their voice in our country, and demonstrate that they are fed up of poor quality leaders who have held the country down

regardless of which political party holds sway.

“It is time to vote them out so we can build a prosperous, stable and harmonious nation where everyone has equal opportunity to do well,” she added.

While urging Nigerians not to give up on the country, she said, “It is either we all resigned to hopelessness, surrendered and said thank you Nigeria, you defeated us, or we did one more thing; and that is, to mobilise ourselves as citizens and elect as President in 2019, a person whose track record of service to Nigeria and Nigerians is well known. That person is Oby Ezekwesili.”

“I detest the bad leadership by old order political class while the country totters. I am therefore ready to mobilise my fellow citizens to #Fight4Naija. Nigeria needs all of us to fight for her rescue from the grips of those who are planning to be re-elected or elected again so that they can fail even more and watch more citizens join the already 87 million extremely poor Nigerians.

“The 2019 election is our opportunity to say ‘No’ with finality. It is truly now over for those who cannot offer any innovative ideas for the development of our country.

“In recent time, we haven’t

seen people break out of poverty as it used to happen. A lot of our politicians and elite like me all had the opportunity to break out of poverty through access to education. Sadly these days, our people are trapped in poverty and parents cannot give qualitative education to take their children out of poverty. It is an entrapment that we must urgently destroy. ” She warned that Nigeria cannot make progress with the increasing rate of poverty and declared that she was ready to rescue Nigeria from mismanagement.

She said, “How long are we going to last if we keep growing an inter-generational dynasty of poverty? Nigeria has now taken over from India (which is 1.3 billion people and also seven times our population) as the world headquarters of extreme poverty.

“On the day that statistics came out, there wasn’t even an outrage from our politicians.

Instead, political parties were busy passing the buck, defending their administrations and blaming others. No sense of embarrassment of such massive failure of our country. There is no better evidence of failure of our political class.

“Nigeria and Nigerians need to be rescued. It is time to say no to crippling failures. It is truly now that we must fight.”

Group challenges PDP to show proof of diversion of defence spending The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has challenged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to show proof that funds meant for defence spending are being diverted to the re-election campaign of President Muhammadu Buhari.

The opposition party had accused the Minister of Defence, Brig-Gen Mansur Dan-Ali (rtd) of using funds meant for military equipment and welfare of soldiers to produce campaign materials.

In a statement signed by its Chairman Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary Cassidy Madueke, BMO noted that the allegation is just another attempt by the opposition party to smear the image of the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led administration.

“PDP leaders know clearly that it is standard procedure all over the world to set aside funds in all ministries for publicity materials like the electronic device produced by the Defence Ministry to showcase the achievements of the

Buhari administration in that sector.

“So for these elements to use this as a basis for accusing the Ministry of diverting funds meant for procuring military equipment is a malicious and futile effort to drag this administration to the same level that their party left Nigeria.

“It is common knowledge that the PDP shared over $2billion meant for arms purchase among party chieftains, and with several of these people facing trial, the party felt it could score cheap political points by accusing APC and the President of what is clearly an immoral act.”

It said the Defence minister has a responsibility to showcase what he has done to justify spending three years in office as a political appointee and added that there is no way his action could be described as campaign funding.

“The minister may be a retired General, but his current office is a political appointment which he attained as a staunch member of a political party and he has a

responsibility to not only ensure a safer and more secured nation, but to also outline what he has been doing to attain the goal.

“It is disingenuous of PDP to accuse President Buhari of using Defence ministry as an ATM to fund his re-election campaign on the basis of a souvenir on security achievements shared at the launch of the Next Level campaign manual

by Defence Ministry officials.

“We know that the party could not debunk the facts in the electronic device, so it has to resort to its usual practice of clutching at straws in a bid to remain afloat,” BMO said.

The pro-Buhari group maintained that PDP leaders should bury their heads in shame for allowing the insurgency in North East Nigeria to fester to a level that terrorists once took control of a swathe of land the size of Belgium before they were pushed to the fringes of the Lake Chad by the Buhari administration.

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Nigerians will reject PDP, Atiku in 2019, says APC chieftain, Tatua Accuses Wike’s of propagating falsehood against APC, Buhari Stories by Patrick Okohue The Convener, Tonye Cole Volunteer Group, Mrs Ibifuro Tatua has said that she is confident that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will have sweeping victory in Nigeria’s upcoming legislative and executive elections.

Tatua who is rooting for the APC governorship candidate in the 2019 election in Rivers State, Toye Cole, also criticised the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike for spreading what she described as defamatory statements about the country’s ruling party.

She said, “We are feeling the pulse of Rivers people. APC will win in 2019.

Lies, threats and other attempts to bully the electorate will not play a factor in the 2019 Rivers State governorship election,” Tatua said Tuesday at a meeting with South-South leaders in public, private and non-profit sectors.

She accused the Rivers State governor of doing everything possible to prejudice the minds of Nigerians by deliberate lies and perversion of the truth.

She further alleged that Wike left many dumbfounded with his misleading, careless and inappropriate comments when he accused the Federal Government of planning to plant 800 guns in Rivers State, with the objective of destabilising the state.

“Nyesom Wike’s scurrilous claims are 100 percent false,” she said to the attentive gathering.

Adding that the PDP governorship candidate faces rejection in 2019 from

the people of Rivers State because of his poor performance, white elephant projects and tendency to speak first and think later.

Tatua, a member of the Board of the National Commission for Nomadic Education, spoke in Port Harcourt on leadership, service in the country and 2019 elections.

She said that the Rivers State APC gubernatorial flag bearer, Mr Tonye Cole would safeguard the security and liberty of Rivers people, reform education and improve the state’s economy, infrastructure and people’s well-being.

“Nyesom Wike is an incompetent leader. The people of Rivers State have suffered massively. Tonye Cole will work vigorously for the progress of Rivers State. He will transform Rivers into a manufacturing state. His policies will benefit the poor, downtrodden and the elite” She said 2019 would be an ugly year for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and other opposition parties in the country.

“Rivers State needs someone who is not entrenched in the old way of doing things. We need someone who is more transparent and willing to meet and listen to the people. Nigerians will reject the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Nyesom Wike and other opposition candidates in 2019” she said.

Tatua however urged Wike to restrain himself from desperate acts and reckless comments.

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THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED CHURCHHAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION GOR REGISTRATIONNDER PART “C”OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1990.

TYPE: LAND AND BUILDING DEVELOPMENT ON SITE CONSISTS OF 2(NO) 2-BEDROOM SEMIDETACHED, 2(NO) 3-BEDROOM SEMIDETACHED, SERVICE QUARTER CONSISTING OF 2(NO) 2-BEDROOM ALL ON 2-FLOORS EACH. TITLE: REGISTERED DEED OF ASSIGNMENT PRICE: N30,000,000.00 (THIRTY MILLION NAIRA) (NEGOTIABLE) B. DESCRIPTION/ADDRESS: PROPERTY AT OKE-IRA NLA BADORE, AJAH, OFF MAZI UKODIKE IBE STREET, OKE-IRA NLA BADORE, AJAH, LAGOS. TYPE: LAND AND BUILDING; SIZE: 716.038 SQ MTS DEVELOPMENT ON SITE CONSISTS OF 1(NO) BAY WAREHOUSE, SECURITY GATEHOUSE AND STORE ROOM. TITLE: REGISTERED DEED OF ASSIGNMENT PRICE: N40,000,000.00 (FORTY MILLION NAIRA) (NEGOTIABLE) CONTACT: THE SUMMIT OLUWALOGBON HOUSE, 8 ALHAJA OLUWAKEMI STREET, OFF ODUNLAMI STREET, ANTHONY/MARYLAND, LAGOS (+234) 07058685361 OR EMAIL: OLUGBENGAG@YAHOO.COM

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ALH. KABIR MAHAMMADU ... CHAIRMAN 2. YUNUSA USMAN ...VICE CHAIRMAN 3. ABUBAKAR LAWAN ABBA .... SECRETARY 4. ALIYU ABDULLAHI ... CHIEF JUDGE 5. HASSAN AHMED.... TREASURER 6. ABDULLAHI MUTAR .... AUDITOR 7. SABO YAKUBU..... DIRECTOR WELFARE 8. ABUBAKAR ALIYU.... CHIEF IMAM. AIM. TO PROTECT THE INTEREST OF IT’S MEMBERS. ANY OBJECTION TO THE EFFECT SHOULD BE FORWARDED WITHIN 28 DAYS TO REGISTRAR-GENERAL,CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION. PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI-IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA. SIGNED. SECRETARY.

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OBIAMA AFRICA NETWORK FOR DEVELOPMENT THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 TRUSTEES: 1. DR. CHUKWUDI VICTOR ODOEME 2. AGATHE BRUCE 3. DR. OSITA OKONKWO 4. JOEL RUVUGO 5. RAPHAEL CHIKADZA 6. BARR. UGONMA OKORO 7. HAUWA BABA AHMED

(FOUNDER/PRESIDENT)

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO RE-IGNITE AFRICAN BROTHERHOOD AS CONTEMPLATED AND ANTICIPATED BY AFRICA’S BEST & ILLUSTRIOUS SONS &DAUGHTERS ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

ASSOCIATION OF GROUPAGE SHIPPERS OF NIGERIA

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LOSS OF DOCUMENT

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ORIGINALS OF RIGHT OF OCCUPANCY ( R OF O) ISSUED IN FAVOUR OF ROYALTON LIMITED WITH FILE NO 105302 LOCATED AT WUPA DISTRICT, CADASTRAL ZONE C 15, ABUJA FCT WITH PLOT NO 295 GOT LOST AND WAS DULLY REPORTED TO POLICE STATION . ALL EFFORT TO GET IT BACK HAS PROVED ABORTIVE. IF FOUND, PLEASE RETURN TO THE NEAREST POLICE STATION, ABUJA GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS (AGIS) AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

OLUWATOYIN & SAMUEL FOUNDATION

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

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

TRUSTEES ARE 1.EMEODI SIMEON CHUKWUKA. 2.OSEFOH OLISAEMEKA 3.IWUALA JUDE NWABUEZE. 4.MMADU NICHOLAS IZUNDU. 5. IHE JEWEL

TRUSTEES ARE 1. ADASOLUM ANUOLUWAPO ATINUKE 2. ADASOLUM NOSIKE CHUKWUDI.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PROVIDE A FORUM FOR MEMBERS TO MEET AND DISCUSS MATTERS OF COMMON INTEREST IN THE FIELD OF GROUP AGE SHIPPING AND ALLIED SERVICES 2.TO CARTER FOR THE INTEREST OF MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED: MIKE MOGHALU ESQ (SOLICITOR)

RISING STARS EMPOWERMENT 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 COMPANY AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF 1990 TRUSTEES ARE 1. PASCHAL EJALEM 2.NDUBUISI USAH 3.ONYINYE CATHERINE JOSEPH 4.VICTORIA NGOZI IGBO

CHAIRMAN VICE CHAIRMAN SECRETARY TREASURER

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.TO INCULCATE ONENESS OF THE ENTIRE MEMBERS WORLDWIDE. 2.TO ERADICATE POVERTY AND REDUCE YOUTH RESTIVENESS. 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 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: CHAIRMAN

MRS HAMZAT AMINAT

ADDITION OF NAME:

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ADEWUYI AMINAT ADEBUKOLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS HAMZAT AMINAT ADEBUKOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ON MY BVN MY NAME APPEARS AS ALBERT TEMIDAYO NOW WISH TO ADD MARY TO MY NAME. HENCEFORTH I WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ALBERT TEMIDAYO MARY . BORN ON 10/05/1989. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

EZE PETER I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EZE PETER EGBU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EZE PETER AWOKE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

INNOCENT CHINENYE I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AGBUNNO CHINENYE JOY, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS INNOCENT CHINENYE JOY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ELOANYI JULIANA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED JULIANA NGOZI ELOANYI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ELOANYI JULIANA IJEOMA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

ON SOME OF MY DOCUMENTS MY NAME APPEARS AS OBUE MARTINA ELE WHILE ON OTHER DOCUMENTS IT APPEARS AS OBUE MARTINA AUGUSTINA. ANY DOCUMENTS BEARING THE ABOVE MENTIONED NAMES REMAIN MINE AND VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

ONUORAH REBECCA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKECHUKWU REBECCA AMAKA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ONUORAH REBECCA AMAKA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

AYEGBUSI GBEMISOLA O I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGUNFODUNRN GBEMISOLA OMONIYI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS ADDRESSED AS AYEGBUSI GBEMISOLA O. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES A. TO PROMOTE THE CARE, WELL-BEING AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS IN NEED. B. TO CREATE AWARENESS AMONG THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF THE EXISTENCE OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS IN NEED. C. TO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL TRAINING FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS WHO ARE NEEDY, IN ORDER TO ENABLE THEM BECOME SELF-SUPPORTING IN VARIOUS OCCUPATIONS. D. TO SPONSOR THE EDUCATION OF DESERVING NIGERIAN YOUTHS IN SCHOOLS WITHIN NIGERIA AND WHERE THE NEED ARISES, SPONSORSHIP ABROAD. E. TO ADEQUATELY ORIENTATE THE SPONSORED YOUTHS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY SO THAT THEY CAN IN TURN PUT MEASURES IN PLACE TO PROMOTE EDUCATION AND STANDARD OF LIVING IN THEIR VARIOUS COMMUNITIES. F. TO MAJORLY ENHANCE AWARENESS AND FOCUS ON CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS LIVING IN NEED. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION.

SANCTIFIED PERSONIFIED OUTREACH THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 THE TRUSTEE ARE (1) TAIWO TEMILOLUWA TEMITOPE=PRESIDENT (2) TAIWO AJIBOLA OLALEKAN=VICE PRESIDENT (3)OSIBERU OLAJIDE SAMUEL=SECRETARY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES TO HELP THE NEEDS ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

BETHEL THE HAND OF GOD INTERNATIONAL CHURCH 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 TRUSTEES ARE 1.PLEASURE ADONYE PEPPLE 2.MRS CHARITY PEPPLE 3.ADIELE EMMANUEL CHIBUIKE 4.EVANGELIST CHINANUE AMADI AIMS AND OBJECTIVES TO PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST AND WIN SOULS INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 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 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

ALLSAINTS COVENANT MISSION INTERNATIONAL

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 TRUSTEES ARE 1.IWARIBUBELE TAMUNOTONBARA DUMO PRESIDENT 2.IWARIBUBELE LINAH TAMUNOTONBARA VICE- PRESIDENT 3.IDASEFIEMA IBIATELI MARK SECRETARY 4.IGBIFAA AUGUSTINA MEMBER 5.BANIVIGA PIUS BARIAALA MEMBER 6.EGBE IBOR IBOR MEMBER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES TO PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST AND WIN SOULS INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 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 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE; 1. MATO LEGBORSI JEFF - CHAIRMAN. 2. IWO SUNDAY GEORGE PAPAMIE - SECRETARY. 3. RANKIN KAEITA KEENGE. AIMS/OBJECTIVES; 1. TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE IN THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR BY PROVIDING TREATMENT FOR DIABETES, HYPERTENSION, BLOOD PRESSURE, AND PAIN RELIEF. ANY OBJECTION(S) TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR- GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: PRESIDENT

CORRECTION OF NAME

IN SOME OF MY DOCUMENTS (NATIOMAL IDENTITY) MY NAME WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AS ABEDNEGO SAMBO INSTEAD OF ABEDNEGO SABO . BORN ON 02-011993 NOT 02-01-1988. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CELEB HABILA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JOSEPH CELEB HABILA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CELEB HABILA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

UGAMA GLORIA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MICHEAL U. OMULU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UGAMA GLORIA CHINYERE. MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 15TH JUNE 1998. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CORRECTION OF AGE

ON MY MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE ISSUED TO ME BY ALL SAINT ANGLICAN CHURCH, OGBOKOWO, ONDO, ONDO STATE ON THE 14TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2009 MY AGE WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AS 29 YEARS, INSTEAD OF 30 YEARS. THAT MY CORRECT AGE IS 30 YEARS. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

SIGNED; CHAIRMAN

ALEXANDER ONYEDIKACHI

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AGBAI ONYEDIKACHI ALEXANDER NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ALEXANDER ONYEDIKACHI ISAAC. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS CHUKWUMA STEPHANIC

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS IKEH STEPHANIE NWAMAKA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS CHUKWUMA STEPHANIC NWAMAKA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS, NYSC AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

BLESSING UJU

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGWUEZE UJU AND UGWUEZE UJU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BLESSING UJU IHUAGU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

NKECHINYERE EKWEALOR I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED NNENNA NKECHINYERE ELOAGU NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NNENNA NKECHINYERE EKWEALOR. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ANI AMARACHI

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NNAMANI AMARACHI PROMISE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ANI AMARACHI PROMISE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS NWIGWE CHINONYEREM

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ORIJI CHINONYEREM JOY, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS NWIGWE CHINONYEREM JOY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. NYSC AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS OKOLI BLESSING

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS EZE BLESSING UKAMAKA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OKOLI BLESSING UKAMAKA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OMOJIADE MARVELLOUS

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESS AS BAMIDELE, MARVELLOUS MOGBO, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OMOJIADE MARVELLOUS MOGBO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAMES REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

NWANKWO GODWIN

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWANKWO GODWIN, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWANKWO GODWIN LOTANNA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS OKORO PRISCA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ORIEJI PRISCA CHIDIMMA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OKORO PRISCA CHIDIMMA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OKORO KALU

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKORONKWO KALU SUNDAY, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKORO KALU NELSON. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

LOUIS COLLINS

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ONU COLLINS CHUKWUEBUKA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS LOUIS COLLINS CHUKWUEBUKA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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LATEEF 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.

NAME OF THE TRUSTEES ARE : 1. MEMUDU LATEEF AKANJI 2. MAMUD SAHEED AYINDE 3. MEMUDU RUKAYAT TEMITAYO AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO BUILD THE YOUTHS TOWARDS BETTER FUTURE 2. TO SENSITISE YOUTHS ON MORAL VALUE THAT CAN ADD VALUE TO THE SOCIETY 3. FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO THE YOUTHS 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.

EXCLUSIVEMEETINGPOINTEMPOWERMENTINITIATIVE

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE:(1) EMMANUEL JASPER UZOCHI (2) REV EMMANUEL LEONARD UGO (3) UKA UCHEIMA JOY (4) AJAEGBU VICTORIA IJEOMA (5) OBODOEZE SARAH UWA (6) ODIM NNENNA GRACE (7) UZOIJE EMMANUEL CHIEMELA

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.

TRUSTEES 1 MR HAASTRUP JOSEPH ADEBOLA 2 MR GEORGE DARAMOLA ADEBUNMI OLAITAN 3 MRS TAYLOR FUNMI ABIKE 4 MR TAIWO ALEX ADIGUN 5 MR ADEDOJA ADEKUNLE MUDASHIRU

TRUSTEES. ARE 1MR NWANKWO CHEKWUBE JOEL 2 MR EZENWERE CHINEDU SAMUEL 3 MR ANYIKWE OBINNA EDWIN. 4 MR IKEANUMBA SILAS UCHE

AIM AND OBJECTIVES TO PROMOTE UNITY AMOUNG MEMBERS

AIM AND OBJECTIVES TO PROMOTE UNITY AMOUNG MEMBERS

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

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE:1. NKWOCHA UCHENNA JUDE 2. NKWOCHA FAITH IJEOMA

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVE ARE:(1) TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST (2) TO SAVE LOST SOULS AND REDEEM THEM BACK TO CHRIST

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE:1. TO PROVIDE SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS WHICH WILL CATER TO THE NEEDS OF THE ABANDONED, MOTHERLESS AND FATHERLESS CHILDREN. 2. TO PARTNER WITH OTHER NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS IN DONATING DRUGS, FOOD STUFFS, MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND WELFARE PACKAGES TO THE NEEDY FOR FREE 3. TO ORGANIZE AND SPONSOR SKILL ACQUISITION, VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES INCLUDING SMALL SCALE SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES TO THE INDIGENT. 4. SUPPORT COMMUNITY PROJECTS FOCUSED ON IMPROVING THE WELFARE OF THE UNDERPRIVILEGED

ANY OBJECTION TO THE 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

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

SIGNED BY: SECRETARY

SIGNED BY: SECRETARY

ADULAWO CENTRE FOR CULTURE AND TOURISM DEVELOPMENT

GOKE ADUN ADEKOLA FOUNDATION

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

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ARE:1. ADUNOLA ADERONKE OKUPE 2. OPEOLUWA OLUYOMI OKUPE 3. FATIMO OLUFOWORA OLADIPO THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE:1. TO DRIVE MULTI - DISCIPLINARY TOURISM-RELATED RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN WEST AFRICA IN THE TOURISM, TRAVEL, HOSPITALITY, LEISURE AND RECREATION SECTORS 2. ADDRESS LOCAL AND GLOBAL CHALLENGES TO SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT 3. FACILITATE KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION AND DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION ON CULTURE AND TOURISM DEVELOPMENT 4. CONTRIBUTE TO EVIDENCE BASED SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT. 5. DELIVERY OF TOURISM LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS 6. HOSTING OF RESEARCH FORUMS FOCUSED ON THE TRAVEL, TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY SECTORS 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.

ADDRESS: 11, OSENI STREET, NEAR GTB ANTHONY VILLAGE, ANTHONY LAGOS. 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, ACTS 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE:1. ADEMOLA ADEKOLA 2. MR. MOSHOOD AJIBOLA 3. ADEBOWALE ADEKOLA ( CHAIRMAN) 4. OLUFEMI OGUNTOKUN (SECRETARY) THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE:1.TO ENGAGE/SUPPORT EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND ADVANCEMENT. 2.TRAINING AND CAPACITY BUILDING 2. PROVISION OF EMPOWERMENT OPPORTUNITIES AND PROGRAMMES. 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 BY: TRUSTEES

ADAZI-ENU TOWN UNION, LAGOS BRANCH

SIGNED BY: SECRETARY

UNIQUE CHAMPION STARS FRIENDS CLUB OF NIGERIA

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, ACTS 1990.

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 MATTERS ACTS 1990.

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ARE:(1) ACP. KOSIDE ISIOFIA (RTD.) (2) ANTHONY OKPALANOZIE, ESQ. (3) CHIEF GILBERT EYISI (4) MR. MICHEAL ONUORAH (5) MR. ILEME MARTIN (6) CHIEF IKECHUKWU IBEAZOTA (7) MR. BENEDICT EZEUDO (8) MR. UDOKA OKOYE (9) MR. ANTHONY AKANEGBU (10) MR. IKENNA MADUBUOBI

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ARE:(1) MR. OKWUCHUKWU AMACHUKWU (2) MR. AMOBI ANI (3) MR. EBUKA OKWUDILI (4) MR. SUNDAY OKEKE (5) MR. ONYEDIKA UDOH

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE:TO CATER FOR THE WELFARE AND INTEREST OF ALL ADAZI-ENU INDIGENES IN LAGOS WHO ARE MEMBERS. TO EMBARK ON PROJECTS CONSIDERED NECESSARY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ADAZI-ENU.

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE:(1) TO CATER FOR AND PROTECT THE INTEREST OF MEMBERS AND ASSIST IN RESOLVING DISPUTES AMONGST MEMBERS AND BETWEEN MEMBERS AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC. (2) TO EMPOWER AND PROMOTE ENTREPRENEURSHIP AMONGST MEMBERS THROUGH SKILL ACQUISITION PROGRAMS, CAPACITY BUILDING, FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, ESTABLISHING SMALL SCALE BUSINESS AND OTHER DEEDS GEARED TOWARDS ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT. (3)TO ENCOURAGE SAVINGS AND MICRO INVESTMENTS AMONGST MEMBERS AND TO ENGAGE IN ANY SUCH SAVINGS AND INVESTMENT SCHEME AS THE ORGANIZATION MAY AGREE. (4) TO CREATE AN EFFECTIVE PARTNERSHIP WITH LOCAL, STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS AND TO LIAISE WITH ANY OTHER ORGANIZATION HAVING SIMILAR AIMS AND OBJECTIVES WITH THIS ORGANIZATION.

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

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

SIGNED BY: SECRETARY

THE 8088 YOUTH EMPOWERMENT INITIATIVE THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO.1 OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. SHAFAR OREOLUWA FAIZAL 2. SHAFARU AKEEM ADEYEMI AIMS & OBJECTIVES: TO EQUIP & EMPOWER YOUNG PEOPLE WITH VARIOUS KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS WHICH WILL HELP THEM IN ALL SPHERES OF LIFE ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET, PMB 198, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED SECRETARY

STANDARD BROTHERS CLUB, AKURE ,ONDO STATE

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

SIGNED: SECRETARY

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JESUS BELOVED CLUB, LAGOS.

SIGNED SECRETARY

BAMIDELE AND OLUBUNMI 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, ACTS 1990.

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEE ARE:1. OGUNLOWO BAMIDELE AYOTUNDE - CHAIRMAN 2. OGUNLOWO OLUBUNMI TEMITOPE- TREASURER 3. ONI TAIWO OLANREWAJU - SECRETARY THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE:1. TO PROMOTE EDUCATION AMONGST THE UNDERPRIVILEGED 2. TO PROMOTE WELFARE FOR DISABLED 3. TO PROMOTE SOCIAL WELFARE FOR LESS FORTUNATE 4. TO PROMOTE CHURCH GROWTH 5. PROVIDING SUCCOUR FOR THE WIDOWS , HOMELESS AND NEEDY IN THE SOCIETY. 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: SECRETARY

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

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ARE:(1) MR. IFEANYI INNOCENT OKONKWO (2 ) MR. BARTHOLOMEW CHUKWUNONSO EZEKAFOR (3) MS. CHIDIMMA ANTHONIA OKONKWO (4) MR. ONYINYE DIKE (5) MRS. CHRISTIANA NKEMDILIM OKUDO (6) MR. IFEANYI UCHENWOKE (7) MR. MICHEAL NGELE AROCHI THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: (1) TO CATER FOR AND PROTECT THE INTEREST OF MEMBERS AND ASSIST IN RESOLVING DISPUTES AMONGST MEMBERS AND BETWEEN MEMBERS AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC. (2) TO EMPOWER AND PROMOTE ENTREPRENEURSHIP AMONGST MEMBERS THROUGH SKILL ACQUISITION PROGRAMS, CAPACITY BUILDING, FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, ESTABLISHING SMALL SCALE BUSINESS AND OTHER DEEDS GEARED TOWARDS ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT. 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 BY: SECRETARY

RETIRED PLUMBERS ASSOCIATION 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 COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACTS OF 1990.

TRUSTEES ARE : 1. OGUNTUNJI JEREMIAH 2. SALAWU SABITU AKANJI 3. OLANIYI OLANIYAN JAMES 4. SHITTU RASAKI AYOOLA 5. OGUNIRAN GANIYU OYEYEMI 6. AKINPELU LASISI AKANMU 7. SANGOTOYINBO OYETOKI EMMANUEL AIMS: TO FOSTER UNITY AMONG MEMBERS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAIMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

THE HILL OF JESUS REIGNS FIRE MINISTRY

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

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

TRUSTEES 1. EZE CLEMENT EZE.....CHAIRMAN 2. CHIGOZIE DANIEL NKAOLEKE..............TREASURER 3. SIMON CHUKWUEMEKA EMMANUEL........ SECRETARY 4. NWAFOR SUNDAY..................MEMBER

. TRUSTEES ARE 1. FUNMILAYO ESTHER IBIDAYO 2.JOSEPH CHRISTIANA 3.EMMANUEL TAIWO AKINLOYE

PRESIDENT SECRETARY

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO STRENGTHEN THE BONDS OF LOVE, UNITY AND PROGRESS AMONG MEMBERS 2. TO CARTER FOR THE WELFARES OF MEMBERS

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.TO EMBARK ON EVANGELICAL MISSION AND PROGRAMMES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD TO PLUNDER HELL AND POPULATE HEAVEN FOR CALVARY’S SAKE. 2.TO PREPARE THE SAINTS FOR THE SECOND COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST THROUGH PROGRAMMES OF WINNING SOULS.

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 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION

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

SIGNED EZE CLEMENT EZE.....CHAIRMAN BOARD OF TRUSTEES

SIGNED: PRESIDENT

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MRS OKEDAIRO KARIMOT

FUJAMADE ABAYOMI

MRS OKEDAIRO KARIMOT

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ROSEMARY EFFIOM HENSHAW. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS GRACE EFFIOM HENSHAW.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS BAMIGBOYE ADEBUSOLA CHRISTIANAH NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS SOBOWALE ADEBUSOLA CHRISTIANAH.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OLOLADE KARIMOT OLABISI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OKEDAIRO KARIMOT OLUWATOBILOBA.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FUJAMADE FREDRICK OLADELE RABIU NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FUJAMADE ABAYOMI TEMITOPE ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

ADDITION OF NAME

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SHITTU YUSUF NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SHITTU YUSUF OLAREWAJU.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

IWASEPELETU ADETUMI

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BALOGUN ADETUMI OLUWASEUN NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IWASEPELETU ADETUMI OLUWASEUN.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

SUNDAY KENNETH I FORMERLY KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS EZEKUSE KEHINDE. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS SUNDAY KENNETH KEHINDE.FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

,I FORMERLY KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OMAKOR UYOYOU. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. UYOYOU OMAKOROMORU.FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEYEMI MICHEL NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADESUNMIBOLA ERNESTO MICHAEL.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CHUKWUEMEKA CHUKWUNONSO

CHUKWUEMEKA OMOBUSOLA

ABDUL TADERERA

OLUWAJUYIGBE FOLORUNSHO I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IDOWU TOPE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLUWAJUYIGBE FOLORUNSHO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

REARRANGEMENT/CORRECTIONOFBIRTHDATE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLUWOLE TADERERA SHAKIRA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ABDUL TADERERA SHAKIRAT. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKOLIE REGINALD CHINONSO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS CHUKWUEMEKA CHUKWUNONSO DAVID .

ALL DOCUMENTS AND CERTIFICATES BEARING MY FORMER NAMES REMAIN VALID NIGERIA IMMIGRATION SERVICE, RELEVANT AUTHORITIES AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGUNNAIKE OMOBUSOLA SUNKANMI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS CHUKWUEMEKA OMOBUSOLA SUNKANMI . ALL DOCUMENTS AND CERTIFICATES BEARING MY FORMER NAMES REMAIN VALID. NIGERIA IMMIGRATION SERVICE, RELEVANT AUTHORITIES AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE

AMAECHI STELLA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EKE STELLA CHINAKA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AMAECHI STELLA CHINAKA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

MRS OLAWUMI TAIWO FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ABE TAIWO OLUWAFUNKE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OLAWUMI TAIWO OLUWAFUNKE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

THIS IS TO CONFIRM AND CERTIFY THAT MY NAME WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AS KOHOVI BENOKEAYATON INSTEAD OF OKEAYATON PAUL KOHOVI. THAT MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 30/07/1979. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

DAVID DEBORAH

MISS MOSES BUNMI DIANA

OYINDAMOLA MUTIAT

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ASUQUO DEBORAH IMA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS DAVID DEBORAH IMA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

EKWUYE EVELYN

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS SUNMOLA BUNMI DIANA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS MOSES BUNMI DIANA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

ISAH SAIDAT

, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EKWUYE FAVOUR CHIDIEBERE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EKWUYE EVELYN CHIDIEBERE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLANITE SAIDAT AJOKE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ISAH SAIDAT AJOKE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC/ AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ESTHER AYOKA

MRS. ADEMUYIWA ZAINAB

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SANNI AYOKA OSHO , NOW TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ESTHER AYOKA OSHO. THAT I WAS BORN ON 3/5/1952 AND NOT 5/5/1953. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITIES CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS. OLALEKAN ZAINAB TAIWO, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. ADEMUYIWA ZAINAB TAIWO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC/ AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OGECHI ADELINE

IYERE-LAWAL

CORRECTION OF NAME

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OYINDAMOLA TAYO OLANDE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OYINDAMOLA MUTIAT OLATUNDE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

OLUWABOWALE OLATUNDE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SHOBOWALE OLATUNDE OLUSESAN, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLUWABOWALE OLATUNDE OLUSESAN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC/AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

THAT ON SOME OF MY DOCUMENTS, MY NAME APPEARS AS ALICE AYI DADA, WHILE ON OTHER DOCUMENTS, IT APPEARS AS ALICE AFOLABI DADA. THAT I AM THE SAME PERSON BEARING BOTH NAMES. THAT ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING BOTH NAMES ARE MINE AND REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC/ AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

EZEKPUNONU EMMANUEL

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGECHI ADENENE ANURUO, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGECHI ADELINE ANORUO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC/AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS LAWAL PATRICIA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IYERE-LAWAL PATRICIA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC/ AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EMMANUEL EZE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EZEKPUNONU EMMANUEL EKENECHUKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC/AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UBADINRU CHINYERE ESTHER NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OHAEMASI ESTHER CHINYERE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

OHAEMASI ESTHER

RASHEED JIMOH I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ABDULRASHEED JIMOH NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS RASHEED JIMOH. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

ODUKOYA ISAAC I FORMERLY KNOWN AS ODUKOYA ISAAC MELVIN NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ODUKOYA ISAAC KEHINDE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

MRS. MARTIN-ONUIGBO

OKOLIE-KHALID BABY

OBIDIEGWU CHINELO

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED MISS OKEREKE ONYINYECHI ANGELA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. MARTIN-ONUIGBO ONYINYECHI FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED BABY SUCCESS KHALIK, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKOLIEKHALID BABY RAMSEY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

AGHA SAMUEL I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AGHA SAMUEL NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AGHA SAMUEL CLINTON. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ABOBA OLUWASEYI

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OMOOGUN OLUWASEYI STEPHEN NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ABOBA OLUWASEYI STEPHEN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED OBIDIEGWU CHINELO JANE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OBIDIEGWU CHINELO AUGUSTINA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OKONGBO SOLOMON

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IBUKUN AGABRA SOLOMON NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKONGBO SOLOMON. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS. UYOYOU OMAKOR

MRS SHONDE ABIDOLU

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ABODOLU AYISAT MORENIKEJI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS SHONDE ABIDOLU AYISAT. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

SHERIFAT ABIOLA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS LADEJOBI ABIOLA GIWA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SHERIFAT ABIOLA LADEJOBI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

OLASHENI OLADAPO

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS HASSAN HAMEED ADELAJA, NOW TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLASHENI OLADAPO ADELAJA. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITIES CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

TINUOYE OLUWATOBI

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS TINUOYE OLUWATOBILOBA PHOEBE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS TINUOYE OLUWATOBI OLUWAKEMI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC/AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS AJAO JOLAYEMI

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OLAITAN JOLAYEMI KAFAYAT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS AJAO JOLAYEMI KAFAYAT. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

MRS. NNENNA BRIGHT

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED MISS NNENNA BRIGHT IKWUKA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. NNENNA BRIGHT AFULIKE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS. ALEX NWABA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED MISS EJIONYE CHIOMA VIVIAN, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. ALEX NWABA CHIOMA VIVIAN (NEE EJIONYE). ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

SALAWU NURUDEEN

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SALAWU OLAWALE IMOLE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SALAWU NURUDEEN IMOLE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OLOLADE KARIMOT OLABISI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OKEDAIRO KARIMOT OLUWATOBILOBA.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ADESUNMIBOLA ERNESTO

FUJAMADE ABAYOMI

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FUJAMADE FREDRICK OLADELE RABIU NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FUJAMADE ABAYOMI TEMITOPE ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

IKEGWU GOODNESS

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IKEGWU GOODNESS , NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IKEGWU GOODNESS SUNDAY, ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE

OLUWAJOBI EBENEZER

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ALFRED IKONG SUNDAY NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IKONG SUNDAY ALFRED. THAT MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 01 OCTOBER 1989 AND NOT 10 OCTOBER 1992. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGUNJOBI AYODELE AFOLABI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLUWAJOBI EBENEZER AFOLABI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

UDEH INNOCENT

MRS ELESHIN SHADIA I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ABOLAJI SHADIA ASHABI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ELESHIN SHADIA ASHABI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS DANIEL INNOCENT SOMTOCHI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UDEH INNOCENT ONIGBOGINI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

KOLADE JANET

. I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AYORINDE JANET MOROLOYA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS KOLADE JANET MOROLAYO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

MARITAL STATUS

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHUKWU AMARACHI VERONICA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BENSON AMARACHI VERONICA DUE TO MARITAL STATUS. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC/AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS. FAVOUR KENNEDY

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS FAVOUR OKORO, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. FAVOUR KENNEDY NNAWUIHE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC/ AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CORRECTION OF NAME

THIS IS TO CONFIRM AND CERTIFY THAT MY NAME WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AS OLUWATOGUN MICHEAL INSTEAD OF GODWIN GROWN JADEMI. THAT MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 07/10/1988 AND NOT 10/07/1992. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

ISHAKU YAHAYA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED ISHAKU KWAJIGLI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ISHAKU YAHAYA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OLUFEMI OLUWASEGUN

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLUFEMI OLUWASEGUN EZEKIEL NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLUFEMI OLUWASEGUN OLAMIDE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OSOBASE ENIOLA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MAJEKODUNMI ENIOLA FUNKE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OSOBASE ENIOLA FUNKE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

UZOMA PRINCESS

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWANKWO PRINCESS UGOCHI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UZOMA PRINCESS UGOCHI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

TOLULOPE OLAJUMOKE

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Ante-natal care: Key to preventing mother-to-child transmission Stories: Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja A 12-year-old Yusuf Adamu, sometime in January slumps in his father’s lap, head pressed against his chest. Infected at birth with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), he is tiny for his age and has birdlike limbs.

He has been feverish for 3 days, which is why his father, Ibrahim, brought him to the paediatric HIV/ AIDS clinic at Asokoro District Hospital in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.

“He’s been losing weight, he is not eating well, he’s still taking his drugs, and he’s complaining of chest pains and coughing,” Ibrahim tells the nurse. Yusuf’s records show that at his last blood check six months ago, HIV had already ravaged his immune system, even though he was receiving antiretroviral (ARV) drugs.

When the doctor, Oma Amadi, examines his mouth, it is filled with white sores from candidiasis, a fungal infection. “The boy has been sick for so long, I am going to admit him’’ the doctor said. ” When Dr. Amadi removes Yusuf’s shirt to examine to his chest, the boy winces at the touch of her stethoscope. Amadi suspects Yusuf has tuberculosis, and after x-raying his lungs, the doctors put him in an isolation room.

Yusuf’s mother was never tested for HIV before he was born: She received no prenatal care and delivered at home.

Yusuf was not tested for the virus until she died of AIDS 3 years later. Ibrahim then learned that he, too, is HIV-positive, as are his two other wives. One ended up transmitting the virus to a second child, now 4.

Mother-to-child transmission is the most common mode of HIV transmission in children which can be vertically transmitted from HIV positive pregnant women to their unborn babies during pregnancy, labour, and delivery or through breastfeeding after delivery.

HIV remains a major challenge globally regardless of decades of advocacy and investment in programs to control the spread of the virus HIV continues to be a major global public health issue. In 2017 an estimated 36.9 million people were living with HIV (including 1.8 million children) –

with a global HIV prevalence of 0.8% among adults.

Around 25% of these same people do not know that they have the virus.

Nigeria is slow in eliminating HIV as women contribute 90% new infections in children. According to the Assistant Director, Prevention of Mother-ToChild Transmission (PMTCT) and Head, National AIDS and STI Programme, (NASCP) Federal Ministry of Health, Dr Gbenga Ijaodola, Nigeria has more HIVinfected babies than anywhere in the world.

Speaking during a media dialogue on PMTCT organised by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in collaboration with the Child Rights Information Bureau of the Federal Ministry of Information (CRIB) in Calabar, Ijaodola said,’’ about 267, 000 children are infected with HIV virus in Nigeria, 54,167 children under 14 years are under anti-retroviral drugs, 10,464 children have their viral loads tested, while 4,699 Nigerian children have viral load suppressed.”

He said that even though Nigeria introduced efforts towards PMTCT of HIV several years ago, the country is not preventing or eliminating HIV infection in children fast enough. ‘’For Nigeria to be able to address the challenges of the global burden of PMTCT, pregnant women must

have access to PMTCT. ”At the moment 95 per cent of the national HIV response is supported by partners, this includes PMTCT and Paediatric treatment. U.S. Government contributes 75.5 percent of treatment interventions, Global Fund 17.4 per cent, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) 1.2 per cent and Nigerian Government 5.4 per cent’’, he said.

Federal government seeks wider coverage of PMTCT programme of HIV services The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole had called for concerted efforts to increase the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) services coverage in the country.

Speaking at the dissemination of the PMTCT Cascade Evaluation in Abuja the minister decried the low PMTCT coverage in the country.

He said with more than a decade of the HIV programme in Nigeria, thousands of patients have been enrolled into treatment, care and related services in health facilities.

Adewole noted that with the scale up of the PMTCT services in the country, there are currently about 6,283 Health facilities offering PMTCT services adding that despite this increase, overall PMTCT coverage remains low at 30 per cent and according to

Challenges in management of tuberculosis in Nigeria Talatu Dalihu is one of those medical workers engaged in new contact investigation. She works in the Nasarawa area of Kano State and began her career as a health worker over fifteen years ago.

She became interested in fighting TB when she lost a cousin to TB a couple of years ago. “My cousin death and the bitter experience she passed through made me to take up the challenge to train as TB worker. I was convinced that if I had had the training to manage a TB patient I would not have loss her to the decease.”– Talatu Dalihu Working as a contact investigator has become Talatu’s calling in life, she looks for every opportunity she can to find as many people with TB. In January 2018, she was at work in Kano General Hospital, when she met Sadiq Dan-Asabe.

Sadiq has drug-resistant TB and had just been admitted to the hospital to start his treatment. Talatu seized the moment and introduced herself explaining who she was and why it was important that she visited his home to see if anyone living with him was also infected.

The next day Talatu visited Sadiq’s family home and found ten people living in an environment that permits TB to thrives, small living spaces, crammed with people.

TB bacteria become airborne when someone with the disease coughs and can remain in unventilated dark rooms for many hours, which put everyone inside at high-risk of also becoming infected.

Sadiq was living with his two brothers and their wives, his sister Amina and her husband, and four children.

Talatu gathered the family together and explained the reason for her visit, and although none of them said they were experiencing any TB symptoms, she still asked them to provide samples for testing because she wanted to be absolutely sure.

The children were all put on isoniazid preventive treatment (IPT) to stop them from getting TB, and the samples were tested at a local laboratory using a GeneXpert machine purchased by USAID/Challenge TB. When the test results came back, they showed that Sadiq’s sister Amina had TB and his two brothers Aliyu and Haruna had a form of TB that is drug-resistant. Talatu informed the family of these results and what it meant.

Unlike their brother Sadiq, none of them had any obvious TB symptoms and did not even know they were sick. Thanks to Talatu’s visit all three have now started on the appropriate treatment and are progressing well.

This quick and easy action not only demonstrates how effective contact investigation is but also illustrates its importance. Without a fast diagnosis, his family would have had less chance of being treated successfully and would have continued to infect those around them, adding further to the epidemic of TB in Nigeria.

Contact investigation is just one method Challenge TB is employing to find people with TB who are being missed by routine health services.

Nigeria is said to be among the 14 high burden countries for Tuberculosis (TB), TB/HIV and multi-drug resistant TB and has also been ranked seventh among the 30 high TB burden countries in the world and second in Africa.

According to the WHO, this has been made worse by the issues of drug resistant TB and the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

It has been estimated that 407,000 people in Nigeria contact TB every year. This is the estimated number of HIV negative people.

In addition, there is an estimated 63,000 HIV positive people that get TB every ear. An estimated 115,000 HIV negative people die from TB every year and an estimated 39,000 HIV positive people also die.

It has been said that achieving the reduction in TB incidence rate for attainment of the 90-90-90 target of the END TB strategy will be a mirage, if something drastic is not done.

According to WHO, Tuberculosis happens to be the unprecedented world’s most infectious deadly killer with about 4500 lives lost per day and unfortunately, Nigeria is far worse hit by this global epidemic in Africa. Nigeria currently ranks 7th in the world and 2nd in Africa among the 30 countries with the highest burden of TB, TB/HIV, multi drug resistant TB. Significant progress has been made in the fight against Tuberculosis, but it continues to be a lifethreatening disease that is worsened by many challenges responsible for its prevalence.

Although curable, treatment and diagnosis for

Tuberculosis continue to be a matter of global concern, especially in the emergence of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR TB) which poses a major health security threat and jeopardizes long running global efforts to curb the deadly disease.

Most worrisome is the co-infection of TB in people living with HIV (PLHIV). The risk of developing tuberculosis is estimated to be between 16-27 times greater in people living with HIV than among those without TB has become a challenging development problem because one of the major factors fuelling its prevalence is poverty; sadly, we have about 152m Nigerians living below poverty line.

WHO reports that about 2 million people die from TB yearly and 10.4 million new cases of TB were reported in 2016, with seven countries accounting for 64% of the burden comprising of India, Indonesia, China, Philippines, Pakistan, Nigeria and South Africa.

Sadly, many of these people affected by TB are poor and disadvantaged people who live in impoverished communities with remote access to healthcare and because TB infected persons also experience stigma and discrimination, many TB cases go untreated as transmission of the disease continue unabated and because TB is airborne, the effects are devastating.

In the course of a year, people with active TB can infect 10–15 other people through close contact. Infants, people living with HIV, women and people living in marginalized communities are more at risk of contracting TB. A bad cough that lasts longer than two weeks, chest pain, fatigue, weight loss, lack of appetite, chills, fever and night sweats are symptoms associated with TB; anyone experiencing these should seek medical care immediately.

In Nigeria, USAID’s Challenge TB project has trained over 338 healthcare workers, across 184 local government areas all of whom are now working as contact investigators and visiting the homes of every person who is diagnosed with TB. The investigators are taught how to identify people who may have the disease, and how to collect sputum samples that can be sent to testing centers to confirm the diagnosis.

the World Health Organization,” he said.

According to the Minister, findings from this study will help in highlighting some of the possible gaps and possible points of attritions in the National PMTCT programme which may have a synergistic effect in increasing the risk of vertical transmission and hence the urgent need to address some of these key challenges for the country to transition from prevention to elimination of mother-to-child transmission.

“It was based on the above envisaged gaps that the PMTCT Cascade Evaluation study was commissioned with the following objectives; to estimate the uptake of HIV testing and use of ARVs to reduce mother-tochild transmission; to estimate the proportion of HIV exposed infants who received nevirapine within 72 hours of birth, had EID done within 12 months and had a final outcome documented at 18 months and to identify risk factors associated with attrition along the PMTCT cascade,” he added.

On his part, Lead Advisor, HIV/AIDS Programme, at African Epidemiology Network (AFENET), Dr. Adebobola Bashorun, highlighted some of their findings.

“One of the key goals is to stop the transmission from mother to child and if we stop the transmission we are sure that the next generation s HIV free.

The main focus is to have a negative child. We can’t have a mother with HIV and she end up transmitting it to the child.

Our finding shows that a woman that comes for antenatal is not high enough.

We find out those women that come for antenatal that accept this testing is up to 90 per cent. And those who are tested positive usually come for treatment.

The main important thing is to accept the coverage of PMTCT programme.”

In addition, the Deputy Director, NASCP, Ministry of Health, Dr. Deborah Oboh said the aim eliminate the menace in the country.

“This programme started in mid ninety and unfortunately Nigeria constitutes high numbers are born negative.

So, we have been working a long time to try to make a difference so that we can reduce the number of babies who are born positive. And so far in line with Global goal is to eliminate the mother to child born transmission.”

Mother-to-child transmission of HIV is the spread of HIV from an HIV-infected woman to her child during pregnancy, childbirth (also called labour and delivery), or breastfeeding (through breast milk).

Mother-to-child transmission is the most common way that children become infected with HIV. Pregnant women with HIV receive HIV medicines during pregnancy and childbirth to reduce the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. In some situations, a woman with HIV may have a scheduled cesarean delivery (sometimes called a C-section) to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV during delivery.

Pregnant women who test HIV positive receive HIV medicines to reduce the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and to protect their own health.

(HIV medicines are recommended for everyone infected with HIV. HIV medicines help people with HIV live longer, healthier lives and reduce the risk of sexual transmission of HIV.) Young women face multiple legal, economic, and social vulnerabilities that interact to affect their sexual behaviours, decisions, and circumstances, making them more susceptible to acquiring new HIV infections. A number of studies have found that young people are less likely to take an HIV test and that those who are HIV infected have poorer HIV treatment uptake, retention, and outcomes than adults.

Less is known about adolescent uptake of prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV services, where new HIV infections, low HIV testing uptake, and poor initiation of and retention on treatment are significant barriers to elimination of HIV infection in children.

UNICEF support UNICEF has played a critical leadership role in setting the global PMTCT agenda, in scaling up national PMTCT programmes in resource-limited settings. Areas of support included: • policy, • guideline and tool-development, • capacity development (including development of the skills of service providers), • promotion of methods to expand access to HIV testing and counselling, • efficient procurement of ARVs and other essential commodities, and • monitoring and evaluating progress.

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Support grows for Senate resolution on Yemen war Support is growing in the Senate for a resolution aimed at limiting US involvement in the war in Yemen.

The Senate voted 63-37 on Wednesday to advance the resolution, which, if passed, would end US military support for the Saudi-led coaltion in Yemen’s war, setting the stage for a possible final vote on the measure in coming days. The Trump administration has threatened to veto it if it passes Congress.

Politicians are frustrated with the administration’s response to the killing of columnist Jamal Khashoggi and say the administration has not done enough to punish Saudi Arabia for its involvement.

Earlier on Wednesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told the Senate in a closed-door briefing that weakening USSaudi ties over the killing of Khashoggi would be a mistake.

“The October murder of Saudi national Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey has heightened the Capitol Hill caterwauling and media pile-on. But degrading USSaudi ties would be a grave mistake for the national security of the US and its allies,” Pompeo wrote in a blog post shortly before Wednesday’s briefing for US senators.

Many senators, speaking to reporters after the briefing, said they were not satisfied with the administration’s stance on its support for Saudi Arabia in the war on Yemen, and called for Prince Mohammed to be held accountable for Khashoggi’s death.

Several senators who had opposed the Yemen resolution in an earlier vote now support it, including Democratic Senator Bob Menendez, who said on Wednesday that “it’s time to send Saudi Arabia a message both on its violation of human rights and the incredible humanitarian catastrophe it’s creating.”

Pompeo called the vote “poorly timed” as diplomatic efforts to end the conflict were under way.

But Senator Bernie Sanders, who is sponsoring the bill, said the time is now.

“We have already seen 85,000 children starved to death, the UN tells us that millions of people are facing starvation, 10,000 new cholera cases are developing each week because there is no clean drinking water in the country,” Sanders said following the briefing.

“All of that was caused by the Saudi-led invasion of Yemen three years ago, led by a despotic, dishonest dictatorship.”

The war in Yemen began in September JUMOKE GANIYAT

2014, when Houthi rebels took control of Yemen’s capital Sanaa and proceeded to push southwards towards the country’s second-biggest city, Aden.

In response, a Saudi-UAE military coalition, backed by the US, intervened in 2015 with a massive air campaign aimed at reinstalling the government of Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.

According to aid groups, tens of thousands of people have been killed in the war.

Republican Mike Lee, who is a co-sponsor of the Yemen resolution, criticised both former President Barack Obama for getting the US involved in the war and current President Donald Trump for continuing it.

“This is an issue that is neither Republican nor Democratic, it is neither liberal nor conservative, it is neither pro-war neither anti-war,” Lee said.

“This is a war of bipartisan creation.

A Democratic president has gotten us involved in a civil war in Yemen. We now have a Republican president, and that war has continued,” Lee continued.

Lee said the Senate would try to invoke the War Powers Act, which is a law that states the president cannot get the US involved in a war without approval from Congress.

‘Out of control prince’ Republican Senator Bob Corker also voiced his support for the resolution, saying that the US needs to send a message to Saudi Arabia with regards to the war in Yemen and the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a permanent US resident and contributor

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to the Washington Post.

After offering contradictory statements, Saudi Arabia admitted last month that Khashoggi was killed inside its consulate in Istanbul on October 2 and his body was dismembered. The kingdom has repeatedly said Prince Mohammed had no knowledge of the killing, which Turkey said was ordered at the highest level of Saudi leadership.

Corker said that he prefers the executive branch send a message, but that so far it has failed to do so.

“We have watched innocent people being killed and we have seen people die of diseases they should not be dying of,” Corker said.

“We also have a crown prince that is out of control; A blockade of Qatar, the arrest of a Prime Minister of Lebanon, the killing of a journalist,” he added.

Several senators said they were disappointed that CIA Director Gina Haspel was not present during Wednesday’s briefing.

Trump has dismissed reports of a CIA assessment that Prince Mohammed ordered Khashoggi’s killing.

On Wednesday, both Mattis and Pompeo said there is not direct evidence linking Prince Mohammed to the killing.

“We have no smoking gun the crown prince was involved, not the intelligence community or anyone else. There is no smoking gun,” Mattis told reporters.

But senators were unsatisfied, and Senator Lindsey Graham, a Trump ally, threatened to oppose key legislation until the Senate is briefed by the CIA on Khashoggi’s murder.

Madagascar ex-presidents to compete in runoff election

A former president of Madagascar and the man who overthrew him in a coup will compete to become the island state’s next leader in December after the two came top in a first-round vote that knocked out the incumbent.

Former President Marc Ravalomanana received 35.35 percent of the vote in the November first round, behind his successor, Andry Rajoelina, who got 39.23 percent, the High Constitutional Court said on Wednesday.

Current President Hery Rajaonarimampianina received just 8.82 percent, the court said, and will not take part in the second round.

The court rejected his request to have the election cancelled.

The runoff vote is set for December 19.

It is the first time the bitter rivals have faced each other at the ballot box.

Both Ravalomanana, 68, and Rajoelina, 44, were banned from running in the last election in 2013 under international pressure to avoid a repeat of deadly political violence that engulfed the island in 2009.

Ravalomanana ruled from 2002 to 2009, until he was overthrown in a military-backed coup that installed Rajoelina, who was in power until 2014.

The court said total voter turnout was 53.95 percent of the registered voters.

Judge Rakotoarisoa cautioned the two hopefuls to “avoid provocations” as they head to the final stretch of the election in a country which has a history of political turmoil.

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“The people of Madagascar do not need trouble,” he said, warning that there should be no vote rigging.

Rajoelina, who sat in the court on Wednesday, had lodged complaints alleging that election officials tampered with software to “inflate” the number of registered voters in the first round in what he labelled “vote manipulation”.

He had also accused Ravalomanana of vote buying.

The electoral commission rejected the allegations and the court threw out his petition.

Last week, Ravalomanana withdrew his legal complaints about alleged irregularities in the first round, with his lawyer saying the decision was reached for the sake of “peace and sovereignty of Madagascar”.

Shortly after the court session on Wednesday, Rajoelina vowed to appeal to undecided voters.

“I open my arms, let’s work together to save Madagascar,” he said.

“I will do my best to convince the undecided,” Rajoelina told reporters.

Madagascar is well known for its vanilla and precious redwood, yet is one of the world’s poorest countries, according to the World Bank data, with almost four in five people living in poverty.

In the largely peaceful campaign in the lead up to the first round of the election, the frontrunners spent huge sums on flashy rallies and helicopters, with 36 candidates in all.

The former French colony off the southeastern coast of Africa also has a long history of political instability and coups.

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ANOC postpones presidential election

The Association of National Olympic Committees postponed their presidential election amid farcical scenes on Wednesday in the wake of Sheikh Ahmad Al-Sabah’s decision to temporarily step down from the post.

Al-Sabah was said to have stepped down from two Olympic roles because of an ongoing legal case.

The Kuwaiti has, however, denied any wrongdoing and without giving any further details, said the allegations made against him in a Swiss court were politically motivated.

On Monday he said he would be stepping aside from the presidency of ANOC, the umbrella body for National Olympic

Committees which he has run since 2012.

The 55-year-old was the only candidate in the election for president so his decision to take temporary leave of the post meant the election would need to be adjourned.

Still, president of the Olympic Council of Asia, he remains a powerful figure in sport and there was a clamour among some delegates to re-elect him in any case.

“This particular ship of ANOC has been sailing very smoothly so now it is not the time to abandon the captain,” said Guyana’s Olympic Committee President Kalam Azad Juman-Yassin.

“The captain has not deserted us,” he said.

His Iraqi counterpart Raad Hammoudi agreed: “We should stand up and fight against

the attacks against one of the symbols of the Olympic movement.

“We believe he has shown exemplary behaviour and he embraces the principals of our movement.”

Al-Sabah was eventually forced to return to the hall to plead with the delegates to agree to the adjournment.

“I request you to accept my position and approve the electoral report. Please accept the whole as it is and I promise you will see me back very soon,” asked Al-Sabah.

The postponement was then approved to loud applause.

Fijian Robin Mitchell was also confirmed as senior vice-president and as such he will head up the organisation in Sheikh Ahmad’s

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Al-Sabah earlier made it very clear that he had no intention of permanently relinquishing his role at the ANOC. “I decided to step aside for a while and to come back to you stronger, not only in my beliefs but with trust. I am confident and I am innocent. I have trust in the courts of justice in Switzerland. “(The court case) is nothing about sport, nothing about corruption,” he told delegates.

Al-Sabah is a close ally of IOC President Thomas Bach and was among the German’s supporters in the run-up to his election in 2013.

Bach sat next to him through the first session and joined in the warm round of applause that greeted the end of Sheikh Ahmad’s speech.

Gernot Rohr: I have no issue with Ogenyi Onazi Nigeria manager Gernot Rohr has denied reports of a rift between himself and Trabzonspor midfielder Ogenyi Eddy Onazi.

Onazi withdrew from Nigeria’s squad for their back-to-back 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Libya in October with injury.

However, the 25-year-old then featured in Trabzonspor’s next Super Lig match once the international break was over, prompting critics to question the extent of his injury.

Onazi was then omitted from Nigeria’s squad for the AFCON qualifier against South

Africa and a friendly with Uganda earlier this month.

His absence was a major surprise, with the Super Eagles shorn of both John Obi Mikel and the suspended Leicester City midfielder Wilfred Ndidi.

Many assumed that Rohr was annoyed

by Onazi’s quick return to fitness in October and deliberately left him out the following international break to send a message.

But the German denied this earlier in the week: “After compiling my list of players for

any particular match, l submit to the President of the Nigeria Football Federation and the Technical Committee,” he was quoted by All Nigeria Soccer.

“I have to submit for them to approve.

However there has never been any time where they have asked me to drop a player. That l would not accept. It is not true that l have issues with Ogenyi.”

Onazi will hope to feature for Trabzonspor when they face Kayserispor away on Saturday for their round 14 Turkish Super Lig match.

Okechukwu Odita confident of Rangers Thomas Dennerby: Solid defending was key win against Ethiopian side Defence FC to Super Falcons’ victory against Cameroon Nigeria defeated Cameroon 4-2 on penalties after a 0-0 draw with Cameroon to claim a final berth and coach Thomas Dennerby has revealed that his backline was key to their victory.

Despite the Indomitable Lionesses’ dominance, the Super Falcons were rock solid at the rear with captain Onome Ebi holding sway coupled with goalkeeper Tochukwu Oluehi’s bravery.

The Swede is delighted with their qualification and he is upbeat about their chances of defeating South Africa in the final.

“We said when we came here, that we had two targets, the first one was to qualify for the World Cup, we did that today [on Friday], I’m impressed,” Dennerby told media.

“When it comes to the final we will do whatever it takes to bring the Cup back to Nigeria. We

Rangers International captain Okechukwu Odita has come out backing he and his teammates to do business and come out victorious against Ethiopian side Defence FC. Speaking about the team’s readiness for the clash, the captain said, “It is a pleasure and a privilege to be among the team representing Nigeria at this prestigious competition.

“Rangers will be out fully aware of their responsibility to do well for the sake of salvaging pride for Nigerian clubs on the continent.

The Flying Antelopes will take on their Ethiopian counterpart Defence FC as they get their CAF Confederation Cup campaign underway later today.

Mikel Obi: ‘I am not tired of playing’ for Eagles Nigeria captain John Mikel Obi has declared that he’s not planning to retire from National team without making an official statement to inform the public.

Mikel has not featured for the Super Eagles since after the World Cup in Russia where the team suffered a last minute first round elimination in the hands of Argentina.

The Tianjin Teda midfielder has not played a minute in the Super Eagles 2019 AFCON qualifiers campaign, having missed all the five qualifier games so far, but he has dismissed the reports that he’s tired of the National Team. ”I cannot retire, because l am not tired,” “I think if you have been doing something for a very long time, you will definitely ask for a little break.“ “That’s what I have been on, I have been on break. I am not tired yet. The day I will retire, I will let everyone know before I make the statement.”.

Meanwhile, Mikel launched a football foundation which will discover young talents that has interest in the game in

Nigeria ”I decided to come up with this foundation to give back because I am a Nigeria, and I am a product of Pepsi Academy and I decided to give back to the society what I have gained from the society”.

He said after the launch of his football clinic.

know when we came that Cameroon is a good team, honestly, I was not happy in the first 10 to 15 minutes, my players were anxious, we lost the ball too much and definitely in the midfield, we had to defend a lot.

“Looking at the game, we were compact, we defended well in depth and width. I think that was key in our win. It’s a good stand to know it’s difficult to score against us, definitely, we need to improve on the attack, quick passing and more options up front.

“We have a very good chance to beat South Africa, now it’s time to rest two days, the extra day before the final. It’s really a tough game today [Tuesday], as you can see alot of players are tired, we have three to four of them who had cramps, it’s time for recovery and I will say we have a good chance to win in the final.

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