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People championing marginalisation want political appointments –Osinbajo

Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

ÏÏÏ Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has said that those individuals making marginalisation charges are doing it to get political appointments.

Osinbajo stated this at a seminar of the Institute of Security Studies on Wednesday in Abu-

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ja saying that it was wrong to equate hate speech to freedom of expression.

He said that hate speech “precedes tragedies in human history”.

The Acting President also expressed concern over the rates of false narration of the nation.

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Tony Amokeodo, Andrew Orolua and Francesca Iwambe, Abuja

ÏÏÏ Senior lawyers in the country have expressed divergent views over a letter from the office of the Attorney General

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Disregard of court judgments by parties worries INEC, says Yakubu

Governors Rauf Aregbesola (Osun); Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo); National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and former National Chairman, APC, Chief Bisi Akande, during the condolence visit to the governor over the death of his mother, late Saratu Aregbesola at Government House Osogbo, Osun State… on Wednesday.

Former governors Ladoja, Alao Akala return to PDP ÏÏÏ

Strong indications emerged on Wednesday that two former governors of Oyo state, Senator Rasheed Ladoja and Chief Christopher Adebayo Alao Akala, have returned to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

This indication emerged yesterday in Abuja during a meeting between the national leadership of the PDP and members of the Oyo state stakeholders of the party where the two former governors were represented.

This is even as the National Chairman of the party, Senator Ahmed Makarfi vowed that he will “stick to the party guidelines and constitution in doing whatever we do. We must stop cutting corners.

We live in a high litigious society.”

Senator Ladoja and Chief Alao Akala, after serving single terms each, as governors of the state at different dispensations, defected to the Accord Party (AP) and the All

*As Makarfi says party can’t afford to cut corners again Progressives Congress (APC) respectively.

Representatives of the former governors participated in a meeting of PDP stakeholders in Oyo state and the national leadership of the party.

While Sen Femi Lanlehin was one of the representatives of Rasheed Ladoja, Biodun Tajudeen Kareem was among the allies Alao Akala.

Speaking with the PDP leaders from Oyo state, Makarfi who regretted that the party lost the state, noted that nobody stands to gain when internal acrimony results in loss of election.

He said “We are not in politics to suffer but form government,” adding “PDP was the dominant party in the state but internal crisis caused us to lose election.”

While stating that everybody would have been accommodated if they had won the election, the chairman asked “What

are we benefitting for losing election now? Nothing. So we have to draw a line.”

He assured them that an inclusive caretaker committee will be setup soon, he said “After non elective convention set up an inclusive caretaker committee and conduct proper congress.”

Makarfi who also met with party leaders from Osun State, urged them to close ranks and worked together to reclaim the state.

While commending them for setting a record in forging a common front in the recent Osun West senatorial election, he urged them to sheathe their swords.

Reacting to conflicting Court judgments over party leadership in the state he said “If you wait for the conflicting judgments to be settled, it will get to Supreme Court and it won’t guarantee victory.

His words, “The prob-

lem is not as big as it is made to look like. All we need in our opinion is to resolve to accommodate and have a state committee that is inclusive.

“Short cuts in PDP won’t work anymore. It can be used against us when they see that we are winning.

If giving you will not mean victory or harmony then it is of no use to anyone.

“We should look out for our common interest and clear the mess so that when we succeed at the polls, that success won’t be at the mercy of the tribunal to interpret it any way it likes.”

Also yesterday, Sen Makarfi declared that the party cannot afford to cut corners anymore if it intends to thrive.

He stated this while hosting former PDP principal officers in the House of Representatives, who paid the national leadership of the party a solidarity visit in Abuja.

Only NIN is required for Int’l passport - NIMC

Myke Uzendu, Abuja

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The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), has clarified that International Passport applicants only need to supply their National Identity Number (NIN) to complete their application form for International passport.

Mixed reactions have trailed the recent announcement by the The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) that any applicant that does not have a National Identity Card cannot acquire the international passport.

The NIMC Head of Communications, Mr. Loveday Ogbonna, who spoke with Daily Times

said that International passport applicants are not requires to carry the National Identity Card by but to provide their NIN. According Ogbonna, “The NIN is the eleven digit number which is contained in the temporal ID Card slip issued to enrolees at the point of capture for the Na-

tional Identity Card.

“The NIN is now part of the requirements for obtaining an International passport. We know that we have some challenges in the distribution of permanent ID card but what the applicant is required to do is to supply the number which is in their temporal slip.

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof.

Mahmood Yakubu on Wednesday lamented the disregard for superior court judgments by politicians and political parties, poi ting out that such hampering the aspirations of persons who seek to represent their people at the different levels of government.

This is even as Prof.

Yakubu urged political parties to desist from reviving legal cases which superior courts had passed judgment on.

The INEC Chairman sad these while speaking at a capacity building workshop for leaders of political parties which held in Abuja.

He particularly frowned at the spate of disrespect for superior court judgements by political parties which, according to him, has affected the activities of the commission.

The INEC Chairman blamed unwarranted litigations from some political parties and their candidates for stalling the conduct of the Anambra central senatorial district election, stressing that the parties revisited cases that had already been given judgment on by the Supreme Court.

His words, “We are here to discuss so many issues like inclusive participation and internal democracy in political parties.

“We must try very hard to reduce the level of litigations among the politicians and political parties, even those cases that have been decided by superior courts are sometimes subjected to further litigations by political parties.

Political party leaders must respect judgement of superior courts.

“It is these unnecessary litigations that have led to the non conduct of the Anamnbra Central senatorial election till date because parties went back to challenge the judgement of superior courts at the lower courts.

“It is also necessary that parties must embrace the alternative dispute resolution process rather than approaching the courts at all times,” Yakubu tasked the political party leaders”, he said.

He harped on the need for the political parties to improve on internal democracy.

Yakubu disclosed that the political parties had agreed to work with INEC in the areas of party financing and inclusiveness.

Speaking on behalf of the Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) Chief Sam Eke pledged the support of political parties to the intent of the workshop, saying that “all the lessons will be implemented and that parties won’t remain the same.”

His words, “We will come out better to meet international standard.”

Earlier in her opening remarks, the Commissioner in charge of Political party monitoring committee of INEC, Professor Antonia OkoosiSimbine noted that the aim of the two day workshop was the enhancement of capacity of political parties to play their roles in providing the vehicle for presenting competent and credible candidates for elective offices.

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Reconstruction of Lagos Int’l Airport begins next month -Ambode Benjamin Omoike

ÏÏÏ Lagos state governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, on Wednesday said that work on the proposed expansion and reconstruction of the Oshodi-International Airport Road would commence next month.

The governor, who spoke at the third quarter Town Hall Meeting, the 8th in the series, held at the Badore Ferry Terminal, Lagos, also disclosed that plans are already underway to commence the construction of 181 local government roads next month.

On the Oshodi-International Airport Road, Governor Ambode said the construction project, which has already been awarded, would see the transformation of the road from four

Ï Says new modern bus terminals coming to Marina, Ajah, Iyana Ipaja, others lanes to 10 lanes- from Oshodi to the International Airport, with interchange and flyover which would convey commuters to the Local Airport.

It would be recalled that in May this year, Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, approved that the road be handed over to the Lagos state government for total reconstruction.

Governor Ambode, who had described the current state of the road as a national disgrace, said that work would begin in earnest, come September.

On the delay recorded in the commencement of rehabilitation of 181 inner roads, Governor Ambode said the development was

due to the fluctuation in dollar rates at the time the bid was last opened, but that a new bid would be opened in the next two weeks, while work is expected to commence in September.

“By the next two to three weeks, I will reopen the advert to get a new cost and all things being equal, the job would start on the roads by end of September,” he said.

Governor Ambode also assured residents that the State Public Works would seize the break period of the rainy season to fix all potholes across the state in order to improve drive time for motorists.

Speaking on the Cleaner Lagos Initiative (CLI), billed to commence next

month, Governor Ambode urged the people to be patient with his administration, as the plan which is holistic- and a comprehensive waste management policy- is currently in its gestation period.

He said once fully operational, waste across the metropolis would be collected in line with international best practices, while all parts of the state would be kept clean at all times.

He, however, urged residents to adopt a new attitude to disposing waste and to desist from dumping in drainages and canals, assuring that his government will provide adequate bins to discourage indiscriminate dumping.

Governor Ambode said all the 20 Local Government and 37 Local Council Development Chairmen have been mandated to ensure 24/7 cleaning of the environment, while officials of the state government would be moving round the nooks and crannies to evacuate waste.

As part of the initiatives to enhance commuting within the State, the governor said new modern bus terminals would be constructed commencing from this quarter in Marina, Ajah, Ojota, Agege, Iju- Ishaga and Iyana Ipaja, while as part of the integrated transport system, a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) would be constructed to connect Badore Jetty to Ajah.

He added that the Badore Road would be expanded at its entrance from the Ajah Roundabout, while plans are in the pipeline to construct Oke-Ira Nla Road as an alternative to totally eliminate traffic along the axis.

Responding to complaints by a resident of the axis, Mrs. Abiodun Dina, on the activities of dredgers who are fond of destroying the roads and parking indiscriminately on the roadside, thereby subjecting road users to avoidable traffic congestion, Governor Ambode said in as much as government was not interested in shutting down businesses, he would have to wield the big stick if the dredgers failed to comply with rules of engagement.

NSE wields big stick, revokes member’s license over infractions Afolabi Adesola

L-R: Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Ameachi; Deputy National Chairman North, All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen Lawali Shuaibu; National Secretary of APC, Alhaji Mai Mala Buni and the National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, during the Minister’s meeting with the Party’s National Working Committee, at the APC Secretariat in Abuja… on Wednesday.

Fashola Photographic Foundation holds on Friday

Ï ơǀ ƆƋƆƅƐƆƗ Ƈ Ə ƍ Ɛ Ə ƍ ƕ Ƈ Ƒ Ɨ Ɛƈ Ɠ ƏƊ ƍ ÏÏÏ The Fashola Photographic Foundation has announce the launch of its debut edition with the aim to support, promote and develop the art and technology of visual artsphotography, cinematography and videography in Nigeria. The launch is set to hold on 5th August 2017 at the Banquet Hall, City Hall in Lagos.

The Foundation has announced the selection of 15 finalists for its maiden annual workshop.

They were selected from over a thousand entries which were adjudged among the best to capture the theme; Dialogue with Nature and Nostalgia Por-

traits; discuss nature and periods in the past that cannot be forgotten.

A list of the participants include: Seun Adeusi, Kehinde Yusuf, Uche Osoka, Ayo Oluwole, Fayemi Abiodun, Vivian Nwobi, Arinze Onyisi, Francis Adeoti, Eyitoyosi Onadipe, Ogunro Ayodeji, Adigwe Ndubuisi, Adegbola Adetayo and Anthony Onogbo.

In the run-up to the August launch, there will be a series of contests and workshops for emerging and professional photographers which are intended to raise awareness and develop critical thinking in contemporary photographic art in Nigeria. The weeklong workshops, which in-

clude street photography, documentary-making and portaitures, will further provide a supportive and inspirational community where photographers of all levels can build confidence in their creative and technical skills.

The Fashola Photo workshop is an annual tuitionfree professional workshop aimed at nurturing emerging talent from Nigeria.

Each year, 15 participants will be selected from across the region to join us in Lagos, for an intensive week-long workshop conducted by international professional photographers who volunteer their time and expertise to be a part of this initiative.

The workshop is being facilitated by seasoned professionals including Shola Animashaun, Yetunde Babaeko, TY Bello and Lukesh Olanipekun.

The inaugural photo contest will be held annually and, based on selected themes, will provide a platform for participants to gain recognition for their artistic and technical achievements.

The themes for this year, Dialogue with Nature and Nostalgia Portraits, discuss nature and periods in the past that cannot be forgotten. The Foundation is a befitting tribute to the late Alhaji Ademola Fashola by his children, as it celebrates their Father and his great love for photography.

ÏÏÏ The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has expelled and revoked the license of a dealing member firm, Bytofel Securities and Investment Limited.

The Exchange also fined the firm a sum of N582.4 million for unauthorized sales of clients’ shares and misappropriation of client’s funds.

The NSE in a circular dated, 31 July, 2017, and obtained by our correspondent titled: “Disciplinary actions against a dealing member firm and authorized dealing clerk of the Exchange” was signed by Olufemi Shobanjo, Head, Broker Dealer Regular, who advised that dealing members are not to engage in any activity with the above-mentioned firm.

The circular, which notified all member firms of the action taken by the National Council of the Exchange also revealed that a dealing clerk named, Mr. Teslim Abioye has been suspended from trading for a period of six months for unauthorized transactions that occurred during his employment in Fittco Securities Limited.

Shobanjo said, “All Authorized Clerks and employees of dealing member firms are strongly advised against allowing themselves to be used in carrying out activities that are capable of affecting the integrity of the market.

“Furthermore, Dealing Members are also reminded that Rule 6.12: Specific Actions Requiring Prior Consent of The Exchange, Rulebook of The Exchange, 2015 (Dealing Members’ Rules), which states that “a Dealing Member shall not be allowed to Employ any of the following: A. Directors, Authorized Clerks or other persons, including Principal Officers, such as the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Finance Officer, Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Risk Officer, who have been indicted by The Exchange or the Commission, without the prior written consent of The Exchange.

The exchange also ruled out the employment of any person who was an officer or employee of a Dealing Member expelled from The Exchange.

Other persons not to be employed by dealing member firms without consent from the Exchange include, “Any person expelled, as an Authorized Clerk or its equivalent, from any other exchange; Any person refused admission as a member of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers or any person expelled from its membership; Any person expelled as a member of any Professional Association or Institute; Any person who is insolvent or has been convicted of theft, fraud, forgery, or any other crime involving dishonesty”.

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High profile cases: Lawyers divided over AGF’s letter to EFCC Continued from page 1 of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, directing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to forward 35 case files of ex- governors and other high profile corruption cases the agency is handling or prosecuting to his office for vetting and further directive.

While some senior lawyers agreed that the AGF is the chief law officer of the country and ought to approve cases for prosecution, others see the letter as unnecessarily exerting authority of the office by demanding for case files of matters filed as far back as 2010.

The lawyers spoke in separate interviews with our correspondents in Abuja on Wednesday.

A senior lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, while condemning EFCC’s refusal to comply with the directives of Malami, said it is unfortunate that the antigraft agency has turned itself into a demi-god.

Ozekhome said the Acting Chairman of the EFCC Mr. Ibrahim Magu, should be conscious of the laws of the land to ensure that section 10 of the EFCC Regulations, 2010, is not breached.

According to Ozekhome, to refuse the request of the AGF would mean the EFCC seeking an amendment to the 1999 Constitution (as amended).

“To continue to defy the

AGF, the EFCC must first amend the 1999 Constitution to enable it usurp and appropriate the powers of the AGF clearly spelt out in in section 174 of the 1999 Constitution.

According to Ozekhome, section 174 empowers the AGF to institute, take over or discontinue any criminal proceedings in Nigeria, subject to certain constitutional imperatives which do not however concern the EFCC. “The EFCC which is clearly under the supervisory jurisdiction of the office AGF does not possess such powers,” he added.

Another senior lawyer, Mr Ahmed Raji, SAN, agreed with Ozekhome that the AGF is the chief law officer of the country.

He however argued that that the AGF should work in synergy with the EFCC, ICPC and other law enforcement agencies in the country.

He said, “I expect the AGF and the law enforcement agencies to have a certain level of understanding and cooperation; that is my view.”

But a constitutional lawyer, Mr Jiti Ogunye, has faulted the directive of the AGF that the EFCC should forward case files of high profile cases of 35 ex governors and senators to the office of the AGF for review .

According to him, the directive is very worrisome.

He also argued that he is surprised and genuinely wonder whether the AGF

is not bothered that many Nigerians are likely to perceive this call for surrender of the files as the executive variant or version of the ongoing legislative traducement of the EFCC and its leadership .

Ogunye said, “Here is an EFCC and its leadership on which a war is currently being waged by the Senate.

Only recently , the Senate, in its continued bid to emsnsculate the EFCC and liquidate its leadership, hurried a bill through the legislative process to remove the NFIU from under the control of the EFCC .

“The Senate pretended that it is poised to grant the NFIU independent existence in order to strengthen it. The truth however is that the gambit of the Senate is to castrate the EFCC and make financial intelligence

a subject of political trafficking that will be available to be shared amongst corrupt politicians under investigations and prosecutions.

“So, the timing of the AGF’ s call for files, a call that appears to synchronise with the mischief at the Senate, is ominous .

The question is , is the AGF wittingly or unwittingly coordinating and cooperating with the Senate against the EFCC? “Aside the issue of timing , the law does not favour the position of the AGF . As clearly shared in the case of Osahon. V .FRN , the police and law enforcement agencies in Nigeria have powers of prosecution , independently of the office of the AGF. “While the AGF is granted supervisory powers over the EFCC under section 43

of the EFCC Establishment Act under which power the office of the AGF rolled out its Enforcement Regulations, and the touted Section 10 thereof, it is our humble opinion that the AGF cannot constrain or subvert the independent prosecutorial powers of the EFCC by calling for case files of csses that are undergoing prosecution in the guise of intent to review those case files .

“The EFCC prosecuted cases on the basis of legal advice provided by its legal department, upon conclusion of investigations. The EFCC does not prosecute on the basis of legal advice of the AGF or the Federal Director of Public Prosecutions. Thus, the issue of withdrawing the files of EFCC cases for a so called review by the office of the AGF does not arise .

“Under Section 174 of the 1999 Constitution, the AGF has the power to take over or discontinue all public prosecutions at the Federal level , even when those prosecutions were not initiated by the AGF. If this is what the AGF wants to do, and there is good ground for this step, the AGF can exercise the powers without calling for files of csses his office did not initiate or commence in the first place .

“The AGF’ s action is not tenable . We recall that the action of the AGF is reminiscent of the action Chief Michael Andoakaa, erstwhile AGF and ex SAN , who , before the dispersal of the Ribadu headed EFCC, was insisting on the surrender of the case files of ex governors tp him . Andoakaa waged a relentless war on Continued on page 8

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Nigeria’s economy may recover by 0.8% in 2017 -IMF

Motolani Oseni

ÏÏÏ The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Wednesday that Nigeria economic growth is expected to recover slightly to 0.8 per cent this year after the country slipped into its first recession last year in more than two decades.

It would be recall that IMF staff team led by Amine Mati had had visited Nigeria from July 20-31, 2017 over recent economic and financial developments, update macroeconomic projections, and review reform implementation.

IMF staff team led by Amine Mati visited Nigeria from July 20-31, 2017 to discuss recent economic and financial developments, update macroeconomic projections, and review reform implementation They however, noted that the near- term risks to Nigeria’s recovery remained el-

evated and that the growth would not be sufficient to reduce unemployment and poverty in Africa’s biggest economy.

At the end of the visit, Mr. Mati, Senior Resident Representative and Mission Chief for Nigeria at the IMF, noted: “The economic backdrop remains challenging, despite some signs of relief in the first half of 2017. Economic activity contracted in the first quarter of the year by 0.6 percent, mainly as maintenance stoppages reduced oil production” However, following four quarters of negative growth, the non-oil economy grew by 0.6 percent (year-on-year), on the back of a rebound in manufacturing and continued strong performance in agriculture. Various indicators suggest an uptick in activity in the second quarter of the year. Helped by favor-

able base effects, headline inflation decreased to 16.1 percent in June 2017, but remains high despite tight liquidity conditions, “they added.

Thy further note that “Preliminary data for the first half of the year indicate significant revenue shortfalls, with the interestpayments to revenue ratio remaining high (40 percent at end-June) and projected to increase further under current policies.

High domestic bond yields and tight liquidity continue to crowd out private sector credit. Given Nigeria’s low growth environment and the banking system’s exposure to the oil and gas sector, non-performing loans increased from 6 percent in 2015 to 15 percent in March 2017 (8 percent after excluding the four undercapitalized banks).

In their words, “Faced

with these challenges, the government has started implementing a number of important measures.

The Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) is driving the diversification strategy, and security in the Niger Delta improved through strengthened engagement.

The new Investor and Exporter FX window has provided impetus to portfolio inflows, helped increase reserves above $30 billion, and contributed to reducing the parallel market premium.

Important steps have also been taken in implementing the power sector recovery plan, introducing a voluntary income and asset declaration program and moving forward the 60-day national action plan to improve the business environment. Progress is also ongoing within the oil and energy sector through

implementation of a new funding mechanism for cash calls.

“However, near-term vulnerabilities and risks to economic recovery and macroeconomic and financial stability remain elevated. At 0.8 percent, growth in 2017 will not be sufficient to make a dent in reducing unemployment and poverty.

Concerns about delays in policy implementation, a reversal of favorable external market conditions, possible shortfalls in agricultural and oil production, additional fiscal pressures, continued market segmentation in a foreign exchange market that remains dependent on central bank interventions, and banking system fragilities represent the main risks to the outlook.

“Acting on an appropriate and coherent set of policies to enhance an eco-

nomic recovery remains urgent. This includes implementing immediately specific priorities that will help achieve the goals of the ERGP. In the near term, a stronger push for front-loaded fiscal consolidation through a sustainable increase in non-oil revenues would be needed to create space for infrastructure spending, social protection, and private sector credit.

This should be simultaneously accompanied by a monetary policy that avoids direct financing of the government and is kept sufficiently tight, a unified and market-based exchange rate, and rapid implementation of structural reforms.

Pursuing these policies would help reduce macroeconomic vulnerabilities and create an environment for a diversified privatesector led economy” they noted

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EFCC. That was in 2007 and 2008. Of course many SANS supported him. Eventually, EFCC was dispersed.

“We are in 2017. The big question is , is EFCC facing a coordinated attack again?

Another lawyer, Mr. Wahab Shittu, has also aligned himself with the argument of Ogunye, saying that the powers of the AGF to take over is sacrosanct but it is quite worrisome if the AGF will be asking for the case files of matters that are already in court.

He said: “If the AGF feels strongly and believes that his action is in line with Section 174(3) of the constitution, then he can enter any matter to either continue or discontinue the case. There

is no point in asking for case files of cases already in court, which are being delayed on technicalities and other sundry issues that are contrary to the Administration of Criminal Justice Act”.

It was not certain on Wednesday for which purpose the AGF needs the case files even as Okoi ObonoObla, special assistant to the president on prosecutions, had last week threatened that Malami would report Magu and former ICPC boss, Mr Ekpo Nta, who was redeployed on Tuesday as chairman of the ICPC to the presidency for breaching the rules.

Obono-Obla had accused the agencies of withholding the case files of more than 35 former governors and sena-

tors from the AGF. He also said the failure to forward the files to the AGF since July 2016 when the request was made had caused a setback to the anti-graft war, blaming the strings of losses recorded in high-profile cases on the “breach”.

He blamed EFCC and ICPC uncooperative attitude with Malami, as having led to the loss of some high-profile corruption cases.

But the EFCC’s head of Legal department, Mr G Latona, has since denied claims of not cooperating with the AGF, arguing that “we are not working at cross purposes with the office of the AGF; we are cooperating with them. We have a wide range of corruption cases in concert with state agencies.”

He also said the AGF’s office has the right to initiate new high-profile corruption cases and investigate them without waiting for cases initiated by the EFCC. But Section 174 of the 1999 constitution is explicit on the powers of the AGF, thus: “(a) The AGF is to institute and undertake Criminal proceedings against any person before any court of law in Nigeria, other than a court- martial, in respect of any offence created by or under any act of the National Assembly. “(b) To take over or continue any such criminal proceedings that may have been instituted by any other authority or person and; “(c) To discontinue at any stage before judgment is delivered any such criminal

proceedings instituted or undertaking by him or any other authority of person. “(2) the powers conferred upon the AGF under subsection (1) of this section may be exercised by him in person or through officers of

his department. “(3) In exercising his powers under this section, the AGF shall have regards to the public interest, interest of justice or the need to prevent abuse of legal processes”.

People championing marginalisation want political appointments –Osinbajo Continued from page 1 tions formed the way ours was formed is bound to fail.

The term mere geographic expression is not original to Nigeria,” he said.

“It is also a false narrative that one group is more corrupt than the other. Not so. If you look at a corruption charge sheet, there is unity. You will find all ethnic and religious groups equally represented in the corruption charge. There’s complete unity in the business of corruption.

“It is also a false narrative that we are better off when ethnic groups are on their own. While different

groups have strength we are better united.

“It is also not true that those who make marginalisation charges are altruistic. Often what they are saying is I am marginalised‘appoint me’.”

Some prominent citizens have been calling for a restructuring of the country, citing the alleged marginalisation of their section of the country as a reason for the call.

Also, some groups in the south-east are demanding an independent state of Biafra on the allegation that the region has been neglected since after the civil war.

LOSS OF DOCUMENT

L-R: Executive Director, British American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation (BATNF), Abimbola Okoya; General Manager/ Head, Weather Forecasting Services Department, Nigerian Meteorological Services (NiMet), Mr. Ishiyaku Ibrahim; General Manager, BATNF, Lola Johnson-Agiri and Head, Leaf Operations, BATN, Mr. Thomas Omofoye, during the presentation of weather instruments by NiMet to BATNF in Oyo State … recently.

Police nab middle age man for selling son for N150,000

Edem Edem, Calabar

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A middle age man, Abraham Moses Udoh, suspected to be a child trafficker, has sold his two year old son, Elisha Abraham for N150, 000 to an unknown woman residing in Uyo in Akwa Ibom.

Parading the suspect alongside 27 others, the Cross River State Commissioner of Police, Hafiz Inuwa, said the suspect said it is the inability to make ends meet with six other children and a wife to cater for, that forced him to sell Elisha.

The state police boss narrated that “on July 24, 2017, a case of child trafficking

was reported by one Mrs. Esther Abraham against her husband – Abraham Moses Udoh, who stole away their two year old boy, Elisha, without her consent.

“Upon investigation, Abraham Moses Udoh revealed that he personally sold his child, Elisha, to an unknown woman residing in Uyo in Akwa Ibom state at the sum of N150, 000. But the sum of N103, 000 was recovered from him and registered as exhibit.”

Mr. Inuwa said that investigation is in progress to arrest the alleged buyer and recover the child. He also said that most of those paraded have confessed to their different crimes and

would be charged to court as soon as the police complete investigation.

He further disclosed that out of about 500 cases prosecuted by his command, the police had secured judgment in at least 300 while others were pending. “From February this year when I took over, as commissioner, we have arrested at least 500 suspects and more than 300 suspects have been charged to court.

“Between the period under review, we have arrested 27 suspects while the following items were recovered: five locally made pistol, one makarov pistol, one locally made revolver pistol, three rounds live

cartridge, one Nokia 105 handset, one HTC handset, the sum of N268,000, one infinix handset, one Samsung mobile phone etc,” he said.

The commissioner appealed to members of the public to collaborate with the Police in terms of giving useful information, adding “police cannot accomplish the set-goals without collaborative efforts of members of the public.”

On the whereabouts of the child, Udoh told newsmen that he does not know where the buyers have taken the child to and that he regretted his action.

The suspect hails from Ikot Ekpene in Akwa Ibom state.

This is to inform the general public of the loss of Documents, consisting of Deed of a Conveyance dated 05/07/55 duly registered at No. 72 Page 72 Volume 1031 for property situate at No. 27 Itire Road, Surulere, Lagos belonging to Late MADAM SARIYU AIYEDUN SHITTA and passed to his son Late ALHAJI SALISU AKANNI SULE. KAZEEM OMOBORIOLA SULE, the son of Late ALHAJI SALISU AKANNI SULE has made efforts to trace the said document without success.

If found, please contact the Land Registry, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos.

Signed: KAZEEM OMOBORIOLA SULE

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In the Migistrate’s Court Calabar Notice of Appeal No.C/19A/1951

Effiong Esien Etim for himself and as representing Esien Antigha Esien family ….. plaintiff Versus Edet Etim Edet Okon & 5 others for themselves and on behalf of Anambe Asikpo House of Ibonda and Solomon……. Defendants JUDGMENT This is an appeal against the judgment of the Native Court of Appeal dated the 2nd November, 1951 which confirmed a judgment dated the 29th September, 1950 of the Creek Town Native Court The suit was brought by the appellants to obtain a declaration of title to certain land situate at Creek Town described as Mbukpana to Essien Antigha and also to obtain damages for trespass to the said land.

The Creek Town Native Court in effect dismissed Appellants claims to Declaration of Title and trespass.

The Native Court in an exhaustive Summing up and judgment dealt with the case after further listening to Appellants’ case. It is to be noted that the Native Court of Appeal also inspected the land the subject matter of the suit and wrote a Report of inspection of rather comprehensive nature.

Appellants claimed that the land was bought from the Nsubang Enembe by the late Essien Antigha in 1851.

Respondents contended that the land was never sold at any time. The Native Court of Appeal observed that under Native Law and Customs when a land is purchased rows of Okono trees are used to mark the boundaries. The Court further observed 1

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that the only Okono tree found on the land was believed to be planted at a comparatively recent date, and this, went on that Court, and Appellants admitted. After reviewing the evidence before it, the Court found as a foot that the land is not the property of Appellants and therefore dismissed the claims both for Declaration of Title and trespass.

In the Privy Council case of ABAKAH NTAH Vs. ANGUH HENNIRH (Privey Council Appeal No. 165 of 1927) Lord Atkin said:“By colonial legislation all suits relating to the ownership of land held under Native tenure are placed within the exclusive jurisdiction of Native tribunals unless satisfactory reason to the contrary is shown. It appears to their Lordships that decision of the Native tribunal on such matters which are peculiarly within their knowledge, arrived at after a fair hearing on relevant evidence, should not be disturbed without very clear proof that they are wrong and their Lordships fail to find such proof in the present case”.

In the 1950 West African Court of Appeal case of David UDECHUKWU And Others Vs. Sylvanus Ogbeagu – W.A.C.S. No. 3202 decided on the 10th November, 1950 – Blackhall-President said:“Where a question of fact is tried by a Judge without a jury, an Appeal Court which is disposed to come to a different consideration on printed evidence should not do so unless satisfied that the advantages enjoyed by the trial Judge by reason of his having seen and heard the witnesses could and be sufficient to justify the Judge’s conclusion.”

In this case it is clear that both the Creek Town Native Court and the Native Court of Appeal availed themselves of the numerous advantages they had of hearing witnesses, observing their demeanour and paying a visit to the “locus” before coming to their conclusions.

In the circumstance therebefore this Court; in the exercise of its Appellate jurisdiction; will not interfere with the concurrent finding of fact by the two lower Courts since there was ample evidence before them upon which they based their findings.

The appeal therefore fails and must be dismissed with costs assessed at £7:7.-.

(Sgd.) S.O. Lambo Magistrate 2

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HEREAS BY SUIT NOS. 157/50, C/19A/51 AND 3A/53, THE FAMILY OF ONE ESSIEN ANTIGHA ESSIEN WHO WENT TO COURT WAS DECLARED NOT ENTITLED TO THE RIGHT OF OWNERSHIP OF THE PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND KNOWN AS UKPAHATA IN EFUT IBONDA CLAN, ODUKPANI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA. THE VARIOUS COURTS GAVE JUDGMENTS THAT UKPAHATA LAND RIGHTFULLY BELONGED TO EFUT IBONDA CLAN. AND WHEREAS THE RULINGS IN SUIT NOS. MCT/1/99 AND HC/497/2001 DID NOT SET ASIDE THE EARLIER JUDGMENTS WHICH DECLARED TITLE OVER UKPAHATA LAND ON EFUT IBONDA CLAN. BE IT KNOWN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC THEREFORE THAT OKON ITAM FAMILY WHICH IS A BRANCH OF ESSIEN ANTIGHA ESSIEN FAMILY OF CREEK TOWN HAVE NO IOTA OF RIGHT TO TRANSACT ANY BUSINESS AND OR DEAL IN ANY MANNER WHATSOEVER ON UKPAHATA’S LAND WHICH IS THE BONAFIDE LAND OF EFUT IBONDA WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE, CONSENT AND AUTHORITY OF EFUT IBONDA MURI’S CABINET. (SIGNED) HRH MURI ITA OKOKON MESEMBE XI MURI & CLAN HEAD OF EFUT IBONDA WESTERN CALABAR, ODUKPANI L.G.A. CROSS RIVER STATE.

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HE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE JUDGMENTS OF THE COURT OF LAW AND PARTICULARLY THE SUPREME COURT OF NIGERIA IN THE CALABAR JUDICIAL DIVISION OVER THE OWNERSHIP OF ALL THE PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND KNOWN AS AND CALLED UKPAHATA IN EFUT IBONDA CLAN IN SUIT NOS. 157/50, C/19A/51 AND C/3A/53 ARE STILL VALID AND SUBSISTING SAME HAVING NOT BEEN SET ASIDE BY ANY OTHER COURT. ALSO, THE TITLE OF EFUT IBONDA OVER UKPAHATA’S LAND WAS FURTHER CONFIRMED BY THE ARBITRATION PANEL SET UP BY ODUKPANI TRADITIONAL RULERS COUNCIL TO LOOK INTO THE CLAIM OF OKU ATAI OVER UKPAHATA’S LAND IN YEAR 2001. THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND STRANGERS IN UKPAHATA VILLAGE ARE THEREFORE WARNED NOT TO TRANSACT ANY FORM OF BUSINESS RELATING TO OR TOUCHING ON UKPAHATA’S LAND WITH ONE OKON ITAM FAMILY OR ANY PERSON WHATSOEVER WITHOUT THE PRIOR CONSENT, PERMISSION AND OR AUTHORITY OF THE MURI’S CABINET OF EFUT IBONDA. MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE WARNED ALSO THAT ANYBODY WHO TRESPASSES ON UKPAHATA’S LAND UNDER ANY GUISE IS DOING SO AT HIS/HER OWN RISK. (SIGNED) HRH MURI ITA OKOKON MESEMBE XI MURI & CLAN HEAD OF EFUT IBONDA WESTERN CALABAR, ODUKPANI L.G.A. CROSS RIVER STATE.

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their immediate environment makes it impossible to compete with products of other institutions across the world.

There is no denying the fact that higher investment in education, training, research and development would have spin-off benefits, especially with the convergence of innovation and creativity with requirements of the industry and economy.

It is a shame that many of our institutions of higher learning lack excellent laboratories and research centres like those in other developed and developing countries of the world. The consequence is the embarrassing learning by rope, especially among those studying Engineering and other technology related courses. On graduation, they are handicapped in relating in practical terms their learning in the classroom.

It bears repeating that in the modern age, products of tertiary institutions should be creators of employment rather than seekers of jobs.

We are saying it for the umpteenth time that universities must be able to conduct researches aimed at providing solutions to the problems in society. To achieve this, universities should be adequately funded for research and development in order to complement the theoretical aspects of learning. The world of today needs solutions providers, not solutions consumers and problem creators. Even at that, we expect universities and other higher institutions to seek funding from both local and international sources. In addition, universities should develop symbiotic relationship with industries and other relevant agencies, with the objective of getting funding for industry related and other specific projects.

In all, universities need to move beyond issuing paper qualifications alone, to the realm of practical implementation. A nation whose citizens are not individually developed and self-reliant is not reckoned with in today’s globalised world.

The university system and other higher institutions of learning must, therefore, become primary tools for Africa’s development in the 21 century.

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Rush for paper qualification

ot a few persons had at various times bemoaned the rush by Nigerians to acquire paper qualifications. One of such persons, the immediate past Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETfund), Professor Suleiman Bagoro, not long ago decried a situation where Nigerians strive to acquire paper qualifications without necessarily passing through the academic rigours to attain them. Bogoro lamented that such qualifications has become a cog in the wheel of true educational growth in the country.

According to him, it is something of concern to see young Nigerians with higher academic qualifications who cannot defend their certificates in practical terms. The former TETfund boss noted that lack of research in most tertiary institutions is responsible for the country’s educational underdevelopment, even as he noted that it would be impossible for them to succeed without adequate funding for research. Harping on what he called “The Diploma Disease Syndrome,” Bogoro bemoaned the situation that has contributed considerably to the high level of unemployment among university graduates.

Certainly, no right thinking citizen with the country’s educational advancement at heart would dispute Bogoro’s forthright observations. Therefore, we are in harmony with all he said. This is because the arrested development in our tertiary institutions can only worsen, unless the authorities brace up to realities of the present, and place more emphasis on research.

Presently, graduates of our higher institutions are left in a state of limbo, their future hanging in the balance, because the majority of them lack the requisite skills to fit into the modern world of work. They are pitifully ill-equipped for the workplace of today. For long, our universities have appeared reluctant to develop an effective and mutually beneficial linkage with industry that would go a long way in ensuring both robust academic activities and innovative practices. Such detachment from

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STATEMENTS BY THOSE WHO MATTER

Obafemi Awolowo

Aminu Kano

“Violence never settles anything right: apart from injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause.”

“The road to freedom is full of thorns and fire, yet happy is he who follows it!

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Katanguwa: A market like no other in Lagos

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xcept for clubhouses, the hours of 4 in the mornings are generally quiet and sombre.

The typical metropolitan resident would be likely doing the final turns on the bed in the warm, sleepy, comfort of his or her apartment. The early riser, at best, may be indecisively opening the eyes to the lone and distant cockcrow, emitting the first lousy yawns, even as the brains struggled to come to grips with the reality of a breaking day and the programmes for it as mapped out before the expiring bedtime.

Those, however, are luxuries the typical salesperson in Katanguwa market must first jettison if he or she is to fit into the orgy of the extant commerce.

Katanguwa parades a chaotic assembly of business derring-dos, men and women mostly in a defiant hurry to win the war against what may look like an unfriendly life. Business here is like a slugfest where each combatant is determined to vanquish all adversary.

You may shout in the middle of the market at dawn, ‘No food for the lazy man!’ and you are at home.

This writer’s first experience was a chance drive by, on his way from an ailing colleague in a hospital in Sango Ota, Ogun State. It was a few minutes to 4am. The articulated vehicle from the Dangote fleet suddenly jerked and lurched at Super Bus Stop along Lagos / Abeokuta Expressway. I swerved to park for safety. But I came close to hitting a lady with a torchlight,

who rained unprintable expletives at me. I tried to squeeze in apologies through her verbal barrage, even as I noticed animated silhouettes scrambling over heaps of used fabrics.

It was like an unlit film, but it was indeed human crowds tearing into bales of mostly smuggled wears, bags et al. It was that spectacle of torch lit, dawn, trade fair that constituted the pull for further investigation.

As at late eighties, Super Bus Stop was more or less a nondescript, almost anonymous, point between commercial Ile-epo Bus Stop and the traffic junction of Abule-egba as you sped away from Lagos towards Abeokuta. Aside from a handful Igbo traders servicing the semiagrarian neighbourhoods, the next major landmark further inside was a small close nit Hausa community engrossed in native pursuits and filial, unambitious, secondhand clothes trading. A few others scavenged and recycled scraps.(The prevalent rumour was that Katanguwa was the name of a former Nigerian army of great clout to whom that piece of land was dashed by a former Head of state.) The intervening spaces were heaps of debris and harried grasslands trampled upon for toilet by suburban stragglers, and livestock foraging for good grass. Trees stood here and there providing breezy canopies to both settlers and visitors, a good number of whom came to satiate their appetite for harder tobacco and native brews.

Not anymore!

Katanguwa was to become correspondingly attractive to both traders and buyers as the Lagos mainland

As APC ‘brings’ order from chaos

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Emmanuel Onwubiko

f you have ever visited a typical chain of brothels then you will understand how chaos and disorder function in real life situation.

This is because traditionally, the red light district is a house of ‘sin’ and the ancillary activities that go with commercialised sex works such as smoking and drunkenness.

In the house of commercial sex, commotion and noise are the order of the day.

The aforementioned anti-social behaviours of drinking of alcohol and smoking of a range of cigarettes among others can’t be consumed in tranquillity.

The brothels whereby commercial sex hawkers practise their infamous trade can be likened to a house of commotion.

It is in a typical brothel, that all kinds of infighting take place just as the brothels especially in our clime is seen as harbingers of all kinds of criminal syndicates.

Knowing the above facts, can anyone truly convince the audience of the potency of finding orderliness in such a chaotic environment such as brothels in a typical Nigerian township?

The graphic picture of the chaotic scenarios that are daily occurrence of brothels and intra party feuds going on within the ranks of the political party that controls the Federal government of Nigeria known as All Progressing Congress are like Siamese twins.

Ideally, the name All Progressives Congress connotes aspirations that

most Nigerians yearn for in politics namely progress and unity. Unity amongst members of political parties with clearly defined agenda of development of the society brings about progress and rapid expansion of happiness amongst the greatest percentage of the populace.

The utilitarian philosophers say that the achievement of the greatest happiness of the greatest percentage of the people of a given society is the essence of politics. I agree.

But if those who happily voted for president Muhammadu Buhari’s party had hoped to witness tranquility and unity of purpose amongst the top chieftains of the ruling party, they may have to wait for a long time to come.

Right from the day president Buhari assumed office on May 29th 2015 till date, his political family has yet to experience peace.

His frequent foreign medical tourism has compounded these chain of chaotic infighting and uncertainty.

The squabbles going on amongst the APC stakeholders can be likened to the self-destructive fight that occurs when a bunch of hoodlums have retired to their hide-out to share their loots and there is a slight discord regarding the sharing formula.

A typical example was the story told by the police about Evans the billionaire suspected to be a kidnapper, that the bullet wound that can be seen on his hand was sustained when in one occasion, quarrel ensued amongst his gang members

increasingly grew into a commercial hub attracting millionaire businesspersons in a hurry to displace low income tradespeople. Aswani, the emergent textile international market in Isolo area of Lagos also didn’t favour the downtrodden. Katanguwa in the outskirts of Lagos then, from the early nineties, generously welcomed the migrating less privileged in droves, with land speculators falling over themselves to dislodge the initial shacks and squatters that complimented the few edifices owned by the Katanguwa clan. The new heaven to mostly lgbo businessmen was the same to these ‘Om’oniles’ and sundry touts who bestrode mushrooming shade lines of table spaces with Shylock tenacity.

Like the ‘Okada’ revolution, another Lagos child of necessity was born!

Wagons of every make-panel-beaten to cabinets - laden with bales of old and disused clothing, hurtled from across borders in the dead of night to Katanguwa, where their contents are rediscovered as choice wears.

Three days in a week: There are three major market days in a week in Katanguwa - Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. These are the days when major marketers roll out their bales from warehouses for traders who select en masse for sale to the end users. Rentage varied from one section of the market to the other. Those in open spaces paid ‘renewal levy’ every new year, even as daily levies must be paid to the accredited collector. Any defaults in the prompt payments of these ‘market-day levy’ often results in the summary loss of one’s space. Business go on through-

out the remaining days of the week besides. But they don’t attract anything near the bustle and patronage of those major days.

Born of necessity: Joy, a boutique owner in Ikeja, gave an insight into the strategic importance of the market. The continued economic downturn in the country, she claimed, gradually forces citizens to re-discover new ways of getting along effectively even with fashion. Many people prefer second hand materials, according to her, because of their originality and cheapness.

Boutique owners therefore have since learnt how to repackage picks from freshly opened bales in Katanguwa market, and these, according to her, sell faster and with bigger profit than the company-fresh.

Emmanuel Odo, another trader in the market offers another perspective. Emma is a dealer in new ladies wears, bales of which his wife ferries from importers based in Onitsha, Anambra State. He laughed at the impression that only second hand textile materials sell well in Katanguowa. No, this is a big market with room for both new and old fabrics, he gently corrects. All one needs, he quickly adds, is the acute sense for the vogue and the acumen for marketing contest.

Life-size anxiety: Inquiries into why landlords of shops, shades and open space owners tend to overtax traders revealed more on the uncertainties of business life in Katanguwa.

on the sharing formality and these armed hoodlums exchanged gun shots to settle their difference just as it was told that Evans was about the only survival from that battle for the loots.

Although it may be uncharitable and way too unsophisticated to compare the political infighting within the APC to the typical boardroom bullets’ exchange between quarrelsome members of a crime syndicate, but the genesis of the crisis in the ruling party is known to have started with the selection of leaders of the parliament. So if a conspiracy theorist compare the various squabbles in APC as that of members of an organised crime syndicate, it must be understood from the context of the extent of frustration that Nigerians are feeling because of the apparent inertia in the governance of the Country by the quarrelsome politicians belonging to APC. It would be recalled that the party faithful’s loyal to president Buhari championed by the disgraced secretary to the Federal government Mr. Babachir Lawal wanted some other person but Bukola Saraki to become senate president.

But most of senators of the APC supported by those of the People’s Democratic Party thought otherwise and went for Bukola Saraki and the PDP’s Ike Ekweremadu.

The emergence of the opposition PDP senator as Deputy Senate President was taken as a political slap in the face of an ‘all powerful’ APC produced president for which both

of them in the Senate leadership would be subjected to the bitter pills of federal government’s sponsored persecution.

The emergence of Dr Saraki, the two terms governor of Kwara State and the eldest son of the second Republic leader of the senate did not end the infighting amongst the supporters of the new leadership and the remnants that backed the presidency.

That infighting boiled out to a ferocious legal prosecution of the senate leaders in both the Abuja high court for alleged forgery of inhouse rule book of the senate and the recently dismissed prosecution of Bukola Saraki before the code of conduct Tribunal.

With all these fights going on and threatening the foundation of the ruling party, the national hierarchy appeared very weak and partisan.

However, the national hierarchy of the ruling party has spectacularly failed to provide the needed effective leadership by example by failing to rise to the occasions to resolve conclusively the various contentious supremacy battles that the different State chapters between are engulfed particularly between influential senators and their state governors who feel threatened by the national visibility of these outspoken senators.

Emmanuel Onwubiko is Head of HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) and blogs@ www. emmanuelonwubiko.com; www. huriwa@blogspot.com.

Kanenechi Emeka wrote from Lagos.

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Straightening, sustaining geographical regions:Case for South-East zone

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Okey M. Agunyego

cannot claim to be a political analyst rather I am a concerned Igbo man. I would hope that the ideas and reasons I portray in this piece no mater its simple format can be analysed and put in use by the governors of South-East states.

As a class three student in 1965 I read that Eastern Nigeria was the fastest developing economy in SubTropical Africa. This information was ascribed to Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Taking this feat much higher than it was in 1965 is the pith of this short write-up.

Before discussing the modalities of this economic height, let me cite some of the reasons that warranted them. To some Nigerians, all the states are marginalised one way or the other. A truism but I believe that South-East is a victim of orchestrated political and economic marginalisation as exhibited thus: South-East is the only region that has five states whereas SouthSouth, South-West, North-East, North–West and North-Central have six states apiece. North-East has 200 Local Governments whereas South-East has 95. By implication other zones produce six governors whereas South-East has five and likewise the numbers of Senators, House of Representatives, Local Government Chairmen. The monetary allocation runs in the same pattern. How fair is this? The three Rs, Reconciliation, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation enunciated by General Gowon after the war was not fully implemented.

The zone hardly felt this relief. By the end of the war, those that turned in the old currency were given 20 apiece no matter the amount turned in. The preclusion continued during the indigenisation policy in 1970s. With 20, we were schemed out from buying foreign companies marked for sales.

The President tongue-lashed the people when they complained about the lopsided Federal appointments. He was quick to remind them that they never voted for him; a vituperative that is un-presidential. It was a serious error that can fuel marginalisation. The recent action by the House of Representative to stall the Development bill sought for South-East is undeserved and a bit thick. It is acceptable to use oil fund to address the devastation caused by Boko Haram but unsuitable to address the dearth of infrastructure in South-East since the end of the war. A representative from the North observed that the timing of the bill is wrong; especially coming soon after the Government is addressing the devastation caused by Boko Haram in the North-East. He claimed also that South-East has benefitted much of Federal fund since the end of the war. How disingenuous?

Given the above revelations, we do not need to be reminded of the huge tasks ahead to rebuild the region and protect her people. The five governors from South East would need to come together and set up a commission that will put in place infrastructure investment that will focus on linking all the five states with light rails and with extension for example from Aba to Calabar, Enugu to Portharcourt.

The rail can be extended to Cameroun border. An agreement with the Federal Government for the states to fix the ruined Federal roads and be paid later can be reached.

We must not forget that South-East is landlocked hence the need for a second International Airport with complementary Cargo facilities. We may be bold in lobbying the Federal Government to make Onitsha port functional.

How to source the loan and necessary assistance is crucial. Zeroing in on South Asia countries is an option but it is for the commission to crack.

It would also be of good advantage to set up Research and production, capable of forging technological advancement.

Beyond this joint working agreement, the individual States have the responsibility to tackle various development needs namely, water, quality education, quality artisans, hospitals, agriculture, power etc. and not leaving out sports. Nduka Odizor, a retired and highly rated tennis player in Nigeria was recently awarded a contract by Kogi State to run a Tennis Academy for it. That is a forward looking approach worth emulating.

Of great importance is harnessing the industrial potential of Aba, Nnewi, Onitsha, Abakiliki, Oji, Oye and others to realize our mission.

There is no doubt that with infrastructure investment on ground, especially the light train link, the economy will thrive. We do not need to make a fanfare of this plan. A five year development plan or more, I reckon can achieve desirable results.

We would then be described in super-

Political communication in an age of power tussle

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Livinus Ukah

here there is power tussle there is bound to be political scape goats. As the situation goes on, the struggle by contestants to be on top results in the exchange of political blows, throwing bombs at each other, rubbishing each other, reducing each other to look like grasshoppers.

Leaders in Nigeria are no longer respected by the ruled especially when the national cake is given but not shared evenly in their constituencies. In a case like this, the ruled begin to play the blame game and vent their anger and frustration on the government at the center. In Nigeria it has become fashionable to blame every mistake or wrong doing on government. When people are at the social clubs, ceremonies, social gatherings, work places, religious gathering etc they tend to transfer their aggressions, personal failures, disappointments and frustrations to the government in power even when they possess the synergy to improve their personal conditions of life or improve on things that will enhance the nation.

Nigerians are the ones making life difficult for themselves. They should stop seeing government as the god-father to depend on for their daily bread. If Nigeria is going to be a better place, the people must be nationalistic, proud of their country and shun all those things that negatively affect the image of the nation e.g lack of

nationalism. Nigerians complain of bad leaders. The same Nigerians sell their votes to the highest bidder during election. How then do they expect to have good leaders elected. Those who lack good leadership qualities and desire to lead Nigeria become vendors of false information to the people and confuse the process of choosing the right leadership.

At school, students gain admission, get grades without merit. At work places people are willing to pay to be promoted or use bottom power to get what they want.

A market woman who sells rice complains about corruption in government but sees nothing wrong with altering the measuring cup to make extra money. Excellence is sacrificed at the alter of mediocracy. Nigerians are accustomed to cutting corners and seeking short cuts to success. Many Nigerians avoid paying taxes not knowing that the taxes are used to develop the country. They jump queues and disobey traffic laws with impunity without knowing that it affects the psyche of the nation. Doing what we like at the expense of the nation, making regrettable comments is being poor citizenry and unpatriotic. Our actions should not reflect our nation negatively. Our newspapers retain columnists that earn their living by denigrating and criticizing Nigerians pitilessly.

The quality of government and its leaders is simply a reflection of the collective consciousness of all the people. The government is

not restricted to Aso Rock. We are all participants in government because every person should help to build up the nation. Let us not destroy it because of our feeling that we are not a part of the ruling power.

If the collective moral and social consciousness of Nigerians is diffused and negatively skewed it is because people are not behaving in accord with natural laws.

Consequently the problem of corruption will be an unavoidable phenomenon amongst leaders. If on the other hand the collective moral and social consciousness of Nigerians is positive, integrated and coherent, the society will be a better place for all and the leaders motivated to higher levels of leadership and performance. Positivity and harmony should be strong and dense in national consciousness.

Negative reaction towards the government cannot motivate the power structure to do more. It can only create a defense mechanism on the part of the government.

The average Nigerian takes undue advantage of the system and exploits it without knowing that it hurts the system, and the people.

A good economy requires all hands on deck to build it because the strength of a chain is the strength of its weakest link. For example if the whole north is productive and only a few southern states are productive, the overall national output or performance will be unproductive. If the low productivity of the south is con-

lative than ordinary. Our merchant brothers should also be committed in utilizing the infrastructure on ground in building up businesses.

A fellow condemned and labelled the first coup an Igbo coup during which two Premiers from North and West were killed and that of the East spared. He went further to speculate that if the coup did not take place the pogrom would not have taken place and likewise the war. One may give into this opinion but one would ask if over six coups thereafter had anything to do with the Igbos. People fail to understand that the officers positioned in Enugu to strike the Premier failed to execute the operation. Colonel Unegbe an Ibo who was in charge of armoury was shot in Lagos by the coup members for failing to give them access to the armoury. I make no excuse for them. In Nigeria a coup that fails is treasonable but the one that succeeds is legitimate. The intense and unreasoning fear and dislike of the Igbos started before the first coup. Way back in 1964, how to check the rapidly growing Igbo population in the North was discussed in the Assembly with some suggesting that the license of their shops be revoked.

Some others favoured outright sack.

Agreed that Igbos were everywhere, Fegge in Onitsha harboured rich Hausa community. Alhaji Umoru Jushau was a member of Eastern House of Assembly. An Hausa man also was once a Mayor in Enugu. As I noted in the third paragraph of the first page, other states have their own complaints.

Okey Maduegbunom Agunyego wrote from Lagos

strued as leakages the aggregate performance will be negative.

Nigeria is in dire need of re-branding. Nigerians should stop passing the buck to the government and making the government a scape goat for their own negligence and failure to act as responsible citizens who are supposed to work together with their leaders for sustainable economy. The legislature has abdicated its basic function.

The legislature has abandoned the president mid-stream by denying him the required legislative support to move the country to safer habour. The legislature and the executive should remain in the same boat until they arrive at the shores.

Leaders who engage in political prostitution and cross carpeting could be likened to blacklegs who use life jacket to abandon the ship of state in search of their selfinterest. Leaders who abandon the ship create confusion and heat up the polity. In all these, the intention is to make the president a scape goat. But in reality, it is Nigerians that become the scape goats. When the National Assembly mounts legislative road- blocks against presidential initiatives on the extension of the emergency rule, what does it hope to achieve? Is it to help Boko Haram over run the nation or to help President Jonathan win the war? Everybody talks about Chibok girls. The slogan “Bring Back our Girls� fails to acknowledge that these girls are not kept in one place awaiting liberation by our military personnel.

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Ogun govt tells borehole drillers to seek permission before operation ÏÏÏ The Ogun state

government has warned borehole drillers and water industries in the state to obtain permission from the Ministry of Environment before drilling boreholes, so as to regulate groundwater extraction and protect the environment from any forms of degradation and hazard.

The Commissioner for Environment, Mr. Bolaji Oyeleye, through his Media Aide, Mrs. Nofisat Alapoti, made this known during an inspection tour of some table water production industries in the state.

Oyeleye, who was represented by the Head, Water Regulatory Unit monitoring team, Mrs. Mary Adeosun, said that it was imperative to monitor water production facilities to ensure that water being extracted from the ground for commercial purposes was clean and safe for human consumption.

“Consumption of unregulated ground water could cause serious health challenge and can be transmitted to other people in our environment. This is why Industries are called upon to get permit before drilling groundwater for commercial usage,” he affirmed.

He advised industries that have existing boreholes without a licence to get one from the Ministry, as those who fail to comply would be sanctioned and their industries sealed off for any production of water.

The commissioner said the government cared for the people of the state and therefore would not relent in its effort to regulate water production at all levels.

In his response, a water resources expert, Mr. Wale Adebayo, said the government decision to regularise extraction of ground water was a welcome idea, adding that it would check mate illegal drilling which could cause environmental degradation/hazard.

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Critics of restructuring, true federalism lack understanding of Nigeria, says ex- envoy Akam James, Yenagoa

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onetime Nigerian Ambassador to the Scandinavian countries Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway, Ambassador Godknows Boladei Igali, on Wednesday, expressed concern over the actions of the National Assembly members and those against calls for restructuring of the nation along true federalism.

He said such anti-restructuring posture is a sign of ignorance on the need for a united country.

According to Ambassador Igali, though he is not in support of those calling for secession and division of the country, the calls for true federation, integration

and restructuring is not a call for division but that the unity of the country should be re-negotiated based on justice and fairness.

Igali, who made this known yesterday during a Public Lecture organised to mark the 60th anniversary of the Odi Ogori Ba Uge International Festival 2017 at Odi Community in Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Councils, said those against the renewed agitation for restructuring and integration does not understand the journey of how the country Nigeria was created and have lived as a united and indivisible country.

He noted that despite the military destruction of the pre-1960 agreement and ground rules reached by

late nationalists on true fiscal federalism and unity, “when you restructure, the different component units have agreed to stay together. I don’t believe that Nigeria will scatter. There is strength in coming together and in diversity. Nation’s are formed by negotiations.

People sit down to negotiate on how they are going to live together.

“Because we are different people, Unity in diversity does not mean the integral parts are not equal. It only means we have dedicated to stay together. Integration and true federalism does not mean we are scattered but that the people have resolved to remain stronger with ground rules on fiscal federalism and other issues on a Federation with the

centre not over burdened.

Unity must be based on fair play, unity, justice, fairness.

Let all units be happy.”

On the issue of rising agitation by members of the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB) for secession, Ambassador Boladei-Igali said the unity of Nigeria is non-negotiable, “It is not always the best when some people are advocating for a break away or secession. We need each other sometimes. We have come together and must remain together as one so that we can benefit from every unit.

It is important.

“It is not going to be easy.

It is not going to be easy for the different component units. It is important that Nigerians should stay together.”

Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun (right) and Director General of the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA), Mr. Yakubu Ibn Mohammed, when he led team of the NTA management on a courtesy visit to the governor in Ogun State … on Wednesday.

Kogi Assembly crisis: IGP tasked to investigate role of police Idris Ahmed, Lokoja

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the invasion and attack on the Kogi state House of Assembly by some suspected thugs on Tuesday, the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, has been called upon to set up a commission of enquiry to probe the role of his men.

Human rights activist and the Executive Director Centre for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution, Mr. Idris Miliki Abdul made the call in

a statement made available to newsmen in Lokoja yesterday.

He wondered why policemen stationed at the state assembly complex to protect lawmakers performing their constitutional duties would be watching helplessly while thugs unleash mayhem, adding that with the present state of things in the state, no one is safe anymore.

Abdul therefore stressed the need for the ugly trend to be thoroughly investigated while those involved

must be made to face the full wrath of the law to serve as deterrent to others, no matter their position in the police force.

He stressed that if those being paid with tax payers’ money to protect lives and property cannot carry out their responsibilities, something definitely must be wrong somewhere, insisting that the continuous breach of peace in the state can no longer be tolerated.

It further called on the state governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, to take de-

cisive action to put a halt to incessant crises in the state, maintaining that the state cannot continue to swim in crises.

While enjoining the members of the state House of Assembly to remain united and continue to discharge their constitutional duties, ensuring separation of powers as enshrined in the constitution, the statement equally urged the citizens of the state to be vigilant and hold government accountable, where it fails to be alive to its responsibilities.

“Always cross check your facts before publishing”, Okowa tells NUJ Nosa Akenzua, Asaba Delta state governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has urged journalists to always cross check their facts before publishing so as not to heat up the polity.

Speaking when Comrade Mike Ikeogwu, Chairman, Nigeria Union Of Journalists Delta State Chapter led members of newly inaugurated Executive on a courtesy visit, yesterday in Asaba, Senator Okowa said that the press especially the new media should avoid negative reporting, lies and fact check their reports so as to avoid heating up the polity.

He enjoined them to be fair and just in their reporting to maintain the dignity of the journalism profession and be disciplined in their conduct and reporting.

“NUJ should guide their members to be fair and just, and reflect the discipline expected of them, it is better to cross check the facts you post especially on social media, people go on social media to post things they know are lies, and tell lies about other people. We need to cross check facts before posting. It is my hope that NUJ in Delta will guide its members in the course of duty to be fair to everyone and just in their reporting.”, he said, adding “now with the new media, all manner of reporting is out there in the public, it is very unfortunate that people can say things that do not exist or post things that they know is false. You must find ways of talking with your members and those of them that put the government in bad light by reporting negative issues.”

The governor charged the management of the state owned newspaper, The Pointer, to intensify efforts to increase their circulation so as to be selfreliant.

While commending the NUJ for conducting a free, fair and credible election, Dr. Okowa stated that “we need to work hard as a democratic nation to ensure that all election reflects the will of the people.”

Earlier, the Chairman, Comrade Mike Ikeogwu said that they were in Government House to present the newly elected Executive members of the union to the Governor and pledge the support of the union to the development of the state.

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MALCOLM EMOKINIOVO OMIRHOBO

ODO MATTEW OWURU

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OMAFE MERCY OJOCHENEMI

In order to reduce corruption in the society, youths have been told to make integrity their watchword as they are the future leaders.

Proprietor of Cifman College, Yaba Lagos, Mr Tobi Sawyerr said this while admonishing the outgoing students of the College recently where he told them to be good ambassadors of the school wherever they find themselves in life and eschew all forms of social vices.

The 6th valedictory service of the College titled “Pathway to Success” featured cultural display, poems, award of prizes to students and teachers who have distinguished themselves in their endeavours.

According to Sawyerr, what informed the theme is to make the students reMMADUKAKU EKENEDILICHUKWU SAMUEL

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Integrity, panacea for corruption in Nigeria - Sawyerr

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alize that as the leaders of tomorrow they have been impacted with adequate resources that will prepare them for future challenges.

He said the school has impacted the need for them see the value of integrity and make it their watchword as well as ethics of examination which will help them avoid examination malpractices in any higher institution they find themselves.

“The school had impacted in them enough to make them great in life .We expect them to go into the world and use the knowledge they have acquired here to create positive changes in their environment. These are future leaders that have been nurtured to be the change agents that will bring the desired change that Nigerians have been praying for.

ADDITION OF NAME

That I was formerly known and addressed as ISAAC OZOUGWU that I now wish to add IFEANYICHUKWU to my former name that I now wish to be known and addressed as OZOUGWU IFEANYICHUKWU ISAAC. All former documents remain valid. Banks and General public should please take note.

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CORRECTION OF NAME/DATE OF BIRTH

AYESE BOSEDE GRACE

MRS,OLADUNJOYE AARE AJARAT OLATANWA

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That my name was wrongly written on my bank account as OLUSHOLA ELEGEDA instead of ELEGBEDE SHOLA THIERRY now wish to be known and adressed as ELEGBEDE SHOLA THIERRY and my correct date of birth is 1-july-1981

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Daily Times Nigeria Thursday, August 3, 2017

AGF slates one-day justice summit for August 10 Ibe Uwaleke

L-R: Head, Work Place Banking, Stanbic IBTC Bank, Mrs. Jumoke Bello; MD/CEO, H. Pierson Associates Limited and Guest Speaker, Mrs. Eileen Shaiyen; Head, Human Resources, Sundry Foods Ltd, Mrs. Mmeme Best-Agbi and Head, Personal Banking, Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc, Mrs. Nkolika Okoli, at Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc’s Work Place Banking Seminar in Port Harcourt… on Wednesday.

Integrity, panacea for corruption in Nigeria - Sawyerr Esther Taiwo

ÏÏÏ In order to reduce

corruption in the society, youths have been told to make integrity their watchword as they are the future leaders.

Proprietor of Cifman College, Yaba Lagos, Mr Tobi Sawyerr said this while admonishing the outgoing students of the College recently where he told them to be good ambassadors of the school wherever they find themselves in life and eschew all forms of social vices.

The 6th valedictory service of the College titled “Pathway to Success” featured cultural display, poems, award of prizes to students and teachers who have distinguished themselves in their endeavours.

According to Sawyerr, what informed the theme is to make the students realize that as the leaders of tomorrow they have been impacted with adequate resources that will prepare them for future challenges.

He said the school has impacted the need for them see the value of integrity and make it their watchword as well as ethics of examination which will help them avoid examination malpractices in any higher institution they find themselves.

“The school had impacted in them enough to make them great in life .We expect them to go into the world and use the knowledge they have acquired here to create positive changes in their environment. These are future leaders that have

been nurtured to be the change agents that will bring the desired change that Nigerians have been praying for. We did not raise them up to become corrupt leaders but leaders of integrity who will be accountable for their actions”, he said.

He also charged parents to support the school management in fulfilling its goal in the lives of students especially in the area of discipline adding that some parents frown at the school for punishing their erring children.

Buttressing his point the school administrator, Mr Gabriel Afolabi said development of a child cannot be separated from discipline adding that parents should desist from engaging staff in face-off anytime their children are being cor-

rected for wrong doing.

“This scenario whereby parents would come and confront teachers and even pick up fight with them because their children are being disciplined is not encouraging at all, it does not help the school in raising students both in character and in learning and this has to stop in order for us to raise a total child”, he said.

He said it is not a good achievement for a student to engage in examination malpractice to come out with flying colours as he cited cases in some schools where parents aid their children in the act saying what parents need to do is to encourage and support their children to be studious by monitoring their home works.

Govt will address Delta Press land issue, says SSG Nosa Akenzua, Asaba

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Secretary to the Delta State Government (SSG), Hon. Festus Agas, has assured management of the Delta Printing and Publishing Company (DPPCL), publishers of The Pointer titles, that the state government will look into the land in dispute between it and other agencies with a view to addressing the situation.

Agas, who stated this when he played host to members of the Board of Directors, Delta Publishing and Printing Company

Limited (DPPCL), at his office in Asaba yesterday, said the state government was aware that its predecessors during the then military regime earmarked a parcel of land beside Delta Broadcasting Service (DBS), Asaba, for the perusal of The Pointer newspapers, adding that he would look into the situation since it was an issue of trespass.

“I am aware that our predecessors under the military regime actually earmarked a particular land beside DBS for The Pointer.

We heard that some persons have trespassed into it.

The government will look into it; I will liaise with the Commissioner for Lands and Surveys to find out exactly what is happening to that land”.

The SSG disclosed that the Pointer newspaper, considering the way it was going about communicating government policies and programmes to the good people of Delta State deserves a befitting cooperate headquarters to improve its output.

He said “I believe for the media outfit to perform optimally, it needs a conducive environment as well as

equipment of the revered profession such as computers, furniture, printers among others. However, you are equally familiar with the recession and financial challenges facing the state.

“Nevertheless, I will communicate some of your demands; they are legitimate demands to His Excellency, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa. We

are optimistic that our income will improve as we forge ahead and I think we will look at the possibilities of providing some of the necessary support.”

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN is to convene a one-day National Summit on Justice with a view to fashioning out a workable document in the justice sector.

Special adviser to the AGF on media and publicity, Comrade Salihu Othman Isah revealed this in a statement on Tuesday, saying the summit has been slated for August 10, 2017.

Isah disclosed that the summit to be preceded by a two-day technical session on August 8-9, 2017; is to build consensus on how the nation’s justice system can overcome its challenges.

The technical session which is to be representative is expected to produce the policy document to be presented to the enlarged summit for adoption on August 10.

According to him, the summit is under the auspices of the Federal

Justice Sector Reform Coordinating Committee (FJSRCC) chaired by erudite law Professor, Muhammad Tabiu and facilitated by the Federal Ministry of Justice.

It will attract all Attorneys General, Solicitors General, Chief Judges of all the 36 states of the Federation, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as well as the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), the Nigerian Police Force and Nigerian Prisons Service.

Others are the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, Federal Ministry of Budget and Planning as well as all parastatals under the Federal Ministry of Justice.

About ten civil society organisations including the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA), Legal Defence and Assistance Project (LEDAP) and the Legal Resources Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and the academia among others.

Lagos CJ frees 80 underage inmates from Badagry prison ÏÏÏLagos State Chief

Judge, Justice Olufunmilayo Atilade, on Tuesday set 80 underage inmates free from Badagry Prisons.

The freed inmates were minors whose ages were between 12 - 17 and they were said to have been arrested and charged with offences of breach of public peace and no means of livelihood.

Justice Atilade said the amnesty granted them was in accordance with the resolution of the judiciary to protect the Child Rights and also decongest prisons nationwide.

Only 28 names out of the 80 minors released yesterday, were sent to the Lagos State Prisons Decongestion Committee headed by Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye, for a review of their cases. A visit to the prison however showed that 90per cent of the inmates in the prisons were actually underage and the Chief Judge had to painstakingly review more cases together with her team.

The CJ who was very surprised at the total number of minors in that prison condemned the act of imprisoning underage irrespective of their offences admonished the inmates that were released to “go and sin no more.”

“I pronounce, pursuant to the provisions of Sections 1(1) of the Criminal Justice (Release from Custody) Act, 2007 as well as Section 35 of the 1999 Constitution, you are all hereby released from custody”, Atilade said.

The CJ thanked various stakeholders including Office Public Defendant (OPD), Prisons Decongestion Committee and numerous non-governmental organisations that have worked tirelessly to ensure the freedom of the inmates.

Justice Atilade specially thanked, Mrs. Dupe Olubanwo, a social worker, who she said initiated the emergency prison visit due to her outcry of the overwhelming underage inmates languishing in Badagry Prison.

Justice Yetunde Idowu, who is the head of Family Court Division of the Lagos State Judiciary, also condemned underage imprisonment, According to her, the Lagos State and the Judiciary have zero tolerance for child abuse of any sort.

“Keeping a child in prison for more than 24 hours traumatises such child and such should not be condoned at all in the state. We don’t want to encourage delinquency and we are starting today.

Daily Times Nigeria Thursday, August 3, 2017

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TRUSTEES: 1. MRS. ANNE UZOAMAKA OKIGBO-FISHER 2. PROF. ISMAILA ABUBAKAR TSIGA 3. MRS. OLIVIA ODINAKA BIANCA ODUMEGWU-OJUKWU 4. DR. BABATUNDE ADEMOLA MOYOSORE AJIBADE 5. MR. GEORGE BERKHOUT-NWAOBI 6. MR. ERNEST JOZEF EDGER BERKHOUT 7. MR. ADESINA OLUFEMI ADGUNLE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. PROMOTE INTEREST AND EXCELLENCE IN ACADEMIC PURSUITS 2. TO ASSIST LESS PRIVILEGED BRILLIANT STUDENTS ACHIEVE THEIR EDUCATIONAL ASPIRATIONS. 3. TO PROVIDE ANNUAL EDUCATIONAL GRANTS TO BRILLIANT LESS PRIVILEGED STUDENTS ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

MINDFUL OF YOUTH INITIATIVE (CAC/IT/NO/38165) THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION OF CHANGE OF TRUSTEES UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, NO. 1 OF 1990.

OLD TRUSTEES: 1. TUNDE ONAKOYA 2. ITUAH IGHODALO 3. OLADIMEJI JOSEPH 4. KEMI ONAKOYA 5. UZO OJIMADU 6. ABIMBOLA ONAKOYA 7. RICHARD OYIN-ADENIJI 8. BADEJO ADEBAYO 9. OGUNLEYE NIYI (RESIGN) NEW TRUSTEES: 1. TUNDE ONAKOYA 2. ITUAH IGHODALO 3. OLADIMEJI JOSEPH 4. KEMI ONAKOYA 5. UZO OJIMADU 6. ABIMBOLA ONAKOYA 7. RICHARD OYIN-ADENIJI 8. BADEJO ADEBAYO 9. ALABA ADENEKAN (NEW) THE OBJECTIVES OF THE FOUNDATION ARE: 1. TO SERVE AS A RESOURCE FOR CAREER IDENTIFICATION, GROOMING AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR YOUTHS. 2. TO HELP YOUTH DEVELOP A BETTER APPRECIATION OF INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEIR PARENTS, FRIENDS AND OPPOSITE SEX. 3. TO PROVIDE SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE, NURTURING AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. 4. TO PROVIDE OTHER ANCILLARY SERVICES TO YOUNG PERSONS IN RESPECT OF MEDICAL SUPPORT CLOTHING AND OTHER MATERIAL NEEDS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES.

LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR HEALHCARE FOR AFRICANS FOUNDATION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE-NAMED FOUNDATION WHICH IS LOCATED IN LAGOS STATE, HAS APPLIED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA, FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE 1. HADJI ADEDEJI ODUTOLA 2. MRS FLORENCE OGUNDELE 3. MR KAREEM ASHAMU AKINSHOLA 4. HADJI SALAMI OLUSOJI ODUTOLA AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO ASSIST LESS PRIVILEGED PERSONS IN THE SOCIETY ON HEALTHCARE MATTERS. 2. TO BE A VIABLE PLATFORM FOR HEALTH CARE SUPPORT, PROMOTIONS AND ADVANCEMENT IN THE SOCIETY. 3. TO HELP LESS PRIVILEGED PERSONS IN THE SOCIETY TO ENJOY GOOD HEALTH AS WELL AS FREEDOM FROM DISEASES. 4. TO CARRY OUT AWARENESS ON HEALTH, FOOD, EDUCATION, WOMEN EMPOWERMENT, WATER, RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND HEALTHCARE SUPPORT PROJECTS. 5. TO RUN ORPHANAGE HOMES. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, MAITAMA, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. J N ENAJEDU ESQ J N ENAJEDU & CO LEGAL PRACTITIONERSTEL 08023132360

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ENGR OYETAYO BABATUNDE OYEWOLE - CHAIRMAN 2. LOLANG ROSE LANG - VICE CHAIRMAN 3. SERAPHIN ALBERT - GEN SEC 4. NOCK IBRAHIM - GEN SEC 5. LESHI KUNBI BERNICE - TREASURER 6. OYETAYO FOLASADE - FINANCIAL SECRETARY 7. ADEOGUN OLUWATOSIN - SOCIAL/ PUBLICITY 8. BAJEGBO OLUSEGUN - MEMBER 9. AMINU OLANREWAJU - MEMBER 10. OYETADE ELIZABETH - MEMBER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROVIDE SUCCOUR AND OPPORTUNITY TO THE UNDERPRIVILEGED THROUGH TRAINING AND WELFARE PROGRAMMS. 2. TO PARENT THE MOTHERLESS AND PROVIDE HOME FOR THE HOMELESS. 3. TO DRAW THE HEART OF THE CHILDREN TOWARDS GOD.T O FEAR AND DO ITS WILL AT ALL TIMES THROUGH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SPIRIT REJUVENATION, EMPHASISING VOLUNTEER SERVICES CUM THE FAMILY SYSTEM AS KEY AND BASIC NEEDS IN EDUCATION TAKE OFF. 4. TO CARE FOR THE CHILDREN ECONOMICALLY, INTELLECTUALLY, MORALLY, SPIRITUALLY AND SOCIALLY; TO MOTIVATE THEM TO EMBRACE POSITIVE SOCIAL CHANGE. 5. TO EDUCATE THE YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULT ON LEADERSHIP AND GOOD CITIZENSHIP THUS BECOMING RESPONSIBLE PART OF THE FAMILY, COMMUNITY AND NATION AS A WHOLE. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: ENGR OYETAYO BABATUNDE- CHAIRMAN SERAPHIN ALBERT - GENERAL SECRETARY

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. DR. HENRY EDEMUDOH MOSES AKPAN. 2. MOHAMMED SADISU HAMZA. 3. PRINCE IFEANYI LOVEDAY DIKE. 4. MOULD OLUWADARA O. 5. IFEDAYO JANET ANDREW OGUNBAYO. 6. DR. ELIZABETH JUMOKE ETERIGHO. AIM AND OBJECTIVE : TO PROTECT AND SAFEGUARD FOREIGN VISITORS FROM ANY HARM AS A RESULT OF DISCHARGING THEIR DUTIES IN NIGERIA. 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: MUHAMMAD AHMAD Al-hafizee ESQ.

ZIVAH SKILLS & EMPOWERMENT INITIATIVE

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

TRUSTEES: 1. ARINZE EMMANUEL (CHAIRMAN) 2. IRO JACOB CHIKAODI. 3. UBADI ANTHONY UDODI. 4. ANSELEM ONUGWU. 5. JOHNSON ODOH 6. EJIMEDE DOMINIC UZUAMAKA. 7. EZENDOECHE FRANK 8. EZECHIEFO OKEY VALENTINE. 9. AJIBO REMIGIUS ONYEMA (SECRETARY)

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

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO FOSTER UNITY, PEACE AND PROGRESS AMONG MEMBERS. 2. TO PROTECT THE INTEREST OF THE MEMBERS. 3. TO CARE FOR THE WELFARE OF THE MEMBERS.

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1.TO ASSIST THE LESS PRIVILEGE, ORPHANS,Children,women AND WIDOWS.

THE TRUSTEES ARE : 1. VIVIEN AMBE OKEZIE. 2. PATRICK OKEZIE. 3. UMAR MOHAMMED ABDULMALIK.

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

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

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY.

Public Notice 22 OGENAME HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION

The general public is hereby notified that the above named has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under part “C” of the Companies and. Allied Matters Act 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Inanagbor Fred Umogbai 2. Oshioriamhe Fidelis Umogbai The aim and objective: 1. To provide free health care services for the community and people at large.

Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General of Corporate Affairs Commission Maitama Abuja within 28 days of this publication SIGNED: SECRETARY ASSOCIATION OF MEDICAL DOCTORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS 1981

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PROVINCE OF GRACE MINISTRY

This is to notify the general public that the above named, has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. PASTOR INNOCENT ELENDU ELEKE 2. DR. NNENNA PATRICIA ELENDU-ELEKE 3. PROF. HENRIETTA NKECHI ENE-OBONG 4. DR. KINGSLEY CHIDOZIE UDEGBUNAM 5. REV. IFEANYI UCHENNA OKONKWO 6. ENGR. DAVID CHIKAORAMA ONUOHA 7. MR. PAUL.EZE EME The aim and objective: 1. TO PREACH AND TEACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the RegistrarGeneral of Corporate Affairs Commission Maitama Abuja within 28 days of this publication

Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General of Corporate Affairs Commission Maitama Abuja within 28 days of this publication

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

NOT TOO YOUNG TO RUN EMPOWERMENT INITIATIVE. 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 1999

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Prof. Aniekan Ekere 3. Dr. Ernest Ekong 5. Dr. Charles Dike 7. Dr. Tunde Aliu 8. Dr. Mayen Egbe 9. Dr. Jose Omotoso

TRUSTEES: 1.TONY NWULU 2. ADAORA ONYECHERE 3. RINSOLA ABIOLA 4. CHARLES OKPALEKE 5. MOSES SIASIA 6. NDI KATO.

The aim and objective: 1. To help the less privileged

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES. 1.TO CREATE AND PROVIDE A PLATFORM THAT WILL EDUCATE YOUTHS AND YOUNG PERSONS ON THE NEED TO COEXIST IN UNITY. 2.TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE YOUTHS AND YOUNG PERSONS TO PURSUE THEIR GOALS EARLY IN LIFE.

Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General of Corporate Affairs Commission Maitama Abuja within 28 days of this publication

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

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED:- TRUSTEES

HEALTHCARE INITIATIVE FOR COMMUNITY LOGISTIC SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT.

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART ‘’C’’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1999 Trustees are.

1.Rufus umeh -chairman 2. Ogar, Sam - CEO. 3.Idaka, Alexandra Imoke - secretary. 4.Adie Iwali Esther 5.Anaele Isaac chinuclum 6.Ikpuri Edafe-Lans Alex 7.Major, Jane Igbumno 8.Egba, Juliet Peter Aims 1. To provide humanitarian services to people in need 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 LIVING PROOF PRAYING WOMEN INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Inanagbor Fred Umogbai 2. Oshioriamhe Fidelis Umogbai The aim and objective: 1. To provide free health care services for the community and people at large.

The general public is hereby notified that the above named has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

2. Prof. Akanimo Essiet 4. Dr. Celestine Maiki 6. Dr. Tony Omolola

OGENAME HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION The general public is hereby notified that the above named has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under part “C” of the Companies and. Allied Matters Act 1990.

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THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ORIGINAL LAND RECEIPT OF LAND,NO 62,OJOKORO ROAD, AGRIC IKORODU LAGOS ,WITH RECEIPT NUMBER 276, DATED 14th DAY OF NOVEMBER 1996, ISSUED IN RESPECT OF SAID LAND , BY THE OLUWO ODIKAN CHIEFTAINCY FAMILY , BELONGING TO OLUSEGUN ONAMADE OF NO 47,TAIWO OMOLAJO STREET,OWUTU AGRIC IKORODU LAGOS, GOT LOST, ALL EFFORTS MADE TO TRACE THE SAID DOCUMENT PROVED ABORTIVE , IF FOUND PLEASE CONTACT THE OWNER ON THE ABOVE ADDRESS OR TAKE IT TO THE NEAREST POLICE STATION , GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

THE NARROW WAY BELIEVERS ASSEMBLY

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 1999 THE TRUSTEES ARE:1. CHUKWUNONSO NWOBOSI....Chairman 2. EVANG ABRAHAM MOSES... Secretary...

Aim 1. To preach the gospel of Jesus Christ ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED:- SECRETARY CONFIRMATION OF NAMES/CORRECTION OF DATE OF BIRTH I, CHIEF (SIR) ONYEKA, BONIFACE MADUBUGWU EBENWA, adult, male, Christian, businessman and industrialist, citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria of No. 28 Modebe Avenue, Onitsha in Anambra State of Nigeria, doth hereby make this publication and declare as follows ÷ 1. That I was born on the 21st day of May, 1945 at Umuagu, Umuogali Village, Oba in the present Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State of Nigeria.

2. That my full names are ONYEKA, BONIFACE MADUBUGWU EBENWA. 3. That ONYEKA, EBENWA BONIFACE and ONYEKA, BONIFACE MADUBUGWU, refer to one and same person.

4. That my authentic Date of Birth is 21st May, 1945, not 5th January, 1949, as erroneously stated in some of my documents.

5. That henceforth, I wish to be known and addressed as, ONYEKA, BONIFACE MADUBUGWU EBENWA. 6. All documents bearing my former name(s) and date of birth remain valid.

General public and relevant authorities should take note.

7. That I make this publication in good faith, for record purposes and conscientiously believing same to be true and correct.

OLALEKAN FASINA MINISTRY

HEAL THE WORLD ORGANIZATION

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

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

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE : 1.JULIE ONOVWIONA 3.FAITHFUL ONOVWIONA

THE TRUSTEES ARE : 1.IGE OLUWASEUN PETER 3.MOGBOYINOLA AKINTOYE OPEYEMI

THE TRUSTEES ARE : 1.EJEH MICHAEAL AGANA 3.ONUOHA MATILDA URENWA

2.CLARA ALABI 4.JOY OJEHOMON

2.OLUWAYINKA AJAYI 4.MUYIWA DAMILOLA

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE : 1.TO DEVELOP AND EMPOWER WOMEN IN ALL DIMENSION ESPECIALLY THE WIDOWS AND UNDERPRIVILEGED.

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE : 1.TO TEACH AND PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. 2.TO RECONCILE MEN TO GOD. 3.TO WIN SOULS TO JESUS CHRIST AND GOD.

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

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

SIGNED : SECRETARY

SIGNED : SECRETARY

GOD’S ELECT FAMILY CHURCH THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED CHURCH HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC), ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART ‘C’ OF COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE : 1.THEOPHILUS IHEANYICHUKWU AMADI 2.KITOYE EBIETEN OGU 3.HOPE CHIKAMNELE OKEKE 4.CHINDA WONODI OCHONMA 5.VITUS MBA OLISA 6.ELDER OBINALI CHUKWU 7.EMMANUEL IHEANYI ONWUKA THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE : 1.TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR_GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIR COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT , OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET , MAITAMA , ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED : SECRETARY

AUCTION SALES! AUCTION SALES!!

THERE WILL BE AN AUCTION SALES OF SCRAP MOTOR VEHICLES, SCRAP MOTORCYCLES, AND OTHER HOUSEHOLD ITEMS AT THE DIVISIONAL HEADQUARTERS, THE NIGERIA POLICE, ONNE DIVISION, RIVERS STATE. AFTER 21 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. 1. ONE SCRAP PEUGEOT 607 CAR WITHOUT REG. NO. 2. ONE SCRAP MERCEDES 320 REG. NO. AS 721 KRD 3. ONE SCRAP MAZDA 626 WITHOUT REG. NO. ACCIDENT 4. ONE SCRAP MERCEDES BENZ REG. NO. EF 957 AAA 5. ONE SCRAP HONDA PRELUDE REG. NO. AG 356 GB 6. THREE SCRAP MOTORCYCLES WITH REG. NOs. RV 5503 GA, RV 236 CB, RV 271 HB, 7. THREE SCRAP MOTORCYCLES WITHOUT REG. NOs. 8. ONE TRAILER TYRE RILM, ONE HAMMER, THREE PIECES OF FAKE 1000 NAIRA NOTES, ONE IRON BAR, SIX PISTOL, 4 PIN, THREE MERCEDES INJECTOR, TWO BOTTLES OF GAS CYLINDER, ONE FIRE EXTINGUISHER, THREE AIR CONDITIONER, EIGHT IRON DRUM, ONE RUBBER DRUM, ONE SHARP AIR CONDITIONER, ONE SMALL GENERATOR. 9. ONE 24” INCHES BRAVIA SONNY PLASMA TV., ONE THERMOCOOL REFRIGERATOR, ONE 40” INCHES PLASMA TV, ONE ARMOURED CABLE, FOUR HAND TRUCK, THREE WHEEL BARROW, 112 RAPS OF WEEDS SUSPECTED TO BE INDIA HEMP, 4 COCAINE. AND OTHER HOUSEHOLD ITEMS. SIGNED: ALH. UBALLO DANU, AUCTIONEER

2.DALYOP FIDELIS STEPHEN 4.UCHE NWACHUKWU

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE : 1.TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE BY OFFERING HUMANITARIAN SERVICES TO THE NEEDY. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR_GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIR COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT , OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET , MAITAMA , ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED : DOMINIC S. OCHENEAI 08039719028

SAINTS OF ZION ASSEMBLY

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ADESANYA ADETORO

2. ISAAC AJOR

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. To expand the kingdom of God to the ends of the earth 2. To preach the gospel of God to the ends of earth 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: ADESANYA ADETORO

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TAIWO DEBORAH

OMENOBA IKENNA AKUDO RACHEAL

Formerly known and addressed as OMOTOLANI TAIWO DEBORAH, now wish to be known and addressed as TAIWO DEBORAH. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as OMENOBA AKUDO RACHEAL, now wish to be known and addressed as OMENOBA IKENNA AKUDO RACHEAL. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

YUSUFF BUSHRAH ADEOLA.

ALAWODE DORCAS AYOBAMI

Formerly known and addressed as ADELEKE BUSHRAH ADEOLA, now wish to be known and addressed as YUSUFF BUSHRAH ADEOLA. All former documents remain valid.

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CORRECTION OF NAME

. Formerly known and addressed as JOLAYEMI DORCAS AYOBAMI, now wish to be known and addressed as ALAWODE DORCAS AYOBAMI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

IYABO YETUNDE HABIB

This is to inform the general public that my name was mistakenly written on as EJOR CHUKWUEMEKA IZU instead of EJOR CHUKWUEMEKA. That my correct name is EJOR CHUKWUEMEKA and That my date of birth was wrongly written as 24th April, 1984 instead of 24th April, 1982. That my correct date of birth is 24th April, 1982. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as IYABO YETUNDE MAFO, now wish to be known and addressed as IYABO YETUNDE HABIB. My date of birth is 3/03/1980. All former documents remain valid.

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CONFIRMATION OF NAME

EMMANUEL AARON AKOR

This is to confirm and certify that ADEWUMI SHERIFAT ADEOLA is same person bearing OGUNSEYIN SHERIFAT ADEOLA. Henceforth, I now wish to be known and addressed as ADEWUMI SHERIFAT ADEOLA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as EMMANUEL ANDREW OMALE, now wish to be known and addressed as EMMANUEL AARON AKOR. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

SHODOPE DAYO BIMBO.

NKWOPARA-IFEANYI JOSEPHINE

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. Formerly known and addressed as IBOI JOSEPHINE, now wish to be known and addressed as NKWOPARAIFEANYI JOSEPHINE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

ADEDAYO OLUWABUNMI MORAYO.

OCHE SAMUEL EKLE

SUMO RUTH

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AFOLABI DAYO CHRISTIANA

23 Public Notice VICTORIA NNEYEN AJIKE

ME WILLIE MKPA.

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

Formerly known and addressed as VICTORIA OKON EKPENYONG and VICTORIOUS KRIS OKOLIE (MRS), now wish to be known and addressed as VICTORIA NNEYEN AJIKE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as IME SILAS UKUT, now wish to be known and addressed as IME WILLIE MKPA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

EDWARD NTEOWO PATIENCE

CORRECTION OF NAME

CORRECTION OF NAME

MRS. JULIET ISILUE

Formerly known and addressed as ANIFOWOSE DAYO CHRISTIANA, now wish to be known and addressed as AFOLABI DAYO CHRISTIANA. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as EDET PATIENCE LIZZY, now wish to be known and addressed as EDWARD NTEOWO PATIENCE. That my date of birth is 06/12/1988. All former documents remain valid.

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TOGHANRO JOSEPHINE ORITSEWEYIMI Formerly known and addressed as RIO RITSE, now wish to be known and addressed as TOGHANRO JOSEPHINE ORITSEWEYIMI. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as ODILI JOY EMMANUELLA, now wish to be known and addressed as ODILI JOY RUTH. All former documents remain valid.

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ODEWU EMMANUEL AHONYE

IRABOR SARAH

Formerly known and addressed as AGBORGA EMMANUEL AHONYE, now wish to be known and addressed as ODEWU EMMANUEL AHONYE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as AZAMEGBE SARAH, now wish to be known and addressed as IRABOR SARAH. All former documents remain valid.

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OJABUGBE JEREMIAH

ODILI JOY RUTH

MRS PEACE CHOICE UDOH

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IMOH-MICHAEL VELDA FATIMA

AJAYI BOSEDE TOYIN

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Formerly known and addressed as SAMUEL JANETH ITODO, now wish to be known and addressed as OCHE SAMUEL EKLE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

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MRS ADEYEMI MUYIBAT BOLANLE

MRS HASSAN SEKINAT OMOTAYO

MRS NWOKOMA MOBOLAJI MOFOLASHADE.

I formerly known and addressed as FAGBENRO AKIN now wish to be known called and addressed as FAGBENRO AKINYEMI MICHAEL. All former documents remain valid. First Bank and General public take note.

I formerly known and addressed as MISS BOLA ADEBISI now wish to be known called and addressed as MRS ADEYEMI MUYIBAT BOLANLE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

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OKAFOR CHIDEBERE CHRISTIAN

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I, formerly known and addressed as Miss BAKARE AYOBAMI AYOMIPOSI now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs ADENIYI AYOBAMI AYOMIPOSI. All former documents remain vaid. General public take note.

This is to confirm that EMADAMERHO-ATORI JAKPO is the same person as EMADAMERHO JAKPO. All documents bearing these names remain valid and should be treated as one person. General public take note

This is to state that I was known as OKAFOR CHIDEBERE. That I want to add CHRISTIAN to my name. That I now wish to be known called and addressed as OKAFOR CHIDEBERE CHRISTIAN. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

MRS SOPHIA NWAKEGO BOBMANUEL.

MRS BASIRAT IRETIOLA KASALI

. I, formerly known and addressed as Miss Sophia Nwakego Sankey now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs Sophia Nwakego Bobmanuel. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I, Formerly known and addressed as Miss Basirat Iretiola Anike Shonibare now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs Basirat Iretiola Kasali . All former documents remain valid. L ASG, Lagos Local Government Service Commission and the general public note.

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CORRECTION OF NAME

ARIYIBI MODUPE EBUNOLUWA.

That my name was mistakenly written as SAMAKINDE STEPHEN ABIODUN instead of SAMAKINDE AKINTUNDE STEPHEN.my correct name is SAMAKINDE AKINTUNDE STEPHEN. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

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I, formerly known and addressed as YAQUB ISHAKA INOVFE, now wish to be known and addressed as INOVFE YAQUB ISHAKA add due to marital status to INOVFE OJEVWE. All former documents remain valid general public take note.

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MRS ADEYEMI TOSIN MOYIN

My name was wrongly written as ADESANYA JOEL in my Access Bank Account and ADEBAYO JOEL ADESANYA in my GTB Account instead of ADESANYA JOEL ADEBAYO. My correct name is ADESANYA JOEL ADEBAYO. All former documents remain valid.

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My name was wrongly written as KAZEEM OLANREWAJU MORUFU on my Bank Account and BVN instead of KASEEM OLANREWAJU. All former documents remain valid.

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CORRECTION OF NAME

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MRS OLUWADAHUN OLUBUKONLA CHRISTIANA I formerly known and addressed as BOWALE OLUBUKONLA now wish to be known called and addressed as MRS OLUWADAHUN OLUBUKONLA CHRISTIANA .All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

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CHANGE OF NAME/ CORRECTION OF BIRTH DATE Formerly known and addressed as AREMU SODIQ DAMI, now wish to be known and addressed as AREMU DAMILOLA SODIQ. That my correct date of birth is 27/12/1997 and not 27/12/1991. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

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Kenya protesters demand rapid inquiry into murder of election official Bonny Amadi with Agency reports Protesters marched on the offices of Kenya’s election commission Tuesday, demanding a speedy investigation of the murder of a senior official that has raised fears over August 8th national elections.

Chris Msando, the election board’s head of information, communication and technology, was found murdered on Monday. He was tortured before he was killed, authorities said.

Msando oversaw the live transmission of election results, a contentious area that the opposition has said could be used to

rig next Tuesday’s presidential and parliamentary polls.

It is important that security agencies expedite investigations as a matter of utmost urgency.

In a sign of public jitters, Kenya’s military spokesman was forced to go on national television on Tuesday evening and deny reports he was missing. Some media outlets suggested he had been abducted after leaking details of election-related security.

The presidential race is very close: Opposition leader Raila Odinga is reported to be favoured by 49 per cent of voters compared with President Uhuru Kenyatta’s 48 percent, according to a poll of 5,000

Kenyans across 47 counties released on Tuesday

by Infotrak Research and Consulting.

Another poll put Kenyatta in the lead with 47 percent and Odinga at 44 percent, according to a survey of 4,300 Kenyans released on Tuesday by international polling firm Ipsos.

The close race, the murder, and a history of malfunctions of election equipment have raised tensions in Kenya and provoked a storm of speculation on social media.

“It is important that security agencies expedite investigations as a matter of utmost urgency,” John Githongo, a prominent anti-corruption campaigner, said during the

march by about 25 protesters.

“It is more unfortunate and alarming that we are so close to an election and (Chris Msando) was a responsible key in the operations of IEBC. Therefore we would like to break this tradition and call on the authorities to investigate this matter as soon as possible,” Githongo added.

Kenyatta issued a statement condemning the killing of Msando and Caro Ngumbu, a woman who had been shot in the head and whose body was found next to Msando’s.

Kenyatta urged faith in investigators and for the public to refrain from speculation about the motives for the killings.

N.Korean president wants to end the world, says Duterte North Korean President has been accused of trying to end the world by his fellow Philippine president, Rodrigo Duterte.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s latest controversial remarks target the North Korean regime, few days ahead of his hosting a meeting of foreign diplomats at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum.

Duterte, in his typical nature, professed his hatred for war and described North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un as a “fool” and a “son of a bitch” who is “playing with dangerous toys.”

“This Kim Jong Un, a fool.... He is playing with dangerous toys, that fool,” Duterte said in a speech live-streamed on Facebook to tax officials on Wednesday. Then, he commented on Kim Jong Un’s appearance.

“That chubby face that looks kind. That son of

tion, it is Kim Jong Un. You are dealing with a very delicate problem.”

While Wednesday’s remarks are the strongest yet directed at Kim Jong Un, this isn’t the first time Duterte used expletives against world leaders. He infamously spat vitriol against former U.S. President Barack Obama, calling him a “son of a whore” in September, this prompted Obama to cancel a meeting with Duterte, and inviting him to “go to hell” in a speech a month later.

North Korean President Kim Jong Un

a bitch. If he commits a mistake, the Far East will become an arid land.

It must be stopped, this nuclear war,” he said, as quoted by Reuters.

Duterte had already made his feelings against Kim Jong Un known in May, during his call to U.S. President Donald Trump.

Trump asked Duterte about his opinion of the North Korean ruler. “He is not stable, Mr. President, as he keeps smiling when he explodes a rocket,” Duterte said, according to leaked transcripts of the phone call.

“Every generation has a madman,” Duterte continued. “In our genera-

US secretary of State Rex Tillerson, said on Tuesday that the U.S. is not seeking regime change in North Korea, is due to travel to the Philippines later this week to attend the ASEAN meeting, where the issue of Pyongyang’s advancing nuclear capabilities will be high on the agenda, along with maritime security and counterterrorism.

Pakistan Parliament elects Sharif loyalist as new Prime Minister Following the recent removal of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from office by the Supreme Court, the country’s lawmakers on Tuesday elected long-term aide of the ousted prime minister the new premier.

“Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, a 58-year-old engineering graduate from a U.S. university, secured 221 votes against 47 for his nearest rival,’’ the Speaker of the National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq, has announced.

Abbasi’s election is for an interim period of 45 days, after which Sharif ’s younger brother,

Shahbaz Sharif, was expected to take over.

The Supreme Court removed Sharif from office on Friday on corruption allegations against him and his family.

The charges were linked to one of two of his stints in power in the 1990s and were revealed in last year’s so-called Panama Papers leak.

The younger Sharif, currently the chief minister of the central province of Punjab, is eligible for Pakistan’s top job if he resigns from his current post and wins a seat in the National Assembly.

Pakistani new PM Shahid Khaqan

Controversy as Trump signs bill on sanctions against Russia Myke Uzendu, Abuja The United States President Donald Trump Wednesday reluctantly signed into law a bill on new sanctions against Russia following the controversy gererated by his election which was credited to leaks from Russia.

The bill seek to penalise the Kremlin for meddling in the 2016 US presidential election which Trump won and Russia’s annexation of Crimea.

Trump who was unwilling to apend his signature but out of public out cry, bowed to pressure and has intesifed efforts to improve ties with the Kremlin.

According AFP, Trump signed the legislation behind closed doors and away from the cameras, after failed efforts to scupper or water down the bill failed, a source from the white house disclosed.

Trump received the legislation at 1:53 pm on Friday and waited until Wednesday to sign it.

The nearly week-long delay in signing had raised speculation that Trump might veto or try to somehow to shelve the sanctions, which were approved in a 98-2 Senate vote and has by signing it, avoided the humiliating prospect of Congress overriding his veto.

It is on public glare that Trump’s reluctance was on full display in an angry signing statement, in which he described the legislation as “significantly flawed.”

“In its haste to pass this legislation, the Congress included a number of clearly unconstitutional provisions,” he said, including curbs on the

President Trump

president’s ability to conduct foreign policy.

The newly signed bill includes measures against North Korea and Iran, it also targets the Russian energy sector and gives Washington the power to sanction companies involved in developing Russian pipelines, and further placed curbs on some Russian weapons exporters.

It is worthy of note that the bill as signed constrains Trump’s ability to waive the penalties, or issue a statement of mistrust from the Republican controlled Congress which remains unsettled by Trump’s warm words for President Vladimir Putin.

Trump said he would “honor” some of the bill’s provisions, but could not guarantee that it would be fully implemented.

The White House said only that Trump would give Congress’s “preferences” mere “careful and respectful consideration.”

At the wake of Trumps endorsement of the bill, Moscow preemptively ordered Washington to reduce its diplomatic presence in Russia to 455 persons before September 1, thus bringing it in line with the size of Russia’s mission in the US.

Somalia to reopen Journalism school 26 years after closure ÏÏÏ

Somalia is posed to enhance its journalism practice with the opening of a journalism school, its first in 26 years.

Somalia’s National University is trying to fill the education void by reopening its journalism school for the first time in 26 years. The Faculty of Journalism and Communication Science could begin classes as early as next month, instructing up to 60 students.

“The first students who will have the opportunity to attend this faculty will get the chance to be part of the Somali history,” Khaire said. “You will have to write a new history for the Somali people, and be part of the rebuilding of the country.”

Somali Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire addressed as well as challenged prospective students at a relaunch ceremony Tuesday in Mogadishu.

Khaire said he hopes graduates will provide “healthy reporting” about Somalia. He

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

said journalists are required to be truthful and to base their work on facts, even if their reporting is not beneficial to the country.

Somalia journalists are faced with challenges and opportunities. The risk comes from al-Shabab militants and other armed groups who have killed at least 26 reporters in the last five years, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

The reward is having a job with one of the many independent media outlets that have sprung up despite chronic violence and the absence of

any journalism schools in Somalia.

Thursday, August 3, 2017

EXTRATIME

Neymars’ rep comfirms PSG deal conclusion N

eymar’s representative Wagner Ribeiro has confirmed that PSG will pay the player’s €222m release clause and expects a deal to be finalised this week.

As revealed by Goal on August 1, the Brazilian briefly arrived at training to say his goodbyes, with Barcelona later confirming that he had asked to leave the club.

The Catalan giants went on to state that they would not allow the 25-year-old forward to leave for less than his world-record buyout fee.

A statement released by the club read: “The player Neymar Jr, accompanied by his father and agent, has informed FC Barcelona this morning of his decision to leave the club in a meeting held at the club’s offices.

“Faced with this position, the club has informed them they refer to the buy-out clause of his existing contract which as of 1 July totals

222 million euros which will have to be deposited in its entirety.

“Furthermore, in reply to the claim for the contract extension bonus, the club has once again made it clear that the amount remains deposited with a notary until the case is resolved.

“The player remains under contract at FC Barcelona but with temporary permission to not take part in training sessions.”

And Ribeiro, a representative of the Brazil international, has now confirmed that the Paris club will pay the clause and that he will be presented as a PSG player this week.

He told reporters at the Barcelona El Prat airport: “PSG will pay the release clause and Neymar will be presented in Paris this week.”

Sturridge out of Audi Cup final D

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aniel Sturridge will miss Liverpool’s Audi Cup final meeting with Atletico Madrid after suffering a thigh injury in action against Bayern Munich.

England striker Sturridge scored in an impressive 3-0 win at the home of the Bundesliga champions with an exquisite dinked finish but hurt himself in the process.

Persistent injuries have plagued the 27-year-old over recent seasons, although his latest problem does not appear to be serious.

Sturridge will not be sent for a

scan in Germany and at the present time is not ruled out of any other matches apart from Wednesday’s meeting with Diego Simeone’s men.

A statement on Liverpool’s official website read: “Sturridge will be treated at the club’s training base in RottachEgern and the issue will continue to be monitored, although there are currently no plans for a scan to take place in Germany.

Speaking after the win over Bayern, manager Jurgen Klopp labelled Sturridge’s setback as a “shame” in light of his previous struggles.

“He has prepared really well. I just hope he can play really soon,” he said.

BRIEFS

Wenger to Sanchez:You are not going to any EPL club.

Arsenal

boss Arsene Wenger has told Alexis Sanchez he won’t be sold to a Premier League rival.

The Times says Sanchez, 28, is still to sign a new deal to stay at the Emirates and has only 12 months left on his contract.

Arsenal have offered him an improved salary, worth £275,000-a-week, but Sanchez is holding out for more or a move away from North London.

And Wenger has told the Chilean there is no chance he will be moving to a Premier League rival.

The forward, Arsenal’s top scorer last season with 30 goals in all competitions, sees Manchester City as his preferred destination.

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down suggestions Griezmann would move.

“We are open to the market. It is getting a little crazy and any operation can affect you,” he said.

“Griezmann is happy at the Atleti and we want to give everything for the Atleti.”

Atletico came from behind against Napoli as Fernando Torres and Luciano Vietto struck late to send them into the final, where Liverpool await.

Juanfran said reaching the final of the pre-season tournament had been

Martial agrees Inter Milan terms

Neymar

Klopp wants more from Mane, Salah

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urgen Klopp has asked for improvements from both Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah with the new season just around the corner.

This came in the wake of the Kop’s 2-0 win over Bayern Munich in their Audi Cup encounter where both players were on target but the manager had urged them not to rest on their oars ahead of the new season.

The Egypt international who joined the Anfield outfit this summer has been amazing in the pre-season and his Senegalese counterpart recently returned from injury has picked off from where he left off to the delight of his gaffer.

United winger Anthony Martial is open to moving to Inter Milan.

Calciomercato.com says Martial has agreed to join Inter Milan as part of any United deal for Ivan Perisic.

Old Trafford boss Jose Mourinho has been chasing the Croatian winger all summer but progress has stalled with the clubs unable to agree a fee.

United have so far been unwilling to match Inter’s £45million demands, leading to claims Martial will go in the other direction on loan to lower the price.

And the French frontman has given a move to the San Siro the go-ahead.

After impressing under Louis van Gaal in his first season at Old Trafford, Martial took a step back last season under Mourinho.

Historic Holland/ England semi final

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Klopp

a goal for Atletico.

“It’s a sign of identity, the coach [Diego Simeone] has instilled it. We always want to win, give our best and the fans will be proud of us because we want to win,” he said.

“Now we play the final of the Audi Cup, which is what we wanted.”

“It’s a sign of identity, the coach [Diego Simeone] has instilled it. We always want to win, give our best and the fans will be proud of us because we want to win,” he said.

Manchester

UEFA Women:

Barca targets Griezman happy at Athletico – Juanfran tletico Madrid star Antoine Griezmann is happy at the club amid links to Barcelona, according to Juanfran.

Griezmann is the latest player linked to Barca as the Liga giants seemingly prepare to replace Neymar, who is set to join Paris Saint-Germain in a world-record transfer.

The France international extended his contract at Atletico in June, signing on for an additional year to take his deal through to 2022.

After his side edged Napoli 2-1 at the Audi Cup on Tuesday, Juanfran played

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ore records are set to tumble when the Netherlands and England meet at a sold-out FC Twente Stadion in Enschede on Thursday.

The 21,732 that attended the opening game between the hosts and Norway was the most to watch a women’s football game in the Netherlands; that mark is set to be beaten in the semi-final, with more than 27,000 expected for the 20:45CET kick-off.

Even that number will be dwarfed by the millions watching across the world in what is already the most viewed UEFA Women’s EURO on television by some distance. In the UK, for example, the peak audience of 3.3 million who saw England beat France on Channel 4 in Sunday’s quarter-final was a British record for women’s football.

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Oil listing, but not holed below waterline yet Abiodun Oyindamola, with Agency report Oganisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, and the API Crude Inventories torpedo oil overnight, but the move could be more to do with positioning than a structural change.

Crude oil’s storage tank burst last night, with both Brent and WTI spot contracts falling 2.80%, as the spectacular run higher came to an unceremonious end.

The rot had already started earlier in New York, as a Reuters’ survey suggested OPEC production had risen in July. With extended long short-term positioning, traders stampeded for the door to lock in profits from the last eight days bull run.

The coup de grace came from the American Petroleum Institute’s (API) Crude Inventory release late in the New York session. Inventories rose 1.80 million barrels against an expected drawdown of 2.8 million barrels, bringing to an end to the last few weeks trend of falling supplies in storage.

As the dust settles, we feel that the move is more to do with nervous positioning rather than a structural change in the market.

Traders will now look anxiously to last night’s official Department of Energy inventory numbers for more guidance with the street looking for a 3.1 million barrel drawdown.

Brent spot trades at 51.25 in early Asia, just below its 200-day moving average at 51.40, which will be an intra-day pivot. Brent has traced out a triple top at 52.65 overnight, and this presents formidable resistance now. Support is at the overnight low of 52.60.

Also, the 100-day moving average and perhaps the only real positive traders can take from the overnight price action.

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MAN: New Forex policy, others aiding industries’ revival

Ganiyu Obaaro

The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has stated that manufacturing is getting out of recession, as it has recorded positive growth in Q1 (first quarter) of 2017.

Dr. Frank Jacobs Udemba, president of MAN, who was represented by Mr. Ajayi Kadri, DG, MAN, disclosed this during the breakfast meeting for directors/chief executive officers in Lagos on Tuesday.

Udemba noted that manufacturing sector’s real output growth moved into positive region by recording 1.36

...capacity utilisation hits 59.18 %in Q2

per cent in the Q1 (first quarter) of 2017, against the -2.54 percent recorded in Q4 (fourth quarter) of 2016.

He said: “Capacity utilisation in the sector also increased to 59.18 per cent in the Q2 (second half) of 2016 from 44.3 per cent recorded in the Q1 (first quarter) of that year based on the result of survey of manufacturers conducted by MAN. “It is, therefore, heartwarming to observe that this growth recovery portends that manufacturing sector is out of recession, which began in the

first quarter of 2015. This success can be attributed to better policy adjustments, especially in the forex management, following the positions of MAN at various meetings and presentations to the government,” he said.

It would be recalled that MAN has been challenged by high import duties on raw materials and other critical infrastructure in the last two years, which had constrained the sector’s growth potential. Also, MAN has cried out to the Federal Government over multiple taxation,inability

to access Forex to enable it to import critical inputs for manufacturing activities, forcing many operators to shut or scale down operations so as to remain in business.

In his speech, Commissioner, of Commerce, Industry and Cooperatives, Lagos State, Prince Rotimi Ogunleye, noted that his ministry is at the concluding stage of the industrial policy review, adding that various laws are being promulgated to ensure adequate security, social welfare and economic well-being of the people of the state.

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9Mobile: Banks extend loan repayment Tony Nwakaegho with agency report

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A group of Nigerian banks has agreed to extend a $1.2 billion loan given to 9mobile, formerly known as Etisalat Nigeria, pending when the mobile operator will find new investors.

FCMB bank, which is owed 4.5 billion naira by the telecoms’ group, said on Tuesday, that the lenders had put a hold on taking provisions on the debt and that they were working with the regulators.

FCMB, said that, “In terms of provisioning, there is hold on

that. What we have agreed is an extension and we have agreed to extend pending the sale to new investors.”

The banks, many of which are reporting first-half results, have been trying to work out the value of 9mobile before deciding whether to impair the loan or wait until the company finds new investors.

The banks involved in the loan deal include: Zenith Bank , GT Bank, First Bank, UBA , Fidelity Bank, Access Bank, Ecobank, FCMB, Stanbic IBTC Bank and

Union Bank.

GTBank with $138 million in outstanding loans to 9mobile and Access Bank with $131 million are among the most exposed.

9Mobile’s Chief Executive, Boye Olusanya, told Reuters he was focused on getting the telecoms’ group back on track, while working on the paperwork to eventually raise new capital.

Olusanya, has also asked the telecoms’ regulator for concessions on spectrum and foreign exchange access to help shore up revenues.

A banking source close to the deal had said that the telecoms’ group has asked Citigroup and Standard Bank to find an investor to buy into the firm; as three companies have shown interest.

Emefiele has also explained that CBN’s intervention alongside the regulator in the telecommunications sector – Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) – was worth the while, considering its implication for the economy and stakeholders should the firm collapse.

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Financial Inclusion: Diamond bank promises millionaire daily through draws Afolabi Adesola Diamond Bank’s commitment towards increasing financial inclusion has gone several notches higher as it announced it has set aside a whopping N600 million to reward its loyal customers in the DiamondXtra Season 9 bonanza.

According to information made available to the press, the Bank stated that in the months of July, August and September, N137 million will be given out to lucky customers that will emerge from extra ordinary draws to produce 3164 lucky winners throughout Q3 2017.

The draws the bank promised will produce 8 millionaires in July and September while 24 millionaires will emerge in August as N1 million will be won by a lucky

customer every working day plus loads of other cash prizes.

“During this period, 3 lucky customers will be rewarded with salary for life and will receive N100,000.00 every month for the next 20 years.

Chioma Afe, Head, Corporate Communications Division, said “Diamond Bank’s passion and commitment to its customers is driven by the conviction that making them to save and plan for the future is what sustains the growth and development of any economy”.

She stated that DiamondXtra draws have come a long way in impacting the lives of new and existing customers of the Bank that had participated in the promo over the years.

LR: Emeka Emuwa, CEO of Union Bank; HRH Muhammadu Sanusi II, Emir of Kano; Ibrahim Kwargana, Executive Director, Public Sector Union Bank; and Adekunle Sonola, Executive Director, Commercial Banking Union Bank, at the Courtesy visit to the Emir of Kano during the bank’s centenary celebration in Kano State.

Africa records 25.9% growth air in cargo demand for H1 2017 Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released data for global air freight markets showing that demand, measured in freight tonne kilometers (FTKs), grew by 10.4 per cent in the first-half of 2017 compared to the first-half of 2016.

This was the strongest first half-year performance since air cargo’s rebound from the Global Financial Crisis in 2010, and nearly triple the industry’s

WACOT Rice Mill to employ 35,000 workers Abiodun Oyindamola, with Agency report

The Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, says mining and agriculture will be the focus of the Federal Government for rapid economic development.

Osinbajo made the pledge in Argungu on Tuesday, while inaugurating the N10 billion WACOT Rice Mill in Argungu Emirate of Kebbi state.

He said the continued investment in agricultural production by the private sector had vindicated the resolve of the Federal Government to invest in agriculture for revenue generation and development.

He said that investment by the private sector in agricultural production was a sign of support to the priority accorded food production by the current regime.

average growth rate of 3.9 per cent over the last five years.

African carriers had the fastest growth in year-on-year freight volumes, up 31.6 per cent in June 2017 and a capacity increase of 7.6 per cent. This contributed to freight demand growing 25.9 per cent in the first half of 2017 – the fastest of all regions.

Demand has been boosted by very strong growth on the trade lanes to and from Asia which have increased by nearly 60 per cent in the first five months of 2017.

Capacity grew 11.2 per cent in the first half of the year.

Seasonally adjusted growth has levelled off in recent months; however growth is set to remain in double digits for the remainder of 2017.

Freight capacity, measured in available freight tonne kilometers (AFTKs), grew by 3.6 per cent in the first half of 2017 compared to the same period in 2016. Demand growth continues to significantly outstrip capacity growth, which is positive for yields.

Air cargo’s strong perfor-

mance in the first half of 2017 was confirmed by June’s results. Year-on-year demand growth in June increased 11 per cent compared to the same year-earlier period. Freight capacity grew by 5.2 per cent year-on-year in June.

The sustained growth of air freight demand is consistent with an improvement in global trade, with new global export orders remaining close to a six-year high. However, there are some signs that the cyclical growth period may have peaked.

Dangote Cement hits N4tr as unknown investor snaps 2.4% equity stake Abiodun Oyindamola, with Agency report

Dangote Cement was the most attractive stock on Tuesday at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) as a major investor snapped up about 2.44 per cent equity stake in the cement group.

The special acquisition transaction was struck under pre-arranged window of the Exchange.

A report on the transactions indicated that six deals were struck for the transfer of 416 million ordinary shares of 50 kobo each at a below-the-market price of N210.

The transactions, valued at N87.4 billion, represents 2.44 per cent of the total issued shares of Dangote Cement and the price represents a discount of 12.5 per cent on the cement company’s closing market price of N240 at the Exchange yesterday.

The deals, according to the report, were done through the offmarket, negotiated cross deals

window of the Exchange and as such was not subjected to the dynamics of price discovery for the particular period. Off-market trade implied that the deal was sealed outside the floor of the NSE. Dangote Industries Limited (DIL)-owned by Africa’s richest billionaire, Aliko Dangote, owns the majority equity stake of more than 90 per cent in Dangote Cement and it is the only investor with such large volumes as traded on Tuesday.

The negotiated cross deal platform of the Exchange is a specialpurpose trading platform that is meant for voluminous transaction. By the cross deal, it implies that the buyer and the seller had been prearranged and the transfer at the stock market was a mere perfection of the agreement between the two. The negotiated cross deal allows the parties to the deal to close the deal at reduced cost.

While the details of the new major investor are still unknown, Meristem Stockbrokers Ltd sold

the shares to Stanbic IBTC Stockbrokers Ltd, both stockbroking firms obviously acting on behalf of third party investors.

Stanbic IBTC Stockbrokers is a subsidiary of Stanbic IBTC Holdings, a member of South Africa’s Standard Bank Group. Stanbic IBTC is known to act on behalf of foreign portfolio investors.

South African government had in June 2013 bought into Dangote Cement. The South Africa’s government, through its wholly owned investment company, Public Investment Corporation of South Africa (PIC), had acquired 1.5 per cent equity stake in the Nigerian cement group to emerge the second largest equity investor.

The market value of Dangote Cement crossed the N4 trillion mark to N4.09 trillion yesterday after the most capitalised company at the stock market posted unusually large gain of 7.20 per cent or N16.25 per share to close at N240 per share.

Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, adopts 3 word addresses Azubike Nnadozie with Agency report Nigeria’s postal service, NIPOST, has announced its adoption of the innovative global addressing system what3words.

Nigeria is the seventh country to adopt what3words, and the third in Africa. The system is already being used for mail deliveries in Mongolia, Sint Maarten, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Tonga and Solomon Islands. Nigeria is Africa’s largest economy and its most populous country with approximately 184 million inhabitants. It has the seventh largest population in the world.

NIPOST expects to use what3words to increase the number of homes it can deliver to and improve delivery services in preparation for the take-off of Nigerian e-commerce.

Nigeria’s poor addressing system means that only 20% of its inhabitants receive mail at home.

79% of homes and businesses cannot receive deliveries to the door, and the remaining 1% receive their mail using one of the 478,000 P.O. boxes throughout the country. A postcode system does exist, but only 5% of mail gets properly addressed with the postcode, hampering the efforts of NIPOST to improve its quality of service.

Determined to improve this situation, NIPOST has set itself the ambitious target of increasing home delivery to 70% within the next 2 years and 90% by 2020 through the Mail for Every House Initiative (MEHI), and has adopted what3words to help it achieve these goals. The innovative global addressing system has divided the world into 57 trillion 3m x 3m squares, each with a unique 3 word address. It means that every home and business in Nigeria has a simple and accurate address that is easy to remember and to use.

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Stories by Motolani Oseni The Nigerian currency, Naira, on Wednesday, consolidated on the gains recorded at the various segments of the foreign exchange (Forex) markets, leading gradually to a convergence of rates between licenced Bureau De Change Operators and parallel market.

Due to continuous interventions in the forex market, the local currency at the end of yesterday strengthened further to 363 per US dollar, against 364 sold on Tuesday and sustained at 360 on the Bureau De Change (BDC) window.

The naira, against other major currencies Pound Sterling and Euro, stabilised at 473 and 422 per, respectively at the parallel market.

The Nigerian currency, also,

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Naira consolidates on forex gains, near convergence rate at the official forex market close at 305.60 per US Dollar, the same rate it traded on Tuesday but better by 0.02 per cent, compared to 305.65 exchanged on Monday.

The naira, at the Investor &Exporter FX widow on Wednesday opened at 367.28 better than the 367.72 recorded on Tuesday, indicating growth of 0.12 per cent, and closed at 366.59 against 366.59 the previous day.

The local currency, at the window seen a daily

turnover settled at $712.03 million against $83.98 million traded the preceding day, data obtained from the FMDQ OTC has revealed.

Meanwhile, forex dealers believed that series of interventions by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had impacted the market positively, leading to relative stability in the exchange rate and the achievement of rates convergence.

Trader at the unofficial market said that col-

lapse of rates was skewed in favour of the parallel market, as there were no conditions for the sale of Forex unlike the BDCs. They believed that parallel market had witnessed increased patronage as Forex buyers now have easier access to it without prior verification of travel documents as operated by the BDCs. A forex dealer at BDC, explained that the market was a reflection of the forces of demand and supply, adding that the de-

cline in profit at the BDC sector may lead to staff rationalisation if not addressed.

However, if rates adjustment is not done at the BDC sector, the fate of about 15,000 employees of the BDCs are at stake.

It behoove s on the CBN as the regulator of the financial market to use its discretion in this matter as the impending job losses would be one too many for the economy.

Consequently, in line with its commitment to

sustain and deepen flexibility in the forex market to further enhance forex flow in the economy, the CBN sold the total sum of $462,336,426.74m.

A breakdown showed that the Retail Secondary Market Intervention Sales received the largest allocation of $267.3m The CBN also offered the sum of $100m wholesale interventions, while the sum of $50m was allocated to the Small and Medium Enterprises forex window.

Manufacturing PMI hikes for fourth consecutive period in July – CBN The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) increased by 1.2 basis points to 54.1 index points in July, from 52.9 index points recorded in June.

According to CBN, the increase in manufacturing PMI, indicates expansion in the manufacturing sector for the fourth consecutive month.

The CBN’s PMI survey report released yesterday noted that production in real sub-sectors like textile, cement, chemical and pharmaceutical products among others of the nation’s economy continued to report growth in production while production in petroleum and coal products; fabricated metal products; furniture and related products; nonmetallic mineral products and plastics and rubber products declined.

The PMI survey report

by CBN revealed that production level index for the manufacturing sector grew for the fifth consecutive month in July 2017 to 59.3 points in July from 58.2 points recorded in June.

According to the report, “The production level index for the manufacturing sector grew for the fifth consecutive month in July 2017.

“The index at 59.3 points indicated an expansion in production at a faster rate, when compared to the level recorded in the previous month. Fourteen of the 16 manufacturing sub-sectors

recorded expansion in production level during the review month.”

For new order, The CBN PMI survey report said it moved to 52.7 points in July, indicating fourth month consecutive growth.

The report said eight sub-sectors reported growth; one remained unchanged while the remaining seven declined in the review month. The CBN report said supplier delivery time index for the manufacturing sector moved to 51.3 points in July 2017, second consecutive month increase.

“10 sub-sectors recorded improved suppliers’ delivery time while the remaining six subsectors recorded delayed delivery time,” the report stated. The report disclosed that, “Manufacturing employment level index in July 2017 stood at 51.8 points, indicating growth in employment level for the third consecutive month.

“Of the 16 subsectors, eight recorded growth, three subsectors remained unchanged while the remaining five subsectors recorded decline in employment.”

In addition, the survey said, “The composite PMI for the non-manufacturing sector grew to 54.4 points in July 2017, indicating growth in Non-manufacturing PMI for the third consecutive month. Of the eighteen non-manufacturing sub-sectors, sixteen recorded growth.”

L-R: Special Guest of Honour, Chief Philip Asiodu, former petroleum Secretary, Guest Lecturer, Prof. Viola Onwuliri, former Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, with Wife of the President, Major (Mrs) Janet Osamgbi, New President, Rotary Club of Ikoyi, Rotarian Isichei Osamgbi, Chairman of the occasion, Ogbueshi Alban-Ofili-Okonkwo and Past District Governor, Rotary International, District 9110, Dr Omotosho Kamoru at the investiture of Osamgbi as the 33rd President of Rotary Club of Ikoyi in Lagos...recently.

Customers win millions in Sterling Bank’s promo Over 192 customers of Sterling Bank have been rewarded with millions of naira in the bank’s on-going savings reward promo, tagged: What have you got to win?

The promo, which was launched last March by the bank, has seen winners of the first draw presented with different prizes, as 29 individual customers with a minimum balance of N25,000 in their savings accounts won N1 million each, 40 customers with a weekly balance of N10,000 in their accounts won N50,000 each, while four non-individual customers with Sterling Plus accounts won N250,000 each.

The bank explained that the customer loyalty reward encourages a culture of saving among Nigerians, while it is endorsed by the National Lottery Regulatory Commission, the Consumer Protection Council (CPC) and the Lagos State Lotteries Board (LSLB).

The lender further noted that

customers were selected via an electronic raffle draw system and winners emerged from various parts of the country.

Speaking at the presentation ceremony held at the corporate headquarters of the bank in Lagos, Mr. Henry Bassey, Chief Marketing Officer, Sterling Bank Plc, said that 192 customers will win N1 million each, amounting to N192 million between now and February 2018.

He said the objective of the promo is to enrich the lives of the bank’s customers. He added that since the bank embarked on the initiative about three years ago, there have been testimonies of how the bank has positively affected people’s lives.

Some of the winning customers shared their experiences of how they reacted when they first learnt they had won prizes in the promo.

Reminiscing, Ojo Bamidele, a customer with the Adebola House

Branch in Opebi, Lagos, who won N1million in the promo said: “I was on my way out of the office when my phone rang and I picked it, then my branch manager told me that I have won N1m in the promo. I dismissed it and said I don’t believe in it and I’m not excited because we have many people doing this kind of thing.”

He added that the following day, the branch manager called again and asked him to confirm the good news through one of the directors of the bank.

Mrs. Junaid Samiat, another customer who won N1m from the Idumota branch of the bank, said when the bank called her she responded in disbelief telling the caller “419 has started again because I did not play Baba Ijebu”.

However, when she gave the phone to her daughter, she confirmed that the call was a genuine one from her branch of the bank.

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Equities market sustains uptrend with 0.50% Nigeria’s equities market ended Wednesday’s trading session with a growth of 0.50 per cent recorded in lead market indices that settled at 36,905.06 points and N12.720trn respectively.

The day’s performance increased Month to Date to 2.93 per cent, while year to date returns advanced to 36.3 per cent, as the

NSE Industrial and Consumer Goods indices recorded the highest gains of 1.93 per cent and 1.63 per cent, while the Oil and Gas emerged the day’s biggest loser with a depreciation of 2.43 per cent The price movement table closed with 31 gainers against 18 losers.

CI Leasing, WAPCO and Guin-

ness topped the day’s gainers with an increase of 10 per cent, 5 per cent and 4.99 per cent each to close at 88 kobo, N57.75 and N69.87 per share respectively.

On the flip side, Okomu Oil led the losers with a loss of 5 per cent to close at N72.23 per share.

This was followed by Continental Re-Insurance which fell 4.93 per cent to close at N1.35 per

share, while Mobil lost 4.88 per cent to close at N240.65 per share.

Investors moved a total of 251.0 mn shares in 4,047 deals valued at N3.78bn compared to 849.6 mn shares worth N94.0bn traded in 5,602 deals in previous session.

Transcorp emerged investors delight with the sale of 34.8 million shares worth N49.7m.

Fidelity Bank trailed with the sale of 30million shares worth N39.0mn and FBN Holdings traded 28.8million shares valued at N173.3m.

Other stocks that topped activity chart were Zenith Bank , which sold 25.6million shares worth N641.5m, and Guaranty with the sale of 21million shares worth N815.3m.

AXA-Mansard’s H1 gross premium growth grows by 36% Bonny Amadi

L – R shows Laurine Ubanozie, Deputy Treasurer, Risk Managers Association of Nigeria (RIMAN); Oscar Onyema, OON, Chief Executive Officer, The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE); Ms. Folake Fatogbe, Chairman, Board of Trustees, RIMAN; Mr. Jude Monye, President, RIMAN and Dr. Gregory Jobome, Board Member, RIMAN at Closing Gong Ceremony at the Exchange... on Wednesday.

International Breweries’ cost Tantalizers’ H1 2017 mirrors future performance of sales buoys to N5.1b Bonny Amadi

International Breweries Nigeria Plc has demonstrated commitment to end 2018 financial year on positive note, as its Q1 result for the period ended 30 June, 2017, reflects growth, while cost of sales surged.

The company’s report for the three months period ended (first quarter ended 30th June ,2017, showed that revenue grew to N9, 435,371 billion, from N6, 873,787b posted in the corresponding period of the year in 2016.

Cost of sales grew to N5, 143,036b from N3, 463,937b posted in the first quarter 2016. The company’s gross profit grew to N4, 292,335b, which showed remarkable improvement from N3, 409,849b recorded in the first

quarter 2016.

Marketing and promotion expenses rose to N412, 751m from N396,027m registered in the preceding 2016 Q2, while, administrative expenses soared to N1, 573,741b, from N1,333,041 recorded in Q2 2016.

Total assets stood at N54,389,966b, which by the end of the preceding first quarter in 2016 closed at N34,123,898b, while at the end of the company’s financial year 31 March, 2017, stood at N44,962,735b.

The company’s total liabilities for the first quarter ended the first quarter period at N30,150, , Total liabilities as at the end of first quarter 2016 stood at N21,783,825 b, while in 2017 audited financial statement for the period ended 31 March ,total liabilities was N31,083,975b.

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346m recorded in the qualifying period of 2016.

Cost of sales grew to N585, 786m, from N577, 642m recorded as cost of sales in the second quarter 2016.

Gross profit declined to N340, 537m, against N398, 874mposted in the preceding period 2016.

According to the result, other income N216, 302m, against N193, 183m recorded in the same period of 2016.

Loss after tax closed the Q2 accounting period at N308, 971m, from N364, 551m loss after tax posted in Q2 2016.

Investors in Tantalizers Nigeria Plc, may continue to nature market hearsay on the future of the company as its results continue to reflect depressed numbers and sustained loss position.

The company’s unaudited financial statement for the period ended 30th June, 2017, released by the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) Tuesday, showed a sustained loss position, which may worsen market perception of the company’s future.

Tantalizers H1 result recently released by the Summary of activities on NSE Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), showed that all key ASI 32,981.63 performance measuring 3,940.00 indices closed depressive, DEALS sustaining a trend of negaVOLUME 270,855,438.00 tive market trajectory.

The company’s revenue VALUE 2,769,309,360.33 for the period declined 11,367,142,204,456.30 N926, 323m, against N976, CAP

AXA- Mansard Nigeria Plc has shown support to positive investors sentiment the company enjoys on the equities market with rewarding financial statement for the half year one 2017, ended 30th June .

The company’s report released recently showed that gross premium written advanced by 36 per cent, to close the H1 period at N17, 946,621 billion, from N13, 218,844b recorded in the corresponding period 2016.

The result which reported growth in key performance measuring indices, also showed that net premium income soared by 18 per cent to N6,456,217 b, from N5,479,126b recorded in the preceding period 2016, even as P/L lines diminished slightly Investment and other income closed the period at N4,134,517b, from N4,125,660b in H1 2016, while Net claims which showed that the company is continually keeping to its obligations to clients, closed at 25 per cent higher to N4,552,946b , from N3,649,535b posted in Q2 2016.

Mr. Kunle Ahmed, Chief Executive Officer, AXA-Mansard Plc, said that the company’s strategic focus on cost optmisation and identifying new revenue yielding areas, has continued to drive earnings and value creation “Our focus on identifying new growth areas in our markets continue to pay off as we grew revenues by 36 per cent despite the challenging operating environment” The CEO added “We also strengthened the bottom-line through cost optimization and efficient resource utilization as demonstrated by the 4% improvement in our Opex ratio” Mrs. Rashidat Adebisi, the Chief Financial Officer, commenting on the results, said one of the company’s key goals in 2017 is to improve the efficiency of its reinsurance strategy as a way of managing the anticipated growth in the company’s diversified portfolios.

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Okowa urges OAAN on billboards’ regulation Stories by Godwin Anyebe The Executive Governor of Delta State, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has challenged the members of Outdoor Advertising Association of Nigeria (OAAN)) on the need for close monitoring and supervision to restrict advertising for such products as alcohol and tobacco, within a set of radius of schools, parks and residential areas.

He also advised them to avoid indiscriminate placement of billboards, which said defaced the environment and that members should take the extra care of the beauty and aesthetics of theenvironment.

The governor, who was represented by the state commissioner for Commerce and In-

dustry, Barrister Mary Iyasere, made the call recently during the 32nd Annual General Meeting of the association in Asaba, Delta State. The theme of the meeting was, ‘Managing Our Business Profitably in a Recession. ‘ He said,“Owing to the wide reach of the activities of your association, there is the important need for close monitoring and supervision to restrict advertising for such products, as alcohol and tobacco, within a set of radius of schools, parks and residential areas. It is important to avoid indiscriminate placement of billboards to deface the environment. I sincerely think that your members would always take the extra care of the beauty and aesthet-

ics of environment.” Okowa said.

Okowa also implored the outdoor advertising practitioners to come up with suggestions for solutions to the numerous challenges that face outdoor advertising in Nigeria.

In his welcome address at the occasion, the President of the association, Mr Tunde Adedoyin, while revealing that the association has been been facing some challenges in recent times, also reeled out his scorecard in his first two years in office.

He said that his tenure has strengthened the bond of unity amongst members in relating with one another business wise and socially, set up a library within the body’s Secretariat,

made efforts to conduct a detailed research work on outdoor advertising industry, able to facilitate negotiations with the APC as a party to pay the debts owed some outdoor advertising agencies. He said the body worked assiduously on getting payments for debts owed members by Globacom Telecommunications Limited, as well as, brougnt on board, more quality members to the association.

Other achievements as reeled out by Adedoyin included, review of the association’s constitution, investiture of new quality and eminent Nigerians as patrons, amongst others.

The APCON Registrar, Alhaji Garba Kankarofi, who was represented by Mrs. Iyoha, reminded the members that coun-

Lagos @50: Group rejects LASAA’s request for free billboards’ exposure Members of the Outdoor Agencies Association of Nigeria (OAAN) have rejected Lagos Advertisement and Signage Agency’s (LASAA’s) request for a free billboard exposure in support of the Lagos at 50 anniversary celebration.

LASAA had approached the billboard owners with proposal to dedicate some of their platforms around Lagos in support of the golden jubilee campaign, but it met a brick wall from members who protested that the agency had shown unwillingness to pay outstanding debt owed to OAAN, running into about N1.3 billion.

The liability accrued following OAAN’s involvement in the 2015 All Progressive Congress (APC) campaign for the Lagos State; and the presidential elections.

The outdoor members decided to donate their platforms for the APC campaign, when LASAA, through its former CEO George Noah, brokered a gentleman deal with the association with an assurance that the debt accrued will be

paid once the elections were over.

While OOAN kept to their own part of the bargain by donating billboards for APC campaign, LASAA has since not been able to deliver on its own end of the agreement. This development, along with the rather unfriendly posture of the current LASAA boss, Bolaji Sanusi, have informed OAAN’s stance.

A source close to the association, said that while the outdoor owners would have loved to support the Lagos @ 50 project, and perhaps seize the moment to deepen the now convalescing relationship between both organisations, its hands were however tied as a result of the subsisting matter, adding that the association didn’t want to make an already complex situation even more complex.

Daily Times gathered that the executives of OAAN are in constant communication with LASAA and other stakeholders on the debt; and there are indications that the matter would be resolved sooner than later.

cil is ready to continuously support the association but looks forward to the shared responsibility of ensuring that the advertising profession and it’s core principles are are extolled continually and taken to even greater heights.

While the AGM witnessed some resourceful presentations by representatives of Delta State Signage and Advertisement Agency, as well as from Anambra State Signage and Advertisement Agency, the association also returned Mr. Tunde Adedoyin as the President for another two term; with the other members of his executive excluding the Treasurer, Mr. Atilola Williams Odudare who did not signify his intention to return.

Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (facing Camera), Kebbi State Governor, Senator Abubakar Atiku Bagudu, (left), Group Managing Director of TGI Group, Mr. Rahul Savara and other dignitaries at the official commissioning of WACOT Rice Limited’s integrated Rice Mill in Argungu, Kebbi State on Tuesday.

Providus Bank: New wave-making brand A little over one year after it was granted a commercial banking license with regional authorization by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the shape of the Providus Bank brand is gradually emerging.

The bank consolidated itself in April with the inauguration of its ultramodern headquarters recently in Lagos and according to the Managing Director, Walter Akpani, the bank was established with a vision to build an enduring and sustainable customer-focused financial institution.

Akpani promised that the bank would focus on service excellence, cost savings, speed, transparency and innovation.

Furthermore, Akpani disclosed that the lender will leverage on technology to beat competition, saying, the vision of the bank is to be the number one in service delivery. “We want to be a niche player and our nimble size will

enhance cost saving,” he added.

With a clear vision to “building an enduring and sustainable customerfocused financial institution, with mission to provide customers with unique experience, be their preferred nancial partner and nurture the attainment of their objectives”, Providus Bank boasts of being an innovative nancial institution that offers customised business solutions and advanced products that will not only answer customers’ business and personal needs today, but also steer them into the future. Little wonder, then, that the bank has chosen as its pay-off line: “Future Forward Banking.”

According to the fledgling bank, “Our tailored nancial services delivery includes: Business Advisory, Portfolio Management, Personalised Relationship Management, Fast-tracked Service delivery and self-service solutions”.

Giving additional insight into its portfolio, the bank states that it also provides competitive advantage in Private, Institutional, Business and Personal Banking, driven by the philosophy to create support and value for Institutions, Agencies, SMEs and HNIs. “Our business development strategy also focuses on developing expertise and collaborating to improve the non-oil (emerging) sector of the Nigerian economy, which includes, but not limited to Agriculture, Mining, Hospitality, E-commerce, and Art & Entertainment.”

“At Providus Bank, we believe that the New World of Fast, Smart, Personal and Borderless banking relationship is here. We are therefore inspired by our Future Forward Banking ethos to make life (at work and leisure) more exciting for our partners with the use of cutting-edge technology that delivers best-in-class customer satisfaction.”

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Azubike Nnadozie The goal of WACOT Rice Limited is to play an active role in reducing Nigeria’s dependence on imported rice. Accordingly, the company intends to increase its rice milling capacity in Nigeria to 500,000 metric tonnes per annum in the next few years.

This was disclosed on Tuesday, by Mr. Rahul Savara, Group Managing Director of the TGI Group, the parent company of WACOT Limited, during the official opening of the WACOT Rice Mill located in Argungu, Kebbi State, by the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo.

The Acting President was accompanied during the visit by the Governor of Kebbi State, Senator Abubakar Atiku Bagudu and 23 members of the Progressive Governors Forum, and other dignitaries from both the public and private sectors.

In an address of welcome, Mr. Savara stated that the quality of rice being produced at the mill was comparable to the best in the world. The current phase

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WACOT Rice to increase capacity to 500,000 metric tonnes of the rice mill, he further disclosed, has a production capacity of 120,000 metric tonnes per annum and fully automated silos that have the capacity to store raw materials for up to six months of production.

The state-of-the-art rice mill with a capital outlay of over =N= 10 billion capable of processing over 120,000 metric tonnes of paddy per annum is also expected to generate direct and indirect employment for 3,500 people and its procurement of rice paddy will reach out to at least 50,000 local farmers, as the capacity grows.

He appreciated the effort of the federal gov-

ernment for its various initiatives in support of agriculture through the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and other mediums, which has impacted the growth of the sector positively, and has also served as a motivation for private sector players in the sector.

“Therefore, for us this is just the beginning. We have plans to invest over =N= 100 billion over the next years in various agricultural value chains.”

It is worthy of note that the rice processing plant was the first rice mill to be conceptualized, executed and commissioned during the administration of

President Muhammadu Buhari. The construction of the mill was first announced by the Governor of Kebbi State in November 2015, when President Buhari launched the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Anchor Borrowers Program in Birnin-Kebbi.

Work started on the mill in February 2016 and has now commenced operations.

WACOT, Nigeria’s leading Agri-business conglomerate, contributes to achieving Nigeria’s objective of food self-sufficiency with significant investments in seed multiplication, out-grower farming, food processing and distribution.

Conducting dignitaries round the factory after the official opening, the Managing Director of WACOT Ltd, Mr. Ujwalkanta Senapati, drew the attention of the guests to the large stock-holding of paddy in the factory. According to him, the paddy was purchased from local farmers who have been part of the company’s outgrowers scheme.

Mr. Senapati further explained that WACOT “sees farmers as partners with whom we work together to improve agricultural production.”

In his remarks, the Acting President Yemi Osinbajo commended the TGI Group for supporting and investing in the food security vision of the Federal

Government.

He reiterated that the Government will in the remaining part of its tenure focus on agriculture and food security, Energy, (power and petroleum), industrialization and transport infrastructure.

He also disclosed that the Federal Government will be working with the private sector, giving them the necessary incentives and creating an environment for them to invest and do business.

“This mill is important for several reasons.

Firstly it underscores the policies of the Federal Government that it is the private sector that must be the engine of development.

Farmers laud Nestlé over effective Sorghum, Millet use Joy Ekeke A delegation of farmers from four states in the northern part of the country, producing mainly Sorghum and Millet, has lauded Nestlé Nigeria Plc, for utilising their yields to the produce foods — Nestle Milo, Maggi and Golden Morn.

The farmers, representing 89 farming communities that supply the produce from Kaduna, Kano, Katsina and Gombe, gave the commendation during a tour of Nestle’s Factory Complex at Agbara in Ogun.

They comprise of farmers who are community leaders and representatives of the farming clusters that are beneficiaries of the Nestlé SMS Project.

They were at the factory to see how the grains and legumes they produce on their farms were transformed into high quality nutritious products for families.

Sorghum is used in the manufacturing of food products, es-

pecially Milo, the energy food drink that is a staple in Nigerian homes.

Mr Bature Abdullahi, Coach and Chairman, Tafoki Farmers Cluster, Katsina State, said: “We came to see what Nestlé Nigeria is doing with the products we produce.

“We are also here to establish the understanding we already have with them as partners; we are highly impressed.

“They are using our products judiciously to produce Nestlé Milo and Maggi; I feel happy that I am part of this progress.’’

Abdullahi added: “We are producing white sorghum and we have seen the need to meet the standard of Nestlé Nigeria.

“The standard charges us to make our produce very clean from the point of harvesting.

“This will be such that when you bring it to the factory, the products will be accepted because they will have minimal foreign bodies such as hubs, stones and metals.

Agro-input dealers say adequate inputs’ll boost productivity

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The Nigeria Agro Inputs Dealers Association (NAIDA) says the provision of adequate and affordable farm inputs will boost agricultural productivity in the country.

Alhaji Saidu Zakari, President of the association, said this on Wednesday in an interview with newsmen in Abuja on the

sidelines of a conference organised by the Competitive African Rice Initiative (CARI).

CARI is a programme of German Development Cooperation (GIZ), aimed at developing rice farming and making farm inputs available, affordable, and accessible to farmers.

Zakari said that seeds, fertilisers and crop protection materials (agro-chemicals) were essential for

improving the productivity and income of smallholder farmers in developing countries.

“Input supply is a critical factor in inclusive agricultural and rural development; this is why many donors support initiatives that will improve the access of smallholder farmers to quality inputs,’’ he said.

He said that Nigeria was facing two key gaps in its agricultural sector nowadays,

adding that these were the inability to meet domestic food requirements and the inability to export at quality level.

Zakari said that the inability to meet domestic food needs was a productivity challenge which was driven by an input system and a farming model that were largely inefficient.

According to him, the ageing population of farmers in the country do not

have enough seeds, fertilisers, irrigation facilities, crop protection and related support to enable them to be successful.

“The other challenge is driven by an equally inefficient system for setting and enforcing food quality standards as well as poor knowledge of target markets.

“Insufficient food testing facilities, weak inspectorate system in the public sector at all levels of gov-

ernment, and poor coordination among relevant federal agencies compound the early stage problems,’’ he said.

Zakari, however, identified weak legal and regulatory framework, unstable policy environment, poorly developed infrastructure and inadequate financial support as the major factors militating against the sustainable growth of the agricultural sector.

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Supreme Court judgment: Edo PDP ET 4 has moved on – Orbih

EDSG to partner NIFOR on capacity building, palm crops production ET 2 Oshiomhole blasts Edo PDP over comment on hospital ÏÏÏThe immediate past governor

L-R: Mallam Ali, Chairman, Edo State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB); Dr. Joan Oviawe, Special Adviser to the Governor on Basic Education; Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State and Mr. Jake Ross, Regional Director, Cambridge Education, at a one-day Basic Education Stakeholders’ Forum in Benin City...recently

EDSG to open up agrarian communities for investments Stories by Titus Akhigbe Benin

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Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said his administration would rehabilitate the old roads connecting agrarian communities in the state to encourage investments in the agricultural sector.

The governor said this when he received a report presented by the Technical Committee on Infrastructural Development, set up to review the state of road network constructed when Edo was under the old Midwestern Region, at Government House in Benin City, on Tuesday.

Obaseki lamented that most agrarian communities in the state were disconnected from the Trunk A roads constructed by the Federal Government, and this he noted has been hampering agricultural activities in the communities.

He said his administration would encourage investment in these communities by reconstructing the old road infrastructure linking the agrarian communities which would be expanded when necessary.

“When the colonial masters designed these roads we inherited, they connected communities because the communities were the economic nerve centers of the then Midwestern region. But with the construction of Trunk A roads, these communities were forcefully relocated and deprived of the huge commercial and economic activities they used to host,” he said.

Obaseki assured that the old roads would be given priority attention when the state commences road reconstruction and rehabilitation work in the dry season.

Earlier, Chairman of the Committee, Engr. Erasmus Osahon, said the committee was set up in January to inspect all the old roads

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linking communities in the state.

Osahon listed the existing old roads as Benin-Lagos, Benin-Agbor, Benin-Akure-Sobe, Benin-Abraka, Benin-Auchi-Okene and Benin-

Sapele.

He added that a common feature of the identified roads is the vast adjoining land suitable for agricultural purposes.

…unveils plan to revamp basic education system

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Godwin Obaseki, on Tuesday, unveiled some of the strategies designed by his administration for the revamping of Basic Education system in the state.

Speaking at a one-day Basic Education Stakeholders’ Forum in Benin City, Obaseki explained that the Information and Communication Technology-based plan would adequately prepare students for the challenges of the 21st Century.

“The future of our socio-economic growth and advancement depends on how well we prepare our children for the challenges of the 21st Century. Our children need a solid educational foundation particularly at the basic education level to properly fit into the technological era. Our emphasis is on teacher training and professionalism,” the governor said.

He lamented that currently “the teachers we have in our classes are not Information and Communication Technology (ICT) compliant and cannot expand their horizon,” and stressed that “these types of teachers produce pupils with weak foundation who find it difficult to cope with life’s challenges. We have to provide our children with good quality education and ensure that it is accessible and affordable by all in the state.”

He traced the rot in the education system to everyone’s inaction and failure to rise up to the challenge when basic education system was contaminated and compromised, which in turn created irreparable distortion and imbalance in the system that all of us are paying dearly for today.

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of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has described the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) criticisms on the newly built Central Hospital Complex Benin, as the “cry of people still leaking their wounds from the Supreme Court defeat”.

The former governor, who was reacting to the allegation by the PDP that he borrowed equipment to bring to the hospital to deceive President Muhammadu Buhari when he came to commission the project last year, Oshiomhole said the contractor who supplied the equipment has been doing so and they are being mounted, adding that what delayed the completion was the scarcity of foreign exchange which has been sorted out.

His words: “First is that it is good news for them to agree that first a new hospital has been built because in some other statements they had said they saw no new hospital. I have seen PDP turn out numbers that did not make sense even to a fool as regards the amount of the project. The only point that I think is worth commenting is when I read somewhere that we hired or borrowed equipment to bring to the hospital for the President to commission.

“Again, it shows how empty headed PDP leadership in Edo State and their spokesperson are.

If you borrowed equipment from someone, how come the lender has not come to recover his equipment? And those equipment’s are still there. The fortunate thing which everybody knows is the fact that the government I headed paid 75 per cent of the total value of the equipment that we had ordered and they are state-of-the-art equipment.

“As you can see even from the one that has been delivered and installed. But the contractor which is not a one man business, Verment, they are not one local contractor that PDP can go and sublet contract to. Verment is recognised even in Europe, they run the largest hospital in Austria, they are world class hospital equipment manufacturers but they just got caught in the foreign exchange crisis, that they could not get enough forex to procure in order for the equipment.

“And these are not equipment you order off the shelf. And as we speak, go to that hospital tomorrow, you will find that equipment are coming and they are installing them. And here I must thank the CBN Governor who I had to call on the phone to assist us. And today, the equipment are arriving and they are installing, and I know for sure from my last inquiry, I know that they will be done by October.

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Obaseki tasks healthcare providers on quality service delivery ÏÏÏEdo State Governor, Mr. God-

win Obaseki, has tasked healthcare providers to deliver quality services to the people especially at the primary healthcare centres.

The governor gave the charge in Benin City recently when he received the executives of the Medical Women’s Association of Nigeria (MWAN), Edo State chapter, at the Government House Benin City.

Obaseki, who commended the association for its contributions to the uplift of the state, observed that the passion shown by the medical women was a demonstration of their commitment to contribute meaningfully to the development of the healthcare system in Edo State. ‘’l am delighted to see professionals who on their own volition want to give back to their people and assist in the development of their communities. l know the force of women and the extra work you put in as medical women,’’ he added.

He urged the group to partner with the state government in developing a policy framework that will be used to address some of the challenges militating against the primary healthcare system.

He explained that ‘’there are generic problems and challenges and if we do not address these challenges, whatsoever we are doing will not be sustained overtime, adding “As a government, we have to fix the healthcare system, first by com-

municating our plans effectively because people equate healthcare with general hospitals.’’

Obaseki disclosed that the state government at a recent two-day health workshop, found out that the problems in the healthcare system could only be dealt with from the base through capacity building and assured that the state government would soon domesticate the Federal Government Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to give the people access to affordable healthcare.

In her remarks, President of the association, Dr. Anthonia Inibokun Njoku, commended the governor for his developmental strides, adding that the association was confident that he would bring the desired change in the state.

She noted that the association’s mandate includes improving the health status of the populace especially women and children who are the vulnerable groups in the society.

Dr. Njoku explained that the association was also charged with advocacy work, health talks, screening exercises and medical outreaches.

The health expert said the state chapter of MWAN has a rich resource of female doctors and dentists with about 300 members and sought the assistance of the state government in providing vehicles to reach out to more people and a women’s clinic with screening facilities.

EDSG to partner NIFOR on capacity building, palm crops production Stories by Titus Akhigbe Benin

ÏÏÏ Governor Gowon Obaseki of

Edo State has assured of his administration’s readiness to partner with the Nigerian Institute for Oil Palm Research (NIFOR) to boost palm crops production in Edo State.

The governor made this disclosure in Benin City on Wednesday when he received the management team of the institute, which paid him a courtesy visit in Government House, Benin City, the state capital.

The governor, who commended the institute for its commitment and support in ensuring that palm crops production receives a boost in the state, noted that the institute has transformed the agriculture

sector.

He expressed the state government’s interest in strengthening the relationship with the institute which aligns with the vision of his government, adding “We want oil palm to be our own crude oil and therefore, we will partner and work closely with you”.

Obaseki added that the state had identified agriculture as one of the areas it has competitive advantage and assured that everything would be done to optimise and get full value in sectors it has strength.

He revealed that the state would enter into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the institute to harness its expertise and leverage on its location in the state despite its status as a Federal Government agency.

He appealed to the institute to help strengthen the capacity of the state College of Agriculture, lguoriakhi, as such synergy would help the state government train middle level manpower for palm crop production.

In his remarks, Acting Executive Director of NIFOR, Dr. Napoleon Aisueni, said the institute was prepared to carry out its mandate of ensuring adequate research in the production of oil, coconut, raffia and rate palms and sustain its status as an international center of excellence in crop production, processing and improved technological know-how.

He however said that NIFOR was grappling with infrastructural challenges and appealed to the state government for assistance.

…seeks palace’s support on basic education, environmental protection ÏÏÏThe

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has sought the collaboration of His Royal Majesty, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare II, the Oba of Benin, in the areas of basic education and protection of the environment.

The governor sought the support of the royal father when he led members of his Executive Council on an introductory visit to the Oba and his chiefs.

After introducing the members of his cabinet and explaining adjustments in some ministries and agencies, Obaseki proceeded to acquaint the Oba of his administration’s accomplishments in the use of concrete technology for road construction, re-branding of the traffic management agency, agricultural initiatives, job creation and restoration of law and order in the city centre, particularly around the palace.

The governor, while appreciating Oba Ewuare II for his help in checking illegal activities of Community Development Association (CDA), sought his assistance in encouraging various communities to take charge of schools located in their commu-

nities.

“Schools renovated in the last eight years have been vandalised.

Please, Your Majesty, use your good office to reach out to communities and urge them to take ownership of schools in their localities as we will not build schools in any communities until agreements are reached that such property will be protected,” the governor said.

He said the reason why Nigeria is challenged as a nation is the failure in the areas of basic education which is the foundation and the future of the nation.

He also decried the enormous cost of tackling erosion which is one of the effects of deforestation and urged the palace to help in preventing further exploitation of the environment particularly heritage sites such as the Ogba Zoological Garden and Nature Park from encroachment.

“Edo State has less than eight per cent of our forest reserve left; the environmental consequences cannot be quantified. Two-third of the land belonging to Ogba Zoological Garden and Nature Park has been encroached on.”

Erasmus Osahon, Chairman of the Technical Committee on Infrastructure, presenting the report on the reconstruction of old roads connecting agrarian communities in Edo State to Governor Godwin Obaseki (right) at the Government House Benin...on Tuesday

EDSG pledges to revamp public libraries ÏÏÏEdo State Governor, Mr. God-

win Obaseki, has assured of his administration’s determination to revamp public libraries and equip them with state-of-the-art facilities.

The governor disclosed this in Benin City when he received the Joint Implementation Team on Public and Secondary School Library System in Edo State on Tuesday at the Government House Benin City, the state

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ready for the ongoing reform in the education sector to seek redeployment or voluntary retirement and stressed that “indolence, absenteeism, indiscipline, sabotage and other actions that contribute to the decay in our education system will no longer be tolerated.”

The governor assured that his administration would ensure that pupils and teachers receive the needed support as a reward system has been put in place to boost the morale of “teachers that go above and beyond the call of duty to give our children the best learning experience.”

Recalling the glorious days of basic education in the country, Obase-

ki said “the success achieved by some of us can be attributed to the sound basic education we received.

We have attained this height today because we were properly taught.”

He called on parents and other stakeholders in the education sector to support his administration’s determination to re-enact basic education by building upon what worked in the past and leverage on technology in order to give pupils the opportunity to excel in life.

He further assured that every school in the state will receive intervention in the forms of teaching aids, teachers and new classroom blocks amongst others, to produce the best minds that will develop the state and the nation at large.

capital.

Obaseki said the team was saddled with the responsibility of overhauling public libraries in Edo State such that the state would become a reference point in standard library administration.

He said the drive to revamp public libraries was necessitated by the declining reading culture among students, especially at the basic education level.

The governor stressed that libraries can be used to create a sustainable learning environment that can strengthen the quality of human capital in the state and assured that a plan on the domestication of electronic library would be rolled out in the state.

Chairperson of the committee, Mrs. Grace Sanni, hinted that the committee’s recommendations includes the need for government to employ professionals in the management of public libraries and the establishment of e-libraries in all the local government areas of the state.

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UBTH: Doctors back Edo North candidate to emerge CMD

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Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, in handshake with Dr. Bright Oniovokukor, the State Coordinator of the Civil Society on HIV/ AIDS during a courtesy visit to the Edo State Governor at Government House, Benin City ...on Tuesday.

Obaseki orders implementation of SACA law, board constitution Stories by Titus Akhigbe Benin

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of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has ordered the Ministry of Health to within seven days draft modalities for the implementation of the basic part of the State Agency for the Control of AIDS (SACA) Law. Obaseki gave the order when he received the executive members of the Edo State chapter of the Civil Society for HIV/AIDS in Nigeria (CiSHAN), who paid him a courtesy visit at the Government House in Benin City.

According to the governor, “it is worthless to enact a law without seeing to its full implementation” and so he mandated the Ministry of Health to forward to his office modalities for the establishment of the SACA Board, as well as the

constitution of the Governor’s Council on HIV/AIDS. Obaseki, who commended members of the association for helping to curb the spread of the disease in the state, advised them not to relent despite the frustrations they face, saying “We appreciate the work you are doing and we thank you for the lives you are saving”.

He assured of his administration’s readiness to collaborate more with the association especially in the area of eradicating the HIV/AIDS stigma and pledged that the “Ministry of Communication and Orientation would assist in publicising and educating our people on the various prevention methods.”

Earlier, the state coordinator of CiSHAN, Dr. Bright Oniovokukor, said the association worked closely with governments and other

HIV/AIDS awareness creation partners to curb the spread of the disease.

Oniovokukor commended the efforts of the state government in signing the SACA bill into law and appealed for its full implementation.

He said the establishment of the EDOSACA Board and the constitution of the Governor’s Committee on AIDS as stipulated by the law, would go a long way in improving the state’s response rate to the disease.

“Donor agencies are gradually leaving and most private institutions in the state have not keyed into the HIV/AIDS response. The people remain ours and we must care for them, we know that implementation of the EDOSACA Act would be able to close this gap,’’ he added.

…Inaugurates committee to investigate management of Edo Polytechnic

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has constituted a seven man committee headed by Prof.

Rose Egonmwan to investigate the management of the Edo State Polytechnic, Usen in Ovia South-West Local Government Area of the state.

According to a statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Barrister Osarodion Ogie and made available to newsmen, the terms of reference of the committee includes to examine the administrative structure of the institution in line with the law establishing the institution; to establish the actual student population against the accredited schools and departments;

to investigate the quality of the training programmes in the institute especially in relation to standard; to examine the finances of the institute in the area of revenue generation, expenditure, transparency, accountability and observance of due process.

Others include to critically look at the mode of employment and promotion at the institute with a view to determining whether due process was observed in recruitment and promotion and whether the staff strength vis-à-vis the population of students in the institution is balanced and reasonable; to look into any matter which in the opinion of the committee

is incidental to its assignment and make recommendations that will assist the state government to reposition the institute for quality service delivery and global competitiveness.

According to the statement, the Secretary of the committee is Mrs. Sede E. I (Office of the SSG) while other members of the committee include Prof. Victor Igbinedion of the University of Benin; Sir Steve Omoijuanfo, Managing Director Nigerian Dynamic Ltd; K.I.K Iyamu of the Nigeria Labour Congress); Daisy Osunde also of the Nigerian Labour Congress and Adams Akhogiemi of Edo State Independent Electoral Commission.

professionals under the aegis of Friends for Edo North Professors have continued to show solidarity in support of a Chief Medical Director from Edo North Senatorial District to head the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH).

They also called on the Federal Government to ensure fairness and promote federal character in the appointment of a Chief Medical Director by ensuring a credible and competent candidate from Edo North emerges in the interest of all stakeholders.

The group comprising mainly medical professionals and other critical stakeholders have urged the Federal Government to consider Edo North Senatorial district in the appointment, pointing out that Edo South and Edo Central senatorial districts have in the last two decades produced the Chief Medical Directors of the hospital.

“We call on the acting president, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, to play by the rules and appoint only the best candidate from Edo North following the principles of fairness, equity and justice and respect for federal character. Our son came out in flying colours at the interview and it is our turn to occupy the office. We suggest that our indefatigable Prof. Sylvester Idogun, who made the list of persons shortlisted should be appointed from among those successful at the recently conducted interview for applicants as Edo North has been denied this position for years even when we merit it,” they emphasised.

Corroborating the same posi-

tion, some medical doctors in UBTH who didn’t want their names in print, said a CMD from Edo North is long due, stressing that only a disciplined professional like Prof. Idogun can reposition the hospital for effective service delivery who possesses a great sense of leadership, competence and professionalism.

It would be recalled that the Federal Government had recently conducted interview for all applicants for the position of Chief Medical Director of the hospital and shortlisted three persons from which one will appointed this week it was reliably confirmed.

Among the three shortlisted by the Federal Government are Dr. Darlington Obaseki, who is the acting Chief Media Director and Prof. Sylvester Idogun, a professor of Chemical Pathology, as well as Professor Alfred Ogbemudia, an Orthopaedic surgeon.

Both Dr. Darlington Obaseki and Prof. Alfred Ogbemudia are from Edo South Senatorial District, while Prof. Sylvester Idogun, hails from Edo North Senatorial District of Edo State.

It was gathered that no fewer than fifteen applicants were earlier in the race for the position of the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH).

The seat of the Chief Medical Director of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital became vacant following the successful completion of two terms in office and exit of the immediate past Chief Medical Director, Prof. Michael Ibadin.

Edo councils share N2.95bn for July

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18 Local Government Councils in Edo State shared N2.95 billion for the month of July as against N2.18 billion disbursed in June by the state’s Joint Account and Allocation Committee (JAAC).

Speaking after the monthly meeting of the committee, presided by the Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, at the Government House in Benin City on Tuesday, the Head of Local Government Administration, Esan South East, Mr. Macauley Ehonor, said the July allocation increased by N770 million over the June allocation.

Ehonor explained that N1.45 billion of the N2. 95 billion

July allocation was used for mandatory expenditures such as payment of primary school teachers’ salaries, one per cent training fund, as well as five per cent payment for traditional rulers.

He added that the distributable sum left for the 18 councils was put at N1.49 billion, while the Paris Club refund would be used to pay outstanding salaries of workers across the 18 Local Government Councils in the state.

He further said that the electronic collection of taxes, levies and fixed rates in the entire Local Government Areas in the state commenced in July, and urged members of the public to comply with the directive.

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Supreme Court judgment: Edo PDP has moved on –Orbih Dan Orbih, chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State in this interview with journalists recently, spoke on a number of issues affecting the polity. TITUS AKHIGBE was there for The Edo Times. Excerpts:

The recent Supreme Court judgment on the Edo State governorship election is one shocker that your party, the Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu are yet to recover from contrary to the high expectation that it would be in your favour. How will you react to this?

Well, I must say that for us as a political party, we have moved on from the Supreme Court judgment, more so, we have two issues with Governor Obaseki; the one pertaining to the conduct of the actual election and the declaration by the INEC and the second issue that deals with the qualification to contest the election. You would recall that even before the election, we went to court challenging Obaseki as someone who is not qualified to contest the election. We knew from what he submitted to INEC that he was not qualified to contest that election. So, that case that we took to court that ab initio he was not qualified to contest the governorship election, is still very much alive at the Federal High Court and one out of the two cases had been decided. You see the same issue relating to the man from Kano State where the Supreme Court recently gave a pronouncement that the person who had the highest votes at the election next to the man who was occupying that post should immediately be sworn in because the other man was not qualified to contest the election.

So, the man who had the highest votes among those who were qualified to contest the Supreme Court said they should swear in the man.

These are decided cases, and it is good just like we have gone to court to say that APC did not have a qualified candidate, they did not field a qualified candidate for the election because the man they put forward was not qualified to contest the election.

Don’t you think that proceeding to court again would amount to shadow chasing…?

(Cuts in) We are not going to court again, the matter is already in court; it is a pre-election matter. You see, we must learn how to deepen democracy. Some people are saying, oh why don’t you leave him alone. If a man is not qualified to be in a place, is there any basis to beg to say why don’t you leave him I beg; it is not a matter of I beg. It is a very serious matter. We must take a lot of pains to bring democracy to the level where people, men who are eminently qualified for public

offices, men with requisite qualifications, men of impeccable characters are allowed to contest elective positions because these positions are positions of trust. They are not Christmas gifts, you just give to everybody in the name of celebrating Christmas. You earn the position; you must be qualified to occupy the position. These are the issues; I don’t want to go into details of the matter because it is already in the court. We wish our legal team well as they go ahead to prosecute the matter.

What is the next line of action for PDP in Edo State?

For the party, we have put quite a number of things together and you will agree with me that PDP is strong and alive in Edo State.

Putting aside the issue of governorship election or no governorship election, this is one state that we defeated Oshiomhole who was serving as a two term governor; we defeated APC and Oshiomhole during the Presidential election. This is one state that was once won overwhelmingly by President Goodluck Jonathan during the Presidential election. In this state, we elected two PDP senators out of the three; in this state, we elected majority of members of the House of Representatives, and of course we have very able and capable members in the state house of assembly elected on the platform of the PDP. It may even interest you to know that the member representing Oshiomhole’s constituency in the state House of Assembly is a PDP member. So, PDP in Edo State is very strong and nothing has affected that followership which is already in the state, coupled with the fact that just within few months in government, the people have found out that nothing has changed except the name from Oshiomhole to Obaseki. Outside the change of name, nothing else has changed in Edo. We now have a government that has continued in the tradition of Oshiomhole; propaganda and nothing. We now have a government that has not deemed it fit to discard Oshiomhole’s preference of using security vote as an avenue of defrauding the state. He has continued in the same manner Oshiomhole was operating; private jets come in and out of Benin City just like it was during the time of Oshiomhole. So you now see why Edo people are solidly behind the PDP in the state because they see it as the channel of hope for the people of this state because in the past eight years of the APC, the rul-

Orbih ing party brought hardship to the people of this state.

Observers of events in the state are of the applauding Governor Obaseki because some things are going on within the Benin metropolis and other areas of the state which were not there during the eight years of Oshiomhole. Don’t you see these as a change and should be encouraged?

I am happy at your question. You have said that some things are now happening which is in agreement with my earlier position that Oshiomhole did nothing. By saying this man is trying to do something it means you have agreed with me that we had eight years of propaganda as a tool of government.

Have you taken pains to know how many roads we have in Benin City and how many roads you are talking about all to promote one man who owns cement somewhere; they are talking about using concrete cement to repair or do roads.

If people want to say thank you to those who helped them in one way or the other in the course of their political journeys, they should find other ways to do it. We are not in a water logged environment. So, this idea of using cement concrete to say you are repairing or wanting to repair or to be seen making an attempt at doing, let him do 30 kilometers of cement road, then we know that that has come to be an option to what we had all these years. I think it is all diversionary

posture of the government trying to satisfy certain economic interest that are alien to Edo interest.

Your party recently turned down the olive branch the state government extended to it and since your party is more concerned about the interest of Edo people, why is your party bent on rocking the boat?

We don’t intend to rock the boat.

You see, some of the problems the present day democracy is facing is that we have too many bread and butter politicians, food is ready politicians who will just move over forgetting that most times when you get to the restaurant where you see a sign post ‘food is ready’ and often times you see the food is ready sign post as early as 9 o’clock and it must be left over food, food that was cooked the previous day.

The food will not be fresh, not tasty and sometimes it could be stale but for those who want to put anything in their stomach, they go to food is ready. We must develop the patience of waiting for fresh meals that will be prepared with fresh ingredients.

We are not food is ready politicians.

We have our programme which we believe that will best serve the interest of Edo people. If you canvass for support on a certain platform, you should be allowed to go ahead to execute the promises and programmes you used in canvassing for support before the election so that the people can put the failure as is already evident squarely on his fragile shoulders not to get us involved. His offer is purely a Greek gift. We have also

Outside the change of name, nothing else has changed in Edo. We now have a government that has continued in the tradition of Oshiomhole; propaganda and nothing.

come back to tell the people that we are contesting his right to occupy that office because ab initio we said he was not qualified to contest the election. So, why should we now go and be part of his government that we said the man who is there is not qualified to be there? It will be contradictory. We as a political party have our own programmes; we have the man who was eminently qualified to be there, who contested the election and among the qualified candidates, he had the highest votes. That is our position. So, until the court says otherwise, we believe strongly in this position and we will pursue it to a logical conclusion.

Some of your critics blame problems in your party on you; that you have overstayed your position as the chairman of party and for that some of them are not comfortable. How do you respond to this?

Well, if you are in a political party, people are entitled to their opinions. I also want to let you know that when I indicated interest to contest for a second term as chairman of the party, I did not get any challenge; nobody re-contested against me. That shows the confidence members of the party in the state have in my leadership. Whatever you see today is a fallout of PDP years in government I was not part of it. I don’t think anybody can put anything on me. Instead, I have given a leadership that is not just constructive, but also a leadership that has become the conscience of the people. In Oshiomhole’s years of political gangsterism, I was able to put a check to some of his excesses. When he told a widow that she should go and die, I brought it to the attention of the world that because he is a governor does not give him the right to condemn an innocent widow to death just because he is a governor. I forced him to go on his knees; he did not only apologise to the woman, he also gave an appointment to the woman even though she was not educationally qualified for the appointment she was given as an SSA. All these were done to placate the damage that incident brought on Oshiomhole. I championed the cause. When he was on an economic voyage to sell Edo house, I told him that it will not happen, that I will use every available legal means to stop the sale of Edo house, more so when we got privileged information that very key members of his government were working with a Chinese company to come and turn the Edo house into a five star hotel and they were there to sell for a peanut. When I told him we would not allow it, he thought it was a joke. I personally led a protest match to Edo house in Lagos with over five hundred Edo citizens to say that the house should not be sold.

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We need to think more than we dance –Vector

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When I feel the right feelings, I will settle down –Vector

King Kong Crooner Olanrewaju David Ogunmefun, better known by his stage name Vector Tha Viper

young rapper, a good lyricist and show killer with his electrifying performances and perfect act on every track he features; making him a force to reckon with the industry.

He is the voice behind the Sprite commercial that has aired on most radio stations across Nigeria since 2009. Signed on self-own label G.R.A.P, Vector has weathered the storm and remained consistent in the industry doing what he knows best. In this chat with MUTIAT ALLI, Vector talks on rap music in Nigeria,

accepting more intelligent lyrics. God Bless Nigeria, it can only get better.

Having followed most of your performances, you tend to drop a bomb shell of word at the end of your performances?

Yes andthe reason is we need to think more than we dance; lets always remember that the Chibok girls that were kidnapped are probably women now, we need to be remembered at all times and not be self-centred.

Recently you set a record with your freestyle. What motivated that?

I just wanted to activate something for hiphop. I got tired of all these rappers saying “yomhen, yomhen” and stuff like that even though many rappers can actually sing and make commercial music; by commercial music in Naija I mean dance music, it was just needed at that point according to my thoughts to do something to activate for Naija rap

mention in most of your music? is equally the mixture of who I am, I have

that night tuned in to witness history to see if really this guy rap for hours. Even bloggers

my own way of appreciating where I came

forming, when we did like 1hour, 30minutes they were like “he is about to do it”. So it was just pretty much to create awareness for hiphop in Nigeria.

personalities in the society.

Rap music is really growing in Nigeria, I could remember back then people did not accept rap music as it is now because then you get to see Plantation boiz, ruff rugged & raw. But right now you can arguably mention are pretty mostly rappers. It means Nigerian music is becoming more intelligent and

I mean, how did you do it for Hours?

I actually stopped because my back was starting to ache because I was standing in one sending what you want me to rap about via social media. The moment I see it, I rap about it there and it was fun. The adrenaline was beyond the hunger and the thirst.

Few years back, your music set back due to dispute with your record label. What are some of the lessons you picked from that? and let God. Nobody is perfect! You can never learn not to make the same again because you are the one learning at the expense you know what bits like at the other side of the fence. On its business and when its friendship, its friendship but both of them are not the same.

When is vector going to settle down?

Vector will settle down when he feels the as we speak. Marriage is a big thing o.

But you have the money and the name, women jump on you practically, what then is the delay?

Yes! Girls are crazy but then again, my heart is my heart. Am a human being. It must be

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Speaking of good women, how do you It is not our position to judge. Have a pure A loving heart. And as Naija is right now, we should want to have a woman who is to have someone who can partner with you spiritually, sexually, mentally and everything but the spiritual part is essential because that materially.

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Remi Surutu bounces back Since the demise of her 21 years old daughter, actress back on set of a new movie as produced and directed by

L3 Gist

Shady Blue switch with “No Fall My Hand”

Agbogunboro in the coming as Shady Blue, is back after a long hiatus with a new single entitled: “No Fall my Hand” from

adventure of two young men Wale and Chike who went

According to the songwriter, the new single produced by TeeBeeO, who has worked with the likes of Dbanj, JJC, Davido, Dammy

believed to have been a deity staller cast that includes Richard Mofe Damijo, Alibaba, Sola Sobowale,

be released online music platforms such as,

Remi

Play, Spotify, Napster, 7digital, Emusic, and Remi, Rycardo Agbor, Remi

However,

Olakunle Fawole, Segun unveiled Arinze, Norbert Young, Tina Mba, Bisola Aiyeola, Yvonne

following

her She added that she and other producers,

a

foundation,

to carry on the values that her daughter, stood for - charitable Francis

Onwochei,

Sharing her experience on the switch from Soul music to what she described as Afrocentric Soul/Pop, has been an awesome

Shady Blue

Neale

Hennessy artistry VS Class to host first live audition ....Vector, Falz, Yung6ix and Phlow as Judge

at the commercial sound of Afropop/Afrobeat

single is blended with English, Yoruba and

The

Oyo

State-born

musician and producer in Nigeria, is also warming up for her music tour of Africa

into the industry by her father, a renowned Jazz

Lagos City Suya Carnival to put Lagos metropolis on world map at 50 under the leadership of governor Akinwunmi Ambode will be put on the world map courtesy The

edible-oriented carnival is scheduled to break the world record of the longest Suya/steak with the production of a single 50ft Falz & Yung6ix

in While the Online Auditions are currently causing a hiphop rave, Hennessy Artistry

The VS Class is one of the most anticipated and engaging Hip hop series that brings together the best MCs from all over Nigeria to compete in a series of lyrical battles on air over a The winner will have the bragging rights as the MC of the year and an opportunity to sign a deal with a well acclaimed record label

he is currently signed to Aristokrat Records with his debut album which is set to drop this August courtesy

take place at 9am, this Saturday, August 5th 2017 at Renaissance Hotel, The Judges includes lyrical king and class master of VS Class Season top celebrated rapper and artiste, Falz, Afro-Hiphop recording artist, Yung6ix

This feat is to be achieved conjunction with the

Talabi, an amiable businessman and CEO of

Making a 50ft long Suya steak and breaking a record hence

Suya Carnival, is organised in conjunction with the

“Which better way could we have launched such a carnival with such magnitude? Where The carnival, which could we have launched this is billed to wrap up the and when could we have long month celebration of

on the world map is not a bad way to launch the event of this

state at 50, is billed to hold ravaged our mind when this

“We have been working tirelessly behind the curtains in the past few months since we berthed this idea and with

Speaking to media men at the press unveil of the and which better way to launch highly-anticipated event, it than the commemoration of

governor, Akinwunmi Ambode through the Ministry of Arts and

with the event rounding it off?

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