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Dangote investments account for 10% of Nigeria’s GDP – Report With investments worth more than $40bn in Nigeria Targets biggest $10bn philanthropic foundation in Africa

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Group are responsible for over 10 per cent of the Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

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R-L: President Muhammadu Buhari; State Governors: Nyesom Wike (Rivers); Ifeanyi Okowa (Delta); Udom Emmanuel (Akwa Ibom) and Seriake Dickson (Bayelsa), during the South-South governors’ visit to the President at the Presidential Villa, Abuja...on Tuesday

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billion, but his company’s investment is responsible for much more than his net worth.

In fact, the World Bank had said that Nigeria’s GDP stood at $404.653 billion as at end of 2016, maintaining its stance as Africa’s biggest economy, over South Africa and Angola till date.

But the claims that the Dangote Group investments contributed upwards of 10 per cent of Nigeria’s GDP, which was reported by the international economists, the TIME, suggested that Dangote Group has investments worth more than $40 billion in Nigeria, ranging from cement to food products, and now, to oil and gas.

It is worthy of note that in the next two years, the Dangote Group will complete the building of the world’s largest greenfield refinery, estimated to be worth upwards of $10.5 billion in Lagos.

The billionaire also runs arguably the biggest cement company in Africa, with an operating revenue of N240 billion as at Q2, 2018 and a market cap of N3.62 trillion (over $10 billion).

Dangote Cement is also the biggest company, by market cap, on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, ahead of Nestle and Nigerian Breweries combined.

In 2016, MTN Group, the biggest telecommunications company in Nigeria and on the continent, also claimed to have been responsible for about 4.5 percent of Nigeria’s GDP. Just recently, the President, Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, stated that being Africa’s richest man is not

enough, but dreams to be the biggest giver to charitable causes in Africa.

“I want to be known as the biggest philanthropist in Africa,” he said, stating that he aims to have a foundation worth $10 billion within the next five to seven years.

Although, a total sum of $1.2 billion has been invested in the foundation, Dangote was recently named the sixth most charitable person in the world.

He also wants to build and run Nigeria’s biggest diary farm, with over 300,000 highyield dairy cows, meeting the needs of the West African region.

“With the right kind of support, we could feed the entire West African region. It’s possible. Not today, but in the next 10 years,” he added.

Meanwhile, Nigeria’s GDP growth has declined from 1.95 per cent recorded in the first quarter (Q1) 2018 to 1.50 per cent in the second quarter (Q2 2018) indicting a 0.45 per cent contraction.

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in its recent report stated that the economy grew by 0.72 per cent in the same period in 2017, which was largely dependent on its rich crude reserves.

The Nigerian economy began climbing out of its first recession in 25 years in 2016 as President Muhammadu Buhari’s government implemented the early stages of a turnaround plan.

But the pace of recovery has been relatively slow, and since the beginning of this year has again started to dip.

For instance, the oil sector shrank 3.95 per cent in the second quarter, the National Bureau of Statistics said oil production dipped to

1.84 million barrels per day (mpbd) from 2 mpbd in the first quarter.

But the NBS reported that for the first time since the exit from recession, growth was driven by the non-oil sector which grew by 2.05 per cent represented the strongest growth in non-oil GDP since Q4 2015.

Non-oil GDP growth which was -0.18 per cent in Q1 2016, -0.38 per cent in Q2 2016, 0.03 per cent in Q3 2016, -0.33 per cent in Q4 2016, 0.72 per cent in Q1 2017, 0.45 per cent in Q2 2017, -0.76 per cent in Q3 2017, 1.45 per cent in Q4 2017and 0.76 per cent in Q1 2018 grew strongly in Q2 2018 by 2.05 per cent.

Non-oil growth was driven by transportation which grew by 21.76 per cent supported by growth in construction which grew by 7.66 per cent and electricity which grew by 7.59 per cent.

Other non-oil sectors that drove growth in Q2 2018 include telecommunication which grew by 11.51 per cent, water supply and sewage which grew by 11.98 per cent and broadcasting which grew by 21.92 per cent.

The non oil sector performance was however constrained by Agriculture that grew by 1.3% compared to 3.00 per cent in Q1 2018 and 3.01 per cent in Q2 2017.

Q2 2018 GDP growth was also constrained by oil GDP with crude oil and gas production contracting by -3.95 per cent compared to 14.77 per cent in Q1 2018 and 3.53 per cent in Q2 2017.

Services GDP recorded its best performance in 9 quarters, growing by 2.12 per cent in Q2 2018 compared to -0.47 per cent in Q1 2018 and -0.85 per cent in Q2 2017.

Edo, Cross River absent as South South Governors meet Buhari Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

Four governors from the South South geo-political zone elected under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday held a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Aso Villa, Abuja.

The State Governors: Nyesom Wike (Rivers); Serieke Dickson (Bayelsa); Ifeanyi Okowa (Delta) and Udom Emmanuel (Akwa Ibom).

But Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki and his Cross River State counterpart, Prof. Ben Ayade, did not attend the meeting.

An inside source told our correspondent that

the meeting may not be unconnected with the Paris Club Refund of some few states withheld and 2019 general elections.

Speaking to State House correspondents shortly after meeting, Governor Dickson said that the governors came to have an audience with Buhari on issues of national concern.

He said, “My colleagues and I came to have audience with the President to discuss issues pertinent to our country and pertinent to our respective states.

“We had a robust and fruitful discussion with the President and he promised to look into it in anyway possible.”

When asked on the specific areas they discussed with the

President, Governor Dickson simply said, “We don’t want to go into those details.”

The Daily Times recalls that in September 2018, the Federal Government ordered the revised payment of the second tranche of the Paris Club refund to five states Rivers, Delta, Imo, Benue and Osun because they could not meet the underlined condition which is basically for payment of salaries and pensions.

The Daily Times also recalls that these state governors who held a closed door meeting with the President had alleged that they were being intimidated and harassed by the opposition party in their respective states to use “the federal might” to kick them out of office.

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L-R: National Security Adviser Babagana Monguno; Minister of Finance Ahmed Zainab; Kaduna State Governor Nasir el-Rufai; President Muhammadu Buhari and others during Buhari’s sympathy visit to Kaduna State over the recent security challenges in Kaduna...on Tuesday.

Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Mr. Boboye Oyeyemi (third left); Speaker, House of Representatives Hon. Yakubu Dogara; Chairman, Governing Board of FRSC, Malam Bukhari Bello and others during the Dogara’s visit to the FRSC headquarters in Abuja...on Tuesday. Photo: Speaker’s Media Office

L-R: Edo State Governor, Mr., Godwin Obaseki; Kebbi State Governor, Abubakar Bagudu; Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong; Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige; and Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, during the meeting between state governors and the federal government over the new minimum wage in Abuja...on Tuesday.

Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode (middle) flanked by All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu (left) and his deputy governorship candidate, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, during a courtesy visit to the Governor, at Lagos House, Alausa Ikeja, Lagos... on Tuesday.

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Anti-graft war hits Senate: FG Buhari in Kaduna, says drags Senators Uzodinma, recurring killings of people must stop Stella Oduah to court Directs security agencies to hunt perpetrators, bring them to justice MBF condemns killings, calls for urgent action

Andrew Orolua, Abuja

The anti-graft war has landed in the Senate as the Federal Government has filed criminal charges against two serving senators: Senators Hope Uzodinma (APC, Imo) and Stella Oduah (PDP, Anambra) and accused them of allegedly failing to declare their assets.

The two count charges against the two senators were filed before the Federal High Court in Abuja by the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIP) in the name of the Federal Government.

The Daily Times further gathered on Tuesday that the charges against Senator Oduah has been assigned to Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, while the one filed against Senator Uzodinma was assigned to Justice Babatunde Quadri of the Federal High Court in Abuja.

The charge against Stella Oduah marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/110/2018 reads in part: “That you, Senator Stella Oduah on or about March 29, 2018 being a public officer with the National Assembly committed an offence to wit: refused to declare your assets without reasonable excuse and upon notice to declare your assets before the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property, Abuja contrary to and punishable under S. 3 (3) (1) (a) of the Recovery of Public Property (Special Provision) Act 2004.

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Oduah on March 29, 2018 being a pubic officer with the National Assembly, committed an offence to wit: neglected to declare your assets without reasonable excuse and upon notice to declare your assets before the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property, Abuja contrary to and punishable under S. 3 (3) (1) (a) of the Recovery of Public Property (Special Provision) Act 2004” On his part, Senator Uzodinma, who is contesting to have won the All Progressives Congress (APC) Imo State Governorship Primary is facing charge marked: FHC/ ABJ/CR/107/2018, that reads thus: “That you, Senator Hope Uzodinma on March 5, 2018 being a public officer with the National Assembly, committed an offence to wit: refused to declare your assets without

reasonable excuse and upon notice to declare your assets before the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property, Abuja, contrary to and punishable under S. 3 (3) (1) (a) of the Recovery of Public Property (Special Provision) Act 2004.

“That you Senator Hope Uzodmma on March 5, 2018 being a public officer that the National Assembly, committed an offence to wit: neglected to declare your assets without reasonable excuse and upon notice to declare your assets before the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property, Abuja, contrary to and punishable under S. 3 (3) (1) (a) of the Recovery of Public Property (Special Provision) Act 2004.”

No date has been fixed for the hearing of the matter against the two senators.

108 days to 2019, FG yet to release N189bn elections budget – INEC

UN wants INEC to conduct credible elections

Tunde Opalana, Abuja One hundred and eighty days to the 2019 general elections, the Federal Government is yet to release the N189.2 billion budget approved by the National Assembly for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct the polls.

This was disclosed by INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, on Tuesday, while receiving a special representation of the United Nations Secretary General led by Mr. Mohammed Ibn Chambas at the Commission’s secretariat in Abuja.

He said the commission is pressed to procure some essential election materials such as printing of ballot papers, ballot boxes and others in good time while expenses on logistics could come clearly next year before the February 16, 2019 commencement of elections.

Represented by Dr. Mustapha

Leki, the INEC chairman said it is hopeful that Federal Government will meet the election budget demands in good time.

He reiterated the commission’s determination to conduct free, fair and credible elections, promising to further improve on previous elections conducted recently.

Calling for an improved capacity building for security personnel, Leki said INEC will further interface with stakeholders and assured recently registered voters of adequate collection of their voters’ registration cards before the commencement of polls.

Leader of the team, Mr. Mohammed Ibn Chambas, urged INEC to ensure that it conducts credible elections in 2019.

The United Nations said it met with the Chief of Staff to the President, Alhaji Abba Kyari as well as the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr.

Boss Mustapha, on how to effect the fast release of election funding.

The global body asked the Electoral Commission to display its leadership role as a leading election management body in the West African sub-region by being impartial and unbiased in the conduct of the coming polls.

Having met with other stakeholders such as the civil society organisations, security agencies and the chief of staff to the President, the body said that it is interested in the outcome of the 2019 elections.

The global body urged security agencies not to be partisan but to play its constitutional role of providing security during the polls as well as protecting voters.

Chambas promised further assistance of the United Nations and its agencies in ensuring that Nigeria had a successful polls in 2019.

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the recurring killings in Kaduna State must stop and directed security agencies to hunt down the perpetrators of the killings and bring them to justice.

The development came just as the Middle Belt Forum (MBF) said that it was greately disturbed by the violence that has engulfed the state and led to the killings of a royal father and other innocent lives at Kasuwan Magani.

Buhari gave the warning on Tuesday in Kaduna when he went to commiserate with victims of the recent clashes in the state.

He warned that those who were used to going scot-free after such killings, must now answer for their crimes.

The President said, “The Federal Government will take strongest measures possible to punish perpetrators of these crimes. No one will go scot free. We shall now hold everyone to account for these latest killings.”

Buhari, who described the incidents as “unacceptable’’, said Kaduna must not earn itself a new name as “home of violence.’’

“My earnest appeal to all citizens of Kaduna is to do their best to uphold peace in their respective communities,’’ he added.

The president also commended the state government for managing the crisis, and assured that his administration would recruit more security personnel and deploy them nationwide to protect citizens.

He also welcomed the pledge of the state and local governments to support the construction of more police and civil defence offices to enhance security at the grassroots.

The President appealed to all citizens to be law abiding, learn to listen to each other and resolve differences through peaceful means.

He also said that individuals and communities must respect the rights of others to live wherever they chose, worship freely and pursue lawful livelihood anywhere in this country.

Buhari said that the Federal Government was doing its best to develop human capital, tackle poverty and inequality in all parts of the country, as well as provide decent education and health.

While responding to an appeal by Kaduna State Governor Nasiru el-Rufa’i, Buhari pledged to promptly look at the outstanding issue of compensation for victims of the 2011 post election violence in the state.

Governor el-Rufa’i had earlier briefed the president on the security situation in the state and informed him that the state would henceforth enforce the 1915, 1917 and 1958 laws to hold communities where violence occur, fully responsible.

He said that the state government also plans to set up new police and

military outposts in Kasuwan Magani, Narayi, Sabon Tasha and other flash points.

The governor appealed for the deployment of 30 additional judges to fast truck justice delivery in the state.

Also, the Emir of Zazzau, Dr. Shehu Idris, commended the prompt action taken by the state government and security agencies to contain the crisis.

He urged all citizens to live in peace and shun religious and community leaders as well as individuals pushing them to violence.

Meanwhile, the President of the Middle Belt Forum (MBF), Dr. Bitrus Pogu, has said that from available reports, the hostilities broke out on a Thursday Market Day between native Adara farmers who had taken their farm produce to the market, on the one hand: and some Hausa - Fulani traders, on the other, following a disagreement between some individuals across the two divides.

According to Pogu, the result of this disagreement led to a fight that saw to the alleged killing of scores of oinnocent and defenseless people.

The MBF president said: The Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasiru el-Rufai visited Kasuwan Magani ostensibly to commiserate with the victims of the dastardly murder of the citizens but visited only the Hausa – Fulani community and failed or refused to visit the Adara community whose indigenes were massacred.

“On his way from Kaduna on the same Friday, the Agom Adara, Dr. Maiwada Raphael Galadima was abducted together with his wife by unknown gunmen who gunned down his police orderly and three palace guards in the convoy of the monarch as he was returning to Kachia.

“The Governor of Kaduna State, Malam el-Rufai, in the midst of the tension in the land provocatively insisted on referring to the Agom Adara as the Agom Kachia in a broadcast, an appellation alien to that traditional institution and which the people suspect is calculated to impose non-members of the ethnic Adara community on them as well as appoint chiefs over towns like Kasuwan Magani, Kateri, Kajuru and other towns within the Agom Adara’s domain.

“We demand that President Muhammadu Buhari immediately empanel an Independent Commission of Enquiry to investigate the causes of the unending killings in Kaduna over time, and the alleged show of partiality by the State Government in tackling the internecine crises, particularly as majority of the people of Southern Kaduna believe that the Governor of Kaduna state has since taken side in the conflict in view of the fact that he had earlier openly confessed to paying a group of foreign Fulani marauders responsible for the killings in Southern Kaduna,” the group added.

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HIV/AIDS: Over one million PLHIVs currently under treatment - FG Reaffirms resolve to achieve 90-90-90 targets by 2020

Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja The Federal Government has said that about 1,066,223 people living with HIV/ AIDS (PLHIVs) including 54,167 children have currently been placed on treatment with support from donors, development partners and the Government of Nigeria (GoN).

The Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole, who stated this, also revealed that the Federal Government through the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) is currently providing treatment services to about 60,000 PLHIV in Abia and Taraba states.

Prof. Adewole made the revelation during the National stakeholders meeting on the implementation of the one year roadmap of of the National Treatment and Prevention from Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) in Abuja on Tuesday.

While reaffirming the Federal Government resolve to achieve the ambitious treatment target to help end the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2020

(90-90-90 targets), the Minister said that the programme is already up and running in 8 states termed with the highest burden of the epidemic.

He listed the states to include Abia, Taraba, Benue, Cross River, Nasarawa, Lagos, Kaduna and FCT. “Presently almost all the states mentioned above are implementing Fast-tract Initiative which covers the TEST and TREAT strategy.

In order for us to achieve the mandate of NTPP programme, additional 50,000 new patients must to be placed on treatment yearly in line with the 90-90-90 Global Target.

“May I also inform you that the Federal Government is determined to ensure that this programme is successfully implemented. In the spirit of collaboration, DG NACA seconded some officers from NACA to support NASCP for the implementation of the One year road map. Our Partners have also sent four Technical Assistants who are currently working with NASCP. The Technical Assistants (TAs) are expected to hold meeting

with states on how to drive the NTPP forward.

“The development agencies are supporting the programme to set up very conducive work environment through the provision of infrastructure including vehicles. I wish to inform you that the Technical Assistants since their arrival have been working tirelessly.

They have held series of meetings and developed activities that will be implemented in each quarter of the year.

“Let me assure you that as we implement the roadmap, we are also actualising the planned health sector response which is reflected in the Nigeria National Strategic Framework on HIV and AIDS: 2017-2021 (NSF 2017-2021) and the Fast-Track or Catch-Up plan launched in 2016. I wish to urge all the seven states mentioned earlier to intensify effort and ensure reduction in prevalence so that Nigeria can meet up with the Global target.

We hope to scale up to include other states,” Adewole added.

Commending efforts of stakeholders especially

NACA, other Partners and Development Agencies for their continuous support for the fight against HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, he added that the Federal Government is harnessing private sector to ensure that clients receive free services through the provision of adequate antiretroviral drugs, drugs for opportunistic infections, test kits, diagnostic equipment, laboratory reagent and consumables.

Earlier, Dr. Mohammed Fall, representative of the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), commended Federal Government effort to reduce the transmission of the disease from Mother to Child.

He added that in spite of the effort, there is still more needed to be done, adding that UNICEF will not relent in its support.

On his part, the World Heath Organisation (WHO), represented by Dr. Wondi Alemu, stressed the need for all to come together to ensure that the health sector is revived.

He added that the WHO team is on ground to provide the required support.

Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) executives, other officials at the UACN pavilion during the MAN’s Annual General Meeting/ 2 day Public Session Conference in Lagos.

Buhari congratulates Bolsaro, Brazil’s President-elect Mathew Dadiya, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has sent his warm congratulatory message to Mr Jair Bolsonaro on his victory in Brazil’s presidential election run-off on Sunday.

The President also felicitates with the people of Brazil for successfully going through the two rounds of the election and making their choice, thereby enhancing the democratic credentials of their country.

Buhari in a statement signed by his Senior Speciall Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, noted that Nigeria shares historical and cultural ties with Brazil, President Buhari says his administration looks forward to deepening such relations as well as expanding current political, trade and military ties with the South American powerhouse.

As President-elect Bolsonaro takes office in January 2019, the Nigerian leader wishes him a successful tenure in confronting his country’s current socioeconomic challenges.

FCT Command arrests 400 Shiite members, 2 with 33 petrol bottles bomb Andrew Orolua, Abuja Federal Capital Territory Police Command on Tuesday arrested 400 members of the El-Zakzakky Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) in Abuja for causing public disturbance and mayhem.

Two of the members, one Mustapha Abdullahi ‘m’ 20 years was arrested with 18 bottles of petrol bombs while Abdullahi Umar ‘m’ 22 years was caught with 13 bottles of petrol bombs.

FCT Police Commissioner Mr. Bala Ciroma, who disclosed this during a press briefing in Abuja, said the police has intensified efforts to provide residents of the Federal Capital Territory with adequate security.

He informed that in the process of ensuring the protection of lives and property and prevent any breakdown of law and order, it has intercepted and arrested some members of the El-Zakzakky Islamic Movement of Nigeria with thirty-one bottles of petrol bomb and other dangerous weapons that were being ferried into FCT. Ciroma said the arrested persons were members of IMN whose intent was to cause mayhem and attack innocent citizens including law enforcement agents deployed to protect lives and property.

“It is also unfortunate to inform you that members of this group during a violent protest on 30th October, 2018 without any provocation went on rampage and burnt down a Police Rapid Response Squad (RRS) patrol vehicle deployed at Ademola Adetokumbo Crescent,” the CP stated.

He said that some arrests have however been made and investigation is in progress.

According to him, the highlight of the arrests is as follows: “On 30th October, 2018 at about 1230hrs police operatives on stop and search duty along Tipper garage Katampe intercepted and arrested one Mustapha Abdullahi ‘m’ 20 years of Ungwan Gwari Suleja with eighteen (18) bottles of petrol bombs carefully concealed in a travelling bag with intent to smuggle himself and the petrol bombs into the city,.

The suspect had disguised as a passenger and boarded a taxi with other unsuspecting passengers.

He ran out of luck when the vigilant policemen on duty at the point upon reasonable suspicion intercepted the cab and conduct a search on the only bag in the car, which had in it the improvised bomb.

Upon the discovery, the suspect was immediately arrested. Other exhibits recovered from the suspect include two lighters and one dagger.

He said the suspect will be arraigned in court after investigation.

Similarly, on the same date at about 1130hrs, police operatives on stop and search at Dakwa FCT-Niger Boundary arrested one Abdullahi Umar ‘m’ 22 years of Gadan Karte, Illela LGA of Sokoto State with a bag containing thirteen (13) well packaged bottles of petrol bomb.

He said the suspect has confessed during interrogation that he arrived Suleja from Sokoto State on Sunday to join other members of their sect for the protest. He also confessed that he was ferrying the petrol bomb to FCT to confront law enforcement agents.

A lighter was also recovered from the suspect. He will also be arraigned in court after investigation.

Governors make U-turn, agree to pay N22, 500 as Minimum Wage Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

Thirty-six states governors under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) on Tuesday night stated that they could only increase workers salary in their states from N18,000 to N22, 500 per month.

But the stance of the governors was contrary to the demand of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress that the minimum wage must be increased to N30,000.

The Federal Government had earlier offered to pay N24, 000 as minimum wage.

Labour had declared that it

would order workers to go on strike as November 6, 2019, if the government refused to take a decisive action on its demand.

But the threat of the workers was believed to have made the governors to convene an emergency meeting in Abuja on Tuesday.

The governors meeting was attended by the Ministers of Labour and Productivity and that of National Planning, Senator Chris Ngige and Senator Udoma Udoma, respectively.

Briefing journalists over the outcome of the meeting in Abuja, the Chairman of the NGF and Zamfara State Governor, Mr.

Abdulaziz Yari, said that the welfare of all Nigerians was the ultimate concern to the governors.

He said: “Following a meeting of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum where we deliberated on the National Minimum Wage after a briefing from our representatives at the Tripartite Committee, we submit as follows: “The welfare of all Nigerians is our ultimate concern. In all our states, we are concerned about the deteriorating economic situation experienced by the vulnerable segment of our population.

“In agreeing to a National Minimum Wage, however, the

Forum is even more concerned about development, particularly in the health, education and infrastructure spheres.

“It is, therefore, our considered position that since the percentage of salaried workers is not more than five per cent of the total working population, our position must not just reflect a figure, but also a sustainable strategy based on ability and capacity to pay, as well as reflective of all our developmental needs in each state.

“Afterall, Section 3 of the National Salaries Income and Wages Commission Act provides that ‘the Commission shall

recommend a proposition of income growth which should be initiated for wage increase and also examined the salary structure in public and private sector with reasonable features of relativity and maximum levels which are in consonance with the national economy.

“It is in this sense that we feel strongly that our acceptable minimum wage must be done in such a way that total personnel cost does not exceed 50 per cent of the revenue available to each State.

Governors, therefore, agreed to pay a national minimum wage of N22,500.”

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Kogi women plan 1.2m-man march for Atiku …As party streamlines presidential support, volunteer groups Tunde Opalana, Abuja The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) fortunes in the 2019 Presidential election has received a boost with women in Kogi state announcing their plan to stage a 1.2 million-man march in support of the party’s Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.

This is just as the PDP has announced the streamlining of all its Presidential support and volunteer groups across the country, to ensure a centralized activity under the supervision of the party and the Presidential Campaign Council.

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, who received a delegation of a presidential women support group, Success Initiative Women for Atiku, at the PDP national secretariat in Abuja on Tuesday stated that the party

has opened strategic platforms for all support groups to directly participate in the campaign.

He said the PDP has received “unprecedented goodwill and support from millions of Nigerians across all sections of the country, irrespective of ethnicity, religious and political leaning, since the emergence of Atiku Abubakar as our Presidential candidate.

“Today, Atiku Abubakar has the highest demography of support and volunteer groups across the nooks and crannies of our country. The support we are receiving is monumental”, he said.

Ologbondiyan said Nigerians are eager to vote in Atiku Abubakar due to his proven national and international connection and capacity for wealth creation, massive employment opportunities for the youths, as well as ability to engender national cohesion and unity among the people.

While urging Nigerians to disregard

the smear campaigns by the Buhari Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC), the PDP spokesman assured that the PDP will run an issue based campaign with all support groups streamlined for coordinated action.

He explained that the PDP has already created critical engagement platforms to coordinate all its activities, adding that all its campaign strategies, policy direction, programmes and promise to Nigerians will be streamlined through the party to ensure effectiveness and responsibility.

He therefore urged the women not to relent but continue to propagate the message until victory is secured.

Earlier, the leader of the group, Evangelist Funso Lami Johnson, congratulated the party for the choice of Atiku Abubakar as Presidential candidate while informing of the plans already perfected to stage a 1.2 millionman match in support of Atiku in Kogi state.

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Short News Professor kidnapped in Yola as abductors demand N30m ransom Tom Garba, Yola Kidnapping seems to be on the rampage, bringing much apprehension to the Modibbo Adamawa University community of Federal Housing in Yola as a Professor from the School of Agricultural Science, Allan Kadams has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen at the wee hours of Tuesday.

Reports indicate that around 2am unknown gunmen stormed the community with sporadic shootings and kidnapped Kadam barely two weeks after another Professor, Ibrahim Adamu of Soil Science of the same university was kidnapped but released after one day.

The Registrar of the University, Hajiya Halima Bala, who confirmed the kidnapping of Kadam during an interview with our correspondent, said the incident took place in the early hours of Tuesday at about 2 a.m.

She said Kadams was kidnapped in his resident at Federal Housing Estate, Bajabure at the outskirts of Yola, Hayin Gada of Girei LGA. Also confirming the incident, while speaking with our correspondent the Police Public Relations Officer, Police Command in Adamawa, SP Othman Abubakar, said the command had dispatched its personnel to track and rescue the professor.

Atiku/Obi’s ticket best to recover nation’s falling economy, says PDP youth leader Charles Onyekwere, Abakaliki The South East youth leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Comrade Chidiebere Egwu has said that the choice of Nigeria’s former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as the PDP presidential candidate and former Governor Peter Obi of Anambra state as his running mate was a best choice that would rebuild Nigeria’s ailing economy and address other challenges facing the country.

He expressed optimism that Atiku will defeat President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 as Nigerians were disenchanted with APC led government which he said has brought untold hardship, increased unemployment and poverty in the country.

The Youth Leader who spoke in Abakaliki, also noted that the youths voted for Atiku massively during the last national convention of the PDP because of Atiku’s Restructuring agenda and his capacity to rescue the nation from the challenges of insecurity, abuse of human rights and rule of law, starvation, unemployment.

Egwu also assured that with Peter Obi as Atiku’s running mate, Ndigbo will vote out Buhari in 2019, as according to him, Nigerians have suffered under the Buhari’s administration.

Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson (middle), flanked by the State Acting Head of Service, Mr. Luka Obiri (left), and the visiting National President of the Medical Health Workers Union of Nigeria, Comrade Biobelemoye Joy Josiah (right), shortly after a meeting at Government House, Yenagoa.

Canadian Gov-General, Payette, Gov Ambode unveil Lagos Biobank lab …Facility to help prevent, manage disease outbreak

Benjamin Omoike, Lagos A Biobank Laboratory in Lagos designed to ensure effective management of the outbreak of infectious diseases - with special focus on containment and strengthening of capacity to prevent, detect and respond to all manner of threats - was jointly unveiled on Tuesday by the Governor-General of Canada, Rt. Hon. Julie Payette and Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode.

The Biobank, which is located within the premises of Mainland Hospital, Yaba, was delivered through a partnership between Lagos State Government and the Canadian government which contributed a total of $4.5 million to the project.

Speaking at the unveiling ceremony, Payette said the partnership was underscored by the West Africa Ebola outbreak which brought the need for countries to intensify cooperation and coordination to prevent the spread of diseases and to effectively counter epidemics to the fore.

She specifically commended the State Government and those who worked hard to contain the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Lagos, saying the facility would better equip the State to mitigate post-Ebola threats, among other threats of diseases.

According to Payette: “I must say I had a thought knowing that we were coming here to open such an important facility; a facility to prevent, detect and respond to about the worst calamities possible outcomes that could happen.

“The incidence of infectious disease if not contained could do so much damage and could ravage so many lives. It is not important, it is absolutely essential to have a facility like this to make sure that it never happens.

“As serious as the outbreak was here in Nigeria and elsewhere in West Africa, it could have been much more or worse and so, Canada is very glad to have filled that gap with you with this laboratory and Bio-bank,” she said.

Speaking further, Payette assured that her country would continue to partner with the Nigerian government to contain infectious diseases and other treatments, noting that Ebola was still a deadly disease worldwide.

“We will continue to collaborate with you in this important effort; we also work in Canada in our microbiology laboratories to contain other infectious disease and still working on Ebola and other treatments. The disease is very deadly still, we have experimental treatments that are now coming up so that the possibility that we can cure or treat diseases better is in front of us and we have to continue toward that goal so that diseases like Ebola does not anymore mean a death sentence,”

the Governor General said.

On his part, Governor Ambode said delivery of the project was a perfect example of a forward-looking and communitydevelopment collaboration undertaken by Lagos State Government and the Canadian government, adding that with the facility, the public healthcare delivery in the State had moved to higher level.

“With this Biolab, I want to publicly admit that public healthcare in our State has been raised to another level and it is to the benefit of our people.

“This project was initiated in 2016 because of a joint focus and commitment in improving the management of infectious diseases not only in Lagos but in Nigeria as a whole and we are very clear in our mind that this facility will help our public health practitioners to promptly diagnose diseases of public health importance and boost the clinical management of such outbreaks,” Governor Ambode said.

Giving details of funding of the project, the Governor said the Canadian government, through its Global Partnership Program (GPP), funded the design and the construction of the laboratory, while the Lagos State Government covered the cost of training of personnel, maintenance of the laboratory as well as the community engagement and the environmental impact assessment, among other ancillary activities.

Facilitators accuse Lagos Agency for Mass Education of refusal to pay monthly stipend Patrick Okohue, Lagos Hundreds of facilitators working for the Lagos State Agency for Mass Education have accused the Agency of plan to deny them their monthly stipend with stringent conditions for clearance.

The facilitators who were trained by the Agency to help in the implementation of the State Mass Education programme across over 1000 centres in Lagos are accusing the Mrs Oluwakemi Kalesanwo led agency of grand plan to ensure majority of them do not meet up with the conditions for clearance so as to pocket their money.

Some of the facilitators who spoke with journalists on Monday decried the new conditions given by the Agency for the clearance to collect their monthly stipend, owed by the government for the month of July to December 2017.

They are insinuating that the new conditions for clearance is an attempt by the agency and it’s director to pocket the money they worked for, alleging that the director deliberately made the condition for collecting their arrears which was long overdue complicated to ensure they don’t meet up with it.

Ember months: FRSC warns road users, says 4,503 accidents recorded in 2017 Kingsley Chukwuka, Jos The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has warned road user to be cautious as the country approach the yuletide season saying that it recorded over 4,503 accidents between the month of September and December in 2017.

FRSC stated this on Tuesday through its Corps Commander Operations zone 4 Headquarters Jos, Mr. Imoh Etuk at the 2018 Ember Months Campaign flag off held in Jos the Plateau State capital.

The Corps Commander Operations, also said a total of 1,602 deaths were also recorded in road crashes same year between the specified months.

Etuk who represented the Corps Marshal Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi, cautioned drivers plying Nigerian roads to have good eyesight to prevent unwanted accidents.

He expressed worries that most drivers in Nigeria drives under the influence of alcohol and other hard substance.

“FRSC is going to be strict on its conduct of vision acuity test to make sure all drivers on the roads do have good eyesight”.

Addressing the gathering earlier, Sector Commander of the FRSC Plateau State Command, Patricia Emeordi, said the campaign will focus on abuse of safety measures by drivers while driving.

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2018 trade numbers and Nigeria’s 2019 outlook

Uddin Ifeanyi

In the fevered ferment that currently passes for politicking in Nigeria, one could be forgiven the presumption that one cause of the tirades that the opposing parties (and their allied political interests) address to each other is a dearth of facts around which more disciplined conversation could take place. But we all know that the economy is awash with data on its performance that point to how healthy or ill it is.

Most observers concede that in the matter of political preferences, rarely is the decision to support a candidate anchored on the rational alone. And in the debate over whether to re-elect President Muhammadu Buhari, both facts and reason have been the first and fatal casualties.

Not surprising, therefore, that perched on the fence, neutral observers of the full-blown political hostilities currently evolving are wont to over-emphasise the utility of data and facts. Even then, as with the numbers for external trade for the second quarter of this year, the data are never always as conclusive as those who deploy them in their conversations would prefer (and nearly always imply).

On the upside, our trade balance has been positive and growing since the fourth quarter of 2016 — there was that blip in the first quarter of 2017, though. In the second quarter of this year, total exports stood at N4.46 trillion, while total imports was N2.11 trillion. In other words, the trade balance for the quarter was N2.36 trillion. And for those

strongly persuaded of the need to diversify the economy away from its dependence on oil exports, it would have been worth noting that the value of manufactured exports more than quadrupled to N504.2 billion in the first half of this year, from N133.4 billion in the same period last year.

Could the Buhari administration be achieving more in driving nonoil output than its detractors are willing to concede? Or how else could manufacturing have put in such a decent shift? And could those who argue for a market-determined exchange rate, if the economy is to become competitive, be right after all? For one explanation of the manufacturing sector’s strong export performance is that a weaker naira improved the global competitiveness of the sector’s exports.

As usual, there is much devilry in the details. And invariably, the details are rather more nuanced than partisanship would permit.

First, 90 per cent of export earnings in the second quarter of this year was the result of crude oil exports.

This was up by 45 per cent on a year-on-year basis. Again, put simply, the better trade numbers in the second quarter is the result of oil prices having risen from an average of US$50 per barrel in the first of last year, to US$77 per barrel in the same period this year.

Hard to see what the Buhari government may have done to bring this about?

Now, that is a problem for those

who look for the roseate in these numbers.

For, disaggregated, four of the seven sectors that drive Nigeria’s merchandise trade exported far less than they imported. Crude oil, solid minerals, and energy all had a positive balance, while other oil products, manufactured goods, raw material, and agriculture all saw negative balances. Indeed, despite the sense of achievement that the earlier numbers from the manufacturing sector may have engendered, of the seven sectors, manufactured goods had the largest negative net exports in the first half of this year. In the first half of last year, we exported manufactured goods worth N133.43 billion, while importing goods worth N2.23 trillion. This year, we imported N2.37 trillion worth of manufactured goods, while exporting N504.24 trillion worth.

Is there a moral to this tale — indeed, can there be any for narratives structured around matters this arid? There just might be. For whosoever wins the general elections, next year, the central challenge of properly managing the economy would not have been solved. We would still need to wean the economy off its dependence on the export of fossil fuels. There is a larger context to this task now.

An increasingly warmer earth threatens further desertification of large parts of our Sahel region, even as it might submerge our littoral ones, while inundating the riparian flood plains.

Left at the subsistence levels that we are, all of these would only reinforce threats to domestic security as competition for increasingly scarce resources worsens and turns violent. To boost domestic productivity enough to produce the goods and services that will make this contest for resources less rivalrous, we will need to invest in both healthcare and training facilities — put differently, to upskill our huge population of youth. This we must do, in order that industry and entrepreneurs will find the human capital and other resources without which the fillip to private sector supply responses would not happen.

The main let to all these is that we will need to find money from somewhere to pay for all of it.

And from the promontory that today nearly always is with respect to tomorrow, the auguries for successfully finding the funds to make this much needed transition do not look good. Oil prices may not hold up as well as they have done this year, not even with help from the sanctions to Iran’s energy industry beginning in the next months. Global financing conditions will tighten — the MSCI emerging markets stock index has lost more than a quarter of its value since January — that is if the global economy does not court a deep drop in output. All of which will come on the back of the possibility that the country may already be over-leveraged.

Buhari, travel ban and the Nigerian Project

Emmanuel Umohinyang

One of the issues that have dominated the political space in the past few weeks is the travel ban on fifty Nigerians by the Federal Government.

This is a fall out of the Executive Order 6 signed by President Buhari recently as part of instruments to tighten the noose on looters of our commonwealth who virtually brought Nigeria to her knees by massively looting her resources.

Naturally, there has been a lot of noise about the propriety or otherwise of the ban on this group of people who have been most uncomfortable with the policies and programmes of this administraton. Curiously, the said list has been a matter of conjecture as the Federal government has not made the list public. What it did was to hand it over to the appropriate agencies of government for implementation.

On such a sensitive matter, it is unsurprising that Nigerians are divided, depending on who is speaking about the development.

For some of our elite, especially those who had one thing or the other to do with the corridors of power recently, it is absurd. And for ordinary Nigerians who have had to bear the brunt of corruption, maladministration and bad leadership, the travel ban is in order.

It was therefore unsurprising that the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) again kicked against the travel ban almost as soon as the policy was made public, apparently against the backdrop of the backlash that greeted the release of the looters list

some months ago.

The position of the party is that the ban was targeted mainly at its members. For the PDP, such a funny position is not unexpected given its antecedents on opposition that has always kicked against every move made by this administration to tackle corruption.

But, how do we place some of our elite who naturally should be partners against corruption, but kick against every attempt to battle the menace?

Curiously, these are the same set of people who either collaborated to bring us to the level we are or watched as our commonwealth was been stolen before their very eyes under the PDP administration, which many today refer to as the years of the locust.

For the PDP, it is natural that they are the wailing wailers because there is no way the sword of Damocles of the anti-corruption fight will not hit them as President Buhari has always blamed the PDP severally for mismanaging the nation’s resources.

Would it not have been crazy to overlook sixteen years of massive corruption that the party was in power, at a time we made so much from oil?

Didn’t PDP members own up to more than half of the humongous money both in naira and other foreign currencies retrieved from them by this administration?

The good thing about it all is that the Buhari administration is doing well in the fight to recover stolen

wealth, one of the promises it made to Nigerians in 2015.

Critics may condemn some of the strategies employed by this administration, but the message to all is that this administration remains committed to that which is promised.

It is even commendable that the court of law has validated what the opposition cried against, which is a pointer that this government is on track.

Those who feel aggrieved by the E06 nay travel ban have also been given a window of opportunity to approach the court if they feel their rights have been trampled upon.

Thankfully, some members of the opposition some time ago approached the court over the publication of their names on the looters’ list.

The position of the court on the matter has even vindicated this government of any wrong doing.

In our recent history, the war against corruption has never been fought this way it’s been done by the present administration because there is no doubt that the PDP serially raid Nigeria for close to two decades.

It is therefore an uncommon battle that this administration is fighting in view of the fact that corruption remains our greatest enemy today.

It is also not an accident that all manner of innuendoes are been thrown at the Buhari government for facing the battle with so much energy.

This is quite so when considered the quantum of resources in the hands of those whose are been targeted by

the government for prosecution.

Such people will go to any length and use all means to thwart whatever means government is using, not minding the cost involved to keep what they stole from our collective patrimony.

What is however gratifying is that the Buhari administration has not slowed down a bit despite our closeness to the next elections.

In the recent past, the anticorruption agencies are always quick to apply the brakes whenever election is approaching for fear of losing election.

This was a major feature of the feeble efforts put into fighting corruption, if any, in the sixteen years of the PDP, not so for President Buhari.

That he has demonstrated that the fight against corruption must go on despite his second term bid is legendary and has shown he is a leader for now and the future.

This is what separates him from his adversaries who have or would want to rule Nigeria, but would not want to discuss corruption which we either kill or left to kill us and the unborn generation.

The Buhari we know has taken up the anti-corruption gauntlet and would not drop it for anything, as he has shown since he came on board as President in 2015.

Thankfully, Nigerian will not allow themselves to be articulated back to the era when stealing is not corruption. Never, again.

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Editorial Commentary Anthony Anenih: A personal and political portrait

Times Guest Columnist Reuben Abati

Anthony Anenih, the political leader, chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party who has died aged 85, was one of the most important figures in the story of Nigeria’s return to civilian rule, and a founding father and a major influence in the party that ruled the country for an unbroken stretch of 16 years. I knew him and was privileged to know him, even more closely, when I assumed office as President Goodluck Jonathan’s official spokesperson and media/publicity adviser. For four years, we worked together and met regularly. We lived in the same neighbourhood in Asokoro, so it was very easy to pop into the Chairman’s house on my way to work, or on my return journey. His doors were always open, but even more so because he took a very keen interest in the government and the Presidency and it was not before long that I became an errand boy between him and the President. He referred to President Jonathan as his son, even if he did not make a public song and dance out of that. He told me many stories about how the PDP emerged and the journey of President Jonathan to the Presidency of Nigeria.

“This my son, I love him. I want the best for him, but he doesn’t always listen to me”, he often told me. He would now give long stories about how certain persons that should never have been given positions emerged as President Jonathan’s lieutenants. It was not in my place to respond to that. He also often talked about some other pieces of advice that he gave the President. “Can you tell him, I want to see him tomorrow?” Despite his larger than life image, Papa Anenih was a very humble man in the face of authority. Perhaps because of his police background, he understood protocol, hierarchy and authority. He always asked for permission to see the President which was never denied. The President also visited him regularly at home. That was the extent of his influence. But it was not just the President that went to his house to pay homage. Whenever I visited, there was always a long queue of persons who had come to see him.

He had the ears of the President. He was the Chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees. He also had the advantage of age, and a reputation that preceded him. He was a power broker, and a Godfather, not just nationally, but also in his native Edo State and the entire South South where he had fought many political battles.

Anenih first came into public consciousness through the old Bendel state chapter of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) in 1981. President Shehu Shagari who was seeking a second term in office had gone to visit the former military Governor of the Midwestern State, Samuel Ogbemudia, to solicit for support. Ogbemudia agreed only on the condition that Anthony Anenih, his friend, a former policeman who was then Chairman of Yakon Group of Companies would be anointed as the Chairman of the party’s branch in Bendel state.

The following day, Chief Tayo Akpata who was the Chairman of the NPN in the defunct Bendel State was removed. Akpata’s exit marked the beginning of the Anenih phenomenon and legend.

In 1983, President Shehu Shagari won the second term election in Bendel state and nationally. Anenih was considered the architect of the victory, at least in Bendel State. He would show up later in the Ibrahim Babangida government as an equally influential political leader. He helped Babangida to fix a few things. In 1992, Anenih further became the leader of the Social Democratic Party (SDP). In 1993, the SDP with M.K.O. Abiola as Presidential flagbearer won the June 12, 1993 Presidential election. That election was annulled. Anenih again reemerged in 1998 as a deputy campaign co-ordinator for the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Campaign Organization. Obasanjo won the election and emerged as President. Given Anenih’s unbroken record of success as a superintendent of electoral issues, he became knows as “Mr Fix It’ – the man who could fix any political problem.

In 2002, he led President Olusegun Obasanjo’s re-election campaign for the 2003 election.

Anenih came into solid prominence during the President Obasanjo years. He was a power broker in Obasanjo’s government. His name may not have been known outside Nigeria, but at home, he represented the true and complete incarnation of the politician as a man

of action. There were many malicious legends about him, though: they said he “chopped” the money meant for the construction and rehabilitation of Nigerian roads in his capacity as Obasanjo’s Minister of Works, but no one could point to any evidence of criminal conviction. They said he was a political fixer, Mafia-like, so they called him “Mr. Fix-it, but no one could doubt that he was a strong man of influence whose word carried weight. He was a co-fighter in the struggle to establish a democratic order in Nigeria after many years of military misconduct. He was a back-bone to the front-liners. He fixed, so says the legend, whatever needed to be fixed, and he delivered, particularly for President Olusegun Obasanjo: the soldier and the policeman locked in an instructive esprit de corps.

He and President Obasanjo with whom he fought many battles were different in temperament and they eventually clashed, but it is good to recall that whenever they worked together, they complemented each other. Anenih was originally a policeman. Not too many Nigerians like policemen. Anenih retired as a Commissioner of Police, but he probably did more for the police out of office to the extent that his example helped to dispel the pervasive impression that the Nigeria Police is a community of bumblers. He was a solid public figure with a strong voice. He had friends everywhere, not because of the positions that he occupied but because of his belief in the Nigerian project. In a country where persons of minority extraction are often marginalized, Anenih became a standard bearer for the politics of inclusivity. The people of the South South owe him a debt of gratitude for the manner in which for decades, he helped to centralize their cause in the Nigerian conversation. Even if they may not readily admit it anymore, many persons from the South South owe their pre-eminence in contemporary Nigeria to the pathfinder role played by the likes of Anthony Anenih, after Adaka Boro, after Anthony Enahoro, after Ken Saro Wiwa etc..

Anenih’s exit may well create a deep and lasting vacuum, but we can not yet make a final affirmation on the extent and impact of that.

As a private person, Pa Anenih was caring, kind and attentive. I want to explain what I mean by this. There are persons who claim that he was a tough husband and that he had issues in that area. I don’t know about that.

Whatever happened in the late statesman’s other room, should not be the focus of our assessment of his place in the larger picture of Nigeria. He is survived by wives and children – they should deal with their private issues, after the passage of their patriarch. My own private experience is that he was a very kind and generous man. He was a gentleman who, in his later years, was most willing to assist every one who crossed his path. He was blunt though. He helped those he thought were deserving of his time and attention.

Anenih was even accused at a point of anti-party activities in the matter of Imo state. In his own state, Edo State, also, Adams Oshiomhole as Governor and his agents dismissed him and accused him of irrelevance.

His harsh critics were wrong then as they are now. For the avoidance of doubt, I am not here to open a can of worms, but to pay tribute and respect the memory of the dead. Anenih’s death on the eve of the 2019 elections is a major loss for the Peoples Democratic Party, for Edo state and for progressive Nigerian politics. We commiserate with the people of Edo State on the passage of their illustrious son, Anthony Akhakhon Anenih, who rose beyond his local beginnings to become a man of nationalistic influence and a Nigerian statesman. When he was around, he made a difference which is what every human being of worth should seek to do. He is now in a place where neither malice nor mischief can reach him.

Anenih, the man and the legend has departed. Those who speak ill of him should worry more about the end of their own journey. They should also remember that he left a book behind. He told his own story. So, I say this: Let the living deal with their many debts and agonies.

Anthony Anenih played his part… And now: “Holy Father, in Thy mercy/Hear our anxious prayer/Keep our loved ones, now far absent/’Neath Thy care…/So mote it be.” Travel well, sir.

OUR POSITION FG, Senate and nominees confirmation The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Lanre Gbajabiamila as the DirectorGeneral of the National Lottery Regulatory Commission. This is coming 18 months after he was nominated by President Muhammadu Buhari for Senate’s confirmation.

His appointment followed the consideration of the report of the Senate Committee on Sports and Youth Development under the chairmanship of Senator Ogba Obinna (PDP, Ebonyi), which screened him and presented him for confirmation of the whole house.

His appointment was first announced in April 2017 by the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation after which he assumed office without screening and/or confirmation by the National Assembly.

But his assumption of office was put on hold by the Senate after Senator Dino Melaye (PDP, Kogi West) had on the floor of the Senate in May last year picked holes in his appointment.

He described Gbajabiamila’s resumption of office without parliamentary confirmation as a selective respect for the rule of law and negation of the promise made by his then party, the APC, as he urged the Senate to conduct investigation.

But The Presidency in July 2018 represented Gbajabiamila for confirmation and was duly confirmed by the Senate this week.

While his confirmation lasted, the National Lottery Regulatory Commission was under the administrative fiat of an acting Director General and must have had its development stunted because of the limitations of the powers of an acting DG at the helm of affairs.

Lanre Gbajabiamila’s case was just one of the many cases of appointment confirmation being stalled at the Senate due to seeming power tussle between the executive and the legislature. It is instructive to note that the confirmation of the nation’s anti-corruption czar, Ibrahim Magu, as chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been stalled for more than three years while the Federal Government is not eager to represent Magu for confirmation on the grounds of the Senate’s stance on the EFCC boss. Incidentally, different suits over Magu’s status are still pending in courts.

But concerned Nigerians, Civil society organizations and even legal icons have condemned the stance of the Senate on Magu.

Though various reasons have been adduced for their action but it was largely believed that the legislators held the confirmation in order to get back at the the Presidency.

Aside the legal implications of this action

of the legislators, some Nigerians are of the opinion that the Senate is playing mere politics with issues of national urgency such as confirmation of appointment.

While the senators have the right to exercise their constitutional power of giving approval to appointments made by the executive, they should see their role as legislators as complementary to other arms of government for smooth governance and that any contrary action tends to draw the nation back.

The legislature should device a more credible means within the ambit of the law and in accordance with extant laws of the land to and also sharpen their negotiation skills to advance their course at the Presidency rather than cheap blackmail and taking the executive to ransom.

The office of the Senior Special Assistants to the the President on National Assembly Matters in both chambers of the National Assembly should also wake up from their slumber and adequately explore and leverage on their intermediary role for a healthy symbiotic relationship between legislature and the executive.

We are of the opinion that incessant faceoff between the executive and the legislature can never do the nation any good but weakens governance. Politics, after all, should be give and take.

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Short News Certificate saga: PDP accuses Buhari of moral burden, secrecy Buhari congratulates Bolsaro, Brazil’s Tunde Opalana, Abuja The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has blamed the frequent fretting and jittering in the Presidency whenever the issue of President Muhammadu Buhari’s academic certificate is mentioned on the President’s moral burden.

The PDP in response to a statement credited to the Buhari Presidency alleging that those raising the certificate issue are sowing seeds of discord, insists that the Presidency should do the needful by placing the certificate in public domain instead of confronting and threatening

Nigerians for demanding that Buhari shows his certificate.

The party stressed that threats and confrontation by the Presidency cannot take away the fact that Buhari’s certificate issue requires a personal responsibility that cannot wished away as he had always done on official matters.

“If Mr. President has nothing to hide, he should end the confrontations by his presidency and show integrity by writing the military authorities to make public the said certificate.

“In failing to do so, Mr. President is opening himself to public opprobrium particularly as millions of Nigerian youths see such as grossly undesirable of a leader,

expected to set examples.

“Moreover, President Buhari should know that Nigerians are aware that he is not the only retired military officer to aspire for elective office in the country and none of them brought the claims of their certificates being held by the military”, said the party’s spokesperson, Kola Ologbodiyan.

The PDP demanded that the President show Nigerians his claimed school certificate upon which his nomination as a candidate is based, adding that if he does not have this credential, he should make such declaration and stop the nebulous claim that his credentials are with the military.

President-elect

Mathew Dadiya, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has sent his warm congratulatory message to Mr Jair Bolsonaro on his victory in Brazil’s presidential election run-off on Sunday.

The President also felicitates with the people of Brazil for successfully going through the two rounds of the election and making their choice, thereby enhancing the democratic credentials of their country.

Buhari in a statement signed by his Senior Speciall Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, noted that Nigeria shares historical and cultural ties with Brazil, President Buhari says his administration looks forward to deepening such relations as well as expanding current political, trade and military ties with the South American powerhouse.

As President-elect Bolsonaro takes office in January 2019, the Nigerian leader wishes him a successful tenure in confronting his country’s current socio-economic challenges.

Ochanya’s demise painful – Gov Ortom Terhemba Agee, Makurdi Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue has said he was pained by the demise of Miss Ochanya Ogbanje who was sexually abused for five years by a polytechnic lecturer, Mr Andrew Ogbuja and his son, Victor.

Ortom stated this on Tuesday in Makurdi when groups numbering 10 protested from Benue State University (BSU) to Government House to register their anger over the death of Ogbanje.

Represented by his Chief of Staff, Mr Terwase Orbunde, Ortom said that he was saddened by the death of Ogbanje, stressing that her future was cut short by the duo. ‘’I feel pained because I have daughters. What if it were my daughter? The law must take its cause on this matter,’’ he said.

The governor said that such a dastardly act must be condemned in its entirety, adding that all the abused people should speak out so that the world would know their plight so that people would step in to arrest the situation.

He, however, admonished people against stigmatizing the victims of sexual abuse, stressing that if they were stigmatized most of them would be unwilling to make their cases public.

Also, the President, National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Comrade Omale Gideon Omale called for a review of the justice system to give room for quick dispensation of cases.

Leaders and members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) during a protest to demand for an increase in minimum wage in Lagos...on Tuesday.

Kashamu floors PDP as INEC adopts Dayo faction’s candidates list *PDP alleges INEC display huge compromise

Tunde Opalana, Abuja The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lost the party machinery in Ogun State to Senator Buruji Kashamu following a Federal High Court ruling.

Consequently, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is set to publish names of Governorship and State Assembly candidates submitted by their relatives, Adebayo Dayo-led State executive.

The Electoral Commission had in a letter dated October 25th, 2018 addressed to the National Chairman of the PDP and received on Tuesday, October 30th, 2018 titled : Nomination of Candidates for 2019 General Election in Ogun State, notified that party of its intention to obey the ruling ordering it to recognise the Engr.

Adebayo Dayo PDP State executive in the state and to subsequently publish names of candidates submitted by the executive for the 2019 elections into governorship and State House of Assembly seats.

In the letter referenced INEC/LEG/ DR/197/1/514 signed by Okechukwu Ndeche, acting Secretary to the Commission, INEC drew the attention to the decisions of the Federal High Court in three different cases: FHC/L/CFS/636/2016 Engr. Adebayo

Dayo & Anor vs INEC & 5 Ors; FHC/L/CFS/114/2018 Alhaji Adewole Adeyanju(Member PDP National Working committee) and 6 Ors. vs INEC and 30 Ors and FHC/ABJ/CFS/636/2016 Engr. Adebayo Dayo (State Chairman) & 8 Ors. vs INEC & 3 Ors. The Commission stated that it was ordered by the Federal High Court in the matters to recognise Adebayo Dayo led State Executive Committee of PDP in Ogun State and receive list of candidates for the 2019 Governorship, National Assembly and State House of Assembly Elections from the said committee.

It recall that the Commission vide a letter dated 12‘” April, 2018 informed the party of the Commission’s compliance with the judgements of the Federal High Court in Suit Nos. FHC/L/CFS/636/2016 -Engr. Adebayo Dayo & Anor vs INEC & 5 Ors. and FHC/L/CS/1856/2017Alhaji Adewole AdeyanjulMember PDP National Working committee) and 6 Ors. vs INEC and 30 Ors. which affirmed the decision of the Federal High Court in Suit No Suit Nos. FHC/L/CFS/636/2016 which is subsisting until it is set aside.

Further to the above decision, INEC said the Federal High Court Abeokuta Division on 2““ October 2018 in Suit No. FHC/ABJ/ CFS/636/2016 Engr. Adebayo Dayo (State Chairman) 8: 8 Ors. vs iNEC & 3 Ors. also ordered it to recognise Adebayo Dayo

led State Executive Committee of PDP in Ogun State and receive list of candidates for the 2019 Governorship, National Assembly and State House of Assembly Elections from the said committee.

Consequently upon the decisions of the Federal High COurt in the above referred cases, INEC said it will publish the lists of candidates submitted by the Adebayo Dayo led State Executive Committee of Ogun State pursuant to the Orders of the Federal High Court until they are set aside.

The party, however, dismissed INEC claims, accused the Electoral body of displaying huge compromise if it truly received another list of candidates from the state chapter.

Its national publicity Secretary, Kola Olgbondiyan while tendering list of the party’s candidates in Ogun State to journalists, said it is wrong for INEC to receive list of candidates from the state chapter as only the National secretariat of the party that has the right to do so “It is unknown to us and to all laws guiding election in Nigeria. The state chapter of any party does not organise primary elections. Or is INEC shopping for candidates list from State chapter?

“INEC should endeavour to demonstrate its fairness and credibility.

If there is any crisis, INEC chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu should take full responsibility”, he said.

Operation Velvet: Police give 1 month grace period to get documents in Lagos Joy Anyim, Lagos The Lagos State Police Command said it has given vehicle and motorcycle owners a grace period of one month to regularise their documents.

This was stated by the Command’s Spokesperson, CSP Chike Oti in a press statement issued on Tuesday.

Oti noted that command has suspended ‘Operation Velvet’ which had kicked off earlier in the week to enable motorist and cyclists assemble all the necessary documents.

The decision, it was learnt was reached following an appeal from the Governor of Lagos Sate, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode and members of the State House of Assembly.

The statement by Oti reads, “Authorities of the Lagos State Police Command have suspended the ongoing operation velvet for a period of one month with effect from Tuesday October 30th, 2018 to enable motor vehicle and motorcycle owners time to regularise their documents. “ The operation, aimed at enforcing all relevant traffic laws to restore orderliness on our roads and highways, was put on hold for a month period based on the appeal of the executive governor of the state, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode and the honourable members of the state house of assembly.

How failure of companies to pay tax fuelling poverty in Nigeria - SERAP A new report by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has revealed how over US$8 billion oil and gas assets were sold to Nigerian entities – especially onshore fields –between 2005 and 2015, and how the failure of companies to pay Capital Gains Tax (CGT) on the sale of the assets is fuelling poverty, underdevelopment and inequality in Nigeria.

The report also revealed that the divestment of assets by international oil companies has not translated into commensurate increase in revenue arriving in the Nigerian Government’s coffers from taxes.

According to information obtained from the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) for the report, the governments of Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan failed to collect CGT on the sale of Addax Petroleum to Sinopec in 2009 from divestment of assets worth $2.5 billion.

The Goodluck Jonathan government also failed to collect tax on the transfer of Conoco Phillip Oil Company Nigeria Limited to Oando Hydrocarbon (Now Oando Oil Limited) through the acquisition of the shares of Conoco Phillips in Canada for US$1.79 billion. The shares were acquired by Oando Energy Resources Canada.

The report is calling on the authorities to urgently “recover any possible past-unpaid dues, and for improvement in the collection and estimation of capital gains tax in the Nigerian oil sector.”

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CCNL sues NBC, AGF over Short News revoked operating licence

Nigerian journalists lowest paid - Bauchi NUJ Chairman Samuel Luka, Bauchi

Andrew Orolua, Abuja Cable Channels Nigeria Ltd (CCNL) has sued the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) before the Federal High Court in Abuja over an alleged revocation of its content aggregation licence for digital switch granted to it in 2015.

The purportedly revoked licence had enable CCNL started the pilot marketing of free view/FreeSAT in Jos, after the private company paid a licence fee of N150m.

In the suit, marked FHC/ABJ/ CS/785/2018, the Cable Channels is challenging the power of the NBC in revocation of its operating licence without following due process.

The suit instituted by Joshua Y. Musa (SAN), on behalf of Cable Channels is also praying the court to set aside the purported revocation of its licence.

The plaintiff claimed that it has been operating the licence for over two

years and the purported revocation by the NBC was unjustified, unknown to law and liable to be declared a nullify.

Beside, the plaintiff is further asking for further declaration that the revocation of the licence without any default on the part of the plaintiff renders the licence fee of N150m paid by the plaintiff recoverable for total failure for consideration.

Further, the Cable Channels wants the court to order the NBC to pay it special damages for the purported licence revocation.

Beside, NBC, the Attorney General of the Federation and Ministers of Justice is the other defendants in the matter.

When the case came up yesterday before Justice Ahmed Ramat Mohammed of the Federal High Court, neither NBC nor AGF representatives were in court or represented by legal practitioner.

Justice Mohammed has however adjourned the matter to Nov. 19 and ordered that hearing notice be served on the parties.

The content aggregation licence issued to the plaintiff in May 28, 2015 for transition from analogue to digital was said to have been revoked on June 22, 2018 by the NBC via a letter with reference NBC/SEC/LIC/19 Vol. V. Recall that the content Aggregation was first granted CCNL on the 28 May, 2015 by the administration of Mr. Emeka Mba . After the issuance both CCNL and the NBC engaged in what should constitute its core responsibilities. And finally a licence for Content Aggregation- Free view/ FreeSAT was granted CCNL with term of payment of its licence fee of N150m

by Alheri Saidu, who was then acting Director General NBC. CCNL started its role in the DSO with the FreeTV brand launch and the DSO pilot launch in Jos, Plateau State in 2016. In fact, CCNL was saddled with spearheading the Jos pilot including funding, it continued with the launch activities which includes brand and marketing activities in Abuja,Illorin ,Kaduna , Enugu and Oshogbo.

The Bauchi State Chapter Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Comrade Mohammad Mallam Goje has said that the Nigerian journalists are the lowest salary earners compared to their counterparts across the world.

Mallam Goje disclosed this yesterday while answering questions from students of Mass Communication of the Abubakar Tatari Ali Polytechnic Bauchi at a public lecture organised to mark its 2018 Mass Communication Students Association (Macosa) day at the 500 capacity seat auditorium of the institution.

He said plans are underway by the National body of NUJ to tender a proposed salary structure for all working journalists in the country to the National Assembly for consideration.

The Chairman who commended the Rector of the Polytechnic, Dr Mohammed Suleiman Lame for reforming the school called on the students to justify the huge resources invested by government by focusing on their academic pursuit.

Rivers govt working to give succour to flood victims - COS Amaka Agbu, Port Harcourt Rivers State Government has declared it was working round the clock with local government areas affected by flood to cater for the needs of persons displaced by the flood.

Speaking on behalf of the Rivers State Governor, Barr. Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, during the presentation of relief materials by Agip Nigeria, Chief of Staff to the Rivers State Governor, Engr.

Chukwuemeka Woke, said that the Ministry of Special Duties was addressing the needs of the displaced persons.

He thanked Agip Company and her joint Venture partners, NNPC and OANDO for donating relief materials for the upkeep of those affected by this year’s flood.

He said: “Let me on behalf of Rivers state, thank you for coming to Government House Port Harcourt and also thank you for this kind gesture on the donation of relief materials to the victims of the flood disaster.

“We appreciate your concern for our people. We also know that what you have done is a demonstration of your corporate social responsibility.

N799m expenditure: Senate queries NPC

Cross section of graduating students of Ready Set Work 3.0 during their graduation ceremony at Landmark Event Centre, Victoria Island... on Tuesday.

Boko Haram: Our soldiers aren’t begging for food, money – FG Tom Okpe, Abuja The Federal Government has denied the allegation that soldiers fighting the Boko Haram terrorists in the North- East of the country are begging for food and money.

A report credited to an online publication alleged deplorable conditions of the troops which the FG debunked saying that the report is a classic example of fake news.

Speaking at a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said in view of the grave security implication of the allegations contained in the publication, President Muhammadu Buhari ordered an investigation to determine its veracity.

He said: “Gentlemen, the investigation has since been concluded and, in line with the

transparent stance of this administration, I have invited you here today to share with you the outcome. The summary of the findings is that there is no case of hunger, starvation or begging among the troops fighting in the North East, and in particular in the Armed Forces Special Forces Battalion that was referenced in the publication ‘’There is also no irregular/short payment of allowances, while claims of poor equipment, inadequate kitting and accommodation are found to be ill conceived and unfounded”.

Alhaji Mohammed said contrary to the publication, the troops in question, deployed at Brig.-Gen. Maimalari Secondary School along Gubio Road, are being fed centrally three times a day and are kitted immediately after their training before they are deployed in the theatre.

“How then can soldiers who are fed centrally be starving or begging for food? Concerning the payment of allowances, the monthly allowances of troops of the AFSF Battalion are being paid

directly into their various accounts from the Defense Headquarters, hence they cannot be short changed”, he stated.

On the allegation of poor equipment and inadequate kitting, the Minister said it was found that the inflow of logistics into the theatre in the past six months showed an enormous quantity of materiel was distributed to troops in the theatre.

“If anything, the publication in question exhibited poor understanding of what obtains in the theatre of military operations, the claim of poor accommodation in an operational environment. By their training, soldiers in theatres of war are usually in trenches, tents or other makeshift structures. Fighting insurgency is not a walk in the park and the gallant men and women in uniform who are engaged in counter-insurgency operation in the North East are not on a luxurious expedition. The battlefront is no playground”, he said.

The Senate on Tuesday frowned at the manner in which the National Population Commission (NPC) spent a whopping N799 million capital vote out of N800million within three weeks of receiving the budgetary allocation without going through procurement process.

The Red Chamber also queried the commission for engaging in skewed recruitment of staff this year in contravention of the Federal Character principle despite it was asked to redress same anomaly done in 2017.

Consequently, the Senate Committee on Population and National Identity has ordered NPC to furnish it with details and evidence of executing its capital projects worth N799m in compliance with extant procurement laws and as well as halt further recruitment of staff.

Chairman of the Senate Committee, Senator Sulaiman Hunkuyi, who led the committee on an oversight visit to the NPC headquarters in Abuja, gave the orders after interfacing with senior management members of the commission.

“From the point of view of an accountant, from the point of view of the procurement laws, I don’t know how procurement processes could concluded within three weeks and about N799 million expended. Something must be definitely wrong.

“On the recruitment you have just done, more serious crime has been committed compared to the anomaly we observed in the previous recruitment exercise. We were not carried along as stakeholders. This cannot stand,” Hunkuyi said.

A/Ibom partners World Bank on erosion control Respite is underway for motorists that ply the Ibrahim Babangida Way in Uyo as Akwa Ibom State government has partnered the World Bank to address the flooding menace plaguing the area and other environmental degradation in various parts of the State.

The State Project Coordinator of the World Bank Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Project (NEWMAP), Dr. Ubong Harrison made this known while briefing officials of the Federal Ministry of Finance who were in the State to monitor and evaluate implementation stages of donor- assisted projects.

During the inspection of the flooded area at IBB Way in Uyo, the NEWMAP Coordinator, Dr. Harrison stated that the delay in the take-off of the erosion control project was occasioned by the need to review its original design adding that with that being done, work would soon commence.

He noted that the major challenge constituting the flood menace on the road is lack of channel to divert water to the nearest stream, and that NEWMAP would begin with the construction of a drainage system both the covered and underground for free flow of water in line with international best practices .

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NANS lauds Fayemi’s free education policy, wants fresh Mgt staff for Ekiti College Gbenga Sodeinde, Ado Ekiti The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has called on the Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, to appoint new set of management staff to pilot the affairs of the College of Health Sciences and Technology, Ijero Ekiti.

NANS opposed the idea that the appointments of those directing the College’s affairs in acting capacities after the exit of the immediate past Provost, Mr. Bayo Ojo, should be confirmed, alleging that they were also part of the lingering maladministration affecting the fortunes of the institution negatively.

The NANS leadership commended Fayemi for abolishing all ‘illegal’ levies in public primary and secondary schools in the state barely one week he assumed office, describing the gesture as a veritable weapon that would tackle the menace of school dropouts as well as ensuring more students’ enrollment in line with the compulsory and free Education policy of the Federal Government.

In a statement jointly signed by NANS National Vice President, Comrade Raymond Ojo and Secretary, NANS’ Anti-Corruption Committee, Comrade Farouq Ahmed and presented during

a press briefing in Ado Ekiti on Monday, they organisation alleged that the College was badly managed under Ojo and that such had reduced the quality of learning in the institution.

It appealed to Fayemi to inject new breed of leaders into the top and sensitive positions in the College and make the institution live up to expectation of producing middle class health personnel for the country.

The students’ body posited that the institution required a new set of management with fresh ideas to be able to lead the institution aright, saying the new crop of leadership lack the innovation and ingenuity to properly run the College in a way that would bring the best out of the students.

NANS reiterated that only the sack of the present principal officers could prevent the school from total collapse.

“NANS demands for total overhauling of College and we call for total reshuffling of the present Management of the College as majority of its members have soiled their hands and contributed to the successful failure of Pastor Ojo’s Administration as the Provost of the College.

“We appeal for immediate consideration and reinstatement of all the politically victimised students and staff members that were persecuted

under the present management for daring to resist their actions”, the group said.

NANS alleged that the institution is now in comatose and needed urgent attention from Governor Fayemi.

“What we can’t confront, we can’t conquer. It is on record that it was the first term of Administration of Dr. John Kayode Fayemi that the school started receiving subvention which have been stagnated by the last administration of Fayose despite the sporadic increase in staff strength in the College.

“The College’s road network and gate are in deplorable conditions. No potable water, electricity, classroom accommodation that could facilitate conducive teaching and learning. In spite of this, the College wasted a huge amount of the resources on a white elephant project tagged ‘Calabar Project’.

“Also, it is on record that the Management of the institution forcefully converted our students to attend rallies during the last governorship electioneering campaign”, it alleged.

NANS added that Fayemi scrapping of every perceived education taxes in Ekiti would further alleviate poverty among parents and make the children of the poor have unfettered access to education.

Chancellor of Covenant University, Bishop (Dr)David Oyedepo (middle) his wife and Vice President of Living Faith Education, Pastor Faith Oyedepo flanked by other dignitaries at the conference.

Gregory varsity Uturu tasks FG on TETFUND, graduates 100 Sunday Nwakanma, Umuahia As a way to encourage academic excellence in Gregory University, Uturu (GUU), Abia State, the Chancellor, Prof. Gregory Ibe, has called on the Federal Government to extend the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) grant to the university and other private universities in the country.

Prof. Ibe stated this while fielding questions from newsmen on the occasion of the university’s third convocation ceremony where eminent Nigerians were awarded honorary degrees.

This included the conferment of honorary doctorate degrees the former Governor of Anambra State and Vice Presidential candidate of PDP, Mr. Peter Obi, the senator representing Abia North in the National Assembly, Senator Mao Ohuabunwa and the first executive Chairman of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Chief Onyema Ugochukwu.

Other awardees were a veteran highlife musician and leader of Oriental Brothers International Band, Chief Dansatch Opara, Olympic Gold Medalist, Chioma Ajunwa-Opara, President-General of Peoples Club of Nigeria International, Prof. Inno Eke

and Managing Director of Urban FM, Engr. Chike Madueke.

According to the Chancellor, private universities like the Gregory University have contributed and are still contributing much to the development of education in the country, adding that the only way the Federal Government can assist in this developmental strides is to come to the assistance of private universities, adding that with the grant, his university will go a long way to add its best to education development in the country.

Earlier in his address at the convocation, Prof. Ibe disclosed that the Federal Government had “recently reconfirmed our official status through the handing over of a full operational licence to the management”.

“This good development invariably gives added impetus to our resolve to continue to provide an irresistible academic environment that will aid the production of highly skilled manpower for the global world of work”, he further added.

He announced the institution of temporary Teaching Hospital facilities in Umuahia, Abuja and Lagos.

Also lending his voice while addressing the convocation, the Board of Trustees (BoT) chairman of the institution, Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa, also appealed to the Federal Government ”to consider

extending support to private universities to enable them continue providing the much needed social service of quality education to Nigerians”.

According to the Acting Vice-Chancellor, “the university recently received approval from the National Universities Commission (NUC) to commence Postgraduate studies”, stating that the postgraduate admission has already commenced”.

Speaking after his award, the senator representing Abia North in the National Assembly, Senator Mao Ohuabunwa, commended the university for going down the grassroots to pick the awardees, adding that the ward to him “is a commitment. To me, it is a stepping stone and it is a talent hunt by GUU”.

Speaking also, Senate President, Bukola Saraki, who spoke through Sen. Kabiru Marafa, extolled the virtues of GUU as a private university in the country, expressing his opinion that development of education in the country is encouraging.

A day earlier, the ceremony was marked with pre-convocation lecture by the state Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu and a traditional new yam festival by the university.

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German govt pledges closer ties with AE-FUNAI Moses Oyediran, Enugu The Federal Republic of Germany has promised to establish a closer relationship with Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi State, as part of vision of building functional collaborations with Nigerian universities.

The German Ambassador to Nigeria, Benhard Schlageck, made the remark when he received the Vice Chancellor, Professor Chinedum Nwajiuba and staff of the university at the German Embassy, Abuja.

Ambassador Schlageck noted that AE-FUNAI was a serious university. He said he was delighted to have the Vice Chancellor and his team at the embassy.

“It is important to establish working relationships with universities in Nigeria, especially AE-FUNAI reputed for its serious academic activities”, he said.

He further assured the support of the German Government to the university in ensuring that it is one of the beneficiaries of its off-grid solar power station and promised also to support the teaching, learning and enhancement of German language programme in the institution.

Earlier while making his remarks, the Vice Chancellor, Professor Nwajiuba, stated that the reason for the visit was to seek closer ties and collaboration with Germany and its universities, and expressed his happiness for the warm reception accorded them at the embassy.

He pointed out some areas of interest to include exchange programmes for the training of students and staff, research, stressing that the university currently has an existing Memorandum of Understanding with some other countries including France.

He also called on the envoy to support the university in its drive to promote the German language, adding that it is a programme of study approved to be run in the university.

The Vice-Chancellor further shared his vision of building a university in a garden through his campus-green initiative which is meant to make the institution the most beautiful and eco-friendly campus in Nigeria, and solicited the help of the German Government to build a solar energy grid to provide uninterrupted electricity to the university.

He further used the opportunity to invite the envoy to the university in 2019 to enable him have a firsthand knowledge of the much-talked about institution.

Speaking also during the visit, the Director, Centre for Development Assistance Management, Partnership and Training, Mr. Chris Uwadoka, said he admired the German unique working culture and method which have set the country on high.

He pointed out to the ambassador the need to support the university in areas of facilities and equipment to solidify the teaching and learning of German language, sciences and promotion of research in the university.

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Minimum Wage: Labour holds nationwide protest ahead of Nov 6 Joy Obakeye

R-L: Representative of the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Mrs Oseyi-Okesodo; Executive Secretary, Gulf of Guinea Commission (GGC), Ambassador Florentina Ukonga; Executive Director, Finance & Administration, NIMASA, Mr Bashir Yusuf Jamoh and Director, Special Duties, NIMASA, Hajia Lami Tumaka at a Seminar on the state of Food Security Assured by the Seas of West and Central Africa and the Perspectives on the Blue Sea Economy in member states of the GGC ongoing at the Eko Hotels and Suites, Victoria Island Lagos

$8b CBN fine: Court fixes Dec 4 for MTN’s preliminary objections Peter Fowoyo Hearing of a preliminary objection filed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and other pending applications in the suit filed

by MTN Nigeria Communications Limited against the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN fine of $8,134,312,397.63 has been fixed by a Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos.

Justice Saliu Saidu on Tuesday fixed December 4, 2018, for the hearing of all pending applications.

Also sued is the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Mr. Abubakar Malami SAN, who was absent and not represented in court.

When the matter came up, Chief Wole Olanipekun SAN leading four other Senior Advocates of Nigeria and 15 other lawyers informed the court that CBN has filed defence and counterclaim to the suit filed by MTN and his client had also filed response to the said defence and counterclaim.

However, the counsel representing the CBN Mr. Seyi Sowemimo SAN, leading Mr. Demola Akinrele SAN and nine other lawyers told the court that the CBN has filed a preliminary objection in addition to the already filed statement of defence and counterclaim, though the Attorney General of Federation has not filed any defence.

Justice Saidu observed that there is no proof of service before the court to show that the

AGF has filed any response, though there is proof of services of other process filed by other parties. He directed that hearing notice should be served on the AGF and after that, adjourned for hearing.

In a statement of claim jointly filed before the court by Chief Wole Olanipekun and four other Senior Advocates of Nigeria, MTN states that between 2001and 2006 its shareholders invested the total sum of $402,590,261.03 into it to meet the various obligations, including statutory payments to the government of Nigeria which was confirmed by the CBN. The investment was issued by authorized dealers who are Standard Chartered bank, Diamond bank and Citibank, the CCI was converted into equity and preferential shares, as the article of the association allows it to alter its share capital.

However by a letter signed by the Governor of Central bank CBN communicated a decision to MTN through the Managing Director of Stanbic Chartered bank limited whereby it decided amongst others, against the plaintiff, that “the action of your company and the banks represent a flagrant violation of the extant laws and regulation of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on foreign exchange matters.

The sum of $8,134,312,397.63 illegally repatriated by MTN from illegally issued of Certificate of Capital importation CCIs should be refunded to the covers of the central bank of Nigeria with immediate effect.

MTN posits that the CBN lacks the power to make a finding of illegality and it also has no power to penalize the plaintiff on its illegality for $8,134,312,397.63 or in any sum whatsoever.

Consequently, the plaintiff claims against the defendants thus: A declaration that the CBN lacks the power to determine the civil obligations or penal liabilities of the plaintiff.

A declaration that the plaintiff is not liable to pay the sum of $8,134,312,397.63 demanded as a penalty from it by the defendants vides his letter of 3rd September 2018.

An Order of injunction restraining the defendants, their agents whatsoever acting on their authority from giving effect to the decisions, demands, and directive contained in the letters of August 28, 2018, and September 2018 issued by the CBN. However, in a statement of defence and counterclaim filed before the court by the CBN counsel, Mr. Seyi Sowemimo, the Apex bank averred that MTN Nigeria communication limited deliberately withheld information on What proportion of the sum of $402,590,261,03 was imported into the Federal Republic of Nigeria as Shareholders loan and was equity.

In the course of its supervision of the foreign exchange market, an issue of foreign exchange with irregular CERTIFICATE OF CAPITAL IMPORTATION (CCI) arose in respect of certain foreign exchange transactions carried out by Standard Chartered Bank Limited, Stanbic IBTC bank limited,Citi bank Nigeria

limited and Diamond bank Plc collectively referred to as “the banks.”

CBN carried out a special investigation of the said transactions and it came to light that the banks had at the material time between 2007 and 2015 issued irregular CCI to remit foreign exchange amounting to$8 134,312,397.63 on behalf of MTN Communications Limited and for the benefit of its shareholders.

CBN met the banks and MTN’s representatives on 25th May 2018 on the issue and they each made copious representation to CBN. Upon consideration of all the relevant issues including MTN and the banks’ representations, CBN demanded an immediate refund of the foreign currencies repatriated to its account.

Standard Chartered bank limited, one of the banks involved in the irregular transactions admitted in writing that it repatriated foreign exchange for MTN without obtaining a final approval from CBN, it further stated that its action was unintentional omission which is regretted, and the MTN conceded this in its statement of claim. CBN intended to rely on the Standard Chartered bank limited letter at the trial of this suit.

CBN averred further that contrary to the statement of claim of MTN, it was condition precedent to obtain the CBN’s final approval before foreign exchange currency can be repatriated in the circumstances and MTN and the banks are aware of this condition.

Nigerian Breweries records N14.8bn profit in 9 months Pays N4.8bn interim dividend to shareholders

Motolani Oseni Nigerian Breweries Plc has declared a Profit After Tax (PAT) of N14.7billion for the nine months ended September 30, 2018, while results from Operating Activities stood at N27.7billion over the same period.

This is just as the Board of Directors of the company has approved an interim dividend

of N4, 798,141,231 billion, representing 60 kobo per ordinary share of 50 kobo in the share capital of the Company, for the period ended September 30, 2018.

The interim dividend, which is subject to the deduction of withholding tax, is payable on Monday, 10th December 2018 to all shareholders registered in the books of the Company at the close of business on Thursday, 22nd November 2018.

An analysis of the unaudited and provisional results show that Profit after Tax dipped by 38.4percent from the N23.9billion recorded over the same period in the preceding year, while results from Operating Activities dropped by 34.4percent from the N42.3 billion recorded in the same period last year. Profit before Tax also dipped by 34.7 percent from N34.4billion recorded in 2017 to N22.4billion in the period under review.

Commenting on the results, the Company Secretary/Legal Adviser, Mr. Uaboi Agbebaku said: “the new excise duty regime which came into effect in June and the consequent effect of it, adversely impacted the Third Quarter results”.

He added that the Company also undertook a rightsizing exercise which resulted in a substantial one-off cost during the quarter.

Ahead of November 6 nationwide strike, the organised labour, comprising of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, the United Labour Congress, ULC, and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, on Tuesday, held a mass protest in Lagos as part of sensitisation of workers and Nigerians for the planned industrial action to compel governments to pay the 30,000 new minimum wage agreed upon by the tripartite committee.

The rally which was tagged, “National Mourning Day” commenced possession from Ojuelegba to Ojota to register their grievances against the action of the federal government against the new minimum wage.

Speaking with journalists, the National President, United Labour Congress (ULC), Comrade Joe Ajaero reiterated that 30,000 is not negotiable.

“We are on the road to tell the government that enough is enough. The November 6 will be the mother of all strikes in Nigeria.

Posterity will judge us if we fail to rise to defend Nigerian workers.

“There is no good healthcare and electricity tariff is far more than 18,000 minimum wage and the tariff continue to increase”, he said.

However, Deputy President of Nigeria Labour Congress,(NLC) Comrade Amechi Asugwuni, said the struggle is to defend the people of this country and the mourning day is to sensitize Nigerians to stock food in their houses because once we commence the strike, there is no going back except government agree to our terms and conditions.

“The minimum wage is a legitimate right for Nigerian workers.”

CBN injects $210m into interbank market Mathew Dadiya, Abuja Authorized dealers in the wholesale segment of the inter-bank foreign exchange market received the sum of $100million as intervention from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to meet the requests of their customers.

The CBN also allocated the sum of $55million each to the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and the invisible segments, comprising requests for tuition fees, medical payments and Basic Travel Allowance (BTA), among others.

The Director of Corporate Communications, Isaac Okorafor disclosed this on Tuesday adding that the CBN would continue to intervene in the country’s interbank foreign exchange market.

According to him, the Bank’s management remained committed to ensuring stability in the market through liquidity.

The Daily Times recalls that the Bank had made interventions totaling over $547million within the last one month in the Wholesale and Retail Secondary Market Sales (SMIS).

Meanwhile, the Naira, on Tuesday, October 30, 2018, exchanged at an average of N362/$1 in the BDC segment of the market.

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Phillips consulting appoints new helmsman San Nze Chairman of the Phillips Consulting Group, Mr. Foluso Phillips, has presented to the Nigerian Business Community the new Managing Director of the firm, Mr. Robert Taiwo, who has been overseeing its affairs since the beginning of the year.

He did this during a breakfast summit hosted by the NigeriaSouth Africa Chamber of Commerce in Lagos.

Rob Taiwo, a qualified lawyer with an MBA in Strategy and Change Management from Warwick Business School, started his career in Investment Banking spending 7 years at Commerzbank AG in the City of London.

After that, Robert Taiwo moved to Capgemini Consulting to help build their Financial Services business in the UK. As a consultant, he led numerous high-profile assignments for FTSE 100 companies, leading multinationals, and the British Government.

Robert Taiwo has consulted for HSBC, Bank of Ireland, British Petroleum, SAB Miller, British American Tobacco, Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs, Department for Works & Pensions, The UK Cabinet Office, The Lagos State Government, The Commonwealth Secretariat, Diageo (Guiness Nigeria) amongst others.

Robert Taiwo, since taking the reign of leadership, has designed and managed the transformation initiatives taking place at Phillips Consulting and revised the firm’s strategy for the future. As part of this transformation, the firm has changed its brand identity.

Whilst Mr. Foluso Phillips, the firm’s Group Chairman, one-time Chairman of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group and current Chairman of the Nigeria South Africa Chamber of Commerce, has rapidly stepped down from the operational activities of the firm. He will continue to see to the internal development of the firm’s consultants and focus on executive capacity building and mentoring.

FG empowers petty traders in Enugu with collateral free loans Motolani Oseni The Federal Government has extended its empowerment scheme,” tradermoni” to hundreds of Petty traders in Enugu state.

The scheme, was designed by the federal government to help petty traders access collateral-free loans ofN10,000 to boost their businesses and repayable within six months.

The scheme, which rolled out recently is giving petty traders interest-free loans, which is in partnership with the Bank of Industry (BOI) with interest-free loans that ranged between N10,000 to N100,000.

Speaking, during the registration of traders at Abakpa Market, yesterday in Enugu, the Project Supervisor, GDM Group of Companies, Mr. Bakare Adebowale, who is powering the project nationwide, revealed that that government was desirous of reducing poverty in Nigeria.

He stated that the Scheme targeted the lowest category of petty traders including groundnut, corn, yam, plantain, meat sellers and wheel barrow pushers among others.

Commenting on how the scheme works, he said: “If you look at the business hierarchy, the lowest of them all which is the petty traders are the ones with less capital – the rice seller, the meat seller, plantain sellers, yam sellers and wheel barrows among others. These are the people the government is trying to empower with the project tradermoni.

“The project is where they get N10,000 of a collateral free loan, the registration is free. When they return it in three or six months by paying N10,250, immediately they finish, they will qualify to get N15,000 loan, it is also collateral free after the payment in three or six months, they will move to the next stage of N20,000 and N50,000 and after that, when they pay back they will move to N100,000 loan. All these are interest-free loans that are collateral free.”

He continued: “When we started here, the acceptability level was low, a lot of petty-traders did not believe the government, they did not believe the government will come to their level to empower them in their nooks and crannies. This is a project where our people go into the market; they look for petty-traders and empower them with an interest-free loan. When the project ran for two months and people started benefitting from it, they started getting their money, the project became more accepted. As you can see here today, a lot of people are ready to register and get into the project.”

Some traders being profiled by officials, during the inauguration of TraderMoni, in Lafia, Nasarawa... on Tuesday

PTECSSAN pickets ISON BPO over anti-labour practice Joy Obakeye The Private Telecommunication and Communications Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PTECSSAN) have picketed ISON BPO International Limited over the right of workers to freedom of association.

The picketing was held at ISON BPO Abeokuta call/contact centre at Obasanjo Glass House, 57, Tinubu Street, Itaeko, Abeokuta.

Speaking with The Daily Times

Correspondent, the General Secretary of (PTECSSAN) Comrade Abdullahi Okonu, said the company, who has its headquarters at PC10A, Engineering Close, Victoria Island, Lagos, sacked the Chairman of PTECSSAN, his Executives and some others who protested the initial sack of the Chairman.

He explained that the offence of the executives was that they presided over the opting out of NUPTE into PTECSSAN which is its original Union going by jurisdictional scope.

According to him, PTECSSAN is ready to

fight the company to a standstill till it respects the right of workers to Freedom of Association and right to organise.

“The Company is notorious for various degrees of anti-labour activities ranging from incessant sack of workers, intimidation, harassment, excessive workload to poor remuneration, unfriendly and ungodly time shifts i.e. 3:30pm - 12:30am which brings about insecurity to the staff, no incentives for public holidays, poor health and safety conditions at workplace among others.”

Ambode splashes N10m on best 3 Lagos entrepreneurship programme graduates Benjamin Omoike The sum of N10 million seed fund has been awarded to the best three graduating students of the Ready.Set.Work (RSW) Initiative, by the Lagos state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode.

According to the governor, he said he was fulfilled that his administration was nurturing graduates that will contribute immensely to the development of the state and Nigeria in general.

20 year- old graduate of the Lagos State University (LASU), Miss Afolayan Vivian who emerged winner of the Pitch Competition got N5million, while Popoola Joshua and Miss Adeniyi Miriam finished in the second and third position to take home N3million and N2million respectively, courtesy of the governor.

The Ready.Set.Work initiative, a brainchild of the present administration is an employability and entrepreneurship program aimed at preparing final year students in Lagos State for immediate entry into the workforce as employees and employers of labour.

Speaking at the well attended 2018 Ready.Set. Work graduation ceremony held at the Landmark Event Centre, Governor Ambode who was visibly elated, said the enthusiasm of thousands of the graduants, as well as testimonies of scores of facilitators and sponsors, was a confirmation that his administration has placed a high premium on the future of Lagos and Nigeria in general.

“When I was graduating, I was just 21, but I had no direction. So after almost about 30 something years and I see youths so energetic and excited, I am happy to say that yes, I think I have made a

difference. This is not about bridges, flyovers, and hospitals, but I feel so excited that yes, I got this right and the future of this country is blessed. The energy inside this hall tells me there is a different world here from what is happening out there,” he said.

He expressed optimism that the 5,000 graduates of the initiative have been well equipped for the world of work and rearing to make a difference.

“By investing in people, we will secure the future prosperity of Lagos State and Nigeria.

With programmes like Ready-Set-Work, Code Lagos and the Employment Trust Fund we are providing platforms that will nurture a society of problem solvers, change-makers, and valueadding citizens helping to improve our economy.

These innovative programmes must, therefore, not be allowed to die,” the Governor said.

Emirates affirms superiority with ‘Fly Better’ for Nigerian travellers Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo Emirates Airline invites global travellers including Nigerian travellers to “Fly Better” with the launch of its bold new brand promise.

The new Emirates campaign will be launched on 1st November with a snazzy ad spot that showcases the airline’s award-winning inflight entertainment system ice and its diverse offering.

According to the President, Emirates Airline, Tim Clark, Emirates Airline has grown over time with brand promises to Nigerians unchanged, hence the new brand promise will not fail. “On this day in

1985, Emirates flew its first customers from Dubai to Karachi. While the airline has grown exponentially since our promise to customers remains unchanged – flying Emirates means enjoying a better flying.

Similarly, the Emirates’ Divisional Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications, Marketing and Brand, Boutros Boutros, “The drive to innovate and ‘be better’ is hardwired into Emirates’ DNA, and this enables us to deliver air travel experiences that are comfortable and enjoyable in every cabin class, time and again.

Emirates was the first to introduce personal screens in every seat in every class, we led the way for better international telephone and Wi-Fi services

onboard, we pioneered private suites in first class, brought bars and shower spas onboard, and we continue to introduce game-changing products like virtual windows. Now, we are affirming that superiority and inviting travellers to “Fly Better” with Emirates.”

Directed by Michael Gracey whose previous work includes the hit musical ‘The Greatest Showman’, the ad spot takes viewers on a fantastical journey as a cabin crew member morphs into an energetic dancer – transitioning between different dance styles from Bollywood to Hip Hop, representing the superior and diverse range of content on ice. The spot ends with Emirates’ trademark light humour.

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Day academics gathered to seek new approach to political restructuring of Nigeria The International Conference and 2nd Home Coming 2018 organised by the Department of Religion and Cultural Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu state, ended after three

days of intellectual brainstorming on the state of nature and the Nigerian political question.

The International Confab which attracted scholars from all over the globe

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2019: Buhari, APC will not engage in any illegality to win, says group A President Muhammadu Buhari support group, Re-Elect Buhari Movement (RBM), has declared that the President and the All Progressives Congress (APC) will not engage in any illegality to win the 2019 general elections.

The group was reacting to insinuations that the APC was trying to use federal might against the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom State in the countdown to the coming elections.

The group, in a statement signed by its convener, Mr. Emmanuel Umohinyang, stressed that President Buhari was averse to illegality and would not condone same.

The statement reads: “I think it was Senator Akpan from Akwa Ibom State that raised that concern at the Senate where he alleged that there has been information that the All Progressives Congress (APC) is trying to use Federal might to destabilise the state for election not to hold.

“As ridiculous as the position of the distinguished senator may be, one is drawn aback because it seems to me that the Peoples Democratic Party has a particular pattern of doing things.

Whenever they foresee defeat, they throw tantrum into the air so that when they lose, they will try to justify their

earlier statement as the reason why they lost.

“Having said that, I do not think the APC would want to create such a scenario in a state that is almost an APC state now. You know the PDP was in government for sixteen years and we are all witnesses to how the institution of the Federal Government was badly abused during the period.

“Under President Muhammadu Buhari, we have seen a president who has allowed institutions to work even at the detriment of his party. Election was conducted in Anambra and APC lost.

They should not push us to remember the ugly days of the PDP where the police, military and even masked SSS men rigged elections as we saw in Osun during Aregbesola’s second term.

“I happen to come from Akwa Ibom State, and I know that Governor Udom Emmanuel has no structure.

“He rode into Government House in 2015 through the goodwill of former Governor Godswill Obot Akpabio, and since the senator took his leave of the party, the PDP has been in disarray.

“At the last count, I cannot remember the number of aides of the governor that have resigned and when you look at their resignation letters as reported by the media, you will see that the governor is no longer in charge,” he said

was the second Home Coming for all graduates of UNN’s famous ‘Den of Lions and Lionesses’ from her inception since 1963.

Also present were eminent philanthropists, custodians of culture and politicians of note as well as ordained ministers of God. The theme of the Conference, “Religion, Pluralism and Political Restructuring in Nigeria” proved volatile as the professors dissected the origin of political governance from early civilisation of mankind and the Church and indicted the ‘fictitious’ 1914 amalgamation of Nigeria and the influence of major foreign and imported religions into the Continent as bane of the problems plaguing the nation.

Giving insight into the theme of the confab in his opening address, Head of Department, Professor Chris Okeke Tagbo Ugwu said, “Many vociferous patriots, politicians and journalists have made several supportive moves for restructuring in Nigeria, but they all appear futile and otiose, hence the recourse to religion to proffer lasting solutions anchored on the different religious persuasions in Nigeria.”

The over 70 abstracts received before the conference took off, he said, confirms that the theme is not only a dream but one that has provoked reactions from scholars locally and internationally.

The lead papers were presented by the University’s own Professor Malachy Ikwe Okwueze, the ViceChancellor of Coal City University Enugu, Enugu State and Professor R. Udoabata Onunwa, the Rector Trinity Theological Seminary, Umuahia, Abia State.

“If we do not want to repeat the errors of the past 58 years, if we do not want to leave Nigeria non viable and non functional, then the recommendations of this conference is needed.

“Three concepts: Religion, Pluralism and Political Reconstruction are interdependent and related. We are here to discuss and see how religion can be used in a multiethnic society to build a politically united and economically viable society.

“Religion in general is primarily seen as a bridge builder between peoples of all cultures, classes and ideologies. Unfortunately it has become a divisive factor and fatally so.”

Declaring that many have witnessed dissident churches with secured tithes, rich libraries and archives in Europe and Nigeria, he noted however that no church has set eyes on the document of the deeds of amalgamation of 1914, so the Prof called the amalgamation of Nigeria fictitious because no documents to this have been found anywhere in the world; not in universities, not even in Nigeria.

“To state the obvious, the amalgamation may be a fiction contrived by Lord Lugard and his woman in the interest of British bigots. No part of the then Eastern region was signatory to the fictitious amalgamation treaty of 1914.

“Africa is incredibly and incurably religious; therefore, the religious factor is indispensable in the affairs of men in the African world. Advocates of any political system that ignores the religious factor will sooner or later experience the enormous sorrows of the ethnic principles in worldly wars.”

Making a case for African Traditional Religion, Prof Okwueze affirmed his belief that religion in Nigeria can have a powerful role to play because of the popular approach.

“I endorse the centrality of religious factor in any future progressive reorganisation of Nigeria - and I do not mean the inclusion of any of the major foreign and imported religions – like Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc; I mean that the African Traditional Religion is the only one that can nurture the needed peace, respect for human dignity, respect for co-existence of cultures and religion, respect for each community, age and belief system.

“The indigenous African religion and culture is not only a caring step mother, but also a kind that fosters to all visitors and strangers in the land.

“The traditional religion of over 250 ethnic nationalities in Nigeria should be recognised as good for them. It is the religion that respects the freedom of worship of any society and does not impose itself on anyone that can bring the country together.

“Finally, the dignity of every man and woman irrespective of tribes, religion or culture can only be sustained in united Nigeria factored on the ethos of their Traditional Religion and Culture.”

He expects that recommendations and decisions of the conference be applied to solving the emerging problems in the contemporary Nigeria. “Our decisions and recommendations here must be brought to work,” he stated.

Key note Speaker, Rt. Rev. Owen Nwokolo PhD, the Anglican Bishiop on the Niger opened his paper with a wide definition of the ‘State of Nature’ as it relates to Social Contract Theory, SCT. Part of his presentation reads: The Social Contract Theory not only predates the cause of democracy, it is foundational in the principles of democracy.

“In our constitution which is

our own document of democracy, if you go to Chapter12 of our constitution which essentially deals with fundamental objectives and directive principles of state policy, Chapter 14 sub-sections 2(abc) is very fundamental in understanding this. 14 4,2a says power belongs to the people through whom the authority of those in government flow; then the (b) aspect says the primary purpose of government is protection and welfare of the people and when any government is failing to do that, then a third part comes in: how the people participate in government by therefore denying the current civil government of continued trust with collective will and power of the people and creating a new contract with some other person.

“That is what is interesting in today’s democracy, because this aspect gave birth to the ballot box which become the greatest invention that mankind has ever seen. It is not the maker, it is not the transplant, it is the invention of what is called the Ballot Box. “The idea is that if an ordinary moral person is entrusted with political authority, he or she will not betray the trust; he is bound not just by the oath of office but by his belief. You will remember that what binds many of our politicians to do what they are contracted to do in the office is not that oath of office; that is why, if they go to Okija shrine it is made effective on the politicians than the oath of office they have taken.

“That is why if a politician is sponsoring someone, bringing something that is strictly religious and sacred-based frightens and becomes more result oriented than whatever is written in a book; still the moral sensibility of the average person in our society today is being tied to religion.”

Highlights of the conference covering a wide scope of contemporary democratic principles and practices such as, Religion began with man’s existence, How man began existence on earth,Traditional society depended on religious structures among others.

Present at the all inclusive conference were prominent Nigerians who are not products of the department, but as patriots who came to receive awards having distinguished themselves in various areas of life.

Besides the state governor, His Excellency Dr. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi who received the Best Governor in Nigeria award, other awardees include Ambassador Dr. Ramas Okoye Asuzu, FCON (Ezeoba Akajiofor Ndigbo Gburugburu) who received the esteemed Custodian of Igbo Culture award and 18 others.

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NAME OF TRUSTEES: 1. PASTOR VICTOR KANAYO ANI (GENERAL OVERSEER) 2. MRS. MAUREEN UZOAMAKA OKOYE-ANI 3. MRS. ROSE OMOBOLANLE SHITTU CHIDOKA 4. MR, NDUBUEZE THOMPSON EMENYE (SECRETARY)

AIM AND OBJECT (1) TO PROVIDE AND REACH OUT TO THEIR NEEDS (2) TO PROVIDE FOR THEIR EDUCATION (3) VISITING OF ORPHANAGE HOMES ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVE - TO EMBARK ON EVANGELICAL MISSIONS AND PROGRAMS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD *TO WIN SOULS FOR THE LORD JESUS CHRIST *TO PREPARE MEN AND WOMEN FOR THE SECOND COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

ANY OBJECTION TO THE AMENDMENT AND APPOINTMENT SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGN BY MIVANYI SOLOMON ESQ

AKPUGO GENERAL ASSEMBLY LOGOS BRANCH

UTSUMIU-NYEN YOUTH FOUNDATION OF NIGERIA

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.

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.

TRUSTEES BOT MEMBERS (1)CHUKWU AFAM CYRIL (2)ANI JAMES OKONKWO (3)NNAJI EMMANUEL NWAONUMA (4)EDE SUNNY DOUGLAS (5)NNAJI MARTINS FRIDAY (6)NWODO EMEKA FESTUS (7)ANI CHRISTIAN IKECHUKWU (8)EDE MONDAY EDMOND (9)OGBODO GODFREY (10)OGBU OGBONNA GIDEON ...

OBJECTIVES 1. TO PROMOTE UNITY AND CO-OPERATION AMONG MEMBERS 2. TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF MEMBERS

TRUSTEES 1. MISSA AKIN UTSSU ISHAYA 2. USSENI ISHAYA MISSA 3. FASUYI GIWA ABAYOMI 4. CHRISTOPHER MISSA 5. MARYAM ABDULMALIK 6. MARTINS ANSHUE 7. OKOLO GEORGINA AIYOHUYIN AIMS: 1. TO CREATE AWARENESS AMONG THE GENERAL GOOD-HEART YOUTH POPULACE ON THE IMPORTANCE OF SELF RELIANCE 2. TO PROMOTE PEACE AND UNITY, LOVE, FRIENDSHIP AND SPIRIT OF BROTHERHOOD

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

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

SIGNED. ANINWAOYA BONIFACE CHIBIKO GEN. SECRETARY

SINGED:SECRETARY

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: (A) TO BUILD THE BODY OF CHRIST THROUGH THE PREACHING OF UNDILUTED WORD OF GOD. (B) TO PRAY AND STIR UP THE BODY OF CHRIST TO THE MINISTRY OF PRAYER AND INTERCESSION. (C) TO PROPAGATE, SUPPORT AND PROMOTE THE SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL TO ALL MANKIND AS LED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: NDUBUEZE THOMPSON EMENYE (SECRETARY).

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

THE OLD TRUSTEES ARE: 1. CHIFE OKAFOR ONYEUNO FRANCIS - RETAINED 2. CHIFE COLLINS OJIAKO ------- REMOVED 3. CHIFE (SIR) EMMANUEL UMEOHIA ---------- RETAINED 4.CHIEF ERICO UMEOFIA ------ REMOVED 5.CHIEF GODWIN UMEOFIA ---- REMOVED 6. MR. SAMSON OKAFOR ---------- REMOVED 7. MR AUGSTINE OKEKE ---------- REMOVED 8. MR MICHAEL NWEJE ------ REMOVED 9. MR MATTHIAS ONWUKWALU --------- REMOVED 10. MR KENNETH OKOLI ------ REMOVED 11. MR SUNDAY OKONKWO ---------- RETAINED 12. BRO. EDWARD NNAEKEZIE --------- REMOVED THE NEW TRUSTEES ARE: 1. CHIEF OKAFOR ONYEUNO FRANCIS 2. CHIEF (SIR) EMMANUEL UMEOHIA 3. MR SUNDAY OKONKWO FELIX 4.MR BENEDITH NWOBI 5. MR BENEDITH ANOLIEFO 6. MR EMEKA JOACHIN MONEME 7. MR IFEANYI C. OKEKE 8. MR EBERE OKAFOR 9. MR MICHAEL OBIEKEZIE THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES REMAIN THE SAME ANY OBJECTION TO THIS APPLICATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: OBUMNEKE ONUOHA ESQ

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APOMU INDIGENES IN DIASPORA FOUNDATION

FARMERS’ ADVOCACY AND SUPPORT INITIATIVE IN NIGERIA

AJIKE FOUNDATION

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

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

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

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: (1) SHEFIU, ABDULKAREEM MAJEMU. (2) OLASUNKANMI BANJI (3) UZAMOT KAYODE TAJUDEEN (4) ABDULSALAM KASSIM BUHARI (5) JIMOH WAHAB ABDULLAHI (6) DURODOYE KAZEEM KOLAWOLE (7) MOHAMMAD BAMBADO (8) MUHAMMED UMAR FARUK

TRUSTEES 1. MRS. BOLADE AJOKE ADENIYI ……………… CHAIRMAN 2. MR. OLUSOLA OMOTUNDE- YOUNG 3. MRS. OLUBUKUNOLA ADEBAYO ………………………… SECRETARY

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: (1)TO PROMOTE FARMERS’ WELFARE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. (2) TO PROMOTE CIVIL ADVOCACY AND BUILD PEACE AND UNDERSTANDING AMONG FARMERS AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS INCLUDING GOVERNMENT AGENCIES. (3) TO IMPROVE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF FARMERS FOR BETTER PERFORMANCE. (4) TO EXPLORE AGRICULTURAL VALUE CHAIN TO IMPROVE THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIO-POLITICAL WILL OF THE NIGERIAN FARMERS. (5) TO IMPROVE FOOD PRODUCTION FOR BOTH LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL MARKETS. 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

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

CITY OF GOD INTER GLOBAL OUTREACH 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. OTUNBA ADEWALE MICHEAL. 2. OLAWAJUWON OLUWATISE OLUWASEGUN 3. ADEBESIN OLAWALE IBRAHEEM - SECRETARY AIMS & OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST JESUS AND WIN SOULS TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 2. TO BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER IN CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP AND WORSHIP. 3. TO REACH OUT TO OTHER PEOPLE WITH THE LOVE 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, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

LAY ALUMNI OF MAJOR SEMINARIES ASSOCIATION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE ABOVE NAMED ASSOCIATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES & ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MR MARTIN AJANA 2. MR GABRIEL OLUGBEGA ALABI 3. MR MACAULEY AWOROKE OKORO 4. MR PAUL OSEIKHUEMEN AKHIDENO 5. MR IGNATIUS UCHE IBEKWE 6. MR ANTHONY CHUKWUYENUM OJUDERI 7. MR GEOFFREY OGHENETEGA OMOGOH 8. MR PATRICK OLAKUNLE BABAOYE AIMS AND OBJECTS: 1. TO BRING TOGETHER ALL THOSE THAT ATTENDED CATHOLIC MAJOR SEMINARIES IN NIGERIA AND WERE NOT ORDAINED AS CATHOLIC PRIESTS 2. TO ENCOURAGE AND PROMOTE CLOSER RELATIONSHIP AMONG MEMBERS 3. TO ASSIST MEMBERS HAVE AN EASY INTEGRATION WITH THE REAL WORLD OUTSIDE OF THE MAJOR SEMINARY. 4. TO HELP ONE ANOTHER STABILIZE IN LIFE. 5. TO CATER FOR THE WELFARE OF MEMBERS 6. TO COOPERATE WITH OTHER BODIES AND INSTITUTIONS, NATIONALLY AND GLOBALLY IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES. 7. TO DO ALL SUCH OTHER LAWFUL THINGS AS MAY BE CONSIDERED TO BE INCIDENTAL OR CONDUCIVE TO THE ATTAINMENT OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS OR ANY OF THEM. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR – GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: YINKA AJANA, ESQ. (SOLICITOR) 08027382087

GOSPEL ASSEMBLY INTERCONTINENTAL - CAC/IT/NO: 1331 THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE-NAMED CHURCH IS SEEKING FOR CHANGE OF TRUSTEES AND AMENDMENT OF CONSTITUTION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, NO. 1 OF 1990.

1. THE OLD TRUSTEES: A. RT. REV. DR. JOSEPH ANAVI MOMOH - REMOVED B. RT. REV. JOEL RAJI EJINGWON - RETAINED C. REV. EZEKIEL AHMADU - RETAINED 2. THE NEWLY ELECTED TRUSTEES ARE: 1. PASTOR ISAIAH ALABI 2. PASTOR DANIEL SALAWU 3. PASTOR DAUDA JAMES MOHAMMED 4. SAMUEL ADEWOLE BELLO 5. DR. PHILIPS OMEIZA SALAWU, FCA 3. AMEMDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION: THE ENTIRE CONSTITUTION WAS AMENDED. 4. REASONS FOR CHANGES: RT. REV. DR. JOSEPH ANAVI MOMOH IS LATE, WHILE OTHERS WERE APPOINTED FOR THE EXPANSION OF THE ORGANIZATION. ANY OBJECTION TO THE RE-REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B. 198, GARKI, ABUJA WITHIN TWENTY-EIGHT (28) DAYS FROM THE DATE ON THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: DR. PHILIPS OMEIZA SALAWU, FCA (SOLICITOR)

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THIS IS TO NOTIFY ABUJA GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS (AGIS), FCDA, FCTA AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ORIGINAL COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY (C OF O) DATED 24TH DAY OF OCTOBER, 2005, WITH CERTIFICATE NO. 1A5EW-12731-5017RC3AAU-10, RECEIPT OF PAYMENT AND ORIGINAL COPY OF LETTER OF ALLOCATION IN RESPECT OF PLOT NO. 770, CADASTRAL ZONE A01, GARKI, ABUJA FCT WITH FILE NO. MISC 55509 BELONGING TO SILVERDEW INVESTMENTS LIMITED ARE MISSING. ALL EFFECT TO TRACE THE SAID MISSING DOCUMENTS HAS PROVED ABORTIVE. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE PROPERTY IS NOT SOLD, IF FOUND PLEASE RETURN TO THE NEAREST POLICE STATION.

ROCK OF AGES TRUE CHURCH ALADURA 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. SNR APO. MOTHER PROPHETESS ALICE IBIJOKE TOKU - CHAIRMAN 2. MOST SNR APO/PASTOR SAMUEL OLUFEMI TANIMOWO - GENERAL SECRETARY 3. APOSTLE ISAAC OMOKUNJO AJIBADE - FINANCIAL SECRETARY 4. SENIOR LEADER ISRAEL ARIYO ILUFEMI - TREASURER 5. LEADER BOLANLE TADEYON IDOWU - MEMBER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: I. TO EVANGELISE AS DIRECTED BY OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST WHEN HE SAID “GO YE INTO THE WORLD, AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE” (MARK 16:15).

II. TO INCULCATE IN ITS MEMBERS, THE IMPLICIT FAITH IN GOD THE FATHER, HIS SON JESUS CHRIST AS THE ONLY SAVIOUR OF MANKIND AND IN THE HOLY SPIRIT. III. TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST THROUGH THE CONDUCT OF NORMAL CHURCH SERVICES, VIGILS, FELLOWSHIP AND BIBLE CLASSES, ALL ACCOMPANIED BY HYMNS, SACRED SONGS, DANCES, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND SO ON AS CONSISTENT WITH THE TENETS OF THE HOLY BIBLE. IV. TO ERADICATE BY EXHORTATION AND PRAYER, BELIEF IN SECRET SOCIETIES, WITCHCRAFTS, SORCERIES, CHARMS AND ALL WORKS OF DARKNESS WHICH ARE PREVALENT TODAY. V. TO CULTIVATE AMONGST ITS MEMBERS LOVE AND RESPECT FOR ALL MANKIND AND TO ASSIST THE NEEDY PERSONS SUCH AS THE POOR, THE SICK, THE AFFLICTED, AND THE AGED ONES AS MUCH AND IN MANY WAYS POSSIBLE. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS PUBLICATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P. M. B. 198, GARKI, ABUJA WITHIN 28TH DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED BY GENERAL SECRETARY

ROSEDIVINE ORPHANAGE EMPOWERMENT HOME THE ABOVE NAMED ASSOCIATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO1 OF 1990.

TRUSTEES ARE 1. EMMANUEL BAWA JAMES 2. ROSE MARY ISIOMA OKONJO AIMS & OBJECTIVE. (1) TO ASSIST ORPHANS AND THE LESS PRIVILEGED IN THE SOCIETY. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR – GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: OKWORI INNOCENT ESQ.

WILKEY FOUNDATION FOR THE NEEDY 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. OGUNBAYO JULIANA ABIMBOLA - PRESIDENT 2. OGUNBAYO SEGUN MUFTAU - GENERAL SECRETARY 3. AWE VICTORIA MODUPEOLA - PUBLICITY SECRETARY AIMS & OBJECTIVES: 1. TO IMPROVE, PROVIDE FOR , CATER FOR, MANAGE AND OVERSEE THE WELFARE OF THE DEPRIVED AND LESS PRIVILEGED PERSONS AROUND THE WORLD. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL, AYEGBAJU EKITI OLD STUDENTS ASSOCIATION THE ABOVE NAMED ASSOCIATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO1 OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ALABI TUNDE MOSES. 2. FABAMISE ADELEYE ISREAL. 3. IBITOYE CHRISTIANAH. 4. FAJINMI ADEPEGBA AIMS & OBJECTIVES: 1. TO FACILITATE FRIENDSHIP AND CULTIVATE TOGETHERNESS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, P.M.B. 198. GARKI, ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

AL-HUDA INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL & EDUCATION CENTRE CAC/IT/NO: 33926

OPULENCE CHURCH WORLD WIDE

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE-NAMED CHURCH IS SEEKING FOR CHANGE OF TRUSTEES UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, NO. 1 OF 1990.

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

1. THE OLD TRUSTEES: A. MOHAMMED ZUBAIR (NOW MOHAMMED ZUBAIR ONUBEJI) - RETAINED B. ALI ABBAS USMAN - RETAINED C. MOHAHMMED AWWAL - REMOVED D. TAJUDEEN ABDULRAHIM - REMOVED 2. THE NEWLY ELECTED TRUSTEES ARE: 1. BABAGANA ALI 2. AMINU SHEHU 3. AUWAL IBRAHIM

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OGIERIAKHI NOSAKHARE AUGUSTINE 2. OGIERIAKHI BENEDICTA 3. AKHALUMENYO VERONICA ESEOSA 4. VICTOR EHIMEN 5. IWEGIM SOLOMON 6. AGOR CHUKWUMA 7. PRAISE JOSEPH

3. REASONS FOR CHANGES: TWO WERE REMOVED BY 2/3RD MAJORITY, WHILE OTHERS WERE APPOINTED FOR THE EXPANSION OF THE ORGANIZATION.

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. TO PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST TO ALL NATIONS. 2. TO ESTABLISH BRANCHES WHENEVER CONVERT ARE MADE FOR THE EXPANSION OF THE GOSPEL.

ANY OBJECTION TO THE RE-REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B. 198, GARKI, ABUJA WITHIN TWENTY-EIGHT (28) DAYS FROM THE DATE ON THIS PUBLICATION.

ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, P.M.B. 198, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN TWENTY-EIGHT (28) DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED______________ SECRETARY

SIGNED: ABU YUNUSA, ESQ. (SOLICITOR)

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. IFEOMA MAUREEN NDIBE 2. STANLEY IKENNA EBURUO 3. OBIDIKE OKOLO 4. OBIORA ANTHONY NWAEZE 5. EVERYMAN EZENNA ELEANYA THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PROVIDE A FORUM AND PLATFORM TO FOSTER, ENCOURAGE AND BUILD THE SENSE OF BELONGING AMONG THE MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION, THE PRESENT STUDENTS, THE STAFF AND MANAGEMENT OF THE SCHOOL WITH THE COMMON GOAL OF ALL ROUND DEVELOPMENT. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

HUMAN LIFE VALUE AND CAPACITY BUILDING INITIATIVE

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THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF THE LOSS OF THE ORIGINAL BUILDING LEASE DATED 17TH AUGUST, 1976 AND GRANTED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF OLD ANAMBRA STATE (NOW ENUGU STATE) AND REGISTERED AS 63/63/936 OF THE LANDS REGISTRY IN ENUGU, BEING TITLE DOCUMENT OVER PROPERTY AT PLOT 632 INDEPENDENCE LAYOUT (LOW DENSITY) ENUGU. ALL EFFORTS TO LOCATED SAME HAS BEEN FUTILE. THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND ENUGU STATE LAND REGISTRY SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE SIGNED PROFESSOR VINCENT CHUKWUEMEKA IKE

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ILO, PAUL OLUDARE (CHAIRMAN) 2. IWAYEMI, AYOOLA SOLOMON 3. AJAYI, GBENGA TEMIDAYO (SECRETARY) 4. ODUNBAKU, IBUKUN ADEDAMOLA 5. OGUNWOLE, ABIMBOLA VICTORIA THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: TO INCREASE THE KNOWLEDGE AND LOVE OF GOD THROUGH THE SPOKEN AND WRITTEN WORDS AND THROUGH DONATIONS TO THE LESS PRIVILEGED AND NEEDY IN THE SOCIETY. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET, PMB 198, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION.

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UPLINE CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT

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

TRUSTEES MRS FELICIA MOJIBOLA AKINDURO MR ALO OLUGBENGA MARTINS MRS OLADIPO, MARGARET ADEKOLA BARR. OLUMIDE OGIDAN DR. ADEYEMI AKINWANDE MR ALIMI SANTOS PROF. TUNDE OLUWALANA MR FRANKLIN OLONIJU. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. ERECTION OF STRUCTURES THAT SUPPORT THE PROVISION OF QUALITY LIFE AND PEACE FOR NIGERIANS THROUGH: • GOOD GOVERNANCE • INFORMATION AND EDUCATION • PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT ON PEACE BUILDING AND PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE • POVERTY REDUCTION 2. LAW AND POLICY ADVOCACY 3. TO CONTRIBUTE TO ELECTORAL PROCESS AND POLICY FORMULATION ON ISSUES AFFECTING PEOPLE. 4. TO WORK WITH COMMUNITIES TO CARRY OUT ADVOCACY VISIT TO POLICY MAKERS FOR INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL INCLUSION. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET, PMB 198, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGN BARR OLUJIMI 08032431084

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE 1. DR. EWUKOYA, IDOWU - PRESIDENT 2. QUDRI, ADEWALE - VICE PRESIDENT 3. OKEOWO, BOLA - SECRETARY 4. HASSAN, ISMAILA TOSIN - FINANCIAL SECRETARY 5. OTOTO DUROJAYE CHRISTOPHER - AUDITOR 6. KUYORO, ADEYEMISI MICHEAL - PATRON 7. PASTOR OLOJO IKUDIEROJO 8. GBOYA, ADEDAYO SUNDAY - MEMBER 9. BIOBAKU ISREAL ODUNTAN - MEMBER 10. JOSEPH, ADEBANJO OLU - MEMBER. AIM AND OBJECTIVE 1. FOR KINGS OF ZION TO PROPAGATE THE TEACHING OF JESUS CHRIST 2. FOR THE KINGS OF ZION TO PROMOTE FRIENDLINESS, TOGETHERNESS AND ONENESS AMONG MEMBERS IN PARTICULAR THE FOLLOWERS OF JESUS CHRIST IN GENERAL 3. FOR THE KINGS OF ZION TO PRAY FOR PEACE AND UNITY OF OUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT, STATE GOVERNMENT AND THE COUNTRY IN GENERAL 4. TO CHECK THE EXCESSES OF SOME PROPHETS AND PROPHETESS AND TO CURB THE FAKE ONES IN THE SOCIETY THROUGH SEMINARS.

JESUS RENEWED COVENANT ASSEMBLY

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ALEX-SMART UCHECHI CHRISTIANA 2. SMART ALEX OLILEANYA AIMS & OBJECTIVES: TO PREACH AND PROPAGATE 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 AGUYI IRONSI STREET, PMB 198, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED SECRETARY

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE:(1) OPARA NATHANIEL EMEKA (2) EJEH, REV. SYLVESTER NWORA (3) OBI-ONWUDIWE, GODSON M.

- CHAIRMAN -SECRETARY -TREASURER

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE:1. BRIDGING THE SKILL GAP – SKILLS ACQUISITION 2. EQUIPPING & EDUCATING INDIGENTS 3. EMPOWERING HUMANITY TO MAXIMIZE POTENTIALS

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

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

ANNOUNCER: OLUSOJI EMMANUEL

SIGNED SECRETARY

SIGNED BY: SECRETARY

EVANGELICAL-GREENER PASTURES WORLDWIDE MINISTRY

OTU-IFEOMA NDOKWA WOMEN ASSOCIATION, PORT HARCOURT

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: (1) JOSEPH ADEKUNLE SAMUEL (2) AKINTOMIDE AKINBAMBO ABDULSALAM (3) JOY JOSEPH THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE:(1) TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. (2) TO WIN SOULS FOR CHRIST BY CARRY OUT MISSIONARY WORKS AND GIVE ALSO TO THE NEEDY..

(3) TO UPHOLD THE SCRIPTURAL FAITH & DOCTRINE AS LAID DOWN BY OUR LORD 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

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

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, LFN, 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MRS. ONYESOM VICTORIA NKEM - - -PRESIDENT 2. MRS. OSSAI GLORIA - - VICE PRESIDENT 3. MRS. OSUYA THERESA - - - -MEMBER 4. MRS. OTUNYO FAITH OJIE - - - -MEMBER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: I. TO SERVE AS A FORUM OF FOSTERING UNITY AMONGST MEMBERS. II. TO PROMOTE THE PLATFORM FOR THE MEMBERS TO GENERATE IDEAS, DISCUSS MATTERS OF COMMON INTEREST, PROFFER SOLUTION AND PROVIDE GENERAL DIRECTIVES FOR DEALING WITH SUCH MATTERS. III. TO SERVE AS A FORUM FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SOCIO-CULTURAL, HEALTH, ECONOMIC AND EDUCATIONAL WELL-BEING OF THE PEOPLE OF NDOKWA ETHNIC NATIONALITY. IV. TO PROTECT AND PROMOTE THE LEGITIMATE INTERESTS AND WELL-BEING OF THE MEMBERS AND THE PEOPLE OF NDOKWA ETHNIC NATIONALITY. V. TO DO SUCH OTHER THINGS THAT ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE INTEREST AND WELL-BEING OF THE MEMBERS. ANY OBJECTION TO ITS 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: . E. ONYILIBE ESQ. (SOLICITOR)

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

BABECK HOPE 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 COMPANY AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF 1990 .

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. BARISUA BECKY KORMAH - PRESIDENT 2. EMMANUEL EBOH - SECRETARY 3. MRS. ROSELINE ADOOH 4. DR. CHRISTIAN D. KINA 5. DR. DOUGLAS OMUBO-PEPPLE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO REACH OUT TO THE LESS PRIVILEGED. ANY OBJECTIONS TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: PRESIDENT

BENJAMIN LEGACY FOUNDATION =

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

THE TRUSTESS ARE: 1.ALWELL CHIBUIKE 2.IGWE COMFORT NNEKA 3.NLEMCHI SOPURUCHI LOVETH 4.UBANI EUNICE .I.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MR. AGBAJE MICHAEL - CHAIRMAN 2. MRS. MARY OPII - SECRETARY 3. PASTOR (MRS.) ROSE OSENI 4. PASTOR GREG DICKSON 5. MR. JOSEPH OMOKHAGBO

AIMS & OBJECTIVES: 1.PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL. 2.WINNING SOULS FOR GOD

AIMS & OBJECTIVES: 1. TO ADVOCATE FOR THE WELFARE OF CHILDREN AND YOUTHS IN THE SOCIETY THROUGH EDUCATIONAL, HEALTH AND EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS.

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

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

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

SIGNED: CHAIRMAN

SIGNED: ALWELL CHIBUIKE 08184061105

DARUS SALAM CENTRAL MOSQUE.

LADIES OF VIRTUE AND EXCELLENCE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION

TRUSTEES ARE 1.BROWN INIMA DICKSON 2.T.MARTINS-BROWN LINDA 3. BROWN AYI REGINARD 4.BROWN WILLIAMS DAGOGO 5.PHILIP-BROWN TAMUNOBERE

CHAIRMAN SECRETARY

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.FOR PRESERVATION OF FINIMA ECOSYSTEM 2.FOR CONSERVATION OF FINIMA NEAR-EXTINCT SPECIE. 3.FOR PROTECTION OF THE HABITAT

THE ABOVE NAMED BODY HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO1 OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ATANDA IBRAHIM 2. BANMEKE OLAYINKA MODUPE 3.BABALOLA OSUNDAIRO 4.ADEWUNMI BAYODE KAZEEM 5. MAJOLAGBE SEMIU ABIODUN AIMS AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO PROPAGATE THE ISLAMIC RELIGION ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, P.M.B. 198. GARKI, ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY.

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. AKINYELURE ADERONKE TOLULOPE - PRESIDENT 2. OPAFOLA OLUWASEUN JANET - SECRETARY 3. MUSTAPHA DAMILOLA OMOLADE - FINANCIAL SECRETARY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO RAISE THE AWARENESS OF YOUNG FEMALES ON THEIR DIVINE PURPOSE. 2. TO INCREASE THE KNOWLEDGE OF YOUNG FEMALES ON PURPOSE DISCOVERY AND FULFILLMENT. 3. TO IMPROVE THE CHASTITY LEVEL AMONG YOUNG FEMALES 4. TO INCREASE KNOWLEDGE OF YOUNG FEMALES ON HEALTHY LIFESTYLES 5. TO EMPOWER YOUNG LADIES WITH ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS TO LEAD EXCELLENT LIVES. 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

SIGNED: SECRETARY

ODOGBOLU ROYAL CLUB

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. ODUMOSU O. JOEL - CHAIRMAN 2. OLUBAJO SOLOMON AKEEM - SECRETARY 3. ADEBANJO M. MOHAMED 4. ALHAJI MOHAMMED MINIRU 5. ABUDU ADEKUNLE MOIBI AIM & OBJECTIVE: 1. TO PROMOTE THE UPLIFTMENT OF ODOGBOLU TOWN AND AIM AT LIFTING THE CLUB TO GREATER HEIGHTS SOCIALLY, ECONOMICALLY AND MORALLY BOTH WITHIN AND OUTSIDE ODOGBOLU TOWN WITHOUT PROFIT MOTIVES. 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

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MRS OBIANUJU ABIGAIL

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CORRECTION OF NAME

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BUSMAN BIRIKISU FORMERLY OKEJI OHUNENE FATIMOH NOW BUSMAN BIRIKISU AINA. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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LOSS OF DOCUMENT THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF LOSS OF ORIGINAL CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY. PLOT NO 251 & 252, IFO LAYOUT IJI NIKE ENUGU EAST. REG. NO AS 89/89/21, WITH FILE NO 4369 AT THE LAND REGISTRY ENUGU, BELONGING TO CHIEF AMECHI EDE OF NO 1 AMANGWU ROAD ABAKPA NIKE ENUGU. ALL EFFORT TO TRACE THE SAID DOCUMENT HAS PROVED ABORTIVE. IF FOUND PLEASE CONTACT THE MINISTRY OF LANDS AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT.

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Jamal Khashoggi: Did they bury him with his body facing Mecca?

I knew just what Jamal Khashoggi’s murder really meant in the context of the Middle East last week when I realised just who I’d have to call to explain it to me. Whom would I telephone to learn what was going on? Why, of course, I’d call Jamal Khashoggi. And that’s why his murder is so important. Because he was, as he knew, a lone and important Arab journalist who did not listen – not any more — to His Master’s Voice. And that, of course, was his problem.

This disgusting, dangerous, frightening, dirty murder – and don’t tell me a man of 60 who dies in a “fistfight” with 15 men isn’t murder – shows not just the Saudi government up for what it is, but it shows us up for what we are, too. How come we keep falling in love with Arab states – Israel does this, too – and then cry out with shock when they turn out to be extremely unpleasant and very violent?

To answer this question, there are already several clues. Trump’s initial reaction that the Saudi story was “credible” – when it clearly was not – was a start. Then the murder became “the worst cover-up in history”. It was the quality of the murder that was troubling him, you see. These chaps didn’t know how to cover their tracks.

He had already blurted out that he didn’t want to give up US arms sales to Saudi Arabia. We had our own beloved prime minister referring to Jamal’s gruesome murder as a “killing”, rather than a murder. Then – and this was indicative because it was not contradicted – we had Adel Al-Jubeir, the Saudi foreign minister, referring to the murder as a “huge and grave mistake”. “MISTAKE”. Let me repeat that. MISTAKE! Al-Jubier, the former Saudi ambassador in Washington who was once reported to have himself been the intended victim of a would-be murderer in the US, was lecturing the press a year ago on how in its war in Yemen, Saudi Arabia “abides by international humanitarian law”.

But not, it seems, by international diplomatic law. But hold on a minute.

Al-Jubier – and I used to know him quite well many years ago – is a very eloquent and well-educated man. His English is flawless. When he used the word “mistake”, it was not a mistake.

What he meant – what I think he meant – was that Jamal Khashoggi should not have been killed.

Jamal should not have become involved in that famous “fistfight”.

Something went wrong. Perhaps the killers misunderstood their task.

Rendition wasn’t supposed to end in murder. Perhaps a friendly chat got out of hand. They didn’t know their own strength. Before they knew it, Jamal, well, he walked into their fist.

Or the fist of one of them. They made a “mistake”. And for that reason, we can forget about the 15 man hit team, not to mention Jamal’s lookalike who strides out the back of the consulate – apparently in Jamal’s own clothes, for heaven’s sakes – and then later apparently tosses the same shirt, trousers and jacket into the garbage.

And forget about the forensic scientist and the mysterious black van. And the initial two-week denial – which was self-evidently a bald and total lie from the first day. And this is a MISTAKE? We shouldn’t, of course, have been surprised. The “mistake” was this week downgraded to a regrettable “incident” by a Saudi minister at the international business conference in

Khashoggi Riyadh where the large number of western companies have downgraded their representation from CEOs to smaller CEOs. Mohammed bin Salman – did you see him beaming at his guests and joshing with King Abdullah of Jordan? – is squeaky clean, we have to believe. Untouchable. Innocent. As pure as the driven snow etc. But after his vile war in Yemen, his arrest of the most important princes and lucrative nabobs in Riyadh, his kidnapping of the Lebanese prime minister and his assault on Qatar – demanding the closure of Al-Jazeera (which, of course, is much enjoying the current farrago) – should we be surprised if Mohammed bin Salman has got himself mixed up in, well, something that got out of hand, even if we’re told he didn’t at the time know anything had got out of hand or that anything had happened?

A mistake, for example. If the Yemen war can get out of hand – can even turn out to be a mistake – well, what can you expect will happen when a bunch of thugs are flown into Istanbul in Saudi jets? I did, by the way, love the touch that they flew in to separate Istanbul airports. That really put the Turks off the scent, didn’t it? Not perhaps the worst cover-up in history. Certainly a mistake.

And you’d have to note, wouldn’t you, the repulsive and hypocritical outpouring of anger by our brave and moral western leaders at Jamal’s murder. They’ve been tut-tutting for two years about the Yemen war, making excuses for it, selling arms for it and avoiding personal responsibility for it, and it’s quite obvious that they care far, far more about Jamal’s death than about the 5,000 civilians who have been killed in the Yemeni conflict. What is a child’s death worth or the killing of guests at a wedding party compared to Jamal’s murder? I guess that we can always find excuses for Yemeni casualties – “collateral damage”, “human shields”, “full investigation”, etc – but Jamal’s murder was just too obvious, too packed with lies, too thug-like. We – rather like the Crown Prince, May His Name Be Praised – ran out of excuses. Heavens above, what would we do if we discovered that the infamous knife – always supposing there was a knife and that Jamal was dismembered – was made in Sheffield?

Naturally, we all hope Jamal was not dismembered. If Adel al-Jubier doesn’t know and if the cupboard-opening Saudi consul doesn’t know – and since he’s safely back in Riyadh, we aren’t going to find out – and if Mohammed bin Salman doesn’t know – which he can’t know, can he, because he knows nothing about this atrocity – then we can all hope that Jamal was given a solemn and dignified Muslim burial with all the correct prayers said for his soul and his body buried – secretly, of course – shrouded and on its right side and in the direction of Mecca, the Holy city of which Mohammed bin Salman’s father, the King, is officially the Protector.

This will not have been easy to accomplish if Jamal was indeed chopped up by our favourite forensic scientist and taken to the consul’s home or a forest – the Turkish version – for a secret burial. But then again, maybe, on the way to the forest – if it was a forest – the burial party thought that, given the piety of their country, let alone their faith, he really should be given a Muslim funeral. By that stage, however, they would have realised that they might have committed a “grave and terrible mistake”. Under Islamic law, a mutilated body must be sewn up before being placed in a shroud. Did they sew Jamal up? And put him in a shroud?

Of course, it sticks in our craw that the man who has been leaking every detail of Jamal’s appalling death – the Sultan Erdogan himself has imprisoned up to 245 journalists and between 50,000 and 60,000 political prisoners – should be reaping the benefits of this ghoulish and terrible story. Well, at least he doesn’t chop them all up, claim they walked out of prison almost as soon as they were incarcerated and then admit that he doesn’t know where their bodies are.

And yes, this murder is going to affect Turkey and Saudi Arabia and Egypt and Syria – and Israel, which was sighing with affection for Mohammed bin Salman – and, of course, Trump, but let’s go back to that first question.

How come the “good guys” turn out to be bad guys? How come those nice, moderate leaders who guarantee the “stability” of the Middle East – and naturally I’m including the Saudis in

this – turn out to be so horrible. Not the people. I’m talking about the autocrats and dictators and kings and princes and venal tyrants to whom we smile and grovel and fawn and kneel.

We now all love the “moderate” and “stabilising” regime of President/ Field Marshal Sisi of Egypt. But who now remembers the young Italian Cambridge University student Giulio Regeni, tortured with knives for a week and murdered — only two years ago – and dumped on a Cairo roadside?

The Italians suspected Sisi’s cops did the deed – there was even a case of a CCTV camera not working. How these things always seem to happen at the wrong (right) moment. Egyptians know the name of the chief suspect among the cops. Perish the thought, said the regime. So Rome and Cairo have made up and Italian tourists arriving in Egypt are not bothered about the 40,000 or 50,000 or 60,000 political prisoners rotting in Egypt’s jails. Regeni’s body had stab wounds.

Funny how sharp-edged instruments seem to find favour with Arab regimes.

Who recalls how we first loved Muammar Al-Gaddafi when he deposed King Idris of Libya and then hated him when he helped the IRA and then loved him when he gave up the nuclear facilities he didn’t understand and was kissed by Tony Blair, after which we helped in the rendition of Gaddafi’s opponents so they could be tortured in the Libyan dictator’s death prisons. Let us not even mention Saddam Hussein, whom we supported in his war with Iran – even when he used chemical weapons – until he invaded Kuwait and then supposedly possessed weapons of mass destruction and was eventually overthrown by us and executed.

Then there’s Bashar al-Assad, feted in Paris on Bastille Day, the face of modern Syria whose father massacred up to 20,000 in the 1982 Hama uprising, and then accused of the death of more than half a million in a Syrian civil war in which countless thousands were killed by both the regime and by the Islamists armed and paid for by – yes – Saudi Arabia. If the Assad regime was synonymous with hanging, ISIS brought the crucifixion posts to Syria.

And the beheading blocks. Sharpedged instruments again. Of course, the Saudis deny all this. For it’s as unthinkable for Saudis to support a death cult as it is unthinkable for the same government to send a death squad to Istanbul.

They would never commit such a terrorist act – or mistake – any more than they would execute their enemies en masse in Saudi Arabia itself. After all, the chopping off of the head of the Saudi Shia religious leader Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr (and 46 others) occurred before Mohammed Bin

ROBERT FISK is The Independent’s multiaward-winning Middle East correspondent, based in Beirut.

He has lived in the Arab world for more than 40 years, covering the war in Syria and Lebanon, five Israeli invasions, the IranIraq war, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Algerian civil war, Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, the Bosnian and Kosovo wars, the American invasion and occupation of Iraq and the 2011 Arab revolutions.

Salman was Crown Prince. So did the British Aerospace scandal of millions in backhanders over the al-Yamamah weapons deal – which the British police investigated until the cops’ questions were closed down when Tony Blair knelt to Saudi pressure and put an end to such an inconvenient enquiry.

Support free-thinking journalism and subscribe to Independent Minds Yup, it’s about money and wealth and power – and because all these folk were kept in power by the folly and lies and corruption and hypocrisy of our own political leaders. Let our satraps get away with Croesus-like corruption and mass murder, and what do you expect? We made them, sustained them, supported them, kissed them, loved them. What’s an invasion or two between friends? Isn’t Saudi Arabia vital to our UK security – that was supposedly one of the reasons why we dropped the al-Yamamah investigation – and we’ll hear it again from Saudi Arabia’s lackeys in Britain in the coming days and weeks. What would happen if we Brits didn’t get all this information about Islamist terror from the Saudis? Well, let’s hope they wouldn’t send 15 chaps to Heathrow, including a forensic scientist.

Jamal Khashoggi knew all about power and danger. Almost a quarter of a century ago, he turned up at my hotel in Khartoum and drove me into the Sudanese desert to meet Osama bin Laden – whom he met during the Afghan-Soviet war. “He has never met a western reporter before,” he said as we sped past ancient Sudanese pyramids. “This will be interesting.”

Khashoggi was indulging in applied psychology. How would bin Laden respond to an infidel? Though woe betide anyone who thought that Khashoggi’s round spectacles and roguish sense of humour was a sign of spiritual laxity. He called bin Laden “Sheikh Osama”. I first met Khashoggi in 1990 and last spoke to him on the phone from Beirut to Washington a couple of months ago.

Even when he was an adviser to the Royal Family and an editor and journalist in Saudi Arabia, he spoke about the “facts of life” as he would call them. Talking privately, he would dismiss all rumours of a palace revolution in the Kingdom. But he always talked about the cynicism and venality of the western powers who propped up the Arab regimes and then destroyed them if they did not obey, of how Arabs in general were not a free people. Which is true. And maybe what he would have repeated to me if I could have talked to him before that “mistake” occurred in Istanbul. Dead men, however, don’t talk. And the Saudis must be mighty pleased about that.

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Cubana Suites

20 Yedseram Street, Maitama, Abuja

HOTEL INFORMATION Cubana Suites offers rooms with modern interior decor. The rooms are equipped with tile flooring, an air conditioner, work desk, telephone, flat screen TV with cable channels, a fridge, armchairs, balcony with a view of the pool and an en-suite bathroom with toilet paper, towels and linen provided free.

Interesting Places To Visit Near Cubana Suites Millennium Park (4.5 km)

Silverbird Cinemas (5.5 km) National Mosque Abuja (5.0 km) IBB Golf Course (7.5 km) Aso Rock (7.6 km) Terms and Conditions Check-In: From 09:00 am Check-Out: Until 12:00 pm Cancellation: Cancellation policies vary according to room type.

Children: Children are permitted to stay for free.

Pets: Pets are not allowed.

Cards accepted: Visa, MasterCard, and Cash Payments only.

Cubana Suites is a budget hotel in Jabi, Abuja

Kryxtal Suites

120, Aminu Kano Crescent, Wuse 2

HOTEL INFORMATION

Kryxtal Suites Wuse 2, is an exclusive boutique hotel located opposite GLOBACOM Headquarters in Abuja and a few seconds from KFC. This hotel is very well appointed and its one of the reference points in the Wuse area of Abuja for visitors and Abuja residents. It is situated at 120, Aminu Kano Crescent, Opposite Glo Office, Wuse 2, Abuja, Nigeria.

Ecowas Court (0.7 km) City Park (0.6 km) Globacom Office KFC

Terms and Conditions Check In: From 12:00 PM (ID Required) Check Out: By 12:00 PM Cancellation: Cancellation policies vary according to room type.

Children: All children not older than 12 are allowed to stay for free.

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Cameroon Embassy (2 km) Payment: Cash, Visa and MasterCard are Afro-Asia Garden (0.4 km) accepted here.

Kryxtal Suites is a budget hotel in Wuse 2, Abuja

House 14

14 Kudang Street, Off Moronvia Street, Wuse 2, Abuja

HOTEL INFORMATION House 14 has a total of 27 uniquely well-furnished and comfortable rooms which are of different categories.

Terms and Conditions Check-In: From 1:00 PM (ID Required) Check-Out: By 12:00 PM Cancellation: Cancellation policies vary according to room type.

Interesting Places To Visit Near Children: All children are allowed House 14 (Max. Age: 18).

JD Leisure park (900m) Pets: Pets are not allowed with Federal High Court (1.6km) exception of service dogs.

4U Supermarket (3.6km) Payment: Cash, Visa, MasterCard, IBB Golf Club (9.1km) and AMEX accepted here.

House 14 is a budget hotel in Wuse 2, Abuja

Grand Cubana Hotel No. 6 Ebitu Ukiwe Street, Jabi, Abuja

HOTEL INFORMATION Grand Cubana Hotel offers a budget friendly accommodation in a very scenic environment at No. 6 Ebitu Ukiwe Street, Jabi, Abuja, Nigeria. It is appropriate for both business and leisure travellers.

O’neal Centre (1.1km) Rock of Ages Mall (2.6km)

Terms and Conditions Check In: From 3:00 PM Check Out: By 12:00 PM Cancellation: Cancellation policies vary according to room type.

Children: All children are allowed to Interesting Places To Visit Near stay for free.

Grand Cubana Hotel Pets: Pets are not allowed.

Utako Motor Park (0.7km) Payment: Cash, Visa and MasterCard Patsy Plaza (0.35km) are accepted here.

Grand Cubana Hotel is a budget hotel in Jabi, Abuja

Kryxtal Lounge, Apo Beside AP Filling Station, Near Apo Legislative Quarters Apo.

HOTEL INFORMATION Kryxtal Suites and Lounge Apo is an exclusive hotel located near the popular Apo Legislative Quarters in Abuja. The hotel is tastefully finished to create a home away from home for visitors and Abuja residents.

At Kryxtal Suites Apo we have 26 exclusive room types on 2 floors to cater for our guests.

Facilities Spacious suites and rooms

Uninterrupted power supply Banquet hall 24 hours internet service Numerous satellite TV channels Standby car hire service Laundry service Restaurant and bush bar, niteclub, sharwarma, barbeque and conference hall.

CHECK – IN is at Anytime CHECK – OUT is from 12.00 Noon.

Kryxtal Lounge is a budget hotel in Apo, Garki District, Abuja

Treasures Suites

Plot 66, 1st Avenue by Shehu Shagari Way, Central Business District, Opp Federal High Court, Abuja

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With facilities uniquely designed to cater to guests comfort at every level, Treasure Suites is located at Plot 66, 1st Avenue by Shehu Shagari Way, Central Business District, Opposite Federal High Court, Abuja, Nigeria. It boasts business related amenities such as a business centre and 2 meeting rooms.

Turf Arena (1.5 km) Durban Neighbourhood Park (0.95 km) Silverbird Cinemas (2.0 km) DHL Express (1.8 km)

Terms and Conditions Check In: From 12:00 PM (ID Required) Check Out: By 12:00 PM Cancellation: Cancellation policies vary according to room type.

Children: All children are allowed to Interesting Places to Visit near stay for free.

Pets: Pets are not allowed.

Treasure Suites Payment: Cash, Visa and MasterCard Federal High Court (1.1 km) are accepted here.

Harrow Park (1.8 km)

TREASURES SUITES is a budget hotel in CBD, Abuja

Barcelona Hotels, Abuja

23 Blantyre Street, off Aminu Kano Crescent, Wuse II HOTEL INFORMATION Barcelona Hotels, Abuja is a 4-Star hotel. It is situated in the heart of town and enjoys proximity to a number of public and private owned institutions.

Barcelona Hotels, Abuja offers a number of spacious and tastefully designed rooms which come in the categories: Standard, Superior, Executive, Executive Twin, Diplomatic, Ambassadorial, Ministerial, Barcelona, Senatorial and a Presidential Suite. Each of these rooms comes with top quality facilities such as flat-screen television with a full cable subscription, sofas, luxurious bed, wireless internet connection, luggage storage and en-suite bathroom with shower facilities.

Barcelona Hotels Abuja also offers guests banquet, event and conference halls; a rooftop sit-out with a breathtaking view of the environs; a restaurant that offers a wide range of tasty dishes plus continental breakfast; an adequate parking space; a 24-hour power supply; gym facilities; a swimming pool and guaranteed security.

Barcelona Hotels is a budget hotel in Wuse 2, Abuja

Caledonian Suites, Abuja 21 Usuma Street, off Gana Street, Abuja

HOTEL INFORMATION Hotel size: This hotel has 34 rooms Arriving/leaving: Check-out time is noon Required at check in: Credit card or cash deposit required Government-issued photo ID required Minimum check-in age is 18 Travelling with others Children: No cribs (infant beds) Internet Free WiFi in public areas Free WiFi in rooms Transport

Parking Free self parking What’s around Caledonian Suites Landmarks Federal Secretariat Millennium Park Nigerian National Mosque National Assembly Aso Villa Ecowas Secretariat World Bank National Hospital Abuja

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Kapino Suite

128 Aminu Kano Cres, Wuse, Abuja

HOTEL INFORMATION Kapino Suites is a hotel brand created with the client in mind. Our aim is to provide the most comfortable, memorable and delightful stay for our customers. Kapino Suites was established in 2014 and is located in the heart of Nigeria

O’neal Centre (1.1km) Rock of Ages Mall (2.6km)

Terms and Conditions Check In: From 3:00 PM Check Out: By 12:00 PM Cancellation: Cancellation policies vary according to room type.

Children: All children are allowed to Interesting Places To Visit Near stay for free.

Grand Cubana Hotel Pets: Pets are not allowed.

Utako Motor Park (0.7km) Payment: Cash, Visa and MasterCard Patsy Plaza (0.35km) are accepted here.

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SPORTS TIMES Daily Times Nigeria Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Super Falcons tackle Dominion Hotspur in friendly

The Senior Women National Team, Super Falcons, will on Thursday test strength against Dominion Hotspur FC, a boys’ team based in Lagos, in its first friendly match ahead of next month’s 11th Women Africa Cup of Nations.

Head Coach Thomas Dennerby sanctioned the friendly, as the eighth– time African champions began the second phase of camping on Monday at the magnificent Jubilee Chalets and Resort, Epe in Lagos.

Already, Dennerby has been able to welcome a couple of the 19 overseas – based professionals invited to the camp, which gradually moves into intensive stage during the week with a final list expected before the team jets out of the country.

Meanwhile, Chairman of the NFF

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Women Football Committee and a ranking Member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Hulayat Ayo Omidiran visited the team camp on Monday and charged the girls to prepare well and hard for the challenge of defending their continental crown.

The Falcons are drawn to play South Africa, Kenya and Zambia in Group B of the 11th Women Africa Cup of Nations, with Cape Coast as venue, starting with an opening encounter against the Banyana Banyana on Sunday, 18th November.

Nigeria emerged champions of the biennial continental houseparty in 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2016, defeating hosts Cameroon 1-0 in the final of the last edition in December 2016.

Gernot Rohr: Mikel Obi will decide on Super Eagles return Nigeria coach Gernot Rohr has stated that John Obi Mikel will decide when to return to the Super Eagles.

The Tianjin Teda midfielder has not featured for the three-time African champions since captaining the country at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

The 65-year-old recently released a 23-man squad for their African Cup of Nations qualifiers with South Africa on November 17 and friendly tie against Uganda three days later with the former Chelsea player

omitted despite his involvement at his club over the weekend.

However, the German tactician has explained that it was the wish of his skipper to be left out of the squad, although he hopes he return for the Afcon tournament scheduled for Cameroon next year provided they qualify.

“Mikel told me that he will tell me when he will be ready to come back.

He didn’t tell me yet. So I wait,” Rohr told KweseESPN. “I hope that we can go with him to Afcon and win it for him.”

Trabzonspor midfielder Ogenyi Onazi is another player omitted from the squad for the games after his injury problem ahead of the doubleheader against Libya in October.

“Onazi had a problem with injury.

He left Uyo before the match against Libya [earlier this month].

“I have to be aware of the health of our players. We didn’t want to do injections on Achilles tendons before the games.”

Nigeria top Group E standings with nine point from four games after three consecutive victories.

RB Leipzig still keen on Ademola Lookman German Bundesliga outfit RB Leipzig are monitoring Ademola Lookman’s future at Everton as he continues to tread water at Goodison Park.

The 21-year-old spent the second half of last term at the Red Bull Arena and enjoyed his first sustained run of games in one of Europe’s top leagues.

In 11 Bundesliga outings he scored five goals and contributed four assists to help the club secure a sixth-place finish and qualification for the Europa League.

Everton fought off interest in Lookman, rejecting an offer from Leipzig during the summer transfer window, but his opportunities have been few and far between this term.

Manager Marco Silva is yet to select the winger to start a Premier League game this season, though he did begin the Carabao Cup clash with Southampton earlier in October.

He has made substitute appearances in each of the Toffees’ last two top flight games, the 2-0 win over Crystal Palace and loss to Manchester United, and could be set for a long-run in the squad.

Leipzig have not been put-off by having a bid turned down in the summer and will continue to monitor his activity before possibly reigniting their interest.

“It’s clear how much affection we have for Ademola and I think from the way he performed here,

the environment we created for him and the platform we gave him, he also enjoyed his time here,” Leipzig’s director of football Paul Mitchell told The Sun. “And with a situation like that, we would always be open to revisiting, but you never know.

“At this moment he is an Everton player and he’s working with some really good people there.

“We know him and we will always keep a very close eye on his development because we see him as a Red Bull guy from his time here.

“But at the moment we just have to hope that he continues his progression as a footballer and let’s see what the future brings.”

Despite Silva showing little faith in Lookman, the coach accepts the former Charlton Athletic youngster has the talent to be a central part of Everton’s future.

“First of all he has to understand that he is in a big club,” he said, prior to the start of the season.

“I think he understands and I’m here to be clear with him in this situation. Of course, we have to understand that he went on loan and was happy there, he enjoyed the football as well, and now he deserves to stay with us.

“I told him and our board on the first day that I believe in his skills and his profile. I did my technical analysis on him and he is a good talent. He is

Federer confirms Paris Masters participation Roger Federer on Tuesday confirmed his participation at this year’s Paris Masters after a three-year absence.

The Swiss world number three will play the winner of the tie between France’s JoWilfried Tsonga and Croatia’s Milos Raonic on Wednesday after receiving a bye in the first round.

“I prefer playing to training as long as I don’t take any risks ahead of the London Masters, (November 11-18),” Federer said.

“I feel like I’ve recovered well after last week. I feel good today (Tuesday),” he added after winning the Swiss indoor championships in Basel on Sunday.

our present and our future. Now he has to fight for his position.

“I am here to do everything I can to make him happy again, to put him in the conditions to fight, and after that it is for him to keep his position and to fight to take it.

“It is not a case of we brought in Richarlison or Bernard as well [so they are ahead of him]. If he is in a better position and moment than the others then for sure he will play.”

Federer’s only tournament victory in Bercy came in 2011. On his last appearance in 2015, he was knocked out

by American Jon Isner in the Round of 16.

Meanwhile, French hopes of success were dented when Pierre-Hugues Herbert, Jeremy Chardy and Benoit Paire were knocked-out in the first round on Tuesday.

World number 57 Herbert was beaten by Kazakhstan’s Mikail Kukushkin in three sets (3-6, 6-3, 7-5) while Jeremy Chardy, ranked 40th, lost 6-4, 6-4 to Spain’s Fernando Verdasco.

The 56th-ranked Paire made the opening round through the qualifiers but lost 6-4, 6-4 to Hungary’s Marton Fucsovics.

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How much is the life of a Nigerian worth?

On Monday, 29th October 2018, over a dozen people were reportedly killed during a clash between Nigerian security forces and members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) otherwise known as Shiites. The clashes too place within the Mararaba/Nyanya/Karu axis of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) that share boundary with Nasarawa State.

According to media reports, apart from members of the Shiites that were killed, many other passersby who were caught up in the faceoff were equally felled by bullets allegedly fired by Nigerian soldiers while others were knocked off by vehicles driven by drivers desperately trying to get away from the danger posed by the fights. Many were also reported to have sustained various degrees of injuries in the process.

The fracas was as a result of the insistence of Shiites members to march into the Abuja city centre in observance of their annual religious ritual as well as to protest the continued incarceration of their leader Sheik Zakzaky who has been in detention since 2015 after the violent clash between his members and the Nigerian Army that led to the death of over 400 people.

Before the Monday clash in Mararaba, about four members of the sect were killed on Saturday 27th October along Zuba-Abuja expressway by Dei Dei junction when the same Shiite members on the same mission confronted soldiers and refused to back down from the procession into Abuja.

While these ugly incidences and the attendant deaths take place with the Federal Capital Territory, neighbouring Kaduna state has been boiling since last week due to initial minor clashes that later escalated into major ethnic and religious crisis, leading to the death of over 60 people including the traditional ruler of Adara in Kajuru Local Government Area, the Agwom of Adara, Maiwada Raphael Galadima who was abducted together with his wife.

While the wife was later released by the abductors, an official of the Adara Development Association (ADA) later confirmed that the traditional ruler has been killed, adding that the kidnappers collected an undisclosed amount of money as ransom before killing him and that his corpse was recovered and deposited at the St. Gerald Catholic Hospital Kakuri, Kaduna. Some parts of the state has been placed under curfew by the

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state government as a measure to ensure peace in the areas affected.

Elsewhere in Plateau State, clashes between farmers and herdsmen in June this year claimed nearly 80 lives with the state government imposing a dusk to dawn curfew. According to Plateau State Commissioner for Information, the curfew was imposed to bring back normalcy while Police and other security agencies in the state were put on alert to avert further escalation of the problem.

It would be recalled that on Saturday 24th March, 2018, a former Chief of Army Staff and former Defense Minister Gen. T Y Danjuma called the people of Nigeria to rise up and defend themselves from mindless killings and destruction of their farmlands and other sources of livelihood. He was reacting to the killing of hundreds of defenseless people in his home state of Taraba as well as Benue, Zamfara and other places as according to him security agencies in the country are either unable or unwilling to stop the killings.

He made the call while speaking at the maiden Convocation ceremony of Taraba state university in Jalingo Taraba state capital and lamented that the unnecessary killings going

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on in the country is aimed at ethnic cleansing on the people of Taraba and Nigeria at large with a warning that such acts must stop.

“You must rise to protect yourselves from these people. If you depend on the Armed Forces to protect you, you will all die. This ethnic creasing must stop in Taraba, and it must stop in Nigeria. These killers have been protected by the military. They cover them and you must be watchful to guide and protect yourselves because you have no other place to go. The ethnic cleansing must stop now otherwise Somalia will be a child’s play. I ask all of you to be on your alert and defend your country, defend your state” he said.

A few weeks after Danjuma’s outburst, the Governor of Zamfara Stare Abdulaziz Yari said he was in support of the creation of state Police in the country as according to him, that is the only way of halting the wanton and unprovoked killing of Nigeria right in their communities by the so called unknown militia.

Yari who stated this while hosting senior journalists on democracy dividend tour of his state on May, 2018 accused security agencies of failing to protect his people from killers in spite of information made

So I ask how much is life worth in Nigeria?

Once you answer this question as a government or the governed you will come to terms that we have become a failed people, a generation that have failed our children, present and the near future. Consciousness and realisation of our failures can help to recalibrate our senses that govern our actions to default mode of the sanctity of life the foundations of all our failures.

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available to security officers, adding that before communities in Zurmi Local Government Area of the state were attached, information was duly shared to those who should know, yet 39 people were killed by brigands, he said.

“Whatever was humanly possible that needed to be done, we as a government have done to mitigate this disaster. But it does appear that security agencies are failing in their responsibilities. On this particular incident, we had intelligence reports 24 hours before it happened that the bandits were grouping and ready to attack. I alerted the security agencies but unfortunately, they sent inadequate personnel to confront these people,” Yari said.

Every day in Nigeria, there are several stories of scores of citizens dying, most being avoidable deaths.

Apart from minor illnesses like fever, malaria, typhoid, dysentery, cholera, malnutrition, wrong drug prescriptions and other medical occurrences through which Nigerian lives are snuffed out, more citizens are killed by their fellow human beings and mostly for flimsy excuses or completely unprovoked attacks.

In spite of the successes record by the Nigerian Army and other security agencies in the fight against Boko Haram, the terror outfit is still killing and abducting people on daily basis.

This is even as herdsmen and the so called militias said to be from outside Nigeria are raiding communities day in, day out bringing with them, death and destruction while hundreds of commuters are hacked down untimely due mainly to bad roads everywhere in the country.

Unlike what happens in other countries where the death of one citizen from unnatural circumstances is enough to provoke national and international outrage, the death of a Nigerian citizen is no longer an issue; and the situation has become so bad so that even the killing of scores of people from one incident is no longer issue enough to make front cover news for most national newspapers.

So I ask how much is life worth in Nigeria? Once you answer this question as a government or the governed you will come to terms that we have become a failed people, a generation that have failed our children, present and the near future.

Consciousness and realisation of our failures can help to recalibrate our senses that govern our actions to default mode of the sanctity of life the foundations of all our failures.

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