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country, particularly the South East and South South regions of Imo, Abia, Anambra, Delta and Rivers states on Tuesday observed the sit-at-home order by Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) to Continued on page 12

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Services (NIS) has been called upon to focus its searchlight on some foreign companies, some of which have been alleged to abuse Nigeria’s immigration laws on employment of foreigners to work in the country.

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Telecom firm, ZTe flouts Immigration laws Continued from page 1

A source who spoke to The Daily Times on condition of anonymity, alleged that a telecom company, ZTe Nigeria Limited among others, have on their employ, foreign nationals who entered the country with business visas and neither qualified to take up employment, nor have permits to work in Nigeria.

While calling on the Nigeria Immigration Services to step up surveillance on how foreign citizens with mere visit or business visas end up taking highly

paid employments in the country, stakeholders called on the company to reverse the ongoing trend in the firm.

The source further alleged that the Ikoyi Lagos- based firm currently has very high concentration of foreign nationals, having displaced about 70 percent of Nigerians on its employment.

The expatriates working within this organisation are on business visas issued by the Nigerian government. However, approximately 60 percent of these visas are understood to have expired and these foreign nationals since

their arrival in the country, started working without valid work permits, the source alleged.

Laws of Nigeria relating to employment of foreign nationals clearly prohibit employment of foreigners in the country without valid work permits.

The source further alleged that over 70 per cent foreign nationals from Asia are currently in paid employment at the firm. It was further alleged that the foreigners who have no work permits, may not be subjected to ancillary taxes (P.A.Y.E etal) being paid to the government of Nigeria,

L-R: Company Secretary/General Manager, Legal, OVH Energy Marketing Limited, Adaeze Nwakoby; Kenna Partners, Prof.

Fabian Ajogwu (SAN); General Counsel/Company Secretary, Seplat Petroleum, Dr. Mirian Kene Kachikwu; Managing Partner, Akinwunmi and Busari, Mr. Olatunde Busari (SAN) and Acting CEO, OVH Energy Marketing Limited, Mrs. Olaposi Williams, during a lunch session with Corporate Governance, by OVH Energy Marketing Limited, in Lagos... recently.

hence the company is not subjected to full disclosure by either the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE).

The source, further alleged that the company is being aided by some highly placed Nigerians to execute such practices and evade sanctions.

While all attempts to reach Mr. Olajide Samuel, of ZTe Nigeria, for the company’s reaction, before going to press, proved abortive, The Daily Times headed to the company’s office at Osborne offshore Estate Ikoyi where the company still declined to provide information on the alleged issues.

Findings revealed that the company occupies three blocks 18, 20 and a further block for the company’s PR. At the No 20 Udi Street on Tuesday 30, May 2017, by 10.25 am, the security men at the company’s gate could not provide the name of any of their managers, hence one of them said: “All the managers here are China people and I don’t know their names.”

The guard who signed in our correspondent with visitor tag number 000032, revealed that both the higher managers and lower managers in the company are all foreigners and therefore did not even know the name of one of them. However, the 12 foreign workers seen in the compound, could not provide any viable information as one of them opened door for our correspondent to enter the office building.

Inside the office, the attendant

who doubles as the receptionist identified herself simply as Chichi, could not either provide any information, but later summoned Mr. Tayo Aina, of the company’s HR department.

Aina counselled that the company does not react to issues just like that and that all inquiries should be mailed to them, to provide answers. He directed our reporter to the PR office further down the road, but later provided a contact to direct the questions to.

However, Mr. Akindobe Oluwafemi, the company’s Public Relation Officer, who spoke to The Daily Times on telephone, refused to react to the issues. He first said that he will be traveling to Abuja from Lagos later in the day, but on a second call said that he is in Abuja and will return to Lagos at the weekend.

Oluwafemi first gave condition for reacting to the issues. He demanded to know who gave our correspondent his contact and why the story must be reported.

He, however, denied knowledge of Mr. Tayo Aina, who was supposed to be his colleague in the office, indicating that he may be on contract with the company.

The company’s public relations manager, who remained evasive all through, said: “I don’t know him. I am also a journalist, please use alleged in your story.

There are rules to the game. If you think you cannot wait, you can go ahead and do your story.

All these are allegations, I will come to your office at Ogba (sic) when I return to Lagos.”

Health minister to politicians: Invest in health, win 2019 polls

Tony Amokeodo, Lateef Ibrahim, Mathew Dadiya, Ebelechukwu Ibeneme, Abuja

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health, Professor Isaac Adewole, has given a rare advice to politicians on how to win popular votes from Nigerians ahead of 2019 general election.

Adewole, who spoke during an exclusive interview with The Daily Times on Tuesday night, stated that any politician that invests in health services will surely garner more votes than his opponents.

According to him, investment in health is tangible, down to earth and visible unlike other interventions in infrastructure in which controversy reign supreme.

The minister further advised serving governors seeking reelection and governorship hopefuls to go to the grassroots or their local governments to in-

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vest in health, saying that the development will be the deciding factor during the forthcoming 2019 general election.

He added that there is the need for politicians or governors to build befitting Primary Healthcare Centres in their local governments as a way of bringing quality and affordable healthcare services to their people.

Adewole, the former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, stated that once these activities are put in place by those seeking political office, they would surely win the forthcoming general election.

He said: “Many of the health interventions, the return on investment is huge. When you invest one Dollar in TB control, the return on investment is over $40. When you immunized a child with one dollar, the return on investment is over $16,

so health is an investment and universal health coverage is a win-win. Apart from providing political stability, it is a win-win.

“When you need votes, in fact, you do not have to ask people to give them money, they have already appreciated what you have done.

“That is why I have told some of our governors, if you invest in health, you will get free votes in 2019, people would vote for you”.

When asked why he was giving this advice to those seeking for votes in 2019, Adewole said: “The people are not foolish. If you invest in roads, houses, they say, oh because you are taking 10 percent but when you invest in their health, they won’t say that to you. So it’s a political winwin.

The health minister further spoke on the Federal Govern-

ment’s decision to upgrade seven tertiary medical centres and teaching hospitals in the sixgeo political zones and Abuja.

According to him, the development will reduce the menace of cancer, cardiac arrest and kidney failure which are now rampant in Nigeria.

Adewole added that the measure would also curtail medical tourism and conserve scarce foreign exchange which is now depleting Nigeria’s foreign reserves.

He said: “The situation of the tertiary hospitals (medical centres and teaching hospitals) would change this year, and we are committed to renovating them in a phased manner.

“This year, we want to start with at least seven as we have identified the seven tertiary medical centres and teaching hospitals. One in each of the

six-geo political zones of the country. We are picking ABU in North West, University Teaching Hospital, Maiduguri in North East, University of Ilorin in North Central, University of Benin in South South, University of Ibadan in South West and UNTH Enugu in South East as well as the National Hospital Abuja.

“We would partner with them to upgrade their ability to treat three major diseases- Cancer, Heart, and Kidney and those are the three major problems that take Nigerians out of the country.

“We have looked at our data, over the last three months, I have tried to assess the causes of death. Number one is cancer, number two is kidney problem and number three is cardiac arrest. When we upgrade these hospitals, we would concentrate on treatment of cancer, cardiac arrest and renal failure.”

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Nigeria’s democracy: 18 years after, what hope for the people?

Patrick Okohue This is a season of celebration in Nigeria; it is a time that marks another milestone in the nation’s democratic journey. It is 18 years since it began the current democratic run and it is the longest that democracy has lasted in the most populous black nation of the world, 57 years after independence from its colonial master, the United Kingdom.

When this Fourth Republic began in 1999, not many people believed it will last as long as it has, considering that other democratic experience in the past though held good promises ended abruptly, no thanks to military interventions that have had to cut it short at every junction.

It started in 1966, a few years after independence, when the first military coup took place on the pretext that the civilian administration was not only inept, but corrupt among many other allegations. But six months into the military administration, another coup was also experienced, then followed by a three year civil war and other coups.

With these developments in mind, no one will blame the cynics who never had faith in the new born democratic rule in 1999, but despite the lack of faith it has survived thus far.

Though some people believe that the wisdom of looking for a man like Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, a retired Army General and former Military Head of State, who commands a lot of respect across the geo-political and religious divide in the country, with tremendous influence across the military hierarchy to lead the fledgling democracy at the time may have been responsible for its ability to survive, others simply believe that the time for democratic stability had come as coup was no longer fashionable among the nations.

Whatever reason that may have helped to ensure that democracy took root in the country, it is important to note that Nigeria has now joined other nations who are enjoying democratic governance.

Since the return of democracy in the country ‘many waters have passed under the bridge’ like they say and the nation has seen successful handing over of power from one president to another, like Obasanjo handed over power to the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, who unfortunately died in office, while his deputy, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, a minority took over, thereby making history as the first president in the country to be elected from the minority, especially after emerging victorious in the 2011 election.

Another history was made in 2015 when the opposition political party, the newly formed All Progressives Congress (APC) contested and defeated the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that had produced all the previous presidents in the Fourth Republic and the majority of National Assembly members, governors and state Assembly lawmakers.

The handing over of power from President Jonathan of the PDP to President Muhammadu Buhari of the APC on May 29, 2015 indeed was a defining moment for Nigeria’s democratic journey.

However, despite this seeming progress that has been made in the democratic space and the fact that their seem to be a kind of opening up of the system for free speech to thrive to some extent, the gains that have been made

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in the process seem to have been eclipsed by the massive looting of the nation’s resources by successive governments across board from the federal to state to local government, with the people looking on helplessly.

Despite the fact that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) the Independent Corrupt practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC) were born in the early years of the return of democracy, the fight against corruption has been fought more on the pages of newspapers, the television and radio than in the court rooms.

This has helped to see that many politicians and political appointees who steal the people blind end up being celebrated rather than being shamed and jailed and this has given others the impetuous to do more of stealing than performing the duties for which they were either elected or appointed.

The resultant effect of this lack of political will by successive governments to fight corruption frontally no matter whose ox is gored has led to the dearth of infrastructure across the country and ensured that the people continue to live a beggarly life despite the massive resources at the disposal of government.

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Irked by this development, a public commentator, Japheth Omojuwa, writing on ‘Nigerian democracy and its anomalies’ spoke about how the Nigerian people are being shortchanged by all arms of government.

He said, “Take the National Assembly, for example, no one knows how it spends its budget. All that is known is that it spends 100 per cent of whatever money it allocates to itself per year. For a long time that was N150bn or so per year. Year in and out, we are often angered by the size of their budget; in truth, the real anger ought to be the fact that we do not know how the budget gets spent and we still do not know.

“The tenants of the National Assembly i.e. the senators and representatives are, at least on paper, the representatives of the people.

Can anyone in truth admit this has been the case? H e asked.

He also spoke about the judiciary which is the last hope of the common man, saying, “The Judiciary – the merchants of justice – out to be the last hope of the ordinary citizen when all others fail, but one did not get such hope when the same judiciary that granted an order for the Peoples Democratic Party, to

As far as there is no free and fair election in this country we can never get it right,” he said, this is “because those who are supposed to be in charge of directing the country are not those who are in power. Those who are in power are mostly robbers, those who are stealing from the country, those who are in power are those who have nothing to do with leadership and governance, but because they got to big positions with their ill gotten wealth, the country cannot move forward.

go ahead with its convention also granted an order for the convention not to hold.

“Rulings like these are not an anomaly as we have come to see over the years. Credit to its stakeholders though, they do express disappointment and shock at such bizarre rulings.

And in the case of the PDP leadership tussle rulings, there are indications the leadership of the judiciary will take a critical look at things.

Hopefully, this will not only fix the quagmire that is the PDP leadership but also help set up the judiciary and refocus it to see only through the eyes of justice and not the eyes of the governor where the court sits.”

He went on, “Our democracy has become as ceremonial as the big “agbadas” and other big attire our male leaders wear to host one another in courtesy calls when they are not hosting foreign dignitaries. Our system of governance has become as cosmetic as the faces of the privileged women who got a chance to prove their mettle but instead seemed to prove that ‘what a man can do, a woman can do even better,’ applies to the good, the bad and the ugly.

“Ours has been in truth more the reality of a systemic failure than that of the failure of just those we trusted with power. President Buhari must have come to see that, as much as he needs to fight the corrupt – especially those who made away with the billions of dollars that would have helped to protect the people of the North-East against Boko Haram and hence largely reduce the incidence of the now displaced people in their millions – he needs to help institutionalise transparency and accountability in our system, to truly fight corruption itself.

“Corruption thrives in darkness, just like most crimes. The light that makes corruption much more harder to execute is shone by transparency and accountability. It is much cheaper to prevent corruption than it is to fight corruption. This is the way forward, that

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Buhari: Two years on, need to change narrative Emmanuel Iriogbe, Abuja Exactly eighteen years after, (May, 29, 1999), the Nigeria military stepped aside and handed power over to a democratically elected government in the country. The expectation from Nigerians was high as the populace had waited patiently for the D-Day to come. When it did come, they trooped out in their numbers to celebrate the birth of a new dawn.

Down the lane however, the country has witnessed ups and down in its march towards statehood. Whatever must have transpired in the past is not up for discussion here but the main focus is the present administration under Muhammadu Buhari since inception.

It is noteworthy to state, that when Former President Goodluck Jonathan made that historic telephone call to incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 conceding victory to the later as aftermath of the presidential election, there was rejoicing in the land and overseas.

The euphoria that greeted the emergence of Buhari was two-fold. First, the world and Nigerians rejoiced with the country for a smooth transition from one

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 as we fight the corrupt of today, we must prevent the corrupt of tomorrow from having their way. Until this is done, we will all lose out as the system continues to fail.”

In the view of Chief Willy Ezugwu, Secretary General of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP), the selection process of leaders of the nation has been the bane of development and until the nation gets that right things may remain difficult.

“The selection of leadership in the country has been responsible for where we are. Because as far as there is no free and fair election in this country we can never get it right,” he said, this is “because those who are supposed to be in charge of directing the country are not those who are in power.

“Those who are in power are mostly robbers, those who are stealing from the country, those who are in power are those who have nothing to do with leadership and governance, but because they got to big positions with their ill gotten wealth, the country cannot move forward.

“When you look at some countries, you will see what they do with corruption, but here call it the executive, the legislature or the judiciary; they have all gone berserk, it cut across.

If the legislature can get it right they would have passed a law for a stiff punishment for those caught in corruption, but how can that be when the hierarchy of the legislature is full of corrupt people,” he asked.

He also frowned at the way the executive have chosen to allocate development only to those who support them at election, noting that even that is a form of corruption, “Go to the executive and see where a major zone is being marginalised and we call it democracy?

When somebody can say because you didn’t vote for me your zone will be forgotten.

“You go to the judiciary, it is the highest bidder that get the judgement, you can see how a lot of judges were caught with millions of assorted currencies.

“So, our problem is leadership and the moment we get it right in terms of electoral system that is the only way we can get the right people to come into the leadership of this country.

“I tell you that all these things cut across, it manifest from political parties, when there is

government to another, after the tension generated before and during the elections.

Nay Sayers were unanimous and equivocal that 2015 marked the beginning of the end for the country called Nigeria. People re-located to their respective villages for fear of the predicted conflagration that would engulf the country, should Buhari lose the election.

Secondly, Nigerians saw the emergence of Buhari as representative of the desired change the country needed to move away from the past of corruptive tendencies of government to a new beginning where the Augean’s stable will be cleansed and usher in a prosperous new nation.

Therefore, when Buhari got sworn in on May 29, 2015, what most Nigerians took away as most memorable in his maiden speech was the phrase; “I belong to nobody, I am for everybody”. To many in the land, a new sheriff was in town to whip corrupt people in line.

The government started by making some arrests of people it considered corrupt. However, the arrests were viewed as vindictive and a way of paying back those considered to have offended the President.

The arrest of former National Security

Adviser to the immediate past government, Col. Sambo Dasuki and media mogul, Raymond Dokpesi, were considered as getting back at sworn enemies by Buhari.

It was alleged that Buhari wanted to pay Dasuki back for his role in the 1983 military putsch that overthrew his government and his subsequent arrest, while it was also alleged that Dokpesi’s sin was the role his media oragnisation, DAAR Communication, played during the electioneering campaign. Some die-hard Buhari supporters saw the Africa Independent Television (AIT) and RayPower radio station’s electioneering jingoes as smear campaigns against the person of Muhammadu Buhari.

Though monies were recovered from persons Dasuki gave the arms money to, and many other recovered loot, the total amount of money recovered so far remains a mystery. Such money would have been re-invested into the economy and save the country from recession which came about under this administration.

To say that Nigerians have never had it so tough since the advent of democracy in 1999, is stating the obvious. The basic needs of man; food, shelter and clothing

remain a mirage. There is hunger in the land as basic foodstuff, when available, is out of reach to the common man. Housing for the average Nigerian is unaffordable as landlords are not ready to bring down tenement rates.

In the area of security, the government of Muhammadu Buhari has done fairly well. The military check points that dotted the land in the past are gradually giving way to free flow of traffic.

Also, in the area of addressing the thorny Niger Delta problem, the present administration’s shift from the use of brute force to that of dialogue in putting an end to bombing of pipelines by militants is commendable. This approach has seen oil production jump to about 2m barrels per day from its abysmal output in the heat of the pipeline vandalisation.

While wishing President Muhammadu Buhari quick recovery from ailments that have held him hostage, it is hoped that policy formulators in this government, make radical changes to policies that have held the average Nigerian down, and put smile of their faces. This is no time for politicking

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no internal democracy. Let us take for example the leadership of the APC, the chairman is just there like a figure head, he can’t take decisions on his own.

“If you remember in the 1980s when Shehu Shagari was there, Adisa Akinloye was the chairman of NPN, at that time Shagari cannot challenge him because he is the head of the party and that is the party that produced him.

“At that time Anambra State was governed

by NPP, when Chief Jim Nwobodo was to be impeached, people came and kidnapped the party chairman overnight, because he has the power, but today the political party chairman can come to the governor’s office and will have to wait on queue.

“The national chairman of a ruling party will come to the office of the president and will be looking for the Chief of Staff or another person to be able to see the President, because they have taken money and given the position to somebody who doesn’t know the tenets of democracy and that is why they are not being

respected. This whole thing starts from political parties, none of them run internal democracy.

Also speaking on the state of the democratic practice in the country, a member of the House of Representatives in the Seventh Assembly representing Epe Federal Constituency, Hon. Lanre Odubote, blamed the state of the democratic process on the nation’s experience under military rule, arguing that because of the long military rule the nation is yet to get accustomed to what a real democratic governance is all about.

To him, “The major problem is that we stayed too long under military rule and now democracy is struggling to find its feet. Assuming the democratic rule was not tampered with in 1983 and it had continued until Obasanjo got back, the Lagos metro line would have been well developed along with the power sector.

“Alhaji Lateef Jakande started it before the Military came and scuttled it, rail is what can address the issue of mass transit, it can carry

a lot of commuters within a short period of time like what is happening in England and other developed countries.

“Yes, we have had democracy for 18 years, yet you cannot compare the worst civilian rule to the best Military rule. We are talking of democracy with all the ingredients including credible election, because it is when you have a credible election that you can talk of having credible leaders in place. These things take time; can you compare Nigeria democracy with American democracy or that of the British? We have to start from somewhere.

“Some people got their democracy through war, but we got our own through peace, it takes time, we are trying, it has to be gradual, by the time we do the next election things will start getting better gradually. If we had sustained Option A4 with which Abiola was elected we would have been better off by now, but with time things will get better,” he said.

Odubote also added that if there is transparency in the handling of the budget and making it accessible to the people through the internet, the issue of corruption in the system will be greatly addressed.

For the former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Adeyemi Ikuforiji however, Nigerians need to be patient, noting that since independence 57 years ago, that this was the first time that the nation was having democratic rule for this length of time, noting that despite that there are shortcomings; things will get better with time.

He added though that there is the urgent need for a complete re-orientation of the populace, because the people have turned things upside down and it is time the leadership take the issue of the re-orientation of the people seriously and as a national concern and devout the necessary time and resources to achieving the re-orientation of the people

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press home its demand to have an independent country, Biafra. In some cities, the observance was total while it was partial in some others.

Social and economic activities in Owerri, the Imo State capital, were brought to a standstill following the sit-at-home order which was also to mark the 50th anniversary of the start of the Nigeria/Biafra civil war. The late Biafran warlord, Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu on May 30, 1967 declared the Republic of Biafra.

There was total compliance with the IPOB order as our correspondent who monitored the situation in Owerri, the Imo State capital, reported that markets, shops, banks and private, mission and public schools were shut down.

The Daily Times also observed that Motor Parks were equally shut down leaving few passengers sighted at the parks stranded.

Chief John Nwafor, a businessman from Njaba Local Government Area of the state told our correspondent that he arrived at Owerri as early as 7am to travel to Ava, Abia State for business transactions but could not catchup with any vehicle due to the sitat-home order.

Our Correspondent reports that all the private schools as well as government owned schools particularly Comprehensive Secondary School, Amakohia, Uratta, and Girls Secondary School, Akwakuma, St Mark’s Anglican School, Amakohia, Government Secondary School, Owerri were closed as no school children were sighted at the school premises except a few teachers.

The IPOB directive equally compelled banks to close down and a security man attached to a commercial bank along Bank Road Owerri said they shut down operations because of the fear of possible attacks by miscreants.

A visit to the High Court Complex Owerri, showed that some courts sat while others failed to sit, leaving lawyers guessing why some of the judges failed to report for work.

A lawyer who pleaded anonymity called on the Federal Government to look into the agitation by the pro-Biafra groups so as to end the persistent agitations.

“This kind of situation does not tell good for the corporate image and identity of Nigeria that we are in one country, yet everyday it is Biafra agitation, the other day it was Boko Haram and OPC,” he said.

Reacting to the sit-at-home, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, the leader of Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and Biafra Independence Movement (BIM) said the two pro-Biafra groups under

him were not part of the directive.

“The position of MASSOB and BIM under my watch is that we are not part of any sit-at-home order. All I am aware is the weeklong celebration to mark 18th anniversary of MASSOB and 50th anniversary of Biafra.

“Anybody talking about sit-athome is on his own and I have nothing to tell anybody on such activity neither should any problem associated to it be attributed to me,” The Daily Times reports that the state governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, who was visibly disturbed, moved to the popular Owerri Central Market which was under lock and key to open the main entrance of the market.

However, when he opened the main entrance to the market, it was discovered that all shops at the market were locked as owners stayed at their various homes.

School children were seen playing on major streets of Owerri, including Douglas Road, Wethedral Road among others.

In Abia State, the May 30th Stay-at-home order by IPOB recorded 90 percent compliance by the citizens as they shunned the Commissioner of Police moves to ensure normalcy.

In obedience to the order, most shops, eateries, banks and schools, both public and private did not open for business, while streets were deserted as children converted the streets into football field.

The streets were deserted and some banks who tried to operate did that under closed doors, except for Automated Teller Machines, ATM operators.

The story was the same for even rural towns like Ohafia, Bende, Abiriba, Alayi, Igbere, Item, and Arochukwu where citizens were reported to have used the occasion for farm activities.

The stay-at-home order was further enhanced with the public electricity system which hitherto had been absent was provided on Tuesday to encourage families to stay indoors to watch films, television and other internet applications.

Reports from Aba indicated that the area witnessed near total compliance as markets, including the famous Ariaria Market was under lock and keys.

Economic and business activities were totally shutdown there as markets, businesses, shops and offices closed for business in total compliance to the sit-at-home directive.

In Delta State, the sit-at-home order scared residents of Asaba, Ibusa, Ughelli and its environs.

Expectedly, as early as 6:30am virtually all the roads in Asaba were desolate as Keke riders which used to be the beehive of movements were literally not seen apart from Armed Policemen at strategic places. Schools

and markets were shut and traders for fear of the unknown stayed back at home to observe the “sit at home order.”

Though government offices were opened, civil servants were seen around their offices discussing the “sit at home” order in hush-hush tones, when our reporter visited. Some of them who spoke to our reporter on condition of anonymity described the “sit at home order” as palpable fear of the unknown, warning members of the group against another civil war.

According to one of them, “What we saw during the civil war is untold, we don’t want another civil war again, and it is unfortunate that Nigeria moves from one problem to another.”

Near the Head Bridge in Asaba, over 2,800 armed policemen were seen on a stop and search mea-

sures and in most cases allegedly molesting stubborn motorists who failed to adhere to instructions. An Igbo man who claimed to be Nnamdi Okorie said, “We have succeeded in our order of sit at home, we must actualise our Biafra state dream, nobody can stop us, everywhere is empty nobody came out.”

The sit-at-home order was total success in Onitsha the commercial city of Anambra State, Awka, the state capital and Nnewi, the industrial town of the state.

As early as 8am when this reporter drove from Onitsha to Nnewi, no vehicle, tricycle and motorbikes were seen on the roads, particularly, the Oba New and Old Roads, the Onitsha Owerri Road and Obosi Nkpor Roads as well as the ever busy Asaba -Onitsha Bridge and the Onitsha -Awka Expressway.

Markets including the multiibillion naira Onitsha Main Market, shops, filling stations, schools and banks were all shut down, while people were seen in clusters discussing the development.

The Edo Ezemewi Road, Nnewi were almost all the banks have branches was deserted as the banks did not open and the popular Nkwo Nnewi Market was also closed, with stern looking security men mounting guards at the entrance and exit gates.

In Onitsha, all the markets, schools, shops and other business outfits were all closed, while all the federal and state government establishments, banks and other financial institutions were shut for business, and even the shops on the smallest streets in Onitsha were closed.

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Chibok school girls freed by Boko Haram terrorists, during their handing over by the Department of State Service (DSS) to the Federal Government for rehabilitation in Abuja… on Tuesday. Photo: TEMITOPE BALOGUN.

Senate set to confirm 27 INEC REC nominees Olufemi Samuel, Abuja

ÏÏÏ Preparations by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the 2019 general election will soon get a boost as the Senate is set to adopt the Report on the screening of 27 Resident Electoral Commissioners (REC) nominees by President Muhammadu Buhari and confirm them accordingly.

INEC had already set the timetable for conduct of the 2019 general election, indicating that the Presidential and National Assembly elections would hold in February 16, 2019.

The Senate which initially was at loggerheads with the Presidency on crucial political matters had put the screening of the RECs in abeyance, but backed down on political exigencies to conduct screening for the nominees.

The Senate conducted the screening seven weeks after it suspended the consideration of the nominations in protest.

A ranking Senator, who sought anonymity, had confided in The Daily Times that the Report on Screening of the 27 RECs would be laid before the Senate by the close of legislative business this week.

From indications, the Report after the Senate approval would be sent to the President after which the confirmed nominees would officially resume work at INEC, all things being equal.

President Buhari is currently on a medical vacation in London, although reports said he would return to Nigeria within the next two weeks after clearance by his doctors.

Already screened for INEC appointments are Godswill Obioma, Abia; Ibrahim Abdullahi, Adamawa; Ahmad Makama, Bauchi; James Apam, Benue; Mike Igini, Delta; Nwachukwu

Orji, Ebonyi; Iloh Chuks, Enugu and Hussaini Pai, Federal Capital Territory.

Others are Sadiq Musa, Kaduna; Jibrin Zarewa, Kano; Asmau Maikudi, Katsina; Mahmuda Isah, Kebbi; Samuel Egwu, Kogi; Rufus Akeju, Lagos; Mustapha Zubairu, Niger; Agboke Olaleke, Ogun and Sam Olumekun, Ondo.

The list also contained names of AbdulGaniyu Raji, Oyo; Riskuwa Shehu, Sokoto; Kasim Geidam, Yobe; Ahmad Mahmud, Zamfara; Nentawe Yilwatda, Plateau and Umar Ibrahim, Taraba.

Emeka Joseph, Imo; Obo Effanga, Cross River; Francis Ezeonu, Anambra and Briyai Frankland, Bayelsa, were also nominated.

For the screening to hold, the Senate had replaced its suspended Chairman on INEC, Senator Muhammed Ali Ndume with Senator Suleiman Nazif who conducted the exercise.

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L-R: Senate Leader, Senator Ahmad Lawan; Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki; National Chairman of the Jama’atu lzaltil Bid’ah Wa’Ikamatis Sunnah (JIBWIS), Sheikh Muhammadu Yahaya Jingiri and Senator Ahmed Sani Yerima, when the National Chairman of JIBWIS led the national executive of the association on a courtesy visit to the Senate President in Abuja… on Tuesday

Time to liberalise the solid mineral sector

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ne of the highlights of the Buhari administration’s 2016 budget is the plan to diversify the Nigerian economy from its over reliance on crude oil to solid minerals. It would be recalled that while presenting the budget to the joint session of the National Assembly in Abuja, Buhari expressed the opinion that the funding and implementation of the 2016 budget would be partly sourced from the solid minerals in due course.

The Nigerian Extractive Industries and Transparency Initiative (NEITI) report suggest that “there are about 40 different kinds of solid minerals and precious metals in Nigeria with estimated commercial value of trillions of naira. The report states that more than 40 million tonnes of talc deposits exist in Niger, Osun, Kogi, Ogun and Kaduna states, even as there are huge deposits of coal ranging from bituminous to lignite in the Anambra Basin of South-Eastern Nigeria.

In addition, there are identified deposits of lead-zinc ores within the Asaba Area of Niger Delta, while tin, niobium, and lead, exist in Oyo and Igbeti, even as more than a billion tonnes of gypsum have been discovered in Sokoto, Niger, Ondo and Ekiti states. Studies by geologists reveal that limestone deposits occur in Cross River, Ogun, Benue, Gombe, Ebonyi, Sokoto, Edo and Kogi states, as there is existence of magnesite in Adamawa and Kebbi states, while manganese is found in Kebbi, Katsina and Zamfara.

Moreover experts state that columbite, ilmenite, mica, barytes, pyrite, galena, limestone, sodium chloride, ephalerite, silica sand, granites, tantalite, mica, sphalerite, talc, gemstone (tourmaline, aquamarine and sapphire), halcopyrite, topaz, cassit-

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erite, columbite, tantalite, emerald, heliodor, amethyst, quartz, coking coal, marble, and iron ore are found in abundance in Nasarawa State.

Industry analysts believe that Nigeria loses more than N8trillion annually in unexploited gold alone.

Unfortunately, the inability of states to exploit these resources in their domain is traceable to the 2007 Mineral Act that vests the ownership of solid mineral on the federal government.

It is a fact that the new Solid Minerals Ministry is the last frontier at diversifying the country’s economy.

Nigeria’s failure since independence to put in place a structure that will make the benefits of the exploitation of solid minerals available is being blamed for the lack of economic development in the country.

Presently, mining of minerals accounts for a miniscule 0.3 per cent GDP, due to the influence of oil resources. We believe exploitation and utilisation of these resources will create more than one million direct and indirect jobs and boost Africa’s inter-trade, which at present stands at $110 billion. Therefore, what the country needs is a clear policy framework to create an enabling environment for the exploitation of these minerals. In doing so, Nigeria needs to amend the 2007 Mining and Mineral Act, with a view to investing the exploitation of solid minerals on the states.

However, government should also address the problem of illegal mining and the poor funding of the sector. There is no denying the fact that perceived social and political instability in the country pose obstacles to the realisation of an enduring mining regime, even as addressing these challenges would be a magnet to attracting investors to the solid minerals sector.

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“It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.”

“You don’t have to be great to start but you have to start to be great.”

“The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

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Finally, Senate okays Buhari’s anti-corruption bill Olufemi Samuel and Chris Emetoh, Abuja

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approved and passed the Bill on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters between Nigeria and other countries.

The executive bill presented to the Senate by President Muhammadu Buhari in January 2016, provides for the repeal of the Money Laundering Act of 2011 (as amended in 2012) to prohibit money laundering activities.

This is also as the Senate has asked the executive to put on hold the planned concession of the Port Harcourt refinery to Agip and Oando.

The Mutual Assistance Bill also expands the scope of money laundering offences, provide protection

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The Bill according to President Buhari, “Seeks to get relevant international assistance on money laundering cases while providing framework for “other countries to assist in provision of and obtaining of evidence, making of arrangements for persons to give evidence.”

The President also wrote that the “The bill also hopes to elicit international assistance in criminal investigations, recovery, forfeiture or confiscation of property in respect of offences.

“The restraining of dealings in property or the freezing of asset that may be

recovered, forfeited or confiscated in respect of offences.

“The execution of request for search and seizure, the location and identification of witnesses and suspects,” the President wrote to the Senate.

A joint Report on the bill had earlier been presented by the Senate committees on foreign affairs, chaired

by Monsurat Sunmonu (APC-Oyo); judiciary, human rights and legal matters, chaired by David Umaru (APC-Niger) and anti-corruption, chaired

by Chukwuma Utazi, PDPEnugu.

However, the Bill having been passed by the Senate is now awaiting concurrence by the House of Representatives to become law after

the assent by the President.

In his comment after the passage of the Bill, Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, said: “This anti-money laundering legislation is a key component of President Muhammadu Buhari’s war on corruption agenda.

“This act will facilitate the needed cooperation with other states to prevent individuals from escaping prosecution by fleeing to another country.

“Under the passed Bill, the Nigerian government may request that any country where a money launderer is hiding out to aid in the prosecution of such person, or such person may even be prosecuted in accord with the law of the host country.

Nigeria would also be able to supply the country with evidentiary support to aid a conviction.

“This is the kind of innovative and cooperative anti-corruption scheme that will truly discourage money laundering,” Saraki said, adding, “I and my colleagues applaud the President’s creativity and determination to discourage this kind of corruption.”

Meanwhile, the resolution asking the executive to put on hold the planned concession of the Port Harcourt refinery to Agip and Oando followed the consideration and adoption of a motion to that effect sponsored by Senator Sabo Mohammed representing Jigawa South.

Senator Mohammed explained that the Federal Government recently entered into an agreement with Nigerian Agip Oil, a subsidiary of ENI to construct a fifteen billion dollars refinery in the Niger Delta region, a deal which also includes repairs of the Port Harcourt refinery.

According to Mohammed, the concession arrangement did not follow open and competitive bid as relevant stakeholders were not included in the process.

The Senate also resolved to set up an ad hoc committee to carry out a holistic investigation to determine how and why such a deal was sealed and the criteria used to select Agip and Oando.

CBN lifts Naira with $482.6m Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

ÏÏÏ In the first trading day

A cross section of the newly appointed commissioners in Osun State, taking the oath of office before the Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, during the swearing-in-ceremony at the Bola Ige House, Abere, Osogbo… on Tuesday.

IPOB sit-at-home order grounds S’East, Rivers, Delta, others Continued from page 12 But it was brisk business for petty food vendors like beans cake (Akara) bakers as people clustered round them at Upper New Market road, eating and discussing the activity of the day.

The Onitsha Owerri express way, the Asaba Onitsha expressway and the Onitsha Enugu express way were all ghost of themselves as all vehicular movements, movement of tricycles, motorcycles, and human traffic were absent there.

Security agents in their patrol vehicles, particularly, the Nigerian Police Force, Nigerian Army, Nigerian Navy, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence

Corps, Federal Road Safety Corps, were seen patrolling the streets of Onitsha, Awka and Nnewi.

In compliance with the sit-at-home directive, some business owners, commercial activities were partially paralysed in Port Harcourt, capital city of Rivers State and some of its environs.

Although no violent incident was recorded in the state as at press time, all the shops at the Ikoku Spare Parts Market, one of the highest commercial centres in Port Harcourt, were locke. Also heavily affected by the IPOB order were shops at the Mechanic Village at Elekahia, where some customers were seen looking frustrated as they were shut out.

Many shops were locked in Rumuola, Rumuokuta, and other parts of the capital city. Trading activities known to be of high intensity at the Toll Gate in the Oyigbo axis, Eleme, Oil Mill, Artillery, Market, Rumuoji Market, Mile 3 Market, and the Building Material Market were low.

Many shops along Ada George Road were also locked. Business activities in Choba and Ugwuoba axis of Port Harcourt were also not high.

However, in the city of Port Harcourt, some shop owners who cashed in on the heavy presence of security operatives in the state were seen enjoying high sales, taking advantage of their colleagues absence, those of them who

were either not courageous enough to open their commercial centres or simply complied with the IPOB order.

There was also light traffic along the major roads in Port Harcourt and Obio/ Akpor in the morning and afternoon hours which gradually picked up in the evening.

Following the sit-at-home order, the House of Representatives on Tuesday cautioned against the use of maximum force by the military and other security agencies against IPOB members in the South-East and South-South.

The House issued the warning following the adoption of a motion moved by Rep. Obinna Chidoka.

after the Democracy Day celebrations, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), on Tuesday, intervened in the inter-bank market to the tune of $482.6 million, underlining its determination to guard the international value of the naira.

A breakdown of Tuesday’s interventions indicates that the Retail SMIS was allocated the sum of $285,779,350, while the $100 million was offered in the Wholesale SMIS auction window.

The Small, Medium and Enterprises (SMEs) window got an allocation of $52 million, while the invisibles segment, comprising Basic Travel Allowance (BTA), Personal Travel Allowance, medicals and tuition fees,

among others, was allocated the sum of $45 million.

According to the Acting Director, Corporate Communications at the CBN, Isaac Okorafor, the interventions are in line with the Bank’s resolve, echoed by the Governor, Godwin Emefiele, at last week’s briefing of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting.

While expressing pleasure that the intervention of the Bank had ensured stability across all segments of the forex market, Okorafor voiced his optimism that the Bank’s objective of exchange rate convergence would be achieved soon.

Meanwhile, surveys in Abuja, Lagos, Kano and Port-Harcourt on Tuesday, indicated that the dollar traded to the Naira at an average rate of N375/$1.

WANTED PERSON This is to inform the general public that MR. OKWUCHUKWU UBACHUKWU and others at large is wanted by the Department of State Security in connection with the importation of Radio Biafra Transmitters through the Nigeria Seaport.

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Gov Sani Bello creates 3 new ministries in Niger Saka Bolaji, Minna

ÏÏÏIn an attempt to harness

the full potentials and enhance efficiency in service delivery, the Niger state government has created three new ministries and directed the immediate recruitment of 250 graduates into the state civil service.

The state governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello, who announced this in a statewide radio and television broadcast to mark this year’s Democracy Day and the 2nd anniversary of his administration in Minna, the state capital also approved the appointment of 17 new Permanent Secretaries for efficiency and vibrancy of the state civil service.

The new Ministries are; Ministry of Forestry and Animal Resources, Ministry of Solid Minerials Development and Ministry of Culture and Tourism. This brings the number of ministries in the state to 18 from 15.

The governor said the decision to create the new Ministries was informed by the desire to further enhance the full potentials of the state and in fulfillment of the restoration agenda policy of his administration.

According to the governor, in order “to further harness our full potentials in the state, government had decided to create additional three ministries

namely; Ministry of Forestry and Animal Resources, Ministry of Solid Minerials Development and Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

“I have also directed the State Civil Service Commission to immediately recruit and inject 250 graduates from the 25 local government areas into the state civil service. In addition, I have also approved the appointment of 17 new Permanent Secretaries based on merit and with immediate effect,” the governor disclosed.

Governor Sani Bello observed that the state public service has been intensely exposed to damaging partisanship and external influences that have compromosed its integrity and created negative perceptions which make relations with political leaderhip and public school image difficult to manage.

To this end, the governor announced an overhaul in the top brass of the state civil service by directing 16 Permanent Secretaries to proceed on immediate retirement leave while 8 serving Permanent Secretaries are retained and two others who have been in acting capacity had their appointments confirmed.

Gov. Sani Bello said the ongoing exercise and changes in the civil service was designed to allow for emergency of a new crop of leadership and to reinvigorate the service and entrench equity and fairness.

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A’Ibom North Senatorial Election: Lawyers urge INEC to withdraw certificate of return from Etim Chris Emetoh, Abuja

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A coalition of concerned lawyers have urged the independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to withdraw the certificate of return in respect of the Akwa Ibom North East senatorial election issued on Mr. Bassey Etim following the ruling of a court of appeal in Uyo. Briefing senate correspondents in Abuja, the spokesman of the group,Omang Charles Omang said INEC acted in contempt of the judgment of justice Nnamdi Dimgba On a stay of execu-

tion which was duly served on all the parties.

Omang explained that Senator Bassey Apkan notice of appeal and stay of execution against the judgement nullifying his election had been ruled on by the federal high court sitting in Abuja.

Citing section 143 of the electoral act, Omang said that senator Apkan filed his appeal against the judgement within 21 days from the date of the decision.

The coalition maintained that senator Bassey Apkan remained the senator representing Akwa Ibom north

east pending the judgement on his appeal.

“In addition to the forgoing , there is a subsisting order of the Federal Court sitting in Abuja per Nnamdi Dimgba, J. nullifying the certificate of return erroneously issued to Hon. Bassey Etim by INEC ; Having transmitted the record of appeal, the appeal has properly been entered at the court of appeal, Calabar division with appeal number CA/C/87/2017 between Distinguished Senator Bassey Albert Akpan versus Bassey Etim and 2 others,” he said.

NAMA sets to deplore solar panels to boost facilities Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has concluded arrangements to deplore solar panel and batteries to boost its equipment across the airports in the country.

The equipment which is valued at several millions of naira would be deployed to eight locations in Lagos, Calabar, Enugu, Sokoto and four others to reduce dependence on electricity from the national grid.

General Manager, Electro Mechanics, Engr Adebisi Antonio, said as alternative source of power to NAMA’s Instrument Landing Systems(ILSs) across the nation’s airports will be powered by the solar Anjorin said the equipment was captured in 2016 Budget, stressing that they have commenced installation of the equipment at the Lagos and Kaduna airports.

He further disclosed that the remaining batteries and solar panels are already included in the 2017 budget.

His words: “The batteries are more reliable to give 24 hours higher effectiveness. NAMA has done civil work at the stations and we are commencing installations this week. The idea is that next year, all

our ILS and other essential equipment will be covered by Solar DC Direct.”

“All expenses on generators, maintenance will be reduced drastically including air pollution. The greatest challenge we have is electricity. Our equipment is easily destroyed because of erratic power supply.”

Director, Safety Electronics and Engineering of the agency, NAMA, Engr. Farouk Ahmed Umar told Daily Times that the agency acquired Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) to boost the autonomy of interrupted power supply.

“Once there is light, it guarantees the improvement of the equipment. We are deploying them in other stations. This will stop blind spots in the airspace.”

Umar said the situation of blind spots is caused by constant power outage, stressing that when it happens, communication between pilots and air traffic controllers is limited which he said takes about few minutes before it is restored.

He stated that during this time, communication is very weak in what people termed as blind spots in the airspace.

He noted that this would correct the situation as it would boost and power the equipment for more than 24 hours even when power to the system is lost.

Children having fun at Hi-Impact Amusement Park, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway during 2017 Children’s Day Celebration…recently.

SMEs: UN’ll work with Nigeria to implement growth strategies – UNIDO ÏÏÏ The Investment and

Technology Promotion Office of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation has assured stakeholders that it will work with Africa, and indeed Nigeria, to realise the projected growth of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs).

It said that the increase in global demand for Nigerian products was a pointer to Nigeria’s potential to contribute significantly to global economic development.

The Head, UNIDO ITPO Nigeria, Mrs. Adebisi Olumodimu, who gave the assurance at the closing ceremony of a four-day intensive training programme organised by UNIDO-ITPO Nigeria for three federal government agencies, said a strong team had been developed to strengthen the training potential of the agencies toward improving their mandate delivery.

“UNIDO ITPO Nigeria has just finished the training of experts which it will use in its training

tasks ahead,” she said, adding that the team had been able to evolve the needed strategies to address challenges associated with entrepreneurial development in Nigeria.

“As a team, the collaborators have analysed the Nigerian business climate, and we have also imbibed the spirit of enterprise so that we will train entrepreneurs in the interest of ensuring that their businesses thrive despite challenges,” she noted.

“I have no doubt that we will achieve our set goal of making conglomerates of entrepreneurs by strengthening SMEs and placing them on the path of growth,” she added.

The beneficiary agencies are the Nigeria Incentive-based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL), National Office for Technology Acquisition & Promotion (NOTAP) and the Nigerian Investment Promotion Council.

Olumodimu tasked the agen-

cies to maximise the opportunities afforded them by the training, stating that they must leave no stone unturned in applying newly devised strategies to their operations as regards development of entrepreneurs.

The director-general, NIRSAL, Aliyu Abdulhameed, thanked the UNIDO ITPO Nigeria for the platform and assured stakeholders that NIRSAL would sustain the inter-agency collaboration established by ITPO Nigeria for the development of SMEs in the country.

“We are going to work with our partners in NIPC and NOTAP. We will identify realistic projects in the agricultural value chain that have to do with youth and we will apply the training we got here,” he added.

The Coordinator, ARCEIT Programme, UNIDO ITPO, Bahrain, Mr. Afif Barhoumi, said the end of the Train the Trainers was the beginning of a shift from theory to practice.

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Education minister tasks deans of student’s affairs on insecurity in campuses Augustine Okezie Abuja

Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, has charged Deans and Deputy Deans of Students affairs in tertiary institutions across the country to develop proactive approach in handling the emerging trend of insecurity and other vices on varsity campuses.

A press statement which was signed by the Ministry’s director of Press, Mrs. C.P Ihuoma, said Malam Adamu gave the challenge on Tuesday in Abuja during the opening ceremony of a one-day workshop for Deans and Deputy Deans of Students’ Affairs of all federal tertiary institutions in the country.

He said: ‘’Deans of Students’ Affairs are key stakeholders entrusted with the responsibility of addressing challenges facing students in their respective institutions in the face of rising security challenges, students’ restiveness, cultism and other social vices.

“Permit me to throw the challenge to the ivory towers to fash-

ion out water tight solutions to the seeming intractable security challenges facing the country.

With the immense capacity and sagacity of our intellectuals in our institutions, I have no doubt that this is a challenge that will be readily accepted.”

The Minister, represented by the Director, Tertiary Education, Mrs. Fatima Ahmad, called on them to use the knowledge gained during the interactions to engender an environment that would be conducive for students to learn and actualize their dreams of becoming good and responsible citizens.

He further assured the Students’ Affairs officers of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration commitment and determination to support every idea that will make not only the tertiary institutions safe haven for students and workers, but making the whole length and breadth of the nation safe enough for social, economic and, most importantly, educational prosperity.

In her welcome address, Director, Tertiary Education, represented by Deputy Director,

L-R: Chairman of the occasion, Prof. Peter Okebukola; Vice Chancellor of Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), Prof. Luke Anike; and representative of the Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND), Alhaji Salihu Girei, during the launch of TETFUND sponsored higher education textbooks at ESUT in Agbani, Enugu state ...on Tuesday

Institutional Support, Ms Ann Haruna, said that the workshop was aimed at addressing the Students’ affairs Officers on issues of national importance.

She said the theme of the workshop,’ Towards Effective Security & Safety on Our Campuses’, is part of a series of

Oba of Lagos seeks conversion of Yabatech to a university Esther Taiwo The Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, has made a passionate appeal to the Federal Government to speed up the conversion of the nation’s first higher institution, Yaba College of Technology (Yabatech) to a university.

Oba Akiolu made the appeal when the Governing Council of the institution led by the Chairman, Barrister Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), paid him a courtesy call.

He said institutions of Yabatech pedigree, and which had produced graduates who had made significant contributions to national development elsewhere are encouraged to do more.

“Those who picked Fagbemi as chair-

man know that whatever he lays his hands on prospers. He will be working with a productive Rector, who is also a strong woman,” the monarch said.

The Oba commended Fagbemi for the foresight to pay him a courtesy visit, saying as a traditional ruler, he could not distance himself from his subjects.

He described the appointment of Fagbemi, an astute lawyer, and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), as timely, and commended the government for the determination to put things in order.

Earlier, Fagbemi had expressed the determination of the council to turn around the College for good.

He said: “We are here to restore the lost glory of Yabatech and arrest the falling standards of education in Nige-

rian through our efforts at the College.

The Council later met with the members of the College Academic Board where the chairman solicited the members’ support for the new dispensation.

The appeal was also prominent in the interactions the council had with the three labour unions – Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP), Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Polytechnics (SSANIP) and Non-Academic Staff Union.

The chairman was accompanied by the members of the Council: Dr. Victor Igbum, Engr. (Barr.) Jude Eluma, Hon. Isah Auwalu, Lady Dr. Doris Okoroh, Hon. Tumba Nuwa, Hon. Biodun Omoleye, Dr. Margaret Kudirat Ladipo (Rector) and Ms. Biekoroma Amakapabo.

FrieslandCampina to host children on World Milk Day Esther Taiwo

versatility in usage amongst consumers.

Since 2011, FrieslandCampina WAMCO has been leading Nigerians to celebrate the World Milk Day through exciting campaigns, including ‘Drink Milk Every day and Do More with Milk’ to drive milk consumption and

This year, FrieslandCampina WAMCO is celebrating the World Milk Day with the grand finale of an ongoing schools cook-with-milk 2017 Pecadomo Nutrition contest to promote the health benefits of milk and draw attention to the importance of preparing healthy,

nutritious meals.

Commenting on the contest, Marketing Manager of the company, Mrs. Maureen Ifada, in a statement issued in Lagos, said: “To help reduce incidences of malnutrition, we are educating students on good nutrition so they can reach their peak.

security seminars and safety workshops to sensitise management officers in the tertiary institutions in the country about security management with a view to reducing insecurity to the barest minimum in the campuses.

…commends TEENTRUST publishers Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, has commended Media Trust for setting the trend with the publication of Teen Trust, a newspaper that will avail children and youths of opportunities to imbibe thorough reading culture.

This is just as he reassured Nigerians that under the Ministerial Strategic Plan (MSP 2016-2019) of his ministry, every child in the country would be encouraged to be in school and be adequately educated to read and write.

The Minister, who was speaking while receiving the Management team of Media Trust Group who paid him a courtesy visit, further noted that a robust reading culture obtained early in children would give them wealth of knowledge to be better future leaders, and also keep them away from negative influences of the internet and society.

Earlier, the Chief Executive Officer/Editor-in-Chief of Daily Trust, Mallam Mannir Dan-Ali, had appreciated the huge readership the Daily Trust/Teen Trust enjoys from the Federal Ministry of Education.

Mallam Mannir further expressed shock over dwindling interest in reading amongst school children, stating that the concern to change this negative trend prompted the publication of Teen Trust, a newspaper for children/ students.

He stated that about 70 per cent of the contents of Teen Trust is created by children themselves who also use it as a vessel to showcase their talents, discuss and proffer solutions to their worries and problems.

NLC, ASUU renew partnership in agitation for workers’ right Augustine Okezie Abuja

The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have jointly pledged to partner together in the fight against social injustice and the defence of worker’s rights.

The decision was taken a meeting involving the two Presidents, Comrade Ayuba Waba of NLC and Professor Biodun Ogunyemi of ASUU, during a working visit by the former to ASUU National secretariat in Abuja.

Comrade Wabba, who described ASUU as a consistent partner in the struggle for justice and fair play promised to continue partnership with the union to address the challenges facing the education sector.

He said: “We believe so much in solidarity because injury to one is injury to all. We shall join you by carrying out protests to Police headquarters to drive home the demand for police reform and social justice”.

Meanwhile, the two labour unions

have jointly decried police brutality against their members and have declared their plan to picket the Headquarters office of the Nigeria Police Force, Maitama Abuja, over what they called’’ incessant harassment of union members and wanton police brutality’’.

The ASUU boss, who also accused the police of colluding with the authorities of University of Illorin to establish a regime of suppression and willful subjugation to forcefully deduct check-off dues from members, said the union will not give up in the struggle to instill justice and fair play in that university.

Prof. Biodun further cited instances of Police violence against members in Ekpoma where a Professor was brutally assaulted, the crises in FUTA Akure were the Nigerian Police Force were seen to have taken sides, and the ongoing UniOsun crises where the Nigerian Police indiscriminately arrested members and branded them cultists and sponsors of cultism even after they had properly identified themselves.

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It’s all knocks as Buhari marks 2 years in the Education sector AUGUSTINE OKEZIE As President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration clocked two years on Monday, May 291, 2017, divergent opinions have emerged concerning its performance in the education sector.

While assessing the government, especially in the tertiary education sub-sector, the National Universities Commission (NUC) rated the administration high, noting that it had impacted positively.

Director of Information and Public Relations, NUC, Malam Ibrahim Usman Yakasai, told newsmen that government had done a lot in the last two years to refocus universities and bring them in tune with 21st century demands.

According to Yakasai, “What government has been trying to do in the last two years is to return the universities to their lost glories and refocus them”.

However, university teachers have a different opinion. National President of Academi Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, gave the Buhari administration a thumps down, especially in the area of funding of education sector.

While corroborating the stand of the ASUU President, the Lagos wing of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) noted that the basic challenge of the education sector had remained inadequate funding.

Deputy Chairman, NUT, Mr. Adedoyin Adesina, told the newsmen in Lagos that the sector was not improving due to underfunding.

Buhari

Adesina said that the country was yet to meet the UNESCO standard of 26 per cent allocation to education and the maximum students per teacher ratio.

“The basic challenge of education is poor funding; the country has not met the UNESCO standard of 26 per cent.

“The best the country has had is 11 per cent which was last year.

“Aside from the funding, the curriculum planners insert subjects in the curriculum without providing specialists for such subjects,’’ he said.

Adesina said that government at all levels had not met the expected standard of education in every aspect, aside from the promises made.

“For instance, the entrepreneurship that was introduced has no specialists in schools to teach the subject.

“You will be told that if you studied agriculture that you can teach animal husbandry, whereas it goes beyond that because in even in the universities, people study animal husbandry,’’ he said.

He noted the lack of conducive learning environment of the schools with teachers teaching about 180 to 240 students per class, saying “it is emotionally destabilizing for both the teachers and students.’’

He, however, urged governments to do more on education, especially those owing teachers their monthly salaries should urgently pay them.

Not a few stakeholders appear united in their opinion that the sector had witnessed much fairy tales in the last two years as far as development, admission and decision making were concerned. While many lamented

Lagos meeting 95% literacy target non-negotiable –Ambode

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, on Tuesday, reassured people of the state that his administration would do everything humanly possible to meet the 95 per cent literacy rate target by 2019.

He made the pledge while kicking-off this year’s sensitisation and mobilisation campaign organised by the state’s Agency for Mass and Adult Literacy at the palace of Adegboruwa of Igbogbo Baiyeku Kingdom, Ikorodu, Oba Semiudeen Kasali.

He even registered some of the new adult learners including the 75-year-old Madam Ayinke Olugbile, a petty trader at the event.

Represented at the occasion by his Special Adviser on Education, Mr. Obafela Bank-Olemoh, the governor put the current literacy level in the state at 87 per cent, saying about the 13 per cent (representing 3 million people) of the state’s population who are still illiterates was unacceptable to his administration as a responsible government.

“That is why government is aggressive by coming up with new ideas and committing huge resources to the project in order to even surpass the deadline,” he added.

Ambode explained that modalities had been put in place to ensure no one across the state has any excuse not to be able to

read and write.

He said about 1,000 facilitators had been trained with 250 learning centres opened across the state only this year to ensure more residents enroll for the programme irrespective of their locations and types of work.

Ambode, however urged the traditional rulers of both Igbogbo and Ibese-Ikorodu kingdoms, Oba Semiudeen Kasali and Oba Richard. Abayomi who were present at the event to mobilise their subjects for the programme, saying it would help them to contribute more to the development of the two communities and the state at large.

that the sector was a total failure in key areas, few posited that the sector recorded improvement in Basic examinations including West Africa Senior Secondary School Examination, WASSCE and National certificate of education ,NECO, etc.

Some of the stakeholders who also spoke exclusively to The Daily Times demanded maximum performance from the Federal and States Ministry of Education. They insist that the sector needs an overhaul in decision making; just as others maintained that the sector needs government to stop paying lip service and implement set goals and objectives.

In the opinion of a final year student of Mass Communication from University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Chidera Eze, “The government is yet to get it right in the education sector, there’s need for a consensus on how things should be done in the sector. Most of the policies and decisions they brought up and took were good but looking at the political system of Nigeria, those policies could not work effectively’’.

Chukwudi Unah, a fourth year student of Law from UNN said: “The education sector generally witnessed poor funding, however, going by students’ performance in WASSCE and NECO 2016, Nigerian secondary schools recorded a better performance in Mathematics and English’’.

He also maintained that the recent assessment procedure into tertiary institutions in Nigeria is a failure.

Winners emerge at Lagos Schools Debate Season 7 Esther Taiwo The United Senior High School, Ikorodu, has emerged the winner of the Senior Secondary School category of the Lagos State Schools Debate Season VII beating Vetland Senior Grammar School, Agege and Epe Senior Grammar School, Epe to the second and third positions respectively.

The Junior School category was won by Abesan Junior High School, Ipaja while Chrisland High School, Ikeja and Meadow Hall College were first and second runners up respectively. The primary schools category produced Akilo Nursery/Primary School, Agege; Ebenezer African Church Primary School, Alimosho and African Primary Church Mission School II as winners in that order.

Speaking at the event held at Adeyemi Bero Auditorium, Alausa, Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, who was represented by his Special Adviser on Community and Communication, Mr. Kehinde Bamgbetan, said there were no losers in the competition given the standards that have been displayed from the preliminary to the final stage.

“I consider you all as winners” he declared.

He commended the teachers whom he said worked tirelessly to prepare the pupils for the competition and reiterated that the State Government will continue to provide conducive environment and other facilities that will enhance teaching and learning process.

Ambode promised the students that the government will give them the support needed in terms of provision of qualitative education so that they can achieve their dreams of becoming whatever they want to become in life.

Earlier, Deputy Governor of the state, Dr. (Mrs.) Idiat Oluranti Adebule, in an address delivered on her behalf by the Tutor General/Permanent Secretary District V, Mrs. Anike Adekanye, recalled that the annual schools debate was organised by the State Government as part of well-structured plans to produce socially stable and self -reliant students who can easily integrate into the larger society.

FG releases 2017 Unity School’s entrance exam result Augustine Okezie, Abuja

The Federal Government has released the result for the just concluded 2017 National Common Entrance Examination (NCEE) into Federal Unity schools.

A statement by the Acting Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Education, Dr. Hussein Adamu, which was made available to newsmen, said the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, gave approval to National Examination Council (NECO) to release the result to the public for access in all the State Ministries of Education nationwide as well as NECO zonal offices.

A total of 80,421 candidates registered for the examination but only 77, 512 candidates

actually sat for the examination.

The general analysis of the result shows that the highest score was 189 out of 200 scored by two candidates - Emeka-Egbuna Chinecherem C. and Onubogu Chinazom Joyce both from Anambra State, while the least score was 4 scored by 8 candidates.

Queens College, Yaba Lagos was one of the colleges with highest subscription of 5524, while the least subscribed college was FGGC, Monguno Borno State with only 21 candidates.

The result can be accessed on-line http:// www.fmeinterview.com or through NECO zonal offices nationwide, to know whether a candidate is shortlisted for placement or not.

Meanwhile, the placement exercise is scheduled to take place in July, 2017.

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3. To establish Local Branches for the propagation of the Gospel worldwide.

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AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST 2. TO RAISE AND SEND MISSIONARIES 3. TO PROMOTE CHRISTIAN LITERATURE 4. TO CATER FOR THE WELFARE OF MEMBERS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SOLICITOR

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PARTNER WITH PEOPLE, GOVERNMENT, OTHER STAKEHOLDERS IN ENSURING A SAFE ENVIRONMENT 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: BAR ERNEST EMEZIE ORJI 85, IDEWU STREET, OLODI APAPA, LAGOS

TRUSTEES (4). MR AKINRINOLA FOLAJIMI JIMMY (5). MRS EKUNDAYO OLUWAYEMISI. A (6). PASTOR ONAGUAMAH VICTOR DIAMOND AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST 2. TO WIN SOULS FOR CHRIST 3. TO DEPOPULATE THE KINGDOM OF DARKNESS IN OUR SOCIETIES 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

Public Notice PRINCE GEORGE IFEANYI NNAJI 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 TRUSTEES ARE: 1. NNAJI IFEANYI GEORGE 2. NNAJI CHINWENDU JULIANA 3. NNAJI JULIANA NKIRU.

- CHAIRMAN - SECRETARY

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO HELP THE LESS PRIVILEGE 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.

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HUMAN ENVIRONMENTAL RELIEF ORGANIZATION FOR AFRICA THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED ORGANIZATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 2004.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: CHUKWUNYERE CHUKWUDI JOSHUA EZEGBU CHIMEZIE PROF. NNEBE SAMUEL EKENE AKOSILE AFOLAMI OLUSOLA ENAIFE CLEMENT

-CHAIRMAN -SECRETARY -MEMBER -MEMBER -MEMBER

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. ASSISTING THE POOR, ESPECIALLY THE WOMEN, IN RAISING THE SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS. 2. TO DEVELOP INNOVATIVE, RESEARCH-BASED ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT THAT WILL LEAD TO WIDELY ACCEPTABLE AND IMPLEMENTABLE PROGRAMS/INITIATIVES. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B. 198, GARKI, ABUJA WITHIN TWENTYEIGHT (28) DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

SIGNED: IKECHUKWU I. NWORAH, ESQ. (SOLICITOR)

SUCCESS LIGHTERS NETWORK INTERNATIONAL

AZUATALAM BETTER-LIFE FOUNDATION

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED ORGANIZATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 2004.

TRUSTEES ARE

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED FOUNDATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 2004.

1. ADEGBOYEGA OLUWASEYI O 2. TAIWO SAMSON OLUREMILEKUN 3. IKUNIKA OLUMIDE JULIUS 4. ASHIMI OLAMILEKAN

TRUSTEES: 1. JASPER IKEDI AZUATALAM - CHAIRMAN 2. STEPHANIE UCHECHI AZUATALAM - SECRETARY 2. GODWIN AZUATALAM - MEMBER

- CHAIRMAN - SECRETARY

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO HELP IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. 2. TO INSPIRE YOUNGER GENERATION IN AREAS OF LEADERSHIP AND ENCOURAGE THEM TO ACQUIRE SKILLS. 3. TO ORGANISE TRAININGS, SEMINARS, CONFERENCES, PUBLIC LECTURES IN EDUCATING YOUTHS AND EMPOWERING THEM. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B. 198, GARKI, ABUJA WITHIN TWENTYEIGHT (28) DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO HELP THE NEEDY AND LESS PRIVILEGED MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY. 2. TO HELP AND SUPPORT ORPHANS, WIDOWS AND VULNERABLE CITIZENS. 3. TO DEVELOP POVERTY REDUCTION PROGRAMS TO IMPROVE STANDARD OF LIVING IN A SUSTAINABLE MANNER. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B. 198, GARKI, ABUJA WITHIN TWENTY-EIGHT (28) DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

CONSERVATION ALLIANCE DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE

CHRIST RANSOM POWER INTERNATIONAL MINISTRY

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

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

TRUSTEES 1. CHIEF ABRAHAM ADESIDA,.

CHAIRMAN, 2. MR. ADEDAMOLA ADESIDA,. SECRETARY, 3. MRS. FUNMILOLA AKINWOLE, .

4. MRS. RITA OGUNGBENLE., 5. MR. SAMUEL ADEDAPO ADESIDA.

TRUSTEES 1.MISALAI AMOS 2.SHAWARA JONATHAN PROSPER 3. BURKI, YOHANNA 4. TAMBAYA ADAMU MADAKI 5. UBAM ADEGO 6. MISALAI DANIEL

AIMS 1. TO BRING TOGETHER PEOPLE AND SKILLS NEEDED TO BUILD AFRICA’S CAPACITY TO CONSERVE BIODIVERSITY.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PROPAGATE THE GOOD NEWS OF JESUS CHRIST AND SHOW THE POWER OF HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS. 2. TO PROVIDE A BASIS OF FELLOWSHIP AMONG CHRISTIANS OF LIKE FAITH , APPROVING ALL SPIRITUAL TEACHING METHOD AND CONDUCT .

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: JACOB U. BLESSINGS 08184740407

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. DR MRS. DORIS ATIBINYE DOTIMI 2. BARR. FUROSIA JULIUS WILCOX 3. DR. MRS. BALAFAMA ABINYE ALEX-HART

- PRESIDENT - SECRETARY - TREASURER

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO MAKE FREE HEALTHCARE SERVICES AVAILABLE AND ACCESSIBLE TO THE INDIGENT AND AGED IN RURAL COMMUNITIES 2. TO PROMOTE HEALTHCARE AND REDUCTION OF MATERNAL AND INFANT MORTALITY RATE 3. TO REDUCE THE INCIDENCE OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES THROUGH HEALTH EDUCATION AND PROVISION OF HIV/ AIDS TESTING AND COUNSELING SERVICES 4. TO DEVELOP AND EMPOWER THE GIRL-CHILD EDUCATION IN RURAL AREAS 5. TO PROVIDE SUPPORT SERVICE CENTERS FOR ACCELERATED DEVELOPMENT IN RURAL AREAS 6. TO PROMOTE PEACE, UNITY AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN THE SOCIETY 7. TO PROVIDE A FORUM TO EXCHANGE IDEAS,SHARE EXPERIENCE, FIND MUTUAL SUPPORT AND GUIDANCE, FOR THE YOUTH AND LESS PRIVILEGED IN THE SOCIETY. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: SECRETARY

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. PASTOR OLALEKAN ADEYEMI 2. PASTOR OLUWATOYIN ADEYEMI THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR_GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIR COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT , OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET , MAITAMA , ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED : OMOTAYO ALADE - FAWOLE ESQ 08033743856

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED : SECRETARY

ST. SIMEON’S VALUES - DRIVEN ORGANIZATION THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE:1. LADY NGOZI F. UMEOJI 2. DR. EMEKA UMEOJI 3. DR. EMMA NWOKOYE AIM AND OBJECTIVE 1. TO CULTIVATE ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP, RELATIONSHIPS AND CULTURE/ENVIRONMENT ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: TRUSTEES

LOSS OF DOCUMENT THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF THE LOSS OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT COPY OF PLOT OF LAND LOCATED AT KUJE AREA COUNCIL TITLE DAWOT NIG ENTERPRISES WITH FILE NO. MISC 12286, OFFER OF TERMS OF GRANT/CONVEYANCE OF APPROVAL ISSUED

BY KUJE AREA COUNCIL WITH SITE PLAN OF THE SAME PROPERTY, MENTIONED ABOVE, DEPARTMENT RECEIPT ISSUED BY KUJE AREA COUNCIL , RIGHT OF OCCUPANCY RENT AND FEES ORIGINAL COPY , REVENUE COLLECTOR RECEIPT, BELONGING TO HAJJA KHADIJA ABDULRAHIMAN . IS MISSING . ALL EFFORTS MADE TO TRACE THE MISSING DOCUMENT HAS PROVED ABORTIVE . IF FOUND PLEASE RETURN TO THE NEAREST POLICE STATION.

WHO CAN BATTLE WITH THE LORD MINISTRY THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED MINISTRY HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 2004.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: PROPHET CHINENYE AUGUSTINE UKACHUKWU COLONEL JOSEPH JASON GONTUL (RTD.) ENGR. NNAMDI MAURICE CHUKWU MRS. ADLINE NGOZI NOSIRI DR. (MRS.) OLUBUNMI USIM-WILSON THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. TO PREACH THE WORD OF GOD TO THE WORLD. 2. TO WIN SOULS FOR CHRIST. 3. TO ORGANIZE CRUSADES, PRAYER SESSIONS, SEMINARS AND OTHER RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES AIMED AT SPREADING AND ADVANCING THE GOOD NEWS OF JESUS CHRIST. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B. 198, GARKI, ABUJA WITHIN TWENTY-EIGHT (28) DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: BENNETT CHUKWU ECLAT CHAMBERS, SUITE SF1, 2ND FLOOR, BUSYMART PLAZA, 44 EBITU UKIWE STREET, JABI, ABUJA. 08033159623.

MANTLE OF SOLUTION FIRE MINISTRY THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED MINISTRY HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 2004.

TRUSTEES: 1 PROPHET EMMANUEL EGWAKHIDE 2. MUMMY CATHERINE EMMANUEL 3. ONEBAMOL CYRIL 4. RAMANU LSAAC 5. RICHARD ALABI 6. SIS CHRISTIANA AKOH 7. ANTHONY UAWULO

- CHAIRMAN - SECRETARY

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST 2. TO EMBARK ON EVANGELISM WITH THE AIM OF WINNING SOULS FOR CHRIST ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B. 198, GARKI, ABUJA WITHIN TWENTY-EIGHT (28) DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: BARR SUNDAY EGWAKHIDE

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

TRUSTEES: 1. PST. KOLAWOLE ABRAHAM OLANREWAJU - PRESIDNT 2. PST. MRS. KOLAWOLE ANTHONIA 3. DUROJAYE ANDREW 4. PST. EDWIN AMIMI 5. ELIDR JOHN OCHIMANA 6. BARR. IFEANYI ONWUZURIKE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. WE EXIST TO RESCUE, RAISE AND RELEASE MEN INTO THEIR DESTINY OF GREATNESS IN CHRIST JESUS. 2. THE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE TOTAL MAN (SPIRIT, SOUL AND BODY).

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL; CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28TH DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED: BARR. IFEANYI ONWUZURIKE

LOSS OF DOCUMENTS THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF THE LOSS OF LAND TITLE DOCUMENTS FROM KUJE AREA COUNCIL , OFFER LETTER, REGULARIZATION OF LAND TITLE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND APPLICATION FOR THE CUSTOMARY RIGHT OF OCCUPANCY LETTER TO THE CHAIRMAN KUJE AREA COUNCIL. IN RESPECT OF PLOT NO. R8A, CADASTRAL ZONE, SITUATED AT PASAH VILLAGE EXTENSION LAYOUT OF KUJE AREA COUNCIL. BELONGING TO FANNY IKHAYERE AMUN. GOT MISSING. ALL EFFORT MADE TO TRACE THE MISSING DOCUMENTS PROVE ABORTIVE. IF FOUND PLEASE RETURN TO THE NEAREST POLICE STATION. ALL AUTHORITIES CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE. NAFISAT ABUBAKAR I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESS AS CELESTINA PAUL NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESS AS NAFISAT ABUBAKAR, ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINED VALID GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE. MARTINS YAHAYA OJONUGWA I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESS AS CALEB OBODO OKECHUKWU NOW WISH TO BE CALLED MARTINS YAHAYA OJONUGWA, MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 21ST MAY 1985, AND NOT 21ST JUNE 1982 , GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE .

MRS. AFIYATU ABUBAKAR LAWAL I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESS AS MS AFIYATU TUKUR, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. AFIYATU ABUBAKAR LAWAL ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE. MRS OGECHI ANASTASIA ONYEKACHI - UKAEGBU I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OGECHI ANASTASIA OSUJI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OGECHI ANASTASIA ONYEKACHI - UKAEGBU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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HOTEL OWNERS & MANAGERS ASSOCIATION OF LAGOS THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIES MATTERS ACT, 1990 THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. CHIEF CHARLES ODUNUKWE 2. MR. TREVOR JOHN WARD 3. CHIEF SAMUEL OLU ALABI 4. MR. MARCELLE RIZKALLAH 5. MR. TIMOTHY JOHN WEBSTER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO ENSURE COOPERATION AMONG MEMBERS IN RELATION TO DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR BUSINESS. 2. TO JOINTLY DEFEND OR TAKE LEGAL STEPS TO PREVENT ALL ACTS INIMICAL TO THE OPERATION OF MEMBERS BUSINESS EITHER ON INDIVIDUAL BASIS OR AS A GROUP. 3. TO PROVIDE A VEHICLE FOR INTERCHANGE OF KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING. 4. DISSEMINATE APPROPRIATE INFORMATION RELATING TO THEIR RESPECTIVE BUSINESS. 5. CO-ORDINATE, PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE INTEREST OF THE HOSPITALITY SECTOR OF THE NATION’S ECONOMY AND IN PARTICULAR THE INTEREST OF ITS MEMBERS. 6. ASSIST THE PROFESSIONALS ENGAGED IN RELATED FIEDS TO MAINTAIN THE INTEGRITY AND COMPETENCE OF THEIR DISCIPLINE ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR- GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGER CRESCENT OFF AGUIYI-IRONSI STREET, PMB 198, MAITAMA, ABUJA, WITHIN 38 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION.

CHRIST DESIRE LIVING CHURCH The general public is hereby notified that the above named Church has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for registration in accordance with the provisions of Part ‘’C’’ of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 1990.

TRUSTEES: SAMUEL JAMES ESOP - CHAIRMAN SAMUEL ASSAM WILSON - SECRETARY AIMS/ OBJECTIVES (1) TO PREACH THE WORD OF GOD. (2) TO WIN SOULS FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD. Any objection to the registration should be addressed to the RegistrarGeneral, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420 Tigris Crescent, Maitama, Abuja, within 28 days of this publication Signed: CHAIRMAN

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

BLACKGOLD SUPPORT FOR YOUTH AND WOMEN FOUNDATION The general public is hereby notified that the above named body has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for registration in accordance with the provisions of Part ‘’C’’ of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Warizeribe Hope Diami - Chairman.

2. Boma Allison.

3. Orumbie Petula.

4. Petesi Oko-Jaja Ivy -. Secretary.

AIMS/OBJECTIVES: 1. To carry out proper assessment of communities in the Niger Delta and development plans to tackle issues peculiar to them.

2. To carry out need assessment of all trainings that will be required to alleviate the suffering of the people.

3. To provide technical support in evaluating the success of all projects to determine the progress of such projects.

4. Support the women and youth in the Niger Delta through skills acquisition, agricultural cultivation of areas affected by gas flaring environmental issues.

5. To eradicate gender inequality by building basic literacy skills in the girl child.

6. To provide health and educational support to communities of the Niger Delta through workshops and development of professional relationship with companies located in region.

Any objection thereto. should be addressed to the Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420 Tigris Crescent, Maitama, Abuja, within 28 days of this publication SIGNED: PETESI OKO-JAJA IVY

LOSS OF DOCUMENTS I, MUHAMMAD SA’AD of No. 22, Anipopu Street, Agege, Lagos do hereby notify the general public of the lost in transit of some of my vital documents.

That I am the lawful owner of the said documents as underlisted below: Ï ^Əƈƌ Əƕ dƅ Ƌ ƆƏƐƈƇƈƅ ƐƆ é M ê ƠƿƢơơƠ Ï dƆƅ Ɨ Əƕ dƅ Ƌ ƆƏƐƈƇƈƅ ƐƆ æz d ç éd1ƿƿơƿƿƾ Ï M & ƆƏƐƈƇƈƅ ƐƆ é ƾƿƠƢƃƤÕ Ï n ƈƒƆƏ ƈƐƕ ƆƏƐƈƇƈƅ ƐƆ æ dƅê dR ç é ƾƠơƠdR ÖƢơƠ Ï M d ƆƏƐƈƇƈƅ ƐƆ é M ê ƠƠơǀǀƣƿƢ Ï RƇƇƆƏ Ƈ ƍƍ ƈ ƐƌƆ Ɛ Ɛ 9ƌƌƈ Ə Ɛƈ dƆƏƒƈƅƆ Ɨ ƐƆƗ ƾƾ Ɨ #ƆƅƆƌƄƆƏè 1989 Ï ƅƅƆƍƐ ƅƆ GƆƐƐƆƏ é 1Ɔ ƣǀ Ï ƋƋ ƍƏ ƌ Ɛƈ GƆƐƐƆƏ ƇƏ ƌ d99 Ɛ d9 Ï M Ɛƈ Ƌ 6Ɔ ƋƐ 9 ƑƏ ƅƆ dƅ ƆƌƆ æM69dç ƏƗ é #ƠƠƿƤ^ Ï ^Ɔ ƅ ƌ 0 Əƌ é ^j ^Ɔ ƈ é ^9M ƠƠƠơƠƠƢƠÕơǀÕƣƾƾê Ï Ɨ Ɛ ƆƏ ƒƈƐ Ƌ Ɨ ƅƑƌƆ Ɛ ê That the said DOCUMENTS got lost in transit on the 19th day of May, 2017 at the Muritala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos around 2pm and all effort made to trace same proved abortive.

Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

2002 TRANSPARENT ELITE FORUM This is to inform the general public that the above named association has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under part ‘C’ of the Companies and Allied matters Act 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Anyama Ernest Ugo (Chairman) 2. Agbawo Damian Chigozie (Secretary) 3. Opete Gilbert Eze 4. Otabiri Anderson Dike 5. Okorie Vitalis Ebere 6. Opara Paul Sibigemk AIMS & OBJECTIVES: 1. To promote the aims and objectives of our members through empowerment, entrepreneurship, Job creation and provision of industrial cities.

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.

WINNING WITH AGRICULTURAL & INNOVATION INITIATIVE The general public is hereby notified that the above named body has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for registration in accordance with the provisions of Part ‘’C’’ of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Juliet Pepson Goneh - Chairman.

2. Lucky Beatrice Ben. 3. Petesi Oko-Jaja Ivy. 4. Najite Ikpea - Secretary.

AIMS/OBJECTIVES: 1. To improve relationship between the government and small/large scale farmers in providing a platform for improved farm yield and food security.

2. To encourage women and youth in agriculture to go beyond cultivating into innovative methods of processing and storage.

3. To train rural women and youth on best agricultural practices using less capital intensive methods.

4. To train young pupils/students on garden and poultry projects as a means of getting the younger generation to face agriculture at subsistence level.

5. To carry out extensive work and provide organizational support and education to rural /urban farmers associations.

6. To develop empowerment and mentorship programs to enable self-empowerment.

Any objection thereto. should be addressed to the Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420 Tigris Crescent, Maitama, Abuja, within 28 days of this publication

ELISHAMA ELIADA ELIPHELET FOUNDATION

SIGNED BY: CAJETAN AMASIKE ESQ.

AIMS/OBJECTIVES: 1. Carry out research on the root causes of youth and community crisis and prefer solutions that work.

2. To provide support and education relief for women and youth in crisis prone areas.

3. To organize health enlightenment campaigns, educational workshops and skills acquisition programs as means of alleviating poverty and self-help.

4. To partner with community based organisations (CBOs) in research and trainings that will foster development in their communities.

5. To reduce maternal/mortality rate by establishment of primary health centers and well equipped traditional birth places.

Any objection to the registration should be addressed to the Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420 Tigris Crescent, Maitama, Abuja, within 28 days of this publication SIGNED: HOPE DIAMI WARIZERIBE.

CHRIST GLORIOUS HOPE ASSEMBLY INT’L ONYOBRU JESSE THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR THE REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 TRUSTEES: 1.

REV. DR. JOHN EMAJEMITE PRESIDENT 2.

MR. AUSTINE ERIMISOSE SECRETARY 3.

MRS. JOSEPHINE EFETURI TREASURER 4.

BRO. JOSHUA EROBA PRO 5.

EVANG. MRS. DEBORAH EMAJEMITE NATIONALWOMEN LEADER/VICE PRESIDENT AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.

TO PREACH THE WORD OF GOD TO ALL NATIONS 2.

TO GIVE OURSELVES TO PRAYER AND MINISTRY OF GOD’S WORD ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET, PMB 198, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28TH DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

JOSH CARES FOUNDATION

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Onyeledo Chibiko Nwachinemere Chukwuma 2. Onyeledo Ijeoma Peace Kelechi 3. Nwadike Ifenna Fredrick

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1 AMADI JOSHUA JOHN - Chairman 2 JOHN JUDE CHIMEZIE - Treasurer 3 AMADI SHEDRACK ANTHONY - Secretary.

(Chairman) (Secretary)

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. To reachout to youths directly through trainings and retreats 2. To reach them indirectly through social services and community development projects like schools, hospitals, boreholes etc.

3. To curb cultism by redirecting their minds and capacities to more productive engagements like sports.

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 OBJECTIVES: 1 To reach out to the widows and youngladies with unwanted pregnancies 2 To reach out to children who need shelters, clothings, feeding and Education 3 To take cares of other less advantaged and under privileged persons.

Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the RegistrarGeneral Corporte Affairs Commission plot 420 Tigris Crescent off Aguiyi lronsi Street Maitama Abuja within 28 Days from from the date of this publication

Signed: AGOZIE EZENYIRIOHA Esq

PREACH TO REMAIN IN THE WORD This is to inform the general public that the above named Ministry has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part ‘C’ of the Companies and Allied Matters Act of 1990.

The Trustees are: 1. Pastor Mrs. Beatrice Oluranti Falode 2. Pastor Ibrahim Adesoji 3. Pastor Olusegun Samuel Ariyo The Aims and Objectives: 1. To propagate the Christian faith and to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ as revealed through the Holy Scriptures 2. To provide for preaching, teaching and fostering the growth of the Christian religion in all places 3. To carry on the work of evangelism and to promote missionary work in every nation 4. To carry on the organization of churches and to foster their development and local sovereignty and independence 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.

HOLYHILL GOSPEL CENTRE

Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General, Corporate Affairs Commission,Plot 420,Tigris Cresent, off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama , PMB 198 ,Garki,Abuja within 28 days from the date of this Publication.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Najite Ikpea - Chairman.

2. James Etein.

3. Mercy A. Koko.

4. Hope Diami Warizeribe - Secretary.

The general public is hereby informed that the above named has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission Abuja for registration under part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990

UNITED CHRISTIAN GATHERING SALVATION MINISTRY

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. To preach the word of God to the world.

2. To win souls for Christ through evangelism.

3. To organize seminars, symposia, conferences, workshops and faith clinics to enhance the spiritual growth of the people in the Lord.

4.

To deliver the oppressed, heal the sick and set the captives free through the words of God. 5. To engage in charitable and evangelistic work both locally and internationally.

The general public is hereby notified that the above named body has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for registration in accordance with the provisions of Part ‘’C’’ of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 1990.

The general public is hereby informed that the above named Foundation has applied to the corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990

Signed: Chairman

THE TRUSTEES 1. REV. APOSTLE DANIEL EKENE OGBO ----- GENERAL OVERSEER 2. JOY CHINAZO OGBO -------- ASSISTANT GENERAL OVERSEER 3. UME CHUKWUEMEKA NATHAN -------- SECRETARY

DEEP INSIGHT FOUNDATION

SIGNED: NAJITE IKPEA.

Signed Mrs. Tayo Daodu Legal Practitioner Plot 14, Adelaja Street, Mokola, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria

This is to notify the General Public 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,1990.

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. APOSTLE ERICONDA AMADI - PRESIDENT 2. PASTOR (MRS) VIVIAN NWAWUOLOR AMADI - SECRETARY 3. MR. BEN ANIEDI ENEMIYIN - MEMBER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST 2. TO PREACH THE LOVE OF GOD TO 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, Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

SIGNED: PRESIDENT

SIGNED: AMADI JOSHUA JOHN.

SUNSHINE SOCIAL CLUB, LAGOS

This is to inform the General Public that the above named CLUB has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under Part C of the Companies and Allied matters Act , 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE:(1) MR ADEMESO JAMES OLUFEMI (2) MR MONILARI JOSEPH OLUSOLA (3) MR ADETAN BABATUNDE (4) DR AYADI FOLORUNSO SUNDAY ( 5) MR ADEDEJI ADEMOLA. THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE:( 1)TO PROMOTE PEACE, UNITY AND LOVE AMONG MEMBERS (2) TO CATER FOR MEMBERS WELFARE (3) TO GIVE MORAL, FINANCIAL AND LEGAL SUPPORT TO MEMBERS WHENEVER THE NEED ARISES (4) TO ENCOURAGE MEMBERSHIP EMPOWERMENT (5) TO ENCOURAGE DEVELOPMENTAL ACTIVITIES WITHIN MEMBERS IN OUR VARIOUS TOWN. Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama Abuja within 28 days from the date of this publication.

SIGNED BY : TRUSTEES

LAST DAY RESURRECTION AND GLORY MINISTRY (FORMERLY “CHRIST’S NEW LIFE AND GLORY MINISTRY”.)

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. John Femi Ozenua.

2. Marie Kemi Ozenua.

3. Kemi Ozenua-Christ.

AIM AND Objectives: 1. To preach the Gospel of Christ Jesus through the Power of the Holy Spirit.

2. To Minister to the needs of the less privileged, the widows and the motherless.

3. To project the love of Christ among the believers through sharing and true fellowship.

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: Bar. Samuel Iroye

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MRS FOLASHADE BALIKIS OLABODE

OLUWOLE GRACE TOLUWAJUWON

LYNN IFEOMA IHEBUNACHI OKORO

I, formerly known and addressed as Miss Folashade Balikis Akinola, now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs Folashade Balikis Olabode. All former documents remain valid.

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I, Formerly known and addressed as Asojo Grace Toluwajuwon, now wish to be known and addressed as Oluwole Grace Toluwajuwon. All former documents remain valid.

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I, formerly known and addressed as Lynn Ifeoma Ihebunachi now wish to be known and addressed as Lynn Ifeoma Ihebunachi Okoro. All former documents remain valid.

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LAWAL ANOTA TAIWO

NBOGWU PAUL BATHOLOMEW

PETER JOSEPH

Formerly known and addressed as ANOTA TAIWO ADENUGA, now wish to be known and addressed as LAWAL ANOTA TAIWO. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as BATHOLOMEW PAUL YOUNG, now wish to be known and addressed as NBOGWU PAUL BATHOLOMEW. All former documents remain valid.

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ADUARA EDITH EFE

MRS OLUWATIMILEHIN GBOLAHAN DAWODU.

I, Formerly known and addressed as ADUARA EDITH OCHUKO, now wish to be known and addressed as ADUARA EDITH EFE. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as MISS OLUWATIMILEHIN GBOLAHAN FINNIH, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS OLUWATIMILEHIN GBOLAHAN DAWODU. All former documents remain valid.

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ADELEKE OLUWAKEMI SEYI

OKOLIE JEREMIAH UCHENNA

AYENI AJOYO

Formerly known and addressed as SUNMOLA OLUWAKEMI SEYI, now wish to be known and addressed as ADELEKE OLUWAKEMI SEYI. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as OKOLIE JERRY UCHE, now wish to be known and addressed as OKOLIE JEREMIAH UCHENNA. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as JAMES AJOYO, now wish to be known and addressed as AYENI AJOYO. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

INYANG SUNDAY MATTHEW

SULAIMON FATIMO GBEMISOLA

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

OBASOLA TUNRAYO. ASAKE

ANI AMAKA. FAVOUR

This is to confirm and certify that MOSHOOD ABDULRAHOM DEMOLA is same person as MOSHOOD RAHMAN DEMOLA and MOSHOOD ABDULRAHMON ADEMOLA. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as CHARLES SUNDAY MATTHEW, now wish to be known and addressed as INYANG SUNDAY MATTHEW. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as FATIMO KAZEEM, now wish to be known and addressed as SULAIMON FATIMO GBEMISOLA. All former documents remain valid.

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This is to confirm and certify that MUOKWE ADAMAKA IFEOMA is same person as OBI SHARON IFEOMA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I formerly known and addressed as MISS IROMINI MOTUNRAYO. ASAKE now wish to be known and addressed as OBASOLA TUNRAYO. ASAKE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

ONYENSO. IFEOMA. CYNTHIA

OBIORAH OBIGWE

AKEJU ENIOLA DAN OLABISI

AINA SAMSON ADESOLA

MRS BAMIGBOYE KEHINDE FOLAKE

BILIKISU OMOLOLA WILLIAMS

I formerly known called and addressed as MARTINS IFEOMA. CYNTHIA now wish to be known called and addressed as ONYENSO. IFEOMA. CYNTHIA.. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as OBIGWE JOSEPH OBIORA, now wish to be known and addressed as OBIORAH OBIGWE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as ABIMBOLA E. AKEJU, now wish to be known and addressed as AKEJU ENIOLA DAN OLABISI. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known addressed as AINA MICHAEL ADEOYE, now wish to known and addressed as AINA SAMSON ADESOLA. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as Miss Imam Kehinde Folake, now wish to Mrs Bamigboye Kehinde Folake. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly know and addressed as BILIKISU OMOLOLA MUSTAPHA, now wish to be known and addressed as BILIKISU OMOLOLA WILLIAMS. All former documents remain valid. Genral public take note.

MR.OKONKWO IKECHUKWU GEOFFREY

OSHIAME JOSEPHINE REKHIA

ADDITION OF SURNAME

MRS. OLUKOYA MODUPE ABIGEAL

AKINPELU BOLANLE OLAYEMI

YUSUFF ABIOLA OLAYINKA

Formerly known and addressed as ONUAGBALA IKECHUKWU GEOFFREY, now wish to be known and addressed as MR.OKONKWO IKECHUKWU GEOFFREY. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as Oshiame Josephine, now wish to be known and addressed as Oshiame Josephine Rekhia. All former documents remain valid.

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I, AZUBUIKE ALEXANDER, wish to add OKONKWO being my surname to my others names. Henceforth, my names are OKONKWO AZUBUIKE ALEXANDER. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as MRS. OLUKOYA MODUPE GBEMISOLA, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. OLUKOYA MODUPE ABIGEAL. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as AFELUMO OMOBOLANLE OLAYEMI, now wish to be known and addressed as AKINPELU BOLANLE OLAYEMI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as BABATUNDE ABIOLA OLAYINKA, now wish to be known and addressed as YUSUFF ABIOLA OLAYINKA. All former documents remain valid.

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BADMUS OPEYEMI

ABOLADE OLUWATOYOSI ODUNAYO

MERCY MUSILIAT BENJAMIN

MRS. IGBOERUCHE BEATRICE AKUDO

ODIACHI ONYEKA MARIA

NJABA JESSICA CHIDINMA

Formerly known and addressed as TAJUDEEN OPEYEMI ABDULRAMON, now wish to be known and addressed as BADMUS OPEYEMI. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as COKER OLUWATOYOSI ODUNAYO, now wish to be known and addressed as ABOLADE OLUWATOYOSI ODUNAYO. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as MUSILIAT DAJU ALHASSAN, now wish to be known and addressed as MERCY MUSILIAT BENJAMIN. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as MISS. CHIKWEM BEATRICE AKUDO, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. IGBOERUCHE BEATRICE AKUDO. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as OKOLO ONYEKA MARIA, now wish to be known and addressed as ODIACHI ONYEKA MARIA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as NWADIKE JESSICA CHIDINMA, now wish to be known and addressed as NJABA JESSICA CHIDINMA. All former documents remain valid.

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NDUKA ASSUMPTA ONYINYE

CORRECTION OF NAME AND DATE OF BIRTH

JOHN ORGWU MERCY

RHODA JOHN OKAOPO

OGUNTADE WAHEED ADISA

NURUDEEN SUBERU

Formerly known and addressed as PETER JOSHUA, now wish to be known and addressed as PETER JOSEPH. All former documents remain valid.

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NWACHUKWU IFEANYI COLUMBA

I, formerly known and addressed as NWACHUKWU IFEANYI now wish to be known and addressed as NWACHUKWU IFEANYI COLUMBA. All former documents remain valid.

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I formerly known and addressed as ANI AMAKA. CYNTHIA now wish to be known called and addressed as ANI AMAKA. FAVOUR .All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as OLUOMA ASSUMPTA ONYINYE, now wish to be known and addressed as NDUKA ASSUMPTA ONYINYE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

This is to inform the general public that my name and date of birth was wrongly written on as ABOLUWADE EBENEZER OLUWATOSIN and 7th of October, 1996 instead of ABORISHADE EBENEZER OLUWATOSIN and 7th of October, 1997.

That my correct name date of birth is ABORISHADE EBENEZER OLUWATOSIN and 7th of October, 1997. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MERCY JANET JOHN, now wish to be known and addressed as JOHN ORGWU MERCY. That I was born on the 9th day of September, 1983. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as JOHN RHODA OKAOPO BLESSING, now wish to be known and addressed as RHODA JOHN OKAOPO which was inside my BVN. That I was born on the 19th day of October, 1989. All former documents remain valid.

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I, formerly known and addressed as OGUNTADE WAHEED HAMEED, now wish to be known and addressed as OGUNTADE WAHEED ADISA. That my correct date of birth is 7th day of March, 1979. All former documents remain valid.

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I, formerly known and addressed as NURUDEEN ABDULLAHI ABUBAKAR, now wish to be known and addressed as NURUDEEN SUBERU. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

BISIRIYU WOLE ALIU

MRS. ADESAN KEHINDE TITILAYO

CONFIRMATION OF NAMES

CORRECTION OF NAME

ADDITION OF NAME

I, formerly known and addressed as BISIRIYU ALLIU GBENGA, now wish to be known and addressed as BISIRIYU WOLE ALIU. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

MRS. OYETIMEHIN ADEBUKUNOLA MAYOWA Formerly known and addressed as MISS KUYORO ADEBUKUNOLA MAYOWA, now wish to be known, called and addressed as MRS. OYETIMEHIN ADEBUKUNOLA MAYOWA. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as LAWAL KEHINDE TITILAYO, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. ADESAN KEHINDE TITILAYO. All former documents remain valid.

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That on some of my documents, my name appears as ITA HENRY; while on others, it appears as OBOHO ITA HENRY. That my surname is OBOHO. That I am the same person bearing ITA HENRY and OBOHO ITA HENRY. All the documents bearing both names are mine and remain valid.

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That my name was mistakenly written as MUKTAR MUHAMMAD MUKTAR on my BVN Form instead of my correct name being MUKTAR IMAM SANNI. That my correct name is MUKTAR IMAM SANNI. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as IMOH DANIEL, that I want to add ‘ANAMETI ‘to my existing name.

That l now wish to be known and addressed as IMOH DANIEL ANAMETI. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

CORRECTION OF NAME

JOSHUA OMOTAYO

BALOGUN MARY OPEYEMI.

BELONWU EBERE

OFRE JANET ENE

OYOLOLA SHARON JAMILA

That my name was wrongly written and registered as IBRAHIM AKEINA YUSSUF in my bank account. That it was also wrongly written and registered as IBRAHIM OLUWASEUN YUSUF in my BVN. That my correct name is YUSUFF IBRAHIM. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as ISHEYEMI ESTHER, now wish to be known and addressed as JOSHUA OMOTAYO. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as Balogun Abike Marian, now wish to be known and addressed as: Balogun Mary Opeyemi. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

Formerly known and addressed as Dimumeonye Ebere Tina, now wish to be known, called and addressed as : Belonwu Ebere. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as EGBE JANET, now wish to be known and addressed as OFRE JANET ENE. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as ABDULLAHI SHARON JAMILA, now wish to be known and addressed as OYOLOLA SHARON JAMILA. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

FLORENCE DORKAT KOPMANG

NWACHUKWU BENJAMIN CHUKWUEMEKA

ATHKEA NOSA IGHARO

LAOYE SALAMOT YETUNDE

NWACHUKWU STELLA NKECH

MRS. OLADEJO OLAJUMOKE TOSIN

I formerly known and addressed as Florence Dorkat Stephen, now wish to be known and addressed as Florence Dorkat Kopmang. All former documents remain valid.

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I formerly known and addressed as ONOH BENJAMIN CHUKWUEMEKA, now wish to be known and addressed as NWACHUKWU BENJAMIN CHUKWUEMEKA. All former documents remain valid.

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I formerly known and addressed as NOSAKHARE EZEKIEL JAMES, now wish to be known and addressed as ATHKEA NOSA IGHARO. All former documents remain valid.

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I formerly known and addressed as LAWAL SALAMOT YETUNDE, now wish to be known and addressed as LAOYE SALAMOT YETUNDE. All former documents remain valid.

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I formerly known and addressed as AGU STELLA NKECHI, now wish to be known and addressed as NWACHUKWU STELLA NKECHI. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as Miss Fagbe Olajumoke Tosin, now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs. Oladejo Olajumoke Tosin. All former documents remain valid. General public and authorities concerned please take note.

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VIVIAN IFEOMA ODI-OWEI

MRS. BOMA BEKINWARI ENEMERI.

KADEJI OGHENERUEHMU ANOINTING

MRS. CATHERINE EKENERONO MORDECAI

INYANG PATIENCE IME

MRS. IFEYINWA MUAREEN ORUKWOWU

I, formerly known and addressed as, VIVIAN IFEOMA OKONJI, now wish to be known and addressed as, VIVIAN IFEOMA ODI-OWEI. All former documents remain valid.

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I, formerly known and addressed as, MISS. BOMA BEKINWARI COTTERELL, now wish to be known and addressed as, MRS. BOMA BEKINWARI ENEMERI. All former documents remain valid.

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I, formerly known and addressed as, KADEJI STAINLESS ANOINTING, now wish to be known and addressed as, KADEJI OGHENERUEHMU ANOINTING. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as, MISS. ISOM NGOR, now wish to be known and addressed as, MRS. CATHERINE EKENERONO MORDECAI. All former documents remain valid.

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I, formerly known and addressed as, PETER INYANG PATIENCE IME, now wish to be known and addressed as, INYANG PATIENCE IME. All former documents remain valid.

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I, formerly known and addressed as, MISS. IFEYINWA MUAREEN NNUBIA, now wish to be known and addressed as, MRS. IFEYINWA MUAREEN ORUKWOWU. All former documents remain valid.

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ODOGWU OBIAGELI VALENTINA

BUKOLA KEHINDE SAMUEL

MRS OLADELE GBEMISOLA ABIMBOLA

ONITIJU KAFAYAT ADEROJU

CHANGE OF NAME AND CORRETION OF DATE OF BIRTH. I formerly known and address as Hycent Esther Chiamaka ,Born on 5th April 1989 , now wish to be known and address as Hyacinth Esther Chiamaka, Born on 5th April 1996. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

IFOGHALE UYOYO MERCY

I formerly known and address as OKAFOR OBIAGELI VALENTINA, now wish to be known and address as ODOGWU OBIAGELI VALENTINA. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note

I formerly known and address as Bukola Toluwanimi Samuel , now wish to be known and address as Bukola Kehinde Samuel. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

I formerly known and address as Miss Adedara Gbemisola Abimbola , now wish to be known and address as Mrs Oladele Gbemisola Abimbola.

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MRS. TELLA ADETOUN ABOLORE

SAMUEL OLASIWAJU ASIMIYU.

FOLUKE DORCAS OLAIWON

I, Formerly known and addressed as JELILI OGUNLABI now wish to be known and addressed as SAMUEL OLASIWAJU ASIMIYU.All documents remain valid.

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Formerly FOLUKE DORCAS OLADIPUPO Now FOLUKE DORCAS OLAIWON. Former documents remains valid.

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BANWO TEMITOPE KUDIRAT

BARR. (MRS.) AKPAUMONTIA NDIDIAMAKA HELEN.

OYENIRAN TEMITOPE

IGUMAH MONDAY IREWANBHOR

CORRECTION OF NAME

I Formerly known and address as, Rafiat Atinuke Hassan.

Now wish to be known and address as, Atinuke Ann Onwuma-George, All former documents remains valid, the general public should please take note.

I, Formerly known and addressed as ADEBANJO TEMITOPE KUDIRAT now wish to be known and addressed as BANWO TEMITOPE KUDIRAT. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as BARR. (MRS.) AKPAMONTIA NDIDIAMAKA HELEN wishes to include the letter ‘U’ in my surname. I therefore wish to be known and addressed as BARR. (MRS.) AKPAUMONTIA NDIDIAMAKA HELEN. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as, OYENIRAN IDOWU TEMITOPE, now wish to be known and addressed as, OYENIRAN TEMITOPE. All former documents remain valid.

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I formerly known as OKOROMI MONDAY wish to be known and addressed as IGUMAH MONDAY IREWANBHOR .All former documents remain valid, General public please take note

I whose name was Formerly/wrongly referred to as kayode Ayodeji Mayowa That whereas the correct name is Kayode Ayodeji Oluwasesan Now wish to be known, called, addressed and referred to as Kayode Ayodeji Oluwasesan All documents and certificates bearing both names remain valid. Banks, Immigrations, Relevant Authorities and the General public Should Please take note.

MRS MULTA NSIKAK BASSEY

HART VICTOR IKECHUKWU OKEKE

CORRECTION OF NAME

DISU RILWAN OLUSOLA

AFINI CHRISTIANA MONISOLA

CORRECTION OF NAME

I Formerly known and addressed as Miss JIMBO NSIKAK BASSEY now wish to be known, called and addressed as MRS MULTA NSIKAK BASSEY All documents and certificates bearing my former names remain valid Banks, Immigrations, Relevant Authorities and the General public Please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as OKEKE IKECHUKWU VICTOR now wish to be known and addressed as HART VICTOR IKECHUKWU OKEKE. All former documents remain valid. Banks and general public please take note.

This is to inform the general public that my name NWABUNWANNA JANE UCHENNA was wrongly written during BVN registration but now wish to be corrected and addressed as NWABUNWANNE JANE UCHENNA. All former documents remain valid. Banks and General public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as DISU MUSTAPHA OLABODE, now wish to be known and addressed as DISU RILWAN OLUSOLA. All former documents remain valid.

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I, formerly known and addressed as AFINI CHRISTIANA ADEKANYE, now wish to be known and addressed as AFINI CHRISTIANA MONISOLA, henceforth. All former documents remain valid.

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My name was mistakenly written as OKOROCHI AMAKA CATHERINE instead of OKORO CHIAMAKA CATHERINE, now my correct name is OKORO CHIAMAKA CATHERINE. All former documents remain valid.

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MRS. RUFAI OLUBUNMI ELIZABETH

JAIYESIMI KAFILAT ABENI

IKONAGBON PATIENCE IMADE

IZUATA FIDELIA ADAEZE

MRS. JIMOH ESTHER WASILAT

IDOWU LEKAN ADEKUNLE

I, formerly known and addressed as EHONRE PATIENCE IMADE, now wish to be known and addressed as IKONAGBON PATIENCE IMADE, due to marriage. All former documents remain valid.

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I, formerly known and addressed as ODUAH FIDELIA ADAEZE, now wish to be known and addressed as IZUATA FIDELIA ADAEZE. All former documents remain valid.

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I, formerly known and addressed as MISS OGUNSHEPIE ESTHER WASILAT, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. JIMOH ESTHER WASILAT. All former documents remain valid.

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AMUZAT AHMED OLORUNGBEBE

NWANDU UDOKA FELLYX.AL

I formerly known and addressed as AMUSAT HAMEED OLORUNGBEBE now wish to be known and addressed as AMUZAT AHMED OLORUNGBEBE. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

Formerly Miss. Akinde Taibat Aina now Mrs. Tella Adetoun Abolore. Former documents remains valid.

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ATINUKE ANN ONWUMA-GEORGE

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS AJAYI ABOSEDE ELIZABETH, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. RUFAI OLUBUNMI ELIZABETH. All former documents remain valid.

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CHANGE OF NAME/DECLARATION OF AGE I, Formerly Ekene Emmanuel Now wish to be known, called and addressed as OSAJI EKENE ONYEKA and declare that I was born on 18th day of October, 1993 but lost my birth certificate in transit. Former documents remain valid. Banks and general public take note.

ETI~OSA BUTCHERS PROGRESSIVESASSOCIATION (EOBPA)

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CORRECTION OF NAME AND DATE OF BIRTH: My name was mistakenly written as AJALA EMMANUEL GBEMINIYI instead of AJALA EMMANUEL OLUWAGBEMINIYI, now my correct name is AJALA EMMANUEL OLUWAGBEMINIYI. My correct Date of Birth is 04/04/1996. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

OKAGBUE MICHAEL

OJIELEDE BLESSING

OKEREKE LOUISA UDOCHUKWU

NWACHINEMERE OTUOGBODOR

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OKOEGUALE EBHODARHE INNOCENT

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My name was wrongly registered on my Bank Registration details as RUFUS AJANI RAUFU, instead of RUFUS RAUFU. That my correct and well arranged name is RUFUS RAUFU. All former documents remain valid general public take note.

MRS. STEPHANIE ENO NELSON MOORE

That I am the same person bearing NWAFOR KINGSLEY ONYEMAOBI, NWAFOR KINGSLEY AUSTINE and NWAFOR AUGUSTINE KINGSLEY. The I wish to be called and addressed as NWAFOR KINGSLEY ONYEMAOBI and my correct date of birth is 7th July 1992. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

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ABIODUN TUNDE JOHN-OLABODE

OMOLE MORADEKE ROSELINE

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BAKARE OLALEKAN OLASUNKANMI

SAMSON MARGRET NDIFREKE

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ADEKOGBE OYINLOLA BRIAN

OBIESIE BLESSING CHIDIMMA

MRS. ONWUMERE PEACE YOBACHI

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JAMA’AT DARUS-SALAM OYO STATE OF NIGERIA This is to inform the general public that the above named organisation has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) Abuja for registration under Part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 1990.

Trustees: 1. Muhammad Mustapha Akindele 2. Folarin Oladipupo Kazeem Aims and Objectives: 1. To propagate Islam by educating and enlightening the Ummah regularly on Islamic values and etiquettes.

2. To build mosques, hospitals, educational and training institutions e.t.c as a means of educating and training of Muslims.

3. To establish welfare packages which include trust funds in order to assist the less privileged in the Jama’at.

4. To create a conducive atmosphere for the unity of members no matter their race, status and colour 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. P.M.B. 198, Garki, Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

Signed: The Trustee

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PUBLIC NOTICE

This is to inform the general public that Messrs TAIWO OLUDAYO of AEROPORT TRAVELS & TOURS LTD SITUATED AT NO 18,AWONIYI ELEMO STREET, AIRPORT ROAD, AJAO ESTATE, LAGOS which intends to provide AVIATION TRAINING has applied to the Nigerian civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) as an AIRTRANSPORT TRAINING INSTITUTION. Any objection or representation regarding the registration should be forwarded to the directorate General, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority Aviation House, P.M.B 21029, 21038, Ikeja, Lagos. Such objection or representation, which should contain the reason(s) for so doing, should be made within 28 days of this publication.

Signed: Management

1. Formerly known and addressed as DANIEL ONYENEMEZU, now wish to be known and addressed as DURUEKE SABASTIN CHIDERA. All former documents remain valid.

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OKON SAMUEL WILFRED

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MRS. OKOROAFOR OLUCHI FELICIA

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EXTRACT LOSS OF DOCUMENTS SURVEY PLAN. Letter of allocation, application letter for the property and other relevant documents at PLOT 226A Animashun Estate Surulere Local Government Area Lagos.

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That I MOHAMMED USMAN my name was wrongly written as FATIMO USMAN wish to be known and addressed as MOHAMMED USMAN. All Documents /Credentials bearing these names remain valid, general public please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as AYINDE HALIMAT OMOWUNMI, now wish to be known and addressed as ADEKOYA HANNAH OLAMIDE. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. David Olaoluwa Folalu - Chairman 2. Babatope Idowu Ogundipe 3. Paul Folorunso Akintan 4. Olugbenga Olaleye Alase 5. Emmanuel Oluwaseun Oguntade - Secretary 6. Bimbo Solomon Fagboun 7. Abayomi Abel Iwole 8. Adebayo Akinola 9. Olatunji Oluwasegun Sunmonu 10. Akeem Olasunkanmi Aredokun AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. To foster unity amongst members.

2. To assist the less privileged in the society.

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: Chairman

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EBOLA SCARE: Is Nigeria prepared for another onslaught?

Ladesope Ladelokun For some Nigerians, “Patrick Sawyer” is one name they cannot forget in a hurry. Not because the unfortunate bearer of the name invented anything in science or medicine or any philanthropic work that liberated Nigerians from the dark cell of poverty can be traced to him. Far from it. It’s a name synonymous with Ebola virus disease in Nigeria ever since the Liberian-American health worker imported the disease to Nigeria.

Apart from this, the disease, had since left in its wake, sorrows, pains, trauma and deaths. Remember Dr. Ameyo Adadevoh, a medical practitioner, who died of the dreaded disease, having contacted it from the same carrier?

Now, any talk of Ebola in the country not only scares people, but it also creates panic, with body veins reacting simultaneously to its potential dangers!

Indeed, the disease, like the equally dreaded HIV/AIDS pandemic disease, had since left several people dead across West Africa, particularly in Sierra Leone, Senegal and Guinea, while some other African countries, like DR Congo, had also had a bitter taste of it.

Ebola Virus Diseases (EVD) or Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a very deadly illness caused by one of the strains of the Ebola Virus. The viral agent is known as, a prototype pathogen of viral hemorrhagic fever.

Discovered first in 1976 in Yambuku and surrounding area near Ebola River in Zaire, now Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria had its first case in 2014, after Patrick Sawyer’s visit, leaving Sawyer and the doctor that treated him-Ameyo Adadevoh- dead after being infected by the deadly disease.

But, observers say concerns are rife over the fresh outbreak of Ebola disease in Congo DR. According to World Health Organization (WHO) spokesperson for Congo DR,Eric Kabambi, ‘‘ Since April 22,2017, nine suspected cases, including three deaths have been reported.”

However, following the fresh reported cases of Ebola Virus Disease in Congo DR, some stakeholders in the health sector and concerned Nigerians have expressed mixed feelings over what may be a recurrence of the 2014 episode.

For a business man, Ibrahim Saliu,

Face to face with Ebola again

there is nothing to fear if government is proactive. “When Ebola struck in 2014, we had scanners, sanitizers, etc. everywhere, but the moment we were declared Ebolafree by WHO, we went back to sleep. We like fire brigade approach to issues of national interest,’’ he said.

Bisi Ayeyemi, a teacher, says the state of our porous borders is something to worry about. Her words: “Nigeria has over 1500 entry points, I’m really worried about how we can prevent carriers of this disease from coming to our country.

Airport can be controlled, what about our land borders? I’m not so sure. What preventive measures have been put in place?’’

Speaking on efforts of the Federal Airport Authority (FAAN) to keep Ebola virus away from Nigeria, the Acting General Manager of FAAN, Mrs. Henrietta Yakub, says FAAN is working tirelessly to ensure Nigerians are safe. ‘‘FAAN has put measures in place to prevent the spread of Ebola virus in Nigeria. For instance, if we discover that a person’s body temperature is above 38oC, we make sure we do further screening. I must say that there is no outbreak of Ebola in Nigeria; we are only taking preventive measures. The checks are in all inter-

national airports and we have extended it to our local airports, “she said.

Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole, however assures Nigerians that screening has never stopped at the international wing of all the airports in Nigeria, stating that there is no cause for alarm. “There’s no reason to panic, everything is under control, if there is a need to screen local passengers, we would do that but for now, we are concentrating on international travels,’’ he said.

Baring his mind on the matter, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Nigeria Center for Disease and Control (NCDC), Mr. Lawal Bakare, called for calm, saying also that, there is no cause for alarm.

Bakare said: “For the case in Congo, Congo has had several outbreaks of Ebola. I think they’ve had about eight outbreaks. There was a time WHO called them experts in the management of Ebola. So, in that sense, we want to assume that it’s not something to worry about in Nigeria because we believe that the country of source will manage the outbreak properly. That said, we understand that the most probable way of getting the disease into our country will be through our borders.”

He added, “So, if Congo DR is doing the

right thing people that have Ebola won’t leave that country. However, if anybody is going to come from that place, it is going to be through the airport.”

On what the NCDC is doing to make Nigeria safe, Bakare said, “One of the things that is being done is to make sure that the screening that is expected is done and done properly, as part of the preparedness for any eventuality. In addition to that, we have identified the need to communicate effectively with the citizens, especially healthcare workers, because when people hear about Ebola, the next thing that follows it is fear.”

According to him, “We don’t want people to panic because, it is not as bad what they think it is. We are working with FAAN and the Nigeria Immigration Service to ensure that Ebola is not imported to Nigeria. We are working as a unit.”

Meanwhile, the Comptroller General of the Nigeria immigration Service (NIS), Mohammed Babandede, while speaking on a radio programme monitored in Lagos recently, urged Nigerians to cooperate with the relevant authorities and swiftly report suspected cases of Ebola outbreak, stating that the cooperation of Nigerians is needed by the NIS to effectively prevent another outbreak in the country.

News 28 Alleged N47m judgement sum diversion, judiciary defends judge

Titilope Joseph

ÏÏÏThe Lagos state

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I almost slashed workers’ salaries as a governor -Oyinlola Sodiq Adekunle, Osogbo

judiciary has debunked the report in some online media that a judge of the Lagos High court diverted the sum of N47m judgement debt when he was the Chief Registrar.

According to the Assistant Director, Public Affairs, Mrs. Grace Alo, it was established that the facts in published on the alleged diversion are not only false but calculated to tarnish the image of the Judiciary and the Hon. Judge whose name was therein mentioned.

Recalled that Justice Ganiyu Safari was alleged to have diverted the said sum which he reportedly diverted to his private account when he was the Chief Registrar and it became a public news when the party who won the matter was reportedly said to have requested for the payment of the money which the judgement failed to give proper account of.

The statement issued by Mrs Alo reads: “No investigation by the Hon. Chief Judge has shown that any money was diverted from the Chief Registrar’s account into a private account of the Hon. Judge.”

Mrs. Grace Alo also described the news as untrue and a calculated attempt to discredit the Judiciary and the judge.”

No petition was forwarded to the Chief Judge of Lagos state by the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) in respect of the alleged Judgment sum.

“No investigation by the Hon. Chief Judge has shown that any money was diverted from the Chief Registrar’s account into a private account of the Hon. Judge. The allegation that there is a cover up of the case and that a soft-landing has been given to the Hon. Judge to refund the money is both false and unfounded.

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The former governor of Osun state, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, said he had wanted to slash workers salaries or retrench civil servants before he left government.

He said the step was to cushion the effects of the global economic meltdown which started since 2008.

Oyinlola was reacting to claims that the state governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, is maltreating workers in the state which did not happen during his era.

He explained when the state finances had continued to drop, he was ready to downsize or slash salaries before the intervention of the top echelon of

ÏÏÏFollowing the cancel-

lation of the contract for the 4th Mainland Bridge by the Lagos state government, the State House of Assembly has on Tuesday waded in and had set-up a 6 man committee to look into the matter.

The committee is to be chaired by the Deputy Speaker, Hon. Wasiu Sanni Eshinlokun, the members includes; the Majority Leader, Hon. Sanai Agunbiade, Hon. Yinka Ogun-

agreed to before we left office.”

Prince Oyinlola said he did not plunge the state into any debt as mechanisms were in place to offset the N18bn credit facility obtained to finance the 2009 budget as backed by the state house of assembly.

He added, “I did not have it in mind to put Osun in any debt before I left. It was in that time that the state assembly led by Adejare Bello with 15 PDP and 11 APC members argued that we should borrow to finance the capital projects in the budget. Before the court sacked me, I had spent N10bn out of the N18bn, paid N2.4bn out of the loan, and N7.6bn was left. I would have returned the money before my tenure expired in May 2011 but for the judgement.

Anambra Secretariat deserted in compliance with the sit at-home directive issued by the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB) and Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, (MASSOB) in Awka… on Tuesday.

Lagos Assembly wades into cancellation of 4th Mainland Bridge Alade Tasma

the state civil service.

He said, “when we were there, we had N2billion coming from Abuja, we had N500million as our Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), we had N2.5b in total.

N1.6bn was for salary, plus the pensions and the rest, we were using over 70 percent of our revenue to foot the wage bill.

“So, I decided to call a state stakeholders meeting to see if we could slash salaries or retrench workers, and decided that the recommendations from that meeting should be taken to the state house of assembly for ratification.”

He continued: “When the head of the civil service knew about our idea, he pleaded that we should not downsize or slash salaries but give them the opportunity to work towards increasing the state IGR which I

dimu.

Other members of the committee are Hon. Moshood Oshun, Hon. Wahab Jimoh and Hon. Bisi Yusuf.

The committee was mandated to invite the State Attorney General, Commissioner for Waterfront, Commissioner for Finance and the state Chairman of Lagos Global to clarify the termination of the contract and submit a report to the House on Monday, June 5th, 2017.

Hon. Dayo Famakinwa had earlier raised the issue

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the State, get the nation out of recession and ease movement of goods and services.

“When the contract was signed by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, majority of the people of Lagos were happy. But, we read in the newspapers last week that the contract was cancelled and this raised a lot of concerns.

NEMA to promote disaster prevention strategy Myke Uzendu, Abuja

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National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has adopted the implementation of a new strategy which will promote risk reduction and encourage disaster prevention.

This novel idea will re-position NEMA as a proactive disaster management agency, reduce the vulnerability of citizens to disaster management and promote risk reduction activities.

This strategy was disclosed by the Director General of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Engr.

Mustapha Maihaja while addressing the 2017 General Session of the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in Cancun, Mexico at the weekend.

In a statement signed by the Head, Media and Public Relations, Sani Datti, the DG said that NEMA has enjoyed great support from the political leadership in the country which is responsible for the giant strides of NEMA which is geared towards ensuring appropriate actions on reducing risks, disaster preparedness, mitigation and recovery.

He said that the Federal Government has empowered and equipped NEMA “to comprehensively manage disasters in Nigeria, with a fully functional Department of Disaster Risk Reduction” already created in the agency, adding that the Agency has continued to engage and champion Disaster Risk Reduction activities both at National and International level.

The DG pointed out that some of the measures adopted by the government would help to address some of the internal challenges arising from “climatic changes that have negatively affected our socioeconomic activities leading to low productivity, low economic growth, social conflicts, diseases, human migrations, cross border conflicts and rise in crime rate, among others.”

Maihaja further stated that insurgency has remained a major challenges in disaster management, noting that “our nation is currently emerging from the effects of her worst humanitarian challenges, The Boko Haram insurgency, an unwarranted conflict that has brought untold hardship and monumental losses, resulting in high number of displaced persons, some have even been forced to take refuge in neighboring countries. “The Recovery process is daunting and we continue to solicit for support.” “Most recently we have also had to face the challenge of responding to the human losses due to meningitis.”

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Ambode seeks protection for infrastructure ÏÏÏLagos

Some of the beneficiaries of motorcycles donated by the British American Tobacco Nigeria (BATN), during the 2017 BATN Farmers’ Awards in Oyo State… recently. With them are, Director of Operations, BAT, West Africa, Mr. Charles Kyalo; Oniro of Otu, Oba Sunday Oyetunji Adepoju; Legal and External Affairs Director, BAT West Africa, Mr. Freddy Messanvi and Are of Ago-Are, Oba Dr. Abodunrin Kofoworola.

2019: Amosun endorses Ogun West for governorship ÏÏÏ Ogun

state governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has given an inkling of where the gubernatorial political pendulum may swing in Ogun State, come 2019.

Speaking at the inauguration of members of the Consultative Advisory Councils for the 57 Local Government and Local Council Development Authorities in Ogun State yesterday, the governor declared his intention to support and actively campaign for a governorship candidate from the Ogun West Senatorial District as his successor.

Ïz Ə ƈ Ɛ óƈƌƍ ƏƐƆƗô ƅ ƗƈƗ ƐƆ Addressing a large crowd of party faithful, he said in the interest of fairness, equity and justice, he would not support or campaign for any candidate from the Ogun Central Senatorial District that produced him as a two-term governor.

Amosun also said that he would not support any candidate from the Ogun East Senatorial District and also not campaign against them.

He was however quick to warn the people of Ogun West Senatorial District to ensure that

they put their house in order and avoid the temptation to want to impose individuals he described as “imported politicians” as governor in Ogun State.

“This is Ogun State, we know ourselves and we should not allow anybody to impose people we don’t know on us as governor,” he said.

While speaking on the importance of the LG/ LCDA Advisory Council, Amosun said it will further entrench participatory governance at the grassroots level and strengthen the princi-

ple of democracy in the state.

Earlier, in his welcome address, the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Chief Jide Ojuko urged the appointees to be honest and justify their inclusion in governance.

In their separate goodwill messages, royal fathers from the three Senatorial Districts of the state took turns to advise the newly inaugurated Advisory Council members to see their appointments as a call to service.

Kogi govt to partner foreign investors on solid minerals Idris Ahmed Lokoja

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ment has expressed its readiness to partner with foreign investors to harness the enormous natural resources in the state..

The deputy governor, Elder Simon Achuba, dropped the hint when members of the Chattered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, Lokoja paid him a courtesy visit yesterday after a Tax Walk in the state capital.He said the state is blessed with solid minerals to be tapped for the benrfit of the people.

Achuba explained further

that the partnership with foreign investors would benefit the state greatly in terms of proper utilisation of the natural resources adding thzt tax payment should not be compromised The deputy governor urged the institute to expedite action in ensuring that people pay their taxes, saying such compliance would help the state in the area of projects execution.

He said in the past, the issue of tax payment was a problem because of what he described as maladministration, saying that the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) connection

to revenue drive, has beaten all sharp practices in revenue collection.

The deputy governor therefore commended the group, stressing that its effort was in line with what the state government was doing in the area of revenue generation.

He said that. very soon tax evaders in the stat would find it difficult to benefit from government’s contracts saying, with the money generated from tax, government embarks on projects without depending solely on allocation from federation account In her remarks the chairman of the Chattered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria,

Lokoja and District Society, Mrs Esther Owotunse said the aim of the tax walk was to express their support for the activities and programmes of the present administration of the state led by Governor Yahaya Bello.

Commending the state government for utilising the meagre resources available to it appropriately, Owotunse urged tax payers to pay their taxes to enable government to do more for the people.

According to her, the present administration of the state has done well for the people and will continue to touch the lives of the people in the state.

state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, has called on the people of the state to co-operate with his administration in protecting the diverse infrastructure that it has provided in the past two years.

Such infrastructure include lamp-posts on major and inner roads designed to light up the metropolis, roads, water channels, bridges, power transformers and electricity cables, bus shelters, modern road medians made of wire mesh and, amongst others, parks and gardens.

The provision of the infrastructure, Ambode said, was at a very astronomical financial cost – with the utmost intent to give the Lagos metropolis a befitting face-lift as, not only a mega city, but as well as a leading African hub where tourism – in a vastly diversified Lagos economy – would thrive appreciably.

Ambode, who spoke through his Commissioner for Local Government and Community Affairs, Musiliu Folami, at the pre-ramadan lecture, which took place at the

mosque complex, Lagos House, Alausa, Ikeja, said that at no time, in the fifty-year year history of the state, had so much infrastructure been provided.

The provision of the infrastructure, he said, had conferred on Lagos State what he called the “the leader in infrastructural development in Nigeria.”

A source said that, in recent months, some state governments had been sending their representatives to seek advice on how to replicate the Ambode example in the provision of infrastructure, as active players in physical planning and urban renewal.

The Commissioner for Home Affairs, Dr. Abdul Haheem Adbul Lateef, appealed, on the occasion, for peace and religious harmony, in the interest of orderly development of the state, while the Permanent Secretary, Mrs. Toyin Awoseyi nodded that, with earnest prayer, Lagos had been the most peaceful in the country.

She hoped that the situation would be improved upon within the next one year.

Bolaji Omosonya, Ibadan

ress of the South in order to achieve leverage for the North.

“Exactly, we need restructuring. As things stand, the North benefits more than the rest of the country in all sphere of the economy. They believe they are the less privileged.”

“I think the Federal Government must make amendments. It must balance everything for fairness, justice and equity to prevail.”

In another vein, Pastor Olowookere said that another problem with Nigeria is that, Nigeria has forgotten God and are consumed with the evils of corruption, kidnappings, killings and other anti-social vices.

“The way forward is to go back to God and ask for His intervention.

Only this can change the current situation in which we have found ourselves. No amount of propaganda can do this.”

Restructuring way forward for Nigeria –Cleric ÏÏÏ

The Minister in Charge of Well of Salvation Evangelistic Ministries, (WSEM), Salvation Chapel, Ibadan, Pastor Taiwo Emmanuel Olowookere has called for an urgent restructure of the Nigerian nation for justice, fairness and equity to be achieved for all the six geo-political zones that make up the country.

He expressed this view while speaking with the Daily Times correspondent in the city of Ibadan, Oyo state.

According to him, as things stand presently in the country, the North is been unduely favoured to the disadvantage of the Southeast and Southwest.

Pastor Olowookere stated that the whole truth about federal character and quota system entrenched in the Nigerian system are meant to pull back the wheel of prog-

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20 million Nigerians, others risk starvation, 1.4 million children dying of malnutrition Myke Uzendu, Abuja.

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Anambra Secretariat deserted in compliance with the sit at-home directive issued by the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB) and Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, (MASSOB) in Awka… on Tuesday.

Coroner rules out poisoning as cause of Adeleke’s death Sodiq Adekunle, Osogbo

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coroner inquest ordered by Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State to probe the cause of death of Senator Isiaka Adeleke has ruled out poisoning as the cause of the late politician’s death.

Instead, the coroner blamed the nurse that administered some drugs on the deceased intravenously without a doctor’s prescription.

The coroner, Mr. Olusegun Ayilara, made the declaration on Tuesday while giving verdict on the matter after about three weeks of investigations.

Recall that Adeleke died on April 23, 2017.

This is as the Independent Electoral Commission has reportedly declared July 8 for the re-run election.

“The high dose of seda-

tives and analgesics with the mode of administration caused aspiration which culminated in death,” the coroner held.

Mr. Ayilara said he based his conclusion on the autopsy and toxicology reports, which did not find any trace of poison in the deceased system.

“There were no traces of poison and metal in the system of the deceased. The cause of death is aspiration caused by a drug overdose following the statement by the Pathologist Dr Taiwo Solaja,” he added.

The coroner, who is a Magistrate, therefore, recommended the prosecution of the nurse, Mr. Alfred Aderibigbe, whom he said according to his findings, administered multiple doses of banned drugs, Steroids, Analgesics and Sedatives on late Sen. Isiaka Adeleke as his testimony was at vari-

ance with the toxicology reports independently carried out by the Nigerian Police.

Mr. Ayilara after reading his ruling, appreciated people who had followed the sitting of the inquest till the end and subsequently declared the inquest closed.

The coroner had summoned 15 witnesses including the nurse that treated Adeleke shortly before he died, Mr . Alfred Aderibigbe.

The pathologist, who carried out the autopsy on the corpse of the late politician, Dr. Taiwo Solaja, as well as the Chief Medical Director of LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, Prof. Akeem Lasisi, also testified.

The siblings of the deceased were also invited by the coroner to testify but they shunned the hearing, accusing the state government of setting up the inquest to achieve predetermined end, in order to score political gain.

Tragedy as wife sets self, husband on fire in Kano Yakubu Salisu, Kano

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occurred on Tuesday in Kano as a woman reportedly set herself and her husband on fire early hours of 30th May, following her suspicion of her husband.

It was gathered that the incident occurred at No 54 Middle Road residence in the Sabon Gari area of Kano, as she re-

portedly lit a petrol keg which exploded, engulfing herself and the husband.

Her husband who didn’t die on the spot, however died after he was rushed to Fortress Hospital at Sarki Yaki within the metropolis for medical attention, after suffering severe burns from the fire. His wife who was burnt beyond recognition, died at the spot.

It was alleged that the lady ac-

cused her husband of infidelity, shortly after she heard a conversation of her husband with an unidentified lady over the telephone, and then reportedly got angry and lit the keg of petrol within reach, which eventually exploded and engulfed their home at about 12am on Tuesday.

The late husband was identified as Emeka and hailed from Anambra state.

It has been established that more than 20 million people residing in Northeast Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen are at the risk of starvation just as 1.4 million children are at the risk of dying of acute malnutrition and diseases.

This was announced by the Canadian Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau.

According to him, this impending danger is as a result of severe drought and conflict faced daily by farmers from herdsmen which is militating against farming activities coupled by the harsh effect of climate change.

He pointed out that South Sudan is presently experiencing severe famine and unless immediate action is taken, other countries along that belt will experience the same unprecedented situation. ”Hunger is having a real impact on young children in particular as some 1.4 million are now at risk of dying of acute malnutrition and disease. Millions across the four affected countries and the neighbouring regions are in need of basic necessities such as urgent food assistance, water, sanitation

services, health care, and shelter,” Bibeau stated.

However, Bibeau disclosed that the government of Canada is already responding to the situation and is mobilizing all Canadians for a positive response through the creation of the Famine Relief Fund.

“Over 20 million men, women and children are at risk of starvation if we do not act now. Canadians have always demonstrated great compassion when it comes to humanitarian crises. I encourage all Canadians to donate to the registered Canadian charities of their choice. Together, we can make a difference and bring relief to people who need urgent help.

“The Fund will support Canadian and international organizations currently hard at work providing assistance to those in need in the affected countries and neighbouring regions” Bibeau disclosed.

The Minister announced that for every eligible donation made by individual Canadians to registered Canadian charities between March 17 and June 30, 2017, the Government of Canada will contribute an equivalent amount to the Famine Relief Fund.

Niger police assures of adequate security in the state.

Saka Bolaji, Minna

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The Niger State police command has yesterday mobilized its joint personnel and patrol round Minna as “show up’ in the state capital and its environs to ensure peace and security of lives and properties.

Addressing the journalists at 123 parade ground in Minna, the State Commissioner of Police, Zubairu Muazu said that criminals would have no place to hide in Niger state hence would not hesitate to arrest anyone no matter his or her position

in the society.

Muazu however expressed satisfaction over the cordial relationship amongst all the security agencies in the state hence will together fight crimes.

He assured the entire citizens of the state to remain calm and be law abiding as well continue to go about their legitimate businesses without fear of intimidation.

The joint security operatives includes: the Nigerian Police, Nigeria Security and Civil Defense and Nigerian Army.

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Woods offers reason for DUI arrest

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Kelechi Iheanacho (left) celebrates with Alex Iwobi (right) after scoring a goal for the Super Eagles.

Stephen named in MLS Team of the Week

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eal Salt Lake star Sunday Stephen has been named in Major League Soccer’s Team of the Week for the latest round of matches in the American topflight.

The Nigeria international produced one of his best performances in a Real Salt Lake jersey, helping goalkeeper Nick Rimando to keep a clean-sheet in their 1-0 win over Oguchi Onyewu’s Philadelphia Union at Rio Tinto Stadium.

In a 4-5-1 formation, Sunday Stephen occupied one of the defensive midfield spots.

The former Spain youth-teamer completed 27 of 34 passes, won three tackles, intercepted four passes in RSL’s defensive third and had two clearances from inside RSL’s box.

The 28-year-old was a member of the Spanish U-20 squad at the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Canada, a team that included Barcelona defender Gerard Piqué and Manchester United’s Juan Mata.

Sunny represented teams in Spain, Israel, Bulgaria and Turkey before he was acquired by Real Salt Lake in 2016.

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Iheanacho,Iwobi must quit clubs —Siasia

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elechi Iheanacho and Alex Iwobi must leave Manchester City and Arsenal respectively to have more playing time ahead of the 2018 World Cup, according to former Nigeria coach Samson Siasia.

The Young Super Eagles players have both struggled for regular game time in the Premier League this past season.

And Siasia wants to see them leave the big clubs and become regulars elsewhere to ensure they are fit and firing for Nigeria’s 2018 campaign.

“Nobody is happy that with the huge talents of Iheanacho and Iwobi they did not play many matches for Man City and Arsenal,” Siasia said. ”We cannot also blame their managers Pep Guadiola and Arsene Wenger for leaving them most time on the bench because the players that played ahead of them are more experienced.

“This is why I would like them to seek playing time elsewhere if necessary to be able to be hot and smoking for the Russia 2018 World Cup qualifiers.”

olfer Tiger Woods says alcohol was “not involved” in his arrest while driving in Florida early on Monday.

The player, who was charged with Driving Under the Influence (DUI), blamed “an unexpected reaction to prescribed medication”.

“I understand the severity of what I did and I take full responsibility for my actions,” he said.

Police released a mugshot of Woods, looking unshaven and unkempt, following his arrest in the town of Jupiter.

“I want the public to know that alcohol was not involved. What happened was an unexpected reaction to prescribed medications,” he said.

“I didn’t realise the mix of medications had affected me so strongly.”

He added: “I would like to apologise with all my heart to my family, friends and the fans. I expect more from myself too.”

The mugshot shows a dishevelled Tiger Woods, bleary-eyed and unshaven - just the sort of image he would not want associated with himself in public.

The picture will haunt him throughout these proceedings and beyond. This is someone who has put back together his public life after that epic fall from grace with all the news of the extramarital affairs that broke in 2009.

What we gather from someone who has a jealously guarded lifestyle in terms of his privacy is he spends most of his time playing computer games. We know he speaks glowingly about being a father and looking after his children.

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Police records show the 41-year-old golfer was pulled over at about 03:00 local time (07:00 GMT) near his home in Jupiter and later taken into custody.

He was released from Palm Beach County jail at 10:30 local time.

The record says that he was released “on his own recognisance”, meaning he promised in writing to cooperate with future legal proceedings. Woods has been recovering from back surgery. In his most recent comment about his health, he wrote that the surgery had relieved terrible pain and that he hadn’t “felt this good in years”.

The 14-time major champion’s personal life came under scrutiny in 2009 when he was charged with careless driving outside his Florida home.

He later admitted to having had extra-marital affairs and made a frank public apology. He said he had received professional help and planned to undergo further therapy.

The golfer lost several sponsors over the scandal and took a break from competition.

Udo off to Vietnam for contract talks

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ccording to reports, Nigeria U-23 international Ndifreke Effiong Udo is set to end his status as a home-based player and will travel to Vietnam for contract talks with V.League 1 club Sông Lam Ngh An, with a view to a transfer in the summer transfer market.

If Ndifreke passes his medical with flying colours and proves he is in good physical condition while training with SLNA, he will be offered a contract.

This is not one of those trips by a Nigerian Professional Football League player as Ndifreke’s trip to the Far East has the blessing of Abia Warriors management.

The deal taking the 18-year-old to Sông Lam Ngh An was brokered by ex-Enyimba star Uche Dominic Egbukwu, who was involved in negotiations with Udinese for the transfer of Isaac Success few years ago.

Ndifreke Effiong Udo represented Nigeria at the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil and helped the country win a bronze medal.

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uper Eagles manager Gernot Rohr will start monitoring Arsenal whizkid Alex Iwobi at close quarters as the attacking midfielder and winger linked up with the Nigerian national team at their training camp in Paris on Monday.

Iwobi and his family friend Ola Aina had been permitted to join the squad much later than other invitees because of their clubs involvement in the

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Manchester City striker Kelechi Iheanacho failed to keep his side of the bargain as he failed to turn up at the team’s hotel Hyatt Regency, Paris two nights ago, following his trip to England last weekend.

John Ogu, Isaac Success, Moses Simon, Noah Serenren-Bazee, Victor Osimhen and Ola Aina have not yet reported for international duty.

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CBN Tennis: Lawal, Agugbom reach Round of 16 ANDREW EKEJIUBA

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Sport Editor ld war horse, Shehu Lawal, Tuesday, defeated hard-fighting Isaac Attah 6-4, 6-1 in one of the second round matches of the ongoing 39th Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Senior Tennis Tournament to move into the Round of 16 games.

Having won the first set 6-4, the three-time champion 2003, 2004 and 2007 combined experience and skill to overpower a more vibrant Isaac Attah 6-1 in the second set at the Centre Court of the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos.

It was also a good day for Christopher Bulus who booked his Round of 16 ticket with a victory over Jonah Samuel whom he stopped at 6-4, 6-2.

Never say die, Chinonso Madueke who finished as runner-up in 2011 when he lost narrowly to Henry Atseye in the final, also advanced to the Round of 16 by beating Michael 6-2, 6-3 to move on. Sunday Emmanuel also advanced by beating Timibra Godgift 6-2, 6-3.

Women’s top seed, Christy Agugbom emerged victorious following her triumph 6-1, 6-0 retired over Oluchi Ozurumba, while Bukola Olowu outclassed Ramota Odeyemi 6-3, 6-1 to advance as well.

Actions were also recorded in the women’s doubles event as the pair of Airhunwunde Osareimen and Angel Mcleod combined beautifully to stop the pair of Rachael Adunoye and Kadijat Salami 6-2, 6-0.

More matches will be decided today in the men and women singles Round of 16 games, as well as the doubles quarters final games.

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FCT land allocation to resume soon –Minister

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FG approves $470m for execution AT4 of Abuja water project Kuje residents tasked over monthly sanitation ÏÏÏThe

FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello (2nd left); Sudanese Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Ibrahim Bushra and others, during a courtesy visit to the FCT Minister in his office in Abuja…recently.

CVR: FCT minister decries poor turnout of residents Stories by Idu Jude,

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tics for the FCT with regards to overall number of registered voters, with regards to uncollected voters registration cards, as well as the three-week report regarding the exercise that commenced on the 27th of April, up till the time when the report was presented to us at Council last week, was not encouraging.

“I felt very concerned because if you look at all the statistics for these three important items and you match the performance in the FCT with the performance in other parts of the country, we were the last.

“I felt very concerned. That is why I consulted my colleagues and we decided to call you today”.

The Minister reminded the stakeholders that in a democracy, the weapon every citizen has is the ability to vote.

“The voters’ registration exercise is a fundamental condition

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tal Territory (FCT), Mallam Mohammad Musa Bello, has charged every relevant authority involved in the Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) in the territory to brace up and ensure that the population of the FCT reflects on the turnout of voters registration ongoing nationwide.

The Minister gave this charge during a stakeholders meeting held at the FCDA secretariat to alert all and sundry on the need to embrace the ongoing exercise as a fundamental right of every citizen of Nigeria.

His words: “The main reason why we decided to call this very important stakeholders meeting is a result of a presentation made by the National Chairman of INEC to Federal Executive Council on 17th of May. During the presentation where all the Council members were present, I noticed the statis-

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for every person to exercise his or her human fundamental rights to decide on who governs him or her and that is why it is very important,” Bello said.

He said the FCT Administration had during a meeting with the Acting Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of the FCT decided that while INEC at the FCT and at the national level is working on all the recommendations they have collated, the FCT Administration will work together with the Area Council Chairmen and INEC to provide mobile teams that will be able to go to inaccessible areas of the territory.

“All we need to do is work out a system where we can fund the logistic and provide security and then of course, INEC and the Area Councils will provide us the staff and the location, so that we can target a mobile team that will maybe on a daily basis from one community to another”.

Malam Bello lamented that the total voters’ registration figure for the FCT does not match the population of the territory which he said is now going towards 6 million, adding that the high percentage

of uncollected Permanent Voters’ Card (PVCs) is also very reflective of our society because no matter how much you sensitize people and mobilize them to go and register, as long as they do not collect the card, the whole exercise is of no value.

“That is why I am very encouraged with the massive turnout today and the feedback, and the comment that all of you, starting from our distinguished elected representatives as well as our royal fathers, our religious leaders as well as the political parties; the message has been sent through INEC and it is very clear,” he said.

The Minister emphasised that it is very important for all of us, starting from the religious leaders, the political leaders, the traditional leaders and all other stakeholders to go back and explain what was discussed at the meeting to the grassroots “because at the end of the day, without these cards, you have no right to complain at all if you are not governed properly”.

“As political leaders here, it is our duty to make sure that everybody is registered and I think the residents expect nothing less from us. If the FCT is able register its true potentials of voter, then you CONTINUED ON PAGE AT 2

Chairman, Kuje Area Council, one of the six area councils of the FCT, Rt. Honourable Abdullahi Galadima, has asked residents to be responsive to unhealthy environmental issues to help prevent diseases.

Speaking to The Abuja Times in an interview, the Chairman appealed to the people to refrain from politicising sanitation matters and be proactive to unhygienic practices such as irresponsible attitude of disposing refuse into gutters and drains.

He said the recently introduced Environmental Sanitation Exercise in the area has come to stay, adding, however, that the people should not wait for the day before doing what was expected of them since cleanliness was next to Godliness.

Honourable Galadima who reinstated that the Sanitation Exercise will be observed in Kuje Central as well as rural settlements between the 7:00am-10.00am every last Saturday of the month also insisted that, as usual, there will be restriction of human and vehicular movement.

He called on the residents to come out en-masse to clean and clear the drainage and canals in their neighborhood so as to continually prevent flooding in the area.

He warned that the period of environmental sanitation should not be used for any social engagement or sporting activities, but for serious cleaning and sanitation exercises.

According to him, “As we are all aware, Kuje Area Council is prone to flash-floods whenever it rains.

We must therefore imbibe habits which will reduce to the barest minimum the incidence of flooding in the area”.

He urged those who are aware to tell their neighbors who absented themselves to make it a point to be part of the next sanitation day since it was for the benefit of the whole community.

Meanwhile the introduction of the monthly sanitation exercise has attracted widespread response from Residents in the Area.

While commending the Chairman for the introduction of the programme, the member representing Kuje Central Ward, Honourable Abdullahi Ahmed Lawal congratulated those who participated in the last exercise for the enthusiasm which they demonstrated and urged them to ensure that their surroundings were clean at all times and not only on Sanitation Days.

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NCPC boss urges church leaders FCTA recants, agrees Meningitis to set up pilgrimage committees killed 4 out of 38 cases recorded ÏÏÏ The Executive Secretary of

the Nigeria Christian pilgrimage Commission, Rev. Tor Uja, has called on Church leaders to set up pilgrimage Committees in their various churches.

He made the call recently at a meeting of key Church Leaders and Pastors in Abuja.

He explained that with the committee in place, it would be easier to liaise with them on pilgrimage matters. He stressed that the committee members should be made up of committed men and women in the Church.

He also canvassed that some of the Church leaders should serve as Pilgrimage Action Committees which would soon be set up by the Commission across the country.

Rev. Uja equally tasked the Church leaders to consider setting up Christian Pilgrimage Operators in their Churches which would be registered with the Commission so that they could participate in the pilgrimage process. He further enjoined them to participate fully in all the pilgrimage programmes of the Commission.

He urged them to help the Commission to fund pilgrimage, especially as the Commission would want to set up pilgrimage Camps across the country.

He solicited the help of the Church Leaders in the sponsorship of Christian Pilgrimage and their participation in pilgrimage, stressing the need for the Church Leaders to take ownership of Christian Pilgrimage in.

FCTA suspends all chieftaincy related appointments ÏÏÏ

Following complaints, petitions and legal tussles among interested parties, the FCT Administration has suspended all Chieftaincy related appointments in the traditional institutions in the territory.

The development was made known in a recent circular released by the Office of the FCT Permanent Secretary, Dr. Babatope Ajakaiye.

The Administration lamented that issues relating to the appointment and installation into traditional positions in the FCT has sometimes led to situations that are inimical to peaceful coexistence in some of these communities.

“It had become pertinent to emphasize the provision of the FCT Chiefs (Appointment & Deposition) Act, 2007, which states that

“upon the death, resignation or deposition of any Chief or Traditional Ruler, of a kind referred in sub-section (1)of this section, the Minister may approve as the successor to such office of a Chief or Traditional Ruler as the case may be, by any person appointed in that behalf by the persons charged with the responsibility of appointing persons to the office or Chief or Traditional Ruler in accordance with the provisions of any order made by the Minister after consultation with the Department of Local Government Administration”, the circular stated.

Consequently, according to the circular, all issues of appointments, installation and turbanning of District, Village and Ward heads have been suspended until further notice.

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see our voice in national affairs will be stronger,” the minister stated.

Earlier in her remarks at the meeting, the Acting Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for FCT, Hajiya Samaltu Gaji Ibrahim, said the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) flagged off the Continuous Voters’ Registration exercise on April 27, adding that like in other states of the Federation, the exercise is going on in the FCT. Hajiya Ibrahim said the Continuous Voters’ Registration exercise aims to register eligible voters who have just matured into the voting age of 18 years and those who could not register previously, so that they can participate in the forthcoming general election.

She disclosed that the exercise

will also cater for those wishing to change their points of registration from their former places of abode to new ones as well as distribution of permanent voters’ card. The The acting REC said so far, 5,424 people have been registered in the FCT while 876 people who sought for transfer have also been registered.

Also speaking at the occasion, the Senator representing the FCT, Senator Philip Aduda, lamented that the arrangement made by INEC to conduct the exercise in local government Area offices was not conducive as many prospective voters in the remote villages may not be able to go to such centres and could therefore be disenfranchised. He therefore called on the INEC to take the exercise to the polling units or ward levels which are much closer to the people.

“Most of the filth was created by us and it is our shared responsibility to collaborate with the government towards improving the sanitation in the country,” he told The Abuja Times.

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of the Federal Capital Territory, through its Health secretariat announced non-existence of cerebral meningitis in the FCT, indications contrary to earlier statement has emerged to confirm that about 38 cases was actually recorded with the record of the National Council for Disease Control and the World Health Organisation, which its record earlier placed FCT as one of the high risk states.

The authority had at that time denied the existence of the disease in the territory.

The authority on the programme marking its two years of administration, through the Health secretariat, reversed itself on the earlier statement.

The Ag Secretary Health secretariat Mrs. Alice Achu Odeh, while briefing the media to mark the event, said that the health secretariat was able to count its achieve-

ments as it was able to contain the menace of meningitis and Lassa fever among other diseases.

Contributing, the Director of Public Health, Dr. Humphrey Okoroukwu, noted that there have been about 38 cases in the FCT with 4 confirmed deaths.

Though the secretariat recorded about 15 deaths with no confirmation of course due to non-test of their fluid, Okoroukwu however, stated that there are about ten isolated cases at the moment yet to be determined their ailment as their test is still not out from the laboratory.

Rolling out part of its achievements, the Ag secretary, Health secretariat, revealed that the administration, within the two years of assumption of office, ensured that some its agencies has boards to pilot its affairs.

Some of the agencies include FCT primary health care board, hospital management board, the department of pharmacy and the department of nursing services.

Also with approved boards are department of medical and diagnostic services, department of health and planning research and statistics. It also has department of public health, department of administration and finance, Abuja central medical services, FCT Action committee on Aids and health services scheme.

Mrs. Achu Odeh noted that the mandates of all the departments is to formulate health policies and planning for the FCT, provision of medical and other health related services to the FCT population.

It is also enjoined to play the role of regulatory and oversight functions for all private health care providers or facilities in FCT. It is also to provide primary health care services, disease control, health education and promotion. It is to provide health manpower development as well as health care financing with emphasis on health insurance coverage to residents.

FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello (middle), being immunized against meningitis, while Executive Secretary, FCT Primary Health Care Development Board, Dr. Rilwan Mohammed (left) looks on in Abuja…recently.

Bigotry: Man killed for urinating near Mosque ÏÏÏ The leadership of

the FCT Administration since 2015 has been facing a hardest time with rising spate of religious bigotry and jungle justice that has befallen its administration.

First was the killing of six Apo traders in 2004 which clearly showcased the crass intention to eliminate people of different race resident in the Federal Capital Territory.

Secondly was the murder of one Mrs. Eunice of Redeemed Church of Christ in Kubwa in 2006. The same issue continued to also record yet another gruesome murder of one Mr. Edward Chijoke, a final year student of University of Abuja in the month of April 2017. And lastly, the wicked killing of Mr. Chinedu Okoro in

Jiwa Abuja suburb on the 24th of May, for an alleged defiling a mosque.

The act drew the attention of youths of the different ethnic groups residing in the FCT. According to an eyewitness, the man, whose name was not immediately disclosed to newsmen, was passing through one of the streets in the village, and then decided to urinate into drainage, close to a mosque.

However, just as he was urinating, a man who was sitting at the front of the mosque and was watching him then picked a stone and threw at him.

A source said when the man had finished urinating, he then picked the same stone and threw it back at the same man who threw the stone.

However, this action prompted some youths who were at the mosque to descend on him and gave him the beating of his life.

He then collapsed as a result of the beating and was rushed to a private hospital in Gwagwa village, where he was pronounced dead by doctors in the hospital.

Our correspondent gathered that it took the intervention of the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Gwagwa Police Station and some other prominent persons in the two communities to douse of the tension of the youths, who wanted to retaliate the killing.

However, every effort to reach the FCT Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Anjuguri Manza, proved abortive, as he told our reporter that he was not in Abuja to respond to such inquiries.

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FCTA spends N980m on school feeding programme in 6 months ÏÏÏThe

Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) said that it has disbursed the sum of N980 million within the last six months for the school feeding programme for schools in the territory.

Briefing newsmen in Abuja on Monday, FCT Director of Treasury, Isiyaku Ismaila, disclosed that the schools that benefited from the programme are mostly schools under the FCT Education Board.

“The FCTA has reinvigorated the school feeding programme.

Let me say that immediately the FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Bello, assumed office, he gave a marching order for the welfare and well-being of students, through the schools feeding programme, especially those in the junior schools and of course those in the boarding schools have to be fed.

“So within the short period of this first quarter, N980 million was disbursed towards feeding of students in the programme within the short period of six months,” he said.

Ismaila explained that FCT schools under the FCT Secondary Education Board and those under the Universal Basic Education Board (UBEB) are the beneficiaries of the FCT school feeding programme.

He disclosed that the FCT Administration has also released the sum of N57.6 billion in the last quarter of 2016, and the first quarter of 2017 within the 2016

budget, for payment to contractors working at the city centre.

According to him, these monies were spent on critical projects such as provision of water, roads, rail, education, health and environmental sanitation, adding that the payments were made in batches.

“Therefore, in the last quarter of 2016, the indigenous contractors were paid about N6.9 billion, while in the first quarter of 2017, indigenous contractors were paid N3.3 billion.”

Ismaila stated that in order to improve the welfare of pensioners, the FCT minister has also released the sum N2.3 billion to ensure that all outstanding pensioners’ arrears are paid up to date, adding that payment of salaries and all forms of entitlement of the retirees are up to date.

He stated that under the FCT statutory budget within this first quarter has also made available, through the transport secretariat, the sum of N7.009 billion to the contractors for the Abuja light rail project.

In his contribution, Special Assistant to the FCT minister on Media, Alhaji Abubakar Sani, maintained that the administration’s prompt payment to contractors handling the rail project has encouraged them to put up a timeline for the completion of the project.

Sani gave an assurance that the Abuja rail project would be completed and commissioned by the FCT Administration on scheduled.

Total, AWACIO empower 50 youths, women in Abuja community

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As part of effort to curb crime in the society, Total Nigeria Plc in partnership with Aids for Women Children and Adolescent International Organisation (AWACIO) have empowered no fewer than 50 women and youths in different skills acquisition programme in Gosa Community, FCT. The Executive General Manager, Corporate Social Responsibility, Total Nigeria, Mr. Vincent Nnadi, during the graduation programme of the youths in Gosa community FCT, stressed that skills acquisition remain the bedrock to get the country out of recession.

According to him, whitecollar jobs are no longer available, hence the need for youth to continue to acquire skills so as to sustain themselves and also contribute to the country’s Gross Domestic Product.

He said: “The era of white collar job is gone and it has become increasing necessary to move from seeking office work to gainful self-employment. In our chosen vocations, we believe that this approach is sustainable and geared towards reducing unemployment in shortest possible time”.

He disclosed that though about 50 people were trained but 31 entrepreneurs are being graduated after undergoing livelihood training in tailoring, tiling, hair dressing, cable and CCTV installation, catering and pastry making.

The Chief Executive Officer of AWACIO, Dr. Claudia Okeke, in her remarks, disclosed that the trainers went through six weeks intensive training in an effort to support them and to enable them impact their community.

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FCT land allocation to resume soon –Minister Stories by Idu Jude Abuja

ÏÏÏ Minister of the Federal Capi-

tal Territory, Mallam Mohammad Musa Bello, has said that his administration will sooner than later begin land allocation exercise in the FCT as part of developmental process.

The minister, in a chart with The Abuja Times, noted that soon his administration will ensure that right things are done that shall bring equitable land allocation in the FCT. Explaining why his administration has not made allocations since inception, barely two years ago, the FCT Minister revealed that he had to resolve about 500 pending land issues, even as he wondered why past governments could buckle under pressure to engage in multiple allocations that would end in series of litigation and hence be detri-

mental to the image and economy of the FCT Administration.

“In the past, you saw up to four or five people contesting for one piece of land! How did that happen? The FCT Administration has resolved more than 500 land cases,” he said.

According to Bello, past FCT Administrations fell under intense pressure, which he is also face with, in order to allocate land, making them fall into the trap of multiple allocations, and even some without layouts.

He said: “I have been under tremendous pressure to allocate land but because of the mistakes of the past, whereby land allocated to A was also allocated to B and so on”, adding ”my government has withstood huge pressure in similar direction, but was however considering land allocation where there were layouts”.

Bello also said that the FCTA

has been able to dislodge a land racketeering group which used to operate in Area 11, near the Abuja Geographic Information Systems (AGIS) head office.

He seized the opportunity to give a general scorecard of his nearly two-year administration, emphatically stating that his priority was to complete on-going projects because even at 95 percent, if the remaining five percent is not there, such a project would be of any use to the people for which it is meant.

Commenting on the possible restoration of portable water in the FCT, the Minister disclosed that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) recently gave the approval of $470 million for the execution of the Greater Abuja Water project, adding that the Karshi water works would soon be put to use in adding water supply for the residents.

FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello (right), in a handshake with the supervising Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of the North Central Command, Shuaibu Gambo, when the later paid the Minister a courtesy visit in Abuja…recently.

FCT Joint task force apprehends 13 drug peddlers, 195 unpainted taxis, 20 sex hawkers ÏÏÏThe

Ministerial Joint Task team in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) during its routine monthly records, has recorded the amount of 344 arrests of outlaws contributing to insecurity, environmental hazards and other social vices capable of reducing the FCT among the capital cities of the world.

In the month of May, the taskforce made an arrests of defaulters who operate after its activities are been banned by the FCT authority.

According to the Ministerial Joint Taskforce, about 55 motorcycles, tricycles, which its activities have been seen as detrimental to residents, were arrested and handed over to the police for prosecution.

The joint taskforce headed by the FCT Commissioner of Police, Mr. Musa Kimo, announced that the month of May saw the arrest of about one hundred and ninety five (195) unpainted taxis.

The Abuja Times gathered that

the Kimo-led joint taskforce also raided and closed down several illegally sited motor parks and the eradication of other miscreants constituting public disorder in the FCT. According to the information emanating from the office of the FCT Police boss, the duty of the command is to ensure that there is orderliness in the FCT and the city, a conducive place for Nigerians and visitors as the FCT is the Capital Territory and the face of Nigeria, stating that its security and environmental standard must be maintained.

The monthly operation, which began from 8th to 28th May, 2017, saw many tricycle operators - 55 in number, 195 unpainted taxis/illegally parked vehicles, 13 drug traffickers, 18 motorcycles operators on highways, all totaling 344 where arrested and handed over to the police for proper prosecution.

According to Kimo, the JTF also arrested 13 men who deal in drug trafficking such hard drugs like cocaine, codeine and Indian hemp. It stated that such people had since been handed over to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for proper prosecution.

He remarked that the JTF sustained its presence along airport road to checkmate the menace of commercial motorcycle operators, stressing that majority of the operators are now complying with the order.

The taskforce also sustained its presence at Wuse market to enforce the use of authorised motor parks by commercial drivers. This has paved the way for a free flow of traffic.

Since the commencement of the operations of the JTF, the menace of ‘One Chance’ has drastically reduced.

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FG approves $470m for execution Tourism development: FCT minister of Abuja water project harps on improved services ÏÏÏMinister

of Federal Capital Territory, Malam Muhammed Bello, said on Saturday that the Federal Government has approved 470 million dollars for the execution of the Greater Abuja Water project in Abuja.

Bello made this known during a media briefing organised as part of events to commemorate two years in office of the Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari, in Abuja.

Bello said that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved 470 million dollars for the execution of the Greater Abuja Water project.

The minister explained that the Karshi water works would soon start to boost water supply in the FCT. He said that his administration had trained over 12,000 staff in an ongoing training exercise that was expected to focus on three areas including effective service delivery, discipline and prudent resource management.

Bello said that his administration had ensured that senior staff that has remained on same job for many years were given the opportunity to experience other areas of the government.

He added that they would one day be head of a department and require such experiences to deliver effectively.

He explained why his administration had not made land alloca-

tions since inception, saying “barely two years I have resolved about 500 pending land issues.

“In the past, you saw up to four

piece of land.

“Past FCT Administrations fell under intense pressure, which I am also facing, in order to allocate land, making them fall into the trap of multiple allocations, and even some without layouts.

“I have been under tremendous pressure to allocate land but because of the mistakes of the past, whereby land allocated to A was also allocated to B and so on.

“I have withstood huge pressure in similar direction, but was, however, considering land allocation where there were layouts,’’ Bello said.

Bello said that Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) had been able to dislodge a land racketeering group that used to operate in Area 11, near the Abuja Geographic Information Systems (AGIS) head office.

On Abuja light rail at 93 per cent completion, Bello said that the process for the procurement of coaches for the rail was fast going, adding that installation of signaling equipment were almost completed.

He said that test-running of the rail was expected to end this year, adding that rail transportation would commence in the FCT early 2018.

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The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCT) says emphasis must to be placed on better service delivery if the country were to unbundle the tourism sector and make it a major revenue earner.

These views were expressed by the FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, recently when a delegation from the National Institute for Hospitality and Tourism (NIHOTOUR) paid him a courtesy visit at his office in Area11, Garki 1 District, Abuja.

According to the FCT Minister, the complaint generally by most people that visit the country is that the quality of service being provided is not good enough when compared to what is obtainable in other climes.

His words: “A lot of people get put off by the way we receive them at the airports, the way we treat them in the buses, the way treat them at the hotel reception points, the way we clean their rooms and the way we provide them service generally. I think if as Nigerians we are able to really improve on that aspect, it’s going to be a huge catalyst in trying to revamp and really get the full potential of the tourism sector”.

Malam Bello said operators in the sector must change their attitude towards service delivery by ensuring that the environment is clean and available facilities work to optimum standards if they were to turn around the fortunes of the industry.

“We have to work on service delivery. It’s not really the quality or sophistication of what we provide. Some of the places you go,

you find that really, the furniture is simple, locally made, the buildings are locally made. But the facilities work. The cleanliness is emphasized,” Bello said.

The Minister reiterated the willingness of the FCT Administration to partner with the stakeholders in the tourism sector by making available accurate data of all tourist destinations in the FCT as well as facilities for the training and retraining of manpower in the sector.

He said” “The social secretariat will provide you with all what we have in terms of tourist sites, in terms of facilities that we have that could serve as meeting points as you train, facilities that have some semblance of accommodation that you can house youngsters that you want to train for a week or two”.

FCTA to establish 5 new senior secondary schools ÏÏÏMinister

of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, has approved the establishment of five new secondary schools in the territory.

The Acting Director, Administration and Finance, FCTA Education Secretariat, Mrs. Justina MaiMagani, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Abuja.

According to her, the current FCT Administration is giving the development of education a priority and had developed strategies and policies to achieve its target.

“The FCT Minister has given approval for the establishment of an additional five new senior secondary schools this year; they include Government Secondary school Gwarimpa Estate and Government Secondary School Gosa.

“Others are Government Secondary School Giri, Government Secondary School Paikon Kore and Government Secondary School Bukpe.

“These schools were approved for establishment to meet the increasing demand for schools in their communities.” she said.

The acting director said it was hoped that the schools would cater for the educational needs of about 3,000 students, who were out-of-

school or had to travel long distances to go to school.

According to Mai-Maigani, the schools are in addition to the three schools established in 2016.

The three schools are Government Science and Technical College Kwali, Government Science Secondary School, Pykassa and Government Secondary, Mpape, all of which have moved to their permanent site.

On accreditation of private schools, she said that the minister approved the accreditation of 115 private schools that had met all the requirements for the establishment and management of private schools in the FCT. “These schools, as we know, will complement the efforts of the government in providing quality education for students in the FCT,’’ she said.

Commenting on the closure of substandard private schools, the acting director said there was a major exercise in 2016 to sanitise the private school system with the closure of 556 illegal and substandard private schools in the territory.

“During the visits, we found schools located on flood plains, in the middle of markets, next to drinking parlours and brothels and even right on top of dump sites.

FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello (middle); Chairman, Kpakpando Foundation, Senator Osita Izunaso (5th left) and other members of the entourage when they paid the Minister a courtesy visit in Abuja…recently.

We will not scrap VIO, says FCTA ÏÏÏ

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has said it will not succumb to blackmail of those calling for the scrap of Vehicle Inspection Organisation (VIO) in-charge of policing the vehicle worthiness in Abuja, just as it has confirmed that the VIO has become a source of internally generated revenue with annual return of N1.9 billion in 2016 under review.

Recall that the call by residents of the FCT Administration to disband the organisation came when other states like Kaduna and Lagos disbanded their version of the organisation for financial and professional misconduct and inaugurated alternative agencies to suit their policies.

The FCT Administration, in one of the activities marking two years of its activities in piloting the affairs of the FCT, through the

Transportation secretariat, announced that the VIO has contributed immensely in fighting traffic offenders who are bent on distorting the policies and aspiration of the founding fathers.

The Ag secretary, Finance and Administration, Alhaji Abdulhamid Mohammed Sulaiman, while briefing the media on the activities of the Transportation secretariat to mark the two years of Mallam Muhammad Bello administration, stated that some of the traffic problems being experienced nowadays in the FCT is as a result of influx of people into the FCT which makes the original transportation policy inadequate and needed to be reviewed to accommodate millions of people migrating to the federal territory.

His words: “within the year under review, the Directorate of Vehicle Inspection carried out its

statutory functions in accordance with the relevant laws to ensure that traffic rules and regulations are strictly adhered to by the road users in FCT. The directorate upgraded its automated registration platform - E-VREG that has improved the process of vehicle registration, vehicle document renewals and enhance data management.

“With establishment of the Abuja computerized vehicle inspection center in three locations in kugbo, ONEX and Gwagwalada, the number of non-roadworthy vehicles on FCT roads has reduced”.

Contrary to the call to disband the VIO, the transportation secretariat stated that despite the generous financial support the directorate usually gets from the FCT administration, it still faced with the series of challenges, which militate its operations.

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NNPC to build metering plant for Egbin power plant expansion The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation is to build 500million standard cubic feet of gas per day metering plant to serve the planned capacity expansion of Egbin Power Plant from its installed capacity of 1,320 Megawatts to 2670MW. Managing Director of the Nigerian Gas Processing and Transmission Company (NGPTC), Mr. Babatunde Bakare, who spoke during the tender for the prequalification for the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC), of the project, Thursday, in Abuja said the bid exercise which witnessed bid submissions by 36 local and international companies, was a demonstration of NNPC’s commitment towards improving power supply in the country in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s vision for the power sector.

NNPC is the biggest gas supplier to Egbin power plant, which in turn, is equally the biggest power plant in Nigeria.

NNPC Chief Project Engineer for the project, Engr. Audu Ibrahim, who represented the NGPTC MD, said the expansion of the metering system to serve the Egbin Power Plant was imperative to coping with the heightened volumes of gas that might be needed as a result of its planned expansion.

The General Manager, Supply Chain Management, represented by the Manager, Mr. Rotimi Feyisitan, said due diligence in respect of technical and financial requirements would apply to all the 36 companies which submitted bids in line with the Corporation’s transparency policy.

Feyisitan assured that there would be no under-the-table dealing with any of the companies.

The exercise represents part of NNPC strategic moves to increase its footprint in the nation’s power supply mix, with a view to expanding the Corporation’s stakes in non-core hydrocarbon resources businesses.

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NCC boss intervenes, secures MTN N221m waiver in Kano

Power sector reform yet to meet expectations of businesses – Akande Simon Ugwu The president of Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) Dr. Mrs Nike Akande has warned that the power sector reform undertaken four years ago has not met the expectations of the business community and the citizens.

She made this known at the presidential policy dialogue held in Lagos last week.

The president however stated that investors’ confidence is on the upswing, liquidity in the forex market has increased,

there is better clarity in the policy direction, forex inflows are beginning to pick up.

She noted that the foreign exchange policy has been reviewed to reduce the volatilities in the forest market and minimize uncertainties.

Supporting this view, the president of the Nigerian Stock Exchange. Aig Imoukhuede said: “We must think beyond the current recession and come up with big and audacious policy reforms to boost growth once again.”

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growth are the self-serving attitude of those in power and the failure of the public sector to provide an enabling environment,” he added.

In his response, the Acting President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo said the federal government will improve power and infrastructure, create enabling environment as well as create more employment opportunities for the youths before the end of the tenure of President Muhammad Buhari.

He maintained that for the country to attain its full potentials, the present administra-

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tion would create a conducive environment for the private sector investors and the small and medium scale enterprise (SMEs).

The acting President who was represented by the Minister of Trade and Investment, Dr Okechukwu Enelamah, promised to assist the private sector by encouraging local production and value addition.

“We want to come out stronger and more resilient after the recession. To achieve this, more employment opportunities will be created for the youths,” he said.

Stakeholders at the Policy Dialogue called on the Federal government to end fuel subsidies and fix the power debacle which have proved a huge financial burden on public revenues and crimped economic activities.

The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) MD/CE, Alh. Umaru Ibrahim (6th from left) receiving certificate of accreditation for NDIC Academy from the President/Chairman, CIBN Council, Prof Segun Ajibola (5th from left).

The NDIC Academy was accredited as a Training Service Provider for the Banking and Finance industry by the Council of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN).

On the MD’s right were NDIC Executive Director (Corporate Services), Hon. Mrs. Omolola Abiola-Edewor, Director, NDIC Academy, Dr Azubike Okoro and NDIC Executive Director (Operations), Prince Aghatise Erediauwa.

NESA to invest $2bn in youths for entrepreneurial skill Tony Nwakaegho A Lagos- based technology institute, NESA by Maker, in a bid to position Nigerians to benefit from the Federal Government budget of over N9 billion on foreign software in 2017 technological opportunities in Africa, has tasked youths to plug into the company’s programme to develop skills that will keep them abreast on information technology.

Obinna Ukwanni, chief executive officer of the academy revealed that “Nigeria has the largest tech ecosystem in Africa,

valued at $2 billion in 2017 and the Federal Government budgeted over N9 billion on foreign software in 2017, enough to create 2000 well-paid local technology jobs. ”Startups and established firms in the private sector are spending billions as well to develop their technology offshore due to lack of local talent.

“While other countries have more than $10 billion unclaimed tech wage due to lack of talent to fill roles.

“We are committed to equipping Nigerian youths with skills required to maximize their ca-

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The first three months will be a focused, project-based academic experience designed to get students up to speed, and the last three months will be a work period where students work on real projects for real companies and have an opportunity to earn as a developer before graduating from NESA. “These could be full-time or contract-based employment and

project opportunities. Graduates will be qualified for web development roles, and will have a strong enough foundation to learn quickly and rise to higher levels of responsibility and compensation.” Ukwanni explained.

The first set ended their class on of May ’17 in Yaba, Lagos.

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W/Bank calls for improved infrastructure in African cities

The World Bank on Tuesday called for improved infrastructure for African cities to enable them develop along with their growing populations.

Mrs Bella Bird, the World Bank Country Director for Tanzania, Malawi, Burundi and Somalia made the call at the bank’s training workshop for African journalists in Dar-es-Salaam.

Bird said that as African cities were growing in population, there was need to improve their infrastructure to fast track development on the continent.

She quoted the 2016 World Bank Report as saying that Africa’s urban population stood at 472 million people.

She said that due to urbanisation, more migrants were presently pushed to cities from the coun-

tryside with another 187 million people to be added to urban cities by 2025.

“This is the equivalent of adding another Nigeria to Africa’s population.

“Africa’s urban population will double over the next 25 years, reaching one billion people by 2040.

“Congestion and mobility problems affect the ability of people to connect to jobs, and firms to markets.”

Bird said that Tanzania was not the only country facing challenges of growing urban population many other African countries were being confronted with same problems.

“But in Tanzania, we are particularly pleased that the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, which we

helped to develop and finance, is already bringing relief to city residents.

“In spite of some growing pains with the system, the project is popular and effective as the average round trip travels time for commuters using BRT line has been reduced by 90 minutes a day.’’

Bird said that such transformation infrastructure investments were important for cities to increase their productivity and generate jobs for the youths.

She also encouraged African countries to leverage on the private sector to finance and execute infrastructure projects as public financing was never enough to bridge the infrastructure gap.

Bird said that the workshop organised by the bank was aimed at strengthening the capacity of the

media in urbanisation reportage and related issues in the sub-Saharan Africa.

Mr Eric Chinje, the Chief Executive Officer, African Media Initiative, the resource person for the workshop, said that the workshop was aimed at improving quality reportage on the impact of urbanisation in major African cities.

He harped on the need for the media to use its influencing powers on the government and other relevant international organisations to ensure solid outcomes for African citizens.

The World Bank 2016 Report on Urbanisation titled: “Africa’s Cities: Opening Doors to the World, said that Africa was the continent most affected with urbanisation.

The bank said that African cities were 29 per cent more expen-

sive than cities in countries with similar income levels.

It said that African households faced higher costs relative to their per capita GDP than do households in other regions such as Asia.

“For example, in Dar es Salaam, 28 per cent of residents live at least three to a room; in Abidjan, 50 per cent and in Lagos, Nigeria, two out of three people live in slums.’’

The report said that city dwellers pay around 35 per cent more for food in Africa than in low income and middle income countries elsewhere.

The one-week workshop with the theme: “Strengthening Reportage and Coverage of Urbanisation and Related Issues in sub-Saharan Africa is being attended by journalist from 40 African countries.

NCS impounds 941 bags of rice worth N6.8m

L – R: Company Secretary/General manager, legal, OVH Energy marketing limited, Adaeze Nwakoby; Kenna partners, Professor Fabian Ajogwu, general counsel/company secretary, Seplat Petroleum, Dr. Mirian Kene Kachikwu; managing partner, Akinwunmi and Busari, Mr. Olatunde Busari and the acting chief executive officer, OVH Energy marketing limited, Mrs Olaposi Williams, during a lunch session with corporate governance, by OVH Energy marketing limited in Lagos on Tuesday.

Expert lauds FG’s achievement in telecom sector A telecom consultant, Mr Taiye Olaniyi, has commended the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari on its achievement in the telecom sector in two years, especially on the reform of the postal sub-sector.

Olaniyi, a former General Manager, Corporate Communications, Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) made the commendation in an interview with newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday.

He described the public hearing on the postal reform by the Senate Committee on Communications as a good development.

“For the first time in the history of the country, we heard a public hearing by the Senate on bills concerning the sector.

“This has not been the case before now, but this government has made

it possible for the public to come to the senate, have a second reading on the postal reform bill and make their own inputs.

“So, the government has really done well and should be commended for creating an enabling environment for the sector to flourish, making policy on postal reform and even creating a roadmap for the sector to work with.

“The hearing made it possible for a heighten awareness on the part of the public on the purpose for the postal bill, the reforms planned in the sector,’’ he said.

According to Olaniyi, the government has succeeded in creating greater awareness among the citizenry on optimal utilisation of telecom facilities available.

“You know now the number of people that are using telecom fa-

cilities, once upon a time, we only knew about postal services and land phones to communicate with others.

“But now nearly every member of the family has an android or one smart device or the other because this government continued with the programmes started by the previous administration.

“Government is a continuum and this government should be commended for continuing the programmes of former government and we can see it in the improvement that is going on in the telecom sector.

“In as much as there has been much talk on fighting corruption and probing the past government but personally I believe the change that the government is calling for must start with itself, however, relatively there is an improvement in governance,’’ he said.

The Nigeria Customs Service, Western Marine Command, (WMC), on Tuesday said its officers seized 941 bags of rice estimated at N6, 830,791 being smuggled into the country.

The new Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Sarkin Kebbi, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the seizure was barely a month after he assumed duty at the command.

“As you are aware, I took over the helm of affairs in this command on Tuesday, 25th April, 2017.

“My first official assignment was on the 27th April, 2017 where I led a team of inspectors from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture delegated by the Office of the National Security Adviser to inspect a vessel, MV TEAM TANGO, that was arrested.

“The visit was embarked upon to take samples of cargo on board, PRILLED UREA, presumed to

be used by terrorists to manufacture improvised explosive devices (IEDS).

“The Western Marine Command is an enforcement unit and its main function is to protect the waterways, fight insecurity and combat smuggling.

“We have been able to make unprecedented seizures within 30 days in office across the South Western states and right up to Kebbi State in the Northern part of the country at different dates and times,’’ Kebbi said.

The CAC said that the achievement was borne out of the new approach to duty in the command by the officers and men.

He said that the goal of the command was to ensure that the waterways were safe from unscrupulous businessmen and women, whose activities endanger national security.

Businesses in West and Central Africa (WECA) and globally have received great improvement as a result of PHD’s game-changing media planning operating system.

This was disclosed recently as PHD WECA, an affiliate of PHD Worldwide which is part of Omnicom Media Group, celebrated the performance of its local workforce in the use of this media planning operating system dubbed “Source” for contributing to global network’s rise to the top of new business league tables by RECMA and R3.

Omnicom Media Group topped the 2016 Major Wins report from the Research Company Evaluating the Media Agency Industry (RECMA), ranking the net new business balance of wins and departures during the past year. Winning 29 percent of the USD 20.1 billion in ad spends that changed hands in 2016 globally, across its three agency networks, Omnicom Media Group ended the year with a net new business balance of USD 4.4 billion.

The Chief Executive Officer of PHD, Bright Ladzekpo, said “PHD currently holds the titles for network of the year with Adweek, Campaign and Cristal concurrently. This is a reflection of the success in each and every market, so we have every good reason to celebrate our teams local and global.”

In 2016, the most successful year PHD’s history as a global media agency with more new business wins than any other network. Last year also saw the team Ghana break into the top 10 ranking for the use of its gamified media plan operating system “SOURCE”, at the 9thposition being the highest ranked African team placing just behind PHD US on the official rankings by country at the close of last year.

Wassim Nashiru from the team Ghana put in an outstanding performance by winning Gold and a Bronze for Producing and Overall skill sets respectively in the individual player rankings for last year.

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Stories by Motolani Oseni Following the closure of the official foreign exchange market for last week’s trading, which was extended to Monday 29 May, 2017, due to the holiday declared by the federal government for the 18th year uninterrupted democracy day celebration in the country, the Nigerian currency, the Naira, on Tuesday closed at 380 per US dollar, representing an appreciable growth of two points compared to 382 sold during the holidays.

The naira strengthened slightly after the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday sold $100 million at a special wholesale spot and forwards auction to improve dollar liquidity in the foreign exchange market and curb

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Naira closes at 380/$1, as CBN injects $100m into FX market pressure on the local currency.

The local currency, however, remained unchanged against the pound sterling at 491 the same amount sold on Monday but better than 492 traded the previous day, but depreciated against the Euro at 426 compared to 422 sold at the unofficial market over the weekend The naira, at the official market was also stable at 305.35 to the dollar, the same rate it closed last trading week on Friday.

But at the Bureau De Change (BDC) window, no changes were

recorded yesterday as the naira steadied at the regulated rate of N362 to the Dollar, while the Pound Sterling and the Euro closed at N495 and N423.

Consequently, the apex bank has continued injection inject fresh capital to boost liquidity in the forex market, with injection of forex to lift the foreign exchange market.

The bank, in a notice to commercial lenders, said the dollar auction would be both for spot and forward settlements and would be settled within the next

60 days.

Africa’s biggest economy shrank by 1.5 percent in 2016 in its first recession in 25 years, hit by a shortage of hard currency and lower revenue from its dominant oil sector as world crude prices remained under pressure.

The central bank has been intervening on the official market to try to narrow the spread between the official interbank and black markets. It has sold around $4 billion since February, but analysts doubt that this

pace can be sustained.

Nigeria’s foreign exchange reserves had dropped 0.87 percent to $30.49 billion by May 25 from a month ago.

The local currency was quoted at 380.33 per dollar at the investor window on Tuesday, according to the market regulator FMDQ OTC Securities Exchange.

It was quoted at 382 a dollar on the black market, while commercial lenders quoted the local currency at 305.85 per dollar on the interbank market.

NDIC leads Africa in bridging banking industry gap The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) is set to lead the African Sub-Region in enhancing capacity building and bridging skills gaps in the banking industry in general and the Deposit Insurance Scheme (DIS) in particular.

The Managing Director/Chief Executive of the corporation, Alhaji Umaru Ibrahim, made this disclosure at remark during the accreditation ceremony of the NDIC Academy as a training service provider for its staff and the banking industry by the Council of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) at the Bankers House, Victoria Island, Lagos.

Alhaji Ibrahim said with the NDIC Academy’s new status, it is positioned to fulfil the Corporation’s

goal of serving as a centre of academic excellence for capacity building on the Deposit Insurance Scheme (DIS) for countries in the Sub-Saharan Africa.

He added that the Corporation prides itself on establishing high standards of professionalism and competency among its staff through the Corporation’s NDIC Academy and other human capital development initiatives, including the Chartered Banker/MBA program of University of Bangor, Scotland in partnership with the CIBN. The NDIC CEO emphasized the importance of continuous high level training in order to achieve the Corporation’s core mandates of deposit guarantee, bank supervision, bank distress resolution and bank liquidation.

L-R: Representative of Central Bank Committee, Dr. Uwatt Bassey Uwatt and Director Governing board of solid minerals development, Prince Theo Iseghohi during the Inauguration of the Board of the solid Minerals Development fund in Ministry of Mines and Steel Development in Abuja ...recently.

Ecobank bags most innovative bank at African Banker Awards

Ecobank Group’s pioneering work to use digital technology to financially empower millions of people across Africa has been recognised for driving ‘Innovation in Banking’ at the African Banker Awards.

The annual event is highly regarded as the most prestigious award ceremony in the continent’s banking and finance sector. Ecobank triumphed against strong competition thanks to its leading-edge efforts to transform banking in Africa and create higher levels of financial inclusion.

This includes being the first bank to introduce a pan-African card enabling customers to withdraw cash and make payments across 36 markets in Africa. While the 2016 launch of the revolutionary Ecobank Mobile App, which is focused on financially empowering 100 million new customers in Africa by 2020 has resulted in more Africans gaining access to financial tools than ever before.

A critical component of this success is the landmark strategic partnership with Mastercard announced in

2016. This ground breaking initiative has powered the Ecobank Mobile app with Masterpass QR and allows consumers across 33 markets to make fast and secure payments by scanning a Quick Response (QR) code displayed at checkout on their smartphones, or by entering a merchant identifier into their feature phones.”

“Innovation is part of our DNA and Ecobank has long been the vanguard of the drive to eradicate financial exclusion and use technology to financially transform Africa,”

said Ade Ayeyemi, Group CEO, Ecobank. “As mobile phone subscription continues to soar being at the forefront of digital banking has made it possible for our customers to do nearly all of their banking without entering a brick-and-mortar branch.”

Patrick Akinwuntan, Group Executive, Consumer Banking at Ecobank, said the award served as recognition that the bank is moving in the right direction. “Millions of Africans already hold the transformative power of technology in their palms

with their mobile phones – forward-thinking financial services providers need to adapt to the changing landscape in order to introduce solutions that truly meet the needs of customers and owners of businesses of all sizes.

“The power of digital banking has the potential to unlock enormous lifestyle, business and other financial opportunities across Africa. Ecobank’s digital offerings, particularly Masterpass QR, are opening up financial services to the unbanked, while serving existing customers at a whole

new level. This drive to offer convenient, cashless payment services will help to transform our continent and leapfrog economic development.”

Daniel Monehin, Division President, Sub-Saharan Africa, Mastercard commented: “Mobile payment facilitates financial inclusion and the potential for financial integration.

We are delighted that our partnership with Ecobank and joint commitment to helping all Africans reach their full potential has been rewarded with such a prestigious accolade.”

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May & Baker concerned over impact false M&A report with Fidson

Equities market sustain growth by 0.73 percent Afolabi Adesola The equities market sustained a positive trend on Tuesday, with the All Share Index advancing 0.73 percent to close at 29,276.99 points.

Market capitalisation also increasedN73 billion to settle at N10.121 trillion compared to N207 billion gained previous session (Friday when it closed at N10.048 trillion.

The day’s performance increase the Month-to-Date and Year-to-Date gains to 13.66 per-

cent and 8.94 percent respectively.

Sectoral Performance showed the Banking index recorded the largest gain with an improvement of 2.17 percent as investors demanded the shares of Zenith and Guaranty Bank that grew by 1.93 percent 1.47 percent each.

Likewise the Consumer Goods and Industrial Goods indices closed higher, with an increase of and 0.67 and 0.33 percent respectively following demand for Nigerian Breweries

that added 0.69 percent, Flourmills that grew 4.99 percent, WAPCO that appreciated 1.16 percent, and DANGCEM that increased 0.18 percent.

Conversely, the Oil & Gas index shed 2.01 percent, as investors sold-off SEPLAT and OANDO that dropped 5.00 percent and 1.22 percent each, while the Insurance index closed flat.

Market breadth remained positive, with 29 gainers versus 17 losers.

Diamond Bank topped trading, by volume, with 194.2 mil-

lion shares valued at N184.8 million, followed by Champion Breweries with 84 million shares worth N173.8 million, while Guaranty traded 76.6 million shares valued at N2.8 billion.

Zenith Bank also traded 68.7 million shares worth N1.4 billion, and FBN Holdings traded 66.2 million shares valued at N352.9 million.

The total volume traded increased to 832.52 million shares, valued at N7.59 billion, and exchanged in 6,259 deals.

Bonny Amadi

L – R: Globacom’s national sales coordinator, Lagos and Ogun states, Mr. Akeem Kazeem; Glo subscriber, Uche Nwabusi, Nollywood actress, Patience Ozokwor, Nollywood legend, Kanayo O. Kanayo, and another Glo subscriber, Shola Aderinto, at the Glo mega music nationwide tour held at Lekki/Ajah in Lagos recently.

MRS will work to meet 2017 forecast on dividend – Gbodume Bonny Amadi The management of MRS Oil Plc have assured that its forecast for the 2017 financial year, is borne out of what it expects to achieve in the 2017 financial year, but certainly will work hard to meet its dividend projection of N1.60 per share.

Mr. Andrew Gbodume, Managing Director, MRS OIL Nigeria Plc, gave the assurance Tuesday in Lagos, during the presentation of the company’s facts behind the figures to the capital market community at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), adding that company performed remarkably in 2016 and first quarter 2017, the de-

velopment, he assured the company will surpass in the remaining quarters of 2017.” i have an able team that ais working and we will deliver the dividend as planned” he said.

He enumerated some of the challenges plaguing the industry as slow business activities due to economic recession, Nonpayment of outstanding subsidies owed to marketers and insufficient supply of foreign exchange.

“So, there are many challenges in doing business” Gbedume said.

In addition to the challenges, the company, Gbodume said, in some cases trades off margin, to remain in business, however, when there is no edge against competitors, no

tradeoff is done, this, he said also affects earnings.

Gbodume said that since May 2015 to date, the Nigerian downstream oil sector has been besieged by myriads of problems, but assured that MRS Oil will continue to surmount such challenges and creating more opportunities to boost earnings and creating more value.

He revealed that the accumulated interest in the company’s 2016 result, was as a result of accumulated subsidy owed by the federal government when it is not paid on time.

He said that transportation cost continues to bite hard on downstream petroleum companies , adding that the truck scheme the company has with its

users , previously at N21 million per truck, now cost double the price, coupled with running cost, tyros cost and increasing cost of diesel, continue to increase cost of doing business.

He said that profit after tax in 2016 peaked at N1.465,095 from N935, 625 million in 2015, representing 54.58 per cent growth, which he said was necessitated by the petrol price increase in 2016, and the price adjustment that follows, from N86.50 to N145.

Per liter.

According to the MD MRS Oil, q1 2017 was remarkable but in line with the business environment and the impact of none payment of outstanding subsidy by the govern-

ment also reflected.

Finance cost he said increased by 113.6 per cent, from NI67.578 million in Q1 2016 to N366.292 million in Q1 2017, ended 30 March 2017.

The high finance cost was propelled by none payment of subsidy which could have been turned to working capital.

May and Baker Nigeria Plc has expressed concern over the impact of false report on merger and acquisition with Fidson Healthcare plc, would have on the company’s corporate image globally.

The company in a recent report, however, denied any form of merger arrangement or talks with Fidson Healthcare Plc, as published in one of the national Daily’s (Not Daily Times) recently.

This was coming as the Nigerian capital market remained awash with market hearsay on merger or acquisition talks existing between Fidson Health Care and May & Baker Plc, of which both companies have out rightly denied.

Daily Times gathered that since the publication, the company’s board has remained concerned, on want their foreign partners would react to the story which the company claims to be baseless.

The report signed by Aodeji Aboderin, Executive Director Finance May & Baker Plc, said “Our notice has been drawn to a publication in BusinessDay Newspaper on Monday 22 May 2017, which put out a statement to the effect that Fidson Healthcare Plc is looking at Merger, acquisition or acquisition of May & Baker Plc” “We must put it on record that in that statement and no such talks or negotiations is holding between the two quoted companies.

On the contrary, the board and management of May & Baker is positioning the company to be the leading health care brand, not just in Nigeria, but beyond” the company said.

The company said that the report, becomes imperative to assuage the minds of its numerous shareholders and stakeholders as well as forestall speculative actions on shares of the company, working to merge as one of the leading health care firms globally.

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Maritime B6 Stories by Babajide Okeowo The Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman has reaffirmed the willingness of the agency to collaborate with the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria in the area of manpower development and capacity building.

This would be done by creating a window through which the top echelon of the Organization’s engineers would

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NPA, COREN partner on capacity building, manpower development share experiences and expertise acquired over the years through. This, she said would “enable us take our place of pride in the comity of nations and would most importantly have a positive effect on the nation’s economy particularly concerning socio-economic growth.

She made this revelation while playing host

to a delegation from the College of Deans of Engineering, led by Engineer Professor .E.A. Ajav who were on a working visit to the Corporate Headquarters of the NPA. Bala, who was represented by the Executive Director, Engineering and Technical Services of the Organization, Prof. Idris Abubakar, in her opening

remarks stated that the NPA was willing to support the group’s laudable programme through the corporate sponsorship of its forthcoming International Engineering Competition amongst Universities across the country.

This she buttressed is aimed at “boosting the intellectual development of interns in all fields” of

engineering. In her words ‘’ The Engineering Profession is a discipline that serves as the bedrock of a nations development and efforts should be geared at maximizing the potentials at all times’’.

She further informed stakeholders that the NPA Management would be willing to collaborate and exhibit a smooth synergy with institutions in the area of manpower development regularly. According to her, a window would soon be created through which the top echelon of the Organization’s en-

gineers would share experiences and expertise acquired over the years through this”. She was of the view that this would go a long way towards bridging the gap between the tertiary institutions and the Industry at large.

Earlier in his opening remarks, Chairman of the group, Professor E.A. Ajav affirmed that his team was at the NPA headquarters to appreciate the organizations support and resolve concerning capacity development over time through sponsorship and collaboration.

Apapa port hosts stakeholder’s enlightenment on Ebola virus

Prof. Idris Abubakar, Executive Director Engineering and Technical Services, Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA and Prof. E. A. Ajav, Dean of Engineering, Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria at the Corporate Headquarters of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Marina Lagos recently.

Navy reassures on Nigeria’s maritime space protection Following the activities of pirates in the Gulf of Guinea, The Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas, has re-assured that the Nigerian Navy remains committed to sustaining its efforts to protect the nation’s maritime space.

The CNS made the promise in Abuja recently during an inter-denominational church service held at

Anglican Church, Mogadishu Military Cantonment, to mark the 61st anniversary of the Navy.

Ibas noted that though there are series of challenges the Navy encounters while carrying out its professional responsibilities, its officers and men are not deterred.

He expressed delight that the Nigerian Navy had attained 61 years and had

also done well in protecting the nation’s maritime domain and the security of the country.

The naval chief noted that a lot still needs to be done to protect the nation’s assets and general security of the country.

He urged sister organisations to be more united in the fight against the insurgents in the North-East and other crimes.

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“We have had a chequered history no doubt, but our ups overwhelmingly outweigh our downs.

“If we should take stock today, our progress will be evident in varied considerations.

“Having gone this far, it is my view that we can feel a sense of retrospective self-justification for our match from birth to date.

“From a mere 250 illtrained individuals, it has grown in strength to almost 25,000 well trained professionals,” the CNS said.

In his sermon, Babajide Ajayi, Chief Chaplain, Navy Protestant Church, Mogadishu Military Cantonment, urged Nigerians to pray for the Navy and their families as they celebrate their 61st year anniversary.

In the light of the renewed outbreak of the Ebola Virus, Nigeria’s premiere port, the Lagos Port Complex (LPC), Apapa has hosted a one-day stakeholder’ awareness and enlightenment programme on control of the disease.

The enlightenment programme, held in conjunction with the Port Health Services, was to ensure that the port, which is the first point of entry for seafarers and goods coming into the country, does not become a gateway for the deadly virus.

Speaking at the event held at the LPC Safety, Information and Operation Centre, the Port Manager, Hajia Aisha Ali-Ibrahim, said, “Ebola has sprang up again in a country not too far from us and we need to be proactive and that is why LPC decided to do this awareness on the sanitization of this disease for stakeholders on how we can prevent and to also prepare your minds and we will appreciate your cooperation because you are important to us.

“Lagos Port Complex decided to set aside today as a medical day for us to enlighten stakeholders and we have brought the experts on health services to let us know the steps to carry out to prevent this communicable disease and I want you all to take everything you learn here

and pass it on to everyone in your various organisations.”

Also speaking at the event, the port’s Head of Medical Services, Chinwe Nwokolo, said, “We don’t have to wait for this virus to come into our country; everything humanly possible should be done to stop it. We have to imbibe the necessary precautions done to stop the virus from infecting people the first time it came into Lagos.”

President, Association of Maritime Truck Owners (AMATO), Chief Remi Ogungbemi urged the port management to ensure it carries the awareness campaign to the doorsteps of truck drivers.

“The truck drivers move on the road day and night without properly taking care of themselves. They do not take their baths everyday due to their type of job.

“They are to be taught on the rudiments of this virus because some of them don’t even know what it is and how they can be infected.” Ogungbemi said.

Various stakeholders including the representatives of port terminal operators; the Nigeria Police Force Maritime Command; Port Health Service; Nigeria Customs Service; and truck operators participated in the enlightenment programme.

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NCC boss intervenes, secures MTN N221m waiver in Kano Stories by Tony Nwakaegho Prof Umar Garba Danbatta, executive vice chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has intervened in an issue, resulting in a waiver of N221million in a case between MTN Nigeria and the Kano State government.

Daily Times recalls that Danbatta carried out a similar intervention with Governor Ibikunle Amosun in Ogun State last year, which resulted in un-

sealing of 47 base stations placed under lock and key, and further reduced ground rent fee owed by IHS Towers from N370 million to N120 million.

Some staff of Huawei, it was gathered that were working on telecommunication infrastructure expansion in Kano state on behalf of the MTN Nigeria, were arrested by the officials of government’s agency, Kano State Urban Planning and Development Authority (KANUPDA), which led to a halt to the project.

Danbatta’s appeal to the state governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje resulted to the government giving a waiver on the permit fee of N221million for deployment of fibre infrastructure in that state.

The NCC boss had earlier highlighted the economic advantages that the state stands to gain from deployment of more telecommunication infrastructure and the challenges millions of service subscribers would face if the work was further delayed.

However, the Managing

Director and Chief Executive Officer, KANUPDA, Arch Bashir Mudi Adamu in a letter signed and addressed to MTN said the waiver of permit fees was granted in respect of two federal roads, Zaria Road and Maiduguri Road in the state.

The intervention form part of key component of the 8-point agenda unveiled last year by the NCC boss, which is a strategic collaboration and partnership with other relevant agencies and stakeholders.

Prof Umar Garba Danbatta, executive vice chairman NCC

Oracle expands presence in Africa with new Abuja office

Oracle has reinforced its commitment to Africa with the opening of a new of-

fice in Abuja that will focus exclusively on driving cloud adoption across Nigeria’s public sector.

Cherian Varghese, Vice President Technology, Africa, Oracle said that “Opening the Abuja

office underscores our commitment to Nigeria by enhancing our local capabilities and service

L-R: Vice President & Managing Director, Oracle Africa, Cherian Varghese; The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, William Stuart Symington; Executive Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello; Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Communications, Architect Sunday Echono and the Country Managing Director, Oracle Nigeria, Adebayo Sanni at the official opening of the new Oracle office in Abuja, recently.

offerings.

“Nigeria’s Public Sector is focused on delivering transparent, efficient and proactive services to its citizens. Our aim will be supporting the government implement its vision with a modern, secure, and cost-effective suite of cloud solutions built specifically for the public sector.”

The dedicated office which is equipped with modern communication tools to deliver an exceptional customer experience is located in Maitama and will create new employment opportunities for talented professionals.

“ICT innovation is vital for improving the citizen experience, driving new investment opportunities, enhancing government revenue and identifying new growth avenues.

“By 2020, Nigeria will be one of the 20 largest economies of the world

and we will be able to realize our full economic and social potential only if we become early adopters of modern technology. Oracle is at the forefront of delivering technologically advanced cloud solutions and we congratulate the company’s Africa leadership for expanding their footprint in Nigeria,” said Barrister Abdur-Raheem Adebayo Shittu.

Key dignitaries that attended the launch event at the new office to mark the milestone include: Barrister Abdur-Raheem Adebayo Shittu, Minister of Communications, Federal Republic of Nigeria; William Stuart Symington, the United States Ambassador to Nigeria; Alhaji Yahaya Bello, Governor of Kogi State; Cherian Varghese, Vice President – Technology, Africa, Oracle and Adebayo Sanni, Country Managing Director – Nigeria, Oracle.

NITDA to enforce Executive Order on local content in IT

National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has put processes in place for swift compliance by Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to the Executive Order on Support for Local Content in IT Procurement.

Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, director general/CEO of NITDA who disclosed this known in a statement made available to newsmen

to bring to the attention of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) that the Agency has put measures in place to facilitate compliance with the Executive Order on Support for Local Content in IT Procurement.

Dr. Pantami stated that in compliance with the recent Executive Order no 003“Support for Local Content in Procurement by Ministries, Departments and Agencies of Federal

Government of Nigeria” signed by Professor Yemi Osinbajo, the acting president, on Thursday 18th May, 2017, NITDA has embarked on strengthening its strategy to foster patronage of indigenous IT products and services. The strategy focuses on two tracks: make Nigerian IT products viable; and promote local content first policy in IT procurement by MDAs. “In its effort to make Nigerian IT products viable

and competitive, NITDA has invested in: Building IT hubs, incubation and acceleration centres in the country; Partnering with private IT hubs to identify and accelerate innovative IT solutions; Crafting policies and guidelines that make Nigerian environment conducive for IT business; Building hardware and software testing labs to certify IT products before going to market; and empowering the two sub-

sidiaries of the Agency, the Office for Nigerian Content in IT (ONC) and the Office for IT Innovation and Entrepreneurship (OIIE), to synergize the IT ecosystem as well as develop a vibrant and world class indigenous IT industry Nigeria.

“Furthermore, in compliance with the Federal Government’s directive that MDAs and all other institutions of the Federal Government planning to embark on IT projects must

obtain clearance from NITDA, the Agency has assembled a team of experts charged with supporting MDAs with advice and guidance throughout the IT procurement process”.

According to him, the gesture is aimed at mitigating waste and mismanagement of government funds as well as ensuring that procurement of goods and services are in line with the national development goals.

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Children’s Day: Emirates reiterates commitment to young flyers Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo As part of its efforts to demonstrate strong commitment to young children and young flyers, Emirates, on May 27th 2017, hosted a wide range of Nigerian children to a children’s party at the Ikeja City Mall, Alausa in Lagos.

The children in company of the Regional Manager, Commercial Operations, West Africa, Afzal Parambil were entertained to different stages of treats. They were also tickled with Cinema show at the Silverbird Cinema at the mall.

Foods, drinks and photographs with the Regional Manager were equally taken to mark the Children’s Day celebration. At the end of the show, gifts of different kinds were handed over to the children, including food packs, toys, books, school bags and all sorts of Emirates souvenirs.

This is not the first time Emirates is showing love and interest on children. The airline, in the past has been much interested on children, not only in Nigeria but at the global level.

The airline believes that Young Flyers have innate curiosity and boundless energy; they therefore,

made provisions to offer a range of products and services with their needs in mind.

“We want to share our passion and love for adventure with these future travellers as well as stimulate their curiosity. Whether they’re flying alone or with their families, our toys and goodie bags inspire the greatest imaginations and encourage tomorrow’s explorers”, the airline said.

On board, Emirates has developed its own set of toys for children. With “Fly With Me Animals”, pre-school children can collect a range of 4 original characters. These cuddly and playful animals each have their own personalities and traits, and are ideal companions for a flight and beyond. Every six months, four new animals will be introduced giving children more to collect.

The toys come in 3 product lines which include: Travel Buddy - a cuddly toy with a plastic toggle allowing it to be hung in the car, on a pram or in the cot; Carry Buddy - dual purpose toy and blanket and Magnetic sketchers - unique characters to keep kids entertained, with drawing and easy erasing functionality

Etihad Airways wins at Middle East call centre awards

Etihad Airways, the national carrier of the UAE, has tasted success at the Insights Middle East Call Centre Awards. The annual competition is now in its 12th year and sets the regional benchmark for remote customer interaction success.

The airline collected two prestigious awards at the ceremony held at The Crowne Plaza Hotel in Dubai recently. They were awarded with Best Large Call Centre for their three UAE Contact Centres and Call Centre Manager of the Year awarded to Ahmed Murshed, the Al Ain Contact Centre Manager.

Ruth Birkin, Head of Global Contact Centres for Etihad Airways, said “I am delighted that the team has again been recognised for their service quality and their commitment to constantly developing the services we offer further. As well as providing tailored solutions to guests, we’re always looking for ways how we can improve business efficiencies while continuing to provide high-quality services to our passengers and trade partners around the world.”

The airline operates four contact centres including two in Al Ain and one in Abu Dhabi, plus a further facility in Manchester in the UK. The Al Ain Keshi Pearl and Abu Dhabi contact

centres operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week and employ multi-lingual staff from all over the world.

The other unit at Al Ain is called the Black Pearl centre and opened in 2011. In line with the company philosophy of Emiratisation, it is wholly managed and operated by Emirati ladies.

The female only environment of the Black Pearl makes it possible for ladies to work and develop their careers, whilst maintaining a sustainable work and home balance, which is supportive of their family and cultural consideration.

Ahmed Murshed, Al Ain Contact Centre Manager for Etihad Airways added “It is an honour to have received the award but it’s one that has been supported by the hard work of all the teams in Al Ain. We will continue to drive the performance of the contact centres for the benefit of the company while supporting our guests with quality services as they make their travel plans on the airline’s network.”

In 2017, the company also launched an Etihad Airways Partners (EAP) Shared Services centre in Belgrade, Serbia. The new facility performs contact centre and loyalty operations in Europe for Etihad Airways, Air Serbia, Air Seychelles and Etihad Regional.

Other packages include are ‘Fly With Me Lonely Planet Kids’ and ‘Fly With Me Animals Magazine’.

Meals and special products for babies and children on all routes include: Toiletry kits with wet wipes, cream, bib, teething ring and tissue pack; child-friendly liners for the bassinet and baby

food, formula, feeding bottles and diapers For children on all routes Emirates offers recently designed meal trays featuring the Emirates Little Travellers and Special kids meals which can be ordered in advance In addition, Young travellers

on Emirates receive specially designed headphones for a better fit and they can enjoy dedicated channels of children and family programming. These fun and colourful new headphones have larger speakers for a more comfortable fit and improved sound quality.

Regional Manager, Commercial Operations, West Africa, Afzal Parambil (middle) flanked by some of the children dressed in Emirates cabin crew and pilots’ uniforms during the Children’s Day party organized by the airline in Ikeja City Mall in Lagos on May 27th, 2017.

Delta Airline brings global junior achievement partnership to Africa Delta Air Lines has expanded its global support of Junior Achievement (JA) by partnering with the organization in Africa.

With the development, the airline will sponsor JA Africa’s Innovation Camps and Company of the Year (COY) programmes in Lagos, Nigeria, and Dakar, Senegal, over the next 12 months.

Speaking on the partnership, Delta’s Commercial Director East and West Africa, Bobby Bryan said “We have seen the benefits young people gain from Junior Achievement initiatives and extending Delta’s association to more of our global mar-

kets will enable a greater number of students to achieve their academic and career goals. We are looking forward to working with the organization and hopefully inspiring more young people to consider a career in aviation.”

The COY programme is the signature showcase for both JA and the high school students who complete the initial JA Company Program®. The annual event allows young people to demonstrate in a competitive environment how their business and entrepreneurial acumen will engage business, education and

policy leaders.

The Company Programme empowers groups of young people aged 15-19 to set up and run a real business over the course of an academic year. They make all the decisions about their business, from deciding on the company name and product, to creating a business plan, managing their finances and selling their products. The winners from the Lagos and Dakar national competitions, along with twelve other countries where the scheme runs, will be invited to take part in the African final later this year in Johannesburg.

Dana partners TV show to boost entrepreneurship Dana Air has signed a partnership agreement with the Africa’s Young Entrepreneurs (AYE) Reality TV Show in bid to harness and develop the youths through entrepreneurship.

It said in a statement that the partnership is aimed at nurturing entrepreneurial ideas for the association with a view to helping all members reach their potential with the requisite skills and technical support.

The Communications Manager of Dana Air, Mr. Kingsley Ezenwa, said while signing the partnership agreement: “As a responsible corporate organization, we are committed to helping young entrepreneurs actualize their aspirations and we

believe there is no better way to reduce crime rate, and unemployment than supporting initiatives like this.’’

As part of its commitment to supporting youth development, the airline recently introduced special fares for members of the National Youth Service Corps and students, a gesture that beneficiaries had described as rare in an industry full of crises.

Appreciating the partnership, the Regional Manager of A.Y.E, Mrs. Joy Michael, said the body, with its 12 million members, is where the world connects with Africa’s young and fast-growing number of entrepreneurs.

According to her, “A.Y.E has

successfully expanded to 20 African countries including the United States and England with the world’s most successful businessmen and women as the trustee honorary members and executives to the organization.”

She stated that A.Y.E has identified in the last four years, showcased and equipped budding and emerging entrepreneurs with relevant resources to either commence or scale up their businesses.

“Nigeria’s most creative and youth-conscious airline Dana Air is partnering with us and we encourage other well-meaning brands to come on board, as this promises to be bigger and exciting,” she stated further.

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There are still good people in the industry –Minjin Former Kennis Music act, Adewale Lawson Junior, better known as Minjin, anthem across the shores of the country.

Now signed on Swaga Records, Minjin who is famous a musician is not just an act to be side-lined in the industry as artistic work and creativity cannot be

Are you saying that your music is a means to an end?

Yes, sometimes you see artistes on billboards and you wonder how they ended up there because they are not cute. But the truth is that they have perfected their brand and it is bringing a lot of fan base. Every product that wants to sign you will want you to acquaint people with their brand. So, if my music is where it should be, all the endorsements will come

As an actor, Minjin has equally featured about his music career and working with

Working with Swaga Records started more like friendship. Even when I was at Kennis Music he was supporting me. Often times, he would call me and say Minjin, I heard that you are shooting your video, let me come and support you. He is a Malaysianbased promoter who has a label. After my deal with Kennis Music ended, we had been working without

really like and people see it and say you look good.

However, to answer your question I think it is my body this for me without making money. Start something because I work out. If you have a good physique, years, but if you build this brand Swaga Records, we what will appear ordinary on other people will look can build something. You support me and I support good on you. I love comfortable wears. the label and it grows big and we all have a beautiful relationship afterwards. So, we came together and he I used to model, but I am now more concerned bigger projects because we have signed documents. about endorsement. I have a body that can do any kind of endorsement. It is just for the music to be there and people can relate the music to the person.

I get a lot of experience from a lot of musicians and Timaya is one of them. I am a person who likes to work with sing different songs on the same kind of beat. You have to be able to blend.

So when Orbeat called me and said

would love this beat. He spoke with Timaya and having listened to the song, he decided to jump on it.

Well, I know that it is hard to believe, but that is the truth. Besides, there are still good people in the industry.

A lot is in the pipeline presently, I have been working hard to put out good music and of course my art work is also bumper package with God by my side

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