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NSE: 10 firms record N1.37trn equities in 9 months Motolani Oseni, Lagos

No fewer than 10 firms listed on The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) traded N1.37 trillion values of equities in nine months, ended September 28, 2018. https://plus.google.com/+DailytimesNgr/posts

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The firms include Stanbic IBTC Stockbrokers Limited; Rencap Securities (Nig) Limited; CSL Stockbrokers Limited; EFCP Limited; FBN Securities Limited and Chapel Hill Denham Securities Limited.

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Why we dumped Ambode – APC stakeholders Electoral Panel declares Sanwo-Olu winner with 970,851 votes, Ambode 72,901

Lagos Gov concedes defeat, wants Lagosians to support Sanwo-Olu

Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu (middle); Senator Musiliu Obanikoro and others during Sanwo-Olu’s press briefing after his declaration as the winner of the APC governorship primary election in Lagos...on Wednesday.

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...10 firms record N1.37trn equities in 9 months Continued from page 1 Ltd; United Capital Securities Limited; Cardinalstone Securities Limited and Meristem Stockbrokers Ltd. The Daily Times checks revealed that the 10 firms recorded a 68.38 per cent total value of equities transaction traded on The Bourse in nine months starting from January 2 to September 28 in the year under preview.

The breakdown of the 10 broking firms showed that Stanbic IBTC Stockbrokers Limited led the chart recording N394.96 billion or 19.66 per cent.

Rencap Securities (Nig) Limited followed with N253.5 billion or 12.62 per cent while CSL Stockbrokers Limited occupied the third spot with N204.04 billion or 10.16 per cent.

EFCP Limited closed the nine months as the fourth top broking firm,

recording for N182.5 billion or 9.08 per cent, just as FBN Securities Limited traded N98.32 billion or 4.89 per cent to absorb the fifth position.

Chapel Hill Denham Securities Limited traded N66.6 billion or 3.31 per cent to be the sixth best broking firm, while Cordros Securities Ltd held the seventh position with N50.3 billion or 2.50 per cent.

United Capital Securities Limited accounted for N48.97 billion (2.44 per cent), just as Cardinalstone Securities Limited reported 2.20 per cent and Meristem Stockbrokers Ltd recorded 1.52 per cent traded equities valued at N21.7 billion and N21.1 billion to hold the ninth and 10th positions respectively.

According to our correspondent’s findings, firms’ transactions in equities

were from an inflow of Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs), local institutional investors and equity exposure in mutual funds.

Their primary clients are foreign portfolio investors, while a few of them have significant equities exposure through their collective Investment Schemes (CIS) or mutual funds through which they access trading volumes weekly.

Before now, analysts have noted that these companies have some of the most diversified portfolios of clients which others envy. Over 200 active stockbroking firms are operating in the NSE. Analysts disclosed that in addition to being the most significant trading houses for FPIs, they also play big among the local institutional and high net-worth investors.

Buhari calls Leah Sharibu’s mother, vows to rescue abducted schoolgirl Mattew Dadiya, Abuja

President Muhammadu Buhari has spoken with Mrs. Rebecca Sharibu, mother of the Dapchi Secondary schoolgirl, Leah, who was kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists and vowed to rescue her.

Buhari gave the assurance during a telephone call on Wednesday, adding that his administration will do everything it would take to bring Leah Sharibu back home.

The President consoled the Sharibu’s family and assured the parents that the Federal Government would do its utmost for the safety and security of their daughter.

The President said during the telephone conversation with

Leah’s mother: “I convey my emotion, the strong commitment of my administration and the solidarity of all Nigerians to you and your family as we will do our best to bring your daughter home in peace and safety.”

He assured the mother that his heart was with her family, as that of the entire nation which continues to pray for the safe return of “our daughter, Leah.

The Daily Times recalls that on February 19, 2018, at about 5:30pm; 110 schoolgirls aged 11–19 years old were kidnapped by the Boko Haram terrorist group from the Government Girls’ Science and Technical College (GGSTC), Dapchi, located in Bulabulin, Yunusari

Local Government Area of Yobe State while Leah Sharibu was among the abducted schoolgirls.

But on March 21, the Federal Government announced that the terrorists had returned 106 of the kidnapped children, including 104 girls who went to school, one girl who did not make it and a boy.

But one abducted Christian girl was not released because the Boko Haram said the sect would only release her if she converted to Islam.

Ever since, Leah has been in captivity without any information from both the state and Federal Governments about efforts made to rescue her until this telephone call to the parents by the President on Wednesday.

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L-R: Former Akwa Ibom State Governor, Otuekong Idongesit Nkanga; Senate President and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant, Dr. Bukola Saraki and Chairman of Akwa Ibom State PDP, Obong Paul Ekpo, during Saraki’s meeting with the PDP delegates in Uyo...on Wednesday.

L-R: Governor-elect of Osun State, Mr Gboyega Oyetola and INEC National Commissioner, Mr. Solomon Soyebi, during the presentation of Certificate of Return to Oyetola in Osogbo... on Wednesday

One of the vehicles recovered from the controversial mining pond in Dura Du, Jos South Local Government of Plateau State.

Some members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) jubilating after the declaration of Mr. Jide Sanwo-Olu as winner of the party’s governorship primary in Lagos...on Wednesday.

Photo: Olawale Rotimi

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Lagos APC primary: Why we dumped Ambode for Sanwo-Olu – APC stakeholders Patrick Okohue and Benjamin Omoike, Lagos Following the defeat on Tuesday of the incumbent Lagos State governor Akinwunmi Ambode in the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary in the state, which was won by the anointed candidate of the leaders of the party, Mr. Babajide SanwoOlu, some stakeholders in the party have given reasons why the mass of the members of the party in the state turned their back on the governor.

This is even as the governor has accepted defeat in the primary election and congratulated the winner, Sanwo-Olu, on his victory, promising to work with him in the interest of a greater Lagos.

A leader of the APC in Mushin area of Lagos, who would not want to be named, accused the governor of running an exclusive government where the views and opinions of the people are not sought on any issue, but rather the governor only consults with his kitchen cabinet, alleging that the governor is not receptive to ideas and opinions even when offered.

He also accused the governor of deviating sharply from the policies and programmes of his predecessors.

He said: “We now have a dirtier Lagos because of the policy he brought up through Visionscape and he is not ready to listen to advise given to him by leaders.

“The idea of PSP is to engage people at the grassroots, even though operators of the PSP are leaders of the party at the grassroots, the idea is to engage

those people locally.

“Just like the issue of community policing, you cannot properly police an environment if you are not part of that environment, so the issue of carting away of refuse is being done locally at the hinterland and these are the people involved in it.

“Again the issue of road network, there is potholes everywhere; traffic in Lagos at peak hours has increased drastically.”

Reminded that Ambode tried dealing with the issue of traffic by building better bus stops to remove traffic from the roads, he said: “Tell me, how many general hospitals did he build in the last three years?

None, unlike his predecessor, Fashola. Fashola built about 12 general hospitals. The health sector in the state is suffering, you are building bus stops yet the roads are not good.

“You are getting money from source from the local government allocation, yet the inner roads at the hinterlands are bad. That aside, the Airport Road, Fashola said there is money set aside to construct that road, as Federal project. He said no he wants to handle it by himself and started blackmailing Fashola that he is not giving him room to operate.

“You don’t also burn the bridge through which you rose to power.

The party leaders were the ones who supported you against all odds. Asiwaju supported you, other party leaders supported you, when you got to office, you didn’t listen to them again, you would not take their advise, you don’t play God. “The man is very mean and

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arrogant. The reason is not farfetched, the man is not a politician, he is a civil servant, he is not versed in governance, administration and politics. His own specialised area is accounting and governance goes beyond accounting. Really I am very happy the man lost, it is a personal victory for me that the man is not going for second term,” he said.

Also speaking earlier before the primary about the grouse of political leaders have against the governor, a member of the House of Representatives, representing Ikeja Federal Constituency, Hon. James Abiodun Faleke, said: “First, it is very very unfortunate that the sitting governor could find himself in this mess, it is quite unfortunate because if he has done more of listening, he would not be where he is today.

“Secondly is that he should not forget when he was brought to us.

He should not forget when he was introduced to the politicians, he was never a politician but part of the civil service, before he retired.

“When he was brought to us, we fought and stood with him without money. He had no money.

The other opponent had enough money to spend. I am sure if you could remember, there were many adverts in the newspapers, front and cover pages, then we didn’t collect one kobo from him when we were asked to vote for him.

What works in Lagos is not money politics, what works in Lagos is loyalty and structure.

“So, my advice to him is to reach out to the leaders and abide by their advice because of tomorrow.

We don’t want him to go down in history as the Governor that came but never returned.

“You remember that in Fashola’s second term he had minor issues, but it was quickly nipped in the bud. This one started long time ago and it was not nipped in the bud.

That is why he found himself where he is today. The entire structure is for Sanwo-Olu. You know as politicians, we will deceive you and laugh, we would lie to you that we have capacity, but when the time comes, the capacity is nowhere, it is unfortunate, but that is politics”.

However, in congratulating his opponent, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Governor Ambode said that the progress of the state and interest of the party remained paramount over and above any personal interests.

According to Ambode in a state broadcast on Wednesday, he said he had remained in the vanguard of ensuring that Lagos made tremendous progress in his time as governor, becomes a state to be reckoned with in the nation.

The Daily Times recalls that the state primary election was marred in widespread controversy, with allegations in some quarters that some of the governor’s supporters were denied their franchise in some wards.

It was also reported that the governor refused to vote in his ward, saying that the party had not put all necessary modalities in place for the conduct of the election. This and other perceived

ASUU rejects proposed hike of N350,000 tuition fees, okays new minimum wage Yakubu Salisu, Kano

The Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) has rejected plans to introduce the payment of tuition fees in the Nigerian Universities of about N350,000, while supporting the call by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) for a new minimum wage.

ASUU Zonal Coordinator, Kano Zone, Mahmud Muhammad Lawal, made this known on Wednesday in Kano during a press conference organised at the end of the union’s zonal meeting over the looming crisis in the Nigerian University System.

According to him, the plan to introduce the unimaginable sum of N350,000 as tuition fee is nothing but a calculated attempt by some persons to destroy the nation’s public universities, a move, he said, the union will resist vehemently.

He said: “Let me make it clear to you that it is in our constitution that education is a right and public good, therefore, the Nigerian state has the responsibility to provide qualitative and sound education to its citizenry.

“The move is aimed at destroying our public universities.They want to

rob the poor man the opportunity of obtaining a degree, because we all know that such a huge amount will force many out of schools.

“The union will not accept that. We want the government to meet up to the educational needs of the people by releasing funds into the sector and creating enabling environment for learning and not introducing systems that would prevent an average Nigerian from obtaining education”.

Lawal decried the living conditions of Nigerian workers, whom he said are underpaid considering the cost of living in the country and as such ASUU as an affiliate of NLC supports the struggle for new minimum wage for the workers as it is almost seven years since the last increase.

He stressed that the National Minimum Wage (Amendment) Act 2011 recognised that Minimum wage should be reviewed after every five years, but said however that the condition of Nigerian worker is appalling and dehumanising because average worker in the country is not paid a living wage.

He lamented that for over two years now, government has deliberately delayed the process of negotiating

a new minimum wage for workers, saying that the development has apparently undermined workers productivity and efficiency.

Muhammad also expressed displeasure over failure by the Federal Government to honour the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the two parties concerning the 2009 ASUU/FGN Agreement.

He said however that issues such as the release of N20 billion revitalisation fund for public universities in the country, release of the forensic report on earned academic allowance, the release of Nigeria University Pension Management Company (NUPEMCO) as well as issues of poor funding and proliferation of the universities are yet to be addressed.

Reacting to whether the union would embark on strike anytime soon, the zonal coordinator said the union is exploring every possible means of pushing home its demands but would have to use every necessary means at its disposal and the industrial action if that is the only available option the government listen to.

anomalies had necessitated the Governorship Primary election Committee set up by the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party and led by Chief Clement Ebri to declare the results of the election a nullity, even though the state party chairman had endorsed the results.

However, the party’s national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, overruled the position. But Clement Ebri, Chairman of the Committee, later clarified that after resolving some of the hiccups, the Lagos State APC Governorship Primary Committee collated the results from the 245 Wards in the 20 Local Government Area (LGAs) from the collating officers and that at the end of the exercise, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode scored 72,901, while Babajide Sanwo-Olu scored 970,851 of the votes cast.

Following these results, therefore, the Chairman of the Lagos State APC Governorship Primary Committee confirmed Babajide Sanwo-Olu as the winner, as earlier pronounced by the Lagos State chairman of the party, Mr. Tunde Balogun and endorsed by the party’s national chairman.

Conceding victory, Ambode said: “Dear Lagosians, APC is a great party and the interests of our beloved state must always supercede that of any person or group. It is in this regard that I wholeheartedly congratulate the winner of the Lagos State APC primaries, Mr. Babajide SanwoOlu and urge all Lagosians to immediately support our party’s gubernatorial candidate in the 2019 election and work for the success of our dear party.

“The progress of Lagos State is non-negotiable. It is a project that I have passionately worked for in the last three and half years as your governor and one to which I will forever be devoted”.

Governor Ambode stated that the last few days had witnessed intense political activities that had gripped the attention of the nation and created palpable tension in the polity. He said he strongly believed that the time had now come for the state to move forward in order that the gains of the last three and half years were not lost.

He added: “As governor, I will do everything possible to ensure a smooth transition in the remaining period of this administration and ultimately to the new governor, come May 2019.

“I therefore appeal to all our party members that we remain one family and unite behind the candidate of the party, so that we can continue to move this state forward.

“I wish to use this opportunity to thank our national leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and the leadership of our great party at state and national levels, all party faithfuls and all Lagosians.”

Ambode also thanked all Lagosians for their faith and trust in him, and urged them not to relent in their support for the APC as the party prepares for the General Elections.

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I’ll resign if EFCC arraigns Saraki’s aide, REC: Supreme Court faults others over N3.5bn fraud INEC on Osun gov poll Peter Fowoyo, Abuja

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday arraigned Gbenga Makanjuola, the Deputy Chief of Staff to the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and two others over alleged involvement in N3.5 billion fraud.

Makanjuola was docked alongside Melrose General Services Limited and Obiorah Amobi, on an 11-count charge bordering on the alleged offence before a Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos.

But Makanjuola and other defendants pleaded not guilty to the alleged offence.

Following their arraignment, EFCC’s lawyer, E. E. Iheanacho, asked that the defendants be remanded in prison while also seeking for a trial date.

R e s p o n d i n g , Makanjuola’s lawyer, Mr Paul Erokoro (SAN) drew the court’s attention to his

client’s bail application.

He said the application has been served on the prosecution and sought the court’s permission to move it.

Similar request was also made by Amobi’s lawyer, Omeoga Chukwu.

The duo later got the court’s nod to move the bail applications.

Erokoro said his client was a former member of the House of Representatives and as such he is prepared to face his trial.

He said. “My client is a full-time staff at the Senate and is not a flight risk. He was a member of the House of Representatives. I urge the court to grant him bail to prepare for his trial”.

Amobi’s lawyer, Omeoga Chukwu, also pleaded with the court to admit his client to bail on liberal terms.

But in his response, the EFCC’s lawyer, E. E. Iheanacho, urged the court to dismiss the applications on the grounds that the

defendants constitute a flight risk.

He said, “One of the defendants have absconded.

The chances that the other defendants will abscond are now higher with their arraignment. We urge the court to refuse the defence requests”.

Meanwhile, Justice Babs Kuewumi has adjourned the matter till October 9 for ruling on the bail applications.

Parts of the counts against the defendants read thus: “That you, Robert Chidozie Mbonu (now at large), Melrose General Services Limited, Gbenga Makanjuola and other persons at large sometimes in December 2016 in Nigeria within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, conspired amongst yourselves to disguise the unlawful origin of the sum of N3.5 billion paid into the account of Melrose General Services Limited and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section

18 of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act 2011 (as amended by the Act No. 2012)and punishable under Section 15 (3) of the same Act. “That you, Robert Chidozie Mbonu (now at large) and Melrose General Services Limited, between the 14th day of December, 2016 and January, 2017 in Nigeria, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court took control of N3.5 billion transferred from the Nigeria Governors Forum’s Account into Access Bank Plc Account Number, 0005892453 operated by Melrose General Services Limited when you reasonably ought to have known that the said fund represented the proceeds of unlawful activities to wit: conspiracy, stealing and fraud, and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 15 (2) (d) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act 2011 (as amended by the Act No. 1, 2012) and punishable under Section 15 (3)of the same Act”.

USAID pledges additional $4.67m for North East development Adebisi Oyindamola, Abuja

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced an additional $4.67 million to support social and infrastructural development in the northeastern part of Nigeria.

This is part of the new financial support of $65.5 million outlined to assist the country’s developmental

objectives.

In a statement released in Abuja on Wednesday, the international development agency disclosed that it had also fixed $1.5 million to help reduce and deter violent conflicts and extremism in the region.

According to the statement, an additional 4.67 million will go toward a new activity aimed at strengthening the ability of the state and local governments in the

northeast to deliver essential public services to their constituents.

“Of the new funding, $59.33 million will support activities under the U.S president’s partners closely with the government, the private sector, philanthropies, multilateral institutions and civil society to assist people living with HIV”, the agency disclosed.

The newly announced increment is in line with the five-year funding agreement

between Nigeria and USAID of $2.45 billion, adding that so far $1.17 billion representing 48 percent the pledged has been reached.

The Mission Director USAID Stephen Haykin, following the announcement, stated that USAID “is pleased to reaffirm our partnership with Nigeria to strengthen human capital institutions, and to promote the health and opportunities for all Nigerians”.

Bianca Ojukwu, others flee as gunmen disrupt APGA primary in Anambra

Gunmen on Wednesday invaded the venue of the Anambra South senatorial primary of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) at the Township Stadium, Ekwulobia, in the Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State.

The gunmen scared away delegates and disrupted the primary.

The widow of the late Igbo leader, Bianca Ojukwu; businessman, Nicholas Ukachukwu; and the son of a First Republic Aviation minister, Ikenna MbazuluikeAmaechi, are major contenders in the senatorial

race on the platform of APGA. It was gathered that a certain disgruntled senatorial aspirant mobilised the hoodlums to the venue of the primary, with the intent to disrupt the exercise.

The Commissioner of Police, Anambra State Command, Garba Umar, subsequently led a team of policemen to disperse the thugs.

The Police also released canisters of teargas and fired several gunshots to scare away the thugs The exercise was temporarily suspended as of the time of filing this report.

The party had, on Tuesday, disqualified oil magnate, Ifeanyi Uba, for not obtaining a waiver to contest the

Bianca

election, having dumped the Peoples Democratic Party for APGA a few months ago.

The Resident Electoral Commissioner in Osun State, Mr. Olusegun Agbaje, has vowed to resign his appointment if the Supreme Court finds the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) guilty in the conduct of the recently concluded governorship election in the state.

Agbaje spoke in Osogbo on Wednesday during the presentation of Certificate of Return to the Osun State governor-elect, Mr Gboyega Oyetola, of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Oyetola and the Deputy Governor-elect, Mr. Benedict Alabi, were given the Certificate of Return by the National Electoral Commissioner representing Oyo, Osun and Ekiti states, Mr. Solomon Soyebi, at the INEC office in Osogbo.

The REC said those who were dissatisfied with the outcome of the election had the right to

seek redress at election petition tribunal where their case would be examined by the panel.

Agbaje said he and other INEC officials were very neutral and that they did not do anything to give any of the contestants undue advantage over others.

He said: “Nevertheless, I want to reassure the good people of Osun State, particularly our royal fathers and religious leaders, that I was extremely neutral throughout the period of the election. I can positively stress that my staff also did.

“However, if, at the end of litigation at the Supreme Court of Nigeria, the Commission is found culpable of not discharging its responsibility faithfully and diligently, I will take full responsibility for any such laxity, publicly apologise to all Nigerians and thereafter resign my appointment with the commission.”

FG partners UK to enhance disease control Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Public Health England (PHE) as part of measures to strengthen international disease control across borders.

With this agreement, the British public health institute would be helping Nigeria and four other countries to improve their International Health Regulations (IHR) in disease prevention, detection and control.

This partnership is coming days after two patients were diagnosed and hospitalised for monkeypox in the UK. The two patients were found to have travelled from Nigeria where there was an outbreak of the disease last year.

The MoU signed by both parties is part of a £16 million project funded by the British Department of Health to support capacities of public health institutes in five countries including Nigeria.

This is aimed at strengthening health security in the countries to reduce incidence of diseases trans-border crossing.

In Nigeria, the project will focus on disease surveillance, emergency preparedness and response, public health laboratory services as well as workforce development.

The outfit and NCDC are expected to collaborate in knowledge sharing, capacity building, laboratory upgrading aimed at achieving accreditation standards.

This would contribute to ensuring the world is much safer and less vulnerable from the threat of infectious diseases, officials say.

British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Paul Arkwright, at the signing called for strong collaboration among public health institutes to ensure global health security.

“The United Kingdom recognises that we must work closely with other countries in our efforts to build strong and resilient health systems globally,” he said.

On his part, the chief executive of PHE, Duncan Selbie, in his remarks said the IHR project is a “partnership and invaluable opportunity for both countries to learn from each other”.

He said by working together and sharing expertise, both countries would become stronger in tackling diseases and control and “that is the aim of the project”.

He added that the ultimate goal is to share knowledge, to be able to improve disease surveillance, increase technical understanding of the disease which would result in vaccine production to tackle most of the diseases in Nigeria.

NCDC will coordinate the IHR strengthening programme and provide staff to drive collaboration with the federal ministry of health and environment as well as agriculture and rural development, it was learnt.

The NCDC chief executive, Chikwe Ihekweazu said the agency is grateful to the British government for this opportunity “which formalises and strengthens the existing relationship between NCDC and PHE”.

He said the unit is looking forward to building to the cooperation, for national and global health security.

“IHR comprises all activities from prevention, detection and control of diseases. In recognition (of the fact) that we live in a global world and the diseases we face are common, we started this partnership with PHE and together we designed the programme activities for five years,” he explained.

Mr Ihekweazu said the “strengthening of health security in Nigeria will contribute to the strengthening of international global health”.

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Gun battle rocks Delta PDP Aniocha, Short News Oshimili Reps primaries Building collapse: FCTA to ... Party chieftains scamper for safety Nosa Akenzua, Asaba Sporadic gun shots on Wednesday rocked Delta State People’s Democratic Party (PDP) primaries for Aniocha/Oshimili House of Representatives slots.

In a mild drama, the primaries held at Cenotaph along Okpanam Road in Asaba with large crowd of people, after voting by the delegates, and in the process of counting, suddenly turned horror as unsuspecting thugs allegedly hired by one of the aspirants (name withheld) invaded the venue with gun shots renting the air under the nose of security agents who also scampered from the scene for safety.

Expectedly, the PDP primaries aspirants included: Goodwin Ndudi Elumelu, two time House of Representatives member, Joan Onyemaochi Mrakpor, currently

representing Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency, and one time Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Chief Peter Nwonsayan.

It was gathered that the results during counting was glaringly show in favour of Goodwin Ndudi Elumelu who was alleged to have properly “greased the palms” of the delegates with dollars to ensure his return, a situation Mrs Joan Mrakpor smelt a rat of failure after she was alleged to have spent fortunes on many of the delegates.

A delegate who spoke to Journalists on condition of anonymity said “the fight was between Mrakpor and Elumelu and the winning table was going in favour of Elumelu when the thugs invaded the venue with guns, shooting sporadically. They both spent money to buy delegates, but Elumelu spent dollars on us hence the table changed in his favour”.

Some supporters of the party including Journalists who took to their heels during the gun battle,

sustained injuries as they fell into potholes and stones after scaling the venue fence for safety.

Though the police responded immediately, but they were over powered by the thugs numbering over 50, and alleged senior cultists hired from Benin City Edo state and Ibusa near Asaba.

The state Commissioner of police, Mustafa Muhammad confirmed that six persons were arrested, adding “we will ensure perpetrators are brought to book, whoever involved will face the law, and the suspects will be charged to court”.

Chieftains of the party immediately disappeared from the scene while the party agents declined comments when Journalists sought comments from them.

Unconfirmed Sources said Mrs Mrakpor had three years ago allegedly created similar problem during primaries, a situation that ended in crisis, and was later declared a winner.

demolish illegal structures Idu Jude, Abuja The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) administration has moved to demolish illegally constructed public buildings as precautionary measures to mitigate building collapse.

This came to the fore as the Development Control Department of the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC) has upped plans to demolish abandoned uncompleted one storey building located within Nile Street, in the Maitama District of the nation’s capital city, for purportedly failing integrity test.

The Director, Development Control Department, Murktar Galadima, while conducting top management team on inspection and enforcement exercise around the Federal Capital City (FCC),Tuesday said there is no remedial measure that can be taken by anyone to safeguard the abandoned building, resulting in the decision to remove the structure within a week’s time, in order to avert looming disasters.

Plateau crisis: Military Task Force buries 3 soldiers Kingsley Chukwuka, Jos The Military Task Force in Plateau on Wednesday buried three of its young soldiers killed by assailants on September 6, in Barkin-Ladi Local Government Area of the State.

Speaking at the burial ceremony held at the Military cemetery, 3 Division of the Nigeria Army, the STF boss, Maj. Gen. Augustine Chris Agundu said the avoidable incident of September 6, led to the death of these gallant soldiers who battled armed militias in order to save the communities that were under attack.

“In recent past, the mere presence of troops serves as deterrence to the warring parties to toe the path of law and order, but unfortunately, service personnel are increasingly becoming victims of internal strife and most often their success stories go on noticed.

“It is evident that there exist armed ethnic militia groups sponsored or supported by some elites and elders who deploy the misguided youths into committing the worst of heinous crimes,” he said.

Ogun guber primaries: APC declares Akinlade winner

Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi, casting his vote during the Oyo South Senatorial District premises of Ibadan North Local Government, Agodi...on Tuesday.

The Ogun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has declared Hon. Adekunle Akinlade as winner of the party’s gubernatorial primaries held in all the 236 wards in the state, on Tuesday.

The party’s chairman in the state, Chief Derin Adebiyi, made the announcement at a press briefing, held at the APC secretariat, Iyana Mortuary, Abeokuta, yesterday.

He said Akinlade defeated five other aspirants with total votes of 190,987, in the election held in the 20 Local Government Areas of the state.

The chairman gave the details of votes cast in favour of other aspirants primary of the All Progressives Congress on the as follows; Mr. Jimi Lawal (5,046), Chief Dapo Abiodun (3,648), Otunba Photo: Governor’s Office. Bimbo Ashiru (898), Alhaji Adegboyega Kaka (833) and Mr. Abayomi Hunye (208).

He said the result of the exercise, which was conducted in accordance with the election guidelines of the party and supervised by representatives of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies, was duly signed by all relevant agencies. fore fathers left it. He advised that if Nigeria is to attain its full agricultural potentials, we must as a matter of urgency change the narratives saying that over 60 percent of the nation’s productive workforce must actively engage in agriculture as one sure way to ensure food security and job Yakubu Salisu, Kano creation for the country.

According to him, “our initiative is aimed at facilitating the emergence of a new generation of farmers/ entrepreneurs.

Senator representing Kano Central, Arch Kabiru Gaya has expressed With the launching of two e- agricultural optimism that his party would emerge victorious in the forthcoming platform, youths from around the country 2019 general elections as the outcome of the All Progressive Party (APC), can own a commercial farm from the primaries is a signal that President Buhari and Governor Ganduje will comfort of their homes. sweep the 2019 polls in Kano.

He said, the APC will garner large votes to stage a walk over on the Earlier in his remarks, Dr. Baba opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), stressing that the millions Oluwasheun of Institute of Tropical of vote recorded in the APC primaries in the state is an indicator that Agriculture, ITA, commended ISCOMS for President Buhari, Governor Ganduje and the ruling party in the state, still bridging the gap between local farmers and command and enjoy sympathy and mass followership. technology. He urged Nigerians, especially Gaya speaking on the outcome of the APC primaries in his Kano South the youths to join ISCOMS saying that the senatorial district, admitted that the primaries was keenly contested future of this country lies with agriculture. between himself, Hon Sumaila Kawu and AIG Yahya Zarewa (rtd).

Agric minister supports digitisation in Nigeria Mathew Dadiya, Abuja The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh has expressed the readiness of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture to support efforts that would digitize and improve agriculture in the country.

Ogbeh made this known on Wednesday during the 2018 farmers’ open day forum held in Abuja.

The forum was an awareness programme, organised by a group known as Initiative for Sustainable Marketing Society (ISCOMS), with the theme: “Digitization a Panacea for Youth Participation in Africa.”

The Minister, represented by Acting Director, Cooperative Policy and Programmes of the ministry, Alhaji Idris Sani, announced the Federal Government’s

willingness to partner with any group in digitizing agriculture, improve yields and ensure food sufficiency in the country.

According to him, “the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration is working hard to improve agriculture in line with its policy on Ease of Doing Business and Economic Growth and Recovery Plan, ERGP,” he said.

He urged participants who are mainly youths from various parts of the country, to take advantage of ISCOMS platform and partner with government in the efforts to diversify and grow the economy.

In his address, ISCOMS Executive Director, Joel Prince stated that the event afforded his group opportunity to motivate and engage youths actively into agriculture.

He drew the attention of participants to the fact that over 70 percent of agricultural practices in Nigeria is still done the way our

2019: Gaya expresses confidence on APC’s victory

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Daily Times Nigeria Thursday, October 4, 2018

Imperative of Driving Research and Innovation for Industry

Julius Adelusi-Adeluyi

Experts have shown direct links between efficient health system governance and promising health workers outputs, which ultimately have positive effects on overall health outcomes. However access to poor investments in research and development, quality drugs, distrust, dissensions and recurring conflicts among different professional groups in the health sector are some issues that have conspired to ensure that poor health outcomes still persist throughout the country.

As a collective that brings together distinguished pharmacists across different spheres of life, the Nigeria Academy of Pharmacy drives thought leadership and provides expert opinion on matters pertaining to the pharmacy profession and health outcomes in general. The Academy has championed the cause of interdisciplinarity, by working steadfastly to promote harmony and team spirit among all members of the health team and other relevant professions, so that every patient enjoys wholesome and beneficial health care. Our mentorship program in which we provide mentoring and support to young pharmacists is also progressing well, with several eminent pharmacists sacrificing their time to mentor and motivate these young professionals.

As I stated at one of our Investiture ceremonies, the Nigeria

Academy of Pharmacy owes a debt to society. We owe society a duty to help unravel better, safer, more convenient and more affordable medicines and treatment regimens for diseases that afflict mankind, especially those that are endemic to our region of the world.

It is for this reason that research is central to our operations, one of the major reasons, indeed, that the Academy came to being. We want to complement local and international efforts that support scientific research and research activities. Much of the work we have done in this regard has been in the area of advocacy, in engaging government and policy makers on the essence of scientific research and why it is critical to provide better funding and other moral support to scientific research focused institutions as well as individual researchers. We have also, by thought leadership, striven to bring these issues to the fore of public consciousness as a way of shoring up interest by the public and systematically pressurizing government to avail scientific research of more support.

In championing the cause of transformational change and innovation by encouraging industry, Research and Development and seizing the several technology advancement opportunities open to Pharmacare, we have birthed the Olu Akinkugbe Research and Innovation Centre of

the Nigeria Academy of Pharmacy.

This is a vehicle we have created to give enduring impact to research and development in Nigeria’s Pharmaceutical space.

Among other things, a pharmacy-driven Research and Innovation centre would serve as an enabling resource for Nigeria investigators involved in lead discovery and development even as our desire is to see pharmacy professionals increasingly engage and lead at multi-disciplinary research forums with a view to generating high quality medicines related research that in turn will provide insight and inform key policy and operational decisions across a wide portfolio of medicines-related issues.

It goes without saying that in a clime such as ours, the pharmaceutical sector has a special role as its products, safe and efficacious medicines are important in providing effective health care for the population.

In pharmaceutical industries across the world, medicinal plants have now become an integral component of research as they represent an unparalleled source of molecular diversity for drug discovery and development.

Our recent bestowal of a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Nigeria Academy of Pharmacy on Chief Oludolapo Ibukun Akinkugbe is a token of our appreciation of his enormous

strides not only in the Pharmacy profession but indeed in all other aspects of human endeavor. As he turns 90 in December, it is only fitting and proper that his number one constituency, Pharmacy, kicks off the celebration of an illustrious role model whose legacy of love, sacrifice and service would be forever etched in our hearts and minds. It is in the same vein that we induct General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma as only the second ever Honorary Fellow of the Nigeria Academy of Pharmacy, following in the footsteps of another respected statesman and General, Dr. Yakubu Gowon. He remains one of the most passionate supporters of the Pharmacy profession and a most generous benefactor of scientific research.

As an Academy, we will continuously create paradigms to elevate the relevance of the practice of the profession at all levels, particularly in the areas of improved patient care and international best practice. There has never been a more important time for pharmacy professionals to provide evidence of the contribution they make to the health and wellbeing of the nation than now. Whether we work in hospitals or the community, in academia or the high street, we’re all pharmacists and we need to work together to develop and enhance the standing of the profession.

Zamfara situation and matters arising

Kadaria Ahmed

“Often when people ask me where I am from and I say Zamfara State, the first reaction is astonishment. The jaws drop, the mouth opens wide and the eye brows lift. This is quickly followed by disbelief. I can almost predict to about five seconds, the time, it will take; that instance when the head begins to shake from side to side, before the word NO manages to escape the lips sometimes vehemently to go with the vigorously shaking head other times slipping out almost noiseless, a whisper, in rhythm with the slow shaking head on a body almost paralysed by shock.

But it is true. I am from the state with highest illiteracy rate in the whole of Nigeria. Which pretty much makes it one of the areas with the highest illiteracy rates in the world. Last year, only 28 pupils in a state with a population that is almost 4 million registered for the common entrance exam. In the same year, for the Senior School Certificate Exam NECO written in November/December only 186 students participated. The pass rate was an awful 13 percent, meaning only 24 students made the grade. The results for the last West African school certificate were no better; of Nigeria’s 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory, Zamfara came last. The indicators used to measure development are also abysmal. According to the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Index, 92 percent of the state’s population, that is 9 out of every 10 people, live in poverty.

Taking Zamfara, again, to the bottom of the list among all Nigerian states.

This is worse poverty than is found in a state like Borno which has been in a state of war for about 7 years although with bandits and castle rustlers rampaging across the state almost unchecked, the level of insecurity there is almost as high as that found in our war zones. Huge swathes of Zamfara are effectively ungovernable and controlled by bandits and rustlers,

essentially putting a stop to agriculture, the mainstay of the state.

The result of this is a population that barely ekes out a living and which is also left to battle with diseases like cholera and meningitis, illnesses that are history in other parts of the country. The Nigerian Medical Association Zamfara chapter has described health facilities in the state as poor. Specifically, they said the facilities are ‘inadequate’ and in a ‘sorry state’ with insufficient health workers. The World Health Organisation has described as “avoidable” the meningitis outbreak which killed hundreds last year.

To be clear, Zamfara, in reality, suffers from only one problem. Bad governance.

Every issue that dogs this state and its population can be traced to the curse of having successive governments who deliberately ‘governed’ for themselves instead of serving the general population.

When Zamfara started striving for statehood, the decision was partly fueled by the fact that Gusau, the town which eventually became the capital city of the state, was relatively affluent. Agriculture formed the bed rock of the industries that fueled this prosperity. These industries included a textile company, some ginneries, an oil mill, a sugar factory and a tannery whose raw materials came from the buoyant animal trade in the area. Run

by British giant, John Holt, the tannery processed hide and skin for export to Europe. Most people had a job enabling them to look after their families and live in dignity. Gusau also had a pluralistic population, with a diverse range of settler populations from across Nigeria. The result was a vibrant, thriving community whose future was bright.

Two decades after statehood, however, that future is not only dim, the state is facing an existential crisis. All the advantages the state had, have been frittered away.

Successive leaders have been visionless making no plans to mitigate predictable problems caused by a growing population and the impact of climate change, but more damaging was the deliberate politicization of religion.

As Governor, Ahmed Yerima introduced sharia to deflect from his many failures and in doing so set the state on a path of intolerance and the shutting down of political dissent on the grounds that those who opposed him were anti-God for challenging his status as the “anointed”.

The current Governor, Abdulaziz Yari, has also happily abdicated his responsibilities.

Recently, it was his public distancing from his job as Chief Security Officer. He said he was resigning from that particular role although he didn’t deem it fit to return the funds set aside for security known as the security vote. Last year, instead of providing basic health care for his people, he chose to blame them for the scourge of meningitis which killed hundreds.

He said that the people of Zamfara were being punished by God for their sins. Had we been really in that era when God was smiting sinners, Zamfara would have been a paradise because no doubt the first to go would have been those who have abused the trust and leadership bestowed on them. Alas, the people of Zamfara have not been that lucky.

Instead religion has been used to steal their ability to challenge leaders that are clearly failing them. In these upcoming elections, religion is once again being wielded as a tool. Some religious leaders have been using their mosques to preach that those who go against leaders are going against God because it is He who gives power. The irony is that this religiousity has not compelled these leaders to be honest and judicious in looking after the wealth and the people entrusted to them.

Both are required qualities of leaders in

Islam. But you won’t hear these clerics preach in detail the punishment reserved for leaders who betray their people as clearly spelled out in the Koran. No stern warning, nothing, just a continues admonition to the people of Zamfara to remain true to rogues who have refused to be true to them. The result is high unemployment rates, an uneducated, idle youth population prone to drug use and a general malaise and hopelessness which is fueling conflict and crime.

These forthcoming elections are therefore critical for the people of Zamfara.

Their circumstances are so dire, that if the state ends up with more of the type of leaders it has had in the last two decades, the areas in the state that remain habitable and relatively governable, are likely fall prey to the banditry and lawlessness that has made life hellish in the rest of 60 percent of the state.

There is everything to fight for in these elections and it seems, finally, the people of Zamfara who have been pushed to the wall are ready. The party that will win elections in Zamfara in 2019 is the one that is not only able to come up with viable, sustainable plans for the serious problems of the state, but is evidently able to implement them.

The quality of those seeking elective office needs to be stellar. Track records will be an important yardstick for determining who is capable of providing service to the people of Zamfara.

Any party that truncates the people’s right to choose those who will lead them in the name of anointing a successor should forget about winning elections in 2019. The situation in Zamfara is now desperate and its distressed people will do whatever it takes to unshackle themselves from failed leaders who want to continue governing by proxy. Zamfara will thrive again and if this means giving ‘godfathers’ a bloody nose, so be it!”

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Editorial Commentary Osun as metaphor

Times Guest Columnist Mohammed Adamu

The ‘Battle of Kruga’ is an interesting wild life footage screened by the National Geographic Channel. It is an epic battle in the wild by three groups of animals (a pride of lions, a herd of buffalo and a pond of crocodiles), each in claim of a little baby buffalo. The pride of lions after sending the herd of buffalo scampering, has settled for one of its stray, weak cubs, which, failing to make it past the edge of the pond of the crocodiles, slips in and is soon to be equidistantly grabbed –from the outside, by the fangs of anxious lions battling to save their hard-fought meal; and on the inside, by the jaws of crocodiles hoping to gain a ‘free meal’. But the ‘distress’ mooing calls of the poor baby buffalo soon elicits the right kindred response, as the herd buffalo in unison returns to take on the two top predators, and thus save their loved one. And although this may not necessarily be on ‘all fours’ –as lawyers would say when they compare the elements of two similar situations- the recent electoral battle for the political soul of the State of Osun, reminds one of the ‘Battle of Kruga’, with all its chilling, adrenalin-fueled effects.

In a previous piece titled ‘Four Days to Armageddon’ –written 96 hours to the 2015 presidential election- I had said, in the euphoria of a presumptive PDP victory, that Buhari could well be the proverbial ‘dan hakin da ka raina’, which the Hausas warn ‘shi zai tsone maka ido’. Meaning that, ‘the prickly little reed underestimated, may soon be the troubling speck in the eye of the underestimate’. PDP’s unheeding incumbency had soon suffered a blinded eye from the inadvertence of its hawky ones who had already foretold a sixty-five year unbroken hegemony. But we saw that, that prophesy of a threescore and five, by the time it had prematurely ended after only sixteen year, was still four solid years short of one score! Proof that the gods of politics truly do not brook the arrogant divination of meddlesome interlopers!

And it came to pass, that Buhari was ‘the prickly little reed disdained, which soon became the troubling speck in the eye of the disdainer. And I said the Yorubas have an adage allegorizing a similar situation. But theirs is in the form of a riddle requiring an answer: ‘Igi gangaran ma gunmi loju’, meaning: ‘thou crookedly-hanging object, hurt not my eye!’ And the one who solves the riddle replies: ‘okere latinwo’, -meaning it behooves those who are circumspect to stay out of harm’s way. And either for want of dialectical depth or for brevity’s sake, the city Yorubas are the butt of philological humor, because they answer the riddle in an urbane form of anglicized Yoruba: ‘wa dodge-ye’ (just dodge it).

But who would’ve thought, in the just concluded gubernatorial election in Osun State, that PDP’s Adeleke, the loafing dancer, could be ‘the prickly little reed’ in the Hausa adage which the APC would so terribly underestimate -almost to its own eternal peril? Or who would’ve thought that the lollygagger-senator with ‘sawdust’ where men should have brains, could be that ‘crookedly-hanging object’ -Igi gangaranin the Yoruba riddle which the APC would make a terribly poor job of ‘dodging’? And to imagine that Adeleke did not promise anything but heat, sweat and floor-banging body moves.

His message to the people of Osun being: ‘you school and go to the polls, I dance and go to the Government house!’. Or maybe he would say: ‘you deal with the ‘one-plus-one equals two, and all the subject-object-verb-complement, and I will put them all in the rhythm of my feet to provide good governce!

The irony about the Osun election is not that a virtual illiterate, was set up for such an elite political office, but that a ‘penitent’ political party, the PDP, which sings a fetish of wanting only ‘educated’ politicians in elective and appointive offices, had no qualms propping up for contest, a man who could not even pass the only paper he had registered for at O-Levels. Nor is the irony about the Osun election merely that an ‘awaitingtrial’ was about to be Governor, but that his party, which had insisted that an excellent Finance Minister should leave office for the inadvertence of falling prey to touts, still had no scruples fielding an exams cheat. The PDP has blatantly refused to hold the candle to others, even as it vehemently resists having others hold a candle to it. Even in its feigned contrition, the PDP still loves and thrives only on the notorious. A muckrakingbraggart, Fayose, a blood-baying cultist Wike, a street-brawling clown Dino Melaye and a saberrattling ethno-religious bigot Fani Kayode are still the proud epaulets of ‘honor’ that adorn the shoulders of this unrepentant Party, the PDP. And just recently in Osun, we saw them put forth the Party’s latest outgrowth of notoriety: a groovy, do-nothing-but-dance panjandrum of the legislative office whose only ‘credential’ is that he ‘has no credential’.

Adeleke did not say that he was going to ‘talk’ his way to the government house! At least he was honest enough not to promise what evidently he could not deliver. Just the way his party’s presidential aspirants have been careful not to promise anything other than the ability to defeat Buhari. Rather he said he would ‘dance’ his way to the government house. And guess what? He almost did! Or, as his gambling sponsors still believe, he, in fact did. And the irony of it was that it was the loafing, do-nothing-but-dance ‘nonentity’ that left all the other contending ‘entities’ at the debating hall and almost made it to office. While the serious ones were busy trying to ‘out-talk’ each other to the government house, the unserious one was perhaps somewhere brushing his dancing stilettos and rehearsing for the inaugural. The PDP has virtually taught the APC yet another lesson: that ‘talk’ is truly cheap like base metal, but that ‘dance’ can almost be verily precious like diamond. And it thus raises the question: ‘to what avail is a pre-election debate when those who should require it to make informed choices will ignore those who have painstakingly prepared and debated, to vote the one who only danced?

Epilogue And now Fela’s lyric is coming crookedly into the detail. The PDP is now the proverbial ‘Teacher-Teach-Me-Nonsense’. Now the PDP is teaching APC how it must fish in fiendish, slimy and putrescent waters or it must wither and die.

APC cannot afford any longer to shun the only putrid table available in the devil’s only game: After Osun a terrible lesson is learnt; that no party survives which sups with the PDP using ‘long spoon’. The APC is learning, albeit the hard way, that when you dine with this very devil, you must use bare hands! You grub and you grab! Dome-I-do-you! Tit-for-tat’! A Roland for an Oliver.

You must Move to kill, or you wait to be killed.

You rig in, to avoid being rigged out! This is the lesson that PDP is teaching its opponents. That you cannot beat them unless you learn not only to play their dirty game, but you must be able to beat the at their game! Osun is an ill-foreboding metaphor for our democracy, but what can we do? Let the end justify the means!

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Political parties and mode of recruitment

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he Nigeria political space is daily evolving with new ideas, development and initiative by key players aimed at making things better, yet daily people have reasons to complain about things in the practice of politics in the country that gives them concern.

Why many believe that things will get better with time, it is a surprise that many people who should know how things are done in other climes where things seem to be working are among those who will fight such innovations being introduced in the country, especially when they suspects that such innovation will not benefit them personally on the long run.

One such case is the recent introduction of the direct primary in electing party flag bearers as recently used by the Adams Oshiomhole led executive committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the governorship primary for the Osun State election.

However, though many people complained about the direct primary, alleging all manner of fraudulent activities in the process, there is no gain saying that the boldness of the party leadership to introduce direct primary in the selection of party flag bearers is an idea whose time has come and rather than fight it all lovers of democracy should join hands in ensuring that it not work within the APC, but that other political parties including the main opposition, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) embrace it.

Before talking about the gains that direct primary will bring into the Nigeria political space, it is important to first look at the shortcomings of the indirect primary, otherwise known as the delegate system.

It will not be farfetched to say that the direct primary has created a system in the political space where money is the order of the day.

It is a system where people are picked from the ward, local government and states, depending on the position being contested, to go into an agreed place to elect the party flag bearer.

It is common knowledge that people fight to be elected delegates, not necessarily because they love the candidates or the party so much, but because they know the benefits of being delegates and it is also public knowledge that political office seekers have accused either party leadership or other contestants of hijacking delegates and preventing others access to them to campaign.

But in reality, when politicians talk about not having access to delegates it is actually talking about not having opportunity to buy them over to their side with cash, so indirect primary has become a case of the highest bidder and the higher the position sought the higher the benefit that accrues to the delegates.

Indirect primary also encourages the godfather syndrome, where a powerful power broker in the particular party in the area seeks to control political activities in his zone and ensure all political office seekers in his area of influence differ to him and nobody can become anything unless he sanctions it.

The direct primary as practiced in other developed political climes like the United States

of America, from where Nigeria borrowed its democratic system, sees to it that every candidate standing election is selected through the direct primary option by voting from state to state, which is why an African/American like Barack Obama and lately a non establishment businessman, without serious political affiliation like Donald Trump could emerge as American Presidents.

Besides reducing the cost of prosecuting an election, which would mean that people with ideas but without deep pocket can successfully stand election, as the chances of buying all voters at the primary is seriously reduced, the direct primary also ensures that members of the party takes ownership of it and have a say in who bears the party ticket.

Direct primary will also help to grow the party as more persons who ordinarily will not want to register as party members because they believe they cannot have a say in the system will be more confident to register as members of the party, knowing that they too will participate in electing party flag bearers.

The direct primary option in picking party flag bearers remains one option which will help develop the political space in Nigeria and create room for an all inclusive system that will on the long run give the people not only a sense of belonging in the party, but a sense of co-owner of the party, knowing that their input counts within the system.

Therefore, the direct primary option in the selection of party flag bearers is an idea whose time has come.

S i g n at u r e Publisher

Folio Communications Plc

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Amnesty programme ‘ll transform Short News Makarfi promises loans, job Niger Delta, says Dokubo opportunity if elected president Joseph Inokotong, Abuja Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, Prof. Charles Dokubo, on Tuesday expressed optimism that new policies and objectives for Presidential Amnesty Programme under his watch will transform the Niger Delta region.

He however, warned that the Amnesty Programme cannot effectively serve its purpose if the people of the Niger Delta are not bonded by a common interest to develop the region.

Speaking in Abuja when a delegation of the South-south Chiefs, Elders and Opinion Leaders Association of Nigeria (SSCEOLAN) paid him a courtesy visit, Dokubo said the Niger Delta region will attain giant strides if the people can positively utilize the instrumentality of the Amnesty Programme provided by the federal government.

“When the federal government brought this programme where we are training our people and sending them abroad, they did it because it is a necessary action.

So, we are going to carry out this

programme in an all inclusive manner. Wherever you are from the Niger Delta, you must be part of this programme. I’m here to carry out what I call reintegration, training, retraining and bringing out Niger Delta people so that they can be as qualified as any other person in Nigeria”.

In a statement by Murphy Ganagana, Special Assistant (Media) to Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator, Amnesty Programme, while expressing dismay over what he described as pull-him-down syndrome prevalent among the people of Niger Delta, Dokubo urged them to be united and work for a common goal.

“I cannot claim to know everything, but I also know that with your experience you can always direct me on the right path so that we can do things the right way. I came into this place not to criticize anyone but to start from where I was appointed. What I met here is not what I’m here to talk about, but we are all from the Niger delta. Our idea of pulling down people is too much, and I will not be part of that. For me,

where I want Niger Delta people to look into is how we can use this office to benefit our people.

It is not about personal gains; it is about community development.

Let us stop agonizing and start organizing, because if we do that, we will help ourselves.

The best thing I have seen in this organization is that we come from different places, but we have one objective. If we can have one objective in the Niger delta, half of our problems will be solved.

My fear is that after 20 years, if we cannot uphold the Niger delta, we cannot empower our people, then Amnesty will kill Niger delta. I always tell people like that, because the type of behaviour I have seen in this place, where personal interest overrides regional interest, really beats my imagination”.

Dokubo gave assurance of his determination to deliver on the mandate handed him by President Muhammadu Buhari, who he said has the interest on the Niger Delta region at heart. But he emphasized that due process and statutory provisions will be his guiding principles in the performance of his duties.

Samuel Luka, Bauchi As electioneering activities climaxes ahead 2019 general elections, presidential aspirant under the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and former National Chairman of the Party Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi has vowed to if elected, provide interest free loans to students wishing to further their education.

Makarfi who made the promise at the weekend when he visited the Bauchi State chapter of the Party to solicit support of delegates for the upcoming presidential primaries said beneficiaries of the loans would repay when they get employed.

According to him today’s leaders had enjoyed free education in the past but have now failed to provide same to their subjects, hence his resolve to give the education loan if he emerges president.

Aside from the education loans, the one-time governor of Kaduna State promised to create jobs to teeming youths in the nation through agriculture and mining if elected.

Makarfi who stated that he is in the race to rescue the country bragged that he was not desperate to rule the country noting that he would have succeeded Obasanjo in 2007 when he was anointed by him but sacrificed his ambition to late President Umaru Yar’adua.

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Ondo APC faults clearance of senators by NWC, Short News accuses Boroffice of anti-party activities Ajimobi clinches Oyo APC Adewale Momoh, Akure The Ondo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has kicked against the clearance of three serving senators in the state by the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party to contest the 2019 general elections.

The three senators were cleared unopposed while others seeking to get the party’s ticket were all disqualified including the preferred candidates of the state’s governor.

In the list released on Tuesday and signed by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, the incumbent senators who received the NWC’s nod were: Ajayi Boroffice (Ondo north), Tayo Alasoadura (Ondo central) and Yele Omogunwa (Ondo south).

Among those who were not cleared

by NWC is Chairman, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko Governing Council, Dr. Tunji

Abayomi (Ondo North), and the Ondo representative on the NDDC Board, Lucky Ayedatiwa (Ondo South) who are believed to be the “anointed” candidates of the Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu.

Others not cleared also included the former Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Victor Olabimtan, Morayo Lebi, Pastor Jide Ipinsagba, Gbenga Elegbeleye, Dr. Adeoye Julius Olatunji Felder, Mr. Odunayo Akinrinsola and Engr Janet Febisola.

The development had reportedly caused confusion in the camps of Akeredolu and the state chairman of the party, Ade Adetimehin said well as other party members in the state, hence the emergency stakeholders meeting of the party in the state.

In a statement issued by the party’s Director of Media and Publicity, Steve Otaloro after the meeting, the state chapter of the party accused the senator representing Ondo North Senatorial District of the state of scheming to destroy the party and adviced its national body on the allow a level playing field for all aspirants.

The statement reads: “Senator Ajayi Borroffice and his disciples are walking the path of destroying the party in the state by stirring commotion, disaffection and wide spread apathy among the members of the party, who have sacrificed all they have to put the Party in the enviable position it occupied in the state “Among other things, it was noted that the senator has never contributed any thing whatsoever to the activities of the party in Ondo State.

“Secondly, the senator would always indulge in anti party activities, one of which nearly cost us the recent governorship election in the state, but for the commitment of our loyal members who stood their ground and worked assiduously for our victory.

“Every politics is local, as they say, but Senator Boroffice’s type of politics is a deviation. He hobnobs with the power that be at 40, Blantrye street, Wuse, Abuja, mud-slinging the leadership of the party in the state to get his wish done, to become presented as the only candidate for the coming senatorial election.”

South senatorial district ticket Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has clinched the All Progressives Congress (APC), ticket for Oyo South Senatorial District in the primary election conducted by the Chief Ademola Seriki-led electoral panel.

He defeated Dr. Fola Akinosun by 2,659 to 168 votes, to seek a return to the Red Chamber, where he represented the state between 2003 and 2007 under the platform of the defunct Alliance for Democracy (AD).

Announcing the result in the early hours of Wednesday, Seriki said that the exercise, which started around 6:30pm, was delayed due the late arrival of voting materials from the national headquarters of the party in Abuja.

The Oyo South senatorial district spans nine local government areas, which are Ibarapa North, Ibarapa East, Ibarapa Central, Ido, Ibadan North, Ibadan South-East, Ibadan South-West, Ibadan North-East and Ibadan NorthWest.

Osinowo debunks automatic ticket for serving Lagos Senators ... Says he is ready for primaries Patrick Okohue, Lagos An All Progressives Congress (APC) senatorial aspirant for Lagos East Senatorial District, Honourable Sikiru Adebayo Osinowo has stated his readiness for the senatorial primaries of the party.

Hon Osinowo, a member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, also dispelled the rumour going round that the party has given some incumbent senators return tickets as well as the report that he was not cleared for the primaries by the screening committee of the party.

“The APC senatorial primaries takes place on Thursday and I want to use this opportunity to call on our party members to troop out en-masse and exercise their rights and vote for the candidates of their choice,” he said.

The Lagos East Senatorial aspirant dispelled the rumour that some incumbent senators have been given automatic tickets. “There is nothing like that, if some people are given automatic tickets, the party will inform us, nothing of such has taken place,” he said.

Land encroachment: Lugbe residents send SOS to FG/FCTA Idu Jude, Abuja

Edo State Commissioner for Wealth Creation, Cooperatives and Employment, Hon. Emmanuel Usoh (3rd right); Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Special Duties, Mandela Obaseki (right) and other business executives during the Business Clinic in Benin City, Edo State.

‘20% of FCT residents live in city centre’ Idu Jude, Abuja Former Acting Director, Satellite Town Development Department (STDD) of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Architect Victoria Imande, has said that 20 percent of the FCT population live in the city centre as more than 80 percent live in satellites towns and slums due to financial constraints.

She made this known Tuesday while speaking on the topic: “Slum upgrade for indigenous settlements, Appraisal of Resettlement policies- The way forward”, in continuation of Abuja 2018 Urban Thinkers Campus, an initiative of the United Nations Habitat World Urban Campaign.

She added that, 80 percent of the nation’s capital residents cannot afford millions of naira charged for accommodation in the city centre hence they find solace in peripheral urban areas where houses can go for

One hundred thousand, two hundred thousand naira or less.

According to her, “one litre of water in peripheral urban areas such as Jikoyi, Gwagwalada, Karu, Dutse Alhaji among others cost N1.25 official price, while people living in the city centre pay as low as N0.1 naira enjoy more water than those paying higher.

“The waste generation in satellite towns are enormous and causes unpleasant environmental population because they are predominantly farmers and generate more waste and need to have drain’s in places to avoid flood and waste water components.

On what to do to upgrade the settlements, Imande said the solutions is on the integrated urban development, which is about inclusiveness, to design a city where there is economic activities, creating the right atmosphere for investors and thereby creating job for the unemployed.

She however, said FCT must provide sustainable portable water, Solid

waste management, flood and waste water component, transportation and capacity building.

Meanwhile, in his presentation on the topic: “Access to an Integrated Transportation system for all, Integrated Urban Mobility”, Engr.

Christopher Chigboh, former Secretary, Transport Secretariat, FCTA said if the nation’s capital must grow, transportation must be taken seriously.

He opined that vehicular movement must be balanced, saying, in most cases, during week days there is always mass influx of vehicle into the city center and minimal vehicle out of the city center.

According to him, FCT must cut time wasted on the roads saying, this is why workers are always resuming late to work, and close early to avoid holdup on their way home.

He also said Wuse market, Amingo supermarket be relocated to satellite towns.

The last has not been heard of the various uncovered land grabbing cases inherent in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) due to several irregularities in land allocations.

Daily Times recalls that the present administration on assumption of office frowned at irregularities being experienced by land allottees and had set up committees to ameliorate such.

Tuesday October, witnessed yet another land dispute between the Lugbe Community Residential Development (CRD) and the River Park Estate owners.

The CRD site situated at Airport Road, which covers about 474 hectares of lands, was said to have been acquired by members of the public since 1996 with its separate layout, until recently when a developer, River Park Estate, allegedly moved in with armed men and police officers to unleash mayhem on the innocent residents.

Senators Akinyelure, Alonge, Tofowomo win PDP tickets in Ondo Adewale Momoh, Akure Senatorial candidates that will be flying the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) flag across the three senatorial districts of Ondo State during the 2019 general elections have emerged.

The candidates emerged during the primaries conducted across the senatorial districts of the state.

In the Northern Senatorial District which comprised of six local government areas of Akoko North West, Akoko North East, Akoko South West, Akoko South East, Ose and Owo local government, where three aspirants contested for the party’s ticket, Segun Philips-Alonge (Akoko North West local government) was announced the winner with 339 votes ahead of his closest rival, Tokunbo Modupe (Ose local government) who pulled 280 votes and Saka Lawal (Akoko North West local government) with a total of 98 votes.

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Glo offers Smartphones, data bundles, Short News accessories at retail outlets Buhari to attend NDA graduation on Saturday

Subscribers to data grandmasters, Globacom, now have another opportunity to purchase the latest Smartphone, accessories and data bundles at very affordable prices at the company’s retail outlets, Gloworld.

This is made possible by the second edition of its Smartphone Festival, a promotion which “gives the best deals on the latest Smartphones and accessories with exciting rewards for as low as N12,800 and up to six months of bundled data”.

The scheme is designed to make the Gloworld outlets nationwide a one-stop shop for all phone and communication

needs. lobacom, while announcing the return of the offer, said, “there are lots of benefits with a variety of devices to choose from.

Some of the unique benefits are best prices for genuine devices that come with free accessories on purchase from any of the Gloworld outlets across the country”.

The company explained that any prepaid or postpaid subscriber who visits a Gloworld outlet during the offer period to buy a Smartphone will enjoy the stated benefits. The offer began on September 25 and will end on October 11, 2018.

The brands and models of handsets offered in Smartphone Festival include

Samsung, Nokia, Tecno, Imose, Inflix and Huawei, Globacom said, adding that the phones “are exclusive to Gloworld outlets and not at Glo Zones and Glo dealer outlets”.

Globacom, which marked 15 years in August, has continued to delight its subscribers with innovative and affordable products and services. It recently launched Oga SIM, which offers unmatched data bonus to subscribers and enables them to stay connected and do so much more on the Internet.

It also recently introduced Glo Yakata which gives up to 2,200% bonus on every N100 recharge and above.

President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to attend the passing out of the Regular Course participants of the Nigeria Defence Academy (NDA) on Saturday in Kaduna, the institution said in a statement.

The statement was issued by spokesman of the institution, Major Abubakar Abdullahi on Wednesday in Kaduna.

He said that the event would affect vehicular movement around the institution and advised motorists to use alternative routes.

“Consequently, Kawo-Mando-Airport road in Kaduna will be busy from 5 am-5 pm., road users who do not have anything to do around the area are advised to use alternative routes to avoid unnecessary bottleneck.

“The alternative routes are; Airport-Rigachukun and Mando-Rigasa Railway station-Rigasa-Nnamdi Azikwe road,” Abdullahi said.

365 cadets of the NDA regular course, two of them from Republics of Togo and Benin, would pass out during the event.

The NDA would also offer honourary doctorate degrees to prominent businessman Mohammed Indimi, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, President, African Development Bank, and Lt.- Gen. CI Obiako, a former Military Adviser at the United Nations.

Ondo APC senatorial crisis: Oshiomhole must resign now - Aggrieved aspirants Adewale Momoh, Akure

Scene from fuel tanker explosion in Akure... on Wednesday.

Many feared dead as fuel tanker explodes in Akure Adewale Momoh, Akure A petrol tanker carrying 33,000 liters of petrol on Wednesday evening fell at Shagari Village junction on Akure-Owo expressway, Akure, the Ondo State capital, allegedly killing five people including a toddler.

The incident was said to have occurred few meters to an NNPC petrol station.

The tanker, after falling, was said to have spilled its content on the road and later caught fire, burning no fewer than seven vehicles, among which were a commercial bus and six private cars, as well as many motorcycles. Two houses and many shops along the road were also affected.

According to an eyewitness, the deceased were occupants of the burnt vehicles. He narrated that the deceased were trapped and burnt inside the affected vehicles The eyewitness said, “ The tanker was on a high speed when a Toyota Corolla car suddenly crossed the road, as the tanker

driver was trying to avoid hitting the car, he served off his lane and the vehicle fell on the car and later caught fire immediately. “ The eyewitness added that it took many hours after the fire had started before the men of

Ondo State Fire Service arrived the scene to put it out. Some men of the state police command and the men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps also made efforts to avoid more casualties.

2019: I’ll name my campaign council after convention - Buhari Mathew Dadiya, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has said that he will soon bring all speculations to an end by naming a Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) to lead the All Progressives Congress, APC, to victory in the February 2019 general elections.

Buhari said that he was aware of the yearnings by Nigerians for the formation of a full Presidential Campaign Council towards the APC’s victory in the presidential elections.

He added that he appreciates the growing interest that Nigerians have shown on the

issue.

He said, “I am conscious of their keen expectation.”

But the President implores members of the party and the public to exercise some patience regarding the constitution of the PCC. “For now, the President and the party executives are focused on the APC convention scheduled for Saturday, October 6. The Presidential Campaign Council will be put in place after the convention.

“We are the party that will free Nigeria from corruption and poor governance. We are the party of change. We will not let the country down,” Buhari added.

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhole has been given a 24- hour ultimatum to rescind the “purported” screening of only three senatorial aspirants in Ondo state or resigns from office.

The ultimatum was given by one of the affected aspirants who was screened out by the NWC, Dr. Tunji Abayomi at a press briefing together with other affected aspirants.

Abayomi stated that Oshiomhole is not fit and proper to led the party going by what he described as “audacious impunity” by the national chairman during the screening.

He maintained that the process was orchestrated to disenfranchised members of the party from electing their preferred candidates as the NWC never sat to screen any of the aspirants.

“If he fails or succeeds as Governor, certainly he has failed tremendously as National Chairman of the party.

“The tragedy is that he was elected to reduce the crisis of the party but he has assumed the position to increase in mindfold the crisis.

“In order not to kill the APC, please, Mr. Adam Oshiomhole resign now, it would be wrong to underestimate the character of the people of Ondo state”.

He further explained that he has written to Oshiomhole to explore the internal mechanism of the APC as stated in the party’s constitution or face a redress in court.

“It is necessary to remind him that we have been in the fore front of the struggle for change in Nigeria from pre-independence until now.

Sen Akume wins Benue APC NorthWest senatorial primaries Former Senate Minority Leader, Sen. George Akume, has won the All Progressives Congress (APC) Benue North-West senatorial district’s ticket.

Chief Mutiu Are, the APC’s Electoral Committee Chairman in the district, announced the result on Wednesday.

Akume, who represented the district four times at the senate, was returned unopposed.

Are, who conducted the election by affirmation, asked those who were in support of Akume’s candidature to affirm by voice vote.

He declared Akume winner after the affirmation of the yes votes.

In his acceptance speech, Akume, also leader of the party and two term Governor of Benue, commended the good people Benue for returning him unopposed.

He promised never to disappoint his supporters and urged them to unite for the battle ahead.

FG calls for prioritisation of quality seeds Tom Okpe, Abuja The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbe, has encouraged farmers and investors intending to go into agribusiness to prioritize quality seeds and verify authenticity from Nigeria Agriculture Seeds Council (NASC) before planting adding that, “good result cannot be achieved at the end of the day without quality seed”.

Ogbe, represented by the director, Plantation Program in the Ministry, Quadiri Olalekan, stated this on Wednesday during the road march for improved seed adoption in Abuja, however warned fake seed dealers to desist from the business or risk jail term.

To make quality seeds available to farmers in laying good foundation for diversification of the economy through agriculture, NASC restated its commitment to encourage global best practices.

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Afreximbank wants banks to key into AFTRAF for improved performance Motolani Oseni

L–R: Head, Transaction and Electronic Banking Sam Aneke; Head, Customer Engagement and Experience Centre, Michelle Nwoga and Head, Intelligence and Strategy, all of Diamond Bank plc, Linus Iwuajoku, during the Diamond bank Customer’s week Celebration held in Lagos.

Global squeeze on emerging markets responsible for foreign reserve decline - CBN Motolani Oseni The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Wednesday explained that recent reduction in the level of foreign reserves does not have to do with political actors, but because of the global squeeze on emerging markets, which was consequent upon increasing interest rates in the United States of America.

Director of Corporate Communications at CBN, Isaac Okorafor, disclosed this while speaking during the CBN Special Day at the ongoing 13the Abuja Trade Fair.

He explained further that other developing and emerging markets like Turkey, Brazil, South Africa, Argentina, and even China were facing a similar dilemma.

He gave the assurance, however, that despite the fall, the present $44 billion was capable of financing between 14 and 17 months imports which are way above internationally acceptable three months.

He also gave assurance to the customer of defunct Skye Bank that their deposits were safe in the succeeding Polaris Bank.

Okorafor declared that Polaris Bank has been duly registered by Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and licensed

by CBN. He noted that the overall impact of CBN’s numerous interventions will continue to enhance the operational capacity of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).

These interventions the CBN said, “has translated into a reflation of our economy with attendant growth and development.”

The CBN he said will continue to ensure that it delivers on its core mandate of ensuring monetary and price stability. However, it cautioned that “it will also continually roll out proactive and innovative policies which would

ensure that all economic sub-sectors especially the SMEs in Agribusiness receive the desired support.”

According to Isaac Okorafor, “we are determined to ensure that Nigeria’s economy remains in a state of consistent growth even as we focus on economic diversification and national food sufficiency.”

Speaking earlier, President, ABUCCIMA, Prince Adetokunbo Kayode had commended the apex bank for being focused and visionary in the regulation, preservation, and stabilization of the integrity of our currency.

“In the area of Development Finance, has ensured the supply of finance to various sectors of the economy which has promoted the growth of the economy in a holistic manner making development, welfare improvement to proceed at a faster rate.

“Similarly, the Nigerian Payments System has witnessed remarkable achievements in the recent past, with the introduction of some initiatives under the Payments System Vision 2020.

“The Monetary Policy Committee of the bank which has the responsibility of formulating monetary and credit policy has also done remarkably well in either adjusting of retaining key indicators.”

Kayode said the 13th Abuja International Trade Fair seeks to promote accelerated development of commerce and industry; promote revitalization and diversification of the Nigerian economy by promoting the nation’s non-oil exports; direct attention to the role of the private sector in the Nigerian economy; provide access to resources and technology findings; and attract foreign investment into the Nigerian economy

Customers Service Week: EEDC takes safety enlightenment to schools Moses Oyediran, Enugu The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) says it will further take its education and enlightenment of students on electrical and electricity safety in secondary schools within the SouthEast.

The Manager, Customer Service of EEDC, Mrs. Ijeoma Ogudebe, said this in Enugu while revealing the 2018 EEDC Customer Service Week, with the theme: `Excellence Happens Here.’

Ogudebe noted that one of the major activities of the week would be visiting

some select schools in states within the South-East to further educate and enlighten the students on safety issues especially as it concern electrical and electricity safety.

She enumerated other activities lined up for the Customer Service Week, which included: visiting of some key customers; community service by staff as well as checking the customers’ health vitals as they visit the office.

“EEDC appreciates its esteemed customers, as it commemorates this year’s Customer Service Week. EEDC is leveraging on this global event to appreciate its customers for their support and cooperation over the years.

“Customers are the reason why we are in business, and we are using the occasion of the Customer Service Week to express our appreciation to them while reassuring them of our continued commitment to serving them better,’’ she said.

Ogudebe said that the week would commence from Tuesday, Oct. 2 to Saturday, Oct. 6, adding that customers that visit EEDC Corporate Head Office and any of its 18 district offices are sure of a special treat.

The manager noted that also, refreshment and souvenirs would be presented to customers, while there would be lucky dip game, where some

customers who have been committed to clearing their bills would win gift vouchers.

“To ensure we improve on the quality of our customer service, we have set up a 24/7 Call Center where customers can call and make enquiry or lodge complaints.

“We have equally recruited and assigned Customer Service representative at our 147 Service Centers, as well as at our 18 district offices across our franchise area.

“Our utmost desire is to ensure that our customers are happy with the quality of services we offer them, and we won’t rest until this is achieved,’’ she said.

In a bid to improve their business performance, the African ExportImport Bank (Afreximbank), has charged African banks to key into the Afreximbank Trade Facilitation Programme (AFTRAF).

The AFTRAF, which was recently introduced by the African ExportImport Bank, representatives of the Senegalese banking sector heard during the week in Dakar.

Speaking during a roadshow to introduce AFTRAF, Fatma Bao, Manager in the Afreximbank Guarantees and Specialized Finance Unit, said that the programme was structured to enhance the confidence of counterparties in the settlement of international trade transactions for critical imports into Africa, support intra-African trade and facilitate the purchase of equipment for production of export goods.

She said that the programme was being offered to African financial institutions in response to the increasing de-risking of African banks as a result of stringent compliance and regulatory requirements imposed by international banks.

The Afreximbank team described the programme as the Bank’s response to the recurring trend of reduction or withdrawal of trade lines to African banks by the international banks following the derisking process.

“Afreximbank wants to understand the needs of the Senegalese market and the current obstacles facing you to satisfy these needs so that we can cooperate with you to improve the country’s trade,” said Ms Bao. The roadshow was held as part of a strategy to allow Afreximbank expand its coverage of Africa and to onboard Senegalese banks to the AFTRAF programme. It also aims to enhance cooperation between Afreximbank and the local banks in order to grow the nation’s economy.

Similar roadshows are planned for several other African countries.

Participating in the roadshow were Coris Bank, Ecobank, Banque Régionale et de Marché Banque EL Amana-Mauritania, Banque Nationale pour le Développement économique, BGFI Sénégal, NSIA Bank, and Banque Islamique du Sénégal.

In addition to Ms. Bao, the Afreximbank team included Okechukwu Ihejirika, Senior Manager in the Banking Operations Department; Ismail Kamara, of the Trade Finance Department; and Abdalla Rehab of the Client Relations Department.

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Naira gains as CBN injects $210m into FX market Motolani Oseni The Nigerian currency, Naira on Wednesday gained slightly against the US Dollar at the Investors and Exporters (I&E) FX window, as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) again injected the sum of $210 million into the Interbank Foreign Exchange Market.

The Naira ended yesterday trading activities at N363.78 per dollar at the investors’ FX window, better than N363.94 recorded on Tuesday.

The I&E FX segment recorded a total turnover of $313.30 million against $392.90 million sold the

previous day.

At the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) official interbank market, the Naira stood at an unchanged official interbank of N306.40 to the dollar.

But remained unchanged at the parallel market, closing at N361 to the dollar; N478 to the pounds and N418 to the Euro at the end of yesterday trading.

Figures obtained from the CBN on Wednesday, October 3, 2018, indicate that authorized dealers in the wholesale segment of the market were offered the sum of $100million, while the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) segment received the sum of $55

million. Similarly, customers requiring foreign exchange for invisibles such as tuition fees, medical payments and Basic Travel Allowance (BTA), among others, were also allocated the sum of $55 million.

While confirming the figures, the Bank’s Director, Corporate Communications Department, Mr. Isaac Okorafor reiterated the CBN’s commitment to continue to boost interbank foreign exchange market to ensure liquidity in the market and sustain stability in the market.

It will be recalled that on Friday, September 28, 2018, the Bank injected the sum of

$210million into the inter-bank foreign exchange market.

Meanwhile, the Naira on Wednesday, October 3, 2018 exchanged at an average of N361/$1 in the BDC segment of the market.

It would be recalled that the apex bank last week, also injected sun of $210 million into the foreign exchange (FX) market through the Secondary market Intervention Sales (SMIS) of which $100 million was allocated to Wholesale (SMIS), $55 million was allocated to Small and Medium Scale Enterprises and $55 million was sold for invisible.

World Heart Day: Power Oil celebrates with Pay with Calories Campaign Joy Obakeye In commemoration of the annual World Heart Day and also in a bid to encourage Nigerians to adopt healthy lifestyle, Power Oil staged the 5th edition of its annual health promotion campaign “Pay with Calories” to hold on the same day, particularly to sensitize the public about ways to nurture the heart to a perfect condition and how to maintain a healthy calories body system.

This was further established during the activation tagged ‘Power Oil Pay with Calories 5.0’ held recently in Lagos and also at various locations in Ibadan in form of street engagement. During the Lagos activation everyone had the opportunity to get on the exercising equipment for at least 5 minutes to burn some calories, after which they got rewarded with amazing gift prizes based on the amount of

calories being able to burn on the spot within the allotted time.

The campaign created an exciting atmosphere for the brand to cater to its customers’ health in a fun, relaxing and rewarding manner. Various labeled gift items were laid out for consumers to pick from equals to the amount of calories burnt.

Speaking on the activity, the Brand Manager, Power Oil, Miss.

Amisha Chawla, said “Pay with Calories is actually one of our major events being held annually, interestingly this edition has coincided with a day when the heart is being celebrated worldwide.

Power Oil as a brand, seeks to help to build healthy families, and by implication a nation of strong and healthy citizens by providing them with nutritious products of quality standards.

According to the Public Relations Manager, Power Oil, Mrs. Omotayo Azeez- Abiodun, during the activity at festival

Eko Disco to give free prepaid meters Ladesope Ladelokuni The Management of Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) says it will give 100 free prepaid meters to its customers during the company’s “Customers’ Service Week.”

Its General Manager, Corporate Communications, Mr Godwin Idemudia, who made this known on Wednesday, said it was aimed at ensuring 100 per cent customer satisfaction.

Idemudia, in a statement in Lagos also said that the EKEDC management decided that customers that paid their electricity bills to date without outstanding would have free meters through a raffle draw.

“Please note that meters will be issued to the 10 lucky customers per district.

These customers must be regular in paying with zero outstanding.

“The customers who will be entitled to the free meter must have no record of energy theft and had no record of hostility towards our staff,” he said.

Idemudia said that the EKEDC’s district and commercial managers were required to send 20 names of customers that fall

under the categories before 12 noon on Thursday.

“A raffle draw will be done for 20 customers per district, while only 10 customers will qualify.”

The EKEDC spokesman said that the company was rated high in metering and billing efficiency in the 2018 first quarter report of the National Electricity Regulation Commission.

He said that the company was currently rated the lowest in terms of Aggregate Technical and Consumer loss, adding that newly acquired smart meters would be rolled out soon.

Idemudia said that the EKEDC was constantly doing its best to ensure effective delivery in spite of constant pipeline vandalism which had affected power generation and resulted in transmission constraints.

He said other challenges included bypassing of electricity, energy theft as well as stealing of cables.

He said that the company’s Customer Service Week which has commenced, with the theme: ”Experience Happens Here’’– would afford customers the opportunity to have all their complaints addressed.

Mall, who said the experiential campaign was borne out of the necessity to encourage Nigerians to further become mindful of their heart health by making efforts to maintain good body fitness and possibly eliminate unhealthy consumption habits, as these factors are important to lowering

the risk of blood pressure and heart-related ailments.

“And because the world Heart Day is a symbolic event for us, we went a step further to enter into the streets of Ibadan to engage consumers to some caloriesburning moves while they get to win gifts in exchange.”

TVS celebrates Nigeria’s independence with free rides Ladesope Ladelokuni In a bid to celebrate Nigeria’s Independence and our customers, TVS the sole distributors of TVS Keke & Okada in Nigeria provides free ride to Nigerians to solidify unity in diversity.

TVS in a statement in Lagos on Wednesday stated that the free rides were slotted for selected locations across the country (Lagos state, Kano, Abuja FCT, Ibadan & Maiduguri).

“Drivers in our branded motorcycles and tricycles in Lagos transported masses to their various place of work/school.

“As a showcase of appreciation, this act portrays that the happiness of Nigerians is key to the TVS Brand”, it stated.

TVS feels elated to help make movement easier for Nigerians and our customers. “We’re extremely happy to celebrate Nigeria’s 58th Independence with Nigerians. We look forward to future celebrations with you”, the statement added.

NSE: Investors trade shares worth N2.05bn Mathew Dadiya A total of 172.196 million shares valued at N2.05 billion were traded in 2,866 deals on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Wednesday.

These were against the 222.956 million shares worth N3.28 billion traded in 3,327 deals on Tuesday.

The market capitalization, however, depreciated by N55 billion or 0.45 per cent to close at N12.034 trillion from N12.089 trillion recorded on Tuesday.

Similarly, the All-Share Index, which opened at 33,114.44, lost 151.17 basis points to close at 32,963.27.

Dangote Cement led the price losers’ chart with a loss of N5 to close at N205, while Berger and Stanbic IBTC followed, depreciating by 70k each to close at N6.30 and N43.30 per share, respectively.

Nascon dropped 60k to close at N19, while Custodian declined by 40k to close at N5.04 per share.

Conversely, Total Oil topped the price gainers’ table with N1.10 to close at N181.10 per share.

Zenith Bank gained 95K to close at N21.40, while GTBank followed with a gain of 50k to close at N37.50 per share.

UBN lost 20K to close at N5.30, while UAC-PROP dipped by 17K to close at N1.87 per share.

Fidelity Bank was the toast of investors, trading 33.81 million shares worth N57.28 million in 277 deals.

GTBank sold 27.29 million shares valued at N1.02 billion in 189 deals, while UBA traded 1977 million shares valued at N165.83 million in 159 deals.

Transcorp traded 12.87 million shares worth N16.34 million in 75 deals, while Zenith Bank traded 12.34 million shares worth N263.57 million in 272 deals.

L-R: Mbonu Gold Adaeze, Ecobank Customer; Adeola Elliot, Chief Executive Officer, Stephen’s Innovation Nigeria Limited, Ecobank Customer; Patrick Akinwuntan, Managing Director, Ecobank Nigeria; Elizabeth Osikanlu, Ecobank customer and Emmanuel Mayaki, Head, Operations and Technology, Ecobank Nigeria during the flag off of Customer Service Week by Ecobank in Ikorodu, Lagos.

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Oct 16: Fayose, Fayemi’s priorities as Ekiti anxiously await new dawn Patrick Okohue History will be made in Ekiti State, come October 16, 2018 as Dr. Kayode Fayemi of the All Progressives Congress (APC) will be sworn in as the 12th Executive Governor of the state.

The outgoing governor of the state, Mr Ayodele Fayose, will hand over power to Fayemi from whom he incidentally received the baton of leadership of the state on the same day in 2014.

Fayemi who during his first term in office was elected on the platform of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) that later became APC and Fayose of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are the two top politicians who had the privilege of ruling the 22 years old state in immediate turns.

Fayemi who was defeated by the incumbent governor of the state in the June 21, 2014 election also in turn defeated Professor Kolapo Olusola of the PDP who incidentally is the deputy of Governor Fayose, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the July 14, governorship poll.

As the handing over day beckons, Ekiti people are anxiously looking forward to when the Governor- elect of the state, the Ilufemiloye 1, a.k.a. the dynamite and Legbegbe, will be inaugurated as the Governor of Ekiti State for the second time.

The people are anxiously awaiting the new dawn hoping that their lives would be better this time around, having been able to compare and contrast between the present state of the state’s financial position with when Fayose took the mantle of office then in 2014 and now that Fayemi is being expected to assume office and restore what many Ekiti are referring to as their lost glory.

It will be recalled that immediately Governor Fayose was declared Governor-elect in the state, rather than pre-occupy himself with the task of how to tackle the myriad of problems being faced by the state before he was sworn in on October 2014 as governor for the second time, he started behaving as if Ekiti has been willed to him as a personal property.

First, Fayose wrote to the banks in 2014 instructing them to stop granting credit facility to Dr. Fayemi for payment of salaries and pensions while he threw all his daily needs and expenses to Fayemi, such that anyone who was vigilant then would know Fayose never had any better plan that could actually eradicate people’s suffering but to increase it, and this was evident with the debt profile of Ekiti State that was reported to be in the range of N18 Billion before it has now been increased to the N117 Billion by Fayose.

The latest Ekiti debt profile was made public recently when the Transition Committee set up by Fayemi submitted its reports.

Before Fayose’s inauguration in 2014, record has it that Fayose approached Fayemi to approve funds for him for a trip to Dubai on vacation which Fayemi graciously granted him and two of his aides then.

As if that was not enough, Fayose allegedly went to Coscharis Motors to acquire a brand new bullet-proof Range Rover Jeep and a brand new power bike to serve as his outrider

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without following due process, only to pass a bill close to N100 million to the Fayemi’s administration which the then government obliged, all in the interest of peace and smooth take-off of the new administration then.

But now, the Ekiti people have eventually seen the resultant effects of Fayose’s ill preparation as they went through hell throughout the four years occasioned by government inflicted poverty, hunger and backwardness through his decision not to pay salaries while many agencies, industries and Banks that would have assisted in boosting the economy of the state were chased away through obnoxious policies of his administration coupled with heavy tax burden imposed on them.

For Dr. Fayemi, since he has been declared the winner of the July 14 election and the Governor-elect, he is said to be having sleepless nights on how to achieve Ekiti of his dream

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in terms of catching up with other financially stable states by making sure that Ekiti is liberated from the shackles of bondage of darkness and chain of poverty.

Fayemi has since been seeking assistance, cooperation and support of various Agencies, parastatals of Federal Government, powerful organisations within and outside the country to support his conceived plan of making sure that the crawling state receives life and walk again to glory.

The agencies he has visited for assistance include the AFD (Agence Francaise de Development) for the implementation of the economic development programmes in Ekiti State, investing in private sector development through credit lines for informal and formal sectors including small and medium scale businesses.

The aim is to extend access for SMEs to medium and long-term credit by developing a range of financial

The people are anxiously awaiting the new dawn hoping that their lives would be better this time around, having been able to compare and contrast between the present state of the state’s financial position with when Fayose took the mantle of office then in 2014 and now that Fayemi is being expected to assume office and restore what many Ekiti are referring to as their lost glory.

products tailored towards the needs of the poorly funded entrepreneurial groups, improvement of public finance management by assisting Ekiti State in improving tax revenues and improving the economic environment which is necessary for investments, as well as seeking the technical support and strategy, including any and all measures aimed at improving the ease of doing business and setting standards that will improve private investments in the state.

He is also seeking funding opportunities in alternative sources of energy; with all his efforts, Ekiti State is hoping to improve alternate and sustainable (renewable) energy sources for its private sector and proposed industrial clusters in the state.

Dr. Fayemi has also visited international agencies to seek for collaboration in his bid to purchasing agro-processing scheme that is aimed at stimulating investment through agro-processing(agri-business) enterprises in its most productive agricultural produce that will impact on employment in Ekiti State. This would help enhance agricultural productivity of small and medium scale farmers and improve value addition along priority value chains. In addition, it will achieve some human capacity development, employment, modernised machinery and equipment, competitiveness and productivity improvement.

Also, among the Federal ministries that have so far been visited by the Governor–elect to seek Federal Government intervention on infrastructure, others for Ekiti ahead of his assumption of office was the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola Dr. Fayemi who out of his desire to ensure speedy development of infrastructure in the state had visited the Federal Ministry in a bid to form partnership in the development of the state had told Fashola during his visit to him in his office that, “Your ministry is going to be very crucial to the success of

our administration, particularly in the area of infrastructural development.

“We have been having discussions on unofficial basis, so, I think it is important we make it official to identify areas we can partner in our rebuilding efforts,” he said.

The governor-elect said that the Federal Government’s activities were being noticed in the state through its ongoing housing, roads, electrification and the Federal Secretariat projects.

Fayemi maintained that the Federal Government could do more, adding that Ekiti was a rural and agricultural state where infrastructure was most needed.

In his remark, Fashola commended the governor-elect for the visit, adding that the developmental initiative of the current Federal Government was party blind.

Fashola assured Fayemi that the housing project, Federal Secretariat project, the transmission project and others in the state would be beneficial to all citizens irrespective of their party affiliations.

The minister said that the projects identified by the Governor-elect in the state were initiated even as the opposition party still governed the state.

He said he had visited the state to ensure that the projects were ongoing; adding that the election of Dr. Fayemi would accelerate growth because the Governor-elect is more developmentoriented, seeks Federal Government’s support.

In a bid to boost food production in the state on assumption of office, Fayemi had gone to visit the Hon Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, to equally seek the cooperation of the ministry in improving agricultural productivity and employment (especially among the youth) and building on YCAD initiative from his time in office.

The visit also focused on efforts aimed at improved processing units across the value chains of crop export produce in Ekiti State including cocoa, coffee, cassava, rubber, cashew, and yam amongst others.

The Governor-elect canvassed for improved storage facilities for farm produce to encourage largescale production as a way to further incentivizing agro investments in the state of which Fayemi had reportedly received positive response.

While Fayemi was busy seeking collaborations with developmental partner ahead of his assumption office, to transform the state, Fayose had a different plan with the latest reported purchase of a N76 million 2018 model Lexus 570 Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) for himself.

Similarly, Fayose also awarded himself and his Deputy, Olusola a whopping sum of N43million as severance allowance upfront, even when he could not pay the civil servants, pensioners’ salaries, emoluments and entitlement of about eight months owed them.

The plans and programmes of the two major actors at the centre of transition, Fayose and Fayemi are differentiated based on various perceptions of the people of Ekiti who are the major beneficiary of their actions either negatively or positively.

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THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1 PASTOR ONYEMA CHINEDU .C. 2.

ONYEMA IFEYINWA SUSSAN 3.

ONYEMA DANIEL CHINEMEREM 4.

ONYEMA CHUKA NONYE 5.

UDEOBA OBIORA

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1.TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST 2.TO SAVE LOST SOULS

AIMS & OBJECTIVE TO PREACH THE GOSPEL AND TO WIN SOULS FOR CHRIST.

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

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

SIGNED BY: SECRETARY

CHURCH OF GOD FAMILY IN CHRIST INT’L

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED ORGANISATION 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. APOSTLE THEODORE AKWAOWO ISAAC - CHAIRMAN 2. MRS RACHEL ISAAC OFFIONG - SECRETARY

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO HARNESS INDÍVÍDUALS TOWARDS SOCIAL JUSTICÉ 2. TO EMBARK ON SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM 3. MOBILIZATION TOWARDS SOCIAL PROJECTS AND IMPACTS 4. TO HELP DRIVE AWARENESS TO INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS TOWARDS RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP

TRUSTEES 1. CHRISTIAN ONYEWUCHI EKE - CHAIRMAN. 2. COVENANT EKE - SECRETARY. 3. LAWRENCE UDOMA - MEMBER.

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

SIGNED BY THE SECRETARY

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

SIGNED BARR NKIRU ODOH 08036089504

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

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

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

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

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

SIGNED : SECRETARY

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST TO THE WHOLE WORLD.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROMOTE AND SUSTAIN ACCESS TO QUALITY, BASIC EDUCATION, ESPECIALLY IN AND AROUND ANAMBRA STATE, EXTENDING TO OTHER PARTS OF SOUTH-EAST NIGERIA, FOR UNDERPRIVILEGED, POOR AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN. 2. TO TRAIN THE LESS-PRIVILEGED BOYS AND GIRLS, ESPECIALLY IN THE AREAS OF PRACTICAL SKILL RE-ORIENTATION, WEALTH CREATION, SELF-RELIANCE, CRIME REDUCTION AND SUSTAINABLE LIVING. 3.TO PROMOTE ACADEMIC AND CIVIC EXCELLENCE AND SCHOLARSHIP AS CORE AND INDELIBLE VALUES AMONG CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS IN AND BEYOND ANAMBRA STATE

THE ARK OF COVENANT DELIVERANCE MINISTRY INT’L

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.

TRUSTEES: 1. PASTOR OTU SUNDAY UKOHA GENERAL OVERSEER 2. MRS. UKOHA PRECIOUS NNENNA 3. PASTOR OLORODE SUNDAY ADIGUN 4. DEACON NDUKWE UKA AGWU SECRETARY 5. DEACONESS UDUKWE JEMIMAH NKECHINYEREM

TRUSTEES: 1. ANYAOKU FANNY ONYINYECHUKWU - CHAIRMAN 2. ANYAOKU NKOLIKA CHINYELU - SECRETARY 3. DR. ANYAOKU CHINEKWU SOCHUKWU 4. DR. ODINKALU ANSELM CHIDI

ODEJIMJIM NDI IGBO GBURUGBURU INITIATIVE

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.

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

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

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST FOR THE SALVATION OF HUMANITY. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR - GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED;SECRETARY MRS RACHEL ISAAC EFFIONG

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

ISE WU OTU FORUM THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS BY THIS NOTICE 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.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1.

MR. MAGNUS NNAMDI ADIELE 2.

MSGR. DR. CHIBUIKE ONYEAGHALA 3.

MR. CHIKA CAMILLUS ANYANWU 4.

DR. ALPHEUS BONGO ADI 5.

MR. EDWARD ADJEROH AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PROMOTE THE INTEREST AND WELFARE OF MEMBERS THROUGH THE ENHANCEMENT OF SOCIAL INTEGRATION AND UNITY OF PURPOSE AMONG MEMBERS. 2. TO INITIATE AND FACILITATE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES IN MBAISE. 3. TO ORGANIZE SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS, SYMPOSIA AND OTHER EMPOWERMENT AND SOCIAL EVENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF MBAISE PEOPLE AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC. ANY OBJECTION TO THE ABOVE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: MR. MAGNUS NNAMDI ADIELE KELECHI ONWUBIKO, MPD BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, MEDIATOR, NOTARY PUBLIC, TAX CONSULTANT

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MRS NWIJA FRANCISCA I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OPEKE FRANCISCA OLUCHI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED MRS NWIJA FRANCISCA OLUCHI, DUE TO MARRIAGE ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

ADDITION OF NAME: I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AMINA WUSHISHI NOW WISH TO ADD DAMILOLA TO MY NAME. HENCEFORTH, I WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AMINA WUSHISHI DAMILOLA ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

YINUSA OMOLARA I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AYELABOLA OMOLARA SAKIRAT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS YINUSA OMOLARA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

WILLIAMS BLESSING I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AGWU BLESSING AWA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS WILLIAMS BLESSING ATAMEH. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ISUAMBUK MMAEYEN I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OJOMU AYOOLA MORENIKEJI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ISUAMBUK MMAEYEN AYOOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

TAIWO PRINCE I HERE BY DECLARE THAT MY NAMES ARE TAIWO PRINCE PAUL AND MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS JAN 5TH, 1989.ALL DOCUMENTS IN THE ABOVE NAME REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

WEALTH ADENIYI FORMERLY KNOWN AS OSUNLAJA SUNDAY ADENIYI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS WEALTH ADENIYI PAUL. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

MRS JINADU LATEEF AGE OF 63YEARS WAS DIED AFTER A BRIEF ILLNESS ON 6TH SEPTEMBER 2014.

GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE

GBILE OLUSEYI I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OYAGBILE OLUSEYI OLUMIDE. NOW WISHES TO BE KNOWN AND ADDERSSED AS GBILE OLUSEYI OLUMIDE ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

FORMERLY MONJOCK LINUS NKAWU NOW MONJOCK SUCCESS NKAWU. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE

MONJOCK SUCCESS

UGAGBE UCHE I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS GODSON UCHE CALEB, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UGAGBE UCHE GODSON. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JUSTINE ETIMBUK UDO. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ETIMBUK JUSTINE UDOUDO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

EKIKERE EMMAUEL SUNDAY, A NATIVE OF MIDIM IKOT UKO VILLAGE IN ABAK LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF AKWA IBOM STATE, FORMER MRS EKIKERE VICTOR DANIEL NOW WANT TO BE KNOWN AS EKIKERE EMMANUEL SUNDAY. THE HUSBAND DIED. UNION BANK, THE PIONEER AND THE PUBLIC TO TAKE NOTE: EKIKERE EMMANUEL SUNDAY

AINA OMOWUNMI I FORMERLY KNOWN AS AND ADDRESSED AS ADEBAYO OMOWUNMI AINA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AINA OMOWUNMI MODUPEOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IBRAHIM SADIYA AUWAL, NOW WISH TO BE CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS UDOH BLESSING. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

UDOH BLESSING

GIALI OJIUGO I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS GIALI ESTHER IBEZIMAKO, NOW WISH TO BE CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS GIALI OJIUGO IBEZIMAKO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN PUBLIC GENERAL VALID PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

IBRAHIM MODINAT I FORMERLY KNOWN AND IBRAHIM ADDRESSED AS MODINAT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IBRAHIM MODINAT ABIMBOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OSIKOMAIYA DAMILOLA OLUWASEUN NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS AKINGBASOTE DAMILOLA OLUWASEUN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

OSUJI HENRIETTA

MRS. EKEZIE RUTH

CORRECTION OF NAME

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UMEUKEJE HENRIETTA CHINYERE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OSUJI HENRIETTA CHINYERE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ABENGOWE RUTH TOCHI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. EKEZIE RUTH TOCHI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. NYSC AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MY NAME WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AS NKWOCHA OGECHI NKASIOBI GEORGENIA INSTEAD OF NKWOCHA OGECHI GENTILITY. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NKWOCHA OGECHI GENTILITY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. ACCESS BANK PLC AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

VICTOR OLAMILEKAN

BENEDICT TERSEER

SUARA ISMAIL

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS VICTOR A ABAYOMI SENBANJO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS VICTOR OLAMILEKAN SENBANJO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

AFFIDAVIT OF FACTS/ INCLUSION OF NAME FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BENEDICT AGB0NK0 NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BENEDICT TERSEER AGB0NK0.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

EVANS ANNA I FORMERLY KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS AYEMIEN ANNA. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS EVANS ANNA. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERN PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS OSADIAYE FAITH OMOROVBIYE. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS OSADIAYE REJOICE. AND THAT MY NEW DATE OF BIRTH IS 9TH MAY 1997. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERN PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

REMOVAL OF NAME

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JIMOH-KESHINRO OLALEKAN MUTIU NOW WISH TO REMOVE JIMOH FROM MY NAME. HENCEFORTH, I WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS KESHINRO OLALEKAN MUTIU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

OSADIAYE REJOICE.

DAVID ISRAEL

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGBA JESTER IZUCHUKWU NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS DAVID ISRAEL. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

CORRECTION /RE-ARRANGEMENT OF NAME THIS IS TO NOTIFY AND CERTIFY THAT MY NAMES WERE WRONGLY WRITTEN AS IBEANU CHIGOZIE EDIMUND IN MY NATIONAL I.D CARD, IBEANU CHIGOZIE EDIMOND IN MY BVN AND IBEANU EDMUND CHIGOZIE IN MY INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT INSTEAD OF IBEANU EDMUND CHIGOZIE. THAT MY CORRECT NAME/SPELLING IS IBEANU EDMUND CHIGOZIE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

ODEBODE ADIJAT

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ESIVUE ADIJAT ABELUWA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ODEBODE ADIJAT ABELUWA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SUARA SIMON ISMAIL.NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SUARA ISMAIL AMOBI.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS VALID.BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

OSOMETHA GREATNESS

CONFIRMATION OF DEATH

JUSTINE UDOUDO

ABOYI SUNDAY

EKIKERE EMMANUEL

MRS AMARACHI CHIGOZIRIM I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS AMARACHI CHIGOZIRIM EKPEMIRO, NOW WISH TO BE CALLED AND ADDRESS AS MRS AMARACHI CHIGOZIRIM EKWO .ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE

MRS AKINGBASOTE

EMMANUEL HARRISON

ADEYEMO ABOSEDE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLUSESI FATIMAN NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEYEMO ABOSEDE ADESOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE MRS OLOYEDE OMOBOSOLA

IME0KUTETI EDET

ERHUANGA JOSEPHINE I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ERHUANGA JOSEPHINE OMOYEI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ERHUANGA JOSEPHINE EFE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ONWE JONATHAN NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ONWE JONATHAN GODWIN ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AFI0NG ETIM DATE OF BIRTH 3 MAY 1952 AND 29 JANUARY 1978 NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IME0KUTETI EDET UD0FIA, 3 MAY 1981.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ONWE JONATHAN

I FORMERLY KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS NWAITE JOSEPH UZOMA. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS OSOMETHA GREATNESS UZOMA. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERN PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BAKO-SUNMOLA ADETOUN TAOFIKAT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BAKO ADETOUN TAOFIKAT. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

BAKO ADETOUN

UMAR YAHAYA I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS YUNUSA YAHAYA DANLAMI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UMAR YAHAYA BIDEMI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

.I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ABUBAKAR OLAIYA ANOFI, OLAIYA GARUBA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS GARUBA ABU OLAIYA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

MRS KOMOLAFE ELIZABETH

GODWIN DAVID I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGBUANI DAVID EJIKE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS GODWIN DAVID EJIKE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

YUSUF SAHEED I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SIKIRU AKANBI SERIKI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS YUSUF SAHEED OPEYEMI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ABIOLA ALERO OLUWASEYI CAREW NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ABIOLA ALERO OLUWASEYI SHONUBI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

COKER-SANUSI ADELAWON

OLUMEGBON ARINADE I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADERINTO ARINADE JANET NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLUMEGBON ARINADE JANET. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

NAFIU BASIRAT I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NAFIU BASIRAT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NAFIU BASIRAT ADUNNI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

HGBEDE ADAKONYE I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SUCCESS ADAKONYE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS HGBEDE ADAKONYE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

LASISI ADEOLA

AZEEZ ABEEB I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AZEEZ ABEEB ADEKOLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AZEEZ ABEEB KOLAWOLE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

FREE SPACE

FREE SPACE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OGUNLEYE ELIZABETH OPEYEMI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS KOMOLAFE ELIZABETH OPEYEMI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SANUSI OKANLAWON IDOWU NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS COKER-SANUSI ADELAWON. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

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 COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1990.

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

MRS ISAAC KELECHI I WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESS AS MISS ONWUCHEKWA KELECHI GLORY NOW WISH TO BE KNOW AND ADDRESS AS MRS ISAAC KELECHI GLORY. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OJO OMOBOSOLA OLUWAYEMISI OMOLOLA OLUFUNKE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OLOYEDE OMOBOSOLA OLUFUNKE.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

THE DISCIPLE MAKERS WORLD EVANGELICAL MINISTRY.

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.

CONFIRMATION OF DEATH

MR JINADU RAMONI AGE 39YEAR DIED AFTER A BRIEF ILLNESS ON THE 27TH AUGUST 2013.

GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EMMANUEL HAPPINESS OCHUKO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EMMANUEL HARRISON OCHUKO.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PREACH THE WORD OF GOD

EKUNDAYO GIDEON IFORMERLYKNOWNANDADDRESSED AS EKUNDAYO EMMANUEL OLUWAPELUMI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EKUNDAYO GIDEON OLUWAPELUMI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGBOYI JACOB0 OKITA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ABOYI SUNDAY JACOB. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, FIRST BANK. OTHERS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD NOTE.

ASSOCIATION OF SABBATERRIANS YOUTHS OF NIGERIA

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. UDEZEH KELECHI 2. ORJI NDUBUISI CLEMENT 3. MMEGWA NONSO HUMBLE 4. NDOM CHIBUZO UCHENDU

OLAEWE YETUNDE FAVOUR I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AKINLOYE YETUNDE OMOLARA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLAEWE YETUNDE FAVOUR OMOLARA.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

TRUSTEES ARE : 1. PASTOR OLADIRAN DAVID 2. OYEDELE OLADOKUN SEGUN 3. AJIBOLA WAHEED OLATUNDE 4. ADESINA TOYIN 5. OLABIYI MOSES BOLARINWA AIMS: TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAIMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AKINGBOLA ADEOLE AISHAT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS LASISI ADEOLA AISHAT. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

GARUBA ABU

ABIOLA ALERO

Classified 20 JOY NWACHUKWU I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JOY NWACHUKWU EMMANUEL NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JOY NWACHUKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE. CONFIRMATION OF NAME:

CHANGE OF NAME/DECLARATION OF AGE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SEFIU ABIODUN TEJUOSO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS TEJUOSHO SEFIU AKANNI. CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 11TH NOVEMBER, 1978.

ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OGUNOLE AYOMIDE

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MRS OJO ABISOYE I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OYINBADE ABISOYE FADEKE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OJO ABISOYE FADEKE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE. EMEHIAN ESTHER

UGAGBE UCHE I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UGAGBE UCHE FRANCIS, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UGAGBE UCHE GODSON. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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Curbing open defecation through dry drum pit latrines Stories: Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja Open defecation is the practice where people go out in fields, bushes, forests, open bodies of water and other open spaces rather than use the toilet to defecate or pass bodily waste. It constitutes a major public health problem due to rapid urbanisation, lack of public toilets and low level of awareness.

According to 2018 NORM Report, 47 million Nigerians do not have access to toilets. The report revealed that while 75 million use unimproved toilets, 1 in 4 Nigerians lack access to basic toilet.

These Nigerians according to the report include vulnerable women and children who suffer as a result of consuming contaminated water or food and living in unsanitary conditions. The report further revealed that while 32% of these Nigerians live in the rural areas, 39% are from the poorest household.

Most unfortunately, the psychological and physical demands placed on millions of women and girls who do not have proper sanitation facilities are overwhelming.

Aside from suffering from humiliation and indignity, women and girls who relieve themselves outside try to maintain their dignity and privacy by choosing to relieve themselves at night time.

Regrettably, in their attempt, the women and girls become prey to rapists, molesters, and physical abusers they are subject to daily threats of sexual violence.

Lack of proper sanitation facilities makes it even more traumatic for women, especially when they are pregnant, during postnatal periods, and while menstruating.

Additionally, open defecation causes many preventable diseases, such as polio, hepatitis, typhoid, cholera, diarrhoea, under nutrition; reduced physical growth and it weakens cognitive function.

The People of Ottonlama, Okpobo, Aya-Ama, Okorotu all in Nkoro local government area in Rivers State were before now defecating in the open before the Intervention of European Union (EU), and the United Nations Children Fund, (UNICEF) through “Dry Drum Pit Latrines”.

A visit in some of the communities in Rivers State by our reporter revealed what the people of the community most especially women and girls were going through before Succour came their way through the construction of “Dry Drum Pit Latrines” by EU in collaboration with UNICEF. According to Ngereb Dickson, WASH com Secretary in Ottonlama community, Nkoro local government area, about six of the dry drum pit latrines have been provided to serve the community.

Explaining how the People use the facilities, he said, “Each time the two drums get filled up, we get the young ones in the community to dig the

The dry drum pit latrine

ground where the faeces are usually buried.

“There is a great change now because we don’t go about marching on faeces on the road. This was very common but the situation has changed”.

Also Ms Maltida John of Okpobo community told the Daily Times how she usually have to wait until night fall to ease herself in the bush.

Narrating her experience, she said that before the construction of “Dry Drum Pit latrines” by EU/ UNICEF for the community, they were faced with a lot of health hazards varying from cholera, diarrhea etc.

She said, “I had a bad experience while I was tooling sometime ago. I had to clean my bathing bucket to convert it to my personal toilet because I could not wait until night fall to defecate in the bush.

“However, the situation is different today because the dry drum pit latrines are always handy and we usually ensure that they are kept clean always. I thank UNICEF and EU for the kind gesture and I am also calling in the Federal government not to abandon us”.

For her part, Deaconess Antonia Alan said, “before, we used to defecate anywhere, then flies would come upon it and carry it to our food. When we eat the food we become sick.

But today, things have changed, we no longer fall sick like before because we now use toilet”.

“Before now I used to excrete in polythene bags and disposed it in dustbins on the streets or in the bush” this was the confession of Florence Kingsley.

She added that her children used to fall ill but the situation has changed since they imbibe the habit of healthy hygiene and use of clean toilets.

According to Mr. Zaid Jurji, Chief of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) department of UNICEF, Nigeria losses N455 billion annually due to poor sanitation practised around the country.

Jurji who spoke during a media dialogue on WASH organised by the Federal Ministry of Information, in collaboration with the European Union (EU) and UNICEF on Monday in PortHarcourt, the Rivers State capital, Jurji said that the real cost that Nigeria losses annually amounts to N455 billion due to poor

FG targets WHO 2016-2020 road map for health, ageing The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole has reaffirmed the Federal Government’s commitment towards achieving the World Health Organisation (WHO) 2016-2020 road map targets and goals of the Global Strategy and action plan for Health and Ageing.

Speaking during the Celebration of 2018 Day of Older Persons, a one-day Project and Partnership Development Outreach Programme on Healthcare for the Aged, Social Security of Elderly and the Rights of the Senior Citizens in Abuja, Prof.

Adewole said that the targets as envisaged in the plan, will be attained and possibly surpassed.

Represented by the National Project Coordinator, Healthcare Package for Improving Quality care of the Ageing,(HEPI2Q-C ), Dr. Saidu Dumbuulwa, the Minister pointed out that the ministry had made some progress in the on-going health sector response to the care of the aged.

According to Adewole, the ministry had already signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with some universities in the United Kingdom.

“As you know, in our various cultures, the health and social care of the aged is a collective responsibility of every member of the family.

“However, it is the responsibility of all to protect and ensure improve quality of health and welfare of the ageing population”.

He further said that the ministry was open to other relevant organisations and Partners in Nigeria ahead of the first national summit on healthy ageing, slated for the fourth quarter of 2018.

He noted that in the last decade, concerns for the ageing population had led to the introduction of new policies and programmes in which the social sector had taken the centre stage.

He informed that several policy framework

documents, including national plans of action on ageing, had also been enacted, saying that the ministry were working hard to ensure that Nigeria was not left behind.

He thanked the International Federation on Ageing Nigeria (IFAN) and other organising partners for marking the 2018 International Day of Older Persons, a success.

He emphasized that the theme of this year`s celebration which was “Celebrating Older Human Right Champions”, was in line with Federal Government’s current efforts to address the needs of older persons in the country.

In his remarks, the Coordinator, International Federation on Ageing, Nigeria, (IFAN), Mr Ike Willie-Nwobu, reiterated the commitment of IFAN to partner with the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Federal Ministry of Health and other relevant bodies to achieve its target.

sanitation which results in deaths, low productivity and ill-health suffered by Nigerians.

He said, “Nigeria losses N455 billion every year as a result of poor sanitation which escalates to deaths, stunting, malnutrition, loss of dignity, insecurity, low productivity and loss of GDP”.

Jurji explained that access to basic water and sanitation services in the Nigeria facilities such as communities, school, Hospitals, and markets/ parks are 20.4 percent, 17 percent, 22.7 percent and 12.4percent respectively, adding that 47 million Nigerians still practise open dedication.

He lamented that sanitation sector in Nigeria is severely under resourced, with only 19% of WASH budget annually, adding that it would be very difficult to meet the Sustainable development goals in 2020.

He said “Only 20.1% of households have a fixed place for unleashing facility with soap and water. 10.4% households have suffered diarrhoea in the past 6 weeks, 75% are children under 5 years.

Only 6.4% of households are likely to practice proper hand washing (with water and soap), at critical times.

“The key issues of the sanitation sector in Nigeria includes low political and financial commitment, low private sector participation, weak institutional arrangement and limited technical know-how, lack of technology to meet geographical condition “Nigeria has a population of 198 million and 93 million children. 1 million Nigerians under the age of 5 die annually as a result no proper sanitation.

20.4% of the population have access to basic water and sanitation services. That is those using improved sanitation Facilities.

“17.0% of schools have access to basic supply and sanitation services that is schools with functional and improved toilets and latrines available at all times. 22.7% of health facilities have basic water supply and sanitation services. 12.4% of markets and motor parks have basic water supply and sanitation services,” Jurji added.

While stressing that only 11% of the systems meet the minimum requirements for WASHCOM, frequency and tariff, the UNICEF chief added that about 130 million people in Nigeria are without proper access to sanitation.

“34.6% (66million) have improved latrines. 4.

4% (8.4 million Nigerians have improved latrines, private, functional and accessible to the people.

20.4% (39 million) unimproved latrines, Hygienic separation of human faeces from human contact.

“5.5% schools have basic gender sensitive WASH services, functional water facilities and durable improved toilets with separate blocks for males and females available. 49.3% schools have at least one improved toilets and latrines.

33.6% health facilities have hand washing facilities with soap and water. 43.2% health facilities have functional improved water supply in the premises,” he added.

Earlier, Engineer Emmanuel Amatemeso, Acting Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources, Rivers State, who represented the Commissioner for Resources, Kaniye Ebeku, commended UNICEF and partners for what they are doing in the state but urged them to increase funding in the state because of the peculiar nature of the state.

He said Rivers State has a peculiar area that makes it very expensive to transport materials to project sites and added that there is need for UNICEF and partners to beef up their activities in the state.

On her part, Eliana Drakopoulos, Chief of communication, UNICEF, in her remarks, said that the WASH programme aims at improving feeding, hygiene and sanitation to reduce stunted growth and malnutrition in Nigeria, adding that UNICEF will focus more in ensuring early education for children and reduce violence against children.

She added that 130 million of the Nigerian total population lacks access to proper sanitation, with 93 million children where 1 million children under age 5 die annually and 1 out of every 4 routinely vaccinated.

SPORTS TIMES Daily Times Nigeria Thursday, October 4, 2018

CAFCC: Enyimba lose to Raja Casablanca in Aba

Enyimba Of Aba have a herculean task of reaching the final of the Total CAF Confederations Cup competition, following their 1-0 loss at home to Moroccan side, Raja Casablanca in Wednesday’s first leg clash played at the Enyimba International stadium in Aba. Abdelilah Hafidi scored the winner for the Raja Casablanca two minutes into the second half.

The game was Enyimba’s fifth game in the last 10 days.

Raja Casablanca dominated play and had the best chance of the first half in the 44th minute but Zakaria Hadraf failed to beat Theophilus Afelokhai from close range.

Raja Casablanca continued their possession play which carved

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out scoring chances but could not convert them.

At the start of the second half, Raja Casablanca made their pressure count when Hafidi struck what later turned out to be the solitary winner from the edge of the box after. The scorer latched on to a poor back header from Andrew Abalogu to his goalkeeper from inside the box.

Enyimba had a chance to restore parity from the spot after Sanad Masound was adjudged to have handled the ball in the box. Stanley Dimgba missed resultant spot-kick in the 68th minute Enyimba have a mountain to climb in the second leg billed for the 24th of October in Morocco.

FG urged to establish sports museums Mr Deji Ajomale, President, African Sports Tourism Week, on Wednesday called on the Federal Government to establish sports museums across the country.

Ajomale told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that it was disheartening to know that the remarkable contributions of most of Nigeria’s sport heroes are not properly documented and preserved.

He said that these works ought to be well preserved for easy accessibility for the younger generation and should not just be kept in the general museums but in sports museums.

Ajomale said the contributions of the likes of Samuel Okwaraji, Stephen Keshi, Teslim Balogun, Rashidi Yekini, Shetemi Ayetigbo and a host of others should be kept in

the sports museum for every tourist visiting the nation to see.

According to him, sports has been the most popular form of recreation for people since time immemorial, hence, sport history must be preserved.

“Most of our sports heroes should not just be forgotten, our children should not be deprived of such rich history.

“You will agree with me that history is very important to enable us proffer solutions to present problems and project for the future.

“We need sports museums where our children can read about most of these heroes, see the jerseys they used then, the medals they worked hard to garner for the nation and a lot more about them.

“These men and women worked

tirelessly to make our great nation proud, we should not just allow their history to die with them,’’ the sports expert emphasised.

Ajomale said that having sports museums would boost inbound tourism because sports tourism was capable of boosting all other aspects of tourism.

The nation, he said, must keep pace with developed countries by developing proper sports museums like those in Los Angeles, Olympic museum, Chicago sports museum, etc., all in the United States of America.

The African Sports Tourism Week is a four-day, five-activity gathering of eggheads in the sports and tourism industry, where they cross-fertilise ideas between the sports and tourism industries towards social-economic growth for Africa and her nations.

Barcelona become first sports club to post billion dollar revenue FC Barcelona announced it has become the first sports club to post annual revenues exceeding $1 billion.

La Liga champions Barcelona presented their annual accounts on Tuesday, showing earnings of $1.05 billion for the 2017/18 fiscal year, breaking its own income record for the fifth successive year and posting a profit for the eighth consecutive year.

Barca said the rise in revenue was driven by increased income from television rights from the Champions League and the August 2017 sale of Brazilian forward Neymar to Paris St Germain for a record 222 million euros ($257 million) transfer fee.

The club also announced a record budget of $1.105 billion for this season, which needs to be approved at a general assembly on Oct. 20.

The club added that its debt amounted to $181.3 million as of June 30.

“The extraordinary income from payment of Neymar Jr’s buyout clause has been compensated in next year’s budget through improved commercial and sponsorship revenue, media rights, exploitation of the stadium and transfer of players,” the club said in a statement.

“This is the first time that revenue has surpassed $1bn, a huge step up from 2016/17.”

Neymar turns on style with hat-trick in PSG stroll Neymar continued his return to top form with a hat-trick in a sublime display to lead Paris Saint-Germain to a 6-1 rout of Red Star Belgrade in the Champions League on Wednesday.

The world’s most expensive player admitted on the eve of this game that he still did not feel back to 100 percent after the foot injury which required surgery and saw him miss the last three months of last season.

But he tore a hapless Red Star apart with two goals in the space of two firsthalf minutes at the Parc des Princes, the first a delightful curling free-kick, before completing his hat-trick from another stunning free-kick late on.

Edinson Cavani, Angel di Maria and Kylian Mbappe also scored as PSG bounced back from a 3-2 defeat at Liverpool two weeks ago to register their first points in Group C. They have a double-header to come next against Napoli, and the Italian side will surely offer a sterner test than Red Star, the 1991 European Cup winners who had been unbeaten in 34 games before arriving at the Parc des Princes and being utterly outclassed.

The Serbians grabbed a consolation goal through Marko Marin in the second half, but they could not cope with the home side’s front four, a quartet who cost PSG almost 530 million euros ($610

million) in transfer fees alone.

Such was the imbalance between the teams that PSG were never likely to be troubled despite playing this game with one end of the Parc des Princes closed, a punishment following incidents in the defeat against Real Madrid back in March.

Neymar had already drawn plenty of attention from opponents before he won the free-kick which led to the opening goal in the 20th minute, the Brazilian getting up to curl a fine strike past Canadian goalkeeper Milan Borjan from 25 yards.

The French league leaders scored again two minutes later as Neymar found Mbappe before meeting the return pass with a lovely cushioned finish.

That was Neymar’s ninth goal in nine games this season between

Ligue 1 and Champions League.

The former Barcelona forward may not yet be back to the same level as before his injury, but he certainly looks in the mood again, with his performance here also notable for a brilliant nutmeg on Milos Degenek that created another shooting opportunity just before half-time.

PSG had already scored twice more by that point, with Cavani finding the net on 37 minutes with the aid of a deflection after some brilliant footwork and Di Maria guiding a Thomas Meunier cross past Borjan in the 41st minute.

Neymar produced some more magic in the build-up to PSG’s fifth goal 20 minutes from the end, finding Juan Bernat, who squared for Mbappe to get his name on the scoresheet.

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Aiteo Cup: Katsina United’s Abdullahi Biffo rallies fans support against Kwara United Katsina United head coach Abdullahi Biffo has assured Lagos fans that they are bound to enjoy good football at the Agege Stadium in their Federation Cup quarter-final duel versus Kwara United.

The Chanji Boys saw off Plateau United (1-0) and J. Atete (4-2) to qualify for the quarterfinal from Gombe centre while the Harmony Boys topped the Lagos centre which had Kano Pillars, Abia Warriors and Rivers United.

Speaking ahead of the encounter, Biffo noted that he won’t be saying much but that their target is to move to the next round in spite of the opponents

they are facing.

“I don’t think I have much to say about the game. We just want the people of Lagos to come and enjoy good football at its best,” he told the media.

“We are ready for the game and we will do our best on the pitch to ensure that we get a favourable result on Wednesday.

We do not expect an easier game but we have prepared very hard and only success should come as compensation for our hard work.

“We were not given a chance in the group stage but here we are battling to be in the semi-final. We shall do our best to give a good representation on Wednesday and we are expecting a win.”

Arsenal out to maintain winning run on long Europa League trip Unai Emery’s Arsenal are looking to keep up their winning run when they make their longest ever journey for a competitive game to face Qarabag in Azerbaijan in the Europa League on Thursday.

The Gunners have recovered from losing the opening two games under their new Spanish coach and Saturday’s 2-0 win over Watford in the Premier League was their seventh victory on the bounce.

An eighth successive win in all competitions would represent Arsenal’s best run since the spring of 2015, and it would leave them in a strong position to qualify from Group E after they began their European campaign by beating Vorskla of Ukraine 4-2.

Emery is likely to rest leading players for the 4,000km trip to the Olympic Stadium in Baku, which will host the final next May. Goalkeeper Petr Cech is out for up to a month with a hamstring injury, while playmaker Henrikh Mkhitaryan may not play given the long-standing political tensions between Azerbaijan and his native Armenia.

Those issues meant Mkhitaryan did not travel with Borussia Dortmund to a Europa League game in Azerbaijan in October 2015, with the German club citing

“safety concerns” at the time.

Premier League rivals Chelsea host Hungarian champions Vidi, who dropped into this competition after losing to AEK Athens in the Champions League play-offs.

Maurizio Sarri’s team won their Group L opener, beating PAOK in Greece with a solitary Willian goal.

Old Firm’s Austrian doubleheader Scottish champions Celtic have had a poor start to the season, although Brendan Rodgers’ team did beat Rosenborg 1-0 in their Europa League group-stage opener.

The Hoops are traditionally poor on their travels in Europe — excluding qualifying rounds they have won just twice away from home this decade.

That means they are likely to find life tough against Austrian champions Salzburg, who reached the semi-finals last season.

Rangers, meanwhile, face Austrian opposition too.

Steven Gerrard’s side, who held Villarreal away from home two weeks ago, host Rapid Vienna, with the visitors to Ibrox having just appointed a new coach.

Dietmar Kuehbauer, a former Rapid player, replaces Goran Djuricin, who was sacked at the weekend.

Other fixtures to look out for

include AC Milan’s home meeting with Olympiakos and former winners Sevilla’s trip to Russia to face Krasnodar.

Fixtures in the second round of Europa League group games on Thursday (Groups A-F kick-offs 1655 GMT; Groups G-L kick-offs 1900 GMT unless stated): Group A FC Zurich (SUI) v Ludogorets (BUL) Bayer Leverkusen (GER) v AEK Larnaca (CYP) Group B RB Salzburg (AUT) v Celtic (SCO) Rosenborg (NOR) v RB Leipzig (GER) Group C Zenit (RUS) v Slavia Prague (CZE) Bordeaux (FRA) v FC Copenhagen (DEN) Group D Anderlecht (BEL) v Dinamo Zagreb (CRO) Fenerbahce (TUR) v Spartak Trnava (SVK) Group E Qarabag (AZE) v Arsenal (ENG) Vorskla Poltava (UKR) v Sporting (POR) Group F AC Milan (ITA) v Olympiakos (GRE) Betis (ESP) v Dudelange (LUX) Group G Rangers (SCO) v Rapid Vienna (AUT) Spartak Moscow (RUS) v Villarreal (ESP) Group H Eintracht Frankfurt (GER) v Lazio (ITA) Apollon Limassol (CYP) v Marseille (FRA) Group I Sarpsborg (NOR) v Genk (BEL) Malmo (SWE) v Besiktas (TUR) Group J Standard Liege (BEL) v Akhisar (TUR) Krasnodar (RUS) v Sevilla (ESP) Group K Astana (KAZ) v Rennes (FRA) (1450 GMT) Jablonec (CZE) v Dynamo Kiev (UKR) Group L Chelsea (ENG) v Vidi (HUN) BATE (BLR) v PAOK (GRE)

Ernesto Valverde: Lionel Messi will play for Argentina again Barcelona coach Ernesto Valverde has said Lionel Messi will play for Argentina again despite not having appeared for them since the World Cup defeat to France.

Argentina were without Messi for the friendly win against Guatemala and the 0-0 draw with Colombia, while he will miss the games against Iraq and Brazil later this month.

“If Messi doesn’t go to the national team, he can be more rested for Barcelona,” Valverde told Fox Sports Argentina.

“But we know that he wants to go to the national team, and he will go. The best news for Barcelona is, if Messi goes to the national team, that he is happy, and that is what we want to happen.

“We want him to do well wherever he is, and what he wants is to do many things with the Argentina national team.”

Argentina Football Association president Claudio Tapia said recently that he had no doubt Messi would play for the national team again.

But interim Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni said earlier this week that Messi had not indicated when or if he would play for his country again.

Messi has scored 65 goals in 128 appearances since making his Argentina debut in August 2005.

The 31-year-old has eight goals in six appearances for Barca this season, and will be in action when they visit Tottenham in the Champions League on Wednesday.

LeBron James gets ovation in LA Lakers debut LeBron James received a rapturous reception in his home debut for the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday but was unable to prevent his new team from slipping to a second pre-season defeat to the Denver Nuggets.

James, who joined the Lakers in July from the Cleveland Cavaliers on a fouryear deal, was given a rousing standing ovation by the Staples Center crowd as he arrived on court.

The 33-year-old delighted the crowd with some silky touches during 15 firsthalf minutes.

He finished with 13 points, three assists, three rebounds, two steals and four turnovers during 15 minutes on

court in the first half before sitting out all of the second half.

The game ended in a 113-111 win for Denver, who had also beaten the Lakers in San Diego on Sunday in James’ first game with his new club.

Earlier Tuesday, James told reporters he was still adjusting to his new environment, and once again cautioned that the new-look Lakers squad would take time to gel.

“We’ve got a new group. We’re not at the level that a lot of the teams are in terms of cohesiveness and chemistry,” James said following morning practice.

“Every day is another opportunity for us to get better.”

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