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Tax: FG rakes N131bn from 6 banks

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The Federal Government through its revenue agencies generated not less than N131billion as tax income from six commercial banks operating in the country in 2017, findings by The Daily Times has revealed.

The six commercial banks in 2016 paid government agencies

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N124 billion, as government at both the federal and state level continued brace up policies that will enforce tax payment compliance across the country.

The banks audited financial statements for December 31, 2017, revealed that Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc and United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) income expenses significantly increased Continued on page 6

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Looters list: PDP to FG, you can’t divert attention from your misrule

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Ï Insists FG has no case against PDP Tunde Opalana, Abuja

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) have failed in its ploy to use the release of the looters lists to divert public discourse from the raging questions on the numerous scandals, manifest sleazes and overall failures in governance.

The PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Tuesday, said the nation has now seen that the Federal Government has no case against the PDP, as the lists only have individuals who are not indicted or convicted for corruption, some of who are not even members of the PDP. “It is now a notorious fact that the whole essence of the flimsy and contemptible lists was to cause public misperception, ‘change the topic’, and divert international and national discourse from various serious issues including; the parlous state of the nation’s economy caused by

President Muhammadu Buhari’s misrule, for which Nigerians are now resorting to vices, including slavery and suicide as options.

The party as well listed the intensive global vote of no confidence on President Buhari-led APCgovernment, particularly on its painful anti-people policies, as presented in damning verdicts by international figures, the latest being the world renowned Bill Gates. “ The vote of no confidence on the Buhari administration by eminent statesmen, including former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former military President Ibrahim Babangida and former minister of defence and ex-chief of army staff, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma, who also indicted this administration of failure to protect the citizens.

“The international interest over speculations of conspiracy theorem on the alleged manipulation of security in the abduction and return of the Dapchi schoolgirls for which Amnesty International (AI) has called for an open inquest.

“The international em-

barrassment over alleged procurement of the Martin Luther King Jr Award for President Buhari, which has now attracted global opprobrium to our dear nation and entire citizenry.

“The Transparency International (TI) latest verdict, indicting the Buhari-led government of superintending over the spiraling of corruption in Nigeria in the last three years.

“Efforts by the Buhari Presidency to conceal the N9 trillion corrupt oil contracts at the NNPC, alleged stealing of N1.1 trillion worth of crude oil, looting of N18 billion Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) intervention fund and the stealing of N10 billion National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), all by APC officials and Presidency cabal”, he said.

The party also said the “public resentment that trailed President Buhari’s last week’s visit to Lagos as well as his embarrassment at the National Mosque last Friday, where worshippers demonstrated their resentments to his administration and almost resorted to near mob action’.

Former Vice-President of Nigeria and chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar and the German Ambassador to Nigeria, Amb. Bernhard Schlagheck at a courtesy visit of the envoy to Atiku in Abuja on Tuesday.

L-R: Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal; Chief of Staff to the President, Mr. Abba Kyari; and Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, at the Progressive Governors Forum meeting held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja... on Tuesday.

Obasanjo gave excuses while in power - Keyamo

ÏÏÏ Festus Keyamo, Lagos

lawyer, has accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of committing same act he is tackling President Muhammadu Buhari for.

He said Obasanjo “kept blaming” the military for his “abysmal” performance while in office.

Obasanjo was president of the country from 1999 to 2007 after serving as military head of state from 1976 to 1979.

On Monday, the elder statesman accused Buhari of running an “ineffective and incompetent government”.

He also asked the All Progressives Congress (APC) to stop giving excuses for its

“failure”.

“Stop giving excuses; we met challenges. If there were no challenges, then we wouldn’t need you to come. You came in because you know there were challenges… stop giving us excuse that you have many challenges, that is why you haven’t achieved results,” he had said.

Writing via his Twitter handle on Tuesday, Keyamo said — just like Buhari — the former president had asked Nigerians to be patient with his government.

He wrote: “Let’s remember that during the first four years of Obasanjo (1999-2003), he kept blaming the ‘rot’ the military left behind as the reason for

his abysmal performance and begged Nigerians to be patient with him, to the extent that he reportedly knelt down for Atiku Abubakar (his then vice-president) then to get his second-term ticket.”

Monday’s statement was not the first from Obasanjo.

In the letter he wrote to him last year, he had similar words for the president: “This is no time for trading blames or embarking on futile argument and neither should we accept untenable excuses for nonperformance. Let us accept that the present administration has done what it can do to the limit of its ability, aptitude and understanding.

Governor Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi state leads some members of his cabinet to clear the drains in the state capital Birnin Kebbi, as part of efforts to rid the state of malaria

15, 000 Deltans to benefit from heritage enery skill acquisition programme Nosa Akenzua, Asaba

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its human capital development communities under OML 30 with Heritage Energy Operational Service Limited NPDC, and shoreline in Delta State, have agreed to empower 15, 000 persons in its acquisition programme

in the next three months.

The chairman of the OML30 Communities Development Board, Morison Idiovwa told journalists Tuesday in Asaba that the skills acquisition programme will commence in Ughelli, adding that beneficiaries were drawn from 111 communities of OML30 where heritage operational

services limited, and NPDC are operating.

He said: “this is the time when opportunities are limited, and it causes some forms of agitation which could lead to restiveness and create the enabling environment for our people” and urged the participants to key into the programme.

Left Ag CEO Dangote Cement Plc. Engr Joseph Makoju; President, CEO, Dangote Group of Companies, Alhaji Aliko Dangote; and President African Development Bank, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina when Dangote paid a condolence visits to Akinwumi over his father’s death at his Ibadan residence on Tuesday.

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NASS retraces step, begins move to change bad image Continued from page 1 public image and resolve to forge a synergy with relevant stakeholders on how to constantly intimate the Nigerian public on its efforts to deepen democracy in Nigeria.

The lawmaking arm under the present dispensation, almost from the start, has been contending

with image problem which arose from its sustained standoff with the executive arm, part of which is responsible for delays in passage of National Budgets into law.

Speaking on the need to change the narrative, the Senate Leader, Senator Ahmed Lawan (APC, Yobe North), indicated on Tuesday during a media brief-

ing in Abuja that the two lawmaking chambers are now set to take action on image laundering, strategically for perception change ahead of the third anniversary of the 8th National Assembly scheduled for June 9, 2018.

Lawan said the image laundering, packaged by the leadership of the National Assembly in collabo-

ration with management of the National Institute for Legislative Studies (NILS), would be carried out through a programme tagged: “Open week” by the committee already set up for that purpose”.

He said: “The planned open week is a welcome development which would serve as platform for the general public to interact

with federal legislators at close range towards understanding the constitutional functions of the National Assembly particularly as regards constituency projects.

“The open week would bring to the fore required knowledge about the workings of the National Assembly which are fundamentally, lawmaking, representation and oversight functions on the workings of all federal government agencies.

“As lawmakers, we no doubt feel bad about the negative perception of the

National Assembly and we must change it in the interest of democracy which to us cannot be developmentdriven going by the way the institution is misunderstood by Nigerians”.

Also speaking on the planned open week, the chairman of House of Representatives Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, Hon Shehu Shagari, said the initiative becomes imperative in view of the fact that the National Assembly has been the most misunderstood arm of government since 1999.

Senate initiates two bill to fight drug abuse ÏÏÏ The Senate is set to ini-

Former Minister for Interior, Captain Emmanuel Iheanacho (left), Ondo State First Lady, Chief Mrs Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu (middle), and Chairman Dozie Mezie Owerri, Sir Okay Ikpe (right), during the unveiling of Dozie Mezie Owerri’s Employment and Job centre in Owerri, Imo state.

Buhari’s meeting with APC Governors ends in deadlock Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

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The meeting President Muhammadu Buhari held with governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday ended in deadlock.

None of the governors addressed State House correspondents when they left the council chamber of the presidential villa at the end of the meeting.

The meeting, which started at about 2:15 pm, with opening prayers from Plateau State Governor Simon Lalong and his Kebbi State counterpart, Atiku Bagudu.

Before Buhari made his way into the venue of the meeting, most the governors encircled Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha, the chairman of APC

Governors’ Forum, allegedly expressing reservation with the move to stop Oyegun from leading the party into the next general election.

“This is a coup and we will not allow it to stand,” one of the governors reportedly said in anger.

Rochas Okorocha (Imo), Simon Lalong (Plateau) and Nasir el-Rufai (Kaduna), told reporters that a unanimous agreement was reached not to talk to the media.

On his way out, one of the governors said, “Some people think they are tall but they can never control us. Never!”

But a source said that the meeting was about the tenure of the party’s national working committee (NWC) led by John Oyegun.

During the last National Executive Committee

(NEC) meeting of the party, Buhari said he was against the extension of the NWC period in office by a year.

As a means to prevent a fresh crisis, some stakeholders had reportedly proposed a caretaker committee to be led by Adams Oshiomhole, a former Edo State Governor, who hails from the same state with Oyegun.

On Tuesday, governors elected on the platform of the APC met with Buhari to iron out the issue.

The governors, who were divided over the tenure extension of Oyegun, had heated exchange the over one-hour meeting.

The Daily Times gathered that the President had to reschedule the meeting, asking the governors to pick a date.

Zamfara State Governor Abdullaziz Yari, had

chosen April 9 but el-Rufai tackled him on the choice of the date.

Apart from Governors Aminu Masari (Katsina), Ibrahim Geidam (Yobe) and Mohammed Abubakar (Bauchi), all other APC governors attended the meeting. Though the Bauchi governor was represented by his deputy.

The Daily Times recalls that Buhari had asked the party leaders to prepare for national congress, saying the extension of the executives at the state and national level was against the 1999 Constitution of the country and the APC. Responding to the development, former Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu and a national leader of the APC, said Buhari had saved the ruling party from a serious legal turmoil.

tiate two draft bills for legislation to tackle the menace of drug abuse in the country, especially among youth.

The bills are coming as the outcome of the roundtable convened by the President of the Senate, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki, in December 2017 in Kano on the rising spate of drug abuse in the country, The proposed bills are: National Drug Control Bill and National Mental Health Bill.

A statement by the Media Office of the President of the Senate said the Drug Control Bill seeks to clarifies the mandate and strengthen the capacity of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control (NAFDAC) and other relevant law enforcement and regulatory bodies to eradicate the illicit production, and trafficking of controlled substances.

It also seeks to establish a central mechanism to facilitate collaboration among law enforcement, regula-

tory and public health authorities in line with the National Drug Control Policy.

The Bill further focuses on proactive law enforcement and regulatory measures towards the eradication of the illicit importation, production and trafficking of controlled substances.

It also criminalizes the diversion, distribution or otherwise dispensing of controlled substances without a prescription or license In recognition of the fact that psychosocial issues are the key drivers for the abuse of psychoactive substance, the mental health Bill was crafted to ensure that standard facilities are available in every state to provide mental health and substance abuse services.

The proposed law guarantees the protection of the rights of people with mental illness and stipulates that mental health practitioners and facilities no longer engage in practices that are harmful to people with mental health and substance use disorders.

Dogara tasks Christians on unity, sacrifice ÏÏÏ As

Christian faithful mark Easter in commemoration of the cruxifition, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has asked them to emulate the selfless sacrifice he made for mankind.

In a press statement to mark the event, he asked Nigerians to show unity, love and sacrifice for the unity and development of the country.

He said, “As we celebrate

the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary for the redemption of our souls, I urge you all to draw lessons from the selfless service of Christ.

“It is important that such love that Jesus Christ had for mankind to lay down his life for us is what we must show to one another, irrespective of tribe, status or religion.”

“It is by so doing that Nigeria can grow in peace and attain only meaningful progress.”

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Tax: FG rakes N131bn from 6 banks Continued from page 1 in 2017 while GuarantyTrust Bank Plc and Zenith Bank Plc reported drop in income tax paid to government revenue agencies.

For the period under review, Stanbic IBTC Holdings reported 47.1 per cent increase in income tax to N12.79 billion in 2017 from N8.69 billion reported in 2016.

UBA’s Income tax expenses grew by 45 per cent to N26.7 billion in 2017 as against N18.4 billion in 2016 while Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) reported 2.2 per cent

increase in Income tax expense from N18.2 billion in 2016 to N18.6 billion in 2017.

According to investigation, UBA income tax expenses in Nigeria last year was around N12.7 billion, about 47.5 per cent of the total N26.7 billion paid by the lender in 2017.

The Nigerian multinational financial institution paid N14 billion as income tax expenses in the rest of Africa.

However, GTBank’s income tax expenses dropped by 9.4 per cent to N29.8 billion from N32.86 billion reported in 2016 over drop in company income tax.

GTBank’s company income tax in 2017 thus dropped by 33.4 per cent to N13 billion from N19.88 billion reported in 2016 while Education Tax also dropped by 29.3 per cent to N957 million as against N1.35 billion in 2016.

In addition, GTBank paid N1.86 billion on National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) in 2017, 20.9 per cent from N1.54 billion in 2016.

The NITDA Act 2007 stipulates that specified companies are to contribute one per cent of their Profit Before Tax (PBT) to the

Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS).

The contributions are meant to create Information Technology centres across the country and create jobs.

Also, Zenith income tax dipped by 5.8 per cent to N25.5 billion from N27.1 billion while Access Bank reported four per cent drop in income tax expenses to N18.08 billion in 2017 from N18.9 billion in 2016.

The Executive Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr. Babatunde Fowler, had disclosed that the government revenue agency generated

a total sum of N4 trillion as tax income in 2017, an increase of 21.7 per cent from N3.3 trillion generated in 2016.

He noted that agency last year enjoyed support of Lagos State government with other government Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in tax collection last year as government renewed interest in generating revenue from non-oil sector over dwindling global oil prices.

Buhari has asked us to assess damage of farmers-herders clashes - Osinbajo ÏÏÏ Vice

L-R: Chairman, PDP Lagos State, Hon, Adegoke Salvador; Chief (Mrs.) Folashade Diya; Senator Anthony Adefuye; Celebrant, Gen. Oladipupo Diya (retd); and his wife, Chief (Mrs) Josephine Diya during the 74th birthday celebration of the General in Lagos...on Tuesday. Photo: Olatunji Wale

“This was an increase of about 21.7 per cent over 2016 figure. In 2016, we were able to generate N3.3 trillion,” Fowler said.

He noted that for the country to move forward, key stakeholders in tax collection must be on the board.

He explained that performance of the revenue service agency determines the amount of revenue the three tiers of government share on monthly basis.

President Yemi Osinbajo has disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to begin an assessment of the extent of damage in communities affected by violence caused by herdsmenfarmers clashes in some parts of the country.

Osinbajo stated this during the inaugural meeting of the governing council of NEMA at the presidential villa, Abuja.

Osinbajo said efforts were in place to reconstruct the affected communities, adding that artisans with the required skills would be engaged when the houses are being rebuilt.

He said, “Mr. President has directed that we do a survey and assessment on the damage done to towns cities, communities that have been affected by

violence in some parts of the country, including the farmers-herders clashes.

NEMA will play a leading role in this and the presidency will also provide direct suppor.

“We will involve the people in the affected communities, and not just bring people from outside these communities, in the rebuilding efforts. We will involve people in these villages, artisans and other people in the communities, with required skills so that they can also benefit economically as we rebuild these communities.”

The vice-president, who is the chairman of the governing council, congratulated the new members and expressed the hope that the board would continue to be committed to the task ahead, adding that NEMA has been very visible in its role.

NWC Tenure: APC inaugurates technical panel on Buhari’s position

Tom Okpe, Abuja

ÏÏÏ The ruling All progres-

sive Congress (APC) has inaugurated a 10- man technical committee led by Plateau State Governor Simon Lalong to look into the legal implications of the recent decision to extend tenure of the party’s National Working Committee ( NWC) and other executives at all levels.

The committee is also expected to look into President Muhammadu Buhari’s stance against tenure elongation.

The National Chairman of the APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun while inaugurating the committee at the party’s Secretariat on Tuesday in Abuja, said some of

the issues that have been remitted to the committee for resolution are strongly legal, adding that the matter also impacted dramatically on political considerations.

He said: “Your job is to bring these two together and advice us on the way we can implement our activities in the next few weeks and months in a way that is politically advantageous to our party, the APC and the same time face due difference to the niceties of the law.

“We must observe the law and at the same time emphasize that we try to do things that will be advantageous to the party.

We will furnish you with all the documents like the resolutions of NEC, the party’s constitution and

the 1999 Constitution (as amended) to help you do a good job.

“You are also at liberty to request for additional material like the statement of Mr. President during the last NEC meeting and every other thing to guide you achieve the task you are about to undertake. I am praying, hoping that this is the kind of thing you can accomplish in about three to four days.

“Getting answers from you is crucially time sensitive and depending on which way you advice, we may have to put in motion very serious activities in the party virtually within a week of getting the report and taking decisions.

I thank you for accepting this onerous assignment

and wish you the very best of luck”.

Meanwhile, the Chairman of the committee, Governor Simon Lalong faulted the notion that the talks centered on the National Leader of the Party Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who is opposed to the tenure elongation decision.

“The discussion has nothing to do with Tinubu. His name was not mentioned in that discussion. The discussion was a NEC decision on the way forward on the position of the President who is also a member of NEC and that was subjected to discussion. So the issue of whether it is satisfying somebody is not there. Our decision is not going to be final. We will only advice NEC on the issue”.

In his own comment, Ondo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu said the controversy was needless since NEC did not extend the tenure of the Oyegun led NWC and party officials across the country.

According to him: “Let everybody know that the issue has nothing to do with tenure elongation. You journalists are the ones to advice or lead in the discussions. By law, nobody can extend their tenure. The usage of that word is totally wrong.

“There was no time at our NEC meeting that we took the decision to get their tenure elongated. There was a clear resolution of NEC and all it asked is for the existing committee to remain in acting capacity at the ex-

piration of their tenure.

“We cannot in law extend their tenure but we can have them work in an acting capacity or work as caretaker for some time not over 12 months. That on its own is not tenure elongation. It is not the intention of APC to elongate anybody’s tenure”.

Other members of the committee include the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Boss Mustapha, Governor Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo), Nasir el-Rufai (Kaduna), Senator Ben Uwajomogu, Rep Kabiru Ajana, Mr Elisha Kurah (SAN), Mr C.J.N Dakas (SAN) and the National Legal Adviser of the party, Muiz Banire (SAN), who is also the secretary of the committee.

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Medical doctor’s death: 30 under observation in Abia over Lassa fever Sunday Nwakanma, nƌƑ ƈ Ɨ Tunde Opalana, Abuja

ÏÏÏ There are strong indi-

cations that about 30 persons have been placed on surveillance following the death a medical doctor and a child said to have died from diseases suspected to be Lassa fever.

The Medical Director, Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Umuahia, Abia State, Dr Abali Chiku, who spoke with journalists on Tuesday in Umuahia during a joint press conference with the state commissioner for health, Dr John Ahukanna, stated that the late Dr Chizorom Ndukwu, a resident doctor, was barely a month in the employment of FMC, Umuahia and died at the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Irrua, in Edo State where she was taken for treatment.

Dr Chiku said, “The management of Federal Medical Centre Umuahia regrets to announce the death of her staff. She died of Lassa fever.”

The FMC MD added that the deceased was initially admitted at FMC in the course of her illness.

He stated the need to place persons who “came in contact with her (the deceased) in the course of her management” on close observation, but not all as some are not showing the same level of risk, pointing out that , “every possible contact whether patient or person will be identified, defined and put on surveillance, while the Mangement of the hospital

Ï 6 ƋƗ 01 ƏƆ ƍ ƈƄƋƆ ƒƆƏ Ɨ ƅƐ Əô ƗƆ Ɛ é PDP has not been able to trace the contact point where the deceased contracted the virus.”

According to the MD, an 11-month old baby was brought from a private hospital on March 12 and died the following day after admission at FMC, adding that the death of the baby was being investigated as the baby was said to have been treated by the deceased doctor.

Dr. Chiku also disclosed that the patient was referred by a pediatrician from a private hospital but the baby was not tested for Lassa virus before she died, pointing out that it was yet not possible to pinpoint if the baby was the source of the Lassa virus that killed Dr Ndukwu as nobody has manifested any signs of the virus after 21 days incubation period which ended Tuesday since the baby died.

He said, “We are not looking at one direction so that you don’t put people’s lives at risk, and we may not get to know where the deceased doctor contracted the virus,” adding that medical doctors offer their services across various health facilities and not all hospitals fully observe the standard protocol on disease control.

Meanwhile, a team of experts from the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control has visited the FMC Umuahia to investigate and provide support to ensure that the disease is contained.

The FMC MD assured that the management of the federal health facility has taken every measure

Policeman’s 13-year-old boy commits suicide in Gombe ÏÏÏ A 13-year-old son of

a policeman has reportedly hanged himself in Gombe, the police said on Tuesday.

DSP Mary Malum, the Police Public Relations Officer in Gombe State, said the boy, identified as Muhammadu Al-amin, was found hanging in his room.

Malum said that at about 4 p.m. on Monday, the father, Insp. Abdu Manu attached to Criminal Investigation Bureau of Pantami Division, received a phone call from his wife that their 13-year-old son had been found dead in his room.

She said the father reported that the boy allegedly hanged himself with a rope after returning from Quranic School.

Malum said following

the report, a team of policemen was immediately despatched to the scene and a photograph of the boy was taken.

She said the team recovered an exhibit rope as well as the corpse, which was taken to Gombe Specialist Hospital mortuary for autopsy.

She said the case was still being investigated and that further details would be made available after.

A resident of the area who pleaded not to be named told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the boy was seen about noon playing with his mates and after news of his demise spread in the evening.

Efforts to reach the father for comments failed

to contain the virus, noting that the protocol developed by the NCDC for the containment of Lassa fever was being fully implemented at the FMC Umuahia.

In his speech, the Abia State Commissioner for Health, Dr Ahukanna, described it as regrettable that Lassa fever has claimed a life in Abia after all efforts to keep the dreaded virus at bay, pointing out that though the apprehension created by the outbreak of Lassa fever in Abia was understandable, but “there is no reason to panic” as both the state ministry of health and NCDC have taken measures to contain the

disease.

Dr Ahukanna advised Abians to “take concrete steps” by maintaining high level of personal and environmental hygiene and also keep rats at bay to ensure that the outbreak of Lassa fever did “not go beyond what we already have”.

Meanwhile. the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked Nigerians to hold President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) Federal Government directly responsible for the avoidable and painful death of Dr. Ndukwu Chizaram of the Federal Medical Center, Umuahia, Abia State.

The PDP said the promising and patriotic medical practitioner had to pay the supreme price over avoidable exposure to Lassa fever, because of the low premium the APC administration places on the lives of Nigerians and the health sector in particular.

In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Tuesday, PDP described the failure of the APC Federal Government to provide medical personnel with the requisite equipment and facilities to effectively and safely discharge their duties as absolutely wicked, inhuman and the

height of insensitivity.

The statement reads in part, “While we are deeply pained by this tragedy, we are very worried about the safety of our health personnel in Federal Government’s health facilities, following the established lack-lustre approach of the APC administration to health issues in Nigeria.

“It is indeed very sad that instead of addressing these health and sundry issues, APC leaders are frittering away our commonwealth on medical tourism in Europe while our hospitals had, in the last three years, sunk from the famed height attained under the PDP to mere consulting centers.

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Amnesty Office: Weed out corrupt elements that worked against your predecessor” –Ex-Militant leaders urges Dokubo Akam James, Yenagoa

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ers, drawn from the nine states of the Niger Delta region has called on the new Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator, Presidential Amnesty Programm, Prof.

Charles Quaker Dokubo, to be wary of corrupt elements within the amnesty office.

They also urged the coordinator to weed them out to void same pitfalls that befell his predecessor, Brig. Gen. Paul Boroh.

The Ex-agitators under the aegis of the Niger Delta Reformed Ex-agitators Association said though they commended President Muhammadu Buhari on his appointment as the Special Adviser to the President on

Niger Delta and Coordinator, Presidential Amnesty Programme, call on him to beware of the bad eggs in the Presidential Amnesty Office that misled his predecessor and created impediments for the smooth and effective implementation of the mandate of the Presidential Amnesty Programme.

The group in a statement issued via email and signed by its National President, Ex-Militant General Ebiowe Ayado, said there is the need for Dokubo to justify the confidence reposed in him.

The statement reads in part, “We are very confident that Prof. Charles Dokubo will effectively deploy his robust wealth of experience to pilot the affairs of the Presidential Amnesty Programme to greater

heights” “However, we hereby call on him to beware of the bad eggs in the Presidential Amnesty Office that misled his predecessor and created impediments for the smooth and effective implementation of the mandate of the Presidential Amnesty Programme. He should weed out the bad eggs and inject fresh blood into the programme and engage very patriotic and committed persons as his aides to enable him actualize his mandate.

“He should do away with all the aides that misled the former S.A, Paul Boroh and appoint only very honest and dedicated aides to help him succeed in his new assignment. He should never recycle or engage all those who have questions bother-

ing on corruption and other illegalities to answer under his predecessor.

“It is our very strong position that for the new S.A and Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme to succeed, he must sanitize the office and bring in some critical stakeholders to help him in the discharge of his duties.

“He should also distance himself from vendors like Hilda Dokubo & Co. who instead of executing contracts awarded to them, made away with funds meant for the Presidential Amnesty Delegates and abandoned their contracts at the expense of the programme and the delegates.

Such vendors should never be given any such opportunities under this new administration.”

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Omokri: Huge amount of cash wasn’t found at Jonathan’s residence

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Representatives of the Kwara State Chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. Dr. Julius Adesina and Rev. Cos Fawenu receiving Easter packages on behalf of the Christians in Kwara State from the Director General, Constituency Office of the President of the Senate, Alhaji Musa Abdullahi (on white) and the Senior Legislative Aide (SLA) Special Duties, to the President of the Senate, Hon. Adetula Oyedele, at the weekend.

Loot for campaign: PDP demands proscription of APC ÏÏÏThe

Peoples Democratic Party has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission to immediately proscribe the All Progressives Congress following the “undisputed revelations that it financed Muhammadu Buhari’s 2015 campaign with looted funds”.

The party, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, made available to newsmen gave the APCled administration a three-day ultimatum to respond to allegations that it was elected with looted funds or find itself top of the list of confirmed looters.

The party stated that instead

of the Presidency and the APC to state how President Buhari’s 2015 campaign was funded with looted sums, “they are busy hallucinating about names of individuals,” whose matters are before the courts of competent jurisdiction.

The statement stated: “Now that the APC, the federal government, Alhaji Lai Mohammed and the Buhari Presidency have chosen a loud silence rather than accepting that looted funds were used to install Buhari as President in 2015, we charge INEC to do the needful by commencing the process for the proscription of the APC as a political party.

“It is evidently clear that the

APC, federal government and the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, are running away from the issue of how they raised money to install Buhari as President.”

The statement further stated that the recent action of the APC is an indication that the party has chosen to divert the attention of Nigerians and the international community from their “manifold failures of leadership”.

The statement further stated that the PDP will not join the bandwagon and engage in matters that that are subjudice because of its love and respect for the rule of law and it also chal-

lenged the presidency and the APC to declare the sources of the funds used in electioneering campaigns as well as how the funds were used.

It added: “We know those in the APC and Buhari’s cabinet, who as champions of looting, plundered the resources of their various states and handed same over for the very expensive electioneering campaign of President Buhari, who had earlier confessed of his insolvency. “We have challenged the APC and the Presidency to declare the sources of these funds and how they were used since they have been proven to come from public coffers.”

Reno Omokri, Ex-aide of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri has said thT no cash what was found at any residence of Jonathan.

He said this in reaction to a viral video on a purported raid of a residence of Jonathan where a huge amount of cash was found.

In a statement on Tuesday, Omokri alleged that the video was circulated by agents of All Progressives Congress (APC).

He said Jonathan was a modest man and whatever he has by way of cash or property was legitimate.

“Let it be known that no police officers or any other security agents stormed any of the residences of former President Jonathan and no cache of dollars or any other foreign currencies have been found in any of his residences and indeed none can be found because no such stash exists,” the statement read.“That declaration remains true today as it was then. Furthermore, the former president, in keeping with the cashless policy which his administration introduced and fully implemented, does not keep huge sums of cash at his residence.

“He is the most investigated living former president in Nigeria’s history. That nothing implicating has been found on him should not lead his traducers to become desperate and fabricate evidence and circulate it as propaganda.

“I urge Nigerians to be on the alert for the fake news circulated by desperadoes via WhatsApp and other social media platforms and intended to malign the good name of Dr Goodluck Jonathan.”

Support Buhari on reversing tenure elongation, Senator Abe urges APC stakeholders Amaka Agbu, Port Harcourt

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ers South-East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, has urged members of National Executive Committee (NEC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to place the interest of the party above every other consideration and support President Muhammadu Buhari on reversing tenure elongation of party officials earlier adopted by the party.

Senator Abe urged them to respect the informed position of the President to conduct congresses across all strata of the party to bring it in conformity with extant constitutional provisions of the Nigerian constitution and its own constitution.

The Senator who spoke during an extraordinary stakeholders meeting of the party in Port Harcourt commended President Muhammadu

Buhari for his clear, bold and courageous stand on the constitutional issue of the elected party officials.

He said, “the President’s position has not only shown that the All Progressives Congress (APC) was a party that respected the true tenets of internal democracy and the dictates of the law, but had also steered the party clear of prospective danger”.

The Senator went further to assure that the party was irrevocably committed to the restoration of Rivers State to the expected dream of the people where justice and opportunities to create wealth would be made available to all.

Abe said, “Those of us who have faith in what we are doing, don’t be deterred, don’t be worried; continue to work hard. We are irrevocably committed to the emancipation of Rivers State. We are totally dedicated to the restoration of our state. We are completely determined to recalibrate the entire engine, the machin-

ery of our state so that this state will be what our founding fathers had intended.“Our founding fathers wanted it to be a place where there would be justice for all, both small and big; a place where there would be opportunity for all both small and big. A place where every tribe, every tongue, every denomination, every stranger will feel completely at home and will be given an opportunity to contribute their own quota to the development and prosperity of our state”. He regretted that members of the APC had dumped the party for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) due to crumbs promised them, saying that the solution to the hunger we were currently facing in Rivers State was not by going to beg crumbs from the table of anybody.

Abe, who is the Chairman, Senate Committee on FERMA, said, “Sometimes when you are doing something, all kinds of naysayers will come up, all kinds of doubters will come, all

kinds of inflections will come to try to dissuade you, try to defray people, they try to defeat you even before you go into any contest.“But those who know the secret of success know that first of all before you do anything, you must first convince yourself that what you are doing is the right thing.

Once you are doing the right thing at the right time and in the right place, nobody can come to shake you from what you are doing. “I am saying this because some members of our party across the state who left the party were misinformed, misguided and deceived to move because they feel we are divided so they moved to somewhere, where they can see something to eat immediately.

“But, let me say to everybody, that the solution to the hunger we are currently facing in Rivers State is not by going to beg crumbs from the table of anybody, it is by doing the right thing so that you are strong enough to be one of those that will cook the

food that will be on the table. I think

it is only when we do that and we can expand the table to increase the food, that is when the challenge of hunger that is currently the bane of Rivers society will be totally and completely eliminated,” he stated. Senator Abe pointed out that Rivers State had become one of the highest unemployment figures in the entire country and yet, this state had some of the greatest natural advantages, with which wealth could be created but we were not giving it that attention that was needed to generate wealth and create employment opportunities for thousands of our people.

In the communiqué that was issued at the end of the stakeholders meeting, which was read by Rt. Hon. Chibudom Nwuche, the party enjoined members of the APC in Rivers State to return all party executives at all levels in the event of congresses irrespective of their factional leanings as a reward for their sacrifice and commitment to the APC, in the face of threats, intimidation and even physical danger.

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Ekiti 2018: Ishola names DG of campaign council

Crisis of confidence: Judge dares Gov Ortom

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confidence has erupted at the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court where Justice Binta Nyako reportedly ordered the immediate redeployment of some Benue State indigenes working directly under her.

The Daily Times newspaper exclusively gathered that Justice Nyako who angrily ordered the redeployment of the three Benue staff of the court, hinged her reasons on the grounds that her safety was no longer guaranteed with the embattled staffers.

An anonymous source who would not want his name to be mentioned following the sensitive nature of the case, told our correspondent that the drama started when a Senior Advocate of Nigeria appeared

before her in a suit involving Fulani herdsmen and the Benue State government.

According to the source, the Judge brought out a letter which was written to the court by the Benue State Attorney General, Mr. Micheal Gusa, requesting that the case file be transferred to the acting Chief Judge, Justice Abdul Kafarati for reassignment.

The plaintiffs in the suit: Engr.Saleh Alhassan, Alhaji Abdullahi Bello Bodejo, members of Miyatti Allah Kautal Hore Socio-Cultural Association, had dragged Benue State government before the court following the anti-open grazing law it enacted in May, 2017.

Joined in the suit are the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, SAN, Benue State Government,

Benue State House of Assembly and the commissioner of police, Benue State.

The applicants in the motion on notice prayed the court to declare that the publication calling for the arrest of members of Miyatti Allah for peace to reign in Benue State was sponsored by the State government through a body known as Benue Youth Movement.

The motion which was brought pursuant to order 2 rule 1(1) of the Fundamental Rights Enforcement of the fundamental human right to personal liberty rights prayed an order of perpetual injunction restraining the respondents by themselves, agents and privies from harassing, molesting, arresting, abducting and detaining the applicants in any part of the country without compliance with due process of law.

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Meanwhile, the respondents in their counter-affidavit vehemently opposed the application. They maintained that contrary to the submissions of the applicants, the respondents never intimidated the applicants.

The defendants through their lawyer Chief Sebastine Hon, SAN, averred that based on their public threats of causing mayhem in Benue State as a result of the passage of the anti-open grazing law, Governor Ortom wrote petitions against the applicants to President Muhammadu Buhari and the Inspector-General of police.

He also averred that the 3 and 4 respondents did not need to go through any other body, like the Benue Youth Movement to petition against the applicants.

Hon further prayed the court to grant the application in the interest of justice especially in view of the fact that more than one hundred Benue indegenes have been killed by Fulani herdsmen since the applicants issued their threats.

The Ekiti State Deputy Governor, Prof. Kolapo Ishola, ahead of the May 8 governorship primary of the Peoples Democratic Party, has announced the composition of his Campaign Council.

The election is to take place on July 14, 2018.

To serve as the Director-General of the Kolapo Olusola Eleka Campaign Council is the Ekiti State Commissioner for the Environment, Chief Bisi Kolawole.

This was contained in a public service announcement on the radio and television channels of the Broadcasting Service of Ekiti State.

Kolawole has served twice as commissioner under Fayose and represented Efon in the House of Assembly between 2007 and 2011.

He served as Director-General of the Prince Adedayo Adeyeye Movement in the run-up to the 2014 election.

According to a notice of primary and election timetable forwarded to Ekiti State Peoples Democratic Party from the national secretariat, the governorship primary holds on May 8, while the appeals from the fallout will be heard on May 10.

The last day for withdrawal by candidate and replacement of withdrawn candidate is May 30 and last day for submission of candidate’s nomination form is June 13.

Last day of campaign is July 12, while the governorship election holds on July 14.

Kwara Assembly ƏƆƉƆƅƐ 1 ƒê ƌƆƗô request for another N1b loan ÏÏÏThe Kwara House of As-

sembly on Tuesday stepped down the request of Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed seeking to access anotherN1 billion agriculture loan from Sterling Bank for disbursement to poultry and fish farmers in the state.

It also set aside his request seeking approval for a loan of N400 million to settle the subventions of the stateowned tertiary institutions.

The House took the decision in its resolution after deliberating on the governor’s request read by the Speaker, Dr. Ali Ahmad.

In a unanimous decision, the House asked the executive to brief it on how the N1billion agriculture loan approved by the House in 2017 was disbursed.

The House also directed its Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources to liaise with the executive to ascertain the real identity of the G dƐ ƐƆ 1 ƒƆƏ Əè LƏê Ɗƈ ƓƑ ƌƈ ƌƄ ƗƆ æƾ Ɨ Əƈ Ɛçì ƈ ƓƈƇƆè Ƌ ƋƆ æƏƈ Ɛçì #ƆƍƑƐƕ 1 ƒƆƏ Əè #Ə æLƏ ç RƋƑƏ Ɛƈ ƗƆƄƑƋƆ æƾ Ɨ ƋƆƇƐç Ɨ dƆ Ɛ Ə RƋ ƌƈƋƆƊ ƗƆ Ƌ æƋƆƇƐç beneficiaries of the new loan request. ƗƑƏƈ Ɛ Ɔ ƅ ƌƌƈ ƈ ƈ Ƈ Ɛ Ɔ ƆƓƋƕ ƄƑƈƋƐ 9Ɗ Ƌ ƏƈƗ Ɔ æRƋƗ RƗ RƄ Ɖ ƏƈƗ Ɔç ƍ ƏƐ Ƈ Ɛ Ɔ ƾơ G éR Ƒ Ƒ Ɨ Əƕ MƆƐƓ ƏƊ ` Ɨ ƈ Ƌƈƌ G ƅ Ƌ 1 ƒƆƏ ƌƆ Ɛêêê Also justifying the setting aside L Ɨ ƕ of the N400million loan request, the House said there was no need for it since the allocation from the Federal Okafor explained that the quarterly regGovernment and the state’s Internalin spite of the presence of many peo- Society Liaison of INEC in the istration was in line with the directive from The Independent National ly Generated Revenue had improved ple eager to be registered.

FCT, attributed the delay in the INEC headquarters.

Electoral Commission on Tuesday since January.

People had gathered at the centre commencement of the exercise One of the people waiting to register, Titus It, however, approved the request commenced the Continuous Voter as early as 8 a.m. waiting to be regis- to “logistics issues’’.

Paul, urged INEC to improve on its arrangeof the governor to obtain a N4 billion Registration for the second quarter tered but neither INEC officials nor She appealed to people willloan to offset the backlog of salaries of 2018 in the Federal Capital Terri- the machines for the exercise, was ing to register to be patient, ment for the exercise.

Paul said: “You see, we are in the sun, owed staff and pensioners in the 16 tory. available. assuring that it would be fastsome people who are not healthy enough may The News Agency of Nigeria relocal government councils of the Ndidi Okafor, Head, Voter Educa- tracked to accommodate all have their situation aggravated; government ports that the exercise commenced state. tion and Publicity, Gender and Civil qualified persons. should be fair in dealing with its citizens. at the Karu centre at about 11 a.m.

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Presidency spurns Obasanjo’s failure assessment ÏÏÏThe presidency has

said that former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s failure tag on the current administration is not new.

It said that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari would, therefore, not join issues with the former president over his comments and assessment.

Obasanjo had on Monday night, while addressing a group of youths, who visited him at his country home Abeokuta, described the Buhari’s administration as a failure.

Obasanjo also asked

the All Progressives Congress (APC) -led government to stop complaining about the challenges it met on the ground.

“What we have now is failure. Never you reinforce failure, let failure be failure… Those of you who are in business, your business could have been better today if we have a competent and effective and performing government.’’

However, the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, who responded to Obasanjo’s comments in a telephone interview on Channels

Television on Monday, said the assessment was not new.

“Already, the statement issued few months ago by the Minister of Information and Culture, Mr Lai Mohammed, in response to the earlier criticism made against the government by Obasanjo had adequately addressed the issues raised’’.

He maintained that the APC-led Federal Government would keep making reference to the failures of the past administration with a view to guiding against such mistakes in future.

According to Adesina,

the Buhari administration has successfully tackled mismanagement of the nation’s economy, as Nigeria now has more savings in its foreign reserve than ever before.

The former President had earlier issued a 13page statement, criticising Buhari’s performance and concluded that Buhari should not seek re-election in 2019.

Obasanjo’s 13-page statement attracted mixed reactions from cross sections of Nigerians, including politicians and opinion leaders from within and outside the country.

Gunmen break into Kogi police station, kill two officers, injured 1 ÏÏÏSome

gunmen on Tuesday invaded the police station at Gegu village on Lokoja–Abuja road, killing two of the policemen on duty.

William Aya, spokesman of the Kogi state police command, confirmed this “It is true that there was an attack today. We lost two officers,” he said.

He said the gunmen also injured one of the suspects in the cell.

Aya said the corpses of the slain policemen had been deposited at the morgue of the Fed-

eral Medical Centre, Lokoja, where the injured suspect is also receiving treatment, adding that investigation had commenced into the incident.

Meanwhile, some of the villagers told NAN that the gunmen, about five in number, came on motorcycles.

The suspects, according to the villagers, immediately opened fire on arrival at the police station.

The incident, the villagers said, led to disruption in traffic movement on the ever busy Lokoja – Abuja road.

Yahaya Bello visits Aso Rock on crutches ÏÏÏGovernor

Radiology Department Army Reference Hospital, Yaba wearing a new look after it has been remodeld and commisioned...on Tuesday

NAF deploys special forces to Gusau Andrew Orolua, Abuja

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the recent attack on Bawan Daji community in Anka Local Government Area of Zamfara State where some lives were lost, the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, on Tuesday deployed Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Special Forces to Gusau, as part of efforts to stop the incessant banditry attacks.

A statement issued by the director of Public Relations and Information Air Vice Marshal Olatokunbo Adesanya, said that NAF Special Forces, who were trained in asym-

metric warfare, were airlifted from Kaduna with the NAF C-130 Hercules aircraft to complement the efforts of other security forces on ground to prevent further attack on innocent citizens.

The personnel and other supporting staff would operate from the recently established 207 Quick Response Group in Gusau, where they would reinforce the existing Regiment personnel in the Unit in support of the ongoing Operation SHARAN DAJI in the State.

In his address to the troops at Gusau shortly before their deployment

Tuesday, the Air Officer Commanding Special Operations Command, Air Vice Marshal Ismaila Kaita, announced that the Special Forces would be further deployed to remote areas of Zamfara State, where they would be engaged in Internal Security operations.

He therefore further urged them to effectively utilize their experience and training to protect the lives and properties of the people of Zamfara State.

He added that the NAF leadership expects the Special Forces to exhibit the highest standards of professionalism and respect for human rights in

discharging their duties.

In recent times, the NAF has taken additional measures to enhance its contributions to tackling Internal Security challenges in the country, in fulfilment of its constitutional responsibility.

In addition to earlier established Quick Response Groups and Wings and the deployment of NAF Special Forces to various states, the NAF recently established Quick Response Wings at Agatu, Doma and Nguroje in Benue, Nasarawa and Taraba States respectively to bring security closer to those in the relatively remote areas.

Yahaya Bello of Kogi state, walked into the presidential villa in Abuja on Tuesday on crutches.

The governor was involved in an accident during the Easter holiday.

The news of the accident had led to different speculations in the state, with some saying he had been incapacitated.

Kingsley Fanwo, spokesman of the governor, had earlier issued a statement to deny that his principal’s condition was critical.

“We wish to refute speculations in some quarters that the Governor of Kogi State, His Excellency, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, is either hospitalised or otherwise incapacitated,” the statement read.

“The governor missed his footing last Friday, March 30, 2018, while alighting from a vehicle and injured his left foot.

He was treated by his doctors, who bandaged the leg and discharged him.

“We thank all the Governor’s supporters and wellwishers who reached us to inquire after his wellbeing. His Excellency is doing very well and will be at work as usual after the Easter holidays. “ Bello is at the villa to discuss a crucial issue about the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) with President Muham-

madu Buhari.

Some governors of the ruling party are not happy that Buhari opted out of the plan to elongate Oyegun’s tenure.

Bello was the one who announced the extension of Oyegun’s tenure at the end of the national executive committee (NEC) of the party in February.

There was a strong opposition to the NEC decision, with some regarding it as unconstitutional.

But Bello had said governors of the party had confidence in Oyegun.

Before Buhari walked into the venue of Tuesday’s meeting, a governor was heard saying: “This coup will not stand.”

The tenure extension is causing ripples within the ruling party.

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Kashamu hails FG for awarding PDP Woman Leader leads aggrieved members to contract for Ikorodu-Sagamu Road defect to APC in Yobe The senator representing Some aggrieved members and chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), from Yobe South Senatorial District of Yobe State, have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

They said they were leaving the party because of alleged oppression, insensitivity and selfishness of the elected representatives of their former party.

The defection from the PDP during the Easter break was a major setback, as of over 6,000 persons led by a known grassroots politician and prominent member, Hauwa Ibrahim Nagodi defected.

The former PDP Woman Leader in Yobe South Senatorial District said, “We worked hard

and ensured PDP succeeds in our area, but the elected representatives disappointed by divorcing themselves from the electorate.”

Alhaji Saleh Jauro and Ibrahim Gimba Fika while speaking during an open reception organised by the APC at the Chadi Primary School, Potiskum, said they decided to dump the PDP due to the noticeable lack of internal harmony in their former party.

They described the PDP elected leaders in the state as emperors and oppressors, adding that they had to seek refuge in the APC for progress and development of the zone and state at large.

They pledged to work hard for the success of the APC in the state.

Earlier, Alhaji Adamu Chillariye, the Yobe State Chairman of the APC, while welcoming the new APC members, said the occasion was organised to welcome those who had for long been under bondage under the PDP and had decided to leave before it was too late.

While receiving the defectors, the Chairman of Potiskum Local Government Area, Ado Hamza Ngojin, said that the occasion had effectively kick-started the silent but gradual inevitable death of the PDP in the state.

One of the leaders of the defectors, Hajiya Aminawo, stated that her love for the APC spurred her to embark on the project.

She expressed joy that her efforts and those of others had paid off with the massive defection into APC.

ɼɼɼ Y˄ R ˄qÏÇ È˄: Ý˄ ¥ èá˄ù¯è¬˄ supporters to PDP in Ebonyi As a PDP Woman Leader in Yobe was leading supporters of the party to APC in the state, the reverse was exactly the case in Ebonyi State, as the Women Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Ohaozara Local Government Area, Mrs. Chinyere Okoro led over 700 others into the folds of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Mrs. Okoro while defecting at the weekend said she was forced by her conscience to join PDP in order to support the governor in his mission to develop and empower the women and youths of the state.

Okoro who spoke at the Umunaga Uburu country home of Governor David Umahi during an Easter homage to the governor said her conscience had been pricking her into joining the PDP because of the on-going developments in the state and also promised to support the governor’s re-election bid.

She said she decamped with over 700 women across the council to support the developmental agenda of Governor Umahi and to continue to work for the unity of Okposi Okwu community and entire Okposi in general.

She called on her former colleagues in APC to dump the party, saying that the party has neither future nor plan for the people.

“I have come here with my women, over 700 of them, who were wallowing in ignorance dying out of envy and jealousy in APC. My conscience could not allow me to rest because each time I walk on the roads and other things the governor is doing, I am always ashamed of myself because I had no reason remaining in APC because it has no future.

“I am tired of being in APC

Ogun East Senatorial District, Buruji Kashamu, has commended the Federal Government for awarding the contract for the rehabilitation of the Ikorodo-Sagamu Road which links Lagos State and Ogun State.

Sagamu, Ogijo, Mosinmi and other communities around that axis fall under Ogun East Senatorial District which Kashamu represents at the upper chamber.

Rising from its weekly Federal Executive Committee (FEC) meeting recently, the Federal Government announced that it has approved N20.845 billion for the rehabilitation of the road.

Kashamu, who recently took to his Twitter handle @Sen_Kashamu to commend the Federal Government few moments after the news broke, wrote: “Thanks @ tundefashola for making @MBuhari-led FEC to award the Ikorodu-Shagamu Expressway. I recall the October 11, 2017, letter I sent to your office about the road which is one of the major roads in my senatorial district. My heart is filled with joy. Kudos!”

The acknowledged copy of the letter showed that it was received at the office of the Minister for Power, Works and Housing on October 16, 2017.

The letter read in part, “I write regarding the Sagamu-Ogijo road, a federal road of high economic value that has suffered years of neglect.

“The road is a petroleum

KASHAMU distribution route and hosts several high value installations and industrial plants such as the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company (PPMC). There are a lot of huge man-hour and economic losses due to the deplorable condition of this road; including the unfortunate loss of lives on several occasions.

“Minister,Ihowevercommendyou for listing the road for rehabilitation in this year’s Appropriation Act. I urge you to kindly assist with the full implementation of the rehabilitation of the road due to its national importance. A copy of the relevant page of the Appropriation Act and photographs of some failed sections are herewith attached.”

Kashamu said the fact that the road has now been awarded based on the provision made for it in the 2017 Appropriation Act shows that if the various arms of government work together the people would be better for it.

Cleric warns Tinubu against backing Buhari re-election bid

UMAHI and today I am here to tell Your Excellency that we are back and we shall remain with you to ensure that you are reelected as our governor.”

Other APC stalwarts who defected to PDP alongside the Woman Leader include Chief Onyiba Dandi Omoke and Engr. I .O Nweze.

Speaking, Chief Onyiba Omoke acknowledged that Governor Umahi has done marvelously well in all sectors of the state economy and deserved to be supported and not to be opposed.

He said APC can’t match what the governor has achieved in office and pledged to work with the PDP to ensure that the governor is elected for the second term in

office.

“Having watched all you have achieved within the few years you are in the office, we have come here today to pledge our loyalty and support for your administration and PDP as a party. This is because we have been living in the past by believing that APC has all it takes to develop the country. I have returned to PDP because APC is a fraud and a one chance party,” he said.

Earlier in his remarks, the traditional ruler of Okposi Okwu autonomous community, Eze Onyiba Chukwu Agwu said the community would stand with the governor to complete his second term in office.

A cleric and Spiritual head of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, with headquarters in Lagos State, Primate Elijah Ayodele has warned the National Leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, not to support President Muhammadu Buhari in next year’s presidential election.

Ayodele, speaking at the dedication of the Emi Ni Aseyori Kan Pro Cathedral a.k.a Sope Parish in Lagos last weekend, claimed that Tinubu would be used and dumped by Buhari.

The cleric also called on the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, to contest for the presidency in 2019 or face the wrath of God. “The present ‘romance’ going on between Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Buhari is deception; they’re deceiving Tinubu. They just want to use him and dump him. Until we appreciate God and not man, the country will continue to experience underdevelopment,” he said.

On the 2019 presidential election, the cleric stated that God had ordained Saraki to help Nigeria.

“I want to tell Saraki now to

BUHARI make up his mind, because God has ordained him to help this country. He should come out to contest for president. It’s not by noise. At the moment, he is the one who can move Nigeria forward.

“So, I want him to take the bold step and make up his mind or else, God would deal with him.

I don’t make predictions; I give prophecies. However, I am not God. God can choose to delay when fulfilling certain prophecies.

“What is happening with the administration of President Muhammad Buhari, God had told me and I said it; these things are happening now. Everything happening in the country now has been foretold,” he stated.

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Ekiti 2018: Senator Raji-Rasaki, Omoyeni, others dump PDP for SDP

Anambra lawmaker tasks ministry on provision of basic amenities

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State, has lost a former deputy to Governor Ayodele Fayose, Bisi Omoyeni, a Senator representing Ekiti Central, Mrs. Fatima Raji-Rasaki, and a former Secretary to the Ekiti State Government, Dare Bejide, to the Social Democratic Party (SDP).

They said their resolve to dump the PDP was because of Fayose’s imposition of his deputy, Prof. Kolapo Olusola, as the anointed candidate of the party for the July 14 governorship election in the state.

They attended the stakeholders’ meeting of the SDP on Monday in Ado Ekiti.

Omoyeni, a former Managing Director of Wema Bank, was in the meeting in person, while the former Nigerian High Commissioner to Canada, Bejide and Raji-Rasaki, were represented by Mr. Yemi Arokodare and Chief Titi Oluwatuyi, respectively.

Omoyeni told the stakeholders not to fear because nobody could intimidate them.

“This party was established by divine creation and it has become the third force. Be rest assured that our people are coming en-masse to this party.

Any support the party needs to

Former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, has blamed former military president, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, for adopting divide and rule tactics as well as eventual ban to destabilise the labour movement in Nigeria.

FAYOSE occupy Oke Ayoba (government house) we will render it.

“Most of the aspirants who are still slugging it out in other parties are coming here.

“In fact, 70 per cent of the members of the PDP in Ekiti are moving to the SDP,” he said.

Addressing newsmen, the SDP National Publicity Secretary, Yemi Akinbode, who led other National Working Committee members to the meeting, said it was called because of the Ekiti election which he said was strategic to the party.

“This is the first meeting after the inauguration of the interim state working committee of the SDP, because the election is fast

FATIMA RAJI-RASAKI approaching and we have little or no time on our hands.

“The leadership of the party at the national level mandated me and others, including Prof.

Tunde Adeniran to come to Ekiti State to quickly put together the stakeholders’ meeting to explain to them the vision, programmes as well as the structure of the party and our expectation in the coming governorship election in Ekiti.

“You can see that this is the first meeting and the attendance was good. People are already coming out who ordinarily will not have shown their faces. This is an indication that this is the party to beat.

Why Buhari will never join issues with Obasanjo despite criticisms -Adesina The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has revealed why his principal will never join issues with former President Olusegun Obasanjo despite his criticisms.

After writing a scathing letter to President Buhari on January 23, advising Buhari against seeking re-election, Obasanjo on Monday criticised Buhari while hosting the New Nigeria Group at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta, Ogun State, stressing that the President has a “poor understanding” of the dynamics of internal politics and warned Nigerians against reinforcing failure by re-electing him in 2019.

Responding during a telephone conversion with Channels Television, Adesina stated that Obasanjo was Buhari’s superior in the military, and as such, the President “will never join issues” with him. The thing I will like us to establish is that President Muhammadu Buhari will never join issues with former President Olusegun Obasanjo.”

“Former President Obasanjo was his superior in the military.

OBASANJO

President Buhari was a minister under his military regime, so President Buhari will never join issues with him.”

The presidential spokesman maintained that Obasanjo’s comments are “not different” from the letter he wrote to Buhari in January, stating that, “what former President Obasanjo has

just said is not different from what he said in his letter of January 23 and an adequate response has been given to that letter by the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed.

“The response that Alhaji Mohammed gave to that letter suffices for whatever Obasanjo has said. It’s an opinion and the thing about opinions is that they are free.”

OMOYENI “It is instructive that those sending representatives are already here. Bisi Omoyeni is here by himself. That is to show that he is here with us.

“Ambassador Dare Bejide and Arokodare are here and that is to show that more people are still coming and that is an indication that the house that is divided against itself can’t stand and that is to show that the PDP is in trouble.

“Our doors are still open to members from other parties who are willing to join the moving train. Our goal and objective is to win the governorship election in Ekiti come July 14 ,” he said.

A member of the Anambra State House of Assembly, Hon. Uchenna Okafor, has urged the state Ministry of Public Utilities and Water Resources to initiate projects to ensure provision of basic amenities.

Okafor, who is the Chairman, House Committee on Public Utilities and Water Resources, made the call in an interview with the Newsmen in Awka on Tuesday.

He said that the committee would ensure the ministry discharged its functions through effective oversight functions.

The All Peoples Grand Alliance (APGA) lawmaker, representing Ayahmelum Constituency, said that the ministry owed the people of the state a great deal of service and promised to ensure that its budget was implemented for their benefit.

He said that the state government was committed to providing the people with electricity, water supply and effective fire service.

Okafor said that the committee had been interfacing with the ministry to ensure that social

PDP Reps tackle Buhari, APC over ‘worsening sufferings’ of Nigerians The caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), at the House of Representatives has tackled the President Muhammadu Buhariled Federal Government over the “worsening sufferings” of Nigerians.

The caucus noted that more Nigerians were hungry due to lack of food, while many others were unemployed or underemployed.

This was contained in a statement in Abuja on Monday night where the PDP Reps stated that the APC government won election in 2015, using propaganda as a weapon of “deception.”

Their statement which was signed on behalf of the caucus by the Minority Leader, Leo Ogor, reads in part, “Over and over, it has been proven that the current APC government in Nigeria beats all preceding administrations, including the colonial ones, in the sinister art of deceitful lies and propaganda.

“With fiendish mercilessness, the APC’s 2015 campaign milked the unfortunate abduction of the Chibok girls for every available ounce of propaganda and disinformation against the preceding administration.

“Its campaign rhetoric and

official hoopla from the lying minister had included rescuing of the Chibok girls and achieving total defeat of the Boko Haram insurgents.

“Today, the APC government nurses palpable fear over any scrutiny of its errors in Dapchi or its unusual generosity towards Boko Haram, which it promised to defeat but now almost sees as a partner with which to share deep and befuddling confidence.

“Although, the APC government is known not to be a listening one, last Thursday, the Co-Chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Mr. Bill Gates, emphatically stated that the Federal Government’s Economic Recovery and Growth Plan was not reflective of the people’s needs.

“It is an open secret that under the APC, Nigerians have fared worse on the misery index; those who were rich before are no longer investing, the poor are becoming poorer while almost 30 million Nigerians are either unemployed or under -employed.

“According to Bill Gates, the APC government’s concentration on physical infrastructure to the detriment of human capital development exposes the undesirable inadequacies in the health and education sectors.”

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Where is the Nigerian opposition?

Times Columnist

REUBEN ABATI

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Opposition politics is not rocket science and nobody has to travel to India, the UK or the United States to master it. In Nigeria’s First and Second Republics, whatever may have been the problems of that era, this country had a rich culture of opposition politics. Chief Obafemi Awolowo of the Action Group and later the Unity Party of Nigeria, as an opposition leader, confronted the ruling government with hard facts and figures and an alternative vision of how Nigeria could be rescued

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ess than a year to the next general elections in Nigeria, the biggest deficit in the political process leading to that moment is the absence of a robust, virile and effective opposition. The role of the opposition in a democracy is to question, criticize, challenge, and audit the governments of the day – local and national - and make them more transparent and accountable, and even if these twin-objectives may not be immediately achieved, the opposition exists nonetheless to put the people in power “on their toes” as it were in the people’s overall interest.

This is the underlying principle of a parliamentary system of government, and even in other forms of government including a Presidential system, the opposition provides checks and balances, it is a kind of alternative government, a counterweight, providing such balance that could safeguard the integrity of the political process. But of course, what is at stake is “the conquest of power”: the opposition provides the people with a choice and ultimately seeks to wrestle power from or out of the hands of the incumbent and present a different vision of social and economic progress.

In doing this, the opposition may be constructive - in this regard it could even work with the ruling party or government to promote the national interest. This was the case under Prime Minister Narasimha Rao of India who once sent opposition leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee to the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva, as leader of the Indian delegation, to defend the government on its human rights record in response to allegations by Pakistan.

Rao’s party members, who felt he had no business working with the opposition criticized him as loudly as they could, but the Prime Minister felt it was more important to be bi-partisan and project a picture of national unity. It is not a strategy that has endured in India’s divisive politics. But what is known is that in other jurisdictions, members of the opposition in parliament sometimes vote on a non-partisan basis on key issues before the parliament. This may occur when the rivalry among the political parties is peaceful and there is a broad consensus that the country is far more important than the boundaries imposed by partisan politics.

For the most part however, opposition politics can be disruptive, and apropos, the strategy of the opposition is not to construct anything or offer any value but to “oppose, oppose, oppose” by any means possible to wear down and pull down the incumbent government. Physical violence, blackmail, abusive words, post-truth imagery and fake news are part of the arsenal of the disruptive opposition.

In Nigeria at the moment, we neither have in my estimation a constructive or a disruptive opposition.

Whatever we have that may look remotely as any form of opposition is weak, uncoordinated, and ineffective.

Our political parties are internally polarized, politics has become evil, our political leaders do not know where to draw the line, the ruling gov-

ernment is having an upper hand, it is committed to an unrelenting, overzealous persecution of the opposition and progressive ideas. The last time we witnessed what looked like organized opposition, even if it was disruptive, was ironically through the All Progressives Congress (APC).

In 2013, a number of political parties formed a synergy with civil society groups to become the All Progressives Congress, and adopting an “oppose, oppose, oppose” strategy, they managed by 2015 to get the ruling Peoples Democratic Party out of power. It was a major turning point in Nigerian politics since the return to civilian rule in 1999.

But the PDP was not prepared for its new role as the leading opposition party, just as the new government led by the APC was equally unprepared for governance. This sudden reversal of roles caught Nigeria’s main political actors napping. The APC at the centre found it difficult to even appoint Ministers: it took six months to come up with a list. In one or two states, the Governors acted as sole administrators for up to a year. There are about 80 registered political parties in the country, but these are at best relatively unknown parties.

The main political party, the PDP has been largely in disarray since it lost power. Most of its members have defected to the new ruling party, many of its founding fathers now prefer to be known and addressed as statesmen, and the party’s strong mouthpieces have all been cowed into silence by a ruling party that is wielding power like a whip. The PDP came out of power mired in a corrosive in-fighting and blame-sharing that robbed the party of its soul. It was later “kidnapped”, and then rescued, but it is not yet in strong enough shape to stand up to the ruling party, offer alternative views or organize itself properly. Who is even the national leader of the PDP? Close to the next general elections as we are, nobody is quite sure. What exactly does the PDP want to do? It is not so clear either. Is the PDP still interested in power? If it is, it is not showing the kind of determination that the APC projected in 2014.

There are PDP members in the legislature at the Federal and State levels, but their voices have not been loud enough. Nigerian politics has not been ideology-driven for a while, that is one explanation, but it is also possible that the remaining PDP members are hedging their bets and secretly planning to join the APC. This is the case because the ruling APC is now in charge of state resources – and that is a major attraction for Nigerian politicians, besides, the APC not knowing how to govern has been functioning more as an opposition party. It has spent the last three years hounding PDP members and the Jonathan administration, and making it difficult for anyone to come up with progressive, opposition ideas.

It had to take Microsoft’s Bill Gates to criticize the Economic Recovery and Growth Programme (ERGP) of the Federal Government before the PDP realized that such a document existed. The new PDP, failing in its role as an opposition party, cedes the initiative to the APC and merely reacts through statements that do not even make much impact. In the states across the Federation, opposition members often forget what their role in the legislature is supposed to be as they join the queue of lawmakers trooping to the Government House to collect favours from imperial Governors. At the Federal level, APC Senator Dino Melaye has functioned more as an opposition leader than any PDP Senator with his persistent interrogation of Executive policies and actions. One or two PDP Senators, along with some other APC members, in comparison, have since acquired a reputation for going to the Red Chamber to sleep during plenary sessions! There is no quality debate as such in our parliaments, more or less, and so the debate about Nigeria has shifted to morning shows on radio and television, oftentimes conducted by ill-equipped analysts and the hysterical crowd.

It is the country that pays the cost when the opposition is asleep, and one political party is allowed to ride roughshod over everyone just because it is in power and office. When members of the APC claim that there is no alternative to President Muhammadu Buhari, I guess they are not saying there are no persons who are better qualified than the President; rather they are saying they cannot see any organized opposition that could pose a threat to the continued stay of the Buhari government in power beyond May 2019. And by conduct, they even make it clear that whoever challenges the APC should be prepared to face the consequences of doing so. The APC mastered bully tactics as an opposition party. It continues to rely on the same tactics as a ruling party.

The gap that has been created by the absence of an effective opposition in Nigerian politics since 2015 is gradually now being filled by thought leaders. Sometime in 2016, I wrote a piece titled “Where are the public intellectuals? in which I challenged the Nigerian intelligentsia generally to rouse from its slumber. That slumber is perhaps understandable. The Nigerian intelligentsia bought into the APC project in 2014 and 2015, and wanted the PDP out of the way by all means. Not too long ago, confronted with the failings of the APC as a ruling party, this special class has since recanted. I dealt with that in “The season of recanting” (Jan.16) but since this other article, the political space has since become more interesting with the interventions of persons like Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, General Ibrahim Babangida, General TY Danjuma, Professor Wole Soyinka and the emergence of groups

like the Obasanjo-led Coalition for Nigeria, the Agbakoba-led Nigeria Intervention Movement (NIM), the Ezekwesili-led Red Card Movement, and the Concerned Nigerians Movement led by Charly Boy Oputa. The main battle-ground in recent times however has been the Nigerian social media where young Nigerians have been quite loud in expressing their dissatisfaction with the Buhari administration. The social media proved to be a strong weapon of mobilization in the hands of the APC before 2015, now it is its main nemesis.

Useful as these interventions, this reawakening of the civil society, may seem, the value is limited except there is a formal opposition that is specifically organized for the “conquest of power” at the polls.

There is a growing consensus among these groups that both the APC and the PDP are of no use, they have not yet identified an alternative political party that can engage the ruling party but I believe the point is not lost on the actors involved that elections are won or lost not on twitter but by political parties actively organized for political action. Opposition politics involves branding, strategy, organization and pro-active action.

Nigerian Opposition parties seeking to dislodge the APC can work together to form a political coalition as the APC did in 2013, and even if they do not win in 2019, the country’s political process would be better enriched by a constructive and strong engagement from the opposition that any ruling government deserves.

The current infidelity of the average Nigerian politician is the biggest obstacle that I see. Most Nigerian politicians do not necessarily go into politics because of what they can contribute, but because of what they intend to take out of it. The APC would continue to insist on its self-ascribed invincibility if the best that other political parties can offer is to apologize. The PDP Chairman recently apologized to Nigerians for whatever the PDP did while in power for 16 years. I don’t know whether that is meant to be a strategy or a confession but the meaninglessness of it has been exposed by the vicious responses from the APC and how the PDP has found itself having to struggle to put in a word. The Nigerian Opposition when eventually it awakens and seeks to engage the APC must realize that the APC has a tested opposition machinery, which found itself out of depths in the context of governance, but which in an election season could assume its emotional memory state, and with the resources now at its disposal, including power, prove to be deadly.

Opposition politics is not rocket science and nobody has to travel to India, the UK or the United States to master it. In Nigeria’s First and Second Republics, whatever may have been the problems of that era, this country had a rich culture of opposition politics. Chief Obafemi Awolowo of the Action Group and later the Unity Party of Nigeria, as an opposition leader, confronted the ruling government with hard facts and figures and an alternative vision of how Nigeria could be rescued. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Malam Aminu Kano and Alhaji Ibrahim Waziri – opposition figures at various times – also stood for something. Whoever wants to rule Nigeria or any part thereof should be prepared to tell us exactly what he or she wants to do and how and when.

If we have not learnt any lesson, we should by now have realized that a politician wearing Nigerian clothes, taking fine photos, eating corn by the roadside, over-promising, pretending to respect women and children, distributing cash and food, claiming to be a democrat, dancing to impress, and sometimes projecting himself or herself as nationalistic may not be what we are made to see. Nigeria needs a different breed, new faces, new ideas, a new way of politics.

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Delta popular bishop in sex scandals Nosa Akenzua, Asaba

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popular Bishop identified as Israel (surname withheld) in Warri town, Delta State is currently embattled over his alleged sexual atrocities in the recent times with house wives.

It was reliably gathered that the Bishop with “mind blowing magic powers”, had allegedly sexually abused several housewives in his church after charming them with a magic ring.

Sources said that the Bishop commands powers especially among his church members, and had allegedly warned against leaving his church for other churches to leak secrets of the church. Investigation revealed that the church was founded six years ago in Warri metropolis when the Bishop who was once a motor park tout returned from India, where he was said to have acquired “fetish powers” to heal the sick, and speak shocking prophecies.

His church located around Effurun road about, from Mondays to Sundays, is often a mecca of sorts with all manners of salvation seekers.

Unconfirmed report had it that the Bishop’s magic ring during worship hours, is “powerfully” display before his target persons, most of whom are housewives seeking solutions to their matrimonial problems from him.

A member of the church who gave his name as Timothy (surname withheld) told our reporter that the Bishop works with magic powers, especially overtimes he wears the ring.

He said: “there were so many cases of sleeping with house wives and their husbands sue him to court, he is an occult man and I just left the church on that obvious reason”.

While accusing fingers of wicked and false prophecies are being subject of gossip among the church disillusioned members, and some members of the public, it was further gathered that the Bishop intimidates church members who are not loyal to him with deaths, and in

most cases allegedly afflict with strange diseases.

As a well known Bishop, sources further disclosed that he goes with six mobile policemen who are heavily armed, and under any instruction can open fire. But all these were recently made manifest when the Bishop reportedly made love advances to housewife who had sought his assistance to start a small scale business.

The housewife who gave her name as Jennifer (surname withheld) told our reporter her ordeals in the hands of the Bishop whom she accused of also inflicting the spirit of insanity on her only son.

In a sudden outburst during her deliverance session at the King’s Chapel International Church Asaba, she said: “This Bishop slept with me six times after I was charmed with his big ring in his hand, the Bishop had earlier paid the sum of N250, 000 into my account two days after I was introduced to him by a friend He called me into a private hotel room, and warned me against revealing the love making to my husband, he removed some part of my hair and wrapped it into a carton, few days I could not be myself, I started behaving in strange manners” adding her son, Kehinde took ill and was acting in madness. According to her: “when I noticed my son’s strange acts, I took him to Oghara Teaching Hospital with no solutions, until I was introduced to King’s Chapel International Church where Prophet Godfrey Irevbhuds delivered me and my son”.

Speaking at the open hall of the church, the husband of the woman, Mr. Shola (surname withheld) said “my wife confessed the Bishop sleeping with her, and I asked her to leave my house, the Bishop admitted the act and I have dragged him to court”.

The Prophet of the church, Godfrey Irevbhude said the deliverance of the woman was conducted by God and warned salvation seekers against false prophet as the end for prophet of doom would soon come.

Lagos holds boat regatta at Esater

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Lagos State Government, in furtherance of its commitment to boost tourism, celebrated Easter with the 2018 Lagos Boat Regatta organised by the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture at the Lagoon Waterfront on Oyinkan Abayomi Drive, Ikoyi over the weekend.

The festival, usually celebrated by the traditional coastline communities in the State, is a cultural and entertainment funfair highlighting the State’s aquatic treasures and promoting the relevance of the custom and tradition of the riverine dwellers.

Addressing the gathering at the event, Lagos State Governor, represented by his Deputy, Dr. Oluranti Adebule stated that the colourful parade on water has been a consistent feature of the State’s entertainment for many years.

According to her, ‘’our

coastal asset is our strength, we must pursue all available ideas to develop it and encourage stakeholders in the marine and hospitality business to leverage on the many possibilities provided by our waterways’’.

She disclosed that having simultaneously held the event in different locations to celebrate the State’s golden jubilee anniversary, the success of its experience has reassured the State of the treasure its waterways represent and gives reasons for the State to nurture it for tourism.

“We have made a modest and significant investment in the water transportation through the acquisition of world-class ferries and jetties”, the Deputy Governor noted.

She informed that, presently, there is a growing interest in surfing and Lagos waterways are acknowledged as one of the best in Scuba

diving in the world, adding that the State government will not relent in making the waterways cleaner and safer for optimal use.

The Deputy Governor assured Lagosians that the government would promote initiatives that will strengthen the exploit of waterways to attract local and foreign partnership for productive investments.

Also speaking at the event, the Commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Mr. Steve Ayorinde, said the event reflects the possibilities available on Lagos waterways and it is amazing to see how Lagos has transformed to a vibrant home of entertainment and tourism.

He said events of this nature give the State an avenue to collaborate with the private sector in showcasing to the world the beauty inherent in our waterways.

Ayorinde pointed out that

creating an immediate experience and opportunities for people to appreciate the coastal region of the State emboldens the prosperity of the State’s economy. ‘’Investment in waterways is rewarding anywhere in the world and this vision is what Governor Ambode is vigorously pursuing since the State is blessed with beautiful waterscape and experts in the field’’, he emphasised.

Aside the Special Adviser to the Governor on Arts and Culture, Mrs. Aramide Giwanson, other dignitaries that graced the occasion include the Oba of Lagos, Oba Riliwan Akiolu, former Deputy Governors of the State, Alhaja Sinatu Ojikutu and Mr. Femi Pedro, Lagos State Head of Service, Mrs. Folasade Adesoye and the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Mr. Fola Adeyemi among other government functionaries.

Officials of the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (right), attending to some pensioners, during the pension verification for Delta Steel Company and Federal Housing Authority Pensioners under the Defined Benefit Scheme in Abuja

2019: NEC member urges Nigerians to support Buhari Alphonsus Nweze, Awka

ÏÏÏAlhaji Nasiru Danu,

a member of the National Executive Committee of the All Progressives Congress, has called on Nigerians to continue to support President Muhammadu Buhari-led government.

He further advised the people to do that, irrespective of negative comments on the administration.

Obasanjo had at the weekend, described the Buhari administration as a failure among his other claims.

Danu told journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, that the statement credited to former President, Oluse-

gun Obasanjo, on the performance and re-election bid of the president was his personal opinion.

Danu also said that though Obasanjo remained an elder statesman, his assertions on Buhari’s performance were more political than anything else.

He said: “The truth is that everybody can have his or her opinion on an issue, but to me, this is a successful administration.

“Buhari never promised to be a miracle worker, but in three years the success of this administration in the economy and security of the country are obvious.

“In security, compared to what we had before,

there are improvements.

Before Buhari came to power, we were having attacks even in Abuja.

“This is a political year, everyone is entitled to his or her opinion, but I assure you that the Buhari administration has done very well and Nigerians will re-elect him come 2019.”

He, however, said that the former president was not fair to have described the Buhari-led Federal Government as a failure, adding that the government had done well.

According to him, the government has done well in its fight against corruption, infrastructure development and the economy generally.

Danu said that the present government was building railways across the country to connect some major cities.

He, however, noted that there were lots of falsehoods flying the streets,

adding that Journalists should join efforts with government to fight the trend.

Danu said: “Nobody can stop the spread of fake news than the media; I know most Journalists in the country have integrity and will not want it destroyed.

He, therefore, urged Journalists to always engage in investigative reporting and cross check information before publishing, in the interest of the nation.

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15 Column

Where is the Nigerian opposition?

Times Columnist

REUBEN ABATI

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Opposition politics is not rocket science and nobody has to travel to India, the UK or the United States to master it. In Nigeria’s First and Second Republics, whatever may have been the problems of that era, this country had a rich culture of opposition politics. Chief Obafemi Awolowo of the Action Group and later the Unity Party of Nigeria, as an opposition leader, confronted the ruling government with hard facts and figures and an alternative vision of how Nigeria could be rescued

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ess than a year to the next general elections in Nigeria, the biggest deficit in the political process leading to that moment is the absence of a robust, virile and effective opposition. The role of the opposition in a democracy is to question, criticize, challenge, and audit the governments of the day – local and national - and make them more transparent and accountable, and even if these twin-objectives may not be immediately achieved, the opposition exists nonetheless to put the people in power “on their toes” as it were in the people’s overall interest.

This is the underlying principle of a parliamentary system of government, and even in other forms of government including a Presidential system, the opposition provides checks and balances, it is a kind of alternative government, a counterweight, providing such balance that could safeguard the integrity of the political process. But of course, what is at stake is “the conquest of power”: the opposition provides the people with a choice and ultimately seeks to wrestle power from or out of the hands of the incumbent and present a different vision of social and economic progress.

In doing this, the opposition may be constructive - in this regard it could even work with the ruling party or government to promote the national interest. This was the case under Prime Minister Narasimha Rao of India who once sent opposition leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee to the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva, as leader of the Indian delegation, to defend the government on its human rights record in response to allegations by Pakistan.

Rao’s party members, who felt he had no business working with the opposition criticized him as loudly as they could, but the Prime Minister felt it was more important to be bi-partisan and project a picture of national unity. It is not a strategy that has endured in India’s divisive politics. But what is known is that in other jurisdictions, members of the opposition in parliament sometimes vote on a non-partisan basis on key issues before the parliament. This may occur when the rivalry among the political parties is peaceful and there is a broad consensus that the country is far more important than the boundaries imposed by partisan politics.

For the most part however, opposition politics can be disruptive, and apropos, the strategy of the opposition is not to construct anything or offer any value but to “oppose, oppose, oppose” by any means possible to wear down and pull down the incumbent government. Physical violence, blackmail, abusive words, post-truth imagery and fake news are part of the arsenal of the disruptive opposition.

In Nigeria at the moment, we neither have in my estimation a constructive or a disruptive opposition.

Whatever we have that may look remotely as any form of opposition is weak, uncoordinated, and ineffective.

Our political parties are internally polarized, politics has become evil, our political leaders do not know where to draw the line, the ruling gov-

ernment is having an upper hand, it is committed to an unrelenting, overzealous persecution of the opposition and progressive ideas. The last time we witnessed what looked like organized opposition, even if it was disruptive, was ironically through the All Progressives Congress (APC).

In 2013, a number of political parties formed a synergy with civil society groups to become the All Progressives Congress, and adopting an “oppose, oppose, oppose” strategy, they managed by 2015 to get the ruling Peoples Democratic Party out of power. It was a major turning point in Nigerian politics since the return to civilian rule in 1999.

But the PDP was not prepared for its new role as the leading opposition party, just as the new government led by the APC was equally unprepared for governance. This sudden reversal of roles caught Nigeria’s main political actors napping. The APC at the centre found it difficult to even appoint Ministers: it took six months to come up with a list. In one or two states, the Governors acted as sole administrators for up to a year. There are about 80 registered political parties in the country, but these are at best relatively unknown parties.

The main political party, the PDP has been largely in disarray since it lost power. Most of its members have defected to the new ruling party, many of its founding fathers now prefer to be known and addressed as statesmen, and the party’s strong mouthpieces have all been cowed into silence by a ruling party that is wielding power like a whip. The PDP came out of power mired in a corrosive in-fighting and blame-sharing that robbed the party of its soul. It was later “kidnapped”, and then rescued, but it is not yet in strong enough shape to stand up to the ruling party, offer alternative views or organize itself properly. Who is even the national leader of the PDP? Close to the next general elections as we are, nobody is quite sure. What exactly does the PDP want to do? It is not so clear either. Is the PDP still interested in power? If it is, it is not showing the kind of determination that the APC projected in 2014.

There are PDP members in the legislature at the Federal and State levels, but their voices have not been loud enough. Nigerian politics has not been ideology-driven for a while, that is one explanation, but it is also possible that the remaining PDP members are hedging their bets and secretly planning to join the APC. This is the case because the ruling APC is now in charge of state resources – and that is a major attraction for Nigerian politicians, besides, the APC not knowing how to govern has been functioning more as an opposition party. It has spent the last three years hounding PDP members and the Jonathan administration, and making it difficult for anyone to come up with progressive, opposition ideas.

It had to take Microsoft’s Bill Gates to criticize the Economic Recovery and Growth Programme (ERGP) of the Federal Government before the PDP realized that such a document existed. The new PDP, failing in its role as an opposition party, cedes the initiative to the APC and merely reacts through statements that do not even make much impact. In the states across the Federation, opposition members often forget what their role in the legislature is supposed to be as they join the queue of lawmakers trooping to the Government House to collect favours from imperial Governors. At the Federal level, APC Senator Dino Melaye has functioned more as an opposition leader than any PDP Senator with his persistent interrogation of Executive policies and actions. One or two PDP Senators, along with some other APC members, in comparison, have since acquired a reputation for going to the Red Chamber to sleep during plenary sessions! There is no quality debate as such in our parliaments, more or less, and so the debate about Nigeria has shifted to morning shows on radio and television, oftentimes conducted by ill-equipped analysts and the hysterical crowd.

It is the country that pays the cost when the opposition is asleep, and one political party is allowed to ride roughshod over everyone just because it is in power and office. When members of the APC claim that there is no alternative to President Muhammadu Buhari, I guess they are not saying there are no persons who are better qualified than the President; rather they are saying they cannot see any organized opposition that could pose a threat to the continued stay of the Buhari government in power beyond May 2019. And by conduct, they even make it clear that whoever challenges the APC should be prepared to face the consequences of doing so. The APC mastered bully tactics as an opposition party. It continues to rely on the same tactics as a ruling party.

The gap that has been created by the absence of an effective opposition in Nigerian politics since 2015 is gradually now being filled by thought leaders. Sometime in 2016, I wrote a piece titled “Where are the public intellectuals? in which I challenged the Nigerian intelligentsia generally to rouse from its slumber. That slumber is perhaps understandable. The Nigerian intelligentsia bought into the APC project in 2014 and 2015, and wanted the PDP out of the way by all means. Not too long ago, confronted with the failings of the APC as a ruling party, this special class has since recanted. I dealt with that in “The season of recanting” (Jan.16) but since this other article, the political space has since become more interesting with the interventions of persons like Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, General Ibrahim Babangida, General TY Danjuma, Professor Wole Soyinka and the emergence of groups

like the Obasanjo-led Coalition for Nigeria, the Agbakoba-led Nigeria Intervention Movement (NIM), the Ezekwesili-led Red Card Movement, and the Concerned Nigerians Movement led by Charly Boy Oputa. The main battle-ground in recent times however has been the Nigerian social media where young Nigerians have been quite loud in expressing their dissatisfaction with the Buhari administration. The social media proved to be a strong weapon of mobilization in the hands of the APC before 2015, now it is its main nemesis.

Useful as these interventions, this reawakening of the civil society, may seem, the value is limited except there is a formal opposition that is specifically organized for the “conquest of power” at the polls.

There is a growing consensus among these groups that both the APC and the PDP are of no use, they have not yet identified an alternative political party that can engage the ruling party but I believe the point is not lost on the actors involved that elections are won or lost not on twitter but by political parties actively organized for political action. Opposition politics involves branding, strategy, organization and pro-active action.

Nigerian Opposition parties seeking to dislodge the APC can work together to form a political coalition as the APC did in 2013, and even if they do not win in 2019, the country’s political process would be better enriched by a constructive and strong engagement from the opposition that any ruling government deserves.

The current infidelity of the average Nigerian politician is the biggest obstacle that I see. Most Nigerian politicians do not necessarily go into politics because of what they can contribute, but because of what they intend to take out of it. The APC would continue to insist on its self-ascribed invincibility if the best that other political parties can offer is to apologize. The PDP Chairman recently apologized to Nigerians for whatever the PDP did while in power for 16 years. I don’t know whether that is meant to be a strategy or a confession but the meaninglessness of it has been exposed by the vicious responses from the APC and how the PDP has found itself having to struggle to put in a word. The Nigerian Opposition when eventually it awakens and seeks to engage the APC must realize that the APC has a tested opposition machinery, which found itself out of depths in the context of governance, but which in an election season could assume its emotional memory state, and with the resources now at its disposal, including power, prove to be deadly.

Opposition politics is not rocket science and nobody has to travel to India, the UK or the United States to master it. In Nigeria’s First and Second Republics, whatever may have been the problems of that era, this country had a rich culture of opposition politics. Chief Obafemi Awolowo of the Action Group and later the Unity Party of Nigeria, as an opposition leader, confronted the ruling government with hard facts and figures and an alternative vision of how Nigeria could be rescued. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Malam Aminu Kano and Alhaji Ibrahim Waziri – opposition figures at various times – also stood for something. Whoever wants to rule Nigeria or any part thereof should be prepared to tell us exactly what he or she wants to do and how and when.

If we have not learnt any lesson, we should by now have realized that a politician wearing Nigerian clothes, taking fine photos, eating corn by the roadside, over-promising, pretending to respect women and children, distributing cash and food, claiming to be a democrat, dancing to impress, and sometimes projecting himself or herself as nationalistic may not be what we are made to see. Nigeria needs a different breed, new faces, new ideas, a new way of politics.

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FUNAI setting the pace in research and innovation Moses Oyediran, Enugu History was made at the 2018 National Technology and Innovation Expo held at the Eagles Square, Abuja as the Federal University Ndufu-Alike Ikwo (FUNAI), Ebonyi State came third among all tertiary institutions in Nigeria.

With the theme “Fast-tracking Sustainable Development in Nigeria through Science and Technology”, the event brought together researchers and exhibitors from different sectors of the Nigerian economy that were on hand to showcase their scientific, technological and innovative products.

The Expo held between Monday, 5th to Friday, 9th March, 2018 was the 2nd edition of the event geared towards assessing and bringing to the fore the various innovations and technological contributions of Nigerian scientists, technologists, researchers and entrepreneurs to the country’s development.

It also provided an avenue to review the technological innovations of Nigerians in order to ascertain the gaps and proffer the way forward in order to make the country attain sustainable development and globally competitiveness.

The University was represented at the exhibition by a 9-man team of researchers drawn from the fields of Science, Engineering and Humanities, led by the Director of Research and Development, Professor Onuegbu O. Ugwu.

Nevertheless, the university presented five innovations for assessment from which it was adjudged the third best innovative tertiary institution in Nigeria in 2018, coming behind Covenant University and Nigerian Defense Academy, who came first and second respectively.

The award was an extra-ordinary achievement because FUNAI is a public new generation institution barely seven years old. Nevertheless, for those who have keenly followed the activities of the university especially in the last two years the award is not a surprise.

The University under Professor Chinedum Nwajiuba as Vice-Chancellor has continued to emphasize excellence and integrity in all its academic and administrative activities. Research at the university is not just an academic exercise geared towards achieving promotions but a clear-cut development instrument meant to provide solutions to challenges facing humanity. No wonder why the university was able to achieve the feat, beating all other public- owned tertiary institutions in Nigeria.

The five works presented for assess-

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ment at the national event were ‘Linqua script: Applying Science to Develop Rapid Functional Literacy’ by Dr. Nnenna Nwosu-Nworuh; ‘Development of a Fuzzy-Neural Expert System for Contagious Disease Detection and Isolation’ by Engr. Dr. Michael Osigbemeh; ‘Probiotic Potential of Nigerian Fermented Food; Pentadethra Macrophylla (Ugba)’ by Dr. Moses N. Aloh; ‘Ecotoxicological Assessment and Agricultural Benefits of Rice Husk Derived Biochar’ by Dr. Ihuoma Anyanwu and ‘Consumer Credit, Accessibility and Affordability in Nigeria: Bank-led Financial Inclusion Strategy’

by Dr. Onyebuchi Chima.

Other FUNAI researchers at the event were Dr. Chukwunonso Ejike, Dr. Azubike Ebokaiwe, Dr. Makuochukwu Ojide and Mr. Ukwa Job Nworie.

The works of the university contingent to the expo were highly rated by the organizers’ team of assessors, the media and industry watchers who commended them for their novelty and the high socioeconomic impact value of their works.

The team of assessors led by the former Director General of Raw Materials Research and Development Council, Professor Peter Onwualu, in particular,

commended the FUNAI researchers for their outstanding innovations, urging them to ensure that their intellectual property were patented to avoid people stealing their novel ideas.

They further noted that patenting research works proves its originality and gives sponsors, partners and industrial watchers confident to collaborate with researchers.

Particularly, the research work of Dr. Nwosu-Nworuh, “Linquascript: Applying Science to Develop Rapid Functional Literacy” was announced by the organizers as an outstanding innovation in Nigeria. Announcing the prize, the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology through Professor Onwualu extolled the originality and impact-value of NwosuNworuh’s work, noting that it would help to enhance the functionality of the three major Nigerian languages. He further pointed out that when eventually incorporated into computer keyboards and phone keypads as envisaged by her, the work would improve the speaking and writing of the indigenous languages among the youth and uneducated population especially now that some of the languages are going extinct. They fur-

ther stressed that the work would put Nigeria on the global map as computer keyboards and phone keypads would now bear the alphabets of Nigerian indigenous languages.

Speaking to the media during the 5-day event, the FUNAI Director of Research and Development, Professor Ugwu noted that the Expo would help in enhancing science, technology and innovations in Nigeria, calling on the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology to sustain the yearly technological and innovation exhibitions in order to put the country on a higher developmental pedestal.

He pointed out that the philosophy of research in the university was to think globally and act locally, stressing that all the research works presented by the university at the expo meet international standard even as they also have high local content value and added that FUNAI would continue to make the environment conducive for research and innovation to excel.

He therefore, called on international and local funders, captains of industry, and private and public organizations to partner the university by supporting its research ventures, adding that the university has talented researchers with innovative ideas; ideas that have the capacity to change Nigeria for the better.

He maintained that “the era of carrying out research as a mere academic exercise without corresponding economic and production value is over”; insisting that “value-driven research is the way to go if the country is to compete favourably in the global community.”

The professor of Civil Engineering further urged the Federal Government and various tertiary and research institutions to take research and innovation seriously by investing a substantial part of their budgets in it, noting that the Expo has helped to put research in the front burner in Nigeria.

He further vowed that in the third edition of the Technology and Innovation Expo in 2019 the university would come first in the category of tertiary institutions, stating that plans were already in top gear to put into action the lessons of the 2nd edition.

And thanked the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Nwajiuba for supporting research in the university and sponsoring the institution’s contingent to the expo despite the financial constraints facing most Nigerian universities, noting that the research team has reciprocated the confidence reposed on them by making the university proud, being the only Federal and State-owned university in Nigeria that won an award at the event.

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Ugwuanyi a legacy Governor - Okonkwo

By Moses Oyediran, Enugu

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The Commissioner for Housing, Enugu State, Barr.

Peter Okonkwo has described Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi as a “Legacy Governor”, who has left an indelible mark in the state through his administration’s people-oriented programmes that have impacted the lives of the people of the state positively.

Barr. Okonkwo, who is also the elder brother to Nollywood actor, Kenneth Okonkwo and a former Governorship Aspirant, said that Gov. Ugwuanyi is “a gift to Enugu State”, adding that in spite of the dwindling price of oil and the nation’s economic challenges, the governor has taken “legacy acts” that stand him out as a “legacy governor”.

Speaking during a civic reception in his honour organized by Nsukka Town Graduates’ Association in collaboration with Info Outreach

Center for Research and Public Education, Barr. Okonkwo disclosed that the honour done him was possible because of the recognition accorded him by the governor to serve the state.

Other sons and daughters of Nsukka Town honoured at the event were the DirectorGeneral of Gburugburu Movement Nsukka LGA, Senator Fidelis Okoro; the former Commissioner for Education in the old Anambra State, Chief Mrs. Grace Obayi; the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Compliance, Chief Mrs. Vivienne Eze and the Spiritual Director/Founder of Oku n’ere ere Adoration Ministry, Nigeria, Rev. Fr. Dr. Paul Obayi.

Barr. Okonkwo stated that Gov. Ugwuanyi pays workers’ salaries on 23rd of every month and has improved on the healthcare delivery as well as executed numerous massive road projects across the length and breadth of the state, “including the Opi-Nsukka dual

Fayose expresses satisfaction with Governor’s development projects

By Sunday Nwakanma Umuahia

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Ekiti state Governor, Ayo Fayose Sunday lauded his Abia counterpart, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu for performing and giving dividends of democracy to Abia people.

Governor Fayose who made the commendation while commissioning the Umuatako road, Aba built by Governor Ikpeazu’s government as part of his one- day state visit to Abia, extolled the Governor for achieving so much for his people despite distractions from his protracted law suits.

“Despite chasing you in court and everywhere you still won everything”, he said assuring Dr. Ikpeazu that he will complete his eight-year tenure having performed well in office.

“Anybody contesting against you will be tired. God has signed eight years for you”, he assured.

He extolled Igbo people for their courage, determination and achievement in Nigeria, noting that apart from being risk takers, there is no part of the country that Igbos are not found.

While asserting that the APC-led government in Nigerian has not performed, Fayose advised the people of Abia state to get their voter’s cards ready to vote the APC out.

In his remarks, Governor Ikpeazu said that the road is

one of many being done by his government to ensure easy movement of the people, adding that the road which came with drainage and street light will enhance economic activities.

Ikpeazu expressed his gratitude to his predecessor, Chief Theodore Orji for being a good father and leader and attributed many of his achievements to the support given him by his predecessor.

He warned politicians in the state to place their posters on their projects in 2019.

Also speaking, the former Governor of Abia state, now senator representing Abia Central at the National Assembly Chief Orji commended Dr. Ikpeazu for impacting positively on the people of the state through massive development, advising the people “We are witnessing positive change under Dr Ikpeazu. You should continue supporting Ikpeazu and the PDP. “ Chief Orji said politicians in the state should be able to point at what they have done as that is what will see them through in the coming election.

Earlier, the Commissioner for Works, Eziuche Ubani explained that the Umuatako Road is one of a cluster of roads being done by the state government to ensure seamless mobility, pointing out that it has eased traffic along the Aba Owerri road.

Peopel of Nsukka, Enugu state, protesting through posters against the 4th term ambition of a Federal Lawmaker Pat Asadu. The protest is about his going to represent them in the House of Representatives in 2019

Army needs more medical personnel - Maj.-Gen. Okeke Joy Anyim

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For the Nigerian Army to meet with the medical demands especially as it fights against insurgency in North-East and other security challenges in the country, the Corps Commander Medical, Major-General Ikechukwu Okeke, said that more medical personnel were needed.

The corps commander stated this on Tuesday at the commissioning of the upgraded and renovated facilities of the 68 Nigerian Army Reference Hospital in Yaba, Lagos.

According to Okeke, “I wish to humbly appeal to the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, to continue the gesture of recruitment and commissioning of medical personnel to fill the gaps.

“I also commend the efforts being made to persuade the MOD to absorb some temporary civilian staff employed by the hospitals to ease the salary burden.”

At the commissioning of the facilities, the Commander noted that the renovated hospitals which were constructed during the Colonial era were in a terrible State before the intervention of the COAS. He stated that the new facilities will boost the morale of troops and civilians who would benefit from the facilities. “The completion of this upgrade and renovation will no doubt increase the capacity of the hospital in the discharge of its responsibility in a healthy and accommodating environment.” he said.

At the commissioning which included the Specialists Clinic, Record Department, Directly Observed Treatment Short Course Centre, Consultant Offices and male/Female surgical wards, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Tukur Buratai said the importance of medical services to military missions cannot be over emphasized.

Buratai who was represent-

ed by the Chief of Policy and Plans, Major-General Rasheed Yusuf, said he was committed to upgrading and improving the medical facilities in the Nigerian Army. He noted that the necessity for having corps trained personnel informed the decision to commission 72 doctors in the field.

“I will continue to encourage personnel of the medical corps to attend courses to keep them updated on current medical practices. “To achieve this, I have increased the number of corps personnel for sponsorship in several institutions from six to 10 per annum.

“I have also released funds for the improvement of facilities in the Nigerian Army College of Nursing to enable it meet accreditation requirements and be able to admit civilian students.

“This will assist in providing the right calibre of staff to man these renovated facilities for the deployment of medical personnel in formations and

units of the army,” he said.

Buratai, who said more of such renovations were underway, enjoined the staff to put the facility to use optimally as well as ensure adequate maintenance of the structure Similarly, the COAS also inaugurated the Nigerian Army College of Logistics remodeled students’ hostel in Bonny Camp, Victoria Island, Lagos.

During the inauguration, Buratai said that the army had employed retired personnel to train officers, aimed at enhancing professional training and operational efficiency.

According to him, “New instructors are being employed including the re-engagement of retired and discharged personnel to enhance professional training.

“The army places high premium on training of personnel as veritable tool for inculcating knowledge, skills and attitude to attain a battle winning force capable of meeting contemporary security challenges.”

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Exam malpractice: WAEC introduces new application for detection Stories by Esther Taiwo This will be a sad news for candidates involved in examination malpractice in the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) 2018 First Series for private candidates as the Council has approved cancellation of entire results.

Arising from the 65th Meeting of the Nigeria Examinations Council of the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC), the Council noted that in the course of considering the various reported cases of malpractice, the Committee after diligent deliberations, approved appropriate sanctions in all established cases of malpractices.

The Committee also gave approval for the Council in Nigeria to deploy the Item

Ï ƌƌƈƐƐƆƆ ƍƍƏ ƒƆ ƅ ƅƆƋƋ Ɛƈ Ƈ Ɔ ƐƈƏƆ ƏƆ ƑƋƐ Differentia Profile Application for the detection of examination irregularities in multiple choice questions with effect from 2019.

In a statement signed by the Head Public Affairs of the Council, Mr Demianus

Ojijieogu, the subject results of those involved in proven cases which attracts Cancelation of Subject Results be similarly canceled.

It went further to state that some other candidates will suffer other sanctions such

as barring them from sitting for the Council’s examinations for a certain number of years while the decisions of the Committee will be implemented without delay.

However, it noted that the results of candidates who

were exonerated by the Committee will be released.

The Committee also stressed the need for government at all levels to exercise the political will and clamp down on malpractices in public examinations adding that fighting the scourge should not be left for examination bodies.

Caleb varsity Architecture programme gets full accreditation Architects Registration Council of Nigeria (ARCON) has given full accreditation to the B.Sc. and M.Sc. Architecture programmes of Caleb University.

A letter signed by ARCON Registrar, Umar Murnai, and made available to The Daily Times recounted an earlier visit

by ARCON team last November, which finding resulted in giving the twin programmes a clean bill.

The letter reads: “The council took cognisance of the fact that the department has a good staff/students’ ratio, and a staff quality/students’ coefficient in line with the minimum acceptable standard.

“The university also has substantial improvement in physical infrastructures, facilities and equipment; and, therefore, re-accredited the Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) and Master of Science (M.Sc) programmes in Architecture of the Department of Architecture, Caleb University, Imota, Lagos State.”

Earlier, the National Universities Commission (NUC) gave full accreditation to the Architecture programmes.

L-R: Registrar, Covenant University, Dr. Olumuyiwa Oludayo; Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Shalom Chinedu; Pastor Niyi Beecroft, the representative of the Chancellor, Covenant University; and the inaugural lecturer, Professor Samuel Azubuike Iyase, during his lecture at the university ...recently.

Firm announces academic competition for Lagos RB Educational Books Limited has opened registration for Lagos State Academic Competition and Award for Excellent Academic Performance.

The event is aimed at providing a competitive headstart; steadily culminating in identifying, celebrating and rewarding industry and merit among schools and pupils in Lagos state.

According to the Managing Director of RB Educational Books Limited, Rotimi Babalola, “It is im-

portant to individuate this project from the competition that schools in Lagos are used to. The goal is defined. In the next five years, RB Books, with the co-sponsors of this programme would give scholarship to up to one hundred pupils and students in Lagos State every year. We are building that platform and we see it as a corporate social responsibility. In this year’s event specifically, every participating school will be duly rewarded with worthy gifts. There is no loser in

the real sense”.

The competition which flags off on 30th April to 4th May, 2018 is restricted to upper primary (Basic 4 -6).

The first phase is written test on English Language, Mathematics and General Paper. The questions will be limited to Nigeria Curriculum by NERDC. The final and oral competition will be televised on a grand occasion witnessed by over five hundred dignitaries, parents and pupils. We welcome immediate entries from schools across the

state. Each entrant is expected to part with a registration fee of N2,500 and fill the entry form, with their current passport photographs attached.

RB Educational Books is a printing, publishing and books marketing firm with its head office in IyanaIpaja, Lagos, Nigeria. It has been successfully thriving in the publishing industry for the past twelve years with a list of its products (academic books) currently in use in schools across the country.

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Cross section of matriculating students of Anchor University owned by Deeper Life Church during their matriculation ceremony recently

Don recommends Mathematics for nation’s technological advancement Stories by Esther Taiwo A Professor of Mathematics, Covenant University, owned by Living Faith Church in Otta, Ogun State, Samuel Azubuike Iyase, has recommended that in order to leapfrog Nigeria to scientific and technological advancement, there is the need to form a thinktank of top-level mathematical professionals to offer advice on the domestic application and use of mathematical tools in solving problems in government, business, and industry.

He gave this recommendation while delivering the 14th Inaugural Lecture of the University recently.

Speaking on the topic, ‘Mathematics: A Platform for Leapfrogging into Scientific and Technological Advancement’, the Professor of Mathematics said that his focus was on how to use mathematics as a platform in reducing the scientific and technological gap existing between the developed nations and Nigeria within the shortest possible time. He averred that the fundamental problems since Nigeria achieved independence in 1960 have been development-related, and an important feature towards engendering development is the establishment

of a strong science and technology base with the aid of mathematics.

While bemoaning what he described as the poor state of mathematics education and mathematical research in Nigeria, Professor Iyase said that teachers of mathematics are both underqualified and poorly motivated; mathematics curricula were often inspired by corrupted corresponding western models; examinations determine the worth of mathematical knowledge; and memorisation and rote learning is mostly the determinant form of teaching among others.

He asserted that in order for Nigeria to come to grips with these difficulties and to overtake or be at par with the advanced nations, the country must not walk but run and leapfrog in the area of education. “To do this, she must develop strategies like Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan (countries famously dubbed the Asian Tigers) that would significantly give rise to excellence in education in general and mathematics in particular,” he said.

Nigeria’s goal, according to the inaugural lecturer, is to develop a critical mass of mathematical scientists who can advance Nigeria in the frontier of science

and technology in a possible short period.

Highlighting the impact of mathematics in scientific and technological advancement, Professor Iyase said that scientists and engineers were only able to harness the power of electricity as a result of the formulation of key mathematical models; that engineers can design highway networks that balance transportation efficiency with resources constraints using mathematical techniques; and that household appliances like microwave, ovens, and others are all direct efforts of scientific and mathematical research done many years ago. He added that the impact of mathematics is also felt in water supply, space exploration, the design and effective operations of radio and television, the growth of the Internet, health medicine, automobile, and the computer.

The inaugural lecturer emphasised that mathematics education is the driving force for scientific and technological advancement and to achieve this objective, there is the need for massive injection of funds for the mathematical sciences; leaders must have a bold and long-term vision of the role of education in society and economy; and there is

the need to focus attention on the strong link between education and economic development.

Also, he stressed that the nation must bridge the enormous gap between policies and their implementation at the school level; academic standards should be as high as anywhere else in the world; and the federal government should compel multinational companies to reserve a certain percentage of their profits to support research in mathematics and the basic sciences.

In his message to the gathering, which featured the Covenant University Management, the Senate, faculty, staff, students, and distinguished guests, the Chancellor and Chairman Board of Regents of the university, Dr. David O. Oyedepo, posited that inaugural lectures should be about weighty issues, groundbreaking and relevant knowledge that would transform the society. He added that it must be about espousing new knowledge that would affect the course of mankind and to that extent, inaugural lectures need not be read; the knowledge should be so much part of the lecturer so that he can deliver it extempore.

Pastor Niyi Beecroft, who represented the Chancellor,

congratulated the inaugural lecturer, Professor Samuel Iyase, for a job well done. He said that the focus should now be on how the nation can begin to use mathematics to address her pressing problems like the waste management in Lagos, the perennial bickering over the results of national censors and elections, and endemic corruption.

Citing the introduction of the Bitcoin as an example, Pastor Beecroft said that the technology was introduced to address the problem of governments suddenly taking decisions to alter the buying power of a currency.

“The challenge, going forward, is for our experts to use something relevant to solve our own problems,” he stated.

Earlier in his remarks, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Shalom Chinedu, representing the Vice-Chancellor, Covenant University, Professor AAA. Atayero said that the 14th inaugural lecture was unique in many aspects as it was the first time a Professor of Mathematics was delivering an inaugural lecture in Covenant University. Noting that the importance of mathematics in all spheres of human endeavours cannot be over-emphasised, Professor Chinedu assured members of the audience of an educative and impactful lecture.

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Buhari remains president Nigeria needs now- Orji Kalu Abiodun Taiwo, Abeokuta

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governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, on Tuesday reiterated his support for the reelection of President Muhammad Buhari saying he remains the best President ever.

Kalu who while on a courtesy visit to the palace of Alake and the Paramount Ruler of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo. said his strong belief in the oneness of Nigeria and good leadership, had informed his decision to believe that President Buhari is the leader Nigeria needs now.

While lauding Alake for his sterling military career, he urged the monarch to maintain his close relationship with President Muhammadu Buhari, whom he described as the president Nigeria needs at the present.

He commended the president for starting and continuing on a good note, declaring President Buhari deserved another term of

four years.

Kalu, who said Nigeria had been befuddled with challenges of leaders who never obeyed the law, added no matter the amount of criticisms and number of letters, PMB should forge ahead.

His words, “We are for Buhari, some people are against and we wish them well. And we want to thank you for the key role of peace that you and other traditional rulers have been playing.

Nigeria unity is non-negotiable. We are for oneness of this country, we are for leaders who are sincere to lead us well, we are for leaders who are equally committed to the rules and tenets of democracy.

The greatest challenge of our country is leaders not obeying the law. When they are leaders, they don’t want to obey the law; when they go out of leadership, they criticise everybody who wants to obey the law.

This is the problem of the country. We have had leaders who disobeyed every law of the land. We’ve also

had leaders who were reckless when they were leaders and when they go out, they call people all kinds of name.

We have also seen leaders that have never seen anything good in other people’s leadership, they only know about themselves. So, we want to thank you for the support.

This is out of respect to come and see you. We could have come to Ogun State, see few people, the governor and we go back but there is no way we can come here without coming to greet you, without coming to pay our respect to you and show the love we have.

I know you are close friend of President Muhammadu Buhari and I want you to maintain that friendship; don’t allow anybody to distract you whether people

from here or from my area, stay on course; President Buhari has not finished the job he came to do.

If God give him good health and long life, he has not finished. He has to go for another four years to be able to finish. Despite people who are criticising and these people also took no criticism when they were in office.

Despite people who are writing letters; these people we also wrote letters to them, they didn’t reply to our own letters. So, I want to thank you for the chance and understanding you have given to us.

II want to, from the deepest part of my heart, thank you with all your royal highnesses and other chiefs of the palace who are here to welcome us and pray God to give you good health and

long life to continue to do this job that you’re selected

by God to do.

You were a brilliant soldier, brilliant officer of the Nigerian Army. I was very close to you when you were a brilliant soldier and you have paid big price for the country. Only country that recognise their military, the importance of military is a country that will survive any occasion.

So, I want to thank you for the services to your nation, the Nigerian Army, Nigeria as a country and also for the services to this community.

Responding, Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo thanked Orji Kalu for the visit saying that “Kalu as a detribalised and great Nigerian, whose tenure as Abia state governor was marked with socio economic development of the

state. Alake, who noted that presidency is birthright of every Nigerian, however, promised to support Kalu whenever the nation beckons on him to run for presidency.

“For somebody coming from the East to campaign for the president who is from the North to campaign in South West, that shows that Nigeria will be a great country in future. “ And you are coming from Abia State where I have spent so many days and nights. I welcome you and I know the great work you did in Abia State; a very young state during your time”.

“To campaign to me about General Buhari, anyway you have already mentioned that you knew that I was close to him, he was my boss in Dodan Barracks.

Ogun sensitisation programme woos Christians to holy pilgrimage As part of measures put in place to increase Christians’ participation in Holy Pilgrimage to Israel, the Ogun State Christian Pilgrims Welfare Board has kicked off its 2018 sensitization programme across the state toward boosting Pilgrimage development.

The Executive Secretary of the Board, Pastor Oluwole Odejobi, who made this known in an interview with Journalists at his office, OkeMosan, Abeokuta, said the exercise was tailored towards promoting the virtues inherent in participating in the Holy Pilgrimage.

Odejobi also said that the programme was one of the statutory responsibilities of the Board at promoting religious unity and growth in the state, saying that for the exercise to have a far reaching effect; four different teams had been formed to ensure hitchfree exercise in Remo, Ijebu, Yewa and Egba zones.

He said each of the zone

was headed by an experienced and committed leader, listing out their names to include; Mrs. Oluwakemi Omitade, Egba Zonal Leader; Mrs. Alaba Ogunnike, Yewa Zonal Leader; Mrs. Olufumilayo Oduneye, Ijebu Zonal Leader; and Mr. Tunde Akinsanya, Remo Zonal Leader.

Odejobi said the exercise has encouraged Pilgrimage development in the state in no small measure, assuring that with the outstanding performance and commitment of each leader, the Board has recorded success and has no reason of contracting out its responsibilities to any agent, adding that with the crops of seasoned Civil Servants across different profession especially in the Board the future of the state is very bright.

He enjoined Christian leaders from different denominations across the state to cooperate, support and work in tandem with the team in order to actualize their set objectives.

Suspected homosexual caught in the art

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legal actions taking against those involved in homosexualism (same sex) in Nigeria, One Adeniyi Mufutau Raji was caught in the act with another fellow male named John sometimes on November 2017. This attracted the attention of the neighbors who in their angry mood descended, manhandled and

beat them to stupor, but Adeniyi Mufutau Raji and his co-culprit managed to escape at the instance of facing the wrath of the Land. Nevertheless, the Lagos State Police command said they are still investigating the incident, and that anyone with useful information should contact the nearest police station for this illicit and barbaric act.

L-R: Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole; Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi; Vice President Yemi Osinbajo; Donor, Sir Kessington Adebutu; Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu; Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu and representative of former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Femi Majekodunmi, during the commissioning of Sir Kessington Adebutu Geriatric Rehabilitation Centre, to mark the Grand finale of the 60th Anniversary of University College Hospital in Ibadan, Oyo State

Okpekpe race: Obaseki urges Edo indigenes, Nigerians on registration, participation ÏÏÏEdo State Governor,

Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has urged Edo indigenes and other Nigerians to register and participate in the 6th edition of the Okpekpe International 10km Road Race hosted in the state.

The annual competition hosted in Okpekpe town, Etsako East Local Government Area, Edo State, is scheduled to take place on May 12, 2018. Previous editions of the competition fea-

tured local and international athletes.

In a statement by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Communication Strategy, Mr. Crusoe Osagie, Obaseki said, “Edo indigenes and other Nigerians are urged to register and compete in the 10km Road Race because of the inherent benefit of building an army of home-grown long-distance runners to represent the country

in similar competitions within the country and overseas.”

“The Okpekpe Road Race, which was recently elevated to a silver label event by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), presents a unique opportunity for Edo indigenes and Nigerians to build capacities in long-distance races,” he said.

Obaseki noted that much as the state is

happy to play host to athletes from East African countries and other parts of the world, the competition also presents an opportunity for Edo indigenes to prove their mettle and strive to clinch the top prize.

“As Nigerians, we are known to never give in easily in contests. So, this competition presents another opportunity for us to put up a challenge and compete to win the top prizes.”

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I, FRANK OGHOGHO OMOREGBE IS THE LAWFUL OWNER OF DIPLOMA CERTIFICATE IN ACCOUNTING ISSUED BY UNIVERSITY OF BENIN IN EDO STATE WITH MATRIC NO. DIA 0314471 IN THE YEAR 10/10/1986 SESSION 2004/2005.

THAT THE SAID DIPLOMA CERTIFICATE GOT LOST IN TRANSIT AND ALL EFFORT TO TRACE IT PROVED ABORTIVE.

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AKANU IBIAM POLYTECHNIC, UNWANA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED CHURCH HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC) UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. APOSTLE OLADIPUPO KEHINDE ANTHONY 2. PASTOR (MRS.) OLADIPUPO OLUWAFUNKE ITUNU 3. PASTOR DR. AGBOOLA ADEWALE MUSTAPHA 4. PASTOR LAMBO OLAKUNLE EMMANUEL 5. REV. OLADOSU OLANIYI SAMSON 6. EVANGELIST KASALI OLUWABUNMI JULIAH 7. EVANGELIST AYENI JOHN OLUWADARE

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1 LADY GRACE IYI IBE-ENWO 2.

MR. UCHENNA UGBOAJA 3.

MR. EMMANUEL OGBONNIA UROM 4.

MS. CAROLINE NDUBUISI 5.

MRS. PRISCILIA NNUBUOSU 6.

MR IFEANYI NDUBUISI 7.

MR TIMOTHY CHIKEZE UKWU

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST TO ALL NATIONS OF THE WORLD 2. TO ENCOURAGE AND TAKE MEMBERS FOR PILGRIMAGE TO CHRISTIANS HERITAGE SITES IN ISRAEL, ROME AND ASIAN COUNTRIES.

AIMS & OBJECTIVE 1) TO FOSTER UNITY AMONG MEMBERS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE POLYTECHNIC. 2) TO PROMOTE GOOD RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ASSOCIATION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE POLYTECHNIC. 3) TO PROVIDE A FORUM FOR MEMBERS TO EXCHANGE IDEAS FOR MUTUAL BENEFITS. 4) TO INTERVENE ON MATTERS AFFECTING THE IMAGE OF OUR ALMA MATTER.

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

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

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. IPALIBO IKETUBOSIN. 2. TAMUNOTONYE IKETUBOSIN. AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1.TO PREACH THE WORD OF GOD. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEE

TOLU CARE HOME FOUNDATION

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART ‘’C’’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1999 THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OLUWATOMI OYINSAN 2. OLUFEMI OYINSAN 3. FUNKE FELIX ADEJUMO 4. OLUWAKEMI HARRISON 5. OMOLEWA AHMED 6. OLAJUMOKE ADENOWO AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. MENTORING TEENAGE GIRLS TO LIVE A GODLY LIFE 2. HELPING ABUSED TEENAGE GIRLS FIND HELP AND SPEAK UP AGAINST ABUSE 3. ASSISTING TEENAGE GIRLS IN VOCATIONAL AND SOFT SKILL ACQUISITION 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.

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

TRUSTEES: 1. MRS VICTORIA ATUNRASE 2. ADEYINKA ODUNLADE 3. MORUF OMONIYI OLAWALE 4. ELIZABETH ADEOLA AKINLAJA. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO ERADICATE CHILD POVERTY IN AFRICA AND SUPPORT FAMILIES IN DIRE NEED 2. TO HELP SINGLE PARENTS WHO DO NOT HAVE THE MEANS TO EDUCATE THEIR CHILDREN 3. TO SUPPORT FAMILIES WHO HAVE A MEMBER SUFFERING FROM TERMINAL ILLNESS 4. TO SUPPORT CHILDREN FROM HOMES WHERE PARENTS ARE LONG TERM UNEMPLOYED

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

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

HEAVENLY VISION GLOBAL OUTREACH

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

TRUSTEES ARE 1. EVANGELIST ANDREW OSEREMHEN 2. EVANGELIST MRS. OLUFUNMILOLA OSEREMHEN 3. PASTOR DANIEL CHIKE EZE 4. BROTHER JOHN UCHE ARINZE AIMS AND OBJECTIVE TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF LORD JESUS

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. SIGN: BARRISTER EHIGIMETON LUCKY ARUYA

ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDLY INITIATIVE (EFI) THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT EFI HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR CHANGE IN TRUSTEE . IN ADDITION TO THE OLD TRUSTEES , THE FOLLOWING ARE NEW TRUSTEES OF EFI; 1. DR OPARANMA AUSTIN OKACHI 2. HAMMED ADEKOLA ABDULGAFAR 3. BELLONWU VIVIAN EBELE 4. UZOR MARTHA CHIZOBA 5. DR ZEB-OBIPI ISAAC 6. DR MARGARET E. AKPOMI 7. FALAYE GOODNESS ANY OBJECTION TO THE APPLICATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT MAITAMA ABUJA ,WITHIN 28.DAYS OF PUBLICATION .

SIGNED: ESEMONU GERALD CHINEDU

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NO WOMAN LEFT OUT INITIATIVE,AFRICA

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. INYANG EFIOK UBONG - PRESIDENT 2. EKPO EMEM ENO - SECRETARY AIMS/OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROMOTE THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL PROGRESS OF WOMEN OF ALL AGES AT ALL STAGES. 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: PRESIDENT

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1- BAKARE OLUSEGUN 2- BAKARE ABIMBOLA GANIYAT AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO PROMOTE ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT OF NIGERIAN YOUTHS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: BARR. KINGSLEY UGOAGHA

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

TRUSTEES: 1. MR. GODWIN CHUKWUDI IHEDIOHA, 2. MR. LOUIS IFEANYI IWUANYANWU, 3. MR.TOCHUKWU KENECHUKWU AKUBUO AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO FACILITATE DEVELOPMENT IN THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR BY RURAL FARMERS ON THE NEED FOR PLANNING BEFORE EMBARKING ON ANY AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITY 2. TO SENSITIZE THE RURAL PEOPLE ON SOCIAL PRACTICES THAT WILL IMPROVE RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND DISCOURAGE ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: IFEOMA HELEN IWUANYANWU; LEGAL ADVISER

TECHNICAL EDUCATION SUPPORT INITIATIVE

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CITY OF MIRACLES INTERNATIONAL MINISTRY THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED MINISTRY HAS APPLIED TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART ‘C’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, DECREE NO. 1 OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. EYO ENEOBONG BASSEY - CHAIRMAN 2. OKON ANIEKAN GODWIN - SECRETARY 3. ENEOBONG GLORY IDORENYIN 4. SAMUEL EDIKAN BASSEY 5. SAMUEL USEN BASSEY AIMS/OBJECTIVES: 1. TO DISSEMINATE & PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL 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: CHAIRMAN

SAFEHOUSE GLOBAL CARE INITIATIVE

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED INITIATIVE HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR CHANGES OF TRUSTEE ADDITIONAL OF TRUSTEE, AND REMOVAL OF TRUSTEE. UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT,1990.

CHANGE OF TRUSTEE REMOVED 1. MR OLAWALE S. KAREEM ADDITIONAL TRUSTEE 1. MR ADRGOKE MUSTAPHA FAYOADE 2. CHIEF MRS SOLANKE JULIANAH ALABA 3. MRS MARIAN A. AKINPELU - KAREEM 4. GROUP CAPTAIN EMMANUEL UKPONG 5. MRS OLUSOLA ONIYIDE 6. FESTUS OLASAN AKINPELU AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO PROVIDE UNITY AMONG MEMBERS ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

SICKLE CELL PATIENTS FOUNDATION

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED FOUNDATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION ABUJA, FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACTS NO1 OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. CYNTHIA WEST. 2. KINGDOM WEST. 3. MODUPE WEST. 4. EGO BRIDGET WILLIAMS. AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO CARE AND SUPPORT SICKLE CELL PATIENTS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, P.M.B. 198.GARKI, ABUJA .WITHIN 28DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

LORD’S PILLAR DIVINE BETHEL ASSEMBLY

GIRL CHILD BETTER TOMORROW INITIATIVE THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED ASSOCIATION HAS APPLIED TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART ‘C’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, DECREE NO. 1 OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. UMOREN IKWO INI - CHAIRMAN 2. AKPAN EMMANUEL - SECRETARY 3. BASSEY GRACE EMMANUEL 4. EKAETTE EKANEM EKANEM AIMS/OBJECTIVES: 1. THE PROMOTION AND ENLIGHTENMENT OF THE GIRL CHILD, HER EDUCATION AND WELL BEING. 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: CHAIRMAN

ANIEDI FOUNDATION

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. BENSON, JOHN ANIEDI - CHAIRMAN 2. BENSON, EDIDIONG JOHN - SECRETARY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO HELP THE LESS PRIVILEGED. 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: CHAIRMAN

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1- ADEJUMAT NASIRUDEEN ADISA. 2- ABAYOMI MATESUN 3- HAMEED BABATUNDE YUSUFF OJULARI, 4- ALH. TAJUDEEN AREMU LAWAL AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO FOSTER UNITY AMONG OUR YORUBA’S IN UNITED ARAB EMIRATES ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

AITY AID FOUNDATION

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ISEWEDE JOSEPH OJEOMOHAI ======= GENERAL OVERSEER 2. EMUZE IMAFIDON BENSON ======= SECRETARY 3. PASTOR PRINCESS JOSEPH ISEWEDE 4. BODUNDE BELLO BENJAMIN ===== TREASURER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST THE EVERLASTING SAVIOUR WORLDWIDE. 2. TO WIN SOULS FOR CHRIST AND HELP THE LESS PRIVILEGED. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL,CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION,PLOT 420,TIGRIS CRESCENT,OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA,P.M.B 198, GARKI, ABUJA,WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: EMUZE I. BENSON (SECRETARY)

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

TRUSTEES: 1. ITORO ALPHONSUS UTITUFON 2. MR IFIOK ALPHONSUS UTITUFON 3. MRS THERESA IFIOK CHARLES 4. MRS. DOMINION EMMANUEL EYO 5. ETIDO ALFRED ESU AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO CATER FOR LESS PRIVILEGED IN THE SOCIETY ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN MINISTERS ORGANISATION

STRIVING FOR GREATNESS EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE

CHRIST HELP, HEALING AND DELIVERANCE MINISTRY

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

TRUSTEES: 1. MRS. EMOSU - IGE OLUBUNMI - CHAIRPERSON 2. ADEMESO OLUBUSOLA - SECRETARY 3. MRS. ODIASE ADEBIMPE IGE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1 TO IMPACT KNOWLEDGE IN WOMEN AND GIRLS THROUGH EDUCATION, SEMINARS, CONFERENCES, MEDIA AND PLACES OF WORSHIPS. 2 TO HELP WOMEN AND GIRLS OUT OF POVERTY THROUGH ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITIES, VOCATIONAL TRAINING, ADVOCACY ETC. 3 TO PROVIDE EDUCATION CENTRES FOR CHILDREN ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

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

TRUSTEES: 1. ABIODUN AYOOLA 2. IYANU ADAMS 3. ARULOGUN OLADIRAN TAYO AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROMOTE, ADVOCATE AND PROVIDE ACCESS TO EFFECTIVE BASIC QUALITY EDUCATION TO SCHOOL AGE AND OUT OF SCHOOL CHILDREN 2. TO PROVIDE, SUPPORT AND PROMOTE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES AMONG TEACHERS AT ALL LEVELS ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

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

TRUSTEES: 1. PST. DR. JOHN IGHO OSHEVIRE BINI- CHAIRMAN 2. PST. DR. HELEN TAIYE BINI - SECRETARY 3. ENGR. JOHN NEN BINI - MEMBER 4. MR. PAUL EFE ONOWHOSAFE - MEMBER 5. MR. ISAAC ONOWHOSAFE - MEMBER 6. DR. CHARLES AGHOGHO OSHEVIRE - MEMBER 7 . DR DAVID RAYMOND OYOVBERHIRE BINI OSHEVIRE - MEMBER AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO PREACH AND PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ENWERE PRINCE ARINZE ====== CHAIRMAN 2. ULOKO SHADRACH IBE ======= SECRETARY 3. MADU WENCE C. ======= TREASURER 4. DOLAPO OLORUNFEMI RAPHAE === MEMBER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROMOTE TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SKILL DEVELOPMENT IN POWER GENERATORS IN OUR SOCIETY. 2. TO PROVIDE AUTOMOBILES,AIR-CONDITIONING, CREATING SKILLED AND EMPLOYABLE YOUTHS IN NIGERIA. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL,CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION,PLOT 420,TIGRIS CRESCENT,OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA,P.M.B 198, GARKI, ABUJA,WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: ULOKO SHADRACH IBE (SECRETARY)

SIGNED : AMOS ENEMALI IGOMU, ESQ, 08063963673

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IDOKO SARAH

OSINEYE OMOBOLANLE

EMEKA MARYANNE

ENIOLA MARGRET

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I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ODEDIRAN JOY IFEOLUWA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OZOMADU JOY IFEOLUWA . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

AJAYI ESTHER

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OJO-IBUKUN ESTHER AKOREDE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AJAYI ESTHER AKOREDE . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

PERES ESTHER

AGBAJE BUKOLA

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

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SUBULOYE BUKOLA VICTORIA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AGBAJE BUKOLA VICTORIA . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLANIYI RALIAT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLAMIRINDE RALIAT . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

UDEME UCHE

AILARA OLUFUNMILAYO

OLAFUSI ADEDOYIN

HAMMED FOLASHADE

AYINDE PHILIP

I FORMERLY KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS ODUNTAN OLUFUNMILAYO VERONICA,NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS AILARA OLUFUNMILAYO VERONICA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEYEMI ADEDOYIN ADERIKE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLAFUSI ADEDOYIN ADEYEMI ADERIKE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS TOJUOLA FOLASHADE FLORENCE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS HAMMED FOLASHADE FLORENCE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AYINDE ADETAYO ADELEKE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AYINDE PHILIP ADELEKE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

NWAFOR OBIANUJU I FORMERLY KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS MISS. AGWATA OBIANUJU ANULIKA,NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. NWAFOR OBIANUJU ANULIKA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS ILOEBOH UCHE KATERIN, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS UDEME UCHE CATHERINE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

HASSAN YUSIRAT

IN SOME OF MY DOCUMENTS MY NAME WAS WRITTEN AS MOJU ABRAHAM.O. AND OTHERS DOCUMENTS MY NAME ALSO APPEARS AS MOJU ABRAHAM OLUWASEUN THE NAMES REFER TO THE SAME PERSON BEARING THE NAME. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS MISS. AINA YUSIRAT ADENIKE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. HASSAN YUSIRAT ADENIKE, DUE TO MARRIAGE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OLAMIRINDE RALIAT

ALAO MARIAM

I FORMERLY KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS MISS. TIJANI MARIAM OLUWASEUN,NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. ALAO MARIAM OLUWASEUN, DUE TO MARRIAGE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ALHASSAN USMAN

ABIDEMI ADEYINKA

NWECHI IFEOMA

FORMERLY ALHASSAN IBRAHIM NOW ALHASSAN USMAN. FORMER DOCUMENT REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

FORMERLY AGBO ABIDEMI ADEYINKA NOW DEHINBO ABIDEMI ADEYINKA. FORMER DOCUMENT REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

FORMERLY AKUBUE IFEOMA DEBORAH NOW TO BE ADDRESSED AS NWECHI IFEOMA DEBORAH. FORMER DOCUMENT REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

OLOYEDE ABDULRAHEEM I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLOYEDE RAHEEM OLUWANISHOLA ADELEKE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLOYEDE ABDULRAHEEM OLUWASHOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

JANET IYAJI

TOWOBOLA MICHELLE

OGUNBANJO TITILOPE

I FORMERLY KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS JANET IYAJI EBINYI,NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS JANET IYAJI ITOR. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS BOLA MICHELLE JUNAID, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS TOWOBOLA MICHELLE JUNAID. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS KASSIM OSEFAT TITILOPE,NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS OGUNBANJO TITILOPE KASSIM. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

VICTORIA FATU

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

IN SOME OF MY DOCUMENTS MY NAME WAS WRITTEN AS RAIMI MALIK, SOME OTHERS DOCUMENTS APPEARS AS RAIMI MOLIKI THE NAMES REFER TO THE SAME PERSON. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS RAIMI MOLIKI THAT MY CORRECT DATE IS 13TH JANUARY, 1982.

ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

IN SOME OF MY DOCUMENTS MY NAME WAS WRITTEN AS OLUGUNA TITILAYO BADEJO AND OTHERS DOCUMENTS MY NAME ALSO APPEARS AS OLUGUNA AMOKE BADEJO, THE NAMES REFER TO THE SAME PERSON BEARING THE NAME. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS OLUGUNA TITILAYO BADEJO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I,FORMERLY KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS VICTORIA FATU IDOKO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS VICTORIA FATU AYOADE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASED TAKE NOTE

ALAKA ENITAN

UDOYE UCHENNA

NDUKAKU ONYEKACHI

OJOH KENNETH

NDUBUISI FLORA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, UCHENNA UDOYE OGBEIDE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, UDOYE UCHENNA MARY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, NDIOMARAKE ONYEKACHI ESTHER, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, NDUKAKU ONYEKACHI ESTHER. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, NNADI LINUS, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, OJOH KENNETH. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, MISS. AMAECHI CHIZARAM FLORA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, MRS. NDUBUISI FLORA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

ABDULMALIK KHADIJAT

ADELEKE SEYE

ADERIBIGBE CHARLES

ASHIKWE CHUKWUEMEKA

OGECHI OBIOMA

UKADIKE OBIOMA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IBRAHIM KUBURAT, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ABDULMALIK KHADIJAT ENIOLA. DATE OF BIRTH 1ST, APRIL.1994.

ALL FORMER DOXUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLI SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADELEKE EMMANUEL , NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADELEKE SEYE. WRONG DATE OF BIRTH 12TH,MAY.1990 . MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 3RD, APRIL.1990.

ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERALL PUBLI SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADERIGBIBE CHARLES TEMITOPE , NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADERIBIGBE CHARLES TOPE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, ASHIKWE EMEKA RUFUS, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, ASHIKWE CHUKWUEMEKA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, MISS. OGECHI OBIOMA NTAGU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, MRS. OGECHI OBIOMA MADU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, MISS. IBEAKO OBIOMA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, MRS. UKADIKE OBIOMA FAVOUR. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

FORMALLY MISS. EHPRAIM ENITAN ADUNNI NOW MRS ALAKA ENITAN ADUNNI. FORMER DOCUMENT REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

AKINBORO MOTUNRAYO

OBUNNE NKECHI

OJO OLUWABUNMI

GODDAY THOMPSON

JOHNSON ADEJOKE

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OKUNLOLA MOTUNRAYO ADEBOYIN. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS AKINBORO MOTUNRAYO ADEBOYIN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS MISS UMEZINNE NKECHI CHIBOGWU, NOW WISH TO BE CALLED, KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OBUNNE NKECHI CHIBOGWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS TO REMAIN VALID. UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA (NSUKKA) AND GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OJO OLUWABUNMI AJIBOLA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OJO OLUWABUNMI TITILOPEMI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS GODDAY BRAINS OMONI. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS GODDAY THOMPSON OMONI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS .LAWAL MUEENAT ADEJOKE ,NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. JOHNSON ADEJOKE ADEOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

SALAMI OLUWATOYIN I, FORMERLY KNOWN AS SALAMI OLUWATOYIN ANIKE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SALAMI OLUWATOYIN ADEBAYO. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

SALAMI MISTURA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEYEMI MISTURA OLAJUMOKE , NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SALAMI MISTURA OLAJUMOKE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OKOYE MICHIKECH

NWIBO CHIBUEZE

OREDIPE OMOTOLA

OYEYIGA SEYI

SHOWUNMI OLUWAKEMI

MUTAIRU NURUDEEN

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKOYE IKECHUKWU MICHAEL NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKOYE MICHIKECH IKECHUKWU MICHAEL. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE NOTE.

I, NWIBU CHIBEZE AJIGBURU IS THE SAME PERSON AS NWIBO CHIBUEZE AJIGBEZE BUT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWIBO CHIBUEZE AJIGBURU AND DATE OF BIRTH IS 12-02-1985. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE NOTE

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SAKA OMOTOLA LAJA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OREDIPE OMOTOLA LAJA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OYEYIGA OLUWASEYI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OYEYIGA SEYI. BORN 10TH MAY, 1995.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OGUNYINKA OLUWAKEMI ABOSEDE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS SHOWUNMI OLUWAKEMI ABOSEDE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MUTAIRU NURUDEEN OKANLAWON NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MUTAIRU NURUDEEN OLASILE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE

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CADWELL NKIRUKA I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. ALLEN NKIRUKA VERONICA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. CADWELL NKIRUKA VERONICA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

BALOGUN ADEBOLA

FORMERLY KNOWN AS ADEGOROYE ADEBOKA ALABA NOW WISH TO BE ADDRESSED AS BALOGUN ADEBOLA ALABA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID.GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

LAWAL OLAYEMI

FORMERLY MISS IDOWU OLAYEMI ADERONKE NOW WISH TO BE ADDRESSED AS MRS LAWAL OLAYEMI ADERONKE.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID.GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

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OLU TOYIN

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLU TOYIN ,NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLU TOYIN LYABO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

GEORGE OLUWATOYIN

GEORGE MICHAEL

I FORMERLY KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS SANNI OLUWATOYIN OLANIKE-NOW WISHES TO BE CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS ITOBORE GEORGE OLUWATOYIN OLANIKE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS STILL REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS ITOBORE MICHAEL ESEOGHENE NOW WISHES TO BE CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS ITOBORE GEORGE MICHAEL ESEOGHENE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS STILL REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

WARDEN CHRISTIANA

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

OLADIMEJI OLUWASEYI

CHEKWUBE PETER

GODWIN JUSTINA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OSHUN CHRISTIANA EBUNOLUWA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS WARDEN CHRISTIANA EFUA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

THAT ON SOME OF MY DOCUMENTS, MY NAME APPEARS AS DAVIDS DEOLU, WHILE ON OTHER DOCUMENTS, IT APPEARS AS DEOLU-DAVIES PSALMS. THIS IS TO CONFIRM THAT I AM THE SAME PERSON BEARING THESE NAMES. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING THE ABOVE MENTIONED NAMES REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OLUKOYA OLUWASEYI DUNMININU IYANUOLUWA RUTH, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. OLADIMEJI OLUWASEYI DUNMININU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHEKWUBE PETER ANIDUNKWU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHEKWUBE PETER CHIKE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS AIZOBUA JUSTINA ENONMAFO, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. GODWIN JUSTINA EYHON. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ADDITION OF NAME

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

CORRECTION OF NAME

AYINDE LATEEF

MASUD RUKAYAT

THAT I WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OJUKWU SUNDAY, THAT I NOW WISH TO ADD OGBONNA TO MY FORMER NAME THAT I NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OJUKWU SUNDAY OGBONNA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTES.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY AND CONFIRM THAT AMAKA UDEH, NWAMAKA ELIZABETH UDEH AND AMAKA EMOLE REFERS AS ONE AND THE SAME PERSON NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS AMAKA UGWUMSINACHI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT MY NAME ONYEKWERE CHIAMAKA MARTINA WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN IN MY ACCOUNT, BUT NOW WISH TO BE CORRECTED AND ADDRESSED AS ONYEKWERE CHIAMAKA MARTHA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS LATEEF TOYOSI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AYINDE LATEEF TOYOSI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS LAWAL REKIYA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MASUD RUKAYAT. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MBA ONYEBUCHI

CHUKWUKA EUNICE

OKE CHIKAODILI

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NKEMAKOLAM ONYEBUCHI JULIET. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MBA ONYEBUCHI JULIET. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS MUBA EUNICE NNEKA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS CHUKWUKA EUNICE NNEKA ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. UNN AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWAFOR CHIKAODILI EKEBE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKE CHIKAODILI EKEBE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. LOCAL GOVT. SERVICE COMMISSION, BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

IGWE BLESSING

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OSUH BLESSING ANNASTECIA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IGWE BLESSING ANNASTECIA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

SHARON AKUMA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS SHARON VICTOR, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS SHARON AKUMA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OBIEKEZIE FAITH

EZE NGOZI

GUGU MERCY

IKENEGBU CHIKODILI

NWOVU JOSEPHINE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JIRREH FAITH IFEOMA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OBIEKEZIE FAITH IFEOMA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OKPE MERCY FRANSICA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS GUGU MERCY FRANSICA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OKORONKWO CHIKODILI NWAMAKA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS IKENEGBU CHIKODILI NWAMAKA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ORIE GLORIA JUDE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWOVU JOSEPHINE GLORIA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OBIDI CHINASA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS UGWUOKE CHINASA THERESA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OBIDI CHINASA THERESA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. NYSC AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

IDRIS NGOZI

FORMERLY KNOWN AS MISS IWEGBU NGOZI ABOSEDE NOW WISH TO BE ADDRESSED AS MRS. IDRIS NGOZI ABOSEDE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID.GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE. CHANGE OF NAME/CORRECTION OF DATE OF BIRTH I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS. EZE MAUREEN GIFT ONYINYECHI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. MAUREEN ONYINYECHI GIFT ENE AND MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 06/12/1989 NOT 06/12/1986 ON MY MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ADDITION OF NAME THAT I WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ODUKPOLOR DAVID, THAT I NOW WISH TO ADD JULIUS TO MY FORMER NAME THAT I NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ODUKPOLOR DAVID JULIUS. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTES.

ADISA EMMANUEL

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADISA EMMANUEL GEORGE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADISA EMMANUEL FEMI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

EZIRIM OGECHUKWU

ANIKE QUEENDALINE

CHIKA UMEAGUKWU

NWONUMA NGOZI

MALUZE JANEMARY

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS IGBOEKWE OGECHUKWU JOY AND MISS IGBOEKWE OGECHUKWU JOYCE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS EZIRIM OGECHUKWU JOY IFEANYI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS UGWU QUEENDALINE CHIZOBA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ANIKE QUEENDALINE CHIZOBA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS AKA NKIRUKA FIDELIA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS CHIKA –UMEAGUKWU NKIRUKA FIDELIA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AARON NGOZI LOVETH, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWONUMA NGOZI LOVETH ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS NGWU JANEMARY . C., NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS MALUZE JANEMARY .C. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

AKA IFEOMA

OKOLO NNEOMA

OKAFOR CHIAMAKA

VIVIAN OLUCHI

UCHENDU PERPETUA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AGU IFEOMA GERALDINE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AKA IFEOMA GERALDINE . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. IMT,ESUT,BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ANIH NNEOMA JOVITA LUCY NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OKOLO NNEOMA JOVITA LUCY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. NYSC AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS UMEH CHIAMAKA KOSISOCHUKWU NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OKAFOR CHIAMAKA KOSISOCHUKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. NYSC AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS VIVIAN OLUCHI ORJI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS VIVIAN OLUCHI CHIMA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS EGWUATU PERPETUA NGOZI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS UCHENDU PERPETUA NGOZI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

UGWU SAMUEL

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UGWU SAMUEL EZE. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UGWU SAMUEL IKECHUKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OTUM UGOCHUKWU

DAYO BADA

STEPHEN BUKKY

OGOKE OYINYECHI

MOSES JUDE

ENEH CHIOMA

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Daily Times Nigeria Thursday, March 29, 2018

Boko Haram: Emir of Kano commends Sarkin Matasa Adama Tom Garba, Yola

ÏÏÏThe

Emir of Kano Alh. Muhammadu Sanusi II, has commended the newly turbaned Sarkin Matasa Adamawa, Barrister Aliyu Wakili Boya, for his steady and unalloyed efforts at the mobilization of Youths not only in Adamawa state but in the North East of Nigeria to imbibe descent habits and shunning drugs and radicalism.

The Emir made the assertion in Yola at the Palace of the Lamido Adamawa, Alh. Barkindo Aliyu Mustapha during the turbaning ceremony of the new Sarkin Matasa in Adamawa state.

Sanusi said he had never witnessed any traditional ceremony in Adamawa state but decided to come for the turbaning ceremony of the Sarkni Matasa because of his high regards for youths especially in the North Eastern part of the country, where more youths are joining insurgents and taking to drugs and

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radical attitudes which is becoming serious concern to all well-meaning Nigerians.

He called on the newly turbaned Sarkin Matasa to double his efforts so that more youths will abandon drugs and radicalism to embrace decent living among the societies in the Northern part of the country not only in the hot bed of insurgency in the North East but all over.

Also, Sanusi enjoined other Emirs in the Northern part of Nigeria to create Sarkin Matasa titles so that more youths would be mobilized for better living instead of reliance on drugs and radical attitudes of life style in the areas of crime and criminalities, he said: “If we are to fight Boko Haram, we must start with

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educating our teeming youths to shun the teachings of Boko Haram and other insurgents who are causing problems for the nation so that our youths would live descent life styles”.

Also speaking to newsmen in his house the newly turbaned Sarkin Matasa Aliyu Wakili

Boya, assured Adamawa state residents that the office of Sarkin Matasa would enable him to build more bridges for youths in Adamawa state especially those involved in armed robbery, drugs, insurgents and radicalism so that they will embrace peaceful living among the society.

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is also the Adamawa state Chairman of the Association of Local Governments Chairmen (ALGON) said more youths will soon embrace decent living in the state as he embarked upon sensitization efforts by reaching out to the youths in the North East.

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He promised that he would be reaching out to more youths to change their habits of violence as a means by encouraging them to be leaders of tomorrow by showing good character and earning descent income through hardworking and peace building.

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Daily Times Nigeria Wednesday, April 4, 2018

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Police recover 200 firearms in Lagos Joy Anyim

ÏÏÏThe Lagos State Police

Military medical personnel (middle), during a medical outreach at Cross Kauwa Community, Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno State

ASUP strike: NANS gives Poly 24hrs ultimatum ÏÏÏThe

National Association of Nigerian Students(NANS) has given the management of Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechnic Unwana(PolyUnwana), Ebonyi State, 24 hours ultimatum to resolve the strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics(ASUP).

NANS President, Chinonso Obasi, in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, said that the strike

by PolyUnwana Chapter of ASUP, had lingered for a month.

Obasi said that if the

strike, which was started when students were about to commence semester examination, was not called off within 24 hours, the school would witness mass action by students.

“It is quite embarrassing to note even when students are about to commence semester examination, ASUP did not give any iota of consideration to the student’s plight before embarking on the strike.

“However, in my telephone conversation with the ASUP Chairman, PolyUnwana chapter, Mr Nwuro Carl, he said

that the strike never got his approval as it was politically motivated to smear the administration of the rector.

“At the expiration of the 24hrs ultimatum, failure to call off the strike and commence academic activities/ semester examinations, the National Secretariat of NANS will be relocated to the institution for further actions as students shall not continue to be at the receiving end,’’ he said.

The NANS president, nonetheless, urged the Rector of the institution,

Venerable Ibe Enwo, to deploy dialogue as means of fostering industrial harmony in the school.

Obasi said it was regrettable that PolyUnwana remained one of the few institutions in Nigeria where 80 percent of the students lived outside the school premises due unavailability of hostel space.

He said that the students’ cafeteria was nothing to write home about.

Obasi added that it was worrisome that with a vast expanse of land, infrastructural development was

I’m under threat for depopulating PDP – UPTH CMD Memoye Oghu, Port Harcourt

ÏÏÏAs

the countdown to 2019 general elections hots up, the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH), Prof Henry Ugboma has revealed that he has been threatened severally for depopulating the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP in the state for the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC).

Prof Ugboma made the revelation on Easter Monday while speaking to Journalists shortly after attending an APC mobilization rally at Ndoni town in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area

(ONELGA) of the state.

The Chief Medical Director who is also an APC leader in the LGA and the state said, “Well, I believe you’ve been in Rivers state.

You know ONELGA has been the theatre of bloodshed, killings, destruction.

The same people are still there. They have not gone.

These are the sponsors of these acts.

“The people are still around threatening. I hear they are also threatening on how they are going to kill me; asking some of these boys that this Ugboma who is running all over the place instigating people, campaigning, depopulating PDP for APC; that they should do something about it. You should know what that means.”

He went further to say

that he has received several threats to his life for his mobilization drives to depopulate the PDP in the state,” adding that, “I don’t believe any man can stop me. It’s only God who can say stop and I’ll stop.

I’m not afraid; I’m not worried and they can’t stop me.

That’s the truth about it.”

Asked if he has reported the threats to the appropriate authorities and if he suspects any direction, he replied that, “there was a world press conference we made almost two months or so ago, where we mentioned all their names and everybody knows it. The people are still around threatening.”

Earlier, Prof Ugboma had received over a hundred PDP decampees from Wards 11 and 12 in Egbema

clan of the LGA into the APC fold where he charged them to bring more converts into the fold and advised them to register for their permanent voter cards (PVC) At his private residence in Ndoni town, more than one hundred potential decampees awaited him to inform him of their desires to switch camps, where he also charged them to depopulate the PDP in the town.

Before that however, he attended an APC sensitization and mobilization rally at Ndoni, his hometown where he again urged party faithful to remain steadfast, promising that the party would take over the reins of power in the state come 2019.

Commissioner, CP Imohimi Edgal on Tuesday disclosed that the command has recovered no fewer than 200 illegally possessed firearms from September 2017 till date.

Edgal who stated this during a press briefing where the firearms were displayed at the State Police Headquarters in Ikeja, said the arms were mainly recovered from hoodlums in the state.

According to the state Commissioner, the 21 days’ grace period given by the Inspector General of Police, I-G Ibrahim Idris to submit illegally possessed firearms also contributed to the massive recovery of the firearms.

Giving a breakdown of the recovered arms, Imohimi said “ the recovered firearms includes 38 pump action rifle, six AK-47 rifles, 12 double barrel rifles, 11 single barrel rifles and 70 single barrel locally made cut to size shortguns 18 locally made revolver pistol, three Beretta pistol, 220 cartridges and 607.62mm AK47 ammunitions.

“As you can see on display arena, the the firearms mop up exercise yielded positive result in the command.

“I’m also using this opportunity to call on citizens to take advantage of the grace period and embrace and return voluntarily, prohibited firearms. “ Failure to do so will lead to lawful search of buildings and property that we have

credible information on which will eventually lead to arrest and prosecution. Am hoping it won’t come to that, “ he warned.

Also at the briefing, the State Boss paraded a suspect, Benjamin Ojukwu who specialised in the manufacturing and packaging of fake brands of alcoholic wines in the Mushin area of Lagos.

The 55 years old suspect who hails from Nnewi in Anambra state said he had learnt same from Taiwan before returning to Nigeria to establish a company he called Benz International Agency.

The father of four said, “ I learnt how to make wine in Taiwan and I even established a factory in Nnewi where I produce my own brand.

I was producing Able Gin, Star Lion and Able Schnapps.

Unfortunately, one week after I got NAFDAC approval, I lost everything in the factory to a fire incident. “ I ran into debt and had nothing to fall back on. It was at this time that I came to Lagos to start doing mineal jobs to keep body and soul. I washed cars and hawked. After I had saved some money o told myself I need to continue with what I spent years to learn. So I started producing the alcoholic wines in my house and I also rented a shop where I sell them.

“My only mistake was that I wasn’t using my brand name I used the names of other brands to sell my product. “

We’re committed to students’ intellectual growth-Rector Nosa Akenzua, Asaba

ÏÏÏThe

Delta State Polytechnic Ogwashi-Uku Rector, Prof (Mrs.) Stella Chiemeke has said that the management of the institution was committed to driving a process that would stimulate intellectual growth and development of its students in line with the educational policy thrust of the state Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa.

Professor Chiemeke who spoke to journalists in Ogwashi-Uku after receiving World Wide Chartered Certificate of Achievement award from the International Chartered World Learned Society at the weekend, disclosed that the polytechnic would continue to do the needful in building the human capital needed to stimulate sustainable society growth and

development, adding that the institution would sustain its human capital development index, with a view to making the institution a hub for accelerated technological growth, she explained: “we would continue to do our best in training our students by giving them sound education that would positively stand them out” adding that the double awards given to her would spur her in rendering more services to humanity.

While thanking the International Chartered World Learned Society for identifying her for the double awards, Professor Chiemeke urged lecturers and staff of the polytechnic to always put in their best so that they too could be rewarded. She said: “I dedicated these awards presented to me to my mentor, Professor Charles Akinyokun who played a significant role in my academic life”.

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Daily Times Nigeria Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Constituents reject fourth term bid of Reps member Moses Oyediran, Enugu

ÏÏÏPeople

of Nsukka from Nsukka/ Igboeze South federal constituency of Enugu State have scored the three terms performance of the Chairman of House of Representatives committee on Ports, Harbours and Waterways, Dr. Patrick Asadu in the Federal House of Representatives low and have consequently rejected his fourth term bid to the National Assembly come 2019.

Asadu had at a recent function in his constituency declared his intension to return to the green chambers come 2019.

After declaring his intension for 2019 mandated all stakeholders in the two council areas to ensure every eligible voters register in the ongoing voter’s registration exercise.

The posters seen by our correspondent had two red lines crossed over the photograph of the House of Rep member and “Nsukka, Say No To Asadu’s 4th Term Bid” inscription boldly written.

Daily Times gathered that the posters earlier pasted at strategic locations in the university town have since been removed by people believed to be supporters of the

federal lawmakers.

It would be recalled that in 2014 a group known as Ovogovo Young Professionals (OYP) had described Dr. Pat Asadu as the worst House of Representative member ever represented Nsukka/ Igboeze South Federal constituency.

The group in a statement signed by its National president, Hon. John Eze said: “Dr. Pat Asadu has failed the constituency woefully; he has no business going back to the National Assembly in 2015.

We need a vibrant federal lawmaker that will attract federal presence to our area as well as touch the lives of the people of his constituency, and not bench warmers in the National Assembly”, the statement read.

A source, who spoke on the rejection issue, informed Daily Times that the incumbent lawmaker has altered the arraignment of “Turn By Turn” putting in place by stakeholders in Nsukka and Igboeze South with his financial muscle.

According to him, “The federal constituency which is made up of two council areas is guided on equity, justice and equal basis of two terms per council area until Asadu’s emerged in 2007.

“For instance Nsukka produced the member that represented the constituency from 1999 to2007 and thereafter conceded the seat to Igboeze South in 2007 expectedly for them to have a shot for two terms.

“Asadu has remained in the green chambers since 2007 till date and is still doing everything to ensure that he retains the seat for the fourth tenure even though he has nothing to show for the twelve years he has represented us.

He pointed out that the feeling of marginalization has ensured the emergence of many pressure groups from Nsukka West who are all pushing for their own to be elected as House of Representative member come 2019.

“The groups championing the Ovogovo cause are Ovogovo General Assembly, Ovogovo Forum and

Ovogovo United for Gburugburu.

“All the groups agitating that they want to be given a chance for the area to take a shot.

“The people of Nsukka West also known as Ovogovo are putting up strong demands on the account of the fact that Nsukka consist of three political blocks: Nsukka East, Nsukka Central and Nsukka West.

“In 1999 to 2003, Nsukka Central produced Late Hon. Alex Ike Eze and in 2003 to 2007 Nsukka East produced Hon. Charles Ugwu.

“As it is today, it is only Nsukka West that has not produced a representative in Nsukka for the constituency based on equity despite the fact that we have always given bulk votes to People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in every election years in the area.

“We are battle ready to

mobilize against Asadu, his three terms to the National Assembly has not impacted anything to the constituency, why then should the powers- thatbe continue to impose him on us”, he queried.

At the last count, only one aspirant Chidi Mark Obetta, a former governorship aspirant in the last governorship election has emerged from the area for the House of Representative.

The fourth term bid of Asadu has since been shifted to the social media with lots of critics condemning his ambition.

A facebook user, Rth Nwabu Livinus Agbo faulted the fourth term ambition of Hon. Asadu.

He added that the member had nothing to show for previous years in the National Assembly. Agbo described those behind the fourth term bid of Asadu as sycophants.

“You are telling us that you gave Pat. Asadu support for fourth term to the Federal House of Representatives, even when he doesn’t have anything to show for his previous representations.

“You are all Sycophants”, he wrote on facebook.

Augustine Alumonah, a facebook commentator, said, “Even if he is the best, that seat is for Nsukka and Igbo-Eze South.

“It’s been turn by turn, every two terms, till Dr Asadu’s turn”, he wrote.

Another user, Ugochukwu Ezea wrote that, “Pat Asadu should just go and rest.

“But I have always maintained that even as I don’t support APC, I am not a PDP fan.

“The way PDP ‘kingmakers’ reason sometimes leaves one with no doubt that PDP is not even a better option.

SDP: No crisis in North-East Zone Saka Bolaji Minna

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Social Democratic Party SDP has said that there is no crisis in its South East zone of the party.

Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the party Alhaji Alfa Mohammed who stated this in a statement made available to newsmen in Minna Niger state on Tuesday said the leadership and the led of the party were working as a team to “ build a strong and virile party in all the states in the zone and in the zone in general” According to Alfa Muhammed “following the recent mass endorsement of the SDP by the coalition of advocates of New Political Order in Nigeria there has been massive influx of persons, especially politicians into the party either individually or in groups, “ This situation has continued to generate series of stakeholders meetings

and mass endorsement of the SDP across the states.

In the region “so we must find a way to accommodate everyone”.

He said despite the upsurge in the number of people joining the party across the country “The SDP remains very united and stable, with its leaders busy managing the nationwide pressure created by the recent emergence of the party as the most popular political force in Nigeria today.

Alfa said the national leadership was also busy preparing to receive thousands of people that had defected to the SDP in the South East and recently in Ekiti state.

He said the SDP would contest the July 2018 governorship election in Ekiti and the September polls in Osun state.

“I can assure you that with what we have on the ground now we set for victory in the two states” Alfa Mohammed declared.

L-R: Representative of the Minister of Health, Mr. Clement White; Head Dentistry Division, Dr. Boladale Alonge; former Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of Ibadan, Prof. Gbemisola Oke and Guest Lecturer, Prof. Ajike Olusegun, during the 2017 National No Noma Day in Abuja.

I look at myself as a messenger - Sen Bwacha Okerafor Athanatius, Jalingo.

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Leader, Senator Emmanuel Bwacha has reiterated his determination towards rendering adequate service delivery to the Southern Taraba people whom he represents at the National Assembly.

The Lawmaker, who described himself as a Messenger said he has a kind of fulfilment over his representation to the people of the zone.

He stated this on Easter Monday in his home town, Marrarraba, Donga Local Government Area

of Taraba during a Press Conference.

Bwacha, who is serving his second tenure as a Senator under the banner of PDP said God has used him to touch lives in Southern Taraba so much that all the Local Governments in the zone can attest of having two or more projects he has executed.

“What I am trying to say which has yielded results is that I have impacted positively on the people, every sector you can think of - health, education, agriculture and many more, I have a kind of fulfilment over my representation to the people of my zone”, he said.

He disclosed that he has done so much for his people either by infrastructure or human development.

On his Governorship bid as expected by the people of the State come 2019, Senator Bwacha explained that he has already made his ambition of going back to the Senate known to his people.

He noted that some people felt offended when he said he wants to go back to the Senate.

“They don’t know the implications to my decision”, he said.

The Legislature however, revealed that he was part of the people that

formed PDP government in 2015.

He expressed dismay over the leadership quality of PDP in the State stressing that it should realize that it needs people more than ever before.

“If you think that you forget that your party is only existing at the State level and you want people to follow you, you better do the right thing”, “I think I will advice the Party leadership to understand that they need people now, we need people more than ever before”, “ I know what we passed through before we formed Government in 2015”, he said.

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SSG’s resignation won’t distract my administration - Umahi Charles Onyekwere, Abakaliki

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L-R: Director of Legal and Prosecution, National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Mr. Abdulrahim Shaibu with Senior Special Assistant to the President on Diaspora and Foreign Affairs, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, during a press conference on the death of 26 Nigerian female migrants on the Mediterranean sea to Italy in Abuja

Cancer: LAPO screens 298,663 persons for ailment Titus Akhigbe,Benin

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Non- Governmental Organisations, Lift Above Poverty Organization (LAPO) recently screened 298,663community members for cancer ailments under the LAPO Community Campaign for Cancer Control (LAPO-C4) in Nigeria.

Executive Director LAPO, Sabina IdowuOsehobo who said the project is aimed at mitigating the health and socio-economic implications of cancer, also advised women to ascertain their health sta-

tus regularly as breast and cervical cancer pose a serious threat to their lives.

Osehobo added that, “in addition, 35,716 persons also benefitted from information, enlightenment and education materials during the period.”

She added that the LAPO cancer campaign project is being implemented in Lagos, Imo, Abuja, Rivers and Edo state towards reducing cancer-related deaths in Nigeria.

According to her, It consists of awareness creation, screening and referral services with

the purpose of achieving prevention and early detection.

Also, the organization has improved the reproductive, maternal and child health of 49,481 community members across the country with provision of health services in February with over 43,889 persons screened for various ailments including HIV, malaria, blood pressure, blood sugar and hepatitis.

Health Manager, Ayobami Honestus Obadiora who restated LAPO’s commitment to improving community access to health servic-

es said good health is key to poverty alleviation efforts.

He said the organization encourages early detection and managemement of health conditions, stressing that routine screening and health awareness by the organization has contributed significantly to a reduction in drug abuse among beneficiaries.

Pregnant and nursing mothers were also sensitised during antenatal and child immunization clinic days at local health facilities and community meeting venues.

Monarchs urged to end clashes between farmer, cattle rustlers Kehinde Akinpelu, ilorin

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restoration of the Constitutional duties of traditional rulers in Nigeria has been canvassed as the needed solution to end incessant clashes between farmers and cattle rustlers in the country.

This proposition at the weekend formed the kennel of recommendations at the National Seminar of the Agricultural and Rural Management Training Institute (ARMTI), Ilorin.

Key note presenters at the program; Director – General, National Orien-

tation Agency (NOA), Garba Abari, Emir of Shonga, Dr. Haliru Yahaya and a teacher of the Centre for Peace and Strategic Studies University of Ilorin, Dr. Joseph Fayeye said, the traditional rulers remained the true custodians of the security situations of their domains.

The event is an annual one bankrolled by the ARMTI to engender workable policies for the various cadres of government in the country.

According to Abari while speaking on the topic; ‘the Role/Relevance of Traditional Institutions in Citizen Mobilization in Contemporary Nigeria :A

Critical Appraisal ‘, traditional rulers in Nigeria are still highly respected and revered in many communities and thus wield considerable political and economic influence.

He added, “Traditional institutions play critical roles in mediating between their people and the state, resolving vital linkage between government and the people in many instances. We at the NOA have found traditional institutions particularly useful in our grassroots orientation and mobilisation efforts.

“In many of our communities today, traditional rulers are not illiterates.

They are mostly well educated people who have had distinguished careers in public and private sectors. They have balanced world view and a good grasp of local, national and international development issues. Where then lies the gain in excluding from national development issues if I may ask this rhetorical question? “ The NOA boss among others added that traditional rulers in Nigeria have excelled in the areas of conflict resolution, legislative, executive and spiritual roles more than any existing institution in the country.

state governor, David Umahi has said that despite the resignation of the former Secretary to the State Government, (SSG),Prof. Bernard Odoh would not distract him and his administration from moving ahead and providing more democracy dividends to the people of the state, particularly those from Ezza Clan.

Umahi who stated this at the Government House, Abakaliki during a solidarity rally by the people of Ezza Ezekuna clan comprising Ezza North and Ezza South local government areas of the state, assured the people of his administration’s readiness to improve their standard of living through the provision of infrastructural facilities.

The governor who earlier accepted the resignation of the former SSG, announced his sack and appointed Dr. Hyginus Nwokwu as the new SSG of the current administration.

“In my capacity as the Governor of Ebonyi state, I hereby nullify the purported letter of resignation earlier written by Prof Odoh because he wrote the letter on a public holiday and we all know that by law, any letter of resignation done on a public holiday does not hold water. I also here and now announce his sack as the

Secretary to the State Government, SSG”.

Umahi further lamented that despite the love he showed the former SSG even though he was not a member of his political party, the PDP at the time of his appointment, the young man still stabbed him in the back.

“I appointed him SSG because I felt he was a responsible Ezza man.

Many people faulted his appointment because he was not a PDP member but an APGA senatorial candidate in 2015 general election. Since his appointment, I have shown him love and assisted him so many ways.

I called him to my country home and told him that case of murder is a very serious one. I asked him to see me but he switched off his phone throughout the Easter period and the next thing I heard was his resignation letter flying up and down in the social media”.

Governor Umahi also announced the immediate appointment of Dr. Hyginus Nwokwu as the new Secretary to the State Government and described him as a round peg in a round hole.

Dr. Nwokwu before his appointment was the Deputy Director General of Divine Mandate, a political platform in which Governor Umahi ran his campaign in 2015 general election and also hails from the same Ezza North local government area of the state with the sacked SSG.

Unilag convocation holds May 8 – 11 ÏÏÏThe postponed convo-

cation ceremony of the University of Lagos, Unilag, will now take place from May 8 to May 11, the Registrar, Dr Taiwo Ipaye, has said.

A week-long convocation ceremony for the 2016/2017 academic session was earlier scheduled to begin on Feb. 19 but postponed as a result of strike by non-academic workers.

“The university management is happy to announce a new date for the convocation ceremony.

“The schedule for the ceremony remains the same.

The only additional thing is reception for retired professors, directors and registrars; it will take place on the last day, Friday, May 11, after Jumat prayers,” she said.

According to the registrar, Gov. Akinwumi Ambode of Lagos State will deliver the convocation lecture on May 8.

“The lecture, with the

theme: “Inclusion: The Path to a New Nation’’, previously scheduled for Feb. 19, would kick-start activities lined up for the ceremony,’’ she said.

Ipaye said that an opening exhibition and the inauguration of the 12th Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, would, however, precede the lecture.

According to her, the main convocation ceremony will be held in two sessions (morning and afternoon) each day from May 9 to May 11.

The registrar said that award of first degrees, diplomas, certificates and the announcement of prize winners for graduating students of Faculties of Education and Social Sciences would take place in the morning of May 9.

She said graduating students for the Faculties of Arts, Environmental Sciences and Sciences would be attended to in the afternoon of the same day.

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agos-born midfielder Tosin Kehinde recently committed his international future to Nigeria over England and he’s targeting a spot in Manchester United’s first-team next season.

If he actualizes his dreams of being promoted to the first team by manager Jose Mourinho, he would

Tosin Kehinde, first Nigerian-born footballer to play for Man Utd become the first player born in Nigeria to represent the English Premier League giants. The last player of Nigerian descent to represent the Red Devils first team was former Republic of Ireland defender Paul McGrath back in the

1988-89 season. ”I hope to play in the first team, that’s every player’s dream and my dream also,” Kehinde told BBC Sport.

“The manager’s [Jose Mourinho’s] continued belief in the youth and giving people opportunity has

made me feel that if I keep working hard maybe I can get the opportunity as well.”

Kehinde, Marcus Rashford, Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Scott McTominay and Axel Tuanzebe represented United in the UEFA Youth League three years ago and all these

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players apart from the Nigerian have gone on to make their first-team debuts for the Old Trafford outfit.

The 19-year-old central midfielder cum left wingback has trained with the first-team this season.

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Wilder ready to fight Joshua at Wembley

Sports philanthropist, Shahin, honoured in Ondo

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merica’s Deontay Wilder has accepted to fight Anthony Joshua in the United Kingdom this summer to decide the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world.

The boxer’s decision was confirmed by his promoter Shelly Finkel on Tuesday, who also announced the planned visit of Joshua’s team to the US for discussions ahead of the fight.

‘We want to make it clear that Deontay is pleased that Joshua has said he wants the fight and that we will be willing for it to take place in London thia summer.’

Joshua, his promoter Eddie Hearn and other key financial members of his team are planning to meet Wilder’s handlers in America next week.

Joshua, defeated Joseph Parker in Cardiff last Saturday in a unanimous decision to add the World Boxing Organization (WBO) belt to his IBF, WBA and IBO titles.

AJ called out Wilder after his victory in Wales and could now become the undisputed champion of the showpiece division if he adds Wilder’s WBC belt to his collection

Joshua

Joshua is forced to backtrack to the ropes as Parker comes out swinging in the sixth round as he grows in confidence

Rohr tips Moses to be a super star in World Cup S uper Eagles coach Gernot Rohr is backing Chelsea dazzler Victor Moses to be Nigeria’s star man at the 2018 World Cup, saying he can make a difference during the tournament in Russia.

Moses was in scintillating form for Nigeria in the World Cup qualifiers, finishing as their top scorer with three goals, and was arguably the best player on parade during the recent friendlies against Poland and Serbia.

Rohr has talked about the influence and

leadership skills of Tianjin Teda’s Obi Mikel but feels Victor Moses is the Super Eagles most dangerous player. ”We are a collective unit, we have a style of playing which is based on teamwork but in every team, you have individuals who can make the difference and in this case we have Victor Moses, we are very happy to have him, we have other players as well, who can make the difference,” Rohr told Omasports. ”John Obi Mikel, our captain was not

around against Poland but we know that with his passes and influence, he can be very interesting and important for the team, he is also our leader, we won a game without him for the first time and we are happy about this. ”We don’t have players like we had in the nineties with Jay Jay Okocha, Kanu, Victor Ikpeba. So we have a collective unit of Iheanacho, Iwobi who are playing for the team, working for the team, Ighalo also and even Victor Moses, he works for the team.

Monarch urged private sector to participate in sponsorship in sports

Kehinde Akinpelu, Ilorin

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he Olofa of Offa, Oba Mufutau Gbadamosi Okikiola Esuwoye the second has stressed the need for private sector participation and sponsorship to ensure the development of sports in the country. The Royal Father made the call while speaking at the Closing ceremony of the first Ebenezery Easter Games held at the Olofa Township Stadium, Offa.

Oba Esuwoye who commended

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the Sponsor of the Games, Prince Olusoji Olagunju and the organisers for empowering youth with various Sporting programmes, stressed that the avenue provided for the Athletes would serve as a template to build and nurtured their career.

He called on wealthy individuals and corporate bodies to key into the idea to actively and positively engaged the youth.

The First Class Royal Father praised the participants for demonstrating the spirit of sportsmanship and high level of maturing advising

them to sustain the tempo to develop their talents.

He pledged his support to organization of such events among others to attract development to the town and the State in general.

Speaking to Sports writers, the Sponsor of the Games, Prince Olusoji Olagunju applauded the participants for not only being part of the success story but for Showcasing their raw talents,noting all talented young men and women discovered at this year’s Easter Ebenezary games will be nurtured and as-

sisted to exhibit their full potential in sporting activities Prince Olagunju maintained that the games was organized to foster Unity and Promote harmonious relationship among the people of Offa and also to creat chances for other sporting events to thrive which he promised would be an annual event.

He pledged to extend the games to other neighbouring towns and Villages in the Subsequent editions to achieve the cardinal goals and Objectives of engaging restive youth in a useful ventures. >

sports philanthropist, Malik Shahin, has been conferred with an honorary chieftaincy title in Imeri Kingdom in Ondo State.

Shahin, the managing director of Afrab Chem Pharmaceutical Company, was installed as Basegun of Imeri Kingdom.

The Onimeri of Imeri Kingdom, Oba Babatunde Adeniran, at the installation, said the honour was a way of reciprocating and showing appreciation for Shahin”s gesture to the community. ‘’ I want to say that we are doing this in reciprocation and appreciation of his good gesture of free donation of drugs to Ondo State Government and our community health centre. ‘’ He also embarked on entrepreneurial venture which created employment opportunities for indigenes of this state and hereby reduced the unemployment problems our youth are facing. ‘’ The recipient is also assisting our youths in area of education and sports,’’ Adeniran said.

The traditional ruler called on individuals and corporate bodies to emulate Shahin in reaching out to rural areas as part of their corporate social responsibility.

The former Nigeria National Basketball team captain, Olumide Oyedeji, described Shahin as a man worthy of emulation. ‘’ I am here to honour Shahin with my presence, because, he had been supporting me in my various basketball youths programs, tailored towards identifying and nurturing young basketball players at the grassroots level. ‘’Many young Nigerians youths have benefited from him. I call on other rich Nigerians to emulate him by leaving their comfort homes and reach out to rural areas as part of social responsibility, ‘’ Oyedeji said.

Shahin in his response said that, the honour bestowed on him was a call to do more. ‘’ The genesis of this event was purely borne out of business adventure with the state government from my company, which, as time passes, metamorphosed into interest in community investment and youth empowerment. ‘’ In line with my company cardinal objectives of identifying the need of our host community, I have never shied away from fulfilling our corporate responsibility as a caring organisation, which I intend to replicate here. ‘’I have personally identified several opportunities in this community and I will muster possible resources to harness and develop infrastructure that will change the face of employment for the youths. ‘’ I will support the youths in this community in area of education and sports. ‘’I am now a bonafide son of this community and will stand by you to make this community great,’’ Shahin said.

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Joel Matip

Matip will miss rest of season to thigh injury

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iverpool central defender Joel Matip will probably miss the rest of the season due to a thigh injury, the Premier League club said on Tuesday.

The Cameroon international sustained the problem in Saturday’s 2-1 Premier League victory over Crystal Palace and will definitely miss the Champions League quarter-final against Manchester City.

“Matip was able to complete the full 90 minutes of the fixture, but afterwards medical assessment on the thigh revealed surgery was expected to correct the problem,” the club said in a statement on Tuesday.

“The operation is likely to end the 26-year-old’s involvement in the remainder of the 2017-18 season.”

Liverpool host Manchester City at Anfield in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final on Wednesday, three days before facing local rivals Everton in the league.

Christian Ronaldo with the ball during Real Madrid and Juventus match at the just concluded Champions League in which Madrid won with 4-1

Real Madrid retains Champions League, beats Juventus 4-1

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t ended, as it so often does, with that familiar smile. Cristiano Ronaldo – gelled hair, dazzling teeth, magic in his boots – will never forget the night he scored the 600th goal of an almost implausible career.

It was the moment everyone knew the Champions League trophy was on its way back to the Bernabéu and, once again, that the four-times Ballon d’Or winner had left his imprint on another final.

Ronaldo had scored twice on another exultant night when he also leapfrogged Lionel Messi to announce himself as the competition’s leading scorer for the fifth season running. He will enjoy that, too, but the real prize here was to be part of a side that have now lifted European football’s most coveted silverware three times in four seasons. Cardiff 2017 will fit neatly with Milan 2016 and Lisbon 2014 whereas, for Juventus, this was a familiar story of regret and hurt.

This was their seventh defeat out of nine finals, including five in a row, and the second half was a chastening experience for the Serie A champions, culminating in them sieving more goals in one match than in the rest of the competition put together. It was a full-on collapse and, by the end, the players in black and white stripes looked in need of smelling salts.

It was certainly rare to see a Juventus team lose their way so badly bearing in mind it was 1-1 at the break and, if any-

thing, Massimiliano Allegri’s players had looked the more rounded side. Yet the second half was a dreadful ordeal for the team from Turin and all those supporters who had held up thousands of black and white cards before kick-off to spell: “The Time is Now.” Yes, Juve were unfortunate, in the extreme, with the deflected goal from Casemiro that gave Madrid a 2-1 lead just after the hour. From that point onwards, however, it was staggering to see a team renowned for defensive structure crumple this way.

Juve’s indignities in that period also featured a sending-off for Juan Cuadrado, one of their substitutes, and a late goal from Marco Asensio when the thousands of Madridistas were already going through their victory songs. Gareth Bale, deemed too short of fitness to start, had joined the party by that stage and no one from Zinedine Zidane’s team should really care that the game’s outstanding moment was conjured up by one of the losing players.

Mario Mandzukic’s goal was the paradox of the night. Indeed, has there ever been a better goal in a European final?

Zidane himself is on the all-time list for his spearing volley against Bayer Leverkusen at Hampden Park in 2002. Yet it is a legitimate debate and Mandzukic’s 27thminute effort here might even edge it given that it involved the ball going between four different players without touching the floor.

Leonardo Bonucci was first with a long, diagonal pass out to Alex Sandro on the left and, after that, it was a blur of exhilarating speed, colour and movement. Sandro’s cross to pick out Gonzalo Higuaín was a beauty: a cushioned, left-footed volley on the run. Higuaín controlled the ball on his chest and flicked it towards Mandzukic. And then, finally, it was the big man’s turn, teeing himself up and then twisting his body to launch himself at the ball. Volley, chest-volley, chest-volley: five touches in total, midair; left, right, left and right again. It was like something from a computer game and, at the end of it, Mandzukic’s improvisational shot was dipping and swerving into the top corner of Keylor Navas’s goal.

Ultimately, though, the more prosaic goals carried the greater significance in this contest. Madrid have managed only one clean sheet on their way to winning this competition. Yet there is another statistic about Zidane’s team and the player, more than anyone, who carries the team’s dreams. They arrived in Cardiff with the best goals record of any side in the competition – 32 from 12 ties – and Ronaldo, being Ronaldo, rarely lets a big game pass him by without making some kind of contribution.

To begin with, he had found it difficult to get too much of the ball in and around the Juve penalty area. But he also had periods in the other finals when he drifted to the edges. Then this one reached its 20th min-

ute and he came alive, exchanging passes with the overlapping Dani Carvajal before pulling back his right boot to take aim. His shot was low, directed towards the bottom corner, and skimmed off Bonucci to elude Gianluigi Buffon.

If we were to be kind about the losing side, Madrid’s first two goals both came from deflections and, in Casemiro’s case, the trajectory of his shot completely changed once the ball had struck Sami Khedira. The truth, however, is that Juve, having conceded only three goals en route to this final, chose a bad night to lose their defensive organisation and never recovered from that moment.

Three minutes later, Luka Modric scampered down the right, clipped a cross to the near post and Ronaldo’s clipped finish gave the remainder of the match an air of inevitability. “The people who always criticise Cristiano are going to have put their guitar back in its case,” he said afterwards, modest as ever.

There was still time for Sergio Ramos, as devious as a bag of weasels, to help engineer Cuadrado’s second yellow card with a bout of pretend agony but Madrid’s second-half performance had a lot more good than bad. Marcelo set up Asensio to sweep in their fourth goal in the last minute and Zidane joined Brian Clough, Sir Alex Ferguson, Pep Guardiola and José Mourinho among others on the list of managers who have won the European Cup twice.

Thigh injury knock Aguero out of Manchester City’, Liverpool clash

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anchester City striker Sergio Aguero could not play at the just concluded Champions League quarter-final first leg tie against Liverpool at Anfield after failing to recover in time from a thigh injury.

The Argentine is City’s all-time

top scorer having notched 199 goals in all competitions for the club.

“He has stayed in Manchester, he didn’t come,” City manager Pep Guardiola told a news conference ahead of training on Tuesday.

“He’s been injured for the last

two weeks and he still isn’t fit,” added the Spanish manager.

The City boss was unable to say if Aguero will be fit for Saturday’s Premier League derby clash with Manchester United at the Etihad Stadium.

Aguero’s absence means a likely

start for Brazilian Gabriel Jesus in attack.

There was some good news on the injury front for City with left back Fabian Delph, who has been out since February, fit again and in contention for a place in the starting line-up.

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FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello (2nd right, 2nd row) in a group photograph with members of the House of Representatives Committee on Procurement, when they paid a working visit to the FCT Administration in Abuja..

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Territory, Mallam Muhammad Bello, has said that education remains the only human capacity building the administration can give to the people with special abilities to enable them feel included in the society.

The Minister made this view recently while making a presentation of a draft policy on inclusive education in FCT held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Malam Bello noted that education is the foundation of modern growth and development, “as such policies have been formulated over time to ensure our children were functionally educated so that they can contribute their quota to national development”.

He however decried that “there are a group of Nigerians who through no fault of theirs are physically challenged and could be in danger of falling through the cracks and not able to acquire the one thing that can guarantee their financial and social independence”.

The Minister, who was represented by Secretary for Education, Senator Isa Maina, expressed the belief that if schools were inclusive of all children, then the society would develop affection for one another and stimulate healthy competition that would ultimately lead to discovery of talents.

“In most cases, the disabled and physically challenged in our society are discriminated against even if not deliberately. There must be a deliberate, conscious and concerted ef-

fort to integrate the differently able Nigerians into all facets of society, starting, of course, with education.

We must chart a new orientation, that which sees ability in disability.

We need to build confidence and acceptability in the consciousness of our society, particularly our children,” Bello stated.

Representing the Education Secretary, Director of Administration and Finance in the Secretariat, Mrs. Eunice Okechukwu, disclosed that in spite of their physical challenges, some of the children were enormously endowed with talents and skills that must be harnessed for the overall development of the nation.

The secretary noted that physically challenged Nigerian athletes have always made the country proud in international competitions, as they return home with medals, where their able-bodied counterparts do not measure up.

A representative of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Mrs. Lydia

Odeh, while pledging continued support of her organisation, decried that of the 10.5 million out of school children in Nigeria, an estimated 7 million of them were children with disabilities.

Odey said: ‘’This projection is in line with World Bank and WHO that persons with disabilities constitute about 15 per cent of populations in developing countries and that between 80 to 90 per cent of them do not gain access to basic needs of life, especially basic education”.

She explained that “the conferment of the education of children with disabilities to very few poorly staffed, poorly equipped and outdated special schools, very low public awareness on issues of inclusive education, inadequate institutional and human capacities required to implement inclusive education and inadequate poor implementation or non-availability of appropriate legal and policy framework are issues that need immediate answers”.

of the Ohanaeze – NdiIgbo of the FCT chapter has advised all sons and daughters of Igbo extraction to shun all kinds of advise by workers of iniquity aimed at cultivating division and disunity among the Igbos in Abuja, just as it has reiterated its effort to ensure a united and indivisible socio-cultural group that represents the existence of every Igbo man in the Federal Capital territory.

This call was made recently by the President of the Ohaneze Ndi-Igbo Abuja chapter, Chief Odozi Nwaodzi, while briefing the press on the issues of grave importance as it affects the unity of the socio-Igbo cultural group residents in the nation’s capital.

According to him, the leadership of the body in the FCT may soon begin legal procedure against any form of attempt to dissuade the minds of members which may amount to disintegration of the united body and may as well invoke certain constitutional provisions as a deterrent to such act.

His words: “As we already know, today’s briefing is aimed at putting straight and clarifying the position of this august body on issues that have been bedeviling us as Ndigbo in the FCT for sometimes now.

“Like in every part of the world, Ndigbo in the FCT are organized under the leadership of Ohanaeze Ndigbo which has organic arms that are labored with the running of the activities the body for the good of the Igbo residing in the FCT. At this juncture, it is pertinent to bring to the knowledge of this forum that our activities in the various arms are guided by the constitution.

“However, for reasons premised on their individual aggrandis”ement and unpatriotic nature, some persons have decided to sever the cord that binds Ndigbo together. From a strangling but unconstitutional control of the grassroots through the instrumentality of an incongruous Central body of the Igbo Community Assembly in negation of Article 8(2) of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo FCT Constitution.

Furthermore, the promoters of this incongruity have been creating units and installing Ochigbos against the spirit of Article 8(1) (e), Article 9(2), and Article 8 of the constitution”.

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Bello urges FCT transport agency to fast-track road markings, directional signs

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Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, has tasked the FCT Transport Secretariat to fast-track road markings and the installation of directional signs at major roads in the territory.

This, the Minister stressed, is necessary to make roads in the territory easily navigable and safer.

The Minister gave this charge when he embarked on a tour of the Transport Secretariat and its allied agencies recently.

In keeping with his Administration’s focus on service efficiency, Malam Bello, while addressing the management, tasked the secretariat on the urgent need for the modernisation of the business process of the secretariat and its various agencies.

This, he said, is with a view to achieving a cutting edge, operationally efficient and technological sound operational architecture.

Malam Bello visited the dumpsite for impounded tricycles in Durumi, the Auto Pond and Recycling Plant in Gosa as well as the Taskforce Area Command in Wuye.

He directed the secretariat to digitalise the documentation of scrapped vehicles for efficient data management and accountability while harping on the necessity to keep the dumpsites clean.

He charged officers to always give owners of impounded vehicles enough chance to come forward to claim the seized vehicles before they are scrapped. This he said was necessary to ensure observance of Rule of Law. The minister challenged the management to be more innovative, financially, prudent and resourceful in order to meet the demands of

transportation management in a growing city like Abuja.

Earlier in his welcome remark at the occasion, the Mandate Secretary, Transport Secretariat, Comrade Kayode Opeifa, informed the minister that the secretariat was working to reposition the secretariat for a more efficient operation.

Opeifa underscored the critical role of transportation in the effort of the government to revitalise the economy, adding “Transportation and mobility are the life-wire of any city and no government can afford to toy with it.”

The Secretariat, he disclosed, is seeking the permission of the FCT minister for the addition of the Department of Policy and Planning as a central command centre for evolving transportation policies in the Territory.

The Secretariat, he said, has five Departments for now, namely, Departments of Transportation, Engineering, Road Traffic Services, Bus Rapid Transport, and Administration and Finance.

He gave credit to great work that the Engineering Department of the secretariat has done to ensure the conclusion of the phase one of the FCT Light Rail Project, stating that the project has been for most of the staff of the secretariat a good channel of technology transfer.

He said the secretariat is saddled with the mandate for transportation planning, policy and execution. Others include ensuring that all necessary transport infrastructure work as well as traffic management and movement within the Federal Capital Territory.

He appealed to the FCT minster for approval for a new Department of Policy and Planning to achieve a centralised policy planning, and coordination for all the departments and for the FCT.

More demolitions to come as AMMC clears road corridor

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communities along the popular city gate of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) will have to go as the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC) moves to clear road corridor of every obstructions.

Director, FCT Department of Development Control, Muktar Galadima, has therefore advised residents of the FCT not to encroach on road corridors, even as he warned those who have already put illegal structures on all road corridors across the Territory to relocate or have them demolished.

Galadima gave this warning while leading his department’s personnel during last week’s demolition of illegal structures within the Federal Capital City (FCT), where an estate under construction in Kukwaba, and beautifully

looking, but illegal shops, built on road corridor along Lokogoma road, were all crushed down by a bulldozer with great efficiency.

Commenting on the partially demolished mixed use Sally Dram estate, located by an AEDC injection substation in Kukwaba, near House on the Rock church, along the Airport road, the Director explained that the developer was given approval for the construction of about 24 units of 3-bed room duplexes, but decided to add about nine (9) additional units.

Similarly, extension of shops in front of, and illegal attachments to Faith Plaza and Vatan Plaza, as well as, a park and a church, along Lokogoma expressway were all demolished during the exercise.

On why the department was carrying out removal of all the illegal structures on road

corridors when expansion of particularly the Lokogoma road has not yet commenced, the Director explained that it became necessary in order to “avoid issues of relocation and compensation”.

It was gathered that in cases where illegal structures were allowed to stay under compassionate grounds, developers and owners of such illegal developments would later mobilize and sue the FCT Administration, demanding to be resettled and compensated whenever it was time for development.

Decrying the fragrant violation of the development control approvals, Galadima stated that the era of impunity was even, even as he warned residents to always strictly adhere to development control guide lines, in order to avoid having their structures pulled down after spending on them.

Chieftaincy tussle: Dikko sues for peace in Bwari Area Council ÏÏÏThe chairman of Bwari Area

Council, Hon. Musa Dikko, has sued for a peaceful co-existence among the two traditional rulers for meaningful development.

Dikko made the appeal during a security meeting with the Minister of FCT, prominent traditional rulers of the council, the area commanders of the police and civil defence, ex- chairmen as well as representative of the traders union of Bwari market recently.

Speaking during the occasion, Dikko urged the people of Bwari to embrace peace and shun all forms of activities that would disturb the stability of the area.

He said: “I want to assure you that what has been said by the various speakers is the true position of things.

“We cannot achieve the desired development under an atmosphere of insecurity. The security agencies have done their best under the circumstances. As I talk to you the council is still progressing despite the crisis”.

He further assured the general public on the efforts of his admin-

istration to ensure that justice is achieved and peace is restored, adding “the council will do its best in striving for peace, it will ensure that no stone is left unturned in our bid to bring justice to the perpetrators of this wanton destruction of properties”.

He also noted that his administration would do everything within their means to ensure that the affected traders are given the required assistance.

Also speaking during the occasion, the representative of the Minister of FCT, Alhaji Adamu Bappah, enjoined the gathering that it is only in a peaceful and rancour free setting that any meaningful development can take place.

He urged the various ethnic groups in the council to exercise restraint and forgiveness to one another without which there could be no peace in the council.

“I have heard all that has been said but I hope what is said can be practicalised. I hope that this peace will continue as it has been in the past. There is nothing that can be cherished as much as peace”.

FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello (1st right), being briefed on specifics of the Light Rail project by the FCT Transport Secretary, Comrade Kayode Opeifa (2nd right), during the tour, while the Deputy General Manager, CCECC Nig. Ltd, Huong Qiam (3rd right), listens.

FCT security committee to combat kidnappings, other crimes ÏÏÏOwing to the spate of kidnappings and other crimes being experienced in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) recently, the Ministerial Security Committee, has vowed to get rid of every aspect of the crimes in the territory.

The committee, rising from its quarterly meeting, made a resolution to stem the rising tide of kidnappings in the outskirts of the territory. It said others point of duty include heightened surveillance against insurgency and determination to fight minor crimes.

Briefing newsmen at the conclusion of the meeting which took place at the conference chambers of the FCT Minister’s residence,

the FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, disclosed that the FCT Security agencies have been mandated to strengthen joint patrols and to undertake other measures designed to curb these negative developments.

The Minister assured that all areas identified to be harbouring criminal elements especially around the Mogadishu Cantonment in Asokoro, Kugbo and other flash points in the Territory, would be evacuated.

He, however, promised that the Administration would precede all evacuations efforts with enough notices, publicity and stakeholder

engagements as well as to adopt the multi-stakeholder approach to checking these menaces.

The Committee noted that even though FCT has remained largely peaceful, the increase in small crimes have remained a source of worry. The Ministry however assured that the Administration is working hard to eliminate them.

The Minister expressed the gratitude of the Administration to all the security agencies as well as the FCT residents for their support and contributions to the maintenance of peace in the FCT. He urged the residents to cooperate with the Administration in its efforts to ensure the security of life and property in the Territory.

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Abuja railway security: AMAC security agency begs for opportunity Stories by Idu Jude, Abuja

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rail transportation gets set to commence soon, a security outfit owned by the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Marshal Guards, has appealed to the FCT Administration for the offer of the job on the rail terminals and other auxiliary facility for its trained guards, to help reduce rate of unemployment in the territory.

In particular, the railway stations the organizstion seeking to be engaged for guard services include Wupa station, Bassanjima station, Gwagwa station, Abuja Metro station, Idu Station and Airport road station, respectively.

Stressing that the AMAC Marshal Guards have been well trained by the officers of the Nigerian Army, police, civil defence and other collaborative security agencies, the organisation begged the FCT Minister, Mallam Muhammad Musa Bello, to consider granting its request as part of community social responsibility.

In a statement signed by its Public Relation Officer (PRO), Kingsley Madaki, the security outfit disclosed that an official letter to request for such security guards services had since be sent to the FCTA. The sta.tement reads in part: “AMAC Marshal is not restricted to AMAC alone. Our pattern of em-

ployment cuts across the entire territory. For example, our recently trained AMAC Marshal Guards accommodated entries from all the Councils of the FCT in order to help curb job restiveness in the FCT not considering tribe nor religion.

“The council Chairman of AMAC, Ho.n Abdullah Adamu Candido, who birthed and initiated the idea has done well even as he offered over 150 trained officers services in the 12 wards of the communities for social services to also aid in tackling cultists, kidnapping and illegal activities in the society.

“When we commenced operation about two years now, the Council Chairman requested that 60 of our officers be posted to the FCT joint taskforce without collection of any payment from the FCTA and we complied.

“This security organ of the Council can be trusted and encouraged to generate revenue and pay itself by giving us job, thus, government and corporate organisations should see reason to encourage it because it can be traced easily.”

The statement adds: “We are also soliciting from the minister to use his office to grant AMAC Marshal Guards the opportunity to guard FCT schools, especially the boarding schools to ensure safety and security of the students while in schools”.

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Tension as AEPB renews onslaught to recover billions from debtor MDAs, firms Stories by Idu Jude, Abuja

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FCT agency on environmental protection, the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB), has commenced the sealing- off of premises of its numerous debtors across territory.

The Taskforce on Debt Recovery which was personally led by AEPB Director, Baba Shehu Lawan, descended on recalcitrant debtors owing the board sums running into billions of naira for its essential services including liquid and solid waste collection and disposal from their premises.

The development followed the continuous reluctance to pay up on their mounting annual debts which was crippling the board’s financial capacity to render efficient services to numerous customers, hence portraying it in bad light to FCT residents who expect nothing but the best in terms of city cleanliness.

The Abuja Times recalls that on assumption of office, the present administration mandated the staff to ensure that all the MDAs, companies in on the soil of FCT should comply with the environmental laws and paying of their service

charges.

The list of debtors comprise private individuals and businesses and government agencies some of which individually owe AEPB between N2 million to N30 million in unpaid charges for services rendered. Indeed the situation had become so worrisome that the FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, at some point, had to send the entire management of AEPB off on a one-and-a-half year special debt recovery assignment before being recalled back to their positions. This action was because the Administration felt it could not justify the continued funding of such a critical sector with not much to show for in terms of effectiveness or returns on investment.

This fact informed the seriousness, precision and all-encompassing manner with which the current debt recovery drive is being carried out.

Lawan stated that every step would be taken to ensure that all debtors feel the heat of their actions ‘’because a situation where only about 20 percent of its charges are paid annually is unsustainable for efficiency and could no longer be condoned.’’ He noted that those

who fail to do the needful only have themselves to blame and vowed to seal off the waste channels of such premises immediately until their bills are cleared.

Noting that AEPB was not particularly enthusiastic about cutting off its services to any property because of the negative impact of such action, he said that was the only option left for the board to compel debtors to imbibe the civilized habit of paying for services enjoyed and that his actions were in total conformity with the Minister’s directive. He explained that AEPB’s annual bill was N244 million.

Among the premises visited were Gateway Plaza with over N10 million debt; Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Council (RMAFC).

Meanwhile, the Acting Secretary of RMAFC, on the spot, blamed the payment of environmental charges the non-release of its allocation since June last year for the situation, promising that they were doing the best they could to ensure their bill is offset as they will be the last to violate government rules.

FCTA rewards deserving athletes with scholaships, cash ÏÏÏThe

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Mohammed Bello, has that his administration will revitalise sports and tourism industry to ensure both human capital development and the boost of the economy of the FCT. The minister said this recently while rewarding sports men and women who recently made the FCT proud at different international and local sporting competitions.

His words: “Sports is a serious business that his administration needed to give a major priority in developing. He noted that efforts are being made in ensuring that experts develop sports facilities and tourism cites around the FCT. as you all know, sports is another area of creating employment for the youths, it is another area of curbing social vices and a perfect means of ensuring security. And we will start by looking into the area soon”.

He said the administration of Federal capital Territory, has rewarded deserving athletes as an encouragement for their efforts in making the capital territory proud at different competitions, both National and international.

The award was given to the athletes by the Department of Sports on its 10th FCT awards night. The event was to reward medalists, coaches and officials at the 2017 National Youth Games in Ilorin and also to flag off the department’s official website.

Also speaking, the Director of Sports in the FCT, Chief (Mrs.) Dilichukwu Onyedima, while thanking the administration, stated that her

office is willing to go extra mile in breeding sports men and women with adequate funds available.

She said that the department has available programmes with regard to 2018 sporting calendar but are constrained of inadequate funding, she calls of the private sectors, to invest in FCT sports for youth empowerment the growth of the economy.

Some of the awardees were former Inspector General of Police, Mike Okiro (for his contribution to chess in FCT); Chairman, FCT Tennis Association, Mr. Ifedayo Akindoju; Chairman, FCT Football Association, Alhaji Musa Saheed Talle; Chairman, FCT Badminton Association, Mr. Gabriel S. Gbayan; and Chairman, FCT Basketball Association, Mr. Francis Jitubo.

Others were Chairman, FCT Cricket Association, Mr. Emeka Onyeama; Director of Tourism, Mrs. Irene Elegbede and Technical Director, Nigeria Taekwondo Federation, Engr. Chika Chukwumerije.

They were all welcomed with standing ovation whenever each of them was called to the podium for their awards.

The athletes could not hide their happiness as gold medalists were promised the sum of N300,000, silver, N200,000, while the bronze medalists are to get N100,000. Team FCT finished 11th at the Youth Games with 4 gold, 4 silver and 7 bronze medals.

Ikechukwu Osadebe Michael, who won gold and bronze in chess for Team FCT, was awarded scholarship

by Okiro.

NASS: FCT Minister, Mallam Muhammad Musa Bello (right), with the Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Procurement, Hon. Oluwole Oke, when a delegation from the Committee paid the Minister a working visit in Abuja.

800 inmates in FCT, Suleja receive eye care from women optometrists

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women health professional under the aegis of Women Optometrists in Nigeria (WIN) recently in Abuja and Suleja Niger State, completed her yearly round of eye care delivery to inmates of prisons in FCT command.

During the visit to Suleja Prison recently, the president of the association, Dr. Ade-

suwa Ogli appreciated the Controller of Prisons, S.N Nwakuche, for his open door policy which has aided them to optimally extend their social responsibility to the inmates under his command.

Dr. Ogli further advised that routine eye checks are necessary for a healthy body.

The Controller of Prisons FCT Command, SN

Nwakuche, while thanking the team of doctors for their professionalism, encouraged other NGOs and multinationals to extend their social responsibility to the prisons.

In the visits to the Abuja prisons, the optometrists carried out checkups on over 750 male inmates of Kuje prison and over 30 female inmates of Suleja prison.

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Herdsmen attacks: Kuje residents Bello inspects Agric projects, reaffirms allege govt’s abandonment commitment to food security

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the communal clashes being orchestrated by the disunity between the farmers and Fulani herdsmen in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), residents of Kuje Area Council of the FCT have alleged government abandonment as their lives can no longer be protected from machete wielding Fulani herdsmen in the area.

The residents also accused the present administration in the territory of negligence in the provision of social amenities.

For residents of 1000 unit, popularly known as Abuja @ 30, a satellite estate in Kuje Area Council of Abuja, plying the dilapidated highway linking the estate with other neighbouring communities has become a harrowing experience as crimes being committed by Fulani herdsmen in the area are being carried out successfully with no one’s intervention.

According to the residents, such a journey usually requires a dose of patience and prayers to move from one point to another due to insecurity occasioned by the poor condition of the road.

For a journey that should not last more than fifteen minutes, residents often spend hours waiting for

bikes who fear to take the road at night for fear of getting robbed by Fulani herdsmen. The situation is made worse by the fact that the entire area is in the bush.

The Abuja Times gathered that the criminals are taking advantage of the fact that the 14km link road has not be fixed despite the fact that the contract was awarded in 2011.

A victim of a recent attack by the herdsmen at the road, a teacher, Magaret Nyet, was attacked and seriously wounded when she was on her way home from Evening Lesson. Her left limb was cut by her attackers who also went with her valuables.

Speaking to The Abuja Times in an interview, Magaret said: “I did not expect the young Fulani man that was hanging in the shadows when I passed the small market to be so vicious. I did not even know he was a criminal”.

A dangerous encounter with her assailant led to deep machete cuts on her left limb which had to be treated at Gwagwalada Specialist Hospital.

This pathetic experience and several others including an attempt by the same criminals to rape a sixtyyear-old woman and her two daughters led the community to embark on measures aimed at checkmating the increasing crime wave in the

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hammad Musa Bello, has restated the commitment of the FCT Admiration to boost the Agricultural sector in the FCT. The minister stated this during an inspection visit to the Paikon-Kore grazing reserve in Gwagwalada Area council of the FCT recently.

According to him, the visit to the reserve was to enable him assess the facilities on ground towards the takeoff of activities at the reserve.

He maintained that when fully operational, the reserve will not only boost animal production but also attract the development of value chain industries which will in turn open up opportunities for Job creation for the teeming youth.

The priority given to the Agricultural sector, he added, was in line with

the economic revival programmes of the present Administration, predicated on the provision of the muchneeded support to farmers towards poverty alleviation and an engine for economic growth.

Addressing the Paikon-Kore community leaders and youths who were on-hand to receive him, the Minister sued for peaceful co-existence which he insisted, was the only panacea for development. He further stressed that both the farmers and pastoralists need to work together towards the common good of their people.

While urging the community to embrace modern trends in Agriculture, the Minister said that the grazing reserve will be equipped with modern facilities towards giving an impetus to food production.

In his own address earlier, the Executive Chairman of Gwagwalada Area Council, Adamu Mustapha Danze, commended the Minister for

the visit, which he said, will go a long way in reassuring the Paikon-Kore community of good intentions of the FCT Administration in establishing the grazing reserve.

Also speaking, the Agrura of Zuba, Alhaji Muhammad Bello Umar, applauded the minister for constituting a committee to resolve all contending issues with regards the grazing reserve. He emphasised on the need to carry all stakeholders along towards finding lasting solutions to the disagreement between the pastoralists and farmers.

The minister was also at TunganMaje to inspect the site for the establishment of an international Livestock market as well an ultra-modern abattoir for the FCT where he was received by the developers, Cikasoro Farm Limited and Capital Meat Limited as well as officials of the Agriculture Rural Development Secretariat.

Peace ambassador fetes widows, less privileged

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and less privileged ones in Tofa communities of Karu in Nassarawa State were feted by United Nations Peace Ambassador, Mr. Israel Ibeneme, in commemoration of Easter celebration.

This is in continuation of his twelve year humanitarian activity in Nigeria.

Speaking while distributing items worth millions of naira to the widows and less privilege of ECWA Church Tofa in Karu, Mr. Israel Ibeneme said that the ambition to give helping hands to the needy was borne out of the urgent need to alleviate the suffering of people with special needs in the FCT and its environs.

Ambassador Ibeneme also used the occasion to canvass for an institutionalised social welfare package as it is done elsewhere in the world, stating that million of Nigerians cannot just be getting help at festive periods but need social intervention welfare package to live on their own land.

“Let me recognise the clergy men here present, especially the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) for this privilege to be here today, I am really grateful. As a pastor’s son, I enjoy the grace, thank you very much. All the churches here are recognised and thank you all for coming and for your prayers. I am as well very grateful to the Muslim Community, especially the Chief Imam,” he said.

He stated that he wishes to live the life of giving since his own was built on charity.

Hear him: “It’s all about my life’s Story, how I lived my life in the City of Port Harcourt for many years without help. I became a photographer because that was the only way I knew to get food.

I could recall how I slept outside along the road, because I could not pay my rent and I could not feed.

I lived with only a pair of shoes, one cloth, a pair of trouser and a T-shirt. Everyone around the community knew me with that cloth.

“I also remember how I fed with N20 per day which was never enough for me but I had to manage. People called me all kinds of names just because I was always up at night. To cut the long story short, there was never a time back then when I found something to eat when I needed it, but in all of these, I was very close to God and was faithful.

“Every time God keeps showing me this memory about my past, and one day during my prayer, I asked why and I got a reply. I understood that I had to go through that tough time because God wants me to save lives. I don’t have plenty of money to help people as I would have loved to, that was why I didn’t start in a big way.

I started by using my hand and my ideas to help the elderly people. It is a mandate that God gave me to touch lives.

FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello (right), receiving the Publisher and Chief Executive Officer of The Abuja Inquirer newspaper, Mr. Dan Akpovwa, when the later paid him a courtesy visit in Abuja..

World Bank collaborates with FCTA to strengthen debt management capacity ÏÏÏA

team of experts from the World Bank is currently in Abuja to work with relevant Federal Capital Territory Administration officials on strengthening the framework for debt management in the Administration.

Welcoming the World Bank Assessment team to Abuja recently, the FCTA Permanent Secretary, Mr. Chinyeaka Ohaa, expressed appreciation for the series of assistance that the country has received from the Bank.

According to the Permanent Secretary, the World Bank has helped the Nigerian government to forestall debt unsustainability in the aftermath of the exit from the Paris and London Clubs debt burden in 2005 and 2006, respectively.

The Permanent Secretary conveyed the preparedness of the FCT Administration to leverage the revised World Bank Sub national Debt Management Performance Assessment tool (DeMPA).

Ohaa also noted that the FCT Administration has been able to key into the outcome of the Debt Management Office (DMO’s) 5 year strategic plan which was designed in 2007 to help the 36 State governments and the FCT to develop debt management institutions and capabilities.

He said the FCTA, following advice from the World Bank’s Debt Management Office, also set up a Debt Management Unit made up of 10 staff, drawn from a cross section of key departments to assist with debt management policies.

His words: “It was against this backdrop that the Debt Management Office (DMO) in collaboration with the FCTA, conducted a debt data reconstruction exercise from the 19th – 30th November, 2012. This was in furtherance of the DMO’s strategic objectives of building capacity for effective debt management and the establishment of the FCT-Debt Management Unit.”

The Permanent Secretary in the same vein also appreciated the World Bank for its support, cooperation and guidance towards achieving the mandate of building a befitting FCT that would be the pride of Nigerians both at home and in the diaspora, as well as the entire black race.

Responding, leader of the World Bank Assessment Team, Mr. Jaime Garron Bozo, said they were in Abuja to provide technical assistance to enable the FCTA assess debt management functions and operations using the DeMPA tools.

It would be recalled that the World Bank in collaboration with its international partners in 2007/2008, developed a programme to assist developing countries to improve debt management by strengthening capacity and institutions. The anticipated benefit is that governments would be able to manage debts in an effective and sustainable manner in both the medium to long term bases.

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Access Bank, PayAttitude, Unified Payments unveil new payment solution

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Sirika promises to carry stakeholders along on road map

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Ojini Olaghere, Executive Director IT and Operations, Access Bank Plc; Victor Etuokwu, Executive Director, Personal Banking, Herbert Wigwe, GMD/CEO Access Bank Plc; Agada Apochi, Managing Director Unified Payments and founder of PayAttitude and Titilayo Olubiyi, Country Manager, PayAttitude at the launch of PayAttitude by Access Bank in Lagos...on Tuesday.

World Bank builds Nigeria’s capacity to implement sustainable programmes Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

The World Bank said that it has put a framework in place that would enable Nigeria’s government to strengthen its environmental and social systems, and build the country’s capacity to implement programmes in a sustainable way for greater development.

The World Bank’s environmental and social framework aims to ensure that the people and the environment are protected from the potential adverse impacts of the projects it finances.

World Bank Country Director for Nigeria, Rachid Benmessaoud, disclose this on Tuesday during a workshop to support the implementation of the new World Bank Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) in Abuja. The workshop aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the new environmental and social requirements the World Bank will be applying to new investment projects it finances starting October 2018.

Benmessaoud said, “Time and again, we have seen that investment projects are more sustainable and have a greater development impact when the environment is protected,

and when communities and people are engaged.

The ESF is a great opportunity to work together with the Nigerian government to strengthen its environmental and social systems, and

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help build the country’s capacity to implement programs in a sustainable way and to achieve stronger results.”

The workshop consists of: a halfday presentation to senior Govern-

ment officials; a two-day technical training for project implementation staff; and half day awareness session with other stakeholders, including civil society and development partners.

The ESF is the result of extensive consultations conducted by the World Bank, with nearly four years of analysis and engagement around the world with governments, development practitioners, and civil society groups reaching nearly 8,000 stakeholders in 63 countries.

The new framework provides a broad coverage of environmental and social issues, including important advances on transparency, non-discrimination, social inclusion, public participation, and accountability. The ESF also places more emphasis on strengthening Borrower governments’ own capacity to deal with environmental and social issues. The framework assists the borrowing governments to manage certain environmental and social risks in investment projects proposed for World Bank financing support.

The ESF is expected to go into effect October 2018, and will progressively replace the World Bank’s current Safeguards policies.

Reps will override Buhari’s veto on Ajaokuta, says Nkem-Abonta Henry Omunu, Abuja The National Assembly and the presidency are heading for another show down over the contentious concession of the Ajaokuta Steel Complex with the Chairman, House special committee on Ajaokuta, Rep. Nkem-Abonta declaring that the House will override President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto if he declines assenting to the bill compelling the federal government to complete the steel complex.

In passing the bill asking the government to spend $1 billion from its share of the excess crude account, the House also amended the National Council on Commercialization and Privatization (NCPC) by removing the steel complex from the list of public firms that can be privatized or commercialized.

Speaking to journalists at the weekend in Abuja, Rep. Nkem-Abonta declared that the benefits of completing the steel complex which had Contd. on B2

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R-L: Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki; Chief Executive Officer, Heritage Agro-Allied (H2A) Foods, Dr. Tony Bello; Project Manager, H2A Foods, Engr.

Don Onyegbu; and Head, Project Monitoring and Remediation Office (PMRO), Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL), Adeniyi Oguntuyi, during the firm’s courtesy visit to the governor, at the Government House, Benin City.

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The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has disclosed plans to partner Heritage Agro-Allied (H2A) Foods and Elephant Group Plc, to cultivate a $6 million 1,155-hectare cassava farm and set up a food processing facility in the state, to boost agricultural development.

Obaseki disclosed this when senior executive officers of the group paid a courtesy visit at the Government House in Benin City, the Edo State capital.

He said, “The partnership with the H2A Foods and Elephant

Group Plc will enable the state government achieve its promise to create 200,000 jobs within four years especially through agricultural development.”

Obaseki explained that the cassava project is a model for job creation for the teeming unemployed youths in the state, adding, “The state government will provide the required infrastructure for the partnership. We will support the cassava project through the construction of roads to link the farms for easy evacuation of cassava produce.”

He added, “We will also facilitate provision of electricity for the cassava processing plant through the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC).”

Chief Executive Officer, H2A Foods, Dr. Tony Bello, who spoke on behalf of the group, said, “About 420 cassava farmers drawn from the three senatorial districts in the state would be engaged in the pilot scheme of the project.

We have set a target to produce 20tons of cassava per hectare.”

Bello added, “The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) through the Ni-

geria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) and the Anchor Borrowers Programme, is ready to invest about N214 million in the project.”

“On our part, we are investing about $6 million in cassava transformation for staple foods in Edo State. This will enable us process cassava into value-added nutritious foods. The products will target local and foreign markets.

In the first phase, we will begin with 850 hectares out of the 1,155 hectares. We expect that the state government will engage at least 100 agriprenuers in Edo state to actualise the project,” he said.

been moribund for over 30 years were enormous.

Apart from having the potential for making the country an industrialized nation, the lawmaker stated that the complex is capable of creating jobs for youth in the country and saving the huge foreign exchange spent on steel imports.

Rep. Nkem-Abonta added that under the new legislation passed by the House, states and local government can by their own volition contribute to the completion of the project.

According to him, beyond shooting Nigeria to the enviable height of a steel producing nation, create employment benefits, for over 75,000 Nigerians outside the ancillary jobs that will be opened from service companies that will service the steel firm.

“This is a project that the current administration, especially President Buhari should take serious because it will be his legacy that it was during his tenure that the country finally became an industrialized nation. ‘’Anybody who is opposing the Ajaokuta completion law is an enemy of Nigeria, who does not want the country to develop,” he added.

Moreover, he state that it will be a credit to the Buhari administration if he signs the bill into law and supports the completion of the project, insisting that he was confident that the president against all odds will sing the Ajaokuta completion bill into law.

“It will be a credit. He should sign the bill into law so that Ajaoukta will be the project he will go home with, but if he declines, l can assure you that we will veto him,” he added.

FG to holds retreat for MDAs’ CEOs, accounting officers on Procurement

Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

Accounting officers and Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) from all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of the Federal Government are to attend a mandatory retreat on Saturday April 7th, at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel Abuja, on the application of the Public Procurement Act 2017.

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha has directed that the retreat is meant for all Chief Ex-

ecutive Officers and Accounting Officers without exemption or proxy representation.

According to Mustapha, the retreat is to ensure effective implementation of the 2018 budget and will address all identified inadequacies or deficiencies in 2017, with a view to enhancing 2018 budget implementation.

The retreat, organised in conjunction with the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) will hold at 8.00 am, with the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred E. Oyo-Ita

as Guest of Honour, and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Alhaji Muhammad Musa Bello as Chief Host.

Registration and collection of retreat materials will take place on Friday, 6th April, 2018 at the Congress Hall of the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja from 2.00 pm.

The directives of the SGF are contained in a circular letter reference number SGF/ OP/1/S.3/XII titled “Procurement Retreat for Chief Executive Officers of Federal parastatals.”

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Dana air boss bags Leadership Caverton Helicopters excellent CEO awards unveils new fleet

Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo

For his humanitarian gestures and contribution to the development of the aviation industry, the Managing Director / Chief Executive officer of Dana Air, Jacky Hathiramani, has been conferred with the Platinum Excellence Leadership Award by the Association of Northern Nigerian Students (ANNS), in Lagos The Meritorious Leadership Award is coming less than a week after the Dana Air boss won his 3rd Best CEO of the year award, at a colorful event organized by industry watchdog, Nigerian Aviation Awards (NIGAV). The award According to the association is in recognition of Hathiramani’s exceptional track record of performance, exemplary leadership style, creative contribution to the development of the aviation industry, promotion of youth welfare and avowed nationalistic humanitarian service and Corporate Social Responsibility of his Conglomerate.

In his response, Hathiramani thanked the association for the honour

bestowed on him and reiterated his commitment towards working with relevant agencies and stakeholders on programs that will improve the aviation industry and that of the travelling public. He also pledged to continue promoting the welfare of the youth as the leaders of today and his service to humanity. Jacky Hathiramani is a Nigerian born in Jos Plateau State. He had his formative education at Onireke in Ibadan, before proceeding to the United Kingdom, where he bagged a degree in Business Administration from the European Business School of London.

Jacky’s drive and passion for quality service led to the establishment of Dana Air in 2008. The introduction of the airline and its redefining role in the aviation industry, offering world-class customer and in-flight service, with an on-time performance that is still unrivalled, has enabled the company achieve commendable market share and the recognition as one of Nigeria’s Most Respected Companies according to a report by a Nigeria

newspaper research unit.

His superior business performance, achievements, and ingenuity, has helped the airline maintain a solid management team and a strong footing in Nigeria’s aviation industry, having flown over 2.7 million passengers in the last nine years of its operation.

This according to the Imo state government also led to the choice of Dana Air for its airline partnership in 2016, to provide jobs for indigenes of the state, boost tourism drive and diversify the economy of the state.

Jacky has won two CEO of the year awards in the Nigerian aviation industry and one at the Ghana Aviation awards 2016, where he won same award for ‘’ bringing to Nigerians and Ghanaians, an aviation service that combines the best elements of legacy carriers – world-class onboard service, superior on-time performance, coupled with the latest technology (online services) and operational efficiency of new –age carriers, which has seen Dana Air become one of Nigeria’s leading airlines.’’ said the Ghana Aviation Award committee.

Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo

Caverton Helicopters Limited has unveiled a fleet of 11 brand new helicopters to be used for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)/Chevron Nigeria Limited Joint Venture based in Escravos.

The acquisiction of the helicopters came on the heels of a rigorous tendering process, where Caverton was selected as the preferred air transport provider. The choppers were unveiled at its Executive Flight Facility at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja.

The new fleet of helicopters include the state-of-the-art Bell 407 GXP and the industry workhorse Bell 412 EP. The Bell 407GXP incorporates new avionics, an upgraded engine, and new executive interior design options. Fitted with Rolls-Royce M250-C47E/4 dual channel turbine engine, this aircraft delivers exceptional hot and high performance, with efficient fuel economy.

The Bell 412 EP is a highly reliable aircraft that has been known to perform extremely well even in inimical climatic conditions. With a spacious cabin, the aircraft can be con-

figured in a variety of ways to accommodate up to 14 passengers.

Both helicopter types are equipped with a variety of safety features, which include rupture resistance fuel cells, wire strike protection system, vibration and engine exceedance monitoring systems, flight data monitoring.

Speaking at the event, Chairman, Caverton Offshore Support Group, Remi Makanjuola, said the unveiling by Caverton fleet of helicopters is a feat and a day Nigeria should be proud of.

He said :”This is a day that the aviation industry should be proud of that a Nigerian went to America to acquire 11 helicopters. This is a ground breaking event. Over the past few years, we went through many phases of development as a company in less than favourable circumstances. Nevertheless, we have been able to operate existing contracts successfully, as well as secure a few new contracts. “ The largest and most significant of these new contracts, the NNPC-Chevron Joint Venture Helicopter Services Contract, is of course, the reason we are here today to unveil the helicopters that

would be used for that activity. We are recording some successes in our desire to be a financially strong and sustainable group that puts all stakeholders at the heart of everything.

“Our safety record is something we are proud and thankful for, and credit must go to our professionalism at all levels. Given Chevron’s global reputation for safety and quality, it is safe to say that Caverton’s diligent attention to safety, quality and continuous improvement contributed in no small measure to the contract award. “The addition of these helicopters to our fleet will make Caverton Helicopters one of the largest operators of BELL products in subSaharan Africa.”

As a fully indigenous player in the hitherto foreign interest dominated sector, Caverton , he said, has confirmed the mantra that Nigerians can excel and do Nigeria proud in all facets of the economy given the opportunity.

Said he : “ Caverton is fast tracking the national content policy by ensuring that more Nigerians are trained and given the pride of place in recruitment into high technical management positions.

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B5 Money Market

Access Bank, PayAttitude, Unified Payments unveil new payment solution Access Bank Nigeria has partnered with PayAttitude and Unified Payments to provide another novel payment solution “PayAttitude Digital”.

“PayAttitude Digital” is a smart, trendy and convenient mobile app that enables Access Bank account holders to use just their phone number for transactions at ATMs, Web and POS terminals. It also allows Access Bank merchants/customers to receive payments using their mobile phone numbers across different e-payment channels.

With the new payment solution, Access bank customers will enjoy other benefits including request for a payment/transfer, ATM Withdrawal, POS payments and collection of membership dues, tithes and offerings. They can also send staff, friends & family to withdraw cash at the ATM and buy items at physical and online shops, approve or decline transactions from anywhere they are.

Customers would also have access to cost effective and stress free agency banking. In this regard, individuals and businesses can now register themselves as agents and begin to pay cash and receive deposits using their personal devices anywhere.

Commenting on this, Herbert Wigwe, GMD/CEO, Access Bank plc said “this is a leading-edge payment solution that will ensure Access Bank customers enjoy unique and convenient banking services. Customers can send and receive cash, initiate third party payments, pay physical and online merchants and so much more. Individual users can simply download the app from the Appstore (Play store and Apple store) on their devices while merchants can be set up remotely.

According to Wigwe, “At Access Bank, we are committed to simplifying the lives of our customers and this is evident through the number of innovative solutions that we make available to them. Our customers are our priority and their convenience remains our focus” The Managing Director, Unified Payments and founder of PayAttitude, Agada Apochi speaking at the formal launch in Lagos, stated that “Unified Payments is happy to be the pioneer processor/switch and partner of PayAttitude and Access Bank to provide topnotch services as we have always done”.

The Country Manager of PayAttitude, Titilayo Olubiyi remarked that with PayAttitude Digital, no visit to bank branch is required to be enabled. It is all self-service from customer’s device. Likewise, it guarantees higher security level as PIN will no longer be entered on the POS, ATM or Web but now on the personal device of customers.”

She further stated that with PayAttitude Digital, customers will be able to take control of all their transactions.

L-R: Head of Governance, Hamilton Iyogbon; Transportation and Logistics Manager, Femi Akinsira; Supply Chain Director, Colman Hanna, and Logistics Associate Director, Akoji Amedu, all of Guinness Nigeria during the Safety Walk to mark the finale of the 2018 Transport and Safety Week in Lagos...on Tuesday.

How Nigeria’s forex reserves rise by 53% in one year . Add $7.44bn in three months Stories by Motolani Oseni

The nation’s foreign reserves monitored by Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has appreciated by 53 per cent between March 2017 when it stood at $30.30 billion, compared to $46.2 billion stood as of March 28, 2018, Data obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has revealed.

The foreign reserves opened this year at $38.77 billion to close March 28, 2018 at $46.21 billion, an increase of 19.2 per cent this year. But gained $7.44 billion in first quarter of 2018.

In February, the foreign reserves added $1.8 billion or 4.44 per cent to $42.92 billion from $40.69 billion it opened while in January, it gained $1.9 billion or 4.95 per cent to $40.69 billion from $38.77 billion it opened in 2018.

Global Oil prices continued to rally above $60 per barrel extended to new heights in 2017 with Brent crude climbing to a level last seen in mid-2015, stoking hopes in the industry that the market has finally turned a corner following a three-year slump.

An oil price recovery has been under way since June last year as crude demand finally starts to outpace supply, with Brent rallying by almost 40 per cent to $61 a barrel, as the global oil glut that had built up over the previous three years starts to draw down.

The CBN spokesman, Mr. Isaac Okorafor, had noted the increase in foreign reserves can be attributable to peace in the oil-rich Niger-Delta region of the country, which resulted into increased oil output and earnings.

He had said with the sus-

tained interventions, the apex bank has been able to push foreign exchange demand away from the parallel market into the formal regulated market.

The CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, had projected that the nation may achieve $60 billion foreign reserves in 2019, should this trend persist.

He said increases in the price and shipment of oil, Nigeria’s biggest foreigncurrency earner, and improved investor confidence mean the CBN can build its reserves to $60 billion in the next 12 to 18 months, from $40 billion currently.

“Things are looking up.

No one ever thought the price of crude would hit $70 in such a short period of time”, he said during an interview with Bloomberg.

The foreign reserves monitored by CBN opened 2017 at $25.84 billion and grew to $38.73 billion as at December 28, 2017.

In September 2008, Nigeria’s foreign exchange reserves hit $62 billion, with federal government spending $12 billion to settle external debts.

However, theme on the foreign market remained stability, as the Dollar against Naira traded flat at N362 all week in the parallel market, while it strengthened by 0.14per cent to N360.20 in the Investors & Exporters foreign exchange window.

Analysts at Cordros Capital said, “The foreign reserves continued to record steady accretion, as it increased by 1.21per cent to cross the $46 billion-mark at $46.21 billion.

“Rates are likely to continue trading within current bands, as oil revenues (driven by stable oil prices and production) further shore up önk Plc reported drop in income tax paid to government revenue agencies.

B6 Personal Finance

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Bad money habits that keep you broke Bonny Amadi A habit is a routine of behavior that is repeated regularly and tends to occur subconsciously. The regular tendencies we have that are hard to break. They are the things we do over and over .

The American Journal of Psychology (1903) defines a “habit, from the standpoint of psychology, as a more or less fixed way of thinking, willing, or feeling acquired through previous repetition of a mental experience.

When it comes to breaking bad money habits, it can sometimes be easier to replace those bad habits with new, good ones. Just take it down to the basics – live within your means, avoid consumer debt and save for the future. If you can accomplish those three things you’ll be in a good place.

No matter what area of your life you’re trying to improve there needs to be a sharp focus on breaking bad habits and forming good ones. Such habits that diminish attainment of you financial goals are as enumerated below.

Spending more than you earn Spending more than you earn is THE cardinal sin of personal finance. This one habit will have a trickle-down effect, causing big problems in all areas of your personal

finances.

For instance, if you spend more than you earn you’ll have to rely on credit to cover the rest. The credit comes with interest and traps you into debt. You continue spending more than you earn creating a bigger, more vicious cycle.

If you currently spend more than you earn this needs to be the very first thing you address. Don’t even worry about anything else until you’re living within your means.

Relying on credit to pay bills Credit is expensive and if not used properly is a trap! If you’re using credit to cover basic things like food or rent or are using it for mindless purchases (like a vacation or new clothes) you need to remedy the situation.

While it’s true that at some point you might need to rely on debt – say, for a mortgage, education expenses or an investment property – it should be done with extreme care and planning. Do not use credit cards or any other form of debt to cover your bills.

Taking out payday loans – ever Talking of debt, payday loans are one of the worst forms of it. Here’s a story to illustrate: I had a friend who once decided to take out a payday loan to pay for vacation. When she got back from vacation the following week she was supposed to repay the loan. Not having enough money she went to an-

other payday loan lender and took out a loan to pay back the first lender. She repeated this cycle for MONTHS until her Dad or mum finally bailed her out.

If you currently take out payday loans you need to break this habit now. The interest is not worth it. There are S Not being prepared for an emergency If there’s one thing you can count on it’s that at some point or another something will go wrong. An accident will happen, a job will be lost or an appliance will break. Being prepared for an emergency is very important when it comes to your finances.

You don’t want to be caught off guard, financially anyway.

Save up some cash for emergencies.

Paying your bills late Paying your bills late – it’s a bad habit to have but happens to even the best of us. When you pay your bills late your credit score takes a hit and you could cost yourself more money in late fees and interest charges. Make it a habit of always paying your bills on time. If you’re the type of person who simply procrastinates with tasks like this consider enrolling in auto-pay.

It also means you probably need to get financially organized. Check out this guide on how to organize your finances so that you don’t miss another bill again!

Failing to save for future

Nigerian student for global entreprenuers awards A Nigerian student, Olanrewaju Falodun, a Microbiology department of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State will next week in Toronto Canada compete the 2017 Global Student Entrepreneurs Awards.

Falodun, who runs Temophadis International grossed $9000.00 in revenue last year, produces and packages food items including bean flour for Moin-moin, gbegiri soup and bean cake (akara).

Speaking at the Award ceremony, held at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta, on Tuesday, Falodun who won also carted away a prize gift of N500,000, said he was growing his business by “leveraging on my knowledge in Food Science, Food Microbiology, Quality Control and Graphics Design, I am skilled in Food product formulation, Food Bio-preservation, Food Processing Equipment Design and Cleanability and

Products Branding.”

He added that he had also “worked as sales person of frozen foods merchandize and as a manager of a start-up business enterprise in the time past.”

Julián Ríos Cantú of Higia Technologies was named the “Global Student Entrepreneur of the Year 2017.” Julian, a student from Monterrey Institute of Technology in Mexico, who is still in her teens, started her business after watching his mother battle two instances of breast cancer. Julian’s company, Higia Technologies is a Mexican biosensor company dedicated to boosting women’s quality of life through professional self-exploratory methods that increase early detection of breast cancer. Three students made it to the final of the Nigerian version of the annual Global Student Entrepreneurship Awards.

The others are Aliyu Bello Aliyu, a Pharmacy student

of Ahmadu Bello University Zaria who runs a campusbased real estate business and Emmanuel Tishion who studies Business Administration at National Open University of Nigeriawho runs to an industrially processed extracts of hibiscus Sabdariffa (ZOBO) with a blend of natural fruit.

25 other student entrepreneurs exhibited their products at the Nigerian Chapter of the Entrepreneurship Organisation sponsored event.

The young entrepreneurs were mentored on the critical success factors by a panel of established businessmen and women on strategies to grow their businesses.

EO is the world’s only peerto-peer global network exclusively for entrepreneurs.

Founded in 1987, EO enables business owners to learn from each other, leading to greater business success and an enriched personal life. The organization has more than 160

When it comes to money there needs to be balance. Living big and Shouting at the top of your lungs won’t magically make you have a great life in retirement or help you build wealth. Enjoy life now but also be sure to save for the future and diligently work towards your goals.

Blaming others for your circumstances “Life isn’t fair.” It’s a phrase we’ve all heard before and one we’ve likely said to ourselves. And it’s completely, 100% true. We’ve all been born into different circumstances, some of us having many more opportunities than others.

While “life isn’t fair” is true, blaming other people isn’t going to help you – at all! Accept

chapters in 50 countries including Nigeria.

While congratulating the award winners, Mr. Ayodele Aderinwale, the Chair, GSEA of the Lagos Chapter of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) Nigeria said the three undergraduates have proven that the pervasive poverty in the country could only be cured by “entrepreneurial citizenship”.

He contended that the students have demonstrably exhibited talents, doggedness and ability to survive the suffocating campus life to earn for themselves a living, while battling to earn their degrees.

He enjoined other students to emulate these young entrepreneurs who refused to bow to societal expectations of seeking White Collar jobs that do not exists anymore.

More than fifty of the world’s most exceptional student entrepreneurs will be converging upon Toronto from 50+ different countries. EO will host two and a half days of learning, mentorship and competition, with innovative new businesses from the world’s next generation of entrepreneurs.

where you’re at and play the cards you’ve been given. Only compare yourself to yourself.

Hoarding money and never having fun On the opposite end of going into debt and spending too much is being afraid to spend anything! If you’ve been hoarding money to the point of misery it’s time to break that habit. Lighten up on yourself a bit and enjoy the money you’ve worked hard for.

Making excuses “If you don’t like how things are, change it! You are not a tree.” – Jim Rohn Don’t let excuses hold you back. You have the choice to work hard and build the life (and finances) you want or to make excuses. Choose wisely.

Apple plan to use own chips in Mac Ladesope Ladelokun with agency report Apple is planning to use its own chips in Mac computers beginning as early as 2020, replacing processors from Intel, Bloomberg reported citing people familiar with the matter.

The report said that the initiative, code named Kalamata, is still in the early developmental stages, but comes as part of a larger strategy to make all of Apple’s devices -- including Macs, iPhones, and iPads-- work more similarly and seamlessly together, the report said. The project, which executives have approved, will likely result in a multi-step transition.

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B7 Brands & Marketing

Advertising practice, challenging and the way forward

By Godwin Anyebe

There are more advertising agencies outside the statutory listing Association of Advertising Agencies in Nigeria (AAAN) than there are on a ratio 5:1. Assuredly this scenario will keep growing until stakeholders engage in a deep-rooted structural rework that will reaffirm institutional framework, professional guidelines & infrastructures, corporate culture and, institutional value definition.

Research has shown that, the extent of neglect attendant upon advertising as a service sector and as a profession negates its attributes and character so much so it can no longer qualify as a profession if taken through the test.

The situation has become worrisome that it became the crux of discussion at the last annual general meeting of the Association of Advertising Agencies in Nigeria (AAAN) in Lagos.

According to dictionary definition, a profession is a vocation requiring of knowledge of some department of learning or science…a vocation or business.

It ascribes to certain declaration of certain belief. Professional calling challenges practitioners to avowed dimension of faith (in institutional character based on values). Professionalism tasks practitioners on depth and quality of knowledge, character and tradition, and value contribution.

For competitive analysis, the place of value extends to differentiation from one to another, even within and among sets. Value contribution is crucial for assessment and professional certification because it calls to reckoning depth of learning & knowledge, creativity and discipline.

Advertising was once a profession, until when the indicators for its status as such, collapsed.

Analysts believe that, there is a strong degree of apathy towards this subject of uncertainty about the statues of advertising as it is today, ascribable to innovation, institutional degeneration, poverty, decline in value, weak infrastructure, decline in human capital development, and corruption.

These analysts are not unmindful of the peculiarity of professionalism in advertising practice in Nigeria, owing to the colonial roots, where the institutional tradition was not firmly rooted in formal training (academic or professional); an historic pattern that permitted compromises in the foundational stages tied to apprenticeship. For these analysts, those were times where the European Masters who pioneered the practice in Nigeria, pulled perceived potentials and led them to understanding the rudiments, good enough to train apprentices for the less tasking assignment of studio boys, rudimentary process managers, etc.

Speaking to Daily Times on

this issue, an advertising practitioners, Bernard Okhakume said; “please let me state this background is without iota of disregard for post-colonial practitioners who, with highly rated high school education, and equipped for middle level/clerical capabilities, were able to understudy the European practitioners way back, well enough to ‘master’ the fundamentals for value creation. With these foundational fathers from way back, advertising practice was based on actual value; awareness creation, sales promotion, consumer information, corporate image management…same as the expectations are today.”

But as practitioners, he continued, ‘ pioneer practitioners’ of present day brand management worked within institutional framework, established infrastructures, industry regulations, defined growth models and structured training. Training was the foundation for all of the other values instrumental in shaping the profession ofadvertising, since pre-colonial years. I would not mention names to avoid a way too far historic distancing of the issue for consideration now; so much was based on institutionalization. Copy writers were clear on set rules, expectations and performance rating, design team knew what the rules and expectations were, media planning and buying team was equally guided on professional expectation. But the most interesting thing about the Agency setting and engagement way back is the value-essence to the CLIENT. The Client

and the client’s brief was the center of all engagements. Barclays Bank, Bata, Vono, Union Bank (of old) brands of the 1960s…optimized return on investment in advertising like no other brand in modern advertising environment can, in the present environment.”

According to him, “at some point in the process of evolution, advertising became a sub-sect of what became integrated marketing communication. Instead of a warehouse of a process, it became part of a process. That thrilled me, because when it started in the late 1980s and very early 1990s I thought deep of the consequences of the evolution and I made submissions; any change process that undermines substance for form will always diminish progress. When nomenclatures such as integrated marketing communication, media independents and experiential marketing crept into advertising practice way back, my question was the rationale of such changes. I noticed the evolution was tilted in the favor of form instead of substance. With the widening definitions and category breakdowns, I had my eye s set on the tradition and infrastructures of the profession. Continually professionalism thinned out to be only names and not models. I asked the rationale for media independence when media departments in traditional advertising agency setting was more cultured and defined, and guided by the depth of strategic planning and creative interpretations operative in traditional advertising agencies.”

“Before the depletion, advertising required a comprehensive professional training not minding the academic discipline of the new entrant. Because it is defined profession, all were subjected to a carefully structured professional orientation designed to prepare practitioners for the profession. At the end of structured training and professional orientation, trainees were subjected to an examination process such that will demonstrate depth of substance, advisory towards role assignment.” He noted Further, he disclosed that, “we dwelt in post-academic academic environment, learnt new practice traditions & discipline, subjected our senses to new culture, all for the purpose of certification and indoctrination into the profession on advertising later became brand management and whatever it became. But the objective remained same…delivering on certain expectations.

Also speaking on this issue, a brands and marketing alnalyst, Adewale Okoya stated that; “Primarily, we must identify with the primary role of advertising as being a form of communication.

As such, the key considerations are effectiveness and efficiency.

As a profession for marketing communication, there is a broad standard for engagement which in turn draws from systematic progression of a process which reacts to either misapplication or disregard. But those two disruptive elements took hold of latter day practitioners who,

in the name of sophistication, turned their backs on the basic ingredients that qualifies the profession for its status; advertising products and services now fail to deliver on the critical value elements, replacing substance with style. How can anybody brand management process deliver effectively without the regard for strategic planning and process adherence? Nobody engages in brand investigation and analysis, competitive analysis, target profiling and creative and strategic review. Interestingly, modern practitioners will allude to familiarity with these mentions, but it ends there, because they do not understand the intricacies and method of engagement and application of these steps…because they were not trained to engage with them.”

For him, what we now have, therefore, is a failing in effective and efficient brand management and especially target-focused marketing communication. Technology has added its contribution to the decadence; our youth will enjoy the beauty of innovative technology and leave out the task of understanding and application, losing out on the gains in real sense. Advert messages no longer deliver real value. Messages are misdirected, ill-formed and wrongly positioned. Brands are grossly misrepresented and consumers are left more confused.”

How can we keep referring to advertising as a profession when the players are failing in their responsibilities as professionals?

He queried.

L-R: Comedian, Julius Agwu; Managing Director, Heritage Bank, Mr. Ifie Sekibo; Non-Executive Director, Heritage Bank, Mr. Timi Alaibe and king of Okpoama, Bayelsa Kingdom, King Ebitimi Banigo, during the SEKI, A Pantomimic Dance Drama which traces the American tap Dance to Indigenous People of the lower Niger Delta Area, at the Victoria Island, Lagos, yesterday.

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B8Aviation

Sirika promises to carry stakeholders along on road map Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo Minister of State Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika says inputs and feedback from stakeholders is key for policy formulation, programme development and refining of strategies for implementation of plans.

He said its the Ministry’s strategy to always engage and consult stakeholders geared toward the development of the sector.

Sirika who stated this at the 4th stakeholders forum in Abuja noted that the gathering was to update Stakeholders on the developments in the Aviation Sector since the last Stakeholders Forum, discuss progress so far attained in the implementation of the Aviation Sector Roadmap earlier presented to Stakeholders, envision the Aviation Sec-

tor of our dream for the next 2-3 years and Present steps taken

by Government to address challenges in the Sector.

The Minister noted some of these challenges to include,High cost of Jet A1, and Budgetary Constraints and slow pace of infrastructural development.

In spite of the progress made, he said the industry was still faced with,”High rate of equipment /instrument obsolesces and degradation, Inadequate Technical and Aging Workforce and Non-optimization of Bilateral/Multilateral Air Service Agreements”.

Sirika assured that the Federal Ministry of Transport, FMoT remained committed to making air transportation the preferred and safest means of transportation, creating a self-sustaining business model and driving socio-economic growth in Nigeria.

“Our vision for the future include: developing a hub to take full advantage of our potentials, developing requisite capacity and manpower especially Aviation business Managers and scientists to engage in research and development,establishing a business model that will make the industry self-sustaining through Public Private Partnership, an industry that provides all the maintenance needs in the country thereby reducing capital flight,Optimum utilization of BASA and MASA to the advantage of indigenous airlines, industry with improved infrastructure and quality service delivery and the contribution of the Sector to the socio-economic development of the Nigerian Economy through increased trade and in-flow of FDI and resultant job creation”.

Again, NAHCO bags NIGAV award Nigeria’s leading ground handling company, Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc, nahco aviance, has again confirmed its leadership position in the industry by clinching the Airport Ground Handling Special Achievement Award at the 2017 Nigeria Aviation (NIGAV) Awards, held at the Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos, Among the 44 categories of awards, nahco aviance was announced the winner of the only award for ground handling, while FAAN, NIMET, AIB, NAMA, Bicourtney and 37 other institutions and individuals also won different categories of awards.

The Nigerian Aviation Awards, one of the nation’s most prestigious air transport awards is an annual event organized by FCI International Limited, and it seeks to recognise companies, organisations and individuals for best practices and outstanding contributions towards developing the nation’s aviation industry.

The Managing Director/CEO of NAHCO Plc, Mr. Idris Yakubu said it was heartwarming to see that the efforts the Company is putting in place to achieve exemplary service is being noticed and appreciated.

Mr. Yakubu thanked the organisers for the Award, adding that it will

only inspire the Company to greater heights.

Speaking on the choice of nahco aviance as the winner of the Special Achievement Award, the Chairman of FCI, Mr. Fortune Idu, said that nahco aviance has consistently demonstrated excellence in the industry.

According to him, the Company’s choice as a winner had never been disputed since its culture of excellence sets it apart from other operators in the sector. Over the years, nahco aviance has won several NIGAV awards in various categories.

These include as Ground Handling Operator of the year 2009, Best Passenger Facilitation Company of the year 2010 and Handling Company of the Year award for 2012 and 2013 editions back-to- back.

This latest award made it the Company’s fifth NIGAV award from inception. It is the fourth industry awards so far received by nahco aviance in the year 2018.

Only recently, nahco aviance won the African Corporate Leadership Excellence Prize at the Sheraton Hotel & Towers, Ikeja, Lagos.

The Award was an affirmation of the Company’s high ratings in the corporate world, especially in the Aviation sector. The award was organised by the African Institute for Leadership Excellence,

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Queen - Chiogor Okani and King Collins Gina both of Dana Air emerged as the 1st king and Queen of the airways at the just concluded NIGAV awards in Lagos.

The President of Nigerian Association of Tour Operators (NATOP), Nkereuwem Onung has promised to deliver a more professional association at the AGM slated for the 9th of April.

In a mail sent to members of NATOP, he said the association has been in transition for years and has grown from 15 professional Tour Operators registered by NTDC in 2011 when other Travel Associations had over 2,000 registered members to a National association that is reckoned with by Nigerians.

He said it is now a thing of envy to others with its growing profile in matters of Tourism in Nigeria.

Because of the rising profile and the quality of the Tourism experts found in NATOP , its membership is now sought after by players in the industry.

“Let me use this medium to appreciate all members of NATOP especially the present EXCO for their solidarity and steadfastness that has been exhibited in the past years. It

The Indian government has approved the sale of 76 percent of the country’s flag carrier Air India.

An information memorandum issued by India’s Ministry of Civil Aviation said the government had given ‘in-principle’ approval for the sale, which includes Air India Express and the airline’s 50 percent stake in ground handler Air India SATS Airport Services.

The memorandum , according to Airwise, states that Air

India Engineering Services, Air India Air Transport Services and Airline Allied Services are not part of the sale and will be moved into a separate company.

Hotel Corporation of India which owns two hotels and provides airline meals at Delhi and Mumbai airports is also not included in the sale.

Air India serves 54 domestic and 39 international destinations and has been loss-making for many years. Bidding closes on May 14.

A new NAPTOP to emerge in Jos AGM has been a long journey. We picked up an association at a fragile stage with very few members and little visibility and have seen it grow into limelight and prominence to the extent that other associations feel threatened by it. We are thankful to Otunba Segun Runsewe D.G NCAC, then D.G NTDC who in 2011 officially registered Tour operators as professional Tourism practitioners in Nigeria.

“We have witnessed desperate efforts by some individuals who are not Tour Operators and some outside forces attempting to scuttle/ disrupt and hijack the association and crash it. Thanks to a few dedicated members of the association who stood firm, supported and funded the association up until now. I appreciate them. Let me state here that; this is the first time government will be Hosting our AGM with commitment.

“This should be commended. Pla-

teau State Government, in an attempt to refresh and highlight “Destination Plateau”, has accepted to Host Tour Operators from 7th- 9th of April, 2018.

NATOP has agreed to partner with the government to help grow another Tourism Destination in Nigeria, thereby promoting Domestic Tourism. NATOP is a National Association and as such her AGM should be rotated across the country. This will be my last AGM as President, and as such I invite all members to take advantage of the event and promote Tourism in the Plateau.”, he said in the mail Speaking further, he said: Abuja is Nigeria’s Federal Capital and should have a strong presence of NATOP. Exco took the initiative to set up a chapter in Abuja. It is the duty of executive to propel the association and Warri/P.H and the South East are the next in line for inauguration.

I want to use this medium to thank Mrs. Fatima Garbati who steered the ship of NATOP in the past and handed over to us. I believe that a new NATOP will emerge after Jos AGM where young professionals will be given opportunity to participate.”

Meanwhile the Commissioner for Tourism, Plateau has reached out to NATOP in support of the AGM. In her message she said. “There is a need for professional Tour Operators to visit Plateau to see for themselves the rich asset we possess and that is why we seek to partner with NATOP. We as a state have been looking for partners to promote and position ourselves and we are delighted that the Professionals are coming. It is our hope that they will enjoy themselves and go home as Ambassadors of Plateau Tourism”.

The leading Tourism Association in Nigeria The Nigerian Association

of Tour Operators NATOP is holding its first AGM in the Northern Part of Nigeria for the first time at Jos. The last AGM was held in Lagos and in Calabar the year before, therefore Plateau has the right as the first event outside the South of Nigeria.

The President of the Association Mr.Nkereuwem Onung said that the Association chose Jos to reinforce the fact that Plateau is safe for Tourism and NATOP needs to discover and expose new locations to Tour Professionals.

“Nigeria is blessed and Plateau is so Rich in Tourism that we should start repositioning Plateau as a way of growing Tourism in Nigeria”, the Commisioner Mrs. Tamukat Weli said in her message to NATOP President after the postponement of the AGM to the 9th of April.

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Lola Maja, Banke Meshida, others make list of leading makeup artists Joyce Jacobs Joyce Jacobs is a renowned celebrity makeup artist who started her brand in 2009 and has since popular for fee soft and elegant looks and has worked on the set of many local and international music videos,

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childhood before she turned her passion into a source of Lola Maja-Okojevoh

and much more They make all the top celebrities and socialites look extremely fabulous at occasions always with their the beauty industry in Nigeria has grown tremendously over the years. With several products to play with, most of these celebrity make-up artists are known by their jobs on the faces of their clients. In no particular order, MUTIAT ALLI x-rays some of these makeup artists who have made themselves a force to reckon with in the industry.

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Labisi Folawiyo Labisi Folawiyo is the head makeup artist of faces her mark in the makeup industry And is known for her trendy and youthful make up looks she has worked with so many celebrities such as Olakunbi Tomori ( April by Akpevwe Uvieghara

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Is a makeup artist and style blogger, she majored in economics but found her calling in the makeup industry

with so many local and international celebrities such as Alek Wek, Iman, Omotola Jalade, she has also worked on

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7 ways to make your lipstick last longer Have you ever had to check out your makeup after lipstick looks like a line drawn across your lips?

Something about lipstick is that it has the power to

depends on the product type but making your lipstick last all day long, irrespective of the type of product is quite easy and requires very little effort if you follow

Gently dust any translucent powder over the

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Gently brush the toothbrush against your upper and

those lips with a lip balm to provide a base for your

line the outer corner of your lips preferably with the shade of lip liner nearest to the colour of the lips or

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The bomber jacket trend The bomber jacket has become a mainstay in recent years, this classic piece of military clothing was adopted by skinheads

jeans and a pair of hi- tops, the bomber jacket in all its guises is

leather, the more “broken in� it becomes, similar to the way a

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Beauty of having a nice Patio A Patio is a paved out area adjoining a house, generally used for dinning or recreation. The term comes from Spanish where its meaning is different (inner courtyard). The common materials employed when building a patio include concrete, stones, bricks but also tiles and cobbles.

Patios are often decorated with plants and outdoor furniture. Building a patio depends on the design and space of your backyard or garden. Patios in homes make a real statement and make your residence stand out, giving you the option of being creative, and either making or designing it, traditional, antiquated or trendy, there are varieties of patio furniture to suit the taste of the home owner.

An outdoor patio creates the perfect environment for your family gathering and additional space for cult; one may consider the style, the comfort and the materials being used including the space. When choosing patio furniture make sure it matches your landscape.

The main idea and objective is to create an extension of your house including the back space being used for your patio with the used of outdoor furniture. You, friends and family are to feel as comfortable outside as much as comfort felt inside the house.

While selecting outdoor furniture, ensure that they fit into the space available. It is only right to buy furniture that is appropriate for your backyard. Small spaces should not be crowded with large and heavy furniture, but if you have enough space, and you entertain guest often, then a dinning set and a bar would be a fun choice to go with. Always remember that comfortable atmospheres should not only be inside of the house, but also outdoors. Hammocks which are a sling made of fabric, rope, or netting, suspended between two points, used for swinging, sleeping or resting is great for kids. Lounge chairs are a necessity for lying by the pool if there is one.

When you reach into secluded space in the back

of your home, convert the underutilized areas in your landscape into welcoming patios by employing handsome furnishings, vibrant fabrics, and beautifully planted containers. Everyone needs a solitary spot for sharing quiet conversations with friends or kicking back with a good book. A few cushy chairs and a table for resting drinks and books is all that is required to create a purposeful patio.

The essence of patios should be retreats that offer peaceful respite from the hectic work weeks and family tending days opt for neutral color palettes, spare furniture arrangements, and plentiful plantings to fashion serene scenes that match your relaxing and entertaining needs. Keep it low maintenance by selecting weather proof furniture and fabrics and cultivating.

Elegant homes call for refined out door furnishings a covered patio formalizes its outlook with a distinctive dinning set combining glitzy chairs with a table crafted from a craved base and a glass top. Want to add some sparkle to your patio in a jiffy? Hang a cated near the patio. Consider furnishing your patio with light weight pieces that you can move from sun avoid discomfort while enjoying your patio. Most to shade. people also opt for frequent fumigation to keep You may also want to try furnishing with flowers, unwanted guest away from your relaxation spot at home. All these, depend on the residence area and cultivating a gardening spirit. Ply furnishing with bosurrounding of your home. tanical finishing. In Nigeria, patios are not considered Patios can give exquisite taste to any home with as a necessity although in this modern times, our the right ideas and creative imagination; you too can ideas of a beautiful home has skyrocketed and we put a fancy, elegant looking patio and be the envy of all look for creativity in order to switch up our styles your neighbors in the best ways. just like fashion and lifestyle, it can tend to reflect on how modernized you can transform your home to be. For a country classified as one of the tropics and are home to all types of household pets and insects, there are pest control supplies, insect repellents and bug control that can be purchased at shopping malls and stores used t o