Dtn 6 3 18

THE

DAILY

TIMES

NIGERIA INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. EST. 1926 WWW.DAILYTIMES.NG https://plus.google.com/+DailytimesNgr/posts

dailytimesnigeria

7 days after, The Independent Bureau Chief still in DSS custody

Ï Continued detention of journalist illegal – Lawyers Ï Colleagues raise the alarm over his health Myke Uzendu and Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja

ÏÏÏ Seven

days after he honoured the invitation of the Department of State Services (DSS), the Abuja Bureau Chief

www.facebook.com/dailytimesngr

of The Independent Newspapers, Mr Tony Ezimakor, is still being detained by the DSS over a publication on the recent abduction on Dapchi schoolgirls by the Book Haram sect.

Continued on page 4

TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2018 VOL. 3. NO. 594

N150

GLOBAL FINANCIAL/COMMODITY MARKETS

CURRENCIES/CBN: CBN: N305.55 PER DOLLAR, Parallel Market: USD N365 POUND N475 EURO N424 NSE: ASI 37, 425.15 MARKET CAP 12.90 FMDQ O/N 22.50 OBB 22.00 COMMODITIES: Wheat US $455.00/MT Rice US $12.40/MT Cocoa US $2,004.00/Bag Coffee US $139.60/Scoop Cotton US $70.95/Unit Sugar US $14.15/Ounce METALS: Gold US $1263.10/Ounce Silver US $16.21/Ounce Copper US $2.87/Ounce ENERGY: Brent US $52.21/PB, N/Gas US $2.78/CB

Nigeria’s 2019 polls remain our priority, US declares Ï Envoy: Peaceful transition inevitable due to Nigeria’s strategic position Ï Says she’ll attain third most populous country in the world by 2015

Myke Uzendu,

Secretary of State, Mr Rex Tillerson, has stated

Abuja

ÏÏÏ

The United States

Continued on page 5

R-L: President Muhammadu Buhari; President of the Republic of Liberia, George Weah; Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity; Mr. Femi Adesina; Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu and Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, during the visit of Weah to Buhari at the Presidential Villa. Abuja... on Monday

Obasanjo at 80: My major regrets in life 6

Ï Says Nigeria’s problems man made

Google launches free Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Courses 5

Anchor borrowers’ programme triggers rice revolution in Nigeria – FG B1

Lagos, UK firm sign N2.5bn MoU to provide 10,000 street lights 4

2

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

3 News

Zamfara Killings: Saraki directs Senate panel to conduct assessment ÏÏÏPresident

of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has directed the Senate Ad-Hoc Committee on Security, to visit Zamfara and conduct an on-the-spot assessment of the killings that recently occurred in the state.

The directive, according to a statement released by the Media Office of the Senate President was posted on his personal social

Ï ƌƌƆ Ɨ nM dƅƏƈƄƆ M ƏƐ Ɔ Ɛ &ƇƇ ƏƐ media handle @BukolaSaraki.

“I have directed the Senate Ad-Hoc Committee on Security to visit Zamfara on Tuesday in order to get a first-hand assessment of the security situation in the state and report back to plenary,” he said.

Recall that in November 2017, the Senate set

up an Ad-hoc Committee on the Review of Security Infrastructure in Nigeria, which is Chaired by Senator Ahmed Lawan, the Senate Majority Leader. Since then, the Committee has visited Benue following the New Year killings, and is now set to visit Zamfara to assess the situation in the State.

In a related development, Saraki has also weighed in on the response of the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, to the attack in Rann, Borno State, describing the commitment of the world body to stay in Northeast Nigeria as commendable.

Tweeting this morning

from Ghana, again on his @BukolaSaraki handle, the President of the Senate said: “I commend the @UN Secretary-General @AntonioGuterres for his commitment to remain in Northeast Nigeria following the recent attack on civilians, humanitarian workers and security operatives.

Those responsible must be brought to book.”

Saraki, who is Chairman of the Nigerian National Assembly, is currently in Ghana at the invitation of Rt. Hon. Prof. Aaron Mike Ocquaye, the Speaker of the Republic’s parliament.

He is scheduled to address the parliament on the commemoration of 25 years of uninterrupted parliamentary democracy on the topic “The Future of Good Governance in Africa.”

Buhari’s planned visit to Taraba, Benue others an afterthought - PDP Myke Uzendu, Abuja

ÏÏÏThe

People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has considered President Mohammadu Buhari’s planned visit to Taraba, Benue, Rivers and other states where Nigerians have been victims of a killing spree, as an afterthought and a fresh device to further hoodwink the people ahead of the 2019 general elections.

The party made its position known on Monday in Abuja, in a statement signed by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan.

PDP said that it is very painful that Mr. President did not consider visiting some of these states as priority months after marauders, insurgents and bandits committed their havocs.

PDP said that Mr. President has been in the country and never thought it necessary to pay a condolence visit to any of these states until Nigerians raised the alarm alleging a manifest indifference on his part.

“It is even more pathetic that in Benue state, President Buhari summoned the leaders of the bereaved people to the Presidential villa, Abuja, rather than complying with the age-long tradition of Africans by visiting the bereaved.

“No wonder many Nigerians have dismissed the planned visits of President Buhari to these states as cosmetic afterthought. Nigerians have already formed their opinion of him, and rightly so, as a President that has never shown them concern in their time of need”.

Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Ikuinyi-Owaji Ibani arrives the chamber for the voting on 15 alterations of the Constitution (Fourth Alteration) Bill 2017 transmitted to it by the National Assembly on Monday

Education, trade, creativity key to good governance in Africa - Saraki ÏÏÏPresident

of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has identified qualitative and universal education, increased intra-African trade, support for creativity and innovation to be crucial to good governance in the African continent.

The Chief Press Secretary to the Senate President, Sanni Onogu said in a press release that Saraki made the assertion while speaking on the theme: “The Future of Good Governance in Africa” at a symposium to mark 25 years of the Ghana’s Parliament in Accra.

He said Africa leaders can best deliver on good governance if they first ensure that the people are sufficiently educated to make the right choices.

“If we are to deliver good governance to the next generation of Africans and if the democratic dividend is to come to fruition, education is key.

“We must invest in primary, secondary and tertiary education – up to the 26 per cent of the national budget as recommended by the United Nations.”

He added that “It must be mandatory for every child to go to school; we should ensure that there are incentives for those that send their children to school, and penalties for those that do not.”

The President of the Senate stated that it is unacceptable that Africa’s trade with Europe far outstrips that between African nations.

According to him, Brit-

ish foreign investment in Africa totalled $54.1 billion in 2014 and China had an estimated 2,650 projects ongoing on the continent in 2015 while, Africa’s share of the global trade stands at 3 per cent and inter-Africa trade is 11 per cent.

“Let us ask ourselves: what about Africa? Not a moment can be spared in our efforts as Africans to cover our flanks in trade,” Saraki said. “We must devise an economic model that produces and manufactures primarily for the African market, and then use that as a basis upon which to engage with the wider world.”

He said he believes strongly that Africans’ talent for innovation and enterprise makes them the continent’s most valuable

resources and that it is the duty of its leaders to give the people opportunities to translate these into going concerns. “This will create wealth and enable us to compete globally,” he said.

Besides, he called on African leaders to add value to the abundant natural resources replete in the continent in order to make the raw material the mainstay of its economies.

Saraki said: “We are the richest continent in resources and yet we are the poorest, because we have allowed ourselves to be pigeonholed as the supplier of raw materials to the world.

“The leaders of our two countries are clear in their stance on the raw materials pivot of our economies.

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that, ‘Our

vision is for a Nigeria in which we grow what we eat.’

“And President AkufoAddo is unequivocal: ‘We must add value to [our] resources, we must industrialise and we must enhance agricultural productivity.’

The two leaders have identified this flaw in our economies, and we in parliament must support them with appropriate legislation in order to realise their vision,” he said.

He said that African leaders must remain vigilant and alive to their responsibilities to sustain its democracy, adding, “Let me use this opportunity to reecho my long-held belief that democracy is not a destination, it is a journey. We cannot therefore take it for granted.

“Unless we are eternally vigilant and alive to

our duties to provide our people with effective and responsible governance which guarantees that we listen to them at all times and ensure that their needs are met we run the risk of derailing our hard-end democracy in the region.”

He noted that the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has a key role to play to make the African continent succeed.

“If the African continent is to be a success story – or even the AU for that matter, ECOWAS must play a key role. And for ECOWAS to lead the charge, Ghana and Nigeria must step up to the plate, and fulfil their leadership role on the continent. So, my colleagues, let us take the first step on that journey today, and do so together,” Saraki said.

News 4

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

7 days after, The Independent Bureau Chief still in DSS custody Continued from page 1 The Daily Times learnt that he is being held over exclusive stories on Boko Haram campaign and negotiations with the insurgents.

Ezimakor’s story uncovered how ransom payments have become a lucrative source of extra income for Nigerian and Swiss intelligence officers

who participated in the negotiations for Boko Haram hostages.

Two days after the latest mass kidnap of schoolgirls in Dapchi, Yobe State, Daily Independent ran a behind-the-scenes story about the release of the 82 Chibokgirls which was written by Ezimakor.

The story cited intelligence sources as saying that negotiations with

Boko Haram for the release of hostages had become a “cash cow for some officials, working in concert with negotiators to squeeze scarce dollars from the federal government.”

But, Ezimakor is now being detained for his revelations and might not be released unless he unmasked his sources, Don Okere, editor of Daily

Independent disclosed to journalists.

Okere said, “They’re asking him how he got the story and want him to release his source.”

According to the Daily Independent Editor, the DSS is demanding the retraction of the story with an apology or the matter will be charged to court.

“We asked them to charge the matter to court

Cross-section of elected Edo State local council chairmen during the Swearing-In Ceremony by the Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki at the Government House, Benin City.... on Monday

because we’re not retracting our story. But they have refused to do that,” Okere added.

The DSS first disclosed its displeasure about the story in a letter to Okere seeking the editor’s presence at its headquarters in Abuja.

The Editor said, “They said I should come and see the director of operations at the SSS in Abuja.

But when I told them I am based in Lagos where we have our head office, they started looking for me.”

Okere said the DSS sent its agents to look for him at the office in Lagos twice, but he was unavailable at both times.

He said, “They later asked if we have a reporter in Abuja and I told them yes. I then asked our Bureau Chief to honour the invitation which he did last Wednesday and was detained.”

Okere revealed that it was clear that the DSS operatives did not know that the story carried Ezimakor’s byline.

Meanwhile, civil society groups have disclosed their intention to occupy the National Assembly as from Wednesday (today) until Ezimakor is released.

A statement released by

a group known as “OurMumuDonDo” led by Charles Oputa, aka Charley Boy and Deji Adeyanju showed that the group will storm the National Assembly to drive home the impunity of the DSS. Citizens Advocacy for Social and Economic Rights (CASER) also added its voice to the call on DSS to immediately release Ezimakor.

CASER said: “It is utterly shameful for state authorities to use punitive detention as a means of attempting to stifle truth, which is the reason for Section 39 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).

“The DSS must quickly realise that it would be constituting itself into an enemy of democracy in a modern Nigeria if it begins to hound journalists either for their opinions or for publishing wellresearched facts that have the potential of exposing corruption and grand deceit in official circles.

“Ezimakor’s published investigative report on the involvement of a Swiss foreign service agent and the alleged clandestine payment of millions of Euros by the Nigerian government to secure the Continued on page 6

Lagos, UK firm sign N2.5bn MoU to provide 10,000 street lights

ÏÏÏ The Lagos State Gov-

ernment and a United Kingdom firm, Low Energy Designs (LED) Limited on Monday entered into partnership to construct 10,000 LED street lights covering 300kilometres across the state.

The deal, which also includes the provision of about 500 jobs and construction of an LED lighting and Hybrid Energy Power Assembly Plant in Epe, is estimated at $7million (about N2.52billion), and is expected to be delivered in the next 12 months.

Speaking at the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the partnership held at Lagos House, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode said the development was a major milestone and a positive paradigm shift in the provision of street lighting

for the State.

Governor Ambode, who was represented by the State Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources, Mr Olawale Oluwo, said the successful commencement of the partnership signposts a positive progress to the Light Up Lagos Project, which he said, is a special initiative of his administration composing street lighting, community electrification and embedded power programme.

Ambode said: “With this agreement we are signing today, we are setting a new chart for the future of what street lighting, installation, management and control will be like in Lagos. It is a major paradigm shift.

“We have about 33,000 street lights in Lagos under the Lagos State Electricity Board. Now, the LED UK, based on this

300km, will give us about 10,000 street lights. So, technically, they are going to be having about 31 per cent of our entire street light infrastructure and this is a major significant development.

“The second major significant development is the fact that as from today onward, what we have with LED UK is what will be replicated to power Lagos with respect to street lighting going forward.”

Giving details on the agreement, Ambode said with the partnership, there will no longer be any fixed costs with regards to management of street light installations across the State, while all challenges hitherto associated with street lighting would now be a thing of the past. \“As a government, what we are doing is that we are not installing poles, we are not providing secu-

rity, we are not bothering ourselves with diesel, we are not worried on Fridays and Saturdays about people coming back from clubs knocking down our poles. \“All those have been outsourced now. We are not going to be worried about that. We just buy light from investment of this LED UK with all their installations; they manage it, they provide the security, they power it and as long as we see the light, we pay. That is what has changed today,” Governor Ambode added. \While appreciating all the key players that contributed to the partnership including the British Deputy High Commission, Lagos State Office of Oversees Affairs and Investment, Lagos State Electricity Board, among others, the Governor assured that government

would ensure seamless execution of the deal, as well gets maximum benefit which the programme is designed to deliver. \Earlier, Chief Executive Office of LED UK Limited, Mr Alan Parker, said his firm was greatly honored to partner with the State Government to deliver the project, adding that over the next 12 months, a British and Nigerian consortium would work to retrofit major roads in the State with urban regeneration project in Ikoyi, Ikeja and Victoria Island.

“As part of this project, we will be employing over 500 local people here in Lagos and investing $7million in the construction and setup of a LED lighting and Hybrid Energy Power Assembly Plant here in Epe. This facility will offer ground breaking testing, training and

education programs on renewable technologies whilst providing the future for all lighting and hybrid energy power systems in Nigeria.

“These high quality products will be built by Nigerians with the support, experience, knowledge and technology supplied by LED UK for all commercial indoor and outdoor applications for the African market,” Parker said.

Ambode

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

5 News

Nigeria’s 2019 polls remain our priority, US declares Continued from page 1

that Nigeria’s 2019 general elections and a peaceful transition remain the US major priority in view of the country’s strategic position in Africa.

Tillerson said this during a background briefing on his first trip to Africa.

During the trip, Tillerson would meet with President Muhammadu Buhari and other top government functionaries, and also leaders of Chad, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya as from March 6 to 13.

He said that over two dozen African countries with democratically elected governments, hopefully are not going to have transitions in government through coup d’etats and other illegal methods.

He said: “As we look at the 20 elections, obviously Nigeria, though it’s not this year – it’s going to be next year – that really is a major priority focus, because that’s going to be the third most populous country in the world by 2050.

“It has really very complex political issues and

ethnic and tribal issues and security issues. And that’s an area that we really are focusing on how to do a peaceful transition, a democratic transition, but more important is how to hold governments accountable to the people”.

The US Secretary of State also explained that obviously, a lot of those African countries are still fragile democracies and the US is trying to strengthen them.

Tillerson also commended the most recent elections in Liberia, saying it was the first open, fair, and peaceful transition of governments in over 75 years, saying that is a good thing.

He regretted what he called the “horrendous rule of Charles Taylor and the degradation of the institutions there, but now, we’ll be going back and they’re building, and I think with the election of George Weah that’s going to be a positive thing”.

The US envoy also noted the election of Nana Akufo-Addo in Ghana, Alassane Ouattara in Cote d’Ivoire and Macky Sall in Senegal, describ-

Google launches artificial intelligence, machine learning course Ladesope Ladelokun

ÏÏÏ As

part of moves to “Artificial Intelligence First” company, Google has disclosed that its Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine learning (ML) courses are now available to everyone free of charge.

According to Google, the new learn with Google AI portal will assist any interested person almost any level to learn how to make the most of the new horizon of AI and neural networking.

Google hints that at least 18000 Googlers who have applied the skills for projects like collaborating the cameras on Daydream headsets, to VR for Google Earth, to intelligently improving the streaming quality of YouTube video have signed up for the free course.

“From deep learning experts looking for advanced tutorials and materials on

TensorFlow, to “curious cats” who want to take their first steps with AI, anyone looking for educational content from ML experts at Google can find it here.”

There’s also a Machine Learning Crash Course (MLCC) which “provides exercises, interactive visualizations, and instructional videos that anyone can use to learn and practice ML concepts,” Zuri Kemp from Google AI said But Google has promised that there will be additional courses and documentation in the coming months.

The company states that it has embraced Artificial Intelligence in every facet of its business ranging from Google Assistant on mobile through to big hairy audacious projects like Google Deep Mind, which has been working on intelligent wearables for sufferers of long-term health conditions.

ing them as positive developments.

He, however, said that Ethiopia remained a challenge for the US and a focus for it as well and an opportunity.

He explained that the US was looking at trying to build institutions, strengthen institutions, and also have peaceful transitions and hold gov-

ernments accountable to the people in Ethiopia.

He said the US was also looking at how it could have reconciliation and dialogues between all the different groups – the Oromos, the Amharas, the Tigrays, and also in Kenya with the opposition and with the ruling government.

Tillerson added that the

US believe that building strong institutions and holding governments accountable are some of the things that are certainly going to be the subjects of discussion during Tillerson trip.

He said, “How do we advance political and economic reforms that will help in the transition process? Those are issues

too that we’re working in Zimbabwe with the transition between Robert Mugabe and Emmerson Mnangagwa.

“And also we’re looking hopefully at South Africa with the election of Cyril Ramaphosa from Jacob Zuma and seeing how that’s going to transition.“

From Left: Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed; Kebbi State Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr. Garba Mohammed; Kebbi State Commissioner for Information and Culture, Alhaji Musa Hassan Kalgo and some rice farmers during the inspection of a water-sourcing facility at a rice farm in Jega, Kebbi State...on Sunday.

Osun lawmaker lauds FG for heeding calls on abandon projects ÏÏÏ A member of the Osun

State House of Assembly representing Obokun State constituency, Honourable Olatunbosun Oyintiloye has said that the All Progressive Congress led government at the centre was responsive given the demonstration of commitment to the Federal Government projects in the state.

In a press statement in Osogbo, capital of Osun State, Oyintiloye whobia also the Chairman of House Committee on Information and Strategy lauded the President Muhammadu Buhari administration for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of GbonganIwo-Oyo Road.

According to him, “The Federal Government says it has spent N2.8 billion on the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Gbongan-

Iwo-Oyo Road. Similarly, it gave an assurance that it. would complete the ongoing project worth N537m Ojutu bridge in Ilobu, Osun.”

Oyintiloye said this expression of commitment and practical demonstration by release of funds was a good news to people of the state.

He noted that residents of the areas in particular and that people were could see the real dividends of democracy.

It would be recalled that Oyintiloye, in 2016 raised a motion, on the floor of house under the matter of urgent public importance on Federal Government abandoned projects in the state.

At the time Oyintiloye, told the assembly that abandoned federal projects ranging from road infra-

structure, water scheme and housing stood at about N20.318 billion.

He highlighted that the affected road projects which included was N16.519 billion, while housing costs N2.955 billion and water scheme costs N844.342 million.

He also identified dualization of Mayfair junctionLagere-Iremo-Enuwa-Ilesha bye pass road in Ile-Ife (22km), Gbongan-Iwo-Oyo S/B Road (46km), rehabilitation of Oshogbo-Ilesha road (27km), rehabilitation of Oyan Township pipeline and Iwo Township Water Supply Scheme among others.

He expressed worry that Osun had least impact among other states that benefited from federal government projects, lamenting that little offered to the state were still being abandoned.

When the contractors

were mobilised and returned to the site and inspection conducted by the Minister of Works, Babatunde Raji Fasola this weekend, Oyintiloye said the development once again affirmed that the APC led federal government under President Muhammadu Buhari is a responsive and responsible government. “its exciting, the narrative is changing, the Federal government listened to the clarion call of the state Assembly, and different stakeholders, it’s heart warming that Osun is also getting her fair share.”

He said the projects would enhance free flow of good and services, promote economic, job creation, and compliment the efforts of the state in ensuring good road network, among other benefits .

News 6

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

7 days after, The Independent Bureau Chief still in DSS custody Continued from page 4 release of the kidnapped Chibokgirls, deserves commendation.”

Among other groups that have added voice to the cry to have Ezimakor released is Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC).

Meanwhile, some senior lawyers in the country have asked the DSS to immediately and unconditionally release Ezimakor, who has been in detention since last week Wednesday.

Reacting to the development during a telephone interview with The Daily Times on a senior lawyer, Mr Mahmud Abubakar (SAN) expressed concern that such impunity could not be allowed in a democratic regime.

He called on the legal team of detained Abuja Bureau chief of The Daily Independent newspaper to approach the court and file an application for the enforcement of his fundamental human rights.

While stressing that his detention is in continuation of the clampdown on

freedom of speech and free press by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari in violation of the provisions of the Constitution, Mahmud stressed the need to raise the alarm in a bid to stop the nation from sliding towards dictatorship.

For his part, an Abujabased lawyer and human rights activist, Abidemi Funsho, called on all Nigerians and the international community to prevail on President Buhari to order the immediate and unconditional release of Ezimakor.

He said,” The continued detention of Tony Ezimakor without arraigning him in a competent court of law is draconian, tyrannical, illegal, unlawful and unconstitutional”.

He cited Section 23 of the Police Act which stipulates that suspects cannot be detained beyond 24 hours after which the person should be charged to court in conformity with the basic constitutional rights of citizens, adding that to do otherwise will

amount to impunity and an encroachment to his fundamental rights.

Also, “Section 36 of the 1999 Constitution guarantees right to fair hearing and only a court of com-

petent jurisdiction can establish the judicial principle of audi alterem partem. We therefore demand that Ezimakor be brought to court if the DSS has anything against him,” he

added.

The Daily Times recalls that Ezimakor, who has been detained by the DSS since Wednesday, is yet to be charged to court.

Ezimakor had willingly

walked into the head office of the DSS in Abuja in response to an invitation from the DSS when he was detained and denied medication despite being a hypertensive person.

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State (second right), his deputy, Mrs. Cecilia Ezeilo (right); Executive Secretary, State Emergency Management Agency, Mrs. Nkechi Eneh (fifth left), Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Engr. Greg Nnaji (4th left); Chairman, Kenyatta Timber Dealers Association, Chief Levi Obi (third left), others, during the governor’s intervention visit to the partially-razed Timber market, Enugu, where he ordered the immediate rebuilding of the affected shops…. on Monday

Obasanjo at 80: My major regrets in life

Ï Says Nigeria’s problems man-made Ï Gov Amosun counsels ex-President to stop writing letters Abiodun Taiwo Abeokuta

ÏÏÏ

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that his major regrets in life remain the early demise of his parents, saying that none of his parents live to reap the fruits of their labour.

Obasanjo also said that the Nigeria’s numerous problems amongst other African countries are man-made and not the creation of God. The elder statesman spoke on Monday during the celebration of his 81st birthday at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. .Also speaking at the event, Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun urged the former President to stop writing open letters.

Obasanjo, who spoke to appreciate the guests, said he wishes his par-

ents were alive to witness his growth and success in life and to appreciate the sacrifice they made while raising him.

The former President, however, said his consolation is on the popular Yoruba belief that the dead always look behind.

He expressed optimism that with that belief, he was sure his late parents would still be happy in their graves till date.

He said, “ We must be able to serve humanity, if we can’t serve humanity, we can’t serve God. I do not believe God had created bad situation for Nigeria, or any particular country in Africa.

If things are not going right, we must blame ourselves”.

Speaking on his greatest regret, Obasanjo said: “One thing I always miss and remember is that my parents left this world too early.

The sacrifice they made,

they do not wait to see the results. How I wish they have waited to see and eat fruits of their labour.

“But going by what Yoruba belief and sayimg that the dead always watch over their beloved ones and see happenings around them, I am convinced that my parents are happy in their graves, as they watch over me.

“For me, this day, I have nothing but to continue to thank God, appreciate Him, and praise Him and worship Him and adore Him for all that he had done for me personally, for members of my family, for my extended family, friends, and peers and for those who have worked with me.

“Where people talk about my achievements, not mentioning or remembering that I wouldn’t have been able to achieve anything all by myself alone. I be-

lieve it could amount to serious omission because many of those who worked with me worked with loyalty, worked committedly and some of them are still doing so up till today.

Speaking on the Presidential library, Obasanjo said: “If I had known what this is involved, I wouldn’t have torched it with the longest stick in the world. Of course, you all keep saying you thanked God that I did not know because I would have deprived prosterity what we are now having here.

“But if not that you’re able to lift up my hand when I was getting tired, those who said, when we started, that it’s a job that will never be completed, they would have been proved right but for your help.

“I do not believe God has created a bad situation for Nigeria, No, or for any particular situation of this country, no,

or for any part of Africa, no. When things are not going on right, we must blame ourselves and these are issues of leadership, governance, development and values”.

Obasanjo however harped on the need to serve God, adding that human beings can only serve God appropriately after he had served humanity, In his remarks, Governor Amosun described Obasanjo as a nationalist and a giant in Africa.

Amosun said he wishes the former President lives for 100 years and not 120 like many people were wishing him.

He said: “Love him or hate him, there’s something nobody can take away from him, he’s a true nationalist. Baba loves Nigeria and I know that there’s absolutely nothing he wouldn’t want to do for Nigeria.

“Even beyond the shores of Nigeria, if you start counting, Baba

would be one of the best three giants of Africa, many of who are no longer with us.

“There’s no way history of our nation Nigeria and the continent of Africa would be written without the prominent mention of Baba.

“When they were praying for Baba, they said 120 and I said 100 is OK but Baba, when you live to that age, don’t write letters ooo don’t write ooo, because Baba would continue writing when he lives till 120, please don’t write oo, that is Baba for you.

“Please reduce your activities, you’re not getting young anymore. Baba, please slow down, you’re not getting younger anymore.

We are not saying Baba should be indoors because he would die, but while you’re doing something, please slow down because we still want to have you around for many years”.

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

News 7

Lagos, UK firm to provide 500 jobs, hybrid energy plant ÏÏÏThe

Lagos State Government and a United Kingdom firm, Low Energy Designs (LED) Limited on Monday entered into partnership to construct 10,000 LED street lights covering 300kilometres across the State.

The deal, which also includes the provision of about 500 jobs and construction of an LED lighting and Hybrid Energy Power Assembly Plant in Epe, is estimated at $7million (about N2.52billion), and is expected to be delivered in the next 12 months.

Speaking at the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the partnership held at Lagos House, Alausa, Ikeja, the State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode said the development was a major milestone and a positive paradigm shift in the provision of street lighting for the State.

Governor Ambode, who was represented by the Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources, Mr. Olawale Oluwo, said the successful commencement of the partnership signposts a positive progress to the Light Up Lagos Project, which he said, is a special initiative of his administration composing street lighting, community electrification and embedded power programme.

He said: “With this agreement we are signing today, we are setting a new chart for the future of what street lighting, installation, management and control will be like in Lagos. It is a major paradigm shift.

“We have about 33,000 street lights in Lagos under the Lagos State Electricity Board. Now, the LED UK, based on this 300km, will give us about 10,000 street lights. So, technically, they are going

to be having about 31 per cent of our entire street light infrastructure and this is a major significant development.

“The second major significant development is the fact that as from today onward, what we have with LED UK is what will be replicated to power Lagos with respect to street lighting going forward.”

Giving details on the agreement, the Governor said with the partnership, there will no longer be any fixed costs with regards to management of street light installations across the State, while all challenges hitherto associated with street lighting would now be a thing of the past.

“As a government, what we are doing is that we are not installing poles, we are not providing security, we are not bothering ourselves with diesel, we are not worried on Fridays and Saturdays about people coming back from clubs knocking down our poles.

“All those have been outsourced now. We are not going to be worried about that. We just buy light from investment of this LED UK with all their installations; they manage it, they provide the security, the power it and as long as we see the light, we pay. That is what has changed today,” Governor Ambode said.

While appreciating all the key players that contributed to the partnership including the British Deputy High Commission, Lagos State Office of Oversees Affairs and Investment, Lagos State Electricity Board, among others, the Governor assured that government would ensure seamless execution of the deal, as well gets maximum benefit which the programme is designed to deliver.

Lagos State Commissioner for Energy & Mineral Resources Mr. Olawale Oluwo (second left), signing the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 10,000 Street Lighting project with Low Energy Designs Company Limited at the Lagos House, Alausa, Ikeja, on Monday. With him are Special Adviser to the Governor on Lagos Global, Prof. Ademola Abass (left); CEO, Low Energy Designs Company Limited, Mr. Alan Parker (second right) and Head of Trade, West Africa, Department of International Trade UK, Kate Rudd (right).

N24bn monthly oil subsidy figures, a fiction - PDP Myke Uzendu, Abuja

ÏÏÏThe

People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed shock over the N24 billion monthly (N774/million per day) declared by the All Progressives Congress (APC) led federal government on fuel subsidy, saying that the figure is fictitious because PDP in 2014 declared that “subsidy was a scam”.

The party described the figures as fictitious and cleverly fabricated to retire the already exposed stealing of trillions of naira by Presidency cabal and APC interests in secret oil deals.

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement on Monday in Abuja, said that it is fraudulent for the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to claim a sudden

surge in fuel purchase expenses at the same time that the nation faced the harshest fuel shortage across the country with Nigerians paying exorbitantly for the product.

According to the statement, “The APC-led Presidency is drawing its deceptive proclivity and concealment of fraud too far; and to think that such is hatched in a sector that is under the direct supervision of President Muhammadu Buhari as minister of petroleum affairs is most disheartening.

“This is the same Presidency that claimed to have abolished fuel subsidy payments and even accused the immediate past administration of alleged corruption in its subsidy management. It is therefore strange that the same government can pull out unimaginable figures and claim it is the

cost of subsidy enjoyed

by Nigerians.

“How come that with such humongous sums, Nigerians are still paying as high as N250 to N300 per liter on fuel in various parts of the country” PDP questioned The party charged the Buhari-led Presidency to come out clear on the truth on the administration of subsidy under its watch.

“Nigerians need to know; who in the Presidency approved the spending of the said N774million per day as fuel subsidy and who are the benefiting companies? Is the subsidy captured in any appropriation instrument of the National Assembly?

What is the cost of landing imported fuel to the depots and at what exchange rate? Where are the details of the subsidy

pay-out and the negotiating options and contracts?

“In reeling out its figures, the Presidency has forgotten that Nigerians are still waiting for its explanations on the leaked memo showing alleged corrupt oil contracts at the NNPC to the tune of N9 trillion ($25billion dollars) “The Presidency has also refused to offer explanations to the alleged involvement of its officials in various sneaky oil subsidy deals and reported diversion of N1.1trillion worth of crude last year to service APC interests.

“Our take is that Nigerians must be told the truth at all times and not be made to suffer for the fraud being perpetrated

by APC interests and the cabal at the Presidency” PDP stated.

Liberia’s president seeks Nigeria’s support to develop economy Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

ÏÏÏLiberian

President, George Weah has said political change was meaningless without development, prosperity, and growth appealing that his country needed Nigeria’s support to jumpstart its economy.

Weah said this on Mon-

day while addressing State House correspondents at the end of a meeting he had with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

He said that he was in Nigeria on a mission of gratitude and respect for the roles that Buhari and Nigerians have been playing in maintaining peace and stability in the West Af-

rican sub-region and particularly in Liberia.

He said although Nigeria’s economy was the largest in Africa with the most powerful Army in the sub-region, the country has never used your wealth and military prowess to expand its territory, threaten its neighbours, or destabilize any sovereign nation in the region.

Weah said, “The prices of our two basic export commodities-rubber and iron-ore continue to fall on the world diminished market.

“Our foreign exchange earnings from the export of these and other commodities are used mainly on the importation of food and other commodities, causing massive trade defi-

cits.

“Youth unemployment is at an all-time high, and prices of basic commodities continue to increase.

“Our people have voted for change, and for hope.

And change is finally here.

But mere political change is meaningless without development, prosperity, and growth.

“We need Nigeria’s help

to jump-start our economy.

You played a major role in bringing peace to Liberia, you reformed our Army and today it is performing its duties to the highest professional standards.

“As we speak, they are serving in a peace-keeping mission in Mali. You have also built and expanded the capacities of Liberians in so many ways.”

8

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

News 9

Lawyers demand immediate release of Daily Independent Bureau Chief t Says continued detention is illegal Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja

ÏÏÏSenior Lawyers in the

country on Monday asked the Department of State Security, DSS to immediately and unconditionally release the Abuja Bureau Chief of Independent Newspapers, Mr. Tony Ezimakor, who has been in detention since last week Wednesday.

Reacting to the development during a telephone interview with the Daily Times Newspaper, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mahmud Abubakar, SAN expressed concern that such impunity could not be allowed in a democratic regime.

He called on the legal team of detained Abuja Bureau chief of Daily Independent to approach the court and file an application for the enforce-

ment of his fundamental human rights.

While stressing that his detention is in continuation of the clampdown on freedom of speech and free press by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari in violation of the provisions of the Nigerian Constitution, Mahmud stressed the need to raise an alarm in a bid to stop the nation from sliding towards dictatorship.

For his part, Abuja based lawyer and human right activist Abidemi Funsho called on all Nigerians and the international community to prevail on President Buhari to order the immediate and unconditional release of Mr. Ezimakor.

He said,” the continued detention of Tony Ezimakor without arraigning him in a competent court of law as draconian, ty-

rannical, illegal, unlawful and unconstitutional”.

He cited Section 23 of the Police Act which stipulates that suspects cannot be detained beyond 24 hours after which the person should be charged to court in conformity with the basic constitutional rights of citizens adding

that to do otherwise will amount to impunity and an encroachment to his fundamental rights.

Also, “Section 36 of the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria guarantees right to fair hearing and only a court of competent jurisdiction can establish

the judicial principle of audi alterem partem. We therefore demand that Ezimakor be brought to court if the DSS has anything against him” he added.

It could be recalled Ezimakor, who has been detained by the Department of State Services since

Wednesday, was yet to be charged.

Ezimakor had willingly walked into the head office of the DSS in Abuja in response to an invitation from the security agency when he was detained and denied medication despite being a hypertensive person.

Declare state of emergency in Yobe, other states, Clark tells Buhari Myke Uzendu, Abuja

ÏÏÏFormer

minister of information, Edwin Clark, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency in the three north-eastern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe.

The elder statesman gave the advice on Monday while addressing reporters at his residence in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.

Reacting to the abduction

of some schoolgirls by Boko Haram terrorists in Yobe, he noted that declaring a state of emergency in the states would go a long way in eliminating the problem of insurgency in the troubled North East.

The Federal Government had declared that 110 students were unaccounted for after the insurgents attacked the Government Girls Technical College, Dapchi, in Yobe State.

Condemning the attack, President Buhari had said the abduction of the girls was a national disaster and vowed that the Federal Government would spare no effort to ensure their safe return.

On his part, Mr Clark agreed with the President’s description of the girls’ abduction but said the governors Yobe, Borno, and Adamawa have failed in their duties as chief security offi-

cers of their states.

He noted that “if a state of emergency is declared total”, what happened “in Chibok in 2014 could not have happened”.

On how to completely end the Boko Haram insurgency, the elder statesman explained that a doctrine of necessity can be passed to allow for a state of emergency with a sole administrator in place instead of civilian administration.

News 10

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

FCT minister receives Liberian President Weah

Rivers youths, students commend Sen. Abe over scholarship awards

By Idu Jude,

Amaka Agbu,

Abuja

ÎÎÎ

The minister of Federal Capital territory, Mallam Mohammed Bello has conferred to on the Liberian President, George Oppong Weah, honourary citizen of the FCT. President George Weah, who is on his first diplomatic visit to Nigeria since his election as the new President of Liberia, was presented with the key to the city of Abuja,

by Bello.

The former World best footballer of the year’s aircraft arrived the Presidential Wing of Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport at 11.31am. On hand to receive Weah was the Nigeria Min-

ister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama.

In a brief interview with the media, Onyeama expressed delight in the visit saying, “We are happy to receive him. He is a very colourful personality. We met with him actually in Addis Ababa when he came to greet the President. We are very willing to support the government and people of Liberia towards ensuring a success of the democracy in that country. We are very happy of course that the elections were very peaceful. We look forward to working with him and we believe that he will be a success for his country. We will do everything possible to help him to succeed.”

In the same vein the Liberian Ambassador to Nigeria,

Al-Hassan Conteh, disclosed that the visit was a courtesy call on Nigeria’s President Buhari and hopes he would also discuss bilateral issues with his Nigerian counterpart.

His words, “The purpose of the visit is for the President of Liberia, President Weah to make a courtesy call on President Buhari in order to discuss some bilateral matters of interest. First of all, he would like to express Liberia’s thanks for the role Nigeria has played in the Liberia’s peace process, particularly in the recent election that we had, which had not happened for more than seven decades, the smooth transfer of one democratic government to another. So, that is the essence of the

Port Harcourt

ÎÎÎ

Youths and student leaders in Rivers State have rated the Senator representing Rivers South-East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe high in Weah the area of award of scholvisit.”

At the airport to receive arship to students and emthe Liberian President were powerment of youths. a number of important LiThe leaders, operating berian government officials under the aegis of the Netwho were already in Nigeria work of Youth and Student ahead of his visit, including Leaders of Rivers State, also the majority leader of the rated Abe high in the area Liberian Parliament Hon. Munapena Youngblood of educational grants, romembers of the diplomats bust bursary scheme, and from Liberian embassy to unmitigated access to Rivers Youths.

Nigeria.

The group, in a communiqué issued at the end of a one-day dialogue and reception in honour of the Senator, described him as a leader with unparalleled leadership qualities.

The communiqué, which was jointly signed by Comrade Kadilo Kabari, Hon. Inye Jack and Comrade Patrick Ogbuehi, reads in part, “After an exhaustive brainstorming session of young intellectuals, under the aegis of Network of Youth and Student leaders of Rivers State (NYSL), where critical issues bordering on the development of youths and students were reviewed and x-rayed, agreed “That of all the active principal political L-R: 2019 Presidential Aspirant, Mr. Victor Okhai; Founding partner, Banwo & Igbokwe LLC, Mr. Ope Banwo; and Movie producer, Mr. characters in Rivers State, Charles Novia during the official introduction of Nollycoin in the Nigerian Entertainment Industry in Lagos...on Monday.

Distinguished Senator Magnus Abe stands head and shoulder above all, with a rich and unrivalled profile in the award of scholarship, educational grants, youths grade it to an international Benin Airport will become tion has taken giant stride empowerment, robust burThe Minister of State standard. an International Standard to establish Benin Industri- sary scheme and unmitigatfor Aviation, Sen. Hadi SiriHe said that “Plans have Airport with all the neces- al Park, Gelegele Sea Port ed access to Rivers Youths. ka, has said that the Federal been concluded to upgrade sary aviation equipment in and other laudable investThe communique slso Government has approved landing system with ad- place.” ments. stated “That in recognithe upgrade of the Benin equate radio equipment Governor Obaseki ex“The effort this admin- tion of the above, Senator Airport to international that will enable the Airport pressed appreciation to the istration has made since Magnus Ngei Abe is hereby standard with a cargo terhandle both day and night Federal Government for assuming office is gradu- conferred by the Network of minal. operations, even in adverse the effort to make the Benin ally paying off with the asThe minister disclosed Youths and Students Leadweather conditions.

Airport an International surance coming from the this during his courtesy “There are plans to also Airport, noting, “This is Minister that in a couple ership in Rivers State as the visit to the governor at the extend the runway at the the most astonishing news of months, work will com- ‘Hope of Rivers Youth’. This Government House in BeBenin Airport to enable it I have heard as a governor mence in Benin Airport to is due to the unparalleled nin City, Edo State, on Monhandle high volume of traf- this year.” upgrade it to international leadership qualities the Disday. fic with capacity to accomHe said the federal gov- standard,” Obaseki said. tinguished Senator Magnus Sirika said the approval modate cargo planes.” ernment has shown comHe added, “This admin- Ngei Abe is known for. was due to the fact the BeSirika further said, “Avia- mitment to support efforts istration is working hard to It also stated “That the nin Airport is one of the tion connects businesses, to industrialise the state. transform Edo State to an Network of Students and oldest airports in Nigeria trade, cultures, nations and According to him, “Our economic hub. What is miss- Youth Leaders of Rivers and that the zone needs a people. With a standard hope is that all the eco- ing is rail transport linking standard international airState shall continually give airport in place, it becomes nomic activities that will be the state with other parts port to serve its growing easy to achieve economic generated from this critical of the country. The upgrade support to Distinguished economic interests. growth and development. investment will drive com- of the Benin Airport to in- Senator Magnus Ngei Abe He added that the airport We will work with Edo State mence across the state and ternational standard will in his deliberate efforts in will be fitted with necessary Government to ensure that the country”. complement our strategic offering selfless services to facilities within 12-months, within the next 12 months, He said his administra- geographical location.” humanity in general and as part of the plans to upyouths in particular.

FG okeys upgrade of Benin Airport to Int’l standard with cargo terminal

ÎÎÎ

“That Senator Magnus Ngei Abe understands that young people do not only play critical role in building and sustaining peace, but are also agents of change and key actors in the prevention of conflict in Nigeria and Rivers State in particular and that their involvement in making critical decisions in Rivers State and Nigeria is very important and recommendable,” it stated.

According to the communique, the network was bringing to perspective the need for young people to be successful and involved in major decision making process in Rivers State, which informed their unmistakably positive stance on the ‘Not Too Young To Run, Not Too Young To Rule’ agitations across the country.

It also said that Senator Magnus Ngei Abe understood the plights of young people in this era of unemployment, lack of job security and decent pay and unpalatable living standards, poor education, insecurity lack of access to resources and information, poor health care and basic services, and life uncertainties.

“Senator Abe should continuously support the young people to have the opportunity of tapping into their potentials and reaching their goals in life and as young people of this State, we urge Distinguished Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, the ‘Hope of Students and Youths’, to urgently bring to the Red Chambers (The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria) a bill that will address the issues of widening income gap and manipulation of our resources between the bourgeoisie and the youths,” the communique read.

The network, therefore, called on other elected Representatives at all levels of all government and appointed government officials to emulate Senator Magnus Ngei Abe in his kind gesture to humanity.

They, then, thanked the Almighty God for restoring the health of President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, as he repositioned Nigeria for greater heights.

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6 , 2018

Politics

BUHARI

s

OBASANJO

FALAE

11

ADENIRAN

Obasanjo’s Third Force: What hope for SDP in 2019?

Patrick Okohue

These are indeed interesting times in Nigeria’s political environment. As the nation moves towards 2019, the election year, things are as usual assuming a heightened proportion, as political gladiators are falling over themselves to outdo each other in their efforts to position themselves for political advantage in the coming months.

Interestingly, things are heading the same direction it was prior to the 2015 election when things was falling apart because of the inability of then ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to hold its own due to many challenges and the emergence of the All Progressives Congress (APC) which was vociferous in throwing up the failings of the PDP and telling the people that it was going to do better if given the opportunity.

The problems the PDP had to deal with at the time were multifaceted, ranging from high level corruption, part of which was the fall out of revelations of level of corruption in the subsidy regime in the oil sector, insecurity that was pervading the land, especially with the Boko Haram activities in the North East leading to the abduction of over 200 school girls in Chibok, Borno State among other challenges.

It was clear at the time that the problems were indeed overwhelming for the PDP, and APC seem to have a better grasp of what to do, so it was not a surprise that the party easily beat the PDP at bthe elections and made history as the first opposition party to oust a ruling party in the country.

However, almost three years down the line, Nigeria seem to be back at the same junction, if not worst, as things are getting very bad, insecurity in the land has become very worrisome, despite the claim by the government that it has defeated the Boko Haram sect, as the reality on ground seem to be to the contrary, especially with the Boko Haram still being able to make some very deadly strikes and also the recent kidnap of about 110 school girl in a government school in Dapchi, Yobe State.

This is also beside the heightened activities of alleged Fulani Herdsmen killing and maiming people across various communities in the country.

Some commentators have argued that the country today is more divided than it has ever been in the history of its existence, due largely to the way and manner the APC government at the top have been handling issues that affect the continuous peaceful coexistence of the country.

This concern ranges from appointment of key government functionaries including heads of security apparatus which seem to be tilted to one ethnic group or ethnic groups with close affinity, leaving out some prominent groups completely from key appointments.

It also include government handling of issues of killings in some ethnic groups and utterances by key government functionaries which tends to give tacit support to some groups against the other perhaps because of tribal considerations.

The arrogance displayed by those in positions of authority without regards to those who helped propped up the government in power among many misgivings has become of high concern, making many people wonder if the choice made in 2015 was not an error and if it will not be right to reconsider and find alternative platforms.

Itisperhapsinlinewiththeseconsiderations that made former President Olusegun Obasanjo to voice out his frustrations about this government and advised President Muhammadu Buhari to consider stepping down his ambition in 2019.

Obasanjo who also hinted on the possibility of a third force to counter the PDP and the APC which he noted are not different in character was not alone in sounding the note of warning. Former military President Ibrahim Babangida also aired his view in similar direction, this is besides other very many other prominent Nigerians who reasons along that way.

Now, the third force which seem like a joke when Obasanjo mooted the idea is gradually becoming a reality, as the resurrected Social Democratic Party (SDP) is gradually gathering momentum and attracting key figures from across the political divide to do the damage to the ruling APC and finally silence the main opposition, the PDP. This is because, the PDP though has been struggling to dust off the ashes of its burnt past to fight its way back to reckoning was badly fractured following its convention that left the party with many top members angry than happy.

So, with the beckoning of the SDP to political gladiators to look in its direction, the first sets of people to grab the opportunity are members of the PDP who are obviously unhappy with certain developments within the fold. They are however not alone, as many other political parties have heeded the call for the formation of a viable third force.

As it stands today, the nation is currently having 68 political parties, with others still to come. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) recently said more than 100 other organisations are still waiting to be registered as political parties Aside these political parties, there are several coalitions such as the Coalition for a New Nigeria (CNN), a group of 30 political parties which has promised to form the new government in 2019; National Intervention Movement (NIM), a political group led

by Chief Olisa Agbakoba (SAN) and the Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CNM) spearheaded by former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

However, the coast is becoming clearer following reports that the SDP has been adopted by key leaders of the APC, PDP who are frustrated by the things happening within their parties and the coalitions as the third force movement.

Some key leaders of the PDP who met at the Ladi Kwali Hall in Abuja last week Thursday also signified their interest in joining the party.

These development according to the national chairman of the SDP, Chief Olu Falae, was a welcome idea, as according to him, “Some former governors, serving senators of the PDP as well as coalition of political leaders are joining SDP. They have decided to adopt SDP as their political platform.”

Leading the pack are a former Information Minister, Prof Jerry Gana, and ex-Education Minister and former Nigerian Ambassador to Germany, Prof Tunde Adeniran. Others include a former Military Administrator of Katsina State, Sen. Joseph Akaagerger; Chief Mike Oghiadhome, who is a former Chief of Staff to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan; ex-

Those involved in SDP are the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), Peoples Salvation Party (PSP), the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and some elements of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). It was like a merger, but we do not want to call it so because the All Progressives Congress (APC) has destroyed the concept of merger. I am an optimist. I believe SDP will make a great impact. The main reason I want to be associated with it is because it is ideologically driven.

Governor Saminu Turaki of Jigawa State; and ex-Minister of Defence, Dr. Olu Agunloye and a former Deputy Speaker of Ondo State House of Assembly, Dare Emiola.

According to the National Publicity Secretary of the SDP, Hon. Alfa Mohammed, five serving governors, 20 senators and some members of the House of Representatives from the PDP and the APC are also set to join the SDP. Speaking in an interview with journalists in Minna, Niger State on Sunday the National Publicity Secretary said over 50 Civil Society Organisations have also embraced the party in a coalition movement to unseat the ruling All Progressives Congress in 2019.

Mohammed explained that the mass movement of prominent politicians from both the APC and PDP to the SDP last Thursday was a kick starter for the chunk of other politicians and civil societies eager to join the party.

He said: “In the next two to three weeks, the mass movement into the SPD will become more pronounced, especially at the National and state Houses of Assembly and I am sure that the party will soon become the majority at the National Assembly.”

According to him, the five governors have indicated serious interest in joining the party and have been sending representatives to its negotiation meetings, adding that discussions have been on for some months with the governors.

The National publicity Secretary said the national secretariat of the party has directed all state offices to commence registration of new members at ward levels as from March 5.

The SDP and the Gana-led team from the PDP on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work together.

Jointly signed by Falae (for SDP) and Prof.

Gana (for Movement for a New Political Order), the MoU reads in part: “Whereas on the 12th Day of February 2018, a joint resolution was adopted at Sheraton Hotel Abuja, for working together to ensure the emergence of a new and credible political order to deepen democracy, good governance and genuine development, with peace, security and social justice. The said meeting also unanimously resolved to build: “A restructured, balanced equitable and truly functional Nigerian federation; A humane, free, self-reliant and democratic society; A dynamic, productive, transformed and sustainable economy; A just, fair, egalitarian and peaceful nation; A land of bright and full CONTINUED ON PAGE 12

Politics 12

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6 , 2018

APC takes restructuring campaign to Aare Gani Adams Patrick Okohue The All Progressives Congress (APC) has taken its campaign for the restructuring of the country to the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Dr. Gani Adams.

A team sent by the Deputy National Chairman (South) of the party, Mr Segun Oni, was at the Lagos home of Adams to dialogue with him on the proposal of the APC to restructure the country and present to him copies of the report of the Committee on Restructuring.

The APC Committee on Restructuring, headed by the Kaduna State governor, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, submitted the report to the National Chairman of the party, Chief John OdigieOyegun, a few weeks ago.

According to a release by Aare Adams Chief of Staff, Prince Akanni Segun Olalekan, the delegation from Oni, made up of Senator Olu Adetunmbi, the Secretary of the el-Rufai committee, and Otunba Ben Oguntuase, told Adams that as one of the champions of the restructuring of the country,

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11

of opportunities for all Nigerians; and A national culture of raising good leaders through effective mentoring.”

It added that “Whereas, it was also agreed that the proposed movement shall be directed, driven and defined by such core values as: (1) Justice, fairness, equity and progress; (2) Democracy, good leadership, good governance and sustainable development; (3) Transparency, integrity, truth and honour; (4) Accountability and zero tolerance for corruption; (5) Respect for human dignity, human rights and sanctity of human life; and (6) Peace, security, harmony, cooperative solidarity, within the rule of law; and (7) International cooperation for a common humanity within a secure and peaceful order.

“Whereas, the movement further resolved to be inspired and motivated by the ideals of social democracy, with great emphasis on: the triumph of social justice; the nobility of human dignity; the harmony of fairness and equality; the power of working together in solidarity; the excellence of good governance, driven by good leadership; the wisdom of reforms and transformation far beyond mere growth; the horror of poverty, demanding eradication; the dignity of prosperity; the imperative of democracy and the security of peace with justice “Whereas with due reference to these objectives, core values, and ideals, a strategy committee was mandated to search for a suitable, popular, meaningful and widespread platform, with a name that already resonates with the people and to make appropriate

ONI

ADAMS

his input remains critical to the eventual position of the party on the issue.

Adetunmbi said: “We are here to let you know that your views are important.

“We cannot embark on such a project without consulting proponents of restructuring like you.

“We have followed your position and know it is germane when it comes to State Police, system of governance and restructuring of the polity general.”

Adams, apart from his personal views on restructuring, was also at the 2014 Constitutional Conference, where he and others championed the cause.

Adams told the delegation that his first instinct was to clarify from them if the position of the party on restructuring was not just to get reelected in 2019 only to abandon the cause thereafter.

He said his belief in the restructuring of the country remains unshaken and unwavering, adding that without

it, “we cannot become a Nation speaking with one voice and with a single focus”.

The Aare Ona Kakanfo said the restructuring of the country cannot be said to be complete without resolving the issue of State Police and the reversal to the six geopolitical structure of governance.

He said the present structure of governance was not only lopsided and a waste of resources, it can also not guarantee the flow of democratic dividends to the people at the grassroots, who should be the priority of government.

He said: “There is no way the man at the grassroots will feel the impact of governance if the majority of the decisions affecting his day to day living are taken in Abuja.

“Before this will permeate to the grassroots, the impact would have been lost.”

Aare Adams said he stands with anyone or group that believes in the restructuring of the country, adding: “Before we begin the talk of election in 2019, this issue must be tackled headlong, otherwise, we still remain a country sitting on a keg of gunpowder.”

Vote competent representatives in 2019, Nigerians urge

The governorship candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) in Ondo State during the November 2016 governorship election, Chief Adetuwo Ogunjumelo has urged Nigerians to vote for competent men and women of integrity that they can trust in the coming elections, so that their desired aspirations can be met.

Ogunjumelo, the Ondo State Man of the Year 2015, made the declaration at Igbotako, Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State, while speaking with journalists.

According to him “Voting for the wrong people had robbed Nigerians of effective leadership which must be corrected forthwith in order to achieve lasting progress.

“That is why in the coming elections, for progress and accelerated development to be achieved across the country, Nigerians must vote for competent men and women of integrity.”

According to him, in other clime, people vote for personality majorly rather than political parties, and the result is there to show.

Obasanjo’s Third Force: What hope for SDP in 2019? recommendations; and “Whereas,thestrategiccommittee, comprising representatives from all the six geopolitical zones of the federation, have met and submitted their report, unanimously recommending the adoption of Social Democratic Party (SDP) vehicle by the movement for a new political order: “Therefore, we hereby resolutely agree to: (a) Fuse together into one political form; (b) adopt the Social Democratic Party (SDP) as the political vehicle for the fused political formation; (c) Convene a non-elective convention for Saturday, 14th April, 2018; (d) authorise the National Working Committee to serve as the Interim Management Committee until the said convention; Set up a National Steering Committee of 12 members to guide the Interim Management Committee during the transition period; Raise a Constitution Review Committee to consider all necessary amendments to the party constitution.”

Speaking on the arrangement with another media organisation, Dr. Mohammed said, “Those involved in SDP are the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), Peoples Salvation Party (PSP), the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and some elements of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). It was like a merger, but we do not want to call it so because the All Progressives Congress (APC) has destroyed the concept of merger.

“I am an optimist. I believe SDP will make a great impact.

The main reason I want to be

associated with it is because it is ideologically driven. Even if it was not ideologically driven before it has to be ideologically driven.”

Speaking on why he chose to join the SDP, despite only recently touring the entire country in his bid to become the national chairman of the PDP, Prof. Tunde Adeniran said because he is a man who believes in political ideology, he has to look for a platform that aligns with his ideology.

Assuring that the SDP will win the 2019 presidential election, Adeniran who was a guest on the Channel Television, Sunrise Daily on Monday alleged that the PDP has been hijacked by a certain individuals and was therefore difficult for somebody like him to continue to associate with such a party.

According to him, many waters passed under the bridge during his last days in the PDP, “There was alliances, there was corporation, infact, so many things were done during the period there was crisis, you know there was this reconciliation committee headed by the Bayelsa State governor, Seriake Dickson, a fine gentleman, who did his best, but it is not about individuals, it is about idea, belief, principles and it is these principles that also bring people together, whatever effort that will be made will be based on the fact that there is irreducible minimum standards that will have to be met by the people coming together.

“There is a clear difference between the SDP and the other parties, because at the time the PDP

was formed for example, there was a coming together of people generally, from left, right and all that hoping that after sometime a clear ideology will emerge, but instead of that emergence some distractions here and there prevented that with self interest, sabotage and other issues, but in the SDP you can see quite clearly.

“I just take one simple example, the SDP believes that it should not be a question of Nigerian children having access to education and all that, it has to be justiciable, we believe that education must be free and compulsory up to the secondary school level.

“My joining the SDP is not a question of winning the PDP chairmanship, winning or not winning is not the issue, I am not a desperate politician, I believe in principle, I believe in certain principles and if I had won I had an agenda, I had a blueprint to take the party to where I thought it should be, but the party has been captured, it has been pocketed.”

He said those of them in the SDP have learnt their lessons with regards to monetisation of the electoral process and were ready to guide against it, “People have learnt now that when you monetise politics and go the way other parties have gone, those who believe in principles and programmes and who believe in core value will not go with you.

“So, as a result we are designing some template that will govern the affairs of the party in such a way that it will be seen as a party of the people, everybody with equal access, opportunity to actualise their

potential and to achieve whatever goal they want to achieve, rather than turning the whole thing to something that is purchasable, both the process itself and the outcome.

“I believe too that we are going to be mindful of the fact that in an economy like ours and in a situation in which people’s orientation is becoming rather faulted, there is a need to do things differently in order to lay emphasis on competence and commitment and above all on genuine democracy.”

He said that the party will not spare any effort to give it a national outlook to prevent it sliding into the errors other parties have made in the past, “if some people are saying that the PDP has now become a South South party and so on, you don’t make the same mistakes in making a party that has such potential, a regional party, so the SDP is spreading, it has tentacles all over the country and it is wary of that and we have to be mindful of the fact that those who make the mass of the party are not a few names here and there.

“The mass of the people we are targeting are the younger generation, we believe that the future that belong to them they are now ready, the consciousness is growing and they really have to take that future into their hands right now, because the future starts today,” he said.

Though the SDP seem to suddenly be growing in leaps and bounds, it remains to be seen what is ready to do differently once it captures power to convince the people it has better plans for them than the PDP or even the APC.

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Page Thirteen

s

13

PHOTO TIMES

Editorial E-payment fraud as major impediment to Nigeria’s economy

R

ecent news that Nigerian Deposit Money Banks (DMBs), lost as much as N2.19 billion to fraudsters through electronic channels, otherwise called e-payments, or e-banking in 2016 fiscal year, is an indication that all is still not well with the security of electronic payment system in the country. Of the amount lost to e-payment fraud, across the counter transactions amounted to N511.07milllion, followed by Automated Teller Machine (ATM) transactions worth N464.5 million, Internet banking worth N320.66 million, Point- of- Sale (POS) transactions worth N243.32 million and mobile banking transactions worth N235.17 million, among others.

The news, coming from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is an indication that e-payment system in Nigeria needs to be more strengthened so that it will be safer, more secured and enduring in the interest of safe banking. According to the CBN, e-payment is any form of payment that allows for the use of electronics system to initiate, authorize and confirm the transfer of money between two parties. The transaction reason could be for the payment for goods and services, settlement of obligations and gifts, among others.

According to the CBN, e-payment transaction volumes grew at 8 .9% to reach $387.3 billion in 2014, an increase driven by accelerated growth in developing markets. Cards have been the fastest growing payment instrument since 2010, while payments using cheques have declined consistently and significantly.

In 2014, debit cards accounted for the highest share (45.7%) of global e-payment transactions and were also the fastest growing (12.8%) payment instrument. Thus, it is incumbent on all stakeholders, users, regulatory authorities, particularly the CBN and the federal government to put in place strict legislation and rules that will safeguard the safety of e-payment system in the country.

There is no doubt that there are hard challenges facing the CBN, the banks and the security agen-

cies in enforcing the provisions of the Cybercrime Act of 2015, a situation which has not helped much in nabbing cyber crime perpetrators, thus making a review of the act imperative.

While e-frauds can happen at any time, their frequencies of occurrence increase towards the end of the year because of the festivities around the end of the year and the need for people to hold more money for their expenses. The fact that as much as N2.19 billion was lost to fraudsters last year through electronic fraud is a clear indication that the existing preventive and detective strategies currently in place at the banks are not enough to prevent e-frauds.

It is true that the introduction of e-banking into the Nigerian financial system has made the conduct of financial transactions much easier than before, especially in this era of cashless policy. Unfortunately, e-banking has been abused by fraudsters and it has become Nigeria’s biggest economic enemy.

The CBN and the banks must therefore embark on enlightenment of the banking public on how to drastically reduce cyber-fraud and ebanking abuses in the country.

At the same time, the National Assembly would need to review the Cybercrime (Prohibition and Prevention) Act of 2015 to make it more difficult for fraudsters to embark on e-fraud and to increase the penalties for those convicted for efraud. In addition, given the very significant importance attached across the world to the protection of information infrastructure in the delivery of financial services, persons who attempt to compromise e-payment infrastructure should be visited with heavy sanctions to deter other like- minded criminals from committing such crimes.

There is also a need for the CBN to use the biometric information on the Bank Verification Number of bank customers to identify, verify and authenticate all customers at the point of their e-transactions. By blocking all loopholes that could make e-fraud possible and by enacting an effective anticybercrime law, there is no doubt that incidences of e-fraud would be drastically reduced in the country.

President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki stepping to the podium to deliver a lecture titled: “The Future of Good Governance in Africa” at a symposium to mark the 25 years of Ghana’s Parliament in Accra.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo (right) welcoming the Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun to celebrations to mark his 81st birthday, at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta, Obasanjo’s wife, Bola….on Monday.

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki (right); the Minister of State, Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika (second right); and other members of the minister’s team during the minister’s courtesy visit to the governor at the Government House in Benin City.... on Monday

Governor of Bayelsa State, Honourable Seriake Dickson (left) presenting a special souvenir to the United States Consul General, Lagos, Ambassador John Bray (right) during a visit at Government House, Yenagoa to herald the US Envoy’s investment/tourism exploratory visit to Bayelsa State, over the weekend.

14 Opinion

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Preserving the Civil Service as engine room of government policies

T

Tajudeen Kareem

he Nigerian Civil Service remains the strong engine room of government, regardless of contrary views to this time tested belief. It is indeed the repository of institutional knowledge and policy continuity; both critical ingredients for sustainable development, especially in a country aspiring for greatness as Nigeria.

To avoid any vacuum in the smooth running of government, the Presidency appoints permanent secretaries from the corps of eligible directors who customarily go through a rigorous screening exercise including written tests and interviews. This procedure is predicated on a new policy contained in the resolution of the National Council on Establishment which makes it mandatory for Federal Permanent Secretaries to prove their mettle.

The process has in-built mechanism designed to inspire healthy competition in the civil service and promote competence and suitability. The selection process is expected to put ‘analogue’ civil servants on their toes, knowing that there is reward for service and skills, as opposed to the era where progression was merely judged by seniority in service.

It is now an open secret that the office of the Head of Service, Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita actually resisted immense pressure to manipulate the last elevation of directors; a process widely acclaimed as transparent and rigorous. Months after the selection of 21 new permanent secretaries, lobbyists are unrelenting in their nepotistic disposition, classifying one office as more juicy than the other, as if some seats are reserved for a particular section of the country.

Discerning Nigerians are not unaware of some ill-motivated, well-orchestrated criticisms of the HOS. Now their grouse is the posting of a ‘fresh’ hand to occupy the seat of Permanent Secretary, General Service in the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.

But their argument fails to hold water because there is nothing like ‘junior’ or ‘senior’ permanent secretary in the Federal Civil Service. In fact a permanent secretary is rated by the quality of his training, sense of duty and service record-- all indicated by the responsibilities handled at the lower rung of the civil service ladder.

Among the recently appointed permanent secretaries is Olusegun Adekunle from Oyo State who is a case study of the right man not only for the job but equal to the task.

Coming from a robust multidisciplinary background in Law, Public Administration, Intellectual Property Rights Management, Project Management, Multi-lateral Trade Negotiations and Humanities, Adekunle, a career civil servant with over three decades of experience in the Federal Civil Service, brings his skills and professionalism to bear on public service delivery.

This is not far-fetched for someone who has served in many strategic ministries namely agriculture, aviation, finance, petroleum and industry, trade & investment.

He has similarly served on the boards of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission and the Petroleum Equalization (Management) Fund.

Adekunle was at various times part of the desk team at the Federal Ministry of Finance that managed World Bank Assisted Social Sector and Reform Projects including the Health System

Development Project II, HIV/ AIDS Program Development, Malaria Control Booster Project, Community Based Poverty Reduction Project and Economic Reforms and Governance Project.

Similarly, he played a key role in managing Nigeria’s relationship with the OPEC-FUND for International Development, International Finance Cooperation and the Islamic Development Bank.

The new PS, GSO has also invested a significant part of his career life in the Intellectual Property Management and Strategy Sector as Director, Planning, Research and Statistics at the Nigerian Copyrights Commission where he initiated a number of reforms to review the statute and initiation of processes for the development of IP Policy and Strategy for Nigeria.

Adekunle’s skills are not localized, representing Nigeria on major Standing Committees of the World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO, including the Committee on Copyright and Related Rights; Committee on Development and Intellectual Property; and the Committee on Program and Budget.

Confirming his skills and proficiency in Intellectual Property Rights Management, Adekunle was assigned to wear the proverbial two caps as Director, Commercial Law Department and as Registrar, Trademarks, Patent and Designs in the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment in 2015. During his tenure he supervised the inauguration of WIPO-Assisted digitization of Nigeria’s Trademarks database for the Registry and led the delegation of Nigeria to the 2015 WIPO Assemblies and the Patent Cooperation Treaty.

Owing to these accomplishments, he is recognized as one

of the very limited number of serving principal managers with combined managerial skills in Copyrights and Industrial Property components of Intellectual Property in the Federal Civil Service.

He is a member of the Enlarged National Focal Point on Trade; a body saddled with the responsibility for developing Nigeria’s strategy for multilateral trade negotiations at the World Trade Organization.

In October 2015, Adekunle was deployed to the Ministry of Petroleum Resources as Director; Planning, Research and Statistics and later appointed National Representative on the OPEC Economic Commission Board in January, 2016. He was elected the Alternate Chairman for the 127th session of the OPEC-ECB. A man of immense experience and value, Adekunle is the Alternate National Representative on the Committee of Experts of the African Petroleum Producers Organization (APPO) where he is leading reforms to transform APPO into a vital regional energy development organ.

In addition, the seasoned lawyer and public administrator played major roles in the development of the revised National Civil Aviation Policy (NCAP 2013); the National Petroleum Policy (NGP 2017), the National Gas Policy (NGP 2017); the Petroleum Sector Fiscal Policy, Gas Flare Commercialization Policy and the Policy for exiting the Joint Venture Cash Call Conundrum.

With his indisputable record of meritorious service in public sector, Adekunle is no doubt an asset to the Buhari Administration as the PS, GSO- the hub of the everbusy office of the SGF.

gave them the opportunity to represent us.

Out of trust and an overflowing desire for a better *Anaocha, Njikoka, Dunukofia Federal Constituency*, we had queued up with our decisions in mind and our power on our thumbs, as we voted them in hoping that their sweet promises would be realised, but to our greatest dismay we’ve cried out, and these same people have forgotten how we laboured to ensure we got a better representation, they have forgotten all their promises and have continuously played deaf ears to our cries.

But we shall no longer continue to cry to people who are miles away from us; people who have reduced our voice at the Green Chambers to mere whispers; people who forgot their promises to us, indeed our tear ducts have grown weary, and it

is time to seek a solution, not just any option this time but an option that has been tested, trusted and is very reliable.

It is time for Anaocha, Njikoka, Dunukofia Federal Constituency to seek that option that believes in the common good of the people; an option that doesn’t just know how to speak loud to make our voices heard, but also listens us, even in our tiniest whispers. We need a voice that has principles and understands the essence of negotiations and compromise without compromising those strong values that make us.

We need a Voice that would unite us from Agulu, Aguluzigbo, Nri, Enugwu-Ukwu, Abagana, Nimo, Ukpo, Abba Ifitedunu & beyond; and make us a strong voice that resonates action, integrity, and a transparent representation of our common inter-

est.

Barr. Ugochukwu Adilieje* is our strongest option, An option that would stand in the face of depression, and frustration and put people back to work, restore smiles to the once sordid faces of constituents of Anaocha, Njikoka, Dunikofia Federal Constituency, and make our Constituency great again.

He’s not just rooted in the fibre of our grassroots, he has over the years been exposed to the most difficult and challenging turfs in politics, and have severally been tested with the Rocky waters of good and representative governance, and he has proven his mettle in all.

Unless we don’t need a better representation, but if we need a representative, transparent, inclusive and attentive Representation, then Barr. Ugochukwu Adilieje is our only option.

Kareem is a public policy analyst based in Abuja.

Time to serve!

W Ugochukwu Adilieje

hen the tiny goblets of a child’s tears are constantly ignored, the tear ducts grow weary and seize to drop not because it has given up but because it has realized that the person it has cried to is either miles away or just deaf to heed to her plea, and in those moments of despair the heart resolves for a better option to meet her needs.

We have wailed for long and our tears have been ignored by the people we had trusted their words to represent us, the people for whom we had kept aside our businesses on several occasions, as we stood under the scourging heat of the Sun to listen to their promises of how better they will make us if we

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

15 Column

When death calls like a thief: Tribute to Olaniyi Kehinde

Times Columnist GBEMIGA OLAKUNLE

‘

The Late Architect Niyi Kehinde was a moving force and a rallying point in Oke- Ogun Area of Oyo State, South – Western Nigeria. He was a multi-talented and a perfectionist to the core who rose to the post of a Director before he retired from the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA).

Although he was retired from the Federal Civil Service, he was not tired as he engaged himself in private practice as a Landscape Architect, Consultant/Builder and a Lecturer at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria

’

“

Ado – Awaye has lost a bridge – builder, a listener, a peacemaker, an accomplished bureaucrat, unapologetic Oke – Ogun leader, who like Martin Luther King Jnr. fought for the emancipation of Oke-Ogun till his last breath in the sleepy town of Ado – Awaye, Araromi Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of Oyo State on the 25th day of February, 2018. Uncle Niyi, University of Guelph trained Architect and an uncompromising Oke – Ogun Patriot has left an indellible mark on the sand of time. The edifice of First Baptist Church, Garki – Abuja is an eloquent testimony of his professionalism and service to GOD. His peace initiative to reconcile the Alado Ruling Houses in Ado – Awaye attested to his love for the unity and progress of Ado – Awaye. As we mourn his untimely exit, this is the time to rally round his family at this time of grief as we continue to pray for them. Our condolences to his widow – Deaconess Kehinde and her children, the Abolanle family of Isale Opolo, Ado – Awaye, the Late Baale Omotoso Akande’s family of Wasinmi, his brother from another womb – Admiral Amos Gbadejo Adedeji, and the entire membership of Oke – Ogun Development Council (ODC) – Abuja Chapter. May his gentle soul rest in peace. Sleep on Egbon Niyi’ ‘’ – Dimeji Adewole.

I was short of words to pen down any word on the sudden demise of Architect Olaniyi Kehinde until I read the above quoted moving tribute from my brother – Barrister (Deacon) Oladimeji Adewole which he sent to me on the Whatsapp social platform.

The Late Architect Niyi Kehinde was a moving force and a rallying point in Oke- Ogun Area of Oyo State, South –Western Nigeria. He was a multi-talented and a perfectionist to the core who rose to the post of a Director before he retired from the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA).

Although he was retired from the Federal Civil Service, he was not tired as he engaged himself in private practice as a Landscape Ar-

chitect, Consultant/Builder and a Lecturer at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria. He also ventured into freelance Journalism.

We were distant cousins as his late maternal grandfather – Baale Omotoso Akande of Wasinmi and my own late father – Pa Gabriel Aremu Olakunle of Iyalode’s compound, Ado – Awaye were cousins.

In fact, Uncle Niyi as we popularly called him related stories of how my late father used to make several stopovers at his maternal grandfather’s house and how the duo would chat into late nights or early hours whenever my father was on trade missions to the neighbouring villages’ markets in Oniko or Amolegbe usually by trekking through the bush – paths.

Apart from the fact that his late father and my father were friends, one of his junior brothers – the late Samuel Kehinde was my classmate and we were very friendly.

And in the late 1980’s – precisely in 1987/1988 while I was posted to Abuja for my National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme, Uncle Niyi served as my guardian since I sometimes stayed with him whenever I visited the main city from the satellite town of Kuje where I was teaching Geography in the Government Science Secondary School (GSSS). His widow – Deaconess Ronke Kehinde (nee Taiwo) and myself were in the same orientation camp at the Government Secondary School Deutse – Alhaji, Abuja. I later learnt that the current Minister of Transportation – Honourable Rotimi Amaechi were in the same orientation camp with us. I noticed that Uncle Niyi sometimes paid visits to our Late Principal Instructor – Mr. Ogbebor in the company of his bosom friend and professional colleague – Architect Bayo Kolajo (also late now).

In the Church-First Garki – Abuja where he served as one of the foundation-- fathers, he was a mobiliser, motivator and an en-

courager who influenced so many lives and many of his church members saw him as a role – model. He wore so many caps both in the church and in the social circles where he served as either the President or Board Member/ Trustee. Due to his deep commitments to his Church (FBC, Garki) and the struggles for the creation of the proposed Oke – Ogun State, some members of his hometown community in Ado – Awaye erroneously thought they were being neglected. Unknown to them, Uncle Niyi had a beautiful dream of establishing a world-class golf course/recreation facility which is supposed to be the first of its kind in Oke – Ogun Area if not the whole of Oyo State. But some land speculators delayed the release of the Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) and allegedly frustrated the take – off of this laudable project before he passed on. If not for that delay, the project would have taken off more than 10 years ago, according to what Uncle Niyi revealed to me last year. He was disappointed when he discovered to his utter amazement that the person delaying the release of the C of O to him with a valid receipt of payment for the sale of the land is a someone who lived together with an uncle of his and he ran errands for them while growing up in the city of Ibadan. Most members of the community may not be aware of this proposed project because it is still on the drawing board.

While lamenting his untimely passage, the Pastor of our home church, First Baptist Church, Ado – Awaye, Rev. Samuel Olakunle Olayiwola narrated how Uncle Niyi Kehinde requested for the development account number of the church because he felt he was owing the church some dues. The Pastor responded and he paid what was laid in his heart into the church account for development purposes. Also when the Pastors of 3 of the 4 Baptist churches in

the community came to attend an almost one – week long Nigerian Baptist Convention Programme in Abuja last year together with their respective spouses, it was Uncle Niyi who made hotel accommodation reservation for them including their feeding and general welfare. And on top of it, according to Revd. Olayiwola, he bought four new brand tyres to replace the ones on the wheels of the church bus that they drove to Abuja.

Still mentioning of his silent good works which may be unknown to some members of our community, he provided some supports for the renovation of the General Hospital in the Community, according to Chief Nosiru Oladokun – the Chairman of Ado – Awaye Development Council (Home base). Incidentally, it was the same General hospital that he was rushed to when he suddenly took ill in the night. And I learnt that the Health Personnel on ground battled tirelessly to rescue him from the jaws of death; more so when they realized that he was their benefactor. Maybe if the rural- based State General Hospital was well equipped to the standards of a General Hospital with adequate medical facilities like cylinder of oxygen and other life supports-systems, the life of Architect Niyi Kehinde could have been saved. Even though the community is yet to come out of the sudden death of another of its illustrious sons that took place barely five months ago, we still have every cause to thank GOD for the life of Architect Olaniyi Kehinde for his various impacts in the community and for touching lives positively wherever he lived, worked or went to.

The community can also comfort itself with the admonition given by Apostle Paul to the Corinthians contained in I Corinthians 15:50-58, KJV which ended thus and I quote “ Therefore, my beloved brethren (people of Ado – Awaye), be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the LORD, forasmuch as ye know that your labour (like that of Architect Niyi Kehinde) is not in vain in the LORD” KJV. On this note, Olaniyi Kehinde, Oko Ayanronke, baba Ayandolapo, baba Iyanu Folake, baba Aduragbemi Ayanbimpe. Sun re o. Erin wo, erin o lee dide, Ajinaku wo lu’le bi oke. Gbogbo ebi lo nse ilede lehin re o. .Sleep well till we meet to part no more at the feet of our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Gbemiga Olakunle, JP General Secretary, National Prayer Movement gbemigaolakunle@ yahoo.co.uk gbemigaolakunle. blogspot.com, Abuja.

News 16

Daily Times Nigeria jƑƆ Ɨ ƕè L Əƅ Õè ƾƠơƤ

dƐ ƍ ƈ Ɨƈ ƅƏƈƌƈ ƐƆ ƌƈƋƈƐ Əƕ ƗƆƍƋ ƕƌƆ Ɛè Ƌ ƓƕƆƏ ƐƆƋƋ ƅ ƑƏƐ Andrew Orolua, Abuja

ÏÏÏHuman

LƆƌƄƆƏ Ƈ Ɛ Ɔ `ƈƒƆƏ dƐ ƐƆ 6 Ƒ Ɔ Ƈ ƆƌƄƋƕ ƒ Ɛƈ ơǀ ƋƐƆƏ Ɛƈ Ƈ Ɛ Ɔ ƐƈƐƑƐƈ æ0 ƑƏƐ ƋƐƆƏ Ɛƈ ç ƈƋƋ ƾƠơƣ ƐƏ ƌƈƐƐƆƗ Ɛ ƈƐ Ƅƕ Ɛ Ɔ M Ɛƈ Ƌ ƆƌƄƋƕêêêê L Ɨ ƕê

Land Use Charge: Real estate professionals back new law ÏÏÏCoalition

of Real Estate Investors and Surveyors, Lagos, has thrown its weight behind the re-enacted Land Use Charge Law, saying after its thorough analysis of the of the LUCL 2018, Owners-Occupiers are expected to pay a token percentage of 0.076% of the value of the assessed property.

Mr. Ayokunle Gregory, the convener of the body, made this known Friday in Lagos after a meeting held in Lagos.

While also expressing dismay at the level of misinformation circulating about the law among the unsuspecting public, Mr. Gregory further stated that some mischief-makers were bent on exploiting the new law for their selfish purpose by confusing the entire populace through dissemination of half-truth.

“And as such, we feel obliged to address the falsehood from a professional perspective before the unsuspecting public is misguided to bewilderment and violation of the law”.

The newly implemented LUCL 2018 is a repeal of the Land Use Charge Law 2001 (the LUCL 2001) that lacked clarity on the formula used to derive an accurate rate. Also, under the old law, the LUC rate was totally inaccurate

Ïd ƕ Ƌƕ ƠêƠƣÕü Ƈ ÕƠü ƍƏ ƍƆƏƐƕ ƒ ƋƑƆ ƈ ƍ ƕ ƄƋƆ and retrogressive which deprived the state of keeping track of all economic activities that relate land in Lagos State.

According to the coalition, the reviewed LUCL 2018 is to put in place a regulated and standardised system that enables clarity and self-assessment. It was reviewed by the Lagos State House of Assembly and signed into Law by the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on February 8, Property owners in the state have gone ahead to pay their LUC following the flag off by the Lagos State Governor on February 19, 2018.

The law is a consolidation of Ground Rent, Tenement Rate, and Neighbourhood Improvement Levy. Thus, the Tenement Rates Law, the Land Based Rates Law, the Neighbourhood Improvement Charge and all other similar Property Rates or Charges, Laws or amendments to any such property Laws shall cease to apply to any property in the State as from February 2018.

Nonetheless, all pending invoices, orders, rules, regulations, etc. under the 2001 repealed Law shall continue to be in effect until such obligations are discharged.

The LUCL is payable

annually by owners and occupiers holding a lease to a property for 10 years or more. Using the applicable formula provided by the reviewed law, owners and occupiers can now calculate their rate by multiplying the Market Value (MV) of a property by the Applicable Relief Rate (RR) and Annual Charge Rate (CR).

Providing detailed breakdown on the law, Ayokunle Gregory said, “For Owner-occupied residential property, the LUC per annum is at 0.076%.

For instance, if the Market Value of an owner-occupied property is at N15, 000,000.00 it means that that the amount payable is N6,840 per annum only which amounts to N570.00 per month. For a property occupied by tenants, used for commercial purposes, at the same Market Value of N15, 000,000.00, the LUC rate of that property will be N68, 400 per annum”.

It was made known that the state government has made available some reliefs applicable to the entire property owners and also some specific owners according to their status.

“These include a general 40% relief for all property liable to LUC payment, a 10% relief for owners and occupiers with persons with disabilities, a 10% relief for

owners and occupiers of 70 years and above, a 10% relief for properties above 25 years, a 5% relief for properties occupied by their owners for over 12 years, a 20 % relief for non-revenue generating federal and state government property, and 20% partial relief for non-profit making organisations”, he disclosed.

In addition, some properties are exempted from the LUC payment, such as properties used for public and religious activities, properties used as registered educational institutes and charitable activities, properties occupied and owned by pensioners of 60 years and above, public cemeteries and burial ground and all palaces of recognised Obas and Chiefs in the State.

According to the press statement, the state has provided professional services of registered Estate Surveyors and Values to get accurate data which will help in assessment and valuation of properties in the state.

“In order to clear the air of any misinformation, we implore all owners and occupiers of properties in Lagos to do a self-assessment using the formula provided, and also provide officials with valid documents to ensure a smooth run of the exercise for the benefits of all”.

rights lawyer, Chief Malcolm Omirhobo has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja for an order stopping the deployment of the military in peace time to any community in the country.

Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court Abuja, on Monday, fixed April 23, for hearing of the suit seeking to stop the Federal government from deploying the military to maintain law and order which is the constitutional responsibility of the Nigeria Police.

Chief Omirhobo who filed the suit seeking to enforce the fundamental rights of 373 indigenous Peoples and some pressure groups in the country had joined the Federal Government and the 36 State Governments as respondents.

In the suit marked, FHC/ABJ/CS/107/2018 the plaintiff named the President, Attorney General of the Federation, National Assembly, Senate president, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Security Chiefs, Minister of Defence, governments of the 36 states of the federation, their attorneys general and Houses of Assembly, as well as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT as respondents.

Justice Nyako, gave the date after granting an exparte application of Chief Omirhobo, seeking leave of court to serve the originating motion on notice and accompanying court processes outside jurisdiction of the court.

When the matter came up for hearing, yesterday, counsel to the plaintiff, Chinyere Okpalla, informed the court of an application to serve respondents outside jurisdiction of the court.

After she granted leave to the plaintiff to serve some of the respondents outside jurisdiction, Justice Nyako adjourned the matter to April 23 for the hearing of the Originating Motion.

The plaintiff had on January 8, 2018 instituted the fundamental human rights suit on behalf of 373 ethnic nationalities and 45 pressure groups and agitators in Nigeria, asking for 22 reliefs.

Among which are a declaration that the use and deployment of the Nigeri-

an Military by the respondents for maintenance of law and order in Nigeria is oppressive.

That the enforcement and maintenance of law and order in Nigeria by the military instead of Nigeria police is not only oppressive but violates their rights to life, dignity of human person, personal liberty, family and private life, freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association, movement and freedom from discrimination of the indigenous peoples within Nigeria and the Nigerian Public and therefore illegal, unlawful, undemocratic and unconstitutional.

The applicant in the suit therefore wants a declaration that the Military intervention, aggression and occupation of the South-East, South-South Zones and the Niger Delta Region in suppression of the indigenous peoples and the public agitation for their self-determination at the instance of the 1st and 2nd Respondents and the anticipatory deployment of the Nigerian Military to South-West, North-Central, NorthWest and North-East Zones of Nigeria to quell likely agitations for selfdetermination is exploitative, oppressive and a violation of the fundamental rights to life and therefore illegal.

Omirhobo also prayed the court to compel the IGP as the Chief Police Officer of Nigeria to take charge of the enforcement and maintenance of law and order in the country.

The applicant also asked for a perpetual injunction restraining the respondents from further oppressing the people.

The application is supported by a 1068 paragraph affidavit deposed to by the applicant, where he averred that he is suing for the enforcement of the fundamental human rights of the over 500 indigenous peoples within Nigeria, which includes the 373 indigenous peoples and 44 pressure groups agitating for self-determination as well as the Nigerian Public.

Omirhobo, in the suit also urged the court to compel the president “to train, equip and adequately fund the Nigeria Police to enable her perform her primary and statutory responsibilities” in the country.

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

17

18

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March6, 2018

FEATURES

s

Dangers of drug abuse among youth Drug abuse is the excessive, maladaptive, or addictive use of drugs for non-medicinal purposes. It also defines a state, emotional and sometimes physical, characterized by a compulsion to take drugs on a constant basis in order to experience its mental effects. Drug abuse gives rise to dependence both physical and psychological. Dependence gives rise to mental, emotional, biological or physical, social and economic instability. The effects of drug abuse on an individual therefore form the basis for its cumulative effects on the society. This is the major danger of drug abuse.

Youth in any society occupy a delicate and sensitive position within the population structure for several reasons.

The Nigerian law for example recognizes that an individual below the age of seven is incapable of committing a crime and an individual between seven and twelve years should be able to know what he ought not to do that is if it can be proved he doesn’t know and he also isn’t criminally responsible for his acts. Between the ages of twelve and seventeen, a person is regarded as a juvenile, and while he may be held responsible for his acts or omissions, he is treated specially under the law by the Children and Young Persons Act instead of the Criminal Procedure Act. Statistics have shown that drug barons prefer recruiting their traffickers from the ages of 15 to 35 years, most of whom are either unskilled, unschooled or students or the unemployed. There are several factors, which can influence the abuse of drugs among youths. The major ones are: peer pressure, weak parental control, child abuse, imitation, emotional stress, truancy among students, the availability of the drugs and the ineffectiveness of the laws on drug trafficking.

Types of Drugs Abused by Youth: Several types of drugs are susceptible to abuse by youth. These drugs range from most common and less expensive such as cigarettes and alcohol to expensive and more deadly such as cocaine and heroin.

Cigarettes - these are drugs easily available to youth. They are classified as drugs because the contain nicotine and it has physical and psychological effects on the body. Cigarettes are addictive and they cause lung disorders such as cancer.

Alcohol - Beer, wine, brandy and spirits are in the drug category mainly because of their chemical contents and potential for addiction. Alcohol has a toxic and sedative effect on the body and is available without prescription. It is a central nervous system depressant and its consumption can cause a number of marked changes in behaviour.

Caffeine - This is usually abuse through the excessive chewing of colanut or concentrated coffee. It is the active ingredient of coffee, tea and some bottled beverages.

Marijuana - Also popularly called Indian hemp, is a drug that contains tetrahydrocannabinol, (THC) which determines its potency varying from 0.2% to 20%. It is a hallucinogenic stimulant, and is usually produced locally.

Hydrocarbons - Glue, gasoline, cleaning solutions, varnish, paint thinners, nail polish remover, and lighter fluids, all distilled from petroleum and natural gas, belong to the class of hydrocarbons. They are usually inhaled or sniffed.

or in elements of a couple of them? You can change! It’s easier if you get support.

This is often the eldest in the family.

This person is responsible, works hard for approval, and often appears successful. But inside, this person often feels insecure, as if things are always going to go wrong, and feels incompetent, confused and angry.

This person feels blamed when things go wrong. Everyone focuses on this person’s faults, which provides the family with a distraction from the real problem. So this person often seems rebellious, troublesome, law-breaking, tough… and may be at risk of abusing drugs themselves. Inside, this person is often full of fear, hurt, rejection and loneliness, feeling angry at the unfairness of how they are treated.

This son or daughter appears as a dreamer, drifting above the troubled waters that bother other people. But inside, the person is not as contented as they appear.

They are quietly hurt, angry, lonely, with a feeling of being inadequate.

Cocaine - Cocaine is one of the most potent stimulants of natural origin. It is extracted from the leaves of the coca plant grown in the Andean highlands of South America. Illicit cocaine is usually distributed as a white crystalline powder, often diluted by a variety of ingredients.

The drug is usually administrated by snorting through the nasal passages.

Crack - This is a street name for a chemical directive of cocaine in hard, crystalline lumps. It is heated and inhaled as a stimulant. Youth usually go for this because it is less expensive than cocaine Heroin: Heroin was first synthesized from morphine with a bitter taste. Illicit heroin may vary in both form and color, from white to dark brown. Heroin is about three times more potent than morphine, and it is readily available in Nigeria.

The danger of drug abuse has been defined as “a state of periodic or chronic intoxication, detrimental to the individual and society, of a drug.” The major indication of drug addition is the irresistible desire to take drugs by any means.

Physical dependence manifests itself when drug intake is decreased or stopped resulting in withdrawal syndrome, which leads to a very distressing experience.

Psychological dependence is experienced when an abuser relies on a drug to produced feeling of well being.

In conclusion it is important to reiterate the dangers of drug abuse in general and to youth involved in it.

Effects on the family How drugs affect families This section looks at the effects on the family when someone is abusing alcohol or other drugs. In many cases the person is not an addict or an alcoholic. They are just drinking or taking drugs in a way which upsets others. With this in mind we look at the following five scenarios: 1.How a parent with a drug or alcohol problem affects the whole family 2.How a partner with a drug or alcohol problem affects the other partner 3.How a parent’s addiction may affect their son or daughter 4.How a son or daughter with an addiction problem affects the whole family

5.Family support How a parent with a drug or alcohol problem affects the whole family It is well known that a parent with a drug or alcohol problem can have a negative effect on their family members. You could say that the person with the problem is like someone stuck in a bog. The other family members, in their efforts to help, often get pulled down into the bog too. The first step in putting things right is when the others start to get their own feet on solid ground.

Only after they have done this will they be able to help tackle the addiction problem.

Sharon Wegscheider (USA) has pointed out some of the ways in which other family members can be affected. (Reference: Sharon Wegscheider, The Family, Trap Johnson Institute, Minnesota U.S.A., 1976).

How a partner with a drug or alcohol problem affects the other partner It is not easy to live with a person whose drinking or drug use is causing problems.

The drinker or drug user is often full of conflict, torn between wanting their drug or alcohol and not wanting the harm that always seems to follow. They often blame others when things go wrong.

The partner or spouse of the addict or alcoholic often doubts themselves: Am I not a good enough partner? How can I get them to stop taking that drug? How can I protect my children? How can I hide this from my family and neighbours?

The partner often feels hurt, ashamed, afraid, and has an overwhelming sense of failure. Unfortunately, many partners then work even harder to ‘fix’ the situation, taking on extra responsibilities, trying to cover up the mess… fighting a losing battle.

If you are that partner, the first step towards putting things right is to take some time for yourself, and get the support you need. A good friend or a counsellor can be a great help. See ‘family support’ below.

How a parent’s addiction may affect their son or daughter The son or daughter of a parent abusing alcohol or drugs can also end up bogged down. They often adopt a role which helps the family, but they may get stuck in the role and neglect their own needs. Sharon Wegscheider describes some of these roles.

Can you see yourself in one of these roles,

Sometimes also referred to as the clown, the person in this role is often charming and cute, fun to be with, quick to make a joke.

Sometimes they are quite hyper-active and flit from one interest to another; sometimes quite fragile and easily hurt. But they are good at hiding the hurt, and other feelings of loneliness, insecurity, fear and low selfesteem.

If you recognise any of these roles as being ‘you’, the first step to putting things right is to take time for yourself, to talk to a friend or a counsellor. Stop thinking about the addicted person for a while (easier said than done!) and pay attention to your own real needs. See the ‘family support’ section below.

How a son or daughter with an addiction affects the whole family Whole families can seem to go to pieces when there is a son or daughter using drugs or alcohol. Parents fall out with each other over how to handle the situation, while other sons or daughters can get blamed for being a bad example. The drug user gets so much attention that others are neglected.

Rows and bad language upset the peace. If peace and love are the oxygen of life, then the whole family is gasping for breath.

In an airplane, if the oxygen masks are released, parents are supposed to put on their own masks before attending to their children’s masks. The same is true here.

You must look after your own needs before helping the one causing the problem.

Even if you are the only person in the family who recognises the alcohol or drug problem, it is worth while getting support for yourself, from a friend or a trusted teacher or a counsellor.

Support for families is available from a number of sources: The National Family Support Network has a network of family support groups throughout Ireland. Family support groups have helped many families to hold their heads up again, when they had been bowed down with embarrassment and shame due to a son or daughter using drugs and causing trouble for neighbours. For more information on The National Family Support Network visit their website at www.fsn.ie or call (01) 8980148.

Source: Culled from TakingITGlobal

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

19 Features

Phone addiction , mental health risks and matters arising Alice G. Walton , CONTRIBUTOR I cover health, medicine, psychology and neuroscience.

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own.

A lot of us must be wondering if we’re hooked on our tech: Searches for “phone addiction” have risen steadily in the past five years, according to Google Trends, and “social media addiction” trails it closely. Interestingly, phone addiction and social media addiction are closely intertwined, especially for younger people, who probably aren’t playing chess on their phones or even talking on them—they’re on social media. And according to a growing number of studies, it’s looking more and more like this pastime is addictive. Even more concerning is the fact that this addiction is linked to some serious mental health risks.

Last month, MIT’s Sloan Management Review published a clever experiment—professors at two business schools in Italy and France made giving up one’s smartphone for a day a requirement of the students in their courses. Most of the students, who could plan what day they’d give up their phones, felt some degree of anxiety. They didn’t know what to do with the extra time, from eating breakfast to riding on public transportation.

They also noted how often people who did have phones checked their phones—one student pointed out that his friend checked his phone four times in a 10 minute period— and that that was probably what they themselves looked like on a typical day.

An earlier study, in the U.S., which also had young people give up their phones, found that they performed worse on mental tasks when they were in “withdrawal,” and felt physiological symptoms, like increased heart rate and blood pressure. They also felt a sense of loss, or lessening, of their extended self—their phones.

But the reality, especially for younger people, is that phone use, especially heavy use, isn’t so lighthearted. A study last month looked at the rise in depression and suicide in teenagers in recent years. The CDC had noted a rise in the rates of both over the years 2010-2015, and found that girls were particularly at risk: Their suicide rate rose by 65% in those five years. The number of girls with severe depression rose by 58%.

The authors of the new study wanted to see what might be causing these disturbing trends.

Though it’s only a correlation, the

team found a tight relationship between mental health issues and a rise in “new media screen activities.” About 48% of those who spent five or more hours a day on their phones—a lot of time by any measure—had thought about suicide or made plans for it, vs.

28% of those who spent only one hour per day on their phones. No other variables—like household financial issues, homework, or school pressure—could account for the rise in mental health issues over that time.

“Although we can’t say for sure that the growing use of smartphones caused the increase in mental health issues, that was by far the biggest change in teens’ lives between 2010 and 2015,” study author Jean Twenge said in a statement. She’s the author of the book iGen: Why Today’s SuperConnected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us, and has been following this pattern for years.

Interestingly, teens who

spent more time doing sports, homework, socializing with friends in real life, and going to church had a lower risk for both depression and suicide.

The problem is that teens are spending more and more time, not talking on the phone like they were in decades past, but Instagram-ing and snapchat-ing.

These are dangerous pastimes because they give the appearance of social interaction, but they couldn’t be further away from it.

The comparisons that are implicit in looking at other people’s lives online, which are often highly manicured (and misleading), is thought to be what’s so depressing about social media. “These increases in mental health issues among teens are very alarming,” Twenge said. “Teens are telling us they are struggling, and we need to take that very seriously.”

Another study, presented last month at the Radiological Society of North America conference, looked at the brains of teens who fell into the category of smartphone or internet addiction.

The authors found some

differences in the chemistry of the reward circuits of the brain, particularly in the ratio of the neurotransmitter GABA to other neurotransmitters. Interestingly, when the teens went though cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) for their addiction, their brain chemistry changed and looked more like non-addicted controls.

Earlier studies have also looked at activity in the addiction circuits of the teenage brain when they’re actually interacting with social media. It found that cells in one of these areas, the nucleus accumbens, were activated when participants viewed Instagram pictures with more “likes.”

Finally, a particularly telling sign that something’s wrong is that some of the developers of social media features have started speaking up about its addictive risks. Features like red, rather than blue, notifications were intentionally designed to grab people’s attention, and keep them coming back for another hit.

Loren Brichter invented the pullto-refresh mechanism for an app that Twitter eventually acquired.

“Smartphones are useful tools,”

he recently told The Guardian.

“But they’re addictive. Pull-torefresh is addictive. Twitter is addictive. These are not good things. When I was working on them, it was not something I was mature enough to think about.

I’m not saying I’m mature now, but I’m a little bit more mature, and I regret the downsides.”

Part of the problem with “using” is that we think social media will give us a boost, but it doesn’t—it makes us feel worse.

This is a “forecast error” that keeps us coming back, even though it often has a negative effect on our mental health. And this cycle sounds eerily like a classic addiction.

It will be interesting to see how our interactions with our phones change over time—maybe the pendulum will swing back the other way as cell phones, and social media, become less novel. But for young people who have grown up with both, it’s not a novelty, it’s just a way of life. It may take bigger pushes to help them see just how addictive phones can be, and how damaging to their mental health.

News 20

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6 , 2018

It pays to focus on youths, NGO tells governments Sunday Nwakanma – Umuahia

ÏÏÏGovernment

at all levels in Nigeria have been called upon to make the issues concerning youths in the country a priority, as it pays to focus on them.

The appeal came from the founder of Uju Agomoh Foundation, Dr. Mrs Uju Agomoh Monday while lecturing Abia youths on “The Inspiration that Inspires”, a programme designed to expose youths to employment opportunities that abound in their environment and how to harness such opportunities.

According to her, governments should engage in those policies, programmes and events that will make the youths or risk marring the society.

“There is the need to awaken their entrepreneurial spirit to become employers of labour when equipped with the necessary skills”, she said pointing out that “governments have a lot to do concerning the entrepreneurial zeal of the young people”.

During the one-day seminar in Umuahia, Dr. Agomoh had expounded Life Planning Skills, stating that the secret of one’s success is his ability to understand, as well as a measure of hard work which will make the person go forward.

She urged them to identify and shape their spiritual gifts and to understand that every of their challenge is a job opportunity and should try to see how they can unfold their potentials to create value.

She regretted that youths are exposed to wider influence by other young persons, stating the challenge of looking for those that can help step down the message to the youths who can also be encouraged to transform their talents to achieve meanings in their lives.

She disclosed that she also has programmes for higher institutions as well as the grassroots as peer educators, including churches.

According to her, her passion for the youths stem from the large size of them with lack of jobs and clear vision, disclosing that her vision for the youths and the establishment of the foundation started over 23 years ago, having dealt with over 50, 000 youths, including women.

She expressed her further vision to work with international organizations, corporations and individuals willing to buy into her foundation’s vision, which include giving back to the society.

The foundation, Dr. Agomoh said will use peer advisors to counsel and educate the youths for empowerment.

Police command nabs 4 armed party supporters in Ebonyi Edward Nnachi, Abakaliki

ÏÏÏThe

Ebonyi State Police Command has arrested four armed political party supporters at Iziogo village in Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, suspected to be members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) , according ASP Loveth Odah, the Ebonyi state Police Public Relations Officer.

Odah said that the suspects were arrested by the Neigbourhood Watch security outfit owned by the state government, noting that they were arrested with a locally made gun and two rounds of ammunition.

“The chairman of the outfit, Mr. Vincent Nwokpoku handed over the suspects to our divisional office at Izzi LGA and gave the names of the suspects as: Vincent Nwokpoku, Chibueze Nwambara,

Mathias Nwofoke, and Moses Nwibo.

He noted that the suspects were shooting indiscriminately into the air and were shouting: APC, APC, noting that suspects have been taken into custody.

“The state commissioner of police has directed the Izzi LGA Divisional Police Officer (DPO) to immediately transfer the case to our headquarters as the DPO informed me that the recovered gun is too old to be used.

The Acting Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Ebonyi, Mr. Nwachukwu Eze, denied that his party members were arrested for illegal possession of arms and ammunition.

“The Neighbourhood watch group kept the gun in one of our member’s house and arrested him among others who were resting peacefully in their homes”, he said.

Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson (left) exchanging pleasantries with the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (right) during a visit at Government House, Yenagoa.

N3.4bn fraud: Court to hear arguments on document against Akpobolokemi March 27 Peter Foyowo

ÏÏÏA Federal High Court,

Ikoyi, Lagos on Monday fixed March 27, 2018 to entertain arguments on the admissibility of a document sought to be tendered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, against the former Director-General, DG, of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Patrick Akpobolokemi.

Akpobolokemi is standing trial alongside five others on a 22-count charge bordering on alleged fraud made against him by the anti-graft agency.

Others are: Captain Ezekiel Agaba, Ekene Nwakuche, Felix Bob-Nabena, Captain Warredi Enisouh, and a firm, Al-kenzo Ltd. When the matter came up yesterday, counsel to the EFCC, Festus Aifeyodion, called the Commission’s witness to testify in the matter.

The witness, Solomon Akhanolu, who identified himself as a forensic and compliance

officer with an old generation bank informed Justice Faji that his scope of duty involves acknowledgement of emails and response to requisitions from agencies such as the EFCC, Independent Corrupt Practice Commission, ICPC, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, the Police and other law enforcement agencies.

Akhanolu stated before the court that on August 24, 2015, the anti-graft agency wrote a letter to the financial institution, demanding for account opening document and packages as well as mandate card of the defendant.

The witness revealed that the required document which included Certificate of Identification, were made available to the commission on September 16, 2015.

At this point, the EFCC counsel then asked Akhanolu if he knew one Chijioke Enujioke and the witness replied in the affirmative.

The witness specifically said, “He is my boss.”

Akhanolu further con-

firmed before Justice Faji that both himself and Enujioke perused the letter and document, before his boss appended his signature.

Subsequently after the response of the witness, the prosecution prayed the court for an adjournment to enable him tender the said document.

The EFCC through its lawyer maintained that the available document before the court were not clear enough and so, it required an adjournment to enable it make available a clearer document.

But counsel to the second, third, fifth, and sixth accused, Onyeke Edoka, Seni Adio (SAN) and C. K Mmrakwe respectively objected to the request for adjournment.

The defence also asked the court to proceed with the trial, with an addition that the prosecution could lead its witness on other aspects of the document which appeared clear enough.

Edoka particularly said: “My Lord, I can see the said document clearly as I have the sight of an eagle; I urge the court to refuse the applica-

tion for adjournment and let’s make progress in this case.

“The prosecution has not given any cogent reason why an adjournment should be granted, and so, I urge the court to refuse same.”

Responding, Aifeyodion explained that he had sought an adjournment to enable him tender document which he was comfortable with since the instant ones were not clear.

The prosecution insisted on an adjournment or a stand down of the matter for some time to enable him get a clearer copy of the document from the commission.

The defendants were alleged to have committed the offence between December 2013 and July 2015 and converting a sum to the tune of N3.4 billion belonging to NIMASA to personal use.

But they pleaded not guilty to the charge and were granted bail by the court.

According to the Commission, the offence contravenes the provision of Sections 15 (1), (3), and 18 (a) of the Money Laundering (Prohibitions) Amendment Act, 2012.

Rivers Assembly approves Constitution Fourth Alteration Bill 2017 Amaka Agbu, Port Harcourt

ÏÏÏThe

Rivers State House of Assembly has approved the fourth alteration number 24 of the 1999 Constitution which outlined the process for the amendment of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria where the President withheld his assent.

At its 132 Legislative Day of the Eight Assembly (Third Session) on Monday , the Rivers State House of Assembly voted on 15 alterations of the Constitution (Fourth Alteration) Bill 2017 transmitted to it by the National Assembly.

The voting process was presided over by the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Ikuinyi-Ow-

aji Ibani.

The House also approved Fourth Alteration Number 27 which provided for the reduction of age for qualification to contest the position of President, Governor, National and State Assembly Seats in order to accommodate youths in the electoral process.

The Rivers State House of Assembly further voted to approve alteration

number 8 which permitted immunity for legislators during sitting and to strengthen the legislative process.

Also approved by the Rivers State House of Assembly was alteration number 28, which specified the period within which the President or State Governor must present an appropriation bill to the legislature for consideration.

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

NAOMI OSARETIN JOHNSON FOUNDATION

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE:(1) JOHNSON NAOMI (2) AKINWUNMI OLABAMIJI MOSES 3) YUSUF MORUF OLALEKAN (4) BRODRICK OSAHON DANIEL THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE:(1) TO CATER FOR THE NEEDY AND LESS PRIVILEGE IN THE SOCIETY (2) TO ENSURE THAT DOWNTRODDEN ARE ABLE TO REACH THEIR GOALS AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE NATION’S BUILDING IN THE FUTURE ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THE PUBLICATION.

Companies Registration 21 (Trustees)

THE HOLY LIFE CHURCH OF CHRIST

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

TRUSTEES ARE : 1. ADELASE JESULOBA MOSES 2. ADELASE JANET IYABO 3. ADELASE ADEBAYO BAMIDELE AIMS: TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAIMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED BY: SECRETARY

OBINWANNE BUTCHERS ASSOCIATION KWATA AWKA

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.OKOROAFOR SAMUEL IJIOMA 2.SAMUEL JOY OLUCHI 3.HONOUR OKWUCHWUKU AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: TO PREACH THE WORD OF GOD 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: TRUSTEES HOPEBAY COLLEGE OLD STUDENTS ASSOCIATION OKOKOMAIKO CAMPUS CHAPTER

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

TRUSTEES: 1. ONWUKA CHIKA TESSY (PRESIDENT) 2. LAI ALIYU (VICE PRESIDENT) 3. NWEZE NNENNE ANWULIKA (GENERAL SECRETARY) 4. HARRISON OMOSETOME OSIEZAGHA (FINANCIAL SECRETARY) 5. HONORIUS UWANDU NJEMANZE (CHIEF PRO).

AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO UNITE MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION” ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

ALL CHRISTIAN CENTRE GREAT REVIVAL MINISTRY INT’L THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE MINISTRY HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION ABUJA, FOR THE REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ‘ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. PASTOR AUTHOR GOD’S RICHES. 2. PASTOR MRS. JOY AUTHOR. 3. ELDER OJIEZE FRANCIS ABIEBACOMON. 4. SISTER UKWAJA EUCHARIA. 5. PEACE SUCCESS AUTHOR. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. 2. TO BRING DELIVERANCE TO MANKIND. 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

ANY OBJECTION(S) TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR- GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

ETERNAL AND FULL GRACE CHRISTIAN LEAGUE

1.BARR THOMPSON S. CHIKEZIE (CHAIRMAN) 2.COMRADE NDIVE ANTHONY ANOSIKE (SECRETARY) 3.CHIKEZIE EDITH EGO ( MEMBER).

THE ESSENTIAL BANNER GLOBAL CHURCH

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES; 1. TO PREACH THE WORD OF GOD. 2. REACH THE WORLD WITH THE MESSAGE OF HOPE.

FREE NEIGHBOR’S FOUNDATION

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1.

CHIEF DOMINIC NNALUE 2.

CHIEF SIMON NWOZOR 3.

EMEKA IGWE 4.

CHIEF CHRISTOPHER UYANNE 5.

CHIEF DAVID NGENE UGWU

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

THE TRUSTEES ARE; 1. AKEIPERE GIRAH - PRESIDENT, 2. DICKSON DIBALAKUMO - SECRETARY.

SIGNED; DICKSON DIBALAKUMO (SECRETARY)

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

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

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

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

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

AIMS & OBJECTIVE 1) TO HELP PROMOTE GOOD DEVELOPMENT AND UNDERSTANDING AMONG TRADERS AND BETTER LIAISON WITH GOVERNMENT DEVELOPMENT AND ALSO PROMOTE THE INTEREST OF MEMBERS.

CALVARY GRACE POWER HOUSE OF ABOUNDANCE MINISTRY

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

(B) BOARD OF TRUSTEES

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.TO PROMOTE PEACE AND HARMONY AMONG ALL ETHNIC GROUPS IN NIGERIA.2 AID IN ANTI CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN. 3.TO AID THE LESS PRIVILEGED AND PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED.4.TO PROMOTE EDUCATION IN ALL LEVELS. 5.TO SENSITIZE OUR YOUTHS AGAINST DRUG CONSUMPTION. 6.TO LIAISE WITH OUR TRADITIONAL RULERS AND TOWN UNION LEADERS TO AVOID COMMUNAL CLASHES. 7. RENDERING OF FREE LEGAL SERVICES TO INDIGENT CITIZENS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR – GENERAL, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: BARR. THOMPSON S. CHIKEZIE (CHAIRMAN)

GOD’S EXCELLENT MEN CLUB

TRUSTEES 1.OLUWALANA STEPHEN OLANIRAN 2.BAMIGBOYE AYOMIDE CHRISTO 3.BAMIGBOYE OLUFUNKE MODUP 4.BAMIGBOYE OLUSEGUN ICHA 5.TUNJI OJO YINKA 6.OGBU LAWRENCE OTHUKE 7.AKINYEMI TUNDE MICHEAL AIM AND OBJECTIVE TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THE PUBLICATION SIGNED: SECRETARY

MOUNTAIN OF THUNDER AND CELEBRATION MINISTRY

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

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MR. MBACHU CHRISTOGONUS 2. MR. AGABI CLETUS EMEKA 3. MR. OKEKE CHRISTOPHER CHINWE 4. MR. EMENOBA CHIJIOKE PETER 5. MR. IKE EMEKA MAGNUS

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1.

OPARAUGO CHUKWUEMEKA 2.

OPARAUGO KELECHI IMMACULATE 3.

ONYA ANTHONIA UJU

AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO PROMOTE MUTUAL ASSISTANCE AND COOPERATION AMONGST CLUB MEMBERS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION [CAC], PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYSOF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

KINGDOM’S COLONY EVANGELICAL MINISTRY THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED CLUB HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1990.

TRUSTEES: 1. OKUNLOLA JOHN 2. OKUNLOLA CHRISTIANA 3. BELLO DAVID 4. OKEOWO ADEGOKE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. 2. TO ESTABLISH, OPERATE AND MAINTAIN VARIOUS BRANCHES OF THE CHURCH FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST. 3. TO TRAIN, ADMONISH AND DEVELOP FOLLOWERS AND MINISTERS OF CHRIST 4. TO ESTABLISH, OPERATE AND MAINTAIN NON-PROFIT ESTABLISHMENTS TO CATER TO THE NEEDS OF THE LESS PRIVILEGED IN THE SOCIETY. 5. TO OWN AND ACQUIRE PROPERTY AND TO DEAL WITH SAME AS IT SEEMS FIT FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: SECRETARY

QUEEN STELLA INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION

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

NAME OF TRUSTEES: 1. IBEKWE UGOCHUKWU 2. NWACHUKWU STELLA NKECHI 3. IBEKWE GLORIA AMA 4. IBEKWE COMFORT NNENNA AIMS AND OBJECTIVES : 1. TO HELP THE OLD POOR, CHILDREN AND THE NEEDY GENERALLY. 2. TO PROVIDE AID IN AREA OF HEALTH, CLOTHING, EDUCATION AND OTHER BASIC AMENITIES OF LIFE TO THOSE WHO NEED THEM. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SYLVANUS EMENIKE AGU (SECRETARY)

AIMS & OBJECTIVE 1) TO WIN SOUL FOR CHRIST. 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 TRUSTEES

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

TRUSTEES: (1)AMAH HENRY CHIDOZIE (2)UGOCHUKWU JOSEPH UGOCHUKWU, (3) NNADI CHINONSO OGECHUKWU, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: (1) TO FOSTER UNITY. GOOD NEIGHBORLINESS AND WELFARE OF MEMBERS, (2)TO PROMOTE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND SECURITY OF THE ESTATE, (3) TO MAINTAIN THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE ESTATE, (4) TO ASSIST IN DEVELOPING THE NEIGHBOURHOOD, ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: AMAH HENRY CHIDOZIE

DIVINE BROTHERS CLUB 2030

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

BOARD OF TRUSTEES: 1. HUMPHREY CHUKWUJEKWU AROH - CHAIRMAN 2. SYLVANUS EMENIKE AGU - SECRETARY. 3. EJIKE EMMANUEL EJIOFOR. 4. LEONARD I. CHUKWU. 5. FRIDAY G. EZEH. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO FOSTER CLOSER UNDERSTANDING AMONG MEMBERS. 2. TO EXTEND WELFARE SERVICES TO ITS MEMBERS IN FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE. 3. TO CREATE, NURTURE AND PROMOTE THE SPIRIT OF BROTHERHOOD AND FRIENDSHIP AMONG MEMBERS. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

22 Change of name MRS OLERUM

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS EZEOBI TOCHUKWU TECLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OLERUM –EZEOBI TOCHUKWU TECLA .

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

CHIDERA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AMOS SANI MONDAY, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHIDERA OGBODO EMMANUEL. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OPADOTUN RUKAYAT I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EMAKIRUN RUKAYAT ADEJOKE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OPADOTUN RUKAYAT ADEJOKE . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

PADONU

FORMERLY SURU SUKURAT ..NOW PADONU SHUKURAT TEMILADE. FORMER DOCUMENT REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

NWORIE

FORMERLY NWORIE SUNDAY ALIUNA NOW NWORIE CLARUS ALIUNA. FORMER DOCUMENT REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

OLUTADE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEROUNMU ADEWUNMI RUTH NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLUTADE ADEWUNMI OPEYEMI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

MAKANJUOLA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MAKANJUOLA MICHAEL MORENIKEJI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MAKANJUOLA MICHAEL RILWAN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MELODY

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MELODY CHUKWUMA UMEH NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MELODY CHUKWUWA LEKWEUWA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

EMMANUEL

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OJETOLA EMMANUEL OLUSOLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EMMANUEL OLUSOLA OLUWATOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

NWAEZE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MBACHU CHINEDU CONFIDENCE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWAEZE CHINEDU CONFIDENCE . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OKONKWO

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKONKWO CHIMMELI .N. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKONKWO CHIMMELI VIVIAN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE..

AKPAN

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AKPAN UTOLO, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AKPAN ITORO BENSON. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

SARAH

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SARAH STEPHEN NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SARAH S. ROWLAND.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS AJOSE

FORMERLY MISS SANUSI MUJIDAT OLUFUNMILAYO NOW MRS AJOSE MUJIDAT OLUFUNMILAYO. LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT/LAGOS STATE SERVICES COMMISSION AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

OPADOTUN

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OYELAMI SHERIFAT TEMITOPE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OPADOTUN SHERIFAT TEMITOPE . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ANYA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS: ANYA, DORIS OLEDI. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ANYA, DORIS EBERECHI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

DARAMOLA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BALOGUN TOYIN ELIZABETH NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS DARAMOLA TOYIN ELIZABETH, DUE TO MARRIAGE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ISAAC

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ISAAC DANSO AND ISAAC UBONG DANSO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ISAAC ABASSEY DANSO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

BITERO

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHIRSTELLE WALO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BITERO CHRISTELLE WALO CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 25TH OF JANUARY 1982 NOT 23TH OF JANUARY 1982. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME IN SOME OF MY DOCUMENTS MY NAME WAS WRITTEN AS HENRY OBIDIKE IFEANYI WHILE IN SOME OTHER ONES IT WAS WRITTEN AS IFEANYI OBIDIKE FRANKLIN. THE NAMES REFER TO ONE AND THE SAME PERSON.HENCEFORTH I WISH TO BE KNOWN AS HENRY OBIDIKE IFEANYI. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING ALL THE NAMES ARE VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

AMADI

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AMADI SUNDAY DESTINY, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AMADI PETER UGOCHUKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ODUGE

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

NNALUE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ENWELLE PEACE NNALUE. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NNALUE PEACE AWELE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLHC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

ABIONO

FORMERLY OKULAJA FEMI DAVID NOW ABIONO FEMI DAVID. FORMER DOCUMENT REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

MUSOLIHUDEEN

FORMERLY MUSOLIHUDEEN DORINMADE FAUSAT NOW MUSOLIHUDEEN FAUSAT OMOLOLA. FORMER DOCUMENT REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

KAREEM

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BAKARE AJOKE YETUNDE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS KAREEM AJOKE YETUNDE .

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

ATILOLA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS KABALA DAMILARE EZEKIEL NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ATILOLA DAMILARE EZEKIEL. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

BISIRIYU

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS TOYIN ALABI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BISIRIYU OLUWATOYIN ADIJAT. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MR. AHMADU

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MR. AMADU ABUBAKAR NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MR. AHMADU ABUBAKAR. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OGUAKA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BALDE OUSMANE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGUAKA CHIDOZIE OSITA . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CHUKWUNWIKE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JOSEPH NNADUGWU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHUKWUNWIKE JOSEPH NNADUGWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS EBERECHI

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

AHMED

I,FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AHMED DARE RAMOMI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AHMED DARE OLAMILEKAN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN. VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MATHEW

FORMERLY BALOGUN SANDRA ESHOFUNE AND BALOGUN SANDRA ESHOFONE NOW TO BE ADDRESSED AS MATHEW CASSANDRA ESHOFUNE. FORMER DOCUMENT REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

KOLA-PETER

FORMERLY ALEBIOWU BOLAJI IRETI, NOW KOLA-PETER BOLAJI IRETI. FORMER DOCUMENT REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

SAFIU

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SAFIU BAKAI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SAFIU BAKAI IBIKUNLE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

CHIBUIKEM

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IKECHUKWU ELIAS MECHIEOBI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHIBUIKEM MICHEAL MECHIEOBI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OGUNWALE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JIMMY NANCY MARY NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGUNWALE ESTHER. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS. ADEBAYO

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ALADEJARE THEREZA NNENE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. ADEBAYO SEUN THEREZA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

JIMOH

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JIMOH ABDULRAHMAN SHOLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JIMOH RAHMAN SHOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

UCHEONYE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UCHEONYE VERONICA CHIBUZO, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UCHEONYE ORJIAKO VERONICA CHIBUZO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. CHUKWUEMEKA ODIMEGWU OJUKWU UNIVERSITY, BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS IGILI

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

SHEU

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IBRAHIM SHEU NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SHEU IBRAHIM ABAYOMI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ADDITION OF NAME FORMERLY OMOSHEBI WURAOLA OWASOYO NOW TO BE ADDRESSED AS ABOJOWA MORENIKE WURAOLA . THAT I AM THE SAME PERSON BEARING THE ABOVE NAME . MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 5TH OF AUGUST 1974.

GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

IKPEKWU

FORMERLY DANIEL JOHNSON NOW TO BE ADDRESSED AS IKPEKWU JACOB JONAH. FORMER DOCUMENT REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

NWABUONWOR

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWABUONWOR PETER JOHN NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWABUONWOR PETER CHUKWUEWENIWE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE

OMONIYI

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OMONIYI ANUOLUWAPO ZAINAB NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OMONIYI ANUOLUWAPO SERAH. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

DAVID PATIENCE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGBONNAYA PATIENCE UGO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS DAVID PATIENCE UGO AND CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH: 9TH APRIL 1987. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS ABDULLAH I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS AINA BUKKY RAMOT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ABDULLAH RAMOT TOYIN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

NWEKE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ONWORDI VICTORIA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWEKE NWOBOSHI VICTORIA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

GABRIEL SUNDAY

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS YINUSA SUNDAY ECHEFUNA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS GABRIEL SUNDAY ECHEFUNAM. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

BEATRICE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BEATRICE OKWUERIE NDULUE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BEATRICE NWOKWUERIE NDULUE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

KEVIN

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AMAECHI GEORGE CHIDOZIE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS KEVIN IFEANYICHUKWU AMAECHI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALIID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ISHOLA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ISHOLA RAIMI ADEREMI ,NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ISHOLA ISMAILA ADEREMI. ALL FORMER DOCUMET REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

MRS AKINTONDE

FORMERLY MISS LAGUNDOYE. IYABO AFUSAT ..NOW MRS. AKINTONDE IYABO AFUSAT. FORMER DOCUMENT REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

CORRECTION OF NAME THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT MY NAME WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AS SANYAOLU OLAKUNLE ABIODUN INSTEAD OF SANYAOLU OLAKUNLE AZEEZ. AND MY DATE OF BIRTH WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AS 14 APRIL 1989. AND MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 14 APRIL 1992. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

EUSEBIAN

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JAMES EUNICE OBIAGERI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS LGBOKO EUSEBIAN OBIAGERI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

AMU

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AKA PATRICIA OSOYEUWHEN NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AMU PATRICIA OSOYEUWHEN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ADAMU

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AKHILE ODIA MONDAY NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADAMU ALIE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

BRAIMAH

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BRAIMAH ABDULKEREEM KINGSLEY NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BRAIMAH KINGSLEY EHINOME. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

VICTORIA GLOBAL OUTREACH

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. REV VICTORIA STEPHEN ONYEUKWU - PRESIDENT. 2. REV STEPHEN C. ONYEUKWU. 3. DR OKO EMMANUEL O. - SECRETARY. 4. MR. EMMANUEL STEPHEN ONYEUKWU - TREASURER. AIMS AND OBJECTIVE; 1. TAKEN THE GOSPEL TO THE UNREACHED. 2. DELIVERING MEN/WOMEN FROM EVERY SATANIC BOUND. 3. GIVE HOPE TO THE HOPELESS. ANY OBJECTION(S) TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR- GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED ; DR OKO EMMANUEL O. (SECRETARY)

ENWE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, AMARACHI ENWE GABRIEL, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, ENWE, AMARACHI GRACE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

MRS PROMISE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, OKPA RITA OKECHUKWU. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, MRS. PROMISE RITA OKECHUKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

ALIGWEKWE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS LIVINUS COLLINS, NOW WISH TO BEE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ALIGWEKWE COLLINS IKENNA .

ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MISS RASHEEDAT

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS RASHEEDAT KEHINDE OGUNDIRAN NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS RASHEEDAT KEHINDE KOKUMO.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

NWACHUKWU

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OSUORJI MAUREEN OGECHI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWACHUKWU MAUREEN OGECHI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. ABSU UTURU ,BANKS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE

MRS. MOJISOLA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS. MOJISOLA EUNICE AKINWANDE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. MOJISOLA EUNICE KOMOLAFE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS GLORY

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, MISS. GLORY EBUBE OBULOR, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, MRS. GLORY HARMONY ADOMA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

GIFT AMARACHI I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, AMARACHI OKEZIE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, GIFT AMARACHI AUGUSTINEOKOROEGO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

MADUBUIKE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MADUBUIKE CHRISTIAN CHIJIOKE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MADUBUIKE XTIAN CHIJIOKE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MISS MOJISOLA I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS MOJISOLA OLAYEMI OGUNLAJA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS MOJISOLA OLAYEMI SOMADE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OPARA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AJUZIE ONYINYECHI CHRISTIANA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OPARA ONYINYECHI CHRISTIANA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. A.I.F.C.E ,BANKS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE

MADUAKO

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ONUOHA LOVETH IJEOMA. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS MADUAKO LOVETH IJEOMA ALL DOCUMENTS AND CERTIFICATES BEARING MY FORMER NAMES REMAIN VALID. BANKS, NIGERIA IMMIGRATION SERVICE, RELEVANT AUTHORITIES AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

GANIYU

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ISMAIL OLATUNJI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS GANIYU ISMAIL OLATUNJI . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

BELLO

MY NAME WAS WRITTEN IN FIDELITY BANK AS ERUNSE RITA ISIOMA, IN ACCESS BANK AS BELLO RITA ISIOMA AND MY MAIDEN NAME IS MADUEMEZIA ISIOMA RITA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BELLOERUNSE RITA ISIOMA. MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 16/07/1967. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

MRS PEACE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, MISS. PEACE EFFIONG NKANGA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, MRS. PEACE PEARY ARIYO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

OJONUGWA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, JAMES VICTOR, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, OJONUGWA VICTOR ABUH. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

OKWE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OSAGIE UJU BEAUTY, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKWE OSAGIE UJU BEAUTY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MAYUNGBE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MAYUNGBE ADEOLA ESTHER NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS . DAIRO ESTHER MULIATU. DATE OF BIRTH 7TH/02/1954.

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

MRS. IKEJI

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ATELI MONICA .N., NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. IKEJI MONICA .N. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC, OKO AND GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS SUNDAY I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS CHUKWU FAVOUR NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS MRS SUNDAY FAVOUR. ALL DOCUMENTS AND CERTIFICATES BEARING MY FORMER NAMES REMAIN VALID. BANKS, NIGERIA IMMIGRATION SERVICE, RELEVANT AUTHORITIES AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

Change of name 23

MRS FEWEHINMI

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS FANETI OLUWABUNMI OMOWUNMI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS FEWEHINMI OLUWABUNMI OMOWUNMI . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

JUNIOR

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS STEPHEN JUNIOR NWACHUKWU NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JUNIOR OGECHI NWACHUKWU. I WAS BORN ON 04/05/1991. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS. BLESSING

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, MISS. BLESSING OGHALE OKODHI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, MRS. BLESSING OGHALE EKAKITIE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

CHUKWUDI

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, NWAFOR JULIANA NGOZIKA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, CHUKWUDI JULIANA NGOZIKA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

GODWIN CHINYERE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHINYERE ONAZI,CHINYERE ORIZU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS GODWIN CHINYERE JOY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ALUKO

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ALUKO OLUWAFISAYO OMORINOLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADARALOYE OLUWAFISAYO OMORINOLA ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

IWUOHA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IWUOHA REMIGIUS IFEDY, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IWUOHA MICHAEL REMY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OROBIYI

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ODUBIYI BUSOLA HANNAH. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED OROBIYI BUSOLA HANNAH. ALL DOCUMENTS AND CERTIFICATES BEARING MY FORMER NAMES REMAIN VALID. BANKS, NIGERIA IMMIGRATION SERVICE, RELEVANT AUTHORITIES AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

JOYCE

IDRIS IBRAHIM

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IDRIS IBRAHIM ABASS NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IDRIS IBRAHIM . I WAS BORN ON 01/02/1980. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

EDOKI

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MORMAH EMMANUEL NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EDOKI EMMANUEL. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CORRECTION OF NAME I, KALIO, TAMUNO-IDUABIA SOBIE, AND KALIO, TAMUNO SOBIE, REFER TO ONE AND SAME PERSON BUT, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, KALIO, TAMUNO-IDUABIA SOBIE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

BRAIDE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, BRAIDE, DEINYIBO FIRSTBURY G., NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, BRAIDE, DEINYIBO DONALD. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

FRANCISCA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NDIKA FRANCA ,NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FRANCISCA IFEANYICHUKWU ATUOKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ARIMI

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ARIMI SULEIMON MUSA ,NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ARIMI SULAIMON SODEEQ MUSA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CHUKWUEMEKA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSES AS CHUKWUEMEKA PATIENCE WESMOORE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSES AS CHUKWUEMEKA PATIENCE. AND MY CORRECT DATE OF IS 29 DECEMBER 1984. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS NGOZI

I FORMERLY KNOWN,CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS MISS NGOZI CHIDINMA ORJI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESS AS MRS NGOZI CHIDINMA DANIEL.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID.GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

DAUDA ISRAEL I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS DAUDA GODSPEL IZIRIEN NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS DAUDA ISRAEL GOSPEL . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

SALIU

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SALYHOO SABRY OLAWALE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SALIU SABURY OLAWALE . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC TO PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ANIMASHAUN I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ANIMASHAUN OLUWAGBEMINIYI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ANIMASHAUN ADETORO OLAITAN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

OKPARA I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, NJOKU ABIGAIL, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, OKPARA ABIGAIL NWNERIKA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

LAWAL I FORMERLY AND ADDRESSED AS LAWAL OLANIPEKUN ABDUL FATAI. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS LAWAL ADEWALE ABDUL FATAI .

ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

EMMANUEL PAUL I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EMMANUEL PAUL .WRONG DATE OF BIRTH :22ND SEPTEMBER 1993. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EMMANUEL PAUL OCHOKWUNU . CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH 3RD MARCH 1992 . ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CORRECTION OF NAME THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT MY CORRECT NAME IS OLUBITAN SOLOMON SAMUEL AND NOT SOLOMAN, SOLOMAN NIYI OLUBITAN AS WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN. BANKS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OBIABUNMO

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWORAH NNEKA MAUREEN NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OBIABUNMO NNEKA MAUREEN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. A.I.F.C.E ,BANKS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

FASHEUN IZEEK ADEWALE

EDHERIAKPO FIDELIS THOMAS

MISS JESSICA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGUNSOLA ISAAC OLADELE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FASHEUN IZEEK ADEWALE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EDHERIAKPO FIDELIX TONY NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EDHERIAKPO FIDELIS THOMAS. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, MISS JESSICA OTENE ENE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, MISS JESSICA ENE TONY-OCHEME. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

MISS EZEKIEL DEBORAH AMAKA

MR. EZEKIEL ERIC UCHENNA UDOKA

MRS ESE FAPOHUNDA

ANIETIE GODWIN GODSWILL

MRS EESUOLA SEKINAT JUMOKE

MRS SHOLAJA OLAIDE OLASHILE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS MISS ONWUKA DEBORAH AMAKA SOMADINA NOW WHICH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS EZEKIEL DEBORAH AMAKA SOMADINA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I , FORMERLY KNOWN AS MR. ONWUKA UCHE NOW TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MR. EZEKIEL ERIC UCHENNA UDOKA . ALL THE FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ESE ARUMEMI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ESE FAPOHUNDA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS GODWIN BROWNSON GODSWILL NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ANIETIE GODWIN GODSWILL. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS MOSOBALAJE SEKINAT JUMOKE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS EESUOLA SEKINAT JUMOKE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMIAN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ABASS OLAIDE OLASHILE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS SHOLAJA OLAIDE OLASHILE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, KATE DAN JUMBO, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, JOYCE BEKITHEMBA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, VICTORIA HENRY, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, VICTORIA HENRY SYLVANUS. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

HENRY I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, HENRY UGOCHUKWU NDIMKOHA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, HENRY UGOCHUKWU OBIEFULE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

24 Change of names

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

KELVIN MARK OVIRA I, formerly known and addressed as KELVIN MARK GODSTIME, now wish to be known and addressed as KELVIN MARK OVIRA. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public/Authorities Concerned please take note.

THIS SPACE IS FOR SALE

OMOTAYO OLASIMBO BETTY I, formerly known and addressed as EGBUWALO OLASIMBO BETTY, now wish to be known and addressed as OMOTAYO OLASIMBO BETTY. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public/Authorities Concerned should please take note.

MADUKA MICHAEL CHIBUZOR

I, formerly known and addressed as EKWEMUO CHIBUZOR UCHE now wish to be known and addressed as MADUKA MICHAEL CHIBUZOR. All former documents remain valid and general public take note.

OGBUMBA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS OGBUMBA JOHN KENNEDY OR OGBUMBA JOHN KENNEDY IKECHUKWU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS OGBUMBA TITUS IKECHUKWU. ALL OTHER DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAMES REMAIN VALID. BANKS & THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ADIBE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MBAKIGWE SYLVIA CHIOMA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADIBE SYLVIA CHIOMA (NEE EJIKEME). ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

UMEH OGECHI

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JONAH OGECHI PRECIOUS, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UMEH OGECHI PRECIOUS. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

NKOLOAGU

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NKOLAGU VICTORIA ADAEKE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NKOLOAGU VICTORIA ADAEKE. MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 23RD DECEMBER 1960.

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

EVANGELINE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EVE NNEKA OBIAMIWE AND EVAN NNEKA OBIAMIWE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EVANGELINE NNEKA OBIAMIWE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS UGWUEYA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS CHRIS IFESINACHI LOVELYN, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS UGWUEYA IFESINACHI LOVELYN.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. NYSC AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

UGOCHUKWU

WE FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS DICK UGOCHUKWU PRAISE, DICK CHIKADIBIA COURAGE AND DICK DOMINION EBUBE CHUKWU NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UGOCHUKWU UGOCHUKWU JR PRAISE, UGOCHUKWU CHIKADIBIA COURAGE AND UGOCHUKWU DOMINION EBUBECHUKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

MRS ILO

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OJUKWU CHITO SHEILA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ILO CHITO SHEILA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. NYSC AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MAMAH

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MAMAH NNANNA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MAMAH NNANNA ONYEDIKACHI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS ADAEZE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ADAEZE STELLA NWACHUKWU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ADAEZE STELLA OKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. NYSC AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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

TRUSTEES: 1. PASTOR ANIFOWOSE THOMAS 2. ANIFOWOSE TEMITOPE 3 MR ADEWUMI TOSIN AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST IN ALL PART OF THE WORD 2. TO ORGANISE CHRISTIAN CONFERENCES AND EVANGELICAL PROGRAMMES FOR GOSPEL PROPAGATION. 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: PASTOR ANIFOWOSE THOMAS (TRUSTEE,)

ANYOGU CHARITY NGOZ

KAMARA OLASHILE MUFUTAU

I formerly known and addressed as NWAFOR CHARITY NGOZI now wish to be known called and addressed as ANYOGU CHARITY NGOZI. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

I formerly known and addressed as ALIMI OLASHILE DAMILARE now wish to be known called and addressed as KAMARA OLASHILE MUFUTAU. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note

ADEBAYO OLUWASEUN GLADYS

DAVID IRIOGBE

I, formerly known and addressed as Adesina Oluwaseun Gladys now wish to be known and addressed as Adebayo Oluwaseun Gladys. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as FRANCIS OMONDIAGBE IRIOGBE, now wish to be known and addressed as DAVID IRIOGBE. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note

BUKKY ANJOLA ADELEYE-NLEMCHI.

SHAIBU BINTU

I, formerly known and addressed as ADELEYE BUKKY ANJOLA, now wish to be known and addressed as BUKKY ANJOLA ADELEYE-NLEMCHI. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public/Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MOHAMMED SHAIBU BINTA and HALIDU BINTA, now wish to be known and addressed as SHAIBU BINTU. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public/Authorities Concerned should please take note.

MRS. OREPO OLUWATOYIN FUNMILOLA

UDO

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UDEH FRANSISCO CHIGOZIE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UDO JOHNPAUL CHIGOZIE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS DARAMOLA OLUWATOYIN FUNMILOLA now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. OREPO OLUWATOYIN FUNMILOLA. All former documents remain valid and general public take note.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

CORRECTION OF NAME

THIS IS TO CERTIFY AND CONFIRM THAT ALEXANDER NNAMUCHI AND ALEXANDER NNAMUCHI ANIKE REFERS AS ONE AND THE SAME PERSON NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ALEXANDER NNAMUCHI ANIKE. MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 28TH JANUARY 1958. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT MY NAME IFEOMA CHINENYE OZURUMBA WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN DURING MY BVN REGISTRATION, BUT NOW WISH TO BE CORRECTED AND ADDRESSED AS OZURUMBA VIVIEN CHINENYE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS IGWEZE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OCHEFU RACHAEL GODWIN, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS IGWEZE RACHAEL ONYECHE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS OKORIE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ONU MARYROSE CHIAMAKA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OKORIE MARYROSE CHIAMAKA.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS UGWU

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ONYIA NWAMAKA ABIGAIL, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS UGWU NWAMAKA ABIGAIL. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. NYSC AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS DIALOKE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ATTAH NKECHINYERE. M., NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS DIALOKE CHIDEBERE PROMISE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS UDE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS EZE MARY EKWUTOSI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS UDE MARY EKWUTOSI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. NYSC ,BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OBASI

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IGU NWAMAKA EBELE CHUKWU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OBASI NWAMAKA EBELECHUKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. UNTH AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

PUBLIC NOTICE

MADUKA FELICIA OBIAGELI

I, formerly known and addressed as EKWEMUO FELICIA OBIAGELI now wish to be known and addressed as MADUKA FELICIA OBIAGELI. All former documents remain valid and general public take note.

ADDITION OF NAME

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

MRS UKPABI

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OKECHUKWU CHIKA SABINA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS UKPABI CHIKA SABINA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

KELECHUKWU

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS KENECHUKWU NKEM LIVINUS, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS KELECHUKWU LIVINUS ONUZURUIKE. MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 10TH OCT . 1969 ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS OJI

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS EKEN CYNTHIA CHIGOZIE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OJI CYNTHIA CHIGOZIE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

AYOOLA KOLAWOLE PAUL SHOWUNMI: Formerly known and addressed as SHOWUNMI KOLAWOLE PAUL, now wish to be known and addressed as AYOOLA KOLAWOLE PAUL. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

CHANGE OF NAME/ CONFIRMATION Formerly known and addressed as PAUL OBOH, now wish to be known and addressed as HILLARY MUONEKE. That HILLARY MUONEKE and PAUL OBOH refer to one and same person. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note

JESSICA ANASTECIA AKAZIE I, formerly known and addressed as CHIOMA ANASTECIA AKAZIE, now wish to be known and addressed as JESSICA ANASTECIA AKAZIE. All documents bearing my former names remain valid.

General public/Authorities Concerned should please take note.

MADUKA STANLEY ONYEKA I, formerly known and addressed as EKWEMUO ONYEKA SHOLLY STANLEY now wish to be known and addressed as MADUKA STANLEY ONYEKA. All former documents remain valid and general public take note.

CHUKWUMA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS OBINNA-ESIOWU SOM CHINELO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS CHUKWUMA-NKWOCHA SOM CHINELO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, THE PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

MRS IGWEBUIKE

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

UMEH

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JONAH CHINECHEREM BEN, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UMEH CHINECHEREM BEN- JONAH. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

NWAODOH

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ODO STANLEY ABUCHI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWAODOH STANLEY ABUCHI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

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

TRUSTEES ARE: 1.DR MRS EKA ANIEFIOK UKPE 2. BARRISTER ANIEFIOK EFIONG UKPE 3. NNEOMA CHUKWUEMEKA IDIKA (MRS) AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. COMMUNITY EDUCATION ON HEALTH RELATED MATTERS 2. PROVIDING FIRST AID CARE WITHIN RURAL COMMUNITIES ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: CHAIRMAN

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

25

News

Hoodlums attack houses of senator, 4 others in Kogi Idris Ahmed, Lokoja

ÎÎÎ As the 2019 general elec-

tion draws nearer, polotical thuggery has commenced in Kogi state After a failed attempt to disrupt the empowerment programme organised by Senator Ahmed Ogembe (Kogi Central)in Okene on saturday, some suspected hoodlums on Sunday night attacked his house and that of the former member of House of Representatives, Alhaji Abdulkarem Salihu.

Houses of three other members of the People’s Democratic Party in Okene, Okehi and Adavi local government areas were not

spared.

Reports from the Central Senatorial district revealed that the thugs numbering over 50 allegedly invaded the Senator’s house at Obehira, Okene local government area of the state and destroyed property worth millions of naira.

The Saturday attack during the empowerment programme initiated by the senator left many people injured.

Eye witness account disclosed that the thugs who invaded the area carried dangerous weapons and shot sporadically in to air to scare people away They allegedly looted property and destroyed several cars belonging to the former member of House

of Representatives Hon.Abdulkarim Salihu.

Other houses invaded by the thugs include those of state Financial Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party, Mr. Jude Sule, the Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party in Okehi, Mallam Adinoyi Aroke and that of PDP youths leader Mr. Haruna.

Mean while, Senator Ahmed Ogembe has called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of those behind the attack in Kogi Central.

In a statement issued yesterday in Lokoja, the Senator said those behind the attack are the coordinators of killers squad being trained to harass, intimidate and unleash may-

hem on members of the opposition party in the Central Senatorial district.

Ogembe expressed his disgust to the destruction of property and disturbances that followed the unsuccessful attempt to stop his empowerment program, The statement said the programme eventually took place despite initial attacks by thugs suspected to be loyal to the ruling party, All Progressive Party. (APC).

The Senator said until those behind the crisis are quickly made to face the law, the dangerous trend could continue,.

“We are not only calling on security agencies to effect the

arrest, we are also asking for their prosecution because we have enough evidences to sue those behind the crime to court. “After they tried severally to stop the program from holding and were resisted by youths and team of Security men that were with me, they later in the night led same thugs to destroy houses and belongings of members of my party (PDP) and left many injured,” Ogembe said. The senator who said the security challenge forced him to make night trip back to Abuja due to threat to his life urged public to also hold the state government responsible should anything happen to him.

“It appears these boys haxe the support of the state government because 24 hours after this sad incidence that was widely reported by media, no official statement has been issued by the government to condemn the act or caution the said thugs, “ he said.

Alhaji Abdulkarim Salihu who also spoke with newsmen said his residence was invaded by the suspected thugs.

According to him, the hoodlums vandalised four of his vehicles and also looted his property.

He added that it was the security men that saved the situation as the hoodlums escaped by scaling the fence when the security men arrived.

N3.2b fraud: How millions were paid into Slok’s account - Witness Peter Fowoyo

ÎÎÎ

A Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos was on Monday told how several millions were paid into the account of Slok Nigeria Limited, a company belonging to the former governor of Abia State, Mr. Orji Uzor Kalu, during the period he was the governor of the state.

Kalu, his company, Slok Nigeria Limited and one his Director of Finance and Accounts, Udeh Jones Udeogu, are being tried before Justice Mohammed Idris led-court, on charges bordering on N2.9 billion fraud, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

They were accused of conspiring to siphon N2.9bn from the account of the Abia State Government House but they all pleaded not guilty.

At the proceedings yesterday, a compliant officer with First City Monument Bank (FCMB), Olusegun Adesomoju, who was ledin-evidence by the prosecutor, Mr. Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), gave a graphic detail of how several millions were paid through bank drafts into Sloks Nigeria Limited’s account domiciled in Apapa branch of First Inland Bank, between 2001 to 2005.

In giving the details how the monies were paid into Slok’s account, the witness said between August 16 till December 6, total sum of N110 million which were paid in tranches of N20 million, N13 million, N17 million, and N40 million.

He also narrated before the court how the sum of N200 million, N550 million, N157 million, and N134 million, which were paid in tranches between 2002 to 2005, into the account of Slok Nigeria limited, through bank drafts.

Though, the witness who told the court that he was a Youth Corper, when the transactions was carried out, did not tell the court the source of the drafts and the person that paid them into the account.

The matter has been adjourned till Tuesday for the defence to cross-examine the witness, and continuation of trial.

The EFCC, in the charges, alleged that while he was governor of Abia State, Kalu siphoned funds running into over N2.9bn from the state’s treasury.

The ex-governor was accused of diverting state funds into the account of Slok Nigeria Limited, a company, the EFCC claimed was owned by Kalu and his family members.

The offence is said to be contrary to Section 17 (c) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act 2003 and punishable under Section 16 of the same Act. The EFCC accused Slok Nigeria Limited of conniving with one Emeka Abone, said to be at large, to help Kalu retain the allegedly stolen funds in its accounts, when Slok Nigeria Limited “knew or at least suspected the said Orji Uzor Kalu to have engaged in a criminal conduct.”

DIG in - charge of training, DIG Emmanuel Inyang(fifth right), Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Lagos state(sixth right) and other participants at the One-day training on latest investigations skills, crime scene management and DNA in Lagos.....on Monday

Obaseki swears-in elected LG chairmen, urges prudent management of N2b Paris Club savings Titus Akhigbe

ÎÎÎ

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has sworn-in the newly elected local council chairmen for the 18 local government areas of the state, charging them on prudent management of resources saved up in their treasuries.

Speaking at the swearing-in ceremony held at the Government House, in Benin City, Edo State capital, on Monday, Obaseki charged the new heads of the councils to be accountable, responsive and responsible in administering the affairs of their councils.

He said, “My administration has kept aside N2 bil-

lion saved from the Paris Club refunds in the councils’ treasury for the new executives to commence activities.

According to him, “You are not coming to meet an empty treasury. I have saved your Paris refund in excess of N2billion and some of you have savings in excess of N2billion.

“So, you will be coming into office with some reserves and savings, but you have to focus on enduring projects.”

He said the era, in which council bosses left offices with debts for their successors would not be accepted, noting that his administration has spent the last 17 months offsetting debts in-

curred by former local government executives.

The governor described the peaceful conduct of the electoral process as historical, noting, “The increasing acceptability of the laudable programmes of the All Progressives Congress (APC) enabled you to secure victory at the polls. We do not expect less from you.

“Your elections were free and fair, so you must go and serve the people who voted you into office. You have no Godfather to settle. Your sole responsibility must be the welfare of the people in your council,” the governor charged the newly elected executives.

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris

Ngige, who witnessed the swearing-in ceremony, commended Governor Obaseki for saving up funds for the chairmen to kick-start their activities. He described the act as benevolent and urged the council bosses to utilize the fund for the benefit of the masses.

In his vote of thanks on behalf of other chairpersons, Mr. Jenkins Osunde, Oredo Local Council chairman, thanked people of the state for finding them worthy to pilot their affairs.

He assured that they would live up to the confidence reposed in them and build on the foundation already laid by the Godwin Obaseki-led administration.

News 26

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Group threatens to occupy Senate over plan to suspend 10 senators Yakubu Salisu, Kano

ÏÏÏA

civil society group known as Concern Democratic Initiative Movement for Good Governance (CDIMGG) has threatened to embark on a nationwide peaceful protest by occupying and halting all Senate activities until Human rights as well as interests of all Nigerians are respected by the Senate President.

According to the group’s National Coordinator, Ado Mallam Rossi, the group resorted to such decision as a result of the recent alleged plan to suspend 10 pro-Buhari Senators who opposed the amendment of the 2019 general election time table set by

the Independent National Electoral Commission, by the pro-Saraki Group of the 8th Senate, which they view as a deliberate attempt to deprive the senators their freedom of Expression as enshrined in section 39 subsection (1) of the Federal Republic Of Nigeria Constitution.

The group called upon the leadership of the Senate to immediately withdraw the plan to suspend the 10 senators because it violates the Constitution, noting that the Senate President is also under trial at the Code of conduct tribunal and as well has been accused of refusing to pay tax as stated by the Paradise paper investigation Report but instead of him honourably resigning

from his position, he is still clinching to the post and whoever opposes him or objects to his foul antics, is silenced by hindering him from attending the Senate in the name of suspension.

“Going by the happenings at the 8th Senate, we observe with utmost displeasure the body language of the Senate president of working for the PDP to sabotage APC-led agenda at all levels especially using his allies within the APC to stagnate all development programs, and appointments proposed by the Buhari-led Administration, in which the position which he (Saraki) occupies is in contrary to the Constitution of the Federal Republic as stated in section 52 sub

section one; that “ Every member of the Senate or House of Representatives shall before taking his seat declare his assets and liabilities as prescribed in this Constitution and subsequently, take and subscribe the oath of allegiance and the oath of membership as prescribed in the seventh schedule to this Constitution before the president of the Senate or, as the case may be the speaker of the house of Representatives, which that allows him to contest for the position of any principal officers position in the assembly, which Saraki gave a false declaration of his assets and now facing the tribunal but despite violating the said section he was not

barred from performing his constitutional duties” The group further stressed that the country has never witnessed discrimination of right to freedom as said by section 42 (1) of the republic Constitution, were citizens of the country has the right to political opinion as is been recorded presently. That the in order to achieve some selfish needs of some individuals, the suspended senators and the people from their constituency have been deprived their right of citizenship of the republic which violates their right as Nigerians are the senators were only speaking the minds of those whom they represent at the Senate.

“You see a vivid example of such is the recent suspension of Senator Ndume and now the Patriotic senators, all these we see as a deliberate attempt to sabotage the Recent reconciliation assignment embarked upon by the National chieftain of the APC, Asuwaju Bola Ahmadu Tininbu, directed by the president, this, the Senate President and his allies set to frustrate.

“We want it to be on record that, if after the 7days ultimatum starting from the 5th of March the suspended Senators are not called back to the Senate, we shall mobilise and occupy the Senate until our voices and call for justice is heard.

Herdsmen kill 1, exhume corpse, burn houses in Nasarawa Augustine Kuza, Lafia

ÏÏÏ

Wife of Ondo state Governor, Arabinrin Betty Anyanwu - Akeredolu (Left) receiving an award ‘ Ondo State Outstanding Recognition Award’ from the Publiher of Heros International Magazine, Dr Sunday Akinbiola ( middle), during the 5th Ondo State Female Role Model award in Akure.... on Sunday

The population of Tiv extraction in Nasarawa State continued to decomated as Herdsmen attacked and killed one Aondoawase Mngunyi, exhumed corpse and burnt Houses in Tseyange, a settlement Area in Abaagu, Obi Local Government Area of the state.

The tragedy was said to have occurred when the deceased, Aondoawase, with three of his brothers, went to see their farm that was located close to the house they deserted two weeks back when the herdsmen well known to them descended on them.

A member of the family Vincent Yange, told our correspondent that his younger brothers were attacked when they went to inspect their orchards, close to Tseyange, the herdsmen swooped on them and short one of them to death.

Yange who expressed dismay over the killing also informed our correspondent that a corpse that was buried shortly before they left the Area was also exhumed by the war Lords, after which they burned down several houses.

He cried out that the presence of the Army in the state did not stop killings and wondered what farmers would do now that the raining season is fast approaching.

“We were thinking that the presence of the Army exercise, Ayem Akpatuma, in the state would stop the incessant killings but as Fulani mercenaries claimed being more than the Army, so only God would help the Tiv nation.”

When contacted the Police Public Relation Officer, (PPRO) of the Nasarawa state command John Idrisu Kennedy, who confirmed the incident said investigation was going on to fish out the perpetrators.

Nigeria’s poor CPI, setback for anti-graft war – Group Nosa Akenzua, Delta

ÏÏÏThe Executive Direc-

tor, Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) and THE National Contact of Transparency International (TI), Mr. Auwal Ibrahim Musa (Rafsanjani) has said that the Nigeria’s poor performance in Corruption Perception Index (CPI) was a serious setback in the fight against corruption.

Rafsanjani in a press statement personally signed by him averred that

the report confirmed that grant-corruption, political corruption, nepotism, favouritism and bribery persist in Nigeria at all levels. He noted that the negative perception was mainly a consequence of the inability to combat grant corruption and astronomical plundering of public coffers costing the Nigerian tax payers around 25 percent of annual gross domestic product (GDP) He lamented that since the current administra-

tion came to power on the anti-corruption ticket, no significant politically exposed person has been duly sentenced on anticorruption charges.

He noted that anticorruption agencies have accelerated the rate of convictions on anti-corruption charges, adding that Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) alone brought 286 cases to conviction in 2016 and 2017.

The Executive Director however said that, major-

ity assets into the state budget and no effect on unfavourable public opinion.

Accusing the judiciary, he said, “there is reason to suspect that the judiciary is either not able or willing to prosecute the VIP cases of senior public servants and elected politicians who have either directly plundered lucrative Nigerian state resources or were at least responsible for the catastrophic lack of oversight over public funds as mandated

by the constitution”.

The disclosed that promising steps such as the drafting of the first-ever National Anti-Corruption Strategy in 2017 have been undertaken but that little was done to put the strategy in motion. “Such halfway abandoned projects are unlikely to convince the Nigerian public and the international community about the seriousness to fight corruption”, he acknowledged.

“On a similar note, Nigeria has made numerous

international commitments to tackle corruption and lack of transparency.

14 commitments were made as part of the open government partnership effort. In some cases, a modest progress has been made.

The World Bank Doing Business Index has improved due to concerted effort of the government and the civil society. However, the majority of the 14 commitment stay unfulfilled”.

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

News 27

2019: Time running out Father, son arrested for selling on PDP- Dickson tramadol, hard drugs to students Chris Eze,

Yenagoa

ÏÏÏBayelsa

Governor, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson has called on all PDP leaders and members of the party to get cracking and put their house in order to oust APC from power in 2019.

The Governor said with less than one year to the 2019 general election, time is of essence and the right thing to do, now is for all men of good will to come together to challenge the APC. Dickson who was reacting to the defection of Professors Jerry Gana and Tunde Adeniran from PDP to the Social Democratic Party, SDP said PDP is a national asset owned by all Nigerians, and not by any individual.

The Governor in a press statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Francis Ottah Agbo in Yenagoa described Professors Jerry Gana and Adeniran as icons of democracy and leaders of progressive politics in the PDP and the country, stressing that they must be wooed back to the PDP fold.

Dickson who is also the Chairman of PDP Reconciliation Committee noted that, while the leaders of the party are important stakeholders in the scheme of things, the real stakeholders of PDP are the ordinary Nigerians in whom sovereignty lies.

The Governor said the most rational thing for all PDP stakeholders to do now is to start a process of building consensus and

reaching out to players across party lines with the PDP leading the coalition to wrest power from APC in 2019.

The statement reads: “No one Governor, no one Lawmaker or leader of PDP can own PDP or singlehandedly produce a presidential candidate.

Therefore, what is required of PDP leaders now is to work with all parties including those who have left the PDP to produce a credible candidate that is acceptable to the generality of Nigerians on the platform of PDP to defeat the APC in 2019.”

The Governor said his Reconciliation Committee will continuously engage aggrieved party members, including those who have left PDP to return to the party, stressing that: “we must be together to save our party and country from collapse.”

The Governor also called on PDP members not to lose faith in the party, noting that, the next election is critical to the survival of democracy and the nation.

He pointed out that, history will be unkind to PDP leaders, if they fail to lead a coalition to unseat the APC-led Federal Government, which he noted has put the nation on a precipice!

Joy Anyim of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a father and his son for selling Tramadol and other hard drugs to primary and secondary school pupils in Itire, Lagos.

The father, Ibrahim Sheu (40) and Franku Ibrahim (23) were arrested on Friday after officials of the Office of Education and Quality Assurance, Lagos State, alerted the Rapid Response Squad officers about the incident.

The suspects, who are petty traders at a kiosk in Adedeji Bus stop, Itire, Lagos were caught selling the drugs to school pupils. Some of the pupils were later interrogated and released to their parents.

The officials of the Ministry of Education, Lagos State, on routine monitoring of schools around the area had gotten report of strange attitude of some of the school pupils in the area.

The curiosity led to the discovery of the traders selling tramadol and other hard drug to some of the school

pupils in the area.

Further investigations by Rapid Response Squad officials led to the confirmation of the report and arrest of both the father and his son.

Recovered from the suspects were 72 pieces of Tramadol capsules, 28 tablets of Tramol and some other capsules.

The father, Ibrahim Sheu, who initially denied selling hard drugs to pupils, stated that it was his son that sold to the pupils whenever he was not around later confessed they both sold to pupils but added that they sold

to adults too.

Commenting on the incident, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Imohimi Edgal advised parents and guardians to always debrief their wards whenever they come back from school to know their activities in schools and the kind of friends they associate with.

Edgal added that the case would be thoroughly investigated and the prosecution monitored.

The suspects are to be transferred to the SCID for further investigation.

ADEBAYO MISTURA ALOLANIBI

AMAH PRECIOUS NNANNA.

OMIRIN VICTORIA SOLABOMI

MRS OLALEYE ADEDAYO TEMITOPE

Formerly known and addressed as AREMU MISTURA ALOLANIBI, now wish to be known and addressed as ADEBAYO MISTURA ALOLANIBI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

I, formerly known and addressed as KELECHUKWU NNANNA AMAH-OKEH ;now wish to be known and addressed as AMAH PRECIOUS NNANNA. All former documents remain valid. BANKS and General public take note.

I formerly known and addressed as OMIRIN VICTORIA ALAKE now wish to be known called and addressed as OMIRIN VICTORIA SOLABOMI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I formerly known and addressed as MISS ADEBESIN ADEDAYO TEMITOPE now wish to be known called and addressed as MRS OLALEYE ADEDAYO TEMITOPE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

MRS ELIZABETH ADAEZE EGBUNOWON

MARTINS ISAAC PROMISE

MRS. YAKUBU RUKAYAT ADENIKE.

ISAAC : Formerly known and addressed as OLATUJA ISAAC, now wish to be known and addressed as MARTINS ISAAC PROMISE. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

AZEEZ ALABA BABALOLA

Formerly known and addressed as Miss Elizabeth Adaeze Odogwu, now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs Elizabeth Adaeze Egbunowon. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as ALAO GAFAR OLATUNJI now wish to be known and addressed as AZEEZ ALABA BABALOLA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note .

I, formerly known and addressed as Miss ADEYEMI RUKAYAT ADENIKE now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs. YAKUBU RUKAYAT ADENIKE. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

EKEJA IFEOMA GEORGINA

EMAFOLOMI EMMANUEL JOHNSON

OSHO OYEJOKE ABOSEDE

I, formerly known and addressed as OFORDILE IFEOMA GEORGINA, now wish to be known and addressed as EKEJA IFEOMA GEORGINA. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public/Authorities Concerned should please take note.

CONFIRMATION OF NAMES/ CORRECTION OF BIRTH DATE This is to confirm and certify that JOSEPH UMAR ZAINAB, GIWA-BIOKU ZAINAB, GIWA BIOKU ZAINAB, GIWA –BIOKU ZAINAB TOLUWALASE and ZAINAB T’OLUWASHE AJIKE GIWABIOKU refer to JOSEPH ZAINAB T’OLUWASHE. That my correct date of birth is 26/01/1984 and not 27/01/1984. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

I, formerly known and addressed as EMAFOLOMI EMMANUEL KENNY as appeared on my BVN Zenith Account, now wish to be known and addressed as EMAFOLOMI EMMANUEL JOHNSON. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public/Authorities Concerned please take note.

CORRECTION OF NAME

ODAH MONDAY ONYEBUCHI

CORRECTION OF NAME

That in some instances my name was wrongly written as TIWO RALPH SANMI instead of TIWO RICHARD AKINSANMI. That I now wish to be known and addressed as TIWO RICHARD AKINSANMI. All former documents remain valid and general public take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as ODAH MONDAY JOSEPH now wish to be known and addressed as ODAH MONDAY ONYEBUCHI. All former documents remain valid and general public take note.

That I was formerly known called and addressed as ELIZABETH ABULU. Now wish to be known called and addressed as OSUNDE ELIZABETH. Former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

MADUKA UGOCHUKWU DANIEL I, formerly known and addressed as EKWEMUO UGOCHUKWU DANIEL now wish to be known and addressed as MADUKA UGOCHUKWU DANIEL. All former documents remain valid and general public take note.

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS HAPPINESS GODWIN ANYA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS HAPPINESS GODWIN ELEAZU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

MRS. ASHAOLU CHRISTIANA BOSE

DIVINE TITILAYO BRIDGET

Formerly known and addressed as OMORDIA CHRISTIANA BOSE, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. ASHAOLU CHRISTIANA BOSE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

XXX

Formerly known and addressed as OGEDENGBE TITILAYO BRIDGET, now wish to be known and addressed as DIVINE TITILAYO BRIDGET. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as ORUMAH OGHENERUEMU, now wish to be known and addressed as IJESA OGHENERUEMU. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

OLANREWAJU OLUWADAMILOLA ADESHAKIN BANKOLE

RAIMI YUSUF ABAYOMI

BANIRE ABIGAIL ISEOLUWA

NWANUMA FELICIA EKECHI.

Formerly known and addressed as AKINTOMIDE ABIGAIL ISEOLUWA, now wish to be known and addressed as BANIRE ABIGAIL ISEOLUWA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

Formerly known and addressed as IGAH FELICIA EKECHI, now wish to be known and addressed as NWANUMA FELICIA EKECHI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

ADDITION OF NAME

This is to confirm and certify that I, ALAGBALA OMOWUNMI ABAKE is one and same person bearing ALAGBALA OMOWUMI. That I now wish to be known and addressed as ALAGBALA OMOWUNMI ABAKE. That all documents bearing the above mentioned names are valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as OMOFUMA CHRISTIANA. That I wish to add UWABHAKHOMEN to my name. That I wish to be known and addressed as OMOFUMA CHRISTIANA UWABHAKHOMEN. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

MRS SUNDAY FAVOUR

MRS ONWUMELU LETICIA UGONNA

Formerly known and addressed as MISS CHUKWU FAVOUR, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS SUNDAY FAVOUR. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as MISS NWOGU LETICIA UGONNA, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS ONWUMELU LETICIA UGONNA. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

ÏÏÏMen

PRISCA CHINENYENWA FELIX. Formerly known and addressed as PRISCA CHINENYENWA UMUNNAKWE, now wish to be known and addressed as PRISCA CHINENYENWA FELIX. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

NWANKPA CHARLES AHAMEFULA Formerly known and addressed as JOSEPH CHARLES AHAMEFULA, now wish to be known and addressed as NWANKPA CHARLES AHAMEFULA. That my date of birth is 10 January 1983. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

KEHINDE –SANGSTER AYODELE NAOMI. Formerly known and addressed as BENSON AYODELE NAOMI, now wish to be known and addressed as KEHINDE –SANGSTER AYODELE NAOMI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

ZARAMI BABAGANA Formerly known and addressed as BABA GAWA ZARAMI, now wish to be known and addressed as ZARAMI BABAGANA . That my date of birth is 16 November 1980. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

NDETI MFON HINGINOKAI

Formerly known and addressed as ETARA MFON EFIONG, now wish to be known and addressed as NDETI MFON HINGINOKAI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as OLANREWAJU OLUWADAMILOLA BANKOLE, now wish to be known and addressed as OLANREWAJU OLUWADAMILOLA ADESHAKIN BANKOLE. That my date of birth is 15/05/1988 and not 15/05/1982.

All former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

CORRECTION OF NAME/BIRTH DATE This is to inform the general public that my name was wrongly written as DOSUNMU ADEBOWALE SHODIPE instead of SHODIPEDOSUNMU ADEWOLE HASSAN. That I was born on 29/08/1989 and not 19/08/1989. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as OPATOLA OYEJOKE ABOSEDE, now wish to be known and addressed as OSHO OYEJOKE ABOSEDE. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public/Authorities Concerned should please take note.

HAPPINESS GODWIN ELEAZU

Formerly known and addressed as ATANDA RAHEEM YUSSUF, now wish to be known and addressed as RAIMI YUSUF ABAYOMI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

OLUBAYO IDOWU DEBORAH.

Formerly known and addressed as AKINDOLIE IDOWU DEBORAH, now wish to be known and addressed as OLUBAYO IDOWU DEBORAH. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

28 News

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Police DIG calls for re-training of personnel to meet current security challenges Joy Anyim

ÏÏÏThe

Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of Training and Development, DIG Emmanuel Inyang, has again, emphasized on the need to re-train police personnel to meet with the demands of the current security challenges in the country.

The DIG who was speaking during the opening ceremony of a 10 days training programme for Crime Scene Management organised by the German Development Co-corporation (GIZ) of the German Foreign Office in partnership with the Nigeria Police Force and the Lagos State Ministry of Justice noted that the task of crime fighting, prevention and prosecution requires special skills, tactics and training to succeed.

Speaking at the ceremony which held at the Lagos State DNA & Forensic Centre on Monday, Inyang revealed that the Force had recently succeed in training over 18,000 of its personnel in Human rights, EOD, rescue operation, anti-kidnapping, negotiation tactics, advanced detective course and security management.

According to him, “ The challenges of policing in the 21st Century is dynamic and enormous all over the world and Nigeria is not an exception. Therefore, for modern day crime investigators to perform their duties effectively and efficiently, sufficient training must be given to them regularly to sharpen their investigation skills.”

Commenting on the usefulness of the training which drew 27 participants from Oyo, Lagos, Ogun Ondo and Osun, Inyang said, “The concept of crime scene investigation is very critical in police duties.

The basic raw materials for forensic analysis in crime investigation are obtained at the crime scene. “ Effective and timely crime scene management and investigation will in most cases result in a positive outcome whereas a shoddy crime scene investigation often produces unresolved cases by the police which lead to failure of criminal charges in courts.

“Moreover, crime scene management skills are an extremely significant task component of investigation because evidence that originates at the crime

scene will provide a picture of events for the court to consider in its deliberations.

“That picture will be composed of witness testimony, crime scene photographs, physical exhibits and the analysis of those exhibits, along with the analysis of the crime scene itself. From the foregoing, we can now understand that the importance of this workshop cannot be over emphasized.”

The DIG also commended the effort of German Development Corporation and GIZ office (Nigeria) and other partners who strive to see that the Nigeria Police Force is empowered for effective performance and optimum service delivery.

He however urged participants to pay attention to the training programme in order to acquire the latest investigation skills and assimilate new techniques in crime scene management. This he said will further enhance their capacity building and improve their productivity in the field.

The Deputy Project Manager of GIZ, Hartmut Zander noted that this is the first time the training is been jointly organised by the Nigeria Police and the Lagos State Ministry of Justice.

He stated that the success or failure of a crime scene is dependent on the first responders, hence the training.

Zander said the motive of the training is to make Lagos and ultimately Nigeria safer. “ the participants will be trained on basic forensic course which will make them capable as first responders to preserve crime scenes. “ They will be trained on collection of evidence, how to handle DNA, finger prints and in addition, we will have advanced Crime Scene Management and at the end they will be Crime Scene Management Experts.”

In his remark, the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice Lagos State, Honourable Adeniji Kazeem reiterated the commitment of the Lagos State Government to improve the capacity of the Police.

In his view, investigation, prosecution and adjudication are the key aspects of nay prosecution. He noted that if any of these aspects fail, it affects the entire system and jeopardises security.

One of the buildings affected by rainstorm at the University of Benin (UNIBEN) on Sunday

How we tackled militancy, insecurity in Bayelsa – Dickson Chris Eze, Yenagoa

ÏÏÏBayelsa

State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson has attributed the reduction in militancy and insecurity in the state to his government’s heavy investments in education.

Dickson spoke on Monday in Government House, Yenagoa while playing host to the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai who paid him a courtesy visit.

While stressing that, his Restoration Government has so far invested N70 billion on education in the last six years, the Governor said, education will continue to assume a top priority, because, according to him, the investments have paid off, with the state becoming one of the most peaceful, as well

as one of the top in education index in the country.

He said: “...We fight insecurity in vain if we don’t first educate our people, particularly our youths to be empowered enough to reason beyond their nose, to properly know and situate the evil of crime, criminality and insecurity in the society.

“That is why, in Bayelsa, we deliberately democratize knowledge by sponsoring many Bayelsans and Ijaws outside the state, by building world class educational infrastructure, more and more schools across the state and making education free and compulsory with boarding facilities because we know, our efforts at tackling insurgency, militancy and other security challenges in the country will not make

much impact without addressing illiteracy, which we believe is their root cause.”

The Governor in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Francis Ottah Agbo, also called for more collaboration between the state government and Nigeria Army on security.

He commended the Chief of Army Staff for the establishment of 16 Brigade as well as the collaborative efforts of the Nigerian Engineering Corps at the Agge Deep Sea port, which he noted, would enhance security and investments.

The Governor also noted: “I am pleased with what the Nigerian Army is doing in terms of security in the state and its development efforts at the Agge Deep sea port,

which we are building to enhance our economic and tourist potentials.

“Going forward, we will like to work with the Nigerian Army to undertake in the building of low cost houses, bridges and other developmental projects” Responding, Lt. Gen. Buratai commended Governor Dickson for his giant strides in the development of the state, particularly in security, education and infrastructure.

The COAS also lauded the Governor for providing the enabling environment for security agencies to operate, assuring the state government of his continued support to ensure that, Bayelsa continues to remain one of the safest states in the country.

Edo Govt committed to attaining self-sustenance with IGR – Shaibu Titus Aikhigbe

ÏÏÏEdo

State Deputy Governor, Rt. Hon. Philip Shaibu, has said that the Godwin Obaseki ledadministration remains committed to implementing economic policies that will create wealth for Edo people and self-sustenance through aggressive Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) drive.

Shaibu made this submission during an interview with journalists in Benin City, Edo State capital.

The deputy governor said, “The Godwin Obaseki led-administration prioritises economic policies that will spur growth, wealth creation and prosperity for Edo people.

“These policies are targeted at reducing the rate of poverty and unemploy-

ment. The long-term economic plan of the state governor is to create wealth and prosperity for Edo people.”

He said the state’s economic model is targeted at driving economic growth and sustainability, noting, “with our policies, we intend to achieve selfsustainability for the state where proceeds from Internally Generated Rev-

enue (IGR) will be used to drive economic growth and prosperity for Edo people without depending on the allocation from the Federation Account to drive social growth and development.”

Shaibu maintained that “When we have fully achieved this, proceeds from the Federation Account will be considered an addition, just like grants from donor agencies.”

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

News 29

Poor power supply:Niger residents set to combat power outage Saka Bolaji, Minna

ÏÏÏConcerned

Nigerlites under the platform of *#YouthLeadNigeria* has held a caucus meeting to device latest means of confronting the poor electricity supply by the un-

repentant Abuja Electricity Distribution Company *(AEDC)*.

The meeting held at the weekend at Democracy Garden Minna brought together think-tanks who expressed disappointment over recent drop in supply of electricity from 12-hours to barely 2-hours

by the AEDC despite constitution of Committee on Constant Power Supply by the Niger State government.

Although *#YouthLeadNigeria* is fully aware that the 16-man sub-committee on Constant Power Supply were given three weeks to submit report on how to

fast track the process of improving power supply but are yet to do the submission, we therefore urge the committee to as a matter urgency do the needful to avert the wrath of resistance from Nigerlites.

We are watching how AEDC has taken the path of playing pranks with the

intelligence of the good people of Niger State by allowing for a stable power supply now that they know President Muhammadu Buhari is soon to pay a working visit to the state.

We want to seize this opportunity to make it abundantly clear that our determination and

commitment to fighting against incessant power outage and shortchanging of Nigerlites is unshakable.

Our dear Niger State is our pride, nothing can stop us from mobilizing Nigerlites against the evil forces of darkness and underdevelopment.

Centre advocates legislation to promote ‘mother tongue’ in Nigeria Kehinde Akinpelu, Ilorin

ÏÏÏThe International Media

Centre, Nigeria has advocated a legislation that will compel civil servants to set aside a day for use of mother tongue as official language across Nigeria.

The centre noted that though it was not against the use of English Language as Lingua-franca, it insisted that there must be a space for the promotion of mother tongue to save the country’s rich cultural heritage from extinction.

Speaking with journalists on the side line of the 8th Annual Public Lecture of the centre on mother tongue held in Ilorin ,Jolaolu Afolabi (aka Jabulani) praised the Lagos state government for already

taking the lead in that direction.

Afolabi, a radio broadcaster, however said there was the need for other state of assemblies to follow suit by setting aside a day for the promotion of mother tongue. ‘‘Government should set aside a day that will make it compulsory for everybody, especially the civil servants to speak our mother tongue. ‘‘I don’t believe in linguafranca we should give our mother tongue a space, it is expedient that we go back to our way of life’’, he said.

The convener said the essence of the annual lecture being organised by the centre was to raise the advocacy for speaking of mother which according to him was ‘‘fast eroding’’.

Omuluabi Scholars Buses waiting to be commissioned by the Osun state Governor Rauf Aregbesola for pupils of the state’s public schools

APC led Government is responsive – Osun Lawmaker

ÏÏÏA member of the Osun

State House of Assembly representing Obokun State constituency, Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, has said that the All Progressive Congress led government at the centre was responsive given the demonstration of commitment to the Federal Government projects in the state.

In a press statement in Osogbo, capital of Osun State, Oyintiloye who is also the Chairman of House Committee on Information and Strategy lauded the President Muhammadu Buhari administration for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of GbonganIwo-Oyo Road.

According to him, “The Federal Government says it has spent N2.8 billion on the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Gbongan-IwoOyo Road. Similarly, it gave an assurance that it. would complete the ongoing project worth N537m Ojutu Bridge in Ilobu, Osun.”

Oyintiloye said this expression of commitment and practical demonstration by release of funds was

a good news to people of the state.

He noted that residents of the areas in particular and that people were could see the real dividends of democracy.

It would be recalled that Oyintiloye, in 2016 raised a motion, under the matter of urgent public importance on Federal Government abandoned projects in the state.

At the time Oyintiloye, told the assembly that abandoned federal projects ranging from road infrastructure, water scheme and housing stood at about N20.318 billion.

He highlighted that the affected road projects which included was N16.519 billion, while housing costs N2.955 billion and water scheme costs N844.342 million.

He also identified dualization of Mayfair junctionLagere-Iremo-Enuwa-Ilesha bye pass road in Ile-Ife (22km), Gbongan-Iwo-Oyo S/B Road (46km), rehabilitation of Oshogbo-Ilesha road (27km), rehabilitation of Oyan Township pipeline

and Iwo Township Water Supply Scheme among others.

He expressed worry that Osun had least impact among other states that benefited from federal government projects, lamenting that little offered to the state were still being abandoned.

When the contractors were mobilised and returned to the site and inspection conducted by the Minister of Works, Babatunde Raji Fasola this weekend, Oyintiloye said the development once again affirmed that the APC led federal government under President Muhammadu Buhari is a responsive and responsible government.

“It is exciting, the narrative is changing, the Federal Government listened to the clarion call of the state Assembly, and different stakeholders, it’s heartwarming that Osun is also getting her fair share.”

He said the projects would enhance free flow of goods and services, promote economic, job creation, and compliment the efforts of

the state in ensuring good road network, among other benefits.

He noted that with the quantum of infrastructure done by the Governor Rauf Aregbesola led Administration and the intervention of the Federal Government, the state would be the best for it.

Ondo Fisrt Lady, Anyanwu-Akeredolu bags prestigious Ondo State outstanding recognition award The wife of the Ondo State Governor, Mrs. Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu yesterday received the prestigious Ondo State Female Role Model Award in recognition of her outstanding contribution at the 5th Ondo State Female Role Model award-an event put together in conjunction with Heros International Magazine.

In her remark, Mrs. Akeredolu thanked the organizers of the programme for finding her worthy of the award while also acknowledging the need for women to rise up and be a part of decision making processes in the country.

Arabinrin Akeredolu who stressed that there is equality in gender charged parents to ensure that in the course of bringing up their children, chores are equally decided so that the boys will later in life appreciate the advancement of women.

“As women we must ask ourselves questions.

We also need to change the mindset of the society about women. It is unfortunate that up till now, when a woman tries to take a lead, somebody will ask her to sit down”, she added while challenging women to rise up and be part of the processes of developing the nation.

The climax of the event was the award ceremony and the investiture of Mrs. Akeredolu as the matron of Heros Award.

Earlier, the guest lecturer, Dr. Jeff- Agboola Yemisi, while lauding efforts of women in nation building affirmed that the time has come when Nigeria as a country should have a female president.

Applauding the numer-

ous works embarked upon by the Arabinrin Akeredolu, she noted that such a position is well deserved by Ondo State First Lady.

She also used the opportunity to urge women to join politics so that they can lend their voice to the development of the country.

Also in attendance was the SSG, Ondo State, Ifedayo Abegunde, Commissioner for Regional and Urban Development, Prince Solagbade Amodeni, the Commissioner for Sports, Saka Ogunleye, the Chairman APC, Ondo State, Engr. Ade Adetimehin among others.

Other Awardees for the night include the Wife of the SSG, Mrs. Jumoke Abegunde, Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Lola Fagbemi, Chairman Akure South Local Government, Mrs. Margaret Atere, Chairman, Okitipupa Local Government, Mrs. Morenika Alaka, Ondo First Female Pilot, Olamide Akinfolarin, president Customary Court, Ondo State, Justice Folasade Aguda to mention few.

a

Super Eagles friendlies strategic to World Cup victory – Adepoju

E

x-international Mutiu Adepoju, says Nigeria’s friendly matches against Poland and Serbia are strategic steps toward having a successful outing in the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

Adepoju, popularly called “Headmaster’’ in his playing days made the assertion in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)

on Monday Abuja.

According to the ex-international, the two nations are careful choices made by the Super Eagles Coach, Gernot Rohr, to prepare against group opponents.

Super Eagles in November 2017 defeated one of their Group D rivals, Argentina 4-2 in Russia.

Other group D teams are Croa-

tia and Iceland.

Adepoju said: “Poland is a force to reckon with in European football, you can’t get all the desired friendly matches given FIFA’s tight schedules, clubs and individual countrys plans.

“The Serbian team is also a good one, I think the outcome of the two matches will help the

technical crew perfect plans to hit the podium in Russia,’’ he said.

Ahead of 2018 World Cup, Nigeria is billed to play international friendly matches with Poland Wroclaw, Poland on March 23 and Serbia, March 27, in London.

On his expectations of the list of players that should feature in the friendlies, Adepoju said players

Page 30

should be selected based on current form.

“The list has not come out yet.

I believe Rohr will want the best players to be on his team.

“Although many Nigerian players are doing so well in their clubs, he can only have 23 players on his list.

“Rohr will go for the best to de-

Tuesday, March 6 2018

Pillars climbs to NPFL summit as Lobi pips Heartland in Nnewi

Pinnick uged other regions to emulate South-West

P

L

obi Stars edged Heartland on the road to go 20 points on the league log together with summit leaders, Kano Pil-

lars.

The Pride of Benue piped the Naze Millionaires 1-0 in Sunday’s Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) matchday 11 clash at the Owerri outfit temporary home ground, FC IfeanyiUbah International Stadium in Nnewi.

Former Sunshine Stars man, Samad Kadiri scored the match winner in the 25th minute to hand the Makurdi side the whole three points. The Makurdi side win was the only away victory recorded in NPFL matchday 11 and their opponents’ three home losses in the on-going top-flight.

Elsewhere, Abia Warriors compounded the woes of coach John Obuh tutored side, Kwara United with 1-0 win at their new home, Krisdera Hotels Stadium in Omoku.

Forward, Austin Obaroakpo scored the winner in the 52nd minute.

Nasarawa United piped Wikki Tourists 1-0 at the Lafia Township Stadium. Suleiman Mohammed lone strike in the 48th minute proved adequate to hand the Solid Miners the maximum points at stake.

The Bauchi Elephants however finished the clash with 10-man as Umar Abba was shown a red card in the 45th minute.

The clash at the Yakubu Gowon Stadium in Port Harcourt ended one goal apiece between hosts, Rivers United and FC IfeanyiUbah.

Former Remo Stars’ man, Onyekachi Chidume scored from the penalty spot in the 65th minute for the Anambra Warriors while another former Remo Stars striker, Oche Salefu even scores for the Pride of Rivers in the 86th minute.

liver the mandate given to him by the nation. “Let us continue to give Rohr more supports on his mission to make significant impact at the World Cup,’’ he said.

Adepoju, who had represented the country thrice at the Mundial, however, urged players that would make the list to be patriotic and put the nation first during the matches.

Rivers Angels are champions of the maiden Nigeria Women Football League Champions Shield title. They defeated Nasarawa Amazons 4-3 on penalties at the Agege Stadium on Sunday.

resident, Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, Amaju Pinnick amidst pomp and glitz, full appreciation of the task at hand, urged other zones in the country to emulate Southwest in development of football.

Pinnick, who was physically present at the epoch making event of launch of ‘Southwest league’ at Cocoa House Ibadan, lauded both the concept and the work so far done, saying the move was in the right direction and challenged the other zones to emulate and create a healthy competition for which Nigerian Football will be the ultimate beneficiary. “I am not surprised because the South West has always blazed the trail in several respects.

When we were growing up, the name of this place, Cocoa House, rang very loud and it was the dream of every Nigerian to visit here. You have shown a clear vision by choosing this place to be the headquarters.

“Football is about continuity; I pray that successive administrations in the South West will support and encourage this project. There is nothing wrong in this concept; it is only full of positives, including bringing football closer to the people and engendering a surplus of talents. It is the same reason why in Africa, we have the different zones and they have their own calendars and competitions,” said Pinnick, who is also Vice President of WAFU B. NFF 1st Vice President Seyi Akinwunmi, who is Coordinator of the Forum, explained that the Odua Football Leagues would have U15, U17 and U20 categories at the youth level, with the U23 sector being the Premier League to which the youth teams will aspire.

Lobi Stars players in action on Sunday

Rohr invites Al Ahly’s Junior Ajayi for Eagles friendlies

Ajayi

C

oach of the Nigeria’s national team, Gernot Rohr has extended invitation to Al Ahly’s Junior Ajayi to their squad for the upcoming friendlies.

Ajayi is set to receive his maiden call-up to the Super Eagles’ squad after impressing ever since his arrival from Tunisia, KingFut can confirm.

The 22-year-old has participated in 23 matches for the Red Devils this season, scoring eight goals and

assisting nine as the team edges closer to a consecutive league title.

Ajayi won the league, cup and super cup since joining Al Ahly. He also led the team to a silver medal in the 2016/17 CAF Champions League.

His exploits with the team gave him a place on the CAF Champions League Team of Tournament.

The former 36 Lions and Sfaxien winger was part of Nigeria’s team in the 2016 Summer Olympics, picking

up the Bronze medal in the tournament after making two appearances for his side.

Ajayi becomes the second player to get a call up to the Super Eagle’s squad from Egypt after Zamalek’s Moruf Yusuf who received his call last year.

Gernot Rohr’s men face Poland on the 23rd of March in Poland before facing Serbia on the 27th in the UK.

Pinnick

31

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

EXTRATIME

Counte The late Astori

Davide Astori is no more

A

n Italian football star Davide Astori was found by his Fiorentina teammates who broke down the door to his hotel room after he died.

The 31-year-old’s teammates reportedly broke down his door on Sunday after he didn’t come down for breakfast ahead of their Serie A fixture against Udinese in Udine, Italy.

The defender died after a ‘sudden illness,’ the team announced on Twitter on Sunday. He leaves behind a wife, Francesca, and two-year-old daughter.

All of Sunday’s Series A fixtures were postponed as a mark of respect.

‘The lad did not turn up to the team breakfast at 9.30am and he was usually the first to arrive,’ said Fiorentina spokesman Arturo Mastronardi. ‘So they went to check on him. Davide was sleeping in a room on his own. We still don’t know the cause of his death.

‘The Magistrate came here and the body has been taken for an autopsy, which I think will be conducted today. The last to see Davide was Marco Sportiello. Some players sleep in single rooms, some in doubles.

‘His family is from Bergamo, so his parents were alerted by telephone, whereas his partner was visited in person in Florence by some of the directors who were in the city.

‘The team will return to Florence today with a charter plane.’

Manchester City unstopable - Counte

C

helsea manager Antonio Conte appears to have conceded defeat even before taking on Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday.

Conte who have come under fire in recent weeks believes that City can reach the 100 points mark and that they seem unstoppable.

City claimed the Carabao Cup by beating Arsenal 3-0 at Wembley, Pep Guardiola’s first trophy as manager.

They have lost just once in the league this season and need five wins from their remaining 10 games to clinch the title.

“In this moment they seem unstoppable,” said Conte. “We must have great admiration. Sometimes it is very difficult to

find a weakness in this team.

“When you work very well and there is a great feeling between the manager and the club, you can work in the way you want, to try to improve your team in the best way.

“Manchester City has the possibility to spend a lot of money. When you link this situation – a good manager, much money to spend in the transfer market, the same ambition – this is the final result.”

The runaway leaders who need five wins from 10 games to claim a third title in seven seasons, are on 75 points.

Chelsea currently hold the record for most points in a season after reaching 95 in 2004-05.

“They have the possibility [of reaching

100 points] because they’re showing to be the best in the league,” said Conte.

The Italian, who won the title with 93 points last season, added: “If they continue with this fire, with this hunger, for sure they can achieve this result. It won’t be easy.”

Guardiola’s City are 15 points clear at the top and will finish the campaign on 105 – 10 more than the current record – if they win their remaining 10 games.As well as Chelsea, they still have to face Manchester United at home on 7 April and Tottenham away on 14 April.

Conte ‘a master tactician’ Conte is a “master” tactician and will leave his mark on English football, accord-

ing to City manager Guardiola.

Former Italy boss Conte adopted a 5-3-2 formation to guide Chelsea to the Premier League title in his first season in charge.

But the Blues are 22 points adrift of leaders City ahead of their game in Manchester.

“I think Conte is going to leave something to English football. I am sure of that,” said Guardiola.

Conte saw his side heavily beaten heavily 3-0 by rivals Arsenal in September 2016, after which the former Juventus boss changed his system from a 4-5-1 to playing with three centre-backs and two wing-backs.

Serena’s comeback, her greatest challenge – Mouratoglou

S

Serena Williams in action

erena Williams’ return to the WTA Tour following the birth of her first child will be the “greatest challenge” of her career but the American can get back to her best in time for the French Open, according to her coach Patrick Mouratoglou.

Williams, who won her 23rd grand slam title at last year’s Australian Open before going on maternity leave, pulled out of this year’s tournament in Melbourne.

She represented the United States in a Fed Cup doubles match last month and is scheduled to take part in the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells this week.

Asked if her latest comeback represented the biggest test of her career, Mouratoglou said: “It probably is… now she is 36, just had a child, a second blood clot, has gone more than a year without any competition. I think we can

say without a doubt that this is her biggest challenge.”

Former world number one Williams, who returned in 2012 from surgery for a life-threatening blood clot on her lung and climbed back to the top of the rankings, said she almost died after giving birth to her daughter in September.

Mouratoglou said fans had to give Williams time to adjust to the rigours of the sport.

“I think she’ll be ready for Roland Garros. The competitions she will play until then will help her and every day she progresses on her fitness,” he told the Women’s Tennis Association website.

“Serena’s target will be to win grand slams. She knows that coming back might take some time, but her level of expectation is high as always. There are three grand slams left this season. They will be her three main goals for 2018.”

Published by THE DAILY TIMES NIGERIA (A Folio Communications Limited Company) Operational Headquarters: Lateef Jakande Road, Agidingbi, Ikeja, Lagos email: info@dailytimes.ng Editor: TONY AMOKEODO Tel: 08038099089 Managing Editor: BONAVENTURE MELAH

TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2018

VOL. 3. NO. 594

Price: N150

FLASHBACK in Times: March 6, 1957

News Hotlines: 08050220561 Advert Hotlines: 08037862794, 08057041525

Business Times Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Naira stables across forex markets, segments Page B7

Unity Bank takes ‘Agency Banking’ to North West

Page B4

ALTON chairman debunk members’ claim on sanction

by NCC Page B5

Apple may launch a cheaper MacBook Air this year Ladesope Ladelokun with agency report

L-R: CEO, ACT Foundation, Osayi Alile; Vice President, Programs, Ford Foundation; Hillary Pennington; Group Deputy Managing Director, Access Bank, Roosevelt Ogbonna; Regional Director, West Africa, Ford Foundation, Innocent Chukwuma and Head, Sustainability, Access Bank, Omobolanle Victor- Laniyan at the inaugural meeting of ‘Africa No Filter’ in Lagos…recently

Anchor Borrowers’ Programme triggers rice revolution – FG Tom Okpe, Abuja

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has given credit to the Federal Government’s Anchor Borrowers’ Programme with the current revolution in rice production across the country.

The minister stated this in Jega, Kebbi State, on Monday while on a two days working visit on an inspection of rice farms across the state.

He said the benefits that have accrued to rice farmers in the provision of improved seedling, farm input and extension services have led to the increase of yield per hectare from 2.5 to between 10 and 11 metric tons.

He said, “The difference between then and now is the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme

because with the programme the average farmer today is assisted in terms of input, agronomic practices and seedling.

“So this system has now taken the burden off the farmer and given him what he normally would have gone out to buy or procure. But the important thing is that from 2.5 metric tons to 10 up to 11 metric tons within the same space, I think it is a new revolution”.

Mohammed said that with 32 states currently covered by the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme, the Federal Government is determined to turn Nigeria into a net exporter of rice in the near future.

“Two years ago, Nigeria used to import 644,000 metric tons of rice from Thailand. Today, we import less than 20,000 metric tons; “but I think the most important thing for us in Nigeria is to see that officially we have been able to eliminate

over 90% of rice importation into Nigeria”, the Minister said.

He said that a new pilot scheme that targets the cultivation of 200,000 hectares of rice has taken off with 31,000 farmers being empowered by the Anchor Borrowers’ Program stating that under the new project, each hectare of land will employ 25 people, thereby creating about 5 million jobs adding that; “already, the Federal Government has grown the number of rice farmers from 5 million two years ago to over 12 million currently”.

The Minister, who commended the ingenuity of rice farmers in Kebbi State in sourcing water by sinking wells to ensure all year round farming, said the federal government will continue to support them to excel.

He also commended the syn-

ergy between the Federal and State Governments in rice farming, disclosing that the Federal Government plans to embark on an aggressive advocacy for Nigerians to know the benefits of consuming locally produced rice.

“The rice in Nigerian is safer, more nutritious and healthier than the one being imported. The one being imported has been stored for several years, perhaps in very bad condition, making it not safe for consumption”.

The Kebbi State Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr. Garba Mohammed, conducted the Minister and his entourage round several rice farms and a rice mill in Jega Local Government saying that ; “the drive for self-sufficiency in rice has caused three rice mills to spring up in Jega alone”.

Apple could launch a cheaper MacBook Air this year, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who is known for his accurate insights into the technology firm’s future products.

The analyst, from KGI Securities, said that a new 13-inch version of Apple’s thin laptop could be released in the second quarter of 2018.

“We expect Apple to roll out the new MacBook Air with a lower price tag in 2Q18. We forecast total shipments of MacBook models will grow 1015 percent year-on-year in 2018 (versus 0-5 percent year-onyear decline for the Notebook industry), up from 15.5-16 million units in 2017,” Ming-Chi Kuo said in a note obtained by the MacRumors website on Saturday.

Kuo did not provide any further details about the product.

The current 13-inch MacBook Air model starts at $999. Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) usually takes place around June, which could mean the updated MacBook Air will be launched there.

Kuo’s note mirrored a report from DigiTimes in January that also suggested an entry-level MacBook would be on the cards later this year.

The analyst has said in previous notes that he expects Apple to launch new AirPods in the second half of 2018 and three new iPhones this year.

Business NewsB2 For its contribution to the development of Nigeria’s economy, the Dangote Group has been rewarded by the Kaduna Chamber of Commerce Industry Mines and Agriculture (KADCCIMA).

Kaduna State Governor Mallam Nasiru Ahmad El Rufai presented the award to the representative of the Dangote Group after it emerged the overall first runner up. The governor described the awards as deserving and urged the awardees to scale up their activities and support the President Buhari-led effort in growing the economy.

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Dangote bags KADCCIMA award Speaking at the closing ceremony of the 39th Kaduna International Trade Fair, President of KADCCIMA, Dr Muheeba Farida Dankaka said the Dangote Group’s choice for the coveted award was strictly based on merit.

She said the group has been a front-runner in supporting economic growth and development through its various investments in agriculture, petrochemicals, cement, sugar, salt, flour and pasta, among others.

Speaking earlier at the Dangote Special Day, Regional Cement Director, Mr. Dolapo Alli, who represented the President of the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote said the conglomerate is the largest employer of labour in the private sector.

According to Alli, with numerous multibillion dollars investments coming on stream, the group’s capacity will be bolstered and thousands more will be gainfully employed.

He described the partnership with KADCCIMA and interactions with other investors at the fair as fruitful and in the ‘interest of the Nigerian economy.’

Dangote Group’s Executive Director, Stakeholders Management and Corporate Communications Engr. Ahmed Mansur had, during the opening ceremony, said the group was investing heavily in the agricultural sector, and was partnering with most of the states, including Ka-

duna State.

Earlier, President Muhammadu Buhari had described the role of the Dangote Group as central to his administration’s economic recovery and growth agenda.

The President, who urged the private sector operators to join hand in bolstering Nigeria’s economy, said the key to modern economic growth and development is in the hands of the private sector, and that government was desirous of providing the enabling

environment for investments to thrive.

Indeed, a statement from the Dangote Group signed by the Chief Corporate Communications Officer, Mr. Anthony Chiejina, urged Nigerians to always patronize the Dangote products, which include: cement, Dan-Q Seasoning, sugar, salt, pasta and noodles, among others.

Dangote Group is the major sponsor of the fair, which ended on Sunday, March 4.

CPC assures airline passengers of adequate protection Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

The Consumer protection Council (CPC), has assured airlines passengers that there was no cause for panic over the near mishap that occurred on Sunday with Medview Airlines.

Medview Airlines Flight VL2108 operated by Boeing 737 equipment with a flight schedule of Lagos-Abuja-Maiduguri (LOS-ABV-MIU) completed the Lagos to Abuja segment.

The CPC in statement on Sunday said that at approximately 1400HRS while attempting to depart Abuja to Maiduguri on the final segment of the sector, the flight had a Ramp Return (return to base after commencing taxiing) on account of a safety issue.

Specifically, an indicator lamp signifying a minor disorder emerged.

The Captain, exercising the appropriate abundance of caution and in compliance with applicable safety standards aborted the flight and returned to base for technical assistance. According to the CPC, all passengers disembarked in an orderly manner, returned to the lounge and were catered to by the airline in accordance with relevant Nigerian Civil Aviation Regulations regarding treatment of passengers during delays.

“Engineers were currently concluding minor repairs so that the aircraft can become operational. The flight to Maiduguri is expected to operate shortly, either by same aircraft, or a redundancy/recovery plan that Medview has informed the Consumer Protection Council is in place,” the Council stated.

CPC said it has been in communication with Medview, and the airline informs that, at no time was there an emergency, and passengers were never at risk.

The Council said it would continue to monitor the situation, and provide updates, if necessary.

L-R: Representative of the Dangote Group, Mr. Jibrin Abubakar receiving an award on behalf of his group from Kaduna State Governor Nasir El Rufai, while KADCCIMA President, Dr Muheeba Farida Dankaka looks on at the just concluded Kaduna Trade Fair...at the weekend.

Amosun solicits support for Airport project The Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, yesterday led an agricultural team to Wasinmi, in Ewekoro Local Government Area of the State, to sensitise the people of the area and solicit support for the construction of the proposed airport by the Federal Government.

Speaking with the leadership of the community, Amosun assured of appropriate compensation and urged the people to embrace the development coming to their locality, as it would open up the area to development.

Amosun said the satellite imagery of the buildings and crop enumeration have been captured to ease the compensation, as all is set for the commencement of the airport project.

Reeling out the compensation plans, he said the disbursement of N500 million would be paid to farmers, whose farms will be affected in over 20 villages. Amosun stated that the farmers will also be relocated to more appropriate farm lands, stressing that his government would not in any way bring hardship upon the people, but rather make life more meaningful for them.

He noted that the location of the airport was made several years before his administration came on board.

The Baale of Temu land in Ewekoro Local Government Area, Chief Abati Noah, in his response, also urged residents to embrace the project.

Abati, who appreciated the governor and his team for their relentless effort to ensure the development of the community, appealed to the Federal Government to ensure quick and appropriate compensation to those to be displaced.

Ibikunle Amosun

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

B3AgriBusiness

Brazil wants Nigeria to protect small farmers Stories by Simon Ugwu The Consul-General of Brazil in Lagos, Amb. Maria Figueiredo, has announced her government’s plan to share its philosophy of protecting small farmers with Nigeria.

Figueiredo made the announcement in Lagos at a Business Forum between a Brazilian Delegation, members of the Nigerian-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and other Nigerian businessmen and women.

The consul-general said that it was imperative for Nigeria to protect her small farmers to be sustainable and self-sufficient in the production of food for home consumption.

According to her, about 70 per cent of food produced and consumed in Brazil is from the small farmers.

“We are really ready to share our philosophy for protecting small farmers with Nigeria.

“An official from my country’s Ministry of Agriculture will be visiting Abuja soon to share our philosophy for protecting small farmers with Nigerians.

“In Brazil, there are laws that are made to protect small farmers. So, I feel that Nigeria should also protect

such farmers,’’ she said.

Figueiredo said that Nigeria should not only continue to promote big farmers, whose agricultural products were always exported to the international market.

She said that the delegation was

Lagosians laud Ambode for Lake Rice, fair sales As Lagos State government commences sales of Lake Rice for the festive season, residents have lauded government for logistics put in place to ease purchase at designated centres.

According to a statement by Assistant Director, Public Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture, Tunbosun Ogunbanwo, those who besieged the centres expressed satisfaction with the process, noting that the officials were courteous and pleasant.

Mr. Hassan Adewale, who was at the Lagos Television (LTV) Complex, Agidingbi-Ikeja, said getting the product is on the basis of first come, first serve.

“Lake rice is of very good quality and has become a household name and I am pleased with the arrangement at this centre,” he said.

Another resident, Olamide Fashola who was at the Agricultural Development Authority (ADA) Oko Oba, Agege also expressed satisfaction with, stressing that getting the product was a lot easier than she thought.

She however, urged the state government to consider a further price reduction in the spirit of the season. “The price of Lake Rice has forced down the prices of other brands of rice, government should further consider reducing

Ambode

the price since the price of the imported rice has also dropped drastically,” she said.

The Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr. Oluwatoyin Suarau who visited the designated sales centre at the (LTV) Complex, AgidingbiIkeja to monitor activities, said government would ensure the continuous availability of the rice in already established designated centres, and would work to ensure adequate supply all over the state.

The Commissioner said residents could easily get Lake Rice product at Lagos Agric Input Supply Authority Ojo, (LAISA), Farm Service Centres Odogunyan, Ikorodu, Farmers Mart Surulere Benson Street off Akerele, Agricultural Development Authority (ADA) Oko-Oba Agege, Farm Service Centre Agric Complex Ajah, Farm Service Centre Temu Epe and Lagos State Television Complex Agidingbi.

visiting to explore the possibility to explore the Nigerian market for the importation of agricultural equipment from Brazil.

The President of the Nigerian-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mr Emmanuel Ibru, said that

there would continue to be synergy between Nigeria and Brazil.

Ibru, who said that there was a lot for Nigeria to learn from Brazil, also announced his organisation’s plan to soon organise another visit to Brazil.

He said that the chamber would

continue to encourage and promote trade and knowledge transfer between Nigerians and Brazilians.

Trade relationship between Nigeria and Brazil dates back to 18th century. Nigeria and Brazil enjoy warm cultural and trade relationship.

Many Afro-Brazilians trace their roots to Nigeria.

Brazil is the largest country in Latin America and Nigeria is the most populous nation in Africa. Both countries are key players in the economies of their regions. Brazil is a leading political and economic power in Latin America. Nigeria is equally the leading political and economic power in West Africa.

Nigeria is the second largest trade partner of Brazil in Sub-Saharan Africa and 11th in the world. Brazil is the third largest importer of Nigerian crude oil after USA and India.

Nigeria balance of trade with Brazil is very favourable.

Brazil’s key industries are textiles, shoes, chemicals, cement, agriculture, motor vehicles and parts, other machineries and equipment. Major export products include aircraft, coffee, vehicles, soybean, sugar, rice, orange juice, iron ore, steel, textiles, footwear, electrical equipment, etc.

NABG advocates law on national agribusiness investment plan Agribusiness Group (NABG) has called for the enactment of a law on National Agribusiness Investment Plan for Food and Nutrition Security in Nigeria, noting that with it, it is confident that the present administration will achieve sustainable success in its commitment to build upon the foundations of the Agricultural Transformation Agenda of the previous administration.

NABG President, Sani Dangote, who stated this during the group’s press conference in Lagos, with the theme: “Strengthening Agribusiness Investments Partnership Platforms In Nigeria,” said the law is intended to remove some of the major constraints facing private sector agribusiness investment in the country.

He said lack of affordable long-term financing; lack of government coordination; policy inconsistencies; lack of supply security; inadequate public-sector infrastructure investments; lack of applied Food and Agricultural Research Sci-

ence and Technology Transfer Capacity; lack of Consumer Insights and Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture Best Practices; lack of Local Content Foreign Direct Investment Policies, Regulations and Laws; and lack of Climate Smart Agriculture Best Practices, are some of the major constraints facing the private sector.

As part of its specific objectives for 2018, he called for increase in crowd funding at affordable single digit interest rates for agricultural investments to at least N1.8tr in the country. Dangote said the crowd funding, which currently stands at N700b should be increased to at least 10 per cent target of agricultural contribution to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

He added that there should be fundamental shift towards commercial farming mindset from subsistence farming by millions of smallholder farmers, women and youth entrepreneurs.

According to him, Nigeria needs to scale up irrigation

farming best practices (at least two crop cycles for grains and fresh produce) to ensure supply security of locally grown raw materials that meet the demand of food and beverage processors.

He said, “our vision for 2018 is to facilitate the drafting of a bill and its passage into law of a National Agribusiness Investment Plan for Food and Nutrition Security in Nigeria.

“Our specific goals include sharp focus on policies, regulations and laws to promote affordable financing, significantly improve the agricultural input and output markets and the processing of locally grown staple foods into nutritious, conveniently packaged consumer food products.”

The group also advocated immediate passage of the Fertiliser Quality Control Bill, which public hearing held on November 14, 2017 and immediate passage of the Seed Bill, which had passed the first and second readings at the House of Representatives, and currently at the 3rd reading stage.

News B4

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

FG yet to release money for 2017 pension, PENCOM tells retirees

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State (2nd right); his deputy, Mrs. Cecilia Ezeilo (right); Executive Secretary, State Emergency Management Agency, Mrs. Nkechi Eneh (5th left); Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Engr. Greg Nnaji (4th left); Chairman, Kenyatta Timber Dealers Association, Chief Levi Obi (3rd left), others, during the governor’s intervention visit to the partially-razed Timber market, Enugu, where he ordered the immediate rebuilding of the affected shops, on Monday

As part of efforts in reaching out to the unbanked and deepen financial inclusion, Unity Bank recently rolled out its Agent banking services in the North Western states of Kano and Jigawa.

The lender explained that in line with its Retail Banking strategy and Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN’s) financial inclusion mandate, targeted its Agent Banking services at Gumel in Jigawa state and RijiyaLemu in Fagge Local Government area of Kano state, last week.

The General Manager Products & Channels Directorate of Unity Bank, Mr. Bonaventure Okhaimo, prioritizing the North West was borne out of the need to tap into the huge unbanked population in the region.

According to him, Agent Banking model is conceptualized to evolve as a model of community and rural banking where basic banking services

Financial inclusion: Unity Bank takes ‘Agency Banking’ to North West are brought to the level of rural financial activities.

The roll-out, which witnessed the opening of many Agency outlets in the areas, was attended by numerous locals, customers and prospects, who were all excited to be able to avail themselves of financial services without travelling long distances to a bank branch.

The customers were able to open accounts with Unity Bank, perform cash-in (deposit), cash-out (withdrawal) as well as bills payment transactions at the new Agent Banking outlets. With the bank’s digital account opening portal – Unity1 Online - new tier-1 accounts can be opened for cus-

tomers without any need for identification.

The whole process takes less than 4 minutes. Customers are advised of their NUBAN account numbers immediately, and are able to start transacting straightaway; in fact, once they provide their Bank Verification Numbers (BVN), they have full access to their accounts.

The Bank’s Group Head, Retail & SME Banking, OlufunwaAkinmade, explained that an important part of the roll-out in any location, is a two-day customer education session organized nto bring customers up to speed with the basic tenets of the scheme.

On the security of the cus-

tomers’ funds, Mr. Akinmade said that the mitigant on the withdrawal side is that the service is running on MCasha secure phone-based withdrawal system backed by the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement Systems (NIBSS) while at the deposit end, the customer must receive an alert to be sure that the transaction has been consummated.

This is in line with CBN regulation, which states that that all transactions are processed online real-time.

He advised customers to always look out for Unity bank’s branding on the agents outlets, to be sure that they are actually dealing with a registered Agent outlet.

The National Pension Commission (PenCom) has replied retirees under the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) that the Federal Government is yet to release money for payment of pension benefits to workers who retired from March 2017 The Commission’s Head of Corporate Communications, Peter Aghahowa, while reacting to retirees’ demanding for their pension payment, said they would be paid as soon as the Federal Government releases money to the Commission.

He, however, stated that the Federal Government has released money for pension payment to retirees, who retired between January to February 2017, adding that the Commission was prepared to pay the retirees a few weeks from now.

Meanwhile, the retirees, under the auspices of the Association of Federal Contributory Scheme Pensioners, Oyo State chapter, in a letter to PenCom, demanded to be paid their pension. They said the commission with the Federal Government had promised them prompt payment of pension immediately after retirement or at most, three months after. The retirees lamented that they have stopped paying them upon retirement, noting that the bad old days of retirement is back. President of the Association, Chief Amao Shittu and the Secretary, Prince E.A. Akingbade, stated that the promise ought to be kept in order to preserve the life of pensioners and those of their family members and dependents.

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige

Pensioners petition Emefiele on payment of benefits Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, has been petitioned by pensioners of the apex bank, urging him to expedite action on payment of their benefits, as contained in the two-point agreement reached on March 1, 2017 between management and pensioners. The former CBN workers contended that non-implementation of the agreement had caused discomfort as many of them were no longer able to take care of their basic needs including medical, leading to death.

The two-point agreement borders on enhancement of benefits and medical care.

On the aegis of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Pensioners’ Welfare Association, CPWA, the pensioners recalled that the agreement was arrived at, following a meeting between CBN and the pensioners’ body.

According to the petition, a high-powered CBN management team of five Departmental Directors, led by the then Director of Human Resources Department, now newly appointed as a CBN Deputy Governor, Mr. Edward Adamu, nominated by the Governor, was mandated to negotiate with the CBN Pensioners and pensioners’ parent body; the CBN Pensioners’ Club led the president, Chief

Charles M.E. Katchy, a retired CBN Director.

The pensioners found it unbelievable that close to a year after the agreement was reached between the parties, the CBN is yet to implement the content.

Following the protracted delay, the pensioners said after a meeting of representatives of the 15 branches of the body of the pensioners in Lagos, resolved among others, to “Write an SOS message to the CBN Governor as we are now doing, embarking on hunger strike, street demonstrations/protests to draw the attention of the Federal Government and the general public to our plight, and

taking our matter to the court as the last option.”

The statement explained that members agreed “we should carry out those activities in phases thus: (i) write this SOS appeal message first, that will be copied to President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Boss Mustapha, among other dignitaries, for possible intervention. If, however, nothing positive is done on at least one of the two issues agreed upon by 31st March 2018, we shall embark on the second phase of the struggle; going on a hunger strike with effect

from Tuesday, April 3, 2018.

If after four weeks of the hunger strike nothing positive happens, we shall embark on street protests/ demonstrations backed with an aggressive media campaign. If all the above failed, we would not hesitate to go to court as the last option. “Our prayer is that you should not allow any of the above to happen through your expediting action on the implementation of that agreement thus ameliorating the hardship being currently faced by CBN pensioners. Even if, for the upward review of pensions, you would want to wait for the National Minimum Wage Committee

to determine the percent increase in pension, in the interim, nothing prevents you from significantly enhancing the Medical Allowance immediately as a palliative succour for the pensioners.

“It may interest you to know that the pensioners, as an already aged and aging group of people, this will enable us take good care of our health matters while we continue to wait for the Federal Government Circular on pension increase.” The pensioners lamented that the “last upward review of pensions in the CBN was done with effect from 1st July, 2010 – almost eight years now.

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

B5

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Oil sector: Total shutdown imminent as NUPENG vows to resist moves to sack workers Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has hinted the Federal Government of its planned protest and shutdown of the oil sector if the Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMAN) sacks its members.

NUPENG gave the hint recently via a statement, urging the government to act within a 14-day ultimatum to settle the N650 billion debts allegedly owed its members.

Prior to the reaction from NUPENG, DAPPMAN issued a statement through its Executive Secretary, Olufemi Adewole, warning that if the government failed to meet the deadline, it would direct its members to shut all the depots the NNPC uses to store imported products as well as disengage over 10,000 workers.

However, NUPENG President, Igwe Achese, who addressed newsmen after a NUPENG Elders Stakeholders Meeting in Lagos, said the union would protect its members from the threats.

Achese noted that there was an urgent need to call for dialogue with the marketers, adding that if the issues were not promptly addressed, NUPENG would be at the receiving end.

“The problem will not only affect workers but also tanker drivers. Hence, if it happens, we will react to protect our members. If workers are sacked, the union will react accordingly,” he said.

The NUPENG chief advised the government to ‘wake up’ to the reality that NNPC alone could not sustain petroleum supply in the country.

“We have always said it that, for fuel crisis to end, our refineries must come back on stream.

If we are importing, that should only be a stop-gap,” he said.

The union, he said, would give the Federal Government maximum support to ensure that all the refineries got back to their full working capacity, but that the government must ignore those that were calling for privatisation of the refineries. Instead, it should look for a way to upgrade the facilities.

Workers on an oil rig

B6 Labour

ALTON chairman debunk members’ claim on sanction by NCC Chairman, Association of Telecommunications of Nigeria (ALTON), Mr. Gbenga Adebayo has debunked the rumour that some of its members have been sanctioned by Nigerian Commission Communications (NCC) over call masking.

Adebayo, who rose to the defence of the association members, stated that they were all responsible corporate citizens who

operate according to the laws.

“We are delighted that in the report issued by NCC, there is no current registered member of our association that was involved.

“And what it also goes to show is that our members are responsible corporate people who operate according to the laws.“They work according to the terms of their licenses, so the assurance we will continue to give is that, as

a responsible association we will continue to comply with the rules of operations,’’ he said.

Adebayo said ALTON members would not risk their investments in the country by carrying out illegal activities that the laws guiding their operations frown at.

He further assured subscribers that operators would continue to provide best services.

“As an industry that provides

infrastructure for many other sub-sector of the economy, we will continue to do our best to contribute to the national economic development NCC recently imposed a range of sanctions on operators implicated in call masking and barred over 750,000 numbers assigned to several Private Network Links (PNL) and Local Exchange Operator (LEO) licensees.

Workers on strike, demanding for their salaries

States assembly on track with LG autonomy - NULGE The Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) has reacted to claims that the local government autonomy has been rejected by state houses of assembly in the on-going constitutional amendment process, intimating that such information is false.

President of NULGE, Ibrahim Khaleel, revealed that the bill was still under consideration by 26 houses of assembly across the country, as only 10 had so far considered the bill and passed it to the Chairman of Conference of Speakers of state Houses of Assembly for transmission to the

National Assembly.

Khaleel stated that the National Assembly had sent 15 different bills to the states houses, of which Local Government Autonomy Bill was one of them.

“Among the 36 states, however, only 10 states have considered the Bill on Local Government Autonomy and forwarded it to the Chairman of Conference of Speakers, which was part of what was transmitted to the National Assembly.

“Among the 10 states that have considered it, eight states: Kwara, Benue, Niger, Plateau, Bauchi, Cross River, Bayelsa and Ogun states voted for local government

autonomy while only two states: Edo and Imo, rejected it by voting against it.”

Khaleel further commented that Rivers and Lagos states have not attempted to work on the Bill, but noted that the remaining 24, who joined the other 10 states to transmit it to the National Assembly, said they stepped the bill down for further consultation.

“So, 24 states houses of assembly are still working on it, many of them are already holding a public hearing on it.

That is what is going on. For example, Sokoto State just conducted a public hearing on the bill. Gombe has just called for a

memorandum from its citizens on Local Government Autonomy Bill. Others also differ it to hold a public hearing and for further discussions before they vote and forward it to Chairman, Conference of Speakers.

“It is just that only eight so far have voted for it among 10 states who have fully considered it. It is possible that we will still get 16 states, out of the remaining states that have not voted on Local Government Autonomy Bill.

We can see that it has not been rejected. So, we can’t say local government autonomy has been rejected. It is still work in progress,” he said.

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

B7 Money Market

L-R: Group Head, Agric Finance, Heritage Bank Plc, Olugbenga Awe; Senior Private Sector Development Adviser, British Deputy High Commission, Richard Sandall; Dean, Dangote Business School, Bayero University, Kano, Prof. Murtala Sabo Sagagi and Deputy Country Director, Sasakawa Africa Association, Sani Sagagi, at the Lagos-Kano Economic and Investment Summit in Epe, Lagos…yesterday.

Stories by Motolani Oseni The Nigerian currency, at the close of trading activities on Monday 5 February, 2018, stabilized across Foreign Exchange (Forex) markets and its segments, while recording total transactions turnover of $133.19 million, higher than $133 million declared on Friday at the Nigerian Autonomous Foreign Exchange (NAFEX) window.

The Naira, at the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN’s) spot market sustained appreciated rate of N305.85 to the Dollar, compared to N305 sold on Thursday.

At the parallel segment of the forex market, the naira settled at N362 per dollar, better than N363 sold a week ago, as well as N502 to a Pound sterling and N442 per Euro, respectively.

Also, at NAFEX window, the local currency, as of close of yesterday trading stood steadied at N360.10 per dollar the same rate it exchanged on the

Naira stables across forex markets, segments .As NAFEX declares $133.2m transactions turnover last trading day of the previous week.

Although, it opened at a depreciated rate of N360.25 per dollar against N360.03 on Friday, representing a decline of 0.06 per cent, before trading high at N31.50 and eventually closed at N360.10 to the dollar.

The autonomous forex segment has recorded a whopping $10.1billion turnover, helping in stabilizing the foreign exchange market.

The special FX window in the just concluded month of February declared a total transactions turnover of $3.95 billion, against $6.1 billion recorded in January, representing a decline of 35 per cent.

Although, figure obtained showed that NAFEX window between April and December 2017, recorded total turnover of $25.65billion, with September and November declared the highest transactions turnover, while April, the month that the CBN created the special FX window recorded the lowest turnover figure. However, data from FMDQ OTC securities Exchange revealed that $0.61 billion or N1865.66 billion total turnover was traded in April and increased by 114 per cent to $1.32 billion or N403.92 billion in May. Total turnover on NAFEX window in June and July were $1.63 billion or N498.78 billion

and $1.86 billion or N569.16 billion respectively.

Data from FMDQ OTC stated that total turnover gained momentum in August 2017, as newly created window reached $3 billion per month.

Meanwhile, the Federal Government on Monday offered for subscription a two-year savings bond at 10.74 per cent and three-year savings bond at 11.74 per cent.

According to the Debt Management Office (DMO) website, the two-year savings bonds will be due in March 2020. It said the three-year savings bond would be due in March 2021.

The Debt office, however,

did not state how much was offered, but the maximum subscription was N50 million at N1,000 per unit, subject to minimum subscription of N5,000 in multiples of N1,000.

According to DMO, the bond is backed by the full faith and credit of the Federal Government, with quarterly coupon payments to bondholders.

It would be recalled that savings bond issuance is expected to help finance the nation’s budget deficit. It is also part of the Federal Government’s programme targeted at the low-income earners to encourage savings and earn more interest on savings, compared to what was accrued on their bank savings.

The offer closes on Friday.

Nigeria’s capital inflow hits $12bn in 2017 -NBS The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said that Nigeria recorded a princely $12.2 billion capital inflow in 2017.

The NBS made the disclosure in its “Nigeria Capital Importation for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2017 Report” posted on its website.

According to the report, the inflow represents an increase of 7,104.4 million dollars or 138.7 per cent, compared with the figure recorded in 2016.

The report said that the capital inflow in the fourth quarter of 2017 was 5.32 billion dollars, compared with the 4.14 billion dollars recorded in the third quarter of 2017 and 1.54 billion dollars recorded in the fourth quarter of 2016.

It stated, however, that the growth in capital inflow in 2017 was mainly driven by an increase in portfolio investments.

The report explained that the capital inflow was divided into three main investment types.

It identified the investment types as Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Portfolio Investment and Other Investments, each comprising various sub-categories. The report said that portfolio investment went up by 5,516.2 million dollars from the previous year to reach 7,329.1 million dollars in 2017, accounting for 60 per cent of total capital inflow.

It stated that portfolio investment, which recorded 3,477.5 million dollars in the fourth quarter of 2017, re-

mained the largest component of the capital inflow and contributed 64.6 per cent of the total amount, standing at 5,382.86 dollars.

During the quarter, the report stated that FDI hit 378.4 million dollars for the first time since the fourth quarter of 2015 when it reported 123.2 million dollars.

The report said that figure in the quarter under review showed a substantial increase of 221.8 per cent when compared with the third quarter and a 9.8 per cent increase compared with the fourth quarter of 2017.

The report noted that growth in FDI was mainly driven by equity investments, which contributed 99.8 per cent, while other capital investments contributed 0.2 per cent.

It said that other investments accounted for 28.4 per cent of total capital importation in the fourth quarter of 2017.

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

B8 Interview

Dr Daniel Young is the Chief Executive Officer, Daniel Young Global Investments Ltd, a company that is into the manufacturing of uniforms, cloths, shoes, bags for international and local markets. In this interview with CHUKWUEMEKE IWELUNMO , the entrepreneur looks at the prospects his company has made, challenges and way forward for local manufacturing in the country. Excerpts: Please tell us a little bit about your company?

The major driving force is that we looked around and found out that most of the things we are bringing into the country with regards to clothing, shoes and bags can be manufactured in Nigeria with the same standard as the ones we are bringing in. Having looked at some of the brands that we enjoy today in terms of clothing, we decided to match their standards and their production quality. We looked at aspects that will give us the desired leverage and we decided to zero in on uniforms because uniforms create some kind of team spirit. If you look at the airline industry, you see the cabin crew, people in the counter space, pilots are all in uniforms and you wouldn’t want to deal with anyone who is not dressed properly.

Why did you go into uniforms?

It gives a sense of corporate identity. We decided to look at uniforms and all it entails starting from day care, nursery for schools, industrybased uniforms for hospitality industry, for military, for hospital amongst others. Anything uniform is what we do, either for sports or academic purposes or for industry use. If you look at our show rooms today, you will discover that we have been able to do our best to produce products that match global standards. We decided to reinvent the school shoes that we used to have in the 70s and 80s. What we have done is to take existing one and study and amplify what qualities that were found that were good and remove aspects that of the original designs that are no longer useful. If you look at the 70s design, you see that they have a lot of perforations on the leather surface. So, we reduced it and we used fabrics inside the shoes so the child does not sweat. We also reduced the weight of the heels for ease of movement. Children do not walk, they run, so anything that impedes their movement will not encourage learning.

We have looked at those things and decided to bring a brand new product that will meet today’s taste.

How do you source your raw materials?

Everything you need in terms of

Nigerian airline operators not patronising local companies it becomes a man-know-man based product, the product can’t stand on its two feet. The moment the person who gave you the link is out, the business dies with its glamour, which is mostly the case with the businesses we do in Nigeria. This one is not tied to aviation or any other company.

DR DANIEL YOUNG fabrics can be found in Lagos. Once you can’t find it, you can get it from Aba. We have a lot of textile mills here. All I need to do is to go towards Oshodi, tell them exactly what I need and they will produce for you. Everything here can be found in Nigeria, so you do not have any limitation accessing raw materials.

Airlines and other aviation company have uniforms. Do you think you can change what we have now to something better?

Take for instance; the security personnel, they give them materials and they give it to someone else to sow.

So you find out that there is no uniformity in the sowing. Some look like cloths made by left handed tailors. To a large extent, it is a function of internal policy and what is driving the organisation. Any organisation that wants to have a uniform should contract that aspect of the job to someone who is an expert in the area, so that when the cloths come back, they look uniform.

How do you see Dana Cabin crew uniform?

Airlines that operate in Nigeria are not patronising indigenous companies. All the cloths in my show room are made here. They beat Dana standard by every way. We have a range

of products that are unique. If you bring cloths from the United States to me; all I need to do is to remove it and take the pattern. If I ask you to differentiate the one you brought from the one I made, you won’t be able to differentiate. What we have here is proper supervision, skilled workers.

What drives the standard is the taste of the man behind it.

When you work with me, you know that it will be difficult for anyone to find an improvement on what you have done easily. Most of the airlines don’t patronise indigenous companies. You cannot be bringing products that are made here outside the country and you are changing Naira to dollar, to go and buy those things. Government policy is already in place on made-in- Nigeria goods but Nigerians may not patronise a Nigerian product, rather they will take the money to Dubai to buy goods to supply.

Have you started talking to aviation companies with the hope of making uniforms for them?

I showed the security boots we took to the managing director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). He was very excited and asked me to present the copy to Fire and Security. They accepted it and agreed that I should supply

them. When I went to procurement, it was a different ball game. They said they already have an existing supplier who is not supplying made in Nigeria goods. There is a bottle neck somewhere. Within the system, there are bottle necks that will not allow a Nigeria made product to supply. We have the capacity to produce for them and we can produce an average of 2000 shoes in two months.

How affordable are your products?

You cannot buy a good school shoe for less than N7, 000. We have equivalent of Clark shoes that go for as low as N3, 000 to N4, 500. They come with warranty. Because of my background, every work I do is carrying my name, ‘Daniel Young,’ which is the name I will hand over to my children. If the name is known for production of substandard goods, it means my children cannot use that name.

Is there no way, you can interact with major decision makers that can change the status quo?

If a product is good, it sells itself.

If I have good products that speak for themselves and people use it and testify, others will be forced to buy from us. If we are looking for a cheap way into the market, in which case

What progresses have you made since you commenced?

Our uniforms are highly in demand. As we speak, there is one we were given yesterday, which we will deliver tomorrow. It will be used for an event on Saturday. So, what I do is that I call my workshop in Aba and they swung into action. I have a production place in Aba and in Owerri.

We have a building here in Lagos for production and next week we will start putting machines up. The challenge we have as a company is the fact that people are not being clear about their objectives. We want to create a brand that can be recognized internationally. If we decide to concentrate only made in Nigeria shoes for schools, it is enough to give over 5,000 people work in the next one year.

Lagos State alone has over 3,000 private schools. With an average of 100 pupils per school, it gives you a huge amount number. If we capture five percent of this market, we have done well. So, it is all about focusing on what we want. The brand should stand on its own. It should go out in the market and compete with other brands. If we win, we know we have won, if we lose, we come back and look at what we have done wrong and correct, until it can stand. Last year, I got a call from Namibia to produce shoes for their police force but I couldn’t take the offer because part of their condition was that I was going to set-up a production outfit there.

I sent samples and mine won it. I told them to give us another year, we will be able to come after we have the money to setup there. We have also looked at brands and products that we doing well globally. All the things we have in my company is made here.

What are challenges are you facing?

The basic challenge you have when you are an entrepreneur is that most people are in a hurry to succeed. You have to take your time. Only a man digging a grave starts from the top, if you put 20million as start-up capital, it must go. The seed must first die. It is better to build it from ground up, just wait. It might take five years for this brand to gain the recognition it requires. That sustaining power is what most people lack and that is what they consider a challenge.

I told someone that if this is what recession means, I want it to last for another ten years. I am not aware there is recession. It is not about the income or money that you have but about the hope you have in what you are doing. Even though you are not getting money out of it, one day, the result will show.

Life&

TIMES Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Sound wizards on rampage!

L2

P

L2

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Hottest music producers in Nigeria presently Folarin Leonard

We have in recent years been blessed with sounds as we have

Tekno Miles

endless.

Life&

Daily Times Nigeria

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Fashion L3

Mutiat Alli

Go flashy with tote handbag silver, customers can select handles and straps in their preferred hues. your fashion to another level. But this time, the step further. surprise the world.

friendly. This affordable and stylish alternative come in a veritable rainbow of shades, that the Chameleon follows suit. With a variety of shades available from classic black and tan leathers to any occasion.

Mutiat Alli

7 Better ways of wearing your crop tops Crop tops is a piece of cloth for women that does not cover the know, crop tops can also be called half shirt, belly shirt, tummy to expose the waist, navel or some of the midriff, and it is limited to crop tops: 1. Pair it with a pencil skirt: skirt that hit at the knees and above the belly button can be super chic below the waist, you can wear a riskier crop top, perhaps with some 2. Throw it over a dress: You can throw a loose, cropped tank over a bodycon dress. The contrast between the loose top and

warm weather. You can wear a lot of different types of crop tops on 6. Be business-ready in a blazer:

4. Flaunt it on a peplum pant trouser: Peplum pant are unique

summer cocktail or a nice dinner. The peplum adds some shape to

7. With ladies dungarees:

5. With high-waist short: top in different ways.

L4 Vogue

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Mutiat Alli

Bow tie: The combination of fashion and simplicity

Simple rules to consider when wearing Bow tie

tie

Club style

Mutiat Alli

Drive in attention with a hose Fashion in men combines both strength and style

Hint on how to wear a hose shoes

Daily Times Nigeria

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Mutiat Alli

Want that healthy sight? Try this Tomatoes Tomatoes are packed with carotenoids, including lycopene, which helps give tomatoes their vibrant red color. Research shows that the lycopene present in ocular tissues helps prevent light-induced damage to the retina and other areas of the eye.

Tomatoes are also an excellent source of vitamin C, another vision protector. Processed tomato products or fresh tomatoes eaten with a little olive oil will help boost the absorption of lycopene. Researchers say eating foods rich in antioxidants is better than taking supplements.

Corn Yellow corn is great source of lutein and zeaxanthin . These naturally occurring yellow pigments are lost during ARMD, (Age-related macular degeneration) but research shows that older adults who boost their blood levels of lutein and zeaxanthin through eating foods like corn and other reduced their risk of losing these pigments. A study even found that women who ate the most fruits and vegetables, including yellow corn, reduced their risk of developing cataracts.

Carrot Vitamins found in carrot can help promote overall eye health. Carrots contain beta-carotene, a substance that the body converts to vitamin A, an important nutrient for eye health. Carrots can easily be included in your diet in the vegetables salads or fried rice and can also be consumed and enjoyed in its raw form.

Olive Oil This oil which is low in trans and saturated fat helps prevent retina diseases. Several studies suggest that olive oil is recommended for healthy vision. Not only is olive oil free of trans fats and is low in saturated fat, Australian researchers found that subjects who reported consuming the most olive oil were 48% less likely to develop ARMD. When buying olive oil, look for extra virgin for the additional antioxidant boost it provides Walnuts Walnuts are the best nut source of omega-3s.

In small amounts they can be converted to EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid), another omega-3 fatty acid used by the eye, along with DHA. They are full of antioxidants and vitamin E, which work to C-reactive protein, a marker that signals there is nuts a day can cut your risk of a cardiac event by as much as 50 percent, according to several large research projects, including the ongoing Nurses Health Study.

Berries Blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, mulberries, cherries and even grapes are outstanding foods for protecting cardiovascular health, which

pressure. And high blood pressure is a risk factor for macular degeneration. Blueberries and blackberries also contain anthocyanins, which have the -

ages to the arteries that feed oxygen to the available though they are a little bit expensive.

Eggs Eggs contain the omega-3 fatty acid DHA and are the most readily available source of lutein and zeaxanthin. An egg per day for most people, unless you have diabetes, is excellent eye food. Diabetics need to ask their doctor whether eggs can be a part of their diet.

Avocados Avocados are one the most nutrient-rich fruits They contain lutein and help prevent macular great source of other important eye nutrients such as beta-carotene, vitamin C, vitamin B6 and vitamin E,� Gerbstadt says. Those vitamins place avocados among the top-10 eye foods.

Turkey turkey contains zinc and vitamin B, which makes it effective when it comes to warding off cataract. It is also a healthier option than red option for the eyes.

Sweet potatoes This is a very easy accompaniment to any meal, as it contains loads of beta-carotene which makes them a total necessity when it comes to eye health.

Sardines loaded with Omega-3 fatty acids, sardines should be included in your diet at least once work by protecting the tiny blood vessels in the eyes and maintaining overall eye health.

According to a study featured in the American also reduce the risk of developing age–related

ways you can get a good supply of omega–3 Moringa Moringa leaves contain iron, calcium, potassium, vitamin A, vitamin C and protein. These are low in calorie, sodium and rich in antioxidant, vitamins, minerals and essential amino acids. Its leaves can also be used to treat various eye problems. Moringa leaves can be used as eye wash and can also be put in eyes. Extract of its fresh leaves juice mixed with honey are also used as eye drop in some parts of India

Wellness L5

Nutritions L6

15 Mutiat Alli

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

reasons you need lemon in your water

to justify starting your day with a nice glass of lemon water.

Sometimes we just get tired of drinking old plain water and you just want to take your physical, mental, and spiritual health up to the next level, here are 15 reasons why you should be drinking lemon water every day.

1) Clears Skin One of the more convincing reasons to drink lemon water for most of us is that it can help keep our skin clear. Water on its vitamin C in lemons helps purge toxins from our blood to keep 2) Balances Your PH

very acidic, but they actually have a very alkalizing effect on our bodies. Keeping your body in an alkaline state also pre-

3) Boosts Immune System boost our immune system. Who has time to get sick these days, right? The potassium in lemon juice helps control blood pressure, stimulate brain and nerve function and vitamin C with the juice of one lemon and some honey.

4) Weight Loss Aside from helping our skin stay clear, balancing and boost-

There are tons of different powers that lemon water has. Did you know that it can actually assist you with any digestion problems that you are having? Trust me on this one, if you are having a lot of stomach aches, start drinking lemon water and

5) Help a Hangover Save yourself a trip to the store and make yourself a mug of lemon water is that it can help soothe your stomach, which can be somewhat irritated or sensitive after a night of drinking.

Drinking hot water with lemon can act as an antiseptic and help

10) Powerful Cleansing Powers While we might clean our skin and we might actually keep our faces and hair clean, did you know that we also need to keep our organs and our insides

6) Freshens Breath We now know that lemon water has an abundance of ben-

extremely healthy.

11) Less Mucus

en your breath after having some drinks, a spicy meal or if you smoke. All these things can dry out your mouth, which can lead

probably notice that you have a ton of mucus in the

7) Boost the Brain and Nervous System Another one of the impressive effects of drinking lemon wahave been linked to depression, anxiety, forgetfulness and brain fog. As mentioned previously, lemons are also chock full

you are noticing it all around your body. Well, one of -

antibacterial properties and helps get rid of infections of the

13) Energy Boost Do you need that cup of coffee in the morning and then around 2:30pm, you are crashing and burning with being tired? Well, if you happen to drink hot water with lemon in it instead of coffee, not only will you cut your

helpful natural remedy for allergies as it helps keep the body alkaline and more balanced.

9) Helps Digestion Problems

14) Helps You to Stay Healthier Overall, lemon water is a good way to keep hydrated

stress.

8) Helps Respiratory Problems -

all ends of the spectrum.

15) Great Source of Potassium still missing those potassium levels, why not indulge in a few glasses of

Daily Times Nigeria

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Fashion Extra L7

Mutiat Alli

Must have for men Just as females have their fashion accessories

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

L8 Relationship

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Moses Akerele

How I lost my omoge to my padi -

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-