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Why Nigerians should vote for Buhari – Osinbajo

Says PMB’s govt is for the poor, common man who live in every LGA

Mathew Dadiya, Abuja Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that the forthrightness and sincerity of the Buhari government is not in doubt and Nigerians should stand with the

administration in the February 16 general elections.

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was given rousing receptions by huge crowds at different stops.

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, Laolu Akande, stated that the Vice President further explained that the government of President Muhammadu Buhari “is a government for the poor and common man who lives in every local government area of the country.”

According to him, “all the Social Investment Programmes of the Buhari administration is to empower the common man and the poor.”

Speaking to the excited crowd at Igbeti town during a campaign rally/street chats on Friday, Prof. Osinbajo said the TraderMoni, MarketMoni and the N-Power programmes are designed to take the common people out of poverty.”

“The TraderMoni is to empower the small, small traders, it is not for big business. Those in big businesses have their own, which is called the MarketMoni. We want to reach every village so that the people here will also benefit from this government, all of us will be going up, up, up,” the VP emphasised.

He assured that hardworking people like artisans including tailors will be assisted with money to enhance their businesses, adding, “even those who are not graduates, but can read and write will be given a stipend monthly like those in the N-Power programme.”

Singing a campaign song which he composed in Yoruba, “Up, up, we are going, up, up we are going,” the VP enjoined the people to join hands with the government whose leaders will use the money meant for the masses to work for them and should not allow those leaders who will be stealing people’s money to return.

“We have been able to do more with less resources,”

Prof. Osinbajo added.

On his courtesy visit to the Paramount ruler (Onigbeti) of Igbeti Land, Oba Emmanuel Oyekan Oyebisi, Ofasegbejo III of Igbetiland, Prof.

Osinbajo commended the Oba and thanked him for a warm welcome.

Earlier, the Oba commended the Social Investment Programmes of the Buhari administration, describing it as the people’s programmes, and requested for the development of natural resources such as different types of marbles available in the town for the betterment of not only the indigenes but the country at large.

While assuring the Oba that his requests would be looked into, the VP said: “Kabiyesi, this coming election is for progress, we have already seen it but if we are not cautious we may be drawn back, but God forbid it.”

Following his visit to Igbeti town, Vice President Osinbajo also went to Kisi, the headquarters of Irepo Local Government Area of Oyo State, where he was received by a mammoth and excited crowd.

Prof. Osinbajo urged them to stand with the government in the coming elections.

On Saturday, on his visit to Saki Local Government Area, the Vice President also received a rousing welcome by huge crowds at different stops.

On arrival, Prof. Osinbajo paid a courtesy call to the Bagii of Saki, High Chief Abdrasheed Gazali Adegoke, where he met with traditional rulers in the area, who commended him for being “a great Vice President.”

They noted that the Buhari administration deserves a second term for its efforts in improving the welfare of Nigerians.

Also, in continuation of the Family Chats, Prof.

Osinbajo on Saturday visited the families of Alhaji Ganiyu Akere and Mr. & Mrs. Sunday Kolajo, in Saki, Oyo State.

At Saki, the Vice President addressed rallies where

he emphasised the Social Investment Programme and the Next Level plan of the Buhari administration. He noted that one of the plans include the establishment of the People’s Moni Bank that would give soft loans to Nigerians.

Prof. Osinbajo added that the people of Oke-Ogun have seen the good thing that has happened to them within this short time. He noted that the Minister of Communication, Barr. Adebayo Shittu who accompanied him on the visits was from Oke-Ogun.

Continuing, he also assured the Saki people that their request for potable water, road infrastructure and power would be looked into, as the Buhari government would continue in its efforts to improve the lives of all Nigerians.

He assured that the people would benefit from the Transborder International Market since Saki shares border with Republic of Benin and Togo.

At the Sango area, also in Saki, the Vice President addressed a huge crowd of people in the predominantly Hausa community, where he, again, assured them of President Buhari’s concern for the poor.

He said “the next level of change is to lift everyone from poverty and provide more infrastructural development.”

The people of Saki pledge their unalloyed support for the re-election of President Buhari in the forthcoming presidential election, noted Barr. Abdulwaheed Lawal who spoke on behalf of APC, in Saki. Lawal added that the people would support the Buhari administration’s Next Level agenda.

Earlier in the day, Prof.

Osinbajo had attended the wedding ceremony of the son of the Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole, in Ibadan, while he also interacted with the League of Imams and Alfas, also in Ibadan, before he proceeded to Saki Local Government, wrapping up a two-day focus on the OkeOgun areas of Oyo State.

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L-R: Allied Peoples Movement (APM) gubernatorial candidate for Ogun State, Adekunle Akinlade; President Muhammadu Buhari and Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, during a courtesy visit to the President in Abuja...on Sunday.

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike (middle); Commissioner for Housing, Mr. Chinedu Tasie (left) and Rivers State Bureau for Public Procurement, Mr. Igonibo Emmanuel Thompson (right) during the inspection of Judges Quarters in Port Harcourt, Rivers State...on Saturday

L-R: Akwa-Ibom, Deputy Governor, Mr. Moses Ekpo; Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Udom Emmanuel and Sen. Godswill Akpabio, at the Diocesan New Year Prayer and Fasting Assembly 2019 of the Catholic Diocese of Uyo at Cardinal Ekanem Seminary Grounds, Dominic Utuk Avenue, Uyo, Akwa Ibom...on Sunday.

S’East Governors raise the alarm over Operation Python Dance III

The South-East Governors Forum has called on officers and men of the Nigerian Army to be professional in the execution of their duties under the Operation Python Dance III in the zone.

Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State, who is the Chairman of the Forum, gave the charge in Abakaliki, while receiving the General Officer

Commanding (GOC), 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Maj-Gen. Abubakar Maikobi.

Umahi charged the army to be professional to win the confidence of the people in the face of heightened tension, occasioned by the 2019 general elections.

“The South-East zone has been greatly troubled by the army’s presence, especially with its clash with members

of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

“The army should, therefore, remain neutral and maintain a high level of professionalism in the discharge of its duties while the operation lasts,” he said.

The governor urged the military to evolve workable policies that would earn the confidence of the zone and

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Vice Presidential candidate for Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Peter Obi (Centre) with some members of the National Assembly and PDP stakeholders in Anambra State, during the grand reception of Mr. Peter Obi on Sunday, at Emmaus House, Awka

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CBN mops up N17.5trn through OMO sales in 2018 Motolani Oseni, Lagos

As part of efforts to manage excess liquidity in the system, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) mopped up the total sum of N17.5 trillion through the sales of Open Market Operation (OMO) in 2018.

This is even as investors in the equities market of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) recorded gains of N89 billion in the first trading week of 2019.

Latest information obtained from the official website of the apex bank over the weekend showed an increase of OMO sales in December and January of the just concluded year.

For instance, a total amount of N2.08 trillion worth of OMO was sold in January but recorded a lower amount of N1.97 trillion in December 2018.

It is, however, worthy of that the CBN OMO bills were utilised as the main instrument for liquidity management. The bill auctions were also used to boost tradable securities and increase activities in the secondary market.

As a result of its restrictive monetary policy, the apex bank intensified its mop-up of excess liquidity in the system by the sale of Treasury bills with OMO. The CBN does not only use OMO; it also uses Treasury Bills and Federal Government Bonds to stem inflationary pressure and curtail liquidity arising from maturing bills.

According to CBN, OMO sales have

attracted rates between 17.5 per cent and 18.5 per cent, a move to keep the foreign exchange stable.

The apex bank in 2017 offered OMO bills worth N13.76 trillion, while total public subscription and sale amounted to N12.3 trillion and N11.34 trillion, respectively, compared with N6.73 trillion, N10.29 trillion and N7.86 trillion offered, subscribed and sold, respectively, in 2016.

According to CBN, “the increase in the sale of CBN bills, in the review period, was attributed, largely, to the increased number of OMO auctions conducted to curb excess liquidity, occasioned by maturing CBN bills, monthly disbursement of statutory revenue and swaps transactions to avoid liquidity surfeit in the banking system.”

The Managing Director, Maxifund Investments and Securities Limited, Mr. Okechukwu Unegbu, had attributed the increased OMO sales to improved economy and policy stance of the CBN. He noted that OMO sales have impacted on the capital market and money market as investors are reaping from the daily auction.

His words: “OMO is one of the instruments CBN used in controlling money in circulation, making sure the rate of inflation is reduced. Investors will always go to where it is easy for them concerning reaping their investment, be it short-term or longterm.

“The increased OMO sales by CBN

have boosted the economy further and both capital market and money market are benefitting, as policy direction of the CBN has proven working this year.”

CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, in last month predicted that monetary policy stance would remain judicious, research-driven, adequate and supportive of the real economy subject to underlying fundamentals.

He pointed out that the current tight stance was expected to continue in the near-term, especially because of rising inflation expectations and exchange market pressures.

He said: “Though we will act to appropriately adjust the policy rate in line with unfolding conditions and outlooks, the CBN will continue to ensure that the policy interest rate is delicately set to balance the objectives of price stability with output stabilisation.

“With favourable oil price developments and continued efforts at driving indigenous production in highimpact real sector activities, especially agriculture and manufacturing, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is expected to pick-up in the remaining two quarters of 2018.”

Despite the maturity of N547 billion worth of OMO bills last week, money market rates increased in the outgone week as Overnight and Open-Buy Back rates rose from 18.42 per cent and 17.17per cent to close at 23.75 per cent and 20 per cent respectively.

The increase in rates may have been

Call Buhari to order now, PDP urges Abdusalami’s National Peace Committee

Alerts CJN, UN, says President’s actions threatens peace Women groups alleges Bauchi APC Senatorial candidate is Amina Zakari’s husband

Tunde Opalana, Abuja The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has charged the National Peace Committee headed by former Military President, Gen Abdudalami Abubakar (rtd), to prevail on President Muhammadu Buhari to desist from certain antidemocratic tendencies capable of threatening national peace before, during and after the coming general elections.

The party as well alerted the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnonghen, the United Nations and world leaders to save the nation from imminent collapse by immediately calling President Muhammadu Buhari to order, if the nation must have peaceful, free, fair and credible general elections.

The PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation (PPCO) said that President Buhari’s desperation for self-succession has become the major threat to national unity, stability and peaceful electoral process.

Kola Ologbondiyan, Director, Media & Publicity, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation (PPCO), at a press conference on Sunday, accused the Buhari Presidency of seeking ways to enmesh the electoral process in crisis by “overheating the polity with its unending manipulations of INEC, muzzling of free speech and escalated

clampdown on opposition and Civil Society Organisations and we insist that such must stop if we must have a peaceful election”.

Insisting that there can never be free and fair election with Amina Zakari in INEC, the PPCO said that there is no way peace can be guaranteed without a free and fair election.

“We want the National Peace Committee and the entire world to know that as long as Amina Zakari is in INEC, a peaceful election is not guaranteed because she has the mandate to abuse the process and this will not be accepted

by Nigerians.

“The PPCO therefore calls on the National Peace Committee to immediately speak out on the impropriety of having Amina Zakari in INEC as well as insist on her removal so that we can have a credible and peaceful Presidential election.

“Already, Nigerians across the board are livid with anger over the foisting of Mrs. Amina Zakari, President Buhari’s relation, to head the collation of Presidential election results.

“President Buhari’s insistence on having his relation in-charge of collation of Presidential election results is completely provocative, a direct affront to the sensibilities of Nigerians and express invitation to crisis of epic proportion, which is capable of truncating the entire electoral process and derailing our hard-earned

democracy.

“The world is aware that majority of Nigerians have rejected Mrs. Amina Zakari. Over 90 percent of the political parties in the election, as well as major political and socio-cultural groups across the country have also called for her resignation from INEC, yet President Buhari is insisting on her stay in the commission.

“Our party is aware of plots by the Buhari Presidency to use Amina Zakari, who has been mentioned as part of those involved in the rigging oft 2018 governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun states, to plunge the 2019 general elections into controversies, truncate the flow of results and even render elections in some critical states inconclusive, to pave way for allocation of fictitious votes to President Buhari and the APC”.

The party expressed concern over clamping of eminent opposition figures into detention for being opposed to the APC led administration. It noted that peaceful election cannot be guaranteed as long as the Buhari Presidency continues to besiege, harass, intimidate, unleash violence and provocative acts of totalitarianism against opposition figures and persons perceived to be against President Buhari’s selfsuccession bid.

Charging Justice Onnonghen, the PPCO alerted the entire world and particularly the Chief Justice of Nigeria

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Emefiele supported by the sales of N579 billion worth of OMO bills as well as retail foreign exchange interventions sales.

Meanwhile, at the end of the three-day trading, the NSE All Share Index dropped by 1.3 per cent to close at 30,638.90 basis points from 31,037.72 basis points, while market capitalisation closed at N11.426 trillion, an increase of one per cent from N11.337 trillion the market opened for trading.

All other indices finished lower as the Industrial index led the pack by 3.9 per cent, followed closely by the Banking index 2.7 per cent, Consumer Goods index one per cent, and Insurance index one per cent indices respectively, with the exception of the NSE Oil and Gas Index that rose by 2.91 per cent.

According to NSE, “a total turnover of 1.647 billion shares worth N8.413 billion in 14,773 deals were traded this week by investors on the floor of the Exchange in contrast to a total of 3.129 billion shares valued at N14.348 billion that exchanged hands last week in 10,394 deals.

“The Financial Services Industry (measured by volume) led the activity chart with 1.154 billion shares valued at N5.742 billion traded in 9,174 deals; thus contributing 70.08 per cent and 68.25 per cent to the total equity turnover volume and value respectively. The Healthcare Industry followed with 271.277 million shares worth N82.647 million in 219 deals.

“The third place was Services Industry with a turnover of 91.734 million shares worth N 208.562 million in 232 deals.

“Trading in the Top Three Equities namely, Diamond Bank Plc, Union Diagnostic & Clinical Services Plc and NEM Insurance Plc (measured by volume) accounted for 816.016 million shares worth N1.305 billion in 1,615 deals, contributing 49.54 per cent and 15.51 per cent to the total equity turnover volume and value respectively.”

A total of 7,209 units of Federal Government Bonds valued at N6.958 million were traded this week in 8 deals compared with a total of 686 units valued at N689, 162.04 transacted last week in 3 deals.

The price movement chart showed that only 22 equities appreciated during the week, lower than 52 in the previous week. 45 equities depreciated, higher than 18 of the previous week, while 97 equities remained unchanged higher than 94 equities recorded in the previous week.

Meanwhile, the nation’s foreign reserve at the end of first trading week of 2019, stood at $43,057 billion, weaker than $43,075 billion opened on Wednesday, however, better than

$38.9 billion stood in 2017; $27.9 billion in 20176; $28.2 billion in 2015, and $34.2 billion in 2014, but lower than above $45 billion stood in 2014.

Despite shedding $18.55 million between the last trading day of 2018 and the first trading day of 2019, the forex reserve still stands at the highest January figure in six years.

In 2018, Godwin Emefiele, governor of the central bank, made it clear that the apex bank, under his leadership, will prioritise defending the naira over building reserves.

Speaking at the last IMF/ World Bank meeting held in Bali, Indonesia, Emefiele said Nigeria has a choice to make between building reserve buffers or defending the naira.

He said: “We are going to need to build buffers but unfortunately I must say that we are in a period where it is difficult to talk about building reserves.

“You can only build reserve buffers if you want to hold on to the reserves while allowing your currency to go and wherever it goes is something else.

“It is a choice we have to make and at this time, the choice for Nigeria is to maintain a stable exchange rate so that businesses can plan and we don’t create problems in the banking system”.

To this end, the apex bank on Friday made its first intervention in the interbank sector of the Foreign Exchange market for 2019 with the sum of $210m.

The CBN Director, Corporate Communications, Isaac Okorafor, said the wholesale sector of the market received 100 million dollars, while the Small and Medium Enterprises received $55m.

Okorafor said another $55m was allocated to customers requiring foreign exchange for business and personal travels, tuition or medical fees.

The CBN spokesman said the apex bank would continue from where it stopped in 2018 to maintain the stability being enjoyed in the market.

He noted that the Bank had made a commendable effort in keeping the exchange rates at the current levels.

Okorafor said the current capital flow reversals from the emerging markets were expected to bring out pressures on the market rates.

He, however, assured that, in spite of the anticipated pressures, coupled with the forthcoming elections, the bank was committed to maintaining the current exchange rate policy, given the level of reserves.

“The CBN is determined to sustain a stable exchange rate as it continues to put in place relevant measures to shore up the country’s reserves”, Okorafor said in a statement.

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Why Lagos is experiencing global recognition – Ambode Benjamin Omoike Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, on Sunday, attributed the global recognition of the state as a major capital to God’s grace, guidance and divine favour, saying the state should be thankful for the numerous achievements and growth so far recorded.

Speaking at the annual special thanksgiving service of the State Government for the New Year held at Lagos House in Alausa, Ikeja, the Governor said it was evidently clear that God had been faithful to the state in making the modest successes recorded possible.

“God has been very faithful to us in Lagos and that is why we dedicate every first Sunday of the year to give Him thanks and praise. The modest achievements and progress our State has recorded would not have been possible without His grace, guidance and divine favour.

“The occasion of this Annual Thanksgiving Service is very symbolic to us in Lagos as it not only serves as a yearly tradition but it provides us a platform to come together as a people and as a State to give praise to the Almighty.

“When we count the numerous blessings and favours our State has enjoyed, protection from natural disasters, security of lives and property of Lagosians, the continuous growth and

development of our State and the global recognition of Lagos as a major capital in the world, we would see that truly, our God has been faithful and benevolent to us beyond our expectations,” Governor Ambode said.

Describing the theme of the service - “Enter His Gates with Thanksgiving,” taken from Psalms 100:4, as apt, the Governor said it was for people to appreciate God for His blessings, hence the need for the service.

According to him, “The place of thanksgiving is paramount, as it is through thanksgiving that the presence of God is brought down. Through this yearly tradition of the State Thanksgiving Service, we have had the privilege of coming together to appreciate God and also commit the activities of the New Year unto His hands and in return, He has bestowed upon us peace and divine intervention especially at difficult times.”

Besides, Governor Ambode said as the nation prepares for crucial elections in 2019, it was important for Nigerians to pray for peaceful elections to facilitate continuity of development and good governance.

“As we raise our voices in songs of praise, adoration and supplications, I urge us all to pray for our State and our Country especially in this special and crucial year of general elections.

Let us seek the face of God to grant us peaceful elections devoid of violence, so that

Ambode Lagos, and indeed Nigeria, will continue to excel and experience continuity of development and good governance,” he said.

The Governor also used the service to appreciate and all Clergymen in the state for always keeping faith with the annual thanksgiving service and for their ceaseless prayers and wise counsels for the continued progress of the state.

In his sermon, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, emphasised the need for people to continually appreciate God, saying doing such always help to complete prayers.

Citing Acts 16: 25-26, Adeboye who was represented by his Special Assistant, Pastor Idowu Iluyomade said thanksgiving also has the ability to move God

to action, urging the people to imbibe the act of giving thanks in all situations.

Aside songs ministrations from various choirs, prayers were also offered for the first family, the Executive, Judiciary, Legislature, Civil Service, Local Governments and security operatives, and also for the success of the forthcoming general elections.

Among dignitaries who attended the service include Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo and his wife, Dolapo; former Lagos State Governors - Brigd Gen. Mobolaji Johnson (rtd), Alhaji Lateef Jakande, Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu (rtd); Governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and leading Christian clerics in the state.

Again, Buhari hosts Amosun, Ogun APM governorship candidate Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

President Muhammadu Buhari has for the second time hosted Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun and the state governorship candidate of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), Abdulkadir Adekunle Akinlade, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Prior to Sunday’s meeting with the president, Amosun, accompanied by the APM

National Chairman, Alhaji Yusuf Dantalle, had on December 2018, met with the president at the Presidential Villa.

The governor, at the meeting, presented a letter of adoption of the President by APM as the party’s presidential candidate in the February 16 general elections.

Amosun had said that the endorsement letter was given to him by the party for onward presentation to the president, adding that with

the endorsement, President Buhari, whom he described as a man with good heart, would garner massive votes in the 2019 presidential elections.

The governor, who spoke to State House correspondents on Sunday after the meeting with the president, reassured the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) of the unalloyed loyalty and support of the government and people of his state to the renewal of President

Buhari’s mandate for sustainable future of the country.

Akinlade also told the correspondents that he would personally work towards the electoral victory of President Buhari in the forthcoming presidential election.

President Buhari and his visitors had a group photograph where they all demonstrated the “4 + 4’’ symbol with their fingers - meaning another four years for the governing party.

Presidency orders withdrawal of ‘fake news’ on NFF Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

The Presidency has ordered for withdrawal of what it described as “fake news” making the rounds that President Muhammadu Buhari directed the arrest and prosecution of the Nigeria Football Federal (NFF), Amaju Pinnick.

Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President

on Media and Publicity, on Sunday, stated that “a press release in circulation in the last 24 hours, to the effect that President Buhari has ordered the arrest and prosecution of Pinnick” is fake.

According to the Presidential spokesman, it is a fake news because anyone familiar with the President’s unmitigated and unshakable commitment to the due processes of the law will not

make such assumptions of the President.

The position of the President that allegations of criminal nature should be addressed only by investigation and law enforcement agencies, within the framework of the law has not changed, the presidency stated.

“It is not in the nature of President Buhari to say go and arrest that man or woman as formed the practice in the past.

“Rather, he allows all allegations of this nature to be addressed using the mechanism of the rule of law even as law enforcement and investigation agencies should not in any way be hampered in performing their duties,” Shehu said.

The presidency, however, warned that nobody should drop names to seek to influence the course of those investigations.

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(CJN) of the ongoing use of the Police to clampdown on opposition figures, particularly members of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council and outspoken CSOs on trumped-up criminal charges.

“Part of the plot is to charge such individuals before certain compromised judicial officers, in various states, who have been briefed to detain, silence and put such opposition figures and CSO members out of circulation until after elections are concluded.

“Particular cases at hand are those of our Presidential Campaign Director on Civil Societies, Senator Dino Melaye, who is being hounded for his outspokenness against the misrule of the Buhari Presidency, as well as Civil Rights activist, Deji Adeyanju, who is widely believed to have been held down in prison because of his scathing criticism against the violations of the rights of Nigerians by the Buhari Presidency”.

It recalled that Senator Dino Melaye had earlier alerted of plots by the Police to arrest and poison him, adding that his present ordeal as well as those of the civil rights activist, Deji Adeyanju, in the hands of the Buhari-led authorities, is incendiary in an election year and insisted that no harm must come to them or any member of the opposition or CSOs, before, during and after the elections.

Ologbondiyan said “the PPCO is aware that the aim is to use the state apparatus of power to attempt to instill fear in Nigerians, stifle free speech, cow opposition and CSOs to silence so as to pave for President Buhari’s self-succession.

“This is a clear attempt to return our nation to the nightmares of the 1984 when draconian leaders forcefully subjugated innocent Nigerians under the grips of military Decree 2 and we urge the CJN to save our nation by insulating the judiciary from this ignoble scheme”.

However, the PPCO urged President Buhari Presidency to note that it is preposterous

for anybody, no matter how highly placed, to think that our great party, the PDP and our Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, who enjoys the support of overwhelming majority of Nigerians, can be subdued out of the political space in our country.

“We therefore counsel President Buhari to tame his desperation for power. Our nation has had many Presidents before President Buhari and there will be many more after him.

“President Buhari will not be the first President to be defeated in an election as such he should not set our nation on fire just because he is feeling the air of rejection due to his incompetence and the gale of corruption in his administration”, he said.

In the same vein, Nigerian Women and Youth Groups under the aegis of Accord Women & Youth Initiative insisted that Mrs. Amina Zakari was morally wrong in holding any position in INEC due to her affinity not only to President Muhammadu Buhari but a Senatorial candidate of the APC in Bauchi State.

Addressing a press conference in Abuja on Sunday, Mrs. Esther Opaluwah, on behalf of the Initiative, said the election can only be neutral and transparent if Mrs. Zakari relinquish her position as Ad Hoc Committee Chairman on National Collation Centre.

She said “Mrs. Amina Zakari who is not only a blood relative of the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari but also married to the APC Senatorial Candidate of Bauchi South, therefore by consanguity and affinity her hands are tied”.

The Initiative accused Mrs. Zakari of repeatedly failing the neutrality and impartial test in her past assignments especially in conducting elections in the South West, stressing that her conduct as INEC Commissioner rubbed off negatively on the integrity of the electoral processes.

Mrs. Opaluwah said “the 2019 General elections is very important to us as Nigerians and we refuse to fold our hands and watch a few individuals including Mrs. Zakari ruin our democracy”.

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“The zone will not have problems with any place the army chooses to establish its operational headquarters as long as it maintains its professional mandate of protecting the people.

“Ebonyi, and indeed the entire South East, will resist with vigour, any attempt to rig during the elections, using security agencies as tools.

“The only way Nigeria will exist beyond 2019 is for credible elections to hold where all security agencies would be seen to be neutral,” he said.

Maikobi in his response said he was in the state to familiarise

with the government, the people, the state and zone as well as inform the governor of plans to commence the operation.

“I have been mandated by the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) to inform you as the state’s security officer that the exercise would commence from January 1 and last till February 28.

“We have selected Ebonyi, under your purposeful leadership, as the location for the step-up headquarters for the exercise,” he said.

The GOC assured the governor that the army would remain neutral, professional and totally apolitical, while not compromising on its constitutional roles, under any guise”.

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CUPP rallies for nationwide protest Short News over Idris continuous stay as IGP General elections: Buhari to Tunde Opalana, Abuja

The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) is prepared to stage a nationwide protest on January 15 against continuous stay in office by Mr. Ibrahim Idris as the Inspector General of Police who on January 3 this year served 35 years in office and has reached the statutory retirement age of 60 years.

The body said the office of the IGP has constitutionally become vacant and therefore urged President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint a serving police officer into the vacant office of Inspector General of Police as required by the 1999 Constitution.

Beyond January 3, CUPP said should Idris continue to parade himself as the Inspector General of Police, his action is an act of impersonation and a threat to national security which should be stopped summarily.

The spokesperson of the opposition coalition, Ugochinyere Ikenga, in a statement on Sunday, reminded President Buhari of the sacred provision of Section 215(1)a of the 1999 Constitution which clearly holds that the President can only appoint serving Police Officer as Inspector General of

Police.

“This means that with the reaching of the mandatory retirement age of 35 years of Active service on Jan 3rd 2019 and the Mandatory retirement age of 60 years of age while in service by the IGP (which comes up on 15th Jan 2019), the IGP is constitutionally barred from been retained or reappointed as Police IGP as he is no longer a serving Police Officer and his continued stay in office is illegal and an act of impersonation as there is no legal or documentary contrary evidence to back up his stay as IGP. “We call on President Buhari to be courageous to announce the replacement and not bow to the pressure to cement illegality in the core of the nation’s security architecture due to his desperation to rig himself back to power knowing he has been rejected by the Nigerian people.

Speaking on the danger of creating a vacuum in such a referred office as that of the IGP, the Coalition said “the uncertainty in the leadership of the Police in such auspicious moment emboldens persons with sinister motives and demoralises senior officers of the force due to this abrupt and unlawful halt to their career

progression. The law is clear on who can be appointed as Inspector General of Police and who cannot be appointed as Inspector General of Police and Mr. Ibrahim Idris is now in the latter group.

“It is flowing from this and to save our dear country from further drift from a government that lacks capacity to provide leadership to our country that the Secretariat of CUPP hereby directs all coalition members in the 36 states to begin preparation for nationwide protests from 15th January if the retired IGP is seen dressed in Police Uniform around the Force Headquarters.

“The protests will be in front of the Police Command headquarters of every state and shall be continuous till the right thing is done.

“During the protests, there shall be a declaration that since Mr. Ibrahim Idris is no longer a police officer cannot be addressed as IGP and a call to him to stay clear of the Force Headquarters”.

The CUPP reminded President Buhari that he should realise that he would be held personally responsible if there is a breakdown of law and order, loss of lives and property if he continues down this path of noxious plots to rig himself into power.

campaign for all APC candidates Mathew Dadiya, Abuja The Presidency has said that as a party leader and a candidate on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the coming elections, President Muhammadu Buhari would campaign for the party and all its candidates.

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, disclosed this on Sunday in a statement, adding that there was no doubt that the President has no competition here in terms of popularity in the coming elections. But the more support he gets, the wider the margin of victory there will be.

This, he however stated, did not mean that Buhari, as the nation’s leader, will decline courtesy calls or offers of support from citizens including candidates flying the flags of other parties.

“So please let there be no confusion about this. President Buhari is APC. He will campaign for all APC candidates, but he welcomes support and endorsements,” the presidential spokesman added.

INEC assures of level playing ground for all parties in Bayelsa

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Bayelsa State, on Sunday, assured of fair treatment to all parties participating in the forthcoming polls in the state.

Head of Department of Voter Education/ Publicity, Mr. Timidi Wariowei, gave assurance in Yenagoa.

He said the Commission had concluded arrangements to ensure the 2019 elections were conducted in a free, fair and credible manner in the state.

The officer said that INEC remained irrevocably committed to credible polls.

He also assured all political parties would be treated equally of zero tolerance. ‘’There is no room for partiality or favouritism,” he said and urged candidates to play politics by the rules, by adhering to the commission’s guidelines and above all, check the excesses of their loyalists and supporters.

He explained that the Commission would not tolerate political thuggery, violence and arson. ‘’Candidates of various political parties must learn to be decorum in line with INEC guidelines, as unruly behaviour will be unacceptable and be sanctioned.”

He further warned against ballot box stuffing, snatching amongst other irregularities, adding that security agencies would be fully alert to arrest perpetrators.

Bauchi NUJ begins Press Week today Samuel Luka, Bauchi

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki (2nd right) and Team Lead, Government Science and Technical College, Benin Rehabilitation Programme, Giles Omezi (right); during the inspection of ongoing work at the college in Benin City, on Friday.

Nigerians will not regret voting for APC, says Gov Masari Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, on Sunday, said Nigerians will not regret voting for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the February 16 and March 2 elections.

Masari stated this in Matazu, Katsina State, during his re-election campaign tour, adding that the President Muhammadu Buhari led-administration had recorded successes in the fight against corruption, road construction and infrastructure development.

Masari said that the administration had also empowered millions of unemployed youths and business operators across the country from its inception to date.

He further said the government also deserved commendation in the area of fight against insurgency in the country. ‘’The government is up and doing in tackling insurgency and other problems

bedevilling the peace and development of the country. Come out en mass to vote for APC candidates from top-to-bottom, you will not regret voting for the party,’’ he said.

The governor also said that his administration had fulfilled most of the promises he made to the people of the state during the 2015 electioneering campaign.

According to the governor, ‘’the government is in the process of fulfilling the remaining few promises he made to the electorate”.

He said that his campaign team was taking note of people’s requests during the 2019 campaign tour across the 34 local government areas of the state.

Masari noted that his administration had upgraded the General Hospitals in Katsina, Funtua and Daura for referral

services.

He also said that the General Hospitals in Kankia, Musawa, Malumfashi Duntsin-ma, Ingawa, among others, were rehabilitated and equipped with modern facilities to enhance healthcare delivery.

The governor said that his administration had renovated over 2,000 schools, constructed some new ones, and equipped them with instructional materials to enhance teaching and learning.

The state APC Chairman, Alhaji Shitu Shitu, received some PDP members who defected to the APC during the event.

Shitu assured the new members that the party would carry them alone and give them level playing ground.

He urged them to work hard to ensure the party’s victory in the forthcoming general elections.

Monday 7th January, 2019 has been slated by the Bauchi State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) for the commencement of activities of its press week.

The Chairman of the Organising Committee, Alhaji Nasiru Kobi, who disclosed this on Sunday while briefing newsmen, explained that series of activities including public lectures, football match, visitations, presentation of gifts to families of deceased and sick members and awards ceremony are expected to take place during the week long activity.

According to him, the official opening ceremony will hold on Tuesday, 8th January 2019, where the state Governor, Mohammed Abubakar, NUJ National President, Comrade Chris Isiguzo and other dignitaries are expected to grace the occasion.

The state chairman of the union, Alhaji Ibrahim Malam Goje, had earlier explained that the press week which is an annual event was meant to bring journalists together, to fraternise and socialise.

Comrade Goje added that the event will also provide avenue for the union to honour its outstanding members and friends of the media with merit awards.

He therefore urged reporters of local, national and international media in the state to give the event adequate publicity.

Ebonyi Gov reshuffles cabinet

Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, on Sunday, effected minor cabinet reshuffle which saw some commissioners swapping positions.

In statement signed by Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Emmanuel Uzor, the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Survey has been split into two, with respective commissioners.

“Mr Sunday Inyima, former Commissioner for Border, Peace and Conflict Resolution, presently heads the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development.

“Prof. John Ekeh, who headed the erstwhile ministry before it was split, presently heads Ministry of lands and survey,” he said.

Uzor revealed that the Office of the Senior Special Assistant on Internal Security (SSA-IS) and the Ministry of Border, peace and conflict resolution had been merged.

“It would be known as the Ministry of Internal Security and Border Peace and Dr Kenneth Ugbala, the former SSA-IS, has been nominated as the new commissioner.

“He will be in charge of the ministry, pending his screening and possible confirmation by the State House of Assembly.”

Kelechi Igwe, the state Deputy Governor, will supervise the exercise while all handover processes should be completed, on or before Monday.

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Daily Times Nigeria Monday, January 7, 2019

A lesson through the ages

Owei Lakemfa

In March 1952, three months before general elections, soldiers in a small country, Cuba overthrew the government. The coup was led by a candidate and former military dictator, Colonel Fulgencio Batisa. Cuba itself was essentially a gambling and tourist country for fun-loving Americans whose mafia led by Charles Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky also ran the gambling and prostitution rings.

The coup which enjoyed the approval of America seemed a settled matter. But some young Cubans including students and young ladies decided enough was enough; no longer would their country be played around like football. They decided to arouse the populace to an insurrection.

For this, they sold their school books, trinkets and dresses to train and buy guns. On July 26, 1953, the youths, numbering 150, carried out a failed attacked on the Moncada Barracks.

Many were summarily executed.

One of the captured youths, Haydee Santamaria was kept in a cell while in the adjacent cell, she could hear the cries of her brother, Abel, and fiancé Boris Santa Coloma as they were tortured to death. In order to extract information from her, the torturers brought her the eyeball of her brother and the testicles of her fiancé.

Those who survived were brought to a show trial that was made public.

That was a grave mistake, as the October 16, 1953 defence speech by the 26-year old leader of the rebels, Fidel Castro became the rallying cry for the opposition. Rather than make a case for his acquittal, Castro accused Batista and his government of being the real criminals who should be on trial for treason and that the illegal acts of the government left the people

with no alternative but to revolt. On a defiant and prophetic note, he told the court; “Sentence me, it does not matter. History will absolve me” The defendants were sentenced to various prison terms but they had become so popular that the regime had to grant them amnesty.

Many of them left for exile in Mexico where they regrouped, trained and on December 2, 1956, 82 of them packed into rickety yacht “ Granma” to make a landing at Belic, Santiago, Cuba with the aim of climbing to the summit of the Sierra Maestra Mountains and begin a guerrilla warfare to oust the Batisa regime. But their landing was compromised and the military had a ‘welcome party’ to receive them. The rebels were nearly wiped out; only 12 of the 82 survived the landing. Four of them were to become famous and iconic figures for youths across the world. There was the charismatic Camilo Cienfuegos who in NovemberDecember, 1958, led his column across three provinces to reach the northern part of central Cuba. His handsome, young, bearded face in cow boy hat is etched in memory. There was the romantic figure, Ernesto Che Guevera, a medical doctor from Argentina who had joined the Cuban rebels in Mexico. For him, there were no boundaries fighting injustice; he went on to fight for peoples’ emancipation and liberation in other skies including the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Bolivia. He famously said: “Whenever death may surprise us, it is welcome provided our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to pick up the gun.”

He was fearless and audacious in battle. It was his punishing blow

on December 29, 1958 that heralded the final triumph of the Cuban Revolution. On that day, he led a band of rebels to seize the city of Santa Clara. The Batista regime sent a huge contingent of soldiers in a train full of ammunitions. Che led the seizure of the train and secured the surrender of over 1,000 soldiers.

Two days later, President Batista fled to the Dominican Republic. On January 1, 1959, the rebels poured into Havana as the country erupted in celebration. It was an earthquake that was felt in many parts of the world.

The after effects were felt around the world for decades as youths across races, continents and beliefs drew inspiration from it. For the religious, it could only have been a miracle for twelve stranded youths, surrounded by enemy soldiers, doubled by hunger and with no international help, to defeat the armed forces of their country in two years. It was the sixtieth anniversary of the revolution, the Cubans and their friends across the world, marked this Tuesday.

The US refused to accept the reality that a country that used to be part of its backyard playground was now independent. The Americans who thought the Cuban example was quite dangerous, set out to stamp out the revolution. On October 19, 1960 it imposed an embargo on Cuba, which is still in place today. On April 17, 1961 an American-trained, funded and armed force of 1,500, eight B-26 Bombers and five supply ships, invaded Cuba at the Bay of Pigs (Playa Giron) But within three days, the Cubans had roundly defeated the invaders killing 122 of them including four Americans, shooting down two of the B-26 Bombers and destroying

two of the ships while taking 1,202 as prisoners. Only 120 of the invaders escaped.

As the Americans prepared more invasions, the Cubans appealed to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) for military assistance which led to the deployment of missiles to the island. This resulted in what became known as the Cuban missile Crisis of 1962. President Kennedy threatened to begin what promised to be the Third World War if the missiles were not removed. The USSR agreed to remove the missiles provided America made two promises. First, that it will never invade Cuba, and secondly, that it will remove missiles trained at the USSR from Turkey. With these agreements, the missile crisis ended.

Cuba went on to become perhaps the most literate country in the world with the best all-round healthcare delivery of any populace. Raul Castro who was with Fidel from the Moncada Barracks invasion and succeeded his brother as President, is alive. He married the guerrilla fighter, Vilma Espin. Camilo Cienfuegos died in a plane crash in the year of the revolution. He was 27.

Haydee Santamaria passed away at 58 in 1980 while Fidel was 90 when he passed on in 2016. The most romantic of them all, Ernesto Che Guevera was summarily executed in 1967 while leading a revolt in Bolivia. He was 39.

Che prophetically said: “I have a wish.

It is a fear as well - that my end will be my beginning.” He became more famous in death and today, continues to inspire youths across the world.

A lesson the Cuban revolutionaries taught humanity is; if you know what is right and just, pursue it; no matter the sacrifice, never give up.

Seriake Dickson and the quest for restructuring

Godwin Onyeacholem

Henry Seriake Dickson, the countryman governor of Bayelsa State, is an engaging personality, highly cultivated, courageous and exuding a charming comportment. A proud Ijaw man whose progeny stretches far into the throbbing southwest town of IjebuOde (where his great-grandmother comes from and was a princess), Dickson is unmistakably passionate about Nigeria. Suffice to say none of the current set of governors, not even in the southern region of Nigeria where the clamour for restructuring originates and has been loudest, has been as appealingly erudite and turned-on on the troubling question of Nigeria’s deeply flawed federal system as Dickson has.

The recent public presentation in Abuja of a revised version of Chido Onumah’s provocative book, We Are All Biafrans, published by Premium Times Books, provided yet another platform for Dickson to advertise his fervent support for the restructuring of the Nigerian political and economic architecture to suit the multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-cultural nature of the country. Besides, the event underscored his consistency on this subject as well as impatience, and disgust, with the lackadaisical manner with which the challenges of governance and nation-building are being handled by successive leaders in the country.

As in the lecture he delivered on July 12, 2018, at the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife entitled Restructuring and the Search for a Productive Nigeria, Dickson, who was the guest speaker at the book event, praised the founding

fathers for adopting federalism, saying it is the ideal system for a country of Nigeria’s makeup. Rather than symbolizing a sympathetic take on the disturbing activities of separatists and consequently affirming solidarity for the concept of Biafra as would suggest by its title at a first glance, Chido’s latest book is indeed a frontal disavowal and a standing rebuke of the Biafran thought. Thus, We Are All Biafrans is a riveting metaphor of the Nigerian condition in which not just Biafra but every single section of the country has become a victim of the unitary system that has become the order of the day.

In other words, from the dry grasslands of Kaura-Namoda to the polluted creeks of Ekeremor; from the erosion-ravaged communities in the eastern states, through the neglected rural hamlets in the western interior, down to their counterparts in the middle belt states, the evil mark of injustice and misgovernance in varying forms loom large. Every nook and cranny of the Nigerian space is infested with the scourge of a crooked federal structure. So, rather than just the eastern flank of the country as pushed by the separatists, the entire national landscape is Chido’s Biafra. Regardless of ethnicity, religion, culture and gender, we are all short-changed; we are all maltreated; we are all abused; we are all marginalized. We are all Biafrans.

And this all-encompassing and borderless Biafra of Chido’s imagination is the Biafra that Dickson believes in. Not the geographical Biafra promoted by those who want to cut away from the country. In any

case, his solution to getting rid of the Biafra of equal opportunity misery is not to agitate for a new country, but to work hard for a new Nigeria. Says Dickson: “Let us be very clear, this is our country. No one owns this country more than the other. I will rather want to join forces to fight for a new Nigeria this country needs. We need a new Nigeria for the weak and the strong, an egalitarian Nigeria, a nation of justice and equal opportunities. But not the idea of balkanizing. We are not going to leave this country…If all is well no one will talk of moving out.”

Dickson sure understands the issues, but he is also quick to concede that he doesn’t have all the answers.

He says: “What did our founding fathers do that we are failing to do.

They sat down, dialogued, disagreed, sometimes walking out of conferences.

We shouldn’t be afraid of disagreeing.

In fact, we need more disagreement.

But the important thing is whether we agree or disagree, it should be in the national interest.”

For him, Nigeria needs to be restructured for it to have any meaningful grip on progress. This is the growing sentiment among the populace who believe that Nigeria is not working because of the skewed federal system—with its perpetual over-centralization—foisted by the military since 1966. A key feature in the restructuring now being demanded is to go back to pre-1966 period which scholars have described as the “golden era” of Nigeria’s federalism. That period was marked essentially by the devolution of power from the centre to the federating units.

Professor Ladipo Adamolekun, foremost Nigerian scholar and public administrator, had lamented the “bastardization” of Nigeria’s federalism in a paper, The Nigerian Federation at the Crossroads: The Way Forward. The paper, published in Publius: The Journal of Federalism in 2005, was a commemorative piece on 50 years of the country’s federalism.

In it, Adamolekun had said, “Only devolution can unleash the forces for consolidating democracy and achieving accelerated socio-economic progress in Nigeria.” His grim prediction that the alternative to devolution “will likely be the death of the federation” should be an enduring food for thought for all.

This type of prediction is what Dickson fears would come to pass if restructuring does not happen in the shortest possible time. He regrets that even as the report of the ruling All Progressives Congress committee on restructuring and devolution of power favours the process, President Muhammadu Buhari clearly does not seem comfortable with restructuring.

But Dickson is forging ahead with this crusade knowing full well that Nigeria cannot continue to be run under a system stacked with unitary features. It remains to be seen whether the 2019 election would indeed be a referendum on restructuring as he and some other leading proponents have said.

What is clear though is that should the delay to embark on restructuring the country continue for much longer, chances are there may not be a country to restructure in the end.

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Last batch of PVCs ready for collection at all INEC local govt offices, says Commission Releases final timetable

Stories by Patrick Okohue The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has announced that the last batch of the Permanent Voters Card has released to all its offices across the 774 local government areas across the country, advising all those who have for as a voter but yet to collect their PVC to take advantage of this opportunity and do so.

Making this known while releasing its timetable for the remaining activities for the 2019 General Election, INEC advised all those yet to collect their cards

to do so before the late hour rush.

On its timetable for the remaining part of the election, INEC said its publication of notice of poll, billed for January 2nd, has been done and that by 7th January, it will publish official register of voters.

While also announcing that publication of list of presidential and National Assembly candidates will be done on17th Jan, it added that, 31st January will be for the publication of list of governorship and state house of assembly candidates.

Submission of names of party agents for presidential and National Assembly election

to the Electoral Officer of the Local Government Areas will take place on 1st of February and16th February will be for the Submission of names of party agents for governorship and state house of assembly election.

While14th February is set aside as the last day for presidential and National Assembly campaign, 28th February will be the last day for governorship and state house of assembly campaign and 16th February will be the Election day for Presidential and National Assembly positions and 2nd March is Election day for governorship and state house of assembly positions.

Group tackles Agbaje over comments on new Lagos HoS, Muri-Okunola The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Mr. Jimi Agbaje has been lambasted for condemning the appointment of Hakeem Muri-Okunola as the new Head of Service (HoS), of Lagos State.

The Convener of Ibile Progressive Youths, IPY, Bayo Plunter in a press statement issued in Lagos and made available to journalists said Agbaje’s outburst was unnecessary, uncharitable and diversionary.

The IPY comprises about 20 groups of young and dynamic professionals from the three senatorial districts in Lagos State.

Agbaje, had faulted the appointment of Muri-Okunola as the new Head of Service in the state, saying the action sacrificed career progression and was ‘politics taken too far.’

It will be recalled that Governor Akinwunmi Ambode on Monday, sworn in Muri-Okunola as the 21st HoS in the state, in place of Mrs. Folashade Adesoye who retired in December 2018.

At 46 years old, Muri-Okunola is said to be the youngest ever HoS in the history of Lagos State.

Agbaje, in a statement by his campaign organisation’s Directorate of Media and Publicity, on Thursday, described the appointment as “insensitive, unjust and disruptive of the civil service hierarchy.

He said, “Indications are that, to pave way for the assisted meteoric rise of the new HoS, the Lagos State Government had, between January

and November 2018, forcefully retired no fewer than 21 permanent secretaries considered as superiors and more experienced to the new man.”

But in countering Agbaje’s position, the Ibile Progressive Youth, said that “recent statements of Mr. Jimi Agbaje, the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate, including his unprovoked attack on the new Lagos HoS are increasingly unnerving.”

Plunter further said: “While the appointment of Hakeem MuriOkunola, a dynamic, qualified and hard working young man has been roundly applauded by progressive minds, it is a bitter pill for Mr. Agbaje and his ilk to swallow.

“It is evident from Mr. Agbaje’s statement how desperately he wishes the wheel of progress in the Centre of Excellence be reversed.

“His statement smack of bile, divisiveness and incitement of our hard working civil servants to rebellion over a simple, constitutional executive action.

“While IPY remains nonaligned, but keenly monitoring the activities and promises of the governorship candidates involved in the political contestation for Office of Governor of Lagos State, we are concerned about the direction of Mr. Agbaje’s campaigns.”

The IPY wondered why the likes of Jimi Agbaje, who it said claimed to be an indigene of Lagos State, would fault the appointment of Hakeem Muri-Okunola, a true son of the soil and an indigene of the state, as HoS.

Plunter posited that the PDP shot itself on the leg by faulting the appointment of a relatively young man as the HoS of the state despite its “noise that it would give chance to young people in their governments both at the state and at the Federal levels if they win the 2019 elections.”

The group added that it was obvious that the PDP was not in support of the “Not Too Young To Run Law” passed by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

“If a young man like Macron could be elected as the President of France, Austria on December 12, 2018 elected the world’s youngest president, who is 31 years old, his name is Sebastian Kurz.

Before those elections, he was the country’s foreign minister.

“While our youth are contented with being used as praise singers and be special assistants on social media, youths elsewhere are disrupting the status quo, pushing for innovation, changing the narrative and pushing for new frontiers. So, why are we now trying to criticise a government that is trying to encourage the youths?”

They asked.

Adding that, “In any case, the questions are was Governor Ambode right in retiring Permanent Secretaries, the answer is yes, was he right in appointing an HoS, the answer is yes. Also, is Muri-Okunola qualified for the post, the answer is yes,” the group said, adding that Agbaje is oblivious of the trend in politics and governance all over the world.

INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmoud Yakubu

Lagos 2019: Gani Adams faction of OPC faults Fasheun’s faction on endorsement of Sanwo-Olu The Aare Gani Adams-led members of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), has dissociated itself from the recent move by the late Fredrick Fasheunled members of the group to endorse the Lagos State All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, as its candidate in the coming election in the state.

Speaking on the backdrop of the recent move by the Fasheun group to support the APC standard bearer, Lagos State coordinator of OPC, Alhaji Mutair Adesina, said the group, under the leadership of Aare Gani Adams, is yet to decide on the candidates the group will support in the forthcoming elections, both in the state or at the national level, saying, though, elections are a few weeks away, the group will decide at the appropriate time.

Adesina, however, expressed surprise at the manners in which the late Fasheun’s group reacts to current political issues, describing the move as barbaric, especially, at a time when the remains of the founding father of the group, is yet to be laid to rest.

“In Yoruba land, we give respect to the dead and memories of our great leaders. It is unfortunate that the group has failed to respect the memory of the late Fasheun, who died just a few weeks ago, and that is too bad,” he said.

“We are yet to make up our minds on the candidates we will support during the

forthcoming elections.

“Our leader has the final say, and we are yet to hear from him. The APC candidate is yet to meet with our leader, or even pay him a courtesy call. So as a group that is poised to promote the cultural identity of the Yoruba race, our core values are strengthened by our beliefs in restructuring, as it has been promoted always by our amiable leader, and the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Abiodun Ige Adams.

“We have our template and structure firmly rooted both in Nigeria and outside the shores of this country. Members of our group are scattered across the country and in 84 countries across the world. Our core values and ideologies are enshrined in all our programmes. So, before we make up our minds we must consider so many things, and key among them is our position on restructuring. Therefore, we will definitely bare our minds very soon and at the same time throw our weight behind any candidate that is ready to restructure Nigeria” Adesina, also urged the electorates to ensure peace, before, during and after the elections, adding that “Nigerians should vote for candidates that can deliver on the promises and yearnings of the people. At this critical moment of our time, the only option left for Nigerians, that can guarantee sustainable progress is restructuring and that is the point I am making”, Adesina stated.

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Stop blackmailing INEC, BMO tells PDP Short News Tom Okpe, Abuja The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has advised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to look for more creative ways of reviving its flagging Presidential campaign rather than demonising the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and other national institutions in blackmail.

This, according to BMO, follows a series of attacks by the party and its Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on the top echelon of the election management body.

In a statement signed by its Chairman, Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary Cassidy Madueke, on Sunday, the group said that PDP has resorted to bullying tactics because of the reality that the former Vice President has no chance to upstage President Muhammadu Buhari in the election.

The statement said: “Now that PDP’s presidential campaign has stalled and lost steam almost as soon as it began, as a result of lack of support, even among its leading members, it thinks the best way is to blackmail everyone at INEC.

“How could they even accuse the Commission of making a U-turn on the use of Smart card readers for the upcoming election?

Or even raise dust over the appointment of Amina Zakari as the head of INEC’s in-house coalition centre committee, same role she played in 2015.

“It is good that INEC has given the party the response it deserves, but we know that all these are diversionary tactics to deflect attention from a campaign that is nothing to write home about.

“We see it as an admission of failure even before the first ballot, based on the reality on ground”.

The group urged PDP to do more to convince skeptical party leaders to embrace its Presidential candidate in other to ensure a semblance of a contest next month instead of seeking to use INEC as an excuse for its impending defeat.

“Aside some of the governors who have big re-election battles on their hands, some others are just not interested in rallying around a candidate with the type of baggage Atiku has; even by PDP standard”.

BMO also decried what it described as

the use of local and foreign trolls by PDP to further its goal of discrediting INEC and other national institutions.

“Aside from hiring foreign hacks to malign the country, PDP is using its members who are embedded in a so-called Coalition to push out false narratives and fake news as part of efforts to give the impression of an opposition coalition against President Buhari and the governing All Progressives Congress (APC)”.

BMO said that President Buhari has enough goodwill and support especially among discerning Nigerians who are aware of the massive infrastructural development across the country to coast to victory.

“We make bold to say that the President still enjoys the support of majority of those who gave him what Buhari supporters refer to as the 12 million vote bank in 2011 which increased to over 15 million in 2015.

“Millions of beneficiaries of Africa’s largest social welfare scheme and those who are witnesses to new road and rail projects, then it is safe to say the opposition party and its minions have already accepted defeat more than one month to the Presidential election”, the statement added.

Court grants 51 Judaism adherents bail Sunday Nwakanma, Umuahia An Abia State high court presided over by the state Chief Judge, Mr. Justice Onuoha Ogwe, has finally granted bail to the 51 Judaism adherents who were arrested in Umuahia on Tuesday December 11 last year.

The 51 Jewish worshippers were charged on Thursday, December 13 last year before a Magistrate court for alleged acts of terrorism and treason.

However, the court had remanded them in prison custody to await trial by the appropriate court which has the jurisdiction to hear matters for which they were charged by the Police.

The 51 detainees comprising of ten females and forty one males with their ages ranging between 23 and 70 year were arrested by the Police for demanding a Jewish state in the country whole demonstrating with Biafran and Israeli flags.

The Prosecution considered their action as professing membership of IPOB and engagement in a public procession amounting to act of terrorism.

Seven new winners emerge in GLOIN60SECONDS talent contest Ladesope Ladelokun Telecommunications giant, Globacom, has announced new winners for Batch 2 its on-going social media talent competition GLOIN60SECONDS. The company revealed in a statement that 14 winners have so far emerged out of a total of 56 winners that the competition will produce.

The new set of winners who emerged after the second draw of the competition include Doyinsola Hazfeezah Salau (Skit/Comedy) from Ikeja, Lagos, Chinaza Ezeani (Skit/Comedy) from Enugu, Chinazom Ngini (Music) from Surulere, Lagos, and Onyekachi Madubuike (Skit/ Comedy) from Abuja; Echikodili Patience Okonkwo (Music/ Rap) from Enugu, Olaide Ayode Daniel (Skit) from Ibadan, Oyo State and Gift Joseph (Skit/ Comedy) from Delta State.

Globacom explained that “the contestants stand to win N4.8 million in cash prizes in the challenge which runs via social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter for eight weeks.”

GLOIN60SECONDS gives subscribers the opportunity to upload a one-minute video of themselves showcasing their talents on their social media accounts such as Facebook, Instagram or Twitter and hashtag it on #GLOIN60SECONDS. The video could either be music, dance, comedy, poetry or any other genre in the creative industry.

LASG to clampdown on traders on rail lines

Wife of Ondo state Governor, Her excellency Chief, Mrs Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu, (left), Being installed as “Nneora Ndigbo” (mother of Ndigbo) by Ogbuehi Zephnaiah Chukwuma, Ogbuehi XVi of Umudara, (right), in Ihiala, Anambra State, on Sunday.

38 years after, Bauchi Govt begins payments of compensation to airport land owners Samuel Luka, Bauchi The Director General, Bauchi State Geographic Information Service (BAGIES), Honorable Baba Abubakar Suleiman, has disclosed that the state government has commenced the payment of compensation to people whose land were purchased by the State government for the building of Bauchi State International airport in 1981 by the Tatari Ali administration and the ones purchased by Isa Yuguda administration to expand the airport in 2011.

The DG, who stated this at the commencement of the payment to over 633 land owners in Bauchi, said ”Bauchi State Government has commenced the payment of over N269 million compensation to the land owners whose land were bought by the state government for the international airport”.

He added that “the present administration has begun payment of over N55 million to more than 633 people whose money ranges from 1000 to 150,000 to ease their sufferings”.

Suleiman, who said an agreement was reached between government and the land owners to settle their differences out of court, pointed out that Governor Abubakar on his part pledged to settle the over N269 million in five instalments.

He assured that after the payments of the first instalments, government will begin the payment of second instalment followed by other instalments as agreed between the state government and the landowners.

Suleiman said some of the lands were purchased in 1981 and the state government had increased the amount to a reasonable amount that will be useful to the land owners.

He said initially Governor Abubakar intended to pay the landowners in bulk but was forced to divide it into five installments due to the dwindling resources of government and appealed to the land owners to continue to cooperate with the government to enable it settle all their entitlements in good time.

Counsel to the land owners, Barrister

Mukhtar Abubakar, said the land owners filed a suit in court and the court ordered for out of court settlement between the two parties.

He expressed confidence that the two parties will respect the agreement reached to bring succour to the land owners or their dependents.

Mukhtar said monies meant for some of the land owners who have died will be given to their families who inherited their wealth after their demise and they will first be identified by traditional and community leaders as the biological children of the deceased before they will be paid.

He advised them to be orderly while collecting their money and thanked the state government for its effort to put smile on the faces of the land owners after 38 years.

Some of the beneficiaries, who spoke to journalists, expressed appreciation to the Governor for taking bold decision to start the payments, urging him to pay the remaining balance in good time in order to ease their more than three decades of bitter experience.

The Lagos State Task Force Agency, on Sunday, warned traders and other persons doing businesses on rail lines in the state to leave or be ready for arrest and prosecution.

The Chairman of the Agency, CSP Olayinka Egbeyemi, gave the warning through the Head of Public Affairs, Mr Adebayo Taofiq.

He warned that there would be a clampdown on all illegal activities on rail corridors in Lagos.

According to Egbeyemi, heavy convergence of illegal traders selling and buying goods around rail lines was suicidal and an eyesore in different parts of the state.

Areas notorious for rail line trading include Mushin, Ikeja-Along, Yaba, Oyingbo and Agege.

Egbeyemi said that the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Law prohibits anyone to either hawk or buy/sell goods on rail lines, including all road setbacks and walkways across the State.

I will end security votes in Kano if elected – PDP candidate

Alhaji Abba Kabir-Yusuf, the PDP Governorship Candidate in Kano State, says if elected, the security votes will become a history in the state.

He made the claim on Sunday in Kano while addressing newsmen to mark his 56th Birthday, organised by his supporters.

The PDP governorship candidate alleged that the fund set aside for the security votes was an avenue for looting from public treasury.

“It is undeniably known that security votes are regarded as a looting-spree platform where the huge amounts of money provided and spent are unaccounted for. Consequently, ending up draining through the pockets of a selfish few, in their insatiable quest to selfenrichment out of public funds,” he alleged.

According to him, if he is elected as the Governor in 2019, the fund for the security votes will be used in a better way.

Security vote in Nigeria is a monthly allowance that is allocated by the 36 states for the sole purpose of funding security services.

Also, the fund runs into billions of naira and varies, based on the level of security required by the individual state.

The organiser of the event, Mallam Nura Ma’aji, President of Movement For Better Kano, said they organised the event to rejoice with Kabir-Yusuf for attaining 56 years of age and healthy.

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Presidential poll: Ijaw Youth group divided over second term endorsement of Buhari Akam James, Yenagoa Ijaw Youths under the umbrella of the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) worldwide, on Sunday, rejected the second term endorsement of President Muhammadu Buhari by some Ijaw Youths led by the spokesman of the Council, Mr. Daniel Dasimaka.

The rejection of the second term endorsement was followed with the setting up of a disciplinary committee to investigate the action and spell out punitive measures against those involved.

While the Barrister Peretubor Owelaemi faction of the Ijaw Youths Council announced the setting up of a 5-man disciplinary committee to investigate the decision by the spokesperson, Daniel Dasimaka, to endorse the second term ambition of President Muhammad Buhari, the Barrister Eric Omareled faction also in a statement issued via email rejected the endorsement and called on the indigenes of the region to dismiss the purported endorsement of President Muhammadu Buhari as acts of “charlatans”.

In the statement issued by the President Owaelaemi-led faction of IYC, and signed by the Secretary General, Alfred Kemepade, “the five-man committee led by Barr. Igbeta was set up to consider the issues and recommend to the National Executive Committee of the IYC on whether the endorsement of President Buhari was done in good faith. “ “They are to recommend punitive

measures if they find his action to contravene the convention Protocol and would be done within seven days.”

In their statement, factional President, Barr.

Eric Omare and spokesman, Henry Iyala, stated that the leadership of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) worldwide has been inundated with calls, inquiries and expression of anger with respect to the purported endorsement of President Buhari in the February 2019 elections by the IYC in a statement issued by one Mr. Daniel Aniemiesieka, spokesman to Mr. Roland Oweilaemi.

He said: “Our first reaction was to ignore the said endorsement as it is the usual antics of those groups of people. However, considering the concern shown by patriotic sons and daughters of Ijaw nation and beyond, we wish to set the records straight as follows: That Ijaw people and the general public should completely disregard the said endorsement. It is the usual character of those who issued the said statement.”

“Those characters are in the habit of issuing statement on cash and carry basis in the name of the IYC and thereby dragging the name of the IYC and Ijaw nation to disrepute.

“IYC would not endorse any of the Presidential Candidates in the February 16, 2019 elections but will only set the general conditions for voting any of them by Ijaw people.”

“It would interest the Ijaw nation and the general public to note that this is the third endorsement of different aspirants and

candidates across different political parties by these characters in the last six months in the name of the IYC. It would be recalled that sometime in 2018, while some of them were marching on the streets of Abuja endorsing Buhari, others were in the private residence of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential aspirant of the PDP to endorse him. So these characters suffers from pay cash and endorse syndrome. “ “We therefore call on Ijaw youths to disregard those who are purportedly setting up committee to discipline Mr. Daniel Aniemieseka because they are all birds of same feather. Apart from the fact that they are all embarking on a reign of illegality by illegally parading themselves as officers of the IYC, they lack the moral justification to set up any disciplinary process because they are all involved in the habit of issuing cash and carry press statements in the name of IYC and the Ijaw nation. “ “On the 2019 elections, the IYC as a nonpartisan organization would not endorse any of the Presidential Candidates but would provide level playing ground for the supporters of the different candidates in Ijaw land. The expectation of the Ijaw people from whoever want the support of the Ijaw people has been articulated in several fora to the effect that Ijaws will only support any Presidential candidate that will restructure Nigeria along the lines of true federalism and resource control. This is the consensus of opinion across Ijaw nation.”

Presidency orders military to vacate Daily Trust premises ..As NLC reacts to arrest of Editor, other staff Mathew Dadiya, Abuja The Federal Government has directed the military to vacate the premises of Daily Trust newspaper and has disclosed that the order has been complied with.

Senior Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, tweeted this on Sunday in his twitter handle, @GarShehu, explaining that the “issues between the military and the newspaper as they affect the coverage of the war in the Northeast will be resolved through dialogue.”

The military had invaded Daily Trust regional office in Maiduguri, Borno State and arrested the Regional Editor, Uthman Abubakar and a reporter, Ibrahim Sawab.

They also requested to see the Political Editor, Hamza Idris, whose name appeared in bylines of major exclusive and investigative reports.

Though it was not clear why the military took the action, but the Daily Trust on Sunday published a strong editorial and news reports on security challenges in Northern Nigeria.

Some of the lead stories include: “Military Prepares Massive Operation to Retake Baga, Others,” “Zamfara Bandits May Have Link with Boko Haram, -Defence Minister,” “Shettima Funds 20,000 Civilian JTF for six Years,” and “Troops Repel Boko Haram Attack in Damasak… Kill Many in Yobe.”

The Editorial titled “FG is Running out of Excuses” highlights some of the humanitarian challenges in the North-East and the efforts of the military in tackling Boko Haram insurgency. The Editorial pointed out that the Borno community leaders at an emergency meeting of security agencies summoned by Governor Kashim Shettima expressed fears that insurgents could push on from Baga, overrun Monguno and on to Maiduguri.

The Editorial further acknowledged the successes of the military in repelling three attacks on Monguno with Air Force raids that halted the insurgents in their tracks and killed many terrorists. It also commended the effort of the military in launching a major offensive to retake the lost towns and bases.

Niger Women Affairs ministry treats 3,706 social service cases Saka Bolaji, Minna

The Women Affairs Ministry in Niger State handled about 3,706 social service cases between 2015 and 2018.

This was disclosed at a Ministerial briefing organised by the State Ministry of Information and Strategy tagged ‘Stewardship’ The Commissioner in-charge of the ministry, Barrister Amina Musa Gu’ar, explained that out of the 3,706 cases which was treated in 15 different categories include 1,250 family cases and counseling, 26 forced marriage cases, 320 divorce cases, 22 early marriage cases and 820 juvenile delinquency.

Barrister Gu’ar recalled that 13 repatriation cases were handled with 32 mental institution cases, 45 drug addicts, 380 truancy in school, 95 stranded victims for financial assistance, 89 pauper patients were given assistance in hospitals, burial of 452 unrecognised persons, 42 corpses were deposited in hospitals and 120 HIV/AIDS patients were given counseling.

The Commissioner said that N159.1 million was expended between 2015 to 2018 for the training and skills acquisition of 8,990 unemployed women and girls.

The ministry also paid about 6,000 households from eleven local government areas of the state bimonthly cash and 18 local government councils were beneficiaries of the conditional cash transfer.

Barrister Amina Gu’ar stated that in line with the state government gender mainstreaming development approach, the Women affairs ministry had appointed gender and social inclusion desk officer.

The commissioner said the ministry had carried out mapping of orphans, vulnerable children and HIV/AIDS patients in the state within the corresponding years of 2015 to 2018 as a social service provider.

Barrister Gu’ar confirmed that N141.8 million was appropriated and expended between 2015 to 2018 for assisting families blessed with triplets and child abuses, repatriated and reunited 16 almajiri

female families back to Sokoto, supported the capacity building of 16 children and education of orphans and vulnerable in the state.

Others achievements include constitution of the 7th Niger State Children Parliament, establishment of new orphanage at Suleja, establishment of gender violence sensitisation and awareness clinic at Anguwan Daji and destitute rehabilitation programme.

The Niger State Women Commissioner highlighted that from 2015 to 2018 about 6 virtually impaired people were sponsored to Nigeria farm craft centre for the blind and expended N1.7 million for the purchase of drugs for mentally retarded inmates.

Barrister Gu’ar explained that the sum of N400,000 was expended for the sponsorship of 5 associations of people with disability with additional N250,000 grants.

The commissioner further pinpointed that 500 tricycle wheel chairs had been distributed; the sum of N200,000 was disbursed to female blind centre at Bida and donated 150 artificial limbs in the state.

Barrister Gu’ar stressed that the ministry feeds 430 social inmates daily as part of Governor Abubakar Sani Bello’s restoration agenda in women and social development.

The Niger State Women Affairs Commissioner said between 2015 and 2018, the ministry was appropriated and expended the sum of N58.7 million for celebration and commemoration of days and events both nationally and internationally.

Barrister Gu’ar also explained that N117.9 million was appropriated and expended by the ministry for implementation of capital projects under the corresponding years between 2015 and 2018.

The commissioner described the ministry’s international engagement as fruitful and confirmed that N20.1 million was appropriated and expended for international women programme, international women investment forum and international women conference.

Barrister Amina Gu’ar finally highlighted that the state had a total number of 2,400 widows and 89 orphans that have been officially registered by the ministry.

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CSO challenges suit seeking to stop Army from Short News embarking on Operation Python Dance III Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja A civil society organisation, Initiative for Minority Advancement for Great Development (IMRAGD) has approached a Federal High Court, Abuja, seeking to be joined as an interested party in the suit challenging the ongoing Operation Python Dance III by the Nigerian Army.

Last week, a Lagos-based Rights Campaigner, Chief Malcom Omirhobo, asked the court to declare as unlawful and unconstitutional, the declaration of “Operation Python Dance” across the nation.

The applicants in the suit labelled FHC/ ABJ/CS/01/2019, are Omirhobo and Board of Incorporated Trustees of Malcom Omirhobo Foundation.

Joined as respondents are the Attorney General of the Federation, the National Assembly, the Inspector General of Police,

the Nigeria Police Council, Police Affairs Commission as well as Service Chiefs.

But IMRAGD, through their lawyer, Mr. Otemu Oghenovo, in the suit said it intends to show to the court that the suit filed by Chief Omirhobo is misconceived and an attempt to interfere in the statutory duty and operations of the Nigerian Army.

In the affidavit deposed to by Eruke Asivwe, a litigation secretary in the Chamber of Mr. Oghenovo, the plaintiff said: “That the applicant herein intends to challenge the suit on the ground that it is misconceived and an attempt to interfere into the statutory duties and responsibilities of the Nigerian Army.

“That if the plaintiff succeeds and the Nigerian Army made to its legitimate operations, the applicants, its trustees and members will be adversely affected.

“That I know that it is just and judicious for the honourable court to allow the applicant to be joined to enable it present

its own case.

“That I also know as a fact that this suit affects the interest and its presence in the determination will give the court the competent jurisdiction”.

In the main suit, Omirhobo is seeking the court’s declaration that the commencement of a nationwide “Operation Python Dance” with effect from January 1 to February 28, with the military to tackle internal security challenges during the conduct of the country’s general elections is illegal and undemocratic.

According to him, it violates the fundamental rights of the applicant, as well as those of the Nigerian public, to life, dignity of human person, personal liberty, family and private life, freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association, and freedom of movement.

No date has been fixed for hearing of the suit.

Maku begs Eggon Nation for forgiveness Augustine Kuza, Lafia

Hon, Labaran Maku has asked the Eggon Nation to forgive him if he has wronged them in the cause of pursuing his political ambition in Nasarawa State.

Maku, who was a former Minister of Information, and the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) Governorship candidates in the state, tendered the apology in Nassarawa-Eggon while addressing people at the 2018 Eggon cultural carnival.

He said: “As humans, we are not God, therefore we are bound to offend each other sometimes unknowingly in the cause of carrying out your activities.

“So, some of the actions I took in the past might have offended some of my brothers and sisters, forgive and forget the past to enable us forge ahead as a united family.

“I have also forgiven all those who might have wronged me, as I have come to realise as a leader I should carry everybody along despite their shortcomings”.

APC chieftain canvasses support for Adamawa assembly speaker Dan Garba, Yola The Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC) Yola South, Alhaji Suleiman Adamu, has called on stakeholders in the area to give another mandate to Speaker of Adamawa State House of Assembly, Kabiru Mijinyawa, to enable him provide more democracy dividends to his constituents.

The party chairman made the call while speaking during the flagging off of rehabilitation of road linking Tashan Sani - Yola New Motor Park, Yolde Pate community and Shagari Football Field in Yola South Local Government Area.

He said Kabiru Mijinyawa has justified the confidence reposed in him through the provision of basic social amenities to the electorate and charged the communities to make good use of the road especially in boosting the economy and generate more revenue to the state.

Speaking during the programme, Speaker of Adamawa State House of Assembly, Kabiru Mijinyawa, who was represented by the Principal Special Assistant to the Governor, Alhaji Husseini Ahmadu Har, said no meaningful development can be achieved without support and cooperation from the electorate, adding that his major concern is to meet the yearning and aspirations of his constituents.

500 students, others benefit from free uniforms, machines in Ilorin

L-R: A Media Practitioner, Mr. Mike odiakhose; Chairman Peoples Democratic Party Press Corps, Alh. Lafeet Ibrahim; and National Publicity Secretary, Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, during a press conference on the general election and Amina Zakari in Abuja... On Sunday

Abia: Police arraign 71-yr-old don over private property issue with NDIC, others Sunday Nwakanma, Umuahia

The Nigeria Police, Abia State Command, on Thursday, dragged a 71-year-old Abia State University, Uturu Lecturer, Barrister (Mrs.) Katherine Chinyere Onwughara, to court on a four count charge of felony and malicious damage, among others.

Other charges include unlawful destruction and damage of one padlock, behaving in a manner likely to cause breach of peace and forceful entry into a land known as Kate White House land which “which is in actual and peaceable possession of one Chukwuemeka Adiele (m) and obstructing and resisting one John Onuoha (m) of the High Court of Justice, Umuahia from executing court order punishable under sections 516, 451, 145 of the criminal Code Cap 80, and the Criminal Code cap 81, volume 3, Laws of Abia State of Nigeria (2005).

According to the suit number U/04C/2019, the accused, along with others now at large had on the 13th of November, 2018 at Umuagu Ibeku Umuahia in the Umuahia North Magisterial District, conspired to commit the felony by destroying the padlock placed upon the property by court bailiff, illegally entering into the property

and obstructing the court bailiff from doing his duties.

The defendant pleaded not guilty to all the four count charges.

This followed argument by the lead counsel, Adizua C Okoroafor, that the defendant prayed for her bail based on the fact that the defendant is a senior citizen by age, has health challenges, is a senior member of the bar and a lecturer at ABSU, assuming her to be innocent until proved guilty.

Opposing the bail, the police prosecuting counsel, Igwe Isaac of the State Criminal Investigation Department, said that his position was based on the rate at which people disobey court orders and called for accelerated hearing.

Ruling, the Presiding Magistrate, U U Egwu, granted her bail on self-recognition, with two sureties in the sum of N1 million each, and the matter adjourned till 6th of February, 2019.

However, the defendant, Mrs. Katherine Chinyere Onwughara, who was not in a position to talk based on her health status, had through a family source said that dragging her to court was a ploy by the police to intimidate her.

The source, who chose to speak for the defendant on condition of anonymity, said the battle that led to the court arraignment of the defendant has been going for years before

the demise of the Defendant’s husband, Doris Onwughara, and that the matter was over Cika Hilton, “a hotel close to the said property”, (Kate Whitehouse), “where a 70+ old widow was thrown out”.

“This case has been in court when a former governor of the state claimed he got the property through an auction when the National Deposit Insurance Company, NDIC, were recovering properties and from there claimed ownership of Cika Hilton.

The family source brandished a letter from the Ministry of Lands which the Defendant got while the matter was in court, stating that the two properties are not same, does not have the same C of O and the said Kate Whitehouse is not situate in Ugwunchara.

Before this time, the source said: “We have been having threats, people would come from a particular company telling us that if the woman doesn’t leave that property while alive, she would leave it dead. This is after we lost Cika Hilton to an acclaimed sales that was never advertised. We never bordered with the property.

“The properties have different C of Os and survey plans and they still insist that Kate Whitehouse is the same as Cika Hilton”.

The Ilorin Emirate Youth Development Association (IEYDA) on Sunday distributed free school uniforms to over 500 students selected from the five Local Government Areas of the Emirate Council.

The association also empowered people with brick-making, shoemaking and grinding machines as well as cash, among others.

The items were distributed in Ilorin during the Annual Empowerment Programme and Secretariat Fund Raising of the IEYDA. In his remarks, the acting Director, Centre for Community Development, Kwara State University, Mr. Lawal Olhungbebe, charged community associations to always partner government in ensuring progress and development at the grassroots.

According to him, there cannot be any meaningful development without a synergy between community development associations and government.

Olohungbebe commended the Ilorin Emirate Youth for the initiative and implored others to emulate them to address the rate of poverty in the society.

Police kill armed robbery kingpin in Katsina

The Police Command in Katsina State has killed a suspected armed robbery kingpin, Kane Mohammed, alias ‘Dan mai-keke’, 35, who has been on its wanted list.

This is contained in a statement signed by its Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Gambo Isa, and made available to newsmen on Sunday in Katsina.

Isa said that the development occurred on Jan. 4 at old market area, a notorious criminal’s hideout in Bakori Local Government Area when the police were on patrol.

He said that the patrol team was attacked by the hoodlums with dangerous weapons during which one policeman sustained injury.

The PPRO added that the police shot the kingpin as a result of which he sustained injury and died in a Bakori hospital, while receiving treatment.

He noted that the suspect had been on the police wanted list for terrorising people in the Bakori and Funtua axis.

He said that investigations were ongoing to arrest other members of the gang.

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S’East roads need FG’s attention, says Umueri monarch Commends Gov Obiano over crime-free yuletide season

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The traditional ruler of Umueri, HRH Igwe Ben Emeka, has bemoaned ugly situation of roads in the South East zone, describing them as death trap.

Igwe Emeka, who was speaking to newsmen at his palace in Umueri, Anambra East Local Government Area, beckoned on Federal Government to urgently intervene in the roads to further avert incessant death and robbery.

Igwe Emeka observed that the

states in the South East deserved the best of democratic dividends, as they contributed to the economic growth of the country.

Speaking on the forthcoming general elections, the traditional ruler charged President Muhammad Buhari to provide necessary facilities that would ensure credible elections.

He said: “Nigeria deserve absolute democracy. President Buhari should provide enabling ground for free and fair elections.

“We have a lot of prospects in this election, especially as many prominent

Igbos are contesting for various positions.

We need the masses to decide.

“I condemn in totality vote buying and vote selling. Our youths should refrain from such crime. Vote selling is a crime that has engendered our future. When you sell your vote, you sell your conscious.

“I demand that our traditional rulers also should assist in promoting the fight against vote buying. The politicians also should desist from such inducement”.

Igwe Emeka commended Governor Obiano for making Anambra State free of crime, especially in the last yuletide season.

“Since Governor Obiano administration, Anambra has been enjoying free crime during festive seasons. We are now the safest state in the country.

“Because of the safety of the state, Anambra recorded influx of visitors around the world. Right now, investors are trooping in to establish their businesses,” Igwe observed.

While commending Governor Obiano for his urgent intervention on roads, he urged contractors handling various roads to speed up construction and deliver on scheduled.

Children of convicts don’t belong to orphanages - Group

Representative of the Wife of Governor of Anambra State, Commissioner for Women and Children Affairs, Lady Ndidi Mezue (Centre) cuddling a newborn recently. She is flanked by the mother, Mrs Obiageli Eselu (third right); Head of Nursing, Mrs. Felly Ezeanyim and other staff at Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Teaching Hospital Awka

Anambra, Enugu govts partner LDS charities on clean water initiative Enugu State Government and Anambra State Government recently requested to partner with LDS charities in its Clean Water initiative, which has been in existence for quite some time in Osun State, Ogun, Oyo and Edo states.

This partnership seeks to help the

Government of these states to provide portable clean water to its communities and citizens. To this end, LDS Charities representatives paid a courtesy visit to Enugu State government and Anambra state Government.

In Enugu State, the team was made of Elder and Sister Reynolds, water technical specialists,

Group holds international yelutide retreat, tasks Ndigbo on values The 2018 Igbo international Yuletide Retreat recently held in Anambra State has urged increased action towards encouraging the values and attributes that project the Igbo nation as an outstanding tribe.

The programme was put together by the World Igbo Leadership, Education and Cultural Council in conjunction with the Igbo Information and Communication Network.

It was gathered that the event which is in its third edition, aims to bring together, Ndigbo in the diaspora to brainstorm on a common goal which is economic, social, political and cultural frontiers.

The President-General of Ohaneze Ndigbo worldwide, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, in his remarks, commended the initiative, urging Ndigbo to unite and always speak with one voice.

Chief Nwodo further maintained that

restructuring is the only way to set things right in the country, calling on Ndigbo to vote wisely during the forthcoming general elections.

In an address, the host and President of Igbo World Assembly, Dr. Nwachukwu Anakwenze, who is also the traditional Prime Minister of Abagana in Njikoka Local Government Area, charged Ndigbo to embrace education, uphold their rich cultural heritage and also invest in the area for robust economic growth and development.

On their parts, the founder of Otu Subakwa Igbo, Professor Pita Ejiofor and the chairman, World Igbo Congress, Professor Anthony Ejiofor, commended the efforts of the Igbo World Assembly and noted that reviving the Igbo language should be the spring board for achieving the objective of making the Igbo nation an outstanding tribe.

Udeichi Chimaroke and Chidi Ibeakuzie, the Area Welfare Specialist.

The Enugu State Government was represented by the Deputy Governor of the state, Honourable Cecilia Ezilo, the Secretary to the State Government, Dr. G.O.C.Ajah, Commissioner for Water Resources, Dr. C.O.C. Egumgbe, Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice, Honourable Millicent Eze and Senior Special Assistant to the deputy governor, Mrs. Vivian Iwuorah.

The Leader of the delegation, Chimaroke Udeichi of Enugu, stated the aim of the courtesy visit and the essence of the partnership with the state government.

Elder Reynold explained that it will be a three-way partnership with the state government, the community and LDS Charities and every partner has an obligation to fulfill, ranging from establishing water committee with women being major part of the committee, providing geophysical surveys, and ensuring water analysis samples are tested.

He emphasised the fact that the partnership will be sustained if every partner adheres to the partnership agreement, adding, “If the communities with the support of the government keep their side of the bargain, then you stand a very good chance for us to continue with boreholes in Enugu”.

The deputy Governor of Enugu State, Honourable Ceclia Ezilo, who was very elated by the visit, thanked LDS Charities for the potential partnership.

Greater Awka Allies, an Awka-based nongovernmental organization, has frowned at the discovery that some of the children in orphanages in Anambra State are children of convicts who are spending time in prison.

They insisted that such children should rather be handed over to their uncles or close relations and should also be enrolled in a regular school.

Speaking to the press after holding an interactive end of year/ Christmas party for children of the home, Chinemerem Oguegbe, who led the team called the attention of the government to the plight of the children.

“Children of convicts should be handed over to their uncles or relations. Keeping them here is not healthy for them.

“There is no reason these children should not be given basic education which is nearly free,” he said.

Oguegbe also charged the children to be of good behaviour, pray constantly and make the most of every opportunity and experience they have.

He promised that the organisation through its members both in Nigeria and Diaspora will ensure that children in orphanage homes in Anambra State have access to quality health care and ensure a healthy environment through provision of basic infrastructures in Government owned Orphanage homes.

Dr. Chibuzo Okpala, part of the team, who is a Consultant Dermatologist with the Nnamdi Azikiwe Teaching Hospital, promised to assemble team of Medical Doctors that will come from time to time to provide basic health care solutions to the Children.

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Mrs. Obiano calls for self-renewal as key to progress in 2019 The wife of Governor of Anambra State and founder of the NGO, Caring Family Enhancement Initiative (CAFÉ), Dr. (Mrs.) Ebelechukwu Obiano, has called for self-renewal of the individual as a prerequisite to sustainable progress in the family, state and the nation in the New Year.

She made the call in her New Year message in Awka which was conveyed by the Chief Media Officer to the Governor, Mr. Emeka Ozumba.

Osodieme, as she is fondly called, stated that the New Year offers every person great opportunity to reappraise and positively improve their roles and responsibilities in the family, the state and the nation with a view to ensuring societal growth.

Her words: “The New Year is a period of new beginnings because of the opportunities it offers for rebirth and renewal. It provides the individual the chance to start afresh with profound inspiration and hopeful anticipation. Let us therefore turn the hope into positive action by taking responsibility to work for peace and progress of our families, state and nation.

“As we know, the strength of the chain is determined by its weakest link, in making our New Year resolutions therefore, let us recommit ourselves to playing active roles knowing that it is only when we give our best as individuals that we can claim to contribute to the growth of our families, state and country”.

The founder of CAFÉ, who has facilitated the training and empowerment of over 4,350 indigent widows, women and youths in selfreliant small-scale business ventures, restated her resolve to train and empower more persons as well as build more free houses for indigent widows, reiterated her commitment to better the lots of the needy in our society.

She pointed that she will build more modern toilet facilities to promote hygiene in rural markets across Anambra, and will continue to support the State Government’s efforts to improve lives of NdiAnambra through other programmes of CAFE scheduled for 2019.

While wishing Ndi-Anambra, especially the women, and Nigerians Happy New Year, Mrs. Obiano stressed that, ‘it is only with renewed faith in ourselves, our values, and other things that hold us together as families that we can avail ourselves of the gains of such cherished ethos as a people united in the pursuit of common societal good”.

She enjoined the people to be steadfast in their commitment to the pursuit of the good of humans in society irrespective of whatever personal sacrifices they might be required to make towards the attainment of this goal.

She prayed that God would grant the wishes of Nigerians for more pleasant and greater lives ahead in a peaceful political environment.

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SERAP charges Fashola to name contractors with power projects money Temitope Adebayo Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has requested of the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, to provide information on specific names and details of contractors and companies that allegedly collected money for electricity projects but failed to execute any projects, starting from the return of democracy in 1999 to 2018.

According to SERAP, former Nigeria’s Vice President and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar reportedly blew the whistle on Channels TV when he said, “Contractors were given some contracts for power projects and were paid 100 per cent upfront.

The money went down the drain. Up till now, we are not holding the contractors responsible.

“People have collected money upfront 100 per cent and have disappeared; and have not even done any work.”

SERAP in a statement said, “The revelation by Alhaji Atiku is entirely consistent with SERAP’s recent report titled: From Darkness to Darkness: How Nigerians are Paying the Price for Corruption in the Electricity Sector, which also revealed how over N11 trillion meant to provide regular electricity supply was allegedly squandered by politicians and contractors under successive governments.”

In the FOI request dated 4 January, 2019 and signed by SERAP senior legal adviser Bamisope Adeyanju, the organization said, “By publishing the names of the contractors and their registration details, if any, Nigerians will be better able to hold them to account for allegedly absconding with public funds meant for electricity projects, thereby throwing the country into perpetual darkness and socio-economic stagnation as well as denying people their human rights.”

The organization also expressed that “publishing the names will make it hard for contractors and companies to get away with complicity in grand corruption. If the requested information is not provided within 14 days of the receipt and/or publication of this letter, SERAP shall take all appropriate legal actions under the Freedom of Information Act to compel you to comply with our request.”

The FOI request read in part: “It is important to show that your office and indeed this administration would not shield or allow ingrained wrongdoing by contractors and companies in the power sector to go unpunished. Unless the names of the contractors and companies are disclosed and widely published, alleged corrupt contractors and companies executing electricity projects will not be deterred and the victims of corruption that they committed will continue to be denied justice and effective remedies.

“SERAP urges you to publish the names of all contractors and companies that have been engaged in the power sector since the return of democracy in 1999 to date, details of specific projects and the amounts that have been paid to the contractors and companies, details on the level of implementation of electricity projects and their specific locations across the country.

“SERAP is concerned that to date no contractors or companies who allegedly collected money for electricity projects not executed or poorly executed have been investigated for corruption let alone prosecuted and fined. Senior public officials who apparently served as intermediaries for these contractors and companies continue to escape justice.

“We are concerned that allegations of corruption involving many contractors and companies in the power sector have continued to impair, obstruct and undermine the ability of successive governments to provide Nigerians with access to regular and uninterrupted electricity supply.

“Contractors and companies that allegedly disappeared with public funds meant for electricity projects may also be liable for aiding and abetting the commission of acts of grand corruption.

“Failure to publish the names of alleged corrupt contractors and companies in the power sector will undermine the government’s oft-expressed commitment to holistically fight grand corruption and improve access of Nigerians to regular and uninterrupted electricity supply”, SERAP charged.

L-R: Cluster Head, Ajose Adeogun, Heritage Bank Plc, Kufretido Etim; Managing Director/CEO, Novo Health, Dr. DorothyJeff-Nnnamani; Cluster Head, Lago Mainland 1, Heritage Bank Plc, Betty Eriyo; Convener, The Women More Series/Lead Consultant, Prinsult Global Consulting Limited, Raliat Oyetunde; President, Believe in Africa, Angelle Kwemo and Experience Center Manager, Toyin Street, Heritage Bank Plc, Bolanle Ashiru, at the WomenMore Seminar in Lagos

E-payment transactions hike

by N16.4trn in 9 months Motolani Oseni The Nigerian Interbank Settlement System (NIBSS) has said that Nigeria’s electronic payment (e-payment) services has increased

by N16.4 trillion when compared recorded transactions worth N56.85 trillion from January to September, 2018, to N40.45 trillion recorded in the corresponding period of 2017.

NIBSS in its latest report revealed that most of the electronic transactions were done through the NIBSS Instant Payment (NIP), Point of Sale

(PoS), Automated Transfer Machines (ATMs), Mobile Money, Electronic Bills Payment (E-Bills) and Web payments.

A breakdown of the report showed that ATMs transactions grew from N4.61 trillion in 2017 to N4.76 trillion at the end of the third quarter of 2018.

Also, the volume of transactions on ATMs under the period in review grew from 560.86 million in 2017, to 650.06 million in 2018.

The report showed a rise of about N635 billion in the use of POS machines to carry out payments by Nigerians.

Under the review period, 98.73 million

transactions worth N975 billion were carried out using POS in 2017, while in 2018, the volume grew to 196.83 million, valued at N1.61 trillion.

Similarly, the volume of transactions carried out by Nigerians, using mobile money rose from N795.18 billion in 2017, to N1.22 trillion as at Sept, 2018.

Also, using the web payment channel, the total value of transactions under the review period rose from N129.24 billion in 2017, to N183.07 billion in 2018.

However, the value of such transactions on e-bill payments, which allowed customers to

pay utility bills such as power, cable and so on online, declined from N420.73 billion in 2017 to N370 billion in 2018.

Meanwhile a Financial analyst, Dr Patricia Auta, has said that the NIBSS report showed an increased awareness and use of technology by individuals and businesses in the country.

Auta urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to intensify efforts on cashless economy, especially in states, to further grow the electronic payment space.

She also advised banks to stay competitive and drive growth by providing innovative alternate payment channels to customers.

How FG raked N800bn through VAT in 3 months Joy Obakeye The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said that about N800 billion was realised from Value Added Tax (VAT) between the first to third quarters (Q1-Q3) of 2018.

The statics office disclosed this in its latest report that the revenue was generated from

sectoral distribution, which indicated an increase in the revenue generated from VAT during the year under review.

The NBS report showed that 269.79 billion was realised in the first quarter, N266.73 billion in the second quarter and N273.50 billion came in as VAT in the third quarter in that order.

The figures represented an increase of 2.54 per cent quarter-on-quarter, and 9.16 per cent increase year-on-year.

Also the report showed that the manufacturing sector generated the highest amount of VAT averaging N31.48 billion, and closely followed by Professional Services and Commercial and Trading, both generating N25.57 billion and N15.99 billion respectively.

It further stated that the mining sector generated the least, closely followed by Pharmaceutical, Soaps and Toiletries and Textile and Automobiles and Assemblies with

N52.70 million, N177.34 million and N265.35 million respectively.

In addition, it stated that out of the total amount generated in the third quarter of 2018, N128.62 billion was generated as Non-Import VAT locally, while N58.84 billion was generated as Non-Import VAT for foreign.

The report however noted that the balance of N86.04 billion was generated as NigeriaCustoms import VAT in the year.

GAT records over 228, 000 passengers in December Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo The domestic terminal one of the Murtala Muhammed Airport MMA Ikeja, also referred to as the General Aviation Terminal One, GAT recorded a total of 228, 239 passengers in the month of December 2018.

Statistic made available to journalists in Lagos by the Terminal Manager (TM) MMA, Mr Aderigbigbe Adekunle, 104,168 passengers arrived through the terminal while a total of 124,071passengers were processed

out during the period under review.

According to Adekunle, the management of the terminal before the Yuletide took several measures aimed at ensuring seamless passenger facilitation by servicing the conveyor belts, cooling systems and screening machines.

Adekunle said that the upsurge in passenger traffic was envisaged hence it was seamless passenger’s facilitation while some flights were moved to a less busy terminal for easy passenger facilitation.

“We have two terminals here, the Zulu and Alfa, what we did was to move some

flights from the busy terminal to the less busy terminal for passengers comfort. Calabar, Port Harcourt and Uyo flights were moved to the Zulu terminal to ease the Alfa traffic where Airpeace operates from” According to Mr. Adekunle, the Agege motor road construction work almost marred the airport free flow of traffic as the construction work had a spilled over to domestic airport users but remarked that it was carefully handled by FAAN officials at they terminal end.

“The only challenge was the construction work on the Agege motor road; passengers

find it difficult to move out of the terminal to connect to Agege motor road. The traffic extended to the terminal and passengers expressed bitter experience during the Yuletide period.”

The Terminal Manager also revealed that the automation of the domestic car park by FAAN early last year brought sanity to the area as some people who were not travellers took undue advantage of the non automation of the park to leave their vehicles there.

“With the billing system introduced, the number of vehicles at the park had gradually reduced through proper monitoring”, he said.

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Naira appreciates to N361/$ at unofficial forex market Motolani Oseni At the end of first trading week in 2019, the Nigerian currency, Naira, appreciated by 0.83 per cent to close at N361 against the US dollar at the unofficial foreign exchange market, even as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on the last trading day injected a total sum of $210 million into the wholesale segment and other sectors of the inter-bank forex market.

Although, the local currency slightly depreciated by 0.23per cent to N365.35 in the Investors &Exporters foreign

exchange (I&E) FXwindow.

The I&E Fx window recorded a total turnover moderated by 1.9per cent to $479.34 million with 99.95per cent of trades executed within the N360-369/ dollar band.

A breakdown of the CBN’s FX injections showed that customers in the Wholesale sector of the market received the sum of $100 million with the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and invisible sectors each getting $55 million to meet the needs of customers.

The Bank’s Director in charge of Corporate Communications, Mr. Isaac Okorafor, said the CBN continued from

where it stopped in 2018 to maintain the stability being enjoyed in the market.

While noting that the Bank had made a commendable effort in keeping the exchange rates at the current levels, Okorafor reechoed the Bank’s Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele saying that the current capital flow reversals from the emerging markets were expected to bring out pressures on the market rates.

He, however, assured that, in spite of the anticipated pressures, coupled with the forthcoming elections, the Bank was committed to maintaining the current exchange rate policy, given the level of

reserves.

Meanwhile, one dollar exchanged for N357 in the Bureau De Change (BDC) segment of the market last week.

Analysts at Cordros capital said, “Stability remains our theme for the currency, as higher oil revenues (despite the recent plunge in oil price) continue to help shore up the reserves, thereby supporting the CBN’s continued intervention.”

Activities in the Treasury bills market were bearish, albeit with a bearish tilt, as market players sold off on the back of the CBN’s frequent OMO auctions.

Dangote BlocMaster best for construction in swampy area - Makoju Temitope Adebayo The new cement product launched by the Dangote Cement Plc is expected to address the challenges associated with building construction in swampy areas.

Undoubtedly, lots of developers try to avoid constructing on swampy land because of the cost of getting it right but in areas like Lagos state where it is increasingly getting difficult to get dry plots of land, swamps or waterlogged plots are inevitable.

However, the new innovative cement, according to the Group Managing Director of the firm, Mr. Joseph Makoju, would work better in such areas and

give builders a perfect result due to its strong quality.

Majoku spoke in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, over the weekend, while introducing the product to engineers, builders, block makers and the general public in the Niger Delta region recently.

He said: “For a swampy area like this, this innovative cement becomes a much better offer to use because the terrain with higher sulfur requires a cement product that is stronger, with a higher strength to work better and give a perfect result.”

Represented by the Chief Marketing Director of Dangote Cement Plc, Funmi Sanni, the Managing Director noted that the product is 100 per cent local

content, disclosing that it is made from milestone.

He further noted that the new cement product is currently the highest bagged grade of cement in the country with 42.5 grade, and added that it sets after an hour, due to its top quality.

Makoju said the product is affordable to all, noting that the firm is doing its best to ensure good road networks to ease transportation of cement across the country, even as he commended government’s effort on infrastructural developments.

He stated that Dangote Cement is made in Nigeria but loved across Africa because of its high quality.

Meanwhile, members of the Block Moulders Association in Rivers State

have lauded Dangote for introducing the high-grade cement to Nigerians.

Chairman of the Association, Mr. Lucky Uche, however, appealed to Dangote to make the product affordable to enable the group to maintain the approved standard required by the Standards Organisation of Nigeria.

Endorsing the BlocMaster Cement, the Director General of Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Joseph Ugbaja, said the product is another quality product from Dangote Cement; a company that is known for its strict adherence to standard as stipulated by the authorities. He noted that Dangote Cement has now produced a higher 42.5 grade of cement even for the use of block makers.

Air Peace launches direct flights to Banjul, increases Accra service Chukwuemeke West Africa’s leading carrier, Air Peace has said it will begin non-stop flights from Lagos to Banjul, The Gambia from Monday, January 7.

The airline said it would no longer route its Lagos-Banjul flights through Accra, Ghana. The carrier had earlier broken its connecting flights to Freetown, Sierra Leone. It now operates direct Lagos-

Freetown-Lagos flights.

In a related development, Air Peace said it was consolidating its leadership of air services on the West Coast of Africa with scheduling of more flights on the Accra, Ghana route.

The development, the carrier said, would avail travellers an exciting opportunity to cut cost and travel time. It pledged to continue to adjust its schedules to better serve its customers on the West Coast of Africa.

“We are pleased to announce the commencement of our non-stop flights to Banjul, the capital city of The Gambia, from Monday, January 7, 2019. We had routed our flights to Banjul through Accra, Ghana.

The new schedule follows our experiment with direct flights from Lagos to Freetown.

The pieces of feedback we have received from members of the flying public indicate that they prefer to take direct flights to Freetown and Banjul. The option saves air travellers money and time.

“We have also increased our offering on the Lagos-Accra with more flights. The new Banjul and Accra flight operations, we are sure, will not only deepen our West Coast operations but also deliver a variety of smart options to our valued customers.

We are a customer-centric airline and the strategy of our leadership of the airline business in Nigeria and West Africa is anchored on attaching great importance to the feedback of our esteemed customers”, Air Peace said.

L-R: Company Secretary/Legal Adviser, Nigerian Breweries Plc, Mr. Uaboi Agbebaku; Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Mr. Oscar Onyema and Reporting and Accounting Manager, Nigerian Breweries, Mr. Marcus Duarte Alves at the presentation of the 2018 NSE CEO’s award as the Most Compliant Listed Company on the NSE to Nigerian Breweries in Lagos

Zenith Bank pioneers Account blocking with Code *966*911# Motolani Oseni Poised to ensure its customers are protected and operate their accounts in a safe and secure environment, Zenith Bank has scored yet another first with the introduction of Account Blocking code *966*911#.

Already, all banks in the countries have published mobile apps that enable a myriad of transactions such as bills payment, funds transfers, travel bookings and lots more but none have addressed account blocking using (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) USSD code.

A statement by the bank at the weekend said customers who suspect their accounts have been compromised, or who lost/ misplaced their debit (ATM) cards can dial the Block Account Code *966*911# on the phone numbers registered with the account to secure their funds.

This has become necessary as the bank plays deeper into the retail end of the banking industry, using its topnotch technology and array of innovative products as it works to deepen financial inclusion in conjunction with regulators of the nation’s financial system regulators.

Other codes as part of the Eazy Way banking offered by Zenith Bank include the *966# to ease account opening process by potential customers; while checking account balance has never been easier than dialing *966*00#.

Customers who desire to reset their Personal Identification Number (PIN), or Password, the bank continued, can do so from the comfort of their homes with *966*60#.

To update Bank Verification Number (BVN), the statement said customers can dial *966*BVN#; and dial *966*Amount*MobileNo.# to buy airtime.

By dialing *966*Amount*AccountNo.# for funds transfers.

In Nigeria, banks have taken it a bit further by unveiling USSD banking to ensure that the populace that presently does not own smartphones are not cut off and suffer financial exclusion.

The USSD is a Global System for Mobile (GSM) communication technology used to send texts between a mobile phone and an application program in the owner network.

Zenith Bank is a major promoter of this channel, with the bank betting that its *966#USSD banking solution will help drive the nation’s financial integration programme being championed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

Zenith Bank’s *966# USSD banking solution is themed the ‘Easy Way to Bank’ and the solution embodies every word in that statement by enabling people to perform financial transactions on all known mobile phones (Feature, Smartlite or Smart), without having to go on the Net or download a mobile app. A statement from the bank explained that to open a Zenith Bank account, people only need to dial *966*0# and follow the prompts.

“An account number is automatically generated for the customer and they can start running the account after a short visit to any of the bank’s branches. To perform transactions with the solution, the bank’s customers are required to perform a onetime registration by dialing *966*00# and following the prompts,” it said.

After registering, customers can easily carry out a myriad of banking activities 24/7, such as account balance inquiries; airtime purchase, funds transfer among others.

The transactions can only be performed from the phone number registered against a customer’s account with Zenith Bank and require a four-digit Personal Identification Number for transaction authentication.

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Last batch of PVCs ready for collection at all INEC local govt offices, says Commission Releases final timetable

Stories by Patrick Okohue The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has announced that the last batch of the Permanent Voters Card has released to all its offices across the 774 local government areas across the country, advising all those who have for as a voter but yet to collect their PVC to take advantage of this opportunity and do so.

Making this known while releasing its timetable for the remaining activities for the 2019 General Election, INEC advised all those yet to collect their cards

to do so before the late hour rush.

On its timetable for the remaining part of the election, INEC said its publication of notice of poll, billed for January 2nd, has been done and that by 7th January, it will publish official register of voters.

While also announcing that publication of list of presidential and National Assembly candidates will be done on17th Jan, it added that, 31st January will be for the publication of list of governorship and state house of assembly candidates.

Submission of names of party agents for presidential and National Assembly election

to the Electoral Officer of the Local Government Areas will take place on 1st of February and16th February will be for the Submission of names of party agents for governorship and state house of assembly election.

While14th February is set aside as the last day for presidential and National Assembly campaign, 28th February will be the last day for governorship and state house of assembly campaign and 16th February will be the Election day for Presidential and National Assembly positions and 2nd March is Election day for governorship and state house of assembly positions.

Group tackles Agbaje over comments on new Lagos HoS, Muri-Okunola The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Mr. Jimi Agbaje has been lambasted for condemning the appointment of Hakeem Muri-Okunola as the new Head of Service (HoS), of Lagos State.

The Convener of Ibile Progressive Youths, IPY, Bayo Plunter in a press statement issued in Lagos and made available to journalists said Agbaje’s outburst was unnecessary, uncharitable and diversionary.

The IPY comprises about 20 groups of young and dynamic professionals from the three senatorial districts in Lagos State.

Agbaje, had faulted the appointment of Muri-Okunola as the new Head of Service in the state, saying the action sacrificed career progression and was ‘politics taken too far.’

It will be recalled that Governor Akinwunmi Ambode on Monday, sworn in Muri-Okunola as the 21st HoS in the state, in place of Mrs. Folashade Adesoye who retired in December 2018.

At 46 years old, Muri-Okunola is said to be the youngest ever HoS in the history of Lagos State.

Agbaje, in a statement by his campaign organisation’s Directorate of Media and Publicity, on Thursday, described the appointment as “insensitive, unjust and disruptive of the civil service hierarchy.

He said, “Indications are that, to pave way for the assisted meteoric rise of the new HoS, the Lagos State Government had, between January

and November 2018, forcefully retired no fewer than 21 permanent secretaries considered as superiors and more experienced to the new man.”

But in countering Agbaje’s position, the Ibile Progressive Youth, said that “recent statements of Mr. Jimi Agbaje, the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate, including his unprovoked attack on the new Lagos HoS are increasingly unnerving.”

Plunter further said: “While the appointment of Hakeem MuriOkunola, a dynamic, qualified and hard working young man has been roundly applauded by progressive minds, it is a bitter pill for Mr. Agbaje and his ilk to swallow.

“It is evident from Mr. Agbaje’s statement how desperately he wishes the wheel of progress in the Centre of Excellence be reversed.

“His statement smack of bile, divisiveness and incitement of our hard working civil servants to rebellion over a simple, constitutional executive action.

“While IPY remains nonaligned, but keenly monitoring the activities and promises of the governorship candidates involved in the political contestation for Office of Governor of Lagos State, we are concerned about the direction of Mr. Agbaje’s campaigns.”

The IPY wondered why the likes of Jimi Agbaje, who it said claimed to be an indigene of Lagos State, would fault the appointment of Hakeem Muri-Okunola, a true son of the soil and an indigene of the state, as HoS.

Plunter posited that the PDP shot itself on the leg by faulting the appointment of a relatively young man as the HoS of the state despite its “noise that it would give chance to young people in their governments both at the state and at the Federal levels if they win the 2019 elections.”

The group added that it was obvious that the PDP was not in support of the “Not Too Young To Run Law” passed by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

“If a young man like Macron could be elected as the President of France, Austria on December 12, 2018 elected the world’s youngest president, who is 31 years old, his name is Sebastian Kurz.

Before those elections, he was the country’s foreign minister.

“While our youth are contented with being used as praise singers and be special assistants on social media, youths elsewhere are disrupting the status quo, pushing for innovation, changing the narrative and pushing for new frontiers. So, why are we now trying to criticise a government that is trying to encourage the youths?”

They asked.

Adding that, “In any case, the questions are was Governor Ambode right in retiring Permanent Secretaries, the answer is yes, was he right in appointing an HoS, the answer is yes. Also, is Muri-Okunola qualified for the post, the answer is yes,” the group said, adding that Agbaje is oblivious of the trend in politics and governance all over the world.

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Lagos 2019: Gani Adams faction of OPC faults Fasheun’s faction on endorsement of Sanwo-Olu The Aare Gani Adams-led members of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), has dissociated itself from the recent move by the late Fredrick Fasheunled members of the group to endorse the Lagos State All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, as its candidate in the coming election in the state.

Speaking on the backdrop of the recent move by the Fasheun group to support the APC standard bearer, Lagos State coordinator of OPC, Alhaji Mutair Adesina, said the group, under the leadership of Aare Gani Adams, is yet to decide on the candidates the group will support in the forthcoming elections, both in the state or at the national level, saying, though, elections are a few weeks away, the group will decide at the appropriate time.

Adesina, however, expressed surprise at the manners in which the late Fasheun’s group reacts to current political issues, describing the move as barbaric, especially, at a time when the remains of the founding father of the group, is yet to be laid to rest.

“In Yoruba land, we give respect to the dead and memories of our great leaders. It is unfortunate that the group has failed to respect the memory of the late Fasheun, who died just a few weeks ago, and that is too bad,” he said.

“We are yet to make up our minds on the candidates we will support during the

forthcoming elections.

“Our leader has the final say, and we are yet to hear from him. The APC candidate is yet to meet with our leader, or even pay him a courtesy call. So as a group that is poised to promote the cultural identity of the Yoruba race, our core values are strengthened by our beliefs in restructuring, as it has been promoted always by our amiable leader, and the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Abiodun Ige Adams.

“We have our template and structure firmly rooted both in Nigeria and outside the shores of this country. Members of our group are scattered across the country and in 84 countries across the world. Our core values and ideologies are enshrined in all our programmes. So, before we make up our minds we must consider so many things, and key among them is our position on restructuring. Therefore, we will definitely bare our minds very soon and at the same time throw our weight behind any candidate that is ready to restructure Nigeria” Adesina, also urged the electorates to ensure peace, before, during and after the elections, adding that “Nigerians should vote for candidates that can deliver on the promises and yearnings of the people. At this critical moment of our time, the only option left for Nigerians, that can guarantee sustainable progress is restructuring and that is the point I am making”, Adesina stated.

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OGENE NDI IGBO DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION

THE GIRLS LADIES AND WOMEN EMPOWERMENT INITIATIVE

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

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

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

TRUSTEES ARE 1) SUNDAY DADA STEPHEN 2) FOLUKE ONI 3) SAMSON ADEYEMI 4) DOKUN ONIBOKUN 5) AKINLOLU ONI 6) GBENGA FAKOYA 7) GBENGA OGUNDIYA 8) PETER ONI

TRUSTEES ARE 1) BARR CHARLES MBALISI. - FOUNDER / PRESIDENT. 2) BARR. GERALD OGOKEH - LEGAL ADVISER. 3) MR. UDOCHUKWU MOJEKWU. 4) MRS NNEKA MBALISI. 5) MRS EDITH NGOZI IKECHUKWU.

TRUSTEES ARE 1. OLONILUA MORENIKEJI ESTHER YEMI - CHAIRWOMAN 2. ONONUGBO TESSY OLABISI - MEMBER 3. FINBONG FINDAM AARON - MEMBER 4. OLAWUNMI TEMITOPE REBECCA - SECRETARY

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1) TO PROMOTE PEACE, IGBO CULTURE AND TOURISM IN NIGERIA AND WORLD WIDE. 2) TO PROMOTE SOCIO- POLITICAL, UNITY OF IGBOS 3) TO PROMOTE TRANSPARENCY, AND GOOD -GOVERNANCE. 4) TO PROMOTE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES THROUGH SKILL ACQUISITION AND EMPOWERMENT ADVOCACY. 5) TO PROMOTE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES IN NIGERIA.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PROVED A PLATFORM FOR EVERY WOMAN AND GIRL CHILD FROM THE SLUMS OF NORTHERN NIGERIA TO BE CONFIDENT ENOUGH TO COMPETE WITH COUNTERPARTS FROM EVERY SPHERE OF LIFE AND ATTAIN SUCCESS THOUGH OUR VARIOUS SCHEMES VOCATIONAL SKILL ACQUISITION, SENSITIZATION ON GOOD MENSTRUAL HYGIENE, DANGERS OF EARLY GOOD MARRIAGE, ILLITERACY AND LOW SELF ESTEEM.

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

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

SIGNED: BARR. GERALD OGOKEH.

SIGNED: SECRETARY

RAISE A CHILD’S EDUCATION INITIATIVE

GREATER MEN OF IMPACT NOBILITY AND DIFFERENCE INITIATIVE

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1) FREE ONLINE EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT AND LEARNING FOR CHILDREN IN THE COMFORT OF THEIR HOMES. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS CHANGE SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: BARRISTER. NWOKORIE SAMUEL 08053957522

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

TRUSTEES ARE 1.GLADYS IYABO POPOOLA 2. DR. EMEM OLUTOKE 3. FLORENCE TSANG HASSAN (SECRETARY) 4. HON. JUSTICE HENRY OLUSUYI 5. AMBASSADOR RAFF BUKUN-OLU ONEMOLA (RTD) AIMS AND OBJECTIVES TO PROMOTE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ANY OBJECTION TO THIS CHANGE SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

TOP HEIGHT EMPOWERMENT

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

TRUSTEES ARE 1. ADEKUNLE LUKMAN ADENIYI ... CHAIRMAN 2. TIJANI OLUWATOSIN IBRAHIM 3. ADEKUNLE ADEWALE MUSSA .... SECRETARY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES TO RENDER ASSISTANTS TO RELIEF POVERTY AND OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECTS BENEFICIAL TO THE SOCIETY OR COMMUNITY OF MANKIND AS A WHOLE. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS CHANGE SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

JEJENUWA EMPOWERMENT FOUNDATION THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 TRUSTEES 1. HAKEEM OLADIPO OYENEYIN- CHAIRMAN 2. FOLARERA OMOWUNMI OYENEYIN 3. RILWAN AYODELE OYENEYIN 4. RAFIU AJIBOYE LAGBAJI- SECRETARY 5. SIKIRU FOLAJIMI AKINRELE-LEGAL ADVISER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. PAYMENT OF O’LEVEL EXAMINATION FEES FOR INDIGENT ONDO COMMUNITY STUDENTS. 2. PROVIDE FREE MEDICAL BILLS FOR POOR CHILDREN AND WIDOWS. 3.

TO SUPPORT TRADERS AND PROFESSIONALS THROUGH EMPOWERMENT FOR THE LESS PRIVILEGED. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

THE HOLY VOICE OF GOD CHURCH CHERUBIM AND SERAPHIM OGO SIONI

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. PROPHET OLADAPO WASIU OLAIYA - GENERAL OVERSEER/CHAIRMAN 2. PRIMATE ORIYOMI SAMUEL ALASE - VICE CHAIRMAN 3. MR. OLADAPO TEMITOPE MICHAEL - SECRETARY 4. MRS OLADAPO KATHERINE ADEDOJA - TREASURER 5. APOSTLE VICTOR OYIOVBE IKEPTESI 6. MR SONOWO BABATUNDE GABRIEL 7. MRS BECKLEY JUSTINAH OLAYINKA AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.

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

NAME OF TRUSTEES: 1. OPEYEMI ELISHA OYENIYI 2. OLUWASEUN SAMUEL ABEGUNDE 3. NIHINLOLAWA RUBY TAIWO AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO HELP EVERY CHILD COMPLETES AND/OR FURTHER QUALITY PRIMARY, SECONDARY AND TERTIARY EDUCATION LEADING TO RELEVANT AND EFFECTIVE LEARNING OUTCOMES 2. TO SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCE THE DROPOUT RATE AT ALL LEVELS OF EDUCATION, AND TO ENSURE EVERY CHILD HAVE EQUAL ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE AND QUALITY TECHNICAL, VOCATIONAL AND TERTIARY EDUCATION. 3. TO HELP BUILD AND UPGRADE EDUCATION FACILITIES THAT ARE CHILD- SENSITIVE AND PROVIDE SAFE AND EFFECTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS FOR ALL. 4. TO PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES FOR EVERY CHILD TO COMPLETE OR FURTHER HIS EDUCATION AND TO ENSURE THAT ALL YOUTH, BOTH MEN AND WOMEN, ACHIEVE LITERACY AND NUMERACY KNOWLEDGE. 5. TO PROVIDE STUDY AIDS AND MATERIALS TO EVERY CHILD IN NEED IN ORDER TO ENHANCE AND EASE OF LEARNING. 6. TO PROVIDE SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHILDREN WITH REPETITIVE FAILURE RECORDS AND DROPOUTS IN ALL LEVEL OF EDUCATION.

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

NAME OF TRUSTEES: 1. OPEYEMI ELISHA OYENIYI 2. OLUWASEUN SAMUEL ABEGUNDE 3. NIHINLOLAWA RUBY TAIWO. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. GO: TO VISIT THE NEEDY AND LOST SOULS WITH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. 2. GIVE: TO PROVIDE THE NEEDY AND LOST SOULS WITH ALL SORTS OF SUPPORT INCLUDING PHYSICAL GIFTS AND MATERIALS. 3. GROW: TO TEACH, TRAIN AND EMPOWER PEOPLE TO DO THE ABOVE TWO OBJECTS OF THE INITIATIVE.

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

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

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED SECRETARY

PUBLIC NOTICE

NEW NAME: STRONGER IMPACT FOUNDATION OLD NAME: ELOHO SIBYL FOUNDATION THIS IS TO NOTIFY THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED INTENDS TO APPLY TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR A CHANGE IN THE NAME AND TRUSTEES UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF 1990.

TRUSTEES 1. IGBRUDE ELOHO SIBYL (RETAINED) 2. IGBRUDE MINNIE (RETAINED) 3. ODHOMOR PAUL JOHN (REMOVED) 4. IGBRUDE YOUNG DANIEL (REMOVED) 5. JAN RICHARD RADLOFF (APPOINTED) 6. JESSE-KING IGBRUDE (APPOINTED) ANY OBJECTION TO THIS CHANGE SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. BARRISTER ALECANDER-LAURENCE UTIEYIN-SCOTT (PRESIDENT) 2. MISS OBRUCHE VIVIAN ONOGORO (SECRETARY) AIM AND OBJECTIVES: 1. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS, DISTRESS AND SUFFERING OF ANY PERSONS WHO ARE IN NEED IRRESPECTIVE OF THEIR NATIONALITY, RACE, ETHNIC ORIGIN AND RELIGIOUS BELIEFS. 2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO PROVIDE RECREATIONAL FACILITIES AND ACTIVITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF PROVIDING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THOSE PERSONS IN NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES. 3. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: BARRISTER ABRAHAM OCHEJE SULE

KAODI ONUOHA FOUNDATION

PEACE WITH GOD MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL

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

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

TRUSTEES: 1. BARR. KAODICHUKWU ONUOHA 2. MRS. NGOZI ONUOHA 3. MR. CLINTON CHIDIEBERE ONUOHA

TRUSTEES 1. REV( DR) PATRICK ELIJAH ABIGHE-SIMON -CHAIRMAN 2. REV ( DR) CHRISTIAN UWOGHIREN. 3. REV AMENZE JESSICA ABIGHE-SIMON. 4. ELDER MOSES OSOH (SECRETARY) 5. MR.OSARUME ABIGHE-SIMON.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO HELP THE LESS PRIVILEGED

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PREACH THE WORD OF GOD

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

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

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: BARR SOLOMON WISDOM AKHIGBE. BENIN CITY

GRACELAND FAMILY OF THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH

MOUNT OF SOLUTION DIVINE MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL

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

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1) OKEIYI ANTHONY NKEMAKOLAM 2) EWELIKE SAMUEL CHUKWUEMEKA 3) NNAJI JUSTIN CHIDI

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1) JOHNNY SUNDAY 2) EDEM ESSIEN EPHRAIM 3) INEH ANIETI INAM 4) BASSEY DORATHY SYLVANUS

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO GROW AND DISCIPLINE OUR MEMBERS TO BECOME RESPONSIBLE CHRISTIANS

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL AND REACH OUT TO THE LOST SOUL

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

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

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

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

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AFRICAN SOCIOCULTURAL HARMONY AND ENLIGHTENMENT FOUNDATION

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

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MR GANIYU OKIKI ABIDEEN -PRESIDENT 2. MRS AYINDE TAIWO -VICE PRESIDENT 3. MR JIMOH AMODU TITILOYE -SECRETARY 4. MR YUSUF BASHIRU TAIWO -TREASURER 5. MRS AKINOLA ROFIAT - FINANCIAL SECRETARY 6. MR AKINYEMI ADEWALE AYUBA -PUBLICITY SECRETARY.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OGUNWUSI ADEYEYE ENITAN 2. ACHEBE NNAEMEKA ALFRED 3. MASA-IBI SHEKARAU ANGYU 4. AMEH OBONI IDAKWO MICHEAL 5. JAJA DANDESON DOUGLAS 6. FALOYE JUSTICE JADESOLA 7. OCHONOGOR IFEANYICHUKWU CHUKWUETEM 8. GIWA-AMU ROSEMARY AFAUNAGBOR

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE REDUCTION OF MISERY AND THE ERADICATION OF POVERTY BY FOCUSING ON LESS EDUCATED PERSONS TO PROTECT THE INTEREST AND WELFARE OF ITS MEMBERS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL,CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF PUBLICATION

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES : TO PROMOTE CULTURAL HARMONY THROUGH AWARENESS OF HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY LINKAGES. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL,CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF PUBLICATION SIGNED: STRAIGHT PATH CONSULTING 08023694015

SIGNED SECRETARY

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THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE TITLE DEEDS/DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE PROPERTY LYING BEING SITUATE AND KNOWN AS N0 17 IJEWERE CLOSE OFF ODOGBOLU ST AGUDA S/L LAGOS BELONGING TO LATE CHIEF EMMANUEL ADELOWO ADESHIPO ARE MISSING ANYONE WITH USEFUL INFORMATION ON THE WHEREABOUT OF THE SAID TITLE/DEEDS /DOCUMENTS SHOULD PLS CONTACT MRS IYABO B ADESHIPO ON TEL NO

MASTER JESUS PASSION FOR SOULS HEALING MINISTRY

AIM AND OBJECTIVES 1.TO PREACH AND TEACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST AMONGST THE PEOPLE BY CONDUCTING ACTIVITIES THAT WILL PROMOTE THE GOSPEL TILL WE SPREAD THE MESSAGE OF THE CROSS TO THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD. 2.TO HELP THE NEEDY, LESS PRIVILEGED, GIVE HOPE TO HOPELESS, TO SUPPORT THE WEAK AND WIDOWS. 3.TO BRING THE HEALING POWER IF JESUS CHRIST TO THE SICK THROUGH HOSPITAL VISITATION.

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

TRUSTEE NAME : 1.ADERINTO ADEWALE PHILIP, -CHAIRMAN 2.ADERINTO SALEWA OLABISI, -SECRETARY 3.DR. MRS.OJEBODE MEMBER

THE TRUSTEES ARE: MRS. JOSETTE DUSABE SIMBI. MR. UTUBAKWU MICHAEL USHIE. BARR. MRS. BLESSING CHARLES EKE. DR. MRS. CORNELIUS- UKPEPI BERNEDETTE UMALI, MRS SANDRINE MUSABYIMANA.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVE: 1.TO PROVIDE BASIC WELFARE SUPPORT TO THE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITY OR LOW INCOME EARNERS , 2.TO PROVIDE FREE VOCATIONAL TRAINING TO THE POOR OR LESS PRIVILEGED PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY SO AS TO IMPROVE THEIR WELL BEING,

AIM AND OBJECTIVES: TO BE THE FORE RUNNER IN THE FIGHT AGAINST INFANT AND MATERNAL MORTALITY AND OTHER PREVENTATBLE DISEASES AFFECTING PREGNANT WOMEN AND CHILDREN ESPECIALLY INFANTS IN NIGERIA. TO ENGAGE IN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INTO EFFECTIVE WAYS TO REDUCE MATERNAL AND INFANT MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY.

3.TO SUPPORT LESS PRIVILEGED YOUTH IN ACHIEVING THEIR EDUCATIONAL CAREER BY PROVIDING SCHOLARSHIPS, EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS AND FREE COACHING CLASS

TO SET UP A HIGH STANDARD SUPPORT SYSTEM THAT WILL PROVIDE HEALTH CARE FOR PREGNANT MOTHERS AND INFANTS. TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF PREGNANT WOMEN AND INFANTS SUFFERING FROM HEALTH AND FINANCIAL CHALLENGES IN NIGERIA.

BALM OF VICTORY MINISTRY

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. NNAJI, IFENYINWA VICTORY 2. ANI, CHRISTIAN C. 3. OKEKE, NNEKA PATRICIA 4. NNAJI, CHRISTIAN 5. AGBO, SUNDAY NNAJI AIMS & OBJECTIVES 1. TO SERVE AS CHANNEL OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GOD AND MAN. 2. TO ACT AS VESSEL THROUGH WHICH GOD WILL BRING DIVINE HEALING TO HUMANITY. 3. TO TEACH PEOPLE TO LIVE A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE. 4. TO INCULCATE THE HABIT OF PRAYER TO MEMBERS AND OTHERS. 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: NNAJI, VICTORY IFENYINWA

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

RHEMA MEN SUPPORT FOUNDATION

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1.MR. OLUYINKA OLULEYE AKINSOLA - PRESIDENT 2..MR. BABAJIDE ADENIYI OMOTOYINBO -VICE PRESIDENT 3. MR RAPHAEL EDEH FINANCIAL SECRETARY 4. PASTOR CALEB OLALEKAN AYINLA - TRUSTEE 5..DEACON OLUKAYODE OSHUNMAKINDE - TRUSTEE 6 .DEACON OLALEYE OLUGBENGA ANTHONY- TRUSTEE 7. DEACON OLATUNDE OLADIPO SAMUEL- TRUSTEE 8. MR OLUWADUNSIN SAMSON OLUFEMI- TRUSTEE 9. DEACON DOLAPO KUYE-TRUSTEE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES : 1. SUPPORTING MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY INCLUDING CHURCH MEMBERS EDUCATIONALLY, DEVELOPMENTALLY AND SOCIALLY. 2. ASSISTING CHURCH MEMBERS AND OTHERS IN ACCESSING AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE. ANY OBJECTION TO THE ABOVE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUIYI STREET MAITAMA , ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: MR. OLUYINKA OLULEYE AKINSOLA PRESIDENT

THE GREAT HOLY GHOST LIVE AND POWER EMBASSY

REPLENISH FAITH CHURCH INTERNATIONAL

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

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ISINGUZO EZE SOLOMON 2. EZE IFEOMA VICTORIA 3. ISINGUZO CHIOMA KINDNESS 4. OJO ROA OHA CHUKS 5. NWABUNOR NDUBISI HENRY 6. IBEAKUZIE OLUCHUKWU COSMOS AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL,CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED: STRAIGHT PATH CONSULTING 08023694015

AGBONA AND ENVIROS COMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION

NAME OF THE TRUSTEES ARE : 1. MOHAMMED ABDULSALAMI BABA 2. ISIAKA ABDULGANIYU 3. SALAUDEEN AYUBA 4. SANI ISIAKA 5. OSENI SAKARIYAU OLAYINKA 6. MUHAMMAD ADEBAYO MURITALA 7. MOMOHNU AKANDE JIMOH 8. AKANJI RAIMI 9. BABATUNDE AHMED 10.ABDULKAREEM JIMOH ISHOLA

WALE ADERINTO WELFARE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION

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

AIM AND OBJECTIVE TO FOSTER UNITY AMONG MEMBERS. SIGNED STRAIGHT PATH CONSULTING

THE TRUSTEES ARE; 1.PST FRIDAY OBI 2.DOROTHY OBI 3.BETHEL OMEIFE 4.PRECIOUS OSAKUNI.

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

SIGNED

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MARTINS IFECHI CLEMENT 2. IGWEILO JOSEPH NNAMDI 3. UDEOZOR BENEDICT 4. PATRICK OBI 5. SOCIA ANGUS

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

SIGNED MRS IYABO B ADESHIPO

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.

MGBAKWU IN DIASPORA ASSOCIATION

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

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

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

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THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ADENIRAN FRANCIS OLUKAYODE 2. BABAYEJU SHOLA OLAONIPEKUN AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.

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

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

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE : 1. TO CREATE UNITY AMONG AGBONA COMMUNITIES 2.TO PROTECT THE INTEREST OF AGBONA 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: SECRETARY

GENERAL HERITAGE ASSOCIATION, ONICHA L.G.A THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED ASSOCIATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1 JOB CHUKWU CHAIRMAN 2 EDWARD OKEREKE SECRETARY 3 EZE ANENECHI TREASURER 4 REUBEN SAMUEL ANENECHI FINANCIAL SECRETARY AIMS & OBJECTIVES 1. TO CARTER FOR THE WELFARE AND THE INTEGRITY OF MEMBER. 2. TO REVIVE AND REVAMP THE ECONOMIC STATUS OF THE MEMBERS. 3. TO SERVE AS FORUM FOR EXCHANGE OF IDEAS THAT WILL FOSTER PEACE, UNITY AND THE GROWTH OF THE ASSOCIATION. 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: EDWARD OKEREKE SECRETARY

ISLAND CLUB THIS IS TO NOTIFY THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED CLUB INTENDS TO APPLY TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR A CHANGE IN THE TRUSTEES AND AMENDMENT OF CONSTITUTION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF 1990.

OLD TRUSTEES. 1. ALHAJI ( CHIEF) MUSILIU OLAIYA ANIBABA - (RETAINED) 2. CHIEF ADEBAYO ALABI ADEJUMO ( RETAINED) 3. CHIEF PROFESSOR ( ARC) JOHN W. GODWIN (RETAINED) 4. CHIEF MOLADE OKOYA THOMAS ( DECEASED ) 5. CHIEF TANIMOSE ABIOYE ( DECEASED) 6. CHIEF OLUSOLA FALEYE (DECEASED) NEW TRUSTEES. 1. ARC ( CHIEF) ANTHONY MOGBONJUBOLA SOETAN 2. ALHAJI (CHIEF) OLARENWAJU BABALOLA 3.ASIWAJU( BARR) OLARENWAJU ALEX-DUDUYEMI 4. CHIEF LAYI OLUMEGBON 5.ENGR. SAMUEL BABATUNDE ADEGBAYIBI 6.ELDER (DR)SAMUEL OLAKUNRI ESQ. 7. CHIEF MICHAEL OLUMUYIWA FALOMO 8. SIR DR. CHIEF KESSINGTON ADEBUKUNOLA ADEBUTU THAT THE CONSTITUTION OF THE CLUB IS HEREBY AMENDED AND REPLACED WITH THE CONSTITUTION AS AMENDED ANY OBJECTION TO THIS CHANGE SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED- UYI WOGHIREN ESQ SOLICITOR

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. EVANG. MIKE BAMILOYE - CHAIRMAN 2. EVANG. GLORIA OLUSOLA BAMILOYE 3. EVANG. KOLADE AYODEJI SEGUN-OKEOWO - SECRETARY 4. PASTOR EMMANUEL ADEYEMI ADEPOJU - TREASURER 5. EVANG. JOSEPH ADEYEMI ADEPOJU - MEMBER 6. EVANG. ABIOLA SUNDAY JESULOWO - MEMBER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO SUPPORT WIDOWS IN DRAMA MINISTRY. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

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MRS NWAKPADOLU NJIDEKA

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UCHECHI ROSETHA

SAKA OGBONNE .C.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ONWE CHINONYE CHARITY NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OCHE CHINONYE CHARITY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS NWOSU NJIDEKA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS NWAKPADOLU NJIDEKA ANNA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED

AS GOODNESS IFENNA JOHNSON NOW

AS OWORA OGBONNE ORJI NOW WISH

WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED

TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS

AS UCHECHI ROSETHA JOHNSON. ALL

SAKA

FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID.

DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID.AE-FUNAI,

BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD

BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD

PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

SCAM DIVORCE

ADEYANJU OYEJOKE I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OYENUSI OYEJOKE KAREN NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS ADEYANJU OYEJOKE KAREN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

KASSIM ABDUL I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ABDUL-MALIK ABAYOMI RAHEEM NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS KASSIM ABDUL AKEEM BOLAJI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEYOKUNNU ADEBUKOLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS ADEYOKUNNU OLUWATOBILOBA HELLEN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT ANY DIVORCE NOTICE BETWEEN CHIEF EZE DUKE GODWIN AND ENGR (MRS) ADIOGU PERPETUA CHIZOBA IS FORGED AND FRAUD. NO RECOGNITION SHOULD BE ATTACHED TO IT AS WE ARE STILL LEGALLY MARRIED AND I AM TAKING CARE OF OUR SIX CHILDREN. THIS IS FOR OFFICIAL AND RECORD PURPOSES. SIGNED- ENGR (MRS) ADIOGU PERPETUA CHIZOBA

SHOWUNMI SAMUEL

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SHOWUNMI SAMUEL NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS SHOWUNMI SAMUEL TOSIN . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE. CORRECTION OF NAME/BIRTH DATE THIS IS TO CONFIRM AND CERTIFY THAT MY NAME WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AS ANIFOWOSE ALABA ADENIRAN INSTEAD OF ANIFOWOSE ALABA OLATOUN AND THAT MY DATE OF BIRTH WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AS 04/02/ 1946 INSTEAD OF 07/04/ 1947. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

AROGUNMAYA OYINKANSOLA

MRS ADENIYI TAOFEEKAT

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS SULAIMON TAOFEEKAT OYINDAMOLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ADENIYI TAOFEEKAT OYINDAMOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

LOSS OF CAC DOCUMENTS

THIS IS TO CONFIRM AND CERTIFY THAT THE ORIGINAL COPIES OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION DOCUMENTS OF KIDDIES PLANET LIMITED IS MISSING. ALL EFFORTS TO TRACE THE SAID DOCUMENTS HAVE BEEN ABORTIVE. THIS IS FOR OFFICIAL AND RECORD PURPOSES. SIGNED- OKENWA SAMUEL CHUKWUDI ( CHAIRMAN)

MRS FAFUNSO ADENIKE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SALAMI OYINKANSOLA ADESEWA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS AROGUNMAYA OYINKANSOLA ADESEWA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OLA ADENIKE OLAYINKA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS MRS FAFUNSO ADENIKE OLAYINKA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

MRS OLALEKAN-AMOO

OGAR LOUIZA I FORMERLY KNOWN AS OGAR IKWO WILLIAM NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS OGAR LOUIZA WILLIAM .

ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

. I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS AKANLE TOLULOPE LUCY NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OLALEKAN-AMOO TOLULOPE LUCY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

ONAFEKO IBRAHIM

WALIU FOLAKE

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ONAFEKO IBRAHEEM OLALEKAN NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ONAFEKO IBRAHIM ABIMBOLA ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID.GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEYEMI FOLAKE EJIMOH NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS WALIU FOLAKE EJIMO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE

NWANGBOROGWU UDUAK I FORMERLY KNOWN AS AKPAN UDUAK BLESSING NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS NWANGBOROGWU UDUAK BLESSING ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS YUSUF ABDULRAHEEM MEMUNAT ABIKE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MAKINDE YUSUF MEMUNAT. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC/ AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS OLASIMBO BADEJO

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OLASIMBO ALABI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OLASIMBO BADEJO ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

EJIDOTUN ABIOLA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS YEMI AYENI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EJIDOTUN ABIOLA TAOREED ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

IGWE OBIANUJU

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AKERELE ANNE OBIANUJU NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IGWE OBIANUJU ANNE . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS OLADIPO HANNAH

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ADEBESIN HANNAH TITILAYO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OLADIPO HANNAH TITILAYO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

OKHUOYA BISHOP

ADEYOKUNNU OLUWAT

OLAITAN LONG

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AWOLOWO OLATUNDE OLAITAN NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS OLAITAN LONG OLA TUNDE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

MONEYED KENO

MRS HILDA ROWLAND

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS HILDA CHIDINMA NDUBUISI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS MRS HILDA ROWLAND BOJOWA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

OKORO COMFORT

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKORO COMFORT JECINTA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS OKORO COMFORT. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE. OLAOYE BALIKISS

MRS RASHIDAT AJOKE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS RASHIDAT AJIBIKE AJOKE ALLI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS MRS RASHIDAT AJOKE DOSUNMU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE. CORRECTION OF NAME/BIRTH DATE THIS IS TO CONFIRM AND CERTIFY THAT MY NAME WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AS NWAFORO DANIEL CHIKWADO INSTEAD OF NWAFOR DANIEL CHIKWADO AND THAT MY DATE OF BIRTH WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AS 01 APRIL 1992 INSTEAD OF 01 APRIL 1993. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

ERHAHON –MESIMO

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ERHAHON ADESUWA TINA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS ERHAHON –MESIMO ADESUWA TINA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

JOGUNOMI NAFIU

MUHAMMAD MUSTAPHA I FORMERLY KNOWN AS MUHAMMAD MUSTAPHA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS MUHAMMAD MUSTAPHA ALI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS EVIOSEKWOFA FURE EMMANUEL NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS EVIOSEKWOFA OGHENEFURE EMMANUEL. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

EVIOSEKWOFA OGHENE-

CONFIRMATION OF NAME THIS IS TO CONFIRM AND CERTIFY THAT ASHIRU MORUFAT ASHAKE AND ASHIRU IYABO MORUFAT IS SAME AND ONE PERSON. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

EZE NGOZIKA

ONILEDE. MUYIWA I, FORMERLY KNOWN AS ONILEDE ADENIYI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS ONILEDE. MUYIWA ADENIYI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS MICHAEL OLUWAKEMI OMOWUNMI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS SAANU OLUWAKEMI OMOWUNMI PRISCILLA.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

THERE WAS MISTAKE DURING BVN EXERCISE IN WHICH MY NAME WAS EROUNOUSLY CAPTURED AS OGUAJU ANITA CHINONYE INSTEAD OF OGUAJU LORRETTA CHINONYEREM .

HENCEFORTH, MY NAME SHOULD BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGUAJU LORRETTA CHINONYEREM. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VAILD . THE GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

OLAWALE DAMILARE

OLANIKE ISAAC I FORMERLY KNOWN AS OLANIKE PARK NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS OLANIKE ISAAC ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS JOGUNOMI ALANI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS JOGUNOMI NAFIU ALANI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE. FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AGWU NGOZIKA BLESSING NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EZE NGOZIKA BLESSING ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

TERIBA OLUMIDE

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEOYE OLUMIDE MATTHEW NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS TERIBA OLUMIDE MATTHEW . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE

CONFIRMATION OF NAME THIS IS TO CONFIRM THAT MISS CHINYERE GEORGELINE NDUBISI IS ONE AND SAME PERSON AS MRS. CHINYERE GEORGELINE ANYEGBUNAM. THAT

I

AM

THE

SAME

PERSON

BEARING

BOTH NAMES. THAT ALL OTHER DOCUMENTS BEARING BOTH NAMES ARE MINE AND REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC, BANKS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS OSHUNSINA ADETUTU

AYANSANWO OLUWASEUN

CHANGE OF NAME/CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH:

OSONUGA ODUNMOLORUN

FORMER

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BABATUNDE BALIKISS OLAMIDE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS OLAOYE BALIKISS OLAMIDE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEYEMI ADETUTU ADERONKE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OSHUNSINA ADETUTU ADERONKE ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BUHARI ODUNMOLORUN ANUOLUWA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OSONUGA ODUNMOLORUN ANUOLUWA . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ALL

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ENEGADHE KENO RAYMOND NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS MONEYED KENO RAYMOND. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UGWU GLORIA IFEOMA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKAFOR GLORIA IFEOMA ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLATUNJI ABEL NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AYANSANWO OLUWASEUN OLATUNJI ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

.C.

ADDITION OF NAME

THAT I WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ISAH MOHAMMED, THAT I NOW WISH TO ADD OCHE TO MY FORMER NAME THAT I NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ISAH OCHE MOHAMMED. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKHUOYA OLUWAGBENGA STEVEN NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS OKHUOYA BISHOP OLUWAGBENGA STEVEN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

MAKINDE YUSUF

OKAFOR GLORIA

OGBONNE

ONWE MONDAY

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ONWE MONDAY SOLOMON NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ONWE MONDAY DOMINION. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JIBRIL JEMILU NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MUHAMMED JEMILU JIBRIL. WRONG DATE OF BIRTH IS 15-09-1992 WHILE CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 15-011997.

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

MICHEAL ESTHER

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS WILLIAMS ESTHER QUEEN NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MICHEAL ESTHER EFFIONG . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CORRECTION OF NAME

MY NAME WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AS OLUWALAMBE OLUWAFUNMIKE DORCAS INSTEAD OF OLUWALAMBE FUNKE DORCAS. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLUWALAMBE FUNKE DORCAS. ALL OTHER FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MUSA MUINAT ADENIKE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEWOYIN MUINAT ADENIKE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MUSA MUINAT ADENIKE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC/ AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

AYENI OLUSHOLA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ONAFEKO OLUSHOLA MONSURAT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AYENI OLUSHOLA MONSURAT ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

MUYIDEEN MASAKU

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEBAYO MASAKU OLUWANIRANISE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MUYIDEEN MASAKU ARANSE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

LAWAL AJIMOH

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS LAWAL AJIMOH R. AND LAWAL ARINOLA AJIMOH NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS LAWAL AJIMOH KEMI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS SAANU OLUWAKEMI

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS KAZEEM OLAWALE OLUWADAMILARE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS OLAWALE DAMILARE FOLORUNSHO ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE. OZEMOYA IZEGBUWA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AIDELOJE IZEGBUWA DANIELLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OZEMOYA IZEGBUWA JOY ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

OGUNNIYI MORILI

OGUAJU ANITA

ADEDIRE OLAWALE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS DANGOTE OLAWALE MICHEAL NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEDIRE OLAWALE MICHEAL ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

EZE VICTOR

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGUNNIYI ABIOLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGUNNIYI MORILI ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS VICTOR DANJUMA EZE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EZE VICTOR CHIBUEZE THAT MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 23/08/1978 ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

MKPOGU MILDRED

CHANGE OF NAME/CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH:

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ISO MILDRED EKPO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MKPOGU MILDRED ETTA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ADELOWO BOSE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FALONI BOSE OYE AND ADELOWO FALONI BOSE OYE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADELOWO BOSE OYE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MARSHAL ETIM NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS WILSON MARSHAL ETIM. WRONG DATE OF BIRTH IS 20TH JANUARY 1991, CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 20TH JULY 1991. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE

NWAEFULU IFEAYINCHUKWU

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWAEFULU IFEAYINCHUKWU FELICIA. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWAEFULU IFEAYINCHUKWU FELICIA (I.F) MANDA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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SAMUEL MARK FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SAMUEL AMINIGO MARK NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SAMUEL MARK.ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAINS VALID,GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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‘We have to build the wall’: Trump digs in heels on US shutdown

Police used tear gas to disperse protests in Sudan’s capital Khartoum and other cities

Sudan arrests Khartoum University lecturers amid fresh protests Sudanese security authorities have arrested several faculty members from Khartoum University, two professors said, after they joined anti-government protests that have posed the most serious challenge to President Omar al-Bashir’s rule.

The arrests on Sunday came amid fresh demonstrations in Sudan’s capital Khartoum and other cities in response to a call by a coalition of professional unions to push for Bashir to step down.

Witnesses told the Reuters news agency that security forces blocked professors and lecturers from coming out to protest outside the university, arresting at least eight.

It was the first time the faculty of the country’s oldest and most prestigious educational institution joined the protests since they began last month.

The rest were forced to return into the faculty clubhouse, where security forces surrounded the building trapping about 100 professors and lecturers inside for nearly three hours.

“We demand the president of the republic to step down,” one placard read carried by the lecturers inside the clubhouse, according to pictures posted on social media.

A police spokesman could not immediately be reached for comment.

Intermittent protests have rocked Sudan since anger over food shortages and rising bread prices erupted into demonstrations in the city of Atbara in the north on December 19.

Security forces have used tear gas on occasions, live ammunition against demonstrators and rounded up more than 2,000 people.

The Sudanese government has said that 19 people were killed in the protests, including at two members of the security forces. Amnesty International has put the death toll at 37.

‘Peace, Justice, Freedom’ In Sunday’s protests, witnesses said hundreds of men and women marched from three separate locations in the capital trying to reach the presidential palace in central Khartoum but were dispersed by security forces using tear gas and stun grenades.

“Police are not even allowing 10 people to gather,” a witness told AFP. Video footage posted on social media networks showed protesters fleeing down streets and alleyways in the downtown area trying to escape the noxious gas.

A separate protest in Wad Madani, Sudan’s second largest city, where demonstrators chanted for “peace, justice, freedom”, was also dispersed by security forces using tear gas, according to witnesses.

In the northern town of Atbara, the local market was shut down as protesters took to the streets.

The protests were smaller than previous demonstrations.

As protesters attempted the march on Sunday, Sudan’s Labour Minister Bahar Idris announced that a pro-government rally would be held on Wednesday at Khartoum’s Green Yard, a large open ground in the capital.

The rally would express “the choice of the Sudanese people and address the present crisis”, Idris, a former rebel from war-torn Darfur, told reporters at a press conference.

Wednesday’s rally would be the first pro-Bashir demonstration since antigovernment protests erupted last month.

The president, who came to power after a 1989 coup, has sought to defuse the anger sweeping the country by pledging to do more for the poor. In an address to the nation on December 31, Bashir said he would maintain state subsidies on commodities, raise wages and refrain from introducing new taxes.

He has since ordered an investigation into the violence during the anti-government protests, and on Saturday, sacked the health minister.

The country has been facing a mounting economic crisis over the past year led by an acute shortage of foreign currency.

The cost of some commodities, including medicines, has more than doubled and inflation has hit 70 percent.

Food and fuel shortages have been regularly reported across several cities, including Khartoum.

US President Donald Trump stood firm on Sunday on his demand for billions of dollars to fund a border wall with Mexico, claiming “tremendous” support inside his camp on the contentious issue which has forced a government shutdown now entering its third week.

“We have to build the wall,” Trump told reporters as he left the White House for the Camp David presidential retreat. “It’s about safety, it’s about security for our country.

“We have no choice,” he said, warning once more that he may invoke emergency powers to get a wall built without congressional approval.

“I may declare a national emergency, dependent on what’s going to happen over the next few days.”

Trump has been digging in his heels, demanding billions for a border barrier that Democrats, who now control the House of Representatives, would not provide. He said he is still mulling declaring a national emergency to try to circumvent Congress.

Talks aimed at ending the shutdown were to resume early on Sunday afternoon in Vice President Mike Pence’s office, a day after a meeting involving him and representatives of Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, the top two Democrats in Congress, made little headway.

Trump indicated however, he was not expecting a weekend breakthrough, saying there would be “very serious talks come Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday”.

Earlier on Sunday, Trump’s press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, told Fox News cable television, that the president is prepared to bypass Congress if necessary by declaring a national emergency to build his planned wall along the US-Mexico border.

Sanders said the White House

has been looking at “every option available” to get the needed money for his wall, adding Trump will do “whatever it takes to protect our borders”.

Al Jazeera’s Gabriel Elizondo, reporting from Washington, DC, said that everybody is “pessimistic” about the outcome of the talks on Sunday.

Negotiations have been at an impasse over Trump’s demands for $5.6bn to fund the border wall.

On Friday, Trump declared he could keep the shutdown going for “months or even years”.

On Friday, Trump met congressional leaders from both parties amid an impasse over his demand for billions of dollars for a border wall with Mexico.

The standoff has prompted economic jitters and anxiety among some in Trump’s own party.

The shutdown has left some 800,000 federal workers sent home or working without pay. Large numbers of federal contractors are also losing pay.

“We won’t be opening until it’s solved,” Trump said. “I don’t call it a shutdown. I call it doing what you have to do for the benefit and the safety of our country.”

The US president reportedly said he preferred to call the action a “strike”.

The US president also said the hundreds of thousands of federal workers who are furloughed or working without pay would want him to “keep going” and fight for border security.

Asked how people would manage without a financial safety net, he declared, “The safety net is going to be having a strong border because we’re going to be safe.”

Security officers at US airports have reportedly been calling in sick in droves since the shutdown began and their paycheques stopped rolling in.

Pope appeals to EU leaders to let stranded migrants ashore Pope Francis urged European leaders to stop bickering over the fate of 49 migrants and refugees stuck on board two humanitarian rescue ships on the Mediterranean and let them land at a safe port of call.

Francis, addressing 60,000 faithful in St Peter’s Square on Sunday, jumped into a diplomatic fracas between Italy and Malta and into an internal dispute among leaders of Italy’s populist government.

“I make a heartfelt appeal to European leaders to show concrete solidarity for these people,” Francis said, raising his voice. They were only “seeking a safe port where they can disembark”, he said.

Thirty-two people are on board the Sea-Watch 3, a vessel run by a German humanitarian group, which plucked them from an unsafe boat off Libya on December

22. They include three small children and four teenagers. Another ship run by the German group Sea-Eye is carrying 17 people rescued on December 29.

Last week, nearly two dozen humanitarian groups, including Amnesty International and the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration, called on the European Union to offer a safe port to both vessels.

Speaking at a political meeting shortly before the pope made his appeal, Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat defended his country’s refusal to take the vessels, saying it had no legal responsibility for the rescue.

He accused Malta’s critics of playing “the Christmas saint” while themselves rejecting the ships.

“We need to find a balance between the human aspect and national security. This is an

issue that might set a precedent and we should be vigilant about it,” he said.

Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio, leader of the 5-Star Movement, shot back at Muscat, saying Italy had for years taken migrants who arrived via the Mediterranean.

“Now, Malta has to do its part. That is our position,” he said.

Di Maio has said Italy will take in women and children if Malta allows the ships to dock.

But Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who leads the anti-immigrant League party and has closed ports to rescue ships, opposes this.

Salvini has often criticised Francis, who has made defence of migrants a key feature of his pontificate.

Italy and Malta are predominantly Catholic nations but the Church’s influence in politics Trump has been digging in his heels, demanding billions for a has waned significantly in recent years. border barrier that Democrats would not provide

SPORTS TIMES Daily Times Nigeria Monday, January 7, 2019

Deontay Wilder ignores emails, calls to fight Anthony Joshua

Eddie Hearn has revealed Deontay Wilder has ignored “four emails” and “dozens of phone calls” about making a fight against Anthony Joshua.

Joshua is scheduled to make his next ring appearance on April 13 at Wembley against a currently unnamed opponent, with calls for it to be Wilder.

Talk of a potential fight between Joshua and the American has been mounting for months, but nothing is yet to materialize

regarding a confirmed bout.

‘We would desperately love to fight Deontay Wilder in Wembley on April 13th,’ Hearn told Love Sports Radio. “We have offered him successively more and more. Not just guarantee money, but percentage money. Wilder earned a draw against Tyson Fury in December “But there’s a certain level beyond which we won’t go because AJ is the A-side.

“Unfortunately to report that

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so far despite three, four emails, dozens of phone calls.

“We haven’t had one response from Deontay Wilder’s team.

“So sooner or later you take the hint that maybe they don’t want us that bad. But then they’re also, I guess, planning a Tyson Fury rematch.”

Eddie Hearn also recently revealed if Wilder doesn’t want to take the April 13 slot at Wembley, Fury himself could be candidate.

NFF denies prosecution report on Amaju Pinnick The Nigeria Football Federation on Saturday described as outright falsehood, a news item in the media claiming that President Muhammadu Buhari has directed that the President of NFF, Mr. Amaju Melvin Pinnick, should be prosecuted.

“The attention of the Nigeria Football Federation has been drawn to a news item circulating in a section of the media saying a directive has been issued by President Muhammadu Buhari that the President of NFF, Mr. Amaju Melvin Pinnick be prosecuted and that Pinnick has also been issued with a travel ban.

“The report is completely unfounded and is only a product of the writer’s imagination. The NFF President, who is also the 1st Vice President of the Confederation of African Football, has not received any such message from any of the agencies mentioned by the writer and has also never been placed on travel ban.

“Mr. Pinnick was in Accra, Ghana on Friday,

4th January 2019 for a meeting with NFF and CAF partners AITEO and returned to Nigeria the same day. He has been going about his lawful official and private activities unhindered. The NFF published its audited account in two (2) major national newspapers (ThisDay and Daily Trust) on Thursday, 20th December 2018 and in another major newspaper (Vanguard) on Tuesday, 25th December 2018. Anyone interested in the Federation’s financial transactions can refer to those pages.

“All incomes into the NFF from the Federal Government, FIFA and CAF from 2014 till now have been correctly recorded and reflected in our accounts. The NFF received nothing like the N59 Billion that the fake news reporters have been hawking. It is laughable.

“Before appointment into FIFA committees, Mr. Amaju and the two Nigerians in there passed rigorous integrity and eligibility tests. FIFA and

CAF have not reported to anyone that their money is missing, and both organizations have been doing auditing of monies given to the NFF. Two years ago, FIFA handed the NFF a clean bill of health on financial management. Our accounts are audited by the same company that audits FIFA – PriceWaterHouse Coopers.

“Our lawyers will take up the matter of the fake news item with the newspaper company that first published it in its online edition. But we urge other media companies and outlets to be painstaking in verification of their news items.

“We also urge our sponsors and partners, football stakeholders in Nigeria, Africa and the world at large, and other media institutions to disregard the said news report as its another attempt by the mob against the NFF to tarnish the image of the Federation and its leadership for whatever gains,” read the report from the federation’s communications department.

Rita Chikwelu extends contract Tennis: Simona Halep fit after ‘scary’ back injury with Swedish side Kristianstad World number one Simona Halep Sunday admitted a back injury that ended her 2018 season early was “very scary”, but she has recovered and is feeling fit heading into the new season.

The Romanian hasn’t played since withdrawing from the WTA Finals in Singapore in October with a herniated disc and said she did nothing for six weeks to get over it.

“It was very scary because it was below the back, so it’s always dangerous. But I had treatment at home, I rested for about six weeks and I did nothing, just exercises for the back,” she told reporters ahead of the Sydney International this week.

“I didn’t have pain while I was practising this period, off-season.

So now I feel confident and it’s okay. But I need to see during the official match.

“I feel relaxed, I feel rested, I feel healthy with the back. But as

Super Falcons midfielder Rita Chikwelu has signed a new contract with Swedish Damallsvenskan side Kristianstad, the club have confirmed.

The 30-year-old, joined from top-flight rivals Umea in 2016, and has put pen to paper to seal a year contract extension, which keeps her at Vilans IP Stadium until the end of 2018-19 season.

The midfielder, who recently led the Super Falcons to a record ninth African Women Cup of Nations triumph in Ghana last month, is not planning to ditch Elizabeth Gunnarsdottir’s side yet.

According to the club’s website, the player will don the jersey no. 18 in the new 2018-19 season.

The former Umea star, who is in her ninth season in Sweden scored five goals as her side finished fourth in the Damallsvenskan log with 39 points from 22 games last season.

With league football expected back in April, Chikwelu will be hoping to continue from where she left off when they start their campaign at home against Rosengård on April 14.

wished for,” she said.

“It’s going to be tough. And it was tough, the off-season, without a coach, without Darren.

But he decided this and I fully understood because family comes first always.”

Halep has a bye in the first round at Sydney.

Super Eagles skipper Mikel Obi linked with Fenerbache after Tianjin Teda exit

Senegal spends $1.6m on CAF awards – Sports minister Senegal sports minister Matar Ba has revealed that $1.6M was spent to host the 2018 CAF Awards which holds on Tuesday.

According to Ba while speaking to reporters, was optimistic that the hosting of the awards will improve the country’s economy.

He further explained that $600,000:00 was budgeted for the local organising committee.

All guests and delegates for the event are expected to arrive on Sunday. Delegates and guests will on Monday visit Rowboat

I said, I didn’t play a match yet so I don’t know for sure how it’s going to be.”

The early finish to 2018 was a disappointing end to a spectacular season, which saw the 27-year-old secure the yearend number one ranking for the second year running.

She got off to a stellar start, reaching the Australian Open final and went on to win the Shenzhen Open, the Rogers Cup and her debut Grand Slam crown at Roland Garros.

But it was also a year in which she split with Australian coach Darren Cahill, who is taking a break to spend time with his family.

She is yet to replace him and doesn’t plan to do so for at least the next few months. “(Cahill) was a very big part of my career and I want to thank him for that. Together we won the Grand Slam that we always

crossing to Goree Island.

On Monday, CAF Women Football presentation and the introduction of three nominees 2018 Best Women Player will take the center stage at Radisson Diamniadio hotel before CAF President, Ahmad Ahmad, address the press in the Press Conference.

On Tuesday, the CAF awards event commence with Best Men Players three nominees press conference by 16:30 GMT while the award ceremony holds 19:00 GMT at Radisson Diamniadio hotel.

Super Eagles’ captain, John Mikel Obi, has been linked with a move to Turkish giants, Fenerbache, a few days after he cancelled his contract with Chinese club, Tianjin Teda.

Mikel, 31, agreed to the termination of his contract with Tianjin Teda on Thursday ending his two-year stay with the club.

The former Chelsea midfielder refused to travel with the team for their pre-season training in Spain and announced his departure later.

He signed a three-year contract with Tianjin Teda in January 2017,

joining from English Premier League side, Chelsea after he was frozen out by then Blues manager, Antonio Conte. Mikel made 31 appearances for the Chinese side, registering three goals and three assists. According to a report in French online news outlet, L’equipe, Mikel is now attracting the interest of Fenerbahçe who are looking to bolster their midfield options during this window.

On the international scene, Mikel has not featured for Nigeria since their last group game against Argentina at the 2018 FIFA World

Cup in Russia. He has been capped 85 times by the West Africans and registered six goals.

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