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permission to inspect and obtain Certified True Copy (CTC) of election materials used in the conduct of the February 23 presidential election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

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President Muhammadu Buhari (middle) with members of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), during their courtesy visit to the President at the Presidential Villa Abuja...on Wednesday.

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Wednesday ordered INEC to make available all documents and electoral materials used for the election for the purpose of the inspection.

Delivering a unanimous ruling on the ex=parte motion filed by the PDP Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar and the party, Justice Abdul Aboki, refused the applicants prayers for scanning, forensic analysis of the election materials.

The tribunal also refused to direct INEC to make available all Polling documents for forensic analysis as requested by the applicants. The tribunal in addition refused to order the electoral body to permit forensic experts of the applicants to examine Form EC48 and other Forms used in the election.

The tribunal noted that the applicants’ lawyer had rightly based his argument on a previous decision of an Election Petition Tribunal, but observed that the decision relied upon which permit an applicant to inspect, to scan for forensic analysis has been overruled by the Court of Appeal because it conferred unfair advantage on the applicant.

Justice Aboki said in the ruling: “After a careful pursuance of the documents and submissions, I make an order granting the leave to bring this application.

“I hereby order that INEC should allow the applicants access to the election materials used in the conduct of February 23, 2019 presidential election.

“Reliefs 3, 4, 5 and 6 are refused,” he ruled.

Earlier on Wednesday, the three member

tribunal headed by Justice Abdul Aboki and two others, Justice Akomoye Agim and Justice Peter Ige, had carefully listened to Chief Chris Uche (SAN), who moved the motion but stepped down ruling for hours later.

The panel ordered the applicants’ lawyer to furnish the tribunal with relevant authorities supporting his argument in the case.

The motion ex-parte dated March 4 and filed March 5 had INEC, President Muhamadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) as respondents.

Atiku and the PDP in the motion had prayed for an order compelling INEC to allow them Inspect the voters register and other vital documents, as well as scan materials including ballot papers used in the conduct of the election.

IGP re-deploys 7 DIGs, 10 AIGs, others for March 9 elections Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja

The acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, has deployed seven deputy inspectors general of police, 10 assistant inspectors general of police and 277 commissioners of police for the governorship and state assembly elections holding on Saturday, March 9, 2019.

The DIGs will cover the six geo-political zones, the AIGs will cover the zonal commands while the police commissioners will complement the efforts of the state commissioners of police in the 36 states and the FCT. The DIG in-charge of Operations, Abdulmajid Ali, is the coordinator of the deployment while other DIGs will be incharge of various zones.

They are DIG Usman Tilli Abubakar (North East); DIG Frederick Taiwo Lakanu (SouthSouth); DIG Anthony Ogbizi Michael (SouthEast); DIG Yakubu Jubrin (South-West); DIG Aminchi Baraya (NorthWest) and DIG Godwin

C. Nwobodo (NorthCentral).

With the latest deployment, each command now has additional three police commissioners deployed to the three senatorial districts in their respective states of assignment, which will form part of security management base for the command commissioners of police.

Details of the deployment were contained in a statement released in Abuja on Wednesday by the Force Spokesman, ACP Frank Mba. The police also said based on security assessment carried out earlier, some local government areas in Plateau, Benue, Imo and Taraba states have one commissioner of police each deployed to coordinate security in the local governments.

The affected council areas in Benue are Guma, Logo, Agatu, Gwer East, Gwer West, Katsina Ala, Okpokwu and Ukum.

The affected council areas in Imo State are Orlu and Okigwe while the local governments in Plateau State are Langtang

South, Jos South, Bassa, Langtang North, Riyom and Barkin Ladi.

The affected councils in Taraba State are Wukari, Ibi, Lao, Karim Lamido, Bali, Kurmi, Jalingo, Dunga and Sardauna.

Mba also noted that Anambra, Bayelsa, Edo and Sokoto commands have new commissioners posted specifically for the purpose of election.

The commissioners are Anambra CP Rabiu Ladodo; Bayelsa CP Olushola David; Edo CP Dan-Mallam Mohammed and Sokoto CP Aminu Koji Kwabe.

According to the statement, each of those deployed are expected to work with the command CPs and ensure no stone is left unturned towards emplacing adequate security including the supervision of security personnel deployed to each of the senatorial districts under their watch.

The IGP also assured that the police will remain civil, firm, optimally professional and apolitical in the discharge of their duties in the 9th March, 2019 elections.

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Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode (middle), with his Deputy, Dr. (Mrs) Idiat Oluranti Adebule (2nd left); Head of Service, Mr. Hakeem Muri-Okunola (left); Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Mr. Tunji Bello (2nd right); Lagos State Attorney General/Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem (right) and other members of the State Executive Council during a press briefing ahead of the Governorship and House of Assembly Elections at Lagos House, Alausa, Ikeja...on Wednesday.

Lagos Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship Candidate Olujimi Agbaje (R) acknowledging cheers from supporters during a road show, at Alimosho Local Government Area ahead of the forthcoming Governorship and Houses of Assembly Elections in Lagos ...on Wednesday.

L-R: President, Balogun Business Association, Chief Tony Obi; APC Candidate for Lagos State House of Assembly, Amuwo Odofin Constituency 1, Hon. Mojisola Alli-Macaulay; Senator elect, Anambra South senatorial district, Dr. Ifeanyi Ubah; APC Governorship candidate, Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwoolu and his running mate, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, during a campaign rally at Auto Spare Parts and Machinery Dealers Association (ASPAMDA) market, Intl’ Trade fair complex, Lagos...on Wednesday

INEC officials distributing Sensitive and non-sensitive material to Local Government Area at the Central Bank of Nigeria, Zonal office in Ibadan ...on Wednesday.

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Governorship, assembly polls: Go out and vote, Buhari charges Nigerians Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

President Muhammadu Buhari has called on Nigerians all over the country to go out and exercise their franchise by voting candidates of their choice in the March 9 governorship and state houses of assembly elections.

Buhari, who made the appeal on Wednesday in his State of the Nation Address in Abuja, said that the onus is once again on qualified people to turn out in large numbers to exercise their civic rights.

He stressed that the forthcoming elections are as important for good governance as that of the presidency and the National Assembly.

He said: “With the presidential poll behind us, let us not become complacent, and fail to vote in the gubernatorial poll.

“Indeed, governance at the state level is closer to us, and should touch our lives more directly. That is why it is vital for us to participate in the choice of who governs us at the state levels.

“As a member of the All Progressives Congress, I recommend those standing on the platform of the party to you, as we are guided by progressive ideals, and we will not disappoint you.

“Equally, I urge you to comport yourself properly, as you turn out for the election.

“Avoid all deviant behaviours like ballot stuffing,

ballot snatching, and any other action that does not conform with best electoral practices.”

The president assured Nigerians and the international community that the security agencies will be on hand to protect voters, and ensure that the process is not undermined in anyway.

“Let’s make the gubernatorial polls much better than the presidential, which Local and International observers have adjudged to be free and fair,” President Buhari added.

President Buhari, again, appealed to young people in the country not to allow themselves to be used to cause violence or to break the law or otherwise disturb the peace.

“I have pledged a decent

FG to raise N1trn from treasury bills in Q2

As CBN’s NIRSA MFB offers loans at 5% to SMEs

Motolani Oseni, Lagos The Federal Government through the Central Bank plans to raise total sum of N1.006 trillion from the debt market in the second quarter of 2019.

This is just as the nation’s apex bank disclosed that it will issue loans at five per cent and with no collateral to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) through the NIRSAL Micro Finance Bank (MFB).

The Federal Government plans to raise money from the debt market was contained in the CBN data on the Nigerian treasury bills issue programme for second quarter 2019 on its official website.

According to the data, the CBN will raise N503.16 billion from rollover programmes with a maturity period ranging from one to three years.

As part of its roles to raise funds for the Federal Government, the CBN sells treasury bills twice a month.

The bank issues treasury bills regularly as a control measure to help banks mop up excess liquidity and control the money supply.

Meanwhile, the CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, at the tour of the Nigeria IncentiveBased Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) MFB in Abuja, on Wednesday, said the loans at five per cent and with no collateral to SMEs would be issued under the AgriBusiness Small and Medium Enterprises Investment Scheme (AGSMEIS), an initiative of the Banker’s Committee.

Emefiele said the loan would run for tenure of seven years with two years moratorium.

He said that the fund, made up of five per cent Profit After Tax (PAT) from Deposit Money Banks (DMBs), was being set aside to support the SMEs in agriculture and other types of small businesses.

According to him, the initial capital base of the bank is five billion naira.

According to Emefiele, accessing credit facility is a major hindrance to SMEs development because of their inability to provide collateral.

He, however, said that SMEs operators would access the loans without necessarily providing any collateral.

“The asset that we are financing for them will act as the collateral.

“That collateral will be registered in our national collateral registry as something that is eligible to serve as collateral or security for a loan that has been taken.

“We truly need to be able to set up MFBs that will reach out to the unbanked and help deepen financial inclusion.

“That way we will make it easy for people to access credit, particularly the small and unbanked people because we have always said that these are the very weak along the chain.

“We have already set a target that by 2020, the rate of financial inclusion must increase to 80 per cent from about 48 per cent a year and half ago.’’

According to him, the MFB is a collaboration of the Banker’s Committee, NIRSAL and the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) and will be set up in all the 774

Local Government Areas (LGAs) to bridge the financial inclusion gap.

“We are just inspecting one out of the first seven and we are scaling up to the next 50 in the next phase.

“We believe that before the end of this year, we would have moved substantially in making sure that they are set up and be able to provide finance to small businesses.’’

On the NIRSAL MFB crowding out other MFBs, the governor said that was not the intention.

He said rather, the NIRSAL MFB would complement the services of the existing MFBs and see to it that whatever services were being provided by them would be seen to be fair to their customers.

“I also know about the rural communities where the microfinance banks charge very prohibitive interest rate but here we are talking about making fund available to these people.

“This will help to create some form of competitive landscape so that those kinds of practices will no longer arise.’’

Dr. Chiamaka Odinga, a veterinary doctor, a beneficiary of the loan, said she was very happy about the establishment of the bank as it had erased the issue of collateral for loans.

“One of the hindrances we experience in the poultry industry is accessing credit facilities and CBN has made it possible for us to do so without collateral.’’

The NIRSAL MFB was incorporated as a Private Limited Company in 2018 with licence from the CBN.

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and credible electoral system for our country. I stand by that promise.

“Let us together do the right thing on Saturday, so that the best hands can emerge at the states, and take us faster to the Next Level.

“Let me once again extend my condolences to the families of those who lost their lives or sustained injuries as a result of accidents or criminal violence during the elections,” the president stated.

Meanwhile, following the renewal of his tenure, President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged to work harder to consolidate on providing security, improving the economy, creating jobs, fighting corruption as well as upgrading infrastructure across the country to enhance rapid transformation of the economy.

Speaking at the State House, Abuja on Wednesday when he received the leadership of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), on a courtesy visit, President Buhari noted that the use of technology contributed a lot to his emergence as President, having made three unsuccessful attempts.

“This is my last lap. I will try and work even harder than I have done. I assure you that I will not let you down. I pray that my best will be good enough.”

The President, who thanked members of the ACF for their consistent and dogged support, said he remained ELUE ADAURE

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appreciative of their goodwill.

Buhari said: “I assure you that I will not let you down, I will do my best and I will pray to God that my best will be good enough.

“I was defeated three times and I went to Supreme Court three times and failed three times. But God and technology helped me. With the Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) the votes of ordinary Nigerians really counted.

“You know it, before now, they used to sit down and allocate whatever votes they wanted to the various to constituencies and say whoever disagrees with the results should go to court. When people are struggling to get what to eat, where will they have the money to hire senior lawyers to defend them in court? God has his own way of solving problems and we thank him that the technology is finally here.”

Speaking on behalf of the ACF, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Mallam Adamu Fika, said the organisation had visited to congratulate President Buhari on his reelection.

Recalling some strategic projects important to the North and the country as a whole abandoned up until 2015 such as the Baro Dry Port and Mambilla Hydro Power station, Mallam Fika said: “It is pleasing to note that since then, the Baro Dry Port has been commissioned, while some other projects have been reactivated and are now being implemented.

“We pray that those organs of government charged with the responsibility for the implementation will double their efforts to ensure that these projects are executed fully to their logical conclusion within reasonable time,” he added.

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Politicians plotting to assassinate, bomb, disrupt Saturday polls – Buratai Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja

The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, on Wednesday, said the Army had uncovered plans by some politicians to set off bombs and disrupt the coming Saturday’s governorship elections in the country.

Buratai also said that the plots by the politicians include using herdsmen and thugs to disrupt the elections.

Buratai, who made the statement during a meeting with Principal Staff Officers (PSOs), General Officers Commanding (GOC), Operational Commanders and

directors of the military at the Army Headquarters, Abuja, also said that the plots include infiltrating domestic staff of political opponents, employ mercenaries to carry out acts of assassinations, use the social media for smear campaigns.

According to him, there are indications to take advantage of and to use the farmers/ herders crisis, armed political thugs and ethnic militias to perpetrate acts of violence including bombings.

“Some of them also intend to infiltrate domestic staff of political opponents, employ mercenaries to carry out acts of assassinations, use the social media for

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smear campaigns, hate speeches and spread fake news in a bid to disrupt the peaceful conduct of the elections.

“We must not allow

them to succeed. We shall not allow those who are determined to undermine our electoral process to succeed,” he added.

Election violence: Wike sets up committee to identify victims Rivers Govt. to assist victims’ families

Amaka Agbu, Port Harcourt

The Rivers State government has set up a committee to identify those killed during the February 23 Presidential and National Assembly elections in Abonnema, Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of the state.

The committee also has the responsibility of identifying the soldiers who died during the Presidential and National Assembly elections and March 2 incidents.

The high-powered committee is headed by the state Deputy Governor, Dr. Ipalibo Harry Banigo.

Speaking during a memorial service in honour of Abonnema people and soldiers who died on February 23 and March 2, 2019 at St Paul’s Nyemoni Church on Wednesday, Governor Wike said that the committee also has the responsibility of identifying the bereaved families.

He said that “a committee headed by the deputy governor will identify those who died and their families.

Government will give them necessary assistance.

“The committee will also identify property damaged

during the election crisis, so that the Rivers State government will offer the required assistance for their repair,” he added.

The governor said that the Rivers State deputy governor will lead a high-profile delegation to the Nigerian Army to commiserate with them on the death of their personnel during the Presidential and National Assembly elections and on March 2, 2019 at Abonnema.

He commiserated with the bereaved families in Abonnema and the families of the soldiers who died during the elections. The governor prayed God to comfort them.

The governor condemned politicians who promote political violence, saying that they should be compelled to present their children to execute political violence.

“I appeal to politicians to understand that power comes from God. Those who foment trouble should be asked to bring their grown up children to execute political violence.

“God has done it for Abonnema and Rivers State.

We will have peace. I urge all leaders to work with the traditional council to bring peace. Take all necessary

measures for peace to reign. The Rivers State government will support you,” he assured.

Governor Wike urged Rivers people not to be provoked despite the antics of those determined to cause crisis during the governorship and state assembly elections.

The governor appealed to security agencies not to allow politicians to use them to cause violence or disrupt voting on Saturday.

He berated the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, for allegedly “describing the peaceful town of Abonnema as the hideout of militants.”

The Amayanabo of Abonnema, King Disrael Bob-Manuel, said that the Akuku-Tor Local Government Traditional Council got intelligence that there might be violence during Presidential and National Assembly elections and took measures to forestall it.

He said one of the major political parties refused to sign the peace accord.

He said that ahead of the governorship and state assembly elections, the traditional council would hold another peace meeting on today (Thursday) where a peace accord would be

signed, warning that any political party that failed to sign would be held responsible should violence break out.

The Amayanabo of Abonnema said the Abonnema people had learnt the bitter lesson and that they would ensure that the ugly incident did not happen again.

In his sermon, Pastor Christopher Briggs urged the people of Abonnema to come to God in repentance so that he would cleanse their land for the good of the area.

He said that Abonnema couldn’t have suffered the type of crisis if the people had learnt from history.

Prayers were said to seek God’s protection for Akuku-Toru Local Government Area and Rivers State during the governorship and state assembly elections.

Prayers were also said for the repose of the souls of all those who died on February 23 and March 2 violence.

It would be recalled that violence broke out in Abonnema during the Presidential and National Assembly leading to several deaths and the disruption of the elections.

UK threatens visa ban on politicians inciting violence on social media The British High Commission says those who incite electoral violence on social media could be denied access into the United Kingdom (UK).

In its call for credible, peaceful elections on 9 March, the high commission asked “Nigerians to turn out and vote on Saturday 9 March in elections for State Governorships and State Houses of Assembly”.

“These elections are an important opportunity for citizens to exercise their democratic rights and choose their leaders. We hope that the causes of logistical issues on the 23 February election have been identified and addressed.

“We commend INEC staff and the National Youth Service Corps, who play a critical role in the delivery of elections, often in difficult circumstances. We hope that they will be given every support and protection necessary to ensure the smooth and peaceful delivery of elections free from fear of intimidation or interference in the electoral process.”

The UK also condemned electoral violence, stating its

readiness to ban those who incite violence on and off social media.

“We were concerned by reports of high levels of violence in some states across Nigeria during the recent Presidential elections, including reports of violent clashes involving the military in Rivers State.

“We condemn all acts of violence and call for those responsible to be brought to justice. We call on all actors, including political parties and security personnel, to work together to provide a peaceful environment for Nigerians to vote on 9 March.

“We remind all actors that anyone involved in violence or inciting violence, including on social media, could face restrictions on their ability to travel to the UK. “The UK will again field observer teams across Nigeria on 9 March as part of our efforts to support Nigerian democracy.”

Catriona Laing, British high commissioner to Nigeria, had said politicians who incite or execute violence during the 2019 elections in Nigeria would have their visas banned and foreign assets forfeited.

Guber poll: 35 political parties adopt APC candidate in Kwara No fewer than 35 political parties out of 55 for Saturday’s governorship and state assembly elections in Kwara State have adopted candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq.

The spokesperson for the parties, under the aegis of Kwara LikeMinds Political Parties (KLPP), Oladele Sunday, disclosed this at a news conference in Ilorin, the state capital on Wednesday.

He said KLPP which comprises of over 35 parties in the state showed up when it matters.

“We are at a critical stage in our country, but most especially our dear state is already in the political labour room and KLPP has joined hands with APC and other stakeholders in taking a successful delivery of a liberated Kwara.

“Today is not meant for an unending discussion but to let the world know that when Kwara people are dying slowly in the hands of political tyrants, KLPP showed up.

“When Kwara people are groaning and gnashing their

teeth under the bad governance in the state, posterity will be fair to us that KLPP showed up,” Sunday said.

He explained that KLPP had instructed their members and appealed to teeming voters in Kwara to come out en-mass on Saturday to vote for APC candidate, Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq and all APC Kwara House of Assembly candidates.

The Chairman of APC in the state, Bashir Bolarinwa, while speaking at the event, said though the party was sure of victory in Saturday’s elections, the adoption of APC would further guarantee its success.

He noted that the result of the presidential and national assembly elections showed that Kwara has performed credibly well.

The chairmen of many of the political parties that attended the news conference include; PPN, ADC, KOWA party, NCP, MAA, NDLP, BNPP, NNPP, IDP, HDP, FJP, NAC, CAP and DPC. Others are; APDA, YDP, PPC, YPP, PRP, NPC, PPP, C4C, PT, RPN, AAC, GDPN, AGA, RPPN, ADP, NPM, ANP, UDP, AAN, DA, ASD and APN.

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APC crisis: Enugu passes confidence Short News Armed security men will be closer to polling units - CP vote on Oshiomhole, Nwoye Moses Oyediran, Enugu The Enugu state chapter of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) has passed a vote of confidence on the National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole and state Chairman, Dr. Ben Nwoye, describing the duo as visionary and pragmatic leaders who have the interest of the party at heart.

The party stated that those fighting the leadership of the party both at the national and state levels are those who think they are above the APC constitution and do not believe in party supremacy, adding that as a political platform for progressive minds, indiscipline can never be tolerated in the party.

The confidence vote is coming barely few days after the Imo state chapter of the party had called for the immediate resignation of Oshiomole, over the recent suspension of the state Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, his Ogun state counterpart, Ibunkule Amosun, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Usani Uguru, and

Director General of the Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita Okechukwu, over alleged anti - party activities.

Our correspondent reports that the Enugu APC took the decision via a motion which was unanimously supported by members during its expanded executive committee meeting held at the state party secretariat which was attended by local government and ward chairmen, chieftains, among other key stakeholders.

It however, condemned in strong terms a situation where a ward chairman can resort to disparaging an action taking by a higher body of the party such as the national working committee or using derogatory words on the national chairman.

Responding on behalf of himself and Oshiomhole, Dr. Nwoye, who said he was humbled by the gesture, assured that the party would continue to uphold its constitution at all times, as well as make members welfare its watchword.

According to him, “this vote of confidence is very significant in the sense

that this is the first time local government organs of the party, state leadership, the key stakeholders of the party from the ward up,sat and unanimously passed a vote of confidence on the person of Comrade Adams Oshiomole and my humble self.

“I am humbled by this singular gesture at this time bearing in mind that the mandates of National Assembly contestants were stolen last week. They know the effort of what we put together in Enugu state.

“So, for me I can’t put a price tag on it for the work the state executives did. this confidence vote is for the state executives, same thing applies for Comrade Oshiomole.

“It is for the national executive committee, which he heads, it is historic, the first of its kind. The national chairman delivered the president for a second term in office despite all prophecies of doom and the macabre dance of Ohaneze Ndigbo, so, we really great full to our party men and women for this honour,” Nwoye stated.

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The Commissioner of Police in Lagos state says armed security men will be closer to polling units during the governorship and state House of Assembly elections on March 9.

CP Zubairu Muazu, who stated this while briefing journalists on Wednesday said the decision was reached to ensure the violence that characterised the Presidential and National Assembly elections do not repeat itself.

Speaking at the command headquarters, the police boss called on Lagosians not to entertain any fears when they see armed security personnel close to polling units, saying their presence is in the best interest of the electorate.

The state police boss assured the electorates of adequate protection, adding that the armed personnel will swiftly attend to any security breach that may come up during the election.

Muazu said that “areas where we had incidences of violence in the Presidential and National Assembly elections, we are going to have adequate protections in those flash points. We are going to have more patrols in that area and we are going to have armed security personnel closer to the polling units this time.

Abuja drivers cry out over frequent robbery attacks Mary Amodu, Abuja Drivers in the Federal Capital Territory have raised concerns over the alarming rate of robberies being perpetrated by evil-minded people who disguise as commercial drivers.

President and Chief Executive Officer of Painted Commercial Taxi Abuja Drivers’ Association (PAT), Shehu Shugaba Yar’adua described the style popularly called “one chance” as worrisome.

Yar’adua, in a chat with Daily Times on Wednesday wondered how the menace found its way into the capital city of the country considering the level of security men manning the city.

He however, appealed to the government to adopt a holistic measure to address the menace which has become a serious cause of concern for Abuja residents.

“We are appealing to the government to make the policy holistic in the sense that everybody paints their cars and join the system because people don’t differentiate between taxi drivers and unregistered drivers, thus when an offence is committed, the public generalise it that it is the painted taxi drivers that are the masterminds,” he said.

According to him, the leadership of his association would complement government’s efforts of in bringing perpetrators to book, saying non-painted taxis would not be allowed for commercial purposes within Abuja.

Ash Wednesday: Cleric urges Christians to be good ambassadors of Christ

L-R: Project Coordinator, Nun Danket Chorale,Orchestral & Band, Oluwafemi Lambo; Retired Primate of the African Church,His Eminence,Dr Abraham Onanuga; Director of Music,Mr Sunday Adeyinka Akapo and Mrs Mercy Akapo during the Nun Danket Chorale,Orchestral & Band 5th Year Anniversary Press Conference/Official Unveiling of the Commemorative logo/Activities held at the African Church Bethlehem Cathedral Ebute Metta Lagos.

EU to launch €30m sustainable energy investment fund in Nigeria The European Union (EU) says it will launch a 30 million Euro sustainable energy investment fund in Nigeria.

A former National Chairman, Nigerian Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (NIEEE) and coChairman of the forum, Mr. Adekunle Makinde, made this known on Thursday in Lagos.

Malinda said in a statement that the launch was part of the activities to mark the upcoming Nigeria Energy Forum (NEF) 2019.

He said that Ms. Carla Montesi, Director of West and Central Africa, European Commission Department for International Cooperation and Development would launch the EUfunded Electrification Financing Initiative’s (ElectriFI) Nigeria Funding Window.

Makinde also said that Montesi

was expected to make a keynote presentation at the conference.

“The forum will provide up to 30 million Euro investments for off-grid and captive power projects in Nigeria.

NEF 2019 will also focus on achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 7 and how to facilitate investments in sustainable electrification, grid modernization and digital energy technologies.

“The forum, which will hold from April 9 to April 10 at the Admiralty Centre, Naval Dockyards, Victoria Island, Lagos, will have as keynote speakers, Prof. James Momoh, Chairman, Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC).

“Others are Dr. Weibe Boer, chief executive officer of All On and John Funso-Adebayo, NIEEE national chairman,” he said.

The forum Chairman, Dr. Oluwole

Adeuyi, said that NEF 2019 would address key themes pertinent to mobilising local and foreign investments for sustainable energy development in Nigeria.

According to Adeuyi, the forum will feature over three top-class handson capacity building workshops on Making Bankable Energy Projects by the Sterling Bank.

“Others are Electrification Finance Initiative (ElectriFI) Nigeria Window Launch, an EU-funded project; and Ghana-Nigeria Climate Innovation Exchange, by GhCIC, Ghana.

“Over 250 participants are expected to attend seven different technical, investment and training sessions, acquiring new skills through practical exposure to modern energy technologies, engage with expert speakers, exhibitors and training providers,” he said.

Assistant Parish Priest, St. Paul Catholic Parish Awkunanaw, Enugu, Rev. Fr. Alexander Amalu has called on Christians to always be good ambassadors of Jesus Christ.

Amalu, who made the call on Wednesday in Enugu, during a mass to mark the Ash Wednesday, urged Christians not to relent in living the life of Christ after the Lenten season.

“As Christians, you should be discreet when carrying out your Lenten services of fasting, prayers and alms giving.

“You are not supposed to announce to the world when praying, fasting or giving alms.

You do not need to shout or disturb the neighbourhood while praying,’’ he said.

The priest quoted Matthew, Chapter 6, verse 5 from the Bible to buttress his claim on praying secretly to God without others knowing the content of the prayer.

The priest said that Christians were not supposed to publicise to the world when giving alms and when fasting by looking gloomy.

“Many people usually look very sad and dull when fasting and that is not good at all, you don’t have to let the whole world know you are fasting.

“When giving alms to the needy, as part of our duty in this season, you should not announce what you have done because our heavenly Father who sees in secret will reward you in the open.

Alleged N200m misappropriation: EFCC witness denies signing letter of payment for Okupe’s programme

An EFCC witness in the ongoing trial of Doyin Okupe, Sola Atere, on Wednesday told the Federal High Court Abuja that he did not sign any budget proposal for the programme “Insight” on the Nigeria Television Authority, (NTA).

Atere, a former executive director of news, said this under cross examination by Joe Gadzama (SAN) in the over N200 million suit filed against Okupe, a former Senior Special Assistant to former President Goodluck Jonathan by the EFCC. Atere said: “I had no financial relationship with the programme and I never collected money from the office of the first defendant for the programme. The producer will be in a better position to speak on this,” he said.

He also told the court that he was not aware if Okupe paid money for the programme.

When confronted with the document which had details of payment for the programme with his signature on it, the witness said that he did not remember signing such a document.

According to him, although the signatures looked similar, there was a slight variation.

The trial judge, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, asked the witness to sign his signature on a piece of paper several times for the court’s record.

The witness further told the court that the programme was not a political programme, but one designed to promote the policies of government.

Speaking to newsmen, Okupe’s counsel Gadzama said that although Atere denied signing the document, the truth would eventually be revealed.

Okupe is facing a 59-count charge for allegedly receiving over N200 million from the office of the former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki without offering any services.

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Daily Times Nigeria Thursday, March 7, 2019

Resetting our politics

Mathias Baba Tsado

While it is true that an inclusive political institution is one way to show that society is developing democratically, it is important to understand the driving forces behind the interest of many in the political space. Many centuries ago, aristocrats and the nobles held firmly to political power and enriched themselves at the expense of the masses. They stifled the process of development and frustrated the general public.

Through several stages of human development, we see how the struggle for freedom to determine how to live and be governed has changed. From absolutism to the benevolent aristocracy, to group dictatorship, and currently the defective democracy we see being practised all across Africa, some scholars have even concluded that Africa might not be able to practice a comprehensive all-inclusive democracy. Some argue that due to our cultural peculiarities, the African concept of power makes it quite easy to conclude on the impossibilities surrounding democratic advancement. I argue though that that is a conclusion drawn too quickly.

Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson define politics as “The process by which a society chooses the rules that will govern it.” This makes me wonder if truly this definition is the same across the globe. For example, politics, in the Nigerian context, is perceived as a repugnant and dirty game

played by dirty individuals. But then, if we were to stick to their definition as the process by which societies choose their leaders, we can agree that there are clear misconceptions on our part.

I believe that the concept of sound leadership was best exemplified by the great Nelson Mandela, former South African president. For students of history, it is difficult not to fall in love with Mandela’s personality and astute wisdom in the use of power. From a young age, he was driven by the idea that every human being, irrespective of colour, tribe, creed, and race deserves to be respected. Because of his belief in human dignity, he walked through different dark forests of life, including living underground and fighting in a gorilla army to gain political freedom.

With such an image of a great leader, it is difficult not to wonder why the players in our political arena never think in this direction. Without digging deep, it is obvious that many who have entered into this political journey are doing so for selfish and myopic reasons. Many see politics as an opportunity to grab all they can, can all the can, and sit on the can.

The concept of serving people cannot be found in their political repository. Rather, self-preservation, self-aggrandisement and impunity rule their thoughts and actions.

Can we begin to see our resources as a National Tree that needs to be nurtured

until it blossoms and provides shelter to the future generations and seeds to grow an orchard rather than a cake to be consumed?

Harry S. Truman opined that “Only crooks get rich in politics.” How does that compare with the picture of reality in Nigeria? Here, it seems the fastest way to wealth and ‘magical’ riches through politics. When I drive through districts like Maitama, Asokoro, and other highbrow areas of the Federal Capital, I am left befuddled by the magnificent structures and neatly planned layouts I see. The gardens there are well cared for, the roofs are super coated, and you cannot miss the intentional display of opulence. The high and mighty in Nigeria blaze a trail of rockstar living and leave the majority of other Nigerians wishing they could be lucky enough to have a taste of such lifestyles, by hook or by crook.

We must quickly reset this mindset. It is important that we drill somethings into the heads of those intending to occupy political office in Nigeria. Politics is an opportunity to serve. It is not a platform for amassing ill-gotten wealth. It is instead a platform that demands you put on your right thinking cap and proffer solutions to society’s many challenges. You do not take care of yourself and your family members there. You do not live with the comfort of a king; the people come first, at all times. This is the true essence of politics.

I was once at a meeting with a representative of the Republican Institute.

He told us a story of a dear woman who boldly called the Office of the Governor of Alabama and requested that the Governor’s office fixes her faulty washing machine.

Of course, her request sounded illogical, but she proved one thing — the governor was there to serve her. Do you think she could try this with a local government chairperson in Nigeria?

It is not enough for us to demand that our elected officials do not eat the ‘National Cake’. We must go beyond this and immediately stop seeing our commonwealth as a ‘cake’ in the first place.

Can we begin to see our resources as a National Tree that needs to be nurtured until it blossoms and provides shelter to the future generations and seeds to grow an orchard rather than a cake to be consumed?

This is the new mindset our leaders should begin to develop. It is the mindset that took Singapore from a Third World to a First World country. It is a mindset that sees the future from today and begins to work towards it. It is a mindset that demands progressive vision from our leadership, a vision that is secure enough to inspire others, regardless of their political affiliation, religion, ethnicity, or geopolitical zone to work together as a team towards a country we all can be proud of.

Why Sanwo-Olu will win Lagos

Tope Ajayi

The outcome of the February 23, 2019 Presidential and National Assembly elections in Lagos has led some people to making various conjectures, building numerous scenarios suggesting the possibility of APC losing the gubernatorial election on March 9, while the conspiracy theorists wing of the political commentariat is swirling.

Exemplifying this is the view expressed by a certain Ibitoye Olukosi on Qwenu, an online political blog, giving reasons why APC may lose Lagos State to the opposition, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). His reason for saying the APC may lose are what he considered: the stranglehold of same political structure on Lagos since 1999, readiness of Lagosians to re-enact in Lagos, the O To Ge movement that is raging in Kwara like harmattan fire, and the revolt of Governor Akinwumi Ambode’s supporters against the party for denying him a second term ticket.

Fair enough. Because an outline of these reasons shows followership of recent political developments in Lagos State, just that the ensuing deductions are blemished by inability to intelligently situate the developments in the appropriate sociological contexts. Therefore, points that should have been deployed to illustrate other valid points are rendered feeble, stuffed in the wrong box, and awaiting disposal. Notwithstanding the drawbacks in the canvassed argument, there in an undeniable twinkle of brilliance in the reason-identification process. And that’s why some of the reasons will be fittingly deployed in my pending article titled “Transformational Leadership and the Public good agenda”.

Back to the current subject, it is very disingenuous to use the Kwara O To Ge metaphor as the basis for political punditry and in x-raying the emerging reality of next gubernatorial election in Lagos. Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, who has become the object of insidious attacks and malice by Jimi Agbaje and his crowd, does not have 40 years retrogressive and pre-bendalist hold on the political economy of Lagos like the Saraki Dynasty in Kwara State. The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, whose political empire and fortune had been blown away by the O To Ge whirlwind, has never espoused any positive ideal of governance for development.

He is an inheritor of a primitive political machine his father had nurtured for over 3 decades before installing him as the governor

in 2003. The Saraki political machine is a behemoth that had subjugated the people of Kwara for almost 5 decades. Between father and son, the Sarakis and their hangers on, have superintended the patrimony of the people for 50 years, without any benefit of their suppressive reign to the people, other than abject poverty and squalour.

The same cannot be said to be the experience of Lagosions in the last 19 years under the Asiwaju Tinubu-led progressive camp. It is worth restating that Asiwaju Tinubu met a dysfunctional state in 1999.

A Lagos that was on the throes of death.

It was a state that in disarray, and the one struggling to pay workers salary with paltry N600million monthly Internally Generated Revenue. Tinubu re-engineered the state finance, revitalized the public service to be the driver of development and embarked on massive infrastructural renewal. Tinubu’s giant strides in education, health, roads, housing, urban renewal and state capacity to generate revenue are still visible, even for the blind to see. It is pure sophistry and poor capacity to apply critical thinking for anyone to compare Saraki’s parasitic dynasty in Kwara with Asiwaju Tinubu’s visionary leadership in Lagos. We all know that Tinubu is leading the most talented and imaginative progressive politics not only in Lagos but also across the country, even in the greenness of envy and chosen blindness to his contributions to the Nigerian politics by his haters. It is understandable.

That Tinubu is an adroit and great leader of men and women manifests in the quality of people in various leadership positions across Nigeria he groomed for success. We see them in Professor Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), who is the Vice President of Nigeria, we see in many governors, Ministers, Commissioners, heads of MDAs he nurtured across ethnic divides and religious persuasions. Who has Sarakis made that they allowed to blossom like Asiwaju Tinubu does? Every Governor installed in Kwara by Sarakis- both Late Dr. Olusola Saraki and his son Bukola were never allowed to work for the people of Kwara.

Those parroting O To Ge and Freedom in Lagos cannot say the same of Tinubu. In actual fact, Tinubu is a leader with maniacal developmental ideology. He set the standard in Lagos as the governor for 8years and his successor governors- Babatunde Fashola, SAN and Akinwumi Ambode, FCA have

sustained same tradition of excellent service.

There is no honest analyst who will say Lagos of today is not far better than Lagos of 1999 in all areas of development. While there is need to change course in Kwara to allow for new initiatives and developmental ideology in a blighted state such as Kwara, what Lagos requires is a team of Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Obafemi Hamzat to continue on the path of visible progress the state is taking. Sanwo-Olu and Hamzat are committed to working for a greater Lagos.

The temperament and intellectual acuity needed to run Lagos are not in short supply for Sanwo-Olu and his running mate. Apart from their sterling credentials amassed from combined senior level positions in both the private and public sectors, which are well known, the two men were part of the foundational work that reinvented public service performance in Lagos State as Commissioners in the administrations of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Governor Fashola, who still remains a governor of example in Nigeria.

The ill-fated Jimi Agbaje’s ticket is no match to that of the two men, who are the torchbearers for APC. Seriously speaking, a man whose every 4-year ritual of seeking public office, is anchored on stoking ethnic hatred and fanning ember of disharmony between Igbos and Yorubas, is not good for a cosmopolitan city-state like Lagos. It is bad politics that must be rejected by the good people of Lagos. Setting up Igbos and against Yorubas every election cycle should not be the organizing principle of Jimi Agbaje’s quest to govern the state. It is distasteful and very unbecoming of anyone who is genuinely motivated by public service. This is a major reason Lagosians will reject the PDP candidate in the coming election.

Speaking on the reason APC will win the next governorship election in Lagos, Mr. Sanwo-Olu in an interview published in The Nation Newspaper on Friday, March 1st, 2019 made a very strong pitch. He noted Lagos must not disconnect from the central government at a time the State is greatly benefiting from being in same political party with the Federal Government.

He said: “You need the Federal Government to do a lot things. Many things we need to quickly get out of the way. We need to work with the FG in certain areas like right of ways for Rail, Waterways,

Power, abandoned properties etc. For example when our government wanted to start a rail project during Governor Fashola’s administration, the PDP- led Federal government refused us right of way on the Red Line, which would have enabled us lay rail track from the Iddo to Alagbado axis of the state for mass transit. And because they refused, we had to do the Blue Line, which is a lot more expensive. If the PDP-led Federal government had allowed us, we would have completed the rail project a long time ago and transportation challenges would have been better for commuters in the State. Also, we’ve had problems securing approvals to build Jetties. The PDP-led FG refused to give us permit to build jetties for our people.

Thankfully, the APC-led government of President Buhari has given us approval for the Red Line and we hope to work better with them in some other areas like housing.

The Federal Government is also intervening in major road projects in the state already, like Sagamu-Ikorodu road that have been abandoned for 40 years, the ApapaOshodi-Oworonsoki-Alausa toll gate road, which has been awarded to AG Dangote, the Agbara to Seme Border end of the BadagrySeme Border Expressway has also been awarded by the Federal Government. For many years too, Lagos had wanted to fix the International Airport road up to Oshodi for redevelopment and the PDP Federal Government refused to give approval. Again it is now being done by the state government though following approval by the FG. The Federal Government has also given the State House in Marina to Lagos State. Already, the State is enjoying the benefits of being in same party with the government at the centre. Imagine the Federal Government issuing certificate of occupancy and granting planning approvals on our land from Abuja, without any recourse to us? These are some of the areas of collaboration that we need to explore with the Federal government.

I believe working together; we will do a lot better for the benefit of every Lagosian, because at the end of the day, it is the people that matter.”

Without any doubt, Lagos State has made tremendous progress since 1999. What is needed is for the vision that is propelling the development in the state to be sustained for expanded opportunities and benefits to Lagosians. Sanwo-Olu and Hamzat will sure do a great job.

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Editorial Commentary Atiku’s ‘a crown or else a glorious tomb!’.

Times Guest Columnist Mohammed Adamu

Shakespeare it was who wrote “When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will”. And we saw that ‘poor villains’ did in fact make what price they would -first at the Portharcourt presidential primaries when they sold in dollars, and then at the polling centers nationwide when they were bought in both dollars and naira.

And this was the electoral consensus ad idem of sort or what lawyers call the ‘meeting of minds’ between ‘buyer’ and ‘seller’. That the seller has agreed to sell for a price and the buyer too has agreed to buy for that price. Only in Atiku’s case there was no buyer’s ‘caveat emptor’, no subscriber’s ‘caveat subscriptor’ or the vendor’s ‘caveat venditor’. The electoral deal was ‘signed’, ‘sealed’ and there was no guarantee that it would be delivered.

The open electoral market, at last, had closed and Atiku’s merchandize remains still only ‘signed, sealed but un-delivered’. And now there’s a search for deliverers –who will deliver Atiku’s undelivered mandate? If the Waziri had thought that ‘mass street action’ was part of the original contract, and that ‘poor villains’ still owe a contractual duty to their ‘rich’ counterparts, to recover the ‘stolen’ mandate, then last Monday’s 40-man protest led by Secondus to INEC was proof that the brook is after all deeper than it seems. The message by ‘poor villains’ to their rich counterparts was loud and clear: that ‘mass street action’ to recover Atiku’s ‘stolen mandate’ was not part of the original contract; and that there may be need therefore for a new ‘meeting of minds’, a fresh ‘consensus ad idem’ cast in dollars to guarantee ‘mass street action’ for the reclamation of Atiku’s ‘stolen mandate’.

And so now we are getting to know that it should cost more to retrieve a ‘stolen’ mandate than to purchase or sell a new one. To purchase or sell a new mandate requires only ‘vote-buying’ and ‘ballot box snatching’. But to recover a ‘stolen mandate’ requires ‘blood, sweat and tears’; it will require ‘weeping and wailing and mourning and gnashing of teeth’! Even I support Shakespeare’s proposition, that “When rich villains have need of poor ones”, let “poor ones may make what price they will”. Atiku may have effortlessly paid to buy some ‘votes’ and maybe even to snatch a few ‘ballot boxes’; but does he still have enough greenbacks to pay for the martyrdom of ‘poor villains’ on the streets dying to reclaim his mandate?

How much does it cost to brace the soldier’s gun and to fence his bayonet? I’d say as much as the value of a dead horse in the reckoning of a vulture?

CROWN OR TOMB Already Atiku’s fellow ‘rich villains’ have started deserting. They are now preferring to be cankers in the hedge than soon-to-be wilted roses in his now dwindling political grace. They had hoped that a covetous, power-mongering Waziri would be greyhound enough to accomplish their hunting expedition. But here he was, back from the hunt, agape, mangled and without the prized game. Here is the Waziri calling for mutiny to undo a deed that’s already been done. And whether or not Atiku meant the mutiny of his fellow ‘rich villains’ or of the ‘poor’ or both, last Monday’s Secondus’ measly forty-man ‘March ON INEC’ had said it all, that Atiku has neither the solidarity of the high-ranking villains nor even that of the villainous, dollar-seeking rank-andfile.

The Waziri should’ve hearkened to the counsel of his erstwhile protégé, Kaduna’s El-Rufai, who had warned that taking a Buhari-bull by the horns electorally would be always as risky as grabbing a tiger by its languid tail. But “The more pity” again Shakespeare said “that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly”. Driven by the delirium of un-earned wealth, Atiku was destined to act the proverbial dog, heedless of the call of its wary master. He had thrown all caution to the wind and had strayed too far into harm’s way. Secondus et al have made un-patchable gaping holes in Atiku’s

pockets; he is now a walking ‘mint’ printing and dripping. They have made a gaping wound on his jugular; Atiku now limps about dripping life blood.

Either way, sooner or later something has to give: the minter or the mint. His money or his life! Because Atiku’s affliction neither orthodox physicians nor even his favorites unorthodox marabous can handle.

And it is the reason that his demand for ‘a crown or else a glorious tomb’, ‘a scepter or an earthly sepulcher’, should worry us all.

And with the rustic cub of ‘old father antic the law’, Atiku wants to go to court, even as his party marches on the electoral umpire INEC. And yes losers should have leave to ease their bitter stomachs.

But he should either go to court to repudiate the result or he should march on INEC to rewrite it. He cannot not do both. But either way, someone should tell Atiku that the task he undertakes has also been aptly metaphored by Shakespeare: it is ‘numbering sands’ and ‘drinking the oceans dry’. We cannot wish him ‘good luck’; we should only wish him what we know he wishes himself, infamy!

DUBAI They had returned from Dubai with glee; hiding in their thoughts a thousand daggers, ready to cut, to slit and to slash opponents’ wind pipes. They had lied to purchase friends and had told strange truths to dispose of enemies. They were sworn to either win the election by ‘hook’ or by ‘crook’. Obdurate of hearts, they had persisted in acts of black night, abominable deeds, complots of treason, sedition and sundry villainies. In all these, they had skillfully applied moral medicines to their mortifying mischief. They framed their faces to all occasions; deceiving more slyly than Ulysses could; raising security concerns even when they themselves set out to harm; crying wolf only when they are disguised in sheep’s clothing.

In 16 years they acquitted themselves foxes, by nature proving themselves enemies to the flocks. In 16 years we proved ourselves fools by letting them govern our affairs. And what did they do? They stole the orphans of their patrimony; they wrung the widow from her custormed right! They have harmed us enough for vengeance to be in our hearts, or death in our hands. But we have only said to them: ‘return the loot and get thee gone!’ Buy they have the nerve to speak of an entitlement, willy-nilly, to our trust once again. They had the arrant want of shame, again to hawk their sordid credentials on the market place of our democracy. Abroad in vain they tried to purchase great alliance against their nation. At home their lieges now stand demystified: the TYs, the OBJs and the ‘wanchanenkas’, all now humbled to the dust. And you wonder ‘were these truly once the scourges of our nation?’

Epilogue BUHARI Again as Shakespeare would say “The wise man’s folly is anatomized even by the squandering glances of the fool”. Now’s lesson time. The thief they say “doth fear every bush an officer”. And so ala the Hausa praise singer ‘Rarara’, there is no better time than now –again- for ‘masu gudu’ to ‘gudu’!

We have come full circle at last: from GMB to PMB and back! It is now time to whip the offending Adam out of all incorrigible looters! And that is no matter whose ox will be gored! Let the new GMB be fire for fire; he should forerun woe with woe. He should lift the health and peace of the Commonwealth above its mortal laws; let his ‘virtue’ be his ‘necessity’; let him achieve with the wisdom of Malcolm X: ‘by any means necessary’!

But above all, let Buhari beware Parliament! So that he is not stung twice! He should be un-Caesarlike, who rebuffed touched him the most, when it mattered the most! What touches thee Buhari, is Parliament! Tend first to it!

OUR POSITION Nigeria’s rising debt profile: A call for caution Not a few Nigerians have expressed worry over the nation’s rising debt profile, warning that this could have negative implications on developmental capacity of the economy, and the nation’s ability to repay if the government does not apply discipline in the manner in which it borrows.

No doubt, governments all over the world exist by borrowing to fund the various activities that are necessary such as education, roads, hospitals, electricity generation, and other critical projects.

The present administration has within three years, increased the nation’s debt by $11.77 billion.

Statistics from the Debt Management Office (DMO) indicates that the Nigeria’s external debt rose from $10.32 billion in June 30, 2015 to $22.08 billion in as at June 2018, representing a 114.05 percent.

Nigeria’s total debts both foreign and domestic stood at $73.213 billion which is N22.428 trillion as at November 2018, according to the DMO. These debts include: external debt of $21.591 billion, domestic debt of $40.107 billion and (States and FCT) domestic debt of $11.514 billion.

By the end of 2015, Nigeria’s debt to GDP ratio stood at 12.1 per cent, and climbed to 22.1 per cent in November 2018.

Nigeria is ranked sixth most indebted countries in Africa in the following order: South Africa - $143 billion; Angola - $37.7 billion; Ethiopia - $22.5 billion; Kenya - $22.2 billion; Ghana – $21.2 billion; Nigeria $18.91 billion; Tanzania – $15.9.

Although Nigeria’s debt to GDP ratio is considered among the lowest in the world when compared to countries like Egypt which has 92.6 per cent; Brazil 89.4 percent; France 96.5 per cent, Mozambique 100.3 percent; Canada 98.8 per cent; and Singapore 110.5 percent amongst several others.

This is because governments took advantage of the low interest rates offered, piling up debt that will cost them less in the long run, when the rates begin to rise, which is inevitable. Borrowing is a positive thing for working economies unless it goes unchecked and gets out of hand.

It is particularly damaging for a country to borrow when the economy is in an economic downturn. The cheap debt that is amassed can quickly become unaffordable if it becomes too high and there is not enough money being generated within the country.

The level of gross government debt as a percentage of GDP can indicate how able a country is to pay back debts without incurring further debt.

Basically, the lower the debt-to-GDP ratio, the better.

Debt-to-GDP ratios around the world have increased in recent years as governments take advantage of historically low interest rates to pile up cheap debt before rates inevitably begin to rise.

Borrowing is a good thing for a working economy, but unchecked borrowing can be a bad thing, especially in an economic downturn. Even cheap debt can become unaffordable if a country has too much of it and output begins to slow.

Concerned by the development, the Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA) recently, lamented that that the nation’s debt burden was worrisome and needed to be checked on the ground that about 25 per cent of the 2019 budget size of N8.8 trillion amounting to N2.140 trillion was going into debt servicing.

The forum noted that the Federal Government’s

continued borrowing within the domestic market was limiting the real sector from accessing funding for expansion and growth.

Latest figures released by the Debt Management Office (DMO) showed that government’s domestic debt profile rose to N15.814 trillion in September, 2018 from N15.629 trillion in June, 2018 representing 1.19% increase.

The amount proposed for debt serving in the 2019 budget could have a negative effect on the government’s capacity to develop critical infrastructure, therefore government should look inward and come up with strategies to generate more revenue especially from the nonplussed sector.

We are of the opinion that completion of the Ajaokuta Steel Industrial complex will also generate revenue to the government and drive more economic activities that will move the country from a frontier economy to an emerging economy.

While the effect of the increasing debt might not be immediate in totality, it could be catastrophic in the long term with a chunk of revenue consumed by debt servicing to the detriment of infrastructural development.

We suggest that the federal and state governments should take urgent steps at cutting the cost of governance and recurrent expenditure, and increase funding for critical infrastructure so as to drive rapid development.

If the government insists on borrowing, the fund should be channelled to the development of key infrastructure that will drive development, create jobs and contribute to the GDP of the economy.

S I G N AT U R E Publisher

Folio Communications Plc

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PDP warns Buhari, APC against electoral fraud in N’Delta Tunde Opalana, Abuja

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has cautioned President Muhammadu Buhari and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) to steer clear of its strongholds, particularly in the Niger Delta region, and jettison all pre- planned violence and electoral fraud ahead of the governorship and state assembly elections.

The party affirmed that this is the only way to avert widespread crisis not only in the region but in the entire country.

It likewise called on Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and the APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, to drop their party’s thoughts of using thugs to muscle the AkwaIbom state governorship and state assembly elections, as the people have been fully rallied for a firm resistance on Saturday.

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan advanced the party’s position in a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday.

The PDP’s position was predicated on an alleged on-going heavy shipment of security

forces and armed thugs into PDP strongholds, particularly, the Niger Delta region, with the view to suppress voters and manipulate the March 9 electoral process for the APC. He said that “since the robbery of the PDP’s presidential mandate, which Nigerians are determined to reclaim at the tribunal, the APC has been jittery over the escalated public support for the PDP not only to retain our states but also to ensure a sweeping victory for PDP in APC states across the country.

“As a result, the APC is desperate to unleash violence in oil rich Akwa-Ibom, Rivers, Cross River, Delta, Bayelsa, Abia, as well as Benue, Taraba, Gombe, Sokoto, Enugu, Ebonyi, Kwara states, but these states and all other strongholds of the PDP, spanning across our nation, remain impregnable.”

The PDP said that Nigerians are still livid over the rigging of the February 23 Presidential election, which was clearly won

by Atiku Abubakar, warning that any further attempt to test the collective will of Nigerians on March 9 is capable of sparking off a huge civil restiveness across the nation.

“We invite Nigerians to note how Osinbajo,

on Tuesday, at a town hall meeting in Uyo, Akwa-Ibom state, boasted that he and Oshiomhole will ensure that the APC will never be defeated and how thugs, loaded in over 50 buses, who confessed to have been contracted by Oshiomhole, were later intercepted on their way from Edo state to Akwa-Ibom to cause mayhem during Saturday’s election.

“The PDP has full information on various secret locations in Akwa-Ibom state, including hotels and other camps, where the APC has quartered thugs ahead of Saturday’s election. We note that the police have refused to evacuate these thugs, but let it be known that the people of Akwa Ibom state will never allow them to operate,” he said The PDP therefore, cautioned the APC as well as INEC and security agents to bear in mind that Akwa-Ibom and all Niger Delta states are incontrovertible PDP strongholds where the APC do not have any genuine followership and that anybody attempting or supporting any forceful take - over of any PDP stronghold should be aware that he or she is doing so at his or her own peril.

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Short News 17 SDP council chairmen back Ikpeazu’s re-election Sunday Nwakanma, Umuahia There are indications that the Social Democratic Party (SDP) governorship candidate in Abia state, Blessing Nwagba may have been abandoned by her 17 local government chairmen of the party.

Addressing newsmen in Umuahia, the Chairmen led by Chief Chijioke Ozems of Isiala Ngwa Norh expressed their intention to tell Abians that they have formally adopted Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu as their consensus candidate.

According to the group, the party had adopted President Buhari, stating that their state chairman, Chidi Nwosu had agreed to the endorsement.

“Today, we are adopting Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu for posterity, future and equity sake, having seen the security situation in Abia state and what he has done,” adding that they have appealed to the state SDP guber candidate, Blessing Nwagba to step down for Ikpeazu.

“All we are doing is in the interest of the state, not in the interest of the party,” the group said, stating that their decision was in unison.

Delta PDP uncovers APC’s plot to disrupt March 9 polls Nosa Akenzua, Asaba Palpable fear has gripped the Delta state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) following the alleged plot by the All Progressive Congress (APC) to disrupt the March 9 polls in the state.

PDP’s Director General, Campaign Organization in the state, Funkekeme Solomon at a media briefing in Asaba, alleged that APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole among others, have perfected plans to engage the services of deadly political thugs to disrupt the March 9 elections in PDP strongholds, especially in the riverine areas.

He added that the thugs armed with offensive weapons and masks, would launch aggressive attacks on PDP strongholds, intimidate and identify innocent PDP loyalists as criminals to security men, with the aim of frustrating, preventing and disrupting the exercise, to pave the way for election postponement in the affected areas to aid its manipulation.

The alleged invasion, according to the PDP chieftain, was to perfect the persistent threats credited to Oshiomhole to take over Delta state by all means, adding that “the APC in its desperate move to re-act the drama it perfected in Osun state, which saw its enthronement in PDP controlled states, wants to repeat the drama in Delta state, but God has exposed them.”

Group canvasses suspension of Ebonyi APC guber candidate Charles Onyekwere, Abakaliki

President Muhammadu Buhari being congratulated by the Chief of Staff Mallam Abba Kyari. Others are Ogun State Governor and Senator-Elect, Mr. Sen Ibikunle Amosu, S A Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, Dr. Modi,and SSAP SARIKI Abba immediately President was declared the winner of the 2019 President Election for another 4 years at the Residence State House Abuja.

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APC working to rig Saturday’s election, Useni alleges Kingsley Chukwuka, Jos The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Plateau state, Senator Jeremiah Useni, has alleged that the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) in the state is working to rig the guber polls billed to hold on March 9.

Sen. Useni said that the outcome of the Presidential election was an indication that the APC is not on ground, even after the manipulation of results, hence they have resorted to forcefully steal the people’s mandate at the coming governorship election.

Speaking at a brief ceremony to receive a stalwart from the Action Democratic Party

(ADC), Pastor Margret Inusa, who officially decamped to the PDP on Wednesday, Useni appealed to the electorate not to be discouraged by the cancellation of the PDP Presidential and National Assembly results from some units and wards.

“I thank our people for supporting the PDP to have a convincing win in the presidential election. I know that the elections were peaceful; however, there were many problems at collation centres in many places.

“Results of our supporters in various units in Qua’an Pan, Wase, Kanam and Jos North Local Government Areas were cancelled without good reasons and we are not happy about this situation, as we are working hard to get justice.

“But on March 9, we are all trooping out again to elect the governor and members of the state house of assembly,” he said.

On her part, Pastor Margret Inusa, who earlier announced her defection to the PDP said she is pulling over 100, 000 of her supporters to ensure that the PDP emerges victorious in the state on Saturday.

“Our network of 100, 000 supporters, allies and all who believe that we can and we will make a difference in our time in Plateau, will join force with the PDP to reclaim power in the state.

Inusa said a vote for Jeremiah Useni is a vote for security of lives and property, saying that Plateau people cannot be in their father’s land and be living in IDP camps.

A group known as the All Progressives Congress(APC) Youth Vanguard in Ebonyi state has called on the national working committee of the party to immediately withdraw all assistances to the party’s gubernatorial flagbeaer, Senator Sonni Ogbuoji over alleged anti-party activities.

In a communique signed by the President of the group, Comrade Chuks Obeh and Secretary, Comrade Ikechukwu Nwakpa respectively, the group accused Ogbuoji of withdrawing and aiding the defection of 12 APC House of Assembly candidates from the race to join the opposition PDP. The group alleged that the abysmal performance of the party in the state during the Presidential and National Assembly elections was because Ogbuoji had completely annihilated members and stakeholders of the party.

They hinted that since Ogbuoji defected from the PDP to the APC in the state, the fortunes of the party had become nose-dived leading to the loss of all the National Assembly seats in the state during the last election.

Wildlife expert predicts epidemic A’Ibom Isaac Job, Uyo An environmentalist and associate professor of Wildlife Resources Management, Department of Forestry and Natural Environmental Management, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Uyo (UNIUYO), Dr. Edem Enaing, has alerted the Akwa Ibom state government of an impending epidemic in the state arising from improper waste disposal system.

He said the continuous dumping of refuse collected from government approved waste management points into the ravine would expose the citizens of the state to avoidable epidemic.

Dr. Enaing, who engaged post - graduate students from the Center for Wetlands and Waste Management Studies, University of Uyo, on a sensitization campaign in Uyo, the state capital to mark this year’s World Wildlife Day, expressed concerns about the state government’s waste disposal system.

He said, this year’s World Wildlife Life Day with the theme: “Life below water for people and the planet” was apt considering the great threat to marine mammals and bio-diversity globally.

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The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) and the Inter - Party Advisory Council (IPAC) in Bayelsa state have called for the immediate redeployment of the state Resident Electoral Commissioner, Elder Monday Udo Tom and other electoral officers over what they described as an unholy alliance with the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the state.

The group noted that there was no need for the leadership of the commission in the state to oversee the conduct of the forthcoming state assembly election.

Speaking at a joint press conference on Wednesday in Yenagoa, the state capital, the two bodies said they have lost confidence in the ability of the resident electoral commissioner

The Imo state Resident Electoral Commissioner, Professor Francis Ezeonu on Wednesday disclosed that the commission lost over 30 smart card readers to thugs.

Prof. Ezeonu, who made the disclosure at the INEC state headquarters, Owerri at a breakfast meeting with journalists, said that some ad hoc staff, particular corps members have decided to withdraw from participating in the on-going electoral process due to violence and threat to their lives.

He decried the desperation of some politicians to win election at all cost and pleaded with them to drop the idea of engaging the services of thugs to actualize their political ambitions.

According to him, it was a deliberate effort by some politicians to ensure that the smart card readers did not work, alleging further that politicians bought voters’ cards from the holders in order to ensure that accreditation of voters was done manually.

The state resident electoral commissioner further disclosed that over 90 per cent of electoral officers sent to local government councils in the state to supervise the just concluded elections cut off communication with the situation room at the INEC headquarters.

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to conduct free, fair and credible elections on Saturday because of what transpired during the Presidential and National Assembly polls.

Chairman of CUPP, Tare Edwin said: “We will not tolerate any manipulation this time around.

There is an unholy alliance between the resident electoral commissioner and a chieftain of the All Progressive Congress in the state to undermine the forthcoming state assembly elections.

“We are calling on the INEC to immediately redeploy the state electoral chief due to his poor handling of the last Presidential and National Assembly elections where election materials were stolen under his supervision.

“We don’t see any reason why he should be conducting this Saturday’s elections. In the last elections, you are all aware that materials were hijacked and carted away by thugs.

“A total of 63 card readers were stolen during the exercise in different parts of the state, namely Brass (one); Nembe (23); Sagbama (eight); Southern Ijaw (24) and Yenagoa (six).

“The law stipulates that card readers must be used during the elections, but here where card readers were carted away and elections did not take place results were announced.”

Also speaking, the state IPAC Chairman, Eneye Zidougha said they have lost confidence in the state umpire .

“Another election is about to be conducted, we don’t have confidence in the resident electoral commissioner anymore. There is connivance between security personnel and INEC officials.

“It appears that some persons are bent on making the process frustrating. Nobody is above the law.

The officers who have erred should be dealt with,” he declared.

We lost over 30 card readers to thugs in Imo - INEC Val Okara, Owerri

My statement on Atiku, PDP misconstrued - Agbakoba Tom Okpe, Abuja Former President of the Nigeria Bar Association, Olisa Agbakoba (SAN) has said his comments on the planned petition by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar over the February 23 presidential election was misconstrued.

It was reported previously that Agbakoba had advised the PDP and Atiku to avoid litigation after the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) announced President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of the February 23 Presidential election.

But, in a statement signed by the senior advocate signed on Wednesday, he said his advice on the futility of the PDP should not be taken to mean he was suggesting that Atiku Abubakar and the party will fail at the tribunal.

The statement reads: “Much has been said about my position on former Vice President Atiku Abubakar approaching the court to challenge the result of the February 23 Presidential election.

“I have been misquoted to say the former vice president will lose at the Presidential Election Tribunal.

Senator Binta thanks constituents after defeat Tom Garba, Yola

Minister of Finance, Alhajia Zainab Ahmed; 54th ICAN President, Alhaji Razak Jaiyeola, FCA; members of ICAN and Directors in the Federal Ministry of Finance, during the visit of the ICAN members to the Minister in Abuja, recently.

We’re tired of Saraki’s deceits, Kwara North APC declares Tom Okpe, Abuja The people of Kwara North Senatorial zone say that they are tired of the deceits of Senate President Bukola Saraki.

Speaking through the All Progressives Congress (APC) members, the people of the zone said they decided to announce their position in reaction to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members’ insinuations that political elders of the zone were making frantic effort to resurrect the collapsed dynasty of Senator Saraki.

Speaking to Daily Times in Abuja on Wednesday, Director Generak, AACO Kwara North, Muhammad Kudu Mohammad said: “We are aware of the conjecture coming from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and their so - called elders from Kwara North, particularly their efforts to put life in the collapsed dynasty as led by outgoing Senate President Bukola Saraki.

“We did not want to dignify their brazen lies with any response having endured bigger lies and insults in the past coming from Senator Bukola Saraki and his lackeys.

The renewed effort to rely on failed promises of the past will be resisted.

“We want to restate unequivocally that, what promise has Bukola Saraki kept in his entire political life? He promised Kwara North governorship position in 2007, 2011 and 2015, what were the outcome of those pseudo understandings and agreements?”

Mohammed further pointed that in 2019, Saraki again summoned traditional rulers from the zone for yet another meeting at which he promised to give power to Kwara North in 2023.

He added that “the unambiguous resolve of our people to shed off his lying spree was what played out in the last Presidential and National Assembly elections.

“For the records, we are going to double that outcome this Saturday when we shall

vote massively for Alhaji Absulraman Absulrazaq and all candidates of the APC as symbolised by the integrity, decency and patriotic life of President Muhammadu Buhari.

“For the umpteenth time, let Bukola Saraki and his PDP lackeys in Kwara North justify why the Northern part of Kwara state should vote him and their party again.

“We have requested him to highlight his records of interventions or infrastructure projects in this zone, but he’s still babbling.”

He therefore, urged the people to come out this Saturday and finish the good work they started on February 23, adding that “this is what can exterminate poverty and under developments that have been foisted on our people and area.

“It is important to remind them herewith, that the gross infrastructural deficit and massive under - developments foisted on Kwara and Kwarans can never be covered nor replaced.”

The senator representing Adamawa North, Senator Binta Masi, has in an unusual show of sportsmanship, commended her electorate for the outcome of the February 23 elections, which the APC lost.

Sen. Binta said those who voted for and against her in the Presidential and National Assembly elections were expressing their interests, asserting that democracy has prescribed for voters to make such choices after every four years.

She said that democracy gives constituents the right to choose the kind of leaders they want based on services rendered and that she would remain grateful for the opportunity to serve, and would remain committed in the service of the common interests of her people.

Binta made the remarks while addressing newsmen in Yola, the Adamawa state capital.

She said that “I want to thank everyone who voted for me in the February 23 senate elections for Adamawa North Senatorial seat. I also appreciate all of the people who were supportive of my candidacy in various ways.

“I commend those who did not support me and pray that they have more reasons to appreciate my contributions for our common good.

Traditional rulers sue for peace in A’Ibom Isaac Job, Uyo The Akwa Ibom state Council of Chiefs has called on all political parties in the state as well as their members and candidates to conduct themselves peacefully to avoid violence during Saturday’s gubernatorial and House of Assembly elections.

The council made this known during an enlarged meeting of the state council of chiefs on the current tense political situation in the state.

Speaking on behalf of the council, Chairman of the Akwa Ibom state Council of Chiefs, His Royal Majesty, Ntoeng Udo Effiong Akpan, said “Akwa Ibom state council of chiefs in concert with this enlarged assembly of traditional rulers admonish all political parties and their members, including their candidates and associates to completely eschew violence, thuggery, ill-utterances, political verbosity and other vices which are capable of hurting one another or likely to cause chaos in the state.

“Akwa Ibom state needs peaceful elections and our conduct, individually and collectively, must be to aid a smooth process and not to impair it. We wish to sound it loudly that election is not war, but a period that the citizens have in choosing their leaders.”

The monarch stated that the council has watched the political tension in the state as well as the incursion of external conspirators and agent provocateurs to subdue the will of the people in a bid to capture power at all cost, adding that these ignoble acts must be condemned in its totality.

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3 injured as explosion rocks APC campaign office in A’Ibom Isaac Job, Uyo At least three persons were said to have been seriously injured on Tuesday night following an explosion that occurred at the campaign office of the All Progressives Congress (APC) located along Edet Akpan Avenue, Uyo, Akwa Ibom state.

It was gathered that the incident occurred at about 7:30 pm when gunmen arrived the scene in a car and threw explosives before opening fire on unsuspecting persons indentified as members and supporters of the APC. Eyewitnesses said the attackers carried out the dastardly operation within few seconds and sped off before security operatives at the premises could respond.

Victims of the attack, including a woman have been taken to an undisclosed hospital in Uyo, for treatment.

Unconfirmed sources said that two of the victims were in critical condition while the third victim, whose name was given as Mrs. Uduak Sunday, from Uyo, sustained injury to her right

leg.

Reacting to the attack, Spokesperson of the APC Campaign Council in the state, Eseme Eyiboh, in a statement described the attack as “another desperate attempt by the opposition party which started since the commencement of the Presidential and National Assembly elections “This is another in the series of cowardly attempts at intimidating and cowing our party, the APC and its supporters in the build up to the March 9 governorship election in the state.

“Some months ago, unknown gunmen fired shots into the bedroom of the APC governorship candidate, Nsima Ekere, at his Ewet Housing Estate residence, with his family members narrowly escaping the attack.

“The attack at the campaign office is a confirmation of earlier intelligence received by our party of the likely attempt by the PDP to truncate the March 9 governorship polls in the state.

“Intelligence at our disposal indicates that faced with imminent defeat at the polls, Gov. Emmanuel and the PDP have decided to

disrupt the polls in Akwa Ibom state if they are prevented from carrying out another wholesale electoral robbery like the one they perpetrated during the Presidential and National Assembly elections in collusion with the Independent National Electoral Commission”.

Responding to the APC allegations, the PDP said the APC was hunting itself, maintaining that it stands for peace while the APC stands for war.

PDP Publicity Secretary in the state, Ini Ememobong , said that the party has been notified of the rumours making the rounds that its members drove by the campaign office of the APC governorship candidate and shot at their supporters.

“Nothing can be farther from the truth. How did the person know that the shooters were PDP members? Assuming there was any shooting?

“The leadership of the APC should hide their faces in shame for such ignoble act of importing thugs from Edo state to cause crisis in Akwa Ibom state, so that elections can be cancelled.

Our party is a party of peace and not war. We see God not Warsaw,” the party stated.

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Short News No public holiday on Friday, says Lagos govt Benjamin Omoike, Lagos The Lagos state government on Wednesday clarified reports making the rounds that it had declared Friday, March 8, as public holiday for civil servants, saying the information was untrue.

A report currently circulating on social media platforms had suggested that the state Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, had declared Friday as public holiday to enable Lagosians prepare for the March 9 governorship and state House of Assembly elections.

But in a statement signed by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Kehinde Bamigbetan, the government said that civil servants are expected to be at their various duty posts on Friday, and disregard any information to the contrary.

Bamigbetan reiterated that just as earlier announced by the state’s Deputy Governor, Mrs. Idiat Adebule, all public and private schools in the state are expected to proceed on the second mid-term break on March 7, and March 8 while academic activities are expected to resume on March 11in accordance with the revised school calendar for the 2018/2019 academic year.

We will develop more towns in the creeks – Okowa Nosa Akenzua, Asaba Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta state has said his administration will turn around most of the riverine communities to modern towns in the next four years.

The governor gave the assurance on Tuesday while commissioning series of projects at Oboghoro and Utonlila communities in Warri North local Government area of Delta state.

Some of the projects commissioned which transformed the communities to modern towns include, 24 units of two - bedroom semidetached bungalows, multi-purpose hall, portable water supply scheme with treatment plant, concrete walkway, pedestrian bridge, concrete landing jetty, fishing boats, among others.

“It is important as a country that we begin to think of how to impact on the lives of our people in the riverine areas; if you seek peace and partnership with the people, you need to do things that will make them happy,” the governor said.

He added that “I can see that the people are excited, but I am more excited to be in this community than you are because from your statements, this is the first time that a governor is visiting this area to commission projects.

Fire guts popular hotel in Port Harcourt Memoye Oghu, Port Harcourt

The new Permanent Secretary Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Mr William Nwankwo Alo receiving the handover note from the outgoing Permanent Secretary, Mrs Ibukun Odusote in Abuja.

Army hands over more electoral violence suspects to police in Rivers Memoye Oghu, Port Harcourt The Nigeria Army has handed over 14 more suspects arrested for various electoral offences in Rivers state during the February 23 Presidential and National Assembly polls to the police.

At the ceremony which took place at the Officers Mess in Bori Camp, Port Harcourt, Deputy Director Public Relations of the 6th Division, Col. Aminu Iliyasu, said “as usual, the Nigeria Army normally hands over suspects to the police.

“Today, we’re here again to hand over 14 more suspects arrested for various electoral offences during the Presidential and National Assembly elections in the state to the police for further investigations and possible prosecution.”

The Brigade Commander, of Brigadier General Adeola Kalejaiye, who handed over the 14 suspects to the Assistant Commissioner of Police in - charge of the CID in the state police command, Victor Onyeugo, however, did not give more details on the electoral offences committed by the suspects.

However, our correspondent gathered that some of the suspects were involved in the violence that erupted in Abonnema, headquarters of Akuku Toru Local Government Area during the February 23 elections in which several people, including a senior army officer were killed.

The suspects, who we learnt were arrested in Abonnema Town and other parts of the local government, include Tobins Tobins, Victor Sam, John Istifanus and Desmond

Friday.

Others are Inoma Jim, Alebaka Clifford, Victor Romeo, Divine Sylvester and Omusoye Douglas among others.

This is the third time since the conclusion of the Presidential and National Assembly elections in the state that the army would be handing over arrested suspects to the police.

The first was on February 26, where a former commissioner in Governor Nyesom Wike’s cabinet and about 12 others, including security operatives and a serving member of the state House of Assembly were held for various electoral offences and were subsequently, handed over to the police.

The second set of suspects, including some youth corps members were handed over to the police at the same venue on March 1.

There was panic and pandemonium as fire engulfed a popular hotel in Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers state sending lodgers, workers and visitors scampering for safety.

Although, the fire incident which engulfed parts of the popular Golden Tulip Hotel, located at the GRA Phase 2 area of the Garden city on Tuesday, recorded no death, the inferno however, destroyed properties worth millions of Naira.

Daily Times gathered that the fire started in the afternoon in one of the rooms on the first floor of the hotel, but for the combined efforts of the hotel’s staff and the state fire service, the entire five storey building would have been razed.

The hotel’s Human Resource Consultant, Paul Odousoro, who spoke with our correspondent stated that the cause of the fire was still unknown, adding that the occupants of the room affected by the fire was outdoors when the fire began.

Kogi Election Petition Tribunal relocates to Abuja Mary Amodu Weeks after the Presidential and National Assembly elections, the Kogi state Election Petition Tribunal which ought to sit in Lokoja, the state capital has relocated to the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

This was disclosed to journalists by the Secretary to the Tribunal, Mrs. Aisha Mohammed Mana in a release made available to newsmen on Wednesday.

Mohammed, who didn’t reveal the specific FCT High Court where the tribunal would sit when hearing of petitions before the tribunal begins, did not also state why the tribunal relocated to Abuja.

She however, said the tribunal by the statement was notifying the security agencies, the media and the general public of the development, saying the specific location of the court will be disclosed soon.

She added in the statement that “notice is hereby given to the police, the Department of State Services (DSS), the media and the general public that the National Assembly and state House of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal slated to hold in Lokoja, Kogi state has been relocated/moved to the Federal Capital Territory High Court (FCT), Abuja.”

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GTBank reports profit before tax of N215.6bn in 2018 Temitope Adebayo Guaranty Trust Bank plc (GTBank) on Wednesday announced a Profit before tax of N215.6 billion at the end of its financial year ended December 31, 2018, representing a growth of 9.1 per cent while compared with N197.7 billion recorded in the corresponding period in 2017.

The lender disclosed this in its audited financial results for 2018, which was released to the Nigerian and London Stock Exchanges yesterday.

The breakdown of the results showed a positive performance, as the bank Gross earnings for the year grew by 3.7 per cent to N434.7 billion from N419.2 billion reported in December 2017.

The Bank’s customer deposits increased by 10.3 per cent to N2.274trillion from N2.062trillion in December 2017, however, loan book dipped by 12.9 per cent from N1.449trillion recorded as at December 2017 to N1.262trillion in December 2018.

In view of the above, the Bank closed the 2018 financial year with Total Assets of N3.287trillion and Shareholders’ Funds of N575.6Billion. In terms of Assets quality, NPL ratio and Cost of Risk improved to 7.3 per cent and 0.3 per cent in December 2018 from 7.7 per cent and 0.8 per cent in December 2017 respectively.

In addition, the coverage ratio for NPL stood at 105.1 per cent and Capital adequacy ratio remained very strong, closing at 23.4 per cent despite the implementation of IFRS 9. On the backdrop of this result, Post Tax Return on Equity (ROAE) and Return on Assets (ROAA) closed at 30.9 per cent and 5.6 per cent respectively.

The Bank is proposing final dividend of N2.45k per unit of ordinary share held by shareholders in addition to interim dividend of 30k per unit of ordinary share bringing total dividend for 2018 financial year to N2.75k per unit of an ordinary share.

Commenting on the financial results, the Managing Director/CEO of Guaranty Trust Bank plc, Mr Segun Agbaje, said; “In 2018, our focus on staying nimble, strengthening customer relationships and driving our digital-first strategy paid off. We successfully navigated the pressures of our challenging and radically changing business environment, recorded growth across key financial indices and reaffirmed our position as one of the best performing and well managed financial institutions in Africa.

He stated further; ‘This result reflects, not just the fundamental strength of our brand, but also our commitment to our values of excellence, creating value for all stakeholders and putting our customers first in everything that we do. Driven by these values, we are building the bank of the future by pairing the best of our business with the massive potential of digital technologies to create Africa’s first integrated and trusted platform; Habari.

GTBank has continued to report the best financial ratios in terms of profitability, efficiency and capital for a Financial Institution in Nigeria as revealed by its return on equity (ROAE) of 30.9 per cent, the cost to income ratio of 37.1 per cent and capital adequacy of 23.4 per cent. These ratios are a testament to the efficient management of the Bank.

In recognition of the Bank’s bias for world-class corporate governance standards, excellent service delivery and innovation, GTBank has been a recipient of numerous awards over the years. Some of the Bank’s awards in 2018 include Bank of the Year Nigeria from the Banker Magazine, Best Banking Group and Best Retail Bank Nigeria from World Finance Magazine, Most Innovative Bank from the African Investor, and Best Digital Banking Brand in Nigeria from the Global Brands Magazine.

L-R: Tomi Rotimi, Omodara Adeniran, Tope Fajingbesi Balogun (founder/host of She-EO), Maisie Dunbar, Adebimpe Ihekuna and Tolu Jaiyeola at the She-EO conference in Lagos.

Nigeria’s oil, gas, extractive sector attain high standards rating Mathew Dadiya, Abuja The International Board of Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) says Nigeria has attained the highest rating in the implementation of its standards by member countries.

The Executive Secretary Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Mr Waziri Adio, disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja.

He said that Nigeria was among the countries that attained “Satisfactory Progress”, the highest rating of the board.

The other countries are Norway, Philippine, Cambodia, Colombia, and Senegal.

He said Nigeria was rated satisfactory progress in 29 out of 31 criteria, adding that it was only on two levels that it rated below satisfactory.

“For us achieving satisfactory progress on EITI validation is not a destination, it is

a journey. And the journey of continuous progress continues.

“Nigeria will continue to raise the bar in EITI implementation,” he said.

He further said that there was a need for the impact of the rating to be felt in the industry especially using the revenue resources to improve the lives of citizens.

“The challenge now is to ensure that these high standards are maintained and sustained in NEITI’s interface with oil and gas and solid mineral sectors, in the

discharge of its mandate under the NEITI Act of 2007.

“The global EITI standard is currently undergoing a review and expansion to cover mandatory disclosure on beneficial ownership, state-own enterprise, licensing and contract transparency, project-level reporting, among others.

“NEITI is already implementing some of these standards and will deepen implementation, as important next steps,” he said.

How tax expenses slowed down Seplat’s profit by 44.7% in 2018 Motolani Oseni Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc has recorded a whopping N35.7 billion tax expenses in 2018 audited result and accounts, which contributed largely to the firm 44.7 per cent drop in profit for the year ended December 31, 2018.

The indigenous oil and gas company, listed on both the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and London Stock Exchange had reported tax credit of about N67.65 billion in 2017.

The company in its annual report to releases to the NSE during the week said profit dropped from N81.11 billion in

2017 to N44.87 billion reported in 2018.

The company revenue grew by 65.2 per cent to N228.39billion in 2018 from N138.28 billion reported in 2017.

Having emerged from a period of weak macro conditions and a disrupted operating environment in 2016 and 2017, the Board reinstated the dividend in 2018 with a special dividend of $0.05 per share in April paid to normalise returns to shareholders after the dividend suspension and an interim dividend of $0.05 per share declared in last October in line with its normal dividend distribution timetable.

Commenting on the results, Seplat’s Chief Executive Officer, Austin Avuru said “Seplat has delivered an excellent

operational and financial performance resulting in robust profitability and cash flow generation provides us with an extremely solid foundation for growth in the coming years.

“At our core assets in the West, OMLs 4, 38 and 41, the extension of the license to 2038 means that we can confidently plan and invest long into the future to realise the full potential of those blocks.

“As we continue to enhance production and revenue diversification with new wells scheduled at OML 53 in the East, the board took the Final Investment Decision to invest in the large scale ANOH gas and condensate development which will form the next phase of transformational growth for our gas business.

“Disciplined capital allocation continues to remain at the core of our activities evidenced by our continual deleveraging of our debt levels to the current balance of $350million.

“In 2018, we reinstated the dividend, increased capital investments and with the resources and headroom in our capital structure, we are equipped to capitalise on organic and inorganic growth opportunities as they may arise.”

For 2019, the company production guidance for 2019 is set at 49,000 to 55,000 boepd on a working interest basis, comprising 24,000 to 27,000 bopd liquids and 146 to 164 MMscfd (25,000 to 28,000 boepd) gas production. Capex guidance for 2019 is set at US$200 million.

FG should formulate investor-driven policies – LCCI Joy Obakeye The Lagos Chambers of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari, to use his re-election and economic growth promise, to formulate and implement policies that will promote investors’

confidence and see a rebound in the tempo of economic activities.

President of LCCI, Mr Babatunde Ruwase, listed a set of agendas the chamber expects the president to tackle in the next four years which includes; security, economic management philosophy, funding of government operators, economic integration,

visa policy and rail infrastructure among others as key priority areas the government must focus its attention.

“Private sector investment is a critical growth driver; therefore, the government should commit to the creation of an enabling environment to bring about a quantum leap in private investment.”

“The government should, therefore, commit to policies and programmes that will accelerate economic growth and ensure that the growth rate surpasses the rate of growth of population.

Ruwase urged Buhari to ensure that “tax policy, trade policy and the foreign exchange policy must be in alignment with this objective.”

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FG charges Nigerians on savings culture to boost capital market liquidity Motolani Oseni The Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed has said that there is a need for Nigerians to imbibe the culture of savings so as to be able to participate actively in the capital market as a means of growing the economy.

The minister, also, said that the federal government is willing to set up a National Savings Committee that will make recommendations to the government on the best ways to mobilise savings that would lead to economic growth.

Mrs Ahmed stated this when she held a meeting with members of the Capital Market Master Plan Implementation Council, CAMMIC, in Abuja during the week.

“We need to grow domestic investments that will be here to stay, not just people that

are shopping around for where to make profit alone. It is true that the current financial system is still tiled largely toward the banks.

There is a need to look at all the players and help solve the problems. We are open to setting up the working group so we can have a review, extract recommendations and get to work. Those that can be done immediately we will try to do them and the long term ones we can then plan to do them as we move along Ahmed said the government is concerned about the volatility of the capital market and is ready to work with CAMMIC to ensure that the market is stable.

According to her “We know we need foreign investors in our market, but most importantly we need to grow our domestic investors that are here to stay. The foreign investors come in and when anything happens, they quickly take their money and go away but our domestic investors will always be here with us.

“We are open to setting up the working group so we can have a review, extract recommendations and get to work. Those that can be done immediately we will try to do them and the long term ones we can then plan to do them as we move along “We have worked assiduously to diversify away from our over-dependence on oil and gas and the first sector the president is interested in is in the Agricultural sector. We know that we have not yet addressed the whole value chain and this can be driven if we have a very active commodities exchange market because our goods will be of high standards as required by industries in Nigeria and outside the country.

Speaking earlier, the Chairman of CAMMIC, Mr Olutola Mobolurin expressed the need for Government to pay more attention to the capital market being the Centre of the economy as regulation of the market is paramount because the industry

relies on the confidence of investors Mobolurin, therefore, canvassed for the setting up of a National Savings Committee to drive the process of fund mobilization among Nigerians and work on a robust savings initiative that can drive the growth of the economy.

For the year 2019, Mobolurin disclosed that CAMMIC will embark on a review of the Master Plan, conduct an impact assessment of programmes and initiatives like e-dividend, dematerialization, Direct Cash Settlement among others, expansion of commodities through registered exchanges as well as the introduction of derivatives and related instruments.

In her remarks, Acting Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, Ms. Mary Uduk said the Commission and the market are working to make the capital market attractive to pension funds to boost liquidity.

Nigeria loses N153bn to gas flaring annually - Petroleum ministry Mathew Dadiya Nigeria loses about N153 billion annually from natural gas flaring, as the country flares about 22 million tonnes of natural gas, according to the Ministry of Petroleum Resources.

Nigeria continues to flare the gas due to its inability to effectively capture and commercialise flared gas.

According to a statement by the Programme Manager, Nigerian Gas Flare

Commercialisation Programme in the Ministry of Petroleum, about $3.5 billion worth of investment is required to achieve the flared gas commercialisation targets of 2020.

Justice Derefaka, the Programme Manager, Nigerian Gas Flare Commercialisation Programme, explained in the statement that the volume of gas flared in the country could be put to better use, if harnessed, to power two-to-three liquefied natural gas, LNG, trains and generate about 3,000 megawatts of electricity.

Derefaka also said over 700 companies were currently being verified for participation in the government’s proposed gas commercialisation programme targeted for 2020. He also said the companies have already registered on the NGFCP portal to bid for the 178 gas flare sites across the country.

The programme is being executed to meet the government’s gas flare commercialisation target of 2020, he said.

“For the 22 million tonnes of carbon dioxide we (Nigeria) emit, we lose

appropriately $500 million emission credit value,” he added.

Nigeria has made progress, from its previous position as second most gas flaring nation in the world after Russia, to its current seventh position, but environmental experts say it still flares 9 cubic metres of gas per barrel of crude oil produced, a figure that is double the globally accepted standard of 4.5 cubic metres per barrel of oil produced.

BudgIT, a civic organization in a report said that Nigeria’s gas flaring is a threat to nearly 30 million lives in the Niger Delta.

Nestlé Nigeria posts N266.3bn revenue for 2018 Temitope Adebayo Nestlé Nigeria Plc has posted revenue of N 266.3 billion recording a growth of 9.1 per cent over the previous year. Gross profit for the year stood at N 113.9 billion, compared to N 100.9 billion during the previous year.

The Company posted N 60.6 billion as Results from Operating Activities in 2018 vs N 55.7 billion during the previous year.

In addition to N 20 per share interim dividend already paid, the Board proposed a final dividend of N 38.50 per share for 2018 for approval at the company’s Annual General Meeting on 28th May 2019.

Commenting on the results, Mr. Mauricio Alarcon, Managing Director/CEO said, “We are pleased with our 2018 results considering the increasingly competitive business environment.

The growth was driven by the continued loyalty of our consumers as we focused on consistently

delivering high quality, tasty and nutritious food products adapted to their preferences. The discipline and dedication of our people also supported this business outcome.”

The company continued to invest in innovation to keep delighting consumers with its iconic brands. The multi-cereal Nestlé Golden Morn Puffs fortified with iron was introduced during the year.

In line with its purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future,

Nestlé Nigeria worked alongside stakeholders to execute projects aimed at improving livelihoods in communities connected to its operations while delivering value to its shareholders. This is a principle called Creating Shared Value, (CSV).

The CSV projects include the provision of access to clean drinking water, providing nutrition education, farmer capacity building and grain quality improvement through Feed Future Nigeria and Nestlé Maize Quality Improvement Partnership.

Controller of Labour, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Olawuni Anthony (2nd left), presenting an award to General Manager, Human Resources, Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Mr Tony Ayasal (2nd right) who represented the Director-General, NCAA, Capt Usman Muhtar, while Secretary General of Association of Nigerian Aviation Professionals (ANAP), Comrade Abdulrasaq Saidu (left)) and President General of ANAP, Comrade Kabir Yahaya Gusau look on during the union’s first National Delegate Conference in Ota, Ogun State.

Our BOT on MMA2 is 36 years concessionBi-Courtney Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo The operators of Murtala Muhammed Airport Two (MMA2), Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited (BASL) has disclosed that it has 36-year validity on the BuildOperate-Transfer (BOT) concession model of the infrastructure.

It also debunked an online report going around on the take-over of the facility on May 7, 2019, by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN).

In a statement by the organisations, it stated that their ‘attention has been drawn to an article published alleging that MMA2’s term is 12 years and is about to expire.’

The spokesperson of Bi-Courtney, Eniola Ade-Solanke said: “While we find this very surprising, we will like to set the records straight by stating that, Bi-Courtney Ltd. entered into a Concession Agreement with the Federal Republic of Nigeria, for the Build, Operate and Transfer of the MMA2 for 36 years.”

She further described the facility as ‘the most well designed and run terminal in the country operating on very limited revenue. It is a masterpiece in the provision of public infrastructure through private capital.’

“Whilst the writer of the article set out to mislead the public through very untruthful and malicious statements, the peddlers of this baseless story have refused to come to terms with the fact that MMA2 has thrived in the face of operational challenges battling the concession including FAAN’s flagrant breach of the concession agreement.”

Ade-Solanke enumerated the sequence of the events that led to the sealing of the concession agreement by the Federal Government, FAAN and the Bi-Courtney.

She said “for the avoidance of doubt, the facts are stated’ while giving dates and those involved.

The Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) offered Bi-Courtney a 36-year lease in a letter dated 12th of October 2006 and an agreement was duly signed on the 2nd of Feb 2007 by the Minister of Aviation.

The agreement was further confirmed at a meeting held on 7th of July 2009 chaired by the former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria – His Excellency, Late Mallam Umaru Musa Yar’adua, GCFR, in attendance with the Honourable Minister of Aviation, Secretary General to the Federal Government, Attorney General of the Federation / Honourable Minister of Justice, Honourable Minister of Finance, MD/ CEO of FAAN and the Chairman of Bi-Courtney amongst others.

She further said that the clear provisions of the concession agreement between Bi-Courtney and the Government uphold the operation of the MMA2 terminal for an undisputed period of 36 years.

Accusing the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria of not complying with the agreement as FAAN refused to hand over the management of General Aviation Terminal MM1 to BiCourtney, she said: “Since inception, FAAN has not complied with the agreement to handover the GAT which is a property of Bi-Courtney.

FAAN through its actions has consistently breached its obligations in the concession agreement and has caused Bi-Courtney of a loss of over N250 billion.”

Debunking an attempt by the chairman frustrating the terminal take-over, Ade-Solanke said, “The erroneous claims against the Chairman of Bi-Courtney in making frantic efforts in the Presidency to frustrate a takeover of the terminal is not unconnected to purported attempts to stir up a false sense of alarm and acrimony against the concession.”

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Tinubu laments APC performance in presidential polls in Lagos, warns against repeat on Saturday Stories by Patrick Okohue The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has expressed disappointment with the performance of the party in Lagos State in the Presidential and National Assembly elections which held on February 23. Tinubu said he was especially disappointed with the performance of the party in 15 local governments out of the twenty recognized by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in Lagos State, saying that he was unhappy with the development.

The former Lagos State governor who made this assertion yesterday at a stakeholders parley held at the party’s secretariat in Acme,Ikeja, said, “It was only five local governments that preformed excellently in the last elections, the local governments are Mushin, Agege, Ikorodu, Lagos Mainland and Lagos Island.

We thank them for delivering their local governments without stress. Those that were unable to perform up to expectations need to put more efforts on Saturday’s elections. “It is a very poor performance, unlike Lagos that I know, Alimosho was disappointing, Oshodi struggled, so was Kosofe and Shomolu, they barely showed up by their votes, I blame the sleeping canvassers, they faltered in delivering their wards,” he said, adding that this Saturday’s governorship and state House of Assembly election remains a test for the affected areas to redeem their image politically, he stated that despite all shortcomings in the previous elections, the party would defeat the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the Saturday election, saying there was no need for the party members to engage in electoral violence.

“We would defeat our opponents at the poll without violence. When you are confident of winning elections, there is no need to fight anybody, even if they provoke you,” Tinubu advised members. He charged the leaders in the various wards

to go back and work for the party and ensure that they deliver their wards, warning that any of them that loss his polling booths or wards will be on their own as the party will not tolerate such, urging them to go back and mobilise for the election, Tinubu added.

“On Saturday, all I want to hear is that we have won in all the 20 local government according to INEC and all the 40 constituencies. I want you all to stay on queue till you cast your votes. We will also change some party agents who failed to deliver in the last elections.”

Some of the party leaders at the stakeholders meeting included; Prince Tajudeen Olusi, Chief Lanre Rasaq, Chief Bush Alebiosu and also the deputy governorship candidate of the party, Dr Obafemi Hamzat.

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Ondo APC: State chairman sues for peace, reconciliation over Supreme Court ruling The State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State, Mr. Ade Adetimehin has appealed to members of the party in the state to sheath their sword and build peace and conducive environment for victory of the party in the state.

Adetimehin who was reacting to the Supreme Court judgement over the case between Chief Olusegun Abraham and Arakurin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu described the ruling as a watershed and an opportunity for genuine reconciliation in Ondo State chapter of the APC. The party chairman who further declared that there was no victor; no vanquished in the ruling, noted that the two parties belong to a family.

The court decision, he contended,

has come at a critical moment when the party is exploring every democratic and lawful means to ensure enduring reconciliation of all the tendencies within the fold.

Adetimehin, according to a statement by the Ondo State Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr. Alex Kalejaye, said the judgement created the elusive opportunity for Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu and Chief Olusegun Abraham to unite for the development of the State chapter.

“Besides, the governor can now concentrate on policies that will further promote and enhance the delivery of dividends of democracy to the people of Ondo State”, he argued.

The party boss warned followers

of the two leaders to desist forthwith, from fanning the embers of disunity.

Adetimehin assured that a formidable machinery for comprehensive reconciliation would be set up shortly after the election on Saturday to place the party on a new and stronger pedestal.

He commended the duo for exhibiting a high sense of restraint and maturity while the case lasted in court.

The Supreme Court, sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday struck out the suit instituted by Chief Segun Abraham against Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN. The court held that Abraham failed to file his case within the stipulated 14 days after the cause of action.

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Lagos Lawmaker urges constituents to vote APC Candidates on Saturday A lawmaker in the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Dayo Saka-Fafunmi has urged the residents of his Ifako/Ijaiye Constituency 1 to go out enmasse to vote for all the candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Saturday 9th March, 2019.

Saka-Fafunmi told the people that the governorship candidate of the APC in the state, Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu and the candidates for the state House of Assembly meant well for the people of the state.

The lawmaker spoke at a ceremony, where he gave out 60 sewing machines to graduates of his sewing institute, who spent a year undergoing sewing lessons at his expense and several school bags to some primary school pupils in the the constituency.

In his opening remarks at the event, which held at his constituency office along College Road, Ifako/Ijaiye, Hon. Dayo Saka-Fafunmi said that the sewing machines were given out in fulfillment of his promise to the students of the institute, when they were enrolled for the free training programme.

“I wanted to fulfill my promise to empower the fashion students with sewing machines. I made it a duty to fulfill my promise despite the fact that I am not contesting for any elective position now.

“You were here for more than one year, the best among you would be encouraged and what I did was based on recommendations because I didn’t know any of you.

“I also want all of you to come out enmasse to support the APC in the Saturday March 9, 2019 elections.

“Take an advantage of the donation and make exploit in life. If you want this kind of programme to continue, ensure that the progressives get into office in the state,” he said The lawmaker later said in an interview with journalists that the

reason for the gathering was for him to mobilise his constituents to vote for the APC candidates on Saturday 9th March election.

While saying that entrepreneurship was a good way to reduce unemployment in the country, Saka-Fafunmi stressed that he had been doing the programme since he got into the Assembly 12 years ago.

“I am doing this for them to know that they should not depend on anybody and be hardworking.

Some of them can even come together to start a company and be employers of labour.

“About 100 of them are graduating today, but we are giving sewing machines to 60 of them, who have excelled.

“I will continue to help my people in whatever way I can. The youths should be hardworking, they should not limit themselves to the Information Technology world, they should be hardworking,” he said.

One of the graduands, Titilope Alonge, said that she went to the institute to be a designer and that she learned the basics there, adding that she was proud to be a product of the institute.

Another graduand, Johnson Rebecca gave thanks to God for the opportunity to be at the institute, adding that the time she spent there was not a waste.

“We were taught beyond what they should teach us. I want to encourage the lawmaker to continue the programme,” she said.

The empowerment programme and graduation ceremony featured awards of Advanced Certificate in Tailoring & Fashion Design to graduands, donation of sewing machines, donation of free school bags to students and pep talks.

Guests at the event included Onifako of Ifako, Oba Taofeek Fadunsi Obawole, former Sole Administrator of Ifako Ijaiye LG, Hon. Raji Label, Hon. Folajinmi among others.

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FRANKLYNN JOHNSON I WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FRANKLYNN SEIDU BUT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FRANKLYNN JOHNSON OGWEDA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID, THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN, CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS INWEREGBU NKEIRUKA HENRIETTA. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS IYAMA NKEIRUKA HENRIETTE. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

IYAMA NKEIRUKA

ATAGUBA TITILAYO I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADETAYO TITILAYO OLUSOLA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESS AS ATAGUBA TITILAYO OLUSOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE NOTE

ZALIHA GARBA I FORMALLY KNOWN AS ZALIHA GARBA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ZALIHA GARBA ADAMU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

IGALA GRASSROOT VOICE FOUNDATION, ANAMBRA WEST 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, 1990.

TRUSTEES: 1. CHUKWUEMEKA ROBERT OBIAJULU 2. IBRAHIM ERNEST OJOCHEGBE 3. DANJUMA JAMES MANOR

GOOD NEIGHBOURS’ INTERNATIONAL CLUB OF NIGERIA - ABUJA CAC/IT/NO 81345

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

OLD TRUSTEES: 1. GODWIN IBEGBU - RETAINED 2. CHARLES ALA - RETAINED. 3. STANLEY OGUEJIOFOR - RETAINED. 4. DANIEL MBA - REMOVED. 5. EZE BENEDICT - REMOVED 6. VICTOR NWAJAH - REMOVED.

AIMS/OBJECTIVE: 1. TO FOSTER LOVE AND UNITY AMONG ITS MEMBERS IN ANAMBRA AND NIGERIA AT LARGE. 2. TO BRING TO AN END ALL BOUNDARIES DISPUTES AMONG THE VARIOUS COMMUNITIES IN IGALA LAND. 3. EDUCATING MEMBERS ON MORAL, CULTURAL AND SOCIAL VALUES.

NEWLY APPOINTED TRUSTEES ARE:1. NDUBUISI UCHE 2. BONIFACE NNAMANI. 3. BATHOLOMEW UGWU 4. EMMANUEL EZEAKA 5. SAMSON IBE 6. JOHN OBASI 7. CHIDIEBERE ONYELABALU.

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, MAITAMA ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES REMAIN THE SAME

SIGNED: SECRETARY

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

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PUBLIC NOTICE

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT MR OYEWOLE MANASSE OLAYINKA NO LONGER ACTS AS A DIRECTOR OF SBC CONSTRUCTION AND ENGINEERING COMPANY LIMITED WITH R C. N O. 121519.

SIGNED: MR OYEWOLE MANASSE OLAYINKA

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

TRUSTEES 1. BADMUS KOLAWOLE GANIU 2. BADMUS OLAMILEKAN RAZAQ. 3. BADMUS OMOSHOLAPE AYOMIDE. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO LOAN OUR HEARTS TO ALMIGHTY ALLAH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE HOLY QUR’AN, 2:245. THROUGH LECTURES AND ENLIGHTENMENT PROGRAMS, 2. TO MAKE THE RELIGION OF ISLAM FULLY GROUNDED IN NIGERIA AND TO ALSO HELP MUSLIMS BROTHER’S AND SISTERS RETRACE THEIR STEPS BACK TO ALMIGHTY ALLAH. 3. TO PROVIDE MAINTENANCE TO MOSQUE IN RURAL AREAS THAT ARE HAVING STRUCTURAL DEFECTS AND ALSO PROVIDE PRAYER MATERIALS LACKING IN OUR LOCAL MOSQUE. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: TRUSTEES

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. PROPHET ELISHA DANIEL USENOBONG - PRESIDENT 2. PASTOR INIOBONG ANIEFIOK DANIEL - VICE PRESIDENT 3. EVANG. KINGSLEY AKPAN SIMON - SECRETARY 4. EVANG. MBUOTIDEM EDET JAMES - TREASURER AIMS/OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE WORD OF GOD, WINNING OF SOUL, SALVATION, HEALING AND DELIVERANCE. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: PRESIDENT

LOSS OF DOCUMENT

THIS IS TO NOTIFY THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF THE LOSS OF A CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY REGISTERED AS :83/83/1995C COVERING ALL THAT PARCEL OF LAND MEASURING APPROXIMATELY 859.184 SQUARE METERS SITUATE AT PLOT 3692,BLOCK 86A,AMUWO ODOFIN RESIDENTIAL SCHEME,AMUWO ODOFIN,LAGOS. IF FOUND, PLEASE CONTACT THE SOLICITOR, C.O MBAGHO ESQ ON 08030459438 OR THE DIVISIONAL POLICE OFFICER, FESTAC TOWN, LAGOS.

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN EMPOWERMENT FOUNDATION

DELIVERANCE OF IKALE LAND AND ITS INDIGENES MINISTRY

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

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

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. JAMILA GIMBA (PRESIDENT) 2. FOLAKE OLATINWO (SECRETARY) 3. MARYAM GARBA 4. ZAINAB GIMBA 5. AMINA GIMBA 6. ABIGAIL ORHONOR 7. HABIBA LAWAL 8. FOLAKE OLATINWO 9. FATIMA MUSA 10. JUSTIN PEARSE 11. ANYALEWA ATTAH 12. OLABANJI ENIOLA

TRUSTEES ARE: 1.PASTOR OLUSEGUN BABINISI- GENERAL PRESIDENT (WORLDWIDE) 2.MRS FUNMILAYO BABINISI -VICE PRESIDENT 3.MRS OLAYINKA OLABODE -SECRETARY 4.BRO OLUGBENGA BABINISI - P. R. O. 5.BRO.ABIODUN AIYEYUNMI-TREASURER

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1) DEDICATED TO THE EDUCATION AND EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN THROUGH PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOPS AND MENTORING PROGRAMS; 2) USING LIFE LESSONS OF SUCCESSFUL WOMEN IN SOCIETY AS A POINT REFERENCE FOR YOUNG WOMEN IN ORDER TO EMPOWER AND MOTIVATE CHANGE IN THEIR LIVES AND SOCIETY IN THE BEST WAY POSSIBLE. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, PMB 198, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY.

SUPER ABUNDANT GRACE LIFE MINISTRY

AIM AND OBJECTIVES: 1.TO BRING TOGETHER AND CONNECT ALL THE INDIGENES OF IKALE LAND (WORLDWIDE) IN LOVE UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF CHRIST. 2. TO PRAYERFULLY JOIN ALL EFFORTS TOGETHER TO ADDRESS SPIRITUAL, ECONOMIC AND OTHER PROBLEMS MILITATING AGAINST THE PROGRESS OF IKALE COMMUNITIES AND THE INDIGENES. 3. TO PRAYERFULLY JOIN HANDS TOGETHER TO ADDRESS DEMONIC POWERS OPERATING IN EVERY IKALE COMMUNITY, AND TO RAISE AGGRESSIVE END TIME INDIGENOUS PRAYER WARRIORS FOR THE LORD EVERYWHERE. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL,CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION,PLOT 420,TIGRIS CRESCENTS, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MALTAIMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: PRESIDENT

CHRIST SAINT DELIVERANCE MISSION INT’L

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

TRUSTEES ARE 1.OKIBE NNAEMEKA BURNINGBUSSH 2.OMENMAH BLESSING NGOZI 3. JOMBO CHRISTABEL ADAKU 4.EVANS JOY OSEMEIKHIAH AIMS: TO REVEAL JESUS CHRIST TO THE WORLD BY THE UNDILUTED WORD OF GOD THROUGH THE REVELATIONS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 2. TO TEACH/PREACH THE MESSAGE OF SALVATION AND HOLINESS TO ALL NATION AND TRIBES. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: TRUSTEES

ALTAR ORPHANAGE HOME

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

TRUSTEES NAMES ARE: 1. AGUIYI SUNNY BASIL 2 AGUIYI DOREEN CHISOM AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: TO PROVIDE HOME FOR THE ABANDONED ORPHANS AND MOTHELESS BABIES TO PROVIDE SHELTER FOR THE NEEDY E.G ORPHANS, STREET CHILDREN AND HANDICAPPED PEOPLE. 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: AGUIYU SUNNY BASIL

DISCLAIMER

I, MR. ABAYOMI OLOWO HEREBY NOTIFY THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT I DID NOT AND HAVE NOT AUTHORIZED MRS.ABIMBOLA OLAIBI (NEE OLOWO) OR ANY OTHER PERSON TO ACT ON MY BEHALF IN THE SALE OR TRANSFER OF TITLE OF ANY OF THE PROPERTIES IN THE ESTATE OF MY LATE MOTHER MRS. REMILEKUN COMFORT OWO (NEE OSIMOYE). ANY SUCH AUTHORIZATION SHALL BE DONE BY EXECUTION OF RELEVANT DOCUMENT THROUGH MY LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE. THUS, ANYBODY WHO DEALS WITH OR DEALT WITH THE SAID MRS. ABIMBOLA OLAIBI(NEE OLOWO) OR ANY OTHER PERSON PURPORTING TO ACT ON MY BEHALF IN THE MANNER STATED ABOVE DOES SO AT HIS/HER OWN PERIL. SIGN: ………………………………….

MR. ABAYOMI OLOWO

THE PORT HARCOURT LEBANON CLUB CAC/IT/NO. 5205

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

THIS IS TO NOTIFY THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED CLUB HAS APPLIED FOR THE CHANGE OF THE ITS ENTIRE TRUSTEES TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC),ABUJA UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1990

TRUSTEES: 1. PASTOR GODWIN EMMANUEL

2. MRS. HAPPINESS NGOZI EMMANUEL 3. ELDER SUNDAY ELIJAH

4. EFFIONG PHILIP ESIFA

5. EUNICE AVECHI ORLU

TRUSTEES ARE: 1 MR. ISREAL ARCHIBONG, 2 MR. JOSEPH JACOBS, 3MRS. DEBORAH AYERITTE 4, MRS. GLORY GEORGE NYAH(SECRETARY) 5 PST. IMAOBONG EKOIMOH(SNR PST)

THE OLD TRUSTEES ARE 1. CHIEF NNANTA SUNDAY WOLUCHEM - REMOVED 2. CHIEF MICHAEL AZAR - REMOVED 3. MR. JOSEPH S. CHIDIAC - REMOVED 4. MR. A. M OSSEIRAN ALI - REMOVED 5. MR. AMIN HABID - REMOVED

-GENERAL OVERSEER -SECRETARY -P.R.O -MEMBER -MEMBER

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST TO ALL MANKIND 2. TO ENGAGE IN CHARITY ACTIVITIES

AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST AS PRESENTED IN THE HOLY BIBLE AND STATEMENT OF FAITH

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: CS NOMINEES

SIGNED: SECRETARY

THE NEW TRUSTEES ARE 1. MR. TONY CHARLES SOLOMON - APPOINTED 2. MR. JEAN ADEL MATTER - APPOINTED 3. MR. ROLAND .G. FADDOUL - APPOINTED 4. MR. CHIEF NABIL SALEH - APPOINTED 5. MR. ROBERT. M. MAKHLOUF - APPOINTED THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE CLUB REMAINS THESAME 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 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: BARR CHIKWENDU OGECHI. 08035696116

LGC SOCIETY OF SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO THE PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED SOCIETY HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION AT THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC), ABUJA UNDER THE PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT.

THE AIMS OF THE SOCIETY ARE: 1. TO PROMOTE AND DEVELOP THE INTERDISCIPLINARY FOUNDATIONS OF SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING AS AN ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL DISCIPLINE. 2. TO PROMOTE INITIATIVES TO BRIDGE THE GAPS BETWEEN SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING.

MILLIONAIRE AFRICAN LEADERS’ CLUB

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: (1) BENNY, PRINCESS CHIDIMMA--PRESIDENT (2) OKWUIKPO, KEN ONYEKWERE --SECRETARY

TRUSTEES: 1. DR. FATINIKUN, KENNETH OLABODE - CHAIRMAN 2. MS. DAVID GODSPOWER, NGOZI MARTHA - SECRETARY 3. MS. ANOZIE, UDOKAKU EBERE - TREASURER

AIMS & OBJECTIVES: (1) TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF THE LESS-PRIVILEGED IN THE SOCIETY. (2) TO EMPOWER YOUNG PEOPLE FOR SELF RELIANCE.

MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE. ANY OBJECTION(S) TO THE REGISTRATION OF THE SOCIETY SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CAC, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, P.M.B. MAITAMA, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE 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, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: CHIKWADO BENNEDICTA IFEANACHO PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER

SIGNED: BENNY, PRINCESS CHIDIMMA --PRESIDENT

SPRING OF GRACE ASSEMBLY

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: (1) UDOH, DIVINE ASUQUO -PRESIDENT (2) EYO EDET—SECRETARY (3) BENJAMIN ONYEDIKACHI (4) AKUMW, THELSON OKPARA AIMS & OBJECTIVES: (1) TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST TO THE WHOLE WORLD (2) TO REDEEM LOST SOULS BACK TO GOD. (3) TO HELP THE LESS PRIVILEGED IN THE SOCIETY. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: UDOH, DIVINE ASUQUO --PRESIDENT

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GRASS ROOT GOOD GOVERNANCE INITIATIVE

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.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1) MR. FELIX ENYI UCHE 2) MR. GODSON OKECHUKWU SAMPSON AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1) TO ADVOCATE THE PRINCIPLES OF GOOD GOVERNANCE 2) TO ENGAGE IN VOTERS EDUCATION / CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT 3) TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE FROM ABUSE, EXPLOITATION, AND UNFAIR TREATMENT BY ANY GOVERNMENT AGENCY 4) TO FIGHT AGAINST EXPLOITATION, INJUSTICE AND CORRUPTION IF FOUND AGAINST ANY INDIVIDUAL, CLASS, ORGANIZATION OR COMMUNITY IN THE SOCIETY 5) TO EDUCATE THE PEOPLE ON HOW TO HOLD THE GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABLE. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

JUNE FOUR GARDENS LANDLORDS/RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION,OSAPA-LEKKI,LAGOS.

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE MENTIONED NAME HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC), ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OSAYANDE FAMOUS TINA NOBLE - CHAIRMAN 2. UGWUANYI JOEL OBINNA - SECRETARY 3. ADIEME NELLY THERESA - TRUSTEE 4. FAMOUS MURPHY OSIFO - TRUSTEE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO REACH OUT TO THE LESS PRIVILEGED IN THE SOCIETY 2. TO TRANSFORM LIVES THROUGH CAREER EMPOWERMENT AND SKILL ACQUISITION ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: OSAYANDE FAMOUS TINA NOBLE CHAIRMAN

SERENA AMARA JOSEPH FOUNDATION THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC) FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART ‘C’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1990.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: (1)TO AIDS THE LESS PRIVILEDGE CHILDREN ON THE STREET. (2)TO PROVIDE SUPPORT TO THE DISABILITY CHILDREN (3)TO PROVIDE FEEDING TO THE POOR PEOPLE .

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

CHRIST APOSTLES EVANGELICAL AND HEALING MINISTRY THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC) FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART ‘C’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1990.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES 1. ABRAHAM TIMOTHY OLUSEGUN 2. ABRAHAM OLUWASEYI JOSHUA 3. OLADIMEJI OLADIRAN EZEKIEL 4.KUKU OLABISI CHRISTIANA AIM AND OBJECTIVE. TO PRRACH THE GOSPEL 2. TO EVANGELISE THE WORD OF GOD. 3. TO WIN SOUL TO THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST. 4. TO ORGANIZE SEMINAR S AND TRAINING SCHOOL FOR THE YOUTH. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, P.M.B. 198, MAITAMA, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

TRUSTEES 1. AWOSEMUSI MODUPE HELEN 2. FAMAKINWA VICTORIA OMOWUNMI 3. BADA AHMED OLASUPO

AIMS & OBJECTIVES ARE. 1. TO PRIMARILY PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF EVERY MEMBER OF THIS ASSOCIATION, AND IN THE SAME VEIN PROTECT ALSO THEIR INTEREST. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET, PMB 198, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DAY OF THIS PUBLICATION.

RONKE BIMPE FAJEMISIN

I WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS:OLUYEYE FATIMAH ADEDOYIN AND NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS:ADEBAYO FATIMAH ADEDOYIN ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

OGOEGBULEM CHIBUZOR I FORMERLY KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS CHIBUZOR OGOEGBULEM VERONICA AMAKA. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS OGOEGBULEM CHIBUZOR VERONICA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MUHAMMAD ADEKUNLE

I WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS HUSAIN ADEKUNLE OSENI AND NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MUHAMMAD ADEKUNLE OSENI ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

AIM TO PROMOTE THE PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN AGAINST GENDER BASED VIOLENCE. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

AJOGUN KRISTI GOSPEL CHURCH

ALMIGHTY POWER OF GOD INTERCEDING MINISTRY

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

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED MINISTRY 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) PASTOR MS. HELEN OMOYELE BAKRE -- GENERAL OVERSEER (2) MS. BUSAYO PRECIOUS AKINWALE -- SECRETARY (3) MS FELICIA FUNKE ADEYEMI (4) MS. OLUWABUKOLA MOTUNRAYO ADEDIGBA

THE TRUSTEES ARE:(1) AJAYI FESTUS ADENOLA -CHAIRMAN (2) AJAYI JULIET IYABO ABISOLA - VICE CHAIRMAN (3) AJAYI OLUWATOSIN ADEOLA-MEMBER (4) WINTER OLUBUKOLA OLUKEMI- GENERAL SECRETARY (5) AJAYI KOLAWOLE OLUSOLA-MEMBER (6) AJAYI OLAMIDE ADETOLA -MEMBER (7) OYEKUNLE MODUPE TEMITOPE -MEMBER (8) OKUSAGA MUKAILA ISHOLA BAMIDELE -MEMBER

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE:(1) TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST TO THE WHOLE WORLD. (2) TO ASSIST THE LESS PRIVILEGED. (3) TO PROVIDE HUMANITARIAN SERVICES AS A CHRISTIAN ESTABLISHMENT FOR THE SOCIETY. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, P.M.B. 198, MAITAMA, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED BY: ABIMBOLA A. AKINLAGUN ESQ

NOMSYCARES FOUNDATION

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

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1)TAKING HAPPINESS AND RELIEF TO TEENS/YOUTHS IN RELATIVELY INACCESSIBLE AREAS, AND CREATING A WORLD OF HAPPY, PASSION FILLED YOUNG NIGERIANS 2) HELPING TO DISCOVER, FINE TUNE GIFTS AND TALENTS IN YOUNG DISADVANTAGED NIGERIAN YOUTHS AND HELPING THEM EXPLORE ALL OPPORTUNITIES. 3) TO HELP THEM BECOME GOAL ORIENTED, GINGERED INTO TAKING ACTION, DARE TO DREAM AND HOLD TENACIOUSLY TO THEIR DREAMS TILL THEY ARE ACTUALIZED ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, P.M.B. 198, MAITAMA, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE IS: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, P.M.B. 198, MAITAMA, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED BY: SECRETARY

042 POWERFUL FRIENDS CLUB OF COAL CITY THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED 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. OBI CHINEDU DESMOND 2. OKONKWO SAMUEL UGOCHUKWU 3. ONWUMELU GERALD 4. CHIME NOSIKE ANTHONY 5. EDE SUNDAY AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO CATER TO THE INTEREST OF IT’S MEMBERS 2. TO HELP IT’MEMBERS WHEN IN NEED. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, P.M.B. 198, MAITAMA, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED SECRETARY

SIGNED: NJOKU CHINOMSO EUNICE

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THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED 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) SULAEMON IBRAHIM KAYODE AS THE IMMAM (2) NAFIU IBRAHIM OLAKUNMI -FINANCIAL SECRETARY (3) AZEEZ IBRAHIM BIODUN AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO PROPAGATE ISLAMIC DOCTRINE. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, P.M.B. 198, MAITAMA, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED SECRETARY

SIGNED BY SECRETARY

I FORMERLY KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS RASHIDAT FAJEMISIN. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS RONKE BIMPE FAJEMISIN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE INITIATIVE FOUNDATION.

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ARE: 1.ASHOGBON FESTUS OLABODE. 2.ASHOGBON AUSTIN ADEDOYIN. 3.ASHOGBON PATRICK ADEFOLARIN. 4.EWEKA FLORENCE ISOKEN. 5.ABOLO JOAN FUNMILAYO.

TRUSTEES ARE: 1.NJOKU CHINOMSO EUNICE 2. NJOKU RUTH CHINASA 3.INNOCENT OLUCHI PRISCA

THE NAME OF TRUSTEE (1)EBHODAGHE SYLVESTER EHIMEN. (2)JOSEPH SERENA AMARA. (3)JOSEPH MARY ADAEZE (4)JOSEPH OBINNA JOHN

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

SIGNED BY; TRUSTEES.

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

SIGNED: MRS. VIVIAN OKONKWO (SECRETARY)

ADEBAYO FATIMAH

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ADEBIMPE OLUBO

ADEBISI ADEBAMBO

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS. ROSELINE OLOGBOSERE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEBIMPE OLUBO , ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ISSA AMINAT TEMITOPE NOW WISH TO BE KNWON AND ADDRESSED AS ADEBISI ADEBAMBO ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

EZENGWA GIFT I WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AND CALLED AS AYOBORE MARIAM EZE AND NOW TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EZENGWA GIFT FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE..

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED ASAMUDA. ISMAIL ENIOLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FOLAHANMI ISMAIL ENIOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

FOLAHANMI ISMAIL

GRACESOME ROYALTY

I FORMERLY KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS OBEMBE ADENIKE DORCAS. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS GRACESOME ROYALTY ADENIKE DORCAS. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CHRISTOPHER GLORY I FORMERLY KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS ESSIET GLORY UBONG. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS CHRISTOPHER GLORY UBONG, DUE TO MARRIAGE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ADEBAYO AMINAT

: I WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS :OLATUNJI AMINAT ADEWUNMI AND NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS:ADEBAYO AMINAT ADEWUNMI ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

EKAWU LIVINUS

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ANDREW EGBODOR LIVINUS NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS: EKAWU LIVINUS EGBODOR. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

TAFA ALIYAT ADETAYO

I FORMERLY KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS ADEDIRAN ALIYAT ADETAYO. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS TAFA ALIYAT ADETAYO, DUE TO MARRIAGE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CORRECTION OF NAME::

THAT SOME OF MY DOCUMENTS MY NAME WAS MISTAKENLY WRITTEN AS ALASON FATATI INSTEAD OF ALASON FOLORUNSHO FATAI IN MY (BVN). THAT MY CORRECT NAME IS ALASON FOLORUNSHO FATAI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OYEDELE DAMILOLA

I WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EDWARD DAMILOLA RUTH AND NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OYEDELE DAMILOLA RUTH ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

EKAWU LIVINUS

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ANDREW EGBODOR LIVINUS NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS: EKAWU LIVINUS EGBODOR. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

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RAPHEAL SOLOMON I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BOROKINNI OLUWATOMISIN RAPHEAL NOW WISHES TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS RAPHEAL SOLOMON OLUWATOMISIN. ALL FORMAL DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID, NIGERIA IMMIGRATION SERVICE AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

AGIDIGBI BOSE EREKPETAN

MY NAME WAS MISTAKENLY WRITTEN IN MY BANK ACCOUNT AS AGIDIGBI BOSE FELICIA INSTEAD OF AGIDIGBI BOSE EREKPETAN . NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AGIDIGBI BOSE EREKPETAN . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID .

BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

CONFIRMATION

OF NAME

CONFIRMATION OF NAMES

That, ADEYINKA OMOLARA ABOSEDE and AKINYEMI REMILEKUN AYODEJI are my names. I now wish to known as MRS. AKINYEMI OMOLARA ABOSEDE. All former documents remain valid. FCMB and the public to take note

MRS OLADOTUN MOJISOLA

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OLATUNJI MOJISOLA AMINAT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OLADOTUN MOJISOLA AMINAT . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

BOLAJOKO FOLAKE

ADEKANYE OLUMUYIWA

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEKANYE OLUMUYIWA OLALEKAN NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEKANYE OLUMUYIWA ADURA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OMIKUNLE SYLVESTER

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OMIKUNLE SYLVESTRE TEMIDAYO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OMIKUNLE SYLVESTER JOSHUA.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

EWALEIFOH FRANCISCA

OGAH PHILIP AND OGEDE PHILIP REFERS TO THE SAME PERSON .THESE NAMES ARE MINE AND ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING THESE NAMES REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERN AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED PLEASE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OWOLABI FOLAKE GRACE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BOLAJOKO FOLAKE GRACE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AREBAIMHEN FRANCISCA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EWALEIFOH FRANCISCA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC/ AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CHUKWUGOZIE JOSEPHINE

JOHNPAUL AMARA

ZAID OLADAYO

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ULASI JOSEPHINE PRINCESS, NOW TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHUKWUGOZIE JOSEPHINE PRINCESS. ALL DOCUMENT BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID, AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

MRS ZAINAB SULEIMAN

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JOHNPAUL AMARA NEBOLISA, NOW TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JOHNPAUL AMARA ABISI. ALL DOCUMENT BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

MAKINDE BISOLA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AS MRS ZAINAB ADESOBA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ZAINAB SULEIMAN HASSAN. FEDERAL AIRPORTS AUTHORITY OF NIGERIA AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS RASHEED BISOLA MONSURAT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MAKINDE BISOLA MONSURAT RASHEED ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

MRS VERISSIMO FRANCISCA

ADEBOWALE ESTHER

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS VERISSIMO FRANCA ADEBISI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS VERISSIMO FRANCISCA ADEBISI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

OJEYEMI GANIYAT

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AJANI ESTHER, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEBOWALE ESTHER ADEWUNMI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

MRS OBOH GOODLUCK

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLADAYO KAYODE BISI-OLUWOLE, NOW TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ZAID OLADAYO BISIRIYU. ALL DOCUMENT BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

OLUSANYA ABIMBOLA FORMERLY ASHAOLU ABIMBOLA YETUNDE, NOW OLUSANYA ABIMBOLA YETUNDE. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

NWAJEI ELIZABETH

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IGUDIA ELIZABETH NGOZI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWAJEI ELIZABETH NGOZI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

UKOHA ELIZABETH

.FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS TAIWO ADESOKAN ADEOLA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OJEYEMI GANIYAT. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

.FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OTABOR AMENAWON MAUREEN, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OBOH GOODLUCK AMENAWON JOY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EME OLUCHI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UKOHA ELIZABETH OLUCHI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

MRS OWOH PRINCESS

AROWOLO OPEYEMI

MRS AKINBOBOYE-OKEOWO

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UMANA PRINCESS SUNDAY, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OWOH PRINCESS ISRAEL. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BADMUS OPEYEMI TOLANI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AROWOLO OPEYEMI TOLANI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

TALABI YETUNDE

MRS ALAMUTU MAYOWA

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS KOSOKO ODUNAYO, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS TALABI YETUNDE ODUNAYO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

ARANSIOLA-AKEREJOLA

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OGUNSAKIN MAYOWA JANET, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ALAMUTU MAYOWA JANET. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

BABATUNDE SHAKIRAT

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OKEOWO DOLAPO TAIWO, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS AKINBOBOYE-OKEOWO TAIWO DOLAPO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

ADEREMI SARAH

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWANZE SARAH ADENIKE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEREMI SARAH ADENIKE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

OLAYINKA GRACE

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ARANSIOLA OLADUNNI ELIZABETH, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ARANSIOLA-AKEREJOLA OLADUNNI ELIZABETH. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS KHADIJAT AJOKE BADMUS, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BABATUNDE SHAKIRAT JOKE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IBRAHIM OMOLOLA HALILATU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLAYINKA GRACE OMOLOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

MRS NWOHA CHINWE

MRS KEMI FELICIA

MRS VIVIAN CHINONYELUM

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IGWESI CHINWE MIRACLE JULIET NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS NWOHA CHINWE MIRACLE JULIET .

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

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS KEMI FELICIA ADEYEMI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS KEMI FELICIA OSOBA . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS VIVIAN CHINONYELUM UGWUMBA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS VIVIAN CHINONYELUM CHIBUIKE . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

MRS ORENUGA ADEOLA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ADELEYE ADEOLA OKESOLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ORENUGA ADEOLA OKESOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS ONI KEHINDE I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OLUTOLA KEHINDE JULIANAH NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ONI KEHINDE JULIANAH.ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

NWAMBA PEACE I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS PEACE EHIKIOYA OTOSOROCHUKWU, NOW TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWAMBA PEACE OTOSOROCHUKWU AND MY DATE OF BIRTH IS 21/04/1998 NOT 21/04/1990. ALL DOCUMENT BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID, AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

ADEBOWALE WOSILAT

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BASHIRU WOSILA ABEBI, NOW TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEBOWALE WOSILAT. ALL DOCUMENT BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

IGBERAES BLESSING FORMERLY KNOWN AS UBUANE BLESSING IGBERAES NOW KNOWN AS IGBERAES BLESSING .

FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE. FELICIA JEROME

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FELICIA IYEKE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FELICIA JEROME AGWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

AROWOLO JESSICA

OSHO MUINAT

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OSHO MUINAT FAITH NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OSHO MUINAT OLANIKE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

UDOH GENEVIVE

I,UDOH GENEVIVE ANURLICKA IS THE SAME PERSON AS UDOH GENEVIVE,NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESS AS UDOH GENEVIVE . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED TAKE NOTE.

ADENIJI ADEBOWALE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADENIJI ABRAHAM ADEBOWALE, NOW TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADENIJI ADEBOWALE ADEDIMEJI. ALL DOCUMENT BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID, AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

MUSTAPHA BABATUNDE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MUSTAPHA OWOLABI RASAK, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MUSTAPHA BABATUNDE RASAK. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

ROBINSON OLUWATOSIN

FORMERLY SHENKOMAIYA OLUWATOSIN REBECCA NOW TO BE ADDRESSED AS ROBINSON OLUWATOSIN OLUBUNMI. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

ADDITION OF NAME

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS RAHMAN WASIU, NOW WISH TO ADD ALGAMAWI TO MY NAME. HENCEFORTH, I WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS RAHMAN WASIU ALGAMAWI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

DADA REMILEKUN CHRISTINAH

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS GIWA JESSICA ABOSEDE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AROWOLO JESSICA GIWA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AMOSU REMILEKUN CHRISTINAH, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS DADA REMILEKUN CHRISTINAH. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

MRS ABIDEMI ESTHER

ADDITION OF NAME

.FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ABIDEMI MUJIDAT KADIRI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ABIDEMI ESTHER KADIRI OKESOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

NWACHUKWU NKECHI

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SERAH SABASTINE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWACHUKWU NKECHI AUGUSTA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

ONATADE DAMILOLA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ODEBIYI DAMILOLA MOJISOLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ONATADE DAMILOLA MOJISOLA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

IZOHO CHARITY

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EHUJO CHARITY CHIDINMA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IZOHO CHARITY CHIDINMA . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AKOETE KOFI, NOW WISH TO ADD SEGUN TO MY NAME. HENCEFORTH, I WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AKOETE KOFI SEGUN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

ADEPOJU DEBORAH

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEPOJU DEBRA OMON, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEPOJU DEBORAH OMON. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

ABIMBOLA SUSAN AYININUOLA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ABIMBOLA SUSAN AJALA-AYININUOLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ABIMBOLA SUSAN AYININUOLA. MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 26TH AUGUST, 1977. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

OLADIMEJI OLARENWAJU I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGUNTADE OLANREWAJU OLADIMEJI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLADIMEJI OLARENWAJU ADEFUNKE. MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 12/07/1969 . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

MRS OYEDERU WILLIAMS

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OYETUNJI ADESOLA OLUWAYEMISI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OYEDERU WILLIAMS ADESOLA OLUWAYEMISI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

EKENE OKONKWO.

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EKENE EZISI LUKE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EKENE OKONKWO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

JOY PETER

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JOY OCHOLI, NOW TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS JOY PETER. ALL DOCUMENT BEARING MY FORMER NAME REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITY CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

TEMITOPE REBECCA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AWOKOYA TEMITOPE REBECCA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IGE TEMITOPE REBECCA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

MRS MICHAEL ESTHER I, FORMERLY MISS. ESTHER IKEDIASHI IKEDIASHI NOW MRS MICHAEL ESTHER IFEOMA. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE MBABIE ANTHONY

.FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IHEANACHO ANTHONY CHIGOZIE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MBABIE ANTHONY CHIGOZIE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

ATSU GLORIA

.FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ANYANGBE GLORIA OSARUMESE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ATSU GLORIA OSARUMESE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

NOJEEB ORIOLA

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NOJEED AGUNBIADE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NOJEEB ORIOLA AGUNBIADE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

MRS AFOLAYAN ESTHER

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS SOEWU ESTHER ABIODUN, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS AFOLAYAN ESTHER ABIODUN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

SADIQ ADETOKUNBO

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OSISAMI ADETOKUNBO TITILAYO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SADIQ ADETOKUNBO TITILAYO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

AGAEZIUMA ELECHI

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AGAEZIUMA IKPO ELECHI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AGAEZIUMA ELECHI CONFIDENCE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

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OBIANUJU JULIET

EJIEKPE BLESSING

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OBIANUJU JULIET OBINEZU NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OBIANUJU JULIET EZIEKWE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKORO BLESSING UGOCHI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EJIEKPE BLESSING UGOCHI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

OSINUGA STELLA

SHANU OLUWABANKE

. I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OSINUGA STELLA OSIBODU NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OSINUGA STELLA AYODELE . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS LYDIA OLUWABANKE AJAYI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SHANU OLUWABANKE LYDIA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

ADENIJI ADEBOWALE

CORRECTION OF NAME.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADENIJI ADEBOWALE ABRAHAM NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADENIJI ADEBOWALE ADEDIMEJI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

MRS. CYNTHIA CHINYERE

IN SOME OF MY DOCUMENTS (BVN) MY NAME WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AS PROPHET SOLOMON EDETH INSTEAD OF EDETH KELVIN SOLOMON . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

OKEDU OKECHUKWU

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHINYERE CYNTHIA OKEKE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. CYNTHIA CHINYERE NDUKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ONYEGBULA OKEDU OKECHUKWU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKEDU OKECHUKWU EMMANUEL. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

AJAYI OLUWADAMILARE

CHRISTIAN ONYINYECHI

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADIGUN ORIYOMI MICHEAL, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AJAYI OLUWADAMILARE OLOLADE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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

OBANILEH PAUL

MATTHEW THIBITHIBI

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ABUBAKAR PAUL KAREEM , NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OBANILEH PAUL ZAKUWAH . ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

REBECCA UDU

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MATHEW KOLIOWI SAMUEL , NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MATTHEW THIBITHIBI SAMUEL .

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

OZUZU CHIDIEBERE

CONFIRMATION OF NAME:

THIS IS TO CONFIRM THAT, OKPARA CHISOM JULIET, OKPARA CHISOM PRINCESS AND OKPARA CHISOM IS THE SAME PERSON, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OKPARA CHISOM JULIET. MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 14/02/1998. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

CHUKWUKA KENECHUKWU

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWANKWO KENECHUKWU WINNER NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHUKWUKA KENECHUKWU WINNER . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME. IN SOME OF MY DOCUMENTS MY NAME WAS WRITTEN AS SIMIATU ABEJE JIMOH; SIMIATU JIMOH; JIMOH SIMIAT ABEJE WHILE IN SOME OTHER DOCUMENTS IT WAS WRITTEN AS SIMIAT ABEJE JIMOH AND SIMIAT ABEJE OLONADE .I AM THE ONE BEARING ALL THE NAMES. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING THE NAMES ARE VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

MRS. UZOWULU OGOCHUKWU I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS CHUKWUEMEKA OGOCHUKWU GIFT, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. UZOWULU OGOCHUKWU CHUKWUEMEKA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

UBAKA URE CHIDINMA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, NKWOCHA URE CHIDINMA MUKOSOLU, WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, UBAKA URE CHIDINMA MUKOSOLU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

MRS UBAHA PRISCILLA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ESSIEN PRISCILLA EMMANUEL , NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS UBAHA PRISCILLA JOSEPH ,DATE OF BIRTH, 28/8/1973 . ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS AGU CHEKWUBE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ROWLAND EZEANI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS REBECCA UDU EZEANI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OZUZUOKE CHIDIEBERE CHRISTOPHER, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OZUZU CHIDIEBERE CHRISTOPHER. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OZIOKO CHEKWUBE AUGUSTINA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS AGU CHEKWUBE AUGUSTINA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. NYSC AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CHUKWUEMEKA AMAKA

MRS IGWE GRACE

MRS CHUKWUEMEKA JOSEPHINE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHUKWU AMAKA SANDRA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHUKWUEMEKA AMAKA SANDRA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS CHIBUNKEM GRACE ONUIGWE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS IGWE GRACE CHIBUNKEM. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CHIKA CHARLES

MRS EZE GLORIA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHIKA CHINELO NEBO, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHIKA CHARLES NEBO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ISIFE ANAEKWUNIFE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EZEANYANWU MICHAEL, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ISIFE ANAEKWUNIFE MICHAEL. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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

MRS UGWU CHINENYE

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

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS CHUKWU JOSEPHINE IFUNANYA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS CHUKWUEMEKA JOSEPHINE IFUNANYA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. NYSC AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS EGWU CONFIDENCE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS AGHA CONFIDENCE AMA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS EGWU CONFIDENCE UDE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

NWANKWOR JENNIFER

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UZOZIE JENNIFER CHIOMA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWANKWOR JENNIFER CHIOMA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. NYSC, BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CHANGE OF FAMILY SURNAME

CHANGE OF NAME& CORRECTION OF DATE OF BIRTH:

OSERINDE FUNMILAYO

WE, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MR. EMENGAHA DONATUS ONYEBUCHI AND MRS EMENGAHA AUGUSTINA OGOCHUKWU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MR. THEODORE DONATUS ONYEBUCHI AND MRS THEODORE AUGUSTINA OGOCHUKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

THAT DURING MY BANK ACCOUNT MY NAME WAS WRITTEN AS ABAYOMI GBENGA DUROJAIYE, IN MY VOTER’S CARD NAME WRITTEN AS DUROJAIYE ABAYOMI AJIBOLA, NOW WISH TO KNOWN AS DUROJAIYE ABAYOMI AJIBOLA. THAT MY DATE OF BIRTH WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AS 15/02/1985 AND 16/02/1985, WHILE MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 15/02/1981. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS FUNMILAYO BLESSING OSERINDE. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS OSERINDE FUNMILAYO GIFT. THAT MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 25/08/1975. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS ONASANYA ADIJAT

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS BABALOLA ADIJAT MORENIKEJI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ONASANYA ADIJAT MORENIKEJI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

ISAIAH DARLINGTON

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ISAIAH DARLINGTON ELTON NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ISAIAH DARLINGTON CHUKWUEMEKA. MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 10/10 /1995. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

GEORGE EZE I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWABUEZE GEORGE NWACHUKWU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS GEORGE EZE NWABUEZE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CHIELO CYRIL

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHIELO CYRIL IFEANYI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS CHIELO CYRIL NWANKWO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE NOTE.

MBOHO MARY SOLOMON.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AKPAN MARY JOSEPH , NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MBOHO MARY SOLOMON. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OGBOKE IGWE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGBOLE OKEY IGWE , NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGBOKE IGWE . ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

UZOIGWE JUDE MADUABUCHI

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AZI STEPHEN ANAYO, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UZOIGWE JUDE MADUABUCHI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS ODOH CYNTHIA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS AMADI CYNTHIA OLUCHUKWU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ODOH CYNTHIA OLUCHUKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. NYSC AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

DIVINE HAPPINESS I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGBONNA HAPPINESS FEBECHUKWU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS DIVINE HAPPINESS FEBECHUKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. NYSC, BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS AJAH CHINAS I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS UKAH CHINASA LOVELINE AND MISS UKA CHINASA LOVELINE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS AJAH CHINASA LOVELINE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. NYSC AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ATUNDA-OLU TAIWO TITILOPE I FORMERLY KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS TAIWO TITILOPE GBEMISOLA. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN ADDRESSED AND CALLED AS ATUNDAOLU TAIWO TITILOPE GBEMISOLA. ALL FOMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. AUTHORITIES AND GENERAL PUBLIC CORNCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ONWUAMDIKE EDITH

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS MABOM EDITH ONYINYE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ONWUAMDIKE EDITH ONYINYE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

AYINDE-SULAIMON

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AYINDE MUTIAT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AYINDE-SULAIMON MUTIAT OLASUNBO. MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 27/07/1960 NOT 01/01/1940. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

IROEMEH ESTHER

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGU ESTHER OZIOMA , NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IROEMEH ESTHER OZIOMA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OKOYE FRANCIS

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS DIM FRANCIS CHUKWUNONSO, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, OKOYE FRANCIS CHUKWUNONSO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

THAT THE NAMES NWOBODO ABUCHI SAMUEL AND ALIEJIM ABOCHI SAMUEL REFER TO SAME PERSON. THAT I WANT TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ALIEJIM ABOCHI SAMUEL. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

OBIANYO UZOMA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OBIANTO UZOMA AMARACHKWU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OBIANYO UZOMA AMALACHUKWU. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS ONOVO JOY EHUGBO

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS EKE JOY EHUGBO, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ONOVO JOY EHUGBO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. NYSC, BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS EMELOBE DESIRE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS EGBOCHUKWU DESIRE ONYINYE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS EMELOBE DESIRE ONYINYE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. NYSC AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS OGBODO MARYQUEEN

, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ONOVO MARYQUEEN AMARACHI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS OGBODO MARYQUEEN AMARACHI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ANIGBO FLORENCE

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

MABUNMI OMOBOWALE I FORMERLY KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS SOWEMIMO OMOBOWALE OLABOSIPO. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN CALLED AND ADDRESSED AS MABUNMI OMOBOWALE OLABOSIPO, DUE TO MARRIAGE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITIES CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

SALAWU ZAINAB

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEWUNMI SALAMI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SALAWU ZAINAB OLUWANIFEMI. MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 11/03/1991 NOT 11/03/1990.

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

ADEDOYE BUKOLA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AWODIBU BUKOLA TEMILADE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEDOYE BUKOLA TEMILADE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERAL PUBLIC KINDLY TAKE NOTE.

MRS. OJIKA ANITA CHIOMA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS OKEREAFOR ANITA CHIOMA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. OJIKA ANITA CHIOMA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

SAMUEL EKAMA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWAOAGWUGWU FLORENCE EKAMA , NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SAMUEL EKAMA FLORENCE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

EKUNDAYO-NEJO

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EKUNDAYO OLUWASEUN BOLA , NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EKUNDAYO-NEJO OLUWA SEUN BOLA . ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS IGBO ESTHER

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS EZE ESTHER ONYINYE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS IGBO ESTHER ONYINYE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. NYSC AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

EDEH QUEENDALENE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EDEH QUEENDALENE ODINAKACHUKWU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EDEH QUEENDALENE BENJAMIN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

UGWOKE PRISCILLIA CHIDERA

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UGWOKE RAPHELLA CHIDERA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UGWOKE PRISCILLIA CHIDERA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MRS EJIOFOR TOCHUKWU

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

CHANGE OF FAMILY SURNAME WE, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UWAGBOKWU AMOBI NNABUIHE, ROSEMARY NNEBUIHE UWAGBOKWU AND AMOBI ROSEMARY NNEBUIHE UWAGBOKWU, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AMOBI-UWAGBOKWU NNABUIHE CHIKEZIE AND AMOBI-UWAGBOKWU ROSEMARY NNEBUIHE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OLUDARE SUNDAY

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLUDARE SUNDAY OGUNKOYA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLUDARE SUNDAY ILORI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID, GENERA PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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NO. 890

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Who are the ‘Northerners’?

If you go to local health centre, clinic, hospital or any health facility in Nigeria, the first thing attendants would do is to bring out a form or card and begin to reel out questions to you.

What is the name? Where do you live? Which state are you from? What about your local government? What religion?

And you have to give out these details before they will begin to even take your case file for keeps, until when it is your turn to see a doctor or nurse, depending on their judgment of what is wrong with you.

I know I have not travelled to many countries of the world but those of you that have gone to many places, who can please tell me in which other country or countries where you ask a patient these questions before attending to him or her.

Can anyone tell us the relevant of asking a sick person to tell you his state of origin, his tribe, his local government of origin and especially, his religion? Are there special drugs for Christians and other types for Muslims?

If you want admission for your daughter or your son in Nigeria, your own country of birth, you have to answer the same questions of tribe, ethnicity, religion, state of origin, local government and many other questions. It is the same if you want to enroll in the Nigeria Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Police, the civil service and even when you are to be admitted into prison.

The question is, where or earth or in hell did we copy these divisive and dubious thoughtlines from? Who drew these wicked patterns for Nigerian leaders to copy? Why are we still practicing this offensive and repugnant culture in this century; in 2019?

According to the story in the archive extract on this page as published by Daily Times on March 7, 1963, the government of northern Nigeria said it would do anything and everything possible to ensure that as many northerners as are available take up positions in the federal civil service, quasi government corporations and in the commercial and industrial fields.

According to the story titled ‘MORE JOBS FOR NORTHERNERS IN LAGOS,’ the statement or assurances were made in Kaduna by the Governor, Sir Kashim Ibrahim while addressing the Budget Committee of the House of Assembly which opened the

previous day.

While there is nothing wrong with any leader agitating or fighting for the right of his people to get their fair share of a common patrimony, what is worrisome is the fact that everyone is concerned about their tribes and religion without a care in the world about what is right for citizens

of the country, no matter where they come from.

Why wouldn’t it bother a minister; or a governor; or whoever that is in position of authority what is the common good of all Nigeria, the health of Nigeria as a nation?

When Sir Kashim Ibrahim speaks and seeks to ensure that “as many northerners

as are available,” get posts in the ‘federal civil service and other quasi government corporations,’ as he pledged, what then happens to the ‘southerners’ and the ‘westerners,’ the and ‘middle-belters,’ and the ‘Midwesterners,’ and all the others ‘ners’?

Nigeria indeed, is an orphan

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