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Gov Ambode vows to stamp out ‘Badoo’, says they are not spirits

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Saraki moves to reshuffle Senate Committees There are indications that the Senate leadership is set to reshuffle standing committees of the Senate just to accommodate more lawmakers for chairmanship positions, while giving rooms for more members to belong to more committees.

This is part of moves by the Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki to consolidate his grip amid reports that more of his supporters had been penciled to head ‘juicy’ Committees or rather be offered more of such.

Saraki had dropped the hint while responding to an observation made by his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu during plenary, stating that ‘clean up’ exercise would go a long way in assisting the upper chamber to clean up its committee system.

At the moment, the Senate has a total number of 68 standing committees.

The plan to reshuffling the Senate’s standing committees, Saraki stressed, would be done before the Senate proceeds on its yearly long recess this month.

Ekweremadu had observed that the structure of committees of the Senate at the moment had become very unhealthy and needed to be re-organised.

He alluded to a report being presented by the Senate Committee on Tertiary Education during which he noted that of the 21 members of the committee only 12 signed the report.

The Deputy Senate President averred that it was unusual and cumbersome for the Senate to continue to tolerate the development, adding, “We must ensure that Senators are placed in the number of committees they can handle.”

The Senate President who endorsed the idea said, “We are going to clean it up before we go on recess. We have discussed this at the leadership level and we are going to do something about it to ensure that the right thing is done.”

The last time the Senate reshuffled its committees was in 2016 when many Senators who were hitherto, not accommodated in ‘juicy’ committees were appointed as chairmen.

Again, in January 2017, the Senate slightly adjusted the composition of the standing committees during which it created three new committees while reshuffling the chairmanship of two others.

The addition of more committees had the number of committees in the Senate to 68.

Daily Times learnt that the leadership of the Senate have been uncomfortable with reports of inaction by members of different in which case, many of them had struggled to force their ways into different committees they were not originally posted, hence the need to rejig the whole composition.

There’s no fraud in NJI -spokesman

Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

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The National Judicial Institute (NJI) has faulted a media report over alleged financial fraud in the institute.

The spokesperson for the NJI, Mr. Emezie Madu, stated this while reacting to the media report.

Reacting to an investigative report that was published by this newspaper yesterday, Madu clarified that the Institute has never at any point in time engage in fraudulent acitvities.

He said, “ I wish to assure members of the public that there is no infraction or allegation of fraud rocking the NJI. “The institute is being run in accordance with the act that established it.

“It has continued to discharge its responsibilities of training of judges

without blemish. The sterling record of the NJI in this regard is in public domain for anyone who needs clarification on such.

Madu further stated that the transfer of personnel if any at all was a routine process usually carried out by the institute just like any other organisation.

“Any Administrator appointed to head the institute serves a tenure,” he added.

The spokesman of the Institute further reaffirmed that it is on record that the NJI remains a foremost institute for training of judges.

He further disclosed that, “the present management led by Hon Justice Rosaline Bozimo has taken the institute to greater heights in the last three years.”

Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose (r), in a handshake with the Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo Oba Ewuare II, during a courtesy visit to Oba Ewure in Benin, Edo State … on Thursday.

S’East gets only 9% of energy generated in Nigeria – EEDC

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DIRECTOR in the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC), Steven Dike, says that only nine per cent of energy generated in the country is allocated to the South East zone. Dike, a board member of the company told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu on Thursday, that the amount was inadequate.

The director said that the volume of energy sourced by distribution companies was the only way to serve customers in a more efficient way.

He, however, said that the company was striving hard to serve its customers better even in the face of the shortcoming.

Dike said that as the

power network was not designed for optimisation, the company tries to juggle power between industrial and residential areas within the zone. The director explained that the prevailing circumstance had resulted to giving power to industrial areas in the day time, while residential areas were powered in the evening hours.

“We are doing loadshedding to make sure that everybody is happy.

We shut out some people in order to serve other areas and vice versa,” he said. Dike said that customers needed to understand the dynamics of power distribution business, adding that the company would only give out what it got from transmission companies.

“People do not understand the issues in power generation, transmission and distribution and that the volume of light you get is the only way to succeed. “Our business is to sell light and we cannot give out more than the volume allocated to us,” he said. Dike said that in spite of the inadequate volume of energy allocated to it, the company was also battling with energy theft by customers.

He said that the amount of energy lost in the zone was incredible, adding that it was well over 50 per cent in 2013 when they took over the company.

“We inherited a culture of corruption and because of the level of loss; we import over N4 billion worth of energy per month.

“When we took over in Nov. 13, 2013, government knew that the system was broken down.

“The contract was won on our ability to fix the system not on the highest bidder,” he said. Dike said that with the wage bill of the company at N500 million, the EEDC lost N2 billion every month due to corrupt practices. He said that the company had to grapple with incidences where customers aid and abet some unscrupulous members of staff in defrauding the company.

Dike expressed the hope that the EEDC would overcome its initial challenges by serving the people best and appealed to customers to do the right thing by paying their bills.

How ex-Customs boss, Inde, paid N12m into Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia’s account -witness ÏÏÏA

former Deputy Comptroller General, Nigerian Customs Service, Musa Tahir, on Thursday said he had no clue why the service paid N12 million into Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia’s bank account.

Giving his testimony during cross-examination

by Olawale Akoni in the trial before an Ikeja High Court, Mr. Tahir said, “I have seen Hon. Justice

Ofili-Ajumogobia but I have never met her one on one.

“I don’t know why the former Comptroller General of Customs (CGC), Alhaji Abdullahi Dikko said the money should be paid into my colleague Musa Omale’s account to be forwarded into the company account of the judge.

“I don’t have the paper in which the CGC wrote the directive; the paper

was handed over to Omale who worked in my office.

“I don’t know the source of the money, the CGC who gave the directive is still alive.”

NAN recalls that Tahir while giving his evidencein-chief on May 26 had told the court that the NCS had paid N12 million sourced from 12 Area Commands into the bank account of the judge.

In his May 26 testimony,

Mr. Tahir had said, “Sometime in 2014, when I was a Deputy Comptroller General, I was working at the NCS headquarters Wuse, Abuja I was in the office of the CGC, Mr. Abdullahi Dikko, my immediate boss.

“Dikko handed a paper

and the name and bank account details of a company called Nigel and Colive was written on it.

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Confirmation Saga: We won’t remove Magu, Osinbajo tells Senate Continued from page 1 er to appoint anybody into office in line with section 171 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).

According to Osinbajo, the Senate cannot dictate to him or the President on whom to appoint, saying that nobody can remove the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, from office during the tenure of the present administration.

Speaking in Kaduna on Thursday while commissioning a zonal office of the EFCC, Osinbajo described Magu as a “nightmare for corrupt people”.

The acting president, who was represented by Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai reaffirmed that the presidency has so much confidence in the acting chairman of the EFCC. El-Rufai then said, “Mr Chairman, two weeks ago, I discussed the EFCC and your appointment with President Muhammadu Buhari and he told me he has every confidence in you and every confidence in the commission and

the work that you have been doing, and as long as he is president you remain the chairman of the EFCC.” The governor also told the gathering that the Acting President was also solidly behind Magu.

He said, “Last night, I spoke with the Acting President, Prof.

Yemi Osinbajo, who reconfirmed the position of the President and told me that as long as he remained the Acting President or Vice President, Ibrahim Magu would remain the chairman of the EFCC. “That is the only message from the President, so those thinking that corruption is winning this war, Magu would remain their nightmare for the next two years or six years as the case may be.’’

In his personal remarks, el-Rufai said that over N500 million had been recovered from corrupt officials of the past government and some contractors in Kaduna state, adding “those officials would be handed over to the EFCC for prosecution.”

The governor had earlier said

his administration donated the office to the EFCC to demonstrate its “zero tolerance to bad behaviour by public office holders, contractors, businesses and citizens.

El-rufai applauded the the leadership of the EFCC for taking significant step to establish a state office in Kaduna.

The governor assured that the commission can continue to count on government of Kaduna for support in every aspect of its activities.

“We have set aside land for your training school awaiting the submission of your application.

“We have also set aside land to build your staff housing estate if you so require.”

He said the state was first to adopt the Federal Government policy on Single Treasury Account (TSA).

The governor explained that as a result of that, over N25bn was realised by the government after it closed about 470 accounts with commercial banks.

He said the anti-graft agency had assisted the state government

in recovering over N400m from corrupt public officials.

In his earlier remarks, the acting chairman of the EFCC, Mr Ibrahim Magu called on members of the public to support the agency in the fight against corruption in the country.

Magu said that Nigerians must rise and do what is expected of them to reclaim their commonwealth been “stolen by a few corrupt individuals.”

He said; “If we can pause and trace the root cause of the problem that confronts us as a nation, we will discover they are all linked to corruption.

“Corruption is the cause of the recession that has pushed our people deeper into poverty and the insurgency that has visited death, displacement and untold hardship on Nigerians in the North East.

This is the reason I have suggested that we set up prison for the corrupt in the Sambisa forest, where they can be kept away and have the sobriety to be truly reformed.”

Meanwhile, the long drawn battle line between the Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-rufai, and the Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial district, Senator Shehu Sani, took a new twist as Senator Sani walked out of the venue of the event, following the arrival of the governor.

But the Senator had arrived early and had begun to fraternize himself with the environment when he noticed the arrival of the entourage of El-rufai but could not hold his displeasure as the stormed out of the venue and drove off.

Commenting on the development, Senator Sani said, “I honoured the invitation to launch the zonal office of the EFCC and to participate in a stakeholder’s forum.

“I don’t think someone invited in this event fits into the philosophy and principles of the EFCC. “I don’t know how the EFCC can squarely investigate corruption cases in Kaduna with some of these characters cutting the tape of their new abode.”

FUTA Nigeria Satellite launches into orbit ‘Tosin Ajuwon, Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose (r), in a handshake with the Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo Oba Ewuare II, during a courtesy visit to Oba Ewure in Benin, Edo State … on Thursday.

I’m being harassed, Patience Jonathan cries out ÏzƏƈƐƆ `Ɔƍ è ƆƆƊ Ƌ Ɠƌ ƊƆƏ ô ƈ ƐƆƏƒƆ Ɛƈ ƈ Ɛ ƆƅƑƏƈƐƕ Ɔ ƅƈƆ Henry Omunu, Abuja

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Former First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, has petitioned the House of Representatives, complaining about alleged harrassment by security agencies.

She is, therefore, seeking the intervention of the House to call security agencies to order.

Mrs. Jonathan’s complaint was contained in a petition read during plenary on Thursday by the lawmaker representing Okrika Federal Constituency of Rivers State, Rep. Bright Tamuno.

Presenting the petition, Rep. Tamuno said that because of the sacrifices her husband had made for the country, the House should wade into the matter and call the security agencies to order.

According to him, no former first lady is being harassed in the manner Mrs. Jonathan is.

“No former first lady has been harassed like this before.

“But for the sacrifices that her husband has made for the country, the House should consider and call the security agencies to order,” Tamuno said.

In the petition, Mrs. Jonathan alleged that the harassment was

being orchestrated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and other agencies of the federal government.

Speaker Yakubu Dogara, thereafter, referred the petition to the House Committee on Public Petitions for further legislative action.

Our correspondent reports that the former first lady had before her latest action petitioned the House on December 7, 2016, complaining about harassment by anti-graft and other security agencies.

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ÏÏÏ The Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) in Ondo State would today (Friday) launch its five satellites, the BIRDS-1 Project including the Nigerian CubeSat, code named NigeriaEdusat-1, from the International Space Station (ISS), KIBO into the orbit.

Adebanjo Adegbenro, Head of the Information Unit of the institution made the disclosure in a statement issued to journalists on Thursday in Akure.

Adegbenro explained that though the project has reached its conclusion stage, the deployment of the satellites would be round the earth.

He maintained that the project which will be based in FUTA will also take images and critical data which can be viewed and analyzed at the ground stations.

“The satellites of Japan, Ghana, and Mongolia, will be released at this time: 8:50 GMT/17:50 JST (1st Deployment).

“The satellites of Bangladesh and Nigeria, will be released at this time: 9:10 GMT/18:10 JST (2nd Deployment).

The Daily Times gathered that the Nigerian CubeSat, code named NigeriaEdusat-1, is designed, built and owned by

FUTA in collaboration with National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), Abuja, Nigeria, and Kyushu Institute of Technology Japan.

Ibukun Adebolu from FUTA’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, is the representative of Nigeria on the project.

Adebolu said that the NigeriaEduSat-1, along with the four other nanosatellites of the BIRDS constellation, will perform three onboard missions.

“First, we aim to take low and high resolution pictures of each home country of the participating members of the constellation. Each satellite is equipped with a 0.3 megapixel camera as well as a 5 mega pixel camera.

“We hope to capture distinct features of each target country, including borderline images, major rivers, etc.

“The second mission onboard each satellite is aimed at space education and outreach. Popular songs and poems are converted into digital format and uplinked to the satellite.

“The satellite stores the uplink file, reassembles it through an onboard digi-singer synthesizer and retransmits the file as an audio file that can be received on ground by amateur radio operators.”

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FG begins tax awareness campaign, marks Tax Day Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

ÏÏÏ The Federal Government, Thursday commenced a nationwide tax awareness campaign to enlighten members of the public and business community on the need to pay their taxes promptly.

The campaign which also marks the observation of Thursday as “Tax Day “ in Nigeria, drummed up support for the executive order signed recently by the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo on Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDS) in a bid to boost government’s revenue.

Chairman of Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr Babatunde Fowler led the campaign to major roads, plazas and markets in Abuja, interacted with different entrepreneurs and members of the National Association of Nigerian Traders (NANT).

Mr Fowler explained during the campaign that it was necessary to inform all Nigerians it was time to pay their taxes.

He pointed out that it was time for all Nigerians to contribute to the common wealth of the country “so that government would have enough revenue to provide all the services that would better the society.”

On how much the government expects to realise from the new policy, he said there was no fix target yet but urged the traders to pay their taxes based on the profits and income that they have been generating from their businesses, “to

make sure we have the Nigeria of our dream.”

Addressing the issue of multiple taxes, Mr Fowler said that multiple taxation would not be an issue as long as they keep paying their taxes on income and profit.

He said that the Thursday Tax awareness day campaign as directed by the presidency in the executive order; took place in all the states of the federation.

“This awareness campaign is going on in all the states of the federation.

When the Acting President signed the executive order for tax revenue, he declared Thursday of every week as “Tax Day” so that we can be reminded and be encouraged to start paying our taxes the same way they do in developed countries and other developing economies even within Africa,” the FIRS boss said.

He further pointed that the country’s regular source of revenue could no longer guarantee service delivery, assuring that the government was prepared to judiciously apply revenue from tax in ways that Nigerians would be proud of.

Some of the market leaders who spoke decried Government’s failure to apply taxes for the benefits of all Nigerians even as they noted that the new tax drive might yield no positive impact on the people.

The Chairman of National Association of Nigerian Traders (NANT), Emab Plaza branch, Mr Edozie Ugwu said they had been complying with payment of taxes urging the government to use the money for the devel-

opment of the country and also provide good business environment and services to encourage others.

The traders however assured that they would support the awareness drive to ensure every trader pays his tax promptly.

Also, the National Secretary of NANT Austin Njafor said that the government should avoid any form of meeting with ‘political traders’ whom he said have no shop or business but always look for ways to defraud the government while posing as members of the association.

The new tax scheme grants tax payers a timelimited of one months to regularise their tax status without penalty; and Nigeria is expected to raise at least $1 billion from new tax policy.

The plan, to be executed jointly by Federal and state governments, concentrates on the national duty of all Nigerian companies and citizens to pay their taxes, wherever their income is earned, wherever they reside and no matter how rich they are.

Nigeria’s tax-to-GDP ratio is one of the lowest in the world, and stands at 6%.

According o the plan, between 1 July and 31 December 2017, tax evaders can regularise their tax status in exchange for immunity from prosecution of tax offences and a tax audit, and be absolved from penalty charges and interest.

Evaders, who delay participation after 31st December 2017, will be liable for interest on overdue tax balances.

Ganduje renames University after Maitama Sule Yakubu Salisu, Kano

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The Governor of Kano state, His Excellency Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, and the State Executive Council have approved the renaming of Northwest University, Kano to Yusuf Maitama Sule University, Kano.

The decision was unanimously agreed by the Executive Council during an extraordinary meeting of the council late last night

to immortalize late Danmasanin Kano, Alhaji Dr Yusuf Maitama Sule, due to his immense contributions to the development of Kano, Arewa and Nigeria at large.

The Council, also, approved the renaming of Dawaki Road where the residence of late Danmasanin Kano is located to Yusuf Maitama Sule Road while the current Yusuf Maitama Sule link Road has been renamed Jafaru Dan Mallam Link Road.

The decision was reached after an extensive deliberation at the extraordinary council and taking into account people’s calls from within and outside Kano, for the state government to honour late Danmasanin Kano since his demise.

Governor Ganduje’s administration is determined to honour sons and daughters of Kano who have sacrificed their lives to the development of the state.

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Umuahia community pleads with Ikpeazu over roads Sunday Nwakanma, Umuahia

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The Agbama community and residents of Agbama Housing Estate in Umuahia South local government area of Abia state has drawn the attention of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu to the poor network of roads in Agbama and erosion problem plaguing the area.

Speaking at the Government House, Umuahia the state capital when they paid a courtesy call on the governor, the Agbama

Housing Estate Residents Neighbourhood Association’s secretary, Mr. Chukwuemeka Omoji, appealed to the governor to provide the estate with transformers in view of the explosion in population in the estate.

Also speaking, the Agbama Olokoro community in the LGA led by Prince Vincent Ogbulafor, expressed their dissatisfaction with the slow progress of work on the Agbama Olokoro ring road in Umuahia South LGA and pleaded with Ik-

peazu to urge the contractor to expedite action The executive chairman, Umuahia South LGA, Prince Obioma Eze Ogbulafor and the Chairman, Umuahia South traditional Rulers Council, Eze G. C. Onwuka thanked the governor for doing a lot for Agbama people and appealed to him to continue to listen to their plea.

The governor said he was committed to the provision of better life for Agbama people through the provision of ameni-

ties like street light and security and thanked the Agbama people for their support for him during the election and enjoined them to continue to support their leader, prince Vincent Ogbulafor as well as their LGA chairman prince Obioma Eze Ogbulafor.

To that end, he directed the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Works to scale the road with a view to determining the extent of work left and how to complete the job without further delay.

L-R: Convener, Conscience of Yoruba Race (CYR), Mr. Kole Omololu; Veteran Journalist, Mr. Dare Babarinsa; Discussant, Mr. Yomi Layinka; Keynote speaker, Dr. Amos Akingba and Chairman of occasion, Chief Olu Falae, during the first meeting of CYR in Ibadan, Oyo State… on Thursday.

Anambra police frees 30 suspected cultists Alphonsus Nweze, Awka

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About 30 suspected cultists who were arrested in various parts of Anambra state, have been freed after investigation by the Special Anti Cultism Squad (SPACS) of the state police command.

Thanking the SPACS on behalf of the suspected cult members, a 300 level student in one of the tertiary institutions in the state who pleaded anonymity said, “God will bless the SPACS Commander, Mr. Christopher Bassey, for making us to come back normal through their counseling process instead of torturing us as was the case in the past.

“I was personally arrested over cult related

offence and after investigation and counseling, which lasted for three days, I was freed and so I came back with some of the counseled ones to thank the commander and his men for returning us to a responsible life and we pledge not to be deviant again.

“We thank Mr. Bassey and his men for saving our lives. We are not the first batch that came with our parents/guardians but from what I see, about 30 counseled and freed suspects come back in batches or individually to say ‘Thank You Sir’ for changing our lives for the better,” he said.

Urging them to be of good behaviour as they pledged, the SPACS Commander, a Chief Superintendent of Police, pleaded

with their parents to always monitor the kind of company their children keep adding, “not when the father is in Port Harcourt the mother is in Asaba and the children will be left alone in the parents’ home in Onitsha.

“On daily basis we arrest at least 10 suspected cultists because we go out after them. We carry the raid to their hideouts and that is why we have been succeeding in the war against cultism.

“The hardened ones, when arrested, we arraign in court and anyone found with firearms, we transfer to Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS), and those without serious involvement in cultism we counsel for days or weeks to help place them

under monitoring and like you can see, after the counseling, they will realize that what they were involved in; cultism was not beneficial to them but will rather endanger their future as a result of the influence of the hard drug they consume.

“It is not every cultist that is a kidnapper or armed robber but every armed robber or kidnapper is a cultist and every cultist has a bush name he answers,” Mr. Bassey said.

According to him, “in cultism you have mostly teenagers of between 14 to 17 years and it is hard for a 14 year cultist to b a kidnapper and such under aged cultists when we arrest them we counsel them.”

Delta govt urges students to acquire skills Nosa Akenzua, Asaba

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The Job and Wealth Creation programme of the Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s led government has been acknowledged

by Deltans as it now focus on students in higher institutions in Delta State to equip them to be productive and self-reliance.

In one day entrepreneurship awareness/sensitization seminar at the College of Education Warri by the Office of the Political Aide to the Governor on Students Affairs and Special Duties (Media) the convener, Comrade Ossai Ovie Success, hinted that job and wealth creation would serve as prosperity for all Deltans and could be achieved through enlightenment, seminar, training and skill acquisition programme.

The state governor represented by Hon. Tam Brisibe, assured that the governor would continue to support skills acquisition programme to reduce unemployment, adding that government has also provided Starter Packs to graduate students to enable them start their enterprise. Hon. Brisibe who is the Chief of Staff Government House Asaba urged students to embrace this opportunity provided by the state government.

Comrade Ovie Success noted that the objectives

of the entrepreneurship awareness programme was meant to give students a new orientation from laying emphasis on certificate for employment but to look inward to developing and acquiring a skill while in school, adding that it was also meant to grow a new generation of Entrepreneurs from among students even before graduation.

He affirmed that the programme was designed and meant to reduce the pressure being mounted on Government to provide jobs, as well as burden on job creation programme of the state government.

He urged students to seize the opportunity provided by the Delta State government for the provision of incentives available for entrepreneurship by the State and Federal governments.

In his contribution, the Comrade Okoh Ezekiel Oghenetega said that the programme was to encourage students on campus on how they can acquire skills before they graduate from school, adding that if they graduate from school and they have what they are doing they will become employers of labour.

He noted that taking the Okowa’s SMART Agenda to the students has just kick-started and it will go round all the higher institutions in Delta State.

Quit notice: S’East Young Professionals hold summit in Enugu The Nigerian Young Professionals Forum (NYPF), South East chapter in collaboration with Ohaneze Ndigbo Youth Worldwide have concluded plans to host a summit of South East Nigeria’s Young Leaders and stakeholders in Enugu today, July 7, 2017.

The summit with the theme: ‘To Restructure or Not: Building a self sufficient and sustainable Region of our Dream’, is to constructively engage the present burning National discourse with the aim of developing a framework to reduce tension and set the country on its path to greatness.

The South East Chairman, Nigerian Young Professionals Forum (NYPF), Dr. Chima Anyaso, in a statement said the recent quit notice given to Igbos residing in the Northern part of Nigeria by the Arewa Youth Council,

and the persistent call for succession by members of IPOB are national issues that should not be treated lightly.

According to him, with the ‘Quit Notice’ ultimatum given to Igbos resident in Northern Nigeria by some Arewa Youths, a subtle crisis seem to have started brewing across the nation. These have caused palpable fear, sowing seeds of discord and could degenerate into anarchy if left unchecked,” he said in the statement.

He said the summit is a socio-political platform that is calling on all the youth and leaders of youth associations, Students Union Presidents, Young Professional bodies and Youth Political Associations of the South East to develop a blueprint for an economic and politically stable country.

He also informed that attendance is free.

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PDP chieftain backs calls for restructuring, 2014 Confab implementation Nosa Akenzua, Asaba A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain in Delta State, Mr. Funkekeme Solomon has thrown his weight behind the calls for the restructuring of the country amidst secessionists’ threats, saying that total disregard for the calls might portend doom for the country’s unity.

Solomon, an ex-lawmaker and former Commissioner for Works in the state, told Journalists in Asaba that there was need for the Federal Government to give critical consideration to the multiple calls.

Noting that implementation of the 2014 National Conference Resolution was another way forward; Mr. Solomon explained that confab report implementation would be a way of pacifying the agitators, and restoring cohesion to National unity.

He said that Nigeria was currently swimming in deep political crisis, because it was “bedeviled” by inequity among stakeholders, and blamed arrogance on the part of the stakeholders particularly, the North for the frustration among other stakeholders.

The former Commissioner attributed the culture of arrogance of the North to the colonial masters, who allegedly ceded demographic and political advantages to the North in relation to other stakeholders. According to him, the colonial masters not only gave undue political and demographic advantages to the North, but also mischievously made irrelevant indices as land mass, population, number of local government areas as criteria for sharing national wealth.

He added, “there are those who believe that the country had been mired in many crisis, including the Fulani herdsmen’s problem, agitations by Niger Delta militants and the secession threat by the Indigenous People of Biafra, because the current federalism being run in the country is simply not working.

“If a particular set of people keep thinking they’re being cheated and marginalised, they will keep threatening secession, they will keep making noise disturbing the peace of the country.”

He said that though the agitation for Nigeria’s restructuring had always been part of Nigeria’s history, particularly after the civil war, the current unusually high tempo of agitations are a reflection of how poor the current government has handled issues relating to national unity. “Look at the Biafra issues, look at the Niger Delta Militancy, these issues would have been long resolved if we had restructured, but it is not too late.

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and acting like things are normal, we are just going to escalate issues and the situation will degenerate further”, he added.

He called on Deltans to join hands with Governor Ifeanyi Okowa to make the state a hub of economic viability. His words: “the only problem that irritates me is the rumour mill in Delta, it

is pathetic, and in most cases the rumour mills cannot produce the truth, Deltans should eschew rumors and help the government of the day to succeed.”

“In another development, after several months of crisis and violence that trailed the botched elections into the executive of the National Youths Council of Nigeria

(NYCN), Delta State Chapter, the various factions have resolved to sheathe their swords to give peace a chance and pave way for capacity building, engage in constructive and meaningful development of the youths in the state.

This was the outcome of a roundtable discussion held at the Conference Hall of the Secretary to the State Government, Asaba to reconcile all factions of the council.

The peace accord, which was signed by all factions including representatives of NYCN in the 25 local government areas in the state and 26 of its affiliate organisations, was facilitated by the Delta State Conflict Management Alliance (DSCMA) in collaboration with the Nigeria Stability and Reconciliation Programme (NSRP), aimed at dousing the tension and violence that erupted during its election to conclude the electoral process to fill vacant positions in the executive body.

The NYCN in its general congress conducted a transition election on January 10, 2017 at the expiration of the tenure of the past executive, but the process was truncated due to violence, irregularities, political interference and alleged imposition of candidates.

The DECMA facilitated peace accord agreed among other things to conclude the election process within two weeks to fill the remaining vacant positions in the state executive council which will be guided by two members of the platform without any external or political interference.

South-South leaders chides Wike over comparison with Amaechi Some prominent leaders of the South-South geo–political zone on Tuesday described the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi as a consummate politician and one of the greatest discoveries in the political landscape of the current republic. According to them, “Rotimi Amaechi is a man of impeccable character” The leaders also described Governor Nyesom Wike as a dangerous partner for peace and progress, accusing him of non-performance as governor of the state.

The leaders in a statement signed by chairperson of the South-South Political Congress (SSPC), Mrs. Ibifuro Tatua, also said that the leaders commended Amaechi for the unity, stability and overall development of

Rivers State.

The statement which was issued after a closed-door meeting in Port-Harcourt, added that the leaders condemned Wike for his alleged careless utterances.

They described as mischievous the declaration by Wike that “Amaechi is jealous”.

The leaders praised Amaechi for leading the people well, changing the face of Rivers State, putting the infrastructure perfectly in shape, bringing primary healthcare facilities to the doorsteps of the people, showing more than passing interest in sports and taking tourism to sublime state.

It is not about sycophancy. It is about saying the obvious,” they said.

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and entrenching democratic governance, executing projects which impacted on the lives of the people, making great investment in education, providing leadership to the Governors’ Forum and strengthening relationship between all sections of the country.

“Nyesom Wike cannot match Amaechi’s contributions in Nigeria, particularly Rivers State.

Amaechi’s government recorded landmark achievements in information dissemination, local government administration, women affairs, housing and environment.

“A governor who belittles his age by stooping to tale-telling and spreading the seeds of discord in the state should not be seen as a role model for the younger ones”

Stop playing politics with Peoples’ live- Reps members counsels politicians Patrick Okohue A member of the House of Representatives, representing Ajeromi Ifelodun federal constituency on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Hon. Rita Orji, has decried some local politicians in her constituency who allegedly play with lives of individuals.

The lawmaker expressed her worries over development at the flag off of reconstruction work on the dilapidated Otto Wharf link road, as the APC led Lagos State Government commends Julius Berger’s choice of the axis as his Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR).

According to the lawmaker, she took up the case and forwarded a letter to the Julius Berger Construction Company headquarters in Abuja dated June 12, consequent upon which the arrow head of the company flew down to ascertain the state of the road and directed the Lagos end to do the needful to ameliorate the suffering of the masses commuting in and around the axis.

“At least Otto Wharf will now be motorable, having been a deadly zone in time past, we record rape cases, accidents, robberies, different forms of crimes were being committed daily on the road, I passed by that road to locate my constituency office at 51 Kirikiri, but cannot drive through that place due to the deplorable state, how then do we access Ajeromi Ifelodun?

“These are the two major roads that can bring you in when you take Otto Wharf for instance at a junction to your left it leads you to Ojo road from where you can access Tunnel Eradiri, Amukoko via Badia- Ijora and eventually Western Avenue, so prolific and nice, but under gridlock, the effect of which is on the Federal road, Apapa Oshodi Expressway.

“Otto Wharf is not a federal but state road, the situation became so bad and the people reported to their Representative asking for assistance, so I swung into action, seeing that it was not reflected in the 2017 budget of the state.

“While the Governor is trying in some other areas, I felt I have to use my connection to effect a change and complement the government’s efforts in Ajeromi Ifelodun, that is what I have done.

“The major work of any government is to protect lives, I paid to get medical care for the girls raped there December last year, motorbikes were forcefully taken from their owners along that same axis, I have also had to pay for the removal of bullets from an Okada riders who was shot by robbers.”

Politics 10 Three year ago, you abandoned your governorship ambition half way and fled the country. What happened?

Yes. I nursed the ambition to contest the governorship seat, but what happened that led to my fleeing the country is still in the public domain. My brother, Chuddy Nwike, who was the deputy governor to former Governor Ezeife in the administration of the defunct Social Democratic Party (SDP), was kidnapped and later killed by his abductors after a ransom had been paid. It was devastating to me in particular and my immediate nuclear family. For a whole year, I was not able to establish conversation with anybody. I was most of the time absent minded. I would just be staring at the space oblivious of things around me.

It took God’s grace, prayers from friends and support from the family that brought me back to life.

The tension and the insecurity occasioned by the event compelled me to abandon my aspiration and flee abroad.

I moved to Dublin in the Republic of Ireland with my family to continue my medical practice.

What then is the situation at home now?

Well, God is the ultimate provider of security and our life is in His hand. Having said that, I want to inform you that I was always in contact with my people at the grassroots level back home. I am always abreast of goings on at home and I never missed anything. Remember I practised medicine both at home and abroad. So, even with my sojourn abroad, I am always in contact with my good people who are yearning to see me contest to serve them as governor.

How would you assess your chances of clinching the party ticket considering the calibre of other contestants in the race?

Without sounding immodest, I can tell you that my chances of being the party’s choice are very bright. I believe the leadership of our great party would look at the programs the aspirants would present to the people. It is about programs and not about personality. I am not rich in terms of liquid cash, but I am rich in ideas. I am a civil servant and my source of income can be verified. It is the people that would assess us and ask questions about how some people came about their sudden wealth. People would ask them about their investments both at home and abroad and if they are using their money to create jobs at home. If our money they stash away is brought back, it is capable of bailing this country out of recession. We are in the race to market ourselves for the people to assess. But I can tell you without sense of contradiction that I am eminently qualified to govern Anambra State as I have all what it takes to do so.

What is APC’s chance of defeating APGA in Anambra?

People are disenchanted with false claims of achievements. They want concrete achievements and not noise without action. It is our programs against theirs. This is the time to separate the substance from the chaff. People will, on their own make the assessment and then judge. APC has come to deal with the rot which is a carryover from the military era. It is not easy. President Buhari is doing his best with what he met on ground and his vice Osinbajo is also toeing his

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Anambra governorship: I’m the best person for the job - Nwike Without sounding immodest, I can tell you that my chances of being the party’s choice are very bright. I believe the leadership of our great party would look at the programs the aspirants would present to the people. It is about programs and not about personality. I am not rich in terms of liquid cash, but I am rich in ideas

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Bufo Nwike, a Dublin, Ireland based medical practitioner, hails from Ogbunike, Oyi Local Government of Anambra State. He is the younger brother of the former deputy governor of the state, under the administration of Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, Chief Chuddy Nwike, who later became the National Vice Chairman of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), was abducted by kidnappers and eventually killed after a ransom was paid. In this interview with some journalists in Lagos, the younger Nwike expressed his aspiration to run for the governorship seat of the state in the November election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). He expresses confidence that he would clinch his party’s governorship ticket at the primaries and win the election. PATRICK OKOHUE reports. path. And with the credit rating of the rating agencies, we are confident that Nigeria, under Buhari is on the right track.

Our economy is in save hands. We have to swallow the bitter pills to get it right.

So, with the right candidate, APC will beat APGA in Anambra hands down.

Can we then have an insight into your programs for the people?

To start with, our slogan will be; New say, new voice, new ideas. We will do away with the old ideas that had failed to move the state forward and replace them with new ideas that will ensure growth, progress and massive development of the state. I admit that paucity of fund can hinder performance, but the government under my leadership will engage in Private Public Partnership (PPP) to make funds available. We will involve the communities in our day today activities. Their full involvement and participation in government would rekindle

their trust in my leadership and thus have sense of belonging. This will surely enhance commitment, dedication and patriotism on the side of the people.

We will not behave as an all-knowing government that would choose projects and execute them for the people without their inputs. People will identify their needs and the government will implement their need for them.

However, there would be emphasis on education. With availability of funds, we will borrow a leaf from the free education policy of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo in the old western region.

His advisers thought free education was not possible. But Awo the legend proved them wrong by showing them that where there is a will, there will always be a way.

We will make education very compulsory and free up to the Junior Secondary School (JSS) as it obtains in many countries in Europe. We will also emphasis vocational/technical studies, which is

the education of the heads and the hands or call it perpendicular education.

Health will be another priority, because healthy people are wealthy people.

Other areas of infrastructure like roads, security would be improved upon. We will restructure and reorganise things with emphasis on efficiency and functionality. And by so doing, we will be creating jobs indirectly. We will also emphasis community policing by reorganising community vigilante groups. Everybody knows everybody in the community, including the criminal elements. Our policy will be; to show the light and the people will find their ways.

Can you volunteer comments on the agitation for the creation of the State of Biafra?

Inequity in the polity caused the renewed agitation for the state of Biafra.

The agitation could not have arisen if the recommendations of the 2014 National Confab have been implemented.

The recommendations were meant to address the inequity in the polity and the agitations would have died down. True fiscal federalism as recommended by the confab delegates is the only panacea to the clamour for the State of Biafra. I recommend negotiation and dialogue.

Politics/governance is about negotiation and compromise-give and take. Zik, Awo and Sadauna practised politics of compromise. You don’t send people away.

Listen to their cries to see what could be done to assuage their feelings.

In the real sense, if the confab recommendations are not stored to gather dust if some components like restructuring that would allow all the regions to develop at their own pace have been implemented, the agitation would have died a natural death as true federalism would have been taken care of. It would have given the agitators a real sense of belonging.

But because of the inequity in the polity, some people feel they are not part of the country they call their own.

And that is why I love and recommend the speech of the Ohanaeze leader, Chief John Nwodo’s to all Nigerians to read. I agree with the speech he passed across to other zones as message of wisdom, truth and hope.

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‘I won’t leave APC; I’m biggest investment in Amaechi’s politics’ Amaka Agbu, Port Harcourt The Senator representing Rivers South East Senatorial District, Senator Magnus Abe, has declared that the perceived challenges that cropped up because of his decision to contest the 2019 governorship election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), would not make him defect from the party as being rumored by some persons.

Speaking when he paid a thank you visit to Gokana Local Government Area, as part of his efforts to commend the people of Rivers South East Senatorial District for returning him in the re-run election held on Dec. 10, Abe said he was the biggest investment in the politics of Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi in Nigeria and there was nothing that would make him to leave the party.

Senator Abe who is the Chairman, Senate Committee on Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) stated: “We are trying to make the party better by supporting our leader, the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, so that the party can move forward and will not relent in our efforts and by the grace of the Almighty God that we serve; the right thing will be done.

“Let me use the opportunity of this visit to address some issues in our great party, the APC in Rivers State and to say clearly for the record that there are no members of the party, including myself, that is disputing the leadership of my friend, the Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi. We are not disputing with him who is the leader of the party. He is the leader and will continue to be the leader of our party in Rivers State,” he said.

Speaking further, Senator Abe said that it was not true that his ambition to become governor of the state created the division being experienced by the APC in the state.

He stated: “I stand in front of my people, here today, and declare that I don’t tell lies. I am not a liar. The story that I am scattering the party in the state because of my governorship ambition is not true. The problem is simple. We

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have heard some people saying all elected members of the party got their tickets because Amaechi endorsed them, therefore, everyone who has an ambition should wait until he endorses him or her.

“The arguments some people are putting forward are that any person who would not wait for the leader (Amaechi) to endorse him or select him or her, to anoint him, or her, or who is saying something different is a bad person or a bad member of the party; the person should be removed or suspended from the party or should leave the party on his own volition. Some of us who feel that stopping some persons from aspiring to become what they want to become is an infringement on their fundamental human rights are saying no.

“Yes. We agree that it was the leader who gave us tickets and that the leader has always pointed to people and such persons have gone to contest elections, but we also know that politics is dynamic and that our APC offers change. How do we convince the people of Rivers State that we, too, can change?

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a say in the selection of candidates vying for election under the auspices of the party, but some people felt the party should allow interested members and aspirants to make their inputs. And some members turned that position to be a move against the leader of the party.

And that anyone who says anything contrary to anything said by the leader of the party is anti-party or worse still, fighting Rotimi Amaechi. For me, I think that position is wrong. It is undemocratic and totally against the change mantra of the APC,” he said.

Senator Abe continued: “I am the biggest investment in the politics of Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi in Nigeria. And I stand to say that I am not leaving the APC. APC is my party.”

On the resolve of the people of Ogoni to produce the governor of Rivers State in 2019, having been denied the opportunity in the past 50 years that the state was created, Senator Abe insisted that it was time for the Ogonis to produce the next governor of the state.

“Today, I don’t have to apologise for being an Ogoni son. I love my country, Ni-

Church celebrates Uchendu Senatorial victory at tribunal Benjamin Omoike The First African Church Mission has rejoiced with Senator Andrew Uchendu, who was declared authentic winner as Senator-elect of Rivers East Senatorial District at the Upper Chamber by the Rivers State Election Tribunal sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

The Primate of the The First African Church Mission, Most Reverend, His Eminate Sunday Matiliukuro, made the remark while speaking with journalists at the headquarters of the Church in Lagos, adding that the entire congregation was grateful to God for hearing their prayers and supplication on behalf of the Senator.

He said Uchendu is a strong member and indeed one of the pillars of the

Church, who at all times had been a strong financier of the Church.

It would be recalled that few days ago, the Rivers State elections petition tribunal sacked PDP’s George Thompson Sekibo, Senator representing Rivers East and declared Andrew Uchendu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) the winner of the senatorial election.

The Tribunal also directed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to withdraw the Certificate of Return issued to Sekibo and issue a fresh certificate of return to Mr. Uchendu.

The Tribunal’s decision was hinged on the fact that Mr. Uchendu won the lawful majority vote cast during the Rivers re-run legislative election.

Uchendu had approached the tribunal with a petition asking the court to declare him winner of the poll, alleging

that INEC failed to take into cognisance the results of some wards and polling units before declaring Sekibo the winner of the polls.

Against this backdrop, the Primate of the Church, where Uchendu worships, claimed they knew God would at the end vindicate them and return their son to the post, hence the jubilation by the congregation upon hearing the tribunal’s verdict few days ago.

“We, of the African Church Mission, knew at the initial stage that our prayer and supplication to the Almighty God cannot go in vain, hence our ceaseless prayer for our brother and one of the strong pillars of this Church that God should restore all that belongs to him.

So after hearing the tribunal’s verdict, we all burst into great songs of Alleluya and rejoicing for the deserved victory,” Matilukuro said.

geria. I am a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I support my country, but if I was not from here, Ogoni, I will not be a Nigerian.

“It has been 50 years since Rivers State was created and nobody of Ogoni extraction has been governor, deputy governor or Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly. And some are saying that it doesn’t matter. I stand here today, to tell Rivers people that it, indeed, matters and we have no apologies to offer to anybody.

“I hear that the PDP caucus in Ogoni has endorsed Governor Nyesom Wike that is their opinion. I also hear that the APC caucus has said that they have an opinion on the governor’s position, too.

But the people of Ogoni also have their opinion and that opinion is that there must be justice in Rivers State.”

“So, today, I want to use this opportunity to thank everybody. I don’t have problem with anybody. And anybody who knows me knows that I have reached a level, and even before I got to this level I could look anyone in the eyes and tell them the truth. At this stage of my life, I do not have to lie to anyone, or my people to achieve anything. Truth must remain the standard by which our actions are judged.”

Fasehun mourns late Maitama Sule, describes death as national loss Founder and President of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), Dr. Frederick Fasehun, has lamented the passing of Ambassador Maitama Sule, describing the death as a monumental loss to the nation.

“Nigeria has lost a legendary personality, as well as a voice of wisdom and unity at a time the country needed it most,” Fasehun said in a statement he issued in Lagos.

He prayed that God would grant the family and the people of Kano, the late Elder Stateman’s birthplace, the grace to bear the great loss.

“Maitama Sule was a great personality, a decent man and a true Nigerian who believed in Project Nigeria. He not only strived tirelessly for the welfare of the Northerner, but for the development of his country,” Fasehun said, adding, “The country will miss his wisdom, his diplomacy and his untiring quest for national unity.”

Fasehun described the late Senator as a convincing orator, a colourful politician and an engaging personality.

“As a former Nigerian Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Maitama Sule was a Diplomat par excellence who won unqualified respect in the international circuit,” he said.

The OPC founder submitted that Nigeria suffered a huge deficit from the fact that the country never had the privilege of a President Maitama Sule, who had shared the vision of the country’s founding fathers, having been in politics since the First Republic.

“With Maitama Sule as President, the Second Republic would have survived,” he posited. “This was a man designed and prepared to lead; but unfortunately, his incorruptible personality and his sterling performance as the Federal Commissioner of Complaints rattled Second Republic politicians who ensured he never won the presidential ticket of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) in 1979.

“Shehu Shagari, who the ticket was donated to, had only aspired to the Senate and he never outgrew that humble stature even as President. After Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Maitama Sule is another ‘Best President Nigeria never had.’ It is quite unfortunate.”

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L-R: District Secretary, Rotary International District 9110, Nigeria, Segun Adewakun; District Governor, Rotary International, Dr. Wale Ogunbadejo; newly installed President, Rotary Club of Iponri and his spouse, Shina and Toyin Badaru and immediate past president, Rotary Club of Iponri, Dr. Kenneth Uwajeh, during the handing over ceremony un Lagos…Wednesday.

Gov Ambode vows to stamp out ‘Badoo’, says they are not spirits Continued from page 1 promised to ensure the safe return of the Kidnapped students, who were taken from the Lagos State Model College, Igbonla.

The governor said he did not believe that the Badoo members were spirits and that they possessed disappearing powers as alleged.

“I am deeply concerned about the issue of kidnapping in the state and also the recent development that has been happening in

Ikorodu about mob action and also the issue of Badoo.

“I just want to assure Lagosians that we are doing everything possible. We don’t run the government on the pages of newspapers, and that is why you see that we do not make comments on the pages of newspapers,” Ambode said.

He therefore charged traditional rulers, especially in Ikorodu, to wake up from their slumber by helping the government to nip in the bud, the rising wave of kid-

napping and the Badoo menace in the state.

Ambode said it had come to the point that traditional rulers in the state must come together and speak to the Baales in Ikorodu to nip kidnapping in the bud.

According to him, intelligence reports had it that some of the baales colluded with kidnappers to kidnap people in remote areas.

“We have intelligence here that some of these things are coming from within and our Kabiyesis

and Obas need to do something as quickly as possible to arrest this decadence that we have here.

“As far as the Badoo case is concerned, I do not believe that it has anything to do with a disappearing ghost.

“I don’t also believe that the rituals can be taking place, without some people not being behind it.

So, I challenge all our Kabiyesis and all our traditional rulers and Baales, we must arrest this situation as quickly as possible and show that traditional value that

Excitement as NOUN graduates can now attend Law School, NYSC Ï As Senate Finally Passes Bill Amending On NOUN Act Olufemi Samuel, Abuja

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Excitement and jubilation on Thursday reigned supreme among most students and graduates of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) as the Senate has now approved their participation in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and Nigerian Law School, henceforth.

A Bill for an Act; National Open University of Nigeria Act (Amendment) Bill, 2017, enabling the NOUN graduate proceed to the law school, after graduation scaled the third reading in the Senate during the plenary.

Graduates of NOUN regardless of their ages have over the years being denied participation for the National Youth Service mandatory for their counterparts from regular Universities.

In the same vein, those who read law from the same University, have not been allowed to attend the Nigeria Law School through which they could be called to bar to attain the status of professionals.

The Senate in its adoption of report on Amendment Bill to the Act submitted to it by its Committee on Tertiary Education and TETFUND cleared the hurdle for graduates of the Open Institution to enjoy similar privileges like their counterparts from regular Universities.

Senator Jibrin Barau (APC Kano North) explained that amendments made in the Act were geared towards changing the negative perception of the public about the University in respect of the word correspondence, which gives the impression that the University is not a full time one and as such, seen as a part time.

Barau said, “These two concepts, correspondence and part time significantly affect the way the public views the academic programme cum courses run by the University which has been the reason why Law graduates of the school are not allowed into the Nigerian Law School as well as the reason for the non inclusion of graduates of the school into the NYSC Scheme on yearly basis.”

According to him, the inclusion of ICT as another means of tuition in the operations of the school was another amendment made to the subsisting Act as a way of upgrading the current teaching model which he stressed, depends critically on virtual learning and students’ individual research.

According to the Committee, the Bill if passed into law, will further deal with the challenge of limited access in the Tertiary

Education Sector and by extension, bring the National Open University of Nigeria Act in line with the requirements of the Universities Miscellaneous Provisions (Amendment) Act 2012.

Barau, while briefing the media on the Bill said amendment effected therein “is apt, timely and in tune with global best practices by repositioning NOUN for better service delivery and help in producing quality graduates for the Nigerian society.”

However, the report of the committee signed by 12 out of 21 members has triggered move by the Senate leadership to reshuffle composition of the 68 standing committees.

Senate President, Bukola Saraki gave the indication when his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu drew his attention to the signing page of the report.

we have always been known for and then we will continue to support you,” he said.

Ambode said his government was wholeheartedly committed to the safety of lives and property in the state.

In addition, the governor said the fire station was being commissioned to enhance safety of lives and property in Epe, adding that his administration would deliver more fire stations across the state.

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is also aimed at promoting interest in satellite technology and space careers among children and youths, who can participate by coding the songs to be retransmitted during major outreach events.

“The third onboard mission has a scientific nature. It involves the measurement of atmospheric density in the region 400 km above earth.

“This mission is important because it utilises the advantage of multiple satellites collecting data simultaneously at different points in the region, enhancing the body of scientific literature already available”.

Professor Joseph Fuwape, FUTA Vice Chancellor, said the university being the leading institution of technology is progressing steadily on the project.

Fuwape assured that FUTA was already aiming at being the hub of scientific knowledge in the area of satellite technology.

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he rate at which persons are killed for rituals in Nigeria is becoming something of a national embarrassment. No week passes without the gory news of people being murdered in most gruesome manner for ritual purpose.

Recently, there had been outcry over activities of a cult group, Badoo, operating in Ikorodu area of Lagos, who kill for ritual. After killing their victim, members of the cult group allegedly use handkerchiefs to wipe the blood of their victims and sale same to people who are in a hurry to money among others.

This and other countless incidences are symptomatic of what takes place daily in many parts of the country, whereby some blood thirsty Nigerians go about snuffing the life out of their fellow citizens in order to use their body parts for money making rituals. Every year, hundreds of Nigerians lose their lives to ritual murderers, who go in search of human parts-head, breast, tongue, sexual organs-at the behest of witch-doctors, juju priests, and traditional medicine men who require them for some sacrifices or for the preparation of assorted magical potions.

Incidentally, Nigeria is a society where most beliefs are still informed by unreasonable dogmas, myth making, and magical thinking. Therefore, many still believe that magical potions prepared with human parts can enhance one’s political and financial fortunes. Moreover, they are of the view that juju, charms and amulets can protect individuals against business failures, sickness and diseases, accidents, and spiritual attacks. In fact, ritual making is perceived as an act of

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spiritual fortification. Therefore, due to ignorance, poverty, desperation, gullibility, and irrationalism, Nigerians murder fellow citizens for rituals. Virtually every week, many police stations nationwide are inundated with reports of missing persons.

Available records show that less than 10 percent of such persons ever returned home. A scary 90 percent of them were not found and the bodies of a negligible number that were eventually seen, dumped either on the roadsides, bush paths or inside gutters, mutilated and their vital organs removed. Killing of human beings for rituals dates back to the ancient times when people used to appease the gods of the land with human blood and for winning wars.

One would have expected that such pseudoscience should rather be imagined than witnessed in Nigeria in this 21st century, when other countries of the world are experimenting and advancing in technology. More baffling is that some Nigerians still indulge in such superstitious process of ritual killings in spite of the escalation of religious groups across the country as well as the exposure of majority of the populace to education and Western culture.

What is, however, very clear is that this is a law and order failure.

Indeed, the increasing cases of ritual killings is a poignant reminder that the police and the other security agencies have not sent a forceful message on what awaits the perpetrators of such a most heinous crime. One or two prosecutions and executions of herbalists that are caught asking for and using body parts will send a clear cut message to all of them that government is out to put a stop to this most barbaric of practice in this modern times.

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Enugu Assembly passes amended Basic Education Law Moses Oyediran, Enugu The Enugu State House of Assembly has passed the Amended Enugu State Universal Basic Education Bill into law.

The bill tagged ‘A Bill for a law to amend the Enugu State Universal Basic Education Law, 2005 and to provide for Matters Connected Therewith, House Bill No. 3,’ was passed into law following the consideration of the report on the bill presented on the floor of the House by the member representing Igbo-South Constituency and Chairman House Committee on Education, Hon. Matthew Elochukwu Ugwueze.

Ugwueze who had presented the report of the Joint Committee onbEducation, Science and Technology, gender Affairs and Social Development, Judiciary, Public Petitions and Eth-

ics and Privileges, explained that the universal basic education which earlier covered primary education from primary 1 to primary 6, would now span from primary to junior secondary school popularly called JS3.

While appraising the passage of the Bill into law, Speaker of the House, Hon. Edward Uchenna Ubosi, commended the committee members for a job well done. He also commended his other colleagues for their contributions during the debate as well as the committee secretary.

“I wish to commend chairman of the joint committee, members of the committee, the committee secretary, honourable colleagues for a job well done,” he said.

Ubosi expressed the view that the passage of the bill would help boost basic education in Enugu State

Akeredolu tasks African leaders on improvement of education

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Ondo state governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, on Thursday admonished African leaders not to see education as an investment opportunities but what everyone should give to its citizens.

The governor gave the advice at the Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, while declaring open the Toyin Falola International Conference on Africa and the African Diaspora (TOFAC).

Akeredolu who was represented by his deputy, Agboola Ajayi, said that no serious government would take education with levity hands.

He advocated for a uniform educational curriculum to be adopted by Africa Union (AU).

He explained that a reasonable percentage of fiscal budgets should be allocated to education on the continent.

Akeredolu commended the college for its zero tolerance for social vices noting that education should be a tool for positive transformation of the people.

Clement Kolawole described education as an effective instrument for the total liberation of the people if properly harness.

Prof. Kolawole spoke while delivering his keynote address at the ceremony adding that education is capable of giving one the requirements for selfemancipation.

He explained that the potentials of Africans could only be

achieved through education when properly funded.

“Therefore, our leaders should extend the bold steps and initiatives that brought up AU to education.

“Education in Africa has to be strengthened and transformed to propel transformation and development” he added.

Oba Adedokun Abolarin, the Oragun of Oke Ila in Osun State, said that education should be used to nip poverty in the bud in Africa.

Abolarin, who runs a free private secondary school in Oke Ila, called on philanthropists in Africa to come to the aid of the helpless and vulnerable.

The organiser of the programme, Prof. Toyin Falola of TOFAC, noted that the conference was aimed at capturing Africa with a view to engendering a bright and innovative future for the continent.

Falola, who disclosed that TOFAC had built an e-library containing 120,000 books for the Adeyemi College, assured that the organization would not relent on its oars.

He urged African continent to embrace itself as the driver of its destiny by harnessing the productive energies of its ample youths.

He also added that capitalising on the synergies of its diaspora would ensure peace with the necessity of forging global alliances.

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Presidential aide on Prosecutions, petitions Gov Ayade over cult activities in his village Edem Edem, Calabar

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The Senior Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Prosecution, Barrister Okoi Obono-Obla, has petitioned the Cross River state governor, Prof Ben Ayade, over cult activities in his village. The petition was addressed to Governor Ayade and copied to the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osibanjo, the National Security Adviser Abuja, the State Security Services, Abuja, the Commissioner of Police, Cross River State Police Command, for attention and consideration.

Barrister Obono-Obla requested the governor to order security agencies to clamp down on murderous, vicious and blood thirsty cult/terror groups operating in the state and constitute a judicial commission of inquiry to investigate the perpetrators of the terror/cult-related violence and spate of killings in Ugep (Yakurr); Ogoja; Obudu; Calabar South local government areas of the state.

The Senior Special Adviser alleged that most members of Governor Ayade’s government belong to dreaded and deadly cult/terror groups which have threatened the peace, well-being and security

of the People of Obudu, Ogoja, Yakurr, Calabar-South Local Government Areas of Cross River State, which more or less has caused a near break down of law and order in these areas.

He said there has also been spate of cult-related murders/ killings in Ugep, Obudu, Ogoja, and Calabar-South local government areas of the state, adding “It has got so bad that in Ogoja the population went on rampage and raided the homes of suspected members of these cult/terror groups and unleashed ‘justice’ on them.

“This indeed is a dangerous trend that should not be tolerated by any government at all on account of the serious consequences of mischievous people cashing in on such trend to settle scores with perceived enemies.

“It could easily lead to the total disintegration of society and lead to a return to the era described by Thomas Hobbes, the 18th Century Legal Philosophy, when life was short, nasty and brutish. In all these the Government of Cross River State has been totally and completely ambivalent and indeed half-hearted and lukewarm in tackling this huge and ominous security problem which has as-

sumed frightening, pandemic and endemic proportion,” he stated.

Apart from the high rate and incidence of cult/terror security challenges in Cross River state, the state regrettably has one of the highest kidnapping rates in the country so much so that averagely in Calabar, more than about 10 kidnappings takes place daily.

Barrister lamented various incident that took place in Ugep, the Headquarters of the Yakurr local government area of Cross River state on the June 29, 2017, which I believe your Security Adviser and the Police must have briefed the governor and itemized them to the Governor Ayade.

He listed almost 50 suspected cult members and their sponsors in the petition.

“There is undoubtedly a high rate of kidnapping and cult related violence and killings in Cross River state. I seriously fear that if the Government of Cross River state fails to take action now the entire state may sooner than later be consumed by an orgy of killings and murders never seen in the annals of the history of this State and indeed the country.

Niger SSG reiterates commitment to developmental policy, programmes Saka Bolaji, Minna

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Niger state government has reiterated its determination towards the implementation of programmes and policies that will bring rapid development to the state as well as improve the living standard of the people.

The Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Hon. Ibrahim Isa Ladan, stated this while addressing the newly posted Permanent Secretaries, political appointees and other management Staff of SSG’s Office held at the Conference Hall of SSG’s Office.

The SSG urged the staff of his office and the entire of the state not to relent in providing support to the quest of the present administration’s positive change agenda which is already getting meaningful result.

He observed that the office of the SSG is the driving force and engine room of governance of which the occupant is expected to be push-full, patient and firm.

He applauded the support accorded him since his assumption to Office and implored for them understanding from those either directly or otherwise he offended in the course of discharging his duties.

He enjoined the Permanent Secretaries and Staff of the Office to work assiduously towards achieving the lofty vision of the present administration in making Niger State one of the best in the country.

“The harmonious and cordial working relationship he enjoyed with all the staff of his Office is marvelous” and urged them to sustain the tempo, the SSG stressed.

In her remarks, Princess Rachel Yisa, Permanent Secretary, General Services noted that in every assignment, one must identify with the expectations and aspirations of his principal.

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S’Court grants convicted council boss bail Andrew Orolua, Abuja Reprieve came the way of a former caretaker chairman of Ogori/Magongo local government area of Kogi State, Gabriel Daudu, on Thursday, who is serving a jail term as the Supreme Court admitted him to bail.

Daudu, who had also served as a member of the Kogi State House of Assembly was serving a two jail term haven being con-

victed for money laundering and misappropriation of public funds to the tune of N1.4billion.

He was sentence by the Federal High Court in Lokoja on 77 out of 208 counts filed against him by the Economic and financial crimes Commission (EFCC).

Dissatisfied with his conviction, Daudu approached the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal praying the court to set his conviction aside.

However, in a unanimous decision on Wednesday, March 1, 2017, the appellate court upheld the ruling of the lower court and dismissed Daudu’s appeal as “unmeritorious and lacking in merit.”

Still not satisfied, Daudu proceeded to the Supreme Court, praying to be admitted to bail pending the determination of the appeal before it.

After due consideration of submissions and arguments by Joseph Daudu

(SAN) the lead counsel for the appellant and Wahab Shittu who represented the respondent (EFCC) the apex court admitted Daudu to bail with two sureties in the sum of N2million each.

The sureties must have landed property and must be resident in the FCT. Duadu, who is currently serving his prison sentence in Koton-Karfe is expected to complete the sentence in August.

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CVR: INEC registers 45,575 so far in Kogi state Idris Ahmed, Lokoja

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Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Kogi state has so far registered 45,575 eligible voters in the ongoing Continuous Voters Registration exercise at its offices in all the 21 local government areas of the state.

Briefing journalists in Lokoja on Thursday, the state Administrative Secretary of the Commission, Mr. Adison Mailafiya, explained that of the registered number of 23,534 were males while 22,223 females were registered as at July 4.

Mailafiya also disclosed that while 1,566 al-

ready registered voters have applied for transfer of their Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) 2,556 registered voters also applied for replacement of their PVCs for obvious and verifiable reasons.

According to the Administrative Secretary, 6,746 registered voters have collected their PVCs during the period under review, while a total of 2&4,178PVCs were yet to ve collected.

He also disclosed that the Commission in its bid to reduce hardship faced by registrants from difficult teresina,six additional registration centres were created across the state

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Ex-Gov Aliyu challenges FG’s money laundering charge against him Oguntade Ismaila

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immediate past governor of Niger state, Babangida Aliyu, on Thursday challenged the money laundering charge slammed against him by the federal government.

He is being prosecuted Aliyu alongside the 2015 governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and a former Niger state Commissioner for Environment, Parks, Gardens and Forest Resources, Umar Nasko, on an eight-count charge of money laundering before the Federal High Court in Abuja.

When the matter came up on Thursday before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba, the defence counsel, Mamman Usman (SAN), informed the court of a preliminary objection by the defence challenging the territorial jurisdiction of the court in Abuja to try the former governor and his co-defendant on the alleged offence.

According to Usman, the court sitting before Justice Dimgba do not have the jurisdiction to hear the matter because the alleged offences were committed in Niger State.

He said the defendants and all the witnesses in the case live in Niger State, adding that, since there is a Federal High Court in Niger State, the matter should be transferred to the state for hearing and determination.

Usman, who prayed the court to decline jurisdiction in the matter said it

will not be fair to subject the defendants and witnesses in the matter to discomfort.

Earlier, the prosecution counsel, Ben Ikani, told the court that he was ready with his witnesses in court for trial to commence in the matter.

Recall that the former governor and his co-defendant pleaded not guilty to the eight-count charge in which they were accused of conspiring and diverting over N1 billion ecological funds which the state was said to have received from the Federal Government in 2014.

They allegedly paid the money into the account of a private company, D-Sabrin International Limited, through the Niger State Ministry of Environment.

Some of the counts preferred against them in the case marked FHC/ABJ/ CR/71/2017 read, “That you, Dr Muazu Babangida Aliyu (while being the Executive Governor of Niger State) and Umar Muhammed Nasko (whilst being the Commissioner for Environment, Parks, Gardens and Forest Resources in Niger State) sometime in 2014, at Minna, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, did conspire between yourselves to commit an offence to wit: money laundering of ecological funds released by the Federal Government to the Niger State Government and, thereby, committed an offence contrary to section 18(a) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 (as amended) and

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Taraba Assembly commences Public Hearing on Anti Open Grazing Bill

While declaring the ceremony open at the hallowed chambers of the State Assembly, Jalingo, the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Abel Peter Diah, said the lawmakers, having critically observed the tenets of the Bill, saw the need to delve into it in a way the entire state will benefit, hence the composition of an ad-

hoc committee who further propose for a public hearing.

He reiterated that the public hearing on the Bill was further conceived by the lawmakers towards bringing to an end, incessant bloody clashes between herdsmen and farmers in some parts of the state as well as the outbreak of animal diseases by migrant cattle coming into the state.

Rt. Hon. Diah explained that it was in view of the impact of the Bill on the lives of the people of the state that Governor Ishaku forwarded the Bill to the legislators with a view to addressing the problems.

According to him, the public hearing offers the

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7-man ad-hoc Committee constituted by the leadership of the Taraba State House of Assembly on Anti Open Grazing Bill across the state hascommenced Public hearing on the Executive Bill, “Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranches Establishment Bill, 2017,” forwarded to the lawmakers by Governor Darius Dickson Ishaku.

general public the opportunity to either reject the Bill or make veritable contributions to enrich the law to be passed.

“This indeed, is a deliberate attempt by the House of Assembly to democratically give room to the public to contribute to the laws that are formulated for the good governance of the state”, he said.

He pointed out that the Bill, if passed into law, will focus on some objectives which will be beneficial to the citizenry.

Some of the objectives, he noted, are to prevent clashes between herders and farmers; regulation and support to the growth of livestock farming and management of the en-

vironmental impact of open livestock grazing; prevention, control and managing the spread of diseases as well as ease the implementation of policies that enhance the production of a high quality and healthy breed of livestock both for the local and export markets.

Earlier, in his address of welcome, the Chairman, House of Assembly ad-hoc Committee on Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranchers Establishment Bill, 2017, Rt. Hon. Mark Useni Bako, appreciated the leadership of the State Assembly for availing the committee the opportunity to serve in that capacity.

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Clinically dead Nigerian who woke up in Indian mortuary tells his story

Samuel Anayo John Obute

Samuel with family members

Nosa Akenzua, Asaba

diologist who has worked in India for over 20 years before coming back to Nigeria took up my case because he said in over 200 cases he has done in cardiology, my case was different and rare.

“He spent huge sums of money on my case; he used his influence to attract many Heart Foundations to subsidise the cost of the operation.

“The surgery was scheduled to take place four weeks ago, but because I could not come up with enough money for flight, and other expenses, the schedule was aborted.”

Unfortunately, more complications arose because the family was unable to meet up after hundred days time frame of carrying an artificial heart elapsed.

“Finally I gathered enough money, and I left for India on Friday, June 9, 2017, but the doctors turned me back because I was four weeks late, and there was no way I was going to survive. So my doctor through his influence contacted a friend in Australia who had a private jet, and I was flown straight to Australia in a flight which lasted for 13 hours.

“I was much later told by my Nigerian surgeon that the doctors in the medical facility in Australia where I was flown to confirmed that I was already dead after conducting a medical examination on me.

“A certificate confirming my death was issued to my surgeon by the doctors in the hospital in Australia, who subsequently asked him to fly my corpse back to India. When we got back to India, I was told that my body was taken to the mortuary and that as the hospital attendant was about to lock the door to the mortuary where I was kept, I began to feel terribly cold, a development that made me to shout for help.

The Anioma Regional Headquarters of Deepe Life Bible Church, Boji Boji-Owa, Ika North East Local Government Area of Delta State was at the weekend filled to its capacity as family members, friends and well wishers of Samuel Anayo John Obute joined him in thanking God for God bringing him back to life in a mortuary in India after he had been confirmed clinically dead in Australia.

Giving his testimony at the service that was attended by dignitaries from all walks of life and from different denominations of the Christian faith, Samuel said that he was diagnosed of ventricular center defect (a heart condition) five years ago.

He disclosed that his healthy condition had deteriorated in recent times to the extent that he occasionally collapsed, adding that each time he collapsed, blood usually gushed out from his mouth, noise and other parts of his body. The 30-year-old medical student of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka told the congregation that further medical examination on him revealed that he has seven holes in his heart for which he was subsequently informed that the sum of N24m was needed for him to go for heart transplant in India.

His story: “The initial minor surgery carried out to cover the holes proved abortive. So, I was asked to go for an orthopedic heart transplant which cost N24 million including other expenses. There was no money.

We wrote to the state government who assisted with a little sum.

“My church assisted me; friends and family contributed too, my surgeon, Prof Tamson, a consultant car-

“When the mortuary attendants saw me, he ran away and my doctor, who was attracted to the mortuary by my shout for help, came in and brought me out.

It was when I asked him what we were doing in India, instead of being in Australia that he (my Nigerian surgeon) narrated what happened to me, adding that he had earlier informed my parents in Nigeria that I was dead”.

Samuel told the mammoth congregation who were held spell bound while listening to his testimony, that the only thing he remembered in his unconsciousness was how angels were working (operating) on him. Apparently shocked about the awesome development, he said that the medical team in the Indian hospital, who earlier conducted medical examination on him, had to repeat all the tests and they found out that he (Samuel) was without any health problem again. All the holes had miraculously disappeared!

Earlier in his sermon titled “Jesus: The same Yesterday, Today, and Forever”, The former state overseer of Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor Jude Chukwuocha, who quoted copiously from the holy bible, harped on the need for Nigerians to surrender their lives to God. Chukwuocha pointed out that Jesus Christ has come to restore people in the world who vehemently believe in him back to life, adding that He (Christ) has paid the ultimate price for our lives, even as he added that God has all it takes to save the whole world.

Highlight of the ceremony which featured choir ministration, was thanksgiving to God by Samuel who was accompanied by his parents, family members, friends and well wishers, as well as members of Deeper Life Bible Church.

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2019 Guber race: Enter Olorogun Emerhor with “Mainstream Delta APC� (MDA) Isaac Olamikan, Warri The 2015 governorship candidate of APC in Delta State, Olorogun Otega Emerhor OON, last week, hosted a meeting/retreat with political like minds across the 25 local government areas of the state.

The meeting saw the coming together of foundation APC members/stakeholders who have sustained the party from July 2013 to date and new members/stakeholders who have joined the party since then.

Over 80 key stakeholders across the length and breadth of the state that indeed constitute the heart and soul of the APC in the state honoured the invitation.

While the Exco/party structure members and political appointees in the state were deliberately not invited, the State Chairman and a few SWC members attended to observe proceedings at the retreat.

The meeting x-rayed the political landscape of Delta towards 2019 elections, the current state and battle readiness of APC in the state, the issue of candidates for the 2019 elections and, in particular, the candidature for governorship.

Those at the gathering also discussed the best way to project, protect and guarantee the political interests of the like minds in the state while enhancing and strengthening the capacity of the APC in the state.

They also looked into the issue of disagreements and wrangling among different political interests, including new comer groups in the party and strove to find solutions that will promote cohesion in the party.

After a key note address by the convener, Olorogun Emerhor, the meeting broke into syndicate groups to consider all the issues noted above.

Resolutions Arising from the syndicate groups, the following issues and resolutions were adopted by the gathering: that it was timely that the gathering was called; that the gathering hereby constitutes it-

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self into a political group within the larger Delta APC and that the group shall be known as Mainstream Delta APC (MDA) to reflect the history and extent of its political positioning in Delta APC. The meeting also asserted that the group shall have formal structures set up across the state and hold regular meetings; that the MDA shall be open to all APC members who share its ideals and shall strive to bring in all such new

members. Furthermore, that MDA shall position itself as the most dominant political structure of APC in the state and shall strive as much as possible to have a forceful say in political contests within the APC; that MDA recognises the right of other APC stakeholders to come together under other tendencies and groups and that MDA shall be ready to seek cooperation and strong affiliations with such groups that may enhance and cre-

ate a win win outcome for all.

MDA stated that it recognises that politics is a game of interest and that the various wrangling in the party do not amount to a mortal crisis for the party but represent an expected positioning of politicians.

In that wise, MDA asserted that it will work with all existing interests and groups to foster progress and unity for the party as much as possible.

The MDA stated that its primary driving goal shall be that APC Delta must produce the next Governor of Delta State; that the convener of MDA, Olorogun Emerhor, shall subject any ambition to be the governorship candidate of Delta APC in 2019 to the driving goal of MDA, to wit: that only a candidate that best guarantees the chances of APC in Delta to produce the next Governor, giving regards to all circumstances and calculations, including zonal arrangements, shall be adopted and supported by MDA; that on this score, MDA is available to partner with other viable groups or individuals to produce a winning candidate.

MDA adopted the mantra: Dominate To Win; that MDA recognises and appreciates the existing party exco and structures led by Prophet Jones Ode Erhue and pledged to continue to work with them for the advancement of the party in the state. The group also thanked them for sending representatives to observe its proceedings; MDA called on the party exco to urgently constitute all the constitutional organs of the party in order to enhance participation and increase party activities in preparation for 2019 elections.

It thanked the convener for calling and hosting the retreat at this critical time in the affairs of the party. MDA appreciated his astounding leadership and unanimously adopted him as leader of MDA. Pledging to work with him to achieve the overall goals of the group. MDA assured full loyalty to APC Delta State and committed to work solely for its cohesion and progress.

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The general public is hereby notified that the above named FOUNDATION has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under part “C”, Companies and Allied Matter Act, 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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Susan Shola Oyemade (Mrs.) 2. Adetokunbo Anuoluwapo Oyemade 3. Engr. Adewale Olufunso Oyemade 4. Dr. Adeleke Temidayo

TRUSTEES: 1. PASTOR KENNETH IKENNA IROANUSI 2. MR. EMMANUEL CHIGOZIE NZEKWE 3. MRS CHINENYE BEATRICE NWEZE 4. DR. CHIGOZIE KINGSLEY ONYEJI

Objectives 1 To counsel, advice people suffering from Bipolar and other psychological related problems, and to help them achieve their health, wellness and lifestyle goals over time by helping them feel their best through food and lifestyle changes.

2 To work with below average and average pupils and students through counselling, seminars and workshops and by helping them achieve their academic and life purpose goals.

3 To counsel and give advice to school drop outs and young homeless people towards personal transformation, enhancement and improvement of their quality of life.

Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, off Aguyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, P.M.B. 198, Garki Abuja, within 28 days of this publication.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST ALL OVER THE WORLD. 2. TO TAKE CARE OF THE WELFARE OF ITS MEMBERS. 3. TO ESTABLISH LOCAL BRANCHES FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL WORLDWIDE. 4. TO EMPLOY AND DEPLOY, TRAIN AND ORDAIN MINISTERS FOR THE FURTHERANCE OF THE WORK OF THE CHURCH 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: FEMI ONIBALUSI ESQ., 08023010154

SIGNED: SECRETARY

TOBIAH MINIMAH SKILLS ACQUISITION INITIATIVE

EXUNIPORT GRADUATES ALLIANCE

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 TRUSTEES: 1. IBINYE TOBIAH MINIMAH BOROH 2. TARIEBI PAULA BOROH AIMS AND OBJECTIVES TO ENGAGE YOUTHS IN SKILLS ACQUISITION 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.

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 TRUSTEES: 1. PHILIPS E. MATHEW -CHAIRMAN 2. NGOZI I.E EMESOWUM -SECRETARY 3. GEORGE INKOBA 4. AFIESIMAMA TONYE IYEONEOMI 5. STEPHEN NNAKA ONYINYE 6. DARLINGTON AMOBI 7. JOY IHENACHO AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PROMOTE UNITY AMONG MEMBER 2. TO PROVIDE HELP TO THE LESS PRIVILEGE 3. TO PROVIDE SKILL ACQUISITION FOR NIGERIAN YOUTH 4. TO PROTECT THE INTEREST OF MEMBERS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

GABRIEL ILOABACHIE FOUNDATION

OMNIPRESENT GOD MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL

AKASOBA CENTRE FOR PEACE AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION.

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 TRUSTEES: 1. NWAMAKA ILOABACHIE 2. IKECHUKWU ILOABACHIE 3. OKECHUKWU OKWU. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO AWARD SCHOLARSHIP TO THE EDUCATIONALLY LESS PRIVILEGED IN THE SOCIETY 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.

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

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

TRUSTEES: 1. PROFESSOR ZAINAB IBITEIN DUKE 2. PRINCESS SIDIKATU OLATOYOSI MARIAM DUKE 3. FRIDAY IJOGI 4. JOGI FRIDAA

TRUSTEES: 1. PROFESSOR ZAINAB IBITEIN DUKE 2. PRINCESS SIDIKATU OLATOYOSI MARIAM DUKE 3. FRIDAY IJOGI 4. JOGI FRIDAA

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST ALL OVER THE WORLD. 2. TO TAKE CARE OF THE WELFARE OF ITS MEMBERS. 3. TO ESTABLISH LOCAL BRANCHES FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL WORLDWIDE. 4. TO EMPLOY AND DEPLOY, TRAIN AND ORDAIN MINISTERS FOR THE FURTHERANCE OF THE WORK OF THE CHURCH

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. To help in the advancement of peace in the society 2. Conflict resolution among communities and society in general 3. To promote peace, unity and understanding among people of all faith, help denounce all forms of violence and promote tolerance.

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 REGISTRARGENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

DIVINE LIFE INT’L PRAYER MOUNTAIN & EVANGELICAL MINISTRY

RAYMOND ELOMBAH FOUNDATION

SUSTAINABLE CYCLING AND RECREATIONAL SPORTS FOUNDATION CAC/IT/ NO 84495

This is to notify the general public that the above named, has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

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

The Trustees are: 1. PASTOR JOEL WEALTH ODION - President/General Overseer.

2. PASTOR (MRS) FAITH ODION (Secretary) 3. PASTOR SUNNY IKECHUKWU (Member) 4. MR SATURDAY OKHIRIA (Member).

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. CHUKWUEBUKA DANIEL ELOMBAH 2. HOPE UZOMA ELOMBAH 3. ENJOY CHINYERE OMORUKU 4. PAUL ÒKWUDILI ELOMBAH

The aim and objective: 1. To preach the gospel of Jesus Christ

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO OFFER SCHOLARSHIP AND PAY SCHOOL FEES TO INDIGENT STUDENTS IN THE COMMUNITY. 2. TO ASSIST THOSE SUFFERING FROM DIABETES IN THE COMMUNITY.

Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General of Corporate Affairs Commission Maitama Abuja within 28 days of this publication SIGNED: SECRETARY

THE ROCK FOUNDATION A.K.A. HOUSE ON THE ROCK

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

THE INCORPORATED TRUSTEES OF SUSTAINABLE CYCLING RECREATIONAL SPORTS FOUNDATION HEREBY INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED FOUNDATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC), ABUJA FOR ADDITIONAL OF TRUSTEES UNDER PART ‘C’ OF COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1990.

TRUSTEES ARE 1. NIJI ADELAGUN 2. IBOROMA AKPANA 3. FAIZ IMAM 4. ADELEKE ADENIYI 5. SEYILAYO OJO ADDITIONAL TRUSTEES ARE 1. GIANDOMENICO MASSARI AIMS AND OBJECTIVES REMAIN THE SAME ANY OBJECTION TO THIS ADDITIONAL OF TRUSTEES SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR_GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIR COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT , OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET , MAITAMA , ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

NEW WINE CITADEL OF GLORY CHURCH

GRASSROOT DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT & RURAL ENLIGHTENMENT INITIATIVE

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

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

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

NAME OF TRUSTEES REMAIN THE SAME

TRUSTEES: 1. MRS OLUFUNMILAYO MERCY AWOMOLO (GENERAL OVERSEER), 2. MR. OYEKANMI OYEWOLE OYELEYE (SECRETARY) 3. MR. OLAOLUWA PETER AWOMOLO ( MEMBER)

TRUSTEES: 1. HENRY IWOKA UDEMEH. - CHAIRMAN 2. ANTHONIA ISIOMA NWAMU -SECRETARY 3. DR. ASHIOBA CHUKWUDI NWANZE 4. OGWU PATRICK CHIKODI

AIM AND OBJECTIVE REMAINS THE SAME. THE CONSTITUTION HAS BEEN AMENDED IN ITS ENTIRETY BY THE DELETION OF ALL THE EXISTING PROVISION AND BY THE INCLUSION OF REVISED PROVISIONS. ANY OBJECTION TO THE AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL OF THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI LRONSI STREET, PMB 198, MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED SECRETARY

AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO PROVIDE SYSTEMATIC STUDY IN THE BIBLE TO THOSE WHO DESIRE TO BE FED THE WORD OF GOD. LEADERSHIP ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS ROAD, OFF AGUIYI IRONSIDE STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1 ADVOCACY FOR GRASSROOT DEVELOPMENT GRASSROOT SUPPORT, YOUTH EMPOWERMENT AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS ROAD, OFF AGUIYI IRONSIDE STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

Public Notice 22 GREEN INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ZEKERI BASHIRU MOHAMMED 2. OLOYEDE ABDULKARIM AYOPO 3. ALI YUSUF OLANREWAJU AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO CONTRIBUTE, BUILD UP STABILITY IN THE COUNTRY WHERE ALL THE PEOPLE CAN HAVE ACCESS TO BASIC INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES. 2. TO FACILITATE, BUILD AND MANAGE AN ICT HUB WHERE TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS WILL BE DEVELOPED. ANY OBJECTIONS TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

Daily Times Nigeria Friday, July 7, 2017

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. BAMIDELE OLUWATOSIN DINAH - FOUNDER/GENERAL OVERSEER 2. BAMIDELE PRECIOUS - SECRETARY 3. BAMIDELE TUNDE - P.R.O. AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

WINDING UP

DR. FREDERICK FASEHUN FOUNDATION

UCHE E.UCHE O.& ASSOCIATES PLOT 1248, AMINU KANO CRESCENT WUSE II ABUJA

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

J.R.N. PROPERTIES LIMITED RC .645145 COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 2004 PRIVATE COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES NOTICE OF FINAL GENERAL MEETING OF J.R.N. PROPERTIES

LIMITED

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT IN PURSUANCE WITH SECTION 468 OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 2004 THE FINAL GENERAL MEETING OF J.R.N PROPERTIES LIMITED WILL BE HELD AT ITS REGISTERED OFFICE ON 7TH DAY OF JULY 2017 .

THE PURPOSE OF LAYING BEFORE SUCH MEETING THE ACCOUNT OF THE WINDING UP OF THE ABOVE NAMED COMPANY AND OF GIVING ANY EXPLANATION THEREOF DATE THIS 7TH DAY OF JULY 2017

NAMES OF TRUSTEES 1. DR. FREDERICK ISIOTAN FASEHUN 2. FASEUN AYODEJI AKINDOJUTIMI 3. FASEUN OLUREMI FOLAYELE 4. FASEUN OLUMUYIWA PHILIP 5. FASEUN BANKOLE OLUWATOSIN

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

NAMES OF THE TRUSTEES: 1. SIPASI OLALEKAN AYODELE 2. UFUOMA JAYEOBA 3. ADEKUNLE OLUWADARA VICTORIA 4. CLEMENT OBAYI 5. OLAJIDE ADEYEMI AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO ENSURE FOOD SECURITY THROUGH SUSTAINABLE BEST AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE IN ORDER TO FIGHT HUNGER, ALLEVIATE POVERTY AND PROTECT THE OZONE LAYER FROM DEPLETION, WHILE PROMOTING CITY SMART AND BACKYARD FARMING. 2. TO MOBILIZE CITIZEN CONSCIOUSNESS IN PROTECTING THE OZONE LAYER THROUGH TRAININGS, ADVOCACIES, PEER EDUCATION, INNOVATION, MENTORING, ESTABLISHMENT OF SUSTAINABLE DEMONSTRATION FARMS, AWARENESS RAISING, RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT, REUSE OF WASTE / MARGINALIZED MATERIAL FOR FOOD PRODUCTION AND INCREASE KNOWLEDGE OF CIVIC RESPONSIBILITIES. 3. TO PROMOTE ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDLY AGRICULTURE AMONG CHILDREN, YOUTHS, ACTIVE CITIZENS AND FARMERS AND THEIR SPHERE OF INFLUENCE (FRIENDS, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY) TO PRODUCE MORE FOOD AND REDUCE POSTHARVEST LOSSES 4. TO ENGAGE YOUNG MINDS ACTIVELY AND EFFECTIVELY TO REDUCE JUVENILE DELINQUENCY AND YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT/UNDEREMPLOYMENT THROUGH SUSTAINABLE AGRIBUSINESS SKILLS. 5. TO PROMOTE INNOVATIVE (USING LOCAL CONTENT INITIATIVE) APPROACH AND APPROPRIATE TECHNIQUES IN INCREASING RURAL AND CITY FOOD PRODUCTION ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED BY EYITAYO OGUNYEMI ESQ. (08060623454)

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. PASTOR OLAKA JOSHUA UKPABI 2. MRS. UZUNMA ANN OLAKA

AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO HELP THE LESS PRIVILEGE IN THE SOCIETY

AIM AND OBJECTIVE : 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.

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

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

SIGNED: UCHE E. UCHE O LIQUIDATOR

SIGNED : BARR SULEIMAN A. GENE 08034647859

SIGNED: SECRETARY

GRACEMADE CHRISTIAN CENTER

GILBERT AKINOLA DAVIES FOUNDATION

BLACK DIAMONDS SUPPORT FOUNDATION

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OSIGBESAN OLUWASEUN OLUWAFEMI 2. BAMIDELE MOBOLAJI OLUWAFEMI 3. KOLAWOLE JOSEPH OLUWADARE 4. ADEBAJO-OSIGBESAN OLUWASEUN BUKANLA AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST TO ALL MANKIND FOR SALVATION OF SOULS. 2. TO HOLD MEETINGS GEARED TOWARDS THE EXPANSION AND DEVELOPMENT OF BELIEVERS. 3. TO FOSTER LOVE WITHIN CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP AND THE EXPRESSION OF IT THROUGH COUNSELLING, PROVISION OF AIDS AND RESPECT FOR ONE ANOTHER. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES.

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MACAULAY MAGNUS ADEWALE - CHAIRMAN 2. MACAULAY GILBERT AYOOLA - SECRETARY 3. ODUMOSU-MACAULAY FEHINTOLA ADEOLA 4. MACAULAY AJIBADE ABIODUN AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO DEVELOP ESTATE FOR FAMILIES IN TERMS OF NEED’S 2. TO PROCEEDS ON DEVELOPMENT ESTATE FOR EMPOWERING YOUTHS ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES.

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: (1) ADEWUMI ADEFUNKE OLUREMILEKUN - PRESIDENT (2) ADEGBOYE ADEJOKE OLAJUMOKE - FINANCIAL SECRETARY (3) LIASU MOFOLUWASHO MONISOLA - SECRETARY (4) AISHA IYABO O (5) ODUSANYA IKIMAT OMOLAYO (6)OLUWAYELU OYINDAMOLA OMOLOLA (7)OPEYEMI EMMANUEL KUJERO AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO HELP AND CARE FOR THE LESS PRIVILEGED IN THE SOCIETY. ANY OBJECTIONS TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

MERCIFUL WORKS FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL

ASSOCIATION OF PRIVATE CLINIC OWNERS OF NIGERIA

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

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

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. LATIF GIWA - ENGINEER 2. AYODELE GRACE OLAIYA - ACCOUNTANT 3. ABIOLA GIWA - BUSINESS 4. ANUOLUWA ADEOLA GIWA - NURSE AIM AND OBJECTIVES: 1. DISTRIBUTION OF RELIEF MATERIALS TO AREAS OF NEED TO THE ORPHANAGE AND SUPPORT ASSITANCE IN CLOTHING AND FOOTWEAR. 2. TO PROVIDE BACK TO SCHOOL PROGRAM TO THE UNDER PRIVILEGED, NEW MOM AND BABY, SUPPLIES FOOD ITEMS TO UNDERPRIVILEGED FAMILIES. 3. TO PROVIDE HYGIENE PACKS TO INMATES, MEDICAL VISION AND DENTAL MOBILE CLINICS, TO COMMUNITIES WITHOUT ACCESS TO HEALTH. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: (1) OJAGBUWA LAWSON TIMMY (2) NURUDEEN MUMINI OLANREWAJU (3) AKANDE NOJEEM ADISA (4) OLUBIYI SIKIRU ADEKUNLE (5) OLUWAFEMI FUMILAYO ADETO (6) BANKOLE GANIYU OLAKUNLE (7) SALAMI ALIU ATANDA.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES: (1) EVANG. DR. DOGOOD GEORGE MOKPO JP (PRESIDENT) (2) EVANG. MARVEL OMAVUAYE MOKPO (VICE PRESIDENT) (3) PASTOR TALENT JOHN UDOFIA (PRO) (4) EVANG. FAITH OLIRAH NWANCHUKWU (MEMBER) (5) PASTOR OGHENEKPAROBOR MOKPO (SECRETARY)

AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO PROMOTE THE SPIRIT OF LOVE, PEACE AND MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING AMONG THE MEMBERS ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

DOGOOD INTERNATIONAL PEACE OUTREACH

AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO PREACH GOD’S PEACE AND LOVE WORLDWIDE. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: TRUSTEES.

SIGNED BY OMONIYI

SIGNED: ELDER J K NANA JP CKC 08037769526

WESTAFRICANS ON POINT FOUNDATION

OLAIYA BEYOND ORPHANAGE FOUNDATION

ASSOCIATION OF UNITED AWORI PEOPLE

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

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. TAIWO JOHN ADELEYE, 2. MAKINDE YINKA EZEKIEL 3. OLADAPO-OGUNSANYA SEGUN AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO FOSTER UNITY AMONG MEMBERS ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. AKINODE OBADIAH AKINOLA - CHAIRMAN 2. ABASS FATAI TOKUNBO - SECRETARY 3. AKINODE AJARAT OYINLOLA - MEMBERS 4. AROMAYE OLUKUNLE ABIDEMI - MEMBERS 5. AROMAYE OMOTOLA MODUPEOLA- MEMBER AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO ASSIST THE LESS PRIVILEGED IN SOCIETY

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MR.NAWAIRUDEEN IDOWU -PRESIDENT 2. MR.OLUWADAMILARE ODUYEMI- TREASURER 3. MR.TAOFIK KAREEM-SECRETARY 4. MR.WAHAB OKANLAWON OGUNJI- P.R.O 5. MR.JIMOH OSENI 6. MR.GANIYU AKINWANDE AIM AND OBJECTIVES: (1): TO SEE TO THE DAY TO DAY PROGRESS OF AWORI PEOPLE (2): TO SUPPORT, PROMOTE, AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE SOCIAL ECONOMIC AND EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT OF AWORI PEOPLE

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

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

SIGNED - SECRETARY

SIGNED SECRETARY

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SOCIETY FOR EMPOWERING VULNERABLE INDIVIDUALS COMMUNITIES AND SYSTEMS (SEVICS) THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED FOUNDATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART ‘C’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MR NONSO HAROLD UKWUMA 2. MR MICHAEL CHIJIOKE UKWUMA 3. MR CHISOM ANISIOBI OKOYE 4. MRS VIVIAN NJIDEKA EZE 5. MR SOLOMON ONYEKWELI 6. MR TOCHUKWU FESTUS UFONDU. AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO EMPOWER FUTURE GENERATIONS FOR EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP AND OPTIMIZED PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH DEVELOPING TECHNICAL SKILLS AND IMPROVING ACADEMIC, RECREATIONAL AND HEALTH SERVICES FOR ALL YOUNG PEOPLE. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL; CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, MAITAMA DISTRICT WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

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AFRICAN FASHION DEVELOPMENT AND EMPOWERMENT CENTRE

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OGUNKOLADE ADEOLA KAFILAT - CHAIRMAN 2. BALAMI STANLEY DUNAMA - SECRETARY 3. OGUNKOLADE OLUSEYE OLAKUNLE - TREASURER 4. ALADE TEMITOPE OLABISI 5. ASHAN DEBORAH JESUNANI AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO EMPOWER RURAL AND URBAN WOMEN TO RUN SUSTAINABLE MICRO, SMALL AND MEDIUM FASHION ENTERPRISE THAT WILL REDUCE POVERTY, STIMULATE LEADERSHIP AND PROMOTE PEACE. 2. TO PROMOTE OUR BEAUTIFUL AFRICAN CULTURE THROUGH LOCAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP. 3. TO CONDUCT RESEARCH AND EDUCATE GENERATIONS ON AFRICANS HISTORICAL ART CULTURE AND HERITAGE. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1) PASTOR JOSHUA ETUK BASSEY (SNR PASTOR) 2) MRS UDUAK JOSHUA BASSEY (MEMBER) 3) JOSEPH ESSANG ESQ ( SECRETARY) AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1) TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST 2) TO DELIVER PEOPLE FROM DEMONIC OPPRESSION THROUGH THE GOSPEL 3) TO PROMOTE FELLOWSHIP AMONG BRETHREN ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: MR. MICHAEL CHIJIOKE UKWUMA

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

AL-MASAAKEEN FOUNDATION

FOLA FRIENDS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION

WATER SANITATION AND HYGIENE DEVELOPMENT YAKURR

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED BODY HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC), ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1 OF 1990 NAMES OF TRUSTEES: 1.AJIBADE MONSURAT 2.MOHAMMAD RAJI AMEENAT 3.OYERO SURURAT 4.ABDUL RAUF HASANA ADELEYE 5.OLOSO BUSHRA BISI 6.ABDUL MOJEED AHMAD OLAKUNLE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.TO SUPPORT WIDOWS, ORPHANS AND THOSE IN NEED OF HELP 2.TO BE A BRIDGE BETWEEN KIND HEARTED PEOPLE & THOSE IN NEEDS 3.TO BUILD MOSQUES, CLASSROOMS & GIVES ASSISTANCE TO QURANIC MEMORIZATION SCHOOLS ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIR COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYIIRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

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

TRUSTEES: 1. MRS. FOLASHADE ONYENUWE - CHAIRPERSON 2. MR. EMMANUEL ONYENUWE - SECRETARY AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. EMPOWERING THE YOUTHS AND 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, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MR. IKENNA JUSTIN EMEJULU 2. MRS. AKANNA GETRUDE MUKIADA 3. MRS. CHINELO VERA AGBANAJELU 4. MRS. OGOCHUKWU GLORIA NWACHUKWU 5. MR. IKECHUKWU BENEDICT UZUANWU 6. MR. CHIZOBA CYRIL UDE 7. MR. CHUKWUMA MARTINS NWABUFO 8. MR. NCHEKWUBE JUDE EGBUNA 9. MR. CHIDOZIE ALPHONSUS ADINNU, 10.

MR. CHINEDU DANIEL OCHUBA THE AIM AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROMOTE PEACE, LOVE AND UNITY AMONGST MEMBERS ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION

TERRE DES HOMMES FOUNDATION CAC/IT/NO: 27639

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. JEAN LUC IMHOF - RETAINED 2. MR. PHILIPPE BUCHS - REMOVED 3. DR. ABIMBOLA LAGUNJU - REMOVED THE NEWLY APPOINTED TRUSTEES ARE: 1. CLAUDIO RINI 2. OLAPEJU OSOBA CLAUSES TO BE AMENDED ARE: CLAUSE II CLAUSE IV REASON FOR AMENDMENT: TO BROADEN THE AIM AND OBJECTIVES OF THE ASSOCIATION ANY OBJECTION TO THIS CHANGES SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

WUSE ZONE 2 NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER ALLOTTEES ASSOCIATION

AMALGAMATED BAKERY MATERIALS DEALERS ASSOCIATION RC NO. 22395

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART ‘’C’’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1999

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR CHANGE OF TRUSTEES UNDER PART ‘’C’’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1999

TRUSTEES: 1. MR IBRAHIM YUSUF ADOKE 2. MRS PATIENCE OKORO MGBO 3. MR INNOCENT NWAGBO MUOKA 4. MR NZEDINMA NDUKA NDUBUEZE 5 MR EKWE CHUKS JUDE MATINS 6. MRS UGWUOKE THERESA

THE OLD TRUSTEES ARE: 1. SIR EDWARD EZEH 3. CHIEF HON. PETER OKPALA 5. ELDER PAUL OSITA ORAGUI 7. CHUDI NWOKEDIUKO 9. MR. UZODIMMA IKWUKA

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO ACT AS A FORUM FOR ADDRESSING THE COMMON INTEREST OF THE MEMBERS 2. TO CHAMPION AND CARTER FOR THE INTEREST OF THE MEMBERS 3. TO HELP MEMBERS IN TIMES OF NEED AS AN ASSOCIATION. 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. SUNDAY N. OKONTA . ESQ

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR_ GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIR COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT , OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET , MAITAMA , ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: BEN EKEDEBE (PELICAN ATTORNEYS)

SIGNED: BARR FRIDAY OKOH

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

MADONNA UNITED & PROGRESSIVE SUPPORTERS ASSOCIATION

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

TRUSTEES ARE: (1) REV IWARA IWARA UBI( CHAIRMAN).

(2) EGBA INAH UKET (3)OBOL FRANCIS UBI. (4)ELDER MBANG OBONO. (5)ELDER OKOI ESSIEN. (6) CHIEF PATRICK IYAMBA. (7) PASTOR, HON, NELSON OFEM. (8)DR. GODWIN OBETEN IGILE. (9) PASTOR JOSEPH EKPATAR. (10) MR FERDINARD OBONGHA UFE. AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO SUSTAIN AND ERADICATE BAD HYGIENE PRACTICES.

2. SIR MICHAEL MBONU 4. CHIEF SIR BENEDICT EFULU 6. CHIEF SIR FIDELIS OKEKE 8. SIR. RAYMOND IKWUKA 10. CHIEF SIR RICHARD NWANKO

THE NEW TRUSTEES ARE: 1. CHIEF CLEMENT CHUKWUBIKE ELODI 3. CHIEF CHARLES CHIKE AMOBI 5. CHIEF NWADINIGWU HIPPOLITUS CHUKWUBIKE 7. CHIEF IFEANYI IGBOKWE

2. CHIEF ALBERT UDOZOR 4. SIR FELIX IROANUSI OKPARA 6. CHIEF JUDE NWANGWU 8. CHIEF EMEKA EZEANYA

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES REMAIN THE SAME ANY OBJECTION TO THIS CHANGES 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.

LOSS OF DOCUMENT

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF THE LOSS OF ORIGINAL CERTIFICATE OF ST’ BARNABAS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION WITH REG. NO. CAC/IT/6897. ALL EFFORTS TO TRACE THE SAID DOCUMENT PROVED ABORTIVE. IF FOUND KINDLY RETURN TO THE NEAREST POLICE STATION. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE. --BAR ADETOLA JONAS KATUNG MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART ‘’C’’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1999 THE TRUSTEES ARE 1. ABRAHAM KATUNG - CHAIRMAN 2. JEMIMAH KATUNG - SECRETARY 3. APOSTLE ZILLY AGREE 4. AMBASSADOR CHRIST AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED:- SECRETARY 08131188822

SYNAGOGUE GLOBAL TRUMPET CHAPEL

THE SOPHIA ESSAHMED FOUNDATION

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART ‘’C’’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1999 TRUSTEES: 1. ADENIYI CLINSMAN ESHOVO 2. COMFORT OGOR 3. JOY ECHE DOVIE AIM AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: U I. OKWORI ESQ

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

THE REMOVED TRUSTEES ARE: 1. AHMED AIMAN BAYERO SUNUSI THE APPOINTED TRUSTEES ARE : 1. GAJI FATIMA DANTATA 2. NUHU AHMED RIBADU 3. GODWIN NDUBUISI KANU THE RETAINED TRUSTEES ARE : 1. SUNUSI ADO BAYERO 2. SOPHIA ESSAHMED BAYERO 3. ZAINAB MAHMUD TUKUR THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES REMAIN THE SAME. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS CHANGES SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR_GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIR COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT , OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET , MAITAMA , ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED : SECRETARY

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ABRAHAM DANIEL UFEDOJO ACHILE I, FORMERLY KNOWN AS DANIEL UFEDOJO ACHILE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ABRAHAM DANIEL UFEDOJO ACHILE ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE

MRS ABOJE, ALEXANDER MARIA ONYECHE

MICHAEL SOLOMON

IGENEBOR, RITA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ALEXANDER MARIA ONYECHE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ABOJE, ALEXANDER MARIA ONYECHE. ALL DOCUMENTS BEARING MY FORMER NAMES REMAIN VALID. BENUE STATE UNIVERSITY, COUNCIL OF LEGAL EDUCATION, BANKS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ASUQUA MICHAEL SOLOMON NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MICHAEL SOLOMON. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ATABO RAIMETU

MISS IBRAHIM GANIYAT ABOSEDE I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESS AS MRS AFOLABI GANIYAT ABOSEDE, NOW WISH TO BE CALLED MISS IBRAHIM GANIYAT ABOSEDE, ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID AUTHORITY CONCERN AND GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESS AS ATABOR RAMATU, NOW WISH TO BE CALLED ATABO RAIMETU, ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINED VALID GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE. OWOLABI TEMITOPE ADEBANKE I formerly known and addressed as ADEKEYE TEMITOPE ADEBANKE, now wish to be known and addressed as OWOLABI TEMITOPE ADEBANKE. All former documents remain valid. General public, please take note.

ABDULLAHI MAIMUNAT BIDEMI

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGRIH, RITA ELO NOW I WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IGENEBOR, RITA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

MISS ODUBIYI CHRISTANA MODUPEOLUWA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ADESHINA CHRISTANA MODUPEOLUWA NOW I WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ODUBIYI CHRISTANA MODUPEOLUWA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESS AS MUHAMMED MEMUNAT BIDEMI, NOW WISH TO BE CALLED ABDULLAHI MAIMUNAT BIDEMI, ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAINED VALID GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

FOLASHADE FOLAKE AFENI

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

MRS. AGBAGWA EUNICE SOLA.

MARTINS ABIOLA JEMILAT

I, formerly known and addressed as FOLASHADE FOLAKE AKINLUSI, now wish to be known and addressed as FOLASHADE FOLAKE AFENI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

On some of my documents my name appears as ONU LAWRENCE CHIMAMKPA while on other documents it appears as ONU HENRY CHIMAMKPA. I am the same person bearing both names. All documents bearing both names remain mine and valid general public take note.

I formerly known and addressed as MISS. SAMSON EUNICE SOLA, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. AGBAGWA EUNICE SOLA. All former documents remain valid. General public, please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as MARTINS ABIOLA JEMILAT EVELYN, now wish to be known and addressed as MARTINS ABIOLA JEMILAT. All former documents remain valid. General public, please take note.

OKOLIE ROSEMARY NGOZI.

ADENIKE DEBORAH AWOTUBO.

KAZEEM OLUWAKEMI

OGUCHUKWU RAYMOND OKEKE

DECLARATION OF CHANGE OF NAME

I, formerly known and addressed as NGOZI UJUNWA OKOLI, now wish to be known and addressed as OKOLIE ROSEMARY NGOZI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

I, formerly known and addressed as TALABI DEBORAH ADENIKE, now wish to be known and addressed as ADENIKE DEBORAH AWOTUBO. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as KAZEEM OLUWAKEMI SALIU, now wish to be known and addressed as KAZEEM OLUWAKEMI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

I, formerly known and addressed as RAYMOND FINDER OKEKE, now wish to be known and addressed as OGUCHUKWU RAYMOND OKEKE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

That I was formerly known as MISS ONAFEKO ABIOLA NIMOTA and henceforth I wish to be known, called and addressed as MRS. SMITH ABIOLA NIMOTA due to my marriage with MR. SMITH OLANREWAJU ADEBOLA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. FRANCESCA ROBINSON - PRESIDENT 2. UGBEBOR AUGUSTINA 3. NNEKA NWOKORO 4.ENIBOR VICTORIA 5.OLADIPUPO NGOZI - SECRETARY

CLUB 637 INTERNATIONAL THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED CLUB HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC), ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART ‘C’ OF COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE : 1.TAIWO AKINOLA 2.IRETI AKINOLA 3.MOJIRAYO OPEYEMI AKINOLA 4.TIWALOLUWA AKINOLA

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE : 1.TO CREATE AWARENESS AND TREATMENT FOR EARLY DETECTION FOR CERVICAL AND PROSTRATE CANCER. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR_ GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIR COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT , OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET , MAITAMA , ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED : SECRETARY

MRS CHUKWUNTA NORAH NNEKA I, formerly known and addressed as MISS AGU NNEKA NORAH , now wish to be known and addressed as MRS CHUKWUNTA NORAH NNEKA. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

Public Notice

EZE NNENNA LOVETH I, formerly known and addressed as EZEIGBO NNENNA LOVETH, now wish to be known and addressed as EZE NNENNA LOVETH. All former documents remain valid. Banks and General public should please take note.

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1) TO FOSTER UNITY, CO-OPERATION AND MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING AMONG MEMBERS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR_GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIR COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT , OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET , MAITAMA , ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED : SECRETARY

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE : 1. PASTOR MRS PRECIOUS ODODOBARI WINNER - CHAIRMAN 2. BRO. FELIX OLUKA NENE 3. DEACON HENRY OCHEN - SECRETARY 4. DEACON NNANA OLUKA THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1.TO PREACH THE WORD OF GOD. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR_GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIR COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT , OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET , MAITAMA , ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED : SECRETARY

AMAECHI CALLISTUS ANIOGO I, formerly known and addressed as ANIOGO CALLISTUS AMAECHI, now wish to be known and addressed as AMAECHI CALLISTUS ANIOGO. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

INITIATION/CONFIRMATION OF NAME

NWANKWO CHINYERE CHARITY

DR. LUCY IJEOMA CHIBUEZE

That on my BVN my name was written in INITIATION as LUCKY O. MARTINS, which (O) stands for OYAMENDAN. That I now want to confirm that I am the same person bearing the both names but now I want to be known as OYAMENDAN LUCKY MARTINS. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as CHIDILIM CHINYERE CHARITY, now wish to be known and addressed as NWANKWO CHINYERE CHARITY. All former documents remain valid. Banks and General public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS DR. OCHUONU LUCY IJEOMA, now wish to be known and addressed as DR. LUCY IJEOMA CHIBUEZE. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

IGWENAGU ERIC UCHENNA

AGAMEGWA TIMOTHY CHIMAJULAM

IKEH CHINEDU DAVINSON.

I, formerly known and addressed as IGWENAGU ERIC FOSTER UCHENNA, now wish to be known and addressed as IGWENAGU ERIC UCHENNA. All former documents remain valid.

General public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as AGAMEGWA TIMITHY CHIMAJULAM, now wish to be known and addressed as AGAMEGWA TIMOTHY CHIMAJULAM. All former documents remain valid.

General public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as CHINEDU DAVID, now wish to be known and addressed as IKEH CHINEDU DAVINSON. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS ONUOHA STELLA CHINYERE, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS EDUMNI STELLA CHINYERE. All former documents remain valid.

General public should please take note.

DIEKE NNABUIKE PAUL

MRS EDUMNI STELLA CHINYERE

MRS AMULUCHE MIRACLE GIFT I, formerly known and addressed as MISS EJIM MIRACLE GIFT, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS AMULUCHE MIRACLE GIFT. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

ANAENYE NDIDIAMAKA JANE I, formerly known and addressed as OBI NDIDIAMAKA JANE FRANCISCA, now wish to be known and addressed as ANAENYE NDIDIAMAKA JANE. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

MBAH CHINENYE MARYJANE ADANNA I, formerly known and addressed as ANENE CHINENYE MARYJANE ADANNA, now wish to be known and addressed as MBAH CHINENYE MARYJANE ADANNA. All former documents remain valid.

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I, formerly known and addressed as DIEKE NNABUIKE VICTOR, now wish to be known and addressed as DIEKE NNABUIKE PAUL. All former documents remain valid. Banks and General public should please take note.

UCHE LOVELYN CHIKA

IGBONEKWU ADAEZE JENNIFER

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MRS UCHENDU CHIOMA VICTORIA

MRS ANIGBO GRACE OBIAGELI

MRS PHILOMENA OKOH

OKOYE UZOAMAKA CALISTA

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CONFIRMATION OF NAME

CORRECTION OF NAME

SALAWUDEEN MOHAMMED OLAWALE

MORBA CHIAMAKA

OCHULOR THEOPHILUS NGWABA

OBILEYE RIDWAN ROTIMI

This is to certify and confirm that PATRICIA SEBASTIEN SABASTIAN and SEBASTIN PATRICIA, refer as one and the same person now wish to be known and addressed as EDET PATRICIA SEBASTINE. All former documents remain valid. Banks and General public take note.

This is to inform the general public that my name INYABA ODINAKA STEPHANIE was wrongly written during my BVN registration but now wish to be corrected and addressed as INYABA ODINAKA CONSTANCE. All former documents remain valid.

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EDUCATION FOR ALL LEVELS ORGANISATION

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CARMEL CITY CHURCH

Public Notice EXCELLENT ACHIEVERS CHRISTIAN CENTRE

THE General Public Is Hereby Notified That The Above Named Has Applied to Corporate Affairs Commission For Registration Under Part “C” Of The Companies And Allied Matters Act 1990.

THE General Public Is Hereby Notified That The Above Named Has Applied to Corporate Affairs Commission For Registration Under Part “C” Of The Companies And Allied Matters Act 1990.

The general public is hereby inform that the above named association has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act No 1 of 1990

THE TRUSTEES : 1. IMAFIDON ELVIS OSAZEE - PRESIDENT 2.EKHORUTOMWEN PAUL EGBE 3.OKHOMINA OSASOGIE HELEN 4.EWERE OSARUMWENSE GLORY

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. oweh oghenerobo Raymond 2. oweh oghenefejiro success.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. AJAYI OLANIYI OLABISI 2. NKWOCHA ESTHER UGOCHI 3. AJAYI OLUFUNKE EUNICE 4.NKWOCHA JANET CHINWE

Aims And Objectives: 1. TO OFFER FREE EDUCATION TO THE LESS PRIVILEDGE. 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.

Aims And Objectives: 1. To preach the gospel of Jesus Christ Any Objection to the Registration should be Forwarded to the Registrar General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off AGUIYI Ironsi Street, MAITAMA, ABUJA Within 28 DAYS of This Publication.

Signed Secretary

Any objection (S) should be forwarded to the Registrar- General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

Signed: Secretary

SIGNED: President

BETHEL EVIDENCE ASSEMBLY The general public is hereby inform that the above named has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part ‘C’ of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, Degree No. 1 of 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. REV. PROPHETESS AJIRISON UCHE JULIET. 2. AJIRISON EMEKA WELLINGTON. AIMS/OBJECTIVES: 1. To preach the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420 Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja, within 28 days of this publication SIGNED : REV. PROPHETESS AJIRISON UCHE JULIET THE ALPHA PARENTS OF PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES FOUNDATION

THIS TO IS INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED FOUNDATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART ‘C’ OF THE COMPANY AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 2004.

THE TRUSTEES OF THE FOUNDATION ARE; 1. MR. MUYIWA MAJEKODUNMI - PRESIDENT 2. MRS. ADEDOTUN AKANDE - VICE-PRESIDENT 3. MR. AFOLABI FAJEMILO - TREASURE 4. MRS. DELPHINE MISAN-ARENYEKA - SECRETARY

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.To win souls for our Lord Jesus Christ..

2.To open the gates of destinies by teaching the word of faith and by prayers.

3.To plant churches and carry out outreaches across the nations of the world.

5. FLORA OMOSEVWERHA - ASSISTANT SECRETARY 6. MRS. ELSIE AKERELE - TRUSTEE 7. MRS. ROSE MORDI - TRUSTEE 8. DR. OLAYINKA AKINDAYOMI - TRUSTEE.

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE FOUNDATION ARE; 1. TO CONSTITUTE AN ADVOCACY GROUP FOR PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY AND THEIR PARENTS/GUARDIANS WITH REGARD TO DISABILITY ISSUES IN ORDER TO ENABLE PERSONS WITH DISABILITY TO ACHIEVE EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES IN ALL ASPECTS OF LIFE AND ENHANCE THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE

BY COMPLIMENTING PUBLIC BENEFITS, 2. TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE, INFORMATION, ADVICE, COUNSELING AND SUPPORT TO THE PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS IF PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY AND ENSURE THAT SUCH PARENTS AND CARE-GIVER PARTICIPATE IN THE FORMULATION OF GOVERNMENT LAWS, POLICIES AND PROGRAMMES ON DISABILITY ISSUES THAT WOULD ENGENDER INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT AND ENABLE PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY TO LIVE PRODUCTIVE LIVES IN AN ENABLING. 3.TO LIAISE, COLLABORATE AND FOSTER LINKS WITH INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES, GOVERNMENTS, OTHER SPECIAL NEEDS ORGANIZATIONS, COMPANIES AND PERSON S HOWSOEVER TO FORMULATE, DEVELOP AND WORK REFORM RELEVANT LAWS, POLICIES AND PROGRAMMES WHICH SUPPORT DISABILITY INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT, EXPLORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR INNOVATIVE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION, SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, WUSE, ZONE 5, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: DIME AGBOIRE D.A. AGBOIRE & CO (LEGAL PRACTITIONERS).

LIBERATION TREE OF LIFE BIBLE MINISTRY

This is to notify the general public that the above named Ministry has applied for Registration to the corporate affairs commission, under the part ‘C’ of the companies and Allied Matters Act, 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE : 1. CHUKWUGOZIE ALOYSIUS 2. CHUKWUAGOZIE STELLA 3. ONWUANAMBA NNEKA 4. IKHUORIAH CHIDIMMA 5. OKONKWO OGOCHUKWU

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PASTOR/PRESIDENT SENIOR PASTOR. SECRETARY MEMBER MEMBER

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES : 1. To provide a forum for the meeting of members for the purpose of offering prayers and intercession.

2. To provide a forum for the meeting of members for the purpose of discussion and review of issues of mutual interest.

3. To conduct evangelism through teaching drama, and film shows towards heading people to Christ.

4. To do such other things reasonable and necessary to the attainment of the Ministry.

Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420 Tigri Crescent, off Aguiyi Ironsi Street Maitama, Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

STELLA ALERO UMAR FOUNDATION

This is to inform the general public that the above named “FOUNDATION” has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under the part C of Companies and Allied Matters Acts 1990.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES ARE 1. BABATUNDE MUMUNI 2 .A’ISHA MUMUNI AIMS AND OBJECTIVES. 1. To empower the widow in our society Any Objection(s) to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General, Corporate Affairs Commission, plot 420, Tigris Crescent, off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, PMB 198, Garki, Abuja within 28 days from the date of this publication.

Signed by: TRUSTEES

Signed By - NWANKWO SABASTINE CONSULTANT/ADVISER.

GRACE OF SALVATION AND MIRACLE MISSION The general public is hereby notified that the above named CHURCH has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission Abuja for registration under the part C of companies and Allied matters Act 1990.

The Trustees are : 1. OLOGE SUNDAY BOLORUNDURO 2. TOLUYEMI SOGO SUNDAY 3. OLOGE OLOLADE IDOWU. 4. RASHEED SOLOMON O. 5. FEMI OMOLE OLAJIDE

- chairman.

- secretary.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. To cause people to obtain their deliverance from forces of darkness.

2. To fulfil the great commission through evangelism, discipleship programmes .

3. To reach the unreached and Christians via godly books, tapes, cds and Internet facilities.

4. To be involved in welfare and health programmes.

5. To preach the word of God to the nations in order.

Any Objections to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corporate Affairs Commission, plot 420 tigris crescent off aguiyi ironsi street, maitama Abuja. Within 28days from the date of this publication.

REMOVAL OF TRUSTEE AND AMENDMENT OF CONSTITUTION OF ATTALEE’AH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION The general public hereby notified that the above named Foundation has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission Abuja for Removal of Trustee and Amendment of Constitution under Part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act. Cap 59 Law of the Federation of Nigeria 1990.

OLD TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ABDUL FATAI OLALEKAN YUSUF - Retained 2. SALAUDEEN ABDUL WASIU AL-AMEEN - Removed 3. WALIYYULLAAHI OTEGBEYE - Retained NEW TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ABDUL FATAI OLALEKAN YUSUF - Retained 2. WALIYYULLAAHI OTEGBEYE - Retained/Newly appointed as Secretary The Aims and Objectives are remained the same.

Any objection to this application and approval should be forwarded to the RegistrarGeneral, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Agusi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja, within 28days of this publication.

Signed: PRESIDENT Signed: SECRETARY

Signed: secretary

AMAZING FOUNDATION BELIEVERS MINISTRY

LOSS OF DOCUMENT

This is to inform the general public that the above named Mission has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Acts of 1990.

This is to inform the general public that the above named Foundation has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Acts of 1990.

Trustees are : 1. Emmanuel Odun-itan OWORU 2. Gbenga Samuel SHOTAYO 3. Rev(Dr) Akindele Babatunde PHILIP 4. Taiwo Busola OWORU 5. Adeola Gafar ADENRELU 6. Gregory SAMUEL

Trustees are : 1) IGHERE RICHARD DICKSON - president 2) OLUBANKOLE KAYODE JIDE - secretary 3) JOSEPH KAYODE AYOADE 4) IGHERE OKIEMUTE TIMOTHY

This is to notify the General Public that the ORIGINAL CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION (NO. 64986) of IDEATO INTERNATIONAL MARKET FOUNDATION is MISSING and every efforts to trace it has proved abortive.

SCRIPTURE PRAYER COMMUNITY MISSION

- Chairman - Secretary - Member - Member - Member - Member

AIMS: To preach and teach the word of God.

AIMS: Preaching the word of God.

Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar -General, plot 420, Tigris Crescent, off Aguiyi ironsi street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar -General, plot 420, Tigris Crescent, off Aguiyi Ironsi street, Maitama Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

Signed: Trustees

Signed: Trustees

GOODMARK INTERNATIONAL CHURCH

This is to inform the General Public that the above named MINISTRY has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under Part C of the Companies and Allied matters Act 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE:1. Pastor Harrison Uchenna Amadi 2. Pastor Jerome Nwachukwu 3. Pastor Peace Emem Uchenna 4. Pastor Ada Sandra Chukwu 5. Elder Ezekiel Ogbaide THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE:1. To propagate the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2. To win souls to the kingdom of God. 3. To serve humanity.

Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama Abuja within 28 days from the date of this publication SIGNED BY : SECRETARY

TRUE RECONCILIATION MINISTRY

This is to inform the General Public that the above named MINISTRY has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under Part C of the Companies and Allied matters Act 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE:(1)Pastor Okoi Mark Eteng (2) Pastor Okoi Blessing Eleojo (3) Elder Adaji Gabriel (4) Okoko Bassey Obono (5) Bassey Nelson.

This Publication is now required for Record Purposes and to enable the Certified True Copy (CTC) Of the Original Document be issued.

CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION and the General public please take note.

ALL ABOUT JESUS CHRIST MINISTRY This is to inform the general public that the above named has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Acts of 1990 Trustees are (1)Okogho Best (2)Okogho Veronica

THE AIMS and OBJECTIVES ARE:1. To bring others into harmony with God. 2) To reconcile men and women to God. 3) To preach the gospel of peace to all gestures in every nation.

4. To deliver the captives,set the oppressed free and heal the sick.

5) To bring salvation to men making them real.

6) To represent Christ as ambassadors on earth.

Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama Abuja within 28 days from the date of this publication SIGNED BY: SAO NOMINEES

- General Overseer - Secretary

Aim and objective; To preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. Signed Secretary Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General, plot 420, Tigris Crescent, off Aguiyi Ironsi street, Maitaima, Abuja within 28 days of this publication Signed : Secretary

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MRS. EJINKONYE NGOZI JULIET

BABS DAVE IBRAHIM

MRS. ENU EDITH OBEHI

I, formerly known and addressed as OGBANKPU NGOZI JULIET, now wish to be known, called and addressed MRS. EJINKONYE NGOZI JULIET. All former documents remain valid.

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I, formerly known and addressed as BABA ABDULRAHMAN IBRAHIM, now wish to be known, called and addressed as BABS DAVE IBRAHIM. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS EDOROR EDITH OBEHI, now wish to be known, called and addressed as MRS. ENU EDITH OBEHI. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

AYENIMOSE ABOLADE CHRISTANAH I, formerly known called and addressed as AYELUMOSHI ADEBIMPE ESTHER, Now wish to be known, called and addressed as AYENIMOSE ABOLADE CHRISTANAH. All former Documents remain valid. General public take note.

OBIUKWU ONYEMA NICHODEMUS

ESTHER SEYI-AWODUGBA

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I, formerly known and addressed as ESTHER OMOWUNMI JEGEDE, now wish to be known, called and addressed as ESTHER SEYI-AWODUGBA. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

MRS. MUOKA MARYJANE CHINENYE

FATAI ADEBAYO AKINYEMI

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IDAISA ARAFAT

xMATTHEW ONYEDIMMA PEREWE

OLADIPUPO OLUWATOSIN OLAMIJI

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CHANGE OF NAME/CORRECTION OF DATE OF BIRTH I, formerly known and addressed as OLALEKAN ABIODUN OGUNS, now wish to be known, called and addressed as JAMES ABIODUN JOHNSON. That my date of birth was wrongly written as 24th December, 1977 instead of 26th December, 1976. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

CORRECTION OF NAME

DEJI ADEDEJI SUNDAY

That my name was wrongly written on my Bank Account as AYENI G. ADEBISI, and on my BVN as AYENI G. ADEBISI ADEBISI instead of AYENI ABDUL-GANIYU ADEBISI. That my correct name is AYENI ABDUL-GANIYU ADEBISI. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

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CONFIRMATION OF NAME

SANUSI ROTIMI

ABDULRAMON ADENIKE BALIKIS

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I, formerly known and addressed as Ramon Bilikisu, now wish to be known, called and addressed as Abdulramon Adenike Balikis. All former documen ts remain valid.

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That on some of my documents, my name appears as SHOLA ESTHER O., while on others, it appears as SHOLA ESTHER ONEZEMEYI. That O. is the short form of ONEZEMEYI. That I am the same person bearing both names mentioned above. That all documents bearing both names are mine and remain valid. General public should please take note.

MRS AMANCHUKWU FAITH OGHALE

OYEYEMI ARINOLA AKINMADE

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OLUYEMI TOSIN MICHEAL

MRS FERDINAND JENNIFER CHINAZA

FERDINAND OSINACHI FERDINAND

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ENIS TITILAYO YEMISI

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MRS OGUNLEYE OLUWATOYIN ABIODUN I, formerly known and addressed as Miss Sanni Oluwatoyin Abiodun, due to marriage now wish to be known and called Mrs Ogunleye Oluwatoyin Abiodun .

All documents relating to former name remains valid and general public should take note.

GEORGINIA CHINENYE IGBOKWE

ADEJUMO OYINLADE TAIWO

ABDULWAHAB DUPE AISHAT

NWAORJI NKECHI JENNIFER

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

This is to confirm that the name GEORGINIA CHINENYE IGBOKWE and GEORGY CHINENYE IGBOKWE refers to one and the same person but now wish to be known and addressed as GEORGINIA CHINENYE IGBOKWE. All former documents remain valid. Banks and general public please take note.

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This is to confirm and notify the public that ALABI SALAU DANMOGAJI and DANMOGAJI ALABI SALAUDEEN refers to one and the same person. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

MAKU LUKMON AKANI

ISAIAH ONIURE EMMANUEL

OLAMIJUWON MISTURA OPEMIPO

IBRAHIM VICTORIA OLUWAKEMI

AKINLADE TOHEEB

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MRS. AYODELE OMOLOLA ELIZABETH

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I, formerly known and addressed as OLAMIJUWON MISTURA WURAOLA FLORA, now wish to be known and addressed as OLAMIJUWON MISTURA OPEMIPO. My correct Date of Birth is 09/04/1996. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

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NNAETO AMAKA ABIGAIL

KEHINDE TOBI JENIFER

MRS MARVIS CHIDIEBERE OBIDIGBO

OSINUGA OLUWAFEMI JOHN

MS CHIKWENDU ONYINYE VIRGINIA

MRS LOVE NKIRUKA IYAMU

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MRS IRONSI NKECHI JESSICA

AYAMERE PRECIOS AKOMU

OSAROBO JOHN AIGBEDION

FANTOLA MARUFU

OLUSEGUN BOSEDE ABIMBOLA

EHIGIATOR BLESSING

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ADELAJA OLUREMI ADETOUN

x MRS

IKUDAYISI OLAYEMI ARIKE

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IDRIS AUDU

GENEVIEVE OKPALA-EKWUEME

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I, formerly known and addressed as, GENEVIEVE OKPALA, now wish to be known and addressed as, GENEVIEVE OKPALA-EKWUEME. All former documents remain valid.

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MRS UGWUONAH ONYINYE EDITH

I formerly known and addressed as IFEANYI EDITH ONYINYE, Now wish to be known as MRS UGWUONAH ONYINYE EDITH. All former documents remain valid.

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DIMOSITA CHANGES EMEKA

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MRS SODE MOSUNMOLA OLADUNNI

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CORRECTION OF NAME/DATE OF BIRTH THAT MY NAME WAS MISTAKENLY WRITTEN AS OLAJUMOKE OWOLABI M. INSTEAD OF OWOLABI JUMOKE MARY AND MY DATE OF BIRTH AS 23/10/1971 INSTEAD OF 23/10/1973. ALL FORMER DOCUMENT REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

JEPHTHAH IHEANYI JAPHET

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OGBUNUGHA DORIS

ONYEANI, SUNDAY EMELE

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MRS. OSAZEMWINDE LORRITA OCHUWA

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I, formerly known and addressed as, MISS. WILSON LORRITA OCHUWA, now wish to be known and addressed as, MRS. OSAZEMWINDE LORRITA OCHUWA. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

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FORTUNE IFEOMA OLIE

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NWODOH KINGSLEY I, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, ODOH KINGSLEY, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS, NWODOH KINGSLEY. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

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CHIEME PRECIOUS NNENDAH

MISS. GIFT ADAEZE DURU

MRS. ABALI GLORY BASSEY

MRS. ONYECHE ADA AMEH

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MRS NWIGWE KATE CHUKWU

AUGUSTINE EMEKA AYABAZU

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OGUNGBEMI DANIEL JUWON

MRS NZEH LETICIA TOCHI

MRS ANIH UCHENNA ANN

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UNAGHA KELECHI FLORENCE

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YAKUBU OLAMILEKAN KAMALDEEN

OLAIDE OLUBUNMI OKEGBENRO

ADDITION OF NAME /CONFIRMATION OF NAME

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This is to certify that my name reflects as TIJANI MUFUTAU AKANFE that I now want to add ‘’ADENIYI’’ wish to be known and addressed as TIJANI MUFUTAU AKANFE ADENIYI. All Documents /Credentials bearing these names remain valid, general public please take note.

I formally known as olasunbo omotoke Shoyinka now wish to be known as olasunbo omotoke Amura, all documemts bearing my former name still remains valid. This is for the general public.should please take note

DICKSON EMMANUEL

OBASI JOSEPHINE O. (MRS)

AMARACHI PRAISE ONYEWUCHI

MRS. KYRA ASHLEY MICHAEL IHEKUNA

ATHAN EJIKE MGBAHURIKE

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This is to certify that the name JOSEPHINE O. ULUKWU, JOSEPHINE O. KALU and 0BASI JOSEPHINE O. (Mrs) is one and the same person; Now wish to be known and addressed as OBASI JOSEPHINE O. (Mrs). All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as AMARACHI PRAISE CHIMEZIE, now wish to be known and addressed as AMARACHI PRAISE ONYEWUCHI. All former documents remain valid.

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I, formerly known and addressed as MISS MADUME ASHLEY IBIFURO, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. KYRA ASHLEY MICHAEL IHEKUNA. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as ATHANASIUS OGU MGBAHURIKE, now wish to be known and addressed as ATHAN EJIKE MGBAHURIKE. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as MISS OWUNEZI CHINYERE JULIET, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. EJIMNKEONYE CHINYERE JULIET. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.

MRS OYENIYI DAMILOLA ESTHER

OBINNA EMMANUEL OKECHUKWU

OBINNA EMMANUEL OKECHUKWU.

IBRAHIM WASIU

CHANGE OF NAME/CORRECTION OF DATE OF BIRTH

LAWAL OSENAT ADETOUN

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Formerly known and addressed as OBINNA NNAEMEKA EKEOCHA, now wish to be known and addressed as OBINNA EMMANUEL OKECHUKWU. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as OBINNA NNAEMEKA EKEOCHA, now wish to be known and addressed as OBINNA EMMANUEL OKECHUKWU. All former documents remain valid.

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I, formerly known and addressed as ISAAC JOY NKEIRUKA, now wish to be known and addressed as ISAAC JOY IFEYINWA. That my correct date of birth is 04 MARCH 1987 and not 01 JANUARY 1985.

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Formerly known and addressed as OKUNOLA OSENAT ADETOUN, now wish to be known and addressed as LAWAL OSENAT ADETOUN. All former documents remain valid.

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VERONICA ONOJO OTOKHAGUA

CHUKWU RITA EMMANUE

OLADOJA MARY OLAYINKA

OKOGBE DESMOND SUNDAY

AKUETE MATTHEW SAMUEL

AYINDE RAHMAT ADEOLA

Formerly known and addressed as VERA ONOJA, now wish to be known and addressed as VERONICA ONOJO OTOKHAGUA. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as ABOLARINWA MARY OLAYINKA, now wish to be known and addressed as OLADOJA MARY OLAYINKA. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as OLORUNDA SUNDAY, now wish to be known and addressed as OKOGBE DESMOND SUNDAY. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as MATTHEW AKUETE AGBONMEIRELE, now wish to be known and addressed as AKUETE MATTHEW SAMUEL. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as KUYE RAHMAT ADEOLA, now wish to be known and addressed as AYINDE RAHMAT ADEOLA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

AMIDU EMMANUEL OLANREWAJU ADENIYI

IBRAHIM ATINUKE NNEKA

MRS OKEZIE JOYCE ONYEKACHI

MRS AYODELE ALABA IFEOLUWA

ALIU TEMITOPE BASHIRAT

AMOS OMOWUMI ITUNU

Formerly known and addressed as LANRE ADEMOLA, now wish to be known and addressed as AMIDU EMMANUEL OLANREWAJU ADENIYI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as SHITTU ATINUKE NNEKA, now wish to be known and addressed as IBRAHIM ATINUKE NNEKA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as MISS OKPALAEKE JOYCE ONYEKACHI, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS OKEZIE JOYCE ONYEKACHI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as MISS ALAO ALABA IFEOLUWA, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS AYODELE ALABA IFEOLUWA. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as ALIU BASIRAT ASABI, now wish to be known and addressed as ALIU TEMITOPE BASHIRAT. That my correct date of birth is 24 June 1984 and not 4 June 1984. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as BALOGUN OMOWUMI ITUNU, now wish to be known and addressed as AMOS OMOWUMI ITUNU. All former documents remain valid.

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TEMITOPE ASISAT BANKOLE

JOEL ITEGHETE IFEYINWA GLADYS (MRS).

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

SALIU DORCAS ABISOLA

AGBA CHINEDU ANTHONY

My name was wrongly written as OMOSENI AAKWAYIN, instead of EHUWA AWAYIN OMOSENIOLA. All documents remain valid. General Public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as ADEBIYI DORCAS ABISOLA, now wish to be known and addressed as SALIU DORCAS ABISOLA. All former documents Remain valid. General Public take note.

Formerly known and addressed AGBA KENEDY CHINEDU, now wish to be known and addressed as AGBA CHINEDU ANTHONY. All former documents remain.

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This is to confirm that am the same person bearing OLUWATOYIN TEMITOPE ANIMASAUN-ODUNOSHO as well as OLUWATOYIN TEMITOPE ANIMASAUN. All documents bearing the same names are Mine and remain valid. General Public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as JOHN STEVEN, now wish to be known and addressed as IBRAHIM WASIU. All former documents remain valid.

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CORRECTION OF NAMES

x

MRS. EJIMNKEONYE CHINYERE JULIET

Formerly known and addressed as Temitope Asisat Onibudo, now wish to be known and addressed as Temitope Asisat Bankole. All former documents remain valid. All former documents remain. General Public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as Okpara Gladys Ifeyinwa, now wish to be known and addressed as Joel Iteghete Ifeyinwa Gladys (mrs). All former documents remain valid. General Public take note.

OWOPETU BAMIDELE THOMPSON

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

BALQEES BABATUNDE AJIBOLA

CORRECTION OF NAME

NDUBUEZE PRAISEGOD CHUKWUEMEZIELAM

x AIMANKHU MARIA MABEL

Formerly known and addressed as OWOPETU BAMIDELE, now wish to be known and addressed as OWOPETU BAMIDELE THOMPSON. All former documents remain. General Public take note.

This is to confirm that am the same person Udoh Charles Uduak as well as Udoh Charles Joseph. All documents bearing the above names are mine, General Public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as BALQEES BABATUNDE AJIKE, BALQEES AJIBOLA TEMITOPE, now wish to be know and addressed as BALQEES BABATUNDE AJIBOLA. All former documents remain valid. General Public take note.

This is to inform the general public that my name was wrongly spelt, written and stated as Ayishetu Abdul instead of Abuh Abdul Aishat. Henceforth I wish to be known as Abuh Abdul Aishat. All former documents remain valid.

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I, formerly known and addressed as Okoh Maria Mabel now wish to be known and addressed Aimankhu Maria Mabel. All former documents remain valid.

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MRS. UGOEZE MARIA-ASSUMPTA FRANK UMEH

MRS UDEGBUNAM AMARACHI CHINAZAEKPERE

MRS AREMU, DAMILOLA OLUBUNM

MRS FAITH OLABISI ADEBISI

JEREMIAH UGONNA CELESTIN

MRS BANWO-AJILORE, TEMITOPE GRACE

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I, formerly known and addressed as Jeremiah Ugonna Ebereonwu now wish to be known and addressed as Jeremiah Ugonna Celestin.

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I, formerly known and addressed as Miss WILLIAMS, Damilola Olubunmi now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs AREMU, Damilola Olubunmi. All former documents remain valid.

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Igbonla: Justify Lagos investment in security by rescuing kidnapped pupils, MSSN tells police Sodiq Adekunle The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN) has expressed displeasure over the continuous detainment of six kidnapped students of Lagos Model College, Igbonla Epe, by their abductors.

The Amir (president) of the MSSN in Lagos state, Dr. Saheed Ashafa, said the inability of security operatives to rescue the pupils after 40 days showed that security in Lagos needed

to be improved upon.

Recall that six students of the Model College were abducted by armed men on May 25, 2017 in the school hostel.

He specifically called on security operatives to adopt intelligence approach in rescuing the kidnapped students.

Ashafa lamented the long stay of the students in hostage and urged the Inspector General of police to renew strategies in securing students in the

country.

He said, “The continuous hostage of the students undermines and shows that Lagos security is weak. It means that efforts of the state government at equipping security operatives in the state have yielded little or no result. The situation is an embarrassment on the much rated Lagos State and may make some people think that security in the state is a charade.

“If by now the students

are still in captivity, then we expect police and other security operatives to renew strategies and step up intelligence policing on this matter.

“We are not unconscious of the security implication of exposing strategies, at the same time we should not be complacent doing things the same way. Time is going over this matter.”

Ashafa imagined the psycological degradation that the kidnapped students could be going

through, saying it was a betrayal of the importance of seeking knowledge.

Praying for the successful release of the kidnapped students, the Muslim students’ leader pleaded with parents of the kidnapped students to be prayerful and hopeful.

He said, “It is painful that students who are the future and hope of the country are the ones suffering the security lapses in the state. This is a bad compensation for seeking

ORIAREWO AUGUSTINA ESOSA

ADISA SHAKIRU AYANGBADE

YUSUF ABDUL

OLOYEDE REMILEKUN AKINTADE

GODWIN-USORO BOSE

I, formerly known and addressed as AUGUSTINA AIBUEDEFE EDIAE now wish to be known and addressed as ORIAREWO AUGUSTINA ESOSA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADISA SHAKIRU ISHOLA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADISA SHAKIRU AYANGBADE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

Formerly known and addressed as OLOYEDE OLUWAREMILEKUN, now wish to be known and addressed as OLOYEDE REMILEKUN AKINTADE. All former documents remain valid.

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I formerly known and addressed as BOSE USORO now wish to be known called and addressed as GODWINUSORO BOSE. All former documents remain valid, General public take note

EDEMA TOLULOPE MARY

DANIEL SAMSON HOTEPO

I formerly known and addressed as AKINTUNDE TOLULOPE MARY now wish to be known called and addressed as EDEMA TOLULOPE MARY . All former documents remain valid, General public take note.

This is to state that I was formerly known called and addressed as DANIEL SAMSON .That I now wish to add HOTEPO to my name.That I now wish to be called and addressed as DANIEL SAMSON HOTEPO.All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

EKHORAGBON DESTINY OMOKARO I formerly known and addressed as EKHORAGBON DESTINY now wish to be known called and addressed as EKHORAGBON DESTINY OMOKARO. All former documents remain valid, General public take note

AKANNI FUNMILOLA SAYI

I formerly known and addressed as BOBUWA OLUREMI BOSEDE now wish to be known called and addressed as OJOGBEDE OLUREMI BOSEDE. All former documents remain valid, General public take note

I formerly known as Funmilola Mabi wish to be known and addressed as Akanni Funmilola Sayi .All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as OLORUNFEMI SUNDAY MICHAEL now wish to be known called and addressed as OLORUNFEMI MICHAEL ARUWAJOYE. All former documents remain valid, General public take note

UHIE SAMUEL EBERE

ADIRIEJE JOACKIN SOPURUCHUKWU

I formerly known and addressed as EZEIGWE NNEKA MARTHA now wish to be known called and addressed as EZEIGWE-IKECHUKWU NNEKA MARTHA. All former documents remain valid, General public take note

I formerly known and addressed as JAMILU RAFIU MUSA now wish to be known called and addressed as JAMILU NAFIU. All former documents remain valid, General public take note

Formerly known and addressed as EMEKA SAMUEL EBERE, now wish to be known and addressed as UHIE SAMUEL EBERE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as ADIRIEJE JOACHIN SOPURUCHUKWU, now wish to be known and addressed as ADIRIEJE JOACKIN SOPURUCHUKWU. All former documents remain valid.

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- Chairman - Secretary

AIMS/OBJECTIVES: 1. To preach the gospel of Jesus Christ Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420 Tiqgris Crescent, Off Aguiyi ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja, within 28 days of this publication Signed: Pastor Idang Eyo Ene Chairman

FAMILY CHANGE OF NAME Formerly known and addressed as FAGBEMIRO ISRAEL OLUMIDE (FATHER), FAGBEMIRO RACHAEL BUNMI (MOTHER), FAGBEMIRO DANIEL OLUWASEUN (SON), FAGBEMIRO DAVID OLUSHOLA (SON) and FAGBEMIRO DIVINE DAMILARE (SON) now wish to be known and addressed as GODSON ISRAEL OLUMIDE, GODSON RACHAEL BUNMI, GODSON DANIEL OLUWASEUN, GODSON DAVID OLUSHOLA and GODSON DIVINE DAMILARE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

5. GOODWILL BROTHERS CLUB PORT HARCOURT. The general public is hereby notified that the above named has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part ‘C’ of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, Decree No. 1 of 1990.

3. OBINNA AGBAKA. 4. OHIAGU CHIBUIKE. 5. UDEH OBUMNEME.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ; The aims and objectives of Goodwill Brothers Club, Port Harcourt, are as follows ; 1. To see to the progress of members of Goodwill Brothers, Port Harcourt.

2. To promote the motto which is “Drive to Success”.

3. To prosper the spirit of love, support and development of its members morally, financially and socially.

This is to inform the general public that the above named ministry has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission, Abuja for registration under Part C of the Companies and Allied Matters of act of 1990.

SIGNED ; E. F. EKE, Esq. EFFICIENT SOLICITORS (IGWEMAUGHA CHAMBERS 7 Igboukwu Street, D/Line, Port Harcourt.

08037764691

GOD’S LAND OF TESTIMONY CHURCH

EBEREHE LIDIA

OLORUNFEMI MICHAEL ARUWAJOYE

JAMILU NAFIU

The general public is hereby inform that the above named Church has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part ‘C’ of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, Degree No. 1 of 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE; 1. UKONU MICHAEL. 2. GODSWILL NNAJIOFOR.

OJOGBEDE OLUREMI BOSEDE

EZEIGWE-IKECHUKWU NNEKA MARTHA

TENT OF ZION CHURCH

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Pastor Idang Eyo Ene 2. Evang. St. Ene Eyo Ene 3. E vang. King Eyo Abasi 4. Evang. Edem Effiong Samuel

Formerly known and addressed as YUSUF ABDUJELI, now wish to be known and addressed as YUSUF ABDUL. All former documents remain valid.

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to be educated or releasing one’s child to go to school.

“Lagos State deserves advanced intelligence, preemptive and sufficient policing to really combat criminal tendencies unfolding lately.”

Ashafa, who deplored the wave of criminality bedeviling the peace of the state in recent time, urged the state government not to relent in its effort to secure lives and properties of residents.

“Although it could be understandable that some bad elements have been frustrating the efforts of government in recent time, we appeal the state government not to relent in its effort to maintain a crime free Lagos,” he added.

I formerly known and addressed as EDITH STEPHEN now wish to be known called and addressed as EBEREHE LIDIA. All former documents remain valid, General public take note ALABUIKE MARY OLUDO I formerly known and addressed as HILARY MARY OLUDO and OTEGWA OLUDO MARY now wish to be known called and addressed as ALABUIKE MARY OLUDO. All former documents remain valid, General public take note

DISCIPLES CHAPEL OF BLESSINGS

The general public is hereby inform that the above named Church has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part ‘C’ of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, Degree No. 1 of 1990.

This is to inform the general public that the above named ministry has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission, Abuja for registration under Part C of the Companies and Allied Matters of act of 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Apostle Edidiong Benson Usanga - President 2. Pastor Peace Edidiong Usanga 3. Sister Eno-obong Archibong 4. Sister Christiana Akuba 5. Brother Idorenyin Archibong 6. Brother Nkereuwem Isaac - Secretary

MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEE 1. APOSTLE EMMANUEL OLABODE UTHMAN 2. REV. DR. BENJAMIN FARKA 3. PASTOR MATTHEW OKE 4. BROTHER ADEBUSOYE ADEGBOYE 5. BROTHER JOHN UTHMAN

AIMS/OBJECTIVES: 1. To preach the gospel of Jesus Christ

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. To worship God and form assemblies for Christian worship 2. To do Evangelism and Missions.

3. To make disciples and develop Church workers.

4. To do Charity by showing the love of Jesus through; Economic and Financial support for widows and orphans and the vulnerable poor.

5. To promote unity and foster peaceful coexistence.

Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420 Tiqgris Crescent, Off Aguiyi ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja, within 28 days of this publication Signed: Apostle Edidiong Benson Usanga President

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.

PREEMINENT LIFE ASSEMBLY

BAKATED FAMILY ASSOCIATION

This is to inform the general public that the above named ministry has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission, Abuja for registration under Part C of the Companies and Allied Matters of act of 1990.

This is to inform the general public that the above named ministry has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission, Abuja for registration under Part C of the Companies and Allied Matters of act of 1990.

TRUSTEES ARE 1.NJOKU PROSPER CHIDOZIE 2.BROWN TOYIN 3. NWAJIOBI KINGSLEY

Trustees are 1. Mrs Ibifuro Dumotein Princewill 2. Mrs Assumpta Ugwueze 3.Lolo Priscilia Nnaji 4. Ogundu Ekaete Martha

CHAIRMAN SEC

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. To preach the gospel of our lord Jesus Christ to the world.

2. To win souls 3.To raise intercessor.

4.To help the widows and the less privilege.

5. To go out for evangelism.

Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420 Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja, within 28 days of this publication Signed: Chairman

President Sec. Fin. Sec PRO

Aims and Objectives 1. To foster peace,love and unity among members, 2.To render financial and social support to our members in time of need.

3. To inspire and encourage the women, men and youth of the association to have the understanding and know the importance of Education.

4.To bring together all members of the association annually to evaluate and compliment their efforts toward community and self development.

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

Daily Times Nigeria Friday, July 7, 2017

Ekiti CJ orders release of 19 awaiting trial inmates Gbenga Sodeinde, Ado Ekiti

ÎÎÎNo fewer than 19 in-

mates awaiting trial were on Wednesday released on the orders of the Chief Judge of Ekiti state, Justice Ayodeji Daramola from the Federal Prison in Ado Ekiti.

Justice Daramola gave the order after reviewing the cases of the 351 awaiting trial inmates in detention during his visit to the prison.

Fourteen of the inmates were released unconditionally by the Chief Judge, while the remaining 3 inmates were freed based on the advice of the

State Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) that they had no case to answer.

Two other inmates were however granted bail by the Chief Judge Justice Daramola, who commended the authorities of the Ado Ekiti Prison for the clean environment but however expressed worry at the increasing number of cases of violent crimes in the country While noting that most of the inmates of the prison were non indigenes of the state ,he however commended the police and other security agencies for their efforts at crime prevention and detection.

Keyamo, 29 others named Senior Advocates of Nigeria

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Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee (LPPC) on Thursday announced the appointment of 30 legal practitioners to the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN).

The Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, Mrs. Hadizatu Mustapha, made the announcement in Abuja while briefing the newsmen at the end of the committee’s 127th meeting.Mr. Festus Keyamo, who is believed to have been unsuccessful on previous applications, is among the 30 new SANs. Also, Mrs. Oluwatoyin Bashorun, emerged as the

FG begins tax awareness campaign, marks Tax Day Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

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Federal Government, Thursday commenced a nationwide tax awareness campaign to enlighten members of the public and business community on the need to pay their taxes promptly.

The campaign which also marks the observation of Thursday as “Tax Day “ in Nigeria, drummed up support for the executive order signed recently by the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo on Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDS) in a bid to boost government’s revenue.

Chairman of Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr Babatunde Fowler led the campaign to major roads, plazas and markets in Abuja, interacted with different entrepreneurs and members of the National Association of Nigerian Traders (NANT).

Mr Fowler explained during the campaign that it was necessary to inform all Nigerians it was time to pay their taxes.

He pointed out that it was time for all Nigerians to contribute to the common wealth of the country “so that government would have enough revenue to provide all the services that would better the society.”

On how much the government expects to realise from the new policy, he said there was no fix target yet but urged the traders to pay their taxes based on the profits and income that they have been generating from their businesses, “to make sure we have the Nigeria of our dream.”

Addressing the issue of multiple taxes, Mr Fowler said that multiple taxation would not be an issue as long as they keep paying their taxes on income and profit.

He said that the Thursday Tax awareness day campaign as directed by the presidency in the executive order; took place in all the states of the federation.

“This awareness campaign is going on in all the states of the federation.

When the Acting President signed the executive order for tax revenue, he declared Thursday of every week as “Tax Day” so that we can be reminded and be encouraged to start paying our taxes the same way they do in developed countries and other developing economies even within Africa,” the FIRS boss said.

He further pointed that the country’s regular source of revenue could no longer guarantee service delivery, assuring that the government was prepared to judiciously apply revenue from tax in ways that Nigerians would be proud of.

Some of the market leaders who spoke decried Government’s failure to apply taxes for the benefits of all Nigerians even as they noted that the new tax drive might yield no positive impact on the people.

The Chairman of National Association of Nigerian Traders (NANT), Emab Plaza branch, Mr Edozie Ugwu said they had been complying with payment of taxes urging the government to use the money for the development of the country and also provide good business environment and services to encourage others.

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only female approved for the legal rank among five females that applied.

Mustapha, who is the Secretary of LPPC, said that 156 candidates applied for the prestigious rank out of which 123 qualified for the first round of interview.

According to her, 72 candidates proceeded to the final stage and 26 were admitted from the inner bar, while four were from the academic community.

She added that those from the academic community included Prof.

Adedeji Adekunle, the Director-General of the National Institute for Advanced and Legal Studies.

“Out of the 30, four are lawyers from the academic community and we have 26 court room advocates that were so elevated, including one female.

“This is the first time that we have a high number of academic lecturers that were successful in the interview.”

The others from the academic community are Prof. Enefiok Essien of the University of Uyo, Prof. Sadiq Shikyl of the American University, Yola and Prof. Adebambo Adewopo, former DirectorGeneral, Nigerian Copyrights Commission.

The former Legal Adviser of the Peoples

Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Olusola Oke, was also named a SAN as well as the Attorney-General of Kwara state, Mr. Kamaludeen Ajibade. Mustapha added that the swearingin of the new SANs would be in September, on a date that would be communicated to the public.

The LPPC is a committee created and empowered by the Legal Practitioners Act (Cap L11 LFN 2004) to award the rank of SAN to deserving lawyers.

It has its secretariat at the Supreme Court of Nigeria and is headed by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, who is the chairman.

L-R: An inductee, Mrs. Felicia Aguabata; Princess Elemanya Ebilah; Matron, Rt. Rev. Paul Udogu; President, Daughters of Light Society (DLS), Mrs. Ekwy Anyanechi, during the 20th Anniversary Thanksgiving Service and Award Ceremony of DLS in Lagos… recently.

Auto accident claims 10 lives in Ogun Abiodun Taiwo, Abeokuta

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sons including a toddler were confirmed dead in an accident involving a white Mazda bus and a Mack truck at Ibara village, along Abeokuta/ Sagamu Expressway in Ogun state on Thursday.

Apart from those that lost their lives, five others were critically injured.

The Public Relations Officer, Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency (TRACE), Mr. Babatunde Akinbiyi, confirmed the incident.

Akinbiyi told newsmen in Abeokuta that the crash which occurred around

10:30 am was caused by reckless driving on the part of the Mark truck loaded with granite.

He stated that four male, five female and a toddler died in the accident while three male and two female were seriously injured.

“The Mazda with registration number TRE 556 XA was coming from San-

go going towards Ijebu Ode and Ijebu Igbo before the accident.

“We learnt that the bus parked by the traffic corridor to allow one of the passengers, a female, answer the call of nature, when the trailer from nowhere rammed into it from behind.

Court admits Akinjide, 2 others to bail Andrew Orolua Abuja

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J. O. Abdul Malik of the Federal High Court , Ibadan, Oyo State, on Thursday, admitted former Minister of State for FCT, Oloye Jumoke Akinjide, Senator Ayo

Ademola Adeseun and Olarewajun Otiti to bail in the sum of N100m and one surety each .

Akinjide, Adeseun and Otiti who are chieftains of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are standing trial over N650million they allegedly collected from the

office of the National Security Adviser during the 2015 general election.

The defendants are being prosecuted on an amended 12-count charge bordering on money laundering.

At the sitting yesterday, Akinjide’s counsel in-

formed the court that they had a pending bail application praying the court to grant the defendant bail on self recognition.

The counsel further informed the court that they were at a stage of settlement with the EFCC.

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onfusion surrounds Manchester United’s rumoured attempt to sign Everton striker Romelu Lukaku.

Widespread reports on Thursday emerged suggesting Everton had accepted a £75million bid from United for the Belgium international.

However, conflicting claims - reportedly coming from sources at Goodison Park insisted the Toffees had not sanctioned the sale of Lukaku, who has also been heavily linked with a return to former club Chelsea.

United’s pursuit of Real Madrid striker Alvaro Morata was said to have been ended by their interest in Lukaku as the transfer market dominoes begin to fall.

Lukaku said last month he had made a decision on his future amid speculation of a big-money move after an impressive 201617 campaign in which he scored 25 goals in 37 Premier League games.

The 24-year-old still has two years left to run on his Everton contract, but turned down the option of an extension towards the end of last season.

A potential exit for Lukaku comes amid reports Everton are close to bringing United captain Wayne Rooney back to Goodison Park, adding to their deals for Michael Keane, Davy Klaassen, Jordan Pickford and Sandro Ramirez.

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ormer Nigeria midfielder, Henry Nwosu, is happy at the movement of some Nigerian players to clubs where they can have ample playing time, but also wants to see them playing in the elite leagues.

Some deals involving Nigerian players in the current transfer window include Henry Onyekuru who signed a five year contract with Everton and was loaned to Belgian Champions, Anderlecht, Emmanuel Emenike who on Wednesday signed for Greek side Olympiakos, Abduljelil Ajagun who put pen to paper for Belgian side, Kortrijk and Victor Anichebe who left Sunderland for Chinese side, Beijing Enterprises, among others.

“Many things come to play in the transfer of a player. It could be that he is not playing regularly at his former club, it could be that he does not feature in the plans of the coach,

ndy Murray posted a superb performance on day three of Wimbledon. He now looks a solid shot to reach the final weekend, not a prognosis widely spread at the start of the tournament.

The world No1 and defending champion took just an hour and 36 minutes to advance to the third round with a 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 win over the entertaining but outclassed German shot-maker, Dustin Brown.“He started very well, coming up with some great drop volleys,” Murray said courtside of his 32-year-old friend. “Once I got the break, the momentum was with me, got to the drop-shots, came up with some good passing shots. I was getting a lot of free points off my serve, much better than in the first round. I also put a lot of returns back in play, didn’t give him too many free points on serve.”

But the verdict we wanted was just as encouraging. “I moved pretty well too,” he said. “The hip is OK. I’ve moved well the first couple of matches, getting good practices in.”

Murray’s last assignment at the end of what was not as physically demanding a first week as many had feared will be a probably trickier match on Friday against Fabio Fognini, who sways between hero and villain with unfathomable facility, and who has won three of their six matches, but without being examined on grass.

Barca´s , Paulinho bid rejected

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arcelona have had an offer for Paulinho rejected by Guangzhou Evergrande, with the Chinese Super League club ruling out a sale.

Paulinho revealed Barca had made a bid for him last month, reportedly worth €20million, but the champions of China have been consistent in their desire to keep the Brazil midfielder.

The 28-year-old signed a new contract in January, tying him to Guangzhou until 2020 and the club stress he remains crucial to their plans “Paulinho, having already renewed his contract in January 2017, is an important player for our club’s long-term project,” Guangzhou said in a statement on Thursday.

“Therefore, our club have given a formal response to Barcelona that we reject their bid for Paulinho.

“We would like to express our gratitude to Barcelona who have reserved a high degree of admiration for our club as well as our player.”

Paulinho has won two Chinese Super League titles and the AFC Champions League having impressed since signing for Guangzhou from Tottenham in 2015 and has returned to the Brazil squad following the appointment of Tite, his former coach at Corinthians.

Barca’s only signing so far ahead of the 2017-18 season has been Gerard Deulofeu, for whom they had a buy-back clause.

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Russia 2018: Lions can’t stop Eagles –Mustapha Ben Nwachukwu, Abuja

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espite the defeat of the Super Eagles by South Africa’s Bafana Bafana in the first fixtures of the AFCON 2019 qualifier in Uyo, former NFF Electoral Committee chairman Abdulakeem Mustapha (SAN), is optimistic that the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon cannot stop the Super Eagles from qualifying for the Fifa World Cup in Russia.

The legal luminary believes that the two-legged affair may be between the traditional foes, the Lions would not stop the Eagles from getting the slot for Russia 2018.

He said the loss to South Africa was both a blessing in disguise and a wake up call for Nigeria to do the right things.

Mustapha noted that he has taken time to watch the Indomitable Lions competitively in all their matches, particularly the just concluded Confederation Cup,

and observed that the Super Eagles remain unstoppable in the group.

“Yes, I have watched Cameroon; I have watched all their matches because of the obvious reasons. And I feel that Cameroon are better prepared. They are playing very competitive matches and to that extent, the understanding among the players would be better, and they need that kind of Grade A matches to prepare them for the competition we are talking about.

“But having said that, I believe that we have a good team, a good coach and the administration that will take us there, we still need to put things right,” he said.

He argued that Nigeria has quality players that can do the work noting that it will be better for everybody to work together now that we know where we are, where it will take us to, and to where we ought to be.

According to him, “That we lost to South Africa may be a blessing in disguise and a wake up call because before

Super Eagles line up before a match. then there’s this complathe early stages of the comcency among all of us. It was petition is a wakeup call for like we have qualified and everybody to work together. the remaining matches are We know where are now and for formality sake. So, to the we know what will take us to extent that it is happening at where we want to be. I think

we can make it, if we do the right things”.

The right things according to the passionate sports administrator is to put a halt to ongoing experimentation

and fielding of untested players in crucial matches while ignoring experienced ones simply because of the leagues they currently ply their trades.

Collins: I will run allinclusive AFN board Ben Nwachukwu, Abuja

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x- international athlete and candidate for the president of the Athletic Federation of Nigeria, Rosa Collins has declared that she will run a board that will include every member of the athletics family when elected.

Collins who spoke with Extra Time in Abuja moments after the nullification of the previous elections that produced Ibrahim Gusau as president by the Appeals Committee hailed the judgement describing it as the work of God. “The AFN belongs to all of us who have what to offer to

Man City include Iheanacho in touring squad

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anchester City have included Nigerian striker Kelechi Iheanacho in their squad for a preseason tour of the United States.

This is despite numerous reports linking the Super Eagles star with a move away from the Etihad Stadium. The likes of West Ham United and Leicester City have emerged as potential suitors for the 20-yearold.

Iheanacho has been part of City’s first team squad for the past two years and has a fine return of 21 goals in 64 official appearances for the Premier League giants.

However, he struggled to have win playing

time under manager Pep Guardiola, especially in the second half of last season when Gabriel Jesus established himself as the team’s foremost striker, hence the rumours of a transfer.

Iheanacho inclusion in Manchester City’s touring party is good news for his future with the club, though it does not necessarily mean a move away from the Etihad Stadium can be completely ruled out.

Some of the City players left out of the squad include goalkeeper Joe Hart, Ivory Coast striker Wilfried Bony, as well as the trio of Samir Nasri, Eliaquim Mangala and Jason Denayer.

its development and promotion. As you can see, sports is a unifying factor everywhere in the world. I have no enemy.

I will bring everybody; my colleagues, ex- internationals, captains of industries, politicians, etc on board to return the sport to it position in the globe,” Collins said.

She disclosed that initially she was a bit reluctant to appeal against the June 13 elections result thinking that after paying a 100,000 naira petition fees she might not get justice.

“I am very glad with the ver-

Kung-fu federation set for African tourney ANDREW EKEJIUBA

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arely one week to the commencement of the 6th African Wushu Kungfu Championship holding in Cotonou, Benin Republic, Nigeria Kung-fu Federation said it has perfected plans to send Nigeria team to the continental Championship.

Newly appointed Secretary General of the Federation, Ezema Benard told Extra Time in Lagos, that Nigeria will be sending her full team plus 5 officials to the week-long championship.

Also, newly elected president of the Federation, Arch. Adewunmi Adekunle, will be having his first official assignment since assuming office by leading Team Nigerian contingent to the African Kung-fu fiesta as head of the Nigeria delegation.

Secretary General of the federation, Ezema who is confident that Nigeria will excel at the Championship appealed to corporate organisations and well meaning individuals to come to the aid of the federation by sponsoring their programmes.

Sports Minister, Barr. Solomon Dalung.

dict of the Appeals Committee that says we should go back to the polls because what was conducted on June 13 was not an election at all. By this I am convinced that justice prevails against injustice,” she stated.

Collins further disclosed that she has a lot of innovation she intends to bring into the sport and to particularly give back to the society that gave much to her especially to the athletes.

“I have identified what and where the athletes lack and I am here to correct all those wrongs that led to the lack, such as exposure and financial areas.”

Collins reiterated her desire to strongly address the problems bedeviling the federation which will in turn bring to an end the problem of the sport.

In order to achieve this, the ex international said: “We know the federation is divided into camps because of the divide and rule policy of the previous board. I am a former athlete who has worn the shoes and knows where it pinches. So I am coming with a positive change that will take the sport to where it belongs.”

The elections of the AFN board held on June 13 at the Abuja National Stadium was nullified alongside four other federations by the Appeals Committee and July 12 was fixed for fresh elections.

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Investors happy with Jumia group’s achievements - Dutta Joy Ekeke The managing director of Jumia Travel, the hotel and flight booking platform within the Jumia ecosystem, Mr Kushal Dutta, has said that investors in the company’s ventures are happy with the achievements of all the companies under the Jumia brand name.

Dutta made the disclosure while responding to a question on the status of the company’s profitability at a joint press conference held recently in Lagos to mark its 5 years anniversary in Nigeria.

“We pioneered e-commerce business in Nigeria with the launch of Jumia mall, and some months after that we launched other businesses which are now leaders in their respective industries. For instance, we launched Jovago, Hello Food, Carmudi, Lamudi, Kaymu; each of these companies was later rebranded to Jumia Travel (Jovago), Jumia Food (Hello Food), Jumia Classified (Carmudi & Lamudi), and Jumia Market (Kaymu). The success of these ventures has earned us the confidence of our investors, and they are super happy with us,” Dutta said.

Corroborating Dutta’s remark, the managing director of Jumia Mall, Juliet Anammah said the milestones achieved within each CONTINUES ON PAGE B2

Simon Ugwu The Power Sector Recovery Programme (PSRP) of the government has shown that Nigeria’s electricity sector which was massively courted by local and international investors on the heels of its privatisation by the federal government in 2013, has finally fallen out of favour in the eyes of the same investors.

This is just as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) disclosed that electricity generation companies (Gencos) in Nigeria were now rejecting gas from it because they are not able to send generated power to the country’s transmission network which is reportedly experiencing

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low load evacuations.

The development also coincided with the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) signing of a fresh $3.7 million financing agreement with ZTE Corporation for the procurement and deployment of 30,000 single and three phase meters to its residential customers, three days after signing a similar pact with indigenous meter manufacturing firm, Mojec, for 60,000 meters worth N2.4 billion.

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According to the PSRP which was initiated by the federal government and World Bank, the sector has lost its appeals to both local and international investors so much that sources of funding for its big projects have dried up and left it with just two dependable funding windows – the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN); and World Bank.

Daily Times gathered that from being an investment destination sought after in 2013 – both at home

and abroad, the NESI (Nigeria Electricity Supply Industry), has fallen out of favour, The document further explained that: “With the recent meetings in Abuja of the DFI/ MDBs (Development Finance Institutions and Multilateral Development Banks) over issues concerning the currency redenomination of the Put-Call Option Agreement (PCOA), there CONTINUES ON PAGE B2

L-R: Co-Founder/Group Executive Director, Sahara Group, Tonye Cole; Managing Director, Connect Marketing Services, Tunji Adeyinka; Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu; General Manager, TechPlus, Taiwo Oyewole and the Executive Director, Connect Marketing Services, Tosin Omoyajowo at the opening of TechPlus 2017 Conference and Exhibition in Lagos on Thursday.

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Investor apathy, bane of investment in power sector

Foreign vendors issue disconnection notice to Nigerian telcos’ Indication has emerged that the telecommunication industry is getting the adverse im-

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pact of the economic recession as some foreign vendors of telecommunications equipment issued “Notice of Disconnection” to some telecom operators over their inability to meet with the current unfavourable credit terms.

Chairman, Association of Licensed Telecommunication Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) Engr. Gbenga Adebayo made this revelation at the recent breakfast session with members of the Nigeria Information Technology Reporters Association (NITRA) in

Alausa-Ikeja, Lagos, adding that three among the adverse impacts emanate from lack of exemption of the sector from Foreign Exchange (FX) priority list by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

He listed the impact to include an increased operating cost, unfavourable credit terms and delayed implementation of network enhancement as well as improvement initiatives.

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Nigerians complain of difficulty in accessing Customs e-auction platform Babajide Okeowo Some Nigerians interested in participating in the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS)’s e-auction to purchase seized vehicles are complaining of difficulty in accessing the platform.

The Nigerians, who spoke with newsmen on Thursday in Abuja, complained that the e-portal had not been opening for registration since July 3, when it was inaugu-

rated by Comptroller-General of Customs, retired Col. Hameed Ali. The Customs boss at the inauguration said that the e-auction platform was aimed at giving all Nigerians equal opportunities to partake in bidding for seized vehicles and to increase Customs’ revenue.

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venture were not without some challenges. She highlighted rising cost of doing business in Nigeria, poor infrastructure and security as some of the major challenges. “Despite all of these” she said, “we have been able to rise above them and establish ourselves as leaders in our respective industries.

As part of the activities planned for the anniversary, Anammah hinted that each venture will be offering some amazing deals to its customers to reward them for their loyalty. Communication materials such as a theme song for the anniversary, a 30-second radio jingle, a one-minute TVC highlighting the company’s journey so far, and some competitions on social media will be launched on Monday July 3, 2017 to kick off the anniversary.

Jumia aims at creating a connected digital Africa to improve people’s lives on the continent, thanks to the Internet. Therefore, Jumia’s mission is to connect African consumers and entrepreneurs to do better business together. Jumia has been creating a sustainable ecosystem of digital services and infrastructures through online and mobile marketplaces and classifieds to expand your horizons. Founded in 2012.

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now remains only two dependable sources of financing for the NESI: NGN – the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN); USD – the World Bank Group (WBG).”

It noted that while the power sector has lost the kind of investment appetite it hitherto commanded from financiers, there was an urgent need to revive its fortunes, adding that the PSRP was initiated for this.

“A bold turnaround plan is now required to utilise current assets and resources optimally, and to restore investor confidence in the sector, required to deliver the planned sector reforms,” it explained.

The document noted that it contained several proposals made to get the sector out from the woods, amongst which are the government’s reactivation of the privatisation of some key power plants built under the National Integrated Power Projects (NIPPs), as well as other key policy measures which the government must initiate.

L-R: Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, Airtel Nigeria, Segun Ogunsanya and Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun during the annual National Workshop of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers (CIS), at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja on Tuesday.

Tax Thursday: FG takes tax advocacy to the streets of Abuja Myke Uzendu, Abuja

In a bid to improve voluntary declaration of tax, the Federal Government on Thursday took to the streets of Abuja to enlighten and educate the public on the need to pay tax.

The Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr BabaTunde Fowler, who led the campaign in Abuja, said it would be held in the 36 states of the country.

He said that the campaign would continue every Thursday for the next one year as declared last week by acting President Yemi Osinbanjo at the inauguration of the Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDs).

Recall that acting President Yemi Osinbajo had directed the FIRS in collaboration with the 36 state governments to organise

sensitisation events that would raise tax awareness and result in massive enrolment of new tax payers.

The programme is expected to add four million tax people into the tax net and increase the level of payment among the 14 million already registered tax payers.

“The only way we can make Nigeria sweet is to start paying our taxes.

“We have come out with the VAIDs programme, which gives everybody the opportunity to come out and declare their income and pay their contribution to ensure that Nigeria becomes a better place.

“I’m sure that if we all contribute, Nigeria will become the Nigeria of our dreams, the Nigeria that is prosperous and conducive to live in.

“Let’s join hands together to realise this dream by paying taxes,’’

Fowler said.

Also speaking, the Chairman, Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) Traders Association, Mr Edozie Ugwu, assured that the organisation would strengthen tax compliance so as not to give the government any excuse not to deliver on its promises.

“We are ready to pay our taxes because without taxes, we cannot make the country work. We thank you for giving us the opportunity to regularise our taxes,” he said.

The VAIDs programme offers a grace period from July 1, 2017 to March 31, 2018, for tax evaders to voluntarily pay back to government what they owe.

In exchange for full and honest declaration, the government promises to waive penalties that should have been levied and also waive the interest that should have been paid on overdue tax.

Minister highlights focus of new ICT varsities at TechPlus 2017 Azubike Nnadozie

The 2017 edition of West Africa’s largest annual Technology conference and exhibition, TechPlus was formally flagged open by the Minister of Communications, Bar. Adebayo Shittu last Thursday with great pomp and fanfare.

The three-day event which runs from July 6-8 is taking place at the prestigious Landmark Event Centre in Victoria Island, Lagos is witnessing the assemblage of leading experts in technology from different parts of the world coming under one roof to share insights in different areas

of Tech business, innovation, information & communications technology.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, the minister of Communications, Bar. Adebayo Shittu commended the organizers for holding the prestigious event consistently for three years.

He also commended the efforts of TechPlus in providing a robust platform that allows companies, individuals and businesses in the tech space to bring together customers, clients, and stakeholders to showcase their products and services. The Minister also applauded the robust conference package that is meant to create

practical opportunities for stakeholders present to talk about technology and feel the impact that technology has on different facets of life, both from business and consumer perspectives.

The Minister also used the opportunity to further highlight the objectives of the six new ICT Universities established by the federal government. He explained that the universities which will start operations in September will focus on adding value to the current level and pace of economic development in Nigeria, diversifying our economy and positioning Nigeria as the leading ICT light in Africa.

substitutes for its plant and machinery, the telecommunications service providers are constrained to source FX from interbank market at higher rates compared to other sectors such as manufacturing, aviation and agriculture accorded priority in FX allocation at reduced rates by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

“Owing to the prevailing economic situation in the country, ALTON members cannot transfer the increased cost burden to the consumers, thereby contracting profitability and ability to make further investment to drive growth in the industry,” he stressed.

The ALTON boss lamented that the unfavourable credit terms has made it very challenging for operators to honour their obligations to foreign vendors as at when due.

He added that this has occasioned delayed payment to equipment suppliers and other foreign vendors, who have now resorted to imposing unfavourable payment terms on telecommunications service providers in Nigeria.

“Some of the Foreign Vendors had issued Notice of Disconnection of service, which could disrupt service availability with attendant impact on customers’ experience,” he emphasized.

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cluding a journalist had won the bidding for vehicles in the first 48 hours after the launching.

Mr Tarfa Suleman, a Banker said that he was able to register and access the e-wallet but was unable to bid.

Suleman said that whenever he tried to bid the server would go off, showing instructions like “not found’’ “refresh’’ and “try again”.

“I don’t know why it was so difficult for me to bid, so l later called my friend to find out if he was able to bid.

“But he told me he has not able to access the portal let alone registering.

“I think I was able to access the e-wallet because I am banking with Jaiz Bank,” Suleman said.

Suleman frowned at the idea of using only a bank with limited branches considering the population of the country.

Mr Okey Chukumezie, a businessman said that all the attempts to access the portal to register for the bidding were not successful.

Daily Times Nigeria Friday, July 7, 2017

Stories by Motolani Oseni As at April 2017, total deposits from the Federal and State governments, Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) and other financial institutions had hit N13.7 trillion, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has disclosed.

The apex bank, in its in March 2017, report revealed that the new figure represents a decline of 0.97 per cent from N13.86 trillion earlier reported.

However, the Federal government and state government deposits rose by 22 per cent to N1.6 trillion from N1.3 trillion in the March report.

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B3 Money Market

Deposits from FG, banks, others hit N13.7trn in April deposits continued to grow from N3.26 trillion in February to N3.39 trillion in March and N3.47 trillion, the data by the CBN has showed.

This indicated that financial institutions deposit with the apex bank appreciated by 6.8per cent in three months.

But other deposits with central bank dropped by 5.5 per cent from N9.1 trillion as at March to N8.6 trillion as at April 2017.

The latest statistics, also, showed that other liabilities with CBN closed in March at N2.1 trillion, 0.99 per cent below N2.17 tril-

lion.

In all, the data by CBN disclosed that total assets, a combination of equity & liabilities, total deposits and Other Liabilities dropped to N18 trillion as at April from N18.3 trillion as at March.

The Assets side gives in brief the total External Reserves (including Gold Bars), Government and other Securities, Loans and Advances, Fixed Assets and Other Assets.

On the other hand, the liabilities side presents the Capital Subscribed and Paid Up,

General Reserve, Currency in Circulation, Deposits (from Governments, Banks & others) and other liabilities From the same data, CBN reported N2.3 trillion federal government securities as at April from N2.2 trillion while other securities moved to N4.2 trillion as at April as against N4.2 trillion report as at March 2017.

The Monthly Statement of Assets and Liabilities is one of the financial reports published by the CBN. It is an abridged balance

sheet based on monthly accounts representing unaudited financial results and operations of the CBN at the last day of each month.

In addition, convertible currencies, generally associated with open and stable economies, and their prices are typically determined through supply and demand forces in the foreign exchange market dropped to N6.4 trillion as at March from N7 trillion and N7.59 trillion as at March and February respectively.

FSDH Merchant Bank raises N14.40bn in commercial paper

L- R ‘Peter Zhou Infinix Marketing Director, Bruno Li Country Manager, Olamide Amosu Communications Manager and Israel Ajiboye Sales Manager Infinix Mobility at the launch event in Lagos, recently.

Naira sustains 365 parallel market rates The Naira, at the end of Thursday’s forex trading sustained gains recorded at the parallel segment of the market on Wednesday, closing at N365 per dollar but dropped to 306.20 against 305.95 exchanged at the official FX market on the preceding day.

The Naira, had appreciated slightly by one point on Wednesday from 366 per dollar to 365, and N468 to the Pound Sterling and N412 per Euro, which were retained yesterday at the unofficial market.

At the Investors & Exporters Foreign Exchange (I&E FX) window, the naira, opened at a depreciated rate of 365.66 compare to 365.47opened the previous day and depreciated further to close at 366.00 against 363.33 sold on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), in

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continuation of its drive to ensure liquidity and stability in the foreign exchange (Forex) market, has injected the 195 million dollars into various segments of the interbank foreign exchange market.

Acting Director, Corporate Communications, Isaac Okorafor said that $100m was offered to authorised dealers in the wholesale window.

Similarly the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) window was allocated the sum of $50m.

Those seeking forex for the purpose of business and personal travel, tuition and medical bills, among other invisibles, received the sum of $45m.

Okorafor said that the Bank’s continued intervention was aimed at strengthening the international value of the

Naira, while ensuring accessibility to the greenback by customers who required it for genuine purposes.

The central bank has been intervening on the official market in the last few months in an attempt to narrow the spread between rates on the official market and black market.

It has sold more than $5 billion since February.

FSDH Merchant Bank (“FSDH MB”) has successfully raised N14.40 billion from its Series 3 and Series 4 Commercial Paper (“CP”).

It is worthy of note that the series 3 and 4 represents the bank’s second issuance under its N30 Billion CP Programme (“Programme”) established in 2016.

However, Stanbic IBTC Capital Limited acted as Lead Arranger/Dealer while United Capital PLC and FSDH MB acted in the capacity of Co-Arrangers/ Dealers, and FSDH MB as Issuing, Calculation and Paying Agent.

The CP offer, which closed on 26 May 2017, was open to investors at a discount rate of 18.50 per cent for the Series 3 and 18.80 per cent for the Series 4.

The offer was received with considerable investor interest, and a high subscription level despite the persistent lack of liquidity and less than favourable market conditions so far experienced in the first half of 2017.

This result is testament to investors’ confidence in FSDH MB as a credible institution with sound management and corporate governance practices, and an enviable track record of successful business operations in the domestic financial market.

Commenting on this development, the Managing Director, FSDH MB, Mrs. Hamda Ambah emphasized that the success of the bank’s most recent CP Issuance reaffirmed the confi-

dence placed by the market in the bank’s brand and its strategic intent. The CPs were listed on the FMDQ platform on 20 June 2017 and the proceeds of the Issuance will be utilized to support FSDH MB’s short term financing requirements.

Speaking on behalf of the Arrangers, the Executive Director and Head, Debt Capital Market, Stanbic IBTC Capital Limited, Mr. Kobby Bentsi-Enchill, said, “We are pleased to have supported FSDH MB once again on yet another successful outing in the domestic capital market to meet its funding objectives.

Remarkably, Commercial Paper continues to gain momentum as a viable alternative source of funding for blue-chip corporates and high grade issuers, and is also an increasingly competitive investment option for money managers looking for sustainable returns over and above comparable treasury benchmarks”.

FSDH Merchant Bank Limited, formerly First Securities Discount House Limited, was one of the first merchant banks to be awarded a merchant banking license in Nigeria following the repeal of Universal Banking in 2010.

In November 2012, FSDH MB obtained approval from the CBN to operate as a merchant bank and officially changed its name from First Securities Discount House Limited to FSDH Merchant Bank Limited in December 2012. FSDH MB commenced its merchant banking operations in January 2013.

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Capital Market B4 Airtel CEO states conditions for listing on Stock Exchange Afolabi Adesola Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Airtel Nigeria, Mr. Segun Ogunsanya, has stressed that telecommunication firms in Nigeria can successfully list on the Nigerian Stock Exchange and contribute significantly to the socio-economic development of the country, barring challenges confronting operators in the sector.

According to him, an enabling business environment, policies that promote ease of doing business and market forces in line with best practices are key factors that can encourage telcos to list on the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

Mr. Ogunsanya made this submission while delivering his presentation entitled “Creating an Enabling Environment for Public Listing of the Economy’s Commanding Heights: The Case for Telecoms Sector“ at the 2017 Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers (CIS) Annual National Workshop held in Abuja on Tuesday, July 4, 2017.

Speaking at the occasion, Mr. Ogunsanya noted that following the liberalisation of the telecoms sector in 2001, the nation has benefit-

ted in terms of employment creation, attraction of foreign direct investments and social-economic development.

He said: “The sector currently accounts for 10 percent of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and therefore makes it a critical national infrastructure. In addition, connectivity among Nigerians has been enhanced with the 145,350,702 active lines as at May 2017, investments in the sector as at Q1 2017 stood at $68billion with FDI contribution amounting to $35billion, while over 10,000 direct jobs and 1.3million indirect jobs have been created.”

He stressed that telcos are committed to providing qualitative world class telecommunications services and in turn contribute to the socio-economic development of the country. However, operators are still facing challenges which stifle growth and inhibit services delivery.

Mr. Ogunsanya, therefore, urged government to address lingering industry issues such as multiple taxation, prohibitive rightof-way fees, broadband spectrum pricing/ availability among others.

Fortis MFB’s 2016 audited result still with CBN, bank says Ï 1ƈƒƆ ƗƆƇƈ ƈƐƆ Ɨ ƐƆ Ƈ Ə ƏƆƋƆ Ɔ Bonny Amadi Fortis Micro finance bank has acknowledged that the micro finance bank was yet to file its audited financial statement for the year ended 31 December 2016.

The bank however hinged reason for late submission of the accounts on the fact that the results had been submitted to the apex bank regulator, which is expected to endorse the statement for onward submission to the NSE. Victor Aderemi Emerson, Company secretary/chief Legal officer said “This is due that we are still awaiting approval for the release and publication of the audited financial statements from our primary regulator “the Central Bank of Nige-

ria (CBN). It is anticipated that the accounts will be filed within the shortest possible time post approval from the Central Bank of Nigeria” Daily Times Nigeria recalls that the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) had earlier suspended trading in 17 companies over failures to uphold best corporate governance practices and submit their accounts and operational reports as required.

Fortis Microfinance Bank Plc was among the companies sanctioned by the NSE for default in filling audited financial statements, though the micro finance bank has given reason for late submission of its accounts, it however provided no definite period r date for the results submission.

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Oil and Gas sector boosts equities market’s 0.16% rebound Afolabi Adesola A 1.15 percent increase in the NSE Oil and Gas Index on Thursday boosted Nigerian equities market to end a four-day negative trend. The All Share Index (ASI) thus rose by 0.16 per cent to settle at 32,354.78 points.

The Oil and gas index which posted the highest growth among sector indices was strengthened by gains recorded in Oando and Seplat that increased 4.97 percent and 1.08 percent respectively leading

to a positive close of 316.95 points in the index.

The day’s performance advanced year-to-date gains to 20.43 per cent and reduced month-to-date loss to 2.34 per cent.

Market capitalization also improved by N18.1 billion to close at N11.151 trillion against N36.7 billion shed in the previous session.

Market closed with 20 gainers against 23 losers.

Oando led the day’s gainers by 4.97 per cent to close at N7.39 per share, while Axa Mansard followed, with a gain of 4.91 per cent, to close at N2.35 per share, 7up

added 4.85 per cent to close at N82 per share, Cutix Plc increased 4.76 per cent to close at N2.20 per share; and FCMB appreciated 4.35 per cent to close at N1.20 per share.

Conversely, May & Baker topped the day’s losers with a decline of 9.40 per cent to close at N3.18 per share, UACN came next with a decline of 4.95 per cent to close at N16.50 per share.

Fidson followed, with a loss of 4.93 per cent to close at N2.70, Flourmill dipped 4.93 percent to close at N22 per share and Red Star Express fell 4.89 per cent to close at N5.06 per share.

Guaranty led the day’s activity chart with an exchange of 36.3 million shares worth N1.2 million.

Transcorp was next with the sale of 21.3 million shares valued at N28.1 million, while FBN Holdings traded 16.1 million shares worth N97.5 million. Sterling Bank exchanged 12.1 million shares valued at N12.4 million, and Livestock feeds emerged the fifth most traded stock with 8.4 million shares worth N8.5 million.

In all, investors exchanged a total of 168.5 million shares valued at N3.6 billion in3,536 deals

L – R: Mr. Mahmud Tukur, Managing Director/CEO, Eterna Plc; Haruna Jalo-Waziri, Executive Director, Capital Market Division, The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and Mr. Lamis Shehu Dikko, Chairman, Eterna Plc at the Closing Gong Ceremony at the Exchange on Thursday.

Bonny Amadi Three companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) have announced to the investing public July close periods.

The companies, Oando Plc, of the oil and gas sector, Diamond Bank plc of the banking sector and CAPL Plc, have in separate publications that their respective board meetings will hold on July to consider their six months unaudited accounts and other agenda, during which they connected parties to the company would abstain from direct or indirect transaction in the companies’ shares. in a statement signed by Ayotola Jagun, Chief Compliance Officer & Company Secretary, published by the Nigerian stock exchange (NSE) recently , Oando PLC said “In compliance

Oando, Diamond Bank, CAPL announce July closed periods with the NSE Rule Book and the Amendments to the Listing Rules, Oando PLC hereby announces the continuation of the Closed Period for trading in the securities of the Company.

Consequently, no Director, Employee, person discharging managerial functions, adviser or Consultant of the Company and their connected persons may directly or indirectly deal in the shares of the Company during the Closed Period until 24 hours after the release of the Unaudited Financial Statements for the period ended 30th June 2017 on the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

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of Diamond Bank Plc , the board of the bank has scheduled to meet on Thursday 20th July 2017 , to consider and approve the unaudited financial statement for the six months period ended 30th June 2017, along with other agenda.

The statement signed by

Uzoma Uja , company secretary /legal adviser said that the company has declared 6th July to 1st August 2017 as close periods, both days inclusive as required under rule 17.2 of the amendment to listing rules of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE).

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Property B6 Stories by Babajide Okeowo The Nigeria Mortgage Refinance Company Plc (NMRC) has revealed that Market System, MMS, Housing Market Information Portal, HMIP are innovative and disruptive technologies that can consolidate Nigeria’s fragmented housing market.

This, the organisation said will position NMRC to unlock value driven by data and technology in view of the fact that data is considered the next frontier for value creation in business globally.

NMRC’s CEO Professor

The real estate sector in Nigeria is a billion dollar business empire, the women does not want to be left out and are taking their share of this huge industry, BABAJIDE OKEOWO in this report takes a look at some of the women making huge impact in this sector.

Udo Maryanne Okonjo: CEO Fine and Country West Africa

An alumnus of the University of Nigeria, Enugu, Lagos Business School, Business School, Oxford University and most recently Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge In 2005, Udo took the South African Real Estate exams and qualified for certification by the Estate Agency Affairs Board, and in May 2008, earned a certificate in Effective Real Estate Marketing from the National University of Singapore in conjunction with the Dubai Real Estate Institute.

Having spotted the opportunity that an international Real Estate network provides, she successfully

Real Estate Tips The best possible scenario for a real estate investor is to find undervalued homes and to be able to then turn around and sell it for a profit. Obviously, this can be a difficult prospect as real estate market is becoming increasingly clogged with willing investors, but what happens when you do find a possible target? How do you evaluate its viability? The real answer: keep your cool.

Finding a target may seem like the most difficult part of the investing process, but gathering a variety of potential real estate possibilities will help you develop a more discerning real estate investing eye.

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How technology can consolidate fragmented housing market – NMRC Charles Inyangete made the disclosure at the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) U.S. and Africa Business Summit hosted in Washington DC. According to Inyangete, despite the significant strides in technology that have enabled Africa to leapfrog traditional financial development, growth is still stifled by challenges that include policy and infrastructure.

“Lack of qualitative information is impacting the U.S. and Africa investment relationship.

About 168 million people will become connected in Africa in the next five years – the bulk of this will no doubt be in Nigeria so, there is need for data to drive evidence-based decisions by businesses, investors, and policy makers amongst others” he said.

He further stated that the Econ-

omist in 2014 described Africa as “the continent of missing data”.

This according to Prof Inyangete underlines the need for data to drive evidence-based decisions by businesses, investors, and policy makers amongst others.

As the leading U.S. business association solely focused on the U.S. and Africa trade and investment, the sessions at CCA’s biennial signature event – the U.S.

Nigeria’s Real Estate Mavens negotiated and acquired the Fine & Country West Africa License in 2007 along with some partners, launching successfully in Nigeria in 2008. Fine & Country is known worldwide for its unique blend of intelligent and creative marketing, coupled with a professional approach to the Sales and Leasing of premium Residential and Commercial properties. Operating out of over 300 locations worldwide, Fine & Country has its head office located on Park Lane, Mayfair, UK. The West African operations are run from Sandton, South Africa, Lagos, Nigeria and Accra, Ghana.

Within a short time of opening the office in Lagos, the Nigerian office has leaped to the top in the provision of excellent Real Estate services to leading real estate developers and institutional clients.

In 2010, Mrs. Okonjo leading the Fine & Country West Africa team received an award for “Extraordinary Brand Contribution”.

Fine & Country also beat all other top real estate brands worldwide to win the much coveted five-star gold award for ‘Best International Real Estate Agency’ at the 2011 International Property Awards.

Through the merit of her work and dedication to the growth and development of the Real Estate Industry in Nigeria, Mrs. Okonjo was personally awarded the ELOY awards 2012 along with the Mode Man, Woman of the Year Award, and more recently Real Estate Business Amazon 2014 along with the BID Europe Award for Excellence 2014.

Gadzama Bukunola: MD/ CEO, BuildCon Global Services Limited

Bukunola Gadzama CEO, Buildcon Global Services, is another woman making waves in the nation’s real estate sector.

Hers is a classic case of a thoroughbred professional blessed with a clear vision. She saw an opportunity and grabbed it with both hands.

Her company recently developed three Pracht Gardens Estates two of which are located at Ikota (before VGC, Lagos) and the third is located three minutes from Lagos Business School, Ajah.

The estate, which would be ready later this year, consists of 40 units of four and five bedrooms fully detached duplexes as well as four-bed room terraces, and sits on a 21,000 meters square parcel of land in the Ikota area of Lagos State.

The estate, which is designed with the state-of-the-art facilities, is comparable to what is obtainable in other parts of the globe and structured to meet the basic requirements of subscribers who have

taste for luxury.

It also boasts of a water treatment plant; fully-paved road; suitable shopping centre; 24 hours security electrical power transformer; closed-circuit television (CCTV) security technology; ample parking space; power supply and distribution; street lights; recreational centre for children; crèche as well as electrical fence wire.

However, in spite of her giant strides in the industry, she believes that the best has yet to come for BuildCon. Her adventure into Real Estate is not accidental, prior to BuildCon; she had worked as assistant general manager with CMB Building, Integrated Micro Finance Bank Nigeria Limited, British American Tobacco Nigeria Limited and National Bank of Nigeria.

With a target market of middle income earner, Gadzama is focused on bringing affordable luxury apartments to the working class.

Ruth Obih-Obuah: Chief Executive Officer, 3INVEST Limited

and Africa Business Summit – primarily featured private sector solutions and how public-sector actors could support business through the provision of an enabling environment.

The speakers included Wilbur Ross, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, President Filipe Nyusi of Mozambique, and Dr Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank (AfDB).

She studied Law at the Imo State University and the Nigerian Law School, Lagos. Afterwards, she was exposed to some UK education, did some short courses and returned to Nigeria. She also did an entrepreneurship course at the Pan-African University.

Thereafter, started 3invest, one of Africa’s leading real estate brands in 2007. She is filling the gap with innovative platforms that is changing the way investors/consumers approach real estate in the future.

With 3Invest Ltd, her real estate consulting and Investment Firm serving real estate owners, investors, developers and occupiers in sub-Saharan Africa, she has leveraged on strategic and sustainable advocacy platform 3Invest Intelligence, that has granted 3Invest global access to build potential alliance through internal media frameworks such as “Real Estate On Air” radio show, “3Investonline” information portal and “Real Estate UNITE” Summit.

Launched in December 2011, 3INVESTONLINE.COM is the primary source of undiluted real estate information, opinions, commentary and analysis to industry professionals, investors and consumers alike. With over 25, 000 registered active users and 57,593 monthly readers visiting over 125,036 pages; 3INVESTONLINE has become the most trusted and visited platform stimulating discourse and awareness about Nigeria’s real estate.

3Invest Ltd is an emerging technology-driven real estate and infrastructure investment company specialised in providing acquisition, disposition and investment service through a network-based platform to developers and investors.

Making profit from selling undervalued homes Turning up undervalued prospect is an exercise in targeting sellers that have a motivation to sell quickly.

That motivation could come from a recent divorce, a fresh relocation or some financial difficulties. These situations are often emotional and if you get too wrapped up in the story behind each sale, you might be more prone to simply say yes to every opportunity instead of evaluating each investment properly.

Here are some tips: Develop guidelines Before you ever go on a search for potential investment properties, write down the kind of profit

margin you would require to get involved in a real estate deal. You will want to build in cushion for cost overruns and market fluctuations, of course, but many investors forget to compensate themselves properly for time.

By setting up your guidelines with time limits attached to them, you can avoid this problem. Getting involved in a property that will eat up six months of your time and return a meager profit is obviously not worth the trouble.

However, not every situation will be as clear as that, so developing a plan on the term of your investment and the profit level you

want to target will help you more efficiently go through potential properties, undervalued or not.

Don’t be over-eager Keep many irons in the fire but only pull one out when the time comes. One of the pitfalls of finding an undervalued house is the tendency to forget about needed repairs or other work to get a home back on the market.

You might be so excited to find a target after a long search, the story behind a seller’s motivation might prompt you to say yes before going through the math on the investment.

If you have developed guidelines, now is the time to use

them. Don’t wait until late in the transaction when a seller is putting pressure on you to move to sit back and think about the investment. You are more likely to make a rash decision or submit to a seller’s negotiating point that you would not have otherwise.

Just because a home is undervalued doesn’t mean the seller is resigned to getting the short end of a deal.

Don’t be fooled by volume While volume might be a valued statistic in the retail industry, real estate investors should avoid counting investments by their numbers

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B7 Tourism

cancer, threat Sustainable Tourism: Driving force Breast to beauty, says Mrs for job creation, economic growth Tourism UN Stories by Ebere Chibuzor

The tourism industry is one of the largest and most dynamic industries, howbeit, it is expected to provide outstanding opportunities for jobs, and capable of driving short-term growth and longer-term structural change.

This was the statement of the Director-General, Budget Office of the Federation, Mr. Ben Akabueze, at the 20th Annual General Meeting and Election of the Federation of Tourism Association of Nigeria, held at Nanet Suites, Abuja, recently.

In a presentation entitled, “Financing as a Catalyst to Sustainable Tourism Development,’’ Akabueze expressed that tourism was recognised in the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) as one of the ingredients needed to achieve economic growth.

“Also, the ERGP recognises that the rich bio-diversity in Nigeria’s ecosystem, our cultural diversity, historical cities and arts and craft are yet to be fully exploited.

“By addressing underdeveloped infrastructure, security challenges, lack of attractive options for vacationing at home, and insufficient investment, the sector is expected to contribute to government revenues and foreign exchange earnings,’’ Akabueze said.

Akabueze explained that the objectives of the policy was to enhance contribution to Gross Domestic

Group at the 20th Annual General Meeting and Election of the Federation of Tourism Association of Nigeria, at Nanet Suites, Abuja, recently.

Product (GDP), increase numbers of visitors to Nigeria by 10 per cent annually from 2017 and increase volume of domestic tourism.

According to him, it is also to promote and encourage patronage of local agricultural, creative industry and manufactured products by operators in the industry and strengthen backward and forward linkages and conserve foreign exchange.

The former Lagos State Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, also said that the strategic activities to ensure the realisation of the objectives include infrastructure connectivity to promote tourism.

“Improve security to encourage domestic and international mobility and review tourism legislation and eliminate overlapping

functions among regulating agencies,’’ he said.

He gave a comparative analysis on main trends in the tourism sector in Africa.

According to him, tourism’s contribution to 2016 GDP in Nigeria was less than half the world average but significantly higher than the Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) average.

He said the sector’s contribution to employment was relatively closer to the world average but significantly higher than the SSA average.

“Visitors export (spending within a country by international tourists for leisure and business travel) in Nigeria is low, close to the SSA average.

Akabueze noted that there were challenges that made it difficult for the sector to achieve the desired

results.

He, however, maintained that there was the need to finance tourism destinations, adding that investment had to be made.

“Airports, seaports, rail and roads need to be developed through financing; we also need to finance good quality hotel and security infrastructure.’’

He reiterated that the tourism industry was a small segment of service sector but had the potential for job creation, expanding foreign exchange earnings and national output.

He said policies and strategies to support the sector as well as investment in physical, security infrastructure and skills developments were required.

Mr. Akabueze was represented at the event by his Technical Assistant, Miss Olayinka Babalola.

The founder of ‘Women Are Beautiful Inside and Out’ (WABIO), Mrs. Ebele Enemchukwu, better called Mrs Tourism United Nations has identified breast cancer as a threat to beauty, explaining, “The WABIO vision is to be one of the major contributors to the third and fifth sustainable Developmental Goals of improving maternal health, promoting gender equality and empowering women.”

The WABIO event took place at the Civic Centre, Ozumba Mbadiwe Street, Victoria Island, Lagos, recently.

NCAC commends Uko on Africa tourism award

Under the auspices of Otunba Olusegun Runsewe, the management and staff of the National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC) has joined millions of Nigerians in congratulating veteran in the Nigerian tourism and hospitality industry, Mr Ikechi Uko, as he earned the recognition as a result of his drive, commitment and passion for the growth and development of the hospitality sector both in Nigeria and Africa.

NCAC said, the award was to encourage him to continue the good works throughout Africa especially in the tourism and hospitality industry.”

This well-deserved award was presented to Uko by

Transcorp Hilton Abuja renovates floors, lounge

Transcorp Hilton Abuja said, it has fully renovated the Executive Floors and Lounge of the five-star hotel, to ensure its guest’s ultimate

comfort and relaxation.

The executive floor rooms and suites, redesigned by award-winning Swedish interior designer,

Living Designs, have been upgraded with an extra touch of luxury to the furnishing, fixtures and equipment.

The design and furnishing concept, strong, bold and fresh with a certain softness, harmony and comfort, is inspired by the resilient Nigerian spirit. In order to enhance the guest experience in every aspect, the all-new rooms have been fitted with the latest amenities and technology, including high definition interactive television and a dock that instantly transforms mobile phone into a sound system. Everything has been put in place to ensure the ultimate comfort of the guests.

Speaking at the event, the Managing Director/CEO, Transcorp Hotels Plc, Valentine Ozigbo, said:

Speaking further, the Queen noted, “Our mission is to constantly remind women and girls that beauty transcends the physical by churning out and engaging in inspiring programs which encourage same.”

According to her, it was revealed that if the scourge of breast cancer is not checked, by 2030, Nigeria would be recording a dreadful 500,000 new cases of breast cancer annually from the current 100,000!

But she expressed optimism that, “Together with our Health Partners, we will not stop until the ignorance war is won.”

“Our guests have grown to expect nothing less than the very best from us. That includes the pinnacle of customer service, overall comfort, and a level of aesthetical appeal rivalled by no other hotel in Nigeria.

Responding, General Manager, Transcorp Hilton Abuja, Etienne Gailliez, “The renovation is more than just an upgrade of a physical hotel. It is a complete overhaul of the experience. If you are one of many guests that already enjoyed what the Transcorp Hilton Abuja had to offer, you are in for a pleasant surprise when you revisit our new executive floors.” The all-new executive floors would continue to deliver exclusive experience to the guests with the introduction of access control to the Floor and

the Chief Executive Officer, Ethiopian Tourism Organisation, Yohannes Tilah.

He said, Uko, has clinched the 2017 MICE East Africa’s Tourism and Hospitality Personality Award in the just concluded East Africa Forum and Expo in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Uko is the organiser of the annual Akwaaba African Travel market exhibitions in Lagos Nigeria, the publisher of Africa Travel Quarterly Magazine as well.

Uko

Lounge.

The Chairman Transcorp Plc, Tony O. Elumelu, while sharing his first impression of the new executive floors, said: “I am extremely proud of the commitment and attention to detail our team put into getting the job done. Our welltravelled and discerning guests will quickly come to realise that Transcorp Hilton Abuja is delivering a quality that can rival any other five-star hotel anywhere in the world.

We are committed to upgrading the hotel’s facilities and services to meet the expectations of our guests.” The unveiling of the new Executive Floors at Transcorp Hilton Abuja is only one phase of the on-going $100 million renovation project.

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Why the “Maximise Shareholder Value” Theory Is Bogus, Short-termism, encourages underinvestment, and a preoccupation with image management. (1) Many elite professionals are deeply upset with Trump’s win. Yet the ideology that he represents is very much in line with the logic of corporate raiders, many of whom, like him, went to Wharton Business School.

And many elite professionals, in particular lawyers and consultants, profited handsomely from the adoption of the buccaneer capitalist view of the world and actively enabled much of its questionable thinking and conduct.

From the early days of Naked Capitalism, people have written from time to time about why the “shareholder value” theory of corporate governance was made up by economists and has no legal foundation. It has also proven to be destructive in practice, save for CEO and compensation consultants who have gotten rich from it.

Further confirmation comes from a must-read article in American Prospect by Steven Pearlstein, When Shareholder Capitalism Came to Town, It recounts how until the early 1990s, corporations had a much broader set of concerns, most importantly, taking care of customers, as well as having a sense of responsibility for their employees and the communities in which they operated. Equity is a residual economic claim. As was written in 2013: Directors and officers, broadly speaking, have a duty of care and duty of loyalty to the corporation. From that flow more specific obligations under Federal and state law. But notice: those responsibilities are to the corporation, not to shareholders in particular…..Equity holders are at the bottom of the obligation chain. Directors do not have a legal foundation for given them preference over other parties that legitimately have stronger economic interests in the company than shareholders do.

And even in the early 1980s, common shares were regarded as a speculative instrument. And rightly so, since shares are a weak and ambiguous legal promise: “You have a vote that we the company can dilute whenever we feel like it.

And we might pay you dividends if

Milton Friedman

we make enough money and are in the mood.”

However, 1900s raiders who got rich by targeting companies that had gotten fat, defended their storming of the corporate barricades by arguing that their success rested on giving CEOs incentives to operate in a more entrepreneurial manner. In reality, most of the 1980s deals depended on financial engineering rather than operating improvements.

Ironically, it was a form of arbitrage that reversed an earlier arb play in the 1960s. Diversified corporations had become popular in the 1960s as a borderline stock market scam. Companies like Teledyne and ITT, that looked like high-fliers and commanded lofty PE multiples, would buy sleepy unrelated businesses with their highly-valued stock. Bizarrely, the stock market would value the earnings of the companies they acquired at the same elevated PE multiples. You can see how easy it would be to build an empire that way.

The 1970s stagflation hit these companies particularly hard, with the result that the whole was worth less than the sum of the parts. This made for an easy formula for takeover artists: buy a conglomerate with as much debt as possible, break it up and sell off the

pieces.

But CEOs recognised how the newly-installed leaders of LBO acquisitions got rich through stock awards or option-type compensation. They wanted a piece of the action.

One of their big props to this campaign was the claim that companies existed to promote shareholder value. This had been a minority view in the academic literature in the 1940s and 1950s.

Milton Friedman took it up an intellectually incoherent New York Times op-ed in 1970. Michael Jensen of Harvard Business School and William Meckling of the University of Rochester argued in 1976 that corporate managers needed to have their incentives better aligned with those of shareholders, and the way to do that was to have most of their pay be equity-linked. In the late 1980s, Jensen in a seminal Harvard Business Review article, claimed that executives needed to be paid like entrepreneurs. Jensen has since renounced that view.

Why The Shareholder Value Theory Has No Legal Foundation: Why do so many corporate boards treat the shareholder value theory as gospel? Aside from the power of ideology and constant repetition in the business press, Pearlstein, drawing on the research of Cornell law professor Lynn

Stout, describes how a key decision has been widely misapplied: Let’s start with the history.

The earliest corporations, in fact, were generally chartered not for private but for public purposes, such as building canals or transit systems. Well into the 1960s, corporations were broadly viewed as owing something in return to the community that provided them with special legal protections and the economic ecosystem in which they could grow and thrive.

Legally, no statutes require that companies be run to maximize profits or share prices. In most states, corporations can be formed for any lawful purpose. Lynn Stout, a Cornell law professor, has been looking for years for a corporate charter that even mentions maximizing profits or share price. So far, she hasn’t found one.

Companies that put shareholders at the top of their hierarchy do so by choice, Stout writes, not by law…

For many years, much of the jurisprudence coming out of the Delaware courts—where most big corporations have their legal home—was based around the “business judgment” rule, which held that corporate directors have wide discretion in determining a firm’s goals and strategies, even if their decisions reduce profits or share prices. But in 1986, the

Delaware Court of Chancery ruled that directors of the cosmetics company Revlon had to put the interests of shareholders first and accept the highest price offered for the company. As Lynn Stout has written, and the Delaware courts subsequently confirmed, the decision was a narrowly drawn exception to the business– judgment rule that only applies once a company has decided to put itself up for sale. But it has been widely—and mistakenly— used ever since as a legal rationale for the primacy of shareholder interests and the legitimacy of share-price maximization.

How the Shareholder Value Theory Has Been Destructive: The shareholder value theory has proven to be a bust in practice.

Here are some of the reasons: It produces short-termism, underinvestment, and a preoccupation with image management. As was written in 2005 for the Conference Board Review about how the preoccupation with quarterly earnings led companies to underinvest on a widespread basis. Richard Davies and Andrew Haldane of the Bank of England demonstrated that companies were using unduly high discount rates, which punished long-term investment. Pearlstein provides more confirmation:

Why The Shareholder Value Theory Has No Legal Foundation: Why do so many corporate boards treat the shareholder value theory as gospel? Aside from the power of ideology and constant repetition in the business press, Pearlstein, drawing on the research of Cornell law professor Lynn Stout, describes how a key decision has been widely misapplied.

Nwaodu Chukwuemeka, is a consultant with IDEAS Exchange Consulting, Lagos. He can be reached at nwaodu.lawrence@hotmail.co.uk (07066375847)

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Peace Anyiam-Osigwe: Speaks on why AMAA is still yawning for corporate collaboration

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AMAA award is an international award in class of Oscars –Peace Anyaim- Osigwe The Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) and the AMA Awards are presented annually to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry. It was founded and run through the Africa Film Academy. The awards, according to the organizers, are aimed at honouring and promoting excellence in the African movie industry as well as uniting the African continent through arts and culture. The award presentation is attended by numerous media representatives, celebrities, politicians, journalists, actresses and actors from all across the world. The AMA

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most important film event and the most prestigious film award in Africa.

Peace Marie Ogechie Anyiam –Osigwe known and addressed as “Madam AMAA” is the founder and brain behind the AMAA that is widely and globally acclaimed to be an answer to Oscar Award in America.

Peace was born in Owerri, the capital of Imo in the Eastern part of Nigeria, to a Catholic Church member over 40 years ago.

She is a 1990 Law and political science graduate from oxford Brookies, UK .

Apart from being a film maker when she returned to the country in 1990, peace is also a Member, Short Film Jury, Berlinale Feb 2007 and a Panelist at World Cinema Forum February 2007.

Since the commencement of AMAA in 2008 except last year when the event was hosted in Port-Harcourt, also once in Abuja and Lagos respectively, Yenagoa in Bayelsa has

Was AMAA your first ever involvement in entertainment business?

AMAA was not my first time. I have been in the entertainment business while I was in London.

And when I came back to Nigeria, I continued.

So, AMAA is not my first time of being involved in entertainment. I have been in the entertainment business for over two decades now. And AMAA came into been in the year 2005. So, you can now see that AMAA is not my first time.

will hold in Lagos on Saturday July 15, 2017 at the Eko Hotel Convention Centre and it is being officially hosted by the Lagos State Government as part of a year-long celebration of Lagos at 50. . Is there any relationship between state government and AMAA? because they were the first to host us for the

makes AMAA different from other awards? right, because they always maintained the hosting rights in 2008, they asked understanding

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I still think AMAA after many years of our the beginning, AMAA has come to stay; AMAA is to the African what Oscar is to the American. submitted by film makers across Africa. There is

also have to understand.

Can you say AMAA has really improved the development of films in Nigeria?

are well known in international films business,

an international award in the class of Oscar and other international award.

So what am I saying, AMAA has not

Dublin, and other films festival of the world

in Nigeria but also in Africa generally?

AMAA has raised the bar in films across Africa and beyond. And I think the value

commands not only in Nigeria or Africa but in the world in the films business. So I can tell you that this is distinctly different from other about any other award, of course, there must

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should be celebrated, but I believe there should be a benchmark where good films should be celebrated. Although what you see as good

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I have always been involved in entertainment even before AMAA award –Peace Anyaim-Osigwe film I may not see it as a good film but I believe Nigerians know good films when they see one.

Apart finance, what other problem is AMAA But the technicalities of the film and the Africa facing? concepts of it should not be relegated.

We still see logistic as one of our problems in AMAA, because working flight in Nigeria is a What has been the most challenging issue nightmare for other African film makers. So our for AMAA since its inception? logistic issue is what we are trying to redefine Financehas always been our challenges as far right now. as the award is concerned. You know bringing all the nominees into the country. And we have What can you say about Nollywood in nominees all over Africa; so it has always been Nigeria? so tasking. Also we always do something I can I think Nollywood has started to emerge, or call country road show every single year. We can I say Nollywood has started emerging from have been to Uganda, Gambia, South Africa, his mediocrity. But until there is really support Cameroon, Senegal, Egypt, Sierra- Leone, for the industry in terms of structure, I am not Malawi, Kenya, Zimbabwe, morocco, Tunisia, talking about the government I am talking about before we called for entry. We also have media the corporate bodies in Nigeria. I think Nollywood to carry along so as to get people involved in is getting back to its old self and becoming really whatever we do. We run four regional offices on itself again. with full staff. We have people in South Africa, we have people in Ghana, we have people in Egypt, As the African Film Academy Awards we also have people in Kenya all in the four parts prepares for the 2017 edition, which will be of Africa .We are about to open a central Africa hosted in Lagos, how prepared are you? office now. So those are the things that make Our pillar of strength is the uncompromising running Africa film academy a financial consumer. character of our judges.

AMAA is just one of the things we run in African The judges have never toyed with the criteria film academy. So apart from AMAA, we also run other films academy. for picking the winning films in the 13 remains jury-based because it values Despite the fact that I am the founder and chief manager of the awards, I decision. decision until the award night when they hand over the results to me in the course of the grand finale .We once lost a sponsor that did not understand the essence of such a principle of integrity. On the forthcoming edition, AMAA is ready;we commended the Lagos State Government for hosting the award. However, we are still yearning for more corporate collaborations. AMAA ought to have earned consistent and fundamental support, based on its contribution to the development of the film industry and the leverage it has given to filmmakers on the continent and beyond., “Apart from rewarding movie stars in Africa, AMAA has trained over 5,000 youths in film-making.

Besides, Toronto Film Festival did not just happen; we invested by ensuring that jury members of these international film festivals are part of

that evaluation between what is a sustainable event and an event that survives on its own. sponsors. I just feel that AMAA does not always AMAA should run without a Peace being around.

As usual, several Nollywood stars are on the nomination list for the award this year, as revealed at the nomination event held in Kigali, Rwanda.

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Lagos socialite, Hajia Ramat Lawal, diversifies into hospitality A relaxation

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Hon Morenikeji Williams pours encomium on exemplary leadership of Hon Jimoh Ajao It was a day of praise and encomium recently when the immediate past chairman of Igando Local Government and candidate for the upcoming Local Government election under the APC, Hon Morenikeji Williams led the party chieftain in a walk from Igando to Alimosho council secretariat to appreciate the leadership role of one time chairman of Igando Local Government, Hon Jimoh Ajao The walk which also had in attendance Hon Bisi Yusuf, a member of Lagos state House of Assembly was well attended by all the party candidates for the post of councillors and others in the forthcoming local government election

celebrating people after their death, that is why we are celebrating one of our leaders here in Alimosho, in the person of Hon Jimoh Ajao. It was Hon Jimoh that showcase us before other leaders started to assist us, and if there is anybody that let people to know who is Hon Jimoh, who made me his vice when he was the chairman in this local government.

Also commenting on Hon Jimoh was Hon AratMojiradeAlamu the Alimosho education secretary who described Hon Jimoh as a great leader “There is nothing that is too much in celebrating this our great leader”

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When Ita Giwa stepped out for Yobo’s naming ceremony Society mama, senator Ita Giwa aka mama Bakassi, was the cynosure of all eyes last week when she graced the dedication of the daughter of former super eagles Captain, Joseph Yobo, which took place at Lekki branch of Christ Embassy Church, Lagos.

The beautiful mama who is ever looking young even at 71 still has her pose, elegance and sophiscation of someone half her age.

Added to these, her style sense is still top notch. She has indeed, won several style awards for her class, times over. she is known to have some of the best designers and tailors both local and international ,on her speed dial and at her beck and call but she tends to prefer some of the best from Beirus in Lebanon where exotic of fabrics or commission some new “eat your hearts “ out collection to dazzle all and sundry.

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Funke Bucknor Obruthe celebrates low key birthday

Event planner extraordinaire Funke Bucknor –Obruthe on Tuesday june27th, 2017 hit 41 in grand style, but Funke who many had expected to put together a big party like she did during her 40th birthday last year only released latest pictures of herself shot by celebrity photographer, TY to the social media and hosted family and few friends in a cool evening fun Daily Times could recalled that her 40th birthday last year is still the talk of the town .but instead the beautiful lady only thrilled many with gorgeous shots of her photographs, Funke also had a thanks giving , worship and cocktail party at the incubator event centre, Lagos

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Alhaji Nurudeen Buhari’s challenges Alhaji Nurudeen Buhari is the President of Lagos State trades men and artisan and he

a deputy for the former President for eight years. He knows the challenges he is facing are numerous. Alhaji Buhari who spoke with Daily Times noted that “ I became President just a year ago, and one of the challenges I am going through is empowerment for my

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their empowerment, even though I knew it is a thing that will soon be history. The challenge is mostly on electricity. But like I said, it would soon be a thing of the past.

On the soft side, Lagos state has been trying through ETF loan and I believe with that, we shall get there.

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Ruby Gyang out with Kalle Ni Her crystal clear, powerhouse of a voice is immediately recognizable to many in Nigeria and beyond. And after a one- year hiatus from the music scene, Chocolate City Music songbird, Ruby Gyang, is ready to thrill again in a whole new way.

Sporting a new sound, new image and a brand new outlook on life, Ruby shares with the world, a sizzling hot, dance-driven song titled Kalle Ni (Watch Me ).

“I decided going forward to have fun with my music and venture a little out of my comfort zone you know? To take a more relaxed approach. This song is upbeat, sassy and fun.”

Produced by Chilz, mixed by Citymonstar and Co-mastered by ReinhardTega, the song ushers in a more snazzy upbeat Ruby who still manages to be the soul-stress she was born to be. The world better be ready to watch her.

New media Confab holds first school debate in Lagos

Kola Aladesanmi, Damola, AdaoraMbelu-Dania, Olajumoke Awe, Olaolu Ogundeji, Ouwatosin Ajibade and AkinlabiAkinbulumo Ruby

To kick off activities for the annual digital conference, the New Media Conference hosted a school debate at the Children International School in Lekki, Lagos.

The debate, which focused on the subject, between CIS Lekki, going head to head with Dowen College with the aim of understanding their views on how the digital space is perceived by the youth.

The New Media Conference (NMC) is an annual gathering of key stakeholders put together by Founder and CEO, Olorisupergal.com, Oluwatosin Ajibade, is designed to gather key stakeholders aimed at improving

Afro soul act, Aramide, releases new song,Truth ...features Ghanaian sta,r Adina

online/digital media space.

The panel of judges include Brand Strategist/Creative Director – Octo Consult Limited,Jumoke Awe; the Founder – Pearl Africa Foundation, AbisoyeAjayi and the CEO, NudeXP, Laolu Ogundeji.

The debate, which was powered by New

Media Conference, Olorisupergal and sponsored by The Octagon Group, saw CIS Lagos, emerging winners of the debate after an insightful conversation between both schools.

Following a successful maiden edition in 2015, conversations deepened in 2016.

Past speakers include Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade (Google Nigeria), SubomiPlumptre (Alder Consulting), AmeyawDebrah (Top Blogger, Ghana), Lola Masha (Country Manager OLX Nigeria), JumokeOkikiolu (Samsung West Africa Regional Manager), Remi Ogunkoya (Red Media Africa), AibeeAbidoye (Chocolate City Group) amongst many others.

The New Media Conference attracts over 750 participants yearly, including new media practitioners, corporate brands, and digital media agencies. Others include standards organizations, government agencies and policy makers.

The next edition of the New Media Conference Lagos is slated to hold on Thursday, 27th July 2017 at Four Points by Sheraton, Victoria Island, Lagos.

Enjoy Lagos Discount Coupon Book, a business boost for “Lagos at 50”

Award-wining Nigerian, AfroSoul Queen, Aramide, teamed up with Ghanaian-South African, Afropop star, Adina, to release a new Recorded during her recently completed media tour in Ghana, collaboration since the release of Produced by Richie Mensah, the

a mix of her native Yoruba, paired cals.

Both artists elevate the song into a cathartic plea about the importance of telling the truth no matter

The 50th anniversary of Lagos was not just announced, it was seen. Arteferent parts of the city. It was obvious that Lagos state was making a statement.

Musical concerts were heard and the buzz is being felt.

It was also felt in the business community. Lagos state boasts of having the most successful crop of entrepreneurs in Nigeria. This golden jubilee celebration provided an opportunity for them to get creative with ideas that would leverage on the business activities created by the occasion.

One of the most noticeable of these business ideas is the Enjoy Lagos discount coupon book publication. This project aims at stimulating the local economy while offering attractive discounts to shoppers, tourists and visitors to Lagos state.

“ENJOY LAGOS” will collate thousands of special offers and rebates from local retailers, and make them available to the public. Their quarterly publication would contain about 300 Coupon Pages of discounts worth N 5 million.

At an occasion, the Director General, Nigerian Tourism Development Commission; Mr. Folly Coker commended the team behind the project and stated that the project is a welcome idea for tourism in Lagos and a boost for local businesses.

A government agent who spoke

National Theatre against the idea that the 50th anniversary is too extravagant for the current economic situation in the country used the Enjoy Lagos as a good example of leveraging on the anniversary to achieve excellence; which is what Lagos state is known for. Enjoy Lagos is supported by the Lagos state government.

The process of enlisting businesses for the next edition of the publication is on-going. Business owners, manufacturers, service providers, companies, shops, enterprises etc. are encouraged to take this opportunity to grow their businesses by enlisting through the Enjoy Lagos website. This edition is expected to be published and made available to the public

by August, 2017.

The Enjoy Lagos discount book publication would be distributed to Domestic and International Airports, Local and International Airlines, Duty Free Shops, Nigerian Embassies worldwide, Hotels, Shopping Malls, Tourist, Arts and Culture Centers. enlisting on the coupon book are: A full page in Enjoy Lagos coupon book. three free features of discount in a national newspaper. Publicity at Enjoy Lagos Events. Advert placement on Enjoy Lagos website. Free Social Media adverts on Enjoy Lagos Social media pages. Automatic listing and offers display on Vconnect.

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STOLEN LIVES: Alex Ekubo has gone weird

Director: Emmanuel Mangeme Running Time: 1hr, 40mins minutes His character in the movie Stolen Lives Ameen (Alex Ekubo) is unable to control his libido and forces himself on a secondary school girl during a party.

Ameen had sneaked into the young girl who was still seeking for admission room and forcefully have his way with her. Ekubo have indulge himself in lot of vices, he takes cocaine, mess round with ladies unhindered. The young girl was not bold enough to name the person that impregnated him because

because you prepared for it�. Janet

She had the child without a father. But she has a better way to tell the story, she wrote her autobiography at 22.

Amarachi (Owumi Ugbeye), a naive secondary school leaver, is raped and decides to keep the resulting pregnancy. Her family rejects her, compelling her to move in with her Aunty Christy (Biola Williams) and

to create three-dimensional characters conversations between them and their and Stolen Lives falls into this trap. children is highlighted in this movie, albeit in an uninteresting way as some of the actions stories of human beings who encounter

where unexpected revelations startle everyone.

The dialogue in Stolen Lives is enlivening to an extent and there are one or two remarkable subtexts. Janet tells Amara, “I just took a test� to which

family, especially for impressionable youngsters. that centre on social issues, but many of them fail to tell interesting stories about the human beings whose lives are affected by those social circumstances. Rather, they make the

her daughter without looking back; indeed. to solve their problems.

In Stolen Lives, the main plot and subplots are not captivating enough to sustain the attention of an enlightened It is implausible that Amarachi, a jobless audience. It can be deduced that young lady with very little support from the subplots, which are watery and anyone, will keep her pregnancy. Is her life inconclusive in some cases, are at risk? How does she hope to survive? She was able to survive by working in a hotel after she had put to bed, the little money The dangers of the attitude of she earned was what she used to cater parents who compare and contrast for she and her little baby. Ameen killed

himself when Amarachi opened up that he was responsible for the pregnancy then his girlfriend Beverly osu got addicted to cocaine due to the incident, she was later taken to a rehab school when her mum found out, Janet was discovered to be HIV was accepted back by her parent, her mum apologized for abandoning her and for not being a good mother that she suppose to be.

The movie is an interesting one but it was not capable of gaining the attention of the audience fully most especially the less sophisticated audience, the delivery is poor;

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Ewatomi: Beyond love and deceit Not minding that she is from the Igbo tribe, Regina Chukwu takes a bold step with the production of a hitch-free classic Yoruba movie with high production level and techniques.

The 110-minutue movie divided into Part 1&2 is quite commendable from

(Ewatomi Makanjuola) plays the role of a good girl gone bad is one she has not been associated with in the past years aside from the regular roles of street girl or school girl.

Also, thumbs-up to Muyiwa Ademola and Antar Laniyan who were luminous in their respective roles.

Ewatomi is a story centered on a very wealthy man who has no immediate family other than his workers at home and in the

Yemi Terry, Regina Chukwu, Abolanle Abdulsalam and Oyelere Abiodun and many more, Ewatomi tells story of a widower, Otunba played by Antar Laniyan whom inspite of his wealth, numerous companies to another woman shortly after the death of his wife.

Otunba was promiscuous in his doing as he engages in several extra martial affairs which led to sudden disconnection he had with his only son, Kunle Afod whom after introducing his girlfriend to his father, Another plays a fast one by having a swing After several attempts by Otunba to get married again considering the pressure his cook (Joke Muyiwa) mounted on him, he fell in love with his secretary Ewatomi who is the (Muyiwa Ademola). One thing led to another

which led to his eventual downfall.

Starring Antar Laniyan, Muyiwa Ademola, Kunle Afod, Joke Muyiwa, Allwell Ademola,

game plan between Muyiwa Ademola and Ewatomi.

It is pertinent to give credit to the director, Kunle Afod with the creation of a twist in Muyiwa Ademola and Regina Chukwu met their waterloo right in the house of Otunba where they were caught making out as Otunba got the shock of his life after he discovered that his wife to be whom he had made the head of his companies betrayed him just to have his property.

after the death of Otunba, Ewatomi neglected his partner in crime after discovering he was also planning an attack on her. Ewatomi played the fast one by assassinating Muyiwa Ademola.

In all, this is a well-made movie and it is obvious that a lot of professional effort went into pre-production, production, and post-

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