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PDP Gov Umahi wants Buhari to recontest

� Anambra guber: We don’t arrest, but strive to win election -APC Mathew Dadiya and Tom Okpe, Abuja

Ă?Ă?Ă? Ebony State Governor Dave

Umahi has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to seek re-election in 2019.

Umahi is a member of the opposition Peoples Democratic

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Party (PDP) and contested on the platform of the PDP. The governor spoke on Thursday during an interview with the State House correspondents during his visit to the President at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja.

Buhari is scheduled to visit Ebonyi State next week and the Continued on page 5

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In a twist of fate, whistleblower becomes instant millionaire Ă? He has never seen millions of naira before -EFCC Ă? Court orders temporary forfeiture of flat with N13bn cash

Myke Uzendu, Abuja and Peter Fowoyo, Abuja

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PDP Gov Umahi wants Buhari to recontest Continued from page 1 governor was at the Villa to confirm the date for the visit.

When asked if the President had confided in him that he would run for a second term, Umahi said that since it was his own desire to seek a second term as governor, he also wished the President to do the same thing.

He said, “Any first term governor would want to go for second term. Whatever you wish yourself, you should be honest enough

to wish another person the same.

“Since Mr. President is on his first term and I am on my first term, it is my wish to re-contest and I will as well wish the President the same thing: to re-contest.”

The governor noted that the state government was fully prepared to receive the President.

“We are fully prepared for the visit. We pleaded with Mr. President for the visit and before then, we have been preparing, we are fully prepared,” he said.

The governor disclosed that during his visit, Buhari will inaugurate a number of projects.

The governor also revealed that several projects had been lined up for inauguration by the President during the visit.

According to the governor, the twin flyovers that is built across the African trans-atlantic road running from Enugu to Cameroun passing through Ebonyi State will be among the projects to be inaugurated by the president.

Umahi said, “We have quite a lot of projects that we have executed within the past two and the half years. We have three numbers of twin flyovers that is built across the African trans-atlantic road running from Enugu to Cameroun passing through Ebonyi State.

“So we have to build three twin flyover to decongest traffic on that road, each of the twin flyover is 700 metre length. We have completed two and the third one is 80 per cent done, Mr. President

L-R: Representative of Vice Chancellor, Lagos State University, Dr. Ayodeji Abar; former Commissioner of Education, Edo State, Prof. Ngozi Osarenren; Chairman of the occasion and former Nigeria UNESCO representative, Emeritus Prof. Michael Omolewa and representative of Executive Secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Deputy Executive Secretary, UBEC, Dr. Sharon Oviemuno, during the 2017 Annual National Education Summit on ‘Whither Basic Education in Nigeria? by Education Writers’ Association of Nigeria (EWAN) in Lagos…on Thursday.

PDP Convention: Dickson cautions against imposition of candidates Myke Uzendu, Abuja

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State Governor Seriake Dickson has warned against imposition of candidates by the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the party’s forthcoming national convention, saying that such an act will tear the party apart and lead to another round of crises within the party.

Governor Dickson disclosed this in a statement on Thursday, in Abuja, signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Francis Agbo.

The governor, who was also the Chairman of the PDP’s Reconciliation Committee said that the December 9 national convention of the party was very critical, as its success would shape the future of the party and re-position it to take over the central government in 2019, just as he

canvassed for the creation of a level-playing field for all aspirants in a transparent convention, adding that it would make the party stronger and more cohesive.

Dickson stressed his opposition to the imposition of candidates, calling on the PDP leaders and delegates to make sacrifices for the unity of the party.

He stressed that if the PDP gets its national convention right, it is likely to hold a successful Presidential Primary in 2018.

He maintained that in a situation where party stakeholders/delegates were unable to reach a consensus on any position, the party should allow all aspirants who have bought nomination forms to test their popularity on the convention ground.

He warned that the party’s leadership should do all within its powers to en-

sure that the convention is conducted in a manner that would not plunge the party into another round of crisis, just as he warned them to resist the temptation of hijacking the convention and the rights of the delegates to choose leaders of their choice.

He said, “The next convention is critical to the survival of the party. My position is that the party should organize an all-inclusive, transparent, acceptable, and credible convention that would re-brand the PDP and show our platform as a truly democratic party.

“Therefore, I am against all forms of manipulations, intimidation, blackmail and imposition of candidates. For me, there should be no imposition at all.

“I will not be a party to the adoption of anybody for any office unless it is by consensus of the zone in which the position has

been zoned to. If there is more than one contestant for a position, they should be given the opportunity to test their popularity at the convention.”

Dickson said, “A leader, no matter how highly placed should not take the place of the Convention and the powers of the delegates to the convention.

“Therefore, on the position of Chairman and other offices, once there is more than a contestant, PDP leaders and members should be free to canvass for any candidate of their choice; nobody should quarrel with that...”

Dickson expressed optimism that Nigerians have so much trust on the PDP; and the forthcoming National Convention as an opportunity that will usher in a re-branded and united PDP, which everybody will be happy to embrace in 2019.

will commission the two.

We also have a mall what we call Ebonyi Mall that is modelled after the famous Dubai Mall.’’

He stated that the president would lay a foundation stone for the mall during the visit.

Umahi expressed the hope that President Buhari would inaugurate the Mall project when he returned to the state for re-election campaign in the next 12 months.

“Also we are building a tunnel that dovetails into a flyover that is parallel to the existing flyover, that particular junction that is called Akanu Ibiam junction.

“We want Mr. President to lay the foundation stone and that flyover bridge will be named after Mr. President and we are sure to finish that project in the next 12 months, Mr. President will also come back, he will be commissioning it when he comes back for his campaigns.’’

Meanwhile, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has denied allegations that it is planning to hound 50 PDP members to jail in the course of the forthcoming Anambra State governorship election, describing such allegations as unfounded.

According to the party, the APC has no interest in the arrest of anybody, but rather that its interest is in winning the election.

Making the clarifications while speaking to correspondents at the party secretariat in Abuja on Thursday, the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, said: “A couple of former governors were invited by the EFCC for questioning on their financial conduct during their tenure in office. One way to preempt that is to claim that there is a threat to muscle the opposition.”

He also noted that the APC has no hands in the arrest of former political office holders whether belonging to the opposition political parties or even its members, as the party neither has the power to arrest anyone or order any arrest because its only concern as a political party is to win elections and not arresting anyone.

“I don’t know who is making that allegation and it would have been better that the person reel out the names in the list of persons to be arrested.

“I have said that as a political party, we don’t arrest and if anybody has issues with the power to arrest, the person should go and deal with it instead of politicising it. We are concerned with the art of win-

ning elections as a party not arresting anybody,” he added.

Speaking on how the party was working towards winning the election, Abdullahi said: “Whenever we go into primaries as in the case of Anambra where we had 12 aspirants, there must be one level of acrimony or the other, no matter the effort you make.

But what we have done was to get everybody to rally round the candidate.

“Yes, there will be residual issues, but I can tell you that all of us are working together and have all lined up behind our candidate Dr. Tony Nwoye to ensure that we win the election in the state.

“The issue of party members not working together does not arise; all party faithful including the Minister of Labour, Dr Chris Ngige, who is the leader of the party in the state are together and all of us are working to ensure victory for the party.

“The National Campaign chairman, Mohammed Abubakar, governor of Bauchi State, has been meeting with all stakeholders up till yesterday (Wednesday), we were still meeting to strategise and of course you know that the President will be visiting the grand finale of the campaign.

“So, all of us are working to ensure victory, because the state is very important to the party and we understand the significance of the state election. We are pulling everything together and everybody is working together to ensure success in Anambra State,” he said.

When asked about the plans by the party to use security agencies to rig the state election, Abdullahi said: “We believe strongly that the speculations of APC deploring soldiers to rig Anambra election is just a mere rumour, because there is no evidence to that and if anybody tells you that the party is planning to deploy Civil Defense, police, soldiers or whatever to do anything in the state, tell the person to provide the evidence.”

The APC spokesman, who also used the opportunity to speak on the recently presented 2018 budget by President Buhari, noted that the rancour and acrimony that attended the previous budgets will no more be observed, because of the harmonious relationship between the Executive and the Legislature.

He added that the party now has commitment to invest in economically productive sectors in the coming year.

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In a twist of fate, whistleblower becomes instant millionaire Continued from page 1 fortune of a Nigerian who blew the whistle leading to the discovery of humongous cash of N13 billion inside a flat on Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos has now been transformed.

Today, he is now a millionaire, courtesy of the whistleblower policy of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration as he is entitled to official five per cent of blowing whistle leading to the discovery of biggest cash in a private home.

The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu, disclosed this development on Thursday in Vienna, Austria at the ongoing 7th Session of the Conference of States Parties to the United Nations Convention

Against Corruption.

Magu also stated that the “young man” who blew the whistle on the looted fund has suddenly upgraded to the status from poverty to a millionaire by a mere act of patriotism and information sharing.

According to the EFFC boss, the discovery followed an operation triggered by a whistleblower’s alert received by its Lagos office.

Magu added that the whistleblower was already a millionaire by virtue of the percentage he was officially entitled to.

The spokesman of the EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, also quoted Magu as saying that, “We are currently working on the young man because this is just a man who has not seen one million Naira of his own before.

So, he is under counseling

on how to make good use of the money and also the security implication.

“We don’t want anything bad to happen to him after taken delivery of his entitlement. He is a national pride”.

The EFCC boss also called on Nigerians who want positive changes in the country to take advantage of the whistle blowing policy announced by the Federal Government early this year.

He stressed that aside from contributing to the eradication of corruption, potential whistle blowers also stood to “benefit from the illicit acquisition by the looters”.

On the need for more whistle blowing to recover looted funds, Magu said: “We encourage more whistle blowers to come forward with genuine information

that will lead to recoveries from looters of public treasuries. That is part of the ways we can put an end to the looting madness in the public sector.

“When they know that they have no place to keep the loot, as all eyes are on them, they will find looting of public treasuries unattractive.

Before now, the Federal Government had in July, through the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adesoun, announced that it had released about N375.8million for payment of 20 whistleblowers who provided information leading to the recovery over N11.6 billion.

The whistle blower policy states that the whistle-blower will get between 2.5 per cent (minimum) and five per cent (maximum) of the recovered loot, provided

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that “there is a voluntary return of stolen or concealed public funds or assets on the account of the information provided”.

The Daily Times recalls that on April 7, 2017, EFCC operatives broke into a four-bedroom apartment on Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos and pulled out $43million, £27,800 and N23million cash (about N13 billion) in a wardrobe.

Though the sacked Director General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ambassador Ayodele Oke, was said to be laying claim to the humongous cash, the agency did not file any application to challenge the interim forfeiture of the money.

Justice Muslim Hassan of the Federal High Court in Lagos later ordered the permanent forfeiture of the money to the federal government But the discovery of the fund generated a lot of controversy leading the Federal Government to set up a committee headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to unravel the circumstances surrounding the fund which was hidden a private apartment allegedly belonging to the NIA. Oke reportedly claimed that the money which was disbursed by the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan was meant for a security project.

Oke further alleged that the current National Security Adviser, General Babagana Munguno, was duly informed of the cash, when he took over as the NSA. It was further gathered

that the projects for which the former President approved the funds totalling $289million included two in Lagos whose cost were put at about $28 million, which is way less than the $43million cash found in the Ikoyi apartment.

Oke, who was suspended for the matter to be investigated, has since been sacked

by President Buhari Meanwhile, a Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday ordered the temporary forfeiture of Flat 7B Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos, where the said N13 billion was stashed.

The EFCC had identified Folasade Oke, wife of the sacked director-general of the NIA, as the owner of the flat.

The anti-graft agency said Oke made a cash payment of $1.658m for the purchase of the flat between August 25 and September 3, 2015.

She was said to have purchased the property in the name of a company, Chobe Ventures Limited, to which she and her son, Ayodele Oke Junior, were directors.

Payment for the purchase of the flat, according to EFCC, was said to have been made to one Fine and Country Limited.

They further stated that Mrs. Oke made the cash payment in tranches of $700,000, $650,000 and $353,700 to a bureau de change company, Sulah Petroleum and Gas Limited, which later converted the sums into N360million and subsequently paid it to Fine and Country Limited for the purchase of the property.

NBA urges 28 states to domesticate ACJA to fast track criminal justice

Andrew Orolua, Abuja.

ÏÏÏ The Nigerian Bar As-

sociation (NBA), has urged 28 states government that are yet to adopt and domesticate the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA), 2015 to do so to allow for a uniform administration of criminal justice system in the country.

The NBA President, Mr Abubakar Mahmud (SAN), stated this on Thursday at the ACJA conference in Abuja.

He added that the asso-

ciation offered to provide advocacy and technical support to the state with a view to guiding them to domestication, adoption or modifications of the act to suit their peculiarities. .

He also said the NBA will engage in provision of continuing legal education to stakeholders.

According to him, this will be deployed in partnership with Nigerian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS).

He said the project will be implemented in three

phases for positive effect.

He said, “The NBA envisages that the project will be implemented in three phases over a period of thirty-six (36) months in twenty (28) states, which are yet to domesticate the ACJA legislation.

“The 28 states will be divided into 3 groups which will be spread across the years 2017, 2018, 2019. The states that will be selected for each year and phase will reflect all the six (6) geo-political zones of Nigeria”.

Mahmud said in order

to ensure efficient and effective achievement of the intended results, the NBA’s strategy is to create some administrative structures which will include, Project Management Team, State Committee and NBA Institute of Continuing Legal Education (ICLE).

He said the NBA will leverage on information and communication technology, ICT, in driving the project.

“We propose to launch an Administration of Criminal Justice Website which shall serve as the

information hub and the go-to site for information regarding criminal justice administration in Nigeria. We shall also design a portal for online delivery of continuing legal education training”, Mahmud said.

He said the NBA believes that within the context of our federal system, it is possible to promote alignment of objectives of our laws and legal principles, synergy of our institutions and acceptance of efficient institutional processes based on national and in-

deed internationally accepted standards.

The NBA boss said, “As at now, 8 States have adopted and passed the Administration of Criminal Justice.

A few others are in the process and at various stages of passing the legislation.

In effect, 28 states have not.

It was in this context that the NBA approached the MacArthur Foundation with a project proposal to support criminal justice reforms in Nigeria and in particular to support the adoption and implementation of the ACJA”

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NASS set to probe death of 26 Nigerian girls on Mediterranean Sea Olufemi Samuel and Henry Omunu, Abuja

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Worried by the reported death of 26 Nigerian girls at the Mediterranean the National Assembly comprising the Senate and the House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the incident leading to their death on board a Spanish warship.

While the Senate has

mandated its committees on Diaspora, Foreign Affairs and Special Duties, to investigate the incident and report their findings within four weeks, the House of Representatives has mandated its committees on foreign affairs and human rights to liase with the Libyan embassy to unravel the cause of the death of the Nigerian women.

There have been reports that 26 Nigerians who were

sexually molested on board the Spanish warship were later found dead, while some arrests had been made by the Italian authorities.

The death of the Nigerian girls came up during the Plenary through a motion moved by Rose Oko representing Cross River North.

Leading debate on the motion, Oko said emergency measures must be used to address the situation.

She lamented the mass exodus of young boys and girls from Nigeria to Europe and Asia especially Italy and Spain, blaming the problem on widespread unemployment in Nigeria.

She said the Senate was worried about the perils and hazard emigrants from Nigeria usually undergo, travelling through the Sahara and the Mediterranean sea while ultimately

L-R: Corps Public Education Officer, Mr. Bisi Kazeem; Sustainable Development and AiS Manager, Mrs. Titilola Alabi; Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Guinness Nigeria Plc., Mr. Peter Ndegwa; Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr, Boboye Oyeyemi; Corporate Relations Director, Guinness Nigeria Plc., Mrs Viola Graham-Douglas and Zonal Commanding Officer, Zone 2, FRSC, Mr. Shehu Zaki, during the visit of the FRSC Corp Marshal to Guinness Nigeria, Ogba, headquarters in Lagos… on Wednesday.

FG urged to produce anti-snake venum vaccines Olufemi Samuel, Abuja

ÏÏÏ The Federal Govern-

ment has been urged to expedite action on production and distribution of Anti Snake venom vaccines in the country mostly in the Northern region where the incidences of snake bites has become increasingly alarming.

The Senate gave the charge following a motion moved by Senator Joshua Lidani (Gombe South) on the Alarming increase in the rate of deaths of victims of snakebites.

The problem of snakebites reportedly worsened due to scarcity of Antisnake venom in the areas most affected.

The Senate also urged the government to procure vaccines as a matter of urgency while ensur-

ing that it initiates steps towards local production of the vaccines.

The senate while urging its Committee on health to investigate the failure of ministry of health to supply anti-snake venom to the treatment centers and other health centers, urged the federal ministry of health to procure sufficient quantity of antisnake venom and supply them to the treatment centers at Kaltungo, Langtang and Bambur.

Lidani had in his lead debate expressed concern that an ampoule of anti-snake venom costs N35,000 and not less than 3 ampoules dosage are required for treatment which is unaffordable by most of the peasant farmers in those areas.

He noted that the harvest season records high incidence of snake bites

because the snakes come out of the holes and attack farmers harvesting crops on the ground.

Lidani expressed regrets that victims resort to traditional means of treatment which is unsafe and unreliable as a result of the non-availability of vaccines.

Senators in their contributions during debate on the expressed regrets that the situation is becoming greatly embarrassing to the country.

Deputy Minority Leader of the Senate, Senator Emmanuel Bwacha (Taraba South) recalled that the case of snake bites in the North East is as old as the region itself, noting that lives are lost periodically in Gombe State.

“The situation is embarrassing and it is either because we are incapable of providing solutions

or that we are careless in protecting our citizens.

We should ensure that we provide a long lasting solution.”

The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu,said that the senate will support every initiative that will protect the citizens, adding that it is important that Nigeria begins to provide solutions and ensure that some money is spent to see that the situation is eradicated completely.

dying in the process.

She, however, expressed delight that Italian prosecutors had begun investigation into the death of the Nigerian girls after the arrest of the Egyptian and a Libyan linked to their ordeal.

She said, “The Senate strongly believes that it is time to go beyond the mere feeling of horror to taking proactive, urgent and emergency measures to address the root causes of the exodus, including massive enlightenment on the dangers that it portends.”

The Senator representing Ebonyi, Sam Egwu, called on the Federal and State governments to declare a state of emergency on unemployment to curb re-occurrence of similar tragic incidents that usually involve Nigerians.

He blamed the death of the 26 girls on unemployment, which he described as a recurrent decimal, and a huge source of worry for Nigerians.

He said, “Every year, we turn out graduates that have no jobs to do after their NYSC and enabling environment is not even there to start their businesses.

I think the Federal and State governments should declare state of emergency on unemployment and do something tangible.”

In the same vein, Senator Shehu Sani, (Kaduna), described the incident as a “national tragedy” which according to him must urgently be attended to.

He said, “The death of 26 Nigerians in the Mediterranean Sea is a national tragedy.

“It is unfortunate that year in, year out, thousands of Africans, Nigerians perish in the Mediterranean on the way to Europe in search for what they call greener pasture.”

“It is equally worrying that every month, hundreds of Nigerians are brought back to this country after failed attempts to cross the Mediterranean Sea and there are factors to this ir-

regular migration.” The Senate, however, observed a minute silence for the repose of the souls of the girls.

In the House of Representatives, the resolution was sequel to the adoption of a motion on matters of urgent national importance moved by the House Leader, Hon Femi Gbajabiamila drawing the attention of the House to the death of the 26 Nigerian female migrants.

Leading debate on the motion, Gbajabiamila said there is the need to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of the female migrants, who were said to be aged between 18 and 24 years.

According to him, available information indicate that the Nigerian women were among the corpses of 60 persons allegedly traveling in a ship from Libya bound for Italy.

He said that since the incident, nothing has been heard about the other 34 passengers, their identities or the actual cause of death of the Nigerian nationals.

“From my understanding, they were going from Libya to Italy. We were made to understand that there were about 60 persons. No one knows the cause of death. The committees on foreign affairs and human rights to liase with the Libyan embassy, so that we can know what happened,” Gbajabimila added.

Contributing to the debate, Hon Beni Lar said that human trafficking has been a reoccurring issue in the country.

She stated that the menace has cost the country a lot in terms of money and resources.

Hon Lar lamented that although the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) is saddled with the task of combating human trafficking in the country, the agency is poorly funded to discharge its responsibilities.

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Legislator asks people to resist rigging Alphonsus Nweze, Awka

ÏÏÏ The Chairman of

Judicial Committee in the Anambra State House of Assembly, Hon Chugbo Enwezor, has urged the people of Anambra state to be extra vigilant to resist any attempt to temper with the collective will of the people during the forthcoming November 18, 2017 governorship poll in the state.

The member representing Onitsha North constituency in the state Assembly also urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and various heads of security agencies to reassure Nigerians and the people of the state of their impartiality in this election.

He said these bodies should not only restate their impartiality in the conduct of the election but also demonstrate their capacity to discharge of all their duties as they relate to the November18,2017.

Enwezor, who is a lawyer and rights activist lamented that it was only in this part of the world that unscrupulous people would be plotting how to rig whenever there is an election He said, “That shows how independence INEC is if a political party can boast that it has power to rig election as we heard and read the utterances of some chieftains of a political party in this election.

That shows a clear vote of no confidence on INEC”.

He said democracy demanded free and periodic election for the citizens to elect their leaders and such mandate was sacrosanct, which should not be tampered with at all any level.

The lawmaker “But these people don’t have allegiance to the people. What you see happens is outright impurity and years of retardation if they manipulate their way through”.

He dismissed the campaign by the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) that the people should boycott the election, saying that the campaign would not have any serious impact on the election Enwezor said “IPOB don’t have the capacity to continue the agitation to the extent that it will impact on the election. If they continue to do that, they are undermining the sovereignty of the nation.

They should desist from that because if the election fails, it will bring anarchy, lawlessness and what alternative do we have. What is

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Anambra Govt declares Nov 17 as work free day, promises leave allowance in good time John Ndu

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State Government has declared November 17, 2017, as Work Free Day for civil servants in the state.

This is to facilitate a day for travel by civil servants to their various polling units to exercise their electoral franchise, slated for Saturday, November 18, 2017.

Declaring the holiday at Udoji Secretariat, Awka, to mark the 2017 African Public Service Day Celebration, Governor Willie Obiano described civil servants as strategic in achieving fundamental developments.

Obiano said he would not

relent in providing their basic needs and promoting welfare of workers in the state.

He said, ``I have directed that workers in Anambra State will start receiving their Leave Allowances from November 15 this month. ``I will sustain distribution of bags of rice in every December, as well as other benefits. ``I have made provision for salary increase in the 2018 budget. I will keep promoting workers every year and create many windows to lubricate their working conditions. ``The Federal Mortgage Bank has allocated N500mil-

lion to the contractor handing the Civil Service Housing scheme, to expedite work on the project. ``This is to provide respite to workers who need accommodation.”

But Obiano urged the workers to ignore rumours going round that his administration compelled civil servants to key into the contributory pension scheme, saying that , ``it is a personal decision and not compulsory’’.

Obiano noted that his administration had set up committee to review the scheme and properly advice Government.

The state Head of Service,

Mr. Harry Uduh, observed that Obiano administration had demonstrated excellence in governance and lived up to his constitutional responsibility.

According to him, Governor Obiano has sustained prompt payment of salaries and pensions to workers.

Uduh also disclosed that Obiano has recruited the physically challenged into various positions, to ensure total inclusiveness.

He said, ``He introduced Creche, for nursing mothers. He facilitated the reabsorption of no fewer than 135 displaced staff of ABS. “He also offset over 30 years accumulated pension

and gratuities of National Light Newspaper and ABS staff owed by previous administration.”

Udu assured that no fewer than 45,000 workers would strongly support the return of Obiano administration to consolidate on the signature projects he commenced.

The Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Labour Matters, Chief Godwin Ibekwe, recalled that Anambra in the past had experienced political violence, non-payment of salaries and commended Obiano for attracting meaningful projects that would create positive impact on the lives of the people.

Clergy men pray for Osita Chidoka Idu Jude Abuja

ÏÏÏ Ahead of the forthcom-

ing Anambra State governorship election, Christian spiritual Directors of the Holy Ghost Adoration Ministry, Uke, Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Obimma, (popularly known as Ebube Muonso) as well as prominent Anglican priest, Ven. Stanley Awuzie have offered supplications for the candidate of the United Progressive Party (UPP), Chief Osita Chidoka.

Chidoka, on Wednesday, attended a special prayer

session at St. Matthews Anglican Church, Egbema, Ozubulu, where he was bestowed with the symbolic laying of hands by Ven. Awuzie as a seal of divine validation for the task ahead.

In a statement from the Director of Publication to Chidoka, Miss Viola Ifenyinwa Okolie, the development came on the trail of prayers by Rev. Fr. Obimma, who last Sunday at a special service at the Uke Adoration ground, recounted Chidoka’s affinity to the Catholic Church.

The cleric also cited

Chidoka’s role during the visit of Pope John Paul II to Nigeria in 1996, as well his sterling contributions as advisor to Pope Benedict on the Vatican transport system, and urged him to continue in that spirit.

The statement also stated that the Anglican priest, Ven. Awuzie at the prayer session also from 1 Samuel 16, where God chose David from among his brothers, to rule as King over Israel, saying that “God will never disappoint those who humble themselves and set their hearts upon Him”.

He urged Chidoka to remain steadfast in his reliance on God and continue in the pursuit of the well being of the ordinary people while the cleric later asked Chidoka to come to the altar for special prayers.

The priest prayed God to bestow him with divine direction, energy and the right alliances to run a successful campaign. He also prayed for a hitch-free election where only the will of God would prevail.

Speaking at the end of the prayer session which also had in attendance the

UPP National Chairman, Chief Chekwas Okorie; the deputy governorship candidate, Chief Marcel Okeke, Chidoka said he has been in prayers not only for his success at the poll but also for the overall good of Anambra state.

Chidoka said, “My mission is a product of intense prayers to God and consultations among our people. Prayers and faith in God is at the root of all we do. Some people trust in the arm of flesh, others in horses and chariots, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God”.

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N7.6m fraud: FCTA accuses Elizade Motors of failure to refurbish 2 buses Ï#ƆƋ ƕ ƗƑƆ Ɛ ƅ ƏƅƈƐƕ Ƈ ƑƐ ƍ ƏƐ é ƑƐ ƇƈƏƌ

By Idu Jude, Abuja

ÏÏÏThe Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged fraudulent act of swindling the FCTA of about N7.6million meant for refurbishing official vehicles.

The Daily Times investigation, has shown that the foremost marketers of Toyota range of automobiles, Elizade Motors, has allegedly defrauded the FCTA to the tune of over N7.6 million under the the pretext of refurbishing one 32- seater Model T Coaster bus and 18 seaters Model T Hiace bus attached to the media unit of the FCT Minister’s office.

Our correspondent gathered that the contract was awarded since July 2017, but Elizade has failed to deliver it after several months of promises to handover the buses to the FCT Administration, despite the fact that the Administration has made payments to the company.

The contractual documents obtained by our correspondent showed that it costs the FCT Administration the sum of N4, 399, 762.50m to refurbish the Model-T Coaster bus, while the sum of N3, 200, 557.50m was expended to refurbish the Model-T Hiace bus, thus totaling N7, 600, 320.00m for the two vehicles.

The newspaper also gathered that the then Permanent Secretary of FCT Administration, Dr. Babatope Ajakaiye, had made express payments to the company before commencement of work.

But trouble started on September 21, 2017, after several months of failed promises to deliver the buses by the company, the Information Department of the FCT Administration threatened Elizade Motors to refund the money paid and the Coaster bus in its custody or it would be dragged to the anti-corruption agency.

In response to the threat letter titled: “Re: Request for the Return of FCTA Press Corps Coaster Bus and Immediate Refund of Payment”, dated October 5, 2017; and signed by

the company’s branch manager, Mr. Ayorinde Ojo, read in part: “We write to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, dated 21st September, 2017, on the above subject and want to thank you for taking the time to express your displeasure over the delay in the completion of the repair of your Toyota Coaster AZ 62GWA. “Kindly accept our sincere apology for the inconvenience the absence of the vehicle has caused and our willingness to retail you as a satisfied customer as customer satisfaction is our top priority.

“However, we hope to deliver the Coaster bus on or before 27th October, 2017 due to the spraying job to be done on the vehicle; while the Hiace bus should be ready for delivery within two weeks of reception due to the job demand”.

It was also gathered that when the company delivered the vehicle to FCT Administration for road test, the bus which has been certified by Elizade Motors to be in perfect condition could not withstand 15 minutes’ test drive along the Airport Road, as the vehicle

broke down on the way to Lugbe Satellite Town.

A reliable source told our correspondent that the vehicle had failed test drive on two different occasions, despite assurances from the auto company that the vehicle is in sound and perfect road condition, just as he also questioned the integrity and huge amount expended on its refurbishment.

When contacted, the Abuja Branch Manager of Elizade Nigeria Limited, Mr. Ayorinde Ojo, told our correspondent that the delay was due to scarcity of auto parts in the branch office, stressing that the company does not source for auto parts in the local markets.

According to him, “It is our duty to satisfy our customers either corporate or individual. I am aware of all that has transpired in the repair work on the bus, but I must stress that vehicle is like human parts.

We have 2500 components in every vehicle; and for vehicle to work efficiently, all the components must be in perfect condition. We are trying to put the bus in perfect condition before delivery.”

News 9 Senate approves N222bn as 2017 FCT Budget Olufemi Samuel, Abuja

ÏÏÏThe Senate has approved the

N222.3billion for 2017 Federal Capital Territory Budget, amid reports that the previous year’s budget recorded only 47 percent performance The approval followed the consideration Of a Senate Committee On FCT Report which Senator Dino Melaye presented. Melaye is the chairman of the Committee on Federal Capital Territory. Breakdown of the report indicates that personnel cost in the proposed budget stands at N52.5billion, while the overhead is pegged at N41billion.

The Total Recurrent stands at N93.8billion with Capital expenditure standing at N128.4billion.

Melaye explained that the Budget for personnel cost is Intended to cushion the effect of the promotion, yearly increment and engagement of new but essential staff, such sector as health, education, directorate of road traffic services for traffic management and Abuja environment protection board for city cleaning.

He added that personnel cost in the budget constitute 23.64% of the FCT statutory budget proposal while the overhead costs constitute 18.20 % of the fct 2017 budget while the capital budget is 58% of the total budget.

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FG urged to produce anti-snake venom vaccines

Olufemi Samuel, Abuja

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Federal Government has been urged to expedite action on production and distribution of Anti Snake venom vaccines in the country mostly in the Northern region where the incidences of snake bites has become increasingly alarming.

The Senate gave the charge following a motion moved

by Senator Joshua Lidani (Gombe South) on the Alarming increase in the rate of deaths of victims of snakebites.

The problem of snakebites reportedly worsened due to scarcity of Anti-snake venom in the areas most affected.

The Senate also urged the government to procure vac-

cines as a matter of urgency while ensuring that it initiates steps towards local production of the vaccines.

The senate while urging its Committee on health to investigate the failure of ministry of health to supply anti-snake venom to the treatment centers and other health centers, urged the federal ministry of health to procure sufficient quantity of anti-snake venom and supply them to the treatment centers at Kaltungo, Langtang and Bambur.

Lidani had in his lead debate expressed concern that an ampoule of anti-snake venom costs N35,000 and not less than 3 ampoules dosage are required for treatment which is unaffordable by most of the peasant farmers

in those areas.

He noted that the harvest season records high incidence of snake bites because the snakes come out of the holes and attack farmers harvesting crops on the ground.

Lidani expressed regrets that victims resort to traditional means of treatment which is unsafe and unreliable as a result of the non-availability of vaccines.

Senators in their contributions during debate on the expressed regrets that the situation is becoming greatly embarrassing to the country.

Deputy Minority Leader of the Senate, Senator Emmanuel Bwacha (Taraba South) recalled that the case of snake bites in the North East is as old as the region itself, noting that lives are lost periodically in Gombe State.

Ex-Gov. Suswan’s fresh detention stalls his N3.1bn fraud trial Andrew Orolua, Abuja.

ÏÏÏThe confusion trailing

the fresh detention of former Benue State Governor, Gabriel Suswam by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Thursday stalled his trial and that of his former commissioner Omodachi Okolobia before Justice Ahmed Rahmat Mohammed of the Federal High Court Abuja.

Suswam who was rearrested following allegation that he collected huge sum of money from former Minister of Petroleum, Allison Deziani Madueke to execute the 2015 general election for the Peoples Democratic

Party PDP, was to appear in court yesterday in continuation of trial over N3.1bn fraud. But one of the lawyers in the defence team, Elizabeth Ogbozor told the court that Suswam was being subjected to incessant arrest and detention by various security agencies.

The lawyer further told the court that following the recent arrest and detention of the defendant , the leader defense counsel, Joseph Daudu (SAN), thought the defendant case would not go on in his absence so he scheduled himself for another matter at the court of Appeal in Abuja.

The counsel told Justice Mohammed that Daudu (SAN) was not aware that

his client was granted administrative bail by EFCC on Wednesday night, adding that the hope of having the defendant before the court had been foreclosed because of the EFCC’s refusal to allow his bail earlier in the week “We have been at a loss as to the direction of this trial because the defendant (Suswam) had been in the custody of EFCC in the past six days. It is a big surprise to us to see Suswam in court this morning because we are unaware of his release on Wednesday night”.

The counsel told the court that the lead counsel had therefore instructed her to apply for an adjournment of the trial till November 23.

Court orders Police to pay Peace Corps N12.5m Andrew Orolua, Abuja.

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Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday ordered the Nigerian Police Force to pay N12.5million as general damages to officials of the Peace Corps of Nigeria for unlawful arrest and detention in February this year during the official commissioning of their National Headquarters in Abuja.

The court also ordered the Police to immediately unseal the National headquarters of the Peace Corps, which has been under seal since February 28, following the invasion of the premises by the Police. The orders was contained in the Judgment delivered by Justice Gabriel Kolawole yesterday in a N4bn fundamental human rights suit instituted officials of the Peace Corps of Nigeria against the Nigeria Police, Inspector General of Police, Department of State Security Services, Director General of DSS, National Security Adviser and the Attorney General of Federation.

Justice Kolawole held that the respondents acted outside their statutory powers when they invaded the new office of Peace Corps on February 28, 2017 during the official commissioning of the office located at 57 Iya Abubakar Crescent Jabi, Abuja.

The judge stated that the Police, who acted as real antagonists to the existence of Peace Corps have no business to have acted the way and manner they carried out the arrest of the Peace Corps men and barricading their office.

The judge stated that the Police and other security agents have statutory powers to make arrest and detention, but such powers must be exercised according to the law with decency, decorum and inline with protocols of the Administration if Criminal Justice Act which are meant to safe guide the fundamental rights of Nigerians.

Sudai Zonal Missioner, Akute, Alhaji Nasiru Abdul Salam (2nd left); Awardee, Alhaja Mutiat Abolaji Lamidi (middle); her husband, Alhaji Moruf Lamidi (right), and others, during the presentation of certificate and award to Mutiat as Majekobaje of Makogi Muslim Community in Magboro, Ogun State… on Tuesday.

Body of Senior Advocates holds dinner tomorrow . Osinbajo, Kolade to speak at event Ibe Uwaleke

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President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) and Nigeria’s former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Dr. Christopher Kolade are expected at the maiden edition of the Body of Senior Advocates of Nigeria (BOSAN) dinner which holds tomorrow, November 11, 2017 at the Intercontinental Hotel, Victorial Island, Lagos. Cocktails start at 6pm.

The event which promises to hold annually will be the first time BOSAN, the umbrella body of SANs would be coming together to wine and dine.

At a press conference in Ikoyi, Lagos last Tuesday by the organising committee represented by its executives, Chief Felix Fagbongbe SAN, (Treasurer), Mr. Seyi Sowemimo SAN, (Secretary) and deputy chairman, Mr. Paul Usoro SAN, representing the chairman,

Damian Dodo (SAN), the group said the event is also planned to welcome the recently elevated SANs into the association. The occasion will also be used to make known its various committees on social engineering including the continuing legal education committee and the scholarships committee for the public to appraise their activities.

The Daily Times gathered that all SANs numbering about 400 from across the country are expected to grace the occa-

sion with their spouses while the distinguished guests of honour will be the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, himself a member of the Inner Bar, and the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, (GCON).

The organising committee further revealed that the ‘dinner lecture will be delivered by Dr. Christopher Kolade, CON, former Nigerian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom who will be speaking on the theme, ‘Leadership’.

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APC sets up monitoring team on PDP national convention Tunde Opalana, Abuja Findings have revealed that the All Progressives Congress (APC) is leaving no stone unturned to brighten its chances ahead of the 2019 general elections as the ruling party has set machinery in motion to monitor the activities of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as it prepares for its National Convention slated for December 9 and 10, 2017.

The Daily Times reliably gathered that a crack team secretly constituted has been dispatched from the Abuja headquarters of the party to monitor each of the strong contenders for the PDP National Chairmanship position to assess their clouts and possible fallouts which the APC can latch on.

Though the espionage mission was not listed on the agenda of October 31, 2017, National Executive Council Meeting of the APC, it was gathered that members of the team were secretly selected at a nocturnal meeting held in Abuja and were given the mandate to fine-tune strategies to monitor activities within the opposition camp, starting with PDP forthcoming National Convention.

Given the fact that the PDP Convention comes ahead of APC summit billed for earlier next year, the leadership of the ruling party considers the outcome of the PDP convention, a critical factor capable of shaping or altering its own calculation for zoning of its key positions.

Of major concern to the team is the South West states where the majority of aspirants are jostling for PDP chairmanship, most especially Lagos, Ogun, Oyo and Osun states.

The APC, our findings further revealed, is banking on a possible breakdown in the PDP zoning formula should the leadership of PDP in the South West failed to agree on a consensus candidate and pave way for Uche Secondus, a formidable contender outside the zone to emerge.

In the event of the emergence of a non-South West chairman, there is likely going to be an alteration in the PDP zoning arrangement, which the APC may swiftly react to by dangling its chairmanship position before the South West to curry electoral favour from the zone.

It was also gathered that the team’s assignment goes beyond mere monitoring and waiting for the fallout of the PDP convention, but to railroad its way into identified aggrieved stakeholders

who are sympathetic to the aspiration of persons whose chances are already being threatened. The focus of the team is mostly in Oyo, Ogun and Lagos states.

In Oyo State, for instance, the camp of former governor Rasheed Ladoja has vowed that its arrowhead remains in the race irrespective of his being screened out by a zonal screening committee as pronounced by Chief Shuaib Oyedokun. The camp may be vulnerable to negotiation with possibly APC in protest of being screened out.

Also, the team, it was learnt is talking to another former governor, Adebayo Alao-Akala to serve as the chief negotiator between the APC and his predecessor in office.

So, the APC anxiously awaits the fate of Ladoja in the race to determine its move to decimate the PDP once again in the state and scuttle the chances of Prof. Taoheed Adedoja who is considered a weak contender.

In Lagos State, supporters of Jimi Agbaje who was also said to have been screened out by the Oyedokun committee will not easily concede to Bode George, another contender from the state, thereby ready to split the vote of Lagos delegates.

It is believed that it is only an indivisible PDP that can give the ruling APC a fight for the soul of Lagos State.

One of the most prospective

Odigie-Oyegun contenders for the PDP chairmanship position, former Governor Gbenga Daniel’s aspiration as well will be a major concern to the APC. Though he was said to be enjoying the support of some PDP governors, his presumed disqualification by the Oyedokun committee is already widening the gap between the camp of the former governor and that of Senator Buruji Kasamu in Ogun

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State.

Relying on the firm grip of incumbent Governor Ibikunle Amosun on APC machinery in the state, the APC monitoring team may have the ground softened by the governor, who is believed to know the terrain of Ogun politics better, especially in the face of rancour within the PDP. Though there is no serious contender for the chairmanship po-

sition from Osun State, the APC team need to carefully study the leadership tussle on who controls the soul of the party in the state and the direction the Osun State chapter is taking in the PDP Chairmanship position.

The team is expected to get back to the leadership of the party to submit its findings and compare notes in preparation for APC national convention next year.

‘INEC ready to conduct credible guber poll in Anambra’ Patrick Okohue, with agency report Ahead of the Nov. 18 polls in Anambra State, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has restated its readiness to conduct a credible and fair election.

Giving this assurance in Awka, the Anambra State capital, during the public presentation of research findings of the situation analysis of security and public safety in the state, the Head, Elections and Party Monitoring Mr Ibe U. Ibe, said, the party was ready to deliver credible polls in the state The research findings was carried out and presented by an NGO, the Centre for Law Enforcement and Education (CLEEN) Foundation supported by Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA).

Ibe said the non-sensitive election materials had already been sent to the commission’s offices in the 21 local government areas, while sensitive materials would be distributed on the

eve of the election.

He urged voters to ensure that they collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) and come out en masse to vote for candidates of their choice.

The INEC official said serving corps members would constitute 90 per cent of the ad hoc workers who would be engaged for the election, adding that the remaining 10 per cent would be officials of some federal agencies.

“The commission is fully prepared to ensure a free, fair and credible election,” he said and urged stakeholders to abide by the provisions of the 2010 Electoral Act (as amended).

On his part, the State Police Commissioner, Mr Garba Umar, also promised adequate security for voters and other stakeholders during and after the election.

Umar, who was represented by ACP Maiyaki Baba, said the threat by Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to scuttle the poll should be discountenanced, adding that the police is fully in charge of the security situation.

He also allayed the fears of resi-

Prof Mahmoud Yakubu dents about the possibility of political violence before and during the forthcoming polls.

Earlier, the Lead Researcher for CLEEN Foundation, Mr Kelechi Iwuamadi, who presented the report, said the research was carried out by the group between Oct. 16 and Oct. 27.

According to him, the potential

threat by IPOB of “no-election’’ campaign could pose a threat to the smooth conduct of the governorship election.

Iwuamadi also identified “hostile relationship” between the security operatives, particularly the military and members of IPOB as a possible threat.

The lead researcher said there was need for security operatives to fully realise that they were coming into the state for elections and not for Python Dance Operation II. He also noted that porous borders and herdsmen activities were another threat to the polls.

In her remarks, Mrs Chigozirim Okoro, Project Lead/Assistant Programme Manager, CLEEN Foundation said the aim of the research was to promote public safety, security and justice.

“The research is to find out the possible effect of IPOB’s call for `no -election’ on the electorate as to whether it will cause apathy and violence.”

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PDP chairmanship: As race intensify, Daniel, George increase consultation, lobby Patrick Okohue For the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), nothing is more important for now than the December 9, National Elective Convention; this is because the outcome of the convention it is believed will go a long way in determining the future of the once ruling party.

This is because fresh from a crisis that almost brought the party to its knees, save for the last minute intervention by way of judgement by the nation’s apex court, the Supreme Court, the party which in the last few years prided itself as the biggest party in Africa by now would surely be singing a new song, as many of its members had concluded plans to defect to other parties, had the judgement gone differently.

That is why the person who becomes the next national chairman of the party is of utmost importance to not just its members but to all Nigerians who are interested in seeing the nation grow politically.

Though many top politicians and members of the party including former Minister of Sports and Special Duties, Professor Taoheed Adedoja, former Minister of Education, Professor Tunde Adeniran, former Chairman of Daar Communications PLC, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, 2015 governorship candidate of the PDP in Lagos State, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, former National Deputy Chairman, Uche Secondus and former governor of Oyo State, Chief Rasheed Ladoja among others are interested in the seat, the interest of former Deputy National Chairman of the party, Chief Olabode George and former governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, seem to be more intense.

The duo also seems to have had more contact with prominent members of the party and other top personalities in the country.

Continuing his lobby for the PDP top job recently while picking his nomination for the top position at the party’s national headquarters in Abuja, George declared that the party cannot afford to experiment with the choice of a national chairman, ahead of 2019, adding that the party cannot have an untested hand to manage its affairs.

He added that the nation needs a vibrant opposition leader and not someone who will take “Valium and go and sleep. We need a courageous and tested hand.”

He however added that he will abide with whatever committed and loyal members of the party agree on with regards to the emergence of a consensus candidate.

While responding to a question on his age and the need to allow younger generation to take over, George said “You know this grey hairs is like a bank account. At the stage in which the party is now can you afford to allow an untested hand to manage it?

We just came out of a terrible crisis.

This is not the time for experimentation. This is not a time for trials.

George “At the end of the convention we are going to have national elections.

Are you going to have someone who has never worked for the party? Who don’t know the workings in the party? We have the written and the unwritten constitution.

“The unwritten constitution of the party requires those who have worked, served, tested, known, and who have the experience.

“I liken our party to be like a ship and the Sea, that is in a storm and is taking in water, you know what that means? If you don’t have a tested and experienced captain to handle that ship it will go under.”

While he underscored his wealth of experience in party administration, he said that he has worked as one the national vice chairman (South West) and Deputy National Chairman.

“I am the longest serving elected member of the party. I severed at this Secretariat for 10 years uninterrupted.

He stressed that the party does not enjoy the Presidency anymore, noting therefore that they cannot afford any more mistakes.

“We have no Villa to run to, what we need now is someone who has seen it all, who saw the mistakes we made in the past, who is immediately ready to avoid the pitfalls of the past.

We must make sure we avoid the mistakes and pitfalls of the past. He must be courageous enough to face the lion in the den.”

He expressed confidence in the Sen. Ahmed Makarfi leadership of the party, adding however that “Ni-

Daniel We have no Villa to run to, what we need now is someone who has seen it all, who saw the mistakes we made in the past, who is immediately ready to avoid the pitfalls of the past. We must make sure we avoid the mistakes and pitfalls of the past. He must be courageous enough to face the lion in the den. gerians are looking forward to a vibrant opposition. Nigerians are waiting for credible alternative.”

George pointed out that he has been campaigning all over the country and that people still desire PDP to return.

He added that forthcoming convention will confirm whether the party wins the hearts and minds of electorates.

“They are watching us if we can prove that we can manage ourselves very effectively. Then they will hand over the country for us to manage on their behalf,” George said.

Also speaking in similar vein, when he paid a visit to the Palace of the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III, in continuation of his national tour to build up support for his ambition, Otunba Daniel said, “I have been going round the country and it is obvious that the people are regretting the decision to vote for change and they are ready to ‘change the change’. That is why I am in this race and my simple message is for all of us to start afresh together.”

Earlier, the Sultan had declared that the former Ogun State governor will succeed in his bid for the apex seat and that the entire Sultanate is praying for him.

The Sultan said, “Gbenga Daniel has been my very good friend since the days he was governor of Ogun. I remember the very good hospitality he affords me anytime I visit Ogun State.

“Gbenga Daniel, we all are praying for you to succeed in this quest and I am personally enjoining you not to forget the people when you get there.

You are free to visit me any time,” he said.

While speaking on the state of the nation, the Sultan advocated for a strong opposition urging politicians to be forthright in their dealings at all times.

On his part, Daniel thanked the Sultan for the warm reception and promised to do all within his power to ensure the party becomes victorious in 2019.

After that, the team was hosted by the former governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, who as-

sured Otunba Daniel of his support in his National Chairmanship bid.

Bafarawa who received Otunba Daniel in his Sokoto residence, expressed delight at the interest of Otunba Daniel to lead the PDP back to victory in 2019.

According to Bafarawa, he deliberately decided to wait and receive the entourage in Sokoto when he learnt that Daniel chose to start his campaign in Sokoto.

“Many politicians may say something and do another but I’m not like that. We have discussed about your ambition before you came and I want to assure that I will stand by what I told you.

“The PDP of today is different from the past. There must be a level playing ground where we allow the aspirants to meet the delegates instead of just sitting in Abuja and deciding who to vote for. That will be unfair to the party.

“Now you are working hard and going round the country campaigning, that is a good development. I know you as a colleague and a friend and I know that if you can lead a complex state like Ogun, you can also lead the PDP. “You can see that someone who left his home state of Ogun to come and talk to delegates in Sokoto is a serious aspirant.

While thanking the former governor for the grand reception and the assurances of his support, Otunba Daniel stated that having consulted with major stakeholders in the party, he is convinced that the electorates are ready for the authentic change.

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Revive Bank of Agriculture and NERFUND

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he National Executive Council (NEC) of Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) met in Lagos recently on the state of the nation and came out with some recommendations on how to move the nation forward.

In particular, the TUC National Executive Committee (NEC) called for the revival of Bank of Agriculture (BOA) and the National Economic Reconstruction Fund (NERFUND) to help boost agricultural production in the county. Coming at a time when the government is diversifying the economy away from the oil sector to agriculture and urging the youths to embrace agribusiness, the TUC’s call is appropriate and timely.

It observed that government parastatals like Bank of Agriculture (BOA) and National Economic Reconstruction Fund (NERFUND) whose activities could boost government’s economic diversification programmes, are not given adequate financial subventions as at when due. The NEC- in session therefore, strongly advised the federal government to urgently revive BOA and NERFUND through adequate funding to enable them extend appropriate finance for economic programmes particularly to farmers in the rural areas and small scale businesses.

It is also important for government to reintroduce Export Expansion Grant (EEG) which was stopped some years back so as to encourage exporters of processed agro-allied products to increase their production for export and bring more inflow of foreign exchange into the country.

However, it is sad that the same government which is clamouring for the diversification of the economy is at the same time paying lip service to those programmes and organisations that could significantly help to ensure accelerated diversification of the economy. At the same time NER-

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Abia State Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu (middle), flanked by some members of the confectionaries and allied products market in Aba, during a reception organised in honour of the Governor… on Thursday.

L-R: Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Dame Julie Okah-Donli and Cable News Network (CNN) Correspondent, Richard Quest, during a broadcast event organised by the CNN Freedom Project, themed: Solutions to End Human Trafficking, in Rome, Italy… on Thursday.

L-R: Hon. Joseph Bamgbose; son of late Olusola Thomas, Olumide; Chief Judge of the State, Hon. Justice Opeyemi Oke; Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode and Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem, during the commissioning of the Olusola Thomas Courthouse in Badagry, Lagos… on Thursday.

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FUND which was established to fund small scale industries especially those in the agribusinesses seemed to have been left behind in the current efforts to wake up agriculture in the country.

There is no doubt that NERFUND has not done well in the last decade or so because of poor budgetary allocation to it for disbursement to its clients. At the same time, some of its staff, particularly those at the top echelon of the organisation might have entrenched themselves in corruption over the years.

The answer to such an organisation where the leadership is corrupt is not to abandon the organisation as the government has done but to make the corrupt officials account for their misdeeds while the organisation should be reorganised for better performance.

The country is focusing on agriculture to diversify the economy away from oil which took ascendancy over agriculture since the early 1970’s.

BOA understands the culture of famers and is well placed to provide funds for the production, processing and marketing of agricultural products by small, medium and large scale agribusinesses. The government should therefore fund BOA well so that it can in turn fund agriculture and agribusinesses in the efforts to revitalise agricultural production in the country at this point in time.

With the renewed interest in agribusiness across the country a virile agricultural bank is needed to service the needs of entrepreneurs in agribusiness. The high interest rates charged by commercial banks make them unsuitable as sources of funds for those in agribusiness.

Therefore, the government should also review upward the capitalisation of BOA from its present N1 trillion to at least N1.5 trillion so that it can better serve its clients and be able to give more funding to agribusinesses.

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Wole Soyinka

The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

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Parable of the terrorist, zoo keeper and python

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Ephraim Adiele

nce upon a time, 16 years after the zoo returned to civil rule, there lived a terrorist named Mazi Kanu and his terror squad, the IPOB. Unlike most terrorists of his time - like Alhaji Shekau who led the Boko Haram sect which ran rampage in North Eastern part of the zoo, Bin Laden who brazenly attacked Uncle Sam in 2001 and was killed for it years later, Al Baghdadi who ran the show in Syria and Iraq or even the Al Shabaab brothers in East Africa—his terror was mostly verbal. He threatened to destroy the zoo and lead the Igbo to a prosperous future. To most people East of the Niger, his words were infallible. He had a radio station he had been running for a couple of years from his base in the UK. He spat fire, assuring his hypnotised listeners that the zoo keeper will be defeated. He sought to purchase arms to fight the Zoo… some in public places, some in private quarters. To many, the words from the mouth of the terrorist were law and his cry for war on the zoo was doctrine. In all this, the zoo keeper said nothing.

The zoo keeper, a man in the

twilight of his earthly sojourn, seemed to be internally bitter and for many reasons: Not only had he just gained control of the zoo after a long 12-year battle, his camp was getting divided gradually as a result of conflicting interest. Add to this the economy was crumbling with his country heading for recession.

Like this was not enough, a new terrorist was in town. He was already battling Shekau and the Avengers but this new terrorist reminded him of something he probably didn’t want to remember. Years earlier, the zoo keeper was part of a bloody war against Kanu’s people in which over 2 million Igbos died. So he determined in his heart to decisively tackle this new terrorist. As fate would have it, the terrorist returned home and within a few hours, he was arrested and kept in custody until further notice.

Two years down the line, the zoo keeper had become terribly ill. His deputy, Mr. Osinbade held the reins for a while in his stead and was getting the support of the people. In the meantime, IPOB kept waxing stronger, getting new friends and winning the support of some influential people. The zoo keeper returned and after another period of litigation, the terrorist was from his jail cell

with several strict conditions. This seemed to be victory for the terrorist and IPOB as they became even more daring and outspoken in their optimism of a future free of the zoo’s grip. The terrorist soon forgot the conditions for his release and continued from where he stopped; threatening the unity of the zoo and constantly insulting the zoo keeper, only this time, he removed the drums of war and replaced them with a cry for referendum. He even assembled a Secret Service and started a mini-government of his own.

Soon enough, the zoo keeper was back in good health and returned to the zoo after spending over 100 days away. His return did not stop the terrorist as he kept galvanising his followers towards the day the faceoff with the zoo and the zoo keeper.

Without wasting much time, the zoo keeper swung into action using his favourite pet, the python!

The python, merciless and efficient as always swooped on the terrorist and IPOB, invoking fear across Igboland. The Python danced its way around, striking whatever was in its way… and an uneasy peace was restored in Igboland.

But the last is yet to be heard from the terrorist. I say this because the

same scenario played out in the Middle East when George Bush warned that if Uncle Sam leaves the region prematurely, he will come back to fight an even angrier enemy. His advice was dismissed and the American Army left. Only to return years later to fight an even angrier ISIS led by the blood-thirsty Al-Baghdadi.

A little advice for the zoo keeper and the python: listen… listen to anybody and everybody, please: Listen to the terrorist, for although might be loquacious, vulgar and toeing a disastrous path, he has a mightily large following of people who you should be catering for, not fighting against.

Listen to the people… ask them questions because it seems you do not care about their opinion—not even after you spent over 100 days outside the zoo without explanation.

Please drop your pride and conduct a referendum. It’s the only way to know the way forward because the people are very tired of this zoo. . Listen because it would be disastrous to feel that you have finally calmed the storm. You might have won a temporary battle, but the python will not always be in Igboland.

It is my prayer that you do not come back to Igboland to fight a bigger, even angrier enemy.

Terrorism, self-determination and IPOB (1)

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pon the motion ex parte of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) for and on behalf of the government of President Buhari, the Federal High Court, Abuja, proscribed the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) as a terrorist organization. Already, matters have arisen out of the step taken by the government, including important procedural matters as to whether the government can sue IPOB as a body, lack of fair hearing in the ruling, and the propriety of an interim injunction despite repeated warnings against it by the office of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), the legitimacy of the relief sought, amongst others.

But this piece is on the propriety of declaring IPOB a terrorist organization. Specifically, it disagrees with the executive declaration and judicial affirmation of IPOB as a terrorist group.

Since 911 terrorist attacks which shook the political and economic edifices of the US, states have increasingly risen over and above the aphorism that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter to decisively rein in on acts of terrorism. Typically, terrorists act like gangsters, rogue groups, mobsters, outlaws or anarchists and seek to actualize their goal by indiscriminately attacking the persons and property of their targets with dangerous weapons.

Specifically, such attacks may take the form of bombings, assassinations, armed assaults, kidnappings, and hijackings, as a means to the end of realizing their dreams. In view of terrorists’ indiscriminate, wanton and atrocious waste of lives and property, a US judge in Flatow v. Islamic Republic of Iran (999 F.

Supp. 1, 23, D.D.C. 1998) observed that “terrorism has achieved the status of almost universal condemnation, as have slavery, genocide, and piracy, and the terrorist is the modern era’s hostis humani generis – an enemy of all mankind.”

With the exception of the rare cases of one-man terrorist, terrorists usually operate under the umbrella of a terrorist organization. Despite its vagueness, terrorism is not without context or definition.

As known in contemporary times, terrorism emerged from the Reign of Terror in the aftermath of the French Revolution orchestrated

by Maxmilien Robespierre in 1793, wherein the lives of the enemies of the revolution were wasted in order to stabilize the country. Although states still perpetrate terrorism, non-states actors have dominated the field of operation, including ISIS, Al Quaeda, Al Shabaab and Boko Haram. Notwithstanding the absence of definitional consensus, there appears to be a general agreement on the adoption of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism 1999 as an authoritative definition of terrorism. Article 2 (1) (b) of the Convention defines terrorism as any “Act intended to cause death or serious bodily injury to a civilian, or to any other person not taking an active part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, when the purpose of such act, by its nature or context, is to intimidate a population, or to compel a government or an international organization to do or to abstain from doing any act.”

In state practice, states are, for the purpose of law and order, legitimately expected to make legal provisions against any group that prides itself on the indiscriminate

destruction of lives and property in order to achieve its parochial ends. And by their nature, terrorists everywhere in the world employ violence as their primary tool of engagement.

However, states’ freedom of action to maintain law and order within their domain through the prohibition of acts of terrorism is limited by their international obligation to respect the right of a group genuinely agitating for freedom on the basis of the principle of self-determination.

Generally speaking, a people’s (ethnic nationality’s) right to selfdetermination means their right to choose or pursue their own socioeconomic, cultural and political development. According to Prof.

Friedlander, it is the right of a people to shape their own political, economic, and cultural destiny.

Self-determination finds legal expression in the UN Charter 1945 and UNGA Declaration (Res. 1514) on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples 1960. It is noteworthy that Common Article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 1966 and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) 1966 specifically provides for self-determination as follows: “All peoples have the right of self-determination.

By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.”

Likewise, Article 20(1) of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights 1981 provides thus: “All peoples shall have the right to existence. They shall have the unquestionable and inalienable right to self-determination. They shall freely determine their politi-

cal status and shall pursue their economic and social development according to the policy they have freely chosen.”

Notably, the right to self determination is one of the few rights in customary international law that have evolved into norms of jus cogens, norms from which derogation is impossible.

But there are two diametrically opposed views on the contemporary status of the right to self-determination. One view holds that because self-determination was developed within the context of decolonization, it was meant strictly for those who were under the yoke of colonialism and that the locus of any people to invoke the right terminated with their attainment of statehood. Thus, in Katanga v.

Zaire, the African Commission rejected Katanga’s Peoples Congress which sought to, inter alia, secede from Zaire. The Commission’s decision was also actuated by the obligation to uphold the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Zaire on the basis of the principle of uti possidetis.

However, the other group insists that because it was developed during the struggle against colonialism does not inevitably or inexorably lead to the conclusion that the right vanished with the collapse of colonialism. The group argues that state practice sufficiently demonstrates that states recognize the right of peoples or groups in existing states to self-determination. According to Professor Nanda, the right of selfdetermination extends beyond the colonial context while Prof. Collins maintains that it is only political exigencies that tied the right of self-determination to the apron string of colonial territories.

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Rochas Okorocha is killing me Conversation with Azu 040817

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Okorocha, who thinks it’s all right to turn a blind eye on Zuma’s baggage and, worse still, insult the people of Imo by hosting his guest with public funds from which he also erected a Zuma statue. In Okorocha’s haste to acquire star power, he couldn’t even make a good statue of Zuma. He was out-conned.

Okorocha is killing Imo. It’s OK if he wishes to cultivate Zuma’s personal friendship. But he cannot pay N500 million or more from the state’s treasury to do so.

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fter calling out the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, twice in ten months, I gave up. The governor has the whole of Imo as his duchy and he will do what he will do. So, what’s the point?

If I’m now constrained to cry more than the bereaved people of Imo, it’s simply because their worsening misery is killing me.

For two weeks, Okorocha held the state hostage to mark his 55th birthday anniversary.

School children, whose parents are still being owed salaries up to three months, were lined in the streets of Owerri to salute the governor.

As for pensioners whose long arrears are being paid in dreadful bits, they watched Okorocha’s parade from the discomfort of their homes as their August/September cheques bounced again.

Mothers whose stalls in Ekeukwu market had been demolished by the state government in defiance of a court order and the parents of Somtochukwu who lost the 10-year-old boy during the violent eviction were expected to send glowing tributes to Okorocha at 55.

Twenty-seven pre-selected women, each representing a local government, brought cakes to the governor.

State workers, who had been eating the life-size portraits of Okorocha since he would not pay them salaries, were offered yet more portraits and statues to eat to mark the governor’s 55th birthday.

And to crown the insult, rogue politicians in the ruling All Progressives Congress organised a party at the stadium, aired on live TV, to tell us how the governor had made the sun stand still in the last six years of his administration.

While the show was on, he complimented the fawning crowd from time to time with that trademark grin that tells the story of his suzerainty.

Okorocha is killing Imo. I would have stayed out, but how can I? How can anyone with a conscience see what Okorocha is doing and look the other way?

How can?

He took his folly to a whole

Gov. Okorocha new level last week when he invited South African President, Jacob Zuma, to crown activities marking his 55th birthday.

With Zuma in town, chaperoned by his cousin, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Okorocha was immensely pleased about the exhibition of star power. But the outing, concealed from even the State House of Assembly and supervised by the governor’s private army, meant something more to Zuma: it was welcome escape from his woes at home.

As Zuma was boarding the plane to Nigeria, the Supreme Court of Appeal in his country ruled for the reinstatement of 783 charges of corruption and fraud against him.

Zuma had been giving South African prosecutors a run-around over charges that he took bribes worth over $304,000 and was involved in racketeering, fraud and money laundering.

This was apart from charges that he used $23 million of state money to refurbish his sprawling apartment in Nkandla – funds which the courts ruled that he must return. On top of all this, are charges that Zuma’s bosom business friends, the Guptas, had used their influence with him to capture the state.

As Zuma was landing in Owerri and Okorocha was unveiling his statue, naming a road after him, and awarding him a chieftancy title, protests were going on in South Africa, calling for Zuma to resign because his government has been overwhelmed by corruption. He’s still in power but the office left him since.

There is an elaborate spin that the visit is also to help strengthen cooperation between the Okorocha and Zuma Foundations; but that’s nonsense. Philanthropy could use better examples than two adults who rob Peter to pay Paul.

Isn’t it amusing that since news

of the Okorocha-Zuma project broke, not a few South Africans have been saying Okorocha is doing it to give Nigerians a pass for drugs in South Africa?

That’s nonsense. Whatever Nigerians will do – good or bad – hopefully more good than bad – they will do without help from the Okorochas of this world. Okorocha and Zuma are on their own.

But this is not about the South African president. It’s about his host, Okorocha, who thinks it’s all right to turn a blind eye on Zuma’s baggage and, worse still, insult the people of Imo by hosting his guest with public funds from which he also erected a Zuma statue. In Okorocha’s haste to acquire star power, he couldn’t even make a good statue of Zuma. He was outconned.

Okorocha is killing Imo. It’s OK if he wishes to cultivate Zuma’s personal friendship. But he cannot pay N500 million or more from the state’s treasury to do so.

Is Zuma a friend, really? In two years under his watch as South African president, 116 Nigerians have been killed in that country, most of them victims of premeditated homicides. A good number of them are Igbos and at least one, Daniel Timothy, is from Umunuma Okohia, in Isiala Mbano Local Government of Imo State.

As Okorocha unveiled Zuma’s statue and named a road in Owerri after him, I wondered how the parents of Timothy would feel whenever they see that statue or travel on that road. What was Timothy’s widow – and his surviving four children –thinking on hearing the news?

True, Nigerians have not been the only targets of the rising wave of xenophobia in South Africa. But in the last two years, no other country has recorded a higher number of casualties than Nigeria. And this has happened in spite of repeated promises by Zuma’s government that it will

ensure the safety of Nigerians.

Did Okorocha bring up the Xword with Zuma or did he simply grin all the way in his peculiar Okorocha way?

The ruling APC obviously does not think that Okorocha is a problem. He’s the party’s mascot in the South East, a region where President Muhammadu Buhari is most unpopular.

With a governor like Okorocha, right-thinking people in the South East must be wondering if the Imo State governor is the face of change that the ruling party prides itself on, unless it was meant to be a change for the worse.

Okorocha’s continued shenanigans guarantee Buhari and his ruling party a rough road to any hope of recovery in the South East, if it still matters to them.

Whether it’s about a possible new life in the South East or the pursuit of the APC’s anti-corruption agenda, Okorocha is killing whatever is left of his party’s image.

Some will argue that it would be unfair to single him out among the governors. After all, in the race to the bottom, Yahaya Bello (Kogi), Abdulaziz Yari (Zamfara), and Ayo Fayose (Ekiti), are also doing their best to lead the pack.

At this rate, however, it appears that the crown for hubris might be a straight fight between Bello and Okorocha.

But are citizens really that helpless? In a region where women resisted unfair taxation by the colonial government in 1929, I’m at a loss why 88 years later and with far better educated, more enlightened and prosperous citizens, an Okorocha would take the people for a ride, grinning for good measure.

My governor, my governor: your works are killing me.

Ishiekwene is the Managing Director/Editor-In-Chief of The Interview and member of the board of the Global Editors Network

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PDP BoT member lauds 37 parties for accepting defeat in Enugu LG polls

FG urged to use 2018 budget to end polio in IDPs camps Kingsley Chukwuka, Jos

ÏÏÏA Non-governmental Organisa-

tion, Rotary Club International, has urged the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to use the 2018 budget to end polio ravaging Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) across the country.

The call was made Thursday by the District Governor of the club, Nnoka Mbanefo, in Jos, while commissioning two Bus Terminal Shelters, constructed by Rotary Club of Jos Central, as part of campaign to end polio and to ease hardship among the less privileged in Plateau State.

Mbanefo said: “The Federal Government should use the 2018 budget and address issues of decline in immunization coverage at the Internally Displace Persons (IDPs) camps in the North to end polio in Nigeria in 2018.

“Rotary in collaboration with

World Head Organisation (WHO), has dispatched fresh team of vaccinators to IDPs camps in Maiduguri and other parts of the north to ensure all Children from 0-5 years are immunize to kick polio out of the country.

“Nigeria was deprived of being delisted among polio endemic countries of the world because of some few cases recorded in Borno State in 2016 and i was worried over the unhealthy development. I want Federal Government to use the 2018 budget to tackle poliomyelitis by ensuring that children in IDPs camps and unaccessible areas in the north and other parts of the country are immunize.

“We have sent a team of vaccinators to all IDPs in the north to ensure that no child miss any round of immunization. Nigeria has lived for about two years now without any case of polio and we want government to maintain the track record by funding intensive campaign against the scourge disease in the 2018 budget.”

Moses Oyediran, Enugu

ÏÏÏA member of the Peoples Demo-

cratic Party’s (PDP) Board of Trustees, Ambassador Mrs. Justina Eze, has applauded the sportsmanship displayed by 37 out of the 40 registered political parties in Enugu State, in accepting defeat and endorsing the outcome of the November 4 Local Government Elections in the state.

Amb. Eze said that the gesture was rare and a clear proof that the elec-

tions were credible, free and fair and in conformity with international best practices, commending the Enugu State Independent Electoral Commission (ENSIEC) for the feat.

The PDP BOT Member also hailed Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi for fulfilling the promise he made to the people of the state that credible and peaceful Local Government Elections will be conducted in the state in 2017.

She added that the governor’s unprecedented achievements, despite the nation’s daunting economic challenges, his peace initiatives and commitment to the tenets of inclusive and participatory democracy, PDP’s vigorous campaigns in all the nooks and crannies of the state, among others, saw to the landslide victory of the party at the polls, saying that “Enugu people are so lucky to have Gov. Ugwuanyi as their governor”.

Amb. Eze frowned at the antics of

“a few individuals”, who she said have failed in their attempts to discredit the exercise, advising them to display a sense of maturity and appreciate the fact that the present administration is peaceful and extremely focused on delivering the dividends of democracy to the people of the state.

She disclosed that Gov. Ugwuanyi recognizes and respects all past and present leaders in the state irrespective of political affiliations, stressing that such an uncommon leadership style should not be taken for granted.

The PDP BOT member advised that “any past leader who attempts to undermine the untiring efforts of the governor to sustain the existing peace and good governance in Enugu State should refrain from such an untoward act as it is inimical to the progress of our dear state”.

Lagos CJ frees 4 Badagry prison inmates Peter Fowoyo

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L-R: Registrar, Lead City University Ibadan (LCU), Dr. Bola Ayeni; Deputy Governor of Osun State, Mrs. Titi Laoye-Tomori; Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola and Chancellor, LCU, Prof Gabriel Ogunmola; at the10th Convocation lecture of LCU in Ibadan, Oyo State… on Wednesday.

FG has released over N380bn as UBE matching grant -Bobboyi Esther Taiwo

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Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) has disclosed that the total statutory releases by the Federal Government as FGN-UBE Matching Grant from 2005 to October 31, 2017 stood at three hundred and eighty billion, fifty-two million, five hundred and thirteen thousand, four hundred and ninety-one naira, seventy six kobo (N380, 052,513,491.76).

This is even as the commission decried poor commitment of many state governments in the country to the promotion and development of basic education sub-sector, accusing them of neglecting their roles in the efforts to rebuild the nation’s education foundation. The Executive Secretary of the Commission, Dr. Hammid Bobboyi, stated this on Thursday in Lagos while delivering the keynote address at a summit on basic education organised by the Education Writers’ Association of Nigeria (EWAN). The summit,

which was chaired by Nigeria’s former Representative to UNESCO, Emeritus Prof. Michael Omolewa, was an interventional initiative by the group, which is peopled by journalists across print, electronic and online, who cover the education sector.

Bobboyi, who was represented at the event by his Deputy, Dr. Sharon Oviemuno, said N303, 933,462,013.90 representing 80 per cent of the total matching grants has been disbursed to 36 states and Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, leaving a balance 20 per cent un-accessed.

The UBEC boss listed other challenges confronting the sector to include the huge figure of out-of-school children and youths including the Almajiri and children with special needs and getting them into basic education schools; low level of budgetary allocation to basic education at state and local Government levels; dwindling government revenue at all levels; general insecurity in schools occasioned by insurgency, kidnapping, rape, among many others. “Therefore, we must build on a rich intellectual culture to build a robust educational future not only for the states but for the entire country.”

The National President of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), Comrade Micheal Alogba-Olukoya, who was represented by the Union’s Deputy Chairman in Lagos, Adedoyin Adeshina, said education was the bedrock for national development.

He also said the funding of basic primary education should not be handed over to local government as being proposed, urging stakeholders to intervene.

Speaking earlier, the former Edo State Commissioner for Education, Prof. Ngozi Osarenren, commended the association for coming up with the programme, saying the theme; ‘Whither Basic Education in Nigeria?” was apt and instructive.

She said until stakeholders decided to give children the best education standard, the country would not be able to meet up with global practices.

According to her, admission seekers jumped into studying education because they could not meet up with cut-off marks of their initial courses they choose to study.

However, the she said mass failure recorded in Mathematics is a result of teachers skipping some topics in the subject because they don’t know it. “You cannot give what you don’t have. Teachers that are not versatile enough cannot teach our children”, she added.

The Chairman of EWAN, Mr. Tunbosun Ogundare, in his welcome address, said the intervention had become necessary based on the dwindling fortune of education in the country.

He said beyond reporting, action was needed on the part of journalists to mobilise stakeholders to achieve the deserved progress in the nation’s education sector.

by the Lagos state Judiciary to decongest the prisons on Thursday got a boost as the Chief Judge (CJ), Justice Opeyemi Oke, freed four inmates of the Badagry Prisons.

Those released include: Sharafadeen Sheu, Israel Emmanuel, Samodu Rasak and Tunde Ojo. Although, the number of inmates that were expected to regain freedom was nine, five others were returned to face formal constitutional charges due to the gravity of their offences.

The released inmates were boys between the ages of 17 and 19 years.

In her speech, Oke admonished the pardoned inmates to “go and sin no more”, adding that all Judges including herself are praying for them to have good job so that they would not be arrested because of wandering and joblessness.

She said the gesture was aimed at reducing congestion at the prisons and release some inmates who had been awaiting trial for many years.

Her words: “I don’t know why having no work has turned to criminal offence”, she queried.

Justice Oke maintained that the reason why the five others were returned to prison was to allow them face the constitutional consequences of the offences committed and further serve as deterrent to others.

She said the judiciary would complement the Lagos State Government to ameliorate the plight of inmates in all the prisons just as she commended the State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, particularly on the commissioning of the new Magistrate Court in Badagry, which according to her would further aid quick dispensation of justice in the state.

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Ajimobi tasks FG on justice system Ibe Uwaleke

L-R: President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki; State Governors Ibrahim Dakwambo (Gombe) and Abubakar Bello (Niger), during the burial of Sen. Danjuma Goje’s wife, Yelwa, in Gombe State… on Thursday.

Aviation stakeholders blame poor infrastructure, policy somersault for system decays Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo

ÏÏÏStakeholders

and professionals in the Nigerian aviation industry have identified infrastructure challenges and policy summersaults by the government as some of the major factors militating against growth in the sector.

Stakeholders also said that for the country’s aviation industry to grow to international standards, good corporate governance without political interference must be entrenched in the system, saying that without this, the sector would continue to lag behind in the scheme of things.

Speaking at a one-day conference with the theme: ‘Nigerian Aviation Infrastructure: Development and Challenges,’ organised by the Aviation Round Table (ART) yesterday in Lagos, Dr. Harold Demuren, the former Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) said aviation industry would continue to play major roles in the development of Nigeria.

Demuren observed that with the

huge population and the placement of Nigeria, the nation’s airports should be a hub for Africa, but wondered why the indigenous airlines were failing while others operating into the country were flourishing.

According to him, Nigeria was lacking in aerospace and ground based infrastructure, noting that no company in Nigeria manufactures any component of aircraft, build aircraft engine, adequate training facilities and aircraft maintenance hangar.

Demuren lamented that the Cape Town Convention, which creates room for easier acquisition of new aircraft by airlines had failed in Nigeria despite its importance to the airline sub-sector on the continent.

He observed that airlines are key in infrastructure development, but maintained that for the country’s airlines to be profitable, they must be strong and form a united entity.

He added: “All the money we make in the industry, we return it to the Western countries. So, there is no reason for comparison with the West.

We need to address the various gaps

in the system. Good corporate governance and transparency are key to anything that we do in the sector.

“Aviation is a perishable product, if the seat mile is gone, you can’t sell it tomorrow. So, we must have strong management in the sector to move forward. We must also invest in our airlines by acquiring new aircraft, which costs are massive.

He insisted that the country’s airlines require bailout funds for them to remain afloat in business and declared that the American Government bailout its airlines immediately after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, while Air France such gestures in the past from the French Government.

Also, Mr. Nick Fadugba, the former Secretary General of African Airlines Association (AFRAA) who also doubled as the Chairman of the occasion, said that air transport could unlock the economic potential in Africa if it was implemented with good corporate governance.

For Nigeria’s airlines to be profitable, he canvassed for the nation’s

FG reiterates commitment to diversify nation’s economy ÏÏÏMinister

of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Okechukwu Enelamah, has reiterated Federal Government’s commitment to diversifying the nation’s economy.

Enelamah said this at the opening of a three-day meeting of the National Council on Industry, Trade and Investment on Thursday in Sokoto.

He, however, said that all hands must be on hands must be on deck as the Federal Government “cannot solely on its

own solve the many problems and economic challenges facing the country’’.

“There is the urgent need for effective collaboration and synergy between the Federal, state governments and other major stakeholders.

“This is to leverage Industry, Trade and Investment as a platform for economic diversification and job creation among the teeming youth in the country.

“We, therefore, invite the states to cooperate with the

Federal Government in our efforts to revamp the economy by implementing the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP),’’ he said. The minister also said that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) had since approved the establishment of the Nigeria office for Trade Negotiation (NOTN).

According to him, the agency is to lead and manage Nigeria’s trade negotiation as well as provide advice on trade policies, negotiations as well as recommend results from it.

carriers to form a joint venture, stressing that the era of doing it alone was gone.

Like Demuren, Fadugba called for transparency on the policies of the government, stressing that Nigeria had knowledgeable technical personnel, manpower and market to control the sector on the continent.

“Airlines in Nigeria today should come together; form a joint venture because they are too small and weak as they are presently. We long for Nigeria Airways to be re-incarnated.

Since the airline was liquidated, no single airline has been able to fit into the shoes of the airline.

“I commend the Federal Government for agreeing to pay the workers of the former national carrier, Nigeria Airways, however, they should be paid before the end of the year.

Capt. Fola Akinkuotu in his presentation, declared that the Nigerian airspace infrastructure had experienced huge significant development over the years in response to global trend, but noted that other countries too were moving forward.

ÏÏÏGovernor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has enjoined the Federal Government to establish a system that will ensure a level playing field for the application of the law and justice for both the rich and the poor in the country.

This is contained in a statement made available to newsmen

by Comrade Salihu Othman Isah, Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to the Honourable Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice in Abuja.

He disclosed that the governor stated this in his welcome address delivered at the National Sensitisation Workshop on the National Policy on Justice for the SouthWest Zone, in Ibadan, Oyo State last Tuesday.

Ajimobi who was represented by his Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Oluseun Abimbola opined that the country is in search of effective ways to rekindle the people’s confidence in court system that would ensure a level playing field for the application of the law and justice for both the rich and the poor, adding that such system would not condone impunity.

He explained that, ”A system that will ensure that no criminal escapes the long hands of justice, a system that dispenses justice timeously, facilitates quick resolution of disputes, offers remedial reliefs to victims of infectious and commands the confidence of citizens and investors.

“We are in search of a justice system that will salvage our international perception from being a country where indicted persons escape through the justice system only to be convicted in other countries. This is unacceptable”.

He expressed optimism that stakeholders would take advantage of the two-day sensitization workshop to foster exchange of ideas and experiences between states and institutional participants to ensure that the reform being championed by the Chief Justice of Nigeria and The Honourable Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice spread across and abroad.

Chile deports Mike Tyson for allegedly flouting immigration laws ÏÏÏChilean Police on Thurs-

Tyson

day deported a disheveled U.S. boxer Mike Tyson citing noncompliance with immigration laws. Tyson, 51, was put on a flight home, the Investigative Police (PDI) said.

Local media reported that the former world heavyweight champion was planning to attend an awards ceremony for action films taking place in Santiago, Chile’s capital.

“Detectives from the International Police are re-boarding Mike Tyson for not complying with immigration law,” the PDI said on its verified Twitter account on Thursday,

alongside a photograph of Tyson walking in an airport with two individuals wearing PDI jackets.

The PDI did not specify which part of the law Tyson did not comply with, and did not immediately respond to an email and a phone call seeking additional information.

Tyson served three years of a six-year U.S. jail sentence for rape in 1992.

In 2012, New Zealand revoked an entry visa for Tyson after a charity that was going to benefit from his visit dropped its support due to his rape conviction.

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NOA harps on peaceful co-existence, religious tolerance as tools for devp’t Samuel Luka, Bauchi

ÏÏÏThe Bauchi State Di-

rector of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Alhaji Nuru Yusuf Kobi, yesterday asked Nigerians to live and co-exist peacefully with one another in order to foster development in the country, urging all citizens to put national unity above any sectional interest.

The Director stated this at the flag- off of an awareness campaign against communal clashes, political and religious violence in the state.

Kobi while speaking at the Galambi district head palace, Kangere, Bauchi Local Government Area of the state, where the campaign, captioned, “Building people of peace

and security awareness”, maintained that peace is important for development in every society.

According him, one of the objectives of the campaign, which is expected to hold across the 20 local government areas of the state, is to awake the consciousness of the people, especially the youth to their civic responsibilities of promoting peace and harmony adding that there is the need to promote the spirit of patriotism, nationalism, self-discipline among the youth by instilling in them the national core values.

Kobi urged the youth in particular to not only take active part in peace building process in their communities but also be vigilant and security conscious.

He said, “We also want to encourage the youth to actively participate in the peace-building process in their communities. We want to stimulate the citizens to be vigilant and security consciousness”.

The Bauchi NOA boss further informed that the Agency will also embark on aggressive campaign in both conventional and the social media with a view to dissuade the minds of the people, including the youth, against hate speeches.

Kobi then commended Governor Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar for his pragmatic and sense of leadership in unifying and championing the spirit of national unity among the ethnic groups in the state.

Governor Abubakar while responding, said

that the state government is totally committed to ensuring peace in every part of the state.

Represented by the state Head of Civil Service, Alhaji Liman Bello, the governor urged the people in the state to live in peace among themselves, irrespective of their ethnic and religious affiliations.

In his vote of thanks, the district head of Galambi, Alhaji Shehu Adamu Jumba, declared that peace is an essential element for development and urged people to live together in peace.

He, however, appealed to the state government to provide for social amenities in his domain, saying that his people are seriously suffering due to the lack of the amenities in the area.

Buhari shows empathy for every section of Nigeria in 2018 budget- Sen. Abe Amaka Agbu, Port Harcourt

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The senator representing Rivers South-East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, has said that the content of the 2018 Appropriation Bill showed that President Muhammadu Buhari has empathy for every section of the country.

Senator Abe stated this while speaking to newsmen after President Buhari presented the Appropriation Bill before a joint session of the National Assembly in Abuja.

He said: “I think for every section of the country, the president has some empathy and some feeling for what people thought and I think that is very good.”

The senator expressed joy that the President attached great importance to the ongoing-Bodo/Bonny Road project and the clean-

up of Ogoni environment, all in Rivers State.

Abe, who is also the Chairman, Senate Committee on FERMA, further expressed joy that President Buhari was emphatic about the importance of engagement and increase in the budget of the Ministry of Niger Delta.

“I was very happy with the presentation and like I have said severally, the President has something for everybody. In Rivers State, he was very emphatic on the importance of the Bodo/Bonny road, on Ogoni clean-up and the Niger Delta.

“He also talked about the importance of engagement and increase in the budget of the Niger Delta Ministry. He provided funding for the amnesty office, being some of the things that the former government decided to scrap at the end of last year.”

Nine persons killed, four injured in Plateau midnight ƐƐ ƅƊ ÏSTF begin air raid operation Kingsley Chukwuka, Jos

ÏÏÏ Nine persons where

on Tuesday night ambushed and killed, by unknown gunmen along Rim in Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State.

Our correspondent also gathered that four persons were also injured and are currently receiving treatment in an undisclosed hospital.

Spokesman of Operation Safe Haven (OPSH), deployed to restore law and order in Plateau, Bauchi and Southern Kaduna, Captain Umar Adam, who confirmed the inci dence described it as unfortunate.

He said the Commander of Operation Safe Haven, Maj. Gen. Anthony Otalagbe immediately moved to the scene of the ‘attack in Riyom LGA when the news got to them and have deployed air raids to comb the area.

“Efforts are made to arrest the perpetrators of the attack”.

Captain Umar, who spoke to our correspondent in Jos, said “immediately

we got the information we mobilized to the scene of the attack near Gako village in Rim district on receipt of the news”.

“The men of OPSH spent the night searching for the attackers around the affected community, the OPSH commander has directed a special condoning of the area.

“Equally there is an air raid of the bushes as well as as our men have been deployed to the community to ensure that the culprits are arrested, “ he said.

According to him”, the task-force personnel in the LGA were instantly mobilized to the scene on receipt of the information.

“By the time our troops arrived the scene, the attackers had fled but we are still doing our ground work to see if we can apprehend them,” he said.

Our correspondent however, reports that the victims who were returning from the Makera market on a Golf-3 car were reportedly ambushed by the assailants while offloading at Diyan junction near Gako village.

L-R: Former Governor of Ogun State/Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chairmanship aspirant, Otunba Gbenga Daniel and Gombe State Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Dankwambo, during Daniel’s campaign tour of Gombe State… on Wednesday.

Enugu Govt to restore damaged power supply at Oji River Water Scheme Moses Oyediran, Enugu

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Enugu State Government has assured residents of its resolve to restore water supply to Enugu metropolis after a damage to electricity supply poles to the Oji River Water Scheme.

The Special Adviser to the Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi on Water Supply, Mrs. Fe-

licia Ikpeama, gave the assurance on Thursday.

Ikpeama said this after she inspected damaged electric poles and cables destroyed by an articulated vehicle conveying cement at Oji River.

She stressed that power had been the major challenge delaying water supply in the state.

The governor’s aide

also urged villages and households affected by the incident to exercise patience as Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) had commenced the installation of poles and cables at the area.

Also speaking, the Managing Director of Enugu State Water Corporation, Mr. Chidozie Eze, who led the inspection team, said

that government had been working tirelessly to ensure steady water supply to the people of Enugu.

Eze, however, regrets the inconveniencies caused to those affected by the temporary cut in power supply.

He assured resumption of operation in the water scheme as soon as the EEDC restores power.

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IMOLE-NLA FARMERS ASSOCIATION

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED FOUNDATION 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 ASSOCIATION has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE:(1) OLURANTI JULIE AKINYELE (2) OLUBUKOLA BAMIDURO (3) AYOOLA OLORE (4) OLUWAFEMI BAMIDURO (5) PREYE ADEBAYO-OLAWEPO

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1) OLAYINKA AKINKUNMI (2) OKUNLADE RAPHEL (3) GBOYINDE RASHEEDAT (4) LAGBAJA MURAINA (5) OLAIFA MOSES (6)AMUSAT RAHEEM (7) ADELAKUN SAMUEL (8) OLAYINKA OLUWAKEMI (9)OKEWOLA SUNDAY (10) KASKA HAMMED ADEWUYI

(MATRON) (CHAIRMAN) (SECRETARY) (TRUSTEE) (TRUSTEE)

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE:(1) TAKING CARE OF THE POOR, LESS PRIVILEGE IN THE SOCIETY THROUGH VARIOUS HOPE GIVING VENTURES. (2) IMPROVING THE LIFE OF ITS MEMBERS THROUGH EMPOWERING THE BODY, MIND AND SPIRIT ETC. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRARGENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA DISTRICT, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE IS :To produce more food in our country Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama District, Abuja within 28 days from the date of this publication

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

TRUSTEES: ONUIGBO CHUKA VICTOR CHIDUEME NNEKA EVERGREEN ENETE STEPHEN ANEZICHUKWUIHE EME ONYEKA LYNDA AIM AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. 2. TO RAISE ENDTIME GOSPEL BEARERS FOR THE LORD. 3. TO ORGANIZE EVANGELISM IN DIFFERENT PLACES. 4. TO PRINT AND SPONSOR EVANGELISM MATERIALS LIKE TRACTS, FLIERS, STUDY MATERIALS, BOOKLETS, ETC. 5. TO ORGANIZE TEACHINGS, SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES TO ENCOURAGE BELIEVERS IN THE LORD. 6. TO ORGANIZE PRAYER PROGRAMS AND REVIVALS/CRUSADE OUTREACH. 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 FROM DATE OF THESE PUBLICATION. SIGNED TRUSTEES

FAMILY CHANGE OF NAME

WE FOMERLY KNOWN AS MARIAGROTI CHINATU KORIENTA, INNOCENT CHIDIADI KORIENTA, VINCENT CHIJINDU KORIENTA, AGATHA CHIAZOKA KORIENTA AND ELIZABETH CHINYERE KORIENTA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS MARIAGROTI CHINATU ANYALEMECHI, INNOCENT CHIDIADI ANYALEMECHI, VINCENT CHIJINDU ANYALEMECHI, AGATHA CHIAZOKA ANYALEMECHI AND ELIZABETH CHINYERE ANYALEMECHI. ALL FOMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID THE PUBLIC TAKE NOTE

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LOSS OF DOCUMENT This is to inform the General Public of the loss of Original Property title Document situate at No. 54 Taylor Avenue Ogbete Layout Enugu, Regd.

As 49/49/1094 lands Registry office in Enugu, belonging to SAMUEL OLI. All efforts made to trace the missing document have proved abortive. If found, contact Samuel Oli of No. 54 Taylor Avenue Ogbete Coal Camp, Enugu. Please General Public take note.

SIGNED: SAMUEL OLI

PROSTHETIC FOR LOVE INITIATIVE

OFUOBI COMMITTEE OF FRIEND’S CLUB SOUTH AFRICA

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, Decree No. 1 of 1990.

The general public is hereby notified that the above named CLUB has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission, Abuja for registration under part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Acts of 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE; 1. Duru Ugochukwu Nnamdi - Chairman 2. Duru Anuli Stephanie.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ; 1. To promote love and togetherness.

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 ; Duru Ugochukwu Nnamdi (Chairman)

SUNDAY JOSEPH UDO

KAREEM RASHEED ORIYOMI

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MMADUABUCHI IKE FELIX CHAIRMAN 2. UNAEZE EBERECHUKWU STEPHEN SECRETARY 3. NWANERI LAWRENCE MEMBER 4. UGONWA DAVID OGOMEFUNA MEMBER 5. AMAM COSMAS CHIBUZOR MEMBER AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO ENCOURAGE THE SPIRIT OF ONENESS AMONGST MEMBERS BY DISCOURAGING DISPUTES OF ANY KIND AND SETTLING SAME AMICABLY WHERE ANY EXIST. 2. TO POOL OUR RESOURCES TOGETHER FOR THE WELFARE OF MEMBERS IN SOUTH AFRICA AND NIGERIA. 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 from the date of > this publication.

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IZIBILI STELLA NDIDI

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CHUKWUOWO ROMANUS UMEZURIKE

AKWE ELIZABETH ONYEMAUCHECHI

OKAFOR OGBODO

NICKSON IHECHILURU OFFOR

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LOSS OF DEED OF LEASE

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NAHEEMOH AHMAD GBADAMOSI

EGBE JOHN NWABUEZE I formerly known and addressed as USULOR JOHN NWABUEZE , now wish to be known and addressed as EGBE JOHN NWABUEZE. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as RASAKI IYONDA BABATUNDE, now wish to be known and addressed as RASAQ SAADU YANDA. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as Ahmad Naheemoh Adeyinka, now wish to be known and addressed as Naheemoh Ahmad Gbadamosi. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

OLAWUYI-BAMIJO AINA ATINUKE

ARIYIBI BILQIS OMOLARA

CHUKWU EMMANUEL CHIAWOKE

I formerly known and addressed as SALAKO BILQEES ARIYIBI, now wish to be known and addressed as ARIYIBI BILQIS OMOLARA. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as BLESSED EMMANUEL.now wish to be known and addressed as CHUKWU EMMANUEL CHIAWOKE. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

IRORERE OSEMWENGIE SIAN I formerly known and addressed as IRORERE OSEMWENGIE STANLEY, now wish to be known and addressed as IRORERE OSEMWENGIE SIAN.(IRORERE, is the surname) All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

MRS. GOMBA EME I, formerly known and addressed as, MISS. INYANG EME JOSEPH now wish to be known and addressed as, MRS. GOMBA EME. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as, MISS. EWONUBARI KEHINDE EREKERE, now wish to be known and addressed as, MRS. EREKERE KATS EWONUBARI KEHINDE. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

MRS. MBAMARA BLESSING ADANNA

NTIA, ANIEKEME ANIEKAN

AUGUSTINE NWAOKOCHA

I, formerly known and addressed as, MISS. AMAEFULE BLESSING ADANNA, now wish to be known and addressed as, MRS. MBAMARA BLESSING ADANNA. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as, ANIEKEME ANIEKAN THOMPSON, now wish to be known and addressed as, NTIA, ANIEKEME ANIEKAN. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

MRS ODIGOMMA ANNASTASIA OLEDIBE I formerly known and addressed as MISS AJONUMA ANNASTASIA ODIGOMMA now wish to be known and addressed as MRS ODIGOMMA ANNASTASIA OLEDIBE. All FORMER documents remain valid. ALVAN NYSC AND The general public take note

OBI CHIAMAKA LIVINUS

IGBOKWE ENYI NICHODEMUS

I formerly known and addressed as LYNDA CHIAMAKA LIVINUS now wish to be known as OBI CHIAMAKA LIVINUS. All FORMER documents remain valid. BANKS AND The general public take note.

I formerly known and addressed as, NICHODEMUS NNAA ENYI, NICHODEDMUS NNAMDI IGBOKWE,now wish to be known as IGBOKWE ENYI NICHODEMUS. MY CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH IS 6TH JUNE 1986. All FORMER documents remain valid. The general public take note.

I formely known and addressed as BAMIJO OLAWUYI AINA ATINUKE , now wish to be known and addressed as OLAWUYI-BAMIJO AINA ATINUKE. AL former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

MRS. EREKERE KATS EWONUBARI KEHINDE

I, formerly known and addressed as, AUSTINE NWUJU, now wish to be known and addressed as, AUGUSTINE NWAOKOCHA. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

MRS EZEAGBA NKECHI GERTUDE

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS OSSAI KENECHUKWU CHINYERE and MISS OSSAI KELECHUKWU CHINYERE now wish to be known and addressed as MRS EZE KENECHUKWU CHINYERE. All former documents remain valid.

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I Formerly known and addressed as MISS ADUNMO MONSURAT ADEOLA now wish to be known, called and addressed as MRS ADUNMO - YUSUF MONSURAT ADEOLA. All documents and certificates bearing my former names remain valid.

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I Formerly known and addressed as Nkechi Christina Okoroafor now wish to be known, called and addressed as Nkechi Assumpta Ndudirim. All documents and certificates bearing my former names remain valid. Banks, Nigeria Immigration Service, Relevant Authorities and the General public Please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS ONUORA PATRICIA CHIOMA, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS EBULU PATRICIA CHIOMA. All former documents remain valid. NYSC and General Public should please take note.

MUHAMMED BELLO

ENYIA JUSTINA UWANA I, formerly known and addressed as ENYIA JUSTINA, now wish to be known and addressed as ENYIA JUSTINA UWANA. All former documents remain valid. Banks and General Public should please take note.

OTTI RACHEAL OBIAGELIAKU I, formerly known and addressed as IBE OKONKWO OBIAGELI and OTI OBIAGELI, now wish to be known and addressed as OTTI RACHEAL OBIAGELIAKU. All former documents remain valid. General Public should please take note.

IWUANYANWU UGOCHI PROMISE I, formerly known and addressed as CHIGBO LILLIAN CHINEYE, now wish to be known and addressed as IWUANYANWU UGOCHI PROMISE. All former documents remain valid. General Public should please take note.

CHUKWUEMEKA LILIAN OGOCHUKWU I, formerly known and addressed as UMEADI LILIAN OGOCHUKWU, now wish to be known and addressed as CHUKWUEMEKA LILIAN OGOCHUKWU. All former documents remain valid. General Public should please take note.

BARUWA MUTIAT ADUNNI

I Formerly known and addressed as MISS LAPITE KEMISOLA ANUOLUWAPO MERCY now wish to be known, called and addressed as MRS ADEOMI - LAPITE KEMISOLA ANUOLUWAPO MERCY All documents and certificates bearing my former names remain valid.

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I Formerly known and addressed as Baruwa-armour Mutiat Adunni now wish to be known, called and addressed as BARUWA MUTIAT ADUNNI All documents and certificates bearing my former names remain valid. Banks, Nigeria Immigration Service, Relevant Authorities and the General public Please take note.

AGANGAN ESTHER OSEGHALE

I formerly known and addressed as OSEGHALE ESTHER IGBOMIE, now wish to be known and addressed as AGANGAN ESTHER OSEGHALE. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note

ADEYEMI KAFILAT BOLANLE I formerly known and addressed as MAKINDE BOLA RAZAQ KAFILAT , now wish to be known and addressed as ADEYEMI KAFILAT BOLANLE. All former document remain valid. General public should please note.

I formerly known and addressed as BELLO ABU, now wish to be known and addressed as MUHAMMED BELLO. All former document remain vallid. General public should please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as GRACE DIVINE, now wish to bbe known and addressed as OKOLI CHIJIOKE DIVINE. All former document remain valid.

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AKHAGBENI FRED DANTE I formerly known and addressed as FRED AKHAGBENI , now wish to be known and addressed as AKHAGBENI FRED DANTE . ( AKHAGBENI is the surname) All former document remain valid.

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PRINCESS CHINYERE ANYANWU I, formerly known and addressed as, CHINYERE TOBECHUKWU ANYANWU, now wish to be known and addressed as, PRINCESS CHINYERE ANYANWU. All former documents remain valid.

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SAMAILA BISHIR I, formerly known and addressed as, BASHIRI ISHIMAIL, now wish to be known and addressed as, SAMAILA BISHIR. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

AYODELE TEMITOPE BLESSING I, formerly known and addressed as, OLUFOWOSE OLUWAFEYIKEMI PRECIOUS, now wish to be known and addressed as, AYODELE TEMITOPE BLESSING. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

ONWA EMMANUEL OTI

ADDITION OF NAME I, INNOCENT CHIMA AGBARA, wish to add, INNOCENT, to my name which was formerly, CHIMA AGBARA. I now wish to be known and addressed as, INNOCENT CHIMA AGBARA. All former documents remain valid.

General public should take note.

OGELE ROSEMARY I, formerly known and addressed as, OGELE CLEMENTINA, now wish to be known and addressed as, OGELE ROSEMARY. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

MRS EKEJHE UCHECHI GREAT I formerly known and addressed as MISS IBE UCHECHI GREAT now wish to be known and addressed as MRS EKEJHE UCHECHI GREAT. All FORMER documents remain valid. The general public take note

OKOLI CHIJIOKE DIVINE

I, formally known and addressed as, OTI OTU ONWA, now wish to be known and addressed as, ONWA EMMANUEL OTI. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

IBEH DON-ELVIS IBEH

OKOROIKE KELECHI AUGUSTINE

I formerly known and addressed as IBE DON-ELVIS IBEGBULAM now wish to be known and addressed as IBEH DON-ELVIS IBEH. All FORMER documents remain valid. The general public take note

I formerly known and addressed as EBERE KELECHI AUGUSTINE AND OKOROIKE KELECHI OGECHI now wish to be known as OKOROIKE KELECHI AUGUSTINE AND OKOROIKE MELODY OGECHI . All FORMER documents remain valid. The general public take note.

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MRS OKORO NKEIRUKA THERESA

I formerly known and addressed as , MISS IWUNNA NKEIRUKA now wish to be known as MRS OKORO NKEIRUKA THERESA. All FORMER documents remain valid. The general public take note.

HAPPINESS OGECHI EGBOCHUE I formerly known and addressed as HAPPINESS OGECHI KELECHI NLEMEDIM now wish to be known and addressed as HAPPINESS OGECHI EGBOCHUE. All former documents remain valid. BANKS AND the general public take note

IBOKSON MERCY

SHERIFAT BOLA OLUKOYA

I, formerly known as PETER MERCY IBOKSON , now wish to be known and addressed as IBOKSON MERCY. Former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

OKWUDIRI INNOCENT UDECHUKWU I formerly known as OKWUDIRI UDEH CHUKWUDIKE wish to be known and addressed as OKWUDIRI INNOCENT UDECHUKWU and corrected date of birth is 27th October 1979. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

MRS MOPELOLA GANIYAT RABIU

I formerly known as Mrs Mopelola Ganiyat Edu wish to be known and addressed as Mrs Mopelola Ganiyat Rabiu.

All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

MRS AYO OIZA DADA

I formerly known as Miss Ayo Oiza Ogidama wish to be known and addressed as Mrs Ayo Oiza Dada .All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

FALADE SHADIAT ESTHER I formerly known and addressed as BELLO HALIMOT now wish to be known and addressed as FALADE SHADIAT ESTHER . All former documents remain valid.

General public to please take note.

ADEKOYA FAUSAT AROWOLO I formerly known and addressed as AROWOLO FAUSAT OLAYINKA now wish to be known and addressed as ADEKOYA FAUSAT AROWOLO . All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

FAUST RASHEED I formerly known and addressed as BASHIRU FAUSAT FOLASHADE now wish to be known and addressed as FAUST RASHEED . All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

BAMISILE OLUBUNMI OLARONKE

I formerly known and addressed as FEYISETAN OLUBUNMI OLARONKE now wish to be known and addressed as BAMISILE OLUBUNMI OLARONKE . All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

MRS NWAOKWU UCHECHUKWU ANTHONIA

I formally known and addressed as Miss Onwujei Uchechukwu Anthonia now wished to known and addressed as Mrs Nwaokwu Uchechukwu Anthonia. All former document remain valid. General public should take note.

Formerly SERIFAT ONI BOLA now SHERIFAT BOLA OLUKOYA . Former documents remains valid.

General public should take note.

OLAOLUWA ESTHER FUNMILOLA

I formerly known as HOVIE ESTHER FUNMILOLA wish to be known and addressed as OLAOLUWA ESTHER FUNMILOLA. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

ORJI MARYANN ONYINYE

I formerly known as Ikeriowu Onyinye Maryann wish to be known and addressed as Orji Maryann Onyinye. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

OKAFOR CHIDI LIVINUS

Formerly Okafor Chidi Now Okafor Chidi Livinus. Former documents remains valid. General public should take note.

ONYEDIKACHI OKORIE This is to notify the general public that my name was mistakenly written as Onyinyiechi Okori instead of Onyedikachi Okorie. That my correct name is Onyedikachi Okorie and my correct date of birth is 1/10/1980. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

MRS. ONODAVWERHO JOSEPHINE EDJEBAH

I formerly known as Mrs. Josephine O. Benjamin wish to be known and addressed as Mrs. Onodavwerho Josephine Edjebah. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

AGBOOLA MONSURAT OLAJUMOKE

I formerly known as AYINDE MONSURAT OLAJUMOKE wish to be known and addressed as AGBOOLA MONSURAT OLAJUMOKE. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

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MRS NWONU CELESTINA UKAMAKA I formally called, known and addressed as Miss NOMEH CELESTINA UKAMAKA, but now wishes to be called, addressed and known as Mrs NWONU CELESTINA UKAMAKA .All former documents remains valid.

General public please take note.

MRS OLUWADAYOSI MODUPE ILIBENO

I Formerly known and addressed as Abayomi Oluwadayosi Modupe. Now wishes to be addressed as Mrs Oluwadayosi Modupe ILIBENO all former documents remain valid general public should please take note.

MRS FARONBI BOLANLE TAWA I, formerly known and addressed as MISS OYEKANMI BOLANLE TAWA, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS FARONBI BOLANLE TAWA. all former documents remains valid. General public, please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as BLESSING KELVIN ORJI, now wish to be known and addressed as JOSEPHINE NMA KELVIN. all former documents remains valid. General public, please take note.

CHANGE OF NAME AND CORRECTION OF DATE OF BIRTH

AGU ADAOBI IJEOMA

JOSEPHINE NMA KELVIN

I formerly known as Akintayo Omoluabi Samuel wish to be known and addressed as Akintayo Kayode Samuel. That my date of birth was captured as 8th March, 1973 instead of 6th of March, 1973. All former documents remain valid, General public please take note.

I formerly known as Nwogu Adaobi Ijeoma wish to be known and addressed as Agu Adaobi Ijeoma . All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

KAZEEM SAKIRAT ADEOLA

GUDU DANIEL STEPHEN

I formerly known as KAZEEM SAKIRAT ADUKE wish to be known and addressed as KAZEEM SAKIRAT ADEOLA. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

I formerly known as KIKI TANKPINU DANIEL EBENEZER wish to be known and addressed as GUDU DANIEL STEPHEN. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

ADDITION OF NAME

ISAAC FUNMILAYO ABIDEMI

THIS IS TO CONFIRM THAT I, OLANIYAN OLUWATOYIN AINA THAT I AM THE SAME PERSON BEARING OLUWATOYIN OYEWUSI AINA WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESS AS OLANIYAN OLUWATOYIN AINA, that i was born on the 7th day December, 1977 at Aramoko Ekiti in Ekiti State of Nigeria. All Documents / Credentials bearing these names remain valid, general public please take note.

That I AMINU SHUAIBU YAKASAI is the same person bearing these names AMINU SHUAIBU ABDULLAH and AMINU SHUAIBU. All Documents /Credentials bearing these names remain valid, general public please take note.

That I Ogbuji John Ikechukwu my name was formerly written as Ogbuji John want to add ‘’ Ikechukwu ‘’ wish to be known and addressed as Ogbuji John Ikechukwu. All Documents /Credentials bearing these names remain valid, general public please take note.

I formerly known as ABODUNRIN FUNMILAYO ABIDEMI wish to be known and addressed as ISAAC FUNMILAYO ABIDEMI . All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

JEFFASON JONATHAN SIKWAN I formerly known and addressed as HASSAN JONATHAN now wish to be known and addressed as JEFFASON JONATHAN SIKWAN .I was born on 10/01/1996 not 10/01/1995. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

CHINKE CHIZUO BENSON

OBI FELICITAS CHINAZOM JENNIFER I formerly known and addressed as OKEKE FELICITAS CHINAZOM JENNIFER now wish to be known and addressed as OBI FELICITAS CHINAZOM JENNIFER . All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

SULAIMON OMOBOLANLE TAWAKALITU

CONFIRMATION OF NAMES

I formerly known and addressed as CHINKE BEN CHINOMSO now wish to be known and addressed as CHINKE CHIZUO BENSON . I was born on 20/08/1980 not 07/05/1986. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

OBASI UCHENNA FAITH

ADENIYI FUNMILAYO KEMI I formerly known and addressed as ROTIMI FUNMILAYO OLUWAKEMI A. now wish to be known and addressed as ADENIYI FUNMILAYO KEMI . I was born on 27/03/1987. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as OBASI UCHENNA now wish to be known and addressed as OBASI UCHENNA FAITH . All former documents remain valid.

General public to please take note.

ABDUL AMINA CESI FAVOUR I formerly known and addressed as OLORUNTOBA AMINA CESI FAVOUR now wish to be known and addressed as ABDUL AMINA CESI FAVOUR . All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as ORIADETU AFOLAKE ABIKE now wish to be known and addressed as OGUNLEYE AFOLAKEMI ABIKE . All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

OGUNLEYE AFOLAKEMI ABIKE

ADENIYI TOLUWALOPE OBAFEMI

OGUNFOWORA LUDARE I formerly known and addressed as OGUNFOWORA AZEEZ OLUDARE now wish to be known and addressed as OGUNFOWORA LUDARE . All former documents remain valid.

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I formerly known and addressed as ADENIYI TOLUWALOPE FATOBA now wish to be known and addressed as ADENIYI TOLUWALOPE OBAFEMI . All former documents remain valid.

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ADEBAYO MOPELOLA ABIKE I formerly known and addressed as as adebayo mopelola bintu. now wish to be known and addressed as adebayo mopelola abike. Date of birth. formally 2\6\1969 Now 8\3\1959, all former document remain valid general public take note.

I formerly known called and addressed as ASHIEGBU CHIBUZO OKECHUKWU. Now wish to be known called and addressed as FRANK IZOKUN. former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

FRANK IZOKUN

EMMANUEL CHINEDU CHUKWUMA I formerly known and addressed as EMMANUEL NELSON ODOH even in my BVN now wish to be known and addressed as EMMANUEL CHINEDU CHUKWUMA . All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

ONUH IBE I formerly known and addressed as ONUH FRIDAY AMEH now wish to be known and addressed as ONUH IBE . I was born on 02/02/1982. All former documents remain valid. UBA Bank and General public to please take note.

OBIOMA BRIGHT PRINCE

Formerly JOHNSON BRIGHT CHINEMEREM Now OBIOMA BRIGHT PRINCE. Former documents remains valid.

General public should take note.

IGBINOVIA CHRISTOPHER OSABOHIEN I, formerly known and addressed as CHRIS OMONOVIA, now wish to be known and addressed as IGBINOVIA CHRISTOPHER OSABOHIEN. All former documents remain valid. General public take note CHANGE OF NAME / CORRECTION OF BIRTH I formerly known as SULE OLUWANISOLA AGBAJE wish to be known and addressed as SULE JOSEPH AGBAJE. and corrected date of birth is 6th July 1985. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

UGWOKE LOVINA CHINASA

I formerly known as ODO LOVINA CHINASA wish to be known and addressed as UGWOKE LOVINA CHINASA. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

OJO SAMUEL OLABISI I formerly known and addressed as OLASUNKANMI OLABISI now wish to be known and addressed as OJO SAMUEL OLABISI . All former documents remain valid.

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I formerly known and addressed as NOSIRU OMOBOLANLE TAWAKALITU now wish to be known and addressed as SULAIMON OMOBOLANLE TAWAKALITU . All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

MRS ADELUSI EVELYN OMOBRUCHE I formerly known and addressed as MISS EDOJAH EVELYN OMOBRUCHE now wish to be known and addressed as MRS ADELUSI EVELYN OMOBRUCHE . All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

OGWU JOSEPH NKADI I formerly known and addressed as UBAKA JOSEPH NKADI now wish to be known and addressed as OGWU JOSEPH NKADI .

I was born on 20/02/1990 not 20/02/1992. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS LAURENTTA OSILAMAH EMIKE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESS AS MRS LAURENTTA EMIKE OSILAMAH IDOGHO ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID AUTHORITY CONCERN AND GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

MOJISOLA OMOLOLA I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS LAWAL MOJISOLA OMOLOLA NOW WISH TO BE CALLED AND ADDRESS AS MRS FOLAJI MOJISOLA OMOLOLA ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID AUTHORITY CONCERN AND GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

OSILAMAH IDOGHO

MARY ADEOYE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS MARY DADA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESS AS MRS. MARY ADEOYE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID; THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ADEYEYE SAKIRUDEEN ADEYINKA I formerly known and addressed as OLAWALE RASAQ LAMIWO now wish to be known and addressed as ADEYEYE SAKIRUDEEN ADEYINKA . All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SAFARU AKEEM ADIO, SAFARU AKEEM OLUSEGUN AND KAZEEM SAFARU AKEEM OLUSEGUN. NOW WISH TO BE CALLED AND ADDRESS AS KAZEEM AKEEM OLUSEGUN. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS WITH THESE NAMES REMAIN VALID AUTHORITY CONCERN AND GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

RECONCILIATION OF NAME I formerly known as IGHILE OSARUMWENSE ADEBAYO.now wish to be known called and addressed as IGHILE OSARUMWENSE AIVBIEMIGHO.ecobank and general public please take note.

ABIOLA OLULAANU

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESS AS ADEGBOLA ABIOLA OLULAANU NOW WISH TO BE CALLED AND ADDRESS AS OKANLAWON ABIOLA OLULAANU ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID AUTHORITY CONCERN AND GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I YUSUFF JAMIU ADEKUNLE HEREBY NOTIFIED THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT MY NAME WAS WRONGLY SPELT AS JAMIU YUSUF IN OTHER DOCUMENTS. HENCEFORTH I NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESS AS YUSUFF JAMIU ADEKUNLE . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID AUTHORITY CONCERN AND GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

AKEEM OLUSEGUN

KUBURA ADUFE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS LAMIDI KUBURAT ADIJAT NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESS AS MRS OLONADE KUBURA ADUFE MY DATE OF BIRTH IS 4TH MARCH 1961 ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID AUTHORITY CONCERN AND GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

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AUCTION SALES! AUCTION SALES!!

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.

THERE WILL BE AN AUCTION SALES OF SCRAP MOTORS, SCRAP TRICYCLES, SCRAP MOTORCYCLES AND HOUSEHOLD ITEMS AT THE NIGERIA POLICE, FEDERAL SPECIAL ANTI ROBBERY SQUAD (SARS) BORI ANNEX, OF THE RIVERS STATE POLICE COMMAND. AFTER 21 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. REV. RICHARD INEGBEDION - CHAIRMAN /GENERAL OVERSEER 2. PASTOR. MRS BLESSING INEGBEDION - SECRETARY 3. PASTOR ELISHA OSEMEKHIAN - MEMBER

1. ONE SCRAP NISSAN SUNNY WITHOUT REG. NO. 2. ONE SCRAP GOLF 2 EMPTY BODY VEHICLE 3. SCRAP FRONT HONDA RUBBER PLASTIC 4. ONE SCRAP TRICYCLE (KEKE) REG. NO. 926 APR. 5. FIVE SCRAP MOTORCYCLES REG. NOS. RV 70422A, KGE 552 QD, RV 5266 VD, RV 1082 CD, RV 999 NF. 6. THIRTEEN SCRAP MOTORCYCLES WITHOUT REG. NOS. 7. STEREO KENWOOD BLACK, ONE LG WOOFER, TWO LG STANDING SPEAKERS, ONE AIR-CONDITIONER, 14INCHES LG FLAT TV, STANDING FAN. 8. RUBBER & HUST, TWO WHEELBARROWS, EIGHT (8) SET OF CHAIRS, THREE CYLINDER GAS AND TWO CABAD BOTTLE, FIVE (5) BIG FOAMS, SIX (6) SMALL FOAMS, THREE (3) MEDIUM FOAMS. 9. AND OTHER HOUSEHOLD ITEMS.

THE 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, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: KINGSLEY Ô. OBUE, ESQ

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MUHAMMAD MUSTAPHA AL BADAWI CHAIRMAN 2. MUHAMMAD SANI ABDULLAH 3. GONIRI LMAM BAKURA 4. ISA ABUBAKAR 5. ADULLAHI MOHAMMED SANI 6. LAWAN DAUDA MOHAMMED 7. BINTA LAWAN KURU 8.YUSUF AISHA ALHAJI 9. IBRAHIM ADAMA MOHAMMED 10. AISHA ALKALI IBRAHIM SECRETARY THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO HELP THE LESS PRIVILEGE IN THE SOCIETY ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: SECRETARY

FLAMES OF FIRE ENDTIME ARMY DELIVERANCE APOSTOLIC INTERNATIONAL MINISTRY

SIGNED: ALH. UBALLO DANU AUCTIONEER

FADAKA OLUFUNKE FOUNDATION

CHAPEL OF HIS APOSTLES INT’L

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 NO. 1 OF 1990.

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. FADAKA OLUFUNKE ABIOYE 2. ADETU OMOTAYO MICHAEL

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1) MR ALADELOKUN OLUMIDE FEMI. 2) MRS ALADELOKUN MARY FAYOKE. 3) MRS. OMOYENI OGUNDIPE ESTHER 4) SOBOWALE HENRY OLUMIDE 5) ALAGHA TEJUMADE ADETUTU

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF GIRLS/WOMEN BY BUILDING THEIR CAPACITIES THROUGH TRAININGS ON LIFE SKILLS AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT. 2. ELICITING WOMEN’S VIEWS ON ISSUES OF GLOBAL AND KEY CONCERNS WITH EFFECTIVE VOICE TO CREATE OPPORTUNITY FOR GLOBAL PARTICIPATION AND RESPONSES TO ISSUES OF DOMESTIC, COMMERCIAL, NATIONAL AND GLOBAL CONCERNS. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, P.M.B 198, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN TWENTY-EIGHT (28) DAYS FROM THE DAY OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: CHIOMA OYIGBO

THE KING’S SEEDS BIBLE CLUB

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION MAITAMA ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: SECRETARY

CHRIST CARING UNDALISHAMA AND SALVATION INTERNATIONAL 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.

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ELABOR MATHEW 2. ELABOR NNE

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MRS ROSEMARY OKONTA - CHAIRPERSON 2. PASTOR ( MRS ) NGOZI NLEKWUWA 3. CHIEDU OKONTA 4. MRS UDUAK OSARO

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. EDE, PRISCA UNDALISHAMA PHILOMINA 2. EDE, EMMANUEL OGAR

AIMS & OBJECTIVES: 1. TO RAISE UP END-TIME REVIVAL OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST THROUGH PREACHING, TEACHING AND EQUIPPING THE SAINTS OF GOD FOR AN ENDTIME HARVEST. 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

LEKKI ATLANTIC GARDENS RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION ALABEKO LEKKI PENINSULA

AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. USING THE SCRIPTURE TO PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: BARR. AUSTIN U. NWAROH 0803788105

PEACE AND FAITHLINE REFORMATION 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 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. LAWRENCE EKANEM JOHN. 2. JIBIRIN-YARO PATRICIA NKENDILIN. 3. MBAMALU AMALA EBENEZER. 4. OFFORBUIKE UBA GODWIN. 5. SALUTA EVANS ONORIODE. 6. ALI KAWU. 7. JACOB PHILIP JOLLY. 8. SOGBOLA SOLOMON OLUFISAYO.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MADUKA SUNNY OBY 2. MADUKA PRISCILIA SWANTA 3. MADUKA AMARACHI PEACE MBANG-ALIA.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROMOTE UNITY AND PEACE AMONGST THE RESIDENTS 2. TO ENSURE SAFETY OF LIVE AND PROPERTIES OF RESIDENTS 3. TO PROMOTE SANITATION AND POLICIES THAT WILL PRESERVE THE BEAUTY OF THE ESTATE. 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: CHIMA AGBARA ESQ. C N AGBARA AND ASSOCIATES. 19 EMMANUEL KESHI STREET, MAGODO LAGOS.

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1.

AGUEGBODO MICHEAL CHIBUIKE 2.

2.UDENKA GEORGE CHUKWUEMEKA 3.

ONWUKA ALEXANDER AZUKA 4.

ORADIWE FRANK IKEMEFUNA 5.

5.ILOBA HELEN NKIRU 6.

EGWIM CHRISTY IFEOMA 7.

UKWUBUAKU RAYMOND EMEKA 8.

JOY IFEONYE 9.

ISAMA JOY 10.

OKEDIGWE KINGSLEY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO BRING ALL RESTAURANTS AND BAR OPERATORS TOGETHER 2. TO UNITE ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION AS AN INDIVISIBLE ENTITY ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, MAITAMA, ABUJA. SIGNED: SECRETARY

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROMOTE PEACE, QUALITY LEADERSHIP, ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT, SCHOLARSHIPS SOCIAL ENLIGHTENMENT AND YOUTH INTERVENTION PROGRAMMES. 2. TO PROMOTE ADVOCACY AGAINST RIGHTS ABUSES AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION. 3. TO RAISE SUPPORT FOR VICTIMS OF NATURAL DISASTERS AND POVERTY ALLITIATION. 4. TO ORGANIZE SEMINERS AND PROGRAMMES ON FINANCIAL, POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS LITERACY. 5. TO PROVIDE SHELTER FOR ORPHANS AND LESS PRIVILEGE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY, RENDER HUMANITARIAN SUPPORT. 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

LITTLE ACORNS ESTATE MOSQUE FOUNDATION

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO BUILD A REHABILITATION HOME, SCHOOL, HOSPITAL FARMS AND SKILL ACQUISITION CENTER FOR ALL. 2. TO ERADICATE POVERTY FROM OUR COUNTRY 3. TO VISIT THE SICK, TOUCH THE DYING, THE POOR, THE LONELY AND THE UNWANTED ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

APOTIERIOLUWA FOUNDATION

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

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OLUWAMUYIWA OMOLADE FAITH 2. ODUYEMI ALICE IYABO 3. MOSES TUNDE OLUWALOSE

AIMS AND OBJECTIVE TO FEED THE HUNGRY, CLOTHE THE NAKED AND SHELTER THE POOR. 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. PRESENTED BY, CHRIS EZENWA UGWOKE, ESQ, 08023202212

PEOPLE’S EQUALIZATION INITIATIVE

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

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

NAMES OF THE TRUSTEES: (1)ADEOTI KAMALDEEN DEBO (CHAIRMAN) (2) SAYYADI SANI (SECRETARY ) (3) ABDULRAHIM ABDULLAHI IMAM (4)BALA BABAMA’AJI (5) MUSA USMAN.

TRUSTEES: 1. FRIDAY, MATHIAS OGWUCHE CHAIRMAN 2. ANYEBE, CHRISTIANA JUMMAI SECRETARY

AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO ASSIST THE MUSLIM WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN THE SOCIETY ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: BARR. RAFAT MOHAMMED. ESQ.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROMOTE THE ALLEVIATION OF POVERTY BY BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN THE RICH AND THE POOR 2. TO IMPROVE AND STRENGTHEN SKILLS ACQUISITION AMONGST THE YOUTH AND OTHER DISADVANTAGED MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY. 3. TO PROMOTE AND SUPPORT ANY OTHER ECONOMIC ACTIVITY CAPABLE OF IMPROVING THE LIVING STANDARDS OF MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY. MEMBERSHIP: 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.

SIGNED: BARR. EBELECHUKWU MMO

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MOORE IKENNA UDECHUKWU

OWOJORI ESTHER AYODELE

TAJUDEEN SODIQ OMOTAYO

ADODO RICHARD

AFOLAMI TAIWO OMOWUNMI

MRS ADEYIPO ABIOLA OLUWAYEMISI

Formerly known and addressed as AFOLAMI TAIWO MOJISOLA, now wish to be known and addressed as AFOLAMI TAIWO OMOWUNMI. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as MISS ATOYEBI ABIOLA OLUWAYEMISI, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS ADEYIPO ABIOLA OLUWAYEMISI. All former documents remain valid. BANKS and the general public take note.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

FUNMIKE ABAYOMI FAWOLE OLAWUYI

Formerly known and addressed as COLLINS MOORE UDECHUKWU, now wish to be known and addressed as MOORE IKENNA UDECHUKWU. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as ADEOSUN ESTHER AYO, now wish to be known and addressed as OWOJORI ESTHER AYODELE. All former documents remain valid.

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BOLAJI OLUWATOYIN VICTORIA

MRS. UDE MAUREEN NWANNE

NWIAYU UCHE JOSEPH

Formerly known and addressed as DADA OLUWATOYIN VICTORIA, now wish to be known and addressed as BOLAJI OLUWATOYIN VICTORIA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as MISS. KALU NWANNE DIKE, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. UDE MAUREEN NWANNE. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as AUSTIN ONYEJIEKWE, now wish to be known and addressed as NWIAYU UCHE JOSEPH. All former documents remain valid.

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I, formerly known and addressed as ARANSIOLA IBUKUNOLUWA OLUWAPELUMI now wish to be known and addressed as ARANSIOLA BLESSING OLUWAPELUMI. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

This is to certify that MRS OLANIYI YEMISI BUNMI, MRS OLANIYI OLUYEMISI OLUBUNMI and MRS OLANIYI YEMISI BUNMI refers to one and same person but now wish to be known and addressed as MRS OLANIYI YEMISI BUNMI. All former

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

ADENIYI JUMOKE PAULINA

BISONG OBI JUDE

CORRECTION OF NAME

Formerly known and addressed as SALAU JUMOKE PAULINA, now wish to be known and addressed as ADENIYI JUMOKE PAULINA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

SONTAN OMOSALEWA BOLANLE Formerly known and addressed as OGINNI OMOSALEWA BOLANLE, now wish to be known and addressed as SONTAN OMOSALEWA BOLANLE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as OBI JUDE PRINCE, now wish to be known and addressed as BISONG OBI JUDE. All former documents remain valid.

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CORRECTION OF NAME

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

This is to inform the general public that my name was wrongly written as ADEYINKA AMOKE OLUWATOYIN instead of LAWAL ADEYINKA OLUWATOYIN. That my correct name is LAWAL ADEYINKA OLUWATOYIN. All former documents remain valid.

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OGBAJI AUGUSTINE ADOGA

This is to certify that MRS OLANIYI YEMISI BUNMI, MRS OLANIYI OLUYEMISI OLUBUNMI and MRS OLANIYI YEMISI BUNMI refers to one and same person but now wish to be known and addressed as MRS OLANIYI YEMISI BUNMI. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as ADUMA AUGUSTINE ADOGA, now wish to be known and addressed as OGBAJI AUGUSTINE ADOGA. All former documents remain valid.

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ADEROUNMU TEMITOPE FATAI Formerly known and addressed as ADEROUNMU TEMITOPE A, now wish to be known and addressed as ADEROUNMU TEMITOPE FATAI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

MRS OLORUNFEMI ARAMIDE OMOLARA Formerly known and addressed as MISS OMOGOROYE ARAMIDE OMOLARA, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS OLORUNFEMI ARAMIDE OMOLARA. All former documents remain valid.

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SHUAIBU HASSAN BIO

NJOKU CHIJIOKE SHEDRACK

ALEBIOSU ALIMOT ANIKE

NWALI ARINZE PETER

certify that MARIAM OLADELE is same person as MARIAM IYABO OLADELE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

MRS. OGBARA, MIRACLE ONYEYIRICHUKWU

Formerly known and addressed as ADETAYO SODIQ ISHOLA, now wish to be known and addressed as TAJUDEEN SODIQ OMOTAYO. All former documents remain valid.

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I, formerly called and addressed as MISS. EMEH, MIRACLE ONYEYIRICHUKWU. now wish to be known called and addressed as MRS. OGBARA, MIRACLE ONYEYIRICHUKWU. All former documents remain valid. The general public please take note.

I, formerly called and addressed as SHUAIBU UMARU BIO now wish to be known called and addressed as SHUAIBU HASSAN BIO All former documents remain valid.

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I, formerly called and addressed as NJOKU CHIDI now wish to be known called and addressed as NJOKU CHIJIOKE SHEDRACK. All former documents remain valid. The general public please take note.

KOLAWOLE-ESAN REBBECCA OLUWAYEMISI

ADEPOJU TOLULOPE FAYOKE

ADELEKE BARAKAT ADEBIMPE

Formerly known and addressed as ESAN OLUWAYEMISI KIKELOMO, now wish to be known and addressed as KOLAWOLEESAN REBBECCA OLUWAYEMISI. All former documents remain valid.

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DUKE JANNETH AYODELE

Formerly known and addressed as AFENIFORO TOLULOPE FAYOKE, now wish to be known and addressed as ADEPOJU TOLULOPE FAYOKE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

BRAIMOH TAIWO AWAWU

Formerly known and addressed as LAWAL BARAKAT ADEBIMPE, now wish to be known and addressed as ADELEKE BARAKAT ADEBIMPE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

CORRECTION OF NAME

Formerly known and addressed as DAVID MAWULE, now wish to be known and addressed as ADODO RICHARD. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

ARANSIOLA BLESSING OLUWAPELUMI

Formerly known and addressed as MEMUDU SADIA ANIKE, now wish to be known and addressed as ALEBIOSU ALIMOT ANIKE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

AGBELESE-JOHNSON FOLASHADE Formerly known and addressed as ADEJUMO FOLASHADE HELEN, now wish to be known and addressed as AGBELESEJOHNSON FOLASHADE HELEN. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

This is to inform the general public that my name was wrongly written as MUHAMMED ABDULLAHI MUSA instead of MUHAMMED ABDULLHI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as FUNMIKE ABAYOMI FAWOLE, now wish to be known and addressed as FUNMIKE ABAYOMI FAWOLE OLAWUYI. All former documents remain valid. BANKS and the general public take note.

ABDULLAHI RAMON AKANBI

Formerly known and addressed as ABDULLAH RAMONI, now wish to be known and addressed as ABDULLAHI RAMON AKANBI. That my date of birth is 25.01.1958.All former documents remain valid. BANKS and the general public take note.

ISAH SALIMOTA LARAPE Formerly known and addressed as MISS AJADI SALIMOTA LARAPE, now wish to be known and addressed as ISAH SALIMOTA LARAPE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

MUYIWA AND RUTH PETERS

Formerly known and addressed as NWALI ARINZE ONUIGBO, now wish to be known and addressed as NWALI ARINZE PETER. All former documents remain valid.

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We formerly known and addressed as MUYIWA and RUTH OGUNMODEDE, now wish to be known and addressed as MUYIWA and RUTH PETERS. All former documents remain valid.

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OLAOLUWA OLAYINKA DANIEL

This is to inform the general public that my name was wrongly written as OREBA JACOB CHINEME instead of OREBA OKWUDIRI ISAIAH. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as ODUEKO ODUYINKA SUNDAY, now wish to be known and addressed as OLAOLUWA OLAYINKA DANIEL. All former documents remain valid.

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OGAH GRACE OMARIE

TIJANI FATIMAT JUMOKE

AYINLA BISOLA AISHAT Formerly known and addressed as AYINLA AYISATU AFUSATU, now wish to be known and addressed as AYINLA BISOLA AISHAT. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as OLANREWAJU TAIWO AWAWU and RAJI TAIWO AWAWU, now wish to be known and addressed as BRAIMOH TAIWO AWAWU. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

This is to inform the general public that my name was wrongly written as JONAH DANIEL on my BVN instead of YOHANA DANIEL. My correct name is YOHANA DANIEL. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

MRS ATINUKE SHAKIRAH FARI -AWAIYE

MRS MOTOLANI JADESOLA FATUNGASE

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

MRS. ADEKUNRUN OMOLARA

OGUGUA RITA CHIUGO

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CHIGOZIE REJOICE is the same person as ANI CHIGOZIE. Henceforth I wish to be known and addressed as NWAMADI CHIGOZIE REJOICE. All documents bearing these names remain valid and should be treated as one person. GT Bank and the general public take note

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I, Formerly known and addressed as Miss Atinuke Shakirah Fari now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs Atinuke Shakirah Fari -Awaiye. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

AKINWUNMI DAMILARE FOLORUNSHO

ADEOSUN OLUDOTUN FESTUS

IKECHUKWU IRENE NKIRUKA

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

I, formerly known and addressed as SANYAOLU MBA YETUNDE REBECCA, now wish to be known, called and addressed as MBA YETUNDE REBECCA. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

This is to confirm that, ABDULRAHEEM TAOFIQAT OLUWAFUNMILAYO and RAHEEM TAOFIQAT OLUWAFUNMILAYO refer to one and same person.

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I, formerly known and addressed as ADEOSHUN OLUDOTUN BABATUNDE, Now wish to be known and addressed as ADEOSUN OLUDOTUN FESTUS. All former documents remain valid. General public/authorities concerned should take note.

Formerly known and addressed as UMEIBE IRENE NKIRUKA, now wish to be known and addressed as IKECHUKWU IRENE NKIRUKA. All former documents remain valid.

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This is to confirm and certify that APATA TITILAYO FUNKE is one and same person bearing ADEBOLA FUNKE TITILAYO. All relevant documents bearing both names remain valid and should be honoured. General public take note.

MRS. CHRISTIAN PEACE NNEKA

AKINTAYO BABATUNDE AKINWALE

MAMUDA RAKIYA

ADENIRAN ROTIMI OMOTUNDE

OLUWAMAYOWA BOLAKUNMI WILLIAMSA

MRS BENEDICT STELLA CHIDI

MBA YETUNDE REBECCA

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS NNEKA EUNICE OMENYI, now wish to be known, called and addressed as MRS. CHRISTIAN PEACE NNEKA. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as AKINTAYO BABATUNDE DOKUN, now wish to be known, called and addressed as AKINTAYO BABATUNDE AKINWALE. All documents bearing my former names remain valid.

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I, formerly known and addressed as ADENIRAN MORENIKEJI OMOTUNDE, Now wish to be known and addressed as ADENIRAN ROTIMI OMOTUNDE. All former documents remain valid. General public/authorities concerned should take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as Oluwamayowa Bolakunmi Role now wish to be known and addressed as Oluwamayowa Bolakunmi Williams. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as ORJI STELLA CHIDI, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS BENEDICT STELLA CHIDI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

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How ex- FCT Minister Bala’s son spent N1bn on properties –Witness Andrew Orolua, Abuja

defendant (Samsudeen) in the cause of investigation against the former Minister.

The witness said it was in the cause of investigation that the EFCC received additional information concerning the changes of properties by the defendants.

He said, “Intelligence report showed that the 1st defendant acquired several properties within FCT. The intelligence received showed that Samsudeen purchased properties using companies such as Diakin Telecommunications Ltd, Balvac Mining Nig Ltd and Inter-trans Logistics Global Nig Ltd which are owned by him.”

Daudu said EFCC’s investigation was extended to Abuja Investment Development Company Ltd a company solely owned by FCT and whose

General Manager, Dr Musa, and company secretary, Salisu Abdulsalam, have confirmed that the 1st defendant purchased properties from the company.

The witness further said, “He bought two properties from AIDC located at Apo area of Abuja; another property purchased is located at No. 7 Gana street Maitama, where he brought N210million cash in company of a lady by name, Maimuna Sanda. Together they took the money (cash) to the developer Farouk Saleh.

“Another property purchased is at Sunrise Hill Estate Asokoro, where the 1st defendant made cash lodgement of N80million, for two plots of land to the then Managing Director of the company (Sam Abou Gaounde) a

115 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and other vulnerable children have been granted scholarship by the wife of the Bauchi State Governor, Hajia Hadiza Mohammed Abubakar, to acquire formal education in various schools in the state.

Speaking while flagging off the scholarship award on Thursday at the banquet hall of the Bauchi Government House, the Governor’s wife explained that the scholar-

ship was sponsored by her pet project, ‘Bauchi Sustainable Women Economic Empowerment and Peace Initiative (BSWEEP).

According to the wife of the governor, the scholarship covers the payment of registration fees, purchase of uniforms, bags, text books and exercise books for the beneficiaries, calling on the other Non-Governmental Organisations and philanthropists to support her project in promoting education in the state “as the burden are enormous”.

In a remark, the Coordinator of BSWEEP, Professor Dije Bala, said the NGO was established by Hajiya Abubakar with the set goal of assisting less privileged women and promoting girl child education in the state.

The coordinator while pointing out that the organisation had identified about 6, 000 children who dropped out of school across the state due to poverty and other social problems, said BSWEEP was partnering with UNESCO to re-enroll them back to school.

MICHEAL DAVID ADEMOLA

AFOLAYAN RAZAQ TOLANI

SAKA TAWAKALIT

I, formerly known and addressed as AIYELADE DAVID, now wish to be known, called and addressed as MICHEAL DAVID ADEMOLA. All documents bearing my former names remain valid.

General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as AFOLARIN ADESANYA RAZAQ TOLANI, now wish to be known, called and addressed as AFOLAYAN RAZAQ TOLANI. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as TAIWO AJOKE, now wish to be known, called and addressed as SAKA TAWAKALIT. That I was born on the 1st day of January, 1976.

All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

MICHEAL DAVID ADEMOLA I, formerly known and addressed as AIYELADE DAVID, now wish to be known, called and addressed as MICHEAL DAVID ADEMOLA. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

OLAWOYE. ONO ROSEMARY

MRS. CHIGBU NGOZI PRECIOUS

I, formerly known and addressed as AKHIMIE ONOWOSEMEHAMEN ROSEMARY, now wish to be known, called and addressed as OLAWOYE ONO ROSEMARY. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS NNOROM NGOZI PRECIOUS, now wish to be known, called and addressed as MRS. CHIGBU NGOZI PRECIOUS. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

OLAWOYE. ONO ROSEMARY

AFOLAYAN RAZAQ TOLANI

TALIAT ABDUL TAOFEEK

I, formerly known and addressed as AKHIMIE ONOWOSEMEHAMEN ROSEMARY, now wish to be known, called and addressed as OLAWOYE. ONO ROSEMARY. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as AFOLARIN ADESANYA RAZAQ TOLANI, now wish to be known, called and addressed as AFOLAYAN RAZAQ TOLANI. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

CHANGE OF NAME/DATE OF BIRTH

MRS. YUSUF JULIANA ABIDEMI

I, formerly known and addressed as KUDIRAT TOYIN LAWAL, now wish to be known, called and addressed as KUDIRAT TOYIN SHODEINDE. That my correct date of birth is 5th day of August, 1970 and not 5th day of August, 1975. That my new date of birth is 5th day of August, 1970. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS IBIGBAMI JULIANA ABIDEMI, now wish to be known, called and addressed as MRS. YUSUF JULIANA ABIDEMI. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

ÏÏÏAn operative with the

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and prosecution witness, Ishaya Daudu, on Thursday gave graphic details of how Samsudeen, son of former Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Mohammed, spent over N1billion to acquire properties in Abuja.

The witness opened the case of EFCC against Shamsudeen who was re-arraigned on May 30, 2017 by the Federal Government on a 15-count charge before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court in Abuja.

Led in evidence in chief by the prosecuting lawyer, Ben Ikanni, the witness said he came to know about the 1st

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We ‘ll resist attempt to extend tenure of NDDC Board –Concerned Niger Deltans Francesca Iwambe- Abuja

beginning from the time of its inception; Nabena said,” Accordingly, these positions have rotated between member states from inception. “ The first Board of the commission was chaired by Chief Onyeama Ugochukwu from Abia State from 20002004.

The Managing Director Mr. G.E Omena was from Delta State, Omega was however removed from office before the expiration of his tenure. Hon. Emmanuel Agwariavwodo from Delta State was appointed as managing Director to serve out the un-expired tenure of Omena ( from the same state). In fulfilment of section 5(3) of the NDDC Act 2000. “ The chairman of the Board started in Abia State, moved to Akwa Ibom, to Bayelsa State and now Cross River State. The Managing Director started with Delta State, to Rivers State and to Akwa Ibom. Delta State was reappointed according to S3(1).

The Concern Niger Deltans further appeal to those concern to in the interest of peace correct the anomaly in order to ensure that adverse impact is not created to the State that is next in line to benefit from the rotation.

Lebanese. Afterwards, the 1st defendant contracted A & K Construction Company Ltd to build the said property.

The witness said the 1st defendant made a cash lodgement of N100million to Sunrise Hill in error, but the money was later transferred to Zenith Bank account of A & K Construction Company.

He also said, “Again, he made cash lodgement of N110million as well as another N210m. All these lodgements were made in the name of a company known as Birdtrust Agro-allied Ltd. The last time he made cash lodgement to A & K was N296m. At this point, the defendant transferred all his interests to a company called Inter-trans Global Logistics Ltd. All these lodgements were receipted by A & K Construction Ltd. After gathering these information from the defendant, a search warrant was secured which was executed in his house at No. 1 Embu street Wuse 2 Abuja.

The 1st defendant was taken to our office where he voluntarily made statement under word of caution. An asset declaration form was given to

ÏÏÏWorried by the alleged

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

BRENDA-ANN SEIBIDOR

That on my GTBank Account, my name appears as ADEGBOYEGAADEYEMI MORUFU, while on my National Identity Card, it appears as ADEGBOYEGA YEMI JEJEMURP. That I am the one bearing both names mentioned above.

That all documents bearing both names are mine and remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as BARBARAANN SEIBIDOR now wish to be known and addressed as BRENDAANN SEIBIDOR. All former documents remain valid.

General public should please take note.

MRS TAIWO OLUWAGBOTEMI MERCY I, formerly known and addressed as Miss ILESANMI Oluwagbotemi Mercy now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs Taiwo Oluwagbotemi Mercy. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

SEMIU JAMES OLUSUKANMI

MRS OKONKWO NNEBUE OBIAGELI MARYANN

AKINWALE OLUWASEUN MICHEAL

That I, SEMIU JAMES OLUSUKANMI who hails from Iperu in Ogun State of Nigeria is the lawful owner of Nigerian International Passport with No. A02762505 which is the only International Passport I own and I am a Nigerian Citizen by birth.

General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

planned moves by some group of persons to extend the tenure of the board of directors in the Niger Delta Development Commission,NDDC, the concerned Niger Delta youths have vowed to resist the attempt saying, it will disrupt the rotation process that has been there since its inception.

In a protest letter titled “ Extension of Tenure of OutGoing NDDC Board- A Protest” signed by Yekini Nabena and exclusively obtained by The Daily Times, the group said that extending the tenure of the Board members will have a very negative impact to the next State in line that is bill to benefit from the rotation process.

Citing the provisions of the NDDC Act 2000 particularly Sections 12 of the Act, the concerned Niger Deltans maintained that the positions of the board members have been rotating from inception and that anything contrary to that will be in breach of the enacted Act. While giving a brief break down of how positions in the NDDC office were shared

I,formerly known and addressed as Miss NNEBUE OBIAGELI MARYANN now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs OKONKWO NNEBUE OBIAGELI MARYANN. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as AKINWALE IBRAHIM OLUWASEUN now wish to be known and addressed as AKINWALE OLUWASEUN MICHEAL. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

ODIMEGWU PHILIPENA NKECHI

ADDITIONAL OF NAME

I, formerly known and addressed as NWIKWU PHILIPENA NKECHI and NWIKWU PHILIPA NKECHI, now wish to be known, called and addressed as ODIMEGWU PHILIPENA NKECHI. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I am OSAWE ROSE and also OSAWE ROSE IMARUAGHERU. That OSAWE ROSE should be change to OSAWE ROSE IMARUAGHERU. General public and authority concern please take note

I, formerly known and addressed as FAPOHUNDA MARY ABIOLA OLAJIRE MARY ABIOLA, now wish to be known, called and addressed as ADEOYE MARY ABIOLA. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

MBAMARA KYRIAN EJIKE

ADEOYE MARY ABIOLA

OKAFOR NAOMI CHINEMEREM

UZUAZO-ODUEME MODUPE RHODA

I, formerly known and addressed as ABDUL ABIDEMI TAOFEEK, now wish to be known, called and addressed as TALIAT ABDUL TAOFEEK. All documents bearing my former names remain valid.

General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as BON KYRIAN EJIKE, now wish to be known, called and addressed as MBAMARA KYRIAN EJIKE. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as OMERE NAOMI CHINEMEREM, now wish to be known, called and addressed as OKAFOR NAOMI CHINEMEREM. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

Formerly known and addressed as OLUBIYO MODUPE RHODA, now wish to be known, called and addressed as UZUAZOODUEME MODUPE RHODA. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

ADENUGBA SOLOMON OLUWATOSIN

AYODELE OLUWAGBEMIGA ADESOLA

BABARINDE HANNA ADEJOKE

MRS. EMONISAIYE YEMISI MERCY

I, formerly known and addressed as SOLOMON OLUWATOSIN, now wish to be known, called and addressed as ADENUGBA SOLOMON OLUWATOSIN. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as AYODELE ADESOLA OLUWAGBEMIGA, Now wish to be known and addressed as AYODELE OLUWAGBEMIGA ADESOLA. All former documents remain valid. General public/ authorities concerned should take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as BAMBI ADEJOKE OLADEHINDE HANNA, now wish to be known, called and addressed as BABARINDE HANNA ADEJOKE. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS AMUPITAN YEMISI MERCY, now wish to be known, called and addressed as MRS. EMONISAIYE YEMISI MERCY. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

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Daily Times Nigeria Friday, November 10, 2017

Adamawa flags off mass distribution of LLINs in 21 LGAs Abiodun Taiwo, Abeokuta

ÏÏÏ Adamawa State Gov-

ernment has started the mass distribution of free mosquito nets across the 21 local government areas of the state.

Minister of Health, Prof.

Isaac Adewole, who flagged off the programme in Yola, said 13 million Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLINs) would be distributed to six selected states including Adamawa.

According to him, 2.5 million nets would be distributed to all communities in the 21 LGA in the state.

Represented, Mr. Audu Bala, the National Coordinator, National Malaria Elimination Programme, said the flag off signifies a major leap in scaling up the fight against malaria in the state.

He noted that Nigeria has continued to record appreciable progress in malaria control and elimination efforts with indicator showing 27 per cent drooped from 42 per cent.

Ms Rebecca Bassey, the Country Representative of Catholic Relief Services (CRS), said the historic event would result in the state meeting the WHO guidelines of one bed net for every two persons living in the state.

Earlier, Dr. Fatima Atiku, the state Commissioner for Health, reaffirmed the state’s commitment to partner with stakeholders in containing malaria.

She said malaria is a killer disease, while the nets are meant to protect people from contacting malaria from mosquito bites.

FG set to to approve 3 modular refineries in Edo – Kachikwu

By Titus Akhigbe, Benin

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As business leaders storm Benin City, the Edo State capital, today, for the Alaghodaro Investment Summit, Minister of State Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, on Thursday, in Benin City, said the Federal Government is already processing applications received for the establishment of seven modular refineries in the state.

He said three of the applications have reached the approval stage.

Kachikwu disclosed this during the Stakeholders’ Engagement and Enlight-

.Processing 4 more enment Campaign in Niger Delta states, organised by the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources in collaboration with the Edo State Government, held in Benin City.

The event is part of a series of activities heralding the Alaghodaro Investment Summit, which kicks off at the Edo Hotel, Okada Avenue, Benin City, and will play host to the crème of the business community across the globe.

Kachikwu said the Federal Government was working to bring development to the

Niger Delta region through the Modular Refineries Initiative, Gas Flare Commercialisation programme and collaboration with oilproducing states on the Amnesty programme.

He said the establishment of modular refineries is driven by the private sector, adding that designs, analysis and engineering work for three of the refineries have been done.

Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Pastor Usani Uguru Usani, said the meeting was to sensitise the people on Federal Government’s

on-going initiatives in the region after earlier visits to the region.

Usani said the Federal Government was reviewing the Amnesty programme to capture those who were not included earlier in the scheme.

Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, said the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has not lived up to its duties, noting that the commission has failed to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the state on the reconstruction of the BeninAbraka Express Road.

019: Igbo youths endorse Ezeakor to vie for presidency 2Charles Onyekwere Enugu

ÏÏÏ Participants at a youth

summit which ended in Enugu on Thursday with one voice have endorsed Mr. Iheanacho Ezeakor to contest for the 2019 presidency.

Although it was still unclear whether Iheanacho would accept or the political platform he would use, the youths, at the summit, said the elderly had failed in leadership positions.

While unanimously adopting Ezeakor for the 2019 presidency, the youth summit in their communique signed by Maryann Chukwuka, Alhaji Haruna and Lawrence Ozifo respectively, obtained by The Daily Times, said: “We have keenly followed Nigerian politics for decades and we come to the conclusion that our fathers have failed in giving us the much expected hope.

“We have been hearing that the future belongs to the youths, but this has gone on for decades and all we see is recycling of old politicians.

Some of them will rule in military uniform, remove the uniform and come back as civilian presidents.

“After extensive discussions today, in line with the ‘Not too young to run bill’, we declare that enough is enough; we declare that the

Nigerian youths will no longer fold our arms.

“As Igbo youths, our collective decision today is to that we will no longer continue for Biafra agitation, but work to see that one of us becomes the President of Nigeria in 2019.

“We, hereby, today endorse one of us, Mr. Iheanacho Ezeakor as our candidate for the 2019 presidential election.

“We shall immediately resume consultations, and in the next couple of days, we shall decide the platform through which this our-collective ambition will be resolved. May we make it clear that this is a project by the entire Nigerian youths.”

An elated Ezeakor, who had convened the summit for the Nigerian youths to brainstorm for the way forward in the country, said he was humbled by the decision of his fellow youths.

The communique while lamenting the worrisome state of affairs in the country, stated that “the future will indeed belong to the youths if they believe in themselves and take up their destiny in their own hands.”

While blaming Nigeria’s problems on inability to think and poor level of consideration, he said “we should not wait forever to get solutions from government; we need to find solutions.

Cross-section of indigenous contractors, during a peaceful protest demanding the payment of their contract fund since 2015, at the entrance of the Ministry of Finance in Abuja... on Thursday.

Photo: TEMITOPE BALOGUN.

Aviation stakeholders list factors militating against growth of sector Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo

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Stakeholders and professionals in the Nigerian aviation industry have identified infrastructure challenges and policy summersaults by the government as some of the major factors militating against growth in the sector.

The stakeholders also said that for the country’s aviation industry to grow to international standards, good corporate governance without political interference must be entrenched in the system, saying that without this, the sector would continue to lag behind in the scheme of things.

Speaking at a one-day conference with the theme:

‘Nigerian Aviation Infrastructure: Development and Challenges,’ organised by the Aviation Round Table (ART) on Thursday in Lagos, Dr. Harold Demuren, the former Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), said aviation industry would continue to play major roles in the development of Nigeria.

Demuren observed that with the huge population and the placement of Nigeria, the nation’s airports should be a hub for Africa, but wondered why the indigenous airlines were failing while others operating into the country were flourishing.

According to him, Nigeria was lacking in aerospace and ground based infrastructure,

noting that no company in Nigeria manufactures any component of aircraft, build aircraft engine, adequate training facilities and aircraft maintenance hangar.

Demuren lamented that the Cape Town Convention, which creates room for easier acquisition of new aircraft by airlines had failed in Nigeria despite its importance to the airline sub-sector on the continent.

He observed that airlines are key in infrastructure development, but maintained that for the country’s airlines to be profitable, they must be strong and form a united entity.

He insisted that the country’s airlines require bailout funds for them to remain

afloat in business and declared that the American Government bailed out its airlines immediately after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, while Air France got such gesture in the past from the French Government.

Also, Mr. Nick Fadugba, the former Secretary General of African Airlines Association (AFRAA), who also doubled as the Chairman of the occasion, said that air transport could unlock the economic potential in Africa if it was implemented with good corporate governance.

For Nigeria’s airlines to be profitable, he canvassed for the nation’s carriers to form a joint venture, stressing that the era of doing it alone was gone.

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Gov Ganduje to complete NDLEA rehabilitation centre Yakubu Salisu, Kano

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L-R: Chief Executive, Stanbic IBTC Bank, Dr. Demola Sogunle; Oragun of Oke-Ila, Oba Adedokun Abolarin and Vice Chancellor, University of Ibadan, Prof, Abel Olayinka, at the opening ceremony of the 2nd edition of the UI Research & Development Fair in Ibadan, Oyo State… on Wednesday.

Ngige leads quest for reform of ILO laws

By Idu Jude Abuja

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Following strong leadership provided by Nigeria, Africa has won the long quest for the removal of the vestiges of imperialism in the conduct of the affairs of the Governing Board of the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

Press statement from the Chief press secretary Mr. Samuel Olowookere said that in a major push Wednesday at the 331 Session of the Governing Board of the ILO currently holding in Geneva, Switzerland, Nigeria’s Minister of Labour and Employment, and the official Africa Region Spokesperson, Sen. Chris Ngige succeeded in eliciting the support of other regions to stop the overbearing role of France

and Britain in the conduct of the Regional Meetings of the ILO. Nigeria with the mandate of Africa countries had stoically canvassed against the participation of Non-members in regional meetings other than theirs, in Africa and South America, calling it a continuation of colonization.

Sen.Ngige in his address on behalf of the Africa Region said “with regards to participation in a Regional Meeting of a member state from another region, it bears repeating our earlier position adopting the principle that each Member State would be invited as a full member to only one regional meeting, with the Governing Body having the discretion of inviting on a case by case basis, any mem-

ber state as an observer to other regional meetings.”

“To continue to do otherwise is to evoke the ugly memories of colonial era.

As an independent region, our concern on the total cluster liberation of our region is well articulated in our region’s Agenda 2063.

The constraint of member States with constitutional challenge should be addressed at the appropriate political forum other than at the ILO regional meetings.”

He further warned that Africa would work with independent member states of the ILO without interfering with internal sensitive sovereign constitutional matters of any member state.

It will be recalled that the matter of restricting regional meetings to only member states within the

specific geographical expression of a given region has been a long-standing battle over the years.

The disagreement is hinged on the fact that the current practice based on Governing Board decision of March 2001, France is invited to the African Regional Meeting as a member responsible for the external relations of the Mayotte and La Reunion, two non-metropolitan territories situated in the African Region, now existing as overseas departments, and therefore an integral part of France.

This issue is often treated as a sensitive constitutional matter which members discuss with great caution and restraint for fear of incurring the displeasure of colonial masters of France and Britain.

As the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and other stake holders intensify war against drug abuse in Kano State, the state Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has reiterated his commitment towards the completion of the state’s NDLEA rehabilitation centre as well as equipping the it with modern facilities.

The governor has also pledged to provide two additional utility vehicles in addition to the recent two Hilux vehicles the state government provided the command with to aid the command’s operations.

Ganduje made this promise at the command’s headquarters during an occasion

which drew notable persons from different fields such as the state’s speaker House of Assembly, Nigerian Army Officials from Bukavu Barracks, officials from the state Hisbah Board, State Commandant Nigeria Civil Defence Corps and many more for the official and Public destruction of fake, illicit and psychotropic drugs confiscated by the command after obtaining a court injunction for the action.

The state governor who decried the high record of cases of drug abuse in the state, reminded the youths of the dangers associated with the act. He Call on parents and other stakeholders to join hands with the government in the fight against drug abuse in the state.

Ondo: NYSC members arrested for using naked pictures of ladies to extort money ‘Tosin Ajuwon, Akure

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Three members of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) undergoing their mandatory service year in Ikaramu Akoko in Akoko North Local Government Area of Ondo State have been arrested.

The young boys were apprehended for allegedly sending nude pictures of ladies to the internet for extortions.

They were nabbed by the officers of the 32 Artillery Brigade of the Nigeria Army in Akure on Thursday.

The accused were caught in the habits of luring their girlfriends to hotels and asked them to be naked before filming their nudity and sending it on social media.

Having achieved their aim, the culprits would be demanding money from their victims

(ladies) with threat.

A source who pleaded not to be named told Daily Times that the corps members always threat their victims to pay them in order to avoid exposing their nudity.

“Many ladies, including their colleagues who are also corps members have fallen victims of the suspects and they have been making money from it before they were eventually caught.

“They will invite their girlfriends to a hotel in Ikare Akoko and after making love with the ladies, they will be taking their pictures while naked.

“Some days after they will be demanding money from the ladies and they would threatened that if the ladies fail to give them the money, they will send their nude pictures to internet,” he said.

Rivers will continue to support security agencies, says Wike Amaka Agbu, Port Harcourt

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The Rivers State Governor, Barrister Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has stated that his administration would continue to support security agencies through the provision of logistical support for them to create a secured environment for investors to thrive.

Speaking during the public presentation of a book

entitled: “Community Policing in Nigeria: Myth or Reality” written by Retired Assistant Commissioner of Police, Dr. Uche Mike Chukwuma in Port Harcourt, Governor Wike said that his administration would not be deterred by the illegal actions of some policemen.

The governor who was represented at the book presentation by his Chief of Staff, Engr. Chukwuemeka Woke, also urged the people of Rivers State to speak out

against the evils of the Special Anti-robbery Squad for their own protection.

He said: “We have done everything humanly possible to ensure that we encourage all the security agencies to carry out their duties in line with their constitutional mandate. Our support for security agencies is aimed at creating the right environment for businesses to thrive and for investors to troop to the state.

The governor added: “It

is important that we also police the police. Like the Special Anti-robbery Squad that commits crime against the people of the state, people need to speak out. People must continue to voice out against SARS and other erring police officers to check their excesses.”

He urged officers and men of the Nigeria Police to work towards promoting the rule of law, instead of using their privileged position to harass law abiding

citizens.

He lauded the Retired Assistant Commissioner of Police for his contributions to the maintenance of security, urging serving officers to emulate him.

He said: “The friends, well-wishers, and friends of Dr. Uche Mike Chukwuma and the state are gathered today to celebrate this outstanding retired police officer because of his contributions to the country.

“You are a man of charac-

ter, a man who is not intimidated and a man who does not flow with the tide. After the 2015 Elections, we know the role the police played.

But when you were called to testify, you stood for yourself and for your God. “As a state, we celebrate you and salute your courage. And to encourage other officers to exhibit courage on the side of truth and to understand that there is a judgment day after your service,” he stated.

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Botswana police ranked Africa’s best, Nigeria at bottom of global report ÏÏÏ

The Botswana police has been ranked by International agency, as the best police in Africa, while the Nigerian police occupies the bottom of the ranking ladder.

A report recently published by the World Internal Security and Police Index (WISPI) released by the International Police Services Association (IPSA) and the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) has revealed.

The report further showed that Uganda, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Nigeria were at the bottom of the ladder .it an African quartet at the bottom as they were ranked from 124th to 127 slots respectively.

Daily Times Nigeria recalls that in 2016, Botswana’s president, Seretes Khama was named as the world’s best president, and just recently, he announced he will step down as president in April next year when his term officially ends. He said that he will leave the country in the hands of his Vice President Mokgweetsi Masisi until the elections in 2019.

On the best police ranking in Africa, Africanews in a report, revealed that Africa’s best police service is that of Botswana which also ranked 47th best in the world, as contained by the two rating bodies.

The index ranked the Rwandan police as Africa’s second best

with global position of 50th followed by Algeria ranked 58t, Senegal 68th and Tunisia ranked 72.

According to the report, the top 10 for Africa countries were, Egypt, Burkina Faso, Ghana, South Africa and Mali respectively.

According to the ranking agency, “WISPI measures the ability of the police and other security providers to address internal security issues in 127 countries, across four domains, using sixteen indicators,” authors of the report stated. The four domains are, capacity, process, legitimacy and outcomes Despite the failure of Africa to break into the top forty, the continent was very prominent in the lower rankings. Six African countries were in the bottom 10.

Cameroon and Mozambique in the 120th and 122nd spots.

Uganda, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Nigeria made it an African quartet at the bottom as they were ranked 124th to 127 slots respectively.

Meanwhile, at the top of the global rankings, Europe dominated with eight countries. Except first place Singapore and Australia in sixth spot, all the other countries were in Europe – Finland, Denmark, Austria, Germany (2nd – 5th), Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland (7th – 10th).

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Cameroon clamps down on separatist movement .Issues warrant of arrest on 15 leaders Bonny Amadi with agency reports

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Cameroon, has firmed aggression and clampdown on Anglophone separatist movement group, with international arrest warrant issued on the group’s 15 leaders as more are detained in country’s top prisons.

Agency report disclosed that government of Cameroon have issued international arrest warrants for fifteen leaders of an Anglophone separatist party, the Southern Cameroon National Council (SCNC).

This was coming as the country’s government said that accused the separatists of fueling a raid on a security checkpoint that killed two gendarmes – paramilitary forces.

The report quoting a local website, said that Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, the self-proclaimed president of the Anglophone group is among those country has placed on wanted list as he now faces arrest and extradition.

Also, the Cameroonian govern-

ment accused the group of being promoting rising violence in the northwestern and southwestern regions. The two areas known as ‘Anglophone Cameroon’ has been at the heart of clashes between pro-government forces and secessionists.

The security situation has in the past led to the burning of schools, detonation of homemade bombs in the main cities of Bamenda and Douala. The most recent incident was the killing of three security officers in an overnight raid on a checkpoint.

The Cameroonian government says separatists were behind a raid on a security checkpoint that killed two gendarmes – paramilitary forces.

Information minister Issa Tchiroma told the AFP news agency that the attackers who were armed also took away the guns of the slain officers.

The attack on Monday evening took place in Bamenda the capital of the restive northwest region of the country, specifically in the town of Jakiri.

Local media portals have report-

The International Criminal Court on Thursday gave prosecutors the go ahead to investigate alleged war crimes committed by the government of Burundi against its political opposition between April 2015 and October 2017.

According to agency report, the ICC In a statement, judges said there is “a reasonable basis to proceed with an investigation in relation to crimes against humanity.” The war crimes, judges said, include murder, rape and torture that led

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Ethiopian–Saudi billionaire in Saudi anti-corruption net ÏÏÏ Billionaire

Sheikh Mohammed Hussein al-Amoudi ranking as one of the richest African-born people in the world has been arrested in Saudi by the country’s anti-corruption squad.

Al-Amoudi was born in Dessie, Ethiopia, in 1946 to an Ethiopian mother and a Saudi father. He immigrated to Saudi Arabia in the mid-1960s and made his first billion two decades later with a construction contract to build an underground oil storage facility.

Since then, his empire has grown across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and it includes Sweden’s largest petroleum refiner. According to Bloomberg, his net worth is just shy of $10 billion.

The business mogul who travels the globe managing his businesses and meeting with heads of state, has been reported to be currently cooling off in Saudi

Arabia’s anti-corruption camp to answer to corruption allegations.

The VOA report said that the billionaire was arrested in the Saudi kingdom last Saturday, and he is one of dozens of elite detainees sleeping on mattresses on the floor of a well-guarded ballroom at the Ritz-Carlton, Riyadh, awaiting the next steps by Saudi authorities.

According to the report, the exact charges have remained uncertain, but in an email to VOA, Tim Pendry, al-Amoudi’s Londonbased spokesman, claimed the arrest would not affect al-Amoudi’s international business empire.

“As inquiries take place in Saudi Arabia concerning certain allegations, which the Sheikh strongly refutes, this is an internal matter for the Kingdom,” Pendry said. “We have no further comment to make other than to

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ed a mass exodus of young people from the town in the wake of the attack amid rising fear of reprisals and represssion by the security forces. Already droves of people have fled the region into Nigeria, the United Nations refugee agency confirmed last week.

People in Cameroon’s anglophone regions – Northwest and Southwest – have long protested marginalization from the French majority. An attempt at declaring a symbolic independence in early October led to clashes that resulted in deaths, injuries and mass arrests.

to the deaths of more than 1,000 people and prompted 400,000 to flee the country.

The decision was handed down on October 25, just two days before Burundi made the decision to withdraw from the criminal court. The decision was kept under seal until Thursday, but the court will still have jurisdiction over crimes committed while Burundi was a member.

Burundi erupted into protests and violence in 2015 after President Pierre

Nkurunziza announced he would seek a third term. Critics said he was defying term limits in the constitution and the agreement that ended Burundi’s civil war.

U.S. President Donald Trump recently signed a continuation of a 2015 executive order that declared “a national emergency to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States constituted by the security in Burundi.”

say that the overseas businesses owned by the Sheikh remain unaffected by this development.”

The Saudi government released a statement on Tuesday aimed at reassuring investors with ties to any of the individuals arrested. It said that only personal bank accounts have been frozen, and related businesses would not be affected.

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Stories by Frank Jumbo with Agency reports ver 300 Taekwondoists drawn from across the world would feature at the 4th edition of the Lagos State Taekwondo International Classics holding from November 23-25, 2017 at Sir Molade Okoya Thomas Multipurpose Hall of the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, Lagos.

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the host country Nigeria is topping the list with the highest number of athletes while Ghana, Senegal and Mali are leading the pack of foreign athletes coming for the big event that would be used to round off the 2017 Taekwondo activities in the state.

Reacting to the number of entries received so far, the chairman of the Main Organizing Committee of the championship, Jimmy Ogunowo,

ark Mentors, Civil Defence, Kano Pillars, Rivers Hoopers and Gombe Bulls will represent Nigeria at the 2017 FIBA Africa Zone 3 Club Championship elimination series starting on Saturday.

Executive board of the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) took this decision on Tuesday following series of extensive deliberations with FIBA Africa and relevant basketball stakeholders in Nigeria.

Speaking on behalf of the federation, the NBBF President, Musa Kida, said the board decided to accommodate more clubs in the overall interest of the game in the country as part of their policies when they came on board.

“I the light of prevailing circumstances, based on consultations and advice from FIBA Zone 3, it became expedient to give Kano Pillars and Gombe Bulls another chance to participate in the Zone 3 Club Championship in Lagos 11th - 18th November.”

The NBBF said it also added Rivers Hoopers of Port Harcourt for heeding to the directives given by the board to stay away from the unsanctioned competition.

“We could not do this and leave out Rivers Hoopers who also heeded the Board’s directive and did not go to play in the non-recognized Final 8 competition in Kano.”

The federation said the move was made in the best interest of players who are innocent of infractions committed by their clubs in participating in the national playoff that was not sanctioned by the Kida led NBBF board.

The board warned that the latest decision should not be seen as a weakness and a license for clubs to go against the directives of constituted authority in future.

According to the federation, the decision was not taken to be politically correct, but in the overall interest of the players who are our clients.

The competition will hold between 11th to 18th of November, 2017 at the Indoor Sports Hall of the National Stadium, Lagos.

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who is also the chairman of the Lagos State Taekwondo Association said he is not surprised at the encouraging number of entries which appears to be the highest so far in the history of the championship.

According to him, Lagos remains as the home of Taekwondo where every stakeholder wants to visit. He thanked their sponsors, Coca-Cola, Afriglobal Insurance

Brokers, NEM Insurance and Indomie for their support in helping to actualize their dream through the sponsorship.

He assured that the state will continue to play her leading role in the development of the sport not only in Nigeria but the entire West Africa sub-region.

Ogunowo who also confirmed receiving entries from France, Indonesia

Moses, Balogun in Africa WCQ Best XI

Algeria clash tickets up for N925

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he Nigerian duo of Victor Moses and Leon Balogun have been included by the Confederation of African Football ( CAF) in the list of best XI players of the Africa World Cup 2018 Qualifiers.

CAF published the names on their site this morning despite having one more rounds to go in the qualifiers, which are scheduled to take place this weekend across the continent.

Balogun and Moses have been very impressive for Nigeria during the qualifiers, and they both played a big role in ensuring Nigeria progressed to the World Cup with one game to spare.

and the United Kingdom, insists that the MOC is being very careful in order not to bite more than it could chew, hence the rejection of some entries.

He further revealed that besides talent-hunt development and exposure, the classics will also go a long way in showcasing the rich cultural heritage of Lagos State, her hospitality and entertainment to further confirm her state of excellence status.

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ickets for the Super Eagles’ World Cup qualifier against Fennecs of Algeria scheduled for the Mohamed-Hamlaoui Stadium in Constantine will go for 300 Algerian Dinar (about N925).

The management of the Mohamed-Hamlaoui Stadium will begin the sale of 23,000 tickets for the match on Thursday from 1.30 pm till match day, which is Friday, according to lagazettedufennec.com. Kickoff is 8.30pm Nigerian time.

The Mohamed Hamlaoui stadium has a 45,000 capacity but crowds at the venue sometimes exceeded above 60,000.

The stadium serves as home ground for CS Constantine and MO Constantine.

Nigeria lost 2-1 in their last game against Algeria at the Mohamed Hamlaoui Stadium in 1981.

Lakhdar Belloumi and current coach Raber Madjer were on target for Algeria while Felix Owolabi got the only goal for the then Green Eagles.

Nigeria with 13 points from five games are through to the FIFA World Cup in Russia regardless of the result on Friday while Algeria with a point failed to make an impact during qualification.

Ex-player tackles Sunshine over unpaid N5m clearance fee

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ormer Sunshine Stars captain Sunday Abe has been locked in battle with and the Akure Premier League outfit over his clearance fee.

Abe dumped Sunshine recently for Albanian Superliga side Teuta Durres to realise his ambition of playing for a big European club someday.

Sunshine are alleged to be owing the 26-year-old midfielder N7.36m, being his outstanding five months’ salary, clearance fee and match bonuses for the 2015/2016 season.

In his letter to the Ondo State Football Agency, Abe said his former club allegedly breached their contractual agreement with him.

The letter read in part, “I wish to humbly request for the balance of my clearance fee, outstanding five months’ allowance and bonuses for the 2015/ 2016 football season amounting to a sum of N7,360,000.

“Amazingly, during the current season, the management failed to negotiate a new contract with me as my contract expired in December 2016. But instead of negotiating my clearance, the management went ahead to register me without paying the clearance fee or any agreement.”

A source close to Sunshine told our correspondent that a committee set up by the club to look into the cases of old players had earlier met with Abe and recommended to the management of the club to pay their former captain N5m as his clearance fee.

However, the club refused to pay the player after he had been cleared to leave, saying his clearance certificate was issued to him in lieu of the N5m clearance fee.

This was contained in a letter addressed to the player dated November 2, 2017 signed by the president of the Ondo State Governmentowned outfit, Mr. Aminu Yusuf.

The letter read, “I am directed to inform you that the management of Sunshine Stars still continues to maintain that your clearance was issued to you in lieu of the purported clearance fees of N5m negotiated with the club and other outstanding payments due to you.

“It is instructive to inform you that the clearance was issued to you on compassionate ground because there was an abuse of due process and no clear negotiation before you were registered to play for the during the 2016/2017 season.”

Not pleased with the development, a source claimed Abe has vowed to return to the country soon to demand his entitlements from Sunshine.

However, the Media Officer of the club, Mr. Chris Okunnuwa, said the matter was already with the management and would be resolved soon.

He said, “Abe is a our former captain, we don’t maltreat our former players, The new management will look into the matter and it would be resolved soon.”

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Ramos disagrees with Ronaldo over poor Madrid start

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ergio Ramos does not agree with Cristiano Ronaldo’s assertion that Real Madrid miss the players who left the Santiago Bernabeu during the transfer window.

Madrid offloaded Pepe, Alvaro Morata and James Rodriguez, among others, ahead of the 2017-18 season and have endured a difficult start to the campaign, trailing LaLiga leaders Barcelona by eight points after 11 matches.

But Ramos has dismissed Ronaldo’s opinion

as a simplistic take on Madrid’s struggles and pointed to injuries suffered by the likes of Gareth Bale and Raphael Varane as an alternative explanation “I do not agree with Cristiano,” he told Cadena SER. “I think it’s an opportunist opinion.

“When we won two Super Cups [UEFA Super Cup and Supercopa de Espana], nobody missed anyone. “I would place more

of the emphasis on injuries. The team is stronger when we’re all together. “I don’t miss anyone. No one. “The squad has changed, of course, but some contribute some things and others have another role.”

Ronaldo has scored just one goal in seven league matches this season but Ramos is un-

concerned with what, by the Portugal international’s standards, is a barren run.

“I do not care who scores. For me it is the same satisfaction,” added Ramos.

“But he has a different role. There are a number of individual titles that depend on the type of goals you score.”

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rank Lampard concedes Manchester City’s blistering start to the Premier League season will make it difficult for Chelsea to defend their title, but he has warned against writing off Antonio Conte’s side.

City are eight points clear of Manchester United and Tottenham at the top of the table after 11 matches, with Chelsea a further point adrift in fourth.

The Blues were beaten 1-0 by the league leaders when they met at Stamford Bridge in September – a result that was followed by a shock defeat to basement club Crystal Palace.

Subsequent wins against Watford and Bournemouth helped Chelsea build some momentum before getting the better of Manchester United at home last time out.

While City have been given a sizeable head start in their bid to regain the Premier League trophy, Lampard – who played for both clubs – believes the title remains within reach for Chelsea.

“It’s a possibility, but this year’s going to be difficult because Manchester City have started so well,” Lampard told Omnisport, speaking thanks to Chelsea FC club partners Yokohama Tyres.

“The reality is that they’ve opened up a lead and have a very strong squad.

“I think for Chelsea, they’re fighting not just in the Premier League but in the Champions League and more games.

“I think Chelsea, for sure, will be competitive. Chelsea have to be established to stay in the top four every year because they have to play Champions League football.

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ermany general manager Oliver Bierhoff said England’s progress and success at youth level has the world champions worried.

England have not won the World Cup since 1966 but the future of English football seems bright after victories at the Under-17 and U20 world championships this year.

And it is of concern for Germany, according to former international Bierhoff ahead of Friday’s international friendly at Wembley.

“Thinking about the England [senior] team from the outside, you are starting to create an air of ‘this is a new team’ with young players and a lot of characters and by retiring older players who did a lot,” Bierhoff said.

“There’s a change and I can see you have confidence from the U20s and U17s. That shows English football also has developed ... It takes some time and you see small steps of success in the youth teams. We often see that we have successful youth team players who become important in the future.

“Yes, we are worried [about England] because the quality of the players will become better.

“I am sure that with St George’s Park, with the investment, coaches and education, that you are catching up. It takes some time. We started in 2000 and the first result was in 2010 with new young talented players.”

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lexis Sanchez should be allowed to leave Arsenal if he is unhappy at the club, according to former Gunners captain Tony Adams.

The Chile international was wanted by Manchester City during the close-season, with the current Premier League leaders thought to be willing to part with £60million for his services.

Sanchez remained at Emirates Stadium despite entering the final year of his contract and will be allowed to depart for free at the end of the campaign if fresh terms are not agreed.

Reports this week have suggested Arsenal are weighing up cashing in on Sanchez in January and Adams would have no hesitation in saying farewell.

“We used to have a philosophy at Arsenal: if you don’t want to be at the club then bye-bye, we shake your hand and get people that do, whatever money,” he told Omnisport at the premiere of new Arsenal film 89.

“I’ve always loved those principles, so if [Sanchez] doesn’t want to be here then, absolutely, try and get the most you can for him and get him on and get someone that does want to play for the club.”

Adams won four league titles with Arsenal, as well as the FA Cup on three occasions.

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Economy: 50 foreign firms showing interest in oil, gas sector Ganiyu obaaro, with Agency report The Norwegian Ambassador to Nigeria, Amb. Kjemprud Jens-Petter, on Wednesday, said that more Norwegian companies were showing interest to do business in Nigeria, following a report

about the improving Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) in the country.

Jens-Petter told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the Nigerian government should sustain its ongoing commitment to creating the right investment environment for more foreign businesses to come into Nigeria.

He said, “We are extremely pleased with President Buhari’s ongoing emphasis on the Ease of Doing Business in Nigeria initiative.

“More Norwegian companies have started indicating investment interest in Nigeria.

“The Norwegian oil company, Statoils stands ready to make huge investments in the

Nnwa Doro Gas field.

“Also about 50 other Norwegian companies are ready to consider further activities in the offshore oil and gas sector.’’

The envoy said that the Norwegian companies had also indicated interest in the development of Nigeria’s hydro, solar, wind and wave power projects.

L-R: Deputy President, Lagos Chamber of Commerce & Industry (LCCI), Babatunde Ruwase; Onyenagorom Florence Nwakaego, one of the 10 lucky beneficiary of Fidelity Bank’s customer loyalty and reward scheme who won N500, 000; President, LCCI, Nike Akande; Executive Director, Shared Services & Products, Chijioke Ugochukwu; the Regional Bank Head, Apapa, Obaro Odeghe at the Fidelity Bank’s Special Day at the 2017 Lagos International Trade Fair which held at the Tafawa Balewa Complex, Lagos Island ...on Wednesday.

Dana flew over 2 million passengers in 9 years Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo Dana Air has flown over 2.7 million passengers since it commenced operations nine years ago.

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In a statement released to the media and signed by the Chief Operating Officer/Accountable Manager, Obi Mbanuzuo he stated that since commencing flight operations on November 10, 2008, the airline is proud to have come this far, creating an exemplary model and setting the standards for a sustainable and efficient airline operation in Nigeria.

His words,”We are also proud to have flown over 2.7 million passengers in the last 9 years of our operation and the fact that our on-time performance, world-class in-flight service and customer-centric innovations are still unrivaled. This

is testament to our obvious passion to keep flying high and offering the best of air transport in the industry.”

Dana Air has stated that despite all the aviation industry is going through it still strives to be recognized and respected as Nigeria’s most reliable and customer-friendly airline and will continue to remain committed “Our commitment to supporting our ‘own’ while still encouraging professionalism and growth in the Nigerian aviation industry, has led to our recruitment and constant training of Nigerian pilots. We are proud of our contribution to the in-

dustry and we thank the regulators for being supportive of our efforts in this regard,” Mbanuzuo said.

He also extolled the airline’s safety standards which was topped by its IOSA/IATA membership, as well as the airlines innovations and investments in technology to improve the travel experience.

He said, “We also took our safety standards a notch higher with our membership of the International Air Transport Association and as per stats from the regulators and considering the number of flights we operate daily, we have not disappointed our guests. Our goal isn’t to improve on what has been

SMEs showcase products at China Fair Mathew Dadiya, Abuja The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria SMEDAN has taken the ‘Buy Made in Nigeria’ campaign to China with its attendance at the just concluded China International SME Fair (CISMEF).

Twenty six Nigerian Micro Small and Medium Entrepreneurs (MSMEs) showcased over 40 different Nigerian products at the global fair.

According to a statement by SMEDAN, “Over 300 SMEs from various countries participated at the international expo. The Nigeria Pavilion was a beehive of activities as all through the duration of the fair, an average of 300 visitors engages the Nigerian officials and exhibitors on a daily basis on business opportunities and investment in the country. Products exhibited

by Nigerian MSMEs at the fair include textiles, agricultural products, general products and leather products.

The Nigerian delegation was led

by The Director General of SMEDAN, Dikko Umaru Radda, who participated and made presentations on the state of MSMEs in Nigeria in two major events at the fair, The SMEs Cross Business Matchmaking Activity and the Guangdong Tour Belt and Road Campaign.

In an interview with journalists on arrival from China, the DG SMEDAN, Radda commended the performance of the Nigeria exhibitors who actually came out to showcase what we have in Nigeria to the global community.

achieved, but to totally reimagine it.”

According to him, “In terms of customer satisfaction, we have raised the bar of our customer service with our newly introduced unit – The Special Service Unit, made up of highly trained staffs to attend to urgent needs of our guests on ground Lagos, Abuja and Uyo airports. And for our digital guests who love to avoid the queues, our self check-in kioks at MMA2, the first of its kind at the terminal is serving their purpose.

We are also taking our guests the ‘cashless way’ with our ‘pay with Dana Miles’ initiative and we have created multiple channels for our guests to be able to reach and interact with us daily.”

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Nigeria to launch first African Sovereign Green Bond – Buhari

By Simon Ugwu

Men at work during inspection of the ongoing Lagos –Ibadan Railway Modernization Project by the Minister of Transportation, Mr Chibuike Amaechi at Ewekoro in Ogun State... on Monday

A’Ibom firm to raise 1000 entrepreneurs by 2019 Bassey Willie, Uyoi Akwa Ibom Investment Corporation, (AKICORP) says the vision of the current government in the state is to raise 1000 substantial small business entrepreneurs between December, 2017 and February, 2019, so as to give the citizens of the state a meaningful source of livelihood.

The corporation, being an investment agency of Akwa Ibom State Government has also planned to collaborate with interested corporate brands in the country to employ new routes to market their products and services, while networking with 1000 incubated Small and Medium Enterprises, (SMSEs) to strengthen their businesses for sustainable

and optimal profitability.

The executive Chairman of the corporation, Dr. Elijah Akpan, while speaking during the opening of 2017 ’money summit’ on Thursday, said they partnered with the league business brains group to organize the summit to arouse the entrepreneurial spirit among the citizens, in order to discover more investment opportunities for the state government, was essential.

The money summit had as it theme, “Bridging the theory and practice gap in the entrepreneurship development”, and was aimed at raising enterprise influencers.

Akpan said, “AKICORP as the investment agency of the state government is mandated by law to coordinate and monitor all investment promotion activities in the

state; and to provide information and data about investment opportunities, as well as sources of capital investment which could bring development to the state.

“Akwa Ibom is fast becoming the next investors’ destination of choice in Nigeria; this is so because of her overwhelming rich human and mineral potentials, cultural ambience, infrastructural reminiscence, peaceful and purchasing market strength. The opportunities are enormous and in constant wealth creation through micro small, medium enterprises.”

“The money summit is a direct response to the economic need assessment of budding entrepreneurs in Akwa Ibom state, under the aegis of league of business

Experts to speak at ‘Fusion of Real Estate, Interior Design and Art’ Mutiat Alli

name in African Luxury, Real Estate, Interior Design and Art market. FREIA stands for “Fusion of Real Estate, Interior Design and Art”. It is a specially tailored event by Luxury Villas Group set to converge some the biggest names in the sector.

“FREIA 2017,” being the first of its kind, has been designed to be the biggest luxury event of the year. It will host key players and stakeholders in these indus-

Key speakers are expected at FREIA 2017, the biggest luxury event of the year. . The speakers are strategically selected to optimize the essence of the one-of-akind Afrocentric event that will create a platform to explore the synergy within the Real Estate, Interior Design and Art Industries.

These names come with a pedigree and clout that go well with the event in exploring the three different industries in an ingenious bid to create a unified concept of art that can stand on its own.

Notably,Azu Nwagbogu, Agatha Eric-Udorie, Olajumoke Adenowo and Andrea Geday are names that would pull strings and ring bells in these industries.

As predicted, FREIA, would come to become the strongest Keynote speakers.

tries to discuss key issues relating to the unique relationship between the three industries and opportunities of growth here in Nigeria.

Other highlights of the day would include an open exhibition for partners, stakeholders and enthusiasts to showcase distinctive arts and design experiences as well as property acquisition opportunities and partnerships.

brains. Nigeria, one of the Africa’s biggest community of active young professionals in business to provide platforms to discover, develop and deploy formidable machinery for meta-cognitive practical problem solving in business.’’

He said the corporation would continue to partner other corporate brands in the formation and running of a well structured ecosystem that will housed and incubates bankable business ideas from conception to fruition, adding that it will be diligently and professionally regulated by a special purpose vehicle, consisting of SMEs coaches, performance intelligence experts, finance experts, seasoned ICT marketing communication gurus in order to maximize profit.

President Muhammadu Buhari has said the Federal Government will launch the first African Sovereign Green Bond in December 2017, to finance renewable energy projects.

The president said this in Abuja, on Tuesday, while presenting the 2018 budget proposal to the National Assembly.

“I am pleased to inform this distinguished assembly that the Federal Government will be launching the first African Sovereign Green Bond in December 2017.

“The bond will be used to finance renewable energy projects.

We are very excited about this development as it will go a long way in solving many of our energy challenges, especially in the hinterland,’’ the president said.

He said the FG was working hard on the Ogoni Clean-up Project.

According to him, “During the year, we engaged eight international and local companies proposing different technologies for the mandate. To enable us to select the best and most suitable technology for the remediation work, we asked each company to conduct Demonstration Clean-up Exercises in the four local government areas of Ogoni land.

“These demonstrations were recently concluded and the results are being studied by the Governing Council of the Ogoni Clean-up Project.’’

Buhari, who said the project would be funded by the International Oil Companies, said the federal government had made provisions in the 2018 budget for the costs of oversight and governance, to ensure effective implementa-

PIB’s passage not realistic in 2017 – Lawmaker

By Simon Ugwu The Chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources (Upstream), Senator Tayo Alasoadura said that the passage of the long awaited Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) into law this year might not be feasible.

Alasoadura attributed the likely non-passing of the bill by the National Assembly to the exigency of the passage of the 2018 budget brought by President Muhammadu Buhari on November 7.

Alasoadura disclosed this in a panel session at the ongoing 7th Practical Nigerian Content, organised by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDBM) that the bill will be passed into law in the first quarter of 2018.

The chairman said that the Sen-

ate President, Bukola Saraki understands the importance of the bill, therefore making it to always be at the forefront of the his agenda.

“It is aspiration of the senate president that the bill be passed on time, but practically with the exigencies of passage of the budget and other bills it might not be so,’ Alasoadura said. `` We were on the fast lane when we passed the governance aspect of the bill with the intention to pass other bills, however, not involving the House of Representatives, slowed down the pace of the passage. ``We have constituted joint committees with the House of Representatives for speedy passage of the four bills pending before the National Assembly. Moreso, we will ensure that we are timely on passage of the bills,’ he said.

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$350m loan: Ogun gets Senate’s nod Ganiyu Obaaro, with Agency report The Senate at Plenary on Thursday, approved 350 million dollars World Bank loan for Ogun State Development Policy Operation (DPO), as contained in the 2016-2018 Rolling Plan.

Acording to the News Agency of Nigeria,NAN,”The approval followed the presentation of a report on the loan by Chairman, Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts, Sen. Shehu Sani.

Presenting the report, Sani said that the committee observed that the Ogun State DPO budget for the loan had been approved by World Bank in 2016.

He added that the loan was further captured in the 2016-2018 borrowing plan as approved by the National Assembly.

Sani noted that the committee also observed that the credit facility had an attractive low financing rate between 5 per cent, moratorium of five years and twenty-five-year maturity.

He said “the facility has already been captured in the 2016-

2018 Medium Term Expenditure Framework.

“It also has low and acceptable loan sustainability level, therefore it is eligible to borrow.

“The DPO loan will further help to enhance the capacity of the state government.

“The state has met the various conditions laid by World Bank and as such qualified for the loan.

“It has also put in place institutional framework for transparent and accountable budgetary and financial purpose.”

He explained that the proj-

ects to be funded by the facility would engender economic growth, increase revenue generation and create employment opportunities.

“The committee recommends that the Senate should go ahead and approve the loan as contained in the 2016-2018 external borrowing rolling plan of President Muhammadu Buhari,’’ Sani added.

The Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, who presided over plenary, put the report to voice vote; and was adopted by the lawmakers.

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Oil industry: Ambode sets up 45-member committee in Badagry Ï#ƈ ƌƈ Ɔ ƕ ƌƈƋƈƐ ƅƕ Ɛ ƏƆ Ɛ Ɛ ƅ ƌƌƑ ƈƐƈƆ Benjamin Omoike In a bid to forestall the occurrence of any unwholesome incidents of environmental degradation, communal disputes and civil disturbances, militancy and the likes, often associated with oil producing areas; Lagos state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, on Thursday, inaugurated a 45-member Community Relations Committee in Badagry.

Governor Ambode, who spoke at the inauguration of the Committee at the VIP Chalet in Badagry, said as much as oil is a major source of revenue in the country, its exploration has created serious environmental challenges affecting health, social and economic activities, sustainable development and ecological balance - due to land deg-

radation, air pollution, water pollution, deforestation and ecosystem degradation in the oil producing communities.

“These activities amongst others, have led to agitations from communities and youth groups leading to disruption of exploration activities, pipeline vandalisation and in extreme cases, kidnapping and violence. This has made it difficult to conduct the business of oil production smoothly and ensure that the relationships between the oil companies and their host communities remain cordial at all times.

This has also affected negotiations for compensations for land acquisition, damages and spills,” he said.

Ambode said Lagos, being home to Nigeria’s most critical commercial activities and now an oil producing state with the discovery of

oil in the Badagry area of the state; in the Aje Oil Field, OML 113, operated by Yinka Folawiyo Petroleum Company, could not afford to have any community unrests or disruption of peace.

“It is imperative that our oil producing companies and their host communities enjoy a very warm and mutually beneficial relationship.

“Sequel to the aforesaid and the need to create a conducive exploration environment for the oil companies as well as having host communities devoid of rancour to prevent the re-occurrence of the Niger Delta issues in Lagos state, we have constituted a Committee for the Lagos State Oil Producing Areas Relations, cutting across the oil producing communities in Badagry,” the governor said.

Obaseki seeks new investor for cement firm seized

by AMCON

By Titus Akhigbe, Benin The Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said the state is negotiating with the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) to get a new investor for Ava Cement Factory located in the state.

Obaseki announced this at Igarra, headquarters of Akoko Edo Local Government Area, during his Thank- You-Tour across the state.

The governor said the factory, which is located in Akoko Edo LGA, incurred debts; and was seized by AMCON. He said, “Ava cement factory is in debt. That is why AMCON seized it. We are negotiating with AMCON to get new investor to take it over and bring it back to life.”

The governor also promised to upgrade Igarra Technical College and improve infrastructure in the council.

“I have received the report on the Technical College; and by the grace of God, work will start at the college by January 2018.”

Noting that boosting economic activity at the local level was top priority, he said, “We want to also upgrade Ibilo Market to boost economic activity in this area. I have given out the design for the construction of the Igarra Township Road and work will commence fully during the dry season.”

Six States set for Lafarge literacy competition finale Motolani Oseni

All is set for the grand finale of the 4th Lafarge Africa National Literacy CompetitionTwelve students from Plateau, Kano, Ondo, Edo, Gombe and Anambra will battle for the coveted prize. Each of the 6 states is represented by two students that won at the respective regional finals that took place in October.

Public school students from the 109 senatorial districts in the country took part in the competition which evaluates their reading, essay/summary writing and spelling abilities.

Speaking on this development, Director of Communications, Public Affairs and Sustainable Development, Mrs. Folashade Ambrose-Medebem, said that the competition seeks to touch lives of diverse people in a sustainable way and Lafarge Africa Plc is pleased with the positive

impact recorded in the past four years.

Over 2,700 public primary school students took part in the competition. Over 200,000 primary school pupils across 244 local government areas (LGAs) have been impacted since the competition began in 2014.

According to her, “education is a priority under the People & Communities pillar; the National Literacy Competition is one way we intend to make a difference in the lives of Nigerians.”

However, Faith Toun-Agbai and Hassan Yesufu, who are winners of the South-South regional competition will be representing Edo state in the upcoming finale.

“The competition has improved our spelling, reading and writing; this makes us feel we can still achieve our goals. We will like to thank Lafarge Africa Plc for sponsoring this competition”, the explained.

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Stories By Motolani Oseni The Nigerian currency, Naira, on the fourth trading day of the week, remained steadied against the three major foreign currencies, after rebounded within the week over Pound Sterling and the Euro at the parallel market, just as foreign exchange traders optimistic that the Africa’s largest economy legal tender will remain stable across its exchange rates next week.

Although, they believed that as long as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) continues to intervene and maintain tight money market liquidity to lure foreign inflows to support the currency that the Naira would sustain its gaining momentum across the forex markets.

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Naira steadies as traders anticipate rates stability in week ahead Ï01 Ɛ Ə ƈ Ɔ MơơÖêÖƄ Ɛ Ə Ƒ jƏƆ ƑƏƕ ƄƈƋƋ ƆƔƐ ƓƆƆƊ However, the Federal Government of Nigeria has concluded all plans to raise a total sum of N119.94 billion from sales of treasury bills at an auction by next Wednesday on November 15, 2017, through the nation’s apex bank.

The Naira, as at close of yesterday’s trading closed at 363 to the US Dollar the same rate traded since the beginning of the week, even though it had recorded more gains over the Euro

since Monday but was seen at 420 as at close Thursday’s trading activities.

The local currency, also, maintained an appreciated rate of 473 to the Pound sterling against 475 traded earlier in the week at the unofficial forex market.

However, forex dealers expected that the Naira will remain stable across its multiple exchange rates next week as the central bank continues to intervene and maintain tight money market li-

quidity to lure foreign inflows to support the currency. .FG to raise N119.9bn through Treasury bill next week The local unit has been hovering at around 360 naira for investors, the same level as the parallel market. On the official market, the naira has been quoted at around 305 per dollar for more than three months.

Traders say the market was comfortable at 360 level with quotes agreed over the phone

and that clients withdraw their bids at weaker rates. Meanwhile the central bank has been selling dollars on the official market..

The bank plans to offer N32.44 billion in three-month paper, N22.82bn in six-month bills and N64.68bn of a one-year note. Results of the auction will be announced on the same day.

The central bank issues Treasury bills twice a month to help the government finance its budget deficit, curb money supply growth and provide an avenue for lenders to manage liquidity.

ELAN to deepen leasing penetration in economy

Ogun State Deputy Governor, Chief (Mrs.) Yetunde Onanuga (middle), presenting the state plague to the President, Nigeria Computer Society, Prof. Adesola Aderounmu, during a visit of Prof. Aderounmu in Abeokuta, Ogun State… on Wednesday. While the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Barr. Taiwo Adeoluwa looks on.

NAFEX transactions’ turnover hits $14.69bn in four months Total turnover trade on Investors & Exporters Foreign Exchange (I&E FX) window hits $14.69 billion in four months, between July and September 2017, as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) continues to bridge the gap between parallel market and official market rates.

In our fact findings, we observed that the I&E FX in October rose by 7.3 per cent to $4.53bn from $4.22bn in September 2017. In the I&E FX window for August moved to $3.68bn, an increase of 62.8 per cent from $2.26bn in July.

FMDQ OTC had reported that 10 commercial bank traded N70.88trillion overall turnover on the FMDQ

OTC Securities Exchange between January to September 2017.

Meanwhile, the apex bank has defended the local currency with $4.8bn between July and October this year, our correspondent can report.

Data gathered by our correspondent revealed that the apex bank highest intervention in four months under review was $1.5bn in August, followed by $1.37bn in October.

The CBN had defended the Naira with $1.2bn and $727.5m in September and July of 2017 respectively.

For the first three months, the CBN’s $1.37bn in October comprises of $400m in whole sale; $200m in Small and me-

dium enterprises (SMEs); $180m in invisibles; $306.3m in SMIS, and $285.70m in agriculture, airlines, petroleum, and raw materials segments.

In September, the apex bank injected $485 million to Retail Secondary Market; SMEs, $300 million; invisibles $255m and $200m, to wholesale segments The bulk of the disbursement totaling $561m in August was injected to the clearance of the backlog of matured foreign exchange obligations for raw materials and machineries for manufacturing companies, agricultural chemicals, and airlines – was for Retail Secondary Market Intervention

Sales (SMIS), while the balance went to settling wholesale, $500 million; SMEs, $235 million, and invisible $200 million, demands.

The CBN’s Acting Director, Corporate Communications Department, Mr. Isaac Okorafor continued to reiterate that its intervention was in line with the CBN’s commitment to continue to ensure foreign exchange liquidity and meet legitimate demand.

He maintained that the CBN will continue to intervene in the nation’s foreign exchange Market in order to sustain the liquidity in the market and guarantee the international value of the Naira.

In furtherance of its objective of promoting the business of leasing in Nigeria, Equipment Leasing Association of Nigeria (ELAN) has concluded plans to bring to fore the value propositions of leasing to Nigeria’s economic development and deepen lease penetration in the economy.

ELAN said it will be organising its 15th Annual National Lease Conference with focus on the economy, while gathering stakeholders in the leasing industry to further intensify the relevance of leasing, its value propositions and developmental initiatives as well creating effective platform for business networking.

The theme for this year’s conference is “Leasing and Capital Formation in the Nigerian Economy”, holding on Thursday, 16th November, 2017, at the Renaissance Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos.

The event, which marks the 15th Anniversary of the National Lease Conference, is expected to attract major stakeholders in the Nigerian leasing industry value chain including government, financial institutions, lessors, professional service providers, equipment vendors, insurance firms, investing public etc.

While commenting on the event, the Executive Secretary, Andrew Efurhievwe, stated that the conference has been a platform for brainstorming on issues pertinent to the development of leasing in Nigeria and the economy. He con-

firmed that renowned experts will discuss relevant topics that would further engender the contributions of leasing to the development of the Nigerian economy.

He further commented that, leasing has over the years gained significant global recognition as a creative financing alternative for the acquisition of capital assets.

“In Nigeria, it has continued to contribute to national development, creating wealth and improving the economy. In the last 10 years, the leasing industry added assets worth over N4.65trillion to capital formation in the Nigerian economy”.

In 2016, outstanding lease volume stood at N1.26trn, up from N1.1trn in 2012, representing a growth rate of 14 per cent. The impactful visibility of leasing is increasing in various sectors of the economy and exhibits a brighter future given its developmental attributes.

The appeal of leasing lies in the fact that it meets the diverse needs of the equipment user.

The whole essence of leasing therefore is to enhance the planning, improvement and development of any economy. The fact that leasing facilitates long and convenient access to capital equipment goes to show the unique role of leasing in building and supporting productive ventures especially to those that do not have significant asset base.

Capital Market B5 Nigerian Enamelware attributes Q1 2017 result delay to IT bug The challenge of sustainability, which effects companies when their information technology systems (IT) are compromised may have manifested in Nigerian Enamelware Plc as the company recently disclosed., The company recently acknowledged default in filling its first quarter (Q1) unaudited financial result for the period ended 31st July, 2017, attributing the delay to bug in its IT systems.

The company, in a statement, titled: “Filling of 2017 1st quarter unaudited financial statement of Nigerian Enamelware Plc” signed by its Company Secretary, Bamofin Olatokunbo Sanni and released by the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), said “The late filing of the UFS was occasioned by glitch in the Accounting Package.

However, the company has put in place adequate measures and policies to forestall future occurrence and express its commitment to ensure timely submission of its financial statements and other post listing disclosure obligations.”

Nigerian Enamelware Plc wishes to notify its esteemed shareholders and the investing public that the company filed its Unaudited Financial Statements (UFS) for the period ended 31 July, 2017, with the NSE on 8 September, 2017.

Nigerian Enamelware Plc is a Nigeria-based company, which is engaged in the manufacturing and marketing of enamelware, plastic products and galvanized bucket.

The Company operates through three segments: Enamelware, Plastic and Galvanised bucket. The Company’s holding company is I. Feng Limited, which is incorporated in Hong Kong.

Stakeholders of the Nigerian capital market have called for transparency in the ongoing demutualization process of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE).

The process seeks to transform the exchange into a public company.

The stakeholders, who spoke to Daily Times Nigeria, said that the process of demutualizing the exchange plays a major role in determining the future of the nation’s exchange as well as the entire economy and to a larger extent, how the international investment community would see the market and the economy, post demutualization.

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Stocks: Sell pressures prevail as market turnover advances by 94.91% Stories by Bonny Amadi Sell Pressure prevailed on the equities’, market on Thursday 9th November, 2017, as the market performance indices closed on red over losses by highly priced equities.

The Nigerian Equities Market’s All-Share Index declined by 0.24 per cent, pulling the Year- to- date (YTD) return to 37.87 per cent.

The market breadth settled at equilibrium, with twenty two (22) gainers and losers apiece. The vol-

ume of transactions declined by 9.16 per cent, while market turnover advanced by 94.91 per cent.

The price gainers for the day was led by Caverton with 9.46 per cent, followed by International Breweries with +8.38 per cent while MOBIL oil appreciated by 7.84 per cent .

May & Baker and Forte Oil also made the top gainers for the day with 5.00 per cent and 5.00 per cent gains respectively, The decliners table was led by NPF Micro Finance Bank with

-4.62 per cent equity price loss, followed by Law Union and Rock with 4.62 per cent; and Fidelity Bank that declined by 4.14 per cent.

The National Salt Company of Nigeria declined by 3.94 per cent, while Champion Breweries dropped by 3.93 per cent to close the day’s top decliners table.

The performance of sectoral indices for the day showed that the NSEOILG5 gained 1.23 per cent, NSEINS10 gained 0.34 per cent, while NSEFBT10 appreci-

ated by 0.06 per cent. However, the NSEBNK10 depressed by 0.29 per cent, while NSEIND also declined by 0.47 per cent at the end of trades.

Meanwhile, after two days of consecutive gains, sell pressures dominated the Nigerian bourse, bringing the market to a negative close, a development that was attribute the loss to profit taking activities on counters, which have gained significantly in the past few days; and also on tickers’ trading at relatively high prices.

L-R: Fela Durotoye, CEO, Gemstone Group: Tara Fela-Durotoye, Founder/CEO, House of Tara International; Ibukun Awosika, Chairman First Bank of Nigeria Limited and Gbenga Shobo, DMD, First Bank of Nigeria Limited, at the House of Tara Beauty Entrepreneur Summit 2017 held in Lagos ...on Wednesday.

Stakeholders seek transparency in demutualization process A stakeholder, who preferred anonymity, told Daily Times Nigeria that the ongoing process of making the Nigerian stock exchange a profit making origination, where investors will have the opportunity to buy their shares as it would also be listed on the NSE, as well, said that the process appeared to be skewed in secrecy.

Chairman, Nigerian Professional Shareholders Association, Mr. Godwin Anono, told Daily Times Nigeria in an interview that the capital market was yet to sensi-

tives the local investing public on what demutualization entails, in order to carry everybody along.

According to him, the people should know what you mean by demutualization and how it will benefit them, he said that he needed to understand how the exchange, a self-regulatory organization will become listed and who them will it be accountable to?

“If they default, who will sanction them, and can you become the regulator and the player at the same time / all these the retail in-

vestors need to know,” Anono said.

He however, added that when the Exchange has not carried out sensitization for the local investors to know how to be involved in the process, it means that they are not thinking of carrying the common man along, which emphasized did not reflect good disclosure or sustainability practices usually preached by the market.

Anono added that transforming the NSE to a publicly quoted company, even with the impact of the government in many fronts of the exchange could amount to people in government indirectly taking over the bourse as they would be dictating what transpires in a market that is supposed to be mainly owned by the dealing members of the Exchange.

Summary of activities on NSE

Chellarams declares N2.64bn PAT in Q2’’18 result …as net income grew by 84.06%

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36,877.15

Shareholders of Chellarams Nigeria Plc may have started looking up to rewarding 2018 financial year, hinged on the company’s remarkable second quarter result released for the period ended 30th September 2017.

The result released by the Ni-

DEALS

5,472.00

VOLUME

318,147,676.00

VALUE

3,950,445,553.66

gerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Thursday, 09th October, 2017, showed that revenue depressed by -3.9 per cent to N6, 043 million from N6, 289 million posted in the corresponding period of 2016.

According to the result, profit after tax (PAT) for the period soared

by 1177. 5 per cent to N2, 636 billion from N206, 347 million in the Q2 2016. Year- on -year (Y/Y) .Chellarams Plc had revenues fall -38.27 per cent from N20.09bn to N12.40bn, though the company grew net income 84.46 per cent from N157.39m to N290.32m.

CAP

12,763,071,708,914.15

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B6 Business Interview

Government, agencies must synergise on foreign exchange management- Adeleke How would you assess Budget 2018 recently presented by President Muhammadu Buhari to the joint session of the National Assembly?

When you look at the size of the Nigerian economy, one will agree with the operators of the economy that the budget is not too ambitious; it can be said to be moderate.

The target already set by the president is achievable. But, if we are able to achieve current tempo, at least the relative peace in the Niger Delta area of the in the North east; block financial leakages in the economy; sustain the onslaught on and degrading of Boko Haram; massive focus on revenue generation as envisaged in the budget, then, we are on the path of recovery and growth.

Also, the basic parameters- $45bp/d oil benchmark; 2.3 million production capacity, which is slightly ambitious anyway, considering the new threat posed by the Niger Delta Avengers to attack critical infrastructure-oil pipelines- in the region, if we are able to overcome these challenges, the government’s target could be said to be achievable.

Can you comment on sectoral allocation of the budget; and whether such allocations could turn the economy around?

The question to ask is; what are the economic the government seeks to achieve? Part of the goals include full employment; economic growth; balance of payment equilibrium, which means avoiding deficit; that is deficit control of inflation. How will this aid government’s focus, political stability?

For political stability to be achieved, the government, I think, is spread-

Last Tuesday, President Muhammadu Buhari presented to the joint session of the National Assembly in Abuja, N8.612 trillion 2018 Appropriation Bill. In this interview with GANIYU OBAARO, a financial expert, Mr. Azeez A. Adeleke, FCIB, examines some key issues in the budget, including sectoral allocation, foreign exchange, diversification, taxation and job creation. Excerpts ing projects across the six geo-political zones in the country. The recent N100bilion Sukuk fund, which the government is deploying to finance projects across the country is good. So, the various allocations to sectors like Power, Works, Housing, Agriculture, Education, Tourism, Solid Minerals, etc are good, since they could aid economic growth and development, which is what we need at this time.

As regards the CBN, my take is that the management of the economy has to be looked at from two fronts- monetary and fiscal policies. Fiscal policy has reduced leakages in the economy.

Capital projects as spelt out in the budget are instruments to generate employment for the people. They are avenues to also create assets in the economy, increase money in circulation and reduce poverty.

As for monetary policy, the CBN must manage money supply in the economy; collaborate and synergise with fiscal authorities to achieve stability.

So, roads, housing, works will get people to work; who would be paid wages, salaries and allowances, even with attendant massive wealth creation and multiplier effects in the long run.

Taxation is a veritable source of government’s revenue, not only in our country, but across the world. However, the current trend has shown that the government can

There are two extremes to foreign exchange market. First, is absolute free market determinism of the market. Second, absolute exchange rate control and third, is, exchange rate managed mechanism.

Mind you, Nigeria is largely an import-dependent economy. That is why the government intervenes from time to time so as to allow liquidity in the market, reduce pressure in the parallel market. Now, some level of stability is being enjoyed in the market/ economy. Once there are no shocks like security challenges, such as Niger Delta Avengers, Boko Hram, etc, the economy will stabilize.

How would the budget impact positively on employment generation, given the massive unemployment situation in the country?

Government has said it would continuously explore revenue potential like taxation, and has put in place Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme, VAIDS, to generate more revenue. What is your assessment of the plan?

the Central Bank of Nigeria?

Adeleke

leverage revenue from taxation. So far, the Nigerian Customs Service has shown that they could perform, also, are the other agencies, including the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS. For VAIDS, it’s a gradual thing to achieve by the Federal Government.

To what extent has the economic diversification policy of the government worked?

I think the Federal Government is showing seriousness to diversify the economy. The focus of the 2018 budget is on nonoil revenue. Now, the government is looking at solid minerals, agriculture, tourism, among other sectors because oil is no longer selling globally unlike before now. For example, agriculture would improve the economy in so many ways; increase in export

of agricultural products lke yam, cassava, plantain, sorghum, rice, cocoa, palm oil. There would be a reduction in food importation, saving of foreign exchange for the economy, especially as the government is targeting zero per cent rice importation soon.

What is your assessment of foreign exchange management by the government and

Nigeria has never been short of fine programmes, but the bane of such programmes had been implementation. Do you think next year’s budget will deviate from past tradition?

The government should be given the benefit of the doubt about how it would go about implementing the budget. Buhari is determined to drive the economy well; and he has expressly stated this.

Considering that he looks more fit health wise now, I think we should expect a better deal from him in the months ahead.

Property B7 Stories by Babajide Okeowo In a bid at bridging the huge housing deficit in the country, Lagos State Government, Nigeria Mortgage Refinance Company (NMRC) and a consortium of developers have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU to build and deliver 20,000 housing units in Lagos.

This is in line with the Lagos Affordable Public Housing (L.A.P.H.) initiative of the Governor Akinwunmi Ambode-led administration, geared towards building 20,000 housing units through a joint venture initiative (JVI).

At the signing at the state’s Min-

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Lagos, NMRC, others partner to deliver 20,000 housing units istry of Housing Secretariat, Alausa, Lagos, the Commissioner for Housing, Mr. Gbolahan Lawal, said that the ministry and the developers had initiated an arrangement with Primary Mortgage Institutions (PMI) and NMRC to facilitate the creation of mortgages for subscribers to the housing units under the LAPH initiative.

In his words, “The state government is a subscriber to NMRC by virtue of the registration of our Lagos Building Investment Corporation (LBIC) with the company and is therefore qualified to benefit from the mortgage loan refinancing roles of NMRC. The refinancing agreement will assist the supply side as well as the demand side of

the value chain as it will set in motion a revolving pool of funds for mortgage origination which will assist developers and provide them access to construction finance and help scale up housing delivery,” he said.

Gbolahan added that the LAPH homeownership initiative and the collaboration were an opportunity for the

state and its residents to leverage the benefits under NMRC. Lawal said the refinancing agreement would also avail citizens of the affordability and accessibility the NMRC provides through the refinancing of long-term mortgages, thereby unlocking its multiplier effects on the state’s strong economy, including jobs and wealth creation.

How to detect and correct errors in property title documents Before you buy any property, it is essential you do due diligence.

The reasons are not farfetched. If there are errors in your property title documents, you run a risk of being tagged a fraudster or having issues with authorities for that. It is therefore expedient for every property owner to do second checks on their documents.

In this piece, you will get to know how to detect and correct errors in your property title documents especially on your survey It is usually a huge challenge correcting property title documents. There have been instances where surveyors make mistake on title documents and these mistakes go undetected which can spell doom to the buyer of such property.

In real estate, information is key, else you may be running into the wrong hands. Land or property title verification is a vital part of any land transaction.

When it comes to legal investigations for that piece of real estate, there are so many things to cross-reference, more reason you must be patient and take as much time as you want to do your due diligence Remember, it is your hard-earned money that is at stake and not the owner of the property’s money.

Considering the sensitivity and complexity of real estate transactions, going into land or real estate transactions without involving professionals will be suicidal.

Invariably, before in-

vesting in Land know the title and investigate the title; make sure there are no errors in your title documents to avoid sorry tales; or what you may want to call “stories that touch” In fact, involving a Lawyer and a Surveyor in your document investigation is non-negotiable. These professionals are important to your real estate transaction.

The lawyer is the only one that can draw up your contract papers legally.

Any other landed document drawn up by any other person is null and void and you would not be allowed to process your papers at the Land Registry.

Knowing, investigating and perfecting TITLE is the most important aspect of your real estate transaction.

There’s really no land verification you will be doing without verifying the authenticity of the documents used for the transaction which can range from receipts of thetransaction, survey plan, deed of assignment, layout plan, power of attorney to thecertificate of occupancy.

If there happens to be a flaw in one or more of the aforementioned documents, it could spell doom to the entire real estate transaction.

Title documents are the key to ownership of that property but let me shock you; there are a lot of property documents with errors. Most of these documents are being carried around without the owner being aware of the errors on them.

Firm entices customers with new estate ÏRƇƇƆƏ ƍƍ ƏƐƑ ƈƐƈƆ Ɛ GƆƊƊƈ 0ƏƆƆ jƏ ƗƆ Buildcon Global Services Limited, a firstclass real estate company, has commenced its new project, the Pracht Court located in Ajah, Lagos. The company is also giving opportunities to subscribers to own landed property in the Lekki Free Trade Zone (LFTZ), the fast-growing business hub of Lagos State.

Pracht Court, located in a serene environment, offers top-notch luxury, comfort, maximum security, and affordability.

The estate consists of four-bedroom terrace (smart) houses, which incorporate advanced automation systems to provide residents with sophisticated monitoring and control over the building’s functions. It is being constructed by highly-skilled architects and engineers with vast knowledge in critical innovations required in a dream home.

The Chief Executive Of-

ficer of Buildcon Global Services Limited, Mrs. Bukunola Gadzama explained that the success recorded at the company’s Pracht Gardens Estate, located in Ikota, Lagos, motivated the company to embark on Pracht Court.

According to her, a fourbedroom terrace home is worth N50 million with a 30 percent initial deposit and balance payable spread over two years.

The unique features of the estate include home automation system, central water system and treatment plant, 24 hours world-class security, a swimming pool, a clubhouse, a table tennis court, beautiful landscape and underground electricity.

As part of the exclusive benefits, subscribers are allowed to determine the progress and internal finishing of their homes and use of internal spacing.

They are also entitled to six months liability period

with Buildcon responsible for all repairs.

As a bonus, Gadzama said Buildcon is also offering opportunities for people to own parcels of land at the LFTZ. A plot of land measuring 648 square

meters in the area sells for N2.5million, outright purchase, and N3million for payment plan where a subscriber is required to make 30 percent initial deposit with completion within the period, she added.

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‘Consumption tax and need for savings’ The devil in the (accounting) details – and the economic effects: You often hear calls out there — mostly from Right economists but also from some on the Left — for a consumption tax in the U.S. As presented, it’s a super-simple idea: tally your income, subtract your saving, and what’s left is your consumption. You pay taxes on that.

We want to encourage thrifty saving and discourage profligate consumption, so what’s not to like?

Lots. Before getting into the idea’s economic virtues and vices, consider the accounting. Whaddaya mean by “saving”? Economists are deeply confused about that word, so it’s worth sorting through a bit.

Start with a simple pared-down household. The only accounting complication is that they own a house: How much did this household “save”? Should the interest payments count as consumption? The principal payments almost certainly should not (and could be treated that way under the rules of a consumption tax without a whole lot of work for homeowners and lenders…). But what about home maintenance?

A new paint job increases your home’s asset value. Should you depreciate that asset value over some years? Or say you buy new appliances for your kitchen: You are cash out of pocket, but your home is worth more. Are those purchases “consumption”?

This notion of some simple tally of your “saving” starts to look more complicated. We’re not talking “taxes on a 3-by-5 card” here.

And this is not a complex household. There will have to be some complicated IRS rules for what counts as saving. (I won’t even touch here on various clever opportunities to game this system.)

An expanded tally raises some other tricky questions: What if this family leases its car with an option to buy at the end of the lease, instead of buying? How do you account for that? And this doesn’t even touch the troublesome issue of health care: is it consumption? That’s how it’s tallied in the national accounts. But if Americans didn’t invest in maintaining their health, how prosperous would the country be? Should they tax health spending? If one gets sick, his taxes go up. Hmmm.

I’ll leave it to my gentle readers to consider the details — what’s consumption, what’s saving, and what’s neither? Just to say: I can’t quite see how this family would do their taxes without a complete balance-sheet accounting every year, or some quite complicated rules for 1040 filing that result in essentially the same thing.

The rather childishly simplistic

“just tally your income and subtract your saving” isn’t so simple when you think about the actual details.

The tuition line raises a particularly vexing question, and brings us back to the second question: what economic effects would we see from a consumption tax, under various accounting and taxation rules? Clearly, if you tax tuition, you discourage education. And consider more-prosperous families paying for private school. Are those families “consuming” more education than public-school families? Those households would be especially hard hit if tuition counts as taxable consumption — as would those private schools. Is that A Good Thing?

Much more broadly, though, the notion that saving is good and consumption is bad rests on some completely incoherent economic notions. For individual households and firms, sure: saving is prudential, and savings funds (at least some of) their investment.

But that’s simply not true collectively. Individual saving, spending less than your income, has no effect on our collective wealth,that mythical stock of “loanable funds”. It just means you’re holding the assets in your account instead of somebody else holding them (if you spend instead of saving).

Bottom of Form So the theory of collectively virtuous household-saving-fundinginvestment doesn’t make sense.

And the empirics over many decades bear that out: higher saving rates have pretty much nothing to do with investment rates.

When you tax consumption, you discourage consumption, including some forms of so-called “consumption” —tuition, home maintenance, health maintenance — that arguably should be tallied as investment, at least in part. (In the national accounts, they aren’t, at all; they’re all consumption.)

And that raises a key question that cuts to the crux of economic thinking: why do producers produce stuff ?

Any entrepreneur will give you a simple answer: they produce stuff because people are buying it, and consuming it (either immediately or over time). So taxing hence discouraging consumption discourages production — of both short-term consumption and longterm investment goods. A consumption tax, compared to, say, a wealth tax or a land-value tax, is a direct assault on GDP and GDP growth.

Is that what Right economists had in mind?

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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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Friday, November 10, 2017

With or without music, ladies will always flock around me –Iyanya For Iyanya Mbuk, the road to stardom for the Nigerian recording artiste and performer

What has fame deprived you off?

Fame gives you almost everything but then it takes away almost Would you say joining Mavin Records and with Temple Management around is good enough for you and your brand?

Yes, Temple Management is a movement obviously and trust me they got me covered when it comes to doing a job.

They deliver one hundred so I have never regret. Mavin is a

conscious of my appearance but sometimes I erroneously repeat an events. But I am thankful because this is the life I have chosen to live.

Is social media a blessing or curse to your career?

How do you feel when people say you are not the Iyanya they used to know?

Let me tell you how I feel when they say that, I feel nothing.

a place you should depend on for strength. It should be a place where you just go in and go out. Your fans are there, they want music, give them music. If they want videos, give them videos. If they

think about me is in their head. I repeat what you think showing them your girlfriend or other personal stuff. When you have think because of what you see or what you hear, but I am you have a girlfriend that you love, why are you putting her on social living, I am still moving, and God has been good to me. So if you are thinking over there stop doing this, stop doing girlfriend again on social media any longer.

saying, girls are not even an issue, that happens even in here as I speak with you right now.

You just came back from your tour, how was it?

It was one of my best tour, it is blessed and I enjoyed every part of it.

You tagged it one of your best and a lot of people are saying you have suddenly gone back to your RNB root?

2008 and in that competition, I had ten weeks to do different kinds of genre that ranges from Rocks, R&B amongst others. Remember as an artiste, I have different types of fans, there are some who want to dance to rock song and equally I have a quite number of them who also wants to listen to RNB. So honestly, for me, there is nothing wrong in going back and forth. As an artiste, I am allowed to be too.

Since the release of your EP titled, Signature, what has been the response from your listeners? responses were great and I am back here now and all I can say is all thanks to God. Because apart from the money I made from Signature EP, I have also been blessed, so putting songs in America, Do you think that there is a better view now?

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Yes, he is. He is someone I love his musical dexterity.

How would you describe the happiest day and the saddest day of your life?

The happiest day of my life is the day I won MTN Project Fame.

Obviously that was the day everything changed and the saddest

What do you miss the most about your late parents?

Fame will bring so many fake people into your life. Before I became really famous, there were times when I would feel downcast but when I call my mum, her prayers makes me feel better. My father was also my best friend.

Are you really in love?

How come you say you have the world interest at heart?

Because I focus on everything, when that comes I will. I can

babe. So over the years, I have learnt to keep it to myself. So I will

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Mutiat Alli

Mr Eazi out with new song ‘Pour Me Water’

I am not divorced yet with Saidi-Faithia Williams actress, Faithia Balogun, who now wishes to be addressed as Faithia Williams, has declared that although her relationship with her ex-husband actor, Saidi Balogun, are not divorced yet as there are no legal documents to proof that as the case is still in court.

Fathia & Saidi

to rest the end of her marriage to Saheed Balogun.

During the cause of the interview, Fathia Nigerian musician, Mr. hummed along to at odd hours Eazi, has dropped a new of the day, “Pour Me Water” single “Pour Me Water” which shall become the only anthem remix project slated for a through all joy and all pain, at March 2018 release. Ace least until March 2018,” Mr. Nigerian producer, E-Kelly, Eazi said in a statement. produced the new single. to be three or four remixes released early 2017, pays of my biggest songs this homage to Nigeria and Ghana. far, alongside some new Mr. Eazi said Nigeria and compositions aimed at a fresh global push for the the name itself a nod to his Over” became the song you favourite Ghanaian dish.

Olamide to release 7th studio album on Nov 17

marriage to actor Saheed Balogun did not

married might not be on her side.

Olamide has revealed plan good reception. to release his 7th studio Some of the artistes who had their inputs on the come November 17, 2017. album are Mavin Records Olamide made the diva, Tiwa Savage, Phyno, disclosure via a video clip Reminisce and Timaya.

According to the rapper, He followed up with another post with further details compiled under 48 hours by concerning his latest Young John who produced depository which has been set for release. list. The production credit of the song was attributed to

you go into the second

is not by their side,” she revealed.

Leading music app ’Boomplay’ wins App Africa award fastest growing music streaming and download platform, reinforced its continued contribution to the African content distribution ecosystem, after being recognised by an independent panel of industry experts at the AppsAfrica Awards.

AppsAfrica is a leading panAfrican technology news portal and advisory service dedicated to delivering the latest insights on mobile, tech and innovation in Africa. The AppsAfrica Awards aims to celebrate and connect the best in the African mobile and tech ecosystem with global players, and are recognised as the premier accolade for anyone operating Boomplay Music won the

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thing that would come to my mind was to have a glamorous wedding, with a wedding train, my 9 to 5 husband, my two children, everybody had plans,

user-friendly Boomplay Music application, which gives easy access to millions of songs, videos and entertainment buzz.

The award was announced at the AppsAfrica Awards party in Cape Town, South Africa on November 6, 2017. Nominated in the same category was Carter - SA, Asorbia – Ghana, Truecaller Africa and Feastfox – SA. Boomplay Music led the streaming and downloading app to ever win the award.

As at October 2017, Boomplay Music users has increased to over 16 million, compared to 6 million at the end of 2016.

Meanwhile, the Monthly Active Users have also increased to 9 million, up from only 2 million in

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the same period in 2016.

According to Joe He, Managing Director of Boomplay Music, over 2 million users are now using the app to listen to music, watch videos and read news every day.

Boomplay Music app was awarded for its ease of use, beautiful user interface and innovations, particularly music easily accessible to millions of Africans and ultimately driving more customers to mobile music consumption, while helping in curbing piracy through smart business strategies and ensuring intellectual property is duly protected using both technical and commercial efforts.

Boomplay sees to it that content off their music sales.

Commenting on the awards, the

Managing Director of Boomplay award for the best African app showcases our renewed efforts to build a sustainable ecosystem for content providers, while ensuring that have experienced in only a little over two years is super impressive. On behalf of Boomplay Music, we are emboldened by this recognition and will continue to sharpen our focus towards confronting digital content consumption challenges with new and adaptive innovations through Boomplay Music app is currently available for all android devices in the Google Play Store and will be available for iOS users in the year 2018.

Society Gist L4

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Friday, November 10, 2017

Ajibade Alabi

Uriel’s message of self-love When Jaiye Kuti celebrated amazes Internet trolls with Adeleye Fabusoro Former Big Brother Naija housemate, Uriel, got more than she

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What Nairobi Gov Mike Sonko & Dino Melaye have in common ing the lifestyle of Senator Dino Melaye comfortable, they better travel to Nairobi, Kenya before they will appreciate this controversial senator from Kogi State.

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Slim even though he is a rapper from Nigeria. Iceberg Slim who is originally

their relationship is growing stronger.

But the question still remains, when will the bell ring?

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Daily Times Nigeria

Friday, November 10, 2017

Ajibade Alabi

Mercy Johnson goes on her knees over ‘insensitive’ emoji after her condolence message on Instagram

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Miss Nigeria L6

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Friday, November 10, 2017

Photos: Auditions begin for Miss Nigeria 2017

...as Pageant records huge turnout in Abuja Times Multimedia, organiser of the Miss Nigeria pageant, has commenced auditions for Miss Nigeria 2017 in Abuja. The event which was well attended by contestants from across the Northern region was held at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja.

George Okoro (photographer and Lifestyle Magazine publisher), Adama Indimi (CEO Reign by Adama Lashes), Ogugua Okonkwo (CEO Style Temple) and Andy Ogbechei (Creative Director, A-Squared Network)

served as guest judges at the Abuja leg of the auditions.

The auditions continue tomorrow, November 9 in Port Harcourt and will wrap up in Lagos on November 11 and 12, 2017.

Enyinne Owunwanne, CEO, Times Multimedia, reaffirmed the commitment of the Miss Nigeria pageant to empowering event.

See photos from the event below:

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Music review

Mayorkun’s Mama takes over

After the release of Eleko, Mayorkun has really been doing greatly in the music industry, releasing mind blowing songs and making fans love him the more. He has been releasing mind blowing songs from one hit track to another and this has made him popular.

Mama which was shot on July 5, 2017 has been on the lips of everybody, making people sing along dancers and nice background. He really did a great job on is song and no doubt it really was a bomb.

It was shot by Clarence and produced by Kiddominant. Mama already has 3,205,424 views

and has been trending till date. Fans have been

best. unveiled in 2017. Fans are yet to get over his Sade” single which was performed in various institutions across Nigeria. Truly, Mayorkun is really killing it in the music industry.

Since he got signed by Davido into O.B.O, he has been doing great and getting more fans each day.

Mayorkun do not relent on your effort, we expect more from you. The video gets a 9/10.

Folarin Leonard

Music review

Before I Fall (2017): An Adaptation of a novel based on teen life, depression and friendship Have you ever experienced Dejavuu? That is the feeling that something has happened before? Well, witness Samantha Kingston re-live her horrific day in 2017 movie, Before I Fall. A Before I Fall is a 2017 American teen drama film directed by Ry Russo-Young and written

by Maria Maggenti, based on the 2010 novel of same title by Lauren Oliver. The film stars Zoey Deutch, Halston Sage, Logan Miller, Kian Lawley, Jennifer Beals, Diego Boneta and Elena Kampouris.

The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 21st, 2017, and was theatrically released on March 3, 2017, by Open Road Films. According to Indie Wire, it was one of the highest grossing independent films of 2017, hitting $15 million worldwide against its $5 million budget Samantha Kingston (Zoey Deutch) wakes on her friends, Lindsay (Halston Sage), Ally (Cynthy Wu) and Elody (Medalion Rahimi), who joke with her about losing her virginity to her boyfriend Rob (Kian Lawley) that night. During class, Sam is handed a rose, gifted from her boyfriend with a nonchalant note. She is also given a pale colored rose with a note suggesting it is from another boy named Kent (Logan Miller). He later invites her to his party. During lunch the girls make fun of Juliet (Elena Kampouris), an outsider girl that they view as a “psycho”. At the party, Juliet shows up, seemingly uninvited. Lindsay confronts her and the two fight, with Juliet leaving in tears. As they are driving back from the party, the car hits something and crashes, apparently killing Sam

and her friends.

Thinking the previous day was just a nightmare, Sam continues on with her day but finds that the same events occur, and they again crash leaving the party. Sam wakes up on the same day again.

Realizing she is in a time-loop, she convinces the group to have a sleepover instead of going to the party, trying to avoid the crash. They avoid the crash, but find out later in the night that Juliet has killed herself. Despite avoiding the crash, Sam wakes up on the same day again. Seemingly unable to break the loop, she angrily reacts to everyone around her, insulting her friends and family. At the party, she has sex with Rob, not room and breaks down in tears. Kent finds and comforts her, letting her stay in his room.

The next day, she skips school and spends time with her sister. At the party, Sam and Kent share a kiss. She hears the fight between Lindsey and Juliet from the hall and chases after her through the woods. Sam tries to stop Juliet, Sam and making her realize that Juliet was what the car hit on the original day. Sam wakes up again with a sense of calm and understanding, knowing what she must do to end the loop. She goes about her day much kinder and considerate than she had on the first. She also breaks up with Rob and tells Kent that she has a “secret” to tell him. At the party, she tells Kent she loves him. She again attempts to save Juliet, but when Juliet attempts to run into traffic, Sam accepts her fate and pushes her out of the way, being killed by a truck and ending the loop. As she

dies, a montage of good memories plays in her

spirit replies no, that Juliet was the one who saved her.

Before I Fall earned a nomination in 2017 Teen Choice Awards Choice Movie: Drama category.

Cast also earned nominations; Zoey Deutch in 2017 Teen Choice Awards Choice Movie: Drama Actress category and Kian Lawley in Choice Movie: Drama Actor category for the movie. Kian won the award for Choice Movie: Drama Actor.

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