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Ï Publish names, addresses of beneficiaries – AMEN Ï Accuses bank of giving loans to ghost beneficiaries Ï No, we never connive with machine importers – BoI Edward Nnachi, Lagos

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Tension in Abia as hoodlums raze Ariaria police station

Nwakanma, Umuahia, Lateef Ibrahim, Myke Ï Gov Ikpeazu warns mischief makers, says soldiers’ withdrawal begins today Sunday Uchendu, Francesca Iwambe, Abuja and Kingsley Chukwuka, Jos Ï 2 suspected IPOB members killed as markets, banks closed for business ÏÏÏ Abia State was early Thursday morning thrown into Ï Alleged gunshot towards Kanu’s residence after Gov’s press briefing tension, apprehension and fear as the Ariaria Divisional Continued on page 5

Resident Doctors suspend 10-day 7 strike with conditions Excitement, as Nigeria’s foreign 5 reserves hit $33bn FG needs $166bn to bridge infrastructure gap in Nigeria- Perm Sec 5

L-R: Director, Advocacy and Communication, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Eugene Orvihi–Ivase; Executive Director, CEO NPHCDA, Dr. Faisal Shuaib and Chairman, NPHCDA, Dr. Josheph Oteri, during the NPHCDA media orientation forum on Measles Vaccination Campaign in Abuja... on Thursday. Photo: TEMITOPE BALOGUN.

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Tension in Abia as hoodlums raze Ariaria police station Continued from page 1 Police Station, Aba Area Command, was set ablaze by yet-to-be identified hoodlums, while two people suspected to be members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) were early same day short dead at the Factory Road Junction at Akanu Ibiam (Bank Road), Umuahia by men suspected to be of the Nigerian Army. The killing incident happened at about 9.30am and this led to panic as people

started running helter-skelter and businesses hurriedly shut down, even as banks in the capital city shut their gates to customers. An eye witness said that the two young men, dressed in black attire and cap to match were gunned down along Bank Road close to Government House, Umuahia by the military while driving out from an area suspected to be Nnamdi Kanu’s country home in their military van that has the colour of the Nigerian Army on sighting the two

victims, who were said to be unarmed. “The dead bodies were immediately picked up by the soldiers and dumped inside the army vehicle, apparently to conceal evidence, while the third victim said to be a bank customer, was hit on his arm by a stray bullet and was also whisked away by the troops and is said to have been rushed to Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Umuahia for treatment.” A medical doctor at the Accident and Emergency Unit confirmed the devel-

opment on condition of anonymity, adding that the victim was brought to the emergency unity by the assailant’s unit, disclosing that that the victim’s condition was stable and he was later wheeled to the theatre for surgery. A security man at the main branch of a bank in along the area, said “we have closed for the day” when he was asked why customers were not being allowed into the bank. At the Afaraukwu area of Umuahia where the home

L-R: Commissioner for Insurance, National Insurance Commission of Nigeria,(NAICOM), Mohammed Kari and acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, when Mohammed Kari led a team on a visit to EFCC office in Abuja… on Thursday.

FG needs $166bn to bridge infrastructure gap in Nigeria –Perm Sec Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

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tary, Federal Ministry of Budget and National Planning, Mr. Leon Lawrence Aliboh, has said that the Federal Government requires a huge funding of over $166 billion to bridge infrastructure deficit in the country during the period 2014 - 2018. Aliboh disclosed this at the ‘Public-Private Dialogue on Infrastructure Delivery’ organized by the Ministry of Budget and National Planning in Abuja on Thursday, September 14, 2017. The Permanent Secretary was represented by Director Infrastructure Department in the Ministry, Barrister Nurudeen

Lawal. He explained that capital expenditure accounted for about 30 percent of the 2016 Federal Government budget and over N1.6 trillion was released largely for infrastructure projects spread across the country. He further maintained that the tempo of increased infrastructure expenditure is being sustained in the 2017 Federal Government budget. However, current fiscal realities, occasioned by developments in the local and global environment, have seriously constrained government capacity to meet the required infrastructure for socio-economic development. Accordingly, Aliboh noted, the Public-Private Dia-

logue on Infrastructure Delivery, is in line with the current administration’s priority of building a competitive economy by increasing public investment and improving the business environment for more private sector investments in infrastructure development, adding that it is also consistent with the broad objective of the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (20172020). In his remarks, the Acting Director General, Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), Engineer Chidi Izuwa, urged Nigeria to copy how other countries got it right with infrastructure development and add the Nigerian swagger to make it work

well. Izuwa revealed that Nigeria would soon launch the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) portal which, according to him, will be the first in the world. The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Infrastructure Bank (TIB), Adekunle Oyinloye, said that serious efforts should be made for Nigerians to know about the Nigerian Integrated Infrastructure Master Plan (NIIMP), arguing that it would just be another document dumped if not done so. He pledged that the TIB is determined to support the Ministry achieve projects from the NIIMP to a bankable level.

of IPOB leader is located, residents all deserted their homes leaving only IPOB members who were seen stationed around Kanu’s residence. With the information making round about the humiliation of civilians at Aba area, the commercial city, fear, tension and apprehension are at its top level as people, following reports that soldiers were allegedly killing innocent civilians, on Wednesday night around the Enyimba city, even as residents reported heavy gun shots throughout the night. This led to the setting ablaze by yet-to-be identified hoodlums, the Ariaria police station which the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr. Geoffrey Ogbonna, confirmed. Meanwhile, the State Command of the Nigerian Police headquarters at Bende Road, Umuahia closed the gate leading into the Central Police station Umuahia. Attempts made to get the reaction of the Public Relations Officer of the 14 Army Brigade, Ohafia, Maj. Oyegoke Gbadamosi, were unsuccessful as he could not pick calls put to him. Meanwhile, Abia State Governor Okezie IKpeazu has said that Operation Python Dance II will end today (Friday) in the state. He stated this during a briefing for select journalists in Government House, Umuahia on Thursday. The Governor said: “The security situation in the state in the past few days, which led to the deployment of soldiers into our state ahead of the Operation Python dance II, has become of great concern to both the government and the citizenry. “After several interventions, I want to inform you that by tomorrow (today) morning, there will be gradual withdrawal of solders from the streets at Aba and Umuahia, apart from the pre-existing military checkpoints at various locations in the state. “With the expected exit of soldiers from the streets, we must warn that we will not tolerate agitators and protesters taking over the streets for any reason at all”. According to him, “I will also be meeting the President and Commander-inChief of the Armed Forces, President Muhammadu Buhari, to discuss possible ways of relaxing the Operation Python Dance II in the state for now. “Our attention has been drawn to ugly incidences of attacks on police stations and military posts at Aba and Umuahia and we hereby warn that we will no longer tolerate that, and all other acts that are capable of causing insecurity in the

state. “We have also observed illegal acts of throwing petrol bombs and setting up of bonfires to obstruct free movements along some roads by suspected miscreants and wish to warn that such acts should stop forthwith”. He warned mischief makers who want to use Abia as their base that that henceforth, Abia will be too hot for them to carry out their wicked acts as the government will work with security agents to ensure the protection of lives and properties in the state without fear or favour and that there will be no hiding place for such persons. “At about midnight yesterday (Wednesday), we received security reports that hoodlums and miscreants, some of whom were allegedly brought into the state by unscrupulous individuals, were mobilising around Uratta road at Aba with a view to converging at Ariaria International Market to burn it down. Their aim was obviously to take advantage of the security situation in the state to cripple the economy of the state and cause widespread suffering. “It was this group that originated the rumours of attacks and counter attacks around the area and also tried to create panic to force people out of their homes to enable them execute their evil intentions under the cover of orchestrated crises. “Thankfully their plan was nipped in the bud by the combined team of soldiers and policemen that promptly moved to the area and later positioned around Ariaria market to protect the lives and properties of our people. “We have it on good authority that the same group of hoodlums attempted to burn down the police station at Ariaria market early today (yesterday) and security agents are currently on the hunt for them and those outside the state who are sponsoring their evil actions. Not even one of them will escape the full weight of the law. “Members and sympathisers of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) should henceforth desist from spreading false rumours capable of throwing our state into disorder. Those spreading such falsehood will be dealt with, according to the Law”, the governor said. He said that it is in the interest of all Abia citizens and residents for full and total peace and security to return to our state immediately, noting that no meaningful progress can be made in an atmosphere of violence and anarchy. However, shortly after Continued on page 7

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Stakeholders want EFCC’s probe of BoI Continued from page 1 become compelling following concerns raised by some stakeholders and other concerned Nigerians about BoI’s activities regarding the disbursement of the fund meant for operators in the sectors. This call is coming against the backdrop of alleged kickbacks, corruption and needless severe conditions its members encounter while trying to access the various Micro, Small and Medium Enter-

prises fund (a National Enterprise Development Programme initiative of the Federal Government). This is just as stakeholders in the nation’s real sector, who spoke to our reporter recently noted the inability of many entrepreneurs to also access the N220 billion SME’s fund earmarked for them by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), saying that the challenge has pushed operators in the micro, small and medium enterprises sector, lately, to appeal to the apex

bank to, as a matter of urgency review the guidelines for the disbursement of the intervention funds, which is aimed at assisting the operators to shore-up their production capacity. The fund is a government ingenuity to provide subsidised loans to SMEs at single digit (9% per annum) all inclusive interest rate. It’s also to cater for applications received from Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) under the NEDEP scheme.

The economic rationale behind its creation is to stimulate economic activities in the SME sub-sector being the major drivers of industrialisation, wealth and job creation in any country. The fund can be assessed by duly registered limited liability companies, enterprises and cooperatives in Nigeria and applications for its accessibility are received and processed at BoI state offices. In an exclusive chat with our reporter, AMEN Presi-

Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola (middle); Special Adviser to Governor on Culture and Tourism, Hon (Mrs.) Taiwo Oluga (2nd left); Director Planning and Consultancy Services, National Institute for Hospitality and Tourism (NIHOTOUR), Alhaji Momoh Kabir (right); representing NIHOTOUR Director General, Mr. Matthew Izuagie (2nd right) and Zonal Coordinator, NIHOTOUR, Dr. Tijani Nasiru (left), during the 2017 National Conference of NIHOTOUR, in collaboration with the office of Culture and Tourism, Osun State and Center for Black Culture andInternational Understanding in Osogbo, Osun State… on Thursday.

Nigeria’s foreign reserves hit $33bn Simon Ugwu, Lagos

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Reserves has grown to $33billion compared to the $31bn it recorded in August 2017. This latest figure was disclosed by the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN). The rise in the nation’s reserves, coming on the heels of the country’s recession exit as announced by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), would not only excite the Federal Government in its desire to rake in more revenue to fiance its ever-expanding expenditure, but also Nigerians in general. According to the Acting Director, Corporate Communications Department, Central Bank of Nigeria, Isaac Okoroafor, who stat-

ed this at the 24th CBN seminar for Finance Correspondents and Business Editors in Awka, Anambra State, on Thursday, Foreign Exchange Reserves grew to $31800.00bn from $30740.00bn; and Gold Reserves was recorded at 21.37 Tonnes. Daily Times gathered that the Foreign Exchange Reserves in Nigeria increased to $31800bn in August from $30740bn in July of 2017. It will be recalled that the CBN disclosed that its foreign exchange reserves gained estimated $968 million when it rose to $31.8bn on August 29, 2017. The apex bank did not provide reason (s) for the increase in dollar buffer to $31.8 billion, but Daily Times can report that it gained 3.14 per cent in Au-

gust this year from opening figure of $30.8 billion. The foreign exchange reserves opened the year at $25.8 billion, up 23.1 per cent from the previous year, still far off a peak of $64 billion hit in August 2008. In the last eight months, the foreign exchange buffer of CBN has appreciated by estimated $5.97 billion from $25.8 billion it opened this year despite the apex bank’s unrelenting intervention in the foreign exchange market. Experts said steady increase in global oil prices continued to impact on CBN’s foreign exchange buffer, though it dropped to $49.41 a barrel last week Wednesday, compared to $49.51 the previous day, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

(OPEC) daily basket price explained. Nigeria’s foreign exchange reserves rose to $31.22 billion, data from the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, have shown. The CBN data indicated appreciation in reserves in the midst of forex intervention put in place to the various exchange markets by the CBN. The CBN is believed to have injected a cumulative sum of $3.61bn between February and April 2017. The funds inject into the foreign exchange market is to ensure help maintain the value of the naira. Since the injection of the funds, the naira has remained relatively stable, hovering at about N363 to dollar in the parallel market or Bureau De Change.

dent, Prince Saviour Iche, alleged that officials of BoI unduly prevented SME operators from accessing the various funds made available by the Federal Government for selfish reasons, addin that it was high time the EFCC investigated the activities of the bank. Iche, who wondered why the bank preferred to hold ‘liquid’ the fund targeted at the SME stakeholders in the country, maintained that the stringent requirements given by the BoI for accessing the fund was a subtle bid to dissuade members from applying for it in order to divert the funds for selfish reasons. He said, “But, many of us have met those rigid conditions, yet, the bank is not willing to give the loan out to our members. There is a high-level corruption going in BoI. Therefore, we challenge the bank to publish the names, addresses of beneficiaries it claims it had given the loans to.” But the BoI has refuted the allegations over loans disbursement and also dismissed as false, insinuations that it was deliberately frustrating genuine MSME operators from accessing the special intervention fund provided by the CBN for them. The bank ,therefore, urged the agitating stakeholders to ensure they adopt the right approach in accessing the bank’s facilities as the procedure has been simplified for intending beneficiaries. BoI also expressed concerns that despite taking far-reaching strategies to decentralise its operations, as well as engaging in extensive enlightenment campaigns through zonal officers, a section of the MSME operators had grievances to express. In a telephone chat with its Director, Corporate Communications, Mrs. Hadiza Olaosebikan, the bank said it officials do not connive with machine importers in the country to rip-off SME operators of their meager funds. Also, Olaosebikan had in an SMS lately said “BoI does not grant its facilities to ghost operators as insinuated by the association. Procedures have been outlined for loan approval and disbursement,” adding that aggrieved parties should avail themselves of the channels provided to facilitate loan approval and

disbursement, especially the Business Development Service Providers (BDSPs). But the AMEN helmsman has alleged that, “investigations by our members revealed that BoI gives out these loans to ‘ghost beneficiaries’ who are cronies of officials of the bank, whom the fund was not intended for in the first place,” adding that “we challenge the BoI to publish the names and addresses of those it claimed had accessed the loans. “If you hear people say our members are unnecessarily being hindered from accessing the fund, it is the truth. This is because the officials have come up with conditions that are unwholesomely too rigid for SME operators. This is equally because as the president of AMEN, I receive text messages daily from our members complaining of the sufferings they go through trying to access the fund. So, such strident conditions make it very cumbersome for operators to access the fund,” he stressed. Iche, who noted that some SMEs owners under AMEN started the process of accessing the fund since 2013, however wondered why many of them who had met the conditions spelt out by the development institution had not gotten the loan. “Some of our members have been on this journey since 2013 and met the conditions by BoI for accessing the fund, because they vowed to see the end and get the loan, which personally I could not meet at the time. But they have not been able to access the fund. The loan has not been made available to them,” he maintained. Continuing, he said:”One of the conditions the bank gave is that an operator should open a joint account with two BoI staff as signatories and 10 per cent of the loan value paid into the account. And these two staff of the BoI have the right to withdraw the money without the consent of the SME operator (owner of the business). And the assurance is that if this 10 per cent of the loan value is paid, the loan would be released within six days; now, some of my members with a lion heart have still gone further and borrowed money from friends, banks and relatives with the intention that within six days, the loan Continued on page 7

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would be released and they will be in a position to pay back the money borrowed. But as I speak to you right now, some of them deposited this 10 per cent in the last two years now; they have not seen any loan. No loan has been released to them”. He pointed out that the sudden subtle clause by the BoI that an SME operator must own a production machine, was a swift move to further rip-off operators illegally of their meager finances because, according to him, officials of the BoI connive with importers of these machines to inflate their prices. “All of a sudden, they said we must buy machines. You know what they do? They connive with the

sellers of these production machines which they ask our members to go and buy. Most worrisome thing is that they don’t give you the loan in bulk. They make available a tranche of the loan for a machine, a part for chemical and just a token for running capital. They will now link you up with a company they have interest in to go and buy the machine from. “Now, a machine our members would buy for N1 million if they had the money, you would go to the company they have directed you, the sellers would inflate the price and tell you is N2 million; something you could have gotten for N1 million if you had gone there on your own. This is because they share the additional money on the

price of machines sold to our members, with the BoI officials who recommended them to us. We have even protested and drawn their attention to the fact that some of our members do local fabrication and can produce these machines far better than what they recommend that we buy and that the BoI should give us the money for us to buy from our indigenous manufacturers. But the BoI refused. If you go to Owode, you find that most companies had folded up owing to unfavourable business conditions in the country and you will also find that our people produce and sell their machines cheaper. We implored the BoI to give us this money for us to source for the machines by ourselves. They refused.

I have said it in private discussions and am saying it to you again today and here now; the EFCC should hurry and probe BoI,” he urged. But the Chairman, Nigerian Association of Small Scale Industrialists (NASSI), Lagos Division, Mr. Segun Kuti-George, told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that his members had been unable to access the fund, despite deliberate efforts by his association to assist members in writing presentable proposals. He had noted with dismay that the slow disbursement of the loans had made most SME operators to lose confidence in the scheme. He said: “Up till now, we just hear that some amount has been disbursed to some SMEs. We don’t know the

people who have received the funds, because I don’t think any of our members has received any loans.” Also another SME group, Association of Small Business Owners of Nigeria (ASBON), said judging by the number of successful beneficiaries of BoI loan from its members, it’s less than 5% of the total number of applicants, adding that the foremost reason for this is the bank’s inability to truly understand the capacities and best methodology in dealing with micro and small business owners. Commenting on the issue, Dr. Femi Egbesola, National President, ASBON, said: “ASBON like every other stakeholders is facing same and common challenge of easy accessibility of loans from BoI. While BoI may rightfully acclaim that they have been disbursing funds to SMEs, the pivotal question

is: How many SMEs has really and truly accessed their funds? To illustrate, if I am a financial institution and I have 10,000 applications for loan and after scrutiny, 5,000 applicants were successful but eventually I disbursed fund to just 10 applicants; yes, I can boast that I have disbursed fund to applicants but then, what is the percentage of beneficiaries compared to successful applicants? If I disbursed to 10 persons out of 5,000, can I truly say I am doing well enough? The answer is left to your imagination.” He said to help solve this bottleneck, more development banks like BoI that particularly address the financial and business needs of SMEs should be created and added that the BoI alone does have the capacities to cope with the enormous numbers of SMEs in the country.

Tension in Abia as hoodlums raze Ariaria police station Continued from page 5

A new constructed bridge donated by Nest-Oil and Gas Construction Company to Imiringi town in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State… on Thursday.

Resident Doctors suspend 10-day strike with conditions Idu John Abuja & Angela Onwuzoo Lagos

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The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD on Wednesday suspended its strike with a condition in case the government fails to comply with the agreements reached with its members. NARD President, Dr John Onyebueze, who disclosed this in a statement on Thursday, said that the National Executive Council of the Association took the decision to call off the strike after a careful consideration of the renegotiated agreement with the Federal Government. Onyebueze said, “The National Executive Council of NARD met from 6pm

,Tuesday , 12th September to 12:15am , Thursday, 14th September 2017 to review the status of our nationwide strike and the offer from government in the renegotiated Memorandum of Terms of Settlement (MTS) with government . “After due consideration of the efforts by government and progress made in addressing the items on the notice of our ultimatum, and strike, as well as implementing the contents of the renegotiated MTS, NARD resolved to suspend her 10 days strike, and to reaccess the situation in two weeks at our AGM in Abuja. “We sincerely thank the public, press and our families for their support during this period of strike.”

Though, most of their demands have not been met, one of our correspondents gathered that the doctors have been paid their arrears but decided to suspend the strike to enable all their members receive alerts. The resident doctors had on September 4 embarked on an indefinite strike over non-payment of salaries and welfare packages including their immediate enrolment in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) by the federal government. Justifying the suspended strike, NARD Chairman, UCH Ibadan chapter, Dr.Segun Olaopa,said :” It is very legal for us to go on strike as they cannot be

paying us half our salaries since 2014 and expect us not to demand it. “The country is currently undergoing harsh economic crisis and it is affecting us too psychologically. How do you expect a psychological imbalanced doctor to treat patients especially in an unconducive environment?”

ending his address, there were fierce gunshots towards the country home of the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, as Government House short its gates, while solitary men of the Navy were seen at battle ready, while no soldiers were seen inside the Government House as usual. However, the new Commissioner of Police, Abia State, Mr. Anthony Ogbizi, has called on residents to be law abiding and ensure peace in the state. Ogbizi stated this while taking over as Commissioner from the former CP, Mr. Adeleye Oyebade after a brief handover ceremony at the command’s headquarters in Umuahia. He condemned the razing of Ariaria Police Station in Aba and expressed his resolve to work hard to make Abia State safe for all. Ogbizi warned against clamour for the disintegration of the country, saying there would never be “a re-

public within a republic”. Meanwhile, the United Progressive Party (UPP), on Thursday, condemned in strong terms what it called the unprovoked militarisation of South East as there is no emergency in the region to warrant such massive military deployment. The UPP stated that the code name of the military siege in the South East, Operation Python Dance II, shows the intention of the Military High Command in carrying out the exercise. The party noted that Python Dance, which in Igbo language means Egwu Eke, is an act of terrorism, stressing that it is obvious that a Python does not dance like masquerade, it poisons and swallows its prey. “It is the clear intention of the army to suppress, subdue and conquer the unarmed good people of South East at peace time by a naked display of military power in flagrant violation of the Constitution of the Continued on page 10

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Five suspects arrested for Hector’s murder

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responsible for the murder of the former Gulder Ultimate Search Winner, Hector Jobarteh have been arrested by men of the Lagos State police Command. Hector who was shot dead on September 3rd, 2017 was trailed to his home at No. 8, Olufowora Close, New Oko-Oba, Lagos. from the airport where he had gone to pick up his younger brother. Parading the suspects at the Police Commands Headquarters in Ikeja, the State Commissioner of Police, Ag/CP Imohimi Erdgal said the suspects were arrested following a painstaking effort by the police. The suspects whose names were given as Abdul - Rasheed Jimoh, Francis Madu, Usman Adeyemi, William Igana and Valentine Muna Igana, the Uber driver who drove the suspected gun men to Hector’s house claimed he was only hired by the gang unknowing to him they were on a mission to kill. He alleged he had only

started the job for about three days before he fell into trouble. He said,”I had just been registered under the Uber platform and I needed an Android phone to facilitate the business. I called my brother Valentine to help me with a phone. He introduced me to one JK. JK said he had a phone I could use and that he wanted to sell for N10,000. I told him I had only N5,000 and promised to give him the balance of N5,000 later. “The next day, JK called me to take him to Yaba. While on our way to Yaba, we stopped and picked up some two other guys. I charged them N10,000 but they gave me N8,000 and promised to balance me later. “I didn’t know what they went there to do. The next day, I was also called by JK that him and his friends will be going to Abeokuta and that they will be needing my service. “ I charged them N20,000 and we embarked on the journey. It was only when we got somewhere in Sango that they asked me to stop at one bushy part and they brought out a gun.

Abia hoodlums raze Ariaria police station Continued from page 7 Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, as amended, which they swore to uphold,” the party said. According to the UPP statement: “The pictures and videos of unarmed young men in Abia State beaten and forced by soldiers at checkpoint to jump inside deep muds that covered their bodies up to neck level, forced to lie face up in that condition on road side and paraded by this Army of Occupation, are despicable, detestable, eye-sore and assault on our national psyche. Also, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the alleged brutality by the military against members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB). The PDP has, consequently, called for the setting up of an independent panel of experts on human rights to ascertain the veracity of this allegation. The PDP, in a statement on Thursday by its Head of Publicity Division, Chinwe Nnorom, on behalf of the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, said members of the Nigerian military are paid to protect life and not to humiliate the

people. The PDP said it is appalled by the emergence of a video clip which has gone viral, that shows acts of humiliation against unarmed civilians by members of the Nigerian military. “If true, it’s the depth of callousness and a further descent into the gutter by people who are paid to protect life, property as well as the country’s territorial integrity”, the party said. The statement reads in part: “The PDP believes that human life is sacrosanct and must be treated as such by all and sundry; the right to life and liberty as enshrined in our constitution and other international conventions must therefore not only be respected and protected, but must be seen to be so. But there was palpable tension in Abia State on Thursday night as soldiers allegedly invaded the Afara country home of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mr Nnamdi Kanu, in Umuahia, the state capital. The invasion came 30 minutes after Abia State Governor Okezie Ikpeazu disclosed that the gradual withdrawal of soldiers from streets in Aba and Umuahia will commence today.

The alleged invasion of Kanu’s Afara country home of the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu at about 5.30pm on Thursday saw grave damages to the residence of the monarch of Afara, HRM, Eze Israel Kanu, who is the father of the IPOB leader. Sources from the area, said the operation left four people suspected to members of IPOB dead, while 15 others were whisked away. The source disclosed that even the Alsatian dog of the monarch was not spared the agony as it was also killed, while materials and property were allegedly carted away by the military. But all efforts efforts to get the comments of military authorities to talk did not materialize at press time. Meanwhile, the whereabouts of the IPOB leader is unknown as it was alleged that he was not seen by the military when the soldiers struck. His father and mother were also not seen by the soldiers when they struck while scores of IPOB members in the compound that were taken unawares by the invasion allegedly sustained injuries. It was also gathered that the remnants of the IPOB members in the area had

gathered together after the operation, setting bonfires at strategic corners of the area. From 9am when some two people were killed and one bank customer wounded, all shops had remained closed at about 7.45 pm. In a related development, a senior lawyer, Chief Sebastine Hon (SAN) has described the dehumanising treatment melted out on persons suspected to be Biafra apologists by the Federal government as anti Igbo. Hon, who condemned the development, said, it is unbelievable that the Nigerian Army, once respected globally, would con-descend to the level of flogging its hapless captives and compelling them to submerge themselves in thick mud. In a statement he personally signed and made available to the Daily Times, Hon advised the Federal government to tread with caution and not to depict the Biafran apologists as arch enemies. The senior lawyer clarified that even though he is not in support of any separatist agitation in Nigeria, he do not support the Nigerian Government’s demeaning response to the smouldering crisis.

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Politics Lateef Ibrahim, Abuja The United Progressives Party (UPP), has said that the people of Anambra State have suffered from the debilitating effect of godfatherism as well as the damage done to their development by political merchants. The UPP warned therefore that the Anambra State of 2017 is not available for retirees to come and assume governorship positions only to beef-up their retirement benefits to the detriment of the state’s development and growth. The party said this in a statement in reaction to an article entitled “Osita Chidoka’s Political Opportunism”, Written by a former Commissioner for Information in Edo State, Prince Kassim Afegbua. In the statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary of UPP, Chief Ogbuehi Dike and made available to Journalists in Abuja, the party expressed its displeasure at what it called the unprovoked attack from the former Commissioner and one time Chief Press Secretary to the immediate past Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomole. The UPP noted with sadness that, “Prince Afegbua obviously set out to carry out a hatchet job in his attempt to diminish the highly rated governorship candidate of the United Progressive Party (UPP), Chief Osita Chidoka who towers head and shoulder above the candidates of other political parties including Prince Afegbua’s All Progressives Congress (APC’s) candidate whose emergence remains in messy controversy even as Prince Afegbua was throwing stones from an obvious glass house, hiding under his regular column in the New Telegraph newspaper which does not in any way cover his obvious partisan irredentism. “In spite of the distractions from the likes of Prince Afegbua, the UPP and Chief Osita Chidoka remain focused and have since mounted the most robust grassroots based campaign to win the election convincingly. “The good people of Anambra State have suffered from the debilitating effect of godfatherism. They have also suffered from the damage done to their development by

Myke Uzendu, Abuja Contrary to the position held by Chief Raymond Dokpesi that he formed the Advanced Peoples Democratic Alliance (APDA), as a plan “B” for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the APDA has come out to state that Dokpesi is not its founder but merely its media partner. The APDA, in a statement, signed by its spokesperson, Tosin Adeyanju, on Wednesday dismissed Dokpesi’s account on events regarding its registration, denying the claims that Dokpesi and a faction of PDP formed and financed the party. In the statement, “APDA challenges Chief Dokpesi to make public the expenditures that made him the financier of the party and names of the PDP governors and the Federal Government agency which he claims is sponsoring APDA,” the statement said. Recounting how the party was formed and registered, the statement said, “The National Chairman, Shittu Mohammed, approached Chief Dokpesi to partner us with his media outfit during the process leading to the registration of the party and the present National Secretariat was equally donated by the National Chairman as well. “It is public knowledge that all the PDP

Guber poll: Anambra people are tired of godfatherism, says UPP

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political merchants. “Anambra State of 2017 is not available for retirees to come and assume governorship positions only to beef-up their retirement benefits to the detriment of the state’s development and growth. “We do not mind to be criticised, after all, we are at the moment an opposition party both at national level and state level. But criticism must be made of sterner stuff devoid of malice,” the party said. The UPP noted that if there are political opportunists for the Anambra State November 18 governorship election, they will be located in Anambra State Chapter of the APC where over 18 aspirants engaged themselves in an obvious bazaar exercise to procure the party’s governorship ticket

believing that the result of the election will be written and announced at Abuja as used to be the case in the days of the PDP supervised INEC conducted elections. The statement pointed out that the strength and popularity of UPP “is not based on its affiliation with the establishment at Abuja. It is not also derived from any primordial sentiment as maliciously portrayed by Prince Afegbua in his vexatious article. “UPP is an emerging brand in the Nigerian political scene. It has a very strong and powerful message that is ideologically rooted for all the ethnic nationalities in Nigeria including the people of Edo State where Prince Afegbua comes from. “The pedigree of the UPP leadership is

incomparable to any other, in the areas of integrity, courage, boldness, uprightness, progressivism and consistency. Chief Osita Chidoka was attracted to UPP along with six other aspirants based on these attributes. “His campaign for the party’s nomination was robust and total. His emergence remains the most rancor-free with very strong grassroots mandate of over 90 percent of more than 1400 delegates present and voting in the party’s governorship primary election held on 19th August, 2017. “It is significant to note that APGA is waiting with trepidation for the Supreme Court to decide who between Chief Victor Oye and Chief Martin Agbaso leadership of the party is eligible to nominate a legitimate candidate for the Anambra State governorship election. “The PDP that is already a shadow of its former self is still enmeshed in bitter controversy over the outcome of its governorship primary election in Anambra State. The worse is Prince Afegbua’s APC where after the bazaar that characterised the party’s primary election in Anambra State, the APC has ended up as expected with multiple suits in various courts to determine who their authentic candidate will be in an election that is scheduled for November 18, 2017. “In spite of the distractions from the likes of Prince Afegbua, the UPP and Chief Osita Chidoka remain focused and have since mounted the most robust grassroots based campaign to win the election convincingly. “The good people of Anambra State have suffered from the debilitating effect of godfatherism. They have also suffered from the damage done to their development by political merchants. Anambra State of 2017 is not available for retirees to come and assume governorship positions only to beef-up their retirement benefits to the detriment of the state’s development and growth.

APDA faults Dokpesi over party ownership

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family disowned and has continuously refuted any relationship with the APDA. The Caretaker Chairman, BOT Chairman and the National Publicity Secretary of the party had

severally issued statements to this effect. “APDA is not a plan B to any political party, but welcomes any political leaning that identifies with its social democratic ideals, which is hinged on returning our country back to the path of prosperity and inclusive governance. “That Dokpesi claims that he never left PDP for a micro second is a clear testimonial and a vindication of the held position of the APDA on his status in our party and we wish him well in his bid for the position of the PDP chairmanship.” The party said it was primarily focused on providing the framework and roadmap for the creation of a new Nigeria where “our first point is to think of our country as an indivisible entity where we will be strong together.” Recall that Dokpesi had claimed in his earlier statement that he formed and financed APDA as an alternative for the Ahmed Makarfi faction of the PDP, insisting that there were obvious pointers that the APC-led Federal Government was fanning the internal leadership squabbles in the party (PDP). Dokpesi said that the Court of Appeal judgment in Port Harcourt “in which injustice,

falsehood and manipulation of already prepared lead judgement in favour of the then Ali Modu Sheriff group” made it necessary to prepare for any and every eventuality. The former Chairman of Daar Communications explained that the situation became more uncertain as the Makarfi faction lost out in several state’s primary-elections and local government elections in many states while the Sheriff group was allowed to present candidates in those elections, notably in Ondo, Edo, and Benue. He said, “The colour of APDA remains PDP colours. The constitution of APDA is PDP constitution improved with the Jerry Gana-led strategy review committee. “The registration of APDA was on a need to know basis as the government in power will not allow the authentic PDP led by Makarfi to survive. “All organs of the party and leaders were fully aware of the effort to register the party as Plan B. Suffice to mention that over 85 percent of the leaders of the party who were in the know and approved the registration of the party as Plan B.

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Stay off varsity premises, LASU authority warns dismissed staff

Igbo community safe in Adamawa -Gov Bindow

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Executive Governor of Adamawa State, Senator Muhammadu Umaru Jibrilla Bindow has assured the Ndigbos (Igbos) and indeed all other non indigenes tribes basing in the state that their lives and businesses are safe and protected. Bindow said this to News Men in Government House Yola shortly after a security meetings with all the security agencies in Yola. He further said that the meeting is all about renewing commitment, restragizing by the security Men on how to be more proactive especially in the areas that are more prune to all form of attacks.

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The Lagos State University Authority has warned all the dismissed staff to stay off the campus. In a press release signed by Acting. Head, Centre for Information, Press and Public Relations, Lagos State University, Ojo, Mr Ademola Adekoya, the Management received information that some erstwhile Staff of the University who have been dismissed by the University Governing Council, for one form of misconduct or the other have been coming into the University premises, intent on initiating violence and breakdown of Law and Order on the peaceful Campus. The University Author-

ity hereby reiterates that ALL individuals who have been dismissed should stay away from the premises of Lagos State University henceforth. The advice is already contained in their Letters of Dismissal, which were not only delivered to them through their respective Deans/Departmental Heads, but were also sent to their E-mail Addresses [Personal and Official], as well as Text messages on Friday, 8th September, 2017, immediately after the decision was taken by the Governing Council of the University. For the avoidance of doubt, Concerned Individuals and the General Public are reminded that the Governing Council is the highest Policy/Decision making body of the

University. In the circumstance, all members of the University Community who have chosen to sentimentally support the dismissed Individuals [covertly or openly] to undermine the decision of the Council are also acting contrary to the rules and regulations of the University and are advised to refrain from doing so. t is imperative to state categorically that the misconducts for which they were dismissed were not Union related, and the disciplinary mechanism of the University [as backed by the Conditions of Service] was dully followed in the Process to arrive at their dismissal. Against this background, the dismissed In-

dividuals who wish to have access to the University premises must contact the Chief Security Officer of the University who will facilitate such access as may be appropriate. It would be recalled that on Wednesday, Lagos zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, led by Prof Olusiji Sowande of the Federal University of Agriculture (FUNAAB) held a press conference in LASU to condemn in its entirety, the ignoble decision of the LASU Governing Council which purportedly dismissed the Chair of the Branch, Dr Isaac Oyewumi, the Vice Chairman, Dr Adebowale Adeyemi-Suenu and some other academic staff on unfounded, baseless and trump up charges.

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He also said that Adamawa people should know that the state is more calm,peaceful and conducive for business purposes. The assurances given by the governor is to dispel rumours others are making for Igbos to leave the state,saying that those making the noise are nothing but enemies of the state and they can be arm bandit who are roaming about to cause confusion to loot people’s wealth. “Adamawa Is home to all especially Igbos that are contributing to the economy growth of the state and nobody should chase them for whatever reason, they are indigenes and part of the state just like any other persons. “ Bindow said

Non-adherence to environmental report caused flooding in Plateau, says NESREA Kingsley Chukwuka, Jos

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Country Representative, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Mr. Yoshi Nugochi (left), presents business equipment to Madam Hafsatu Abudullahi from Gombi Local Government Area (2nd right), as part of UNDP/Japan Intervention Programme to communities affected by Boko Haram insurgency in Adamawa… on Thursday.

FG targets 33m children for measles immunisation as FG releases N3.5bn Ibeneme Ebelechukwu,Abuja

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Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA, Dr. Faisal Shuaib has disclosed that Federal Government has released N3.5 billion naira for the 2017/2018 National Measles Vaccination Campaign targeted at 33 Millon eligible children between the ages of 6 months to 5 years across the country. Shuaib disclosed this yesterday at a one -. Day Media Orientation Forum for the 2017/2018 Measles Vaccination Campaign in the country.

He said, “ we should reach 95 percent because this is our desire and this will require everybody working together, the media, traditional, religious and Community leaders, adding “ this is the opportunity for us to reach the very last mile to reach every child.” It is critical to mobilise mothers to take their children to the immunization posts, because we want to have a campaign that will march the expectations of the Federal Governmnet, NPHCDA, Shuaib emphasised. Chairman of the Nation-

al Measles Technical Committee, Dr. Joseph Oteri in a presentation noted that that non- compliant cases will be sanctioned using the Child Right Acts Bill which most states have dommesticated. Now we need house to

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house mobilization and we have increased the number of immunization days to 6 , this is to have a mop - up on missed children, Oteri said. “Other things put in place for the measles immunization campaign, he said includes accountability framework with rewards and sanctions with real time monitoring to trigger responses when necessary.” While acknowledging states that have released thier counterpart funding , the ED urged states that are yet to do so to release their funds.

The National Environmental Safety and Regulatory Agency (NESREA) said that the non-adherence to environmental impact assessment (EIA) report was the major cause of the recent flooding in Plateau. The North Central Acting Zonal Director of NESREA, Mr Apia Jude, said this at a town hall meeting on Flooding organised by the Radio Nigeria Highland FM on Thursday in Jos. Our Correspondent reports that the meeting was part of its programme known as “Voice out for Better Plateau”. Jude said that most of the roads and other construction works being executed in the state did not tally with the environmental needs of the communities. “Most of the contractors handling roads’ construction in some parts of the state do not adhere to EIA report.’’ He said that the recent flooding experienced in the state was due to inadequate drainage system that had been damaged by previous rainfalls. Jude advised construction companies to always

consider the present and future needs of the environment where they were working to guide against disasters such as flooding in future. Also, Mr Alhassan Barde, the Executive Secretary, Plateau State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) expressed worry over the arbitrary manner people built on waters ways in the state. According to him, people do not heed government warnings on such issues, hence, endangering their lives. He advised residents of areas such as Rikkos, Angwan Rogo, Gangare, and other parts of Jos to learn to heed government’s warnings. “When you visit those areas, you will realise that most buildings do not have approvals; people build on water ways and that is an invitation to flooding. “It is the duty of government to protect lives and properties of its citizens, but the citizens on their part should also listen to warnings on issues that can affect them negatively,’’ he said. Barde advised residents of the state to desist from blocking water ways either by building or dropping waste on them.

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he excruciating recession has come and gone, but the ill effects are still biting hard on the citizenry and businesses across the country. One of the businesses that felt the bad side of the recession were the deposit money banks. At the onset of the recession the economy contracted, many businesses and individuals were badly affected as many of them who took loans from their banks prior and during the recession were unable to service such loans as at when due despite repeated demands for them to pay back. Following the huge toxic assets they are carrying in their books, many commercial banks in the country are said to be increasingly finding it very challenging to cope with the difficult operating environment. Consequently, many of the banks are now carrying high non-performing loans which they must provide for in their books, thus limiting the quantum of loans they can grant to new customers and reducing their performance in the operating year. Newspaper reports also indicate that the deposit money banks accumulated as much as N230.6 billion non performing loans in the first six month of this year alone. Such non performing assets may increase to a point that would make the banks unsalvageable if urgent efforts are not made by the government and the regulatory authority to safe the banks from going under. More than 50% of the Deposit Money

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STATEMENTS BY THOSE WHO MATTER

Mathew Kukah

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Wole Soyinka

“The world can provide for the need of everybody but cannot provide for the greed of everybody.”

“The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.”

“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”

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Daily Times Nigeria Friday, September 15, 2017

Igbos should have one rallying voice to Nigeria: Let us go!

Boblin Samfor

f all the problems supposedly employing the occupants of Aso Rock, the federal government has managed to turn the cause of Nnamdi Kanu and the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra into a cause célèbre. Let us be clear about this – the government has bungled its response to the legitimate concerns of a significant swathe of one of the country’s six geopolitical regions and if anything, is only strengthening the case for leaving this current contraption called the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Since the emergence of Nnamdi Kanu as the focal point of a secessionist move within the SouthEast that had increasingly gained traction over the past two decades, fuelled by a sense of political marginalisation and a relegation to the sidelines of important interventions on issues of national importance in post-Civil War Nigeria, the facile and reactionary overtures of certain segments of the Nigerian political elite and intelligentsia have awoken the sensibilities of many Nigerians of Eastern, and in particular, Igbo origin, to the need to query and redefine the essence of what it means to be a Nigerian, 47 years from the end of a war that devastated the East, heralded the balkanisation of our politics along firm ethnic lines, laid bare the defects of this country in a global spectacle and still manages to passionately divide public opinion in ways that still illustrate the fact that many, in the West but especially in the North are still in denial about a conflict that was as equal parts armed conflict, equal parts genocide. It is important to address the many apologists in the country who view self determination as a threat to Nigeria’s sovereignty as one in-

dissoluble and indivisible entity, who say Nigeria is sacrosanct and cannot be negotiated, amidst this high level of ethnic fidelity, nepotism with its accompanying political instability, and remind them that self-determination is a concept that flows through all of human history and the human struggle to exist in many societies. Man, from time immemorial, has at critical junctures, felt the need to reconsider and attempt to recalibrate the organising compact of his relationship with his fellow peers when existing organising principles appear to be unfavourable to the continuation of a peaceful, mutually beneficial coexistence. At such times, the sensible route has always been to come to the negotiating table with an open mind ready to respond to reason and make necessary adjustments. The alternative option when such legitimate aspirations are denied has always been armed confrontation. The events that played out in the Nigerian Senate in late July, coupled with the movement of the military into parts of the South-East, notably Abia, is exactly why Nnamdi Kanu is winning the ideological battle if the Nigerian side can be said to be waging a battle of ideas in the first place. It is manifestly unfortunate that serving senators and federal representatives, ostensibly elected to cater for the ultimate interests of the electorate, voted against a common sense restructuring agenda which would have facilitated the devolution of powers to the states at a time of growing calls for the decentralisation of the decision making process away from Abuja. At this point, it is trite to ask, what are we really doing? Why are we deceiving ourselves? Kanu has apparently looked at the Nigerian situation and the characters running its structures, having

viewed the entrenched position of the north and their unwillingness to relinquish the skewed advantage bequeathed to them by their pre-independence elite, and much later, the military via the agency of unitarianism and arbitrary state creations, and concluded that the north will never allow any meaningful attempt at restructuring this unwieldy, unsustainable structures that continue to artificially prop up this country, In the final analysis, it would appear that the 48 senators who voted against restructuring are scared of a real attempt at sensible governance – typified through the constant agitations of Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB, a true leader who refuses to be a push over, a man who knows his nuts and how to galvanise people to his side, a clear contrast to the excuse-laden leaders in the South-East who have been complicit in the exploitation and marginalisation of their own people – chief among which is Imo governor, Rochas Okorocha. , the quintessential example of bad governance in the region claims to be a populist philanthropist and successful businessman has over his six years in power, exposed his quasi-dictatorial tendencies, owing state employees salary arrears and pensioner gratuities for months and most recently, causing the death of innocent people in the name of achieving a blind urban renewal policy. Okorocha is emblematic of the disconnect and failure that the current system has morphed into and highlights the need for an independent Biafra since the so-called restructuring will clearly see the light of the day. The operating ethos for the South-East thus has to be this: Let Us Go. There is no reason why any country should deny an extraction of people who are clearly uninter-

ested in being part of a shared entity from actualising their dreams. It is certainly not a crime, our militaristic laws notwithstanding. It makes no sense for us to continue to remain part of an entity where the political equation is engineered to disproportionately disenfranchise us, encourage herdsmen to rampage on our lands with impunity, maiming our mothers, raping our young girls, killing our farmers, destroying our crops while the same one Nigeria propagandists won’t move a hair and an irresponsible federal government turns a blind eye. Nigeria has become such a pathetic story that the ‘one Nigeria’ mantra rings hollow. How can we be one Nigeria when on the demise of a group of persons, the first interest is the tongue or religion is of the victims. How can we be one Nigeria when the value of human life seems to mean absolutely nothing to the government. How can we be one Nigeria when some people find their voices when northerners get killed but the death of innocent IPOB members and their unceremonious burial in the Oji River does not get a shout. If Scotland in the United Kingdom, Catalonia in Spain and Quebec in Canada can mull over the state of their national identities within the confines of a sovereign state, why can’t we? It is clear from the evidence that the entire SouthEast is fed up of the lies and fairy tales we have been consistently told? Nigeria, even for those benefiting from the largesse of its pitiable state is hardly set in stone. For those of us who have no say or see no future in this entity, the call is simple. Let us go.

the Biblical Israelite at the foot of Mount Sinai. They lost faith in God and the leadership of Moses. As Moses delayed coming down from the Mount, they became impatient, asking Aaron to create another god for them. Aisha equally became impatient with the President when his stay in UK for medical vacation became too long, sustained and uncertain. She told the President to display his patriotism to the country by resigning his Presidency rather than holding down the country as things were not working according to her. She would have remembered that her co-convener – Hadiza Bala Usman was enjoying the bliss of NPA while she was left at Abuja fountain at the mercy of the sun and rain. The third Aisha is currently in the eyes of the storm as her “declaration” which went viral last weekend has attracted both friends and foes, within and outside APC, within and outside Buhari government, toward her.

While paying Salah homage to the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Aisha in a nutshell had said that even though she was presently wining and dining with President Buhari, her ultimate loyalty lied with Atiku. This she confirmed while fielding questions from Reuters. In my earlier write up, I had said that though she may be termed courageous, she was surely not patriotic. It was one truth Aisha needed not say and still remains a Minister. By so doing, Aisha could be likened to that bird in a novel “The beautiful ones are not yet born” which hate human excrement but rather feeds on maggots that feed on the same excrement. That is what the third Aisha seems to portray. On the whole, it is hoped that Buhari will not have another Aisha in the fold as the existing ones are more than a mouthful and enough to last him till 2019. Keep weathering the storm Mr President.

Boblin Samfor, a political analyst, writer, and researcher writes from Lagos

Buhari and his three Aishas

Friday Ekpo

here are currently three Aishas in President Buhari’s life. This is what a stroke of fate has bestowed on him. What some people may tomorrow call accident of history. They are: Mrs. Aisha Buhari, Mrs. Aisha Yesufu and Mrs. Aisha Alhassan. The first Aisha is Buhari’s wife who has been allotted a duty both in the “living” and the “other room”. The second Aisha (Yesufu) is the co-convener of Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) group. This is the group that turned on the heat on former President GoodLuck Jonathan after the infamous abduction of Chibok Girls in 2014. It in turn provided a part crest upon which Buhari’s popularity soared toward 2015 election. The third Aisha (Alhassan) is the current Minister of women Affairs and Youth Development.

She is currently in the news for what has come to be known as “Aisha declaration”. In my earlier write up, I titled it “Aisha’s Bitter Truth”. What the three have in common apart from the name is that, they have all at different times, hit Buhari below the belt. The first Aisha exploded in a no-hold-bared manner, when last year she said that things had fallen apart in her husband’s government. She confessed that, those that actually worked for the success of her husband in 2015 election had been sidelined while a cabal had hijacked the government. In a euphemistic description of the cabals she had later tagged them “Jackals and Hyenas”, who would be weeded out by her husband to ensure the survival of the “weaker animals”. The difference between this Aisha and the other two seems to lie in the passion and urge for her husband to succeed. The second Aisha became like

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Alhassan and the game of long knives

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Even if Buhari had told her he would not do a second term, was it her place to say it on the rooftop and preempt him so frontally by even announcing her own preferred candidate? Is this how to treat the man who rescued her from the crushing defeat of her gubernatorial misadventure and gave her a ministerial seat? It was not her fault, El-Rufai said. Buhari was paying the price for ignoring an earlier warning that Alhassan was Atiku’s snake in the president’s grass.

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hose who thought that Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council meeting would be the political funeral for Minister of Women Affairs Aisha Alhassan may have exaggerated her dilemma after all. She may well have had her letter of resignation in her bag, but in the end President Muhammadu Buhari didn’t push her over the edge – yet. After many years in politics, Alhassan should know that wrongs might not be counted always; but they’re not easily forgiven. For example, three days after the video in which she endorsed former Vice President Atiku Abubakar for 2019 went viral, and while she was still trying to explain what she really meant, a small document was leaked from the Office of the Auditor General of the Federation. According to the report, the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development paid N11.7million for Alhassan and some officials of her ministry to visit unnamed skill acquisition centres. The report, published by Premium Times, however, said, “Audit investigations established that the purported appraisal visits to the skill acquisition centres were never undertaken.” The report did not say the minister pocketed the money given that it was curiously released on the day she was sworn in, but the money was raised in her name and spent after she assumed office. Was this a parable or its cousin? It might well have been a coincidence that the audit report was leaked only days after the Alhassan video on Atiku went viral. But politicians, like witchdoctors, take omens very seriously. Why now? And what next? Any trace of doubt that Alhassan may have talked herself into a tight corner disappeared when Kaduna State Governor, Nasir elRufai and his Ogun State counterpart, Ibikunle Amosun, both strong loyalists of President Muhammadu Buhari, threw the minister under the bus. Even if Buhari had told her he would not do a second term, was it her place to say it on the rooftop and preempt him so fron-

Alhassan tally by even announcing her own preferred candidate? Is this how to treat the man who rescued her from the crushing defeat of her gubernatorial misadventure and gave her a ministerial seat? It was not her fault, El-Rufai said. Buhari was paying the price for ignoring an earlier warning that Alhassan was Atiku’s snake in the president’s grass. Well, for sometime now, the Buhari grass has not been looking like a safe ground and Alhassan’s goof was just one metaphor for a cabinet in disarray. Even in a matter as straightforward as negotiations with striking lecturers, the public had to wait while the office of the vice president and that of the minister of labour spent a few days quibbling over who will meet with the university teachers. The strike is already in its fourth week and it is embarrassing that the government doesn’t know who is supposed to do what. Also, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), and the Office of the Attorney General and Minister of Justice have been locked in a cold war that can only undermine the government’s anti-corruption war. Justice Minister Abubakar Malami can argue that he’s well within his brief to oversee what the EFCC is doing. That’s right. But this was precisely the sort of argument that one of his predecessors, Michael Aondoakaa, used to cripple the EFCC. The difference is that while Aondoakaa did not claim, or even pretend, that he was appointed to fight corruption, there’s no minister in Buhari’s government, including Malami, who can pretend not to know that corruption would eat

the government alive if the war is lost because of malice, complicity or incompetence. Yet it seems the government can’t help its own self-inflicted chaos: confusion over government’s negotiation team; Malami’s faceoff with the EFCC; the embarrassingly duplicitous reports by the DSS on Ibrahim Magu; a vacant office of secretary to the government of the federation, and the latest Alhassan gaffe are dangerous signs of cabinet chaos. In the best of times, chaos is inevitable for any government nearing the end of its shelf life. But under Buhari, the internecine war started early. It began with his wife Aisha warning that a cabal had hijacked the president and left the party’s faithful in the cold. It has been worsened by Buhari’s rigid insularity and, regrettably, complicated by his ill health. El-Rufai does not have to get mad at Alhassan. He’s been there more than once before. He kicked up a public storm when he described his benefactor, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, as a shameless puppeteer in his book, The Accidental Public Servant. Congress for Progressive Change insiders still believe he was part of the rigging machine that frustrated Buhari’s first two attempts at the presidency in 2003 and 2007, and that he might never have left the Peoples Democratic Party if either former President Umaru Yar’Adua or former President Goodluck Jonathan had given him appointment. As a member of the PDP when that party was at its deadliest, ElRufai crowned his anti-establishment rhetoric in the run-up to the 2011 election by describing General Ibrahim Babangida and Buhari,

who were presidential contenders, as old hacks who didn’t know the difference between the Blackberry phone and a fruit. That episode may even be a chapter in his next book which, I hope, will also contain the inside story of the 7MHz slot, valued at $100m but quietly awarded, under the guise of “re-planning” to Intercellular by this Buhari government without bidding. The title of the chapter could even be from Blackberry to fruit, from fruit to fruit juice. It’s quite interesting that the governor’s reincarnation is complete and he is now in such a secure stead that he was among those who advised Buhari about his choice of ministers. Alhassan was tactless, no doubt; but it was easy for her because Buhari, having lost grip of his party, is also losing grip of his cabinet, if not his government. Her tactlessness seems to have been borne more out of frustration than malice or opportunism. When the minister said she didn’t mind being sacked if it was the price for saying what she believed in, she was speaking as an insider who had seen the Presidency hijacked by a few renegades with their own private agenda. But she cannot light the fire and hope to walk away scot-free. After the leak from the Office of the Auditor General, there might be yet another leak, and another, and another, until there’s a flood of retribution. It would be interesting to see how it plays out. Ishiekwene is the MD/Editor-InChief of The Interview magazine and board member of the Parisbased Global Editors Network

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Cross of womanhood: What aspect of life for a woman? The weaker sex is not so comfortable playing second fiddle any longer. A cross section of them bared their minds on what they consider the cross of womanhood. GOD’S COVENANT SNR reports. Senator Louisa Kofoworola Bucknor-Akerele (Lawyer, Politician, former Deputy Governor and mother of two): I don’t think that my life as a woman generally has been a cross. I have been very lucky that I had a father who was in fact a champion of women’s courses; he was the one who encouraged me into politics, so I don’t think I have any crosses as a woman; and whatever crosses I may have had as a gender issue, I have overcome them all, so whatever cross I have overcome is no longer a cross. However, I think the main cross for women generally is the gender issue: that is, the male prejudice where men cannot accept that women can be as effective as them, that women can achieve the same result, not only in the political terrain but in every aspect of human endeavor. Generally, I think there is this belief (although the world is changing now, but it’s still there), that a lot of men still think that women are inferior; everywhere in the world this insinuation is being acted out, and that is the cross that all women have to bear. Helen Onyenike (Mother of five and Business woman), Lagos. My own cross as a woman is that I was given out in marriage as a child of 15 years in 1980; education was not considered because I am a girl and poor me, I didn’t know what it meant to be

Chief (Mrs.) Kofoworola Bucknor-Akerele a wife or have a husband. I was a virgin and innocent and that was how I grew up to adulthood in the man’s house. I have had three children in quick succession, at age 16, 18 and 19 before it dawned on me that I really am a wife and mother like my mother at home. At 22, I had my fourth child, and after I had my last born who is now 23, at 18 and at age 29, I headed for family planning secretly. I am already a grandmother as I speak to you. But in the child marriage I thank God because my husband turned out to be a good and loving man, although I wish I had gone to school and had the choice of deciding who I marry at my own time, but I couldn’t; that’s a cross I have to live with because I am a woman. Mrs Rose Ogai (Lagos housewife and trader) I married a man who didn’t have anything because I was getting too old to remain in my father’s house; so when this man came I was glad with great hopes that he will become somebody, but time and age have proved me wrong; even ordinary good luck is far from him. Before long I bore three children for him, and whether they ate or went to school de-

pended on me, so I had to be patient and struggled to trade and feed us all; not that he even gave me capital to trade: I had to sell okro, vegetables; every food item in season, and pure water every day including Sundays after service. At first I thought he was not just lucky because he has a diploma in marketing, but after 14 years I have to console myself that he too is my cross because he has taken my place and I his place; but the biggest cross of it all is that I am pregnant again inside this entire struggle. In my quiet moments, I sometimes wonder whether it would have been better if I had remained single, but I never could decide the answer to that question. I sometimes pray God to turn me to a man Mrs. Concern Martins (CEO, SO-SAID Charity Home, Lagos) “You see, sometimes I personally pray God to turn me to a man, so that when men see me they will see me as one of their kind. The reason is that as a woman, I am carrying a burden; in every form I’m staggering under a burden. Sometimes I find myself groaning to God and asking Jesus Christ: did you suffer what I’m suffering? Did you pass through all these

Concerned Martins things you put on an ordinary woman like me? Okay, I know you suffered, they killed you on the cross for us, yes; but did you do this, did you do that? Did you pass through all these sufferings I pass through every day? This is too much for me. “I need support from my husband, from everybody around me, from the press, corporate organisations; I need help; you have no idea what great burden So-Said is. Even when Mary was pregnant, Joseph understood; otherwise, he would have disgraced her before the public and driven her away, but because of the man’s understanding through God’s revelation, he was patient with Mary. Mrs Chika Nnaemeka (Civil Servant, Marina, Lagos) The part of my life I consider a cross is my husband; he does not listen to me; he treats me like I have no mind to think so that whatever I suggest or ask him to do in any situation, I’m just wasting my time; it is what is in his mind that he will do. He will tell me he’s a man, he’s the head of the family and that spoils lots of things between us. During the one week strike in January there was no day he didn’t go to work; he will not listen to me and stay at home; even

Sundays they call him to come to work; I will tell him to switch off his phone or tell them that there is no motor running at our end but he will just go as if I have not said anything; that’s unfair! Even if he doesn’t consider my opinion let him open up and say no, I won’t do it; but to just ignore me as if I’m nothing is bad; is it because I am a woman? If I am unhappy or I’m not talking to him, he’ll not say, my wife come, what’s the problem? Even when he misbehaves and I complain he will ignore me, and if I don’t talk to him he will not bother; eventually it is me that will still go to him and try to make up for the wrong he has done to me; and instead of him to apologise he will just go on and on justifying himself. There was a time he so hurt me I kept to myself up to four months and he just ignored me; he didn’t come to me, didn’t try to make up and for the four months he didn’t even touch me, can you imagine?! Am I a fool? Those are painful areas of my life I hate so much and it is happening to me because I am a woman. A man who cannot pet his wife, not to talk of pampering her and making her happy to be your wife; I don’t like it at all, but I can’t do anything about it because I am a woman.

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Group slams IBEDC for exorbitant estimated bills

Ebere Egbe

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people of AdoOdo/Ota local government Ogun State and the Balanced Measure Impact Initiatives have called on the inhabitants of the area to stop the payment of the exorbitant estimated bills slam on the people by the Ibadan Distribution Company (IBEDC).The bill range from N10,000 to N40,000 per month. The statement was jointly signed by the National president, chairman, zonal chairman and legal adviser of the association, Engr. Dayo Komolafe, Otunba Lukmon Odewole, Taiwo Ismail and Barrister Dele Babalola respectively. The directive was issued

in view of the fact that contrary to the IBEDC earlier statement in February 20th that their bill will not be more than N1000 per month/house. “on the issue of outstanding debt, the association held a meeting with Sango-Ota branch of IBEDC that our members should pay only for the electricity consumed by them and the accumulated bill will be waive, which was not adhered to”. It was further mentioned that all users who paid CAPMI must be metered within the time carved out in the resolution of the commission or that they shouldn’t be charged after the sixty days limit for metering, adding that in the period after the expira-

Fashola, minister of Power, Works and Housing tion of the sixty days such electricity users cannot be forced or mandated to complete metering of unmetered customers in a space of one year after which, there will be no more estimation to users.

Idris Ahmed, Lokoja

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National Drug Law Enforcement Agency ,(NDLEA) Kogi state command disclosed that it has seized 3.640 kilograms of Cannabis Sativa and other psychotropic substances from drug peddlers in the last six months. The command also revealed that 180 drug peddlers were arrested in the state within the period under review. The state commander of the NDLEA ,Alhaji Idris Bello who disclosed this yesterday said 14 drug offenders have so far been prosecuted while 104 drug users have been counseled. Commander Bello also announced that seven trucks. and vehicles used in transporting hard drugs have been impounded this year. The commander who

Kogi NDLEA seizes 3.640 kg of cannabis in six months

spoke at the sensitisation and awareness programme on drug abuse and illicit trafficking however lamented that the illicit busimess kept rearing its ugly head in spite of the efforts aimed at addressing it. He identified some problems militating against stamping out drugs abuse. “Some of the immediate bottle necks include, lack of sufficient operational vehicles, absence of rehabilitation centres in the state, stigmatisation of drug dependent persons and the lack of will by the public to assist the agency in the fight against this

predisposing factor to committing other crimes. While lauding the efforts of the state Governor towards general security of the state and its citizenry Idris Bello appealed to government to listen more. “We are soliciting for increased participation of Traditional institutions, religious leaders and parents to tackle this monster of drug abuse among the youths.” Also speaking at the occasion the state Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello,said that 80 percent of most heinous crimes were as a result of drug abuse.

Saraki v. Saharareporters:

Kwara Police nab 5 suspected thugs Kehinde, Akinpelu, Ilorin

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persons were yesterday arrested by the police in Kwara state for attempting to cause mayhem at the resumed hearing of an appeal by the publisher of an online newspaper, Sahara reporters, seeking to set aside a N4 billion

judgment awarded against it over a series of stories published last year by the medium against the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki. Police sources claimed that the suspects had come from outside the state and were believed to be supporters of the online publisher.

There was pandemonium as the group confronted loyalists of Saraki who had also gathered to witness the court session. In the process a middleaged woman was stripped bare while passersby ran helter skelter before the police came to restore law and order. Confirming the develop-

Cannabis discovered by NDLEA in a warehouse - Photo for illustrative purpose.

ment, the spokesman of the state police command, Ajayi Okasanmi, said investigation was still on to uncover the true identity of those arrested. He said the command had envisaged the possibility of trouble at the resumed hearing, hence the decision to reinforce its normal presence on the

court premises. “We went there to maintain the peace as usual but later there was rancour and we had to deploy more men and in the process we arrested some people. As at the last time I checked we had arrested five persons”, the police spokesman said. He said one of those arrested claimed to be a jour-

nalist but was yet to give proper identification of his status and medium. However, report by the online medium indicated that one of those arrested was one Juwon Sanyaolu, described by the medium as an activist. Earlier the court had directed the appellant, represented by Stanley Ihmaruo from the chambers of Femi Falana (SAN), to file an address of service within the jurisdiction of the court to enable the respondent deliver its responses. The court had been told by counsel to Saraki/respondent that the appellant had failed to provide an address within the jurisdiction of the court and in line with the provisions of the state high court procedures, where they could be served written responses. The case was later adjourned to October 26, 2017 for hearing of the application by the appellant. The state high court had awarded N4billion against the online medium for accusing the Senate president of misdeeds that were not substantiated. The defendants, the court had been told, had refused to defend the case despite the service of the summons on them. But the defendant later approached the court asking that the judgement be set aside, saying he was not served.

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AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. To hold meetings and undertake social activities that can enhance brotherliness and promote the club 2. To build a social club for the benefit of its members Any objection (s) to this above registration should be addressed to the RegistrarGeneral, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Agunyi Ironsi Street, Maitama Abuja, within 28 days of this publication. Okoyefi Kingsley Esq SAPIENS ADVOCATIS 08061269003 Sapiensadvocatis@gmail.com 2nd Floor, Eleganza House, 15b Joseph Street, Lagos OBINUBA ANTHONY REMIGUS IKECHUKWU

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This is to notify the general public that The ASCENSION APOSTOLIC CHURCH NIGERIA INCORPORATED has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for change of her name to THE ASCENSION APOSTOLIC CHURCH WORLDWIDE and, for the change of trustees and to file her amended constitution under Part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, CAP C20 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004. OLD TRUSTEES AND REASONS FOR REMOVAL: 1.Rev. Festus Kori Ganale deceased 2.Rev. Lucky Ngei Nwikpo resigned 3.Rev. Emmanuel Saaro Neebee deceased 4.Rev. Ezekiel Deewii deceased 5.Mr. Augustine Mmea withdrawal of membership 6.Mr. Mark Luloobari Paul resigned NEW TRUSTEES: 1.Senior Apostle Dr. Paul Eenwi Kine, JP, Amb. of Peace 2.Apostle Sunday Ledee Mgboalu 3.Reverend Dr. Lekia Digbara Gborsi 4.Elder Alexis Mmeabe Nkeeh 5.Elder John Elekwe 6.Elder Peter Barikui Legborsi Borlo, JP 7.Elder Gbenedum Bright Adezor-Nwikpo, Esq. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1.To make Jesus Christ known to others by publicly testifying of his power and authority. 2.To encourage its members to have faith in God by accepting the Lord Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour. Any objection to this change of name and change of trustees should be forward to the RegistrarGeneral, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420 Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama District, Abuja within 28 days of this publication. Signed: GBENEDUM BRIGHT ADEZOR-NWIKPO, ESQ. Solicitor

UZOMEFUNA ONYINYE SCHOLASTICA

This is to confirm that the name CHUKWUDI DIVINEGIFT CHUKWUEBUKA and VALINTINE DIAMONDDIVINE refers to one and the same person; now wish wish to be known and addressed as CHUKWUDI DIVINEGIFT CHUKWUEBUKA. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.

This is to confirm that the name FRANCIS PEDRO and FRANCIS ABUCHI OKONKWO refers to one and the same person;now wish to be known and addressed as FRANCIS ABUCHI OKONKWO. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as ANTHONY IKECHUKWU ORIE now wish to be known and addressed as OBINUBA ANTHONY REMIGUS IKECHUKWU. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS CHIME SOCHIMA ANGELINA, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS OKAFOR SOCHIMA ANGELINA. All former documents remain valid. General Public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as UZOMEFUNA NDIDIAMAKA SCHOLASTICA , now wish to be known and addressed as UZOMEFUNA ONYINYE SCHOLASTICA. All former documents remain valid. Banks and General Public should please take note.

MRS AMUH REJOICE NGOZI

EDENNAMANI GODWIN

OBAJI UCHENNA JULIUS

MRS ACHARA FELICIA OGADI

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS NWATARALI REJOICE MARYJANE NGOZI, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS AMUH REJOICE NGOZI. All former documents remain valid. General Public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as NNAMANI GODWIN ABUCHI, now wish to be known and addressed as EDENNAMANI GODWIN. All former documents remain valid. General Public should please take note.

MRS ENE ABOKO CAROLINE ONYINYE

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS ONYIA CAROLINE ONYINYE, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS ENE ABOKO CAROLINE ONYINYE. All former documents remain valid. Banks and General Public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as OBAJI JULIUS NWAINYA, now wish to be known and addressed as OBAJI UCHENNA JULIUS. All former documents remain valid. Banks and General Public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS OGBAJI FELICIA OGADI, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS ACHARA FELICIA OGADI. All former documents remain valid. General Public should please take note.

CHIOKE CHRISTIAN CHIMAOBI I, formerly known and addressed as CHIOKE CHRISTIAN KOLAWOLE, now wish to be known and addressed as CHIOKE CHRISTIAN CHIMAOBI. All former documents remain valid. Command Secondary School Abakaliki and General Public should please take note.

MRS IKECHUKWU IFUNANYA ANASTHESIA I, formerly known and addressed as MISS NWOBU IFUNANYA ANASTHESIA, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS IKECHUKWU IFUNANYA ANASTHESIA. All former documents remain valid. General Public should please take note.

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UZOR NKECHI ANTHONIA

xLONGE TEMILOLUWA TOKUNBO

I, formerly known and addressed as OKONKWO NKECHI ANTHONIA, now wish to be known, called and addressed as UZOR NKECHI ANTHONIA. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as LONGE TEMILOLUWA TEMILOLUWA, now wish to be known, called and addressed as LONGE TEMILOLUWA TOKUNBO. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

Formerly known and addressed as MISS OKODUWA OMOYE EMILY, now wish to be known, called and addressed as MRS. EMILY OMOYE OMORUYI. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS NKECHINYERE ALOZIE, now wish to be known, called and addressed as MRS. STELLA NKECHINYERE NWAKA. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

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

I, formerly known and addressed as KAMORUDEEN KOLAPO, now wish to be known, called and addressed as KAMILU KAMORUDEEN OLASUNKANMI. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as EBUKA JOHN CHUKWUMAEZE, now wish to be known, called and addressed as EBUKA JOHN JERRAD. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

NWANKWO UGOCHI PAMELA I, formerly known and addressed as NWANNE UGOCHI PAMELA, now wish to be known, called and addressed as NWANKWO UGOCHI PAMELA. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

MRS. OPARA UGO MARYLEONA

ODUSANYA IYABO KIKELOMO

I, formerly known and addressed as AREMOLA IYABO BUKUNOLA, now wish to be known, called and addressed as ODUSANYA IYABO KIKELOMO. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note. MOHAMMED BALA ABDULLAHI

I formerly known called and addressed as MOHAMMED BALA, now wish to be known called and addressed as MOHAMMED BALA ABDULLAHI, that my correct date of birth is 17TH DECEMBER ,1979 All former documents remain valid, authorities concerned and general public should please take note.

ASIWAJU SHUKURAT MODUPEOLA

KAMILU KAMORUDEEN OLASUNKANMI

EBUKA JOHN JERRAD

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS ANYANWU UGO MARYLEONA, now wish to be known, called and addressed as MRS. OPARA UGO MARYLEONA. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note. SHANGOBIYI ABRAHAM SUNDAY

DELLA HALIMA MUSA I formerly known called and addressed as DELLA HALIMA MOSES,now wish to be known called and addressed as DELLA HALIMA MUSA. All former documents remain valid, authorities concerned and general public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as PASTOR SANGOBIYI ABRAHAM now wish to be known and addressed as SHANGOBIYI ABRAHAM SUNDAY. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.

x OLAJIDE ABRAHAM AKINDURO

ADEOYE ESTHER ANUOLUWAPO

I, formerly known and addressed as MRS. KOFOWOROLA SERAH OMOLAJA, now wish to be known, called and addressed as MRS. KOFOWOROLA STELLA OMOLAJA. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

ELAIGWU JOHN ECHE I, formerly known and addressed as ALECHENU JOHN OCHE, now wish to be known, called and addressed as ELAIGWU JOHN ECHE. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MUSTAPHA OLAWALE AHMED, now wish to be known, called and addressed as ALABI OLAWALE HAMED. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

OTUWEHINMI OLUWASEUN WEMIMO

MADEWALE OLUSHOLA CHRISTIANA

x ADERINTO ADESOLA ANIKE

I, formerly known and addressed as ILESANMI OLUSHOLA CHRISTIANA, now wish to be known, called and addressed as MADEWALE OLUSHOLA CHRISTIANA due to change in my marital status. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as ADESOLA ADEBOLA ANIKE ADERINTO, now wish to be known, called and addressed as ADERINTO ADESOLA ANIKE. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

MRS. KOFOWOROLA STELLA OMOLAJA

FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OTUWEHINMI OLUWAWEMIMO OLUWASEUN, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OTUWEHINMI OLUWASEUN WEMIMO. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE.

OKPAKO EMMANUEL

I, formerly known and addressed as OGHENE JOHNSON, now wish to be known, called and addressed as OKPAKO EMMANUEL. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

x EMMANUEL BUKOLA

I FORMELY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLOPADE ESTHER ANUOLUWAPO NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEOYE ESTHER ANUOLUWAPO. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMELY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS SHOPEKAN BUKOLA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS EMMANUEL BUKOLA. BANKS AND GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

SANNI SAMUEL SUNDAY

MY NAME WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AS SANNI SUNDAY OR SANNI S. SUNDAY INSTEAD SANNI SAMUEL SUNDAY. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

SALAKO MUTIAT ABOSEDE

I formerly known and addressed as ABASS MUTIAT ABOSEDE. Now wish to be known as SALAKO MUTIAT ABOSEDE. All former documents remain valid. General public and authorities concerned should take note.

MRS. GRACE KOKO CHIGBUNDU I formerly known and addressed as miss GRACE KOKO UMOFFIA now want to be known and addressed as MRS. GRACE KOKO CHIGBUNDU. All former documents remain valid general public please take note.

CORRECTION OF NAME

xCORRECTION OF NAME

CHANGE OF NAME/CORRECTED DATE OF BIRTH

OSISANYA SUNDAY OLUWOLE I formerly called Osisanya Sunday Olawale now wish to be known and addressed as Osisanya Sunday Oluwole. All former documents remain valid, General public please take note.

MRS OJO STELLA Formerly known and addressed as Nwejei Stella Miss now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs Ojo Stella. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

NENGAK GEORGE

x ESEZOBOR CELESTINA EDEIGBA

I formerly known as Jumoke Esther Ogunshola wish to be known and addressed as Olatayo Esther Keji Kusoro and corrected Date Of Birth is 03-12-1970 wrong date of birth is 03-12-1972. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note. UCHE-IROECHE CHIMMEZIRIM IPHEOMA

EBIEME BLESSING BASSEY

I, formerly known and addressed as EBIEME BLESSING CAROLINE , now wish to be known, called and addressed as EBIEME BLESSING BASSEY. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I formerly known called and addressed as AKERELE THOMPSON,now wish to be known called and addressed as OLAJIDE ABRAHAM AKINDURO. All former documents remain valid, authorities concerned and general public should please take note.

That I Shopeju Oluwarotimi Olubowale my name was wrongly written as Shopeju Rotimi wish to be known and addressed as Shopeju Oluwarotimi Olubowale. All Documents /Credentials bearing these names remain valid, general public please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS STELLA NKECHINYERE NWOSU, now wish to be known, called and addressed as MRS. STELLA NKECHINYERE NWAKA. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

I formerly known called and addressed as LANLEYIN SHUKURAT MODUPEOLA,now wish to be known called and addressed as ASIWAJU SHUKURAT MODUPEOLA. All former documents remain valid, GT Bank, authorities concerned and general public should please take note.

That I Akinso Alijinu Emmanuel my name was wrongly written as Akuso Emmanuel wish to be known and addressed as Akinso Alijinu Emmanuel. All Documents /Credentials bearing these names remain valid, general public please take note.

MRS. STELLA NKECHINYERE NWAKA

ADDITION OF NAME That I was formerly known and addressed as OKON ENO MERCY. That I wish to add ‘ASUQUO’ to my existing names. That I now wish to be known; called and addressed as OKON ASUQUO ENO MERCY. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

ADEBAYO WALIU AJANI

ALABI OLAWALE HAMED

x ADDITION OF NAME That on some of my documents, my name appears as OKANLAWON IDOWU ISMAIL, while in other documents, it appears as OKANLAWON IDOWU. That I now want to add ISMAIL to my existing names. That my full name now is OKANLAWON IDOWU ISMAIL. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

x AMUWA FELICIA ALABA

I FORMELY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS RABIU WALIU AJANI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEBAYO WALIU AJANI. GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I formerly known as OMOWA ADENIKE MERCY wish to be known and addressed as AMUWA FELICIA ALABA. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME This is to certify that NKEREUWEN FRIDAY JOHN AKPAN and KINGSLEY FRIDAY JOHN AKPAN are one and same person, now wish to be known and address as KINGSLEY FRIDAY JOHN AKPAN . All former documents remain valid, general public take note.

SHAKIRAT ADEOLA ADEWOLE I formerly known as SHAKIRAT ADEOLA DADA wish to be known and addressed as SHAKIRAT ADEOLA ADEWOLE. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

I formerly known as Abdulsalaam Umma Yusrah wish to be known and addressed as Giwa Abdulsalaam Umma Yusrah .All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

x ABOKEDE ESTHER FUNMI I formerly known as AYOOLA ESTHER FUNKE wish to be known and addressed as ABOKEDE ESTHER FUNMI. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

BELLO ADENIYI ADE

xORIMOLADE OLUWASOLA RUTH

EZENWA STANLEY NNAEMEKA

I formerly known as ADE -ADENIYI BELLO wish to be known and addressed as BELLO ADENIYI ADE. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note. AKINOLA OYINDAMOLA IFEDOLAPO

GIWA ABDULSALAAM UMMA YUSRAH

I formerly known as RUTH OLUWANISHOLA AJIFOLAKE AFOLABI wish to be known and addressed as ORIMOLADE OLUWASOLA RUTH . All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

xCONFIRMATION OF NAME THAT I AM THE SAME PERSON BEARING URHOGHIDE OSAHON OSARUME AND URHOGHIDE OSAHON. THAT ALL MY DOCUMENTS BEARING THE ABOVE MENTIONED NAMES REMAINS VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UCHE CHIMMEZIRIM IPHEOMA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UCHE-IROECHE CHIMMEZIRIM IPHEOMA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS Ezenwa Stanley Gates, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS Ezenwa Stanley Nnaemeka. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS Kappo Oyindamola Ifedolapo, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS Akinola Oyindamola Ifedolapo. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

OKORO MICHAEL BONIFACE

x OKEREKE CHIDIMMA OLUCHUKWU

IHEMEBIRI DAVID CHUCKS

xUDEOGU ONYEBUCHI PRECIOUS

Formerly Ihemebiri Samuel Chucks now Ihemebiri David Chucks . General public should take note.

Formerly known and addressed as Richards Buchi now known and addressed as Udeogu Onyebuchi Precious . All Former documents remains valid. General public should take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as SUNDAY NENGAK GEORGE, now wish to be known and addressed as NENGAK GEORGE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as ESEZOBOR CELESTINA, now wish to be known and addressed as ESEZOBOR CELESTINA EDEIGBA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME I, Reverend Mother CHISARA NKIRUKA ESTHER IBEBUNJO. confirming that the above name is my complete and correct name. General public should please take note.

ODEY JOHN KUDU

Formerly known as Ekpong John Ekwok now to be addressed as Odey John Kudu. Former documents remains valid. General public should take note.

That my name Adeyemi-John Yemi A. was written in some documents/First bank Account and my name was also written as Adetayo John Adeyemi in some documents/ Access bank account but now want to be called ADEYEMI JOHN ADETAYO. General public should note.

EMOLE NENE LIZA WISDOM Formerly called Chukwu Liza Nene now want to be known and addressed as Emole Nene Liza Wisdom. Former documents remains valid. General public should take note.

MGBECHI CORDELIA OHAERI I, formerly known and addressed as MGBECHI CORDELIA CLEMENT OHAERI, now wish to be known and addressed as MGBECHI CORDELIA OHAERI. All former documents remain valid. General Public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS ONYIA THERESA CHINWENDU, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS OKEKE THERESA CHINWENDU. All former documents remain valid. General Public should please take note.

I formerly Known And Addressed As Okoro Michael Now Wish To Be Known And Addressed As Okoro Michael Boniface, Okoro Michael Boniface And Okoro Michael Belong To One And The Same Person. All Documents Bearing Former Name Remains Valid. Bank and General Public Please Take Note.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

MRS OKEKE THERESA CHINWENDU

Formerly known and addressed called as Okereke Chidimma now to be known as Okereke Chidimma Oluchukwu. Former documents remains valid. General public should take note. EGBUNU ABUH Formerly Egbunu Abuh Idakwoji now want to be addressed as Egbunu Abuh. My date of birth was mistakenly written 11th October 1987 during BVN. My correct date of birth is 11th November 1987. General public please take note.

BUNU SUWAIBA JIBRIL

I, formerly known and addressed as NI’IMA SUWAIBA ABUBAKAR, now wish to be known and addressed as BUNU SUWAIBA JIBRIL. All former documents remain valid. General Public should please take note.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

That my name was wrongly written in my First bank account as Rahim Sariat Abeke , also my name was also written as Sariatu Amusa during Access bank BVN Registration but now want to be addressed as RAHIM SARIATU ABEKE. General public should take note. MRS AKWUBOH ANGELA IGBOKWE

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS OBI ANGELA OKWUDILI, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS AKWUBOH ANGELA IGBOKWE. All former documents remain valid. General Public should please take note.

MRS. AKINOLA BOSE MOSES

Formerly known and addressed as Moses Bose Imade. Now want to be addressed and called Mrs. Akinola Bose Moses. Former documents remains valid. General public should take note. UMEZURUIKE IHEANACHO, ROSE AJUOLACHI

I, formerly known and addressed as UMEZURUIKE ROSE AJUOLACHI, now wish to be known and addressed as UMEZURUIKE IHEANACHO , ROSE AJUOLACHI. All former documents remain valid. General Public should please take note.

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OSUJI DARLINGTON OLISA Formerly known and addressed as LYK DARLINGTON OLISA, now wish to be known and addressed as OSUJI DARLINGTON OLISA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

DIOGU GRACE OKORO Formerly known and addressed as OKORO GRACE, now wish to be known and addressed as DIOGU GRACE OKORO. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

MRS. EMMANUELA CHIKA EZEOKWE

CORRECTION OF NAME

CONFIRMATION OF NAME This is to confirm and certify that I, OJO OLAOJO OMONIYI SAMUEL is still the same person bearing OJO OLAOJO OMONIYI, OJO OLAOJO SAMUEL, OJO OLAOJO. S. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

This is to inform the general public that my name was wrongly written as OMOLAJA ADEBAYO instead of ADEBAYO OMOLAJA EMMANUEL. That my correct name is ADEBAYO OMOLAJA EMMANUEL. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as MISS. EMMANUELA CHIKA AGWUNOBI, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. EMMANUELA CHIKA EZEOKWE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

This is to confirm and certify that ADEYEMI DEBORAH IYABO is same person as JESUTOKE DEBORAH. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

CORRECTION OF NAME

MICHEAL ANTHONIA INI Formerly known and addressed as ETIM ROSE OFON, now wish to be known and addressed as MICHEAL ANTHONIA INI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

This is to confirm and certify that ELIAJA NOAH ONEH ABIKE and ABIKE ELIJAH NOAH ONUH refer to one and same person. Henceforth I wish to be known and addressed as ELIJAH NOAH ONUH. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

My name was wrongly written as ABDULLAHI EBIMLOMA MUHAMMAD, instead of ABDULLAHI MUHAMMED. All documents remain valid. General public take note.

JUSTINA ONONOKPONO EDAK Formerly known and addressed as JUSTINA EDET, now wish to be known and addressed as JUSTINA ONONOKPONO EDAK. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

UMOREN CECILIA SAMPSON

Formerly known and addressed as BASSEY CECILIA INNOCENT, now wish to be known and addressed as UMOREN CECILIA SAMPSON. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

CHANGE OF NAME/CORRECTION OF BIRTH DATE

CORRECTION OF NAME

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

CHANGE OF NAME/CORRECTION OF BIRTH DATE

Formerly known and addressed as EMMANUEL LUCKY EDOJA, now wish to be known and addressed as EDOJA EMMANUEL GOODLUCK. That my date of birth was mistakenly written as 3/10/1958 and 3/10/1959 respectively in my documents instead of 3/10/1957. All former documents remain valid. General public take note. MRS KUYE-ONABAJO KEHINDE TEMITOPE

My name was wrongly written as KABIR BABATUNDE MOSEDEEQ on my BVN instead of MUSENDIQ BABATUNDE KABIR. All documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as VIVIAN KODILICHUKWU ALLOY, now wish to be known and addressed as UGWUMMADU VIVIAN ALLOY. That my date of birth was mistakenly written as 23/11/1970 instead of 23/11/1973. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as MISS ONABAJO KEHINDE TEMITOPE, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS KUYE-ONABAJO KEHINDE TEMITOPE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

BROWN MAGDALENE IMALENOWA

MRS ADEBIYI OLUWAPELUMI JOY

CORRECTION OF NAME/ BIRTH DATE

Formerly known and addressed as IMALENOWA IMADE MAGDALENE, now wish to be known and addressed as BROWN MAGDALENE IMALENOWA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as ALABA PELUMI JOY, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS ADEBIYI OLUWAPELUMI JOY. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

My name was wrongly written as ANIFOWOSE AJOKE MONSURAT instead of KELANI AJOKE MONSURAT. That my correct date of birth is 23 November 1978. All documents remain valid. General public take note.

QUADRI RARSHEED ABOLORE Formerly known and addressed as RASHEED QUADRI wish to be known and addressed as QUADRI RARSHEED ABOLORE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

TAMINOTONYE MARTINS ALABO I formerly called and addressed as TAMINOTONYE MARTINS FIRSTUS now wish to be known called and addressed as TAMINOTONYE MARTINS ALABO. All former documents remain valid. The general public please take note.

OKEREKE OGECHUKWU NKECHINYERE

Formerly known and addressed as EMEKA OGECHUKWU NKECHINYERE now wish to be known and addressed as OKEREKE OGECHUKWU NKECHINYERE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note. CORRECTION OF NAME My name was wrongly written as NURUDEEN EUCHARIA NGOZI on my BVN instead of NURUDEEN EUCHARIA FATIMO. That my correct name is NURUDEEN EUCHARIA FATIMO. All documents remain valid. General public take note.

OJIKUTU REMILEKUN NUSIRAT

Formerly known and addressed as BADRU REMILEKUN NUSIRAT now wish to be known and addressed as OJIKUTU REMILEKUN NUSIRAT. All former documents remain valid. General public take note. CONFIRMATION OF NAME

This is to confirm and certify that ILIYA ALI AKOR and ILIYA ALI refer to one and same person. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

SIKIRU TAIWO MOTUNRAYO

OLATUNDE IFEDAYO JEREMIAH

Formerly known as KAFILAT KIKE ODUSHILE, henceforth she wish to be known, called addressed as OLUWAFUNKE TEMITOPE ADEGBAYE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as SANNI TAIWO MOTUNRAYO, now wish to be known and addressed as SIKIRU TAIWO MOTUNRAYO. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as OLATUNDE IFEDAYO SEGUN now wish to be known and addressed as OLATUNDE IFEDAYO JEREMIAH. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

IKECHUKWU BASIL ARUM

SANYAOLU OMORINOLA GRACE I, formerly known and addressed as Ogundeji Omorinola Grace now wish to be known and addressed as Sanyaolu Omorinola Grace. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

OLUWAFUNKE TEMITOPE ADEGBAYE

I, formerly known and addressed as NWARU IYKA BASIL now wish to be known and addressed as IKECHUKWU BASIL ARUM. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

AYINLA ADEWALE IBUKUN

I, formerly known and addressed as Ayinla Adewale Emmanuel Oluwabukunmi now wish to be known, called and addressed as Ayinla Adewale Ibukun, .All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

AYODELE MOJISOLA OREOLUWA Formerly known and addressed as SOJINU MOJISOLA OREOLUWA, now wish to be known and addressed as AYODELE MOJISOLA OREOLUWA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note. MRS. TAIWO ARAMIDE ESTHER

Formerly known and addressed as MISS. AKINLADE ARAMIDE ESTHER, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. TAIWO ARAMIDE ESTHER. All former documents remain valid. General public take note. THERESA ULOMA EMEGBULAM Formerly known and addressed as THERESA ULOMA ODIH, now wish to be known and addressed as THERESA ULOMA EMEGBULAM. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

NWEKE EMMANUEL

ENIOLORUNFE KOLAWOLE

I, formerly known and addressed as UGBOKWE EMMANUEL, now wish to be known and addressed as NWEKE EMMANUEL. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as AKINYONBO HENRY KOLA, now wish to be known and addressed as ENIOLORUNFE KOLAWOLE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

HONESTY ESTHER OLUBUNMI

NJOKU RITA IJEOMA Formerly known and addressed as ONYEBUHI RITA IJEOMA, now wish to be known and addressed as NJOKU RITA IJEOMA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as OYELADE OLUBUNMI ESTHER, now wish to be known and addressed as HONESTY ESTHER OLUBUNMI. That my date of birth was mistakenly written as 13th of April, 1973 Instead of 14th of March, 1974. That my correct date of birth is 14th of March, 1974. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

CORRECTION OF NAME

This is to inform the general public that my name and date of birth was wrongly written as ABAH JOY OMRENYA and 16th of February, 1982 instead of ABANG JOY OMRENYA and 9th of May, 1983. That my correct name and date of birth is ABANG JOY OMRENYA and 9th of May, 1983. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

This is to inform the general public that my name was wrongly written as TIJANI SULAIMON instead of AKOLADE SULAIMON. That my correct name is AKOLADE SULAIMON. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

MRS OKPARA CHIGOZIE BLESSING

WAHEED YUSSUF ADEOLA

Formerly known and addressed as MISS IRODIUWA CHIGOZIE BLESSING, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS OKPARA CHIGOZIE BLESSING. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

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

CORRECTION OF NAME

I was formerly known and addressed as NOBORE SOLOMON. Henceforth, I wish to be known and addressed as SOLOMON ENOWAMAGE NOBORE. All documents remain valid. General public take note.

IGBASAN OLUWAFEMI OLORUNJUWON (PRINCE)

OGUNBODE MULIKAT OLAYINKA

KASALI MONSURAT OLUWATOYIN

Formerly known and addressed as IGBASAN OLUWAFEMI PRINCE, now wish to be known and addressed as IGBASAN OLUWAFEMI OLORUNJUWON (PRINCE). All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as MUSA MULIKAT OLAYINKA, now wish to be known and addressed as OGUNBODE MULIKAT OLAYINKA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as KASALI-SANNI OLUWATOYIN, now wish to be known and addressed as KASALI MONSURAT OLUWATOYIN. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

ARIYO OGHENEBRORHIEN SHARON Formerly known and addressed as AGBROKO OGHENEBRORHIEN SHARON, now wish to be known and addressed as ARIYO OGHENEBRORHIEN SHARON. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

MAD’AR ANTHONIA ISIOMA

NGOZI MONICA EMMANUEL OFINO

Formerly known and addressed as OSEMEKA ANTHONIA ISIOMA, now wish to be known and addressed as MAD’AR ANTHONIA ISIOMA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as NGOZI MONICA OBA, now wish to be known and addressed as NGOZI MONICA EMMANUEL OFINO. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

ALBART JOY OBIAGELI

ELEMORO OKI OLAYINKA

MRS EZEKIEL JACINTA NWADINMA

Formerly known and addressed as MISS NWACHUKWU JACINTA NWADINMA, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS EZEKIEL JACINTA NWADINMA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note. CONFIRMATION OF NAME

Formerly known and addressed as JOY NGINI, now wish to be known and addressed as ALBART JOY OBIAGELI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note. OLUWA YEMISI DEBORAH SOYOMBO

Formerly known and addressed as OKI OLAYINKA, now wish to be known and addressed as ELEMORO OKI OLAYINKA. That my date of birth is 15/06/1977. All former documents remain valid. General public take note. AKINMADE HALIMAT AJOKE

This is to confirm and certify that FASHOLA OLUFUNMILOLA and FASHOLA ADENIKE OLUFUNMILOLA refer to one and same person. Henceforth I wish to be known and addressed as FASHOLA ADENIKE OLUFUNMILOLA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as OLUWAYEMISI DEBORAH AJIBADE wish to be known and addressed as OLUWA YEMISI DEBORAH SOYOMBO. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as ADEBESHIU HALIMAT AJOKE wish to be known and addressed as AKINMADE HALIMAT AJOKE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

ADDITION OF NAME

SALAWU MUSIBAU AJAMU

On my BVN my name appear as SIMON CHUKWUKA SIMON. I now wish to add CHUKWUKA to my name to become SIMON CHUKWUKA EZEKIEL. All former documents remain valid. The general public please take note.

I formerly called and addressed as OYEBIYI MUSIBAU now wish to be known called and addressed as SALAWU MUSIBAU AJAMU. All former documents remain valid. The general public please take note.

This is to confirm that JOHNSON BLESSING ADA and ADA BLESSING JOHNSON refers to one and the same person. But now wish to known and address as JOHNSON BLESSING ADA. All former documents remain valid. The general public please take note.

RE- ARRANGEMENT OF NAME/ DATE OF BIRTH

My name was wrongly arranged on my BVN as RAYMOND KOPA HUNGA instead of HUNGA RAYMOND KOPA. My date of birth was wrongly written in my BVN as 1st July, 1980 instead of 7th January, 1984. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

MS OKETUNDE TITILAYO TAOFIKAT

Formerly known and addressed as HADESMAN ETUKAKPAN and AYODEJI OLUWAKEMI, now wish to be known and addressed as MS OKETUNDE TITILAYO TAOFIKAT. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

This is to confirm that I, Animashaun Bankole Lawrence as well as Kole Animashaun is one and same person. All documents bearing the above names re mine and remain valid. General public take note.

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My name was mistakenly written as OLAYINKA ABDULHAMEED on my GT Bank Account instead of ABDULHAMMID OLAYINKA ISIAKA .I now wish to add ISIAKA to my names and be known and addressed as ABDULHAMMID OLAYINKA ISIAKA. All former document remain valid.GT. Bank and General public please take note.

ALIYU CHINYERE I formerly known and address as ALIU USMAN CHINYERE. Now wish to be known and address as NAME: ALIYU CHINYERE. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

OLINYA, JOHNSON OKWUDILI I, formerly known and addressed as, OLINYA OKWUDILI CHUKWU and OLINGA OKWUDILI, now wish to be known and addressed as, OLINYA, JOHNSON OKWUDILI. All former document(s) remain valid. All relevant authorities concerned and the public should take note.

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FADEYI TITILAYO SALIMOT

MRS AJEWOLE GRACE OMOLADE

NURAINI ALANI SIKIRULAH

HASSAN MUFUTAU BABATUNDE

I formerly known and address as IDIKA CINDY NGOZI now wish to be known and addressed OGBUGO OJINGWA NGOZI. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

I formerly known and address as ABE TITILAYO, now wish to be known and address as :FADEYI TITILAYO SALIMOT. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

I formerly known and address as MARCUS GRACE OMOLADE,now wish to be known and address as Mrs AJEWOLE GRACE OMOLADE. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

I formerly known and address as NURANI ALANI SIKIRU now wish to be known and address as NURAINI ALANI SIKIRULAH. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

I formerly known and address as ISHOLA MUFUTAU BABATUNDE, now wish to be known and address as HASSAN MUFUTAU BABATUNDE. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

HASSAN MONSURAT OLUWATOYIN

DECLARATION OF MARRIAGE

REMOVAL OF MIDDLE NAME

SALAMI SULAIMON AKINROLE JELILI

ABDUL AZEEZ ISMAIL OLUWABUYIKUNMI

I formerly known and addressed as MISS ORINYA ENEH FAITH PRECIOUS, and i got married to MR BEN SAMUEL ADOGAH. I now wish to be known, called and addressed as MRS BEN PRECIOUS PATRICIA. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

I formerly known,called and addressed as YUSUF ABDULRASHEED DANJUMA. Now wish to remove DANJUMA from my former names. I now wish to be known, called and addressed as YUSUF ABDULRASHEED. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

I formerly known and address as SALAMI AKINROLE LUKUMON. Now wish to be known and address as SALAMI SULAIMON AKINROLE JELILI. Total Nigeria plc.and General public Should Take Note.

I formerly known and address as ABDUL AZEEZ ISMAIL now wish to be known and address as ABDUL AZEEZ ISMAIL OLUWABUYIKUNMI. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

OGBUGO OJINGWA NGOZI

I formerly known and address as GIWA MONSURAT OLUWATOYIN ,now wish to be known and. Address as HASSAN MONSURAT OLUWATOYIN . All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

MICHAEL JAMES AKAN

I, formerly known and addressed as, MIKE JAMES AKAN, now wish to be known and addressed as, MICHAEL JAMES AKAN. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note. NWANKWO CHINWENDU

NSEOBONG EFFIONG NDON.

NDAMATI, MIRRIAN

EMMANUEL AZUNDAH

MRS. ESTHER CHINEMEREM NWOKORIE

I, formerly known and addressed as AISHA ISAAC ABDULLAHI, now wish to be known as NSEOBONG EFFIONG NDON. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as, NDAMATI, MIRRIAN IHUOMA, now wish to be known and addressed as, NDAMATI, MIRRIAN. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as, EMMANUEL CHUKWU, now wish to be known and addressed as, EMMANUEL AZUNDAH. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as, MISS. ESTHER CHINEMEREM NWADIKE, now wish to be known and addressed as, MRS. ESTHER CHINEMEREM NWOKORIE. All former documents remain valid.. General public should take note.

OYESE MOSES TAMUNO

MRS. GODFREY AGATHA KELECHI

JONATHAN DUNION ISHAYA

LIAMBEE VERNUMBE RAPHAEL

I, formerly known and addressed as, OYESE MOSES HARRISON, now wish to be known and addressed as, OYESE MOSES TAMUNO. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as, AZUBUIKE AGATHA KELECHI, now wish to be known and addressed as, MRS. GODFREY AGATHA KELECHI. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as, JONATHAN ISHAYA, now wish to be known and addressed as, JONATHAN DUNION ISHAYA. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as, LIAMBEE RAPHAEL MBOMA, now wish to be known and addressed as, LIAMBEE VERNUMBE RAPHAEL. My correct date of birth is, 20th November, 1988, not 28th November, 1988. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

CHIDINMA PASCAL

IJIEKHUAMHEN BLESSING

OYEDEJI KOLAWOLE

NWANYANWU HOPE

CORRECTION OF NAME

I, formerly known and addressed as, MISS. OKAFOR IRENE JANE EKWUTOZIA, now wish to be known and addressed as, MRS. KIFORDU IRENE EKWUTOZIA. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as, CHIDINMA NMACHI, now wish to be known and addressed as, CHIDINMA PASCAL. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as, JOHNSON OFURE BLESSING, now wish to be known and addressed as, IJIEKHUAMHEN BLESSING. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as, OYEDEJI KOLAWOLE ISIAKA, now wish to be known and addressed as, OYEDEJI KOLAWOLE. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

I, NWANYANWU CHIBUZOR HOPE, and NWANYANWU HOPE, refer to one and same person but, now wish to be known and addressed as, NWANYANWU HOPE. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

I, FLORENCE ISAIAH OKON, wish to correct my name which was wrongly written as, FLORENCE OKON, Instead of, FLORENCE ISAIAH OKON, in my bank account details. I now wish to be known and addressed as, FLORENCE ISAIAH OKON. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

NWOKEARU CATHRINE NKEIRU

ELUCHIE OZIOMA NKECHI

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

I, BROWN-AMOTSUKA GEORGE DIXON, and GEORGE A. BROWN, refer to one and same person but, now wish to be known and addressed as, BROWNAMOTSUKA GEORGE DIXON. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

MRS MADUKA IFESINACHI VIVIAN

MRSPATIENCECHIMERUONDUBUISIAMAEFULA

I, formerly known and addressed as EKEH JENNYPATRA NKEIRU, now wish to be known and addressed as NWOKEARU CATHRINE NKEIRU, All former documents remain valid. Banks and the general public should please take note.

This is to confirm that OKORIE OGADINMA BLESSING and OKORIE ONYINYECHI BLESSING, refer to one and the same person, but henceforth wish to be known and addressed as OKORIE ONYINYECHI BLESSING. All former documents remain valid. Federal Polytechnic Nekede and the general public should please take note.

MRS. CHIDI OBIANUJU HAPPINESS

I, formerly known and addressed as, MISS. ONYEKWERE OBIANUJU HAPPINESS, now wish to be known and addressed as, MRS. CHIDI OBIANUJU HAPPINESS. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as, NWANKWO CHINWENDU NAPOLEON, now wish to be known and addressed as, NWANKWO CHINWENDU. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

MRS. KIFORDU IRENE EKWUTOZIA

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS OHANYERE IFESINACHI VIVIAN, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS MADUKA IFESINACHI VIVIAN, All former documents remain valid. Banks and the general public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS PATIENCE CHIMERUO ALUGE, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS PATIENCE CHIMERUO NDUBUISI AMAEFULA, All former documents remain valid. Banks and the general public should please take note.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME This is to confirm that ELUCHIE PEPETUA NKECHI and ELUCHIE OZIOMA NKECHI, refer to one and the same person, but henceforth wish to be known and addressed as ELUCHIE PEPETUA NKECHI. All former documents remain valid. Banks and the general public should please take note.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

MRS. ONADEKO OTUBANKE

FALEGAN OLASUNKANMI SAMUEL

ADEKUNLE ADETOUN TAIBATU

TAJUDEEN SALAMI LAWAL

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS UGWU UJUNWA QUEENDALINE, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS OCHIN UJUNWA QUEENDALINE. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

This is to confirm that the names NSOFOR CHINONSO CHRISDERA, DIKE MICHAEL CHINONSO and MADUBUKO MISHEAL CHINONSO, refer to one and the same person, but henceforth wish to be known and addressed

Change of Name. I formerly known and addressed as Miss. Ayoola Otubanke Otubisi now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs. ONADEKO OTUBANKE Otubisi. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

I formerly known and addressed as ADEBOYE SUNKANMI MICHAEL now wish to be known and addressed as FALEGAN OLASUNKANMI SAMUEL. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

. I formerly known and addressed as OLAWALE ADETOUN ADETUTU now wish to be known and addressed as ADEKUNLE ADETOUN TAIBATU .All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

. I formerly known and addressed as TAJUDEEN OLANREWAJU SALAMI now wish to be known and addressed as TAJUDEEN SALAMI LAWAL .All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

SHUAB AYINLA OWOYEMI

MBAKA FRANCIS IBEZIM

COMFORT MAYOWA GEORGE

MRS OCHIN UJUNWA QUEENDALINE

I formerly known and addressed as SHAIUB OWOYEMI now wish to be known and addressed as SHUAB AYINLA OWOYEMI. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

. I formerly known and addressed as MBAKA IBEZIM now wish to be known and addressed as MBAKA FRANCIS IBEZIM. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

KUDUS FATIMA

EGBO FRANCA NKEM

. I formerly known and addressed as FATIMAH ADUNNI ADEYEMI now wish to be known and addressed as KUDUS FATIMA. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as OKOLIE FRANCA NKEM now wish to be known and addressed as EGBO FRANCA NKEM. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as TAIYE MAYOWA FAROUNBI now wish to be known and addressed as COMFORT MAYOWA GEORGE .All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

BOLA GEORGE . I formerly known and addressed as OLUBOLA BIMPE OLOPADE now wish to be known and addressed as BOLA GEORGE . All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

CORRECTION OF NAME:

OLEWE CHINAKA INNOCENT

OKECHUKWU CHIMANKPA OBIDINMA

DURU STEPHEN CHINASA

OFFORDILE CHIOMA

BARR (MRS) OKEKE CHINWE HILDA

In some of my documents my name was wrongly written as OMOTAYO KAREEM ADEYEMI even in my Access Bank Account instead of OLATAYO KAREEM ADEYEMI. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as OLEWE JUMBO INNOCENT, now wish to be known and addressed as OLEWE CHINAKA INNOCENT. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as OKECHUKWU CHIMANKPA OKPE, now wish to be known and addressed as OKECHUKWU CHIMANKPA OBIDINMA. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as DURU STEPHEN KENNETH, now wish to be known and addressed as DURU STEPHEN CHINASA. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as GODFRED CHIOMA LUCYANN and OFFORDILE CHIOMA GEORGINA, now wish to be known and addressed as OFFORDILE CHIOMA . All former documents remain valid. Banks and General public should

I, formerly known and addressed as BARR (MISS) UGWUEKE CHINWE HILDA , now wish to be known and addressed as BARR (MRS) OKEKE CHINWE HILDA. All former documents remain valid. General public should please

ANIONUOHA BLESSING CHRIS

OLUAVU HYACINTH ONYEMAECHI

MRS OBETTA FRANCISCA ODINAKACHUKWU

OKWUTE GODWIN

UDEH CHARLES HARRISON

I, formerly known and addressed as BLESSING CHRISTOPHER, now wish to be known and addressed as ANIONUOHA BLESSING CHRIS. All former documents remain valid. Banks and General public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as NZEH HYACINT OLUAVU, now wish to be known and addressed as OLUAVU HYACINTH ONYEMAECHI. All former documents remain valid. Banks and General Public should please take note.

MRS UKWUANI CHINONYE STELLA

I, formerly known and addressed as ONWUMELU OKWUTE GODWIN, now wish to be known and addressed as OKWUTE GODWIN. All former documents remain valid. General Public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as CHUKWUKA CHARLES EBUKA, now wish to be known and addressed as UDEH CHARLES HARRISON. All former documents remain valid. General Public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS EZE STELLA. now wish to be known and addressed as MRS UKWUANI CHINONYE STELLA. All former documents remain valid. General Public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS UGWU FRANCISCA ODINKENMA, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS OBETTA FRANCISCA ODINAKACHUKWU. All former documents remain valid. Banks, UNTH and General Public should please take note.

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MRS BENNER OLUCHI ADAKU I, formerly known and addressed as Miss Osumune Oluchi Adaku now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs Benner Oluchi Adaku. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as Miss Chisom Cynthia Uzokwe now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs. Chisom Cynthia Okonkwo. All former documents remain valid. General public take.

EKE JOSEPHINE CHIATIGU I formerly known and addressed as EKEZIE JOSEPHINE CHIATOGU now wish to be known called and addressed as . EKE JOSEPHINE CHIATIGU. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

ABUBAKAR SAEEDU SADEEQ I formerly known and addressed as Saidu Sadiq Hadiza. now wish to be known called and addressed as Abubakar Saeedu Sadeeq. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

OYEDARE BIDEMI

MRS. CHISOM CYNTHIA OKONKWO

AMALIME ESTHER MARY

I formerly known as the first OYEDADE BUNMI BIDEMI, now wish to be known called and addressed as OYEDARE BIDEMI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

I formerly known and addressed as BENSON ESTHER MARY. now wish to be known called and addressed as AMALIME ESTHER MARY. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

BISHOP JULIUS OKARIKE GRACE 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.Okarike Bishop Julius 2.Lionn Peter Timothy 3. Dickson E. Dickson 4.Rev Mrs Josephine Okarike 5.Omoodi Richard Chukwulen

Chairman Secretary

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. To provide support for the fatherless and motherless in orphanage homes, prisons in and across Nigeria 2.To provide humanitarian services to victims,displaced by crisis,flood or war by providing relief materials,food item and healthcare. 3.To eradicate laziness and restiveness among the youth by providing sustainable skill acquisition and empowerment program in and beyond Nigeria 4.To propagate the gospel of Christ and the love of God through humanitarian services Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corporate Affairs Commission Plot 420 Tigris Crescent off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama P.M.B 198 Garki Abuja, within 28 days of this publication. Signed: Chairman.

LOSS OF DOCUMENT

ALLI MOJISOLA I formerly known and addressed as Alli-Oganla Mojisola Oreoluwa, now wish to be known and addressed as Alli Mojisola. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note. AKINGBADE SUNSOLA RASHIDAT I formerly known and addressed as AKINGBADE RASHIDATU, now wish to be known and addressed as AKINGBADE SUNSOLA RASHIDAT. All former documents. remain valid. General public please take note.

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APENA -ALAWAYE ADEOLA NURAT

I formerly known and addressed as Sanni Adeola Nurat, Sanni Olabisi Adeola, Apena Adeola Nurat, now wish to be known and addressed as Apena -Alawaye Adeola Nurat. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.

CORRECTION OF NAME

This is to inform the general public that my name RAPHAEL NWAOKWOR OKOH was wrongly written when opening my account , but now wish to be corrected and addressed as RAPHAEL NNAMOKWOR OKOH. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

I formerly known and Addressed as Timothy Sunday Amienatie. Now wish to be known and Addressed as Adewoleme Timothy Amienatie. All former documents remain valid. General public and banks take note.

OLATUNDE WASIU

CONFIRMATION OF NAME This is to certify and confirm that UGWUANYI CHINEDU JUDE and XTGEM POVILA GOOGLE refer as one and the same person now wish to be known and addressed as UGWUANYI CHINEDU JUDE. All former documents remain valid. Banks and General public take note.

CORRECTION OF NAME

I formerly known and addressed as YUSUF OLAJIDE, now wish to be known and addressed as OLATUNDE WASIU. All former documents. remain valid. General public please take note.

OGUEDIOHU PEACE AKUDO

MAHAMMUD WASIU BALE

I formerly known and addressed as NWOKE PEACE AKUDO, now wish to be known and addressed as OGUEDIOHU PEACE AKUDO. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as MAHMUD WASIU .B., now wish to be known and addressed as MAHAMMUD WASIU BALE. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.

ADENIRAN MARY FUNKE

IFEOMA JACINTA VINCENT OIGBOCHIE

I Formerly known and addressed as Adesanya Mary Funke now wish to be known, called and addressed as Adeniran Mary Funke All documents and certificates bearing my former names remain valid. Banks, Immigrations, Relevant Authorities and the General public Please take note.

JIMOH-KUKU ABIOLA SAMSIDEEN I, formerly known and addressed as KUKU ABIOLA JIMOH, now wish to be known and addressed as JIMOH-KUKU ABIOLA SAMSIDEEN. All former documents remain valid. General public take note. LAWAL KAOSARAT HARINOLA I formerly known and addressed LAWAL OMOTAWA ARINOLA now wish to be known called and addressed as LAWAL KAOSARAT HARINOLA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

FADIPE OLUWAYEMISI ADEBIMPE

CONFIRMATION OF NAME This is to certify and confirm that ONOCHIE IKE OKOYE, ONOCHIE .I. OKOYE and OKOYE ONOCHIE IKECHUKWU refer as one and the same person now wish to be known and addressed as OKOYE ONOCHIE IKECHUKWU. All former documents remain valid. Banks and General public take note. OMOLOKUN OLUWABUNMI RUTH

I Formerly known and addressed as IFEOMA JACINTA OFOR now wish to be known, called and addressed as IFEOMA JACINTA VINCENT OIGBOCHIE All documents and certificates bearing my former names remain valid. Banks, Immigrations, Relevant Authorities and the General public Please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as ADEDAYO OLUWAYEMISI ADEBIMPE, now wish to be known and addressed as FADIPE OLUWAYEMISI ADEBIMPE. All former documents remain valid. My bank and general public should take note.

I formerly known and addressed as LIBARA OLUWABUNMI RUTH, now wish to be known know and addressed to be known as OMOLOKUN OLUWABUNMI RUTH , all former document remain valid general public take note

CHUKWUMA IROEGBULAM

OLAIYA OGUNTIMEHIN STEPHEN

I, formerly known and addressed as MOSES UDE, now wish to be known and addressed as CHUKWUMA IROEGBULAM. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

AJIBUWA OLUWASEUN TOSIN

I formerly known and addressed as OGUNTIMEHIN OLAIYA O. now wish to be known called and addressed as OLAIYA OGUNTIMEHIN STEPHEN. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I formerly known and addressed as SOLAJI SEUN TOSIN now wish to be known called and addressed as AJIBUWA OLUWASEUN TOSIN. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

AKINDELE OLAWUMI OLUWUMI ADEOLA (MRS)

MOSES JENNEFER NNODULU

OHAJU GLADYS CHINEDU

I formerly known and addressed as MOSES JENNEFER EZINNE now wish to be known called and addressed as MOSES JENNEFER NNODULU. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I formerly known and addressed as MADU GLADYS CHINEDU now wish to be known called and addressed as OHAJU GLADYS CHINEDU. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I formerly known and addressed as AKINDELE-AKINWUNMI OLAWUNMI. A. (MRS) now wish to be known called and addressed as AKINDELE OLAWUMI OLUWUMI ADEOLA (MRS) All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

THAT I lost the original Landed property Title Land Certificate with Registration No. 84 at page 84 in Volume 1547 located at No. 6, Awofodu Street, Bariga near Shomolu Lagos State got lost and all efforts made to trace it has proved abortive.

I formerly known and addressed as ORIZU CHRISTIE FRIH now wish to be known called and addressed as ORIZU CHRISTIE NJOH. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Signed: JIMOH LAWAL

Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corporate Affairs Commission Plot 420 Tigris Crescent off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama P.M.B 198 Garki Abuja, within 28 days of this publication. Signed; ___________ Mr Enwerem Okechukwu (Secretary)

ISA DAN IKEMS

NNAMANI CHIZARAM DORIS

I, formerly known and addressed as NNAMANI CHINAZA DORIS, now wish to be known and addressed as NNAMANI CHIZARAM DORIS. All former documents remain valid. First Bank and General Public should please take note.

This is to inform the general public that my name ALICE OGBA was wrongly written in my bank account but now wish to be corrected and addressed as OGBA ALICE CHIOMA. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

NWABUNWANNE JOSEPH CHUKWUJEKWU

I formerly known and addressed as : Isa Ikems now wish to be known called and addressed as Isa Dan Ikems. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

I formerly known and addressed as NWABUNWENNE JOSEPH CHUKWUJAKWU now wish to be known called and addressed as NWABUNWANNE JOSEPH CHUKWUJEKWU. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

ORIZU CHRISTIE NJOH

SAKA RASHEEDAT I formerly known and addressed as AYOOLA RASHEEDAT MORENIKEJI, now wish to be known called and addressed as: SAKA RASHEEDAT . All former documents remain valid. General public take note

DYNAMIC SUCCESS MEN CLUB The general public is hereby notified that the above named has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission, Abuja for registration under PART C; of the Companies and Allied Matters Act No 1 of 1990. THE TRUSTEES ARE; 1. Mr Chinwe Maduako (Chairman) 2. Tochukwu Okeafor (Vice Chairman) 3. Mr Enwerem Okechukwu (Sceretary) 4. Mr. Ebuka Adaigwe (Fin. Secretary) 5. Mr. Caleb Ukachu (Treasurer) AIMS & OBJECTIVES Ïj ƍƏ ƐƆƅƐ Ɛ Ɔ ƈ ƐƆƏƆ Ɛ Ɨ ƓƆƋƇ ƏƆ Ƈ ƈƐ ƌƆƌƄƆƏ Ïj ^Ə ƌ ƐƆ Ɛ Ɔ ƒƈ ƈ Ƈ Ɛ Ɔ ƅƋƑƄ

AANTI MI NETWORK FOR YOUTHS PERSONAL DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT

This is to inform the general public that the above name has applied for registration with the Corporate Affairs Commission, Abuja under Part ‘C’ of Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990. THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Mrs. Oluyemisi Ololade Ayileye 2. Mrs. Bernice Adedayo Lijofi 3. Mrs. Oluwaseun Wuraola Lijofi 4. Mrs. Oluwafadekemi Itunu Ajibola 5. Mrs. Oluwatoyin Adewumi Egedi 6. Mrs. Beatrice Adedoja Oladele AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. To empower and assist the youths to discover their identity through one on one mentoring 2. To provide counseling, mentoring and advising services to the youths 3. To enlighten the younger generation on how to maximize their potential 4. To provide practical support to youth in education and vocational training 5. To encourage the younger generation; through honest conversation to dream big and have confidence in their dreams Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General, Corporate Affairs commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Irosi Street, Maitama Abuja within 28 days of this publication. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

ABAGI-AMA COMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION 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.Okiakpe Williams Kleriama 2.Peter Douye Japhet AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.To provide a voice for the communities before the oil companies/ Government agencies. 2.To carry out activities that will educate our communities on social and economical issues. Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corporate Affairs Commission Plot 420 Tigris Crescent off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama P.M.B 198 Garki Abuja, within 28 days of this publication. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

26 Public Notice GOOD FELLAS INTERNATIONAL CLUB OF LAGOS

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HEALING AND TRANSFORMING LEADERSHIP MINISTRIES

This is to notify the general public that the above named Ministries has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2004.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. UFOMADU DARLINGTON EZENWA - CHAIRMAN 2. MGBEAHURU UZOCHUKWU - SECRETARY 3. EMMANUEL CHUKWUEMEKA FRANKLIN 4. NWONKWO CHINEDU

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. To prayerfully research, design, adopt and deploy non-violent approaches to heal inner-pains, heart-wounds and negative effects of crises, conflicts, injustice and marred relationships. 2. To provide mediation, relief, succor, community projects, reintegration services that transform, reconcile, build peace, promote harmony and sustain societal development. 3. To equip, disciple, mentor, coach, teach, train and develop individuals, organizations and communities to lead with integrity, competence, stewardship, and selflessness for positive change, societal transformation, development and improvement in general living standards. 4. To promote obedience-based biblical disciple making, integral missions, wholistic evangelism, teaching, preaching, team formation, gatherings, baptisms with related sacraments, righteous living, positive change, community projects, peaceful co-existence, societal transformation and public good through diligent people of integrity and hard work. 5. To provide and carry out information dissemination, communication, publicity, advocacy, seminars, conferences and outreaches through appropriate media to achieve the goals and objectives of the organization. 6. To raise resources, network, collaborate, partner, deploy capacity, develop infrastructure/assets, facilities, equipment and involve in other not-for profit and non-violent related activities necessary for achieving organizational vision, goals and objectives.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO FOSTER PEACE AND UNITY AMONG THE MEMBERS OF THE CLUB. 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

Deliverance Faith Healing Ministry THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, NO. 1 OF 1990. THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1) Mr, Sunday iruoma 2) Mr, Ibe isaac 3) Mr, Peter adokwe 4) Mr, Maxwel Odame 5) Mr, David kay orji - Secretary 6) Prophetess Amaka - Chairlady AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. To preach the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES

LOSS OF DOCUMENTS This is to inform the general public of loss of original copy of the allocation papers in respect of block 136, flat 4, Ojokoro housing estate, Ojokoro Lagos State. All efforts made to trace the missing documents proved abortive. This publication is now required for record purposes to enable certified true copy (CTC) of the original documents to be reissued. Lagos Building Investment Company plc., relevant agencies and general public to take note. Signed: Mrs Folashade Yusoof

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Bishop Benjamin A. Kwashi. 2. Brother Ben I. Akpera. 3. Mr. Dennis O. Olango. 4. Dr. Ekaette Ettang. 5. Dr. Lucy S. Newman, CPT. 6. Mrs Margaret Dada Alamutu. 7. Mr. Monday O. Ogbe. 8. Bishop Nathan Inyom. 9. Prof. Yusufu Turaki.

Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General of the Corporate Affairs Commission, Abuja, within 28 days of this publication. Signed: Ekene Ugbede ESQ (Ronke Akinola & Co) 4th Floor, Onafeko House, 200 Igbosere Street, Lagos Island, Lagos.

ADEKANLE TOLULOPE

TOMOLOJU GEORGE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS FAGBEMI TOLULOPE OLUFUNBI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ADEKANLE TOLULOPE OLUFUNBI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS THOMOS GEORGE ATILEHINOLUWA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS TOMOLOJU GEORGE ATILEHINOLUWA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

CORRECTION TRUSTEES

TELEMA RUKEVWE-BEN

MY NAME WAS WRONGLY WRITTEN AS SUNDAY USIMEME OKODUWA INSTEAD OF SUNDAY ISIMEME OKODUWA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESS AS SUNDAY ISIMEME OKODUWA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGHENETEGA TELEMA OKODIYA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OGHENETEGA TELEMA RUKEVWE-BEN ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

POSITIVE THINKERS OF NIGERIAN YOUTHS FOUNDATION

BORN WITH A PURPOSE FOUNDATION

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1.OLALEYE Dare-Matthew 2. Fisayo Fakayode AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. To raise & empower 70% of Nigerian youths to take full possession of the affairs of governance in our nation in order to secure posterity for the coming generation before 2030. 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.

NAMES OF TRUSTEES: 1. MISS. ESTHER IDIMI, 2. MR. IFEANYI GBEMUDU, 3. MRS. LINDA BADMUS, 4. MR. CYRIL ADUGBO. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO RAISE A UNIQUE BREED OF STUDENTS THAT STRIFES FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AND UPHOLDS THE VALUE OF EDUCATION. 2. TO RAISE STUDENTS WHO ARE CREATIVE AND INNOVATIVE, WITH THE DRIVE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THEIR ENVIRONMENT. 3. TO RAISE STUDENTS WITH A WORLD CLASS MINDSET AND BE SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS IN THE SOCIETY. 4.REACHES OUT TO STUDENTS IN GOVERNMENT SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS, EQUIPPING THEM FOR THE LIFE AFTER HIGH SCH IN THE AREA OF PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AS A TOOL TO AID LEARNING. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

SIGNED: SECRETARY

Fulfillment Prayer Mountain Church

IJONGO LIFE CHANGING FOUNDATION OR GOD LIFE CHANGING FOUNDATION

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, NO. 1 OF 1990. THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1) Olusoji Emmanuel Oyesanya 2) Temilola Rufiat Oyesanya 3) Anthony Adewale AdetolaAdetola AIMS AND OJJECTIVES: 1) To fulfill Jesus Christ mission on earth. 2) To set the captives free, provide succor and respite for the people, give hope to the hopeless in God and to comfort all and sundry in life. 3) To help in interpretation of people’s dreams, aspiration and destiny in life. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, NO. 1 OF 1990. THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MR. IJONGO EMMANUEL IKPON (Chairman). 2. MR. AKPAN SAMUEL SUNDAY (Secretary). 3. MRS. DAVID IMEH. 4. INYANG ESITUKOH AKPAN. 5. MRS. UDOSEN PEACE EMEN. 6. MR. AFANGIDEH JAMES AKPAN . 7. MR. JAMES NATHAN JAMES AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. Impacting knowledge to the youth through skill acquisition of their various given talent. 2. Bringing out the youth out from the street and making them better people in the society. 3. To unite the lost youth that runaway from their homes to their love one on 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

PREVAILING SAINTS GLOBAL ASSEMBLY

JOHN 14 V 6 GOSPEL BIBLE CHURCH

LOSS/MISPPACEMENT OF LAND TITLE DOCUMENTS

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED 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, 1990. THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. PST. ARUBERE ELORKUMO FAMOUS 2. EVANG. MRS. ARUBERE TOBOLAYEFA 3. PST. OGIESOBA OSAKPAMWAN RAPHEAL 4. OBAHOLO MARK 5. ARUBERE IBENATE SUNDAY

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED CHURCH HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1990. THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. PST. ERIC ENORUWA OVIAROBO - GENERAL OVERSEER 2. MRS. STELLA OVIAROBO - ASSISTANT GENERAL OVERSEER 3. MRS. DORCAS IYENGUMWENA - TREASURER 4. MR. OSAYAWE EFOSA MONDAY - SECRETARY 5. MR. HENRY NOSAKHARE - FIN. SECRETARY

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST ALL OVER THE WORLD. 2. TO ASSIST THE LESS PRIVILEGED, ORPHANS AND WIDOWS.

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST ALL OVER THE WORLD. 2.TO ASSIST THE LESS PRIVILEGED, ORPHANS AND WIDOWS.

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

WE WISH TO BRING TO THE NOTICE OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT ON OR ABOUT THE 12TH DAY OF APRIL, 2017, THE DIRECTING MINDS AND ALTER EGOS OF JUSTIN -J GLOBAL VENTURES LIMITED LOST /MISPLACED THE ORIGINAL LITTLE DOCUMENTS EVIDENCING THE GRANT OF A RIGHT OF OCCUPANCY IN PLOT 4, SABO GOD A DISTRICT, FCT, ABUJA BY THE HON. MINISTER OF THE FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY ON THE 16/02/10 WITH TITLE FILE NO. MISC 106546. IF THE R. OF. O. IS FOUND BY ANY PERSON IT SHOULD BE RETURNED TO THE LAND DEPARTMENT OF THE FCT MINISTRY OR TO UMAR FARUK ALIERO OF SUITE A35, EFAB MALL, GARKI, ABUJA, FCT.

SIGNED: SECRETARY.

SIGNED: SECRETARY

-------------------------UMAR FARUK ALIERO (DIRECTOR)

--------------------------GBOYEGA FATIMILEHIN (DIRECTOR)

MAINLAND MARKET TRADERS ASSOCIATION

NUPE HOUSE OF UNITY ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA

UTEM ABON IBIL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ROSE NWABUEZE - CHAIRMAN 2. NDIDIAMAKA INNOCENT - SECRETARY 3. PATRICIA OGBODO 4. APPOLONIA OGBO 5. CHRISTOPHER NWODO

TRUSTEES: 1. ABDULLAHI IBRAHIM BABANGIDE 2. MUHAMMED ZUBAIRU DANLAMI 3. MOHAMMED SHUAIB MAHMUD 4. IBRAHIM MOHAMMED NDABIDA

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF MEMBERS 2. TO CO-OPERATE WITH THE COMMUNITIES AND OTHER SECTION AROUND THE MARKET. 3. TO DEVELOP THE SPIRIT OF UNDERSTANDING, GOOD WILL, BROTHERLY RELATIONSHIP AMONG MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONXSI STREET, MAITAMA. P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO PROMOTE PEACE AND UNITY AMONG NUPE NATIVES FOR ECONOMIC, EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL BENEFITS OF NUPE LAND 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

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ATIM STEPHEN IBEM, 2. ILOK LOVETH NANCY, 3. ODEY ELIZABETH AGEDE, 4. ILOK CYRIL MOSHE 5. ADIMA EMMANUEL ASHABA. AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF IBIL INDIGENES RESIDENT IN LAGOS 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

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AFRICAN CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY 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. TRUSTEES: 1. PROF TOR LORAPUU 2. DR. CHARITY CHENGE 3. MR. CHIKA NWAOZUZU 4. DR. SANI DAWOP 5. MR. JOHN PILAKU 6. MR. SAMUEL UNOM

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THE GREAT KING INTERNATIONAL MINISTRY THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990. TRUSTEES: 1. MR OLUSEGUN IDRIS AWE 2. MRS OLUBUNMI ARINKE AWE

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO ASSIST AND SUPPORT NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS TO UTILIZE THEIR GOALS 2. TO ENHANCE DEVELOPMENT OF NONPROFIT IN ORDER TO ACCOMPLISH SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 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

TRIANGLE OF FAITH MINISTRY

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. CHRISTIAN WORSHIP, CHARITY AND WELFARE DEVELOPMENT 2. GOOD CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP AND EVANGELISM ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28TH DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED: BARR MERCY OMAGE

COMMANDMENT HOLY CHURCH OF GOD ALADURA

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ENIOLA HAKEEM FALADE 2. OLAYINKA FALADE 3. OMOWUMI FALADE

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. SAULA TIMILEHIN OLUWATOSIN 2. FALOLA ESTHER OPENISOLA 3. FALOLA ELIZABETH MODUPEOLA 4. FALOLA MICHAEL 5. FALOLA MOSES AKOREDE .

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST 2. TO BIBLICALLY AND SPIRITUALLY GALVANIZE WITH THE PEOPLE WITH THE WORD OF GOD. 3. TO BIBLICALLY STIMULATE AND RECALIBRATE THE HOPELESS AND GIVE THEM THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF GOD. 4. TO EVANGELISE THE INCARCERATED AND ENSURE THEIR REINTEGRATION INTO 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.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST ALL OVER THE WORLD 2. TO WIN SOULS FOR GOD’S KINGDOM THROUGH BIBLE STUDY, EVANGELISM AND DELIVERANCE SERVICES. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: BAR. ALEDARE 07032682635

LOSS OF DOCUMENT

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF THE LOSS OF ORIGINAL CERTIFICATE OF NOAH’S ARK FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL WITH REG. NO. CAC/ IT/33232. ALL EFFORTS TO TRACE THE SAID DOCUMENT PROVED ABORTIVE. THE TRUSTEES HAVE APPLIED FOR A CTC. ANY OBJECTION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF THE LOSS OF ORIGINAL CERTIFICATE OF ST’ BARNABAS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION WITH REG. NO. CAC/ IT/6897. ALL EFFORTS TO TRACE THE SAID DOCUMENT PROVED ABORTIVE. THE TRUSTEES HAVE APPLIED FOR A CTC. ANY OBJECTION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

TRIANGLE OF FAITH MINISTRY

COMMANDMENT HOLY CHURCH OF GOD ALADURA

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ENIOLA HAKEEM FALADE 2. OLAYINKA FALADE 3. OMOWUMI FALADE

TRUSTEES ARE: 1. SAULA TIMILEHIN OLUWATOSIN 2. FALOLA ESTHER OPENISOLA 3. FALOLA ELIZABETH MODUPEOLA 4. FALOLA MICHAEL 5. FALOLA MOSES AKOREDE .

LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN GLOBAL MINISTRY THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 TRUSTEES: 1. ODUSI BIDEMI MIRACLE - CHAIRMAN/PRESIDENT 2. ODUSI OLUFEMI TAIWO - VICE-PRESIDENT 3. EBODA ADEFUNKE ADESOLADEMI - TREASURER 4. OSOJESE ADEDAMILOLA OPEMIPO 5. ODUNAIYA ABISOLA OLUWAKEMISOLA 6. ADENUGA ADEKOREDE OLUWASEUN - SECRETARY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. AWAKENING COMPASSION IN THE HEART OF WOMEN TOWARDS OTHERS GOING THROUGH TRYING PERIODS AND HARD TIMES. 2. GENERAL HUMANITARIAN SERVICES TO THE POOR ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28TH DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

THE DEBORAH INITIATIVE FOR THE NEEDY AND VULNERABLE THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, NO. 1 OF 1990. TRUSTEES: 1. MRS FOLASHADE OLOYEDE: 2. MRS THEODORA LARDNER: 3. MRS TOYIN AKERELE: 4. MRS GBEMI OLOWOLAFE: 5. MRS ADENIKE AMOS: AIM AND OBJECTIVE: TO CATER FOR THE NEEDY AND LESS PRIVILEGED 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: VICTOR MODUPE ESQ. SOLICITOR

HEART AND ACTS OF TABITHA 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. TRUSTEES: 1. PROF. OLA DAVID KAJOGBOLA. - CHAIRMAN 2. MRS. JUSTINA OKWUONU KAJOGBOLA 3. AYODEJI DAVID UCHECHUKWU KAJOGBOLA 4. FEOSHI ELIZABETH ADA. (BARR). - SECRETARY 5. FEOSHI JOSEPH OFOKORUME AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO PROMOTE PROPAGATE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST THROUGH AIMS GIVING TO THE NEEDY & EMPOWERMENT OF THE LESS PRIVILEGES SIGNED: SECRETARY

PRAISE UNTIL SOMETHING HAPPENS INITIATIVE THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, NO. 1 OF 1990. NAMES OF TRUSTEES 1. ADESINA JOHN OLALEKAN - CHAIRMAN 2. ADESINA FELICIA OMOLABAKE - SECRETARY 3. ADESINA ADETOYE RAPHEAL -TREASURER AIMS AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO ASSIST THE LESS PRIVILEGE IN AREA OF FEEDING AND CLOTHING. 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

GATE OF KINDNESS FOUNDATION

PLACE OF AUTHORITY DELIVERANCE AND PROPHETIC MINISTRY

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: MRS. OFIKWU ESTHER ADA BISHOP NORTEY SAMUEL RANSFORD TIFWA YERIMA HASSAN

THE TRUSTEES ARE: OZIEGBE JOSEPH OBA OKHEMUKHOKHO COLIN ASIOVU JULIE OZIEGBE NGOZI AUGUSTINA

ANTHONY OFIKWU FOUNDATION

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: TO HELP THE LESS PRIVILEGED CHILDREN 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: U. I. OKWORI ESQ.

AIMS & OBJECTIVES: TO ASSIST THE LESS PRIVILEGED IN THE SOCIETY. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: M. C. UGWU ESQ.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ILLELEJI CHIOMA - GENERAL OVERSEER 2. NWADADO ANDREW - GENERAL OVERSEER 3. ORITSEMUGBONE VICTORIA- SECRETARY 4. EJIRO PREYE FUNMI - USHER 5. NWADADO AUSTINE- COMMITTEE MEMBER THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PREACH AND BRING DELIVERANCE TO THOSE WHOSE JOY HAS BEEN TAKEN AWAY BY THE ENEMIES AND RESTORE HOPE TO THE HOPELESS, JOY 2. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO ALL NATIONS OF THE WORLD 3. TO PREACH AND TRAIN CHRISTIAN TO POSSESS THE GOOD CHRISTIAN VIRTUES 4. TO MINISTER DIVINE DELIVERANCE FROM FOUNDATION HOLDS TO THE SORROWED AND LIGHT TO THOSE IN THE DARK THE WORD OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST AND SHINES AS LIGHT IN THE WORLD AND SALT OF THE EARTH 5. RAISING A GENERATION OF CHRISTIANS THAT WILL BUILD A BETTER CHURCH FOR THE COMING OF OUR LORD ANY OBJECTION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION. NDOLA SQUARE, ZONE 5, WUSE, ABUJA,WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: J. K. NANA CROWN KINGS CONSULTANCY CO 08037769526

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FRANCIS OLUSOLA ORPHANAGE HOME

CENTRE FOR CREATIVE AND TRANSFORMATIVE LEADERSHIP

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

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

This is to 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.

Trustees: 1. Isah Ibn Mohammed 2. Ibrahim Akibu Ja’afaru 3. Idris Ibrahim Jiya

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Mr Osahon Noruwa Airhis - Chairman 2. Mr Amos Tolutope Beecroft - Secretary 3. Mrs Vivian Okeke 4. Mr Kehinde Oniyide 5. Mrs Oluchi Okpara

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Olusola Adesina Oluseyi - Chairman 2. Ariyo Omosebi Innocent - Secretary 3. Abayomi Ayoola Emmanuel - Member The aim and objective: 1. To help the less privileged, especially in rural area across the country. 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

ETISONG OIL AND GAS AUTONOMOUS HOST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST

Objectives: 1.To enhance Leadership and Capacity Building in our Communities through Research and Development 2.To develop new crop of leaders with greener initiatives to impact their communities positively through leadership and capacity training 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.

FIRST CITY OF CHRIST PROPHETIC CHURCH

MARYLAND COMPREHENSIVE SECONDARY SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 1989 SET

The TRUSTEES ARE: (1) PASTOR ETIM DANIEL AKAN - CHAIRMAN (2) CHIEF OKON ASUQUO ABANG - MEMBER (3) ENGR. JOSHUA OAE JOSHUA - SECRETARY (4) PASTOR SILVA-OSBORN MORRIS ROBERTZ - MEMBER

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. CHUKWUZO GINIKA AUGUSTINE - GENERAL OVERSEER 2. CHUKWUZOR CHINEDU MAUREEN

SIGNED: SECRETARY

FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN BUSINESSMEN LAGOS THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT,1990. TRUSTEES: (1) OMOTOSHO ROTIMI - CHAIRMAN (2) EBIARUOYI AHIRE JOHN - SECRETARY (3) IBIWOYE MICHAEL OLUGBENGA (4) AYODELE ADEDEJI ANDREW (5) ADEBAYO OLALEKAN OLAKUNLE (6) RAYMOND OLABODE MATHEW (7) OGUNTADE OLUSOJI OLADIPUPO AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: (1) TO SERVE AS A VEHICLE FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF GODLY ASPIRATIONS (2) TO HELP MEMBERS GROW AND MATURE SPIRITUALLY,INTELLECTUALLY, FINANCIALLY AND SOCIALLY THROUGH SOUND BIBLICAL TEACHINGS AND DOCTRINES. ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL,CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION,PLOT 420,TIGRIS CRESCENT,OFF AGUIYIIRONSI STREET, MAITAMA,P.M.B 198, GARKI, ABUJA,WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: SECRETARY

UNENDING FLOW MINISTRY INT’L The general public is hereby notified that the above named non-governmental organization has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission, Abuja, for registration as an incorporated trustee under Part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, Cap. C-20, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004. THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1). PROPHET NWAULU AZUKA - PRESIDENT 2) SIMEON CHIKWE - SECRETARY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: i). To take the gospel of salvation of our Lord Jesus to all parts of the world and to bring souls into the body of Christ ii). To deliver people from darkness and the bondage of sin, sickness, poverty and every satanic oppression and manipulation iii). To promote religious harmony iv). The promoting of holiness as a way of Christian living v). The quest for salvation as the key to happiness in daily life Any objection to this registration should be addressed 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. SIGNED PRESIDENT

RAISING HOPE YOUTH EMPOWERMENT INITIATIVE THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 TRUSTEES: 1. ORLU OKEY MAXWELL 2. ORLU KENNEDY BEKWELE 3. CHIMA ONUOHA GEORGE 4. CHISA OTUKPA 5. TASIE-AMADI IGOCHI AIMS AND OBJECTIVES TO HELP BEING EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT AMONG THE YOUTH ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28TH DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission Maitama Abuja within 28 days of this publication SIGNED:Chienye Nnenna Obiajulu 08037890093

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.

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

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVES: a. Promote safety of estate residents b. Liaise and maintain communication on behalf of the estate with any relevant local authorities c. Identify and update residents on agreed relevant projects to be executed

SIGNED:- SECRETARY

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.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO CARRY OUT HUMANITARIAN WELFARE TO THE LESS PRIVILEGED OF THE SOCIETY

Paradise II Estate Residents Association

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

LOSS OF DOCUMENT THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ORIGINALS OF HOUSE DOCUMENTS BELONGING TO JAPHIA BUBA GHUNDIA, LOCATED HOUSE NO 2 ALONG 527 ROAD, KUBWA PHASE IV ESTATE, ABUJA WITH REF: NO FHA/LSEM/ FCT/KB. PH IV OF 3-BEDROOM SEMI-DETACHED BUNGALOW GOT LOST AND WAS DULLY REPORTED TO POLICE STATION. ALL EFFORT TO GET IT BACK HAS PROVED ABORTIVE. IF FOUND, PLEASE RETURN TO THE NEAREST POLICE STATION OR TO THE OWNER ON THE ABOVE ADDRESS, FEDERAL HOUSING AUTHORITY AND GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE.

RHEMA BASE FIRE HOUSE MINISTRY

This is to inform the general public that the above named, has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under part ‘C’ of the Companies and Allied Matters Act no. 1 of 1990. THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Olubunmi Olusola Oguntuase 2. Oluwakemi Tenidade Eboda 3. Olufunmilayo Sherifat Tijani 4. Adeyemi Abayomi Okuribido 5. Susan Emonena Osakwe AIMS AND OBJECTIVES : 1. To promote close fellowship among the alumni, students, and friends of the school. 2. To promote the welfare of members. 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: Chikezie Madubuike

CITIZENSCLUB LEGAL AID THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, NO. 1 OF 1990. TRUSTEES 1. NWANKPO OBIAGELI. - CHAIRMAN 2. ONYEMELUKWE IFEOMA NCHETACHUKWU. - SECRETARY 3. ODJE VINCENT. - MEMBER 4. UKAUZO AUGUSTINE CHUKWUEMEKA. - MEMBER AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO PROMOTE LEGAL AID IN THE SOCIETY 2. TO CATER FOR WELFARE OF THE MEMBERS 3. TO FOSTER PEACE, UNITY AND PROGRESS AMONG MEMBERS ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: Vincent ODJE. ESQ

EAGLES ASSEMBLY OF ETCHE ETHNIC PEOPLE

The general public is hereby notified that the above named non-governmental organization has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission, Abuja, for registration as an incorporated trustee under Part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, Cap. C-20, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1). IKEFUAMA EBERECHI UCHENNA PRESIDENT 2) OJIMADU GOODNESS CHIOMA SECRETARY 3). ONYENEKWE CHUKWUDI PHILIP 4). AKWAFUO GODWIN

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1). COMRADE OPURUM EMMANUEL EMENIKE 2) ONWUNAKU BRIGHTEN UKA 3). EGBUNEFU SUNDAY 4). MUNONYE FRIDAY NDUDIRI 5). NWAECHEFOM KINGDOM

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES i). To take the gospel of salvation of our Lord Jesus to all parts of the world and to bring souls into the body of Christ ii). To deliver people from darkness and the bondage of sin, sickness, poverty and every satanic oppression and manipulation iii). To promote religious harmony iv). The promoting of holiness as a way of Christian living v). The quest for salvation as the key to happiness in daily life Any objection to this registration should be addressed 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. SIGNED PRESIDENT

GREAT DIVINE BROTHERS CLUB OF NIGERIA, OJO, LAGOS THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 TRUSTEES: 1. NWANKWO OBINNA FREDRICK- CHAIRMAN 2.UDOFIA EMMANUEL NELSON ROBSON -SECRETARY 3. OBIDIASO EJIKE GERRARD -FINANCIAL SECRETARY 4. AJULUCHUKWU CHRISTOPHER MMADUABUCHUKWU-TREASURER THE AIMS ARE: 1. TO PROTECT, PROMOTE AND PROJECT THE GOOD IMAGE OF THE CLUB 2. TO FORSTER SOCIAL INTERACTION AND PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF MEMBERS. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28TH DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED: EMMA O. IKEJI ESQ. (SOLICITOR) 08033185329

CHAIRMAN SECRETARY

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: i). To promote and sustain love, unity and harmony among members ii). To care for the welfare of her members in terms of sickness and problems iii). To show or care and represent in the time of death of its deceased members who is serving the club very diligently Any objection to this registration should be addressed 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. SIGNED: CHAIRMAN

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE DISABLED THROUGH AWARENESS AND PROMOTION OF TALENT CAC/IT/NO 84865 THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED FOR CHANGE OF NAME AND AMENDMENT OF CONSTITUTION TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 OLD NAME: THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE DISABLED THROUGH AWARENESS AND PROMOTION OF TALENT TO NEW NAME: ADAPT TALENT FOUNDATION ANY OBJECTION TO THIS CHANGE SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUYI IRONSI STREET. PMB 198, MATIAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28TH DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

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Gani Adams unveils OPC investment arm, builds event centre, 3 star hotel, others Patrick Okohue

ÏÏÏThe

National Coordinator of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), Otunba Gani Adams has disclosed that the ethnic organisation will launch its investment arm in the coming months. Adams who disclosed this yesterday at Ikorodu during the National Coordinating Council Meeting of Ikorodu West Chapter, added that a 700seater capacity ultra-modern event center will be commissioned in Mushin area of Lagos next month. The OPC leader also said before the end of the year, a

3-star hotel belonging to the OPC will be commissioned in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital and a befitting 3-storey building secretariat in the heart of Ikeja, Lagos State capital will also be unveiled. “I am glad to announce to you that next month (October), we will commission our 700-seater capacity event center in Mushin. Also before the end of the year, we will commission a 3-star hotel in Abeokuta and 3-storey building secretariat in Ikeja,” Adams declared to the rousing cheers from OPC leaders, members and other eminent dignitaries who graced the occasion.

He said the group could muster the enormous resources for the investments due to financial management dexterity and discipline of the leadership of OPC. Adams said if he had yielded to the intense pressure from some elements within the OPC who insisted on sharing the proceeds from the pipeline protection contract awarded to the group by the previous government, OPC would not have had any investments. Adams said contrary to the erroneous views people hold about OPC, the organisation is peopled by responsible men and women who are patriotic

and God-fearing. He said politicians who maliciously labeled OPC as a violent, ethnic militia group were the real sponsors of violence and patrons of thugs. According to him, they can hardly gathered 1000 people without pandemonium. On the just concluded Yoruba Summit held in Ibadan, the OPC National Coordinator said he had never witnessed such gathering that paraded the array of finest, illustrious sons and daughters of Yoruba land since he became social and cultural justice crusader in 1993. Adams said those who con-

Intafact earmarks N82 M on youths entrepreneurship

John Ndu Awka

ÏÏÏIntafact

Beverages Nigeria Limited makers of Hero Lager beer and Grand Malt a has awarded a cheque for N 82 million to 40 Nigerian youths for various entrepreneurship skills. The event which marks the closure of the Second Edition of the Hero’s KickStart programme took place in Onitsha, Anambra State. The 40 awardees received their cheque ranging from N 3 Million, N2.5 Million, N1.5 million among others. The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company and the Traditional ruler of Onitsha, HRM

Igwe, Nnaemeka Achebe said the essence of the programme was to empower every youth to be employers of labour, especially now there is economic crunch. “The KickStart programme was created with the aim of developing a culture of business entrepreneurship in youth with the intention of growing their businesses into sustainable high impact enterprises. The programme targets youth between the ages 18-35 years. Winners of this year’s edition will receive non-collateral seed loan capital to fund their businesses to be presented at the event.” Igwe Achebe said. Igwe Achebe who com-

OLAIFA BILIKIS OPEYEMI

LAWAL ABUBAKAR TEMITAYO

I, formerly known and addressed as ENILOLOBO BALIKIS OPEYEMI, now wish to be known and addressed as OLAIFA BILIKIS OPEYEMI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as LAWAL BAKARE TEMITAYO, now wish to be known and addressed as LAWAL ABUBAKAR TEMITAYO and my correct date of birth is 21/7/1990. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

DAMILARE OLUWAKEMI GRACE

SOROYE SIMEON OLAYIWOLA

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

I, formerly known and addressed as OLAYIWOLA SOROYE, now wish to be known and addressed as SOROYE SIMEON OLAYIWOLA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

COLLINS CHUKWUYEM

CORRECTION OF NAME

I, formerly known and addressed as OKOBIA CHUKS COLLINS, Now wish to be known and addressed as COLLINS CHUKWUYEM. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

My name was mistakenly written as OLAWUYI FOLAKE HAWAU in my bank account instead of OLAWUNI FOLAKE HAWAU. That my correct name is OLAWUNI FOLAKE HAWAU. General public and authority concerned should take note

demned the far-reaching resolutions of the summit were enemies of the Yoruba race adding that they were collaborators with those who were hell-bent on frustrating the collective destiny of the Yoruba nation. He insisted that regionalism remains the viable form of government that will accelerate the growth of each region and eliminate the mutual suspicion which fuels tension and strife among various ethnic nations comprising Nigeria. Adams recalled that incursion of the military into Nigeria’s political space in 1966 disrupted the structure that

would ensure harmony among the people of Nigeria. He said it was at that period that the western Nigeria witnessed its best developments. He said, “After 1957 when Chief Obafemi Awolowo built Cocoa House, the first 25-storey building in Africa, no governor has achieved anything close to that feat ever since. We must go back to regionalism.” Apparently referring to those accusing proponents of restructuring and true federalism of being sponsored, Adams said nobody can buy his conscience not even with whopping N3bn.

SON positions for more efficient service delivery

mended the drastic growth of the programme said over N5000 people applied this year, against 1000 applications received in 2016. “Out of 1000 people who applied last year, N50 million was earmarked for 24 successful applicants. This year, we added Benue, Delta and Edo states to the original five states in the South East.” Achebe added. He however urged them to add more values to themselves and make judicious use of the fund. The Regional Director of AB InBev Nigerian, Mr Godwin Oche disclosed that out of 5000 applicants, 130 people were selected for the final screening and they were subjected to one week training on financial management, commercial and managerial skills. Mr Oche noted that the 40 successful applicants from the 130 people would be seriously monitored for

the next 12 months. Speaking on behalf of the judges, Mrs Ngozi Okoye revealed the modalities for selecting successful applicants which include their level of presentations, profitability as well as other modalities. Earlier speaking, the State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano said the empowerment was in line with his administrative policy of empowering the youths. The Governor recalled that his government had employed every graduate of physical challenged persons in the state and had offered free education to those in the special schools. “We have offered free education to all the 5822 students in the 11 technical schools and maintained strong partnership with Innoson Motors and other companies where the students will always visit for their practicals “. Governor Obiano said.

BLESSING OBOH OFURE

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

I, formerly known and addressed as BLESSING CHRISTOPHER OFURE, now wish to be known and addressed as BLESSING OBOH OFURE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

That I am the same person bearing AMEDU SIMON and AMEDU SIMON IKE now wish to be known and addressed as AMEDU SIMON IKE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

This is to notify the public that my name was wrongly written as MOYAKE VIVIAN ESE instead of NOYAKE VIVIAN ESE. My correct name is NOYAKE VIVIAN ESE and my correct date of birth is May 13./05/1979 and NOT May 13/05/1976. All former documents remains valid the general public please take note.

AKINYINMI AJOKE MOSIDAT

AYELA-UWANGUE ANNETTE OMON

I, formerly known and addressed as AKINYINMI AJOKE NEE ELESHO, now wish to be known and addressed as AKINYINMI AJOKE MOSIDAT. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as AYELA-UWANGUE ENIMIEN OMON Annette, now wish to be known and addressed as AYELA-UWANGUE ANNETTE OMON. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

MRS ONIBILE GBEMISOLA SHEREFAT

I, formerly known and addressed as Miss Sulaiman Gbemisola Sherefat, now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs Onibile Gbemisola Sherefat.. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Myke Uzendu, Abuja

ÏÏÏThe

Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) in a bid to strengthen service delivery to Nigerians and the international community has constituted a Service Compact with Nigerians (SERVICOM) implementation committee for the Organisation. During its inauguration, the Director General, Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Osita Aboloma charged the committee to signify the compliance of the Organisation to the SERVICOM charter. In a statement issued Tuesday in Abuja, Mr. Aboloma stated that “SON renders various services to the general public under the Standardization CORRECTION OF NAME/DATE OF BIRTH

umbrella which has amplified the need for a SERVICOM implementation committee.” According to him, SON subscribes fully to the tenets of the ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems Standards which in itself is a globally recognized mechanism for effective service delivery. He stated that the SERVICOM charter will be fully implemented by SON, “to guarantee improved services to the Nation.” The DG charged the newly inaugurated Committee to ensure that all staff of SON subscribe to the laudable initiative to further improve the lives of Nigerians through Standards and Quality Assurance. According to him, SON management will not tolerate shoddy service delivery by staff. MRS PENIEL DOYEN ALAKPODIA

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS LINDA DOYEN OKONYE, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS PENIEL DOYEN ALAKPODIA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

NWAKAJI MICHEAL I, formerly known and addressed as NWAKAJI HENRY, now wish to be known and addressed as NWAKAJI MICHEAL. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

MARIAM ABIOLA OLUSHOLA

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

SALMAN MOHAMMED

JESSICA JENNIFER

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igerian champions Plateau United remained in the hunt for more silverware in the Aiteo Cup with a 2-1 win over Akwa Starlets while troubled 3SC were handed a heavy 5-1 defeat by Akwa United on Wednesday. After a 0-0 display in the first half

Aiteo Cup: Plateau target double, 3SC humbled! between Plateau United and Akwa Starlets, Jimmy Ambrose put the NPFL champions in front and Hamzat Owolabi added a second late in the game before Aniekeme Asuquo got Starlets’ goal. Akwa United joined Plateau United in the last eight in style with a 5-1 humbling of 3SC who could be relegated from the NPFL should Gombe United fail to defeat Wikki Tourists on Saturday in a game earlier abandoned due to crowd trouble.

Amaechi Orji scored a hat-trick and Hassan Babangida and Christian Pyagbara got a goal each to complete the rout despite Abu Azeez having equalised for 3SC in the first half. ABS FC, FC Ifeanyiubah, Osun United and Sunshine Stars also qualified for the quarterfinals with wins against Unicem Rovers, Heartland, El-Kanemi Babes and Ngwa FC respectively in the round of 16.

The women’s side of the Aiteo Cup produced big scorelines as Nasarawa United hit Beautiful Tours 10-0 to progress and Rivers Angels defeated Ben Women FC 9-0. Edo Queens and Sure Babes also qualified for the quarterfinals. Six matches, including two in the men’s competition, will be replayed on Saturday after they ended in draws.

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FIFA ranking: Nigeria drops to 44 as Germany takes over from Brazil as No 1 Andrew Ekejiuba

NPFL: We’ll crush Gombe in Maiduguri, Ibrahim boasts Frank Jumbo with Agency Report

ikki Tourists captain and right back, Mustapha Ibrahim has said his side are ever ready to successfully complete the work they started on Saturday at topflights, Gombe United. The top-flight final day matchday 38 clash at the Pantami Stadium in Gombe between the neighbours, Gombe United and Wikki Tourists ended abruptly in the 27th minute due to crowd invasion of the pitch with the visitors leading through an own goal scored by Morris Chigozie in the 23rd minute. The league body, League Man-

agement Company (LMC) ruled on Wednesday that the match be completed at the El Kanemi Warriors Stadium in Maiduguri behind closed door commencing from the 27th minute as well as the score line as at the time the game was disrupted. Ibrahim said his side have been somehow cautious to celebrate their victory and escape from relegation after the match ended in crisis cocksure that the league body is most likely going to react on the inconclusive clash. “We are back to camp and have even commenced training for the completion of the final day clash at Gombe United now in Maiduguri. “The make-up match is the game of

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our life we will give it our very best to prove to all that the disruption was a mere postponement of our ordained victory,” said the former Golden Eaglets strongman. Win or lose Gombe United are already demoted to the lower league while a win or draw will be sufficient to keep Wikki Tourists in the topflight. The game is somehow generating apprehension, deep concern and interest in the camp of Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC) though technically relegated but a loss by the Bauchi side will once again keep them in the topflight on superior goals while Wikki Tourists will go down on relegation.

Nigeria has dropped to 44th spot in the latest FIFA Ranking released on Thursday, with 696 points to place 5th in Africa. Egypt tops the African Ranking, followed by Tunisia, Senegal and Congo DR in that order. However, Brazil have lost top spot in the FIFA World Ranking to Germany. World Cup qualifying wins over the Czech Republic and Norway, combined with Brazil’s draw with Colombia, have allowed the world champions to regain the summit. Euro 2016 winners Portugal are up three places to third, above Argentina, while Belgium have jumped back into the top five off the back of a 9-0 win over Gibraltar and 2-1 victory in Greece. Spain remains 11th, England drops to 15th and Italy, beaten 3-0 in Madrid this month, have slipped five places to 17th. Wales climbs back up to 13th place. Luxembourg, who got a shock draw with France, are up 35 places to 101st, their highest ranking yet. Peru (12th), Northern Ireland (20th) and Syria (75th) have also reached record-breaking positions. Bolivia (46th, up 22), Montenegro (37th, up 15), Bulgaria (38th, up 14), Scotland (43rd, up 15) and Haiti (48th, up seven) are five fresh entries in the top 50. The biggest climbers were Cape Verde Islands, who jumped 47 places to 67th following shock back-to-back wins over South Africa.

NMPF steps up preparation for Youth Olympic Qualifier Andrew Ekejiuba

President of Nigeria Modern Pentathlon Federation, Dr. Jonathan Nnaji (left) presenting a plaque to Chief Obiegbunam Chiedozie.

he Nigeria Modern Pentathlon Federation (NMPF) has stepped up preparation for hosting Youth Olympic Qualifier for Africa and the Senior Africa Championship 2017 by unveiling its marketing consultants for the events. President of the Federation, Dr. Jonathan Nnaji revealed to Extra Time that the marketers are to help solicit for sponsors to raise the sum of N75million needed for the two sporting events. “Following the inauguration of the LOC last

month we have hit the ground running by unveiling the marketing consultants today whose duty is to assist us get sponsors for the forthcoming Youth Olympic Qualifier for Africa and the Senior Africa Championship slated for December 4-11, 2017. “The LOC have also constituted 7 sub Committees namely, Technical; Venue and Facilities; Protocol and Logistics; Security; Finance and Marketing; Media and Publicity and Medical to help step up preparations,” he said. Nnaji further revealed that NMPF has written to Gov. Akinwumi Ambode of Lagos State for

the use of Teslim Balogun Stadium for the hosting of the events and called on Corporate Nigeria to key into the project which is going to be the first of its kind in the continent. “We have been assured that for Nigeria hosting these events the country has already qualified for the Youth Olympics in Argentina next year. Argentina also for being host has equally qualified alongside Nigeria; therefore we must do the needful by seeing that the events are successfully bankrolled by corporate sponsorship in order to actualize this great dream of the Federation.

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Isco signs new Real contract R

eal Madrid have announced that Isco has signed a new five-year contract, keeping him at the Santiago Bernabeu until June 2022. The 25-year-old is set to earn 6million per season and has a staggering 700m release clause, according to reports in Spain. A number of teams, including Barcelona and Bayern Munich, were linked with a move for the Spain international as he entered the final year of his deal. However, an impressive run of form in the first team towards the end of 2016-17 saw the playmaker cement

his place in the plans of head coach Zinedine Zidane and earn a renewal. Isco has been an ever present in Madrid’s team this season, playing in all three La Liga games and their 3-0 win over APOEL in the Champions League on Wednesday. He has also been in fine form for Spain, scoring three goals in recent wins over Italy and Liechtenstein. The 25-year-old, who has won 10 major trophies in four years since joining Madrid from Malaga in 20-13, is set to address the media at the Santiago Bernabeu today.

Casemiro hails ‘fantastic’ Ronaldo, backs Bale Casemiro lauded Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo, while the midfielder defended Gareth Bale after the attacker was again jeered. A brace from Ronaldo and a Sergio Ramos goal saw Madrid to a comfortable 3-0 win over APOEL at the Santiago Bernabeu on Wednesday. Sidelined domestically due to suspension, Ronaldo’s return was timely for Madrid, who have been held to backto-back La Liga draws. Casemiro hailed the Portuguese star, while he backed Bale – who was again jeered by his own fans. “Speaking of Cristiano is very easy, we know that he’s

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the best in the world,” the Brazilian said. “We’re happy having him back and he looks strong. With his ability we always want to have him available. “You can see that Bale is working, he wants to score goals and he’s fighting to always help Real Madrid.” Without Ronaldo, Madrid have already fallen four points behind rivals and leaders Barcelona in the league. Casemiro said there was no reason to panic so early in the season, with Ronaldo serving the final match of his ban when Zinedine Zidane’s side visit high-flying Real Sociedad on Sunday.

ndreas Pereira says he was not hurt by Jose Mourinho’s criticism of his decision to leave Manchester United for Valencia. The 21-year-old secured a season-long loan move on Spain’s transfer deadline day, despite having appeared set for a first-team role at Old Trafford in 2017-18. Mourinho accused Pereira of lacking desire to fight for his place in the United side, but the Brazil youth international sees it as a positive that the manager wanted him to stay. “It didn’t hurt me,” he told reporters when asked about Mourinho’s comments. “I spoke with him before coming here. On the one hand, I’m happy because he wants me and I think that, if I wasn’t a good player, he wouldn’t have wanted me to stay. “So I look on the bright side. If I think negatively, it can hurt, but it’s a good thing for me.” Mourinho also suggested United have the option of recalling Pereira in January, but the player expects to remain at Mestalla for the whole season. “I spoke with him before coming here and I want to work hard and stay here for the whole year, but I don’t know what United want in the future. I don’t know anything about a clause,” he said. Pereira spent last season in La Liga with Granada and won praise for his performances despite the club suffering relegation. He is now determined to help Valencia battle for success after being won over by United teammate Juan Mata’s description of his old club. “There’s a good feeling, with the stadium, the fans,” he said. “I’m feeling good, but I have to get used to the heat. I love the Mestalla atmosphere,” he said.

Signings won’t solve Reds’ defensive woes—Klopp

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iverpool boss Jurgen Klopp refused to blame the defensive problems that cost his side a win over Sevilla on a failure to sign a top-class defender. The Reds were the dominant side in their opening Champions League group game at Anfield on Tuesday but were forced to settle for a 2-2 draw, as errors and a missed penalty from Roberto Firmino proved costly. A missed Dejan Lovren clearance allowed Wissam Ben Yedder to put Sevilla ahead and Joaquin Correa pounced on more uncertain defending to equalise in the second half after Firmino and Mohamed Salah had given the hosts a 2-1 lead. Liverpool were heavily linked with Virgil van Dijk

during the transfer window but they were forced to drop their interest after Southampton accused them of making an illegal approach for the centre-back. Klopp has also seen his side concede a last-minute equaliser against Watford and ship five goals at Manchester City in the Premier League this season, but he insists the signing of one player would not make a profound difference. “I know you are always looking for this thing – the defence was always something being talked about. ‘We didn’t sign this or that’,” he told a news conference. “If these problems could be solved by one player, you can imagine we would have put all our money into it and say: ‘Let’s do this’.

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L-R: Head, Commercial and Institutional Banking, Sterling Bank, Mr. Abure Monday; General Manager, Commercial & Institutional Banking, South-South, South-East & Mid-West, Mr. Emmanuel Emefienim; Commissioner for Environment and Sustainability, Edo State, Hon. Reginald Okun; Executive Governor, Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki; Executive Director, Commercial and Institutional Banking, Sterling Bank, Mr. Lanre Adesanya; Chief of Staff, Edo State, Mr. Taiwo Akerele and Commissioner for Finance, Edo State, Hon. Osagie Inegbedion during the handover of street sweeper uniforms to the Edo State Waste Management Board by Sterling Bank at the Edo State Government House, Benin... on Wednesday.

Refineries: NNPC in desperate move to meet 2019 target .Nigeria defers 700,000bpd of crude oil

Simon Ugwu, Lagos, Idu Jude, Augustine Ikezie, Abuja

In line with the Presidential mandate of rehabilitating the nation’s three refineries, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has inaugurated eight committees charged with returning the refineries to their nameplate capacities by the year 2019. While inaugurating the committees on Tuesday, Group Managing

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Director of the Corporation, Dr. Maikanti Baru, charged them to deploy “out of the box solutions” to ensure that the refineries return to their good old days of top class performance. The GMD explained that in executing the assignment, the Committees were expected to deliver well and within schedule as according to him, time was of the essence. Although the target for the refineries rehab was to return them to 90% capacity utilization before the end of 2019, Baru stressed that with more commitment from the committees, 100% capacity utilization was achievable. The GMD also emphasized the importance of the workforce as according to him “we can fix the refineries but without the right people to operate them, they would go back to where they were or even worse”. Earlier in the occasion, during his introductory speech, the Chief Operating Officer Refineries and Petrochemicals, Engr. Anibor Kragha, in-

formed that the 2019 target was since for the first time in 20 years there was both the political will and the economic climate to ensure effective retrofitting of the refineries. He further said that over 28 Expressions of Interest had been received so far for the financing of the rehabilitation project and that the goal was to get more by the end of the year. Assuring everyone that the nation would not suffer financially from the project, the COO explained that the approved financial model would guarantee payment to partners only from incremental profits. “Payment is therefore hinged on performance, ensuring a win-win situation for Nigeria”,Kragha said. Speaking on behalf of the committees, the Chief Financial Officer of the Corporation, Mr. Isiaka Abdulrazaq, reminded members of the newly inaugurated committees that the rehabilitation of the refineries was one of the targets of the President Buhari administration. Abdulrazaq expressed his confidence in every member of the com-

mittees to deliver on their various tasks. The Committees inaugurated for the rehabilitation of the refineries would be headed by a Steering Committee, chaired by the GMD. Other committees are: Rehabilitation; Stakeholder Management; Financing; Legal; Procurement; Pipeline and Crude Oil Supply and Security as well as Staffing and Succession Planning. Meanwhile, the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Maikanti Baru, has said that an average of 700,000bpd of crude oil was deferred in 2016 due to pipeline sabotage, saying this brought Nigeria’s production down to as low as 1.3 million barrels per day from 2.2 million barrels targeted for the period. The NNPC GMD, who stated this in a keynote address at the maiden edition of the Nigerian International Pipeline Technology and Security Conference (NIPITECS 2017) in Abuja, on Wednesday, said Year-To- Date CONTINUES ON PAGE B2

EFCC, NITDA, partner on N42.5tn IT projects

By Tony Nwakaegho

As the Federal Government appropriates N42.5 trillion to Information Technology (IT) projects for the year 2017, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have agreed to synergise to ensure the nation gets return on her investments. This agreement was reached when the Acting Chairman of the EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu-led his management staff to a working visit at the agency’s corporate headquarters, Abuja. Director General of NITDA, Dr. Isa Pantami said the EFCC’s visit is key to the growth and development of the country, in the fight against corruption Pantami explained that the effort of the EFCC in the fight against corruption would enhance development and CONTINUES ON PAGE B2

Business News B2 N78b severance benefits Airways workers paralyse airport activities Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo Former workers and pensioners of liquidated national carrier, numbering over a hundred yesterday staged a protest along the Lagos Airport Road over failure of government to pay their severance benefits running into N78 billion. The protesting workers and pensioners blocked the busy airport road occasioning traffic gridlock. They said the protest is part of efforts to draw government attention to their plight as many of them have died , others homeless after government liquidated the airline in 2003. According to National chairman, Nigerian Union of Pensioners, Nigeria Airways, Comrade Sam Nzene said former workers and pensioners were kept in the dark over delay in payment of their entitlements. He said Buhari and the Minister of State, Aviation, Hadi Sirika were been kept in the dark over modalities for the payment. The former Airways workers and pensioners marched from the premises of Skypower Catering Limited, opposite the Air Force base to the entrance into the domestic wing of the general aviation terminal, displaying placards. Some of the placards bore the following inscriptions : ”please pay our severance benefits in full. Our members are dying daily minister of finance , come to our aid. Some of our members are homeless.”

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PTAD commends insurance firm over legacy funds Afolabi Adesola

The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD), through its Divisional Manager, Mrs Christianah Adebote, has commended Lasaco Assurance Plc for settling the Legacy Funds in its custody. Adebote gave the thumbs up in Abuja when the company transferred the sum of N1.063 billion meant for pensions of six Federal Government para-

statals under the Defined Benefit Scheme (DBS). She gave the company a Letter of Clearance on behalf of the Directorate and urged other companies that were yet to settle their obligations based on the directive to take a cue from those that have complied. Adebote said the Directorate, last year, issued demand notices on the insurance companies holding legacy funds meant for payment of Pensioners under the Defined Benefit Scheme

(DBS) to transfer outstanding funds into “our dedicated e-Collection account with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’’ She explained that the Pensions Reform Act (PRA) 2014 vested all pension assets, funds and liabilities in PTAD and warned that it has become imperative for other concerned companies still holding onto the legacy funds to transfer them to PTAD without further delay. She also noted that the intention of the Federal Govern-

ment’s request for the release of these funds is to grow them for the prompt payment of pension to Pensioners. The General Manager (Marketing) LASACO Assurance Plc, Ademoye Shobo while collecting the Letter of Set Off from PTAD, having fully paid the amount due, said the legacy funds managed on behalf of 6 Federal Government parastatals as required by section 42 of the Pension Reform Act (2014) was fully remitted in July 2017.

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better living standards for citizenry. The DG NITDA lamented that some MDAs repeatedly engage in IT projects, for which there is no provision to sustain them, stressing that IT is one of the areas used to siphon government funds simply because of its complexity. He added that many MDAs come to NITDA to seek IT clearance for their projects and services, which the agency has professionals and experts that would analyse the project critically to know its authenticity before embarking on such project so as to save funds for the government. Magu in his response appreciated the effort of NITDA in the fight against corruption, adding that the two government organizations have a lot in common, and needed to learn from each other for the growth and development of the country. In a related development, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and Consumer Protection Council (CPC), based on the complaints of Nigerians on poor products and services delivery have formed a working committee to hold providers of products and services accountable. The Director General of CPC, Barrister Babatunde Irukera, who gave this indication when he paid a cour-

Executives of the RCCG Young Adults & Youth Affairs at the Press Conference. From Left to Right;Pst ‘Femi ENIGBOKAN- Director of Media & Public Relations, Pst Jacob OBARO- Asst. National Youth Pastor (CSR & SHIFT),Pst Dare ADEBOYE- International Director of Programmes, Pst Precious AKINGBADE- National Young Adults & Youth Pastor- Nigeria,Pst Folajuwon POPOOLA- Asst. National Youth Pastor- Administration & Training at a press briefing on youth employment at RCCG Youth Centre, Redemption Camp, Ogun State.... on Monday.

U.S. Consulate, FSD organise training, support to emerging entrepreneurs

The United States Consulate General Lagos, in collaboration with Field of Skills and Dreams VTE Academy, has organised a follow-up business and entrepreneurship mentoring program for 65 emerging Nigerian entrepreneurs. Building on the introductory twoday intensive conference for emerging entrepreneurs held in March, the program was aimed at helping the participants evaluate their achievements till date while also gaining insights into the challenges hindering their business growth potential. Leading business leaders, business financing institutions, entrepreneurship faculty and trainers, including the Academic Director, Owner-Manager Program at the Lagos Business School, Dr. Henrietta Onwuegbuzie, and CEO Field of

Skills and Dreams VTE Academy, Mrs. Omowale Ogunrinde, provided the participants with practical guidance on how to transform their businesses and drive profitability. United States Consul General F. John Bray renewed the U.S. government’s commitment to enhancing the skills and capacity of budding Nigerian entrepreneurs. “I made a commitment to you in March on behalf of the U.S. government that we would do our best to support you on your journey to establish a successful business. I am pleased to learn that some of you have achieved a certain level of success since March. “I am equally pleased that all of you here today, like the more established Nigerian entrepreneurs, are dynamic, forward looking, and committed to the economic success of

Nigeria,” Consul General Bray said while welcoming the participants. Public Affairs Officer, United States Consulate General Lagos, Ms. Darcy Zotter, stated that the followup training became expedient in order to equip the entrepreneurs with enhanced set of skills and networks to help them as they strive to achieve business success. “I am pleased to see that many of the emerging entrepreneurs we trained in March have returned. We know that entrepreneurs can be made and aren’t necessarily born. Entrepreneurial skills can be taught. The process of learning and honing their entrepreneurial skills is ongoing. We hope that when they finish today they will have a stronger network of supportive friends and mentors,” Public Affairs Officer Darcy Zotter said.

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2017, NNPC had recorded 27. (27) breaching incidents on the Trans Niger Pipeline (TNP), adding that for the Trans Forcados Pipeline (TFP) with a capacity of 300,000bpd, seventeen (17) breaches were recorded in 2016. Dr. Baru declared that Year-ToDate 2017, NNPC had suffered at least fifteen (15) breaching incidents on the TFP, while charging members of the Pipeline Professionals’ Association of Nigeria (PLAN) to conduct a systematic diagnosis of the pipelines system in Nigeria and come up with sustainable and actionable solutions to the menace of pipeline vandalism in the country. He urged all key players to rally round the Pipeline Professionals to proffer solutions to the pipeline vandalism challenge as it posed a great threat to the Nigerian economy in terms of revenue loss and environmental degradation.

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CBN working to reduce interest, inflation rates Stories by Motolani Oseni The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, has said there are on-going recovery signs in economic performance, while expressing optimism that improved outcomes will be recorded towards taming inflation, bringing down interest rate and guaranteeing exchange rate stability. The CBN Governor, who was represented by the Acting Director, Corporate Communications Department, Mr. Isaac Okorafor, said this last Wednesday, at the 24th Seminar for Finance Correspondents and Business Editors currently holding in Awka, Anambra State. Emefiele said that the apex bank would continually fine

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tune measures to ensure and guarantee a stable exchange rate regime, adding that the bank will continue to explore further

avenues to ensure that interest rates are supportive of domestic production needs. The apex bank boss described the theme of the Seminar; “Import Substitution and the Dynamics of Interest and Exchange Rates in Nigeria,” as topical given the recent collaborative efforts to stimulate real sector activities in the country. He added that this is significant for the CBN in view of various interventions mainly to provide cheap financing for critical sectors and to enhance domestic production. The Governor solicited the understanding and support of Nigerians, which he said, was what is required at this point

of the country’s economic history. Emefiele enjoined participants to objectively report on the CBN’s efforts towards aligning its monetary policy objectives with broader economic policy, in efforts to generate significant domestic industrial activities that support import-substitution industrialization. In message also delivered by the Acting Director, Corporate Communications Department, Mr. Isaac Okorafor, the Deputy Governor in charge of Corporate Services, Alhaji Suleiman Barau, expressed appreciation to the Finance Correspondents and Business Editors for their support to the CBN in creating awareness and sensitizing Nige-

rians on the policies and activities of the Central Bank. Alhaji Barau pledged the bank’s commitment to sustaining the seminar and ensure a robust engagement with the media. Earlier, the Executive Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano, represented by the Commissioner of Information, Mr. Tony Nnaechetta, while welcoming the participants to Awka, the Anambra State capital, said Anambra is the safest State in the country, a position collaborated by the InspectorGeneral of Police. He said security is the first enablement for the growth being experienced in the State. Chief Obiano said the foreign direct investment (FDI) into Anambra is in excess of $6billion over the past 40 months.

Professionals urge quality credit data for improved financial industry The promotion of effective credit risk operations through the deployment of quality and robust credit data management has been identified as the major critical factor that would ensure the emergence of a healthy financial services industry in Nigeria. This was the submission of the Chartered Institute of Bankers Centre for Financial Studies (CIBNCFS) and the Credit Bureau Association of Nigeria (CBAN) at a business forum held in Lagos for stakeholders in the country’s financial services’ landscape to discuss the relevance of Credit Data Management in the industry. The forum was organised by CBAN in conjunction with the CIBN The Registrar/Chief Executive, Chartered Institute Of Bankers Of Nigeria (CIBN), Mr. ’Seye Awojobi, represented by Mr. Segun Shonubi, Deputy Director, Membership Services, while presenting a keynote address at the forum said that the need for a more deliberate policy action on credit data management became pronounced in recent years due to the fast-paced and changing regulatory and reporting requirements, such as the need to comply with Basel III. He stated that the unprecedented evolving dynamics in the financial services industry with fundamental shifts in customers’ demands and expectations had aroused a new interest in credit data management adding that without a very strong monitoring template using technology, predatory debtors can deploy the same technology to break all boundaries designed for determining their true credit histories. He however, noted that globally, ease of access to credit was critical for business growth, while lending institutions are always wary of the safety of their funds. Reaching a delicate balance, he continued, is the sole objective of an effective credit data management and credit risk strategy by financial institutions.

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FG to raise N917 through Treasury bill in two months The Federal Government has concluded all plans to raise a total sum of N917.14 billion worth of treasury bills at an auction between September 14th and November 30th; the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) debt calendar has showed. The government usually auction Treasury bill through the CBN, will be selling N209.85bn in 91-day bills, 197.89bn in 182-day and 509.39bn in 364-day debt. The bank said it plans to offer N 28.12bn of three-month debt, N23.68bn in six-month bills and N89BN in one-year notes, using the Dutch auction system, on Sept 21. Settlement will be made next day after the auction. The CBN issues treasury bills twice a month to help the gov-

ernment fund its budget deficit, support commercial banks in managing liquidity and curb inflation. The country has a series of debt issues lined up this year, including a N100bn debut domestic Sukuk it is marketing to fund infrastructure projects. Meanwhile, not less than a whopping N7.51trn has been indebted by the Federal Government and the 36 states of the federation, including the Federal Capital Territory, latest figure obtained has shown. When considered the nation’s debt figure, which stood at N12.12trn as at June 30, 2015, skyrocketed to N19.63trn of June 2017, latest debt statistics obtained from the Debt Manage-

ment Office (DMO) has revealed. The debt stock data released by the DMO revealed that the total public debt stock (external and domestic debt stock of the Federal Government and subnationals) as of the end of June was N19.63tn (about $64.19bn at N305.9/$1), made up of external debt stock of N4.6tn (about $15.05bn) and domestic debt stock of N15.03tn (about $49.15bn). The DMO said in a statement posted on its website recently that the domestic debt stock of the Federal Government and subnationals accounted for 76.56 per cent of the total public debt stock, while their external debt stock accounted for 23.44 per cent. “Furthermore, the total public debt stock increased by 2.5

per cent from N19.16tn (about $62.54bn) to N19.64tn (about $64.19bn), during the period under review. “The total external public debt stock of the Federal Government and sub-nationals increased by 8.98 per cent from $13.81bn in March 2017 to $15.05bn in June 2017, while the domestic debt stock of the Federal Government and the sub-nationals increased by 0.67 per cent from N14.93tn in March 2017 to N15.03tn in June 2017.” However, an analysis of the debt statistics from the May 29, 2015, when the current leaders took over the reins of power, to June 30, 2017, showed that the country’s total debt had risen from N12.12tn to N19.63trillion.

Capital Market B4 Bonny Amadi Stanbic IBTC Holdings (SIBTCH) Plc, has reassured shareholders of its commitment to ensure that dividend declared by the company gets to them through any means elected to receive the returns on their investments. Stanbic reveled this to The Daily Times that it is offering shareholders opportunity to either receive cash dividend or script dividend up to year 2020. The company’s secretary, Chidi Okezie, said in a statement that the decision to grant shareholders option to collect cash dividend or convert value of such dividend to equity in the holding company was based on shareholders endorsement at its 06 August 2015 Extra Ordinary General Meeting.

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Stanbic IBTC offers shareholders cash, script dividend options till 2020 “Shareholders have a choice of receiving dividends declared by the company, up to year 2020, either in cash or may elect to receive their dividends as new ordinary shares in the Company (“scrip dividend”)” Okezie said. According to him, where a Stanbic IBTC shareholder elects to receive his or her dividends by way of new ordinary shares, such scrip dividend shall only be allotted after receipt of any required regulatory approval and shall apply to shareholders whose names were on the Register

of Members as at the qualification dates for the payment of such dividends. The company further explained that In order to be valid, any scrip dividend election by shareholders, must be made to the Company’s Registrars, not later than seven working days prior to any dividend payment date. With respect to the sixty (60) kobo Interim Dividend approved by the Board for distribution to Shareholders on 27 September 2017, the qualification date as previously published

was Wednesday 06 September 2017. The reference price to be used in determining any scrip dividend allotment shall be the volume weighted average price (VWAP) of the Company’s shares on The Nigeria Stock Exchange (The NSE) for the five business days commencing on the day the ordinary shares are first quoted ex-dividend. Thus with respect to the sixty (60) kobo Interim Dividend indicated above, the reference price for determining the scrip dividend allotment is N39.45 (Thirty Nine Naira Forty

Five kobo). Shareholders, who wish to receive their Sixty (60) kobo dividend by way of new ordinary shares, can either download the Scrip Dividend Election form (“the form”) from its website. Shareholders, who, however, elect to receive their dividends in cash, are not required to take any action, as they will have their dividend warrants or bank accounts (in the case of shareholders with the appropriate e-dividend mandate) sent/credited on the dividend payment date.

Int’l Breweries applies merger conditions, changes financial Bonny Amadi Following a recent approval by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); and the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) for the International Breweries to merge with lntafact Beverages Limited and Pabod Breweries Limited, the company has come out with first corporate step. In what appears to be the company’s first post-merger endorsement move, which many argued, may still be in line with expected delisting from the market, the company said that its board has approved change in of its financial year end. In a publication by the NSE, International Breweries notified the NSE and the general public of its adoption of a new financial year end to 31st December, 2017, from March 31. In a statement signed by the Company’s Secretary/ General Counsel , Muyiwa Awojimi, the company’s board have approved adoption of December 31 very year as end of its financial year end, starting 31 December, 2017. The report which published by the Nigerian Stock Exchange, in fulfillment of regulatory requirements and for record purposes, stipulated that the process will commence with the publication of its nine months report ending 31 December 2017. Daily Times recalled that the brewing company on 29th August, 2017, confirmed getting the nods of both SEC and NSE for merger with lntafact and Pabod. The company advised shareholders and other stakeholders that under the terms and conditions of the proposed scheme of merger, all the assets, liabilities and undertakings of lntafact and Pabod, including employees, real property and intellectual property rights, will be transferred to it upon completion of the proposed merger.

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PPC S.Africa issues cautionary announcement

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PPC South Africa has issued cautionary announcement to its investors on potential pan African combination from two potential bidders. The caution wherein shareholders were advised of additional indicative proposals from two other trade bidders, each in relation to a potential pan-African combination with PPC, The Daily Times gathered, was in compliance with regulatory requirements. The PPC’s announcement was titled: “Notification of Third Party Indicative Proposal to Acquire PPC, and Renewal of PPC Cautionary An-

nouncement.” However, Dangote Cement PLC (DCP) recently said it intended to acquire 100 per cent, South African cement Distribution Company, PPC S.Africa Limited, just as PPC recently issued renewed cautionary announcement. However, Dangote Cement, in a recent statement released by the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), acknowledged newspaper reports on the business proposal transaction between the company and a South African firm. The statement signed by Company Secretary, Mahmud Zakare, said “In the light of the ongoing, DCP hereby

Industrials lead stock market 0.55% growth Afolabi Adesola The NSE Industrial index led the equities market 0.55 per cent growth on Thursday, following Dangote cement’s confirmation on the acquisition of South African PPC Limited. The industrial index buoyed by gains in Dangote Cement (N4.99) re-

corded a robust gain of 1.08 per cent, following the confirmation. The leading cement firm, however, said the acquisition is in preliminary stages of discussion Equities trading consequently closed in the positive territory on Thursday despite a 0.63 per cent; and 1.02 per cent decline recorded in the NSE’s banking and oil indices respectively.

confirms that the board of Directors has merely communicated the board of directors of PPC with respect to the acquisition of the entire share capital of PPC” the communication, DCP said was still at its preliminary stage. Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Dangote Cement, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, last May, told shareholders that the Pan-African diversification programme provided the essential for-

eign currency and streams of cash to operate the company despite the challenges that characterised 2016 PPC South Africa is assumed leading supplier of cement in southern Africa. PPC also produces aggregates, metallurgical-grade lime, burnt dolomite and limestone. The South African firm supplies from nine cement factories, four milling plants, five blending facilities and 26 ready mix batching plants.

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Stories By Ebere Chibuzor The Nigeria’ s hospitality industry has come a long way. Over the last 20 yeras, the sector had been witnessing phenomenal growth in spread, aesthetics and patronage both by their Nigerian and foreign customers. Although, the industry is facing many challenges, including inadequate power supply, security, negative global publicity and other issues issues facing it, the industry has remained investors’ choice due to the size of the nation’s market. Indeed, a tremendous amount of growth has been recorded in the hospitality industry and its other associated businesses, such as fast food, restaurant chains and hotels. In hospitality, apart from hosting services, including restaurants, bars, cruise lines, parks and gardens, hotels happen to be a strong feature in the industry, forming a major attraction for both residents and travelers, who rely on the hotels for their comfort and business activities, among other reasons. In the past 20 years, there have been a renewed desire for both local and foreign investors tapping into hotel businesses in the country. Across the country, several of such hotels dot the landscape. Many of them also contribute to the development of

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Hospitality industry growing despite economic challenges

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their host communities, including providing employment for the people, among other benefits. Consequently, global players players like Starwood Hotels & Resorts offers a unique range of brands in Nigeria including Sheraton, Westin, Four Points by Sheraton. Also brands like South Africa’s Protea, America’s Star Points, Marriott Group, among others have invested heavily in the country in connection with a strong investment stream from local entrepreneurs who have committed local funds to multi-classes of developments. With a wide array of hotels in the country, including other tourism outfits, stakeholders in the nation’s hospitality industry have given the sector a pass mark. Commenting on the state of hospitality industry in Nigeria, former General Manager of Max Royal Hotel, Mrs. Ngozi Ibelegbu said that the industry is arguably one of the most

buyant sector of the economy, especially in this time when we are faced with a recession, which the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, said we were now exiting. According to her, the hospitality industry is a broad category of fields within the service industry that includes lodging, restaurants, event planning, theme parks, transportation, cruise line, and additional fields within the tourism industry. She however, said that the hospitality industry is a several billiondollar industry that mostly depends on the availability of leisure time and disposable income, adding that, “a hospitality unit such as a restaurant, hotel, or even an amusement park consists of multiple groups such as facility maintenance, direct operations (servers, housekeepers, porters, kitchen workers, bartenders, etc.), management, marketing, and human resources. This is an Industry that regardless of which

of the fields you choose to explore, it involves bringing people together.” Although, Ibelegbu said competition is high in the sector; but maintained that healthy competition encourages most hotel owners on the right steps to take. “So, there are lot of improvements on a daily basis. We try to know what their complaints are; and through that one would be able know what the issue is and deal with them,” Ibelegbu said. On his own part, Chief Executive Officer NANET Hotels and Suites, Abuja, Mr. Ini Akpabio said the major challenges, which had been facing the hospitality industry over the years were insecurity and poor infrastructure. According to Akpabio, there is need for Nigerians to imbibe the culture of discipline in every ramification of their lives, just as he advised for zero tolerance to corruption.

Golden Tulip, BON, others redefining industry As part of growth and hotel development, Golden Tulip recently opened its second branch in Lagos, along the ever popular Murtala Mohammed International Airport Road. This is, separate from the existing one in Festac Town, making it the second branch of the hotel brand in the country. The new General Manager of the hotel, Mr. Emmanuel Atelier pointed out that the hotel is primed for the top as it wants to be recognised among the top five rated world-class hotels. ‘‘We want the hotel to be in the class of the best hotels in the world by providing high quality facilities and services for guests in order to ensure their value worth,’’ he said. Meanwhile, the latest brand into the Nigeria hospitality sector is BON Hotels, which unveiled nine hotels across five cities in country recently. The launch, which took place at BON Hotel Stratton Asokoro in Abuja attracting VIP guests, members of the press, dignitaries, politicians, airline executives, hotel owners, stakeholders and government representatives. Commenting on the new entrant in the Nigeria’s hospitality industry, Chairman of Africa Alliance Group, Gregory Ozegbe, who is engaged in a joint venture agreement with BON Hotels on new projects said. “It is our primary focus and we are positioned with the support of our shareholders and strategic partners across the

world to embark on the most ambitious expansion in the history of any country in Africa, to build first class 4 and 5 star international standard hotels in 37 locations in Nigeria, and in at least 30 locations in countries in Africa over the next 10 years.” The properties include: BON Hotel Grand Towers; BON Hotel Stratton Asokoro, refurbished & re-branded; BON Hotel Abuja, refurbished & rebranded; BON Hotel Delta; Protea Hotel Ikeja, refurbished & operated by BON Hotels and Protea Hotel Victoria Island, refurbished & operated by BON Hotels According to the hotel chain, three hotels under construction and due for completion in 2018 are: BON Hotel Apo; BON Hotel Ekiti and BON Hotel Owerri. In his own views, Director of BON Hotels International West Africa, Bernard Cassar said, “With many larger groups exiting their business interests in Nigeria, we believe that now is the time to support the country that has given us decades of success and we will continue to add value to the local hospitality industry, our guests, our staff, suppliers, the communities in which we serve, and of course our owners.” BON Hotels has seen phenomenal growth since its inception in 2012 with hotels across Africa including South Africa, Nigeria, Namibia, Ethiopia and Uganda, and is primed for significant expansion throughout the continent.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed (middle), after his election as Vice President of the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) General Assembly in Chengdu, China, on Wednesday

Nigeria to host African tourism ministers in June 2018

Nigeria will host the 61st meeting of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation Commission for Africa (UNWTO CAF) conference in Abuja, from June 4 to June 6 next year. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed announced this on Tuesday in Chengdu, China, at the 60th meeting of the Conference of African Ministers of Tourism. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the African Ministers of Tourism held the meeting on the sideline of the 22nd UNWTO General Assembly, holding in Chengdu, Sichuan Province of Southwest China. Mohammed, who led Nigeria delegation to the UNWTO General Assembly expressed gratitude to his colleagues for the support given to Nigeria in winning the bidding to host UNWTO CAF. He reaffirmed the commitment of Nigeria towards successful hosting of the conference and realisation of its objectives. “I wish to assure you that the ministry, with full support of the Presidency and members of the National Assembly are committed towards ensuring successful hosting of the 61st meeting of the UNWTO CAF. “Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, has been designated by the Nigerian Tourism Master Plan as a Conference Capital. The choice of the city is part of government’s efforts at promoting Abuja as a conference destination within the sub-region,’’ he said. The minister said that the meeting which will attract wide range of delegates from around the world will provide unique opportunity for global visibility for Nigeria as a key player in tourism development. He said it would also afford Nigeria the opportunity to showcase its rich cultural assets. Mohammed assured that the meeting would follow the traditional pattern of an inclusive, participatory and active dialogue that encouraged conversation and enable delegates to have more time and space for networking and discussion. He commended Mr. Taleb Rifai, the outgoing Secretary General of the UNWTO for his stewardship, characterised by innovative ideas, strategic thinking and efforts to increase the credibility and visibility of the organisation.

Jumai Travels boss, others want higher investment in tourism Hospitality promoter and Global Chief Executive Officer, Jumai Travels has called for greater investmenst in the hospitality/tourism sector Paul Midy, Global CEO of Jumai Travels, who laid the

roadmap for stabilizing the hospitality market and growing Africa’s tourism industry said, “Africa’s strong performance in 2014 makes it the second fastest-growing tourist destination after Southeast Asia. “Across the continent,

there are around 20 million people working directly or indirectly for the tourism industry. This shows that there is a high potential here and our goal at Jovago is to support Africa in getting to number one position.”

With tourism businesses having the potential of contributing over $100million to Nigeria’s economy annually, stakeholders also called for further public-private sector partnership as a means to boost engagement.

Property B7 Stories by Babajide Okeowo Stakeholders in the real estate sector have picked holes in the decision of the National Council on Lands, Housing and Urban Development (NCLHUD) to impose monthly rent payment on Nigerians. Rather, they urged governments at state and federal level to devote more resources to tackling the inherent problems inhibiting housing rather than delving into issues expected to heighten problems in the industry. Lagos State Chairman of Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESV), Rogba Orimolade said the reality is that there is anexisting shortage of housing stocks hence bringing regulations will amount to imposing a black-market situation. According to him, the government has failed in all their projections for over a decade in housing delivery, adding that due to their failure, it is only the private sector that could be relied on to meet their yearnings for adequate housing.

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Stakeholders decry move to impose monthly rent on Nigerians He noted that the private sector, in turn,is not building houses for charity but to make profits from huge borrowing from the banks based on double digits loan. He said,“It doesn’t work that way. Government should face the core mandate, which involves jump-starting the housing sector especially in the area of housing finance and let sources of housing finance be cheaper for developers. We need a positive situation where they could take loans by asingle digit and individuals can still afford to take loans. As long as the housing deficits are still huge, and government on its own is not doing anything thing in reducing it.

We have a long way to go, we can talk about social housing in which government can subsidize housing that is coming in. Government should rather focus on those areas.” On his part, Mr. Sam Eboigbe, Chairman, Faculty of Estate Agency and Auctioneering, NIESV, said if such proposal is to be implemented, core professionals and relevant stakeholders must be consulted for effective implementation. According to him, if the cost of funding and other variables required in making housing available is still high, the reality of such resolution is in doubt for the housing sector. According to him,“If there are so many things that the

private sector cannot control the price of cement and other building materials, thegovernment must put a law in place so that if anybody defaults in paying the monthly rent, it should be easier to get possession of the property back. “ There should be a legal framework for defaulters that would say for instance five days after defaulting the developer must get his property back. If there is no legal framework, the impact of such proposal could also be a lot of behind the scene dealing and discouragement for investors.” Speaking in the same vein, Mr. Olukayode Olusanya of the Oaks Homes said that if

government wants to implement such law as a social programme to assist the lowearning capacity of Nigerians, it is good, but expressed worries that it might not be a good move for property owners who would expect to collect the one or two years rents in bulk in order to reinvest, take themselves and families on vacation and boost existing housing stock. He said such policy might also cause fluctuations in house rents from the side of the landlords who will, in turn, respond to emerging hike in prices of goods and services in the market, to jack-up the price of rents to the detriments of the tenant

Sterling Bank gets recognition over support for real estate Sterling Bank Plc at the 12th edition of the Abuja Housing Awards held in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, has bagged the Housing Friendly Commercial Bank of the Year Award for its remarkable impact on housing delivery in Nigeria’s housing sector. Receiving the award on behalf of the bank, Sterling Bank’s Non-Interest Banking (NIB) Group Head, Mr. Basheer Oshodi said, the bank was delighted at the recognition of the innovative efforts of the NIB group in the housing sector. According to him, customers who express interest in the home ownership model are made to contribute between 20 and 30 per cent equity over the construction period of 18 months after which the facility is booked for future ownership. He added that rentals in the scheme are less than what would have been paid in a conventional banking arrangement. “We have developed an innovative method of home ownership for Sterling Bank customers. The model gives an opportunity to the buyer to own a house without the stress of bulk payment. Where the house is already built, a prospective home owner simply makes equity contribution and is booked for future ownership. Even if there is no house on the ground and the customer signifies an intention to access a mortgage, the next step will be to start contributing equity,” Oshodi said.

L-R; General Manager, Chief Compliance Officer, Compliance Division, Keystone Bank, Mrs. Joyce Obi; Chief Compliance Officer, UBA, Plc. Mr. Franklyn Bannie; and the President, Association of Chief Compliance of Banks in Nigeria/ Chief Compliance Officer, Standbic IBTC, Mr. Odeyemi Rotimi Adojutelegan, at a Press conference on the Association 10th anniversary hel in Lagos, yesterday… SUNDAY ADIGUN

EARB will regulate activities of estate agents- Stakeholders In a bid to regulate the activities of unlicensed people operating as estate agents who go about duping unsuspecting members of the public, experts in the real estate sector have called for the establishment of an Estate Agents Registration Board (EARB). Leading the call at the first edition of 2017 yearly stakeholders’ forum organised by the Lagos State Real Estate Transaction Department

(LASRETRAD) in Ikeja, an estate surveyor, and valuer, Tope Ojo said a national and state board is needed for the standardization of the practice. Expanding the conference theme, “Standardising Real estate Agency Practice in Lagos State”, Ojo noted that lack of regulatory framework has become a major bane to real estate agency in Nigeria. Using the South Africa and Canada models, he stressed that there is a board that regu-

lates over 40,000 estate agents in South Africa, while one cannot practice in Canada without completing a course and passing the examination through the provincial real estate association against the free entry and free exit model practiced in Nigeria. According to him, creating estate agency board will ensure registration of all estate agents, provision of professional indemnity for the practice, insurance, and creation

of categories of licensed members in Nigeria. Lagos State Government’s Special Adviser on Housing, Mrs. Aramide Giwanson regretted that estate agency practice has become an allcomers affair including those who do not have the basic training and qualification as a result of the lack of a central professional/ regulatory body that will set minimum standard and code of ethics for thepractitioner.

She noted that many Nigerians have been defrauded because of the state of estate agency practice in Lagos, which is largely unorganized, unregulated and unprofessional. According to her, one of the steps taken by the Lagos state government to redress the situation was the establishment of LASTRETRAD, a department saddled with the responsibility of not just ensuring that the stipulated rules and

B8 Enterprenuership Yet another obstacle to reform lies in efforts to discourage the bottom 50 per cent from mobilizing. Across the world, elites have promoted ideologies that focus the poor’s attention on noneconomic flash points, such as culture, ethnicity, and religion. They also spread conspiracy theories that attribute chronic inequalities to evildoers, real or imagined. Today’s populist politicians—both the right-wing and the left-wing varieties—demonize particular groups, thereby deflecting attention from genuine sources of economic inequality. For U.S. President Donald Trump and France’s Marine Le Pen, it is immigrants; for U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and France’s Jean-Luc Mélenchon, it is corporations. Even, elites who disavow populism deflect attention from the real problems. Many American academics, for example, champion affirmative action, which tends to favor the wealthiest minorities and makes no real dent in inequality. Given all these barriers to reform, Scheidel’s pessimism can seem well founded. Equality in peace? But Scheidel’s own narrative also offers cause for hope: as The Great Leveleracknowledges, some countries have found ways to reduce inequality without a catastrophe. In the 1950s, Scheidel reports, South Korea undertook land redistribution in order to mollify its peasants and discourage them from allying with communist North Korea. During the same period, Taiwan, fearing an invasion from mainland China, ushered in similar reforms to consolidate domestic support. Both places thus managed to promote equality peacefully, in order to prevent violence that would have proved far costlier for elites. Scheidel explains away these cases by noting that World War II and the Korean War empowered the masses and softened the elites. Yet, he also notes that Mesopotamian rulers from 2400 BC to 1600 BC repeatedly provided debt relief to counter potential instability. Although these resets did nothing to right the structural sources of inequality, they managed to keep economic disparities within bounds. Until recently, the only way to become fabulously rich was to prey on the fruits of others’ labour Scheidel could also have mentioned an instructive case from the Ottoman Empire. From the fourteenth century onward, Ot-

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t o man sultans regularly expropriated their subjects, including merchants, soldiers, and state officials. In the empire’s heyday, the sixteenth century, abrogating that privilege would have been unthinkable.

But beginning in the late eighteenth century, the economic, technological, and military rise of Europe caused the sultanate to worry that keeping that privilege in place would hold back economic growth, encourage secessions, and set the

stage for foreign occupation. And so in 1839, Sultan Abdulmecid I peacefully gave up this privilege, along with several others that Ottoman elites had enjoyed for centuries. A few years later, he reformed the judicial system, setting up secular courts available to people of all faiths as an alternative to Islamic courts, which, by discriminating against commoners and non-Muslims, had long contributed to inequality. In all these cases, the beneficiaries of entrenched privileges, recognizing a looming existential threat, chose to undertake reforms. Today’s populist surge does not yet pose a serious threat to the fortunes of the very rich. But if Scheidel’sforecast of ever-worsening inequality materializes, that might change. The trigger could come from, say, a takeover in some G-7 country by radical redistributionists. At that point, elites might form political coalitions to pursue top-down reforms now considered hopelessly unrealistic. In times of peace and stability, as Olson recognized in The Rise and Decline of Nations, elites form self-serving coalitions to increase their wealth. Faced with the possibility of losing all, they might do the same to stave off a more drastic redistribution. As with any collective action, free-riding could get in the way. Certain superrich individuals might choose to let other elites bear the burdens involved in lessening inequality, such as funding a new bipartisan coalition, and if there were enough free riders, the overall effort would fail. Yet the very nature of rising inequality would lessen the disincentives to cooperate: the more wealth gets concentrated at the top, the smaller the number of people who must get organized to form a movement committed to slashing inequality. In the United States today, there are just over 100 decabillionaires—people with 11-digit net worths; if only half of them formed a political bloc aimed at raising estate taxes to equalize educational opportunities, the effort would likely gain traction. There is another reason to scale down the pessimism, and it has to do with the relative salience of various types of

inequality. The Great Leveler focuses on inequality within nations, paying little attention to inequality among nations. But the latter is becoming increasingly relevant to human happiness. Just as mass transportation made national disparities matter to people whose frame of reference had previously been limited to their own local communities, so the Internet is heightening the relevance of international disparities. It means more to today’s Chinese, Egyptians, and Mexicans than it did to their grandparents that they are generally poorer than Americans. Technologies that give people in the developing world greater contact with people in the developed worldfrom video chat to online universities-promise to make such global differences matter even more, thus reducing the significance of the national inequality on which Scheidel focuses. The good news is that global inequality has lessened dramatically since World War II, even as income and wealth have become more concentrated within individual countries. With economically underdeveloped countries growing more rapidly than developed countriesin large part thanks to falling trade barriers in the developed world-the gaps between people in different countries has narrowed. As late as 1975, half of the planet’s population lived below today’s poverty line of $1.90 a day, which the World Bank considers extreme poverty. That proportion has now fallen to ten percent. Countries that entered the early stages of industrialization just a few decades ago, from India and Malaysia to Chile and Mexico, now export high-tech goods. For anyone who finishes reading The Great Leveler in a state of despair, these massive and rapid transformations, achieved in a remarkably peaceful era, offer grounds for hope. For further details call on me for in-depth discussions, business advisory services and training – send a message via whatsApp or SMS.

But Scheidel’s own narrative also offers cause for hope: as The Great Leveleracknowledges, some countries have found ways to reduce inequality without a catastrophe. In the 1950s, Scheidel reports, South Korea undertook land redistribution in order to mollify its peasants and discourage them from allying with communist North Korea. During the same period. 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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Interview L2

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Timi Dakolo: Nigeriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talented and spontaneous vocalist My intention in life is not just to make music but to touch the hearts of

others. Enjoy. A lot of people are of the opinion that your wife is your inspiration, how true is it? they judging because my principality stands that marriage is for two, three is a crowd. I will never for whatever reason bring my family matter to social wife and come out with good songs. For me media, the least I can do is to celebrate them on something must inspire you before your pass special moments. your message across. I respect her so much and as well as my kids. Have you seen the possibility of any of your kids taking music as a career? So will it be right to say that she is your source of inspiration? more concern, I am that kind of father that will say professional job all the way for his/her kids. If any one source of inspiration, she is like still of my kids want to toll my line, I will surely push water. them beyond mine. You have stayed married for some Back to your singing prowess, there is this years now, how have you made that thing about you when you sing, you sing all happen? out? Sincerely, love is not enough because the For me, I think music is more than sound and melody, its connect and is just like when something I am not under any pressure. I love my wife and kids and we understand each other better. How has the experience being as member of the judge at the voice Nigeria been? It actually opens my eyes to see how much of talents that we have in Nigeria and how effectively we can actually make use of those talents and make believe in themselves. So far it is not the end of the show, we just started and we are hoping to unravel more talents as the competition goes. As someone who is also a product of a reality show and becoming a judge in one of such platforms, when you look back, how does that makes you feel? Sincerely it feels good to be on the other side of the table, there is pressure but not as you been contestants being judged. I am pleased and very much happy about it. I call it grace because I have equally experience what they are feeling now as contestants; the pressure, song choice and everything. At times I still preview myself as one of the contestants because when they are performing, I feel like going on stage to grab the

How do you think of these days when married couples brings their relationship to social media? I think that happens because they put themselves under lots of pressures. For me, my wife this life as very simple, take for instance, and I used to talk and I ask her funny questions that serious like people portray them, we are are human beings. You say it as it is, you will be friends. Also one thing I have equally realised every other thing will set in. sometimes I take break from my children but when I realized the gap is getting too much, I bridge it. The fair thing in relationship is to try as much as possible to create a balance. Will you bring your family issues to social media? No, but do you think there is any family that but what we both have done is that we will never argue in the presence of our children because

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My intention is to touch lives You are one of the few Nigerian artistes

Interview L3

Society Gist L4

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Friday, September 15, 2017

Ajibade Alabi

Biola Okoya settles rift with father

Olori Wuraola gets her groove back!

As the eldest child of a man of im-

nation For irreconcilable reasons the once enviable relationship between father la decided to relocate abroad and was -

moves towards reconciliation. -

normal.

Vesiri Ibru in a classy wedding that the woman has learnt her lesson

comfortable with her position as a

reconcilable differences. While the

Tunji Abayomi gives out daughter in marriage -

Delta State that has added another sion who sits on the board of the -

comfortable -

were on hand to felicitate with them inpolitical and social activists

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Ajibade Alabi

Frank Edoho’s dilemma

Society Gist L5

Bode Opeseitan moves on Less than a month after he left his job as a top executive with Nigeria s leading telecom , Globacom, and joined like minds marketing communications company, Olabode Opeseitan has taken up a new endeavour as an ambassador for Africa

Frank Edoho What next for Frank Edoho? That is the one million naira beg ging for an answers among the friends and fans of popular host show Who wants To Be A Mil lionaire. From look of things, Edoho seems to have something up his sleeve by formally announc ing his resolve to stop hosting ment made available to the public by the producer of the programme According to information on

winning television host, who had anchored the show for 13 years, decided to step aside what he termed negotiation disagree ment with the management around that he was dumped from hosting the show, Frank rubbished the idea of being dropped promising to bring forth in due course, evidence to but tress his point The celebrated broadcaster while sympathizing with his EWTBAM crew on Twitter, as sured them Ofa better career ahead.

largest entrepreneurship network. Opeseitan a top public relations practitioners last week was announced as the new ambassador for the network of over 12.6 million members across Africa Joy Micheal AYE s regional manager said the organization settled for Opeseitan because of his enormous continental public relations experience needed to be harnessed to support the entrepreneurial skills of young Africans and transform them into a global economic power house “We are delighted that Mr. Opeseitan accepted to be our PR ambassador thereby using his decades of experience in journalism, public relations, event, and promotions to support the bold agenda of AYE to uplift Africa s building entrepreneurs in 20 African countries , United States of America and the United Kingdom.

HRM Sonuga Daniyan brings celebrities and socialites to Ilisan Remo ...as Adewale Ayuba to entertain guests

The sleepy town of Ilisan Remo in Ogun State will become beehive of activities and come to live for seven days starting from September 30th till October 8th, 2017 when the Kabiyesi, HRH, Oba M.O.N. Sonuga, Daniyan Ogun State and his people will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Isanbi Day 2017 Under the distinguished chairmanship of Prof. Olugbenga Adebawo and special guest of honour Oba Adetona Olaniyi Olanipekun Sosanya Emmanuel king MD/ CEO of Adron Homes the event is set to feature many interesting things throughout the seven days of the event To be anchored by season Yoruba presenter Ajikeokin, the climax

of the event will be the performance of the “son of the soil” Adewale Ayuba and his Bonsue Fuji Band Kabiyesi speaks more about the celebration with Daily Times in his palace, “It is a special day to celebrate our assessors to speak to ourselves and advise one another. It is been celebrated in overseas but with a different date both do it together. When I became a king there was no good palace but when I was crowned as a king I started one and all these all as result of what we gained from Isanbi day. Is the money we realized from the Isanbi that we used to start the building of this model palace. I am a lawyer by profession I have a degree in law, so I know what is

I am also a member of Supreme Court, member of Ogun state Obas, so my coming to the throne here is to make sure Remo is well developed and exist among the elites of civilized town. When I came on the throne there was a little bit of brouhaha, there was tussle of who become Balogun, but thank god we overcame it, though it cause us some little set back , but we thank God I have done a lot even praise myself but I knew I have taken some steps that is taken his positive impact in our community and I also thank my people who have been very supportive, because no one is an island. For instance Sir, Muftau Oyegunle the chairman of Ilisan Development

Kabiyesi and Ajike

Association, his secretary Folakunmi Yusuf “Esq”. Mr. Rotimi Williams Osinowo JP, the chairman Planning Committee, Prince Adetayo Sonuga and Mrs. Folashade and many more like Jonu family, and Egbe Arowolo

have all been wonderful” Meanwhile there will also be beauty pageant to mark the seven days celebration. Yours sincerely and Ajikeokin are part of the judges of the event

Mixed Grill L6

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Mutiat Alli

Battleground celebrates 100th edition today

Mary Lazarus, Toyin Abraham, Joseph Benjamin others star in â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Dance to My Beatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; -

Battleground, a fam-

Onabolu in triple celebrations

New single Alert: Yungzee Releases Pay Day -

and Co-founder of Sahara -

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Opinion L7

Vheektor Okpala

Why I missed the old Timaya He was a young man with a clear mission. I stumbled on this throwback video of Nigerian singer, Timaya, giving an acapella rendition of a song he wrote in the early days of his musical journey. This video is proof of his hunger and passion for music and today, see how far that passion has brought him. Before I go into a semi emotional rant about how much I miss the old Timaya, let me give you a brief history. era for Nigerian pop music (lyrically). Around this time, the Nigerian pop sound which is a fusion of Afrobeat and pop music was gradually becoming a major sound in the Nigerian music space thus snagging the attention of Nigerians from the traditional Afrobeat – High Life and Fuji sound. The early years of Nigerian pop music was led by various power groups like Plantashun Boyz, Styl

only bless us with groovy tunes but also ensured that lyrical consciousness was taken very seriously. Bayelsa, as he likes to call himself – made a solid mark with his debut project titled True Story. He to make hit songs but also to tell needful stories. Not only did he stole our ears, he also stole our hearts. As I write this piece, the lyrics of the lead single

resounding in my head: kill the people and turned the children to orphans oh, anything when I think am o water they pour from my eyes o, somebody say make I leave but I

feelings; well, I am truly emotional right now and if you really watched the throwback video, then you nostalgia for me to handle. Passionate, Conscious and Melodious are the words that comes to mind

pop sound had become really big and competitive. took it to a whole new level. The global audience also began to demand. Around this time, break dancing was already African dance (which is usually fast and groovy) was being embraced. Uptempo pop songs became a thing – average Nigerians no longer cared so much about lyrics. Melody and speed became more just that. In that era, the lyrical content of the music began to change as many artistes now paid attention to the sound of the music more than the lyrics. Conscious musicians began to join this trend because it made

the job easier. All you have to do is hook up with a good producer, jump on a very banging instrumental, say a few words then boom! You have a hit record. The conversation about whether it is the fault of the listeners or the laziness of the artiste is Timaya joined this trend (and eventually became a major practitioner). He began to put out records like of lyrical consciousness. Now, if we judge by the totally agree that it was good business. seem like we will be getting back to the good old days of conscious music anytime soon because this sad formula to making a hit record is still working and has therefore birthed a generation of mediocre artistes who have no value for storytelling through music. lbum and as I write this, I am reminiscing on how complete the album was. Lyrics, production and instrumentation as well as the narrative of the album were on point. His Timaya has not lost his melody – the sauce is still very much there but the consciousness is almost no longer evident in the music. Still, I miss the Timaya who had me rocking on the

to a place of conscious music as he has put out handful of conscious songs in the past two years.

Relationship L8

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Tips on how to create a lasting relationship Mutiat Alli

Have you ever heard the old saying that “Relationships take work?” How does that make you feel when you hear that? Tired? A little frustrated? Do your eyeballs roll back in your head when you think of “working” on your relationship

Relationships can be a lot of work. Sometimes, they can just be plain hard. Many of us have been through relationships, or are in struggling ones. But even if we have given up once, we absolutely need to give ourselves a second chance at love. Here are a few things that could help you stay happy in your relationship and make it work. Never assume, Always ask: I do not care if you have been together for over 20 years and believe you know what is going to be to everything. More feelings are hurt and more communications misunderstood because of a simple assumption. Cut it out. Do not assume that you know what the other person wants or how they are going to react to a situation. Respect them

enough to be upfront and ask them. You may be surprised at their response. Make sure to keep yourself happy:We often forget that keeping ourselves happy and healthy is imperative – if we even want a shot at making anyone else happy. Whether its grabbing coffee with your friends, or going to the gym post a long day at work – if do than what your partner suggests, do it! Practice Active Listening: Yes, this goes together with never assume, always ask. If you are going to ask, you must response.

When

someone

talking completely. Do not interrupt them to insert your own response – when you are already thinking about what you are going to say next,

more credibility and get more talking, you cannot be present and fully aware of what they are saying. Think about how it feels to you when your partner actually hears what you are trying to communicate and give them the gift of listening actively. Be willing to adjust:Sure, if your partner really wants to do something with you, or has somewhere important to go to and asks you to come along, you should. But remember that there is no point doing what they want and resenting them for “making” you do it. Do it because you love them and want them to be happy too. Leave the Skeletons in the Closet: You know exactly controversial moments in time you had long forgotten and thought you would never hear about again until that one disagreement or argument when any past hurt or misdeed rises up from the depths of the past as ammunition for the current moment. Stop holding on to past hurt, or do what you must to heal if you are using the past as an excuse for present situations. Keep current disagreements about current events. You will have

other. Confront compassionately:If you attack someone, their natural instinct will be to immediately jump to their defense. This gets you nowhere except to a point where two people are having a rather loud

foundation of connection that will last the test of time.

that people may do things intentionally or doubt their honestly- to believe that your boyfriend was trying to hurt you by not inviting you out with his friends or that he double booked a date with you and a

however, is rarely black and white. You both have valid points in all probability, but are being too stubborn to meet on a middle ground. Celebrate Each Other: Male or female, we all want similar things in our relationships. To be appreciated, acknowledged, nurtured, supported, respected and loved. So, do one small thing each day to celebrate each other. Tell him he looks handsome in that new blue shirt, that she is beautiful and

with someone who loves you, they want you to be happy. So whether it was calling you back or the movie plans you had, if they say it just slipped their mind, try and believe them. Tell them you trust them, and mean it: As easy as it is to get upset in certain situations, if you trust your partner there is very little room for negativity.

world. Thank him for taking the trash out or putting the kids to bed. Tell her you appreciate everything she does for you. Leave love notes or send your

Very often, we react before we think. Whether it is based on our past experiences of our

mail. It really is the little things that make such a big difference. Make the time to celebrate each other so you build a solid

trying to do a relationship right, is everything.

that we have never seen them behave a certain way before, understand the situation before you come up with your own theory.