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Atiku obsessed with power –el-Rufai Ï Dares him to visit U.S. Ï Accuses him of disrespecting Buhari Ï Claims ex-VP is hunted by his past

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Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, Tuesday, accused former Vice President,

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, of obsession with power, claiming it was the reason why he (Atiku) supported the rebellion against the All Continued on page 6

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Editorial Marking World Diabetes Day

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wo days ago, November 14,2016, the international community marked the World Diabetes Day. The day has been set aside to mark the birthday of Fredrick Banting who together with Charles Best and John James Richard Macleod first conceived the idea, which led to the discovery of Insulin in 1922.

World Diabetes Day was launched in 1991 by the IDF and the World Health Organisation (WHO) in response to the rapid rise of diabetes around the world. The theme for this year’s observance is ‘Eyes on diabetes’. This year’s activities will focus on promoting the importance of screening to ensure early diagnosis of type 2 diabetes and treatment to reduce the risk of serious complications.

According to World Health Organisation (WHO) statistics, more than 415 million adults are living with diabetes worldwide and this number is expected to increase to 642 million by 2040. With such frightening forecast and rate of increase, it is pertinent to define diabetes. It is a disorder of the metabolism causing excessive thirst and the production of large amounts of urine. In addition, it is a condition where the amount of glucose in the blood is too high because the body cannot use it properly.

This is because the pancreas does not produce any insulin, or not enough insulin, or the insulin produced does not work properly (known as insulin resistance).

There are two types of diabetes, which are Type 1, and Type 2.

Type 1 diabetes develops when the insulinproducing cells in the body have been destroyed and the body is unable to produce any insulin. In this case, the body cannot use glucose to produce energy and due to this, the body does not use the glucose, which ends up

passing into the urine.

Type 1 diabetes accounts for 10 per cent of all adults with diabetes and is treated by daily insulin doses, taken either by injections or through an insulin pump. Incidentally, it can develop at any age but usually appears before the age of 40, and especially in childhood.

Type 2 diabetes develops when the insulin-producing cells in the body are unable to produce enough insulin, or when the insulin that is produced does not work properly.

Type 2 diabetes accounts for between 85 and 95 per cent of all people with the sickness and is treated with a healthy diet and increased physical activity. The common symptoms of diabetes, include going to the toilet a lot, especially at night, being really thirsty, feeling more tired than usual, losing weight without trying to, genital itching or thrush, cuts and wounds taking longer to heal and blurred vision.

Currently, there is no cure for Type 1 diabetes, but it can be treated by administering insulin, either by an injection or pump, or by following a healthy, balanced diet and getting regular physical activity. In Nigeria, the incidence of diabetes is on the increase. It is, therefore, pertinent that the authorities establish diabetes-screening centres across the country’s geopolitical zones to enable Nigerians of all ages know their status. This would, no doubt, reduce the complications associated with the disease.

Fortunately, diabetes is not a death sentence. It can be prevented and controlled by avoiding risky behaviour and unhealthy lifestyle that include smoking, excessive alcohol, unhealthy nutrition such as consumption of red meat, saturated fat, refined sugar and physical inactivity.

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“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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Reps endorse legislation to punish terror suspects, Financiers Henry Omunu, Abuja

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A new legislation, which seeks to prohibit the financing of terrorism, the forfeiture, seizure of terrorism related assets and the enactment of stricter punishments for sponsors of terror, received widespread support from House of Representatives members on Tuesday.

Lawmakers expressed overwhelming support for the passage of the amendment bill when it was read the second time at plenary.

The bill, which seeks to amend the Terrorism Act 2011 and that of 2013, intends to criminalize international terrorism, funds supporting terrorism and seizure of terrorist cash and property.

The bill further prohibits the manufacturing, possession, acquisition, transportation, supply or use of weapons, explosives or nuclear, biological or chemical weapons, as well as research into, and development of biological and chemical weapons without lawful authority.

It also prohibits any dealings with charities linked to terrorist groups, request from foreign states and to foreign states on extradition of persons involved in terrorist activities.

Sponsored by Reps Mohammed Monguno and Ahmed Kaita, the amendment bill received endorsement from lawmakers such as Rep. Darlington Nwokocha and Rep. Nnenna Elendu-Ukeje, during the debate on the bill for an Act to make provisions for offences relating to terrorism, prohibit the financing of terrorism and consolidating all acts relating to terrorism and for the purpose of applying stringent prison terms for terrorism offences, including removing ambiguities in the extant Act. Leading debate on the amendment bill, Monguno expressed optimism that the bill when passed into law will checkmate terrorism and afford Nigeria to join the comity of nations in the fight against terrorism.

“It will encourage investment and deter any person whether within or outside Nigeria who intends to carry out any terrorist activity in Nigeria”, Monguno said.

Section 38 of the bill empowers the attorney general of the federation or inspector general of police with the approval of the President, to grant request made by the appropriate authority of a foreign State, to disclose any information in his possession or in the possession of any state government department or agency, relating to the actions or movement of terrorist groups or persons suspected of involvement in the commission of terrorist acts.

Atiku obsessed with power –el-Rufai Continued from page 1 Progressives Congress (APC) and his obvious disrespect for President Muhammadu Buhari.

El-Rufai equally challenged Alhaji Atiku to explain the findings in the report of the United States’ Senate Permanent Sub-Committee on investigations, which detailed a pattern of wire transfers of more than USD 40m from offshore companies like Siemens into bank accounts controlled by him (Atiku) and one of his wives.

These were contained in a statement issued and personally signed by the governor in response to what he (el-Rufai) called “the latest falsehoods to emerge from Alhaji Atiku Abubukar.”

Saying that everyone is entitled to rehabilitation, the former Minister of Federal Capital Territory said however that such often requires coming clean with the people.

It would be recalled that the former Vice President had in an interview published by the Pre-

mium Times, an online news medium, that el-Rufai and others incorporated Transcorp during his time as Vice President and offered him shares, which he declined.

Atiku in the interview, accused the governor of deliberately lying against him in his book, the “Accidental Public Servant” after himself and former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) cooked up evidence intended to indict him.

According to him, this is the same person he was instrumental to his rise in government, “the same el-Rufai, whom I was instrumental in bringing into government and making him Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) and eventually a minister. You also forgot that it was the same el-Rufai and Nuhu that my boss used in cooking up the indictment that was eventually thrown out.

“So, where is the evidence of corruption? It’s just not fair for you to say somebody is corrupt without substantiation. This is

the same el-Rufai, who testified on TV that he worked with me as DG of BPE for four years and there was never a time I asked him or instructed him to do anything unethical in those years.

“So, how am I a corrupt person?

This is the same el-Rufai and others, who incorporated Transcorp during my time as Vice President and offered me shares and I declined. I wrote them officially to say it was unethical of me to have accepted those offers. So, where is the corruption toga coming from?”

Speaking on what transpired when el-Rufai was to become a minister, but was rejected by the Senate, Atiku said, “He actually ran to me to say that he was denied confirmation by the Senate.

Of course, I called Mantu and others and confronted them, and they admitted that, yes, they denied him because they do not see him as a Minister.

“It is also on record, because I controlled the campaign funds, every Senator benefitted from those

funds; and el-Rufai now went and said those campaign funds were meant to be a bribe. This is how he came about concocting that story.

Of course, my boss, the President, investigated the story and found out that indeed, every Senator got contributions from the campaign fund which I was managing,” he said.

However, el’Rufai tasked Atiku to tell the whole story of what transpired and why he is avoiding going to the United States of America.

The governor added, “Someone as obsessed by Nigeria’s presidency as he (Atiku) is, should clear up such matters conclusively. We wait to see how well he does with that.”

He stated that the former Vice President has a record of spewing outright lies and innuendo “against my person.”

The governor added, “As we struggle to build a law-abiding society and secure progressive outContinued on page 25

Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike of Rivers State (left) inspecting various arms and ammunitions recovered in the course of the Rivers State Amnesty Programme at the Government House, Port Harcourt… on Tuesday.

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in view of the over 250 petitions received against the ambassadorial nominees.

It however, confirmed nominations of 47 career nominees which it treated after receiving the list from President Buhari in July this year.

The Senate rejected the list of non-career ambassadorial nominees on the basis of a report submitted to it by the chairman, Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Senator Monsurat Sunmonu (APC Oyo Central).

The move, according to the Senate, is in line with a 51-page report of the Screening of 47 Career Ambassadorial Nominees by the Chairman, Senate

Committee on Foreign Affairs, Senator Monsurat Sunmonu, APC, Oyo Central.

The list of 46 nominees before the Senate had all along been trailed by complaints and petitions bothering on alleged lopsidedness in the composition, prompting the Senate to direct its Foreign Affairs Committee to address the complaints.

The committee chairman in her report, said the imbalance of nominations observed in the list of career nominees was not in any way corrected by the President in the non-career list.

She said over 250 petitions were received by the committee from aggrieved Nigerians over the imbalance of nominations in the first list where states like

Ebonyi, Bayelsa and Plateau had no nominee.

She said the anomalies noted in the first list were not addressed by the second list containing names of non-career nominees.

According to her: “We thought that the issue of non-equitable representation across the 36 states of the federation raised on the list of nominated career diplomats by the President will be addressed in that of non-career but unfortunately, this was not so, in spite of public outcry over it and the committee’s observation to that effect to the Secretary to the Government of Federation (SGF), David Babachir Lawal, during an interface with us before the screen-

ing.

“Therefore, we find it difficult to start the screening of the 46 non-career nominees since last month and in fact, proposing to this Senate that the list be returned to the Executive for needed review and re-presentation.”

The recommendation of the committee that the 47 noncareer ambassadorial nominees be rejected because of the myriad of petitions was however taken through voice votes by the senators upon a motion moved to that effect by the Senate Leader, Senator Ali Ndume.

When Senate President Bukola Saraki put the question to voice vote, it was unanimously taken by the Senators.

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Nigerian Customs stinks –Saraki Olufemi Samuel, Abuja

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The Senate on Tuesday indicated its resolve to tackle the problem of dwindling revenue profile of the Federal Government as it mandated its committee on Customs, Excise and Tariff to probe how the revenue generating agency recorded huge shortfall of N230 billion by the last quarter of 2015.

The Senate President, Bukola Saraki against this background declared that the agency stinks, given its failure to generate maximum revenue for Nigeria, while turning in low revenue profile.

The Senate took the position after adopting a motion sponsored by Senator Isaac Mohammed Alfa (APC, Kogi East) titled: ‘Urgent Need to Examine the Operations of the Nigeria Customs Service Revenue Drive’.

Alfa, in the motion, noted that the revenue projection of Customs has not been met despite multiple strategies and policy initiatives to improve revenue generation.

He noted that in the first

quarter of 2016, the Tin Can Island and Apapa Command of NCS recorded a revenue shortfall of N2.7 and N2.5 billion respectively.

He said, “The revenue shortfall is as a result of unwholesome fraudulent trade malpractice, under declaration, abuse of fiscal

of Lagos state, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, has advised school principals under the umbrella of All Nigeria Confederation of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS), not to compromise standard in secondary education despite the ongoing economic recession in the country.

The governor, according to a press release issued by the Principal Public Affairs Officer in the office of the Lagos state Deputy Governor, Mr. Odusina Akeem, gave the advice on Tuesday in the address he delivered at the 30th Annual State Congress of the body held at the Teachers’ Pavilion at the Central Business District, Ikeja, Lagos.

He noted that the present economic challenge facing the country was not enough reason to compromise in quality service delivery in the education sector and rather urged them to redouble their efforts and continue to complement government efforts at achieving higher educational standards and outcomes in our secondary

of trade and commerce in the country.”

In his own contribution, the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, emphasised the need to ensure that government block all leakages and optimise the revenue potentials of Customs.

“It’s time we block all

leakages in the system and optimise the revenue potential of the Customs Service so as to increase all revenue”, he said.

However, the Senate emphasised the need to clean up the Nigeria Customs Service, averring that “The place is stinking”.

Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi (middle); Deputy Governor, Kelechi Igwe (3rd right); Ebonyi State, Commissioner of Police, Peace IbekweAbdallah; Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Francis Nwifuru (left) and others at the scene of a communal clash between the people of Mkpuma-Ekwuoku and Onweru-Onweya area of the state… on Monday.

Ambode urges school heads not to compromise standard ÏÏÏGovernor

policies, concealment, false declaration of value and wrong classification”.

Senator Shehu Sani (APC, Kaduna Central) lamented the decline in NCS revenue at a time when Nigeria’s economy is facing recession, saying “What is happening to NCS is a reflection of fall in the volume

schools across the country. he governor, who noted that ANCOPSS annual conference provides a consistent opportunity for experienced educators and schools managers to come together and exchange ideas and ultimately generate wisdom-laden recommendations to government on the way and means to continually improve the educational sector.

As a demonstration of his administration’s genuine commitment to effective teaching/ learning in schools, Ambode, who was represented by his deputy, Dr. Idiat Oluranti Adebule, stated that his administration had released substantial amount of money for school building, rehabilitation and provision of infrastructure to ensure quality education delivery in all schools across the state. He added that his administration has succeeded in tackling furniture and other related problems in public schools, promising that by the first quarter of next year, all public schools in the state would have enough furniture and other learning materials that will enhance quality teaching.

Why judiciary is corrupt -Vice President Andrew Orolua, Abuja

ÏÏÏThe Vice President Yemi

Osibanjio has blamed the rot in the judiciary on the unwillingness of members of legal profession to challenge erring members.

He made the assertion on Tuesday at the 2016 Fellows Lecture and conferment of honourary fellowship organised by Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.

He said that one major challenges of the legal profession is the shyness and the reluctance of members to call erring members to order as nobody wants to be seing as offending another.

The Vice President said members of the legal profession owes the country a duty of ensuring the success of the administration of criminal justice system and added that, “the system has men and women of integrity but that the few bad ones end up defiling the whole system.”

A judge, he said needs to be independent to be fair and just

in his decision and pointed out that it is a view of ensuring judicial independence that the Federal Government is prepared to fight corruption in the system and charged the Bar and the Bench to be up and doing in ensuring the rule of law in the country.

In his lecture titled ‘Imperative e of Judicial Reforms in ensuring good governance and accountability in Nigeria’, Chief Adegboyegha Awomolo (SAN), advocated for the repeal of Sections 231 and 271 of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria (as amended) which gives the executive arm of government the power to appoint Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) and Chief Judges of State in an acting capacity, so as to give the judiciary its full autonomy.

Awomolo said it is not proper for the executive to appoint heads of court in acting capacity, adding that the executive arms of government has abused the constitutional provision that gives power to appoint heads of court in acting capacity.

According to him, since the

executive does play any role in the appointment of Speaker of States House of Assembly and the House of Representatives, it should also not be allowed to have anything to do with the appointment of the Chief k=Justice of Nigeria and Chief Judge of States.

Chief Awomola, who was the guest speaker at the event said activities of the Professor Itse Sagey-led Presidential Committee against Corruption constitute an interference of the independence of the judiciary, just as it noted that its is not right for the committee to have interface with Judicial Officers, to the extent of identifying Judges that has the integrity to sit on criminal/corruption matters, saying, that function belong to the National Judicial Council (NJC).

“There is no need for the committee to gather Judges of the Federal High Court together and twell them on how to go about the functions of their office because the committee is an agent of the executive arm of the government”, Awomolo said.

7 News Oronsaye makes ‘no case submission’ over N196m corruption charge Andrew Orolua, Abuja

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Head of Service of the Federation Chief Stephen Oronsaye on Tuesday informed the high court of federal capital territory sitting in Abuja that he will file a no case submission in the N196M corruption charge he is facing.

The former Head of Service, who also served as the Chairman, Presidential Task Force Committee on Anti-terrorism Financing, was alleged to have committed the offences as the chairman of the Committee.

Oronsaye’s counsel, Godwin Kanu Agabi (SAN), hinted shortly after the prosecution agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) closed its case, that the defendant will make a no case submission.

Six prosecution witnesses had testified for EFCC against the former Head of Service before the prosecution closed its case yesterday.

Agabi (SAN) told the court that a motion for no case submission will be filed before December 9 when Oronsaye is expected to open his defence in the fraud charge.

Oronsaye was the Chairman, Presidential Task Force Committee on Antiterrorism financing set up by the former President Goodluck Jonathan administration. He is being tried for alleged breach of trust and diversion of N196m meant for the committee.

The 6th prosecution witness Mr. Hamma Adama Bello, an operative of the EFCC told the court yesterday that the investigation on two petitions against the defendant on the alleged N196m fraud was approved by former EFCC chairman Mr. Ibrahim Lamode.

During cross examination by Mr. Ade OkeayaInneh SAN, a counsel to Oronsaye, Bello told Justice Olasumbo Goodluck that the petitioners were anonymous and that the addresses on the two petitions were not real and as such could not be located for the petitioners to be interrogated on the veracity of the petitions.

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‘Nigeria will come out of present situation a better country’ As a priest of God, what do you think Nigerians should do to get out of this present economic recession?

For me, what Nigeria is going through is just a phase in life that great nations experienced, naturally, only that sometimes we forget history, we don’t read. Most of these great countries like America and Spain that I know very well, Portugal, Germany passed through these phases and they bounced back. So, I want to believe that what Nigeria is going through, very soon it will be over. I am a very die-hard optimist that this country will definitely come back; it is a matter of time.

The clergy, though, are not partisan politicians but can contribute to national development, how do you use this position to contribute to national development?

Every human being plays politics in one way or the other. I believe in recession the right people to help and sanitize politics are some of us who have the opportunity of standing on the pulpit. I use my opportunity to tell my listeners that recession does not have religion, poverty does not have religion, and illness does not have religion. When Ebola infected this country some years back you can see how Nigerians came together to fight it! So, definitely, I want to believe that priests should be a unifying bridge to encourage our people in order not to draw a line between north, south, east and west, we should see ourselves as one strong indivisible Nigerians.

Nigeria has enjoyed independence for 56 yrs. How has it fared, are we doing well or what is the way forward?

A man of 56 years should be an adult.

The journey so far has not been easy. For me, we have not really done well ,especially in terms of leadership. We have not gotten it as it should be. When you look backward you will see our mates like Malaysia, Indonesia, they have really gone far. Part of the reasons is that right from the beginning, after independence, the founding fathers of those countries were nationalists and had a longer time to nurture their country but we never had that time.

It was not long that people like late Sarduana of Sokoto, Awolowo, Nnamdi Azikiwe and Tafawa Balewa were massacred and when their generation was wiped out, the military came in. That was the beginning of where we found ourselves today. I want to say that without the military…had it been that they allowed us to nurture ourselves, with trial and error, I think that by now we would have gone far. With the coming of the military, they chased the civilians away and they started running the country on the bases of ethnicity, reli-

Rev. Fr. Kale Francis, a Catholic and Parish Priest of SS Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nyanya FCT, a widely traveled and well read Rev. Father, in this Interview with TOM OKPE, spoke on national issues, the role of the Catholic priest in nation building and youths in the society, among other things.

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gion and what not and you cannot run a nation not on merit but on tribal line and expect that country to go forward. It is just not possible, that is why we find ourselves where we are.

How do you assess the present administration?

Why the present government found themselves in government is that at a point, Nigerians were fed up with the last administration and the slogan that the present government had, may be a mistake, not really a mistake because we never really had that kind of change, all we needed was let my people go.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s inaugural speech was very interesting

that he used the slogan, ‘I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody.’ That slogan made Nigerians to say this is the person we have been looking for, this is the messiah. From antecedents, people see Buhari as a highly disciplined person, a focused person and detribalized.

But when he came in, I think Nigerians for now are of the view that it is not the change we are looking for.

I went somewhere and I saw a bill board written, ‘Change the Change.’ In order words, this is not the change we are looking for. While we are not comfortable with the present administration…for me is that when Buhari came in, he began appointment in some key

I want to believe that what Nigeria is going through, very soon it will be over. I am a very die-hard optimist that this country will definitely come back; it is a matter of time.

positions and they were coming from one side of the country. Even in the one side of the country, we are talking of his ethnic background, not only that but more or less like his family because the person that he appointed today is related to him. We had thought that when Buhari comes in, everything was going to be on merit but as I am talking to you, you also heard as I heard that the first shot that was done at the CBN, his nephew was given appointment who never sat for the examination.

Some of these allegations were refuted by the government that there were no employment in the CBN and FIRS as the media carried them, you don’t think this could be true of the government?

Let me tell you, the problem we are having with the people in leadership is this blanket denial of virtually everything. I put it to you that we don’t just talk like that, we verify certain things. In CBN, I have somebody and for the sake of this interview, I will not mention the name; this person testified to me that they are in the same office. She told me that it is true and that it happened in her office.

The kind of injustice happening right now in CBN, she has been there for a very long time, she will tell you that students on Youth Corps programme will come from one part of the country, from Emir this and Emir that and the students will serve there and be retained immediately and before you know it, the same person that trained and put him through will turn tomorrow and be the trainer. This is still happening in this country and it is that bad.

What is your advice to the youth of Nigeria and Nigeria as a nation?

My advice to the youth is that they should not give up. Secondly, they should believe in themselves. Thirdly, they should work hard. I think I discovered that of recent that our youths are extremely lazy, they just want to make it overnight. Hard work is not what they are looking for, they think hard work does not pay but I want to assure them that hard work pays. Our youths should work hard, believe in themselves and believe in this country and this issue of looking for white collar jobs…. I have already said that nobody should wait for anybody to give him job. You can create something, you can be self employed.

Nigeria is a rich country, there is always something available every season. If it is not groundnut, it is yam. You can always find something to sell and little by little you will become wealthy.

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Nigerians in Diaspora charge Buhari on economy Patrick Okohue The Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation Americas (NIDOA) has advised the Nigerian government to focus on developing the several economic potentials of the nation rather than depending on crude oil alone as a way of solving the nation’s numerous challenges.

According to a White Paper that was released after a World Conference hosted by the Calgary chapter of NIDOA and co-signed by the Chairman, Continental Board of Trustees of NIDO Americas, Mr. Samuel Adewusi and the General Secretary, Reginald Obiamalu, the five key topics emphasised at the World Conference include; infrastructure (energy and transportation), diversification of economy, education, labour and employment, law and regulation, as well as banking and investment.

The 2016 Americas World Conference (the “World Conference”) of NIDOA was held at the Sheraton Cavalier, 2620 32nd Avenue NEN Calgary, Alberta Canada from September 1 to 4, 2016, where experts spoke on different areas of the nation’s development.

The Nigerian government was advised to refurbish facilities and focus on upstream financing, while they noted that gas business can stand alone leveraging on existing and expanding infrastructure, citing the SEPLAT example.

Participants at the conference agreed that Nigeria has become a mono-economic nation due to its focus on revenue from oil and gas, and that other industries such as agriculture, manufacturing and solid minerals have huge untapped potentials.

The potentials, according to them, include the cassava industry as it was agreed that Nigeria is the largest producer of cassava in the world.

“Cassava starch is a multi-million dollar business utilized in several industries including the textile, soft drink, packaging, paper, adhesive, food and pharmaceutical industries. More than 93 percent of these starch requirements of the country was imported.

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“According to a study from the Centre for Sustainable Agricultural Development (CSAD), Nigeria can earn an estimated $87 Billion a year from investment in cassava cultivation and processing before the year 2020.

The huge size of Nigeria’s 173 million population offers a unique opportunity. The continuous global appeal towards cleaner alternatives fuels support investment in ethanol production from cassava starch,” they said.

They said further that the Nigerian poultry industry is estimated at N80 Billion ($600 Million) and that Nigeria is the largest egg producer in Africa and the 2nd largest chicken producer after South Africa. Therefore, a necessary and an urgent pivot to assist the poultry industry is overdue.

It was suggested at the law and regulation session of the conference that the federal gov-

ernment should not appoint state police commissioners amongst others to ensure balance of power.

They added in the White Paper that in Canada, sports yield approximately $3.4 Billion in annual spending by domestic travelers alone, and stressed that if used intentionally in Nigeria, sports can help to address a range of community priorities such as community building, health promotion, youth engagement, economic revitalization, and newcomer settlement.

Nigerian government was advised at the conference to invest in production of plants, storage silos, processing apparatus in the farmlands and in farmers, targeting younger people and use of technology, providing costeffective transportation for harvests from farm-gates to processing plants.

On education, it was recommended that the country should develop a new 21st Centuryoriented National Policy on Education (NPE), increase funding and promote efficiency.

It was suggested that the government should engage public participation in lawmaking through open houses and written consultation processed with the public and other stakeholders such as industry and public libraries and that debates in the House of Representatives and the Senate be regularly recorded and published.

On banking and investment, it was emphasied at the conference that proper governance, both through government and financial institutions, is paramount to ensure sustainable access of low interest loans to spur small and medium enterprises, and to hasten the development of local businesses.

IPAC alleges move to destabilise opposition parties in Delta NOSA AKENZUWA, ASABA The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), Delta State has accused the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Inter-Party Relations, Mr. Moses Abe of a plot aimed at muzzling some opposition parties in the state.

In a communique issued after an enlarged meeting of opposition parties and signed by the factional Chairman and Secretary of IPAC in the state, Mr. Fred Obi and Comrade Peter Emuakporje (JP), the group alleged that the SSA is plotting to polarize and weaken

the opposition parties through displacement of duly elected party chairmen and imposition of non party members in their place in order to stop some chairmen from receiving government annual grant to the opposition parties.

“It is also very disappointing that the SSA to the governor on Inter-Party Relations has even gone as far as calling national chairmen of our political parties in an attempt to compromise them to toe his ignoble move.”

It would be recalled that the last IPAC election in Delta State was fraught with substantial irregu-

larities as some government political appointees were alleged to have acted under instructions of the Delta State governor, openly supported and helped to prop up one Frank Igwebuike for IPAC Chairmanship as against Fred Obi, the popular choice of political parties.

The result of the elections has thus created a deep cleavage, mutual distrust and suspicion amongst political parties in the state.

The communique reads in part; “that our support for Mr. Fred obi as our preferred choice for IPAC chairman remains unchanged even as we maintain that Mr. Frank

Igwebuike’s emergence as Delta State IPAC chairman was fraught with unacceptable irregularities.”

Continuing he said; “That our political parties support the efforts of the Delta State government to bring development to the state.

That our support for Fred Obi rather than Frank Igwebuike was not intended to be an affront to the Delta State government. That our principled stance on our choice of Fred Obi as Delta State IPAC chairman was originally endorsed by almost all the political parties including the SSA to the Governor on Inter Party Relations before his

last minute political summersault which led to division and bickering among the political parties.”

The communiqué however, called on national political party chairmen to shun calls from government agents in Delta State who are bent on interfering with the internal administration of opposition parties for his selfish ends.

The opposition parties frowned at an attempt to coerce members into submitting to the whims and biddings of the SSA Inter-Party Relations as a condition for the disbursement of grants to the concerned political parties.

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Boko Haram kills another Nigerian Colonel

Team leader, Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC) for monitoring projects in the North-East, Mr. Ibrahim Baba (right), presenting FRC Act to the Managing Director, Upper Benue River Basin Development Authority, Mr. Abubakar Muazu, during a courtesy visit on Muazu in Yola… on Tuesday.

Senate asks CBN to investigate banks’ alleged sell of new Naira notes to hawkers Chris Emetoh, Abuja Worried by the abuse of the national currency, the Senate has given marching orders to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to desist henceforth from any illegal trading in new Naira notes, coins or any notes it issues.

The Senate has therefore urged the apex bank to, as a matter of urgency, ensure compliance with the provisions of Section 21 of the CBN Act, 2007.

It also mandated the CBN to strengthen its system that audits the process of collation, processing and

disposing of defaced and mutilated notes, while urging it to also investigate the allegation that commercial bank officials do in fact sell new Naira notes to illegal peddlers.

This followed a motion on Tuesday

by Senator Mao Ohuabunwa (PDP Abia North) on the urgent need to end illicit trade in freshly minted Naira notes.

Ohuabunwa in his motion noted that every country’s currency is a national treasure deserving of a level of dignity, and Nigeria Naira is not an exception. He stressed that a throughout the country, spanning from Sokoto, Kano Enugu, Port Har-

court and even the FCT, a huge illicit industry has been built around trading on freshly minted Naira notes by certain individuals who engage in the touting and hawking of the nation’s treasure and legal tender.

Ohuabunwa also observed that at popular motor parks like Ojota Park along Lagos – Ikorodu expressway and bus stops like Dei Dei pedestrian in Abuja and many similar spots in the nation, “new naira note peddlers are seen boldly hawking their wares as if these were ordinary goods.

While some of these illicit money sellers attract people by the road sides, others sit beneath umbrellas

with bags full of crispy naira notes at their feet, where customers gather to transact within the confines of their vehicles, just like in any other consumer good.”

“The Naira peddlers also lurk around weddings and other social events where they showcase well bound Naira notes which they sell to individuals to fuel a culture of extravagance and disgrace of our Naira treasure- through spraying of same on friends and well-wishers an act that further subjects the Naira to other forms of abuse such as mutilation, folding and other forms of unwarranted misuse”.

The Nigerian Army has lost yet another top officer to the war against Boko Haram barely a week after Lieutenant Colonel Muhammed Abu-Ali and members of his troop were killed in an ambush by the insurgents.

Report has it that the officer, Lieutenant Colonel B.U. Umar, was the Commanding Officer of 114 TF battalion of the Nigerian Army and was ambushed alongside his troops on Monday morning between Bita and Piridang.

A source was quoted as saying “His vehicle drove on an improvised explosive device, but he was not hurt. He came out to assess the damage on the vehicle and Boko Haram opened fire and killed him in the process.”

The soldiers were said to be on their way to Yola in Adamawa State from Bita in Borno State when the incident occurred.

Though the full casualty from the attack is not yet clear, Umar, who recently took over command of the 114 battalion about three weeks ago, was a member of the 48 Regular Course in the Nigeria Defence Academy (NDA).

When contacted, the Army spokesperson, Sani Usman, said he was not aware of Umar’s death, promising to seek further confirmation from appropriate authorities.

The attacks by the Boko Haram have continued despite ongoing negotiation with the federal government, which has already led to the release of 21 of the over 200 Chibok girls kidnapped by the sect in 2014.

Senate wades into FG, ASUU crisis Olufemi Samuel and Chris Emetoh, Abuja Following the notice on Monday by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to embark on a one week warning strike in view of the inability of the Federal Government to fully implement its 2009 agreement with the union, the Senate on Tuesday, resolved to mediate in the crisis by opting to reach out to stakeholders with a bid to finding a solution and averting the looming strike.

The decision is in reaction to a motion moved on Tuesday during plenary by chairman of the Senate Committee on Tertiary Education and TETFUND, Senator Jibrin Barau (APC- Kano North) on the need to urge the Fed-

eral Government to fulfill agreements reached with ASUU and avert the impending strike action.

Senator Barau, who came through a point of order, citing orders 42 and 52 of the Senate Order Book, under matters of urgent national importance, expressed concern over the development which he said if not quickly averted will rob off negatively on the students just as it would affect the academic calendar of Nigerian universities.

The Senator decried government’s lackadaisical attitude in resolving the impasse between it and ASUU since the agreement was reached among other recent developments, including prompting the universities to key into the Treasury Single Account (TSA), which university authorities objected

to and considered inimical to the progress and growth of the tertiary education in the country.

He urged the Senate as a representative of the people to interfere in the matter by engaging stakeholders in the conflict with a view to finding a lasting solution to it.

Also contributing to the debate on the motion, Senator Emmanuel Paulker (PDP-Bayelsa Central), said that government has actually not lived up to its responsibility in keeping a gentleman agreement with ASUU, adding that ASUU has given a week long notice, which gives enough room for any truthful resolution on the matter, if there is any atom of sincerity on the part of government.

“Allowing the strike to hold will give

room to students going into other activities during the strike period, which are inimical to their good. If we can accommodate some of the demands made by ASUU in the budget, it will go a long way, but some of those demands go beyond that, such as the TSA,” he observed.

Similarly, Senator Danjuma Goje (APC- Gombe Central), who commended Senator Barau for sponsoring the motion, which he said is apt and very important, suggested that “Senate should not only prevail on the Federal Government to engage ASUU leadership in reaching a compromise but that the National Assembly should be involved to make peace.

“We should not allow them to go on strike. We must ensure that ASUU and

Federal Government come to mutual understanding on this matter,” he said.

While also urging his colleagues to support the motion, Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, urged the Senate President to mediate into the matter and avert the strike.

“A situation where our lecturers are going on strike too often is not a good thing and so we should find a permanent solution.”

In a resolution unanimously adopted by the senators, the Senate urged the Federal Government to implement all agreements as canvassed by ASUU. It also resolved that “whatever is agreed to be paid to ASUU and all other proposals as covered by the above resolution should be captured in the subsequent budgets.”

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How ex-Naval Chief bought N600m property through proxy - Witness Andrew Orolua, Abuja

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A Senior Detective Superintendent with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ala Shehu Mohammed, on Tuesday told the high court of Federal Capital Territory Abuja how former Chief of Naval Staff, Jibrin Usman purchased N600m property through proxy with the Nigerian Navy’s funds.

The witness, who gave evidence as the first prosecution

witness before Justice S. A. Umar said investigation revealed that on March 13, 2014, the sum of N600m was allegedly transferred from the account of Naval Engineering Services Ltd to Petrus Ogwu Nig. Ltd for the purchase of a property at No. 7 Colorado Close, Maitama, Abuja.

He said the property was bought by Harbour Bay International, a company linked to the family of the ex-Chief of Naval Staff.

He said the transfer was made from the Diamond

Bank account of the Naval Engineering with the authority of the second and third defendants, Rear Admiral Bala Mshelia (rtd) and Rear Admiral Shehu Ahmadu (rtd).

“We requested for the instrument of transfer of the fund and it was provided to the EFCC showing the 2nd and 3rd defendants are the ones that authorized the transfer.

We invited the owner of the account of Petrus Ogwu Nigeria Ltd, one Peter Oguebie in the course of interview, he informed us that he

received the sum of N600million which was for the sale of his property at No. 7 Colorado Close, Maitama, Abuja he sold to Harbor Bay International, the witness said.

Further investigation revealed that Harbor Bay was duly registered with Corporate Affairs Commission to Mrs. Lami Jibrin, the wife of the first defendant and one Abdulkadir Jibrin, the son to the first defendant; both Directors of the company.

“Investigation letter was

sent to Nigerian Navy to release the second and third defendant, being the signatories of Naval Engineering Services Ltd account with Diamond bank and they reported to EFCC. “The second and third defendants told us it was a directive they received from the then Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Usman Jibrin (first defendant) to transfer the sum of N600million for the purchase of the property on No. 7 Colorado Close,

News Maitama”.

He said the Director of Harbor Bay, Mrs. Lami Jibrin was also invited and interrogated but that she denied knowledge of the transaction.

He said the first defendant accompanied his wife to the Commission and he was also interrogated and his statement was taken down.

The witness said a letter was written to the Nigerian Navy to provide the EFCC with their budget and that when the response was analyzed, there was no where we saw the provision for the purchase of property for the Chief of Naval Staff in the 2013 and 2014 budget of the Nigerian Navy”.

You’ve neglected Itsekiri amnesty beneficiaries, group accuses Boroh Nosa Akenzuwa, Asaba

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Niger Delta pressure group, the Itsekiri National Development Initiative (INDI), has accused the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, BrigadierGeneral Paul Tarela Boroh (rtd), of neglecting about 420 Itsekiri amnesty beneficiaries, saying the situation has further worsened the non-payment of monthly stipends of four months to the Itsekiri beneficiaries.

In a petition addressed to General Boroh and made available to our reporter, INDI explained that 120 of the beneficiaries were billed to embark on post graduate programme in Overseas’ Universities, 200 for skills’ acquisition programme and 100 for aviation training programme within the country, but nothing has been done to address the situation by the new Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme.

The petition, which was signed by Chairman of INDI, Comrade A.D. Mene, and dated October 18, 2016, alleged that all efforts to impress it on the Presidential Amnesty Office to create an Itsekiri Desk to bridge communication gap between the Office and the beneficiaries like other ethnic Nationalities in the Niger Delta have fell deaf ears despite reports “that 200 beneficiaries have been mobilized for training in

Anambra and Enugu with no Itsekiri beneficiaries.

The groups noted with concern that even correspondence written to the Presidential Amnesty Office by the member representing Warri Federal Constituency at the National Assembly, Hon. Daniel Reyenieju against the perceived biased against Itsekiri beneficiaries was yet to be addressed by Brigadier-General Boroh.

The INDI URGED the President’s aide to ensure quick and positive action.

The Olu of Warri, Itsekiri Leaders of thought, Warri Study Group, Warri Federal Constituency Office, Committee on Legislative Compliance (House of Reps) Itsekiri National Youths Council, National Association of Itsekiri Graduates, National Association of Itsekiri Students, Itsekiri Joint Action Group, DP Delta State Security Service, DSS and the Warri Area Command, were all copied in the petition.

Meanwhile, the leadership crisis rocking Chevron established Itsekiri Regional Development Committee (IRDC), which has further widened the gulf in Itsekiri National appears to have taken a fresh twist with seven Itsekiri groups calling on the Austin Oniyesan had executive of IRDC backed by the member representing Warri North Constituency in Delta State House of Assembly, Hon. Michael Diden to withdraw the case in court.

L-R: Manager, Communications, Stanbic IBTC, Usman Imanah; Chief Executive Officer, Afrigrants Resources, Thelma Ekiyor; Manager, Events & CSI, Stanbic IBTC, Ame Okwudi and Chief Executive Officer, Agile Communications, Rafiu Ladipo, at the Sustainability, Enterprise and Responsibility Awards (SERAs) where Stanbic IBTC won the Best Company in Promotion of Good Health in Lagos… recently.

Deposed monarch: Group begs Obaseki to reverse order Titus Akhigbe, Benin

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socio-cultural group, Ikolo-Esan Organization, has called on the Edo state governor, Godwin Obaseki, to reverse the deposition order slammed on Onogie of

Uromi, His Royal Highness, Anslem Eidenogie 11 by his predecessor, Adams Oshiomhole.

The group, which described the former Governor’s action as total disregard of Esanland and institution of traditional rulers, said asking tradi-

tional ruler to apologize to his subject in a manner prescribed by the exgovernor was a complete display of ignorance to the peoples custom.

President of the group, Professor Gabriel Oteze who noted that what transpired between Ono-

gie of Uromi and the woman in question was altercation which has nothing to do with the state government, equally berated the former Governor over blunt refusal to consult with the State Council of Traditional Rulers.

Ondo Polls: Okorocha begs Igbo to vote Akeredolu Joy Ekeke

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nor, Chief Rochas Okorocha has appealed to Ibos residing in Ondo State to vote en masse for the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for November 26th election in Ondo State, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu.

Okorocha made the appeal on Tuesday when the

campaign train of Akeredolu visited Igbo Traders at motor spare parts market at the Popular Ilesa Garage, Akure, the state capital, stressing that only Akeredolu possesses the intellectual capacity and erudition that can move Ondo state forward among all the aspirants.

Okorocha who is the Chairman of the Progres-

sives Governors Forum said Ondo State will be at lost if Akeredolu is rejected for any of his opponents, stressing that the only aim of the former President of the Nigeria Bar Association is to serve and develop the state.

In his words, Okorocha said “I am here today to tell you where to go and as your leader and grand patron, I

am sure you will take to my order. Come next Saturday, your vote should go for APC and Akeredolu.

“Don’t vote to bring PDP back to power. Also, this new party making noise, please jettison it, it has nothing to offer, its mission is to loot, steal and under-develop you.

The only man that can make you laugh is Akeredolu, a senior advocate of Nigeria.

News 12 Timi Frank drags Oyegun, APC to court Tom Okpe, Abuja

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The embattled acting national publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank has dragged the national chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun and the party to court for denying him the role of party’s spokesman since his former boss Lai Mohammed became a cabinet member.

Speaking to journalists at a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday, Frank said the party will be the loser if urgent steps were not taken to arrest the crisis of confidence that has pitched it’s leaders against each other.

Frank said he has exhausted all known internal communication avenues to bring to the notice of the party his grievances, all to no avail. He explained how he had tried to lay his grievances before the party’s leadership, including two letters written in December 2015 and January this year but was denied fair hearing.

As part of his prayers at the court, Timi Frank is seeking “an interim order to restrain the respondents, by themselves, committees, officers, agents servants, privies or howsoever called from suspending and or otherwise taking any other disciplinary action against him as a member of the All Progressives Congress pending the hearing and determination of the substantive originating summons.”

“If I can write two letters and there was no response, I have no other option than to take my case to the judiciary and I believe by the grace of God, I’ll be vindicated”. This is the only step I can take to fight for my fundamental human right.

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Buhari, Atiku, Dogara, Ekweremadu others mourn Dasuki Chris Emetoh, Abuja

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emotion, Tuesday, greeted the death on Monday night of former Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki.

Both President Muhammadu Buhari, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, deputy Senate president, Ike Ekweremadu and the Sokoto state governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal in separate statements described the death of former Sultan Dasuki, as a national loss.

Buhari said in his condolence message to the Sultanate Council of Sokoto that Dasuli’s death is a big loss to the people and government of Sokoto state and the Muslim ummah.”.

The President was represented by his Chief of Staff, Alhaji Abba

Čd Ɗ Ɛ ƒƐ Ƌ ƌ ƑƏ Ɛ Ɔ Ƌ ƐƆ ƑƋƐ Kyari, who led seven ministers on a condolence visit to the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III, on Tuesday in Sokoto.

In his condolence message, former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar said it was impossible to visit the Sultan’s Palace in Sokoto without being moved and overawed by the transformation it underwent under Dasuki’s 8-year-tenure as the 18th Sultan of Sokoto.

The Turakin Adamawa also recalls the late Dasuki’s encyclopaedic knowledge of Nigeria’s chequered history, describing it as “incredibly remarkable and overwhelming.”

Atiku says that in his last meeting with the late Dasuki, he felt like he was starting school afresh about Nigeria’s history, adding, “I wish I had a tape recorder to

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capture my conversation with the late monarch because he was a repository of invaluable and everlasting knowledge.”

He praised the late Ibrahim Dasuki’s passion for entrepreneurship and acumen for investments to create, not only profits, but also job opportunities for the people.

Atiku consoles the government, family and entire people of Sokoto State over the death of Dasuki.

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dogara, who also commiserated with the Muslim ummah, the Sultanate council, government and people of Sokoto state over the death of the former Sultan of Sokoto, said in a statement in Abuja yesterday that Dasuki “was an epitome of peace and a bridge builder who lived a

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simple and austere life in spite of his wealth. He lived an exemplary life worthy of emulation,” the statement stated.

Dogara described the passing away of Sultan Dasuki as a huge loss and stated further that “his contributions to the development of the country in the civil service and later in business and also as elder statesman will remain indelible in our minds and history.

“Our hearts go to his immediate family, the Sultanate council, government and people of Sokoto state, indeed the Muslim ummah over this irreparable loss,” he added.

In the same vein, the House cut short its plenary in honour of the late and deposed monarch who died while been treated for an undisclosed illness at a hospital in Turkey.

The House adjourned plenary following the unanimous adoption of the motion moved by Rep. Shehu Shagari (APC/Sokoto) announcing the death of late Dasuki.

The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, joined well-meaning Nigerians in mourning the former Sultan of Sokoto, describing him as an elder statesman and ambassador of peace.

Ekweremadu, who described the death “as shocking and saddening”, noted that Alhaji Dasuki’s demise had created a huge void that would be hard to fill.

Said he: “The late Sultan was a true statesman, progressive, patriot, pan-Nigerian, and peace ambassador. He understood the import of education to the development of the nation and worked hard and selflessly in promoting both moral values and western education across the Caliphate.

He will be highly missed.”

Senate warns against reversal of power sector privatization Mathew Dadiya, Abuja

ÏÏÏ Chairman, Senate Committee on Privatisation, Senator Ben Murray Bruce has cautioned against reversal of the power privatization in the country, arguing instead that concerted efforts should be made by all stakeholders to address the crisis in the sector.

Speaking against the backdrop of calls from some quarters for its reversal, Senator Bruce said reversing the power privatisation would paint Nigeria as an unserious country that does not respect the sanctity of contractual agreements, thus scaring away potential investors.

The chairman, who stated this when he led other members of the committee to the Ikeja and Eko Distribution Companies as well as the Egbin Power Generation Company in Lagos as part of the

committee’s on-going oversight visits to privatised companies in the country, noted that the “power sector is very crucial to the economic well-being of the country.”

In that regard, he said the privatisation ought to be beneficial to the government, the investors and the Nigerian tax payers, who look forward to reliable and stable power supply.

He noted that the on-going oversight visits had proved him wrong on his initial assumption that the privatisation process was wrong, adding that with the benefit of hindsight, “I have seen that the crisis in the sector is the necessary outcome of the privatization.

“The various stakeholders need to meet, brainstorm and think out of the box for a solution to the power crisis. There is no problem that is insurmountable. All that is required is the will,” he stressed, expressing the committee’s readiness to assist the executive in re-

solving the contending issues.

It would be recalled that the federal government, through the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Raji Fashola, had last week, said the Federal Government would not revoke privatisation of the nation’s power sector.

Fashola, who said this at the 5th European Union (EU)-Nigeria Business Forum in Lagos, added that “The Federal Government will respect and uphold the contract it has been committed to and inherited from the past administration. I am not in charge of power sector to revoke the privatisation agreement signed three years ago,” the minister said.

He noted that government has nothing to gain from sending investors in the power sector parking, following calls from some quarters asking for revocation of privatisation of the sector.

The committee members however expressed concern at the

liquidity crisis in the sector and wondered why the Gencos were not being paid for the power they generate to the extent of being owed huge sums in billions of naira. For instance, he noted Egbin was being owed about N91.5 billion, “yet it is expected to operate optimally.”

The members decried power losses occasioned by vandalism, power theft and other criminal acts by unscrupulous elements and promised that as a first step, the Senate committee would liaise with its House of Representatives counterparts to propose a bill to deal with these vices as a matter of urgent national importance.

Earlier in his briefing to the committee members, acting Director-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Dr. Vincent Akpotaire, said the privatisation process was widely acclaimed globally as the best largest and most transparent transaction ever in the power sec-

tor.

He said the inherent post privatisation crises and the macro issues have nothing to do with the transaction process and that the solution lies with “managing the outcome of the privatization,” which requires some level of investments.

The acting DG said there were some assumptions like cost reflective tariffs and availability of gas among others but that these are now absent.

The BPE boss reiterated his call on the investors to look for long term funds to help finance their Capex (Capital Expenditure) to enable them meet what they committed to in the Share Purchase Agreement (SPA), which is to reduce their collection and commercial losses. He said this is imperative because “their investment is in perpetuity, enjoining the Discos to be more transparent in declaring their collections so as to close out negative criticism.

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Hailstones from Nigeria

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group of tourists are on the last stage of an unusual ‘The Holy Land Tour.’

They are drawn from diverse nations, nationalities and cultural entities. The two-week experience has been life-changing for most.

There has been drama, revelations, teachings and deep spiritual connections with sites once thought to be celestial. It is now time for the final all-involving act. A Bible story is about to be re-enacted. It was perhaps the most knife-edge confrontation between Jesus of Nazareth and The Pharisees. A dramatic revelation, among other things, of human hypocrisy and godly mercy. It has been carefully planned by the tour organizers. Without their knowing, the tourists will be dramatis personae in the drama about to unfold. After all, following two weeks of spiritual re-engineering, it’s only natural to test the extent to which participants have imbibed the teachings of Christ.

The tourists file into the hall and are encouraged to pick a stone each from a pile by the entrance. The Master comes on stage, followed by the twelve. They are dressed up as it was back in the days, all in an attempt to give seeming legitimacy to the story. From the other side of the hall, a woman is dragged in by six men. Evidently harassed, cowered and scared, there’s blood streaming from one side of her face. She is pushed right before The Master, kneeling, head bowed. ‘This woman has been caught in adultery. Caught in the very act!’ There is muted grumbling all around the hall. The Master waits for it to subside. Then he stoops down. There is no dust floor to write upon, but he runs his forefinger on the hardtiled stage floor all the same. ‘All right,’ He says, without looking up.

‘Let whoever never sinned among you cast the first stone!’ One after the other, the six men leave by the exit. The Master looks up. ‘Where are thy accusers?’ He asks the woman. And just before she answers, the first stone comes flying, though. Then another, and another, until it becomes a hail. The Master and the twelve duck, shielding the woman between them. ‘Stop! Stop!’

Security men rush to a semi-dark corner of the hall where a group of ten tourists huddle together. They are dressed in green, white and green colors. Apparently, they had each picked more than one stone at the entrance. But thankfully, the ‘stones’ are made of plastic. Plastic filled with hot, bubbled air..... The mass hysteria by Nigerians at home and abroad over the recent Donald Trump victory in the US Presidential Elections beggars belief. Dumb America! Stupid America! Ugly America! Racist America! These are

only a few of the verbal and written boulders thrown the US way by my very upset countrymen. ‘God punish America!’ Cursed one. ‘RIP, American democracy!’ Someone weeps on the tombstone. ‘End of America!’ Corrected another. Didn’t he notice that America it(very)self just died? This one really got me amused. ‘Never underestimate the power of dumb people in very large numbers.’ The stone throwers include very educated cosmopolitan individuals, celebrities as well as closet commentators. The stage was actually set before the election date.

Bank customers, civil servants, and market women vied to join the Hillary army. One university student reported that discussions about The US elections took half of the class time, with everyone, lecturers inclusive, routing for Hillary Clinton.

Churches raised prayer points and prophets prophesied in tune with vox populi. By election day, Hillary had either become spiritually ordained or culturally adopted. That was only two hours into voting by the way. Such was the level of overconfidence in the Hillary-Nigerian

camp that when the unexpected eventually happened, many went practically into fits and shocks. One young man could not sleep due to the tension. Another one lamented that he had never witnessed such an upset in his entire life! When I reminded him his entire life isn’t really that long, it seemed to calm him down a bit. But perhaps the scariest of all is a long lost friend I ran into who declared emphatically that Trump would not be President by the end of January 2017. ‘Change’ preachers who would also castigate other nationals who exercise their own right to choose ‘Change.’ Others threatened to leave for Canada.

Much has been written and said about the US 2016 Presidential Elections, and much more will follow for decades. But let me address the question: Are Such traits as political incorrectness, tax dodging, racism, religious fanaticism, male chauvinism and press hate so alien to our political culture that we are deadly shocked Americans could vote for such a man as Trump?

Don’t we campaign for, vote for and let such politicians rule over us all

the time? From what moral high ground are we displaying such dramatic righteous indignation? Is this not like the case of a man who goes to chase rats in a neighbour’s house while his is on fire? Hasn’t nonpayment of workers’ salaries become a national institution in Nigeria, promoted by jet-flying, affluent office holders to whom we bow and worship? Oh yeah? In Nigeria, many children who have never been to their parents’ villages still have to contend with the ‘State of Origin’ question when seeking admissions or jobs. We expelled Ghanaians for over-flooding our once opulent country, a gesture that was reciprocated by the victim at the appropriate time. The problem with even the best of us is that we still see The Caucasian as a super race, devoid of flesh and blood, no longer susceptible to human foibles. That, however, is not entirely true. It dawned on me in 2012 during a looming tanker drivers’ strike in the UK. Like in Nigeria, there was panic buying and long queues at petrol stations. The British are famed for their queue culture, but at that instance, fisticuffs were reported due to queuejumping. Worst of all, able-bodied men snatched dispensing pumps from elderly women. It is human nature whatever the skin color.

When people feel threatened, when there is not enough to go round, base instincts rise to the fore. Must nationals of western communities be held perpetually captive to liberal sociology-political alchemy?

Must they remain the world’s guinea pigs of increasingly coercive experiments in political correctness?

Remember the Democrats’ push to impose same-sex marriage on Nigeria and the public reaction? So those too are not expected to react, albeit with their votes? So how come we did not see Trump (and Brexit) coming? How come we did not anticipate the conservatives of America and other decent independents had for a while been hoping a deliverer? Nearly two decades ago, in New York City, a friend of mine was involved in a street march against a Third World authoritarian regime. After a couple of hours procession, a white man approached him and asked which country he hailed from. ‘Nigeria.’ My friend answered. The white American looked at my friend and said in anger. ‘Look. I have been held in traffic for hours. But if you people had stayed back home to protest this regime, things wouldn’t be that bad over there, and we wouldn’t have to suffer like this...’ It is the aggregate of such simmering anger that Donald Trump keyed into. We failed to notice over a long time. Maybe we should take stock now rather than throw bricks from our glass house.

Otherwise, worse might meet us unprepared.

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Economic impact of proposed Abia Inland Dry Port

I Okechukwu Keshi Ukegbu

f things go as they were designed, the first set of containers are expected to land at the Abia Inland Container Dry Port located at Avor Ntigha, Isiala Ngwa North Local Government of Abia State. The cheering news to Abians, South East, and Nigerians in general was announced recently by an official of the Nigeria Shippers’ Council, Christian Chimezie.

It will be recalled that Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu in his desire to open access to trade and commerce in the state, develop avenues that would support inflow of businesses, inaugurated the Inland Dry Port Project Implementation Committee early this year.

According to Chimezie, the committee was working hard to realise the target date for the delivery of the port, adding that Abia State that the government was committed to realising the port to boost business transactions in the South East and decongest Onne Port.

The import of the facility to the economy of Abia State cannot be over emphasised .In 2007, the then Minister of Transportation, Chief Cornelius Adebayo, during the ground breaking ceremony of the project

said that the depot when completed would create 100,000 jobs.

Also, the project, a 50,000 TEU (containers) port facility, would serve Aba, Onitsha,Enugu, Ebonyi, Imo, Delta and Benue states.

One of the features of the port was that it would receive containerised cargo by rail from Port Harcourt.

Considering the strategic economic position of Aba as the commercial hub of the South East, the idea behind the establishment of the dry port was to save importers the trouble of traveling to the coast for their business transactions thereby bring goods closer to the owners.

The Abia Inland Cargo Depot, among other ICDs, was a product of the Build Operate and Transfer (BOOT) agreement the federal government signed with concessionaires in 2006. The agreement, which identifies the federal government as the guarantor and concessionaires as operators, stipulates that private investors would be licensed to build Dry ports at designated sites, operate them for

stipulated time and transfer ownership to the federal government.

The system enables private investors to partner with the government in providing port facilities.

Other ICDs were sited at Zawachiki village, Kano State; Eronnu in Egbeda LGA of Oyo State; Heipang, Barkin Ladi, Plateau; and Galanbi , Bauchi State.

Fortunately for the Abia Inland Port, Eastgate Inland Terminal Limited, the concessionaires of Abia ICD were the first among other ICDs to be issued Certificate of Occupancy by Nigeria Shippers Council in 2008, and in 2009, the agreement for the commencement of the physical development was signed.

Adebayo had during the groundbreaking ceremony of the project in 2007 stated that government expected the Abia ICD to be ready for business within 30 months. Unfortunately, the facility is yet to come on stream. The time around, we are relying on the pledge made by Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu that the state would deploy maximum support

Considering the strategic economic position of Aba as the commercial hub of the South East, the idea behind the establishment of the dry port was to save importers the trouble of traveling to the coast for their business transactions thereby bring goods closer to the owners.

for Nigeria Shippers Council and the concessionaires, Eastgate Inland Container Limited towards the realization of the project. The governor, whose words have remained his bond, is disposed to deploy available infrastructures and facilities for the economic advancement of the state.

Inland Container Depot was first introduced in the country in 1979 when the then Elder Dempster Lines led other members of the United Kingdom West Africa Liner Conference (UKWAL), to team up with the National Insurance Corporation (NICON) to establish an ICD in Kano, under the management of Inland Container Nigeria Ltd (ICNL).

Another Inland Container Depot was established in Kaduna but the two ICDs were plagued with several problems, which led to their closure. After their collapse, the managers of the Kano/Kaduna ICDs appealed to the federal government to resuscitate them and the matter was referred to the Shippers’ Council, thus marking the beginning of the involvement of the Council in the promotion of ICDs as a component transport infrastructure for hinterland shippers.

Ukegbu writes from Umuahia, Abia State.

Saro-Wiwa Jnr: Exit of a patriot and peacemaker

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Uche Igwe

he beep of a text message woke me up on that fateful day. My eyes were still heavy. I managed to stand up looking for my phones without success. I then first got hold of my wristwatch and checked the time. It was exactly 4.15 am. Who could be sending me a message at this time? The message was short and typical – Where are you? It came from the Minister for Transportation, Hon. Rotimi Amaechi. As soon as I read it, I responded immediately telling him that I was in Abuja, while praying that he would not remember to follow up. Yet another short response came through almost immediately – see me at 7 a.m. ‘Oh my God’, I shouted and sank back to sleep.

I imagined a thousand and one reasons that would have made the Minister invite me. There were very few people waiting for Mr. Amaechi and in a few minutes he emerged, and invited two of us to join him at his breakfast table. He looked at me and said – “You have to go to London and represent me somewhere.” “Yes, sir.” I responded immediately. His assistant later forwarded a text with

the details of the funeral arrangement of the son of the late Activist, Ken Saro Wiwa Jnr. who died on October 21.

I heard about his death but did not know who to follow up with.

Unknown to me Amaechi followed up himself. Those close to him know that he is such a deeply compassionate person who pays attention to very tiny details. I was in the Minister’s house when the news of Ken. Jnr’s death broke and I remember that he wept profusely. He even confided that he wanted to attend the funeral personally.

That was how the journey to the United Kingdom and to the funeral of late Mr. Saro-Wiwa Jnr. started.

When the logistics of the trip were handed over to me I was delighted that the Minister chose me. I was shocked at the death of Ken. He was a quiet and easygoing man.

After reading one of his books, titled In the Shadow of a Saint, I gained considerable insight into his frankness and personality. Our last meeting was at the House of Commons where he was part of a delegation to a meeting on oil theft co-organised by Dr. Patrick Dele Cole. He was then working for

former President Jonathan. We continued to engage each other on the social media afterwards. Even when we disagreed politically, Ken always tried to persuasively argue his case.

I arrived London on November 10 and headed straight to Brighton where I spent the night. What a day to travel, I thought as I cast my mind back to November 1995 which was the date that Ken. Jnr’s father, Ken Saro-Wiwa Snr. was executed by the Nigerian military junta. There were a few familiar faces in the flight who were apparently heading to the same destination. One of them introduced himself as the representative of Senator Magnus Abe. I had a great time sleeping during the flight. In between, I thought about Ken Jnr. and the whole story of Ogoni. I arrived at St. Mary the Virgin church in Bletchingley near Surrey at 11.05 am. The church service started at about 12.09 am after Ken’s body was brought in by friends and family. It was a very solemn session.

Everyone was grief stricken. Ken’s widow, Olivia and his aged mother struggled to hold back tears while his sisters, Noo and Zina held unto his sons, Felix and Suanu.

At 47, I must say that Ken lived a

relatively short life, yet he achieved so much. Many will say that he lived partly in the shadow of his father, yet he did a lot on his own.

He made his own name as a prolific writer, versatile commentator and an accomplished journalist who worked with many organisations in the United Kingdom and Canada. In 2005, he became a World Economic Forum “Young Global Leader’ and later served on the African Advisory Council of the Prince of Wales’ Rainforest Project.

Back in Nigeria, Ken served three Nigerian presidents consecutively. Despite the divisions in his hometown, Ogoni, created partly by different approaches to the Ogoni struggle led by his father, Ken Jr. was one man who kept in touch with every side of the divide. For me, those were some of the most important gifts that Ken had – a spirit of forgiveness and nobility.

May his soul rest in peace and may God console his wife, mother, children, sisters, relatives and friends who are grieving at this time. The enduring legacies of his achievements will continue to make all of us proud even after he is no more physically with us.

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Teachers’ council to conduct professional qualifying exams in 2017 Stories by Augustine Okezie Abuja The Registrar/Chief Executive, Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, (TRCN), Prof. Josiah Olusegun Ajiboye, has called on teachers nationwide, especially those who have not been duly registered with and licensed by TRCN, to embrace the final phase of the ongoing registration, certification and licensing protocol being organised by TRCN because the modus of teachers’ registration, certification and licensing across the country would change from the first quarter of 2017.

Ajiboye, who handed down the warning during the 2016 induction ceremony organised for Faculty of Education Grandaunts of Enugu State University of Science & Technology, (ESUT) and Federal College of Education, Eha-Amufu, both in Enugu State, further noted that the Council has successfully developed the modules for Professional Qualifying Examination in teaching and was already putting finishing touches to the test items, adding that everything was ready for the re-introduction of the Professional Qualifying Examination for the Nigerian teachers.

His words: “I want to assure you that before the end of the first quarter of 2017, TRCN would re-launch the ‘Teaching Professional Qualifying Examination (PQE)’. It simply means any practicing teacher without being duly registered, certified and licensed

by TRCN would be made to write the

exam before being registered by the Council.”

According to the TRCN boss, the first step the Council would take towards achieving this goal is to flag off its data collection process across the country using the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), as a pilot. The project, he added would involve a process where TRCN field officers are dispatched to visit schools with a view to collating data from the primary source.

He said the “objective on this programme is to get authentic, reliable and accurate data of teachers for the development of ‘Teachers Information System (TIS).”

This data, without doubt, Ajiboye stated, would further help the Council to ascertain the level of school compliance to its professionalization drive. The document would help the Council to make informed decision on the process of TRCN professionalization vis-à-vis the Professional Qualifying Exams scheduled to be re-introduced before the end of the first quarter of 2017”.

In his welcome address, the Dean, Faculty of Education, Enugu State University of Science & Technology (ESUT), Prof. C. I. Ani, commended the Registrar and Chief Executive of TRCN for the successes so far recorded by the Council within his first four months at the helm of affairs in TRCN. He therefore charged the 239 inductees from the University to keep the fire burning and remain good ambassadors of the faculty and the state at large. He noted that teachers are molders and pillars of the society

R-L: Vice-Chancellor, McPherson University, Prof. Adeniyi Agunbiade; Registrar, Mrs. Adebola Abegunde and Chairman, Ceremonies Committee, Prof. Olusegun Atanda’s opening remark during the maiden Pre-Convocation press conference on Tuesday, at the university.

and in their hands lie the cure to the cancer plaguing the nation’s education system.

The Provost, Federal College of Education, Eha-Amufu, Enugu State, Professor (Cannon) B. N. Mbah, while welcoming the TRCN team to the 2016 induction of the College, stated that the TRCN’s decision to induct education graduates at the point of graduation was a welcome development as it helps in actualising the professionalisation of teaching

across the country.

He said the College, in collaboration with ICT University, Baton Rouge Louisiana, USA, has launched an e-learning programme which will help people seeking for Degrees and Professional Diploma in Education.

Prof. Mbah however commended TRCN for its efforts at restoring the dignity of teaching profession in Nigeria and linking Nigerian teachers to the teaching Regulatory Authorities in Africa and the world at large.

UNIABUJA VC decries activities of herdsmen, land poachers The Vice Chancellor of University of Abuja, Professor Micheal Umale Adikwu, has condemned the activities of herdsmen and land poachers whom he accused of constituting a threat to the security of students, stable academic activities, and the overall growth and development of the university.

Adikwu, who stated this in Abuja during a courtesy visit to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Malam Muhammadu Bello, said students in the university campus are virtually struggling for space

with the cattle which also pollutes the environment and makes it difficult for virile academic activity.

His words: “We were informed that the university land was given to the herdsmen after some fight that earlier took place elsewhere and the herdsmen were displaced.

Today, they constitute a threat to our students. Our campus is littered with cattle all day long.”

The VC also solicited for assistance in addressing the issue of massive encroachment on the institution’s 11,000 hectares of land.

“The university land is being en-

croached on massively in Angwan Dodo, Gwako I and II, Giri village and in Sauka and Sabon-Iddo on the Gwagwalada-Abuja highway.

“The Gwagwalada Area Council is not helping matters as it was providing amenities in the villages, thereby attracting more settlers.

The possibility of fencing the university’s land and compensation for the original inhabitants may stem the tide of encroachment,” he said.

Responding, the FCT minister emphasised the need to set up a joint team to identify the areas that belong to the university and prom-

ised to issue the Certificate of Occupancy after all proper documentations and relevant payments are made.

The minister however said that the university land was too big for a single institution, saying that land was no longer available in Abuja.

He said: “Do you really need 11,000 hectares? Because the reality is that land is no longer available in Abuja and the reality is that no institution will be able to develop the land, and as long as the land is not developed, encroachment will happen”.

El-Rufai seeks increased role for education in national orientation Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, has called for an increased role for education in the process of changing Nigeria and fight corruption through efficient national orientation. el-Rufai, who made the call in Abuja on during a presentation of two books on anti-corruption, Know about Corruption and Rebirth of Conscience, said Nigeria can only achieve the desired prosperity when issues are addressed through proper orientation and awareness while the challenge posed by preferential treatment and opportunism are addressed.

His words: “I believe the only way we can regain our way to prosperity and progress is when we have a society that is founded on honesty and hard work. Not opportunism, not preferential treatment of one group against another.”

While commending the present administration for charting a new path for the country, the governor however said results of the present efforts in repositioning the country will take a long time to manifest.

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Dons clamour for specialised universities Esther Taiwo Some lecturers of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Ogun State, have stressed the relevance of specialised universities in the country, saying they are doing enough to justify their mandate.

According to Professor Kolawole Adebayo, an expert in Rural Development Communication, Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, College of Agricultural Management and Rural Development (COLAMRUD), who also doubles as the Director, Grants Management of the university, specialised universities were established with clear mandates in which most of them have performed excellently.

Using FUNAAB as an example, he said that the university, in meeting with its tripartite mandate of

teaching, research and extension, had produced high-level manpower to service the human resource requirements of Nigeria in agricultural and related sectors, with its research outputs among the best in the world, while the local relevance of its mandate is taken out to communities through the agricultural extension centre.

He stated that knowledge generation and acquisition was one of the key elements required for development and made a case for Nigeria to float a framework to convert available knowledge to action. According to him, this is not a task for universities alone, stressing the need for the government and private sector to weave the body of available knowledge into actionable businesses that would keep youths gainfully employed and generate revenue for the government.

Explaining further on FUNAAB’s achievements and con-

tributions to human capital that could be leveraged upon in the period of critical need, the Don enumerated various impacts the University has had within and outside the coast of the country.

Professor Lateef Sanni, Professor of Food Science and Technology, Department of Food Science and Technology and Dean, College of Food Science and Human Ecology (COLFHEC), also disagreed with the position that specialised universities had not justified their establishment, noting that the major constraining factors hindering most specialised universities were hinged on timely release of funds, engagement in project planning, implementation and appropriate recognition of specialised universities and their innovations.

Professor Sanni said that “FUNAAB is well experienced in human capital development from basic and applied researches on

Prof. Adebayo

agricultural and technological innovations with national, regional and international partnerships using funds from various donors such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, United KingdomDepartment for International Development (DfID), Food and Ag-

ricultural Organisation (FAO), Association of African Union (AAU) and European Union, among others.

Professor Akin Omotayo, Director, Institute of Food Security, Environmental Resources and Agricultural Research (IFSERAR), also disagreed with the assertion, describing FUNAAB as running “very excellent programme of training and relevant experiential opportunities for our students on paper.

However, we are much constrained by inadequate financial resources to implement the programmes as designed”, he added.

Professor Akeredolu-Ale said that “institutions like FUNAAB should not wait for the government to consult them. Rather, they should come up with ideas that could be presented to the government as its contribution to the development of agriculture in the country”.

Lagos schools celebrate art and culture amidst fanfare Esther Taiwo

L-R: General Manager, Dufil Prima Foods Plc, Girish Sharma; Cash prize winner, Babalola Adebola; Group Public Relations and Events Manager, Dufil Prima Foods, Tope Ashiwaju, during the ‘Indomie You Like No Other’ winners cheque presentation ceremony in Lagos...on Tuesday. Photo: OLAWALE ROTIMI

Senate committee promises increased funding for UNIABUJA Augustine Okezie, Abuja The Senate Committee on Education led by its Chairman Senator Barau Jibrin has assured the management and students of the University of Abuja of increased funding and budgetary allocation to enable them develop the institution’s infrastructure and attain a befitting status.

Barau, who led other members on a fact-finding mission and project inspection, said the committee is conversant with the problems the university is facing from the presentations made before it and that they were in the university to see some of the projects physically.

He said: ‘’Uniabuja should rise to the status of the FCT – as the foremost institution in the FCT therefore it should

serve as model. The Committee will do all in its power to see that the varsity attains the status of an institution befitting the nation’s capital.

Senator Barau further assured that the Committee will ask all universities with uncompleted or stalled Tetfund projects to submit report.

He said the committee will collate the submissions and meet the stakeholders – VCs, committee of VCs, and Tetfund among others.

Members of the committee were taken round the premises to inspect both ongoing and completed projects including the abandoned ones, after which they expressed satisfaction with the commitment of the VC to improving the lot of the institution, promising increased fund allocation.

Earlier, Vice Chancellor of University of Abuja, Professor Michael Adikwu, lamented the poor state of funding of the university located in the Federal Capital Territory, saying the university deserves special attention especially in the area of infrastructural development, academic upgrade and the employment of requisite number of personnel.

Professor Adikwu further told the visitors that the university is faced with so many developmental challenges which were attributable in large part to the fact that it did not benefit from any take-off grant from the Federal Government which could have ensured that physical structures and facilities were provided to support the expansion of academic activities.

The development of our Arts and Culture is capable of generating huge revenue in local and foreign currencies because of its capacity to attract tourists.

The Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Ministry of Education, Mr. Adesina Odeyemi, made this known at the 2016 celebration of Arts and Culture with the theme: “Bringing the Past into the Present and the Future” and noted that the event was intended to remind people of their culture and to sustain and grow same to international standard and generate revenue from it just as it happens in other climes.

Odeyemi, who made the disclosure during the 2016 celebration held in Ikeja recently stated that the theme of the celebration indicated that arts and culture are the bridges connecting the past to the present and if sustained and nurtured will be preserved for the younger generation to meet and savour. He counseled that every action we take today must be such that we don’t put the survival of the future generation in jeopardy in an ever competitive world.

The Permanent Secretary described Art as a diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts (artworks), expressing the author’s imaginative or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power while culture was described as a way of life of a group of people.

The behaviours, belief, values

and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them and that are passed along

by Communication and imitation from one generation to the next.

According to him, Arts and Culture are like inseparable Siamese twins, they co-habit and co-exist and influence on another greatly. The arts represent an outlet of expression that is usually influenced by Culture and which in turn helps to change culture.

As such, the arts are a physical manifestation of the internal creative impulse.

Odeyemi admonished the students to use their artistry talents to bear positively on the growth of our culture. He told them to introduce new initiatives that will result in rebranding and attracting patronage of both local and foreign tourism.

He charged them to develop their talents beyond the raw knowledge they have now and exploit it to be self-sufficient and become employers of labour rather than seeking jobs that are not available.

He warned them that, their passion for arts should not becloud their quest for academic excellence because education will come handy in everything that they do.

Education District IV emerged winner of the 2016 Lagos State Festival of Arts and Culture celebration with the presentation Igbeyawo beating Education District VI who presented Acrobatic display to 2nd position while Education District III clinched 3rd position with the presentation of Apala. The winners each received a trophy.

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Cheers as TetFund rebuilds UNIJOS burnt library complex Recently the University of Jos Library Complex that was gutted by fire received prompt attention of the Federal Government through the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) in rebuilding the edifice to the relief of students and the general public who had lost hope of any early restoration. AUGUSTINE OKEZIE writes: Succour came the way of University of Joss (Unijos) students, academics and stakeholders recently following the promise and eventual commencement of work towards the rebuilding of the burnt library complex by the Federal Government which will eventually lead to the restoration of its lost academic materials through the Special Intervention of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TetFund).

Executive Secretary of TetFund, Dr. Abdullah Bichi Baffa, who broke the cheering news during an on- thespot assessment of the burnt main library complex that hosts two faculties and four departments as well as Information and Communication Technology (ICT) facility, said the team from TetFund which he led personally, came because of the importance the agency attached to the incident.

Lamenting the loss of some irreplaceable academic materials that dates back to several decades, Dr. Baffa told the University committee led by the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Sebastian Maimako, that Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, has directed TetFund to ensure that the least University of Jos gets is the restoration of the burnt library complex to its former original state.

The TETFund boss said: “The loss caused by the fire incident is something that cannot be quantified because of the loss of some academic materials that no amount of money can replace.

“Library is the soul of any institution. The news of the fire incident was received with sadness and that is why I am leading the team from TETFund myself to see the extent of the damage. I am short of words to express how I felt, when I saw that the entire library complex and collection of books, computers and furniture were all burnt to ashes.

“The Minister of Education sincerely commiserates with the management and students of the University. That is why he is interested in how and what we do to ensure that the library complex is quickly restored and becomes functional again in no distance time.

“This is where Special Intervention from TetFund in its original concept comes in. I have insisted that we can give all the normal or annual intervention that we can give, but when something like this happens, something like natural disaster, a fire disaster like this one that happened to University of Jos,

Wreckages of chairs, tables, racks and book shelves inside the burnt University of Jos Library complex during the on the spot assessment visit by TETFund team led by the Executive Secretary, Dr. Abdullahi Bichi Baffa, recently. Inset: Inner view of the library before the incident

then we can respond with Special Intervention.

“That is the original intent and we are working towards ensuring that we implement it as such. It is so for other interventions of TetFund and I usually take the opportunity such as this wherever I go and see my colleagues, professors, Deans and Heads of Department to tell them how we are going to do the interventions from now.

Baffa further told his audience that their Academic Staff Training and Development is on course to ensure that academics are not trained in bottom of the league universities in any part of the world as part of efforts aimed at ensuring that they come back and make Nigerian universities great and world class.

On Conference Attendance, he stated that it must be academic conference organized by a scholarly body, maintaining that Conferences sponsored by the agency must be where a participating lecturer will present paper and then share knowledge through discussions with other scholars.

The Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof. Sebastian Maimako who was visibly disturbed by the incident, described bitterly the helplessness of the university community during the inferno, disclosing that fire-fighting equipment in Plateau State were deployed during the incident but to no avail.

Prof. Maimako said that because

most of the materials within the library complex were books, it helped in fueling the fire and nothing could be salvaged from the ugly incident that affected library complex which hosted two faculties and four departments on that fateful Saturday 8thof October, 2016.

He expressed thanks to the Minister of Education for his concern and personal interest in the well-being of the university and its students, as well as to the Executive Secretary of TetFund who led the fact finding team personally to the institution, pointing out that the consideration to come to the aid of the institution during the present harsh economic condition is a great privilege.

Recall that huge fire which hard started at about 6:30p.m, on Saturday, October 8, 2016 completely razed the library complex of the University of Jos, destroying books, unmarked examination scripts and other materi-

als in the building.

According to the vice chancellor, “On the fourth floor, which was completely razed down, we have the departments of Psychology, Political Science, Economics and office of Dean of Management sciences. The departments of Accounting and Business Management are also on the floor’’.

The vice-chancellor expressed shock over the incident and said that the building, which was officially opened in 1997, also had materials from the faculties of Education, Arts and Department of Geology.

A cross section of students and lecturers of the university that were interviewed by the Daily Times, expressed delight at the quick intervention of TETFUND in the rebuilding process, maintaining that the burnt building would have remained a relic due to paucity of fund on the part of the university management.

Prof. Maimako

Dr. Baffa

LASUCOM wins NIMSA nationalintervarsity quiz competition The Lagos State University College of Medicine emerged winner of the NIMSA inter-university quiz competition at the Nigeria Medical Students’ Association annual general assembly hosted by Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria recently.

The Annual General Assembly which also includeed other events like the National inter-university quiz competition was aimed at identifying and proffering solutions to challenges facing medical students in Nigeria, was well attended by students from all the medical schools in Nigeria.

The University of Ilorin and Lagos State University College of Medicine represented the western region at the national level after emerging first and second position respectively at the regional level some months ago.

LASUCOM eventually emerged winner after conquering the ‘Big Name’ universities in Nigeria. Usman Dan Fodiyo University and University of Calabar emerged second and third position respectively.

Ojo Akinkunmi, a final year student of LASUCOM and a member of quiz team expressed his gratitude to LASUMSA and LASUCOM as a whole.

His words: “Finally, I am retiring a national champion. Thanks to everyone who was part of this history most especially to the LASUMSA executive council led by Mr. Femi Olulaja and to the best provost in the whole world Prof. Babatunde Solagberu, for sponsoring our flight to Zaria”.

Another student, Afolabi Halimot, who is the vice president of the Lagos State University Medical Students’ Association while speaking, said: “I am so happy we emerged winner. This is the first time LASUCOM will be representing the western region and this is also the first time we would emerge winner in a National Competition. I appreciate our provost, Prof. Babatunde Solagberu, for his love and support.”

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NUC urged to monitor new varsities for standards The National Universities Commission (NUC), has been urged to monitor the eight new universities recently approved by the Federal Government to ensure they conformed to standards.

Sen. Jibrin Barau (APC-Kano), Chairman, Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TetFund, made the call during interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Abuja on Sunday.

Barau commended the Federal Government for the approval which he said was a good development.

“It is a very good development, they should be closely monitored by NUC to ensure conformity with standards and quality in the output of graduates.

“Once they conform to the standards of NUC, I do not think we will have any problem.

“It is good that new universities have been accredited and it is a very good development; the more the merrier’’, he said.

He held that there was nothing wrong with the proliferation of universities.

“If you have difficulty in getting admission, in a situation where you have thousands of qualified applicants it shows that there is still room for the

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Cross section of Lagos State University College of Medicine (LASUCOM) delegates to the Nigeria Medical Students’ Association (NiMSA) inter-university quiz competition held at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria recently.

establishment of more universities.

“So, having more universities is commendable’’, he said.

According to him, having more universities will reduce the difficulty of aspirants in gaining admission.

Barau supported the high school fees charged by private universities

and attributed it to the better quality of education they rendered.

He, however, urged the schools authorities not to capitalise on yearning for higher education to charge exorbitant fees.

“They should try not to rip-off parents and students. They should charge

fees in a manner that will conform to international best practices’’, he admonished.

The eight new private universities brought the number of universities in Nigeria from 143 to 151 while the number of private universities rose from 61 to 69.

UNILORIN Alumni Association urges Oloyede to improve JAMB The University of Ilorin Alumni Association has urged the Registrar, Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, to hold the unique qualities that defines his personality to improve on the services of the board.

The call is contained in a statement by the board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos.

The statement said the association’s members, led by its National President, Dr. (Mrs.) Rhoda Oduwaiye, made the appeal when they visited the registrar on Friday in Abuja.

It described Oloyede as a legend and a detribalised Nigerian, and urged the registrar to make the necessary turnaround better than the board had ever been.

“We congratulate you on your appointment as the registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation

Board (JAMB).

“Though we are aware that you will liken yourself to a doctor who is about to perform surgery, you will be congratulated at the end of a successful completion of the surgery.

“We are congratulating you today because we know by experience that you will be successful.

“You are resuming office with a pedigree of a remarkable academic excellence and an impregnable ability,’’ the statement said.

It noted that Oloyede had dem-

onstrated the qualities at various levels, as a one-time Vice-Chancellor of the university and former Chairman, Association of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (AVCNU) among others.

It added that that the association was confident that Oloyede would take the board a step further than where he met it.

The statement said they also expressed optimism that such a step would further position the board to achieve academic excellence.

Students left to sit on floor with chairs locked away in Sokoto You may call it teacher’s inhumanity to students and you won’t be wrong.

The sight was both pathetic and annoying.

For long, students of Hafsat Ahmadu Bello Memorial Secondary School, Sokoto, have had to endure learning in the most uncomfortable way.

Only a few classes in the school have enough seats to accommodate them. For long, they have to put up with taking lectures while seated on bare floor. Most use prayer mats to protect their white tops from the floor’s dust, while other come to classes with extra wrappers to spray

Vocational training will curb unemployment -Expert

on floor as they sit.

While they have to put up with the most uncomfortable situation to take lectures daily, a few blocks away, 200 sets of classroom furniture were locked away, unattended to, and left to rot away.

But their suffering came to an end last week when the committee set up

by Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal to implement the state of emergency declared in education visited the school.

The visit was facilitated by the need to individually assess problems of various schools and make recommendations to government on how best to address them.

“Upon visiting the Hafsat Ahmadu Bello Memorial Secondary School, Sokoto, students were seen taking lectures while sitting on

Students of Hafsat Ahmadu Bello Memorial Secondary School, Sokoto on bare floor

the floor. To our amazement, a few blocks away, 200 new classroom furniture were locked away unattended to. We immediately ordered that the furniture be arranged in the classes in need, and the school management was admonished to always prioritise the need of the students at all times,” said Dr. Shadi Sabeh, who led members of the School Needs Assessment sub-committee during the visit.

“So while the government has provided facilities, the school management will decide not to utilize them.

The school managers must key into the new vision for better schools or all our efforts will be in vain,” he added.

One of the ways to check high rate of unemployment and poverty ravaging the country is the introduction of vocational studies to students in the primary and post primary schools across the country.

National President of African Church Grammar School, Abeokuta, Old Students Association, Engineer Mutiu Adebowale, stated this at a press conference held to commemorate this year’s Suya and annual general meeting of the association held over the weekend in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital.

Adebowale said the high rate of unemployment could only be solved if Nigeria adopts the China model of vocational training by involving pupils at the primary schools across the country in technical knowledge thereby building future engineers from the grass roots.

He called on parents to monitor the progress of their wards while in school as this could assist in building genius.

His words: ‘”When we leave the future of our children in the hands of the government and teachers alone in the name of free education, what we will continue to have are the half backed graduates that may not be able to be useful to themselves or the nation, but when parents are fully involved in the development of their wards, the nation and the parents are better for it”.

While thanking Governor Amosun who is an alumnus of the school for his contribution to the development of the school, Adebowale reminded him to fulfil his earlier promise of constructing a befitting sport center for the school.

“We pockets of promises from various Old Students of this great school which we believe will assist in upgrading the status of this institution to a level all of us will be proud off if fulfilled by all,” he added.

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KHAZAB EASY LIFE LIVING ORGANISATION The general public is hereby notified that the above named organisation has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), Abuja for registration under part ‘C’ of the company and Allied Matters Act. 1990 THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. BELLO HASSAN HAMMED - CHAIRMAN 2. BELLO KAFILAT OLUWASEUN - SECRETAY 3. ADIGUN SAHEED ADEBAYO 4. HASSAN SODIQ OLAWALE. THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE ORGANISATION ARE: 1. Provide credit to the less privileged ones who do not have collateral securities aimed at reducing poverty.

2. Provide livelihood vocational skills and other empowerment opportunities aimed at promoting self reliance and employment opportunities.

3. Promote environmental sustainability and development through capacity building and empowerment.

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

SIGNED: SECRETARY

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BETHEL FOR PERSONS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE:1. RASHEED OMOLARA RUKAYAT. 2. ALIKORI UFUOMA AUSTIN. THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE IS:To care for the emotional needs of the disable.

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

O8037978991.

FOUNDATION FOR CHRIST EVANGELICAL & DELIVERANCE MISSION INT’L The General Public is hereby notified that the above named MINISTRY has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under Part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE:1 PST. KEHINDE MICHAEL OMOLEYE - General overseer, 2. EVANG. (Mrs) JUMOKE FELICIA OMOLEYE -Women president, 3. PST. OLUYEMI NATHANIEL OLUSOLA, 4. EVANG (Mrs) OLAIDE ELIZABETH ANIFOWOSE. THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE IS:To preach the full gospel of Jesus Christ .

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

EMMANUEL ATONEMENT SANCTUARY

ADOH COMMITTEE FOR JESUS CHRIST MINISTRY

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

The General Public is hereby notified that the above named MINISTRY has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under Part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE:1. LAWAL IDRIS ADESHOLA 2. ADEBAYO AFEEZ ADESHOLA 3. ADJANOR OLAYEMI PETER 4. BAMAH UCHECHUKWU FRANCIS 5. IHEKORONYE EMENIKE FRANKLYN 6. TUEDOR AKPEVWE JACKSON 7. BAKARE ADE 8. OSIONI FELIX ENERIAKPOZE

THE TRUSTEES ARE:(1) GAIBO SOKEIPIRIALA (2) GAIBO BLESSING SOKEIPIRIALA (3) GAIBO VIOLA SOKARI (4) GAIBO SOIBIFA SOKEIPIRIALA

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE:1.ANABUIKE AQUILA CHRISTIAN - CHAIRMAN 2. IMMANUEL MERCYOFGOD .I. - SECRETARY 3. PASTOR (MRS) MARY PETER DAVID 4. DEBORAH MAADI ABRAHAM 5. MADUKWE EBELECHUKWU 6.MRS EMEKA-OKOLI EUCHARIA NKEIRUKA 7. PASTOR JOSEPH SHERIMA JONAH 8. EMMANUEL A. OBIAKOR 9.PASTOR (DR) LUKE IMMANUEL 10. PETER GIDEON

CLUB 357 NIGERIA

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

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE IS:TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama Abuja within 28 days from the date of this publication SIGNED BY: SECRETARY

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE IS:To carry out divine mandate in the promotion and propagation of the gospel and works of Jesus Christ all over the world through the initiation and execution of various programmes and projects.

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

ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIETAL DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSFORMATION

ST. MICHAEL COLLEGE OLEH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

THE LORD’S REDEEM CATHOLIC CHARISMATIC REVIVAL MINISTRY

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, no. 1 of 1990.

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

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

THE TRUSTEE NAMES ARE: 1. Sir Peter Idabor 2. Eluemunor Iloh 3. Lucy Boma Idabor 4. Chukwudi Kingsley Odum

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. EYIYERE DENNIS 3. ASIAFA AKPOWERE 5. EGBO EVANS 7. EMAVIWE OJUBUE

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Rev. Michael Chukwuma - President 2. Evang. Nkiruka Chukwuma 3. Aloy Eziamaka

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES (1 )To empower youth and women in order to eradicate poverty in Africa (2) To provide portable drinking water ( 3) To promote environmental protection awareness (4) To breed a new generation of entrepreneurs.

Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the registrar general corporate affairs commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

SIGNED: BARRISTER UGOCHUKWU AZODO 08068367877.

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Bethia Idoko 2. Deborah Idoko 3. Joshua Idoko 4. Benjamin Idoko 5. Zephani Idoko 6. Kaptin Idoko

2. KEYAMO OREVAOGHENE 4. EZAZA AUGUSTINE 6. KOKORUWE UFUOMA

The aim and objectives: 1. To create a forum where old students meet.

2. To improve the welfare of the school 3. Mentoring of college students Any other thing that is accidental to the above goals.

Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the RegistrarGeneral of Corporate Affairs Commission Maitama Abuja within 28 days of this publication

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. Preaching and teaching the whole bible truth.

2. The propagation of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

3. Equiping saints and ministers for church establishment.

4. Helping the less privileged through charity.

5. World wide gospel outreach.

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

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

HELPING YOUNG HANDS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION

OTUA FRIENDS CLUB OF NIGERIA

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

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. EITEREBHE OSE SATURDAY 2. EITEREBHE OSE ESTHER 3. OMONKHUALE JOHN

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Chinedu Lewis Ezeonu - Chairman 2. Afama Nzenagu 3. Ozor Anthony Tochukwu - Secretary 4. Oluagu Tochukwu Nichodemus 5. Peter Nwankwo

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. To help less privileged women and children

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. To assist in the education and skills acquisition for young people in Nigeria to ensure their self reliance

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

Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the RegistrarGeneral of Corporate Affairs Commission Maitama Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. To assist in welfare and financial needs to members.

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

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

GOODLIFE CHAPTERS INTERNATIONAL CHURCH

AZAMANODU YOUTH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

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

The General Public is hereby notified that the above named Association has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2004.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Barry Avotu August Johnson 1st 2. Zuriel Anyaole Johnson 1st

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ASUNOGIE WAHAB -PRESIDENT 2. BAWA ABDULKADIRI-SECRETARY 3. BELLO IBRAHIM-TRESURER

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVES: 1. To the gospel of Jesus Christ to the world 2. To restore man’s honour and dignity through the gospel of Jesus Christ Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General of Corporate Affairs Commission Maitama Abuja within 28 days of this publication SIGNED: SECRETARY

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: To encourage and empower the youth in Imiakebu community.

Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, P.M.B. 198, Garki, Abuja within Twenty-Eight (28) days from the date of this publication.

Signed: KAMIN BELLO ASUNOGIE ESQ Oshiozokha Chamber 08034459395

LET’S HELP AND CARE FOR THE NEEDY FOUNDATION

This is to inform the general public that the above named Mission has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, Cap C20, LFN 2004.

THE TRUSTEES 1. HELEN JOHN - EDWIN 2. JOHN ONYEMAECHI EDWIN AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. To seek the welfare of the less privileged in our society

Any objection to the registration should be directed to the Registrar General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420 Tigris Crescent, Maitama District, Abuja within 28 days from the date of this publication.

Signed: SECRETARY

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AFRO - VISION HUMANITARIAN AID INITIATIVE INTERNATIONAL

This is to inform the general public that the above named has applied for registration to Corporate Affairs Commission under part c of companies and allied matters act no.1 of 1990.

This is to inform the general public that the above named has applied for registration to Corporate Affairs Commission under part c of companies and allied matters act no.1 of 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. SALAMI MUSA 2. KHALID HARUNA OSHIOZOKA 3.MOHAMMED ALIYU

THE TRUSTEES ARE 1. FRANK ONYEGBULE NWOSU - CHAIRMAN 2. UGOCHI ONYENDINEFU - SECRETARY 3. CHIDOZIE NWEZI - MEMBER 4. ONYEGBULE CLEMENT IKEDICHI - MEMBER

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1.TO PROMOTE UNITY AND PROGRESS OF THE COMMUNITY. 2. TO ENHANCE THE SOCIO- ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL VALUES OF THE COMMUNITY. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO REGISTRAR - GENERAL CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUIYI IRONSI MAITAMA ABUJA,WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: BARR.IDRIS YAKUBU O8036698404

YORUBA WOMEN FOR PEACE FOUNDATION This is to inform the general.public that the above named has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under part C of Companies and Allied matters Acts 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. CHIEF (MRS) FADEKEMI AMOKE KOMOLAFE - President 2. OLAMIDE OMOLABAKE KOMOLAFE - Secretary 3. MRS. MUINAT BOLA ONAOLAPO - Treasurer 4. MR. DAMILARE AGORO - PRO

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. To provide humanitarian aid to persons affected by natural disaster in Nigeria and Africa 2. To support children orphaned by lost of their parents to HIV and AIDS 3.To help poor Nigerian youths acquired basic education.

Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to registrar - General Corporate Affairs Commission,Plot 420 Tigris Crescent Off Aguyi Ironsi Maitama Abuja,within 28 days of this publication

AIMS: 1. To promote peace in the family units.

2. To enhance peace and unity amongst the woman folk.

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

Any objection to this publication should be forwarded to the Rehistrar -General, Corporate Affairs Commission, plot 420, Tigris Crescent, off Aguiyi Ironsi street, Maitama P.MB. 198 Garki, Abuja, within 28 days from the date of this publication.

ASSOCIATION OF CAKES & SUGARCRAFT ARTISTS OF NIGERIA

ENIGIE WIVES ASSOCIATION IN BENIN KINGDOM

The General Public is hereby notified that the above named Church has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

The general public is hereby notified that the above named body has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission, Abuja for registration under part “c” of the companies and allied matters act, no. 1 of 1990.

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

TRUSTESS 1. PROF. STEPHEN OGUCHE. 2. BEBEYI DADA MICHAEL 3. DR. JEREMIAH ADEGBE ABUTU 4. SAMSON ALHAJI SHAIBU. 5. PASTOR. AYILARA JAME ABIODUN

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. AMINA JOAN OSHIOKPEKHAI -PRESIDENT 2. ANINYE NKEMAKONAM 3. OMOLOLA ARINOLA ADESANYA 4. OLUBUNMI EJI -SECRETARY

AIM AND OBJECTIVES 1. To preach the gospel of christ to the people 2. To set the captives free through the word of God. 3. To create awareness and prepare souls for heaven Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, 420, Tigris Crescent, off Aguyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days from the date of the publication.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To protect the interest of members

BOARD OF TRUSTEES (1) HRH. AIGBE STELLA (MRS).

(2) IDUSINMWIN COMFORT (3) EVBUOMWAN HELEN OSATO (4) OGIERIAKHI FRANCA (5) OMOBUDE ELIZABETH EHIZOG.

Signed: SIMON ONU. ESQ. SOLICITOR.

SIGNED John Iyafokhai Esq.

WORLD - SHAKING CHRISTIAN OUTREACH

PRIVATE AIRPORT TERMINALS & HANGARS OPERATORS OF NIGERIA

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

QUALITY EDUCATION SYNERGY ADVOCACY INITIATIVE

AIMS/OBJECTIVES: (1).TO PROTECT THE INTEREST OF MEMBERS. Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the RegistrarGeneral Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420 Tigris Crescent off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days from the date of this publication.

Signed: TRUSTEES

DIOCESE OF ETSAKO ANGLICAN COMMUNION

The General Public is hereby notified that the above named body has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

The General Public is hereby notified that the above named body has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

The General Public is hereby notified that the above named body has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

TRUSTEE 1. AJAYI OLUTAYO SUNDAY 2. AKWAZIE GEORGE OMELUOJAHUOTU 3. CHIKEKA MICHAEL CHIMA. - SECRETARY 4. MBANUZO OBIUKWU OBIALOR - PRESIDENT.

Trustees 1. REV. WILLIAM CHINEBU. - EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR / FOUNDER 2. REV. SALLY. WILLIAM-CHINEBU 3. PASTOR SAM EROMOSELE

THE NAME OF THE TRUSTEES ARE 1 . RT. REV’D JACOB OLAJIDE BABAJIDE BADA. - (CHAIRMAN), 2. COMRADE GIDEON AKPATA. - (KSP) 3. VENRABLE ANTHONY EFE BRAIMAH - (SECRETARY)

AIM AND OBJECTIVE 1. To maintain unity of purpose among members 2. Education and professional development of its members

Aim and objectives 1. To give quality education to the less priviledge in the society

Aim and objectives 1. To preach the gospel of our lord Jesus Christ.

Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the RegistrarGeneral, Corporate Affairs Commission, 420, Tigris Crescent, off Aguyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days from the date of the publication.

Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, 420, Tigris Crescent, off Aguyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days from the date of the publication.

Signed.

BARR. NDIDI EUCHARIA IWULE

SIGNED BY BARR BADA OLUWAFUNKE REBECCA

Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, 420, Tigris Crescent, off Aguyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days from the date of the publication.

Signed U. K. OBIOHA. ESQ. 11 Parakou Street WuseII, Abuja.

LOSS OF DOCUMENT

This is to inform the General public that the Original Allocation letter by the Task Force on the resettlement of Building materials Traders at Dei-Die dated 26th June, 1995 of open space No. C6-361, bounded by beacon numbers, 74, 75, 41, 40. Issued to CHUKA CHIKWENDU is missing. Also, the Original Acknowledgment letter by the Abuja Markets Management Ltd dated 17th December, 2014 for the Application for Change of name from CHUKA CHIKWENDU to ONUORAH OGONNA AUGUSTINA with respect to shop No. C6-361, Die-Die Building materials Market, Abuja is Missing. All efforts made to trace the said documents proved abortive. If found, please contact the nearest police station.

CHARITY WITH A BOX OUTREACH

BOOST INNOVATION & EMPOWERMENT CENTRE The General Public is hereby notified that the above named body has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

TRUSTEES 1. OMOTUNDE GEORGE AREMU (CHAIRMAN) 2. OLUWASEUN KEHINDE ILEOLA 3. SIMEON AYODEJI EBO

RADIANCE EDUCATION & SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT TRUST The General Public is hereby notified that the above named body has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

TRUSTEES 1. DR. CHRISTOPHER OGUGUA MENKITI (CHAIRMAN) 2. MR. MAX AUGUSTINE CHUKWUNONSO MENKITI 3. MRS. ETHEL IFEYINWA MENKITI. 4. MR. CHUBA EMMANUEL MENKITI. 5. DR. OGECHUKWU ROWLAND MENKITI 6. MR. OKECHUKWU UCHENNA GABRIEL MENKITI

AIM AND OBJECTIVES 1. To promote long – lasting self – employment and work opportunities for less – privilege and those with low – income.

2. Economic enhancement.

AIM AND OBJECTIVE 1. To create safe and nurturing environment for students to develop their fill potential for academic excellence.

2. To promote educational development.

Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the RegistrarGeneral, Corporate Affairs Commission, 420, Tigris Crescent, off Aguyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days from the date of the publication.

Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, 420, Tigris Crescent, off Aguyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days from the date of the publication.

SIGNED: SECERTARY

CHINEDU CHUKWU MINISTRY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

KABBA COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ABUJA

The General Public is hereby notified that the above named body has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

The General Public is hereby notified that the above named body has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

The General Public is hereby notified that the above named body has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

TRUSTEES 1. ABIOLA BASHIRU JOBI 2. FATIMAH MOTUNRAYO ABIOLA - JOBI 3. BABATUNDE YUSUFF OJIBARA 4. IYABODE SAFIYAT OJIBARA 5. OLAYINKA ISIAKA OJIBARA 6. OLANREWAJU MUSTAPHA OJIBARA

TRUSTEES 1. CHUKWU MICHAE CHINEDY 2. GIJERE TONYE 3. CHUKWU CHINELO VICTORIA. 4. OKOLI INNOCENT DANIEL 5. MR. OJO NDIDI WILFRED.

TRUSTEES 1. JOHNSON JIMOH. - PRESIDENT 2 ADEKUNLE MATTHEW FAGBEMI. - SERCTERY 3. CHARLES ADEBAYO 4. AUGUSTINE OLOWONIYAN 5. MRS. ROSELINE EJIBUNU

AIM AND OBJECTIVE 1. To reach out to the outer society ,donate items , raise funds and empower young people to improve their lives

Aim and objectives 1. To preach and teach the word of God 2. To reach people to depend on God alone.

AIM AND OBJETIVE 1. The pursuance of the unity progress and development of owe land in all is ramification

Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the RegistrarGeneral, Corporate Affairs Commission, 420, Tigris Crescent, off Aguyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days from the date of the publication.

Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the RegistrarGeneral, Corporate Affairs Commission, 420, Tigris Crescent, off Aguyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days from the date of the publication.

Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the RegistrarGeneral, Corporate Affairs Commission, 420, Tigris Crescent, off Aguyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days from the date of the publication.

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

Signed: AULE. T. ISACC

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LIFE IN CHRIST CHERUBIM AND SERAPHIM CHURCH OF NIGERIA

DESTINY IMPARTION WORLD OUTREACH.

ABIA 7 SITTERS MINI BUS OWNERS WELFARE ASSSOCIATION

This is to inform the general public that the above named Mission has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part “C� of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, Cap C20, LFN 2004.

This is to inform the general public that the above named Mission has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part “C� of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, Cap C20, LFN 2004.

This is to inform the general public that the above named Mission has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part “C� of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, Cap C20, LFN 2004.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Bishop NWOSU OSONDU UTAEGBULAM - President 2. ALFRED NNABUGWU 3. OGBUAGU NNAMDI 4. MADUAKO CHIME CHRIS 5. AZURUNDU IROEGBU IHEVUEME 6. CHINEMEZE UGWUZOR

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. EVANG. Divine Akuma Ogbonnaya (president) 2. Sis. Favour Divine Ogbonnaya 3. Bro. Okocha Agu 4. Sis. Ifeoma Unogu 5. Sis. Chinonye Njoku Ejiogu (Secretary) 6. Bro. Kenneth onyere 7. Sis. Loretta Kalu 8. Bro. Ugochukwu Pascal Nwabufo 9. Sis.Promise Ukaku 10. Sis. Favour Kelechi.

THE TRUSTEES 1. COMRADE EKEOBA OKECHUKWU- CHAIRMAN 2. UGWU KINGSLEY IKECHUKWU – SECRETARY 3. IWUOHA CHIAJULAM JOSEPH - 1ST VICE CHAIRMAN 4. UBANI NGOZI – 2ND VICE CHAIRMAN 5. CHIKEZIE INNOCENT NNEJI – TREASURER

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE:* 1. To preach the gospel of our lord Jesus Christ Any objection to the registration should be directed to the Registrar General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420 Tigris Crescent, Maitama District, Abuja within 28 days from the date of this publication

*AIMS AND OBJECTIVES* 1. To Preach the Word of God Any objection to the registration should be directed to the Registrar General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420 Tigris Crescent, Maitama District, Abuja within 28 days from the date of this publication.

Signed: President

Signed: SECRETARY

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OLUBIMPE ABOSEDE ADEWUMI

I formerly known and addressed as TOLUBIMPE ABOSEDE AJAYI now wish to be known and addressed as OLUBIMPE ABOSEDE ADEWUMI. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note BALOGUN ADEJOKE BALIKIS

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS TIJANI ADEJOKE BALIKIS NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS BALOGUN ADEJOKE BALIKIS ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE CHUKWUEMEKA OKEREKE CHINENYE ROSANTA

I, formerly known and addressed as, MISS. CHIME OBIEKWE CHINENYE ROSANTA, now wish to be known and addressed as, MRS. CHUKWUEMEKA OKEREKE CHINENYE ROSANTA. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

WAKAMA CHRISTIAN TOKUNEGIBI-OFORI.

I, WAKAMA TOKUNEGIBI-OFORI, AND JOHN CHRISTIAN WAKAMA, refer to one and same person but, now wish to be known and addressed as, WAKAMA CHRISTIAN TOKUNEGIBI-OFORI. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

ITOHAN MERCY EDIALE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ITOHAN MERCY AZAMOSA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ITOHAN MERCY EDIALE. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE. SHOBANDE FATIMO

I, formerly known as Kazeem FATIMO Alake wish to be known and addressed as Shobande FATIMO Alake All former document remain valid, general public please take note.

UGWA CHIDIEBERE PHINCO

THE POWER OF YOUNG CLUB

I, formerly known and addressed as ESTHER NNEOMA NNADEDE but now with to be known and addressed as ESTHER NNEOMA ONWA. All former documents remain valid. The general public should please take note.

The General Public is hereby notified that the above named body has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

OPEIFA JOHNSON ADEWUNMI

TIAMIYU HABIBAT MODUPEOLA

I formerly known and addressed as OPEIFA KEHINDE JOHNSON now wish to be known and addressed as OPEIFA JOHNSON ADEWUNMI. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note DEJONWO-ADELAJA IKEOLA ADUKE

MADUBUKO GRACE ONUABUCHI

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

OKOH AMARACHI CELINE

JAJA FLORENCE JOSEPH.

I, JAJA FLORENCE JOSEPH, AND FLORENCE CHRISTIAN NYIMEONE, refer to one and same person but, now wish to be known and addressed as, JAJA FLORENCE JOSEPH. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

ULIAGBAFUSI NKIRU VERONICA I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ONUCHUKWU NKIRU VERONICA, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ULIAGBAFUSI NKIRU VERONICA. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. GENERAL PUBLIC TAKE NOTE. ABRAHAM OLUWADAMILARE

I, formerly known as NWUWA ONYEKA DAMILARE wish to be known and addressed as ABRAHAM OLUWADAMILARE. All former document remain valid, general public please take note.

Signed: CHAIRMAN STHER NNEOMA ONWA

TEMITOPE ADEOYE ADEMOLA-DAVIDS

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS DEJONWO IKEOLA ADUKE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS DEJONWOADELAJA IKEOLA ADUKE ALL FORMER DOCUMEMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE

I, formerly known and addressed as, MISS. EGEMBA AMARACHI IJEOMA, now wish to be known and addressed as, MRS. OKOH AMARACHI CELINE. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

Any objection to the registration should be directed to the Registrar General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420 Tigris Crescent, Maitama District, Abuja within 28 days from the date of this publication.

I, formally known and addressed as Ogunrinde Tope Adeoye, now wish to be known and addressed as Temitope Adeoye Ademola-Davids, all documents still remain valid.

General public take note.

I formerly known and addressed as UGWA CHIDI now wish to be known and addressed as UGWA CHIDIEBERE PHINCO. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NWOSU GRACE ONUABUCHI NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MADUBUKO GRACE ONUABUCHI ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. To encourage unity among members.

2. To seek the welfare of members.

I formerly known and addressed as TIAMIYU ABIBAT now wish to be known and addressed as TIAMIYU HABIBAT MODUPEOLA. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note UDE EME GIFT

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UDEEME GIFT IFESINAHI. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS UDE EME GIFT ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE

Trustees 1. MICHAEL DANIEL 2. UDEOGU EJIKE CLETUS 3. EZE UZOCHUKWU. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. To unite , encourage and cultivate attitude of oneness and cooperation amongst members 2. To promote unity peace and harmony among member.

Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, 420, Tigris Crescent, off Aguyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days from the date of the publication.

Signed Barr Jideofor Nwosu.

OLORUNSHOGO OMOSALEWA JULIANA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AKUNDELE OMOSALEWA JULIANA NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OLORUNSHOGO OMOSALEWA JULIANA ALL FOR MER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

THAT I AM THE SAME PERSON BEARING OMOLADE OLUWAFEMI JOSEPH AND OGUNGBILE OLUWAFEMI OMOLADE JOSEPH ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE

ECHEGI BRILLIANCE ONYINYECHI

ONYEANU EZENWA DESMOND

I, formerly known and addressed as, MISS. OGUIKE ONYIYECHI BRILLIANCE, now wish to be known and addressed as, MRS ECHEGI BRILLIANCE ONYINYECHI. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note

I, formerly known and addressed as, ONYEANU EZENWA DESMOND PAUL, now wish to be known and addressed as, ONYEANU EZENWA DESMOND. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as, DESTINY FRIDAY NWAKANWAILE, AND FRIDAY DESTINY, now wish to be known and addressed as, DESTINY NWAKA. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

STANLEY AMINADOKIARI AMAKIRI

OZIOMA REJOICE CHIZURUM

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OLERU SOPHIA PRINCE. I, formerly known and addressed as, MISS. AYAH ONYEKACHI SOPHIA, now wish to be known and addressed as, MRS. OLERU SOPHIA PRINCE. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

UMELO IFEOMA

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NYSC and general public should take note.

MARIA MOSES

BENETH SUNDAY ILOABUCHI

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I, BENETH SUNDAY ILOABUCHI, SUNDAY ILOABUCHI, AND ILOABUCHI SUNDAY B., refer to one and same person but, now wish to be known and addressed as, BENETH SUNDAY ILOABUCHI. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

AJAYI BEATRICE TOMISIN

BALOGUN ISLAMIYYAT AFOLASHADE

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AYODELE ISAAC ABIODUN

I, formerly known as Abiodun Adekunle Ayodele wish to be known and addressed as Ayodele Isaac Abiodun. All former document remain valid, general public please take note.

I, formerly known as Kadiku Islamiyyat Afolashade wish to be known and addressed as Balogun Islamiyyat Afolashade. All former document remain valid, general public please take note.

IDRIS NURUDEEN AYINDE

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DESTINY NWAKA

I, formerly known and addressed as, IFEOMA AMEACHI, now wish to be known and addressed as, UMELO IFEOMA. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

CORRECTION OF NAME

REMOVAL OF NAME

I, NSIKAN TAMUNONENGIYEOFORI ORUBO, wish to correct my name which was wrongly written as, NSIKAN TAMMY ORUBO, instead of, NSIKAN TAMUNONENGIYEOFORI ORUBO, in my BVN details. I now wish to be known and addressed as, I, NSIKAN TAMUNONENGIYEOFORI ORUBO. All former documents remain valid.

General public should take note.

I, ONUOHA CHILEE, wish to remove, CHIMA, from my BVN details, which was wrongly written as, ONUOHA CHILEE CHIMA, instead of, ONUOHA CHILEE. That I now wish to be known and addressed as, ONUOHA CHILEE. All former documents remain valid.

General public should take note.

NWOKO IFEOMA PRECIOUS

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EKWEOZOR TINA OGWUDALA

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IFEANYI KELECHI CYNTHIA

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SHODIYA MUSE IDOWU

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Daily Times Nigeria Wednesday, November 16, 2016

INTERNATIONAL AVIATION DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION. The General Public is hereby notified that the above named ORGANISATION. has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

The Trustees are: 1. John Chibueze Nwosu - Founder, Executive Chairman /Executive President.

2. Victoria Tochukwu Chibueze - Vice Chairman, Vice president /Secretary General.

OVERCOMERS OASIS CHURCH AND TOWERS

The General Public is hereby notified that the above named Church has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. BISHOP OLADAPO JOSHUA AFOLABI 2. REV (MRS). OLADAPO VICTORIA MADESOLA 3. PASTOR EDIABONYA OSAGIE LUCKY 4. PASTOR BELLO A. JOHN OLUWASEUN 5. DEACON AKINRINOLA ADERINKOLA AKANO

Aims and Objectives: 1. For the development and upliftment aviation industries Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, 420, Tigris Crescent, off Aguyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days from the date of the publication.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO RAISE WORLD OVERCOMERS AND MOBILIZE THEM WITH A BURNING DESIRE FOR THE LOST THROUGH EVANGELISM AND MISSION OUTREACHES. 2. TO RAISE AN ORDERLY,DECENTLY AND DISCIPLINED PEOPLE WITH THE HEART OF SERVICE IN MATURING THE BODY OF CHRIST AND TAKING LEADERSHIP ROLES IN NATIONS 3. TO TEACH ,PREACH,PRAY AND EMPOWER PEOPLE THROUGH THE TEACHING OF TOTAL COUNSEL OF GOD Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, 420, Tigris Crescent, off Aguyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days from the date of the publication.

Signed: Secretary

SIGNED: J.A OLADAPO & CO 08030696558

REFORMBASE MINISTRY.

FIDEL ONWODI FOUNDATION

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Fidel Onwodi 2. Felicia Ogunjana THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO HELP THE 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, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: Otuedon Vincent 07035392469

CITY OF GRACE REVIVL ASSEMBLY.

“EL-MUBARAK MUSTAPHA ISHAAQ AKOMOLAFE MEMORIAL 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.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED CHURCH HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA, FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART C OF THE COMPANY AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, CAP C20, 1990 LAWS OF THE FEDERATION.

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. EPHRAIM EMMANUEL ABASIOKURE 2. CALISTIUS UJU OKAFOR 3. ADIEMEREONWU OKECHUKWU VALENTINE 4. IMAOBONG EPHRAIM ABASIOKURE 5. EMEN PATTY OKON 6. INIOBONG ALEX UMONAH 7. UKO MFON EBONG

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. FESTUS ANAYO OKORO 2. MARTINA OGBA OKORO

Names of The Trustees: 1. OGUNSOLA AMUSAT ADEBAYO (PRESIDENT) 2. MUSTAPHA M ABIODUN (SECRETARY) 3. ISHAAQ - EL - MUBARAK ABDOUL - MUQADDAS OPEYEMI 4. ABDULRAHEEM -MUSTAPHA MARIAM ADEPEJU 5. MUSTAPHA AKEEM OLAWALE 6. MUSTAPHA YINUSA ADEBAYO 7. ADEBAYO FATAI ADETUNJI

AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the RegistrarGeneral, Corporate Affaira Commission, Plot 420 Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days of this Publication.

SIGNED: TRUSTEES.

AIMS & OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. TO REVIVE PEOPLE FOR THE MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB. 2. TO RETURN AS MANY AS POSSIBLE TO GOD. 3. TO PREPARE AN END TIME ARMY FOR CHRIST. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR_GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, PMB 198, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 (TWENTY EIGHT) DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: NELSON C. ONYEJAKA ESQ. NELSON ONYEJAKA & CO. LEGAL ADVISER 08038235054, 08089501096.

Aim And Objective: 1. For upbringing of children and financial assistance to families.

Any objections to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar general corporate Affairs commission plot 420 tigris crescent off aguiyi ironsi street maitama Abuja within 28days from the date of this publication.

Signed: Secretary

AKIN FRIENDS FOUNDATION FOR THE LESS PRIVILEGED

DRY PEPPER SELLERS ASSOCIATION LAGOS

OGBARA GRANITE DEALERS ASSOCIATION, APPROVED

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

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

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Lekan Akinbohun - Chairman 2. Akinrinmade Adeniyi Anthony - Secretary 3. Braimoh Stephen - P.R.O.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1.ALH GARBA DANLADI SUMAILA 2.USMAN ALIU GULU 4.BELLO MOHAMMED 6.ALH BELLO GARBA 8.ISMAILA ADO SUMAILA 10.MOHAMMED GARBA

THE TRUSTEES ARE: (1) Dr (Alh) Arimiyah Sadallah Olanrewaju, (Chairman) (2) Gbadelu Kigali Olaitan (Vice/Chairman) (3) Mr Giwa Ismail (Treasurer) (4) Badmus Rafiu (Financial/Secretary) (5) Bashir Ismail Owolabi (Secretary).

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1) To support and cater for the less privileged in Africa 2) To bring immediate relief during and after disasters 3) Building and supporting schools, orphanages and health clinics Any objections to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar general corporate Affairs commission plot 420 tigris crescent off aguiyi ironsi street maitama Abuja within 28days from the date of this publication.

SIGNED: TRUSTEES. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT COLLEGE KWALI ABUJA MILLENIUM SET ASSOCIATION

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1.Mohammed Jibril - President 2.Talatu Wakawa 3.Linda Akut 4.Auwal Abdurahman 5.Nafisa Hassan - Secretary THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE : 1.To promote unity among members of the Association within and outside Nigeria.

3.ALH HALILU MUSA 5.ALH USAINI MUHAMMED 7.DABO YUSUF 9.ADAMU DAHIRU RABIU

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE : 1.TO PROMOTE THE INTEREST OF MEMBERS. 2.TO PROMOTE PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE AMONG THE DRY PEPPER SELLER’S IN LAGOS. 3.TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE PROGRESS AND RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF PEPPER DEALERS 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, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED : SECRETARY

THE NEW FACE OF THE DELTA INITIATIVE

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 OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1.

KESENA, OMAMUZO EDNA (Treasurer) 2.

OGOVE, MARK AGELIBE (Financial Secretary) 3.

ONOZIAKPOR, Nathaniel ONOR (Secretary) 4.

AMATA, AKPOVI (President-General) 5. OLUGBOYE, EKUNDAYO ABIODUN

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Ogboru Eziwomano Emmanuel - president 2. ogboru Vivian Ekemena - secretary.

3. Avro Daddyson ogheneviomezie

SIGNED : SECRETARY

SIGNED : SECRETARY

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. IMO, STELLA DANIEL 2. IMO, VICTOR DANIEL 3. ESHETT EMEMOBONG 4. IMO, JOY DANIEL 5. IMO, BLESSING DANIEL AIMS/OBJECTIVE: 1. To promote girls child safety and educational advancement.

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

SIGNED ; CHAIRMAN.

SIGNED : SECRETARY

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

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.

GIRLS LIBERATION AND EMPOWERMENT INITIATIVE INT’L.

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.

OKPE - ISOKO PROGRESSIVE UNION

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE : 1.TO PROMOTE PEACE, UNITY AND HARMONY AMONG MEMBERS OF THE UNION. 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.

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

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE : (a) To promote buying and selling of granite at a reasonable price. (b) To promote love and unity among members. (c) To assist the members financially and physically.

ATAMU URHOBO DEVELOPMENT TRUST. 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 Trustees: 1.

Abraham O Ogbodo 2.

Johnson I Agagbo 3.

Obaro M Osah 4.

Chief Benard Okumagba 5.

Dr. Otive Igbuzor 6.

Mrs.Grace Ekpiwhre 7.

Dr. Sunny Awhefeada 8.

Chief (Dr) Friday O Anuya 9.

Chief Simeon Owhofa 10.

Professor Joseph Abugu Aims and objective: 1.

To provide support, stimulate and strengthen the local economy of Urhobo lands 2.

To create jobs for local people, guide local people into employment,entrepreneurship, training and leadership 3.

To play an active part in the community regeneration through projects execution andadvocacy.

Signed: Matthew OGAGA V WORIA, FCA 08023200801.

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE : 1. To provide empowerment program for the youth and woman.

2. To promote educational development.

3. To promote human, capital and infrastructural 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, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED : SECRETARY

CONTAINER TRUCK OWNER ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA The general public is hereby notified that the above named Association has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for Registration under part ‘’C’’ of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990 Trustees: 1.

Olohuntoyin Wasiu Ajao – President 2.

Wahab Olanrewaju Alao – Vice President 3.

Arowofela Salman Ajibola Lukmon – Financial Secretary 4.

Muri Ajadi Alao – Treasurer 5.

Isiaka Ganiyu – P.R.O 6.

Sulu Rasaki Abefe – member 7.

Alayande Ramoni – member 8.

Atanda Rafiu Zakariya – member 9.

Wahab Ishola Bolanle – member 10.

Muritala Isiaka Oluwatoyin – member Aims and Objective: 1. To ensure safe delivering of container consignment and accountability 2. To promote and protect the interest of the members.

3. To give moral and financial supports to members when need arise Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar – General Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Mataima Abuja Within 28 days of this publication.

Signed: Secretary

Daily Times Nigeria Monday, November 16, 2016

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Umahi flays communal clash in Izzi LGA, orders takeover of disputed land ÏÏÏThe Ebonyi state government

L-R: Managing Director, Old Mutual Nigeria Life Assurance Company, Mr. Keith Alford; Consul-General, South African High Commission, Mr. Darkey Africa; Chairman, Phillips Consulting, Mr. Foluso Phillips and Group Chief Executive Officer, Old Mutual West Africa, Mr. Zom Chizura, at the Stakeholders corporate dinner in Lagos… on Monday.

has taken over some hectares of land in Izzi Local Government Area to forestall future bloody dispute between the people of Mkpuma-Ekwoku and Ogwuzeru-Onweya communities.

The state governor, Engr David Umahi, made the pronouncement when he visited the disputed land, a few hours after three people were reported killed and many houses burnt by youths of the two communities on Sunday.

“Our position as government is that anywhere we have land dispute, government which is naturally the owner of land will take it over . So from today, that is 14th of November, the entire land that is in contention is hereby revoked and taken over by government. So, nobody will farm on this land again; it becomes government land,” a statement on Tuesday

by Umahi’s Chief Press Secretary, Emma Anya, quoted him as saying.

Governor Umahi, who however,

announced a donation of N10 million for the rebuilding of the burnt houses and provision of relief materials for the victims, also directed the political appointees from the LGA to forfeit 50 per cent of their allowances towards the rebuilding of the houses.

The governor, in company with the Commissioner of Police, Mrs. Peace Ibekwe-Abdallah, and other security chiefs in the state, described the killings and torching of houses as very barbaric.

“We also condemn the act of burning the houses. It is so barbaric and highly condemnable. We are very shocked that at this point of our development people could do such satanic act,” Umahi lamented.

He directed the security chiefs to fish out the perpetrators and ensure peace returned to the area.

The governor also urged the security chiefs to provide security for those who planted rice on the disputed land to harvest the rice.

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comes for our people, we cannot allow the triumph on these shores of those who will have us move to a post-factual world.

“Not even from a man as practiced as Alhaji Atiku is in the dark arts of damaging other people through a campaign of lies from him and his media machine.

“Therefore, I am constrained to provide a response to the fake news and irresponsible revision of recent history by Alhaji Atiku,” he said.

El-Rufai also denied having anything to do with the incorporation of Transcorp, saying that those that established that company and fronted it like Festus Odimegwu, Tony Elumelu, Otunba Lawal Solarin and Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke are still around and alive.

The governor’s statement reads, “This statement is issued in response to the latest falsehoods to emerge from Alhaji Atiku Abubukar.

“He has a record of spewing outright lies and innuendo against my person.

OLUWADUNSHIN KEHINDE AYOBAMI

I, formerly known and addressed as MR. AWOPEJU KEHINDE AYOBAMI but now with to be known and addressed as MR. OLUWADUNSHIN KEHINDE AYOBAMI. All former documents remain valid. The general public should please take note.

ONUOHA ANTHONIA

I formerly known and addressed as OZURIGBO ANTHONIA now wish to be known and addressed as ONUOHA ANTHONIA. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note

“As we struggle to build a law-abiding society and secure progressive outcomes for our people, we cannot allow the triumph on these shores of those who will have us move to a post-factual world.

“Not even from a man as practiced as Alhaji Atiku is in the dark arts of damaging other people through a campaign of lies from him and his media machine.

“Therefore, I am constrained to provide a response to the fake news and irresponsible revision of recent history by Alhaji Atiku.

“I never had anything to do with the incorporation of Transcorp.

Those that established that company and fronted it like Festus Odimegwu, Tony Elumelu, Otunba Lawal Solarin and Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke are still around and alive.

“As such, I could not have and did not offer Alhaji Atiku any shares in Transcorp.

I declined the shares that were offered to me. Having done that, how could I have offered anyone shares?

“In fact, I advised President Olusegun Obasanjo, Alhaji Atiku and then

Finance Minister Ngozi OkonjoIweala not to accept the shares that were then being offered by the promoters of Transcorp.

“My counsel to them was based on the grounds that they would face conflicts of interest when Transcorp bids for privatization assets.

“At the time Alhaji Atiku and Ngozi were chair and vice-chair of the National council on Privatization, and were particularly directly involved in approving the sales of state-owned enterprises and assets.

It is too late in the day to try to pretend that the fiasco concerning the attempt by then Senators Ibrahim Mantu and Jonathan Zwingina to extort money from me for Senate clearance never happened.

“All Alhaji Atiku has just done is confirm that he paid the Senators, as I revealed in Page 139 of my book.

“When I published The Accidental Public Servant in 2013, Alhaji Atiku unleashed his media team in a campaign of vilification. Despite the viciousness of the attacks, they did not contest or explain away his shenanigans that were detailed in the

book, from the Ericsson manoeuvre, to the Abuja water treatment plant contract and his obsession with marabouts and their assurances of the political big prize.

“He might also consider a full reckoning for what he and his acolytes did with public funds in the PTDF imbroglio, rather than indulging the usual bold face of the Nigerian big-man.

“As a federal public servant, my oath of allegiance appropriately stood with the Federal Republic of Nigeria, not the big men whose conduct I was privileged to witness at close quarters.” People like Alhaji Atiku think that loyalty to them should be the goal of a public officer, and that it should trump the oath of allegiance to the country.

“Our Alhaji Atiku is already running for 2019, and he thinks that he can make people like us collateral damage in his attempt to rejuvenate his image.

“This obsession for power inclined him to support the rebellion against the party that manifested in the National Assembly, and is continuing

GLORY PETER

OLADEHINDE MONSURAT BUKOLA

I formerly known and addressed as Glory Edoama Akpan. Now wish to be known, called and addressed as Mrs. Glory Peter.

All documents and certificates bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Relevant authorities Please take note.

Formerly, Miss Alabi Monsurat Bukola and now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs Oladehinde Monsurat Bukola, former documents remain valid, general public take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS ADEROJU DORCAS ADEOTI & MRS. AWOPEJU DORCAS ADEOTI but now with to be known and addressed as MRS. OLUWADUNSHIN DORCAS ADEOTI. All former documents remain valid. The general public should please take note.

MERCY EHIMEN AHAMED.

ZUBAIR ADEOLA BASHIR

AKINDELE ADEBOLA AWANAT I, formerly known and addressed as MISS ADEWOYE ADEBOLA AWANAT FOLASADE but now with to be known and addressed as MRS. AKINDELE ADEBOLA AWANAT. All former documents remain valid. The general public should please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as MERCY EHIME AYERE now wish to be known and addressed as MRS MERCY EHIMEN AHAMED. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note

I, formerly known and addressed as BABATUNDE AMO but now with to be known and addressed as ZUBAIR ADEOLA BASHIR. All former documents remain valid. The general public should please take note.

OLUWADUNSHIN DORCAS ADEOTI.

with obvious disrespect for the incumbent president.

“Everyone knows that I support and will continue to work for the success of President Muhammadu Buhari as he leads our country through tough times.

“Everyone is entitled to rehabilitation. But that often requires coming clean with the people.

“Can Alhaji Atiku explain the findings in the report of the United States Senate Permanent Sub-Committee on Investigations, which detailed a pattern of wire transfers of more than USD 40m from offshore companies like Siemens into bank accounts controlled by him and one of his wives?

“The report detailing the US Senate findings is online, as one of four case histories of foreign corruption in the USA. Alhaji Atiku should tell a better tale of why he is avoiding America.

“Someone as obsessed by Nigeria’s presidency as he is, should clear up such matters conclusively. We wait to see how well he does with that”, it concluded.

OKUNOWO SEMIU OWOLABI

I formerly known and addressed as SMITH SEMIU OWOLABI now wish to be known and addressed as OKUNOWO SEMIU OWOLABI. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

AMALIME ADEBIMPE JULIET I formerly known and addressed as MISS SALAMI ADEBIMPE JULIET. Now wish to be known, called and addressed as MRS AMALIME ADEBIMPE JULIET All documents and certificates bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Relevant authorities Please take note.

ALADETOYINBO ABIMBOLA

I formerly known and addressed as ALADETOYINBO GANIYAT B. now wish to be known and addressed as ALADETOYINBO ABIMBOLA All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

ABISOMO- EMMANUEL FUNSO MERCY

I formerly known and addressed as ABISOMO FUNSO MERCY now wish to be known and addressed as ABISOMO- EMMANUEL FUNSO MERCY. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note

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Buhari: Report x-rays cabinet one year after A report by SBM, a research firm espoused the President Muhamadu Buhari’s cabinet one year after as compiled by Femi Ganiyu

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The Buhari administration swept into office on the mantra of change and promised to hit the ground running. Critical to delivering on the mandate that was given to the government by Nigerians was the team the President would build.

Hence, Nigerians waited with anticipation for President Buhari to announce his ministers after taking office.

After a five-month wait, the ministers were finally announced and screened by the Senate in a highly publicised, and well-followed exercise. The nomination and screening process was not without drama, and while supporters of the administration argued that the process took as long as it did because the President needed to balance factors such as constitutional requirements for ministers from each state with the

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party politics and getting credible, competent and people with clean records, many were of the view that all these could have been done with a greater sense of urgency for the tasks ahead.

Upon the allocation of portfolios to the ministers after their screening and confirmation, SBM Intelligence undertook a projection of expectations from the ministers and whether in our opinion, the ministers were a hit, a miss or intermediate.

After a year in office, we have reviewed actual performance of the ministers thus far, and based on this, have produced an updated performance rating of the ministers. We have also put the ratings after one year in office side by side with our predictions as the ministers took office, and indicated where those predictions were correct as well as where we were off the mark.

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Did SBM Make The Right Call?

Buhari’s Cabinet- One Year Performance

The report counsels that government should not delay the announcement of ministerial

appointments in future, and that the portfolios of the ministerdesignates should be announced

prior to sending them to the Senate for confirmation.

Performance evaluation should be carried out on each of the ministers.

However, speaking with Daily Times, the President, Charterd Board of Admonistration of Nigeria, CBAN, Professor Gbolahan Dairo, said some of the ministers had performed well, while some had failed in their responsibilities.

He said there was the need to reshuffle the cabinet and inject new blood into the administration, so as to enable the government to deliver democratic dividends to the people.

Also, Mr. Taiwo Adeola, a politiocian, wants President Buhari tobring on board, newbred politicians and technocrats given the ongoing recession in the country, so that the economy could be re-energised.

World Savings Day: FCMB mentors students Ganiyu Obaaro

First City Monument Bank (FCMB) Limited, has intensified its financial literacy campaign among youths by organising an outreach programme for students in 12 secondary schools across the country, in commemoration of this year’s World Savings’ Day.

According to a statement by the bank, “The schools are located in Anambra, Zamfara, Oyo, Jigawa, Osun, Adamawa, Bayelsa, Niger, Gombe, Imo, Benue and Delta states. The Bank organised the programme in partnership with the Bankers’ Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).”

The statement said that, ”The World Savings Day, which is celebrated ev-

ery October 31,every year, is aimed at enhancing the knowledge and understanding of students as well as the general public on the importance of savings, financial control, planning and other financial transactions to the development of individuals and society.”

According to the statement, while peaking during the mentoring session for students of Government Day Sec-

ondary School, Samara in Gusau, Zamfara state, FCMB’s Zonal Head, Kano West, Mr. Abdullahi Mainasara, said that, “imbibing financial principles at an early age will go a long way to help students and the young ones to manage their resources effectively, appreciate how money works and how it can be channeled to productive ventures.

Among other things, he urged the stu-

dents, ‘’put aside a portion of what you earn regularly in a safe place that pays interest’’.

The bank said that, Mainasara further explained to them that, ‘’money saved should be placed in a financial institution for safekeeping and to earn interest on your money. This reduces the risk of spending, theft, and gives your money the chance to grow’’.

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Trump: T.B Joshua says many people are ignorant of God’s work Responding to the furore that greeted Donald Trump’s win in the last US presidential election, the founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, (SCOAN), Prophet T.B. Joshua has declared that his vision that Hillary Clinton would win the controversial election by a narrow margin, was not off the mark, reports GBUBEMI GOD’SCOVENANT SNR In an exclusive interview with The Daily Times on Sunday, the man of God stated that people need spiritual understanding to be able to interpret certain degrees of prophesy.

“We do not all the same portion of spiritual gifts, therefore, understanding of certain heavenly phenomenon would defer, expectedly,” the prophet said.

Expatiating on the phrase, “heavenly phenomenon”, the man of God said, besides popular opinion, market forces and world politics, all of which desired Hillary Clinton as a level-headed, tested politician with a pedigree, which her opponent did not have, the international press also played up Donald Trump’s shortcomings and weakness in a way that created an imbalance in the court of God’s judgment.

He said, “You know people usually say the voice of the people is the voice of God, but I can tell you that God is a Righteous Judge; and He

hates undue injustice even in the affairs of men.”

According to him, “The vision I saw was of a woman, definitely, but God is Sovereign. At any time He can move and change things on the spur of the moment, and you cannot question Him.” Joshua said that, “Now, everyone is disappointed and pointing accusing fingers at prophets and analysts, but, nobody is looking at the unfair tactics that the democrats employed. I am not finding a reason for God’s sudden intervention that aborted the flow that turned out in favour of Trump, but I can assure you that nobody can become president in any nation unless God Himself has decided he or she should be president without apology to any son of man.”

It would be recalled that since last Wednesday, after Trump’s victory results jolted the world, bursts of protests are still being reported in parts of the United States.

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Tribute: If Chinua Achebe were alive today...

By James Eze (eziokwubundu@gmail.com)

Today, on the day that would have been Chinua Achebe’s 86th birthday, I can’t help but wonder what would have happened if he hadn’t died three years ago. So much has happened since Nna anyi left us that in my private moments, I have often looked at things that would have made him break his oracular silence and wondered what he would have said to them; things like the very idea of Donald Trump as the president of the United States; a country that hosted him in his winter years.

Things like the beheading of an Igbo woman in Kano in the 21st Century.

Things like killing people for wanting to be different, like the IPOB youngsters and the Shiites? Would the Chinua Achebe that we all know have blessed all these with his silence?

Achebe’s landmark lecture on racism as seen in his essay, An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness reminds us of the ancestry we have in him – a proud heritage that does not flinch from standing firm against prejudice, against injustice and against the world if need be. When Achebe gave that Lecture at the University of Massachusetts in 1975, America was still struggling with the horrors of segregation. And while the city of Jackson in Mississippi was celebrating the opening of an integrated public swim-

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ming pool for the first time, riots were erupting in Louisville, Kentucky over forced bussing. In fact, the humanity of African Americans was still being negotiated while many Caucasians still saw black Africans as living in trees.

That was the social landscape in which Chinua Achebe declaimed Joseph Conrad; a highly revered writer who earned a name by writing pathetic pieces that justified the Slave Trade, co-

lonialism and other prejudices by making a strong argument to establish the inferiority of the black man.

So, I am moved to ask, what would Chinua Achebe have said to the idea of Donald J. Trump? Would he have swept his incendiary comments aside as a mild irritation from a benevolent “white” country that had shown a capacity to right her wrongs by allowing a black man to lead her for eight un-

broken years or would he have given Trump the Conrad treatment? Would Nna anyi have looked back at Nigeria’s steady descent into a poor imitation of democracy and felt restrained to give a voice to his righteous anger against Trump? Or, would he have smiled indulgently at the feisty smack-down his prodigy, Chimamanda, has just given to R. Emmett Tyrell, Editor-in-Chief of the American Spectator in a BBC interview that has gone viral on the social media? Would he have felt content that his “daughter” had said his mind? It is really hard to tell because while alive, Achebe picked his fights carefully. But I’m strongly persuaded to believe that it is highly unlikely that Chinua Achebe would have felt done-in by the white man’s choice of who should rule his country.

On the contrary, I am almost certain that he would have spoken out about the human condition in Nigeria. I am sure he would have contemplated the killings, especially the beheading of an Igbo woman by a fiendish mob acting on behalf of its god in Kano and wondered when this particular rain began to beat us. Achebe would have “spoken truth to power” over the killings of IPOB and Shiite members like he did in that historic open letter to Obasanjo excoriating him for his support to the clique of renegades that openly boasting its connections in high places, seemed determined to turn his beloved Anambra

into a bankrupt and lawless fiefdom. He would have been traumatized by the recession that has plunged Nigerians into avoidable hardships and would have asked for an explanation. He would have shuddered at the polarization of Nigeria by the rhetoric of leaders who have drawn an imaginary line in the sand that says it is 95% versus 5%.

He would have frowned at the fierce cyber wars along tribal lines and the disappearing nationalist ties that once held this unwieldy country together.

Chinua Achebe would have wondered if we haven’t put a knife on the things that hold us together by ourselves and should therefore expect what comes after that. And perhaps too, just perhaps; he would have felt validated, justified, contented that he wrote the book prophetically titled, There was a Country!

And we would all have been in no doubt about which country he had in mind!

Again, knowing Achebe’s famed aversion to power that carries the faintest hint of dangerously keeling over to dictatorship, would he have drummed support for the APC in the manner that his fellow writers did or would he have just stayed defiant like Ezulu, that magnificent character in Arrow of God,who stuck to his own ways even when the ground gave way under his feet? Or better still, would Achebe have kept faith with his own philosophy that “one of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised?”

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Wednesday, November 16, 2016

The price of stewardship Intimidating Appearance

By Prophetess Ronke Akin-Ooye 08087414122

By Henry Akinbolade-Roberts

The oracle to the third world generation, people that were made to be the last, but turned around to be the best of God.

Who is a Steward? A steward is anyone called to serve, a servant. In John 17:18“Jesus said, he was sent by God and he too have sent us”

Facts about good a steward As a steward, you are sent to serve with a price and for remunerations. a good servant is expected to be faithful (Luke 12:43) and a good servant must be tenderhearted, compassionate to others,( Matt 18:1, 4).

A good servant must be initiative driven, like the 5 wise virgins. Most of the time, we use spirituality where our physical strength and abilities is required.

Also, a good servant is expected to be virtuous, not to quarrel but gentle (2 Tim; 2: 24), a good servant interprets the vision of his Boss at least to an extent.( John 6:6) Jesus asked Philip on how to feed the multitudes with him, a good servant also seeks for benefits for his Boss.

The Syrian girl of Naaman’s wife suggested the visit to the prophet who later healed Naaman’s leprosy, even when he refused to bathe in the river Jordan, his servant urged him to his miracle.

A good servant is like a watch dog. Rodah in Acts 12:13-17 was at the door, recognized peter’s voice though others were pray-

ing in fear and unbelief, they did not know God can release Peter from the prison quickly.

A good servant is not too ambitious, either of your boss or your fellow servants, (Mark 9: 34-) the disciples were arguing on who is the greatest amongst each other and Jesus told them it is only when they be like children ,except they be like children. A good servant also gets his full reward.

3 Ways to serve GOING: Today the hallmark of Christianity is evangelism service you enjoy, you will tell others. Missionaries, evangelist among others, is gradually fading out, it is becoming outdated. “The old time religion”.

GROANING: Intercession is gradually fading out for dancing time. Where are the intercessors whose prayers move mountains? Humility of heart, brings dedication to the things of the spirit.

GIVING: Where are the givers? Those who gave to the ministry of Jesus where not super rich but mere loving women and men who were ready to make impact in the ministry.

Are you a tither, Seed sower, or a prophetic seed giver? What you sow is equal to your harvest, remember whatever you sow, you will reap.

Oracle, from Genesis 9:1-24: You are God’s own image on this earth .to exercise this virtue, power for dominion must be invested. God know His own kind of people or race must be in need for divine immunity which I called “Intimidating appearance” The Oracle The blessedness of a founding father is not a common blessing among many. It always comes for men and women that are called to start a thing or a race for God. This is not just a blessing cast without a command.

These kinds of blessings convey command to become what God want you to become. It might be a command to be great, a command to multiply and so on. This is the blessing of the founding father, if you are one today and you are reading this book; believe you have a right to one.

Power over animals and all other creatures is the greatest dominion assets that God could give to you as His own child, the reason is this, on the earth no other creature, mountains, hills, valley and rivers and all birds or animals have their contact with the earth.

Man is the chief creature that also lives on the earth, the creatures like angels, Satan and other demons stay in the air since there is no way, these spirits angels cannot have access to domain on the earth, if not by taking the bodies of the earthly creatures like man, fowls, animals, hills, rocks, valleys, river to manifest their evil dominion.

God never gave dominion to Satan and his cohort, he was chased down to the air space. For this reason, the dominion that man has is not on one another, it is on

the creatures. So when men fail to take their place on the earth in colonizing the earth in God’s pattern, he gave room to Satan and his cohort to use man’s tools for dominion against man and God. Man is commanded to subdue the earth by the power of dominion, if there is anything Satan fight to wrestle from man, it is dominion on earth. To subdue the earth is to colonize it through God’s kingdom principles, culture, custom and laws.

The complexity of failing to carry out God’s commanded blessing, develops to the life of errors like announcing the nakedness of a founding father, the nakedness of a drunken father means to a complex dressed son, errors and curse become the result.

Be careful, every founding father is saddled with the responsibility of intimidating their domain because of intruders from our space. what Satan could do again is to mock that authority through a complex son that has no respect for authority.

Thank God for sons, those that cover the nakedness of their father who have the knowledge of that such authority to subdue and have dominion as God stipulated it, complex robs dominion from you. Complex makes you announce the nakedness of the fathers.

Whatever authority or command you respect is transferable to you as virtue. The knowledge of value or worth on a father turns around to you a virtue. So, intimidating appearance is needful: To stay off intruders from wrestling dominion from you. To give back the earth to GOD as the owner and as the king of the universe, to subdue the earth.

Prophetic prayers Lord, I receive the divine immunity to intimidate every harassment and assault of the enemy. My appearance alone will intimidate powers that want to frustrate purpose in my life

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Enyimba C skipper confirms Kano Pillars switch

hinedu Udoji has confirmed he has opted for a fresh challenge at Kano Pillars after seven years at Enyimba.The Enyimba skipper revealed he has been a long-term target of Pillars.

“It’s 90% certain that I will be joining Kano Pillars,” Udoji revealed.

“Kano Pillars have given me a new challenge, they have

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IfeanyiUbah made profit from sale of jerseys - LMC boss F

C IfeanyiUbah sold over 30,000 replica jerseys and made a profit during the recent Federation Cup final in Lagos.And it is an example chairman of the League

Management Company (LMC)Shehu Dikko would wish other Nigeria premier league clubs should follow.

“I have always said this, clubs should look inwards and come up with means by which they

could generate income in order to ease their cumbersome financial burden,” Shehu said.

“Look at FC IfeanyiUbah - I was told by their chairman that the club sold 30,000 Jerseys during the

N U23 star Daniel Etor proposes to girlfriend on pitch

igeria U23 forward Daniel Etor dramatically proposed to his girlfriend Simi Silas at the centre of the pitch of the Area 3 Sports Complex in Abuja at the end of a match in memory of his late father Monday.

With his teammates from Enyimba – Chinedu Udoji, Emmanuel Anyanwu, Razak Aliyu, Moses Ocheje, Kelly Kester - watching on, Etor knelt down before asking for the hand in marriage of the pretty model and geography graduate of Ahmadu Bello University Zaria.

been after me for a long time now.

“It will be a tough challenge but I am used to that because when I joined Enyimba they had not won any major trophy.

“I also believe I will win trophies in Kano Pillars.”

Udoji said he will join Pillars at their pre-season training camp in Lokoja as soon as his clearance comes through.

Federation Cup final and the profit from that was used to finance the team’s dinner party after the cup final.

“I am sure other teams can do better than this.”

“I said yes,” said Etor’s Adamawa State-born girlfriend.

“I love him. I am so happy, I don’t even know what to say.

“We became friends four years ago and I knew this day will come but I did not know it will be here.

It was shocking!”

Etor praised his fiancée.“She has been my support from day one, my backbone” he praised.

“She understands me and prays for me.

“I proposed on the day I remembered the first year of my father’s death. It was something I needed to do.”

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Kayode gets Eagles call-up for Egypt friendly

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ustria-based striker Olanrewaju Kayode will be invited by Nigeria for a friendly against Egypt on January 9 in Dubai.The 23-yearold Kayode, who has played for the U17, U20 and Olympic teams, has scored four goals in the league, two in the cup and three in the Europa League this season for Austria Wien.

Nigeria coach Gernot Rohr said they have been monitoring Kayode and will invite him for the Egypt friendly.

“We know him, we will invite him for the game in January because normally in January Austria don’t play because it is winter and Austria don’t play during winter,” the coach said.

“We have a lot of good strikers, we’ll follow him up and we’ll see him in when he’s invited in January.”

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Ramos resumes training ahead of Atletico clash Ramos

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ormer Bayern Munich coach Giovanni Trapattoni has has backed compatriot Carlo Ancelotti to outperform former coach Pep Guardiola.Ancelotti replaced Guardiola as the man in

charge at the Allianz Arena ahead of the 2016-17 campaign, but Bayern have yet to really hit top gear under the Italian.

Bayern are level at the top of the Bundesliga with RB Leipzig on 24

Chiellini: Juventus will stay focused

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iorgio Chiellini has voiced his delight with Juventus’ fine start to the 2016-17 campaign and is adamant they are not getting carried away regardless of their superb performances.The reigning Serie A champions hold a four-point lead over second-placed Roma, while they are one win away from reaching the last 16 of the Champions League.

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eal Madrid have received some encouraging news on the injury front ahead of this weekend’s LaLiga clash with Atletico Madrid as Sergio Ramos has resumed squad training after a spell on the sidelines with a knee injury.

The Spain defender last featured for Madrid in the 2-2 Champions League draw with Borussia Dortmund on September 27.

But he has seemingly recovered in time to feature against Atletico, taking part in Monday’s training session without any noteworthy issues and handing coach Zinedine Zidane a timely boost.

Fellow defender Pepe has a hamstring problem and is still training away from the rest of the squad, as are Karim Benzema and Casemiro as they continue their recovery process, while Mateo Kovacic and Toni Kroos took part in indoor sessions.

Ancelotti will beat Guardiola’ Bayern record —Trapattoni

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Mex ico star Javi er Her nan dez hop es to brea k the nati on’s alltime goa lsco ring reco rd, but insi sts he is not obs esse d by it.Th e Bay er Leve rkus en forw ard has 45 inte rnat iona l goa ls, just shy of reco rd-h olde r Jare d Bor gett i (46) .

Her nan dez has ano ther cha nce to draw leve l with Bor gett i whe n his team face Pan ama in a Wor ld Cup qua lifie r on Tue sda y.

B u t the 28- yea r-ol d insi sts it is not his focu s, sayi ng: “For me it wou ld be nice .

“Bu t it is som ethi ng that I’m not obs esse d abo ut.”

Mex ico star ted the fifth roun d of CON CAC AF qua lifyi ng with a 2-1 win ove r the Unit ed Stat es.

Her nan dez is kee n to see his side buil d on that disp lay whe n Hernandez they visit the Esta dio Rom mel Fern and ez Gut ierre z.

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distance of the Champions League last 16; overall I do not think we could have imagined that we would make a better start than that a few months ago,” Chiellini told reporters.

“We are well aware that there is still plenty of work to be done and we will only achieve our goals for the campaign by running the hard yards every day in training.

“Our strongest asset in the past few seasons has always been our

ability to keep focused and maintain our intensity no matter what.”

Juventus face Pescara at the weekend as Serie A returns after the international break and Chiellini, who will miss the match due to a hamstring injury, expects a difficult contest.

“International duty can be draining so often the first league fixture after the break is a difficult one to win,” he added.

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points from 10 games and have already clinched a place in the last 16 of the Champions League.

But Bayern’s 1-0 Champions League loss to Atletico Madrid and the three draws they have been held to in the Bundesliga showed there is still plenty of work for Ancelotti to do.

Trapattoni sees no reason for concern, though, and believes Ancelotti has every chance of winning the Champions League with Bayern, something Guardiola never achieved during his three years with the Bavarians.

“Bayern are already playing a different type of football under Carlo than under Guardiola,” Trapattoni told reporters.

“Bayern will be even more dominant and successful under him.

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uan Mata believes Manchester United teammate Wayne Rooney is one of the greatest players England has ever produced.

Mata will not have the chance to face off against his club colleague when England host Spain at Wembley on Tuesday after Rooney missed training on Monday and later withdrew from Gareth Southgate’s squad with a minor knee injury.

Rooney has struggled for form this season, losing his guaranteed starting spot with United and England amid debates over his best position as the 31-year-old enters the final stages of a glittering career.

He stands as England’s alltime record goalscorer and is two goals shy of the same mark for United, feats that Mata feels should help critics to view Rooney in the correct context.

“I consider him a legend,” Mata told reporters.

“As for matches and goals, he is up to above Sir Bobby Charlton and Gary Lineker [for England]. We are talking about the most important players in the history of English football.

“Wayne has achieved things that few have reached. He is at the highest level in the history of English football.

“Sometimes I have the impression that it is not fair to look only at the present and not the path – everything that has made a player for his club or country. That is the case with Wayne.”

Mata has been one of the success stories of an underwhelming start to the season at Old Trafford under Jose Mourinho, especially in light of marquee signings Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Paul Pogba arriving during the close season.

Nevertheless, the playmaker has no doubt that star duo will scale the heights they hit for Paris Saint-Germain and Juventus respectively at United.

enjoying life as Arsenal striker

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lexis Sanchez is loving life as Arsenal’s new centre-forward and has made it clear he is happy to

play wherever Arsene Wenger needs him.

The Chile international had mainly been featuring out wide since joining Arsenal from Barcelona in 2014, but has deposed Olivier Giroud as the Gunners’ main man up front this season.

Sanchez needed a bit of research to fully understand his new position, but he is feeling right at home as the focal point of the Arsenal attack.

“I like it as a centre forward because I can get involved in the play more,” Sanchez told Arsenal’s official website.

“I have the chance to drop deep a little bit more and that means I can link up with my team-mates more. “[The manager] is the one who decides, he is the one who changes things around and decides where we play. He asked me to play there so I said fine.

“I looked up some videos on the internet to see how I needed to adjust my movement and I have been adapting since then.”Sanchez has scored eight goals in 15 appearances in all competitions for Arsenal this campaign.

Nasri reveals Guardiola’s

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amir Nasri claims Pep Guardiola’s secret to getting the best from his players is to prohibit them from having sex after midnight.

Nasri left Manchester City to join Sevilla on loan in August after managing just 15 minutes of Premier League football under the new manager at the Etihad Stadium.Although the former Arsenal star spent little time working with the ex-Bayern Munich and Barcelona boss, there was one clear instruction issued to the squad that he has not forgotten.

“Relations must be before midnight. Even if you have a free day the following day,” Nasri told reporters when asked for one of Guardiola’s

secrets for getting the maximum from his stars.

“It’s so you can have a good night’s sleep.”

Nasri claimed Lionel Messi and Robert Lewandowski have been two beneficiaries of Guardiola’s suggested restraint.

“He told us this is how he managed to get the best out of Messi and Lewandowski, and for them to avoid the maximum number of muscular injuries.”

The 29-year-old, who was deemed overweight by Guardiola upon his return for pre-season training, also hinted at the Catalan coach’s equally strict dietary guidelines.

“He suppressed many things that were in the kitchen,” Nasri said.

Carrick:Do not write off United M

ichael Carrick remains optimistic over Manchester United’s chances of winning the Premier League title despite their underwhelming start to the season.

The likes of Paul Pogba and Zlatan Ibrahimovic arrived at Old Trafford in the the transfer window, but Jose Mourinho’s are a disappointing sixth in the table after 11 games, trailing leaders Liverpool by eight points But midfielder Carrick told Sky reporters: “We want to be at the top challenging. We have had some ups and downs along the way, but it is not to say that we have given up on winning things just yet.

“It is too early for that and we have got too much quality and too much of a good team and squad to give up on anything.

“We just do not feel we have got the results our performances have warranted; we know it can change, we are not up to Christmas yet, there is still so much to play for and we still believe that when it comes near the end and when it counts we will be right up there.”

On United’s clash with Arsenal on Saturday, Carrick added: “Arsenal have got some really good players.

When it clicks for them they are a very dangerous team and they have shown in their start to the season how dangerous they can be.

“But I think we can be quite dangerous as well and we probably have not quite clicked into top gear which,

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in some ways is a good thing, because we know there is plenty to come.

“And if we can just hang in there and not be too far .

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igeria coach Gernot Rohr has revealed he hopes William TroostEkong moves to a bigger club than Gent of Belgium so as to improve as a full international.Troost-Ekong has been on loan at Norwegian club Haugesund, but will return to parent club Gent in January.

“Ekong is changing clubs, he must play at a high level. He has been playing in Norway,

which is not bad, but he must play at a higher level,” Rohr said.

“He wants to go to Belgium, but it is not enough for him, we will try to help him so that he could go to a club, where he could play better and at a higher level.”

The 23-year-old Ekong, who represented Holland at age-group levels, was recently linked with a move to England, where he

was once on the books of Fulham and Tottenham Hotspur.

Ekong, an international since June 2015, has formed a great central defence partnership in the Super Eagles with Leon Balogun, who features for Mainz 05 in the German Bundesliga.

It is a combo Rohr said has given him a great deal of satisfaction.

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igerian striker Fred Friday rejected a lucrative deal to move to China that would have paid him more than a million Euros a year and instead opted to join Dutch club AZ Alkmaar.

In the summer, Friday moved to AZ Alkmaar from Norwegian club Lillestrom.

But the striker’s agent Atta Aneke has now specially revealed the player could also have taken up a more financially rewarding deal to China.

“Fred Friday, who I took to AZ Alkmaar in the summer had an offer from China, where he would be paid more than a million Euros net a year, but he chose to go to AZ,” Aneke said.

The Oslo-based agent said more often than not a move to China has to do with the cash.

“China is all about the money most times,” he admitted.

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BoI, Oduduwa foundation sign MoU on N1b MSMEs’ fund Charles Okonji

L-R: Deputy Governor, Financial System Stability, Joseph Nnana; Director General NYSC, Brig. Gen Sule Kazaure; Deputy Governor, Corporate Services, Suleiman Barau; a beneficiary of Youth Innovative Entrepreneurship Development Programme (YIEDP), Priscilla Okeja and the Executive Director, Lagos and South-West Corporate Banking of Heritage Bank, Mrs. Mary Akpobome, at the flag-off ceremony for disbursement of YIEDP loans in Abuja recently.

Oil sector contributes 70% to world’s job losses Opeoluwani Akintayo

President of the National Association of Petroleum Explorationists, NAPE, Nosa Omorodion, has said the oil industry contributed 70 percent to the global job loss.

Omorodion made this known on Tuesday at the 34th Annual International Conference of the Nigerian Association of Petroleum Exploration (NAPE) with the theme “Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry; Tackling our Realities’’ in Lagos.

He said that the global industry had lost more than 600,000 jobs, with the oilfield services and exploration and production sector contributing almost 70 per cent of the loss.

Omorodion also said that the industry was faced with the longest period of investment cuts ever witnessed in recent times.

Also speaking was the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC’s Group Managing Director, Maikanti Baru, who said under-funding cash calls has hit $2.5 billion in 2016.

He said that the joint ventures would relieve government of the cash call burden by sourcing for its operational funds estimated at $7-9 billion annually.

According to him, this is aside the inherited arrears estimated at $6 billion.

“The Joint Venture (JV) cash call exit model we are pursuing guarantees government most of the revenue that normally accrues to it from the joint venture operations by lifting the royalty and tax oil upfront.

“This contributes 75 per cent to

85 per cent of the accruable revenues to government. Consequently, the effect on government take will be minimised. We are working assiduously to kick start this from 1st January, 2017,’’ he said.

Baru said that it was difficult to deliver the volumes without adequate funding and with an average JV cash call requirement of about $600 million a month coupled with flat low budget levels over the past years.

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NIGUS to invest $600m on generation of 100MW in N/East Mathew Dadiya, Abuja As part of government efforts to attract and retain Foreign Direct investment into the Renewable Energy sector of the Nigerian economy, a Germany firm LTI Germany Incorporation in partnership with Nigus International Investment Ltd said it has concluded plan to generate 100 megawatts of electricity in the North East of Nigeria.

The Chief Executive Officer of NIGUS Prince Malik Ado-Ibrahim stated this Tuesday during a solar investment round-table solar investment in Abuja.

Ado-Ibrahim said that the project would create 16,000 to 17,000 jobs for youths in the country especially in the north eastern states.

Managing Director of NIGUS Aliyu Dili said “We want to give them hope, Adamawa get less than

5 megawatts. We want to look at a country beyond oil sector. Giving people a better tomorrow. Our challenge is to empower people and give hope. 16,000 to 17,000 youths will be employed to carry out this project. Power gives hope, no reconstruction without power, so we have done this, so in the next six months we must have generated 100 megawatts starting with 25 megawatts. By the end of 2017 we will have a total of 100

megawatts.”

Chris Voet, Chief Sales Officer of LTI Reenergy said that despite the security challenges in the north east, they are not worried about investing in Nigeria because their focus was to support the Nigerian power sector to strengthen the economy. “Our idea is to flag up our investment in Nigeria, because Nigeria can supply energy to other countries, CONTINUED ON PAGE B2

As part of its efforts in tackling recession, increasing youths employment, and accelerating rapid industrial development, the Bank of Industry (BoI) and Oduduwa Foundation have unveiled a N1 billion financing scheme for youths and small businesses within the state.

The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) spells out that the bank will provide loans to youths and businesses in Ile-Ife, Osun State, as well as other beneficiaries outside Ile-Ife, subject to the mutual consent of both parties as long as they meet the prescribed criteria.

Moreover, the N1 billion Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises’ (MSMEs) fund would be made available for on-lending to entrepreneurs within the agric, agro-allied, solid minerals and services sectors at a concessioned rate of 7.5 per cent.

Speaking at the signing of the agreement in Ile-Ife, Osun State at the weekend, the Acting Managing Director of BoI, Waheed Olagunju explained that the initiative was aimed at reducing youth unemployment in Ile-Ife communities and the country at large.

According to Olagunju, a substantial part of the loan will be disbursed to women, youth and businesses that show high potential for job and wealth creation along the value-chain of the identified sectors, as well as capacity to repay the loans.

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Heritage Bank not distressed – Management The management of Heritage Bank Plc has disclaimed a recent report in a media publication alleging that it was unable to honour its obligations to customers, amongst other contrived reports on the financial state of the bank.

In a statement signed by Olusola Longe-Okenimkpe, Divisional Head, Corporate Communications, the bank refuted the claim as “false information being circulated about the institution with a misdirected intent to derail and misinform the banking public on its financial state.”

It further stated, “Whilst we acknowledge the challenging operating environment currently experienced in all sectors of the economy, Heritage Bank remains financially stable and has continued to discharge its obligations to all customers and stakeholders. This position is buttressed by the commendable results posted by the bank in the past financial year and the last three quarters of 2016, resulting in shareholder approvals to list its shares on the Nigerian Stock Exchange within one year of its business combination with the erstwhile Enterprise Bank Limited.”

Electronic banking in Nigeria hits N18trn in Q3 Tony Nwakaegho Latest reports from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) shows a steady growth pattern and a clear indication that Nigerians have come to fully embrace the culture of electronic banking.

The NBS report indicated total value of electronic banking at first quarter was N13,229,839,848,406, while the total volume in third quarter of this year recorded an all-time high rate of N18,156,886,932,319 up from N14,704,062,459,406 in second quarter.

Leading the log is the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS) Instant Payment otherwise known as NIP which grossed a total value of N9,591,119,761,666 almost N1 trillion more than second quarter value of N8,728,079,150,546. NIP transfers for first quarter was N7,637,182,526,549.

The NIBSS Electronic Fund Transfer (NEFT) came second with total transaction value of N5460,300,501,426 in third quarter up from N3,041,713,805,816 in second quarter. First quarter NEFT transaction stood at N2,757,682,416,934.

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L – R: Group Managing Director of Skye Bank, Mr Abiru Adetokunbo; Managing Director, Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Alhaji Umaru Ibrahim; and Chairman of Skye Bank, Alhaji Muhammad Ahmad, during a courtesy visit by the bank’s management team to NDIC in Abuja.

NUPENG cautions FG against scrapping NNPC, DPR, others Joy Ekeke President of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), Comrade Igwe Achese, has warned the Federal Government to desist from its plans to scrap the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Department of Petroleum Resources, (DPR), Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) and other agencies in the oil and gas industry without proper consultation with the unions.

It stated that the plan was another attempt by the Government to reduce the workforce in the sector which will be resisted by the Union.

NUPENG added that the current back door policy to retrench workers in the Federal Government Corporations will not augur

well for the industrial peace and harmony in the oil and gas sector under the guise of a National oil policy.

The Union reiterated that what is necessary now is to strengthen the companies by granting them autonomy and not to be controlled by red-tapism in Government.

It went on to say that scrapping these bodies and putting them under one umbrella to be known as Petroleum Regulatory Commission (PRC) will be too cumbersome and make the Petroleum Minister too powerful.

The Union calls on the Federal Government to put pressure on the National Assembly to pass the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) which will make the oil and gas industry much more efficient, transparent and accountable and in the long run bring the needed investments in the sector.

NUPENG warns that it will not tolerate what the Federal Government is presently doing in aviation agencies like Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET), where workers are been sacked in the name restructuring.

Cadbury Nigeria Plc’ earnings which have remained challenged over a period, sustained the losing trend in its third quarter 2016 result as key performance indices nosedived against expectations of growth.

Macroeconomic headwinds such as foreign exchange volatility and increase in prices of imported raw materials weighed heavily on the firm.

The result which rattled market stakeholder conditioned

shareholders of the company to less than expected performance for the 2016 financial year, going by the underperformance rating which many analysts have given to the Q3 result.

Meanwhile, the third quarter offered the company a leverage as it gained substantially from increase in price of its major competitor, Nestle Milo products, which drafted loyalty to Cadbury’s Bournvita.

However, the company recorded losses compared with key market analysts who made

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Cadbury’s earnings challenged by macro-economic headwinds Bonny Amadi

in Nigeria there is basic and best opportunity to invest, Nigeria also has the requirements we can use to excel in other countries,” he stated.

The event was organized in collaboration with the Nigerian investment Promotion Commission (NIPC), Nigus International investment Limited and LTI Germany Inc. The event showcased the LTI Solar Power Inverters technology to stakeholders in the energy/ power sector and highlighted the renewable energy growth potentials in Nigeria to potential investors.

Nigus International has partnered with LTI Germany inc and other OEM/solar PV manufacturing companies to create a local renewable industry in Nigeria with the principal drive to initially market its inverter products to the first set of developers in Nigeria and ultimately develop and operate an assembly plant in the country.

The NIPC with Nigus and LTI have signed a memorandum of Understanding to collaborate

a profit forecast. The loss in Q3 was driven by significant gross margin contraction. Cadbury, like most consumer goods companies, market analysts said, was still challenged in the third quarter by the negative impact of macroeconomic headwinds.

The continued devaluation of the naira which moved further down to N305/US$ as of end-September also had its negative impact on the firm, as the exchange rate through the first and second quarters also recorded remarkable rise which weighed heavily on the firm.

government which has become a challenge to production growth.

Baru said that consequently, managing these funding issues was part of the management’s most immediate challenge.

He, however, appealed to those behind the indiscriminate acts of infrastructure vandalism to put an end forthwith to “these despicable acts of sabotage.’’

Baru said that the destruction of critical energy infrastructure was a great threat to the environment, the economy and energy security.

He said that the outage of these key infrastructures was detrimental to the development and growth of the oil industry in particular and the country at large.

According to him, it also has a negative effect on the level of funds to be distributed to the various tiers of government resulting in the ripple effect on the economy.

“We have faced challenges relating to low oil prices, production challenges due to infrastructure vandalism, inadequate joint venture funding.

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Fidelity Bank charges commercial banks on use of customers data Chief Operations & Information Officer (COIO), Fidelity Bank Plc, Gbolahan Joshua, has advised financial institutions in Nigeria to explore fresh ways to utilise the increasing wealth of customer data available to them to drive sustainable growth and improved efficiency particularly in the retail space.

Joshua made this call at the 2016 Nigeria Retail Banking Workshop organised by CIUCI Consulting and held at the Clear Essence California Spa & Wellness Resort in Lagos on Thursday. He called for the development and implementation of policies that will provide Banks with required flexibility to utilise available customer information as well as sophisticated digital channels and systems to drive new levels of customer engagement.

Talking about the importance of retail segment as next frontier of growth for Banks, the Fidelity COIO noted that lending which happens to be one of the most intricate services rendered by a Bank is critical to socio-economic development.

Commenting on the requirements to be considered by a bank before providing credit, Joshua pointed out that Nigerian Banks consider the interest rate and guaranteed sources of revenue before lending to individuals.

Chukwuka Monye who is the Director General of Delta Economic Summit Group and Managing Partner at Ciuci Consulting expressed his gratitude to all the representatives of the banks that were present at the workshop.

Forex: CBN seeks amendment of foreign currency Act Stories by Motolani Oseni

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is proposing a string of new amendments to the Foreign Exchange, Monitoring and Miscellaneous (FEMM) exchange Act. The act signed into law in 2014 basically liberalised the foreign exchange market in Nigeria, allowing for foreign investors to import money into the country and repatriate same freely.

This is currently the act that governs the foreign exchange market in Nigeria. Despite this, the CBN believes it is mostly flawed particularly in the current economic situation and seeks to amend a large portion of the act.

The CBN made its position known in a “working paper” shared to members of the CIBN, which can also be found in the website of the Nigerian Law Reform Commission.

However, critics of the proposed amendments have pointed out portions of the CBN’s proposed amendments which they claim to be tantamount to foreign currency controls.

The Act reads in parts: “Foreign currency purchased from the market to be repatriated without restrictions,” and thus will like this amended.

The CBN also believes the act “prohibits the seizure, forfeiture or expropriation of imported money by the government without providing exceptions. As such, the CBN wants to have

CIBN, Skye bank to partner on economic growth …As institute organises annual bankers’ dinner

The President/ Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Barkers of Nigeria (CIBN), Prof. Segun Ajibola, has said that the Institute is exploring new ways to forge a partnership with Skye Bank Plc, so as to contribute to the nation’s economic growth.

Ajibola, who dropped this hint when he led the council on a courtesy visit to the management of Skye Bank in Lagos said the delegation was on a mission to seek areas of mutually ben-

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eficial cooperation between the bank and the institute.

While soliciting the support of players in the banking industry for the institute, Ajibola urged members to continue to contribute to the enhancement of the banking profession.

He, however, lauded the Group Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer of the bank, Mr. Tokunbo Abiru, for the leadership qualities he had demonstrated in strengthening the operations of the bank since he

assumed office.

In a statement by the lender, Ajibola was quoted as inviting the management of the bank to the forthcoming annual bankers’ dinner.

The CIBN president had earlier enumerated the vision of the institute under his leadership as being guided by seven the Cs, which he gave as capacity building, certification, codification, communication, creativity, consolidation and constructive engagement.

powers to seize any foreign currency”.

Also, the apex lender is unhappy that the law “allows foreign currency in excess of five thousand dollars imported or exported subject to declaration of statistics reason only.”

The central bank is also recommending that it be granted powers to restrict or prohibit the exportation of foreign currency when and where necessary to “protect the economy”.

The CBN says the act allows for it to have powers to “approve and where necessary restrict or prohibit repatriation of foreign currency to save the Nigerian economy.

The CBN also wants an amendment that allows it have the powers to “prevent monopoly and

hoarding and a time limit for deposit of foreign currency in the bank.”

Godwin Emefile CBN Governor

EDC fund management launches Mutual Funds EDC Fund Management, the Asset Management arm of Ecobank in Nigeria has announced the launch of two mutual funds - The EDC Nigeria Money Market Fund, and the EDC Nigeria Fixed Income Fund.

The mutual funds give customers of the Corporation and other interested Nigerians the opportunity to diversify their investment portfolio with as little as N5, 000 for the Money Market Fund and N50, 000 for the Fixed Income Fund.

Announcing the launch of the two funds in Lagos, EDC Fund Management Managing Director Ibukun Oyedeji said the Money market fund provides the benefits of pooled investment, allowing investors to invest in a diverse and high quality portfolio. Like other mutual funds, each investor in a money market fund is considered a shareholder of the investment pool.

She stated that the Money market funds are managed within rigid and transparent guidelines to seek pres-

ervation of capital, liquidity and competitive yields.

The Money Market fund has two classes - Class A caters for the retail investor while Class B is targeted toward corporate investors as a liquidity management solution. The EDC Nigeria (Corporate) Money Market Fund will assist large Corporates to efficiently manage their day-to-day liquidity while they focus on more strategic initiatives for their business. The unit price for the Class B is N1 million.

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Bearish sentiments persist as market records further losses Stories by Afolabi Adesola

The equities market closed yesterday on a negative note, as the Nigerian Stock Exchange All Share Index (NSE ASI) depreciated by 0.50 percent to close at 25,857.06 basis points, compared with the 0.70 percent depreciation recorded previously, pulling the year to date losses down by 9.72 percent.

The All Share Index (ASI) shed 129.75 points to close at 25,857.06 points compared to 184.07 points lost on Monday to close at 25,986.81 points, while the market capital-

ization dropped N44.7 billion to close at 8.901 trillion on Tuesday, compared to N63.4 billion lost previously to close at N8.945 trillion.

The market recorded mixed performance across sector indicators as the Banking Index gained 1.33 percent to close at 253.17 points, following gains in Guaranty Trust Bank and Access bank.

The consumer good Index also rose marginally (0.02 percent) to close at 720.91 points on account of a 0.80 percent appreciation in Dangote Sugar.

However, the Industrial Index recorded a loss of 4.1 percent to

close at 1,573.40 points, the Oil and gas Index dropped 0.39 percent to 289.37 points, while the NSE 30 Index dropped 0.32 percent to close at 1,154.97 points.

Investors’ appetite remained bleak as market breadth closed with 9 gainers paired against 19 losers. Wapco led the declining stocks by 8.33 percent to close at N44 per share, this was followed

by Conoil that shed 4.99 percent to close at N34.11 per share and Oando that lost 4.89 percent to close at N3.89 per share.

Transcorp and International Breweries likewise dropped 4.82

and 4.47 percent each to close at 79 kobo and N19 per share respectively.

On the other hand, Custodian and Allied Insurance led the gainers chart with a 4.96 percent growth to close at N3.81 per share, followed by Airservice with a gain of 4.93 percent to close at N3.19 per share, and Nigerian Aviation Handling Company’s 4.89 percent growth to close at N2.36 per share.

Nascon Allied Industries added 4.87 percent to close at N7.53 per share and Guranty Trust Bank emerged the top fifth gainer with an appreciation of 4.29 percent to

close at N21.90 per share.

Market performance as measured by the total volume traded, rose to 189.7 million units valued at N905.1 million in 2,417 deals compared to 160.9 million units valued at N1.115 billion and traded in 2,431 deals, in previous session.

Standard Alliance Insurance emerged the most traded stock for the day with 95 million shares valued at N47.5 million. United Capital followed with 11.3 million shares worth N28.1 million, while FBN Holdings traded 11.2 million shares valued at N34.4 million.

Performance indicators show no respite for stock market till year end

L – R: Representative of the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Mr Eze Ezeilo; Managing Director, The Infrastructure Bank (TIB), Mr Adekunle Oyinloye; representative of the Director-General of ICRC, Mr Emmanuel Onwodi; and Faculty Member of TIB, Dr Bongo Ali, at the workshop on Capacity Development for the Implementation of the National Integrated Infrastructure Master Plan in Abuja on Tuesday.

Q3 results: Dangote Sugar, Unilever show growth, resilience Dangote Sugar’s third quarter results has shown the company made a revenue of N115.3 billion for the nine months period ended September 30, 2016 against N78 billion achieved in the corresponding period in 2015 According to the unaudited third quarter result released on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), the earnings for the period also shows a 58 percent increase over N78 billion recorded in the corresponding period in 2015.

The firm’s gross profit rose to N19 billion compared to N18.7 billion in 2015 representing an increase of 1.2 percent while Profit after Tax grew from N9.3 billion to N10.1 billion.

Speaking on the performance, the Acting Group Managing Director, Dangote Sugar,

Engr. Abdullahi Sule, said: “Despite the continued challenges in the economic and business environment, orchestrated by the continued rise in inflation, insufficient foreign exchange to finance raw materials and equipment inputs, our revenue grew by 58.0 percent over the corresponding period in year 2015.”

He explained that the firm continued with efforts at actualising its sugar backward integration master plan with focus on savannah sugar, Lau/Tau and other project sites in the first phase of the project.

“We remain resilient and optimistic that our set goals will be achieved with the continued implementation and review of our initiatives to grow sales volumes, increase our market share, and focus on the actuali-

sation of our “Sugar for Nigeria” backward integration projects plan.”

Meanwhile, Unilever Nigeria results for the same period, showed continued growth and resilience. The company recorded a 16.8 percent topline growth from N42.69 billion reported for the period ended 30th September, 2015 to N49.87 billion recorded for the period ended 30th September, 2016.

Cost of sales increased by 26.4 percent to N35.17 billion for the period ended 30th September 2016 from N27.8 billion recorded in the corresponding period in 2015 while there was 11.7 percent reduction in marketing and administration expenses from N10.6 billion reported for the period ended 30th September 2015 to N9.3 billion for the corresponding period in 2016.

As the year 2016 draws to a close, Nigeria’s capital market downtrend shows no respite amidst dwindling values of stocks listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), even as year to date returns stands at -9.72 percent as at 15th November 2016.

The equities market has continued in a downward slope in the last two years, no thanks to broader macroeconomic headwinds and low valuation of several sectors, market analysts are of the opinion that right offerings, corporate debts issuances, and other products will remain a key source of new capital for corporations.

However, 2016 was not as active as previous year’s in listings, the NSE has embarked on wide reaching projects to endear investors and new listings as the stock exchange remains a key source of new capital for corporations.

The Chief Executive Office of the NSE, MR. Oscar Onyema while having a dialogue with Oxford Business Group (OBG) earlier this year explained that one of such incentives for market growth was the development, designing and incorporation of new financial products designed to help corporations raise capital, hedge risk and speculate in various markets.

“The NSE is looking to enable the trading of derivatives such as futures and options in interest rates, currencies and equity indexes by the end of 2016.” he said Surveys have shown strong demand for derivatives, which help investors to manage the amount of risk they take on and to benefit from a down market such as we have seen recently. We expect further diversification of our offering to empower investors to create stronger portfolios of uncorrelated products.

Summary of activities on NSE ASI DEALS VOLUME VALUE CAP

25,857.06 2,417.00 189,725,815.00 905,102,321.33 8,901,064,784,550.65

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Daily Times Nigeria Wednesday, November 16 , 2016

Shippers’ council to revoke licenses of ICD concessionaires The Executive Secretary, Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), Hassan Bello, has given Inland Container Depot (ICD) concessionaires two weeks ultimatum to study the contents of the new agreement to enable them carry out the provision of the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) by ensuring their facilities come alive by next year or risk having their licenses revoked.

Bello said this during a meeting with the concessionaires at the agency’s headquarters.

According to him, if no work commenced on their sites within the time frame as given in the agreement and if the Council noticed lack of seriousness on their part, government would not fail to terminate the agreement.

“If we notice some inertia or unwillingness on the part of any concessionaire, we will not hesitate to terminate the agreement. We will expect you to study the agreements, to make contributions, make inputs and come back in two weeks’ time. Look at it and see how well we can accelerate the developments of the ICDs. “If for any reason, we see some unwillingness to execute this project the government will not hesitate to terminate this concession.

“The government has an obligation to bring out consistence policies that

NPA to rehabilitate eastern ports Stories by Babajide Okeowo

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will encourage private sectors to perform. The concessionaires too have an obligation. Government is an enabler and will do everything possible to ensure that these projects come on stream but we also need to see some level of work to show some seriousness on the side of the concessionaires.

“The private sector must show some responsibility because now we have in that agreement new time lines and we have to act according to the time lines.

Anywhere you want us to intervene for you to grow don’t hesitate to tell us but I am telling you now that we also want to see action and if we don’t see action ac-

cording to the agreement, we will not hesitate at all to cancel any concession,” he said.

He maintained, “We expect an appreciable level of development where government can can declare your facility as Port of Destination and Port of Origin”.

He further stated that, “if the problem is fund, we have development banks we are working with.

“We would like to see two or three ICDs working by 2017. That is our goal”.

He emphasized that the rehabilitation of the rail system has taken into the dry ports to increase the volume of goods and reduce the cost of transportation of the goods.

To make the eastern ports more functional and realize the enormous potentials in the sector, the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has indicated willingness to bring her infrastructures in the eastern ports to date.

This is even as the chairman of the board of directors of NPA, Mr Emmanuel Adesoye, at a stakeholders meeting in Warri promised that the numerous business potentials at the nation’s disposal especially in the country’s sea ports would be swiftly harnessed to improve revenue generation for the country.

Adesoye stressed the need for all hands to be on deck at this critical time through improved synergy by players in the sector by way of proper planning and meaningful sharing of information within the sector and beyond.

“This has become necessary, considering the level of down turn in the oil sector which has resulted in efforts holistically directed towards diversifying the economy through other variables such as emphasizing the exportation of agricultural produce and mineral resources to African countries and indeed word wide through the nation’s sea ports,” he said.

Adesoye

On her part, the Managing Director of NPA, Ms. Hadiza Bala Usman, stated that management would pay due attention to the dredging needs of locations to ensure greater customer service delivery.

On the unavailability of plants and equipments, she assured that they would be prioritized within budgetary provisions.

She also used the occasion of the meeting to stress that NPA is currently interfacing with the Central Bank of Nigeria on behalf of the stakeholders to find solution to the scarcity of dollar, adding that NPA has also included

the issue of the dredging of Warri channels in the 2017 budget proposal.

While reacting, the Port Manager Delta Ports, Mr S. Okeke, appealed for assistance concerning perimeter fencing to secure the port, intense promotion to attract more investments, and the rehabilitation of infrastructure at the Warri port.

Captain Charley Etobi, a stakeholder at the meeting, suggested that a comprehensive rehabilitation of the breakwaters should be carried out before the channel is dredged so that the project would yield the desired result.

NCS warns public on false auctions, recruitments

Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (Rtd) NCS CGS

The Nigeria Customs Service (NSC) has warned members of the public against patronizing criminals who post fake auction advertisements purportedly by the service in the social media.

Mr Godwin Andishu, Public Relations Officer, Tin Can Island Port 2 Customs Command, Ijora, issued this warning in Lagos.

He said the warning became imperative because of the increasing complaints by Nigerians who

had been duped by some unscrupulous elements through such advertisements.

Andishu explained that it was not the practice of customs to place auction advertisements of abandoned vehicles in its custody in the social media, urging the public to disregard such posts in their own interest.

“We wish to tell the general public that those advertisements on social media purportedly by us

calling for people to send money to purchase abandoned vehicles in our custody are misleading.

“We do not auction or sell vehicles online; those who are posing as customs officers are fraudsters who are out to defraud Nigerians of their hard-earned money.

“Nigerians should disregard such advertisements as the service only advertises items to be auctioned on its official website, detailing the procedures to follow by members of the public.

“The NSC does not operate any private account and no personnel of the service are authorized to collect money on its behalf into any account.

“The fraudsters are all over the place using the name of the customs to perpetrate their nefarious acts.

People should act wisely by ignoring them, “he said.

Andishu said the service had not had any auction since August 2015 on the directive of the ComptrollerGeneral, Col. Hammed Ali.

Daily Times Nigeria Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Stakeholders canvass decentralization of clearing circuits for improved QoS Stories by Tony Nwakaegho Ike Nnamani, chief executive officer, Medallion, a telecommunications voice clearing house operator has canvassed for the decentralization of clearing circuits in the country to improve quality of service and reduced cost.

He disclosed that presently, clearing circuits are located in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt which makes network calls which pass through interconnect infrastructure to travel a long distance before its termination point even when the termination point is few miles away from the originating point.

“The situation now is that if a subscriber in Enugu wants to call another person in the same environ on another network, that call will have to travel to Lagos where the interconnect circuit is located before coming back to Enugu again in this process the quality of such call will be affected by issues on the switches and microwave links along this process.

But, if the interconnect circuit is located in Enugu or closer to Enugu, there is no need for such

travel there by reducing interference and improve call quality and cost for the operator which are in turn passed to the subscribers,” he said.

He revealed that it was against this backdrop that his company has concluded plans to build its interconnect circuits in six geopolitical zones of the country by first quarter of next year, and urged other operators to follow suit for the benefits to be felt by all.

On his part, Mr Gbenga Adebayo, chairman, Association Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) also agreed that decentralization of interconnect circuits are necessary where calls are linked through microwave or satellite technology.

“Presently, most long distance calls are routed through fibre optic backbone links which travels at the speed of light and does not have quality of service issues or high cost in transmission, except where there is a problem on the fibre link that calls are links via microwave. It is only when calls are linked via microwave which today we see within towns where there are no fibre links. For instance, calls from first mile which

is point of origination to the nearest switching centre to last mile which is last switching centre to the point of recipient are often done via microwave. This is the reason we are calling for protection of telecommunications infrastructure, some of the fibre optic links are vandalized resulting to operators using microwave technology that is affected by interference and other issues,” Adebayo said.

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MainOne, SAP sign Data Center partnership for enterprise solutions Funke Opeke, Chief Executive Officer of MainOne, (picture) MainOne has declared a service partnership between its Tier III Data Center, MDXi and SAP, the world leader in enterprise applications for software and software-related service to deliver high-quality cloud and infrastructure operations services for customers running SAP solutions in West Africa.

MDXi, which was recently certified by SAP for Infrastructure Operations Services for SAP® solutions will now be able to host SAP applications for Nigerian businesses by utilizing the company’s in-Country enterprise cloud platforms, across its private, public and hybrid cloud solutions, on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Speaking during the joint product launch recently in Lagos, Chief Executive Officer of MainOne, Funke Opeke noted that the ability of MDXi to host and run SAP applications incountry is a game-changer for Nigerian businesses as it would reduce the barriers to leveraging world-class technology during

Opeke this economic recession, when it is most required. She explained that this would greatly improve the ease of deployment and ongoing availability of SAP’s suite of enterprise applications to Nigerian companies, with the added advantage of paying in Naira.

“Previously, businesses that

required enterprise applications from software manufacturers such as SAP had to purchase and install their own hardware in their own data center or run the software in data centers outside the country with the attendant issues of FOREX scarcity and application latency among others. With our partnership with SAP, Businesses in Nigeria can now host their SAP applications in the cloud, locally and on our MDXi SAP Certified platform.

This will speed up time to deploy SAP applications, guarantee a robust operational environment from Day 1 and assure cost effective subscription charges, backed by premium customer support”, MainOne CEO added.

Managing Director of SAP West Africa, Kudzai Danha said “More than ever, SAP Africa is excited about the certification of MainOne’s Data Center as the first Infrastructure Operations Services partner in Nigeria. This means MDXi is now SAP HANA® ready and well positioned to support SAP customers who want to innovate and redesign their business processes.

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Nigerian telecom subscribers hit 153m Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) subscriber/operator data has indicated that telecommunication subscribers in Nigeria has hit 153.2 million.

Airtel recorded new subscribers for the month of September with 400,847 new subscriptions.

Globacom also recorded 215,700 new subscribers for the month under review. MTN had 60,558,569 subscribers, while Etisalat recorded 64,870 new subscribers.

It said that the active telecommunications service customers increased by 495,426 in September as against the figure in August which stood at 152,776,155.

According to the data, 152,836,997 of the 153,271,581 active numbers subscribed to the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network services.

The GSM operators’ active customers increased by 551,677 from 152,285,320 subscribers recorded in August.

The reports stated that of the GSM operators, MTN had 60,558,569 users in September, which was the same figure re-

corded in August.

Globacom figure increased in September by 215,700, giving a total of 36,967,712 customers as against 36,752,012 in August.

Airtel had 32,775,916 subscribers in the month under review, adding 400,847 users to the August record of 32,375,069.

Etisalat, however, recorded a reduction in customers by 64,870, giving a customer base of 22,534,800 as against 22,599,670 users in August.

The Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) operators had 276,304 active users in September, showing a decrease of 52,789 from 329,093 customers they had in August. Between the two surviving CDMA service providers, Visafone’s customers reduced to 271,844, as it lost 52,789 users in August to record 324,633, while Multi-Links maintained 4,460 customers in August.

The monthly subscriber/operator data showed that the Fixed Wireless network’s (landline) consumers decreased to 30,716 in September, as they lost 4,072 customers from their record of 34,788 in August.

NIPOST to set up banks in rural communities Bisi Adegbuyi, Post Master General of the Nigeria Postal Service (NIPOST) (picture) Nigerian Postal Services (NIPOST) is working closely with banks to serve as intermediaries where customers can withdraw and save money in rural communities where there are no banking facilities.

Hajiya Simbiat Lawal Lawal, senior assistant post master general and the head of Corporate Communications, Nigerian Postal Services, said that “NIPOST is working closely with banks to serve as intermediaries where

Adegbuyi

customers can withdraw and save money in rural communities where there are no banking facilities. This innovation is being done with the support of the Central Bank of Nigeria,” she said.

She gave the hint on the occasion of the World Post Day, stressing that Nigeria postal services was leaving no stone unturned in keying into the information communication technology to provide quality postal services that would satisfy all the aspirations.

The senior assistant postmaster general announced that the World Post Day was observed in 189 countries of the world to celebrate stakeholders and customers.

According to Lawal, the universal postal services union was encouraging its members to be innovative and inclusive, adding that the postal services had demonstrated a huge capacity to facilitate exchange of information and goods.

Notwithstanding some challenges, Daily Times gathered that the post has registered its physical presence in the remotest part of the country and certainly a major player in the information society.

Aviation B8

Daily Times Nigeria Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Recession: Airline operators cautioned over use of jumbo aircraft Stories by Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo As the economic recession bites harder in the aviation sector leading to collapse of some domestic airlines, airline operators have been advised to acquire light and fuel efficient aircraft to boost operations.

Speaking exclusively to Daily Times in Lagos on why domestic airlines collapsed within 10 years of existence, the immediate past General Secretary of Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON), Alhaji Mohammed Tukur,

identified the use of ‘jumbo’ aircraft meant for six-hour flights for one-hour flights on domestic routes.

Tukur said the only way domestic airlines will survive in the country was for the operators to acquire fuel efficient planes such as jets. He also warned respective airline managements to stop living big with monies meant for operations of airlines, adding that management staff of some airlines received too much as salaries.

“There is need for airlines to change their aircraft types,

they should get JET aircraft (not these B737) and light aircraft.

If they have these less fuel consumption aircraft, it will reduce their burdens.”

According to the former director of operations, Chanchangi Airline, the B737 aircraft were costly to maintain adding that there was no way an operator could survive under the present economic situation.

Tukur also noted that the burden of the airlines from the time they acquired their Air Operators Certificate AOC was much as salaries of workers

were paid immediately the AOC was granted.

He also identified the indiscriminate pulling out of finance from operations by airline owners as the worst practice in the airline business, saying any money taken out of the airline’s daily operations was capable of crumbling the entire system of that airline.

“Most of the airlines over stretch themselves from the beginning before they acquire the AOC. They start paying salaries for workers and people believe that there

DANA

Dana Air flies 4 million passengers in eight years

L-R Vice President HR Dana Group, Mr. Anand Alargasamy, Captain Jari Williams, EO MMA2 Airport, Dana Air’s Accountable Manager, Mr Obi Mbanuzuo, Director of Flight Operations, Captain Segun Omole and Captain Victor Ola, during the Dana Air’s anniversary celebration recently in Lagos.

Sirika lauds AFISNET for enhanced regional air navigational safety The Minister of State, Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, has commended the African and Indian Ocean Satellite Communication Network (AFISNET) for significantly contributing to the enhancement of safety and efficiency of air navigation within and across the Africa and Indian Ocean (AFI) region.

Sirika, declaring open the 24th meeting of the Western and Central Africa Satellite Network Management Committee (SNMC) hosted by the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) in Abuja, noted that the SNMC has commenced discussion on the feasibility of surveillance data sharing within the sub-region, especially with the “multiplicity of surveillance systems available within the AFI Region with immense

is money, and then later the kind of life will haunt them.

Most airlines operators take money out of the system and put it in another business. In aviation, the moment you move money out of operation then you are killing the operation completely because the airlines are individually owned and somebody will just take the money without accountability.”

He warned government on the plan to set up a national carrier as the country lacked the financial capability, and called for the introduction of a flag carrier for the country instead.

potentials for providing redundancy across neighbouring Flight Information Regions.”

According to him, the objective of Global Air Navigation Plan was to achieve a harmonized interoperable and seamless global air traffic management system that will facilitate cost-effective, efficient and economic international civil aviation. He stated that this implied the need to sustain, expand and improve technology and capacity of the AFISNET to accommodate navigational and surveillance data sharing.

Sirika also declared that the ongoing Aeronautical Information Service Automation project embarked upon by NAMA has delivered a Centralized Aeronautical Database that is being populated with data that would

enhance seamless integration with other states or regional databases. The minister therefore charged the meeting to “provide an appropriate forum for member states, delegates and stakeholders to benchmark, synergize, collaborate and cooperate in order to facilitate the seamless integration of our various systems for greater capacity across the entire region in the spirit of No Country Left Behind and Single African Sky vision.”

Also speaking, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Regional Officer for Western and Central Africa, Mr. Francois Salmbanga, stated that in view of the fact that AFISNET offers real opportunities for the implementation of the main components of Communication, Navigation, Surveillance

and Air Traffic Management systems to be required for the future aviation system, ICAO attaches particular importance to the AFISNET network.

According to him, much attention was being paid to activities related to its management as well as support for the various initiatives of states and organizations to find common solutions in a sub-regional or regional frame.

NAMA acting Managing Director, Engr. Emma Anasi, noted that several safety critical initiatives embarked upon by the agency in recent time were targeted at making the Nigerian airspace compliant with regional and international standards for the overall safety of air navigation in the country and within the AFI region.

Dana Airlines says it has flown over 4 million passengers so far, at it marks the 8th anniversary of its commencement of commercial flight operations in the country.

The airline reaffirmed its commitment to providing safe, reliable and customer–centric air transport services to its passengers.

Dana Air commenced commercial flight operations November 10, 2008 with its maiden flight from Lagos to Abuja.

According to its Accountable Manager, Mr. Obi Mbanuzuo, in spite of the visible operational challenges in the industry, the airline has remained strong.

He attributed the airlines’ consistency to its shrewd managerial style, passion and commitment of its staff and the unending support of its customers.

“We are indeed proud to have flown over 4 million passengers in the last 8 years and we are very grateful for the support and patronage we have enjoyed since commencing operations.

We would like to assure our loyal guests and the travelling public that we will not relent in our efforts to deliver world-class air transport services that all Nigerians can be proud of,” Obi said.

On safety and security, Obi assured that the airline would continue to adhere to the maintenance schedule of its aircraft, as prescribed by the manufacturers and the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority.

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I look forward to working with Ebenezer Obey-Simi Simisola Ogunleye popularly known as, Simi, needs no further introduction in the

others.

Most

of the songs you have put out recently usually have a touch of humour in it; is it a kind of niche you are trying to create for the Simi brand?

Yes, I think is something people are beginning to notice in my music. There is usually a touch of humour in it but the fact is that there are lots of my songs that are serious business and not a pinch of humour in it. But one thing you intend to realize about my songs that have humor in it is that they are usually realistic.

Do you write your lyrics yourself?

Of course, I write my lyrics myself and for other people.

my bath. The fact is that I am that kind of person that loves to multi-task because, at times, I might be brushing my teeth and same time, I will be operating my system or reading. However, thing again

I think that will be the full Iro and Buba, but maybe when I am getting married, I will probably be wearing one. For now, no because I could remember the last time my mum sewed one for me, I really looked ridiculous in it.

How do you like them, tall or Short?

Favourite fun spot?

I liked it when I travelled to New York.

writer and I mix and master most of my songs myself.

How will you describe the Simi brand?

I am a very straight forward person that likes to say things the

Will you rock our own traditional hairstyle?

Not this year, we can re-visit this next year.

When was the last time you read a book?

When I see something and feels there is much to be said about How long does it take you to get prepared for an event?

So what keeps you going?

I have an amazing team, people that are on my cast; there is really little I can do myself like I can write my song, mix and master but there is an engine that makes it work better . And that is my management team that makes sure at all time, I stand on the right path. I have always said this that for no reason I am very favored because God loves me so much and put a little extra time in molding me to what I have become today.

Talk about your style, are you designer freak? rock them well but I am not into designer things, I love our local fabrics and designers.

If you are to do a collaboration with any Fuji or Juju musicians, who will that be? it will be Ebenezer Obey. This because I actually fantasize on doing one with him because he is a living legend as well as King Sunny Ade. Is Simi in a relationship?

Yes. Does he support your musical career? support at all times.

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Society Correspondent Abimbola Obatayo

Photography Quadri Olowolagba

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Genevieve, Agbaje, Mo Abudu others grace Opening Night of “Art X Lagos�

Chief Nike Davies-Okundaye

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Ego Boyo

Denola Grey

Eunice Omole

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Genevieve Nnaji Gbemi Abudu Jimi Agbaje

Mo Abudu

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Brooches: Accessorize your look with unique brooches Many today might not be familiar with Brooches, but how would you like to try brooches to look unique to any event of your choice?

A Brooch is a pin featuring a large central cut jewel surrounded by diamonds or pearls, typically a decoration or ornament, fastened to a piece of clothing. The fashion world has

to add a little sparkle to your Ponytail, attach a brooch to a plain Ponytail holder and tie up your hair as you would norHat /Beret: hat or beret, pick your favorite brooch and stick it onto your plain colored hat to create a signature piece that looks great. shimmering crystals and cubic zirconia will look good on any jeans. If you do not already have a sequin-clad pair, funky brooches have their place on jeans also place them strategically to attract even more attention.

one accessory that has withstood the test of time. In fact, the fashion industry has become so good at using brooches as an ornament realize the decadent design, piece of jewelry, or embellishment you are admiring a removable brooch.

Brooches are like a magic touch from a fairy godmother, it either makes you look stylish

brooch can make a big difference to your plain skirt. Place it in the middle or to your side whichever suits the style.

Clutch /Bag/purse: for your personal taste, you can add pins and brooches to make it unique, but be sure to choose ones that are smooth on the top to avoid snagging with your bag.

notice your face; make it too small and people one. Put a heavy brooch on a thin dress and you are asking for unattractive saggy creases; put an elaborate and colorful - too much brooch on a formal dress and you will attract unwelcome attention. to rock your brooches.

Facts you should know about your fascinating brooches It started as a pin to hold clothes together.

During times when fabric was pinned together using designed brooches. ans including the Celts to pin together their clothes.

A brooch is an accessory for an article of clothing. be used for some casual wear, depending on the design, but most brooches are reers, dates. Be sure the design matches not

accurate. brooches Do: look for designs and shapes that or abstract objects. force yourself to wear something Do: if you are completely lost for choice of your jewelry. disregard the impact you could make if you choose the right accessory.

Do: spend some time when choosing a brooch, compare similar style brooches, and pay attention to the general feel of it.

can make sure your brooch placement is of your clothes, brooch is an accessory for a dress not the other way.

Do: create and re-create again your own style. blindly follow the latest trends.

Dress: Accentuate your best lines by placing an attractive brooch at the bottom of the Vee. Lapel: is a traditional place to wear brooches and pins, this is the most versatile place where you can put pieces of any type, size or color, let your imagination go wild and your personality shine. place a medium sized geometric brooch near the collar of your blouse or shirt, to join both ends of the fabric. sophisticated brooches with loads of elements, perhaps in boho style, will serve as a good decoration to your bottom top or a sweater.

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Amazing ways to wear jeans …With a safari style topper

…With a white blazer

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a preppy topper

…With a rolled up button-down

…With driving shoes

…With a vest

...With a cool socks …With a motor jacket

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Showing on

Movies Stars Channel 111

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Movies Romance Channel 107

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101 M-Net West

118 Telemundo

152 Africa Magic Epic

Wed, 16 Nov | PG 13

120 BBC Brit Entertainment

155 AfricaMagic World

128 SONY MAX