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Buhari orders IGP to restore Gov Obiano’s security aides

Ï Senate concurs with President, faults action of Police boss Olufemi Samuel, Mathew Dadiya, Abuja and Alphonsus Nweze, Awka

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President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, ordered the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, to immediately restore the security aides of

the Anambra State Governor Willie Obiano.

This is even as the Senate on Wednesday also directed the IGP to restore the security aides of Governor Obiano, with immediate effect, and described the action by the Police boss as a potent danger to democracy.

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Willie Obiano’s giant strides in Anambra Alphonsus Nweze, Awka

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t is only those who live in denials that will not accept that security is a top priority in governance and therefore down play the strategic importance of security in the development of a place. And it is only enemies that will deny that Anambra State Governor Willie Obiano has not brought drastic improvement in the security of lives and property of the citizens and residents of Anambra State .

From 1970 to date, after the civil war, security in Onitsha and environs and indeed the entire Anambra State has been a very intractable issue as criminals from time to time had hijacked the state, compelling the people to live in permanent fear. At a time, the crime became too rampant that people had to resort to sleeping in churches.

Even during the military, violent crimes were almost the order of the day, hence the setting up of Armed Robbery and Fire Arms Tribunals which tried and executed those found guilty of robbery cases.

But that could not solve the problem of crime in the state.

Between 1970 to date, there have been at least Continued on page 2

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Willie Obiano’s giant strides in Anambra

Continued from page 1 three spontaneous demonstrations in Onitsha by the traders against the authority and the security operatives on how they treated the issue of crime in the state and Onitsha in particular. A typical example was ‘Boys Oye” in Onitsha in early 80’s and during the administration of Dr. Chinwoke Mbadinuju, which necessitated the invitation of Bakassi Boys from Aba, Abia State.

At a time in Anambra State, a gang of robbers were accosting luxurious buses plying from any part of the East to Lagos. Immediately they stepped into Anambra State from any other part of the East, these organised robbers unleashed bullets on the buses from every side, which led to loss of several innocent souls of passengers during that period . Banks, fillings stations and individuals were not exempted. Robbers could unleash at-

tack on a particular branch of a bank from 2a.m to 5a.m without response from the police or any security outfit until they broke through into the strong room and carted away all the money from the vault .

Even former Governor Peter Obi in all his acclaimed superlative performance was still bogged down with violent crimes. Bank robbery, Continued on page 31

Continued from page 2 bullion van attack and kidnapping were the order of the day. He could not find the solution inspite of his government’s policy of demolishing the houses of kidnappers. Virtually all prominent people in the state including, Chief Godwin Okeke, Chief Paul Okonkwo, World Bank officials even commissioners and many others were kidnapped, held hostage for several weeks and left off the hook

after payment of huge amounts as ransom. Sometimes their victims did not make it back to their cherished ones. In fact, at a time an attempt was made on the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Achebe, which failed. Governor Obiano said a total of 69 people were kidnapped but some believe the figure was conservative and could be much higher.

However, all these ended when Obiano assumed office, and started adopt-

ing innovative strategic measures different from the methods used by the former Governor Mbadinuju who used the Bakassi Boys to butcher people in the name of fighting crime.

That was the order of the day at that period.

Nobody knew the secret employed by this accountant and banker turned politician but Obiano employed civi Continued on Back page

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Buhari orders IGP to restore Gov Obiano’s security aides

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The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, in a statement, said that Buhari gave the order during his visit to Awka, the Anambra State capital.

Obiano, while welcoming the President in Awka for the grand finale of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship rally, complained about the withdrawal of his security aides.

“Before departing Awka, President Buhari directed the Deputy Inspector General of Police (Operations), Joshak Habila, to ensure the return of the governor’s security personnel,” Adesina said.

The Senate also Wednesday ordered the Inspector General, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, to restore the security aides of the Governor Obiano, with immediate effect.

The Senate had expressed anger on the action

by the Police, which it described as a potent danger to democracy.

Against this backdrop, it mandated its Chairman, Committee on Police Affairs, Senator Abu Ibrahim (APC. Katsina South), to ensure compliance by IGP with the directive and report back today.

Obiano had raised the alarm on the sudden withdrawal of his security details, a development he said had exposed him to danger.

However, the resolve by the Senate to intervene on the development followed points of orders raised by the Senate’s Minority Leader, Senator Emmanuel Bwacha (PDP, Taraba South) and Deputy Minority Whip, Senator Abiodun Olujimi (PDP, Ekiti South).

Senator Bwacha had raised the issue first, citing Order 43, to draw the attention of the Senate on the outcry by Obiano over the withdrawal of his security

President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki (7th left); Chairman, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Legislative Advocacy Committee, Barr. Paul Erokoro (8th left); Senators and members of the NBA during the Committee’s visit to the President of the Senate, in Abuja on Wednesday.

details, while Senator Biodun Olujimi corroborated his efforts, citing Order 52 with a plea for urgent intervention by the Senate.

Olujimi described the action by the IGP as a potent danger to survival of democracy in Nigeria and successful conduct of the 2019 general election in particular.

The Senator said if security aides of a sitting governor could be withdrawn so arbitrarily and without being challenged, the Police could do same to others governors and may later extend such treatment to the security aides of the Senate President or rather those attached to the President of Nigeria.

She said: “This action is bad, unlawful, dangerous and must not be allowed to stand by this Senate in the interest of our nascent democracy and I humbly move that the Senate do debate it and take appropriate action”.

In his remarks, the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, expressed dismay on the development which he said must be stopped, stressing, “What is bad is bad”.

Saraki added: “What the IGP is reported to have done and defended as regards withdrawal of security aides of the Anambra

State governor ahead of the coming election in the state this Saturday is wrong and must be corrected as declared by the Senate through the resolutions just taken”.

Earlier, Bwacha had said he was disturbed as a senator of by the action of the IGP, alluding to what he described as embarrassing defence of it as widely reported in the media.

He said: “As a senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, I feel highly disturbed and sad to draw the attention of the Senate to the potently dangerous action of the IG as regards withdrawal of security aides of Governor of Anambra State ahead of the Saturday election.

“Though the IG in his defence of the obviously wrong action said he did it to provide a level playing field for candidates of all political parties in the election but this cannot be said to be tenable because a sitting governor as constitutionally provided, deserves to have security aides around him.

“I am not a member of APGA. the ruling party in Anambra State, but as a senator, I felt the Senate needs to look into this and condemn it as a way of protecting our democracy”.

Afenifere, Ohanaeze set January 11 to jointly celebrate Aguiyi-Ironsi, Fajuyi in Enugu

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ment the growing relationship between the peoples of the South West and the South East of the country, the Afenifere, the Yoruba Social political organisation and its South East counterpart, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo has concluded plans to jointly storm Enugu, the Coal City and capital of the old Eastern region on January 11, 2018 to jointly celebrate former Head of State, Major-General Aguiyi-Ironsi and former Western State governor, Col. Adekunle Fajuyi, who were both killed in July 29, 1966 counter coup.

The event, which will be

organised by a Think-Tank group Nzuko Ummuna, a body jointly put together by the two groups also promises to bring friends of both ethnic regions together for the event.

The Daily Times recalls that Ironsi was in Ibadan as guest of Fajuyi to address traditional rulers which he already did when the coupists stormed the Government House, abducted both men and later assassinated them.

Making this known at a press conference addressed

by Mr. Yinka Odumakin, Senator Chris Anyanwun and Biodun Sowunmi in Victoria Island, Lagos on Wednesday, under the auspices of a group tagged,

Handshake Across the Niger, they described the duo as gallant officers who demonstrated “a bond that passeth all understanding which still lived years after they had passed away.”

Speaking on behalf of the planning committee of the group, Odumakin, who recalled how both Ironsi and Fajuyi were later killed and buried by the coupists in a shallow grave at a desolate village near Lalupon, Oyo State and how it was “difficult to celebrate one without mentioning the other as they became one inseparable spirit in their last hours on earth,” said dignitaries expected at the event include governors, prominent Nigerians and

traditional rulers, among others.

“The event will hold under the joint chairmanship of former Chief of General Staff, Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe and the Olu of IdoAni, Oba (Gen) Olufemi Olutoye.

“The Chairman of Southern Governors’ Forum and Lagos State governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode; Chairman of South East Governors’ Forum and Ebonyi governor, Chief David Umahi; Ironsi’s home state (Abia) governor, Dr Okezei Ikpeazu; Fajuyi’s home state (Ekiti) governor, Dr Ayodele Fayose are Special Guests of Honor at the occasion.

“The Ooni of Ife, His

Imperial Majesty, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi and the Obi of Onitsha, His Imperial Majesty, Igwe Alfred Achebe will be Royal Fathers of the Day. “The biggest gathering of Igbo and Yoruba with their friends all over Nigeria will be entertained by Lady of Songs, Onyeka Onwenu and folk singer Jimi Solanke.

“The Leader of Afenifere, Chief R. F. Fasoranti and President-General of Ohanaeze, Chief John Nwodo, will receive guests at the Coal City. We look forward to a big celebration of friendship, harmony and inter-ethnic understanding in Enugu on January 11,” Odumakin said.

Noting that the wrong narratives over the years had been the defining points of Igbo-Yoruba relationship while playing to the background this finest moment of uncommon bond, Odumakin said it was now a new day as the best of Yoruba and Igbo gathered to celebrate the late Ironsi and Fajuyi and construct the East-West bridge of understanding.

“We hope to begin a new paradigm of relationships among our groups as a worthy commendation to the whole country as real development will continue to elude us in the atmosphere of suspicion, acrimony and mistrust,” he added.

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Buhari begs Anambra people to vote Nwoye, assures of more appointments for Ndigbo Alphonsus Nweze, Awka, Theresa Tekenah and Ani Uchenna, Lagos

ÏÏÏ President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday stormed Awka, the Anambra State capital, where he asked the people of the state to support the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the November 18 governorship election in

the state, Dr. Tony Nwoye.

Addressing a mammoth crowd at Ekwueme Square, Awka, Buhari said, “I am pleased with the August 26 APC primary election that presented Dr. Tony Nwoye as our party’s candidate.

We are here to show our support for Nwoye and I am proud of APC and Nwoye and God willing, he is going to be the winner of the forthcoming election. Talk

to your colleagues, friends and family members that there is no turning back.”

Buhari further assured the people of Anambra State that the South East region that they will benefit tremendously from the 2018 budget, stating that the government has not lost sight of its campaign promise to stabilise the country.

He said that the APC has made progress in the secu-

rity and economy of Nigeria, adding that the people are happy with the harvest in the last two seasons.

Buhari assured that the 2018 budget will provide opportunity for his government to show its love for the region and that they are prepared to work with a new zeal and vigour.

National Chairman of the APC, Chief John OdigieOyegun, who described the

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SIWES: ITF DG dismisses allegation of funds’ mismanagement Henry Omunu, Abuja

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Director-General and Chief Executive Officer of the Industrial Trust Fund (ITF), Mr. Joseph Harry has denied allegations of sharp practices and fraud in the operations of the organization, especially the utilization of funds meant for Students’ Industry Work Experience Scheme (SIWES), saying that it is incorrect.

He said the agency has an unbeatable accounting system.

This is, as stakeholdersthe Nigeria Universities Commission (NUC) and the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) -urged that ITF maintains its position as manager of the scheme.

Harry debunked the claims at an investigative hearing organized by the House of Representatives’

Committee on Industry held on Wednesday.

The DG insisted that contrary to allegations bothering on funds’ mismanagement, the agency is actually faced with challenges due to inadequate funding for the scheme.

“The allegations are incorrect. ITF has a clear accounting system linking students with organizations. People making the allegation did so blindly; and is based on the misconception about the scheme.

“Some institutions assume that it is meant for all students; and they should be included, whereas, it is meant for students with engineering and technicalrelated background”.

He said,”But today, all institution are clamouring to be included without clearance from the NUC”.

Speaking on the appropriate agency to manage the scheme, the DG stated that the ITF has the capac-

ity to do so given that it has 42 field offices across the country, and has an expansive network as well as the requisite expertise.

“ITF remains the appropriate body to manage SIWES, because it has an unbeatable accounting system that passes through 34 desks before funds are spent. We have 42 field offices. ITF has successfully managed the scheme despite the challenges of inadequate funding,” he added.

While informing that the agency has made several advocacy visits to relevant authorities on the issue of funding, Harry explained that ITF has paid about N1.60billion as students and supervisory allowance in the period under review with N2.6bn going for 2017 alone.

NUC, while exonerating itself from the finances of the scheme, noted that its role is limited to the development of job specification

for the programme in institutions, vetting the master and placement list.

Representative of the commission and Deputy Director, Academic Standard, Mrs. Magaret Oyedele, also posited that ITF is better placed to manage the programme, adding that there was need to improve funding of the scheme.

Oyedele further stressed the need for joint monitoring programme to promote transparency in the administration of the scheme.

In the same vain, the NBTE stated that SIWES is an integral part of the curriculum of polytechnics and should not be subjected to availability of funds.

Director of Research and SIWES at the NBTE, A. J. Adeniran, also said that that the board’s association with ITF is not based on financing as the board only works to ensure that students are enrolled for the program on ITF’s platform.

campaign rally as historic, stated that Anambra is the gateway to the South East.

He called on all voters in the state to turn out enmass and vote for Dr. Tony Okechukwu Nwoye, the party’s candidate for the November 18 guber election.

Also speaking, governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El- Rufai, said that the presence of the entire family of APC was highly significant.

Barr. Emeka Ibe, the state chairman of APC, expressed optimism that APC would take over the state and join the mainstream politics of the nation at the centre.

Ibe, who described the APC and the President as responsible, said that the APC was united, strong and set to deliver on November 18.

Chief Emma Eneukwu, the APC South-East National Vice Chairman, said that the state had yet to benefit from the present administration of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) in the state, despite its Agricultural and Investment benefits. Eneukwu asked the people to vote for Nwoye for a real change.

Labour and Productivity Minister, Sen. Chris Ngige, said that the President was taking people from captivity to prosperity, saying that Nwoye was a known man of integrity and intelligence.

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, who is also the chairman, APC Governors’ Forum, said that the President’s visit was a sign of change, adding that a vote for the APC would be a liberation of the people from political bondage of the present administration of Chief Willie Obiano.

Appreciating his supporters at the rally, Nwoye noted that the state could be in no other party than the APC. The governorship candidate said that the state must join the mainstream politics to derive its benefits from the government at the centre.

He, however, called on party supporters to mobilise and organise for a last minute vigorous campaign for the party in ensuring its victory in the coming election.

“After leaving this ground, go to your units,

wards and do the needful,” he said.

Dignitaries at the rally include Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, former Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State; Information Minister, Alhaji Lai Muhammed, Minister of Solid Minerals Resources, Dr Kayode Fayemi, and others.

Earlier, during his visit to the palace of the Eze- Uzu Awka, Obi Gibson Nwosu, Buhari assured Anambra indigenes of federal appointments.

The President was responding to a call by the monarch to extend appointments to indigenes of the state in federal ministries and parastatals.

Buhari said, “You have raised a serious observation that needs urgent attention.

I am here because of our party governorship candidate who is fully enjoying the support of Awka people and its environ and to know the present predicament of the good people of the South East,” he assured the Traditional Ruler that the indigenes of the state, and the South East in general will enjoy equal benefit as the indigenes of other states do.

The traditional ruler also called on the President to look into the current issue of the proscribed IPOB in the South East, and that the people feel they are marginalised by his government.

According to the monarch, the seemingly unending agitation for secession had negative effect on the unity of the country.

He called on the appropriate authorities and security agencies to wade into the matter to save the situation which is one of the major threats to the people of the region.

Speaking at a meeting with APC governorship aspirants, APC elders in the state, and national officers of the party, Buhari said the unity of the party was crucial for the outcome of next Saturday’s election.

“I am very pleased that those of you who lost the primaries are still very much in the party. That you lose election doesn’t mean you should walk away, you keep on trying. I went to the Supreme Court three times in my bid to become the President of Nigeria.

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NDDC, SMEDAN set to establish enterprise innovation hub in Niger Delta Ibitoye Abosede

ÏÏÏ The Niger Delta De-

velopment Commission, NDDC, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MOU, with the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of

Nigeria, SMEDAN, and a private sector organization for the establishment of Nigeria’s first and grandest enterprise innovation and growth hub.

The tripartite agreement, which kick-starts the investment hub proj-

ect, was signed on Wednesday during a meeting at the NDDC headquarters in Port Harcourt between the NDDC, SMEDAN and Builders Hub Impact Investment Programme, BHIIP. The NDDC Managing

Director, Mr. Nsima Ekere, said that the meeting was a follow up to a previous engagement with DirectorGeneral of SMEDAN, Dr Dikko Radda, at his office in Abuja.

Ekere said that the partnership with SMEDAN

Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose (middle), with kids at Oja Bisi market, Ado Ekiti, cutting the 57th Birthday Cake of the Governor in Ekiti State… on Wednesday.

Jonathan accuses Farida Waziri of lying against him

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mer President Goodluck Jonathan and the former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs Farida Waziri on Wednesday assumed a different dimension as Jonathan accused her of lying against him.

Jonathan also urged Waziri to reveal the identity of the suspect she claimed to have been working on before she was sacked, following her refusal to back down from his probe.

The former EFCC boss had claimed that the for-

mer president dismissed her from her job at the EFCC because she refused to “back down from the probe of one of the masterminds of the fuel subsidy scam.

She was quoted as saying that, “I came to Lagos on a vital intelligence on the subsidy scam and as soon as I arrested a key culprit, I got a call from the Presidential Villa asking me to release the suspect, because, in their words, ‘he is our person’, but I refused to let him off and days after, I was removed from office.”

The ex-EFCC boss who spoke during an interaction with journalists in

Lagos at the weekend added that she was happy that it happened because if she had not been sacked by the ex-President, she would have been traumatised by now, given the ongoing revelation of massive alleged corruption that took place under the last administration.

But Jonathan, who responded swiftly to the allegations on his Twitter handle on Wednesday, dared Waziri to back up her claims with names and proofs.

Jonathan said that failure to give such evidence will prove she was hired to attack him.

The former President

tweeted thus: “If Farida is not telling lies, she should mention the person or company she was investigating and she was stopped, let the EFCC investigate.

“Crime has no statute bar. If she can’t then she was simply hired to attack me.”

was one way of proving to Nigerians that inter-agency collaboration and synergy could work. He said: “We have different kinds of agencies and initiatives in this country with different and specified core mandates and I believe that if all of them can come together, it would be for the good of all. I believe that NDDC and SMEDAN are setting an example for Nigeria.

The NDDC boss added: “I am in a hurry. We can’t wait to create more jobs for the people of the Niger Delta. We want to fight unemployment, we want to fight poverty, we want to fight restiveness and this is one way we can use to ensure that militancy is eradicated in the Niger Delta.

“I believe that we can create new jobs for our people, we can build the economy of the Niger Delta, but more importantly, we want to ensure that the youths are engaged. If the youths are engaged on a daily basis, there won’t be time for them to be planning mischief.”

The NDDC Chief Executive Officer said that the enterprise hub would help the youths in so many different ways. He stressed; “We must get this running in the shortest possible time.

We have made provisions in our budget and I think that in the next one or two months, we will have sufficient budgetary provision for the take-off.”

“The idea is that we will start with one of the IDC’s owned by SMEDAN in the Niger Delta but ultimately, our intension is to see that all the IDC’s owned by SMEDAN in the Niger Delta region are revamped and revitalized. And we must pay particular attention to our women and youths.”

The Director-General of SMEDAN, Dr Dikko Radda, said that the agency was well positioned to create jobs and alleviate poverty in the country and always ready to work with the NDDC in the implementation of its work plan for the

development of the Niger Delta region. He also said that SMEDAN had 23 Industrial Development Centers, IDC, nationwide and four of the centers were located in the Niger Delta.

Dr Radda lamented that facilities in the IDCs were dilapidated with most of the equipment obsolete, coupled with the problem of land encroachment.

According to the Director General, SMEDAN was planning to convert the IDCs into enterprise clusters where enterprises involved in similar products and activities will be located in the same place with all necessary machines, equipment and trainings provided for them.

The DG stated that SMEDAN was set up to facilitate the development and promotion of MSMEs in Nigeria by stimulating, monitoring and coordinating the development the sector.

The Director-General commended the Managing Director for identifying and acknowledging the importance of the agency in helping to actualize the mandate of the Commission.

Making a presentation, the Chief Executive Officer of BHIIP, Barr, Natasha Akpote, emphasized the need to stimulate indigenous innovations. She said that Nigeria would be better served having more entrepreneurs than academics, noting that the future lay with entrepreneurship.

Akpote said: “we will focus on areas where training expertise can create more jobs.’

Earlier, the NDDC Director, Commercial and Industrial Development, Mr Anietie Usen, said that the concept of growth pole was captured in the Niger Delta Regional Development Master Plan. According to him “the concept has become more academic than real. It has just been paper work. So, we are here to change paper work into hard work.”

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Emeka Ojukwu Jnr. dumps APGA for APC Mr. Emeka Ojukwu Jnr., son of the founder of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, has dumped the party for the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Ojukwu Jnr made his declaration on Wednesday in Awka, at the grand finale campaign of the APC candidate for the Anambra State 2017 governorship election, Dr. Tony Nwoye.

President Muhammadu Buhari, APC National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, 12 APC governors, National Assembly members in the party, among other party big wigs, witnessed the event.

According to him, his decision to join the party was to protect the interest of the Igbos.

Ojukwu Jnr, who was adorned in a toga of his new party, said it was time for the people of the South-East region to move from “the recession of the periphery to the centre.”

“It is time to leave the shadows for light. Every now and then, they come out with my father’s shadow to confuse the people,” he said.

According to him, APGA is a means to an end but not an end itself.

He said the reason why his father joined the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) in the Second Republic was to ensure that Igbo people remained in the mainstream of Nigerian politics.

“Mr. President, I am proud to stand here today in support of you and in solidarity with the APC and our candidate, Tony Nwoye,” he added.

The APC national chairman presented the party symbol to him and described the rally as “another historic campaign.”

Oyegun recalled that Buhari made history when he unseated the incumbent president, Goodluck Jonathan in 2015, saying that the same feat would be achieved in Anambra 2017 governorship election.

The national chairman urged the people of the state to vote en mass for the party and Nwoye at the Saturday poll.

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Obiano remains best Governor in S’East - Anigbata Alphonsus Nweze, Awka

ÏÏÏ Former Peoples Demo-

cratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in Anambra State, Chief Ikechukwu Victor Anigbata, has a eulogised Governor Willie Obiano for keeping the wheel of governance moving in the state in spite of the recession that ravaged Nigeria in the last two years.

Chief Anigbata, who was assessing the front runners in Saturday‘s governorship election, said Governor Obiano is the best in the South East geo-political zone and one of the best Governors in Nigeria today.

“Given the economic

crunch in the country, he has done his best according to his own ability, paying salaries and pensions, which though is the right of workers but a privilege in Nigeria,” he said.

For Tony Nwoye, the All Progressives Congress (APC) flag bearer, Chief Anigbata said he was the most grassroot politician among them, having been in the game for a long time now, saying that he virtually knew about 80 to 90 percent of politicians in the state by their first names.

He said Oseloka Obaze, the candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has equally been in government and knew quite well

the workings of government.

“So we are happy to have three of them coming from one particular zone, the Anambra North zone to contest the governorship,” he said.

Chief Anigbata therefore urged all the candidates to play by the rules of the game, so that there would be peace and understanding.

He said they should realise that the position of the governor of the state is for one person but in a democratic set up, the contest is thrown up to as many as would want to contest, otherwise it would be no longer democracy.

“I am happy that the ma-

jor contestants are men of proven integrity. They have held one post or the other and served the nation and the world in different capacities. We have never had it so good like this before.

I pray that God will give Anambra State men that will keep the relay of good governance on,” Anigbata said.

He then advised the electoral umpire to play according to the rule by providing a level playing ground, saying “the propaganda may not be entirely correct.

They are part of politics but security should be up and doing. Anambra election is a big challenge for them. People should be en-

couraged to come out and vote”.

Anigbata advised members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to desist from doing anything that will truncate the present democracy in the state.

He said: ”People should stop sacrificing innocent people for what they know not. If anybody has any demand, let him make it legally, not violently. I want to remind our people that if the State of Emergency is declared in any South Eastern state, anybody from anywhere can be appointed to run the affairs of the people. And it is an ill-wind that blows no one any good”.

LP suspends chairman, 7 others over alleged endorsement of Obiano ÏÏÏ

The Anambra chapter of Labour Party on Wednesday announced the immediate suspension of its chairman Mr. Uche Ugwuoji for alleged anti-party activities.

The party also suspended seven other members for “collaborating’’ to endorse the candidature of Governor Willie Obiano of the All Progressives Grand Alli-

ance (APGA) in Saturday’s governorship election.

The LP Publicity Secretary in the state, Mr. Eddy Okoye, announced the suspension at a news briefing in Awka.

He described the action of the suspended members as “selfish, illegal and a demonstration of anti-party behaviour.’’

Okoye named others af-

fected by the suspension as Mr. Ejike Onuora, Mr. Alex Obi, Mr. Bertram Enukora, Mr. Ifeanyi Mbagwu, Mr. Greg Mmerube, Mr. Longinus Nnajiofor and Mr. Okecima Anizoba.

He explained that their action was capable of affecting the party’s chances at the forthcoming poll.

“The Labour Party hereby dissociates itself from

the purported endorsement of Gov. Willie Obiano by some people masquerading as the party’s executives in Anambra.

“The affected members have been suspended immediately for insubordination, gross indiscipline and anti-party activities,’’ he said.

In his reaction, the suspended chairman said the

decision of the party was “unfair’’ and dismissed claim that they endorsed Obiano as false.

“The allegation is not true, we have our own candidate; how can we endorse another party’s candidate?

“This is frivolous, baseless and handiwork of people who want to start up another crisis in Labour Party,” Ugwuoji said.

IGP orders arrest of politicians, others inciting populace ÏÏÏ The

Inspector General of Police (I-G), Ibrahim Idris, has directed the immediate arrest of politicians or group either inciting or making financial induce-

ment to influence the outcome of Saturday’s Anambra State governorship elections.

The IGP handed down the directive on Wednesday in Abuja while

addressing officers and men of the Force Headquarters.

He, therefore, ordered all police officers to wear their conventional police attires, displaying their

name tags for easy identification and warned against any acts inimical to the success of the election.

The number one cop advised

them to do their best by avoiding issues capable of tarnishing the image and reputation of the police both during and after the elections.

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We will improve judicial working environment - Hon. Shagari ÏÏÏThe Chairman, House

of Representatives Committee on Federal Judiciary, Hon Aminu Shagari, has promised to improve the judicial working environment.

Shagari stated this on Wednesday during the committee’s visit to the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos.

Shagari, who described the state of the courts as unacceptable and shameful, said, his Committee will ensure that the working environment both for judges and lawyers become conducive.

Shagari said: “What we have seen is unbecoming and it is unacceptable for a judge to be working in a cubicle, there is no wardrobe for them to change, no place for them to keep their books and file. Our visit here today will help us to understand what is going on in making appropriation for these projects so that it can be quickly completed and both lawyers and judges will be more comfortable and justice can be dispensed with as soon as possible.”

The lawmaker also commended President Muhammadu Buhari led-administration for jacking up 2018 judiciary budget to N100billion, which he said was the reason why judiciary has not been functioning optimally in the past.

His words: “If you have been following the trend in judiciary, budgets have been going down over the years while the federal budgets is going up every year, but luckily for us this Buhari administration has appropriated a N100 billion for the 2017 budget and also proposing the same in the 2018 budget subject to the approval of the National Assembly.

“It is getting better but we are still not where we ought to be, the infrastructure needed is huge, a lot of funding needs to be given to judiciary. But the good thing is any amount given to judiciary as budget is normally given hundred percent, so whatever is appropriated to them is given to it fully, unlike other sectors I don’t want to mention”.

Shagari who led members of his Committee to Judges’ residential quarters and the newly built 20 courtrooms under construction at Ikoyi, commended Federal High Court for putting up the edifice.

He said, if the new court-

room is completed, it will aid quick dispensation of cases.

“We have visited the residential quarters of the judges, and we are visiting the courts where they are working, we have seen the edifice being built for them, the 20 courtrooms going on at Ikoyi.

“The court being built at ikoyi is a very nice project, there is parking space on the ground floor for judges and lawyers and subsequent floors are courtrooms. It is a very beautiful project, “ he added.

Shagari, who described judiciary as independent organ of government, said the recent sitting of his Committee on Judiciary Reform Bill, which he said will make judiciary to work as it supposed to be, adding that the Bill have been passed to the States Assemblies for concurrent passage.

He however stated that the State Assemblies cannot be compel to pass the Bill, but it can only persuade them to do so.

“The judiciary is independent, we just sat on Constitution amendment and we have passed it to state assemblies for concurrent passage.

“In there, there is what is referred to as Judiciary Reform Bill which contained about 44 Clauses, which aimed at strengthening the judiciary and making them more functional to dispense justice as it should be.

“The House of Representative cannot do anything to the state who refused to make that work in their states. We can only advocates that they vote for such Clauses so that each state will pass the law according to their own understanding”.

L-R: Executive Secretary, Institute of Export Operations and Management, Mr. Ofon Udofia; Commissioner, Rivers State Civil service Commission, Mr. Mike Elechi and National Coordinator Migration for Development Programme, GIZ Country Officer, Mr. Austin Ezejiofor, during an interactive Seminar on Migration for Development Programme in Port Harcourt, Rivers State… on Tuesday.

JAMB begins sale of 2018 UTME Nov 22 Augustine Okezie and Nafisat Abubakar, Abuja

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Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has fixed November 22 for the commencement of the sale of the 2018 UTME application forms and urge prospective candidates to go to the JAMB website to access the brochure and the syllables Addressing a stakeholders meeting in Abuja on Wednesday tagged ’’Meeting of Critical Stakeholders on the plans and programmes for the

2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE), the JAMB Registrar, Prof Ishaaq Oloyede said the examination body is determined to fight exam cheats and ensure the integrity of the examination process.

Oloyede also disclosed that there will be mock-examination slated for January 22, 2018 for candidates who wished to participate and who were able to purchase the application form by December 31 while the examination proper

is expected to hold on March 9, 2018. He further assured that the management would strictly adhere to the sale period, having put all logistics in place.

He said, ’All critical stakeholders are advised to cooperate, collaborate, support and assist the board to this direction. All state governors, legislators, philanthropists who plan to purchase and distribute application documents should note the date of sale and its duration. It’s not the intention of management to ex-

tend the deadline’’ The JAMB’s chief executive also warned that the use of telephone and other prohibited materials including electronic gadgets, wrist watches, eye glasses, and any form of pen shall not be allowed into the examination hall.

The application fee for the purchase of forms is still retained at N5,000 including the commission of N300 paid on each candidate while the reading text is N500.

Over 1.7 million candidates are expected to apply for the 2018 UTME examination.

Saraki gives Sen Ndume cold attitude as lawmaker resumes legislative business after suspension Olufemi Samuel, Abuja

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Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki on Wednesday gave cold attitude to Senator Muhammed Ali Ndume (APC, Borno) as he resumed sitting after 90 days of suspension, turning down his plea for a minute silence in honour of to a departed colleague, Senator Isiaka Adeleke.

Although Saraki did not announce the return of Ndume for legislative work, Ndume raised a point of Order 14 (A and B) on privilege, urging

his colleagues to observe a minute silence for the late Adeleke who he described as a very close colleague.

But the Senate President did not subject Ndume’s request to any form of debate as he hurriedly banged the gavel, stating, “your point of order is noted”.

The former Senate leader has said so much had happened during his absence including the death of Senator Adeleke who he said had his allotted seat right behind his own.

He said, “I’ve been away for seven and half months and coming in today, we all

know that in my absence, we lost distinguished Senator Isiaka Adeleke, who was sitting right behind me.

“I used to call him my landlord. I didn’t have the opportunity to pay my tribute, I want to appeal to this Senate to again stand for a minute silence and pray for the repose of his soul.”

Briefing journalists after the plenary, Ndume said his ordeal notwithstanding, he would not entertain any grudge against anyone, as according to him, what had happened was no less than

politics.

He expressed appreciation to his colleagues who stood by him, as well as wishers who according to him, showed sympathy on his case.

He said he had a plan to immediately proceed to Saudi Arabia for Umra to thank God for surviving the ordeal he underwent.

Ndume said he would continue to forge ahead on his career in politics because he is “A son of nobody who became somebody without knowing anybody” Ndume had angered the leadership of the Senate

when he called for probe of allegations of financial scam leveled against the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and Senator Dino Melaye.

The Senate had responded to his allegation by committing his case to the Ethics and Privileges Committee, which after sitting recommended his suspension.

Ndume also told journalists why he proceeded to the court, saying that he did not do so to seek any personal gain but to prove to the world that his suspension was never in order.

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Alleged N5.1bn fraud: Dudafa didn’t declare 15m shares- Witness Peter Fowoyo

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Senior Detective Superintendent with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Chukwuma Orji, on Wednesday told a Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos that a former aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Waripamo-Owei Dudafa did not declare 15 million shares he possessed in a secret company.

The witness gave this testimony at the resumed trial of Dudafa

and Joseph Iwejuo, over a N5.1 billion fraud before Justice Muhammed Idris.

The duo were arraigned by the anti-graft agency on a 23-counts charge of conspiracy and concealment of crime proceeds.

Led in evidence in chief by the prosecuting lawyer, , Mr Rotimi Oyedepo, Orji told the court that following intelligence report, the commission uncovered a company known as Ibejige Services Ltd. He said that further

investigations revealed that the mandate of the company had the signature of Dudafa and also bears his international passport.

According to him, intelligence also showed that in July 2015, Dudafa signed as chairman of the company , adding that his wife was also a signatory to the company.

Orji told the court that investigations revealed that Dudafa possessed 15 million shares in the said company, and had failed to declare same in

his asset declaration.

But under cross examination, the defence lawyer, Mr Gboyega Oyewole (SAN), asked the witness for his employment details and in response Orji said: “ I joined the commission between 2007 and 2008, and am currently a Senior Detective Superintendent,” On his educational qualification, he told the court that he possessed a degree and a Master’s degree in Engineering.

Asked whether the accused was under any

investigation before a report was made on him, Orji told the court that the commission receives intelligence before it springs into investigations.

On whether he was aware of an invitation by the EFCC to the accused, he said : “My lord there is a process called “need to know “ and I am not a part of that team.

Justice Idris later adjourned the matter till December 14 for continuation of cross examination.

Dudafa was arraigned

alongside Iwejuo, also known by the names Taiwo Ebenezer and Olugbenga Isaiah.

Some of the companies allegedly used by the duo in committing the offences include Seagate Property Development & Investment Ltd, Avalon Global Property Development Company Ltd; Pluto Property and Investment Company Ltd; and Rotate Interlink Services Ltd. Others are; Ibejige Services Ltd; DE Jakes Fast Food & Restaurant Nigeria Ltd and Ebiwise Re-

sources.

Sokoto seeks NITDA’s support to deepen ICT usage in schools

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state government has that it is partnering with the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) to deepen access and usage of ICT in schools across the state.

A statement issued in Sokoto Wednesday by Malam Imam Imam, said the partnership was announced when Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal visited NITDA’s Director General, Dr. Isa Ali Pantami, in Abuja.

Governor Tambuwal was also quoted as saying that, “ICT is an important component in school curriculum all over the world. So the state government is seeking for this collaboration with NITDA in order to expand the knowledge base of our students and improve on infrastructure, and at the same improving the standards of education in the state.”

It said as a mandate agency established to develop information and communication technology in the country, NITDA has a lot to offer.

“The agency has done exceptionally well in executing its mandate and we hope we can tap from their expertise to develop ICT infrastructure in Sokoto state,” the Governor added.

Responding, Pantami commended Tambuwal for the visit, saying NITDA is open to partnering with all interested

groups and individuals to develop ICT in Nigeria.

He commended the Sokoto state government for laying emphasis on education, saying it will go a long way in securing the future of its citizens.

According to him, NITDA has played important role in driving programs and policies that support innovation in ICT development in Nigeria, and will continue to collaborate with the private sector, development partners and MDAs at both federal and state levels so as to deepen access to ICT in the country.

Nasarawa State Governor, Umaru Al-Makura (left) distributing furniture to Primary Schools in the State, to mark his 65th Birthday in Lafia, Nasarawa State… on Wednesday.

NAPTIP seeks NMA collaboration to check organ harvesting Andrew Orolua, Abuja

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National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has expressed concern over the increasing cases of organ harvesting and urged the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) to beam its searchlight on activities of its members.

The Director-General of NAPTIP, Julie Okah-Donli said on Wednesday that the development is worrisome as the removal of organs for transplant can only be done by professionals in the medical profession.

Okah Donli stated this during a media briefing in Abuja . She said that the

incident of organ harvesting which is closely connected to human trafficking has become a booming business on a global scale in today’s world.

According to the NAPTIP boss, trafficking for sexual and labour purposes is no longer attractive to traffickers hence the turn to organ harvesting. She therefore called on all concerned Nigerians to join the Agency in the fight against human trafficking and other organized transnational crimes.

While remarking that NAPTIP is in concerted efforts with the Police and other sister agencies to ensure that culprits are brought to book so as to discourage others, she

called on the NMA to begin the monitoring of its members, noting that removal of organs from people can only be done by medical doctors.

She said, “Illegal organ harvesting and trafficking have become another business venture whereby organs of victims of human trafficking are harvested unwillingly and sold. Trafficking for sexual and labour purposes seem no longer a quick money-making venture for the traffickers who are not ready to wait for years for their “Investments” to yield desired results.

“Consequently, I have directed the Investigation Department to liaise with the Nigeria Police Force

anytime there is a reported case of ritual murder to ensure that it is not a case of illegal harvesting of organs.

“We are aware that removing of organs for transplant can only be done by professionals in the medical profession. I therefore, call on members of the NMA to do a soulsearch concerning their members’ involvement in such dastardly activities.

“We plan to engage them and the Federal Ministry of Health to ensure that we treat this matter appropriately here at home and in unity work against illegal harvesting of organs of Nigerians anywhere in Nigeria”, she added.

She advised family mem-

bers seeking organs for transplant for their sick relatives to investigate properly the source of the organs and also avoid buying organs from the black market.

The NAPTIP DG also warned parents and guardians to be wary of people who come around, particularly as the yuletide approaches, asking to take their wards to the city or abroad for a better life, adding that human traffickers are close and distant relatives.

She also drew attention to the north east, where she said the political and social instability has continued to push people into illegal migration to Europe through Libya.

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We’re not practising true democracy in Nigeria -Ojo How would you assess democracy in Nigeria, amidst concerns that progress has been slow?

The truth as to be said is that given the peculiarity of Nigeria and Nigerians, It could be concluded and said that what we call nascent democracy, which naturally having taken ten, fifteen and more years cannot be and should not be called nascent again. Nigeria is crawling and regressing rather than moving forward, because no development has taken place since the advent of democracy in the country. The principles of democracy has not advanced beyond when we started, rather it is going down. There is standard, democracy should bring freedom, certain standard of living to the people, separation of power and rule of law, this is not the situation, but this has not been the case, rather it is deteriorating. If participation is what we call democracy then our people cannot say they have participated, because they are still being induced before they vote for candidates in elections in the country. Democracy is still in the pipeline in the country.

Also, with the high level of illiteracy in the country, about 70 percent of our people are illiterates, that would affect the way they think, the way they make their choices and understand the electoral process. How can these people understand why they are voting, and judge their leaders? The growth you are talking about cannot be said to be reality, it can be said to be an idea.

But a lot of people would say things are not that bad and progress has been made in some areas?

The difference between an idea and reality is that, idea has not been actualised into reality. And until it is actualised it remains an idea. Most of the people voting during election in Nigeria are induced and that is why the politician doesn’t have that sense to deliver after being voted and they assume office.

In better climes, you don’t hear politician say they sell their houses to contest election and wining election an being in public office does not make them special human, they still carry their bags, enter the same bus with the people, send their children to public schools and buy in the same market. But here in Nigeria when voters are induced before voting for candidates it is like the future is mortgaged, you don’t see them again until when they want to seek re- election. We cannot say we are practising democracy, democracy has not kicked off in Nigeria, we are only paying lip service to that. Even the media that you are talking about we know what happens there: most of the stories going into the newspaper are paid for, we know what journalist still do, even in the judiciary we see lawyers working with judges to compromise the system.

How will you assess the present set of Federal lawmakers?

The National Assembly are not doing what they should do, that is making law for the country, because if you look outside people are still talking about re-

A constitutional lawyer and human rights activist, Mr. Kunle Ojo, in this interview with INIOBONG IWOK, ex-rays the democratic journey in the country, the Buhari anti graft war and the state of the judiciary among others.

elect him again fine.

Do you still believe in the anti graft war?

I believe in the anti corruption war, but as you can see, those in government have been sabotaging it and the President is still retaining them. I believe in the anti corruption war, but I don’t believe it would be successful because the country’s President do not have the will to remove the people close to him. I am not surprised, this is Nigeria, if you are there you would do the same.

But there has been a committee set up to monitor corruption cases?

I don’t believe in the committee, because if they really want to do a thorough job they should not be made public.

Why not extend it to the whole judiciary?

There is nothing wrong if the CJN have people all around the country that monitors the system and the judges. But I think the judiciary should census itself, let them go round and see the way things are done, we should able to sanitise ourself.

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structuring and returning to regional government. We have a house that is big and useless to us and it does not bother them, they don’t care about adjusting, given the power and resources at their disposal, why can’t they think of laws that would alleviate the poverty in the country?

Look at the area of mining, it is still in the exclusive list, even if the deposit is in your backyard you cannot tap it, that is why most of the states are like this, why can’t they think of amending the law.

Do you support the call for a unicameral legislature?

Bi-cameral does not suit us well, because as you can see the current system is too expensive. But look at the states where we have unicameral houses they are still wasteful and are rubber stamp to the executive, they are not delivering.

Most of the state Assemblies have failed and I strongly think our legislative process should be made on part-time basis.

It is about money and power, they would always be ready to compromise, except they reduce the amount of money given to them they would never do anything to favour us.

How do you assess the President Buhari administration?

There was high expectation when Buhari was coming in. The level of rot he met on the ground was somehow, now

We cannot say we are practising democracy, democracy has not kicked off in Nigeria, we are only paying lip service to that.

Even the media that you are talking about we know what happens there: most of the stories going into the newspaper are paid for, we know what journalist still do, even in the judiciary we see lawyers working with judges to compromise the system

But there has been concern about corruption in the judiciary and its present state?

I am bothered, the way the home of the judges were raided should tell us all is not well with the judiciary.

Of course, there have been questions about the process of appointment of judges, most of the judges support one governor or the other an it is unfortunate we have allowed ourselves to be used by politicians. The judges spread money in parties, and in the home of some of them you find ten, twenty luxury cars, in the past judges live a frugal lifestyle, that is why people are losing interest in them.

There has been concern about recent judgement by judges?

The judiciary should have a standard so that you can say this is what the court would say at a time, but what we have now is that different people would interpret the law differently that is the issue.

I know there are doctrines in law, when we go to court people should be able to say this is what the law says. One of the problems of the court is the mode of appointment of judges, and it has been criticised, because it is about who you know.

We need to go back to the former system where you look and say based on the question I would ask is which area your enthusiasm and dedication you are of endeavour has he been able to deal fit be a judge, I know there would always with? Nothing has been done. If you say be some form of test and exam. corruption, I would say no, because corruption has increased and the President Do you think the PDP would regain does not have the political will to deal power in 2019? with those close to him who are corI don’t predict, the PDP contributed rupt, corruption has grown, or how do solely to our problem and the APC has you explain the Maina saga, I don’t have not been able to solve it. I believe Nigerihope that such issues can be addressed ans should look for alternative. because for him to be brought back to ofThere is no opposition in Nigeria, if fice in the first place is surprising. you look at their ideology you would He as a right to aspire that is left for know there is no opposition, when you his party, in Nigeria there are so many also look at the personalities in the two factors that can count during election parties they are mostly the same people, that is why I say we don’t have democ- I believe Nigerians should look for alterracy in Nigeria, if Nigerians choose to native in 2019.

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APC chieftain tackles Oshiomhole, accuses him of plot to remove Oyegun as party chair Tom Okpe, Abuja A lawyer and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Elvis Asoro has said that the immediate-past governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole is plotting the removal of the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun.

Asoro who described as lame, the defense put up by the former governor denying the allegation said that in the lead up to the recent APC National Caucus and National Executive Committee (NEC) meetings, Oshiomhole embarked on an elaborate lobbying scheme to remove and replace the APC National Chairman.

“A national Newspaper reported how Oshiomhole lobbied 17 APC governors to support his bid for the APC National Chairmanship. There was no denial from him of this report. However, he has been quick to deny a similar claim as an ‘unknown group’.

“This is how his media aide explains the misadventure: ‘It is true that many observers and party faithful have voiced their preference for Oshiomhole to lead the APC, but that does not mean that they are sponsored by him or got his approval.’ One may ask, who are these ‘many observers’ and ‘party faithful’ and why the choice of Oshiomhole and nobody else,” Asoro queried.

According to Asoro, “Oshiomhole may as well deny that he lobbied hard, with humiliating futility, for the position of Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), which fell vacant with the suspension and eventual sack of Babachir Lawal.

“He may also deny that, on the strength of indications of an imminent cabinet reshuffle, he is frantically lobbying for a ministerial position, with the implication of dis-

OYEGUN lodging the current Hon. Minister of State for Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, a respected son of Edo State. Meanwhile, Oshiomhole’s campaign posters are all over the place to become a Senator.

“The APC tradition is that the governor of the state is the leader of the party in the state just as the President is the leader of the party in the country. However, the powerhungry Oshiomhole has bulldozed himself into the position of the de facto APC state leader for Edo, thereby usurping the legitimate position of Godwin Obaseki, the governor of the State.

“Would Oshiomhole have accepted anyone else parading himself as leader of APC when he was governor? Is he trying to reduce or portray the governor of Edo State as his puppet? Did he not fight the notion of god father in our politics? By his self-confes-

OSHIOMHOLE sion as leader of the APC in Edo State, Oshiomhole has revealed himself to the world that he is a hypocrite of the highest order.

“Oshiomhole is entitled to wave his flag on the number of schools his administration renovated; the Okpekpe road (marathon) race; the number of roads it constructed; as well as the university he used the resources of the state to establish right in front of his country home. However, time will tell if the processes for these “achievements” will pass the tests of transparency and accountability.

“Nigerians will recall how Oshiomhole’s toxic governance of Edo State almost cost our great party the election of the incumbent APC governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, but for the last-ditch efforts of the President, APC governors, APC National Chairman and other party leaders that ultimately en-

sured the APC’s victory during the last Edo State governorship election.

“A number of conclusions can be made from Oshiomhole’s posturing: he has an inflated sense of worth; he can only thrive when he is invested with government power; and he is unable to contribute as an ordinary citizen because he uses power to oppress and abuse others and many have observed that Oshiomhole’s hunger for power is more for evil than for good.

“The question is, how long the party can tolerate Oshiomhole, who claims to be a respected party leader, but hides in the shadows and schemes through charlatans to engage in political misadventures? We encourage him to come out of the shadows and openly pursue his political interests, however selfish and misguided. That is the honourable thing to do.”

In an earlier press statement issued by the former governor’s media aide, Mr. Victor Oshioke, Oshiomhole stated that he would not use underground methods to seek a position if he was interested in it saying there was tremendous pressure on him to replace Chief Odigie-Oyegun, the former governor said those who are accusing him of taking steps to actualise such pressure were only being nervous and panicky.

“He deserves to be respected by all true party members and this attempt to drag his name into an imaginary contest is nothing but panic attacks by some persons who are just scared that his name has become synonymous with achievements. It is an open secret that Comrade Adams Oshiomhole possesses a rare capacity to inject life and awaken creative energies in any milieu he finds himself. “This uncommon attribute make some people nervous,” he added.

PDP chairmanship: Group endorses Secondus ‘Tosin Ajuwon, Akure.

The Genuine Democrats Group (GDG) has described the former National Deputy Chairman (South) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, as the National Chairman aspirant to beat in the December 9 national elective convention of the party.

The group’s Publicity Secretary, Yisa Gbegudu while speaking to journalists in Akure, the Ondo State capital asked other aspirants in the race to get ready for the national convention of the party.

Mr. Gbegudu advised that Secondus like other contenders should also stop the game of distractions that could cause any crisis in the party.

He said; “Secondus has a reputation that continues to soar about peers in the build up to the contest for the National Chairmanship office of the nation’s most popular and major opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

“He remains the man to beat for the highly coveted position despite insinuations from certain quarters that some interests were trying to impose him on the party as the national chairman, which is far from the truth.

“What is more popular and pronounced is that his candidacy depends on the endorsement of delegates at the forthcoming national convention, and not in any way a matter of left handed arrangement; and there is no iota of truth in contrary reports.

“Prince Secondus, by nature, is a person who does and gets things done by merit, the same way he wants Nigerians and members of the party to note that the position of National Chairman was zoned to the Southern region comprising of three zones, and that he has the legitimate and legal rights to aspire for the office of National Chairman.

“As a democrat to the core, he emphasises his liberal disposition and says to whoever cares to listen, putting it clearly on records that since launching of his chairmanship ambition, he has been reaching out to delegates across the 36 states, seeking votes and presenting his agenda for revival of the party ahead of 2019, and in the course of this period, no member of Board of Trustees has openly endorsed him as some have done for some other candidates; there is no such thing as plot to impose him on the party.

“Rather than waiting for any group’s endorsement, Secondus has been campaigning day and night across the six zones, selling our redemption messages to PDP delegates, urging all aspirants to get ready for the National Convention and stop game of distractions.

“For him, there’s no magic about it than for delegates to assemble and cast their votes for an aspirant of their choice in the full glare of the public. And he believes in the prospects of his pedigree.”

The group said Secondus remains the most qualified for the chairmanship going by his antecedents before and after the cri-

sis that nearly killed the party.

“In a new dimension to the race for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chairmanship, Oodua PDP Alliance has drummed support for Prince Uche Secondus and called on South West to drop the bid for the party leadership.

“The group affirmed that South West has proved its unpreparedness for the party leadership, affirming that “the leadership should go to South South, the main base of the PDP. “However the pendulum swings, truth is Prince Secondus remains the most quali-

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fied for the chairmanship going by his antecedents before and after the crisis that nearly killed the party.

“He is bold and pushful alongside with his great blueprint to return the PDP to power in 2019. With Secondus, the forthcoming convention a great opportunity for the party to complete the redemption it started at the Port Harcourt mini convention.

“It’s very important that the PDP elects

genuine and committed party members into the upcoming National Working Committee in the best interest of the party and Nigerian democracy. It is for this need that we urge delegates to support Prince Secondus, a man of undiluted loyalty, unflinching determination for PDP revival and unparalleled qualification for PDP leadership,” he said.

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Wake up call to tanker, truck owners

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Recent warning by the Federal Roads Safety Corps (FRSC) that tanker and truck owners would now be prosecuted alongside their drivers involved in accidents, as a result of reckless driving is very timely.

The number of lives wasted on daily basis by the recklessness of tanker and truck drivers is very alarming. There is no day that passes without records of a truck or tanker crushing a pedestrian, a commercial motorcyclist rider with his passenger or badging on cars killing all the occupants.

Most worrisome is the speed that these tankers and trailers apply even when they are carrying petrol or unlatched containers. These trucks adopt these speed even within the city where they are supposed to maintain some decency.

On the other hand, what happens on the express road defy the calculations of highway safety regulators. These days, motorists are now afraid to use the Lagos Ibadan expressway because of the recklessness of tanker and truck drivers. No day passes without tens of people being burnt on that road. On a particular day in May about 26 people got burnt in a single collision on that road due to vehicular accident.

Recently thousands of worshippers returning from Holy Ghost Service of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) miraculously escaped being burnt to death along the expressway following a major auto crash barely 48 hours after 10 trucks exploded on the same road.

The accident involved 15 articulated vehicles, a luxury bus, five mini buses and two pick up vans, which were burnt to ashes, while trucks loaded with frozen fish, poultry feed, bags of rice, exotic drinks and other valuables worth millions of naira were destroyed by the billowing fire which broke out after the accident.

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L-R: Former Acting Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Dr. Habiba Lawal; Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha; National Security Adviser, Maj.-Gen. Babagana Monguno (rtd) and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, during the Federal Executive Council meeting at the Presidential Villa in Abuja… on Wednesday.

L-R: Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola; Minister of State for Power, Works and Housing, Hon. Mustapha Baba Shehuri and Coordinator, Power Sector Recovery Programme Implementation Monitoring Team, Damilola Ogunbiyi, during the Power Sector Recovery Workshop in Abuja, on Wednesday.

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FRSC Zonal Commander for Lagos and Ogun states, Ademola Lawal, said a tractor travelling from Lagos to Ibadan punctured a tanker carrying petroleum product while trying to overtake it at about 2.18 a.m.

Lawal said that petrol gushed out of the 33,000 litres tanker and spread all over the highway, resulting in an explosion. After hearing the explosion, some motorists quickly abandoned their vehicles and ran for their dear lives.

For the umpteenth time, the recurring carnages on our road caused by the vicious activities of reckless truck and trailer drivers and the seeming helpless posturing adopted by concerned authorities has reached an alarming level. More than ever, we are witnessing an upsurge in the collateral damages caused by these merchants of deaths on our roads who have apparently become more powerful than the State. The disgraceful activities of this group are commonplace across the country but Lagos appears to be worst hit. The whole scenario calls to mind the Thomas Hobbes State of Nature where life is nasty, brutish and short.

Back home, undertaking, a trip to Apapa in Lagos through the OshodiApapa expressway is a nightmarish experience that no time-conscious person would want to dare. Petroleum tankers and haulage trailers are the Lords of the Manor in this part of Lagos. Two lanes of this road are permanently occupied by stationary trucks waiting to load petroleum products from the tank farms or returning freight containers to the wharf. This indiscriminate parking has caused unquantifiable loss of man hours to the economy and needless bloodletting.

The vices associated with the activities of these drivers are many. It is the norm to park their trucks on the flyover bridges that were designed to bear fleeting and transient weight and not dead weight.

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Daily Times Nigeria Thursday, November 16, 2017

Reflections on FGN 2018 Budget et al

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Shuaibu Idris Miqati

he 2018 budget proposal presented yesterday by President Buhari appear to be well articulated as its seek to build on the modest successes achieved by the administration from the implementation of its first budget tagged budget of change and the second budget tagged budget of recovery and growth. The tag given to the 2018 budget being budget of consolidation is quite apt and appropriate.

The fundamental assumptions behind the budget are also quite reasonable and realistic except for a few. The proposed oil benchmark price of $45 per barrel is conservative enough but I see the hawks in the National Assembly increasing the benchmark to at least $50 per barrel.

The daily crude oil production target 0f 2.3 million barrels per day appear to be too ambitious given the current level of investments in oil exploration and development, government’s inability to provide it’s portion of funding to oil companies and the issue of OPEC production qouater.

It’s gratifying to also note the increment in allocation to key sectors of the economy such as agriculture, education, transport and works and housing.

However there is need to look at health sector also because of its strategic importance to the nation. Needless to say there is need for improvements in the allocation to education and agriculture given the cardinal principles of the administration and governments commitments such as Malabo Declaration of budgeting at least 10% annu-

ally to agriculture and the need to achieve food security.

The composition of the estimate as regards capital, recurrent and debts servicing leaves much to be desired. It’s encouraging seeing capital expenditures reaching 30% of the budget but it’s worrisome to note the level of recurrent expenditures and debts servicing. Government must find ways to drastically cut down on waste as well as the entire recurrent expenditure so as to significantly achieve improvements in capital spending.

Government must also exercise care and caution on the issue of debts servicing particularly with increase in level of both local and external borrowings. Dollar interest rates are set to increase which would hurt us more given our level exposures now in foreign loans.

The challenges of implementation as well as passage of the appropriation bill still persists. One wonders the basis and or rationale of the comments made by the leadership of the National Assembly on somewhat putting a condition on quick passage of the bill to cordial relationship between the legislature and executive. Consideration of bills from the executive is not a privilege. Its a right and a duty of the legislators. Its above all in the mutual interest of the executive and the legisltive arms of the government being elected officials who would seek reelection sooner rather than later. Without appropriation The much talked about and dividends of democracy would not be provided to the electorates and politicians would thus not have any project to show to the electorates. The legislature have had the Medium Term Expenditure Framework MTEF presented to them months before now Is yet

to be attended to. Unfortunately the budget presented to them is suppose to be a build on the MTEF document which has remained unattended to by our esteemed legislators. Indeed if any disagreements and differences in opinions are customary and normal in day to today life talkless of in politics.

Understanding may differ, dept of knowledge may also differ just as ideological imclinations particularly given differences in party platforms that the legislators used ti reached where they are today.

Healthy disagreements and divergent views should not only be welcomed and t9lerated but should also be encouraged for a better democratic governance. However disagreements based on what to pocket or share should never ever be brought to limelight.

On the issue of Excess Crude Account I think I support the position of the National Assembly in recommending the scrapping of such an illegal account but in it’s place government should consider a legislation on National Savings or a massive build up of reserves instead of crediting the money in to Federation Account for eventual distribution. We need to be sustainable in out development initiative. I think a 10% savings from our monthly income should be encouraged and in fact legislated. If government could legislate that workers must save money monthly from their salaries then government must also do the same. It must not be do what I say and not what I do!

We must save for our future and the future of our children.

The assumption of 305/$ appear to be a surprise as the exchange rate is well above this figure currently. What is the plan to achieve this is neither clear nor stated. Are

We likely to see an appreciation of the naira? Is this realistic or feasible? It is a tall order and indeed an impossible target. Current exchange rate of 360 naira to a dollar should be viewed in the light of the budget estimate of 305 naira to a dollar. A wrong signal may be sent to investors and the foreign exchange market may be sent frenzy.

The target of about 12% inflation rate is also over ambitious given current level of inflation, interest and exchange rates as well as the potential increase in borrowing by the givernment. Moreover there are pressures on the CBN to reduce baseline interest rate which could lead to reduction in lending rate by banks. This year lending to banks customers reduced significantly due largely to high interest rate for borrowers. A reduction in the baseline rate popularly called MRR or the MPC rate would lead to reductions in deposit and lending rates. These potential reductions could lead to increase in demand for bank loans and when funds are available demand for goods and services would increase which can lead to increase in prices and thus inflation would rise hence my thoughts that 12% inflation rate targeted for next year may not be achievable.

A key item to note with appreciation is the target to fund the budget significantly from non oil income or revenues. If we can sustain this drive we should be able to diversify the economy for the better. Its believe that the more we rely on taxation to fund governments the better and more transparent/accountable the system becomes.

Shuaibu Idris Miqati a student of NIPSS

Investing in rural development matters

I Edward Nnachi

n 2016 about 815 million people suffered from hunger - 38 million more in 2015. After declining for most of the last decade, food insecurity is now on the rise says the annual State of Food Security and Nutrition Report (SOFI) authored by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the UN World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO).

According to the new report, hunger rates in 44 countries are either the same or higher than they were 10 years ago. Report data also shows that hunger doesn’t necessarily happen in poor countries only: amongst the 44 countries, more than a third are upper middle-income countries.

“This tells us that the threat of hunger can happen anywhere and that action needs to be stepped up in a range of contexts,” said Gilbert Houngbo, president of IFAD, speaking at the launch of the report last week.

The rise in hunger figures is the consequence of an increasing number of conflicts and climate shocks, such as droughts and floods, says the report.

Since 2010, the number of conflicts have been rising in the world

and with them displacements, migration, a rise in child labor and malnutrition. Today, 19 countries are experiencing long-lasting conflicts while weather-related shocks are increasing in intensity and frequency due to climate change.

In early 2017, South Sudan experienced several months of famine and there is high risks that it could reoccur and happen in otherconflict-affected areas, namely northeast Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen. Other countries, affected by droughts or floods linked in part to the El Niño phenomenon, have also seen food security and nutrition deteriorate. In Ethiopia alone, back-to-back droughts have left at least 8.5 million in need of food aid.

For some countries, the report says the deterioration of food security can be explained by their dependency on commodity exports and a decline in related revenue in recent years.

“Let’s us make no mistakes,” said Houngbo. “Only sustained long-term investment will provide the answer we are looking for.”

The need for investment is particularly acute in rural areas.

About 80 percent of the world’s poorest and undernourished people live in rural areas. Most depend on smallholder agriculture for their lives and livelihoods.

They are strongly affected by conflicts, weather events and

climate change. About 56 per cent of people affected by conflict live in rural areas.

“We need more investments to strengthen food security and nutrition, to strengthen resilience to climate change and to strengthen the productivity of agriculture,” Houngbo added.

During the launch event, Houngbo called for the global development community to unite behind sustained development.

The report also presents the latest figures on malnutrition in the world. In 2016, 155 million children suffered from chronic malnutrition, while 52 million suffered from acute malnutrition.

This is the first time that UNICEF and WHO joined FAO, IFAD and WFP in preparing the annual State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report. This change reflects the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) broader view on hunger and all forms of malnutrition.

The report is the first UN global assessment on food security and nutrition to be released following the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which aims to end hunger and all forms of malnutrition by 2030 as a top international policy priority.

Here in Nigeria, members of the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) and the

Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the country are fully determined to make Federal Government’s diversification of the economy into agriculture a huge success.

According to the national president of NACCIMA , Iyalode Alaba Lawson, preparations are in top gear for a successful staging of an agri-agro summit to be held in Abuja from November 29 to December 1, this year, in conjunction with Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL), backed by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, among others.

To help make the summit sustainable, Lawson said Chief Pascal Dozie, Chairman of Diamond Bank and his company, Kunoch Limited, are the leading consultants to the project, adding that “going into agriculture is business, which you have to understand and master before jumping into it. We are not just talking about producing massively alone; we are talking about producing quality organic food to help sustain the health of Nigerians, and this is why we are going to all nooks and crannies of the country to bring in people like Papa Pascal Dozie to the project.”

Edward Nnachi can be reached via: nnachieddyugbor@ gmail.com

Daily Times Nigeria Thursday, November 16, 2017

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‘Teachers’ or cheaters?

Times Columnist MOHAMMED ADAMU

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Governors are not elected to teach and so should not be asked pedagogical questions as basis for testing their ability to govern. The domain for testing the aptitude of governors must be governance-related. It is the reason that when politicians appear on election debate they are not asked, like teachers may, to show that they know the shape of a triangle. Yes, they may be asked to sing the National anthem, like the Kaduna teachers should, but whereas for the governors it will be to prove how patriotic they are, for the teachers it will be essentially to test if they can teach it in class. It is the reason that, whereas the electorate may forgive a politician’s inability to recite the Anthem, it is unlikely that parents will be as magnanimous with the failure of a teacher to do the same.

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Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education”. –J.F. Kennedy Prologue Nothing more graphically projects the virtual un-importance of ‘memory (or recall) question’ as a component of ‘intelligence test’ than a piece I read online by a certain Professor Abubakar Aliyu Liman. Writing in defense of the controversial 21,000 El-Rufai teachers of Kaduna, Prof. Liman had argued that the yardstick used in assessing them –namely ability to recall materials mentally, instead of the ability to impart materials pedagogically, is the least important element of the domains under which intelligence is tested.

There are three of such domains, he said: The Cognitive domain –which relates to ‘mental ability’, The Effective domain –relating to ‘behavior and or attitude’ and The domain of the Psychomotor which relates to ‘physiological coordination’. Each of these domains he said, has many levels, with ‘The Cognitive domain’ alone, having seven, and of which ‘memory’ or ‘recall’ is not just one of those levels, it is in fact ‘the lowest’ in that domain.

And so, Prof. Liman’s argument, as I understood it, is this: that any test of intelligence, to be holistic, must incorporate all the three domains, touching on all the various levels under each domain. And he argued therefore, that to base a test only on the lowest level of a set of seven levels under just one of three domains which are co-equal and co-functional, cannot be said to be holistic, let alone valid.

To be holistic he said, any exams, to test the aptitude or intelligence of teachers, must be ‘professional’ and ‘standardized’ and it must apply a ‘complex research based instrument’, involving, he said, “A lot of variable, analyses and calculations.”

Memory questions only, he said test the ‘ability to remember’, not the ability to ‘summarize’, ‘compare’, ‘evaluate’, ‘synthesize’, ‘analyze’ or ‘apply’. And just there he got me wondering: how in the world can the very ‘minds’ that conceived some of those ridiculous answers that we saw, do any let alone all of these? How can the Kaduna teachers that we now have the misfortune of knowing – with such less-than-kindergarten minds even to such pedagogically simple questions as identifying a triangle- ever be capable of handling such ‘complex’, ‘standardized’, ‘professional’, ‘research based’ questions that the Prof. said must involve ‘variables’, ‘analyses’ and ‘calculations’?

Besides, if you pick only one out of three major domains; and if, while within that one domain, you pick only the bottomest ‘memory’ level out of seven, to test supposedly ‘experienced’, ‘professional’ teachers, tasking them only to recall simple things as the shape of a triangle or the name of the Governor, and many cannot, only obviate the need to not

Gov. el-Rufai to waste more time testing them on other higher, more complex ‘levels’ within that one domain, let alone make more mockery of the whole situation by going into the other domains.

Agreed, as Prof. Liman argued, that for any test to be valid –namely to measure that which it is organized to measure- it must ask the right questions to the right candidates. Agreed also that not every test will be relevant to everybody.

And yes too, as the Prof. argued, even governors can fail some of the questions given to the Kaduna teachers. But truth is: teachers will not be entitled to the same justification for failure as may be available to a governor. Because whereas the questions asked are relevant –even if not wholly valid- for testing teachers, the same are not valid for testing political administrators.

‘Cross’ teachers must bear Governors are not elected to teach and so should not be asked pedagogical questions as basis for testing their ability to govern. The domain for testing the aptitude of governors must be governance-related. It is the reason that when politicians appear on election debate they are not asked, like teachers may, to show that they know the shape of a triangle. Yes, they may be asked to sing the National anthem, like the Kaduna teachers should, but whereas for the governors it will be to prove how patriotic they are, for the teachers it will be essentially to test if they can teach it in class. It is the reason that, whereas the electorate may forgive a politician’s inability to recite the Anthem, it is unlikely that parents will be as magnanimous with the failure of a teacher to do the same.

But teachers are employed to teach and may therefore be asked to prove not only that they can re-call what they know, but that they can teach that which they re-call. To say that the way to validly test teachers is to ask them only questions on ‘methodology’ and not on ‘material’, is to suggest that ‘methodology’, and not ‘material’, is what teachers are supposed to teach our pupils. I disagree with the Prof. that it is better to have teachers with ‘method’ but without ‘memory’ of ‘material’ teach our children, than to have teachers with ‘memory’ but without ‘method’ do so.

Method is important; but it does not avail in the absence of knowledge of the ‘material’ to be taught. Teaching can take place without methodology, but methodology alone cannot teach without ‘material’. And these materials should reside both in text books and in the heads of teachers who should have both the ‘capacity’

to remember them and the ‘strategy’ to impart them.

Besides it is absurd to suggest that teachers have the capacity to ‘recall’ and apply ‘method’ but not the ability to remember and to deliver ‘material’.

Many insist that rather than sack the 21,000, El-Rufai should ‘re-train’ and retain them. They make it so naively simple. But how do you ‘retrain’ one who has no ‘training’ ab-initio? Hell, how do you ‘train’ one who does not even appear to have been taught in the first place?.

These ‘teachers’ may have passed through some institutions of learning’ but these institutions evidently did not pass through them! You can tell, from their answer scripts, that El-Rufai’s teachers are empty, virgin heads that require to be filled with basic kindergarten ‘matter’ first, then primary and secondary materials, before they are taught raw ‘methodology’ if they are ever to return to the classroom to teach.

It is no wonder we are told that the decision to lay off Kaduna teachers came only after two years of failed ‘re-training’ exercises that gulped over 300 million since El-Rufai came in. You cannot ‘re-train‘ who is not trainable! Nor can you teach the unteachable!

One bad apple El-Rufai’s ‘teachers’ should confound both popular wisdom and the sayings even of the masters. If, as the saying goes, ‘one bad apple spoils the bunch’, well then what’ll twenty one thousand bad ones do -to the bunch, and to innocent fingerlings that should feed from the bunch?

Or if, as Robert Green Ingersoll wrote that “One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests”, what then will twenty one thousand bad schoolmasters be worth? Said Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The man who can make hard things easy is the educator” –namely the teacher. But then what do we make of El-Rufai’s 21,000 ‘educators’, to whom evidently even the easiest things appear to be the hardest? Who’ll teach who, between the teacher and the pupil?

French General and Statesman, Charles De Gaule was the one who said that “Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politician”.

Suggesting that the politician is notorious for dealing more with the ludicrous than he does with the serious. El-Rufai alone, in our own clime, appears to have proven the sages wrong. Politics is not after all ‘too serious a matter’ to be left to ‘some’ politicians. Or maybe we should say ‘some’ politicians have proved themselves ‘serious enough’ for ‘politics’ to be left in their hands. El-Rufai is

proving J. P. Clarke wrong: not all politicians think only of “the next election”. That some of them are like “statesman” too, who think of “the next generation”. El-Rufai will rather lose ‘re-election’ than imperil the ‘next generation’. Or so he said, himself, that: “Many times the decisions we take offer us no political advantages in a polity long accustomed to the false allure of populism. But we do what is necessary, not minding the direct impact on us”.

And maybe it is the reason one of America’s de-segregationists in child education, Francis Keppel said that “Education is too important to be left solely to the educators”. Suggesting that politicians –serious politicians that is- have a duty always to superintend over educators, to ensure that children are taught aright.

And which is what Prof. Liman virtually admitted in his article; that the Teachers Registration Council, TRCN’s failure in discharging its mandate is what has led to the present decay. All that the Council does, he said, is “Collect membership registration fees for issuing meaningless certificates and collection of accreditation fees for poorly monitored programs. TRCN concentrates more in making money than making the profession great”.

It is a shame we are having to learn Francis Keppel’s lesson the hard way -the need to know that as ‘politics’ is too serious a matter to be left in the hands of politicians, so also is ‘education’ too important to be left solely in the hands of ‘educators’. Edo’s former Governor, Adams Oshiomhole did attempt to get involved. He was rebuffed, both by mediocre ‘educators’ who wanted education solely left to them –to continue to ruin; and by un-statesmanly politicians who prioritized ‘the next election’ over and above ‘the next generation’.

Politics and education And we are ill-fated to have opposition parties that have mastered the art of locating silver linings always in the cloud of every effort at righting wrongs. Buoyed always by armies of gullible citizens, they detract every effort by good politicians to plan for the ‘next generation’.

Ironically this rot has gone intraparty too. The afro-haired one from the red Chamber who rose to power on the crest public-spirited causes, is now the alpha male leading a pack of political wolves de-campaigning El-Rufai preparatory to the ‘next election’. “All ambitions are lawful”, said Joseph Conrad “except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind”.

And if education, as Will Durant said, “is a progressive discovery of our ignorance”, but how can our innocent children in Kaduna arrive at that discovery to supplant ignorance with knowledge when those who teach them themselves are bleakly ignorant. Can the blind lead the blind? The NUT President on a Channel TV interview recently admitted Kaduna teachers –aside having failed the aptitude test- are not qualified in the first place to teach.

That whereas the minimum requirement, by policy, is an NCE, most of them have only SSCs and Grade 2 certificates. Yet both the NUT and its parent bodies, the NLC and TUC insist they must not be sacked.

And like the biblical Pharisees and the Sadducees of old, they want us to split hairs debating who is justified, legally, to conduct test for teachers -between a corrective State Government concerned with quality and an eminently-negligent Teachers Registration Council concerned only about job security of its members?

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Ladesope Ladelokun Fresh from Nnamdi Azikwe University, Nsukka, Ikenna Okeke, does not intend to seek employment anywhere with his degree.

The soft-spoken young entrepreneur had one dream since his days as an undergraduate: to own a one-stop-shop for phone accessories in Computer Village, Ikeja, Lagos.

Having completed his National Youth Service Corps programme on May 1, 2017, he opted to go through apprenticeship under the tutelage of his mentor in Anambra state to have a perfect grasp of his dream business at a time his peers were still crisscrossing the length and breadth of Nigeria for jobs. Six months down the line, the Biochemistry graduate now plies his trade at the popular computer village in Lagos.

Why then did he spend four years studying Biochemistry when he had his eyes on the computer village all the while?

Hear him: “Education is very important. But I didn’t go to school because I wanted to seek employment after leaving school. This is what I’ve always do. I’ve been saving for my business right from my days as an undergraduate. When you look at people who are not educated, a great number of them can’t handle their accounts by themselves, they engage people to do what they can ordinarily do.

They can’t do the paper work.’’

However, Ifenna’s days, like other traders at Computer Village are numbered. His dream of making it big at Computer Village is about to be shattered.

This is because plans are underway by the Lagos state government to relocate the market to Katangowa in Agbado OkeOdo Local Council Development Area.

A source close to the Lagos state Government told The Daily Times that the planned relocation is hinged on the need to actualise the Ikeja City Master plan. It added that it was part

G ƒƐè ƐƏ ƗƆƏ ƗƈƇƇƆƏ ƒƆƏ ƏƆƋ ƅ Ɛƈ Ƈ ƌƍƑƐƆƏ yƈƋƋ Ɔ of the state government’s strategy aimed at addressing infrastructural challenges in the state capital.

Stakeholders react Mechanical Engineer, Franklin Agali who sells phone accessories in the computer village, expressed mixed feelings about the planned relocation of computer village. “It could be for good and it could end my business for all I know. This place is central and very well known over the years.

Relocating the whole business entity cannot be easy, but we

are watching.

“If my business fails to flourish, then we look for something else to do,’’ he said sadly.

However, technician, Obi Francis is very optimistic. “I am prepared for whatever or wherever they carry Computer Village to. This is not the first time that Lagos state government is mouthing relocation of the market. We Igbos are always prepared. Anywhere they want us to go, we will go.

“For the past four years they have been talking about it. It even became instrument of threat and intimidation, but we

are ready. It may be rough in the beginning, but we will adapt overtime,” Obi said.

But, Eze Nwankwo, a trader in the market,is apprehensive of the move if it becomes real.

Eze said, “As government is making their plans, I would be foolish to sit down and do nothing while they are planning to dislodge us here, but I won’t go just wherever we are relocated to and I know many of our people will not.

“This is the place I grew my business from scratch. I can’t imagine starting all over again in some strange place.’’

Reinhard Bonnke ends farewell crusade

Esther Taiwo

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In what could be described as one of the most successful gathering with a blessed weather for the whole five days, the much talked about and one of the most expected events in the country has come and gone - but the memories will linger in the minds of many Nigerians.

Addressing the mammoth crowd that is overwhelming in an emotional laden voice, Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke said his last prayers for Nigeria, a country he has been visiting for his

global crusade since 1985.

His words: “As I bid Nigeria farewell, I pray for the national needs of this country, I say God bless the country Nigeria, I pray for God’s blessings upon the people, I pray for wisdom for President Buhari to lead this nation and to have the grace to take the right decision concerning this country. I pray for Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo for God to bless him, I pray for Ogun State governor, Ibikunle Amosun that God should bless

him, I pray for Lagos State governor, Akiwunmi Ambode that the Rivers of the Living Waters flow through Lagos and I remove all the powers of the devil from the land.

Bonnke also prayed for the salvation of Nigeria while breaking the yoke of poverty upon the land saying poverty is a pain on the people and if Jesus can have compassion on the pain of the sick, He should equally heal the pain of pover-

ty and have compassion on the poor.

His words “Look upon the poor Lord and help them on their feet, I pray for unemployed graduates that cannot get jobs proportionate to their certificates, I pray that God should put food on the table of each home and family, I break the curse of popverty, I pray that criminals should exchange their guns for the Bible, I pray against youths unemployment and pray for God fearing leaders for Nigeria and that this society be free of corruption.”

Expressing his view on the matter, another trader, Sola Omodeinde, said he is against the relocation.

“Do you know what it took most of us to relocate our head offices here? People already know this market. They come from other African countries to this place. Instead of relocating this market, they can build another one where they are planning to relocate us; people will still go there.

“I can tell you that there are people here who have branch offices at Iyana Ipaja, Mushin and other parts of Lagos. It doesn’t make sense for government to ask everybody to go to another place and start afresh.

Computer Village is an international market,’’ he said.

No cause for alarm In the midst of hues and cries of the traders, the Lagos State Commissioner of Information, Mr. Steve Ayorinde, in an interview granted the BBC recently said the hue and cry in certain quarters over the relocation of Computer Village is understandable.

Ayorinde insists that the Lagos state Government means well. “It’s understandable if there is resistance to the relocation of Computer Village, but with time, say, three to six months time, they will come to understand the good intention of this government.”

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Sexually abused at 7, victim writes a book : Broken But Beautiful By our Correspondent

As the world grabbles with the scourge of rape and child molestation, young Nigerian author, Vera Alex has narrated how she was sexually abused consistently by her uncle at the age of seven and the effect of the abuse on her life.

In her book titled “Broken But Beautiful”, which was presented to the public in Lagos on Saturday, the graduate of Immerse Coaching Company, said her life was a both “a mess and a wreck” as a young woman growing up with such horrible experience.

The author, in her speech at the occa-

sion, revealed that at the age of seven, “I was raped by my own uncle and continuously molested for years.

It was so bad that I failed terribly academically and no one was able to paint any form of success in my future.

“I was rejected by everyone around me.

My friends weren’t my friends. I had extremely busy parents.

They were trying to give us the financially free life. You definitely can’t blame them.”

Concluding that she felt she didn’t have any potential of something good in her, Vera repeated that her life was a mess and a wreck.

“I was blamed time and again for things I

did and didn’t do and in the midst of it all, life taught me to keep quiet. Don’t talk about it!

“I am the least likely to be where I am right now and it’s not even close to the beginning of the impact I’m about to make,” she said with determination.

“I wrote this book on the details of my life experience. I have also started to coach people that had so much negativity and failure in their past.

“From my experience in coaching, I have seen how negative voices from the past start to display and dictate a future if we don’t face them squarely and rather try to block them out

because we think we have gotten over them.”

On why she started her coaching school, the young author emphasised that the need to fall in love with oneself was the first step to success hence the coaching centered on training people to accept and love themselves.

“I love to see people love hence my coaching. I coach people to learn the art of dating themselves so that they can see the real deep beauty they have absolutely never seen in themselves.

“I teach them to fall in love with themselves and place a high value on their lives by this beauty,” she concluded.

Ms Vera Alex

Cultists unleash terror on Lagos residents The relative peace in Badia community, a suburb of Lagos in ApapaIganmu Council area of the state was recently shattered as suspected cultists unleashed terror on its residents.

At least two persons were said to be on danger list in an undisclosed hospital, with doctors battling to save their lives following injuries sustained while the operation lasted.

Our correspondent gathered that the terror gang, led by one Sunday Ogunleye and Taiye (a.k.a Waris) stormed Sura Street at about 6.00pm over the weekend, stabbed residents at random with dagger, leaving one Toye Omose and another yet to be identified seriously injured.

The community was thrown into pandemonium as the cultists moved from street to street, attacking anyone at sight while residents ran helter shelter looking for their children; trad-

ers hurriedly locked up their stores and took to their heels.

However, luck ran against one of the bandits named Ogunleye.

An eye witness said he was overpowered by some vigilante men and residents who handed him over to policemen at Badia Police Station for investigation and prosecution.

Consequently, members of the joint Community Development Associations Apapa-Iganmu chapter have petitioned the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) Badia Division, urging him to ensure the arrest of other suspects and diligently prosecute them.

According to the petition, tilted “Spread of Terror, Murder, Unlawful Possession and Use of Fire Arms, Armed Invasion”, copied the Area “B” commander, Chief Magistrate, Marine Beach Magistrate Court and Chairman Apapa-Iganmu LCDA, it was alleged that Sunday

-One on danger list

One of the victims Toye Omose

Ogunleye and his gang members have turned the lives of residents of Ireti-owoseni, Giwa Streets and its environs to a nightmare over time,

terrorising the whole community at will.

In the petition signed by community leader, Prince Kayode Obadiah and chairmen of

Oguntayo South, Abete, Oguntayo North, Afolabi Alasia, Apata Alasia, Orisunbare, Apata-oro, Badia Centra, Badia East, Badia West, Gaskiya West, Ogunleye was alleged to be a gun runner, who has continued to spread terror in the community, adding that there was no passing week that he has not assaulted, molested and oppressed residents with members of his gang.

While chronicling his antecedents, they alleged that “Sunday Ogunleye and his gang on the 1st day of December, 2011 at about 2.30am attacked the community and rubbed many houses, collected money and killed one Mr. Wewe on the said day. After the intervention of Badia Police Officers and members of the community, eleven members of the gang were arrested out of which three were charged for murder.

Ogunleye, who led the gang, ran away since 2011 December, he now

resurfaced to the community in July 2017 during the local government election. His recent act that prompted this petition was the attempted murder of Prince Kayode Badia with unlawful use of fire arms on defenseless innocent residents at the end of Giwa street in August 2017, when he led Yusuf Arogundade (a.k.a Mighty), the younger brother to the current councilor of ward “C”.

They alleged further that Ogunleye and his gang members possess dangerous weapons such as locally made pistol, AK 47, dagger, cutlasses, axes with which they used to terrorise the residents.

The petitioners appealed to the police authority to urgently swing into action and mop up the cultists from the community to save residents from continuous harassment, maiming and terror on innocent residents.

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BISHOP KANAYO ENUMA FOUNDATION THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED ASSOCIATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER THE PART C OF COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

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KUKURUKU ROYAL BROTHERS’ CLUB

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CORRECTION OF NAME

BISIRIYU AYISAT EBUDOLA

KABIR SANUSI

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UZOBUAKU CHIBUZOR MICHAEL

UMEADIM UZOMAMAKA SCICILLY

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I formerly known and addressed as UZOBUAKU CHIBUZOR FIDELS. Now wish to be known and addressed as UZOBUAKU CHIBUZOR MICHAEL ADDRESS_ 12 LADEGA BOLAJOKO STR. AGBELE OTA-ONA. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as Umeadimu Scicilly U, now wish to be known and addressed as Umeadim Uzomamaka Scicilly. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

CHINWENDU ABEL I, formerly known and addressed as, CHINWENDU AJRERE, now wish to be known and addressed as, CHINWENDU ABEL. My correct date of birth is, 19th September, 1996. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as, MISS. NWAOBODO LOVETH IFEBUCHE, now wish to be known and addressed as, MRS. FABIAN LOVETH IFEBUCHE. All former documents remain valid.

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I, formerly known and addressed as, MICHAEL LUCKY, now wish to be known and addressed as, LUCKY MAXIM. My correct date of birth is, 24th April, 1999. All former documents remain valid.

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ALAO GIFT CALISTA I, formerly known and addressed as, EMEKA CALISTA ONYIYECHI and ALAO GIFT ONYIYECHI, now wish to be known and addressed as, ALAO GIFT CALISTA. All former documents remain valid.

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CONFIRMATION OF NAME I, DAVID OSARETIN IDAHOSA, and DAVID IDAHOSA, refer to one and same person but, now wish to be known and addressed as, DAVID OSARETIN IDAHOSA. All former documents remain valid.

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CONFIRMATION OF NAME I, OLAMIDE HANNAH, and OGUNYEMI HANNAH WURAOLA, refer to one and same person but, now wish to be known and addressed as, OGUNYEMI HANNAH WURAOLA. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME I formerly known and addressed as IDIKAME ONOSAKPONOME KELVIN and IDIKAME KELVIN now wish to be known and addressed as IDIKAME KELVIN KEPHAS All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

CHINELO ORAKWELU I formerly known and addressed as EZEANI CHINELO EMMILIAN now wish to be known and addressed as CHINELO ORAKWELU All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

AKINLOLU RUKAYAT ADEFUNKE I formerly known and addressed as FAKEHINDE RUKAYAT ADEFUNKE and ADENIYI RUKAYAT ADEFUNKE now wish to be known and addressed as AKINLOLU RUKAYAT ADEFUNKE. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

EVELYN UZIEZI AMOS-OKUMA

ASORO A. ADEOLA

FELIX OSHIE UJIE I formerly known and addressed as CHARLES UJIE now wish to be known and addressed as FELIX OSHIE UJIE. All former documents remain valid. Keystone bank, PTAD and General public to please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as OMOLARA LAURA BOLANLE FOLAKE FUMI OTOHKINE OBASUSI OLASEDE SANNI now wish to be known and addressed as OMOLARA ANNE LAURA BOLANLE FOLAKE FUMI OTOHIMEN. All former documents remain valid.

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MRS UWALEKE CYNTHIA AMEGUMA I formerly known and addressed as MISS UNOKE CYNTHIA AMEGUMA now wish to be known and addressed as MRS UWALEKE CYNTHIA AMEGUMA. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as MISS OPADERE BUKOLA ARINOLA now wish to be known and addressed as MRS OLOWOYO BUKOLA ARINOLA All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as EVELYN OGHENOVO AGBARAGU now wish to be known and addressed as EVELYN UZIEZI AMOS-OKUMA. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as OLAMERUN A. ADEOLA now wish to be known and addressed as ASORO A. ADEOLA. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

MRS NWOGU KELECHI JOY I formerly known and addressed as MISS OSUNWOKE KELECHI JOY now wish to be known and addressed as MRS NWOGU KELECHI JOY. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

OBISESAN OLADIMEJI LUKMON

MONICA OMOLARA SOFOLAHAN I formerly known and addressed as MONICA OMOLARA MABAYOJE now wish to be known and addressed as MONICA OMOLARA SOFOLAHAN. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as EJINDU CHIZOBAM JOSIAH AMOBI SO’SHY now wish to be known and addressed as EJINDU-THOMAS CHINOBI SO’SHY All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

KAZEEM BOK JEFFERY I formerly known and addressed as KAZEEM B.O.K. JEFFERY now wish to be known and addressed as KAZEEM BOK JEFFERY. All former documents remain valid.

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CONFIRMATION OF NAMES

CONFIRMATION OF NAMES

In some of my documents my name appears as MRS AJAYI CHRISTIANAH FOLAKE While in some other ones it appears as MISS IYABO OSHIN .The names refer to the same person. Now I want to be known as MRS AJAYI CHRISTIANAH FOLAKE. All documents bearing all the names remain valid.

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In some of my documents my name appears as NWOSU JULIE CHINWE While in some other ones it appears as NWAGU-NWOSU JULIE IFY .The names refer to the same person. All documents bearing all the names remain valid. General public to please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as ERE OLADIMEJI LUKMAN now wish to be known and addressed as OBISESAN OLADIMEJI LUKMON. All former documents remain valid.

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OLAOSEBIKAN IFEOLUWA TEMITOPE

I formerly known and addressed as MISS AYODELE IFEOLUWA TEMITOPE now wish to be known and addressed as OLAOSEBIKAN IFEOLUWA TEMITOPE. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

EJINDU-THOMAS CHINOBI SO’SHY

MRS. FABIAN LOVETH IFEBUCHE

OMOLARA ANNE LAURA BOLANLE FOLAKE FUMI OTOHIMEN

MRS OLOWOYO BUKOLA ARINOLA

CONFIRMATION OF NAMES In some of my documents my name appears as OMERI UDUME THEOPHILUS While in some other ones it appears as UDUME THEOPHILUS DEYDE .The names refer to the same person. All documents bearing all the names remain valid. General public to please take note.

OYEWUNMI OLUWAKEMI COMFORT

I formerly known and addressed as AJAYI OLUWAKEMI COMFORT now wish to be known and addressed as OYEWUNMI OLUWAKEMI COMFORT. All former documents remain valid.

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OBIANO DENNIS LUCKY I formerly known and addressed as OBIANO DENNIS UZOCHUKWU now wish to be known and addressed as OBIANO DENNIS LUCKY. All former documents remain valid.

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CONFIRMATION OF NAMES

In some of my documents my name appears as ATAYI IYABO AYOKO While in some other ones it appears as ATAYI GRACE AYOKO. The names refer to the same person. All documents bearing all the names remain valid. General public to please take note.

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OMOTAYO EYIOWUAWI Formerly known and addressed as OMOTAYO TOLUWALASE, now wish to be known and addressed as OMOTAYO EYIOWUAWI. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

EMMANUEL SOBECHUKWU EMMANUELLA

MRS. GARBA ADEFISAYO IFEOLUWA

Formerly known and addressed as SOBECHUKWU ANITA, now wish to be known and addressed as EMMANUEL SOBECHUKWU EMMANUELLA. All former documents remain valid.

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CONFIRMATION OF NAME

ABAWURU MARIA

that GODONU PEDEPO ABIMBOLA is also the same person bearing GODONU PEDEPO CHRISTIANAH. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as MARIA MERCYNWAYIOCHA ABAWURU, now wish to be known and addressed as ABAWURU MARIA. All former documents remain valid.

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SHAIBU ZAINAB ABDULLAHI

NWARIBEAKU JOHN CHIKR

Formerly known and addressed as ZAINABU ELE ABDUL, now wish to be known and addressed as SHAIBU ZAINAB ABDULLAHI. All former documents remain valid.

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CHUKWU ROSEMARY NGOZI

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Formerly known and addressed as MISS. ODOFIN ADEFISAYO IFEOLUWA, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. GARBA ADEFISAYO IFEOLUWA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

OBIDIMMA MARIAN EKWUTOSINAM

MRS. ADESOLA OLUBUSOLA ALONGE

OLADIMEJI JACOB ABIODUN

Formerly known and addressed as ONYEAJU ANN PRECIOUS EKWUTOSINAM, now wish to be known and addressed as OBIDIMMA MARIAN EKWUTOSINAM. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as MISS. ADESOLA OLUBUSOLA OLUSOGA, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. ADESOLA OLUBUSOLA ALONGE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as ANIFOWOSHE ABBEY OLADIMEJI, now wish to be known and addressed as OLADIMEJI JACOB ABIODUN. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

JIMOH FUNMI ESAN

MARYAM TITILAYO ABUBAKAR

JOHN IDOKO-UBANYERO BALARABA

BUBA WAZIYA DAUDA

Formerly known and addressed as FASUYI FUNMILAYO BOLA, now wish to be known and addressed as JIMOH FUNMI ESAN. All former documents remain valid.

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MR NNAJI JUDE CHINEDU

Formerly known and addressed as MARYAM TITILAYO ADEKANYE, now wish to be known and addressed as MARYAM TITILAYO ABUBAKAR. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

PHILIPS CHUKS AUSTIN Formerly known and addressed as AUGUSTINE PHILIPS UFUOKWU, now wish to be known and addressed as PHILIPS CHUKS AUSTIN. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as OMOLARA MARY OLUMIDE, now wish to be known and addressed as ODUNFA OMOLARA RISIKATU. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as AUGUSTINA OBIAGELI ONYIMBA, now wish to be known and addressed as AUGUSTINA OBIAGELI ONYIMBA-OZAH. All former documents remain valid.

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MRS ADIGWE CHIDINMA BLESSING

APATA TITILAYO FUNKE I formerly known and addressed as ADEBOLA FUNKE TITILAYO now wish to be known called and addressed as APATA TITILAYO FUNKE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

ONEMHEGHIE FLORENCE I formerly known and addressed as Nasamu Florence now wish to be known called and addressed as Onemheghie Florence.

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ZAINAB AYOBAMI MUSA

Formerly known and addressed as ELIZABETH AYOBAMI MUSA, now wish to be known and addressed as ZAINAB AYOBAMI MUSA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

BASIRATU ABIODUN OLADIMEJI Formerly known and addressed as BASIRATU ABIODUN AREMU, now wish to be known and addressed as BASIRATU ABIODUN OLADIMEJI. All former documents remain valid.

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ABOLADE OLUWATOYIN TEMITOPE

AKHIMIEN GLORY OSAS

I formerly known and addressed as BOLADE TOYIN ESTHER now wish to be known called and addressed as ABOLADE OLUWATOYIN TEMITOPE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I formerly known and addressed as ERATIEBHOMOH GLORY OSAS now wish to be known called and addressed as AKHIMIEN GLORY OSAS. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

MRS LILIAN CHINAEDU OBIAGELI ANYAGHARA I, formerly known and addressed as Miss LILIAN OBIAGELI CHUKWUNONYE now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs LILIAN CHINAEDU OBIAGELI ANYAGHARA. All former documents remain valid.

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MRS. ALAGBAOSO CHINENYENWA ROSEMARY

CORRECTION OF NAME

SOMUYIWA FELICIA AJOKE

Formerly known and addressed as MISS.NWACHUKWU CHINENYENWA ROSEMARY now wish to be known,called and addressed as MRS. ALAGBAOSO CHINENYENWA ROSEMARY. All former documents remain valid. NYSC, BANKS and General public take note.

This is to inform the general public that my name was wrongly written as ADEKUNLE USMAN GANIYU instead of USMAN GANIYU OLAWALE. All former documents remain valid.

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I formerly known and addressed as SHOMUYIWA FELICIA OLUFEMI and SHOMUYIWA FELICIA EBUN now wish to be known called and addressed as SOMUYIWA FELICIA AJOKE. All former documents remain valid.

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MRS OSHIKOYA OLABISI ABIDEMI

MRS SHADEKO OMOLOLA OLAYINKA

AINA SERAH OLUWASEUN

I formerly known and addressed as MISS ALA OLABISI ABIDEMI now wish to be known and addressed as MRS OSHIKOYA OLABISI ABIDEMI. All former documents remain valid.

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I formerly known and addressed as MISS JAIYEOLA OMOLOLA OLAYINKA now wish to be known and addressed as MRS SHADEKO OMOLOLA OLAYINKA. All former documents remain valid.

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I formerly known and addressed as AYOOLA SERAH TEMITOPE now wish to be known and addressed as AINA SERAH OLUWASEUN. All former documents remain valid.

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AKINPELU VICTORIA OLUBUNMI I formerly known and addressed as OLATOKUNBO VICTORIA OLUBUNMI now wish to be known and addressed as AKINPELU VICTORIA OLUBUNMI. All former documents remain valid.

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ODUME IBUKUNOLUWA MARY

AKINJOBI ZULYKHA BUKOLA

CHANGE OF NAME/ CORRECTION OF BIRTH DATE

BAKARE OLANREWAJU SAMUEL

I formerly known and addressed as PRAISE EKWERE now wish to be known and addressed as PATIENCE EKWERE. That my date of birth is 13 July 1995. All former documents remain valid.

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I formerly known and addressed as AKINJOBI SULIAT BUKOLA now wish to be known and addressed as AKINJOBI ZULYKHA BUKOLA. All former documents remain valid.

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REUBEN OMOLE

I formerly known and addressed as SEGUN OYENIJI, now wish to be known and addressed as MAX STEEL. All former documents remain valid.

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I formerly known and addressed as OSAZUWA OMOLE OMOLE, now wish to be known and addressed as REUBEN OMOLE. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities concerned should please take note.

MRS.IDRIS ADISHE HADIZAR

OSIBOTE YEMISI DOLAPO I, formerly known and addressed as GEORGE YEMISI DOLAP0, Now wish to be known and addressed as OSIBOTE YEMISI DOLAPO. All former documents remain valid.

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I formerly known and addressed as Miss.Egbunu Adishe Hadizar, now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs.IDRIS Adishe Hadizar.

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ENUDIKOWU GLORIA EKENE

I formerly known as Ashiedu Gloria Ekene wish to be known and addressed as Enudikowu Gloria Ekene. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

AUGUSTINA OBIAGELI ONYIMBA-OZAH

Formerly known and addressed as NWARIBEAKU CHIBUIKE JOHN, now wish to be known and addressed as NWARIBEAKU JOHN CHIKR. All former documents remain valid. BANKS and the general public take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as Miss NNEJI Chidinma Blessing now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs ADIGWE Chidinma Blessing . All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

MAX STEEL

ODUNFA OMOLARA RISIKATU

Formerly known and addressed as BUKAR ABDULLAHI, now wish to be known and addressed as BUBA WAZIYA DAUDA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as MR OKOLI JUDE CHINEDU, now wish to be known and addressed as MR NNAJI JUDE CHINEDU. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as Chukwu Blessing Ngozi now wish to be known and addressed as Chukwu Rosemary Ngozi. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I formerly known and addressed as FASANYA IBUKUNOLUWA MARY now wish to be known and addressed as ODUME IBUKUNOLUWA MARY. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as IDOKO UBANYERO BALARABA, now wish to be known and addressed as JOHN IDOKOUBANYERO BALARABA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

SHOIBARE AFUSAT ALAKE

I formerly known as Shonibare Afusat Alake wish to be known and addressed as Shoibare Afusat Alake.

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UMARU MARY

MRS. ANYANWU JANE NKECHI

ASHADELE SOLOMON OLADITI

I formerly known and addressed as BAKARE LANRE now wish to be known and addressed as BAKARE OLANREWAJU SAMUEL. That my date of birth is 28 August 1988. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I formerly known and addressed as AKINPELU AKINOLA, now wish to be known and addressed as ASHADELE SOLOMON OLADITI. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities concerned should please take note.

UWAH BLESSING NGOZI

MRS. OLAYINKA IFINWA EDWARDS MRS. OLAYINKA IFINWA EDWARDS: I formerly known and addressed as ODUJA OLAYINKA TAIWO, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. OLAYINKA IFINWA EDWARDS. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

CORRECTION OF NAME My name was wrongly written as IBRAHEEM AKANJI instead of my correct name as AROMASHODUN IBRAHIM AKANJI. All former documents remain valid.

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CONFIRMATION OF NAME

OLAOLUWA MICHAEL OLAOLUWA

I hereby confirm that ABISOGUN JELILI OKANLAWON is my name and my date of birth is 6th day of April 1962. All former documents remain valid. First Bank Nig. Plc and general public please take note.

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

I formerly known and addressed as OLATOYE BLESSING, now wish to be known and addressed as UWAH BLESSING NGOZI. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities concerned should please take note.

KAJIYEM FAITH OKPAWHOMEN

AGABUS AUGUSTINE

ADENEKAN SAKIRAT FOLAKE I formerly known as AKINDE SAKIRAT FOLAKE and OLANREWAJU SAKIRAT FOLAKE wish to be known and addressed as ADENEKAN SAKIRAT FOLAKE. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

MRS ROSEMARY OBIANUJU OLUSAYO OLADELE I formerly called and addressed as MISS ROSEMARY OBIANUJU MBONU. now wish to be known and addressed as MRS ROSEMARY OBIANUJU OLUSAYO OLADELE. All former documents remains valid, the general public please take note.

I, formerly called and addressed as MISS EGBUNA JANE NKECHI now wish to be known called and addressed as MRS. ANYANWU JANE NKECHI All former documents remain valid. The general public please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as SHEDRACK MARY, now wish to be known and addressed as UMARU MARY. All former documents remain valid. General public and Authorities concerned should please take note.

I formerly known as ASHINYOKEM FAITH OKPAWHOMEN wish to be known and addressed as KAJIYEM FAITH OKPAWHOMEN. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

EBURUCHE EBERECHUKWU BORNGREA I, formerly called and addressed as EBURUCHE NDIDIAMAKA MARGRET now wish to be known called and addressed as EBURUCHE EBERECHUKWU BORNGREAT. All former documents remain valid. The general public please take note.

I formerly known as AGABUS SIMON TENKUNNA wish to be known and addressed as AGABUS AUGUSTINE. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

MRS. AJAYI ABIMBOLA DIANA TEMILOLUWAA I formerly known as MISS BIMBO DIANA OMOGBEHIN wish to be known and addressed as MRS. AJAYI ABIMBOLA DIANA TEMILOLUWA. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

AWA JOY

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

MRS. ADELAJA RITA TOLULOPE

I, formerly known and addressed as MRS ODOMROBERT RITA TOLULOPE, Now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. ADELAJA RITA TOLULOPE. All former documents remain valid.

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FALANA LARA OMOLARA

My Name and Date of Birth was mistakenly written as ONWOKE MARTHA OHIAMA and Date of Birth is 07/02/1984 on my National I .D. Card instead of IJI MARTHA OHIAMA and Date of Birth is 07/02/1991. My correct name is IJI MARTHA OHIAMA and my correct Date of Birth is 07/02/1991. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

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

ADEMOLA BISOLA CHRISTIANA I formerly known as ONIYIDE BISOLA CHRISTIANA wish to be known and addressed as ADEMOLA BISOLA CHRISTIANA .All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

SALAMI OLAYINKA TEMITOPE

ADEWARA OLAJIDE OLADIPUPO Formerly known, called and addressed as OLADIPUPO OLAJIDE EMMANUEL, now wish to be known, called and addressed as ADEWARA OLAJIDE OLADIPUPO. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

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MRS ELEGUSHI OLUSOLA KAFILAT

I Formerly known and addressed as MISS ADENIRAN OLUSOLA KAFILAT now wish to be known, called and addressed as MRS ELEGUSHI OLUSOLA KAFILAT. All documents and certificates bearing my former names remain valid. Banks, Nigeria Immigration Service, Relevant Authorities and the General public Please take note.

I formerly known as LEIGH OMOLARA ABENI wish to be known and addressed as FALANA LARA OMOLARA. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

CORRECON OF NAME/DATE OF BIRTH

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I formerly known as SALAMI OLAYINKA TOPE wish to be known and addressed as SALAMI OLAYINKA TEMITOPE. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME I UKAEGBU EZEKIEL AZUBUIKE am the same person bearing these following names: UKAEGBU EZEKIEL AZUBUIKE , UKAEGBU EZEKIEL UGOCHA and UKAEGBU EZEKIEL MAURICE. All Documents /Credentials bearing these names remain valid, general public please take note.

PATRIOT PASSION FOUNDATION

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE:(I) DAVID CHINEDUM NWOGU (CHAIRMAN) (II) ADEBAYO AYOTOMIYA ADEKUNLE THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE IS:PROMOTION OF UNITY, EQUALITY AND PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE

QUEEN IBITAMUNO JAMES

I OLUWADAMILOLA OLU AJILEYE (NEE OMONIYI) got married to AJILEYE OLUMIDE on 24/05/2014 in Oson State under native and custom and necessary dowry was paid by my husband. General public to please take note.

CHANGE OF NAME AND CORRECTION OF DATE OF BIRTH I formerly known as Ajape Rukayat Mayowa wish to be known and addressed as Mayeloye Rukayat Ajile. the wrong date of birth is 20th February, 1985 while the corrected date of birth is 10th June, 1985.

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

I formerly known as DUROWOJU ABISOLA ZAINAB wish to be known and addressed as OMOYIOLA ABISOLA ZAINAB. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

CORRECTION OF NAME My name is BUSARI TAOFIQ MUHAMMED not ABDULAHI my correct name remain BUSARI TAOFIQ MUHAMMED. All Documents /Credentials bearing these names remain valid, general public please take note.

I formerly known as OLUWAFEMI OLUFUNKE GRACE wish to be known and addressed as OLUBORODE OLUFUNKE GRACE .All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

EYINJU FOUNDATION

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE:(I) ADEWOYE ADEDOLAPO FAITH (CHAIRMAN) (II) ADEWOYE OPEYEMI PRECIOUS (SECRETARY) THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE IS:GROOMING, EMPOWERING AND POSITIONING TEENS AND YOUTHS TO BE LEADERS OF TOMORROW.

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA DISTRICT, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA DISTRICT, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS PUBLICATION

SIGNED BY: CHAIRMAN

SIGNED BY CHAIRMAN

LEADERSHIP FOR HEALTH INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT

AMANA GRAINS SUPPLIERS ASSOCIATION CAC/IT/NO 96745

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. BENJAMIN ANYENE 2. HON. MUHAMMAD USMAN 3. WILLIAM ANYEBE 4. NKEM ENE 5. EDWIN DANIELS 6. NCHEDO JALUCHI ANYENE AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO MOTIVATE PEOPLE TO ADOPT HEALTH-PROMOTING BEHAVIOURS BY PROVIDING APPROPRIATE KNOWLEDGE AND HELPING TO DEVELOP POSITIVE ATTITUDE. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION

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

OLD NAME: AMANA GRAINS SUPPLIERS ASSOCIATION TO AMANA FARMERS AND GRAINS SUPPLIERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ALH. SALISH NUHU 2. ALH. SANK ADAMU (DANTINE) 3.ALH. ALI UMARU (TURAWA) 4. ABDULLAHI BUHARI 5. ALH. BALA BARDE ROGO 6. ALH. YAHUZA HUSAINI (GANGARA) 7.SANI YAHAYA ABDULLAHI 8.ABDULAZIZ CIROMA (MADAKI) 9. ALH. DAHIRU UMARU MUHD DALIBI (MAIDUSA) 10. SHEHU MUSA AIM AND OBJECTIVES REMAIN SAME ANY OBJECTION TO THIS APPLICATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION

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People living with diabetes can eat any food, says experts Stories by Angela Onwuzoo

Considering health benefits of consuming foods rich in vitamins and minerals such as fruits, whole grain and vegetables, Nigerians living with diabetes should stop limiting themselves to only beans and unripe plantain but can eat any locally available and culturally acceptable food in moderation.

This is because, there is no special diet for diabetes, and there is nothing like diabetes diet, say experts.

Contrary to the common notion that diabetes is caused by excessive consumption of sugar or certain types of foods, experts have revealed that it is not sugar or foods that cause diabetes.

They made this assertion in Lagos at a Capacity Building Workshop on Diabetes for Health Journalists to commemorate the 2017 World Diabetes Day with the theme, “Women and Diabetes — Our Right to a Healthy Future’’.

The workshop which had the theme, “Equipping Present-day Journalists for Effective Reporting of Diabetes’’, was organised by Sanofi Aventis Pharma Nigeria, a global healthcare organisation to help journalists have better understanding and accurately report issues around diabetes in order to increase public understanding about the condition.

According to the experts, diabetes is caused by the body’s inability to manage glucose and not by too much sugar consumption nor foods; they added that a diabetic can eat everything.

Diabetes, World Health Organisation (WHO) says, is a chronic disease that occurs either when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin or when the body cannot effectively use the insulin it produces.

Insulin is a hormone that regulates blood sugar.

Demystifying some of the myths surrounding the disease - especially in the area of nutrition, an Endocrinologist and Senior Lecturer, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Dr Ifedayo Odeniyi, noted that diabetes is a problem with the body’s han-

Fruits and vegetables

dling of glucose.

Odeniyi explained: “Most people believe that when you have diabetes, it is because you eat too much sugar, this is not correct.

“Diabetes is not as a result of consuming sugar or sugary things, but rather, it is as a result of the body’s inability to handle glucose in the body.

“The glucose comes from all the foods we eat - whether it is meat, carbohydrate, protein or fat; so, in their normal forms, the body does not recognise them.

“The only thing the body recognises is glucose as a source of energy; when we eat `eba’, `fufu’ foods prepared from cassava, rice and others, the body changes them to glucose.”

He called on Nigerians living with diabetes to come out of the ignorance of consuming only beans, unripe plantain and wheat and embrace every healthy diet.

“We have often heard that the diet of diabetics should be beans and unripe plantain, but that is not correct. There is no special diet for diabetes, and there is nothing like diabetes diet. A diabetic can eat everything”, he maintained.

Odeniyi further revealed that the erroneous consumption of only beans and unripe plantain by those living with diabetes have closed their eyes to rich available food in our environment.

“They are even denied meat.

Unfortunately, some doctors say diabetic patients should be on beans, but beans is not protein, it is actually 60 per cent carbohydrate, while even plantain is 70 per cent carbohydrate. “The diabetic should eat everything in moderation”, he stated.

The body needs glucose for energy for us to move around, eyes to see, brain to function and for every part of the body

to function well, he stressed, affirming that healthy diet, regular physical activity, maintaining a normal body weight and avoiding tobacco use are ways to prevent or delay the onset of diabetes.

Beside nutrition, Odeniyi urged those diagnosed of diabetes to seek early and proper treatment from qualified medical practitioners.

He however identified oily foods, butter, dairy products, carbonated drinks, alcohol, sweets, sucrose, salty and fast foods as some of the things to avoid.

In his remarks, Head, External Affairs, Sanofi, Mr Oladimeji Agbolade said that diabetes had become a global pandemic.

Agbolade pointed out that as at 2015, it was estimated that 415 million adults have diabetes and it is expected to rise to 642 million by 2040.

He said that managing the disease was tedious and timeconsuming but required effective management which would include taking extra care around food and exercise, as well as monitoring of blood sugar levels throughout the day.

Agbolade therefore, urged the federal government to make a policy that would ensure that Nigerians were compulsorily tested for diabetes anytime they went to hospital.

The World Diabetes Day is marked annually on November 14 seeks to raise awareness about the way the health problem affects people on a global scale.

Child malnutrition rises as infant mortality drops The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), UNICEF and other key partners have officially released the results of the fifth Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey (MICS5), conducted in 2016 and 2017.

The survey results showed that Nigeria made significant improvements in some areas while others remain unchanged or have worsened since 2011 by not keeping pace with population growth when the last survey was conducted.

For example, according to the results, infant mortality rate has dropped to 70 per 1000 live births from 97 in 2011. Equally, deaths among children under age five have dropped to 120 per 1000 live births from 158 in 2011.

However, malnutrition among children under age five has worsened nationwide with the highest concerns in northern states. Child wasting (children who are too thin for their age) increased from 24.2% to 31.5%, while child stunting (children who are too small for their age) increased from 34.8% to 43.6%.

MICS5 is a recognised and definitive source of information for assessing the situation of children

Children suffering from malnutrition

and women in the areas of health; Nutrition; Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH); education; protection; and HIV & AIDS amongst others – in Nigeria as well as in other countries where it is carried out.

The findings of the survey are used for planning, monitoring and decision making on programmes and policies to address issues related to the well-being of children and

women in Nigeria.

“The use of this new MICS5 data will improve the lives of Nigerians by informing about important gaps that are impacting children and women so that appropriate actions can be taken”, said Pernille Ironside, Acting Representative for UNICEF in Nigeria. “It is not about data for the sake of data”, she added.

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Family planning: TCI signs letter of commitment with Ogun, Kano and other states Stories by Angela Onwuzoo The Challenge Initiative (TCI) has signed a Letter of Commitment with the Ogun, Kano, Delta, Bauchi and Niger State governments to implement The Challenge Fund Catalytic Grant after a demand-driven selfselection process.

TCI is implemented globally by the Gates Institute at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and in Nigeria by the Johns Hopkins University Centre for Communication Programs (JHUCCP).

The signing of the Letter of Commitment was disclosed by TCI at the just concluded 60th National Council on Health Conference in Abeokuta, Ogun State, South west Nigeria.

The grant is aimed at providing technical and financial assistance to the states in implementing successful high impact Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI) family planning proven interventions.

The Initiative will work with the State Government through the State Ministry of Health, State Primary Healthcare Development Agency and other relevant departments and agencies of the states to implement the grant with the states in the drivers seat at the forefront of executing the grant and TCI providing light touch technical support.

The award will fund planned activities targeted at ensuring im-

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proved social norms in favour of family planning; expanded and continuous availability of modern contraceptives; improved Quality of Contraceptive Care (Family Planning Services) as well as documenting improvements in supply, all aimed at improving uptake of Family Planning services amongst underserved urban poor using the NURHI evidence based, high impact approach.

The self selected states, through the ministry of health and the benefitting local government areas have committed to provide enabling environment and leadership to the successful implementation of the proposed activities through an efficient, cost effective and result oriented manner.

This “business unusual” model of grant strengthens sustainability by warranting states to fulfill

their commitment for counterpart financing and in-kind resources to accomplish approved work plans.

According to TCI Nigeria’s Communications and Knowledge Management Officer, Dashe Kaseina, for states to achieve the National 36 per cent Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (CPR) 2018 target, they need robust plan to improve access to voluntary Family Planning/Child Birth Spacing – a key

component of reproductive health that has proven to have transformative impacts on communities and countries to promote health and prosperity.

Family planning information and services, Dashe stated, reduce maternal mortality by 30 per cent, while giving women, men, couples and young people the opportunity to choose whether and when to have a child, space births, and prevent unintended pregnancy–unlocking their future opportunities and improving their overall quality of life.

She emphasised that Nigeria has demonstrated it’s commitment to family planning with the National Blueprint for Family Planning in 2014, which aims to achieve a National CPR of 36% by 2018, to reposition the Family Planning/Child Birth Spacing programme on its investment agenda and to ensure that all women of reproductive age (15-49 years of age) have unhindered access to modern family planning/child birth spacing methods of their choice.

With the challenge fund, these states are set to ensure the necessary shift in Family Planning/ Child Birth Spacing programming at the structural, service and community levels.

It will be recalled that the Minister of Health, Prof. Adewole during the November 2016 national family planning conference in Abuja made a bold commitment to family planning.

Nestle launches new seasoning cube, Maggi Naija Pot Researchers have found that working out in groups lowers stress by 26 percent and significantly improves quality of life, while those who exercise individually put in more effort but experience no significant changes in their stress level and a limited improvement to quality of life.

In its continued effort to ensure good nutrition for Nigerians, Nestlé Nigeria Plc, has launched a new food seasoning cube, the “Maggi Naija Pot”, to amplify the authentic Nigerian essence of food.

It also announced its Maggi Simply Good with four commitments at the product launch in Sagamu, Ogun State recently.

Speaking at the launch, the company’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr Mauricio Alarcon, said, “We dedicate ourselves to deeply understand the needs and preferences of our consumers, and then we tailor our products to suit local tastes and food cultures.”

He said that Maggi Naija Pot is a new seasoning cube developed in Nigeria based on the strong understanding of local cuisine. “It aims at amplifying the authentic Nigerian essence of food.

“Naija Pot is the only seasoning cube in Nigeria full of fish flavor with the unique combination of natural smoked fish, stockfish and crayfish to give soups and pottages that bottom-pot taste that Nigerians love.

“Moreover, Naija Pot will help to save

time, money and effort since Naija Pot combines selected locally known ingredients in one small cube.

“The consumer can now create local authentic dishes in a simpler way, thanks to Naija Pot’s smoked-fishy-bottom-pot taste. It is also a source of iodine for higher nutritional value.

The Category Manager, Culinary, Nestlé Nigeria, Mr Nordine Meguini, also said Maggi Naija Pot which came in a modern new packaging is the only seasoning cube in Nigeria full of natural fish flavor with the unique combination of natural smoked fish, stockfish and crayfish.

“Naija Pot is a product developed by Nigerian chefs, produced in Nigeria with locally known ingredients to enhance the tastes of local cuisine.

“We are committed to creating more value for the society and the community by increasing local sourcing.

“We are also committed to raising awareness about healthy lifestyles and healthy cooking: Maggi will continue to promote healthy lifestyles, healthy cooking by reaching millions of women directly.

“In 2017, through the Maggi caravan we have reached directly 1.3 million of women across Nigeria to sensitise them about nutrition.

“Our commitment to use more familiar and common ingredients is exceptional. Our Maggi bouillons are tailored

Nestle Nigeria MD/CEO, Mr. Mauricio Alarcon flanked by Nestle Flowergate factory Manager, Ibukun Ipinmoye, Marketing Services Manager, Nwando Ajene and the Category Manager (Culinary) Nordine Meguini unveiling the Maggi Naija Pot seasoning cubes in Sagamu, Ogun State..recently.

to suit local tastes and food cultures.

“Today, we believe we have the best products because we mainly use ingredients that consumers know and love,” Meguini said.

MAGGI, he noted has continued to be the culinary partner of women in Nigeria for over 50 years and will continue to support home cooking with products

made with local ingredients that individuals and families know and love.

He assured that the company would continue to deliver in Nigeria billion of servings of fortified Maggi bouillons to help reduce the risk of under-nutrition and contribute to address micronutrient deficiencies.

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Mugabe: Anxiety as coup leader yet to announce agenda Bonny Amadi with agency report

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the apparent takeover of Zimbabwe’s Government by the Military in a bloodless coup as well as take over the public Broadcast Station and other public buildings, a day after the army issued threats to the ruling Zanu PF party to stop purge of former liberation fighters, developments and reactions have continued to trail.

The nation’s Army on Wednesday denied staging a coup in an early morning television broadcast on the state-run Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation, but revealed that they are targeting criminals around Mugabe.

This was coming as indications have emerged that the recently sacked Zimbabwe’s vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa, may emerge as ruling party’s interim president, prior to a general election that will ush-

. Mugabe, family placed under house arrest ..Zanu PF youth leader opposed to coup detained, ..Zuma warns deference forces against escalation of tension . Nigeria, US, UK, UN, A.U react ..Businesses stagnated er in another democratically elected president for the country.

According to agency reports, the army said “We wish to assure the nation that His Excellency Mugabe and his family are safe and sound and their security is guaranteed. We are only targeting criminals around him who are committing crimes that are bringing social and economic suffering in the country in order to bring them to justice,” the army said.

Yet, the military intervention in Zimbabwe in a characteristic tradition of historic coups in the continent, ordered the civil servants, judiciary and parliament to go ahead with their duties without fear of being obstructed.

They also called on the public to remain calm and “limit unnecessary move-

Angolan president sacks dos Santos as head of national oil company ÏÏÏ In what appears to

reshaping the Angola’s political and economic future, the newly elected Angola President, candidate of the immediate past president, Edwardo do Santo, has affected major shakeup in the country’s energy sector.

Agency reports said that Angolan President Joao Lourenco on Wednesday dismissed Isabel dos Santos as chair of the state oil company Sonangol, in a dramatic move against the family of the former president.

The daughter of Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled Angola for 38 years until stepping down in September, was replaced

by Carlos Saturnino, the president’s office was reported to have said in a statement.

Saturnino, an oil veteran who was fired by Isabel from Sonangol last year, was most recently Secretary of State for Oil. A spokesperson for Isabel dos Santos did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The report revealed that Angolan president, Lourenco also replaced

Angola’s Isabel dos Santos

six other board members, appointing Sebastião Pai Querido Gaspar Martins, Luís Ferreira do Nascimento José Maria, Carlos Eduardo Ferraz de Carvalho Pinto, Rosário Fernando Isaac, Baltazar Agostinho Gonçalves Miguel, Alice Marisa Leão Sopas Pinto da Cruz as executive directors.

José Gime and André Lelo were reappointed as non-executive directors.

Among those dismissed were Sarju Raikundalia, a senior PWC executive who was brought in to clean up Sonangol’s finances, and Eunice Carvalho, who previously worked for Chevron and was leading a restructuring at Angola’s biggest and most important company.

ment”.

The military’s announcement follows many hours of speculations after armoured personnel carriers were seen blocking roads to the presidency and other state institutions.

Meanwhile, in what could be described as rare show of unity, Zimbabwe’s main political blocs have unanimously denounced “military intervention” in politics.

This was coming as the United States (U.S) embassy Zimbabwe reacted to the development by closing down its offices. This was followed by a similar reaction from the British High Commission and the United Nations (UN).

The leader of the South African Development Community (SADC) President Jacob Zuma of South Africa in a broad-

Zimababwe’s President Robert Mugabe

cast statement following the military siege in Zimbabwe said he spoke with Mugabe in the morning of Wednesday and he said he was placed under house arrest and that he was fine South African President Jacob Zuma promised to send a special envoy to Zimbabwe in his capacity as the SADC chairman and that the envoy will meet with Mugabe and the Zimba-

bwean army.

While warning the Zimbabwe defense not to further escalate tension in the country, Zuma expressed readiness to assist in resolving the impasse in the South African country.

Jacob Zuma spoke on behalf of (Southern African Development Community) SADC calling for calm and restraint with hope that the development will not lead to un-

constitutional changes of government which is contradictory to SADC and African Union positions.

Zimbabwe’s ruling party following the development, announced via its Twitter account that sacked Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa will be the president of the party in the interim.

This information cannot be independently verified.

According to agency reports, all other security forces in Zimbabwe have backed down after the military siege, even as the army has warned that “any provocation will be met with an appropriate response”.

The secretary of the Zanu PF Youth League who called the bluff of the army in a press conference on Tuesday, the reports said, has been detained by the army. His detention was confirmed by the youth wing of the ruling party which also said that his “safety has been guaranteed”

Buhari calls for respect for the UN knocks EU’s support for Libyan coast guard engaged in migrant abuses Constitution daily activities. ÏÏÏ The United Nations centres” that were visited by Myke Uzendu, Abuja Meanwhile the Interna(U.N) has condemned ongo- United Nations personnel. ÏÏÏ Following the strange tional Community including ing European Union (E.U) “Monitors were shocked support for Libyan coast guards engaged to be involved in migrants’ abuses.

The U.N. human rights chief said on Tuesday, said that the European Union’s support for the Libyan coast guard is leading to the arbitrary and indefinite imprisonment of migrants in “inhuman” conditions.

According to agency report, the EU anti-trafficking mission Sophia has helped train Tripoli’s coast guard, while Italy has supplied it with four patrol boats. Italy also has sent millions of euros and a navy repair ship to fix Libya’s marine fleet.

The report indicated that since January 2017, the Libyans have intercepted almost 20,000 migrants at sea, according to the International Organization for Migration.

After being taken from the boats, they are brought to land and put in “detention

by what they witnessed,” High Commissioner on Human Rights Zeid Ra‘ad Al Hussein said in a statement.

They saw “thousands of emaciated and traumatized men, women and children piled on top of each other, locked up in hangars with no access to the most basic necessities, and stripped of their human dignity,” he said.

Some 20,000 people are now being held in facilities controlled by Tripoli’s migration department, up from 7,000 in September, the U.N. said in a statement.

While U.N. agencies and other humanitarian groups have access to them and seek to provide health care and some food, Zeid said it was not enough because “the EU and its member states have done nothing so far to reduce the level of abuses suffered by migrants”.

UN Secretary General António Guterres

military unrest threatening democratic institutions in Zimbabwe, President Buhari has called for respect for the Constitution from all parties.

The Zimbabwean army Tuesday took over the presidential palace which is the seat of power in Zimbabwe including the parliament building and all the government institutions after President Robert Mugabe recently removed former Vice-President, Emmerson Mnangagwa and tactically positioned his wife for possible succession.

This situation led the head of the Armed Forces of Zimbabwe, General Constantino Chiwenga, to announce that “the military will not hesitate to step in” to quell the situation.

The “military takeover” has led to increased political tension in the southern African country, business activities grinding to a halt while foreigners are leaving the country in droves.

The Zimbabwe police were absent in most of the streets as soldiers took over the control of traffic.

Soldiers were said to be seen asking for identification from members of the public, although the situation remained peaceful and calm with people going about their

the United Nations, United States and United Kingdom have called for calm and respect for the rule of law.

The UN in a security advisory, instructed its personnel to work from home.

Some schools were closed and some students failed to sit for their final examinations, including students of the University of Zimbabwe.

On the same note, UK’s foreign and Commonwealth office equally updated its travel advice to British nationals in Zimbabwe.

Excerpts of the advice states, “Due to the uncertain political situation in Harare, including reports of unusual military activity, we recommend British nationals currently in Harare to remain safely at home or in their accommodation until the situation becomes clearer. Please continue to monitor our travel advice and embassy social media accounts for updates.

“You should avoid political activity, or activities that could be considered political, including political discussions in public places and criticism of the president.

You should avoid all demonstrations and rallies. The authorities have sometimes used force to suppress demonstrations.”

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Change begins with education Adamu Adamu

ÏÏÏ Welcome

Address delivered at the Presidential Retreat on Education for Ministers held on November 13, 2017 at Old Banquet Hall, State House, Abuja It is with great respect and gratitude that I welcome His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, to this important Presidential Retreat on Education for Ministers. Your Excellency, your presence at this important and historic event is a demonstration of leadership and your personal commitment to education and the passion and commitment of this administration to revitalize our education sector and develop the nation’s human capital.

The education family respectfully welcomes you to this retreat; and, with your permission, I would also like to welcome His Excellency Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Distinguished Senators and Honourable Members of the National Assembly, Ministers of the Federal Republic and other invited personalities who have graced this occasion.

Permit me, Your Excellency, to also specially thank the Vice President for the initial directive, for his interest and continuing support. I would like to also thank all my colleagues in the Federal Executive Council (FEC) for the robust discussion at the FEC meeting of June 25, 2017 that has now culminated in this Retreat. I thank you all and I hope that at the end of the Retreat, we will all come to better appreciate, and place even higher premium on, the necessity to rejuvenate and overhaul education provisioning in the country.

As we all know, no nation can rise above the standard of its education, because it is education that serves as the springboard for every kind of development. If education is weak or dysfunctional, society and its development will also be weak and dysfunctional. And all change – including our very Change Agenda – begins with education; because it is education that shapes, corrects and restores society.

But to be able to restore order to society, education has to be made a national priority. This truism is valid for every society and is of particular relevance for our own society which, we all agree, is confronted with a litany of challenges and deficits. Education offers us the knowledge, tools, skills and attitudes with which to address and surmount these challenges, to correct and overcome inhibiting deficits, and to put our country on the path of accelerated development and sustainable change.

Your Excellency, permit me to share a story I read about the Chinese. In their determination to build, and live in, a peaceful society, they built the Great Wall believing that it would keep invaders at bay; because they thought it was impossible for anyone to scale it, given its insurmountable height. However, within the first century of the construction of the wall, the Chinese were invaded three times. Every time the invaders came, they had no need to climb over the wall; because each time they came, they were able to bribe the guards on duty at the gate, and the gate was opened for them. The Chinese took pains to build the wall but they forgot to build the character of the guards who were supposed to secure the walls. The great lesson of this story is that characterbuilding precedes wall-building.

And character is everything: as one of the Orientalists once said: “If you want to destroy the civilization of a nation, there are three ways of doing so: 1) destroy the

Ɨ ƌƑ Ɨ ƌƑ family structure 2) destroy education and 3) lower role models”.

In order to destroy the family, all you need to do is to undermine the role of the Mother. To destroy education, you should give no importance to the Teacher so that the students despise him. Then, to demean role models, you should undermine the scholars, cast doubt on them until no one listens to them or follows their teachings.

For, when a conscious mother disappears, and when a dedicated teacher cannot be found, and when role models are ignored, who is there to teach the younger ones values?

If the foregoing story indicates anything, it is the strong message that the entirety of civilization is at risk and in great peril when access to proper and quality education is denied the majority of its citizens.

Such a denial can lead to a number of undesirable consequences, the most pernicious of which are value erosion and character failure among the youths who are supposed to become leaders of the society.

The signs of such value erosion and character failure in our young population are already there for us to see. The rise in the incidence of corruption, moral decadence, juvenile delinquency, examination malpractices, cultism and drug abuse among our youth is symptomatic of this malaise, and indicative of such value erosion. This is enough warning that indeed for our nation, the enemy is already at the city gate.

The advancement of this enemy must be checked now.

Education alone offers us the tool to confront this enemy, to defeat its armies and bring about and institutionalize change.

Yes, education offers us the way out of our current vicious circle, and to the emergence of an equitable and stable society characterized by inclusive development and driven by positive values. Education is our collective responsibility and its failure can well be taken as the failure of the entire country. We are all involved in education because it affects us all.

But from what has happened to our education since independence, it is clear that our educational system has failed our people, and has been unable to prepare our children for life as responsible and creative citizens of the twenty first century. Our recent poor performance in meeting our com-

mitments to the Millennium Development Goals adequately illustrates the extent of such a failure. In short, our education is not achieving the desired results and there is a need for urgent action.

Your Excellency, it is trite to bore you with the challenges that face education in Nigeria. We all know them: and they are there at all levels – basic, secondary and tertiary. Basic education constitutes the foundation and it has to be given all the attention it deserves. We need to ask questions on what we teach and who does the teaching. As it happened to the Chinese, our national security itself may be in grave danger unless we give priority to education in our national reckoning. At the same time, we must also create the enabling conditions that would enable tertiary institutions to play crucial roles as the engines that drive national thinking and lead the application of research and development to all facets of national development.

It is also high time we paid attention to teachers and to teaching as a profession.

Mass literacy, adult education, distance learning, nomadic education and the rest are all important; but we cannot deliver them without giving respectability and renewed stature to the teacher. We must learn to make education attractive to the best brains, make its study free, its outcome lucrative – and accord it the respect it deserves. That is why we must attract and retain the best brains in to the classroom as it is done in many other nations of the world.

In Germany and Finland, for example, the highest paid professionals are teachers.

They are better paid than judges, doctors, engineers, accountants, and so on. When Chancellor Angela Markel, was asked by the engineers, doctors and judges to pay them the same salary as teachers, she told them, “How can I compare you to those who taught you?” This is the logical perception and attitude that Nigeria’s leadership should have of education.

I am strongly persuaded that if we offer automatic scholarship to students who take education, and automatic employment and a preferential compensation package to those who take to teaching as a profession, our system will improve tremendously. If we give regulatory agencies the teeth to bite and do their work, mediocre teachers

will soon disappear from our classrooms.

If we insist on professionalism with appropriate deadlines set for those who teach, the situation will improve phenomenally. We can minimize and in due course eliminate mediocrity in the education sector.

There is need to harmonize the learning and teaching that transpire in our tertiary institutions as well as re-define our national goals periodically. Since independence and up to the time Your Excellency was military head of state, this nation had had National Development Plan and we must return to development planning if this nation is to develop; or else, it will remain one vast landscape of unconnected contracts, and disconnected researchers unable to connect their work with national development policies and vision.

Already, the Federal Ministry of Education has commenced work in all three areas with the publication of our Ministerial Strategic Plan on education, which anticipated, and is therefore in line with, the recently approved Economic Recovery and Growth Plan.

Our education should drive our national development objectives and we need to carry the universities and other tertiary institutions along. We have to revive our vocational training centres and give our technical schools adequate and requisite attention.

Mr. President, to achieve the desired change that education needs, there is need for improved funding and a measure of political will in national governance. Such is the weight of the problems that beset our education and the deleterious effect it has had on our national development efforts that I believe that this Retreat should end with a declaration of a state of emergency in education so that we can face the challenges frontally and squarely.

These challenges are not insurmountable: what is needed is vastly improved funding accompanied by a strong political will. The strong political will needed to do all this is present in this government. What this government must now do is to make the funds available.

You Excellency, nobody has the moral and resource capacity to intervene promptly, substantially and sustainably in all areas of education provisioning better than the government. Unfortunately, from 1999 to date, the annual budgetary allocation to education has always been between four per cent and ten per cent. None of the E9 or D8 countries, other than Nigeria, allocates less than 20% of its annual budget to education. Indeed even among sub-Saharan Africa countries, we are trailing far behind smaller and less endowed nations in terms of our investment in education. There is therefore need for a major investment in education in the national interest. A clear guide, Your Excellency, is the costing of the APC campaign promises in education which shows that a minimum of one trillion Naira per annum, over four years, would be required to fulfil your thirteen promises.

Mr. President, Honourable Ministers, I want to once again welcome you all to this Retreat and I thank you for coming to be part of it. I earnestly hope that by the end of this Retreat, we will have arrived at actionable strategies and, hopefully, the declaration of an emergency – that will change the fortunes of education in Nigeria. All change must begin with education, because, if we get education right, other areas of our national life will be right and they will fall in line.

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NFF promises to avoid pay disputes at the World Cup

igeria’s football federation (NFF) has signed an agreement with its players which it says will avoid the bonus and pay rows that have blighted the team’s past World Cup campaigns.

In a statement, the NFF described it as an “historic and binding agreement that will eliminate all manner of rancour and distractions around Nigeria’s preparation and par-

ticipation” at the World Cup in Russia next year.

Nigeria, who have qualified for their sixth World Cup, have reached the round of sixteen three times and been eliminated in the group stage twice.

The Super Eagles were involved in a protracted dispute

ahead of the 2013 Confederations Cup in Brazil and a bonus row also disrupted their World Cup campaign the following year, prompting the players to boycott a training session. Similar problems have affected other African teams.

Ghana’s players refused to train

over a pay dispute at one point during the last World Cup and around $3 million in cash eventually arrived in Brasilia with a convoy of cars bringing the money to the team’s headquarters.

NFF director Shehu Dikko said no stone had been unturned this time.

Camping sites, friendlies finalized for Eagles

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igerians have applauded captain of Super Eagles, Mikel Obi over his performance at Tuesday’s match Super Eagles rounded off a great performance in 2017 with a stunning 4-2 victory over stars studded Argentine side in a friendly in Krasnodar, Russia on Tuesday.

Many Nigerians on social media, have however, showered praises on Mikel Obi for his leadership role in the team.

Some went ahead to encourage Nigerian politicians to replicate Mikel’s leadership skills in running the nation.

Here are the comments @ Samzen “After yesterday’s amazing performance by super eagles, we can conclude that Chelsea legend Obi Mikel is a better captain than Messi. @colleagueZoned “Dedicated, selfless, pragmatic & Charismatic, Nigeria needs more leaders like Super Eagles Captain, Mikel Obi. @deadlyeden “Mikel is definitely Africa’s greatest ever player, only Drogba and Eto come close.

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Argentina vs Nigeria:

Fans hail Mikel @BarcelonaPidgin “Mikel better pass Ozil + De bryune + Kante + Asensio + Isco, The man vision be like that one of Xavi and Iniesta, Na him make us tear Argentina Yansh #FT 4-2 #ARGNGA @iamTrol “John Mikel Obi is my favorite Nigerian Footballer of all time. His patriotism has never been in doubt. Always available, always leading!

@akaebube Nigeria 4 – Argentina 2..PDP should just give Mikel their presidential ticket in 2019. He has shown true leadership and capacity. @MrAylee “I used to doubt Mikel’s patriotism towards the National team, but lately he has won my heart, gave up on his Chelsea career to represent Nigeria at the Olympic, been playing out of

his skin for the Super Eagles lately @ali_mchenmri Alex Iwobi & Kelechi Iheanacho 4 President & V.P respectively. Mikel, the next Obasanjo.

I don’t care where Enyeama is from, but he has 2 replace Rochas and save us from more shameful statues. The rest of the Super Eagles to replace all senators IJN #ARGNGA

Mascherano praises Iwobi 2-goal performance

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avier Mascherano has praised Alex Iwobi after the Arsenal man bagged a brace for Nigeria in their 4-2 win over Argentina (via Own Goal Nigeria).

The international break may be an irritation to some but for others, it’s a unique chance to see players in different environments.

It’s always good for Arsenal fans to see their team’s players shining for their countries which is exactly what Alex Iwobi did on Tuesday night.

The midfielder isn’t getting much time on the pitch at the Emirates but for his country, Nigeria, he’s a key player.

The 21-year-old bagged two goals for his team as they beat Argentina 4-2.

The Arsenal man’s second involved a wonderful piece of skill to skip past Argentina’s Javier Mascherano and

now, the FC Barcelona man has spoken about Iwobi’s performance.

“We dominated the first half but they scored from their only shot on target before the half-time break.

Their second goal was well taken by the Arsenal lad (Iwobi) then the fourth goal by the same player killed the game off.

“It’s better to lose this way before we get to the World Cup, and the Nigerian team are obviously one of the most physical sides we have faced in a while.

“Congratulations to Nigeria they deserve to win.”

Iwobi was impressive on the night and is really showing his quality for his country. Hopefully, this can be transferred to his domestic form and we can see more of this clearly talented player.

he leadership of Nigeria Football Federation has identified two camping/training sites for the Super Eagles at the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia, and communicated same to world football -governing body, FIFA. “A final site would be selected out of the two after inspection and approval by the technical crew led by Coach Gernot Rohr. This is in furtherance of our commitment to ensuring there are no issues outstanding that could constitute distraction before the World Cup. “All plans for the World Cup are on course and a number of high profile preparatory matches have also been agreed, subject to the Final Draw on 1st December. The entire programme would be unveiled after the Draw,” Shehu Dikko, NFF 2nd Vice President, said on Tuesday.

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Willie Obiano’s giant strides in Anambra Continued from page 31 lized method, using the police and installing of street lights at strategic places in the state especially from Onitsha Bridgehead to Borromeo Hospital Round About through old road to Amawbia in Awka. And today, Anambra can be said to have the best security network. Prominent Anambrarians who have relocated to Lagos, Abuja, Enugu and other cities in the country and conducting marriages of their children outside the state have started returning back. And businesses have started booming again. Night life has returned to Onistha, Awka and other major cities of the state.

The presence of security expectedly has multiplier effect on the socio-economic development of any place as it engenders confidence among the people, business community and investors. The improved security situation has increased the number of hours of doing business in the state as well as brought back night life which has died in the state.

This has affected other areas of the state, hence the huge investment on agriculture and industry in the administration of Willie Obiano to the tune of $1.2billion and $3.2 billion respectively, hence the increased production of rice in Anambra State. There have been major investments in rice production like Coscharis Farm in Ayamelum as well as poultry in Igbariam and others in various parts of the state.

These investment in agriculture has resulted in the exportation of vegetables from Anambra State to European countries and yam to United States of America. As a boost to agriculture, the state has provided the farmers 291 hectares of land, seedlings, fertil-

izers and herbicides to encourage mechanized agriculture in the state.

Governor Obiano has not fared any less in the area of trade and commerce. Little wonder the traders in Anambra State have been rooting for him in this Saturday election. The traders in Anambra State are happy that this administration has impacted on them in one way or the other. Obiano took the bull by the horn by setting up N10 million projects in all the markets in the state. In the Choose Yourself N10million project, every market in the state is entitled to N10million worth of project.

Some of the markets used the opportunity to build office complexes, halls, access roads, motor parks, electricity, water boreholes and overhead tanks among other projects. These no doubt has added value to the markets and the traders themselves.

For the first time by any administration in Anambra State, Governor Obiano appointed three traders into his cabinet as Special Assistants. This has never happened before. This in effect implies that Obiano reckons with the mental capacity of the traders to contribute to the development of the state, which was remarkable departure from the past, where traders were seen as “a bunch of uneducated money miss-road”.

This was in addition to the introduction of the traders’ football competition in all the markets in the state. All these were to emphasis the strategic importance of traders in the overall economic development of the state and the need to bring them closer to the government.

Fire fighting vehicles were also bought and distributed to strategic markets in case of any fire outbreak. One of the fire fighting

vehicles is situated at Building Materials Market, Ogidi to cover that area and the environs.

Accordingly, the traders of Anambra State in appreciation of all these, few weeks ago at Onitsha the commercial nerve centre of the state, adopted Governor Obiano as their candidate in this election. The President General of the umbrella market body in the state, Chief Okwudili Ezenwankwo, in his speech during the endorsement, said the traders have decided to vote for Obiano to repay him for all his good gestures to the traders.

The governor has equally extended this kind gesture to all the communities in Anambra State by asking them to choose your N20million projects. He went further to challenge the com-

munities which finished their first projects in time to choose another tranche of N20million project, which some communities have already benefitted. The good news is that virtually all the communities have completed all their projects, while some who finished on time have been given another N20million for second projects.

These projects are dotted all over the communities as town halls, skill acquisition centres, roads rehabilitation, boreholes among others. For some communities and markets in the state, they have never had it so good because no government has ever remembered them in the past.

It is in the area of construction of roads and bridges that Governor Willie Obiano has received the greatest knocks. But contrary to criticisms trailing his road programmes, Obiano has done more than excellent in the construction of roads and bridges in the last three and half years he has held sway in the state. Apart from constructing three world class bridges in Awka at the popular Aroma junction in Awka, Kwata and Amawbia junction, in the state capital, Obiano has equally done a bridge across Mamu River at Amansea – Ndiukwuenu-AwaUfuma. He has also constructed about 180 km of roads through the state as well as rehabilitated the existing roads through the State Road Maintenance Agency’s zero pothole programme. Obiano also constructed the Iyiora bridge believed to be the longest bridge in the state, which connects Anambra West, part of the food basket basin of the state to the rest of the world.

There are other ongoing roads construction in different parts of the state, one of them being the

construction of bridge across Nteje – Umanya Bye – pass along the Onitsha- Enugu Expressway.

On education, Governor Obiano has disbursed at least over N700milion to mission schools, constructed over 2,500 classrooms blocks for primary and secondary schools in the state, installed 30KVA generating sets and provided transformers to the schools too. Obiano’s administration equally awarded scholarships to about 200 students of Anambra State origin to the tune of about N120million as a source of encouragement to academic excellence among Anambra children.

The state has also recruited 70 contract teachers for the 11 technical colleges in the state to boost their staff strength.

The welfare of teachers is critical to Obiano’s administration.

Consequently, he has increased the salary of 1,634 teachers of core subjects in the state school system as well as the salary of 2, 732 teachers in rural areas of the state by 20 percent to motivate them and provide more access to quality education to the children in riverine and agrarian areas of the state. Acording to the State Commissioner for Education, Prof. Kate Omungha, the number of candidates who passed external examinations at five credits with English and Mathematics such as West African School Certificate (WASC) and National Examination Council (NECO), at five credits with English and Mathematics have increased to 70 percent. Just the other time, a teacher from Anambra State won the best teacher in the country and was given a brand new car.

And all these attest to the quality of education under Obiano in the last three and half years.

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The Comptroller of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Zone `C’ Compliance Team, Ahmed Azarema, announced in Benin, Edo state, on Wednesday, that the team had impounded contraband worth N95 million.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN),Azarema, who is the National Coordinator of the team, disclosed this at the public destruction of banned poultry products with a market value of N41.7m in Benin.

The Comptroller also said that the team handed over to the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), some uncertified and banned pharmaceutical products valued at about N33.4m.

He said that 800 bags of 50 kg imported parboiled rice, valued at N20.4m, had also been impounded by the compliance team.

A breakdown of the seizures and the public destruction included 2,480 cartons of frozen poultry products, 665 cartons of pharmaceutical products, which included 490 cartons of Tramadol and 165 cartons of Really Extra.

The National Coordinator of the compliance team said that the NCS would not relent in its fight against the smuggling of contraband, in spite of the smugglers’ innovative tricks.

Azarema said that the seizures were a pointer to the resilience and commitment of officers of the Federal Operations Unit in Benin.

He advised members of the public to desist from buying banned poultry products, stressing that only such would discourage smugglers from continuing in the act.

Azarema, however, said that at the coming of the yuletide, a machinery had been put in place to ensure that banned poultry products did not find their way into the markets.

He said the NCS officers had been fully trained and ready to combat whatever devices smugglers might adopt to perpetrate their crimes.

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Air Peace now official airline of World Aviation Forum- ICAO

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The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), has named one of Nigeria’s leading airlines, Air Peace, as the official airline of its World Aviation Forum holding in Abuja from November 20 to 22.

Second Vice-President of the

Council of ICAO, Captain Musa Nuhu, confirmed the status of the carrier in a message to the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of Air Peace, Mr. Allen Onyema.

Nuhu, who is also Nigeria’s representative on the Council of ICAO, commended Air Peace on behalf of the Minister of

State for Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika for partnering with the Federal Government to host the forum.

The carrier’s partnership, he said, “will greatly contribute to the successful hosting of this prestigious forum on the global aviation calendar.”

He assured that the forum

would provide Air Peace a great opportunity to connect with a global audience of aviation stakeholders to discuss trends in the industry and boost the carrier’s plan to expand its flight operations to London, Dubai, GuangzhouChina, Mumbai, Houston and Johannesburg.

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Indomie buys Dangote plants in Ikorodu, Calabar Ï^ ƕ MƢêƣǀ Ƅ è ƆƐ Ɛ Ƅ Ɛ M ƗƋƆ ô ƌ ƏƊƆƐ

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Dangote Noodles Limited, a unit of Nigerian company Dangote Flour Mills, has sold two production lines in Ikorodu and Calabar, to rival pasta maker, De United Foods Industries, makers of Indomie Noodles.

The transaction is valued at 3.75 billion naira ($12.26 million).

De United said it has signed an agreement with Dangote Noodles to buy the plants. It

would also buy stock worth N383.94m.

The deal comes after Dangote sold a small stake in its cement business to foreign investors in a one-off stock market deal valued at N27bn.

Dangote Flour Mills, majority owned by Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, had said it wanted to quit the noodles business to focus on flour and pasta production, analysts say.

Nigeria’s noodle market is fiercely competitive; and De United, with a market share of around 70 per cent is seeking to

consolidate the sector.

Privately-held Dangote Industries Limited, with interests in agriculture, real estate and truck assembly, bought back the flour unit it had sold to South Africa’s Tiger Brand for $1 in 2015 after it posted losses.

Shares in Dangote Flour Mills have more than doubled so far this year after rising 276 per cent last year. The stock price was down 3.17 per cent on Tuesday, at N9.20.

Dufil Prima Foods, the parent of De United Foods, is a

privately held company set up over two decades ago, which has grown to become the largest pasta maker in West Africa.

De United said the transaction had been approved by both companies and the regulators.

A banking source close to the deal said that De United would continue to produce noodles under the Dangote brand for two years after the acquisition.

In July Dufil Prima Foods said it would raise N40bn in the local debt market to broaden its funding base.

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L-R: Coordinator of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Oyo State Office, Mrs. Toyin Idowu; Area Operations Director, British American Tobacco Nigeria (BATN), West Africa, Charles Kyalo; Director of Management System Certification, SON, Engr (Mrs.) Oluremi Ayeni and Area Head of Products and Quality, BATN, Sonny Ngwobia, at the unveiling of SON’s NIS ISO 9001:2015 plaque after the presentation of the Quality Management System certificate to BATN in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Tuesday.

Court ruling: FG to provide N37bn for meters supply

By Simon Ugwu The Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, while speaking at the 21st monthly power sector operators meeting held in Asaba, Delta State, announced that Federal Government will make available a total of N37 billion to address challenges in supply of meters to customers..

He said; “I am happy to report that following the approval of the Federal executive Council (FEC), earlier in the year, the dispute over the meters supply contract that started since 2003, was

resolved by a Court approved settlement on Thursday the 9th day of November, 2017.”

“This means that there will be N37bn available for meter supply by the contractor to DisCos who want to partner and can reach their independent agreement with the contractor. While we await the regulations by NERC, a lot of preparatory work can be done,” he added.

In a related development, the Kaduna Electric Distribution Plc, said it spent N100 million to purchase and install 7.5MVA transformer at the Usman Danfodio University, Sokoto.

Mr. Garba Haruna, the Managing Director of the company disclosed this recently in Sokoto.

The transformer was installed at the university’s injection substation in the state.

The electricity distribution company covers Sokoto, Kebbi, Kaduna and Zamfara states.

According to Haruna, the project is part of the company’s priority investment to ensure adequate power supply to the institution as well as communities in the region.

“The transformer which cost N100m will service the university and the surrounding com-

munities.

“We are fully committed to achieve the desires of our customers; huge amount of money has been spent in projects across Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara states on power supply.

“Our mission to deliver the required service for our deserving customers will surely be achieved, as the university is among our key partners in the state,” Haruna said.

According to him, the company is planning to partner the university on its diversification to solar energy supply and other sources of energy.

Group seeks stoppage of World Bank loans to Plateau Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo A group of Nigerian citizens from Plateau State residing in United States has advised the World Bank to stop financial assistance to Plateau State Government to tackle environmental challenges in the state.

In a letter addressed to the World Bank President, Dr Jim Yong Kim, which was made available to journalists, the group stated that the demand is part of their commitment to the right of people to participate in public matters and governance that affect the present and future generations.

In the letter, the group requested that World Bank should stop any financial assistance or grant to the state under the current administration of Mr. Simon Lalong.

The letter jointly signed by their President, James Uwshe and Secretary General, Mrs. Comfort Yahaya stated that a former minister of youth and sports, Mr. Damishi Sango, on the 30th August, 2016, accused the Governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong in a media publication of draining the state’s purse by N3, 300 billion {$111M} under the guise of allowances for eleven foreign trips he embarked on in less than

one year in office.

Each of the trips, the group pointed, out cost the state about N300 million, which would amount to a whooping sum of N3,300bn. They said the money was spent on travelling around the world in desperate search for investors, which has remained fruitless.

“In year 2017, the governor spent above $37m on other unproductive trips.

Through our members within the civil service in the state, we were able to confirm the claim. Till date, the Governor has not debunked the claim of Mr. Sango in any court of law. “ The governor ap-

pointed his younger brother, Dr. Wummen Tsenba Bako, a lecturer at the University of Jos, who had a serious health challenge for more than a year and on a leave of absence, as a member of Plateau State Economic and Financial Advisory Council and later died in September,2017. The Governor deliberately made him a member of a powerful Council as an agent.

We discovered that a huge amount was in one of the bank accounts his of his late brother as at the time of his demise”, the group stated.

According to the group, a governor that could not judiciously utilize loan

from the World Bank and local banks would not be able to account for donation, which he might consider free money.

They further alleged that any available financial assistance to the governor will be diverted into political campaign for next year election .Attached are evidential documents for your perusal.

“We hope the bank will grant our request and petition and honour the legitimate rights of good people of Plateau State to also have active and constructive role on how loans and donations from the bank are utilized,” the group emphasised.

The University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), is set to hold a groundbreaking ceremony of its 60mw coal-powered electricity project that will help broaden Nigeria’s energy mix.

In a statement published on the university’s website, UNN said the groundbreaking ceremony will hold November 23, 2017, at the power plant site located on the Nsukka campus of the university.

Reports say that the project is being undertaken by Milhouse International in efforts to create reliable, clean, coal-powered electricity for the university environment, which will serve to reduce the country’s reliance on costly diesel fuel.

Milhouse said the project will increase opportunities for economic growth, and provide consistency and sustainability of electricity supply, and improve the quality of life for Nigerians.

“We are extremely excited and motivated to begin work in Enugu,” said President/CEO, Wilbur Milhouse, adding, “My goal for Milhouse has always been to improve communities around the world and that vision has finally come to fruition”.

Milhouse stated that as part of the groundbreaking activities, it will host its second annual soccer shoe giveaway in Nigeria.

“A soccer shoe drive is currently underway through November 9, 2017. The collection of new and gently used soccer shoes will be contributed to the children of the Awhum local community in Enugu State, Nigeria,” Milhouse said in the statement.

The Milhouse signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Federal Republic of Nigeria and its Ministry of Power in 2015; the agreement of which solidified Milhouse’s initiative to generate coal-powered electricity in the country.

The 60 MW power plant will increase Nigeria’s capacity to produce sustainable, reliable, and affordable electricity to its customers.

Due to the erratic nature of electricity delivery in Nigeria, consistent power for homes and businesses generally entails running a diesel generator as a primary power source which costs about three to four times higher than the typical American household. Many Nigerian consumers go without lights for days at a time.

“By utilizing Nigeria’s natural resources we will provide its citizens with access to safe and reliable power at an affordable rate.

“Electricity usually accounts for more than 30% of costs for manufacturing businesses in Nigeria.

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Reps charge Buhari to constitute SEC board Henry Omunu, Abuja The House of Representatives on Wednesday, charged President Muhammadu Buhari to constitute the board of the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC).

According to the House which passed a resolution after the adoption of the motion sponsored by Rep. Tajudeen Yusuf decrying the nonconstitution of the board, the lawmakers declared that the delay in constituting the board is hampering the effectiveness of the exchange commission.

Also, the House called for the appointment of executive commissioners to fill the vacant positions at the commission.

Leading the debate, Rep. Tajudeen said the absence of a board for two years now has negatively impacted on the commission, saying that the

current situation has slowed down the general operations and hindered its duties as regulator of the Capital Market.

“The non-constitution of the board for two years now is posing both regulatory and reputational challenges to SEC, creating delays in approvals from the supervising ministry of Finance, causing non-formalisation of broad economic, financial, operational and administrative guidelines and targets of the commission.

“The absence of Executive Commissioners, who are saddled with responsibilities to assist the Director-General in the day to day management and administration of the commission has increased the workload of the DirectorGeneral and this has slowed down certain operations which require promptness”, Yusuf said.

R-L: Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, (NDDC), Mr. Nsima Ekere; Director General, Small and Medium Scale Development Agency, (SMEDAN), Alhaji Dikko Radda and Managing Director, Hub Impact Investment Program, Barr. Natasha Akpoti, at the signing of MOU between the NDDC, SMEDAN and BHIIP, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

Niger Delta amnesty beneficiary $20.2bn missing from NNPC since 1999 -Falana cries out over neglect Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo One of the beneficiaries of the Federal government Niger Delta Amnesty programme, Onengiye Erekosima has cried out over his neglect by the office of the Special Adviser to the President on Amnesty.

Speaking to journalists in an interview in Port Harcourt recently, Erekosima recalled his contribution to amnesty and peace restoration in the Niger Delta.

According to him, the proposal for amnesty originated from him which he sold to late President Yar’Adua through the help of the Civil Defense Corp.

He said the climax of the whole thing was his ability to reconcile the war lords then who were fighting each other, making peace impossible and the eventual amnesty.

Erekosima recalled that he reconciled Ateke Tom with late Soboma George, Farah, Boyloaf and brought all the militants together to surrender their arms and accept the amnesty.

He said it was in recognition of his role that former Special Adviser to the President on Amnesty, Kingsley Kuku approved that his children should be given scholarships and that he be engaged as an integration officer in

the Integration unit of the Amnesty office.

He said earlier before Kuku’s appointment in 2012 that the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) in appreciation of his role submitted his name to be a beneficiary of the amnesty and he was trained at Obubra with registration number B12/51/16537 and on successful completion of the demobilization programme was listed as one of the beneficiaries in 2011.

Erekosima stated that while in the Amnesty office, there were some people who never liked his guts to speak the truth and therefore made effort to frustrate him.

He further said while others were being paid their N65,000 monthly stipend, he was not paid up till today, despite his protest and petitions.

He also said to worsen matters that his children, Dennis Tamunobelem and Vivian-George Erekosima, who were given scholarships to study for a GCSE programme at Bellerbys College, United Kingdom in September 2013, were also frustrated as their fees and sustenance allowances were not paid.

Erekosima said because of that the children were reduced to destitute in the U.K, despite his complaints.

This, he said, prompted him to relocate them to Ghana.

Furthermore, he said upon relocation to Radford University College, Ghana, he requested that the scholarships should be transferred to Ghana to save money for the federal government as the complaint was that there was no money.

Erekosima said surprisingly the Amnesty office told him that it was wrong for him to relocate the children and on that basis they would not transfer the scholarships not minding the agony the children were facing in U.K without sponsorship.

He lamented that up till now that the children are not in school and had been loitering about while his efforts for help were to no avail.

He said he had contacted prominent leaders and elders of Niger Delta including; Alabo Graham-Douglas, High chief Ateke Tom, Alatubo Charles Harry, the National President of Ijaw National Congress(INC), Udengs Eradiri, IYC President, Chief Sarah Igbe etc, to intervene on his matter to the present Special Adviser, Brig-Gen Paul Boro.

Erekosima pointed out that even the Amnesty office where he worked did not disengage him.

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Human rights lawyer Femi Falana SAN has accused the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) of failing to remit over $20.2bn since the return of democracy in 1999 to date, saying that, “Instead of piling up external loans the federal government should be compelled by the Nigerian people to embark on the immediate recovery and repatriation of hundreds of billions of dollars from the NNPC. Falana was speaking today in Lagos at a National Seminar on Promoting Transparency and Accountability in the Recovery of Stolen Asset in Nigeria: Agenda for Reform organized by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) in collaboration with the Ford Foundation, USA. According to Falana, “Transparency and accountability are interconnected to the application of economic, political and administrative management of the affairs of a state. The exercise of these affairs is that they must be seen to be exercised by the citizens of a state.

Where a government parastatal such as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is said to have failed to remit oil revenue to the tune of $20billion, issues

of good transparency and governance becomes a crucial issue.

According to a statement by Timothy Adewale, SERAP Deputy Director and made available to The Daily Times, Falana said in his paper that, “The Federal Government has to re-focus its recovery of stolen assets by vigorously pursuing recovery of assets from multinational corporations and not just the countries that illegally keeping the looted wealth of the country. The recovery of our looted wealth should also be extended to the few Nigerians who have been indicted in the Panama and Paradise papers. The EFCC and the Federal Inland Revenue Service should recover appropriate taxes from the offshore companies set up by such individuals.”

Falana called on the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to “comply with the order of the federal high court which has directed the federal government to account for the loot recovered since 1999.”

The Seminar was attended by Eva Kouka, Senior Program Officer Foundation, Linda Ochiel Ford Foundation, Sonia Warner DFID, Osai Ojigho Director Amnesty International Nigeria, Adeniyi Kayode, Open Government Partnership, Obono Oblia, Senior Assis-

tant on Prosecution to President Muhammadu Buhari, among others. Mr Abiodun Aikomo represented the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Mr Abubakar Malami SAN, and Bola Oyebamiji commissioner for finance represented the Ogun State Governor Raul Aregbesola.

Falana’s paper read in part “It is undoubtedly clear that the governments of western countries and the United Arab Emirates are not going to co-operate with Nigeria in the repatriation of the nation’s looted unless the Federal government is prepared to adopt appropriate diplomatic and legal measures. In addition, the labour unions and other civil society organizations in the affected countries have to be mobilized to mount pressure on their governments to return our looted wealth.”

“Upon the inauguration of the Mohammadu Buhari administration the governments of the United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland assured the federal government that stolen funds and assets stolen from Nigeria would be repatriated. Not only have these countries refused to cooperate with Nigeria they have also frustrated the efforts of the federal government to recover and repatriate such tainted funds and assets.”

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Stories by Motolani Oseni The Nigeria’s annual inflation has slowed for the ninth consecutive month in October, easing to 15.91 percent, the new report released on Wednesday by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has revealed.

The new figure showed 0.07 per cent points further drop in inflation rate, making it the ninth consecutive disinflation (slowdown in the inflation rate though still positive) in headline year on year inflation since January 2017.

The Bureau said while average headline year on year inflation for the first five months of the year (January to May 2017) stood

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at 17.45 per cent, average headline year on year inflation for the next five months of the year (June to October 2017), stood at 16.01 per cent indicating disinflation from June to date, compared to from January to May 2017.

According to NBS, “This indicates that while prices have remained high in 2017, they have tended to slow down their pace of increase since May 2017 both on a year on year and month on month basis.

“The percentage change in the average composite CPI for the twelve-month period ending in October 2017 over the average of the CPI for the previous twelve-

month period, which has also trended downwards since May 2017 was 16.97 per cent, showing 0.2 percent point lower from 17.17 per cent recorded in September 2017.

“The Urban index rose by 16.19 per cent (year-onyear) in October 2017, up by 0.01 percent point from 16.18 per cent recorded in September and the Rural index increased by 15.67 per cent in October 2017 down from 15.81 per cent in September 2017.

The Central Bank Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele had said he expected inflation rates to fall at a faster pace and reach high single-

digit rates by the middle of 2018.

The apex bank kept interest rates at 14 per cent in September to keep liquidity tight, stressing that it felt that loosening would worsen inflation.

However, the bureau in its report said, “High food price and food price pressure continued into September though generally at a slower pace.

The Food Index increased by 20.31 per cent (year-on-year) in October, down marginally by 0.01 per cent points from the rate recorded in September (20.32 percent).

“While average year on

year food inflation for the first five months of the year (January to May 2017) stood at 18.67 per cent, average year on year food inflation for the next five months of the year (June to October 2017), was higher at 20.22 per cent indicating higher food price inflation on average in the second five months of the year compared to the first five months.

“On a month-on-month basis, the Food sub-index increased by 0.85 percent in October, down from 0.87 per cent recorded in August.

This represents the fifth consecutive disinflation in month on month inflation since a 2017 high of 2.57 per

cent in May 2017. October 2017 also represents the lowest recorded month on month inflation since September 2016.

“While average month on month food inflation for the first five months of the year (January to May 2017) stood at 2.01 per cent, average month on month food inflation for the next five months of the year (June to October 2017), stood at 1.27 per cent indicating a general slow-down in the rise in food prices from June to date compared to from January to May 2017, though the rate of price increases has remained generally higher on a year on year basis.

Stanbic IBTC outlines sustainability framework, support to clients, employees Stanbic IBTC Holdings PLC, has reeled out a threepronged framework that underscores its approach to sustainability and support to its clientele, employees and the society at large.

The Social, Economic and Environmental (SEE) framework, the organization said, is designed to support the wellbeing of communities by delivering value through the products and services that it provides.

Commenting on this development, Chief Executive, Stanbic IBTC Holdings PLC, Yinka Sanni, said that the company aims at improving life for everyone on the continent of Africa.

According to him, “We not only want to achieve financial outcomes, but we also want to fulfil our purpose of driving Africa’s growth.”

Via its social value offering, the organization creates value for society, both internally for its employees and externally for other stakeholders, clients, governments and the rest of society.

The economic value seeks to drive inclusive economic growth in Africa through creating social and environmental value, which also leads to more innovative and profitable ways of doing business and supporting African economic inte-

gration and development.

The third element, environmental value, recognizes that the success of the organization depends on creating value for the environment through responsible lending and not investing in businesses that have a negative impact on th His words: “The overall aim is to lead by example in promoting business activities and operations that leave a positive mark on the immediate and global environment.

“This we do by encouraging our colleagues and stakeholders to get involved,” he said.

As the most prized asset of the organization, the wellbeing of employees is top priority to ensure delivery of promises to clients and other stakeholders. The group has, accordingly, invested in a number of wellness programmes to encourage healthy lifestyles among staff.

These initiatives include the weekly on-site aerobics in four head office locations across the group. Also, physical activities are encouraged in all offices and branches nationwide; enabling group walks and daily exercise-at-the-desk routine for all employees.

There is also the no-liftday once a week across the organization to encourage physical exercise.

L-R: Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo; Mrs. Yemisi Adesina; President, African Development Bank, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina; representative of Vice Presid Sen. Heineken Lokpobiri and former Ghana President, Mr. John Mahama, during the 2017 World Food Prize Laureate to honour Adesina in Iowa, USA.

Naira steadies against Dollar, Pound, weakens to Euro .As NAFEX records $86.99m The Naira, for the third day running this week stood steadied at 363 to the US Dollar and Pound at 472, respectfully, but was seen at a relapsed closing rate of 422 per Euro after gaining two points earlier in the week at the parallel market.

At the official forex market maintained the depreciated rate of 306 to the dollar, even after exchanged at 305 to the dollar for over three months.

But the local currency at Nigeria Autonomous Foreign Exchange (NAFEX) window closed with a declined traded turnover of $86.99 million as at close of yesterday trading activities.

However, the Naira at NAFEX window rebounded with an opening rate of 369.70 stronger than 360.75declared on Tuesday, but weaker than an improved opening rate of 359.53 a day earlier,

Meanwhile, Debt Management Office (DMO) on Wednesday has disclosed that Eurobonds made up more than a fifth of Nigeria’s $66.63 billion foreign debt portfolio as of September and more than half of interest paid in the third quarter, while foreign debt stood at $59.82bn a year earlier.

It worthy of note that Nigeria is planning a roadshow to London and United States from today to market up to $2.5bn of Eurobonds to investors after parliament approved the issue on Tuesday.

The debt managers noted that it aims to issue the bonds by mid-November, while also planning to refinance $3 billion of domestic treasury bills with dollar loan Nigeria has faced a budget shortfall arising from a drop in government revenue because of low oil prices. The crude oil rout triggered chronic dollar scarcity and Nige-

ria’s first recession in more than a decade last year. The economy recovered in the second quarter.

Total domestic debt stood at 20.37 trillion naira ($67 billion) by September, compared with 16.88 trillion naira last year, the DMO said.

The West African country wants to switch its borrowing mix so that foreign loans account for up to 40 percent of its total debt portfolio by 2019, from about 23 percent, to lower its funding costs and lengthen the repayment period.

Multilateral loans, including financing from the World Bank, accounted for 64.5 percent of foreign loans while bilateral loans with China and other countries make up 14 percent.

The DMO said Eurobonds and Diaspora bonds accounted for 21.5 percent of total offshore borrowing and 53 percent of debt service payments in the third quarter.

Capital Market B5 Bonny Amadi A survey report released

by NO1 Polls for the month of October, has shown that consumers’ confidence has grown over the past quarter by 2.7 points, reflecting increasing optimism by consumers.

The NO1Poll report release on Tuesday, 14th November, 2017, showed that The NOIPolls Consumer Confidence Index for Q3, 2017 experienced a 2.7-point increase to stand at 67.5-points from 64.8-points in Q2, 2017.

This, according to the report, indicates an increase in the degree of optimism of consumers on the state of the economy expressed through their saving and spending patterns.

Therefore, this increase may likely translate to a slight growth in the economy as people have

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Consumer confidence index peaks at 67.5-points in Q3, 2017 – NO1 Polls shown a relatively positive attitude towards spending.

NO1Polls said that although, the quarterly increase in the CCI of 2.7-points is not particularly large, it is however sufficient to push the consumer confidence index to its highest point since Q1, 2017.

It will be recalled that the FBN Capital Purchasing Manager’s Index (PMI) also revealed an increase of 1.4-points, when the average of Q2 to 56.3 per cent, compared to that of Q3 57.7 per cent 2017.

The NOIPolls’ Consumer Confidence Index provides consumer assessments of the economic situation and their intentions and

expectations for the future.

The NOIPolls Eagle 30 Business Confidence Index measures business leaders’ perceptions and expectations about the Nigerian business environment using the top 30 companies in the country.

However, expectations of the country’s economic situation Index decreased to 93.4, reflecting weakened expectations of better economic situations. The report further showed that the Current Prices of Goods and Services Index, again, experienced the highest increase of 12.8-points in Q3, 2017 to stand at 31.6-points from 18.8-points recorded in Q2, 2017.

Also, the expected total fam

ily Income Index declined by 1.8-points to stand at 65.3-points from the 67.1-points recorded in Q2, 2017, suggesting that expectations regarding the future financial income of households are declining.

According to the economic development survey, Current Economic Situation Index– closed the quarter at 46.6 points.

The Current Economic Situation Index increased from 42.2-points in Q2, 2017 to 46.6-points in Q3, 2017. This indicates a 4.4-point increase signifying that consumers are optimistic about the country’s current Economic Situation.

L-R: Former Vice Chancellor, University of Ibadan, Prof. Olufemi Bamiro; Guest Lecturer, Mr. Adelowo Wahab; representative Director-General, Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER), Prof. Adedeji Adesanya and Director, Policy Engagement and ICT Department, NISER, Prof. Nyemutu Roberts, at the 2017 NISER Lecture Series in Ibadan, Oyo State… on Tuesday.

NSE upgrades website to drive participation, improve liquidity Adesola Afolabi The CEO of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, Mr. Oscar N. Onyema, OON, has noted that the upgrade of the institution’s website is in line with the NSE’s drive to create more liquidity and improve participation in the market through greater access to market information and visibility for all securities listed on the Exchange.

Onyema, while commenting on the site’s new look and features said: the “Accessibility and usability are our watchwords in providing capital market information to existing and potential investors. We aim for an Exchange that is easily accessible and actively used by investors who now have greater thirst for more information and detailed disclosure information to

make sound investment decisions.

The upgraded website, www.nse.com.ng, is mobile friendly, with a cleaner layout and navigation befitting of the brand.

The upgraded website will enable users to access information quickly and easily on the various products and instruments that are listed and traded on the regulated market.

Speaking further, the NSE

Oscar Onyema, NSE CEO

boss noted that, “The explosion of online services and the rising popularity of the internet will continue to create new opportunities for the Exchange to utilize in its determination to constantly improve the level of services it provides to the market” On the part of the Head, Corporate Communications of the NSE, Olumide Orojimi, the Exchange carried out this upgrade with the user experience firmly in mind.

“We are excited about our newly upgraded website which has been fully optimized to be mobile- friendly and contains robust information for diverse stakeholders in our ecosystem.

The revamp was fuelled by feedback from users that wanted certain high demand pages easier to navigate and some key changes implemented.

Stanbic IBTC reports 78% increase in profit in 2017 9 months result Adesola Afolabi Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc, a member of Standard Bank Group, has announced its nine months results for the period ended September 30, 2017, posting a 77.7 per cent increase in profit before tax to N45.650 billion. The figure stood at N25.688bn in the corresponding period of 2016.

Similarly, profit after tax at N37.672bn represents a growth of 86.9 percent in comparison to N20.152 billion recorded in 2016. Gross earnings, at N154.220bn, was an increase of 34.5 per cent over the N114.622bn achieved in the corresponding period of last year.

Total assets rose to N1.417 trillion from N1.053trn in December 2016, while net interest income grew by 61 percent to N62.947trn compared to N39.089bn last year. Non-interest revenue shot up to N64.280bn, a 22 per cent increase from N52.895bn in 2016 The result, which was submitted to the Nigerian Stock Exchange in Lagos recently, was described as a “strong balance sheet growth to support future earnings” by Proshare, an investment analysis and financial information firm.

The latest performance follows a similar path recorded during the first half of the year ended 30 June 2017, as gross earnings increased by 36.28 per cent to N97.198bn, from the N71.320bn recorded in the corresponding period of 2016.

Profit before tax increased by 86 per cent to N29.169bn, from N15.682bn last year, while profit after tax at N24.112 billion was a growth of 113 per cent compared to N11.317bn in the corresponding period of 2016.

Total assets went up by 21 per cent to N1.273trn from N1.053trn in December 2016.

Diamond Bank presents new car to promo winner Bonny Amadi Diamond Bank has continued to strengthen empowerment initiative to its loyal customers as the bank has given out a brand new Hyundai Accent salon car to the winner of its Western Union (WU) Promotion raffle draw.

Head, Consumer Channels, Diamond Bank Plc, Chekwube Ohaeri, told pressmen that the services of Western Union at Diamond bank are opened to both account and non-account holders of the bank.

She revealed that Diamond Bank have been in partnership with Western Union for close to 15 years and that the relationship has indeed been a fruitful and rewarding partnership.

She added that the emergence of a customer of Diamond Bank Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, branch, as winner of the star prize is not only

good publicity for the bank, but has also improved the visibility of the Western Union brand, and ultimately lead to more referrals to use the service.

“The next draw is the ‘Year End Promotion;’ and we are optimistic that more customers of Diamond Bank will eventually go home with one, and possibly the 2 cars that are up for grabs. Ohaeri said The “Western Union Back to School Mega Promotion” started July this year with customers rewarded with two cars. To qualify for the

promo, consumers must send money overseas via Western Union just once irrespective of the amount.

The Bank’s Customer, Mr. Patrick Anyatonwu, emerged star prize winner of the just concluded ‘Western Union Back to School Promo” held on Wednesday at Diamond bank Awolowo road Ikoyi branch.

According to Patrick, “I have been a long time customer of Diamond bank and Western Union. When I was initially contacted and informed that I had won a new car, I couldn’t believe it.

Summary of activities on NSE ASI DEALS

36,887.20 4,119.00

VOLUME

249,348,515.00

VALUE

5,202,781,721.79

CAP

12,766,551,769,005.77

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Experts in new strategic trust, designs proactive agenda to court industry

Stories by Godwin Anyebe

Indeed, nothing should be left to chance as a good strategy is the fulcrum of success.

The new Executive Council of the Advertisers Association of Nigeria (ADVAN Exco), a voluntary association of leading advertisers in the country, led by Mrs. Folake AniMumuney as the president, was inaugurated last month precisely, 14th September, is leaving no stone unturned in galvanising members to support its vision and concrete moves to achieve set goals.

Led by a woman, with

a fair number of women, all relatively younger than previous tenures, the exco exudes ‘fire’ and determination not only to succeed but move members of the association, the industry and the economy to greater heights.

Following its inauguration, the exco embarked on a strategy retreat to deliberate “long and hard” on what the focus will be; debate and prioritize initiatives to most effectively achieve its set goals and objectives.

Leading the crack team of these young and talented professionals, the

president, Ani-Mumuney, also the Group Head, Marketing and Corporate Communications with First Bank of Nigeria, revealed that the dominant idea which would drive the new ADVAN exco ’s actions is captured in the theme: “Proactively creating an empowered future in Marcoms today”, adopted at the close of its retreat. Other members of the team are: Wasiu Abiola, ADVAN 1st Vice President, Mrs. Nkiru Olumide Ojo, ADVAN 2nd Vice President, Onome Asagbra, ADVAN Publicity Secretary and Abiona Babarinde, ADVAN

Ex-officio among others.

According to the ADVAN president while speaking at an interactive session with the media recently in Lagos, the adopted theme would be achieved across 4 thematic pillars – Driving Visionary Thought Leadership; Encouraging Knowledge Sharing and Capacity Building; Effective Stakeholder Engagement and Facilitating and Procuring Access to Data, Research and Insight All four is hinged vision on an empowered future, in view of the fact that, “our current operating MACRO presents certain challeng-

es and realities and indeed opportunities for us all” explains the President.

She further buttressed having only recently emerged from recession we are operating in an economy that remains severely challenged. “We face increasing and tougher regulatory regimes bringing with it additional and sometimes onerous or duplicated compliance requirements. Our new norm is one of ad-hoc and sometimes arbitrary licensing fees and multiple taxations”, she declares adding that in all these, “we see unprecedented advances

in technology driving new business models and creating new markets”.

Speaking for ADVAN members and what the Nigerian economy presents operators and how to adequately take advantage of the situation, “I see the future as exciting, offering many opportunities beautifully wrapped in challenges today. To be primed and positioned to seize those opportunities we must proactively take the steps today capable of creating sustainable value for today and grow that value into tomorrow”, the president declares.

NECO commends Cowbellpedia on Mathematics’ development

L-R; Mr. Kenneth Iruonagbe, Social Media Manager, Power Oil, Mrs. Omotayo Azeez- Abiodun, Public Relations Manager, Power Oil, Mr. Kachi Onubogu, Commercial Director, TGI Groupand Amisha Chawla, Brand Manager, Power Oil During presentation of no 1. CSR Company of the year at ADVAN AWARDS.

Power Oil bags double ADVAN awards It was a double recognition for Power Oil, the Nigerian vegetable cooking brand when it bagged two brilliant awards in different categories at the prestigious Advertisers Association of Nigeria (ADVAN) Awards for Marketing Excellence, 2017 West Africa recently in Lagos.

The brand emerged first position in the category of Corporate Social Responsibility, contending against other equally big brands such as Nigerian Breweries, MTN Foundation & Indomie nominated under this group.

Also under the most anticipated award category amongst other categories, which was Brand of the Year Award, Power Oil came second, being nominated amongst other giant brands such as; Cocacola, Airtel, Indomie, Hayat, Unilever etc who entered

for the category.

ADVAN is a reputable and the only body in the nation, founded to advance the interest of the Marketing Industry in Nigeria by spearheading and ensuring global best practice as well as facilitating collaborative partnership with relevant stakeholders.

According to Mrs. Folake AniMumuney, president of ADVAN, she confirmed that it really was a tough task awarding the brand of the year category especially for this edition, because all the brands nominated under this category have performed excellently beyond expectations, however, what needed to be done had to be done and we congratulate recipients of all the award categories.

Also during the event, Amisha Chawla, Brand Manager, Power Oil who was clearly elated expressed her excitement having received two

awards. She also went further to express utmost appreciation towards the association behind the ADVAN Award, as it has indeed been true to its purpose of creating value for the nation’s Marketing Communication community.

“We all know how tough and meticulous ADVAN can be with entries, also considering the level of screening and scrutiny entries are being subjected to before transiting to the nomination stage , then to final- the winning stage” Amisha stated.

Power Oil is proudly Nigerian heart- friendly vegetable cooking oil under the staple of Raffles Oil Enterprise which offers consumers a healthier way to cooking as well as initiatives that educates and promotes a healthier lifestyle amongst Nigerians.

Power Oil is endorsed by the Nigerian Heart Foundation

The National Examination Council (NECO) has commended Promasidor Nigeria Limited for stimulating the interest of Nigerian students in Mathematics through the Cowbellpedia Secondary Schools Mathematics TV Quiz Show, sponsored byCowbell, the company’s flagship brand.

Speaking to newsmen at the finals of the 2017 Cowbellpedia Secondary Schools Mathematics Television Quiz Show recently in Lagos, the Registrar, Professor Charles Uwakwe said that the competition has considerably reduced the phobia for Mathematics among students across the country.

Mathematics, regarded as the soul of science, is dreaded by most students, resulting in declining performance in the subject at the examinations conducted by the majorexamining bodies; NECO and West African Examination Council (WAEC).

Uwakwe maintained that the Cowbellpedia initiative has demystified the terror of Mathematics that has been killing the dreams of many students. He cited the figure for this year’s qualifying

examinations as proof of the renewed interest of a lot of students in the subject.

Compared to the enrolment figures of 27,000 participants in 2015 and 46,000 in 2016, 52,000 students participated in the 2017 nationwide examinations, out of which 108 moved to the second stage, which is the Television Quiz Show with five of the students having a perfect score of 100 percent.

The NECO Registrar commended Promasidor for the Cowbellpedia initiative andpledged the council’s continued technical support for the project in appreciation of what he described as “Promasidor’s great Corporate Social Responsibility to the Nigerian society.”

Meanwhile, in the breath-taking finals, Jesse Uche-Nwichiof Graceland International School, Rivers State and Munachi Ernest-Ezefrom Loyola Jesuit College, Abuja, emerged champions in the Junior and Senior categories respectively. For their feat, they were rewarded with N1 million each and an allexpense paid education excursion outside the country.

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GAIN, CIAT propose funding, biofortification to tackle malnutrition in Nigeria Stories by Simon Ugwu

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) have jointly recommended that the Federal Government should commit more funds and encourage the cultivation of more bio-fortified crops in order to end nutrition challenges in the country.

The Executive Director, GAIN, Dr. Lawrence Haddad stated this during a Quarterly Media Parley organised by the Food and Agriculture Writers’ Organisation of Nigeria (FAWON) held in Lagos.

Noting that Nigeria runs into

a nutrition crisis every year, resulting in a 10 per cent loss in Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Haddad advised the government to make nutrition a priority because the development of any nation is largely dependent on its active workforce comprising young people who require adequate nourishment from food to be productive.

He lamented that thirty-seven per cent of under 5 children are stunted in Nigeria, stating that without proper nutrition, the future of a child is being thrown away. Hence, he strongly canvassed for more funds to be ploughed into programmes and schemes on nutrition because

malnutrition is an expensive challenge to overcome.

“Since we started this report in 2015, we found out that 40% of all countries in the world have massive problems of undernutrition. This figure has now gone up to 60%. Nigeria’s budget on nutrition from the overall government expenditure is the lowest at about 0.2 per cent’,” he said.

In his own remarks, the Regional Director, CIAT, Dr. Debisi Araba called for a better coordination of nutrition in the policy space to improve nutrition challenges.

Reflecting on how CIAT helped improve nutrition to reduce

child anaemia and child mortality in Rwanda, he urged the Federal Government to partner with the private sector in the production of more biofortified food in order to meet diet diversification needs.

The Country Director of GAIN, Dr. Michael Ojo, in his contribution sought stronger ties with the media. He explained that GAIN, being part of a system is working hard to see the end of malnutrition and needs the dissemination of information on GAIN and CIAT’s activities that the average farmer in a rural community would find useful.

“When you talk about the

L-R: Deputy Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Commerce, Hon. Aminu Ashiru Mani; Members of the committee, Chris Azubogu and Johnson Oguhama, during a One-day public hearing on a bill for an Act to Establish the Chartered Institute of Commodity Brokers of Nigeria (CICBN) at the National Assembly in Abuja, on Wednesday.

Kogi to domesticate FG’s Agriculture food security and nutrition strategy The Government of Kogi State has announced the commencement of the process of domesticating the Federal Government’s Agriculture Sector Food Security and Nutrition Strategy (ASFSN) to boost nutrition-sensitive agricultural practices in the state.

Commissioner for Agriculture in the state, Mr. Kehinde Oloruntoba stated this at a workshop organised by Synergos Nigeria for very important stakeholders to facilitate the domestication of the national agriculture strategy in Lokoja.

He emphasised that the state government would, in its capacity, ensure the early domestication of the strategy in order to ascertain the food security situa-

tion of the state.

Oloruntoba also noted that the state had already adopted the Home Grown School Feeding Programme (HGSFP) to provide balanced diets for pupils, while raising their mental capacity and alleviating stunted growth among them.

In his speech, Synergos Nigeria Field Manager for Kogi, Benue and Kaduna States, Mr Victor Adejoh said the workshop was organised in alliance with State Partnership for Agriculture (SPA) to promote the domestication of the strategy via a participatory approach.

He expressed that the strategy document would guide participants in considering key areas for ensuring food security in the

state and also help them prepare for nutrition-sensitive agriculture in its annual budgets. ‘‘We are looking at the key priority areas set up by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD), where the policy is domiciled, to see possible areas of alignment to enable the state to evolve her own strategy.

At the end of the workshop, we hope that we would have instituted a process of ensuring input to the domestication strategy with the key stakeholders from ministries of agriculture, health, women affairs and FMARD,’’ he said.

Adejoh also described the national agriculture strategy as one that integrates other ministries.

Synergos Nutrition Consultant, Dr. Funmi Akinleye, in his comments, said the strategy was created and launched in May by FMARD. He added that the objective is to ensure each state looks at the policy and its strategic priorities while identifying the easiest entry points.

He stressed the urgency of domesticating the policy, stating that most of smallholder farmers, who grew over 65 per cent of the food for the country’s population, rarely ate well and were malnourished. ‘‘Nutrition and food security are so important to reduce the rate of malnutrition; increase agricultural production, and boost the income of small-scale farmers,’’ he said.

business of nutrition, the media is a business,” he said.

On her part, Senior Associate of Scaling Up Nutrition Business Network (SUN), Uduak Igbeka assured that her firm has been playing its part in the fight against malnutrition. Sharing an example of how her organisation assisted a maize farmer in Rivers State, who needed Vitamin-A fortified stems by connecting him with a supplier, she assured continuous support for stakeholders through provision of relevant information.

“It’s about making the linkages, aggregating people and disseminating information,” she said.

Planting melon, the king of African soups The melon (egusi) plant which comes from cucurbit species (family Cucurbitaceae) is a vine with climbing and creeping habits. Its leaves are deeply lobed, blue-gray in colour, innately dissected yetalternately arranged, slightly scabrid, denticulate and about 24 centimetres long.

Melon crop plays important roles in the farming system, nutritional requirements and economic well-being of West African rural dwellers.

Melon has many health benefits which make it an important staple in the average Nigerian diet. One of these benefits is its protein content which makes it an excellent nutrition source.

In fact, 40 per cent of the seed is made up of protein. Other components of melon seeds include palmitic, stearic, linoleic and oleic acids which are essential in protecting the heart.

Aside being a good source of protein, oil is sometimes extracted from its seeds. This is used in cooking and is sometimes processed into salad oil. The seed too is occasionally exported to Europe for processing into vegetable oil.

Usually, the melon plant is grown alone. At times it is grown in unused spaces around the fields, such as banks and bunds.

But mostly it is interspersed among other crops, a combination commonly appreciated because its plants take care of weeds.

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NB, FRSC mega rally on road safety arrives Lagos Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo Following the successful mega rally in Abuja, Nigerian Breweries and the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), held another mega rally on road safety at the Ojota New Garage in Lagos recently.

The Lagos rally, the second of the three rallies scheduled for the year, is part of activities for the 10th edition of the Don’t Drink and Drive Campaign, a road safety awareness campaign organized by Nigerian Breweries and the FRSC. Speaking at the event, the MD/CEO, Nigerian Breweries, Mr. Johan Doyer, said the campaign is to discourage drink driving and improve safety on our roads.

“We commenced this year’s campaign with a mega rally in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Like previous years, this year’s campaign will focus on the improvement of road safety awareness for all commercial drivers and draw attention to alcohol related accidents”, he stated.

Doyer, who was represented at the occasion by the Corporate Affairs Adviser of Nigerian Breweries Plc, Mr. Kufre Ekanem, said

L-R: Corporate Affairs Adviser, Nigerian Breweries Plc, Kufre Ekanem, representative of the Acting Commissioner for Transport, Lagos State, Engineer Akinola Johnson and Lagos Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Corp Commander Hyginius Omeje at the flag off of the mega rally of the “Don’t Drink and Drive” Campaign held at Ojota New Garage in Lagos, recently.

that over 16,000 drivers and other road users in 40 cities and towns across the country have directly been engaged since the inception of the campaign 10 years ago.

In his remarks at the occasion, the Corps Marshal, FRSC, Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi, represented by the Corps Education Officer, Corp Commander Bisi Kazeem, said this year’s ‘Don’t Drink and Drive’ campaign comes at a time when the FRSC is embarking on prepatrol activities for the ember months’ special patrol.

“The FRSC is working assiduously to ensure that there is a significant shift in the attitude of motorists this year, especially during

the yuletide where people have come to believe that drinking on a daily basis as a way of celebrating is permissible. This campaign is a timely reminder that drinking and driving does not only pose a threat to the life of the drunk driver, but also to the lives and property of all road users”, he declared.

Honourable Omotosho Omotayo, who represented the Chairman, Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN), Alhaji Musa Isiwele, said the association has set up committees to enforce the prevention of sale of alcohol in motor parks across the country. This development according to him,

“will contribute towards the success of the laudable partnership between Nigerian Breweries and the FRSC.” While flagging off the campaign, the acting Commissioner for Transport, Lagos State, Prince Anofiu Olanrewaju Elegushi, represented by Engineer Akinola Johnson, said the ‘Don’t Drink and Drive’ campaign is a welcome development, especially at a time when the Lagos State Government is bent on improving the standard of transportation through its Bus Rapid Transit system (BRT) and minimizing accidents by curtailing the sale of alcohol in motor parks.

Taxify launches operations in Abuja, offers riders discount Taxify, the fastestgrowing ride-sharing platform in Europe and Africa, launches in Abuja with hundreds of driver-partners signed up to the platform and ready to accept rides all across the city.

To celebrate, Taxify is offering a 40% discount to riders during the month of November.

Uche Okafor, Taxify’s Operations Manager, comments: “Abuja is an exciting and thriving market with an outgoing population for private urban transport. We’re very excited to launch here and have a solid team on ground. We are confident that Taxify can effectively contribute to healthy competition by improving the quality of service and lowering the prices for the end customer.”

Taxify takes only 15% commission from its drivers, compared to the 25% that competitors take. The lower commission allows Taxify to offer lower prices for riders and ensure that drivers still keep more money in their pockets.

Taxify treats our drivers better so that they can in turn treat our riders better.

Taxify does this by ensuring that drivers are able to earn more driving on our platform than on any other platform. This combined with our end to end support ensures that our drivers are happier driving on Taxify and are ultimately able to provide better quality service for riders. Taxify also believes in providing exemplary customer service to riders, with a local customer support team that offers real time over the phone support.

Taxify is an international urban ride-sharing platform founded and headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia. Taxify is operating in 20 countries in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Central America.

Taxify has a global team of over 300 employees, and is considered one of the fastest-growing ride-sharing platforms in Europe and Africa. In August 2017, Taxify announced a strategic partnership with Didi Chuxing, the world’s leading mobile transportation platform.

Mercedes pickup to mimic success of brand’s SUVs The new MercedesBenz X class will be a game-changer for its light commercial vehicles division, giving the business a more diversified sales footprint by entering the booming global segment of midsize pickups.

Mercedes-Benz Vans boss Volker Mornhinweg has said pickups are moving upmarket, just like SUVs have done. “SUVs are elegant lifestyle products with a high-quality finish to them.

Not every customer takes them into the wilderness anymore. We believe pickups could go in a similar direction,” Until now, Daimler’s vans division has been overwhelmingly dependent on Europe, with 70 percent of its 360,000-unit volume coming from the region last year. With the X class,

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Daimler is targeting a diverse customer group from farmers in South America, building contractors in Australia, families in Brazil, and trend-conscious individuals in Europe and South Africa.

The pickup aims to tap into surging demand for vehicles capable of transporting one-ton payloads

and towing an additional 3.5 tons. Mercedes forecasts volumes for this type of truck will grow by nearly half to 3 million vehicles worldwide in the next 10 years.

The X class will go on sale in Europe in November, in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand early next year and in Argentina

and Brazil in 2019. For now, Mercedes says it has no plans to sell the X class in the U.S. where demand is mainly for full-size pickups.

French market researchers Inovev forecast annual X class sales to be 50,000 a year with 20,000 sold in Europe, 20,000 in South America and 10,000 in South Africa.

AutoAdvise has some practical steps on how to purchase a good second-hand car: 1 Make an appointment to view the car. Take someone with you who knows about things mechanical if you do not.

2 First inspect the bodywork. Walk slowly around the car, starting and ending at the same point. Look carefully at each body panel.

Look for signs of repairs and overspray. Open all the doors, the boot and the bonnet. Always examine the bodywork in good light, and do not inspect the car in the rain or if it is wet.

3 Check inside the car.

Look at the general condition of the carpets and the upholstery. Test everything, including the electric windows, mirrors, sound sys-

tem and seat mechanisms.

If you are a non-smoker, check the ashtray for signs of cigarette ash. If you are a non-smoker, the smell of stale smoke might irritate for as long as you own the car.

4 Check the service book.

Compare the actual mileage to the last service. Do the dates check out? If you are a little suspicious, check that the same ink has not been used for all the services.

5 Don’t appear to be overeager to buy.

6 Once you are happy and are certain that you want to buy the car, write down the price you would like to pay.

Also, write down the highest price you are willing to pay.

It’s a good idea to discuss this with your partner or a friend before making an offer.

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Why Nigerian record labels lose star artistes By: Joey Akpan

Kiss Daniel is a free man now. After spending 4 years at G-Worldwide Entertainment and established himself as a top act in Nigeria, the singer has left the label. In its place, he has launched a new record label, Fly Boi Inc. it. People believe that Kiss Daniel was being held back by the policies within his label that insulated him from the industry. Since he broke out in 2015, the singer has not had a collaboration with any

record, but nothing came out of it.

This no-collaboration policy has had its fair share of critics, with many commenters on social media has its uses. It is one of the foundations of the music powers by collaborating with other artistes for gain. searched for a reason, his label boss, Festus Sugarboy, Emperor Geezy, and Kiss Daniel on the cover of Vibe

and his signed artistes.

“We understand that this is a risky move but remain convinced that if this can be achieved, we will be able to take credit for having set the pace in the Nigerian music industry,” Geezy said in a statement.

“Granted that collaborations in the industry bring colour and variety to the end product, but our approach at this time is to grow stronger and richer in value as a unit.”

Geezy failed to put into consideration the desires of the artiste. This was an arrogant approach to practices. Kiss Daniel wants to collaborate with his idols. He needs to grow. real issue here is the inability of record labels to understand how to renegotiate contract deals with artistes as they grow. We have seen this situation

failing to take into consideration that the clauses that made up an initial contract would have to be As players become bigger, and the value that they bring grows, the clubs renegotiate better deals to At G-Worldwide, Kiss Daniel was the cash cow. His

Sugarboy & Kiss Daniel

debut album. They either redirect their resources process of breaking an artist through.

This lesson needed to have been learned.

Structures rise and fall, empires grow, hit the zenith change constantly. But some things could have They have to update their business practices and

and levels that Kiss Daniel effortlessly climbs. The record label relies on Kiss Daniel for a lot, and a renegotiation would have been the right thing to do.

G-Worldwide, without the talent and celebrity of Kiss Daniel, look a little light. They are stuck with

Life&

Kiss Daniel grew bigger than G-Worldwide, but the record label refused to acknowledge that. They

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9ice releases new video, Basiri Mi

Guy Code viewers to celebrate Ultimate Party Guy Code, a television series powered by Gulder, a premium brand from Nigerian Breweries Plc, is hosting viewers to a dream-come-true party tagged Ultimate Party, scheduled for later in the month of November. platforms leveraging Guy Code, a weekly television series currently showing on MTV Base (DStv Channel 322).

According to the organizers, participants will be selected from an ongoing video contest. Entries are sent via a direct message (DM) to Gulder on Instagram

9ice Award-winning singer, Abolore Akande popularly known as 9ice has teamed up with ace director, Clarence Peters for the video for his song, Basiri Mi. Produced by talented beatmaker, Tonywhy, the song released worldwide across all media platforms on Tuesday 14th November, 2017 by pan-African record label, Temple Music a sister company of foremost Lagos-based

talent agency, Temple Management Company (TMC).

The video is a delightful masterpiece that gives a fresh breath to the song which was released a few months ago.

It is important to note that 9ice is sure gaining his presence back in the music industry since the release ever since, the Gongo Aso crooner is not leaving any stone unturned.

Mike Aremu, Segun Obe, others light up The Great’s ‘Next Level’ album concert

Twitter (@GulderNg).

Each participant is required to send a 60-second video that captures his idea of what an Ultimate Party should be. Each participant should also state his age and location. Selection will be made from clips of videos received with assessment based on originality and creativity.

Portfolio Manager, National Premium at Nigerian Breweries Plc, Tokunbo Adodo, said the winners of the competition would also have an opportunity to

your ultimate, gearing you to step up, stand tall and stand out, while differentiating yourself through the choices you make as a man. The brand understands that you are on a journey and despite the obstacles you face, you are daring in the pursuit of your goals.

Like Gulder, Guy Code is male-centric. This is a unique feature the brand shares with the television series, and this is what we are keying into it to add value to Nigerians.

Ultimate Party is a unique experience. It is a way

of assuring our consumers that we are part of their journey. It is for the man who works very hard daily to achieve his goals. This is because he is the one that stands out, because he is the

#TheUltimateGuyKnows for those who want to share their thoughts online.

The TV programme, which is already gaining reputation as the handbook of understanding a

has been crafted exclusively for him to celebrate every step he has taken in the right direction.

Guy Code has triggered healthy online conversations

weeks. Its last episode focused on gym etiquettes, manscaping, and living with the parents.

In a humorous but educative style, the different talents that featured in the previous episodes examined social expectations, specifying the no-go areas while presenting how the ultimate guy conducts himself.

friends and the female folk.

In addition to the television series, the programme also creates an opportunity via

AY set return to cinema with ‘Accidental Spy’ After a successful venture into movie production and making major landmark with a box Ayo Makun is set to hit the December 1, 2017 with a new

Mike Aremu & The celebrant, Abraham Great It was glitz and glamour in the UK as renowned Nigerian born UK based pastor, music director, singer, writer and business magnate, Abraham Great celebrates his 40th Birthday in style.

Golden Pen Publishing which is a division of Golden Pen Ltd in United Kingdom and has published over 40 books. The family owns several other businesses from advocacy to transportation, consultancy, properties and education.

by Mike Aremu, Segun Obey, seasoned comedian “MC Saco”, launch the sophomore “Next Level” Gospel album by the Greats, a music While Mike Aremu and Segun group comprising of Abraham Great Obey performed and dazzled with himself and his super talented and Abraham Great and Queen Great harmonious wife Queen Great. on stage, MC Saco was on hand as The Next Level album is a the host and also delivered some 10-tracker power packed gospel aesthetic jokes to the delight of the album produced by the veteran music attendees. producer, Wole Oni and featured Abraham Great who has collaborations with multiple award spent most of his life serving and winning Saxophonist, Mike Aremu, helping people by adding values Segun Obe, Agboola Shadare, Isaac is the Director and founder of Gerald and Pastor Gabriel Eziachi.

A co-production of Peekaboo Productions and Corporate World Entertainment, the movie was shot on location in Lagos, London and Amsterdam.

The Accidental Spy tells the story of IT specialist, Emmanuel Prince, who gets blindsided by his cheating girlfriend. When Prince travels to London and signs up for a reality show to take his mind off his recent woes, he unwittingly gets caught in the middle of a plot by a powerful Nigerian criminal cartel.

Nouah, the award-winning duo from 30 Days in Atlanta back in the saddle. diversely talented cast, including Alibaba , Emma Oh My God Jones David (Hotel Majestic), Hollywood actor, Miguel Nunez Jr. , South African star, Thenjiwe Moseley , and British debutante, Christine Allado, to name a few.

Lead writer and producer, Darlington Abuda had this to say about his latest creation: “The Accidental Spy is a labour

way to enter the December festive season. I am indeed elated by the fact that movie-lovers across Nigeria and in various other territories are going to enjoy this potpourri of love, laughter and action.

He added, ”We shot the movie

with the mindset of giving Nigerians an awesome cinematic experience. great cities of the world, and when get a chance to really experience and imbibe their culture.”

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Want to know more about history? Visit Badagry The road trip from Ikeja GRA to Badagry took about approximately 3 hours on terside, we took a boat to the Bada-

brought here does not return to Bada-

so they are not able to struggle with the

drink water at the same time form a large

Our tour guide, Seton, mentioned that the

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Nigeria!

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Music review

Reminisce (Ponmile): Violence is never the answer

Movie review

Picture Perfect: Bolanle Ninalowo as Jobe makes a statement

Movie Title: Picture Perfect Produced by: Biodun Stephen

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Tomatoes

lycopene, which helps give tomatoes their vibrant red color. Research shows that the lycopene present in ocular tissues helps prevent light-induced damage to the retina and other areas of the eye. another vision protector. Processed tomato products or fresh tomatoes eaten with a little olive oil will help boost the absorption of lycopene. Researchers say eating foods rich in antioxidants is better than taking supplements.

Corn Yellow corn is great source of lutein and zeaxanlost during ARMD, (Age-related macular degeneration) but research shows that older adults who boost their blood levels of lutein and zeaxanthin through eating foods like corn and other carotenoid-rich fruits ing these pigments. A study even found that women who ate the most fruits and vegetables, including yellow corn, reduced their risk of developing cataracts.

Carrot Vitamins found in carrot can help promote overall eye health. Carrots contain beta-carotene, a substance that the body converts to vitamin A, an important nutrient for eye health. Carrots can easily be included in your diet in the vegetables salads or fried rice and can also be consumed and enjoyed in its raw form.

tion. Blueberries and blackberries also contain anthocyanins, which have the dark purple pig-

to the arteries that feed oxygen to the retiare available though they are a little bit expensive.

Eggs Eggs contain the omega-3 fatty acid DHA and are the most readily available source of lutein and zeaxanthin. An egg per day for most people, unless you have diabetes, is excellent eye food. Diabetics need to ask their doctor whether eggs can be a part of their diet.

Avocados Avocados are one the most nutrient-rich fruits

Turkey when it comes to warding off cataract. It is also a healthier opoption for the eyes.

great source of other important eye nutrients such as beta-carotene, vitamin C, vitamin B6 place avocados among the top-10 eye foods.

Sweet potatoes tains loads of beta-carotene which makes them a total necessity when it comes to eye health.

Sardines Loaded with Omega-3 fatty acids, sardines should be includ-

eyes and maintaining overall eye health. According to a study

Olive Oil helps prevent retina diseases. Several studies suggest that olive oil is recommended for healthy low in saturated fat, Australian researchers found that subjects who reported consuming the most olive oil were 48% less likely to develop ARMD. When buying olive oil, look for extra virgin for the additional antioxidant boost it provides.

Walnuts Walnuts are the best nut source of omega-3s. In small amounts they can be converted to EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid), another omega-3 fatty acid used by

walnuts help to lower C-reactive protein, a marker ing a handful of walnuts a day can cut your risk of a cardiac event by as much as 50 percent, according to several large research projects, including the ongoing

Berries Blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, mulberries, cherries and even grapes are outstanding foods for protecting cardiovascular health, which makes them Badagry Slave Museum, Lagos

blood pressure is a risk factor for macular degenera-

Moringa Moringa leaves contain iron, calcium, potassium, vitamin A, rich in antioxidant, vitamins, minerals and essential amino acids. Its leaves can also be used to treat various eye problems.

Moringa leaves can be used as eye wash and can also be put in eyes. Extract of its fresh leaves juice mixed with honey are also used as eye drop in some parts of India.

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Nutritions L7

reasons you need lemon in your water

to justify starting your day with a nice glass of lemon water.

Sometimes we just get tired of drinking old plain water and you just want to take your physical, mental, and spiritual health up to the next level, here are 15 reasons why you should be drinking lemon water every day.

1) Clears Skin One of the more convincing reasons to drink lemon water for most of us is that it can help keep our skin clear. Water on its vitamin C in lemons helps purge toxins from our blood to keep 2) Balances Your PH

very acidic, but they actually have a very alkalizing effect on our bodies. Keeping your body in an alkaline state also pre-

3) Boosts Immune System boost our immune system. Who has time to get sick these days, right? The potassium in lemon juice helps control blood pressure, stimulate brain and nerve function and vitamin C with the juice of one lemon and some honey.

4) Weight Loss Aside from helping our skin stay clear, balancing and boost-

There are tons of different powers that lemon water has. Did you know that it can actually assist you with any digestion problems that you are having? Trust me on this one, if you are having a lot of stomach aches, start drinking lemon water and

5) Help a Hangover Save yourself a trip to the store and make yourself a mug of lemon water is that it can help soothe your stomach, which can be somewhat irritated or sensitive after a night of drinking.

Drinking hot water with lemon can act as an antiseptic and help

10) Powerful Cleansing Powers While we might clean our skin and we might actually keep our faces and hair clean, did you know that we also need to keep our organs and our insides

6) Freshens Breath We now know that lemon water has an abundance of ben-

extremely healthy.

11) Less Mucus

en your breath after having some drinks, a spicy meal or if you smoke. All these things can dry out your mouth, which can lead

probably notice that you have a ton of mucus in the

7) Boost the Brain and Nervous System Another one of the impressive effects of drinking lemon wahave been linked to depression, anxiety, forgetfulness and brain fog. As mentioned previously, lemons are also chock full

you are noticing it all around your body. Well, one of -

antibacterial properties and helps get rid of infections of the

13) Energy Boost Do you need that cup of coffee in the morning and then around 2:30pm, you are crashing and burning with being tired? Well, if you happen to drink hot water with lemon in it instead of coffee, not only will you cut your

helpful natural remedy for allergies as it helps keep the body alkaline and more balanced.

9) Helps Digestion Problems

14) Helps You to Stay Healthier Overall, lemon water is a good way to keep hydrated

stress.

8) Helps Respiratory Problems -

all ends of the spectrum.

15) Great Source of Potassium still missing those potassium levels, why not indulge in a few glasses of

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