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Recession: FG can’t pay GEJ, OBJ, IBB, others Ï Owes them 10 months salaries Ï Paucity of funds responsible –SGF Ï Seeks NASS’ intervention Ï Senators slam SGF over development, want urgent resolution Steady power: Be ready to pay N10,000 monthly, DISCOs tell B1 Nigerians

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Editorial Stemming alarming kidney failure among Nigerians

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efore now, little was heard of kidney failure as a major killer in Nigeria. In recent times, the reverse has become the case.

The increasing burden of chronic kidney disease (CDK), and end-stage renal disease presents a challenge for the country and health authorities.

According to health experts, more than 24 million Nigerians or 14.2 per cent of the population or, one in every seven persons has one degree of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD).

Moreover, with more Nigerians getting overweight, developing hypertension and diabetes, medical experts are warning of a looming epidemic of kidney failure. More alarming is a recent report in Medical Anthropology Quarterly that confirmed a growing worldwide market for body parts that include kidneys. Reports, also, reveal that there is increased kidney trafficking due to the prevailing economic situation in the country, whereby a kidney could fetch the donor as much as N1million. Medical experts say that more people die every day from kidney- related diseases than malaria and HIV/AIDS in Nigeria.

Medical experts have established that diabetes and high blood pressure are key risk factors for chronic kidney disease. Other causes include polycystic kidney disease; sickle cell disease; obstructive uropathy, prostate, fibroids, strictures and cancers; connective tissue disorders, toxic nephropathy and Human Immuno-deficiency Virus /Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome ((HIV)/AIDS).

It is a fact that kidneys serve as filter for the body and once damaged; they can no longer remove waste and excess liquid from the blood. As deadly as this menace is, available statistics on kidney diseases had remained scarce. The lack of renal registries

means that there are no reliable statistics about the prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in Nigeria.

Many people with severe kidney infection are asymptomatic in the early stages of the disease. If present, the early symptoms are nonspecific and may include fatigue and loss of appetite. In the advanced stages, however, the symptoms are severe. For this reason people often do not realise they have the disease until they are already very sick and have sustained irreversible kidney damage.

Symptoms of severe kidney damage may include the yellowing of the eyes and skin (as the kidneys are no longer able to filter waste), nausea and vomiting or severe muscle cramps. In the advanced stages, as the body loses its ability to expel fluid, there may be swelling in the hands and feet and excess fluid in the lungs. This can make it difficult to breath. Without proper end-of-life care, death from kidney failure is often extremely painful.

Lack of adequate and appropriate health facilities including health care personnel pose a great challenge to care of patients with kidney- related ailments in most developing countries. This has encouraged proliferation of various pseudo/quack health facilities found in these countries.

Incidentally, unlike some African countries, such as Rwanda and South Africa, there is no government funding for treatment in Nigeria. This leaves the entire burden to individuals who, most often, cannot bear the cost for too long. It is therefore imperative that Nigerians become health conscious by undertaking routine medical checkup for symptoms of kidney disease. With yearly testing and aggressive treatment, we can greatly slow the decline in kidney function and reduce the number of people developing kidney failure.

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Any priest who preaches resurrection of Jesus Christ without seeing the resurrection of the economy - is wasting his time

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

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S’Court Registrar arraignment over N2.2b fraud flops Andrew Orolua, Abuja Attempt to arraign the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, Mallam Ahmed Gambo Saleh and two other officials of the court before the high court of the Federal Capital Territory Abuja over diversion of the sum of N2.2billion on Thursday flopped following the absence of one of the accused in court.

Saleh the current chief Registrar of the Apex court, Muhammed Abdulrahaman Sharif and Rilwanu Lawal were to appear before Justice Abba Bello Mohammed to be arraigned on a 9-count charge.

They were said to have diverted the huge sum into their personal bank account with the United Bank for Africa (UBA).

For which the federal government had filed charges bordering on criminal breach of trust and taking bribe from Supreme Court contractors to the tune of N74.4million among others.

However, the arraignment could not hold as one of the defendants, Muhammed Abdul-

rahaman Sharif, was absent in the court due to an undisclosed ailment.

His counsel, Dr. Garba Tetengi (SAN), told the judge that his client was laying critically ill at the emergency ward of the Specialists Hospital in Gwagwalada, Abuja, and pleaded with the judge for an adjournment of the arraignment.

Counsel to the Federal Government, Mr Charles AdeogunPhillips, objected to the claim of the second defendant on the ground that no material evidence was placed before the court or served on government to show that the second defendant was actually in the hospital.

The government lawyer, however, said that since the evidence came from the Bar, he will concede to the adjournment.

Apart from Sharif, the Chief Registrar, who is the first defendant and Rilwanu Lawal, who is the third defendant were in court but their plea could not be taken.

Justice Mohammed thereaf-

Saleh ter adjourned the arraignment till December 15 to enable the second defendant recover from his sickness.

The Federal Government had on November 3 filed a 9-count charge against the three defendants.

Fresh aviation fuel scarcity looms ...as airlines reschedule flights ...may affect air fares Chukuemeke Iwelunmo Air travelers in the country may face untold hardship once again in the aviation sector as scarcity of aviation looms on the domestic routes.

The scarcity of the the product if not checked may negatively affect air fares across all domestic routes as some airlines have started scaling down operations.

The scarcity which became pronounced Monday, has forced airlines to shelve some of their scheduled operations while some will soon start adjusting their fares slightly.

The public affairs manager of Dana air, Mr. Kingsley Okwudili told Daily Times that the airline witnessed the aviation fuel scarcity last Monday which led to some delays.

Okwudili said the airlines operated virtually all its scheduled flights for that day saying that the situation has improved at Wednesday. “It caught us un-

aware on Monday and it led to delays which affected the flights but virtually all our flights were operated and as at today, delays have reduced.”

A top management staff of First Nation airways who pleaded anonymity told Daily Times that the airline started experiencing the aviation fuel scarcity last week.

According to him, it has been on and off with the price fluctuating between N230 and N 240 per litre.

He said the scarcity may affect air fares as the chunk of finds used in operation ended up in fueling their planes.

Recently, the former director of operations, Chanchangi airlines Mohammed Tukur cautioned airline operators to stop the use of heavy aircraft such as B737 series meant for six hours flight for an hour flight in order to remain in business.

According to him, light aircraft remained the best for an hour flight in terms of fuel con-

sumption and management.

This situation is giving airline operators sleepless, as Jet A1 gulps over 35 per cent of their revenue at a time fares have remained static or at best increased by less than five per cent, coupled with recession that has seriously affected the travel patterns of Nigerians.

Aviation fuel costs more in Nigeria and other oil producing countries than their counterparts that do not produce oil.

For instance, in Nigeria, despite the stability in the lifting of aviation fuel across the country and the deregulation of the commodity, JET A1 is considered very expensive.

Nigeria’s flag carrier airline, Arik has alerted passengers of worsening aviation fuel (JET A1) scarcity across the country.

The airline said aviation fuel scarcity started manifesting last week when major oil marketers began to ration supply of the product to airlines.

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FG calls for collaborative efforts to tackle recession The Federal Government on Thursday in Abuja called for collaborative efforts toward ending the current economic recession in the country.

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige, made the call at the 4th Registrar of Trade Unions Annual Workshop organised for all registered Trade Unions, government agencies and other social partners.

The theme of the workshop was `The Role of Social Partners in Combating the Challenges of Economic Recession’.

Ngige, who was represented by Dr Clement Illo, Permanent Secretary in the ministry, said the workshop was aimed to educate trade unions on effective management of the current economic downturn in the country.

“Considering the enormous challenges arising from the recent economic recession facing our nation and the attendant problems and difficulties it poses to all sector, organised labour also bear a major brunt of it.

“The very survival of the trade unions has not been more threatened that it is today as issues of downsizing, redundancy, casualisation and indecent work, among others, is rife and on the increase.

“A lot therefore, needs to be done to stem this unwelcome tide of the recession, with all stakeholders in industrial relations practice coming together to proffer ways of minimising or eliminating it adverse effect.”

He said it was pertinent to mention that various efforts had been made by the ministry to confront and combat the dangers of the economic recession in the area of labour administration.

He said this was with emphasis on job security, social protection and the protection of the terms and conditions of collective agreements.

Ngige noted that successes had been recorded in the banking and finance and oil and gas sectors while further efforts were being directed in other critical sectors of the economy.

According to him, the import of this is the crucial need to employ social dialogue mechanism and proffer solutions to challenges confronting the sector.

“The importance of bargaining in good faith, open communication and appropriate disclosure of relevant information devoid of deceit, delay and denial should form the bedrock of the dialogue process.

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Recession: FG can’t pay GEJ, OBJ, IBB, others Continued from page 1 gun Obasanjo, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (rtd), and others have up till now not been paid allowances due to them by the Federal Government since January this year.

The unfortunate situation is not unconnected to the current economic recession in the country.

The shocking report came to light when the Senate Committee on Federal Character and InterGovernmental Affairs, led by Senator Tijjani Kaura (APC, Zamfara North), paid a visit to the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation on Thursday.

There are reports also that allowances of the former presidents were being owed as proposal to that effect had not been tabled before President Muhammadu Buhari for approval.

The Daily Times learnt that payment schedule had severally been prepared, but were yet to be sent to the President for approval to assess funds in the service-wide vote for the purpose.

Explaining reasons behind the problem, the SGF, Babachir Lawal, attributed it to the unavailability of funds in the service-wide votes for salaries of ex-presidents.

Lawal said: “There is a department responsible for payment of former Presidents. Presently, funds are not available in servicewide votes to do that. We are aware there was a protest in Bayelsa State that the former President was not paid, but we’ve explained that he’s not the only one affected.

“Others affected are Inter-Religious Council, Traditional Ruler’s Council and so on. For some reasons, we have been writing and writing, but there has been no response. And there is presently no money to pay them.”

“The budget for this year’s Democracy Day celebration was N33m, and we had to do it on credit, we are yet to pay. There are lots of retreat, which ought to be organised but there’s no money to do any. The last time we got any release was in August.”

Senators had however kicked against the non-payment of allowances to the Presidents, while insisting that joint efforts be made between the office of the SGF and the committee towards finding a solution to the problem, which they described as unfortunate.

The lawmakers, who took turns to slam the SGF over the development, also emphasised the need to draw attention of the Budget Office and Ministry of Finance to the development with a view to having same addressed immediately.

Vice Chairman of the commit-

tee, Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi, described the non-payment of former presidents as abnormal.

“What we have seen here is an abnormality. Before referring any matter to the National Assembly, it is a function of the executive to appropriate funds. Therefore, the SGF should understand that there is something wrong in this office that must be addressed.

“There is no way you can run the expenses of this office without cash backing. We definitely have to draw the attention of the Budget Office and Ministry of Finance to the problems,” Senator Hunkuyi said.

The lawmaker also faulted the office of the SGF over replication of 2016 budget details in its 2017 budget proposal.

In the same vein, former Gover-

nor of Sokoto State and lawmaker representing Sokoto North in the National Assembly, Senator Aliyu Wamakko, kicked against the non-payment of former Presidents by the office of the SGF. “We can understand if former President Goodluck Jonathan has not been paid because he just left office. But for someone like Shagari, who lives from hand to mouth, is something I can’t understand. This development is really unfortunate; it doesn’t indicate seriousness, and it doesn’t indicate fairness,” he said.

Responding, the SGF said: “When I got into this office, there was a lot of money in this account, but there was no TSA then.”

“Before the government left office, they jacked up salaries. We told former President Jonathan

and Obasanjo that they cannot earn twice what the others were earning. So we told them we wanted to review it, and we did. So they now earn what the others earn as well.

“When I came into office, there was N1.5bn in the account. We had payment of all liabilities, which came to N700m. Then we wrote to the President to return what was left to the TSA. That was how we came back to a zero balance.

“Look around, you’ll see government vehicles breaking down every now and then. Really, I know the challenges the budget office is facing, but the truth is the funds are not just there. In any government, there are certain agencies that must be served first before others. So we have agreed on that.

However, we will lean harder on

the finance ministry to see that the situation is turned around.

“As SGF, I’m getting embarrassed and demeaned by chasing money coming from demands. All MDAs come to me for things to be done, and it is not quite easy, but we try our best.

“Last year, these political appointees had nothing. As to assistance, we really need assistance, if not but to retain all what we have budgeted for.”

Babachir Lawal also urged the National Assembly to intervene by ensuring it approves funds proposed by his office in the 2017 budget to be submitted soon, saying, “What is in our budget, we need your help to defend it. This is part of the change agenda, so we must learn to sew our cloth according to the material.”

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House when the clash occurred with the PDP claiming that some of its members were shot and wounded by the police and that several supporters of the party have been hospitalized.

The protesters were said to have been stopped by policemen, who took over strategic government buildings in the state, especially the Government House, the State House of Assembly complex and the State High Court complex, from going beyond the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) area of Port Harcourt, to avoid clashes with the supporters of the APC, who were at the same time marching to the Government House to

protest against the failure of the Assembly to swear-in two members of the party, who won elections into the Assembly.

The Chief Press Secretary to the Rivers State Government on Electronic Media, Mr. Simeon Nwakudu, told newsmen that as the team moved towards Government House, towards Moscow Road, Port Harcourt on Thursday, the Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Steven Hasso, allegedly ordered his men “to physically assault the cameraman of Channels Television, Mr. Ekikere Udom.

The ACP and his operatives used their guns to batter the Channels Television Cameraman, dispossessing him of his telephones and other valuables,” he said.

The Chief Press Secretary alleged that “At the front of the Government House, Port Harcourt, ACP Hasso and his operatives also physically assaulted the Chief Security Officer of Government House, adding “they shot repeatedly into the air but the Government House security prevented them from gaining entrance.”

The Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Samuel Nwanosike, said in his own narration, that despite the alleged attacks by the police, the PDP members marched to the House of Assembly to show solidarity with the speaker and honourable members.

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city of Calabar, the Cross Rivers state capital, is experiencing an upsurge in the number of lunatics who now occupy major public places in the city.

A trip round the city by our correspondent shows an unusual high number of lunatics and destitute, who now occupy major public places like bus stops, rest places, major roads, round about among others.

These lunatics, who are fast turning the beautiful city into an eyesore, can be found occupying places like Secretariat bus stop, Stadium bus stop, Unical bus-stop, among others.

This development has led most commuters, who will ordinarily use these facilities to abandon them to the lunatics who now pose as threat to them, making them find alternative places to wait for vehicles, while the lunatics have turned the places to their homes and cooking places thereby polluting the environment.

Besides taking over the place, these lunatics from time to time attack innocent people, dispossessing them of their valuables, including hand bags, wrist watches or phones.

A lady, who claims to have fallen victim to the lunatics and who gave her name as Miss Nkoyo Etim Edet, told our correspondent that she lost her personal belongings, including her hand bags to these persons when she was attacked along Marian road.

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Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Lagos Province 13 has commissioned a community development light project valued at over a N1.0m at Soluyi, Gagada- Lagos on Thursday.

Speaking at the commissioning ceremony, the Province Pastor, Odesola Olabode, said that the light community development project is part of the vision of the RCCG to give back to the community where her church dwells.

According to him, “it is the vision of the RCCG General Overseer, Pastor Enoch A. Adeboye, is to give back to the community in order to show that Christianity is not just about bringing people to church but also to affect their lives in a positive way” he said.

Olabode noted that this is a beginning of what the church has in stock for the community even as it are ready to do more.

Also speaking, the Bale of Soluyi 1, Chief Tajudeen Adegbero, who appreciated the Church over the project said that the community has been expecting this type of project which has become a reality, adding that he hopes that the Man of God will continue to bring good development projects to the community.

Adegbero on his final note, urged other religious leaders to emulate Olabode and join hands to make the community a better place to inhabit.

FG to support 1m farmers in 2017 -Perm Sec ÎÎÎThe Federal Government will

support no fewer than 1.5 million farmers across the country in the 2016/2017 dry season farming under the Growth Enhancement Support (GES) Scheme.

The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Shehu Ahmed, made the statement on Thursday in Nasarawa at the GES stakeholder’s preparatory meeting on the 2016/2017 dry season farming.

Ahmed, represented by the Director General, National Seed Council, Mr. Philip Ojo, said the GES dry season farming would commence within the next few weeks.

He said that government would support farmers who plant rice, maize, wheat and groundnut by providing them with farm inputs and improved seeds.

He said that the outstanding GES

money owed agro-dealers was being processed and would soon be paid to enable them participate in the programme.

The permanent secretary said that government implemented the 2016 wet season farming as a pilot phase to test the effectiveness of new measures introduced after the review of the scheme.

“The remaining outstanding claims of agro-dealers and input suppliers is currently being reconciled by the ministry and other MDAs to be forwarded to the ministry of finance for settlement.

“We will support 1,197,240 rice farmers, 65,055 maize farmers, 234,445 wheat farmers and 3,840 groundnut farmers across the country,’’ Ahmed said.

Mr Badams Jatto, the Director, Farm Input Support Services, said that three bags of fertilisers including two bags of Nitro Phosphate

Potash (NPK), one bag of urea, a bag of organic fertiliser and micronutrients would be given to farmers.

He said that fertilisers would be sold to farmers at a subsidised rate of N8, 000 per bag.

Jatto said: “none payment of GES debt has affected the economy because most of the agro-dealers and suppliers are owing banks.

“That is why the minister is doing everything within his power to settle the debt.

“The minister got N20 billion intervention fund which has been used to settle part of the money.

We still have about N25 billion outstanding.

“The minister is working to clean off this debt. I want to assure agro-dealers, seed companies and suppliers that government is very much concerned because if we do not pay these debts, the programme will not be successful.

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Equipment Leasing Association of Nigeria (ELAN) had called on the Federal Government to utilise the equipment leasing option to achieve its set out economic initiatives which include stimulating the economy in this recessionary period.

The call was made by the Chairman of ELAN, Mr. Chuka Onwuchekwa, during the 14th National Lease Conference of the Association, which was held in Lagos, with the theme: “Leasing and Economic Development in Challenging Time”.

The annual event, according to Onwuchekwa, “remains the high-

“Sometime in March, there was total ban on the importation of urea (fertiliser) into the country and this affected wet season farming; but now, the ban has been lifted but without high security arrangement,’’ the director said.

Meanwhile, National Chairman, Agro-dealers Association of Nigeria, Mr. Kabiru Umar, has attributed the cause of scarcity of fertilisers to the security situation in the country.

“The challenges we face is the issue of durability of fertiliser in Nigeria primarily because of security concerns.

“For this reason, the Federal Government decided to suspend end users certificate to import urea to the country.

“Both NPK and urea are scarce and because of this, the price of fertiliser in Nigeria is high and discouraging agro dealers.

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est gathering of stakeholders in the Nigerian leasing industry, which has become a major platform for the discussion of pertinent issues affecting the development of the leasing industry and the economy at large.”

The Chairman commended the Government on its economic direction on diversification of the economy to reduce reliance on revenues from oil and gas exports with focus on agriculture, mining and manufacturing as well as massive investment in infrastructure.

He noted that the global economic developments in recent times, especially the decline in oil price, have continued to impinge greatly

on Nigeria’s key macroeconomic variables, with consequential slow growth recorded in major sectors of the economy.

Highlighting the role of leasing in the current efforts of government to address the recession in the economy, he stated that equipment leasing has gained significant global recognition as a creative financing alternative for the acquisition of capital assets used to facilitate access to the much-needed equipment, generating an annual average of over $850bn.

He noted that the appeal of leasing lies in the fact that it meets the diverse equipment needs of the les-

see (user) be it government, large organisations or small businesses adding “in the United States of America for instance, leasing remains the single most widely–used method of external finance, representing 30% of investment in capital equipment.”

According to Onwuckekwa, many developing countries such as Brazil, Indonesia, Pakistan, Zambia, South Africa and Ghana, are equally using leasing to stimulate investment and create jobs. In these countries, leasing is at the forefront of investment in the extractive industries, transportation, agriculture, telecommunications, roads and other infrastructure.

Ogun state House of Assembly on Thursday ordered the immediate suspension from office, of the state Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Arch. Lekan Adegbite, over alleged act of disrespect meted out to the Committee of the Whole House when he appeared before it.

The Assembly, which passed “a vote of no confidence” on Arc. Adegbite, also demanded that the state Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, should cause the Commissioner to handover all necessary documents and paraphernalia of office at his disposal to the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Works and thereafter, cease to parade himself as a commissioner of the state.

The decision to suspend the commissioner followed a motion moved by the Majority Leader of the House, Adeyinka Mafe, which was also seconded by Tunde Sanusi and supported by the entire lawmakers.

In moving the motion for the commissioner’s suspension, Hon. Mafe said Acr. Adegbite had conducted himself before the Committee of the Whole House in a manner perceived as improper and unfit of a Commissioner of the state and as such should cease to be an ambassador of the state.

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Obasa gets ECOWAS Parliament’s nod to accommodate state lawmakers Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa yesterday sought and got the approval of the ECOWAS Parliament to integrate state lawmakers into their programmes with a view to developing the socio-economy of the various states and regions of ECOWAS member countries.

The Lagos Speaker stated this in his speech when a delegation of the ECOWAS Parliament visited

the state House of Assembly after participating in a programme on maritime security in Lagos.

The Speaker in a release signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Musbau Rasak said, “I want to urge the leadership of the ECOWAS Parliament to look at ways of integrating members of the state Houses of Assemblies. This will afford us to interact on various development programmes for the states and regions of ECOWAS

member countries,” Obasa said.

He stated further that there was the need for collaboration with the ECOWAS Parliament on the need to improve trade legislations aimed at improving and developing the economy of the states.

“Here in Lagos, there is a robust trade and commerce structures and we are always ready to collaborate with other states and countries for mutual benefits of all of us,” Obasa said.

Secretary General of the ECOWAS Parliament, Dr Nelson Magbagbeola, assured the Lagos Assembly Speaker that the Parliament was already putting measures in place to integrate state lawmakers in the activities of the Parliament.

Speaking earlier, a member of the Parliament and Chairman of its Committee Gender Rights, Hon Kaboubie Reine Bertille Benao Sakande from Burkina Faso who

spoke on behalf of other parliamentarians on the entourage, told the Lagos Assembly Speaker that they were on a programme in Lagos and deemed it fit to visit the state Assembly.

“We are aware of the good job you are doing here and we decided to visit you,” she said.

Rt. Hon. Obasa later took the visiting parliamentarians on a tour of facilities in the House of Assembly.

Senate rejects Bauchi, Kwara nominees into NCC Board Ï ƅƆƍƊ #Əƍ Ƈ ƆƓƄè dƏ ƕ Ɠ # ƍƄè Ǝ Ƅƍ Olufemi Samuel, Abuja Senate yesterday rejected the nominations of Alhaji Aliyu Saidu Abubakar from Bauchi State and Pastor Ezekiel Yissa Benjamin from Kwara State into the Governing Board of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) as commissioners to represent North East and North Central zones in the board.

The decision by the Senate may not be unconnected with an initial altercation it had with the nominee on allegation that he called for scrapping of the Senate.

The nominee during screening had told Senators point blank that he had no regret about his opinion on having the Senate scrapped as an institution on the basis of a huge drain they constitute on the national economy.

The committee had confronted Abubakar with photographs of his frequent protests at the Premises of the National Assembly, calling that the Senate should be scrapped.

During the screening, the committee asked him if he still believed in his cause, to which he said yes.

He reiterated his position that the existence of the Senate was not justifiable; pointing out that the upper chamber was only a waste to the nation’s enormous resources.

However, no reason was offered on why the Senate dropped another nominee, Benjamin, former Speaker of Kwara State House of Assembly, Saraki’s home state.

His rejection may not be unconnected with a report presented by the Chairman of the Senate

Committee on Communications, Senator Gilbert Nnaji, which had recommended that he be dropped along with Abubakar.

The committee, while recommending Benjamin’s rejection, claimed that his background as a trained nurse “will not put him in good stead to be able to effectively cope with the dynamics of the communications sector if his nomination is confirmed.”

There were reports that Benjamin’s nomination suffered a setback when he claimed before the screening that he was a member Senator Gbemi Saraki led All Progressives Congress (APC) political camp in Kwara State against the camp led by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki.

In his report, Nnaji said Abubakar’s response to questions asked by the committee portrayed him as “a candidate who is not prepared for the demands of office such as required of a non-executive commissioner on the Governing Board of the Nigeria Communications Commission.”

The report added: “Mr. Saidu Abubakar could not produce any credible educational certificate for the committee to verify at the screening.

“He obviously lacks the professional and educational disciplines provided in Section 7(1) (a-h) of the Nigerian Communications Act 2003 which stipulates the qualification of the commission’s board.”

Acting on the committee’s recommendations, the Senate dropped Abubakar and Benjamin but confirmed other nominees, viz: Senator Olabiyi Durojaiye as Chairman of the NCC Governing Board.

Member, Lagos State House of Assembly (LAHA), Hon. Yinka Ogundimu; member, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament, Sen. Prince Yormie Johnson (Liberia); Speaker LAHA, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa; and acting clerk LAHA, Mr Azeez Sanni during ECOWAS parliamentarian visit to the Speaker in Lagos, yesterday.

INEC working on making commission’s offices registration centres–Director The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it is working on a template that will enable eligible voters walk into any of its offices and register.

INEC Director of Voter Education and Publicity, Mr Oluwole Osase-Uzzi, made the disclosure yesterday in Abuja at an Election Results Analysis Training for Political Correspondents organised by Election Monitor (EM) an NGO. He said the template was still going through planning process.

He added that if the process is finalised, it would enable Nigerians who just attained the age of 18 to walk into any INEC offices and register without necessarily waiting for the time Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) is conducted.

Osase-Uzzi said the template would also take care of eligible voters living far from INEC office.

He however explained that the commission would still conduct CVR

periodically to capture the details of eligible voters.

Meanwhile, Mr Abiodun Ajijola, National Coordinator, Election Monitor, has called on media organisations to lay greater emphasis on analysis of election results.

In his presentation at the training, Ajijola argued that analysing election results would give valuable insight into the veracity of the results by observing and assessing trends, deviations and inconsistencies.

He said that media coverage of elections in Nigeria would offer tremendous service to the electorate if it lays greater emphasis on analytical election coverage.

“It will help to improve public knowledge about elections, as well help to reduce or avoid election violence that usually lead to loss of lives and properties.

“If proper election analysis was done and disseminated across all forms of media, some of the people

trying to create unrest and violence during election period will have failed.

“They would have failed because their message will have been drowned out by empirical analysis which may have actually saved some lives,” he said.

The coordinator said that since 1999, majority of the elections conducted had resulted in dissatisfied parties (usually those who lost) taken their case to the court for final determination.

He said: “most media houses have also weighed in their opinions of the credibility of elections in Nigeria, usually leveraging on external analysts.

“However it is very rare to see these analysts making cogent points based on data analysis of the election results.

“This leads to arguing and people taking sides based on who sounds more convincing as opposed to credible figures, facts and data which are available and will make discussions more convincing.

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Buhari has shown seriousness in resolving Niger Delta issues-James Pastor Bassey James, a renowned criminologist, security Expert and clergy, is also the National President Southern Youths Development Forum. James, a man passionate about Nigeria, Niger Delta region and empowering the youths for leadership is happy with what President Muhammadu Buhari is doing to resolve the Niger Delta Crisis, pointing at the recent constitution of the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and consultation with leaders of the region as pointer to better days. In this interview with PATRICK OKOHUE, he also speaks about the developmental strides of his state governor, Udom Emmanuel in turning Akwa Ibom State to number one investor destination in the country.

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The nation is currently facing some challenges in the exploration of crude oil from the Niger Delta as a result of militancy, youths restiveness andpipeline vandalisation, as a leader in that region, what is your advise to the government in resolving these problems?

The issue of Niger Delta is one issue that President Muhammadu Buhari is tackling and I want to thank him for taking into consideration the views of the people here by inviting the leaders of the Niger Delta for a talk and I think that is a plus. We must also give him the full corporation and for us we are praying for him to succeed, because the success of the Niger Delta is also a plus for Nigeria and Nigerians and even the President. I also want to urge our people to give him that opportunity to handle the issue of Niger Delta the way he wants to handle it, I believe at the end of the day everybody will be satisfied.

Do you think the political leadership of the region are doing enough to help the federal government in resolving the issues without bringing partisan consideration to bear on it?

Every Niger Delta person wants to see peace, every Niger Delta person be he an adult, old, young, powerful and all want to see peace and you know peace in the region means the peace of the people, nobody will have a house and wants to see his house on fire, that is why we are saying there must be peace. The leaders of Niger Delta are doing everything possible to bring peace, they are the fathers of our region and the young people are also looking up to the elders.

It is a good thing that this dialogue has start-

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ed; we believe this dialogue will produce something great and wonderful for the Nigerian people. Also from the point of view of a pastor we are preaching to people, we are praying daily to see how human beings can live together, because the unity of Nigeria is not negotiable and no matter the region, no matter the religion, no matter the political party, we are first and foremost Nigerians and we must promote the unity and love of our people, we must not do things that will see us as enemies of progress and not enemies of division. I think the Niger Delta people are peace loving people, enterprising and very accommodating, for the fact that a few elements are causing some little havoc does not mean that the people of Niger Delta does not believe in the unity of Nigeria, we believe in the unity of this country and we are praying for the unity to be sustained and by the grace of God the strength that we have today is because of the size of this country, the bigger we are, the more united we are, the more progressive we will be.

Some people are of the view that the militancy we see in the Niger Delta today is a result of the fact that the political leaders especially the governors are not doing enough to engage the youths, especially from the derivation funds that they are collecting, that it is the joblessness of the youths that is making them ventilate their anger through pipeline vandalism and the rest, do you share this view?

I am not in government so I will not understand, but you know everybody is entitled to his or her own opinion, but I can tell you that if you look at the issues of the Niger Delta, it started a long time ago and I think every government

has tried to build a united nation called Nigeria, so our leaders are doing well, trying their best, I don’t work in government, I don’t know the workings of government, but as a youth leader and a religious leader and a committed Niger Delta person and a young man that wants to see progress in my country, I speak as a Nigerian and we have been together for so many years and the spirit of independence is what really brought us together, the founding fathers of Nigeria fought for the independence of this

The issue of Niger Delta is one issue that President Muhammadu Buhari is tackling and I want to thank him for taking into consideration the views of the people here by inviting the leaders of the Niger Delta for a talk and I think that is a plus. We must also give him the full corporation and for us we are praying for him to succeed, because the success of the Niger Delta is also a plus for Nigeria

country.

Before oil there were other resources, so we must go back to the drawing board and talk about the development of our people and how we can live together. And once we achieve unity, we have achieved everything. So, for me I want to commend our leaders, they are doing well, but you know Rome was not built in a day, there is always room for improvement in some areas that are not well taken care of. It is not just about the government, everybody must put his hands on deck to see that there is development, but unfortunately, everything in Nigeria is tied to government and tied to politics. Once you remove politics from development and many issues you will see rapid development, we should not tie everything in Nigeria to politics.

You must also know that in the last few days the President has done something very spectacular that needs to be commended. He inaugurated the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and it is headed by one of the great sons of the region, Obong Nsima Ekere, the former deputy governor of Akwa Ibom State, and on the day of the inauguration there was jubilation across the Niger Delta states because they see in him a man that will mark action with words, a man that can be trusted, a man that believes in the development of the people, a man that knows the nooks and crannies of the Niger Delta. They also see the chairman of the board as a great leader from the zone, a man with great experience, who has been in the Senate and been in government for a long time. I believe and the people also believe that the present board of the NDDC will perform wonders, especially because the Managing Director is a man that is very at home with every Niger Delta person and I believe that his coming into the board will bring peace and it will also create an enabling environment for the youths to grow.

From my point of view as the President of the Southern Youths Development Forum and also as somebody involved in business, we are looking for possible ways of partnering with the NDDC to create employment for our people, we have kick-started that and we have spoken with so many companies abroad on ICT, Capacity building, on training and by the grace of God we have the biggest conference centre in the South South that can accommodate thousands of people, so we will look at areas we will partner and see how we can assist.

It is not just about the government, it is not about Buhari, it is not about the governors alone, it is about the people, America will ask you what have you done for America and not what America has done for you, so every Niger Delta person, every Nigerian should make contribution for the good of this country.

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Why I joined APC –Orji Kalu Former Abia State governor, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, who on Wednesday defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC), has cleared the air on why he took the decision.

Kalu who spoke after being received by the National Working Committee of the party led by Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, however denied reports that he joined the ruling party because of his ongoing prosecution by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The former governor said, “My decision to join the party was largely due to pressure from my family, friends, political associates and other well wishers who placed a premium on my political value.

“My family members are here (APC) and I am coming to join them. I am not saying my friends are not in the other party, but it’s time to take stock.

“It is important to go along family lines in order to rebrand Nige-

ria. I am back to join where my family are.

“If I had joined earlier at the time they were forming government, it would look like I am trying to join them to form government.

“This is the right time for me to join because this is the middle time between now and the next season to do politics. I am joining now to be able to play raw politics.”

He said his decision would help convince his kinsmen especially in the South-East that “the APC is an all inclusive party which has the growth and development of Nigeria as the reason for its existence.”

Kalu disclosed that there are two sitting members of the House of Representatives from Abia who would soon make public their decision to join the APC. “The South-East and other parts of the country will be delivered to the APC in 2019,” he assured.

APGA panel indicts suspended chairman Tom Okpe, Abuja The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) investigation panel set up by factional leader Ozo Nwabueze Okafor yesterday submitted its report which according to the party indicted the embattled national chairman, Dr Victor Ike Oye on the allegation of gross misconduct.

The faction in a statement issued by its deputy national secretary, Jerry Obasi insists that the suspension of Oye still remains valid, warning that all agencies and organisations must take note of the party’s NWC decision.

The statement said that a disciplinary panel headed by the National Youth Leader of the party, Chuks Nwoga was set up to investigate the alleged gross misconduct against the chairman and two other members of the NWC, Uchenna Okogbuo and Alhaji Abubakar Adamu.

“The investigative panel has submitted its findings and recommendations with very strong indictment

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on Dr Victor Oye for gross misconduct in gross violation of Article 12 and 19 of APGA constitution.

“It is regrettable that in spite of this current status in the party, which calls for remorse and soul searching on his part which has brought APGA to disrepute and dwindling electoral fortunes in Nigeria, Dr Oye has deliberately refused to heed the good counsel of eminent party leaders.

“The true situation is that the embattled erstwhile chairman remains suspended based on the recommendations of the disciplinary committee set up by the National Working Committee,” the statement stated.

It would be recalled that while the state chairmen of APGA have given their total loyalty to the Victor Oye led leadership of APGA, the faction headed by Ozo Nwabueze Okafor has maintained its stance on his suspension, even as it has approached the High Court to stop the embattled chairman from parading himself as APGA leader.

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people on expectations from government?

Well, I am putting up a conference, what we call National Youths Impact Conference and the Theme will be the role of Youths in Nation Building, where issues of development, issues of entrepreneurship, issues of infrastructure, security and issues of unity will be discussed and we are working round the clock, we are also using our religious organisations to talk to our people to make them know that the worst you can do for yourself is to destroy what God has given to you, because every single destruction that goes up in the Niger Delta affects millions of people, you know the environment, the eco-system, the land is already polluted, so if you put the environment under more threat we will be the first people that will suffer the consequence, so what should we do? We should look for avenues to talk, which is what the Southern Youths Forum has been doing over the years, we have been talking, we have used our own little means of communication to preach to the people, I strongly believe that the problem of the Niger Delta can be resolved by the people of Niger Delta and I also believe that the problem can also be resolved by Nigerians, we don’t need external bodies to come and deal with our issues, we must honestly discuss our issues and sort it out ourselves and go home and be at peace with everybody, because you cannot negotiate peace and unity, you know the absence of peace is total chaos and anarchy and we don’t want anarchy because every part of the world today is talking about development and there cannot be development in an environment where there is break down of law and order.

I want to also emphasis, there is so much politics in our country and it is very dangerous for us as a people, because when you do politics all year round, there will little room for development and if you go to many states everybody is running to government house, everybody wants to be a councilor, everybody wants to contest election, the government can partner some young men

like us and see how we can come together across the country to build a new crop of leaders.

We also want to challenge some of our leaders who have made it, to create an avenue of talking to the youths, there is no disadvantage of talking to people, you can only have benefits in talking to people, so there is the need for us to talk. The National Youths Impact Conference is put together to bring together our leaders to discuss the issues of development, infrastructure, security and the role of the youths, where do we go from here, it is not about party, because party will come and go, but Nigeria remains, presidents will come and go, governors will come and go, senators will come and go, the country remains, so, the country is what we should discuss and the unity of our nation is what we should discuss.

Look, from my state point of view, if you come to Akwa Ibom State today you will see that there are more none indigenes even in government house and I challenge everybody in government to do same, there are many none indigenes in government even in the state government house today, I want to challenge all those who have po-

the present governor has also built on the success of the past administration, but he is going beyond that and today he is called Mr Infrastructure, today in Akwa Ibom we are talking about infrastructural development, unprecedented in the history of this country, the governor is busy working round the clock to build industries and investors are coming to Akwa Ibom State.

I assure you that in the next few months, not years Akwa Ibom will be a major player in the comity of nations

litical powers to drop this issue of religion and ethnicity and begin to talk Nigeria. There is so much tension around the issues of ethnicity and we must move towards new crops of leaders who will talk less about where they come from and talk about the issue of Nigeria, Nigeria needs everybody. While the President is doing something to bring unity, everybody should also contribute to the development of our country, this is our country and we must contribute our quota.

I believe that if we are able to put this National Youths Impact Conference together it will be the first of its kind in this country and we will take the conference across the country, we will go to Kaduna, we will go to Abuja, we will go to Enugu, we will go to Lagos and will also go to Akwa Ibom State to see how we can harmonise, how we can reach out, how we can talk about Nigeria, not tribe or religion, because if we continue like this we will be working against the spirit of independence and the spirit of independence means the North, the South, the East and the West coming together, it means Tafawa Balewa talking to Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, it means Chief Obafemi

Emmanuel

Awolowo reaching out to Dr Michael Okpara, it means the other person talking to Dr Akpan, Yoruba,Igbo all coming together and when our fathers came together they fought the common enemy, but today we are trying to colonise ourselves, but we have to move forward.

Looking at the present administration of Udom Emmanuel and what your former governor, Sen. Godswill Akpabio did, where do you see Akwa Ibom State in the next couple of years?

I want to thank the former governor for some of the things he did, look at the stadium, that stadium is one of the best in Africa, we are proud that we are from Akwa Ibom State, you know government is a continuum, the present governor has also built on the success of the past administration, but he is going beyond that and today he is called Mr Infrastructure, today in Akwa Ibom we are talking about infrastructural development, unprecedented in the history of this country, the governor is busy working round the clock to build industries and investors are coming to Akwa Ibom State. I assure you that in the next few months, not years Akwa Ibom will be a major player in the comity of nations, not even states, because this governor is in a hurry to fast track development, this government is a hurry to bring peace and deal with the issue of infrastructure and sustaining the issue of free compulsory education and I want to say that we have never had it so good, we are thanking God for what He has done in the last few years in Akwa Ibom State, so we need to know that Akwa Ibom State is the best place today for investors, so if anybody is looking for a place to invest, looking for a place that is secured, a place that promotes unity, a place you can call my country, my own home, that place is Akwa Ibom State and I know that the governor has his hands wide open to receive everybody and he is well focused on receiving investors and building solid infrastructure that will see us among the top states across Africa.

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Rivers State All Progressives Congress (APC) supporters during a peaceful protest demanding immediate swearing-in of APC members that won in the last election into the Rivers State House of Assembly in Port Harcourt… on Thursday.

Ambode mourns industrialist, Gbadamosi Benjamin Omoike, Abeokuta

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state governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, on Thursday expressed great shock over the passage of foremost industrialist and economist, Chief Rasheed Gbadamosi.

Gbadamosi, a Co-chairman of the Lagos @ 50 Committee, died on Wednesday at the age of 72.

The Governor in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Habib Aruna, said he was truly saddened by the demise of the former Minister for National Planning, describing him as a true Lagosian, who was passionate and always willing to serve his state and fatherland.

“As a foundation member of the first Lagos State Executive Council after the creation of the state in 1967, he contributed immensely towards laying a very solid foundation for what is today the foremost state in the country and the nation’s unarguably Centre of Excellence. He also distinguished himself as a Federal Minister and PPPRA Chairman”.

“Chief Rasheed Gbadamosi was a sound economist, one of the best in his generation. His passion to serve his fatherland was never in doubt, so it was not surprising to me that he graciously accepted to serve as Co-Chairman of our Lagos @ 50 Committee and in the last few months, he was directly involved in the meetings and planning to ensure the success of the celebration.

“He was the youngest Commissioner in Lagos State at 27, an industrialist and a very consistent financial expert. He was a proud son of Lagos state who had paid his dues over the decade. A financial guru and a public administrator per excellence, who would never shy away from letting people know that he was a thoroughbred Lagos boy, born in Ikorodu,” the Governor said.

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Rivers Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members on peaceful procession to the State House of Assembly in Port Harcourt… on Thursday.

ASUU strike: FG expresses hope for possible suspension The Federal Government on Thursday expressed the possibility that the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) would suspend its going nationwide strike.

The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Dr. Clement Illo, told newsmen in Abuja that government was positive that ASUU would resolve the crises soon.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that a meeting with ASUU, convened by the Senate President, the Committee on Labour and the Committee on Education, among others, ended in deadlock on Wednesday.

Illo, who described the meeting

as “a very positive step”, said the three-hour meeting recorded huge success toward resolving the issues.

He, however, said “it is still work in progress and we are still meeting tomorrow (Friday) and on Monday.

“But the indications are very positive that the issues will be resolved as quickly as possible. We are sure of success on Friday but if we did not, then we will definitely succeed

by Monday.

“So, the possibility like I said of suspending the strike is still very positive because there is high possibility that the strike would be suspended.

“This is because the issues have been very well articulated and al-

ready, there is a focus on how it will be resolved,” he said.

The permanent secretary said government would do everything possible to ensure that the process of implementing the agreement was resolved as quick as possible.

He added that “like I said, it is very positive, why should government not implement something it signed in good faith?”

It would be recalled that ASUU had embarked on one-week warning strike to demand the implementation of previous agreements with Federal Government and the removal of universities from the Treasury Single Account (TSA).

Religious crisis: Group urges code of conduct at worship centres Idu Jude, Abuja

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In its effort to stop incessant religious crises being experienced in northern parts of the country, a faith based organization has recommended a code of conduct at worship centers, as a standard to foster peaceful co-existence.

This suggestion was made during a stakeholders’ meeting of a faithbased organizations, comprising Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), Educational institutions and other relevant groups in Northern Nigeria, at a twoday high level technical interactive session in Abuja.

According to the group, parts of its efforts, is to orientate grossly uneducated youths who are mostly instruments used in coursing mehems at worship centers.

They specifically suggest the adaption and implementation of the Code such that it reflects local needs and peculiarities of different communitieswhich may include but not limited to; education, monitoring, documentation, joint visits and denunciations by religious leaders to attacked holy sites.

In the communiqué read by a member of the Advisory Board, Dr. Turkur Moh’d Baba, the group also recommended the translation of the code to easily understood local languages, research, recognizing vulnerable groups, trauma healing, mindset transformation and mitigating against hate ideologists and identifying conflict drivers.

“Part of the strategy is to build an international conventions and norms that safeguard the freedom of religion or beliefs and other human rights, preserve cultural heritage, and safeguard-

ing civilians in armed conflicts.

“We recognize the role of religious leaders in addressing conflicts pertaining to holy sites, and reaffirm the moral responsibility to speak up for the protection of all scared places, regardless of religion,” Baba stressed.

Another member, Advisory Board, Dr. Rekiya Momoh Abaji, described the initiative as timely, and will go a long way to establishing and sustaining religious tolerance in the society, to the extent that one will begin to see places of worship as sacred and belonging to the God that we all worship, therefor should be preserved at all cost.

Coordinator, Holy Sites Project, Fatima Madaki, said what informed the programme is the need to address reoccurring cases of violence around places of worship that have been witnessed in northern Nigeria.

UNN mass communication alumni hold reunion party ÏÏÏ The Alumni of the Depart-

ment of Mass Communication, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, will gather Saturday, November 19 at a Reunion Party aimed at creating cohesion, coordination and contribution to the growth of the department and its products.

The founder of the Centre for Values and Leadership (CVL), Prof Pat Utomi, will host the Reunion party which comes almost 30 years after a Homecoming in 1987 at Nsukka.

According to statement by the Publicity Secretary of the Jacksonite Reunion Planning Committee, Queen Eugene, the Reunion Party would feature a Meet and Greet, a parade of Year Groups, and motivational talk by Host, Prof Utomi, a mass communication graduate of 1977.

The administrator of the Jacksonites Forum which initiated the Reunion and the coming together of the alumni, Mr. Chido Nwakanma (J85), said the objective of the alumni group is to tap from the experiences and exposure of the large body of alumni to contribute to the upliftment of the department.

Starting from a WhatsApp Forum in June 2016, The Jacksonites has quickly grown into a formidable group with the primary aim of contributing to the development of media and communication study and practice as well as the progress of the mother department at Nsukka.

UNN’s Mass Communication Department commenced life in 1961 as the Department of Journalism and is the first full university department for the study of journalism and mass communication in Sub-Saharan Africa.

News 12 Pandemonium as Police, PDP supporters clash in Rivers Continued from page 6 He said: “If they think that they can do what they did in Edo State here in Rivers State, they are mistaken. They will be duly resisted.

Despite the attacks by the Rivers State Police Command, the members of the PDP marched to the Rivers State House of Assembly where they declared that nobody would be allowed to rig elections in the state.“ Nwanosike denied claims by the Police that supporters of the party were out to counter the protest by members of the opposition APC, insisting that they had mobilised to pay a solidarity visit to the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Adams Dabatorudima.

Receiving the PDP members, the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Mr. Dabatorudima Adams, thanked the PDP members for refusing to take the law into their hands despite the alleged provocation by the police who shot at them.

The Speaker said: “I thank you that despite the provocation of the police, you didn’t take the laws into your hands. The Commissioner of Police can take the message to those that sent them.”

Meanwhile, the APC protesters, who marched from the party’s secretariat, along Forces Avenue, Old GRA, Port Harcourt through major streets in the city on Thursday, displayed placards such as “Rivers State House of Assembly must obey Court order”; “Wike, allow rule of law to prevail.”

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My visits to Buhari not about $30bn loan –Saraki Olufemi Samuel, Abuja

ÏÏÏ Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has advised politicians and the media to desist from peddling what he described as empty speculations about his recent visits to the Presidential Villa.

Saraki said this while faulting reports linking such visits to the request by the Buhari administration for approval of the National Assembly to get $29.9bn loan from foreign sources.

The Senate President, in a statement by his Special Adviser (Media and Publicity), Yusuph Olaniyonu, stated that in all his recent meetings with President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, the issue of the proposed loan has never come up for discussion.

He noted that the comments by some politicians on the loan issue without any factual basis was “unfortunate”.

“Like I once told the media, these politically-motivated commentaries are trivialising a serious national issue and presenting it as if it is a personal matter that can be decided at meetings between Saraki and President Muhammadu Buhari”, he stated.

“The National Assembly which I head as Senate President has taken a position on the issue as required of it by the laws of the land and legislative conventions.

“At every point, the present National Assembly will make decisions based on national interest and we have vowed that we will always act in the interest of our people. That is why despite the fact that members belong to different parties, when national is-

sues come to the floor we forget about party affiliations and act as Nigerians elected to protect the interest of Nigeria.

“A visit to the Presidency by the Senate President is a normal thing because we need to consult, discuss, exchange ideas and make suggestions to each other from time to time. More importantly, at this time, when the nation is facing economic crisis, there is need for frequent engagements by the Presidency and the National Assembly.

“It is in fact very unfortunate that these empty speculations by the media are now forming the basis for commentaries by some politicians who are in a position to be better informed. Politicians should stop playing to the gallery or drawing political capital from all issues. When serious national issues are on ground, we should

ÏÏÏ The House of Representatives has resolved to convey a national summit on security in order to look at the immediate and remote causes of incessant killings in the country.

The summit is coming up following recent killings in Kaduna State where scores of innocent citizens were slaughtered by Fulani herdsmen.

To this end, the House in plenary also resolved that the leadership should meet with President Muhammadu Buhari to discuss the issue. This is as it also resolved to ensure that the Directorate of State Security (DSS), steps up its vigilance on internal security in the country.

The move follows a motion titled; ‘Urgent Need To Investigate The Killing of 43 People, In-

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refrain from making statements based on mere sentiments. Similarly, the media should exercise restraint in their reportage and commentaries in order to properly serve our people.

“At a time when we are about to prepare a budget which is aimed at responding to the current recession and our plan is to ensure all issues concerning the budget are ironed out before the budget comes to the floor so that we will have a less tedious process than that of last year, the media should be ready to witness more of these engagements between the Presidency and the National Assembly”, Saraki stated.

juries To Some And Burning Of 65 Houses In Kigam, Kitakum, Ungwan Magaji, Ungwan Rimi, Ungwan And Kizipi Villages in Chawai Chiefdom in kauru Local Government Area of Kaduna State On November 13-14’ sponsored by Hon. Simon Arabo, PDP, Kauru Fed Constituency, Kaduna State.

Arabo had asked “the Kaduna State government and the Federal Government to as a matter of urgency, declare a state of emergency in Southern Kaduna Senatorial District of Kaduna State.”

He also urged the Federal Government to set up a military strike force in the Southern Kaduna Senatorial District as an interim measure.

Part of the motion reads, “The Federal Government to actualise the resolve to set up a military battalion in Kanfachan or such other place in Southern Kaduna Senatorial District of Kaduna, the sense-

less attacks on communities in the Districts are on the increase, despite efforts by the government to stem the dangerous trend.”

While urging the Kaduna State Emergency Management Agency (KEMA)to provide relief materials for the victims of the attacks, the lawmaker disclosed that they had a hint of the insurgents impending attack and duly invited the army to lay ambush on them.

“Unfortunately, the day they left the place was when they struck and apart from the lives taken, they even got food stuff burnt,” he said.

Speaking in an emotion laden voice, the first contributor, Hon Jagaba Adams Jagaba (APC Kaduna ), declared that the menace of the “insurgents has been happening for a long time and there has been no serious government commitment to assist the communities.

“If the people decide to do oth-

erwise, the repercussion will be too great on the community and the nation if something is not urgently done to redress the situation now.”

Hon Zakari Mohammed (APC, Kwara) in his contributions, said as true representatives of the people they needed to be active on the matter. “There is urgent need for us to review our laws on arms carrying because in America, people carry arms freely to protect themselves. Our security agencies need to wake up and step up their internal security apparatuses.”

Also speaking, Majority Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila, said; “I don’t think I will be comfortable when loss of lives are mentioned, because the loss of one life is too many as constitutionally, everybody in Nigeria is entitled to life.

And this may point to when a state of emergency will be needed in Southern Kaduna.”

the Federal High Court Abuja on Thursday reserved ruling on the bail application filed by the leader of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu and three others till December 1.

The defence counsel to the defendants, Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor, had pleaded with Justice Nyako to admit them to bail.

Kanu, Chidiebere Onwudiwe, Benhamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi were rearraigned before the judge on charges of treasonable felony and terrorism after Justice John Tsoho disqualified himself from hearing the matter.

Ejiofor said that it is essential the court grant the defendants bail because the federal government cannot prove the allegations of terrorism against them.

Arguing the separate bail applications before Justice Nyako, the counsel asked the judge to strike out the counter affidavit filed by the federal government for failure to establish any offence against his clients.

They submitted that based on the attached documents in support of their bail applications, Radio Biafra was registered in the UK and other parts of the world. They also stated that IPOB is a registered organisation in UK and other countries.

The lawyers argued that the offences they are being charged arose from the question of self-determination of a people, explaining that President Muhammadu Buhari had at the UN General Assembly expressed support for the right to self-determination for Palestine.

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Boko Haram: Myths and conspiracy fallacies

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Majeed Dahiru

he resurgence of the Boko Haram terror group, under the Northern Muslim presidency of Muhammadu Buhari, has shattered all the myths and reveals the various conspiracy theories as mere fallacies that have obscured the true nature and motives of one of the deadliest groups in the world.

The insurgency, which has claimed more than 20,000 lives, with a further two million people internally displaced and crippled the socio-economic life of the North-East geo-political zone, has often been misunderstood.

From 2010, the Boko Haram terror group has engaged the Nigerian government in a protracted war of attrition. The fundamental misunderstanding of the terror group and misinterpretation of its motive by various interest groups and stakeholders have aided and abetted, if not strengthened, the group.

In the early days of the insurgency, the Boko Haram apparently enjoyed some form of legitimacy among a significant section of the people of Borno State because their doctrine of rejecting western education and lifestyle was simply a continuation of an already existing religious sentiment taught among the predominantly Muslim populace of the area. That was why their grouse was viewed as local religious issues, which found expression in politics principally involving the former state governor Alli Modu Sheriff.

Following the security crackdown and the killing of Mohammed Yussuf, in the process, the stage was set for an endless war. Beginning with isolated terror acts targeted at political allies and followers of Sheriff, their avowed enemy. The predominantly Muslim populace of Borno saw this as a direct confrontation between the Boko Haram sect and Sheriff and sympathised with the group. When the group graduated to attacking security agencies and other government’s targets, this fitted well into the already preexisting anti-government sentiments among the populace. When again the group expanded its violent activities to Christians and their places of worship, it was received with indifference because that also fitted into the religious bias, intolerance and resentment of people of other faiths that is pervasive among the predominantly Muslim populace of the region. Therefore, the sympathy and legitimacy the group enjoyed helped to nurture it to violent maturity.

Enter former President Goodluck Jonathan, who had the misfortune of becoming president and commander-in-chief shortly after the Boko Haram insurgency broke out, following the death of former President Umar Musa Yar’Adua in May 2010. Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election bid in the 2011 presidential election, pitted him against the northern political elite both within and outside then ruling PDP, because his ambition was said to

violate the zoning arrangements agreed to. The feeling that Jonathan was a taking the turn of the North was a bitter one. When all efforts to stop him at the PDP presidential primaries failed under the powerful influence of incumbency, the North massively voted for then CPC candidate, Muhammadu Buhari.

Following the loss of Buhari, there were widespread violent protests by riotous youths throughout the North. This widespread post-election violence was a reflection of the frustrations of the Northern political establishment. Lawal Kaita, former governor of old Kaduna State, was reported to have declared making Nigeria “ungovernable” if Goodluck Jonathan emerges the president and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, was quoted as saying “those who make peaceful change possible make violent change inevitable”. The postelection violence coincided with the steady rise of the Boko Haram terror group to become a formidable and bloody insurgency machine.

The Goodluck Jonathan administration, mistakenly viewed the Boko Haram insurgency through the narrow prism of partisan politics. It was interpreted as the North’s response to loss of power. The blunder was highlighted by then NSA, Owoye Azazi, while speaking in Asaba, the Delta State capital, on the occasion of the South-South economic summit in April 2012, when he attempted to link the Boko Haram insurgency to the power struggle within the PDP, by muddling up the terror group’s activities with the post-election violence.

Goodluck Jonathan was apparently fixated on the narrative that for a long time. He simply viewed it as selfinflicted crisis aimed at discrediting his administration. This impression was largely responsible for the nonimplementation of the Ambassador Usman Gaji Galtimari report, which substantially addressed the remote and near causes, as well as short and long-term solutions to the problem.

The gross misunderstanding of Boko Haram was also responsible for the

initial doubts expressed by the Jonathan presidency about the abduction of the Chibok girls.

However, the blame for the misunderstanding of the Boko Haram terror group is not entirely that of the Jonathan presidency. The larger Muslim community in Nigeria helped, in no small measure, to adding to the confusion by not denouncing members of the sect as non-Muslims. The living in denial by the Muslim community compounded the issue immensely. A ridiculous conspiracy theory was even evolved which was widely believed by many to the effect that enemies of Islam, possibly aided and abetted by the Jonathan presidency, were responsible for the Boko Haram insurgency, to give the religion of Islam a bad image.

The resentment of Jonathan by the northern political establishment, also added to the cacophony of confusing voices. The inability of the Jonathan presidency to rein in the insurgent group successfully was politically capitalised to ridicule the administration as incompetent. Even the various military operations and strategy to curb the spiralling menace of the group were interpreted as either punitive measures or genocide against the North. Nigeria simply could not form a consensus on a common enemy, due to our deep fault lines.

The resurgence of the Boko Haram terror group, under the Northern Muslim presidency of Muhammadu Buhari, has shattered all the myths and reveals the various conspiracy theories as mere fallacies. Within a fortnight, two army battalion commanders were ambushed and killed with suicide bombings claiming civilian lives. It is becoming clearer that Boko Haram does not fit into any of the beliefs long held by different stakeholders. Boko Haram is not Islamic but Muslim. It is a Muslim problem, which can only be solved by Muslims in the short and long term, by reforming and doing away with poisonous doctrines at the roots of radical Islam.

Boko Haram came about as result of an entrenched and sustained intolerant and violent doctrine.

The seeds of radical Islam were sown in mainstream Islam and still being nurtured by some mainstream Islamic authorities that share the same aspiration of Islamic rule in Nigeria. The Boko Haram insurgents are only putting to practice what has been taught and imbibed over a long time. Northern Nigeria is a fertile soil for nurturing the seeds of radicalisation because of the pervasive revivalist Islamist sentiments in the entire environment. This region was part of the historic western Sudan, where violent Islamic revivalist and reform movements thrived and continues to flourish.

More recent groups like Boko Haram draw inspirations from earlier and successful Jihadi movements, especially the Uthman Ibn Fodio Jihad of 1804, which established the Sokoto Caliphate. Boko Haram is a group driven by ideology. Their aim is to establish a Muslim theocracy over Nigeria, an aspiration shared by millions of Nigerian Muslims who are not even members of the sect. The concept of Caliphacy, a successor state to that of the Holy Prophet Muhammad PBUH is the major driving force of radical Islam. The caliphate system has never been achieved successfully because it is not Islamic but a Muslim invention, which has been a source of acrimony among even Muslims, leading to bloodshed and eventual schism into the Sunni/Shia, divides. Muslims should understand that Islam is an empire of faith and not a religious hegemony to be presided over by one man. In a multi religious country like Nigeria, Muslims should practice Sharia faith and not sharia law. Sharia faith should reflect in the individual lives of Muslims as the true successors of the Prophet, by being obedient to Allah in doing good and abstaining from vice. Nigeria cannot be a country of multiple legal systems. Nigeria is a constitutional democracy, which guarantees the freedom of religion and Nigerians should submit to constituted authority, law and order.

Majeed Dahiru writes from Abuja

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Governance in Nigeria: Trick or Treat?

I Jide Omotinugbon

do not believe I spend as much time on Facebook as my wife alleges. I agreed though, that I spend much time online reading other stuff I consider knowledgeable. As for Facebook, there are some people’s write-ups that one looks out for. I wish there are ways to filter what one wants to appear on one’s wall. Moreover, sometimes, some fables actually make sense. Consider this somewhat embellished story about a wife putting her husband to a test, asking him to move to the left when she mentions a colour and to move to the right whenever she mentions a fruit.

Moreover, that if the husband makes a wrong move, he would be her subject forever! In addition, you want to ask yourself: what does a fruit have to do with colour? Well, there seems to be because the first thing mentioned by the fox-lady was “orange.”

After reading the above, I tried to put my teenage daughter to a test on Halloween day. I proposed that I would add five dollar to her bag if she could pass the test and if she failed, I was going to take her bag full of can-

dy. She hesitated and asked if there was any trick involved. Of course, there was. After all, Halloween is about trick or treat. She opted out because I guess she would rather have her bag full of candy than running after my five dollar.

Governance in Nigeria seems to have been turned into a trick or treat thing. When they mentioned “change” during the campaign, many were expecting some fundamental differences in the way of governance. Only Mama Peace asked the question then (derisively, of course) whether we are conductors asking for change? Sounded funny then but on hindsight, I no longer consider it funny.

In any little gathering, I always pleaded that change takes time to become tangible. I do not know how long I will be defending a government whose actions we do not know.

First, the corruption fight seems to have lost the initial shock of exposing individuals.

All we have now are the selective leakages by the EFCC regarding money stolen by and/or recovered. It is no longer shocking to hear such news. I guess the shock would be back when there is an actual conviction that is not perceived as tainted.

Second, there seems to be no attempt at institutional change or even any pretense to that effect. It is just a question of replacing those who lost out with those who are close to those who won. Granted, there are some institutional changes that would require constitutional amendments, which may not be feasible in the interim.

How about making some idealistic appointments? How about looking for some idealistic intellectuals to be in charge of re-orientating the country and bringing us at par to the 21st century?

For some of us who have the privilege of knowing what government should be because of firsthand experience across the Atlantic, it is sad when one reads about what governance has been reduced to in Nigeria. The United States of America and Canada, as well as the European countries, for example, already have set goals. The difference between the political gladiators is just how to get there, which accounts for the mostly two party systems of a little to the left or a little to the right.

Before Buhari’s appointment of his ministers, and while justifying the delay in announcing his cabinet, he saw ministers as “noise makers” which probably

explains why most are not talking about what they are actually doing. When there is a dearth of information no one would know if you are actually doing anything.

Where there is half information, we would not know if it is a treat or some kinds of trick. That is not how a government should be run.

I already imagine someone reading saying we are not there yet. So, when are we going to get there?

The president wanted and thus requested for approval of some external loans in the billions and wrote a letter to the legislature for the same. The Senate said no on “technical ground”, while the House of Representatives said it would approve the request. So all it takes to mortgage the nation’s future is a page or so letter without any debate on the appropriateness or otherwise of such contemplated loan. Separation of powers does not mean disengagement with the other arms of government, although our idea of engagement might be different.

Ours is about greasing someone’s palm. Governance requires engaging and educating the citizenry on what it is doing or what its plans are. The dearth of information breeds rumours about what the government is up to: giving us a treat or just tricking us?

Nigeria has no business at climate change conference

A Tope Fasua

gain, our problems are man-made.

One of our biggest contributions to ‘global warming’ – for those who are sure it exists is gas flaring. In spite of all the promises by government and oil companies, gas flaring still goes on unabated in Nigeria’s delta area. The oil companies say capturing the gas is too expensive, but the long term effect – and cost – of flaring on health and environment is not considered. Meanwhile, if we take a trip to Ghana next door, we would see that for over a decade, many cars there now use liquefied natural gas (cooking gas), as alternative fuel. This cooking gas is what Nigeria flares anyhow, yet even the gas to cook here, is terribly expensive. Therefore, this problem is man-made. Can we fix this problem before sitting with countries talking global warming? Alternatively, are we there to receive knocks? Even if they knock us for our tardiness, do we understand diplomatese; the language of diplomacy by which they call you an idiot and make you clap for yourself ?

Nigeria is a careless country on many matters. However, one that

greatly irks is the way we have treated our environment. Until we fix our environment we will go nowhere as a country. If we like we can borrow $300 trillion worth of ‘interest free’ loans, and sell off all sellables. We shall not make progress. The environment holds the key for Nigeria.

Our real problem is the unbridled use of cellophane and polyethylene and other products of crude oil. We are very mindless. Even if global warming does not exist, the rate at which we use these products is shrinking our available farmlands. With growing millions to feed, what are we thinking of ? Our waste disposal strategy all over the country is pathetic. I drove towards Bonny Camp in Victoria Island the other day and the Lagos beneath the bridge had cleanly swept plastic bottles onto a strip of concrete that was built into the waters. The waters had clearly sent a message to us that those vast numbers of plastic bottles do not belong to it, but we are not listening. We are looking for money. That is all that gets a Nigerian’s attention; money.

Until a major disaster comes, we are oblivious of the results of our actions and inactions.

By God, what is a country where 50 million (or almost 30 percent) of its citizens defecate outside, and perhaps 120 million out of 170 million of its people defecate in unhygienic circumstances doing in a ‘climate change’ or ‘global warming’ conference? Perhaps if anything is warming our part of the globe, it is this tonnes of human feaces that our people are freely discharging without regulation! Even in built up cities like Abuja, there is no hope, no plans. Neighbours quarrel daily because most people do ‘shot put’- defecating on a paper and lobbing it across their fences! I recall once writing about how Narendra Modi of India mobilised his people to ‘clean India’, and how he went convincing even peasants to sell some of their gold (Indians love gold a lot), to build toilets across the country. He launched a no-nonsense programme around this.

Our own Mr. Garba Shehu slagged him off for being a ‘micromanager’ – himself and Lee Kwan Yew – as against our big-picture, big-dreaming boss. He wrote, on the anniversary of Buhari’s 100 Days in Office: “President Muhammadu Buhari will turn out to be a leader in the tradition of Lee Kuan-Yu

and India’s current reform-minded Prime Minister Modi with strong and clear emphasis on detail and execution. He may, however, differ with them by not micro-managing things”.

However today, India is the WORLD’S FASTEST-GROWING ECONOMY, thanks to the micromanager called Narendra, while we know where Nigeria has found itself. Our myopia blinded us to how this simple initiative can unleash great productivity, great new investments, jobs, a new ethos, discipline, and a drastically reduced health bill across the country, and several sundry benefits. Look at us today; we are looking for $30billion?

Did I not shout myself hoarse?

Going to a climate change conference is like a country without a local airline attending the conference on aeronautics and how to conquer planet Mars. If anything, let us find a way of building our manufacturing companies so that they too can pollute the air – not gas-flaring – so that the world can complain and then we can be properly invited to the table. It may sound crude, but our problems are crude, not sophisticated. We have catching up to do.

We should not jump the gun.

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The Ezenos with the quadruplets, middle is their first daughter

Mother of Quintuplets, 52, recounts her heart-rending story The story of the MaryRose Ezeno who, after giving birth to her initial two children and had to wait for years before being blessed with quintuplets at old age, in this report by GBUBEMI GOD’S COVENANT SNR The story of this family fits perfectly into the script of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Tales of the unexpected”.

The Ezonos, are a rare breed.

Many things distinguish them not only from their families, but also from their peers. They are prayerful and patient.

Their unique and interesting story began six years ago. While they were on their way back home on January 7, 2010, the unexpected happened.

MaryRose, the heavily pregnant wife of Mr. Ezeno, began feeling uncomfortable. Soon, the miraculous delivery of not just a child, but quintuplets – three girls and two boys!

Coming after Mrs. Rose had clocked 52, the incidence can best be described as miraculous.

Sadly, although they lost one boy and a girl much later, the happy couple gladly flaunted the three girls and a boy, wherever they went; and they have remained grateful to God ever since.

At a crowded Mass and dedication ceremony of a relation, Fredrick Ezeno, held at St. John Mary Vianney, an outstation of St. Alphonsus Catholic Church on Eru Family Street, Aboru, Iyana-Ipaja area of Lagos, on Sunday, The Daily Times took the couple aside and

inquired how the experience has been raising the babies in their relatively old ages.

Mrs. Mary Rose Uche Ezeno started with a Scripture that said, “For every additional mouth, there is an additional loaf from God.” She said that, “When I had them seven years ago and the news broke, lots of people brought us diapers, drugs, cartons of NAN baby food, baby soaps and so on, but after a while, all the gifts ran out and everybody disappeared.”

According to her, “After about one year, we were alone, but the Lord has been our provider. There has been no assistance from any government agency or quarters whatsoever, but in His faithfulness, God left us a remnant, Eng. and Mrs. Igwilo, both of whom are our bosom friends.”

She said, “When I went to India to deliver the babies, we had no money and the cost ran into millions. The Igwilo family had to put one of their houses up for sale, to raise N3 million for me to proceed to India to make sure the babies were delivered safely.”

Why India.

“At 52 at the time, doctors here in Nigeria, told me to abort them; they gave all kinds of reasons just to convince me to do so.”

“First, they said I could not have the babies successfully because, at 52, I could not carry the weight of the children. But the worse was that they said even if, by any miracle I deliver them, what they were seeing in my womb, were funny creatures; they said some of the creatures were not complete; they were seeing bone here, some flesh there and so on.”

She said that, “But we, my husband and I, told them we are practicing Catholics, so, abortion was out. If God decided to give me even logs of woods, caricature or whatever, I will gladly carry them and birth them by His grace.”

“First, they said I could not have the babies successfully because, at 52, I could not carry the weight of the children. But the worse was that they said even if, by any miracle I deliver them, what they were seeing in my womb, were funny creatures

Continuing, she said, “So, when the Igwilos gave us the money, I travelled to India; and there, God helped me and I was delivered of three girls and two boys.”

The Daily Times gathered that the couple, who had had a boy and a girl earlier, never bargained for this latest ones.

In the beginning She said that, “We actually had two children before; a boy and a girl. The boy grew well, graduated an engineer and finished his National Youth Service Corp, NYSC scheme in 2008. He was about to go the United Kingdom on the 19th of January, 2009 to do his masters course when tragedy befell him”.

According to her, “We went home, and on our way back on the 7th of January, 2009, we had an accident along Agbor Road, and the young man died, so, we were left with the girl, who was in medical school, and to the glory of God, she is a medical doctor now and a mother. The Lord has been faithful to my family.”

Mr. Nze Ezeno G.O.C. “I can tell you with feeling that raising them has been one hell of experience; an amazing experience that needs lots of patience, because you don’t have anyone to ask; instead, people who are struggling with twins, may be, triplets,

will come and consult you.”

The story behind the miracle In retrospect, Nze Ezeno recalled the miracle that saw his wife, Uche, pregnant at the age of 51 - 22 years after she had her last baby.

The happy father relived the wonderful experience thus: “The doctor that treated her said it was the miracle of the Millennium. Nobody gave her a chance! We were overwhelmed with joy. After the first scan, they said it was only one child; and we were told to come back a week later. When we went back, they did another scan and said there were twins, with instructions to come back a week later. So the scans continued until it was confirmed that my wife had five babies growing in her womb!

“Five babies!” Ezeono was short of words. “We couldn’t believe this was happening! At best, we were hoping for a child. With luck and a lot of prayers, twins, but five babies were beyond our wildest imagination!”

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Ali Wakili: The making of an administrator Ali Wakili, Sardaunan Malabo’s giant strides have continued to confound many people, writes TOM GARBA, Yola.

Ali Wakili, Sardauna Malabo, is a symbol of hope for Nigeria. Born some 40 years ago in Adamawa State, Northeast Nigeria, he is a natural born leader. The Sardauna Malabo, is an individual with the right influence, inspiration, determination and self-discipline.

From childhood, he grew up to overcome his enemies not only in Malabo, where he was born, but in the entire Fufore Local Government Area, as well as help rewrite the history of the state.

Having undergone both Islamic and western education with flying colours, he earned his first degree in Law from the University of Maiduguri, and later proceeded to the Abuja Law School, graduating as a Barrister.

A young Ali took his law management skills to the business community, where he excelled in little time, and travelled widely, thus aiding his business experience and political exposure.

Young Boya’s post teenage activities were laced with classic political reach and giving supports to the lessprivilege people. It was therefore, not a surprise, when the District Head of Malabo recognised his greatness and decided to crown him with the special traditional title of ‘Sardaunan Malabo’.

Like the proverbial lion that’s not afraid to face the impossible and take the maximum risks, Ali contested election into the House of Representative in his constituency.

Although he lost, he gave his opponents a run for their money. Since then, he has become unstoppable.

Ali believes that no matter which ethnic group, race or religion we may belong to, our needs for help, acceptance and motivation remain the same across the globe. It is this believe that pushes him to continuously support and sponsor youths, especially in the area of education and in all other areas of human endeavours across the state.

As a confirmation of his national political recognition, he became the Senior Chief Legislative Aide of one the most respected politicians in the National Assembly.

His steady growth in political activism, and his honesty, doggedness,

This development makes him the new head of one of the biggest LGAs in the state in terms of landmass and population.

hard work, political focus, and his relentless support for the administration of Senator Muhammadu Umaru Jibrilla Bindow–an icon of transformation in Adamawa state, stand him out among his peers.

With the coming of APC on board, the elders of the party recognised his good leadership qualities and asked him to contest for Fofure Local Government Area election, which he won by a landslide.

This development makes him the new head of one of the biggest LGAs in the state in terms of landmass and population.

Indeed, his rising profile led to his election as the chairman of the chairmen of the twenty one (21) LG chairmen in Adamawa state, having been unanimously voted him as the chairman of Association of Local Governments in Nigeria (ALGON), a position his age wouldn’t have given him.

In less than one hundred (100) days in office, he has impacted the people of Furore, through progressive projects.

Many of the people who spoke to Daily Times, said that, he had carved a niche for himself as a man of the people.

The people also look up to him counting on him to support the administration to develop the state.

Ali Wakili

Quintuplets at 52: I was under pressure CONTINUED FROM PAGE 18

pregnancy to term. The only way forward was to abort three of the fetuses!

RoseMary recalled: “They said, ‘madam, it is five. At this age you can’t make it. You may lose all the babies and even lose your own life! The only way you can make it is to go through reduction. You have to terminate three fetuses!’”

Mr. Ezeono queried the doctors: “Which one would you terminate?

Did you put them there? Are you going to terminate the reverend father or the reverend sister? Are you going to terminate the doctor, governor or president? The doctors were looking at me; they couldn’t give me an answer. My wife told them point blank, ‘I am not going to terminate anyone of my babies. We are Catholics; we don’t believe in abortion.’

She said, “So, eventually, we were told that we should come and get referral letter to go and reduce.

They warned that I would lose all the babies if I didn’t reduce. They

formed and die. They put so much pressure on us, but we kept reminding them that we were Catholics. They even argued that the Pope would grant us a dispensation, so we said ‘okay, we are going to think about it.’”

Achebe The Ezenoa with their quadruplets in Lagos ...on Sunday

showed us the size of my uterus and explained that because of my age, the children would slowly die because I would not be able to sup-

ply them enough oxygen.”

She added that, “They insisted that if per chance I survived, the babies were going to be born de-

India, at last The Ezeonos departed Nigeria on February 21, 2011. The plan had been for Mr. Ezeono to be by her side until she stabilised, then, he would return to Nigeria to face his business.

However, he abandoned his business and remained by her side, praying, fasting and visiting the Blessed Sacrament.

The miracle birth Finally, against all odds, the children were delivered at Bombay Hospital, Mumbai, on May 3. Though they were born at 32 weeks, miraculously they were all in good shape. At age 52, Mrs. Ezeono was delivered of five healthy babies; two boys and three girls!

How did MaryRose receive the reality of the births?

She said, “Up till now, it is still like a dream,” she said. “My husband was by me all the way. We watched them come out of incubator and they asked us to go.

The calculation was that they will spend one month in the incubator, but they spent only two weeks. So, when we got to the hotel room, we couldn’t believe it! We were counting them and dancing!”

In gratitude to her husband, MaryRose said: “My husband was everything to me; my stomach was so big he cleaned me up, fed me and washed me. When the babies came, I was so tired I couldn’t feed them, but he would put the breasts in their mouths one after the other.”

“Now, here they are, five years and six months on,” Nze Ezeno said with a wide smile, as he drew them all around him with his wife and grandson.

Indeed, it’s only a fool that will say, there’s no God.

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THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF LOSS OF TWENTY TWO ORIGINAL COPIES OF FEDERAL CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY REVENUE COLLECTORS RECEIPTS FOR OPEN SPACE OF D4 EXT 1 TO D4 EXT 22 DEI - DEI INTERNATIONAL BUILDING MATERIALS MARKET ABUJA FCT. ALL EFFORT TO RECOVER THIS DOCUMENT PROVED ABORTIVE, IF FOUND PLEASE CONTACT MR. OKWUDILIA. J. OKEZUE OF PLOT NO: A250, SABURI RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT DEI- DEI, FCT OR REPORT TO THE NEAREST POLICE STATION. ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA INDUSTRIAL MACHINE INVENTORS AND FABRICATORS

BREAKTHROUGH HOUSE MISSION INT’L

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Akinola Abraham 2. Sola Glory THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. To proclaim the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and salvation for all people Any objection to this registration must reach the Registrar-General of Corporate Affairs Commission Maitama Abuja within 28 days of this publicatiion.

SIGNED: CLEMENT GBADAMOSI, ESQ. 08036179886

PNEUMA LIFE TRIUMPHANT MINISTRY

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

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE 1..CHIMBUO VICTOR CHINEDUM -President 2. CHARLES JAMES - Secretary 3. CHIAGOZIEM SUNNY AGWU - Treasurer 4. CHUKWUMA ABURU MBAM - Financial Secretary 5. UZAH EMEKA ELIJAH -Member 6. JOHN TUEYI -PPRO 7. NNABUIHE NWABUEZE ELIEZAR -Member 8. CHIMBUO EMMANUEL EZE -Member 9. OCKIYA TAMUNOEMI - Member.

THE TRUSTEES ARE. 1. AMMIEL NWANDU IKENNA 2. ISINWA CHIBUZOR HONEY 3. IHEANACHO ANTHONY NNANYERE.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVE 1. To train and retrain members for better service delivery

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE 1. To preach the gospel 2. To engage in missions and outreaches.

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

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

Signed: RUFUS NELSON NWOKORO

Signed Mimihemba Nomhwange ( ESQ ) 08036798703

ASSOCIATION OF YOUNG BIBLE AMBASSADORS

RUKAYAT ADEOLA MOJIRADE HEALTH EMPOWERMENT INITIATIVE

UNITY HOUSE PEOPLES PROGRESSIVE FORUM CAC/IT/NO. 46124

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

The general public is hereby inform that the above named has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under part C of the company and allied matter acts no 1 of 1990.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES ARE : 1. Rukayat Adeola Akanji-Suleman 2. Taiwo Hanbal Abdulraheem 3. Sherifat Kayode B. 4. Salimata Raji 5. Mabifa, Kudirat Ekundayo AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. To improve the health and well-being of Nigerians by promoting Health through, education and empowerment of communities.

2. To be actively involved in the campaign for the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals.

3. To disseminate the tenets of the organization through campaigns, advocacy, general grassroots awareness programmes, conferences, symposia, workshops and other possible actions.

4. Collaborate and network with local and international organizations 5. Lobby local authorities, government and the international communities to pursue the goals of the CHE or HEI when necessary Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the registrar -general, corporate affairs commission, plot 420 Tigris Crescent, off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days of this publication

The general public is hereby notified that the above named Organization has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for CHANGE OF TRUSTEES and Amendment of the Constitution under Part “C” of Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2004

Signed by Bar. T. A. Abdulraheem

SIGNED: KENNETH ANAKWE, ESQ. (Solicitor)

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Oguh, Benedict Uwakwe 2. Oguh Joyce Ibukunolu Omoteye 3. Odunowo, Olatokunbo Kehinde 4. Rev Joshua Feyisoyo Olusuyi THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. To organise meetings and retreats for the purpose of propagating the word of God Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General of Corporate Affairs Commission Maitama Abuja within 28 days of this publication Signed: Secretary

JIREH HELPING HANDS FOUNDATION

AFRICAN FARMERS AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION

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

The general public is hereby notified that above named organization has applied to the corporate affairs commission for registration under part ’’c’’ of the companies and allied matters act 1990

TRUSTEE ARE: 1.Mr Joshua Alex Niyi - Chairman 2. Mrs. Joshua Victoria Tinuola 3. Dr. Joshua Joseph Mayowa 4.Pastor Asagwa Ezinwa Edwin.

TRUSTEES 1. ESIOLE CHUKS MOSES 3. NWOSU NNAMDI 5. CHEKUWUBE BENNETH

AIMS & OBJECTIVES: 1. To Provide educational assistance to indigent members of the society.

2. To assists in primary health care delivery in rural communities especially to women and children.

3. For corporation and social integration.

Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corporate Affairs Commission Plot 420 Tigris Crescent 0ff Aguiyi lronsi Street Maitama Abuja Within 28 Days of this publication SIGNED: AKINYEMI KUMOLU-JOHNSON ESQ.

THE GRACELAND CHIRSTIAN MINISTRY HOUSE OF JUDAH The general public is hereby notified that the above named has applied to the corporate affairs commission for registration under part “C” of the companies and allied matters act 1990 THE TRUSTEES ARE 1. OSENI PUAL DARASIMI 2. NNADUOGU UCHENNA JENNIFER 3. ALEOBUA JOHN OMOH 4. OJO OLUWAFUNKE GRACE 5. BOSAH CONSTANCE CHINNAYA 6. IYAJI GATHERINE 7. ENUMAH MARIA NWAKAEGO AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. To meet regularly to worship god propagate the gosped of jesus christ and provide the ministry of the word of go thought planting of churches 2. To purchase take on lease or exchange hire. subscribe for or any interest any land building. right privilege and necessary in the interest of the ministry 3. to set those who are in bondage and captivity free through the preaching of the word of god as recorded in bible

2. ESIOLE TRACY 4. ESIOLE COLLINS CHIDUBEM

AIMS AND OBJECTIVE 1. To encourage amongst African and other nations 2. To support African agricultural commodity producers to secure fundity

THE FORMER TRUSTEES ARE: 1. CHIMEZIE IFEH - Retained 3. NNAMDI NWAFOR - Retained 5. CHUKWUMA IKEJI - Removed 7. ARINZE AKANNE - Retained

2. SUNDAY OGUEJI - Retained 4. BARR. IFEANYI EJIOFOR - Retained 6. GODWIN EKWOCHI - Retained 8. CHRISTOPHER CHINWEZE - Retained

THE NEWLY ELECTED TRUSTEES ARE: 1. ANAYO EMECHEBE 2. NONSO SILAS ADIBE 3. JONAS UGWU REASON FOR REMOVAL: Ceases to be a member having relocated out Nigeria.

Three (3) persons were elected for the smooth running of the Organization.

The Constitution was also amended as a result of the Change in Trustees and to read the new CAC Standard of Constitution in Part “C”.

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: Remain same.

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

GREAT CHAMPIONS CHAPEL OF CHRIST

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

TRUSTEES 1. Rev. Nobert Okonji 2. Pas.Vivian Chinyere Okonji 3. Pas. Anthonia Sualim- Church Secretary 4.Mr. Augustine Okeleke.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. To preach the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registar-general Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, And Trigis Crescent Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama Abuja within 28 days of this publication

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

SINGED: SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

PROACTIVE EMPOWERMENT FOUNDATION This is to inform the general public that the above named foundation has applied to the corporate Affairs commission for the Appointed Retained and the Removed of trustees registration under part’ C’ of the company and Allied Matters Act of 1990 .

TRUSTEES 1. PROF. OLUWATOYIN ASHIRU. - CHAIRMAN 2. MRS. OLUWADAMILOLA OBAZELE. - SECRETARY 3. DR. YAKUBU FISSE. 4. MRS. OYINKANSOLA ONUNKWOR AIM AND OBJECTIVE Provision of free basic health care to combat common Ailments.

Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the RegistarGeneral Corporate Affiars Commission, Plot 240, Tigris Crescent Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama Abuja within 28 days of this publication

Any objections to the Appointed Retained and the Removed of trustees registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corporate Affairs Commission plot 420 Tigris Crescent off Aguiyi Ironsi street Maitama Abuja within 28days of this publication.

SIGNED: SECRETARY

Signed: Secretary

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1.ASUNOGIE WAHAB -PRESIDENT 2.BAWA ABDULKADIRI-SECRETARY 3.BELLO IBRAHIM-TRESURER THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1.To encourage and empower the youth in Imiakebu community.

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

Signed: KAMIN BELLO ASUNOGIE ESQ

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RESSURECTION OF FIRE ANOINTED MINISTRY

ECKANKAR NIGERIA

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

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: (1) Rev Dr CLEMENT ESHIET (3) PASTOR (MRS) INEMESIT ESHIET (5) DEC CLETUS UDOKA (7) BRO NNAMDI ULUEFI

OLD TRUSTEES: 1. FRANCIS OMIDIJI 2. ODOLIYI LOLOMARI 3. EMMANUEL UKALA 4. ADEBAYO JEKIEMI 5. NWADIALO BARBARA 6. ROBERT SHOKARE 7. EDET EDEM 8. AWO UDO AWO 9. ROBERT SCOTT - EMUAKPOR. NEW TRUSTEES: 1. IFEATU JOHN AREH 2. ETENG OTU 3. KOLA BABALOLA 4. HENRY ALAPIKI 5. OFO ODO 6. MATHEW NWANKWO 7. ELIZABETH SCOTT - EMUAKPOR 8. JON UAN 9. MOYELA TOMI.

(2) PASTOR EMMANUEL JEROME (4) DECN LOVINA BATHELOMEW (6) ELDER SUNDAY AKPAN (8) BRO JOSEPH UDOFIA

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. To preach the full Gospel of Jesus Christ and bring people close to God. Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the RegistrarGeneral, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420 Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days of this Publication.

SIGNED BY SECRETARY.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE STILL THE SAME. Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the RegistrarGeneral, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420 Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days of this Publication.

SIGNED: TRUSTEES.

GOLDEN STONE TUBERCULOSIS CARE INITIATIVE

AGAPE GLOBAL LIFE CARE FOUNDATION - CAC/IT/34232

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. TIJANI LATEEF ADEBIYI - CHAIRMAN 2. ONI AYISAT TIJANI 3. ONI BABATUNDE. AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO HELP THE LESS PRIVILEGED AND THE NEEDY. Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420 Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days of this Publication.

SIGNED: TRUSTEES

IGALA UNITY SQUARE PHONE DEALERS ASSOCIATION

This is to inform the general public that the above named body has applied to the corporate Affairs commission for registration under part’ C’ of the company and Allied Matters Act of 1990 .

This is to inform the general public that the above named body has applied to the corporate Affairs commission for the Appointed Retained and the Removed of trustees registration under part’ C’ of the company and Allied Matters Act of 1990 .

This is to inform the general public that the above named body has applied to the corporate Affairs commission for registration under part’ C’ of the company and Allied Matters Act of 1990 .

1. Nguveren Sandra Tsumbu 3 Simon Teryila Gbeleve 5. Huan Ugo

OLD TRUSTEES, (RETAINED) 1. JUDE. S. C. ASOGWA 2. JUDITH. I. ASOGWA 3. ANTHONY. O. ENEH.

TRUSTEE 1. Mgbom Ikechukwu E. 3. Okorie Nelson Ezeogo 5. Ovute Ejike Daniel 7. Sunday Obinna

2. Denen Iorbee 4. Kenneth Iorkohol Yanum

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. To Care for tuberculosis patients 2 To prevent the Spread of Tuberculosis infection.

3. To creat Awarness and sensitization in the society on the courses and management of Tuberculosis.

NEW TRUSTEES. ( APPOINTED) 1. SYLVESTER I. CHUKWUNWIKE 2. VERONICA LOT-LINUS 3. IKECHUKWU. B. EZE. 4. OLIVER UCHENNA EZEH

2. Muritala Salawo 4. Okah Kelechukwu Okah 6. Ugwu Onyebuchi 8. Nwigwe Ogbonnaya

Any objections to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corporate Affairs Commission plot 420 Tigris Crescent off Aguiyi Ironsi street Maitama Abuja within 28days of this publication.

AIM AND OBJECTIVES REMAIN THE SAME Any objections to the Appointed Retained and the Removed of trustees registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corporate Affairs Commission plot 420 Tigris Crescent off Aguiyi Ironsi street Maitama Abuja within 28days of this publication.

AIMS 1. To foster unity among members 2. To render help to members 3. To ensure high standard of discipline in the association Any objections to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corporate Affairs Commission plot 420 Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi street Maitama Abuja within 28days of this publication.

SIGNED: SECRETARY

Signed: Barr. VERONICA. 0. GABRIEL.

SIGNED BARR NATHANIEL UDALO - 08033727601

GENERATIONAL WORLD CARE FOUNDATION

Trustees REMOVED 1. DENNIS NDUBUISI UZOR

GODHOOD SALVATION & MIRACLES MISSION WORLDWIDE

ABIOLA AKINTIBUBO GLOBAL FOUNDATION

This is to inform the general public that the above named body has applied to the corporate Affairs commission for registration under part’ C’ of the company and Allied Matters Act of 1990 .

This is to inform the general public that the above named body has applied to the corporate Affairs commission for registration under part’ C’ of the company and Allied Matters Act of 1990 .

This is to inform the general public that the above named body has applied to the corporate Affairs commission for registration under part’ C’ of the company and Allied Matters Act of 1990 .

TRUSTEES 1. Rev. Fr Francis Eworo 2.Esther Ajua Agbor 3. Thomas Agbor

TRUSTEES 1. MARYAM J. SADO - SNR PASTOR 2. OPEYEMI SOLOMON OLABOWALE - PASTOR

TRUSTEES 1. OLUFEMI DAVID AKINTIBUBO 2. ABIODUN FOLORUNSO DARAMOLA 3. TEMIDAYO KUNLE-OLALEYE 4. IBIRONKE ADENIJI

AIM AND OBJECTIVE 1. To cater for the less privilege in the society 2. To provide free qualitative education for indigent students 3. To help the widows and orphans Any objections to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corporate Affairs Commission plot 420 Tigris Crescent off Aguiyi Ironsi street Maitama Abuja within 28days of this publication.

SIGNED: SECRETARY

SLAVES OF GODS INT’L MINISTRY

AIM AND OBJECTIVE 1. To preach the gospel of our lord jesus christ Any objections to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corporate Affairs Commission plot 420 Tigris Crescent off Aguiyi Ironsi street Maitama Abuja within 28days of this publication.

Signed: Secretary THE TEMPLE CHILD FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL

AIM AND OBJECTIVE 1. To lend helping hands to indigent school students financially in the area of tuition payment and other Any objections to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corporate Affairs Commission plot 420 Tigris Crescent off Aguiyi Ironsi street Maitama Abuja within 28days of this publication.

Signed SECRETARY

THE WORD UPHOLDING LIFE CHURCH

This is to inform the general public that the above named body has applied to the corporate Affairs commission for registration under part’ C’ of the company and Allied Matters Act of 1990 .

This is to inform the general public that the above named body has applied to the corporate Affairs commission for registration under part’ C’ of the company and Allied Matters Act of 1990 .

This is to inform the general public that the above named body has applied to the corporate Affairs commission for registration under part’ C’ of the company and Allied Matters Act of 1990 .

TRUSTEES 1. EVANGELISTS BOLDNESSES MARIAM TESTIMONIES 2. MR. CHUKS OKAFOR 3. MISS ONYEKA NNEOMA ORJI 4. OKEZIE MICHEAL EGBO.

TRUSTEES 1. Mrs Stella Aleruchi Weli. - Chairman 2. Mr Eberechi Ajuru Weli. - Secretary 3. Mrs Wakwu Maureen Okon. - member 4. Miss Nyemachi Winifred Weli.

5. Mr Hanotu Chizi Weli.

6. Barrister Ogbonda Weli.

TRUSTEES. 1. Pastor. Emmanuel Onyebuchi Agu. - Chairman 2. Mr. OLalekan Samuel Salako -Secretary 3.Mrs Oluwabunmi Olanrewaju Agu - Member

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. To preach the gospel 2. To enlighten people through art.

Any objections to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corporate Affairs Commission plot 420 Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi street Maitama Abuja within 28days of this publication.

Signed: UCHE EMEKOBA (ESQ) THE VOICE OF EMPOWERMENT AND JUSTICE INITIATIVE

AIM AND OBJECTIVE 1. To cater for the less priviledge.

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

SIGNED: SECRETARY

MARANATHA GOSPEL AND PRAISE CENTRE

This is to inform the general public that the above named body has applied to the corporate Affairs commission for registration under part’ C’ of the company and Allied Matters Act of 1990 .

This is to inform the general public that the above named body has applied to the corporate Affairs commission for registration under part’ C’ of the company and Allied Matters Act of 1990 .

TRUSTEES 1. Dr. Kelechi Ugwo 2. Dr. Azubuike Duru 3. Mrs. Maureem Ijeoma Kelechi

TRUSTEES 1. PASTOR. JOHN JEMINE. - Founder 2. REV. SUNDAY AIWENEMEHI PALMER 3. HON PETER ONCHE 4. MRS. LOVETH JOHN 5. ONYEMACHI ONYEISUE 6. MRS LETICIA NGOZI NWEKE 7. BITEBOYE INALA DOUGLAS

AIM AND OBJECTIVES 1. To create employment opportunities for the youths.

2. To encourage companies and private individuals involve in youth employment.

AIM AND OBJECTIVES 1. To preach the gospel of jesus Christ.

2. To make disciles of christ of all nations 3. To harness the creative power of God ‘s word in the service of mankind.

Any objections to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corporate Affairs Commission plot 420 Tigris Crescent off Aguiyi Ironsi street Maitama Abuja within 28days of this publication.

Signed: BARR. VINCENT ODJE TESTIMONY CHAMBERS.

INITIATIVE FOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL

This is to inform the general public that the above named body has applied to the corporate Affairs commission for the Appointed Retained and the Removed of trustees registration under part’ C’ of the company and Allied Matters Act of 1990 .

TRUSTEES 1. OTUNBA FOLARIN ABRAHAM - RETAINED 2. MRS. OLAYEMI ARIBO - REMOVED 3. MR. OLUWAFEMI OLAKUNLE - RETAINED 4. PROF. DANIEL OBIKEZE - REMOVED 5. DR. CYRIL UBIEM - RETAINED 6. MR. NNANNA OGBONNA - REMOVED 7. Dr.Mrs.SEMUDARA JUMOKE - RETAINED NAME OF THE TRUSTEES APPOINTED 1. Dr. ADEYEMI - OSOWE,OMOSEHIN 2. Dr. K. VICTOR OGUNRO

Any objections to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corporate Affairs Commission plot 420 Tigris Crescent off Aguiyi Ironsi street Maitama Abuja within 28days of this publication.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. To win souls for christ and hence prepare souls for the kingdom of God. 2. To preach the gospel ,teach and heal in the name of jesus Christ everyone by peaceful means Any objections to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corporate Affairs Commission plot 420 Tigris Crescent off Aguiyi Ironsi street Maitama Abuja within 28days of this publication.

Signed: PAUL ANENE. ESQ

Signed: PAUL ANENE. ESQ.

Signed: SOLICITOR.

AIM AND OBJECTIVE REMAIN THE SAME Any objections to the Appointed Retained and the Removed of trustees registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corporate Affairs Commission plot 420 Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street Maitama Abuja within 28days of this publication.

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SHAYKH SALATY AL ASHRAF ISLAMIC FOUNDATION

SUPREME ENCOURAGERS CLUB OF NIGERIA.

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

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

The Trustees Are: 1) MUHAMMAD SULAIMAN AREMU (Chairman) 2) FASHOLA MORUF ADENIYI (Secretary) 3) OLAOKUN ISKILU (Treasurer) 4) FASHOLA SALAMOT MORENIKE 5) NURENI BIMBO NIMOTA 6) POPOOLA TAIWO AJIKE

The Trustee Are: 1. YUSUFF ABDULRASAQ 2. AKINLABI AZEEZ 3. ADEJUMO SEYE 4. OGINNI OLANREWAJU 6. OGUNDIMU OLADEJI 8. ADESANYA OLADIPUPO 10. OLUFEMI OLAIYA

Aims & Objectives: (i) To promote & propagate Islam (ii) To promote peaceful coexistence in our society Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420 Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days of this Publication.

Signed: OLUSOJI KAYODE

5. AZEEZ KAMORUDEEN 7. AMOSUN GBENGA 9. AKINBO KAYODE

Aims and Objective: 1. To promote peace,love and unity.

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

Signed: Secretary

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE:(1) PASTOR OLAMIJULO EBENEZER ADENIJI ( 2) OLAMIJULO TEMITAYO HANNAH, ( 3) OLATUNBOSUN ABIOLA, ( 4) OYEWALE SOLOMON THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE IS:To preach the full gospel of Jesus Christ .

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

SIGNED BY ; SECRETARY

THE ARK OF GOD REVIVAL EVANGELICAL MINISTRY

GENERALS OF CHRIST NETWORK PRAYER

NOTICE OF FINAL GENERAL MEETING

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

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE:1) Daniel Bassey Ekpo (2) Mfon Daniel Bassey (3) David James Akpe (4) Imoh James Udofia (5) Effioing Affion Eyo. The Aim and objective is:To preach the full Gospel of Jesus Christ and bring people close to God. Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to RegistrarGeneral, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama Abuja within 28 days from the date of this publication

The Trustees are:(1) Apostle Freedom Damion (2) Prophet Mmakor Chigozie Victor (3) Pastor Agu Hyginus Okechukwu (4) Pastor Peter O. Benson (5) Pastor Samuel Ohwofasa Obatare The Aims and objectives are:(A) To proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ to the world (B) To promote unity among members and to coordinate consistent general prayer and fasting for the member.

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

IN THE MATTER OF LUNDGREEN LIMITED (RC: 728608), IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION, MEMBERS WINDING UP, AND IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 2004.

SIGNED BY :Godson Samuel SNR ESQ

NOTICE OF FINAL GENERAL MEETING IN THE MATTER OF SOLARCOOL LIMITED (RC: 800895), IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION, MEMBERS WINDING UP, AND IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 2004.

TAKE NOTICE that in pursuance of Section 468 of the above Act the Final General Meeting of the above named company will be held at No. 20 Elias Close Victoria Island, Lagos. On the 23th day of December, 2016 at 12:00hours in the forenoon for the purpose of laying before such meeting the account of the winding up of the above named company and of giving any explanation thereof.

A member entitled to attend and vote at the meeting is entitled to appoint (a proxy) (one or more proxies) to attend and vote in his stead. A proxy need not be a member of the company.

DATED 16TH DAY OF November, 2016 (SIGNED) Liquidator

GOSPEL OF VINEYARD LIBERATION MINISTRY The General Public is hereby notified that the above named MINISTRY has applied for registration with the corporate Affairs Commission Abuja under part C of the companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE 1.

PROPHET OBADIAH KUNLE EGBAELO – GENERAL OVERSEER 2.

PASTOR (MRS) OBADIAH JULIET NGOZI 3.

BRO. IWALOKUN ABIODUN ADELEYE 4 PASTOR GABRIEL DAVID KAYODE 5 PASTOR AKINYELE KUNLE KAZEEM AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The aims and objectives of the Church are: 1.

To propagate the gospel of Jesus Christ.

2.

To foster love, peace and unity amongst brethren.

3.

To proclaim the good works of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

Signed TRUSTEES

OJINU NYETU NWANNEYA OZO SOCIAL CLUB OF NIGERIA

SIGNED: O.A. AJIBADE ESQ.

OGUN OMODE AID NETWORK

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

Board of Trustees 1) MR. EKENE ANENE: President.

2) MR. MICHAEL OKORONTA: Vice President.

3) MR. ERIC EWURUM: General Secretary. 4) MR. HENRY EMEGBELE: Financial Secretary.

5) NZE ONYEKA EZEKULIE: Member.

6) MR. MICHAEL AKUTA: Member.

7) MR. EMEKA CHRISTIAN EGWIM: Member. 8) MR. EMEKA EZEANI: Member.

9) MR. SUNDAY UMEAKU: Member. 10) MR SUNDAY OBODO: Member.

Aims and Objective 1. To unite all members of proven integrity and substance in Nigerian under the umbrella of EASTERN BROTHERS INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION 2. To foster Peace, Unity and progress among members and their families 3. To assist/ help members morally, financially, socially and otherwise as may be applicable to a particular case 4. To settle matters difference dispute that may arise among members and their families amicably.

5. To ensure the highest standard of conduct of its members and to maintain discipline and be law biding to the constituted authority.

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

Signed: Mr. ERIC EWURUM GENERAL SECRETARY

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1.

AbayomiOlomu- Chairman 2.

AyoolaAdeleke- Secretary 3.

JeliliSafiu 4.

Emmanuel Oyedeji THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1.

To encourage and support members in their respective professions and businesses thereby positioning them to significantly contribute to the economic development of the Nigerian society.

2.

To support young Nigerians for personal economic development through financial and professional supports by way of grants, scholarships, donations, bursaries, mentoring and related supports.

Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420, Tigris Crescent off AguyiIronsi Street, PMB 198, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days from the day of this publication.

SIGNED Barr. Solomon Okedara. 08034781490

BENEVOLENCE HOME WELFARE ORGANIZATION

CHIEF OLUWAMUYIWA ADEYEMO OSIFESO FOUNDATION

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

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

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1.

ADOM NDUDI 2.

ADOM ESTHER

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OLORI OLUWAFUNMILAYO AFOLASADE AWOFESO Chairperson 2. OTUNBA ‘BOWALE ADELEKE OSIFESO - Secretary

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE:

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE:

1.

To assist the less privileged in the society.

2.

To cater for the welfare of members.

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

1.

To assist the less privileged in the society.

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

SIGNED: CHAIRMAN

THE WAY OF SALVATION AND SOLUTION MINISTRY The general public is hereby inform that the above named Ministry has applied to Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under Part ‘C’ of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, Degree No. 1 of 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE:1. SUNDAY VICTOR OZOEMENAM -PRESIDENT 2. SHIMA PHILIP AKER -PATRON 3.IDAM BASSEY . E. -SECRETARY 4.ALABAO CHUKWU EMMANUEL CHINEC -FINANCIAL SECRETARY 5.NNAEKEZIE FRIDAY OKONKWO -TREASURER

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Pst. Etuk, Isaac Etim - President 2. Okon, Juliana Benedict - Secretary 3. Anso, Francisca Nyong 4. Antai, Okon Ikoedem 5. Antai, John Ikoedem 6. Nfehe, Nkoyo Antai

SIGNED: SECRETARY

(SIGNED) Liquidator Alakija Oyinkan Esq.

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

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

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE IS:TO FOSTER UNITY AMONG MEMBERS Any objection to the registration should be directed to the RegistrarGeneral, Corporate Affairs Commission, 420, Tigris Crescent, off Aguyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja within 28 days from the date of the publication.

TAKE NOTICE that in pursuance of Section 468 of the above Act the FINAL GENERAL MEETING of the above named company will be held at 4th Floor Adamawa Plaza, Plot 1019, 1st Avenue off Shehu Shagari Way, Abuja, FCT. On the 23rd day of December, 2016 at 12:00 hours in the forenoon for the purpose of laying before such meeting the account of the winding up of the above named company and of giving any explanation thereof.

A member entitled to attend and vote at the meeting is entitled to appoint (a proxy)(one or more proxies) to attend and vote in his stead.

A proxy need not be a member of the company.

DATED 16TH DAY OF November, 2016

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

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

Signed: Pst. Etuk, Isaac Etim -- President.

SIGNED: OTUNBA ‘BOWALE ADELEKE OSIFESO. (Secretary)

ODOHABUCHI JOHNBOSCO ONYEMAECHI

AIGBOBLIOSE BARNABAS IMONITIE

I formerly known and addressed as ODOHABUCHI AMAECHI J. now wish to be known and addressed as ODOHABUCHI JOHNBOSCO ONYEMAECHI. And my date of birth is 24/1/1993 not 24/2/1991. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as, AIGBOBLIOSE BARNABAS. I, now wish to be known and addressed as, AIGBOBLIOSE BARNABAS IMONITIE. All former documents documents remain valid. General public should take note.

ALISON ANN I formerly known and addressed as AKOR AUGUSTINE ANN. now wish to be known and addressed as ALISON ANN. All former documents remain valid.

General public to please take note.

OGAR BLESSING NGOZI

I formerly known and addressed as OGBODO BLESSING NGOZI now wish to be known and addressed as OGAR BLESSING NGOZI All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

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ARRANGEMENT OF NAME:

OLUWAFUNMILOLA JENNIFER BELLO

JUBRIL is my first name, UMORU is the surname and FARUK is the middle name. My name was wrongly arranged as JUBRIL UMORU FARUK instead of UMORU JUBRIL FARUK. All former documents remain valid.

General public to note.

I formerly known and addressed as OLUWAFUNMILOLA AYOLEYE. now wish to be known and addressed as OLUWAFUNMILOLA JENNIFER BELLO. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

WILSON LILIAN ITOHAN I formerly known and addressed as LILIAN MANNO ITOHAN now wish to be known and addressed as WILSON LILIAN ITOHAN. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note

ASOMADU UNOAKU ROSELINE.

OJOBO CHIBUZO FRANK JOHN FRANCIS.

OKAFOR :I formerly known as Miss OKAFOR UNOAKU ROSE now wish to be known as Mrs ASOMADU UNOAKU ROSELINE. former documents remain valid. General public take note.

This is to certify that OJOBO JOHN CHIBUZO, OJOBO JOHN FRANK, OJOBO JOHN. C. and OJOBO CHIBUZO FRANK JOHN FRANCIS is one and the same person. now wish to be known as OJOBO CHIBUZO FRANK JOHN FRANCIS. former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

CHUKWURAH CHUKWUNONYELUM JOSEPHINE

EKPECHI:I formerly known as Miss EKPECHI CHUKWUNONYELUM JOSEPHINE. now wish to be known as Mrs CHUKWURAH CHUKWUNONYELUM JOSEPHINE. Former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

OLIYIDE SAKIRAT ABIOLA

I formerly known and addressed as miss oliyide adunni abiola now wish to be known and addressed as mrs oliyide sakirat abiola all former documents remain valid general public should take note DANIEL OBIWE CHRYSTABEL I FOMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OBIWE .D.UCHECHI CHRYSTABEL NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS DANIEL OBIWE CHRYSTABEL ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE

AGBAEGBU LAWRENCE KELECHI

i formerly known and addressed as jude lawrence kelechi now wish to be known and addressed as Agbaegbu Lawrence Kelechi. All former documents remain valid general public should take note

AKINMOKUN OLUFISAYO OLUGBEMISOLA

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS OWOLABI GBEMISOLA YVONNE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AKINMOKUN OLUFISAYO OLUGBEMISOLA ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE

UKAERU LIVIA NDIDI NKEM

AWODEJI MORUFAT KOFOWOROLA

I was formerly known and addressed as MISS ALIGBE LIVIA NDIDI, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS UKAERU LIVIA NDIDI NKEM,all former document remain valid general public take note

I, formerly known as Morakinyo morufat kofoworola wish to be known and addressed as Awodeji morufat kofoworola.

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

ONYENOBI VIVIAN ASAMNKEONYE

OZOUGWU, DONATUS UWAEZULUONYE

I, formerly known as ANUFORO VIVIAN ASAMNKEONYE wish to be known and addressed as ONYENOBI VIVIAN ASAMNKEONYE. All former document remain valid, general public please take note.

OZOUGWU: I formerly known and addressed as DONATUS UWA OZOUGWU and OZUUGWU DONATUS UWAEZULUONYE refers to the same person now wishes to be known and addressed as OZOUGWU, DONATUS UWAEZULUONYE. First Bank, Union Bank and general public take note.

NZEGWU CHIOMA NCHEDOCHUKWU

I, formerly known and addressed as, MISS. UZOAGU CHIOMA NCHEDOCHUKWU, now wish to be known and addressed as, MRS. NZEGWU CHIOMA NCHEDOCHUKWU. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

AGU AGBAEZE QUEEN OBIAGHERI

ODOEMENA FABIAN CHUKWUNYERE

I, formerly known and addressed as, FABIAN ODOEMENA AND ODOEMENA FABIAN CHUKWUINYERE, now wish to be known and addressed as, ODOEMENA FABIAN CHUKWUNYERE. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

JOSEPH BOSE

I, formerly known and addressed as, ONYEJURUBA QUEEN OBIAGHERI, now wish to be known and addressed as, MRS. AGU AGBAEZE QUEEN OBIAGHERI. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as, FESTUS BOSE ESTHER, now wish to be known and addressed as, JOSEPH BOSE. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

MULIKAT TEWOGBADE ADJAYI

ISAAC OLUWASEUN AKINBODE

I, FORMERLY KNOWN AS MULIKAT TEWOGBADE AKANNI. NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AS MULIKAT TEWOGBADE ADJAYI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. ALL AUTHORITIES CONCERNED AND GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

AKAPO RUKAYAT TEMITOPE I formerly known and addressed as ODEBIYI RUKAYAT TEMITOPE now wish to be known and addressed as AKAPO RUKAYAT TEMITOPE All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

ISAAC OLUWASEUN AKINBODE, FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ISAAC AKINBODE, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ISAAC OLUWASEUN AKINBODE . ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED SHOULD PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

ETIM UDUAK JOHN

I formerly known and addressed as MISS UDUAK COLUMBA DANIEL now wish to be known and addressed as MRS ETIM UDUAK JOHN. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

HAKEEM TAIYE ULEBOR

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS HENRY TAIYE ULEBOR NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS HAKEEM TAIYE ULEBOR. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE ESANGBAN

LOVETH OTA’S

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ISIKHUEMHEN LOVETH OTA’S NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS ESANGBAN LOVETH OTA’S ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE IYIOLA CHRISTIANA OLOMA

I, formerly known as Iyola Christiana Oloma wish to be known and addressed as Iyiola Christiana Oloma. All former document remain valid, general public please take note.

OGBONNA CELINE GINIKA

OLUWAMOYI ADEGBOYEGA FESTUS

OLUWAMOYI ADEBOLA ABIOLA.

BECKLEY-CATCHESIDE TITILAYO OLAYINKA

Formerly Awomoyi Adegboyega Festus now Oluwamoyi Adegboyega Festus. Former documents remains valid.

General public note.

I Omoloye Adebola Abiola is the same person as Mrs. Awomoyi Adebola Abiola now to be addressed as Mrs. Oluwamoyi Adebola Abiola.

Former documents remains valid. General public note.

I formerly known and addressed as ADEPOJU TITILAYO OLAYINKA now wish to be known and addressed as BECKLEY-CATCHESIDE TITILAYO OLAYINKA. All former documents remain valid.

General public to please take note

ORJI CHIOMA LUCY

ADDITION OF NAME

AMARACHUKWU IFECHUKWUDE NWANKWO

That I was formerly known and addressed as AGBALLAH BEATRIX IFEAKANWA that I now wish to add OWOH to my former name that I now wish to be known and addressed as OWOH – AGBALLAH BEATRIX IFEAKANWA. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

Formerly Miss. Amarachukwu Ifechukwude Nweke now Mrs. Amarachukwu Ifechukwude Nwankwo. Former documents remains valid.

General public note.

ORJI: I, formerly known and addressed as ORJI IKPEAMA CHIOMA LUCY, now wish to be known and addressed as ORJI CHIOMA LUCY. All former documents remain valid.

General public should please take note.

TOKEDE OLUWAKEMI TEMITOPE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS LATEEF SHERIFAT ABOSEDE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS LAWAL SHERIFAT ABOSEDE ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE

NDUKWE CHIBUZO LILIAN

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS IBIGBAMI OLUWAKEMI TEMITOPE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS TOKEDE OLUWAKEMI TEMITOPE ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE

I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS AKAFORONU CHIBUZO LILIAN NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS NDUKWE CHIBUZO LILIAN ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE

ADEDIBU-ALABA MARIAM I FORMERLY KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MISS ADEDIBU MARIAM MOJIBADE NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS ADEDIBUALABA MARIAM MOJIBADE. FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID GENERAL PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE NOTE

HENRY OLUROTIMI OGUNMUYIWA

I formerly known, called and addressed as OLUROTIMI OGUNMUYIWA. Now wish to be known, called and addressed as HENRY OLUROTIMI OGUNMUYIWA. All documents bearing my former name remain valid, general public should please take note.

OLUREMI BUKOLA HASSAN I formerly known, called and addressed as OLUREMI KUDIRAT HASSAN. Now wish to be known, called and addressed as OLUREMI BUKOLA HASSAN. All documents bearing my former name remain valid, general public and Authority Concerned should please take note.

LAWAL SHERIFAT ABOSEDE

CHIMUANYA IMMACULATE OPARA

I, formerly known as Chimuanya Opara wish to be known and addressed as Chimuanya Immaculate Opara. All former document remain valid, general public please take note.

JANET OLAIFA AYOKO

I, formerly known as OLAIFA JANET OLUSADUN wish to be known and addressed as JANET OLAIFA AYOKO. All former document remain valid, general public please take note.

ATILOLA OLAWUNMI KEMI

I, formerly known as ADEEGBE KEMI WUMI wish to be known and addressed as ATILOLA OLAWUNMI KEMI. All former document remain valid, general public please take note.

OZOR FRANCISCA CHEKWUBE

ONWELUZO OBIANUJU NKEMAKOLAM

EZEME: I formerly known and addressed as MISS EZEME FRANCISCA CHEKWUBE refers to the same person now wishes to be known and addressed as MRS OZOR FRANCISCA CHEKWUBE. General public take note.

ABALI: I formerly known and addressed as MISS ABALI OBIANUJU NKEMAKOLAM refers to the same person now wishes to be known and addressed as MRS ONWELUZO OBIANUJU NKEMAKOLAM. First Bank of Nigeria Ltd and General public take note.

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

BARIDOMA TONUBARI OP-NAAKP

CHIOMA JANET OKAFOR

I, formerly known and addressed as, ANTHONY DORCAS IBEBUNJO, now wish to be known and addressed as, BARIDOMA TONUBARI OP-NAAKP. All former documents remain valid.

General public should take note.

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

OKPARA THEDDUS. I, formerly known and addressed as, OKPARA UZODINMA THEODUS, now wish to be known and addressed as, OKPARA THEDDUS. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as, MISS. FYNESS NWOBIARUERI ADUM, now wish to be known and addressed as, MRS. FYNESS NWOBIARUERI ERIC. All former documents remain valid.

NYSC and general public should take note.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

OKOCHA KINGSLEY AZUNDA

OKWOLI: I formerly known and addressed as MISS OKWOLI CELINE GINIKA refers to the same person now wishes to be known and addressed as MRS OGBONNA CELINE GINIKA. General public take note.

This is to inform the general public, and officials, on record purposes. That I, CHIEF NNOKA OTI REWHUAVUNWO, from OTI family in Ovogo town of Emohua local government area, Rivers state. Is the same that is called; (1) OTI REWHUAVUNWO-NNOKA, as used in most of my business and transactions. (2) OTI REWHUAVUNWO, used as my school name, and in some of my business transactions. (3) OTI NNOKA REWHUAVUNWO, (4) CHIEF NNOKA AMADI REWHUAVUNWO used is some of my business and transactions and NLNG contract, (5) ODI NNOKA REWHUAVUNWO that was inadvertently written in my voters card instead of, OTI REWHUAVUNWO NNOKA, and was used in some of my business transactions. All these names are for the same person. That I now wish to be known and addressed as, NNOKA OTI REWHUAVUNWO. All former documents bearing the above names remain valid. General public should take note.

AKINSIPE RACHEAL OPEYEMI

I, formerly known and addressed as OYEBADE RACHEAL OPEYEMI but now wish to be known and addressed as AKINSIPE RACHEAL OPEYEMI. All former documents remain valid. The general public should please take note.

CHIDINMA JOSEPH ADEBO I, formerly known and addressed as, CHIDINMA SUSAN CHIKEZIE, now wish to be known and addressed as, MRS. CHIDINMA JOSEPH ADEBO. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

FASORO VICTORIA TAIWO.

I, formerly known and addressed as TAIWO VICTORIA ADESANYA but now wish to be known and addressed as FASORO VICTORIA TAIWO. All former documents remain valid. The general public should please take note.

I, OGBOMON OYENWEN, OGBOMON O. SANDRA, AND OGBOMON OSEMWONYENMWEN SANDRA, refer to one and same person but, now wish to be known and addressed as, OGBOMON OSEMWONYENMWEN SANDRA. All former documents remain valid.

General public should take note.

TOLUWA SEGUN

I, formerly known and addressed as TOLUWA SEGUN GODWIN but now wish to be known and addressed as TOLUWA SEGUN. All former documents remain valid. The general public should please take note.

CHINEDU JUDE NWEKE

FYNESS NWOBIARUERI ERIC

I, OKOCHA KINGSLEY AZUNDA, AND KINGSLEY AZUNDA, refer to one and same person but, now wish to be known and addressed as, OKOCHA KINGSLEY AZUNDA. All former documents remain valid.

General public should take note.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME This is to inform the general public and authorities concerned That I am the same person bearing ENANIN AMIOKHORIA and ENANIN MONDAY PETER but not wish to known as ENANIN AMIOKHORIA MONDAY. All former documents remain valid. The general public should please take note.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

This is to inform the general public and authorities concerned That I am the same person bearing YAKUBU ATUKPO FOLAKE SHOLA and YAKUBU FOLAKE SHOLE but not wish to known as YAKUBU FOLAKE SHOLA and my correct date of birth is 2nd of April, 1966. All former documents remain valid. The general public should please take note.

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Kidnappers return to FCT, residents call for security beef-up Idu Jude, Abuja

ÏÏÏResidents

of the six area councils of the Nigeria’s capital city, has called on the governor general of the FCT President Mohammadu Buhari and indeed the Minister of the federal capital territory Mallam Mohammed Bello, to help draft men and officers of several security agencies across the city to help protect lives and properties as kidnapping gruesome murder of innocent citizens has returned with full force.

This call, was made in Abuja, following the dastard act of murder of one Nuhu Zakaria and the kidnapping of six persons by suspected criminals in Kuje area council, The Abuja natives in the wake of event and shock, demanded for the establishment of more police outposts in different communities identified as flashpoint by the FCT Police Command, noting that such security measure will check future occurrences.

Speaking to a section of the media over the development, President of Abuja Original Inhabitants Youth Empowerment Organization, the umbrella body that coordinates the activities of youths in the FCT, Commandant Isaac David, stressed the importance of security to residents of the Territory.

He advocates the use of vigilante group to compliment the efforts of conventional security agencies, just as he revealed that the vigilante group apprehended two of the

suspected criminals.

The group also called on telecommunication companies operating in the Federal Capital Territory to install telecommunication mast in various communities for effective communication to security agencies, noting that the criminals took advantage of lack of communication to unleash their terror on the residents.

The youth leader said the plead has become necessary owing to high rate of criminal activities across the six area councils of the

Territory., stressing that the Abuja natives are becoming disturbed over thedevelopment.

According to him, “there is an urgent need to beef up security in the area councils because recent development has shown clearly that there is danger ahead. We are appealing to FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Bello to use his office as the chief security officer to establish more police post in the rural areas. Instead of reacting to security issues, the FCT Administration should be proactive.

“The minister should take this proactive step because we all know the high rate of criminal activities during festive period across the country. We the natives of Abuja are known for peaceful coexistence and the recent development is totally strange to us”.

David used the occasion to call on chairmen of area councils to brace up for the seemingly security challenges rearing its ugly head in the Federal Capital Territory, noting that criminals carried out their nefarious activities in the rural areas.

L-R: Assistant CSR Manager, Airtel Nigeria, Chioma Okolie; St. John’s Primary School pupil (SJPS), Boluwatife Oluwasalami; Head Teacher, SJPS, Mr. Adeniyi Odufoye; another pupil, Opesanwa Omotunde and Zonal Business Manager, West Upland Region, Airtel Nigeria, Femi Akinrelere at the Airtel’s reading for leading campaign in SJPS, Ijebu-Igbo, Ogun State… on Wednesday.

Edo begins deliberations on 2017 budget next week ÏÏÏ

The one week old administration in Edo State has expressed its determination to hit the ground running by starting work on its first budget, next week.

Governor Godwin Obaseki made this known to members of the State House of Assembly, who paid him a courtesy call at the Government House in Benin.

The Governor said his pre-budget team would start discussing the 2017 Budget proposal with the

House of Assembly from next week.

He said: “Next week, we will be sending our first executive bill to you. It is critical and when the time is right, we will know publicly. We want to work with you, and to assure you that the very step you take, we will first consult with you. Starting from next week, when we will be sending the team, the pre-budget team to come and meet with the Budget Committee of the House to seat down and begin to discuss the

framework for next year budget.”

While pledging to run a transparent administration, which will at all times listen to the voices of the people, the Edo helmsman said his government will build on the foundation laid by its predecessor.

His words: “I want to assure you that we are going to run a very transparent government and your duty of oversight is very important. You have in us, a listening government. We would rather hear from you before we talk to

you. Like we have said on several occasions, this is the dawn of a new era.”

Responding, the Speaker, Edo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. (Dr.) Justin Okonobo said members of the State Assembly undertook the visit to familiarise themselves with the governor, just as he stated the readiness of members to work with Governor Obaseki. The Speaker declared that they were ready to make legislations that would be of benefit to the people of Edo State.

Group targets women for sustainable economic growth in Adamawa State Tom Garba, Yola

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platform under the auspices of Bindow economy for social transformation (BEST) Agenda has addressed hundreds of Women in Ganye, Adamawa state with the sole aim of bringing them close to the present administration with it’s human oriented programmme .

While addressing the women at

Public Healthcare center in Ganye, the leader of the group,Alhaji Ahmed Lawal distributed delivery kids to many women who their expected day of delivery (EDD) is around the corner in Sangasuni health care centre in Ganye.

Reminded them that Governor Muhammadu Umaru Jibrilla Bindow will soon shift his attention to Health sector, making sure every one in the state is having access to good healthcare.

He also told the cheering women that more good things are coming as there are plans on ground by the Governor to have a women empowerment programmes.

“What we are doing is to complement and support our working Governor who is working tirelessly to make sure all towns and villages in the state are well constructed with goods roads.

“His excellency promised to upgrade the general hospital in Ganye to a referral one all in an effort to pro-

vide good healthcare services in the state”.Lawal said.

One of the beneficiary woman Madam Samsume James ,enjoy, thank the Best agenda for their kind gesture and soon named her new born baby as “Bindow” and pray God will bless them.

At the meeting which has the presence of official from Local government, Red Cross and women groups of various categories to witness the distribution of the kids.

25 News World Bank, Delta battle 23 years erosion in 56 communities Nosa Akenzua, Asaba

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The partnership between World Bank Assisted Programme and the Delta State government yesterday commenced measures to tackle 23 years erosion of 56 ravaged communities in the state.

The World Bank has earmarked $500m to ensure that the menace has no place in the scheme of things in the affected communities including other seven states.

Investigation revealed that the menace of soil erosion and other forms of environmental degradation in the various parts of the state are ensured to be reduced to history.

Speaking to journalists in Asaba, the task team leader of the World Bank sponsored Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project, (NEWMAP), Dr. Amos Abu said the World Bank will give needed support to the Delta State government with a view to ensuring that issues associated with soil erosion in the affected communities were nipped in the bud.

Some areas inspected heavily ravaged by the erosion menace including; Ukwu-Nzu, Obomkpa Communities, Ubulu-Uku, Boji Boji Owa, Agbor, some part of Kwale and Otuogu in Asaba where houses in the past 23 years.

Mr. Abu disclosed that the World Bank has provided five million dollars (N500m) for the erosion projects and commended the Delta State government for the release of the N500 million counterpart fund to the World Bank for Delta State to benefit from the project.

The task team leader who also spoke alongside the Acting National Project Co-ordinator, (NEWMAP), Ruth Peter Mishellia, said 19 states of the federation would benefit from the project, adding the current focus were on seven states; Abia, Enugu, Anambra, Ebonyi, Delta, Imo and Edo States.

The NEWMAP, Officials noted that apart from lifting people from the gullies of erosion, the project is hinged at liberating communities. Watershed Management Project to rehabilitate and project erosion prone sites across the state, adding that the fund would complement the World Bank assisted funds.

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Obidigbo welcomes Kalu to APC

Plateau JNI scribe kidnapped in Jos

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Suspected kidnappers Wednesday evening whisked away the administrative secretary of the Jama’atu Nasirl Islam (JNI) Plateau State, Abdulaziz Yusuf.

According to his elder son, Sani Abdulaziz; his father was kidnapped alongside his driver on their way from

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Front-line industrialist turned politician Dr Chike Obidigbo, has joined other eminent members of the All Progressive Congress (APC) to welcome former governor of Abia State, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, into the APC fold.

Kalu, a founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had dumped the PDP to float the Progressive People’s Aliance (PPA) prior to 2011 general election announced his defection to APC on Tuesday vowing to deliver the Southeast geopolitical zone to APC. Describing the news as a welcome development. Dr Obidigbo who wants to contest the governor of Anambra State in 2017 on the platform of APC next year said Kalu’s defection was “ good news and a right step in a right direction” noting that the APC is the most suitable political party for the people of the Southeast geopolitical zone at the moment.

Obidigbo a factional governorship candidate of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) in 2013 governorship election in Anambra State later defected to APC with his supporters in Osisioma Foundation in Anambra State.

Recently he was quoted as saying that the APC was the only platform that can provide Ndigbo with the capacity to be reintegrated into the mainstream of the country.

He said that in finding ways to address the challenges facing the Southeast, Ndigbo have to identify with APC to be able to sit and negoti-

Chijioke Kingsley, Jos

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Kaduna to Jos on Wednesday evening.

Mr. Sani exclusively told newsmen that the kidnappers abandoned the vehicle his father drove along Saminaka, Kaduna state.

The son of the victim said he has informed the police in Saminaka about the incident, but the police is suspecting the incident to be a robbery act.

“The kidnappers went with my dad and his driver, they abandoned their vehicle, a 406 and the phone of the

driver was also left in the car. This morning I called the phone number of the driver and police from Saminaka picked, they told me that they recovered the vehicle during patrol, but the police insisted that the incident was a robbery case.

But I asked, if it was a robbery case, where are the victims since yesterday evening, but no one has provided me wit the information”, he said.

Similarly, the PRO JNI Jos North Lo-

cal Government Chapter, Murtala Sani, in an interview informed our correspondent that the cleric was returning from a condolence visit to the family of the former Sultan of Sokoto late Ibrahim Dasuki, who died recently.

“Sheikh Abdulaziz Yusuf was on his way from Kaduna State where he went for the condolence visit to the family of former Sultan, late Ibrahim Dasuki.” Murtala Sani explained.

Family members of the late former Minister of National Planning, Chief Rasheed Gbadamosi, during his burial at Ikorodu, Lagos… on Thursday.

Entrepreneurial training should be included ‘I only wanted to raise money in school curriculum- First Bank chief to facilitate my studies’ ployers of labour and reduce the Afolabi Adesola ÎÎÎFirst Bank Nigeria Limited has

called for the inclusion of entrepreneurial training in school curriculum to drive sustainable economic growth in the Country, as part of its commitment towards building more young entrepreneurs globally.

The bank in celebration of the 2016 Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) - an initiative that celebrates the contribution and passion of entrepreneurs who bring ideas to life, drive growth and contribute significantly to expand human welfare said it also birthed several initiatives and interventions to celebrate the pivotal role played by entrepreneurs in driving economic growth and development in the country.

Folake Ani-Mumuney, Group Head Marketing and Corporate Communications at FirstBank stated that “FirstBank as a responsible corporate citizen will

continue to foster partnerships that build sustainable businesses. Recognising that entrepreneurs are at the heart of national development, contributing greatly to the gross domestic product of our country, we remain focused on empowering entrepreneurs towards capacity building and development to contribute to the growth of our economy in providing employment to people, adding to our GDP and repositioning the national economy for sustained growth. That’s why we serve as enablers providing the relevant platforms for entrepreneurs particularly in the MSME/SME space to exchange ideas and acquire knowledge to thrive through all seasons and we are imploring government at all levels to start the introduction of entrepreneurial training in Schools curriculum as this has the capacity to build more em-

unemployment gap among the your graduates.

FirstBank is committed to the success of SMEs and has through many years groomed SMEs into large corporations. Some of the Bank’s support programmes for SMEs include African Start-Up on CNN, a sponsored TV documentary on CNN showcasing SME success stories across Africa; Ignite (an afterschool graduate employability and enterprise training initiative); Sponsorship of SME Radio Programme, The Economy & You, SME conferences and seminars across various states in Nigeria as well as the SMEConnect website which is at the heart of FirstBank’s SME activities. Through strategic partnerships, FirstBank has collaborated to build the business of the arts through our First@Arts initiative exemplified in our unique partnerships on FirstStars Reality TV show with Ebony Life TV, Performing Arts with Freedom Park and British Council. The bank also supports the food value chain through our sponsorship of food fairs including Fiesta of Flavors and Street Food Fair.

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anti-vandal arm of the zone 2 police command, Onikan, Lagos have arrested an 18 year-old, identified as Adams Samson and six others for their alleged involvement in oil pipeline vandalism in the OwodeApa area of Badagry, Lagos.

The suspects, who were paraded yesterday by the Zonal Police Public Relations Officer [ZPPRO], SP Muyiwa Adejobi were said to have been arrested while loading the fuel into a truck and some pick up vans about to be transported to the Republic of Benin.

The other suspects whose names were given as Omosebi Olorunwa, Daniel Akinwunmi, Agosu Ogungbe, Sosu Elijah, Rafiu Balogun and Whesu Julien, were arrested with one hundred and fifty gallons loaded with pememium motor spirit (PMS) when the policemen busted them.

According to Samson, he had gone to work where he was arrest-

ed because he wanted to raise the money to facilitate his enrolment into school.

“My father is late, but my mother is a petty trader, and because I wanted to become a pilot prompted me to look for money to go to school. ‘’They requested for tax clearance before I would be enrolled and there was no where I could get one, it was someone who advised me to go and bring N4, 000, when my mother could not raise the money, I went out to work. It was at the place where I was working when they arrested us.” He said: “since I started the working at the filling station, but I have been able to raise N10, 000, I was using part of the money I made to assist my mother to take care of my siblings, what I do at the filling station was to fill the gallons and there are people who come from Republic of Benin to come and buy from the station, not that we bust pipeline it was tankers who always bring the product to our station and we resell to those who come for it.”

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Youth employment our immediate focus, says Obaseki ÏÏÏEdo

L-R: General Manager, Premium Steel/Mines Ltd, Mr. German Victor; Chairman, Udu Local Government Council, Delta State, Hon. Chief Kpomah Solomon; CEO, Premium Steel & Mines Ltd, Mr. Prasanta Kumar Mishra; his wife, Mishra and Vice Chairman, Udu Local Government Council, Delta State, Hon. Mrs. Omene Esther, at the official presentation of an ultra-modern ambulance and 3-bedroom bungalow to the Udu LGA by Premium Steel/Mines Ltd in Delta State… recently.

Abia pensioners protest 12 months’ arrears in Umuahia Sunday Nwakanma, Umuahia Pensioners in Umuahia, midThursday, held Umuahia metropolis to ransom when the elderly men blocked Bende road “to create awareness over their plight in the hands of the state government”.

It took the intervention of the combined team of the men of Umuahia Central Police Station, led by its Divisional Police Officer, Onyeke Udeviotu and the men of Abia State Command led by its Police Public Relations Officer, Nta Ogbonnaya Nta to plead with the octogenarians to vacate the road which is about five metres from the CPS, Umuahia.

Speaking with newsmen, the Umuahia Branch Chairman of the National Union of Pensioners, Abia State, Deacon Amaugo Daniel disclosed that their grievance was that this present governor is insensitive

to their plight.

“This is what I and the pensioners are saying. If he wants to shoot me, let him go ahead and kill me. The pensioners are dying daily because of lack of money. As I am now, he owes me 12 months pension. Should it be so? There are people who have patients in the hospital, but cannot secure their release. We served this state for more than 35 years, suffer and now we cannot eat the fruit of our labour”.

According to him, “We are hungry and dying on daily basis and those of us who are tenants can no longer pay their rent because they are not being paid. Our demand now is that he should come and pay us”.

Deacon Amaugo, who led others who carry placards with antigovernment inscriptions, said the union had earlier written the state governor on the issue and was yet to

receive any response from him.

The elderly pensioners had blocked the dual carriage Bende road with benches numbering over thirty, with most of them sitting down on the bench and on the tarred road, praying silently and others praying loudly against the state government Others were seen pouring libation with what looked like water and saying various unprintable things against the state government.

All efforts to get government side of the incident proved abortive.

It would be recalled that paucity of funds in the country, accompanied by the global recess has been making payment of salaries and allowances in many states of the federation impossible, including Abia State where salaries are owed up to 13 months in some ministries, departments and agencies, (MDAs).

Bank robbery: Police Kill One,arrest six suspects in Calabar Edem Edem, Calabar

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The State Commissioner of Police, Mr Jimoh Ozi-Obeh Wednesday confirmed the report saying, the suspect was killed and six others arrested shortly after the hoodlums attacked and robbed the bank. He paraded the hoodlums saying that the robbery incident took place on Tuesday , along Mayne Avenue by Inyang Street..

He explained that the surveillance team attached to the Atakpa police division received a distress call from concerned members of the public

informing them about the on going robbery incident at the Micro-Finance bank. ``On the 15th November 2016, men of the surveillance team attached to the Atakpa police division received a distress call of a bank robbery in Calabar South” “My men immediately swung into action and confronted the gang in a serious gun battle which eventually led to the dead of one of them by name Alex. We also arrested six of them and when searched, we recovered one black Toyota Camry without number plate; one locally made pistol, pamp-

top, phones, ATM cards and others” The Commissioner further said, “Out of the six suspects arrested, one of them is in the hospital receiving treatment after receiving serious gun shots. I must respectfully commend members of the public who availed us with the useful information that led to the arrest of these suspects’’, he said.

The commissioner, who said that no money was recovered from the suspect during the arrest, added that the war against criminality in the state was a continuous process that requires the collaborative efforts of all.

State Governor, Godwin Obaseki has declared that his administration would immediately focus its efforts on addressing the challenge of youth unemployment in the state.

The governor made the pledge while receiving members of the State House of Assembly who visited him at the Government House, Benin City.

He said with the foundation that had been laid by the All Progressives Congress (APC) government in the state in the last eight years, all was set for a smooth take off of the next phase of the socio-economic development of the state.

He said: “First, we must recover our society. We are likely to lose our society if we do not begin to emphasise on those key issues of human development and economic empowerment. We have too many young men and women in our own estimate between half a million to three quarter of a million, between the ages of 15 to 30, who have nothing doing.”

Governor Obaseki stressed that the solution to the challenge of so many jobless young people was to begin the task of immediately creat-

ing jobs.

He noted that in line with the promise made on the campaign trail, jobs will be created to drastically reduce the number of unemployed young people in the state. He noted that one way to reduce unemployment in the state was to revamp technical education, so that young people could acquire the skills to get into several sectors of the economy.

“We promised a minimum of 200, 000 jobs and to do that, we first have to understand our direction and the challenges we face in terms of unemployment.

“On Monday, we went to Benin Technical College, which was established 40 years ago to champion technical and vocational training for young men and women. The challenges are enormous because what we saw was pitiable and even though we have an obvious task, we are not daunted at all.

“So, we will be using this institution to quickly understand what we need to do and the investments we need to make. To create the platform, put a lot of our young people through training so that they can be employed in the businesses that we are attracting to this state.”

My mission is peace, unity, development says Gov. Bindow Tom Garba, Yola

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amawa State, Senator Muhammadu Umaru Jibrilla Bindow stated that his administration is in a mission of peace, unity and development in building an economic viable state in the nation.

He further stated that he has not any other agenda than to work for the people of Adamawa state with the meager resources and subvention given to the state by the federal government.

“Many people will be asking where am I getting the money to do all these projects, the answer I simply tell people is that we don’t put our hands in the public treasury, we manage well our resources for my people who gave me the mandate “said Bindow

Umaru also added that they have been haven a cordial relationship with the state lawmakers, an understanding that encourages him to be doing what he is doing now.

“My relationship with the state’s lawmakers is cordial and they are independently working as a separate unit of government without interfering with their legislative functions “We are all working towards a common goal with my lawmakers to achieve peace, unity and development in all phases of life in our dear state “, he added.

Jibrilla who revealed this to declare open a three day workshop organized

by Adamawa State House of Assembly in collaboration with the House committee on Inter Parliamentary Affairs.

Ooni of Ife gets Honourary Degree at Igbinedion University Titus Akhigbe, Benin City

ÏÏÏThe Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, is among dignitaries to be conferred with Honourary Degree of Igbinedion University, Okada at the 14th Convocation Ceremonies scheduled for Saturday 26th November, 2016.

Vice Chancellor, Igbinedion University, Prof. Eghosa Osaghae made the disclosure while briefing newsmen on activities to herald the institution’s 14th Convocation Ceremony in Okada, Edo State.

Osaghae said the Monarch and two other notable personalities including Alhaji Aminu Baba Nafegu, mni, and Pastor Blessed Osarenren Ighiwi, will bag the institution’s 2016 list of honourary awardees.

He noted that a total of 676 graduates in its seven colleges will be presented with first degrees and diplomas at the 14th Convocation adding that out of the total of 676 grandands to be churned out this year, 22 students graduated with first class honours.

Islam 28 Islamic

Point of View

Family bond in Islam Subair Mohammed In Islam, family is the foundation of every society because the security and peace proffered by a steady family unit is greatly valued and essential for the spiritual growth and need of its members. That is why it is common in most Muslim community for extended families to live together in harmony; providing comfort, attending to their needs and providing moral and physical support to each other.

As important as family is, so are parents are greatly adored and honoured in Islamic tradition particularly Mothers therefore it is incumbent on every man to be good and honour his parent when they are alive and also remember them in prayers when they are dead; as there are no amount of good deeds from a child that could measure up to or outweigh the amount of care and pains they suffered on him when he was a toddler.

Quran 31:14 says ‘’And we have enjoined upon man to be good to his parents. With difficulty upon difficultly did his mother bear him, and wean him for two years.

Show gratitude to Me and to your parents; to Me is your final goal!”

Also marriage and establishing a family is very strongly encouraged in Islam. Apart from it checking adultery, fornication and promiscuity, through it, we multiply as it also brings about procreation and completion of our Islam.

“And among His signs is that He created for you mates from among yourselves; that you may find peace with them. And He put between you love and compassion.

Surely in this are signs for people who reflect.” Qur’an 30:21.

Marriage and family are inseparable; Family comes into being through legitimate union of male and female therefore Marriage is the institution upon which families come to be that was why the Prophet of Islam is reported to have said: “When a servant of God marries, he completes half his faith.”

The family that is based on Islamic principles and the traditions of the prophet is the heart of a healthy community. The piety of a family is dependent on the piety of individual members of the family, and the piety of a community is likewise dependant on the piety of the families who make up the community.

And Allah knows best! … Continued next week

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Seek Qur’an knowledge, Al-Mubins urges Muslims Subair Mohammed Founder, Al-Mubins Islamic Organisation, Sheikh AbdulRazaq Mubasir has advised Muslims in the country and beyond to seek the knowledge of the Qur’an and practice it in their daily lives as according to him, living the knowledge of the Qur’an and the manners of the Prophet is the surest way to worldly tranquility.

This advice was expressed during his lecture at the second edition of Faith Unites Muslims Charity Initiatives (FUMCI) Children’s award for Islamic excellence and practice held recently in Lagos.

According to Sheikh Mubasir, in the early days, Islam was characterised with positive morals as it has the name of Allah as its foundation and as such it was a biggest brand.

He stated further that “but today,

in spite of Muslims population in the world which is put at 1.5billion, Islam cannot be said to be a biggest brand. Why is this? Because Islam has been hijacked and replaced with radicalism and terrorism while positive morals and good conduct which was the foundation of the religion have been eroded by modernisation reason our young ones speak nonchalantly to their parents while the parents too careless about the kind of knowledge their children engaged in.

A sage was reported to have said and I quote “If you give your child to your enemy to train, that child will turn back to be your enemy”.

Our enemy in this sense are the educators with anti-Islam tendencies; those educators that are opposed to Islam and its teachings”.

In the midst of this, how can Muslim parents cope and bequeath

SAYINGS OF THE PROPHET

“Whoever neglects three Jumu’ahs in a row, (out of negligence), Allah will place a seal on his heart” Source: At-Tirmidhi

qualitative education to their children in line with Islamic principles?

The solution according to Sheikh Mubasir lies with the parents who are number One educator for a child.

He added that “To train a child properly and equip them with the knowledge of the Qur’an and hadiths of the Prophet, educators must be well grounded in Quranic knowledge and morals which are necessary ingredients needed for the making of a complete child.

There is a huge responsibility on both the parents and teachers to teach a child interactively as being interactive with learners build con-

Fomwan calls for peace, security among Nigerians

The leadership of Lagos State Public Service Christian Fellowship paid a courtesy visit to the Lagos State Commissioner For Home Affairs, Dr Abdulhakeem Abdullateef today ahead of her 2016 Christmas Outreach Programme.

Stories by Subair Mohammed The Federation of Muslim Women’s Associations in Nigeria, FOMWAN has called for peace and security among Nigerians as it said the much anticipated development among Nigerians can only be achieved if there is sustained peace and enhanced security system at all levels of governance.

This advice was given by the Lagos State Commissioner For Home Affairs, Dr Abdulhakeem Abdullateef who was guest lecturer at the 31st National Conference of Federation of Muslim Women’s Associations in Nigeria, FOMWAN, recently held in Lagos.

Speaking on the theme of the conference”Development For Peace And Security” Dr Abdulateef noted that only Peace and Security can lead to sustainable development.

He explained that Islam is for peace and is concern about development, love and safety of all mankind on earth.

Quoting Quran 24 vs 55, Dr Abdullateef said Allah has established rules that people must follow to have peace and Security.

“The issue of peace is so important that, Prayer is key and so also is work. You pray and work for peace. To have this peace and Security we need to embrace righteous deeds and obedience to our

creator” “Allah is not the cause of our predicaments, but Nigerians brought themselves hardship out of greed and selfishness. Promote the rule of law, shun ethnicity, promote unity irrespective of our culture to experience development” He maintained that, Nigeria stands to become a great nation provided people obey and follow the dictates of Allah.

Stressing that Allah was capable of granting security, the commissioner hinted that solutions to Nigeria’s challenges are stated in the glorious Quran Chapter 13 verses 11. “... Allah will not change the

fidence in them and broaden their knowledge.

Speaking about moral etiquettes, there is nothing wrong in a female Muslim going on her kneels when greeting her parents. Muslims should desist from importing morals and attitudes that are alien to Islam into it. The Prophet was reported to have had the most perfect of characters but this is what is lacking among Muslims of today.

Islam with morals and excellent character is baseless therefore the best of morals that could be given to a child is good morals and this I called brand Islam which every parent must imbibe to reshape the future of their children”.

condition of people as long as they do not change their states themselves.. But when Allah wills people’s punishment, there can be no turning back of it, and they will find besides Him no protector” Noting that Women’s roles beyond women liberation, the Governor’s aide who called for the restoration of family institutions also urged women to key into the Change begins with me campaign.

He said, “Parenting was crucial to development, Let’s work to restore family institutions, parents need to give more attention to their children. Be your children confidants, Parenting is a skill but unfortunately many parents have failed in performing their responsibility on their children” “Single Parenting expose children to hazards that breed miscreants. Strive to make your kids asset to the society and not liability”, he advised.

“Women are agent of development but if the fear of Allah is absent in any nation, they cannot attain greatness. Avoid whatever Allah has forbidden, Nigeria project should prevail over other primordial sentiments, all hands must be on deck, fight against corruption should be collective effort and not a struggle for elected officers alone”, he added.

Other eminent guests on the occasion are: The President of Lagos Muslim Community, Professor Tajudeen Gbadamosi, Alhaji Abdullateef Okunu, Chief Imam of UNILAG Muslim Community, Prof Murtada Bidmos, Chairman of the occasion, rtd Justice Abubakar Olorunnibe and UNILAG Vice Chancellor, Prof AbdulRahmon Bello.

National Amirah, FOMWAN, Wife of Lagos State Governor, Mrs Bolanle Ambode represented

by Mrs Fatimah Kazeem.

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Milan need a champion — Gullit

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uud Gullit has praised a young and in-form AC Milan side, but believes they still need a “champion” in the team.

Milan head into the Derby della Madonnina against arch rivals Inter on Sunday having won eight

of their opening 12 Serie A games in a superb start that has left them third in the table, five points adrift of leaders Juventus.

Teenager Manuel Locatelli scored a superb winner when Vincenzo Montella’s side beat Juve 1-0 last month, while

youngsters Alessio Romagnoli, Suso and M’Baye Niang have all established themselves in the side.

Yet while Milan’s relatively inexperienced side have flourished, Gullit - who won three Scudetti and two European Cups

in his playing career at San Siro feels they are lacking a difference maker.

“Milan are a lot better than they have been recently,” Gullit told reporters.

“They have young Italians and a style of play. The players know

what they have to do, and the games are better.

“What do Milan need? Time.

Time for these youngsters to gain experience. After that, a champion who can change the game. But for that you need money.”

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Ex-England boss Eriksson behind Aaron Samuel’s move to China Falcons fly out to defend crown D

efending champions Nigeria have departed for this year’s women’s AFCON in Cameroon.A contingent of 21 players and officials flew out of Abuja to Lagos on Wednesday morning, and then traveled from Lagos to Douala by ASKY Airline flight on Wednesday afternoon.

Hours before the Super Falcons departure for Cameroon, NFF president Amaju Pinnick was at the team’s camp to offer

words of motivation and encouragement.

Pinnick told the reigning African champions that the federation is fully behind them and that they are as important as any other national team.

“We are totally behind you and we cherish you as much as we cherish all other teams, and we are always proud about all you have achieved which remains a record in the continent of Africa. We

are hopeful that you will remain the champions of Africa after the finals in Cameroon,” he said.

The NFF president’s visit was one of numerous morale –boosting visits by the Nigerian authorities to the Super Falcons, with the country’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, also visiting the ladies and promising Government support and encouragement penultimate Tuesday.

Samuel

Efugh, Olorundare join Abia Warriors

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igeria international Aaron Samuel was personally scouted by former England manager Sven Goran Eriksson to move to China from Norway.

In 2014, Samuel moved from Norwegian club Sarpsborg 08 to Chinese club Guangzhou R&F.The player’s agent Atta Aneke gave a full insight to how the former Shooting Stars and Dolphins star moved to China.

“Aaron was playing for Sarpsborg in Norway. I was trying to convince several clubs to sign him, but they were taking their time. And he really wanted to move, but at that time no club were willing to pay the asking price by Sarpsborg,” recounted Atta Aneke.

“So, when a respected coach like Sven Goran Erikson came to Norway, watched him and then sat down with me and him and convinced us. He took that move.

“He got another chance to return to Europe with CSKA Moscow.

“Right now he is contemplating whether to rejoin CSKA later next year or stay at his club in China because he is actually quite happy in China.

“Life is good there and it offers you financial stability.”

bia Warriors have announced the signing of several new players including Heartland skipper Chinedu Efugh and Dele Olorundare from Sunshine Stars.

Other new signings are Musa Newman from MFM FC, Doumbia from Heartland as well as Nigeria U23 player Seun Olulayo.

Left-sided attacking midfielder Olulayo won the 2015 U23 AFCON in Senegal with Coach Samson Siasia.

He put pen to paper at the club’s headquarters in Umuahia on Tuesday afternoon.

Abia Warriors barely escaped relegation this season under new coach Okey Emordi.

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Real, Atletico in crucial Calderon derby Bale

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reaking Atletico Madrid’s recent stranglehold on a fixture that used to be a foregone conclusion for Real Madrid is the challenge facing coach Zinedine Zidane ahead of Saturday’s Madrid derby, the last at the Vicente Calderon stadium.

Real enjoyed utter domination over their rivals for 14 years but the tables have turned and they have not won a league derby since Jose Mourinho

oversaw a 2-1 win at the Calderon in 2013.

Atletico have won four and drawn two of the last six league derbies, just one demonstration of how charismatic Argentine coach Diego Simeone has transformed the fortunes of the sleeping giant he took over in December 2011.

“He is a coach with a unique capacity to communicate, that’s why he has got

where he is and why he was able to dig us out of the trouble we were in,” said Atletico captain Gabi, who has won the La Liga title, King’s Cup and reached two Champions League finals under Simeone.

The game takes on extra significance for being the last league derby at the Vicente Calderon stadium with Atletico due to move from the 50-year-old ground to a new 67 000 capacity arena next year

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Lahm

avi Martinez is confident Bayern Munich captain Philipp Lahm will not retire just yet and has backed his ability to keep playing until 2020.

Lahm suggested this month he could retire at the end of the 2016-17 season, but Martinez feels the former

Germany international still has plenty to offer.

“Philipp is still looking so young and fresh,” Martinez told reporters.

“He will not retire just yet, I simply do not believe that.

Philipp has to keep playing.

I’d say he still has four or so years left in him.

Lahm has been heavily linked with the position of sporting director once he ends his playing career and Martinez believes his teammate would suit the role.

“Everybody respects him, the players, the fans, the club bosses, even the journalists,” Martinez added.

Messi

will never leave Barca – President

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arcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu predicted on Wednesday that Lionel Messi would not only extend his contract with the Catalan club but also end his playing days there too.

Speaking at the launch of a €55 million a year shirt sponsorship deal Bartomeu told journalists he was “relaxed about Messi’s contract”.

With the clock ticking and only 18 months left on Messi’s deal the club want to extend it, as they did with Neymar and as they are trying to do with Luis Suarez.

“We are all convinced that he will end his playing days at the heart of this club. All the socios (stake-holding fans) believe it, it’s just a question of how we get over the line,” he said.

“This player has led us to our great sporting successes in recent years and he will continue to do so, he’s far from finished.”

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Bellerin out, Alexis doubtful for Man U clash

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rsenal will be without full back Hector Bellerin for the Premier League game against Manchester United on Saturday and manager Arsene Wenger will make a late decision over forward Alexis Sanchez.

Bellerin will be out for four weeks with an ankle problem while Sanchez played for Chile against Uruguay on Tuesday despite concerns over a hamstring injury.

“We didn’t know whether or not he would play 24 hours before the Uruguay game. In the end they decided to play him. He text us saying he was in good shape after the game but we have to wait,” Wenger told reporters on Thursday.

“I will see him tomorrow morning

and if he can be involved in the squad or not. What I will consider is basically the risk of injury.”

Bellerin’s injury will rule him out of key games, including Wednesday’s Champions League clash against French champions Paris St Germain and a London derby against West Ham United next month.

Arsenal will also still be without midfielder Santi Cazorla, who last featured in the Champions League win over Ludogorets in October.

Wenger has yet to beat Mourinho in 13 competitive matches since the Portuguese moved to England with Chelsea in 2004 and the pair have been involved in a number of acrimonious incidents.

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est Ham United manager Slaven Bilic has asked Dimitri Payet to treat criticism as compliment as he tries to get the best out of the French midfielder whose future at the Premier League club appears uncertain.

Payet, who signed a five-year contract in February, made a fine start to his West Ham career last season as he scored nine

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Premier League goals and claimed 13 assists to propel the club to finish seventh, their best league finish since 2002.The 29-yearold’s struggle to rediscover the same form this season has drawn criticism from the fans but Bilic called it back-handed compliment.

“I see Messi or Ronaldo. If they don’t score for two games they are criticised...” the Croatian told reporters.

“It’s a compliment of course. He (Payet) should be like: ‘They are not criticising me, they are expecting much more from me’. Why are they expecting of me much more?

Because I am Payet. And because of what I have done last year in the same league.’”

Payet has scored only once in the opening 11 league games as West Ham sit 17th in the table, a point above the relegation zone, but media reports suggested several clubs across Europe are interested in the midfielder.

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helsea have hinted they’re planning to bring back Frank Lampard.

Sources say Chelsea have always wanted to bring back their all-time leading goalscorer in a coaching or ambassadorial role, although they haven’t yet approached the 38-year-old over a possible job.

With Chelsea fans keen to know Lampard’s next move, the club have suggested on social media the 38-year-old may be on his way back to Stamford Bridge.

Chelsea’s official Instagram account left a comment on a fan page’s photo of supporters “patiently waiting...the return” of Lampard with the words: “Hang in there!

iverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has dismissed suggestions Philippe Coutinho could leave Anfield amid speculation linking him with a move to Barcelona.

The 24-year-old has developed into Liverpool’s undisputed star player since joining the club from Inter in January 2013 and his good performances have not gone unnoticed elsewhere.

Barcelona are believed to be keeping a close eye on his development and former Camp Nou captain Xavi kick-started the Catalans’ possible public courtship of Coutinho by saying he is one of few players in world football that could improve Luis Enrique’s side.

However, Klopp believes Coutinho is happy to play his part in the Reds’ livewire line-up and hopes he will remain committed to Anfield.

“My opinion is that he feels very well here. We also hope and think his future is at Liverpool,” Klopp said at a media conference.

“He is still very young. You say now he is the player you have dreamed of, but he is now at an age where the skills and experience give more consistency.

Coutinho has a contract with Liverpool until June 2020.

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igeria’s Falconets will have to beat group leaders Spain on Sunday to stand any chance of qualifying for the knockout stage of the FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup after they came from behind to beat Canada.Goals

by Chinaza Uchendu, Joy Bokiri and Chiwendu Ihezuo steered Nigeria’s U20 girls, Falconets to a 3-1 victory over the Canadians in Papua New Guinea on Wednesday.

The Canadians, who received a 5-0 hiding from Spain in their first match, went in front after only 15 minutes as Deanne Rose turned captain Ugochi Emenayo in the box and then teed up Gabrielle Carle to heave past Nigerian goalkeeper Onyinye Okeke.

Rasheedat Ajibade, captain of the Nigeria U17 girls, was a constant menace for the Canadians, and nearly got the equalizer in the 37th minute.

Eight minutes later, Uchendu brought Nigeria level when she shot past Rylee Foster from the penalty spot after Bianca St Georges handled in the box.

Dedevbo’s girls came into the second half like a house on fire, and were in front after only 40 seconds as Joy Bokiri rocketed home from close range in a goalmouth scramble.

Chiwendu Ihezuo profited from a poor clearance by goalkeeper Foster to double the advantage in the 74th minute, meaning that the Falconets can still progress to the quarter – finals, mathematically, if they achieve a win over Spain on Sunday.

Meanwhile, attacking midfielder Rasheedat Ajibade was named the Live Your Goals Player of the Match against Canada.

“I am excited and grateful to God for this award,” Ajibade began.

“I am dedicating this award to my team – mates for their support and especially to coach Peter Dedevbo for believing in me and giving me the opportunity to be part of the team.”

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layers of the Super Eagles showed their solidarity with two of their own, as they donated over N1million Naira to the upcoming weddings of Elderson Echiejile and Daniel Akpeyi.

The players, who received N350, 000 each as their camp allowance following the 3-1 win over Algeria, but instead of going home with the entire sum, agreed to donate N50, 000 each to Elderson and Akpeyi, as their own contribution to the players’ weddings next month.

South Africa-based goalkeeper Akpeyi will walk

down the aisle with his bride on December 29 in Abiriba, Abia State, while defender Elderson, who is on loan at Belgian club Standard Liege from Monaco, will exchange vows the following day being the 30th, in Warri, Delta State.

Both players were in action for the Super Eagles as they dumped the Desert Foxes of Algeria 3-1 on Saturday in Uyo in a 2018 World Cup qualifier.

They will be the latest Nigeria internationals to walk down the aisle after midfielder Ogenyi Onazi, who got married earlier in the year.

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Stable power: Nigerians to pay N10,000 monthly Opeoluwani Akintayo The Association of Nigerian Electricity Distribution Companies, ANEDC, has said for Nigeria to have 24 hours electricity, each home must be ready to pay between N9,000 and N10,000 monthly.

Speaking at the Worldstage Economic Summit 2016 held in Lagos on Thursday, on the theme:

“Addressing Unemployment Crisis in Nigeria,” spokesman for ANEDC, Sunday Oduntan, said owing to Nigeria’s 180 million population, the country needed a maximum of 180 million megawatts of electricity, and a minimum of 20,000 megawatts for stable power supply.

Recently, Nigeria’s electricity generating companies, Gencos, managed to clock 5,000 megawatts, which is a far cry from

what the country actually needs.

In view of the shortfalls, Oduntan said Nigerians should “forget about uninterrupted power supply for now.”

“We have a long way to go to where we ought to be,” he said.

Continuing, he said “even if we are going to have stable power supply, each home should be ready to pay between N9,000 and N10,000 monthly.”

Speaking on the importance

of stable electricity in reducing unemployment rate in Nigeria, Oduntan said, the country cannot tackle the case of unemployment without first ensuring power stability.

“No small scale or large scale business can thrive without stable electricity,” he said.

ANEDC’s stand came few days after the Association of Power Generation Companies, CONTINUED ON PAGE B2

Manufacturers lost N500b to forex differentials – MAN Charles Okonji Due to the current devaluation of the country’s currency, the naira, it has been established by the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria that its members lost over N500 billion to forex differentials within the last five months.

The Chairman of Apapa branch of Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, Mr Babatunde Odunayo, who stated this during the Association’s 45th Annual General Meeting (AGM), in Lagos on Thursday, with the theme; “Economic Recession and the Future of Manufacturing in Nigeria,” noted that Letters of Credit (LC) and the approved Form Ms were documented at CBN’s intervention rate of N197 per US Dollar, but affected manufacturers as they are expected to redeem them at the flexible exchange rate of CONTINUED ON PAGE B7

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Skills gap, major cause of unemployment - NEPC The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) has said that the wide skills gap among the youths was one of the major causes of unemployment in the country.

Mr Segun Awolowo, Executive Director of the council, made the remark while speaking at the graduation ceremony of trainees of garment manufacturing at the AGOA-NEPC Human Development Centre (HDC) in Lagos on Wednesday.

Awolowo said this on the backdrop of the recent report by the National Bureau of Statistics which showed that the unemployment and underemployment rate in the country had risen to 13.3 percent, between the first and second quarters of 2016.

The bureau said 26 million Nigerians were either unemployed or underemployed.

“There is a huge skills gap in this country, and it’s so painful we have an increasing rate of unemployment, the youths are complaining of lack of jobs, while industries are complaining of low personnel.

“For instance, this training session is just the tip of the iceberg, because we were only able to accommodate 75 students, out of over 1000 applications we got.

“The training has been useful, CONTINUED ON PAGE B2

Telecom subscribers in Nigeria grows to 153m Tony Nwakaegho Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has indicated that the number of telecommunication subscribers in Nigeria has grown to 153.2 million.

Airtel topped the chat of new subscribers for the month of September with 400,847 new subscriptions.

The number toppled Globacom which recorded 215,700 new

subscribers for the month under review. MTN was next with 66,558 and Etisalat recorded 64,870 new subscribers.

It said that active telecommunications service customers increased by 495,426 in September as against the figure in August which stood at 152,776,155.

According to the data, 152,836,997 of the 153,271,581 active numbers subscribed to the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network ser-

vices.

The GSM operators’ active customers increased by 551,677 from 152,285,320 subscribers recorded in August.

The reports stated that of the GSM operators, MTN had 60,558,569 users in September, which was the same figure recorded in August.

Globacom figure increased in September by 215,700, giving a total of 36,967,712 customers as against 36,752,012 in August. Air-

tel had 32,775,916 subscribers in the month under review, adding 400,847 users to the August record of 32,375,069.

Etisalat, however, recorded a reduction in customers by 64,870, giving a customer base of 22,534,800 as against 22,599,670 users in August.

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as we have a handful of trainers who have nurtured them on garment making with international standards, but is this number enough?

“This is why we have partnered with the Industrial Training Fund (ITF) and the United Nations Development Organisation (UNIDO) to develop a research on key areas where skills need to be honed.

“The partnership will be published, and by then, we should be able to say there are certain numbers of skilled professionals, or artisans, or potential trainees in a particular field.

“This is why we keep emphasizing that we prepare ourselves for opportunities in various sectors, because the world is waiting to buy from our innovations and ideas,” he said.

Also speaking at the event, Mrs Omoyemi Akerele, Chief Executive Officer, Style House Files, a partner of the project, said that Nigeria needed more garment manufacturers than tailors.

According to Akerele, garment manufacturing which entails mass production for the local and international market, is the best way the fashion industry can generate revenue and create jobs for the youth.

DPR pushes for refineries privatization

Ï d ƕ ƏƆƇƈ ƆƏƈƆ ƇƑ ƅƐƈ ƈ Ɛ ƢƠü ƅ ƍ ƅƈƐƕ Opeoluwani Akintayo The Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, has said that the government has nothing to do with operating refineries, adding that they should be privatised.

DPR’s Mr Kanmi Deji who spoke on behalf of the Director of DPR, Mordecai Ladan, while answering questions from Journalists in Lagos on Thursday said Nigeria presently has four refineries located in Port Harcourt, Kaduna and Warri.

According to Kanmi, selling the refineries to individuals with financial capacity for funding production, will create more jobs for Nigerian youths.

“It bothers me whenever at some quarters people clamour that the refineries should not be sold. Then I ask, what have we achieved all these years that they have been unsold?”

He disclosed that presently, the refineries are functioning at 30 percent capacity.

“What have we gained now that the refineries are working below their capacities at 30 percent? We believe when sold, more people will have more jobs and Nigeria will stop exporting its jobs to other countries that have fully functional refineries,” he said.

Nigeria’s oil sector is not alone in the struggle for whether or not some of its assets should be privatised.

Recently, the power sector cried out over clamour from cabals asking the government to retake ownership of the sector.

Speaking on behalf of power stakeholders, the Association of Nigeria Electricity Distribution Companies , ANEDC recently kicked against returning the sector to the government.

ANEDC’s Executive Director, Sunday Oduntan, said the shortfalls of the power sector was as a result of the numerous challenges faced by it.

“Indeed, anyone who has been

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We’re working to reduce cost of crude production – Kachikwu

Kachikwu

The Minister of State for Petroleleum Resources, Dr Ibe kachikwu has said his tenure will work hard to reduce the cost of crude production.

Kachikuwu said this while addressing stakeholders at the National Oil Policy and National Gas Policy consultative forum in Abuja on Thursday.

GenCos, also said the country needs 180 million megawatts of electricity to be sufficient.

The body through its Executive Secretary, Dr. Joy Ogaji on Tuesday in Lagos, said “The rule of thumb for an industrial nation is about 1MW for every thousand of the popu-

damentally wrong but I believe no work ever done in life is a waste.

“People who did the Gas Master Plan and the Petroleum Industry Bill did a huge work.’’

“Where we are headed is to try and free the industry so that it can do its own rule, set its own prices.

“There are few mechanics that we still have to get in place properly.

“We can forget the fact that we still have foreign exchange challenges; we can’t forget the fact that income to government is still very tight so you need to see how you balance that but what is important is: what is the objective?

“The objective is still to fully deregulate and we have started that process. It is a continuing process and we will continue fine-tuning it until we get to where we should be.’’

A stakeholder at the event, who preferred anonymity, told the media that Nigerians would have to embrace full deregulation one way or the other.

L-R: Managing Director, Atlantic Shrimpers Limited, Kamlesh Kabra; Officer, Notary Public, Bankole Animashaun; Executive Director/CEO, Nigerian Export Promotion Council, Olusegun Awolowo and The Commissioner for Agriculture, Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture, Suara Isiaka Oluwatoyin during the inauguration of Atlantic Shrimp farm, in Badagry, Lagos... recently.

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According to him, there is no luxury of time hence the stakeholders need to key into “the supersonic speed” the ministry is moving with because the policies should have been on ground.

“These things should have been on ground yesterday. A lot of things happening in the industry for so long that it’s been taken as a norm.

“If we have these policies in legislation, activities can be regulated.

“We still produce crude at 27 dollars a barrel and sell at 40 dollars. We have to bring it below 18 dollars. No serious nation will do that and make profit.

“Refineries will have to work. If time goes by and Dangote refinery begins, we’ll have scraps,’’ he said.

When asked what happened to the Gas Master Plan by a previous administration in 2008, Kachikwu said: “If the gas master plan was that fantastic how come we don’t have changes in that sector.

“That means something is fun-

lation. This puts Nigeria’s energy needs to about 180,000MW range given its population of about 180 million. The Federal Government has a target of 40,000MW by the year 2020.”

“It is not about projecting the megawatts, we should also consider other building blocks which go with generating the megawatts such as a firm, in-

dependent and knowledgeable regulator, a default proof payment plan, firm payment guarantees and incentives for investors. In summary, government providing an enabling environment and avoiding interference, focusing on policies and giving direction.”

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ber, showing a decrease of 52,789 from 329,093 customers they had in August. Between the two surviving CDMA service providers, Visafone’s customers reduced to 271,844, as it lost 52,789 users in August to record 324,633, while Multi-Links maintained 4,460 customers in August.

The monthly subscriber/operator data showed that the Fixed

Wireless network’s (landline) consumers decreased to 30,716 in September, as they lost 4,072 customers from their record of 34,788 in August.

Also between the two Fixed Wireless operators, Visafone had 30,288 subscribers in September, losing 4,072 users from the August record of 34,360; while MultiLinks maintained its August record of 428 customers.

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FX hawkers told to approach CBN to legalize their business Stories by Motolani Oseni A Bureau De Change (BDC) Operator, Mr. Harrison Owoh, has advised foreign exchange hawkers to approach the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to make their businesses legitimate.

According to him, some street currency hawkers disguise as BDC operators in dealing with unsuspecting members of the public.

He said that currency speculation had attained geometric progression because of the activities of some street currency hawk-

ers at the parallel market.

Meanwhile, scarcity of the dollar continued on Thursday as many currency traders said they did not have foreign currencies to sell.

The dollar was sold at N465, while the Pound Sterling and the Euro closed at N560 and N495, respectively.

At the BDC window, the naira closed at N399 to a dollar, the CBN controlled rate, while the Pound Sterling and the Euro traded at N560 and N490, respectively.

The naira lost 25kobo at the interbank market

to close at N305.50 from N305.25 recorded on Tuesday.

It would be recalled that officials of the Department of State Services (DSS) throughout last week raided the offices of some BDCs in Lagos and Abuja and arrested operators selling above the stipulated exchange rate of N385 per dollar.

Hence, forex dealers expected that the local currency will continue to appreciate as long as the momentum of the DSS’ current operation is sus-

tained. But had a step back on Wednesday when the Naira dropped N10 to trade at as against the N455/$1 it was on Tuesday at the unofficial (black) market.

The local currency however stayed firm against the Pound Sterling and Euro to trade at N560 and N495 respectively, at the same unofficial market.

The local currency at the interbank market remained at N316.52 on Thursday the rate it closed on Wednesday but against N315.25 to the dollar which it settled at on Tuesday.

Elumelu recommends entrepreneurship as career choice for youths The Chairman, United Bank for Africa (UBA), Mr. Tony Elumelu, has suggested entrepreneurship as career choice to Nigerian and African youths.

Elumelu, who addressed students and faculty of the Lagos State University, and officials of the Lagos State government at the institution’s 1st Distinguished Lecture Series in Lagos, spoke on the topics of leadership and entrepreneurship.

According to him, leadership is demonstrated at all levels of an institution, adding that not only presidents, governors and CEOs are leaders.

“A leader is simply someone who gets results” he said, challenging the students to embrace leadership, even at an early stage in their lives, “whether you are leading a team of people, or just yourself, your responsibility is to generate,

secure or deliver results. I believe you can be a leader at any stage in your life and career, and in any career path you choose”.

Challenging some of the

often-held notions about leadership, the UBA Group Chairman stated that leadership can be learned and it is important to keep learning and honing one’s

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MPC: Experts seek interest rate review to stem inflation

Some financial experts have called for a downward review of the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) during the last Monetary Policy Committee’s (MPC) meeting scheduled for next week to tackle inflation in the country.

The MPR currently stands at 14 per cent.

The experts told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the committee should pursue an expansionary mon-

leadership skills. “Just as I seek to democratise luck, with the work of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, so equally I believe every soldier carries a general’s baton in his pack. The key is self-belief – and an environment that enables” he said.

Unveiling what it means to him to assist budding entrepreneurs across Africa, Elumelu expressed his profound thoughts saying: “What value is wealth or money in an individual’s bank account if we cannot use it to positively impact society? The seeds we plant today will help us move the needle as it relates to the development of Nigeria and Africa. Embrace entrepreneurship, develop yourselves as leaders. For your dreams to come true you need to be courageous, optimistic and bold. There are no shortcuts,” Elumelu advised the over 1500 students in the auditorium.

CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele

Rising unemployment: Experts task government on economic policies ÏNigeria records 50% youth

unemployment rate Following the alarming rate of unemployment in the country and in view of Nigeria’s current population statistics which stands at 182,201,962, with youth unemployment rate standing at 49.5 percent as at the second quarter of 2016, financial experts and economic stakeholders have called on the federal government to come up with better economic policies.

Speaking in Lagos at the World Stage Economic Summit 2016, with the theme: ‘Addressing Unemployment Crisis in Nigeria’, financial experts challenged the government to carry out a major review of its economic policies, so as to solve current prob-

etary policy.

They said that the extant monetary policy adopted by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had not yielded any result.

Prof. Sheriffadeen Tella of the Department of Economics, Olabisi Onabanjo University Ago-Iwoye, Ogun, said the committee could pursue a downward review of the interest rate to reinvigorate economic activities.

Tella said that the country’s inflation

lems.

Dr. Femi Saibu of the Department of Economics, University of Lagos, Akoka, who presented a lead paper at the summit drew attention to the government’s policy on ICT revolution, saying it was service oriented, employment destructive, and not production/manufacturing sectors oriented.

On government direct employment policy, he said it only created temporary jobs, not employment at a greater cost, while the series of youth entrepreneurship schemes across the country, including ‘You Win’ always ended up in creating social media entrepreneurs with no employment multiplier.

rate would continue to soar if the interest rate was not reduced.

He explained that companies would find it difficult to borrow money for business expansion with the current interest rate.

Tella also called on the committee to address the challenge of foreign exchange volatility currently causing intense speculation and affecting the nation’s currency.

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Investors trade 161.6m shares worth N1.185bn Ï 9 ƒƆ ƐƌƆ Ɛ ƍƍ ƏƐƑ ƈƐƈƆ ƍƏƆƒ ƈƋ Stories by Afolabi Adesola The equities market on Thursday sustained the downtrend as the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) All-Share Index (ASI) declined by 0.21 percent.

Supply continued to outpace demand in the market, leading to price decline in highly capitalized equities and reduction in portfolio value, yet boosting opportunity for portfolio diversification for investors willing to take advantage of prevailing low prices.

The total volume of traded equities grew on Thursday to 161.6 million units valued at N1.185 billion in

2,086 deals compared to 145.7 million units valued at N1.350 billion and exchanged in 2,421 deals in previous session.

The ASI closed at 25,599.79 following a depreciation of 53.35 from closing value of 25,653.14 recorded in previous session, increasing the year to date losses to 10.62 percent.

The market capitalization also dropped N18.4 billion to close at N8.812 trillion compared to N70.2 billion lost previously to close at N8.830 trillion.

Guaranty Trust Bank emerged the most traded stock for the day with 29.2 million shares valued at

N627.3 million. STACO followed with 25.7 million shares worth N12.8 million, while Transcorp traded 17.7 million shares valued at N12.4 million.

Diamond Bank with the trade of 13.3 million shares worth N11.8 million bag ged the fourth position on the activity chart, while Wema Bank came fifth, having sold 10.2 million shares valued N5.8 million.

The price movement table showed that 14 companies appreciated in price, against 24 losers. Nascon Allied Industries led the gainers chart with a 4.93 percent growth to close at N7.88 per share, followed by

Honeywell Flourmills with a gain of 4.81 percent to close at N1.09 per share, and May Baker Pharmaceuticals 4.55 percent growth to close at 92 kobo per share.

Fidelity Bank added 3.95 percent to close at 79 kobo per share and AIICO Insurance emerged the top fifth gainer with an appreciation of 3.45 percent to close at 60 kobo per share.

Forte Oil led the declining stocks by 5 percent to close at N82.67 per share, this was followed by GlaxoSmithKline that shed 4.98 percent to close at N13.54 per share and CAP that lost 4.98 percent to close at N32.07 per share.

Ashaka Cement commences delisting from NSE The board of Ashaka Cement Plc, a subsidiary of Lafarge Africa, will next month seek the shareholders vote in support of its voluntary delisting plan from the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE).

Directors of the company at a meeting held this Wednesday resolved to delist the cement manufacturer from the NSE. The resolution for voluntary delisting of the company, according to a letter

by Folashade AmbroseMedebe, Country communications/ Public Affairs Director, Lafarge, would be presented to the shareholders of the company for approval. “The resolution will be presented for consideration by shareholders of Ashaka Cement at an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) scheduled to hold on Monday 19th December, 2016.”

According to the company, the voluntary delisting is in a bid to shield the company from enforcement action by the NSE following the deficiency in the company’s free float.

A free float of 20 per cent shares is the amount of tradable shares required by the NSE for every listed company.

The company explained

that subsequent to a Mandatory Tender Offer (MTO) and Voluntary Tender Offer (VTO) by Lafarge Africa, held in December 2015 and September 2016 respectively, the company’s minority shareholders are left with 15 percent of the company thus flouting the NSE’s rule requirement for every publicly listed entity to have a free float (i.e tradable shares) of not less than 20 percent on the Exchange.

The company however gave exit considerations for shareholders upon conclusion of the EGM, prior to the delisting by either trading their shares on the NSE through their nominated stockbroker; or accept exit terms as were offered for the MTO and VTO of 202 shares of Ashaka Cement, for 57 shares of Lafarge Africa and a cash consideration of N2 per every Ashaka Cement Share.

“In line with regulation, shareholders will have 90 days period post the EGM to exercise these options.

Where a shareholder desires to remain a shareholder of AshakaCem, such shareholder shall be free to do so and there is no obligation to trade their shares or receive the Exit Consideration.” the statement read.

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SEC to unveil market revitalization plan at Q3’ CMC The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)t would be unveiling the capital market revitalization plan at its forth-coming third quarter Capital Market Committee meeting (CMC) in Lagos.

The meeting is scheduled for next Thursday in Lagos. Director General, SEC, Mr. Mounir Gwarzo, assured investors of improved capital market through the revival of the 10 year capital market master Plan currently being implemented in phases.

Gwarzo on Wednesday during an interactive session with the House of Representatives Committee on Capital Market and other Institutions, clarified that the Commission had recruited specialists to fill key offices including Risk Management Divi-

sion; Strategy Division, Research and Economic division, among others.

“We have also been vigorously been pursuing our capital market mandate which is investors protection and capital market development and you need resources. So even within that limited resources we have been able to do that.

“We also set up the national investment protection fund and we have paid 3,000 beneficiaries. We launched the corporate governance scorecard, we have set up committees to review all the laws in Nigeria and all these cost money,” he said.

On the N4.5 billion, to be investigated by the federal government, the

DG clarified that the Commission has judiciously utilised its meagre resources, despite various challenges facing the country.

“We see SEC as a stronger institution, yes we are going through a strong situation because the market is not where we want it to be. It is a reflection of the economy. Unfortunately SEC relies on what the market is able to make. In other jurisdictions, it is not so. In US SEC prepares its budget, takes it to the US Congress for approval. In South Africa, it is the same thing. Once FSB prepares its budget and it is approved, the market would have to fund it. It is only in Nigeria let’s say if the budget is N10, and the market gives us N3, we have to find a way to utilise that N3.”

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KWACOBPA appeals for N220bn to boost SMEs

Stories by Charles Okonji

The Kwara State Coalition of Business and Professional Associations (KWACOBPA) has appealed to the government to allocate N220 billion to micro, small and medium enterprises in the state.

The Chairman of KWACOBPA, Dr. Hezekiah Adediji, made the appeal while speaking at the launching of ‘Business Agenda’ for the state in Ilo-

rin.

Adediji expressed that the fund could help to combat the lingering economic problems of poor energy, multiple taxes and insecurity to ensure socio-economic development, saying that the coalition consists of 21 business and professional associations.

He called the attention of the government to critical areas of intervention as inadequate power supply and security, adding that they

serve as challenges causing severe setback to the business sector in the state.

He urged the government to allocate one percent of the state annual budget to support the private sector yearly, stressing that about N2 billion was being lost in revenue annually by the state government due to closure of businesses and under-utilization of plants and machinery by business operators.

The chairman advised

that the government embarks on the establishment of farm settlement across the 16 local government areas of the state to serve as youth empowerment, explaining that each settlement should concentrate on the farm produce identified in various local government areas.

He noted; “The coalition supports legislative programmes and policies that positively impact on access to fund, ease of processes

and affordability of cost of accessing the available funds.”

In his response, Gov. Abdulfatah Ahmed, commended the efforts of the group for its research and blue print aimed at ensuring socio-economic development and well- being of the state.

Alhaji Mohammed Rifun, State Commissioner for Commerce and Cooperatives, who represented the governor, stated that the oc-

casion was timely due to the increasing nature of unemployment in the country.

He decried the high dependence on government for provision of whitecollar jobs and pressure on inadequate infrastructure due to rural-urban drift, advocating the need for a paradigm shift from reliance on oil to diversification into agriculture and for youths to be self employed.

Ajaokuta, Itakpe concession to generate revenue for Nigeria - FG The Federal Government has declared that Ajaokuta and Itakpe modification concession will form the proposed economic resources corridor for Nigeria.

Dr Kayode Fayemi, Minister of Mines and Steel Development made this declaration during a two day workshop on Policy and Capacity Building for a Successful and Sustainable Mining Sector in Abuja.

The Minister, who was represented by Alhaji Mohammed Abbas, Permanent Secretary in the ministry, noted that President Muhammadu Buhari was committed to ensuring the mining sector yield income for the nation.

He noted; “Recently, we recorded significant devel-

opment in the sector which included the activation of 0.5 per cent mining sector component of natural resources fund. This has necessitated the Federal Government to approve N30 billion intervention fund for the sector.’’

He said that the present administration had a focus in diversifying the nation’s revenue base from over dependence on crude oil, which historically has been her mainstay to mining and agriculture, adding that minerals and mining sector is still largely underdeveloped in spite of its glorious past abundance and mineral resources for development.

According to him, these minerals, broadly categorised as industrial, energy,

metallic ore, construction and precious stones minerals have huge potentials of transforming every facets

of the Nigerian economy if duly harnessed.

He explained that there was reduction in focus and

leverage of key stakeholders’ attention for the sector, such as resources, talent and partnership.

The minister stated that the ministry’s organisational design needed refinement to ensure clear enforcement of the mineral mining act 2007 as well as associated regulations.

“We are focused on creating a true career path for mining specialists and regulators to ensure that the required knowledge and priorities are on the table.’’

The Minister said.

He pointed out that Nigeria and Australia had a longstanding history of commercial, cultural and diplomatic link built up over the course of the years, stressing that the two countries had in 2012 signed a

Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) covering political economic, commercial, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation.

Fayemi said, “Only recently did an Australianowned Nigerian mining company declared the discovery of high-grade nickel in a part of Nigeria.

Both countries are active members of the Commonwealth with numerous high level of cooperation on regional, global and geostrategic significance.’’

In his speach, Mr Paul Lehmann, Australian Ambassador to Nigeria said the workshop would help Nigeria to build a sustainable mining industry and to learn from the success recorded by Australia in mining industry.

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Grow nutritious foods locally to boost economy, tackle malnutrition, experts advise FG Towards reversing the trend of Nigeria’s recession-stricken economy, engage teeming unemployed youths and tackle malnutrition, government and private sector stakeholders in the health, agriculture, and food and beverages sectors must encourage and partake in the local production of more nutritious foods.

This was the submission of experts at the second edition of the Nutritious

Food Fair (NFF) 2016 with the theme “Multisectoral Partnerships to Promote More Nutritious Crops and Foods,” which was held at the Calabar International Convention Center (CICC), Calabar, Cross River State, recently.

The Fair was organized

by HarvestPlus, a non-profit organisation pioneering the development and delivery of staple crops that is rich in vitamins and minerals, to engage

stakeholders in the health, education, manufacturing and agriculture sectors, on issues around the production and consumption more nutritious foods in Nigeria.

In his address, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, said that the link between nutrition and agriculture needed to be strengthened to ensure that Nigerians consumed more nutritious foods,

noting that the Fair would stimulate conversations and strategic alliances to overcome malnutrition and grow the country’s food basket.

The Minister, who was represented by Ms. Winifred Ochimabo, commended HarvestPlus for hosting the Fair, assuring that he was fully committed to supporting policies and initiatives that promote the production of more nutritious crops.

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$320 per Dollar.

He noted; “Manufacturers currently face up to N500 billion in exchange difference between the approved Form M/LC established rates and the flexible market rates of $320/$1. This is a huge lost that manufacturers are to bear whereas the related goods have been sold before the commencement of the new exchange rate discovery system.”

He said that the huge lost which occurred through the introduction of the new rates has resulted in many of its members closing shops, loss of investment and loss of employment in the sector, adding that the exchange losses would result in requiring additional working capital to shore up cash difference between N320 and N197 in order to be able to buy the required forex volume at the flexible exchange rate market.

In his speech, Dr Jacobs

Frank Jacobs, MAN President

Udemba, President, MAN, who was represented by the National Vice President of MAN, Rev. Isaac Ade Agoye urged the Federal Government to harmonise the role of various government regulatory agencies in order to eliminate conflict of roles amongst them, and multiple charges to manufacturers.

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NASSI urges FG to create environment conducive for industrialisation Nigerian Association of Small Scale Industrialists (NASSI), has urged the Federal Government to deepen efforts in creating more enabling environment to grow Small and Mediumsized Enterprises (SMEs) in the country.

NASSI National President, Mr Ezekiel Essien who gave the advice on Thursday in Abuja during an interview with newsmen said an enabling environment will encourage more stakeholders to industrialise Nigeria.

“The SMEs are an important engine for growth, employment generation and social cohesion in Nigeria.

“It is worrisome that despite the incentives, favourable policies and regulations and preferential support by government, SMEs have

performed below expectation in Nigeria.

“I think the major challenges facing SMEs include but not limited to enabling environment, government policies and access to finance.

“Enabling environment comprises qualities of infrastructure, access to market, water supply, access to modern technology and low investment in research and development.’’

Essien said that the vision of NASSI was to act as a veritable umbrella body and development support platform for small scale industrialists in Nigeria.

He promised that the association would work toward actualisation of its mandate and vision by activating the sector and empowering its members to work toward

a sustainable small scale industrial development.

The national president said that the core values of NASSI were integrity, transparency, accountability and productivity drive toward industrial development and selfreliance.

Essien said that NASSI had so far created 500,000 jobs and related opportunities through its members in the informal sector.

According to him, the organisation is working assiduously to integrate the informal sector into the mainstream economy through capacity building and training.

“The body has acted as the bridge between the SMEs, the marketers and the investors to ensure enhanced development for its members to create the much desired jobs.

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following the privatisation of the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry, NESI, would recognise that the sector has been bedeviled by a number of challenges that would make the most hardened risk - seeking investor to run in the opposite direction,” he said.

“The absence of a cost covers regime, regulatory uncertainty,

customer non-payment of their bills, limited to no access to financing, gas supply limitation, neglected and aging power turbines, among others,” he listed as part of the challenges of the power sector.

He said ANEDC does not believe that reversal of the privatisation is solution to the challenges of the sector.

L-R: Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Privatization, Hon. Ahmed Yerima, Managing Director/ CEO, Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), Engr. Ernest Mupwaya and Chief Finance Officer of AEDC, Mr. Andrew Atterbury, during the House of Representatives Committee on Privatization oversight visit to AEDC head Office in Abuja, yesterday...Temitope Balogun.

Total makes $10bn investments in Nigeria in 5 years The Managing Director, Total Exploration and Production, Nigeria Limited, Mr Nicolas Terraz on Thursday said the company has made over $10 billion investments in the country in the last five years.

Terraz said this at the 34th Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists Annual Conference Management Session -1, in Lagos.

The conference has as its theme “Upstream Business Environment in a Recession Economy – Nigerian Example”.

The CEO said that the company had added over 2.3 billion barrels of crude to Nigeria’s production

from 1966 to 2015.

“In the last five years alone, we have made approximately 10 billion dollars of investments in Nigeria.

“Through decades of executing development projects, Total’s activities have contributed to creating jobs and developing human capacity in Nigeria. “ Despite the challenging operating environment, Total remains strongly committed to the developments of its activities in the country, while working relentlessly to adapt to the current environment.

“In September 2015, we achieved first oil from the Ofon Phase 2 De-

velopment Project, which will increase production capacity from the Ofon field by 60,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.

“Development drilling is currently on-going to reach the production plateau. Beyond the incremental production, this project also eliminated routine flaring in Ofon field and allowed monetization of the gas from Ofon.

“This was recognised by the World Bank – sponsored Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership, which gave an Excellence Award to our Ofon-2 Project on 9th September 2015, for this achievement,” he said.

NNPC moves to improve diesel quality Opeoluwani Akintayo The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has commenced work on a scheme to improve the quality of diesel in the Nigerian market for efficient and optimal performance of diesel-powered engines.

This was disclosed by the Manager, Collaborative Research of the Research & Development Division, Engr. David Akpan, in a presentation made to the Group Managing Director of NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru on Thursday.

Giving details of the research, Engr. Akpan said the R&D Division was working in collaboration with Petronas, Petrobras, Statoil and Saudi Aramco to achieve sig-

nificant reduction in sulphur and carbon content as well as other impurities in diesel.

He stated that the project also involves non-conventional upgrading of other refined products including crude oil.

Speaking, Dr. Baru described research and development as a vital tool for advancement in any organization desirous of re-inventing itself in the ever competitive market place.

The GMD called on the Management and Staff of the Division to support him in the renewed vision to transform R&D. “Organisations that grow commit a significant part of their budget to research and development and we are going to do that.

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Cognitive Dissonance (2) The power of an idea: “Keep building your castles in the sky,” a friend quipped a while back after I sent him a couple of my articles. I could understand where he was coming from.

After all, what’s the point of crazy new ideas when politicians can’t even manage to balance a budget?

That’s when I began to ask myself whether new ideas can genuinely change the world.

Now, your (very reasonable) gut response might be: They can’t – people will stubbornly stick to the old ideas that they’re comfortable with. The thing is, we know that ideas have changed over time.

Yesterday’s avant-garde is today’s common sense. The question is not can new ideas defeat old ones; the question is how.

Research suggests that sudden shocks can work wonders. James Kuklinski, a political scientist at the University of Illinois, discovered that people are most likely to change their opinions if you confront them with new and disagreeable facts as directly as possible.

Take the recent success of rightwing politicians who were already warning of “the Islamic threat” back in the 1990s, but didn’t get much attention until the shocking destruction of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. Viewpoints that had once been fringe suddenly became a collective obsession.

If it is true that that ideas don’t change things gradually but in fits and starts—in shocks—then the basic premise of our democracy, our journalism, and our education is all wrong. It would mean, in essence, that the Enlightenment model of how people change their opinions—through informationgathering and reasoned deliberation—is really a buttress for the status quo. It would mean that those who swear by rationality, nuance, and compromise fail to grasp how ideas govern the world. A worldview is not a Lego set where a block is added here, removed there. It’s a fortress that is defended tooth and nail, with all possible reinforcements, until the pressure becomes so overpowering that the walls cave in.

Over the same months that

Leon Festinger was infiltrating Mrs. Martin’s sect, the American psychologist Solomon Asch demonstrated that group pressure can even cause us to ignore what we can plainly see with our own eyes.

In a now-famous experiment, he showed test subjects three lines on a card and asked them which one was longest. When the other people in the room (all Asch’s coworkers, unbeknownst to the subject) gave the same answer, the subject did, too—even when it was clearly erroneous.

It’s no different in politics. Political scientists have established that how people vote is determined less by their perceptions about their own lives than by their conceptions of society. We’re not particularly interested in what government can do for us personally; we want to know what it can do for us all. When we cast our vote, we do so not just for ourselves, but for the group we want to belong to.

But Solomon Asch made another discovery. A single opposing voice can make all the difference.

When just one other person in the group stuck to the truth, the test subjects were more likely to trust the evidence of their own senses.

Let this be an encouragement to all those who feel like a lone voice crying out in the wilderness: Keep on building those castles in the sky. Your time will come.

Long was the night In 2008, it seemed as if that time had finally come when we were confronted with the biggest case of cognitive dissonance since the 1930s.

On September 15, the investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. Suddenly, the whole global banking sector seemed poised to tumble like a row of dominoes. In the months that followed, one free market dogma after another crashed and burned.

Former Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan, once dubbed the “Oracle” and the “Maestro,” was gobsmacked. “Not only have individual financial institutions become less vulnerable to shocks from underlying risk factors,”he had confidently asserted in 2004, “but also the financial system as a

whole has become more resilient.”

When Greenspan retired in 2006, everyone assumed he would be immortalized in history’s financial hall of fame.

In a House Committee hearing two years later, the broken banker admitted that he was “in a state of shocked disbelief.” Greenspan’s faith in capitalism had taken a severe beating. “I have found a flaw. I don’t know how significant or permanent it is. But I have been very distressed by that fact.”

When a congressman asked him if he had been misled by his own ideas, Greenspan replied, “That’s precisely the reason I was shocked because I’d been going for 40 years or so with considerable evidence that it was working exceptionally well.”

The lesson of December 21, 1954, is that everything centers on that one moment of crisis. When the clock strikes midnight, what happens next? A crisis can provide an opening for new ideas, but it can also shore up old convictions.

So what happened after September 15, 2008? The Occupy movement briefly galvanized people, but quickly ebbed. Meanwhile, left-leaning political parties lost elections across most of Europe.

Greece and Italy more or less canned democracy altogether and rolled out neoliberal-tinted reforms to please their creditors, trimming government and boosting labor market flexibility.

In northern Europe, too, governments proclaimed a new age of austerity.

And Alan Greenspan? When, a few years later, a reporter asked him if there had been any error in his ideas, his reply was resolute: “Not at all. I think that there is no alternative.”

Fast forward to today: Fundamental reform of the banking sector has yet to happen. On Wall Street, bankers are seeing the highest bonus payments since the crash. And the banks’ capital buffers are as minuscule as ever. Joris Luyendijk, a journalist at The Guardian who spent two years looking under the hood of London’s financial sector, summed up the experience in 2013 as follows: “It’s like standing at Chernobyl and seeing they’ve restarted the reactor but still have the same old management.”

You have to wonder: Was the cognitive dissonance from 2008 even big enough? Or was it too big? Had we invested too much in our old convictions? Or were there

simply no alternatives?

This last possibility is the most worrying of all.

The word “crisis” comes from ancient Greek and literally means to “separate” or “sieve.” A crisis, then, should be a moment of truth, the juncture at which a fundamental choice is made. But it almost seems that back in 2008 we were unable to make that choice. When we suddenly found ourselves facing the collapse of the entire banking sector, there were no real alternatives available; all we could do was keep plodding down the same path.

Perhaps, then, crisis isn’t really the right word for our current condition. It’s more like we’re in a coma. That’s ancient Greek, too. It means “deep, dreamless sleep.”

Capitalist resistance fighters It’s all deeply ironic, if you think about it.

If there were ever two people who dedicated their lives to building castles in the sky with preternatural certainty that they would someday be proven right, it was the founders of neoliberal thought.

I’m an admirer of them both: the slippery philosopher Friedrich Hayek and the public intellectual Milton Friedman.

Smart people, concludes the American journalist Ezra Klein, don’t use their intellect to obtain the correct answer; they use it to obtain what they want to be the answer Nwaodu Chukwuemeka, is a consultant with IDEAS Exchange Consulting, Lagos. He can be reached at nwaodu.lawrence@hotmail.co.uk (07066375847)

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Chidinma releases visuals for ‘fallen in love’ single Chidinma has once again become the name on the lips of music lovers. The song which was mixed and mastered by SIMI is currently garnering rave reviews and topping radio and TV music charts.

While the song remains fresh from the oven, the songstress decides to take her fans on a picturesque exploration of the love tune with the release of the visuals.

Shot in Soweto, South Africa by Godfather productions, Chidinma brings on a high school romantic setting to deliver the theme of the song. Looking over a decade younger in her beautifully cropped hair, and school uniform, the beautiful singer expresses her love to the object of her interest along with some beautifuly choreographed moves to compliment the danceable rhythm of the song.

Solidstar Releases Brand New Single, ‘Emergency’ After taking the world by storm with his recently Produced by fast-rising star P. Banks, the tuneful song tells the story of love in a satirical manner; using a catchy chorus embroidered with names of and Tekno.

making it a potential club banger. of October, 2016; and has since topped charts and amass reviews from critics. The album is praised for the artistic approach the singer exerted to perfect the album and his boldness to experiment new sounds with an eclectic list of features. sents the phrase, “Witness Everything Exceptionally Different”.

music that appeals to all generations is enviable and this has propelled her success in the music industry.

The singer who has stated severally that her religion has music that inspires all generations has once again blown away the minds of music lovers and critics alike with the

Olamide Announces #OLIC3, Promises to Shut Down Lagos Again!

Omilola Oshikoya, Banky-W, others for ‘Do it afraid’ confab

It has been an amazing year for indigenous rapper, Olamide. To crown the many successes of 2016 and give back to his loyal fans, Olamide has announced the 3rd edition of Olamide Live in Concert.

This December, Achievas Entertainment, YBNL Nation Entertainment and Right Entertainment team up to bring to fans of Olamide, the Beast Mode III. Plans are ,also, in full gear for the concert and like previous editions, Centre, Eko Hotels and Suites, Lagos on the 26th of December, 2016.

Fans are definitely in for a huge surprise as the organising team of OLIC III have assured that this edition is going to be absolutely different from preceding editions. There will be surprising changes from the norm of OLIC concerts from props and promotions strategies to never seen before set designs.

A standard for United Kingdom concerts has been set by selling out tickets hours before the YBNL concert began with fans overfilling the five -thousand -capacity concert venue to hosting his first- ever OLIC concert in Toronto, Canada which was recorded as a massive success. International nominations and awards and hit singles like Orobo, Abule Sowo, Owo Blow, Konkobility among others have all continued to top music charts locally and internationally, a development that shows Olamide as indeed a master of the game.

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Fast- rising singer, Naomi Mac, turns a year older resomely cool new photos.

Styled by herself and photographed by Ore007 Photography with make up by June 21 Signature, Naomi Mac decided to depict the look of a young aspiring lady the worries of the market

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edition of the conference billed to hold December 2, 2016 at the convention centre, Eko Hotel & Suites. The 2016 edition comes as a strategic, solution-based response to the critical economic and social crises that Nigeria, Africa and the world face today.

The conference is a motivational and inspirational event- based on the “Do It Afraid” trademark owned by Omilola Oshikoya International (OOI). The major their dreams and purposes, with a special

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and to give courage to those who want to follow their dreams. clude Iretiola Doyle, Banky-W, Wunmi Williams (CEO Nakenohs), Fela Durotoye (CEO Gemstone Group), Adebola Williams (Red Media Group), Omilola Osamongst others.

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‘76’: Bringing back the Biafra memory ….an epic tale of war, love and redemption When a soldier is killed in action, we feel unconcerned. In our opinion, they are trained to pay the ultimate price. Until recently, my thoughts got stirred in the direction of the fate that befalls their loved ones when duty calls. Six years after the civil war, a young officer from the middle belt got entangled in a romantic relationship with a young lady from the southeastern part of Nigeria. Their budding romance was almost ruptured with the daunting task of military posting. Now heavily pregnant, her world came in a botched coup attempt hit the headlines. set in the seventies during the oil boom era, which ought to have been a decisive decade for the emergence of Nigeria as an economic giant. Perhaps, our excessive greed and endless thirst for power and material wealth may have destroyed what is to be known as the greatest black nation on earth. realization was filled with its own unique challenges. plan. It involved choosing relevant locations, getting permission from the Nigerian Army and being able to access military hardware.

It is important to note that the Army barrack used held so much historical value and facts. Dr. Samuel Akintola, the late premier of Western Nigeria, lived in this barrack and his quarter was used in the shoot.

Gen. Gowon lived there too among many other notable figures.

For once in the Nigerian movie production, Princewill, Chief executive officer of Adonis Production, who also doubles as the producer of the time of war, range of issues including the plight of the African woman and the usually invisible pain of cultural values of courage, resilience, patience, to surmount all challenges.”

With a stellar cast that includes Rita Dominic, Ramsey Noah, Chidi Mokeme, Ibinabo Fiberesima, Ada Ofoegbu, Daniel K Daniel and a host of others, the movie will definitely break bounds and in turn come out as one of highest grossing movie to be produced in Nigeria, It dwells so much about history that has been forgotten but now told from the cinematography angle with a detailed event that can be related with.

Over 400 cast members were costumed. events and follows four years of work by the director and the production duo of Adonis Productions and supported by M-Net, Africa Magic, Nigerian Army to mention but a few.

We had to grapple with decorum and modern streets) and getting rid of modern day items that did

accessing relevant archival documents as a result of poor documentation practices in Nigeria and the archived as well as actual footage that contribute to sensitive nature of the movie theme. Acquiring and Transportation of film stock without going through movie was, also, done with approval and support x-ray machines was another huge challenge. from the Nigerian Army.

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