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Revealed: How 2013 court verdict was twisted for Maina

� Judge only granted 2 out of 12 prayers in suit against Senate � Malami under fire as SANs fault his legal advice � No, Buhari govt reinstated our son -Maina’s family

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How court verdict was twisted for legal opinion on Maina Continued from page 1 to the reinstatement of former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, Mr. Abdulrasheed Abdulahi Maina, to office.

The office of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami (SAN) and one of his aides, Mr Okoi Obono -Obla, had cited the judgement as one of the basis for the recall of Maina.

Obono -Obla had also argued that there was no appeal against the judgment till date.

But a certified true copy of a judgment delivered by Justice Bello on March 27, 2013, showed that the judge

only granted two out of 12 prayers sought by Maina in relation to the warrant of arrest issued against him by the Senate.

Copy of the certified true copy of judgement was obtained by The Daily Times on Wednesday.

The reliefs sought by Maina were as follows: (1) an order setting aside the warrant of arrest issued by the Inspector General of Police; (2) A declaration that the decision of the Senate through its committees on Establishment and Public Service and Committee on Local Government Administration seeking for his immediate arrest is illegal and unconstitutional; (3) Order restraining the respondents especially the Clerk of the

Senate, Senate Committee on Establishment and Public Service and Senate Committee on State and Local Government from interfering with the management and administration of Pension Reform Task Team as illegal; (4) An order restraining the two Senate committees from further issuance of any letter of invitation to him since their report had been submitted without given him fair hearing; (5) an order quashing the report of the committees as he claimed the action had breached his right to fair hearing; (6) An order of certiorari mandating the respondents and agents setting aside their resolution mandating the IGP to arrest

him; (7) A declaration that the threat and intimidation and attempts to arrest while performing his lawful and legitimate duties as Chairman, Pension Reform Task Team was unconstitutional; (8) an order restraining the respondents from arresting and threatening to arrest him was unlawful; (9) An order of the court setting aside or quashing the warrant of arrest issued by the respondents; (10) An order perpetual injunction restraining the respondents and their agents from arresting him; (11) An order directing the respondents to pay him N1billion damages for unlawful interference and (12) And for such further order as the court might deem fit to make.

Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission, (NDDC), Mr. Nsima Ekere (right) receiving a document from, National President of the Niger Delta Youth Movement, (NDYM), Comrade Joe Jackson, during a courtesy visit to the NDDC headquarters in Port Harcourt… on Wednesday.

Thousands of Nigerian illegal migrants await deportation from Germany

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The publisher of African Courier Magazine, Mr. Femi Awoniyi, has sounded the alarm that thousands of illegal immigrants, especially Nigerians and other African nationals, are currently on the waiting list for deportation from Germany.

And to a very concerned Awoniyi who, is based in Germany but currently holidaying in Nigeria, has set up an NGO, a (non-governmental organization) ‘Immigration Enlightenment Project Nigeria (MEPN), with the slogan ‘Look Before You Leave’ and which is aimed at helping the governments of African countries in dissuad-

ing youths from migrating to Europe and America illegally.

Awoniyi in an interview with our reporter said: “Thousands of Nigerians/ Africans have died in the Mediterranean or are in the limbo in the North Africa countries like Libya or America because of illegal migration. This year alone over 2,500 illegal immigrants are believed to have died in the Mediterranean alone because of their illegal migration journey,” Awoniyi said. “ And this we want to stop through our campaign. As I speak to you thousands of Nigerians in Germany are awaiting deportation and that is bad for the image of Nigeria and Nigerians.”

Though, he is not against

migration, Awoniyi who claimed to have been in Germany for more than two decades adviced that if any youth is interested in exploring the world, such a fellow must obtain necessary documents that would enable him/she enter the country of his choice as a legal migrant and enjoy all the good things that come with it.

“A great number of this irregular migrants are Nigerians. Any of these migrants left the country lured by the fake promise of people- smugglers who deceive their victims of paying, sometimes thousands of dollars for a passage to Europe. Nigerians in the Diaspora is highly disturbed about this situation hence its decision

to do something about it.

This is why African/German Information Centre and the African Courier Verlag both based in Germany in collaboration with Germany’s Federal Ministry of External Affairs are launching the information campaign - Migration Enlightenment Project Nigeria,” he said According to him, the objective of the campaign is to raise public awareness to the dangers and risk of irregular migration to Europe.

The programme he also said would also highlight the opportunities forvlegal migration to Europe as well as encourage youths to look at the positive sides to emigration that is abound in Nigeria.

In his judgment on the matter, Justice Bello held that the failure of the Senate to attach relevant documents to the warrant of arrest was very fatal to the summon against Maina.

The judge said, “The implication of failure to produce and annex these vital documents to the counter affidavit of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 8th, and 9th respondents is that there is no evidence before me to show that the investigation commenced by the said respondents is one validly commenced in accordance with the provisions of section 88(1)of the 1999 Constitution.

“If it has not been validly commenced in accordance with the Constitution, it follows that the summons or invitation to the applicant to appear before the committees would not have been validly issued and ipso facto ,the warrant of arrest was not validly issued. “ In the circumstances therefore, I am bound to set aside the warrant of arrest issued by the 2nd respondent (Senate President) which threatens the right of the applicant to his personal liberty. Consequently, the warrant of arrest issued by the 2nd respondent for the arrest of the applicant is set aside.

“I also grant an order of perpetual injunction restraining the respondents jointly and or severally by themselves and or their agent, privies, servants, however so called from arresting the applicant on account of the warrant of arrest which has been set aside.”

But the judge made the following pronouncements that changed the course of event.

He said, “However, beyond these two reliefs, given all the facts available to the court, the applicant is not entitled to any other relief .

My decision is based purely on the failure of the respondents to annex the vital documents I mentioned ,otherwise, the applicant would not have made any case at all. “ The decision should not therefore send a wrong signal to the public that the Senate does not have the power to cause an investigation within the purview of the powers conferred on it by section 88 and 89 of the Constitution with respect to the matters enumerated therein. Indeed, it has such powers and when properly exercised, it can summon any person in Nigeria to give evidence and can also compel the attendance of any such person. “ Let me end the judgment by advising the applicant

(Maina) to summit himself voluntarily to the investigation by the Senate in order to show that he respects constituted authority. It is the least expected of him as a public officer and as a citizen of Nigeria. “ Despite the judge’s pronouncement and the fact that other criminal charge involving Maina was pending in same court, the AGF in a letter dated April 27, 2017 and addressed to the Head of Service of the Federation directed the HoSF office to reinstate Maina on the purported import of the judgement delivered by Justice Bello on March 27,2013.

In the letter, Malami directed the reinstatement of Maina as Director in the Federal Civil Service on the grounds that the warrant of arrest issued against him by police on the request of the Senate had been set aside by Justice Bello.

But the AGF’s letter was however silent on the g allegation of embezzlement of over N2billion pension fund in which Maina was investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC and charged to court accordingly.

Malami’s letter also failed to address the fact that Maina was declared wanted by the anti-graft agency.

Besides, the controversial letter of Malami did not also disclose the fact that Justice Bello in the said judgement counseled Maina to surrender himself for investigation so as to clear himself of the grievous financial allegation against him.

According to the said letter cited by our correspondent with Ref. HAGF/ FCSC/2017/Vol. 1/3, addressed to the Federal Civil Service Commission, reads; Ayo, OON Re: Demand for update on the re-instatement of Mr. Abdulrasheed Abdulahi Maina as Director in the Federal Civil Service. above captioned subject matter refrenced FCSC/ CHMN/OC/17/Vol. XIV/209 dated 3rd March 2017 and the letters copied to the Office of the Honourable Attorney General of the Federation by the office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation on the same subject matter respectively referenced HCSF/LU/COR/ FCSC/749/III/84 dated 27th March 2017 and 20 April 2017 refer (copied attached).

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Oil firm flaunts court order to annul suspension, forensic audit Continued from page 1 change Commission (SEC).

Nigeria’s SEC had on Wednesday, October 18, 2017, ordered the NSE to immediately suspend the trading in the shares of Oando Plc for 48 hours, followed by a technical suspension until further directed.

The SEC had also announced a forensic audit into the affairs of the company be conducted by a team of independent professional firms as a result

of gross misconduct and insider dealings discovered by SEC to necessitate further investigations.

The resultant effect was a trade suspension of Oando’s shares at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

But in a bid to fight back, Oando Plc served the NSE and the SEC a Federal High Court (FHC) order on Tuesday, October 24, 2017 restraining the NSE and any other party working on their behalf from giving effect to the directive of the SEC to implement

a technical suspension of the shares of the company, pending the determination of the motion for injunction.

Oando also got an order restraining the SEC and any other parties claiming through or working on behalf of the Commission from conducting any forensic audit into the affairs of the company pending the determination of the motion for an injunction.

Oando revealed this in a statement signed by its Chief Compliance Officer

& Company Secretary, Ayotola Jagun and the Head, Corporate Communications, Alero Balogun, published on its official website on October 24 titled “Oando Plc’s Official Statement on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Alleged Findings following their Investigation of the Company and their Penalties / Implications” The statement noted that “Oando is of the view that the SEC’s directives are illegal, invalid and calculated to prejudice the busi-

L-R: Ogun State Governor, Sen. Ibikunle Amosun and Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, when the minister visited the governor in his Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta office… on Wednesday.

ness of the Company, adding that, the court order was obtained to safeguard the interests of the Company and its shareholders.

“In our view, both the NSE and the SEC are legally obliged to comply with the interim orders pending the substantive determination of the suit,” the statement partly read.

Meanwhile, Managing Director and Chief Executive Office of Enterprise Stockbrokers Plc, and a stakeholder in Nigeria’s capital market, Mr Rotimi Fakayejo, has said the issue is a great setback for the Nigerian economy and not just the capital market alone.

Speaking with our correspondent in Lagos, Fakayejo said “If Nigeria’s Investment Promotion Council is actually doing its work, this issue with Oando is undoing whatever they are doing”.

The Nigerian Investment Promotion Council is an organization that promotes investment in Nigeria outside the country. “But with this kind of development, very few investors will want to invest in Nigeria,” he said.

According to Fakayejo, the issue is not a SEC matter alone, but a big challenge for the Nigerian government. He said, “The auditing firm had flagged the oil company’s account in the last two financial years, I believe this is when

the SEC should have set in”.

Addressing the way forward, the capital market expert said, “The first thing SEC ought to do is to sack the board. He, however, lamented the irregularities with Nigerian Law, saying that the law has a way of circumventing what is obvious.

He, however, advised the SEC to look at the interest of the employee, the community the oil firm services, the majority shareholders and minority shareholders as well.

The latest update from SEC on the issue came on Monday, announcing that the shares of the company are no longer on full suspension but on technical suspension.

The SEC also said it had concluded arrangements for the commencement of the investigation exercise and wishes to reiterate its unwavering commitment to protect all investors in the company and the integrity of the Nigerian capital market.

The imbroglio began when two major shareholders of the company, Dahiru Mangal and Ansbury Inc, submitted a petition to SEC demanding the postponement of the company’s annual general meeting and accused the management of gross abuse of corporate governance and financial mismanagement.

Metuh trial: Court gives bailiff 5 days to serve Jonathan Andrew Orolua, Abuja

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The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday refused to set aside the subpoena issued against the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd), saying that it lacks jurisdiction to hear it on merit.

The applicant who was to testify as defence witness on Wednesday in the ongoing trial of former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Olisa Metuh failed to appear in court.

Justice Okon Abang who delivered two separate rulings during Wednesday’s proceedings following the

absence of Dasuki and former President Jonathan in court, said that with their refusal to testify, it would be extremely difficult to proceed with the trial. The judge therefore gave court bailiffs five days to serve Jonathan with the court summons.

Visibly upset over the media reports which credited the order for former President Jonathan’s summons to appear in court to him, Justice Abang said that “the court did not on its own ordered Dasuki and Jonathan to appear in court.”

He said the subpoena was issued based on the application filed by the 1st defendant while the sum-

mon on Jonathan was in line with same judgment of Court of Appeal on appeal No. C/A/1596/17.

He further ruled that the subpoena served on Dasuki should be handled administratively since Dasuki is in the custody of Department of the State Security Services.

He said that the federal government who is prosecuting Metuh through its agency the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)” must persuade the DSS who is holding Dasuki in custody to produce him failing which it will be extremely difficult to proceed.”

Justice Abang said the court cannot apportion

blame on former President Jonathan who has not been served. He agreed with Metuh’s counsel that one failed attempt made by the bailiff to serve Jonathan was insufficient.

The court directed that further attempts should be made to serve former President Jonathan personally with the summons to testify as Metuh witness.

Earlier in his ruling, the court had struck out the application by Dasuki who had sought to set aside the subpoena served on him to testify on behalf of a former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Metuh.

Justice Abang, ruled that

having been ordered by the Court of Appeal in Abuja on September 29, 2017, he lacked jurisdiction to hear and determine the motion on merit.

He stated that determining the motion on merit would amount to an attempt to review the judgment of a higher court, the Court of Appeal.

He held that all issues raised by Dasuki, through his lawyer, Mr. Ahmed Raji (SAN), had become academic since the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the complaints.

According to the him, it would amount to “judicial anarchy” to hear Dasuki’s application on merit.

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suki ) is dissatisfied , he should know what to do and where to go, but certainly not this court ,” the judge ruled.

Former President Jonathan and Dasuki were summoned by the court upon an application by Metuh requesting that they be ordered to testify in his defence with respect to the sum of N400 million which he received from the Office of the NSA in 2014.

The Court adjourned the trial to October 31, to enable bailiff effect service on former President Jonathan and to administratively resolve issues surrounding the non appearance of Dasuki.

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Patience Jonathan: Court reserves ruling over firms’ plea on $15.5m money laundering Peter Fowoyo

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in Lagos on Wednesday reserved ruling in a motion seeking to set aside the guilty plea of four firms allegedly used to launder $15.5million belonging to a former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan.

The firms; Pluto Property and Investment Com-

pany Ltd, Seagate Property Development and Investment Company Limited, Trans Ocean Property and Investment Company Limited and Avalon Global Property Development Company, pleaded guilty through their representatives.

The motion was filed by a lawyer, Amajuoyi Azubuike Briggs, who is standing

trial alongside WaripamoOwei Dudafa, an aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan and one, Adedamola Bolodeoku.

The accused persons are standing trial for allegedly concealing the total sum of $15,591,700.00 which they knew formed part of the proceeds of an unlawful act, through some banks.

The four firms pleaded

guilty to laundering the money upon their arraignment alongside the trio.

They were represented

by Friday Davies, Agbor Baro, Dioghowori Frederick and Taiwo Ebenezer respectively.

The four firms were later convicted on the alleged offence following the review of the facts of the case by the prosecution.

Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola acknowledging cheers after the commissioning of Ilesa Government High School in Osun State…on Tuesday.

We may not hold convention this year –APC

Tom Okpe, Abuja

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has declared that there is no definite date fixed for the party’s long awaited national convention because the party has not decided on a date.

This development is contrary to expectations of its members and the position of the party’s constitution as the ruling party would rather hold the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting slated for October 31 this year.

Recall that the tenure of the current APC National Working Committee (NWC) is expected to end June 2018.

Speaking with newsmen in an interview on Wednesday, the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mallam Bolaji

Abdullahi,however, assured that the expected NEC meeting will be fruitful.

“I can tell you that the convention is not going to take place until the first quarter of next year. There will not be any implosion or explosion because we are not going to invite Boko Haram to the convention.

“Let me emphasise that we have not decided on the date of the convention because we have to hold NEC meeting that will agree on a date and agenda for the convention.”

The APC constitution, however, states in Article 25: (A), (I) that “the National Convention of the Party shall be held once in Two (2) years at a date, venue and time to be recommended by the National Working Committee and approved by the National Executive

Committee subject to the giving of the statutory notices to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and at least fourteen (14) days notice given to members eligible to attend.”

The constitution also provides that; “the National Executive Committee may summon an emergency National Convention at any time provided at least seven (7) days notice of the meeting is given to all members eligible to attend.”

Reacting to media reports that about 17 APC governors were plotting removal of the national chairman; Abdullahi said: “When you talk of 17 governors planning to impeach our national chairman, it is just a newspaper report people are reacting to. We have come out to dismiss such

reports, telling Nigerians that we are not aware of the 17 governors referred to.

“We made it clear that there would not have been anything like that because they would have expressed such displeasure whether against the party or chairman in particular during the series of meetings we have had with them. I was opportune to attend all the meetings and there have never been anytime any of them stood up to say that they are not happy with him.

“We are preparing for the NEC meeting next week, October 31, preceded by caucus meeting and we are very confident of having fruitful meetings but let me emphasize that there is nothing like governors working against anybody,” he said.

Dissatisfied, Dudafa and Briggs filed separate applications seeking to reverse the plea at the court. The applications were however dismissed by Justice Babs Kuewumi on the ground that the same issues were being canvassed by the accused persons at the Court of Appeal.

However, the Court of Appeal in its judgment on June 15, 2017, directed the lower court to hear Briggs’ motion seeking to reverse the firm’s plea.

When the matter came up yesterday, EFCC’s lawyer, Rotimi Oyedepo, sought the court’s permission to continue with the examinationin-chief of the first prosecution witness.

The request was however opposed to by the defence lawyers.

In particular, Briggs’ lawyer, Ige Asemudara, drew the court’s attention to the Appeal Court’s judgement which ordered the hearing of his client’s motion challenging the guilty plea of the four firms.

He also disclosed that he had filed another motion seeking to set aside the conviction of the four firms.

In his own submission, lawyer representing the four firms, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), equally notified the court of the existence of a motion he filed since May 8, 2017 seeking to set aside the guilty plea of the firms.

According to him, the court cannot proceed to trial when the plea of the firms, which are in joint trial with the other accused persons, is being contended.

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cused persons, Gboyega Oyewole (SAN) and Joseph Okodieme also spoke against the matter proceeding to trial.

After listening to the submissions of parties in the matter, Justice Kuewumi opted to hear Briggs’ motion as directed by the Court of Appeal.

In moving the motion, Briggs’ lawyer, Ige Asemudara, said the main issue is that the plea entered into by the firms wherein his client is the secretary does not comply with Sections 477 (3) and 478 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) 2015.

While urging the court to set aside the guilty plea of the firms, the lawyer said the prosecution is yet to file any counter-affidavit against the motion.

In his response, EFCC’s lawyer, Rotimi Oyedepo, urged the court to rely on its record with regards to the service of the charge on the directors of the firms as well as their appearances before the court.

He added that in view of the firms’ plea which was made by the directors and upon the admission of the facts reviewed by the prosecution leading to the firms’ conviction, the motion is a violent abuse of court’s process.

Oyedepo said the applicant (Briggs) equally lacked the ‘locus standi’ to complain about the plea of his co-accused because the plea of an accused person is peculiar and personal to him or her.

Meanwhile the court has adjourned the matter till November 22 for hearing of other pending applications.

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Keep upholding national unity, group charges Kwankwaso as he marks 61st birthday Esther Taiwo Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has been charged to keep upholding national unity in his effulgent political career. The admonition came from the Senator’s admirers who converged at Oriental Hotel, Lekki, Lagos on the night of October 21 to celebrate his 61st birthday.

Welcoming the guests who were drawn mainly from Lagos and the South West, Mrs. Fisher Thomas, said, “it is my pleasure to welcome all of you here tonight.

We would have made this event a big party.

“We eventually settled for a cocktail.

The reason is that the celebrant is not really a party going person. He hardly goes out at night. He is just a simple family man. A lover of education and children.

In fact we had to bring him out at a night time like this because we told him we just want to show him our love and admiration.

“All I will say is that as a strong believer in national unity, he should keep upholding the peace and unity of this country. He should keep his love for education going. What he did for education of children in Kano State is a great source of hope for this country. And we admire him for this.”

Barrister Ladipo Johnson told the audience that the event is a purely social gathering put together by friends of Kwankwaso in the South West. He declined to speak about his relationship with the celebrant. He simply said, “If you followed what he did in Kano State

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for the education of children you will admire him. That is all. This is not about politics, or any political ambition,” Johnson said.

Various professional groups were in attendance including National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) were well represented. Other dignitaries at the

event include Honourable Yusuf Danbata, Alhaji Idi Farouk, Senator Gbenga Ashafa, Engineer Abubakar, Honourable Bode Mustapha, Mrs Tokunbo Edun, Mr Wale Ajao, Engineer Owolabi, Solana, Alhaji Tajudeen Oyeleye, Barrister Demola Animasahun and Dr. Ajibola Raheem among others.

APC alleges infrastructural decay in Delta Patrick Okohue with Agency Report The Leaders Council of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State has alleged that the state was experiencing infrastructural decay in spite of its huge resources.

Media Co-ordinator of the group, Dr Cairo Ojougboh, made the allegation at a news conference in Abuja, and alleged that massive fraud was going on in the state by its present government.

Ojougboh, a former stalwart of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who recently defected to the APC, urged the Federal Government to rescue the state by investigating its activities.

Until early 2016, Ojougboh was the National Vice Chairman of PDP, South-South.

He lost the position to Mr Emmanuel Ogidi in a congress of the zone in Port Harcourt.

Soon after the loss, an obviously aggrieved Ojougboh teamed up with Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff ’s faction of the party, where he proclaimed himself National Deputy Chairman and doubled as spokesman.

He was in that position until the Supreme Court judgment which nullified Sheriff ’s chairmanship of PDP in July, 2017.

Ojougboh alleged that successive governments in the state had been involved in high profile fraud to the detriment of its people.

He claimed that though expenditure approval limits for the governors was N50 million, this was jerked up to N250 million in 2015 without approval from the state executive.

“The impact of this fraudulent increase in approval threshold is not lost to the people of the state.”

Ojoughoh also alleged that contracts were awarded without approval from the Ministerial Tenders Board of the state.

MainaGate: CACOL demands thorough investigation, punishment for those found wanting Patrick Okohue The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL), has challenged the Federal Government to ensure a thorough and holistic investigation into the facts surrounding the sudden re-emergence of former chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Alhaji Abdulrasheed Maina, accused of complicity in a multi-billion pension naira scam and give due punishment for those found wanting in the saga that led to the reinstatement.

CACOL in a press statement by its Executive Chairman, Comrade DeboAdeniran, noted with disdain what it described as the unfettered reappearance of Maina and his absurd appointment as a Director in a Federal Agency, adding that such action smacks of executive arrogance, management ruthlessness and an affront on the collective intelligence of Nigerians by government.

“Not only did Maina resurfaced, Nigerians woke to be greeted with the rude news that the ex-fugitive, who had been in the wanted list of the security apparatus in the country, has been made a Director in a Federal Agency. There couldn’t have been more devastating news in a country where anti-corruption discharges are being

taunted as the hallmark of governance.

“Even as the Federal Government has ordered the reversal of Maina’s appointment, we are disturbed by the chain of atrocities that gave birth to his sudden appearance in Nigeria, ostensibly without the knowledge of the security apparatus that were supposed to have been on his trail in the past four years.”

It will be recalled that CACOL had recently called on the Federal Government to embark on a house cleaning that would relieve some ministers of their jobs, among them the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Malami Abubakar, “whose name also resonated in the recent saga to confirm that hardly would there be any high profile scandal in the country without AGF’s involvement.

“We are very aware that Maina was declared wanted by the police and the EFCC. In that case, it is evident that the EFCC, the police, the DSS, the interior ministry and even Interpol should have been on the case since it got to their knowledge that Maina had crossed international borders.

“What happened with all these agencies? Did he actually sneak into the country without the knowledge of all the security apparatus? Was there a process that vacated the wanted status? What was this process and who were involved? These are very salient questions that are begging for

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urgent response from government,” he said According to the anti-corruption organisation, its stance is that while the civil service aspect can be sorted out and erring officers punished, “we crave to know if our borders are that porous that those charged with the responsibilities to watch over it are so helplessly inefficient.”

“We are of the opinion that all these are happening as a result of official laxities and gross despondence on the part of people charged with governmental responsibilities. And this is the reason President Muhammadu Buhari, at this point, needs to

match his words with urgent action by producing all that partook in the evil process that brought back Maina into the country unchallenged and even made moves to impose him on us as a top public officer. We hasten President Muhammadu Buhari to address these issues alongside the probe he had already requested.

It will be recalled that the Federal Civil Service Commission dismissed Maina in 2013 for absconding from duty following a recommendation by the office of the Head of Service after which he was accused of being involved in pension fraud running into over N100 billion.

12 Politics Amaka Agbu, Port Harcourt The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has described as an aberration and a joke taken too far, the comparison of Dr. Dakuku Peterside, the President of the Association of African Maritime Administrations (AAMA) with the governor of the state, Barrister Nyesom Wike, by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Reacting to a recent press statements entitled, ‘Rivers PDP dares Dakuku over Wike’, APC in a statement signed by its state Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, in Port Harcourt on Tuesday reasoned that “the only crime that Dr. Dakuku Peterside committed to warrant this unguided and uncouth reaction from the PDP was his caution against the plot by Governor Wike and his government to disrupt the flag-off of the Bonny-Bodo Road by the Federal Government.”

The APC asked: “What is the crime that a concerned son of Rivers showed concern over a plot to under-develop Rivers State?

“Not minding the misgiving on the side of PDP in this regard, we commend and congratulate Dakuku for this proactive caution which if not, Wike wouldn’t have ran away and avoided the flag-off to show his disdain and discontentment over the APC-led Federal

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Government drive to develop Rivers State.”

The party reasoned that for Wike to have distanced himself from that great event aimed at addressing one of the lingering challenges facing the state “exposed him as an unserious leader.”

The PDP in its statement had said, “...Dakuku Peterside, the PDP believes is only trying to dust his rickety and outdated political profile by making bogus statements and insulting his naturally superior Executive Governor of the state, Chief Barr. Nyesom Wike, thinking that will impress his political benefactors to reconsider him for another shot at the office of the Governor of Rivers State...”.

The party further questioned the rationale behind comparing Wike who it alleged abandoned medical students of the state who were in their final year of study stranded in foreign lands and preferred to travel to Spain to pursue the setting up of Real Madrid Football Academy “as a means to loot and launder our hard earned funds outside the country” with Dr. Peterside who instituted private scholarship scheme to ensure the education of

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our students within and outside Nigeria.

The party queried: “How does one compare Wike with a patriotic son of Rivers State in the stature of Dr. Dakuku Peterside whom we all know has a well-documented blueprint which he tagged ‘Road To Prosperity’ that would have made Rivers State one of the most developed states in Nigeria by now.”

The APC alleged: “While Wike has ran the economy of Rivers State aground without any budgetary law in running the affairs of the state, on the other hand, today, NIMASA under Dr. Dakuku, is a model of reference on the continent of Africa, an agency that understands that it is set up to serve the Nigerian people, ensure the full implementation and enforcement

Anambra poll: Awka monarch prays for Chidoka’s victory Patrick Okohue with Agency Report

The traditional ruler of Awka, Igwe Gibson Nwosu, has given his blessing to Chief Osita Chidoka, the governorship candidate of the United Progressives Party (UPP) in the Anambra State’s Nov. 18 poll.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Chidoka is one of the 37 candidates jostling for the governorship position in the upcoming governorship polls in the state.

Nwosu prayed for Chidoka’s victory when the candidate, alongside the leadership of his party, visited his palace on Tuesday to formally inform him of his mission to govern Anambra.

The capital city monarch said that he had known Chidoka for a long time as an intelligent and upright public servant who had excelled in his areas of endeavour.

He expressed the hope that the candidate would become his “chief tenant’’ after the polls and prayed the “gods of the land’’ to direct his footsteps in the course of working for his ambition.

“Chidoka is a great man, known by all as upright in his deeds; he transformed the Federal Road Safety Corp (FRSC) and made Nigerians to understand that ensuring safety on the road is not a rocket science.

“He also brought innovations to the aviation sector while he served as minister; doesn’t such

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a man have the capacity to make Anambra work better?

“I pray that it shall be well with you and as you come to honour me as the traditional ruler of Awka, you shall be my Chief Tenant.

“You will not stumble on this your journey to Anambra Government House,’’ he said.

In his speech, Chidoka promised to make Anambra an allinclusive development-driven state with good transport planning and technology.

The former FRSC Corps Marshal said he was at the monarch’s palace in recognition of his father figure not just in Awka but to him personally and to unveil his plans to transform the city.

He said that the UPP was not

coming to alleviate poverty and insecurity but to overthrow their causes by ensuring that the state was economy friendly, systematically planned and developed.

He noted that he would deploy his experience as a Transportation expert to build an all-inclusive society which would engender all to participate in the economic life of the state.

“We decided to start this journey here because Awka is the landlord of the Government House and when I was the corps marshal, the first person I made Special Marshal was Igwe Gibson.

“You are a father to me and that is why we are here to tell you formally of our journey and seek your blessing,’’ he said.

of the International Ships and Ports Facility Security (ISPS) code in the nation’s ports, and shut three jetties and port facilities for noncompliance with the provisions of the ISPS Code.

“Today, while Wike wastes Rivers State funds on issues of no interest to the people of Rivers State thereby owing our civil servants months of salaries and our pensioners arrears in their entitlements but on the other hand, Dr. Dakuku Peterside within less than two years in office has for the first time made NIMASA to remits N21.805bn to Federal Government coffers.

The party notes with pride that NIMASA under Peterside’s watch had commenced the full implementation of the Coastal and Inland Shipping Act 2003, also known as the Cabotage Act, and forged strategic partnerships with the Nigerian Air Force as well as other naval assets to patrol and monitor the country’s waterways with a view to enhancing maritime security by decisively tackling piracy and criminality on the high seas.

Reps to probe non-payment of salaries in Kogi The House of Representatives has mandated its Ad Hoc Committee on Bail-out Funds to investigate non-payment of salaries of Kogi State workers and report back within one week.

The House also mandated the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to within one week report and explain the utilisation of Salary Bail-out Fund given to states.

The directives followed a unanimous adoption of a Motion of Urgent National Importance moved by Rep. Sunday Karimi (Kogi-PDP) at the plenary presided by the Speaker, Mr Yakubu Dogara on Tuesday.

Moving the motion, Karim said in spite the federal statutory allocation, salary bail-out funds and Paris Club refund received by Kogi State government, non-payment of state and local government workers salaries lingered.

He said Mr Edward Soje, a Director in the Kogi Civil Service Commission committed suicide for not being able to meet his obligations as a father and a husband.

The legislator said the deceased took his life after his wife was delivered of a set of triplet at an Abuja hospital last week.

The lawmaker explained that the late senior civil servant was being owed 11 months’ salary which made it difficult for him to meet his responsibilities.

According to Karimi, the situation of Soje is the lot of the ma-

jority of the civil servants and pensioners in the state.

He expressed concern that the state government had opposed to and refused any authority to investigate the nonpayment of staff salaries.

According to Karimi, if nothing is immediately done about the situation in Kogi, more civil servants who were frustrated will commit suicide In her contribution, Rep. Nnkiruka Onyejeocha (AbiaPDP), said it was sad for parents who worked for Kogi government to go several months without pay.

Onyejeocha called on legislators to support the motion and urged the committee to treat the matter with high speed.

Rep. Jimoh Olajide (LagosAPC) commended the mover of the motion for the courage to speak for the people of Kogi.

He said the function of government was basically to ensure the welfare and security of the people.

According to Olajide, a situation where civil servants are committing suicide, nobody knows what is next.

The lawmaker, who advised the three tiers of government

to be considerate and just, urged Nigerians not to commit suicide, no matter the difficulty.

The House urged the federal and state as well as local governments to prioritise payment of salaries. (NAN)

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Local manufacture of electric meters

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ecent opening of a local electric meter manufacturing factory in Onna Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State is a welcome development as it marked the era of privately owned local manufacturing of electric meters in Nigeria. When in November 2013 the Federal Government privatised the Power Holding Company (PHCN), the buyers did not envisage problems.

Since then the 11 distribution companies (Discos) have been struggling to meet the metering deadline of five years contained in their Purchasing Agreements (PAs) with the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE). A modicum of progress was made in the metering of customers. But, the Discos have been citing weak capital as the major reason for their inability to meter all their customers. They blamed illiquidity for their inability to meter the customers and their banks’ failure to provide them credits to purchase meters.

Nigeria is a country with great potential for development. Almost all sectors of the country’s economy need electricity to stimulate development.

Unfortunately, no appreciable economic development can be made in an economy with inadequate supply of electric power. Even with the erratic and unstable power supply in the country, electricity supply to homes and industries have over the years been bedevilled by insufficient supply of metering machines. As Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo rightly observed at the inauguration of the metering company, Nigeria’s economic development is hinged on effective power supply. Without doubt, availability of a good electric metering device is part of an effective power supply. Herein lies the importance of the new electric meter manufacturing company.

Since the privatisation of electric distribution companies a few years ago, the electric distribution compa-

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nies (Discos) have been complaining of inadequate supply of meters. In the main, the Discos complained about their lack of funds to purchase meters for onward sale to their customers, thus limiting the quantity of orders they could purchase from local suppliers of the product who also had to import them from overseas. The introduction of prepaid metering system made it easier for the Discos to collect their money upfront from electric power consumers while it has enabled electric power consumers too to pay in advance for whatever quantity of electric power they would want to enjoy.

In many parts of the country attempts by the Discos to make unmetered consumers of electric power to pay have been unsuccessful. Also, the Discos resort to the use of estimated bills has not helped matters as, in most cases, such consumers avoid payment for the electricity they used.

The new electric power metering factory which is a partnership between the Akwa Ibom government and some private investors is expected to put the state on the path of industrialisation. It will manufacture an average of one million meters per year but can be increased later to produce up to 2.7 million units of meters per year.

If anything, the Akwa Ibom example is an example of fruitful collaboration between the public and the private sectors in an uncharted area that used to be controlled by the Federal Government. The Akwa Ibom State example has shown that with approval from the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) a state government, just like any private entrepreneur, can invest in any area of the power sector. It is expected that many local and foreign investors will follow the example of the investors in the metering company to set up factories in Akwa Ibom State and other parts of the country.

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John F.Kennedy

Thomas Jefferson

Bill Murray

Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past.

Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

‘’Most Bad government has grown out of too much government.

“so, if we lie to the government it’s a felony.

But if they lie to us its politics.

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Sleeping while citizens are hungry and being murdered

L Mazi Sam I. Ohuabunwa OFR

ast week I was thrilled to read that PMB threw a very interesting question to State governors who were owing arrears of salaries: How do you sleep when your workers are unpaid and hungry?

In some States in Nigeria, we hear that workers are still being owed up to 6 months and pensioners up to 9 months, and that is after the federal government’s bail out packages and the recent Paris Club debt reimbursements.

For some of us things begin to get difficult just after two weeks of our last month’s pay, and if the next pay day is delayed for any reason whatsover, we become anxious and dysfunctional. I can not contemplate how we can survive with two months of salary arreas and yet we hear that some ‘poor’ civil servants can still transport themselves to work even when salaries have not been paid for six months or more.

How? Is it from previous savings, iou, book me down, support from family and friends or from egunje?

We need to hear from them please.

The question PMB asked intrigued me, because, it is the type

I have been asking our leaders for years. It would have been nice to hear how the governors answered the unsettling question. Because, some of these governors do not only sleep very well, but they find the time and money to organize receptions and parties, undertake frequent overseas trips with their families and cronies in tow and fund sundry expenses. Many of them collect their salaries regularly and their security votes are paid upfront, while the miserable civil servants are asked to exercise patience( unending?) or cajoled to accept a fraction of their emoluments as governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State tried to do recently. As I was concluding this piece, my heart was broken when I read the story of a senior civil servant in Kogi State who recently committed suicide because he was owed 11months salary and did not have any money to take care of his wife and their 10-day old male triplets. What a shame! Does anybody know how many of such disasters have happened without being reported and yet our political leaders sleep easy!

It may sound unreasonable, but I have always expected the actions

and moods of leaders to reflect the circumstances of the people they lead. If the people are mourning, they should mourn, if they are hungry,they should go hungry. If there is not enough money to pay salaries, the leaders should be the ones to be paid last. We should start paying from the least paid to the highest paid. If the State does not have enough money to pay salaries, then we should cut off frivolities and if that does not solve the problems, then we should down size and set the people free to go and do something for themselves instead of holding them as ‘captives’ and helping to spread poverty and misery. How can a man who is owed eleven months salary still be honestly regarded as being in employment, contributing to false statistics?

As they say what is good for the goose should be good for the gander.

If permitted, I will like to ask PMB, how he sleeps when the armed Fulani herdsmen are daily ravaging communities and murdering innocent women and children, some in their sleep?How does he sleep when armed herdsmen are now killing more Nigerians than the Boko Ha-

ram terrorists?How does he sleep when last week, particular communities in Bassa LGA in Plateau State were consistently attacked and murdered by militant herdsmen, despite dusk to dawn curfew and despite the presence of the military? How does he sleep when the government he leads is failing in its primary duty of protecting citizens? It was okay for him to condemn the “madness” in plateau which according to him” has gone too far”. It was also good for him to instruct the police and military to bring an end to the madness. But would it not have sent a new message if he said he was delaying or canceling his trip to Turkey in honour of the 15+9+27 innocent souls lost in cold murder in the plateau last week. When will the life of ordinary Nigerians begin to count in this Country? Suppose one of those killed was his, would he still have travelled?

I may sound unreasonable, but that’s because I am really unable to sleep as I daily worry about the failure of leadership in this country !

So help me God. Mazi Sam I. Ohuabunwa OFR

Time to launch #BringBackOurMagicians movement

J Iranse Eledumare

ason’s search for the magicians of old is reminiscent of majority of those in his age bracket, who fondly nurse nostalgia for those good old days of Nigeria.

That is the only conclusion anyone who hears them as they recount fond memories of idyllic lifestyle will make.

They usually talk of those times when, as University students, they had their bed linens changed for them while they learnt in lecture halls. In those days, we are told, our forebears slept in houses with no bugler bars; the good moral force presence within the society was palpable.

However, nothing is as stunning to me to realise, that the common man could get a plate of “spirit cooked rice with meat” by just stopping by to be entertained by a magician displaying the dexterity of his craft.

One must not gloss over the concept of a magician conjuring up rice or any other meal out of thin air, because that was essentially the same thing Jesus Christ did that won him fame and acclaim.

He was even quoted as remarking that the crowd seeking him had suddenly grown because the word was out that some dude was able to throw a party at the snap of blessing a small boy’s lunchbox, which in my opinion may be the same thing as those inaudible mumblings Jason recalls the magician making before that basin of rice he ate from appeared.

Back again to Jason’s rice, I can’t help but be in inquisitive by asking: How did those spirits know the rice must be at the bottom of the dish, while the stew and meat must come out on top? That’s an ipsissima verba conclusion drawn from Jason’s narratives.

I would also like to ask Jason

these, “Was the rice warm, was it well cooked, did it have the right amount of salt, pepper oil etc.?”

These answers will help us understand if indeed it was possible to pass a meal order to the spirits by mumbling a secret phrase into the spirit realm, and voila as it happens every day at McDonalds drive thru restaurants, the food comes just as you have requested it. Those behind the scenes in McDonalds are not spirits, but surely an unenlightened person might perceive then as.

The fact that the government of our day is spending billions of Naira feeding school children, as an incentive to get them into the four walls of a classroom is enough reason for everyone to help Jason with his search for these magicians, their usefulness can’t be struck out in our generation.

Let us clamour for the return of such magicians, time to lunch the #BringBackOurMagicians movement is ripe.

In other private conversations I have always stressed to people that Humans seem not to understand that “the cloaks of religion” wantonly preclude them from accomplishing that which is desired by the LORD God, which simply is to become bearers of “a true Image of God”.

A status that is also declared as being “a Son of God” just a Jesus Christ was and still is. Ladies, you are not excluded’ please ignore the patriarchal context of those appellations.

Scriptures tell us God created our world by just speaking it forth.

Once a human acquires the sine qua non that invest them with “the Authority of God”, which is that called “the Spirit of God” resting on them as it did on Jesus Christ; or Moses; or Elijah, they too can speak forth things, and things spoken by them will be as they declared.

Imagine a world where there is just “One human” on Earth capable of blessing a plate of rice, stew and meat and by so doing, transforms it into a meal that can feed as many as are gathered around him at such a moment.

I suppose in this case, the people will come with their spoons, with each person taking a spoonful and passing the plate onwards to the next man, knowing for sure, that the plate will certainly return back to him still full of rice and meat.

Without such an assurance, I am sure the whole plate of food will disappear into a nylon bag and the next man will be passed an empty plate!

Perhaps, a more suitable method is to ask everyone to step forward and fill their plate with as much rice and stew as they can eat, just as we do at buffets. The only difference is that this is a buffet operated by the LORD God, He does not run out of supply, lest we forget, He did something similar to that while the Israelites wandered through the desert, raining down manna every day to feed them for all of forty years.

Any human who can feed multitudes, raise the dead, heal the sick in the land and for who angel fights, is surely what the forces controlling this world don’t want to appear.

The appearance of such a human brings an end to the misery of Humanity. His appearance is the much heralded “Rise of Man” that the Earth needs. Indeed, such a Human bears attributes of “the expected Messiah” that all religious doctrines speak.

To presume that some of such attributes belonging to “the expected Messiah” had been manifested by Nigerian magicians in those good old days, suggests we may have overlooked a rare talent or craft and pushed it into extinction, spurred by our neo-western preconceptions.

The rice and meat that Jason ate did not kill him and I presume he won’t mind another plate! I wouldn’t too, and also the science community will love to get an opportunity to analyse it. I am sure somewhere down the line, NAFDAC too will come in with a certification for such meal.

If indeed these magicians resurface and they can conjure up food from another realm, that surely would put Nigeria on the map of fame. Imagine the tourism potentials it would portend for those who will want to eat “Spirit rice and meat”.

Humans with such attributes and abilities similar to those of these magicians have been known as spiritualists, priests, marabous, prophets, anointed of God etc.

These ones bear abilities that in their own little ways solve problems that humanity has confronted for generations. Imagine if we had a ministry that aggregated their abilities in a manner helpful to society, such will not be any different from the X-men alliance which is a movie screen success.

We are told that Heaven is a place where there is no problem for humans, we are also told that such expectations of humans having no problems here on Earth is unrealistic, that such will only happen in Heaven.

Various Religious doctrines - or their pervasions, maintain that if we do what they tell us, we will get a gate pass into their Heaven. Some are told to kill innocent people in order to secure that much longed for gate pass; others are told to pay tithes endlessly, as ceaseless reverence to fancy-dressed, SUV-driving, private jet-flying and exotic mansion inhabitants.

Iranse Eledumare is an author and researcher. He wrote in from London.

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‘Wailers’ versus ‘hailers’.

Times Columnist MOHAMMED ADAMU

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Hailers are pro-rule of law and projustice. They want all looters –without exception- judged and recompensed.

They want all the loot, from wherever and whoever, traced and recovered. Hailers believe in ‘crime and punishment’.

They believe, like Americans do, that ‘if you do the crime, you must do the time’. Wailers play lip service to ‘rule of law’ -even though they are anti-justice.

They believe in ‘sin and forgiveness’, instead of ‘crime and punishment’. It is the reason that they say ‘stealing is not corruption’.

That it is merely a ‘sin’, -requiring for its atonement ‘forgiveness’, instead of ‘punishment’.

They want Looters to ‘keep their loot’, and be sentenced only to ‘go sin no more’.

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o, whether we like it or not, we are –at last- pitched, ‘Wailers’ against ‘Hailers’. Or should I say ‘Jeerers’ versus ‘Cheerers’. Because there does not seem to be a middle ground any longer. No straddle point for fence-sitters.

And no middle course for neutrality. You are either a ‘Wailer’ or you are a ‘Hailer’. And since I am a ‘Hailer’ by classification, -not by inclination- I thought that I should give an objective Hailer’s view concerning ‘Wailing’ and ‘Hailing’. Who is a Wailer? Who is a ‘Hailer’? How do you tell a Wailer from a Hailer? What do Wailers and Hailers stand for? What do they lie down for?

WAILERS Wailers are either unrepentant pro-Jonathans or they are unapologetic anti-Buharis. Or both.

They are generally pro-looting –some unabashedly so; others in a dissembling, hypocritical manner. Or they are pro those who are known to have looted –either for beneficial, geo-political or ethnoreligious reasons. And these are ‘Wailers by choice’ only. There are also ‘Wailers of necessity’: namely the looters themselves.

Or rather those accused of looting. Or those who fear that they may soon be accused -of looting.

‘Wailers of necessity’ have to either wail by themselves or they must spend humongous money to promote wailing. It is the only way they hope to distract the ‘eagle’ from swooping down; or to keep the hangman’s noose away from their fattened necks. And since they have to be ‘alive’ and ‘free’ first, to enjoy their loot, it makes pragmatic sense that they spend to Wail.

But there are also ‘Wailers by circumstances’. And these are partisan, dye-in-the-wool PDP apologists. They may not have ever looted. They may or may not have benefitted from looting. But like the restless hyenas that they are, ‘Wailers by circumstances’ are driven by a non-recessive, avidly-jumpy gene that gives them hope they just might be tomorrow’s lucky looters -or beneficiaries therefrom. These Wailers have not the littlest shame denying that any wrongdoing had taken place under the PDP. HAILERS Hailers are generally proBuhari. If you ask me, mostly for altruistic reasons. They may, contemporaneously, be antiJonathan and anti-PDP also; and for the same altruistic reasons.

That both Jonathan and his political party are no good. And yes, there may be Hailers also who are pro-Buhari for geo-political and or ethno-religious reasons. But since ‘there is no art’ -as Shakespeare would say- ‘to find the

Buhari mind’s construction on the face’, you can only know them by their admittance. Else you must take them on their honor, if they claim to be pro-Buhari for altruistic reasons, that is. Only those who identify with the devil should have some explaining to do. Not those who pitch their tent with God. And so, it is Wailers who advocate for Jonathan and PDP that have the explaining to make Not Hailers, for being pro-Buhari.

Thus Hailers may not necessarily be anti-PDP or anti-Jonathan in the same patently hateful manner that we know Wailers to be anti-APC and anti-Buhari. Nor are most Hailers necessarily blindly pro-APC as most Wailers appear to be pro-PDP. On the contrary it amuses, amazes and disgusts virtually every Hailer that any one, in their right senses, should fence for Jonathan or desire that PDP returns to power. But that is what ‘power’ and ‘absolute power’ do to those who use inordinately. It does not only corrupt them, it does so absolutely!

Wailers have always acted like the proverbial rabbit that is bitter not with the hunter that killed it at the hunt, but the innocent one that hangs it into town. Rather than be bitter with the electorate, they hate Buhari and APC -for taking their power’ and for not wanting to give it back. Rivers’ Nwike said Jonathan was chicken! He (Nwike) would rather have plunged the country into war than yield. Soon Orubebe would be canonized –as the ‘SeerSaint’ who should not have been ignored.

If anything, Hailers dislike Jonathan and PDP only because they despoiled the country for 16 years and still have the arrant want of shame to want to have ‘our power’ back. Hailers are excellent footballers; they have their eyes always, on the ‘ball’ -and that is Buhari.

Yes, you may prove all around him sullied; but as long as Buhari stay clean, your job is not done! And so, let Buhari be ‘true’, Hailers seem to say, even if everyone around him is proved a liar! Which I think is biblical: ‘let God be true and every man a liar’.

And as you can see, Wailers too are no less dexterous. Because they too have their eyes always on the same ‘ball’, -Buhari. But they, for diabolic reasons: to get down the last man still standing with some modicum of integrity! It is the reason that every poisoned dart that they throw is intended to get at the ‘Queen bee’, and not at the many randy fecundating drones around her. Buhari is the only hallowed zone that the devil must corrupt,

to prove the hollies wrong. This is a war of proxies. It has never been about Maina, Kachukwu, Baru or any of the other excuses bandied around! These are not the casus belli for the war. They are in essence the pretext for it.

Hailers by the way, are generally anti-looting and they are anti-looters –no matter whose ox is gored.

Besides, Hailers are neither looters themselves, nor do they hope to become looters someday. On the contrary Hailers hope that both punitive and preventive measures will be put in place that makes it impossible for any to loot. It is a wish you cannot catch Wailers toying with.

Not in their dream!

Hailers are pro-rule of law and pro-justice. They want all looters – without exception- judged and recompensed. They want all the loot, from wherever and whoever, traced and recovered. Hailers believe in ‘crime and punishment’. They believe, like Americans do, that ‘if you do the crime, you must do the time’.

Wailers play lip service to ‘rule of law’ -even though they are anti-justice. They believe in ‘sin and forgiveness’, instead of ‘crime and punishment’. It is the reason that they say ‘stealing is not corruption’. That it is merely a ‘sin’, -requiring for its atonement ‘forgiveness’, instead of ‘punishment’. They want Looters to ‘keep their loot’, and be sentenced only to ‘go sin no more’.

CHALK AND CHEESE And so the difference between Wailers and Hailers is like that between chalk and cheese. Wailers want us to forget the past in which their role was unsavory. They insist we ‘let bygones be bygones’ because those who remember the past, may remain trapped in it. But Hailers insist we must remember the past. Because ‘those who forget the past are always doomed to repeat it!’ That is the difference between Wailers and Hailers. To use a popular description, Wailers are part Saint Thomas –the doubter- and part Saint Jude, ‘the patron Saint of those who ask for the impossible’. Hailers on the other hand are part Saint Paul –telling the gospel truth- and part Saint Vitus, - always ‘enjoining what is good and forbidding what is evil’.

Hailers alone have always said ‘let the due process take its course’, ‘give all accused the benefit of the doubt’, ‘allow fair hearing to all concerned’, ‘tarry awhile, and let the facts unravel ’; because ‘truth’ in the end has an uncanny way of manifesting itself. But no, Wailers will have none of that! Because ‘truth’ has always been their frigid zone.

Truth is the hobgoblin of Wailers. A genie they are happy to lock securely in the bottle geo-political and ethno-religious expediency. Each time they are about to grab the jugular of Buhari, this incubus called ‘truth’rears its head to spoil the show.

Hailers alone tell the truth merely for its sake. Wailers cite the truth in defense of falsehood. Hailers believe like the British poet, William Blake that “The truth you tell with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent”! Wailers believe, like the devil advocates, that you do not have to be truthful to be virtuous. Hailers are prophets of Bloom and of Boom.

They believe that slow and steady wins the race. And that soon we are sure to get out of the woods of our socio-economic woes.

But Wailers are Adlai Stevenson’s “prophets of Gloom and of Doom.”

They pray fervently that we never get out of the woods -not if Buhari remains in charge of the groove.

They knew that there was no ‘killer vaccines’. They only wished that there was. They hope always that the devil is at work in the affairs of our nation; so that they may prove just one thing –that Buhari has failed.

Wailers are Spiro Agnew’s “effete corps of impudent snobs”.

They argue to create schism. But Hailers reason in order that there is a healthy debate. Because they believe, like the English poet John Dryden did, that “A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth”. Hailers disagree without being disagreeable. They accept dissent as a useful component of healthy debate. Wailers disagree with a view to being disagreeable. They dissent in order to create dissension.

Hailers are patient with the ‘due process’. Because they know that beyond the cry-wolf of Wailers, only ‘the due process’ determines who actually is right from who has been alleged to be wrong. And we know also that it is for the same reason that Wailers hate the ‘due process’.

The ‘due process’ is the Wailer’s bitch. ‘Fair hearing’ is their kill-joy!

Wailers are bad boxers. They hit below the belt, and they want it to count for a ‘knockdown’; yet they’ll frown at the referee for allowing the victim the mandatory eight count.

Because in just eight seconds, true boxers can rise from the canvass and win the bout. Like Baru just did. Like Malami may soon do. And who knows, maybe even Maina may spring some surprise.

POSTSCRIPT Postscript this week was part of a comment I had posted last week on my Facebook Wall.

CYNICS AND CRITICS Criticism is okay. Cynicism is not. People mistake being cynical with being critical. But no! Critics express disapproval, of or dissatisfaction with, something. Cynics mock, scorn or sneer at everything.

Critics ignore what pleases them in order to see that which is plain.

Cynics pay attention to that which pleases them and ignore what is plain. Critics want things to get better. They want better things. Cynics want things to get worse. They want nothing good. And it is the reason they say ‘critics do not contest the price of anything. They assert only that everything has a value’. Cynics alone ‘know the price of everything and the value of nothing.’ Wailers are Cynics. Hailers only criticize.

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NAFDAC impounds fake Eva soap, vegetable oil in Onitsha Stories by Angela Onwuzoo As part of efforts to sanitise markets in Nigeria of fake drugs and other regulated products, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has impounded fake and adulterated products worth over N20m at the Relief and Police Officers Wives Association (POWA) Markets, all in Onitsha, the business hub of Anambra State.

The confiscated products include counterfeited Eva soap, imported Goya Extra Virgin Cooking Oil, unregistered alcoholic beverages - Baby Oku and White Mischief.

The seizures also included imported Oliva Vegetable Oil and locally made insecticides which the agency said posed a major risk to human health.

A team of NAFDAC investigation and enforcement officers working on a tip-off on Monday had stormed the market and thereafter, closed down over seven shops filled with the counterfeited products; two suspects were arrested in the raid.

Addressing newsmen after the exercise, the agency’s Director, Investigation and Enforce-

ment Directorate, Mr. Kingsley Ejiofor, who led the operation, said the action would help curb the menace of counterfeiting of food and drug products in Nigeria.

Ejiofor who promised to clampdown on importers, distributors and marketers still stocking banned regulated products, said the impounded vegetable oil and alcoholic beverages were below standard, uncertified and not registered by NAFDAC. “We are here because we got a report that some people are dealing in counterfeit, unregistered and adulterated products.

We have arrested two persons at the moment and we are going after the rest. In one of the shops that we raided, what we saw there was colossal.

“We uncovered about 1300 cartons of Goya Extra Virgin Cooking Oil with street value of over N20m and then we got the soap and the packaging material. We also got some unregistered alcoholic beverages which are dangerous to health. Some of the products only have email addresses without manufacturer’s address. It’s sad that we still have such elements among us who are hell bent on destroying

human lives,” he said.

Ejiofor then warned that the Federal Government’s ban on commodities such as foreign juices, refined oils and fats, cocoa butter, powder and cakes, spaghetti/noodles, sweetening among others is still in force.

He vowed that his agency was determined to wipe out from the markets products which importations into the country have been banned by government.

According to him, the exercise was part of their routine jobs to checkmate all counterfeit and prohibited products, especially food and drugs, stressing that his men would smoke them out of the market no matter where they hide.

He advised Nigerians to be wary of drugs, food and other regulated products they buy and should also demand for receipt of any product they purchase to enable them to track the fakers within the markets.

Ejiofor further affirmed that importers of fake products into the country would get life sentence once the National Assembly approves a bill by the agency seeking for such punishment, urging traders and citizens to report suspicious activities to the agency.

Some of the seized adulterated products

Improving access to water supply can reduce infant deaths Record of infant deaths in Nigeria has remained a major source of concern to health experts as many say is not improving.

A new report recently released by the World Health Organisation (WHO), revealed that nearly 10 per cent of new-born deaths in the world last year occurred in Nigeria.

However, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), says there are cost effective ways that could be used to reduce infant deaths in the country, such as access to safe water supply and sanitation.

This, no doubt, could be achieved, if government intensifies efforts to ensure that the provision of safe drinking water is improved upon, both in homes and healthcare facilities in the country - especially in the rural areas.

Besides making it possible for health workers to wash their hands and reduce risk of infection among newborns, access to safe water supply will also enable

mothers embrace hygiene practices.

Experts assure that good hand washing habit will reduce the risk of water borne diseases, flu, food poisoning and health care associated infection being passed from person to person.

Reports have shown that without safe water, health care workers cannot carry out proper infection prevention and control measures and demonstrate safe practices to their patients.

According to a midwife, “If a newborn child with a fresh umbilical cord is washed using water from shallow, open wells or unsafe water, the child is likely to be infected with diseases like neonatal tetanus or neonatal sepsis which may lead to death.”

A recent visit to Ikot-Esop and Ikot Ukpong communities in Nsit Atai Local Government Areas of Akwa-Ibom State, showed that access to safe water supply could make a difference in child survival.

The people were full of gratitude to the European Union

(EU) and UNICEF, for the Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) projects carried out in their communities to end many years of water scarcity and its attendant consequences in the area.

The project which had improved the general well being of the people was carried out in collaboration with the state government.

Hence the people, especially the women, said that their problems were over, as their children will no longer be suffering and dying from preventable diseases resulting from the use of contaminated water fetched from the river.

The visit which was organised recently by UNICEF in partnership with the Child Right Information Bureau (CRIB) of the Ministry of Information, revealed that children under the age of five were the worst hit as they were constantly faced with diarrhea.

Before the WASH project was executed in the communities, the

people said they had no access to safe drinking water. The only source of their water supply was from a small river in the area which had no access road.

WASH is also part of the rural component of the Niger Delta Support Project (NDSP) which seeks to mitigate the conflict in the Niger Delta.

One of the women, Mrs. Joy Edem, who expressed gratitude for the gesture said the stress of going to the river alone to fetch water before now was a challenge, let alone its health implications on their children.

“Everything about bathing and washing in the home involves the use of water so, we are happy for the WASH programme. The benefit of this safe water supply is so great because our children are no longer falling sick as before.

The water has made life easier for pregnant women and nursing mothers,” she said.

One mother of six among the jubilating women, Mrs. Ibiok Nelson, said the project has reduced the pain of her children

and conflict among them occasioned by water scarcity.

“They always quarreled among themselves over who would go to the river to fetch water. But since UNICEF and EU made this water available to us, my children no longer quarrel.” she said gratefully.

According to data from UNICEF, over 57 million Nigerians still fetch and drink water from rivers, lakes, ponds, streams and irrigation canals.

UNICEF WASH specialist, Martha Hokonya who emphasised that the project would boost the lives of the people in the area - particularly the children, called for more investment in water supply, noting that availability of safe drinking water enhances increased health status.

Martha stressed further that poor water supply, sanitation and hygiene causes more than half of global diarrheal diseases, which remains the second leading cause of morbidity and mortality among children under the age of five.

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Me Cure canvasses regular eye screening to prevent blindness Stories by Angela Onwuzoo Given the enormous burden of blindness in the country, Nigerians have been urged to pay adequate attention to preventable and avoidable eye diseases that could lead to blindness, by going for regular eye screening at least once a year for early detection and proper treatment.

Experts at Me Cure Healthcare Limited (MHL), Lagos, made the call recently during a free eye screening programme organised by the health facility to mark the 2017 World Sight Day (WSD) with the theme: “Make Vision Count”.

The experts suggested that regular eye check should become a norm in Nigeria in order to reduce rising cases of blindness resulting from the two leading cause of blindness in the world today - cataract and glaucoma, which they said are avoidable and preventable.

WSD is an annual day of awareness held on the second Thursday of October every year, to focus global attention on blindness and vision impairment.

Speaking at the event, a Consultant Ophthalmologist and Chief Operating Officer, Me Cure Eye Centre, Dr. Adegboyega Alabi, who described glaucoma as a public health problem, warned those handling the condition with kid gloves that blindness resulting from glaucoma is irreversible.

Alarmed by the way many Nigerians were going blind from the eye disease, Alabi however, assured that both cataracts and glaucoma could be prevented and treated with standardised care by an eye specialists when detected early.

According to Alabi, 80 percent of blindness was due to causes that are avoidable.

He explained: “What I mean by ‘avoidable causes’ is that, it can either be treated or prevented. Now, glaucoma causes irreversible blindness but can be prevented through early detection. But once it results in blindness, there is nothing anybody can do to reverse it, hence the dire need to intensify awareness on its prevention.”

On cataracts, the ophthalmologist warned Nigerians living with the condition to avoid quackery and harmful treatment practices such as couching, which he described as a dangerous and unsuccessful

The Me Cure team during the free eye screening exercise

method for treating cataracts.

“The treatment for cataract is surgery and not eye drop nor eye glasses. The surgery for cataract is safe when carried out in the right facility and by an eye specialist”, he affirmed.

Couching is an unscientific and traditional procedure used in the treatment of cataract.

Warning against going the traditional way in treating cataract, Alabi cautioned that such traditional and unscientific procedure could result into severe complications and complete blindness in most cases.

According to the World Health

Organisation (WHO), about 90 percent of the world’s visually impaired people live in low and middle income countries inclusive of Nigeria.

To help reduce blindness in Nigeria, he said Me Cure Eye Centre in this 2017 edition of the WSD, decided to carry out a free eye screening programme on cataracts, glaucoma, refractive error, diabetic retinopathy and allergy, among others for the general public.

He stated that the free eye screening was aimed at promoting good eye health and to also support vision 2020 goal of

reducing blindness worldwide.

Commenting on this year’s theme, the ophthalmologist said to make vision count, the public must be enlightened on the importance of good eye sight as well as ways of reducing their risk to blindness and visual impairment.

Quoting data from the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), the specialist revealed that some 36 million people across the world are blind, with 217 million people having either moderate or severe visual impairment, many of whom he said, were

from developing countries like Nigeria.

Also, Me Cure’s Head of Strategy and Commercial Service, Dr. Kunle Megbuwawon, said with 80 percent of blindness being avoidable and preventable, the burden of preventive blindness is now a public health concern and responsibility.

Megbuwawon, who is also Head, Family Medicine Unit of the health facility, said over 100 individuals were screened during the programme with a significant number of eye diseases identified.

HIV/AIDS: Nigerian researcher calls for clinical trial of his drug Renowned Nigerian researcher, Prof. Madubuike Ezeibe, has called on the Federal Government to carry out a clinical trial on Aluminum-Magnesium Silicate (AMS), a drug he developed for the treatment of HIV/AIDS. Ezeibe, a professor of Veterinary Medicine at the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, made the call in Umuahia, Abia state, recently.

Clinical trial is a study that explores whether a medical strategy, treatment, or device is safe and effective for humans.

It shows which medical approaches work best for certain illnesses on groups of people.

According to the professor, he presented a paper on the potential of the drug as both antiviral and raw material, at a world conference on Ethno-pharmacology in

Chicago, United States, on May 2, 2016.

He said more than one year after he invented and presented his findings at different international conferences, no authority anywhere in the world had disputed the research findings.

“I therefore appeal to the federal government to institute an inter-ministerial committee to carry out clinical trial of the drug in

six centres across the coun-

try without further delay.

“The committee should comprise Federal Ministries of Health, Education, Environment as well as Science and Technology, with, at least, 1000 sample patients from each state of the federation.

“Some of the findings of the research include that silicates have molecules that are 0.96 nanometer in size while HIV has molecules as big as 110 nanometer,” he said.

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CORRECTION OF NAME

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That my correct name is Ovuvu Dandy Onyekachi. All other documents my former name remain valid, Wema Bank and general public should please take note.

This is to certify and confirm that I Oluyinka Adebimpe Odusina also known as Oluwayinka Adebimpe Odusina is one and and the same person as Oluwayimika Adebimpe Adewole. All former documents remain valid. UAC Nigeria, GTBank, First Bank, Zenith Bank, Union Bank and general public please take note.

ADAMSON RASIDATU OMOLABAKE

MRS. JOHNSON IMMACULATE ONYINYECHI I FORMERLY KNOWN AS MISS AMAECHI IMMACULATA ONYINYECHI, NOW WISH TO BE KNOWN AND ADDRESSED AS MRS. JOHNSON IMMACULATE ONYINYECHI. ALL FORMER DOCUMENTS REMAIN VALID. BANKS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

AKINBOBOYE EUNICE I, formerly known and addressed as AKINBOBOYE EUNICE OLAKITAN now wish to be known and addressed as AKINBOBOYE EUNICE. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.

Public Notice 22 OLANREWAJU OLADOKUN HARRISON Formerly known and addressed as JIMOH OLADOKUN HARRISON, now wish to be known and addressed as OLANREWAJU OLADOKUN HARRISON. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

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

MRS CHIKA-NNEKA AMANAMBU Formerly known and addressed as MISS CHIKA NNEKA NNACHI, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS CHIKA-NNEKA AMANAMBU. All former documents remain valid.

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DECLARATION OF NAME Formerly known and addressed as ESOM AMAKA MEJUE, now wish to be known and addressed as EDET AMAKA MEJUE. My correct name is EDET AMAKA MEJYE. All former documents remain valid.

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SAFIU ABIMBOLA MARY Formerly known and addressed as FASUJI ABIMBOLA MARY, now wish to be known and addressed as SAFIU ABIMBOLA MARY. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

IDAYATU OLATOKUNBO SULAIMON OLAYIWOLA Formerly known and addressed as MISS IDAYATU OLATOKUNBO SULIAMON, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS IDAYATU OLATOKUNBO SULAIMON OLAYIWOLA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

ALEMERU EZEKIEL OLAKUNLE I formerly known and addressed as JONAH EZEKIEL OLAKUNLE now wish to be known called and addressed as ALEMERU EZEKIEL OLAKUNLE .All former documents remain valid.

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MRS. IHEANACHO NGOZI GORATHY

SALAWU KUDIRAT TUNRAYO

I, formerly called and addressed as UMEUGOJI NGOZI GORATHY now wish to be known called and addressed as MRS. IHEANACHO NGOZI GORATHY All former documents remain valid. The general public please take note.

Formerly known and addressed as SALAU KUDIRAT TUNRAYO, now wish to be known and addressed as SALAWU KUDIRAT TUNRAYO. That my date of birth is 23/04/1985. All former documents remain valid.

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ADIGUN ABIMBOLA TOLANI

MRS. DURU PERPETUA OBIOMA

Formerly known and addressed as FAGADE ABIMBOLA TOLANI, now wish to be known and addressed as ADIGUN ABIMBOLA TOLANI. All former documents remain valid.

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UGWUANYI KELVIN IZUCHUKWU

I, formerly called and addressed as MISS. AMAEFUNA PERPETUA OBIOMA. now wish to be known called and addressed as MRS. DURU PERPETUA OBIOMA. All former documents remain valid. The general public please take note.

Formerly known and addressed as URAMA CHISOM, now wish to be known and addressed as UGWUANYI KELVIN IZUCHUKWU. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

OKOYE FRANCIS MICHEAL Formerly known and addressed as FRANCIS MICHEAL, now wish to be known and addressed as OKOYE FRANCIS MICHEAL. That my date of birth is 12 August 1992. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

OGBUJI OMOH JOY

Formerly known and addressed as OGIMENTA FESTUS JOY, now wish to be known and addressed as OGBUJI OMOH JOY. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

ATAGAMEN SOLOMON Formerly known and addressed as SOLOMON OSAI OSAH, now wish to be known and addressed as ATAGAMEN SOLOMON. All former documents remain valid.

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ATOLAGBE IDOWU FATIMON I formerly known and addressed as KAREEM IDOWU FATIMON now wish to be known called and addressed as ATOLAGBE IDOWU FATIMON. All former documents remain valid.

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SANYAOLU SEBILA AMOKE

Formerly known and addressed as SEBILAT TIAMIYU, now wish to be known and addressed as SANYAOLU SEBILA AMOKE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

ADDITION OF NAME

MRS UBUDO GILLIAN UYILOWHOMA

Formerly known and addressed as STEPHEN CHIDI EZE and STEPHEN KING, now wish to be known and addressed as EZEAMALU CHUKWUDI STEPHEN. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

CHANGE OF NAME/ CORRECTION OF BIRTH DATE

CHANGE OF NAME/ CORRECTION OF BIRTH DATE

Formerly known and addressed as AGBA VICTORIA ADEREMI, now wish to be known and addressed as AMINU DIAMOND ADEREMI. That my date of birth is 07/02/1983. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

SAMUEL SYLVESTER ESTHER Formerly known and addressed as SHARON SYLVESTER, now wish to be known and addressed as SAMUEL SYLVESTER ESTHER. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

VICTORY AKPAN UDO

Formerly known and addressed as OKPE MARIA ONYECHI, now wish to be known and addressed as SUNDAY MARIA ONYECHI. That my date of birth is 17/08/1991. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

NWALI NJIDEKA CYNTHIA

Formerly known and addressed as KOSOKO OMOBOLANLE , now wish to be known and addressed as KOSOKO OMOBOLANLE WURAOLA. All former documents remain valid.

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AINA ADEDOLAPO MARYN

MRS JIMOH BUNMI PRECIOUS

OJO-BRANDL JENNIFER

I Formerly known and addressed as Miss Nihi Bunmi Precious now wish to be known, called and addressed as Mrs Jimoh Bunmi Precious All documents and certificates bearing my former names remain valid. Banks, Nigeria Immigration Service, Relevant Authorities and the General public Please take note.

I Formerly known and Addressed as OJO-STIEGLER JENNIFER now wish to be known, called and addressed as OJO-BRANDL JENNIFER All documents and certificates bearing my former names remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as OKORO NJIDEKA CYNTHIA , now wish to be known and addressed as NWALI NJIDEKA CYNTHIA. T hat my date of birth is 20/09/1987.

All former documents remain valid.

Banks and the general public take note.

This is to state that MADU LAZARUS EBERE is the same person bearing MMADUBUGWU LAZARUS EBERE as written in my Voters Card and some other documents. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

BRENDAN ANTHONY PERE TIEDEZI Formerly known and addressed as TIEDEZI ANTHONY BRENDAN, now wish to be known and addressed as BRENDAN ANTHONY PERE TIEDEZI. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

JOSEPH MOYINOLUWA OLUWAFEYIKEMI

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

This is to confirm that I, JOSEPH AKINREMI ABODUNDE, TAIWO AKINREMI ABODUNDE, JOSEPH AKIN TAIWO ABODUNDE is one and same person as JOSEPH AKIN ABODUNDE. All documents bearing the above names are mine and remain valid. General public take note.

ABDULLAHI HALADU Formerly known and addressed as ABDULLAHI AHLIDU, now wish to be known and addressed as ABDULLAHI HALADU. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as FALAJI ABIOYE OMOTOLANI, now wish to be known and addressed as ELETU OMOTOLANI ABIOYE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

ELEONU OSINACHI C

ODOEMENAM BLESSING CHINONSO I formerly known and addressed as Ozokudu Blessing Chinonso now wish to be known called and addressed as Odoemenam Blessing Chinonso. All former documents remain valid.

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KOSOKO OMOBOLANLE WURAOLA

Formerly known and addressed as AMUDALAT FATAI, now wish to be known and addressed as AMUDAT IYABO KAFFO. All former documents remain valid.

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Formerly known and addressed as OZOR AFAMEFUNA JEREMIAH, now wish to be known and addressed as OZOEZEAKO AFAMEFUNA JEREMIAH. All former documents remain valid.

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ADEGBITE IWALOWO ABOLAJI AJOKE This is to state that I was formerly known as ADEGBITE ABOLAJI AJOKE. That I now wish to add IWALOWO to my name. That I now wish to be known called and addressed as ADEGBITE IWALOWO ABOLAJI AJOKE . All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

CHUKWU CHUKWUEMEKA SAMUEL Formerly known and addressed as CHUKWU EMEKA SAMUEL, now wish to be known and addressed as CHUKWU CHUKWUEMEKA SAMUEL. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

OZOEZEAKO AFAMEFUNA JEREMIAH

Formerly known and addressed as NKWOCHA OSINACHI C., now wish to be known and addressed as ELEONU OSINACHI C. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as AJIBOSHIN ISSA SANNI now wish to be known and addressed as AJIBOSHIN YISA ISADELE. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

AMUDAT IYABO KAFFO

ELETU OMOTOLANI ABIOYE

Formerly known and addressed as VICTOR AKPAN, now wish to be known and addressed as VICTORY AKPAN UDO. That my date of birth is 15 June 1994. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

AKAM BRIDGET CHRISTIAN CLEMENT Formerly known and addressed as REUBEN BRIDGET BLESSING, now wish to be known and addressed as AKAM BRIDGET CHRISTIAN CLEMENT. All former documents remain valid.

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I formerly known and addressed as BALOGUN ADEDOLAPO MARYN now wish to be known, called and addressed as AINA ADEDOLAPO MARYN . All documents bearing both names remains valid. Relevant Authorities and General public should please take note.

EZEAMALU CHUKWUDI STEPHEN

Formerly known and addressed as MISS ABETIANBE GILLIAN UYILOWHOMA, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS UBUDO GILLIAN UYILOWHOMA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

Formerly known and addressed as DORCAS OGUNLANA, That i wish to add OLUWABAMIWO to my name, That i henceforth wish to be known and addressed as DORCAS OLUWABAMIWO OGUNLANA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

AJIBOSHIN YISA ISADELE

MRS RICHARD OYINDAMOLA IDOWU Formerly known and addressed as MISS BAKRE OYINDAMOLA IDOWU now wish to be known and addressed as MRS RICHARD OYINDAMOLA IDOWU. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

JENKSON OJO SANDRA OSAYUWAMEN Formerly known and addressed as JENKSON SANDRA OSAYUWAMEN, now wish to be known and addressed as JENKSON OJO SANDRA OSAYUWAMEN. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

AJAYI AYOOLO GABRIEL I formerly known and addressed as AYOTUNDE GABRIEL now wish to be known called and addressed as AJAYI AYOOLO GABRIEL. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

My name was wrongly written as SUNDAY KENNETH SAMUEL instead of SAMUEL KENNETH SUNDAY. All documents remain valid.

General public take note.

CHUKWUKA DIVINE OBIAGERI Formerly known and addressed as IFEME DIVINE OBIAGERI, now wish to be known and addressed as CHUKWUKA DIVINE OBIAGERI. All former documents remain valid. FGC ODOGBOLU and the general public take note.

ADDITION OF NAME Formerly known and addressed as FATIMOH AKINLOYE, now wish to add IYABO to my name.

Henceforth, I wish to be known and addressed as FATIMOH IYABO AKINLOYE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

AJAYI AYOOLO GABRIEL I formerly known and addressed as AYOTUNDE GABRIEL now wish to be known called and addressed as AJAYI AYOOLO GABRIEL. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

I formerly known and addressed as QUEENCY JERAMI now wish to be known called and addressed as QUEENCY JEROME EGHAREVBA. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

This is to confirm and certify that Adewoye lukmon Adebowale and Adewoye lukmon Babatunde. is one and same person All documents remain valid. General public take note

IHEAKARAM ANGEL NDIDI Formerly known and addressed as IHEJIETO ANGELINE NDIDI, now wish to be known and addressed as IHEAKARAM ANGEL NDIDI. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

CORRECTION OF NAME

This is to confirm and certify that IKE GODSWILL OGBUKA and CHINYERE ROSE OGBUKA refer to one and same person.

All documents remain valid.

General public take note

My name was wrongly written as OGUNBAMBI ABENI MOJISOLA was written on my BVN. Now I wish to correct the name on my Savings Account from OGUNBAMBI RISQUAT to OGUNBAMBI ABENI MOJISOLA in line with my BVN. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

I Formerly known and Addressed as MICHEAL AYORINDE ONAKOYA now wish to be known, called and addressed as MICHEAL AYORINDE ADENUGA All documents and certificates bearing my former names remain valid.

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CORRECTION OF NAME

QUEENCY JEROME EGHAREVBA

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

MICHEAL AYORINDE ADENUGA

Formerly known and addressed as OKEDUSI MOYINOLUWA OLUWAFEYIKEMI, now wish to be known and addressed as JOSEPH MOYINOLUWA OLUWAFEYIKEMI. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

EMMANUEL UGOCHI PRISCA I, formerly known and addressed as ANYANWU UGOCHI PRISCA, now wish to be known and addressed as EMMANUEL UGOCHI PRISCA. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.

EGWALI MICHAEL CHUKWUWINKE

Formerly known and addressed as ANTHONY MICHAEL CHUKWUWINKE, now wish to be known and addressed as EGWALI MICHAEL CHUKWUWINKE. All former documents remain valid.

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MRS. EBEGBULEM DORIS ONYINYECHI I, formerly known and addressed as MISS EZIRIM DORIS ONYINYECHI, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. EBEGBULEM DORIS ONYINYECHI. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.

MRS. UCHENWOKE CHINONSO DIVINE.

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS UGOAGWU CHINONSO DIVINE, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. UCHENWOKE CHINONSO DIVINE. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.

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MRS. NZEKWE CONCILIA CHIBUZOR I, formerly known and addressed as MISS IREOZOR CONCILIA CHIBUZOR, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. NZEKWE CONCILIA CHIBUZOR, All former documents remain valid. The general public should please take note.

MRS UDUMAGA GERTRUDE OGECHI

I, formerly known and addressed as MRS. CHUKWU GERTRUDE OGECHI, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS UDUMAGA GERTRUDE OGECHI, All former documents remain valid. State Education Management Board (SEMB), Owerri and the general public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as CHIJIOKE ATHAN NWOKEHIHE, now wish to be known and addressed as NWOKE ATHAN CHIJIOKE, All former documents remain valid. Fidelity Bank Plc and the general public should please take note.

MRS OZOR ABIGAIL CHIKADO-AJAEGBU

MRS ENWEREUZOR OSINACHI BLESSING

DEBORAH NSEOBONG CHUKSAHAMEFULA Formerly known and addressed as.

Deborah Nseobong udofiah, now wish to be known and address as Deborah Nseobong chuksAhamefula . All former documents remains valid. The general public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS AJAEGBU ABIGAIL CHIKWADO now wish to be known and addressed as MRS OZOR ABIGAIL CHIKADOAJAEGBU. Former documents remain valid. General public take note.

ENIOLA OLUWADAMILARE MARGERET

CHANGE OF NAME/ CORRECTION OF DATE OF BIRTH

I, formerly known and addressed as EMMANUEL OLUWADAMILARE REGINA now wish to be known and addressed as ENIOLA OLUWADAMILARE MARGERET, ADRES-1 ACTOR AKALI CLOSE, AWOYAYA IBEJU, LEKKI LAGOS, All former documents remain valid. UBA and general public should take note.

NWOKE ATHAN CHIJIOKE

I formerly known and addressed as MISS ONWUECHEUBA BLESSING now wish to be known and addressed as MRS ENWEREUZOR OSINACHI BLESSING. Former documents remain valid. General public take note.

MRS. PEACE CHIZOMA OLEDIBE

That I was formerly known called and addressed as LAWAN MUSA, that my date of birth was wrongly written as 02/02/1980 in my International Passport, Now wish to be known called and addressed as AJIBOLA MUSA OWOLABI, with correct date of birth is 02/02/1991. That documents bearing my former name remain valid. International Passport general public and authorities concerned should please take note.

I formerly known called and addressed as MISS PEACE CHIZOMA EKE, now wish to be known called and addressed as MRS. PEACE CHIZOMA OLEDIBE. All former documents remain valid general public and Authorities Concerned should please take note.

MRS CHUKWU ROSEMARY CHIKODILI I, formerly known and addressed as MISS EDEM ROSEMARY CHIKODILI, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS CHUKWU ROSEMARY CHIKODILI. All former documents remain valid. NYSC and General public should please take note.

MRS NNAJI FAUSTINA NKECHI

LILYAN ANWULIKA PETERS

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS ENUDU FAUSTINA NKECHI, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS NNAJI FAUSTINA NKECHI. All former documents remain valid. NYSC and General public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as LILYAN ANWULIKA MARTYNS, now wish to be known and addressed as LILYAN ANWULIKA PETERS. All former documents remain valid. General public should please take note.

OKEKE OBUMNEME

MRS EYA NKIRUKA JOY

MRS CHUKWUEMEKA EZIJE JANEFRANCES

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

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS ATTAH NKIRUKA JOY, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS EYA NKIRUKA JOY. All former documents remain valid.

General Public should please take note.

MRS DEKO NNEKA DORIS I formerly known and addressed as MISS NWOKAH NNEKA DORIS now wish to be known and addressed as MRS DEKO NNEKA DORIS. Former documents remain valid. General public take note.

MRS. OJULARI TAWAKALITU AJOKE

I formerly known called and addressed as MISS ATANDA TAWAKALITU AJOKE. Now wish to be known called and addressed as MRS. OJULARI TAWAKALITU AJOKE. All former documents remain valid, general public and authorities concerned should please take note

MRS AKANNO EMENIKE CHIMECHEFULAM I, formerly known and addressed as MISS EMENIKE MIRACLE CHIMECHEFULAM, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS AKANNO EMENIKE CHIMECHEFULAM. All former documents remain valid. General Public should please take note.

OGBODO NGOZI

MRS. EKE MARYLINDA ANULIKA

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS UKANWA MARYLINDA ANULIKA, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. EKE MARYLINDA ANULIKA, All former documents remain valid. Abia State Polytechnic Aba, Ministry of Education, NYSC and the general public should please take note.

This is to confirm that MOSES UMAR .O. EDU and MUSA ABE refer to one and the same person, but henceforth wish to be known and addressed as MOSES UMAR .O. EDU. All former documents remain valid. First Bank Plc, GTB Bank Plc and the general public should please take note.

MRS. VICTORIA CHIOMA EDEH I, formerly known and addressed as VICTORIA CHIOMA AKWARANDU, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. VICTORIA CHIOMA EDEH. All former documents remain valid.

The general public should take note.

MRS UGWU NGOZI LOVINA I, formerly known and addressed MISS ONYEMAECHI NGOZI LOVINA, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS UGWU NGOZI LOVINA. All former documents remain valid. NYSC and General public should please take note.

EDEH CYNTHIA CHIZOBA CYNTHIA

I, formerly known and addressed as EBENYIEDEH CYNTHIA CHIZOBA, now wish to be known and addressed as EDEH CYNTHIA CHIZOBA CYNTHIA. All former documents remain valid.

General Public should please take note.

EZE CHINAZAM ADAEZE

I, formerly known and addressed as NWAOSIMIRI NGOZI, now wish to be known and addressed as OGBODO NGOZI. All former documents remain valid. General Public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as EL-TINA ADAEZE, now wish to be known and addressed as EZE CHINAZAM ADAEZE. All former documents remain valid. Banks and General Public should please take note.

MRS UDAYA AGATHA NDIDIAMAKA I, formerly known and addressed as MISS MAMAH AGATHA NDIDIAMAKA, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS UDAYA AGATHA NDIDIAMAKA. All former documents remain valid. General Public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS UJU JUDITH ANICHEBE, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS UJU JUDITH OKOLO. All former documents remain valid. General Public should please take note.

MRS ANI PATIENCE NNEKA

MENIHU ELIAS CHUKWUDI

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS OKONKWO PATIENCE NNEKA, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS ANI PATIENCE NNEKA. All former documents remain valid. General Public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MENIHU CHUKWUDI MBAKA and MENIHU CHUKWUDI, now wish to be known and addressed as MENIHU ELIAS CHUKWUDI. All former documents remain valid. General Public should please take note.

NNAEMEKA BLESSING UJUNWA I, formerly known and addressed as ARINZE BLESSING, now wish to be known and addressed as NNAEMEKA BLESSING UJUNWA. All former documents remain valid. General Public should please take note.

UHOHA OGECHI NWAMAKA I, formerly known and addressed as GBORO ADA OGECHI, now wish to be known and addressed as UHOHA OGECHI NWAMAKA. All former documents remain valid. General Public should please take note.

MRS NWEKE CHIOMA TESSY

NEBO UCHENNA CLEMENTINA I, formerly known and addressed as OBUTE UCHENNA CLEMENTINA, now wish to be known and addressed as NEBO UCHENNA CLEMENTINA. All former documents remain valid. General Public should please take note.

MRS OKOYE CALLISTA TOCHUKWU

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS NWEKE CHIOMA TESSY, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS NWEKE CHIOMA TESSY. All former documents remain valid.

NYSC and General Public should please take note.

MRS ONUOHA NGOZI CAROLINE

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS EZE CALLISTA TOCHUKWU, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS OKOYE CALLISTA TOCHUKWU. All former documents remain valid. NYSC and General Public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS CHUKWU NGOZI CAROLINE, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS ONUOHA NGOZI CAROLINE. All former documents remain valid. General Public should please take note.

ONWUZULIGBO JACINTA IFEYINWA

MRS OGBE UJUNWA BLESSING

NGWEBOR JOHN ANAYOR I, formerly known and addressed as NGWEBOR PATRICK ANAYOR, now wish to be known and addressed as NGWEBOR JOHN ANAYOR. All former documents remain valid. General Public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as OGBODO JACINTA IFEYINWA, now wish to be known and addressed as ONWUZULIGBO JACINTA IFEYINWA. All former documents remain valid. General Public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS EGBO UJUNWA BLESSING, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS OGBE UJUNWA BLESSING. All former documents remain valid. General Public should please take note.

CORRECTION OF NAME

LOSS OF DOCUMENT

CONFIRMATION OF NAME/DATE OF BIRTH I hereby confirm that ESSIEN, JULIET LILIAN as well as JULIET UDOH reffer to one and same person and born on 10th of February, 1989. That any of my documents bearing either of these names remain valid. For record purposes, banks and general public take note.

The general public and the Enugu State Ministry of Lands is hereby notified that title document of No 13 Mbanefo Street Registered as 60/60/374 in the Deed registry is missing. If found please contact 08113999000.

MRS. EZEH PRISCA CHIGAEMEZU I, formerly known and addressed as MISS OPARA PRISCA CHIGAEMEZU, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. EZEH PRISCA CHIGAEMEZU, All former documents remain valid.

NYSC and the general public should please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS ENEONYIA EZIJE JANEFRANCES, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS CHUKWUEMEKA EZIJE JANEFRANCES. All former documents remain valid. General Public should please take note.

MRS IGWENZOR JULIET OGOCHUKWU I, formerly known and addressed as MISS CHIEKELU JULIET OGOCHUKWU, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS IGWENZOR JULIET OGOCHUKWU.All former documents remain valid. NYSC and General Public should please take note.

This is to inform the general public that my name NWAFOR ROSEMARY IHUCHI was wrongly written during my BVN registration but now wish to be corrected and addressed as NWAFOR ROSEMARY. My correct dated of birth 10th May 1982. All former documents remain valid.

First Bank and General public should please take note.

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MRS OKAGBUEZE-OZOH NNEKA IFEOMA I, formerly known and addressed as MISS OKAGBUE NNEKA IFEOMA, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS OKAGBUEZE-OZOH NNEKA IFEOMA. All former documents remain valid. NYSC and General Public should please take note.

MRS OKENNA STEPHEN CHIDOZIE I, formerly known and addressed as MISS OKEKE ONYINYE FLORENCE, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS OKENNA STEPHEN CHIDOZIE. All former documents remain valid. NYSC and General Public should please take note.

MRS UJU JUDITH OKOLO

CHINASA EUCHARIA ASIEGBU I, formerly known and addressed as CHINASA EUCHARIA NNAMANI, now wish to be known and addressed as CHINASA EUCHARIA ASIEGBU. All former documents remain valid.

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EMMANUEL CHINWELITEMU EVUMDE

I, formerly known and addressed as EMMANUEL EVMUDE, now wish to be known and addressed as EMMANUEL CHINWELITEMU EVUMDE. My correct date of birth 4th April 1976. All former documents remain valid. General Public should please take note.

MRS. BLESSING ANTHONY SAMUEL I, formerly known and addressed as MISS. ELIZABETH BASSEY OKON, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. BLESSING ANTHONY SAMUEL. All former documents remain valid.

The general public should take note.

EZE CELESTINE UDE I, formerly known and addressed as UGWU SAMUEL, now wish to be known and addressed as EZE CELESTINE UDE. All former documents remain valid.

General public should please take note.

MRS CHINENYIKE OZIOMA JULIET I, formerly known and addressed as MISS AMUH OZIOMA JULIET, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS CHINENYIKE OZIOMA JULIET. All former documents remain valid.

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OKOYE CHIOMA SYLVIA I, formerly known and addressed as OKOYE CHINYERE SYLVIA, now wish to be known and addressed as OKOYE CHIOMA SYLVIA. My correct of birth 25thDecember 1990. All former documents remain valid. General Public should please take note.

IBE JOEL

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

PATIENCE ELOCHUKWU EZE I, formerly known and addressed as PATIENCE ELOCHUKWU NWAFOR EZE, now wish to be known and addressed as PATIENCE ELOCHUKWU EZE. All former documents remain valid.

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NWIBO JOY IFUNANYA

I, formerly known and addressed as ALOR JOY IFUNANYA, now wish to be known and addressed as NWIBO JOY IFUNANYA. All former documents remain valid. General Public should please take note.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME This is to certify and confirm that CELESTINE JUSTINE and JUSTINA refer as one and the same person now wish to be known and addressed asCELESTINE JUSTINA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

This is to certify and confirm that EMMANUEL JOHN JOSEPH is one and same person as EMMANUEL JOSEPH AKPAN. All former documents remain valid.

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This is to certify and confirm that AMAKA MUODEBELU, BLESSING AMAKA MUODEBELU, BENITA AMAKA MUODEBELU and AMAKA BLESSING BENITA MUODEBELU refer as one and the same person now wish to be known and addressed as MRS OKEKE BENITA BLESSING AMAKA. All former documents remain valid. General public take note.

OBA ELIZABETH OLUWATIMILEYIN SADIA

AKHIWU OLUFUNKE ADEOLA

MRS ADEWALE IBUKUNOLUWA SARAH

I, formerly known, called and addressed as MOSHUD OLUWATIMILEYIN, now wish to be known, called and addressed as OBA ELIZABETH OLUWATIMILEYIN SADIA. All former documents remain valid. For record purposes, general public and Authorities concerned take note

Formerly TIAMIYU OLUFUNKE ADEOLA Now AKHIWU OLUFUNKE ADEOLA. Former documents remains valid. General public should take note.

I formerly miss SALEMCITY IBUKUNOLUWA SARAH want to be addressed as Mrs ADEWALE IBUKUNOLUWA SARAH. former name on all documents is still valid. General public should take note.

24 Public Notice IKEASHI EMMANUEL IFEANYI I formerly known and addressed as GODWIN OZAH now wish to be known and addressed as IKEASHI EMMANUEL IFEANYI . All former documents remain valid.General public to please take note.

OPEYEMI OLUWAREMILEKUN ODEBODE

SALIHU USMAN PANA I formerly known and addressed as SOLIHU USMAN FUNA now wish to be known and addressed as SALIHU USMAN PANA . All former documents remain valid.

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I formerly known and addressed as MOHAMMED BOLARIN AJARAT now wish to be known and addressed as BOLARINWA AJARAT GBOROMIRO . All former documents remain valid.General public to please take note.

ALHASSAN BASHIR I formerly known and addressed as MOHD NAJIB ALHASSAN now wish to be known and addressed as ALHASSAN BASHIR . I was born on 10/10/1987. All former documents remain valid.General public to please take note.

UMAHI HELEN CHIKWADO

MISS OLAMIDE OLUKOYA

BOLARINWA AJARAT GBOROMIRO

SULAIMON TEMITOPE MARIAM I formerly known and addressed as APENA TEMITOPE MARIAM now wish to be known and addressed as SULAIMON TEMITOPE MARIAM . All former documents remain valid.General public to please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as OKPARA HELEN CHIKWADO now wish to be known and addressed as UMAHI HELEN CHIKWADO . All former documents remain valid.General public to please take note.

SAKIRU SUNKANMI OLADELE

CONFIRMATION OF NAMES

.ADDITION OF NAME

I formerly known and addressed as SAKIRU OLADELE now wish to be known and addressed as SAKIRU SUNKANMI OLADELE . All former documents remain valid.General public to please take note.

In some of my documents and my International Passport my name appears as OLADELE OLABOSIPO AZEEZ While in some other ones it appears as OLADELE OLAYINKA AZEEZ .The names refer to the same person. I was born on 28/06/1971. All documents bearing all the names remain valid.

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I formerly known and addressed as OLUWAREMILEKUN OPEYEMI OWOIYA now wish to be known and addressed as OPEYEMI OLUWAREMILEKUN ODEBODE . All former documents remain valid.General public to please take note.

ORIE BEATRICE NGOZI I formerly known and addressed as OKOH BEATRICE NGOZI now wish to be known and addressed as ORIE BEATRICE NGOZI . All former documents remain valid.

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ONANUGA OLUWAGBEMIGA OLAMIDE I formerly known and addressed as ONANUGA OLUWASEYI OLAMIDE now wish to be known and addressed as ONANUGA OLUWAGBEMIGA OLAMIDE . All former documents remain valid.

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ARRANGEMENT OF NAME In some of my documents including my VOTER’S CARD my name was wrongly arranged as INYANG ITORO AKPAN instead of ITORO AKPAN INYANG. All former documents remain valid.

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OKONJI PRISCILLIA KASARACHI

AYODEJI KAYODE

I formerly known as OGBONNA PRISCILLIA KASARACHI wish to be known and addressed as OKONJI PRISCILLIA KASARACHI . All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

I formerly known as OGUNDIROYO KAYODE AYODEJI wish to be known and addressed as AYODEJI KAYODE. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

DUDUSOLA OJO GODWIN I formerly known as CALEB REVA KOLA EDEMA-DUDUSOLA wish to be known and addressed as DUDUSOLA OJO GODWIN. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

OLUFUNMILAYO ADENIKE ADEGBITE I formerly known as OLUFUNMILAYO ADENIKE ADEYEKUN wish to be known and addressed as OLUFUNMILAYO ADENIKE ADEGBITE. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

FRANCIS IFEYINWA VIVIAN (NEE EZENE) I formerly known as OMOROGIE NGOZIE VIVIAN AND EZENE IFEYINWA VIVIAN wish to be known and addressed as FRANCIS IFEYINWA VIVIAN (NEE EZENE) .All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

KUSHIMO MICHAEL ADEYEMI

OGHAYEI SOLOMON AIRA

I formerly known as KOLAWOLE MICHAEL and KUSHIMO KOLAWOLE ADEYEMI wish to be known and addressed as KUSHIMO MICHAEL ADEYEMI, and correct my Date of birth is 23/08/1979. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

I formerly known as OGHAYEI SUNDAY AIRA wish to be known and addressed as OGHAYEI SOLOMON AIRA .

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MRS AKANO OLAYINKA SANDRA

MRS KARIM TOYIN KALIATU

I formerly known as MUSA FOLAKEMI ABIODUN wish to be known and addressed as MUSA FOLAKE OMOWUNMI .All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

I formerly known as KAMORU TOYIN KALIATU wish to be known and addressed as MRS KARIM TOYIN KALIATU. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

CHANGE OF NAME AND DATE OF BIRTH I FORMERLY KNOWN AS TOKU JULIUS AMEVI Wish to be known and addressed as AMEVI JULIUS OLUWASEUN WRONG DATE OF BIRTH is 11 APRIL 1995 while the corrected DATE OF BIRTH is 12 APRIL 1997.

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OLASILOLA MUYIWA JOHN

CORRECTION OF NAME AND DATE OF BIRTH

MISS AJAYI OLUWAROKANMI ABOSEDE

I formerly known as NNAMEZIE EBERE FAVOUR wish to be known and addressed as CHUKWUDUMEME EBERE FAVOUR .All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as MISS AKINSEYE TOKUNBO TUBOKUN now wish to be known and addressed as MRS OGUNYALE TOKUNBO TUBOKUN . All former documents remain valid.General public to please take note.

COMPLETION OF NAME

MUSA FOLAKE OMOWUNMI

CHUKWUDUMEME EBERE FAVOUR

I formerly known and addressed as IKODO ELAIGWU VICTOR now wish to be known and addressed as EDACHE SUNDAY VICTOR . All former documents remain valid.General public to please take note.

In some of my documents including my Bank Account my middle name OLATUNBOSUN was abbreviated as .O. henceforth I wish to be known and addressed as HARRISON ADEYEMI OLATUNBOSUN not HARRISON ADEYEMI .O. All former documents remain valid.

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I formerly known and addressed as EMMANUEL IJEWERE now wish to add OSEMHENKHIAN to my name henceforth I wish to be known and addressed as EMMANUEL OSEMHENKHIAN IJEWERE. All former documents remain valid. General public to please take note.

I formerly known as Ogundele Ojo John wish to be known and addressed as MOSES BUSUYI ADEOLA. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

I formerly known as Olaniyi Peter Adedayo wish to be known and addressed as Olasilola Muyiwa John. All former documents remain valid, General public please take note.

ADDITION OF NAME

MRS OGUNYALE TOKUNBO TUBOKUN

In my BVN my name appears as MBABIE OBINNA while in my Bank Account it appears as MBABIE OBINNA SMART now I wish to add SMART to my name henceforth I wish to be known and addressed as MBABIE OBINNA SMART. All former documents remain valid.

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BAKARE OLUWABUNMI ABOSEDE I formerly known as FALEYE OLUWABUNMI ABOSEDE wish to be known and addressed as BAKARE OLUWABUNMI ABOSEDE .All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

MOSES BUSUYI ADEOLA

In some of my documents including my International Passport my name was written as OLAMIDE OYEJOBI now I wish to be known and addressed as MISS OLAMIDE OLUKOYA . All former documents bearing the two names remain valid. Nigeria Immigration service and General public to please take note.

EDACHE SUNDAY VICTOR

WASIU AKANDE OLABISI

MRS. ANTHONIA IYABO FADOJUTIMI

That I OKOH CHUKWU HENRY my name was wrongly written as CHUKWU OKOH IGWE wish to be known and addressed as OKOH CHUKWU HENRY wrong date of birth is 5th December 1982 and corrected date of birth is 5th August, 1982. All Documents /Credentials bearing these names remain valid, general public please take note.

I formerly known as MRS. OLAGOKE ABOSEDE wish to be known and addressed as MISS AJAYI OLUWAROKANMI ABOSEDE. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

I formerly known as MISS OLOJEDE, OLAYINKA SANDRA wish to be known and addressed as MRS AKANO OLAYINKA SANDRA .All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

I formerly known as WASIU OLADEJI wish to be known and addressed as WASIU AKANDE OLABISI .All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

I formerly known as ANTHONIA IYESIDE RONKE GEORGE wish to be known and addressed as MRS. ANTHONIA IYABO FADOJUTIMI. All former documents remain valid, general public please take note.

NWANGUMA FAITH NKEMAFUNA

MRS. MMAHI ESTHER TOOCHI

MRS. SANUSI ADEWUNMI FOLASHADE

BABALOLA ABDURRAQEEB AYOKUNU I, formerly known and addressed as BABALOLA AYOKUNU OLAJUWON, Now wish to be known and addressed as BABALOLA ABDURRAQEEB AYOKUNU. All former documents remain valid. General public/authorities concerned should take note.

On some of my documents, my name appears as LINUS MONDAY FAITH while on my other documents, my name appears as LINUS MONDAY. I am the same person bearing both names and Any documents bearing the above mentioned names remain mine and valid, General public/authorities concerned should take note

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

I, formerly known and addressed as MARYAM KACHALLA GUJBA, Now wish to be known and addressed as MARYAM KACHALLA MOHAMMED. All former documents remain valid. General public/authorities concerned should take note.

I formerly known and addressed as Obodoekea Faith Nkemafuna now wish to be known and addressed as Nwanguma Faith Nkemafuna. All former documents remain valid. General public please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS JOHN ESTHER TOOCHI, Now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. MMAHI ESTHER TOOCHI. All former documents remain valid general public/authorities concerned should take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MISS ADEDOYIN ADEWUNMI FOLASHADE, Now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. SANUSI ADEWUNMI FOLASHADE. All former documents remain valid. General public/authorities concerned should take note.

AKINYEMI OMOLOLA RACHEAL

ADAMU ISAH HOMMED

MRS. UWAZIE MOJISOLA CAROLINE

ORONLA DAMILOLA KIKELOMO

I, formerly known and addressed as OLAYEMI OMOLOLA RACHEAL, Now wish to be known and addressed as AKINYEMI OMOLOLA RACHEAL. All former documents remain valid. General public/authorities concerned should take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as ALIYU ADAMU BABA, Now wish to be known and addressed as ADAMU ISAH HOMMED. All former documents remain valid.

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I, formerly known and addressed as MISS OLALUSI MOJISOLA CAROLINE, Now wish to be known and addressed as MRS. UWAZIE MOJISOLA CAROLINE. All former documents remain valid. General public/authorities concerned should take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as MOYEBI DAMILOLA, Now wish to be known and addressed as ORONLA DAMILOLA KIKELOMO. All former documents remain valid. General public/ authorities concerned should take note.

IFECHUKWU GLOBAL OUTREACH 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. DOZIE EMMANUEL ONYEKWELU 2. NNENNA AMAKA UDEMEZUE 3. NWOSU EMEKA CHIDI 4. NWABUGU JULIET ONYEKWELU 5. MADUABUCHUKWU STANLEY EGBUNA THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE:1.To preach & spread the Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ in every nation.

2. To deliver the captives, set the oppressed free.

3. To represent Christ as Ambassadors on earth.

4. To reconcile men and women to God Any objection to this registration should be forwarded to the Registrar-- General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420 Tigris Crescent, off Aguyi Ironsi Street Maitama Abuja within 28 days of publication.

Signed by: SECRETARY

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

MARYAM KACHALLA MOHAMMED

SHOGEKE ABOSEDE ELIZABETH

MRS OZIOMA ESTHER EMEANU

INIYE TINATE ROSEMARY

TAOREED KARIMOT TEMITOPE

I, formerly known and addressed as JAMES ABOSEDE ELIZABETH, Now wish to be known and addressed as SHOGEKE ABOSEDE ELIZABETH. All former documents remain valid. General public/authorities concerned should take note.

I, formally known and addresseed as Miss Ozioma Esther Maduka , now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs Ozioma Esther Emeanu. All former documents remain valid. The general public should take note.

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

I, formerly known and addressed as BALOGUN ZAINAB TEMI, now wish to be known, called and addressed as TAOREED KARIMOT TEMITOPE. All documents bearing my former names remain valid. General public and Authorities Concerned should please take note

BUSOLA LATEEFAT ALABI

LAWAL YUSUF KOLAWOLE

I formerly known and addressed as OLANIYI BUSOLA LATEEFAT That on the 21 day of may 2016 i got married to MR.MUHAMMAD OLAIDE ALABI now wish to be known and addressed as BUSOLA LATEEFAT ALABI all former documents remain valid general public should take note

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

CONFIRMATION OF NAME That I am the same person bearing BUNMI MICHAEL JOHNSON and AJETUNMOBI BUNMI MICHAEL now wish to be known and addressed as AJETUNMOBI BUNMI MICHAEL. All former documents remain valid.

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CONFIRMATION OF NAME That l Am lRITOBOR STEPHEN lTIVE. Also I am lRITOBOR STEPHEN. That this are one and same person. Documents bearing lRITOBOR STEPHEN should be change to lRITOBOR STEPHEN lTIVE. General public and Authority concern take note

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BIBLE-BASED FREEDOM EVANGELICAL MINISTRY THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED MINISTRY HAS APPLIED TO CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER THE PART ‘C’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, DECREE NO. 1 OF 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. BISHOP UDEME, CHARLES AKWAOWO - GENERAL - OVERSEER 2. ELDER UDOH, ANTHONY SUNDAY - SECRETARY 3. PASTOR UDO, EMMANUEL ETIM 4. DEACONESS MONDAY, UDUAK IKOUWEM 5. DEACONESS ASUQKWO, BESSIE EFFANGA AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PREACH THE WORD OF GOD. 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 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: BISHOP UDEME, CHARLES AKWAOWO GENERAL - OVERSEER

FAOSAN NEWLIFE 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. SANUSI FAOSAT FEYISARA (PRESIDENT) 2. SANUSI ADEBISI HUMUANI (SECRETARY) 3. KOFOWOROLA TAIWO 4. AWOLIYI RAHMAT OLUWATOBI 5 OLAOYE BALIQIS TEMITOPE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. YOUTH EMPOWERMENT TO ENGENDER SELF RELIANCE AND SUSTENANCE. 2. TO SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGE ENTREPRENEURIAL AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS FOR WOMEN AND THE GIRL CHILD. 3. EDUCATION SUPPORT THROUGH PROVISION OF SCHOLARSHIPS AND EDUCATION MATERIALS. 4. TO EMBARK ON PROJECTS THAT WILL CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS THE ERADICATION OF HUNGER. 5. TO ADVOCATE AND ENLIGHTEN THE WOMEN AND YOUTH ON CULTURAL, HEALTH AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC ISSUES.

STELLAR LOGISTICS NIGERIA LIMITED IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 2004 AND IN THE MATTER OF STELLAR LOGISTICS NIGERIA LIMITED, IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION, MEMBERS WINDING UP

At an extra-ordinary general meeting of STELLAR LOGISTICS NIGERIA LTD (The Company) duly convened and held on the 28th day of September, 2017 at the company’s registered office at 34, Wharf Road, Apapa Lagos Nigeria, the following resolutions was duly passed: 1.That the company be wound up voluntarily.

2.That Mr. Akintunde Festus Aina, an accountant of Akintunde Aina & Co (Chartered Accountants & Auditors) of Eko Court, D28, Kofo Abayomi Street, Victoria Island, Lagos be appointed liquidator of the company for the purposes of such winding up.

Dated this 29th day of September 2017 SIGNED DIRECTOR

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

ASSOCIATION OF UNIBEN DEMONSTRATION SECONDARY SCHOOL PIONEER 1981 SET

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TRUTH AND PEACE MISSION WORLD-WIDE

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 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. JUDE USE IDEHEN PRESIDENT 2. AKAROESE MRAKPOR SECRETARY 3. BAWO EGBE TREASURER/F. SECRETARY 4. PASTOR TEJIRI ORUMAH 5. PROFESSOR ILLEOGBEN SUNDAY ADEOYE 6. PROFESSOR OZIEGBE IKHILE

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. OMAGBEMI EMMANUEL TIMA 2. OMAGBEMI JOYCE ESIJOLOMI 3. SHOLUWA CHRISTIAN 4. UKUEBERUWA LUCKY PRINCE 5. OMASE PATIENCE ERAYEVAYOWA 6. IKONI TRUTH OFEORITSE

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1) TO BRING TOGETHER OLD STUDENTS OF UDSS PIONEER 1981 SET, BENIN CITY, EDO STATE TO ASSIST IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SCHOOL. 2) TO DEMONSTRATE LOVE, UNITY AND CREATE GOOD RELATION BETWEEN THE MEMBERS AND THE SCHOOL AS A WHOLE. 3) TO ORGANIZE PROGRAMS TO HELP FRESH GRADUATES (EX-STUDENTS) ADJUST TO THE PROBLEMS OF COPING WITH LIFE AFTER GRADUATION. 4) TO PROVIDE A UNIQUE FORUM FOR THE MUTUAL ASSISTANCE BETWEEN PRESENT AND PAST MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION.

THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD TO ALL NATIONS OF THE WORLD IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE WORD OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. 2. RAISING A GENERATION OF CHRISTIANS THAT WILL BUILD A BETTER CHURCH FOR THE COMING OF OUR LORD. 3. TO PREACH AND BRING DELIVERANCE TO THOSE WHOSE JOY HAS BEEN TAKEN AWAY BY THE ENEMIES AND RESTORE HOPE TO THE HOPELESS, JOY TO THE SORROWED AND LIGHT TO THOSE IN THE DARK 4. TO PREACH AND TRAIN CHRISTIAN TO POSSESS THE GOOD CHRISTIAN VIRTUES AND SHINES AS LIGHT IN THE WORLD AND SALT OF THE EARTH 5. TO MINISTER DIVINE DELIVERANCE FROM FOUNDATION HOLDS

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.

ANY OBJECTION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION. NDOLA SQUARE, ZONE 5, WUSE, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION.

SIGNED: AKAROESE MRAKPOR (SECRETARY)

MOUNTAIN TOP REHABILITATION CENTRE 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, 2004.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. IZUWA STEPHEN AHAMEFULA - GENERAL OVERSEER/PRESIDENT 2. AZUBIKE VICTOR - SECRETARY 3. IZUWA NGOZI CHIJINDU 4. IGBUDU CHARLES EBERE THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: A) TO PREACH THE WORD OF GOD. B) TO WIN SOUL FOR CHRIST. C) 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. SIGNED: GENERAL OVERSEER/PRESIDENT

EMAIL REACHING OUT FOUNDATION

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

TRUSTEES: (1)NWABUEZE EMMANUEL ALIKA (2)EWERE KINGSLEY ERUMULOR (3)ONYEKWE VIVIAN NNEKA AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: (1)TO USE THIS PLATFORM TO GIVE BACK TO THE SOCIETY. (2) TO HELP THE NEEDY, THE ELDERLY, THE LESS PREVAILED AND THE NEEDY IN THE SOCIETY. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

– GENERAL OVERSEER -PASTOR - PASTOR - MEN LEADER - DEACONESS - PASTOR

SIGNED: J. K. NANA CROWN KINGS CONSULTANCY CO. 08037769526

NWA OMA 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.

NAME OF TRUSTEE. 1. UKACHUKU UWAOMA. 2.AGIDA MOSES OJEKA. AIM AND OBJECTIVE. TO RAISING A HOME FOR ORPHANAGE. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, P.M.B 198, GARKI ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

ANSAR-UD-DEEN COLLEGE, ISOLO OLD STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED ASSOCIATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION TO BE REGISTERED AS AN INCORPORATED TRUSTEE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PART C OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA THE TRUSTEES ARE AS FOLLOWS: 1. ALHAJI CHIEF MUMIN ABAYOMI AIYEPOLA 2. ALHAJI SHAMSIDEEN BOLANLE AL-AMEEN 3. ALHAJI TAJUDEEN OLUYOLE OLUSI 4. DR NAHEEMDEEN ADE EKEMODE 5. OLOYE MONSUR OYE SOLEBO 6. DR UMAR OLUWOLE SANDA 7. AVM SIKIRU OLADIMEJI SMITH (RTD).

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. TO FOSTER UNITY AND BROTHERHOOD AMONG THE OLD STUDENTS OF ANSAR-UD-DEEN COLLEGE, ISOLO, LAGOS STATE; 2. TO PROMOTE THE OBJECTIVES OF THE SCHOOL IN ALL RAMIFICATIONS; 3. TO EXPAND THE BOUNDARIES OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE STUDENTS OF THE COLLEGE THROUGH LECTURES, SEMINARS, PUBLICATIONS, CONFERENCES, TALKS, RESEARCHES AND EXCURSIONS ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT, MAITAMA DISTRICT, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: BABS ANIMASHAUN BABS ANIMASHAUN CHAMBERS BLOCK C, HOUSE NO. 5, MASONNETE MILLENIUM HOUSING SCHEME (BEHIND POLICE COMMAND), G.R.A, IKEJA, LAGOS. HOTLINE: 09099642643 EMAIL: IBANIMASHAUN@GMAIL.COM

IGHELLE R’ AGHARHO KINGDOM ASSOCIATION THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THE ABOVE NAMED ASSOCIATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT NO. 1 OF 1990 PART C. THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. IMOH PRINCE JOSEPH – CHAIRMAN / PRESIDENT 2. UMOKORO FRIDAY -MEMBER 3. OKOTIE UFEOMA - MEMBER 4. AMINOBI JACKSON - MEMBER 5. MOWARAN EMMANUEL OBAKPOBORO - MEMBER 6. ODIIPHIRI AGHOGHO PEDRO - MEMBER THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. TO PLACE THE CLUB IN A PROPER POSITION IN THE SOCIETY AND CONTRIBUTE OUR QUOTA TO ALL NOTABLE WORTHY HELP TO ITS MEMBERS AND AGBARHO KINGDOM IN GENERAL 2. TO CONTRIBUTE NOT ONLY AS AFORESAID BUT ALSO IDEAS CONCERNING THE GOOD OF THE ASSOCIATION,

BY ADVERTISING THE PARENT BODY ON MATTER OR PROBLEMS WHENEVER THE NEED ARISES. 3. TO CREATE SOCIAL SECURITY AMONGST MEMBERS AND AGBARHO KINGDOM. 4. TO ASSIST ALL OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES/SANITATION UNITS ANY OBJECTION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION. NDOLA SQUARE, ZONE 5, WUSE, ABUJA, WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: J. K. NANA CROWN KINGS CONSULTANCY CO. 08037769526

EMMAUS INITIATIVE FOR YOUTH EMPOWERMENT AND SKILLS ACQUISITION

GREAT GOSPEL REVEALERS CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INT’L.

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.

TRUSTEES 1. MSGR. DR CHIMA NWAMADI. , ,-PARISH PRIEST 2. NWAMADI CLEMENT. 3. NJEZE UCHENNA COMAS 4. OGBOLOGU CHIKEZIE JOHN. 5. ORABUEZE CHINWE PHILLIPA 6 OKOLIE CHINENYE PRECIOUS

TRUSTEES 1. REV. BASSEY PETER AMADAK. 2. DOMINIC NSEABASI GEORGE 3. MRS NSIKAKOBONG MARCUS. 4. UTIBE BASSEY AMADAK 5. OTOBONG JOSHUA

AIM AND OBJECTIVE 1. TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS THE RESCE HOME

AIM AND OBJECTIVE 1. TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST

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

SIGNED: SECRETARY

LOSS OF DOCUMENT

THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE LAND TITLE DOCUMENT /RIGHT OF OCCUPANCY IN RESPECT OF PLOT NO. 6 DANKAMA CLOSE, AREA 2, GARKI ABUJA, FCT BELONGING TO BOTH HIMSELF (MR. DAVID ANAGBODE) AND DR. DAVE OSEGHALE. BUT WAS IN HIS POSSESSION GOT MISSING. ALL EFFORT MADE TO TRACE THE SAID LAND TITLE DOCUMENT /RIGHT OF OCCUPANCY PROVED ABORTIVE. GENERAL PUBLIC AND AUTHORITY CONCERNED PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

- PRESIDENT -SECRETARY

SIGNED: SECRETARY

COMFORT EDUCATION FOUNDATION THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED FOUNDATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION (CAC), ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART ‘C’ OF COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 1990.

THE TRUSTEES ARE : 1. IFEDIORA ODOCHI RUTH - CHAIRMAN 2. DR. OSCAR NWAGBO ATUMAH - SECRETARY. 3. DR. ONYEBUCHI ILE. THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE : 1.TO OFFER SCHOLARSHIPS , CREATE PUBLIC AWARENESS THROUGH EDUCATION ON SUICIDE PREVENTION, MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION, AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY, PARTNERING WITH COMMUNITY AND OTHER AGENCIES IN CARING FOR THE POOR, VULNERABLE, AND THE ELDERLY. ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR_ GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIR COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: SECRETARY

26 Public Notice ONITOLO HAMMED OLAYIWOLA That I am the same person bearing Onitolo Hammed Olakunle and Lukman Hammed Olayiwola now to be addressed as Onitolo Hammed Olayiwola . All documents remains valid. General public should take note.

ANYANECHE OGECHUKWU ANTHONIA

ADEOYE BABATUNDE TOLUWALASE

Formerly Onaolapo Olaitan Kayode now Adeoye Babatunde Toluwalase. Former documents remains valid.

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CORRECTION OF NAME AND D.O.B:

Formerly ONYEJEGBU OGECHUKWU ANTHONIA Now ANYANECHE OGECHUKWU ANTHONIA. Former documents remains valid. General public should take note.

THAT DURING THE OPENING OF MY ACCOUNT WITH FIRST BANK MY NAME WAS WRITTEN AS ADIGUN RASAK INSTEAD OF YINUSA RASAK ADIGUN AND ALSO MY D.O.B WAS WRITTEN AS 23-03-1963 INSTEAD OF 23-03-1960. General public should take note.

CONFIRMATION OF NAMES

STEPHEN AGBEDE OLUWASEUN

That I Ajisafe kehinde Amoo. Is the same person as Ajisafe kehinde Stephen, Ajisafe kehinde Chizzy, Ajisafe kehinde G.B.A.J, Ajisafe kehinde Adams GBAJ, AjIsafe kehinde Ajil, Ajisafe kehinde GBJ. That I now wish to be known and addressed as Ajisafe Kehinde Amoo. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as Dynamous FA Papa, now wish to be known and addressed as STEPHEN AGBEDE OLUWASEUN. All former document remain valid.

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MRS .OYEBANJI YEMISI RACHEAL

OREOFE DARE ELISHA I formerly known and addressed as OYEJIDE DARE EBENEZER, now wishh to be known and addressed as OREOFE DARE ELISHA. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

JOCOB ISHAKU

I formerly known and addressed as MISS .OMILANI YEMISI RACHEAL, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS .OYEBANJI YEMISI RACHEAL. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

AKINYEDE RUTH RUCHINA

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CONFIRMATION OF NAME

AUDU ZENAT .J. OYIZA

IKADE AUGUSTINE OKPAKO

I Fomeral known and addressed as Ayeni Folake Rukayat is also the same person bearing Junaid Folake Rukayat that i now wish to be known and Address as Junaid Folake Rukayat All former documents bearing my other names remain valid All authorities concern banks and general public.

Formerly EDU ZENAT OYIZE Now AUDU ZENAT .J. OYIZA. Former documents remains valid. General public should take note.

Formerly PAUL AUGUSTINE OKPAKO Now IKADE AUGUSTINE OKPAKO. Former documents remains valid.

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OLA DENNIS ABOBADE

CONFIRMATION OF NAME That my name was written as Rasidi Salako kayode and Rasidi Salako in some of my documents but now want to be addressed as Salako Rasheed Kayode . General public should take note.

Formerly OLALEKE AYINLA ABOBADE Now OLA DENNIS ABOBADE. Former documents remains valid. General public should take note.

OYEFESO NOFISAT BOLANLE

I was formerly known as MUSARI NOFISAT BOLANLE now wish to be known as OYEFESO NOFISAT BOLANLE . General public should take note.

I formerly known and addressed as Ogundele Sherifat Temitayo , now wish to be known and addressed as Lawal Sherifat Temitayo.

All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

EL-YAKUBU KOFOWOROLA LOUISA I formerly known and addressed as BUCKNOR-AKERELE KOFOWOROLA LOUISA, now wish to be known and addressed as EL-YAKUBU KOFOWOROLA LOUISA. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as Josephine Ngozi Okoh. Now wish to be known and addressed as Josephine Ngozi Ashinze. All former document remain valid.

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SAMMIE CHIJIOKE SAMUEL I formerly known and addressed as SAMUEL CHIJIOKE UGOH,now wish to be known and addressed as SAMMIE CHIJIOKE SAMUEL. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

CERTIFICATION OF NAME

MRS .EKWUGHALU PEACE CHINAZA

This is to certify that i am the same ISRAEL ALABA OMOLUYI,the name which i bear before leaving my home town, that ISRAEL ALABA BABAFEMI is my personal name, that OMONIYI is now the family name instead of the former OMOLUYI.That i now wish to be known and addressed as ISRAEL ALABA OMONIYI. All former document remain valid.

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LAWAL SHERIFAT TEMITAYO

OLADELE RUTH TOSIN

PETER MOSES ADOBA

JOSEPHINE NGOZI ASHINZE

I formerly known and addressed as MISS OTUKA PEACE CHINAZA, now wish to be known and addressed as MRS .EKWUGHALU PEACE CHINAZA. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

AKANDE RUTH IBUKUN

I formerly known and addressed as DIBAL ISHAYA now wish to be known and addressed as JOCOB ISHAKU. All former document remain valid.

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I formerly known and addressed as Uwaya Ruth Ruchina,now wish to be known and addressed as Akinyede Ruth Ruchina. All former document remain valid.

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I formerly known and addressed as OKOTIE NATASHA now wishh to be known and addressed as OLADELE RUTH TOSIN. All former document remain valid.

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I formerly known and addressed as PETERS MOSES now wish to be known and addressed as PETER MOSES ADOBA.My Date of Birth is 15.May .1975. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

I formerly known and addressd as ILETI RUTH IBUKUN, Now wish to be known and addressed as AKANDE RUTH IBUKUN . All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

DESMOND RACHEAL OMENIM I formerly known and addresseed as EBON RACHEAL OMENIM now wish to be known and addressed as DESMOND RACHEAL OMENIM. All former document remain valid. General public should please takke note.

CHANGE OF NAME AND CORRECTION OF DATE OF BIRTH

I formerly known and addressed as ISA HASSANAT HAJARAT now wish to be known and addressed as ISA TAYE HASSANAT .My Date of Birth was wrongly written as 24th/01/1985 instead of 24th/01/1986. All formeer document remain valid. General public should please take note.

RAPHAEL DIAMOND NALUWON I, formerly known and addressed as, RAPHAEL LINUS JACOB, now wish to be known and addressed as, RAPHAEL DIAMOND NALUWON. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

MRS. THANKGOD AMARACHI HARRETH I, formerly known and addressed as, MISS. GREEN AMARACHI HARRETH, now wish to be known and addressed as, MRS. THANKGOD AMARACHI HARRETH. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

MRS. PRECIOUS CHIKA CHUKWUEMEKA

MRS. EJIKE ONYINYECHI JOY

ODOGWU ADAOBI

MRS. OBILOR JOY CHIKAODI I, formerly known and addressed as, MISS. ACHONU JOY CHIKAODI, now wish to be known and addressed as, MRS. OBILOR JOY CHIKAODI. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

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

MRS. BEATRICE LEZOR

I, formerly known and addressed as, MISS. BEATRICE KOBIA, now wish to be known and addressed as, MRS. BEATRICE LEZOR. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

ABIOLA DAVID ABIOLA

I, formerly known and addressed as, MISS. PRECIOUS CHIKA OHUAKANWA, now wish to be known and addressed as, MRS. PRECIOUS CHIKA CHUKWUEMEKA. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

ADELANWA ABDULLATEEF ADEOLA

I, formerly known and addressed as, MISS. ELEKWACHI ONYINYECHI JOY, now wish to be known and addressed as, MRS. EJIKE ONYINYECHI JOY. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as, ELEBEORUSA ADAOBI, now wish to be known and addressed as, ODOGWU ADAOBI. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME/ CORRECTION OF DATE OF BIRTH I, UCHE ABUCHI, and UCHE ABUCHI JOHN, refer to one and same person but, now wish to be known and addressed as, UCHE ABUCHI JOHN. My correct date of birth is 15th day of January, 1991 not 24th day of April,1991. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

CORRECTION OF NAME

I, GODWIN FRIDAY, and IMUK GODWIN FRIDAY, refer to one and same person but, now wish to be known and addressed as, IMUK GODWIN FRIDAY. All former documents remain valid.

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NWACHUKWU CHIKA ANN

I, MADUJIOBI PERPETUA CHIBUIHE, wish to correct my name which was wrongly written as, MADUJIOBI PERPETUA ADA, instead of, MADUJIOBI PERPETUA CHIBUIHE. I now wish to be known and addressed as, MADUJIOBI PERPETUA CHIBUIHE. All former documents remain valid.

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I, formerly known and addressed as EMENIKE CELESTINE OGBUGWOLO now wish to be known and addressed as EMENIKE NWANKWO. All former documents remain valid.

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CORRECTION OF NAME/ CHANGE OF NAME

I, formerly known and addressed as AWONUGA ABIOLA RASAKI now wish to be known and addressed as ABIOLA DAVID ABIOLA. All former documents remain valid.

General public take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as Ogunleye Yemisi Mary, my name was wrongly spelt as Ogunleye Oluwayemisi Moyo now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs Akintimehin Yemisi Mary. All former documents remain valid.

Public note.

PATRICK NKANU EBRI ETENG I formerly known and addressed as NKANU EBRI ETANG now wish to be known and addressed as PATRICK NKANU EBRI ETENG . All former documents remain valid. First Bank and General public to please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as EZII JACKIE DICK .C. now wish to be known and addressed as EZII JOACHIM CHIGBOGU . All former documents remain valid.General public to please take note.

LOSS OF DOCUMENT

I, formerly known and addressed as, ADELANWA LATEEF ADEOLA, now wish to be known and addressed as, ADELANWA ABDULLATEEF ADEOLA. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

AKOREDE KUBURAT STELLA

Formerly YUSUF KUBURAT STELLA Now AKOREDE KUBURAT STELLA. Former documents remains valid. General public should take note.

CONFIRMATION OF NAME

Prince Alonge Oluwafemi and Alonge Oluwafemi Japhet, refers to one and the same person. All former document remain valid.

General public should please take note ABAH AKOR ABAS

I formerly known and addressed as FRIDAY AKOR THOMAS,now wish to be known and addressed as ABAH AKOR ABAS. All former document remain valid.

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ANUOLUWA ADEOLA OPEYEMI SANYAOLU I formerly known and addressed as ANUOLUWA ADEOLA OPEYEMI OLAREWAJU , now wish to be known and addressed as ANUOLUWA ADEOLA OPEYEMI SANYAOLU. All former document remain valid, General public should please take note.

BADEMOSI ODIA ROSEMARY I formerly known and addressed as ROSEMARY ENOYI ODIA,now wish to be known and addressed as BADEMOSI ODIA ROSEMARY. All former document remain valid. General public should please take note.

CHIEF CLADIUS EKERE

I, formerly known and addressed as, STANLEY EKERE, now wish to be known and addressed as, CHIEF CLADIUS EKERE. All former documents remain valid. General public should take note.

MRS. CHIDIEBERE NWABUEZE ADINDU I, formerly known and addressed as Miss. Chidiebere Nwabueze, now wish to be known and addressed as Mrs. Chidiebere Nwabueze Adindu. All former documents remain valid. The general public should take note.

YUSUF OLALEKAN RASAQ,

I formerly known and addressed as YUSUF OLALEKAN ADEMOLA, now wish to be known and addressed as YUSUF OLALEKAN RASAQ, all former document remain valid general public take note.

CORRECTION OF SURNAME

GARBA BABANNA HARUN

ADEPOJU OLUWASOLA BABATUNDE

EZEMA GLORY ONYEMEACHI

This is to notify the general public that my surname was mistakenly written and stated as MONSURAT instead of ALIMI. Henceforth , I wish to be known, called and addressed as Mrs Alimi Monsurat Olayinka.

All former documents remain valid.

Banks take note.

I formerly known and addressed as BABANA GARBA, now wish to be known and addressed as GARBA BABANNA HARUNA, all former document remain valid general public take note

I formerly known and addressed as BABATUNDE ADEKPOJU now wish to be known and addressed as ADEPOJU OLUWASOLA BABATUNDE . All former documents remain valid.General public to please take note.

I, formerly known and addressed as EZEMA GLORY ONYEMEACHI, now wish to be known and addressed as EZEMA GLORY ANIETIE. All former documents remain valid. General public take note

EMMANUEL ROSEMARY

MOSES OLALEKAN TUNJI I formerly known and addressed as DAPO OLALEKAN MOSES now wish to be known and addressed as MOSES OLALEKAN TUNJI. All former documents remain valid.General public to please take note.

AKANLE AFOLAKE DORCAS

I formerly known and addressed as TEJUOSO AFOLAKE DORCAS now wish to be known and addressed as AKANLE AFOLAKE DORCAS . All former documents remain valid.General public to please take note.

OMOTOSHO ADEDAYO I formerly known and addressed as ADEKOYA SAMSON OLUWASESAN now wish to be known and addressed as OMOTOSHO ADEDAYO . All former documents remain valid.General public to please take note.

I formerly known and addressed as OBOKHAN ROSE ENIMIEN now wish to be known and addressed as EMMANUEL ROSEMARY . All former documents remain valid.General public to please take note.

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KPAPKANDO FOUNDATION FOR THE PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED PERSONS RC - CAC/IT/NO 35659 THIS IS TO NOTIFY THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED, HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR CHANGE OF NAME AND ALTERATION OF CONSTITUTION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1990.

OLD NAME : KPAPKANDO FOUNDATION FOR THE PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED PERSONS TO KPAPKANDO FOUNDATION FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. SENATOR OSITA IZUNASO 2. BARR. (MRS) NGOZI NJOKU 3. MRS PATIENCE OZOKWU 4. HRH EZE EDWARD AKANO 5. HON. CHARLES UBA THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO UPLIFT THE EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS OF THE LESS PRIVILEGED PERSONS IN THE SOCIETY. SECTIONS TO BE ALTERED ALL SECTIONS AND PROVISIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION CONTAINING THE OLD NAME KPAPKANDO FOUNDATION FOR THE PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED PERSONS .

ANY OBJECTION TO THIS APPLICATION 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 - OZIOMA OFOHA, ESQ.

JOE OGWO FOUNDATION THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE ABOVE NAMED FOUNDATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART “C” OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 2004.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. CHIEF JOSEPH OGWO CHAIRMAN. 2. MR. OGECHUKWU OGWO - SECRETARY 3. MRS. OJIUGO ALFRED DANIEL 4. MR. MADUKA OGWO 5. MR. OMEJUA OGWO 6. MR. CHINOSO OGWO PRIMARY AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE FOUNDATION ARE AS FOLLOWS: A. TO REACH OUT AND PROVIDE SUPPORT TO THE ORPHANED OR ABANDONED CHILDREN B. TO ASSIST YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT SKILLS DEVELOPMENT, WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON CHILDREN FROM DEPRIVED BACKGROUNDS C. TO PROVIDE RELIEF MATERIALS TO POOR, SICKEN AND DOWNTRODDEN. D. TO AWARD EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP FROM BASIC TO TERTIARY INSTITUTION TO ANY PERSON ESPECIALLY THE INDIGENT. E. TO SET UP OLD AGE HOMES AND CARE FOR THE WIDOWS. 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: IBEZIM NWONU (SOLICITOR)

YABA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY ACCOUNTANCY CLASS OF 1988 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION THIS IS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART ‘’C’’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT 1999.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. MS BUNMI LAWSON 2. HIGH CHIEF VINCENT AHWI 3. MOSES UVOMATA 4. CHARLES EDEDE AND 5. VERONICA AFLOWA BOYE AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. TO FOSTER UNITY AND PROGRESS AMONG MEMBERS ANY OBJECTION TO THIS REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420, TIGRIS CRESCENT, OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED : SECRETARY

MOUNTAIN TOP REHABILITATION CENTRE THIS IS TO NOTIFY THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE ABOVE NAMED FOUDATION HAS APPLIED TO THE CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, ABUJA FOR REGISTRATION UNDER PART ‘C’ OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT OF 1990.

TRUSTEES: 1. DR. DANIEL KOLAWOLE OLUKOYA 2. MRS FOLASHADE ELIZABETH OLUKOYA 3. PASTOR KEHINDE ADEGBOLAHAN AIM AND OBJECTIVE: 1. REHABILITATION OF PEOPLE WITH DRUG ADDICTION AND OTHER DELINQUENCIES ANY OBJECTION TO THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THE REGISTAR- GENERAL, CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION, PLOT 420 TIGRIS CRESCENT OFF AGUIYI IRONSI STREET, MAITAMA, ABUJA WITHIN 30 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION SIGNED: OLUSOLA BUKOLA, 08034923860.

ALUMINIUM TECHNICIANS ASSOCIATION, BENIN CITY 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). MR. IGBINOSA AMOS ENOMA - CHAIRMAM (2). MR. IGBINOVIA EFE - MEMBER (3) MR. OSAYOMWANBOR FRED - SECRETARY (4). MR. SHEDRACK BINTTIE - MEMBER. AIM AND OBJECTIVE : (1). TO PROTECT THE INTEREST 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, ABUJA WITHIN 28 DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION. SIGNED: TRUSTEES.

Public Notice 27

STELLAR HOSPITALITY NIGERIA LIMITED

UGONWANNE COMMITTEE OF FRIENDS CLUB PORT HARCOURT

IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT, 2004 AND IN THE MATTER OF STELLAR HOSPITALITY NIGERIA LIMITED, IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION, MEMBERS WINDING UP

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

At an extra-ordinary general meeting of STELLAR HOSPITALITY NIGERIA LTD (The Company) duly convened and held on the 28th day of September, 2017 at the company’s registered office at 34, Wharf Road, Apapa Lagos Nigeria, the following resolutions was duly passed:

1.That the company be wound up voluntarily.

2.That Mr. Akintunde Festus Aina, an accountant of Akintunde Aina & Co (Chartered Accountants & Auditors) of Eko Court, D28, Kofo Abayomi Street, Victoria Island, Lagos be appointed liquidator of the company for the purposes of such winding up.

Dated this 29th day of September 2017 SIGNED DIRECTOR

REBECCA BASSEY FOUNDATION

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Daily Times Nigeria Thursday, October 26, 2017

How court verdict was twisted for legal opinion on Maina Continued from page 5 legal import of the judgment delivered by his lordship Hon Justice A. Bello of the Federal High Court, Abuja Judicial Division on Wedmesday the 27th day of March, 2013 in suit No FHC/Abj/CS/65/13 (Abdulrasheed Maina vs the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria & 8 Ors), a suit which my office represented the Federal Government of Nigeria.

“In my said letter, I directed your office to give a consequential effect to the said judgment which voided the warrant of arrest issued by the Police against Dr. Abdulrasheed A. Maina, which warrant of arrest formed the basis for the query referenced MI/30040/1/1 dated the 15th day of Febraury, 2013 and his eventual dismissal from the service of the Federal Government of Nigeria on the 5th day of March 2013.

“Having reviewed all the correspondence vis-a-vis the court judgment. I hereby write to reiterate my earlier directive and further direct that you give a consequential effect to the aforesaid judgment by taking necessary steps to ensure immediate reinstatement of Dr. Maina to his duty post as a Director in the Federal Civil Service to enable him continue his service to the Federal Government of Nigeria.

“Please accept, Honourable Chairman, the assurances of my best regards always”.

The letter was copied to the Head of Service of the federation and the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior.

But in the Justice Adamu Bello’s judgement relied on not cleared from the alleged N2billion fraud levelled against him on the pension fund.

Besides, Justice Bello only faulted the process which led to the issuance of

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the warrant of arrest without the relevant documents and consequently set aside the warrant.

The court in the judgement had counseled Maina to surrender himself to the authorities for investigation over alleged N2billion fraud.

Maina had approached the Federal High Court in 2013 seeking for the enforcement of his fundamental human right and quashing the warrant of arrest issued against him by the police at the instance of the Senate, when he refused to honour Senate invitation.

Joined as respondents in the suit are the Senate, Senate President, Clerk of the Senate, Senate Committee on Establishment and Public Service, Senate Committee on State and Local Government Administration, Inspector General of Police, Attorney General of the Federation, Senator Alloysius Etok and Senator Kabiru Gaya.

But the AGF had claimed that he has acted in “public interest” as he insisted the the controversial recall of Maina into the civil service did not “breach public interest”.

He further claimed in media report that he would soon tell Nigerians “the truth” about the incident when he responds to the senate’s summon.

Malami was quoted as saying that, “I am a legal practitioner, who is always guided by law and public interest and will therefore not do anything that deviates from the law or breaches public interest.

“I believe that Nigerians are entitled to know the truth in the entire saga and I am ready to speak directly to them when I appear before the Senate since I have been summoned by the legislature, which is investigating the matter.

“I will not however talk until I get clearance from my principal on the matter and I look forward to addressing anxious Nigerians

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on the matter when I appear before the senators.”

Malami, Winifred OyoIta, head of the federal civil service, and Abdulrahman Dambazau, minister of interior, were said to have been involved in Maina’s posting to the interior ministry.

But Maina was accused of being involved in pension fraud running into over N100 billion. After being declared wanted by the police Maina went into hiding and reportedly fled to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). He was later dismissed from the federal civil service in 2013 for absconding from duty.

In a related development, some senior lawyers in the country have faulted Malami over his legal opinion in the re-engagement of Maina.

Accusing Malami of acting at logger-head with the position of the law and the fight against corruption, the senior lawyers added that the position of the AGF on Maina’s case is contrary to the collective interest of Nigerians.

The senior lawyers: Mallam Yusuf Ali ( SAN) and Mr Festus Keyamo (SAN) spoke during separate interviews with Daily Times last night.

Yusuf Ali also disclosed that there are extant federal civil service rules that make provisions for a civil servant who is on trial for a criminal offence.

Ali said, “If a serving civil servant is facing criminal prosecution for offences that border on fraud, corruption and capital offences, he must be interdicted, that is, he must be suspended from his work and placed on half salary.

“If truly there is an extant criminal charge against Maina before the Federal High Court , until the matter is decided in his favour, he can not be recalled to resume his

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work. The question to ask is whether or not the AGF was aware of the existence of that case if truly it exists.

“I will like to give the AGF the benefit of doubt that may be he was not aware of the case before he wrote his opinion that the man be recalled. However if he was aware that Maina has a pending criminal case before the Federal High Court bordering on corruption or such related offences, and he still was able to write for his recall, then he owes all Nigerians explanation why he advised as he did”.

On his part, Keyamo aligned himself with the submissions of Yusuf Ali, saying that the duty of the AGF is to ensure that the agencies saddled with investigation do their work diligently.

He said that the warrant of arrest issued by the Senate against Maina had nothing to do with charges preffered against him by the EFCC before Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court in Abuja.

He said, “ What the AGF would have done was to appeal the matter. The AGF should encourage criminal matters to go to a logical conclusion and not to serve as a hindrance. “ As the chief law officer, it lies on him to ensure justice for all since justice is a three-way traffic. If the legal opinion is actually from the AGF office, then he has missed the point because that opinion is a disservice to a government that is fighting corruption”.

The Daily Times recalls that the EFCC had filed a 35-count charge against Maina, former Head of Service of the Federation (HoS), Mr. Steve Oronsaye, and four others before a Federal High Court over their alleged involvement in the N1.2billion fraud OBI UCHENNA FRANCIS 19. Formerly known, called and adderssed as OBI UCHENNA JOHNKENNDY. Henceforth, i wish to be known, called and adderssed as OBI UCHENNA FRANCIS. All former documents remain valid. General public/authorities concerned should take note.

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and money laundering offences.

Oronsaye and the other accused persons had all pleaded not guilty to the 24-count charge preferred against them when they appeared before Justice Kolawole in July 2015 except for Maina who was alleged to be at large.

The accused persons were said to have allegedly collaborated in defrauding the federal government to the tune of N118,992,201.6 under the guise of paying the money in tranches for the contract of biometric data capture project between March 2010 and December 2011.

The fraud was allegedly perpetrated through the award and payment for fake contracts to nine companies including, Innovative Solutions, Fredrick Hamilton Global Services, Xangee Technologies Limited, Fatideck Ventures, Obalando Nigeria Enterprises, Moshfad Enterprises and Fesbee Global Resources Limited.

The fraud offences were said to be punishable under 1(3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006.

Also, the EFCC had declared Maina wanted over allegations of fraud, and diverting pension fund for his personal use.

The commission’s spokesperson, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren had then told journalists that Maina was wanted for his role in the fraudulent biometric contracts through which he and Oronsaye and two others allegedly stole over N2billion of pension funds.

Meanwhile, family members of Maina have claimed that their son was brought back to the country by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to fight corruption.

They further claimed that Maina “is not a fraudster but a messiah who brought reforms into the pension scheme.”

The family members stated this in Kaduna on Wednesday during a press conference. They also alleged that some cabals were behind their son’s travails.

The spokesman of the family, Aliyu Maina, also accused “a cabal” of being behind the travails of embattled Maina.

Aliyu further claimed that based on Maina’s ‘sterling record’ at the scheme, the government of President Buhari appealed to Maina to key into the “change agenda”.

He wondered why government officials were denying his brother, alleging that the DSS gave Maina protection.

He said, “It is on record that Abdulrasheed Maina’s reform put to a stop the fraudulent withdrawal of huge sums from both the Nigerian Pension Board, the Nigerian Police Pension Board, etc. Perhaps it is his noble efforts that made him enviable to the present administration when they came into power to convince him to come back and assist in its ‘Change’ agenda.

“Abdulrasheed was in fact invited by this administration and he was promised security to come and clean up the mess and generate more revenue to government by blocking leakages.

“He succumbed to the present administration and came back to Nigeria. He has been working with the DSS for quite some time and he was given necessary security.

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That my daughter – ADERONKE ADEYINKA is the owner of a property situated and being at No. 1, Olajide Obasa Close Puposola, New Oko-Oba via Abule Egba, Lagos State of Nigeria That every document of title granted by the AROWOLO FAMILY to my said daughter kept in my custody got missing and all efforts to trace same proved abortive.

That also among the content of the missing bag are: Set of building plan of the property Survey plan of the property Purchase receipt of the property Conveyance of the property That this affidavit should however be kept for record purpose.

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OPARA OLANMA UZOAKU

ABDULAZEEZ NANAHAUWA

AHMED KUAMI ABDULKARIM

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Recession: Remain steadfast, focused, prayerful, Delta govt charges youths Nosa Akenzua, Asaba

ÏÏÏThe

Cross-section of participants at the International Sherost Forum in Abuja… on Tuesday.

Lagos election tribunal determines fate of 22 contestants in 21 days Peter Fowoyo

ÏÏÏThree days after the Lagos

State Local Government Election Petition Tribunal was inaugurated by the Chief Judge, Justice O. Oke, the chairperson of the tribunal , Justice G. M. Onyeabo, on Wednesday stated that twenty-two contestants in the July 22 council polls in Lagos State have appealed the decisions of their petitions.

Justice Onyeabo, who stated this yesterday at the tribunal’s inaugural sitting also noted that

the tribunal will hear and determine the appeals in 21 days.

Justice Onyeabo and four other justices: O. Kasali; A. Onigbanjo; O. A. Dabiri and K. A. Jose make up the panel.

The judge said: “Accordingly, therefore, any application for enlargement of time for the doing of an act or taking a step shall not be granted in such a manner as to extend the time for the determination of the appeal beyond the 21 days prescribed.

“To this end, the tribunal solicits the maximum cooperation

from the Bar to avoid needless time wasting applications.

“The parties and learned counsel should be rest assured that this panel will be fair to all the parties and follow the Rules strictly. We will have to modify our sitting because of time constraint.

“We also appeal to all, that there should be no hobnobbing with members of the panel and tribunal staff, to allow us concentrate and perform this duty to the society to the best of our endeavour.”

Permanent Secretary Directorate of Government House and Protocol Mr. Eddy OgidiGbegbaje has charged youths to remain resourceful, focused, and prayerful in spite of the challenging state of the nation.

Mr. Ogidi-Gbegbaje gave the charge yesterday at the send forth ceremony held in honor of the members of the 2016 Batch B Stream 1 National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) who served at the Directorate.

He explained that despite the challenging situation facing the nation, youths in the country should be resourceful, focus and look up to God for direction and guidance in whatever endeavour they want to pursue after service.

According to him “In spite of the fact that things are rough and quite difficult, there is still a ray of hope that greater times are ahead and so you must remain steadfast, focus and prayerful as you must remember that you have a God and a family name to protect.”

Mr. Ogidi-Gbegbaje emphasized the need for skill acquisition and vocational training to better equip themselves rather than waiting

Farmers/Herder clash: US Embassy, PPBA synergies to end conflict Kingsley Chukwuka, Jos

ÏÏÏThe incessant crisis between Fulani herdsmen and farmers that has hitherto bedeviled Plateau state communities has attracted

Embrace entrepreneurship, NDDC tells Niger Delta youths ÏÏÏThe Niger Delta Youth Move-

ment (NDYM), the umbrella body for all youth organizations in the Niger Delta region, has been charged to coordinate and mobilise the young people to embrace entrepreneurship to build sustainable livelihoods.

The Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Mr Nsima Ekere, was speaking to youth leaders drawn from the nine states of the region, during a courtesy visit at the Commission’s headquarters in Port Harcourt.

Ekere said that the NDDC was partnering with the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria, SMEDAN and the Nigerian Export Import Bank, NEXIM, to help provide employment for the youths.

He said: “We want to turn the youths to entrepreneurs. That is the way we can reduce unemployment.

With SMEDAN, we are developing clusters in the Niger Delta that will train our youths and help them im-

bibe the spirit of entrepreneurship.

“The partnership with NEXIM Bank is meant to develop the agricultural sector by boosting the entire value chain from training to planting, processing and provision of funds for setting up agricultural enterprises. We want to create an export initiative in the agricultural sector to create jobs and help the nation’s economy.”

The NDDC Chief Executive Officer said that given the importance of the youths, the meeting with NYDM was very crucial as it would make for a more effective interface with the youths of the Niger Delta region.

Ekere said: “It is important to have one group that represents the interests of all the youths in the region. The Federal Government recognizes Pan Niger Delta Elders Forum, PANDEF, as representing elders of the region and NDYM is well positioned to represent the interest of the youths.

“I will like to see a situation where the NDYM can coordinate the activi-

ties of other youth groups and carry them along.”

The NDDC boss urged the NDYM to prevail on youths in the region to abstain from negative propaganda against the NDDC. “We know from intelligence reports that the negative stories originate from one political group. The youths should not allow politicians to use them. Some of the false information are about projects that have already been completed and commissioned by NDDC,” Ekere said.

He emphasised that politics should not be mixed with the issues of development, stating that NDDC had refused to be dragged into politics.

Ekere commended the youths for pledging to join the fight against criminality in the Niger Delta. He declared: “Without peace in the region, investors will be unwilling to come to do businesses in the area.

Above all, security agencies need the support of the youth groups to succeed.”

Speaking earlier, the National

for government to provide white collar jobs.

“You must acquire other skills to better equip yourselves in the labour market rather than looking for white collar jobs that are no longer easy to come by,” he said.

He commended the corps members for their exemplary decorum during their service in the Directorate and charged them to remain good ambassadors of the state and their families.

Speaking briefly the Director, Office of the Chief of Staff, Mrs. Patricia Okaku charged the corps members to become self-reliant and dedicated in their pursuits after service.

Responding on the behalf of the outgoing corps members Mr. Friday Salifu expressed gratitude to the management and staff of the Directorate for the hospitality and conducive working environment they enjoyed during their service.

Highlight of the occasion was the book presentation by a corps member, Miss Ikegbunam Chinemerem and presentation of souvenirs by the Permanent Secretary and other top officials to the corps members.

President of NDYM, Comrade Joe Jackson, commended the NDDC for its various youth programmes, noting that the current Board and Management had recorded remarkable achievements since they took charge at the Commission.

The NDYM president said that his executive was working out modalities for the protection of public infrastructure in the various communities, adding that they would partner with other stakeholders to foster unity and sustainable peace in the region.

He said: “The NDYM is deeply concerned about the ugly situation of pipeline vandalism, kidnapping, armed robbery and other vices.

We have, therefore, decided to take pragmatic steps with proper consultation, mobilization and sensitization for re-orientation of youths in curbing this menace.”

Comrade Jackson appealed to the NDDC to support the NDYM to enable it carry out the mandate of coordinating youth activities in the Niger Delta region.

the concern of the United States.

Its Nigerian embassy, in partnership with the Plateau Peace Building Agency (PPBA), is poised at holding a nine month consultative forum with stakeholders in the 17 Local Government Area in Plateau State with the aim of providing solutions to the perennial problem.

Speaking at the project launch in Jos, the state capital on Monday, the Director General, Plateau Peace Building Agency, Mr. Joseph Lengmang, said the state government has demonstrated visible efforts in the last two years to ensure that Plateau sustains its fragile peace.

The project tagged ‘Mechanism for Sustainable Cooperation and Transformation of Farmers/ Herder Conflict in Plateau State’ is tasked to develop policy framework and mechanism to address the protracted farmers/herders conflict, Lengmang said.

Elated by the Project, Governor Simon Lalong, in his remark said without peace, no meaningful achievement will be gained in the State and the country at large.

Represented by the Commissioner for Special Duties, Hitler Dadi, Lalong said it was unfortunate that the much needed peace experienced in Plateau for the past two years is now being threatened.

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Iwobi hails Gunners tough win over hard fighting Norwich

lex Iwobi is delighted with the club’s 2-1 win over Norwich City in the round of 16 of the English League Cup on Tuesday evening.

The Canaries took the lead through Josh Murphy before substitute Edward Nketiah scored twice - once in regulation and extratime - as the Gun-

ners marched into the quarterfinals of the competition.

And the Nigeria international who was replaced by Joshua Da Silva in the 105th minute expressed his delight at the victory and took to Twitter to laud the ‘Character’

within the squad after their comeback against Daniel Farke’s side.

Iwobi will be looking to feature when Arsenal welcome Tammy Abraham and Jordan Ayew’s Swansea City to Emirates Stadium on October 28.

NFF to hold talks with England youth internationals

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Iheanacho excited over first Leicester goal Stories by Frank Jumbo

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uper Eagles and Leicester City forward, Kelechi Iheanacho has expressed great delight after scoring his first goal in competitive game for Leicester City in their 3-1 comeback win against Championship club, Leeds United FC in the Carabao Cup on Tuesday night. Thereby scoring a goal and provided an assist in the process.

After the visitors went ahead

through Pablo Hernandez’s fine effort, Iheanacho was on hand to equalize just four minutes later to net his maiden goal for the Club. It was a significant strike for the frontman and he believes it provided the lift the Foxes needed to go on and win the game. “I’m pleased to get on the score-sheet today,” Iheanacho reflected to LCFC TV. “It was a great game and I’m happy to play 80 minutes and we’re happy to win the game and go to the next

round. Everyone can play and everyone can be used in the Premier League or the cup.

In any competition, we are one and we play together in training and in games, so if you are called up to play for the team, you have to give 100 per cent in every game. “If you don’t get it right, then you have to be ready for the next game.

“We lost a bit of concentration in the first 25 minutes but we put our heads

together and worked together to get the first goal. We moved onto the second half and the goals came in.”

Iheanacho’s goal was a well taken one. Initially, he looked as if he would shoot with his right foot, but shaped it onto his left before converting from the edge of the box. He continued: “I wanted to take it with my right foot but I wasn’t too sure, so I got it back onto my left foot and put it into the corner.

Rohr confirms 2 year extension of Super Eagles job

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ernot Rohr has confirmed his two year contract extension as coach of the Super Eagles of Nigeria following qualification for the World Cup 2018 in Russia.

As reported by Owngoalnigeria.com, Rohr’s contract carries a clause that triggers a two year extension if he qualifies Nigeria for the World Cup, a feat they achieved following their 1-0 win over Zambia in Uyo. Rohr said he has been told by the President of the Nigeria Football Federation ( NFF) Amaju Pinnick that his contract has been extended, and as reported by this portal it will be officially signed before the Eagles campaign at next year World Cup. “The (NFF) president has already

told me that my contract will be extended for another two years,’ the coach told French newspaper L’Equipe.

He however played down the tag given to him as saviour of Nigerian football, insisting that the quality of the players at his disposal helped him to achieve with ease qualification for the World Cup in Russia.

“I do not know if I’m considered the saviour, but as a coach who had the chance to qualify for the World Cup and did what it took to get there. I arrived at a time when everyone was wondering how to get out of the shadows, after two consecutive non-qualification for the AFCON. They were really at the bottom of the hole. We could only go back up.”

he Nigeria Football Federation ( NFF) won’t be holding fresh talks with England U21 striker Tammy Abraham despite the forward confirming that talks are ongoing for him to switch allegiance to Nigeria.

Abraham whose father is a close friend to the President of the NFF initially denied any interest in switching allegiance to Nigeria, but few weeks ago he back tracked and said talks are ongoing.

However the NFF are not going to hold further talks with him anytime soon, but other players who have also represented England at youth level are going to be approached by the Federation. ” We have some players who have shown some interest and commitment in playing for us, we are going to meet with them soon. I think four of them, and they have all represented England at youth level “, the spokesman of the NFF told Owngoalnigeria.com. ” No fresh talks with Abraham, because we already know where we are with him, but we can’t reveal it now just the same way I can’t tell you the name of the players we plan to hold talks with before the end of the year”, he remarked.

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I am not the best, Zidane admits after award

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modest Zinedine Zidane says he cannot be considered the best coach in world football as he is still inexperienced, despite winning back-to-back Champions League titles with Real Madrid.

Zidane claimed the FIFA Best Men’s Coach award on Monday, making it a Madrid double as Cristiano Ronaldo pipped Barcelona’s Lionel Messi to the player’s prize.

Chelsea’s Antonio Conte and Juventus head coach Massimiliano Allegri - whose side lost to Los Blancos in last season’s Champions League final - were beaten to the award by the Frenchman.

But while Zidane opted not to name the coaches he rates above himself, he insists he is too new to management to be the world’s best coach.

“I do not know, it’s you [the media] who talk about it,” Zidane said ahead of Thursday’s Copa del Rey tie at Fuenlabrada. “I accept this award and I believe it is reward for the work we have done so far.

“We have won many things with this team and in the end I am happy, I am not there to say that I do not deserve that. I deserve it, I got it, but the question is whether I’m the best coach in the world. I say no and that’s it.

“I think there are others who are better and that’s it. If within 10 years I am training and winning, we can talk, but not at the moment.

“I do not care, I do not want to know anything about that. What I care about is work, enjoying what I do and nothing else. There are others who like to talk about it, not me.

Emery demands more Referee protection for Neymar

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nai Emery has called on Ligue 1 referees to do more to protect Neymar after the Paris Saint-Germain star appeared to be targeted before his sending off against Marseille on Sunday.

Neymar was shown a second yellow card the space of two minutes in Le Classique for appearing to headbutt Lucas Ocampos after the Argentine hacked him down by the halfway line.

It was by no means the first time the Brazilian had been on

the end of a rash tackle from a Marseille player, with Marco Verratti saying after the game he would have snapped long before his team-mate.

Neymar will miss PSG’s home match with Nice on Friday through suspension, but that has not stopped Emery sending a clear message to Ligue 1 referees, despite speaking to the world-record signing about being provoked.

“He has to adapt to the league, to the team, to the referees,” Em-

ery told reporters. “He is intelligent and he is aware that he will learn from Sunday’s game.

“Other players are aggressive with him, but it’s important that the referees handle that. I talked with him about it, not responding to provocations, but players are people. They can react if there is too much aggression.”

Emery has an embarrassment of riches in terms of attacking players at PSG this season, more so following the return to fitness of Javier Pastore.

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Wenger excited by two-goal Nketiah

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rsene Wenger has no idea why Chelsea allowed Eddie Nketiah to leave Stamford Bridge after the 18-year-old scored twice in Arsenal’s 2-1 EFL Cup extratime win over Norwich City on Tuesday.

Arsenal appeared to be heading towards a shock defeat after Josh Murphy’s clever finish in the 34th minute put the Championship side ahead at Emirates Stadium.

But Nketiah made a stunning contribution from the bench, scoring less than 60 seconds after his introduction for Reiss Nelson in the 85th minute to open his account for the senior team Nketiah then secured Arsenal’s passage in the sixth minute of extra time, leaving Wenger baffled by Chelsea’s decision to let him leave

Guardiola lauds Bravo after City survive shoot-out

their academy as a 14-year-old.

“I don’t know what happened at Chelsea,” Wenger told reporters. “He has scored goals at youth level and sometimes I don’t know why they let him go.

“I don’t know why. You see that more and more. Young people travel from one club to another. I don’t know.

“He has top quality and is one of player who was with me in pre-season and I knew what he could do.

“I must say I am impressed when I think he was not even conceived when I was already here [became Arsenal manager].

“But it is good as well. Life gives a chance to young people and hopefully he will make a long career at Arsenal. We are proud to give young players a chance.”

ep Guardiola hailed the “outstanding” performance of Claudio Bravo after the Manchester City goalkeeper saved two penalties in Tuesday’s EFL Cup shoot-out win over Wolves.

Bravo – the understudy to number one keeper Ederson – denied Alfred N’Diaye and Conor Coady as City survived 4-1 in a shoot-out to reach the quarter-finals, following 120 scoreless minutes.

The 34-year-old Chile international, who arrived from Barcelona last season, has been forced to take a back seat to Brazilian counterpart Ederson but Guardiola heaped praise on the veteran.

“Claudio helped us to qualify for the next round,” Guardiola told Sky Sports.

“You analyse how many chances we had and how many they had and we had more, but in the special moments Claudio was outstanding.

“I don’t know [if it was his best game for City] but of course he was so determined in terms of their one against ones with the goalkeeper, and then to save two penalties - so he is the man of the match by far.

“It is good for us, it is important to continue in that competition. It is a special competition for many reasons. We played with determination.”

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`Ɔƍ Ɛ investigate TCN over $2bn Ƈ ƏƆƈ Ƌ Simon Ugwu

The House of Representatives will investigate $2 billion in foreign loans which the state-owned Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) may have raised without official approval.

The investigation could be a blow to efforts to improve Nigeria’s creaking power infrastructure, which is often blamed for hobbling growth in Africa’s largest economy.

The Federal Government privatised most of its power sector in 2013, but retained control of the dilapidated monopoly grid operator, TCN. A member of the House, Hon Simon Arabo, said in a motion that the TCN had borrowed $1.5bn from the World Bank and other international lenders without securing the approval of the National Assembly as required by the law.

Arabo did not name the other lenders but said TCN is currently negotiating another loan of $500 million with the Islamic Development Bank (IDB).

He described the grid operator’s contract processes as opaque and may have violated procurement laws. Lawmakers agreed to investigate the activities of the TCN over the past 10 years in respect of foreign loans and contract awards and to report their findings within

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FCT gets revenue boss, set to boost IGR Idu Jude, Abuja

The FCT Minister, Mr. Muhammad Musa Bello, has announced the final confirmation of the Chairman/Chief Executive of Federal Capital Territory Internal Revenue Service -FCT IRS, Malam Abdullahi Oteh Attah, by the House of Representatives.

This brings to a close, the process of ratification by the two chambers of the national legislature and paves the way for the agency’s commencement of operation.

The FCT Minister made this

Ï^ƉƄƕ Ƅ Ƅ ƍƉƓ Ƌ Ƅ ƅ ƼƞƟƢ ƂƏƕ ƄƎ revelation when he addressed an interactive session of the FCT Executive Council, with Area Council Chairmen, heads of security agencies and FCT traditional rulers, which took place in the FCT minister’s conference room in Life camp Tuesday.

Malam Bello expressed hope that the coming into effect of the FCT IRS would boost the administration’s revenue profile and provide fund for the implementation of projects that would make life more meaningful

for the FCT residents.

The minister stressed that the session was convened in order to build strong partnership between the various stakeholders and the FCT leadership.

He said the Administration considered it essential to hear from the traditional rulers, Area Council Chairmen and other stakeholders: their priorities, challenges and suggestions for input in the 2018 budget.

The minister assured the officials

gathered at the occasion that the administration is working to ensure early preparation of the 2018 budget, while reiterating his renewed emphasis on bringing development closer to the people in the second phase of his Administration. He indicated that he would like to have every chiefdom benefit from one project or the other in the coming year.

According to him, “FCT administration is desirous of ensuring that the benefits of governance are felt at the grassroots.

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US pledges to deepen training skills for Nigeria’s newer technology

By Idu Jude, Abuja In order to strenghten the bi-lateral relationship

BUSINESS TIMES Business Editor Ganiyu Obaaro Deputy Business Editor Azubike Nnadozie Asst. Business Editor Simon Ugwu Capital Market Editor Bonny Amadi

Ï nd Ɛ ƍ ƇƇƈƅƈ Ƌ ƌƆƆƐ E ƅ ƈƊƓƑ between the two countries in the area of boasting oil and gas newer technological skills, the United States Oil Secretary Mr. Rick Perry, during a meeting with his Nigerian counterpart, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu that the United States Government would be willing to assist Nigeria with access to newer technology and skill set training to deepen Nigerian participation and production in Oil and Gas.

In a press statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mr. Idang Alibi, the two petroleum ministers, held a meeting in Cape Town South Africa. He further extended an invitation to the Honorable Minister of State, Petroleum Resources to come to the United States to take a look at the Department of Energy sector laboratories, which specifically develop new technologies being currently deployed in Oil

and Gas. According to the statement, Perry commended Nigeria on the significant steps taken in the oil and gas industry, and stated that the key message and thrust of the United States administration is to be strategic partners with Nigeria.

While, reiterating this message he further stated that the United States Government has a high level of respect for the people of Nigeria and pledged

willingness to continue to encourage US companies to invest in Nigeria’s oil sector.

The landmark meeting which is the first of its kind between the two leaders of the energy sector in both countries since the inauguration of the new administration in the United States comes as a follow up to an earlier meeting that was hosted by the Office of the Secretary of Energy earlier in May 2017 at the United States Departments of State and Energy in Washington D.C. at the sidelines of the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC).

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AMCON intervention in Arik, Aero applauded

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L-R: Acting Director-General, National Population Commission (NPopC), Dr Babagana Wakil; NPopC Chairman, Eze Duruiheoma (SAN); and Federal Commission of NPopC in-charge of Bayelsa, Mrs. Gloria Izonfuoimni, at a news conference to herald the 5th Annual Population Lecture in Abuja... on Tuesday.

Ganiyu Obaaro The Jos Electricity Distribution Company (JEDC), has sacked 150 workers, in what its management said was part of a re-organisation aimed at optimum performance.

Among those sacked across its four states of Plateau, Gombe, Bauchi and Benue were marketers, linesmen, network engineers, cable joiners and electrical fitters.

Their sack letters, signed by Abubakar Mohammed, Head, Human Resources and Support Services, simply told the workers that their services were no longer required.

The letters said that they would be paid one month’s salary in lieu of notice, and warned them against impersonating as workers of the company.

Some of the workers, however, accused the JEDC management

Jos electricity coy sacks 150 workers refusing to settle their entitlements before sacking them, and also alleged that they were paid half salary in September.

They also rejected management’s claims that those sacked were old and unproductive, arguing that most of them were young persons engaged “few years ago”.

Alhaji Gidado Modibbo, JEDC Managing Director, who reacted to the allegations, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Jos that the “weeding exercise” was aimed at ridding the company of “dead woods”.

“We assess workers based on performance. Those sacked fell short of minimum expectations.

Some were too old for the jobs they were handling.

“We even had Faults Men that were more than 60 years and

blind. We had to ask them to go because they could not climb electric poles and were not adding any value to us,” he said.

He also rejected claims that the workers were paid half salaries in September, and explained that they received 70 per cent of their wages because management had set a target and resolved to base salaries on it.

Dr. Friday Elijah, JEDC Director of Communications, who also reacted, said that the main parametre used for the sack was performance.

“The performance of the workers have been generally very poor and management had always told them to sit up.

“Last month, for instance, we distributed N4 billion worth of energy, but realised only N950

Expert calls for consistent energy policies to attract investors Simon Ugwu Dr. Kandeh Yumkella, a two-term former Director-General of United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), says Nigeria needs to be consistent in implementation of its energy policies to experience development of the energy sector.

Yumkella stated this in Abuja, adding that consistency in implementation of energy pricing for electricity was key to attracting the right investors into the sector.

The Federal Government, through the Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab

Ahmed, recently hinted that it was considering a review of the power sector privatisation, beginning with the Distribution companies (DisCos).

Ahmed had explained that before any new investment was made in the sector, tariffs must also be discussed and agreed by all sector players to attract new investors.

She had said: It’s very clear to us that the level of tariffs that we have now is not sustainable but where the tariffs will go will be the subject of negotiations among the government, the existing investors, the new investors and consumers.“ Similarly, the power Distribution Companies (Dis-

Cos) and the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) had also emphasised the need for cost reflective tariff to salvage the deteriorating sector.

The DisCos had repeatedly attributed inability of the sector to break even to the liquidity challenge.

This, they said, had impeded full realisation of its mandate, especially on mass metering of their residential consumers.

Among the principles and assumption underlying introduction and implementation of Multi Year Tariff Order (MYTO) is the important principle of cost recovery and financial viability for the licensees and investors.

million. It means that many workers are not productive, hence our resolve to ask them to go.”

He said that some workers were sacked for extorting monies from consumers, while others collected money from customers but did not remit same to the company.

Elijah said that some workers were told old and could no longer add any value to the company, while others, who were inherited from the former owners, had served for close to 40 years.

The official, however said that the company had engaged more workers than it had sacked since it took over JEDC in November 2013, “in spite of new technology that has minimised the need for manual activities”.

Airline passengers in Nigeria, especially those that patronise Arik Air have praised the On-Time-Performance (OTP) of Arik Air since the intervention of Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON). Recall that following a huge debt profile of Arik to AMCON and other creditors around the globe, Asset Management company took over the management of the airline in February, a development in the aviation industry that saved the collapse of yet another airline as well as thousands of jobs in the country.

A good number of passengers who spoke to us recently at the terminal of Arik at the local airport wing, Ikeja said it was refreshing to see that all the delays and flight cancellations, which Arik was known for before AMCON came have all regularised to the extent that Arik is now the number one when it comes to keeping to flight time schedules.

Arik Air, which remains the biggest carrier in the country, recently experienced huge challenges arising from all manners of business irregularities that led to near collapse before the federal government ordered AMCON to intervene to avoid major catastrophe in the aviation sector after series of operational encumbrances bordering on flights delays, cancellations, bad corporate governance, accumulating staff salaries among other ills. Interestingly, Arik Air flights now depart on schedule without delay. For instance flights scheduled for say 10:00 am calls for boarding at 9:27 or 9.28 and completed boarding at about 9:50.

Senate plans probe of Etisalat’s loan

By Tony Nwakaegho The Nigerian Senate has mulled plans to vote on a motion to investigate the use of $1.2 billion in loans taken out by telecoms firm, Etisalat Nigeria, now 9mobile.

The motion, if passed, would mandate a Senate Committee on Banking and National Security to handle the investigation, which it says would seek to forestall the impact of the debt crisis on foreign investment and hold defaulting parties liable.

The lawmakers insisted that the investigation would seek to forestall the impact of the debt crisis on foreign investment and hold defaulting parties liable.

The resolutions of the senate followed a motion entitled: ‘The need for senate’s intervention in recent Etisalat Nigeria $1.2bn debt crisis’ sponsored by Adeola Olamilekan, senator representing Lagos West.

While moving the motion on the floor of the senate on Wednesday, Olamilekan noted that loan was acquired in 2013 as medium-term with a seven-year facility to fund expansion of the network from a consortium of 13 banks, LED BY NaCESS Bank Plc. The senator said in 2016, the company started defaulting on its $1.2bn loan obligations to which bailouts were given to it from its parent company in Abu Dhabi.

“Only about 42 per cent of the loan has been repaid, remaining an outstanding debt of $696 million representing 58 per cent of its capital, which Etisalat has failed to service since 2016,” he said.

“Since this year, the banks have been moving to take over the telecommunications company in order to recover their funds.

“The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) have intervened and raised issues of regulatory compliances in trying to prevent a takeover by the banks, but the intervention has failed to produce an agreement on the debt restructuring

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Stories by Motolani Oseni The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, on Wednesday, revealed that the Federal Government would apply the sum of US$3 billion in refinancing the legacy debts of the immediate past government.

The outlay is part of the US$5.5bn foreign loan being sourced from the International Financial Markets.

The Minister, made this disclosure through several posts on her Twitter handle on Wednesday, explained that the said proposed $5.5bn loan was made up of two components – refinancing of heritage debts to the tune of $3bn and new borrowing of $2.5bn for the 2017 Budget.

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$3bn Legacy debts part of $5.5bn foreign borrowing – Adeosun According to her, let me explain the $5.5bn borrowing because there have been some misrepresentations in the media in the last few weeks. The first component of $2.5bn, represents new external borrowing provided for in the 2017 Appropriation Act to part finance the deficit in that budget.

“The borrowing will enable the country to bridge the gap in the 2017 budget currently facing liquidity problem to finance some capital projects.

“For the second compo-

nent, we are refinancing existing domestic debt with the US$3bn external borrowing.

This is purely a portfolio restructuring activity that will not result in any increase in the public debt,” she disclosed.

Adeosun further noted that the country’s debt puzzlingly rose from N7.9 trillion in June 2013 to N12.1trn in June 2015, despite the fact that only 10 per cent of the budget was allocated to capital expenditure when oil price exceeded $120 per barrel.

She emphasized the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration was investing in critical infrastructure projects, such as roads, rails and power in order to deliver a fundamental structural change to the economy that would reduce the nation’s exposure to crude oil.

“Under this dispensation, we are not borrowing to pay salaries. If all we do is to pay salaries, we cannot grow the economy. This administration is also assiduously working to return Nigeria to a stable eco-

nomic footing.

In light of this, the government adopted an expansionary fiscal policy with an enlarged budget that will be funded in the short term, by borrowing,” Adeosun stated.

“She reassured that the US$5.5bn foreign borrowing was consistent with Nigeria’s Debt Management Strategy, whose main objective was to increase external financing with a view to rebalancing the public debt portfolio in favour of long-term external financing.

NAFEX gains, record $166.75m as Naira steadies against major currencies The Nigerian Autonomous Foreign Exchange (NAFEX) widow, rebounded at the close of Wednesday trading to record a total turnover of $166.75, representing the highest during the week, while the local currency, Naira, steadied against the three major foreign currencies, Dollar, Pound Sterling and Euro, Daily times finding has revealed.

The NAFEX, had declared total volume of $302.49 million on Monday and Tuesday, but comparing the Tuesday’s turnover of $146.06m from Wednesday’s $166.75m, it showed that the special forex window strengthened by a whopping $20.69m, even though the total traded for three days was weaker to $326.03 exchanged last Thursday.

However, the Importer and Exporters forex window, opened yesterday trading activities at 359.68 to the US Dollar, which was stronger by 0.06 per cent, while compared to 359.90 sold on Tuesday but lower than 359.61 recorded on Monday.

Therefore, the Naira, at the parallel segment of the foreign exchange market, stood steady at 363 to the Dollar, the same rate it has been selling in the recent past weeks, while unchanged at 475 against pound and 425 per Euro.

In this direction, the Naira, at the official forex market sustained depreciated rate of 305.70 to the dollar, the same price the iw was

seen against the Greenberg on Tuesday, even though it was weaker than 305.65 exchanged on Monday and 305.60 traded last Wednesday.

Meanwhile, in a move to achieve exchange rate convergence and stability, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has injected $2.64 billion in 22 weeks to cushion the dollar crisis on 3000 Bureau De Change (BDC) operators in the country.

The CBN in April 14, 2017 had resolved to raise foreign exchange supply to BDC operators to $40,000 weekly from the $20,000 weekly it sold to the each currency dealers.

The estimated $2.64 billion supply to BDCs operators by ended September 30, 2017, though the CBN continues its intervention to the operators in October.

A source hinted our correspondent that since the announcement in April 14, the apex has supplied each 3,000 BDC operators $40,000 on weekly basis.

The President, Association of Bureaux De Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON), Mr. Aminu Gwadabe, said limited access to foreign exchange is impacting negatively on its association despite the CBN’s weekly intervention.

He noted that the multiple rates at which banks buy foreign exchange at N358/Dollar while BDCs operators buy at N360/ Dollar from the same CBN window is also another challenging facing the operators.

L-R: President, Nigeria Conservation Foundation (NCF) Board of Trustees, Izoma Philip Asiodu; Head, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) & Sustainability, Fidelity Bank Plc, Chris Nnakwe; and the Commissioner for Environment, Lagos State, Samuel Babatunde Adejare, at the 2017 edition of the annual Walk for Nature (WFN) held at the State House, Marina, Lagos ...on Saturday.

ETI declares 12% hike in profit to N57.95bn Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) on Wednesday announced 12 per cent increase in profit for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 to N57.95 billion from N51.76bn in nine months ended September 30, 2016.

The pan-African financial institution Profit before tax also rose by marginally by three per cent to N69.4bn as against N67.5bn in prior nine months of 2016.

Growth in profitability was driven by 24 per cent increase in gross earnings to N564.46bn in nine months ended September 30, 2017, from N456.7bn in nine months ended September 30, 2016.

The Group CEO, ETI. Mr. Ade Ayeyemi, in a statement said, “Our results

reflected the benefits of diversification and the progress made in executing our strategy to positioning the company for long-term growth. Actions we took around reducing costs have shown positive results and were evident in improvements to the costto-income ratio for the group, and particularly for Nigeria.

“We expect further efficiency gains to come from ongoing right-sizing of our Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa region and subsequently the rest of our West Africa regions.

“Our commitment to creating a digital bank is progressing strongly. The number of mobile app downloads, merchant acquisitions, and merchant processing volumes have increased.

Ecobank OMNI and Bank Collect,

both cash management solutions for our commercial and corporate clients, are making it easier for them to efficiently pay and receive cash digitally.

“With the operating environment still subdued, albeit showing signs of recovery, asset quality indicators remain high and will stay at these levels for a few more quarters. In response, we have reduced lending activity, continued to strengthen risk management processes, and are engaging constructively with our customers to make good on their past-due loan payments.

“Overall, we remain optimistic and dedicated to serving our customers with the financial services solutions they need.”

Capital Market B4 Afolabi Adesola Equities trading activities on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Wednesday, sustained positive growth with the All-Share Index (ASI) improving further by 0.25 per cent.

The ASI rose by 91.23 points or 0.25 per cent to close at 36,622.85 compared with 36,531.62 achieved on Tuesday.

In the same vein, the market capitalization, which opened at N12.574 trillion inched N101 billion to close at N12.675 trillion, amid gains recorded by all sectoral indices.

The Banking index recorded the highest growth for the day with an increase of 0.68 percent following growth recorded in the

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NSE’s ASI sustains growth, records 0.25% increase share prices of UBA, FBN Holdings, Zenith and 3 other banking institutions.

The NSE Insurance Index was the day’s biggest sectoral losers with a decline of 1.16 per cent, as a result of significant losses recorded in AXA mansard and Continental Reinsurance on Wednesday.

An analysis of the price movement chart indicated that Fidson led the gainer’s table, with a 9.82 per cent increase to close at N3.69 per share.

CI Leasing came second with

a gain of 7.60 per cent to close at N1. 84 and Honeywell Flourmills appreciated by 7.03 percent to close at N1.98 per share.

Nascon Allied Industries added 6.21 perc ent to close at N15.22, while AG Leventis advanced by 5.45 percent to close at 58 kobo per share.

On the other hand, Cutix Plc recorded the highest loss for the day with a decline of 9.36 percent in its share price to close at N2.13per share. This was followed by Forte Oil which recorded a loss of 4.99 per cent to close

Multiverse sustains loss position in Q3 2017

at N42.42 per share.

UPL trailed with a loss of 4.95 per cent to close at N2.11 and Jaiz Bank shed N4.62 to close at 62 kobo per share. Mansard was down by 3.85 per cent to close at N2 per share.

The volume of shares traded was upbeat as investors bought and sold a total of 332.99 million shares valued at N4.66 billion exchanged in 3,577 deals.

This was in contrast with a turnover of 199.86 million shares worth N1.81bn traded in 3,657 deals on Tuesday.

L-R: Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, Arise TV News Programme Anchors, Ms. Susan Iliyan and Mr. Rotimi Michael Kade, during the minister’s appearance on the News Programme in Abuja... on Wednesday.

Multiverse Mining and Exploration Plc may have given signal of what investors should expect in the 2017 financial year result, with a not so impressive third quarter result released recently.

The company’s result for the period ended 30th September, 2017 released by the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), showed weaker than expected result, even as all performance measuring indices dropped.

Multiverse specializes in solid minerals with focus on mining of Zinc, Copper, Gold, Lead, Tantalite, Tin and Barite Ores.

Daily Times Nigeria recalls that Multiverse Nigeria plc in 2016’s audited financial statement posted gross Loss N35, 221 from N11, 858 in the corresponding period of 2015.

The Q3 result of Multiverse showed that revenue dropped to N4356 from N6374 in the same period of 2016.

Cost of sales dropped to N3, 669 from N5, 204 posted in Q3 2016, gross profit dropped to N687 from N1, 170 in same period 2016.

The result released by the NSE showed that Gross profit for the period closed at N687 from N1, 170 in Q3 2016. Other income closed lower at N15, 853 from N31, 000 in same period 2016, Administrative/operating expenses increased to N49, 847 from N 43,363 in Q3 2016, with depreciation charges dropping to N 42,842 from N44, 746 in similar period of 2016.

The result further showed that Operating loss closed higher at N76,154, while in Q3 2016, it stood at N 55,939 Daily Times recalls that In 2013, the company signed a signed a joint venture mining agreement with a Chinese firm, Unicontinental Engineering Company Plc, with a view to entering into joint quarry productions across the country.

Oando crisis: Test on market integrity-Stakeholders …fears firm may delist from exchange Stories by Bonny Amadi Cross- section of stakeholders in the Nigerian economy and the capital market have expressed mixed feelings on the developments in Oando Nigeria Plc, which they said if not well resolved would cast dent on the integrity of the Nigerian market.

They, however ,called on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to adopt a proactive means of market regulation than its traditional reactionary method, adding that searchlights should not be placed on just companies. but goings on in the firms.

Stakeholders, who re-

acted to the developments in the latest court’s action voiding the suspension on shares of the company, and baring the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from entertaining petition from a none shareholders in the company, called on the commission to protect market integrity.

A stockbroker, who pleaded anonymity, told Daily Times Nigeria that the development in Oando, presents a litmus test on the commitment of market regulators to protect investors funds and boost confidence of both local and foreign investors.

The broker said that failure to address the underlying and latent issues raised

by the ongoing crisis, could trigger a run on the market, ostensibly to be triggered by spiral effect of negative market sentiment occasioned by the crisis.

Oando Plc, on Tuesday, 23rd October, 2017, obtained an ex-parte order from the Federal High Court restraining the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) from implementing a technical suspension on its shares.

While it was also reported that the apex capital market’s regulator has said that earlier findings reveals, the company declared dividends from unrealised profits, released false financial statements.

Meanwhile, capital mar-

ket expert, and Principal Partner Matog Consulting, Mr. Matthew Ogagavworia, told Daily Times that irrespective of suspicions in many quarters that Oando might delist from the Exchange, said that the company thrives on high standard and may not consider delisting.

The expert however said that the development may lead to many disclosures that would further rock the market and investor confidence.

“The Company will not consider delisting, but we may have another fraud case on our hands” he said.

Urging the commission to be more proactive, Matog Principal Consultant said

“SEC should pay more than a passing interest in the management of listed companies. They current focus on listing compliance only.

They should do more than that. They should monitor what really happens at the company and be put in a position to act fast.

He said that the prevailing disclosure requirement by

the SEC remains very shallow for an active regulation, even as he further argued that SEC , could get a shareholder to adopt the petition written by none shareholders of the company, in order to arrive at justifiable end of the crisis. “What does it take for SEC to get a Shareholder to adopt that same petition,”

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Brands & Marketing B6 Stories by Godwin Anyebe Nigerian advertising agencies could reap the rewards of one of the fastest growing markets in the world and grow in stature on the continent if they position themselves in the correct segments and ‘up their game’ to bring more of their work into line with global standards.

Advertising revenue as a whole is expected to increase by a compound annual growth rate of nearly 8% – well above the pace anticipated in developed markets and above many others which are also in emerging economies, according to a report published by PwC in September.

And although traditional platforms dominate in Nigeria now, online advertising will outperform over the next few years, expanding at a CAGR of more than 25% through to 2020. PwC predicts

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Experts urge Ad agencies to up their game, reap rewards of industry that revenue from the segment will nearly double to $132 million by then, from an estimated $76 billion this year, making it the third highest after TV and OOH advertising, which is set to grow at a slower pace.

These are encouraging figures for advertising agencies, as Nigeria’s economy emerges from a recession which took a toll on consumer spending last year. But the industry also needs to bring the quality of its work into line with global standards, say advertising executives who participated in the Loeries annual awards in Durban in August.

Seven Nigerian submissions

were selected as finalists at the event, while only one agency – 7even Interactive Ltd, scooped up an award, walking away with the bronze medal in the ‘Digital and Interactive – Social Media’ category.

Its emotive campaign was a self-funded Social Responsibility Initiative aimed at raising awareness of rape. The agency made its point by photographing celebrities without their consent and using their images on social media to promote ‘Frixion Vodka’, a fictional brand.

After the predictable burst of outrage erupted on social media, the agency apologised and ex-

plained its motives. The result: support for the message, and attention from its target audience.

Ndukwe Onuoha, creative director at 7even Interactive, disclosed in Lagos that the reason for the ad’s success at home and in Durban was literally ‘simple’.

“The Loeries are not just looking for good ideas executed correctly, you have to be single-minded and keep it simple. Our ad wasn’t convoluted and anyone could relate to it – so it stood out,” he says.

Top agency executives often say that Nigeria’s cultural diversity and multiple languages means that advertising messages can ‘get lost in translation’ in markets out-

side the country. Onuoha doesn’t buy this argument.

“It boils down to the idea of being simple enough to be understood across cultures – there are some things that are universal. Nigerians are globally minded and to make an impact in the country you do not need to adopt a purely Nigerian perspective, although there are nuances to be tapped into,” he maintains.

Managing Director of Peacock Media, Ada Adheke, and one of the judges at the Loeries this year, sticks to her view that it is challenging for Nigerian creatives to adapt to markets outside the country.

SERAS unveils Stellar Casret for 2017 judges committee

L-R: Director, Enterprise Segment, 9mobile, Plato Syrimis; MD, Itunu Stores, Mrs. Itunu Akinbola, an entrepreneur; Keynote speaker and ED, Nigerian Association of SMEs, Eke Obiji, and Manager, Entreprise Service Delivery, 9mobile, Andrew Enebeli, at the 9mobile Market Access Forum for SMEs, held recently... in Lagos.

NB: Goldberg’s initiative enhances businesses in Ekiti, Osun Ï Rƕ è Ɛ ƆƏ Ɛ ƄƆ ƆƇƈƐ Nigerian Breweries Plc has enhanced businesses with grants in Osun and Ekiti States through Goldberg’s Isedowo empowerment initiative, which will also be extended to other Southwest states.

Beneficiaries of Isedowo have affirmed that the scheme has indeed provided them huge relief from financial challenges hitherto faced in expanding their businesses.

So far, 32 artisans and small scale business operators have been supported with N300,000 each by Isedowo recently in Osun and Ekiti States, while the project continues in other Southwest States.

In all, Goldberg will support 100 entrepreneurs through Isedowo across the Yoruba speaking states.

Speaking on Isedowo, the Portfolio Manager, Mainstream Lager and Stout brands, Nigerian Breweries Plc, Mr. Emmanuel Agu said Goldberg has, through the empowerment initiative, extended its affinity with the people of the Southwest beyond culture and tra-

dition to entrepreneurship.

To benefit from the project, interested participants are expected to showcase their business ideas and how they impact the society.

Isedowo, which was launched last month by the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II, has received wide commendation from prominent monarchs in the Southwest. Having supported entrepreneurs in Osun and Ekiti States, the scheme will be activated in Oyo State next month.

Ojo Adeosun, a fashion designer who was overjoyed after receiving the grant, said the N300,000 was a huge upliftment from financial challenges as it helped him in purchasing a new sewing machine he had always required to expand his business. He disclosed that he also started selling fabrics and now has three apprentices working with him.

Adeosun said he had been in dire need of capital and when he heard about Isedowo, he decided to send his business proposal for the auditioning

and screening processes. “I commend Goldberg and Nigerian Breweries for boosting my business and the initiative is worth emulating,” Adeosun stated.

Kayode Tope Ogunro, a photo/videographer, disclosed that he had almost concluded arrangement to buy a camera and video lights from a friend in Lagos and intended to open a studio with the grant from Isedowo.

He said he would also employ an assistant to further expand his business.

Ogunro advised other entrepreneurs to come up with good business ideas with positive impacts on the society.

Ayodele Adebalogun, an aluminium fabricator, said Isedowo provided a relief from the daunting struggle to raise capital. He disclosed that he participated in the scheme with his wife, who is a caterer, but the judges did not deem her proposal fit enough for selection.

He added that after buying a new cutting machine for his work, he supported his wife’s business with parts of the grant.

The organizers of the sustainability, enterprise and sponsibility awards otherwise known as The SERAS CSR Awards Africa have announced a list nine erudite professionals and global CSR and sustainability industry leading figures for the 2017 jury panel. The judges would serve a two year tenure that could be renewed.

The list comprises Deborah Leipziger, Tunde Arogunmati, Maria Silanpaa, Jonathon Hanks, Adesuwa Onyenokwe, Dr. Ini Usoroh, Scott Walker, Indira Kartallozi and Olusegun McMedal.

The committee would be presided over by Deborah Leipziger author of The Corporate Responsibility Code Book and SA8000: The Definitive Guide to the New Social Standard.

She also advises companies, governments and UN agencies on corporate responsibility issues. Other members are Tunde Arogunmati, a specialist in business strategy and former president of the Nigerian- British Association who sits as the vice President of the panel. Jonathon Hanks is founder and director at Incite, an advocacybased consultancy network in South Africa. Maria Silanpaa is an internationally recognized corporate social responsibility and sustainability leader and founder of Sustainability Advisory Group (SAG). In 2011, CSR International rated her third amongst

global practitioners. Adesuwa Onyenokwe, a successful broadcaster who has spent the last 35 years in the industry promoting the rights of girls, women and children and publisher of Today’s Woman Magazine. Scott Walker is the founding Director of N.Y.lon Consulting, which provides public policy, public affairs and corporate sustainability solutions.

Dr. Ini Usorohholds a PH.D in corporate social responsibility and sustainable development from Nottingham Trent University, U.K. and currently consults for several organizations in Nigeria and the UK. Others on the list include Olusegun McMedal, a media entrepreneur, public relations advisor and current chairman of the Lagos state chapter of the Nigerian Institute of public relations (NIPR), and Indira Kartallozi, founder and director of Chrysalis Family Futures- a social enterprise that stands for protection and empowering of human and socioeconomic rights of vulnerable and marginalized families and children.

Speaking on this development recently in Lagos, Ken Egbas, founder of The SERAS, said; “We set out to up the ante this year and we have shown this with the highest grade of personalities on the judges committee. We have come this far riding on the credibility of our internal processes.

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The future of food in Nigeria -Ogbeh It is very important to improve food availability, access, utilization and stability in the Country, bearing in mind that the 38kcal/person/day food energy deficit in the country needs to be reversed. For example, as outlined in the Strategy, the insufficiency of dietary availability of iron from animal sources at 1mgper person per day in Nigeria relative to the 2.9mg globally; and consumption of quality protein at 35g per person per day relative to 68.6g globally are alarming to us.

Most often, available foods are also not affordable to a significant number of the national population while nearly 60% of the income of households is expended on food, and even those in the lowest rung of the social and economic ladder spend more than 75% of their incomes on food.

Inadequate processing and storage facilities are troubling issues too because of their impact on prices and affordability. Prolonged crisis, especially in the northern eastern part, and other parts of the Country that have experienced incessant clashes of herdsmen and farmers, is also an issue of concern. The good news is that this Administration is addressing these issues with a view to effectively, satisfactorily and permanently resolving them.

While time will not permit me to elaborate on all the eight areas of the Food Safety and Nutrition Strategy, a few words on food safety will suffice. All along the food value chains are various hazards arising from indiscriminate use of fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides and veterinary medicines, among others.

Poor agricultural practices have accounted for the rising incidents of biological contamination of foods with moulds, viruses, parasites, prions, bacteria, some of

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which have been associated with producing toxins like cancer aflatoxins. Drying in most places is undertaken on major roads on bare surfaces thus exposing food items to dust, lead from car exhaust and pest contamination, among others.

The food security and overall health of our people are, therefore being compromised, almost daily, hence the unhealthy situation food safety status of the country presently. The consequence is that we are witnessing increased incidents of liver cancer (about 7,761 cases) kidney failures, and other chronic diseases translating into a huge loss to the country, especially with the loss of lives therefrom . The Federal Ministry of Agriculture cannot deal with all these issues alone because they go beyond its jurisdictional authority. Accordingly, we are working with concerned key stakeholders in all spheres to put in place all necessary measures to ensure that the food we consume nourish our bodies rather than impair our health.

Combating diet related non-communicable diseases, which are also increasing phenomenally in Nigeria is also a topical concern in the food safety and nutrition strategy. They are manifested in cases such as high blood pressure, high fat content in the blood, high blood glucose levels, obesity, diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular diseases. Given that increased access to fruits, vegetables, legumes, and other nutrientdense foods can help stem the occurrence of these diseases in large numbers, we are focusing attention on producing them in greater numbers in the country. The emphasis is to ensure improved access and affordability, especially to vulnerable persons and those in the lowest rung of the social ladder in the society.

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Nigeria records N2.7trn post-harvest losses yearly Stories by Simon Ugwu The Executive Director, Nigerian Stored Products Research Institute (NSPRI), Prof. Olufemi Peters has revealed that Nigeria loses more than $8.9 billion (N2.7 trillion) annually as a result of post-harvest food losses.

Peters made the disclosure at the opening ceremony of a two-day capacity building workshop on ‘’agricultural products loss, reduction and value addition for rural farmers,’’ held at Ahiazu Mbaise Local Council of Imo State.

He said the figure was part of the joint findings by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO’s) Fact

Sheet published in 2013 and NSPRI survey conducted in the six geo-political zones of the country of that year.

“More than 51.3 metric tonnes of food are lost due to post-harvest food losses for all the agricultural products from the country.

The institute further observed that the losses were much higher in rural communities that were in dire need of development because of inadequate presence of basic facilities and infrastructure. “Presently, post-harvest food losses for grains, roots and tubers, fruits and vegetable, livestock and fisheries, and many more are about 15, 35, 50, and 30 per cent, respectively.

The money, the country is losing could be annual budget of more than 20 countries, because almost one quarter of the staple and perishable foods produced in Nigeria never reach the consumers,’’ he said.

He said that if the situation were handled, the nation would have attained food self-sufficiency, leading to becoming a major food products exporter. Represented by the Director, PostHarvest Engineering, Dr Foline Folorunso Olayemi, the NSPRI Executive Director, regretted that post-harvest loss was a major challenge in Nigeria’s agricultural sector.

He said if Nigeria must achieve food security, the

stakeholders in the post-harvest value chain must synergize to safe-keeping after post harvest exercise. Peters continued: “In spite of the remarkable progress made in food production in the country, successive governments had not adequately identified and addressed the challenge of post-harvest value chain,’’ he said.

He added that the agency had worked hard with years of post-harvest research experience and expertise, developing post-harvest technologies. Peters advised participants drawn from communities in Ahiazu Mbaise area to take advantage of the training to tackle post-harvest losses.

L-R: Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer, Mentor Energy Consulting, Victor Eremonsele; Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer, Fidelity Bank Plc., Nnamdi Okonkwo; Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer, EMADEB Energy Services Limited, Adebowale Olujimi; Head, Energy, UBA Razzak Shittu; Head, Ecobank Energy Research, Dolapo Oni, during the Oil Trading Logistics (OTL) 2017 Expo, Africa Downstream Week held at Oriental Hotel in Lagos ...on Tuesday.

Exporters debunk yam export rejection stories The exporters of yam to the UK and US have disputed the reports, initially aired by the Africa Independent Television (AIT) purporting that the yams exported after the official flag-off ceremony on June 29, 2017 were rejected at their export destinations.

The symbolic event, done at the Lilypond Container Terminal in Lagos by the Honourable Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, meant to boost the morale of Nigerian exporters and make a bold statement to the global marketplace, has drawn widespread criticisms on various media platforms based on the misleading reports.

The concerned export-

ers and other prospective exporters have expressed worries about the potential impact of the negative publicity on their prospects at the export market in the wake of federal government’s initiative on diversification of the economy through agricultural produce export.

Most commentators and analysts in the mainstream and social media have retailed the negative aspect of the laudable initiative and have played up the wrong versions of the export story.

Discussions with the exporters have since shown the prevailing storyline as inappropriate and misleading.

First, the exporters to the UK and US have emphati-

cally said that their consignments were successfully cleared at the ports and delivered them to their various warehouses. They said, although some cases of tuber spoilage were reported in both cases, these were separated from the good ones, and the good ones were distributed to the buyers. The exporters noted that Ghana, which has been exporting yams for a while, routinely records cases of spoilage, without making any public issues therefrom; and their yams don’t get rejected as a result.

Mr. Michael Adedipe of ADES UK Foods and Drinks for the UK, whose warehouse was visited by AIT, has deplored the AIT report and other subsequent com-

mentaries about rejection of his yams by the UK authorities. Adedipe has said emphatically that the consignment was not rejected; “It was cleared.”

According to Adedipe, who confirmed that he spoke to AIT: “I’ve watched the (TV) programme which lasted for about two hours.

All the positive stuff removed. We that decide to venture in this project are aware of the risks involved because, this fresh produce … we’ll expect five or 10 per cent damages. I don’t know why they said the product got rejected. I’ve sent my release note. I’ve sent video of loading. I’ve sent every documentation to say that there is no issue like that at all.”

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Porsche 911 Carrera T offers improved performance, comfort Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo As part of its efforts to meet the demands of its teeming clients, Porsche is reviving the purist philosophy from the 911 T of 1968 in the new 911 Carrera T. The revival is said to provide less weight, shorter transmission ratios from the manual gearbox, and rear-wheel drive with mechanical rear differential lock for improved performance and driving pleasure.

The new model’s unique appearance is based on the 911 Carrera and delivers 370 hp (272 kw). The T – signifying a Touring model – boasts several other standard equipment features that are not available for the 911 Carrera including the PASM sports chassis, lowered by 20 mm, the weight-optimised Sport Chrono Package, a shortened gear lever with red shift pattern and SportTex seat centres. The 911 Carrera T is also available with optional rear-axle steering.

The 911 Carrera T is specifically designed and

equipped to optimise sportiness through lightweight materials. The rear-side and back windows are fitted with lightweight glass, and the interior door handles replaced with pull-loops.

The sound absorption materials have been reduced, rear seats omitted and there is an option to remove the Porsche Communication Management (PCM). This all results in a kerb weight of 1,425 kilograms, making this two-seater 20 kilograms lighter than a 911 Carrera with comparable equipment.

The design of the 911 Car-

rera T embodies the passion for performance and sportiness that is synonymous with Porsche’s rear-wheel drive coupés. The differentiating elements on the 911 Carrera T include an aerodynamically optimised front spoiler lip, and Sport Design exterior mirrors painted in Agate-Grey Metallic.

From the side profile, the new model is easily recognisable owing to 20-inch Carrera S wheels in Titan Grey and “911 Carrera T” logos.

The rear view is characterised by slats in the rear lid grille, the Porsche logo, the “911 Carrera T” model des-

ignation in Agate Grey and the sports-exhaust system fitted as standard with centrally positioned black twin tailpipes. The exterior colour options are Black, Lava Orange, Guards Red, Racing Yellow, White and Miami Blue, as well as the metallic colours Carrara White, Jet Black and GT Silver.

The cabin adheres to a sporty, puristic driving ethos. The drivers sports seat in black is electrically adjustable four-ways, featuring centre-inserts in SportTex fabric and a headrest with the “911” logo stitched in black. The new Carrera T

L-R: Mrs. Toki Mabogunje, Vice President LCCI; Chief (Mrs) Nike Akande, President, LCCI; Mr. Olu Tikolo, Vice President, Kia Motors Nigeria; and Mr. Jimoh Olawale, Marketing Manager at the LCCI New Members’ Induction Ceremony in Lagos where Kia Motors Nigeria was inducted as a member... recently.

To promote entrepreneurship in the country, Ford Motor Company in collaboration with its Nigeria’s distributor, Coscharis Motors, has announced its participation as a supporting sponsor of the Next Titan, an entrepreneurial reality show.

The reality show will see the major beneficiary going home with a brandnew Ford Ranger as a prize to the overall winner of the competition to start their new business or to support their existing business.

Speaking at the event, Abiona Babarinde, General Manager, Marketing and Corporate Communications at Coscharis Motors said: “We are delighted to be part of the show once again. In 2016, Coscharis Motors sponsored the show for the first time and gave away a brand-new Ford Escape to the winner. The company is proud to support young talented Nigerians by improving mobility

and enabling them to run their business more efficiently.”

The Next Titan is a global standard television platform and is designed to educate young Nigerians about entrepreneurship, encouraging them to consider this as a career goal and reduce the high rate of unemployment. Sixteen participants, between the ages of 21 and 39, will battle one another in various business tasks, such as strategy, sales, marketing, promotions and others, for ten weeks.

During the competition, participants and viewers will get exposure to real life entrepreneurial challenges through informal training and learn from top business leaders.

These learnings will be of great use to those who wish to start their own business or grow current businesses. The Next Titan premiered on 08 October 2017 and the winner will be announced on 10 December 2017.

Vehicle imports decrease by 90% in 2016, 2017 Q1

PSquare headlines KIA ember surprise promo Kia Motors Nigeria has rolled out a special offer tagged, Ember Surprise Promo, to give customers a 10% discount on select models such as Kia Rio 1.4Ltr EX Manual and Automatic, Picanto, and Soul.

The promo is headlined

by Kia Motors Nigeria ambassador, an ace music artist and Nigeria’s big-

Ford: Coscharis motors sponsor next titan

gest musical export to the world, Peter Okoye of the PSquare brothers.

According to Kia Nigeria, the promo is valid while stock lasts is to ensure that all lovers of the all-new Kia cars benefit from this discount offer.

Over the years now, Kia Motors Nigeria has offered a model range that has been known as the most affordable yet trendy cars

in the country. In line with its promise to provide affordable best in class cars to the Nigeria market, the company has presented an exclusive offer to make great savings on its made in Nigeria Kia cars.

As the country’s leading Korean car manufacturer, Kia’s offering of these lucrative deals and discounts on the Picanto, Rio, and Soul is aimed at attracting

customers in this season by giving them an opportunity to save big when they buy any of the models on promo. In this offer customers gets as high as N810,000 discount in this season. The Kia Picanto boasts of N495,o00 while Kia Rio 1.4Ltr EX Manual has N594,000 and 1.4Ltr LX and 1.4Ltr EX Automatic both have N765,000 and N810,000 discounts respec-

Due to economic downturn, vehicles coming into the country have reduced drastically as statistics show that imports into the country dropped by about 90 per cent between 2016 and first quarter of 2017.

The Managing Director, Toyota Nigeria Limited, Mr. Kunle Ade-Ojo, who made the observation at the company’s forecast for the Nigerian automobile industry in 2017 at Toyota’s quarterly briefing in Lagos recently said “imports dropped by about 90 per cent between 2016 and 2017 Q1.

In terms of retail sales, we are estimating, based on the information we have, that the auto market did about 2,000 vehicles compared to about 5,000 vehicles that were sold in Q1 of 2015, bringing it to a drop of over 50 per cent when you look in terms of retail sales.”

He also predicted that Ni-

geria’s auto industry is expected to import and sell between 8,000 and 10,000 new vehicles this year, a figure that is lower than the 15,000 projected for last year.

The forecast, Ade-Ojo said, was based on the industry’s performance in the first quarter of 2017, adding that at the end of the first quarter of 2017, total import figures for the nation’s automobile industry from the nation’s ports came to about 350 units, compared to about 3,500 units that came in at the same time last year.

In terms of market share, he said: “Toyota had a share of about 22-23 per cent of Q1 sales, generally.

But forex continues to be a major challenge and interest rates have gone up,” he added. He explained that along with the dollar scarcity, “so also the naira is pretty much scarce and banks’ interest rates have gone up.

The Edo Times

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Edo farmers to cultivate 250,000 hectares of land in 2 years –Obaseki

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Alaghodaro summit: Local, international ET2 firms jostle for exhibition space Edo Speaker stresses need for internal democracy in parties ÏÏÏThe speaker, Edo State House

L-R: Oba of Lagos, HRM Rilwan Akiolu; HRM Oba Ewuare II; Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, his wife, Betsy; Deputy Governor, Rt. Hon. Philip Shaibu; Captain Hosa Okunbor and other guests at the Gala Night to celebrate the 1st Coronation Anniversary of Oba of Benin...recently

Building plan approval: EDSG unveils new procedure, sets 3 months’ timeline Stories by Titus Akhigbe Benin

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efforts by the Edo State Government to unlock the socio-economic benefits in the housing sector, the Edo State Ministry of Physical Panning and Urban Development has unveiled a three months’ time limit for processing and issuing building plan approvals to prospective developers.

According to the Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Hon. Erimona Edorodion Oye, the new procedure will ensure “that all applications for building permits do not exceed three months which is in line with the provi-

sions of the Nigerian Urban and Regional Planning Law, Decree No. 88 of 1992.”

Oye urged all those who have ongoing/ pending building plan approvals to submit all the necessary documents required for the granting of their building approvals so that their building plans can be processed.

He advised the public that “any pending building plan approval application in the Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development that does not have the necessary documentation required and that has exceeded three months, come December 30, 2017, shall be deemed to have expired and approval will be denied/re-

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jected.”

The commissioner assured of the state govern-

ment’s readiness to begin the issuance of building permits within three months.

Obaseki to fast-track accreditation of Edo College of Education programmes

ÏÏÏEdo State Governor, Mr. God-

win Obaseki, has promised to fasttrack accreditation of programmes at Edo College of Education, Igueben, before the year runs out.

The governor made the disclosure at Igueben, the administrative headquarters of the council, during his thank-you-tour of some local government areas in Edo Central senatorial district.

Obaseki said: “My administration will support the Edo College of Education in Igueben to get all its programmes accredited and ensure the execution of projects in the institution. We intend to reposition the school and ensure a smooth take-off of the institution and make it one of the best.”

He also pledged to set up a vocational centre to impart youth with skills needed to be employable, adding, “We have promised to create jobs

for our youths and to prepare them for the employment opportunities that our government will provide. We will set up skills acquisition centre here in Igueben to train and provide them with the necessary skills they need for the jobs.”

Obaseki said he could not have been governor today if not for the commitment, determination, courage of members of the party who made it possible. As such, he pledged to work with the party to transform the state. He solicited their support, stating that it will be difficult to achieve results if the party members fail to cooperate with his administration.

“I rely on vital information from you to help govern the state. We have to meet regularly for you to hear from us what we are doing as a government while we listen to you to solve CONTINUED ON PAGE 2

of Assembly, the Rt. Hon. Kabiru Adjoto, has assured that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will promote internal democracy and enforce discipline that will make the party relevant and sought for by politicians to actualise their political aspirations.

Hon. Adjoto while addressing an enlarged meeting of APC at its secretariat, Igarra, Akoko Edo Local Government Area, said the party is guided by its constitution and the rule of law, to avoid the pitfalls of the past.

The speaker warned political office holders from Akoko-Edo extraction to live up to expectation, pointing out that the party has the instrument to sanction erring political office holder who work contrary to the policy trust of the present administration.

Hon. Adjoto commended the state governor for his key interest to transform the socio-economic landscape of Akoko-Edo as well as the appointment of indigenes into political positions, which was the first in the series since the creation of the council area, many years ago.

The speaker pledged the unflinching support and unalloyed loyalty of Akoko-Edo people to his administration just as he implored the people to come out en-mass and accord the governor a rousing reception as he visits Akoko-Edo on November 3 in continuation of the governor’s tour to council area.

Member representing AkokoEdo constituency two at the House of Assembly, Hon. Emmanuel Agbaje, lambasted those who engaged in campaign of calumny and pull him down syndrome to curry favour in the sight of desperate and over ambitious politicians to the detriment of others.

He argued that social media has been awash with negative comments on political officer holders from Akoko-Edo extraction for the past few months, by some persons whose stock in trade is to exploit money for their selfish interest.

This ugly trend, according to Hon. Agbaje, if not addressed will create bad blood among politicians and denigrate their office which will not augur well at this point of the nation’s history.

The Edo North senatorial leader of the party, Chief Joseph Arogundade, said the meeting was convened in strict adherence of the directive from the national body to cross fertilise ideas on how to consolidate on the gains achieved so far by the party.

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Obaseki awards contract for Uhunmwode General Hospital ÏÏÏThe Governor of

Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has disclosed that contract for the construction of a General Hospital in Uhunmwode Local Government Area has been awarded to address the healthcare need of people in the local council.

Obaseki disclosed this while speaking with members of the All Progressives Party (APC) at Ehor, the administrative headquarters of Uhunmwode Local Government Area, in continuation of his thank-you-visit to the state’s 18 local government areas.

He explained that his administration has completed the design of a General Hospital to be sited in the council and the contract for the construction of the hospital has been awarded by the state government.

He added that statistics have shown that Uhunmwode Local Government Area ranks poorly in major indices of development, promising to change the narrative.

“I am not happy with the level of progress recorded in Uhunmwode Local Government Area. An area with the largest land mass in the state should be assisted in developing basic infrastructure,” he said.

The governor also promised to provide communities within the council electricity as well as potable water, assuring the people that they would benefit from efforts to attract investors from Indonesia and Malaysia to develop oil palm plantations in the council.

The Special Adviser to the Governor on Basic Education and Sole Administrator of the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Dr. Joan Osa Oviawe and the Commissioner for Health, Hon. Dr. David Osifo, who both hail from the local government, were on ground to receive the governor.

The State APC Chairman, Barr.

Anslem Ojezua, commended the members of the party for their support and vote during the last gubernatorial election and promised that the local government would reap the full dividends of democracy as the governor is determined in ensuring that all parts of the state are developed.

The APC Chairman in Uhunmwode Local Government Area, Hon. Harrison Oyegue, praised the governor for the developmental strides in roads and other infrastructural development in the state. He assured the governor of the people’s continued support.

Alaghodaro summit: Local, international firms jostle for exhibition space Stories by Titus Akhigbe Benin

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battle for the juiciest piece of investment opportunity, international and local companies are jostling for exhibition space at the Edo State Alaghodaro Investment Summit, holding in Benin City, the state capital.

The state government, in a statement, said it has gotten an avalanche of requests from companies angling to clinch vantage points at the summit, which is primed to showcase the state’s domesticated version of the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) and vast investment opportunities in agriculture, industries, healthcare, education, infrastructure, among others.

The three-day summit is christened ‘Alaghodaro,’ which means progress and will hold at Edo Hotels, Okada Avenue, Benin City. It

will run from November 10 to 12, 2017 and would host the crème de la crème of Nigeria’s investment heavyweights.

According to the state government, dignitaries attending the summit include President Muhammadu Buhari; Vice President Prof. Yemi Osibanjo; Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Okechukwu Enelamah; Minister of State for Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire; former Governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke; former Inspector General of Police (IGP), Solomon Arase; Senator Ben Murray Bruce, and many more.

Some of the international companies billed to attend the event are General Electric (GE) of the United States (US), Mahindra Group of India, Tolaram Group of Singapore, Olam Group, Indorama, WACOT Limited among others.

Leading African businessmen to the summit is Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote of Dangote Group, to be joined by Managing Director,

Shell Nigeria, Osagie Okunbor; Cosmas Maduka of Coscharis Group; Chairman of Africa Initiative for Governance (AIG) and former Managing Director of Access Bank, Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede; BUA Group, Okomu Oil Plc., PRESCO Plc., SARO Agroscience, Guinness Plc., Nigerian Bottling Company, and many others.

Chairman of Alaghodaro 2017, Asue Ighodalo, said the summit is a departure from past parleys, noting that there is a move to mobilise investors to Edo and steer the state off heavy dependence on oil money, as it was evident that, with the decline and continued uncertainty in the oil sector, the summit promises a better future for Edo people.

Speaking on the importance of the summit, Ighodalo said: “The world over, governments are looking beyond oil to alternative revenue sources in order to ensure sustainable development, and we must also get creative and take action today for our future and the future of our children.”

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the challenges confronting you,” he said.

He revealed that his administration has awarded contract for construction of Igu-Amahor road, noting that there was a brief delay because the contractor is waiting for the dry season to move to site.

Earlier, the APC chairman in Igueben, Mr. Sunday Iredia, commended the governor’s achievements since assuming office, noting that the state has seen improvement in Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) and prudent management of the state’s funds. He appealed to the governor to address the deplorable state of some roads in the council.

At Ubiaja in Esan South East, Obaseki promised an agricultural processing zone at Ilushin in addition to a vocational centre that will provide the necessary skills for the youths of the area, to prepare them for the jobs his administration will provide for them.

He equally assured them that roads in the council area will not be forgotten, adding “I have stationed a contractor in Edo Central Senatorial District to ensure that a number of roads are constructed, we are only waiting for the dry season to commence work”.

The APC chairman in Esan South East, Mr. Chris Aghughu, said he

was delighted that Obaseki made history by appointing the first female commissioner from the area and his recent donations to Industrial Training Fund (ITF) trainees. He further urged the governor to reactivate Edo Broadcasting Service (EBS) Relay Station at Ivue, Uromi, so that they could follow his programmes on television.

At the thank-you-tour at Uromi in Esan North East Local Government Area, the governor called on the party faithful to join hands with his administration to change the face of politics by making the people believe in the All Progressives Congress (APC).

He assured the people that his administration will respect the supremacy of the party and work to transform the state for the people to have a better life.

The governor, during the thankyour-tours, continued rewarding wards that performed best at the ballot during the governorship election that brought him to power.

At Igueben, Ubiaja and Uromi, the governor received defectors from other political parties in the state to the APC fold. Among them are Dickson Idemudia and his supporters at Igueben and Alhaji Musa Isiwele at Uromi. Obaseki urged the new party members to work hard for the party and ensure that all those they left behind in their former parties are won over to the APC.

R-L: Edo State Commissioner for Local Government and Community Affairs, Hon. Jimoh Ijegbai; Edo State First Lady, Mrs. Betsy Obaseki; and wife of Edo State Deputy Governor, Mrs. Maryann Shaibu, during stakeholders’ meeting on the prevention of neonatal deaths in Edo State which held in Benin City ...on Monday

Edo First Lady collaborates with stakeholders on reduction of neonatal deaths ÏÏÏThe wife of the Edo State Gov-

ernor, Mrs. Betsy Obaseki, is collaborating with stakeholders in the health sector to reduce the death of neonates (babies between 0- 28 days old) in the state.

Speaking during a stakeholders’ meeting on the prevention of neonatal deaths in the state, organised in Benin City, Mrs. Obaseki said that more collaborations are needed to strengthen the country’s health sector.

She assured that she would continue to partner with other stakeholders to implement the Essential New-born Care Cost (ENCC), an initiative of the Federal Government launched in 2016 that is geared towards reduction of neonatal deaths in the country.

The First Lady urged stakeholders to take the collaboration seriously and bring in their wealth of

experience to ensure that the ENCC initiative succeeds in the state.

Delivering his speech, Dr. Ikechukwu Okonwko, a Consultant Pediatrician and Neonatologist at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), said that a nation that does not take care of her newborn, does not care about her future.

Okonkwo lamented that Nigeria ranks second and first in infant mortality in the world and Africa respectively, noting that all stakeholders need to rise up to remedy the situation.

He said that current research showed that lack of skilled personnel to take birth deliveries in Sub-Saharan Africa contributes to neonatal deaths, calling for training of more healthcare personnel, especially birth attendants in rural areas.

Earlier, Mrs. Bridget Okoeguale, a facilitator of ENCC initiative in

Edo State, attributed the high rate of infant mortality in the country to lack of implementation of health policies.

Okoeguale said the aim of the stakeholders’ meeting was to come up with working plans on training of more health personnel on the implementation of ENCC as the state has only 11 health personnel trained on the initiative.

She said that a baseline survey on neonatal deaths in Edo State would also be conducted as part of implementation of the initiative in the state.

The stakeholders were drawn from secondary and tertiary health institutions in the state, the Nigerian Medical Association, association of nurses, ministries of health and local government and chieftaincy affairs, and the World Health Organisation (WHO), among others.

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APC to PDP: Obaseki did not use school compound for rally

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Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State (middle) and his deputy, Rt. Hon. Philip Shaibu, surrounded by APC party faithful during the Thank-You-Visit to Orhionmwon LGA at Abudu ...on Tuesday.

Edo farmers to cultivate 250,000 hectares of land in 2 years –Obaseki Stories by Titus Akhigbe Benin

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Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has disclosed that the goal of his administration in the next two years is to ensure that farmers in the state cultivate a minimum of 250,000 hectares of farmland.

Obaseki said this recently at the 13th Esan Economic Empowerment Workshop, with the theme: “Modernising Agri-business in Esan Land for Economic Empowerment,” organised by the Association of Esan Professionals.

He explained that agriculture is at the centre of the economic reconstruction programme of the Federal Government as well as Edo State government due to the sector’s potential to create millions of jobs.

“This initiative is in line with my administration’s commitment to create 200,000 jobs for Edo people, which we promised during our electioneering campaign,” the governor said.

He said agriculture is being embraced in Edo State due to the incentives his administration is

providing to make access to land, fertiliser and other inputs easy for farmers.

He further said that his administration has revamped the Edo fertiliser plant in Auchi to enable farmers have same type of fertiliser after proper examination of the soil to ensure healthy crop production.

“We have equally revamped the College of Agriculture in the state to train our farmers and help them with the required knowledge to grow healthy agricultural products for export.”

Obaseki said the Gelegele seaport is another important project that will help in the export of finished agricultural products.

He urged the youths to embrace agriculture as his administration is creating the enabling environment for large scale farming, easy access to land and improved seedlings.

“Agriculture is now scientifically done and mechanisation will help us compete in the international agricultural market.”

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbe, congratulated the organis-

ers of the workshop and pledged the support of the Federal Government for their programme.

The minister, who was represented by the State Director, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Edo State Office, Omoragbon Wellington, assured that the Federal Government would support the group in the area of capacity building and supply of processing machines at subsidised rate.

The president of the Association of Esan Professionals, organisers of the workshop, Barr. Mathew Egbadon, said the association was established with the sole objective of serving as a non- political platform for the Esan people to contribute their quota to the development of Esan land.

He said the association has established Esan Education Trust Fund to assist indigent students in accessing quality education.

Egbadon said the association is focusing on agriculture because Esan people have comparative advantage in the sector with the vast land available for farming.

…Pledges to reconstruct Benin-Abraka road within 24 months ÏÏÏThe Governor of Edo State, Mr.

Godwin Obaseki, has pledged to reconstruct the Benin - Abraka Road in Orhionmwon Local Government Area within 24 months to boost economic activities in the area and state in general.

Obaseki made the pledge at Abudu, headquarters of Orhionmwon LGA during his thank-you-tour of the local council on Tuesday.

He said the state has entered into partnership with the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to reconstruct the road and promised that the state will take full responsibil-

ity for the road even if NDDC fails to pay its counterpart funds.

He decried the level of development in the area despite the large land mass in the LGA and promised to industrialise the area.

“The state has approved the contract for a 5,000-hectare cassava production farm in Orhionmwon to be used for ethanol production,” he said.

He used the occasion to debunk the rumour that there was division in the party and clarified “we are one in the All Progressives Congress (APC), there was misunderstanding but not division.”

The governor received defectors

who were led by their leaders from wards in Abudu, Igbanke and Evboesi towns in the council to the All Progressives Party (APC).

Earlier, the APC Chairman in the council, Mr. Matthew Ehigie, while welcoming the governor to the council, called for the strengthening of the unity in the party so that it would achieve more successes at future polls.

Ehigie appealed for the reconstruction of the Benin-Abraka Road, and added that other areas of need would be communicated to the governor.

(APC) in Edo State has described as a lie, the claim by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that the state governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, used a public school as venue for the recent tour of some wards in the state.

The Publicity Secretary of the APC in the state, Mr. Chris Azebamwan, said: “Our attention has been drawn to the lie by the fragmented Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, by its Publicity Secretary, Mr. Chris Nehikhare, who accused Governor Godwin Obaseki, of using a public school compound as venue for the thank you visit to members of the APC at some wards.”

Azebamwan explained that in the news report published on an online news site, Mr. Nehikhare alleged that the Obaseki-led APC government acted in breach of its own policy by organising a thank you rally at a public school, after placing a ban on the use of public primary and secondary schools for social events in the state.

“In the most hypocritical man-

ner and with total disrespect to Edo people, Governor Godwin Obasekiled APC government, is now using the prohibited public school fields for his so called thank you rally,” Nehikhare was quoted as saying in the news report.

But the state APC scribe debunked the claim and said that “the Edo State APC is aghast at the ease with which the PDP is applying its last breath in the propagation of falsehood in the state as it struggles desperately to come to terms with its new reality of an obscure party that is ready for decommissioning.”

Azebamwan maintained that at the said rallies, Governor Obaseki was treated to a warm and carnivallike reception everywhere he went, across several local government headquarters and stressed that “none was held at a public school.”

He further said that the videos and photographs of the tour of some wards have been broadcast severally and printed in newspapers and magazines in national and local media.

Alaghodaro summit: EDSG holds job fair, employability training job placements in companies across

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initiatives leading to the maiden Alaghodaro investment summit and to fulfill its promise of 200,000 jobs for youths, the Edo State Government will hold the maiden Edo Jobs Summit from October 31 to November 8, featuring intensive fiveday employability training and a job fair by top companies and investors in the state.

The state government disclosed this in a statement at the Government House, Benin City, noting that the summit will be open for companies, who are interested in building their teams, or intends to recruit interns, to tap from the opportunity.

Edo Jobs is an employment initiative of the state government to train and retrain graduates with post-secondary school certificates on business writing, workplace ethics, problemsolving skills, emotional intelligence, and managing conflict, among others.

It also gives them the opportunity for

the state.

The government said that the Edo Jobs summit is open for companies within the state to tap from the pool of well-trained graduates, who are drawn from the Edo Job portal, noting, “The companies get a guarantee of graduates with the best skill-set because they would be trained by top experts in youth development and employability.”

A major highlight of the job fair is the stakeholder engagement session, which holds on November 8, where the state governor, international agencies, educators and key employers, will engage in discourse around the theme: Creating a Sustainable Ecosystem for Youth Development. The outcome of the session is expected to unify strategies for long-term projects in Edo State with regards to youth employment.

Holy Aruosa Cathedral chief priest urges all to be loyal to Oba of Benin

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Priest (Ohen-Osa) of the Holy Aruosa Cathedral, Harrison Okao, has advised traditional rulers, palace chiefs, Ohens and community leaders to be truthful and honest while relating with the Benin royal father so as to promote peace and harmony in the kingdom.

He gave the charge at a thanksgiving service held at the Holy Aruosa Cathedral to mark the one year anniversary of the Oba of Benin. Oba Ewuare II, recently.

In his message titled, “Truthfulness”, he said people must be truthful and honest in their dealings with their fellow man.

He said they should remain truthful even when the odds are against them, noting that God in His wisdom founded the world in truth.

The Ohen-Osa in driving home his sermon, told the congregation a

parable of the king who in a bid of knowing who was honest among his subjects decided to give them grains of maize to plant and nurture to test their truthfulness and honesty.

“A King who in a bid of ascertaining who is truthful among his subjects decided to give grains of maize to them to grow and nurture but unknowingly to them that the grains of maize were parboiled.

“Some of them having waited for their maize to grow and did not germinate, went to buy grains from the market and planted them.

“Those bought from the market were planted and germinated. So, when the king came to find out how the sowers were doing with their crops, some of them showed him their maize planted already growing while one of them cried out to the king that his own has refused to grow.

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By Desmond Agbama On Thursday, October 20, 2016, the history of Benin Kingdom was re-written as Oba Ewuare the second becomes the new Oba of Benin.

Against the expectations that Oba Ewuare the second would be the 39th Oba of Benin, the Oba in his address on the occasion of his coronation put in proper perspective the historical records.

Oba Ewuare the second while giving a brief historical account of the Obaship throne in Benin Kingdom said people and historians are quick to state that Oba Eweka the first was the first Oba of Benin, without due regard to Oronmiyan, who, according to Oba Ewuare II is the first Oba of Benin, being the son of the exiled Prince Ekaladerhan of Benin who later became Oduduwa meaning “Izoduwa”, I have found the path to prosperity, and the first Ooni of Ile-Ife. It was Ekaladerhan or Izoduwa that sent his son Oronmiyan to become the Oba of Benin upon request by the Binis. Consequently, Oba Ewuare the second pronounced himself the 40th Oba of Benin, thereby given recognition to Prince Ekaladerhan and Oronmiyan. This put to rest arguments about the relevance of Prince Ekaladerhan and Oronmiyan in Benin history.

Furthermore, at his coronation ceremony, Oba Ewuare II paid glowing tribute to his late mother who died in 1976, before Oba Erediauwa could ascend the throne. Oba Ewuare the second acting in line with Benin custom and tradition conferred the status of “Iyoba”, queen mother on his mother post-humously. This is the first of its kind in the history of Benin Kingdom.

These two historical pronouncements by Oba Ewuare the second has enriched the Benin history and has opened a new page in the history book of Obaship in the kingdom. No doubt these are signs of good things to come during the reign of Oba Ewuare the second.

Besides, the name an Oba bears is very important because it has spiritual significance and also speaks volumes of the quality and characteristics of the Oba. The name Oba Ewuare is associated with greatness, finesse, dexterity, bravery, fairness and justice. That perhaps explains why the entire city of Benin went agog in jubilation when Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo Ewuare the second made public his name which

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The progressive strides of Oba Ewuare II was chosen at a place called Useh some days before his coronation. This was so because to every Bini man or woman, Oba Ewuare the first remains one of the greatest Oba that ever reigned in Benin Kingdom, due to his exploits, conquest, revival of cultural festivals and quality leadership that help to advance the development of the Kingdom. He was fondly called “Ogidigan” meaning the great.

With the enthronement of Oba Ewuare the second as the 40th Oba of Benin, no doubt the exploits and achievements of Oba Ewuare the first would be re-enacted and possibly surpassed. Indeed, Oba Ewuare the second has started demonstrating the spirit of Ewuare in him by bringing some remarkable innovations into the Kingdom. For instance, the palace of the Oba of Benin has been given a modern look.

There is now a new royal crest or logo with the motto “ Amamieson Aimiuwa” meaning, no pain no gain. What this implies is that the Oba believed strongly in dignity of labour, which every sons and daughters of the Kingdom must imbibe.

Oba Ewuare the second in his bid to reawaken the declining Benin culture and tradition has decreed that Benin language must be spoken by all Binis at home and in the diaspora. In addition, the Oba instituted annual Oba Erediauwa lecture series and Oba Ewuare II Foundation to promote the teaching and learning of Benin history and language. The Oba Ewuare II Foundation is made up of different components. This includes; the scholarship scheme for indigent students especially those who exhibit uncommon knowledge and interest in Benin language. So far about 12 students are already enjoying the scholarship scheme at different levels of education. There is also the discount food items market located at Urubi in Benin City. This market will hold every Sunday and it is to provide opportunity for the poor, whose purchasing power has been weakened by the harsh economic reality in Nigeria to buy food items at a very

Oba Ewuare II

To the Binis, they are happy that some of those things their fore fathers say eluded them as a people during the reign of Oba Ewuare the first are been restored and compensated for by Oba Ewuare the second. Some of those things are unity, peace and progress. reduced price. The Benin Royal Academy for Performing Arts which will be at the Oba Akenzua II cultural center in Benin City will help train young ones in the art, culture, craft, dances, and language of the people. Consequently, the Oba called on government at all levels to make the teaching and learning of Benin language a must by including it in the school curriculum.

Oba Ewuare the second has

also initiated move to provide opportunities for youths to be meaningfully engaged. According to the Oba, the Igun league of bronze casters in Benin City would be supported to improve and expand their trade in order to be better positioned to train more Bini youths in the art of bronze casting, art and craft, as well as make it a tourist attraction. This is in realization of the fact that culture, art and tourism can provide jobs and fetch income for individual and the country if properly harnessed.

Towards this end Oba Ewuare II has established Foundry at Ogonerie in upper sokponba road in Benin City.

His majesty, Oba Ewuare the second is conversant with the challenges confronting the people, especially the youths. In his determined effort to stem joblessness, criminal tendencies among the youths, and discourage them from illegal travelling abroad to seek greener Pasteur, the Oba has identified the agricultural potentials in Edo State, which can employ thousands of youths if adequately exploited.

Without doubt, Edo State is blessed with vast fertile land that can be used to cultivate dif-

ferent crops. Towards this end his royal majesty has solicited the support of local, state and federal governments as well as industrialists, affluent sons and daughters of the Kingdom to engage the youths in agriculture.

That is why many people have expressed satisfaction that Oba Ewuare the second will be able to re-enact the progressive, developmental and united force of Oba Ewuare the first. The people said the unity of the Binis cannot be compromised this time around, and that with Oba Ewuare the second, the people now have a father who is ready to provide both spiritual and traditional leadership for his people. Little wonder that Oba Ewuare II is already providing an umbrella big enough to accommodate and protect the people no matter where they are on this planet earth.

Just like in the days of Oba Ewuare the first, the fear of Oba Ewuare the second should be the beginning of wisdom and no one should dare incurs his wrath.

Therefore, the loyalty, respect and support for the Oba are not negotiable. In fact it is sacrosanct. The Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo Ewuare the second must be accorded due reverence and honour by the Binis and non Bini alike.

To the Binis, they are happy that some of those things their fore fathers say eluded them as a people during the reign of Oba Ewuare the first are been restored and compensated for by Oba Ewuare the second. Some of those things are unity, peace and progress.

According to a Benin parlance “Akugbe oretin” which means there is strength in unity. The bond of unity and brotherliness must be nurtured and allowed to flourish among the people, so that they can continue to speak and act in unison and one accord.

May the reign of Oba Ewuare II bring the desired unity, peace and progress to Benin Kingdom in particular and Nigeria in general.

Desmond Agbama is the Chief Press Secretary to Oba of Benin

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My parents believed we could be successful in both our academics and artistic pursuits –Somkele Iyamah-Idhalama

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Why I feel so comfortable acting in films and not stage –Somekele Iyamah-Idhalama Delta State-born Somekele Iyamah Idhalama gained recognition via the web-based TV series Gidi-up as a supporting actress. A biochemistry graduate, Somkele rose to prominence after featuring in three blockbuster movies: The Wedding Party, 93 Days and The Arbitration. The Arbitration premiered in the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), and she was

was in heaven. My parents believed we could be equally successful in both our academic and artistic pursuits. So, I felt only fear of the unknown delving head-on into the arts than fear of acceptance from home.

When did the acting journey actually begin for you?

Acting was ignited for me after my first annual Christmas play in year five where my teacher Mrs. Abe, put me in the lead

international TIFF rising star. At the Awards, In this chat with MUTIAT ALLI, She speaks on her achievements.

Enjoy You hold a degree in Biochemistry, why did you go into acting?

The performing arts have always been a huge part of my life growing up. My father encouraged the growth of our confidence and self-esteem by making us perform in front of family members and friends in the living room.

You could say that you were shy all you wanted but you would have to bust a move before you were allowed to leave their presence. He was a lover of music and dancing was my first love until I went to primary school. My school had a drama class that merged dancing and acting. I

of the prodigal son. I danced and acted my heart out. I got a standing ovation and never looked back. I focused on my academics as a backup plan and thankfully, that worked out well. As soon as I graduated with honors in 2011, I came home to pursue my acting career while maintaining a day job that would give me the chance to audition for roles.

Have you ever been part of a stage production?

I have not been on stage since early secondary school.

Which will you say you are more comfortable with, the stage or the film?

I would say that I am more comfortable with film as I have only done film professionally.

Stage is quite different from films I feel I have to mentally achieve it before I go for it. I have huge respect for those who easily do both.

Who is your mentor in the film industry?

I have producers and co-actors who have become both confidants and mentors if I may say so. I have had the privilege of working with very talented and kind hearted people who have become big brothers, sisters and aunties.

In the course of your acting career, have the lessons you have learnt impacted on your output and outlook?

Most certainly. The stories we tell inevitably inform your character to some level. My job is to tell the truth in an imaginary situation and for me to do that, I must believe the truths of the character that becomes very real to me.

You learn so much that at the end of it all,

choices.

You were once in the corporate world and spoke lovingly about your boss being an understanding person. What would be your counsel to other aspiring actors who are currently in another profession but yearn to embrace the film industry knowing that they may not have the kind

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I will not sit here and ask anyone to make some self-proclaiming speech to their superiors may end up being fired. Mr. Jim Ovia is a man I will always respect and pray for God to always have an open ear to his prayers. People like him are not many. You also have to understand that and as human beings we want to know that we are getting value for our expenditures. I will tell you that no matter what you do, there is a time for everything under the sun. There is a time to ensure that all the work you are required to do at an office desk is done and no one can fault you while there is also that lunch break you will use to run for a quick audition or after work.

In all your efforts, crown it with prayer for the required discipline and favour. Favour could come with a co-worker who will cover for you when you need it the most or the boss randomly giving you the day off. Whatever opportunity you get, use it wisely. Be ready to work at very odd hours. There were several times when I did not go home for weeks because I went from set to set for work.

What is that one thing you hold key to yourself about growing up?

Your innocence will always defend you no matter how long you go.

How do you unwind?

I work out, cook and spend time with my family. This includes friends that have become family.

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Simi takes ‘Simisola’ album to Ghana

Jeff Akoh to release debut album ‘Lokoja’ tomorrow As anticipation builds up for the release of his debut album entitled Lokoja on Friday, October 27th, Temple Music singer, Jeff Akoh has released the album track list and cover. music fans across the world on digital stores such as iTunes and Boom Player.

The album is released on the imprint of newly

Simi and her fan On the heels of a successful release of her long anticipated sophomore album, Simisola, pop/R&B songstress, Simi embarked on a tour to neighbouring Ghana to promote this masterpiece and interact with fans that have followed her career from the start of her singing career to her reinvention as a songwriter, mixer and exceptional vocalist.

The purpose of this media tour, according to Simi, who is presently signed to X3M Music, is to meet her Ghanaian fans and media friends and also appreciate them for their support towards her career over time.

Simi made several stops at selected media houses such as Joy Radio, Joy News TV, Joy Prime TV, GH One TV, Y FM 107.9, Live FM 91.9, Hitz FM, Class 91.3FM, Star Buzz, eNews GH, and more.

She also held a meet and greet interactive session with fans which was well attended by media personalities and had the delectable songbird charm

her audience as she posed for pictures, signed autographs and answered questions relating to her life and career.

This Ghana trip is the latest stop in a cycle that has had Simi shut the stage down in Lagos at Afropolitan Vibes and at Felabration.

Simisola, a twelve track record which features Adekunle Gold as the sole musical guest, has been hailed as one of the best Nigerian albums of the year. Packed with melodious tunes and future classics such as Joromi and Smile for Me, Simisola is a stellar natural born storyteller who is able to craft relatable, yet deeply affecting tunes that go to the heart of various universal experiences.

With tracks like Aimasiko, Simisola announces Simi as a fabulous chronicler of contemporary Nigerian living and positions her as an important voice that will be heard many years from now. Simisola debuted World Albums chart.

NaijaBet.com set to hold online beauty contest Leading Nigerian betting company, NaijaBet.com has announced its plan to hold the

on beautiful and intelligent ladies to be a part of history in company to have such initiative. of Marketing, Miss Joan Apeh, “The idea behind the online contest is to arouse the interest of young Nigerian ladies in the game of football as well as ignite their love for sports while promoting health and to celebrate beauty with intelligence. It is also important to note that sport betting is not limited to the male counterpart alone as lots of women are

grounded in the areas of sports than some men and this is one the major reason for contest to further arouse the spirit of sportsmanship in all.

Interested participants are required to send a studio portrait and a full picture to 08135521346 via WhatsApp indicating why they should be the FACE of NaijaBet Speaking further, Apeh disclosed that contestant whose picture gets the highest number of LIKES takes home the ultimate cash prize of One Hundred Thousand Naira (#100,000) while attractive prizes would be given to the top 10 contestants in the contest noting that entries for participation ends November 13th, 2017.

(TMPL), a subsidiary of Temple Management Company (TMC) in collaboration with American music giant, Roc Nation.

A closer look at the track list of the 16 track album shows an impressive production list that

Bisola Ayeola, Terry Apala and Kenyan artiste, Khaligraph Jones.

Some of the tracks include earlier released hot tunes Shokolokobangoshe and Gbadun among others.

Incidentally, Jeff Akoh has been in the news love for him via her Instagram page.

The two had previously collaborated on the hot tune, Water & Fire, a bonus track on Lokoja produced by TY Mix.

Fally Ipupa, Vanessa Mdee, Sarkodie, Sheyi Shay, others gears up for AFRIMA 2017

...As over 700 African superstars to converge in Lagos Ahead of the 2017 edition of the biggest African Music award, AFRIMA billed to hold next month in Lagos, organisers have hinted that all hands is currently on deck towards the smooth running of the event the Afrima roundtable, Afrima Music Village and the main award running from between With over 700 African superstars converging in Lagos, it sure promises to be a wonderful show and the talk of the town as more African

Sheyi Shay & Sarkodie

African Union Commission, AUC and the international Committee of the All Africa MusicAwards (AFRIMA) to attend the main events of AFRIMA 2017.

Other ace artistes; Chess Nthussi (Kenya), Ebony (Ghana), Timaya (Nigeria), Montess (Cameroon), Niniola (Nigeria), Babes Woduno (SouthAfrica), Tay Grin (Malawi), Nsoki (Angola), Olamide (Nigeria), Big Nelo(Angola), Shatta Wale (Ghana), Cheba Maria (Algeria), Runtown (Nigeria),Amanda Black (South Africa), Kiff No Beat (Cote

attendance of the event.

Expected at the event includes Salif Keita (Mali), Fally Ipupa (DRC), Femi Kuti (Nigeria), Wizkid (Nigeria), Young Paris (DRC), Diamond Platnumz(Tanzania), Sheyi Shey (Nigeria), Bussine (Gabon), Bebe Cool(Uganda), 2Baba (Nigeria), Venessa Mdee (Tanzania), Sheyi Shay (Nigeria), Nasty C (South Africa), Sarkodie (Ghana), Fnaire (Morroco),Eddy Kenzo (Uganda), Ibitssam Tiskat (Morocco), Emtee (South Africa) Doctor (Nigeria), Mura K. E (Kenya) and over 700 African superstars are also listed for performances at the AFRIMA Music Village (November 10) and the Main Awards

Ceremony (November 12).

It is however important to note that AFRIMA award is distinctive as it rewards the creativity and originality of African artistes and songwriters with the luxury 23.9 carat Gold plaited trophy.

The annual AFRIMA awards is in partnership with the African Union to foster economic development and integration on the continent while showcasing the cultural heritage of Africa to the rest of the world.

The awards platform achieves this by celebrating and rewarding old and young music talents of African city of AFRIMA 2017 as appointed by the African Union after hosting a successful 2016 edition.

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Daily Times Nigeria

Thursday, October 26, 2017

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