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State, Chibuike Rotimi Amaehi, on Monday, scaled the first hurdle of his screening in the Senate for Ministerial appointment as the Senate

stood down the petition against him on the basis of a pending litigation on his matter.

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isterial nominee, Mrs. Amina Mohammed, controverted the petition filed against her nomination on the basis that she is to represent Ka-

duna State as she affirmed that she was nominated to represent Gombe Continued on page 6

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Politics Page Three Æ s Editorial Increasing child abuse in Nigeria By the time anyone reads this editorial, tendency is that a child will be abused in one part of the country or the other. In fact, the increasing child abuse in Nigeria is becoming a social embarrassment and national disgrace. We are very much concerned about this negative phenomenon, which if unchecked, would jeopardise the future of our children and that of the country.

What is child abuse? It is defined as the physical, sexual or emotional maltreatment or neglect of a child or children. It is also any act or series of acts of commission or omission by a parent or guardian that results in harm, potential for harm, or threat of harm to a child.

Although child abuse can appear in different forms and the awareness levels of people and their reactions to it may vary, however the importance and extent of this predicament is a global issue. The family is the most important and the original institution of society for bringing up and protecting children.

However, this same institution can be the cause of violence, pain and suffering. Today in Nigeria, children are murdered, maimed, assaulted, battered, and even sold. These activities are to the detriment of the child’s physical or mental health, education, moral or social-emotional development. Increasingly, they are employed as child labour, even as many are becoming the family breadwinners.

It is common these days to see children below the ages of five and six years hawking wares on busy roads and highways when they should be in school. In the course of this, they are exposed to dangers posed by vehicles and even kidnappers.

According to recent survey carried out by the National Population Commission (NPC) in conjunction with UNICEF and the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, found a high prevalence of violence against children in Nigeria. Approximately

six out of every 10 Nigerian children experience some form of physical, emotional and sexual violence before the age of 18 years. One in two children experience physical violence, one in four girls and one in 10 boys experience sexual violence, and one in six girls and one in five boys experience emotional violence.

Even more alarming is the increasing sexual violence against young girls by those who should be protecting them. Such acts sometimes results in the transmission of venereal diseases and even HIV/AIDS. It bears repeating that all violence against children and especially child maltreatment occurring in the first decade of life is both a problem in itself and a major risk factor for other forms of violence and health problems through a person’s life.

Studies have shown that child physical abuse, sexual abuse and other childhood adversities are the cause of excessive smoking, eating disorders, and high-risk sexual behaviour, which are associated with some of the leading causes of death including cancers and cardiovascular disorders.

Generally, the exposure of children to violence results in their greater susceptibility to a wide range of lifelong social, emotional and cognitive impairments. We are therefore calling on the National Assembly and state Houses of Assembly to enact a comprehensive Child Rights Act to protect the Nigerian child from all forms of abuse. A nation’s future may be measured by how it treats and provides for its children. Therefore, a just, vibrant, and thriving Nigeria is predicated on protecting children from violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation. What the country needs now is a commitment in addressing the increasing violence against children.

To achieve this, we must promote a clear and unequivocal intolerance of all forms of violence against children within society.

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ÎÎÎWhen last week Tues-

day, President Muhammadu Buhari called on Britain and Switzerland to speed up the processes of investigation and prosecution of corrupt former Nigerian officials and their accomplices as well as repatriation of the stolen funds, not a few Nigerians were excited.

They were not excited because the call portrayed that Nigeria had failed in bringing such corrupt officials to book. Nigerians were also not excited because the call meant that Nigeria had inadvertently outsourced the prosecution of such former officials and others who corruptly enriched themselves

to Britain, Switzerland and other countries of the West.

Among the questions that agitated many Nigerians in view of the call were - First: Was President Buhari by the call not asking both countries and others in the West to do Nigeria’s primary job of ensuring that officials who engage in corruption are swiftly investigated, prosecuted and sanctioned appropriately within her jurisdiction?

Second: Was the President by the call not showing early signs of helplessness with regards to the fight against corruption as well as the slow pace of corruption cases in Nigeria?

Whichever way, the fact is that the call by President Buhari would not have been necessary if Nigeria did a good job in swiftly investigating and prosecut-

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ing corrupt officials.

If the war against graft were fought in Nigeria as in other countries of the globe, the West in particular, the number of Nigerians who elope with public funds to Britain, Switzerland and other Western countries would have reduced.

Fact is that it is Nigeria’s duty to ensure that public officials who tamper with funds in their care are brought to book and that swiftly. When Nigeria fails to do her duty, it becomes easy for her to ask others to do so for her.

This is sad and President Buhari, who rode to power promising to fight corruption to a standstill should refrain from giving the impression that the West should take over the task of fighting corruption in Nigeria.

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Amaechi, Mohammed scale first hurdle Continued from page 1 State.

This is even as the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, is to read out the names in the second batch of ministerial list during today’s (Tuesday’s) plenary before the screening of first batch of ministerial nominees starts.

The second batch of the ministerial nominees was submitted to the Senate by President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday afternoon.

Amaechi and others are to face the screening proper to-

day (Tuesday) as many of the Ministerial nominees have been thronging the Senate to file their papers and credentials.

Amaechi and Mrs. Mohammed had appeared before the Senate Committee on Ethics and Privileges detailed by the Senate to probe the petitions filed against them.

Amaechi had through his lawyer, Edward E Pepple, written the Senate to dismiss the allegations filed by the Integrity Group which alleged that he corruptly enriched himself with the resources

of Rivers State to the tune of N70 billion.

He said the allegation against Amaechi was grievous, heinous and untenable, adding, “It is malicious, dubious and libellous as it is falsehood”.

The lawyer in his memo to the Senate, stated, however that the matter preferred against the former governor of Rivers State was already in court and hence would amount to subjudice in the event that the Senate allows hearing on the matter.

The former Rivers State

governor who appeared before the Senate Committee in person, however, said he was ready to defend himself on the allegations levelled against him, affirming that the case was in court and hence may not be able to say much to the Committee.

The Committee Chairman, Senator Sam Nwuanyawu, in response expressed regrets that the matter the Committee was to treat was already a subject of litigation.

He said section 41 (7) of the Senate Rule has hampered his committee from sitting

Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki (2nd right); Chief of Staff to the President, Mr. Abba Kyari (2nd left); Senior Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Sen. Ita Enang (right) and Senior Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (House), Hon. Suleiman Kawu, during the presentation of the second batch of ministerial list to Saraki in his office, Abuja… on Monday

EFCC arrests Suswam, ex-Benue gov.

Continued from page 1 to stop a Judicial Commission of Inquiry from probing his administration.

Suswam was governor of Benue State from May 29, 2007 to May 28, 2015.

He was being quizzed at the EFCC office in Abuja over alleged graft in his state, at the time of this report.

The EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwajuren, confirmed Suswan’s arrest by the antigraft agency.

“He was invited by the EFCC in connection with ongoing corruption investigation in Benue state,” he said.

Recall that the commission on Friday grilled his former finance commissioner, Mr. Omadachi Oklobia, for hours in Abuja with a view

to eliciting vital information that may help them in confronting Suswam.

Oklobia, who is also said to be involved in the Suswam alleged corruption case, reported to the Wuse 2 head office of the EFCC around 10 am and was questioned under what a source in the agency called ‘under caution’ because of his ‘complicity in the case.

A top source confirmed that Oklobia, who served as Finance commissioner under Suswam was invited by the commission to defend allegations of diversion of public funds, abuse of office, embezzlement and fraud committed by them while in office.

The source said: “Oklobia arrived the EFCC office in

Abuja at about 10 am where his statement was obtained under caution based on his complicity in the allegations of diversion of Benue State funds while they were in office.”

Recall also that the incumbent Benue State Governor, Dr. Samuel Ortom, has already raised a Judicial Commission of Enquiry to probe ex-governor Suswam for alleged looting of funds running into hundreds of millions of money.

Meanwhile, the Chief Judge of Benue State, Justice Iorhemen Hwande, on Monday, granted an exparte motion filed by the former Benue State governor to stop a Judicial Commission of Inquiry from probing his administration.

Suswam had filed a suit restraining the state government through the commission from probing his eight year administration that terminated in May 29, 2015.

In the exparte motion, Suswam queried the constitution of the panel which according to him was done unlawfully, arguing that some members of the panel lacked the locus standi to sit on it since they were part of his government.

Ruling on the motion, on Monday, Justice Hwande granted the motion and directed that the panel be served with the injunction within seven days and further asked that the commission stop forthwith, the trial of the administration of Suswam.

over the petition against Amaechi, stating that doing so would amount to contravening the Rule of the Senate.

He however suspended the sitting of the Committee pending the determination of the case against Amaechi in court.

On the other hand, some aggrieved parties from Kaduna State, led by Barrister James Kanyip while appearing before the Senate Committee said the people of Kaduna were opposed to the nomination of Mrs. Amina Muhammed because she is not from the state.

Kanyip told the Committee that the nomination of Mrs. Mohammed ran contrary to the formula for zoning of public offices in Kaduna State, stating that her appointment as a minister would have denied the original indigenes of Kaduna State the opportunity to serve.

He said he never knew the ministerial nominee, and got to know that she is not from Kaduna State through the social media report on her background.

He said also that there was no evidence to suggest that Mrs. Mohammed has a link with Kaduna through marriage, stating that the position she is to hold belongs to the Southern Kaduna by zoning.

Earlier, Mrs. Mohammed

while appearing before the Senate Committee, affirmed that she has no link with Kaduna State by origin, adding that she only got familiar with Kaduna State because she grew up from there.

Mrs. Mohammed told the Senators that her father had worked in Kaduna State all his life and that her place of origin is Gombe State, from where she said her nomination was routed.

The Senate also on Monday confirmed that it received only two petitions against ministerial nominees from two states and had so far dispensed with the two petitions.

The report by the Senate is lending credence to moves by the Senate to clear all nominees, contrary to expectations that some of the nominees may be dropped.

The Chairman Senate Committee on Ethics and Public Petitions, Sen. Samuel Anyanwu made this known shortly interactive sessions with the former governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi and Mrs. Amina Mohammed from Rivers and Kaduna states respectively.

He said his Committee received only two petitions filed against Amaechi and Amina Mohammed.

He said: “So far, we have treated the two petitions and Continued on page 12

Falae: Withdraw your 2-weeks ultimatum, Fulani tells Afenifere Monday Agu Jr., Abuja

ÎÎÎThe Miyetti Allah Cattle

Breeders Association of Nigeria on Monday asked the Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, to withdraw the two weeks ultimatum issued to Fulani herdsmen living in the South-West over the recent kidnap of Chief Olu Falae by alleged Fulani herdsmen.

Addressing a news conference in Abuja, National Secretary of the association, Mr. Baba Ngelzarma, condemned the recent abduction of the former SGF. Ngelzarma admitted that the kidnap of Falae was a criminal offence that must not be allowed to go unpunished by security agencies

but noted that it was unfair to brand all Fulani herdsmen as criminals.

The group added that their members were also suffering from the activities of kidnappers who collect ransom from the herdsmen in addition to carting away their cattle.

The former SGF was kidnapped from his farm in Ondo State on Monday, September 21 with his abductors demanding for a cash sum of N100 million naira, later reduced to 90 million naira, as ransom. The Family of the former Finance minister later paid N5 million ransom before he was released. Falae, a chieftain of Afenifere was released by his captors on Thursday, September 24.

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Hajj stampede: NATAIS urges thorough probe Kehinde Akinpelu Ilorin

ÏÏÏThe Nigeria Association of

Teachers of Arabic and Islamic Studies (NATAIS), on Monday, called on the Saudi Arabian authorities to carry out a thorough investigation into the immediate and remote causes of the Munnah stampede which claimed the lives of 145 Nigerian pilgrims.

It also urged Riyadh to further strengthen the mechanisms involved in the Hajj operations to prevent re occurrence of the unfortunate incident.

NATAIS made the call in a statement signed by its Assistant General Secretary (Publicity),Dr. Mos-

Sen. Sani empowers 3,400 women in Kaduna Victor Jibrin

Kaduna

ÏÏÏComrade Shehu Sani, a sena-

tor representing Kaduna Central Senatorial zone, has launched an ambitious programme to empower three thousand four hundred (3,400) women in the state. This is with a view to alleviating poverty, particularly in his senatorial zone.

Addressing newsmen shortly after launching the programme at

NAPTIN, TE partner on power sector Mathew Dadiya Abuja

ÏÏÏThe National Power Train-

ing Institute of Nigeria (NAPTIN) has announced a strategic partnership with TE Connectivity, a global leader in electricity connectivity and sensor solutions with a goal to providing critical skills and work-force training for the country’s power sector.

The Director General of NAPTIN, Engr. Reuben Okeke, disclosed this during a press conference in Abuja that the partnership was a way of improving the power sector and equipping the workforce with training that offered proven, cost-effective products and solutions in the sector.

Okeke said that TE Connectivity would be offering technical training on the connectivity required for efficient power generation and distribution.

“As most of the National Power Project is coming to 80% comple-

hood Mahmood Jimba, a copy of which was made available to the Daily Times in Ilorin, on Monday.

The union commiserated with the federal government and the entire Muslim community in Nigeria on the death of many Nigerian Muslims during the stampede.

“We regret, in particular, the death of Professor Tijjani ElMiskeen, who was a prominent member of NATAIS and immediate past Director of Arabic Language Village in Nigeria, Borno State. We pray the Almighty Allah to grant all the departed souls Jannat Al-fridaos and give their families and friends the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss,” he body said. his Tudun Wada office, Sani disclosed that about N80 million had been earmarked for the project.

The targeted beneficiaries would be drawn from seven local government areas in the zone, he said.

“This is part of the constituency project for Kaduna Central that I have embarked upon and it consists of areas which will directly affect the lives of our people. It is an intervention in education, in health, in empowerment, in skills acquisition, in sports and recreation; it is an intervention to alleviate the suffering of the masses of the people and to also give them an opportunity to foster their skills,” Sani said. tion; 10 new power stations is at various stages of completion.

297 distribution sub-stations are being constructed. It will result to 500,000 kilometers of 330 KVA lines. This requires the training of manpower to provide stable power for Nigerians.

“For the first time, we have original equipment manufacturer partner with NAPTIN. The partnership is expected to enhance capacity building, skill acquisition and training of manpower.

“Next week we will hold our first joint training session, where we will have NAPTIN trainers plus more than 20 installers and jointers from a variety of companies who will receive four days of hands on experience practice and technical instruction,” Okeke said.

Okeke

Oyo State Governor, Sen. Abiola Ajimobi (middle) flanked by Team leader of National Defence College, Abuja, Course 24, Team 5, Commodore Kamarudeen Adeyemi Lawal (2nd right); Deputy Governor, Otunba Moses Alake-Adeyemo (left); Brig. Gen. Bolaji Salam ( right) and others during a courtesy visit to governor in his office in Ibadan… on Monday

Gunmen kill Lekki Free Trade Zone MD, Ambode fumes ÏÏÏTragedy

hit Lagos State, on Monday, as gunmen shot and killed the Managing Director of Lekki Free Trade Zone, Alhaji Tajudeen Disu.

Disu, who was on an inspection tour of the area, was said to have been ambushed by his assailants before he was shot dead at close range, leaving him his pool of blood.

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, expressed sadness over the loss, even as he appealed to residents of Ibeju Lekki area to give peace a chance by allowing his government to carry out projects aimed at bringing development to their community.

Ambode said, “Under this cir-

cumstance, gun shots were used by these villagers within the Lekki Free Trade Zone axis this morning. It saddens my heart and the heart of all of us because this was the person who had been dedicated to the job in the last 10 years, promoting the inflow of investments into Lagos State.

“I have directed the Commissioner of Police to do a thorough job of probing into the killing. I want to appeal to all our people in Ibeju-Lekki to give peace a chance.

It is in the interest of all Lagosians that we attract many investors as much as possible to the state; that is what we have been trying to do in the last four months.

“I plead with everybody to remain calm as we get to the root

of this unfortunate incident. The only thing that we can appeal to the people is to allow peace to reign, in the free trade zone; that is the only way we can allow more people to be employed in this state.”

The governor who expressed conviction that the state was on the right course, added that, “I believe strongly on the kind of job opportunities we are bringing into Lagos State.”

Meanwhile, the state Police Commissioner, Mr. Fatai Owoseni, while briefing state House Correspondents, disclosed that 10 suspects had been arrested, so far, promising that the police would get to the root of the matter as investigation was on-going.

Tribunal nullifies Senator Abaribe’s election … as Sen. Nnaji’s election is annulled ÏÏÏTwo senators elected on the

platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Monday, had their elections nullified.

In Abia State, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe of the PDP had his election nullified by the National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Umuahia.

Delivering the judgement, the lead judge stated that the election of Senator Abaribe was inconclusive due to irregularities in two local government areas namely Obingwa and Ugwunagbo.

The candidate of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Chris Nkwonta, had petitioned the tribunal seeking nullification of

Abaribe’s election on the basis of electoral irregularities.

Abaribe said his team were confused about the ruling stating that his legal team had applied for a certified true copy of the judgement, so as to guide him in deciding on an appropriate response.

Abaribe, a three-term senator, was first elected to represent AbiaSouth Senatorial District in 2007.

In Enugu, the National Assembly Election Tribunal, led by Justice M.O Adewara, nullified the election of Gilbert Nnaji of the PDP. Nnaji was elected in April to represent Enugu East Senatorial District. In a ruling, in favour of

a former governor of the state, Chimaroke Nnamani of the Peoples Democratic Change (PDC), Justice Adewara nullified Nnaji’s election. After the hotly contested election, Nnaji scored 69,544 votes against Nnamani’s 57,528 to win the contest.

The city of Enugu erupted in jubilation after the tribunal delivered its ruling. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will be required to conduct fresh elections in Enugu in 90 days.

The nullification of Nnaji’s election will be the third time the election of a PDP senator would be nullified by an election petition tribunal in the last two weeks.

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Politics

Æs Politicians mourn Alamieyeseigha Following the sudden death of the former governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha politicians across the country especially in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have started

Alamieyeseigha

mourning the demise of the man referred to as the Governor General of the Ijaw nation.

Alamieyeseigha, 63, died from a cardiac arrest at a Port Harcourt, Rivers State hospital on Saturday.

Former Vice President and

chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar described him as an astute politician who firmly protected the interest of the Ijaw people.

The former Vice President in a statement said the announcement of the death of Alamieyeseigha came to him as a rude shock.

The Turaki Adamawa eulogized the late Alamieyeseigha for being a worthy ambassador of the Ijaw nation, and for contributing his quota in the service of the nation, and the development CONTINUED ON PAGE 9

Suswam: Buhari’s corruption war one-sided?

Kogi 2015: PDP chieftain decamps to APC Ahead of next month’s elections, the crisis which attended the governorship primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kogi State last month appears to have become intractable, thus threatening the forthcoming polls.

This is because the defeated PDP governorship aspirant who lost in his quest to secure the party’s ticket to run for the November election in the state, Alhaji Jibrin Isah aka Echocho has defected to the opposition All Progressive Congress (APC) along with his teeming supporters.

Over one hundred other PDP chieftains also defected to the APC in a colourful cross-carpetting ceremony that took place at the Confluence Stadium, Lokoja, the state capital.

Prominent among the other CONTINUED ON PAGE 9

Buhari

Akinjide Akintola The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was said to have arrested the immediate past governor of Benue State, Mr. Gabriel Suswam, on allegations of graft perpetrated during his tenure as governor.

Suswam was detained early Monday afternoon when he arrived at the EFCC headquarters

Ortom in Abuja following an earlier invitation to him on Friday.

The flamboyant governor served as governor from 20072015.

EFCC spokesman, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren confirmed Suswam arrest to the media.

The EFCC had on Friday invited Suswam for questioning over allegations of corruption during his 8-year rule.

The politician who was elected

Suswam on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is expected to defend himself against allegations that he embezzled millions of naira towards the end of his tenure.

The EFCC had questioned the immediate past Commissioner of Finance, Mr. Omadachi Oklobia on Friday over allegations of corruption.

Following the arrest,a group, Benue Coalition for Justice,

Equity and Fairness had condemned the on-going probe of the former Governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswan by the Samuel Ortom administration describing it as a witch-hunt.

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of democratic governance in the country.

“No one can dispute the fact that the late Governor General of the Ijaw nation, as he was fondly called, stood firm like a rock in preserving the interest of the Ijaw people is, and was a strong supporter of democratic governance in Nigeria.

“The news of the demise of Alamieyeseigha came to me as with many Nigerians as a rude shock. He was a true leader of the Ijaw people, and also contributed his own quota in the development of Bayelsa State when he was governor of the state.

“I recall with fond memories the deep appreciation which the late Alamieyeseigha had for democratic governance in Nigeria. Irrespective of the divergent opinions of Nigerians about his

legacies as the governor of Bayelsa State, Alamieyeseigha died earning the respect and admiration of the people of Bayelsa State and, I dare say, the people of Ijaw land. He was a friend and a brother and just like the people of Bayelsa State, I will miss him, too,” Atiku says. ” It was only a few days ago that he came to visit me, and wished me well as I recover from my leg procedure.”

Atiku however prays to God to give the Alamieyeseigha family, Bayelsa State and the entire Ijaw people the fortitude to bear the loss.

Former President of the Senate, Senator David Mark and the governor of Delta State, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, also joined other notable Nigerians in condoling with the government and people of Bayelsa State over the demise of the pioneer civilian governor

of the state.

Senator Mark in a condolence message signed by his special assistant , Paul Mumeh, lamented the untimely death of Alamieyeseigha whom he described as an astute politician who was a founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) .

The immediate past Senate President noted that though Alamieyeseigha had not too rosy political career judging from his travails, he nonetheless left an indelible mark as a political colossus .

According to Mark ” DSP Alamieyeseigha was a man who identified with his people . He was in more than equal proportion loved by his people . No wonder he was crowned as the Governor- General of Ijaw nation”.

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PDP stalwarts who defected at the ceremony include, the former House of Representives member, representing Omala/ Ankpa Federal Constituency, Hon Mohammed Idris;the son of the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris, former House of Reps, representing Dekina/Bassa, Hon Tom Zakari, former commissioner of finace, Alhaji Sani Adamu and former Senator Dangana Ocheje amongst others.

Receiving the defectors in Lokoja, the APC governorship Candidate in the November governorship election and the leader of the party in Kogi State,

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Prince Abubakar Audu gave assurance that he will not victimise any body or drag any indigene of the state to the Economic and Financial Crimes Corruptions Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission(ICPC) as being speculated in some quarters if given the opportunity to rule the state again.

“My mission to bounce back to government is to develop Kogi State, actualise the power rotation agitation, carry everybody along in my developmental programmes as well as influencing the completion of the ailing Ajaokuta Steel Complex”, Audu assured.

Audu affirmed that positive change is imminent in Kogi in

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order to get it out of the woods caused by the PDP misrule in the last 13 years.

Audu promised that both the new and the old APC members would be given equal opportunities in terms of running the affairs of the party and other long term benefits.

Responding on behalf of defectors, Alhaji Echocho reiterated their commitment to move the state to the next level hence the need for their cross-carpeting to APC where their mission would be realised.

He said their movement to the APC is for good and assured that their actions would never be regretted as APC’s struggle for positive change in Kogi would be beneficial to all and sundry.

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My victory is God’s doing - Prince Dapo Abiodun Hussenat Ohize The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Ogun East Senatorial Election, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has described his victory at the Election Petition Tribunal, as “God’s doing.”

The Tribunal recently nullified the election of Mr. Buruji Kashamu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the election.

In a press statement signed and issued in Iperu Remo, Ogun State, the business mogul cum politician, also described the success of his petition as a victory for the people of his senatorial district.

The statement read in part: “Our people knew the social, political, economic, cultural, and even religious position and marks of our senatorial district in Nigeria.

They know the right and befitting candidate that they voted for. My victory at the Tribunal is, therefore, a victory for the people of Ogun East Senatorial District, our party members and coordinators who worked tirelessly.”

The APC candidate remarked further that his victory at the Tribunal not only came at the right time, but also saved the Ogun East people from ridicule.

He continued, “My victory, though delayed, came at God’s

Abiodun time, which is the best. It was to serve a purpose. God delayed the victory of Joseph in the Bible for the right time, just as He delayed President Muhammadu Buhari’s victory for the right time.

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in the state in preference for a witch-hunt.

A statement signed by the National President of Benue Coalition for Justice, Equity and Fairness, Peter Hwande and Secretary General, Ogbole Alechenu said the desperation of those behind the probe was such that they could not wait for the outcome of the panel before hurriedly dragging Suswam to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) even before they have properly articulated their grievances.

The statement issued in Abuja said “Governor Ortom would have settled down to the serious business of governance if he

Ortom had genuinely secured the mandate of Benue people and not on the strength of the card reader machine that allocated him and his associates votes in the last elections.

“It is clear from the onset that the probe is inconsequential and inconsistent with the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and hence the need for Suswam to challenge the action in court.

“The fact that the probe cannot withstand judicial scrutiny and the foreknowledge of the impending moral defeat of efforts to persecute Suswam through that ill-conceived agenda was what forced these characters to resort to using the EFCC in the hope of massaging their ego.

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“Our victory came at the right time, as it was eagerly expected all over the world. It also removed the tag of ridicule and stain, which our opponent’s false emergence placed on the good, morally upright and hardworking people of Ogun East Senatorial District.”

Prince Abiodun, therefore, called on his followers not to lower their guards even as the full text of the judgment is being awaited, urging them to be law-

abiding.

“While we await the full text of the judgment of the Tribunal for careful study by my lawyers for a more elaborate response and legal advice, I want to call on all our party men and women, friends and well-wishers, in fact, the general public in Ogun East Senatorial District in particular, and Ogun State in general, not to lower our guards in our just and selfless march to entrench people’s participatory democracy in which the votes of our people

Suswam “We see both the probe and the contrived EFCC invitation as related actions that expose the desperate attempts by the selfish godfathers in Benue State, who see the state treasury as their cash cow, as they struggle to keep attention away from their recent expenditures that have outraged even their own fan base.” The group stressed.

The statement, which noted that the Coalition represents nobody and represents everybody in the state, said it is good for Nigerians to know that the Suswam’s era represented the best period for the state since 1999 except for the unfortunate delayed salaries which became the bane of the entire country in the last

must count. We should also continue to be law abiding.” The APC candidate commended the Tribunal judges for “serving cause of justice.”

Prince Dapo Abiodun, who had likened his opponent’s initial victory as “temporary triumph of evil over good and falsehood over truth,” expressed his staunch believe in the justice system in the country.

The politician also commended APC stakeholders and leaders in the state like Governor Ibikunle Amosun, relatives, Director General, Barrister Segun Odubela, and members of Dapo Political Organisation (DAPO) for standing by him during the period of the petition.

two years as a result of a global economic meltdown.

It pointed out that while it was aware that Benue people are interested in a probe, “they were not asking for a selective probe panel that will canonize the devil himself and criminalize angels just to satisfy the drunken ego of a few in the society.

“It will be good to note that those who pride themselves as change agents and instituting the petitions are characters that took active part in the administration of Benue State in the last 16 years directly or indirectly and cannot at the same time become judges in their own cases.

“We think the probe is additionally a ploy to grant them un-

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fettered access to state resources while hiding under ugly pictures from the past as a cover up strategy.” It explained in the statement.

It said the probe panel that would be acceptable to the people of Benue state must not have compromised individuals or their proxies as members just at it must also include representatives of neutral sections of the state.

With Suswam’s arrest, he joins the league of former PDP governors being prosecuted by the EFCC. The others are Jigawa State Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamide who is being prosecuted alongside his two sons for alleged corrupt practices.

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the immediate family, people of Bayelsa state, the Ijaw nation and Nigerians at large for the sad loss, saying “he played his part with great passion and commitment”.

Senator Mark noted that although Alamieyeseigha had a brief stint as a governor, his legacies cannot be diminished, point-

Atiku ing out that he laid the foundation upon which succeessive administrations in the state built on.

Delta State Governor, Okowa, commiserated with the Alamieyeseigha family, Government and people of Bayelsa State as well as the Ijaw Nation, at large, over the sudden death of the first civilian Governor of the State.

Alamieyeseigha Governor Okowa in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Charles Ehiedu Aniagwu described Alamieyeseigha’s exit as shocking and painful.

“The late Alamieyeseigha was loved by the ijaws who saw him as a rallying spot for the reawakening of the spirit of togetherness irrespective of the spread of the

Ijaws in all riverine areas of the country. No wonder they nicknamed him ‘Governor General of the Ijaw nation,” Okowa noted.

Okowa extolled what he called the humility of the late Alamieyeseigha which enabled him to mentor up-coming politicians culminating in his Deputy Governor, Goodluck Jonathan, rising to

become a former Nigeria’s president.

While praying God to grant the late Alamieyeseigha eternal rest, Okowa enjoined the family, government of Bayelsa state and the Ijaws in general to immortalise his memory by ensuring that the Ijaws remain united and speak with one voice, at all times.

The problem with Adamawa ruling elites Something is definitely wrong with the Ruling Elites in Adamawa State. Otherwise, how can one explain the abject poverty and despondency in most communities in the state with little or no elite support to the communities while the same elites spend millions of naira in legal fees and media propa-

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ganda to antagonize virtually every elected government in the state? This is really worrisome.

If even a small percentage of the amounts spent by our ruling elite in fighting media wars, legal wars and political wars like impeachments were spent on our communities, life would not as bad as it is today for most our

citizens especially in our rural areas and urban slums.

Governor Boni Haruna had a running battle with the elites when he held sway as governor of the state. Millions of naira was spent in legal fees, media war and several impeachment threats against him. In the end, he barely survived all the sinister plots and conspiracies.

However, in the process, he lost a lot of steam and in some instances even the focus and direction of governance. Meanwhile, the helpless and often hapless citizens became the losers. His government could not effectively concentrate on its core mandate and as such ended up really not doing much to uplift the state to the level expected.

The same elite that hounded Governor Haruna ganged up to launch attacks on Admiral Murtala Nyako as the Governor of the state. Shortly after Nyako assumed power, they again teamed up against him and almost rendered the state ungovernable. Millions of naira

was again spent in ceaseless media wars, spirited legal battles and an impeachment process that surpassed all in terms of money spent to achieve the goal.

In the end, the state witnessed the greatest instability in the history of any political unit in Nigeria with 7 Governors presiding over the affairs of the state in eitght years. It left the state heavily indebted, unstable and bruised to the point of being prostate. In the process no one gave a thought to the plight of the citizens.

Now it appears the Adamawa elites are back to the drawing board, formulating what could be a new vista of war with the government of Senator Muhammad Umar Jibrilla. Already some cases are in court seeking to nullify his election through the back door since his fellow contestants in the last election did not go to the tribunal to challenge the validity of his election.

So much money is already being spent in the vain process of truncating the regime through

a legal process instituted by people who have no stake in such matters except as glorified spoilers.

We have also started seeing the media war in the sponsorship of a false news reports in both the social media and conventional media. One of such ungodly reports claimed that the People of Mubi, the governor’s own hometown had barred him from visiting home. They did not take into cognisance that His Excellency just approved the construction and refurbishment of 14 Roads in Mubi in order to reposition Mubi area back to its economic relevance in the State. Mubi has always been the commercial nerve centre of Adamawa State and the governor as a private sector person with thriving businesses in Mubi knows that more than anyone else. He has also ordered the completion of an ATV Boaster Station in Mubi and visited the Water Treatment Plant in the town with a view to putting it back to shape among many initiatives for the Town.

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Buhari faults Auditor-General on Lake Chad Ï #Ɔƌ Ɨ RƄ Ɖ ô ƏƆƍ ƏƐ Egena Egena, Abuja

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the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Monday, when the AuditorGeneral of the Federation, Samuel Ukura, presented the environmental audit reports on the drying-up of the Lake Chad to President Muhammadu Buhari.

Having observed that the report presented did not reflect the feasibility study carried out by a team under the tenure of former President Olusegun Obasanjo for

which Nigeria committed about five million dollars, Buhari said he was disappointed at the report and asked the auditor general to explain the omission.

Ukura in his narrative claimed that the feasibility report was not made available to him for the purpose of the audit report, and swiftly passed the buck to the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) as the agency that ought to be custodian of that report.

Bewildered by the submission of the Auditor-general,

the President asked that someone should interpret what he meant, and later asked the Executive Secretary of the LCBC, Ambassador Sanusi Imran Abdullahi, to give his side of the story.

The LCBC Executive Secretary, however, explained that the document in question was already in public domain.

Buhari said: “I have to digress here based on personal knowledge of this. I saw an article in a journal in 1978 that a professor in the University of London in 1925 had foreseen what we are just seeing.

“I handed over the article

to Gen. Obasanjo and I understand that Gen. Obasanjo took the initiative sometimes ago; it is on record that he is the only Nigerian that has presided over the country for more than 11 years.

“He gave $5 million to the study, and the study was that unless some of the rivers from the Central Africa Republic are diverted to empty into Chad Basin, Lake Chad will dry up.

“I understand that this report which was sponsored by Nigeria has been submitted.

I am a bit disappointed that in the speech of the AuditorGeneral, there was no mention of this report, whether

my own report was correct: that $5million was given.

“One of the recommendations was that at the time the report was submitted, the cost of diverting one of the rivers to empty into Lake Chad would be between $13billion and $15billion.

“I will like the AuditorGeneral to comment on this, whether they have received this report or the Ministry of Water Resources. I think this government will like to see this report and see how we can ask our foreign friends how they can help us.

“This is because if that river is diverted to empty into Chad Basin, I think it

will affect at least, two million Nigerians and another two million from Cameroon, Chad and Niger to resettle and perhaps that will help us to stop Boko Haram around that area.

“This is because once we identified the enormous number of people there and their activities. We have to check desertification there.”

The Auditor-General then replied: “The report was not made available to the group, it was only made available to the Lake Chad Basin Commission, may be they will be in a better position to comment on it. It was not mad available to us during the study.”

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L-R: Head of Affordable Housing, Lafarge Holcim, Francois Perrot; Lafarge Easy Home clients, Mr. and Mrs. Olusegun Daramola; Lafarge Africa Plc, Country Affordable Housing Manager, Aurelien Omowale Boyer and Head, Business Development and Partnership, Lapo Microfinance Bank, Amasha Oluwaseyi during the courtesy visit of Lafarge to Ayetoro, Makun, Sagamu, Ogun State… at the weekend .

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Boko Haram: Obasanjo, Colombian experts brief Buhari

...You can’t kill all insurgents to win war against terror, says former president Egena Egena, Abuja

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President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday said the country does not have to eliminate every member of the Boko Haram insurgents before it declared victory over terrorism.

He spoke at the Presidential Villa, Abuja after briefing President Muhammadu Buhari on his delegation’s mission to study Columbia’s efforts and experience in its 50-year battle against the FARC rebels.

Responding to questions

by State House correspondents, Obasanjo said: “Oh yes. If we won the civil war,

we can win this one. But like the Colombians said, we are not waiting until we kill off every insurgent to say we have won.

“I believe that once the military has the upper hand, other measures that have to be taken will be put in place.

“There will be measures of socio-economic development, education, employment. All that has to go into the process of eventually winning the war and saying, there is Uhuru.

Accordingly, the former President said Buhari’s ultimatum to the military to end Boko Haram insurgency in three months was realisable, since the military

didn’t have to kill every insurgent before declaring victory over terrorism.

He said: “The president must give a target. When you give somebody a target, you give him something to aspire to, giving him an objective. Target is not cast in stone.

“I believe that if you are talking of getting the upper hand, gradually, we are getting the upper hand.

“We are not there yet but we are getting close. And once we are getting upper hand, we move on and do other things.”

Obasanjo who visited Buhari with a delegation from the Copenhagen Foundation said they got

interested in the Colombia’s experience because of the length of time the government had been fighting the FARC rebels and wanted to learn what had made the insurgents resilient.

He said the Foundation produced a book from its findings and he thought he could make a contribution by bringing the Foundation leaders to discuss their experience and reports with Buhari to assist him in the fight against Boko Haram.

“We went to Colombia to see how all the Colombian authorities were handling the issue of insurgency which had been with them for more than 50 years.

the committee is meeting to put down its report which would be tabled before the Senate on Tuesday (today).

“This is something that is very important to the Senate and we must take a very firm decision and scrutinize our report very properly.

“We have not turned in our report. We only said that the matter we had before us is in court and there are other conflicting issues, which we are yet to be resolved and that is why we are trying to put down our report together.

The Chairman said those his Committee screened on Monday could face the larger Senate on Tuesday (today) if the reports on them were filed before the full screening exercise commences.

The Chairman said his committee did not receive the petitions against Ministerial nominees directly from petitioners, but through the Chamber of the Senate, the first port of call.

On petition against Amaechi, he said: “What we are saying is that we have a petition against Amaechi. And there is a letter from his lawyer that they have a pending case in the court. We also received a White Paper indicting him and we also received a Federal High Court judgment that says that Amaechi cannot stop the judicial commission from investigating him.

“He went to Appeal Court and the matter is pending in Appeal Court. And in our Senate Rule, once a matter is in court, we will not delve into it. But what we are going to do is to package the documents, look at their natures and be able to do our report and send to the Senate by tomorrow (today) or next”.

Meanwhile, the Senate on Monday received the second batch of the ministerial list from President Muhammadu Buhari.

The Senate President confirmed the receipt of the list on his official Twitter handle on Monday afternoon.

“Few minutes ago, on behalf of @NGRSenate I received the 2nd batch of #Thelist of #MinisterialNominees,” Saraki tweeted.

The envelope containing the list of 15 additional nominees was brought to President of the Senate by the President’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari and the Presidential Adviser on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang.

It could however not be ascertained as at press time the names on the list but a source said likely names include Rotimi Akeredolu (Ondo State); Festus Odimegwu (Imo State); Olagunsoye Oyinlola (Osun State); Barth Nnaji (Enugu State); Ike Emenike (Abia State); and Anyim Nzeribe (Abia State) among others.

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N’Korea, China heading for smooth relations

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, along with Liu Yunshan, China's Communist Party's No. 5 leader, second right, claps hands during the ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the country's ruling party in Pyongyang, October 10, 2015.

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North Korea’s massive military parade last weekend was marked by bellicose rhetoric against the United States, but with a senior Chinese delegation in attendance, Kim Jong Un dialed back other potentially provocative acts and language.

On Monday South Korea’s Unification Ministry Spokesman Jeong

Joon-hee said Pyongyang showed some restraint during the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of North Korea’s ruling party.

"It seems like North Korea promoted internal solidarity and put an effort into removing its negative image,” Jeong said.

During the Pyongyang celebra-

tion Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un asserted that North Korea is prepared for “any type of war” against the U.S. and some 20,000 “goose-stepping” soldiers, tanks, inter-continental ballistic missiles, and fighter jets were featured during the three hour long parade.

But the North Korean leader made no direct mention of the

country's nuclear program, nor did Pyongyang launch a longrange rocket or satellite test that earlier officials indicated was being planned for the event.

Analysts credit the presence of a high level Chinese delegation at the celebration headed by Liu Yunshan, the Chinese Communist Party's fifth-ranked leader with North Korea’s recent moderate behavior.

During the parade Liu stood next to Kim and the two were shown smiling and conversing.

In a conciliatory letter to the North Korean leader, Chinese President Xi Jinping said "The long friendship between China and North Korea is a treasure made,” and that he hopes the “relationship will continue to grow.”

During his speech Kim Jong Un also emphasized the strong historic ties between the two allies.

Although North Korea is dependent on China for economic support, relations between the two allies have been strained after Pyongyang conducted its third nuclear test in 2013.

China supported United Nations sanctions in the wake of the 2013 nuclear test and the young North Korean leader who took power in 2011 has yet to visit China.

13 Africa Police end guard at Julian Assange’s embassy refuge ÏÏÏPolice will no longer be sta-

tioned outside the Ecuadorean embassy in London where Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has sought refuge since 2012, the Met Police has said.

Officers had been there since Mr Assange sought asylum to avoid extradition to Sweden over a rape allegation, which he denies.

The cost of the police presence is estimated to have been more than £12m. The Met said the roundthe-clock presence was "no longer proportionate". However the force also said it would be deploying "a number of overt and covert tactics to arrest him". It also said that "resources are finite" and there were "so many different criminal, and other, threats to the city".

"The Metropolitan Police Service has to balance the interests of justice in this case with the ongoing risks to the safety of Londoners and all those we protect, investigating crime and arresting offenders wanted for serious offences, in deciding what a proportionate response is," it added.

Malawi president aims to restore accountability

ANC wants S’Africa Turkish PM blames Ankara bombing on ISIS ÏÏÏMalawi’s President Arthur Peter Mutharika says his adminisout of ICC ÏÏÏThe Islamic State (IS) group pinpoint which group was respon- Mr Davutoglu said the bombings tration is implementing new pub-

ÏÏÏSouth Africa’s ruling African

National Congress (ANC) party said Sunday it has told President Jacob Zuma’s government to withdraw South Africa’s membership from the International Criminal Court (ICC).

South Africa and the ICC have been at loggerheads since South Africa failed to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir during the African Union summit in South Africa last June. Just last week, the ICC asked South Africa to provide an explanation of why it did not arrest Bashir.

Edna Molewa, head of the International Relations Subcommittee of the ANC’s National Executive Council says the ANC believes the ICC has not served Africa in the same manner it has served other countries. Molewa also said the ANC’s decision is in line with the African Union’s position on the ICC. “As you know, there has been a continual assessment of the ICC by the entire African Union. So today, the African National Congress took stock of what the AU has been and decided at its general council today to say that government of South Africa we are giving you a mandate, go...", she said.

is the prime suspect in the Ankara bombings that killed nearly 100 on Saturday, Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoglu has said.

No group has said it carried out the attack, but the government believes that two male suicide bombers caused the explosions, hitting a peace rally.

The official death toll is 97, but one of the main groups at the march put the number of dead at 128.

The funerals of more of the victims are taking place on Monday.

Saturday's twin explosions ripped through a crowd of activists outside the main railway station in the Turkish capital.

They were due to take part in a rally calling for an end to the violence between Turkish government forces and the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

There is anger in Turkey that authorities were unable to prevent such a major attack - and some scepticism from opposition groups about the government's claims.

"This is the worst scene I've ever seen" - Shock and anger in Ankara as mourning begins Mr Davutoglu said authorities were close to identifying one of the suicide bombers, using DNA tests, and that this would help to

sible.

He had previously said that IS, the PKK and far-left groups were all capable of such an attack.

Carnations have been placed near the site of the bombing, in the heart of Turkey's capital Some local media have implicated the brother of a man who carried out an IS bombing in the southern border town of Suruc in July, which killed more than 30 people.

There are also reports that investigators believe there are similarities between the device used in that attack and those used on Saturday.

Turkey announced after the Suruc bombing that it would allow its southern Incerlik airbase to be used by the US-led coalition targeting IS in Syria. Turkey, a Nato member, shares a long land border with its unstable southern neighbour.

The Ankara bombings are the deadliest in Turkey's history.

"These attacks will not turn Turkey into a Syria," Prime Minister Davutoglu said on Monday.

The wife and son (centre) of victim Ali Kitapci attended a commemoration near the site of the explosions on Monday Speaking on Turkish television,

were an attempt to influence elections due on 1 November, after a vote in June left no party able to form a government.

Many of the victims were activists of the pro-Kurdish HDP party, which says it is now considering cancelling all election rallies. It believes its delegation at the march was specifically targeted.

In a statement released on Monday, the HDP's leaders said the AK Party was using "escalation of violence" as a strategy to push the leftist, pro-Kurdish party back under Turkey's high electoral threshold for entering parliament.

They link the Ankara bombings to the Suruc attack and the fatal bombing of an HDP electoral rally in June, labelling them a "chain of massacres", and call on the international community to take "a firmer stance" with Turkey's government.

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lic management reforms in a bid to weed out corruption by ensuring accountability and preventing financial malfeasance.

He says his stance is zero tolerance for corruption, adding that he wants to restore a culture of accountability.

Donor support, which accounts for nearly 40 percent of the country’s budget, has been withdrawn after officials were accused of stealing millions of dollars in public funds. Malawi economists say the country is plagued by high inflation and the fall of the country’s currency, the Kwacha.

In an interview with VOA, President Mutharika said the country’s main foreign exchange earner, tobacco, is also facing challenges. He outlined some of the measures his government is taking to strengthen the economy and the country.

“Part of the problem is a weak export base and the other currencies are strong, and in a way I think the Kwacha was over appreciated anyway, so it is probably depreciating to its normal level ...

“But In the long term, I would like us to increase our exports and cut back on spending, and I hope that we would be able to get back to where we should be,” said Mutharika.

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Nigerian youths fault alleged double standard of admission in schools Alade Tasma

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youth advocacy group, Winning Generation of South West Youth (WGSWY), has called the Federal Government to urgently review the admission policy that gives preference to candidates from "educationally disadvantaged states”, considering the negative impact it has on the merit that drive academics.

The group, noted that the concept of educationally-disadvantaged-states is non-existent in Nigeria, but reasoned that youth from any region should not be given preference above others.

Nigerian Youths should be allowed to compete on a level playing field, because no youth from any region is intellectually inferior to

the other.

In a press statement, signed by the president of the organisation, Comrade Tope Musowo, said there was nowhere in the entire world where there are two admission standards for the same set of candidates. In a situation where candidates from a particular region would get admission with a JAMB score as low as 200, candidates for the same course from another State or regıon were required about 270, “this is discriminatory, obnoxious, and against the principle of equity, fairness and a united Nigeria.” "If we study with the same curriculum, used the same syllabus, we all have our annual budgetary allocations for education, government made education-

al facilities available to all in equal measure, teachers were deployed to schools in all the parts of the country, if anyone refuses to take advantage of all these, why should some youths from certain part of the country be made to suffer for this?" the youth leader querıed.

"I was a victim of this obnoxious admission policy, so I know how it hurts, I was to study law at OAU, but denied admission with 255 JAMB score, because I'm from Ekiti state, I was expected to have scored 275, while my counterparts from the Northern states got the admission on "merit" with just 210.

“When I questioned this, the ıssue of "federal character" as expressed in section 14 of 1999 constitution was cıted. But how do we

reconcile this with section 42 of the same constitution that says, I should not be denied what ıs due to me sımply because of where I come from or the circumstances of my birth and so on.

“We are therefore calling on the Federal Government to urgently, review this obnoxious policy that is truncating our dream and frustrating our parent's effort in this part of the country, whıle the so called "educationally-lessprivileged states" have contınue to produce Ministers of Education ın Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, Prof. Rukayat Rufai, among past Mınısters of Educatıon. Therefore, they cannot continue to remain "disadvantaged" Comrade Musowo maıntaıned.

Oke-Ogun group lauds Shittu’s nomination as minister ÏÏÏThe

Chairman of Oke Ogun Restoration Group, Mallam Adebayo Muritala, has said that the nomination of Adebayo Shittu as a cabinet member of the federal government was a right choice that would lift to the esteem in which Muhammadu Buhari administration is held.

In a statement, issued by its chairman, the group said there could not be a better choice to represent Oyo State at the federal level than a man who could be described as a democrat, who believes in the principles democracy and always ready to go to any length to demonstrate it.

Muritala said that Shittu, who is a lawyer is an embodiment of honesty, uprightness, humility, probity and an uncanny defender of the weak. He recalled that the ministerial nominee had proved in all public offices he had held that he is responsive, dynamic, reliable and utterly responsible.

“Shittu, as a member of the Oyo State House of Assembly in the defunct Second Republic, championed the cause of the people when he called out the people to protest the shoddy implementation of the defunct Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN’s) programme by the governor, the Late Chief Bola Ige, despite that Shittu was in the same ruling party with the governor. The protesters called Ige unprintable names during the protest march” Muritala recalled.

Delta elders praise Igbuya’s style ÏÏÏDelta State elders, under the

aegis of The Forum for Good Governance, has described the Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Ovwigho Igbuya, as an astute lawmaker and the most effective person in that post in the history of the state.

They also praised the Speaker for protecting the rights of all members on the House floor, advancing the plans of the people through the legislative process and acting with integrity.

A statement by the spokesperson of the TFFGG, Chief Ndudi Nkenchor, after a meeting in Asaba, applauded the first lawmaker elected three times from Sapele for exposing the lawmakers and their support staff to training programmes both locally and internationally.

“The training expected at equipping the lawmakers in the fundamentals and processes of lawmaking for effective performance is a good way of developing the legislative institution in the state ".the statement said.

Tribunal upholds two APC lawmakers election in Oyo Remi Oladoye

ÏÏÏThe National Assembly ElecSome displaced persons at the Internally Displaced Persons Camp in Maiduguri on Sunday

Melaye floors Smart Adeyemi at Tribunal

Ibrahim Obansa Lokoja

ÏÏÏThe move by Senator Samart

Adeyemi to return to the upper legislative chamber suffered another setback as the National Assembly and State House of Legislative Election Petition Tribunal, sitting in Lokoja, Kogi State, on Monday, upheld the election of Senator Dino Melaiye, as the winner of Kogi West Senatorial District.

Justice Akon Ikpeme led-tribunal, while delivering judgment on the petition brought by Senator Smart Adeyemi challenging the victory of Dino Melaye, said the petitioners failed to prove their case beyond reasonable doubt that the March 28 election was fraught with irregularities and conducted

by INEC in non- compliance with the electoral act.

Ikpeme said the petitioners relief that Dino was not duly elected with the majority of votes cast;

that Smart Adeyemi scored the majority of vote cast and ought to be declared winner; the order to declare the 1st petitioner (Adeyemi) as the winner and the order to withdraw and nullify the Certificate of Return issued to Melaiye, and the order that Adeyemi be issue the Certificate of Return is refused.

She said though the report of the recounted votes ordered for by the tribunal shows that there were 2, 247 invalids votes counted for Melaiye as revealed by the recounting exercise, but it was not substantial enough to invalidate the result initially declared by INEC as the petitioners failed to produce an alternative result sheets.

"The petitioners has not justified the arithmetic manner they compute their votes; the petitioners also failed to plead their case, voting unit by voting units, ward by wards; there are 562 poling units in Kogi West Senatorial axis,

and only 56 poling units were disputed by the petitioners.

"The petitioner could not prove that they scored the majority of votes cast and the disputed figures in the disputed polling units is not substantial enough to affect the result initially declared by the 3rd respondent - the INEC. "The onus lies on the petitioners to prove beyond reasonable doubt the issue of criminality in the conduct of election and the noncompliance with the conduct of the election by the 3rd respondent (INEC) in non-compliance with the electoral act.

Melaye

tion Petition Tribunal, sitting in Ibadan, has upheld the election another two All Progressives Congress federal lawmaker in Oyo state, Hon. Dapo Lam-Adesina and Olusumbo Olugbemi, as winners of March 28 elections held in the state.

Hon. Dapo Adesina, son of a former governor in the state, late Lam Adesina, represent Ibadan North East/ South East federal constituency, and Olugbemi is a representative of Oluyole federal constituency.

Their election is being challenged by Accord party candidate, Hon. Gbenga Arole for Ibadan North and South East, while Hon. Olugbemi's eligibility for the election was challenged by the Hon. Adeagbo of Accord party.

While validating the election of Hon. Dapo Lam Adesina, the threeman panel, headed by Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo, said the petition lacks merit because the petitioner failed to prove his case sufficiently.

The panel also dismissed the petition against Hon. Olugbemi based on lack of merit and concrete evidence to back the claims.

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Afenifere, Arewa and Fulani herdsmen

T Jude Ndukwe

he criminal activities of Fulani herdsmen in the South-West which culminated in the sad kidnap and torture of elder statesman, and a leader of the Yoruba, Chief Olu Falae made the Pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere to issue a strongly worded warning to the Fulani herdsmen.

As was always the stock in trade of the Arewa Consultative Forum, a counter warning was issued to Afenifere, upbraiding the group for the communiqué it issued shortly after Olu Falae regained his freedom from the the suspected Fulani herdsmen who kidnapped him wherein the Yoruba group stated that “If the federal government fails to stop Fulani herdsmen from attacking Yoruba people, it may result in a situation where the South-West people will have to defend themselves.”

The ACF has picked on this statement, to justify its desperate attempt at defending and covering up criminal elements of the Fulani descent. For the avoidance of doubt and from the quote, Afenifere was clear as to who their warnings were directed at.

An honest analysis of the state-

ment simply implies that Afenifere never and I do not think that such a respectable group will ever condescend so low as to criminalise a whole region, tribe or race as the ACF would want us to believe.

Those affected by Afenifere’s admonition are clearly stated: the Fulani herdsmen who attack Yoruba people.

This antic of the ACF is agelong. It is the same antic they use to try to cow other regions into doing their biddings and a way of always having their way in all matters concerning the nation.

Rather than face the more urgent and criminal issue of the wanton attacks perpetrated by their kinsmen, they prefer to pander to the gallery. They have always behaved like a heady headmaster who goes about dishing instructions to his pupils who must obey without hesitation. This stupid mindset must stop!

It is this same antic they used to silence the leaders of NorthCentral where the reprehensible criminal activities of these Fulani herdsmen have since assumed a brazen proportion. One wonders why, in spite of the incessant killings, maiming and raping of innocent people including women and children, the Arewa has found

it convenient to look on as if the lives of the victims do not matter.

No region or tribe can or should intimidate the other!

It is this same antic that has been used to cow our security agencies which appear powerless while the killings take place in the North central on a regular basis.

If not, one wonders why a Fulani herdsman would be allowed to move about freely with dangerous weapons including machetes, swords and even AK 47s without being challenged by security personnel? Are there two different laws for the handling of weapons and firearms in Nigeria, one for Fulani herdsmen and other for the rest of us? What would happen if a man dressed in Igbo or Yoruba attire moves about with an AK 47 rifle in Lagos, Enugu or Kano? Would such person not be promptly arrested and charged for illegal possession of firearm or for endangering public safety?

According to recent reports, residents of Enugu, South-East Nigeria, have also raised alarm over the destructive activities of these herdsmen. Rather the ACF to call their herdsmen to order and urge them to respect the rights of their hosts, they are busy sounding tough for vain purposes.

It would be a mistake if anyone thinks what the Afenifere sets out to achieve is to demonise any particular race, region or tribe. Those in focus are Fulani herdsmen who attack people with reckless abandon. It is good to make this distinction because among the Fulani are lawyers, doctors, engineers etc who have made their marks in their different professions. Therefore, it is even more criminal to categorise all Fulani as herdsmen as ACF has attempted to do while denigrating the Afenifere communiqué.

What we ask for is mutual respect and peaceful coexistence among all peoples of Nigeria. A situation where a group raids other peoples’ farms and destroys their crops without let or hindrance leaving behind trails of blood and sorrow is no longer acceptable.

While we call on the security agencies to be brave and perform their duties without fear or favour, let it be stated that the usual antics of the ACF to cow other regions the way they have succeeded in emasculating leaders of NorthCentral has failed, and the warning of Afenifere should be heeded to forthwith as to do otherwise could degenerate into an unwanted state of mass retribution for the criminal Fulani herdsmen.

President Buhari has recycled ‘Noise makers’

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Prof Femi Ajayi

he media assumptions on the tardy ministers appointments that Senate President got 21 nominees; Nigerian President held up 15 nominees; and the Senate got fresh 11 nominees came to an end on Wednesday, September 30, 2015; even though some skeptics believed it was an empty brown envelope submitted to the Senate President, Dr. Olubukola Saraki. The list finally revealed the ‘Noisemakers’, as most of them are reprocessed. The anticipated expectation was to have new broom to sweep the debris in the community, along the vision of President Buhari, prompting his body language to provide adequate services for Nigerians.

Why the long wait for Buhari’s ‘Noise Makers’?

According to The Sun Newspapers, Wednesday, September 16, 2015, defending his delayed announcement of the Ministers, Buhari declared, “The civil service provides the continuity, the technocrat. In any case, they are the people who do most of the work.

The ministers are there, I think, to make a lot of noise, for the politicians to make a lot of noise”.

In some occasions, Buhari could be politically ingenuous in his choice of words, understanding how democ-

racy works, regardless what the constitution says. According to Buhari, Ministers are mere ‘Noise Makers’; which he has demonstrated since May 29, 2015; for the Civil Servants to continue doing the work if the Constitution allows.

Civil Servants and Technocrats across the universe are the strength of governance. However, Nigerian ministers ought to have the charisma to sell government policies to the public. Nevertheless, Buhari could be naïve in wanting to convert civil servants and technocrats to politicians by his late announcement of the partial list of his Ministers. It will be an act of negligence for the government to make civil servants accountable for selling government policies to the public.

In Buhari’s opinion, the Constitution is wrong in making provision for the ministers, the political officials, to engage in policy decision-making, allocating national resources to communities, groups and the general populace, to ensure the legal apportionment of society values or resources, not necessarily noise making responsibilities. Whereas civil servants on the other hand ought to be pre-occupied with policy executions. Possibly Buhari’s choice of christening them ‘Noisemakers’, could be the yardstick to measure

their competences, depending on how much noise they could make in their duties and responsibilities.

Should they be addressed Honorable Noisemakers as part of the changes Nigerians craved for?

Buhari definitely knows his game plan by delaying the appointments of the ministers till September 30, 2015.

The delay could be part of the scripts to get rid of Olubukola Saraki as the Senate President, just like Buhari’s ‘party’ threw Olushola Saraki out of his Senate leadership position in 1983; and in 2015 Buhari’s party wants to throw out Bukola Saraki out of his Senate President position. We hope that the list submitted to the Senate is not being used as bait for the Senate confirmation of the ministers and bounced back on Saraki again; hence, the short-lived Buhari’s honeymoon could be over like a hot coffee placed in the freezer. Unfortunately, surprises are awaiting the country on the outcome of the premeditated Senate issue.

Most Nigerians were shocked for the release of the anticipated Buhari’s ‘Noise Makers’, with some recycled politicians, which is like putting old wine in a new bottle. It does not demonstrate the change Nigerians envisioned. There is no room for the administration to give excuses about the handing over note which was given

four days to the inauguration; it could mean that Buhari’s twelve years’ preparation to be Nigerian President was a hoax. Buhari could have penciled down that would occupy at least the major important positions.

The expectation was to introduce new blood and better ways of running government when the screening of ministerial nominees commences today, October 13, 2015. It is highly imperative for the Senate to redeem itself of fighting corruption, earn the trust of the public, impersonal in the exercise, make the criterion for screening public, muster the courage to reject incompetent and morally bankrupt nominee. We expect the Senate to match qualifications, skills, and qualities of the nominees with their respective assignments; whether they are capable, or qualified for the assignments, not the cosmetic ancient screening of ‘take a bow and exit’, which is bad for democracy.

Would the nomineesdeclare their assets; as required by Section 120 of the Standing Rules of the Nigeria Senate, which indicates that “…the Senate shall not consider the nomination of any person, who has held any public office as contained in Part Two of the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution prior to his nomination, unless, there is a written evidence that he has declared his assets and liabilities

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Ecobank pulls weight on agric funding in Nigeria …plans to step up loan facility from N84bn next four years Isaac Agber

L-R: Executive Director, South, Aku Odinkemelu, Executive Director, Shared Services, Chijioke Ugochukwu, President, Aba Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, Lotenna Obasi, Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, E.O Zubis Nigeria Ltd, Chief Azubuike Okoye and Executive Director, Lagos and South West Bank, Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe at the Aba Customer Forum organised by Fidelity Bank for customers in Aba recently.

NNPC opens book for public scrutiny, pays $607.8 m into federation acct. ÏEmbarks on monthly publication of financial and operational reports Augustine Okezie Abuja The Management of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has thrown open its books for public scrutiny and consequently commenced the monthly publication of its provisional financial and operational reports.

A press statement released to newsmen in Abuja over the weekend by the corporation’s Group General Manager Public Affairs, Mr. OHi Alegbe said the publication of the company’s provisional financial and operational reports which is also available on the Corporation’s official website provides an overview of NNPC’s operations across the oil and gas value chain (Upstream, Mid-

stream & Downstream) as well as NNPC’s agency function on behalf of Government of the Federation from the period January to August 2015.

He said’ ’Specifically, the report provides detailed and unprecedented statistical insight into crucial aspects of the Corporation’s activities ranging from National Crude Oil & Natural Gas Production, Lifting and Utilization; Refineries Plants Operations; and Petroleum Product Supply & Distribution to NNPC Budget Performance Report and Federation Crude Oil & Gas Revenue’’.

He further added that the report was Illustrated with tables, graphs and charts which vividly throws light into aspects of NNPC’s operations that were once described as ‘opaque’ including Issues like

the status of the once misunderstood JP Morgan Foreign account, management and the custody of revenue from crude oil sales, actual production capacity of the refineries, dollar accruals to NNPC/FGN from export crude oil and gas, as well as receipts & payments were all laid bare.

The statement also indicated that a total of $607.8 million has been paid so far to the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee, FAAC in the year 2015 from sales of export Oil and Gas as dollar proceeds. A further breakdown in the report also indicated that the total export crude Oil & Gas receipt for the period of January – August 2015 is $3.420billion,out of which the total receipts of $0.61billion was remitted to

federation account as dollar proceeds while the balance of $2.815billion was used to fund the JV Cash Call for the period.

The report also noted the receipts which witnessed a sharp decline of more than 67% from September, 2014, when the receipt was at its peak, to July, 2015 with dire consequences to the federation.

The NNPC report also disclosed the continued decline in oil price leading to insufficient cash available to meet monthly JV Cash Calls obligations of about $615.8m as appropriated by the National Assembly. It also revealed that the sum of N723.82billion for Domestic Crude Oil and Gas Sales proceeds has been paid to the federation account from January to August 2015 as Naira proceeds.

Ecobank, one of Nigeria’s top ten commercial banks with an asset net worth of $6.174 billion, commanding presence in over 36 countries, has planned to step up its agricultural loan facility to Nigerian farmers currently standing at N84billion in the next four years. This move is in line with the Federal Government’s concern to revamp the sector, the bank’s Country Manager on Agriculture and Export Finance, Abel Ajala, disclosed.

Ajala, said the plan was part of the bank’s strategic initiative to increase support to the agriculture sector in Nigeria. According to him, the bank is working closely with Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Bank of Industry (BoI), using intervention funds and other schemes to avail credit facilities at concessionary and single digit interest rates.

“Apart from the bank’s direct lending to agriculture sector, Ecobank has supported many stakeholders in the sector to obtain BoI’s loans and various CBN-support facilities for agriculture such as Commercial Agricultural Credit Scheme (CACS), Nigeria Incentive – based Risk Sharing for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) at a single digit interest rate.

“Ecobank also plans to grow the BOI/CBN funding portfolio in the bank significantly in the next four years,” Ajala said.

The bank has a profound integrity for supporting farmers and entrepreneurs across Africa. In 2014, Ecobank increased its loan facility to the agricultural sector in Ghana with 152 million Ghana Cedis.

According to reports, the bank also granted $285 million to over 5000 farmers in Rwanda and Kenya through the East African Exchange in conjunction with Banque Populaire du Rwanda.

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Nigeria loses $966m to crude oil swap deal — NEITI The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) on Friday said the Federal Government lost $966m in revenue from the crude oil swap deal between 2009 and 2012.

NEITI’s Communications Director Orji Ogbonnaya-Orji, made the disclosure in Lagos at a forum on subsidy organised

by Media for Oil Reform in collaboration with School of Media Communication, Pan Atlantic University.

Crude Oil Swap is an arrangement by the Federal Government whereby the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation supervises the trading of the nation’s crude oil for refined products.

Ogbonnaya-Orji said there had been public concern about the objective of this arrangement was being compromised.

He explained that in 2012 alone, the cost of crude oil swapped was $6.4bn, while value of refined products returned to Nigeria was $6.3 bn.

This, he said, left the sum of $100m as revenue loss incurred by government.

He maintained that similar concerns were raised with subsidy payment, noting that NEITI’s audit reports disclosed that N4tn was oil subsidy payments between 2006 and 2012.

Ogbonnaya-Orji said that in 2006, N219.72bn was spent on subsidy, in 2007 N236.64bn; 2008 N360.18bn; 2009 N198.110bn; 2010 N416.45bn, 2011 N1.9tn and in 2012 N690bn.

“The subsidy payments in 2012 amounting to N690bn when compared with N1.9tn paid in 2011 showed a 29 per cent reduction.

“This reduction may be due to the January 2012 national protest against oil subsidy,” he said.

The NEITI media director said the transparency initiative audit also revealed that NNPC had claimed that a total sum of N1.7 tn was paid as subsidy between 2006 and 2012.

Orji said, “NNPC deducted this sum directly from domestic crude oil proceeds before remitting the balance to the federation account.

“Subsidy deductions by NNPC increased by 110 per cent from 198bn in 2009 to N416bn in 2010, and 89 per cent in 2011 from N416bn to N786bn.

“The increase between 2009 and 2011 alone was 186 per cent from N198bn to N786bn.”

Customs denies seizing NFF’s consignment

Abdulahi

NPA advocates improved port infrastructure to facilitate export Stories by Funmi Coker The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) Mallam Habib Abdulahi has advocated for the provision of adequate port infrastructure by the Federal Government and the private sector to facilitate export activities through the nation’s seaports.

He however pointed out that other factors which might be extraneous to the Authority are also critical towards achieving enhanced export activities in the nation’s seaports.

Stressing that the provision of appropriate port infrastructure was necessary to enhance trade in the economy, Abdullahi assured that the Authority would encourage any effort designed to change the trade orientation of the nation from import dependent to export.

The Managing Director was speaking through the General Manager Capital Project, Engr.

Rufai Mohammed in a paper titled “Providing Enabling Port Infrastructure to Enhance Trade” at an event in Lagos.

He reiterated that as globally accepted seaports accounts for over 80 per cent by volume of International trade and commerce, emphasising that for a seaport to be competitive, it must have a robust infrastructural base amongst other requirements.

He argued that with the major infrastructural improvements embarked upon by the Authority in its ports and harbour in all its four pilotage districts, coupled with the impending 25 year port master plan which has reached an advanced stage, the Organisation is being positioned to properly meet the demand of all categories of port users for both imports and exports.

The NPA chief executive explained that mindful of the Federal Government determination of delivering an efficient port system for the overall good of the nation’s economy, the Authority was consolidating and entrenching the gains of the port reform by facilitating and synergizing the activities of the Private Terminal Operators, Shipping Lines, Freight Forwarders and other stakeholders, as well as improving the existing port infrastructure.

Abdullahi, who enumerated a number of completed and ongoing capital projects embarked upon by the Authority explained that the projects were meant to add efficiency to the nation’s seaports as well as to make the system competitive, effective and user friendly.

“Sustained efforts at providing the enabling port infrastructure has impacted on the overall port operational efficiency”, he added.

Controller, Apapa Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, Comptroller Charles Edike has dismissed media reports that a consignment of kits belonging to the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) were seized

by Customs operatives attached to his command at the Lagos Port Complex, Apapa.

The Controller who expressed his displeasure over the report said there was no way a consignment belonging to NFF would be detained by his officers without his knowledge.

“We are angry that people as important as NFF had to go to the press that they have such consignment in Customs custody when the Area Controller is not aware, the PRO (Public Relations Manager), APM (Area Project Manager) and the DC (Deputy Comptroller) of the terminal are not aware.

“Who did they complain to in Customs? If they truly have any consignment in the port, the right thing for them to do was to contact the PRO or at best see the Area Controller and tell them their problem.

Edike

Former Executive Director, Finance and Administration of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mr. Adetola Atekoja has been named the Chairman, Board of Directors of the Maritime Microfinance Bank Limited.

Atekoja brings to the MMFB a wealth of experience cutting across banking and finance and the maritime sector.

He is an Alumnus of both Obafemi Awolowo University (University of Ife), Ile-Ife, State of Osun, and Harvard Kennedy School, Boston, USA. He is a Fellow, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers and Chartered Institute of Taxation.

Atekoja’s work experience of over three decades covered Public Practice and Consulting (with the prestigious firm, KPMG), Industrial, Financial Services and Public sectors of the Nigerian economy.

“I am annoyed for NFF to want to destroy the image of the command and the Service. We are working hard to make things easier for people and NFF is now painting us bad,” he lamented.

He urged NFF to put in its best and ensure that they come out victorious in the ongoing match and not use such allegations as excuse for poor performance.

“They should find a way of winning the match and not say Customs is the reason for them not winning the match. If they are not prepared to win, they better wake up,” he said.

NFF General Secretary on Thursday denied any seizure of the football body’s consignment.

Sanusi said the consignment, which arrived at the Lagos port on Sept 4 was in the process of being cleared by the Customs.

According to him, the federation is following due process in the clearance of the jerseys and other equipment from its kitting company.

“One of the reasons for the delay in the early arrival of the consignment was due to change in the mode of transportation.

“Instead of the consignment arrival via air transportation, they were sent them by sea.

“I can assure that they are in the process of being cleared.

“I want to clarify the fact that the consignment has not been seized but are being cleared at the moment.

“We have been used to receiving the consignments by air but this time it came via shipment.

“The NFF is following due procedures to ensure the kits come out in time for our teams abroad,” Sanusi said.

Atekoja appointed Maritime Microfinance Bank chairman He served on the boards of Lagos Channel Management Co. Ltd, Bonny Channel Co. Ltd, Continental Shipyard Limited and Metropolitan Insurance Co. Ltd and was a member of several Government Committees in the Maritime Industry. Currently, he is a Non-Executive Director of Heritage Bank where he heads the bank’s Board Credit Committee.

Other members of the Board include Mr. Bolaji Akinola, Mrs. Adetoro Suleiman, Prince Olayiwola Shittu, Mr. Ben Ogbeide, Mrs. Lami Lois Tsakma and the Bank’s Acting Managing Director, Mr. Oluwaseyi Hamilton.

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NLC decries cheap labour

by Multinationals

Aremu

Stories by Joy Ekeke Officials of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in conjunction with the IndustriALL Global Union, Africa Region, as part of the activities to mark the “Decent Work Day” , met to discuss the problems emanating from the employment policy of the multinational corporations and other companies involved in cheap labour.

Organised labour has also frowned at the activities of multinational companies and other business organisations in Nigeria who engage in employing cheap labour, saying that this will only escalate poverty in the country.

Addressing members of the NLC and other affiliates, the former Deputy President of the Union, Issa Aremu, said that employment conditions in the private sector has fallen short

of the standard prescribed by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), pointing out that, “with unbridled pursuit of profits by private employers of labour, work is no more decent.”

“Indeed work is getting precarious as millions of workers worldwide face hard times in the face of worsening conditions at work. World wide, Nigeria inclusive, workers are exposed to worsening health and safety situations with increased cases of deaths and injuries at work.”Urging employers of labour in the country to work towards meeting the standard prescribed by ILO, Aremu said: “Decent work must guarantee minimum living wages for the workers, wages that are paid as at when due.”

“Decent work means work that is secured and done by free workers who are entitled to form trade unions and engage

in collective bargaining to protect their rights in the world of work. Decent work delivers a fair income, security in the workplace and social protection for families, better prospects for personal development and social integration.”

Aremu further argued, “in Nigeria, there is a dangerous unacceptable non-payment of salaries of workers of up to seven months in some states.

Delayed and non-payment of salaries is wage theft, which should be treated as economic crime. Workers have the right to make ungovernable and unmanageable companies and states that are defaulting on wage payment, remittance of pension contributions and union dues.”

Said he: “We certainly commend President Muhammed Buhari for working out ways and means to assist some states governors to meet their wage obligations. We must however say that workers’ monthly wages are legitimate regular earnings that must not be tied to presidential bail outs.”

Besides, the labour chief remarked, “apart from non-payment of salaries, recruitment of workers for few available jobs is getting precarious. Some unscrupulous employers rather than employing directly outsource their workforce under inhuman and criminal terms as we have seen in the many commercial banks and in government agencies with the tragic case of immigration in which many applicants died after paying for employment forms.

“Few workers who are employed are getting poorer because of poor remuneration.

Jobs are no longer secured as employers opt for casual short term flexible employment as part of the strategies to save cost and boost profit.”

Group slam Customs’ decision to allow rice importation through land borders Funmi Coker The National Rice Millers Association of Nigeria (NRMAN) said on Thursday in Abuja that the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) erred in its decision to lift the ban on importation of rice through the land borders.

The Chairman of the association, Mohammed Abubakar, said the NCS overreached its statutory mandate as an enforcement agency in taking such a policy

decision.

Besides, Abubakar said, if the customs succeeded in its decision, it would destroy Nigeria’s rice value chain attained by the previous administration.

He said the decision was an attempt by the customs to legitimise the smuggling of rice.

“First of all, the customs does not have the power to do that, it is a matter of national policy and customs does not make national policy, it is an implementation

agency.

“This will completely kill the rice value chain and everything concerning rice production will stop; customs does not have the right to make such decision.

This ban was placed six years ago and everybody knows that, so it does not have any reason to say rice should be brought in through the land borders.

“Anyone who gives such directive has smuggling intentions,” he said.

Olukoga

Olukoga urges Lagos to shut down steel firm over workers’ death, maltreatment The Federal Commissioner, Public Complaints Commission (PCC), Mr. Funso Olukoga has called on the Lagos State Safety Commission to immediately shut down a Chinese Steel manufacturing company, Hongxing Steel Company on allegation of maltreatment and death of employees, recorded in the company recently.

Olukoga made the call in Lagos at the weekend while addressing newsmen on his commissions preliminary investigation into factory accidents in the steel company based in Amuwo Odofin area of Lagos.

The commissioner urged the state Safety Commission to ensure that the company remains closed pending when necessary steps are taken to comply with health and safety regulations as stated in the country’s statute books.

Olukoga who said the investigation of the commission was carried out pursuant to the provisions of Section 5 (3)(b) of the Public Complaints Commission Act Cap P. 37, Laws of Federation of Nigeria 2004 said their findings presented “evidence of non-compliance with basic universal health and safety standards”.

He said the investigation which was conducted in collaboration with the Trade Union Congress (TUC) represented by Simeso Amachree and the representatives of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Kasimu Kadiri, Felix Uche, Obukese Orere and Director of Investigation of the PCC, Stella Ozojiofor

revealed “a strong probability that factory operates in an environment that is dangerous for workers to operate in”.Also in attendance was Obinna Eze who had his right hand fingers chopped off by a compressor while on duty in the company and has not been paid any compensation.

Workers of Hongxing Steel had in a national daily last week cried out over slavery and factory accidents leading to death and maiming of workers without adequate compensation by the company among other untoward issues.

They had alleged that one of their colleagues, Emeka Umoh was scalded to death after liquefied iron spilled on his body while on duty, adding that the accident victim later died at Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) Idi Araba where he was rushed to for treatment.

The commissioner also urged the police authority to investigate all cases of workers’ deaths caused by factory accidents.

Olukoga directed the police to liaise with the State Attorney General for possible prosecution should the death of the workers occurred as a result of negligence by the company.

He also advised the management of the company to invite former and serving employees who were injured in the course of duty on possible payment of compensation in collaboration with officials of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity, PCC, TUC and NLC as witnesses.

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NATCOM consortium, new NITEL owners to roll out service in November

Wigwe

Access Bank, Airtel partner Yudala on implementation of YUBOSS Stories by Tony Nwakaegho Yudala, Nigeria’s first true composite online and offline retail chain, has declared that it has entered into a partnership agreement with Access Bank Plc , and Airtel on the implementation of YUBOSS, an entrepreneurship scheme targeted at jobs and wealth creation for Nigerians.

As part of the pre-launch of YUBOSS, A-list artistes Iyanya, Naeto C and renowned comedian Ali Baba, among others are billed to hold a work-out session with Nigerians at the National Stadium, Surulere on Saturday October 17 by 7am. Other part of the event includes a wellness talk by a health living expert, inspirational tips on wealth creation in the 21st Century and auction sales supported by Phillips Health-Tech, Airtel and Access Bank.

Speaking during a contract signing ceremony held at the Corporate Head Office of Yudala Nigeria at Redemption Crescent, Gbagada, Executive Director, Personal Banking at Access Bank, Mr. Victor Etiokwu, who represented Access Bank Group Managing Director, Mr. Herbert Wigwe, stated that YUBOSS is a game-changer which is set to unlock prosperity for millions of Nigerians, while taking the nation’s economy to greater heights at this critical period of our national life.

“The Yudala model – a fusion

of online and offline retail – is one that has captured the imagination of people and the retail market. Right from the day the company was launched, there has been a huge reaction in the market place, in view of the novel idea behind its conception. When the discussions on YUBOSS commenced between both organizations, I was excited because this is an initiative that is set to empower millions of Nigerian youths and by extension, contribute to the growth and development of the Nigerian economy. I am not in doubt that this scheme will be a huge success, especially considering Yudala’s nationwide network of stores, the calibre of renowned entrepreneurs and investors backing Yudala and the drive and expertise exhibited by the entire team,” he said.

Commenting on the partnership, Chief Executive Officer/ Managing Director, Airtel Nigeria, Mr. Segun Ogunsanya, emphasizes the strategic nature of Airtel’s partnership with Yudala, which according to him, will undoubtedly raise the profile of the YUBOSS scheme by offering members a sound telecoms network and high speed data access on 3G network.

Ogunsanya explained that contemporary society is increasingly reliant on information as a gateway to wealth creation – a requirement Airtel sufficiently fulfils with its broadband wireless services and high speed internet access which will go

a long way in empowering YUBOSS members to achieve the ultimate target of creating wealth for themselves and being their own bosses.

YUBOSS is targeted at smart Nigerians which includes undergraduates, post-graduate students, unemployed and under-employed individuals, housewives etc. who have the drive and ambition to earn money and be their own bosses.

On his part, Chief Executive Officer, Yudala Nigeria, Mr. Dave Ibelegbu, who signed the contract documents on behalf of the company, reiterated the massive impact YUBOSS will have in improving the lives of participants.

“I enjoin Nigerians to visit the Yudala website from October 20th to sign up to YUBOSS. This is a scheme that will definitely change the lives of millions of Nigerians. There is no investment on the part of members.

Exceptional performers will enjoy commissions and swift movement through the scheme to become eventual business partners of Yudala,” Ibelegbu said.

YUBOSS is an entrepreneurship scheme set up by Yudala to build a league of emerging entrepreneurs and generate creative employment for millions of Nigerians.

Members are entitled to attractive commissions and a wide range of benefits including business mentorship sessions and an opportunity to be a part-owner of a Yudala franchise store.

NATCOM Consortium, the new owner of the Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL) and its subsidiary, the Nigerian Mobile Telecommunications Limited (M-Tel) has concluded plans to roll out service in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt in this first instance in November this year.

The telecom operator that will be trading with the name ‘NTEL’ as its marketing brand, meaning Nigerian Telecommunications will be rolling out services on 4G Long Term Evolution Technology (LTE) which is known to be a more reliable technology for telecom services, especially for data in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt in this first instance and thereafter extend to other cities of the country.

Daily Times gathered that the data service the company plans

to launch alongside voice will be boosted with the commencement of service of SAT-3 whose ‘Beach Manhole’ relocation has been completed and will be launched as NITEL rolls out service.

It would be recalled that South Atlantic 3/West Africa Submarine Cable (SAT-3), ‘Beach Manhole’ - which is the first landing port of an undersea cable, was cut in the process of reclaiming Bar Beach for the new town known as Eko Atlantic project.

The network is already being test run for full commercial roll out next month even as subscribers have already started joining the network.

Engr. Lanre Ajayi, president, Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), welcomed the planned roll out of service by NATCOM.

Telecoms

Samsung targets profits first time in 2 years in Q3 2015 Samsung has predicted in an earnings guidance report the company released that it expects its operating profit to stand at 7.3 trillion Korean won in Q3 2015, an 80% increase from a similar period last year.

It will be recalled that Samsung MWCTimes disclosed that it have been tough for Samsung Electronics in recent years, as the last time the company made profits was in Q3 2013.

Although, Samsung hasn’t disclosed the major driver of the earnings boost, yet the company is said to have made a lot from its chip and display divisions which count Apple and several other major names as clients.

Even though its profit margins aren’t expected to have increased by much, Samsung’s

mobile division is thought to be back on track thanks to the momentum gained after the company slashed pricing of its early 2015 flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge. Budget smartphones sold in emerging markets are also likely to have driven sales up.

Lee Kun-hee, Samsung boss.

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OPERATIONAL HEADQUARTERS DTN COMPLEX LATEEF JAKANDE ROAD, AGINDIGBI, IKEJA, LAGOS CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS 44 ADETOKNBO ADEMOLA CRESCENT WUSE 2, ABUJA

Public Notice 22 ASSOCIATION OF PROVOSTS OF COLLEGES OF MEDICINE IN NIGERIA

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, October 13, 2015

BONNY IMPROVEMENT ASSSOCIATION OF PORT HACOURT

This is to inform the general public that the above named Church has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under part ‘C’ of the Companies and Allied Matters Act No. 1 of 1990.

This is to inform the general public that the above named has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under part ‘C’ of the Companies and Allied Matters Act No. 1 of 1990.

OLD TRUSTEES 1. Prophetess. A. O. Akindele - Late Founder 3. Pastor H.A. Dairo - Late 5. Eld. M.A. Araromi,

TRUTEES ARE 1. Abere Sodienye Augustin - President 2. Tamunoteke Samuel Jumbo - Vice President 3. Jumbo Abie Joseph - Gen. Sec. 4. Jumbo Comfort Oyiya - Treasurer 5. Barasua Anengi- Fin. Sec 6. Jumbo Gladys - Welfare Officer 7. Pepple Baclays.B. - PRO 8. David Warikiri Mirilla-Green - Provost

2. Pastor .H.A. Akindele - Late President 4. Arch, Prophet .A.A. Ladipo.

NEW TRUSTEES 1. Rev, Dr.Andrew Abolade Ladipo - Gen. Overseer, 2. Rev. Dr. Matilda Iyabode Apampa - Deputy Gen. Overseer.

3. Rev Mathew Sunday Akindele - Gen. Secretary, 4. Patron Ayoola Oluseyi Odunowo.

5. Matron Felicia Idowu Olatunde.

6. Elder Michael Adejoro Araromi.

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

Signed: H.O. TOBALESI TOBALESI & CO solicitor to the church

THE HOLY WAY WORSHIP CHRISTIAN MINISTRY The general public is hereby notified that the above named Ministry has applied to the corporate Affairs commission Abuja for registration under the part C of the companies and allied matters act NO1 of 1990.

The Trustees are: 1. Bassey Dan Sampson - President.

2. Mercy Bassey Sampson - Vice President.

3. Michael Monday Inyang.

4. Henshaw Ansa Udoh.

5. Felix Akpan.

Aims and Objectives: 1. To preach the gospel of our lord Jesus Christ.

2. To establish the branches of the church everywhere.

EMMANUEL ARK FOUNDATION REDEMPTION MISSION The general public is hereby notified that the above Mission has applied to the Corporation Affairs Commission Abuja for Registration Under Part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Acts, 1990 THE TRUSTEES: 1) Sunday Daniel Eze - Chairman 2) Alexander Ebiem Anume AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1) To be preaching Christianity and spreading the Gospel for all 2) To use faith as the ultimate power of the Christian to destroy negative powers and principalities.

3) To inspire our congregation out of spiritual fears of the known.

AIM AND OBJECTIVE. 1. To foster the unity among members.

2. To enhance co-operation among members.

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

SIGNED: PRESIDENT

EGBE IREPODUN KAARO OOJIRE AIRPORT WORKERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA This is to inform the general public that the above named has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under part ‘C’ of the Companies and Allied Matters Act No. 1 of 1990.

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

Signed: Sunday Daniel Eze Chairman

THE G10 ROYAL CLUB OF LAGOS This is to inform the general public that the above named has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under part ‘C’ of the Companies and Allied Matters Act No. 1 of 1990.

The Trustees Are: 1. Rotimi Ademola Oguntade (President)

2. Francis Ayinde Adetunji

3. Engr. Adeniyi Okelola Raji

4. Prince Ademola Olubunmi Ogunlami

5. Alhaji Ayilara Adesanya Tajudeen

6. Olowolafe Jerome Femi

7. Alhaji Sikiru Shola Olaniyan

8. Adamu Dauda Abiodun

9. Sikiru Kareem Olatunji

10. Elebute Adegboyega Sunday -(Secretary)

Trustees 1. Dim Martins Tochukwu 3. Ugwu Ndubuisi Moses 5. Ukwandu Chima Davis

2. Ugba Ugochukwu Brown 4. Obasi Valentine Oke

Aims And Objectives 1. The G10 royal club to serve as a forum for service immunity 2. To see to well being of the members

The Aims and Objectives Are: 1. To promote unity amongst members 2. To assist members financially 3. To promote love, unity and peaceful coexistence with other tribes

Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corporate Affairs Commission 420 Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, and Abuja within 28 days of the publication Signed Barr. Chukwuleta

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

Signed: Secretary.

Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corpo-

WEST AND CENTRAL AFRICAN DOG BREEDERS ASSOCIATION

AMBASSADORS ASSOCIATION OF FRIENDS

CHRIST THE LIGHT AND THE TRUTH MINISTRIES

Notice is hereby given that the above named Association has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for registration under part C of the Companies and Allied Matters Act (Cap 20) 2004.

The general public is hereby notify that the above name association has apply to the corporate affairs commission for the registration under part ``C’’ of the company Allied Matters Act 1999

This is to inform the general public that the above named CHURCH has applied for registration under part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act of 1990

THE TRUSTEES ARE:(1) Dr Olakunle Tolulope Sowunmi (2) Adekunle Samuel Ayeni (3) Elizabeth Sowunmi (4) Victoria Oluwakemi Oluwafisayo Sowunmi,

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Ogbo Nwachukwu 2. Agwu Ogbonnaya Benedict 3. John Abiri

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Pastor Oyeleke Abiodun 3. Mrs Julianah Olubamike Oyeleke 5. Pastor Mayowa Akinyoola 7. Elder Oluyemi Ajayi

THE AIM AND OBJECTIVE IS:To bring members together Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420 Tigris Crescent, off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Garki, Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

Signed: SECRETARY

MALARIA CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION The general public is hereby notify that the above name foundation has apply to the corporate affairs commission for the registration under part ``C’’ of the company Allied Matters Act 1999 THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Lynette Chinemerem Ndukwe 2. Herbert Karsten Meissner AIM AND OBJECTIVE: Seek eradicate Malaria in Nigeria.

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

Signed: Secretary

OGUNDEJI DESCENDANTS UNION The General Public is hereby notified that the above named union has applied to the Corporate Affairs Commission for change of trustees under Part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2004.

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Mr Kamal Ogundeji 2. Barr Abiodun Ogundeji 3. Alhaja Wosilat Salami 4. Mr Abu Lawal.

Aims and objective: 1. To promote the welfare and unity of members of the family 2. To preserve the family’s cultural heritage and values.

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: Secretary

rate Affairs Commission 420 Tigris Crescent, Off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, and Abuja within 28 days of the publication.

Signed: Secretary

AIMS 1. To faster peace unity love and progress to the members and beyond 2. To include inculcate in members the needs for decent character and general discipline Any objection to the registration should be forwarded to the Registrar General Corporate Affairs Commission, Plot 420 Tigris Crescent, off Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Garki, Abuja within 28 days of this publication.

Signed: Barrister Kingsley C. Okeke

BEAUTIFUL BEGINNINGS GLOBAL FOUNDATION

2. Rev. Olufemi Robert 4. Pastor Sayo Oludele 6. Elder David Aina 8. Rev. Amos Adeniran

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. To be committed to bringing up the children and teenagers spiritually in the way of the Lord; 2. To live a life worthy of emulation to lead the nation to her land of inheritance through prayer meetings, seminars, outreaches, book publishing, teachings and Christian film shows.

Signed: Folake Ajayi (Mrs) Folake Ajayi & Co (08035721993)

OTUMARA RESIDENTS WELFARE ASSOCIATION

The general public is hereby notify that the above name foundation has apply to the corporate affairs commission for the registration under part ``C’’ of the company Allied Matters Act 1999

This is to inform the general public that the above named association has applied for registration under part “C” of the Companies and Allied Matters Act of 1990

THE TRUSTEES ARE: (1) Mr. Anthony Olusegun Adeyemi-Showunmi - Chairman (2) Mrs. Oluyemi Titilayo Adeyemi-Showunmi - Secretary (3) Mr. Oladipupo Ogunfowora (4) Dr. (Mrs) Victoria Ibezim-Ohaeri (5) Mrs Imade Ize-Iyamu (6) Mrs Damilola Kuku

THE TRUSTEES ARE: 1. Ohunyon Prior 3. Hyacint Ojiogu 5. lkegwu Israel Okoronkwo 7. Arowojolu Edatomola John 9. Agulosi Abass lshola

AIMS & OBJECTIVES (I) To educate young children about societal value in Nigeria and beyond. (ii) To teach young children on soft skill and develop talent.

Aims And Objectives: To provide security, welfare and electricity for the residents of the community.

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

Signed: Secretary

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

SIGNED: Trustees.

OLUWAKEMI ADEBISI TOGUN

BOSE IYORE DANIEL

I formerly known and addressed as Oluwakemi Adebisi Omitogun, now wish to be known and addressed as Oluwakemi Adebisi Togun.

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

I, formerly known as Bose

BLESSING NGOZI AMADI Mrs. Nnebu – Ngozika Aburunito of Mr. Aburunito family in Mba Ottawa Mbaitoli L.G.A Of Imo State, wish to be addressed henceforth as Blessing Ngozi Amadi. She hails from Obalga in Rivers state.

The general public should take note, that all her documents bearing her former names remains valid.

SIGNED: MR. G.N.AMADI FOR THE FAMILY

Osakhowomham Daniel now which to be known and address as

Bose

Iyore

Daniel.

All

formal document remain valid.

General public take note.

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Enugu community boils as brothers fight other over Biafran barracks Moses Oyediran Enugu

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is now brewing in Achara community in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State as no fewer than 100 members of the community are protesting illegal sale of their communal land by some of the indigenes. A section of the community, led by, Mr. Augustine Alumona, Chairman, Achara land Investigation Panel, indicted the land committee, led by his elder brother, of illegal sale of the communal land by a committee set up by Achara community, since 2008, which had refused to hand over the reins of authority – even after the expiration of their four-year tenure.

Daily Times gathered that the two brothers – Augustine and John Alumona – are now locking horns over the captaincy of Achara community land committee.

Augustine told the Daily Times that the investigation panel, which he as the chairman was set up by Achara community to investigate the Achara Land Committee headed by his elder brother John for the arbitrarily and illegal sale of the community’s land.

According to investigation, Augustine’s committee indicted the John Alumona-led committee and subsequently dissolved the committee in 2012, but John and his committee had continued to function in the same office.

“The John Alumona-led committee members have refused to quit, but continued to sell our communal land without the consent of the community.

He stated further that this is why elders and youths of Achara decided to carry out this protest.

“Our anger with this cabal is that they have continued to enrich themselves at the expense of

the community. After serving as members of Achara land committee, since 2008, these people have not rendered their stewardship to elders who appointed them.

“Enough is enough; the community can no longer watch, almost hopelessly, as a group of people sell its land, illegally,” he said.

The spokesman of the group said the youths of the community were not happy because they the cabal had sold all the land they would have built their own houses.

“You can see that the majority of protesters are youths and old men; they are not happy with this land cabal in the community,” Augustine Alumona said.

However, John Alumona has continued to maintain that he had the power of attorney of the community to remain in office until the land issue between Achara community and the Nigerian Army was decided.

Ogunyemi Esther

ÏÏÏLagos

State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, on Monday, unveiled plans to commence the reconstruction of two roads in each of the 20 Local Governments and 37 Local Council Development Areas in the State, just as he charged the Executive Secretaries to judiciously ensure that the projects met international standard.

He spoke at the Lagos House, Ikeja, during the monthly meeting with the Executive Secretaries of the 57 Councils to review the progress report in their various communities, as well as their challenges.

He said the decision to embark on the road rehabilitation was in line with the reforms at the local government level, noting that the first phase would commence with the reconstruction of 114 roads,

Rotary offers free healthcare to Nigerians Lara Adejoro

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less than 150,000 Nigerians benefited from the free health services organised recently by the Rotarians for Family Health and AIDS prevention (RFHA) of Rotary International.

The free health services which ended at the up weekend included HIV testing, family counseling, diabetes and hypertension screening and education, breast and cervical cancers screening, polio immunisation, malaria testing and provision of long lasting insecticides nets, condom distribution, eye and dental checks, among others.

Speaking at the launch programme of the Rotary Family Health Days 2015 at the Rotary Centre, Ikeja, Lagos, Director, West Africa Operations, RFHA, Members of The Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Ekiti Branch, receiving free medical care, during the branch's Law Week in Ado-Ekiti… on Monday

Ekiti govt lauds group for providing school materials, free feeding to pupils Gbenga Sodeinde Ado Ekiti

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Ekiti State Government has commanded a non-governmental organisation (NGO), known as “Samuel Call”, in the state, for the vision of coming to the aid of humble parents, who were often confronted with the challenges of providing their children with school materials, especially during September/ October school.

At Odo-Uro Community Primary School, in Irepodun Local Government Area and (LGA) the St. Andrews Catholic Primary School, Osan-Ekiti, Moba LGA,

where the NGO gave out some school materials, last week, the Commissioner for Education who was represented by the Area Education officer, Moba LGA, Pastor Kehinde Olayinka, thank the NGO for the its kind gesture, adding that he was impressed by comments and commendations from parents of the pupils who had benefited from the scheme, and urged to do more, and that the well-to-do in the society should emulate its good gesture.

Parents of these pupils Andrews Catholic Primary school, Osan Ekiti could not hide their joy as they praised and prayed for the NGO for giving their children

bags, stationery, school uniforms, socks, as well as free meal (breakfast).

Headmistress of St Andrews, Mrs. Dada Omotola, represented by her assistant, Chief Olawale Olomofemi, praised the NGO for its humanitarian effort, adding that it had encouraged a lot of poor parents to bring their children to the school.

The NGO is a non-profit body, organised under the laws of the State of Florida, U.S.A. founded

by Mrs. Busayo Akinnibi, with a humanitarian fervor, in 2013, so as to help less privileged children, wherever they may be in the world.

Henry Omunu

Abuja ÏÏÏFormer Lagos State Governorship Candidate of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Ambassador Nurain Mumuni, has expressed confidence about the integrity, competence and ability of the ministerial nominees forwarded to the Senate for screening by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Mumuni described the nominees as men and women with sterling virtues, who possessed the requisite cognate experience in their respective field to add value to the Buhari administration if confirmed by the Senate.

He told journalists in Abuja, that, “l have no doubt about it; they are all going to add a great deal of value and administrative prowess to the Buhari administration.

“Their participation in the

23 News Ambode tasks LG chairs on rehabilitation of roads two per local government, at the cost of N19 billion.

The Governor, who said the execution of the project would be left in the care of the local governments, however tasked the Executive Secretaries to ensure that only the best contractors were engaged, so that the prescribed standard was met on all the roads.

Ambode

Rotarian Olugbemiga Olowu, said the vision and mission of RHFA was to improve the lives of vulnerable children and families by mobilising Rotarians and partner organisations globally in the fight against HIV/AIDS and other diseases.

The agenda, according to Olowu, was to develop a strong public/private partnership programme in response to the needs of people, which was in view of Africa’s high mortality rate from either infectious diseases or noncommunicable diseases.

“The Rotary Family Health Days are a comprehensive, holistic offering of free healthcare for parents, children, grand-parents, friends and all family members in over 130 sites from Kano, Gombe, Jos, Kaduna, Abuja to Enugu, Owerri, Yenogoa, Calabar, Benin down to Akure, Ibadan, Ijebu-Ode, Abeokuta, Lagos and many other villages, towns and cities in 27 of the 36 states of Nigeria.

Buhari's ministers’ll excel, APC stalwart declares Buhari government will help accelerate deliverance of the president’s campaign promises.’’ He added that, "l don’t think there is anybody on that list you can call a push-over. They are all men and women of enviable pedigree. And their excellent records speak for them.’’Reacting to the criticisms of Buhari for failing to attach the portfolio to the names of the ministerial nominees, Mumuni stated that the whole idea of attaching portfolios to the names of ministerial nominees was being propounded by opponents, who were not conversant with the provisions of the Nigerian constitution.

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APC blasts PDP over Alamieyeseigha’s death accusation Akam James Yenagoa

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streams of reactions that have continued to trail the sudden demise of the former governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Diepreye Solomon Alaimeiseigha, the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has described as laughable and shameful the accusation by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), that the APC was behind the death of the first civilian governor of the state.

The party in a statement, signed and issued in Yenagoa by the state publicity secretary, Hon. Fortune Panebi, noted that despite the claims

by the Seriake Dickson administration that he has spent billions in upgrading and refurbishing medical facilities in the state not even one hospital could attend to the late former governor of the state as a boost to his failed administration.

The statement further stated that it is quite sad that a man like Chief D.S.P Alaimeiseigha could be treated with disregard by those he picked from obscure corners and brought to political limelight, adding that rather than lend a helping hand to the sick man, he was given conditions to publicly endorse Dickson’s re-election bid before his medical request will be attended to.

The party, while com-

miserating with the family of the bereaved, noted that if Dickson was the peoples governor as he claimed, he would have responded before the health condition worsened, adding that Dickson was good at dragging feet when it comes to rendering assistance to Bayelsans except those for cheap political points.

The party said the incident has once again exposed the many lies and deceit of Dickson over issues concerning the Ijaw Nation, noting that if the Governor General of the Ijaw Nation was treated shabbily and with disdain, anybody can fall victim of same incident from Dickson.

The party advised Bay-

elsans to shun Dickson’s new strategy of saying Alaimeiseigha demise is a personal loss to him, adding that Diete Koki hospital was a world class hospital as at when Sylva was the governor of the state few years ago, but has now turned refuse dump site for the restoration government.

Alamieyeseigha

L-R: Sabo-Oniba Zonal Superintendent, Rev. Julius Oluwaleye; Festac District Overseer, Rev. Godwin Onofomi; Ishaga Zonal Superintendent, Rev. Luke Egbonuba; Rev. (Mrs.) Oluwakemi Oluwaleye and Ilasamaja Zonal Superintendent, Rev. Joshua Aremu during the inauguration of Foursquare Gospel Church Ishaga zone and installation of zonal superintendent in Lagos... on Monday Photo: TAOFEEK BABAJIDE

Abia guber poll: Appeal Court dismisses Otti’s appeal Val Okara

Owerri ÏÏÏThe Court of Appeal, sitting in Owerri, the Imo state capital, on Monday, dismissed an appeal brought before it by Abia State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Dr. Alex Otti, asking for an extension of time at the lower tribunal.

Dr. Otti had gone to the appellate court demanding for an extension of time of extra seven days out of 14 days stipulated by the law, to enable him (petitioner) invite more witnesses in a petition he brought against Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The Election Petition Tribunal at Umuahia, had earlier granted seven days to the petitioner against four days allowed by the law.

Chief Awa Kalu (SAN), counsel to Otti, last Saturday, argued that the lower tribunal had foreclosed the appellant’s right to 14 days after granting him only seven days, and prayed the court to grant him an extra seven days extension of time to enable them call all their witnesses.

Opposing the application, counsel for Governor Ikpeazu, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN) urged the court to discountenance the application, saying the appeal has no connection

with the prayers of the appellant at the lower tribunal.

The counsel of the PDP and INEC, aligned themselves to the submission of Olanipekun.

Kalu, however, noted that there were two Notices of Appeal, adding that the respondent did not specify the appeal for which they raised preliminary objection.

Delivering the judgment, Justice Bada dismissed the appeal on the ground that the parties involved in the petition have already submitted their written addresses to the lower tribunal.

According to him, it would not be proper for the court to grant an extension

of time after all the parties had made their final submission to the lower tribunal, stressing that such relief brought by the appellant if granted, would affect the lower tribunal.

Reacting to the outcome of the judgment, one of the counsels to Otti, stated that the knock off the appeal by the appellant court has nothing to do with the substantive suit at the lower tribunal.

Otti

Lawmaker sets high standard for Oshodi-Isolo council

Okeowo Babajide

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miffed by the perception people have about Oshodi-Isolo and its environs as a criminal haven, the lawmaker representing Oshodi-Isolo Constituency 1, at the Lagos State House of Assembly, Honorable Hakeem Olusola Sokunle, has promised to change the orientation of youths in the area by engaging them.

Sokunle made this known while declaring open his constituency office and a state-of-the-art Information Technology (ICT) Center for members of his constituency. The lawmaker, while

Rescue Daily Independent now, NUJ tells owners

ÏÏÏThe

National President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Mr. Abdulwaheed Odusile has called on the owners of Independent Newspapers Limited (INL), the publishers of Daily, Saturday and Sunday Independent, to immediately rescue the establishment from the mismanagement of the company led by the current Managing Director, by Mr. Ted Iwere.

He made the call on Monday while addressing NUJ and National Union of Production Publishing, Paper Products Workers (NUPPPPROW) members, at a rally to protest the over

addressing newsmen said that the need to be closer to the people, to feel their pulse and be easily accessible to those who voted for him was behind his decision.

Citing the need to carry out a re-orientation of the youths to enable them be useful to themselves, he assured the youths that he has their interest at heart “I can assure the youth of OshodiIsolo that I have their interest at heart and I have put in place programmes that will benefit and empower them.

This ICT center is opened to empower youths in the area and it is open to all youths in the area irrespective of the party they belong to”.

23 months salaries arrears at the premises of INL. The workers were protesting unpaid arrears, non-remittance of pension and tax deducted from salaries, and the withholding of over N4million cooperative contributions, as well as unjustified demotion, among others.

Odusile, accompanied by the Lagos state Chairman of NUJ, Mr. Deji Elumoye and other state executives regretted the insensitivity of Mr. Iwere to the workers’ plight cum investment of the publishers of INL titles.

“NUJ no longer has business with Ted Iwere. He has committed criminal offence by not remitting deducted taxes and pension. It is for the anti-graft agencies to take necessary actions immediately. The law must take its cause” Odusile said.

PDP sweeps election petition tribunal cases in C’River Emma Obi

Calabar ÏÏÏThe Cross River State National and State Assembly Election Petition Tribunal, sitting in Calabar, on Monday, upheld the declaration of Mr. Gershom Bassey of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as winner of the Southern Senatorial district election, as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Prince Bassey Otu of Labour Party, had filed a petition, challenging the declaration of Mr. Gershom Bassey of the PDP, who was declared winner in the March 28, 2015 gubernato-

rial election in the southern senatorial district of Cross River State. Prince Otu had alleged that the election was characterised by irregularities and breach of guide lines and electoral malpractices, alleging breach of the guidelines by INEC. He had also prayed the tribunal to upturn the election of the PDP candidate and call for a fresh election, alleging that Gershom Bassey was not properly elected.

Delivering judgment, Chairman of the tribunal, Justice O.A. Adeniyi, dismissed the petitions, deciding all the issues in favour of the Labour Party candidate.

Daily Times Nigeria Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Kogi monarch canvasses peaceful guber poll

Some of the newly registered primary schools pupils at Sada Primary School in Kankia, Katsina State during the 2015 enrollment drive campaign, … on Monday

Ibrahim Obansa Lokoja

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NSCDC officer shoots colleague in Ondo ’Tosin Ajuwon Akure

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uniform officer with the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, (NSCDC), Ondo State Command, on Monday, accidentally shot one of his colleagues, while attempting to arrest of a suspected fraudster.

The incident occurred at Araromi Street, in Akure, the state capital, when the officers of Command were chasing a suspected fraudster into a nearby shop.

Daily Times gathered

from traders on the street that the impostor had attempted to disappear with his Golf vehicle, as soon as, he sighted officers of the Corps, who were after him.

The suspected impostor was arrested, but nearby residents, who were angered by the action of the Corps officers, attempted to free him.

Eyewitnesses told our correspondent that a melee ensued, and in an attempt to quell the fracas, a uniform officer whose identity was hidden by the Command’s authority fired a shot and mistakenly hits his col-

league.

The rampaging officer was accused of dereliction of duty and indiscriminate arrest of innocent residents during the brawl.

The Corps spokesperson, Mr. Kayode Balogun, denied the allegation that his officers acted unprofessionally, thereby causing the misdirected gun shot.

He told the Daily Times that one of the sympathisers of the suspected fraudster who had hidden in the crowd fired the shot at the officer and melted away.

He said the injured officer

lost much blood and was currently receiving treatment at an undisclosed private hospital.

Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Femi Joseph, who also confirmed the incident, said his men were reinforced in the area, when the command learnt that a riot had broken out between the NSCDC officers and residents.

Joseph said one suspect in connection with the incident had been arrested and currently giving the police “useful information” to track other culprits.

Ebonyi teachers allege N700 illegal deduction from salary Jacob Mbam Ogodo Abakaliki

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and Junior Secondary School teachers in Ebonyi State have alleged an illegal deduction of N700 (seven hundred naira) from their salaries by officials of the State Universal Basic Education Board (UBEB) for a correction of their promotion steps.

Speaking to newsmen in Abakaliki, the teachers said they went for promotion interview in 2012, 2013

Kidnappers on the prowl in Benue Freddie Adamgbe

Makurdi ÏÏÏA lot of parents, in Benue State, are visibly worried on account of soar-

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and 2014 and came out successfully with their due steps of the promotion not added in their grade level.

They called on Governor Dave Umahi to come to their aid and prevail on the officials of the education board to refund the money collected from them, which they described as illegal.

They maintained that their investigations revealed that top officials of the board may not be aware of the money being collected from them for the correction of their Gen 35 steps of

their grade levels.

“We are unhappy with what is happening to us. We are not paid well and some persons in the education board are collecting unauthorised N700.00 from us in the name of correcting our promotion steps. We have resolved to embark on protest very soon and we are going to let the authorities concerned know about these illegal deductions from our salaries. We have it on good record that the state government and some top officials of the board

are not aware of these deductions and that is why we want to expose it,” the teachers said.

The teachers mostly from Afikpo South Local Government Area said they were directed by one Ogbonnaya Onu, the local government cashier, to comply with immediate effect or have themselves to blame. Chief Hyacinth Ikpor, State Chairman of the Universal Basic Education Board (UBEB) could not react on the matter when contacted on phone.

ing instance of kidnapping of young children in markets and schools.

For the past five weeks, no fewer than 22 children, between the ages of four and eight, have been kidnapped and forcefully snatched from their mothers, in broad day light, across the state.

Piqued by the crime, which appears to have de-

fied the efforts of security agents, mothers of the kidnapped children, last week, confronted Governor Samuel Ortom, singing dirges, as they supplicated him to intervene and rescue their children before they were wasted.

However, Ortom consoled the mothers; that the police had already arrested some kidnappers in connection

with the crime, and assuring them that they were cooperating with the security men to track down the others.

He equally gave an assurance that the state government would collaborate with security agencies to tackle the rising spate of kidnapping.

A mother, whose son Tersoo (4) was kidnapped

Ebira land, Dr. Ado Ibrahim, has charged candidates of political parties in Kogi State, who vying for governorship position to shun campaign of calumny and the use of inflammatory statements in the interest of peace.

The royal father also enjoined politicians to delve into issues that would motivate the electorate to

come out en masse to cast their votes on the day of election.

Dr. Ibrahim, who gave the charge when he received the candidate of Progressive People Alliance (PPA) for the November 21 governorship election Mr. Enesi Emmanuel Ozigi, who paid him a visit in his palace as part of the party's campaign flag off in Okene, said the making of vulgar comments, during campaign, could jeopardise the existing peace in the state .

While appealing to politicians, the monarch maintained that the essence of democracy was to guarantee greater participation in the electoral process by the citizenry.

Jigawa, China partner on medical training, equipment Dutse Mohammed

ÏÏÏGovernor

Muhammad Badaru Abubakar of Jigawa State is leading a high powered health delegations to Government Republic of China on exchange of training of medical doctors, as well provision of health facilities to most of its hospitals and health centers.

Commissioner of Health, Dr. Abba Zakari Umar, told newsmen that the mission was in line with the present administration’s resolve in placing premium on the health of its populace.

“We are determined to modernise our health centres with modern working facilities to international standard, which explains our resolve to partner with experts abroad,” he said.

On training of doctors, Umar stated that emphasis would be placed on the children of the less-privileged ones, who are interested to

at Jewel Model School at Kilometre 4, Gboko Road, Makurdi, since August 29, 2015, Mrs. Ngodoo Amiaser, a business women at Wurukum market, said the young boy who had gone with her to the market on that fateful day had gone to play somewhere within the market and got missing since then.

“Torso went to play close by within the market. He

study medicine abroad, in addition to the earlier-sponsored indigenous medical students.

Daily Times gathered that the one week foreign trip would afford the delegation to witness this year’s health exhibition in China, as well the opportunity to formalise a bilateral agreement on health exchange programmes.

Abubakar

left my shop at about 4p.m. but by 5p.m. when he would usually come back I didn't see him. So, I went looking for him and in the process, a young girl said she saw my son with a woman whom she could not identify and asked where he was going but the woman told the girl she was my sister and that I had asked her to go and buy Bobo juice for my son.”

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Judiciary has fared well since independence—Falana Although he is an indigene of Owo in Ondo state, Chief Femi Falana, the ‘Baamofin’ of Arepo land in Ogun state read law at the Ondo State University now University of Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State and was called to the Nigerian Bar. In this interview with PETER FOWOYO, he recounts his ordeal in bearing a name that is associated with a renowned right activist, Femi Falana, a senior advocate but concluded that the name has also brought fame and fortune in plying his trade.

You answer the same name with a renowned activist and senior advocate, Femi Falana, has there been any time there was confusion in the courtroom when announcing your appearance before a Judge?

Yes, it reminds me my first experience after been called to Bar in 2000. I was to work with Mr Segun Ajibola SAN and on that day, he gave me a test case which was before Justice Marsh. I was to go and adopt summons for direction. I did it happily and I came back to meet him at the Court of Appeal. At that time, Justice Oguntade was the Presiding Judge at the Court of Appeal, Lagos. On getting into the Court, Femi Falana SAN happens to be senior to Segun Ajibola SAN. Few minutes when I came in, the learned silk, Falana, walked in and sat behind us. The matter was called and Segun Ajibola stood up and announced appearance before the Justices been Presided by Justice Oguntade.

When he now mentioned his appearance and said appearing with me are my learned friends Tunde Kalaro and Femi Falana.

I stood up to take a bow and already lawyers were wondering why Segun Ajibola will announce the appearance of Femi Falana who is his senior at the Bar. The lawyers were astonished when they saw me standing up because I was a new wig at that time. The whole court began to laugh. I took a bow and wanted to sit down quickly but, Justice Oguntade held me on to it. He asked: “where is this new lawyer coming from?” I thought I could have it expressed by smiling and nodding but he asked me: “are you in any way related to the popular Femi Falana?” I said my Lord, biologically, no but, professionally, yes. He is my learned senior.

Justice Oguntade again asked:

“are you from the same state?”

I answered no. I am from Owo in Ondo state and Mr. Femi Falana SAN is from Ilawe in Ekiti state and I told Justice Oguntade Ekiti state was carved out of Ondo state. All those in court were laughing. If I had been the timid type, it could have been enough to give me a pin fall. At the end of the day, Justice Oguntade said: “the new Femi Falana, I think it will be better to look for a way so that you can also distinguish yourself.”

Also, there was a time a letter was written to a client of mine. Again, there was an altercation. Somewhere, somehow, somebody mischievously wrote a petition against me, sent it to the learned silk, maligning that I was actually parading myself as a SAN. When he read the petition he put a phone call to me and said: “is that Femi Falana SAN?” I was just coming out of the court and I answered him no sir. He asked again: “is that not Femi Falana SAN?” I said this is Olufemi Falana. He asked: “is there any difference between Olufemi Falana and Femi Falana?” I said Femi Falana is a popular one who is a SAN but this one is Olufemi Falana, he is not a SAN. He now greeted me and said: ”this is Femi Falana SAN, you may have to come and see me in my office, somebody has written a petition against you saying that you have been parading yourself as a SAN.” I went to his office, read the petition and he understood it was one of those lawyers that want to take advantage because I am having an edge in a case so; they were looking for a way to distract me.

He gave a fatherly advice to surmount and resolve any problem that could have engendered by virtue of their intention. His wife too was very instrumental to unraveling the mystery and

‘‘The Nigerian judiciary has gone far and wide, it has excelled, as a matter of fact, lawyers are being taken from the system to now represent Africa, to now be part of the World Court’’ the mischief of that petition at that time.

However, everywhere I introduce myself, I will be expecting the next question to that asking if I’m related to the popular Femi Falana SAN so, I will have to distinguish or explain and taking to mind that there are some issues I would have loved to take personal, be dogged and attack squarely but, I wouldn’t be able by virtue of the name.

I have attained more benefit by virtue of his popularity than the bad.

Nigeria celebrated her 55th independence anniversary last week, how would you assess the nation’s judiciary from independence?

The judiciary has fared a little

Falana

better, some development has taken place. Prior to 1960 there wasn’t anything like Nigerian Law Report, Chief Gani Fawehinmi SAN came, brought it up and now we have our own indigenous law reports even after his demise, the law reports is still going on. Prior to that time, we rely on the British Law, most of our laws then were all imported laws but now we have our indigenous reported cases into the judicial system we now cite. Citing of cases is part of the authority we use. Also, prior to 1960, there wasn’t any senior advocate but, we now have them, we now have Nigerian Law School, we have Advanced Legal Studies.

The Nigerian judiciary has gone far and wide, it has excelled, as a matter of fact, lawyers are being taken from the system to now represent Africa, to now be part of the World Court, Justices Elias was there, Kayode Eso was there, Bola Ajibola was there, amongst others. if you look at some of the cases being handled by the highly classical and intelligent Judges in recent times, you compare them with Lord Denin of old. When we talk about computer too, it has come in although we have not got to the level of the developed world but we are making an impact.

Immediately after the independence we were only having one Supreme Court and now if you look at the hierarchy of the court it has changed tremen-

dously. We now have different courts handling different issues.

In 1975, Federal High Court was created. We now have National Industrial Court that takes care of industrial disputes while the FHC takes care of matters under section 71, federal matters that are basically on the exclusive list. We now have different Court of Appeal into many divisions, we have it in Akure, Lagos, Ibadan, Ilorin, Enugu, Kaduna, Sokoto so, there has been an improvement, there has been a lot of development and even in the learning of the law. The judiciary has not done badly, they’ve done well.

There is a suggestion that only constitutional matters should be allowed to go to the Supreme Court due to the volume of cases pending at the apex court. Do you share this view?

We will be compelled to look at the economy of the state if you now suggest a multi-dimensional courts into the system, where is the wherewithal, the human and financial resources to back them up. We will take into account at the moment that if you want to advice based on what operates in a developed country, if you bring it down to Nigeria, it may collapse. The foundation in 1960 may be good but thereafter, we couldn’t live up to it, it became porous, in such a way that putting something on it is like putting something on noth-

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We don’t have peoples’ constitution— Falana Continued from page 26 ing. The system is so loose at the moment, we have not been recording successes in everything we’ve been doing and it all bothers down on corruption.

If an average Nigerian wants to enlist in the Army or Police, his or her main target is not to serve the fatherland but, to be corrupt and that system comes into the judiciary system. If you now say let there be a Supreme Court strictly responsible for constitutional matter while another will be for allied matters.

The problem now would be that because our system is so corrupt, it will lack coherent of the decisions to be taken up there.

We are having just one apex court, when they bring out decisions from there we are still having problems there, the only thing lawyers would say is that Supreme Court has overruled itself.

We have seven Justices at the Supreme Court to make a full court on constitutional matters though five of them could sit on allied matters or read judgments, the same also at the Court of Appeal, one Justice could read a judgment of three, if other two are not available in such exceptions but, as it is presently, some of the courts don’t sit because they don’t form quorum, where they are three, several times, if one of them is sick, the court of appeal will not sit and several times the Supreme Court could not form a quorum when they were to sit on constitutional matters and backlog of cases were there especially during the Babangida regime.

If we now want to divide the Supreme Court, where are the personnel? Where is the economy to sustain them? That again will necessitate going back to the constitution and have it amended, if it is going to be amended, who will amend the constitution? How do you want to amend the constitution that you did not draft? To what extent is it going to be formidable? Ordinary civilians have never drafted a constitution in this country except the 1963 constitution. It is not only constitutional matters that goes to the apex court, we still have other criminal matters that are of capital punishment unto which you can’t separate them, they are of right in an appeal, straight to the apex court.

Whereas there are some matters that got stocked at the Court of Appeal, for instance, electoral matters.

It has been said that the constitution lied about itself

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as a result of the preface which states that: “We the people of Nigeria…” whereas it was only few individuals that drafted it. Are you also of this view?

I am of this view and I concur with the same argument of these people who believe that we are just alien to the constitution that we claimed to be ours. We are just masquerading to the fact that we have a constitution. The constitution which states that: “We the people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria having solemnly sat together to make this constitution that we would call ours”, was there a referendum between us that suggested what we wanted and now say let this be our constitution? No. When the military came in prior to 1979, the military suspended the constitution and were ruling us with decrees and regrettably the decrees were housing many provisions of the constitution, the military suspended substantially all parts of the constitution.

When Obasanjo left in 1979, Shagari came in and we said we were back to constitutional life, a civilian regime but, we know that the constitution that was suspended prior to 1979 was the 1963 constitution. To make a constitution, every voice of members of that country must be heard but what they did was to inaugurate a constitutional

drafting committee that was headed by the late Chief Rotimi Williams SAN and other friends of the military who were made to be part of it. The constitution was drafted, never passed into law in anywhere. When they now transferred government to the civilians, they said: “this is your constitution, the 1979 constitution.”

We read it in the preamble that “we the people”, life continues from there compared to the American constitution of hundred thousand words that originated from the scratch to the last. It went on and in 1983 it was again suspended when Buhari came back. From that 1983 till 1999, we were being ruled by military fiats, decrees, we knew a lot of them. When it was getting to 1999 they said 1999 constitution, “we the people of Nigeria”, are the military the only people in Nigeria? We met and found ourselves in a state of helplessness, in such a way that there wasn’t anything we could do even though there were many to be done but, it’s a thing that will bring anarchy into the system.

No wonder people keep saying we have no constitution and that being the reason it has been so difficult for them to amend it and that being the reason why there is still anarchy in the land, because the constitu-

tion we called ours is not ours, it was formulated by a few. At a point in time when they realized the High Court was having too much power, the 1979 constitution called it unlimited jurisdiction somebody just woke up in his room and said this unlimited jurisdiction we have to take it away from the High Court and it was turned to limited. Where did we sit to agree it should be limited? At a point in time, somebody just felt they need more land and they said let there be Land Use Act and they have it included in the constitution and before you know it, they took our lands away, we no longer have the freehold, land became the leasehold.

These were all laws and activities that were planted into the 1963 constitution; they were rolling the constitution over, including so many laws and till it got to the 1999 constitution which now became as amended.

The constitution we operates today does not originate from the people, it originates from the military, right from Aguyi Ironsi down to Abdulsalam Abubakar that last ruled us, they were the ones making the constitution.

So which of the constitutions adopted by the country would you adjudged to be the best for the people?

None, except the independence constitution and the 1963

constitution that was basically formulated by the civilians though they were originally incorporated by our British masters, changed it into our system and we start operating it that is the one that reflects whom we are, our ethics, ethos and practices. But, if you look at it from that period, they were constitutions made by the military, handed over to us to be using including the 1999 constitution as amended that we call ours. There has not been anyone made by civilians but by a group of the military who have ruled us for so long and bought us down to this level we are now.

There is no constitution I can say is the best.

The 1999 constitution incorporated the desire of some few individuals like I earlier mentioned in some sections that were brought there. Whatever we want to incorporate into the constitution such as National Industrial Court, the Land Use Act, Federal High Court, all these must come from the people. It should not be a thing dictated to us by Obasanjo and have it incorporated and have it handed over to us in such a way that the Land Use Act is no longer an act that can be quashed by the National Assembly but, part of the constitution.

Some lawyers are advocating for the adoption of report of the last national conference. Do you think that the implementation of the confab report is a way forward for the country?

I say equivocally and without any regret but with absolute sense of responsibility that that confab report is not the way forward, there is nothing there.

A lot of those icons who went into the confab went there with good intention believing that most of the bad areas in the constitution would be put right but, after coming out of it, their intention was not total. A lot went to protect their selfish hegemony; some went there to make money. Ask some of them that what did they bring from the confab, what did they contribute? Some said the name of the country be changed, is the name of the country the problem? No. What is our problem?

It is corruption and to what extent is that confab able to handle the issue of corruption from the grass root? I have not seen where it has actually been addressed. All the sector of the economy has been infected in such a way that even if Jesus Christ is to come and amend it, he would be infected.

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Timibra

wins NNPC/Chevron Junior Masters Tennis Cup ANDREW EKEJIUBA

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t was a final filled with suspense, excitements and actions as Rivers State-born Godgift Timibra battled with John Dickson from Bauchi State in the final of the 16th edition of NNPC/ Chevron Junior Masters Tennis finals held at the Lagos Lawn Tennis Club in Onikan on Sunday.

Timibra came from 2-5 set down to edge out Dickson 7-6, after both players tied on 6-6 set.

Speaking after the game, Timibra expressed delight at his victory, but said he was surprised to emerge tops.

“I feel very happy to win the NNPC/ Chevron Junior Masters Tennis finals, I did not believe I could win it, but I stepped up my game and by God’s grace I won,” Timibra said.

The 3rd runner up at the 15th edition said he plans to emulate top tennis players like Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.

Dickson however expressed sadness for not taking his chances after leading 5-2.

“After leading 5-2, I relaxed my play thinking the game was over; I should have finished the game,” Dickson stated with a tinge of regret.

On his plans for the future, the Kadunaborn tennis player said he wants to continue with his education and playing tennis.

Timibra outclassed Christopher Otodo of Kaduna State in the semifinals to reach the finals of this year’s tourney, while Dickson booked his final ticket after defeating Tochukwu Eze of Imo State in the semis.

‘Taraba NPFL status on course’

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C Taraba head coach, Nduka Ndubuisi, has said his side hard fought victory against Heartland has revived the Jalingo outfit staying power in the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL).

The top flight troubled side piped the Naze Millionaires 1-0 courtesy of Stephen Alfred effort in Sunday’s match day 33 clash at the Jolly Nyame Stadium in Jalingo.

Ndubuisi said though their NPFL status quo is not yet guaranteed there is sunshine in the horizon with five more matches on the calendar.

Ambrose dedicates goal to wife

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eltic defender Efe Ambrose has revealed that his goal for Nigeria in a convincing 3-0 win over Cameroun in a friendly is dedicated to his wife, Adenike Sarah Ambrose.

Ambrose scored the opening goal for Nigeria in the 39th minute, when he headed home Mikel Obi’s free kick on Sunday night in Brussels, Belgium.

“I give glory to God for the goal.

The goal is dedicated to my lovely

wife, Adenike Sarah Ambrose, this is because of her prayers and support to my career. She is always there for me during good and bad periods,” Ambrose said.

He said the game was not easy and also expressed his gratitude to Coach Sunday Oliseh for giving him a second chance in the national team after he was out of the team for more than a year.

His last game before now was a

Ambrose

2015 AFCON qualifier on September 6, 2014, which Nigeria lost 3-2 at home to Congo and he scored a goal in the game as well.

“It was not an easy game, but we played to the tactics the coach told us. I bless God for coming back into the team with a goal after a long time and I appreciate the coach for giving me the chance to play for my country again,” Ambrose concluded.

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Sakho slams PSG over Coman’s treatment

Ronaldo

Messi rivalry spurs on Ronaldo, Zidane confesses

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inedine Zidane has voiced his admiration for Cristiano Ronaldo and believes the rivalry with Barcelona ace Lionel Messi only spurs on the Real Madrid attacker to get the best out of himself.

Ronaldo and Messi are widely regarded as the best players in the world and have won seven Ballons

d’Or between them, with the Argentine winning the prestigious individual trophy on four occasions and the Real forward taking the award home three times.

Zidane has hailed Ronaldo’s attitude on the training pitch and feels he has developed into a true Madrid legend over the years.

“You have to see Ronaldo on the training pitch. It is simply amazing to see him in action,” Zidane said.

“The rivalry with Messi is only pushing him to get the best out of himself.

“Ever since Raul has left Madrid, Ronaldo has gone on to develop into another club legend.

“He is feeling very well at Real

Madrid.”

The 30-year-old recently netted a double for Real in their 2-0 win over Malmo to equal Raul as the Santiago Bernabeu side’s all-time top goalscorer on 323 strikes.

He has scored 10 goals in nine appearances in all competitions for Real Madrid this campaign.

No Real demand on Bale, insists Coleman W ales are free to use Gareth Bale as much as they

Bale

want in their final Euro 2016 qualifier against Andorra today, Chris Coleman has insisted.

Despite losing 2-0 away to BosniaHerzegovina on Saturday, Wales sealed qualification to the tournament in France next year thanks to Israel’s surprise home defeat to Cyprus.

Bale’s club Real Madrid have already seen Karim Benzema and Luka Modric suffer injuries during the international break, but the Wales manager denied reports the Santiago Bernabeu side were angry at the prospect of the star forward’s inclusion for the

final match at home to Andorra in Cardiff.

“There has been no demand from Read Madrid on if he starts or how long he will play,” Coleman said.

“Real Madrid have always been first class.”

Coleman, reflecting on his side’s achievement in reaching their first major tournament since 1958, said he would be happy to face Bale’s club team-mate Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal in a pretournament friendly as they bid to fill a vacant spot in their calendar for November.

The loss of youth product Kingsley Coman is a shame for Paris SaintGermain, according to Liverpool centre-back Mamadou Sakho.

Coman left the Parc des Princes for Juventus in 2014, but was loaned out to Bayern Munich – where he has since scored twice in four Bundesliga appearances – ahead of the current campaign having failed to establish himself in Turin.

And Sakho, who also came through the PSG ranks before being moved on in 2013, believes that Coman’s bright start to life at the Allianz Arena has highlighted the error of his former club’s ways.

“I think it’s a shame for Paris. He’s a quality player who was there in Paris and was not given a chance,” the defender told reporters.

Coman

Mancini: It’s time for Inter to beat Juve again!

Inter coach Roberto Mancini believes the time has come for the San Siro club to end a long winless run against Juventus when the sides meet in Serie A on Sunday.

Mancini’s men were knocked off top spot by Fiorentina last weekend following a draw with Sampdoria and welcome the Scudetto holders when domestic action resumes.

Inter’s last home win over Juventus was a 2-0 triumph under Jose Mourinho in September 2010 and Mancini is eager to repeat the feat.

“Beating Juventus will be important.

We haven’t beaten them at home for five years now, so I’d say it’s time to do it again,” Mancini stated.

“It’s the Derby d’Italia – I’m sure it will be a great evening between two great teams. Now we have to play like Inter.

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Ancelotti eyes Premier League return

Rauball

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ormer Borussia Dortmund president Reinhard Rauball does not fear newly appointed Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp will try to sign players from his former club.

Liverpool have been linked with a host of BVB stars over the past few days, including Marco Reus, PierreEmerick Aubameyang and Ilkay Gundogan, but Rauball is confident Klopp will not undermine his standing

at Westfalenstadion by raiding the club he coached between 2008 and 2015.

“Klopp is a very intelligent man and he won’t destroy his own reputation in Dortmund by signing players from us,” the current DFL president told reporters.

“No one in Dortmund will forget Klopp and no one will forget the great things he did for Borussia Dormund.”

Klopp guided Dortmund to two

Bundesliga titles during his sevenyear spell and Liverpool are hopeful he can make a similar impact at Anfield.

Rauball has little doubt Klopp can achieve just that and does not think the pressure will cause the exDortmund coach any problems.

“The fans in Liverpool are really ambitious and they want to see great football and they aim to rank among the top four. So the expectations are

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high.

“But Klopp knows that and he made a very good case for himself on his first day at Liverpool. He said that he feels very comfortable in Liverpool like he did it at Borussia Dortmund and so it could be a really great story for Liverpool and Kopp.

“He has won the hearts of Borussia Dortmund’s fans during his time there and now he does exactly the same at Liverpool.”

ormer Barcelona star Xavi says it would have been hard to turn down Manchester United had the Premier League side made an approach for him.

The 35-year-old has spent the majority of his playing career at Barcelona, leaving the Catalan giants for Al Sadd of Qatar in May. The World Cup and European Championship winner has since revealed that a move to Old Trafford or elsewhere in England’s top flight would have been a tempting option had the right club come along at the right time.

“To be honest, the Premier League is a big attraction for any player. It’s brilliant - the stadiums, the pitches, the fans and how they live football over there – it’s all incredible over there,” Xavi said.

“There are many great sides like Chelsea, Manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal, Liverpool. If I had to select one, it would have to be a club with a great history; maybe Manchester United or Liverpool.

“I know that there are clubs who have emerged quite recently, like Manchester City for example, but United are my favourites, historically speaking.”

Carlo Ancelotti says it is his ambition to coach in the Premier League again before he retires.

The Italian led Chelsea to a league and FA Cup double in 2009-10 but was relieved of his duties at Stamford Bridge after failing to defend either prize the following season.

Having since taken Paris SaintGermain to the Ligue 1 title in 201213 and Real Madrid to Champions League glory the following season, the 56-year-old - who was linked to Liverpool before the appointment of Jurgen Klopp - is now keen to return to England’s top flight.

He gave no clues as to where he will resume coaching, but revealed that from the start of 2016 he will begin considering proposals from any interested parties.

“I dream of an experience in the Premier League, that’s the place to work in football with the right pressure,” Ancelotti said.

“First stop, I want to coach there, but I must also think about the time when I will say enough.

Baker

Baker: I will return to Chelsea a better player Chelsea loanee Lewis Baker feels the Eredivisie is “more technical and tactical” than English football and is confident his spell with Vitesse will improve him as a player.

The England Under-21 international is one of five Chelsea youngsters at the Arnhem side, alongside Izzy Brown, Nathan, Dom Solanke and Danilo Pantic, and has impressed in his first few months at Vitesse.

Having scored twice in eight Eredivisie outings so far, Baker is delighted with how he is developing under Vitesse coach Peter Bosz.

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The ministerial list that failed the test of change Jeff Okoroafor “Where are the Emeagwalis?

The highly revered Nigerian technocrats and thinktanks that are engineering and empowering other countries of the world, where are they in this list?”

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Where are the Emeagwalis? The highly revered Nigerian technocrats and thinktanks that are engineering and empowering other countries of the world, where are they in this list? Where are the Chuka Umunnas?

Economic experts like Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, Professor Chukwuma Soludo and many other young brilliant minds, where are they in this ministerial list that took months to constitute? Where are those names who will focus on the politics of getting things done for Nigeria and not the politics of thwarting and blaming?

I can’t find them here.

Should we still expect them or endure the harrowing experience of carrying on with the old ways of doing things in Nigeria?

When President Muhammadu Buhari said he is taking his time to pick the best hands that will help him run his government, I never for a second focused my attention of these names that am seeing now in this list.

Same old guards. The same people with so much questions to answer. Indicted individuals. People of questionable characters. Individuals who are known for lying and cheating. Are these the people that Buhari call his Mr Integrities or capable hands? As far as I am con-

cerned, this list should be called the ‘thank you guys’ list. An appreciation list if you may. Everyone in this list played a role in bringing Buhari to power and this is his way of thanking them, giving them a ministerial appointments. This I find very disturbing, and discouraging or should I say, disappointed. There are alternative ways of appreciating those who stood by you during your hard times, but giving them responsibilities you

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are convinced they can’t handle, isn’t one.

Did we campaign for the removal of Goodluck Jonathan and the political party which he came from so that we will continue to remain in one spot? I don’t think I did. And I definitely don’t think Nigerians did either. Boko Haram is still bombing and abducting; Our economy is still shaking and exit map remain unknown; Unemployment growth is still at an uncontrollable

and uncomfortable state; The county’s focus still remains on the oil and gas sector with other areas of income generation only briefly spoken about. People can’t invest because they lack information on the economic direction of the government. The price of goods and services keep soaring higher than usual with limited legal tender to purchase them. So I ask again, are we moving forward or we are full of motion but no movement?

Few months ago when I took up a young man on what he termed “Buhari’s confused leadership style and inability to generate a simple list”, little did I know that my hope will be dashed and my brilliant arguments in defense of his allegations to Buhari will be rubbished. This list has just made me look like a fool before those I vowed to that Buhari will appoint technocrats and people without blemish. Without mincing words, this list fails the test of “change” we all hoped for. Not “his” own test, but “ours”, the Nigerian people. What exactly can Buhari point out that made him spend 124 days in picking these people? Anyone, even a simpleton could have done this in the first one week after his swearing in.

Mr President, when I clapped to your “slow and steady” statement, it wasn’t for a thing of this nature. A “slow and steady” that doesn’t translate to quality and excellence is a waste of peoples time. Your clock started ticking on May 29th of this year, time is running out and Nigerians arestill expecting a real change to happen. Don’t fail us!

Jeff Okoroafor is a United Nations World Summit Award recipient and the founder of OpinionNigeria.com

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FIFA

ETHICS COMMITTEE SUSPENDS MAKUDI Former FIFA Executive Committee member and President of the Thailand Football Association Worawi Makudi has been handed a 90-day suspension from all football activities by FIFA Ethics Committee.

The adjudicatory chamber of the Ethics Committee, chaired by Hans-Joachim Eckert, has sanctioned Makudi for “a breach of the Code of Ethics”.

The ban will stop the Thai from participating in all football activities at national and international level.

It has been confirmed that the case is now the subject of formal investigation proceedings.

FIFA President Sepp Blatter and Vice-President Michel Platini had suspensions of 90 days imposed on them on Thursday.

ANCELOTTI EYES PREMIER LEAGUE RETURN P.30 Both deny any wrongdoing, with Blatter appealing his suspension on Friday – before Platini followed suit on Saturday – having also been alleged to have signed an “unfavourable” contract with the Caribbean Football Union in 2005 that market experts claim handed over World Cup television rights for a fraction of their market value.

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I find fulfillment in just being creative – Eva Alordiah

Mutiat Alli

Rap diva, Eva Alordiah, aka Eva, has been creating quite a buzz ever since she came into the music industry. Eva, who doubles as the CEO of Make-up by Orsela, a make-up/cosmetic outfit, is not leaving any stone un-turned when it comes been creative. In this chat with MUTIAT ALLI, the sensational Rap queen reveals her love for style, music and other issues.

Excerpts: Beyond the songstress, who is Eva? Eva is a laid back, I-don’t-wanna-go-out type of chic. I love to stay home, cook and serve people food. I’m a go-getter, very calm but aggressive with my work. I believe in the gifts that abound from sharing.

I believe in the satisfaction derived from personal worship with God. I am a strongwilled person.

What thrills you the most about makeup?

That would definitely be special effects.

It’s more challenging than the regular beauty and fashion looks, especially if you are working on whole body pieces. I have loved horror movies since I was a child. I mean, I don’t even think I enjoy a movie if it isn’t horror or action where there’s a lot of blood and special effects going on. I think that’s where my interest in SFX stems from.

Special effects makeup is like my getaway drug. Zombies, dead skin, bruises, scars, animated characters, missing limbs, skeletal frames, the works; I just sit there and create realistic life forms and it fuels my creative senses, makes me happy.

You do your make-up unaided?

Yes, I do my make-up for my video shoots, photo shoots, events, etc. I also have a lot of exciting job opportunities from artistes, celebrities, magazines and a host of others.

my creative energy to makeup and fashion on their own. What I do is focus on what it is I am doing one at a time. So if I am at the makeup school teaching for instance, I couldn’t be bothered with what’s going on with my music in the studio and so on.

Which is more fulfilling for you?

I find fulfillment in just being creative.

So whether it is music, movies, makeup, writing or fashion, as long as I am creating something, I am fine. I find them both fulfilling in their different ways. I guess music and makeup both serve their purposes for me. I can’t exactly say this is how much satisfaction or joy I derive from doing music and performing, or compare that to how I feel with make-up artistry. Everything I do satisfies me and fills me in its own way. I’m very grateful to God for being able to do the things I do. Really they are all hobbies.

I don’t necessarily treat them like tedious work.

Out of the other genres of music, why Rap? It was love at first listen for me, really. I have always been a writer and lover of music all my life. My brothers brought hip-hop to the house and I got hooked on that. Rap challenges my writing process and I guess I like a challenge. I love how so true rap can cut across globally and it is fun to be part of that, maybe even create over here with people who love it enough to keep doing it.

You have a very strong personal style which has come to be accepted as the “Eva” brand. How would you describe your style?

My style is full of funk and flare. I guess I could say that. I am very edgy, very spontaneous and I like to stay younger and younger with it. I don’t like it difficult. I like it extra creative and well put together. For the most part, I am at my best when a lot of people do not agree with my choices. That’s how I know I satisfy myself.

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How are you able to combine this talent of yours, from been a rap diva to make-up and entrepreneur?

I haven’t been able to combine things as best as I would. I really just have enough time to focus on something at a time. But I love being all these different things and they all find a home in my career as a music artiste. I supervise the business end of my music. I do my makeup for my shoots and videos. I design and style my outfits with some of the most talented designers across Nigeria. These are just extensions of me being a creative person at heart. So whether it is writing, designing, drawing, creating music or makeup artistry, as long as I am creating something, then it’s just relatively natural for me. So, I guess you could say I am being of service to Eva right now. When I get breaks from music, I exert

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What cheating on my fiancé taught me about monogamy Mutiat Alli

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ade was my first real boyfriend, my high school sweetheart, my date to four proms. He was the first guy I’d ever brought home who could look my mom in the eye. A nice guy. A year after Tade and I first started dating, I came home from high school one day and my father was gone. Just like that, he’d left my mother for another woman. I never dealt with the abandonment. Instead, I consoled myself with the knowledge that Tade loved me and would never leave me, not like my dad had.

Never mind that he and I grew less compatible as we got older, he was everything my father wasn’t.

The first time I cheated on Tade, we were in university and I was living in Mexico as a student abroad. I slept with a guy who worked behind the deli counter of the bodega on the street where I lived. I told myself, what happens in Mexico, stays in Mexico. I told myself it didn’t count.

Then it happened again, this time back on campus. One night, I drunkenly stumbled home with a guy I’d met at a party. I told myself it’d been a mistake. I kept dating Tade. I never told him and he never found out. A lot of people think monogamy simply doesn’t work. They argue that human beings just aren’t wired to be with one person and one person only — a common argument that was used in defense of the people ousted in the Ashley Madison hack — and that it’s time to do away with this convention.

This was how I justified my transgressions back then, by telling myself I couldn’t control it. It was just human nature.

I didn’t stop.

My first full-blown affair happened a few years later, after Tade and I had graduated from the university. This time was different. Tayo and I had been friends first. We trusted and respected one another. That didn’t change when we started having sex. I thought I was in love with her, and so I came clean and told Tade I was having an affair.

I thought that telling him about Tayo would absolve me of the guilt I felt for all my past indiscretions, but that didn’t happen. Tade was devastated; it was all my fault. To Tade’s credit, the fact that it was a woman made it neither better

nor worse.

He wanted to work it out, and I felt I had no choice.

I was confused, we decided. I convinced myself that Tayo had taken advantage of me and that it had been a mistake.

After my affair with Tayo, I redoubled my efforts to gain control of the situation: I tried to be “good.” I stopped drinking and started running marathons. I quit my job and went to journalism school to become a writer. Two years later, Tayo and I were engaged.

But in the journalism school, I met a new group of people. They thought like me and read the books that interested me. We talked about sexual liberation. I considered myself sex-positive, part of a social movement that embraced sexuality with few limits. The problem was that — when it came to sex — these political and intellectual beliefs about sex made it that much harder to admit that my personal sexual conduct was problematic.

I’m just incapable of monogamy, I was still convinced. Since Rick wanted to be with me, this was something he’d just have to accept.

Austin was a guy I met in journalism school.

He and I would chat online all day when I was at work, and we started attending literary readings together in the evenings. We were seen together so often people started to assume we were dating. Secretly, I enjoyed this. Never mind that I was still engaged to Tade at the time. Austin was a writer, destined for success, popular in the way that tenacious, overachieving kids can be. Though my relationship with Austin had yet to turn sexual, it felt inevitable.

One night during this time, a guy named Elliott walked me home after class. Whatever we talked about was not interesting, but I could tell that Elliott was interested in me and I liked the feeling of being desired. Under the pretense of having something to do with school, we started

exchanging emails daily.

Austin and Elliott were friends, and I kept my relationship with one from the other (and both, obviously, from Tade).

The impossibility of my actually being with either of them made it all the more exciting.

Elliott suggested once that I shouldn’t flirt with him because I had a fiancé. Hearing “no” only egged me on. I admired his resistance.

Then, once while drunk, I leaned into Austin and kissed him. He kissed me back. I immediately regretted it, knowing exactly what would happen. I knew I’d become insecure and possessive. Like my relationship with Tayo, my friendship with Austin would be destroyed. It was as if the only way I knew how to handle having done something I regretted was to do it again. That kiss led to a short-lived affair with Austin, which lead to a series of other infidelities. For the next month, any chance I got, I’d get drunk and fall into my classmate’s mouths — forgettable, regrettable, sloppy encounters in the restrooms, stairwells, and alleyways.

I told myself I was having fun, experimenting. But it was more than harmless fun. I pretended Tade and I had an open relationship. I convinced myself that our rule was “Don’t ask, don’t tell.”At the same time, I resented Tade for not calling me out. I lost respect for him. I also lost respect for people who fooled around with me. I lost respect for myself.

Ultimately, carrying on multiple relationships was a complicated way of avoiding intimacy. I clung to Tade, even though it was an ill fit. Because he didn’t satisfy my impossible neediness, I cheated. I was never fully present in any one relationship, and thus avoided being vulnerable. Underneath it all, my actions were motivated by the fear I was unlovable and that I would be abandoned. The worse I felt, the more I sought reli ef.

When I finally left Tade, I took everything:

the furniture, the posters from the walls, photographs ripped from the albums. I came by the night after I moved out and found Tade crying, alone, sitting on the floor. The look on his face was as if I had died, and so I felt afraid. I said, “Stop crying or I’ll leave.”

“You’re leaving anyway,” he said. “There’s nothing I can do to stop you.”

He was right. There was nothing that he or anyone could have done to stop me. I was a monster, abandoning someone who loved me. I was just like my father.

It took me a long time to recover, whereas Tade started dating someone else less than a month after we’d broken up — the woman he would eventually marry. Around the time they started dating, Elliott stopped returning my emails. He was doing me a favor by cutting me off, but of course I didn’t see it that way then.

When Elliott refused to step in and rescue me, I grew increasingly desperate. I felt abandoned. I was angry at my friends. Recovery began when I finally started taking responsibility for my actions: I went to rehab for my alcoholism, and my addiction to sex and love.

I didn’t do recovery perfectly. They tell you to take time away from dating, but I couldn’t do that. My sixth day of sobriety, I fell into a codependent relationship that lasted for six years. It was dysfunctional, but at least I was monogamous. When that relationship ended, I dated lots of people. But eventually I did go cold-turkey single for around three months, and it was one of the most transforming periods of my life. I learned to enjoy my own company. I grieved the loss of my father and became acquainted with the feelings I was running from.

Today I know that while non-monogamy may be human nature, cheating is not. Everyone is capable of being honest about their feelings, wants, and needs. Before this, I blamed everyone for my cheating and had loads of excuses, but when it comes to infidelity, I don’t think there’s ever an excuse. The fact that I’m in a committed, monogamous relationship today is almost beside the point. To be right in a relationship, I needed to get right with myself. What do you think; I really need help and somebody to talk to.

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Empowering music with a gravity-defying afro in tow, multi award-winning musician and actress Diana Ross has a style that commands attention. This legendary diva is best known for the sparkly ensembles she stylishly rocked during her tenure as lead singer of the most successful musical girl group of the ‘60s - The Supremes. Most of the outfits worn by her and her band mates were in fact made by Diana herself - an aspiring fashion designer who completed a design course at Cass Technical High School in Detroit (US). Diana made sure to merge her fashion talent with her musical career and like fashion pioneers before her (e.g. Gabrielle Chanel), Diana adopted a signature look that became her style uniform.

Still looking as youthful as ever in her early seventies, Diana’s afro continues to be her most iconic trademark. She also styled her locks in two hairstyles that have become synonymous with her iconic look - the beehive and sideswept bob. Hairstyles that always look shake-your-groove-thing ready, Diana embraces her natural kinky hair sending a powerful message to black women: embrace your natural hair.

The seventies disco-era queen continues her reign inspiring generations of musicians with the likes of Beyoncé, Solange Knowles, Madonna and Rhinana often taking style cues from the ‘70s style pioneer. Taking a leaf out of Diana’s book, these modern day celebrities have multiple costume changes, stage theatrics and special effects and wear eye-catching frocks during their stage performances. True to her own words spoken on stage in 1983 during a performance in Central Park (New York), “it took me a lifetime to get here, and I’m not going anywhere”, 71-year-old Diana proves that just like her music, her style is timeless.

Glamourous furs and feather shawls are staple cover-ups synonymous with Diana’s style. What makes her style so glamorous? It’s this simple: she always chose what she wanted to wear instead of wearing what current fashion dictated.

In her heyday, Diana was rarely seen without hoop earrings. Although it must be said that her upbeat, confident and approachable personality became part of her signature look. Another strong positive message to women can be divulged from Diana’s attitude and personality: love the skin you are in.

Big eyelashes and minimal makeup was, and continues to be, Diana’s beauty mantra. Her eyes have always been the focus of attention although from time to time she injects colour with her favourite shade: red, a staple hue she chooses for both lipstick and nail polish.

One of the advocates of androgynous dressing, Diana showed women that they could look both powerful and sexy in a trouser suit and demonstrated how to wear this style fashionably, out of office hours.

Diana always opts for bedazzled costumes covered in sequins, stones and beads, dresses you just wanted to reach out and touch.

Her commanding stage presence was complimented by her eye-catching colourful ensembles, all of which have inspired many musicians after her and undoubtedly inspired the wardrobe of protégés Michael Jackson and The Jackson 5.

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hildren are gifts from God, regardless of if they are male or female. In the life of every teenager, society plays an important role in shaping teens character; society also helps shape ability to leave among people, their ideas of wrong and right and their general outlook of life. Teens also need help from their parents; parents have strong influence in the lives of their teens.

A Christian Broadcasting Network programmes says: “Understanding the influence various aspects of society have on your teens help parents to nurture the character of their teens�. Parents spends more time with their teens and influence them through their actions and

words.

Teenagers learn a lot of skills such as Nurturing, Socializing, and DecisionMaking through observation and communicating with parents. Involved parenting is more likely to prevent their teens from drug and substance abuse or teenage unwanted pregnancy. Although teenagers may seem rebellious, they are likely to adapt the good character as they mature.

Teenage and Media The Media also can influence teenagers positive or negatively because teenagers spend more of their time on the internet, watching TV, reading magazine and listening to music. Negative influence from the media include violence, hateful or vulgar language in movies or music, explicit sex scene, gender, religious

or ethnic stereotyping, and unrealistic presentation.

Alternatively, the media is a source of info-mating teens. It helps create cultural, political and social awareness for teenagers. They also help teens get a better understanding of their environment and society. We can also look at the aspect of friends in the lives of a teen. In the life of every teenager, the choice of friends and people to associate with can influence them positively or negatively. This is why parents try everything possible to keep a close eye on their teens and the kind of friends they associate with in the society.

Outside this, teenagers play very vital roles in the society and they are not taken very seriously on what they do, what they can accomplish. The role of a teenage boy or girl in a society should

be taking into consideration; first they are relatively cheap labour. Also, they are the ones responsible for learning, so when they grow into their 20s, they can fix the ills of societies.

Next, teenagers are to change the stereotypes associated with them. Every generation grows up into a completely distinct world, depending on when they grew up. There are many teenagers in the society today who are risk-takers and are drawn to adventures and dangers of life.

Community, if I will say, plays a measure and important role both in the life of teens and their behaviour. By getting involved with community activities, teenagers can come into contact with like-minded peers and positive adult role models other than their parents. Interacting and cooperating with other adults encourages teenagers to see the world in different ways.

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DEMO Africa: ICT offers opportunity for job, wealth creation — NITDA DG Stories by Tony Nwakaegho Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mr. Peter Jack has said information communications technology [ICT] offers Africa tremendous opportunity for job and wealth creation, and especially for Nigeria that is blessed with over 1.2 billion people with a huge opportunity for growth and improvement.

Jack, who made this declaration at the just concluded DEMO Africa, hosted by Nigeria and sponsored by NITDA, noted that African youths are beginning to rise up to explore the power of ICT in order to create “a new lifestyle for themselves”.

DEMO Africa is one of the flagship initiatives of LIONS@ FRICA and aims to connect African startups to the global ecosystem. DEMO Africa is the place where the most innovative companies from African countries get a platform to launch

their products and announce to Africa and the world what they have developed. Nigeria has hosted Demo Africa twice, 2014 and 2015.

Jack said Nigeria was delighted to host its friends and partners within and outside the continent for the important technology event. “This is such an event where African ICT startups and entrepreneurs have the opportunity to show to Africa and the rest of the world their innovative products that are addressing specific challenges within our continent, and perhaps with potential for export to other parts of the world with similar challenges.”

“Africa has a huge population of over 1 billion people. Despite this contrast, Africa possesses a huge market potential for trade and investment and a huge opportunity for growth and improvement. Building the value chain that will deliver these end results has become or should become the collective responsibili-

ties of many players across the world”, he explained.

According to him, through ICT, great companies such as Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Twitter and Amazon which are products of DEMO Africa have been birthed.

In Nigeria, he added, the country has witnessed the emergence of virile ICT companies such as Computer Warehouse, Interswitch, Systemspecs, Precise Financial Systems, Konga and Jumia. Pagatech, Wakanow, Jobberman, DealDey, AlliedSoft, Cinfores and iSec are some of the graduate startups from the iDEA Hub that attracted US$10m.

“Out of obscurity, from garages, campus rooms, coffee shops, lecture rooms, technology giants have doggedly and painstakingly trodden the lonely and not-too-friendly paths of innovation and entrepreneurship to become what they are today.

As the saying goes, the reward of hardworking is success,” he concluded.

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Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) has called on Federal Government to compensate telecommunications operators in the country for the losses they incurred from the destruction of their facilities in the North-Eastern part of the country through the activities of Boko Haram.

Engr. Gbenga Adebayo, Chairman, Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) who made the appeal affirmed that the same compensation given to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) be given to the telcos, adding that as “we have internally displaced people, so also we have internally displaced Telecom Operators. It is sad that nobody is talking about the service providers that lost several millions of naira to destruction of their infrastructure. The government should compensate the service providers as without that, may not want to go back and repair the damaged sites in the affected states. Effort is be-

ALTON solicits compensation from FG for Telcos over BTS destroyed by Boko Haram ing made to meet with relevant authorities for resolution.”

Adebayo decried continuous vandalism and closure of operators’ base stations which has impacted negatively on quality of service delivery by operators.

“Unfortunately, our regulator has not taken enough responsibility of the problems in the industry, rather, allowing operators to face these problems alone.

“We discovered that despite the penalties and sanctions the issue of quality of service is still the same. We operate one network in all networks. If one operator is down it affect all because of the interconnection agreement between them. There are some factors responsible for the poor quality of service and until government or the regulator do something about them, we shall continue to have issues in terms of quality of service. The issue must be addressed by the government. There is no reason why a state would charge for Right of Ways, as benefit derives by states

from telecom services is higher than the Right of Way they charge,” he added.

According to him, the cost of securing ‘right of way’ for network rollout accounts for 60 per cent of the total cost outlay, adding that telecommunication is the most functional infrastructure that we have in the country today.

“It has become part of our citizenship in terms of access. We have been able to provide uninterrupted telecom access in the country in spite of the various challenges, as such we deserve praise. Telecommunications is driving success of other sectors of the economy such as banking among other. The time has come for Nigerians to appreciate telecom operators,” he stated.

ALTON Chairman, however, called on the lawmaker to pass into law the National Critical Infrastructure bill. The passage of the bill will now protect the telecom infrastructure and will put the problem to rest.

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Simbapay emerges winner of DEMO Africa 2015, heads to Silicon Valley Stories by Tony Nwakaegho Simbapay has finally emerged the winner of Demo Africa 2015 and automatically qualifies for the global DEMO event that will be held in Silicon Valley, USA. At DEMO Africa 2015, SimbaPay showcased a new service which enables Africans living abroad to seamlessly open bank accounts in Africa using its app and was formerly announced as the winner of the prestigious DEMO Africa 2015 event which was held in Lagos, Nigeria.

Commenting about the win, Chief Executive Officer of SimbaPay Nyasinga Onyancha said “We are totally excited and dedicate this win to our customers.

It’s because of their continued feedback and support that we

were able to develop our new in-app bank account opening service.”

Also in Lagos, Nigeria as part of the team that made the Demo Africa winning pitch was Dan Howard, Vice President of Engineering at SimbaPay added that “This win is an awesome reward and inspiration for the endless customer-driven innovations we’re undertaking in the remittances space.”

Selection Process DEMO Africa 2015 launched 30 of the most innovative startups in Africa and highlighted some of the best new technology innovations from across the continent.

The 30 finalists were the top picks from two rigorous screening processes of over 600 applicants on their ability to link

Simbapay team at Demo Africa 2015 in Lagos.

creativity, innovation and effectiveness.

The final vetting and adjudication was done by a pan-African panel of judges comprised of entrepreneurs, VCs and academia.

DEMO Global, Silicon Valley The DEMO conferences have earned their reputation for consistently identifying tomorrow’s

cutting-edge technologies, and have served as launchpad events for companies such as Palm, E*Trade, Salesforce, Webex, Tivo, VMware and many others, helping them to secure venture funding, establish critical business relationships, and influence early adopters.

It will be recalled that Sim-

TLIG, CWG to hold eCommerce marketing training

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TLIG AFRICA in partnership with the Computer Warehouse Group (CWG) will hold an e-commerce marketing training tagged “Maximizing Business Sales With E-commerce” that will enable attendees to create and operate an Openshopen and Start selling online.

According to the organisers, the training is scheduled for Saturday, October 20, 2015 from 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM , adding that “Whether you have one product or thousands of products to sell, you can now open an online store and start your own business in seconds. Build your store at no cost with our 30-day free trial onwww.openshopen. ng”.

E-commerce is the buying and selling of goods and services, or the transmitting of funds or data, over an electronic network, primarily the Internet.

These business transactions occur business-to-business, business-to-consumer, consumer-to-consumer or consumer-tobusiness.

The benefits of e-commerce include its around-the-clock availability, the speed of ac-

cess, a wider selection of goods and services, accessibility, and international reach.

Giving an overview of the event, the Organisers also said, ”Chidi will be teaching you on how develop your branded ecormmerce website on www. openshopen.ng and upload your products in less than 30minutes. He will also teach you how to increase your sales and customer database with little budget and make massive income from your e-cormmerce website. CWG Crew will also be on ground to teach you on accounting skill for your business.

“Abbey Oyetunji will be handling a pratical class on social media and online promotion + Email Marketing and how to build your business list. Also you will learn how to send free 3.1 millions targeted email per day.

“Kehinde Olagbenjo will teach on Marketing Skill for SMEs, while Franca Afolabi will also be there to help you develop your skill on how to manage your business”.

baPay, previously launched free, instant transfers to all Nigerian banks in May 2015. In June it became the first platform in the world to allow Kenyans living abroad to make M-Pesa Pay Bill payments and continues to disrupt the cross-border remittance industry with its focus on speed and convenience.

VC4Africa offers African innovative entrepreneur, startups platform to grow VC4Africa said it has offered thousands of innovative entrepreneurs across Africa a platform to present their companies as community and database of ventures continues to grow, the platform is increasingly able to extract meaningful information and identify key trends that span the continent.

VC4Africa declared that it has opened access to this data via its API so anyone can use their data on their sites to display the subsets of venture data among others.

VC4Africa co-founder, Bill Zimmerman said, “We’re also committed to organising this data and making it more accessible. To that end, we’re excited to announce that our venture data is now open and available to anyone with an interest in exploring it.”

This development comes on the heels of VC4Africa receiving requests from external websites to embed its ventures map or display subsets of the platform’s venture data.

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.ng domain brand, catalyst for economic development- Folayan Stories by Tony Nwakaegho As all patriotic Nigerians continue to reminiscence on the 55th Independence Anniversary of Nigeria, the President, Nigeria internet Registration Association (NiRA), Mr. Sunday Folayan introspected on what the country has achieved and affirmed that though torturous, but the country continues to make steady progress towards National Development and Economic prosperity.

Folayan said it is very crucial to identify the potentials of the .ng brand as one of the catalysts for Nigeria’s economic development.

He said that the Executive Board of NiRA is committed to giving this critical National resource all the care and attention needed to nurture it into the essential flag of Nigeria in the cyberspace.

“The Executive Board of NiRA met last week, and delib-

Folayan

erated on many strategies and plans being put together to promote the .ng brand, and bring it closer to the consciousness

of the people. In the course of the coming months, various programmes and projects will be initiated, targeted at the

Corporate Nigeria, the Money Deposit Banks, Businesses and Individuals. I hope to give you more details in the future editions of the eNewsletter.

“As part of NiRA stakeholders’ engagement strategy was the NiRA Registrars Forum held on the 18th September 2015. It was a very interesting and interactive event, which had a number of registrars in attendance, physically and online.

“Some Registrars participated online from within and outside Nigeria, and actively took part in the discussions, all geared towards creating further awareness for the .ng brand.

“Issues such as creating an online payment platform for Registrars, assisting those NiRA Registrars who want to become ICANN Accredited Registrars, Stemming Cybercrime, Improvements in NiRA’s Registry operations, challenges of the new gTLDs, etc. were thoroughly discussed and solutions

proffered.

“Notably we agreed on having an abuse@nira.org.ng email account whereby complaints can be lodged, when anyone perceives that a .ng domain name is being used for fraudulent or criminal acts. Such domain names with relevant details will then be forwarded by NiRA to law enforcement agencies such as the Economic & Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Special Fraud Unit, Ikoyi, Lagos and the Nigerian Emergency Response Team (ngCERT) in the Office of the National Security Adviser,” Folayan added.

He maintained that NiRA has a responsibility to ensure that it assures a safe, secure, reliable, resilient Internet for the good of all Nigerians. “We must ensure .ng is not being used to commit crimes or be associated with criminal activities. We must project positively and protect the .ng brand,” the NiRA President insisted.

27 Nigerian varsities go online to boost content, research & development Prof. Julius Okojie, executive secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), said so far 27 Nigerian universities had been connected to share high-speed 10 gigabit core and internet resources content to boost research findings in the nation’s higher institutions.

Prof. Julius Okojie, who made this disclosure at the just held West African Research and Education Network (WACREN) workshop on Network Monitoring and Measurement, said the installation in the 27 federal universities, which is the first phase, had so far gulped $10 million (N2.4bn), while informing that N28 billion was still needed to cover all the universities.

NATCOMS demands quality Telecoms services from NCC boss, Danbatta

“The focus is to enable online researches in universities and offer efficiencies of unified communications and consolidation of digital content in research and development in line with global demands,” he said.

He noted that over a period of 30 years, Nigeria lost out in research findings in higher institutions because of lack of capacity from professors and academic doctors who travelled out as diasporans outside the country.

“What we are trying to do is to ensure that we intervene through diverse means by ensuring we build capacity of our academics, build infrastructure on ICT to accommodate diverse

research methodologies such as video conferencing, teleconferencing, that would bring faster results for collaborative learning between educational institutions within and outside the country,” he said.

He explained that the NUC in conjunction with the Committee of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities and with the support of the World Bankassisted Science and Technology Education, Post basic (stepB) project, established Nigerian Research and Education Network to facilitate Inter-institutional collaboration, share access to knowledge across national and international boundaries.

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The National Association of Telecommunications Subscribers (NATCOMS) has called on the new Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Professor Umar Garba Danbatta to ensure quality telecom services in the country.

In a press release signed by the National President, NATCOMS, Chief Adeolu Ogunbanjo, NATCOMS pointed out their demands, specifically the issue of Poor Quality of Telecoms Services, with particular reference to the vexed issue of

dropping / breaking calls; undelivered but paid for text messages; data services deductions / internet poor quality; unauthorized call credit deductions, all without adequate reward and compensation.

These demands were meant to welcome and congratulate the NCC helmsmen whose tenure is also witnessing the appointment of another Nigerian, Mr. Shola Taylor as the Secretary General / Chief Executive of the 54-Member nation Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO).

NATCOMS also wants Danbatta to take drastic action against the lingering issue of unsolicited text messages to the extent that Telecoms Operators should supply the Subscriber with an irrevocable code to unsubscribe what-ever text messages that comes through their network, just as it is provided for with internet Electronic Mails (E-mails).

In order to reduce mobile phone / cyber-crime, NATCOMS implored Professor Danbatta to interface with the Police and other Law Enforce-

ment Agencies in order to make mobile phone / cyber-crime a step-by-step reporting process that is less cumbersome and without any encumbrance. This will encourage the reporting of mobile phone / cyber-crime as well as make tracking of fraudsters easier. The current mobile phone / cyber-crime reporting process is very stressful, very cumbersome and excessively engaging.

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CWG’s Philip Obioha wins ‘Titan of Tech Merit Award’

L-R: Don Pedro Aganbi, Managing Consultant, Technology Africa, Mr. Phillip Obioha, Chief Operating Officer, Computer Warehouse Group Plc (CWG) and Mr. Kunle Ayodeji, Executive Director, Finance, CWG, at the conferment of “Titan of Technology Merit Award” on Mr. Obioha in Lagos, recently.

Stories by Tony Nwakaegho The Chief Operating Officer of Computer Warehouse Group (CWG), Mr. Philip Obioha has been conferred this year’s ‘Titan of Technology Merit Award’ for his contribution to the growth of Information and Communications Technology in Nigeria.

The organiser of the award, Technology Africa said it selected Obioha following a release of a report of the Technology Africa intelligence unit on key industry contributors in the past one year.

The Managing Consultant at Technology Africa, Pedro Aganbi, added that Obioha conferment of the award is as a result of his immense contribution to the advancement of ICT in the country, especially in the area of innovation and corporate administration.

“Today, the footprints of CWG Plc can be seen in every transaction made at bank locations and other platforms. This is possible because of your contribution.

You are a quiet hero and this

award is being presented to you today in acknowledgment of these feats and numerous others” Aganbi said.

An excited Obioha in his response, expressed appreciation for the award, stressing that the award reaffirmed CWG focus in providing 21st century information technology solutions for different sectors of the economy, including affordable technologies for Government on a PPP model, and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). According to Obioha, the Company has recently developed a solutions for the government, the CWG-IGR that will enable the States grow their Internally Generated Revenue, (IGR) especially with the dwindling allocation from the federal purse.

According to him, “Our aim is to close the huge gap between the rich and the poor, by championing inclusive growth. Thus, we have developed a cloudbased ERP that will assist the SMEs keep proper record of their transactions and a webshop platform, Openmall.ng to enables them grow beyond bor-

ders, gain more visibility and achieve more sales”.

Mr. Phillip Obioha is a fellow of the Institute of Directors.

He has more than 20 years of cognitive experience in the information technology industry.

He was trained as an Electrical Engineer, with specialization in digital electronics at West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia in USA. However, his mastery of financial engineering raises the bar in the realm of business finance. He also holds an MBA from the International Graduate School of Management (IESE), Navara, Spain. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineer (IEEE, USA), Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG, corporate) and the Nigerian Computer Society (NCS).

The Titans of Tech award is designed to acknowledge outstanding individuals and organizations that have contributed to the growth and development of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector of the country.

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Policy Plan which will compensate subscribers with Free Airtime, anytime the Telecoms Operators perform below the Key Performance Indicators parameters (KPI) as set by the Nigerian Communications Commission. The current practice where Telecoms Operators fall short of KPI parameters and are imposing huge fines, which goes to government coffers, is to say the least, highly exploitative and unsavory of the Subscribers who suffers the injury and the brunt of poor quality service and other unauthorized deductions.

It becomes noteworthy to state that, while government makes an income from Subscribers all

NATCOM tasks NCC boss on quality service voice calls, data, internet services, etc, which amounts to billions of naira yearly, Nigerian Subscribers spend a minimum of N212 Billion (two hundred and twelve billion Naira) every month on telecoms services.

With the above scenario, NCC must be seen to also protect the Nigerian Telecoms Consumers by standing firm for them through free airtime compensation from time to time in the face of Key Performance Indicators impairment.

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ICANN approves waiver for registrar’s insurance requirement The Board of Directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said it has approved a waiver for the registrar’s insurance requirement in the accreditation process of the global domain names.

The industry analysts has canvassed that it has become an unnecessary barrier to registrar accreditation globally and likely to bring about reduction in cost of doing business in the domain name industry.

However, It will be recalled that since 1999, the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) has required that registrars maintain Commercial General Liability (CGL) insurance policies with policy limits of at least US$ 500,000, while in some countries it varies but not less than $200 on average.

The board decision is coming on the heels of an 18-month research, analysis and community

consultation, to determine that this type of insurance may not serve its intended purpose of protecting registrants, and, in fact, may have inhibited the ability of prospective registrars to become accredited in some regions.

It was based on this that ICANN’s board resolved on 28 September 2015 that ICANN waives this requirement in all RAAs, effective immediately.

ICANN also remarked that CGL insurance policies, for instance, generally only cover certain incidents that occur on a company’s premises, as qualifying events may include a customer that is injured in an accident on the premises or an incident that occurs due to an employee’s actions. While this coverage is useful for these types of incidents, it would not cover registrars’ potentially wrongful acts, such as failure to renew a domain name.

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Ahmed Musa (born October 14, 1992) is a Nigerian footballer who plays as forward for Russian club CSKA Moscow and the Nigeria national team. He is known for his pace, dribbling, composure, versatility and defensive effort. He has been compared to Jesus Navas and Arjen Robben for his pace and his ability to cut inside and cause havoc, he is a good creator as well as corner specialist.

Musa is the first Nigerian to score more than once in a FIFA World Cup match after scoring twice against Argentina in the 2014 FIFA World Cup. He began his career in the GBS Football Academy and in 2008 he was loaned to JUTH F.C. where he played 18 games, scoring four goals in his first two professional seasons for the Healers. He was subsequently loaned to Kano Pillars F.C. in the 2009–10 season where he set the league record scoring multiple crucial goals as Pillars finished second.

Musa previously held the record for the highest goals ever scored in one season in the history of the Nigeria Premier League until November 2011 when Jude Aneke of Kaduna United F.C. set a new goals record of 20 goals.

On his international career, in April 2010 under Coach Lars Lagerbäck, he was called up to join the Nigeria national football team camp prior to the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa after helping the Nigerian team win in the 2010 WAFU Nations Cup where he scored a goal against Benin. In the same tournament against Burkina Faso, Musa’s goal deep into extra-time shot Nigeria into the finals of the tournament in Abeokuta. He was however forced out of the Super Eagles’ 30-man World Cup roster due to an ankle injury.

On August 5, 2010, at the age of 17, Musa made his debut for the Super Eagles in a qualification match for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations against Madagascar, where he came on as a substitute for John Obi Mikel in a 2–0 win.

Musa scored his first goal for the Super Eagles in a March 2011 friendly against Kenya.

In August 2011, Musa represented Nigeria U-20 in the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup held in Colombia, where he scored three goals in five matches. Musa was included by FIFA in shortlist of 10 candidates for the Adidas Golden Ball, which was awarded to the most outstanding player of the FIFA U-20 World Cup.

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On December 7, 2011, Musa was one of the four nominees named for the Confederation of African Football Most Promising Talent Award, however the award went to Côte d’Ivoire’s Souleymane Coulibaly.

He was also called up to Nigeria’s 23-man squad for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations. Musa scored in a 4–1 semi-final defeat of Mali and appeared as a substitute against Burkina Faso in the final, as the Super Eagles won their fifth continental title. At the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, he started in all three of the team’s matches as they were eliminated in the group stage.

After appearing in all of Nigeria’s qualifying matches, Musa was named in Stephen Keshi’s squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. He scored two goals in the team’s final Group F match, a 3–2 defeat to Argentina and was named in the 28-man list to face Bolivia and South Africa in March 2015. He was recently named the Super Eagles skipper under Coach Sunday Oliseh.

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igeria captain Ahmed Musa has tipped himself or compatriot Vincent Enyeama to win this year’s CAF African Footballer of the Year Award.

Musa and Enyeama have been outstanding for CSKA Moscow and Lille respectively as well as for the Super Eagles.

They are the two Nigeria stars nominated alongside 35 other players across Africa for the continent’s biggest individual gong.

Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure, who is the current holder of the title was also nominated as well as the likes of DR Congo goalkeeper Robert Kidiaba, Andre Ayew of Ghana and Yacine Brahimi of Algeria.

Sadio Mane of Senegal, Mehdi Benaria (Morocco), Al Tayeb Modather ‘Karika’(Sudan), Mohammed Salah (Egypt), Nicolas N’Kolou (Cameroun) and Pierre Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon) are some of the players who made the

cut.

Nigeria’s failure to make any meaningful impact on the continent’s club football scene meant no Nigerian made the list for the Africa based Player of the Year nomination.

“I believe either myself or Vincent Enyeama can win the award this time around. We deserve the nomination and I think we are good enough to win it for Nigeria,” Musa said.

“I am happy to be nominated for the African Footballer of the Year

Nigeria Para-Athletics Federation invites athletes for camping award again. It’s a good thing when one gets such recognition because Africa is blessed with lots of good players.”

It is the third straight year Ahmed Musa has been nominated for the award.

Nwankwo Kanu was the last Nigeria star to be named Africa’s best player in 1999 after Rashidi Yekini (1993), Emmanuel Amuneke (1994) and Victor Ikpeba (1997) won the awards.

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FF president Amaju Pinnick has praised Super Eagles Sunday Oliseh after the team bounced back to dump bitter rivals Cameroon 3-0 in a friendly in Belgium.

Oliseh and the team came under fire back in Nigeria after they lost their first friendly in Belgium to DR Congo.

The coach also would not have endeared himself to Nigerians after his major falling out with Vincent Enyeama.

But on Sunday night, they raised their game to soar above the Indomitable Lions in fine style.

“I must say that I am very impressed with the performance of the Eagles. It was a good game,” Pinnick said.

“I am sure Nigerians were impressed with what they saw. But we have not got there, there are still

some areas that we need to touch but we should all keep supporting the team because the coach seems to have a clear direction of where he is going to.

“He is still building a team. And he knows who to add to the team because we do not have a say on who he invites to the team.”

Pinnick said Efe Ambrose’s opening goal – a header off a Mikel free kick – was straight from the training ground.

“All the goals no one was a fluke. Fortunately all the training sessions that I watched, like the first goal Efe Ambrose got, I saw them do that over and over again,” he said.

Oliseh will now switch attention to the CHAN qualifier against Burkina Faso on Sunday in Port Harcourt, where the home-based Eagles have been training since last week.

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ANDREW EKEJIUBA The Nigeria Para-Athletics Federation has invited seven athletes, one guide-runner and three coaches to camp ahead of the World Para-Athletics Championship holding in Doha, UAE, from October 21-31.

President of the Para-Athletics Federation, Dr. Frank Thorpe, who also doubles as the Secretary General of the Paralympic Committee Nigeria, said the seven athletes were invited based on merit.

Made up of two men and five women, the invited athletes include: Solomon Amarakuo for F56 and Kyiem Emeka F57 for men’s shot put field event, while the five women are Uwak Uyime T47 100m and 200m events, Lovina Onyegbune C II 100m and 200m class for the blind and Anna Babalola who will be competing in four events of the C54 wheelchair, category, 100m, 200m, 1,500m and 5,000m race.

Others include Flora Ugwunwa for F54 discuss event and Onye Lauretta that will be representing Nigeria in the F40 dwarf discuss category.

Patrick Anieto, Adesoji Adekunle and Kolawole Emmanuel are the three coaches that are taking charge of the athletes.

Secretary General of the Nigeria Para-Athletics Federation, Bisi Aziz, said the event which serves as Rio 2016 Paralympic qualifiers is very crucial hence the involvement of a guide runner Chidozie Kalu to assist the blind athlete, Lovina Onyegbune.