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t is incontrovertible that one of the factors that put Nigeria at the brink of a failed state is the willful bastardisation of the structure of Nigeria and the principles of federalism by successive military regimes and maintained by the civilian governments.

Without the opinion and consent of other stakeholders, the military created more states, local governments and federal constituencies to enable a section have surplus and be better placed to have more statutory revenue allocations and majority votes in the national legislature.

Of course, there has been groundswell of discontent from other marginalised sections of the country on these critical factors in the governance of the country.

Those marginalised had hoped that with return of democratic governance, there would be proper restructuring to engender equity, justice and fair play. Unfortunately, the departing military oligarchy attached an apron string, which made it impossible for the emergent civilian government not to tamper with the lopsided political structures.

One of the crucial facts borne out of palpable ignorance of the concepts of governments like democracy, federal and unitary systems, was that these concepts have underlining principles which emanated from gathering of data, analysis and synthesis of data, hypothesis and theories. It stands to reason that when the underlining principles are applied in each case, the outcome is predictable; and when they are violated, the consequences become disastrous. This is the primary and proximate cause of Nigeria teetering at the brink of a failed state.

Nigeria’s founding fathers at independence were sufficiently aware of these underlining principles and consciously chose federal system

of government based on land mass, diverse ethnic groups, cultures, religions and perception of life. Consequently, there was a true Federal/ Republican Constitution with proper items in the legislative lists to enable the federating regional governments have a measure of autonomy to meet the yearnings and aspirations of their people for development.

There was healthy competition among the regional governments in development as each explored and exploited the vast mineral and natural resources within their respective areas and remitted an agreed sum to the federal government for the administration of foreign affairs, defense, immigration and customs.

It is lamentable that the Federal Government deliberately bastardised the Exclusive Legislative, Concurrent Legislative and Residual Legislative lists to pander to the vaulting ambition of a section of the country to lord it over the others. Centralised governance led to the intimidation of state governments over the items in the Concurrent Legislative list.

The Federal Government does not need to operate all the present MDA’s like agriculture, health, education, commerce and industry, prisons, solid minerals, power, housing works; and agencies such as FRSC which usurped the motor licensing, plate number and driving license from the board of internal revenues of state governments. That is why the Federal Ministry of Agriculture has become a tool of Fulani herdsmen, which is impressing upon it to use public fund for importation of grasses, nutrients and other medicals; in addition to sponsoring a bill to develop the so-called “grazing reserves”. We are therefore calling for the restructuring the country to reinvent true and fiscal federalism in order to put a stop to these aberrations.

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News Analysis What’s the value of human life in Nigeria?

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What is the value of human life in Nigeria? This is the question that arises each time Nigerians are mowed down needlessly by security forces during confrontation across the country.

Just last month, May 30 to be precise, no fewer than 30 members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Biafra Independence Movement (BIM) and the Movement for Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) were allegedly killed in Anambra State by security forces, portraying how cheap human life has become in Nigeria.

The deceased were among IPOB, BIM and MASSOB members who were commemorating the 49th anniversary of the declaration of Biafra Republic by the Late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu.

Aside those killed, several other members of the pro-Biafra groups were injured during the clamp down by the security forces in Anambra State. Over 50 of them were arrested by the military and taken to their 302 cantonment in Onitsha, the commercial city of the state.

The clamp down on the proBiafra groups also took place in other South East states, with

police arresting 320 MASSOB members in Ebonyi; 50 in Owerri, Imo State and 40 in Nsukka, Enugu State.

Expectedly, the Nigerian Army, has come forward to defend the action of its personnel, saying they shot the pro-Biafra protesters over “unwarranted attack, breach of peace and creation of wide spread panic, tension and apprehension”.

The police also defended the role of its personnel in the clamp down of the pro-Biafra groups, following this up with the arraignment of those arrested.

From any angle incident is looked at, it is clear that the deaths could have been avoided if the security forces had not employed lethal weapons in their confrontation with the proBiafra groups.

Though it is the constitutional responsibility of security forces to ensure that there is no breach of peace by individuals or groups, the pro-Biafra groups inclusive, they should realise that the killing of the pro-Biafra members was needlessly. The incident does speak well of them.

Our security forces should emulate their counterparts in other climes who employ non-lethal weapons to quell protests. This way, our security forces will be able to minimize if not eliminate the fatalities that always trail confrontation with protesters.

I won’t surrender Benue to criminals, Gov Ortom vows Egena Egena Abuja

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Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, vowed on Wednesday that he would give criminal elements in his state a good fight until the last of them surrendered.

The governor, while fielding questions from the State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja also announced that he had cut his leave short to attend to urgent security and economic matters in the state.

He said: “I have cut short my vacation to address some critical issues of the state, most especially security matters, economic matters, social vices and state matters that require my urgent attention.

“I have postponed the vacation indefinitely. I cannot in any way surrender my state to criminals. I am going to fight them headlong. I am the governor of

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Benue State, I was duly elected and I have the backing of my people to fight criminals so that we can have a free society to build our economy.

“We just need to strengthen ourselves and fight the criminals that are unleashing terror on our people.”

Ortom also told correspondents that having dedicated the Benue to God Almighty, he would leave the state better than he met it.

Niger Delta: Reps seek additional N35.8bn to fund amnesty scheme Henry Omunu & Emmanuel Iriogbe, Abuja

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The House of Representatives, on Wednesday, initiated moves to secure an additional N35. 824 billion to fund the federal government’s amnesty programme for reformed militants in the oil rich Niger Delta with a view to assuaging the anger of militants and ending the resurgence of attacks on oil and gas installations.

To secure the additional funding for the amnesty programme, the House passed a resolution mandating its leadership to interface with the federal government in releasing the sum of N35, 824, 488, 493. 27 billion shortfall for the Amnesty Office.

Also, the House while unanimously adopting a motion sponsored by Hon. Ekpenyong Essien Ayi (PDP-Cross River), advised the Buhari administration to embrace dialogue in tackling the renewed militancy in the Niger Delta as against the confronta-

tional approach, while urging the government to formulate a sustainable plan to end militancy in the region.

Moving the motion which was supported by 29 other lawmakers, Hon. Essien said that militancy in the Niger Delta between 2006 and 2009 reduced the nation’s oil production output by more than a quarter to 1.6 million barrels per day.

He reminded his colleagues that the late President Umaru Yar’Adua, in reacting to the militancy in the rich region, introduced the Amnesty Programme in 2009 where about 30,000 militants laid down their arms and embraced the amnesty programme.

“The peace achieved as a result of the 2009 Amnesty Programme brought about a rebound in oil production from around 1. 6 mbd to nearly 2. 8 mbd resulting in higher oil revenues for Nigeria”, the lawmaker said.

Essien, however, expressed worry that the N20 billion proposed by the federal government for the

Presidential Amnesty Office in the 2016 budget is lower than the over N55 billion requested.

According to him, the amount contained in this year’s budget is “grossly inadequate to sustain the payments of stipends to 25,000 ex-agitators, pay in-training allowances, tuition fees and other commitments”.

This massive cut from the proposed allocation by the Amnesty Office, he added, “has threatened the sustainability of the amnesty programme and this has led to a resurgence of militancy as the militants are being owed arrears of stipends which has in turn led to slump in oil production which fell to 1. 76 mbd in February, 1. 68 mbd in March and 1. 62 in April”.

Furthermore, he said that militants forced Chevron to close a near-shore valve platform handling 25, 000 b/d of crude and Shell to declare a force majuro on exports of Bonny Light crude after the Nembe Creek Trunk line was damaged by militants and the closure affected 75, 000 - 78, 000 b/d of crude.

Imo retirees on rampage over non-payment of pension arrears Val Okara Owerri

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The economic and social activities in Owerri, the Imo State capital, were on Wednesday brought to a halt following a massive protest by demonstrating retirees from the state civil service over non-payment of their 71 months pension’s arrears.

The senior citizens (retirees), who thronged out in their numbers as earlier as 7am despite the early morning rain, blocked the Government House Round about resulting to unprecedented vehicular movement.

Daily Times reports that at the time of filing this report at about 2pm, no fewer than five retirees collapsed and police medical personnel, who arrived at the scene with their Ambulance

vehicle marked NPF793C, to render medical assistance were rebuffed by angry pensioners.

The Imo State Commissioner for Internally Generated Revenue and Pension, Chief Vitalis Ajumbe, who came to the scene to pacify the demonstrating pensioners, narrowly escaped lynching by the protesters as he was rescued by armed policemen that gave protective custody to the pensioners.

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L-R: Director of Compliance, Certification and Monitoring, Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), Mr. Ishaq Yahaya; Director of Energy Infrastructure Department, Mr. Babatunde Kuye and Head of Finance and Management Services Department, Alhaji Sule Habu, at the Advanced Training Programme for staff of BPP on procurement processes in Abuja... on Wednesday.

CBN drops exchange rate peg, floats Naira Continued from page 1 economists and businesses had long blamed for exacerbating a slide toward recession in Africa’s largest economy.

The CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele said on Wednesday that Naira will now trade at a marketdetermined rate beginning Monday, rather than the 197-per-U.S.dollar level the bank has mandated for more than a year.

The black market exchange rate has shot to about 370 naira to the dollar after the central bank choked off most legal channels for procuring the dollar.

Speaking in Abuja at a briefing to unveil the Framework for Re-introduction of Managed Float Exchange Rate System, Emefiele said new guidelines in the management of foreign exchange (FX) will see the exchange rate of the Naira determined by the market and primary dealers.

He said the re-introduction of a flexible inter-bank exchange rate

market would restore the automatic adjustment mechanism of the exchange rate.

He said the workings of the market would then be consistent with the Bank’s objectives of enhancing efficiency and facilitating a liquid and transparent Foreign Exchange Market.

Emefiele said that the primary dealers would be chosen from existing FX dealers based on the volume of foreign exchange transactions they have handled before and must have a minimum capital of 10 million dollars.

He said the level of liquidity, the extent to which those dealers have complied with CBN’s regulations in the past, their level of preparedness in terms of being able to provide all the soft and hardware needed to operate would also be conditions to determine their qualification. ``The market shall operate as a single market structure through the inter-bank and autonomous window. The Exchange Rate would be purely market-driven using the

Thomson-Reuters Order Matching System as well as the Conversational Dealing Book. ``The CBN would participate in the Market through periodic interventions to either buy or sell FX as the need arises. ``To improve the dynamics of the market, we will introduce Forex Primary Dealers (FXPD) who would be registered by the CBN to deal directly with the Bank for large trade sizes on a two-way quotes basis. ``These Primary Dealers shall operate with other dealers in the Inter-bank market, amongst other obligations that will be stipulated in the Foreign Exchange Primary Dealers (FXPD) Guidelines, which would also be released immediately,’’ he said.

Emefiele said the 41 items classified as “Not Valid for Foreign Exchange” as detailed in a previous CBN Circular remained inadmissible in the Nigerian Forex market.

He also said the CBN had introduced a non-deliverable Over The

Counter (OTC) Naira-settled Futures with daily rates on the CBNapproved Trading and Reporting System.

He said this was an entirely new product in the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market, which would help moderate volatility in the exchange rate by moving non-urgent FX demand from the Spot to the Futures market.

“This is an innovation which we have introduced to moderate volatility in the FX market. It is a situation where it makes it easy for you as a businessman to plan your business at the rate you want to do your business.

“You do not have to fear that what is happening to crude prices will affect the rate you source your dollar in say three months when you need it.

“So with this new policy you can decide that I have pegged the price of the FX I need at `x’ and you log it to the futures rate with the primary Continued on page 12

FG to increase external borrowing Continued from page 1 government borrowing away from the domestic market to external sources.

FEC also approved a new debt management strategy to run between 2016 and 2019.

Briefing State House correspondents after the cabinet meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun said decision by FEC was to allow local sources, especially banks to have more money to lend to private sector business entities.

She equally explained that government decision was based on the fact that foreign loans attracted less interest rates and had longer period of repayment.

The Finance minister also pointed out that the renewal of the debt strategy became imperative as the previous one had expired in December last year.

Adeosun disclosed that the council stressed the need to focus more on exports especially non-oil exports, adding that discussions were held around how to make export easier.

She said: “Today, I presented a memo to the FEC which was approved for the debt management strategy for the years 2016-2019.

“Nigeria started producing debt management strategy in the year 2012 and three years debt management programme and the previous ones had expired December 2015 and there was a need for a new one.

“There was need for a new one for two reasons: One was that the previous one had expired; and, two, given the current economic challenges and then the economic strategy of this government to reflate and diver-

sify the economy.

“The new debt strategy be used is based on Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) as prepared and presented by the ministry of budget and national planning.

“MTEF assumed that we would reduce our domestic debt from one percent of GDP to 0.7 percent by 2019 and the reasons for this is that the government recognises that for the next three years, to really stimulate this economy and to provide the infrastructure that we need, Continued on page 12

Purchase of SUVs, constituency projects tear Reps apart Continued from page 1 over the purchase of Prado Land Cruiser Jeeps for its members for oversight functions and the retention of the constituency projects of principal officers in the 2016 budget while the projects of other lawmakers were expunged from the budget.

While the issue of the purchase of vehicles and constituency projects featured prominently during an executive session held by the House, members also fumed over the continuous retention of the Chairman of Appropriations Committee, Rep. Abdulmumin Jibrin by Speaker Yakubu Dogara, over his role in the controversial padding of the 2016 budget and the perceived bias in the allocation of constituency projects.

Sources informed the Daily Times that the issue of the make of vehicle to buy for House members for oversight functions was hotly debated because members were divided whether to buy the Toyota Prado Jeep as had previously been initiated, the Toyota Camry 2016 model or the Peugeot 508 which some members favoured.

At the closed door session, our correspondents learnt that some old House members saw nothing wrong opting for the Peugeot 508 as proposed by the principal officers but a minority canvassed for the purchase of the Toyota Camry 2016 model, while some new members insisted on the Toyota Prado Jeep.

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Boko Haram wreaks havoc in Kutuva, soldiers recover munitions ÎÎÎSome elements of Boko Haram

terrorists on six motorcycles, on Wednesday, attacked Kutuva village in which they killed four persons and abducted four women from the village.

Consequently, the local vigilante in Kaya mobilised immediately to the village and trailed the terrorists up to their suspected hideout located somewhere south of Sabon Garin Bale.

In a statement released by the Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Kukasheka Usman, said that the vigilantes did their best by engaging the terrorists, unfortunately they escaped into the

bush.

But the courageous vigilantes destroyed the terrorist’s camp and recovered all hoisted Boko Haram terrorists’ flags, 3 Fabrique Nationale (FN) rifle magazines, 2 AK-45 rifle magazines and 24 rounds of 7.62mm (NATO) ammunition.

The vigilantes also rescued an 11-year-old girl who stated that she was abducted by the terrorists from Batha village. Sadly, however, the vigilante could not trace the terrorists or the abducted women.

However, effort is ongoing to trace and rescue them.

In a related development, a team of local vigilante in Damboa, led by Sarkin Yaki Ali Gwoza, intercepted

some persons along Njaba road, south of Damboa town while on patrol.

During preliminary interrogation, they confessed that they were Boko Haram terrorists group members that were compelled to join the insurgency against their will and that they were on their way to Damboa to surrender to the military.

They attributed their decision to give up their nefarious activities because of the continued military onslaught and that life has become hard and unbearable for the terrorists generally.

Further screening has confirmed 17 of them as hardened Boko Haram terrorists trying to escape and

infiltrate the society.

Similarly, a combined patrol team of 7 Division Garrison, 101 Special Forces Battalion and 3 Civilian JTF, while on clearance patrol, intercepted a Golf car with registration number BX 508 RBC, suspected to be carrying suppliers of logistics such as spare parts and Improvised Explosives making devices materials to Boko Haram terrorists along Kayamla general area on Tuesday morning.

The suspected suppliers, according to the statement, abandoned the vehicle and fled into the bush on sighting the patrol team while the vehicle and its contents has been recovered to nearby military location.

7 News Ambode enjoins youths to support change agenda

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wunmi Ambode has enjoined youths in the country to support the national change agenda which include the fight against corruption, job creation, security and revamping the economy through diversification and infrastructural development.

The governor made this appeal during the swearing-in of the 2016 batch ‘A’ stream II orientation course at the NYSC orientation camp ground, Iyana Ipaja, Lagos.

While congratulating them for the successful completion of their academic programmes which have given them the privilege to participate in the one year service to the nation, he urged them to be vigilante and security conscious due to the current security challenge in the nation.

No wisdom in scrapping NYSC scheme, says Niger Gov Pita Chikwem Minna

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Edo 2016: Arrest those cloning PVCs, Ogiemwonyi tells IGP Titus Akhigbe Benin

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of the Edo State All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial primaries slated for Saturday, there are fears that it may be marred on account of gross irregularities.

Reliable sources within the top hierarchy of the party’s leadership told correspondents in a chat on Wednesday that steps should be taken to ensure that the process is hitch free and that proceedings should be handled in such a way that confidence is instilled before and at the end of the process.

The fear, we gathered, is occasioned by the allegation that some decision makers of the party who are hell bent on fostering an unpopular aspirant on the over 2000 party delegates, have been perpe-

trating illegalities like poaching of INEC’s Permanent Voters Card (PVC) all with the intention of cloning such cards to the advantage of their supporters.

Voicing his concerns against the illegalities, one of the leading aspirants, Engr. Chris Osa Ogiemwonyi alleged that those behind the dirty game are well respected leaders of the party who need to be checkmated before they cause havoc to the party’s image and chance to return to the state Government House by November.

He averred that his fears for the party is “the fear of the unknown as agents of a particular aspirant are going round collecting the PVCs of the party delegates with the mind of cloning them.”

Reacting to what he tagged the ‘absurdity of the year in APC’, Agene Patrick, the coordinator of

a respected sociopolitical group in the state, Edo N’gheria, said: “these agents of darkness are bent on disrupting the peace of the state in their devilish bid to foster an unpopular person on the party and the state all in their desire to protect their shady business interests.

“The people of the state, especially the APC delegates should be at alert to repel these characters” Patrick said.

He advised the party’s national team to ensure that the names of delegates are published in at least five national newspapers on the day of the primaries and also that security checks should be made such that the identity of each delegate should be well authenticated with the use of modern security gadgets before they are allowed entry into the venue.

Buhari condoles with Ghanaian President on loss of mother

ÎÎÎPresident Muhammadu Buhari

has condoled with President John Mahama of Ghana on the passing on of his mother, Hajia Abiba Nnaba.

A statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina said Buhari spoke to President Mahama, via telephone, to offer his heartfelt condolences to the Mahama’s family. ``In a telephone call on Wednesday, President Buhari prayed that Almighty Allah will grant the soul of Hajia Nnaba eternal rest and comfort all who mourn her.’’

The President told the Ghanaian leader that his personal thoughts and prayers as well as those of Nigerians are with him as he mourns the passage of a beloved mother,’’ the statement said.

The President further prayed that ``the loving memory and virtues which Hajia Abiba Nnaba lived for will continue to inspire all who knew her and generations to come.’’

Niger state, Abubakar Sani Bello, on Wednesday, said there is no wisdom in scrapping the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) since the primary objective of the programme is very relevant in the nation.

Bello, who said that NYSC still remains an enduring vehicle for national unity, urged the federal government to reinvigorate the scheme rather than scrapping it.

The governor made his stand known at the formal opening ceremony of the 2016 Batch ‘A’ (Stream Two) orientation course and swearing in ceremony of Corps members deployed to Niger state.

According to him, “the NYSC established 43 years ago still remain an enduring vehicle for national unity and integration in the country. In my opinion, the primary objective of the scheme is to develop common ties among Nigerian youths and to promote national unity and integration, and I feel this is still very relevant.

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Reps urge INEC to release undistributed PVCs

The House of Representatives has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to begin the distribution of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs), not distributed before the 2015 general elections.

The house, at plenary in Abuja, also urged the commission to embark on continuous registration of voters as contained in its programme.

Adopting the motion introduced by Rep. Shadimu Alao,

the lower chamber said that the Electoral Act 2010 empowered INEC to make voter cards available to registered voters ahead of voting day.

Leading the debate, Alao expressed concern over the manner the commission handled the distribution of voter cards during the general elections in 2015, saying during the elections, the manner INEC carried out the distribution of the cards disenfranchised many Nigerians nationwide.

Nigerians laud FG over Olive branch to Avengers Last Tuesday June 7, The Federal Government met with governors of oil producing states, at the end of which it offered the Olive Branch to the rampaging militants in the Niger Delta who have been destroying oil pipelines by offering to negotiate with them instead of using force to settle the whole crisis.

TOLONISEDE BOLUWATIFE went out to get the opinions of Nigerians on the issue as some praised the federal government’s decision calling on the Avengers to ceasefire even though backing them for fighting a just cause. Excerpts: Akinehin Damola- “For the Niger Delta Avengers, what they are doing is right in a way. Some years ago, Nigerians relied on agriculture, but now the main source of our economy is crude oil and we all know that it is produced mostly in Niger Delta. I heard in the news that after the government had extracted the

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‘‘We are grateful to the British officers whom we have known, first as masters, and then as leaders, and finally as partners, but always as friends.’’

June 7

Tuesday June 7, The Federal Government met with governors of oil producing states, at the end of which it offered the Olive Branch to the rampaging militants in the Niger Delta who have been destroying oil pipelines by offering to negotiate with them instead of using force to settle the whole crisis.

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crude oil, they abandoned the land, thereby making the land infertile, killing their sea animals and also destroying their

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‘‘It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.’’

crops. These are some of the reasons they are fighting. And I don’t think the government is making amend to those things.

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‘‘If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.’’

If I were to be part of the government I would have also supported that we negotiate with them. So my point is that the

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‘‘Violence never settles anything right: apart from injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause.’’

His words: “While some states got a large percentage of voter cards, others like Lagos with its high number of voters got far less voter cards, culminating in mass disenfranchisement of eligible voters.

“The uneven distribution of voter cards may, in some cases, produce unpopular candidates resulting in triumph of the minority over the majority, which is antithetical to all known democratic tenets”, Alao added.

government has taken the right decision.”

Ohre Oghenekewe- “I think they are just doing the best now, before, what they were doing was wrong. With what the government is trying to do now, they will be able to know the reasons for their agitation.

If it is in their capability to do it they should but if it is not in their capability, they should make out another means. Some people think that this Niger Delta Avengers are just raising up to distract the attention of the president like the Boko Haram did. But I think that this set of people have a good mindset, it is just that their means of approach to the problem their facing is wrong. So the government’s decision is very right.”

Oluwaniyi Israel- “this is a very wise decision because by sending soldiers down to Niger Delta the people will fight back because they believe that it is their land and resources the governments are using. So, they can’t use peoples’ arms and ammunition to fight them on their own land. If they continue to use force, it will definitely lead to another civil war like the Biafra war. I think that the reason why this Niger Delta is fighting the government is that they want to be a country on their own, but the constitution does not permit CONTINUED ON PAGE 9

CHINUA ACHEBE

“One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.”

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Yoruba land in shambles as leaders chase shadow- Ibile boss

A new Yoruba advocacy group, Ibile Peaceful Assembly, a non-profit socio-political and cultural organization determined to build a new economy and advance liberty and justice for every Nigerian has been established in the south west. In an interview with Abimbola Obatayo, Saheed Mosadoluwa, founder of the group speaks on the plans of the new group. Excerpts:

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You are the face of Ibile Assembly, Can you tell Nigerians the aims and objectives of your group ?

Ibile Peaceful Assembly is simply a platform for Nigerians to be self-reliant and determine their political lives; we strive to achieve this as a reality with Ibile Peaceful Assembly, perspective and code of ethics guideline. We aim to inbuilt fellow Nigerians in spirit of federalism for strong links with the individual community and to impel all our members to be commune. We are a group of political courageous and realistic people with a sense of authenticity and genuineness to achieve internal autonomy, not regional autonomy.

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Our primary objective is to subvert the clientele politics and oppressive political structure, it is not a good tiding as all “Omo Kaa’aro Ojire” have witnessed how the clientele politics played

by Yoruba political leaders has continue to thrive and brutally controls political drives of Yoruba nation within the Nigeria Federation due to their sham campaign of Change best described as deceit.

For the past two years, the group has began an intensive membership drive, aimed at creating stronger political and self reliance platform for the people in this region in other to hijack the political structure that impoverished Yoruba nation from those who achieve the power and influence through political subterfuge. Ibile Revolutionists are all around the south-west to build Yoruba youth’s psychologically and politically, to make the youths see reason to demand the freedom of south-west which is currently suffocating under the weight of oppressive political structure of those bunches of cronies in progressives disguise and their partners.

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them to do so. So therefore the best way to let peace reign in that state is for the government to have a dialogue with them, which is to know what they want.”

Benjamin Taiwo- “at times we may do some things that are wrong and the best way we can go about it is to make amend. As for me, it is a good idea for them to negotiate with them. What the government is doing is not good, I heard that they dont have water, since the government is extracting oil from their land, then the gov-

ernment should have proffered possible solution to their problem. I fully support the action of the government in negotiating with them and I would also like to advise the government fully all the things the Niger Delta Avengers demand for”.

Emmanuel Adeyemi- “this is a wise decision that will give Nigerians a new way of solving problems. I believe that this Niger Delta Avengers are working alongside with Biafra.

So the best way to settle things is to meet with them and ask them what they really want, so that they will not worsen our

present economic situation by continue to bomb the oil pipelines. Even if they want to continue using the soldiers, it will lead to more bloodshed because there is no how during the fight that the innocent will not be killed.”

Samuel Adeyinka- “I support the move by the Federal Government to withdraw the soldiers from Niger Delta because they are causing more harm than good. Therefore the FG should meet with the people and discuss with them about what they need in order to settle the crisis in their region.”

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APC to PDP: Put your house in order, don’t blame us for your sins

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The National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has fired back at the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) to put its house in order instead of blaming APC fro its own sins.

Reacting to the allegations of a faction of the PDP which accused the APC and the Presidency of being behind the Ali Modu Sherrif-led PDP faction, APC described the allegations as laughable and baseless reminding the PDP that it is suffering from its sins of the past.

In media reports on Tuesday, the Senator Ahmed Makarfiled Caretaker Committee of the PDP speaking through a spokesperson had accused the APC and the Presidency of being behind a faction of the PDP ostensibly to ensure that the PDP is in perpetual crisis and unable to produce credible candidates for the forth coming elections in Edo and Ondo states.

But the APC in a statement

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Dogara: Companies doing business in Nigeria must be listed The Speaker House of Representatives, Alhaji Yakubu Dogara, says unless key players in the Nigerian economy list their businesses on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) it will not make progress.

Dogara made the statement in Abuja on Wednesday when he received members of the Capital Market Master Plan Implementation Council.

The Speaker said that the house was willing to provide all necessary support through legislation, incentives and other instruments to compel major companies in the country get listed on NSE. His words: “One of the deepest issues that we have to address is that of value that is being created and completely taken away by corporations.

“This is regarded in some jurisdictions as corporate greed where companies generating value and reaping profits do not remit anything to government”, he said.

Dogara said that the listing of such companies on NSE would help improve the income of the ordinary citizen.

“This is because they can invest in that company and whatever profits the company makes goes round and that reflects on the economy”, he added.

The speaker said it was regrettable that this was not happening in the country, adding that if democracy could not deliver better goods and services to Nigerians, then it was on trial.

Dogara expressed happiness that the council had come up with a focus, vision and plan to move the Nigerian Stock Market forward.

He urged the council to tighten the regulatory power of Securities and Exchange Commission to ensure that manipulators of the NSE were properly sanctioned.

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Ramadan: Aisha Buhari donates food items to APC Tom Okpe, Abuja

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National Secretary, said “that instead of joining issues with the baseless and laughable allegations, the APC would rather join issues that will bring about all-inclusive development in the country”.

According to the party, “it should be put on record that the PDP forced on them whatever crisis it is troubled with today due to its politics of imposition and other undemocratic practices which the APC abhors.

“The PDP should put its house in order rather than playing to the gallery and blaming others but themselves for their sins which has come to hunt them.

Also, it is evident that the PDP has chosen to employ diversionary tactics because of its inability to produce credible candidates for the forthcoming elections in Edo and Ondo states”, it stressed.

The embattled caretaker committee of the PDP had denounced the take over of the party secretariat, accusing Senator Ali Modu Sheriff of working for the ruling party to destabilise the PDP. The statement signed by Prince Dayo Adeyeye, a former Minister accused Sheriff of holding nocturnal meetings with APC where plots to derail the chances of the PDP in Edo and Ondo states were hatched.

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AISHA BUHARI

Wife of the President

Wife of the President; Aisha Buhari has donated food items to the National secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in what is believed to be a gesture for the ongoing Ramadan period.

Presenting the items which include bags of rice, sugar, and other beverages including cartoons of spaghetti, at the national secretariat of the party in Abuja, the president’s wife, represented by a Board of Trustee member of the party, Nasir Dano said: “The gesture is in the mood of the ongoing Ramadan which the first lady had earlier extended to Kano, Sokoto, Jigawa and Rivers states”.

Responding, National chairman of APC, Chief John Odigie-

INEC to provide 396 DDCMs in Ondo The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is to provide 396 Direct Data Capturing Machines (DDCMs) for 203 Registration Areas during the upcoming Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) exercise in Ondo State.

Olusegun Agbaje, Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, who made this known on Wednesday at a CVR Stakeholders forum said the DDCMs would be made available at the 193 voting points in the state.

According to him, the exercise will take place in the state between June 22 and June 26.

Agbaje added that to make it a success, 792 Assistant Registration Officers, made up of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members and INEC staff would handle the machines.

The REC said the essence of the exercise was to enable those that attained 18 years after the last CVR exercise to register and obtain their Permanent Voter’s Card.

“The commission is aware of the fact that some people will want to take advantage of the opportunity provided by the exercise to perpetrate actions that contravene registration of voters.

“It should be noted that the commission will not hesitate to

Oyegun, who received the items along with party secretary, Mallam Mai Mala Buni, organising secretary, Senator Osita Izunaso and other party senior officials thanked the first lady for the gesture.

“I have been involved in some of the donations her Excellency has been doing by going out of her way to solicit for support from well meaning Nigerians to affect lives positively and she is not using one single kobo of the government.

“The only assurance I will give her is that this party will stand solidly behind this government”, Oyegun added.

The food items are expected to be shared among party members in the six area councils that made up of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

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bring the full weight of the law on any offender during the exercise in line with the Electoral Act, 2010, as amended”, he said.

Clement Faboyede, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman in the state, said he was happy that INEC would provide the machine in every ward, adding that his party would mobilise and encourage people in the state to register.

Mr Korede Duyile, the Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), said he was impressed with the forum, saying people in the state were excited about the CVR exercise because they would vote for a new governor.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Ondo State governorship election would hold on Nov. 26. (NAN)

The word ‘Revolution’ sounds threatening and it always leads to uprising ……..

It is well understood that violent revolution has almost never had positive results. We decide to behave in civil manner to achieve civil and political rights, a class of right that would protect Yorubas’ freedom from infringement.

We are everywhere providing peaceful revolutionary education for people around the Yoruba Nation. IPA members hath grown from 81,896 to close to 117 ,205 members from over six states in South western Nigeria who have started cultivating the peaceful revolutionary crusade message within themselves before sharing to their families, friends, communities and hoping to spread the peaceful revolutionary message through out Nigeria as a whole until those our brothers in other regions understand why they have to embrace peaceful revolution and sheath their swords as a means for fundamental change to the oppressive political power structure that promotes disunity of ordinary Nigerian.

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Delta Assembly suspends member for legislative misconduct The Delta State House of Assembly has suspended one of its members over alleged legislative misconduct.

He is Hon. Reuben Izeze, the representative of Ughelli South state constituency, who was suspended for three months for bringing the House to disrepute.

No details were given for the alleged misconduct.

The Majority Leader of the House, Hon Tim Owhefere had moved the motion for his suspension.

“He is hereby suspended for a period of three months” the Speaker, Rt. Hon Monday Igbuya said during the plenary on Tuesday.

In another development, the House has recalled the suspended chairman of Ndokwa East Local Government Area, Mrs. Nkechi Chukwura.

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Buhari not a dictator – Rep Emmanuel Against the allegations of being a dictator leveled against him especially by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), President Muhammadu Buhari is less dictatorial than his predecessors, a member of the House of Representative, Hon. Emmanuel Orker-Jev has said.

The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Rules and Business, Hon. Emmanuel noted that despite President Buhari’s antecedents as a former military dictator, he is making remarkable improvements in democratic governance than his predecessors.

Speaking at a news conference in Abuja on the legislative activities of the 8th House in its one year anniversary, he pointed out that in the past, some resolutions passed by the legislature were ignored by serving ministers or members of the executive arm of government.

He however observed that there has been an improvement with the compliance to resolutions passed by the House unlike in the immediate past administration where heads of Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, ignored National Assembly resolutions by rushing to obtain court orders or by Presidential backing.

According to him, “If you recall there was a time in this country, I’m talking about compliance with resolutions of the House, there was a time in this country that Parliament will pass a resolution for a member of the executive arm of government to come, they will resist and get the protection of the Presidency or they would go to court and get a restraining order.

“I think there is an improvement, if you consider that President Buhari was a military Head of State and during his

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campaign, a lot of people made a case that he would continue acting like a dictator.

“He has come and he is showing remarkable difference from his antecedents as a military dictator, unfortunately, it is those we expect should know better that failed to comply with the resolutions. You have the Attorney General of the Federation who advised against the implementation of the resolution of the National Assembly when the House took a resolution that Kogi Assembly be closed as a re-

sult of the crisis there.

“The Inspector General complied, unfortunately the advice came thereafter and it was opened up. People know that this is a democracy and it must be respected, things will get better but for now, I think it is a learning process”, he stressed.

Orker-Jev disclosed that in the first one year of the 8th House, a total of 530 motions were introduced, 63 passed as resolutions, 20 withdrawn, 446 referred to committees and one deferred.

Edo guber: Tension as APC clears all aspirants

Oshiomhole ‘‘One of the aspirants, Blessing Agbomhere accused the governor of playing Godfatherism contrary to his initial promise to discourage such trend in the nation’s politics.’’

Ahead of Saturday’s primaries for the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirants, there are fresh fears over alleged plans by the Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole to impose his candidate on the party even as APC has cleared all the over 10 aspirants in the race.

One of the aspirants, Blessing Agbomhere accused the governor of playing Godfatherism contrary to his initial promise to discourage such trend in the nation’s politics.

He alleged that the Permanent Voters Card (PVCs) were collected to either be cloned or seized claiming that Oshiomhole directed his agents to remove any delegate’s name who refused to submit the PVCs. His words: “Collecting their PVCs is infringement on their right of choice. How are we sure

that these PVCs will be given to them on the Election Day or found in the hands of thugs.

“Edo primary has been compromised. As we speak, more than half of the delegates no longer have their PVCs with them.

They were collected by the agents of the Edo Governor.

“Just imagine why the delegates are being threatened by the Edo Government that must submit their cards”, he alleged.

Reacting to the invitation of all aspirants by the governor, he said it was wrong for Oshiomhole to call for such meeting ahead of the governorship primaries adding that Oshiomhole has compromised and already lost his respect and integrity.

He insisted that the governor has been manipulating the electoral process to favour his anointed candidate.

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try Transparency Initiative (NEITI) on Wednesday lamented the anomalies in the management of oil revenues by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) which it said has not allowed the government the privilege of knowing the exact amount of oil the country produces daily.

Executive Secretary of the organisation, Mr. Waziri Adio, made the

disclosure while presenting the NEITI 2013 audit report at the Senate plenary on Wednesday, and blamed the anomaly on lack of functional metering system to read the amount of crude oil produced by Nigeria per day.

The NEITI boss said with the problem of infrastructural deficit in the oil and gas sector and Nigeria as a whole, “We can only say what Nigeria exports and cannot say authoritatively what it produces”.

Adio lamented the level of mismanagement of resources in the oil

and gas industry over the years.

He said: “This has always been an issue and the audit confirms that we still don’t have meters where we should have them. This lack of metering has serious implication for revenue and national security.

He said its 2013 audit reports has revealed that revenue in the oil and gas industry were not fully remitted to the Federation Account.

“It said the problem has posed serious danger for the national economy amid massive misappropriation of funds by agencies respected to be

making funds available to the government.

Adio said from 2013 to 2015, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) had failed to remit over N1 trillion into the federation account.

His presentation, however, prodded the Senate to set up a nine-man ad-hoc committee that would study the report o from 2013 to 2015 and make recommendation.

While raising the Committee, the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, said the issues raised by NEITI were critical, cutting across the briefs of different standing committees of the Senate.

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CBN drops exchange rate peg, floats Naira Continued from page 6 dealers.

“If in the next three months, the rate you agreed in locking your future deal is N260 to a dollar and the market is doing N270 the CBN will make up for the N10 gap.

“So this will ensure that you do not lose money by waiting three months to procure your FX. What that does is that we want to see how this shifts demand from spot to the time when you truly need it.

“This will discourage people that need dollar in the next three to nine month to stop asking for dollar on spot, thereby putting pressure on the demand for the dollar at the

spot market today,” he said.

Emefiele said the new policy became necessary to deal with the effect of the drop in international oil prices and global growth slowdown which had impacted negatively on the country’s economy.

“In view of these headwinds, the CBN witnessed a significant decline in our Foreign Exchange Reserves from about 42.8 billion dollars in January 2014 to about 26.7 billion dollars as of June 10, 2016.

“In terms of inflows, the Bank’s foreign exchange earnings have fallen from about 3.2 billion dollars monthly to current levels of below a billion dollars per month.

“Despite these outcomes the

demand for foreign exchange has risen significantly. For example, in 2005 when we had oil prices at about 50 dollars per barrel for an extended period of time our average import bill was N148.3 billion per month. In stark contrast, our average import bill for 2015 was about N197.6 billion per month. ``Unfortunately, the interplay between reduced FX supply and rising FX demand accounted for a substantial reduction in our foreign exchange reserves,” he said.

Emefiele said that selected FX Primary Dealers would be notified

by Friday, June 17. All other nonPrimary Dealers would remain valid and eligible to participate in

the market.

He said the Inter-bank trading under the new guidelines would begin on June 20 while the tenors and rates for the OTC Naira-settled FX Futures would be announced on June 27.

He reiterated the apex bank commitment to make the market as transparent, liquid, and efficient as possible.

Meanwhile, reactions have trailed the announcement of the new foreign exchange regime by CBN. The policy will drive alternative inflows (MD/CEO, Cowry Asset Management Limited, Mr. Johnson Chukwu).

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FG to increase external borrowing Continued from page 6 “We would need to be borrowing.

“We need to borrow at the most cost effective rate and at the most cost effective and beneficial terms.

“And also the government recognises that there is a need to stimulate the private sector, for the private sector to really grow, banks must lend to the private sector so we don’t want government borrowing crowding out the private sector.”

“That is the external debts in dollars or in any other currencies because the interest rates are cheaper, the tenures are longer and there is more room for banks to lend to the private sector especially SMEs. “So the strategy was approved by FEC after much debate.”

She stated that there was a lot of discussions around reforms that the government would be needing in customs and other ministries to make it easier to export Nigerian goods and agricultural produce and solid minerals that had high demand at the moment.

According to her also, some of the bottlenecks that existed in customs and those under quarantine needed to be removed.

“If we do this that would create foreign exchange earnings so that these borrowings which are in dollars when they need to be repaid we would have dollar revenues to pay them,” she noted.

She further explained that the council decided that loans or grants taken from World Bank and African Development Bank would be renegotiated so that the country would stand on position of strength.

“And the other issue is that there was a long discussion about multilateral loans which are loans from agencies like the World Bank, African Development Bank and so on.

“Ministers have raised concern that some of the previous agreements that Nigerian government entered into were not optimal and cabinet agreed that these are not grants but loans and therefore Nigeria should be confident enough to negotiate with some of these multilateral agencies to make sure that those loans we take either from the world bank or ADB are on terms that are advantageous to Nigerians”.

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News 14 Police nab suspected kidnappers in Lagos Joy Anyim

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Lagos State Police Command have arrested five notorious kidnappers who specialises in terrorising, robbing and kidnapping innocent people within the Ikorodu, Epe and Ibafo axis in Ogun state.

The suspects whose names were given as Felix Silver, 38, Oluwadare Segun, 32, Taye Videznon, and Adebowale Johnson were arrested after they had kidnapped a Chinese expatriate, Hang Kumming of GMC Construction Company, located at Ibeju lekki area in Elemoro area of Ajah.

It was gathered that the gang had been responsible for high profile kidnappings within the state, including the kidnapping of three students from Babington Macaulay Seminary School at Ikorodu early this year.

Parading the suspects at the tate police command, Ikeja, Commissioner of Police, Mr. Owoseni Fatai noted, “Felix Silver was arrested last week, and he is the leader of an armed robbery and kidnapping operations in Ikorodu, Epe and Ogun state, within Ibafo axis. He was arrested last week.

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PDP crisis: Pro-Markafi demonstrators sack Sheriff Lateef Ibrahim Abuja

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than abate, the leadership crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has continued to fester.

Some youths, under the umbrella of ‘PDP National Rebirth Group’ and ‘PDP Concerned Rescue Group’ stormed the party’s national secretariat and claimed to have sacked Senator Ali Modu Sheriff as the National Chairman of the party from the national secretariat.

The two groups equally sealed off the party’s national headquarters and handed over its keys to the Chairman of the

Board of Trustees (BoT), Senator Walid Jibrin.

Sheriff and his supporters had on Monday stormed the National Secretariat of the PDP and claimed to have taken over as the National Chairman of the party.

The decisions of the youth groups came after hours of demonstration at the PDP headquarters by pro-Ahmed Makarfi supporters on Wednesday.

Sheriff was not at the secretariat when the demonstrators arrived as information had it that he was invited by operatives Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to its Maiduguri office in connection with PDP campaign fund.

A source at the anti-graft

agency confirmed that Sheriff was invited for questioning on Wednesday.

“Yes it is true, the EFCC in Borno State has invited Ali Modu Sheriff,” he said.

However, media aide to the former Governor of Borno State, Mr. Inuwa Bwala, dismissed the report the Sheriff was invited by the EFCC, saying instead that they were at Maiduguri, the state capital for a burial. He promised that Sheriff would return to Abuja later in the day (Wednesday).

The two former members of the National Working Committee (NWC) who are in Sheriff ’s camp, Professor Adewale Oladipo (former National Secretary) and Alhaji Adewole Adeyanju (former

National Auditor), who were at the National Secretariat, escaped mob attack by the whiskers.

The two former national officers, who were trapped within the Wadata House headquarters of the PDP managed to escape through the chairman’s gate.

The protesters, who forced their way into the premises, went in search of Sheriff and others, had vowed to physically drag any of them found occupying any of the offices.

The security personnel posted to the PDP headquarters had to hurriedly whisk the two former officers away through the back entrance.

Oladipo escaped barefooted but his driver later managed to smuggle his car parked inside the premises to the back entrance where he was taken away to safety through the neighbouring Sky Memorial Complex, to avoid further encounter with the irate crowd.

Niger PDP, CP meet behind closed doors Pita Chikwem Minna

The leadership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the Commissioner of police, Alhaji Abubakar Marafa, on Wednesday, met behind closed doors in Minna, the Niger state capital.

The PDP team was led by the state chairman, Barrister Tanko Beji.

The meeting was at the instance of the PDP which met the police boss to introduce the new executive of the party to Commissioner of police and his officers.

The meeting lasted over 60 minutes.

PDP chairman, Barrister Tanko Beji told journalists after the meeting held at the Commissioner of police office that “we came to introduce ourselves to the Commissioner and his men since we were elected we have not been opportune to meet him and his people, we will meet with other security agencies in the state too.”

Beji, who said their meeting was fruitful, added that we seized the opportunity to assure him that we are peace loving people, we will ensure there is peace within the party in the state.

“We told him that PDP is out for peace and that we will join others to ensure that there is peace in our state” he said.

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode (right), with President, Lagos Chambers of Commerce & Industry (LCCI), Chief (Mrs.) Nike Akande (left) during a courtesy visit to the Governor, at the Lagos House, Ikeja, recently.

Anosike calls for interface between media, security agencies Lateef Ibrahim Abuja

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Chairman/Publisher of The Daily Times Newspaper (DTN), Mr. Fidelis Anosike has made a strong case for a serious interface between the media and the various security agencies in the country.

This is even as he suggested the need for the various media outfits in the country to henceforth play down on the level of publicity presently being accorded the bombings that are carried out by terrorists and militant groups in the nation.

Anosike stated these on Wednesday during a courtesy visit on the Managing Director

of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Mr. Bayo Onanuga, as part of activities marking the 90 years anniversary of the Daily Times Newspaper in Abuja.

The Chairman/Publisher, who led other senior staff of the DTN to the NAN office, expressed the firm optimism that if there is a drastic reduction in the publicity being given to the terrorist and militant groups and their nefarious activities, they (the groups) would think twice and know that they are no longer being attached any importance.

He maintained that there was the need for partnership between the DTN and NAN to work out a situation whereby the boundary of what constitutes news would

be talked about and defined.

Anosike contended that it was high time for the Nigerian media to put an end to the celebration of bombers and the activities of the terrorists and militants in Nigeria.

He, therefore, harped on the pertinent need for a serious interface between the media and the various security agencies in the country.

While saying that such interface between the two bodies happens everywhere in the world except in Nigeria, Anosike maintained that security men should learn to see Journalists as parners in progress rather than enemies.

In his words: “There is the

important need for interface between the media and the nation’s security agencies. It happens everywhere except here. In Nigeria, security men see Journalists as enemies. This should not be so.”

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Unveiling the Abia free school meal initiative will house the donations of the free school meal initiative.

The project is operated by the Abia State Primary

Okechukwu Ukegbu

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hoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward them for what they have done”. — Proverbs 19:17.

Abia joined the league of states that have adopted the free school meal initiative last Friday when it inaugurated the pilot phase of the project at Amapu Ntigha Community Primary School, Isiala Ngwa Local Government Area.

The launch of the initiative of the wife of the Governor, Deaconess Nkechi Ikpeazu was preceded by the launch of the “ Food Warehouse” at Government House, Umuahia. The latter

Schools Lunch Programme (APSLUP), a private/ public scheme supported by farmers and partners. This programme is drawn from the World Health Organisation’s standard, which states that the average daily calorie requirement for boys and girls are 2500 calories. The programme is expected to provide 1080 calories at each meal, which forms 43.2 percent and constitutes nearly half of the average daily calorie requirement. Rice beans and egg are components of the meal.

The Abia State model is timely because free school meal is the in thing. This project, which will ensure the feeding of pupils in 170 primary schools three times a week, targets the poorest of children from indigent

homes.

Its mission is anchored on promoting midday meals in all public primary schools and enhances the implementation of the Child’s Right Act, which was domesticated by the Abia State House of Assembly recently. In addition, the initiative will meet the basic nutritional needs of children.

However, there have been arguments against the project which proponents tend to justify with the current economic situation of the country, the benefits are multifarious. The initiative will promote the nutrition of Abia children; achieve high academic performance in these children; and boost the agricultural economy of the state.

When the initiative comes on full stream, 136,258 pupils are expected top be fed weekly. The quantity of fresh eggs to be bought from farmers is 408,774, and 1,022 of 100kg bag Ofada rice would be bought from local farmers every week, while 255 of 150kg bag of beans would be bought weekly.

A critical nutritional analysis of one of the components of the meal, popular called “Bende Rice”reveals that the soluble fibre in brown rice controls blood sugar and diabetes.

Other nutritional values are protection of the body against colon cancer because of its high fibre content and the presence of selenium; prevention of heart attack and stroke; reduction of the severity of asthma and frequency of migraine; and healing of candida yeast infections.

Free school meal cannot be relegated to the background, in the face of a 2013 UNESCO report which approximates 10.5 million kids out of school, with Nigeria dominating 12 other countries with which it accounts for 47 percent of the world out-of- school population.

Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State, while presenting the year 2016 budget proposal to the Lagos State House of Assembly, said that the government’s “A-Meal-a-Day” programme in the state’s Public Primary schools would commence in 2016. Driving home the importance of feeding school children he explained: “This programme promises not only to improve the daily nutrition of our children. “It will also create an economy of its own, with opportunities for job creation, income generation, poverty alleviation, and so on”.

It will be recalled that in United Kingdom in 1904, the Interdepartmental Committee on Physical Deterioration found so many working class families to be malnourished, that it gave advice on better nutrition for families. By 1906, it was decided that children from the poorest families should be allowed free school meals.

The School Meals Act 1906 gave local councils power to provide free school meals.

On this note, well- meaning Abians should not hesitate to heed to the call of Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu to embrace this laudable project.

Ukegbu, a public policy analyst, writes from Umuahia, Abia State.

Buhari: One year of blames and excuses

W Friday Ekpo

hen Gen. Mohammadu Buhari (GMD) was sworn in on May 29, 2015 as the President and Commander in – Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, it was indeed a dream come true. Having failed in three previous attempts, one could conclude that, he would not have left this world fulfilled.

A little into memory lane shows, Buhari started his presidential adventure in 2003 when he contested on the platform of the defunct ANPP against President Olusegun Obasanjo. He was defeated. Again, he tried in 2007 against late Umaru Musa Yar’adua of PDP. He was defeated. In 2011, he established the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC). On this platform, he contested against President Goodluck

Jonathan of PDP. Again, he failed; he went emotional saying that, that would be his last time for the venture.

Things changed in 2013 when the PDP’s umbrella could no more provide cover for some elements who opted out. Although the court pronounced the new contraption illegal, the “rebels” rank had already been infiltrated by promoters of the APC was an amalgam of Action Congress of Nigeria (CAN), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), and Buhari’s former Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and a splinter of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA). With Buhari as the presidential flag bearer and the South West being the new bride, its victory was assured. One would believe that between March 28 and May 29, 2015, a blue print for effective governance would have been developed. This was not to be as events later proved. One year of Buhari /

APC government is like a walk across a battle field, all you see are broken limbs, bones and skulls, nothing really edifying.

Buhari’s one year in review has been a period of blames, complains and excuses. All commissions, omissions and errors are blamed on the past government. Efforts to remind them of the promises made at campaigns have been met by complains of looted fund.

The Naira, which the government said would not be devalued, has inexorably become a shadow of itself. In response to the calls for an economic team, government hurriedly convene an economic retreat and thereafter came out with an economic council without a single private sector player on it.

On the security, while government is still thumping its chest for decimating Boko Haram, a new set of jihadists

parading as Fulani herdsmen have taken the war to the South. The saddest story was the massacre at Agatu that coincided with the terrorists attack in Cote d’Ivoire. While Buhari commiserated with the people of Cote D’Ivoire, he could not utter a word of comfort to the people of Benue State.

On federal appointments, Buhari did not surprise at all. In fact, he lived up to his billings. Of the 59 appointments made, 41 are from the North.

In place of employment, this government in the past one year had created more unemployment – banks, telecoms and manufacturing companies have laid off thousands of workers due to the unfavourable business climate created by unsure footedness of government policies.

A bag of rice has risen from N7, 000 to N16, 000 while now cost N145 per litre.

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Chijioke Okoronkwo (NAN) A renowned information services organisation, EBSCOhost, recently provided a 4 million-dollar free e-content facility to Nigerian universities which subsists until December 31.

EBSCOhost e-content, which covers e-libraries, research databases, e-journals, e-books among others, is channeled through the Nigerian Research and Education Network domiciled in the National Universities Commission (NUC).

In the light of this, NUC said it was high time Nigerian universities took advantage of the EBSCOhost/NgREN platform to enhance their research works, online presence and improve global ranking.

The commission lists benefits of the EBSCOhost and NgREN platform among others as ``reduction in travel costs as a result of the video-conferencing facilities. ``The availability of shared resources, thereby, reducing total costs of teaching and research. ``Improvement in Webometric rankings through more and better local content made available to the international community. ``Digitisation of resources for anytime, anywhere access by students and staff in and out of school. ``Connection with international Research and Networks to make it possible for Nigerian research community to have access to the global research community using International Private Leased Circuit. ``Tele-Medicine, remote consultation and post-surgery follow up between tertiary hospitals and primary health care centres.’’

At a recent EBSCOhost Capacity Development workshop for Nigerian universities in Abuja, the

Strengthening research capacity of Nigerian universities

$4m ‘‘A renowned information services organisation, EBSCOhost, recently provided a 4 million-dollar free e-content facility to Nigerian universities which subsists until December 31.’’

Adamu

Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, urged the NUC to build a solid information base for Nigerian universities via e-learning platforms.

Represented by Prof. Anthony Anwukah, the Minister of State for Education, Adamu reiterated his directive that all Nigerian universities should subscribe to NgREN. He said that information was an important ingredient for national development, hence universities needed to develop robust information resource base that would support them as they sought to be global players. ``We are pleased that NUC is leading the way in supporting our

university system towards being world class not only in facilities and teachers but also in information resources. ``We are indeed happy that another value is being added to the NgREN by providing electronic books and journals which will be accessed by all the users. ``We do not see any reason why universities should independently pay for service like bandwidth or electronic journals subscription when those services are available on the NgREN platform. ``That is why we have directed that every Nigerian tertiary education institution should move their connectivity and service need to NgREN immediately,’’ he

said.

Sharing similar sentiments, NUC’s Executive Secretary, Prof.

Julius Okojie, said that the essence of the workshop was to provide first-hand training on the use of EBSCO e-Book Academic Collection.

He said that the workshop was a key information resource meant to support Nigerian universities in their drive for excellence.

According to Okojie, NgREN, which is championing the workshop, is a key driver in the transformation of information and its availability in Nigerian institutions.

He thanked the EBSCOhost team for the partnership and sup-

port which was initiated between 2001 and 2005. ``At the moment, EBSCO has given trial access to the NUC and that is currently available on the NgREN network. ``We have also been discussing with EBSCO to allow us have trial access to full test of e-books and e-journals for a longer duration after which we shall be paying subscriptions. ``The databases of interest include the 13 disciplines that are taught in the Nigerian university system. ``These and other subscriptions would be available on the NgREN network henceforth; any university that refuses to join NgREN would lose out on these services,’’ he said.

Okojie said that accessing the EBSCOhost free e-content would launch Nigerian universities into global recognition and put at them a competitive level in terms of research outputs.

He said that NgREN was established to provide an elaborate infrastructural backbone to interconnect all research and education institutions in Nigeria and link them with other research and education networks worldwide. ``NgREN has secured access to EBSCOhost e-content-including e-books, journals, and academic magazines, which will be available for free to all Nigerian universities until December 31. ``By accessing the EBSCOhost e-content, Nigerian universities stand a better chance of enhancing their position in international university rankings. ``Universities in Nigeria are CONTINUED ON PAGE 19

Experts caution on consequences of protein deficiency, malnutrition Subair Mohammed

Prof. Adewole

Lifestyle and poor dieting among many Nigerians are some of the many causes of ailment and death in the country, according to experts. They warned on the dangers inherent in consuming unhealthy meals and living unchecked lifestyles.

This was stated by a team of experts comprising of a nutritionist and biochemist at a health talk colloquium and

product sampling organised by VOC Foods Ltd under the theme, “Health benefits of protein diet” held recently in Lagos.

In his address at the colloquium, MD/CEO of VOC Foods Ltd, Deacon Victor Chukwuogo reasoned that in spite of the harsh economic realities and poverty experienced by many Nigerians, good dieting and maintaining healthy lifestyle is probable.

“This amongst others, neces-

sitated our research and consequent introduction of Duru Bulgur protein meal into the Nigerian market,” Chukwuogo said.

He further observed that dietary protein intake supports the formation and maintenance of a healthy body.

“However, protein deficiency and malnutrition can occur at any age due to illness or poor diet which may have devastating consequences on our health.

All the cells in the human body contain protein and because humans need it every day for a variety of functions but do not store it, we need adequate amount of protein in our daily diet.

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hereby encouraged to utilise these resources, which are available on the NgREN at no cost,’’ he said.

Okojie said that plans were underway to ensure that univer-

sities on NgREN continued to access EBSCOhost and other econtent beyond the expiration of the current service.

According to him, the platform also offers premium content in databases, e-books, journals,

magazines as well as very versatile discovery tool for searching across all library resources.

The executive secretary said that since its inauguration in July 2014, the NgREN had made significant progress in reducing the cost of bandwidth for subscriber institutions. ``Some other notable achievements of the network include the reduction in travel costs as a result of the video-conferencing facilities and capacity building cost savings through online and remote training modules,’’ he said.

He said that NUC in partnership with the Committee of ViceChancellors established NgREN to ensure that universities could communicate, collaborate, access and share resources across national and international boundaries.

EBSCOhost’s Vice-President, Mrs Collen Mills, who spoke via video-conferencing from South

Africa, said that the firm had developed products to solve the needs of library users around the world.

According to her, EBSCOhost will, through NgREN, provide latest e-library technologies to Nigerian universities.

Lending his voice to the importance of e-learning and research in Nigerian universities, Prof.

Michael Faborade, the SecretaryGeneral, Committee of ViceChancellors said that research would impact positively on the country’s economy. ``Research in all the areas of knowledge, humanities, social sciences, biological and medical sciences as well as physical science and technology will have a positive impact on the economy. ``It is counter-productive and dissipating for us to continue to run an underdeveloped economy. ``Nigerian problems are better solved by Nigerian experts on

the basis of deep research and understanding of the university system,’’ Faborade said.

He said that Nigerian universities must be able to assist in addressing and remedying basic challenges hindering national development.

The secretary-general stressed the need for Nigerians to acknowledge the importance and essence of research in the universities system.

He called on researchers and academicians involved in the planning and management of the economy as well as coordinating and funding agencies to be proactive in the discharge of their duties.

However, stakeholders advise that with the steady decline in subventions to Nigerian universities, it is wise for universities to access the facility provided

by EBSCOhost to boost research works.

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comes at an affordable price, the amount of protein needed for our daily activities is assured without any stress.

“Apart from importing the product into the Nigerian market, we are also planning on setting a wheat production plant here in Nigeria which, by extension, would create employment for our unemployed youths”.

While speaking with newsmen at the event, Biochemist, Ochieni Kenechukwu, in his analysis of the product disclosed that it is rich in fibre, low in calories and prevents heart diseases.

He however warned on the consequence of protein deficiency in human body, “Our immune system is particularly susceptible to the adverse effects of protein deficiency as inadequate protein intake can lead to a diminished immune system response and open us to infections. Also, protein aids healthy body growth but lack of it disrupts body and hair growth.” The World Health Organisation has featured Bulgur as one of the foods which should be consumed regularly. It is perfect for adults and children; Bulgur is a rich source of folic acid, fibre and vitamin B. The officials said the product also is ideal for people seeking to shed a few pounds since it contains low calories. It helps to improve colon health and minimise the risk of certain cancers

Diginitaries at the unveiling of the product

Wheat goes back to the cradle of civilisation when it was considered as the staff of life and a major staple food that people depend upon for their nourishment, just as rice acknowledged as our dietary staple food today. Therefore, whole grain wheat is one of the most wholesome food items and ensures a diet rich in nutrient. — Nutritionist Hajia Jafar of the colon and also lowers the risk of cardiovascular disease.

“Unlike other meal, bulgur is considered to be derivative wheat and it has variety of health benefits. Therefore, I

will implore all Nigerians to see a need in the consumption of protein diet daily in order to stay healthy at all time,” the biochemist advised.

On her part, Hajia Suhurat Ja-

far, a nutritionist affirmed that whole grain wheat is one of the most wholesome food items and ensures a diet rich in nutrient.

According to her, wheat goes back to the cradle of civilisa-

tion, when it was considered as the staff of life and a major staple food that people depend upon for their nourishment, just as rice acknowledged as our dietary staple food.”

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NCS intercepts trucks, bus laden with contraband goods Joy Anyim Following the proactive measures being put in place by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) to frontally deal with the issue of smuggling, the Headquarters compliance team ‘C’ Ogun/ Oyo axis has intercepted two trucks and a bus laden with assorted contraband goods within the axis.

These revelation was made to newsmen by the team leader, Assistant Comptroller of Customs, Abdulmaruf Shittu, during a media chat recently in Ogun state.

In his narrative, the Assistant Comptroller disclosed that the team intercepted one used Iveco truck with registration number SUC 527 XA, suspected to be carrying prohibited goods,along the Sagamu-Ijebu-Ode Expressway.

Speaking further, he stated that the truck was taken to Customs house Ibadan on the same day where 100% examination was conducted in accordance with laid down procedures. He said. “The examination revealed that the truck had 950 cartons of brand new foreign shoes totaling 23,340 pairs and 30 jumbo sacks of local slippers, totalling 816 pairs which was used to neatly conceal the contraband items.”

On the second truck which was a Mercedes Benz truck with registration number LSK 835 XP, the team leader noted that the truck was intercepted while the team was on routine patrol.

The truck was however taken to the Headquarters of the Federal Operations Unit Zone ‘A’ Ikeja where a physical examination was conducted. The examination revealed that the truck was laden with 305 pieces of used tryes and large quantities of soaps, used clothings, detergents, blenders, 136 giant cartons of cosmetics amongst other imported toiletries. In his words, “It is pertinent

Truck laden with contraband goods

to note that some of the items mentioned does not fall into the prohibition list but we had to confiscate them as means of concealment in line with the extant laws.”

Abdulmaruf further disclosed that a Toyota Hiace bus with registration number GUE 60 XA, laden with 30 bales of second hand clothing was also intercepted along the Sagamu-Ijebu-Ode expressway. The goods are said to be domiciled in the Customs facility at Ikeja.

Speaking on the strategies he is putting in place to contain the nefarious activities of smugglers, the team leader said. “We are deeply committed in this fight against smuggling, particularly with regards to the change mantra of the Comptroller General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (Rtd) and his Management.

The team can dare any situation and will always remain on top of its statutory mandate irrespective of the challenges.”

He expressed appreciation with the NCS Management for their support and promised to take the fight against smuggling to a greater level. He however solicited the support of Nigerians in this fight and promised that the identities of informants would be jealously guided, so as not to endanger their lives. In his words. “The Service believes that the fight against smuggling cannot be undertaken by the Customs alone, hence our call on Nigerians to partner with us in ensuring complete decimation and blocking of their supply chains. We do this principally because of our deep commitment towards ensuring the protection of the economy and enforcement of fiscal policies in terms of trade.

Our resolve is unshaken and our commitment is total. We will stop at nothing until we become satisfied that we have completely suppressed smuggling in our clime.”

N60,000

“I collected the man’s phone while Wasiu took her wife’s phone and her purse containing N60,000.’’

— Meme

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4,000 5,000

I usually sell each battery for N4,000 or N5000. — Meme

Ex-convict nabbed for robbing foreigners Joy Anyim & Ismaila Oguntade The operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State Police Command arrested an ex-convict on Saturday morning for allegedly robbing a Portuguese couple in traffic on the Marine Bridge at Ijora area of Lagos.

The suspect, Samuel Meme, 22, who claims to be of Delta state origin, is an erstwhile scrap metal collector before venturing into robbery. He stated that he targeted and robbed cars held up in traffic whose occupants are busy using their phones with the side window glass down.

In his statement, the suspect said, “My plan was to operate alone that night. Luckily for me, there was heavy traffic, which extended deep into the night on Marine Bridge. Just as I was planning to strike, I ran into Wasiu (still at large), we decided to rob cars together.

“During the operation, we opted for a car at the rear, a Toyota SUV. The occupants were whites, and I guessed they were husband and wife. Wasiu and I positioned ourselves on both sides of the car and we broke the two rear glasses.

“I collected the man’s phone

while Wasiu took his wife’s phone and her purse containing N60,000. The lady pleaded for her drug from the purse and I asked my colleague to give her and we left for another car.”

The suspect further said that, “the next car in front was a Toyota Corolla, with a lone occupant.

We broke the two side glasses too but the lady insisted she had no phone but we collected her bag and jewellery.”

Recounting how he joined the robbery gang, the suspect said, “Wasiu taught me how to rob in traffic, but after I had mastered the art, I started operating alone.

Occasionally, when I run into like minds, we robbed whenever there is traffic on Marine Bridge. We sleep under Ijora Bridge and we are many there.”

The suspect disclosed that four of his gang members are currently serving different jail terms at the Kirikiri prison.

“We are six guys in my gang.

Four of us - Gbenga, Imele, Tontolo and Lateef - are in Kirikiri Prison. I just came back from Kirikiri, where I spent 3 months for the same offence.”

Meme confessed that robbery is not his only business.

“I do other menial jobs, but at

nights, I join others and we select cars to rob whenever we see any vehicle where the occupants are busy with phones. We start operation around 8:00 p.m.”

The suspect further told RRS interrogators that he is also an expert in removing trailers’ batteries.

“I also remove and sell trucks batteries that are parked by the road sides. This week alone, I have stolen and sold like five batteries. I usually sell each battery for N4,000 or N5000. I sell them to Musa Yahuu,” he said.

His confessional statement led to the arrest of the stolen batteries’ receiver, currently in police custody.

He added that, “My colleagues who are still at large are Dan Jos, Ik and Wasiu. Dan Jos and Ik are part of my team, only they didn’t operate with me that night.”

As at the time of filing this report, the traumatised Portuguese couple was still in hospital on admission.

Confirming the incident, the Police PPRO, SP Dolapo Badmos, said that there would be no hiding place for criminals in Lagos State, adding that the suspects have been transferred to SARS for further investigation.

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Hijab Crisis: Oluwo intervenes as Muslim, Christian leaders clash

ÎCAN holds joint prayer session amidst tight security as students wear church regalia again Sodiq Adekunle, Osogbo

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the wearing of Hijab in schools in Osun State almost turned bloody on Wednesday but for the intervention of a prominent traditional ruler in the state, the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdul Rasheed Akanbi.

This was as heavy security was deployed to Baptist Girls High School in Osogbo where the Secretariat of Christian Association of Nigerian,(CAN) was located ahead of a joint prayer session organised by CAN in the state.

It was learnt that there was tension when some of the students appeared in the unusual garments in school again on Wednesday.

Daily Times gathered that Muslim leaders had stormed the school on Wednesday to ensure that Muslim female students were allowed to wear hijab, when Christian leaders arrived too.

“They (CAN members) thought the Alfas wanted to come and stop Christian

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students from entering the school. But they later realised that the Alfas came to protect Muslim students too,” a teacher in the school told our correspondent.

According to the teacher, CAN members also assumed the security operatives on ground were to intimidate Christian students which led to tension.

“It took the intervention of the Oluwo Iwo, Oba Akanbi to avert crisis when CAN mobilised its members to Baptist High School Adeeke, Iwo, to ensure Christian pupils in garments and robes were not denied entrance, by security operatives who besieged the school,” the teacher added.

When contacted, the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Akanbi, said the intervention was to prevent further crisis from occurring the school, adding: “I invited the leaders and they came. I admonished them to shun violence”.

However, the crisis trailing the court judgment which permits the use of Hijab by Muslim female students in the state public schools may not

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Our correspondent gathered that no fewer than 10 students stormed the BHS in different church regalia.

Already, Osun-CAN has said it will not rescind its directive that students should wear choir robes and church garments to schools, if the judgment is implemented.

Vice Chairman of CAN in the state, Pastor Moses Ogundeji stated this while addressing journalists at a

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prayer session held at the Dominion Hall of Osun Baptist Conference, Gbodofon, Osogbo, the state capital.

“The governor should be ready to expel all students in the state. He should be ready to expel those wearing hijab because hijab was never part of the school uniform.

“If the governor is fighting for the right of the Muslims, we will also fight for the right of the Christians,” he added.

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man also described the presence of security personnel around the prayer venue as an embarrassment saying CAN has concluded plans to appeal the case.

“Although the judgment will be appealed, Christian pupils will continue to wear church cloths to their various schools, not minding the state governor’s warning to expel them,” he added.

Governor Rauf Aregbesola late Tuesday warned that any student found wearing unauthorised cloth to school would be sanctioned and advised CAN to pursue its cause legally.

While speaking at the prayer session, Ogundiya said that the prayer was meant to reject Court ruling on hijab and other ‘Islamisation plot’ in the state, explaining that the prayer was necessary to “seek peace from God and nullify anti-Kingdom laws and dealings with satanic forces that are tormenting the state for the past few weeks”.

Ogundiya however noted that the prayer would ensure that Osun State was delivered

from the power of satanic forces, which he described as oppressors.

The Christian leader who also called for the return of missionary schools to the original owners said, “We don’t want crisis in Osun because of hijab issue. Already, the state is being oppressed by the demonic spirit and evils as well as the country at large. ”In as much as we are trying to resolve the crisis with prayer, if government should expel any Christian pupil or student, it means all the students in public schools would be sent packing”, he added.

Meanwhile, Pastor Dotun Ajileye has called on religious leaders in the state to exercise restraint with their utterances over the court ruling on Hijab. Ajileye, of Glory Ministries Chapel, Agunbelewo, Osogbo, warned that the issue may degenerate to a terrible situation if religious leaders do not dialogue. “Both religions must find a means of coming together on roundtable and discuss the way forward to ameliorate the tensed atmosphere.

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ÎÎÎStriking workers in Ondo

State have been admonished to go back to work in the interest of people of the state, especially dying patients in health facilities.

The lawmakers made the appeal, on Wednesday, during a meeting with leaders of the organised labour held inside the parliamentary building.

The Daily Times gathered that the meeting was to allow fresh negotiation between the striking workers and the state government and a call-off of the strike.

The striking workers are demanding the payment of their outstanding salaries for the past162 days.

The Speaker of the State

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Strike: Ondo Assembly begs workers to resume dialogue with govt House of Assembly, Jumoke Akindele, said that the government was making frantic effort to ensure that the workers went back to their duty post.

Akindele, who stated that the House was aware of the travails of the striking workers, over the non-payment of their salaries, said that members of the parliament were ready to intervene.

She added that the lawmakers of the Assembly would come out with a resolution over the striking issue, which had paralysed activities in the state.

“It was the initiative of the House to intervene and find lasting solution to the feud between the workers and the state government.

She also promised to table all the issues raised by the leaders of the organised labour before the executive arms of government with the hope that the strike would soon be called off.

The State Chairman of the Joint Negotiation Council (JNC), Sunday Adeleye, expressed displeasure at the continuous delay of in the payment of the workers’salary.

According to Adeleye, the strike was the only tool that the workers could use to get the attention of the state government towards their plight.

He added that the non-payment of the salaries had rendered the state redundant, because it is a civil service state.

He also urged the state government, under Governor Olusegun Mimiko, to put a stop to all capital projects, in order to effect the outstanding salaries of the striking workers.

“No matter the capital projects, they will not put food on

tables of workers and what we are asking for is reward for service rendered.

“I must inform you that there is a high level of hunger in our society and if we are not careful, there may be civil uprising which will not be palatable”.

The State Chairman of Trade Union Congress (TUC), Sola Ekundayo, decried the situation, which had lasted for 15 days, noting that it was the longest in the history of the state.

“There is a level of insanity already in us, because, today

makes it 15 days of this strike, which is the longest in the state.

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Fayose swears in new works commissioner Gbenga Sodeinde, Ado Ekiti

ÎÎÎEkiti

State Governor, Mr. Ayo Fayose, on Wednesday, appointed Mrs. Theresa Funmilayo Ogun, ex-special assistant on Widows Matters to replace the former Commissioner for Works, Mr. Kayode Oso, who resigned a couple of months ago and left the country.

Oso, who was also present at the event, debunked controversies trailing his sudden resignation that he ran away to avoid arrest by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), saying he resigned honourably on health ground.

Oso’s resignation stirred controversies in the state, as there were insinuations that he ran away to prevent his arrest by EFCC while it was also rumoured that Fayose had a frosty relationshio Fayose over the award of N57billion flyover and N23 billion Erekesan Market projects.

Gov. Fayose

L-R: Member, Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Lawal Mojisola Lasbat; wife of Lagos State Governor, Mrs. Bolanle Ambode; Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa; his wife, Olusola; Mr. Femi Falana (SAN) and other members of the Assembly, during the 1st anniversaryof 8th Assembly and 23rd anniversary of June 12 struggle in Lagos… recently.

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Navy recovers vessel used for Feb. 11 hijack, arrests owner Segun Adio

ÎÎÎThe

Nigerian Navy, on Wednesday, said it had recovered a vessel that was used in the February 11 hijack of an oil tanker by some suspected pirates.

The Flag Officer Commanding, Western Naval Command, Rear Adm. Fergusson Bobai, told newsmen, in Lagos, that his men also arrested the owner of the offending MT Dejikun along with an accomplice.

MT Maximus was hijacked on February 11 off the coast of Cote d’Ivoire but the Navy

arrested the suspected pirates after a gun battle that left one dead.

The pirates had hijacked the oil vessel, laden with 4,700 tonnes of diesel fuel, and held the crew hostage until they were rescued by the Navy on February 22.

Bobai said that the offending vessel – MT Dejikun – which was used in the February 11 hijack was vandalised and abandoned off the coast of Benin Republic. ‘’The Beninese Navy discovered there was nobody onboard the ship and took custody of the vessel.

‘’When they got the ship, they were able to recover some documents of the ship and during investigation, it was discovered that the owner of the ship is a Nigerian. ‘’The Navy operatives at the Forward Operating Base in Badagry arrested the owner of the vessel along Seme border,’’ the Naval Commander said.

Bobai said that the person that chartered the vessel from the owner was also arrested, adding that the vessel and the suspects would be handed over to the police for further investigation.

Group brokers peace among, Ohafia farmers, herdsmen Ifeanyi Onwuneme Umuahia

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non-governmental organisation, Partners for Peace in the Niger Delta, has moved in to avert an impending clash between the Ohafia community in Abia State and the Hausa/Fulani herdsmen who live in their midst.

The Prevent Committee, which is an arm of the Partners for Peace in the Niger Delta, has held a town hall meeting at the Ohafia Local Government Area headquaters, Ebem, where both parties aired their grievances.

The bone of contention was the allegation by the villagers that the herdsmen often dev-

astate their farm crops, sometimes uprooting their cassava roots to feed the cattle.

Speaking, the Chairman of the Committee, Comrade Pedro Azuogu, explained that the organization, which was formed to ensure a lasting peace in the Niger Delta region, was proactive in averting impending crisis within individual local government in the states. He then appealed to both parties to see reason why good neighbourliness should be encouraged and sustained.

The spokesman for Ohafia community expressed anger over their plight, since the commencement of this cropping season, saying that the

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Herdsmen attack: Nimbo community seeks N17bn compensation ÏÏÏThe Nimbo community in Uzo

Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State has urged the Federal Government for compensation of N17 billion following an invasion by suspected herdsmen.

The traditional ruler of the community, Chief John Akor, made the demand when he testified at the panel of inquiry into the incidence on Wednesday.

He said that the sum would be a recompense for the damages suffered by members of the community. ``Our community demands a compensation of N17 billion for human loses, unlawful destruction of property and criminal deprivation of use of our farms for over two decades,” he said.

The monarch said that the community also needed a hospital to rehabilitate victims of the prolonged incursions by herdsmen.

Akor said that 11 people lost their lives during the April 25 invasion, while several others were injured, adding that the corpses were still at the morgues. ``The deaths recorded during the incursion stands at 11. The economy of our community has been ruined.

Part of our prayers is for a combined team of police, Department of State Service (DSS) and the military to investigate why the invasion was not contained, in spite of prior information to that effect.

“We equally request the Federal Government to establish security presence in Nimbo, being a border community,” he said.

Akor said that, as a traditional ruler, he never collected any form of gratification from the herdsmen to

allow them graze in the community.

He said that the economy of the rural community had been shattered following the activities of the herdsmen.

Also testifying, the PresidentGeneral of Nimbo Town Union, Mr. Mathias Ekere, said that the community had co-existed peacefully with

the herdsmen for over 30 years.

Matthias said that from the outset different cattle breeders resided in their community and our people insisted that each group must have identification mark.

“When the arrangement of cattle identification was not working, the herdsmen had to relocate but came

ÏÏÏThe Speaker of

the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, has said that until key players in the Nigerian economy list their businesses on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), the market would not deepen and make progress.

He said this, on Wednesday, in Abuja, when he received members of the Capital Market Master Plan Implementation Council in his office.

The Speaker said the House of Representatives was willing to provide all necessary support, through legislations, incentives and any

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Flood takes over Delta ministries Uche Matthew Asaba

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Hon. Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun (left) with the Deputy Managing Director/Chief Operating officer, African ReInsurance Corporation, Mr K. Aghoghovbia during a courtesy visit to Adeosun... recently.

Dogara makes case for companies to list on NSE Henry Omunu Abuja

back in 2003.

That was when our relationship with them became sour.

“Our people are always intimidated because the herdsmen came with sophisticated weapons, order farmers to kneel down and match their cows to graze on cash crops,” he said.

other instruments to compel all major companies in the country to list on the stock exchange.

He said that “one of the deepest issues that we have to address is that of value that is being created and completely taken away by corporations.

“In other words, in some jurisdictions, they refer to it as corporate greed; where so many companies are generating value investing in Nigeria, reaping profits, but you find out that nine people will sit and just share billions of profit.

I’m not exaggerating, it is happening right now in Nigeria and I am glad you listed one of them.

“But by listing in the Nigerian

the residents of Asaba, the Delta State capital, and its environs are still counting their loss from the devastating rainfall on Sunday, another rainfall, in the early hours of Wednesday, has left many in disarray as households, items and offices were destroyed.

The rain started at about 9:30 a.m. and lasted for hours, forcing people on transit, especially on tricycle to seek for shelter in order to avert danger.

When the Daily Times visited some major roads in Asaba metropolis, like Nnebisi and Okpanam roads, residential housing and business centres were flooded – including ministries.

At Okapanm road, report said the flood carried two tricycle the Eagle Square before the Assembly quarters to a long distance near a popular restaurant.

“I was surprise to discover that my store was covered with water and that the flood was coming through my door”, a victim said.

Another said that a lot of household properties were destroyed by flood, adding that the situation had compelled many residents to relocate.

Man, 33, rapes 5 year old girl in Ebonyi Jacob Ogodo Abakaliki

ÏÏÏThe Police Command in Eb-

Dogara Stock Exchange, it even helps in the income improvement of the ordinary citizen because they can invest in that company and whatever profits the company makes goes round and that reflects on the economy. But that is not what is happening.”

onyi State has arrested a 33-yearold man, Nweke Monday, for allegedly defiling a five-year-old girl in Amuzu Amuda community, Ezza North Local Government Area.

The Police Public Relations Officer, DSP George Okafor who confirmed the matter said that the case was reported to the police by the youth president of the community, Uchechi Elechi.

He said that the youth president reported that Nweke Monday lured the five-year-old, Christiana (surname withheld) to an abandoned Isuzu Jeep where he defiled her.

He disclosed that Nweke also re-

ported that the victim was rushed to a hospital in Ezzamgbo, Ohaukwu Local Government Area, but that the girl’s parents had refused to officially report the matter to the police.

“The youth president decided to bring the matter to the fore, though the parents of the child may be afraid of the stigma, but the culprit that committed this heinous dastardly act will never go unpunished, no matter how long he runs, the law must up catch him.

“We must charge him to court.

We know that God himself will punish him because a little girl of five years, I wonder how someone could ever think of defiling her, it is unheard of and complete wickedness”, he said.

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Privileging conflict mediation in management of Niger Delta conflicts

ÏÏÏ In our earlier article

in this column titled “Managing the Niger Delta Conflict”, we provided a structural approach to the challenge of renewed hostility in the Niger Delta. We suggested a return to the original peace-and-developmentfocused 1960 Nigerian union/independence Constitution, particularly the clear fiscal federalism provisions in Sections 130 to 139 of that first Constitution of independent Nigeria.

The 1960 Constitution of Nigeria led to rapid development in all regions of the country. This was epitomized by groundnut pyramids in the North; abundant cocoa produce in the West and numerous flourishing palm oil plantations in the East. It was also epitomized by the myriads of secondary and tertiary industries that grew from agriculture, notably textiles. Earnings from these 1950s-1960s farm produces cannot be compared to revenue from petroleum from the 1070s to now. Quantitatively, oil revenue dwarfs earnings from agriculture. However, to the eternal shame of subsequent Nigerian elite and leadership from during and, particularly, after the civil war, the quality of development

that earnings from agriculture facilitated makes income from petroleum truly “moneymiss-road” as we say in Nigeria: a colossal waste, to avoid calling it a curse.

Or how do you compare University of Ibadan, University of Nigeria or Ahmadu Bello University with any of our petroleuminduced universities. It is a great lesson in the truism that money does not make nations: disciplined elites and leadership do. Our 1950s to mid-1960s elites and leaders were focused and disciplined. They produced great institutions from relatively little resources. I always say that if Awolowo saw the amount of money that a local government chairman plays with monthly, Papa Awo would have collapsed: too much money. Worse still, monies in the hands of “moneymiss-roads”. Individuals whose only aspiration to office is the inducement of self-aggrandizement.

But it was not that Awo or Zik or Sardauna were smarter or more innately disciplined than our modern day “money-missroad” ‘leaders’. No, no, no.

The discipline of those first generation politicians came from necessity. They had to be productive. This is because sections 130 to 139 the 1960 Nigerian Constitution that they

Militants

worked under forbade indolence. Interpreted in a layman’s language, that 1960 original Constitution of Nigeria says: “No work no food”. It disallowed sharing of anything more than 30 percent to all regions altogether as support for their development efforts. It also forbade the federal government from keeping more than 20% for its own essentially coordination and security efforts. The bulk of the income, at least 50%, went back to the states that produce the wealth. Hence, there was peace and there was development.

The structural approach above is however long term. Today, I would like us to consider a short term approach, conflict mediation. It will help us sustain and stabilize the nation while working out

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the long term structural approach. Essentially, I will start with definitions of and justifications for the use of conflict mediation.

WHATEVER the degree of change that engenders them or that they engender, conflicts are not, in themselves, bad. On the contrary, they can be instruments of progress in human relationships.

Conflict has a bad name only due to negative conflict management.

Conflicts are not only inevitable, but they are also positive and sometimes desirable (AF Acland, 1990).

Conflicts function to: *Effect necessary change * Generate new ideas *Test existing and novel ideas and the boundaries between the possible and the impossible * Reveal and exorcise fears

* Test group cohesion * Build teams * Reveal different needs and interests among individuals and among groups * Explore personalities * Enable people to learn about each other * Enable people to express strong feelings * Enable people to discover the way other people think * Reveal or discuss fears about each other and about personal failure * Create mutual dependence.

Conflicts, therefore, ought to be viewed as positive and inherent in all human interactions: business, marital, family, communal, political, diplomatic, labour, education and so on.

The list is by no means exhaustive: where two people meet, there exists

a potential for conflict, or as the Yoruba proverb goes: “Relationships free of conflict do not exist.”

Conflicts accompany alterations in behaviour, and changes in behaviour are caused by the inevitable changes in a person’s circumstance or situation, whether mental, physical, social, political, or economical.

Sadly, a negative conflict management system sees in a conflict only the ‘right’ and the ‘wrong’ and ends with ‘winners’ and ‘losers’.

[1] Therefore parties using a negative conflict management system do everything possible to ‘win’. This explains the brinkmanship and violence that is now part and parcel of most conflicts the world over.

The failure of our present-day faultfinding conflict resolution system is universally acknowledged and has led to the search for a new system that deals with conflict in a healthy and positive way. The result of this search is the recourse to conflict mediation. The promotion and development of mediation is appropriate because for societies to develop and flourish, we have to privilege human collaboration over conflict.

We should help people to save their important relationships—be they diplomatic, political, social or contractual—despite misunderstandings.

We must always look for original options for quick conflict resolution to deal with existing conflict holistically and, at the same time, preserve important relationships. This is the place of integrative or collaborative negotiation.

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Health Æ s Open heart surgeries will become a routine in LUTH, says CMD Edokpolor Osayande.

CHRIS BODE

Chief Medical Director of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (CMD LUTH).

The Chief Medical Director of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (CMD LUTH) ,Idi-Araba, Lagos, Dr. Chris Bode has said that seven Nigerians, recently had a successful open heart surgery in its cardiac project.

He made this known at a briefing recently in Lagos.

Commending the team of

doctors who worked on the patients, Dr Bode said, “It was not a one man show but a team work which has made these institution proud.”

He urge Nigerians to have faith and believe in LUTH Cardiac project, as open heart surgeries will be an everyday activity that will be done regularly, assuring that the hospital is ready to give in whatever it takes to make it a routine.

“Though Nigeria maybe going through a lot of challenges but it is still the best place to be. I want us to believe in ourselves.”

Speaking on the cost, he said a patient was charged N1.7 million as over a billion naira spent by Nigerians in traveling aboard.

He appealed to eminent and wealthy Nigerians to support citizens in the next operation in other to sustain the project.

As open heart surgeries requires a lot of materials and funding for capacity building .

Also speaking, Professor Janet Ajuluchukwu of LUTH said, the LUTH cardiac project was established in 2014 with 100 per cent success.

While commending the medical director for his support, Dr. Ajuluchukwu described the project as a collaboration of different departments.

1 in 4 women lack access to family planning services in Lagos – Report Lara Adejoro Despite the widely acclaimed benefits of family planning, only 1 in 5 married women in Lagos are using any modern method of family planning, and 1 in 4 do not have access to the family planning supplies and services they need, according to Pathfinder International Nigeria.

Among women in Lagos who use family planning, the majority rely on short-term methods, such as the pills, injectables and condoms. These methods are less effective at preventing unintended pregnancy than the longacting reversible contraceptives (LARCs), such as the IUD and implant, which are very effective for many years. This reliance on shorter-term and lesseffective methods leaves women at risk of unintended pregnancy.

Family planning and reproductive health services save lives by allowing women to decide the timing and spacing of their children. This lowers maternal mortality, increases the chances of children’s survival, saves government funds.

Speaking during the media forum on: “Family Planning as an Effective Strategy to Reduce High Maternal Mortality in Lagos State by 2018” organised by the Lagos Advocacy Working Group (LAWG) with the support of Pathfinder International and the Lagos State Government, Dr

36%

Habeeb Salami of Pathfinder said access to family planning services is poor.

“Access to family planning is poor for various reasons in terms of money, location of health facilities, quality of services and we don’t have enough

By 2018, Nigeria is expected to reach 36 per cent blueprint of family planning. trained service providers. With poor access to family planning, it puts Nigeria’s Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (CPR) at 15 per cent. Then, the most effective method which is the modern method is 10 per cent and that’s low compared to Ethiopia, the

second largest African country with 40 per cent.

“There is evidence that, family planning is indirectly proportional to the level of maternal mortality. If we have an increased CPR, the maternal mortality will drop. The target

for the federal government is 36 per cent by 2018. To move from 15 per cent to 36 per cent by 2018 is achievable if we aim higher,” Dr Salami said.

According to the Family Plan-

Continued on page 27

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LUTH nurses decry poor working conditions

Children’s rights should be protected –Expert

...embark on indefinite strike Lara Adejoro The Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) Nurses have decried poor working conditions and welfare of its members, hence commenced an indefinite strike actions A communique issued at the end of the congress meeting of LUTH doctors to review the 7-day ultimatum given to the management of the hospital and made available to Daily Times stated that the non-promotion of nurses to the post of Chief Nursing Officer – CONHESS 13 as done in all other Federal Health Institutions for the year 2015 promotion exercise is a clear display of high-handedness, injustice and lack of equity and it negates National Industrial Court (NIC) judgment and Scheme of Service.

“That skipping of CONHESS 10 still subsists based on NIC judgment as conveyed by circular w i t h reference H S C F / E P O / EIR/637551/ T1/192 dated 4th November, 2013. And it must be obeyed.

“That junior nurses have not been promoted for six years and

above, while their counterparts employed at the same time in other Federal Health Institutions are already two grade levels above them. This is unacceptable.”

Among other issues are nonpayment of salaries to newly employed junior nurses effective from October, 2015.

“This is making life unbearable for the junior nurses not to mention the stoppage of teaching allowance to nurses since 2015.”

Other issues of concern are inadequate/obsolete equipment, irregular water supply, lack of consumables, Inadequate manpower, lack of electricity at night, non-payment of promotion arrears from year 2013 to 2015, non-payment of year 2016 uniform allowance/balance of year 2015 uniform allowance.”

“Consequent upon the above, and in view of the insensitiveness of LUTH management to our plights, all nurses are hereby directed to e m b a rk on an indefinite strike with immediate effect from June 10th, 2016 till further notice.

Lara Adejoro The acting Medical Director of the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Yaba, Lagos, Dr Richard Adebayo has called on the government and

parents to ensure that the rights of the children be protected.

He made the call on Wednesday during the hospital’s Association of Resident Doctors Ordinary General Meeting with the theme: The Child Bride and

the Mental Health Consequences.

Speaking with Daily Times, Dr Adebayo often child-brides go through physical and psychological problems.

“Often times, we think the problem is basically VesicoVaginal Fistula (VVF) but these children have no parental skills and are supposed to be under their parents and should be protected because a lot of them are frustrated and become depressed in life.”

He said, “subjecting children to marriage is criminal. We’ve heard of a child who ran to her parents and the parents chased her away. When some of them are pushed to the wall, they can commit suicide.”

FG urges states to fund blood safety programmes Lara Adejoro The Minister of State for Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire has called on all state governments to fund blood safety programme in their states.

Ehanire stated in Abuja in commemoration of the World Blood Donor Day. He said, this will ensure the sustainability of the blood safety programme nationwide.

According to him, it is important for the country to take full ownership of the Blood Safety Programme in line with the dictates of the National Blood Policy and the resolutions made at the 58th National Council on Health in March this year.

“Any infected blood transfused has serious consequences, and the National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS) needs adequate funding to ensure consistent supply of safe blood, a task which re-

quires the support of the federal government, multilateral and bilateral agencies and non-governmental organization,” he said.

He said the National Blood Transfusion Service draft bill which will grant the organization the autonomy it requires to carry out its mandate is being prepared for submission to the Federal Executive Council and onward transmission to the National Assembly as an executive bill.

Family planning helps lower maternal mortality Continued from page 26 ning, Lagos State Ministry of Health, Mrs Juliana Okanlawon, the population of the state is over 23 million and out of that number, 22 per cent are women of child-bearing age ranging from 19 to 49 years old.

“By 2018, Nigeria is expected to reach 36 per cent blueprint of family planning. To reach that goal, Lagos state is put at 74 per cent because of the population and if we are able to reach that goal, maternal mortality will reduce.”

Continuing, she said, “555 women die per 100,000 live births

daily in Nigeria and that’s alarming. However, stakeholders came together to seek ways out and one of the ways is family planning. Family planning is about having our children by choice, not by chance and that’s why you can’t talk about maternal mortality without talking about pregnancy or child birth related problems. Once the family is planned, the issue of abortion or complications will not arise.”

Some of the challenges according to Mrs Okanlawon are insufficient staff in all the health facilities to render family

planning services.

“The materials used to carry out the services such as cottonwool, iodine, plaster are not available even though the services is rendered for free and there’s no budget line for family planning. Before now, people pay for the consumables but earlier this year, the commissioner for Health, Dr Jide Idris has mandated that nobody should collect money for consumables..”

In Lagos, one in 40 women will die from pregnancy or deliveryrelated causes in her lifetime.

“By addressing cost and other barriers to family planning up-

take, Lagos would save an additional 657 mothers’ lives by 2018,” says Pathfinder International Nigeria.

The agency also said, one in every 15 children born in lagos dies before his or her fifth birthday. “When women can decide the number and timing of their births, they are better able to avoid high-risk pregnancies and care for their children. If the government addresses barriers to family planning, Lagos would save an additional 8,500 children lives by 2018.”

Family planning is cost-effective and saves money. For every

N200 spent on familly planning in Lagos saves N974 in direct healthcare costs. If the government commits to addressing cost and other barriers to using family planning, these savings woud increase to 1, 438 per N200 spent by 2018.

“For Lagos to meet its blueprint goal and enjoy full method choice for women and couples, as well as the sizeable potential health and economic benefits of family planning, the government must commit to eliminating user costs for consumables supporting modern family planning uptake.”

News 28 Henry Omunu & Emmanuel Iriogbe Abuja

ÏÏÏA whopping sum of $3

billion is the total sum of money unremitted to Nigeria Maritime administration and safety Agency (NIMASA) by some government agencies in the last eight years.

According to revelations made before the House of Representatives Committee on Maritime Safety, Education and Administration, on Wednesday, the defaulting government

Daily Times Nigeria Thursday, June 16, 2016

Freight charges: NNPC, PPMC owe NIMASA $3bn – Reps agencies were the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company, (PPMC).

The Chairman of the committee, Hon Mohammed Bago, disclosed this during a one-day investigative hearing on the revenue

leakages and operational deficiencies in NIMASA and said the debts were defaults from freight charges.

Bago also hinted that the National Petroleum Investment Management Services, (NAPIMS) – a subsidiary of the NNPC – was owing NIMASA about $780 million in freight charges.

It would be recalled that on March 9, 2016, the House mandated the committee to probe the alleged revenue leakages and deficiencies in NIMASA amounting to about $10 billion and report to it within six weeks for further legislative action.

Giving further insight,

the sponsor of the motion, Hon Jones Onyereri, noted that from 2008 to 2015, about $10billion had been lost to unpaid freight charges by government agencies.

Onyereri estimated that Nigeria loses about N2trillion annually on freight charges, lamenting that

the ineffectiveness of NIMASA in its core mandate had resulted in huge revenue loss.

In his presentation, the Minister of Transport, Hon Rotimi Amaechi, said that the federal government was disturbed with the unwholesome activities in NIMASA.

Again, Saraki asks CCT chair to disqualify self Andrew Orolua Abuja

ÏÏÏThe ongoing trial of

the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki before the Code of Conduct Tribunal for false assets declaration was, on Wednesday, stalled following a motion seeking to disqualify Tribunal Chairman Danladi Yakubu Umar over his threat on the defendant in an open court.

Saraki urged the tribunal to hear the motion wherein he had challenged Umar’s statement that “ delay tactics will not reduce the consequences that defendant will meet in this tribunal at the end of the trial.”

Saraki claimed that the threat by Umar in the open court was a clear indication that the tribunal had made up its mind to convict him at all cost in respective of the evidences at the trial.

The Senate president, therefore asked the CCT chairman to step outside from further participation in the trial initiated against him by the Federal government.

In the fresh motion on notice brought pursuance to section 36 of the 1999 Constitution, the Senate president insisted that the Tribunal Chairman was in a hurry to convict him without given him a fair hearing and a fair opportunity to defend himself.

In the motion filed by his lead counsel, Mr. Kanu Godwin Agabi (SAN), Saraki stated that the threat by CCT chairman was biased and cannot accord him a fair trial.

Members of the Oyo State NLC at a rally to protest alleged anti-workers policy on wednesday, in Ibadan.

Rep cautions FG on dialogue with Avengers Chris Emetoh Abuja

ÏÏÏThe

Federal Government has been advised to look critically into the demands of the Niger Delta Avengers to save the nation’s economy from collapse.

Hon. Segun Alex Adekola, representing, Ekiti South Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, made the call in Abuja, stressing that the situation was a delicate one which

called for caution in handling it.

Although Adekola urged the government to identify genuine agitations and demands of the Niger Delta Avengers, he advised NDA and other militant groups emerging from the South South against beating the drums of war as the consequences would be quite devastating. “Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gun powder; government should address this issue. I also advise the

avengers to take it easy because you can never know where and how it will end.

Nigeria must be united.

NDA should embrace dialogue because the price of peace cannot be bought.”

Adekola, who also spoke on the one year of the 8th National Assembly, which he commended as having excelled above its predecessors on overall performance, including number of bills passed and motions moved, accused the APC-

led government of paying lip service to the plights of Nigerians. He urged the government to tell Nigerians what its economic direction was, noting that Nigerians were suffering as a result of the effect of policy implementation without putting on ground, cushioning effects that would ameliorate the stress that the economy had been put under.

He said that most bills and motions sponsored and passed in the House of Rep-

resentatives were peopleoriented.

The lawmaker further blamed the APC-led administration of doing little about job creation, adding that the problem of Nigeria was that of unemployment.

According to him, “until we address the problem of unemployment and restore normalcy in the power sector the issues of militancy, Boko Haram, herdsmen and other vices will continue to arise”.

Lagos scavengers to pay levies to govt ÏÏÏThe Lagos State Waste Management

Ambode

Authority (LAWMA), on Wednesday, said that waste scavengers were stealing government’s raw materials and would begin to pay levies.

The Executive Chairman of LAWMA, Mr. Olumuyiwa Adejokun, said in Lagos that wastes were resources for the state, which scavengers stole daily.

“Scavengers must pay to the govern-

ment purse because they make money from whatever they collect across dump sites.

“What we call waste is no more waste; they are raw materials. Papers, plastic, iron, nylon and other things scavengers gather across the state must attract levies.

“So, all these scavengers must register to make revenue for the government.

They are stealing government’s raw materials. Every scavenger must pay. We

must generate money for government,” he said.

According to him, authority is guided by 3Rs-Reuse, Recycle and Reduce in the management of wastes, and it would not relent in its efforts to manage wastes in the state.

“If we don’t reduce the amount of waste we generate, one day, there will be a problem. But if we recycle and reuse, we will ask for more waste,” he said.

D’Tigress out Of Olympic race

N

igeria women’s basketball team’s hopes of qualifying for the Rio 2016 Olympics were dashed on Wednesday as Korea defeated Belarus 66-65.

D’Tigress were eliminated on point’s difference following Korea’s victory over the European favourites.

D’Tigress had on Tuesday bounced back from their opening day defeat to Belarus by edging South Korea 70-69 in their second game at the 2016 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament in France.

The win had given the Nigerian women hope after they had lost to Belarus by

11 points.

If Belarus, as expected, had defeated Korea on Wednesday, Nigeria would have advanced in the play-offs for a Rio 2016 ticket.

However, the big margin loss to Belarus proved to be Nigeria’s undoing in a group of very tight results.

Hodgson dismisses

Bale’s trash talk

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Victor Thompson

A Pinnick

NFF crisis: Eminent citizens hail Reps’ resolutions

cross section of leading political figures, members of Nigeria football’s Congress and key stakeholders have given kudos to the House of Representatives for its resolutions of last week on the leadership ‘crisis’ in the Nigeria Football Federation.

At an executive session on Wednesday, the Parliament asked the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Federal Government to continue to recognize, support and give protection to the Nigeria Football Federation under the presidency of Amaju Melvin Pinnick, urged the Federal Government and all security agencies to call Giwa and his group to order to ensure that Nigeria football does not continue to suffer and/ or incur the wrath of FIFA, and also resolved that the Inspector–General of Police and all other security agencies shall ensure that whosoever creates problem in NFF or Nigeria football should be apprehended and prosecuted accordingly.

While at the Glass House to commiserate with the NFF over the deaths of coaching legends Stephen Keshi and Shuaibu Amodu, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Sports, Senator Joseph Obinna Ogba preached peace, saying the resolutions of the House are in order.

Football: Ejidike calls for prayer Edo govt over spate owing of death denies Amodu N25m Amodu

Ejidike

ANDREW EKEJIUBA

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ollowing the spate of death recorded recently which saw the demise of two top and foremost Super Eagles indigenous coaches within a week, the Nigeria Pillar of Sports, Chief Donatus Agu Ejidike, called on all Nigerians to pray fervently for sportsmen, women, administrators, coaches, players and the entire sports fraternity to avert further oc-

currence of sudden death in the sector.

Ejidike, who reacted to the demise of Coach Shuaibu Amodu lamented the sad occurrence which he said has dealt another big blow to Nigerian football.

The highly travelled sports administrator who doubles as the President, Karate Federation of Nigeria in a statement made available through the Chairman, Office of the Nigeria Pillar of Sports, Prince Olayioye Ajide to Extra Time called on sports stakeholders to turn unto God

for divine intervention and protection.

“Death, though a necessary end should ordinarily occur at old and ripe age; but, when death are recorded in quick succession, then perhaps, one may begin to interpret it the other way. Therefore, divine intervention of God through prayers may be the only option. It is on this note that I call for prayers from all stakeholders of sports to help prevent or avert further occurrence of such death.

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he Edo State government has reacted to the report that it owed the late former Super Eagles Coach, Shuaibu Amodu to the tune of N25 million, saying it was sheer lies and attempts by detractors to drag the name of the state government in the mud. in a release issued by Chief

Press Secretary to the Governor, Peter Okhiria, and made available to Daily Times, the state government explained that the deceased had only claimed that a sum of N8 million was owed him and which was approved ‘purely on compassionate grounds.’

The statement read in part: “The attention of Edo State Continued on page 30

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Mkhitaryan

‘going nowhere’ M

Pedro

Pedro speaks to Barca

over possible return C

helsea forward Pedro has revealed he has spoken to Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu about returning to the club.

Pedro signed for Chelsea in August 2015 having previously spent his entire career at Barca but struggled to make a big impact last season, scoring eight goals in all competitions in his maiden campaign at Stamford Bridge.

The Spain international says he has spoken with Bartomeu and several of his friends Camp Nou and is keen on ending his playing career at Barca.

“Hopefully, I can return to Barcelona, I know it’s difficult, I spoke with the president when we saw each other at the Cup final and I also spoke with all the people who love me there,” he said to reporters.

“It’s complicated, but I’ve always said I

would like to retire at Barca.”

“The years have passed and Barca have some of the best players in the world, it’s a very demanding club and coming back is complicated, but I can’t rule it out.

“I spent 11 or 12 years in Barcelona, my family are there and a lot of my friends, as well. The fans love me a lot, I felt valued by the club, and it’s always very tough to leave the club of your dreams.

Espinosa signs for Middlesbrough P

remier League new boys Middlesbrough have agreed a deal to sign Sporting Gijon’s Colombian defender Bernardo Espinosa.

The 26-year-old centre-back has played in excess of 90 games for Sporting since making the move from La Liga rivals Sevilla three

years ago, but will make the move to Boro on July 1 as he comes to the end of his contract.

Despite Espinosa being part-way through his recovery from a cruciate knee ligament injury, Espinosa was reportedly a target for Everton, Bournemouth and Watford.

But the highly-rated Espinosa, who has

anchester United transfer target Henrikh Mkhitaryan will not be allowed to leave Borussia Dortmund until his contract runs out.

The Bundesliga club’s chief executive HansJoachim Watzke says the 27-year-old, who is said to be keen on linking up with Jose Mourinho’s side, must see out his current deal at the Westfalenstadion.

Mkhitaryan, who has another year left on his contract and has rejected the offer of a new deal, is also attracting attention from Premier League rivals Arsenal and Chelsea.

Speaking to reporters Watzke said: “We have been negotiating a new deal with Henrikh Mkhitaryan for four months.

“We now know he won’t sign an extension.

There was never a promise that he can leave us prematurely.

“We have intensely discussed the question of an early transfer in all club bodies and came to the conclusion t h a t Mkhitaryan will stay in Dortmund n e x t season.”

been included Colombia without capped, Karanka’s after the in Viktor

in the s q u a d having been becomes Aitor second signing Spaniard brought Fischer from Ajax.

Mkhitaryan

Edo govt denies owing Amodu N25m Continued from page 29 Government has been drawn to a report in the newspapers and on several online platforms to the effect that the State Government owed Mr. Amodu Shaibu, the Technical Director of the Nigerian Football Federation, who died in the night Friday, June 10, to the tune of N25 million.

“Let us state from the onset that his death is a huge loss to Edo State and Nigeria. We are certain that no one can fill the void of the shoes left behind by Coach Shaibu. He was not just a proud Edo son but also a perfect gentleman, community leader among other callings.

“This is why he was invited to work with our

young footballers after he was unceremoniously relieved of his appointment as Coach having qualified Nigeria for the World Cup. We remain deeply pained by his very sudden and untimely death.

“The facts:The late Amodu Shaibu worked with the State Government, on a fixed-term contract basis, as Consultant/Technical Adviser of Edo State Football Development Programme, a Football Academy established by the State Government to tap the talents of Edo youths and turn them into world stars.

In deference to his pedigree, and having informed the Governor of how he was shabbily treated by the Nigerian Football Federation af-

ter the World Cup qualification he helped secure for the nation, and also admitting that the new job to manage the State’s Football Academy had lesser attraction than the National team Coach job he had, Amodu Shuaibu was placed on a monthly salary of N2 million, which is hundred per cent better than what he was earning as Coach of the National Football team, and also making him the highest paid official of the Edo State Government.

“The said fixed-term contract was however not renewed on expiration based on the dwindling revenues and the necessary cuts in government spending.

It is basic that a fixed-term contract ends

automatically when the agreed end date is reached and the employer doesn’t have to give any notice. This means that a fixed-term contract is deemed terminated if not renewed.

In spite of the fact that the said contract was not renewed, the late Amodu Shaibu continued to draw his monthly wage of N2 million until it was stopped by the Office of the Accountant General in June, 2015, following the discovery after a staff biometric verification exercise.

“The late Amodu Shaibu thereafter tendered his ‘letter of resignation’, in September 2015, even when the said contract was not renewed and had been deemed terminated, following its non-renewal.

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Hodgson dismisses E Bale’s trash talk Bale

Alcantara

hails holders’

strength in depth

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Alcantara

pain midfielder Thiago Alcantara highlighted the European champions’ formidable strength in depth ahead of their second Euro 2016 Group D clash with Turkey.

Winners of the last two editions of tournament, Spain began their campaign in France with a 1-0 victory over Czech Republic on Monday, courtesy of a late header from Gerard Pique.

Vicente del Bosque’s side dominated proceedings in Toulouse but it took a superb cross from Andres Iniesta – who produced a masterful display throughout – to unlock a stubborn defence that kept supply lines to forwards Alvaro Morata and Aritz Aduriz limited.

Much of the subsequent praise has centred on Iniesta’s performance but Thiago, a substitute in that game, insists the squad boasts an overall strength which gives them a great chance of beating Turkey in Nice – and going far in the knockout stages.

“The most important thing was to get off to a winning start, and we did,” he said. “We’re not just one or two players, we’re a group. There’s an extraordinary group of players here and we want to win the Euros.

Fonte,Carvalho target

stricken Austria

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ortugal are determined to respond to their draw with Iceland by inflicting a second defeat on under-pressure Austria at Euro 2016, according to Ricardo Carvalho and Jose Fonte.

Fernando Santos’ team were held to a 1-1 draw by the tournament debutants in Saint-Etienne on Tuesday, as Austria – considered by some as potential candidates to win the European Championship – suffered a surprise 2-0 loss to their improved neighbours Hungary in Bordeaux.

Asked if the reverse suffered by Marcel Koller’s side would prove to be an advantage to Portugal when the teams clash in Paris on Saturday, Fonte said: “Possibly. But they will want to win as well. They have to win after their defeat.

“It will be an extremely tough game. They have good players, they won, if I’m not wrong, nine games in their qualification group. We know their strengths as well. We know it’s going to be tough game but we’ll be ready for them.”

Carvalho meanwhile believes the onus is on Portugal to improve after a frustrating outcome against one of the competition’s relative minnows at Stade Geoffroy-Guichard.

ngland boss Roy Hodgson swatted away the trash talk coming out of the Wales camp ahead of today’s Euro 2016 encounter in Lens and insisted it had not affected his side’s preparation one jot.

Wales’ most influential player Gareth Bale has been particularly vocal, claiming England do not possess the same passion as their Welsh counterparts and that not one Three Lions player would get in Chris Coleman’s side.

Hodgson refused to take the bait and insisted “talk is talk”.

He said: “I don’t really like to comment on what other people say, we are perfectly satisfied with the passion we bring to our games, we certainly don’t have any doubts about our passion, desire, our commitment, our wish to do well in the tournament.

“If other people have another opinion and think they are better at it then that’s fine by me. I don’t think it’s worthy of comment if I’m brutally honest.

“I am surprised people are focusing so much on the talking. Both Wayne Rooney and I have been in football a long time and if we were really taking seriously, and thinking about what people were saying in the other team, and allowed that in any way to affect our concentration then we’d be very ashamed of ourselves.

“Talk is talk and action on the field is action on the field.”

As for Bale’s claim about a combined team possessing no Englishmen, Hodgson added: “It’s a question the media and maybe many a fan would be asking but I’ve never, as a coach of a team, ever once considered how many of our players would get into their team and how many of their players would get into our team.

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ermany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer insists Italy can never be ruled out at a major international tournament after their 2-0 win against muchfancied Belgium on Monday.

Antonio Conte’s men have not been widely tipped for success at Euro 2016, but they began their campaign in style, as goals from Emanuele Giaccherini and Graziano Pelle secured victory in Monday’s Group E clash.

And World Cup winner Neuer - who helped Germany to a 2-0 win over Ukraine in their first match of the competition - says he would never dismiss a side who have a reputation for performing

on the big stage.

“I never ruled the Azzurri out, even after our win over them in Munich in March,” he told reporters.

“I heard a lot of criticism, but I know they are a side that performs well at tournaments.

“You can see how compact they are tactically, how they defend, and how they continued to press forward when it was 1-0.

“I like their defence – with the three Juventus players and Daniele De Rossi – it means they close the opposition down with five players. They all move together.”

And Neuer reserved special praise for fellow shot-stopper Gianluigi Buffon, who kept a clean sheet in the first game of his ninth major tournament.

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L-R: Super Eagles striker, Obinna Nsofor, Stephen Keshi Jnr (middle) and NFF General Secretary, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi on Wednesday in Abuja.

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he first son of late Nigeria captain and coach Stephen Keshi has expressed bewilderment that certain persons have been putting a date forward for his father’s burial rites without the knowledge and consent of his children.

Stephen Keshi Jnr, 27, arrived at the NFF Secretariat on Wednesday morning and met with the General Secretary, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi. He was in company with US–based chemist and friend of late Keshi, Victor Ugoh and former Super Eagles’ star Victor Obinna Nsofor.

“I just came into Nigeria on Tuesday night, and we read in the papers today that somebody has fixed a date for the burial. I am shocked like my sisters and my brothers. Since our father died, nobody has spoken to us about how he died, and we have not even seen his corpse. Yet,

someone is fixing a date for his burial!”

Extra Time was reliably informed that Keshi’s daughter, Ifeyinwa and husband, who are based in North Carolina, USA also flew into Nigeria on Tuesday.

Keshi Jnr, an events producer in Atlanta, expressed appreciation to the Federal Government, the National Assembly, the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports, the Nigeria Football Federation, the governments of Edo and Delta States, ex–internationals and countless corporate bodies and individuals for all the kind words showered on his father since he passed on.

“I cannot thank everyone enough. We have only heard good and great words about our father since his death. I am going to Benin City now. The family will sit down and come up with a date for the funeral, but we also appreciate that he was a national figure and will harmonize our plans with that of the Government and the NFF.

ormer FIFA executive Amos Adamu is set for a big comeback soon with talk he may formally be granted a reprieve by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) by their next congress in January in Gabon.

Nigeria’s Adamu, 63, was banned from football for three years in November 2010 over bribery allegations to do with his vote for the 2018 World Cup bid.

The former CAF executive has maintained a low profile even after the ban ended.

Top sources revealed that Adamu plans to relaunch himself by getting re-elected as chairman of the sub-regional West African Football Union (WAFU).

It is understood he has played a big role in the recent re-election of Moucharafou Anjorin as the president of the Benin Football Federation as part of his comeback plan.

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Determined to put smiles on the faces of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the North Eastern part of the country during the on-going Ramadan, the Dangote Foundation has commenced the distribution of food items and other relief materials in Borno State.

Governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima, who flagged off the exercise in Maiduguri was full of praises for Alhaji Aliko Dangote, the Chairman of the Foundation for his spirit of human kindness and for particularly picking interest in the condition of the IDPs who are mostly victims of Boko Haram insurgency.

It would be recalled that Aliko Dangote in his recent fact-finding tour of IDPs’ camps in the North-East donated a sum of N2 billion for the sustenance of the IDPs and further promised to feed them during the Ramadan.

While presenting the relief materials at Bakassi IDPs Camp to about 1,572 households made up of displaced people from Guzaumala local government area, Governor Shettima lauded Dangote Foundation for the kind gesture and said that words are not enough to adequately convey the gratitude of the people of Borno for the love shown to them by the Foundation.

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NLNG placates FG, escapes EFCC probe in N650b tax holiday saga Opeoluwani Akintayo Backed by the enabling NLNG Act, the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited was incorporated as a limited liability company on May 17, 1989 to harness Nigeria’s vast natural gas resources and produce Liquefied Natural Gas, LNG and Natural Gas Liquids, NGLs for export.

The company is owned by four shareholders- Federal Government represented by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC (49%), Shell 25.6%), Total LNG Nigeria Ltd (15%) and Eni

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(10.4%). It has wholly-owned subsidiaries: Bonny Gas Transport (BGT) Limited and NLNG Ship Management Limited (NSML).

Upon establishment of the company, an Act was put in place which gave the company a 10-year period of tax relief, including exemption from custom duties.

In a bid to encourage the company realize its objectives, FG granted a pioneer status to the project, an incentive granted legally to fresh investors that ventured into difficult economic terrains to do business that positively impact the country.

Under the pioneer status arrangement, benefiting companies have exemption from all corporate income tax payments for the first three or five years of operation in its chosen area.

A company with pioneer status is always entitled to deduct the cost of interest payments and investments in physical capital, capital allowances from its pretax profits, making it easier for it to borrow to invest in capital equipment.

But under the NLNG Act approved in 1990, the company was not only given the legal five years

exemption, but also another seven years of tax holiday.

A report which revealed how the country lost about N650.1 billion to questionable tax exemption granted the NLNG surfaced recently and the country was thrown into frenzy of how such could have happen under our very noses.

During the extra tax holiday, the NLNG was not only exempted from paying 30 percent corporate tax on its profits for five years between 1999 and 2004, but also for CONTINUED ON PAGE B2

L – R: Bola Adeeko, Head, Corporate Services Division, The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE); Haruna JaloWaziri, Executive Director, Capital Market, NSE; Oscar N. Onyema, OON, Chief Executive Officer, NSE; Michel Puchercos, Group Managing Director/CEO, Lafarge Africa Plc and Ade Bajomo, Executive Director, Market Operations and Technology, NSE at the Closing Gong Ceremony at the NSE today.

Labour gives six banks June 30 deadline to recall sacked workers Joy Ekeke Organised Labour has issued a deadline to six commercial banks in the country to reverse the sack of staff affected in recent downsizing exercises or face shut-downs in all their branches.

The banks include Diamond, First City Monument Bank Plc, Skye Bank Plc, among others.

In a notice to the Managing

Directors of the six banks, NLC, through its Deputy General Secretary, Mr. Chris Uyot, threatened that after the June 30th deadline, any of the banks that failed to comply would face unprecedented industrial unrest.

Investigation revealed that organised labour, on the platform of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and its Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, counterpart have already reached out

to their civil society allies to strategize on planned assault on the banks and their branches nationwide.

The letter read: “I have been directed to inform you that, it has been brought to our notice by our affiliate union, the National Union of Banks, insurance, and Financial institutions Employees, NUBIFIE, that your bank is one of those that had arbitrarily sacked a large number

of workers in recent times, contrary to laid down procedures and the country’s extant labour laws.

“Also, of concern has been that these blatant retrenchments were carried out without recourse to several correspondences, including letters and circulars, sent to you by the union to retrace your steps, in line with best practices in labour relations and laws of the land.”

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Demand for gas to take over oil by 2021 – IEA

Lagos woos private sector in wealth creation drive

Opeoluwani Akintayo The International Energy Agency has said that the demand for gas will take over that of oil come 2021.

This was revealed inside its Medium-Term Gas Market report for 2016 released over the weekend.

According to the Agency, the next five years will bring a reshaping of the global gas trade, seeing the new liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies coming online.

It said as production of gas increases, there will be new, saying countries like China, India and ASEAN will emerge as key buyers.

“We see massive quantities of LNG exports coming on line while, despite lower gas prices, demand continues to soften in traditional markets,” said IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol.

These contradictory trends will both impact trade and keep spot gas prices under pressure.” Dr. Birol added that the combined factors of cheaper coal and continued strong renewables growth were blocking gas from expanding more rapidly in the power sector at the moment.

The annual IEA report, which gives a detailed analysis and fiveyear projections of natural gas demand, supply and trade developments, sees global demand rising by 1.5% per year by the end of the forecast period, compared with 2% projected in last year’s outlook. Slower primary energy demand growth and the decline in the energy intensity of the world economy are lessening demand growth for all fossil fuels, including gas. As demand growth for coal and oil also weakens, the share of gas in the energy mix is still expected to increase – albeit modestly – by 2021.

“While gas demand is projected to remain weak, global LNG exports will increase substantially.

Between 2015 and 2021, liquefaction capacity will increase by 45%, mostly from the United States and Australia,” it said.

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L-R: Vice President-South, Nutrition Society of Nigeria, Dr. Bartholomew Brai; Marketing Director, Dufil Prima Foods Plc, Girish Sharma; Assistant Director, Standard Organisation of Nigeria, Engr. Fred Akingbesote and Group Public Relations and Events Manager, Dufil Prima Foods Plc, Mr. Tope Ashiwaju at the Launch Of The New 305G Indomie Bellefull Chicken Flavour Noodles In Lagos.

Army, Ministry of Communications partner on technology for security Tony Nwakaegho The Nigerian Army is set to partner with the Ministry of Communications in the application of new technologies to tackle the activities of insurgents and other security challenges in the country.

Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, chief of Army Staff, said this known in Abuja when he led officers of the army on a visit to Mr Adebayo Shittu, minister of Communications, adding that the use of technology like the galaxy backbone; satellite and data communication would go a long way in addressing the security challenges in Nigeria.

The army chief disclosed that they were in the ministry to partner in the area of communication security, noting that communication is vital to military operations and general administration.

“We have a number of platforms in the North-East and Niger-Delta and we need a closer collaboration from the ministry of communications.

“With the availability of the galaxy backbone and satellite outfit, we know that these facilities and institutions have great

impact in terms of our communication needs.

“We have been collaborating already in terms of providing the basic communication and other facilities we need to expand further and this is vital.

“National security is the key and we can collaborate more in the fight against Boko Haram and other security challenges in the country to enable us carry out our task more efficiently and professionally,’’ Burutai said.

He added that the army was also working closely with telecommunication firms in the North-East towards reinstalling masts destroyed by Boko Haram insurgents.

He explained that the military was not overwhelmed by the recent activities of militants in the Niger Delta, but needed a robust collaboration to end security threats.

On the recent compulsory retirement of some senior military officers, Buratai said the exercise followed due process and in accordance with the laws governing the force.

Responding, Shittu lauded Burutai for his leadership quality that has led to the success

achieved in the fight against Boko Haram.

“This achievement is due to the leadership the Chief of Army Staff has been providing and when you have the right leadership things can be different.

“I am happy that the COAS in the realisation of the importance of this ministry decided to pay a visit with the view to getting collaboration between the army and this ministry.

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Having invested N25 billion under the Employment Trust Fund (ETF), the Lagos state government has canvassed for the active participation of the private sector in its drive to generate more wealth creation opportunities for citizens.

The State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, described his administration’s policy on wealth creation as a multi directional initiative involving the establishment of the ETF as well as requiring significant private sector contributions targeted at reducing unemployment.

Speaking at the first Stakeholders’ Summit of the Lagos State Ministry of Wealth Creation and Employment, he said the investment of N25 billion Employment Trust Fund (ETF) for wealth creation purposes would not yield the expected outcome if other complimentary efforts like right attitudes to employment issues like employability of job seekers are not addressed.

Emphasising on the theme of the summit, ‘Strengthening Partnership for Employment Opportunities and Wealth Creation in a Competitive Environment’, Ambode said government had the responsibility to drive wealth creation processes through business-friendly policies and incentives, adding that relevant stakeholders must be carried along in an inclusive manner which is the true essence his administration was irrevocably committed.

Represented by his deputy, Dr. Idiat Adebule, he said, “Lagos has identified wealth creation path as a direction for economic growth through offering needed support to the establishment and growth of small businesses to create job opportunities and generate wealth for collective prosperity of residents of the state.”

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an extended seven years till 2012 valued at about N630.4 billion.

The exemption also covered a range of taxes- two percent of its profits in education tax set aside by the government for the advancement of education in Ni-

geria.

This exemption cost the country a whopping $141 (about N27.8 billion).

The third component of the exemptions which was difficult to come by the accurate data, covered allowances the partners got from government each time they

bought equipment, which were allowed to roll over to periods not covered by the status regime.

Details of the loss through the tax arrangement showed that the Nigerian government lost a minimum of $1,668 (about N328.6 billion) in revenues through the share of tax paid by Shell BV for

the period.

Another $977 million (about N192.5 billion) was lost through Total, in addition to $677 million about (N133.4 billion) through ENI, based on calculations from the NLNG annual accounts.

During the tax exemption period, the NLNG had calculated

what its tax benefits from interest costs and capital allowances would have been if it had paid Company Income Tax, CIT. \ However, these deductible cost items were forwarded in NLNG’s balance sheet, by deducting its reservoir of deferred tax assets from its CIT payments.

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IDPs: Dangote flags off distribution of food items for Ramadan CONTINUED ON PAGE B1

Dangote choose to stand with people that are less privileged, the internally displaced persons thereby depicting his love for the common man.

“We remain eternally indebted to his foundation for the show of support in this trying period of our states and we will ensure that the N2 billion donation he made to the state is judiciously used in the area of health care, education and resettlement of IDPs.” The Governor also prayed for the return of enduring peace to Borno, Northeast and Nigeria at large.

Executive Secretary, State Emergency Management Agency, (SEMA), Engr Satomi Ahmed in his remarks applauded Dangote for his “passion for the less privileged and commitment to economic growth and development of Nigeria.”

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M.D. Dangote Foundation, Zouera Youssoufou, (Right) Presenting Food Items to one of The Beneficiary with A Bag of Rice (Left) While Borno State Governor (Middle) Alhaji Kashim Shettima, At The Distribution of Dangote Foundation Donate Foods Items for Ramadan to (IDP) Internal Displays People of Bakkasi Camp in Maiduguri Borno State … on Monday.

Medview dares foreign airlines to invest in Nigeria ƑƊƓƑƆƌƆƊƆ 9ƓƆƋƑ ƌ Managing director of Medview Airlines, Alhaji Muneer Bankole have challenged foreign airlines operating into the country not to move money out of the country totally but to put investments in the country that would improving their standing with the locals through creating of jobs and not just be portfolio airlines This is just as he dismissed claims making rounds in the media about major foreign airlines operating into the country’s plan

Maritime Security, responsibility of all government agenciesPeterside Ƅ ƉƈƗƆ RƊƆ Ɠ

The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA); Dr.Dakuku Peterside has said that maritime security is a responsibility of all government agencies while calling for closer synergy and intelligence sharing to foster the economic prosperity of Nigeria.

The DG said this when the Comptroller, Lagos Seaports and Marine Command of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) Mrs.Modupe Anyalechi paid him

to exit due to hard conditions describing it as claptrap since Nigeria is some of their most viable route.

The Medview CEO made this known when he took delivery of the airline’s Boeing 737-500 which went through a comprehensive C-Check noted that while plying their trade internationally Medview has put investment in country that employ the locals there and there is nothing wrong if airlines flying to Nigeria do same.

He said, ”You see the foreign airlines need to learn somethingthey are doing business in Ni-

geria, they must be reasonable to be putting investment in our country. They should not come here to say they must be moving money totally and that is the game. We (indigenous airlines) are in another country, I am in Saudi Arabia, I invest money, I have an office, I have a property, and I employed Saudi nationals. “ “So they should be able to create a window for employment.

Nigeria has been nice to them, they can’t find it in other countries. We give them over $200million when Nigerian airlines are groaning with nothing in their

hands. We are not complaining for now but let the government understand that, that is why you have to enhance the capacity of your own airlines so that your people create more jobs for your people.”

On the news that airlines were leaving the country Bankole noted that some airlines that know what they were doing were not busy playing mind games about leaving but were sticking to their business as the Nigerian route has been quite viable for them.

He said,” I will rather tell you not to be afraid of that. None (for-

eign airlines) are going anywhere because this is one of their major markets worldwide. I can tell you.

You see that Emirates is not singing any word. Not all of them are singing, the few ones probably are not marketing very well.”

The Medview boss who was also one of the Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) members to visit the Minister last week asked him to bring to the notice of the president, the value of aviation as an economic driver, stating that the role of airlines in economic development cannot be downplayed.

a familiarization visit also acknowledged that no government agency can successfully perform this function alone.

Describing the functions of both government bodies as economic gate keepers towards ensuring safety and security, Dr. Peterside further expressed the readiness of NIMASA to work closely with the NIS to actualize its mandates.

“Security is not the responsibility of any one government Agency, hence the need for synergy and collaboration between relevant government bodies. The interest of the country must be placed above individual interest as such we must be willing to share ideas and information in this partnership”, the DG told his guest.

IITA-CWMP targets 11, 000 farmers in Nigeria

Ï1ƆƐ ƍƍƏ ƒ Ƌ Ƈ Ə ǀƤ éƇ Əƌ ƐƏƈ Ƌ 9 ƅ ƄƆƏ The Steering Committee of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture-managed Cassava Weed Management Project (IITACWMP) is set to engender several farm training initiatives for 11,000 Nigerians across the country. In line with this development, the institute has approved the establishment of 58 on-farm trials across Nigeria for the 2016 farming season.

The plan is to reach, through the on-farm trials, at least 11 000 farmers with a basket of weed control

options, and offer farmers the opportunity to by themselves choose weed control methods that best suit their locality and address their needs.

This decision was part of the resolutions and recommendations from the 2016 Steering Committee meeting held in IITA, Ibadan, 28-29 April 2016.

Prof John Ayoade, a Deputy Vice Chancellor from the University of Agriculture Makurdi, who chaired the meeting on behalf of the Executive Director of the National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI), Umudike, Dr. Julius

Okonkwo, said the on-farm trials would validate the two-year results obtained from research stations.

The on-farm trials will involve farmers from Benue, Abia, Oyo and Ogun states on different aspects of weed control including the use of motorized mechanical weeders, best-bet agronomic practices including correct spacing, improved variety, cassava/maize intercrop, use of fertilizers and tillage practices, and the use of environmentally friendly herbicides.

Each on-farm trial is about one and half acres and will be researchermanaged.

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Providus Bank to begin operation as commercial bank

ACCESS BANK

L-R, Vice President, Mobile Commerce, Airtel Nigeria, Femi Oshinlaja; Executive Director, Personal Banking, Access Bank, Victor Etuokwu; winner of new Hyundai i10 , HND 1 Computer Engineering student of Lagos State Polytechnic, Abdulrazak Ayinde with Director of Strategy, Airtel, Tenu Awoonor during the Smart Savers prize presentation held in Lagos on Thursday.

Budget deficit: Use intended loan for developmental projects, experts task FG Stories by Motolani Oseni As the federal government (FG) continues to look for means to mitigate effects of the sharp drop in its oil revenue in order to finance the deficit in the 2016 budget, industry experts have called on the government to ensure that all sourced funds are used for developmental projects, so as to swiftly grow the economy.

The Nigerian economy is in no doubt inching towards recession due to dwindling global oil prices which contributes about 70 percent of the nation’s revenues, coupled with incessant acceleration in the year-on year inflation to the highest in six years, inability of

some State governments to pay salaries and the continual drop in Gross Domestic Product (GDP), among many other mind boggling factors.

However, the Federal Government has said it will raise a total sum of N2.5trillion for its 2016 budget deficit through effective tax revenue, local and international borrowing, which is in a move to ensure full implementation of this year budget.

Speaking with the Daily Times of Nigeria in Lagos, the Group Managing Director, Courteville Business Solutions Plc, Mr. Adebola Akindele, said, “They have come out themselves to say

not all part of the budget can be realistically implemented, what I know is that regardless of whether a deficit budget or not, elementary economics says that when you have deficit budgeted it will work, if the borrowing is used to fund developmental projects.

According to him, what I can assure and believed very strongly that this current government regime will do. They will not waste funds, they may not get the economy fully right but they will not filter away funds.

“If deficit financing is a challenge, we can only pray that it is applied and has we’ve seen, they have adjusted the recurrent to capital expenditure pattern of

the past into something a lot more convenient for developmental growth.

“You’ve seen some State doing a lot of work in the area of capital expenditure; we are hoping that when the funds for the budget are being released, they will go towards kinds of developmental projects that they are met to addressed”, Akindele explained.

The Special Adviser to the President on Economic Matters, Dr. Adeyemi Dipeolu, in Lagos recently disclosed that there are indications that drop in the global oil prices will stay for long, and for government to power the 2016 budget will need significant contributions from taxation.

Providus Bank Plc has been granted a commercial banking licence with regional authorisation by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), according to information on the apex bank’s website..

Although the circular did not give further details about the promoters of the new bank, it disclosed that the financial institution has its head office in Lagos.

Also listed was Suntrust Bank Limited, which obtained its licence as a regional bank last year.

Mr. Muhammad Jibrin Barde, managing director/chief executive officer of the bank, had explained that the financial institution achieved the feat having met the stringent conditions set by the CBN. He stated that SunTrust Bank will be formally presented to the public in the first quarter of 2016.

“I am excited to announce that the CBN granted its final approval to SunTrust Bank Nigeria Limited to operate as a commercial bank with regional authorisation on September 17, 2015, one year two months after application.

This is indeed a remarkable feat as ours is the only fresh licence to be issued by the CBN since 2001.

The list of banks and financial holding companies also showed that the country has 10 commercial banks with international licence.

They are Access Bank, Diamond Bank, Fidelity Bank, First City Monument Bank, FirstBankof Nigeria, Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, Skye Bank, Union Bank, United Bank for Africa Plc and Zenith Bank Plc. On the other hand, the banks with national banking licence are Citibank Nigeria, Ecobank Nigeria, Heritage Bank, Keystone Bank, Stanbic IBTC, Standard Chartered Bank, Sterling Bank, Unity Bank and Wema Bank.

CBN’s N3b entrepreneurship initiative to empower 1500 youth through Heritage Bank Heritage Bank’s partnership with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in the N3billion Youth Innovative Entrepreneurship Development Programme (YIEDP) to empower young graduates has kicked into its second phase with the invitation of over 1500 applicants for a training workshop this week.

Following the inauguration of the initiative by the CBN and the subsequent launch of a business application portal by Heritage Bank in March this year, not less than 4000

applications have been received.

Out of this number, 1,547 candidates, representing the first batch of possible beneficiaries of soft loans for their business ideas, have been shortlisted to report for a 3-day business development training workshop, which will be conducted across CBN Enterprise Development Centres in the six geopolitical zones.

According to a statement from the Corporate Communications Department of Heritage Bank, the shortlisted candidates will be con-

1,547

Representing the first batch of possible beneficiaries of soft loans

tacted via SMS and Email on the details and modalities of the CBNEDC training.

After the training workshop, which is to herald the third phase of the programme, each participant will be required to write a comprehensive and viable business plan, submit on the application portal for the Business Review Committee to screen, review and select the eligible and viable business for YIEDP funding.

Commenting on the welcome development, the Managing Director

of the bank, Mr. Ife Sekibo, restated that the aim of Heritage Bank being in the forefront of youth empowerment is to emancipate the latent entrepreneurial spirit in the teeming youths, by providing adequate and affordable loans to execute their business ideas and, hopefully, migrate them to successful Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), thereby, providing the mechanism of stimulating growth, reducing unemployment as well as addressing youth restiveness in the economy.

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Market Breadth Turns Positive Market Sentiment was positive at 3.3x as 33 stocks gained while 10 shed points. Top gainers were NEM (+9.5%), GUARANTY (+7.8%), FCMB (+7.7%), SKYEBANK (+7.1%) and TRANSCORP (+6.6%) while UPL (-5.0%), GLAXOSMITH (-4.9%), ETI (-4.7%), NEIMETH (-4.7%) and CUTIX (-4.2%) led losers. We expect the bullish sentiment to be sustained in the sessions ahead as domestic investors position in advance of the official take-off of the liberalized FX market on Monday which is expected to attract portfolio investors. Whilst we view the new development in the FX market positive in aiding price discovery in the FX market as well as reducing pressures on public finances and the external reserves; the caveat on maintaining the list of “banned”41 items will continue to make the parallel market thrive.

Nevertheless, the moderation in FX risk, which hitherto had been obscuring valuation of assets in the economy, will unlock more value for equity investors, especially in Banking and Consumer Goods counters.

Ticker NEM GUARANTY FCMB SKYEBANK TRANSCORP UBA DIAMONDBNK FBNH ZENITHBANK GUINNESS

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Sector Indices Performance Mixed All sector indices closed positive yesterday in line with the strong appetite witnessed across board. The Banking Index led advancers with a 4.0% appreciation consequent on buy sentiment on Tier-1 lenders - GUARANTY (+7.8%), ZENITH (+5.4%) and UBA (+6.5%) - while the Industrial Goods index (+2.8%) followed at a distance with DANGCEM (+5.0%) the major mover of the index. The Consumer Goods index gained 2.4% as investors positioned in blue-chip brewers - NIGERIAN BREWERIES (+4.5%) and GUINNESS (+5.0%).

The Oil & Gas index rallied 1.1% on the back of renewed appetite towards OANDO (+5.0%) while the Insurance Index recorded the smallest gain (+0.6%); NEM (+9.5%) and AIICO (+3.9%) drove the index.

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Equities Rally as the CBN Blinks on FX Policy O rebounded from a 3-day losing streak to close at its highest Nigerian equities point in June-2016 as the CBN announced a new foreign exchange policy guideline with improved flexibility. The market initially opened on a high note as investors anticipated the CBN’s guideline but dipped at mid-day before closing bullish subsequent to the press briefing of the CBN Governor.

The benchmark All Share Index (ASI) surged 3.2% to close at 27,891.96 points, bringing MTD return to 0.8% and paring YTD losses to -2.6%. Market capitalization added N294.6bn to N9.6tn while market activity was equally strong with volume and value traded advancing 244.7% and 43.4% to 588.4m units and N3.5bn respectively.

Macroeconomic Gist The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria held a press briefing yesterday in which he gave some insight into the guidelines for the proposed introduction of some flexibility in the FX market. Some key highlights from the statement indicate that there will now be a single FX market which will be operated through the Interbank and the FX rate will be purely market driven. In addition, trading under the new th

guidelines will begin on Monday, 20 June 2016.

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Anticipated release of guidelines on forex policy drives stocks northward Afolabi Adesola The Nigerian equities market yesterday surged by 3.17 percent following investors anticipation on the release of the Forex Policy Guidelines by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. The CBN has however said it will allow the naira exchange rate to be market-driven, setting the stage for a devaluation of the currency when the new system comes into effect June 20.

“The Central Bank of Nigeria will select a group of around 10 primary dealers through which the naira will be traded. There will only be one exchange rate and the bank will intervene in the market “as the need arises,” CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele told reporters in Abuja on Wednesday.

Following this, lead indicator of the NSE- the All Share Index (ASI) added 857.91 points to close at 27, 891.96 points while Market capitalization gained N294.6 billion to close at N9.579 trillion compared to a loss of N23.8 billion recorded on Tuesday to close at N9.284 trillion.

All sectoral Indices of the NSE likewise closed positive except the NSE ASeM Index which closed flat.

Market Breadth closed with 33 gainers to 10 losers. NEM Plc led the gainers for the second consecutive day following an appre-

ciation of 9.52 percent or 10 kobo to close at N1.15 per share, GUARANTY followed with a gain of 7.78 percent or N1.44 to close at N19.95 per share, while FCMB increased by 7.69 percent or 12 kobo to close at N1.68 per share. SKYEBANK and TRANSCORP appreciated by 7.14 and 6.62 percent or 8 and 9 kobo to close at N1.20 and N1.45 per share respectively.

Conversely, UPL Plc led the days losers following a depreciation of 4.99 percent or 22 kobo in its share value to close at N4.19 per share, GSK Plc lost 4.87 percent or 80 kobo to close at N15.64 per share while NEIMETH and ETI Plc dropped 4.65 percent or 4 and 80 kobo each to close at 82 kobo and N16.40 per share respectively. Cutix Plc fell 4.24 percent or 7 kobo to close at N1.58 per share.

The financial services sector retained dominance in trading activity as three top traders in volume terms for the day were UBA which traded 197.2 million shares worth N million, Skye Bank which sold 74.6 million shares worth N28.7 million and FCMB which exchanged 54.5 million shares valued at N15.4 million.

At the end of the day’s transactions, investors in 5,088 deals had exchanged 588.4 million shares worth N3.5 billion compared to a total of 170.7 million shares worth N2.4 billion traded in 3,153 deals previously.

DOROTHY UDEME UFOT

NSE to announce re-composition of Market Indices next week The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has announced the expected review of the NSE 30, and the six sectoral indices of the Exchange, which are NSE Consumer Goods, NSE Banking, NSE Insurance, NSE Industrial, NSE Oil & Gas and the NSE Lotus Islamic Indices.

The NSE in a statement made available to Daily Times said the “composition of these indices after the review will be effective on July 1, 2016. With the review, we will witness the entry/re-entry as well as exit of some major companies” adding that the list of the actual incoming and outgoing companies will be announced on June 24, 2016.

The Nigerian bourse began publishing the NSE 30 Index in February 2009 with index values available from January 1, 2007. On July

1, 2008, the NSE developed four sectoral indices with a base value of 1,000 points, designed to provide investable benchmarks to capture the performance of specific sectors.

The sectoral indices comprise the top fifteen most capitalized and liquid companies in the Insurance and Consumer Goods sectors, top ten most capitalized and liquid companies in the Banking and Industrial Goods sector and the top seven most capitalized and liquid companies in the Oil & Gas sector.

In July 2012, the Nigerian bourse launched The NSE Lotus Islamic index (NSE LII) which consists of companies whose business practices are in conformity with Shari’ah investment principles, with the aim of increasing the breadth of the market and creating an important benchmark for

investments as the alternative ethical and noninterest investment space widened. The companies that appear on the Islamic Index have been thoroughly screened by Lotus Capital Halal Investment, in accordance with a methodology approved by an internationally recognized Shari’ah Advisory Board comprising of renowned Islamic scholars.

Summary of activities on NSE ASI DEALS VOLUME VALUE CAP

27,891.96 5,088.00 588,427,400.00 3,477,117,063.67 9,579,479,066,633.23

Udeme Ufot appointed Dangote Cement director Dangote Cement Plc. (DCP) has appointed Mrs. Dorothy Udeme Ufot, SAN, as an independent Non-Executive Director.

Mrs. Ufot is the managing partner of Dorothy Ufot & Co, a firm of Legal Practitioners and Arbitrators which she founded in 1994.

A statement issued by DCP said that the company “is optimistic that her legal skills and business insights will strongly enhance the company’s governance.

Mrs. Ufot has been a member

of the Governing Council of the Nigerian Stock Exchange and chaired its Rules and Adjudication Committee. She also served as a Non-Executive Director of several well known companies including: Chevron Oil Nigeria Plc; MRS Oil Nigeria Plc, and SO&U Ltd, a leading advertising and media relations company.

Ms Ufot has more than 26 years experience in commercial litigation at trial and appellate levels, having been admitted to the Nigerian Bar in 1989 and then admitted to the Inner Bar as a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) in April 2009, qualifying as a chartered arbitrator from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators London in 2003.

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Briefs Mustapha Akinwunmi, Oyebode, others for AFWN manufacturing conference Africa Fashion Week Nigeria (AFWN) will hold the inaugural edition of textile and garment manufacturing conference on Friday, 1st July 2016, at the Eko Hotel & Suites in Lagos.

The conference aims to redefine textile and garment production as well as its entire value chain in order to boost job creation and a future of shared prosperity for Nigerians. The theme of the conference which is the primary activity on the opening day of the 2016 edition of the Africa Fashion Week Nigeria show will hold under the theme: Making Nigeria the fashion production hub of Africa.

It will host fashion entrepreneurs, development finance institutions, and textile industry groups, among others, and will feature speakers that include Dr. Mustapha Akinwunmi, Commis-

sioner for Finance, Lagos State and Mr. Akin Oyebode, Executive Secretary, Lagos State Employment Trust Fund, and Mr. Dapo Adelegan, President, NigerianBritish Chamber of Commerce.

Speaking on the conference, Founder, Africa Fashion Week Nigeria & London, Ronke Ademiluyi, said the conference was necessitated by the abysmal performance of the textile industry. “It is ironic that the textile manufacturing sector which played a major role in boosting the nation’s economy and accelerating her development pace is at an all-time low. This is why Africa Fashion Week Nigeria is bringing industry stakeholders together to deliberate and strategize on how to get the sector which once provided employment to millions of Nigerians fully operational again.”

Maltina Teacher Award has turned me to a celebrity – Rose Obi

chance to interact with my fellow teachers, organize workshop and being called to address large gathering in other to tell teachers what am doing, in terms of classroom management and teaching methodology,” she said.

Assessing the impact of the award one year after, Obi, a master’s degree holder, whose mum was also a teacher said: “I have succeeded in shifting from a traditional method of teaching to a discussion-based methodology.

The strategy brings about a synergy between what happens in the classroom and what happens inreal life. It brings out analytical skills from students.

“I am following my mum’s footsteps; my mum was a teacher, and I also have passion to bring out the best from students. Give them the best training and get them prepared to enter the workforce of the country.

From an obscure Parent Teacher Association, PTA teacher on a N17, 000 monthly salary, Mrs. Rose Nkemdilim Obi, the 2015 Maltina Teacher of the Year, has revealed that the award has turned her life round for good.

Mrs. Obi, a Mathematics and Chemistry teacher at Federal Government Girls Secondary School, Onitsha, Anambra State explained that the award has elevated her to the level of a celebrity. “I never knew it would happen that way but the interesting part of it is the opportunities and the doors it has opened for me. I also have the

B7 Brands & Marketing

APCON set to hold International Advertising Summit Stories by Godwin Anyebe All over the world, advertising practitioners are experiencing immense transformation within the industry, brought about by rapid changes both in technology and consumer behaviour. These changes present many evolving challenges and opportunities.

As such, advertisers, content publishers, media owners, agencies, regulators and other stakeholders must be able to make informed decisions to address these challenges whilst taking full advantage of the opportunities.

It is in the light of this that the Advertising Practitioners

NIGERIAN BREWERIES

Council of Nigeria (APCON), in partnership with BSP Media International, presents a 2-Day International Summit on Advertising in Nigeria, to showcase current advances and emerging trends in advertising practices and standards. In addition the Summit will explore the relationship between current and future media platforms and how industry professionals can successfully seek to leverage these.

Speaking to newsmen recently in Lagos, the registrar of APCON, Alhaji Bello Kankarofi disclosed that, “over the years, we have exerted a lot of energy and attention in living up to our mandates and expectations of our various stake-

holders in these two focal areas, even in the face of daunting challenges, especially financial constraints and absence of adequate institutional supports. We have managed to deal with these challenges through various fora of partnerships and collaborations, which have helped us achieve the level of success we have recorded to date.”

According to him, “the two day high-level industry summit which will take place on the 7th and 8th of July in Lagos will explore new business models, strategies, technologies and solutions for the advertising industry with a focus on the future and its digital ecosystem.”

L-R: Sikiru Ayinde Agboola(a.k.a SK Sensation), Chairman, National Project Committee of the FujiMusicians Association of Nigeria; Emmanuel Agu, Portfolio Manager, MainstreamLager & Stout Brands; Nigerian Breweries Plc; and OlawaleObadeyi, a notable Fuji analyst and Poet; at the maiden Fuji Roundtable, powered by Goldberg Lager Beer, an event held atthe headquarters of NB in Lagos recently

9ice, Hip hop musician predicts brighter future for Fuji

9ice

Popular Nigerian Hip Hop musician, Abolore Adegbola Adigun (a.k.a 9ice) has stated that the future of Fuji music is bright with so many opportunities abound for stakeholders. He therefore, advised stakeholders to remain committed to the ideals of the music.

9icce, who spoke at the maiden edition of Fuji Roundtable, powered by Goldberg Lager Beer, a product from the stable of Nigerian Breweries Plc, commended the initiative which was the first of its kind in the history of the en-

tertainment industry in Nigeria.

Impressed by the contributions made by participants at the event held at the headquarters of the Nigerian Breweries, recently in Lagos, 9ice applauded the quality of the audience present and their contributions at the forum towards taking Fuji to the next level. The musician said the initiative could not have come at a better time than now.

In his opening remarks at the programme, Emmanuel Agu, Portfolio Manager, Mainstream Lager and Stout brands, Nigerian

Breweries Plc; said the importance of music to any country cannot be over-emphasised. According to him, the role of music in nation building is monumental as it fuels the mind and the creativity of listeners.

His words: “Music transcends all boundaries of communication. Music and its rhythm define our humanity considering the universality and essentiality beyond language barrier. I believe it is important for one to have an open mind in order to be in touch with that sense of understanding.

Music cannot be separated from our socio-cultural life and as such it is a social connector which has the power to suggest circumstances, moods, and moments. It has general appeal to human senses.”

Agu said that Fuji music exerts a strong influence on the social life of the Yorubas. He stated that through the music foreigners can easily feel and connect with the culture of the Yoruba people. The influence that Fuji music exerts on the social life of the Yorubas is therefore very strong irrespective of their locations.

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Kia Motors ranks highest among popular brands in 2016 AVS Awards Stories by Chukwuemeke Iwelunmo Kia Motors ranked highest among all popular brands in the 2016 AutoPacific Vehicle Satisfaction Awards (VSA) and placed fifth overall in the industry – ahead of luxury

brands such as Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Porsche. In addition, three of Kia’s world-class vehicles – the 2016 Soul, Optima and Sedona (known as ‘Grand Carnival’ in some countries) – were named segment winners in the VSAs, which identify the most satisfying cars and automotive brands in the market.

“AutoPacific’s Vehicle Satisfaction Awards have become an industry benchmark for measuring how satisfied owners are with their new vehicles, and we are thrilled to see the incredibly high level of satisfaction our customers are experiencing with our vehicles,” said Orth Hedrick, vice president of product

planning, Kia Motors America.

“The Soul, Optima and Sedona are all expertly crafted vehicles and represent just how far the Kia brand has come.”

AutoPacific’s VSAs identify the most satisfying vehicles for sale in the U.S. market and assist new-car buyers in making informed vehicle purchase de-

cisions. The results are based on responses to over 65,000 surveys completed by owners of new, model year 2015 and 2016 vehicles. The survey measures owner satisfaction through numerous attributes ranging from interior comfort and convenience to fuel economy and performance.

NAMA seeks incentives for auto makers, urges govt. to shun critics Auto makers in the country, under the aegis of Nigeria Automotive Manufacturers Association (NAMA), have advised the Federal Government not to succumb to detractors and naysayers seeking to circumvent renewed efforts to resuscitate domestic production of automobiles in the country.

The association has also urged government to urgently demonstrate its conviction that support of the auto policy is good for the country by reassuring investors that government is a continuum that wouldn’t dump policies for the sake of Change.

Chairman of NAMA, Mr. Tokunbo Aromolaran, gave this advice in Lagos at an appraisal of President Mohammadu Buhariled government’s incentives to the automotive industry oneyear after being sworn-in.

He said: We are forced to believe that government is being distracted by naysayers and interested parties who wish to slowdown the progress in the sector. And these are people who have benefited from trading and are now feeding government with negative reports and holding back the pace of development of the industry.

The National Automotive Industry Development Plan (NAIDP) was inaugurated three years ago and has resultantly paved the way for foreign direct investments with more than 12 entrepreneurs injecting funds estimated at several billions of naira.

Aromolaran urged government to determine the strategic industries going by the National Industrial Revolution Plan and work out incentives and strategy to accelerate the successful take-off of the companies.

Forland truck assembled in Enugu

by TSS is already on duty for NIPOST

Diageo and UNITAR sign strategic partnership agreement on road safety Diageo Plc, the parent company of Guinness Nigeria Plc, and a global leader in the beverage alcohol industry, and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) have signed a two-year partnership agreement to collaborate to build institutional

and individual capacity to reduce traffic death and injuries, and improve road safety globally.

In total, road traffic injuries from all causes claim more than 1.2 million lives each year and have a disproportionately large impact on health and development. UNITAR

and Diageo are committed to act on road safety, and specifically to prevent drink driving.

Scheduled to start in July 2016, training will be run in 15 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin and Central America, with a focus on countries with the highest death rates related to road traffic accidents.

Over 60 countries will be invited to participate. The training activities will reach approximately 6,000 participants who will be a mix of government officials, young people, and other relevant stakeholders, through training workshops for government officials at the national and local levels, awareness-raising road shows for young people and high-level conferences on the issue.

Diageo was selected as a partner for a two-year partnership entitled “Road Safety Initiative for Cities” due to the company’s strong track record in supporting programmes and policies to address drink driving. Diageo has a long history of working to reduce alcohol-related

fatalities and crashes and supports numerous drink drive prevention programmes around the world.

These range from supporting high visibility enforcement through random breath tests in countries such as Ghana, Mexico and China, to funding safe rides and free public transportation, and supporting laws to establish maximum blood alcohol concentration levels in countries where none exist.

Commenting at the signing of the partnership agreement, Mr. Nikhil Seth, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and Executive Director of UNITAR, said: “I am looking forward to bring to fruition this new initiative between the United Nations and Diageo. Achieving the 2030 Development Agenda and its different goals will only be possible through innovative partnerships with the private sector such as this one, where different stakeholders join forces to reach specific beneficiaries and targets by sharing their respective expertise and resources.

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Gentry Mercy Aigbe Nollywood Diva cum fashion icon

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What I have done differently with my second marriage

-Mercy Aigbe

Gentry

Nollywood actress, Mercy Aigbe, is one of the big fishes in the Yoruba movie sector. Her impeccable sense of style has earned her a celebrity status in the entertainment industry as a whole and a house hold name nationally. Perhaps in a bid to stay relevant in her craft or for the love of art as the case might be, this year, the actress premiered her latest movie, ‘Victim,’ to loud ovation. In this interview with MUTIAT ALLI, the amiable mother opened on her marriage, passion, and personal style among others. Enjoy… beauty regime like?

What is style to you?

Style to me is a personal thing. It’s a way of expressing yourself especially the way you dress. I always say one thing; look the way you want to be addressed. Style is a way of expressing yourself. And to me it comes naturally. I have this thing about me, when I put this and this together, it turns out good and people will always compliment me for it. And to me style is about comfort. You have to be comfortable with what you are wearing. When you’ve passed a certain age, there are certain kinds of clothes you shouldn’t be wearing.

For a celebrity, it’s strange to know that you’re can talk about aging freely?

Why not? But I think you should age gracefully, slide into it, age beautifully. I for one, I’m not scared of aging but with age you should know what is appropriate for you.

There are some clothes you should wear when you get to a certain age and there are some you shouldn’t wear at a certain age.

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You don’t look your age. What is your

Entertainment Correspondent Mutiat Alli

That’s what everybody has been saying (laughs). Like for real that’s what everybody is saying. A lot of people are like Mercy, you don’t look your age. You look way younger than your age. And a lot of people when they get to meet my daughter, they are like, are you sure she is your daughter and all that. And I just smile and my head grows big, getting all those compliments. But as for my beauty regime, I feel I’ve been blessed.

So it’s a genetic thing?

Yeah, I will say so because my mother doesn’t look her age so also my grandmother. But aside the fact that it’s a genetic thing, I believe it’s a blessing also. God has blessed me and I also take care of myself. I go for facials.

I exfoliate. I just pamper myself. I love myself and I feel since I work very hard I should also take care of myself.

Talking about working hard, a colleague of yours said you are one actress that loves to work even when you were heavily pregnant you still worked…

Society Correspondent Abimbola Obatayo

Photography Quadri Olowolagba

Graphics Daniel Ekiye

The thing is that I love my job with a passion. My job makes me very happy. When am in front of the camera, I come alive. I’m happy when I’m working. Sometimes, when I’m back home for like two weeks and I’m not back to location, I feel like, oh God! I need to go back to location. It’s just something that I derive a lot of joy from.

Then aside that, I’m very hard working. I like to make my own money. There is this pride that comes with making your own money.

Fine, my husband is okay and all that but there is this joy when I’m spending my own money. And also, I like when I buy things for my kids with my personal money not all the time daddy bought you this or daddy bought you that. Some people may want to call it pride, it’s not pride. But there is this satisfaction with you making your own money.

So it’s true that you work till you are heavily pregnant, like eight months?

No I don’t work still am eight month pregnant but I

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L3 Interview

‘When I’m in front of the camera, I come alive’ Continued from L2 think I stopped working when I was seven months pregnant and I was forced to stop working I must tell you. My husband had to call my mother to say,” if anything happens to my child? I don’t know what your daughter is looking for? She has not asked me for anything and I said no, so I really don’t know what she’s looking for. He had to plead with me that, “sweetheart, please you need to stop working”.

So I had to stop. But truth is I enjoyed working while pregnant because while I was pregnant, my tummy wasn’t all that big. I was really fine when I was pregnant, I must tell you. I could actually play a lot of roles, hiding my baby bum under some clothing, so I went on and on and on until my husband stopped me.

prayer the foundation of my marriage. So I’ve just taken everything to God and in my own little way, I’m trying to be the best woman my husband can ever wish for.

After you had your last child, how long did it take you to go back on set?

I think when my son was two or three months. I was so bored at home. But I got myself busy going to the gym but I couldn’t wait to get back on location.

What’s the craziest thing a fan has done to you?

I remember an occasion a guy came up to me and I was with my husband, and he asked me to sign on his chest. I was so embarrassed.

But did you sign it?

You once said that you wished your second marriage was actually your first. Can you shed more light on it?

Yes because I married to a very wonderful person and I’ve always been this kind of girl that believes that it’s how you want your life to be that’s how your life will be. I didn’t know that there is something called fate. I didn’t know that fate can actually twist.... at the end of the day, it twisted it for good but it’s always a regret because that is not how you actually wanted it. I would have just loved to marry my present husband and have my kids but it’s okay.

What’s your staying power?

Like I’ve been saying, I love my job with a passion. When you love what you’re doing, will always want to get better and better. You will always want to do research to make you improve in what you are doing. I love my job and I also have a very understanding man.

It’s takes you to have a very understanding man for you to do this job as a married woman. You understand? I have a wonderful man who supports under any circumstances because he knows I love my job. I think my passion and my love for the job has been my staying power.

There is the notion that actresses don’t keep homes. What’s your take and how have you managed to keep yours?

The thing is that marital problems are not peculiar to the entertainment industry.

It’s everywhere. Marriages these days are not like those days. A lot of things that our mothers took and our fathers took, we women and men of these days will not take it. So, it’s not peculiar to entertainers. What I have done in this is my second shot at it is that I’ve taken it to God. I believe that marriage is a union ordained

by Go and I’ve decided to take my marriage to God so that He would actually help me. I think He’s the only one who can give me the grace because the Bible says a wise woman builds her home and that wisdom actually comes from God. It’s not easy. It’s not easy. It takes a lot of patience and prayer. I’ve made

Mercy Aigbe

No, I didn’t. I just kept laughing and laughing, I just couldn’t do it.

I love watching movies and taking my kids out.

language. So it allowed me to speak the three languages I love so much. And Osas was the major comedy character I played.

I never knew I could be funny. Yes, then I did Papa Ajasco’s wife and that was where I actually got inspired to do my movie.

What was the last movie you watched?

When it comes to acting, do you have any limitations?

What’s that movie called? I can’t remember. When I’m home, I just watch films with my kids.

Yes I do. I can never act nude. And it doesn’t even come with the job. You chose to.

Among several roles you played, what is that role that is so dear to your heart?

How would you describe Mercy Aigbe?

How do you unwind?

I think it’s my movie, Osas. You ask why?

That movie allowed me to actually speak my Benin Language, speak the Pidgin language. I love to speak Pidgin Language.

It also allowed me to speak Yoruba

I’m a very nice person; I’m not blowing my trumpet. I’m very humble. I’m very playful. A lot of people know that about me.

And I’m very hard working. And I don’t take nonsense.

Music Gist L4

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Mutiat Alli

Planet TV launches on DStv It’s more fun for DStv subscribers this June as youth lifestyle, music and entertainment channel, Planet TV comes to DStv channel 328 from 14 June 2016. Planet TV will be available to Premium, Compact Plus, Compact, Family and Access subscribers.

The range of programming from Planet TV will include exciting lifestyle and general entertainment content ranging from movies, music, and series from South, West Africa and from the international scene. Planet TV joins a rich line-up of channels that give DStv subscribers a boost in entertainment programming.

The channel airs nine hours of live interactive content daily, ranging from request shows to game shows, health and beauty documentaries, to travel and lifestyle programs.

Managing Director MultiChoice Nigeria, John Ugbe said the addition of Planet TV is another way the company is adding value to its subscribers and broadening their choices for quality entertainment.

“We are pleased to announce the addition of Planet TV to all our DStv bouquets. We know that our subscribers will find the channel engaging with its exciting and interactive programmes which are mostly made up of content from the African continent.

We always look for ways to enhance our services by introducing fresh content that will cater to the needs and preferences of our subscribers; providing them with the ultimate solution to home television entertainment”, he said.

All our shows are interactive and entertaining with huge viewer engagement”, said Mabel Mabaso, CEO, Planet TV on the uniqueness of the channel.

John Ogbe

Project fame West Africa auditions begin By: Abimbola Obatayo The Award winning music talent discovery and grooming competition, MTN Project Fame West Africa, is back for the ninth straight season with the tag, ‘Fame Lives Here’. Looking for raw talents, the annual show will commence auditions on Saturday, June 18, 2016 in some West African major cities and rest the auditions in Lagos on the 1st and 2nd July, 2016 .

This year, thousands of young talents will fight to get into the prestigious Project Fame Academy, where superstars are made, to be tutored by the best in the music and entertainment industry.

According to Olumide Akinlabi, who spoke on behalf of Ultima Studios, he said that auditions would be held in different states in Nigeria as well as Ghana. He further noted that auditions in Ghana and Ibadan will take place on the 18th of June 2016, while Port Harcourt and Abuja will be 25th of June, then Lagos State will crown it all on the 1st and 2nd of July 2016 respectively.

Late OJB and Wife, Mabel

I don’t regret donating my kidney to my late husband - OJB’s wife It will be recalled that In 2013, when OJB, whose real name was Babatunde Jezreel Okungbowa, was diagnosed of kidney failure, his first wife, Mabel Babatunde Okungbowa, fondly called ‘Mama J‘, came to his rescue by donating one of her kidneys to save her husband’s life.

That decision is one she says she doesn’t regret despite the death of her husband earlier on Tuesday.

In an exclusive chat, Mabel narrated OJB’s last moments, saying: ‘It wasn’t really dramatic, it was just the normal signs we see when he’s about going for his dialysis but this time he was in a lot of pains and I was by his side

all through”.

She continued: ‘This was all so sudden because we were still speaking about plans for his 50th birthday over the weekend’.

When asked how she feels about donating her kidney to him three years ago, she said: ‘I don’t regret it, I did it because I wanted to. I wasn’t forced to do it. After all, he’s my husband, so I don’t regret it’.

However, if the late musician was alive, his Surulere’s home would have been sold for a whooping sum of N40 million.

Burna Boy set to celebrate grandfather, Benson Idonije’s 80th birthday in style All is set to celebrate the legend, Benson Idonije, who clocked 80 on June 13, 2016. A four-day lineup of activities has been scheduled in honour of the octogenarian who is a distinguished broadcaster, music promotions manager and a revered music critic.

Benson Idonije started his career in the 50s at the Ikoyi Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, after his study at the Yaba College of Technology. He soon moved on to bigger achievements first as an On-Air personality and later on, as the first manager of the legendary Fela Anikulapo Kuti.

From 1960 till date, Benson Idonije, who is a diehard Jazz lover, has promoted the development of Jazz and continues to give informed music reviews.

It is no surprise that this iconic

personality has a grandchild who has towed in the lines of music. Burna Boy, who is Benson Idonije’s grandson, has made his impact in the music of this generation. Like his grandfather, Burna Boy has a keen ear for good sound and dishes it out with a more captivating voice.

To celebrate his grandfather’s 80th birthday, Burna Boy and his friends will be performing new generation genreship hop and afro pop at the last day of the four-day event themed “The Benjay Phenomenon”. Lined up events as part of the celebration includes a panel discussion by musicians and scholars, conversation to be hosted by Adekunle Ayeni-led Black House Media, workshop with students of music at Lagos State University, book presentation amongst Burna Boy and Grandpa others.

AFRIMA head, Mike Dada to address ministers and experts in Ethiopia

Mike Dada

In recognition of AFRIMA’s roles and contributions to inspire African youths and raise the consciousness of African identity and renascence through Music, Culture and Entertainment for continental growth and development, the African Union has invited the President and Executive Producer of All Africa

Music Awards, AFRIMA, Mike Dada to address the meeting of the Ministers of Youths, Culture and Sports in Africa at the African Union 2nd Ordinary Session of the Specialized Technical Committee on Youth, Culture and Sports (STCYCS2) which will hold at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa,

Ethiopia on June 13 to 17,2016 with the theme : “African Year of Human Rights: Promoting Ethics and Cultural Diversity as an Essential Right for the People of Africa’’. According to the Head of Culture, Department of Social Affairs, African Union Commission, AUC, Angela Martins “The 2nd

session of the Specialized Technical Committee on Youth, Culture and Sport is holding a few days after the celebration marking the 10th Anniversary of the African Union Youth Charter (the Banjul+10) which was an opportunity to advance the agenda for youth empowerment and development in all member states.

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Odunlade Adekola, Doris Simeon, others attends Tecno Camon C9 unveiling Nollywood actor cum Oyenusi Star, Odunlade Adekola alongside other celebrities that includes Doris Simeon, Mercy Aigbe-Gentry, Adunni Ade, VJ Adams, Comedian Seyi Law and Yul Edochie all graced the well -attended launch of the new Tecno Camon C9 to the Nigerian market.

Excited Odunlade disclosed that the new product will also aid his work as an actor as

he intends to use the product which boasts of a high photography resolution for behind the scene shot on set. He commended the mobile phone provider for the different innovations it has unveiled since its inception.

Lover of picture, Mercy Aigbe-Gentry noted that she is looking forward for a better capture from the new gadget which she

Kalu Ikeagwu

finally finds missing rib Talented Nollywood actor, Kalu Ikeagwu has announced he will be walking down the aisle with his found love, Ijeoma Eze, come June 25, 2016 in a quiet but colourful wedding ceremony.

Ikeagwu, who disclosed that he has finally found his missing ribs, is filled with joy as he recently made available pre-wedding photograph of his beau. When ask how excited he is, Ikeagwu noted that ‘When a man finds that person who knows the true colour of his heart, everything follows accordingly. I have finally found mine and I am glad she accepted’.

Kalu and fiance

Cross section of celebrities at the unveiling yesterday tagged ‘Photograph on the go’.

Speaking on the launch, Tecno Marketing lead, Attai Oguche said:t “The new CAMON C9 flaunts the latest version HiOS V1.0, which is Tecno’s tailored user interface (UI) built on the revolutionary android Marshmallow 6.0 backbone. The new CAMON C9 smartphone also has something going for photo lovers as it showcases

Kcee, Phyno others for Bloodline premiere

image optimization like no other device all thanks to the brilliant software engineering of the marshmallow and the revolutionary dual 13.0MP front/ back AF geo-tagging cameras with dual LED flash. The CAMON C9 also showcases wide angle panoramic view technology on both front and back cameras”.

Kanayo O Kanayo trains young entrepreneurs

Five Star music act, Kcee and Harrysong alongside Phyno have been billed to ignite the official premiere of the movie ‘Bloodline’ scheduled to hold today, Thursday ,June 16, 2016 at the Civic Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos.

The film features lots of American movie stars such as Lynn Whitfield, Billy Dee Williams, Brian Hooks, Chico Benymon, Tangi Miller, Doug Williams and many more.

The star-studded party will also have Richard Mofe Damijo and Ben Murray Bruce as special guests. The event will however be hosted by veteran comedian, Ali Baba.

Kanayo O Kanayo

Kcee

Phyno

As part of his input in the society, veteran Nollywood actor, Kanayo O Kanayo, has partnered with award winning global money transfer company, Transfast, to hire and train local young entrepreneurs through the company’s TransfastCares programme.

Kanayo O Kanayo already has a mentoring academy where he teaches young people entrepreneurial and directorial skills so it makes his partnership with Transfast even more appropriate.

Based on the analysis of the purpose of money transfers they have handled, Jay Vix, the Transfast Global Director of Marketing said most of their US and Canada-based customers name education as one of the top reasons for sending money home to Nigeria.

Speaking about the path forward for Africa’s youth, Kanayo said “the road to success is always under construction,” adding, “You don’t have to be great to start but you have to start to be great.”

Filmmaker, Tunde Kelani fulfills dream, establishes film institute Veteran filmmaker, Tunde Kelani has fulfilled one his dreams by establishing a film institute in Abeokuta, Ogun State. The film institute established by the foremost filmmaker is known as Mainframe Film and Media Institute, which commenced operations this month (June, 2016).

Kelani said: “I have always wanted to do this but not without acquiring a level of maturity and experience to serve as the lubricant for effective transfer of experiences gained over a career spanning more than three decades. “’Mainframe Film and Media Institute therefore is poised to

impart artistic and technical education and practice to young ones and established industry professionals who need to update their skills from time to time.

My career highlight is founding Mainframe Film and Media Institute, MFMI”.

It was also gathered that Mainframe Film and Media

Institute has facilitators with expertise spanning different parts of film making and they include top rated personnel like Joke Muyiwa Fadirepo, Wale Ojo, Niji Akanni, Olatunji Afolayan, Muritala Sule, Doyin Hassan, Ropo Ewenla Abiodun Aleja, Bola Bello, Femi Odugbemi, and Steve Sodiya, amongst others.

Tunde Kelani

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Don’t bring religion into issues,

takes Trip n Treat winners on all-expense paid trip to Kenya

Ali Baba warns

Comedian Ali Baba has shared his opinion on yet another burning issues as he warned individuals and government agencies not bring religion and social matters together. In a post shared on his social media platform, Ali wrote: “Stop pushing religion into issues that don’t require it to function. Quality delivery doesn’t have to be floated on rivers of spirituality. DANGOTE is a Muslim & I can say has been more of a blessing to many like me, than Christians who I am closer to. Do you know the religion of the person who made the car you are driving? Or the wrist watch you brag about? What concerns you with the religion of who constructed the road that was tarred & is serving its purpose? When you get to the bank & you are well attended to & you go back to your business, does it increase the price of bread if the person who gave your prompt service has never been to church? When you go see a good movie & leave with goose pimples...

Does it matter if the person who made the movie is a Buddhist? You needed pictures, & someone takes the most awesome pictures of you, do people ask, “Is it a Christian who took them?” What makes you think the person who makes that quality perfume that has been your trademark for over 5 years believes there is a God? I have done business with Muslims, Christians, Pagans, Rosicrucians, Krishnas,... it would surprise you that sometimes, the people who ask me for bribes are the ones who their religion would really have been least expected to. Go figure! What business is it of religion if @usainbolt comes first in a 100 meters dash when other people who did not put their best in, knelt & prayed before the race?

Ali Baba

2Baba with Rotimi Bakare (Trip N Treat Winner)

On June 9, 2016, music icon, 2Baba took some of his fans from Nigeria on an allexpense paid trip to Nairobi, kenya for the much talked about Trip N treat trip. The lucky fans who attended the amazing Buckwyld ‘n’ breathless: the disruption concert, were treated to the very best of Kenya for one week!

The first appearance of the winners was at the press conference organised for the Buckwyld ‘n’ breathless: the disruption concert tour. The press conference had in attendance hypertek digital C.E.Os, Efe

Omoregbe, 2baba, Kelly handsome, Sauti sol, Alibaba, Vanessa Mdee, Jenifer Eliogu, Kenyan press men, and others.

After the conference which held on June 10, the winners attended the much anticipated Buckwyld ‘n’ breathless: the disruption concert which held on June 11. The Simba saloon carnivore which was the venue for the concert was filled with fans screaming and dancing to electrifying performances by Vanessa Mdee, 2baba, Mwalim Churchill , Kelly Handsome among others.

I see myself hitting stardom soon…Chuq-E CHUQ-E is an afro pop artiste who kicked off his career in 2002 growing steadily through the tides of the music evolution. He has worked with a few acts like Slow Dog, Stone Bone, Cynthia Morgan, Toby Grey, May D and more.

I‎ n this chat with MUTIAT ALLI, Chuq-E reveals his passion for music and other issues.

Can we meet you?

My name is Utulu Austin, aka CHUQ-E.‎ I started my music career in 2002. My music is a mix of afro pop and RnB. ‎ My primary and secondary education were in Delta State before I went to Abia State Polytechnic.

What’s been your challenges so far?

The major challenge I faced was finance because good songs kept coming yet no money to push it for people to hear but I never allowed that to kill my dream.

Who inspired your music and who are your mentors?

Chris Brown, Usher Raymond, 2face, Davido, Olamide, Wizkid and P Square are musical talents I look up to and learn a thing or two from the quality of their music.

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

In the next 5 years, I see myself hitting stardom with my name becoming household name all around the world. ‎

Which stages and awards do you admire?

I love to be on stage at the Sound City Blast carnival, Five Star music festival and a lot more. For the awards, I’m aiming at the HEADIES, AFRIMA, MTVBASE and BET awards and much more.

What would you be doing if not music?

If not music, I guess I’d probably be doing comedy because I love entertainment.

W ‎ hat makes your music different as an artiste?

It is that fact that I’m versatile? I can sing, rap, write and produce songs for myself and other artistes.

Rising Chuq-e

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Fresh Acts Music Awards Lip Sync Battle: introduce New Category It’s Basketmouth Vs Mpho Popps Fresh Acts Music Awards (FAMA) that is created to celebrate talented young, up-and-coming and campus artistes has added a new category to the existing categories – Fresh African Act of the Year.

Speaking about this new category, FAMA Awards CEO, Biodun CastonDada, who also is the publisher of ACADA Magazine, said: “We are trying to give the Award a continental feel because there are countless talented young artistes who are doing well across the continental, hence our resolve to introduce this category to celebrate such talents”. The organisers further elaborated on the project by stating that many young acts are churning out great songs and are carving a niche for themselves across various genre of music despite lack of structure, funding and necessary business models.

Kings of comedy, Mpho Popps and Basketmouth, are the latest celebrities to feature on reality contest, Lip Sync Battle Africa.

The duo will clash in a sizzling on-screen confrontation in front of millions of TV viewers Basketmouth across Africa, dissing each other in comic mockery. After lip syncing (or miming) to two songs of their choice, just one of them will lift the Lip Sync Battle trophy.

The African version of the global TV hit, Lip Sync Battle Africa is hosted by South African actress and TV presenter Pearl Thusi, alongside Nigerian superstar, D’Banj.

Lip Sync Battle Africa has featured celebrities that includes Toke Makinwa, Chigul, Funke Akindele, and Flavor amongst others.

Mpho

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Glitz & glamour at the 12th AMAA award Winner list 1. AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM – Meet the Parent (Nigeria/Canada) 2. AWARD FOR BEST ANIMATION-The Pencil (Burkina Faso) 3. AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY-The Fruitless Tree (Niger) 4. AWARD FOR BEST FILM IN AN AFRICAN LANGUAGE-Missing God (Nigeria) 5. AWARD FOR BEST FILM BY AN AFRICAN LIVING ABROAD- Lambadin (Ethiopia/USA) 6. AWARD FOR BEST DIASPORA SHORT- Across the track (USA) 7. AWARD FOR BEST DIASPORA DOCUMENTARY-Spirit of rebellion &Agent of change 8. AWARD FOR BEST DIASPORA FEATURE-Ben and Ara (USA) 9. AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION DESIGN-The Cursed Ones (Ghana) 10. ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN-Eye of the storm (Burkina Faso) 11. AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKE-UP-Soldiers story (Nigeria) 12. AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUNDTRACK- O-Town (Nigeria) 13. AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECT-Oshimiri (Nigeria)

AMAA founder, Peace Anyiam-Osigwe

Gov Nyesom Wike

14. AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND-Fifty (Nigeria) 15. ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY-The Cursed Ones (Ghana) 16. ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING-Hear me move-(South Africa) 17. ACHIEVEMENT IN SCREEN PLAY –Tell me sweet something (South Africa) 18. AWARD FOR BEST NIGERIAN FILM-Dry (Nigeria) 19. BEST YOUNG/ PROMISING ACTOR-( Zubadiat Ibrahim Fagge-Dry (Nigeria) 20. BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE-Eye of the storm (Burkina Faso) 21. BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE- Thishiwe Ziqubu (Tell me sweet something) 22. BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE-Daniel K Daniel (Soldier story) Nigeria 23. BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE-Fulu Mugovhani (Ayanda) 24. BEST FIRST FEATURE FILM BY A DIRECTOR-Beyond Blood (Greg Odutayo) 25. AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR-Nana Obiiri Yeboah (The Cursed Ones) 26. AWARD FOR BEST FILM-Eye of the storm (Burkina Faso) Life time Achievement award • Olu Jacob and Joke Silva

Minister of information, Lai Mohammed

Cultural display by the River state cultural troupe

Yinka Davies performing tribute songs Miss Nigeria 2016, Pamela Lessi-Vigboro to fallen entertainers during her presentation

Omoni Oboli, Dailytimes Publisher, Mr. Fidelis Anosike and other guest at the event

David Mark, Olu Jacob, Juliet Ibrahim and Joke Silva

The host, Mike Ezurounye and a guest

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Oscar winner Kevin Spacey and Danny star in this film about three salesmen who dissect life as they wait for a man who could make or break their sales targets. Danny DeVito, Kevin Spacey.(1999)John Swanbeck

Jackie Chan turns on the charm in this action film. A chauffeur is thrust into the world of international espionage when he puts on a suit that gives him extraordinary powers.

Jackie Chan, Jennifer Love Hewitt. (2002) Kevin Donovan.

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23:35 Behind The Scenes: Unbroken 00:00 Chicago Med 00:50 Behind The Scenes: 1st Project 01:20 Shakesspeare School Year 02:28 Behind The Scenes: Walking On Sunshine 02:40 Behind The Scenes: Annie 03:15 Made In Hollywood

04:00 MasterChef Australia 05:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 05:59 The Middle 06:29 Sarah Graham's Food Safari 07:30 Chicago Med 08:30 From Rough 10:04 Behind The Scenes: The Theory Of...

10:30 The Goldbergs 11:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 12:00 MasterChef Australia 13:00 Carte Blanche 14:00 Shades Of Blue 15:00 Modern Family 15:30 The Big Bang Theory 16:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 17:00 Kevin From Work 17:30 MasterChef Australia 18:33 My Story

118 Telemundo

23:40 The Face Of Destiny 00:30 Elena's Ghost 01:20 Broken Angel 02:10 Broken Angel 03:00 The Face Of Destiny 03:50 Fearless Heart 05:20 Elena's Ghost 06:10 Husband For Hire 07:00 The Face Of Destiny 07:50 Fearless Heart 08:40 For Love And Justice 09:30 Cruel Love 10:20 Husband For Hire 11:10 The Face Of Destiny 12:00 Fearless Heart 12:50 For Love And Justice 13:40 Cruel Love 14:30 Husband For Hire 15:20 The Face Of Destiny 16:10 Fearless Heart 17:00 Broken Angel 17:50 Broken Angel 18:40 Husband For Hire 19:30 The Face Of Destiny 20:20 Fearless Heart 21:10 Broken Angel 22:00 Broken Angel 22:50 Husband For Hire

120 BBC Brit Entertainment

23:14 The Graham Norton Show

11:10 Would I Lie To You?

00:04 An Idiot Abroad

11:40 QI

00:54 The Cube

12:15 The Cube

01:41 Police Interceptors

13:05 Top Gear

02:29 John Bishop's Australia

14:55 Police Interceptors

03:24 Undercover Boss USA

15:45 Undercover Boss USA

04:10 Pointless

15:55 Would I Lie To You?

05:00 The Cube

16:20 QI

05:50 Would I Lie To You?

17:00 Pointless

06:25 QI5

18:00 Top Gear

07:00 Police Interceptors

19:00 Dragons' Den

07:45 Top Gear

20:00 QI

08:40 Pointless

20:30 Youngers

09:35 Undercover Boss USA

21:10 Top Gear

10:20 Ducks Quacks Don't Echo

22:05 Top Gear: Special: Best Of British

155 AfricaMagic World

152 AfricaMagic Epic

23:37 Behind The Scenes: Secret Room 00:00 Music On Africa Magic

23:00 Most Shocking 23:50 World's Wildest Police Videos 00:40 World's Wildest Police Videos 01:30 Freakshow 01:55 Extreme Reality Clips 02:20 Sexy Car Wash 03:15 Sexy Car Wash 03:45 Video Zonkers 04:10 South Beach Tow 04:35 South Beach Tow 05:00 World's Wildest Police Videos 05:45 World's Wildest Police Videos 06:35 Top 20 Countdown: Most Shocking 07:25 Video Zonkers

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09:00 Good Morning Africa

08:40 Most Shocking

10:00 Lies That Bind

09:35 World's Wildest Police Videos

10:30 Lies That Bind

10:30 World's Wildest Police Videos

11:00 Lies That Bind

11:30 Baywatch

11:30 Lies That Bind

12:30 Top 20 Countdown: Most Shocking

13:00 Music On Africa Magic 14:00 Music On Africa Magic 15:05 Music On Africa Magic

01:00 Good Morning Africa

16:00 Star Gist

00:10 Mystic Mirror

11:10 Maiden Of Destruction

02:05 53 Extra

16:35 Deal Or No Deal Sa

01:26 Mirror And Beauty

12:39 Sacred Skull

02:45 Star Gist

17:25 53 Extra

02:25 Africa Rising: Behind The Scenes

14:20 Twins Of The Rainforest

03:15 Star Gist

18:00 Jara

14:48 Behind The Scenes: The Place

03:45 Jara

18:30 Tinsel

15:00 Enemy Must Obey

04:25 Jara

19:00 Lies That Bind

17:02 Enemy Must Obey

05:00 Goodmorning Africa

19:30 Lies That Bind

06:01 Only Hope

19:10 The Mastermind

06:00 Deal Or No Deal SA

20:00 Jacob's Cross

07:50 Mother's Tears

20:55 Behind The Scenes:Next Dean

07:00 53 Extra

20:55 Jacob's Cross

09:31 Painful Secret

21:05 Royal Desire

07:30 Star Gist

21:55 Jacob's Cross

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